The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1909, Page 1

ROLLER ARRESTED “ aekeal {sant haemo | INVOKED AGAINST FAKE WREST. 2***"""""""" "eters Ei { BY C. HARRISON GREEN — EXTREME 3 see : * OF THE LAW WILL BE DEMANDED-—— |« ciearings today... 148,500.27 ILER'S CHARGES FALSE, GREEN SAYS. |# Batancee wast, MMO F. Roller was today arrested by Deputy Sheriffs in sa icone _— ¥ 137 017.08 in Fimmerman, upon complaint of C. Harrison Green bus | * Portland. * |® Clearings today he St li “ ® Balances * grows out of the publication in the Sunday Times yes ‘Netter signed by Roller in which the following statement $2,542,978.00 & 128,039.00 & 7 MEMEREMESE VEN EY EYE Green came to the Arena some time before this fr match and said he was representing an afternoon sheet, “ and in the presence of Jack Curley and Fred Sar. 25 per cent of the receipts of the Arena matches, refused, said: ‘If you don't give it, the paper that | will ruin wrestling here and run Roller out of town.’ first statement of any sort that Roller has made since at the Arena one week ago Friday. He has | that money was put up as & guarantee that Warner ay down” to him, and cannot truthfully deny this, because Wutely true. a6 a faker, Roller is now attempting to ruin the reputa-| ble men. He is becoming desperate, and has apparently | \Frightful A Accident Occurs) mind to stop at nothing to stem the tide that ts bound,| at Roslyn—Flames Add ; drive him out of Seattle. to the Horror of the Green, the man . . if Hbeled in his letter to Situation. will give Roller a ove his statement In idition to the criminal bwill prosecute Roller otf. Before the men went on the} mat Ordeman had signed an agree-| ment to let Roller last at least one | hour. It was understood before the | men went on that the match should be ended through an apparent in Jury to Roller. The conclusion came when Roller was thrown on The Dead. ARUNDEL, WILLIAM, man, 40, married BARTOLERO, DOMINICK, track his | man, 38, married. track mere statem that is absurd and whol paid Mr. Green this/head and shoulders, and was BERGER, CARL, gang boss, 28, ¢ vothing to say Te ried off the mat feigning inse: ured this morning | bility. | gg QURRELL, JAMES, trackman, ing Helous infor.| , The Star bas siready stated that |"WamOy.” DAN, trackman, 60, T. and wilt 2Ot one out of 10 matches in which | married, Sonia to make Roller has participated in Seattle | igaaGSON, AARON, laborer, 35, in a court of DS* been on the square. They have | married, r t will not per-| Sl been “fixed” for Roller to win. |” yONE8, JOHN E., pumpman, 21, pany controver. Because of the support given bim | unmarried. - by the Times and Post-Intelligencer| MARSAOLYN, TOM, trackman, or this city, Roller has been en-| 49 married. i . abled to make a lot of people in Be-| POZARICH, PHILLIP, trackman, attle besleve that he is honest. | 35 married. With the continued support of these papers, Roller betieves he can keep the game going in Seattle by mak ing charges against persons con-/ nected with The Star. The editor! jot The Star has been informed that The is to be attacked. For the in-/ jformation of Dr. Roller, The Star simply desires to say that Roller wul be given an opportunity to make good in court every state- ROSLYN, Oct. 4.—Nine lives ment he has made or may make. were snuffed out in a fiaah yester The Star intends to drive every | day afternoon in. shaft 4 of the NEWHOUSE, OTIS, outside fore man, 40, married. Fatally Injured. JONES, JOHN X., engin Bodies Recovered WILLIAM ARUNDEL. CARL BERGER. JAMES GURRELL. one of these crooked wrestlers out | Northwestern Improvement mines of Seattle. It intends to see that} by an explosion of fire damp, and the return Ordeman-Rolier match, the tenth victim died this morn announced in the Post-Intelligencer | ing yesterday, is not held. It intendsto| Without a second’s warning the prove to the last doubting one in | deadly damp let go tn an explosion Seattle that Dr | and that he is not entitled to the|from the friendship of any man with any de gree of self respect to place it on the $500 that was anxious to shaft. Hardly had rumbles of the first explosion sub | aided when another accumulation of | gas blew up There charges that The Star [the workers in the shaft was called editor of The Star to jail. The jin a hopeless condition Star invites Or. Roller to under. match was one of | Not since the explosion of May Bef all the takes pulled} | take to '@ prove them to be untrue. |10, 1992, when 45 miners lost thet = cmeemcrcammnes |lives, has there been a catastrophe |compared to this, The the previous disaster lives r in ‘IRL CHEWED UP BY on | the hay ardy of Roslyn, and yester j day's first shock and the blowing } of the gigantic siren told in an in | | ViclOUS BULL HOG stant what had happened The i quiet Sunday afternoon became ae, | Tandienoutens and « y pata The byearoid daughter of rushed from the town to the mines Mrs. W. H. Stuart, 7353 Earle av. Ballard, was badly bitten by a bulldog, owned by a man fs named Sullivan, tiving in the The same block, yesterday after- latter" Re by a a half a mile away Fire Follows Explosion explosion was immediately | fire, and a seco aware of the | ER INSANE after Rosiyn became noon. The little girl is badly 2 or that| hurt and may not recover, |disaster a pillar of flame 160 fe ca that toe Her head, neck, arms and |bigh began shooting up from. the were bitten and torn, She | mouth of the shaft. ‘The tipple over walking down the avenue |the shaft broke Into flames and the Was shot on Saturday | Yesterday afternoon with her |Utbulldings were soon consumed refused, pet kitten when the dog started Embers thrown Se Mgt nity after it, When the |ittle girl simultaneously in coming to| '# |, wife of | most nt places a quarter of a mile away and when the roll of against Or. Roller are | nine were found to be dead and two rly oa if they are un #0 seriously injured that one died true, Or. Roller can send the (this morning and the other is still horror of | | slept late jand children hunted for Roller is crooked, | that rocked this city, a half a mije/ the | down. | started fire al} differ. | | shrieking and tried to save her o: the bull |. . ” 5 9 | dog turned on her, and before Phe bank. ine i! c A. and 3 d this all night, but| she could save herself had her [other frame bulldings were tc Completely this | down on the ground. Neigh. |destroyed. The power plant, the WAe aroured or tan. | Bore beat the dog off and help. |boller house and the engine house cetera inca | are still intact nt baht, ga gnaw i | ‘Thirty minutes after the explosion | S charge of insanity, but ¥### HEE N Ee ey Tomeuers were at work ee rg? 4 Perfectly sane it #|becan bringing the injured to th WBA Regro. He wae shot by | WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE # emergency hospital. Many of the Benford of 2205 Norman,|* Water will be sbut off in #|1™ Peed aoc in @ quar r the|# the district wost of 18th av. wg ocoenition Which Uzell was fiviag * N. W. and north of W. 70th st. * Ka & white woman with|*® on Tuesday, October 5, from 9 * Wild Scenes of Confusion blood * a. m. until 6 p,m #} The scene in Roslyn immediately We #aid to have told|® % | following the aceident was one of} M6 & joke 44 ee ee | wild confusion, men, women anc nes = ee jehildren rushing from thelr homes Jat the sourfd of the explosion and ANNOUNCEMENT. I ° r : hurrying to the scene of the disas Chance has the poor man in the irrigated districts|ter. It was not known how many working in the frantically men were people rushed West today? about tation held out by “manless land for landless the Injured There were 15 men Gardner Huntley experiences will be given in four first of which will be published tomorrow. The ibe printed one each day following. (Continued on Page Nine.) the burned and mangled forms of working at the bottom of the shaft and 10 of shaft and | SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1909. MAN DEAD AND HIS WIFE HELD Wealthy and Aged Resi-| dent of Georgetown Is, Found in Burning House At 2 o'clock this afternoon that Coroner Snyder decided Alexander's di tal, and or Mrs. Alexander, | Frank Alexander, aged 76 years, and ted to have considerable wealth, was found burned to death supposedly by @ lamp explosion, tn his home at Maple and Brandon own, last night. His 26 years, is held tn the orgetown today pend tnvestigation jelty Jail of ing an Late last night Andrew Sayre and his brother, R. O. Bayre. coming from Alexander's house and @ in, finding the old man lying fee down fn the pantry An overturned lamp in the pantry and a broken lamp chimney in the center of the kitchen floor indicated that the lamp had either accidentally or purposely been overturned, causing the blaze For the past three 4 , accord ing to neighbors, Alexander and| bie young wife had been drinking. | She wae seen shout the house you terday afternoon but was not seen around the premises until several hours after Alexander was found dead and the house burning. When whe 4id appear she was taken Into custody until an Investigation of Alammnder # death could be made TEN KILLED, FIVE ENTOMBED — ALIVE IN MINE EXPLOSION HOW THE EXPLOSION FOUND OSLYN (By a Gtaff Cosiaibabinnt It was high noon at Roslyn, coc The quiet of a Sunday noon. By bunk houses They smoked and talked. of above ground. Sunday, the In the miners to the table and preparing a spec The children were filing home Without warning the blow fell of a giant cannon. The village rock rattled on pantry. shelves, Small ground. While Rosiyn held its breath lerash, louder than before lazy st and clear and peacefal The hundreds of hardy miners had twos and threes they had emerged from the company and from thetr own little shacks that dotted the hillside played cards and eniffed the fresh air day--the day of rest homes the women were adding little extra touches ial dinner from Bunday school & great blast like the explostor Windows wore broken sheds were thrown to the ed rickety Dishes in horror, again resounded a great A second explosion It could mean but one thing. And all Roslyn knew what that was They learn in these mining towns. member tho disaster of 1902 were taken from the fatal shaft of They knew, all right And with one a Among the wreckage of tipples broken lumber— they It was the tragedy of 1902 over Then the hurrying and worry their m “O “Did he get ont of the shaft’ There who knew ¢ dren of old James Gurrell as they came gatly were thowe home from But there were many who didn't to bear. Some were known to be in th Others were only missing might somewhere fe Night came, but brought no re of the buried dead. still be alive Night settled on broken hearte and worse horrors to come. For Roslyn remembered the rail in 1902 it's a mining town tragedy that no mining town can when 45 burned and blackened cord all rushed to the mine in he have gone down in the shaft who stumbled across thelr Sanday school, Most of the residents could the mine. entrance. and thede—now twisted steel and found the bodies of the slain again ng that None could remain in doubt stirred the town, Wives this morning?” heir men were dead, lke the chil father’s body know. Their «rief was even harder e mine People had seen them go Hope—the hope that somehow they ght a losing battle with fear assurances for the Mving, no trace d Hoslyn—a night of horrors » sing of the bodies from the shafts r get used to. TAY TO STOP PREACHER. FROM ROASTING DIVES ‘ Georgetown Minister Quem Star i in a Bitter Arraign- ment of Roadhouse Keepers and Georgetown Officials and Hoodlums Ring Fire Bell in An Effort to Break Up His Meeting. More girls are ruined in * Georgetown than in Seattle be cause the officials of that place neglect their out 1 blame the voters of thie community for putting into of fice men who tolerate the con ditions existing here. That fatal automobile “joy ride” of September 23 has done more than anything else to start the work of cleaning up Georgetown. The editorial printed in The Star last Friday entitied “From the Roadhouse to the Morgue” was composed of facts, and you know it-—Extracts from ser- mon preached in Georgetown by the Rev. Frang E. Herthum. Gardner, The Star's Washington correspondent, | searching for relatives in the crowd) waite he stood in his pulpit of eat to find out. pear ag ape 89h tthe eee |the Union Christian church last Sinvksbet : shaft cy age Wp cally DINK) ovening describing and denouncing Selected the Huntley, Montana, irrigation project | women spd enildees who Were. Wilt) To tatee constewation the ahaa j able to find thelr loved ones were ple and has gone there to see just what there|Tingled with the groanw anc screams of agony that came from | y | ful conditions made possible by the degrading -roadhouses in George town a determined but unsuccess ful attempt was made by hoodlum to break up the services, Just as the preacher had reached the most interesting part of .his| ser:son—that attack on the road. houses and the officials who per mit the to run in defiance of the law—someone started a vigorous tooting of the whistle in the fire j he use across the street | The Trick Falied The Rey. Herthum, fail to niake his volee heard aboy this blast, paused. For five min he stood in aflence while the whistling continued, Not a single person tn the audience moved, as each one evidently knew the purpose of the alarm—knew that it was a coward ly attempt to bring members of the congregation from their seats into jthe atreet Finally, when the pply_ of steam was exhausted, the whiatling ceased, and the preacher stepped forward and asked 1 there anyone present ts to go to the »? If 0, ult your return Georgetown Has Awakened Then he paused again t see whateffect his remarks had on the congregation. Realizing at a glance that his Hateners were more inter ested in his sermon than in a fir (Continued on 1 Page Nine.) ° saw smoke | THE SEATTLE . STAF ONE CEN} NT VICE SYNDICATE i FORMED IN SEATTLE STOCK IS ISSUED AND WORK COMMENCES ON NEW DIVES “FRIENDS” OF CITY OFFICIALS HOLD BIG INTEREST IN THIS PROJECT AND FIRST PAYMENT IS MADE ON TIDE FLAT GROUNDS UPON ASSURANCES FROM MEN WHO CLAIM TO REPRESENT MAYOR THAT HE AND OTHER OFFICIALS WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH RE- STRICTED DISTRICT. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS Will Henry Beck, partner of Councilman Frank P. Mullen, tell for whom he holds a 25 per cent interest in what certain men hope will be Seattle’s new restricted district? Will Clarence Gerald, close friend of Chief of Police Irving Ward, tell for whom he holds a5 per cent interest in the same enterprise? Will Alfred Cohen say what interest any city officials or friends of city officials have, if any, in the 25 per cent held by him? Will Johnny Clancy tell what he knows about a $50,000 proposition in connection with the new restricted district? Will Mayor Miller make public all of the facts in connection with the negotiations, so far as he is concerned, that led to the selection of the new district? If he did so, will Mayor Miller say why he delegated to his former law partner, J. Fred Lysons, authority to announce to the “syndicate” that there would be no objection to the location of the new district? Here's a list of names and after each name are figures! every possible influence to bear to } ; ; Id “square things, but. up to date indicating the interest the individual named was to have held) without success. They are playing jin what was to have been Seattle's new restricted district: | politics as earnestly as the game was ever played in Seattle, for they Alfred Cohen and “Sid” Levy sesebes 25 per cent fear, should they fai! now, that, with the prospect of Miller failing to sue- Henry Beck tesoeres 2S per cent | cod himeelf, there might be Hitle “Bob” Cooper, of the Stratford Coie Cake eaes OS 5 per cent | ikelihood of inducing the next may- Charles Donaldson ............++ sessececees 5S per cent | OF to see the tight as they see it, Walter David ... 10 per cent eS vapryne iam . Of the men in the new restricted John Clancy .... 10 per cent | district syndicate, several are well oe e Gerald ... 5 per cent known about town. Alfred Cohen Clarence 5 P + i the man who, with Sid Levy, W. J. Hamlet ...... sete eeeeeress seeeeeee per cent arranged for the location at Bighth J. B. WO0d 2.0... cece eee ee eres eereceeereane 10 per cent and Plummer of the “crib” houses that were closed up within a few | The district which was to have been owned by these) days after being opened. Coben net ta dhe eoonortion tudlastet Aes Byte f the Centen-| ¥orked through Lysons in arrang- » in the pr tior it icated, lies just outh of the Centen ing tot thoes Pitney at eaten nial mill on the car line running to West Seattle and Alki lishments, and when public senti- oint d embraces a tract of land 600 feet ment forced the miayor to close Point and embraces a tract of land 175x ae the newly opened places, it fs sald Through his former law partner, J. Fred Lysons, Mayor | that someone was compelled to “blow back” a lot of money. Henry Beck, who holds a 25 per cent interest in the syndicate, is a partner in the saloon business with Councilman-at-Large Frank Mullen. It is understood that Beck's quar- ter interest is held for various members of the council Clancy Was Active, Miller had given his assurance that there would be no police interference, and on September 20 the first payment of $2,500 was made to secure the ground. | is the that hen, well known Seattle's underworld, Alfred Cc rece the his associates assurance ived and gave Lright with the administration everything wa It also who took J Wood, one of the monied ih cp Clancy is the First ward ‘sii gambler and politician who, in his of the syndicate, to J. Fred Lysons, who assured Wood | time, has forced many men to pay Cohen told } is all right AS COHEN WAS "im tribute because of his political pull with past ad trations. It AC TING FOR L YSONS AND THAT HE (LYSONS) HAD as he who, with Clarence Gerald THE SANCTION OF THE MAYOR IN WHAT HE DID. pad a rpc od Si sued bo oftus anc jomsen abou The ¢ on of the negotiations which it was hoped! property upon which the new vom y these men would lead to the establishment of a new district agg district was to be estab- one any months of labor. The work began with the jerald is the proprietor ntment of a council committee last spring dvise with oon at First and Marion, APY 1 ld's Grill adjoining. He the mayor a the establishment of a new dist is very close to Chief of Police One‘ of ihe fret place progoped | Creer etree: Ward, and through this source se- provided for the selection of the |the assurance of individual mem pod Ses vo ie een form- site finally chosen. The property | bers of the council that there would hereto was owned by W. D. Hoftt be no complaint before reaching a wakie Le ee Gerald is the actual Moritz Thomsen, but the gentle | definite conclusion him o he interest credited to mon declined to lease It for the pur- | | The M poses for which it was to be used Word Paxsed Along. | ee oneyed Men, An option for the p of the It {8 assumed that a majority of! Charles Donaldson is a large land was then secu one Or /the councilmen called upon the | Property berets in the city. He is more of the men mentioned in the| mayor as the word was passed | ‘Re oWner of the Angelus and other above list along about two weeks ago that | Wartment houses, Donaldson, The holders of the option at once | everything was all right, and uy oods and David are the moneyed undertook the task of attempting to | cong assured J. B. Wood that it was ge of the syndica The others {nduce the council committee to) safe to make the first payment of |!" the syndicate represent the “in- agree upon this location. But there) go 599 upon the property. Acting | en was nothing doing. A small matter) ypon these advices, the payment| The committee of councilmen ap- of $50,000 stood in the way Just was made and plars prepared for | pointed last May to decide upon a who this $50,000 was to go to The | the buildings to be erected. jSuitable site for a restricted dis- Star is not informed. There seem: which Hofius and | itn, was composed of Frank Mul- ed to be a very detinite understand to dispose of the|/@™ A. Zbinden and James Con ing, however, that if this $50,000) property was $370,000. It was to| ¥® could be raised there would be/be paid for, after the first smallit#wee ea kaka dea e eR tk splendid prospect of the holder payment of 500 was made, at the | ® * of the option being put fn the way | rate of $5,000 per month, these pay- | Sedro-Woolley, Wash * of making a lot of money for &| ments to begin 80 days after the | ® Oct.'2nd, 1909, & loug time to come erection of the first building upon | ® Kditor of The Star:- foxy Cohen Gets Into Game the property: |\* 1 sincerely congratulate you # A Mile te Salted: j* on the stand you have taken in #* At about this point In the pro * your pa in exposing the * jceedings Alfred Cohen made him-| With the plans all well laid, and|% dreadful traps laid. for. our #& self known, He assured the inter-| no likelihood of any official inter-|% girls and boys, in the dens of & ested parties that if they were to/ference upon the part of the coun-|# iniquity and vice * ancceed, his ser were neces-| cil, the mayor was about to make | w Fraternally yours, * sary, He thought everything could | public announ the location |* R. LIVINGSTONE WOLFE, * be arranged providing certain per-|of the new restricted district when | Pastor M. E. church, Sedro- ® sons were given an Interest {In the |a hitch came, The mayor's closest|# Woolley, Wash * enterprise political adviser, and a man whose | - Mr. Cohe ervices were ac-| support he needs If he hopes to suc cepted after he had assured those | ceed himself, “hollered,” and the|* ****#*¥¥E**EEE¥ HHH with whom he was negotiating that | word was passed down the line that| ¥ xx 4x ee MMM EM EERE Re governed In his movements | everything must wai * r 4 by J. Fred Lysons, Mayor Miller's And that’s the situation today.| * former law partner. Shortly after |The men who have for some weeks | * Yesterday 29,014 & this it was given our that the mayor | past been seeing visions of enor-|%* 1 ae ey 3,964,852 & had agreed upon the site under con-| mous wealth from the traffic in the | * * | stderation, but desired to recetve restricted district, are bringing |x 4 ¥ 4K MARR YP. 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