The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1910, Page 1

MR. iE PLANS TO KILL MONSON ST, AND 20 A DPOLITAN LEASE IS | OWNED BY STONE-WEBSTER Charges Are Made in Stormy Meeting of Indig-| ~ nant Property Owners—Traction Heads Want to! Revise Whole Down Town District for Benefit of Their’ Own Property—Explanation Made of Real! Lose Thirty Minutes. :—Do you know that The Seattle because it will not allow fake advertisers to use its columns? Cause of Change in Cable Line—Car Riders to) © SEATTLE, WASH., TH at - SWAMPED IN LAKE: NO RACE Washington Shell Swamp-| ed in Testing Chances— Must Race Stanford To- day, if Ever. ALFONS FEARS BOMB Plot ‘to Kill Spain’s King | Is Revealed by Prema- | ture Explosion of a Bomb in Madrid. In a daring attempt to hold Stanford-Washington regatts, spite of the dangerous sea, the Stan ford shell was swamped after mak Ng about a quarter-mile of the te ourse, and the Washington shell.) MADRID. “The Helen.” was broken two | tion of across the back of @ mighty comber | 5 the United May 2 a formidable plot King Alfonso and in a little later, throwing the oarsmen | toria of Spain caused { doubling jinte the Inke.. Both trews were of the king's body & today That the Seattle Hlectric company's proposed changes in (he — Fd ee erie fol- |The death of Callemnayor by ‘sf. cable line are part of a scheme of Stone & Webster to |'°*** ' je wake of the shells, own hand, after the premature ‘ex the business district adjacent to Madison st. and to trans Mesry cves end binding wae n of a bomb, le regretted by Bible wasiness activity to Union and rike ste. in the neighbor | rain and spray are holding the re , as they believe It pre pel. of the Metropolitan c« ¥ buildings at Union and Fourth, | gatta on the lake at a standstill mn from learning the 4 Meclaration of wealthy Madison st. property owners at & | on. stanford and Washineton on now engaged in fur Beld at the Renton Hil! clud house laat night Saas haa witiee eames bree ‘ante to kill the Spantst old time resident of Seattle, and an engineer morning fer the waves to subside Calle in big projects here and in Alaska, startled the ty bis deciaration that Stoue & Webster were the real I Of the Metropolitan Building company, which holds the @id university crounds, and that the proposed changes car traffic on Madison st. were for the sole purpose of Second av a business cen and by turning Mad fic to Pike and Union si, create the central business dis Seattle there. WILL COST MILLIONS TO OWNERS. f. Pettygrove supported Hussey in bis argument that Stone Were going to do an injury to the residents along the iB st. cable and cause a depreciation of adjacent property to the value of the buildings and property now held under Btone & Webster at Union and Fourth. le 180 property owners in the meeting denounced Stone & Web- The speakers argued that the Boston jefiant of the wishes of the people of Seat- the traction corporation cared nothing for human life, hu or Seattic’s development; that all it wanted was money, @ dollar could be made, the interests of the city were Considered. of the property owners asserted that if the Madison st @hers did not win their legal battle with the Seattle Ele 7 in the courts that a competing street car corporation pht into Seattle to fight the Stone & Webster inter Hse up Columbia st. owned and operated by a compe j, Was declared to be within the range of possibility WILL HELP START OPPOSITION. B. Powies, the Western av. commission merchant, and J. C [Ot Leslie & Powers, wholesale grocers, signified their will #0 be subscribers to a fund to start an opposition street car B. Keifer, O. C. McGtivra, ©. Ball told of the conferences with Seattle Electric company ‘The speakers said that Howe, the company’s attorney, | MO Perth, the president of the road, and Engineer Bradley from B. Hussey and F. W. Pet- [had defied the people. They related that the electric of told them they were going to do just what they pleased. on Madison st. and vicinity es said that property 25 per cent in value if the Seattle Out Its present lectric company plan “ww | The company has already secured ermits from the board of public} works for the conversion of the cable road from Broadway to Lake DA ON sc: into an electric lir | An injunetion Saturday stopped the | company temporartly. The commit ABY United Press) tee was told that the Seattle Elec trie company’s plan is to run an electric line from Broadway to Lake Washington, and a cable line from Western ay. along Madison st. to Broadway The Proposed Route. The electric cars will run west ward from the lake to lth av., and then turn north on 14th, going to ELDS, Nic, May | Pike or Union st. thence along to Colon | First, Second or Third av. Occa trie car will be run Washington to Madison and Broadway, where transfers will »| be issued for the cable line, thence to Western ay. It was the intention evolutionary sionally an from Lake the custom: ing Blue’ considered th of the Seattle Electric company A gunners’ duel | however, to handle the Madison st and continued ¢ traffic on Renton hill and beyond Bight and is st\il through Pike and Union sts. The While the soldiers of Mac apeake ® made charge after |—— the Estrada soldiers. | iz force Estr Be will call on ( Mth Us permission to « Permission isa rs declared that all the bus (Continued “on Page Eight.) | by f Senet fall of Biuetic Madriz desperately , Against ¢ first ft Estrada’s army hay qd, they y attack ot which was submitted to the inv facts conclusively. It shows that Thomson in his place. The full text of the Ballinger-Thomson-Perkins correspondence displace Newell as chief of the reclamation it shows that Ballinger was most “chum my” with Geo. W. Perkins, head of the Morgan ley vant nein ar the pasice ranss : White ra “B oh ns i it | Sathered evidence showing 7 me this morning It) Hane to kill Alfonso and the queen shed an if the wind might go ) wh, th lull wae t are still hed 0s 0 tania ee We Although Callema waa injurd hell, which put out from Leech to 24.0% bi# own’ bomt: and then took shel ch put owt from Leech od by hie own’ bom! th te the prospects, was, speedity | 0? Mle 4 ape arrest, open atk of vengeance for his death drive ck to er with the be riven back to shelter with the bot been alls have tom awash with @ foot or more a water. RARCKLONA, May Up wntil 12:20 no more attempts me ta Berecens ant v4 were made to brave the chances of | fiies sith tote the storm, but at that time, in des lin anticipation of « perath th shelle t and wa siheenk. The lowed down to the starting point | trea tm near Leschi, and tected to rome extent by the steame rowded with * * © With dreams of accumulating } eds of dollars in easy & * profits from buying unc 1 for baggage at the auctio * *& at the Seattle Transfer company In Februar num * * ond hand men fo a pool and bought up everything put * * under the hammer, expending $223.98, They removed the * * parcels to their seven placos of business. After making room oft * for the display of the ‘multitude of things that they belleved # #% the packages contained, they commenced opening them. * * To their horror they found that the contents of the trunks, # | * boxes, cartons and packages consisted entirely of bricks, stove ® | * Pp «, hay, straw, sawdust and a lot of worthless junk com #*® * monly found im a garbage heap wy told the Seattle Tre * *® fer company the ¢rue! w in which they had ated * - The company refused to reimburse them econd * # hand ¢ ra all assigned their claims to or sumber, ® * §&, Steinfield, and thi vent ‘ the su * * perlor court to recover $3 t money spent * * by the dealers composing ion. * * * Oe ee ee ee ee interfere with private undertak ings, the idea being that consider able criticism has existed against the government's undertakings in this particular, as being an in fringement upon the rights of pri vate enterprise.” tigating committee, shows several Secretary Ballinger intended to service and place interests; that ie ee oe onslaught "7 President Taft had been consulted about Thomson as a substitute i Tarpey vw for Newell, and that Thomson went to the Irrigation congress in | ‘The point of this is that the eas, tht ttt | Spokane in the interests of Ballinger. n 4 “ae *aifaoe) bee le r. lowe * * —° te od The correspondence begins with; which I ought to investigate ahd) gchemes which were henge’ tb Mervs Roy Mei: ‘la letter written by Thomson on|be prepared to speak upon at the he merely stock selling affairs, The WE, Recording 1 % | March 29, 1909, informing the sec-| congress.” irrigation “wildcatters” were re Up on the * tary that, Thomson had been ask In reply to this, written April 5, onsible for the criticiam that Tm going to « & |ed to speak at the convention. If} 1909, Ballinger expresses bie pleas xisted,” because the reclamation Afreeted before jn # | the letter Thomson says }ure that Thomson has accepted t ervice would not sit by and all tbe pie «| “Remembering the attitude| invitation and says that Chief En- them to fleece the people w\taken by some members of con-|gineer Davis will send him litera Thomson's reply concludes with *#\gress last year, I have thought it|ture out of which to make his ad-cthe statement that “The board of ‘ # advisable for me to accept the in-|dress. Ballinger suggested an ad-|control of the Spokane convention | vitation and would be gratified to|dress on “the proper functions of |/has asked me to prepare a paper Senin in tecelye from you any suggestion|the government in its reclamation |in particular upon ‘Pumping for his pledges which you may be pleased to make| work to show that it has a field o: | Irrigation.’ I believe T shall be Rah hh hh kak v4 with réference to any special topic| action that does not necessarily! able to put together some very In WEDN {of bie SDAY, MAY 1910. Does True Love Disarm Business Sen Girl’ ‘THE STA HITT FIREWORKS PLANT EXPLODES AT COLUMBIA CITY---GIRL IS HURT IN FIRE MAS. SUZANNE ELLA WOOD DEAN. mh jay 26. r al ks are ” the trial of Mre ndvet under the etvil servic nder the an investigation muat ain within five days The n followe Baehr ar tes that Kohler Thiv in to fight the lice charger The » chief hare and lat May long cx Mayor during | Kohler, #t Kobler’» st Fred, I'm going ay coming back to hely thing « Johns night for several da Ke today m vinited et of, put his arm a bler teresting data on that subject realize very fully that the more able my paper on that topic, the more weight whatever else ! may rowing enthusiasts, are #til! waiting The eate ; Wood Dean's sult to te take advantage of even the slight-| oy » t right in the pond gale be “4 jatl thie of her late eae | aaner ir John EB. Dean ois Must Race Today. > | wu te helre, who are Desa's is staanee et be tines © neum-|four grown daughters. The reason cis aie a ron! Belge lene state-|that Mre. Doan didn't get a bug crew leaves tonight for Wis t x-|elice of the fortune that dower RAO TaNaS: SEDGE Sues - ae . a wdinarily w ve given with Stanford of not at all. f vee per nee tae tomers t «of th r signed away whitecaps will moderate reid 2 ris 60 son ta « n ne th 00 will be held in the bea / | And now Mrs. Dean protests that Fhe jabs Bae been 6 » RHR ee ee lhe Wan imposed « financially glans for days, but t the weath-44 # | because © love for Mr. Dean er man awoke with a grouch It hed) ® want SUNDAY BASEBALL. w| blinded her to the sacrifice she was to be today abe ts \* ® | making ae eehaaaerbaatenae|® BOSTON, Mass, May 25.— #|) The suit will practically decide « #|* Mayor John F. Fitzgerald an #) Whether a woman has a legal right! & HOUSEWIVES, ATTENTION! «| ® tiounces that he will eubmit a # : # If you need help of any kind #|* bill to the next legislature *) # or want to find « tenant for a | * providing that + pape A orts : CHIEF KOHLER geese roe Regge Ma | ps ens ie. be. Pov fe =| bare: aa ae mn y # Sunday. He declares he can # is SUSPENDED #& most any want. Main 9400, #|* no harm in baseball, golf, # Br * Ind. 441 #|* tennis and like games. * (My United Presa. Jebudtalaniditaetalietahabencbedtcsucsetaiabeliabaicclalali « ogo y } Oni eo 2 hief of Cleveland, was suapende SECOND-HAND MEN BUY GOLD BRICKS Jinte today by Mayor Bacht. Kohl lime deen charged with drunkennes AT TRANSFER COMPANY AUCTION SALE) ticinciaiity. maireasance and mix matters, have to say in the convention will have.” Just what else the city engineer had to say is not recalled, but in view of the correspondence which follows, it is plain that Thomson went to Spokane to boost for Bal linger, with the idea that Ballinger would give him Newell's Job Hedges in It, Toe. In this ‘connection, a letter writ ten fn April of this year to Ballin ger by 8. H. Hedges, of the Puget Bound Bridge & Dredging com pany, is interesting. Mr. Hedges remarks in his opening para graphs ms to me that you} have certainly got the Pinchot Glavis combination ‘on the run.’” Further on, Mr. He ays eat to love of course, is en to yleid every inte: The other side, deavoring to prove that Mrs, Dean | was well aware of what she wan doing, and testimony is offered to show that she hid a keen apprecia tion of the transaction. A diary she kept and letters she wrote to her husband are offered to show that terrible agreement” was) spoiling her peace of mind. Mre. Dear who was a literary woman, publ a novel called eth has been brought Shibbe the case, and both sides have pon it to prove their con It is a love story. Some parts of it seem to bear out her be- lief that love will cause a voung woman to make any sacrifice tor the object. In another portion it ms to disapprove of girls break ing a solemp engage And there you are. It is up to the jury J. H. YOUNG IS ELECTED 0 enteneansatn uy who recently mt of the n Franct tent of the Alaska any and the North nereial company, the Ing ler South as superinter war elected te Steamship prin of the M te Alaska, two subsidiary pa rean-Gug att panies syndl in annual meet Rust, of Tac the 1 Charles E. oma, retires as commercial com Peabody mpany Frank manager of the Alaska als ires hip imors ampany ret that ex-< Hoggatt was slated for the pc Mr. ¥ A «iver anka, sition ning, Were groundless CUCHARA Col Bighteen injure when two coaches of a Rio Grande JUNCTION rsons were train were derailed near here to day A broken rail is believed to have caused the accident FULL TEXT OF BALLINGER-THOMSON LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE STAR; . SHOW INTIMATE RELATIONS OF BOTH TO HEAD OF MORGAN TRUSTS H, Thom some other remarked Was up talking to R on this morning about and incidentally conversation about you, that I like to see him down at Vashington running the reclama tion service; but did not intimate in any way that we had ever had any talk on this subject Thomson replied to me that was offered the position would like nothing better than go down there and clean up reclamation outfit, and would in would if he he to the do Am writing tirely confidential no idea Mr. Thomson would do #o. Thomson Tired of Seattle. “Am rather inclined to be of the opinion that Mr, Thomson has pos sidly tired of the grind of the city business and would be quite pleas this to you in an en way, as I have thought I THREE BUILDINGS GO f the | Star is the best advertising medium in the city of SEATTLE ON TRAINS AND NEWS ®rANDS to ONE CENT UP ONE AFTER OTHER Fast Work by Firemen Save Big Plant—Water System Refuses to Work—That Many Were Not Killed is a Miracle. With three big explosions and continuous cracking of fireworks, three buildings of Hitt Bros.’ fireworks factory on a high bluff overlooking Columbia City were destroyed about 10:25 o'clock thie morning. | Sixteen employes were in peril, and one woman, Bessie White, 37th av. &., was slightly injured. She threw herself from a win- dow of the paint shop when it caught fire. She was seriously cut. The plant consists of 30 small bulidings. After the first explo sion the streets for blocks distant filled with people, expecting the | whole plant to go in a few moments. Stories were soon afioat that a number of people had been killed, but these proved untrue. | The people, however, witnessed a remarkable fireworks display. Parte of the buildings were thrown high in the air with each suc ceeding explosion, and the skyrockets and other fireworks ex- ploded together in such quick succession, like the rattle of musket. ry on a long skirmish line. Thomas G. Ff proprietor, his; Columbia City volunteer firemen, foreman od 16 employes were at/aleo an engi of the department, work in the plant at 10:25 o'clock | reached the scene, and with buckets this morning wher Fire There was a rush some one yelled,) and what little water could be got from the hydrants succeeded in com out into the| fining the fire to the three bulld- open and smoke was seen rising|ings. All were small structures. from storehouse No. 3. A moment] ‘The total loss Will not. be ynore later, with a deafening roar, the! than $10,000. Hitt Bros. had a small jfireworks stored there exploded./amount of insurance on the build Parts of the building were thrown | jngs jtnto the air and fireworks scattered) woe Hitt Bros. had taken pre | ab cautions against fire within the Refore anyone dared go near the) plant, the water pipe leading up place, storehouse No. 1 went up.|to the plant is but an inch in diam- This was about seven minutes after eter, and being on the top of the the first. Next came the explosion | pill, the manufacturers have a hard of 250 pounds of powder stored {n/| time getting enough pressure. ja little cupboard built out in t | At the time Columbia City was open, several feet distant from t ainiian pcg Ba annexed a protest against allowing the fireworks plant to remain in The Fire Spreads. the city was made. No serious In the meantime the paint shop, Compiaint has been made since that in which Mise White had been mak- time, although that district is set- jing pin wheels, in which was stored | ting rapidly. the scenery for Hitt's spectacular; Because of the distance from the Destruction of Mexico,” shown at/ nearest fire hydrant, it was a half the A-Y exporition, had caught hour before the city firemen could fire. The men in the shop rushed get an effective stream on the in to extinguish this fire, but just flames. Chief Boyle, however, led }at this moment it was discovered | his firemen into the fight, and with chemical tanks and | did effective work that there wa and the blaze no pressure of water, buckets they got beyond control TACOMA.—"I just got tired of [cana arrived today from Central ng and working hard and hav-| America with a cargo of 6,000,000 ling people talk about me,” said /bananas, As the average person =| Karl Hoffman a blacksmith at|strips off the skin in three pleces, | the Northern Pacific shops, after he |the Zacana brought enough banana shot himee!f last night. He is dying | peel to trip up the entire voting pop- in the railroad hospital ulation of the United States, OLYMPIA.—Gov. Hay will visit} SAN BERNARDINO.—A pack lg r in from the desert after @ | Mra. Hay, he w fruitiess five months’ prospecting then on to New York. They will re- ‘trip deve limp yesterday. An turn home June 25. examination of the hoof revealed a | gold nugget worth $6 belongs to Clyde Durham The mule | OLYMPIA.—For the first tim d James | Jesmond, since the erection of the state tol, the building will be closed - Sunday. Petty thieves have infested] ORANGE, N. J.—A | the building on Sundays, making the | washwomen has been for with & membership of 3 | closing necessary » wage scale will be increased to There were sight deaths in Seattle | #2 % day and the hours reduced from nine to eight a day yesterday and two today, Petrotnien John Pesinan foun a | pockethoott containing $90 at First and University early this morning. in a few minutes he found the ex ae owner. anks,” said | WALLA WALLA erted by her husband 1 Weaver until from yesterday » who w G. Roberts, of ti macietaichten! Matte: 30 “aber | Pager Sound hotel, and he hurried father-in-law, Charles stan $30,000 damages for the | | of her husband's afftec ABERDEEN,.—"It's too hot to | tions ay upstairs,” little Anna Fowler id her mother, Mrs. B. H. Fowler, The get marriage licenses Investigat showed yesterday and a trifle warm, Anna hi jar filed. to @ bed while playing - matehe er father got thi | NEW YORK.—The steamer Za | bed out of the house before further damage CITY.—Copies of reso- juesting the authorities to railroad companies from putting wooden cars between steel cars, or between the motive and 4 steel car, were sent to Washington today by the Railway Mail Clerks’ ed to accept the responsibility and| Association, in session here the honor of being at the head of the reclamation service.” CHICAGO.—Arguing that there was no law to prevent the buying of Going back to the irrigation co & Bation COM! Votes to elect United States sena- gress, Ballinger writes Thomson, | tors, Attorney W. S. Forrest. con April 19, 1909: “I am greatly pleas-| tinued his efforts today to have ed to note the interest you are tak-| bribery indictments against Lee ing in the frrigation congress.” | O'Neil Browne quashed. Further on, he gives a hint of how the senate intended to investigate LONDON,—1 t. Boyd Alexan- t reclamation service, saying der, a noted tra has been mur- “The senate has constituted aj dered by native Wa in the committee with Senator Carter, of | French Congo, according to a mes= Montana, as chairman, with which | “8° & the foreign office today I expect to be in close touch for) Eleven boys and five girls were the purpose of investigating the! born in Seattle today. One boy and various reclamation projects and| two girls were born yesterday. plants of the government | This committee will be at the}, SAN | BERNARDINO, Cal irrigation congress in August, and | [ring from, partiysls brought I am desirous that you should be-| {* Heaney Wh teaay, & jeome personally acquainted with | doot atten ~~ jshe w t r s. (Continued on Page Eighty , |