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HAVE IT SENT HOME If you are not a regular reader of The Star, telephone Main 1050 or Ind. 441 and have the paper delivered by carrier. VOL. 10. NO, 298. ¢ BATILESHIP FLEET STARTS ON | WAY ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN SHAT San rManede PACIFIC BEGINS LEST FOREIGN WARSHIPS. BOOM PARTING | GREETINGS. | Uncle Sam's Fighters in a Race Across Ocean to Beat Records. | GIBRALTAR, Feb. 6—Sy U. P.—With the cannon of «a dozen warships in the harbor boom ing a farewell salute, and the rt of the impregnable British fortress in the rock joining in &@ thunderous chorus, the Amer and began the wlar portion of | journey around the world. ‘The fighting ships w NOW A GREAT FACTOR IN THE MINING WORLD DOTTED LINE IN MAP SHOWS THE WONDERFUL VOYAGE OF from the herbor in formation. squadron by squadron With an equal intervening space Detween cach ship ’ When the Strait of Gibraltar has} been passed the single colemn for | Mation will be broken and the wer-/ Ia, With homeward bound pennants } uttering. will enter a ve racking or an Ationtte shores o! HE INVENTS A NEW nat toler tt will be each ship for itself | COPPER SMELTING in an effort to establish a new | blaxe speed record in the navy. / PROCESS. i the worta teeny The engines have been thoroughly 5 is the real thorn in O@verhauled, the bunkers crammed opper trust | with coal and the “bieck scangy M T. oF ss ’ vom lanl boy poopentt before keyed up to a high pitch of enthust lan Tow! Newhouse, who immediately naw tts gem for the finish ted as a Dreamer posalbilt New) up $10 The fleet will rendevous in Hamp- Here Is Now a Mil- retting that |was that @ company has been fo oresight tolwith a capitalization of $100,000, 00 or of whieh ing of hie genius they did not get in on the ton Roads, whore it will be reviewed * 4 By President Roosevelt, who lionaire. ed Crown his presidential serv cme i ieetiia tease. The + a iS ' John Hamm Hays and oth pre arate. vee yenee wit Amgaaeiaiore od ted engineers, The rem t Titan onthe Aumante coamrend' wit} Because he cou tyind a . test was that Fink's patent pro- | eres cuir“ vestiet ery “Ge | aor ‘hactiny tae ention which |Cem of smelting showad that for the | Becensary. has already made . t firet time tn the history of the world Reports on their condition will be | ia wrich ot Pn forwarded to the navy department, |frt which promi pyre but from the various reports sent to |e smelting nites, " and at a much lene the department from tme to time |Pit% formerly » mining engineer |cost. “And It’ is with tis Meee tiatineod that aay ar |o S08 is now & momber of althat Fink and his as | the ships will weed eorlous overhaul, |CorPoFation which promises to ¢l im the « the copper trust the time of its editely after the teat Mr rc oe Mr. Pink at ros Seat Mr. Fink and home, and th apita Hammond went to New ¥ SAVED FROM called him a r “ fer with J. P. Morgan. the nd fh ir. Fink owns 61 per cent by quick work saved Engel Telot-| | | IS IMMINENT Plant at Eagle Harbor, from a wat | — ery grave. promines to be fulfilled before act Telotson was intoxicated, and, | while staggering up and down the @ecks of the boat, in some manner feli overboard while the boat was about half way across the bay. Capt. Wyatt saw him fall and immediately ordered the reversal of the engines, but before the boat/ could be stopped Telofson was left & great distance behind, struggling heiplessiy. but shouting lustily, in} | GOVERNMENT CIRCLES GREAT- LY PERTURBED OVER JAP. ANESE QUESTION, ing } ‘akahira ts regarded as awafting the out the of the government's a tempt to liv to the terme of the peace pact « ed into between Bec fetary of State Root and Ambasna dor Aoki. The problem is becoming more and more complex, and th WASHINGTON, Feb. U. P.—The activity of Califor- the cold, black waters of the sound.| nia, the passivity of the Jepan- tivity of the various departme in ‘The Florence K went back to the | ese representatives in America dicates that a seri view of the! PRON adie im aboar € ‘i my m pelieved that the Eat The cold tath sobered the| © See gan arming | administration realizes that if it ts Swede up, and in a conglomeration| ‘SOré'tions beneath the surface (nor successful with California it will ¥ 4 than the administration is will- (not be successful with J of Scandinavian and English he) ‘je tkewe Governor Gillet is looked to « ured out bis thanks to Capt.) '"@ i ead pended upon by the administraton Ambassador Tak-|to prevent an international crisis Vyatt. | The attitude of N The “a Soe “ j at this time is being noted by order from the navy depart: | jfailed to call at the White House! declared to be without significa jfince the agitation in Callfornia| it is pointed ¢ this order was This is taken to indicate that the | cant « ler is that the jambassador has taken the position y the first of a man who walts for efinite ito be elad in #o: ‘The condition of the street at 38th and Brooklyn is so tad that if the city officials who have been ap- pealed to time after time by the| Fesidents of that section of the city) do not take immediate steps to have it improved, the liveifest kind of a} time Is going to be had at the street commissioner's office when they get toget to make a protest direct According to the statements of resi- dents of that district today The street leading to the fair ‘ounds is so muddy that teams and utomoblies get stalled there all the time. TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO WRITE YOUR LETTER HOME ABOUT THE FAIR. “Home Lotter Day” is near at; some of thelr newspaper friends tor hand publication } Tomorrow {# the day set aside in|, There will be no end to the pub-| lieity to be derived from the adver February when you are requested to tising the exposition will receive write as a result of “Home Letter Day” if five letters to someone out aide the city or state telling them | the residents of the city enter into ahcuk the A.7.?, © the spirit of the day and write } uP FOR LOST Write about something interest-|,, Simply write all day long about ing. the exposition. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-——By U. P Tell your friends, relatives or ac-| Tomorrow is the day The four-masted bark Fort George, | quaintances in the old home state bound from } York to Honolulu | all about the beautiful grounds, the HASKELL’S CASE via Cape Horn, has been missing | completed exposition buildings, the for months, aud her owners today | beautiful daylight excursions on | fear that she has foundered | Puget sound, the trip to Alaska, or SET FOR MARCH 1 The Fort George carried a crew| anything that will whet the appé of 18 and a cargo of 2,500 tons of | tite of the Hasterner for a taste of, MUSKOGER, Okla, Feb. 6 By | general merchandise, | the beauties of the Northweat U. P--The date of the hearing of Home Letter Day” 1s for the|the alleged land fraud cases was AN W 0 iE B purpose of advertising the Alaska-| *t today for March 1. The hearing Yukon-Pacific exposition will be held at Vinita. Gov. Has-| | ‘The plan is simple, but wilt prove Kell, who has been indicted in con-| FAMOUS IN SEAT TLE ‘etaaete ll ava Yacddons nection witn a grand jury inquiry | | eity heeds the request of the into the matter, protested against The man who made Butte famous, | sition management setting pruary 13 as the date for| ft least added a bit to her notoriety} You a poted to write five let-| hearing. Hie request for a delay by hollering “Bring on the feed,” | ters to someone residing in another| W4@ granted. Tho governor there: when all were seated at a banquet | state upon returned to Guthrie, tendered President Roosevelt in the Request them to hand the letters to their neighbors when they | Great copper mining eemp several| have finished with them Today's Treasury Report | Years ago, 1 now in Seattle Or it might be just possible that! WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—By U | Pat Mullins, once mayor of Butte,| your friend has a friend connected | P.—-The treasury statement today is holding court at the Georgian] with a newspape shows Receipts $2,031,776, din hotel Ask them to hand your letters to| bursements 540,000. LOW, THE FLAGSHIP CONNECTICUT AND ADMIRAL SPERRY, IN COMMAND |LOCAL OPTION IS NOT SEATTLE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. HILLMAN {6 TURN DOM JEFFRIES WILL NOT TAKE UP SEATTLE MAN'S OFFER. WASH 1909, t In Fact, the Big Pugilist Does Not Intend to LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6. U, PC tie millionaire, is today vinoed that Jim Jeffries b intention of accepting 0f-$125,000 for a fight between D. Hillman, the Seat oon the big retired champion and Jack Johnson, Hillhan catied on Jeffries lant Hight, and after a heart-to-heart talk with the big fellow, took hts de parture with “gloom” written in cap ital letters ull over his f “Lam not money mad, 1k Burne,” de don't w ¥ lonat, I have always square with the public, and w when I say that I have no in tention of fighting again 1 am going into the ehow bus tems, and I'm going Into it for lmmpney, 1 tntghe powers by (browse About =|it Can 1 go REAL FIGHT Ey ON NEXT WEEK to my drawing THE BATTLESHIP FLEET. DY OF FLOATER IN THE LAKE IS IDEN. TIFIED. YET OUT IN THE CLEAR. Senate Opposed to Bill of the House. to Death. BY T. J. DILLON. OLYMPIA, Feb. 6.—-The house, after much ‘consideration aod per tp th body Of the young man found turbation, still has the local bill under consideration that wrangling body adjourned Pri- day afternoon It had completed the second reading of the bill, all ex cept the title, Under the rules of the house a majority of the mem- bers may decide to go hag to jw} amend any section they see fit, so Liew at to that the bill, which has eseaped lummout wuicide bye taking chvore with a few minor and Inconsequen- Horm earlier in the day. The body tial amendments, ts still In 80M@/iwas identified by Joe Sellbern and possible danger. "Stanley Oklas, who way that they The danger, however, has been ware feliow workers in the tailor reduced to & minimum by the tight}snop with Butch, and knew him organization of the anthealoon wer forces. That there should be 4) It appears that Butch had been break In their ranks betwoen NOW leged on a note by some party whose and Monday afternoon, when th®/name is now unknown, and being ix. house reasnembles, is not probable. imorant of the law, was greatly wor Of course it fe @ possibility, bUtlbed over what he thought would Chester Rob- engineer at the Holgate Butterworth jue as that of Alex Butch, a r, whose shop was on Broadway r the James st. power houre, and ho has been missing singe Christ- Bt 9 Vy SHORES GOs Be in the loss of all hia money, a those who are opposed to local leonsiderable sum. The notice of qe sult was served on him the day be- Fight in the Senate. fore Christmas The fight next week will be} All that day he was in a state of transferred to the senate. Here }térror, according to Seilbern and the conditions that prevatied {n/Oklas, and early the next morning the house will be reversed. In the /@ppeared at the tailoring establiah house the loca) optionists had a ma-}ment and drank some chloroform jority on the floor and a presiding | sed fn cleaning clothes, He was officer who was friendly to their | i#eovered in the act, however, and | ; cause. Across the corridor in the; prevented from carrying out his in fenate the local optioniste number ptent. and was locked in a room for but 19 while 23 members are ap- safe keeping, He escaped tn a short posed to the antisaloon league bill, | time by climbing through a window, and President Ruth is decidedly | #84 evidently, while others reveled againat it fin the cheer and happiness of Yule A good measure of the succesa| te, he accomplished in the cold of the local option bill In the house | Waters of the inke the deed which was due to the assistance given by | he attempted cartier in the day by the “dry” senators. They lobbied! {inking potson. openly and notoriously for the bill} 8 ‘i when the house was in session, and WORK WILL the senat mi » al itn idle Dadian Fo. * WEATHER FORECAST. * Rain tonight and Sunday; * high southeast becoming * & southwest wings. owners ulred watched every move in the inter ests of the bill Must Preserve Dignity, This condition will not prevail in the senate. It is a smaller and more compact body, more jealous of ite dignity and po senator will |}@UTLOOK BRIGHT FOR COM take kindly to coercion from Wi PLETION OF THE JACKSON colleagues in the lower house. STREET REGRADE. If the anti-saloon forces can bring |g jy probable that Lewis & Wiley, thr senators over to their sidej#ie contractors on the Jackson at. they can make their bill a Jaw.ieamrade, will resume Work on Mon Otherwise they will ve to y morning, again at the relipeet a {hin “afternoon the commit the compromise which Ritdenstahes ton voluntary plolge te te willing to give them, alve the assessment immunity pe jgortted under an adverse decision lehe sup: court, only lacked th nar six property to * give them the number to permit the work to continue ender the supreme court ruling ithe district was almort $200,000 shy jaf the amount stipulated in the orig ntract. The new petitions ure the payment of this sum on which basis to complete the * * nal Rea me | will ine to the contractora, SENATE MEMORIAL SERVICES. |they have oar WASHINGTON, Feb, 6.—Hy | ork The senate today held services |*#k kA RHR REA RRR kok in memory of the late William|* * Boyd Allison, senator from Jowa, | ® BANK CLEARINGS, * Senators Dolliver, Hale, Teller, | Beattie. o Aldrich, Daniel, Perkins, Borah, \® Clearings today $ 1,086.31 & Cummings and others spoke, —Ali|® Balances $24/688.10 % praised the statesmanship and |¢ Tacoma. personal qualities of Senator All} * Clearings today...$ 666,770.00 % son. * Balances 44,023.00 & . * Portland. * : Traine on ne Boccnlen and Wil’ | & Clearings today, ,.$ 905,919.00 * people over the Harlem river an Nalances 165,600.00 wually a i ln A ie a i i ee i a LAST EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR THE STAR AIMS To give you all the news as soon as it happens | } and in a way that will interest and instruct you, PRICE. ONE CENT UNNATURAL MOTHER CARES NAUGHT FOR HER BABES eg arty DO * since convow's™ COURT. Woman Would Abandon If The Star ordinance, tegulating the nu r of per jto be carried on street cars in Seattle, fails to come back fre Five Children in the the council committee, in the hands of which it now is, ‘The Court Room. 1Star will have no regret It has served its purpose well, It has forced the council ve you, to action and that action was responsible for the report of Hos psy “d clatit yall | Supt. Bouillon published in these columns yesterda d,.and the youngest cwotmanaae | Mr. Bouillon has fairly and squarely put the situation up oj4 to the city council. In the absence of voluntary betterment by De care a great deal for | the Seattle Electric company, the councilmen, and they alone, ng to give have the power to provide the people of Seattle with adequate not anne a street car service. True, Mr. Bouillon merely told us what we already 4 wae Ga | was appearing | But he put it into figures, gained fr an exha ve in a- | again usband, arrested two “ . on & charge ol tion, He has told us the exact number of cars required to| Mek Ago on @ charge of mon-aupss Ty handle the traffic in this city, and has given his expert opinior Scored by Judge rag jthat there is no reason why this n er Of ca cannot be Are you craz he inquiréd... ) onredti fi laned : Not that 1 know af,” replied Mrs, | Operated ove the s i ¢ Huffinz | Mr. I uncilme hat they st Judge Gordon's face flushed grim» . " ly, and, le s over his desk, he I has c e ol cattle that their « . He has made re peor f i Poke shortly ants do their duty there need be no longer any occasion for If you are not, you are the ithe extremely inefficient street car service in th enty I ever “= not enna | It is now up to the people of Seattle to see that the council- The scene in the court room wie 7 ‘ mt = umatic, On the one hand the jmen do their duty. There is no need for delay and no excuse mother and her bevy @f | for failure to act. little ones, and on the © « the father, to ; Also, it is now up to the councilmen to show to the people | Chiiaren cried and ‘held em aine held out thelr who elected them whether they are in the employ of the Seattle | hands in pitiful appeal. ; sald Judge Electric company or the men and women they are supposed to represent. You are released,” Gordon, turning to the prisoner, “ag 1 believe the evidence has shown —% . : . 5 that you are a hard-working When: The Star asked Councilman Weave introduce and that you have done your é The Star ordinance, it hardly expected that that ordinance | to support your family Would Abandon Children, Turning to a bystander, the un- natural mother said brazenly: “I am going to leave the whole bunch right here in this courtroom: Later Judge Gordon invited the women to talk to him privately, and endeavored to reason with her. She finally said that she would keep the youngest, barely two months old, but she did not care what became would ever find its way through the council. It did believe, ho means of brir That The St justified in so believing is now It has resulted in the Bouillon investigation and the report of yesterday, and if the people of Seattle do not see the opportunity now offered them, and force their councilmen into immediate action, then the people are not deserving of any better treatment at the) hands of the Seattle Electric company than they are now getting. Almost entirely, and certainly without the assistance of any of the other papers of the city, The Star has fought this fight for better street car service. It has pointed out the way, and it is now up to the people to take the trail. ever, that this ordinance would be the matter of street car conditions to a head ar self-evident fit young chiid,” said Gordon, Babes Will Be Cared F “I don't care,” satd Mr shrugging her shoulders, al! then; I don’t want ‘em The father, immediately up on his release, made arrangements for keeping the children temporarle ly with Mother Gorman in while he prepares a home for them ‘numclaw. He is a miner, and, according to the testimony of bors, has always given his earnings to his wife and family, ak though they have not been Ii % together for some time on of his having changed his place of labor. : The woman will be held and amined by the insanity board, her statements this morning cate that she is either mentally um balanced or an unnatural freak womanhood. person to have the care of @ AWAIT WORD NEW CODE A FROM THE» WORK OF VG =| ART BARTENDER MAY BE WILL REGULATE THE. ABLE TO CLEAR PUBLISHING OF UP MYSTERY. PAPERS. DELAWARE IS” LAUNCHED © TODAY GREATEST WAR VESSEL IN THE WORLD SLIDES 3 Helossis Had Many Com-'1s Going to Say What Shall panions on Night He Not Be Printed—All Was Shot. for Public Good. INTO WATER, aa ge eee an ee the Wap By T. J. DILLON. NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb, ivon, physicians and friends anxious OLYMPIA, Feb. 6. The more 6.—By U. P.—The United States the proposed new criminal code is battleship Delaware, the Investigated the more wonderful it| ly await th: oa are consclousners in the first sign b of returning ly of Harry great- that viest vessel Helossia, the Greek found perate-| becomes. The prosecuting attor ever took a plunge into any wa- ly wounded yesterday morning on|neys have attempted to regulate! ter of the world, was launched the old Grant st. bridge the newspaper business in its news,| here today. Thousands of per A single sentence, a single word. | advertising and business depart-| cons from all parts of the coun- —. the ors Po ng rend | ments, and their restrictions ran all| try, including many. from the a aatied wureatnainn ce uresn|the way from the prohibition of} little state whose name appears n the | medical advertising to giving a] on the world’s largest fighting |Jeading up to and culmina infliction of the wound wh false circulation statement h now attended the launching, | holds him on t ree of the grave The code eliminates from the : en: Ax the first semblance of under-| news columns all murders, Mur-|_ Miss Anne Cahill became the anding dawns in his glassy eyes,| der, if the code should become a | *POnser of the Delaware when she some one will ask, “Who shot you” | taw would be known only by hear-| *™ashed a bottle of rare old Deltas Upon his answer depends the life! Jo. and word of mouth, until the| ¥4"@ Champagne against the of at least one, and probably several persons, for it is now generally con ceded that there were many persons in the galoon previous to the expe | bow of the craft as it slid slow! down the ways. The vessel gall momentum as {t passed the cheerh crowds and took its maiden ph | person had been tried, and, if con vieted, no word of the execution may be uttered. dition to the lower district, which | Feeutied in Helossis’ murder or sul-| , After the Reporter, in the waters of the James river olde. His ansy will probably give| The law in this respect does not } without a mishap. @ clue to the robber of the Central | confine its retribution to the owner| Among those who witnessed thas) saloon, or publisher of the newspaper, but|jaunching were Governor James Meanwhile detectives are busy en- bs the reporter who writes the| Pennewill of Delaware a staff > deavoring to discover other things. ie sinh yp 8 Pennewill o aware and Mig “story” and makes him gulity of a) officers, —_ ag MMlated. Tver fahneag | SFOS® misdemeanor. Immediately following the launghe — revolver, with a three-tnch barrel, |_| Nothing that a notorious woman | ing the Invited guests were drivem | hammer action, rubber grip, and|does may be mentioned, whether) back to the Warwick hotel, where |) numbered 6 of 38 caliber, to| the deed is good, bad or indifferent.|} they were entertained at luncheom 99 whom it was sold, and of what firm| The bill states flatly that nothing! by the ship yard officials, Goyer. | the mystic characters LIF—EED— | of her may be mentioned, If she is} nor Swanson of Virginia and Gove a) iSc, which Appear on the leather! mangled in an auto accident, or| ernor Pennewill and others spoke, soabbard of the gun, are the price saves half a dozen persons from be ing burned to death, nothing may be printed about ORDERS ARREST For the Public Good. Why don't you women whose There are other matters that the! husbands do not support you ‘ proper action. I'm Ured of hear! “4 mark. This information might lead to the solving of what otherwise may always remain a mystery, if Helosls dies without talking. | BRITISH CABINET DEADLOCKED LONDON, Feb. 6.—By U, P.-| reporter may not inquire into under} the penalties of the bill, all of which | is upheld by the p nting attor-| neys as for the public good. One provision is the result of a certain newspaper's efforts to en-|of these husbands who do not sup> The British cabinet deadlocked | rage the populace to mob. violence | port their wives. again today over the question of | in the case of a young man who| “If we are going to have laws, T whether six Dreadnaughts, at the | Killed prominent Seattle citizen, |#™ sole to see that the law ts'@ms ag cost of $33,000,000, or two at a cost {of $11,000,000, should be ordered, | |'The lords of admiralty demand the | construction of six monster battle ships, contending that no less will There is a specific penalizing any newspaper to a breach of the peace provision for ee Instruct the prosecuting attorney inciting i sue a warrant for the husband’) ‘est. Ce * ‘L will continue this case. for 60%) days.” Republicans will hold banquet | meet the requirements of the navy,|The Young Men's Republican club] Such was the culing made by Bue iy Phew yey me. 4 OF the Davy. [of Seattle’ will, hold. thelr Antal |perior Judge A. W. Frater 49 amelie | banquet in celebration of Linooln's|divoree proceedings instituted By times, but resulted in no decision |iintniday at the Hotel Lincoln, tn Minnie s against her Muss — or settlement this city, at 8:40 o'clock on the even Wdaward Fri alleging none jing of February 1 1909. A list of | support Mrs. Frees stated that Every year 100,000,000 people are | patriotic selections and other music|husband did not support her, am ferried over the Harlem river, which | will be rendered during the evening | that he san habitual indulger iq |separates Manhattan from Brooklyn, ' by Curtis intoxicants,