The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 29, 1909, Page 1

HOME -EDITION— THE SEATTLE LAF THE SEATTL STA SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1909. MINAS . NO. 240. ONE CENT Y’S WATER SUPPLY IN GRAVE DANGER 0 - THAT TUR ¥ FLOODS MENAGE PIPE LINES AND ENDANGER HOMES OF SETTLERS With Continued Rains and the High Warm Winds, Rivers Are Rising, and Danger Is Great—City Water Pipe Line Bridge May Go Out at Any Moment. KEY PROPOSITION. O ENLIST IN HOPES OF WAR WITH NICARAGUA M'MAHON MURDER SUSPECT IS UNDER ARREST IN CHIGAGO WELL CLEAN oF UP TODAY Recruits— Fruit Com- Have a Hand in * THURSDAYS, ¢ American Trou- MOTHER FIXES’ THe TURKEY UP INGRAND STV FOR THANKS GIVING FRIDAY - IT'S DISHED OUT CoLD- SANDWITCHES ETC. | Smith, “Bludgeon Man,” Is Run to Earth, and He | and Peter Miller Will Have to Explain Connec- tion With Brutal Crime. IWANT SOME ONE TO WICK Ae i Tee EC THE NERY Time United Press) FRANCISCO, Nov @ificers of Marine corps are t today | from men attract-! 29.—Re United GIRL IN THE CITY BASTILE? She Says She Is Getting Material for a Story, and) Police Accuse Her of Crime. Ci Charles Smith, one of the “biud possibility of being sent) goon men,” suspected of killing fia. The news of the last) Hugh McMahon, ts under arrest in given this branch of | Cytcago. He will be brought back Breat Impet to Seattle to stand trial on a charge of murder The trial of Smith will invotve or Miller, “the burglarlawyer” who conducted bis own defense in Judge Gilliam's court rec ly. Mi ler pawned McMahon's watch and | diamond in Spokane. Miller gaid he received them from Smith (nd advan | Smith's confederate, Rose firet Smith and Rose were once ar yentargas (rested here, and Miller got the ¥ PY 2 lout of jaf! with the proceeds from Be Beattie, will stop here om her|tne unis of ‘McMahon jewelry [eet to Corinto, and the rumor that) seiner is. later supposed to have | take om marines at ¢thiS | pied Rose. mewacted many men Miller was sentenced Saturday | ‘ Whe this. when there) i, serve from five to fifteen years jest the barest chance of a real, i for burg}ar: EAE WA idea of whether |'™ ‘BP Pephentiany for burgjery DEFEND THIS UNSPEAKABLE, s has e ae Seeonnt of ottt |» Everything holding out in excellent condition. Water rising. From present appearance, piers will eg out.—Message from Superintendent Youngs at p. m. The piers will surely hold unless something out of the ordinary occurs. The bases of the piers are eight feet below the original bed of the river, and for that reason should hold. If the river bed scours out, however, it will cause them to weaken.— George Langford, in charge of bridge. } ' ure Petting a fine class of BUNDAY EVE - there Is such talk as THE BONES ARE PICKED CLEAN. We always have a rush ‘Marine corps bas the it always Meet that the which sailed (MEARD THE OLD Man GAY THAT We WOULD NEVER BUY ANOTHER © —eeneinye TURE ith the city’s pipe line bridge over Ce t lar river in danger utting Seattle off from its great Black Duwamish indate the valleys to most serie ot going any mc D, Baker, & wealthy woman Cedar | rivers rising hourly and thre water supply, and Green, and atening to int ; uth of Seattle, this city and district faces the 20, Noy. 29.—| ‘ from Nicaragua to- | ’ . that the efforts of two} . Companies to secure a} ce of the profitable| | rican trade are respons. | ®& small measure for the; The trial of Willlam an Ameri near-wars. |colored, arrested on the charge © Union Fruit sacnpany. Going | living off the earnings of May Mar BY EONA MAY NELSON. on the Nicaraguan Atlan. | Sell, a fallen woman, will be heard| “In the first place I didn't realize t, through New Orie: T ernoon in Justice Fred|what I was doing. 1 have always itself losing ground to jwanted to be a novelist. My love f Fruit company, which; Hi Gill, candidate for may ap jfor finery had nothing to do with through Corinto on the Pa-| peared as attorney for Bowman and /it. I int 1 to get credit under t. secured his release from jail on &jan assumed name, pay for the at Zelaya was said to| $5,900 bond. Oscar Collins, color. things, th not mentioning my| friendly concern in the lat. | e¢, and Sam Pinschower, two notor-| name, write up the story } ny and to have granted it |!ous gamblers and dentzens of the) “Merchants should be more care that were distasteful to| tenderloin, are bondsmen for Bow-| fal tn giving credit. 1 never intend. company. The Union|™man. Gill will conduct the defense |ed doing any wrong, and fully tn the advices stated, rushed |tomorrow {y court |tended paying for these things today of Estrada when he es (November 29). I never bought an bis provincial govern- $82 hat, as stated in a morning aligned itself against its} United States Senator Samuel) paper Furthermore, I do not know iy. Piles has issued a statement saying | Where the Archibald hotel is, and oo that be will not be a candidate to} Mre. Spencer fs also unknown Colo, Nov. 29.---Be-|succeed himself at the next elec jte me refused to pay her hus-/tion. The necessity of attending to ifuneral expenses, Mrs, May |his private business is the reason me today was sentenced to | given. Months in jail at Cripple| Senator Piles endorses the as _ HOW LONG, HOW LONG, ASK Quit! PATRONS OF MADISON LINE How tong are people who are served by the Madison st. cable line Qeing to stand for the rotten service given them? ous flood situation it has experienced in years The huge pir pended over Ce lines which bring water to the city are suse ar river about two miles below the intake. Shortly after noon the super ment telephoned from the intake itendent of the water departe “All safe so far, but great torrents of water are rushing aday down stream 1 and ay wash out the bridge supports at any j time.” or 5 the even | How long are they going to walk through the wind-swept rain and see | the mud, they did yesterday, before entering a determined protest | againat such conditions? ~ For months, if not for years, past, almost every week the | St. cable “breaks down. Investigated by A. V. Bouillon r|tendent of public utilities, it was discovered some months ago’ that| Will not 4 of these. breakdowns was the practiced by the} Blectric in the matter of installing new cables. | The city has a force of six men, and the Chicago, Milwau- j kee & Puget Sound railroad a big gang of men, reinforcing the | bridge supports. Other men are above the bridge deflecting Madison | 1. and ; then superin- | jogs and trees that are being washed down stream, so that they charged wit Megal trat Vanderveer c t as battering rams on the bridge piers. | the. cause Seattle economy Carloads of gravel a bridge oe . THE TROUBLE. Should the bridge wash out, the city’s water supply would It was discove old cable wax allowed to reach a point} be cut off indefinitely. The city would have to fall back upon | ) | or utter tnability cable was ordered, | the old Lake Washington pumping station, which would pro- and that several weeks was then required before the new cable reached | duce not more than 5,000,000 gallons daily to take the plaeeal | Seattle, Mr. Bouillon advised that a new cable the 50,000,000 galions n. , this the Seattle Electric company undertook to provide ' g Ww entermg the city through the pipe nes. d more men are being rushed to position The attack g hed to the I the resuit of the pe Juder Gtitiam’s the grand jury t trath when he 4 Vanderverr no him, Ht te ald secutor om pel lm der, & reporter for company m CAUSE OF that the _ wan ef to pependt do business in Times. mp to p the cars before a new c Is Writing a Book. Be, “T have written under both my jown name and the namé of Giynn can-| Anyone has a right to write under jany nom de plume one Wishes. be always on hand, and “obscure At least they | The evening pa- didacy of Judge Burke. mt company and theOccidental Investment com wo corporations have been organized to take saloon licenses for two breweries. Aolding cor To date the fave shown a d these The state law expressly provides that breweries shall No interest They are admit Ipanies. } ayor and several members of the coun sposition to aid the breweries in trans- in direct violation of the state law } n or control of saloons. Mayor Miller and certain members of the council con- that the new law is faulty, that it does not say what it and they are willing to give the breweries the bene- Mot whatever mistake the legislature may have made. The Star contends that by no possible process of rea- ing can a conclusion be arrived at that will justify the til in permitting this transfer of saloon licenses. Theetate law cither prohibits breweries from owning licenses or it does not. If the law does not prohibit breweries from owning hy organize the Mercer Investment iy and the Occidental Investment company? Why not allow the breweries to own and control the "0 licenses in their own names, as they have done here- Wore? What need is there for holding companies? What | Reed is there for the breweries to go before the city coun- and seek a transfer? The one fac P Saloon lice: and the Occide that the law p licenses, If the law S86, it is « Tavestment comy he O. Pay. The law sx ; prohibitory eg he whol ‘the breweries are trying £0 a deal of usele breweries a Mercer Investment company re trying to transfer nt company is proof positive pan) 1 breweries from owning these t the breweries from owning vitive as regards the Mercer cidental Investment com terms of holding reducible to Either to evade the law or they are go- i trouble. this per” referred to in the above | “I am writing a book whieh, I . an jthink, will be one of the great) extract from the Seattle Jimes, American novels, Ido net say thie boastingly, but merely to show that/ f am doing my best to earn an} honest living. | “Recently a great commotion was raised about ‘salary loan it is almost needless to add, is The Star | The of sharks | land thelr methods. I intended| facts contained in the extract is {writing my story along the seme | lines It would hive been a great benefit to merchants and trades | people alike. 1 only hope I can} }make these people understand. | Vanderveer | “When — the measenger boy {brought the hat to me Saturday) Men engage night, I told him to take it back ‘ and I would call at the store Mon:| "d The day to seo about my bill, This|serted that. Mr. Vanderveer has he will not deny ' She Didn't Think. “1 notice In the morning jthat ‘it is thought other stores con-| nature of a bribe tributed to my supply,’ all of which r does jis untrue. I never went anywhere j but the one place. The Yeason the magazine in question did not know me was because the hotel manager | wired the wrong name. I wrote for {them under my own name. There was no hat found in my room la beled $61. I never patd that for lany hat My husband was a well Iman from coast to coast, honored Jand respected by all, I do not want | |to bring my friends into this mat- | ter unless positively necessary. | statement alleged untrue The Star has not ch with protecting illegal traff Star has never as at any time during his term of paper Star not believe Mr cept a bribe But The that Mr proper that Vanderveer would ac- Star does believe Vanderveer is not the man to perform the to grand jury at present in session duties of legal adviser the known in King county It believes that Mr. Vander ed Mr. | Joffice accepted anything in the} tendent of public utilities, GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE. Hut Mr. Boulllon ie out of office now and things are going from bad to worse on Madison st. Yesterday a strand in the worn-out cable picked up by the grip of a car at Fifth av, and, without further From 11 o'clock tn the wi warning, the cable was torn into two pieces morning all the rest of the day those rely upon the cable line trudged through the rain the lake end of the Ime disabled by those living along Madison st people who are compelled to Later in the to the burden day became thus adding borne GET THE MONEY JUST THE SAME, The Electric doesn't care nearly all of | these » in their journey by an | electric car and the fares go back to Boston just the same. | Isn't it about time that something was done for the people served by the Madison line? Seattle unfortunates are company because picked up somewhe: Or must they wait until the people elect officials who will do their duty? vecr is too closely affiliated] officials are of such an intens ) disqualify him with county officials under sus- | 'tY Mr le to conscien . all of ceedings before the grand jury,| Vanderveer is anxious gett: that the grand jury should get he in whom all of It believes that Mr. Vander-| the public would have absolute tiously conduct the pro-| ta PFO") results, why shouldn’t give way to someonc veer's prejudices iinst other | confidence? TRADES HIS CRIME-BLACKENED LIFE FOR $10,000 TO SAVE HIS STARVING their lives, Bachman, by his act, has sentenced himself to death, I »'s the story: Bachman was locked in jail here for.,burglary The proof wasn't co incing, though it looked bad On@Fday there came avletter for Bachman. The jailers read it first, of Gburse It in a woman's hand, in trembling characters, \perafched on rough paper with a }blun€ pencil, and stained with tears It was mother.” His Mother Still Loved Him. A mother—tt hadn't occurred to 'Rachman’s demonstration was taint-|the jatlers that this black, silent ed by no single unworthy motive.| burglar they had locked away fret | Where other men were pleading for|the sunlight could have a mother (By United Brew.) GALION, .0., Nov. 29 Bachman, a surly, bullet headed \pfiaoner In the @unty jail. here is a thiét, a burglar and a murderer, If they don’t send him to the pent ltentlary for life from Ohio, they will hang him in Misslsstppl | But Edward Bachman, the out- least, has shown # flash of humane lity. He loves his mother. Not the hysterical, cringing protestation of other pris oners ,who hope to win sympathy d merey for teemselves, was tt Edward ordinary, signed “Your loving OLD MOTHER FROM POVERTY “There's $10,000 on down south,” he said. “I killed a couples of people down the killed them for their money, Ww, what I want to know is, if I con fess to this can I claim the reward for my mother?" | The sheriff looked and consulted the Mississippi au thorities. The permission was given, and Bachman told the story & brutal, sordid, revolting thing a murder for money, violent, merciless. So they'll Mississippi—if Ohio him to the pen first But Edward Bachman, murderer, will go to the gallows with the realization that he has made a par ial atonement Silently they handed the letter to; the prisoner, A cry of distress and bitt row, shot through with lo loyalty, the letter,was—a love and a loyalty that had gone through the |fire and stood the severest tests | The mother was in want, dire | want, all but turned from her little \home; the cupboard wag empty, her clothes thin and scanty before the cold early winter air, She told of this briefly: Of her love for her bey—her boy, In spite of all—of her trust that all would come out lright—she spoke much and elo | quently my head, law up the him down doesn't hang in send * Traded With An hour after the | Bachman sent for the » Death, letter arrived neriff jexpressed a willingness to comply with the demands of the sugerin-| | Unless there ig a cessation of rain and a veering of the wind within the next forty-eight hours the real- dents of the White River valley ex- pect to have trouble from the rivers, wheh are rising rapidly. At South Park the more. timia residents are moving to the east i ITS) IN AA) GALE bank of the river this morning. The river near Riverton fell consider- 5 ably Saturday but yesterd& (By United Press) today it has risen ij the (Sees SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—Her , point hatches torn away and her forecas. The Green fiver and the White Ue shattered, the steamer Presi-| river are sttit withth thetr caannels jdent, the fast Pacific Coast Steam-|and damage from floods will be ship liner, entered this harbor early averted if the dam “At the Stuck today, twenty hours late, on her | river is not damaged. County Com- run from Seattle. For a night and | missioner Abraham left this morm. a day the President was tossed and/ing to make a tour of inspection battered by a terrific southeast | through the valley, gale encountered off Cape Fla Earlington Under Water, Her decks and hatches were swept away by waves that washed the! At Earlington Inst week the high ship from bow to stern, poured into| water made it impossible for any the companionwa d 300/of the residents to reach their Homes except in boats frightened take refuge in their staterooms. Provisions were carried But for the face that Capt. Thom- | householders in boats. as immediately ordered the life net-| Yesterday it was possible to walk lings fastened about the decks,/in Earlington. Last night's rain Clyde MeCoy, of Seattle, a first) and that of today has caused a re- cabin pai r, might have lost| turn to the conditions of last week |his life ventured from his| The county road near Elliott te jstateroom and was caught by under water at the Meadows. Be- wave that rushed across the| yond South Park the land is also decks, hurling him into the pro-| flooded. The Duwamish river is tecting life net bank-full and the owners of homes The President left Seattle Friday along its banks are preparing to Jmorning at 10 o'clock. Immediate: | protect thelr property |ly after rounding Cape Flattery and 1 the bridges and dams in the | turning into the open sea enormous | county are still intact and have not jground swells began to roll the| been sertously endangered, accord. jship, and within three hours she} ing to County Engineer Morrison was piunsias in the teeth of a ter he most damage of this nature |rifie gale, occurs, according to the engtne | The covering of the forecastle | aftey a flood river mice ofa: |compantonway was torn away and | : |piled a heap of wreckage on the |forward decks. Doors were wrench ed from staterooms and shattered} the past 72 hour gives a rainfall to splinters against the masts. Sev-|of 2.71. inch For the past. 48 jeral staterooms were flooded and | hours {t was most of the rain |their seasick occupants drenched | having fallen that time. by the chill water From 1 until noon to- Throughout the day andwell into | day prectpitation Saturday night the storm gained in| of z jviolence. Three times {t was neces:| The ;sary to stop the engines to ease the | whole rending vibrations of the propeller ; as {t raced high above the water.! places than it is } Walla Walla During the nineteen hours the gale] at § a. m. had a temperature of 60 jlasted the ship made but four} q es, While at Seattle it was 55 | knots | degrees. By 6 o'clock Sunday morning the All the storm had abated, although atabe |sional heavy seas swept over the |decks. Only fifteen of the 300 pa | s aboard were able to ay kfast Sunday mornta and caus passengers. to to the a heavy The Weather Report. The weather bureau's report for a warm state area extends over the The temperature east of the mountains ts higher in so: western portion of the affected by the present heavy rain, Tacoma being the t sufferer so far senge: at bre r me " | (Continued o: Page Seven.)