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HE SEATTLE 0 CROCKER SHOT BY A PATROLMAN AND IS DYING. POLICEMEN GRANDMA (5 ONY HE HAD WAITING FOR BAD RECORD = FATE OF BOY WILD BILL DONO TWIRL OPENER THE TIGERS Uelted Pree) i Pa, Oct. 7—The and are in fine fetth Bit game of the world m erien with «th which starts to at Forbes field commission lao is f Will Inxpect the fic Claim That He Made a Tiny Little Woman Sits Lunge for Officer When Latter Shot Him, Inflict-! ing Mortal Wound. } Hoping That All Will Soon Be Well With Her Milo. ived | wale of seats has fp the history of Righteen thou meerted seats have beer Whee and Saturday te ac » lens be in | being 2 At least Wagered at these! } TAF SEATTLE, WAS THU! wee RRR OST TONIGHT; COVER FLOWERS There ts a light due tonight, according to Mr Weatherman. Now listen, all * * * * frost « * - of you. If you have flowers * * . - * * * * or young buds outside, better hustle out your blankets clothes, or even papers, and cover them up. Old Jack will be busy if you don’t beat him to it ECS Le TTC ere TT Ter old reeeeeeeee eee ee THE SEATTLE RSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1909, Y ONE CEN) = WHAT SEATTLE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT BOUILLON HELENA’S AWAKENING AND THE BOY ACTOR, AGED § GROWING SENTIMENT THAT BOUILLON MUST NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—If Lioyd Pryor her lover hadn't tnaisted that she live there, it jan't prob able that Helena Ritchie would ever have consented to lve in quaint old Chester, in the state of Pennsylvania Hack 60 years ago Chester folk were neighbor ly and Godfearing, though, for all we know, they may be. th same now, It was easy to be good in Che was Helena geod, when d to se Lioyd, whode business was ty Philadelphia, « saint old home he had her, on hin weekly Visite? The interest the good. village folk took In ber made tt péces sary for her to toll them that Lioyd was her brothe As to her matrimonial state, she didn't tell them that her hasband, after driv ing her with nilstreat ment, w imself to Weath | in Par When he died she would.éo to! the altar with Lieyd That was all arranged. Walf ls Found, Dear ol4 Dr. Lavender, the vil-| BE NEXT MAYOR FELT IN ALL CLASSES AS fi SHOWN BY STAR CANVASS. _——————— | | | ws sapere | | | Sentiment in Seattle is growing every day in favor of Mr. Bouillon and against Mayor Miller. | | To determine this fact The Star made a canvass | of business men—men of big business, men of busi- ness not so large, also working men, men on the street jand small property owners. | Almost without exception these men—substan- tial thinking men, who have financial as well as civic interests at stake—unite in commending Mr. Bouillon, } |while in varying degrees of intensity they condemn | Mayor Miller. | There was no politics in this canvass, no system, | |no forethought. The interviews were picked up hap- hazard as they came—without any foreknowledge as to what their tenor would be. The interviews are fair and honest. They are valuable as they indicate the | feelings of the public of Seattle. | Some few still declared their faith in Mayor Mil- | ler. In fairness The Star prints their sentiments along } e mayor's chair }iage preacher, who bore the bur jdens of all countrywidd; al |with the rest. }vilinge doctor, Wm. King, and Jennings will seod MILO CROCKER, Pianta’ When they Iemod’ a wait IMPROVEMENT CLUB @r Donovan to the MILO CROCKER, friend. W they fonnd a wait CLUB COMES OUT STRONG As on Record in the “Rogues’ Gal |The Boy That “Grandma” Knew as | of a boy, whom they ca David, | FO B Sie tates amet “Aaa? at Police Headquarters, | 2 Lovable But Wayward Son. | they “brought ‘him to Helena rm) R BOUILLON. . 1 will cat Patrolman Charles | pale Crocker, who was shot by! "Her heartstrings wound abot asant Valley Improvement club last night voted to go pidy voey ag ——— last. night, following @ quarrel the Uittte felow ot = mother MASTER RAYMOND HACKETT, AGED 9, WHO PLAYS DAVID. ord as commending A. V. Bouillon for his work when be was base | | News Mae} <a say in the Dreamland dance hall with | yy ee aoe eee ae siieinsaliuileey ae superintendent of public utilities, and as condemning Mayor Miller feld. | Ethel Livingston. aitres a one mMagent thin is actio ‘ore © resign field. what action | will take in re- Spancens ee: Pe ee: ber Bh But she been t Philadelphia, had discov-|she go to the man? What was |§ fF his action in forcing him to resigr Moristop. gard to the shooting of Milo Io & stall apartment orer at to lle eve to tthe Day i he, ered that Li 1 was not Helena’ there to hold her back now from The motion was made by R. B. Julian and every one of the 41 di base. Crocker at Sixth ay. and Uni. West Queen Pa os ie gs too, thought Lioyd was her brott brother. His heart was balf-broken | her et property owners present 1 to adopt it * heme. versity st. last might by the (1 iin sty lad But one day came the message | when he returned. But there was kindly blue eye of the cle fleld patroiman.—Statement made {from her ° Shee Png Bl el tha r husba 1 died, and|ire im his eye when he came to ed to look on her as the r | by Chief Ward at noon today. Ine matter hat Milo Trosher when Lloyd came on his next ¥ sit Helena’s home to take the boy Da { God, when slowly she to 4. Schomer, 1517 Second av.—t Bouilion is a good man and ought ms, pitcher. Ihave been or done, no matter she suggested m vid, whom Helena loved, from her | the into bits and threw them don't believe that anybody thinks |to be retained in office a jothers may think or say Little David the room | iuftuemer, ae tnto the fireplace Miller did right in dise ng | T. W. Searle, 326 17th av. N— Milo Crocker, aged 21 years, iv-|"grandma’s boy” to the little wom.| "Nile they were talking. Helena told him all about her) Helena Ritchie had awakened! | Bouttion jI think Mayor Miller did just the hat ak Ghb-Tiabok thea te dn lah whe seacee him death |. Put you must give u wasted life, he inistake in. _— And the good pastor gave ber! J. G. Pacey, 5: 16th = av.—1 | Might thing wie i fed city hospital dying of a gunshot of his mother, when was just | "6 Moye ‘ ‘ rage, Bhe pleaded to keep David. | tack the bos wouldn't have done it if | had been} &. 8. Botsford, 4746 11th av. N. E. wound inflicted At 11 @'lock last|a litle teliow ed i won't eried Hetona. | Het aoe ae gy Hg ngs The crowd that sees this story | Miller T think Bouillon had a wedge that ines night by Patrolman Charles B. Mel-| There waen't much work being Aba Pe we ae ars cee + tity told htly at the oy theatre| w. p, Rafter, 2514 E. Pine st went deeper the more they squirm- son The patrolman says be shot | done in the little me this orn im Ne York in the ed I think Boullion ought to be MM base Tee + pape dl r : - the sgl Licyd, mentioning His words burned aw he proved to! Awakening I really th Bouillon wa re | retained in office og b self-defense he ch is im-jing. The tiny aired woma snc sqotger nec Chak ies tove for David waa set t and carried on his office to the |"*Mlned in office, ss ne eroneneenimasimitante anemone |who in barely tall, was H ving fish nuid caty bares th Hit. have best of his ability . Michelsen, proprietor Berlin é ” aittin 1 , ¢ he re your erarner ish Gat aes ooo © i nov ch it was based r joak and Suit House, 909 Second woven, and (Continues on ae! Nine.) ating pg th th nows that I have. «p I love him so much that I would jaar this real folk ‘and reai|,, F: b+ Kinney, furniture av.—Boulllon 1s a good man and about her, andj alting for! ce days at your hom not harm him,” said Helena. “1 | emotions {ferent to the mod.| Grote-Rankin Co.—I believe he ought to be kept in the city’s ba you think he wilt P auppore he wouldn't te give him wp. ern day plays that t new ideas” | More thorough investigation service ; was her first inquiry na A asa ongdp Mon ggg in Dee a 4." | and “problems” that New York has| have been of 8. B. Rathbun, 1419 Hugo Place— nh ; Pome Helena was struck dumb. But ayn on who | em br od it f charges If Hout a im up for mayor } | . 7 F he _ Margaret nglin plays felena R. E. Fulton, manag ca would vote for him / A Good-Hearted Boy. there surged to t knew | stax Raymond Hackett, who! partment, Grote-Rank ¢ 0. P. Atwood, 1809 12th ay—tI Hoys f ‘ ome eart that wonderfa ‘ 9g hia, most Hke-| plays David, is delightfully natural. | think B te hink Mr. Bouillon is a very much * Ket 1, yo 2 said | mother love ly from ‘Lay He is one of the hits of the season an and I would like to see the grandmother bet Milo wae 1 can't give aim up. won't He watched her read it. Her fac up to now good-hearted. His father and I jthiak he bas inherited Ineanity t gets so mad sometimes, and lwhile it Insts doesn't know Be Made to ae the a tieliek Tariffs ee eee, seen over, and it lasts only a n Shippers Have for the Western Ship- |‘ en, but that is too jong t wa esterda af noon, but | had gone out « —_— - cet see him. He left a note saying that he RRR EEE EEE EH goo me and to me ni ® ima’s pie. Do you thin i get} WHAT SEATTLE WANTS > oi -ibes2ous Gros sn * ini clear throug the be vt and * bullet * | didn’t atri ou know @ rate from Seattle to Montana, idaho, Wyoming # | He was a bright d smart at} fas St. Paul, Chicago and Kansas City are getting. # | figures. D—Bo Seattle sanufacturers of cara, gloves, bar & | Married.an Actress. B implements, household goods and the ike can * | “He has xt his father a great éastern manufacturers *® |deal of trou He often went @ wants @ low freight rate on raw material, as steel. *& [away and we didn't know where lanufacturers here, ike Moran Brothers com- ® jhe was. But, about a year ago he » steel cars and heavy machinery. But the ® |was married to Mary ( n fe so high that the east can send the COM- *® |‘Molly’ he calls her, and hie ODUCTS here as cheaply as the Morans can get #* [father was ¢ of the marriage This is a big handicap to Seattle * | His wife is a little older than Milo, | S wants the Humboldt Steamship company and other * jand his father hoped she would ompanies to be able to send freight into the ine ® [take care of him and bring him # Alaska without handicap. *® jout of his wild ways. They were Pe the White Pass & Yukon lroad, running to ® | married at Tacoma, wh Sed Dawson, charges the Humboldt people wharfage * | was singing in Which !t pays the road, while steamship com- ® |cousin of R Cogh SOmbine do not have to pay thia. Seattle wants # jactr * r they were married they This city doesn't want any restrictions on bulld- * |went to Chicago and were In the Greatest possible commerce with the Alaska coun- * |same compa You see he had * got thi theatrical notion fn hi @re the chief things Seattle is asking from the * [head He came home a few weeh Hommerce commission. Will she get them? * lago because he want ¢ a | where € FERRER RR RH | wore oll till his wife cor Commerce ¢ lHe th othe bd adjourr the Feder) | When he jhe told me fer (LA Wi le —— % the Pa %& he bh written | meetin, |man, and 1 said, ‘Milo, wh the eee lyou do something like that f Molly comes?’ For he br , be He's “Her Boy.” : 1 still call him a ‘boy,’ though he wa aI t Ma But you see b he lived with me so nnd wa my little t after } mother died. wm His father and J live here alone a Last night Dr. De Voe came ot tell us that Milo had been shot te | His father went right the ho: pital to see him. When his father Pacific ra |went in the ro Milo said It ls a mistake i all a mistake One thing 1} Seippers ar jut that was all he could sa Do you think he'll get well? e care of the picture, He may be adying, you know, and I'll want to keep It Who will have the heart |this dear, little, old that lher “little boy” may ne come n again to her home to see her Feat Important to get “a plece of grandma's pie?! that of the H \ FRANKLIN K. LANE, | The young man is the only child ‘Somper, Western Man in the In ¢|of his father’s first marriage, Mr Commerce Commission, | Crocker has been married twice and are two marriage is twice a widower, Th A464 ee Children of the second A-Y-P. Attendance, %|\a girl of about 13, who fs In school | Yesterday, 22,645. *\at Oakland, and a boy of 12, who Total, 3,425,068 *| makes his home with his maternal SOOO Ee | srandmother in this city Members are a\) Washington * and ©. A. & * * | such a civic | for th she He's x 1 wilt have him. You're right! 1 can’t marry you.” And #0 Lioyd departed But old Dr “= CHURCH MEN: PLAN UNIO FOR POLITICS Laven who had By Banding Together They! Hope to Be Able to Con- trol 10,000 Votes for Civic Decency. of civic decency the mer rean zations of the various Protestan churches of Seattle, controlling, in at the Y. M. C. A. t iding tomor row night ed by th of ov ! ery one has p to be rey 1 at Frid meeting ' the toward coming to an underat « none of them knows, but w har mony, which { ly expected the chureh 1 to ation which will exert nfluer for good citizen hip in municipal affairs Not Into Politics. not going into politi Ronald, president o erjan churches, this morn graft charges and should b something to say in the govern ment of the ¢ Other members of th Ler hood were more outspoken than Mr. Ronald and w frank in say ing that the primary object of to- morrow meeting would be to wing the many times inactive church vote against any candidate or faction which graft charges had been proven against Four Thousand Votes. Directly the men’s clubs of the different churches control 4,000 votes, Indirectly 10,000 1a the es timate of the men who would take league as a safe guide best way to cast their bal lots in the city elections. Individually the leading church men have some very decided opin: told the sto’ her t@ give ¢ him. joyd was asking didn’t drift him. 1 story of the play just told and wha h s. abuso 8 I don't r, 821 Sec 2 of Miller's boy and come to. yim Bouillon ap-{lond do and say,” explains Miss Ang very strong man, |adm inietratio a Awakened at Last. lin. “And the dear little fellow un-|and he to have the confi-| M. V. Straus. cond av.— Shevhad given up the boy? Would | derstood. He's only 9 years old dence of the I think B on is the only man in F. W. Hurlbut &\the city t who has been all Huribut—I Hon |right; that he has stood for the did | people t for th rations, é Edward F. Cobb, m of the j lievue av Palace Clothing Co First av, i A { Mr. Bouillon'’s ca s too good to lose Wilts eer y a at deal of interest Wilts, of the W and ! believe he was sinc in |Sporting Goods House, 1012 First what he did jav.—I was never so tickled in my °. P Mooney, 1329 Second ay life as whe that Mayor I t t ft to see Bouillon run for} Miller had a It was and I'll do anything I can the best ever done. Lric Erickson Trying to Boat rae Out in Padded | 6 _— ‘ beac hornet a ordstrom, of Wallin ill become a wedge for good gor Cell All Because Palmist Seven Years Ago Said | Nordstrom, 18 cond av.~-I|¢ It is our only chance to thin k Bouillon ts rig in his ideas,'set after the grafters. I believe That He Would Die Today. and that he is strictly honest the only honest politi- rs J. Rhodes, proprietor of city. The others are all | Rh Co.—Miller’s actior a handout (By United Press.) ,money with palmists, clairvoyants| looks like an unfair proposition es, of the Fogel Cloth- PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 7.—Eric/and their tlk, trying to get a re-| from what I have read and heard. |ing Co., 1 I am ail for Erickson gigantic is|prieve from fate, but though they A. H. Miller, 1921 10th av. N Bouillon. He t to be mayor strapped to a bed in the hoxpital told him many good fortunes, none|I don't think Boufllon has had a{ Louis Fogel, of the F Clothing for the insane here, to restrain him | ever thought to him he would | sq eens ius syor should |Co.—doaliine wilt be ¢ Rryptegss. J from taking his life, The straight-/die on some other day have investigated before taking/all right. I'll do all I can to help jackay. was cal into use after) two weeks ago he came to Port-| such hasty action him win. When Mayor Miller up- he hed tried to butt his brains out /jand, and in his boarding house he| _E. W. Campbell, 5252 16th av, | holds that worthless “Show for Men agalnat ho walls told of hi roaching death. His|N. E.—Rouilion may be too finicky, | Only” two doors from here I can’t Erickson is a startling example | listeners looked upon him as a| but Miller de a mistake when do anything for him. When a man f the dre \ of weak mind and shrugged |he fired Bouillon under the clrcum-|Comes out of that show he won't "7 shoulders But the fat tance stop within a block of here, he is so drew on it t e evide G. Dutch, 2211 Second av. W ad That doesn't help my busi Erickson was more than we think Miller fired Boulllon be 1, he was it getting too near tet " esire we as the right man in av.) f 80° 1 ui ! Oct a ry. @even years was a time {gists after druge did what Was RR ROR RRR Rk Rk ek to cont ate deat! ne und bis 4 ' of his ability x 4 ie ye , and ‘ ance to We J. M. Rosenthal, 918 Spruce * BANK CLEARINGS, - ot . a H \ He wa I think there should have t an|* * with a6 ! , aHenc ht he tried t investigation ie Seattle, * He couldn get, couldn't shake | bis cell in th : W F. M. Osborn, manager al | ® Clearings today. . .$2,172,988.94 off thet mer they cut him down he mumt 3 o—I think Bo is | Balance 5146.10 From & light hearte ot to die, I've got to ate m3 * Tacoma * young te as removed to the ho Levinson, 1 ith av.--I!% Clearings today,..$ 924,444.00 % i loreal ae sd» lon is a good man, and | Balance 505.00 % tb er him. Left alone have been mt where he), Portland. * at bis happtr nt, he be s head in ANE * ings toda $1,472,561.00 & In the momen in a effort to | seeinceotapeton at! reuse tol * Balances 83,891.00 & Srenee., Seeveneeer? Ae , ‘ public at large during his |*™ * fellow: workmen of his | who are watching yy office, rather than for|*¥¥*¥**4*AMMN EER fn nd all their rough § ‘ lieve that Erickson wi ae oth , paar Oetober 4, reaving Geeber t ba, bre gery ie T. N. Morris, superintendent Gar much of @ business man ud of a Ff iticlan, to suit sc the city hall. Collectively been slow to form Edwin London, 1107 Second av could say to each candidate, tions, it has been put Roulllon was right and Mille no matter what hia party, “Show a churches to start the was wron clean bill of health” if you want) and the church men of § con.{ Thomas W. Reed, 110 2ist av.| Deputy Sheriff Joe Hill arrested our indorsement sider that to be the condition here,|N.—The Star struck a key note in|E. H. Vanderlith in’ Des Moines last In various ¢a cities civic | proposing Bouillon for mayor. I|night on a burglary charge, follow- igues have been formed, which voted for Miller last time, but am ing the supposed death-bed confes- issue bulletins before every elec RAID NEGRO CLUB for Bouillon now, Talked sion of a woman who subsequently tion, reviewing the records of the day with five men, three de recovered |candidates of all parties and pre Forty-two negroes were gather-|and two republicans, who are now| Vanderlith is accused of being senting opinions on the probability ed in early this morning, when | strong for him, too. Jone of a gang who has been rob- of the candidate being a good offi. Sergeant Carr and a posse of €. C, Smith, 725 Belmont ay. N.—| bing stores around the sound dur- dal. Their influence in every case |trolmen swooped down on a negro|'The only thing for Mr. Bouillon to jing ‘the last year has been tremendous. In most /club on King st., near Sixth av, S./ do now is to come out and be mayor One of the members of the gang, cases the leagues have had no con-| Brown, the proprietor, was arrest-|'The city needs him. He is the|a woman, on k bed while in nectiof with the churches as welljed, charged with maintaining alonly man I know of right now who! Des Moines, confessed to a priest, as being non-partisan, Church men jnuisance, At noon today most of} will do what is needed mM the city/givin the names of the gang and have been the backbone of the |the negroes had been released on| government of Seattle. telling of the places they 1 bur 1$25 bail each however leagites in every instance, W. J. Loughrey, 806 Ki, Howell st, |glarized. cnmomtesscnee an asian nana eae ane