The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1909, Page 1

a QUITS ARENA GANG S ROLLER CHARGES LIES es pretty lost my reputation for Arena, and 1) tion with | money and have nearly mixed up with these wrestlers at the The Star to use my name no further in conne “ telephe that came to The Star this morn- Sargent, who, until a short time ago, was manager of BE Phich so many of the fake Roller wrestling matches messi ae want anyone to go away with the idea that I could be a ‘Geb adsolute falsehood as that of Rofler's in the Sunday he accused C. Harrison Green of The Star with at me up. The whole thing ts a lie, and nothing ever! Arena to justify any such story for al! time with this crowd of wrestlers, They are and to preserve my own reputation, | want everybody ‘that I cut loose from them some time ago.” fe the man who came to Seattle to manage the Arena of the exposition. As stated by him, he gave up his ago and installed the Aerial Tramway out over the foot of the Pay Streak, at the exposition. He is now enterprise. Sargent has a clean record as an amuse- Son a ws cet on in the Arena. , the wrestler. arraigned in the Fred C. Brown this ed released on on by D. R. McGregor. Trial , Optober 7, at one THE Bb sper INTO ed on a warrant ting attorney's of- malicious giving tion to & hews aplaint was signed | B Green. TO FLY E MEET “t do not take part for money, today. “We | business, |New Trial Denied by Cir-| cuit Court of Appeals and Another Battle Will Have to Be Fought Out. CHICAGO, Oct. 5.— The United States circuit court of appeals has denied the applica tion of John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank, for a new trial. The banker was convicted of misapplying the bank's funda. The judges who affirmed the decision of the lower court were Grosscup, Baker and Mumph- rey. Unless the United States supreme court, to which Waish will probably carry his case, re | verses the decision of the ap- | pellate court, Walsh will have | to serve five years in the fede- ! | it was a yéar ago last January | ral penitentiary at Leaven- that a bent, broken old man, hear. worth, Kansas. ee anamnt INGS. Ritenced him to prison, lost the fire * that blazed in his eyes, and John */R. Walsh, “Chicago's anarchist of | * | finance,” broke down and wept in| the grim court room of Federal} Judge Anderson. The decision handed down today by the United States circuit court | of appeals marks acother step in Walsh's long fight against his foes, who included every powerful finan _ Continued on ti abe Seven.) 113,255.94 194,523.24 * * + * * * * * * 5 Eee es ¥ + om i ING AT EASTON FOR THE CAR FROM and for that reason declined te continue to be a party wonttyae ,OOTZER WAITING AT Bro! SEATTLE. WALSH, THE CONVIC BANKER FACES PRISON: eR RRR SEATTLE, WASH., TU NORE NO GAME TODAY. The firat of the Spoka Seatilo post season games, ® scheduled for this afternoon, ® has been postponed on account # of rain SA LACAN EE EES YY S 7 * + eeeeeeex - sammie secmaes | READY FOR THE LAST DASH OF 3,500 MILE RACE LMT IO ott i TAPTS AT THE WHEEL, WILL TED | Sf Maing Town deep cei the Told by Star’s Staff Man. BY T. J. DILLON, Oct. 5—Roslyn is rejoicing. The bleak, weather beaten | high up on the Cascades was noisy with joy last |B score of homes there was sorrow and despair, but on the there gathered crowds of men, dressed in their Sun- Swinging doors that led to the dozen saloons flapped y- was horror struck and dumb; Sunday night there) for the dead, but Monday the reaction came. The men WM the dark caves of the earth for coal know full well ‘Gays that they are making merry with fate, the swift, fate that overtook the 10 who went to work Sunday. end of them all, and to the coal miner one death | hind. A venturesome photographer had | sceganty opened a gallery in Ros }lyn, He did a« thriving business in | pictures of the fire, while a gay marriage party arranged themselves p thelr best advantage for a wed ing pieture. Bride and bride. groom were resplendent, the maids and best man wore artificial lilies lof the valley. The bridegroom had worked side by side with the men in the morgue, but the horrors of death were far from his mind. | Wedding Goes On. The bride gled and patted their hair into shape. As the photographer made ready they gazed admiringly on the pictures of the burning mine. If there was ever a thought that they might be the ones to suffer from a ike catastrophe, it was not no tideable. Synical indifference to death that made the crowds of | Tih, tong ramshackle building h Muscular men reckless last night as they quaffed their! that does service for the ¥. M. ©. A I beer ahd sang rollicking songs in « half a dozen tongues.|a plano was playing, and there ing their deliverance; their escape. Ten of their) Were echoes of young voices sing ing. Not a dirge, but a popular # horrible death, but these 10 saved the lives of 600. If sete: Downs the erect. came a had not taken place Sunday afternoon, it would have young football player in padded when between five and six hundred men would have| sult and the lust of confilet In his| tossed, a mase of seared flesh. The iPath of the annihilating flame, Roslyn would have been a|Cye. On all sides life wont on, tts) shook that the he conelaeree Porte le e 0 pi ie a eo ore orth AO one could have been In the mine and lived. roene! podiums vecnabarieas & rh Fe Rosiyn is rejoicing; that is why yesterday was a holl-| ay 1 stood talking to a squat He frankly -admitted that he a, man in the camp f that personally he has been | powerful Austrian on the risk which | didn’t know what to do under such Greate miners take, there was a sudden circumstances, and would be will . Possible good tuck, so Italian, Siav, Austrian, full in the chatter about me. \ingly damned before he repeat the ity rest of the polygot crowd drank, sang and made “Their father ta dead,” the Aus-| experience. He considered himself Ire, Only the English speaking men and women thought | trian whispered, and everybody | quite an adventuresome person and miners from Illinois, negro miners from West Vir-|drew back to give passagew to | entitled ig ae fap aaeaang the Ang! he | two young girls In black who came| Thinking {t all over, it was rather —— Relpabael reverence ae the sont For the) Nth: hurried steps gind downcast| funny to him to see Newhouse, hud 0 OO CRANE MT. Sar: ine eer eyes. Their mother was on the| died and grotesque in his -agony morgue, | urda e B ‘ e e Ol 4 e eb je je 4 the improvised ; |urday night, there’s where you'd be| verge of madness in their little| but he pald blasphemous homage to 0 WilMan ” 7 ey ere do! the | the dying man’s courage Body of William | now |home, and they were doing the| the dying f & evictim of — thre« Yes, by God, but I'd a been at| many little duties that must be Wil Soon Settle Down, 40 dle of the last.\the botto..” was the Imughing ve-|done for the dead. They knew| Roslyn will wear @ holiday alr Ock finery of the| ply of Tom, wnw was called to work| every man about them, but took no|for some time to come. One by face and hand«| Sunday, but was unable to reapond.| notice. Not a hat was raised, not|one the Idle miners will find new Mi the solemn ma-| * saved you thas time,|a word spoken places in which to tempt death. For Atound him gath-| om,” fibed the youth, and they de-| Silence Only Momentary. a time business will be dull, but all had known him ir parted to offer thanks for salva-| Silence was the only tribute to/ this will soon right itself. The men | ape eo Irishman tion at the mahogany shrine of the) their sorrow, a stlence that extend-|from all corners of the earth will fhe Gurreii nome | swinging doors ed not more than a dozen yards,|go down deep to their dark toll for his ih with tered Men and women flocked in, sa tiated themselves with morbid vis- fon, and went their way. tall, cleareyed Irishman stood with ot @runk Sat-|his bat in his hand, sorrowing for an long | A fierce looking foreigner broke out His friends about jot bills. | the dead ‘and those he had lett. be | and bridesmatds gig-| jing debris Only the! tn a drunken song, flourishing a roll| orphans will him | deaths that came so quick on Bun | mocked his vocal efforts, and after’ day, October 3, h quick exchange of repartee, the crowd broke into a loud guffaw and the swinging doors swung again “What will the families do?” 1 asked a dozen miners, and for an swer received a shrug of the shoul ders “Keep boarders, some of them They get $600 from the union, and he company will settle with them “How much will the company give them?’ “Oh, nobody knows. Nobody ever |tells, but the company ts pretty good about it.” Few Watch at Mine. Around the mouth of the shaft a score of idly curious persons were gathered watching the and mine offictals. They laughed and joked of many things, only keeping a desultory eye on the blaz which successfully de fied the rts of one small hose A foreign youth, who might have been among the dead, finding a willing Itstener, talked loud and pro. fanely of his experiences during the fire. He had come running to the shaft across the pile of sawduat 100 feet away where Newhouse was when the hubbub broke out afresh. | Soon the burned shaft will be re-| and only the widows and | patred, think often of the ZI» AS D> YS WV Inspectors | ESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1909. Made in Erection and ured Down Almost to TARR VICE SYNDICATE SCHEME. Erect eight roome each. Erect five “higher clase” re- sorts, Charge $3 per room per day rental for the 800 rooms in big houses. Charge $600 month rental for “higher class” resorts. Income from eight houses $72,000 per month. infome from “higher clase” resorts $3,000 per month. Income from saloon rentals and rekeoff at least §25,000 ie month. an revenue at least $100, 000 er month. houses of 100 big Seeee eee eeeee tet ee ee With ‘woman's virtue and man’s decency as thelr commodity, the vice spndicate.” whose plane we: yesterday shattered by the ex |powure In The Star, had |ion dollars a year. No Mergan nor Harriman, keen ‘hounds of finance, ever followiad the trail of the dollar truer than did these men whose — would come from jhame and man's die per Every item of possibile exponen was carefully conned ovet by this cold-blooded syn- Gigate; every possible means of profit was balanced against the vice expenses, Without any emotion other than greed. they plotted their business tn as businesslike manner as if they were to operate a public market for vegetables instead of « public market for women's souls. Vice to them was @ salable commodity and they Were to be the middlemen in| the harrid traffic. No Quaime of Conscience. bead no qualms of ¢on- eclonce, no tightening of the heart as they computed the wages of ain, sarneg Dy these $00 poor women and girls from whom they intended to | wring $3 9 day. “All the traffic would bear” was their motto, and It was | nothing to them that every woman | fp these vaet dens of vice must sell hér body and soul thrice before Seen SIXTY MEM CAUGHT IN MINE TRAP Explosion Horror and Be Dead. (By United Press.) NANAIMO, B. C., Oct. 5.—A ter | rific explosion occurred at Exten- | sion mines of the Wellington Col- liery company today, and 60 men it Is feared, are entombed, and, | have perished. | The explosion occurred at 9 lo'clook thie morning. The shock |was terrific, the stoppings were | blown out and doors unhinged. The leffects of the explosion were con fined to the slope on which it oc curred, There are three levels, which have fot been heard from. in these levele are about 60 mon, and only a driver and trapper have come out. It ie Impossible to get at these lev els, and 2. is feared that all the men have hed, Rescue work is now being attempted. The Extension mines are located about 15 miles from Nanaimo, SUEPPEG TEST TNE Y SYS * \* AoVoP. papier § > * Yesterday .. 19,879 * 84,731 & * Total FIT IOC AYP. E. DEBT IS PAID The Aast cent of “the A-Y.-P. bonded indebtedness 1* wiped out The principal of $850,000 was pald| some thne ago. Today the Wash ington Trust company recelved from Prestdent Chilb of the ex position a check for $22,600, repre senting the interest, eestor tee eee ee eee eee ee planned | |to reap & profit running up to a mil} Nanaimo Mines Scene of! Three Score Thought to THE SEATTLE GANG” WOULD HAVE REAPED VAST SUM MAYOR MILLER Syndicate Had Siditids That Would Have Been Operation of Dives Fig- a Penny. her rent for the day was paid. The dollars these poor, degraded, de based, outeast women turned over themecives on the $3 a day from these 800 lost women. In dollars, the syndicate meant a million a year; In souls sent to hell God alone and the devil knows, The scheme, If tt had worked out without interruption, houses, with 100 rooms each, and j#ix other buildings for resorts. The 800 rooms were to be rented to women of the underworld for $3 a day each dally income of $2,400, Aa month. Each one of th structures would have re $500 a month, making a $3,000. Have a Big “Rakeoff.” In rentals alone the syndicate would have reaped a monthly in come of $75,000 the “rakeoff’ on the bar recetpte/ | that would not fall below $25,000 a| month, would increase the figure to $100,000, that would be divided between these nine men and their friends” at the end of every 30 days. No wonder that the members of today walking or $72,000 other six ed for total | |the ayndicate are |about with long faces and sour dis-| positions because of their failure to | carry out the plans. The Syndicate. Here ts & list of names and after each pame are figures indicating the interest the individual named was to have held in what have been Seattle’s new restricted dfetrict: Alfred Cohen and “Sid” Levy | 26 per cent Henry ‘Beck ne 25 per cent | “Bob” Cooper, of the Stratford | ... 5 per cent { Donaideon.. 5 per cent Walter David .....10 per cent John Clancy .. .10 per cent | Clarence Gerald ... 5 per cent W. J. Hamiet 5 per t MS 10 er cent 2S ee HNZER IS SHOT (My United Pree.) SNOHOMISH, Wash. Oct. 5.—As a result of a hazing epi- sode in the high schoo! of this city, Guy Bakeman, son of County Coroner Bakeman, and a senior in high achool, shot | Claude Stretch, a sophomore, last night, on the school grounds. Young Bakeman used a revolver, the shot hit- ting Stretch In one of the legs. He Is not seriously hurt. Members of the freshman Bakeman from a re- dance and cut his The row started over that The participants in the are sons of prominent citizens. A score of expulsions will follow the shooting. PLANS OUTLINED FOR AU. $. CENTRAL BANK: (By United Preas.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Al} though the plans have not yet been | worked out in all their detall, it Is |poasible today to give a general {outline of the proposed Central Bank of the United States, the es: tablishment of which will be ree {ommended to congress by the mon- etary comimission. According to} information reaching the Press, the institution will |sentially a bankers’ bank, jnot receive the public's deposits lor do a general banking business. Its main function will be to act be es and through its large note tssuing capacity come to the ald of other | national banks in times of emergen ey institution will be $100,000,000. anal MILLION DOLLAR FIRE, (By United Press.) VANCOUVER, B. C,, Oct A special fom Winnipeg says that Canada’s buffalo park at Wain wright has been destroyed by and hundreds of buffalo and elk are }roaming wild over the prairte lows by the fire has already re $1,000,000, red to them for the little hutehes of their horror, were dollars just as hard, round and bright as any oth. | ors; these dollars would buy auto- mobiles like other dollars; the “syn dicate” families could dress them: | wolves, deck themsel and feast provided for | the erection of eight two-story frame | “high order” | bringing in a} This, coupled with j was to! A HIGH SCHOOL ROW United | It will| as fiscal agent for the government, | The organized capital of the! fire | The| W000 CONF Man Who Put Up Money Says Star’s Exposure | sons’ Assurance of P. WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT | | } J. B, WOOD—The article in ance from Lysons of protection but they froze me out. MORITZ THOMSEN—Wood the deal saw me about purchastr Hoflus, They made the first pay | CLARENCE J. GERALD no Interest tn it FRED LYSONS—Admits tha on establishment of a district, CHIEF WARD—Knows of no HENRY BECK—Dentes that dileate.” He has discussed a res 3 Wood, of Port Blake gj Pe tionment of intérests in the gia jto revive a restrictec the long distance telephone im the streets last night will read to you an article printed in The Star this afternoon, and i want to know about it.” The reporter then read the article telling how the giant vice syndicate |had been formed and who held jthe stock and the interest each held. When he had finished read- ing the reporter said “MR. WOOD, ARE THE STATE. MENTS MADE IN THiS ARTICLE TRUE? “YES, SUBSTANTIALLY 80,” was the answer, “Ie it true that you have 10 per in this deal? es.” “And the names of the others! interested and the interests they hold in the project fs true? | “Yes, or nearly so. To be abso- utely correct I would have to con- sult some notes which I have not here with me right now.” “Is it true that the first payment was made by you and the others on ja site south of the Centennial mill |for a new restricted district?” ter continued Four Put Up the Money. I think it | came the reply was September Who put up the actual money lfor this payment?” was the next question “Four of us,’ ied Wood, “my |self, Donaldson, Cooper and Walter James,” “And you did It on assurances given to you personally by J. Fred Lysons, former law part- ner of Mayor Miller, that Mayor Miller and the police would not Interfere with the plans for the new district and would not mo- | lest the new district itself when established.” “YES,” replied Wood “Is {t true that Cohen took you to Ly ysous?” yes.” “About what time, Mr, Wood?” “I can't remember exactly. I | would have to consult some notes I Jhave, but {t was before the pur | chase.” He Saw Lysons. | “When Cohen took you to Ly sons, the latter assured you that anything Cohen told you was right jas Cohen was acting for Lysons and he (Lysons) had the sanction |of the mayor in what he did?” asked the reporter, “Not in those words, practically that was the a ance given me. you have read That is, the substance made perfectly deal?” the man organized the “Who engineered the “Why, Cohen was understood to have scheme.” This ended the though he promised porter for The Star conversation, | to meet a re. at the Strat \ford Bar at ® o'clock this morning. | This morning he was there, but jhe said he didn't care to talk about the matter further until he had had a chance to meet some of the other fellows in the deal and “wise up.” KNEW OF THE DEAL | Moritz Thomsen, of the original owners of property said “Cohen, Clancy, Wood and some one the JOHNNY CLANCY—-This syndicate story {s true. W. 0. HOFIUS-—The men are formed into a syndicate, made the first payment on the land. | suppose they intend to buy it. MAYOR MILLER—Falls to answer questions put up to bim in The Star yesterday, gets angry and says: Has heard of the proposition, W. J. HAMLET—The charges are false. “It is.” / “About what time was the pay |ment made, Mr. Wood?" the repor-! STAR ONE CEN) FY ADMIT PLAN TQ MAKE MILLIONS IN VICE Ma AND UDGES for Purchase of Property s True—He Acted on Ly- rotection. The Star is true. I had assur. I was in it, Cohen, Clancy and some others in ng the property from myself and Mr. ment. They “You'd better go slow.” but has t he has advised with the mayor vice syndicate, he holds any interest in the “syn- tricted district with Mayor Miller. ey, the man who is in the appor- nt vice syndicate in Seattle, and one of the moneyed men in the clique which had it framed up district on the tide flats, was caught over meditely after The Star was on He confirmed every statement made in The Star's big fas copa “Mr. Wood,” said the reporter, “I! men whom I have forgotten were in to see me about buying this property. At first Mr. Hofius and I decided not to sell, as we had an {dea of the purpose of the bulldings to be erected on the site. Later we changed our minds and have now agreed to make the gentlemen a jeontract for a deed if they can as- | sure us a sufficient sum of money. They have made a smal! payment on the proposition. Whether they intend to make another one or not I do not know. “Personally, I don’t care whether they take it or not. I have heard a great deal of noise about the in- |tended use of the site, and if that jis true I would just as soon not sell it “We have agreed {five of the big lots, think, about 65x250. | whether the or not to sell them which are, I I don't know men are incorporated Don't know anything about them pt that they want to buy the land. Mr. Hofius ts better ac- quainted with the deal than I am.” |FORMED A SYNDICATE W. D. Hoftus said Hamlett came to us first. Later he got out of it and Wood, I think, came In to disenss the mat- Levy was also in the deal. The are formed into a syndicate, as jerstand it. They jsmal] payment and I supp intend to buy the land. Mr. Thom- sen knows more about {t than I do, as he handle the deal I don't know much about it.’ | MAYOR IS EXCITED. | “You'd better go slow on this | proposition,” declared Mayor Mil- jer, as he frowned and squinted at The Star's story that knocked the props from under the clever }scheme to carry on a traffic in vice. | ently knowing that a re- porter was waiting in the outer of- fice to interview him, the mayor m a dash like that of a foot- ball player who is in a hurry, but he was tackled and shown the arti- cle. When he discovered at a glance that the pet idea of concentrating the vice of the city on the tide flats | off his cheeks turned a deep He Knows Nothing.” | “What do you know about these plans?” he was asked. “I know absolutely nothing,” re- plied the mayor, sidestepping to |the door leading to the corridor, nen questioned further he re- plied ‘Oh, what's the use. a story there, and {t’s good reading. | But you better go a little slow.” “Will there be a restricted dis- trict?” You've got He Becomes Angry. | By this time the mayor was do- |ing a sprinting stunt down the hall | to the private stairs leading to the police department in the basement of the city hall “L don't know,” he yelled back, and there was a sudden opening of (Continued on Page Seven.) PLANNING FOR CHRISTMAS. | A social will be held in Alki h | 1420 Second ay. Thursday, Oct: jber 7, as a Christmas benefit for | poor children. Z5-cont supper will be served, and a magician will juid in the entertainment of the | audience. \