The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1909, Page 1

IGIALS HURRY 10 MAK PROVEMENTS AT HOSPITAL THINGS GAINED FOR INDIGENTS BY STAR'S PROBE. dozen chairs for feeble inmates. dozen cotton mattresses. ascore of beds. of food increased. heat for the tubercular tents. humane treatment. inmates of eat expose of th on malbmanag and nurses and t hon struck frightful conditions existing behind the walle of the institu finally appealed to the cailoused institution officials and commissioners. They have at last answered the prod of pub- #8 evinced by the united expression of appreciation of The ‘efforts, and are hard at work installing improvements. FEAR GRAND JURY. Sekar know that an officia! call for a grand jury bas been made. Will convene on Monday next and there is not much time te” They will have to work fast-—for the jurors will want to “wile spots” themselves. fs the reason for such mar Neve activity at the county hospital “ge cat ohana Those responsible fear the lash of publicity, the Teturn of a “wrong verd by the jury—and possibly prose pon the grounds of mal- management the county com: ers and hospital officials are © Wo get under cover from the grand fury probe by ‘meuts af the county hospital and almshouse 18 SERIOUS BUSINESS NOW. While inclined to joke about the expose at first, They must keep their skirts clean, and to qjarse will be heavily drawn on within the next trying installing improve better food, more mattresse d chairs, and more ft will do much to mitig the great wrongs done He ais think fome of the improvements Chatrs—(Inmates dd not have chairs before. They permit to sit on the beds, so were obliged to stand Jong or sit on the damp ground.) &@ Score of New Beds—( These will relieve the overcrowded at the hospital.) Supply Increased. Mam Heat for the Tubercular Tents—(Formerly the pat bliged to stand around a fire in the yard to keep warm many of them caught cold.) ‘8 ae Attendants Treat Inmates Better TURKEY TRUST FORMING? only a week off and fein market. was brought out by a Morning to the meat and of Burrell & Gallant at take market, to get fing prices on fowls Going,” said these mar- *Turkey at present is 33 that’s too high. Dressed Selling at 20 cents and don't know what fs the matter, but | we believe the turkey men, espect- birds to force up the price. We get our biggest supply from Oregon, and re w not hearing or getting any e worked right In the Oregon turkey fields last year and that was their game. They held out turkeys id forced the price to 26 cents a Me at that over Thanksgiv- pound on th parload lots wh ewe simply can't give any the price should ¢ been only "a turkeys, ducks or or cents Were not receiving ary ‘The local market is at a stand-| still. The only way we can get tur keys is to go out on the open mar ket and pay 30 cents in We stocked them is not We can't get E TRAGEDY OF A COMMONPLACE DEATH BY T. J. DILLON. was killed yesterday. A cement and he the sudden death that who tolls. Such deaths are commor a laborer William smith toppled over or furking for met is y are formal merely-ag Inevitable the day's work. Another laborer in * feature of the accident is the fo Smith's + but t is a rather conventional aggra 8 nearly every victim of an accident has a mother, or who loves him « imetances in the Smith case are that WS mother Is 4 " that he had been planning for a Piime to go home to see her. Letters from home had told that his mot! 4 soon be no more, and that her last longing was to or ga east her old eyes on her son Bath loved his old mother, as most men do, but, lke the R of mankind not quite able to graap the significance SMe feet that che was dying. That the mother whom he had and loved f. om years should vanish from earth Eeeredibie. In x vague, hazy way he pndoubtedly knew that Mt die, but always an indefinite event, which is ually » Smith was busy with a man's B He was earniny making his plans, for the futu Out his ow t q « occasional ‘thoughts of Mother, He would ) r. He was sure of ghat Mt times he f ad over the old m who wa for him, but + day the busy world took him up, Memory of as blurred a One thing and 1) interfered with his home-going plans iMatances over w 1 no control interfered lected from his cour ry one the im Obatacles A, and thi wan to be the “When sinitts ; ! turday night he would be £0 £0 to seo | | the deatils had been settled Ot deferred j- ° then a coy n, instantly crushing out The inesdent in’ far a is concerned. He # aulek, clea, Th ther’s progress to Brave will be 1 of her last days will ‘ She was de i t desire on earth; the sight y Who “put it off BMith's death wa nplace, after all ally in Oregon, are holding out the/ CHECK ordered church roll, (My jer of Science church in the second in importance in the Eddy cult, was today, by order of the trust communicated and her stricken No mas. BABCOCK GAVE WHICH ALL BUT DISSIPATED | HER FORTUNE, wited Press) BOSTON, M Mrs. Augusta Stetson, ve 8— former the First Christian *, is wensa’ war that Mra New York, formally from BY MARLEN E£. PEW. NEW YORK, Nov. may come of the tian Science val name the hatever Chris Augusta has as muper E. Stetson stirred up in this city certain it is that she fe a remark able woman Her enemies say that she b pired to follow perbaps jaede Mary Baker Bddy as the of the church jbeen playing j ond park, ora being absolutely servile many of her personal rs of th are sanctuary | devotion to her rat head | that she has for years barp politics to that toward me covered with the faces v he w It js charged she holds # ey si2 pet in thetr There are a score of millionaires jamong this number, men of large affairs, bankers, brokers, publish ers, merchants and prc nal [en Has Mrs. Stetson hypnotized hese men? Her opponents say that is the source of her Who Is Mrs. Stetson? / She is a wo! of 69 years, who ook 5 years yor er. She was | orn in Malt married the son \o¢ a ship butlider Her husband died in @ madhouse, nearly 2 years ago. She became a pupil of | Mrs. Eddy, After five years she} came to New York to teach and/ heal. She organized a church with | 14 charter members. The number | grew to 75, and presently to 260. In exactly 10 years the church of 14 members had become rich enough | to bufld an edifice at a coat of/ $108,000 / Four years ago Mrs lowers erected the church «4 Stetson's fol present beautiful a cost of $1,200,000 This remarkable woman raised this enor mous fund herself oon She induced one John D. gave her a woman made drew purses of her de man to give $200,000, and Higgins, a merenant $100,000 check. The hysterical pleas for money from the pulpit and {n one aftern ».00,000 from the voted followers Such has been Mrs. to power appointed church h house adjoin ning This was built for her Stetson's rise She lives in a gorgeously the by her followers at a cost of $300,000. the furnishings are exquisite derful tapestries, a solid gilt plano, furnit de Mrs pictur ure Wears Gorgeous Gowns. » for Eddy made Stetson has an ¢ eaque Until Mrs upholstered in gold and magnificent paintings won bra things hot for her she would sweep into her church of a Sunday ing Irish ing blue ¢ ensational attire special pew in the been deposed particular delight had and hi to be dead dreased point patrich to we winter that she morn in white satin with lace, diamonds glitter hat with a mountainous white topping occupied a plumes She church ar summer will live as first aft r her er she eader seemed clothes perhaps to prove forever in her or that nothing can harm her physical well being Mra. Stetson'’s power over men was demonstrated 1 the church was building and some of the work- | men had threatened to strike. “You | would not stop work on the house | of God,” said she, and 20 eloquent as her plea that the workmen con- | eded the disputed point and re sumed their work But if her power over men: was great, Mrs. tson's influence oy women was greater Mr M als | Kissam Babcock, former woman of | wealth, now a department store clerk, accuses Mrs. Stetson of strip- | ping her of her money, and even of her mother’s diamond jewels, to make her spirit contrite Seldom was a story imagined that rivals Mrs. Babcock’s tale of an at tempted midnight “mental assa sination” by the New York faith | healer | Roused from sleep by a cold air | wave, she was half-frozen, she say | Continuing, Mrs. Babcock declared jin an interview Mrs, Babcock's Story. ‘My teeth chattered, My heart’ ‘ LIDS KS es, fluttered. Lumin Of ine It seemed went out from my fead hour blue in the Stetron’s room. | tottered Hahted all the ligh taole where lay m 6 body. of agony fron te, y MAS. STETSON, indeed that THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (5 GRAND JURY PROBE +CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH THROWS MRS. STETSON OU |e ™ waves rolled my soul that I saw through the walls of my house, And I saw Mre nd eyes all around the bea. nt to 8 w testament Opening it I chanced upon the fifteenth chapter o f St John begin i MRS. BABCOCK, ‘Lam the vine and ye are the of the # paid Io installments, an je wold her Long Island he w a *heck for the balance on the GVer $8,000, to Trustee Whit of the church. She had left! 200, and this was spent for fur-| ture for her rooms in the nent ked the furniture ook gave it to her with love is all” permouting on Bab the apirit of Wer brain. Mra. Babcock renounced Eddyism was pennt Stetson will have Mrs op her bands be.ore a big site at nbad of the mother church in Bos: | tan. Mra. Eddy has turned her! back on her old pup!) and Mra. Kd-| dj's board of trustees are for ex communicating Mra. Stetson. If alie ix ousted «he will probably! find a new church and make a fight in the courts for possession of the Conutral Park chureh MORE GOMPLAINTS AGAINST Investigating C.D. RILLMAN BEING FILED Real Estate Transactions. Complaints have to the inyestigatin the Seattle Real pointed to probe methods of C. D. committee lay otherwise going te charges made estate man complaints or them with Thor of one begun coming tn ue commit Association the Hillman. will meet tomorrow and plans for taking teatimony and > the agatnat ne evidence the of ap business The bottom of the real having any should file Pe committer The following statement was issued by the members te ‘Ole Hanson R. W. Hill by the Seattle tion to Investigat selling real estate employed by C. they spite, Mr D. Hillman, state |no perdonal grieva or jealousy towar day the that ance, George Dilling and the committee appointed Real Estate Associa methods of have envy Hillman, They are not making this investiga- tion upon their own Initiative matte ho personal r of t it in heirs. Told to Investigate. “Several received by the Association by Hillman and his committee investigate these was appo compiatnta complaints Seattle alleged victime nts ted merely h have been Real Estate of this to and and nehes,’ and falling on my knees | f begun to read it aloud i Pifteen thousand dollare-—nearly i the money she had in the world, | Mrs. Habcock gave to buy th Wonderful organ in the Central Park church. Part money whe od church | pay jtion to the man, as he suppos |he bad been drinking, and did not | know what he was saying SrA 8, 1909, ,ZELAYA SHOO TWO AMERICANS | DISCHARGED, Great Heroism and Thrill-| ing Rescues in an Early, Morning San Francisco! Former Socks Captured| ~HESET FIRE. TO noPitA Fire. PORTER ARRESTED. By United Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Two Americans, Leonard Grace and Leroy Cannon, were executed to- day on orders from President Zelaya of Nicaragua, | according to advices received from the Managua con- | sulate by the state department. Following the receipt | of information, the navy department ordered the ‘cruisers Vicksburg and Des Moines to Central Ameri- |can waters. As a result of the execution of the Americans, the |state department informed the attaches in charge of \the Nicaraguan legation here that the reception to the jnew Nicaraguan Minister Senor Hazera will be in- \definitely postponed. } The cruisers were ordered to Central America by ithe navy department on the request of the state de- partment. | REBELLION IN FULL SWING. [ship company. temps by the Police After "| IRLEANS, Nov. jthe bloc aanlel Dretieue. cae NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18.—Ter-|time today, The vessel ea Struggle. se es aT: eerree | tte eae: Toe Yoeuel Sareea Mae - — | cording to cable selved from According to the dispatch, Ze (hy Vetted Proms anama, where refe arrlv- | laya's forces are bottled up secure. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 19, |in& in great numbers. Hundreds |ly in Greytown by the revolution: —Thomas Saunders, a porter, | of men death for | ary forces under General Chamoro, recently discharged from the | *##i#ting J dent Es are in desperate straits. California Ladies’ Maternity fo in b eeinst » government troops are Home, which was burned early | President Ze sickness contracted today, the occupants narrowly |_ Five hundr been from the marches through the escaping with their livee, |Without trial, according to swamps. Supplies are getting through the herol m of the {refs who are ing tales of | short nurses, was arrested today and | Horror. The government troops are| It is sald that the tfoops will be taken in charge by Captain of sting men suspected of being in | com 1 surrender in a few Gaaletivie Antedeus, sympathy with the revolt, and a/days unless the Imperator, which Dr. Shields, a member of the |Bumber of women likewise have|is loaded with supplies, succeeds hospital staff of physiciane, | Pech taken into custody and com-|in running Provisional | President told the police that he sent | Pelled to suffer humiliation, accord do's blockade and reaches Gaunders at the hospital tate |S © the r ts given by the wn. Estrado has prepared yesterday, and that the former | "*fuseos such a contingency, and has a pe A cable received here today from force blockading the harbor “lm sorry I've got to do Cape Gracias says that the ste mer entrance and another force fortl- this, but you will read about Imperator, of the Bluefield Steam-jfied on the beach before the city. it in the morning papers. Shields did not much atte: ed Saunders was captured in a sa loon. He made an effort to os cape, but the place had been sur. rounded. Nurse Lulu Tully, in charge of the Mille wing, was discoverer of the fire, and proved herself a heroine, After all the patients w in the Captain excitement Murphy of Committee Lays Plans for Its Probe of were removed from the building, jand « count showed that none forgotten as he gine | 19 and dragged bim from room to | to find out whether or not this man| room through the burning building, Hiliman is using irregular methods in the sale of property in this Tooality “The Seattle Real Estate Associa- tion is composed of about 100 firms, including nearly all of the well @stablished real estate firme in the Sty. The object of the association fa to regulate the rates of commis #ion to be charged, and to prevent aa far ax possible, fraudulent trans aetions in real estate, to bring to time agents seeking to defraud iabocent and unwary parties, and every way to establish hon jethods and higher standards of ethics in real estate transactions Will Be Thorough. “So far, they haye made no charges against Mr. Hillman, Any charges that may be made will be thsed upon a thorough and careful igvestigation of his methods as Proven in actual transactions aworn to by reputable people who have been parties to such Furthermore, any the association will be authorized Dy the association as a whole, and Will not be the work or the instiga (fon of any individual members =e action taken by STANLEY KETGHEL ARRESTED OM NOT THE REAL STAN This Fellow’s a Bug, the Police Think—He’s Held as Vag. Ser ant Bryant found him beg ging on the street Come with me,” sald 't er geant Why, I'm Stanley Ket« uld the man You're who? Stanley Ketchel—I'm the man who almost licke@ Jack Johnson and I'll lick him next time, too, He got me ith a luck punch He looked a little like Ketchel's pictures, and was about his height | land weight, but Bryant was from Missourl, So was Desk Sergeant Jay Meany a little later "1 know Ketchel personally Meany, “and not him.” But 1am,” maintained the oner ou I came to with $6,000 and got buncoed out of | {t. I didn’t want my friends to get hep, see sol strikes this guy onthe street for the price of a meal They held him over night this morning, on thinking it over the prisoner admitted that he w chauffeur. He refused to give addre Aw to his name calling aid iclan are golng to look with a synesc if there isn't inside aac you're pris and Well Stanley you can me Ketch from the City hospital into his b something, and omething twisted ope or ful wife's seemingly it all to Many man father succes: his in owes ws| uin | transactions. | the flames singing their hair as they passed To the heroism of Night Orderly | Frank White | life and the Mrs. life of her baby Munger owes bi er White was called by Miss Tully after she saw the fire shoot up the dumb waiter shaft, Betore he could reach the second floor the times had eaten their way through the walls of the building on that floor from the outside and were leaping about the couch on which the Infant lay gasping for breath, Mrs, Munger y to help herself from the intant in one arm and Mrs. Munger under the other | tne heroic attendant forced his way | to the door of the room, to be met with a blinding st of flame which poured from the shaft and up the stairway nearby. White crawling on his knees, struggled across the hall, When he reached the stairway he sat down nd worked his way with feet and body juntil the first landing was passed and a counter draft from the lower hall enaoled him to see his way | out of the building RO OOO tO tk house being built by Stone & Webster. occupied by Lawrence and his family. Two boat houses, belonging to William Raymond, THE WEATHER. Rain tonight and Friday brisk to high southeast winds. OO co * * * * SALOON MAKE 800 PER GENT ON THEIR SALES OF WHISKY That the gross profit to the saloon man on whisky is 300 per cent and on beer over 100 per cent, was brought out in a case argued before the state supreme court in Olympia yesterda) These facts are particularly interesting in view of the vehement defense of the saloon by City Coufcilman Hiram C. 1, when ques- tioned as to the advisability of increasing the cost of saloon I- censes in Seattle. “Nobody but a damned fool would ask such a question,” said Mr. Gill, and then he took up the doleful burden of the downtrod- den, poverty ground saloon man The case argued before the su-} Q~—How much was your profit preme art yesterday was that of | gross profit, of beer in that saloon? John M. Welch, who in 1904 had a Mr. Welch—Well, it is probably saloon at 1507 First av 100 per cent struction of the tunnel unde € his pl Mi his Welch was then asked what profit was on whisky, and after damaged the building and cause co! neideral wrangling on the part falling off in trade. Welch sued | of rney testified that he the t Northern for damages paid for a gallon of whisky The follow excerpts from his | and expected to get $10 for it testimony and that of A. L. Gott n cross-examination Mr, steln are taken from an official again testified that his bust. transcript. The testimony shows|ness fell off between $4,200 and that the profit on beer is over 100 | $5,000 and that of these 8 $2,400 per cent and the profit on whisky | or $2,500 represented his profit 300 per cent. It also shows that| J. L. Gottstein, of the wholesale the on a business of $5,000 | liquor firm of M. & K. Gottstein, amounts to $2,500 206 First av., testified that he sold The owing verbatim testi-; Welch whisky for his saloon, nearly mony is self explanatory $1,000 in a year, After a long ex- Q.—What happened, if anytht ution, Mr. Gottstein with reference to your trade dur F the profits in the the year 1904? business. His answer was Mr, Welch—The trade fell off Well, I think his main item, that Q—To what extent? is the whisky item, his gross profits Mr. Welch—Between $4,200 hould be 300 per cent $5,000 Q.—-Three hundred per cent over Q And what was the amc and above the purchase price? percentage of iv profits—gr Mr. Gottstein—Yes. profits, or of your profits there, Mr The cost of operating a saloon Welch was brought out in the testimony of Mr. Welch—Between $2,400 and|Mr. Welch. The items were: $2,500 License, $1,000 a year; rent, $100 a Q.--How did your profits on beer | mc bartender, $18 a week; and whisky compare—on which did | lights, $18 to $20 a month; water ou make the er profit? about $5 a month, and “a few incl Mr, Welch—On whisky ‘dentals such as laundry = STORM RAGES QVER CITY, MANY HURT William Lawrence, his two hediiieies Martha and Mary, Miss Anita Pol- lack and one other girl had a miraculous escape from death at 1:30 o'clock, when a tall freight elevator shaft was blown down across Olive st. and on top of the Olive Apartments, at Seventh av. and Olive st. The elevator extended up seven stories at the side of a new apartment In falling it crashed through the room of Sullivan & Consi- dine’s offices, were reported adrift on Lake Washington at 1:30 o'clock this aft- ernoon. In one is his wife and month-old baby and in the other is his wife’s mother and another person. Two big signs blew off the top of the saloon at 201 Yesler way and barely missed killing Mike Murphy, a laborer at work in a sewer ditch.