The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1909, Page 1

THE SEATT TAR oro STA NO TLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909 } AND WAGE EARNERS eZ ee | SIGNALS SOLD 10 TACOMA ‘THE SHIFTIEST LADS IN THE BUSINESS, fe a A MERRY CHRISTMAS ‘ . gr are | TWO RESPOND ALREADY TO bint Employe in City AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR ? ? ir f . ; i} < wets, gy sine _ See ony XMAS PLAN remap camels rag: ne { Editor Seattle Star: | ells Story of His Work Please find enclosed check for $5 to help the bachelors’ There. Sigel. Wik: Dee & 1000 f COUNT TWICE, BUT IN Christmas fun, Thanking you for the opportunity, | remain, ; Seattle, Wash., Dec. 8, A THE LAST ROUND HE Very respectfully, ALBERT B, LORD. . See Sir-— CAME UP STRONG, HE Here ts the second man to respond, His letter came just as Ie the city of Seattle supplying d a Ta WILL PROBABLY PE the pape fl t nan, He pal estate ma th t le a ta ; mea 2 ‘ ‘ 6 paper wa ng to press e is @ rea ate man, with material and men for the manufae in we pon the threshold of Christmas time, MATCHED WITH offices in the Northern Bank & Trust bullding ture and installation of street fire BeOOD C HEER” will abound on every side. Most CON SOONER, SOON, alarm uls for other cities? ire ahead a little so that the occasion , P ; And if this is true, is the eft ‘asion Who'll be the ne Ham-;their own happy Christmas days in|, one a ge Ma ting which will tend to make it THE Sg ay ct soa mersmark, 1665 is the |the past, and who would like to|P%2® pald for tis outlay? ALL THE YEAR. Many times others’ ‘| |firet man to respond to The Star's |help. This newspaper offered to|, Three of these boxes have been > j ‘quvisvore We 1 suggestion for a “Bachelors’|bring to two classes—the people | 'Pstalled tn Tacoma by Howard i Revision) 06 CNET | Christmas.” who needed help and the people | Jy”, city electrician, two more ple arrangement to supply you and bos | a The Star suggested that there who could give it—(though that|®¢ !” the fire department shops, Il or large amounts of money, which J acunve. were thousands of homes where help be only a few toys or a couple | Peay for delivery to the same city, short pitiede Christmas white : Christmas would mean little this of dollars)—together sar Byte ae eae eee not insure a GLORIOUS TIME : ' bse your in Seattle—except disappoint-| Mr. Hammersmark, the first to|™etal works o ark & Co, hy ea G d ? jent. That there would be no joy |hear the call, offers his time and|0 the Flyer dock, waiting to be ipplied with ready money ou . MY “ light in thousands of little faces. |help. He will have ten hours | °vered with a coating of tin. bay Cheaper for cash, and many things can be picked } a That Santa Claus would miss thou- | Christinas eve, and as many even-| These boxes, according to the a bargain Xmas eve, because dealers prefer the cash . Z Sands of bomes, would leave count: /tngs as the Good cease needs: He is cca ae ee “ > soda his . leas stockings empty gladly gives m to the work. 39 eac ig over merchandise Also that there were Hundreds There are many others in Seat-| Ray Peterson, 4239 11th av. N. E., will be a rush for money, of course, so please ff perhaps thousands—ot bachelors,|tle. Let's hear from them & carpenter, who was formerly im eipt of this letter just how much : men who had no children to help: Let's boost this “Bachelors’| the fire department, says he was c 1 ho 1d look back on | Christ | called to headquarters from the fire need. Our office will be open évery evening to young men who could look back o1 ristmas | station ea the ACTON Sh arcana from December lth to the 28th | x S te o_o 4 _ — about September 15 by Assistant seria? Ten ' : | ew) Chief W. H. Clark to make a num- ZAR, believe us, | tf ; | Yours sincerely, | E ber of lockers for the men of the STOP FIRST WARD BALL. CHAMPION GE NUE SEMINE AND WALL OF, CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—United * * * department io Tarte oC a TY » * STATE SECURITY CO, | HE RECENTEY GAINED 4 DECISION OvER MIDGET # StatesDistrict Attorney Sims Per T. C. K., Mer. i COMMON PEOPLE “ier TARIEF BATTLE. *% today took a hand in the fight yi . * ° * * * \* ° Told to Keep Still. “When that was finished,” sald Peterson last night, “Joslyn came HE ID A RUPE OF HID PIRR Pony. being waged against the famous “First Ward Ball,” the annual tenderloin event con- to me and said that he had some work for me to do in his depart- ducted by Alderman “Hinky Dink” McKenna and “Bath- ment. He took me to the cellar, where there was a model box, and asked me if 1 could make one like house John” Coughlin. The dance is scheduled to be held next Monday night HE 15 IN TRAINING NOW TO SWAP WALLOPS wiTH | . ee mast 89 rag Seattle ey Seer <= 4 “COWOOY WEST FOR WHE “CENTRAL BANK 4 lew days been the c PURSE. fats of letters like the above GROCERYMEN The loan offices of Seattle E ARE A FEW GLADIATORS WHO HAVE NEVER LOST A BATTLE AND ARE ALWAYS ANX simp! ng veto » Bs 10US TO SWAP PUNCHES WITH “MIDGET” COMMON PEOPLE. i nonnn Peo s torroe_ money ' 8 egy : -|Secures Enough Evidence | * and Sims announced that he ® shops, and because it was different a intereat te oner * lw will have secret service ® from anything ever used by the per cent interest In order to to Convict Local Grocers | agents on hand to watch for * department 1 suspected it was for a pose % evidence against the “white the boxes. . as oe | of Forming an Unlawful |? *& slave traders.” * Later Joslyn took me to one side | Combine. | A large number of postal */and confided to me that Tacoma kind the loan sharks increase their list of | it cards, advertising the ball, #/ wanted a number of the signal The wage earner | eeeiammne * were suppressed today by the ® boxes, and that the boxes I was to ; home who are pes sila Members of the grocery combine |*® postal authorities. ’ for that city. He also Nalking about what |that have been forcing Seattle gro-|* repeatedly about say- to bring them BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 9-—The cers to keep the prices of food | eRe RRRA RARER EHEARE Ing ng about the matter. bountiful Kris sine of the railroad switchmen POOR oi stuffs at an artificta: figure will be tha ler Josly a Ng os ‘ ‘. tary » pher billed to the city, 19 supplied with in Montana practically collapsed to. John B. Agen, 6,000 pounds of poultry sent to the fertilize t indicted by the grand jury pager - A for a few days. |¢ay when the strikers at Livings| factory; 3,000 pounds held for bacteriological tants eeninagy The evidence so far given before WITHOUT COMMENT T made At ot ie Denne, comer w of the loan | ton, on the Northern Pacitic road, Carstens Packing company, 7,000 pounds broilers and turkeys u@ jury has satisfied it that indict Sees § ina Heed ae a ee after the holidays hence to work. Reports from) sent to the fertilizer factory se oo ments can be successfully prone eoene oo ny oi —_ wig bap ri and gone, he will ex- [other centers indicate that the Cudahy Packing company, 3,000 pounds poultry held for : cuted To the or of The Star apache ig r. Clack Co. om, the remorseful melancholy pall the last week has been| chemical teats , poultry : os Falls, Strikes La- “shor Yeights and high prices of Reading the article in The || Fiver dock to be tinned. ‘Then they ie he ie extricating ved al reig ‘aing are be- Separated from the rotten stuff and passed by the officials and im | {004 products were investigated by |] star ast night by Marion Lowe and his wages from the |/ng moved with little difficulty. for sale, 17,000 pounds eh Crushes Him the grand jury this morning. The |} cpout » family left without sup Seclyn tnetalied ‘Thom, ee ee | There is Mole change in the|.,N@ Prosecution will be instituted |sumption that warrants the state wn Into Ten Feet of jury |» satisfied that ; ree pr tojl port by sending the father to Tacoma officials state that the persons unwisely bountiful | switchmen's strike situation today, | 8t.th¢ Present time against John B.|dairy and food commissioners in Slime. keep up the prices of food to an |] jai set me thinking that the boxes were ostensibly bought Phristmas money borrowed | sithough the Griet Marthecn taetl Agen, the Carstens Packing com: seizing and destroying the ees 8 artificial figure is in operatic: law is all right. The father | through Kilbourne @ Clark Co. of 280 per cent philanthro- | evening imported 50 men from 8t, | ?#2? and the Cudahy Packing com- poultry —_—— Seattle. Scor ot grocers Pil might as well be in jail as at |) Seattle, but that all negotiations Christmas, will not enjoy | ogres oltart te teeak the | P0e?: although 13,000 pounds of For 10 days deputy atate food ana} Struck by an overturned derrick |b Called to testify as to home to help eat the scanty were carried om through Howard us Christmas this year. {Gertie Wakes ‘eels ay that | rotten poultry has been found in| dairy commis © boon in-|aind buried 10 feet in the mud and futile attempts to cut grocery |} food for the family and make j]| Josiyn, city elestrician of Seattle. days since last Christ-| ii ise strike-Dreakera were hired in| tte!’ Bossession by deputy state |ventiating local plants, talimé ef thé tide flats, William Me.| oe invite trade to their} the poor mother work to feed || ‘The boxes were also installed by Bye been glorious for no one | ote ene eee laborece ang {tod and dairy commissioners. with the result that they & 4 ams Me. | stores |] another mouth Joslyn Sloan vampires. ai Oe Soares aorer® and | Chickens, young broilers, geese and went to the fertilizer factory the Coy, laborer, went to a tragic death Tries to Protect Combine. ‘The trouble is just here: The T. F. Clark of T. F. Clark & Co, ad Reai H eine nal then en bea mag ron work | turkeys in advanced state of de- amount of poultry given above at Fourth ay. 8. and Spokane ay.| A. J. Rupert, of 113 First avy. N | jail furnishes a fine winter re- who tinned the boxes, said this oad : ns pagel ar Ah |composition were discovered in; The seizures were made by Dep-| Yesterday afternoon told the jury that the association of |] sort for that dort of men; good || morning aq jetter ge be ridicu- ‘The Greek Nembers now has | C04 storage, held and owned by utiles Hanson, George Adams and lgrocers had forced him » ral warm quarters and good feed. frame boxes were brought it not for the real harm : these men, presumably for sale, Will H. Adama, who said thia morn times to keep prices at a higher! y no pride for him- by Howard Joslyn, the cit ees liible working | seven engines working, four tn day- | when at about lock jj, A man with no pri y ? 4 res of gu orking \‘ime and three at Biabt. Owing to|2Ut because there is no direct evi-| ing that they have practically com sian o'clock & cry of | figure that he would have other-||) self and uo love for his family || electrician, on August 23. ‘Three fof both sexes. Think of ne Pg A dol the toad e ‘os tient {dence that the decayed stuff was pleted their investigations, Much|#larm went up. The towering der-'wise done. Rupert made an at-|] would rather loaf in such quar- || days later four were turned over Bargains by paying for thé rs . . * ond “par ment. / actually being put on the market, | of the stuff discovered had been In Fick creaked and groaned and with; tempt to protect the combine but || ters than work for his his |/to him completely tinned. We ‘With money borrowed at) a - <n Powe ed ed after 2) there will be no prosecution cold sterage plants for month: & crash it fell like a stricken giant.|the jury had information that he |} family's living charged him $11 each for the tin- Gent interest. Large busi-| o'cloe . ereoen ; Why they had it and what they| boxes that had never been o MeCoy, working on the fats, failed had stated to customers that he Let's make the jail a place [| ning of the boxes and the signal houses in their every day she morning te eee tha | Wanted to hold it for, if not for and when opened to the air by the {© heed the warning cries. With | knew prices of certain goods were |] 4. pe dreaded, instead of longed | arms. Yes, | knew they were for Baivas cannot obtain advan-|s¥itchmen were working along the market sale,/Is a matter of dathition, Gare ont & sienth awful force the huge derrick struck too high, but that he was helpless || fo,” Have the jail as nearly || Tacoma, but I thought proper ar- Mi bargains with money that | front, swi « nig, the docks | _ sti sin him on the ad and shoulders, to cut the prices because of fear || sanitary as possible, but let the rangements had been made for at a larger rate of in-| 4nd to the rear of the tammJssion " . driving him fully 10 f Jow t . peng ond 4 réphed, presumibly 10 o6t. thn down into|of a boycott from the wholesalers, |} PAntars ms a sor || their purcha about § per cent. By ed n Western av, ‘The im “OSGAR” § SUED BY atmosphere of the heights te which | tie black mud and slime The Seattle Retail Grocers as. || buutes seer on t cone Aye’ | a it. I told him I could. That same afternoon a load of lumber was de- livered to th fire department Settee eee eee ee were shipped to Tacoma.” Work was progressing yesterday tograp however, the buyer| Strike-breakers sleep at| “4, bon The awed spectat ore “ ‘ Joslyn Did the Work. 5 ji y she desire to atts h' “ pectators were soon sociation contends that the price eo * "i bre d iail store can borrow} t ina baggage car at the ter TEXAS PATTI” FOR red ttalr at work with shovels in the hope ; and feed them on bread and jj} derick G, Simpson, secretary J het it sends out twice a month is} spade 200 per cent and rue: gpe ; ene car.is guarded by tat MeCoy could be dragged forth | purely advisory and that the of t Kilbourne & Clark Co., ad y buying goods. fo ©6watcomes. rk shop where they will J . ~ in time to save his life. no compulsion to force the r 1 hidenppheren ’ | mitted that while the recards ere will be a rush for| The Seattle Pie } club and ps : . water. Form some plan of $102,000 DAMAGES *## t+ tanner e GETS BEER ON SUNDAY; CLERGYMAN !S8 FINED | } | (ny But the mocking mud filled the ers to abide by it. The groc rig gy <del we Ne bk showed that the signals had been Pat the loan offices ix prob-| business men gf the city are pre-| NEW YORK, Dec Oscar ck hole as fast ax it was hurled | however, who have testified vefore |} {oF the market. this repatet 1° H) tarnished by them. still Joslyn had away. After four hours of sw the grand jury say that apy grocer || gi. tiy- ets aclatane” ee the rangements. fail the maimed and crushed body | wno cuts below the figure is Ag yee Sap maps ag Joslyn furnished the boxes and was dragged to the surface. Death | reported and finds himself Involved || Jal! be run by the Otte er most of the material,” he said. “We had been instantane in serious trouble endangering his | DOC Meadied with by r 1 part of the Intricate Was about 30 years old and | continuance in business. All of the Make the jail a cool hell for [/ a Three boxes were dingle. For the past five years he testimony b the jury ws |, this class of men and we won't |! shipped by us to Tacoma on Oeto- resided in ttle. During most of | that pric 1 materially cut |) have so many of them ber 14 and one more on November the time he worked for the city by the retail grocers bh trade cH. EB 5. No, I will have to refuse to tell Lester & Monohan, contractors getters in the business berty to the price paid, because it might in charge of the work for ty, do so. — | complicate matters are making r t Keep Down the Supply. RHAEKKERKKEERARRERE The street alarm boxes repre } man’s relatives in s. The body ot |* THE WEATHER * |sent an ortginal idea of Joslyn’s, will be held at the undertaking e8- | \-oquce have been taken from com-| * Rain or snow tonight and *| and when the fire chiefs were here tablishment of the donney-Watsoi * Friday; high southwest */at their convention last summer mission houses on Western av. and | Co. until some word is received | ee i ® winds *|they were very much Impressed from relatives. t (Continued on Page Nine.) we RR Rte ee) with the scheme.” During the coming year,| Paring to adopt resolutions to be! Hammerstein has filed an answer r, who participate in| forwarded to the labor headquar-|jn which he denies the charges &t this time will have|ters and to the railway companies, | made by MrasBruce Salter, known time for remorseful med-|4rging them to get together and| before the spotlight as Miss Pr Upon thelr folly | settle the matter so as pot to delay | ces Lee, “the Texas Patt!,” who ha Wage earner who borrows! the Christmas shipments longer sued the ape promoter for @ the loan sharks may| The switchmen are holding two | $100,000 for alleged breach of con a Merry Christer as the let-| meetings every day in the Labor tract and $2,000 “for services ren ri him, but all of the Shy-| temple. Here the men keep In| dered.” Present victims will vouch | touch with Pres. Hawley. 8o far Mrs, Salter alleges that Hammer Will not have a Happy New | 80 one has deserted from the union. | stein agreed to guide her to fame [Wille the sharks are gobbling | before the footlights. Rumors of M@ilary in enormous usury the Rialto have had it that at one Hon. ‘depraeg nog of Hi time “the Texas Patti” received earner, bef ‘ope Visitin, im | the impressario in her kimono and ines with ie ean pada | tabi ud hung over his shoulder to be pho % RRR Rk tk ttt Re ut some one who has | begtie, <pczietasprver ng } % Ready for Delivery. ings with them. if you | ROME, ergs ~ ggg oe 7, ele e e e e e Up in the fire department shops, You will not be enrolled {Rome yesterday and will spend | MAME "CSA amulles re rown From eir beds In Eviction a AWD IN LUGIOW 0» "0 third coor of the headauar, 1910 list of the op- | Christmas holidays at the vatican. é c 4 ® Lead RitaNe okie bores oes Ge [He 6. a. postman in. Lomperty i . ’ : Jand other equipment stored at the|for delivery. They have just been (Ry Ualted Pres.) . { |state military headquarters. Froth-| completed. J. W. Johnson, an em- SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec, 9 " . . ingham refused to comment on the| ploye of the department, said he of the Ludlow strik y j { \ t he heard Joslyn say that they the destitute home . 7 , y ATTORNEYS HELPLESS; . 4 , f were made especially for Tacoma. OVE: SHE KILLS HERSELF about their little piles of hous | ’ j \ COMPANY WITHIN LAW. |" Gnester Lgneh and Ridge LAmter , goods in the streets ’ q The attorneys for the Central/ the former a foreman and the lat- Frothingham, acting governor / ? } 3 5 3 Labor union retained to bring in-| ter an employe, went to North Yak o the absence of Gov. Draper , a 4 ' we junction proceedings to prevent to-| ima two weeks ago, for the purpose By United Prev.) |_A year ago he was badly wound-|hig head as he watched today's ihe 4 F day's evictions have not made any| according to Peterson, of inve OF MEXICO, Dev. 9 ed, and throngs of men and women | eyjetior " oe 4 J Th u son. |'sthod Waiting and watebine le frocc|°™ 5 7 i \ * ame move, They si an gating the matter of installing gev- food waiting And Wateliltg In fros A dozen burly agents of the com ies ; ie not yet over ‘ gal rights. boxes in that clty, This they ae es ee of! pany, at the head of an armed 4 many’ 5 It was learné ay that both| denied to Peterson when saben nig cond ition yrce of 300 spectal officers, march i y ‘ the s and the company had | - ~~ a like crowd is thronging eq ‘through the town at sunrise \ ot: : received offers from the state (Continued on Page Nine.) ANDERSON, Ind., Dec Rather than tell where he ured a 10-<¢ bottle of be on Sunde which he exhibited to his — con gregation to prove his con tention that saloons not closed, the Rev Grafton of the Central Chris tain church was held in con tempt of court by Special Judge Shuman, and was fined $10. Evidence that wagon loads Teter eee eee eee ee es Settee tee ee tee eee eee a in front of “Belem” pro- | py irrounded one of the com ¢ t " - a y ri | board of arbitration t ettle the |~ ¢ against Gaona's arrest, and | yp houses. The “evictors"” en ‘ § , “ | strike, but refused for a chanee view of their , and in a few minutes= the) F : ‘ » i ‘ Labor leaders in Springfidfa | " : belongings of the occupants i x4 . f jopenly charge that the company | Bull fighting Is the natlonal sport |were in the stseet 1 ‘ ; MEE | forcod the nirike asa club to wield “Days Befores of Mexico, but for. the matador p » they must depend on Spain, with} WOMEN AND CHILDREN os Sa al Over, Caper cure & high tar # Christmas 1 if ie company makes jute bag this one exception. Rodolfo Gaona| THROWN FROM THEIR BEDS lcnihSiten orraken nae teint is the one and only Mexican who! Many women and children were| , eae he ie j é kieran } fous | , ‘ ; ae ging cotton bales. It fought be third bul ' , bas qualified ax a matador of the | stilt in bed when toda * tion TM EN i” Han asta ts ; a |fore congress for higher protection, |] ay your ret ran was begun, but the officers did not fs . * 7 Kino ‘ i * tie : | citing competiéion from India M : mae letters of ation to| They shout for Diaz in Mexico| hesitate, Half-clad, the women and a ae dicta SS ARI nk . SERVICE on ‘ because they have to, but the| children sleepily followed their be SCENE AT THE EVICTIONS AT LUDLOW INDICATE PLAN TO GIVE 1 a Gaona” drowns out the wild-|jongings into the street, shivering ° ssa CONGRESS A LESSON. ts to hi y applause their president ever|in the cold morning 7 ——-—-——--——- , barde: es from d A | ‘he men, big-eyed with sorrow,|the evictora — servin eviction f# a woman critically 1. Her hus- jing threats and impre 8 with a carefully designed purpose, MG Wore f P lrage and resentment, stood: stolidly | notices. Today one was served on band was served with an evietion| He was found miles away, a rav-|the eompany several times. sinc ote fic he « by * nelghons the family of Jos. Hudick. In a today ing maniae, trying to tear his hair|the strike has called attention tossed » DIES OF DIPHTHERIA Weeping women watched the | little bedroom lie Hudick’s wife and ng the huddled hugdreds in jout |the fact that it was unable to ge |stoves, upon which they had been|a child, born Tuesday night. Hudick the furniture-strewn streets the| It was to see all thiy that Froth-|a higher tariff, and had trouble Away f 1 Mias Edith Wiley, daughter of| preparing breakfast, carried to the! has pleaded with the company to/amlsery is playing havoc.” They sit ington went to Ludlow. He 1s mak-| keeping the Dingley — rat fror ‘i ang Mrs. Mary Wiley, died of diphtheria | street, with the food aa in allow hi , mi to fem ot is the ~ atthe groups, their Be “ in their {ag an investigation at the tnatanc | being cut “gry an c al th 01 “ling, and the stove pipes leaving|house until she and the child are’ hands ey are unable to do any-jof Gov. Draper, whose attention] The consequent reduction Borming tc it { ta private hospital this morning | tots of black soot stronger, but without avail thing to help thomselve was called to the situation by alwages a few cents a day, Ww A bullet he n r " 6:30, Mis@ Wiley was late post a | They must leave the house today, One man has already been driven letter from Representative White.| caused the strike, is believed Gaona, wid s mistress at Irvindale Arrange-}ORDER EVICTION OF {and it is feared the moving will inane by his sufferigs. Hatless| White suggested that the deplor-|have been a part of a plan to fore MH responsiiiic ¢ is|}ments for the funeral have not | MOTHER AND BABY. j ill both mother and child, In an:'and coatless, he wandered away |able conditions might be relieved] labor troubles as an object lesson ‘ yet been made A squad of Pinkertons preceded | other house near the Hudick homo from his family in the street, utter-/a ttle by the use of shelter tents \to congress : In statements, apparent! i