The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1909, Page 1

HE SEATTLE © ‘TAF Uk OFFERS TO SURRENDER, rR om FIMGE SENDING. WARSHP THE SEATTLE ONE CENT MH GILL ACCUSED OF GRAFT IW OIURY TOLD JURY BY THAYE A FEW RUSH ORDERS INGTON, Nov. 30.—Minister Castrillo, diplomatic repre. @f the provisional government of Nicar today receiv. measage from Provisional President Estrada, saying that proposals of surrender from Senor Calderon, repre- y Zelaya. ca ' was rejected by Estrada. The message stat! ‘army has been encircled by the Estrada forces ani = inference that nothing but an unconditional surrender red. Angry, Too. Costa Rica, Nov, 30. | errata Sener ease it of many complaints the reported mistreat mon in Nicaragua, HAN AGAINST Warship from Martinique | ees DEATH-HLOST vgt x Grondat, i ie, |Civil Service Hearing Fails|‘"**"'"er of the Pyro Lig AYA MINUTES T ; AD | to Go as Deep as the) ‘cattle, knew that Hi Gill was levying graft, the grand jury, peta of hedigaitice to French of ragua was| Facts Would Seem to Grondahl \ Warrant. morning for Grondahl’s appearance and, as he lives Operator Tried to Warn) Seattle Train of Wash- to the French consul here | out, But Was Too Late WHY NOT GO TO BOTTOM OF THIS MEos? ‘ft Private Detective Gives Grand Jurors Report of His Investigations of Alleged Hold Up, and the Man Who Is Said to Have Paid the Money Is Sub- poenaed From Tacoma. es eles it ev Walter that Because R. Thayer, a private detective, told the grand jury Joseph formerly secretary and One ht Electric S company, of Bas lived in Zelaya’s do-| summoned to appear before it. A subpoena was many years. A thorough | fem bas been ordered by| ‘authorities that he and, joaragua, for the breaking out} “dtd had deen the ob-| @ystematic persecution | ‘of Zelaya’s government ag of friends,” he) captured by agents of nf Our money was we were tortured uamer issued thi in Tacoma now, the sheriff of Pierce county will be asked to Some Facts. get service n in upon him. H. J. Huhn and Arthur Bernard, suspended patrolmen, last | night reinstated by the serv: | ‘ 4 wee aie stags $06 commianion. jtold that he had been “held up” for $500 by Hi Gill in order M Allee Moore nd ore acotiae coe ok to get an ordinance through the « saloon, swore that the » in uniform, drank Moore. They swore that Mra, Moore paid | for the drinka were Thayer in the elvil be grand jury room swore that Grondahl had ef hy 3 Montell. a French sub-/ ity council. ‘Thayer ad- po, | mitted in the jury room that Grondahl! had never told him the with | 3 He ] that Grondah! at the time he was forced to talkec story mey about it to his assistant and his assistant pay told it to i aman named Munson. It was from Munson, Thayer d the jury, that he got his information, GRONDAHL WILL TELL. testifying in the grand jury room had his ‘ Sergeant Carr Thayer when “Lo gO en on their ~ testimony in written form, and practically read his report of graft.to the jury. He told the jury that Grondahl, if brought y Thayer had nnecting Hi Gill with reported graft. into the jury room, would substantiate the st« ‘The breweries won. told them, ec The railroads won, The people came off second:best at the meeting of the city council last night. The breweries secured transfers of liquor licenses to the Thayer informed the jury that Grondah! was formerly, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Pyro One Light | Electric nf his assistant, who is now vany, and that he had made a statement to was yesterday working for an electric company on frant and is 0) bonds ar Mercer and Occidental companies, dummy concerns organized now First av HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ GRIEV.- ANCES, Principal Geiger’s refusal to allow football team to play Coeur d'Alene. | , n ¢ . to Chicago in ison, net eam to G2] ‘The railroads won when the Northern Pacific Railway Co Ruling against sweaters for foot-' was granted four perpetual franchises, which, taken together, ball players. Inion belt hi * - - erg ec Cutting off of assembly dances. will make the Lake Union belt line. The franchises were grante 1 Abolition of social activities. over the protest of R. Maxfield White, representing the feder improvement clubs, and in the face of a fight made by with the sole purpose of defeating the will of the people as ex state law prohibiting the t breweri or indirectly holding saloon licenses. Here Is the Story. Thayer reported to the jury that Grondah! had tord his sasistant that jhe went to Hi Gill, president of the elty council, to ask him to put an ordinance through the city council for hin electric cign company. Ac ording to Grondahi's story, Gill | told him that it would take $200 to }pass the ordinance. Grondahl al jleges he gave Gill $200. The ordi- hance was introduced but not | passe after the refusal of the council | to pass the ordinance Thayer told the jury that Grondahl asserts that he visited Gill and was told that » would put the ordinance through the council, According to Thayer, the $300 was paid and the ordinance that made it possiole for his company to do business in Se attle went through the council. These Men Knew About it. The jury was told by Thayer that J. 8. Whitney, 704 Ninth av., Mr. Calwell, of the Western Electric Co., and L. Grover, of Ninth av. W According to Thayer, Calwell sued Grondah! for $560. The suit was allowed to go by default and Calwell got judgment. Feared Persona! injury. Thayer told the jury that he had been informed that Grondabl left Seattle because he feared personal injury might be done him. Accord- ing to Thayer, Grondah! had told a friend that he had narrowly escaped being shot. Thayer testified t Grondahl laid the attack upon hi life to the latter making known his charges of corruption against Hi Gil. When Grondahl! is brought before the jury, which it is hoped will be tomorrow, he will be confronted with the men to whom he told his sory. The jury is trying to reach an agreement this afternoon as to what disposition to make of the county hospital. Judge Ronald was before the jury this morning to give them advice which they had sought. Juror Card asked the Some Questions. Why did not | pressed in a es from directly George Listman and H. T. Granger, members of the jetvil service commission, make a |real attempt to get to the bottom of the graft charges made against jHubn and Bernard? Why did the commissioners not look into the discriminating order of Sergeant Carr in favor of White prostitutes against negresses? Why did the commisstoners over jlook the patent fact that the two policemen drank in uniform while jon duty? Why did the commissioners re fuse to hear anything about the police knowledge of a “wide open” section of the city? Why was the principal witness against the two policemen arrested at this late day as a vagrant, when her presence and calling hav well known to the police for a long time? Engineer John Wyandt, Tacoma, i peeiee my compen: | Mra. Moore swore that she had | OLYMPIA, Nov. 30.—Unable to} | Hubn and Bernard ¢ |} &raph, Operator L. D. Weyand, of | jtrack last night in an attempt to! at Three Minutes Tee Late. jcolored woman violating the law (Ys CLOSE ney for Hubn and Bernard, at When within 200 yards of the commissioners shut him up uncere. jeurve and into the death trap. held under $1 Clear the charges |Taced madly to the depot in this| Rallinger’s assertion |*#!d it was too late for him to in rior portfolio, the article )ing himself with railroad torpedoes show to go to Vancouver, superintendent of public am claims was referred to/ ru! death trap. {head by the refusal of the principal pent. his opinion follow-|over bridges, washed out right of |io0. Brosdway high school is on} 4) 4 led the fight againat | e-meeewceunnsumeetsennuaestemntee with fear they waved their warn-|Stievances was presented to the | io eee the council to grant | married. imagine | paid the policemen $5 a week for| warn speeding passenger train No. Olympia, with red lantern in hand, | * reach the washout before the | hey also swore that Sergeant He arrived too late by three on ee roe | tempted to show that this end of undermined track skirting Perci-| | val creek, now a raging river, he | Unltd Press) and a young man named John | | atone Noy. 30.--More fuel/Rollman stood by in horror and | . mt issue of Col) Roliman had discovered the un- a hevia. in connec leity and, staggering Into the sta ware of the detatia|@TCept the speeding train. Ruling against trophies for mine) 4.44 Max Wardall ad “fuses” of red ght, Weyand | Secretary of the Interior) ‘The express driver led the|to allow the football team to go to| “tilities, said provided no safeguards for the shipper and general | | the trt inst Prinet the recommendations ot} way, and in the distance heard the | the Verge of a strike agains | the tranater of the Hane Keemses SFATTLE MAN ing beacon lights, but a curve shut | Principal this morning or den: applications for the | i Fireman Herbert Whittaker, | 10 weeks. That they demanded $2 | 210, eastbound from Grays Harbor INGER They tentified minutes and saw death collect its Seattle was “wide open” and that Mrs. Moore jch will appear! germined track. Unable to reach Cunningham coa) land tion, told Wyand of the impending | inningham claims after he Race Against Train. strei men. of being submitted to the|and an Olympia express wag The franchises granted were practically the same as the d nd an a expres on May 19. Pierce ruled in| pace that was all but killing to the | Coeur d'Alene or to have sweaters / public. They saved nothing for the people and gave all to the ' y. F. Get in a speech before the/itlfated train come thundering to-| Pal W. F. Geiger thetr | Qonwas advocated tha’ tramsiered Ge it down the jotf the unfortunate engineer's and| If Geiger turns : no |transfers—in the diseretion of the | THE DEAD. & to escape, but | home in Worcester, Mass. ja week more “for the ser jto Seattle, of a washout by tele | raced a mile and a half down the| | . had told them i j | train Carr had told them to arrest an When D. V. Halverstadt, attor awful toll Ithe police knew of this fact, the Mite the altinger con-|saw the train dash around the Bh cok Reap yd statement that) Gate, Little Rock or Oakville, be danger. The operator at Little Rock the daties connected with Lighting a red t nd r es himeet areas: conten Refusal to ailow the minstret) Councilman general, the question of the| driver raced madly toward the aw.|. Thetr difficulties brought to «| original draft which A. V. Bouillon, as Canningham and against /jittie telegrapher. On they raced | #!ven them by the athletic associa} raitrogd forever and ever of the house on March) ward them. Exhausted and mad| A loug petition covering He ndmitted that it was within the | | fireman's view istudents deciare they will take the i he hing thing of the was, that at a most of the proceedings, ninent was about to freat coal deposits on The next moment there was a|m™atter up to the school board Some Possibilities. crash, a hissing of steam and then|, If the school board turna them | Prowerles he | The com continent, Ballinger ily be overcome by a ¥ of feeling which from protecting the jthe stillness of death settled over down they will leave school, it is) the hills and ravines. Three pas- | declared sengers, the conductor and brake- Many of the pupils’ parents are }man hurried to the engine, which | behind them in the fight on the |hung over the side of the embank- | choo! authorities | ment bordering on Percival creek Among the boys who drew up the |A half hour later they had dug out| petition and are leading the agt the engineer from the wreckage. |tators are many members of the . His lifeless body was carried to the | football and barebali teams and for Cunningham on | baggage car and covered over with others prominent in student activi and loyalty to the gov-|a rubber bianket. |tles. The discontent, which has the other were in pain-| Under the firebox, with one foot | been growing for a year, became Therefore, he took the| protruding, lay the unfortunate | boiling with Coach Lewis’ resigua me Open to c gentleman. | fireman Death had claimed him tion the day after the Broadway: Bis beck and shut his|rimost as quickiy as {t had the| Lincoln game. The students say |man in the cab with nim. Ithat Geiger’s Interference was a —— big factor in the failure of the| coach to produce a winning team. | | ARREST OWNER ~ OF NEWPORT’ pie at the limit. He did to direct that the | | iw be submitted to the | H | | | | BY T. J. DILLON. and imperfection of those elaborate rules of # under the name of law were clearly shown when the law released its grip on a forger who com Gime to save the Iife of his sick wife. Man had unquestionably broken the law, and under the AO Was unquestionably entitled to pay the penalty, but be Me circumstances attendant upon the crime, the automatic, ting, ‘mpersonal law quafled, halted, and finally sur. Like the yeriest Oriental, the law shut its eyes and Mapelied all precedents and decisions, and saved its face ly ignoring a fact of which it had already taken cog And set the man free. truth of the case is that the man broke man’s law Man's law conflicted with the higher law of nature. He took to the supreme court of self-preservation as his wife's and based his plea on the primal statute of the sur- Of the fittest. in a less complicated era of civilization he have armed himself with a club and sought food for his smate by right of might. He would have killed or have been Two complaints were issued this morning against Ike Rosenthal, pro prietor of the Newport ¢ by| Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John} E. Perry, one 4 John Doe warrant} charging Rosenthal with selling liquor to a minor, and the other} charging him with selling lquor on Sunday. The cases will be heard in Justice Fred @. Brown's court. C B. Blethen is the prosecuting wit ness in both complaints. Growing out of the arrest Rosenthal is a rumor that he has bought the old Ceefl hotel and is planning an underground passage way from the Newport Cafe to the of ted with an elemental necessity today, he was forced brawn on cunning, and #0 he forged a t The princ me age and in the twentieth cen | BE BROUGHT HERE He Whole complicated machinery of law and order crum Hhe Claborate structure of soclety falls. We cannot legally the commission of an act which we call a erime under | lreumstance. inherent sense of justice, which A mall law, forbid to punish . | ; : 7 Me € bbery was issued) 3 Personally, there is perhaps not one red-blooded man or ,,* complatnt of fo herr was iseued Pe ede ig Be Bode ns sarang bonnes 8 Ellis this morning against Charles Smith, alias Charles Johnson, on the} charge of robbing John B. Young of t Hanover Apartments January iF something of a hero, or at the lowest, a man. His in direst need. Around him was plenty, with much of ied ht MeMt and took what wae needed, even though he vio- aver eran ie rin oe the sacred” rights of property. siudgeon men” suspected of killing , A certainty that he must eventually be defeated and fii, ander arrest in Chicago, and ox SY the venalty. of truth, something herole about Bliredition papers will be mado out Manner, we vuld not hesitate to call him a hero, B)" youn b, Young, the prosecuting | mately for him, he filched a few dollars, to the same witness In the present complaint Mechnicality and the law have been affronted by the [i!down about 6 p.m. January 21, 1909, | St this man is a cause for mutual congratulation. His B\hack of the old Rainier hotel, and slued @t $160 and of a ring worth| "9460, yet th us is Rather than sit supinely by and see his wife handed hx mfronted the law-fortified ranks of #0. Hugh McMahon, a yocal bartender, hing self-sacrifictn, Had he given up his Hfe in some at once for his return to Seattle. Webnically and \egally he became a felon charges that Smith knocked him) ia Shows that we are all at least human beings and not | robbed him of a diamond stud | will be council to serve the people or j councll decided to! serve the breweries. Here is the vote for and against and keep it. There next spring. Yes — Armstrong, Jackson, McKinnon, Murphy, Reve’ Sparkman, Way No-—Goddard, Wardall Weaver. The vot Cut it out {a an election } | Conway, Mullen, and mn the franchises ts interesting. The test came on the firet franchise, Here is that vote YES—ARMSTRONG, CON WAY, GILL, HINES, HURD, JACKSON, McKINNON, MUL- LEN, MURPHY, REVELLE, SPARKMAN, WAY, WEAVER ANDO ZBINDEN. NAY8 — GODDARD, YER AND WARDALL., On the second franchise Revelle switched to the nays. On the other two franchises nobody except Ware dall seemed to care much how hé voted so long as the bills passed, BUION CASE BEGIN THS.— AFTERNOON The case of Orpha A. Timmons and others against the Guion In- vestment company, asking for @ receiver for the latter company, tried this afternoon in th superior court by Judge A. W. Fra- ter. It is charged by a teacher in the BAW. Miss Timmons, blic schools of | Seattle, and by a dozen other young ladies, that Guion used his influ as a member of the school board to sell stock in the Guifon Investment company, & speculative company, to teachers in the publie schools, It is also charged that through poor management the con cern is now practically penniless, although over $80,000 has been patd into the treasury, The application for a receiver ts made by Keenan & Hardinger, law-| yers in the Empire building | A A hh ee eed * BOUILLON SPEAKS, A. ¥. Bouillon, candidate * for mayor, took lunch with 18 * members of the Rainier Val * ley Improvement assoctation * in one of the private rooms * of the Allen Dale cafeteria * this noon, Mr. Bouillon deliv * ered an address in which he * took up severat of the mat * ters now before the public * John Bennett Rogers, Who! BURGLARY ACT Once Had Liquor Store| Here, Turns to Breaking] Safes. er identific a| former Seattle A man who was Is fs John Bennett Rogers, a wholesale liquor dealer of Was arreate rly this m San Francisco, and is ch gafe breaking. He was « the act of robbing a saloon s | Patrolman E. Murphy of the San| Francisco pc department dis eovered the n kneeling before the Lacey saloon safe Market | st. and working quietly in the light] bullseye lantern, Summoning two other officers, Murphy entered | the room. Immediately the extinguished the light and gr with the first bluecoat hi reach. For more than 10 minutes the men struggled In the d before Rogers was overcom When searched at the police sta-| tion several letters addressed to J B. Rogers, 1123 First ay., Seattle, were found on him, also two checks made out in his favor on the Puget Sound National bank for $10, 000 and one for $15,0¢ lenied that he was ever in and said that his name James Rogers However, John B Roger atte, owned company 1123 First av. eight years ago. He sold out at that time, and for a time traveled with | his wife in Europe, The old time liquor men of Seattle were under the impression that he was either dead or had been insane. From] the outcome of the ease they be Hleve that it was the latter. The men believe that he was demented when arrested Among his effect ciseo police discove set of burglars’ tools, and Ro cannot account for their presence An effort will be made to implicate him with a series of safe robbertes | in that city rning in ed with | ught in| one He Seattle was he wag later fdentified | Rogers of Seattle when a the ar | reatdent Keystone of Liquor at the San Fran-| a complete | RE RAREKEKR RK * THE WEATHER. *| * *) * = Fair and x WedneMay * winds, cooler fair, tonight; * fresh west * * * * * * * * * * * * *) ” * Se i i i i i i i ee you haps the civil service mission is fearful that it might learn something that would be of nterest to the grand jury Perhaps the civil service com tniasion bell d there was some truth in the threat of Hubn that if he went down he would drag some) one else with him. Perhaps L. K, Chureh, of prosecuting attorney's <fflee, tell the reason for the arrest Mra. Moore. LAUNDRY MEN'S FINE I$ BIGGER THAN IT LOOKS Must Pay $25 for Each Girl for Each Day They Were Worked More Than Le- gal Hours. the can of what? problem be put up to manager, and foreman, of S’teen times $2 Some such pretty in arithmetic will George D. Weiler Christian Christiansen the Supply Laundry company by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John K, Perry to find the answer Welter and Christia each fined §25 and co Fred ©. Brown's court yesterday afternoon on conviction of employ ing Edna Emmirson and Belle Shick for more than 10 hours each in 24 5 equa little laundry men thought that was a joke,” sald Attorney Perry this morning, “but it will not be a joke by the time I get through with them Under the law, each girl and each day constitutes a separate of fense. The trial of yesterday was Just a beginning that half a dozen girls were em ployed 14 hours each, day afte ay The minimum fine is $10 and costs and maximum §$ and multiply those fines times enough the result is no little in mnificant amount It isn't 80 funny after all,” Complaints will be filed against Weiler and Christiansen for every girl so employed on each s day COUNCILMEN TO SPEAK, There will be a meeting of the Men's Club of the South Park Methodist church tonight, at which Councilmen Wardall and Goddard will discuss the commission form of government, ArAle I have evidence | and Newell st, knew about the jmatter. The jury intends to sub }poena these men to corroborate Thayer's story. The jury was informed by Thayer that Calwell, who had bought out Grondahl’s interest tn the company, had told him that Grondahl assert ed that Gill had received $500 from the company, Calwell’s story, ac cording to Thayer, was that after Calwell bought into the company he saw by the books that there was $500 paid to Grondahl by the com. pany but no explanation for what purpose. When inquiry was made of Grondahi, Thayer says Calwell was told that the $500 not account eu for on the company’s books had to HIG or engineering an ordinance the council, FEAR OF WHAT WOULD SI gone through Miss Helen Tobyne Re- fuses at the Last Mo- ment to Wed Chinaman. Miss Helen Tobyne did not mar. ry Mark nh Sule, Christianized Chinaman, last night Today. she says marry him Mark, downeast and disappointed, hints that the wed. ding is merely postponed Whether permanent or tempc ary, public opinion was too strong for this white girl's affection for her Oriental sweetheart Yes day afternoon she vowed she would marry him in the of the protest of the entire we | Last n jhome, 718 10th ay. sipping champagne that Matk bought the’ wedding feast “I'm not going to be married have listened to the advice of my mother, sister and my _ friends People whom I never heard of call she will never ld. the for POOR ABE RUEF—HE’ (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 3 Claiming that his heart and lun are affected, and that he live unless he is removed to a more comfortable place of abode than the county jail, Abe Ruef, the convicted boodling boss of San Franel to. 0, t she was found at her| court what could be done to stop the newspapers from reporung the jury's denberations. All Wanted Reforms. The chief thing, however, was that the jury wanted to know how far 1 could go in their report on the county hospital. The jury ts divided as to what recommenda- tions to make. Some of the jurors take the position that Dr. Corson must go. Others, however, are in favor of recommending reforms without placing blame on any one, Prosecuting Attorney Vanderveer was absent from the Jury room thig morning. Sherhf Hodge toid the jury of his trouble with the county hospital authorities. The sheriff also asked the jury to mak full | investigation of his office. THE PEOPLE HALTS ROMANCE I= ed me up over the telephone and asked me not to marry a China- man, Rey, Harry H. Huson, a Bremerton minister, who was to marry us, told me he would be glad ;to marry me to a nice white man, but never to a Chinaman. I will never marry Mark.” Mark Ten Sule sat dejected his room, 1507% Fourth av. “f have taken her mother's advice and we will not be married at pres« jent. I had a nice home prepared for her, her mother and her sister, but there was sa much talk about our wedding that we decided to wait. It was on the advice of my white friends. I have no friends among the Chinese, I shall always retain my affection for Misa Helen.” Miss Tobyne announced today that she would soon leave Seattle and make her home in Canada, Some of her friends maintain that as soon as the present agita- tion dies down, Mark and Miss To- byne will marry, perhaps in Can- ada S DYING IN JAIL = HEART AND LUNGS BOTH ALMOST GONE |day filed a petition in the superion court for admi bail pending he appea! of his case, The petition is supported by the statements of number of physicians who have ex- amined the prisoner, and say that health is endangered by {mprisx onment,