The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 15, 1910, Page 1

THE SEATTLE ‘TAF IROADS STOP WORK; 12,000 0UT n and Western Roads Announce Retrench- ent Plan and Elliott Says it is Because Railway | — Have Too Much Rate Making Power. | ? | RAILROAD WORKERS DISCHARGED, 2,500 | 3,000 | 300 | 1,200 | 4,000 | 1,500 Pacific 12 2,800 WOULD TEACH PUBLIC A LESSON. j within a few White ses Sl Tait an hanagers Peoneerning t! t te stop all cons on the part of the ge of the passage rt to hear ra House conference | te an sudden came the determina in the | lic a lesson rate and sae ie interstate railroads had plan I thetr rates before ree increased the the nerease ratiroad bil commerce elved thé presi nignat The president, | instituted injur nat this move, forced t are tion rai ore peace Are Getting Even. Tt xn now bellew that the lroads, balked by the prosident’s in |Junection proctedings, have taken this method of showing thelr dinap proval of governmental control of rates j ' In * © of the tact that James J.| | Hit fast week gave out an optirnta }tic interview to the effect that the treat Northern would not curtail | construction plans, his road was the | } first te announce this morning that promt’ uction work had been aban indefinitely and 3,000 men | dismianed. The } thern Pacifie was next with a discharge of 2.500 men. The | Northwestern and the Milwaukee owed suit with 60¢ and }1.200 men each discharged. Later Se government asking | the offic f the Santa Fe announc Muy violations of the |ed 4.060 men discharged and the antt-tr law in his dis-| Rock Island 1,500. 7 to look into the! Mi men's dealings to see if | that law | Of hotel men will call If they can bring before him, Todd Me will institute proceed men will make the i$ 5 | rail- comrn be investiga by government, ac- it Attorney Elmer teceived a circular At the local Great Northern offi thie morning. nothing n of the action of the general in St Paul. The Great is doing but little con- struction work in Washington Nevertheless, it was admitted that |eection hands and other laborers were being dropped from the pay ave was ion man must superintendent ot Pacifie, said that he had laid off 200 men in the last 10 days, Local officials of the 0. & W. and the Milwaukee de- clined to discuss the matter, but it} in known that the polley of con jstruection retrenchment Is already in jetteet. teeeaanns IN ‘SHOWING SECRET and Thuretay, *| TO SON, MAN AND gt elit BOY BURN UP * all th hak (By United Press.) CORNING, N. Y¥., June 15 The fire which destroyed the Buck Manufacturing com- pany's plant at Coudersport, Penn., and cremated Clarence Buck and his son Bernard, started in the mixing room, where the senior Buck was ex- plaining to his son the secret of a safety powder of which he was the invento~. For years Buck had closely guarded his secret, but he had decided to make the process known to his son. KKREKAAHRRAARES WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH IN HOME 3B) 1h. ~ Mra burned tg under wilt yt sete tere yom goon 15. fe Hittle chance | * 6 of Hymens being * tion by a forest | * ds it, according * Rangers are en|* points to assist | * he fire, which |* out a large|® 50 miles north | * Williams, Ont fs aroused, and | fs out fighting | keep the flames from It is|* Steerer eee ete eee te Creer * WISH TO ® * e * MA there is a dewir- * y vacant, & Rotice through in The Star thinking of business or read e Advertisements iv y United Press VALLEJO, Cal, June |Edward Campion was death in her home here today, circumstances that probably result in @ rigid investigation. The woman was found in the cen- ter of a blazing room, Her clothing had been burned off. There was hing to Indicate the origin of the t No MONEY OR Eecaping in their night from big fire ‘of last Louls Aotonich and nothing left in this world but many desirabi« Bdvertived ther: day. Btisfied with an Read The ADB every day you can do clothes Friday family night have See eee eee eee ee ee Want #| their Jives: word, 10 * Main 9400 »| a | ir BRR el biy cent . What little money had been, laid in tho house. The family the} husband and father, a hin wife, mild-eyed Austrian, | when That Sheriff creased efficienc little taxation committee Robert y in county increase in salary expens of the Cha submitted to that body yeste The investigations committee found muc its din are com ance bel annuall The eves he fact that about with a proportionate demonstrated in the report ¢ months of 1909, as compared of 1908. “While ries incr to the figures presented, the increased 70 per cent and the showing an increase of $17 of $2,611.78." the s e of the necessity Otto thoug owed st a defici turned to The f work state rmal atic the ge the ent ago The Hodge Star pre and Otto SOCIETY LEADERS AIDED STRIKE; NOW MANUFACTURER ASKS $150,000 (ity United Frese) NEW YORK, June 15--A sult for $160,000 damagey fx pending in the United Sta cireuit court today against Mra. O. H. P. Betmont, Mre Carola Woerishoeffer, Miss Ines Milhotiand and other society women who gave assistance in the shirt NOS SCRAP 0 FATHERS PULL GUNG One Dad Goes to the Hos- pital With His Back Full! of Shot, the Other Goes to Jail. Robert inpaare ia in the City bow pital with a charge of shot In his back, just below the shoulder, and W. H. Wyorker ia in jail for firing | the shotgun. The three-year-old daughter Spears was slapped by the year-old gon of Wyorker started the shooting The children have quarreled sev eral times and according to Spears, Willie—or whatever his name was—slapped the little girl Mra. Spears went to the Wyorker house at 511% Valley st. and told Mra. Wyorker that “this must cease.” When Wyorker returned home last evening and was told about It, he went over to the Spears house. The conversation grew strenuous, strenuous to the point that Wy orker and Spears wrestied and fought all over the kitchen Wyorker finally broke away and, according to Spears, returned with a shotgun and plugged Spears full of shot Spears was taken to the hospital and Wyorker to jail Speare is painfully but not seri ously hurt FAMOUS ARTIST KILLS HIMSELF (By United Pressed NEW YORK, June 15.—Leon Guypon, well known artist and {I lustrator, shot himself through the in his studio yesterday, and was found dead this morning. Guy pon had been engaged to Miss Ag ness Foster, daughter of a Boston banker, but had broken the engage. ment because of il] health. Before killing himself, the artist sent his former flancee a check for $7,212, “all the pennies I have saved,” as he expressed it in a __lletter to a friend. four. That City FOOD IN THIS Anna Antonich, a nice looking wom- an of French birth, and three little children, Mary, 4, Louis, 3, and Baby Anton, seven months old, Wandering in the street the night of the fire, a man picked up the mother and children and provided temporary accommodations for them at an apartment house, the Avalon Annex, 217 First avy, N. For food yesterday, the woman and childr pociee and Case rday increased efficiency 33 of | HOME EDITION— ——— OT I< Sa SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE ] CHARLTON FLED T0 AMERICA | feaian Police Believe Miss- ing Man Is on New York| Bound Steamer Which | Left Genoa June 8. 15, 1910, emonstrated that ir secur with ver e is the statement made by the mber of Commerce in its report and ad h of intere the taxy yunty (My United Pres) 16. nriton, bin body ght be brou inerease in salary expe of the sheriff for the fir can is u ri ten wus with the corresponding period war eased 10 per cent, according amount of civil fees collected criminal earnings 90 per cent, 25 on an increase of salaries declared that missing from where Cha elieves that it ba vd Chariton bod nm Innocent. stoff, the Ru ‘ogelano as & sue released from keneral impre» be is in ul is demanding allow Ivpola plice autopsy who have of the via arrest peek, probably will custody oon. Th sion bere that | The Russian cor } tba the auth |toff his lber =" awaiting th nur@eapa examined | Mra. Chariton Tattip credence jstory published |telle Reid lin Ube in their unty has King ¢ men rr reont that have ple of y orities ty. Th report of ake 2 Sa 4 chemints body and organs in placed in Milan that & body was found in at whose atrike waist makerw The suit was filed by A. Sttomer| antes pointing t & Co, under the provision of the} feally Chariton’s slater Sherman act. He alleges that the} The police this afternoon defendants levied an ileal sec-|podneed that an autopsy ondary boyeott and that he was} Charlton's bedy showed ruined. He places his actual dam- | #kall was fractured, Age at $30,000. died pefore being sates trusk' in which she the lake. murder, was an that and that she placed in the AOE TE CTE, was found } | ) INSANE MAN BEGS FOR DEATH BURNED T0 GROUND John Suntherland, a big and j hardy fighter, 43 years old, living at 214 Hayes st., went out into his yard, in a fit of insanity yesterday, and called lustily for some negroes | who were passing to shoot him. Motorcycle Officer Clay went out to quiet the man. Suntheriand attack. ed him and it was only after a hard struggle that the patrolman got the better of the insane man. While Suntheriand was being brought to the city jail in the police patrol he fought desperately with Patroimen Clay and Carr. Sunther- land's mind |e said to have been af- fected by the fact that his wife and son recently left him to go to Alacka. | TAFT INSISTS — ON STATEHOOD United Press l* WASHINGTON, June 15,—Before pe |going to Marietta, Ohio, where he|% poiNDEXTER CAMPAIGN ON delivered an address on the anni-|y versary of the founding of the|y Muskingum Academy this after: | y noon, President Taft informed sev-| y eral members of congress that he|y ifth ward with a big rally in | will insist upon the passage of the ; & Kidd's hall, Green Lake sta |New Mexico and Arizona statehood |% tion. on Friday night. A num | bills before adjournment of con \* bér of the Poindexter man gress. This may prevent adjourn-|% ggors will be present, and will ment on Saturday of next week, ue * talk to the voters on the live now plansed. | # ignitos of the day President Taft summoned Sem-|\ fy y yy yy 4 HM MNS ator Beveridge, chairman of the t ritories committee, and stated that he wanted the statehood bills made EQUAL DIVISION OF laws at this session, Tee T eee eee es Reform the public “Schools and bring about a fairer distribution of BANK CLEARINGS. wealth were remedies suggested by Rey, Charles L. Kloss, of Philadel phia, in an address upon “Com mercial Life and the Square D ivered last evening before the Commercial club, He urged indus trial education in the schools and | governmental control, to a certain extent, of the great natural re sources. The kiln and planing mill of the Newell Mill company, 80,000 feet of atucked lumber and 150 feet of the city's bridge on Charleston av. were destroyed by fire at 10 o'clock this morning. The fire broke out in the kiln at Eighth av. and Brad. ford st,, and for a moment it looked as if entire plant and adjoin- ing mille would go. The firemen heid the biaze, however. The loss will reach $10,000, with small in- surance. The Newell mill proper, valued at $40,000, and the Pacific Door Manufacturing company, an allied concern, valued at $50,000, were saved. The origin of the fire is un- known. Two minutes before it broke forth Fred W. Newell, presi ident of the mill company, was in the kiln, and there was no sign ‘of fire, le i ie i a ie ie le ie ee aad ‘The progressive republicans will open the Poindexter con gressional campaign in the eee eee ee ee Seattle today . .$2,010,0 219,066.91 Tacoma. today. .$ 852, Clearings Balances Clearings Balances Portland. Clearings today, .$1,641,45 Balances Spokane. Clearings today. .$ 795,028.00 Balances eee eRERSeeeee! eee eee eeeeeeeeee just a woman, “Lam poverty tears, They had a home of se all furnished, and now are a dollar, furniture and clothing Antenich’s wagon was burned up, so he is even cut out from his ac- customed means of making a liv- ing He poverty she woman, a@ had an apple ple, bought with -a’ said in her dime som n@ had given the wom- an, and a quart of milk, given by someone else, The Baby Is Sick. The baby ts sick and Mre. An tonich ia in a nervous state from the fright of the fire and their ut- ter loss. Her story, as she attempts to tell it in a few words of broken English, is extremely pathett en rooms. without has rented Tooms in a house bay of Naples under ctrewm- | om Mrs.} her | in PLANING MILL FAMILY---THE BIG FIRE SWEPT ALL AWAY THE SEATTLE ONE CENT Italy the | MRS. PORTE R CHARLTON POINDEXTER SHOWS UP STRONG IN STRAW VOTE AT NEW YORK BLOCK That Miles Poindexter has a lot of silent support in Seattle shown decisively in a significant straw vote taken yesterday among the men in the New York block, by J. A. Johnson. i Johnson was curious as to the standing of the candidates, so |} he organized » secret ballot Only men employed in the building | voted, exy & two outsiders who voted for Burke. The men in the Dexter A ton bank on the first floor only, are not included. The vote shows Poindexter within two votes of Judge Burke, the leader in the primaries (counting out the two votes wrongly cast), and way ahead of Wilson. The vote follows: BURKE, 91 HUMPHRIES, 13. POINDEXTER, 87. COTTERILL, 3. WILGON, H. ASHTON, of Tacoma, 1. BURKE OR WILSON, 1. } | BURKE MAKES HIS ATTITUDE Says County Committee | ABOARD STEAMSHIP KAISER- Never Had Authority to! IN AUGUSTE VICTORIA, June 15.| —Colonel Rooseyelt spent” part of Select Delegates to State his day in visiting the stoke hole of | _ | the steamship, where hy hatted Convention. ‘e ote |with the stokers. The colonel re- | placed one of the stokers for a time a eae and sent several shovelfuls of coal . “ ty into one of the furnaces. At the Burke for United States . conclusion of his visit he shook repudiate the plan of the King) hands with the grimy men and county central committee to ap haraind be fi : cended to his quarters. point the 162 delegates from this | ‘Later Roosevelt formally received | county to participate in choosing | he “fret and second clace pasuene candidates for the supreme bench “4 in the Tacoma convention. In an official statement issued by the gers. Burke Senatorial club today, the course of political reasoning fol lowed by the county committee mombers ia plainly indicated, and the straightforward declaration ts made that the Bu organization | has nothing to request of the com-| mittee and no suggestions to make except that the law should b ym plied with and the rights the ording to a people should be respected. The] § eels statement follows ® an address Committee for Wilson. *® ment ann % today * ceived ® ihe STOKES COAL Thomas senator Supporters aliehehahehahehehahoalcheials * HOW TO BE PRESIDENT. * 7 * June velt Taylor ated to the Nt ¢ claratic (By United Press.) T POINT Y Ex-Pres ts F Washington, Ja r *® and Grant were ele * presidency * * * * * * as @ re wars of m by ckinson, In commence West Point cadets at 7 *) * * * * commissions as second rtenants. * ee es |OPIUM FIENDS ARE NOT UNION WAITERS | around town resent statement made by Ed Hickling puis Nickerson that they striking walters fr the C Inn, Hickling 1 Nickerson arrested recently with la Union waiters the and I are lege we opium mp nelthor Mr would submit to a of the nm Jud the Burke an vat Neither man even belongs to the n,” said Agent M. S today, “Hickling has been town for some time, I never Nickerson before. In justice to the men who do belong to the unton the truth of the matter 1d be | published.” ur sine around f more than 10,00 | saw ad that the eau primary and shou _(Continued on Page Five.) RRR RRR RH Buy * proved r |% ed quickly by | Real Estate ad * Phone Main 9400, \* es Like His Father, The baby father I don't Probably after the rs for al vaoant tate and im are secur the use of a in The Star Ind. 441 and the The have hing thing they clothing on to them since the family will go there today house unfurnished and th |to put in it, The jhave in the world In the their backs, given is} | at 66 Blanchard st., no’ only Mother sembles hi Visitor Mother seen Jim go e family is entirely worthy Any given them will be grate- fully elved and will be well placed. it 2 have bottle ROOSEVELT | Denve adiatietatiatelaiaal STAR ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS Se GILLETT OSTOP FIGHT | | Governor of California | Changes Front Sudden- ly and Notifies Attorney General to Take Action By United SACRAMENTO, Cal, June he had 1 Webb stop the ffries-Johnson Gov. Gillett said at “Yes, | have written to | Attorney Gen’l Webb to that | effect. t noon | SAN FRANCISCO, June 15- |Governor Gillett hae notified At- |torney General Webb to take steps to prevent the Jeffries-Johnson fight. } The information concerning the | governor's action ie conveyed in |a five-page, closely typewritten let- |ter to parties here interested in preventing the big fight The governor expresses strong opinions against the fight, and calls upon Attorney General Webb to se- cure restraining orders from the court to prevent the contest. In case the courts refuse to grant the injunction, the governor directs the attorney general to proceed against the promoters, fighters and others interested under section 412 of the penal code, which makes prize fighting a fetony. In the letter Gillett says that the district attorney of San Francisco has notified him that he cannot ke action in the matter, and Gil- lett has notifiea the attorney gen- ¢rai to supersede the district at- torney and take active personal part in preventing the fight. The governor assures the attor- ney general of the co-operation of the governor's office. 16 DIE IN A NIAGARA FIRE Boarding House Burns, and Men, Befogged by Drink, Stumble Into Flame: (By United Press.) NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June |15.—Twelve employes of the Cal- edonia Power Development com- | pany were burned to death today jin a fire which destroyed their | boarding house at Falls View, Ont., | near here. The men were trapped in their rooms and cremated. All were for- leigners. The origin of the blaze is not known. The authorities are | investigating the case. Besides the 12 foreigners who perished in the house, a man, wom- an and two children were burned’ In & nearby shack. The flames had free play because of lack of water jand burned themselves out. | One report says that the drunk and fell into th Attempting to escape irs men flames down | we whil %| the si ALL GOLD TO BE COINED IN FRISCO June of gold will be in the San © mint and all silver at hereafter, according to an order of Secretary of the Treasury Macveagh. This means that only pennies and nickels will be coined in the Philadelphia mint, and when enough are {n circulation, the East- ern mint will lie idle. | Secretary Macveagh says gold jean be coined cheaper in San Fran- cisco, if only coined there and no- | where else. coinin Franci F Saha chalet Nice Madiathabie * \* \* TO CARRY MAIL BY AEROPLANE (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., June -A resolution is awaiting consideration in congress to day which calls upon the post master general to investigate the feasibility of establishing aeroplane mail routes. The resolution was introduced by Representative Sheppard of Texas. TT EETTSTTILL Tee ee eee ee eee ees ck kkk ek ek eee |CHAPIN TO PUT UP |= STORE FOR BON MARCHE Chapin has secured a a five-story block the man t to put up 0 First corner of Union st The permit calls for estimated at $80,000. will be used by the northeast and First av expenditures The building Bon Marche av.