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THE STORY OF THE WHITE BLAVE ON ‘e,\ 5 OF THIS 188UE SEATTI WASHINGTON, eee: AUGUST 1, ALL THE NEWS THAT'S RELIABLE WILL BE FOUND IN THE STAR. The Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest _ IGHT EDITION, a Doflar Mark Worshipers Who Misrepre| OVER THE SNOW-FIELDS TO GAMP MUR sent City in Municipal Affairs Admit) With Disgusting Frankness That They Are Against New Street Railway) yeaa 1905 tar Uncle Sam Should Never THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL THAT'S THE STAR IN A NUTSE VOL. 7. NO. 134 'Pin-Headed Poltroons in City Council Lick Jakey Furth’s Boots When He Snaps His Big Whip! HELL The Only Paper in f£eatile That Dares to Print the News. PER MONTH 25 CENTS Dream of “World Power” ! PRESIDENT GEORGE BAER, OF THE ANTHRACITE COAL TRUST, 5 . . jthe ¢ len ate city about Bi be | SAYS THAT THE UNITED 8TATES HAS TOO MUCH TO DO AT jing steamers carried “many pas HOME TO CHERISH IDEAS OF IMPERIALISM — BAER DIS- ger | é Kneed Council Members Has Onl One: | CUSSE8 LAWSON AND THE EQUITABLE SCANDAL The White Star Jiner Ohio left} Nome about midnight of July 27] eenngid . With 160 Paamengers On DOMrd BO | et hk wk ee eR tt te tt X anation. ding to # cablegram recelved| * heres ficern of the company. Bhe| ® TABLOID TALK WITH “DIVINE RIGHT” BAER. * expected to arrive Friday morn-| # Unele Sam should mind hs own business. He has too * ——————- jing. The report stated that storms|*® much te do at home to yearn or world power * THE SHAME OF ST. LOUIS IS REPEATED WITH ALL ITS | bed delayed: the voese! in walsed: | % Higher integrity among ir dustrial managements is the les- # 1 | ing. *® #0n of the Equitable row ra 4 NAUSEATING STORY OF GREED AND UTTER DISREGARD * Lawson may scare women and non-investers. Substantial ‘ OF HONOR OR DECENCY | ‘The Iyo Maru, of the Japan Mait| * business interests pay no attertion to him, He represents & i | | Steamship company, will sail W le Y * ‘ . 2 | oung men of natural capacity cheap at any price. * @ | Beeday ming fer Japan. ne | “The condition of the laboring man tter th be * Bt RRR ERT Re | Will carry constésrabio cargo, BUtly fore, Wr ese saben sibsapeiiovS- i b 4 * (BY NAN BYXBEE.) keep out the Intense luring the) with#}the puckering ings pulled | will have only about 12 passengers, | 4 ainsi ad alicia ee Of dieoter s TF encusatn to Mew feet Ces * y night that must be apent on the] tigh@e there was much chattering| This is not the time of the yea al ep = ef appertunhty the sects bes ever # Franchise in latest frame-up— Mayor Ballinger unciimen #& | 08 the upward trudge from Part | bare stant rock that, jutting up out| of tegth all through the night. When | for tourist travel to the Orient 3 4 i * Gill, Bowen, Cricht Murphy, & the summit of Mt] of glacier ice and snow, affords the) the guide's call, “ALL, © PI" rar i * Rude. wbinden, Con- * early seven miles | only place to wicep. I { thin] out pgutnet the frozen mountain | | PORARARHOAAEAAESESERSEEREEREYESE { * way, Bi enjamir * to be coy 1, aid) piece that Prof, Charles Landes, of | side; gt daybreak, there were many se 2 Sti! Firm Counctim je and Johnston * the the | the University of Washington, sald: | whe Ber once, felt glad to forsake} i #& Reasons for Sudden Flip-flop— Pressur Seattle Electric ® t Not one genuine wink of sleep is| thetededs Two of the women, din Geo. F. Baer, president of the|answered this letter, which was ‘ 4 « ja t 6a alto be had. You have to ‘double up'| couptmed and half-frosen, gave up| Reading Railroad company and ly confidential, and stated that ® Excuse Propored & | steepness th pu "tl with a partner to keep from freee-| thediimb at Cantp Muir, a when | president of the Anthracite Coal | were true that we operators h tn 1984 % [formidable grade in | ing. ‘ through ht | theising of 27 filed on up towards |" does not wear horns! ® Up Against it J. A. Moore Giiman ee © ts like a cylinder trying to Im-| Giteg@itar, they were left #itting us The Star man wasn't quite sure WARDS OF GOD ALMIGHTY * & | auarter of « mulle D-| partiatly Keep all sides next to the! inaiiielt sleeping-bags, their heads | anth Mr. Baer had settled comfort ndueting our business, we were RRR RARE clgh ee’ ; the other fellow for the little warmth] comifally sticking ut and their jably down on a divan at the Hotel) willing to accept the stewardship linear distance of ten feet jhe can impart | facum wistful. ‘Two hours later, to] | Washington on ‘Tuesday morning | and do our duty as we saw it. <n an The picture shows the file of 39], TH Masamas found that Profes- | eagpmpathe blistering sun, they were, Jacob Wisner, 65, of G9 Fifth and laid his hat on @ chair beside| “The young man evidently so 4 —_— por Landen was correct, and al-| compelled to make their own way {avenue northwest, was instantly | Sim pleased to receive the letter that is ‘The council has turned a com-, the franchise that are of far more| Maxamas slarting up the ar aac wearing to Ded /SGMEEED cntnp, tobogpensing Gown Willed 6e Temmiag Fite ee hear the| Painted in all the smirching col-| for a large sum of money he betray- 4 Plete flip-flop and lined in solid | vital importance to the city for Camp Muir, where there in nol att thet thes, even to theie| theedpur-mile slope in tin warh- | cemetery north of Ballard by falling /°°S f Vituperation during the great | ed my confidence and so'd the letter . a Phalanx against the Moore-Giiman| The mayorin a worthy attempt|fuel for campfire and the fecotest | spiked were chucked nila pe to save wear-and-tear oP | to the be bas a a Se-foot ptm ‘96 coal strike of 1902, the memory of|to a New York paper, whieh placed i Seach. to look at the matter fairly and to|of cider-down sleeping-bage cannot! into the warmest sleesig-bags, | thei bloomers 4 | what his enemies said be was still | its ow: 4 te } a | He waa aitting on a board and 5 own interpretation on what! said. , The change of heart shown by |do his duty, has gove off on a tan- ent inwerdd tx: the. weak Oe. he sin the minds of most news-| The ‘divine right’ part of it was ‘ several of the councilmen has been | gent, and inatead of looking at the | "°°" i brother-in-law when the rope broke. | PAB readers, |pure fake and bosh, but the title . manifestly embarrassing to them. It| proposition from a sane point of Bea Mleetrie company, | the event of conn which inf Mt company in order to obtain) Nearly every bope in his body was|, But Mr. Baer is a genial, pordial. | elung to me throughout the strike.”* (has put them in a poor light with | view, has shot off among the stars, | P: y the mary igee | probate . company | the#@vantage of the longer term of | tow No funeral arrangements kindly-eyed and) father handsome! Asked what the ideal relation be- B their constituents, but it was ubso-|He has stuffed himself with tate| Bowen—I wouldn't consent to] might transfer all its interest to the the Moore franchise at. —_— tween capital ) wutety neceasary that they might|magaaine — literature regarding | Moore # propomit It would be too | ‘eae been made. hear ale ee and labor was, Mr, 3 maintain their standing with the Se. | franchises and l* as full of high-}Mmveh like robbing the city. It looks | . Farnkly * a attle Electric company |flown theories ax a high school) Pretty good on its face, but # | PR RR | not poste pb Inaeprig pp —_ i ‘The Star ts betraying no confi-| graduate. Unfortunately he han been |!t carefully and find that | * *! a ; - SET — Geniceewhen it states that a majority | uneble to apply them to the arro-| there's a joker tr Moore admits | * (GIN and Mullen clawnea at ¥] I seontinc tadigntain a oe in our i Of the counciimen have from the ariclous monopoly that|that the system will be making a % De meeting of the council, * Se aeaa Gaet shea ginning been looking ouly for an © all street car patrons | Met profit of something Hike $3,000,- | # Mondey night. Incidentally & a yr “ai 2 }000 tn 1934, That means that the @ Gil sok occasion to e | Great lesson of the Equitable euse to oppose the franchise for ta a to coll the # | scandal is that hereafter there must Competitive street car system, mayor's idea is that Moore|clty would have to pay $37,600,000 ly editor of an evening paper, * . The chance came a week ‘ago,| and Gilman should be given either|for it. Tht When Moore |e who bad previously referred to ® HN dhey goth fu 3 og bearer when Mayor Ballinger announced |a short franchise or a very long one. | Offers to capitalize 5 basin of 4 ® him & “degenerate” and |® \tions. ‘The public ha og a. that he, also, was opposed to the If a franchise such as the Seattle | Per cent it looks low, but as a mat : | other uncomplimentary appel- \® WHOLESOMEI Y AWAKEN franchise. ‘The lawmakers had been | Electric company’s is granted. |ter of fact had he offered to Sede poeta re ate: some F hh aero ne “| # Intions an drunken hop- to the mal-administration of poe fn a state of feverish anxiety. They| which is practically a contract, he | tallee 5 per « tustead ™ equarrag - _ Ne enw pi Gecaine | @ Peed.” thus “getting even” it conden’ Tie — - Thad practically driven Gilman from | thinks it shoutd be short, so that | Per he city 1 wet the | insane persons and convicted crim! y en O88 of them bit a fa-| * With the democratic publicist. # |have now leerned that they must nreasonable de-| the can get ow r nder | wy twice as cheap, that i» for The trouble came ove i. ccs ener, cere tenes Sere Fer eaeey wt eraeeees, Gun tens the percentage taken from county! gee half off a passenger's hand,|% 7” ate nen eeer ae & not use the funds entrusted to thelr mands, but Moore had stood for |soon ax possib) m tong fran-| $8760.00. a attary | the Woman officer was compelied to the keeping for the advancement of aay : every obstruction which they had|chise is granted he would reserve to] the more the city 5 those in beck to the county jail for) # Rainier sewer, ¢ ting. * personal interests. The investiga. ‘proposes. |the city the privilege of regulating} Zbinden—The proposition ked : yo He said that the contractor, ® ~~. “ : fc only point left to quibble over | fares, ete, whenever the municipal-| 00d to me at first, but upon more more and more | Ream “ & F. MeCletian, was not entitied # tion of the Special comsntttes shows ¢ Th yp to qi d ' : ’ ain sending Tt have Sound the state. Tuiputy Sheriff A. McKinnea hur) 4 yoo . that there is nothing wrong with ; - ratio ee aan: 19 - é che t pe my i tee aivlinat Gapees lures the cite te pay | Another instance of the fallacy | rledito the depot and relieved the) 4 rape er wee yee a 3 the Investments of the Equitable. the xystem to the city for haif its|in 1934 ow a basis of one-half of a| too much royalt the franchise [OC this law was afforded Monday. feméle officer of Mary Neary. the! \ Gincneation of m little hot * Swen eee eee when, after several hours delay,|eidetiy unforunate who had done} and the possible percentage of loss . market value. appeared s0 reason P ization 4 per cent on the | «ives & woman officer arrived from) the iting, Harriett Harbridge, tb ® the rolls were approved. * to policy holders is very small in« able, however, that the councilmen | net earnings he regards ng | _Crichte n't ything | sieilacoum-to. take charge of | ottyele patient was with some diffi * al | deed.” ry geese pe sinaryiadion (rege clhons pbegianen y~Snaganevccib wads Aredhprets Pde et Nance he | intiane women and escort them toj}culig taken rafely through to] PF PERSE RE SREY eH! | “How do people of the east re- Be vote aauiaat & woul® Rave been jcase would be paying seunet hing ee peng he Rr . asylum. Both women had|Stalipeoom, and Tuesday morning! | |gard Lawson and his frenginess?* ; political suicide. ‘They themselves | ithe value of a franchise It. gives |reanonable, He can't oxi Mm to leiven Jailer and his aseist-|the Wothan officer returned for the) #¥¥# eR eM EM ER ee | was the next question put to Baer. were unabie to repress their aston- | away give away. He| ots plenty to do during the sev-|chagge she bad been compelled to} * * EO. £ 2 Baer’s eyes flashed and a look of te t t that rn hasn't of str ine t na 1K CLE. ‘ GEO, ©. BAER y and a shment at the liberality of the offer he fa h business men re- a e ‘| - t 1 Ait behind \* BANK CLEARING * _ " ‘They admitted that the urd Moo: ofte ” anonabie eon Lake and Fr t eral ho ay im the jail, and * hin + ee 190 ? President Anthracite Coal Tr porns contempt stole across his 2 ih rd han cage = Sr ee ede at Oe ee | walle thee it was with some misgivings that} Upder the old Inw both patiants — 1, 19 $1217 * fa f ten on Th apenas agg aglow tag . any a i on bi the woman officer was allowed (o| would have been promptly taken|* August 1 - 16 * | man a pleasant voice and|, “1¥s0n,Lawson!"hesald. “Why, 3 pinoing tatewte “a stte tke ~ Ag ie enine take the two unfortunates away to faltacoom by local officers, and | * Incr pa, | Se Lawson stands for athing! Sub- afer “with th my lemttied to wae even ae mpany’s The woman officer succeeded in| wittpat solgurn in the county jail) * Year Te So Mrs. Baer, their dangh- |Stantial business men pay no at~ 5 e e m oh ie : two charges to the In-| wowfl have been placed in the care tr. Ben oe and oe tention to him. His hysteria has company. t « : . yot and into a car, but|of. the asylum within threo hours kee ERA AA RAE RAHAT! ek and teem pl gg Wg shaken the confidence of in- RAKKARA EERE RRO ERE REE | Mlle : t a permit the ure of | afte committment | | pose a party which arrived from the | ‘°*ters Gne tots. oa aioe * Sa | owe oan ; s _ East Monday night, on a tour]. * . “ ~ * The time has arrived for the citizens of Seattle—the victims ® | wrong to pa et ave te |throughout the West." After a day | 224 non-investors, but that’s all. # of the unspeakable street car monopoly that is a blight to the ® jor the franchise which give Jin Seattle the party goes to Port.|.,'48 to the opportunities for young # progress of the city—to take the Moore Gilman franchise appli * 1" we th ‘ land; from the fair a trip to Yel-|M oi ® cation for a competitive street railway into their own han * Sika: in Ghoe seein op he and lowstono park wi'l be made and|men, the industrial world stands 2 * Corporation Counsel jhoun has just handed an ® Ie t. They fa sons, Gomes | |then the party returns home. anxiously waiting for young men of $ # the city comptroller in which be holds that the charter 7” » lon ly t oo 6 . 29 It is Mr. Beer's first vacation | atural capacity adapted to the te ® be amended so that the tixens can vote on franchises, t * ve t h the coal strike was settled in| managerial and executive demands i *% has held that the plan of recalling coun on on petith a it ine y wrong to pay spring of 1903. of great industries. Such young a % be carried out. z * the t i ae pA “ Sait temned r was no doubt the most cor-|men are rare and we are always j e * Perhaps the latter plan might be invoked : in *® ‘ +h th ‘i ; . “are h man in America @ ¢ |Ppuxzled to know where to look for 2 % probable that a tar and her bee with a ride * |p 4 ndous industrial upheaval them, and they are snapped up in a 4 men out of town on a rail would be more pract * | 1 tt t - his uncompromising | ¥ink whenever they are found. # cious in the present emergency * | " ™ . in dealing with the min THEY ARE CHEAP AT ANY * The Star herewith publishes interviews with * | P ; zs ’ tah ers. He was held responsible, by SALARY # of the council, which reveal asto: ng facts t _who # I ’ 4 the men ntinans The marvelous industrial prog- # have not been following carefully the tc ous f -S . t a ¢ a of the at ress of this age is outrunning the ie ® franchise for the last nine months meats * | k the ning f r jn: M day, requiring |" rik TERE SUFFERIN devel of men fitted to place - ‘The interviews show that @ majority of the have * [uy ‘ ones pygmy an : ting and } t # summoned sufficient front to come out in opposition to the fran- # | oy ‘ bid ' pt (ad-found that she was ¢ th} 7 Meg reise ed the strike. I am an enthusiastic optimist *% chise; that only two e to express their a of it and * | ¢ I have ked t t i sink the E water. He called f fired re pond « Ay , The strike was called in May 1 believe the world is growing f& that the others have the unpa able audacity to say they don’t w® | ute bot Moore's pole arly] abe @was 80: tek! orn ¢ and affected the-whole an etter every day. The surface indi- # know anything about it i eh op. f t \ : * | righitoa reveal evel by 6 orcheck, | thracite region of Pennsylvania and cation of this is the general pros- * There isn't a man, wo hild in the city that does not # t t. Th ty ise t t or) The whip v n no. di of : : The miners demanded , Perity and well-being of the # want to see tho francish ted " ; ht eve ts . 1 and jefabing at tir = tart)“ * perators an advance in | Masse * The councilmen are ng the franchise to be popular. # | ; i. : ied ' " t nt All this industrial advancement ' j , oe * thet ‘ od | Ga led trip t * see ous in hours and h strial advan * To say that they have to the matter isa shame- w [oy i itiuty " » block of w a | Cem Alorh xt Frida t |b soghag vane eae * f th rt s not mean that the United : # ful excuse . | M ght t th arboard acock lato gern # WATERMELON ASTE * ri mor tes is to become a world power. * What's the matter =: : ® It t Hu e ed t de dume ter to rw ni f the Y pooh-|# LANL HIM IN JAIL * Rocsevelt tervened ope the day will never come * Are they imbeciles or grafter by | erath $ r arent onski high, sting wer ba mache oly k to le * fficulty. + settled |When we are a world power. Wo *~ lof tem he propo The new] The fir Snoqua t nk the They|% A tante f na may w/t The men secured an, have too much to do at home to RRR IEEE ee inid be a bile thing for the | hamtily + ae’ gasevatiod t, while filing } tate te 4 and ¥ a th * | incr 8. failed to se- |cherish imperialistic Ideas or yearn St wan while the solons were in m not be made for turning er ¥ pumping P t? n kers, membe f the|@t une t x » & cure recognition of the union for world power. thie awful predicament that Mayor | the system to their fortunate grand| Burnett—Moor te too much.| and rigt " mtally left a board (* t his posse {*| Mar during the strike Mr. The Star man was impressed with Ballinger announced his mingivings | childre half century f | He cannot expe y ay . 1 and th hing | nable jen * | Tiaer's life was threatened and, he the thought that if those who had about the offer and sent a ray of] and that the expenditu $2,000,. {such a big f Th hat|® f * like other mine operators, was con-,™maligned Baer so bitterly in the hope into their camp. They knew | 000 in ce xetlor id be | should it desire t ed to the oth t| ® tend t r & stantly under the surveillance of | past could have a friendly five-min~ {hat the mayor, unlike themselves, | of Immense tm ste b to the| Benjamin—I ! nd 1 her|#® 1 * guards ute chat with the man, they would had «good deal of the t of| city hy t res r port bn u t ' * ' *| It was at that time that Mr. Baer admit the honesty and sincerity of the public, and the same men who| portant even keel, Then the wate * a f the tin * was given the title, “Divine Right” his convictions, no matter how they, bed knifed him in Phe abhtiede at 6tne | pumped out of her hold * Y Folk is t 1 *| Baer. How he gained the title is/ might condemn his methods. flocKed to his support like 5 ts , r n be expr J “8 a * ' t t t *® best told in bis own words. He has a tremendous capacity of a; eset ya par) [ey ‘ roy a = = = lat M 1. we * 1 ived a long letter from the |o tion and construction, and courne, to grant a franch b t | Moor GH | Raith will carry a general cargo of |* ! fileh * ft » of our mine n which asily convinced that, as the at aaenty wéetn }—< 1 Jobnet | troigh 1 an eonmennent ot | f tt * \ sed at length the duty of n Chancellor” of the Coal trust, nn shat anybody wa vs i ‘ole and J } feel and a large consignn of} * : i 2 pei . wall ‘ s the man foc Sea ae : be explosive : the lett oe i Mayor Ballinger in horest | A f ' 1 w M4 1 8 ‘ x) i in the jnterview th They ex thermmel a j* 1 ' that he * , . G A WEATHE RFORECAST, HM vaclbocoy higect Gilt—t bh tb f The City of Puebla sailed early | #% for teh on Pirst near *& }mighty ha 1 " in whieh a mi ; . ; Tue morning for San Francieco, | # tr ate * hey Tonight and Wednesday, Partly 4 “ - h. 1 aver f any moon |e # >} x Light to Fresh West eBit he ov: t “od the Umatilla came in from'g kaka kK KAR we RR HH Ardship as b i i