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ean got at THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. Orricns—ist h EVERY arrean ON EXC RET Te ® Independent tae we Department Su Ned 10 | twenty-five cents per month BALLARD 8 Y—an Ballard Ave Sunset On Bntered at the Poatoffice at Beate Washiagton. ae sseond slane matte any Vik AD GPFICE-RAGLEYS DRUG STOR, COR. BRCOOND rs xD e od KE STRERT Register the Guests The rece trag Mu 1 1 w ha brought forth the fact t the hostelry made no pretense of keeping @ register An investigation which The Star has made shows that many | al hetela follow « similar plan of letting t dust settic on the v ume Intended to chronicke the going and ¢ igs of their guests That Washing has no law requiring the registration of the names of hotel eu s and their adresses ta to be regretted Had such a law been Im effect, and had the Hetel & a Aue thorities respected it, the police would not have spent hours tr learn- Bhe the identity of the murdered man's t Law or no law, it » sable pups that the police by virtue of their guardianship over the moral we ¢ of « com- Wnunity, could pretty pearly mak the hotel folk understand that ft would be prudent to have a better kno je of thelr roomers. Fighting a Square Deal Rallway newspaper organs over the country, including many of republican are raist ons to the pr seal of toh rthed President Roosevelt an administrat swith power to correct unjust rail w authority from the courts. witho ay freight rates previews These newspapers say that the president ts quite wrong; that he g@hould have recommended some sort of a judicial comminelon, before which the railroads could first take rate ce and argue them out, jusing witnesses, full court procedure and the Nke, In other words, # regular trial after the forms of modern legal practice. They know, ax well as the president knows, that under such @ gnethod the forms of law would be made a cloak for & able de ys of Days, secured one way or another by the enterprising the railroads, whose business it would be to make the movements of the judicial commission as slow, or even slower, than the customary movements of our other courts. Before a determ! of a content- ‘e4 rate In any cause could be reached, much valuable time uld ave been lost, during which the raltroad concerned would be resping ‘the benefits. President Roosevelt te perfectly willing, according to bis own statements, that any acts of his administrative commission should be Bubject to appeal to the courts, which would have the power to over- ride any unjust acts of the railway commission ¢ In this case, with the boot on the other foot, the railway attor- | meye would have no incentive for and would undoubtedly | push thelr case expeditiously to a final decision, delays, A Little Sample of Real Power a #2 ‘The other day the steel trust closed a mill in Covington, Ky. It | fm now ssid that the mill will not be reopened and the business wil! be transferred to other mills owned by the trust. By this arbitrary "get of the board of directors sitting in New York, 200 able-bodied citizens of greater Cincinnati are temporarily deprived of a livell- ‘hood. Nobody makes any particular protest, because the steel trust $9 80 powerful that protests would be ineffectual. It controls 80 per |" cent of the iron and steel industry of the United States. It cares nothing for the welfare of Cincinnati. Should a mere individual get “Up and demounce the steel trust, gentlemen in Wall streot would say ‘that he was an anarchist and a foe to the business interests of the i Sometimes it is hard to tell who {# an anarchist, anyhow deep 0 good, shot the three more| bird dogs which he got last week at ‘Chicago, the| Kiondyke.—Carrolton Republican. MORE LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS, been talking} Jim Williams has painted his all the rest) wooden leg.--Ciifton (Ill) Advocate. they were John ¥. Sullivan is still signing pledge Anything with still in attracts John. Burton will have one jon if he goes to jail. He jan't be in the senate. UNCLE HENRY THINKS i Most fellers don’t | have t be showed how t’ do a thing th’ wrong way. A GRAVE PERIL. Sailor Bug: Confound it! 1 be- Neve that horse is going to drink our ocean dry. GOING TO A LONELY HOME. Uncle Mac Lockhart spent Mon- day night with me, and said after “1 don’t have no|the 20th of this month he would go on me by no-|back to Kentucky, I regret very & doctor, and the best I} much to have him leave He is « that.” good citizen and a Christian to boot. —Bequachee (Tenn.) News. “What do you think of this?” Smithers, looking up from paper. “All the clerks In a bank are women.” “What of it?” retorted Mrs. | Smithers. “Can't women run a Dank fost as well as men?” “Certainly, my dear, certainly. In 1 think women can do some - exe in @ bank better than men. 1 were president of a bank there ‘be one position that I would oman in prefer- but SPORTING NEWS. As a hush fell over the great an- dience, Mr. Jeffries advanced to the front of the stage. Placing his right hand over his heart, he began: “Me friends, the story that I will re-enter the ring fs a bum steer. I have cut out the game for good, and that goes, Neither Jimmy Coff- roth nor anyone else can drag me into the ring again. I also desire to there are too many booze mills now. —_— I shall continue my present mode of living down on the farm.” Then the replied the brute THE SEATTLE PUT DETECTIVES ALL ABOUT LEGISLATURES STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, GOV H LATION BOUGHT | A PLAN TO END IT WM. M. O. DAWSON, AND SOLD, OF WEST VIRGINIA, )#!! ta my power Around ry state legislature WRITES OF THE GREAT SCANDAL OF LEG to be a number of nkilled de@actives who should secure . # of bribes ot bribes and especially the among members of AND 8UGG ev takers blackmatlers the legislature The buying and selling of legisla ” fu fta f tnke | e | . ‘ WAKE " Framed ¥ . | —s) | tion ts one of the graatest evils of Ja po to maintain and expend afusiig it at legislatures the day, and if it In not ste it PYROGRAPHIC G AND n 1” for the purpose of] Hut we want to be just in all these] will result in the ruin of the coub-)9 4.1, the most plete Pyrograpbic department in t fluencing legislation | tters The inst few years it has) try. the newest noveiies in leather an wood to burn ‘ | Tam glad that this criminal prac-| n the practice of members of les It is a question of such great im gives free instructions in this interesting work ¢ tice has been brought into the lime-| islatures to futroduce bills and then| portance that it ought to have the|— department. Our artist burns any design om, diver So Habe at thie time and that it 1s caus-| blackmail corporations, demanding| consideration of a national associa-|jj to order. Place orders early Sm eowlage yyy oo » fi ORE ling widespread interest in the mat-| certain amount of money to kill| tion of some kind that would study |f BAROAIN Cott Sinted Bhaving Mugs. Fancy te ter of corrupt lobbigs at our legisia-| these bills all ite evils in all their detatls to eee Golapatble Cups, Card Trays et Dre tw I expect tor t nis} =f whould like to see these black-|order to suggest and secure reme C Salve Boxes, Cigar Hol ame ¥ Pock | matter in m@ menmnae to the legis-| mailers, as well as ordinary takers] dies | ror and osher a - . ang ‘ornaments! § art GOVERNOR WM, ™ JAWSON, | lature in 1907 have already re-|of bribes in legislatures, exposed| In some of the states the corpora-| priced to close out at exactly hal ne go” . oe ee - ferred to it in two public addresses,| and punished. We all Mion how| tions are greater than the state, and The QUAKER makes free delivery to all parts of the city. Use your BY. WM. M. 0. DAWSON and | am very anxious to see it| hard it Is to ge sufficient evidence| their influence and power are pre-| Phones. MAIN 1240—IND, 1240 Written ex ly for The Star stopped every whore. to convict the bribe giver, but it] served by railroad passes and the eh It seoma ha been pretty I have no doubt it is true that a] can be done. The first thing is OR-| corrupt use of money = shown by recent violations) great mar WILLIAM M. 0. DAWSON at corporations make defenne (BY CYNTHIA GREY.) ‘The how If you call, the very chair you sit} upon seems sed with the spirit of the ho: ‘The w call upon rushes into yo o-mhe never Just comen she always rushes——with an apology for keeping you waiting, but she has “been on the Jump all | Gay” and hae “heaps of things to do! before night.” Bhe jumps wp tx times tn 15 min- utes to anawer the telephone. When you linger a moment at the door to say goodby the third time, she excuses herself between the firat| and second goodbys to open the back | door for the grocer i telegram a a epec two before you fin getting down the steps in she has «| Mr i de or After wuce park-pike ood husband comes horqe, rushes around | 4 If the shoot kept on shooting or to get ready for dXner, which has) the loop had failed to loop, been cooked in a ruaiPand which you} al t in « hurry ' talk ts of the automobile races, the | the life we make believe we love record breaking train, and the base. | The life we hold out to our visitors, ball hero that made three home| and the theory of ving which we runs. teach our children. After dinner you wash up the dishes and @| deep—but we haven't time. jump into some other clot We a dart off to the new park, where you! our frh shoot the chutes, loop the loop, leap] We haven't time The Last to Appear an wanry. toh make de—we haven't time, anything we Every morning when the miners) The daughter of Michael nla signal for descent. rporations maintain) GANIZATION, and in such organis 4" for the purpose of} ed effort 1 will be glad to assist Gr The House on Springs and jump and spring through the experiencers ne and fall into # ftful| didn’t try to do it 2 halt jump out of bed} Some one has mata that it lle If you go to stay over night, the) @# you fall asleep, because it seems! ing the Amerioas | weve esas And this ts the way we live. This lie the way we keep house, This is We should Ike to get a Httle more uld like to go out to nee rnor of Weat Virginia. weeping and repeating again and again, “Papa! Papa!” He was very low, the poor Michael eakened by the deprivation of air 1 nourishment, he recovered his axes only to faint away again, but he lived. She had spoken truly |“Mademoiselie Papa. The man | would not die without having told |hia child A week later he was up, thin, but well and ready to commence work The evening before he was to go down to the mine for the first time | grand banquet was given by the |miners to “Mademoinelle Papa." | The place of honor was reserved for |her. There were kisses and em | braces and many « buzza in honor jof the little queen. o/ And would you know what she | replied to all that, amiling and clap ping her han the little ween’? She said “Paps.” ws * Self Lighting Gas Mantles at 610 Pike street. ow * Tell thousands of people what you want. See page 6 be > Good jobs to be had. Page ¢. °** , Competent help looking for situ tol Page 6. . really want to do, because we work all day, then play all night at so thing we think we might mins ¥ home life. If by any chance we should hap- pen to drop into @ restful, peace giving home, when we are out doing the latest soctal stunts, how eur- prised we should be. I think we should want to stay tight there forever, It would be fuch « relict. But there tent much danger of finding such ® home. Peace seems to be so horribly and hopelessly out of atyle. After all,” he said to himself, “perhaps that would be best. When she has seen with her own eyes she will believe This condition, if it inate, will perhaps kill ber.” And taking her tn hie arms he ‘The Most Popular Theater. Ruseclt & Drew, Mere. Matinee Today—Tonight ZINN'S TRAEVSTY COMPANY stepped on the platform and gave In — “FUN ON THE TRAIL.” collected around the entranes to the| about, her bar streaming in the| down. wind, in the midst of the debris.| For two hours she traversed the| Full of Good Laughs—Pretty Danc- the last to appear alw which had been brought up from|gaileries, questioning the men ing Girle—Clever Comediana jovial fellow, who led by the hand a|the mine, crying “Papa! Papa!| whom she knew, striking her little —Just What We All Like— Pepa’ little girl some 7 or 8 years of age. Nobody had seen her father. It was Michael Perron and hie moth- eriens little daughter. Before put- ting foot on the platform to descend) t foto the pit the man raised the) were dead. There was one missing. ebild tn his arms, imprinted a kiss) It was Michael Of |ing her ear close to it, peeping into the 60 miners who had gone down | the the morning, 45 bad ascended; 14) hands in, calling filets against the black il, press- Sere Bo No Change in Prices. Phones 567. Next we: "The Missouri Girt.” least cleft, and thrusting her always, “Papa! ] Fes sume “Papa” sought always. STAR — aot on each cheek and set her down| For 48 hours Mademoiselle Papa| Suddenly they saw her run, pale, ain. had waited feverishly, but without |trembling, choked. She cried:| Thousands delighte Sentai A miner bad taken « fancy ope) growing weary. At every human) There, there! Papa! Merry Mantkine—unique, clever, day to hold her close to the edge| form that appeared in the entrance| “What! There?” said the miner.|*™u*ing! of the pit, when, recoiling from the| she started up, and not recognizing | “His blouse!” OTHER FINE PROPLE—9 obseure gulf, black ras the eve| the one she awaited sat down again| “Bah! Where is it?’ Fy: Coe i eae Ba ga Pee could see, ahe had sprung back with| with a profound sigh. They ‘tried| ‘The little girl, panting, her cyes| sagrt arab, Count and Baron a cry of terror. “Papa goes down|to lead her away, and she Wept so) fixed, her lips parted, her hand — there,” whe thought. “Suppose he] bitterly that ft emded im leaving ber|in the hollow of the wall, cried: *1| SALLARO’S should not come back.” there. They thought that fatigue) hold tt!” ‘And on this day when Michael had| would conquer her They moved her aside; they taken her in his arms, as he always| The third day the child was atilljlooked. Yes, it was a bit of cloth Up to Date Vaudeville. at the entrance of the pit We must put an end to (til 4id for the farewell kiss, she clung more closely than ever to his neck chief engineer, and = ap- —of biue cloth. It was a blouse, "| Was there a man there? They ret Seven Great Acts Direct from the Rast, and sald tremblingly in a half|eaid the to work, and what blows of the whisper proaching her he sald: “Be reason-| mattock they gave! In a twinkling}. THE GREAT ETHEL WHITE., “Could anyone—could you-—die/ abla little one.” the wall was thrown down, and in SIDES AND HER PICKS. dewn there?” Papa! Seek papa!” a doep excavation they saw a man “Be tranquil,” aaid Michael, smil-| “A He is dead.” extended. It was Michael Perron, | Deuthell and Jones—Comedians. ing. “I will not die without telling] “No!” Confused cries arose on all sides, i thee of it.” She uttered this “No” with such, and more ptercing than all others a La Petite Ruth. It was gospel truth, since her|on “gy that the engineer was strack|cry escaped from the lips of a little Frank Smith, father had sald #0, and she went| by it girl. She sprang upon the body, Picturescope. away to school almost reassured Why not?” he asked Clasped it with both arma, half wild, PRs aay yee ce ‘One day the rumor spread sud-| “Ho would have told me.” denly that an explosion of fire damp| “Poor little thing,” murmured had just occurred. In les time|tho ongincer. And he madom sign than it takes to tell it the entrance/that she should be taken away. to the Berard pit was thronged.| But she clung desperately to him. LLEG ® COLLINS BLDG, JAMES SECOND Fhones 416 & f OME HERE AND Se6 300 BRIGHT, ABOVE~THE-AVERAGE WISE PETE. . former champion backed out of the It has Been reported in sporting’ spotlight and disappeared in the Grcles that Peter Jennings, saying wings of the stage. \ AND WoMEN PREPARING THEMSELVES’ FOR THE BATTLE OF Lire, It’s a Sight WorTH SEEING. GeT OUR @TALOGUE. Excited crowds rushed from every|crying: “Papa is not dead! I want direction. Of all the miners down|to go down! I will find him!” there, how many would be seen ‘The gineer was a kind hearted again? fellow. He took pity on her. 4) You need a good Ours are strictly waterproof Raincoat. priced from 15 to and that you may have couse for getting wet, we’ pleased to have you pay us ONE DOLLAR WEEKLY for any raincoat in our stock, if your purse seemingly won't stand for a new coat just now, and brimful of style. They are Eastern Outfitting Co., (loc) Cor. Pike St. and Fifth Ave. Seattle's Reliable Credit House. | The QUAKER DRUG CO 4013-1015 First Avenue | | | Extraordinary Values —IN— | PIANOS Pianos for Christmas Three Carloads of Bargains We have added the Sterling Piano to our already large list of agencies—-large shipment expected about Jan, 1, 1906—to make a place in our store we must close out at special prices over three carloads of el gant new pianos of some one-half dozen differe makes. The discount throughout will be about %4 off of the regular price. Remember that Sherman, Clay & Co.'s plan of selling Pianos has for its foundation the one price system, and to figure a 4 off the prices heretofore uoted, means a substantial saving to the buyer. 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A Moyer, Mer. SPECIAL INDUCEMENT in our Children’s Department Double-breasted, heavy weight Boys’ Suita, with two paire of pants, Special at $6.00, at 625 First avenues, Kline @ Ros berg, Himelhoch Bros’ succes- Large stock of second-hand | Heaters. Stoves of all sizes and |] of the very lowent prices. RED FRONT FURNITURE CO, 220 Pike Street. ee ic BSSEEss_p8czs, st ‘that for to: Py hold Pi in 1 Bpo! Cs cans Jand < 7 |. FF80