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STAR WOW Ti 1 HE SEATTLE HOME EDITION e FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1909. ILL OMENS ARE SURE TO COME h FR 1V COMPANY HERE = Allege Mismanagement and Many Oth- in Sensational Suit Filed in the Superior Today Against the Puget Sound Realty As- BAD LUCK STALKING ABROAD, AND WILL GET You IF you DON'T WATCH OUT, Thirteen two aldes to an ordin ary bed. One is the right, and the] other's the wrong Get out the Wrong side and you'll see what's! going to happen you all day man got out the ot ‘ved this morning When he went to brea were two knives table. Then he began to think His wife said ‘Gee, that's luck, It's the thirteenth, too He le Peeved a Bit That made him angry And as picked up his umbretia to go to the office, it opened wide up in the living room. “Gol darn it,” he said, “IT bet I get fired today,” and he went out ties: are wrong side ktast, there crow on the | bad into the handling of the trust funds of the Puget Sound Realty Associates, alleging that between | heb. 16, 1806, and April 17, 1907 some $346,194.12 was paid into 3) 7 & peach of & grouch | fund known as Series | Fund, and He just got outaide the front door that of this fund but $206,867.90 has | “be8 A white cat ran down the| been Invested, and the defendants sidewalk In front of bim all the way have failed and refused to give an |‘? his car, He shooed it away, but acoounting to the plaintiffs for the |'t Wouldn't quit, so he ran for the balance, more than $40,000. j ear and slipped up on a banana peel Reid Bie Pri | That hurt his knee badly, and the ig Prices, jeonductor said bis nickel was a bad In the investment of this fund It! one. ie alleged that the Associates have} [np the car he considered these putehased property from some of | things. sharse at unty Puget e of the rabip Wash fe the sta of fe brous other bond a we the jors headed John H. Mo“ by HM. MJ contract the Por pres oncern TO YOU IN BUNCHES THIS DAY Are ‘You Suparstitious ? FRIDAY THE RAMEE ROSANA ak sme ate NA CELLAR MAN'S SLM Kept in Captivity, Police Find Woman Bound Hand and Foot, Who Has Been Held for 13 Months Hed Press) SOME ONE SHOULD PASS THE HAT FOR THESE POOR RICH Just Think of It—Jacob Furth, William Pitt Trimble and Geo, B. Kittinger Have but a Few Hundred Dollars’ Worth of Personal Property, According to BAN Guided FRANCIAC A 0 1a | daughter Mr Maria Jone Rancad. had | eppe broken d the It and « who foug eo toda 1 the door oF { finally elty pr With officers searche found Mra. Ranca foot In the Italing At 1 hand and was un phe had fous from a beating their own meomoers at grossly ex cessive prices, and the platntifts | Deg Hewled. demand an accounting of all these| . He remembered that there was a anmailionn | dog howling ali night, and that he'd It is alleged that the defendant | dropped a dish rag whew ho helped is insolvent, and by reason of this | bl* better half to wash the dishes and other charg has for. |e night before. felted all right to rents, issues and|, He got off the car and sa pin profits accruing from funds paid In| '¥!98 on the sidewalk pointing pads and contracts by the by the bond and contract holders | towards him. He was so mad that} unknown to/as compensation for handling or | ¥oulda’t pick tt up he conse t of the oth-| managing the same and that the| When he got into the ntiffs are in danger of losing | #tarted to wash the dirt off his) fo a fee bond holders, |all, of a large portion, of their im|bands whore he fell. Another clerk febates or refunds were |terests If the defendant Associates | ¥iped bis hands on the same towel. | those apecta) selected, | are allowed to remain In control That waa a climher fe be A Fiuxer, who| ales Peaieets Hien Going out tn despair to his favor to represent the plaintiff The Py ite drug store, inadvertently he : wget Sound Realty Asso-| . : 4 fe thie action, Wis) cistes ig one of the moat widely | te si ne ot course i the \ y | » ime by which many advertised and best known of the ee ape 8 ie teers | f paint o agg Inte tnvest junit plan investment companies oe oo | | that have sprung up here in the last Black Cat Appears. | | j | nt men of board. and other prom | Gharges of Fraud the allegation W account the trust fund 4 for Dy the directors. the @ fade that tn tho dispom | of fraud for some office he * cert lggarn a) few years, Ita holdings inelude| He erossed his thumbs, too. = wie the Lincoln hotel property, Fer } At the nearby drinking place a Se woul wiles let. | 208 hotel property, the Georgian) black cat walked up to him and wae Get tae hotel and other Seattle real estate. | then—-ran away cthern te invest ta} There are more than 4,000 bond} Shaking a little salt into hie beer, racts with the con-| contract holders throughout the! be upset the salt cellar, and the | jmate, and in all the funds of the | burkeep awore at him. jcompany something more than In desperation he ordered an Their Influence. $800,000 is said to have been pald|other, when & man with se bed supreme court judge,|in by these smal! investors squint asked the loan of a dime intendents and princl-| The associates or board of di. Phew-- | hers were induced to rectors, according to the last re And did he get fired? 1 should rebate or refund con- | port tssued, is composed of Jobn|say not. The bose called him into fo permit the use of H. MeG J, Soderberg, P. C./ the private office and sald in the placing of not| Kauffman, Hamilton Higday, Wine} “Young man, we recognize your ds among those who field R. Smith. George F. Meach-| ability, ete. You are promoted, aud thelr honesty and bus-jam, BE. 8. Goodwin, Corwin 8./ there'll be twenty more In the pay jtoank, L, EB @pencer and J. P.| check.” 4 t goes at length | Duryea. And thia te Friday, the Thirteenth errant: HOLD TSS Man Tr CURE IS NOW FOUND “= } WELL AS. DESPITE | FOB SPEED MANIACS PTR “cn sti art LOS ANGELES, Aug 13,— | Picked members th the police de) Judge Wilbur, of the juvenile ‘partment are getting in shape for; court, claims at last to have IT'S THE STORY the tug of war against a team from found a way to stop indiscrim- TELLS INA ithe fire department which is billed inate motor cycle speeding sult. to be pulled off at the exposition within the limits of the city. | Srounds on Scotch day, Aug. 21 Patrolman Dau Hari will be the! whicen, twe teveorccld’ bore | Whisell, two 16 id your husband has! sschor for the blue coats. Patrol} Wh scl brought Judge Wil- ment doesn't men Miles, Follrich, Poolman, Lan-| for, Agta ge r yesterday, the judge meted Woo't throw a plate|dis and Doom are candidates for the| Suc Jectenonst thal iariikety te biscuits are soggy. team, together with City Detective) gxercise @ restraining influence sult for divorce \fewr Dan Keane, and Police Chaut-| on other speed maniacs. The charging & tong | will be the anchor. Other members! thet time hes elapeed, they may They were mar on the hemp will be Firemen! not throw « clutch nor open @ i December 17, 1905.' Thompson, Miller, Sullivan, Kumpf,! throttle on their machines. sparried to Albion Randatiy and Valhouseh rs October 24,| The poflcemen foteod to whip » gold rush, asked |team into shape for the tug of war} ltourney which will be held at the | | cs a | ‘ a 5 f° also) { senty | | toda and active hay w away HOSPITAL Pree) CO, Aug | been struck “ re the black ‘sand & well on $1 4 pan, the will paw Mere water. filed suit against A prise of $1.00 will go to the me ward of the Bushwick hospital, je between the 10th and 15th of/ placing little Gertrude Golden on government offt-|liver several lectures, for which! jed face wore a scared look, his And are occupying | the Dominion. This Information /twiried hiv cap nervously e« he Bee deported to “| didn't mean to shoot you, Ger a the crowd | BILL HAS PASSED ope to die if | did, Tell me Jail looks like « liked you better’n any other girl, Japanese con-| wamieh river bill paseed the | 11, tried hard to keep back the ly, every representative pres surgeons and the nurses wouldn't gyn? . delayed arranging the little pa FROM TRAIN, “a } “a Beat oe Vince,” she sald, softly tat on a North ee and a sult of white duck clothés, | le ain. Anyhow, | ain't going known colored man of Moant Hope,| And did they keep you locked up Van, who i® As spry It wasn't nothin’, he replied. white women and have passed | ain't slept a wink, and, gee, you 16th wife | Then the head surgeon motioned, | The Minnesota Social club will| sadly tiptoed out and sat on the NEW YORK, Ang. 13.-—Vincent : |October. After spending a few days|q wheol stretcher to remove her King County jail. | Was given out by his brother, Chas./trod softly past the row of white Seaediene, you ain't a goin’ to be mad at me (By United Prev.) ieee the Mikado’s | tears that filled his eyes, and turn ent, there being 59, voting for i tient on the stretcher until Vincent h is spread over her teatures charged with mur MIDDLETOWN, N. Y,, Aug. 13.—-/don't want you to take on so. this county, who claims to be 102) all might?” aa a young man, claims to}“only | was awfal seared all night so he now 1s looking for a/don't know how glad I am, Gertie has many more years in store. and the stretcher was wheeled to hold a meeting at Thorn’s hall,| hospital steps. They let him re | divorce, charging | best team in the Northwest. IN OF Riley tiptoed into the children's William J. Bryan will be In Seat- Brooklyn, today just as they were Poachers, arrest-|here he will go to Canada, to de|to the operating room. His freck Beattie this morn-| ho fs booked in the larger cities of heart beat a violent tattoo and he tried before an im-| W. Bryan, who ts in Portland today. | cots. ing alawfully on Unit: DUWAMISH RIVER he sald, timidly; “crose my i hing for it, ‘cause you know | always Giring the Russo OLYMPIA, Aug. 13—The Due | ans ” house this morning unanimous od his head so the white-coated ee seo, But they understood, and #0 ESCAPES, buy AGED M, SEEKING had that great load lifted from bis The pallid tace of the little girl 2 Joh “| know you didn’t from the rear plat ns North | Wearing @ tall white ‘beaver hat| They're going to look for the bul a) miles th ¢ (Or James Nicholas Van, a. well|to dle, Vince—the doctors said so of age, appeared In the street| Vincent, 15 years old, nodded had 14 wives, all of whom {long that maybe I killed you. I He {a confident that he | that you ain't dead.” WILL MEET SATURDAY. the operating room, while Vincent Green Lake, Spturday, at 9 o'clock,' main there, and every once in a i | The jmateh has | tirely ‘absolutely false | acoount of Cudahy‘s attack of grip }eaid Van jthe young man Se eee GIRL FACING DEATH CHEERS A BOY LOV- ER AND FORGIVES HIM FOR ACCI.- DENTALLY SHOOTING HER. received ea Fr | beer ler in the da ogee has When @GP Hoi WE ABOVE DESIGN ABOUT EIGHTEEN INCHES FROM YOUR EYES. GAZE STEADILY AT THE SYMBOLS WITHIN THE CIRCLE, THIS WILL ACQUAINT YOU WITH TODAY'S DATE, AFTER THAT, GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS IN THE USUAL WAY, AND DON'T WORRY, ee a! © RUMOR STARTS WHEN WEDDING © IS POSTPONED ‘ TK TO THE Ks" the women attempted communica natponetment 0 owes | " | Postponetnent of th ddiOe | EVERY “NEWSY" IN THE CITY! tion with her children by means of letters bul Gieo intercepted all the of Miss Nora Brewer to Bdward Cudahy, son of the imiliionaire| AOMITTED TO FAIR FREE OF CHARGE. misalves except which reached the year-old daughter at San Omaha packer, which was to be a brilliant affsir at the Catholic} pe dos * | The exploitation department of | * lore and the poll were notified. | When they approached the doo way and demanded entrance Gleo | walted Inside with a etilietto, When th ® smashe ox church in Ban Mateo tomorrow, is giving rise {© rumore that the} ihe A.¥-P, will take every news-|® Showers tonight or been broken off of) h oy in Seattle who wiehes it Into|® Say; moderate southeast ithe exposition grounds of | # southwest winds. * The reason given for the post-| charge next Sunday, in order to en-| * * ponement of the wedding was that) sije al) of the boys to hear Judgo|* * RRR eRe ee ewa Cudahy was suffering from 4 severe | Hen 1), Lindsey, the famous judge attack of grip. of the Denver juvenile court, talk C. Van Ness, a near on Mite work among the children of to "anes Brewer, today declared all| that city. All newsboye who show Tumors to the effect that the nip lay @t the Administration building| tiala would never be held to be| sunday afternoon will be taken In|| and given Kood seats In the Audi torfam, where the fudge will speak | The leetore will take place at 2 iciiedidine Noss, “and now We CAN | oeicek, under the auspices of the not eet any date for the reason {hat | exponition management and the); A hard luck story! Yes, there is suffering from) Washington Kqual Suffrage asso-|are many, and this te the latest the aftermath of the {ines |eiation, Admission is free of|one that has been called to the at “The engagement, however, is not! charee. The “kid” Judge will talk|tention of The Star broken. jon Kin Work and will also tell how| You happy mothers, think what “I am under the impression that! he was recently reelected over the |{t would mean to you If the wage Cudahy is visiting with friends near! regular party candidates who op-|earner of your family should sud San Jose. }posed him. dently be anatched from you, leav: “He did not leave for Chicago | ling you with smal} mouths but merely was thinking of taki to feed and three «mall bodies to the trip until he found that the phy-|@ clothe and keep warm, and no pro siclan he wanted to see was not) # | vision for the future! there,” \* Seattie. ®!| This te what happened to Mre Notwithstanding the as#urances| # Clearings today & | Reuben Hicks, whose husband was from the relatives of Miss Brewer, Balances &\ drowned in Lake Union about the rumors coutinue persistently Tacoma. * |) month ago. 25.2 Clearings today . An Unequal Struggie. Balances | ada ta od 'he Markland: Husband and father gone, she bas Ralances support berself and three small | }children, two Httle girls, 10 and 8) respectively, and a baby boy of | lens than 9 years, Mre Hicks man-/ | aged to get work In a down town | jee ant at $20 per month. She} 6 obliged to pay $10 of this amount pry Ryth home Denny way for the of the three little ones |. Think HIS HOME 18 IN MINNEAPOLIS | for all BUT HE CAN'T REMEM | horselt childrer SER MUCK MORE Not Charity, But Work Mra. Hick but only a | ta the w told a st | bow nx with th hue d | Kast to procure work |. Before leaving he entrusted Mra }Raneadaro and his four chi | Gieo, who pr woe that t | wanted f As soon as | bus! a S ted jcompelied her t in the charge begin here he kept her prisoner Bhe escaped th ght lite of alavery r ing f her departure « for the over @ year ago dren to " thing. sed to eft Gleo In dren San in a she} and Son of a Millionaire May," Not Wed a Frisco Girl,! and the Gossips at oy Get Real, Real B (By Catied Pres) SAN authoritic ee eee ee ee ee * WEATHER FORECAST, * Satur. & to® free tive “The wedding was postponed on three Se eee * BANK CLEARINGS, 2, 295,608.16 30,118.48 “4 raeraes sate $80 eh eeeeeeee $1,519,258 219,803 | SPEER eee eee TW POOR OLD MAN WANTS T0 G0 HOME. while a white-capped nurse came out and told him that Gertie w: doing well, They couldn't find bullet, but they were sure she wouldn't die. It wan late for little the and yesterday when Ger. th tle, a pretty 15-year-old girl, went to the roof of her home, No, 200 Hull street, Brooklyn, to make doll dreases for the younger children on the block. The Rileys lived next door at 202, and Vincent, who had been shooting at a target In the | lot near by, jotned the children on | morning the roof with hia companions. The| M-I-n-n-e lads rigged up a target on the chim |to Olson and ney, and while shooting at it with | baxket fn one a 22calibre rifle Gertie was shot) five ted tn lin the breast jto the U Vincent spent last night In the ket children’s soelety rooms in Scher merhorn street, and in the, chil-| “But I can't dren's court today he was released | Minn¥apolie for on $300; bail, Then he borrowed a} swered the agent nickel and hurried to the hospital But T want to go ho to seo Gertle. Olnon, He */ ktatlon po Flat the potice Wi! tion into hi * «| * * * * . i ee ed charity rough does not ash chance to earr mone work which she in her own home so that she keep the Ittle ones with her QWORGEE SWS AUNT. WON ha LONE (By United 1END, wandering and hts pock BRdward Oleon longed for b wix y ‘ ne may | and | a-p-o-} with and and kerchtet | Li ‘ a th ant t you . sOUTH Ha an Miller n in charg “38 was take Me an and " manager of the tation for He could Sea ese * M Mra con wife has bt} WATER SHUT OFF. Water will be ahut off in the district between Weller at, and Jackson at. from Fourth av, 8 to 12th 8., on Saturday afternoon, August 14, from p.m. to4p. m wanit i] t agalr int Jen nie h or whot x ms Shary latter worker, fo 0) damages, alleg oY that the ee D y stole her hust , love. Mra. Sh yetemat in fairs of the leged that wife in the pre that she Ket the quently Mille to accompany hi her parents The TERRIBLE! CINCINNATI, Aum. 13.—A man living at No. 18 13th st father of 13 children and woar ing a $18 ult of clothe No, 18 collar, with cents left after paying thirteenth installment a $1,300 home, found a 13-karat opal on the sidewalk tn the Thirteenth ward, at 12:13 p.m today This would go to prove the *| hoodoo or the No. 13 if it ® hadn't developed that the opal * TERRIBLE! ged with a h the belt the 1 ert and » the door tt and that she ted such an Influence that the latter refused wife on a visit to Je at * * * * + * * * * , it al aided th GOES TO GET THAW (By United Press.) SHKILL LANDING, N. Y 13.—Superintendent Baker of the asylum for (he criminal Insane at Matteawan, started this morning for White Plains to take charge of} Harry K. Thaw and take him back| to the asylum. It is expected that Thaw will be In his cell at 7 o'clock this evening, unless Justice Mille listens to the plea of Thaw’s attor neys that he be confined elsewhere. always 1 first ki x Aug on over See eee eee eee ee ee ee “ which only re cently ended, was decided after al fight of six months, Mra. Miller} was-an imitation and there jpeg claim to alimony on a set-| fore not unlucky at all tlement of hor claims out of court KEKE KR «| All of the parties are prominent | HERE’S A LITTLE HARD LUCK STORY THAT . 1S WORTHY OF SOME ONE'S ATTENTION Martin Lum: | & prominent chureh | jand This Year's Tax Returns. The hedge Their Personal Property W. P. Trimble $550 Jacob Furth 810 G, B, Kittinger That th hat humble aon the Mr. ing and any were Mr i wance for which is entirely pee who } I Bar yomewhat a ba pieked a few @ stable o across the lake Of course in banter has barg $46 yperty Bo nger’s sensor's the as- r quit r 1 a bar fact. That val onal pr return: t ua rook # on of bie per ed to the co’ ” unty asee Some Other A bunch of tax valuation fr Stoic Simplicity Here — hi ponltio as president of the Elec company, be lives in simple style a plain mansion on the Lake ngton, walks on Turkish ruge, and carr ity to the extreme of riding in com monplace six-cylinder automobile and behind fast harness hore William Pitt Trimble ts president | Harry W of the Aero ¢ but William Pitt Alfred Battle has taken pains to |B. PF. Blaine keep his assessment close to terra | Thomas Burke ... firma. F. 8, Stimson Quite a Bargain Finder. Mr, Trimble has 4 gem of a bargain. His litle cottage at 1019 Terry ay. and the few sim ple trimmings, such as automobiles and a Well stocked is all worth something like whieh goes to prove that it costs very little to live well if you know how to do it. Five hundred and fifty dollars is what Mr. William Pitt Trimbie's personal property is worth, accord ing to his statement to the county aasessor. Then there Is Geor While he has not # quite the shrewd bargaining powers of Mr Furth and Mr. Trimble, still he has done fairly well Plain and Frugal, Mr. Kittinger has picked up a plain but comfortable ttle home which he very tastily calls “Cherry Hedge,” out Denny Maine way eg ict pereonal 4 up at sesnor's humble Seattle A tr in . ws toda J Ww ri ke as foll W, Cline G. Stetson D. Stimnor A. Moore Axe shores simple o6 his hum fi $ 7.880 3,450 6,140 1,900 2,120 12,160 1,390 -. 1,600 . 11,660 6,520 9,040 2,710 13,580 13,690 3.500 4,200 6,920 4,700 4,750 5,780 £400 « 4,280 - 11,330 At 6,460 James John B considerable t Smith Het Leary Ferr F. Backus Eatate of E. E W. H. Latimer Frank McDermott B. W. Johnston J, W. Conaidine Mra. John Collins Eutate of J. M. Colman J. C, Marmad ° T. 8 Appy oH. Kittinger, |b 8 Lape also pick ip a stable, Gains KR ahha AeY¥-P. ATTENDANCE, Yesterday's admis sions : 304 Total admissions... * * * * * * 2 * 1,851,821 * is ee ee ee ee TOOAY BOTH LUCKY AND UNLUCKY FOR DIVORGE MILL FOLK SOME ARE HAPPILY. DIVORCED WHILE OTHERS ARE SAY- ING “COISES.” send the little girls to school, She rents a little home at 218 Pontius ay., and at present has most of the house rerented, and in this way her rent is paid. She would like to get enough plain sewing to do in her home so that she may keep her little brood together. Who will help thia brave little woman in her struggle for exist ence and in her desire to keep her little family together? If she could get enough sewing to keep her busy at home she could be with and look after her eetldrea It all depends on how you look at it whether Friday the 13th ia an unlucky day or not Three women who were given di- vorees In the superior court this morning count the superstition a poor one. And three husbands, who will have to dig up for alimony, say they couldn’t expect anything else ,on Friday, the 13th | Caroline Haitz was granted sep- aration from William Haitz, a real estate man. They were married in jermany fn 1880. ‘WAN IN JAIL GELL; WIFE WON'T VISIT: i elie el ‘WIELD THE KNIFE ON EXPENSE ESTIMATES knife { to the (By United Pree) OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 12— | Despondent his while | The | vigor im ime finance T $1 wife he was awaiting trial for killing @ becau would not visit him 6 being applied with estimated expenses by the various city depart- to the inctl, through the rom mittee City Bugineer on's estimate was cut to 3,000, Some the projects aeested by Thom will be cared for by a bond feeu Ever ry department ne man he charged with having alienated her affections, August nts C Coussens committed suicide in m1 jail here early this morning and his body was found hanging in ell by the jailers, IRRIGATION CONGRESS FILS ELECTED. BY SAMUEL M. EVANS, (Staff Correspondent.) "OK ANE BA ft elected of the of the city will for this year “haat, and t every em is there with outstretched asking for a raise. \th an |MOTHER AND BABY | DASHED TO DEATH, } | NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Pan- le stricken by a small fire in the tenement where she lived, Mrs, Esther Schwenger clasped her 4year-old child to her breast and jumped from the fourth story window early to- day, She struck the street be- low head first and mother and child were both killed, Aug. 13 ow Arizona, wa ted prest National Irrigation I on for the next K rs Ralph first ef * RAT IN HAIR SAVES LIFE, & * A* hair saved the & tha Delina, a young ® shot herself in * an attempt at ® last night. When & ians at the hospital & pulled the hair from the wound *® the bullet came out with the * mass of false adornment. The ® woman will recover * ROANOKE, 18 rat” in t life of Ber woman, the head suicide her the phy Va., Aug Arthur The oppo al re who without In nding a $10,000,000 five nd ation fund, forest and reclama- ervly honest and earnest Interest of the wettler enying the right to grant wate franchises In perpetulty wat reclany endorsing the tlon in the errr eee eee eee * ee