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| + voU WILL FIND WHAT YOU WANT To KNOW TERSELY TOLD EVERY DAY IN THE STAR The Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest ft EDITION Star’s Review of “Ann La Mont”’ Will Result in a Complete Reconstruction of Play oS NANG UGLY FLORENCE ROBERTS EMPHATICALLY DECLARES WILL NOT GO EAST IN THE PLAY UNLESS IT ALONG THE LINES SUGGESTED BY THIS NEWSPAPER— SHE DISCUSSES THE PLAY'S MANY WEAKNESSES Se eR HH! Matio reviewer in hie critique of the] o * | play | % “By lengthening and strength- #| ‘The above two paragraphs quoted] H ening the third act and ending *! from ‘The Star's review the| PRICE, Utah, Oct. 25.—Word has # the piece there, it would have ®/ basis for the reconstruction of cached that the Indians are % been a masterpiece. As it is * play in an ugly mood on Uintah ree ® now it is a monstrosity * All tts melodramatice will be elim.|ervation, Saturday a drunken Ute % “The fourth act is without # hated: the t bent gth.| endeavored to shoot up the new ® question one of the most ins ® ened and strength ' THE} town of Myton, He aimed at W, T Wcongrucus, impossible and * PLAY WILL END THERE, just.as| Muse, who promptly shot the In ® ridiculous absurdities that has ® The Star suid {t ahould dian through the heart. A number ever been perpetrated on a ®) Furthermore, Florence Roberta, [Of Youmg bucks swooped down. on ® legitimate stage, introducing “* although she does not admit tt, has| the town, but were headed off by % probably more faults in dra- * emphatically deciared that she witt|® troop of cavatry from Fort Dw # matic construction than could #| not go east with the play chesne Muse was gitarded by sot % be found in half a dozen plays ® is reconstructed and that dlers and was finally handed over ® now on tour in the country.”"— ® pot invade territory whe to the sheriff at Heber City % From Monday's Star. * i known with the play in its present)» ya Geaaeaeeeaake® oa ® | form - CLISE ACCEPTS * eT POSS FEH HESS) The me *& Mayor Ballinger Wednesday # “Ann Lamont,” the play tn which} \rectrone we pératig recslves 0 letter tyes te Florence Roberts is now appearing | 4.) whens 22, ee ee be Be ree St the Grand opera house, will be! joing produced. Hott ing to the east, accepting the # Feconstructed identically along t * ma appointment to suc Hines suggested by The Star's dre (Continued on Page Seven.) * W. Saunders, resig 4 few “haten) a Siren | oe) rw Ee|! ‘skavven BLECTRIC Co, & co TH Lucey’ L DONT nave 1 ROE IN Ou SIMELT CARS " Roosev It Lambasts Davis perpetrator of an abhorrent crime by the commission of another crime saying: just as abhorrent, debases himself spoke of the hideous erime| to the level of the brute who com ited by members of the col-| mitted the first crime. We owe it, | race. No one abhors this more | governor, to ourselves, to the com- | ¥ do, and any such creature| munity in which we live, and to the | be ruthlessly hunted down | nation, that the lynch law be put | hed to the full extent of | down. | rived in ballast from Honolulu leet evening All Kinds of Figures NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—MeClintock was recalled this morning. He gave jong explanation in defense of the “deferred dividend” system of ineurance, and said Fhe crowd seemed to agree with | “The surplus is not, as most ap- inter-| the president, and a great wave of bard 3 a os » Ra but he! applause broke forth and swept |» ut a reserve from the in: over the field. The grandstand fell gy ethene) : owt noise subsided, he sald | Just a8 the president finished; no | Meciintock vathods of compatie for the side of the white|one was hurt. The drop to the | Sivideuda af ooo ter poor a The man who punishes the! ground was only about three feet. . | his own explanation, which he « he thought “made clear.” ‘e Clerk Mistaken For a Traveling Millionaire ROCK, Brk., Oct. 25.-- tt Roosevelt answered Gov ‘outburst of cheering the president here, ‘up his clenched fist for silence it launched into a long explanation of why. dividends decreased instead of increasing, and rend lista of fig ures which staggered the audienge. but seemed to satisfy himself, if no one elae. The committee adjourned to No vember 8%, when Hyde will be the a ©. Shrader, qpuncil committee) Monday the committee clerk re-| first witness sen lette iry he only man in|celved a dozen letters from jewe ts probably only man in| houses, fur houses, trunk factories| JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 25 that 4 ‘t want pee lions last | 4nd automobile dealera, expressing During the c of thete anxiety to furnish him with Insurance company appeared this eas become so alarming that he is | srw faint, ax he read them one by |miasioner Vandiver to _ protest on fleeing from’ his affice | one, but was able to go home. | against Vandiver's proposed ouster a tew days. | Tuesday the trouble began {n/| proceedings against the New York turday morning he received | earnest Agents of the firms began | Life. letters from the White | to eall upon Shrader. At first} and other steamship com- | Shrader rece them with blushes, stating that they understood | Dut. a# they kept coming, it grew | he was about to take a trip to|Monotonous. And the letters are ind they would be pleased | still pouring in upon him. He does | ‘a , not read them any more—simpl: | if he would take their Imes. Shrad- Swelled up like a balloon, Then | go'd chill ran down his back, as femembered that he would have | Borrow two bits to buy a lunch. | drops them in the wastebasket And now Shrader |s beginning pA think it’s all a joke. It was nice | for a while to be taken for a man of millions, but the committee clerk COUNTRY wrot! thy reply to the| } i S Tacgtcred stating that |! beginning to think it fen't #0). eet euRG, oct 26— Of pressing business en-| ™uch fun after all. ‘Workingmen tffle afternoon voted a nts, he would not be able to/ ee Day general strike to tle up all industry, Greece this winter, as he in VICTORIA, B. ©, Oct. 25.—The ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 25.— Prince Hilkoff hag submitted a re- , but that he would be glad| American trading schooner Alice, take the matter up with them! Captain Johnson, arrived here today | spring, when he expected to|from Nome. She has a small cargo tore leisure. jot furs which will be marketed’ But that was cot tt md. On! here. The Wrench bark Buffon ar- to meet with the czar to discuss the atrike, He Attorneys for thé New York Life} I of the empire | HUBBY HAS A RI Judge Yakey ¢ the people of the ton We him in to Amy Brown hard rap at ata Washing rnin ruling a che Inesday 1 rding to denying ro he m made of divore John P ate wh againat ade a at at artling were granted wu litions thin « of the far ed non and thin oe them wufficient ws the he sald f the Such ponditions does not for deem grounds divor Applying given In | Yakey’s rulis husbands tr this to the ording to J fourths te ne to milk the fe the lage « the ex the « three he at t only t their wi wome the ir f the milkt while they 4: to kill of the husbands to ruling apt to eo angry and kick tn the knocking panel and uch t fourths cording hos en ater them; three thie re kite rows the re thr hole in the door se made, delivering | la profane vulaar torrent af abuse to the shrinking wife within SOLONS ARE TRYING TO BUNCO TAXPAYERS THAT 18 CLAIM MADE BY PARK THAT PARK BOND ISSUE W ISSUE The howl which city officials have raised about the imperative need of a big bond issue for a new trunk sewer ie merely an attempt on thelr part to befuddie the public and kill off the proposed park bond Insue ording to the park com- misstoners. Park bonds and sewer bonds have nothing to do with each other, and the members of the counell are fully aware of this fact, tt in clalen ed, but they are trying to create the impression that the ineuing « the park bond will prevent the tx suing of the sewer bonds, which are more imperative. ‘The park board members point out that as far as the sewer bonds are concerned it makes so differ. ence whether the city taumen $10. 690 oF $10,000,000 of park bonds. Under the state law the limit of bonded Indebtedness that may be as sumed by cities of the first clase is divided Into two classes. Taking the assessed valuation of the prop- erty of the city as a basia, 5 per cent of the amount fs the maximum amount of bonds that can be inued for general purposes, and the same percentage of (he aaseased valoation te the Hmit of water, light and sew er bond indebtedness. The assessed valuation at the present time is now $69,670,031. Five per cent of that amount in $3,483,501, which repre sents the maximam amount of the lbonds that can be fasued for gen eral purposes, if the city were Gee lof such debta, The same amount | could be issued for water, light and sewers, TELEGRAM FROM LOS ANGELE MILLS OF SEATTLE CONGRA GRESSMAN ON ATTITUDE T BUT LOCAL FIRM DENIES IT | THEY SAY SANTA ROSA,Cal., Oct Con- gresaman McKinlay has received a | letter from the Centennial mill, one jof the largest milling concerns on the Pacific coast, located at Seattle, thanking him for being largely In strumental in Lifting the Chinese boycott of American goods, and saying that through bis efforts the firm, which is a large exporter, will again do business with Chinese | merchants, When McKinlay was in Hongkong with the Taft party } they w made guests of honor at | a banquet given by 12 of the wealth | feat Ch merchants nese The merchant told him that they had no complaint with the exciu- sion law as It stands, but wante to have It fixed #o that Chi chants, on landing in Amerie give bond if there was any tion as to their right to enter Kinley offered to arrange an intro- duction with Taft if the merchants would agree to call off the boycott Taft heard the n chants, and it is apparent some order has been sent out since, for the boycott has been stopped r- , could au Mc President Thompson, of the Cen- tennial Flour mills, was asked con- cerning the above dispatch, and de nied that he had written a congrat- ulatory letter to Congressman Me~ Kinlay. “We did send a tfegram to Pres- ident Roosevelt some two months by | The Seattle Star SDAY, OCTOBE GHT TO KICK IN THE KITCHEN DOOR, SAYS JUDGE the com keep major pi nd their fourths of the under this pelled to ply the ern, to furnish the of support for themselves hildren, while thelr spouses tnter | mittently aesist them in the duty inging up thelr off-spring nal's a pretty hard knock on people of Washington,” nald At three wives in atate NO wew @PAPER IN SEATTLE HAS AS CLEVER A CORPS OF SPECIAL WRITERS IN THE BIG CITIES OF THE COUNTRY AS THE STAR The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL NO 207 SEATTLE PATIENT CLUBBED 10 DEATH ‘The Stard Henry Wil of ipecial & INMATE OF STEILACOOM AGYL UM KILLS MA, Oct HENRY WILLIAMS BECAUSE LATTER BUMPED INTO HIM—BOTH WERE COM» TAC wey FR. D. Ogden, w had engi- | Mame, 99, of Seattle, an emate ered the case of the wife in the | the tnaane asylum at Stetiac m ‘ 1, for one, resent it, and thin| Was clubbed to death on Wednes MITTED FROM THIS CITY | very afternoon I am going to file) @4y by another tnmate, | ja new complaint for my elent, | John 40, also of Seattle Cc - There were ugly mat tn this Both men were mopping the Moor Ase Which the Wife wax generous| Of their ward when Williams ac-| out on the floor (8 wan at once placed ig not to bring up against her husband nta'ly bumped into Sherland. The act was #0 ¢ xe that | fron The coroner of this esunal Bhe thought that threats to kill and | Sherland, who is a veritable fiend | the attendants in tan | @ue woditiel und went'at enenae the Kibking in of doors 1 fatlure| When aroused, immediately at-| were unaware of the horrible deed, | the scene lio support a wife and sick children | (@cked Williams with his mop and,/ until they found W is’ brains| Both men were inmates of the ought ‘to « nda enough for a knocking him down, beat his brains | oozing out on the floor ward for the violently insane. ivores, but it seeme that Judas | Yakey doen not agree Attorney Hi Gill wae attorney for the defeuda: who is well known in} evo YO Nast Use Our Gas tried ter M4 y and two grown] daughters and a grown son | SHEED, Asch fentitying as to the| bad temper of their father and the! A) weeks | mained pinmended for never | BOARD MEMBERS, WHO STATE | ILL NOT HAMPER SEWER BOND But the city has already issued 2,308,980 of bonded and floating genera) debt, wo that the margin | left far such purposes in only $1 114,681, Its water, sewer and light | debt i $2,525,000, leaving a margin of $946,501.6 | The city, therefore, can jasue | $948,601.65 of bond for sewers, but | bo aiire. The amount of bonds which Jt issues for parks, or gen eral purposes, makes no difference, as far as the sewers are concerned. | The etty can still ingue $1,114,621.55 | of bende for parks and other gen eral purposes, but even if it could inane $10,000,000 of such bonds, it would make no difference in the amount of sewer bonds that could be issued. The issuing of $500,000 of park honda would reduce the amount of | general bonds which the city would stihl be able to tesue to $614,621.55, whieh wou'd be more than enough to build a city hall. The park board members potnt out, however, that.) although the park inaue would 1 dnee the margin of general indebt-| edness, it would not increase the) taxes. The only burden would be| the $20,000 annual interest on the |bonds, which would be paid out of the sum raised by taxation for park purpowes, and the increased valua- tion accruing to land on account of the parks and boulevards provided, would more than make up for that amount. ‘The park board members admit} that sewers in many parts of the city are badly needed, but they do not see what that has to do with the park bond iasue. WHO WROTE THE LETTER? S SAYS THAT CENTENNIAL TULATES CALIFORNIA CON- OWARD CHINESE BOYCOTT, —TRADE NOT PICKING UP, ago.” said he, “but we have not received an answer, with the ex- ception of a communication from the #tnte department, stating that the attention of the president would be called to it “In our ram to the presi- dent we demanded that some action be taken by the government in lift ing the boyeott against American goods raised by the Chinese, and our action was endorsed and ap- plautiéd by the majority of the man ufacturers of Seattle. "Jt is not true that trade with Hongkong has again picked up, at lenst with Seattle firms. We have not shipped anything to speak of for the last three months, and things look very blue for our trade with Hongkong and China fn gen eral, unless this boycott is lifted, and lifted quickly, too.” Quarantine Off ORLEANS, Oct, 25,-—The cw quarantine has been withdrawn, ex- |neas with the municipal company Threats to sue several of thelr for- | ANGERED BECAUSE ITS PATRO NS ARE mer patrons of the lighting depart: | ment of the Seattle Electric | MUNICIPAL LIGHTING STANDARD, ny have quite recently been made | n two instances. The names of | the parties thus bulldozed are with neld for obvious reasons but will be | published at the right time FLOCKING TO THE SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY THREATENS SUIT AGAINST FORMER CONSUMERS com little chance of winning the suits, and sald also that he “wouldn't say Both men are prominent in pro-| but that the strongest fight in yoars| saything if he did know anything femional and business circles in Se-| Would be made, and that the sults| of the case. aitle. would in a sense be test cases When the manager of the lights | And both men declare they will| whereby other overridden patrons|ing department of the Seattle Elec fight the octopus to the finish may learn how to fight the octopus! tric company was asked Wednesday pon pers nothing, said he an- few days ago these two|to a finish—and win concerning the matter he be ved written notices from| This is the method, it is safd,| very angry and would neither Seattle Electric company, of |of the Seattie Electric company to] firm nor deny the story. pr from the lighting department | of the same corporation, that they would be sued for breach of con FORCE its former patrons to make good thelr contracts with it were canceled because of the } “twill which | absolutely high-| grily tell the nothin, tract If they did not at once make | handed ways of the corporation, and| ‘Th will be ‘a contest in the good their previous contracts with! because civic pride induced many | course of a few days whicliwill opem the company, and quit doing busi-| of them to patronize the city rather|the eyes of the people of Seaftle than a grasping corporation. Hugh A. Tait, counsel for the Se as to the alleged grinding met! Both men turned the matter over of the Seattle Electric company to their respective attorneys. |attlo Electric company, said Wed-|its efforts to COMPEL {ts fo! * be a) rmer _Thene attorneys stated to The) nesday noon that he had nothing! patrons to stick to the terms of thelr Star We day morning that the) to say regarding the threats of his) contracts and remain patrons of the Seattle trie company had but) client to sue for breach of contract }company whether or no, the Sheffield Selentific | Yale university last June. The young man will not work on| paid and trained to assume the re- School of | ficteney of the navy should be re- moved by punishing the captain, LOST GIRL FOUND lines controlled by hi |any of the sponsibility; that Young knew ye father. | the dangerous condition of the ship, “I do not want it said that I had| and that he should not have taken 4 pull, My father has discouraged|Chief Machinist Wheeler's word me in this. He began that way, too.| that the valves were in order. The The only way to learn the rai lroad | board began reviewing the case this business is to begin at the bottom.” afternoon and will conclude tomor- Mary Yaconttl, the Itallan girl row night. The court-martial of who disappeared from her home on i RHR AR RRR Ensign Wade, of the Benningtop, “ ene pe Sree, W8" | PIONEER MAKES NOVEL! begins on Friday morni nd ed ” b: er brot - ash = oon b 2 “ - ex jeeker, one of e * eae, rm five miles from ber) « most famous pioneers of the #| After leaving her friends, the girl - potion hg hee _ offered the COMPRAR UATES -: DROWN: stated, she became bewildered and |% pronietions commerce a novel subd ‘Semon ndered on un ched the “f Pe farm house, There she war taken|* _ H® proposes that for the in and cared for Antonlo T Rowe # sum of $1,000 he will under. ‘The story told The Star the girl's uncle, says she te in per.1* tke to return to Missouri by #|* Monday by Hazel Tate, the fect health and not suffering from, * tbe old Oregon trail, following Lane Haag ying animal her experien | ® the course laid out by the pio- #|# @ witness to a tragedy on Pu- Renee |* neers when traveling overland get sound entailing the loss of | *® more than a half century ago. w|* six lives, $6,000 inch. |® He intends to travel in his fa- from which she by i mous ox-cart hauled by two old #|# jumping overboard wim * oxen. ming a half mile to } At the Intersection of every now believed to be tréa AT BOTTOM : ® road with the old trail he pro- It was at first thought the poses to place signboards ad girl might be Mary Yacontti, errr eee eee eee ee ee eee ee se SEES EEE EEE EER EER RRR AREER AEESAA ERE R EET EKA vertising Seattle and othe who disappeared from her If Puget sound cities, and by oth home on Vashon island last |*® er means boom the Pact Friday. ® Northwest The Yacontti girl was found le The matter was referred to #|* Wednesday. *® a committee. This gives rise to the bellef * that the Tate girl's story | iad etadindindadndnda da dnda ted founded on facts, ee ee ee ee NEW MAYOR OF LONDON * White Ribbons After “Peruna”’ | ei | } LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct | Wednesday the delegates to the na | tional convention of the W. C. T. U spent sightseeing. Preliminary meetings of the heads of depart- ments occurred this morning. Mrs Lillian Stevens, of Portland, Me., [national president, presided over the executive sessions of the offi- cial board, composed of superin- tendents representing 38 depart- ments Ata preliminary meeting of the convention this afternoon, & | demonstration of Peruna was made to ascertain how much alcohol it contains. WINCHELL dk ae . “We all have to go to work some- Young Bitterly time. There ts nothing remarkable in that. Last month I read how S d President snocoerelt’s 50% gave: wo core his berth to an old colored woman. Rai ii At that time I thought: ‘What do people care about the president's} YALLEJO, Cal., Oct —With son? And now I think the same) the final summing up of Judge Ad- about this. There is nothing In be-| yocate West this "moraine: the ing a big man’s son, It all depends} | Young court-martial went into his- n MR. upon oneself, |tory. West opened the argument VAUGHAN MORGAN, cept in the southern part of the] These are remarks recontly made! with a statement that he had no| The municipality of London has state. Fair weather te predicted tor | 07,t8e YOUns son of the president of| personal feeling in the matter, but|@lected another Welshman lord the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa-| Young’s duty as captain of the Ben-|™ayor. Vaughan Morgan has deem the president's visit. The infection | “!fl¢ railroad, who will start next|nington made him responsible for] an alderman ity sheriff. He month for the southwest aiid begin! the condition of the ship, and that| 1s a banker 4 manufacturer, My, in Missixsippt ix offictally declared |his career in railroad service by]an example should be made. Hej lord is a bachelor, and his niecey going to work as a rodman with a sald that the death of so many men| Mrs, Hornby Steer, will be the morlal at an end. | surveying gang. He graduated from and euch a terrible blot on the ef- queen as lady mayoress,