The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1908, Page 4

hn aa THE SEATTLE STAR QY STAR PUBLISHING Co 1907-1308 Seventh ay EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Telephone Priv exchanges cennecting all parte of the SPR Building — Sunset, Main 1050 and Independent, 441. ¢YeMhyitepLy Ask for the department or the name of the person wire BALLARD STAR AGPNOV-—-f) Be aa * Raliord 906 BV eer AGENCY Homer ene, 1991 Heeketeiler A sunset, 164% One DY RIN cents per w © iwenip-tive canis per month. De Gvered by tall or carrion, No tree copies ie Botered at the Postetficn ot Beatile, Washing oo MALL SUR f pubs, ‘ eas iabe . aaatn be ch ange NOTH TO Sst te: Arh « | ’ op t Bier ech 6 welok ay ‘ . a (foe a . you it should inden It han o (ele every * can be certala of giving avbscribers & perfect service ao Paw ee “I congratulate you upon having a good municipal government, and I don't care if it is headed by a Democrat.” That is what Secretary of War Will Ht. Taft said in & speech in the Gra opera house in this city on Sept. 10, $907. And Mr. Tait may be the next republican candidate for president of the United es Treason, perhaps, to the great republican party, this re sounds very much like the remark mark of Mr. ‘Taft's, but of an honest man who believes that it were better to have an honest democrat or nonpartisan in office than a dishonest re publican And in this Mr € Tait fers greatly from some of the party @rators who are rushing so wildly about the city of Seattle @uring the present days. Take John Miller's word for it, and the only possible salvation of this city is through the election of a republican mayor and a republican council. It makes no Gifference whe 1 ese imen be upright and clean and hon @rable—just so long as they are republicans It makes no difference that Mr. Miller, if he were elected, Would ask for the resignation of the best chief of police this City has ever had. | rder to have efficiency in the police @epartment it would be necessary, in Mr, Miller's opinion, to fave first of all a republican Also it would no difference that Mr. Miller would fail to reappoint City Engineer Thomson, not because he is fot a republican, but because as a republican he sees fit to Support a man w ves would make a better mayor can print two complete newspapers simultaneously THE SEATTLE sPar —§ and ts capable of turning out 24,000 copies of ‘The Aiar In one hour, Beside this giant machine stands a single decker, of equal speed, and 18,000 capa The battery of preases working together oan n out | 64,000 complete pa ever he nine hundred per minute The new | . hines are of the latest pattern, aa ts all | of th ale ply and he ht 1 and handwome © building which The Star age | and « in one of paments of Seventh ay, It Is abso | iutely fireproof and buflt to «@nd century, The Star Publishi company chose the site with a view to the growth of Greit | attie, believing that ere long ite location will be in the heart | the new business district : | The Sta sw has a continuous leased wire nning direct | oft in clty to Los Angeles, Cal, It eniploys ite own telegraph All of the news of the entire Pacific coast come to The & ove thie wire with greate apidl than it | ed Press newspaper through inud, supplying two datly | newspapers In that elty. It then passes through San Pranctaco of the wire report York main © cago and New This leased wire la more ciated Press repert to the ite greater value in the short At present no afte | notice it cares not a whit for deal A Word From Joan Wise. | Many a true word | we raleed « falve | ce hope — than Mr. Miller. For city engineer Mr, Miller would have a @an who was always and under all circumstances a “good” fepublica Incidentally he nrtst know something of the} diem duties of his cifice g Setion, wes " 4 . sent you to the Fortunately there are some splendid men in the repub-| storehouse for potash, and you've Mr. For that reason Mr fiean party nigrtunately for Miller, most of are sup; Miller will Probably be spared the necessity of searching for men for the @fiices at the disposal be may already ting Mayor Moore f the mayor, or keeping the promises have made WHEN IS A GUILTY MAN NOT GUILTY? , SAREE: Se AP The supreme court of Ohio has entered the pro-trust de- dision contest with a finding that bids fair to take first prize The iron bridge companies*ot Ohio iormed a combination ents were found, charging them Some dozen of more indic with having formed a trust and so violated the anti-trust laws. | | Is, motions quash, demurrers and other There were tri things put forth by trast lawyers, but while the lawyers and jedges were arguing about it, two of the defendants pleaded guilty and paid thei fines. The rest writ on and in due course the Ohio supreme 1. In spite of the fact that two of the crowd Court was r had pleaded guilty, the supreme court was unanimous in the @pinion that no crime had been charged. The judicial micro- scope found a technical flaw in the papers, and the bridge trust went scot free It is to be hoped that the two luckless defendants will not find themselves in contempt of court for having admitted, their guilt SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE SEATTLE STAR It ix seldom that The Star makes mention of its progress, pre of the paper form their own conclusions. when a few words may ferring to let the readers There are occasdous amiss. One oi ihese exists at the Dering the however not come present time. January month of The Star broke al! previous ree- ords for increased carrier circulation, adding more than eleven hundred to its routes in vartous residence districts. Other daily papers in Seattle were making every effort, with large staffs of trained adult solicitors, to secure circulation, but with the resait that each of them lost cireulation to The Star ‘The same conditions obtain this month so far. The Star ts ation, evidently because steadily increasing (te carrier cir peo- ple want the pape honed their subscriptions to the office of the paper have also Increased to a mark one hundred thousand persons who see fs in fan At present rate “ t will not be long before two hundred thousand ‘ ta The Star's suce 4 xo mm the fact that it heen . ¢ and corporation It a . € . © t vf * wth a * al d at that 7T a € 1 r 4 lant in its new build n deatrnetion of the old plant by fire © A we ample in its facill thes. The la tition { which al ” ee x c Does this Sound Ok racXive? tclint owe earned money is Re sure of brains in the business world, Ya Lemar sound % yout 0. Morodeh Xrainsna in all’ ts branches 0 omedern bus/ness education will mane iX So. Sew hours, dau oreveninn, for Law 0!\ Malis nbcessaru G double or trble dour befrin, Capacity, ify ou spend Mose hours in lors Modi Lusiness oles Dok Chonts AH Statle~ them | | brought me washing soda Father, | can not tell a lye.” | | There was seme complaint aboot} [the first president destroying com fidenee, but it belouge to the | Bridieh, so be tved it down. | i j | G. W. ie also first on the onecont |atamps of his countrymen. Hew ft Happened. Bay, poppa ‘Shut ap.” know that new" — Not another word! cherry tree out in the Chop it, 1 say! Se George did. There are more D. A. R's today |than there were M. A. Re tm 1776, butrthe M. A. B.'s weren't so cheaty | about it | The Getter Way. | | Roy—Pather, | eam not tell a! Me | Father—Den't say that, sen; be original Hoy —1 am. 1 cannot te la falsehood 1 was going to aay a He without uttering As fur an there are any data, Geo. | | Washington got ao birthday pres | ents, unless you count presence of | mind The father of his country didn't iknow his chelid going to be wit le whe noo NEW spape The Star prints all of the nows that ts ft for publication anything except giving ever : STAR DUST | kidnaped by the Predatory Rich sland California, with the from Chih down to ones ox connection re it me United Press sent out than ja the Asso The Times, that it has oo the Pacific to Star but 1 has demonstrated no in operation coast has «a superior telegraph service. In Alaska The Star has perfect arrangements for gathering the latest news, It serves dally papers in Fairbanks, Nome, Seward and Juneau with cable newa each day, and in return reeetven by the Alaaka cable everything of interest gathered by those Northern journals from their wide territory Ne ott daily in the state has such advantageous arrangements In the north eee The weal news in The Star needs no review. It speaks for itself from day to day, The old o, printed for years at the top of the front page, reads The only paper im Seattle that dares to print the news.” That describes (he situation today, as it did eight years ago, when The Sta # first comfag Into public and body @ aquare nem Sad = = if Fairbanks Had Been There. Hie Birthday Today let ue bury the hatchet And never again im life mateb it; ©, let us be one With the great Washington, Who koew if be lied he would eateh ft R. H. Burdick Foreign noblemen were Crequent visitors to this country ta Revoty tena days, but they fight for Wherty, set to exploit the | hetrews industry Life of G. W. Boiled Down. Chopped down the cherry tree Studied several branches. Got ip a jam with Bradduck Was pitied against the Tortes. Jarred the Britiah, Crossed Delaware in the bark Preserved the nation. Married a plppin Was berried There's the sunual revival of the that Geo. Washington was On the contrary, he profane couldn't cuss any better than Cnocle joe Cannon and Bob Pvane. PAY MONEY TO HEAR THIS (Being a very slight Exaggeration of One of Those Advertising Vaudeville Turns Inflicted on You with Sickening Frequency of Late.) | “What kind of chest protector do Oh, ‘cause I seen a dene on as ih of it tm ther Lorat, Strayeden 4 Vet 6 Petien Ws Stolen os a of spe 4 Gee ope the Grab Detective Oh, nothing; o' I a bull t | ‘ agency a got a man in the audt “ ence, I'd be # gonerino sure. eo-t " absold. A 1 te ou what, kiddo. © A ) a tie it * Durnwell Exte » Fire j the nd heat d you | scape on it | know he et 0 there when you Im afraid Ud let go and fall come bac and hurt the pavement | trad a accident 5 cy In thuh Waytar he D ors’, twent sa da All righ # a quarter. Give at © o' me a polley fo e da ail t at tired What day do yuh wa fer Let me thi Ah, make It for fo, It make e tired | Mareh 17, 1883 feelin pockets fo rice Why. that day's pa V t Bay, tha a dand " ‘ou | Nothin’ kin happen tah yuh a rot Ja h That es itkin. Wh tha the H coratt head was lald open with a Or well of Buschhaes falt Bx Swell! 1 thing ight to be As fo h hd better put Laid " Why, I thort othe Whur'd yuh ¢ it made people st Why, at Fittem & Gittem’s’ up Well, it does, ft » the fel o-date place over there on the cor-|ler strong that bit m (A Tittle was you @ « music, professo * 4 came to} URDAY, FEB. 22, 1908. TERILL’S REVIEW OF %e MOT COT ' PROPOSED CHARTER © ty siren \* uw nity ! ow hone ’ on has gone wrong. ; Gan there be anything on earth —_———————_— ! a more heartbreaking spectacig BY GEORGE F, COTTERILL the judgment of tho taxPAYers i145 the endless procession of Amendment No, 6——Centingent must be given, They should not be Dp Funds. anawered = etther mothers who besiege the “ This amendment provi for two | agatnet or bias in fa vn | workhouses, prisons and oor h loontingent fupde, one of $2,500 and |occupying or likely to occupy any Uonal oe of every ul another of $300 the first to be lt! of these post ; -m — votes —- anes mae hase po od ‘ : tuned fe te payment of city |nhould be governed by the meas he « nee to every prison Is his wrong-dolng fre | ra aggre ye fetwoen the/ure of the duties and r # Via Dolorosa, a Way of Sorrow, mot who should reel linonthiy pay days, and the second|ites of the office, withou indeed, to hundreds of mothers and pont of fim ' lfor use for freight and express/ation of any Individual Some in widow's weeds. somne y he vght him Charges, telegrams, postage and in-|Just compensation should be al luxuriously dressed, others clad in’ at it Sant ge eee, expenses in the city de-|lowed for services rendered by the | scanty vali wut all ia wh we, bat what in partments, where immediate cash/men who at the public call hey come to weep over the » er mothers Ieee payments are required. Under the abandon private business and de of lost opportunity Wock tha sts. ; | present system, a man working for) vote thetr time to the people's Your son, ah, there waa a foun en the \ older you gag af Hie city » few days in any month, business, The measure of that dation to build on had ye seen and chase him out doves te Wino te discharged, must elther|compensation should at least and recognized your duty t may be andl |watt until the 10th of the follow-| approximate | that which eapuble| Not every boy who goes wrong has no corver in the rn; ling mouth for his pay, or take an|imen are worth for similar service |Could have been eaved, even by call hin ow house lorder or certificate, upon which he jin professional or business life, | careful training, for there Is always! | have atv viii can only realise immediate cash |It never pays a municipality, any # residuue, the pound of flesh number of tidden ie" aieccunting it 6 to 10 per cent |mofe then « private corporation, |claimed by heredity but Fortune | can do without bis with some broker, Surely the city /1o attract and employ cheap men | favors the boy who bas been start it out mother fin shonid not tolerate anything te |to manage its affairs od right : a é He in pestered and we the notortous time cheek here never was # mother who healthy appetite ag aaet this amendment will do TABLOID WARGAIL. | aula act serous! heve given ber made a butt for fami veh to stop it. It should be sup i | life for that of ber erring son his mother knows @g for charter amendment with @ pre Searebine Game to We, ionocently, thoughtlessiy, a8 that he lives practically gone, vision for a semimonthly pay day many mothers do, you do not see! If enter tate your at least for all day laborers em the effect on his after life—but it not ax a monitor, bate the elty. The amend: | will be there. you will know when he | ployed by ment should be adopted But that first Such a little thin, or show « of Amendment No. 6—Stone Quarries | untroth makes a deep impression sports and Asphalt Plante. | on Bouny——Mother quibbles and | word of Under this proposal the city in| evades the truth, so it can’t be very | sfily ideas given authority to acquire, open and wrong! the bal / ‘stone quarries inside or out- | Then you run down his compan-| It in he Umits, and to erect | jons and praise him before com hand #) her son's asphalt pl and t prepare, man: | pany, and he quickly learns to hide being f it} ern oes a= ufacture and sell stone and aap’ { products for street construction and) FROM DIANA’S DIARY maintenance, and to fix the price) at which such materials shall be} sold. If adopted and put in force, | nt thie amendment will put in the A Determined Pursuit of « Leap Year pickiew’ Faltering Footsteps Into @ Merry Enough to Make You Cry. hands of the city authorities & pow: | erful ageney to defeat “contractors | combines,” ané to maintain « fair | price for paving and other road-| making materials, By fixing @ cost lprice for broken stone and for as | |phalt matertals, publicly known and at the disposal of all bidders op pablie improvements, competition lwill be eateblished where now the j bidding ts limited to one or two large concerns ownlng stone quar ree and asphalt planta Why the | city fs armed with these facilities the industrious contractor whore) principal capital is his skill and leneray, will be able to bid for @ saving contract even against the Narber aaphait trust, Whee this Amendment is supplemented by | slate legislation authorizing the city {teelf, through some destgnated de- | riment, to pet in bide on 1} Almprovements at a just estimated and whenever it ix the lowest | lpidder, doing the work by day le fit then our taxpayers will be fully \hrotected against exceastve charges | for their street improvements. Not the least of the benefits By FW. Schaefer. 4 | “© THAT fi which can be made to accrue from this charter amendment t# ite op | THOUGHT, 1 portunity for the abolition of that j!t TO SIDNEY. evidence of Hngering barbarism the chain gang. When our city has | | eatablished a stone quarry there! | «ili remain no shadow of excuse | lor this ert), City prisoners wilt be | |made to work, which i just and right, but neither they nor the com munity wilh be debased and hamil {thing It im one of jschools where you cook anything unless pretty on a plate anda weture. — } Sure, the lady tell me how to make @ he ws rectacle was I to know she jiated by the diagraceful spectac! pel @ er ing? «She went | of the chain gang on our pablt ~ pr : ni streets, Let them work, but In a sechided. guarded and healthful lo- | cation, such as can be provided in connection with a city stone quarry bed her she reele@ jealled for about | the left hand side | store as you enter, “What is a pilaff?” it ie up to me to find out and cook one, for Sidney Greuzenmizer Both for humanitarian and eco has consented to marry me if I do. | vomical reasons this amendment Now, I'm not half sore on Sid-| : waned ant shontd be ney for accepting me under condi. | Sut Was & Bu tions—that is to say, making a| P*P0r paste. sort of obstacle race of it. T like! If that is pilaff the excitement of it, and he was | Sf, “I dessent ee scared when | popped. And besides,| O- for a reat it's the man’s part to act tn | om plates “ + pot es bead = ‘Continued. i had a foxy notion that I'd run} FOR BASEBALL ap to the cooking school and get | Piper & Taft, 1024-26 a demonstration of a pilaff first! = Amendment No. 7—Raising Salaries | of City Officiats This amendment proposes to raise the anoual salary of the) mayor from $4,000 to $5,000, of the | corporation counsel from $3,000 to | $4,800, of the city treasurer from | $2,500 to $4,200, and of the city comptrelier from $2,500 to $4,200. | The discussion of amendment No. 4, relating to the proposed raise ot} — salary of city councilmen, has a direct application to this proposal } WHOLESALE DR The officials now under consi ; tion are tn the service of the city | DOWN-TOWN STORE of Seattle exclusively, They are! WI3-101S FIRST AVENUE presumed to have no other bust-| UP-TOWN STORE ness obligation upon their time PIKE ST. me WESTLAME AVE. — Two ENT namces SOST OF NCE sum-STATION 7 at Tek weve STORE and attention. They are fn charge of the executive, legal and account ing departments of a great municl- pal business corporation, whose taxable ia exceed $150,000,000, Inc Gi ES Slaughter Sale of Suit When he chopped the cherry tree History recounts, | with annual receipts from taxes |George found the cherries rubber, | and assessments approximating and | 95,900,000, and disbursements to! piscovered cherry bounce. For Saturday the same amount. The present sal- aries were fixed when the city had less than half the present pop- Any Suit Case in our stock can be bought Friday of at a reduction of ONE-THIRD (2513 per cent) off our wiation, and not more than one | prices. No reserve. Every Suit Case and Traveling Bag goes third the amount o. municipal bus: | slaughter sale. ¢ ineas responsibility it may be $6.00 Suit Cases for .....$4,0@ | $5.00 Suit Cases for strongly ergued that present condi $9.00 Suit © . * tions and immediate outlook do not seer yr ‘ali 98.00 | . woth ard pony a [Justify any salary raising; that —s . should at least be deferred two |years. There may be some differ SATURDAY SPECIALS. of opinion as to some of the On sale all day Saturday—but | Moth Pound package ffices In question, but they cannot not befor avs be segregated. All four salaries, Bromo-Q Regular 25e | squibb’s Sugar of Milk=! | mayor, corporation counsel, trea» box; spec te urer and comptroller, must be Bell's Pine Tar and Honey —For - 5 lraised, or none of them. The agi coughs and colds—the one | “7mole & ate increase is $7,200 per year for eS that’s 1 t Menthol Cherries offieia 25¢ bottles, each 22¢ | Marve ling izens of Seattle believe the Oe bottles, each ine Reg $3 have the right to expect the entire $1.00 botties, each Sie cial coed ae services of a man with the char aon ep oT + acter and capacity tw fitiy serve RI MEMBI R—-The above are on sale Sature as mayor of @ elty of a quart only—Suit Cases are on sale two days : million of population to properly represent and reasonably meet the The Quaker Drug Com ardir Jemands and courtesies in {91013-1015 FIRST AV~ Two Stores — FOURTH AND Pf ihe way of entertafument which he - | that position imposes on less than . me . $6,000 a year? What private corporation, with ° e half the busin and legal re All departments are Th V t F { cgoustbitity of the elty of Seattle, IM open and you will find e Victor ramily would oxpect to seoure and retain | potter time t : a the serv x1 counsel eap e to pur Victor Jr. Gramophone | Victor IT. ... $ 30.00 able to 1 direct in the chase the new apparel : Vict Ill onduct of ite affairs, to protect ° 10.09 | Victor Il ‘ 94.800 salary fixed by this amend-| a little at a time.” vi he i Victor \ + a n Victor I..... 22.00| Victor VI 100 $4,200 a year an excessive re Ea . : “: muneration for the comptrolier t li and for the treasurer In charge of stern Victor Records, 35¢ and up. the detail receiving, custody, dis 0 tfi . C oTr-w “ NOTE-—We will send complete ’ tor catalog, of OF 95,000,000 a Poe ae bei uh ng 0. hibit a Victor at your home, and extend casy payment plan 1 @% These are questions upon which sired Inc. 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