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FEBRUARY 25, 1911, DO YOU EXPECT ME TO SIT THERE AND GROW ANOTHER HEAD OF HAIR BEFORE THAT STEAK COMES IN 241 DSS ISS A VIRELESS, ADOLF. MAYBE YOU VILL LIKE ID BETTER FOR DoSE SHORT ORDER SICKNALS ¢ DERE ISS VON ALREADY. ACH, | DESPICE ORDERS | 1AM DYING Diss §.0.5, — BESITES DISS OXBLAINS ~ A tax! sped along the street; it ran into some trucks, The chauffeur he killed I VILL BE nh EARLESS To DER VIRELESS, OR WHY / SHOULT 1 was and The passenger said “Shucke!” A sparrow sat upon a roof, Along which orawied a cat. The sparrow flew to another NO VONDE R) roof, And the cat said, “Gee, i'm hungry!” TREATY RATIFICATION MAY |. NOT END JAP WAR SCARE an end, the only guaran- n rests in the ‘on Uchida, the not @ part of the BATTLE OF CITIES AGAINST WIRE TRUST IS NOW ON WOMEN FIGURE IN It’s Only a Question of Short Time Before Every City Will Either Have a Telephone War or Bow the Neck. By United Press.) not yet at a huge wire trust having The apanese war t Rare Jane Murray hous ployed by Jo before man it r c @ negro nu hua Green, lowing the » night of better wt treaty he ty| It't mikado, The the ¥ that thi ficatio igerous questic only the for his political) that a c ment t sired tion THE POWER BEHIND THE WIRE om the stand agal THRONE. Senator W Crane presenting the of Massa in the admitted today that enators voted for rath grave misgivings and ivance of the president permitting the enact rica of any de 1 control of the situa iclent to induce them D. Hillman in rebuttal, accordir e atatement yesterday after District Attorney Todd ine Ingwaldeon, one of Hi Geors tentified | tion with Murray a Bir-| City y having paid Murray Jude 4 mer saleswomen to having wold Mins mingham tract. After paid | $106 on this property, Miss Murray was transferred to a t re questing that her em diately | nothing of it é quiring into he To a!!! tngwaldnc at the! On « d that the regular price ¢ was $50, but insisted that refunded the nurse the balance ‘ © | The t t Miss Ingwald t he Cor t 50 commiswic ined that bh are ple his 9 husetts More Double Sales. it sh W. King 4 in regard letter received from Hillman of of the Taft regime, anger of are r relations house James the rican of lords, to disturbance of diplomatic is ected Fe GIRL FOUND PRISONER IN SPLENDOR OF FACTORY LOFT discovery ing him te Khten was ly largest individual stockholder in American e & Tel Co, th w Mores fe a me the offi by Te jot | ne admit pho: 1 over the egraph 80 - called The ator says that { height of to talk govern Th com the and ted tha through their fe ay afte of thelr ¢ they b streets PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 22.—A willing prisoner in a luxurious apartment, fitted up with splendid and costly furnishings, in the loft of a dingy factory building, Mabel Lewis, aged 17 years, a stenographer, who started from her home for work and then dis- appeared, was found by the police in the tool plant of the John Naughton company on Pennsylvania av. Naughton was In the ® and both were placed under arrest. Both entra] station, where the girl met her father, ook her home. aughton was finally released, as the girl's family wished to avoid the notoriety of prosecuting him. Naughton {s a married about 30 years old, and has a pretty young wife, for inate rowt rs she only folly about ment ownership ot telephones and telegraphs. | retained $5. their The six wit ght « ephone «| SMALLPOX RAGING allowed by wtify in regard vary Pacific coast Bel mpanies, of which there everal And now rl, days at lea From sary to business concern pox apfears. I urge to go to bis family once and be way the out fm t three « Fe cane of smalipox have been January 1 have caused Health ficer Crichton to urge the people of Seattle to band together in an ef since BY W. G. SHEPHERO. = ) organ has practically co i & r ot NEW YORK, Feb. 25.+-With the surplus which the America Telephone & Telegraph Co. had kindly taken from telephone us im every one of the localities controlled, it bought out the tn terest of George Gould and Mrs Russell Sage in the Western Unicx Telegraph This telegraph company, whict had been made up of small te graph companies, was alws known as being chock full water. The stock of the companie which was held by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. wa also reeking wet with water. And on its immense capitalizs tion the public must pay dividends of & per cent There is little wonder that American cities see little hope of soure man, now vac on it United St nate nee, but tn trust indepe Aeats ‘i every fort to prevent an epidemic of the | disease physician at] There is no need for general In that i | am telane tinahen alarm,” said Dr, Crichton, “bat the The rebellion of the cities has Citizens of Beattle owe it to them already set in. It will not be long| selves to fight what might become before every city will either have @ serious epidemic. | a telephone war or bow the neck| “Vaccination is an infallible pre-| to the trust. |wentative and I urge every person | to submit to it at once. My fore haw found that nearby logging Crh h the smallpox is finding its way tn. to Seattle. During the Inst 10 ompany will then one Kyatem diseas: ® stamped | | FILL-O If you have a cavity in your teeth and cannot afford expensive dental Ps you are too buy @ packe, tiseptic filling (By United Press.) WINNIPE Man., Feb. ©riDg | hundred coal miners have go out on strike at Frank, Alberta, and | Michel, B.C. The miners are said to have about abandoned hope of an ter’ ys |agreement being reached in regard j peel is ey —— ago Miss Linquist revealed the fact | to the annual revision of the miners’ || Keep it. mati $0e to that she was married to Thomas A, | schedule. | * Quick, a secret they intended to| It is reported that many of the Fill-o Manufacturing Co., keep until March. They were mar-istrikers are in an fli-tempered || 351 Empire Bidg., Seattle, Wash ried three months ago. mood. aes he person is su e. of clips and towns are more or less inf@sted and from these sources getting the rates of telephone service reduced. As a matter of fact, phone company officials admit that the larger a city grows the higher rates must be charged for telephone service. The New York charge for busi- ness phones today is about $100 « year. Philadelphia has about the same rate. Boston pays $162 « year. The Chicago rate is about $1 After the A. T. & T. had taken the tele Uncle Sam Gulliver, in twentieth centur; telegraph wi Are You Satis- fied With Your Income? If you are not, we can help you increase it by a considerable amount each week. You can double your income by devot- ing your spare time to taking subscriptions for The Seattle Daily Star in your home town. We want capable men and women to represent us in every city and town in the state of Washington. The Star is the most rapidly growing paper in the state. Now is the time to join with us and to grow with us. We want YOU to handle our business in your territory. Fill out the follow- ing coupon and mail it at once. CIRCULATION DEPT. r, Beattie, Wash nen.—Send me full par- of your local agent propo: Name Street No. telegraph company it seek how to captare the Wit alth it worked atest work for the Working alone Vail| have be a to} enormous w bring ab such an enormous vions ways. combination as the American Tele-| Here is where J. Plerpont Mor-|phone & Telegraph Co. But some-| RAILROADS GIVE UP FIGHT FREIGHT RATES DECISI NEW YORK, Feb. 25 growing here today that the rafl roads will make no protest against the decision of the interstate com merce commission in refusing to allow advances in rates The chief public concern is whether there will be a reduction of wages » statement of George F. Baer, president of the Reading Rail- | road, that the working man might suffer from the refusal to allow the rate raise, Is causing spéculation Referfing to Baer's statement, a nent labor leader said today » will be no reduction in wages now. The Eastern and most of the Western systems have sign dh » trust ts|could never Bellef is) which is unlikely, we will have the| biggest railroad strike in history.” | The impression ainong financial} men here is that everything will soon be adjusted, that the roads will carry out thelr contemplated improvements and that no fight for) higher rates will be made | RATE ADVANCE ON COAL (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The in terstate conimerce commission to-| day suspended rate advances vitnlp} ‘iy affecting the tap lines and the coal industry in the south and west, Ad vances on coal shipped from West | ed up with the various brother-| Virginia to the West and Middle hoods for a term of years. If the| West have been postponed until railroads violate thelr contracts, | September | BORAH FIGHTS FOR DIRECT ELECTION OF U. S. SENATORS (By United Press.) [next WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. With} Borah thinks that the resolution for the direct elec-|favor the resolution tion of senators practically killed| He said: “As the contest to per | by the addition of the Sutherland | mit the direct election of se ators | amendment, Senator Borah, of|has continued at intervals for a Idaho, undismayed today declared |century, the fact that the first re lthat he intends to continue the! corded vote in the senate will be fight this session and if finally de-|taken next week is a sign of prog feated, to resume the battle in the | ress.” (hy Oni ted Press.) ELKO, Nev., Feb. 26.—Hasten- ing to head off a party of 10 Sho- -_ shone Indians who are suspected |8IG FIRE HITS of having killed four wealthy stock- MANILA NATIVES men in Washoe county nearly a MANILA, Feb. 25.—Three hun month ago, Sheriff Ferrell of|dred native dwellings in Tondo, a Washoe county, Sheriff Harris of}suburb of Manila, were destroyed Elko county, Sergeant Buck of the/by fire today. The Mary Johnson state police and big posse left) hospital was heavily damaged, | congress a majority oo here today for old Tuscarora, The Indians have been trailed 142 miles by the state police from Little High Rock canyon, where the massacre occurred, within 12 miles of Winnimuce to | court |O'Brien HELD up|! i A verdict of guilty of assault In} the nd decree was yesterday | found against Capt. W. P. O'Brien | by a jury in Judge John F. Main’s The maximum penalty is 10 years, or $1,000 fine, or both On the night of August 1 Capt abot Alexander Smith during @ quarrel in the former's house, at 202% Minor ay. Smith} was operated on for a bullet'in the leg, and died MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 25.—Though twice divorced, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Crampton are enjoying their! third honeymoon. The last wed-/ ding took place in the office of the} lawyer who two years ago obtained a divorcee for them. AGAINST ON, IS BELIEF Jake Furth Out TACOMA, Feb. Judge John A. Shackleford, late of the superior court, is to be executive head of the Stone & Webster interests in Pierce county. Jacob Furth has heretofore | ked after both Pierce and King counties: The Largest Publisher in the World Is the United States gov ernment For the mere writing of a letter, you may receive of all branches of industry reports In pamphlets it will show you the best methods of farming, or how to ono. mize in buying meats. It will also show you that in the Strictly Savings Banks of the United States there is an average of $45.05 for each person in the United States. ARE YOU A DEPOSITOR? IF NOT, BE ONE The Bank for Savings Cor. Third Av. and Pike St. TO POLICYHOLDERS, WASHINGTON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY As of noon, February 23, 1911, all of the liability of the Washington Fire Insurance Company under its outstanding policies was reinsured in the Firemen’s Fund Insurance Com- pany, of San Francisco. ‘Losses occurring after that time will therefore be adjusted and paid by the Firemen’s Fund Insur- ance Company, which has assumed legal liability therefor. These, and all other business transactions in connection with “Washington Fire” policies, should, however, be taken up as usual with this company at its city office, 210 Lowman Build- i Messrs. Carstens & Earles, Inc., having been appointed 1 Agents of the Firemen’s Fund Insurance Cempany for the convenience of policyholders. No further business will be written in the Washington Fire Insurance Company, which, after cleanly winding up its affairs, will retire from business. The company is in excellent financial condition, and its reinsurance in the “Firemen’s Fund” adds the eight millions of assets of the latter company to our own for the complete protection of our policyholders, In view of the constant and kindly interest taken by Washington citizens in the progress of your “home com- pany,” we explain that our retirement is made after maturest consideration by this company’s directors because of their conclusion that current underwriting conditions make un- likely in the future profits sufficient to adequately provide for the inevitable conflagrations and at the same time pay reason- able returns upon the somewhat hazardous investment of our stockholders,