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THE SEATTLE STAR = TWELVE PAGES, THE SEATTLE STAr ONE CENT. HOME DITION - 1, NO. WASH., ARRAN SEATTLE, ‘HUBBY IS NOT HALF AS TRIFLING AS THE WIFIE” FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909. GHINESE MAID TWELVE PAGES. CITY WILL LOSE VAST a net Miss Webber, Who Plays) the Trifling Wife at the! Moore, Says This and camel Means It. BY BONNIE WHEELER, | | fOR BURNING. yi HS B00 S Pested a Letter Before His Suicide Telling the Undertaker to Do. Hubby wifie ae trifling as thene rie Webbe: hey days Mine ways Car who ts | The Girl From now 5 Loute—in ra” company aying at and Mins ustrous the big black most prosate then jo, BAYS we t is law ar Mr. Man d th long in this palm too] a twin sou right lgh a the rest at goe ne making of a double life said Mise Webt night He is goog some of these days to the realize tion that If he wants to keep his wife's affections he must start the they are married and nover coase courting her Must Court His Wife, That is way Mr going hold hie own,” said] Loute, for Miss Webber was ex-| pounding her views of this double. | life business in a dresaing-room talk and one could think o' sore, her other than as Le the wife, | whose daring dout Was one} of the plots of the p the ean fascinating Loute even at close range and without the footlights. and the elusive twist she gave to the sentence made the filusion double real, and both views of t sentence equally clear If one had a mind to gathe statistics,” sald Mies Webber, paus-| ing to slip a diamond earring toto place, “they would find more wives palling the wool over the busbands' | eyes than the other way, both in high and middle class soclety We expect wivos to trifle in high soctety,” continued Miss Webber } whenever * Brrange for netnera aah Beals, Pioneer block funds for thi pose. mened) “LA LA ORE ; ly body wi found be Georgian hote (Signed) be etter Was not dated? but a tmark showed at It was! ts #1 the post office at 10:30 6 to w tay never he only Man de sul Ml arrangements wil! be fi the arrival of the . John W. La Cal the attorney referred later, is @ present bia, but he will re ih a few days. + PATROL WRECKED. patro: war hit by & car ABOU 10 o'clock, and Pa Me Osboroe vas slight fe the crash. The ma @eming down Firat ay from behind by are po. 115 9 short dis elo the *' The wagon te AELEF NOT | GIVEN WITH An Bt | (Ty Ueited Pree) NG OUT CUPID. FASHONABLE ROTEL United Pree) | NEW YORK, Avg. 6 GELES, Cal, Aug. 6— | Mackey, the well known Califor though they jook cpon {t as a ma of the superior court fia millionaire, who hax resided tertal tx ‘ement over (he Dingley | all southern California ealies teens ae ver Cf pitt. ‘The new jaw has manifest rapid action In granting iy a London police court for riding “fects and would have had more mismated couples for a horse into one of the hotels, ac- but for the force cording to a cablegram here today. the president thing, however, | to other routine busi- Pa ay Aly ag he A Aly: was done by cougrese to lower the | Ip court. Judge James yee | cost of the prime necessities of life He did so and/or to give retief from the excessive} Murb by the im and was temsiderably dam (Continued on Page Nine.) States, the nowspapers are prac ut ye ws th the belief that dors not give mnk Jay o ronsumer What he should have tically new tariff Jaw jhorse into the hotel and around 16 divorce decrees the billiard tabie. ‘Wahginge in color from wan cited to appear in police court. | cost of living » and for cause) In paying his fine he said he was, The Sun editortally saya: “Well, It notesupport to satie because he had won the| let's make the beat of it, and be ee os ‘glad that it ts over.” emer nee nsaanage eer a eee ae = BIG GAMBLE ENOUGH OR THIS LITTLE WOMAN or “Lucky” Big Chance, a ® gambler's chance million dollar stake ithe fortune ‘that wae bling, Mre. B J, win, who has been two weeks leading Wat the Washington An- ; Ot the dife which heap of shining oming, this worm- frail and weak to accept the $20 by “Lucky,” by a r the amount that her and won tn the cool miition quiet and rest and Th Seattic was not Pesterday, except by a le friends. tn company , Mrs. O. Bennett, | Vancouver today. # Bimple Woman. {a & slender jittle dark eyes that neem a the etfects tie sim- Gress..cven refusing befeffed coiffure, Seems to be to get} from the glitter | t the gold into! tats Lucky's” checkered life On at possible, [am numerous love affairs, were hing she MRS. E. J. "LUCKY" BALDWIN, attractive wom h of that. She very dit-| r this held ¢ oe that the future | elite The | will fere Upon her return to Seattle, Mra.| Haldwin expects to remain for some time. ‘PRISON WORKERS 10 HOLD BIG MEETING been com | jaon association, held here Au of the most proml the last doomed to disappointment. A set And what her plans | tlement out of court was effected ar Whe fe not willing and now lucky Mra, Baldwin is lead and peace is all|ing the life she desires pd , thoew life as the | kance. No more gambiing, no more Ot the boldest turt-gam eee WILL SHUT UP SHOP AND COME 10 FAIR at, Wante | | quiet e} ide his pot be br OM the woman wi that pe r nd she is the one who famous Baldwin have town of Renton will Arrangements close up all ite doors and come to the A-¥ n, With a baud, a glee club and a girls’ drill team, and & i “f couple of lodge teams as well, the | 14 to 19 people of the mining suburb | nent prison of ~~ ie will pour into the Ivory City, They | will be in my f \ | will gather ja the Amphithes vatre in| to the widespread interest in nl the afternoon to hear @ few re-|reform work, the convention marks by President Chilberg of the pers to be - oad most inter her | expe D d Judge Wilson Gay, | esting ever held here to eeaerew will Pe ey Indiana Day,| The first three days’ sosstons A million. She Seattle Business College Day and | will be held in the Y. M,C. A. aud her biuff car-| Washington Rural Letter Carriers’ |ftorium, the convention closing the country | Association Day, and ought to be| with American Prison Association Malacious de-|a busy one at the exposition, |duy at the A-Y-P, EB, August 19, prac pleted for the annual congress 4A clause in bh Lihe Wa death, wh oh Nelr atternpted to heir war to lone designated in the Took a Chance. took 8 cha: a fhe put up Wee close American is to t Mar workers attendance coal MiSs CARRIE WEBBER, PS a RO: consider | | Smith will serve a II do not | by AND AFFINITY COME TO FAIR Dock Ding Wants Chan Who Flitted Away From |* Frisco, Arrested. Back of a telegram received by the police departmont today axking that Chan Mory and Wong Wing of Ban Fratciasco be apprehended on the charge of grand larceny te a most Interesting Chinese affinity story Chan Mory is a very faseinating Chinese maiden of Dupont at, San Prancieco, whose wany charme subdued Dock Ding, the prosecuting witness In the case, and unttl re eontly Ding believed that his ardent love for the alluring Chan Mory wae returned. Now he knows that such was not the cane. Chan Mory the upfaithful, had an affinity Wong Wing appeared in that role, and #0 successful wan his woo ing of little Chan Mory that she con sented to Mit quietly away with Wing, leaving Ding to suffer the stings of the affinity microbe raged and broken hearted, Ding rished to the police station tn San Prancteco, and today a com pialnt stands agafhet the olive skin ned Chan Mory and the almond "leyed Wong Wing According to the complaint filed Ding, the two are spending a /UUOGE YAKEY MUST ANSWER TOCOMMITTEE Repeating his serous charges Judge J. B. Yakey made to the Atate July 29, James W.} Bryan has flied Information with| Pilay Alien, chatrman of the legte | lative committee appointed to tn Yestigate all the state officers, fol | lowing the filing of charges against ; the insurance commissioner “The committee will theet Monday,” eatd Mr ah ten this | morning. “We will then whether we will Pr A nat County sap county Har associats the | to whether would have jurisdic | ition in this ease, but 1 predict the feommittee will take them up and) [probe the thing to the bottom,” a Yakey t# on the bench af superior court of King county | mai of his time, necessitating 6 a (Continued on ae Nine.) Chinese honeymoon visiting the faly at Beaitle Ding charges both with grand lareeny, Helore Wing spread hie wings and flew away with the pret ty Chtnese maid, Ding alleges tb thoy gath, bracelets acd rings and $450 in gold which belonged to Ding, but which the unfaithful fiancee had in her | pomension and which Ding feels eure the affinity Is now enjoying ‘PENTLAND RELEASED ON A PROMISE TO SUPPORT HIS WIFE At the earnest and ‘tearful behest jot Dis wife, James F. Pentland was any substitutes for the real steel} probably yesterday released from the county |pen, and consequently his fingers Saas re on the order of Justice Fred C. Fo" wen. Hit sentence of six months |sere fingers for five thousand a | Offer in contradiction to those of Mr ‘for desertion and bonsupport is | hig wife $5 per weok, and to report }to the court once a month, until ‘any further order te made. TODAY'S TABASURY REPORT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—The re en. of the treasury today shows $2,499,762. Disbursements \supanion Ae IEC: INSIST THAT THIS BOY SHALL TRY TO BE MAN Judge and Prosecutor Re-| soy ming canes wn P smoking clgarets and he wad | fuse to Accept the Plea Made by Smith That He Is Worthless. BONNIE WHEELER, This old world, except in rare instances, values @& tan higher than he values himeeif, It may, and does very often, under value a bat seldom will it take the trouble to place a higher estimate on the man than he places on himself. A man is usually that which he Jooks like, and when he rates bim- self as good only the prison cell, the world, as a rule, accepts his valuation and he gete what he is looking for Yesterday Judge man, acting on the sistant Prowecuting Holtzhelmer valuation Sil rested las grand bever man, Hoyd J, Tall advice of Aw refused to ageept the which young Arthur ed on himself when ar. week on the charge of larceny, Smith refuting to & settlement, saying that he felt he was only fit for the prison cell Sent to Reform School. When Smith, who la only years old, came up before Judge Tallman yesterday for sentence. the judge explained that he had heen requested by Attorney Holtz heimer to give the youth as Mght ence an possible, and he re sentenced Smith to the reform school at Monroe In place of the penitentiary, which the guilty young man had sald was the only place for him, aa he was ready and anxious to learn his lew] 28 son If the youth does ever learn the lesson,” sald Judge Tallman, epeak jing of the case, “he will learn @ |better leason at the reformatory than he would at the penitentary In company with older convicts. For this in the first time young sentenée in jail he Is @ vielous ‘oung man, However, I relied on belleve Smith's sentence is for not less! |than six months and for not more than 16 years, which will probably, inean that he will be a free man Inaide of a year, Whether the low fon he will receive at the reforma. tory will prove sufficient, remains to be seen, No word has been received from Smith's father, who resides in Win- nipeg, Manitoba, and who !s said to be very wealthy. He has, to all appearances, cast the lad off, thie not being the first trouble Smith has gotten his father into. Tho only one who has stuck to the un fortunate youth is the wife, whose honeymoon was so rudely shatter ed with the arrest of her husband She has announced that she will take up her residence near Mon roe, where she can see her husband onee & week RARER RRR Attorney Frank | * * AeVoP. ATTENDANCE. * ® Yesterday's admis * lone 25,063 & *® Total admissions 1,659,vi5 ® jh at, A laliaD ll Belllell all SEATTLE MAN SEES HIS WIFE WITH ANOTHER MAN INA MOTION PICTURE, Frank W, Shire went to a Scent theatre on Second av, one night last One of the moving pic The down September tures was Friaco at fleet time, boys were marching while Here's the story he sailor Market st., the sidewalks tolls In & divorce complaint filed In a crowd packed the superior court today Shire saw two familiar faces the curb. One was his wife near sup |powed to be visiting her sister in the Investigation made by Mr Holizheimer. He advised the light nentence Should Start With Cigarets, ‘The only advice which I gave Smith,” continued the judge, “wae when I saw by the stain on his fingers that he smoked cigarets. 1 | told him then that one of the beat reforms he could make would be to Spokane other Was a man who had roomed at the Shire home, The two faces which Shire knew #0 well |weamed to mock him as they laugh led and moved thelr silent lips, Then the pleture went out, the lights went jon and the show was over Three weeks after that Mrs, Shire returned home, He sald nothing, but walted to catch her in a trap.) | She talked at length on what a Mory and Wong Wing,| ed in & number of gold! MAYOR WORKS. -OVENTIME IN ~ SUGNING NAME Spends Just Writing His Name to Public Documents, | and He Is Tired of It. No wonder Mayor M get rubber finger protectors think of it! Pvery week the elty’s jchief executive signs his name 6,000 Nearly every time enter office daring the day he be busily signing bends and warrants that require bis signature t legal, and it will take & Important man, with a important deai to discuss. to make him quit working the pen | & working day in the year the mayor has to sign hie same over 800 times, and It req little Ume and exertion to ¢ he day's work Thus it was because of this large ameunt of pen work that the mayor Was forced to buy protectors for his fingers. Former Mayor Moore suf fered from the same source, and he tried to remedy the matter by using & rubber stamp. But City Comptro! roll eat down on this echeme 1 won't pay any money out on & warrant signed with a rabber j stamp,” he sald, and nobody blamed thin, either ed it wae back to the quill for had to Juuwt umes wil make hem | mighty tnbahty mplete owing advantage | pertence of Moore's ex tare sore. But who wouldn't have lyear, to say nothing of whole gobs | ul interposition of | charges, There ts some question aa /*#M@pended upon his promiae to pay {ot Boner? DEL i 5 SIR OF A TATTLER Emphatically denying every statement made by Terrence O'Brt en and corroborated by James P. Gleason yesterday afternoon, W. T. Dovell, a prominent local attorney, took the stand this morning before the legislative investigating com- | mittee, now prying into the evi- dence regarding the charges brought against the state supreme | court Yesterday afternoon Terrence O'Brien, executor of the famous Sul livan will, awore that in a conver. ation he had with Dovell about a month ago, Dovell told him that the decision of the upper court in the Sullivan will case was caused through the influence of Judge Milo Root on his fellow member of the supreme court, Judge Herman D, Crow This morning Mr. Dovell donied | any knowledge of any such conver j sation and declared that he did not elieve Mr, Gleason had corroborat Jed the statement story grown on the tongue of a tat tler,” he sald. The testimony of O'Brien and} | Gleason waa read by the shorthand reporter in an attempt to refrechen the memory of Mr. Dovell, but without effect In answer to a question put Mr. Thayer, Dovell declared by that he did not believe the assertion he} is credited with ree mo VING PICTURE iS CAUSE OF DIVORCE pleasant visit she had had with her | sister in Spokane For over a month Shire waited for his wife to make a alip, but the clev er woman never did Then he could stand it no longer He openly accused her of her al leged perfidy, A scene followed and left home, even though he of fered to forget and forgive I don't love you, that's ali,” sald The husband waited for his wife to come back, but she never came nor did she ever write or send him any word, so this morning he filed suit for divorce in the superior court of King county, Shire is an electrician. He now lives at the La hotel she she ed * * * WEATHER FORECAST * * =©Fair and warmer tonight and * * Saturday; light northeast * * winds * RENN NMN US MERERED Hours Each Day r Harry Car-| Miller hasn't tried to use| “It Is simply a} * | there | SUM IF THE CITY HALL SITE GOES TO STRUVE Pips Is Worth From $70,000 to $100,000 a Year to Leaseholders, While the City Would Have to Pay $13,000 a Year tor the Use of the Four Upper Floors of the Building A QUESTION FOR MR. STRUVE Will Mr. Struve accept the proposition to nandle the city hall property on the terms sub- mitted by him, for a guaranteed profit of $17,- 000 per year, which he states, in his estimate, is all the profit he expects to make under his propo- sition to the city? Will he do this with the un- derstanding, under proper guarantee, that all sur- plus would be turned over to the city, and that all accounts and contracts would be supervised by the city? iree no} tert hall on the an act of business Mr ve a bare md only any, and which the gain with to that exe 1 by Metr 1 a close s¢ Mr from his at that ld tres would tend te pirtve fig pr In reality t » the belief that the profit posed investment would be $17,500 a uld tween $70,000 a ja year And Mr wants this for The Star has secu Struve 50 years. igures from two responsible business 1 with estir which it will men and compared th ate its own, ruve In the matter of annual earning Mr. Struve estimates $143,- | 920, while The Star estimates $168,000. Mr. Struve bases his estimate on the renta on 12 floors, at ! of ten rooms $25 a month, with 21 rooms at $30 a month, with nine stories at less than $125 a month and a basement at $500 a month, making his total of $143,820 a year. ‘The Star bases its estimate of 12,000 square feet of ground a year, amounting to $48,000, other floors, at a rental of $1 or $120,000, total rental of floor at a rent of $4 a square foot and 120,000 square feet on the 12 }a square foot a year, $168,000 The following making a is a comparison of the estimates of yearly expenses: Star. 1,500 10,000 10,000 771 §,000 46,200 17,520 Struve. 7,900 21,500 Insurance ....... Administration 1... sessseseeee Vacancies ..... . ‘ Sinking fund ..... Supplies and repairs | Interest on cost ... | Maintenance .....06 seeseeees Total . 920 According to The Star's fig me would be $168,000 and the expenditures $97,920, leaving a profit of $70,080, In 50 years this profit, at $70,000 a year, would amount |to three million five hundred thousand dollars, irrespective of all interest Mr. Struve's proposition will allow him to borrow | }money to build ures th the return the | principal in §0 years, and give him a net profit for his business the city hall, pay the interest on it foresight of $70,000 a year | Or, if he were to forego his profits for 17 years, he can pay back the interest and principal | of the lease What does the it Struve? and for the remaining 33 years make a profit of $168,000 a year. of all this profit that goes to Mr Struve’s Plan, In brief, Mr, Str erect a sixteen-story t old city hal of 50 n the building. 1 rtionate cost of the four top floor rs devoted to the use of the city are to be turned over to the city. In|» 1 be $200, and the Interest on return for these four floors Mr. \inie sum at 6 per cent is $12,000, This Strave wants to be exempt from) ¢19.000 Is what Struve proposes to we taxation tree w mento and light, a t shan on res Wien) MONEY IN THE BANK — FOLK FROM CHEHALIS ¢ | FOR MISS BROMLEY ARE AT FAIR TODAY alized on| Chehalis county, 3,000 strong, ball game | came to the A-¥.P, exposition to- y in special excursion trains, and celebrated a big day at the falr, where the hospitality of Col. D, H, Chapman, the Chehalis county com. missioner, was enjoyed, and the beauties of the Chehalis County building appreciated The formal welcoming exercises of the day were held at the Che building, President Chilberg ming the visitors, and Geo, 8, sreon, of Hoquiam, responding. A year mn the) The pr site, Four furnished ption of $ and tal exer | | | rt Close to $2,000 was res }the Bromley benefit base jat Dugdale's park last urday and this amount, together with the $1,148 which the be t matinee and the dance at Dream netted will be’ turned over to & new com mittee of tru wh duty It will be to purchase the home for Florence Hro: and her littl family Mrs, F. A who originated the {dea of buying for the brave young woman, who had made such a splendid fight to keep her brothers and sisters together after the death of their mother that after the house is paid and some furniture purchased will remain a snug little bank Cook hor a home Judge Lemoreaux Dead. BEAVER DAM, Wis, Aug Silas W. Lemoreaux, United land commissioner under dent Cleveland, died yester say t— Judge States Pre ‘day amount In the