The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1910, Page 4

t é é 5 ‘went through the stock-wa nt—Pat Matton, 5400 Thal ard 308. qont—George Ferris, 2010 ree mm Speaking of Jokers when tl \ bill wa to rence A passed in th nate i as the insurgents desire } “ Appea Ww i | mission had ttled the fact Thus the be tried over aga re a v, and tl v reap an advantage The surp g th ! not that I here but that it w vered Mr. Wickersha | n while he ker hunting, | >I it in the first place. It will be remembered that the bill, before] it was remodeled by the insurgents and democ had a clause} providing fo merger of roads, apparently at tocks- | and-bonds value, when one road owns a majority of the stock } in another—as is the case in the Great Northern-Northera Pa-| cific system, the Harriman group, the Rock Island a gation and in fact with most of the mileage of the countr | Now, forgetting for a moment about the railways let us} celebrated 80-cent gas case in New York, In that case} lecided that a public utility} recall ti the supreme court at Washingtor corporation has no right, as against rate regulations the more than a fair rate of interest on its plant actual value of the physical property chise values, going values, ¢ sky value were all cut out lion dollars, the law may cut the earnings down to on a million, regardless of what the stocks-and-bonds Id. Fran of blue what it would cost to rebui forms vod will and th If the plant can be rebuilt for a mil a fair return value of the concern may be. For the stocks-and-bonds valuation is the expression in money of the value of the very extortion against which the | suit is brought. A thrill of fear] of LaFollette’s Well and good. A great victory was won plan for a physical valuation of the railways, and when this gas decision would be ked a more than the physical value of the railways woul vf the time inv And they looked the decision over and found a “but.” lature had allowed the gas trust to merge with a sm plant absorbed The decision said that years ago the Ne pany at the stocks-and-bonds valuation of the This, they said, was a contract between the gas com} the people, or at least an admission on the part of t that the stocks-and-bonds valuation of the merged company was] proper. Securities were floated on the strength of this agree ment. Hence the real value of the merged comy Jonger be inquired into. The people must forever pay on the basis of the merger. 3 Mr. Taft and Mr. Wickersham are great lawyers. The people need great lawyers to protect them against the joker industry at Washington. And now let Messrs. Taft and Wickersham answer this question: If the merger proposi- tion first placed in the bill is restored, will it not, under the gas case, establish the stocks-and-bonds valuation of the merged roads as the capital on which we shall have to pay forever and ever? / Is it not meant to head off physical valuation in the | interests of Wall street? } And isn’t it the biggest joker ever put across? | ny and] mny could no Aside from being the longest of! Arizona and New Mexico the year, today hasn't many other please show their gratitude by be- to recom A it. jing standpat republican. A few more mysteries will place | / trunk in the danger weapon | Western av. commission ee ie the dengorous weapes | still insist that they are plain, old.|°“* ; fashioned gougers with no frills or! Por once Teddy was only a spec | fripperies. ee King County Politics The Wilson senatorial organization has appealed to Frank M. Hitchcock, postmaster general and distributer of offices in the Taft administration, to take a hand in the senatorial fight in this state. Political conditions, from the standpoint of the regulars, have been put up to the administration at the capitol in a doleful aspect. The Wilson men have informed Hitchcock that present conditions presage the election of Poindexter by such a majority that it means a rebuke to the regular machine. Hitchcock has been asked to take a hand and get Burke out of the fight. It has been suggested that a diplomatic post would do this. An ambassadorship to an important post is what Hitchcock bas been asked to offer Burke. Up to the present time Hitchcock has failed to come to Wil son's aid. Among Wilson's intimates, however, there is a persist- ent reiteration of the story that Burke will be offered the legation at Spain. With Burke out of the fight, Wilson has told the administration forces that he would have a against Poindexter. tator. racers Hitehcock and better chance In a letter to President L. H. Gray, of the John L. Wilson Sen. atorial club, Robert 8. Terhune, chairman of the King County Re publican committee, says that no county convention will be held because the money cannot be obtained for the purpose. Every other county chairman except Terhune has always secured the money with little trouble. There seems to be no trouble to get the money for the state convention at Tacoma. If Terhune wishes to the money he could probably get it with as little difficulty as did his predecessors. Will H. Hanna at present has all the better of the fight for the Romination for county treasurer. The opposition to Hanna has weakened itself by its methods within the last few weeks. As conditions are now, Hanna will have no trouble in defeating McCon naughey. In fact, McConnaughey is the weakest candidate who could be pitted against Hanna Harry Gordon or Ben Levy would have made the treasurer's fight a bitter one. But with McConnaughey as an opponent Hanna has everything his own way Alex. McKnight, formerly deputy county clerk, will make the race for constable from Seattle precinct McKnight made oc while he was employed as a court clerk. All of the four present justices of the peace for Seattle pre- cinct will be candidates at the republican primaries for renomina- tion. Justice Brown has had an itching to be a candidate for the superior court bench, but he has announced that he will wait a few years before essaying that contest. Former Sheriff Lou Smith yesterday announced his candidacy for county commissioner from the South district, Smith has served two terms as county commissioner and two as sheriff Regardiess of what the County Republican committee may do, Councilman J. N. Denney, committeeman from the Ninth ward, has served word upon the committee that there will be caucuses’ and primaries in the Ninth ward. Denney asserts that the voters in the Ninth ward will not permit any delegates to the republican con vention to be selected for them in an fllegal ma ner The friends of Peter Johnson have urged him to become a candi- date for constable for the precinct of Seattle, and he has announced his intention to make the race, subject to the ré publican primaries. Johnson is a native of Norway, but in early life came to the United States, and to this city in 1900; he has been a resident here ever since. He always has taken an active part in politics, and ts well aud favorably known in fraternal and labor circles, His friends Assert he will make an honest and capable official for the people to earn] } j about | He'd show ‘em!* HE STAR—TUESDA # of the United Press The Publishing O¢. y by Mae THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE : STAR DUST. |.: FROM DIANA’S DIARY | h le Here if She Gots It Why She Did. Mias Dillpickies ts Notified of a Legacy Wh and After She Does She Wonders BY FRED SCHAEFER, | | | Wendered Could This Noble Old Lady Ever Have Been a Trick Bicycle Rider, I ymombered me in her will and was My luck has turned, I do belleve,| really fond of me because she had tists, Say y's mail I gets|DOYer seen me. And would I come to Pea Vine and see about the & letter postmarked Pea Vine. | legacy? which fs a distant village. That's) Th 1 what a | » my Grandma Chutney Hves,| Grandma Chutney was. I felt! but when I opened the letter | found| like my ha-ha-heart was almost| that she doesn't, because she died | broke j ast week. It was from her lawyer| Grandma Chutney was sort of telling us about it. It was just like| edd, Very retiring In her old age, f dma Chutney to die and get|tn her young days she wan with Mr yuried without letting anybody|P. T. Barnum’s well-known circus know, It saves hack hire Grand-| 1 looked at ber portrait and won ma was Imost a strane to us, der could this noble old lady ever since nobody had been able to bor! hay a trick bieye rider? row any money off her for 30 years, | Hut he was before she settled and she never visited and never down tr © ful Pea Vine Wrote except to tell us to stay away i_wor what amount of tecks But down at the end of the letter 4 to muh, Me for Poa the wyer, Mr. Snuff, told what he) Vine on the next train ’ was up to. He said Grandma re (Continued.) Once there was a Foo! Man whe became obsessed with a fool idea about the wearing of hats. He convinced himself that the | wearing of hats induced baldness | and in looking for reasons why men | should wear hate in spite of the | fact that hata In ¢ baldness, he | was dumbfounded to find that there | was no logical reason at all why | men should wear hats, except that } they sometimes served to ward off a burning sun or a pelting rain Later when he saw a man bare headed in a driving rain, with a new straw clasped to his bo under his coat, he eliminated even that reason In so far as it concerned the pelting rain. So he began to go about bare headed. Clearly, if there was no good reason why a man should wear a hat all the timo, there were plenty of excuses for not wearing one. He never could find one that sulted him, anyway. Besides, hats cost money and the styles change four times a year. He figured that he would be $15.00 or $20.00 to the good each year if he were to cease wearing hats. Four days after he began going bareheaded his boss called him into the front office and gave him his time theneeforward tll the judgment day, and, furthermore, he would prove that « bareheaded man could open thi mundane oyster, aud do it with dexterity and dispatch. | ee One month later he spent his| “Can't afford to have a man with| last nickel for a sandwich of the barehead bug going about rep-| Welvies and sauerkraut tn @ ree| resenting us,” said the boss, “Sor-|tsurant run as a side issue in a ry. We like your work, but, of | shooting gallery j er| Sitting on @ revolving stool, he course, we can’t allow you to lo revolved the Problem of Life in his the dignity of the house by going about bareheaded.” | mind “fut how does it lower the dig-| He found bimself face to face nity of the house?” gasped the Fool| With alternatives grim and {nexor-| Man able. There was no third course The boss puffed up and dismissed | open | the Fool Man without further dis-| It was up to him to go down to} course. It was folly to argue, he| the bridge and Jump into the river said, with a man so idiotic as to ask | OT to go back to the wearing of hats. such a question as that The Fool Man went Bm." Contraction for “them,” wative of “they.” Vide note-un norrow’s Fable of Convention. way angry He'd go hatless | 07" ——STEREE Bow! Wow! Me tak the Sane Ath Y, JUNE 1910, v Tia oshWise SAYS: | there ain't no snakes in Her Bottomie wpe to th’ ) “Hear Ireland ity Wiret Dear Girl You kr . r D Dear Girl Wha n hb j , | iret on Bit closer, please | Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the ¢ department, draws an annual salary of $12,000. \h.” sald the impassioned lover y world at your feat ry kind of you, I'm sure,” eal the praction! maid, “but the earth ts ady at my feet. What I want is hous r my head Less than half the people of the United t are church membe going to me wur ink he ts training to be a watchman In Groat Britain women can vote for all officials except members of parliament | 1 Mra. Kate Russell | 1, left $100,000 lonely and hom by thetr husbands of Kent for a 6 adios Eng at home deserted In Brownsville, Tex. the city wa ter supply is peddied from a donkey cart. ng the success of “The Fly "a film showing the dangers of the house fly, a moving picture firm will jsewe another educational film dealing with the milk supply. for |- A Buohre Kid A little girl who attend nobil 1 her . h her, The « had boon r ng about kit ily. Tho teacher, wishing tneul cate the correct idea of royal de t, said Yow, children, if the king and the queen had & son, what would b The jack was the quick ponse.— Philadelphia Telegraph REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR A lot of people know more than is good for those who have to hear about it There's hardly any work #o hard as having hing to do The time a woman ts particularly inuistent you should tell her that her husband ba she knows he haan't A good thing about running fying machines is you won't have to meet friends at every corner who expect you to take them in THEN IT HAPPENED (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) brains is when He had fallen from a dizzy height It seemed as If he would be dashed | to pteces tn the canon below There are four provinces in China| Hut fortuitously the limb of a cach larger then Texas, shrub caught his clothing and checked his descent Table knives were Introduced in Saved,” he ejaculated. to England in 1559. | But hark, what is that ripping Bo you wife the What's the can’t afford it are not to send this sum- | “It won't cost much, and your wife in quite economical, anyway.” Yeu, That's right, but think how much I would spend here town ail alone.” There are 496,612 school teachers | in the United States, 391,939 of whom are women. | There are 7500 theatres in the United States shown moving pie tures, and playing te a daily aver-| age of 3.008 000 people. nies the one for improve sound? No flowers (THE END.) POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Ideal weather is the kind sulted in| to one's business. The largest room tn the world is nent Not to begin # foolish undertak- ing is an indication of wisdom you have failed at every- thing you can still be a suc sful pessimist If a girl blush: of a tunnel its # sure you speak en that she jhas traveled. Hinkley’s got a wonderful head.| All hie women readers are simply | about his wife's relatives is why he! wild over t running in t How did b Why, he ter firet at serial story he ts Dally Stunt clinch ‘em?t” printed the last chap Cleveland Plain Dealer COMMODE—Made of hardw« en oak; the case is 20x40 inch $17.50. 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