The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1909, Page 1

1. NO, 234 Body to Meet House—Fore- Like a Good PARKER 3 De san > teamster DAHLSTROM, 24 CARD, 4160 Ww. PETERSON Wo ‘ LIEN, Des Moines GILBERT, § L PRANKLIN Es stone cutter 2034 78th av, N _—. 1613 Ric hmond vnd ghton BOEHM, (8 Job im clerk in BOWREN, Ren LEB, Kent carpen ers of King cour by Superior Judar fi:15 o'clock this mort mt No. 1 « t) act as a grand iy after the members y's inquisitorial body oath Judge Gilliam Parker, of Falls ‘aa foreman of the jury Of the jury will be jury bef Instructions the fF retired in the Alexander to pier beginning Ot me Pte ine. D. Purker, the foreman D JURY IMPANNELED DER PARKER FOREMAN |Dirge for the Dead Will Physically, he has a strong appear-| City, whe FOR GRAND JURY CONSIDERATION Condtions at the county hospital and poor farm. Conditions of the county offices as to the number of employes engaged. Controversy between the sheriff's office and the board of county commissioners. Treatment of prisoners in the county and city jails. Methods employed by county purchasing agent and system by which provisions and other supplies are checked into county institutions. County commissioners’ method of spending the road and bridge fund, charges that contracts are let to favor- ites, payment for work not performed, and excessive cost of work done. Extravagant expenditure of money by county road supervisors without interference by commissioners. Charges of jobbery in the sale of delinquent tax cer- tificates to certain speculators. Charges of graft in the board of public works in issu- ance of house moving permit. Charges of graft in city lamp contract and irregulari- ties in award of new contract. Conditions in Seattle police department in the matter of alleged protection of law violators. Charges that city officials have been interested public contracts, Dereliction of duty of city officials in failure to en- force contracts by granting extensions of time, resulting in financial loss to property owners and public incon- venience. Charges that city work done by contracts let by board of public works costs property owners far in excess of cost under private contract. Peculiar relations alleged to exist between breweries and members of the city council. . Payment of campaign funds of councilmen in whole or in part by breweries. Charges of graft in connection with operation of road houses and saloons in Georgetown. | | he has owned a ranch | the barricade behind which jbe jevers, before: hie | leave. sp is €9 years old. ‘Sppearances of a alt of the courageous fighting type. He AOUILLON—WHAT HE of the City’s Chief Executive. has issued the following statement of his prin- Views regarding the government of the city: Y candidacy for the nomination for the office of Rot pose as a would-be reformer of human nature | and advocating an upright life as example. | pretend to undertake the eradication of inev- yevils beyond their restriction and regulation on I refer to such evils as are moral defects in trained minds, but subject to inexorable nature. the community for mutual comfort, jof the jury }formally with the law, | significance | about to perform Or gra. on welfare and} jury had been ance and his face and head are that | for the last five years William Lee, a Kent merchant ‘Of physical health. |tx married and has lived in Palle) feared his lifelong acquaintance | - = with county Gisqualifieation, but Judge did not He was sworn ofiiciala migh be a am opinion share the same Prosecuting Attorney Vanderveer examined the jurors as to qualifications, Eight prison the county jail, not yet formally charged with crime, were brought into court to challenge the mem jbers of the jury if they saw fit None, however, exercised the priv ilege. In fact, the prisoners paid for Mayor Tells What His Views Are of |!!t''* attention to the examination and, except to comply inight as well ht into court Tolls Them Their Duty. Judge Gilliam, tp his charge, gave the jury the formal instruc tons contained in the statutes. He impressed upon them the weighty of the duty they were He told the fury that it was the duty of any mem ber who bad information of crime in King county to divulge it to his fellow members When the court tnformed that he might claim an aecount of his advanced age. F an Parker told the court thi he left the not have been bror worn him | selected him | | bre SEATTLE, WASH., THE SEATTLE SrA ° MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1909 THANKSGIVING WILL BE A HOLLOW MOCKERY IN DEATH-SWEPT CHERRY Take the Place of Hymns in Desolate Coal Mining. Village. (By United Press.) CHERRY, Ill., Nov, volunteers are working rays 4 today in an effort to tear ' rer |more of the survivors of th Paul mine disaster at believed 54 imprisoned, Today 21 have been rescued jalive from the mine, 92 dead have |been recovered, and the remal are atiil in the mine. The répo | Saturday that many more had leven | rescued alive proved to be Incar rect. The first newspacer man to’ e@n- ter the lil-fated mine was John M Beffel, staff correspondent of th: | United Press, who donned miner’ garb and was lowered Into the! shaft this morning at 6:06. He remained in the mine foran hour and a half, watching the res identity boca Then he w known, “Blessed are they that mouth for they shal! be comforted.” BY J. V. KNIGHT, CHERRY, Il, Nov. 22--To but a favored few Thankagty day will be « hollow mookery” Cherry, The dark pall of death ad over this squalid {litte bidak and windswept Tie hymne of praise that rige from ft throats of a thankful. people w! lecho and reecho about the bilis of Cherry, a ditke for the dead To a score of families whoet fathers, sons and brothers were brought back miraculously alive from the @ joy and they black pit. there will come will render thank But it will not be the gluttonous thanks of custom. Rather, it be the fervent prayer from the soul sore tried thanking ita Maker His tnfinite merey There are ome in Cherry wil) be glad Thankagtving bead their number fa pitifully few wives, mothers and sweethearts of} j those 300 stalwart men who met }death deep in the dark bowels of the — what can they be thank) fal to po " fredié ions Coming In. Already train are bringing provisions: kind-hearted people r 3 giving time and money to Cs a the needy. Their mouths will filled, perhaps, but their hearts wit be empty he vacant chairs about | the meagre board—there ts the cold, that will never be heard again; the| smiles that will be seen no more. Thankagiving? Ob, you, Thurs day will be Thanksgiving, but what will the widows and orphans of Cherry have to be thankful for? Some of the allent, suffering women and children here speak only Bohemian, others only Italian. But the languaxe on thetr faces Is one that every heart under stands. And the children—thetr Cherry's disaster—wan tragic faces these to greet the sun that rises in @ thankfol nation next Thureday! There is a hunger in their eyes that makes their dry sobs stop your | thing. Sad Thanksgiving. : Lae gaa npg matter entirely to Judge! ‘Take, for instance, the Thank Municipal government is an institution in which is Ciltiam's D sasare, The court & | giving that te pow ee J = just oad the duty and to which is delegated the authority |*e*? 0f seeing Od re the | poor home here. that of Mrs, Bar ‘ ¥ & ¥ | juror, retained bim, and after the|bara Stocek. She never hus been vik) with) t 4] | of } fr] _~ | THANKSGIVING DAY! | } | | | pallid faces have grown old In these few | days since eee THEY “FEED MY LAMBS” AT CHERRY, BUT WHAT A A GBCENE AT A FOOD SUPPLY rnriors. ee = SERVE THE BREWERIES AND NOT The PEOPLE mgeking tragedy of it ail; the volegs |City Councilmen Aid in Violation of New State Law | Rather Than Use Their Office to Uphold the Law, as They Have Sworn to Do. LIQUOR LICENSES THE LAW. From and after the Sist day of December, 1909, it shall b unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation to eng in the manufacture, rectifying or bottling of spirituous, fer Tented, malt or other intoxicating Nquors, or engaged in buying gallons or mor part of, or have any interest in the liquor stock, fixtures or equipment of any kind whatsoever, of any liquor store, or to pay, advance or loan or me surety. for the pay ment for any other person of the license required by any state law or city charter or ordinance, or to hire, engag em “ploy, directly or indirectly, any person, persons, fi rpora tion to manage, conduct, control or operate a p intox jeating liquors are sold at ywit: in less than five gallor Bt & time, or to sign or become bond r r polling or disposing of same in quantities of five 46 own all or any here retail urety on any seen in company with another soul t ot $4, 8 the most fit to bear the burde! t Sat Jaw of a retail liquor dealer.—s 1, chapter 84, Sess f, tid this should be accomplished with due regard 01 sicenme: ne ee eene eae, tees one Saturday: Heri a tp o ome body vent with fliness, shivers in} is and interest in all classes of life as we have them, with Are Old Residents. the cold, as she picks up the little view to improving our conditions. With two exceptions, all the Tega Reg gar oe Bg wir | sh ae Seis soma cat a Pr “Sed aie ; me one| W@rmth in her lonely home ft my candidacy is based upon the following wy a eae “ Ang wa {her face ix stamped, the se ly That the revenue and license com-| interests for years, and been , exception 0’ oO heir own] : tre | fin 1 neti t which I shall adhere to without fear or favor, viz.:/ homes. ‘The average age of the|* sit accusing widowed mother | mittne of the sity counell, the entire | financially benefited by 1 fer little boy, Jan, the orphan |membership of the council, and even To the densest intel! t | jurors is 45 years, All of them have phi t sest intellect | y in all dealings; every action a square deal. lived tn tog eounty tor mane than | Support of the woman, was sick | Mayor John F. Miller has a greater! wag patent that these two cor Sknowledgment of inevitable social evils, their iso-| tive years. Many have lived in the| 8M he took his.lunch of black | reggrd for the wishes of the brew-| porations had no other purpose honest regulati county for 15 years. | bread, spread with lard, down into | ing interests of Seattle, and for the of existence than to do for the 4 ulation, Sheriff Hodge was able to sub-| th mine that morning. She didn't | prafection of their financial inter breweries what they could not l, sensible, unequivocal laws, rules and reg-| poona 23 of the 24 citizens drawn | W&"t him to work, but he con ed | outa, than for the plain mandate of| jegaity do for themselves. % my “4 - |her, because the dollar or ae a/ the’ law, fe nce again apparent The city council ar . lfor jury service. J. KE. McClelland, | 4 | i ¥ Sounen and every ‘suited to and susceptible of practical enforcement | ‘0 JM Pi hong ll Ge tengo trod [4% he got was needed badly in|in the servi snting of licenses person in Seattie who gave the onditions, and the impartial and uniform enforce-| fourth av. could not be found by | thé little home |to two “dummy” corporations or Subject the slightest attention ; ‘a5 aauaite crvia Now that he will never come| ganized and owned by the brew-| realized that these two corpor The number of men drawn for the | ACK to her, do you wonder t riow ations were purely and simply sslike and equitable contracts and the honest} jy; - jeter par or {the mother Wrings her bands and| The last logisiature, acting upon| legalized law breaking concerne, 1 jury who had excuses to offer for gregh ‘ . . cia thee ane. and e 9 not serving was not as large as was |SToane In the agony of a mother) the result of the most sane & Instead of the city council taking oa me expected. : made childless and solita competent investigations of the position’ Which’ the poopie ef Hciency, industry, economy and courtesy in all de-|° Robert Lisuinger of Oritiia|, What will Thanksgiving mean to| liqupr traffic, whic oh \ . Washington declared was thei > " 1 evil in the whole - Of the public organizatic |claimed an exemption because he | ¢ thag the ing evi wish, that the’ only persons who Eo Public organization. | was more than 60 years old | Babies Born Fatherless ieee Question was the ch “a | hould hold licenses and own inesslike, impartial and above board management) Jameu P. Gloawou, cashier of the| Then there is another side to the | 2 Beenses and saloons by brewor | oo. were the real and bona fide ion of th blic t American Savings Bank & Trust| ‘Thank that ¢ facing | {emu Passed & statute making I Il | Sroprietors, tt 1 of the public business. eo oo ank s ankegiving -tha erry is facing | 1909, for | Proprieto he revenue and Ii « | 2 r loge! after December 31, 1 for t the cit 5 Sis ; : , company, claimed exemption on the oom. There are several little | °® nsial committee of the ¢ council ha ya on all city affairs and frequent information | ground that he was an attorney at come into the world | & Age Abe flat figs coy sae pi ened to transfer 19 saloon license Of revenues and disbursements. jlaw. Both exemptions had to be|since the mine horror—tives of | “ a now held by Hemrich Brother 1 5 i |! | saloon lee ‘ “ 4 2 ss | allowed [babies who were orphaned a few | ™ Brewing mpany to the Mercer orm where needed and retrenchment where pos-| Giiars Ame Misa | days before they were born. W esl To this statute, whieh ex | Investment compar tod ; Fred Weymouth, superintendent |40e8 Thanksgiving mean to their| presses the will of the people have signified by their p: us ac las for improved : lof the Seattle division of the North-| mothers and to them? the breweries gave a hypocrit tion that nine licenses held by the or improved, administration and changes Qe e Paar aie ~ Z J , All the gray clad nurses here lea! approval. Their ex at Joattle Brewing & Malting compan ; acific rallwa an excused ‘ “bel ition to the passage of the | will, in spite of the n intent of Da Mf practicabl« | because of the difficulty in finding | With their Red Cross emblema on| Bppositi ; 5 tek en omoti Seen ‘ Janother person to take 2 ~ | their arms, are not enough to help| Jaw, a8 ls now seen, was due to the law, be transferred to the Ocet ton and encouragement of public improve-|}nother person to (4 Marge Of) ive for the little children, the| heir knowledge of thelr com- | dental inveutmont compan oe , i iis railroad dutle \¢ P i of the cl " the limit of < essential needs, and their planning| Anton Johnson, residing in Cove,| mothers and kth a aopen other | Deen Gagtin eat other | Not a single councilman has 01 orr and e asis. Vashon island, John Anderson of | Women soon to become mothers | “ vs yet displayed sufficient free a a cor and economical basis. }South Park and N. T. Joliff. the Mrs. Harry Stewart is one of gitle ; | dom from brewery contro! to lent prope ers to have in and i. 4 these. Her husban®, a big, strong| In Seattle two corporations, the| g ote M. oh F y 1ers to have voice in and rea ttle horse dealer, were also ex-| th c| een cereeeen ayor John F. ontrol of improver aid for by ass | cused by the court for reasons given | miner, Was hauled up to daylight, | Ogeldental Investment company and] Milter, lawyer and former prose apr paid for by assessment against | onthe denantnation his glassy eyes set, with nine other|the Merver Investment company,| cuting attorney, also has given pety. | Alson Brown, formerly a rewident|men who had given up thelr lives. | have been organized to do the work | no evidence of paying’ the re : ¢ Waat Ge ata He was out, but he went back | that the law made ft Iegal for the ect to the will of the people Encouragement expansion of our commerce, in-|0f West Seattle, disqualified himself el,” said’ the young woman | bpewerles to do after the first of| that hie sial po ty stating that sinee daue he nad ite: nels i r | that his legal and official posi 4nd public servic: enterprises with due regard to the} made his permanent home in Lin Gully. bate iy oho le yy ors t | ete coming tend a : tion would make fitting est and welfare, present , coln county. A. 8. White was ex.|and buried her face ee Purpeee Is pote | The absolute subm elfa present and future. cused because of bad hearing a toddling b« In dne of these law evadin counell t will of t = Feputation and high credit as a community and] fienry Dahlstrom was in doubt as| “1 don’t know whatever we shall porations, Andrew Hemrich, presi: | is being explained by lation thereof to his quallfications as a good! do," she sobbed. “He's the young: | dent of the Seattle Brewing & Malt-/ ay the payment of Ill To sum up, my 4 grand juror, He told the court he|est of my four. They're all under|ing company, and ©, W. Loomis, | the brewerles by the « : up, my is a highly efficient administra-| was at present engaged in a sewer |7, and he'll only he the youngest | secretary of the same corporation, | campaign funds advanced the uu OUr urban activitic and a sensible, practical solution | contract for the city, and had other | for a day or two." ocoupy the same positions cilmen at the last ¢lty election and Municipal and ' city contracts, He asserted that, as! ‘Two doors from there a boy of] Im ‘the other corporation, the |g pid for funds to make a campaign gg, E social problems, all conducted openly|ie was dealing with the elty en 7 wtands in the doorway. His little | Mereer Investment sompeay , He next spring m .|sineer’s office, he might make a ~ lotched wi ai officials are Henry Lohse and J. L.| Po Jend an alr of fair play to th mutual comfort, safety and better poor foror. ‘The court thought othr | ene meee pplotehed with Leare) riot, two men .who have’ been |. * erwise, and he stayed on the jury (Continued on Page Eight.) sik closely connected with the brewing! (Continued on Page Eight.) THOMSON DENIES ONE CENT THE ~TAREGULARITY CHARGE (WN DENNY |City Engineer Says He Used HILL WORK ! to be Known as “Heber” Thomson, and That People Misspell His Name—That Is the Way He Accounts for Holding Property Under Different Names. “The editor of lof his vile, lying attacks. lattorney this afternoon, and | Nbet The above is the reply made by City Engineer Reginald H. Thom | son to charges contained in the Se- attic Times of yesterday. The charges in question con nected Thomson with contracting firme doing business with the city lof Seattie, and the inference to be drawn therefrom was that the city engineer _ profited through these transactions. it wae further intimated that City Engineer Thomson was engaged in large real estate transactions, using the name of R. Heber Thomp son. The charge was made by infer. ence that Thomson was interested jin the busine affairs of J. © Jeffery, who resigned from the city engineer's office, and shortly after ward secured the contract for the regrading of Denny hill. that Thomson conducted several real eatate transactions in the name lof the Hoosier Investment company for the purpose of preventing the | public from learning that he was investing in Seattle real estate. At the request of The Star City | Engineer Thomson this morning made the following categorical re- |ply to the various charges: 1 am about sick of it. if possible I financially | it was also charged, by inference, the Times has used me for years as the brunt 1 will consult my will prosecute him for “The charges are a meshwork of lies, and originated about @ year or so ago in the mind of a local attorney who left Seattle some |time ago to avoid prosecution for blackmail.” Thomeon” at bottom of paper. Has no connection with Rain Developing company. the president of the tment company. Has no connection with the Seattle Surety company. Owns a few lots, but not within striking @ civic improvements. Had nothing to do with cer tifying bond of Seattle Surety company for Rainier Develop- ment company; that is up to the comptroller and the mayor. The bid of the Rainier De- velopment company had been filed with the board of public works before Mr, Jeffery re signed his position in the city engineer's office. Accredits charces to trouble he had with editor of Times over the grade in front of his house. “1 am the president of the Hoos ler Investment company,” contin ued Mr. Thomson. “Outside of that i have no affiliations with other corporation. That was f ed several years ago and for the express purpose of dealing In real estate. ‘James C. Jeffery, at present of the firm of Holt & Jeffery, and for merly my chief assistant in this of- fice, is the treasurer. “The corporation is capitalized for $20,000, and was formed several years ago. it was formed at a time when Jeffery and myself purchased several lots in the Salmon Bay dis- Contract of Denny hill, Jack- | son and Dearborn sts. works awarded by board of public works to lowest bidder. Character of clay in Denny | hill necessitated greater ex- penditure Tf grading than for Jackson or Dearborn » Never sioned name R. H., trict. Since then we have sold the 4 R. Heber or Reginald H. major portion and have purchased Thompson. Always signed it lots on Sixth av. and Rainier av. Thomson. When a young man signed name R. Heber Thom- son. Frequently forced to cor- rect spelling of name on legal papers, drafts and bank not Did so by signing name “R. H. SHOWER FOOD TURKEYS ARE ~—ON-WORKERS SCARCE BIRDS (By SPOKANI In the The company is not active, and 1 |have never obtained one cent in it is over three the last operation the com. | dividends from it. jyears ago sinc consummated by United Press.) Noy. 22.—The sit fight for ming serious Going to have turkey for Thanks- giving? You may be thankful if you do, for the birds are both scarce and high. The Westlake market quoted turkeys at noon today from 28 cents to 33 cents, prime selling at the higher figure. Prices will be no h at this market, the peo- e assured y Bros., wholesalers, said this ing that turkeys are scarce 1 a retail price of 35 t's all bosh about a com- holdout,” said Perry, ly don't raise birds he northwest. The cities he product.” ey, then why not a a goose? They are good r anybody. Chickens can for 20 cents and geese ration Industrialiats* free speech is again be after a lull arly a week naining nst the leaders will be he | prisoners : a for 22 cents. Anyway, you can have nd fruit ¢ ' hile the | cranber sauce at the same old | Priso re being marched fr price. Wholesale and retail market he pe Fr n sch to t assure the housewife that she ' The prison can buy all the cranberries she i ala ike w wants fer 10 cents a quart, three t on bre At lea remains for everybody and water. Several w i Yi to be thankful that things are no b t use.” to se 1 eo left this morning 1 ing 5 a for I she will take on th son pat go t he cargo, She has veutal t bee g at pler 14. She will to the ba but f j 1 from Everett to New York, th a where she will go into the hands ne fruit ant donated his|of the EB. L. Luckenback company, b « vd for| which will operate her on the At \ lanti hhh eee eee eee eee ee : * * TWO DEAD, MANY HURTIN A t * FIGHT OVER VILLAGE BELLE . * * | (By United Press.) * | oO A Nov Because Nellie Nelson, the * | ackne 1 ° well, a town in a remote * * section aldwin county, re i dance with Wesley * * McKer r erce and Marky Mck are dead ny, * and Jobn Farl y Pierce, % { d* * Whe lie Nelson refused to ie, the * * latter ald to have made a slighting re hi im- * * a 1 informed her brothe and a 1 fight a hich * ersons were involved, was precipits * * When the smoke of batt n leared away, P! was * * found dead with his head eru b. A bullet hole * * through the heart had en M Kenzie's life * . According to the sheriff of 1 yunty, who was only * * notified of the dual tragedy today, Bert Pierce shot Mark Mc- ®& * Kenzie, whose friends clubbed Pierce ath * 7 Nearly every survivor of the dance i “lay suffering from * * a broken head * | * PCCeCCeCCeCCercerrerrer cereeerrereenren st