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“Dent Worry, Weteh Us Gre The Now Store __ One Dollar or Twe Each Week Will De. Buy Parlor Furniture at the New Store Cash IGN OF GRAFTERS WHO GAME 'O POWER AS REFORMERS , later put in 87 more—before the w store stocks Are so complete and values so good that once a ff) eyes of the men, who were sent Ne makes a rial purchase they are always new store customers HOW THE SPOILS WERE APPORTIONED ON A BREAD AND [there to protect the sacred rights of ¢ of parlor furniturethis sample value SUTTER 8A the people. The ward leader and UTTE sis, several others were arrested } | One of the @n@irators turned CHAPTER L state's evidence, and confessed the (Mr, Pew In this article sketches | “line of talk” such as; “Vote this|truth. He and several others went the operation of Philadelphia) way, mister. You have nothing to|to state's prison system” and the means rp ye! gain or lose, and it means my job The ward leader, however, was | fasten the Vg ewe ool Sometimes tt wax merely a question | not convicted, Ma Wenver was| ae of e+ . Pry Rn Bg han [of ramming the necessary number | then district attorney, and it is sald | marked this carnival of plunder.) |f fraudulent ballots in th *\that he made a clear case againnt and taking the email! chance ¢ the man. But the ward leader went | By Marien E. Pew. ing to the penitentiary | tre while the others who were Statt Correspondence to the Beattle , “yy vans A severely a weak enough to confess or did not | tar ng henchmen and rewarded fealty. | have P primo PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 7—|'The latter was on a sort of “merit het WARD LEADEN WAS RE Students of American politics agree |aystem.” Money prizes wore some-|WARDED BY THE MACHINE that the politte ng now under | times offered to ward leaders w! WITH A MUNICIPAL POSITION. | fire in Philadelphia has established | would bring out the biggest majort-| HE IS IN THB KLECTION Bt for itself the record of being the ities when they were meeded, and|REAU, ONE OF HIS DUTIES I8 Most audacious clique of municipal | they, In turn, would give prises to|'TO INSPECT BALLOT BOXES plunderers tn Amerten Tammany ithe district workers who would | But this is only the peanut part Hall, under Tweed or Croker,/show the best results. This was |of the ereat system never approached this bresen or ] more of the bread and butter princ! Durham owes some of bis “suc ganization for systematized bood-/ ple, and it was in this way that | cess.” per ood de t, to Three-Plece Parior Se ling of public funda. Durham and his fellows have held | his pee: pots, sadn Se pete Consisting of divan, arm chair and reception Until Mayor John Weaver turned Philadelphia between the thumb! counsel. He has never put himself hair, frame of hand polished birch mahogany, has B) his back on Boss Durham and the |and forefinger of their organization. |on feeord 60 words us standing for y carved small claw feet, seats covered in Bi gang, and precipitated the present | Every district has been honeycomb anything, good, bad or indifferent effects of upholstery, tapestry and silks. 9) moral revolution, there had seem-|ed with this sort of corruption, and|He bac’ been the silent boss, like ice $35.00, reduced to $23.50 F ingly been no limit to their daring the political moles have grown fat Murphy, the present Tammany ‘ e exploits, Nothing was deemed im- | before the eyes of the people | bows, who te having great “success poaaible THEY WERE OPENLY ROBBING. |also Just now in the contracting ” After the gang leaders and their! A couple of years ago « ward | business confederates of the gas trust had leader needed 187 votes in the ballot Quay was bold enough to contend A decided that the public was really boxes of his dixtrict aroused, and that it would be pol the trust eas to proclaim arpose of declining to eas me optimists proclaimed as final the victory of the mayor and the people. But the great fight has really just begun Durham may retire as boss and a new machine leader will take his place. He will probably be hailed as a reformer. Some good people may believe it. Others will re- member how Durham came into his reat estate and will urge Mayor ‘Weaver and his associates on for real reform and honest government The sober-minded men of honor who are standing at the back of the mayor realize that now ts the ecru celal moment. They are working to keep alive that public interest which made possible the first vic tory, and they are standing ready to strike down the first new gang | head which comes from cover. The ramifications and wheels within wheels of this city's misgov- ernment under the gang rule have been one of the most remarkable examples of the wicked power of | commercial politl aat have ever been seen anywhere, The small ward boodler preyed |for revenue upon vice and crime, ickings from all bones for delivering the the gang called for ( 6 COR. SECOND ET Ye UNION STREET |MAKE A GOOD START IN LIFE let Five Acres at Echo Lake Form the Basis of : Your Future Wealth ca | and siong the Seattie-Everett Interurban, now bullt and in opera 4 past the Ballard city limits, is one of the most promising fields ‘Pr investment ever offered. Shrewd men are taking advantage of the @hance to buy property at $100 to $150 an acre that will unquestion- | PR worth twice that sum in a few months, | “! fifth division of the Echo Lake Garden Tracts ts now on sale. | has every possible advantage, being as attractive to the speculator i to the intending home builder. The soil is very rich, each tract pievel as a Moor, and by next October we are assured that Inter- | ‘When cars will be ramning to the land. votes when them. The big bosses found their ash payment of but $50 secures one of these tracts, the balance | graft mainly in city contracta. Of. the purchase price being payable at $10 per month. Every pur- | ficeholders were the dumbest of ts given an abstract with a written opinion of the title by | dummies g ruey A. BE. Hanford, the well-known expert. | THE PRESENT ORGANIZA Remomber, these tracts are having o quick sale, The first three di- | TION UNDER ISRABL W. DUR placed on the market two weeks ago. are sold ont, and you [| afford to delay. If you can’t visit the tracts, buy anyway. | ws p one for you. You know whether you can trust us or not. £ don’t know, ask any bank or business man tn Seattle. = We would prefer, however, to have you see the land, if possible, : buying. It takes but half aday. Go to Richmond Beach any on the 8:30 Great Northern. There Postmaster Holloway, agent, will show you the tracts. You can be back town by noon. some money with you to pay down. Come to this office for further particulars. aufords 202 and 203 New York Biock, HAM CAME INTO POWER AS A REFORM PARTY, PARADOXICAL AS THAT MAY SEEM OUT, AS THE PUBLIC THOUGHT, TO RECTIFY VERY SERIOUS | FAULTS WITH THE CIT: ~ Gov ERNMENT UNDER THE MAN AGEMENT OF THE PRECEDING GANG AT THAT TIME THE CREDULOUS PUBLIC HAILED IT AS THE “DAWNING OF A BET TER DAY | Getting his clutch on the city that was, Durham, an apt pupil of ‘Quay's, was bu lor tightening the screws. | much howling at times over obvious | schemes for boodling and criminal election practices, but somehow the | gang always came out on top. City contracts were gobbled up thia| bY members of the gang. The city Le {ing industry, resumed work morning af month. |who charged the jury, is on . hrey | Yast Improvements that there will Cessait_ Tetee Hamann! xe no chanes fer it to aatiety these bench. The jury adjourned unti)|claims, except by bonding or direct , ck- | this afternoon, owing to the absence | ‘a*ation. for many years. One of Pee jury, investigating the pack-| OY Aired States Attorney Morrison, |the Det theories of the gang was It is believed indictments will be|that “Today's tho day and tomor Great Northern Railway |returned when Morrison reaches |TOW Will take care of itself; let the y fathers contract for and receive city 4-trip tick to mu-jhere from Wasbington, where he Eire sane 0°50; te toe sonra, | wens to cokeul Attorney Geneva | benetite tor which the children can “ Yoodman con |Moody. Senator Cullom, who re-| Pay tomorrow. Spee of Woodman convention, | | Monty conferred with the president| THE LITTLE FELLOW'S SHARE RR Rc regarding the beot investigation,|; Boss Durham put his machine P MUSIC IN THE HOME. [called on Judge Humphrey this | Workers, from smallest to heads of SCHICAGO, June 7.—The federal morning. He denied his presence | departments, on a bread and butter has any bearing on tho beef cases.| basis when he got into power - es There are 42 wards in the city | ech ward has a leader, or ward AT THE THEATERS boss, who is directly responsible to Durham, or one of his first lieuten ants, Chas. Segre and Jas. P. Mac Nichol, Durham operated in close Raa ekhhhaeh eke ee | harmony with United Btates Sena #|tor Boles Penrose. It is very ad #|¥antageous, Durham found after Article in The Saturday Evening Post. Beverid i ¢ Couple to “Get a A couple or three weeks ago an by Senator Beveridge in the Post contained much good} to young folke who are “nest ” And one of the most im- * |® AMUSEMENTS TONIGIIT. THE M paragraphs was tha 1$ plik MAN FROM MEXIGO~ #/ jong experience with Quay, for to music in th ome, Hele ESCAPED FROM ‘Tie #| Municipal boss to have hin state, Pall ae - a be beesind 4 HAREM—Third Avenue. # | legislature and federal patronage in See Teune, poovte. |% SHAKESPEAREAN RECITAL ® | no way antagonistic to his plana sien to ¢ He regards|% POLITE VAUDEVILLE.—Star.@| The ward boss, usually a gutter M8 Me of the most profitable in-| %|snipe individual advanced to the| from a moral and an aes- | RHRRKHHKK KARA KR) moral standard of diamond shirt Standpoint that could be} a studs, rules his district strictly upon orders. It is he who has in formed the councilman how he should legislate. It was he who “tipped” the police as to what gam this city the D. &. Johnston Co.| ay bere people of Mm- Beginning with Wednesday night the Watson company will put on they |The Parish Priest” for the reat of y nominal) the week at the Seattle, The play no yught out- | bling hell to protect, what dive to on payments as low as six or|!# not, as might to inferred from) shield, who to harass and who to dollars a rr |{ts name, a religious play, but deals| favor.’ The ward boss got his pick _ if the bride has neither | with human events in asing Va-lings direct. The mere vicious his peer _ beattes ae aes riety of humor and sentiment district the greater his revenue Sim Bn | " All was easy for him except, pos ene ov Sorte Bsr By “Escaped from the Harem” ts|aibly, on election day. Ho had’ his music there is instontly|™&king @ special bit at the Third | orders” from tho boss. He must —rendered a manner|Avenue. It will continue through | geliver so many votes or such a ya ARG t i week majority. He'd do it all right il the finest +11, <a ,, | His henchmen, also working on the ee +. yt Of good) The new “whirlwind dancers” | bread and butter basis, went out to GMlekering, the Kimball Tha | Whose act was added to the Star|ene polling places. They put their Witt M. Cable, the 1b. 8. Johnaton| TAUdeville program Tuesday after-| ooerations on the bread and butter ae Brecial, and other good makes | 2000, are taking splendidly. The|asig. Sometimes {t was at. the Sold only at thia store present bill will continue until | pate of $2 a vote. Sometimes it was 00 always cor¢ y wel-| Monday afternoon. aining a vote from some citizen rome. . & D. S, Modern Woodmen of America. |xnown to be unpurchasable, on JOHNSTON C0. The Northern Pacitic has arrang-| , Gallery in the City for Gale! Htttie’s Leading Piano House, |¢4 for round trip rate of $69.70 tol won tor mule, $160.00 taker it nov +4 4 93 SECOND ave. Milwaukee and return. Tickets on|ritted up to x10. Phone Main 61 : Burke Buiiding. June 15th and 16th, eee Story of the Gang That IT SET| ca recess of nearly a| ¥8# forced #0 deeply into debt for | THE SEATTLE STAR—WE INESDAY, JUNE 7, 190 Plundered Philadelphia He couldn't | that {t is not robbery for a polit! get them honestly, and he did not clan to take commercial advantage nee fit to get them by feigning hon-|of knowledge gained in public of esty, But when the count was! fice made they were found tn the box. | It #0 happened that one of the! judges at that election booth wan! the secret representative of a pub (ie spirited Philadelphia newspaper The newspaper exposed the war Tweed boldly robbed in New York and made no ret of his methods. | Croker defied the public and got out of the country after he had nade his pile. Other bosses have operated on the leader, Upon the affidavit of (n penly defiant basis, but none as election Judge it was alleged that | “su comsfully” as the silent boss this leader put 100 fraudulent bal-’ the sly, cunning, illiterate, brutal lots in the box at one time, and bos of Philadelphia G. N. Conductors Will Be Just Lovely to Drummers Sil JIM HILL'S PASSENGER TRAFFIC MANAGER INSTRUCTS CON- DUCTORS TO TREAT TRAVELING MEN WITH UTMOST CoUR- TESY—"THEY'RE A GOOD THING,” BAYS WHITNEY Ey (By Dan Dean.) will-arrive on the scene and unbur- | nae den himself thusly “My dear str, will you kindly, at] “Ouse me, sah! your own conventence, allow me the|me de jhonor of glancing at your trans- | sah!” portation. I shall consider this “No, no, sah! Ah cannot accept personal favor, and assure you that dat quarter, aah! Ah considers it it will be appreciated not only by / t previlege to wait upon you myself, bat by Mr. Hi! and his as- | sah! jsoctates, as well as by Mr. Whit-) After which the train “butcher” ‘Cause me! Sie previlege ob dustin’ you, | ney and Mr. Btone. jmay stroll by, vending bis wares! “Ab, my dear sir! 1 thank you Note the honest youth's line ef | from the bottom of my heart! If, | talk: | at any time, we can be of sery-! }ice, call on us. Again I thank you!” In the future Great Northern con ductor# will adopt the above man “You, sir; I have clgare for which | I charge 15 cents each. But not for! out moment would I consider al-| lowing you to purchase one. | don’t! ner In addressing traveling men. | mind confiding to you, very conft- r. 1. Whitney, passenger traffic | dentially, that, as @ matter of fact manager of the Great Northern, has | they are genuine Stinkadoros, and | issued Instructions to conductors to cost us @ cent each. However, I be especially polite to commercial have some of my own private stock | travelers. In this letter, a copy of a half dozen of which allow me to j which has been recetved im Seattle, present to you with my compil- Mr. Whitney states that the knights | menta.” of the grip are a source of much| Then, above the whirr of the revenue to both the wenger and wheels and the .chug-chugging of freight departments, and should re- the engine ahead, will vibrate ceive more than ordinary courtesy. | through the car the shrill yotce of Hereafter, according to a Seattle the “brakie he yellw employe, a brakeman, when accost “S-e-a-t-t-l All out for 8-« a-t-t-lLe The traveling man will yawn and stretch, rub his eyes sleepily and | ing & “drummer,” thing like this A thousand pardons, sir. It | you will allow the interruption, I “a : | might presume to remark that the 1 What a lovely dream!” |next atop will be Seattle. Believe _ we | me, sir, I am deeply pained to so CHANGE OF TRAIN TIME | tranesgress upon your time, and with | on the Northern Pacific, commenc- will do so some | beat wishes, faithfully subscribe jing June 4th, Watch for many myself, your bumble servant!” | changes and additional trains, *** Whereupon the colored porter -——e~ — THE NORTHERN PACIFIC PRA RA | On Baturday, June ard, will place | ite new train, “The Puget Sound # | Limtted,” on inepection at Seattle * * “GENIAL JIM” BREWSTER LOSES PETS Depot. The train will be open from | “Teddy” and “Trixie,” the # | 7:30 p. m. to 9:80 p, m. eee | two little black French ———— |% poodies that carried away the le firet prize and the blue ribbon | # at the recent bench show, are Adams Will | % again missing. l® Deputy T rer “Jimmy” | & Brewster, owner of the pretty | ® pair of rare little bow-wows, is | ® heart broken. "Thies in the third th “Sell You ve they | Grape Nuts, 2 pkgs. for 25 i* b oe ee eee have been ato! fro me.” | maid he Wednesday morning. org, 2 pkas. for ......25¢@ |# “and I guess they are gone for Crespo, 8 pkgs. for é ® good thie time. They disap- Hotieyed Flakes, 3 pkgs. for ® peered three weeks ago, be b 2he oe Ce woe 09 lay Adams’ Best Baking Powder, ® from my home, 18 Pontium | 28 euates 25¢ and I have not been able to get ; a & They were such itvely jittle : < % chaps that I hated to keep them #/— Adams’ Java Blend Coffee & chained, and they were so amt | “* 2he | able they would follow anyone #/[E 3 cakes Emerald Soap ..10¢ | ® who petted them. 8 cakes Emerald Soap .. 25¢ } Best Washington Creamery (eR REE Butter Qe A party of 200 Nebraska lumber men left Omaha Tuesday night for the Portland exposition. They will reach here June 11 .and will also be in the city June 13, Local Jum-| |bermen have made elaborate ar rangementa for thelr reception There will be an excursion to the} Port Biakeley mille and Bremerton end automobile rides over the city. | | COWLES, Isle of Wight, June 7 |The Atlantic, Apache, Utowana and Valhalla have been entered in a race from Dover to Heligoland, An other cup i offered by the kaiser. | They will start June 17. TEA & COFFEE CO. 021 SECOND AVENUE, Near Madison Btreet. BATAVIA HAT ou made up in na TURBANS, SAL TOMMY ATKI black, natural,» trimmed with rt ers, mont fash ticular, values u English Batiste, a t desirable color ¢ this season f window display It’s time them. Note our spe mocks are better « NIC bordered with wi cial tomorrow Millinery Two Splendid Specials for Thursda RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. WASH G FANCY MOHAIRS Our whole stock of high s Fancy & 1 Mohair & and patterns, Regular $1.26, $1 and $1.76 a yard. 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