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A.V, BOUILLON THE Oh MAN'S CANDIDATE OSBORNE G. CROSBY Small Property Owner and Just Mere Mes- ” Wants an Honest Man for Mayor of C. Crosby, n st., Green Li “boy” ake, essenger and sma property wants Mr th puext mayor of Se atile Mr, Crosby came into ‘I b was the delivery of graph con bear a Phis voice is weak. He is a poor old man, with a litth the Green Lake district; he Bf the city’s voters, one the same as he does. His busi Western office today a news dispatch for the the pany. He is old, and wn heavily upon him. His eyes are dim is one of Seattle's citi of the thousands who think “As he dropped his dispatch on the telegraph editor's « d, coughed, and said: at to thank The Star for what it has done for Mr Fand he turned to go, evidently abashed at his daring & minute,” the city editor called to him. “Why dk Bouillon to be mayor ‘ and the old man's diffidence dropped from “Why do I want Bouillon for mayor? Because he honest man. Because he's the poor man’s candidate, ys got a little he at at Green Lake, and every takes a the city takes so g from Byard of fat aving sooner or later touches m) Every bit of San honest crooked work affects me. yl That ; that’s wh want Be B got to go now. Guodbye, and keep up the Bouillon.” old man shuified out of the office to deliver srams. @ voice from the common people. 85 ENDORSE BOUILLON Voodiand Park Heights Improvement club now adds Mm of disapproval that has been growing steadily Miller summarily discharged A. V. Bouillon as of public utilities te the mayor ousted Mr. because he truth about grafts in the city government and be- @ stand for the people in the handling of public ion matters, the name and fame of Bouillon has Property owners in Seattle ent club, representing mostly City, has adopted resolutions commending Jouilion Improvement club the small tax Jouil- (Continued on Page Thirteen.) oe x the seance during which Lefebvre ig said to have talked, had never heard of Lefebvre. | But what Stead actually | heard was Lefebvr | own story of how the airship man saw himself killed as his spirit, } | separated from his body, soared rth like his airship EP STEAD, AND How HE BOMIATOR Lereavre’s st “Who is it that speaks?” asked ead. FROM THE OTHER I have been dead for some : time,” the answer came back from BY PHIL sims the Great Beyond 1 am Lefeb- WP Oct. 15,15 +) rit vre Several other questions followed, Who was | 4 sc n ive fe whieh furth : pea dead aviator, Stead had been Bs tai oF 1 ne; | invited to go to Chalons to see a Over and w ng friend Bolotoft fly. So he Of coming «i: asked y Mead, the | Gates that Fretich aviator, named Do you know the Bolotoft aero ~ | iniea- | plane me dead Yes. Tell the young man to be Simple thing vrove | very careful, as he may have what iS he has ta i with ‘ou call an aecident Tell him to attend carefully to his motor, It ' “ was is this which may not work lant Frenchman | properly. And you, don't you get : @eath at Juvisy, near|en the aeroplane.” ber. Stead, before! Here it may be said that at Ae - DONT 60 ‘THE SEATTLE ‘TAF OLUTION'S R SOP FAILS 10 SATISFY THE COMMUTERS Thirty Per Cent Reduction Leaves Fares Double Present Passenger Rate on Interurban. k | ander the new rate of 2 f Dowamish with th Jacob Furth The people are not satiafie valley handed out by n an jeffort to appease their anger at {the doubling of passenger rates on | the Seattlo Tacoma Interurban road A monster indignation meeting will be held at MeCoy's hall at Riverton tonight, when representa tive men and women will gather from all potnts along the line of the Interurban and formulate plans for protesting against and resisting the increase of fares, which If per in by the Puget Sound Elec Co, will mean financial ruin | for many Reduction a Bunco, commutation sold at alleged reduction of 30 pe The 2 cents a mile, say these people, is but a | dodge and really means nothing Te get the commutation book rate one must buy 25 round trips }a month. School chjidren, and there are a number of them attending the jhigh schools of the city, use but 20 trips a month, so that the extra jfive trips they buy es away all | that may be saved by the purchase of the commuters The use of the mmuter's b prectudes the use |tramsfer privilege inside the | Hints of Seattle, so that in fl the saving by the ton for commuters fuct fror amou' be saved When fig supposed to out, even with the reduction offered by Mr. Furth a [& sop to the protestants. the new! fare for mutere will be twiee! as much nore than twice as |much as the people in this valley jnow pay Shoppers Kept Away. At Riverton the workers going! to and from their employment in Seattle and the members of their will have ent fare, enfter these peo! to pay the straight j which Is just double the old fare as to get the reduction one must }use 25 round trips in a month. | As it is now, transfers on a & cent fare from any part of the city of Seattle to the interurban depot count as & te pald on the fare paid to Riverton or other points on the interurban line, and transfers to any part of the city are given on the interurban fare into the city Five Cents More. While transfers will be given from the interurban, the privilege in lost in going to the interurban station under the new system, #0 | in the case of residents of Riverton | there must be added to the round | trip rate of 24 cents made to com muters the 6 cents additional street | car fare pald im getting to the (Continued on Page 13.) MYSELF KILLED! | Chalons, where Stead went to see | Bolotoff fly, he was disappointed. The engine, which ts of a well |known American make, and which |had deen running like a watch, without a skip, balked at the time }for rising in air. M. Colliex, who started the en-| | gine, declared it kicked back in the strangest fashion, and that but for a miracle his arm would have been | broken, The flight had to be aban doned But to get | Lefebvre, says | back to the subject, | Stead, described | how he fell and how he felt while} being killed ) Before | touched the ground | Lefebvre's spirit 1* declared to have said, “I lost consclousne I felt no physical pain. It seemed that| jmy spirit suddenly was projected | | outside my body | “| had a sensation of being rapidly whirled around, when apmething suddenly stopped and | felt myself in the air, | seeing below me my body and the remnants of my aeroplane. It seemed that a Being of won- derful power was at my side and calmed me, And this same Being, if you go to Chalons, will write by your hand.” Spiritualists are asking each other if Lefebvre, with a wisdom possessed only by those who have journeyed to the other world, will | watch over his brother bird-men. | | It would seem that France, mont jof all, has ‘heed of a guardian angel. For, following close upon the heels of the death which took | Lefebvre, was the accident in which Capt. Ferber lost his life in Bou logne-eur-Med The same week | | chronicled the explosion of the dirigible Republique and the death! lof her crew of four. | joff to JAILED SIX MONTHS FOR SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1909. THE PUMPKIN SEASON INSPIRES A. PERPLEXING SITUATION | Wi ff GH) SS aR SEATTLE EDITION— = J 5 Za Fe ONE CEN} ED FLAG WAVES IN SPAIN ALFONGO'S THRONE [5 TOTTERING AND END OF MONARCHY 15 IN SIGHT ———_—___—. i People Are Aroused to a Frenzy and Are Planning the Overthrow of the Present Dynasty and the Estab« lishment of a Republic—-Revolution is Now Spreads ing to All Parts of King’s Domain. JA... eee eee eee eee ee ee ee ee a | Charles P. Stewart, European manager of the United Press association, one of the best posted newspapermen on the Euro- pean continent, has just returned to London from Spain, and today he gives a thoroughly comprehensive and reliabie article to the conditions in King Alfonev’s domain. As the present revolution now sweeping through Spain will make a great change in European relations, the article is most timely. “The frost is on the punkin’ “An the fodder’s in the shock.” STAR REPORTER GROWS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT—LISTEN. Se sang the Hoosier poet a gener.) in the fertile valleys, the fields are )ing to the nostril and supremely sat ation ago, inspired by the runset | studded with balis of gold waiting | and red of the sutumn's hedges | for the transforming hand that will and the aroma wafted from the | turn them into life's moxt appetiz kitchen oven, It wus the season of ing delicacy, t symphony ot the pumpkin pie,” Jast this time of the table, that rhapsody of the kitchen year, when October begins to“taper | -—-pumipkin pie. ember, and the sun puts Pumpkin pie days are here, and his finishing golden touches on that mother's thoughts run to the mystic delectable of earth's gifte-—-|\ formula by which she transmutes mpkin the bulky fruit into that combina east of the mountains and) tion beautiful to the eye, exhilarat Wordy poets m sad days of the dy ture’s gaudy y rhyme of th nerala, so long a5 mother's hand holds her fashion ing skill and pumpkin pies in gen erous triangles come to flank the dinner plate, there can be no sad ness. Life with pumpkin pies must always be a round of joy And pumpkin ple days are here. ‘SOME MEN 60 BACK Inspectors P, L. Burdick and J Munroe, with Gatemen J. Summer —————— N. Randall and C. F. Smith, who were included in the wholesale dis. Six months in the county jafl was) Bonds in the sum ot $2,000 were fur- charge of inspectors and temen the sentence imposed upon Harry | fisted By Victor Verhaest, propri- ar the A-Y-P. last Sunday, have| Haugel. a bartender at Jones’ place, prc vd “andl esgptagee’ a eon ia {Deen returned to their posts ‘at the Georgetown, by a jury in Justice of | employ, _— : gate of the exposition | fl rounds the Peace Fr Brown's court The evidence upon which H eh “no . | inst night. following his conviction The special subcommittee ap- wae convicted wan mainly given Mire Anderson, Although weak and pointed by President Chilberg to on & charge of selling liquor to Miss @t to the boticar the charges sna Christine Anderson, 17 years old. a) pala she told @ straightforward os : ter chares ; few hours before death clalmed her stéry of the Joy ride. She said she vetrewy Ramertopall © ee wees n the fatal joy ride on the morning | drani beer in Jones’ place and that 4 w and petty officials will probably give a| admittoa [TePOTt to President Chilberg Mon: of September 23, when Henry Miser) trove an automobile through the! it WAH served by Haugel The accused bartender isfying to the palat | « year and na TO WORK AT GATES i" eee e eee eee 24 ttt to K Cee OPP CC OPO PCCP LAS AAAS E ESS ee eo ~ BY CHARLES P. STEWART, 5 European Manager of the United Press Association. LONDON, Oct. 15.—The throne of King Alfonso is tottering, Every city in the kingdom is in the throes of a revolution of its own, and, although the climax may not come for weeks or months, the end of Alfonso’s reign at a time not far distant seems inevitable, It may be postpo for years, but there is every belief that follow Ing the white heat of public disapproval engendered by the action of the government in the “murder” of Prof. Ferrer at Baroeiong @ general outbreak is very near. Developments soupuily ine dicate that there Ie the gravest danger of the revolt extending te every Latin country of Europe 1 have just returned from a personal investigation of conditions of the Spanish peninsula. The situation is a hundred per cent graw er than | found it at Barcelona during the July uprising. At that time the disorders were largely socialistic and anti-military. Since then the anti-clerica! factor has become vastly greater and the anarchistic propaganda has spread throughout every district of the peninauia. So universal is the disaffection and the spirit of revolution that, In my opinion, no scheme can be evolved te solve the problem peacefully. Conditions in Spain serious far a long time ithe outbreak of war in Mo which precipitated the crisis | war was entered into for the }fit of private corporations, backed mainly by foreign capital. The |habltants of the Catelonian pr linces, being the most progress jand enlightened in Spain, were firs to rebel.. With Barcelona as center, the fiercest of the fight |between the oppressed and r have been Bat it w thousands—though of course the government denies it. Of what has occurred since the actual rioting was suppressed in Barcelona, with bomb out- rages and assassinations still going on briskly, it is impos sible to tell in detail because no one can get the news out of Spain day by day as it happens And a great deal of it Is lost altogether. jing Liber and King Alfon Qe eames als soldiery raged about a fortni RE Sayan yo dee tage poy July and early in August. |) ation would insure the author's af rest and impri ment if he were @ Spaniard, or his expulsion from country if he were a foreign » mails are carefully overhaul and letters addressed to newspaperg or news agencies are almost un formly opened | At the present moment the largeg | Spanish cities are like gunpowd magazines. The police and t have succeeded thus far in kee | Ever since then there hag been in termittent ‘trouble and constant minor outbreaks. How many persons have been shot down in the street battles or disposed of later by firing squads in Montjuich fortre where Ferrer faced his execu- | tloners, no one knows. Not even the authorities could tel! the extent of the slaghter, for orders were generally given in | anyone from firing them, but Person or by telephone. A {may blow up any day. Great many mistakes were / in the rural districts, where re made and, with no records by | pression is more difficult, a cond which to trace them, there was tion of anarchy prevails jon. The total number of victims unques Great Censorship. J bridge railing at Pourth av. Lane st The xentence in the heaviest pos-! #. and} serving beer and whiskey to the |“ party, but says Mise Anderson did hot take anything. Later, he admit- t. The verdict /ted, the party grew noisy and loft stun Haugel| The jury which sentenced Haugel Wit to #erve six months In the county of the jur attorney for Robert W,| jail embraced Edmund Bowden. ot Herman H. Wiede-) Davi Jolly, C. W. Melville, J. M harged with selling Biliett, 8, A, White and R, W. Hill Nquor to a minor, hastily requested | foreman. a change of 1@ to the court of Justice John BE. Carrot, HL John #0n, counsel for Ruugel, gave of appeal to the superte OH, YOU BAR WANTA BUY AN EXPOSITION? Going, going, gone." The A-Y-P. exposition management is about to open the big gest auction sale in the United States, They're going to auction off the exposition itself—that is, all of it that can't be carried away or left for the permanent grounds Restaurants, exhibits, bulldings—almést everything will be knock ed down under the bammer. Well, it's a $300,000 or $400,000 auction sale if you know what means In order to prevent graft of any sort the managers of the ex- position will take care of the auction themselves, To IL, Shipser, one of the best known sales agents om the Pacific coast, has been Ne date has been set for the trial ot George FE. Jones, Haugel's ¢ © | ployer, Robert Hawkins and Hern that entrusted the responsibility for conducting the sale. I. Kay. will be the official auctioneer The sale will start Thursday, Oot. 21, and continue until every thing’s sold. Goods will be sold for.cash only, and at least 20 per cent of the purchase price must Be put up at the fall,of the hammer. It is expected that speculators and bargain hunters from all over the count will attend the sales. suena READ “THREE MEN” Best Labor Story in Decade PAGE 8 TODAY’S STAR cars { 7 HOME TONIGHT—OR ANY NIGHT—WITHOUT A NIGHT PINK EDITION tionably runs Into the thou. |_AS ™ matter of fact the recent nds—perhaps three or four ‘ (Continued on Page Thirteen.) Se ee | VLLNNALINARINYI Ng relat AAW DODO VON SPANISH MONARCHS WHOSE THRONES ARE IN DANGER—ALFONSO Xiil, AND THEIR OLEST CHILD, THE PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS, QUEEN VICTORIA an SE OF THE STAR i snes utara ESOC ATLA aI IT

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