The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1910, Page 1

HE SEATTLE j ! County Treasurer Matt H. Gormley has no lawful right to accept from the Seattle Electric company one cent Jess than its full amount of taxes and the interest due thereon me Despite the opinion rendered by Prose Att : / George F. Vanderveer, this is the consensus of n among [Street Car Held Up and) President L Lines o We With | Seattle lawyers , Totaling Over $2,000—) Progressives on Tariff; The law has prescribed certain’ penalties,” says a Robbers"Make Escape. F } 7“ P I i, e Regulars an ‘ pinion given The Star this morning, “under the name ¢ D. terest, where default is made in the payment of taxes Sed Moibae th Tein weno Is 07 therwise suffer, as all city indebtedness is bearing interest. |" eee 04 WASHINGTON, May 12— | 4 and | The constitutional right of the county to recover interest cannot | the Spokane ay. trestle on lower ‘aft and the ineurgents will | Interest ce nal right of unty t ver inte annct | {hres teen eho had | (Qt the republican regulars. se Unless Van- properly be questioned b « car at dackeon ot. | Th@t fe the latest situation in m o . : s . ifthe Monc jewel the value of @ Congress that has developed Him To. : ‘The law fixing this penalty is plain, specifit and un- er ny some other sensations. The | mistakable. But the Seattle Electric company claims that, Tt ' at trip ty pt la up came today when : is a . . aie Or chain ob Eeetoreinn € 7 sundry civi! appropriations ilasiey wi because the word interest’ is not used ‘n the statute which Seis ee ee ee ue | DU Wwae brought up for debate gle refers to the levy, it is released from payment of interest. | Elin Jonuix, Joaving Youler way at Holi: 9 house, and the fight will 5 ” i ‘ * 16 Al Jackson st. three young | ever the clause providing ‘ few days to It is not necessary that ie word ‘interest’ should be men- [/ °°". Piao "Shia the tet ae appropriation of $250, c He330682 interest| tioned, and the mention of the word ‘costs’ is surplusage ached the Spokane av. trestie, one} O88 40 enable the new tariff personal tax ales j nande motorman to stop board to ascertain the differ ly advised " he car and hold up his bands, while) @M€# In cost of production at fo make the “In the statute referring to the levy there is no attempt or he p the conductor Then | haan and abroad. ; , the signal was pas thire lars . Dulzelt Bit etsing wrote» mace to define what taxes are, These are defined elsewhere. | man poe 2 gas velee | Woniaiys who tare ethos with the Besides, if there had been any attempt to release the interest, simply because the S. E. Co. him of bis in possession company's | ns | was in default—which is incon SLAF: : EDITION — - ZHOU» MOS SEATTLE, WASH., SS =< THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1910. MAKE BIG CAPTURE rgunization’ through everything, | and | are How against the clause that elt haw the backing of the president THE SEATTLE LLACE BUSSELL KILLS SALOONMAN GRAZED EFFORT TO CLOSE TOWN ORMLEY TO ACT GARSINDITS INSURGENTS MILLIONAIRE’S SON FIRES FOUR BULLETS INTO VICTIM ing up e in aloon, 404 Fifth av. § € right, and son of C. B. Bussell, the wner, of 1630 36th av., broke into the it * and I shot Joe Bonner, one of th ur time nner | died at 4:35 at. the city ] | Bussell was arrested by L. Volk after the |policeman had shot him jt collar bone when Bus was running away ¢ city hospital. There is no question of | as has shown jsigns of it many ies be « Bonner Was Counting His Cash. Jussell appe d at the back door of the saloon about 3:30. onner, a friend, C. C. Buckels, and the J porter, Harry Amoto, were the ones in the place. The Jap rushed to the front room, where Bonner was counting his cash prepara- jtory to going home, and said that someone’ was trying to break ON TRAINS AND j ONE CENT NEWS #TANDS be |Runs From Policeman and Is Himself Brought Down by a Ball in the Shoulder—Had a Mania to Stop All Gambling in South End of City. nd br Thinking ple ceivable, because it would be giving a defaulting taxpayer an i and the tneurgents. It is expected | in. Bonner grabbed up a Colt automatic revolver and rushed Ly pet of the . nen went through the! that @ spectacular clash will fol ‘ tes asks Van-/ advantage because of his default—the act would be unconsti after which the car wae | low. jout, only to be met with a fusillade from Bussell’s Winchester “him 4 he a0! tutional unless the preamble set forth the purpose of the act vot th + | Payne and the other regulars! | 30-30. and the purpose of releasing interest on its face trio disappeared. Tt Ix hi! gaa anger pes Berd | Bussell fired four times, one shot hitting Bonner's watch and “The interest is part of the tax, and the interest and costs Hikely that the three took | for the tariff board, believing that | glancing off. Two took effect in the abdomen and one broke the 's seizure | : 2 : yet mand freight train, which | it will result in a revision of the right arm. Bonner answered with six shots in rapid succession be- pst unset-| must be paid by implication. There is no disagreement or con-! left the yards a short thm after they | m fore he fell, but almost all of them went too far to the right and ‘ tariff within two years. Further, LACE BUSSELL. $167,172.86, | ftict eith: ‘ a ‘ ¢ jumped. ‘Thin ie the same spot they. be: WAL entered to one side of the door. Patrolman Volk was attracted to flict either of words ov construction, and it is a rule of law that | they Here the plan ts NnOthing | cummsnmmeneemnseen $18.50, the 5 . re an Alki Point car was held teas than Senator Beveridge’s old the scene by the shots, and he chased Bussell for several blocks the words of every statute, and of different statutes on the/ up and robbed several weeks ago. | caritt comminsion idea, which. the} al before shooting him. same subject, must be harmonized, except where one construc- “ Ms Dery. at ie vagina regulags in the senate bave fought WOULD HAVE KILLED MORE. | Liquor company was the heavie porei@ently | When taken to the station Bi Mt the lest in the j tion ts absolutely repugnant to the other laser, the robbers securing trom him |" 7 | . Ce Sees ne Tee eaeeaee, Se Oe | 0 Sue. . ‘ : $1,250 in money and Jewelry iow: | Part of Regulars for It. bunch, and remarked, “If there had been 30 or 49 people playing In the statute in question no attempt is made to de- [ard Motthane of Georgetown wan re-| Pa#bof the regulars in the how cards in there some others would have been shot.” He had a cart- * ‘ ‘ re | a : | 6" ridge belt filled with ammunition. fine taxes, as in the former, and the word ‘taxes’ is used | "ved of #270; Herman Schroeder, | headed by Tawney, are coppertien | , , rn 7 ” . : Gerald's Cafe, k wer $100; J. &.|the glause and will fight with the} a Ban i oy a father sar two sisters, besides a wife tn in a generic sense. The prosecuting attorney and the at- | cieiger, 8622 16h av., had $14 taken | insutgente for the appropriation. | igh roves a gra org ar ~ — gag Sgn ge | torney general have no power whatever to compromise |‘ Rogol ass : Bigd nal 7 ro \jotn + sraaig og aos wilt | | pressed the wish, however, he was dying and there was not time. taxes, no more than Mr. Gormley has. If any compromise A. & Bistauer and BY {low Wp the fight againet the tar: | ie ase be wanted aie property Dg one pelt to his =e and the mea EN " ani One weit ae | rest to his sisters and father € was worth quite a little money, has been made, it is illegal and invalid, and any citizen oe ota eat itt ee* & distinctly protective owning @ part interest in the saloon and some property. Bonner | mroprinted by the ban a oF ipatlieia aon more | was extremely well known, having lived in Seattle for eight years | written agreements, an agreement or compromise.” JUROR WEEPS Mo ATTORNEY. MAKES PLEA Gormley that | ot degally collect | Yesterday | Genera’ an opinion the Beattie fender of the malted open. Upon | M6 give an opinion | Va @ advice, —_—____— j the tax. Hyde's Counsel Denounces | Circumstantial Evidence! - ~—-Juror’s Son Involved. | ee 4 gounty got th: ¥ whould es on delinquent, (By United Pree) KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 12.— ov and a ay be compelled |The closing hours of the Hyde) owl King county | murder trial were marked today | Weasurer, private delay in paying | Cer by displays of bitterness between | Ptates had to pay «| attorneys for the prosecution and | eeelty. Gormiey can | defense. The acrimony shown by tA < pe state's attorneys caused Judge) | Latshaw to caution them | Assistant Distriet Attorney Joost | was summing up a portion of the evidence. In the course of his im passioned speech he said be treated a one else | sighed that personal | Bormiey will then G8 to the legal right “When the defendant laid his} eee the money taken | murderous hand upon the medi-| “9 28 years from pri- | cine— Aelaying the yp Attorney Walsh, for Dr. Hyde,| Lawyers |aprang to his feet in excitement and voiced a strenuous objection | Judge Latshaw ended a wrangle | jbetween the opposing counsel by | cautioning the attorneys not to use| hat |opprobrious adjectives. Attorney that will allow the! Walsh today began closing the| Gempany to excaye| cane for the defense, | Appealing to the sorrow under- ‘ a iT | gone by one of the Hyde jurors in of sisal the past, Attorney Walsh caused pel the P8Y- | tears to come to the eyes of Juror But the law W. C. Kohn. sen garth | “How many men,” asked | Walsh, “are in prison today, S Senttie| unjustly convicted on false circumstantial evidence?” tol Kohn placed his handker- chief over his ¢; It became | known that his son is now in a * penitentiary, convicted of a * homicide on cireumstantial *| evidence. Walsh bitterly ar- * raigned circumstantial evi- Press.) | dence and called Or. Vaughan, A May 12.—The #| @ witness for the prosecution, mm@er Aymeric hay ar «| the “selected executioner” of with 000 | Hyde. sufficient, *| Walsh accused the stato’s prose- Bbip wtatintl- % | prejudice and 25 men with * | dishgnesty, declaring: “They show for 60 yeurs. *| awful zeal to strangle Dr. Hyde to * | death to appease their tnatincts Se ea % | for prosedution.” “Also, in spite of any compromise, there could be and / t : or taxpayer may go into court and have it declared illegal. AT UST WE SHALL GAZE UPON CARRIE notwithstanding }” the payment of the face of the tax, and notwithstanding any no consideration for such priatipn fOr the tariff board cred to the president, It belh by the administration that the Measure would serve to unite the giarty and thst it would prov good “campaign material” in the coming congrenstonal elections, AADER DIES: INQUEST WILL NOT BE HELD No Inquest” will be held over the body of L. E. Rader. The measute seems anclined to foi jnew breach that will | some peculiar affiliations. ma result on the measure will be the house, sitting as a committee of the whole, comes to this clause jin the civil sundry bill, A of arder will be ma against it [if the polat ts carried, an attempt | eat | Inetead of uniting the party, the | in| | It fe expected that the first fight made when | point | and spending about seven years at Wellington previous to coming DWickersbacr " Admits His here. He was known as the squarest bartender in the city, and “Summary” Was Writ-| there is more genuine regret at his death mong those who knew him than there would be for almost any other man in that district, | ten Long After Taft's | Letter Exonerating Bal-| | STARTED SUIT AGAINST GILL. Buseell is a paranoiac, and suffers spells of teraporary insanity. His partienjar hallucination has been on li j the subject of a closed inger. | town, and he is serving on some mysterious civic anti-vice com- med | mitte He started suit against Mayor Gill on the charter amend- | ity od Prews.) | ment authorizing the municipal plans commission, an¢ this is in WASHINGTON, May 12— | Attorney General Wickersham, the supreme court now Several nights ago Bussell appeared at the Chicago Lodging | In a letter read from the wit- House, near the Monte Carlo, and became quite thick with Thomas ness stand today by Secretary | W. Hoffman, the proprietor. He brought in several men, paying | Ballinger, admitted that his for their lodging, and in and out of the place several times a “summary’ of the Glavis night. He was anxious to see some gambling, he said, and Hoff- against Ballinger, up- | man says that Bussell claimed he could hear the clink of money as on which it has been supposed | the gamblers piled it up. will be made to reinsert the clause.| president Taft based his ex He seemed es ily certain . hel ter ir. “ pecially certain that there was some gambling in B. Orent Shubiens ta Wis eves If the regulars lose their fight to| oneration of Ballinger, was | the Monte Carlo, and urged Hoffman not to eat at the lunch counter ence of Deputy Coroner Borth. |"A¥e the clause eliminated on a) written after Taft's letter and | in front of the saloon, as he said there was going to be some shoot- puty | point of order, the fight will, in all n antedated. re cadoks. develadad dha” tee tak had been ante ing there some night. q P [liketfhood, be’ carried further, and ; , death might have been caused |inayicauxe long and heated debate,|, The reference to the Wickers LEFT HOME LAST NIGHT. by several organic diseases, as jham letter caused Attorney Bran. Last night he left his home about 2 o'clock, walking down town. well as by starvation. | deis to invite the attorney general! He carried his gun and cartridges with him, and the shooting fob ‘ to appear as a witnoss. Chairman} jowed, His mother Is prostrated with grief over the occurrence. L. E. Rader, former member of} | Nelson, of the committee, said) she says she heard him go down stairs this morning about 2, but, the state legislature, whom the that Wickersham would appear. | thinking he was after a lunch, went to sleep. The next she heard city health officers tried two weeks | 4 Incidentally, Chairman Nelson! was when he was taken to the hospital ago to get out from under thé con announced that no copy of the Bussell is 24 years old, and in the real estate business. Up to a | trol of Linda Burfield Hazzard, the} memoranda submitted to President! short time ago he was in business with his father, He is a good fast eure” doctor, died yesterday | Taft by Oscar Lawlor, assistant) ooking young fellow and well liked when rational. Both he and his afternoon, ‘The end came in the | jattorney general for the interior) father are well known about the city, Mr. Bussell, Sr., spent almost boarding house at 123% North} department, was in the possession! the entire morning with his son at the hospital. He is badly broken Broadway, where Mre. Hazzard hid| jof the interior department. Bran-| 4» Wallace is an only son 4 Rader, after removing him from the deis yesterday asked an opportun- euneenars ial — seupeitirens | Outlook hotel on Pike st ity to view the memoranda or | ee re | Rader’s case first eame to public} coples. | j bruises and probable internal in- | notice when G. T. Olds, proprietor | | The Wickersham letter was read |Juries. He may die of the Outlook hotel and friend of by Ballinger in answer to a call 1 Malback’s leg was broken and Rader’s, walked into the coroner's} by the “prosecution” for papers he was badly bruised office and reported that to the best) (By United Press.) used in preparing the “summary.” | The steam shovel rested over of his belief and knowledge Rader) WHITE HAVEN, Eng. May 12.) In part, Wickersham wrote | the sewer and was supported b; MRS CABRIE'HATION was being starved to death in his| All hope of rescuing the 137 min-| “The summary was necessarily | four 12x12 timbers. When the For 10 years Carrie Nation has| hotel. The coroner could do noth:| ers caught in Wellington coal mine} made afterwards and properly} | earth gave way the steam shovel been wielding hatehets and conver- | 'S, #0 he turned the case over to| has Been abandoned. Fire which|bears the date of the day when! dropped into the diteh the city health officers. | followed the explosion is raging inithe matter was presented to the | prea nas jsation, and In all that time Seattic! The eity health officers worked | the depths of the mine and res-| president. There is no mystery | i* ROTO tk has been denied the pleasure of|on the case for two days, trying) ew after many efforts to enter/about the matter and nothing , ok, 376 at * | ecoing or hearing either to get Rader out from under Mrs,|the gine, wore forced to abandon | which may not be fully stated, but| W- J Matback, red Math av. | JAP MURDERER CAUGHT. * But now at last our hopes are to| Hazzard’s treatment, but without] the attempt due regard for ‘constitutionality|'N. E. and H. Peterson, of 3646/ = * be nod, Mrs, ation is nO] gucceas. | Itt believed that every man in| forbids action or that the presi-/ 36th av. W., were seriously injur- | * (By United Press.) * long ity in the Mississippi!” On the second day after the case|the mine has perished. dent's advisers shall be questioned |ed when a steam shovel, digging|* LOVELAND, Colo, May 12. * valle of that, so she has|was reported to the coroner Mra. by a co-ordinate branch of the oV-|ine North Trunk sewer, at Ewing |* >A Jp, believed to be Genyo * come Wert. Last night she spoke| Hazzard removed Rader in an am- (By United Press.) ernment.” A ge Be * Mutsinaga, suspected of hav- % in North Yakima. Sunday she wil!| pulance and with great secrecy as| WHITE HAVEN, Eng. May 12 hex Evanston sts. in Fremont, % ing murdered Mrs. Katherine * arrive in Seattle, speaking at Ar-| to where she was taking him. The Sqores of miners -were imprison dropped into the excavation this|* Wilson and carved a mystic * eade hall at 8 o'clock Monday night. | Star ascertained the place to which|ed and probably many killed today econ |* symbol on her forehead, was * The Retail Liquor Dealers’ asso-| he had be removed and notified | following a terrific explosion in the Peterson, fireman on the steam|* captured 10 miles from here * elation need not ask for a special) the city health officers. They made | Wellington coal mine. Fire started ete fell from the top of the|* today. The Japanese fought * detail of police. Nowaday® Carrie¢|an attempt to see Rader, but were | aftey the explosion and it was esti | derrick into the ditch, two heavy |* with his captors and succeed- * hos laid aside the hatchet and i*| denied admission to his room, Be-| mated that 187 migers were caught | timbers dropping on top of him.) * ed in escaping. 7 using conversation only. It's red| cause of the fact t they were /alive in the burning pits. | was taken to the Providence | ¥* het conversatic though, wiel¢ not warranted under the law to| Owing to the presence of ex- heyage | hospital with a broken arm, bad *# ek ARR RRR RR RRR REE as recklessly as ber first. hatohet,!/take further action, they dropped | ploaive gases and great heat from (By United Press.) —- = 2 es which wrecked the Carey hotel sa-| the case, lthe wire, rescuers e unable to| TACOMA, May 12.—Two men, | Joon in Wichita, Kas. back In 1901,/ Following Rader’s death yester-|reagh the entombed men for sey-| whose names have not been learn and continued on its wild career for| day afternoon, Mra, Hazzard held | eral hours after the explosion ed, were blown to a pulp at the | QUINN HANGS FRIDAY, THIRTEENTH a long time. an autopsy, after which she issued! Mine officials admitted that the} Dupont powder factory near here * , fa 4 statement ag to the cause of his| death Ist probably would be heavy, | at noon today, when two cars load- THE THIRTEENTH PRISON HANGING SP aig ti death and regarding her treatment} Added to the horror of fire is the ne — Le ei ee and set | ceetininpeeiilpeai KKK KK aR KH KK te) of the case, After a long history Of) posmbility that some of the miners | 0 le explosive. je men wi | i . %|the case she says: have been drowned like rate in the | steering the two cars down a line, a (By United Press.) * RENT Lcesee EAT UP *| “The facts given may easily be| farther reaches of the works, which |extending from one part of the|f | = W WALLA, May 12.-Richard Quinn, who shot and killed * ROFIT. * ified. Mr. Rader fasted because| extend for four miles under the bed | factory to another. | his wife at Everett, will be hung iin the state penitentiary here on * | be had to fast; he could not take|of the Irish sea. In the excitement || Friday, the 13th of the month. His execution will be the 13th hang * HOR ORO IO tt tt Ding in the prison, Th 4 i man's superstitions have been %, Losses are easily avoided %| food of any sort or manner without| ail Kinds of rumors were current * 9! Bayes dh fads ta ence cd ine ae facets © % when you tell of your vacan: # | distress, and bis death occurred be-|One was that wor other miners | * THR WEATHER, a aroused by Ge unusual coincidence, and 0 hee forentin hie: 96; % cles through The Star. Star *| cause of organic disease beyond who were entombed were drowned . proaching death in his horror of the supposed significance of suc! * ads cost little. Send them by *| pair.” when an explosion permitted the |* me */E a combimation. Governor Hay yesterday refused to postpone the * phone. Main 9400, Ind, 441. #| Rader leaves a wife and grown] waters to enter the mine 4 r,s ats Rectan” and Friday *| execution for even a day. The governor aie agree to interfere * * | son. His home was on Vashon The coal pits are the property of ht west wind with the hanging of Frank Barker, the Spokane murderer, Kaa KKK KKK KKK loland, the Bari of Lonsdale. FOCI IOI IO Ik