The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1909, Page 4

ATTORNEYS WANT NEW STATUTES SEVERAL CHANGES IN LAWS WILL BE URGED. They Favor Nomination of Judges at the Pri- maries. Boveral se {ng the governor to ree Jon of the | s of resolutions ask nd to the apectal sea lature 4 amend Seat 4 be put on the stat the enactment of ments that tle think shou te books, will be intre meeting of the King Co sociation at 8 o'clock to The bar association ¢ ing was called priv to take some ac thon towar securing the repeal of the law passed at the last legis lative session whereby the nom feation of judges for the state su pre’ court was taken from the direct primary system and put back in the hands of delegates at state political conventions The loca! bar association without doubt will go on record for direct primaries for the nomination of aw preme court Judges as well as other officers. Among the other propositions broached will be the repeal of the law sill 1 through the legislats at the last session amending the act regarding the recovery of damages by the dependent collateral heirs of a man killed through the wrong ful act or gligence of another so as to render municipal corp fons only Hable, and exempting rallroads and other corporations from such Mabitity C. A. Reynolds will Introduce a get of resolutions asking the gov ernor to recommend an amendment of the law which wil! make al! cor porations liable to collateral b dependent upon persons killed by wrongful act or negligence. CHECKS PAYABLE 17,00 YEARS FROM DATE CAUSES SUIT (iy Uelted Pree) OAKLAND, Cal, June 17.—Five checks, payable 17,000 years from date, and representing a total sam of $7,960, have plunged the su perior court into a maze of diffi./seats will be given away free to) paper, Employes of T culties, The checks wore drawn by A. 8. Gotthelf, and are payable to Mrs. Sarah Bowman, since de coased. Three of the checks were made payable in 19010, the others in 19012, and were found sealed in an envelope bearing the admonition in Mrs. Bowman's writing: “This is the property of A. 8. Gotthelf. «No one is to open it but himself.” Gotthelf claimed that the words on the envelope amounted to a cancellation. He filed suit asking that such action be taken, and se cured an order restraining A. J Bowman, the executor of Mrs. Bow- man’s estate, from transferring the checks. jutter, ranch Lambe, Cholee steers, Ib. ...... Dressed Monts, Veal, large teeeseene Veal, good medium. . Poultry Foods. 1 ratch food, 90-lb ak mmon Sense Food, 90-in. ee In 108, $6.00 per ton big Feed. Woers Washington riley, ton eed wheat, ton op, ton .... ole corn, ton acked corn, to ‘eed corn m™ alled oi ley, mixed a. herrios 156 Local strawborrt Clarke Beodiings ted ‘ ucumbers, doi ° Special Eastern Excursions guat 11 and 12, by Oregon | Nav. Co, Chicago and 72.60; St. Louls, $67.50; New York, 108.60; Omaha, Kansas City and Missouri River points, $60. On July 1 and August 11, to Denver and re turn, $65. Full particulars, tickets and reservations at Union Ticket Ofttice, 608 First av. EB. E. Bills, General Agent Ra duced at the} ty Bar as} return, | BRIDE 1S DESERTEDDEY MATTHEWS NAMED BECAUSE SHE HAS REV. MATTHEWS NAMED CORNS ey (ny Unlted Proms) | PORTLAND, Ore, June 17--Prof |J, K. Marah, who saya he is a phrenologiat, and styles himself an Jintimate of the God, of Destiny, ts fon hia way back to Tacoma, where he will face a charge of deserting }his bride of six weeks because she |was suffering fr Mareh was arrested yesterday on 4 farm five miles east of Portland where he ts sald to have been hiding. The couple is past 60 | Years old om corns | a ALFRED VAND (By Untred Press) LONDON, June 17.—The upper most question in the minds of the better class of London's public ts “What ff it was brought to bear jon Coroner Thomas, the ofty offt jclals Involved, and certain of the newspapers, which were in posses sion of the facts, to suppress the Ruts, who figured prominently at the time Mra. Alfred G. Vanderbilt teued for divorce? | The London press, after it found that the story was public up with the keenest in evening's editions. Today the story ts ignored entirely, with the jexception of a perfunctory mention | | in the morning news Someone le Guilty Tt {9 declared that several of the elty officials have been guilty of malfeasance by their conduct in }the case, and there ts a possibility “ bare posaibility—that prosecu | Uons will follow An effort was made today to get READERS OF WILL SEE | “The Servant in the House,” 4 powerful drama, written by Chartes Rann Kennedy, and which comes to Seattle backed by the most en: | |thusiastic erities of the east, will be witnessed by 150 readers of Tt | Star as the guests of this paper | Sev five pairs of seats will be given away free to the public in an interesting hid word contest, |which will be a test of skill and | neatness. | ‘The Star has purchased 160 of the best seats in the Moore theatre for the nine performances of “The |Servant in the House” and these |those who turn in the most satis | factory answers in the hidden word contest. Hidden Words. Five complete sentences will ap pear In The Star, the first on Mon jday, June 21; the second on Tuce June 22; the third on Wednes June 23; the fourth on Thurs June 24, and the fifth on day, | Friday, June 25. These sentences will be broken up and the words forming each sen tence will be found in various parte of the paper, scattered tn the read }ing matter. Each of the words so hiddén throughout the paper will be {im different type than the letters preceding and following it. The name of the play, “The Servant in the House,” will be cbunted as a single word. For example: “The Servant in the House is a great play.” This is a sentence which ts, under the terms of the cont | made up of five words. The of the play, counting as one word. will be found somewhere In the pa per in different type than the letters .|preceding and following it The lother four words of the sentence will be found in other parts of the papér also In difierent type. When you have found these hidden words it is only necessary to join them A LONDON MYSTERY news of the suleide of Mary Agnes! A GOOD SHOW , | column, WALLA WALLA, June 17.—-Thoq ment of domestic science until tt “{ balked and then ran when 1) Whitman college board of trustees could rank with other departmenta naw those corna,” sald Professor) have adopted & number @fdmport | Bishop Keator of Tacoma wae siarsh to Detective Mellyer ant recommendations regarding the | placed at the head of a committee “My wife ta all right oopt those | Institution, chose several new tench to Inveatigate the teaching system ore and fixed the salaries for all of the college and make recom terrible looking things on her feet 1 couldn't stand for them, #0 skipped, It ts embarrassing for) The me to be tn this position, beeaune of the fact that I pride myself on giving people happy tn married life The couple was married In Te coma, The bride declares sho will make Marah support her In spite of her corns, mendations to the board later, The other members are Rev, M, A, Mat 1) the teachers on & definite schedule poard dropped tle depart mo: ee ERBILT IN }Q statement from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt regarding the intima tion that Mra, Ruiz took her life when his visite ceased to her In hor beautiful Grosvenor atreet house early in May, but the young millionaire, who has been having the time of hie life the horse show, and with his coaching trips, | refused to be Interviewed. | Vanderblit Does Not © One of young Van friends ts authority for the {ment that Vanderbilt knew of the suicide sinee the night of the tras ody, May 16. Miss Hiisabeth Caney the American woman who lived) with Mra. Ruts, is said to have nott fied Vanderbilt shortly after she} discovered her friend dying from a selfinfiicted plato! wound, If Vanderbilt did know of it, tt ev dently had no depressing influence on him, for he has been & busy man in London social life for the past) few weoks and has lately appeared to be more jovial than in any of his former visite to London THE STAR correct: nen together to make the —THE— Neatneas a Necessity. The correct reading of the sen tence. together th punctuation and the neat apearance of the an awer, will be taken into considers tion in awarding the prisos, and the contest will be governed entirely) by neatness and skill | All answers must be n jaddressed to the Con The Star, Seattle, Wash. Failure) to comply with thia rule will dis| qualify the answer. The contest | will be open to every reader of the Star and) are barred of the Moore theatre jfrom the contest SALVATION ARMY TO ENTERTAIN OFFICERS, Commissioner Thomas Batill, of | the Salvation Army, will arrive tn! Seattle from his home In Chicago | tomorrow to conduct special serv) foes at the ball st 16th ay, 8. and Washington st turday evening and all day Sunday. Col. Jenkins, of this city, Brigadier Fyn, of Chi} jeago, and Maje. Faulkner, of Port | land, and Durant, of Butte, wil! also) be In attendance. i } | | ular price $45, on sale | Are you looking for a lodging | house? Gee our business chance Friday and Saturday A ee EYEGLASSES | at you particular about your personal arance will tthe our pew finger spring mountings, on jand off with one hand without | touching lenses. 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