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ne Cent THE S rn —o pad bry — « THURSDAY EVE AUGUBT 21, 19 WASHINGTO SEATTLE, |} RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILD’S DEATH LAID AT THE DOOR OF =| to Equip Cars With Fenders Which Will Save the Lives =] of Unwary People---A Stong Arraignment fective fenders. Signed: HAGGARD, T. J. GRIBBIN, J. M. HUNSICKER and C. L. BLEWETT. Saeco FA FOUR MONTHS? RECORD “0 ‘Then solute uselessness ed, by the fact that it allowed the ehild to drop and roll under the car, to Albert Lieyd Heckert, » boy 12 street car on May 6, on Olive strect. ry of honest. | hie death. ere oCatco Union ear come rapidly alongs” The” cor ie Myron w. Motorman E. D. Fairchild made an almost superhuman effort to st of those | the car before it had accomplished the terrible work, but the fender fail- ed to hold the little fellow, nnd he was killed. j | When the car fender struck the boy, he was thrown half upon it. ‘The car was going at high rate of speed, and this explains the fact that | the body was held suspen: he wan When howew ere was killed by « jin in the road fender struck him, and again it failed te savee life. The boy was aimost instantly killed. The motorman and conductor were both exon- erated from all blame by the jury that sat in the inquest. The @tender had failed to do ite work, and the employes of the com- pany could not be blamed. Lake car proved absolutely under the moving mace of ran directly into the car, and was a fonder. | heseena sad Boganere nates on deadbolt The UVES OF INTERURBAN ~~ WORKMEN IN PERIL SEATTLE COMPANY'S CITY OFFICE MAKES AN ALMOST FATAL | BLUNDER—SENDS A DEADLY CURRENT THROUGH THIRD RAIL WITHOUT WARNING THE EMPLOYES ALONG THE LINE UNKIND STAB.AT.THE jovernment employe on one of the United traneporte, wae killed on July 2 because proper fenders Jackson street line, inquest wae held over his On July 12 another was killed. This time the tragedy ANTHRACITE COMBINE sacaga tee eae tet et ° . . . + ° . it ° Ps > . inilibniip-antigineniad © Luther Smart, aged 12 years, tried to cross the track ahead of the * Welsh Coal 3 . . + + . ’ . ad ° . > © ? 7 e 24 i t i 3 F car. Me was struck by the rack of iron said ° Operators Propose to Enter by Diectaan Te was the same story, H cath Ol followed, . When the Inet case came before @ corenere ) Dr. American Market at Low Rates jon ‘of fenders, ‘special point to look well into the question of fe Questions to the jurors on @ Thee made it ‘That a wholesale electrocution of) been an accident that the third rail le and he put ma wbject. Those electricians, hinemen and others em-| Was charged. The peace-makers i a ae |e whe compored went jury quickly concluded that the things ployed im putting the finishing| \"""* *imost sorry they had not wit |% how im use wa fenders are more than worthiess, and did not heel. Youches on the new Seattle-Tacoma| wre’ a host tater’ en 1s ciakmen a | NEW YORM, Aug. 21 tate to condemn their use and arraign the company. railway did not take| telegram was received by firemen |COt! Journal says that Py py Fey EE the line warning them that wd Seattle Blectric Com-| the gurrent was to be switched into | 2 , pany, which for the t at least! the third rail. k, Philadelphia and Ba trols the new road. from. % to $6.68 per ton, ac ‘ye EF of Warning An Hour Late quality. {he company made an almost fatal| The linemen deciare that the cur-| | A# this is far below bp hg hry thia|rent had been flowing through the Biack er Junct’ this|rail an hour when t ‘The contrivances now in use are racks permanently chained The motormen cannot raise or a foot or more above the track lower them. A body falling § rostrate on the track before a car would not be pi up by the favity apparatus, It would pass over his body, A person standing would be struck and knock- ed prostrate on the Srack in front of the ear. He would wor tell into the fender, In order to be eaved he would be compelled to jump inte it, n haw looke: ment of pre * every that the increase in pr ‘as large a profit as th former rates. the ae a put PUBLIC MARKET WILL | it le very contation without wring mornue inst the mop as the picture of the ack Whe vent evening by Mra. Daytor respect avenie. Ah EARS SUGIYAMA, , [Newton iatnec certo ear* “No, 324 Jackson at in City,” | She made thi Now comes the puasie. What doe#/that she thongnt hia ne he want. | charg ihrough the| bad been guilty of crimina " gence amounting practically to as Seattic and Kent without « foun with intent to commit murder. There ie no question but that the ba putting im the | third rail was charged with the full 04) ott wupponediy occurred there is no testimony, since iy polaat with | the local officers of the company p & trem werful trie fess ignorance of the whole mat- § ech, Pe volts was when con' this enla “than ev that may Sep “eo that it te very confation.” Right there the experts of the Chamber of Commerce yeater stop, They Rave to give up. By the y to adjourn until the first We expression “the picture of the back lily, live-in’ Brooklyn, Elks’ carnival. For ae” the petitioner moans that he reason the public market question did not con as drawn « pinn of the proposed up for discuss | | @ postponement of the matter intment to & | improvement on the reverse site. o| Seat of Ecters whe. of the meeting the petition. ‘The board in worrted before the cham- because they really wish to oblige wn visitors in re | the man, but they don’t know ex- VE ubledly be #elxed actly how It "2 BALLARD SCHOOL NOT COMPLETED | Franciseo and in Vancouver, Wa There waa vo mee day, that body assem nesday in September on a of th Hye-witnesses not in the employ metal was|of the company declare that thic a8 if by @ bolt of light-| copper wires laid acroms from the H % third to the nearest track ral = As Struck by Lightning 4 At least « score of faborers be- | were Instantly consumed, disappear ing in « fineh of green fire and white amoke gence Is Criminal tween Black River Junction and Kent were knocked down “"<o the | " ‘the rail. : It ie claimed by some of the work- ; men that many of the switch boxes |@ feet by the shock and it Was only | slong the line between Seattle and Providence that saved their) Auburn are without locks and that lives, for had they fallen across the} at any time some careless or matt- Pall and the track raile they would | clous tresepasser may turn the cur- : inevitably been burned to death. rent from the overhend teed wire q For several hours indignation ran | into the third rail, endangering the hieh mone the workmen an? there | life of every person crossing th Detter system of trunk road Rae strong talk among them of going | (Tack within two miles of the switch, | extablishment of such » system of wag beady is dow H hobby least one member of the 5 J s ® 3 @ will open on M ‘The new build: structing weit! not be ready for occupation by Jenny Spring! misstone Up to the present time that time am whe kt firet Intended, |avenue lomt several met with but Jittle encouragement from the farmers who must go that school wil] be held in annexes |through the operations cost of building such roads. of churches, and in various other| The residence of F. G. Stafford butldings until the new school, which |1#10 Seventh had been entered jothes and eilverw Ballard # | to the ot Iynchiaa The danger to human | party vengeai died by the fact that much of the officers of the Compeny witen track between Beattie and Orillia is | Pad 0 needlessly Jeopardized thelr | still unfenced and persons not in the Ve employ of the company might east! pay th armers naturally little necessity for good cooler heads finally won the | come into contact with the third rail wagon roads to the city for the avon that they practically jie located on Ratirond avenue be-/of jewelry and a sum of money yen. 4 tay ty ae ‘arguing that it Might have when to touch it would, mean Geath never drive to the city now. Rallroad and steamboat fare is too |tween Holbrook street and Preston | terday . cheap. atrest, 1# completed, It Will be a cenepilignpeceveattittonaiatan, If, however, the farmers could find a ready market for their light, well ventilated, § foom struc- produce in the city, hundreds of them would drive in dally from the settlements within a radius of It is a noteworthy fact that while public market, has excellent r Seattle has but one high ly more than five miles he fact that the count ture. FURNITURE FOR STATE OFFICALS where there is a in from the country yassable, and this is | HOO HOO’S HAVE KEY OF THE CITY TODAY ‘The worshippers at the shrine of|punchers and camel skinners feel P'RUILDING | PROGRESS Archite t John Graham is ar ns for the finest~ four. fat Dullding ever erected the big, black cat, officially known | like cheap selling piaters, They|@ 1 fi | be handled more safe! Governor and Warden Have! in the city, It and two sim- &8 members of the Concatenated Or- | Were entirely out of running Truck farming do Hlar are to be built at the north » Bedsteads Made by San Quentin Convicts eant corner of Yesler way w |@ Sixth aveny at a coat of Ger of Hoo-H: ¢ the whole thii when they followed along after the At the Eiki carnival today *6 | 300 black and white demons dancin, DF poe case ee ey copeam land enperwewiing 40 pesiee af looking individual wearing a. broad | ruler, the Grand Snark farmers who live near Seatt farming on a large scale c for Kelley Bros, 0,000, The front Tne |@ elevation will be of elaborate nnd aw ton | Verse, and the minor poten os by steame SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 = CF ruts bearing «black cat, ‘rampant, take the Black Cat's domaina seocccecccooensscsesoccscecsoosecoococcoccccoees | 22°" pO ant withess this morn: | Foye Ronny ov ee ly oe off him and bow low.| The parade waa followed by & Te ey hy we He will Tet the contract tos The wante-che| #rand concatenation of the Hoo-HHo0 H. A. Emalie, foreman of the car Mo will let the contract ge it anyhow But | which now in progress at Bike’ {4 & Hoo-Fioo and as auch he has| hail In the Colman block. the freedom of the today The y Show This ix Lumbermen’s day at the| qe baby show, which was con- e benter shop at San Quentin prison mill had been | Bee Staten that convicts dade nu hove is noth.| merous articles of mahogany furnt Thoth: | ture, among them five bedateads and he moat of which are eo for W. ty-Ninth Jackson street, and is taking figuren on a $8500 rectory at Campbell, at avenue and CITY HALL i carnival | Ps tition addr board of | dining table, / | @ Twenty-fourth avenue and * cluded yesterday afternoon, was a in the home of Warden Joseph ber) Bat grand muccess, except, Of course, to In| ‘Aguirre, “One bedatead was made Boe tone, Cae Bes: eee oe Jeet Of Hoo- sved an: |@ Bt. Clement's ohureh. Plans are | for George McDougall, a guar with the letter 1 is alleged to be now o, it might as weil be! fhe mothers Whi the Biaek Cat's day to lord it over| 2" the Bike and their | public works, | fairy vi The Pa j “rh pi bie wetory : The Lumberme: « parade thin! AB SAILS FE thy runt Into, r wn on Be} ughable apectacie, | A momentous question awaits solu- | but he's got It on paper at the city being drawn at his office for St. Paul's chureh, to be erected at Wirst avenue and Roy street at & comt of $0000, The seating capacity of the church will be was marked This bedste thre (Continued on pag if 900 OF mor 260, He tn alto draw ing plane med Hoo-toos | tign'at the city nail. For @ day or| hall, He wants something all right |@ for 4 $2000 residence to be built Sealy citrine” Ho Horm aa ee toy anya |B Pe rant tinea eh for aga coidenca te bu rp ed go by ear YORK, one. By rs jnorn. | at work, DUt the problem ts too deep | not make out avenue and ast Jefferson former jolted along| scnwab sailed for Hurope th 0 | ot oem. On Saturday morning the| ‘The Japanese, who goes by the un- Rireot ba) Theoret ain Me mplicity in lumber| ing, He sald, Fagen. “The Hoo-Hoo unitorm of| forin an EE ik and white cambric, with the| stinply arched- backed Ting-tafled cat vn. He Tiny Uisblayed, was more than ef Willlame @ Clark are.prepar- ing for a handaome summer residence for Capt. Kinney at @ Brighton Beach. joard of public work# will take the | p Je name of Takejiro Sugt in hand and, if posible in his petition to the board olve tt ra whole day the clerks | expressed himself in this manner snneoted with th a een | = “T wish you to permit my appl ndeavoring It| cate as follow. In the 0 an. | 0d means, but this afternoon they an- large my, ereer than ¢' so that! was Bi Rsk ARSE aS Yewton, drown: at Friday night, |@ Butterworth's | 6@@! 4 that he was D 4, also that he no he would return. n Green lake ould not say identified at Ip ie uade Jabour’s tinaelied elephant w We, the jury, find that the deceased boy, Myron W. McLaughlin came » Siceeceiodtbbccihesesaééus in the Troy hotel on Fir his w Tho solution arrived at is |alive, and had not been divorced from G. W. Anderson of Fremont + [Ported to the police yesterday that | enue West was robbe: SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY At Last Comes a Verdict That Will Cause Obstinate Officials | | to his death near the curve at Fremont by being struck with the fender and the car passing over him, and we also exonerate the motorman, Fairfield, and we attach blame to the street car company for using de- THOMAS HOOD, foreman, V. STEIN, C. L. SPORE, i alike. mn. | ‘ewitehes and rail joint| current from the jualmie Falis | that he wants to enlarge his area. /him. The woman who les dead be along that division. electric plant without warning to the | Area in his transiation cane hie side, Mra. Dayton says. not the intimation te workmen | workmen, but as to how the mistake | car reaponde with “areer. woman she knew to be married to jhim. Newton is & printer by trade gnd has worked In Brooklyn, San ah. His people, a very renpec table fam~ re E at ete, 109 Second Ave, South Telephone Main 565 CLATTLE STA ‘They Embracing © Large Variety tor Hand and Windmill Use, for Deep and Shallow Wells, both drilled and open. and double acting. A large and Complete Assortment of Hand and Power Rotary and Piston Crank Force Pumps for Creamery and General Use. Also complete lines of fered Pamps, Cylinders, Drive Drive Caps and Pump Fittiogs, (Abarat PARADE Hats Cleaned, Blocked end Retrimmed WEATHER FORSECAGT. - th Tonight and Friday fresh south to west winds. nd vicinity There Isn’t Any Use Paying a tailor $30 or $40 for a Suit when you can buy j good for $25-—save that Our Suits have the same mater ial, the styles that are worn by best dressers, and patterns tha at favorites in the The makers of these lotion are country: are the the best in the tailor can make better, made a Suit wear, jacks. ADAMS & BLANCHARD 719 Second Ave., Hinckley Bik. te LEADER TM Second Avenue The Great Carnival Sale [Is Booming ! We are meeting hundreds of strangers every day, and that means hundreds of new customers, for whem you trade here once, you trade here always. Just arrived the largest pur- = chase of Pur Ruffs of any house tn the state. contain an | Both single THE LARGEST STOVE HOUGE IN THE WORTHWEOT, HATS AND CAPS SEATTLE HAT FACTORY 1111 SECOND AVENUE The Next PARADE Starts at J. J. HAGGERTY’S FINE LIQUOR STORE Dares to Print the News # A # collar and button holes hair lined fronts that keep their shape, Italian serge lining, and all the little details that make Prices on these Suits run from $10 to $25 Better look in our show win- dow and see some of the new Fall Suits—they’re cracker- PRESCRIPTIONS You are welcome to go behind our Prescription case and see yours pre- We tive YOU WHAT THE Doc- TOR WANTS YOU TO HAVE. ‘Open all night, ‘phone, Main 25. Stewart & Holmes Drug “Cirnivat Gale of New "Jackets Qh, the same order an the ture a re wariple tine, Hae. not hurt & ern «manufacturer's com- | as you know hott panicle fete sample Itne, bought at 60 cents on the dollar, and no two | This sale will start to- morrow and you Will be able to buy a beautiful fur at exactly the manufacturers cost. Come early and get first choice. rewular price. The entire lot, 300 in allt woot on sais tomerros. eee OB Telephone Main 565 109 Second Ave. South Only Paper tn Seattle That 25 CENTS A MONTH Money ToLoan on city real estate, improved and un- improved, and on farms and timber lands. We Write Fire Insurance Herbert S. Upper 12 and 13 Beheuverman bieck, First Avenue and Cherry Street LION CLOTHING HOUSE -OUR-- Bold from Sic to $1.00—Special for Friday only— RT. SHANNON GROCERY CO. Incorperacnt. ‘There are about 50 Sults left from our $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 lines. We have made one price on the lot= $2.75 Nearly ail siges up to 15 years. OVERALLS Friday only, pate yielding 3,000,000 to the quar. ter and Cruiser will ace company locators. This timber is more valuable than cedar, Behrens, Klement & Mahoney, ia New Yori block. n buying articles advertised im aus paper, speak of the Star,