The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1910, Page 1

SEATTLE, WASH , WEDNE SDAY, MAY 11, 19106 OM TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be ONE CENT IZURE OF STREET CARS BRINGS COMPANY TO TIME ———$—$—$<——- JERS A CHECK TAXES MINUS ST CHARGES ADVISES SETTLEMENT Released Pending Sub- of Difficulties to Attor-'. eneral Bell —Company’s| Good for Two Hours. Treasurer Matt H. Gormley had tied up a} P | | } | h end of t Front of the Cedar Street Car Barns. Out What It Is All About. FRANCHISE MAY ot lines in the nort he city this morn » General counsel for the Seattle E 40 pay the county the assessed 3 1908 n tendered a check gthe cats. Mr. Gor ¢ made for wunts to $2 yand Ho Ffor a conference bd for two ho made by Howe, but wanted to put the General Bell, who ectric | taxes for $167,172.86, iley refused the check be io the paymen the delinquent 1,806.92. j we went to Prosectt 1 that} or of Howe re declares r Vanderveer was in fav . | mat-| is in Olyr i personal pr of 15 per cent re of the d prop the taxes plus the cost of seizure & pthat in case fete shail be a deling provides for a s Says th he payment ‘the section evidently overlooked the Electric iyment ot the persia tent penalty. ey Vanderveer says that he and Attor- Hi discussed this subject on one occasion, and| General agrees wv it the seized property shall be returned upon faxes and the cost of seizure. rely up to Vanderveer. If Vanderveer says PWithout the delinquent penalty, Gormley will property Sut etio t shall be re- interest | attle company th him that the statute, as it Gormley has Ris formal tender in the prosecuting attorney's this afternoon, The decision from the attor- be made by % oclock. Otherwise Gormley will Of the street cars company decided to do business aly after Gorwl-y had seized about 150 « in the me and bad tied up the Fort Lawton, lard, Bal Queen Anne and West n Anne Bis 10 deputies were in the act of seizing a | eat Pirst and Denny way when Howe came out ere to pay the taxes. t time ce the aversy became acute | § Blectric company has even admitted that it owed | fates, G0 far Gormley won a decided victory this with CARS RUN DURING CONFERENCE. to allow the seized ears to run while the id in Vanderveer's office. The cars will Which time Howe's tender will either be ac: fn the city will be tled up. are hot running tomorrow, a receiver will be street car company's property * corporation and is compe unless prevented an act of God or some agency be company has no control. Otherwise any citizen can court for a receiver to operate the line, This ive of the rights or wrongs of the controversy. Interest in the cars can be protected emleys move was a popular one was made evident when aia the cars this morning. The passengers on out joyfu the deputies to “keep at them pay their taxes Those who had leisure led cars showing every sign of gle “ca 10 o'clock treasurer laoption invaded and took pos tars within the Poo Allack of the count olf without any ex me the setz spares of the neti force, leavin in charge con them all stopped until the Seattle 4. I tric company paid its taxes. Passengers Cheer Deputies. The West | Queen where | were next seizure was at Anne and Mercer sta., and outbound car v in an inbound ped. two score anen » their} too, the some ing forced to cont on foot. He were cheered nutles by sengers At Cedar and Second ay. two Ray cars were seized and in and out ind tracks tied up. While these zures were being made a party of itles executed flank movement the Cedar st. barns and discover ome 60 cars outside the barn were seized and company in operation to be 2 of th - Which was just io ie mote were told to leave Ordered off. The the car avd Aswistants to | Bere ity and keey| an | 4 (Continued on Page Six) DEGLARED FORFEITED THE FLIES ARE HERE: WAT THEM! Dr. Crichton isle All| Inspectors to Haul Down Their War Clubs and Biff the Pesky Things. City Council Can Do So if the Seattle Electric Co. Fails to Operate Its Cars. be run over the de Cars shall various routes hereinafter scribed for the transportation of passenge and freight at such reasona Intervals be tween the hours of 6 o'clock a. m, and 12 o'clock midnight as the city council may from time to time preseribe by | ordinance for any or all of said tin Prior to the passage of | any such ordinance, care shall be run at such intervals between | the hours aforesaid as the Grantees, their successors and assigns, shall find convenient and suited to the needs of their passengers. * * * This grant is subject to the right of the city of Seattle to at any time hereafter repeal, change of modify this ordi nance if the franchise granted hereby Is not operated in ac cordance with the provisions of this ordinance, or at all, and the city of Seattle reserves the right to at any time hereafter repeal, change or modify this grant—Seattie Electric fran- chise. The city has a right forfeited the Seattle setric com pany’s franchise In case it fails to operate cars on its lines, and t is no doubt but that this action will be demanded by some of the coun cilmen if the present embargo con tinues through the day and over until tomorrow The summer's campaign typhoid germ bear has started in Seattle Health Commissioner Crichton |has issued instructions to all t |epectors in the elty health depart nt to begin right now the breeding of the common house fh h, according to all the au t « of the day, is one of the | most, if not the most, potent fa ltor in the spread of typhoid fever The fight made last year against » fly was nothing compared with one we will make this year, Dr. Crichton today. to declare | said | Inspect Stables. | “Every » in the city will b | rigoro ected, and the city ordinances providing for the hand ling of manure, in which 98 of house files are bred, be enforced to the letter Mayor Gill wouldn't say that he this climate {t takes about would recommend this action. His | s¢ day the fly eae t statement, when informed the | hatch, and in order to prevent their seizure, Was jhatching, the manure must be re “| am going into the legal end| moved from the stable at least of thia thing right now. I can't say |once every seven days, This rule until I investigate juat what I will| will be enforced, and rigid inspec do, but this one thing ts sure, I| tion will made to that it will make every effort possible to| is enfores see that the of Seattle get} “While atreet car that the ing to be keep running in a tight Superintendent of Public @ manner ties Valentine 1 that dep sphere of action was limited. He | ity sent Inspectors out to Investig j time t back to him by 1 o'clock rnoon. If they reported ¢ service stopped, be would so report to the mayor, and also give the general manager of the street car company formal no- tice that the terms of the Se Electric company’s franchise being violated Councilman E, L. Blaine, whone ward was most vitally affected by the seizures and stoppage of street car traffic this morning, said, when asked what he was going to do to get his constituents street car service “1 certainly shall zen or an individual do anything to hinder in the collectic this embargo continues a day or two, as one of} the city council 1 shall vote to either compel the Seattle Electric | company to operate its cars or to declare its franchise forfelted in € it does not do eo.” cent will In ver for of be a the removed, is held walt it must be kept box, and ventilated in laid down by the health There is to be no lax allowed anywhere or at any during the summer Clean Up Campaign. addition to this, a general up campaign of the elty is inaugurated, Rubbish piles must be destroyed or given to the varbage man to be carted away for destruction “It is incumbent on every house: holder to clean up his own prem both for his own protection and for the protection of the eral public The health de partment is going to do everything possible to see that this is done.’ rvice, cars | vu his riment “In clean to be ses, not, as a citi councilman, the county n of taxe kk tt tO tk ‘ . BANK CLEARINGS, reasure In ¢ over for Seattle. Cleari today Balance Tacoma. today 199,429.84 785,638.00 813.00 Clearing ances Portland Clearings today . .$1,788,580.00 Balances 9266.00 Spokane. arings today ..% $79,839.00 142,301.00 nee have ked of an a polar ex “What Aretle you aspirant for a pedition “L once courted a Rochester girl.” “Ackepted.”—Buffalo Express exper SESE EES EE RRR EE ee ee ee ee eee! against | house | to stop} per! Car No, 642 Was the First Car Seized by County Treasurer Gormley this morning, in A Deputy Is Standing on the Car Steps and an Excited Group of Conductors and Motormen Is Standing About the County Deputies, Trying to Find YANDELL TO DEFENSE OF FAR Appropriation | | |County Commi | | ized by Law, Says Secre-| * The We assoctatt the or tern Waahin » hhs taken exce aneortion that the county con on parties to an on in tt priation of jcounty in a was to Preal » following m out by | dent C. B. Yandell Yandell’s Statement. “The appropriation the ommissioners was made in ac rdanee with an act passed by last legislature for the encour sgement of county fairs and agri ultural associations. By the word ing of the act, the commissioners of all counties are authorized to grant such appropriations each to enterprises th deem | ¢. The act fur in counties such appropriation amount not to ex of a mill on all property. It is further provided that the county | sion shall become ex-officio | members of the directorate of such ssociations, that all the money #0 anted sball..be expended upon gularly approve vouchers, and that the county shall be given an interest in the p rty of such a sociation equal to the amount the appropriation “The resolution making the ap propriation was adopted on March 30, after a full investigation of the plans of the association, and pro vides that the money shall be ap propriated from the current ex fund of the county, rected by the act, and pa 4 of the association upon the presentation of full and complete vouchers showing bona fide ex nditures in behalf of the fair of 1910. ement Vice by coun the may coed | taxable firet clas be In an one-eighth pense Commissioners Own No Stock. “Not one of the county commis sioners has a cent’s worth of stock in the assoctation, and the county will receive dollar for dollar for the appropriation in an interest in the property of the association Full publicity was given to the propriation at the time it made, and no attempt was conceal it In any way Phe association was organized in 1908, and gave its first fair that fall at inds Madison 8t., near Lake Washington. More than $60,000 was expended in construct Jing the fair ground track | big exhibition building operating expense of the Just Broke Even wel) patronized for the gate receipt ap was made ite ¢ on an in hay in Tt wae itial fal, passed through days, The gate about sufficient | operating expen great expense cheerfully by we to pay the week , and the has been stockholder the in (Continued on Page Six.) joners’ | Author-| ot | commis: | and | the | borne | WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT? The n this me itte | show than | pay their Tha not an an entire ndisputable fact Here is a foreign corporation that has made millions of dollars in Seattle; a corpora- tion which owes everything it possesses to the people, which uses the people's streets supposedly at the suffrage of the people, which supposedly operates under the laws of the people—and insolently refuses to gabe taxes age bow down and let thousand « an some, it 1 for min Pp And shall this corporation flout all laws; shall it be permitted to declare and keep in force its private brand ” sa tees anarchy for its especial benefit? | Shall you axes t shall we scrape our pennies together and dutifully resent th the Seattle looks grin on a and This is the question that awaits decision. You know well what would happen should you refuse to pay your personal taxes. Your personal effects would be seized and dis- posed of in short order and no court would excite itself over your distress. You would pay or lose. WILL THE SEATTLE ELE CTRIC COMPANY PAY OR LOSE? upon 5 atti Seattle Electric c mpany offi- the ally the ll be subr war tate pany other what t it can * and up ar Will the people of Seattle stand behind their sworn duty? officials in Will they get up earlier in the morning to walk? a long, tiresome day? the performance of their Will they walk home after Mr, Furth and Mr. Howe are bet- Are they going to win? It all depends upon the people. ting that the people will get tired of this in a few days. STOVE; HUR TTINTO BAY \|Hilda Schinke, 19 Years Old, Murders New Born des Moines, Babe—In Critical Condi- #\. spuviies tion Herself. apie rape at the orneys for y cashier bank used J. of the of La accu of embezzle- Two girls and thre born in Seatt! | ha at uburn, Wash , Representative Mann, ins an inter in Washington yeste Miles Poindexter is oxtou argent in Vancouver, Wash The the Id in next an- Knights of Aberdeen, Tacoma. att idres ence of charities and corre this city yesterday He advised the workers pu into their confidence « the human tories instead of statistics. with regi Hoquiam.—L« this sum eeing ca er f the press interest on her clothes 8 naked baby in her own hand, Hilda | ’°* old, threw Sika’ eoababhas and staggered | sued, six blocks away, in! filed’ and called Dr. granted her sent Portland, Ore.—-1 With 0d “ hands, an arms, dead by he Sehir 19 years body into the bay to her home, thre agony ighbors Booth, who had City hospital, wt critical condition. Cc ner is investigating the ¢ iio ikon ore eit ste FIGHTING FOR “| A BRIDGE ON house at Interbay, on h st 16th av. W., several months ago laun For the construction She has been working in a dry until last week, when her con dition made it imperative that she | quit. Monday Mr H bridge as a part of the Westlake improvement, the Stone Av. Im. provement club has been formed, and a big meeting will be held Fri who lives in same house, the girl leave with th day evening at Niblett’s hall, 1424 Ewing st }badly burned, The mother took At that meeting |the child to the foot of Smith st., where she threw it in the bay Then she returned to ber room Dr. Booth, when cal after an examination, decided that — she of meeting the fight on the Stone ay. proposition, being waged by business men and property owners to the west and northwest of West lake av., will be considered. The | could get no proper care and had her sent to the organizers of the club claim to} have secured the signatures of She said she was marr would not talk to any extent 3,000 persons in North End in favor Stone ay. cause of k were recorded in the licenses were is complaints in divorce one decree in divorce in King county yesterday Superior Judge Shackleford, terday ruled that should pay the superior COSTA RICA IS SHAKING AGAIN (By United Press.) Y JOSE, & n of day of the for the court Tacoma A to. the in al Snyder | ere she | sta Rica, May 11.— sitght earthquake together with increas- of the volcanoes Poas ead terror throughout Riley, saw naked baby, purpose of securing th of the Stone ay stons and Trazu the district Voleante st is settlin country for miles, The the mountains have | Many lence in the re ns terribl clothing nartial over the towns on een deserted, of pestt- and con- to lack and medicines. In law, oting con- persons ways and means are owing | Sergeant Dagner was sent out) from the central station to invest ate the and he got the baby out of An examination showed that the little one had been burned to death, its head, back and arms being charred. An Alaskan stove was found in the roon pied by the girl. Coroner will hold an Inquest the cause of death, and if |the mother may be awer to a charge cas the bay the of the : RRR RRR RR RH who are bridge GOT ANYTHING TO SELL? oceu nyder rmine “AS ALEXANDRA ILL? an to} n By the use an ad Star in the The can to dete be he lives yay made » of infantic ide ny INDON United Press.) May 11 of the royal phys ing that the queen poor health leads |today that The busine For Sale harness ¢ N. FE M what do like best foll did And at, Johnny Fried onions.” That's funny “Well, 1 don’t much like ‘em, but they always make me so sick that I hafter git excused from school th'| Faction is next day.”"—Cleveland Leade | French you the owing mother is to the belief here she is seriously il! Pony, cart nd saddle. North rin 9400 bug 4718 2ist av 9 Phon 441 Ind the bane of society RerrrvirirrenrirTs PRAHA AAARAARA REE ee ee ee