The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1911, Page 4

Member of United Press. Daily by The Star Bitered at Seattio, Wash Published Publishing Co. THE FATE OF ALASKA Here is the s A vast territo all belor cally of suc culties th a dous expenditure for rail: k t Only t 5 ation equal to the task to be dor and t case, would ¢ rol the devel mitted to control the key to the situatior ransport The 5S to the ex of its la United States providing either to exploit its resources « shall yield to the governme and protect the people again ices THAT QUESTION IS UP TO CONGRESS NOW, It is a question that can neither be d 1 nor cor promised. There is no middle ground. Alaska ts to be tre @S a great national asset or as the spoil of the M ‘And big as Alaska is, the question is bigger than Alaska. I there are other natural resources still be ng to the U States, and the fate of Alaska will probably be the fate of them all. Keep your eyes on Alaska itation lities of transpe e share } vanheims and Congress! President Taft ts talking for ft at Washington. Every governor and mayor throughout the land makes it a theme of his message. And the wisest leaders of public — are urging it upon families and individuals within the raz their influence. Tt is the universal counsel—be careful {2 spending and in getting into debt. Such advice, always good, is particularly so when the world of Business seems inclined to go @ littl slow after years of oxtraor- @inary activity, and when great issues—righte but disturbing up for settlement. And yet aven good counsel should be taken discretion. You might as well kill a man as scare him to death—you might As well have hard times as to make everybody think they are sure ‘come tomorrow or the day after. If nobody spends a dollar, every will suffer, that's cert So we would revise the counsel of Don't be afraid to buy land at prices you consider reasona) Sf you can see your way clear to pay for it. Land values will Increay population increases. “Every improvement in the condition of th goes surely and mainiy to the owners of the earth.” And th will be many improvements in the condition of the earth. Don’t be afraid to build a home if you need one. A home js good ‘fat all times, and if prices go off a bit it's a favorable moment to bulld Don't be afraid to grow staples of life if you are a farmer, or think of becoming one; nor to carry them in moderate quantities if you are a merchant. Economy is the word of the hour onomy about like this ‘Here’s a Chap You Want to Know-- *Os”’ West, Oregon’s New Governor‘ ;; BY DANA SLEETH SALEM, Or, Jan, 16.—"I don't hink there ts any law for it, gov ernor,” remarked the attorney gen | “Is that sof Well, 1 guess law are to protect the public, not to jso we'll J » ahead and do tt That Oswald Went of Oren Jemocrat, has just |lican majority state! | Gov, West is some man, but that incidental. What he really is, is mething vastly bigger. Hoe ts the | “I got @ ninecent seat on the treet car this morning,” remarked | the business woman, | “You don’t mean to say that they're charging nine cents for| querted her friend 1 Not yet, but I suppose they will; the business woman re It you « ar at all } you figure that you have had your five cents’ worth, A cross seat Jnext the window and facing for pay is a ten-cent seat; Un seat next it is a nine jyou get window | backward you have pany out of thr seat on the aisle facing backward in worth seven cents of anybody's me A common seat is valued! ac higher than stand! | There are lots of people who always jestimate their rides on the cars that way.” | “THEN IT HAPPENED” ey | (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) Don't be afraid to take any decent job that offers, if you are de-| Pendent on employment, and don't fail to do the job ar well as you cam. The better you do it, the less likely you are to lose the chance Mf business slackens. Don't speculate, now or ever, in hazardous ventures beyond your Ability to lose without suffering. And keep cheerful! Why can't all the awful family affairs be arranged as was that 4 Greenleat-Ross clopement at Los Angeles? Bob Ross, newspaper man, ran away with Mrs. Lacy Greenlea girl. They were soon located at Tia Juana, Cal. Did } pack up his bear traps, shoulder his trusty six-shooter ranging down the coast’? He did not. He took « day or two suasion wouldn't cure the trouble, and went back Cupid business wasn't earning anything father, Judge Ross, for money. Did judge, he judged that money wasn't that good advice was the essential, Ross are on the high seas, bound for landing will be to hunt up a job from starving to death. No shooting, no “unwritten law BO weeping and wailing, no awful washing of family inundry Mother isn't eating her heart out. Father's and the guilty Ross has got to go to dropping easily and quietly is. So much nicer than the usual BEGINNING OF A GREAT LIST B California republican. endorse the initiative and referendum—Dix, New democrat; Deneen, I[linols republican. Indiana endorses the referendum only. Obio democrat, demands fulfillment of the platform it & constitutional ae as for the in- referendum. Governor Hay of ion wants the officials and a public utilities commission, and sev- governors have taken somewhat similar action. changes, great progress, and more to come. CALIFORNIA quarantined against Nevada potatoes because of the eel worm? Let ‘em come! Fried cels and spuds are bully. o o °o JUSTICES WHITE, Day, McKenna and Holmes took a crack at States Attorney MeReynolds in the Tobacco Trust cases. Big organs say McReynolds has a “hard battle” to fight. ee NOW, just think of Uncle Joe Cannon's coming back and licking the house on the same issue on which he was counted out last ses- sion! Champ Clark voted for the bossism, but maybe's “there's a Feason.” He has. ° © o "RAH for Taft economy! John Storton, a $46 janitor of the Evansville federal building has been docked for time spent in attend- ing a invervidy funeral. No scrub-woman-janitor plutocracy for this administration’ ° o o SENATOR WARREN doesn’t want Chinese students admitted to ‘West Point because China has no war college through which to recip- Tocate. But, Jerusalem! senator, that is why China is trying to learn at West Point! a 6 0 UNCLE KITCHEL PIXLEY remarks: “Don't make no difference whether a feller’s a democrat, a republic @ exrebel or a G. A. R., @ teetotaller or 4 distiller, the minute he's put on the judictal bench he’s all law and no principles.” o o ° TOBACCO TRUST pleads that consumers haven't had to pay more for tobacco since the trust was organized. Pretty near correct, but look what we've been putting up for alfalfa, cabbage leaves, tim- othy, etc! No man knoweth what he smoketh and cheweth, now-a- "eae es WOMEN’S club in New Jersey petitions the legislature to make married men wear rings on their thumbs so that dear, Innocent girls will not be decetved. But the men can easily hfde their thumbs. Better please both the girls and the wives by putting the rings in| the men’s noses. a AS ANTI-SUFFRAGET DICK BARRY argues that female suffrage is no because Denver has more fallen girls in her House of the Good Shepherd than can be found in any other like institution in the country. This is heavy argument, all right. Colorado voting ‘women really are interested in women, Perhaps Barry would have those Denver girls sentenced to the streets or the dives. Terence Welsnix was at 12 that peopl er he wouldn't ha spend the rest of his life forgetting halt of it. } Terence was full of pranks cal| Jeulated to produce dixcomfiture in others. Get that word, children—| dis-com-fi-ture One day Terence stood upon the| street car track, intending to give the motorman of a rapidly approach- | Ing car heart disease and make him | put on the brakes in an agony of fear. | But the motorman knew how smart Terence was and therefore thought that Terence in his wis} dom would step off the track just tn) time, and jauntily. | (THE END.) j | | ! | | Editor Star: What have our aged parents and young children against the “speed ma-/ niacs,” or even those strong of limb/ and sound of brain? | The chauffeurs are arrested, But | | what good does it do to arrest 10 | speeders today and merely impo on them the ridiculous fine of $20, when tomorrow one of these speed maniacs gets in a hurry and takes @ human life? Can that fine, that blood money, pay for that life And what happens to him then? Briefly and simply nothing—from lack of evidence They are fined net free, only to break the law, get arrested and fined again, and so on, with no more serionsness or tragedy at tached to it than there ts to a child’s game of ring-around-m-rosy. | Somebody or something ts satis fled to collect fines as re: ty | and often as possible. And human lives are sacrificed, people become | heart-broken mourners and maimed | and incurable crtpples. Many are made to linger through a living | death, caused from belng in the) track of the maniac, who goes on| his life-destroying way, safe in the knowledge that ¢ time he has offended he has only to pay $20 and, ag far as he is concerned, all is forgotten Have wo a law for punishment | for such things in human flesh that permits a jail sentence? If so, why| ien’t it enforced? Say 63 days tn the stockade would be about right Other poor devils, who do no more than get drunk or can show no vis ible means of support, to go there. But men who have dollars behind them throw down « few and |are allowed to go about killing the innocent. If the judge is afrald to enforce the law, or if the law contains no jail or stockade sentence, repeal the old law (and the judge) and make one that does contain a jail sentence. Enforce the law to the letter and there will be a perceptible change in the sacrifice of human life, MRS. B. H. WILLIAMS, 7421 Olymple Court. MARKET QUOTATIONS, Good resolutions market {n con trol of the bears; fluctuating be | tween 34% and 36%. Few buyers. The biggest bug cargo ever shipped has arrived at Boston There are thousands of insects of all shapes, sizes and colors. They are consigned to the federal bu- uu of entomology and are to be id to destroy the peste that in- fest our orange groves. SADE GcRyR Wigan onetamees-raeaneae oreo tee esses ne aol cat sn i ig THE STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1911. STAR fr re'l} this And mar sania .| There'll be polities eRe ee Ie Lhe onl & * %| There'll be big « * ‘LAWS ARE GOOD—ALSO #| A-meetin’ arour * LET'S HAVE A LITTLE #/And there'l ” JUSTICE’ *| Of Smith * —Oswald West. #| The be * *| And talk about * ee again, 1 do want to do things that/ | | walked over about every mile of | OMY « track in the state, learned every-| thing from rotten tle to dirty sta claim agente—and made his k +) Went to college ge count | . He helped put into effect a water! New rope may code that is a model and that gives| without impairing OSWALD WEST. type of the New Official; the type | hat Oregon ts sending to congress, vending to the legisinture, making | the settler @ chance for bis life|bolling it an hour kovernors of; the initiative and ref-| without going Into @ 10 years’ law, water. crendum type that regards public | fight with every big irrigation com - ae hee as & chance to do something | pany that wants to gobble a stream.| Unb tee lor the people. The old type— Wont most emphatically is NOT| he 1@ party type, the convention, caw | a dreamer. sie’s « small tornado—| not = lobbyist type—has passed in| with convictions. He ts a fighter | a, with the courage of these convic don't want to be governor | tions. Genius ite hair, doesn't of Brown bum pile To steer the old craft will help this state for the nex We seo by the paper that Swift generation.” That's Oswald West.) @ Co, are about to insue 26 per West {8 a young man, But he i*| cent more stock, Also that the no “kid glove” reformer, idealist or! gwift family, with characteristic braggart. He knows politics: \cattianan, snes sendy"te Beet He has been land agent and rail| i, yp road commissioner. As land agent hanetis he une rthed fraud and devis : <6) ~ owns shell oe ta yor mtl een er cena, eon te raine freight rates or save a| mare one © wr bos a8 wr jon dollars I Tt” asked the} codes in the country, They don't| Million 4 ae pn. Oe | steal lands in Oregon any mor | cnoth,” said the rallroad prest | He served on the tax commie | 4.04 | aston he was instrumental oor s | | getting drawn up and passed the | Seer ate aie tix tin Soe | Of the 900 ships which called at As ¢ commiasioner ae the Chinese f Amoy last year, Where was your son educated?” tions, from tax dodgers to crooked| “Ob, he tun’t’ educated Joe Cannon protests that “comeon.” He's a has-been ee mee | DUST | Why, Certainly ; Let the ummer of unrest the wont; - A Coreen. om ‘minations of shoutin graft, He just be Hmbered up ite strength, by or two in A Woman's Organ Certainly | pel Married Men to Wear Wedding Ri 1gs-—New! | Business Bringers. Star classified 1d. Buy or always comb Pianos, New Ones, $96 $131, $167, $198 and $222, two carloads, fresh from the factory —44 instruments, to be exact, and every one musically perfect, although some show signs of case damagement, How can we do it? Here isthe answer: MIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY 25,000 OFFICES IM AMERICA ve Gy ig tet ppt WOSTRT G CLOWRY, Premoanr REecEIveo at FF ot ee mentee pees ome comand staan, etiviocac ee 324 CH. HA, 39, ¥.L. Portland, Ore. Jan. 12, 1911. Eilers Music House, rd Ave., and University St., Seattle, Washn. £ SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD: Sree eaten enw sei, , SESe Fo = Gagne 3 JOOKS, Genera, Manacce Pour carloads pianos intended for Portland Maine misrouted here Pianos somewhat danaged in transit Manufacturers authorise us to dispose of shipment lermediatoly regurdless we reship Seattle today two mixed oars forty four pianos should reach follows. 6:37 p.m _ That's the situation exactly. Manufacturer in the East makes shipment to dealer in Portl his own shipping department, so the letter states, they are misrouted, and turn up at Portl dealer there to receive them, and manufacturer is out $1,240 fr appealed to us. Our Portland house made inspection, and sent comes word to dispose of entire shipment immediately, regardles The two carloads assigned to us reached Seattle Saturday. ‘The ma- jority of the pianos have already been unloaded and all were at our store and hog to go on sale this morning. These pianos come in 5 dif- ferent styles, finished in mahogany, walnut and oak cases. See samples now on display in our window at Third and University, then come in and try them over for yourself. You never saw so much value for so little money in your life. ‘To show you how fully it is appreciated by shrewd buyers who can size up a bargain on short notice, we will state that 3 of the instruments, one a $96.00 style and two of the $198.00 kind, were sold to patrons who hap- pened to be in our store while the pianos were being unboxed, and two of these buyers paid cash. Successor to you Saturday, Letter 8y Silers . aa Maine. Through error in \ \ and, Oregon. Naturally, there is no eight charges. It will cost him as much to get them back. He notification that a number appeared to be case-damaged. Now s of profit. That's it in a nutshell, As you will see by the prices, we have disregarded absolutely the real intrinsic value of these instruments. The main thing is to sell them off as rapidly as possible and get them out of the way. None of them belong to our regular line, and " there is not the sa ic’ firmly to their established price, Sea aa _ And what about terms? We w dictation. Pay us what you can nc your convenience, paying simple ir Don't let this chance sli i : I anc P without at least an inspection, We'r ene 5 disposing of this entire shipment within a hy few dda so there is no time to be lost. See them today. r oo ill leave this practically to your own ow and take care of the balance at iterest on deferred payments only, D.S. JOHNSTON Co. 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