The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1911, Page 1

VOL. Nesttok | ANOTHER GRAFT | COMES TO LIGHT: Treasurer Hanna Calls Halt on Further Payments to Waterway Commission—Vast Surhs County Money Paid Out in Slip-Shod Manner. County Treasurer Will Hanna/salary of $200, gradually raised thie morning called a halt on an al-| from a 3125 ry a year ago. leged graft by which the Commercial Drew Two Salaries Waterway District No, 1, compris © Merrifield, for example, dur Ing the south district, has mulcted ing the month of May drew an $86 the county out of approximately | salary from the city as a member $90,000 for the past year. of the eminent domain commission This amount of money represents | and he also received $300 salary for the actual cost to the county for!» fuil month from the waterway epreliminary work in connection commission with the Duwamish waterway dis | Agnew as a Clerk. trict, a.sum approximating the cost) James P. Agnew, former county of the ‘Lake Washington canal for| auditor and at one time “boss” of similar work. The latter Is an en-) King county, is down on the lists terprise several times bigger than for a $125 salary as a mere clerk the Duwamish waterway. |George M. Walsh, a ward heeler of No Check on Payments. folden days and known as a pro: The warrants for the waterway | fessional lobbyivt, is also a ‘clerk’ district are drawn by three com-| with a $155 salary J. M. Clapp, missioners, Fred W. Newell, Frank | engineer, has been managing to H. Paul and D. Hamm. There is| draw salaries both from the U. 8 Absolutely po check on the amount | government and the waterway com *.of money Which they can draw.| mission. He is down for $300 a The county commissioners appro-| month. The Duwamish Improve ed $25,000 for the coming year,| ment club has been paid $23.50 for ONLY INDEPENDENT 13, NO. 93. SPAPER_ IN SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 19 1. The Seattle Star SEATTLE “ ONE CENT. KT on new DISAGRE STORK CAME IN TAXI: FOURTEEN ARE KILLED IN BLOTS (By United Pree Wire Direct to Meattle Wee.) } EL PASO, Tex, Fourteen dispatche |to have been killed in rlote at th pla A strike of miners has been | of BOY A lif progr there for some time jand while no details of the riot jhave been received, it is supposed that the strikers clashed with the police. | MAKES ESCAPE EIGHT NEGROES ARE KILLED HAMMOND, La, June 10.—In & fight at La Branch today between | an Illinois Central bridge foreman | ‘and {t is this money which Treas | urer Hanna is alming to conserve ‘The method in vogue was to have | the waterway commissioners cert fy that their expenses amounted to & certain sum, and immediately the treasurer was called upon to pay it Treasurer Takes a Hand. The county commissioners have mot seen fit to reserve to themselves the right to check the claims of the waterway commis sioner, nor have they even required the county auditor to keep a check. ‘The treasurer has been powerles ‘to do anything but pay the war fants whenever they were pre- ae morning, however, he was with a certified list that would be called on to pay 90,118.50 for the expenses of the previous month. Hanna thereupon the matter is y i When W. C. Rutter, an old-time ward heeler, appeared at the treas urer's office, this morning, Hanna refused to pay his alleged salary for clerk work amounting to $100 “This thing has got to come to a halt,” said Hanna this morning. “Let the waterway commissioners start mandamus proceedings to show that their claims are right We've got to have a check on them. They come in now and can etlaim most anything.” ‘The claims turned in by the wat @rway commission are a mass of _Bames and figures. attempt has been made to specify what the Money is being paid out for “I can't imagine that such & large amount of money is really Necessary for preliminary work Bo far as I am advised, there has no actual work done,” said) honor Big Legal Fees The records show that the firm ‘of Shor! McLaren & Shorett has Biready received approximately $6,000 for legal service. The firm of Bausman & Kelleher got $600. Karr & Gregory got $200 more. Just why there should be any such heavy legal expenses has not been determined. Besides, Shorett, Mé.- Laren & Shorett occasionally pre: fent small bills for “legal ex penses.” The firm is on a month Ty salary of $200. While the project Qn engineering one Who, so far as knoWn, has neve done and engineering work, !s Bamed as superintendent, with a is essential, R. B. Bridg: WOODROW WILSON | Boy “Champs” some reason | Peculiar Rent items. The records also show this bald }state of affairs, The" waterway commissioners are paying Kinnear Paul & Gp. $25 a month for rent. In addition’ to thin there appears a jmonthly item of money paid to the Burke bulldiig. The Burke build | Ing at first got $15 a month, then $25, later $46.50, one month $56 and last month there was a claim for $75. With all that, the Burke directory does pot list “Waterway District No. 1" as one of its tenants. |The Kinnear & Paul offices are used for private business, Commis sioner Paul being one of the mem bers. } FLOYD MERRILL. Under arrest, charged with pass | fox a bad cheek, Floyd Merrill, 16 years of age, broke away from Juve | nile Officer Boggess on Yesler way jand Second avenue at 10 o'clock ‘Honor Ballard *Boggess was taking the boy to the county jail. The boy went along quietly until reaching Yesler way, when he auddenly jerked free, dashed through the crowd and dis appeared before the policeman could catch him. Merrilj lives with an aunt at 1757 West Fifty-ninth street. He bas an inventive mind, and recently pat ented an appliance by whith rail road engineers can ascertain wheth er the track ahead of them In safe He is sald to have been offered $48,000 by the Pennsylvania rail road for this invention The check which Merrill is al leged to have issued was drawn on is uncle for $24.50. Cut Too Deep But Goes On In compliance with a petition signed by property owners in the district affected Councilman Stein ngineer Breen yeste the being =m on West 72rd at., from 30th to enues. A cut from 10 to 12 > iw being made for a dist of 500 feet, The petitioners con |sider the cut much deeper than necessary, but Councilman Steiner [said that as much as the lhad progressed so far th nothing left to do but carry the contract Just to show appreciation, a big ldinner, with tee cream propensities, 48 served the 12 boys of Adams frammar school team at Elks’ ball this noon, For these young ball ‘tossers “copped” the city grammar |‘championship, and the Salmon Bay | Improvement club along with oth ees who see in boys something that makes their hearts warm towards them, weren't going to let the event go unmarked Besides the big feed, was given a sweater that fairly bristled with class. When they filed Gut to the street afterward it is safe to say that in their elation, but one thing kept them from walk-| ing on air—and that was thetr-er- inflatic K Instructor Clark, Supt. Sears and the boys’ teachers were guests of each boy | PLAYING OIL BARREL CALLS OUT DEPARTMENT. | An empty oil, barrel at Sobey's| mill fire ) o'clock this plofe turned in a fire alarm. Ballard and Intert artments sponded, but th extin rs hed by employes of the mill be fore the fire engines arrived. The run of the department caused con siderable excitement along the wa front cut a te was lren's Way exercises will be por held in Ballard PresSyterian church tomorrow night. Im the evening toy Sen “= ** “Man Crushed b Boy Jesus. / 4 . = | Ss Walking Horses Ambrose Weeks, ster, living at 5808 Ninth a northwest, had bis collar |broken and was badly crushed be tween a wagon and a pile of lum ber while working in the Canal Lumber company yard late yes |terday aft mn, Weeks was taken * to Batlar | hospital Weeks was standing between the | wangon and ¢he lumber pile when |the horses suddenly started draw ing the heavy wagon against him and crushing him badly befo the horses could be stopped and backed up by other workmen. | Iead the horses taken a few more steps Weeks would have undoubt jedly been killed ‘Beggar - Arrested Willians Thompson, who was re | cently m the city jail | where he served a flv: sentence | for disorderly conduct, was arrested last night by Patrolman Prefho on Ballard avenue for begging. Thomp json was | with more or less suc trolman F¥efho nabbed him Thompson will be Justice Gordon Monday. TWO 8COWS LAUNCHED. Two big salmon scows splashed nto the water from Cooke & Lake's } team IN 1929 n released hip yard yesterday afternoon. jand Cond |train on one sid | negroes, eight of the colored men || } this morning and made his escape. | HEAT WAVE work | private | panhandling” passerby | Actin unti) Pa-| tried before @% was the appointment of @y. ctor Sjory of a work and a party of were killed. The negroes, who} were employed as section hands, It} is sald had formed a consptracy to} kil the tacked h number Story ¢ eman. When they at a he shot three of their} dead. Later Conductor | me and the two men} fe jkilled five more of the negroes aR k eee eee eee * * & A FORTUNE FOR * A GIRL CASHIER. & ATLANTA, Ga, June 9.—A #| search for the heiress to a for # tune worth probably one mil lion dollars, conducted by Jo- soph H. Choate, came to a sue cessful conclusion here yester day, and today Mise Margaret Ingersoll ix burryiig north ard to claim her ostate Miss Ingersoll, who been sought by detectives for more than two years, first by her father, and since bis death by Mr. Choate, acting as ex ecutor of his will, has been #| working as cashier i a res ® taurant in Marietta Ga. *) * REESE EEE EEE EEE *| * * * *) hag *| *} * a Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 0, June 10.—The ughout the Middle We: 4 today with little hope o! relief in sight. A namber of pros. trations have b od From other cities re day in dicate that bigh ratures ¢ yesterday still continue at f 10, noon have number of prostrations FRANK STETSON | WEW FIRE CHIE nue| bone | FRANK L. STETSON. Frank L, Stetson, of the Stetson Post Mill Co., and for 13 years chief of the Minneapolis fire department was yesterday aft@noo appointed head of the Seattle department »y Mayor Dilling. ‘Bhis gnorning at 10 o'clock he took the’ reins from Chief W. H. Clark, Th? appointment was rade a conference with the city after yancil, Dd. to the position of secre tary of the fire department. Free- man, who is now assistant secre tary of the board of public works, was for years a member of thé de partment aod ved a long time Freeman They are to be used by the Alaska as gecretary under formpr chiefs Fish company in northern waters. On the ways, at the Ballard Ma-| Minneapolis rine yards, are the Coaster and the who gays he left dePytment politics, Stetson, of too much announces. Princess, one thy be fitted with a that he is taking the position with new engine and the other to ander go genra) repairs. retanding that no politic ater the department jof March & |dence hospital the | because A MRS. KIERNAN. Time has ever been a pe tor in the march of with tin changes And to the taxicab P. F. Kiernan early in the morning 35 belongs the supreme title of procrastinating. Messenger boys, street cars, the remittance! from ‘home, all are in the fast 60 h, p. clans compared with that cer tate taxicab ’ Kiernan put in his call with the Seattle Taxicab Co. at » a #\A cur was immediately to call for Mra. Kiernan, who was to be en toe Providence hospital taxicab arrived at 4 a. m w, say Kiernan, from 1949 Third av. W ought not € more than 15 minutes. But, like wine, the taxicab business gets bet- ter time goer on, Which thought may not have appealed Kiernan on that early morning. * For before the taxi finally got the hospital, after an hour or n of cireuitous meanderings, so it alleged, the stork had visited Mre. Kiernan, and the taxicab opened lto three persons instead of two. This delay in reaching the hospi tal, say Mr. and Mrs. Kiernan caused Mrs. Kiernan to becon; jextremely {11 and caused her her to remain: at the hospital for three extra weeks. The ‘Klernans believe they have sustained $26,000 worth of mental anguish and phys iT’s A GOOD _ DAY TO PRAISE > _OUR.WEATHER | Mild “temperature and sunny skies in Seattle. Blogd heat tem |peratures and dull, lowering skies lin the Middle West and parts of the je That's the weather in Uncle Sam's land today. } At noon today the official tem perature in Seattic was 66 degrees. it was 64 degrees yesterday noon Very probably it will be about the same tomorrow noon. At Chicago yesterday a maximum of 98 degrees was reached and today’s dispatches leaid it would climb to 100 today. | Temperature in Kansas City was |99, in St. Louis 97, in Omaha 100, jin Cincinnati 104 tn Chicago the county commandeering ice for the poor lif the board finds that it cannot Hlegally pay, President Peter Bart ‘een has promised to settle the bill personaly | There's the weather story. Would you rather be in Seattle or | Chicago? the ride Prov t ore board is Se ee es CROWD GIVEN DUCKING BEFORE BOAT DEPARTS. About people gathered onF 1 last night t Jefferson sail every berth being taken. The waving farewell when Jefferson blew its whistle. A quantity had gathered in the whistle fnd the blast sprinkled it over the throng in liberal quantt Mes There was a hasty seurry ing for shelter, but dozens were thoroughly drenched It put a damper on the fare well celebration i lel LIKE TO FISH. Where to get ‘em How to get ‘em When to get Sport page today LOS ANGHLES, June G. ¢ almleaf, maniae, while strapped to} a bed in the detention ward of the leounty hospital, today strangled | himself to death with a she eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ee crowd was the off SHEERS EEE EEE EE EE REE es 10 | Denying attendants lefé him for a utes, MOTHER WANTS $25,000 “THE TAXICA3 BABY." feal sufferings suit for th: against the and have begun amount of 8. Taxicab Co. TULS dore Roc refere A, Ok June velt will be boxing contest Jim Flynn and Morr sccording announc ent made today B. Ufe Morris’ mana velt referee fighters TRIED TO WIPE 10.—The asked between Morris, Aone by P XTR After arguing and deliberating and taking innumerable bal- lots for 28 hours, the Wappenstein jury were unable to agree jand so reported at 2:15 this afternoon. , George E. Grey, acting foreman of the jury, told Judge Main the ballot stood 7 to 5 and that no change was made in | this standing since the first ballot. x } The jury was discharged. | Each juryman stood up in court and was asked by the judge if there was any possibility of arriving at a verdict. Each juryman emphatically answered there was absolutely no possibility of reaching an agreement. Whether the majority favored acquittal or conviction was not divulged. W. H. Shorey was elected foreman of the jury, but was taken very sick late yesterday afternoon and asked that George | E. Grey be appointed in his stead. Mr. Shorey was still sick when the jury made its report, and Mr. Grey acted as foreman and answered the questions of Judge Main. Wappenstein did not seem greatly affected by the verdict, although he smiled broadly as the counsel and friends crowded | around to press congratulations upon him. Re ] RETIRED AT MIDNIGHT After thirteen-hour the Wappenstein jury at ired to sleep on the hard chairs in their foot aajoheine faa in's court. Occasionally, even during the night, the voices of the jurymen sed to a sufficiently high pitch to be heard in the adjoining troom, indicating that a vigorous argument was on. In- termitte loud laughter would be heard. Then the jurors evidently sat dow a few minutes’ rest | SLEPT ON CHAIRS AND TABLES quiet spells following the frequent heated discussions indicated mber of fruitless ballots were taken. Both the attorneys for the state and the counsel for defendant left immediately after argu- ments were concluded yesterday morning. Chief Wappenstein, whose | fate the jury is deliberating upon, remained in the corridors until about 5 o'clock in the afternpon. Judge Main left at 3 o'clock, with instruc- tions (o call him if the jury reached an agreement by thidnight. The jurors had full knowledge that they would have nothing but thelr chairs and tables on which to catch hasty naps if they did not retura a verdict by that time, but they evidently were sufficiently advised that there was no chance to agree then. Perhaps no case. in Seattle atracted so wide attention as the Wap- penstein trial, People were busy ringing up the courthouse at all hours of the night, hoping to learn the result Sentiment is general this morning that the jury will not be able to agree At a session The that a n w o'clock last night the jurors were taken out to dinner. may b been merely a coincidence, but the jurors were head John Lang, the biggest man on the jury, as the procession start the restaurant The jurors did not get another bite until this morning, when they taken to breakfast. They spent the night sleepless and hungry. na nanthpatesananmennleesiaatentensiiann It by for were = a damages | ~ |WANT TEDDY To | REFEREE FIGHT 0 to ‘ Car) e. OUT HIS FAMILY MUNCIE, Ind, June Kubn is under arrest affer attempting t tire family. 10.—Wm here today, wipe out his en. He fired two shots, one at his wife, which grazed her arm, and another his daughter, which produced flesh wound on the finger, then cut his throat with a razor, bi the wound is not serious. f at Mrs. FREDERICK KOHL, SHOT « BY WOMAN, WILL RECOVER SAN Phy man FRANCIS icians rick June 10. that Kohl aire by A Adele Verge, will r He was far recove that physicians examination preparatory the bullet. The woman @ontinues hystérical in h cell and at midnight it was nece sary t mmon & physician to minister opiates HAVEN'T BEGUN cover today X-ray removing planned ¢ TO FIGHT YET WASHINGTON, D. c rur movement has slowed up, Cong man G. W, Norris (Rep., Neb.) statement issued today, said reports Were set afloat by Tune 10, Gnowspapers in the interest of Pres |dent renomination urgent —moveme scarcely begun,” sald Norris. ing in real earnest for progres; prinetples, notwithstanding the chinations ¢ any single man group of men, will not stop. “The entire crop of rumors a reports that the®insurgents panic stricken or discoura beolutely without foundation, n ed Verge ors that the insurgent} Nola Weaver Kuhn ut Cc ab an to CHARLES W. WAPPENSTEIN NEVER MENTIONED DYNAMITE | talked about using dyna-| that their former employers are us- anything to the |{mg every means to provoke them nto fights with strikebreakers and to have the police persecute them, in spite of this only six arrests have been madé of striking machin- ists during more than one year. er I nevr | mite or blowing up hief of or anyone else an, one of the pe A. D machinist Jam ing this morning. | “When I was talking to the chief in the | strikers I remarked that weekad ev regard to peaceful picketing by RRO ER * to gain by means, 1 told Kim that if we had wanted foolish enough ve could have gone down, 40 strong, and cleaned up the bunch of strike. erything using peacety HUBBY'S MEAL TICKET & WAS LAST RAW. * to be * * * * * * RRR RK KR KEE LOS A «ES, Cal, June 10.— | breakers, who near killing three of our men, I &d not say this as a threat, I simply wanted to show him that we are opposed to nd| violence and that no one except the p| employers can benefit by using vio. ia| lence,” The machinists are pointing out came or | Her testimony that her husband only allowed her 20 cents a day for household expenses won a divorce for Mrs, Mary Willis from Albert Willis, She said she made little complaint until she found a meal ‘ticket in her husband's pocket,