The Tacoma Daily Ledger from Tacoma, Washington • 2

THE DAILY LEDGER TACOMA WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY MAY 19 1909 CITY WINS SUIT A Sacrifice AGAINST TITLOW FOR A QUICK SALE FOR ONLY Bargains in Furniture! This Oak Chiffonier I This (2400 Brass Bed NEWSPAPER MAN TO ROLE ALASKA WALTER CLARK NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR siVeS? 00 $1 MAY EXTEND STREET OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS Five-room cottage electric lights near South Tacoma car line: four lots Supreme Court Lavs Down lawn and arden fin- son 25 bear- ling fruit trees six different kinds of Ml I Hmull hprrlpit lots all fenced Call at I fl small berries lots all fenced mltlril hh deputy under Sam II Nloliol worelnry of HtHtr Him ex-otTIcio limiirHiicp I'nminletiionrr must be iliraxli' rd out It is known that tlio attorney genera oITIii is now giving hiiiio eonsiiler-itton to this plianf of tlio vane tnawmiK'li an ilpursp Israel attorney for Selilvely lias Intimated Hint be would in part rent the defense of Svhlvcly upon that point Ttiere art some well deilned dreixions handed down in the New York Nebraska and Wisconsin courts wlitrli have held that officials can be Impeached for acts commit ted In or during a former administration Judge Barnard was tmpeaelicd in 'lie state of New York during Ilia acmnd term for acta committed in Ilia prevtoua term of ofrice Ills plea that lie was not liable to itnpenrh incut Tor offonsea occurring in the iirat term was overruled Precisely the same question was raised in the impeachment proceedings against Judge liuhhell of Wisconsin and in the trial of Governor Duller of Nebraska and In cseh of which rue ruling was the s-mie as in the liarnard case There was it was held good reason for overruling the plea to the jurisdiction in the three res just mentioned respondent wrts a civil officer nr the time he was imiienelicd and lisd been surli uninterruptedly allien the alleged misdemeanors In office were committed Object of Impeachment The fact that-the offense occurred in the previous terms was immaterial It was held The object of impeachment la to remove a corrupt or unworthy officer If lifs term lias expired and lie is no longer in office that object is attained ami the reason fur his impeachment no longer exists Dut if the offender Is still an officer he is amenable lo Impeachment although the ucts Hoggatt Resigns to Look After Private Interests Cushman and Donworth Confirmed by Senate Rule in Important Case Mayor Linck Must Fay Plumbing Bill ofrice I Gregory Co $1450 120 12 th Street Webb Gregory While they full one-inch tubing Pattern been dropped at factory therefore this great reduction This Handsome Buffet terday and offered to remove the line from Pacific avenue to Broadway 7 asked Mr Rogers am telling you positively and under oath that Mr Calhoun made such a proposal to said Mr Kpreekles you know that Broadway will not take an electric road on account pi tho la none of my affair I am telling you what Sir Calhoun told me said Mr Sprecklcs sharply will have to explain what he meant At this point the examination suddenly went back a dozen years to the time theMJnited Railroads acquired the old Market street and other street rall- way systems Haver UsA Coercion you not threaten to enjoin the iurchase of the Market street road and the United Railroads to purchase your Market street stock at a price 815 higher than any one else received was Hie question with which Mr Rogers introduced the subject "That is not aaid Mr Sprecklcs "I never forced any one to purchase a share of stock owned by you not compel the United Railroads to pay Mr Wheeler $1500 as your representative in that know that Mr received that amount That is Ills said tho witness felt that I had the right to dispose of my stock when and how I you usually employ an attorney to sell your do not I know what action Mr Wheeler took or contemplated to effect the sale at the figure I had fixed I was asked to deposit the stoek at the Union Trust company and receive $100 a share I refused unless I was given certain assurances as to earnings and Information as to tho value of the new stock Sooner than disclose to me the enormous earnings of tlie corporation they paid me ll5 or 319 more than other stockholders Spreckle said he had not threatened suit to hold -Up the transfer you not acquire that stock after you read that the system was to change asked Mr Rogers Is partly false and partly true I may have acquired some not you recollect that Mr Wheeler threatened a suit to set tliut price for your 1807 shares of Dacians Insinuation Paisa not true I asked Mr Wheeler about that at lunch and your Insinuation Koep Your Homes Bright (SPECIAL TO THE LEDGES) OLYMPIA May 18 In the Tacoma case of the City of Tacoma against A Titlow and wife the supreme court lays down tlie rule that tlie city has tho right to extend Its streets out over tlie tide lands and harbor areas even though tlie samu lie without the city limits Kerne time in tho past tho state of reliable gave to municipalities Mie right to f- Sn7 kill: tend their street over tide lands and I dealera offerIn baraln when the city of Tacoma started to extend 6th avenue Titlow protested lie Fidelity Trust Co page (SPECIAL TO THE LEDQEB) WASHINGTON May Walter Clark a newspaper correspondent was today nominated as governor of Alaska to succeed Jioggiitt who has resigned to take effect October Clark was selected at a cabinet meet ing last week after various names had been considered He is well acquainted with Secretary Knox and Secretary llal-llnger -ami Postmaster General Hilch-cock and is personally known to President Taft After some deliberation it was agieed that Clark because of his cliurged were committed In ills previous thorough knowledge of Alaskan affairs VS fl $1100 Built 'of selected oak the finish it golden and very highly polished five good sized drawers French plate mirror at the top claimed that the city had no right to extend its streets -outside of the city limits but the -supreme court holds that I under tli old law the city has that right und gives Judgment for the plaintiff This means that the city has tlie power to extend ils streets over the land in question Linck Must Pay Plumber Mayor Linck of Tacoma will have to I pay II Bellingham a 8100 plumbing bill under a decision of the supreme court handed down today The court holds that Mayor Linck will have to pay the bill although he protests against tlie high prices charged by plumbers in general for the work they do The plumbing was done in a building that he purchased from the city National Bank of Commerce page Pacific National Bank Scandinavian American Bank page BUILD XV MATERIAL St Paul Tacoma Lbr Co page 3 CLOTHXVG Peoples Store Co page CLOAKS AND SUITS Peoples Store Co page 12 DBUGS Wynkoop-Vaughan Co page DBT GOODS Christoff ersen Campion Co page Peoples Store Co page 12 Rhodes Brothers page 3 Stone Fisher Co page 5 DENTAL SUPPLIES Tac Dental Photo Sup Co page 4 DENTISTS Union Dental Co page 3 EMBBOXDEBT Peoples Store Co page 12 Karpen 5-Piece Parlor Suite TACOMA FIRMS ARE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS I rravin carpet Davis Smith Co page Peoples Store Co page 1- One of the neatest patterns we hare ever offered for so little money French plate mirror in hack two small and one large drawer roomy cupboard below built of hardwood golden polished las km Make your old linoleum Just like new witk Linoleum Lustre and his understanding of needs would be an ideal man for governor and lie President on advice of his cabinet decided to offer tlie place to Clark and urge him to accept He did so and Clark this morning signified his willingness to accept Was Choice Three yours ago -President Itooscvclt urged Clark to accept the governorship of AlaskH hut the offer was then declined and Ifoggutt was appointed Governor Hoggs tt resigns voluntarily as he desires to devote more attention to his business interests In Alaska It Is be lieved nomination will be con firmed though there may be some'slight protest against tlie appointment of non-resident of Alaska Though a native of Connecticut Clark has the repu tatlou of knowing as much about Alaska as any resident of the states and his wide acquaintance among Alaskans will contribute strength to ills nomination for he is strongly endorsed by those who know him A statement issued at the office of the srvretary of tiie Interior regarding Mr Clark's appointment says: the President through Secre tary Ballinger offered the appointment SB governor of Alaska to Walter Clark the offer was made because the administration desired to have in that office a man personally known to the President and to tlie secretary and the appointment represents no faction in Alaska politics but Is strictly an administration measure Mr Clark at first felt obliged to (le dine tlie appointment but upon further consideration consented to accept the governorship for a period of from one to two years during which it is hoped to accomplish work of benefit to the territory It Is understood that at the end of that time Mr Clark will give a definite indication whether he desires to continue for a full The senate this evening confirmed George Donworth of Seattle as federal judge for Western Washington and EL Cushman of Tacoma ss federal judge of the new district of Alaska DISCHARGED JURORS ACCUSE ATTORNEYS Claim Government Counsel In Mnskogss Town Lot Fraud Cases Are Guilty of Misconduct Before the Grand Jury TULSA Okla May 18 Sensational allegations concerning tlie official -conduct of Sylvester Rush special assistant to the attorney general and United States District Attorney Gregg of the northern district of Oklahoma were made in two petitions filed In the federal court here today in -connection with the Muskogee twou lot fraud cases One of the petitions is signed by certain members of the grand Jury that was discharged last Saturday by Judge Mar shall on motion of District Attorney Gregg who asserted that the jury had been subjected to improper influences Tills petition refutes this charge and in turn makes serious charges against both Messrs Gregg and Rush Involving misconduct before the jury and petitions the court to investigate the allegations The defendants also filed a response to the motion of District Attorney Gronby putting the charges of improper influ enee Tlie response alleges that Gregg has used the Tulsa World of which Tie is stated to be part owner to mold sentiment and prejudice the court and grand Jury against the defendants and that he lias expressed personal antagonism toward Governor Haskell and others State Beard of Control Award Contracts for Supplies for Penitentiary and Issues Call for Bids for Supplies for Insane Hospitals (SPECIAL TO TEE LEDGES) OLYMPIA May 18 The state board I of control today awarded contracts as follows for material for tlie penitentiary: Samuel Loney Co Walla Walla for lumber 86340 Crowe Co Seattle hy droll hie cement Crowe Co Tacoma Mosaic tiling Samuel Loney Co Walla Walla 500 barrels of lime at 1159 H- Sutherland Co Walla Walla tiling iron pipe and plumbing supplies Gilbert Hunt Co Walla Walla Iron bolts and rivets A llambach Co Tacoma galvanized iron pipe and fittings In all there w'ere more than a score of bidders Tlie successful contractors were the low bidders The board also issued calls for bids to be received by Superintendent Semple for the Eastern Washington hospital covering bedsteads mattresses and chairs and directed Superintendent Reed to receive bids for brackets hangers etc In rearranging the shafting and machinery in the new jute mill Calls were also issued for bids for beans and rice for the state training school at Chehalia A call was issued and bids will be received up to May 29 for material for the new barn to be erected at the Western I Washington hospital at Stellacoom HUSBAND DISAPPEARS AFTER SAVING WIFE I term of the same office These facts niter largely It is maintained Into the ease of If Kchlvety former deputy Insurance commissioner and present Insurance commissioner Selilvely was only nominally deputy liiKiiranci commissioner lie was in charge and control of the Insurance depart under Nichols He indorsed all cheeks and wrote all letters that had In do with the Insurance department Nichols on the witness stand before the legislative committee swore to that and if it becomes necessary to subpoena Nichols Selilvely must combat that testimony Impeachment Is not a more mode of procedure for the punishment of Indictable crimes Corruption maladministration neglect of duty involving moral turpitude arbitrary and oppressive con-duet sml gross Improprieties are grounds for Impeachment even though such offenses he hot of a character to render tlie offender liable to indictment Should the senate organize for Impeachment it Is the custom to appoint managers who conduct tlie proceedings Wlin the senate organizes for the trial of an impeachment It is a court of exclusive original and final Jurisdiction and its judgment cannot he reversed by any other tribunal Speculating on Xdnanp Speculating upon the probable Impeachment of Schlvely further speculn lion has been Indulged In as to wheth er or not the required 28 senatorial votes would he forthcoming Ttiere are none here who watched with interest the vote In the house and In the senate at the close of the session' when the question of an investigation came up but believe the same alignment of votes would he seen In a vote to file Impeachment proceedings Wince the revelations relative to "flat fees and to the perfunctory examinations of Insurance companies ft Is known that those representatives who voted against the investigation have been Impressed with the evidence brought out Twenty-two senators lined up on the side of Governor Hay and cast a majority vote for the Investigation And since the close of the Insurance department probe fully a half dozen senators who opposed any investigation and who voted against the resolution nave expressed themselves either publicly or privately that they are satisfied there was need of such an Investigation Tlds Is Strong Others the opposition have Confidentially told newspapermen and the friends of tho governor that John II Shively ought not to expect them to continue to Jeopardize their political futures by standing further with him for the retention or his office And so it is contended that If an Impeachment ever eomes up to the senate Kchlveiy may And it impossible to stem the tide of impeachment by the 15 votes his friends say they are sure he can command A good deal of merriment was Indulged in here today when official Olympia and returned members of the legislative committee read the interview State Insurance Commissioner Selilvely gave to the Spokesman-Review In that Interview he is credited as saying that lie had been at all times ready and willing to go before the legislative committee and give testimony Rut It is'a matter of record that on the last day of the sittings Schlvely through ids attorney flatly refused to glv further testimony Ills attorney stood ills ellent upon constitutional rights and declared that he did not purpose allowing Schlvely to go upon the stand and give any testimony that might be used against him In a criminal trial NO CLEWS TO BANDITS Rhodes Brothers page 3 Stone Fisher Co page 5 Sohoenfeld Sons page 5 Standard House Fur Co page 3 PUSL Denny-Renton Clay Co page 3 Gas Co page 3 Tacoma Trading Co page 4 GBOCERS McLean McMillan page 5 JEWELERS A Andrews page 3 George Chapman page 2 A Mierow page 3 MEDICAL Columbia Medical Co page 3 Scott Medical Co page 11 MAHUPACTUBSBS Tacoma Trunk Factory page 4 PIANOS Johnston Co page 7 PRINTERS AND EVOBATERS Pioneer Bindefy Ptg Co page 2 BEAL ESTATE Alien Spicer Hubbeil pan 3 A Barnhisel Co page 3 Corcoran A McFadden page 9 Curtis page 9 Fidelity Rent A Col Co page 9 Gill Home Investment Co page 9 Gregory Co pages 2-9 A Jones page 9 Morgan A Morgan page 9 Paul page 9 Wash Fid Co page 9 Herbert West page 9 STOCKS AND BOITOS Stevenson A Co page 11 SHOES Peoples Store Co page 12 SCHOOLS State Business College page 2 SAPS DEPOSITS Seeley A Co page 4 WIVES AID LXQUOK8 Silver Grill Cellars page 3 icxsceClaveous Classified page 8 Transportation page 11 Theaters page 4 If a little silver polish would keep your beat silver apoona from becoming tarnished and worn be quick about using it now you? allow your linoleum or oil cloth to become shabby affecting the entire look of your home Xf either is already dulled in color and the pattern ia worn nearly away you can make it look like new at amall expense by applying Linoleum Luatre If your linoleum is new you can keep it frssh for Jnst the way it cornea from the tore Llaelenm Lsaira baa none of Aa drawbacks of vanish It will not crack or blister heat and cold do not affect it It is no easy to apply that a child can do so and it will dry over night It will pay for Itaelf over and over again year after year It will be the beat investment yon ever made for your home because after you buy Linoleum Lustre Just once and apply it yon can stop buying linoleum or oil cloth What yon have will last you and yon will have ao aaoro wan spots to be ashamed of or patch up One quart coven 160 aq-fact At all dealera Made by KENOSHA CHEMICAL CO Iwaiha Wls For sale In Taooma by THE PEOPLES STORE CO Built of quarter-sawed oak and very highly polished upholstered in French Velour sofa arm chair plain chair rocker I See Our Summer Furniture 10th Floor th Violent Quarrel End In UeattleWoman Trying to Commit csutly She Began Bolt for Divorce See Gregory for ranches and acreage 120 12th at in regard to this like your other insinuations Is utterly false Mr Wheeler told me he never received a fee from the United Railways while acting In my 1 Mr Spreckels explained thst he had been Informed Mr Wheeler had a friend a Mr owned a few shares of Market street railroad stock and that he had disposed of it receiving about $1500 Geo Chapman Co Jewelers Silversmiths Opticians (SPECIAL TO THE LEDGER) SEATTLE May 18 Following a vln-'l lent quarrel with her husband Mrs Ellis wife of Mark Ellis attempted sui ie by drinking carbolic acid this after noon in the home of Mrs Goodhue in the rear of 514 Broadway But for the timely arrival of Dr Denny the woman would probably have succeeded in her purpose She Is now out of danger Ellis the husband telephoned for the physician and Immediately disappeared and has not been seen since Mrs Ellis recently began suit for divorce They I have no children 7 co 17 Rapid Roller JL JLj COPIER will copy your letters in oni twentieth the time making a copy which will stand In court STATIONERY STORE EXCLUSIVE AGENTS 480 A1486 047 Street SUMMER SCHOOL Famous Gregg shorthand Blisi actual busineia bookkeeping both national eon south st MURDERS RICH ALASKAN Cordova Citizens Threaten to Lynch Por-r Portland Man tad Strong Guard Kae Been Plaoed Around Jail Magnitude of Sewards for Train Hob- bsrj Causes Jealousy Among Mouths They Aye Baffled SPOKANK May The police the sheriffs office and the big force of detectives brought here by the Great Northern confess that they have no clews whatever to Indicate the whereabouts of tlie bandits who held up a Great Northern train near Spokane Sat-turdey night -The sheriff discredits the detention of four suspects st Deer Park and asserts that lie has not sent men fliers to investigate There Is a woeful lark tf co-operation between tlie sheriff the police and the railroad detectives snd apparently the magnitude of the rewards has excited Jealousy and petty rivalries CASTORIA For Infants and ChaArea Tht Kind You Han Alwais Bought TELLS SECRETS OF GRAFT PROBE (Continued From Page One) interview with Ruef that called my I attention to the need for an investigation Ruef came to my office and suggested that 1 get up a syndicate to hid on municipal bonds about to be issued He promised that the bids would be aug-gcaied by a strike I was horrified by tlie suggestion assured me that the bid of the syndicate would be continued Spreckel he would guarantee that we would not have to bid above par for a studenth! Washington I th him how this could be done accUfentallvshot himself and 10 aald: a simple matter this afternoon dea th I You know my connection witn tho labor Davldsotf I union people When the bids are about to be submitted we will have the "rMctirawTwai eFt strike this town ever saw tie In LaKollettes hjg toiTrln caJ Thev up everything Including the street rall- ways Then I would like to see any vMsoneVwho an exnort ri1irJhot and of 'our capitalistic friends except those member the team wMcl recently wSn lle aubmt bda ior Smd01 gmV Rf the rea1 "enfled ni for the sake of making money to bring thebuiiet straelThfm'undpr the and on a strke that might result In blood-the bullet struck him under the chin ami Bnd ie a1 1( wa ony jok But Ills face flushed and he withdrew I from my Kprcckels said lie considered it proper to grant immunity to any man who Hmion ike Ruef would assist in bringing to GO ON THE STAGE Justice a man of great wealth who had 'debauched a city government had nothing against Calhoun personally' said Sprockets Mr Spreckels denied that be had In mind the organization of a rival system when he sought to gain an option on stock of the California Street Railway company an Independent line He said he was acting in behalf of others Xasw it Was Feasible Later Mr Sprockets testified he had made a statement to bis attorney Mr Wheeler to the effect that there would MRS ANNIS WILL "Wife of Murdered Man Will Flay Flano Accompaniments in Says She Has Ho Other Maaus of Livelihood NEW YORK May 18 Tlio stage of the sensational murder trial which has become eo familiar tho vaudeville stage reached In the llains-Annis tragedy today when announcement was PORTLAND Ore May A cable from Cordova Alaska says that McNamara last night killed Carpenter by shooting him in the throat and cutting the Jugular vein McNamara wax formerly a prominent Elk of Portland McNamara it Is alleged had been drinking and was put out of the hotel by Carpenter Carpenter was known all over Alaska as a heavy property owner A strong guard has been placed around the Jutl to prevent lynching Bears the Signature of FOR GRADUATING GOWNS SEE WHITE WIWDOW Skirt Sale Extraordinary made that Mrs William Antiis wife be no opposition system If the United of the man for whose death Peter 1 Halns jr began serving Sing Sing sentence this morning had signed a contract wfth a hooking agency to play piano accompaniments In a sketch Mrs Annis is quoted as saying that since she has been thrown on her own resources it was necessary for her to adopt some means of livelihood MINING MAN LOST ON DESERT GOES INSANE I Railroads would put its wires underground Continuing he said: I first began to consider the condui system in 1905 when talked with President Holland of the United Railroads I-iTif 1 convlnvfd ty my later discussions with Messrs Calhoun Holland and Chapman that their arguments were not sincere and no objections to the conduits advanced hy them seemed sound from a logical business standpoint They simply said it was not feasible and I knew it was feasible from my observations in other The witness said he would be willing to invest a largo sum of money In an Eastward thro 1 The Storied Northwest A trip of scenic surprises of thorough comfort of unexcelled meal services in short a trip to live in memory forever After May 23 Northern Pacific service will comprise Four Electric-lighted Through Transcontinental Trains Providing through sleeping car service between the Pacific Coast and Minneapolis St Paul Chicago St Louis Kansas City Direct connections to Duluth and Superior for the Great Lakes Steamer Trip xyis Yellowstone National Park cn route ifMpinKaCaraTkoSleePng Crs "-'ipboisteied Tourist a carte Dining Cars for all meals summer farespoquesf infoon about the low round-triE A Midseason Factory Clean-Up Big purchase of stunning Mohair and Panama Skirts in very latest cut design and weave at One-Third Less Than Regular Or to be particular Skirts made to sell at $8J0 and 9730 are on sale today and tomorrow at underground system i Kpreckles denied that he bad ever Is Picked Up by Prospectors and Taken owned stock In the Ocean Shore railways to Town but Escapes and Search- of the Kan Joaquin Valley railway tlie waw Tvi Independent Gas company or other coring Parties Are Vow Looking poratlona with which his name has been for Him at various times associated I you mean to say that Mr Cal- RENO Xev May Three posses houn 0810 to stifled yes-in automobiles from Wonder Nev are searching tlie desert in the vicinity of Dixie Hot Springs for Calvin Harris a Chicago mining man who escaped from the authorities of Wonder Saturday In a demented condition Harris was picked up last Thursday by three prospectors who found him wandevlng on the desert almost starved and hie lips swollen from thirst Suffering had driven him Insane He was taken to Wonder and cared for He eluded his nurses on Saturday and I when last seen was many miles out qSti the desert Harris is widely known among mining men of this state and la said to have made and lost a dozen for-1 tunes llarizell George Geger and Fred Goetz appraisers of the estate of! Don Wheeler deceased filed a notice to tlw stale board of tax commissioners in the superior court yesterday 1 vtr $495 Beautiful Luster Mohairs in gray and dark gray brown gray black and brown cored but very full strapped and button trimmed Also many new ideas in the Panama weaves Every akirt is made for service and good ap- pearance and withal style See window display Come early for best choosing Sale today Ao8t- Gen- Pa9- Agt 255 Morrison St Portland FOSTER City Paaa A Ticket Agt 925 Pacific Ave Tacoma Pacinc Ave Tacoma Rj orthem Kail way ton prk tember 25 1009 Ftrtir LpJ'rtuS Prk Sep- Spokane Angnit 9 to 14 1909 to 12 1909 Seventeenth National Irrigation Congreia 4 1.