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KICK THE S. E. CO. OUT OF CITY POLITICS DEMAND SEATS INSTEAD OF STRAPS. ATTEND THE GREAT JOE SMITH MASS MEETING AT THE Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM TOMORROW NIGHT. REDSOT SPEECHES ON THE PROGRAM. THE ME E TING IS ESPECIALLY FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO RIDE IN STREET CARS, BUT THERE WILL BE ROOM FOR SOME AUTO OWNERS, PARTICULARLY JACOB FURTH. GOOD SEATS FURNISHED FREE. ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR OVERFLOW CROWD. DOORS OPEN AT 7:30. FIREWORK: START AT 8 SHARP. rvery| The Seattle Star 4" Section of Seattle is covered like a blanket by The Star. It has The Star. You can't possibly get the local news t a home paper ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTI WASH THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1911, attle reads that mw Everybody in special feature ake a business man’s paper TRUTHFULLY TOLD unless you read The Star — everybody's paper. Do you get it regularly? TRAIN® AND 5 STANDS be HERE’S A LOVE STORY WITHOUT WORDS—THE FACE TELLS EVERYTHING E CE EXPECTATION "He's coming? Send him right up.” HAPPINESS niet do love chocolates.” EASING You tell them ail that.” LOVE “Yes, | DO love you.” EARNESTNE “i'm pretty? “You do love me it it last?” Do you know the language of the e? to the Frene map one, bec best man in the right the re That re to practice to gi art Irish. "Happiness — 1 gilising that for anyone. Y m@uth, every feature procia ea | teasing expression ished and mouth that! @® who 4 quickly thar are exp thie expre: watched tell it our eyes, t show when we say secret aw world this of Do you realize that you can express without a single and bright com that goes through the brain? every minute Geraldine M emotion men tell every- things thelr eyes, to control Little Miss Expectation Powers the musical comedy @emonstrated this aft with rapher in a series of pictures pose Th “If a girl were deaf and dumb she co _HENEY THROWS SPOT LIGHT ON JUD | HUSBAND RETURNS HOME tone, who plays “c er to the Moor ald of Havana the the in ny time yesterday Fnoon tor Star t natural, id read b GES Scores Court Which Had to Reverse Itself — on People’s Demand ~ Wavering Attitude of Court in Ruef Case Urged by Fearless Prosecutor As Argument for Recall of Judges. FRANCISCO, March 2.—Francis J. Heney, graft prosecutor, ducted t of Abe Ruef, commenting today on the t order ¢ tuef's fight to escape a l4-year sentence for in the jon a powerful argument for the recall, ¢ supreme in vacating an order granting a rehearing d itself, after it had been attacked by the ate legislature had st an Investigation ot the TO FIND HIS WIFE DEAD When Baby Died Mother Began Drinking—Tragic Came Yesterday When She Passed Away in City Hospital a Few Hours Before Anxious Husband's Return. Climax ung Bad to eave wooed n in New York, thinking that wite would for and quit drink MAN Sensational antimortem state.) C © home : ener nag Recon 4 ed que dials Ments of Mrs. J. C. Carpenter that d with foc Vpevaet : . ee a he rhusband cruelly beat her and whisky € 2 left her to die alone were absplute ly discredited today when J. C. Car ' virtually penter, formerly hea dwaiter at the | ve everal iq : ‘ tuef, v RainierGrand hotel but of late ew Begged Her to Quit Ployed at the Strand hotel, Vancou- | ger called at the ss Bsnag geil Yer, B. C., walked into police head-| with bottles of whisky quarters with tears in his eyes and! Coroner Snyder is sati begged for details of his wife's last|the woman received th hours on earth. which appeared on her bod The woman was brought to the|city hosp! by falling elty hospital from her home, 4201/drunken wanderings about Holly st., Tuesday night suffering | house from a solitary debauch of a w Death of Baby Caused It and an attack of pneumonia Carpenter says his’ wife Woman Told Story. | periodical drinking In her delirious condition the|thelr baby died y A woman told Dr, Parker, of the city! Ten days ago ¢ hospital staff, that she had been | gaged by the beaten by her husband, but Dr.| Strand hotel, Vanc Parker took no stock in the story.|head waiter. He No Food for Five Days. plenty of money. Last Sunday he While it is probably true ‘that | received a letter from Mrs. Carpen the woman never touched food for| ter in which she stated she did not five days it is also true that the'feel well. The letter was written | jy re AREER ute ie Boston Harbor in the fall of 1907) with a 4 that He heard ing. her who ce refratr final eral and the residence ‘ BY FRANCIS J. HENEY. me court of California has reversed itself conviction of Abraham Ruef is important chiefly as times—of the new era in which the people are beginning fact that the tain thi ign of the to rule | Pa | That Ruef must go to jail is of relative importance only. It is | ‘ |™portant that criminals of all stations should be punished, but it is e } jfar more important that the people should control the Eve thin Goes Wro: | administration of juatice. ry ig ng | There is a peculiar irony and a tremendous significance in the gen wan oet fact that what Ruef claims to be a technicality forced the supreme i ane court of this state to reverse itself on a previous ruling which granted whined Ruef a hearing. On former occasions technicalities have weighed only of toll had in favor of the graft prosecution defendants. Schmitz had been freed because the indictment upon which he was convicted failed to state that he was mayor of San Francisco at the time his crime was com- | mitted. The OLIVER T. ERICKSON California JOE SMITH its JAMES Y.C. KELLOGG | [!\0""4,."% W.H. WEAVER A.J. GODDARD : Old Couple Refuse to Despair Though Old ag their hair bent them. But had to su themselves on the H hanging upon th thelr faces w had brought p kept ap with the their rough path. Through it all they have remained # Mrs. Qualey glanced wistful her husband, who sat propped | a chair, For ff ago a tree fell and shattered one of Jobn | | Qualey’s ankles. Since then Mra, Qualey has kept up their little house=| hold by taking In washing. This scant ince teadily decreased There are lots of laundries in Ballard t Today the little | cupboard is bare, and ral months’ re m in the face The romance remains, though a tragedy hovers over them THEY DO NOT COMPLAIN sunshine a two wh hw rty intervening names it bore and ses inkles, Years Mis love aré, smoothing thearts. supreme court unanimously refused to give the people of i hearing on the merits of the Schmitz case, and based on a flimsy technicality which was not anticipated, and not even mentioned in the brief accompanying the applica- he people for a hearing Ruef had been granted a hearing on technical cause. reversed its action because the attorney general called its attention to the fact that one of the concurring justices was absent from the he refusal » has compe ion by The court stares ¢ Though a night session will be held in Judge Donworth's court this evening, indications are that the di rect examination of C. D. Hillman, who is testifying in his own behalf, will consume two entire days be fore concluded. Cirious crowds are filling the corridors and aisies of the court room, eagerly listening and anxious for a glimpse of the real estate dealer. $600. He sald that’ he had Shows Bank Account. had an amount approximating $347 Hiliman explained this morning?900 in all of the banks combine that he had suspended operations at) since 1907. INTIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PA by the panic. He r from the second vic the National Bank of showing deposits on the of each of the last none of these dates president ¢ Commerce first da 0 five years. posit, and on January even had an overdraft of near): referendum. The amendments wi jsend the bill back to the house t ratify. KR tk (By Staff Speciai.) %& The Quiz Congress will hold OLYMPIA, March 2.—The Initia-|% a meeting in the auditorium tive and referendum bill, which has|* of the Y. M. C. A. this evening already passed the house, passed|® to discuss the merits of each the senate yesterday afternoon by|*® candidate, which a straw & vote of 32 to 7 |* vote will be taken The friends of the measure were|kakARAKAK HAHA kA tere’ sce BAN ON JEWS afraid oftheir own strength, and allowed three amendments to go through in order to make more} Yotes. One was Senator Collins’ ST. PETERSBURG, March requiring that 30 per cent of the} 2—Further expulsion of Jews from Tchernigov, Cheliabinsk and:a number of other cities is being contemplated today. Over People vote on any measure The others changed the house 2,000 Jews have been expelle from Tchernigov to date. bill as to the percentage of voters Necessary to start an initiative from 8 to 10 and from 5 to 6 on the If you want SEATS INSTEAD OF STRAPS, kick the Seattle Electric Co. out of politics BY VOTING FOR THE NINE CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED BY THE STAR. They are PLEDGED to compel the street car company to FURNISH ENOUGH CARS TO STOP OVERCROWDING AND STRAPHANGING. Here are the men, remember them when you go to the voting booths next Tuesday : 1, OLIVER T. ERICKSON. 2. JOE SMITH. 3. JAMES Y. C, KELLOGG. 3. W. H. WEAVER. 5. A, J. GODDARD. 6. ROBERT B. HESKETH. 7. AUSTIN E€, GRIFFI, HS. MAX WARDALL. E. L. BLAINE. because of lack of money caused | di a statement We have always been happy of | Ket more work we could manage intively. y Sixty years have come to thi in| & opelessly crippled. . Their four tiny at ¢ almost devoid of fu which she Star man nit y ng it to The ©} past due Yet sickness upon them, d From their window + In the days when tune the little has gone. N 1 | rooms at the rear of a vacant groc o| Woodland park car line All day long John Qualey sit | tumbling over a furrowed brow, an * | wife as she bends over washing #| for her years *| Is anyone in Seattle intereste *| ‘ *| * ot *| y CAN s¢ home March 2,—Torn and bleeding from a hundred wounds, Assistant Keeper Frank Luddeake was today dragged trom in the Review park zo eight big horned owls had ked him, PITTSBURG, Urges the Ducking : Stool for Shrews LOWELL, Mags,, Match 2.—In an address last night,-Supt. Redmond Welch of the local police declared that in his opinion the feminine sex is becoming more talkative. He re fe id to the ducking stool used for | punishing talkative women in olden | days and added “From the frequent complaints arising from this sex at the present time, ‘t ie doubtful if there are not many who would hail this method |of punishment with delight and wit ness the chagrin of thelr worthy spouses by a dip.” took this childless ¢ouple are not bitter at the fate John Qualey wag a b Owls Attack Man strong. If he I could only she said, I am stil I hate to ask for Ue woman ks hopefully of the future he wa © bare save the down and carefully dusted befo cupboard is empty and the reni without kin, with old age and that has overtaken them, little home used to own man. But through misfor- are living in a few little near the end of the Went © the they ow propped in a chgir, his white hair id his faded blue @ task that is obviously too much 4 in them? Midget Arrests Full-Grown Man BELFAST, Me., March 2.—Stand {ing little more than three feet in height, yet arresting a man of full grown stature and landing him safe ly in the police station, was the work of “Admiral” Don O, Robbing of Relfi who lives with the fam jily of City Marshal Marcellus R. Knowlton Don, who is the smallest man in w England, is 40 inches tall weighs 49 pounds and is 49 y of age | X-Ray to Tell Age CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 2 Claiming that he is only 17, and therefore entitled to enter the Unit ed States as the son of a Chinese merchant, Chang Hong has been placed under the X-ray by immigra tion sleuths to ascertain his correct age, they claiming that he is at least 25, husband is 70, N all scrupuously | ; Indictments Fin ROBERT B.HESKETH | | AUSTIN E.GRIFFITHS| | MAX WARDALL | E.L. BLAINE eyes watching his | —_——_ part of the strengthened | No one but the grand |jury members may remain in the jury room while indictments. are being voted on. r | W. L. Fenstermacher wa first witness called today, He followed by M, J, Justice, BALTIMORE, Mareh Follow- ing a whipping by his mother be [room during the latter yesterday Expected Soon No witnesses had been called in by the grand jury up tq 10:30 this morning and there were many| rumors that the jury was voting on | new indictments. |cause of misbehavior, Ralph King The fact that Deputy Prosecutor |aged 12 years, committed suicide Landin was barred from the jury | today the was state when an order for a hearing was signed. Why did four mem bers of the court first ignore, then reckon with this point? Because a fe s public officer demanded attention, and because the weight of an awakened public was behind the demand—a public interested ir aff demanding speedy and substantial jus- tice, the right to remove judges, the creation of laws to stop ring and m s of justice awakening came in time to work against Ruef. Ruef now says that he been its own That is all. would not have been convicted of bribery in court during the trial. This may be igh it is certain that the ability and patriotism of governor of California was largely the cause. If the shooting worked toward the administration of justice, then the suffers ing and injury it entailed on me and mine worth while, As @ crime it was more violent, but not so dangerous to society, as other crimes that were committed during the of the prosecutions, Jury tampering, bribery of witnesses, control of courts by private Interests strike at the foundations of American institutions The open shooting worked, a quick but temporary ing of the public mind. The exposure of those other secret crimes, committed by exceedingly clever and adroit criminals, worked toward a gradual but permanent awakening. There are many new progressive the graft prosecutors. These ent mental and moral attitude affairs is in large measure due stand during the course of the prosecutions. That is the point. Ruef to jail, It is right and just that hould go, But that fact in itself is not the real triumph of the right. Ruef will have been sent to jail by the court that freed Schmitz an a flimsy technicality, and thereby freed Ruef from the penalty of nprisonment for a crime to which he had pleaded guilty. Public opinion is beginning to contro! the courts of California n the interests of justice. That is the significance of the Ruef de- cision, Those who oppose the application of the recall to the judiciary seem to fear that public opinion will always do this. shot these honest admin. citlz of California today supporting tration who openly opposed the work of do not realize that their pres the administration of public what they saw and came to under the persons toward graf TRIBUNE ATTACKS. LORIMER WHITEWASH (By United Press.) CHICAGO, March 2—The cago Tribune, which first started the crusade against Wm. Lorimer retention of his seat in the senate to which it was alleged he had|— been corruptly elected, today de-|d ed jnounced the vote yesterday in the! cancelled,” reads the will of the United States senate which exon-|late Right Rev. Mgr, Edward §, erated Lorimer, It said [Fivgerald of Holyoke, filed teday, That — vote, leaves Lorimer This is the ma when corrected, a majority of four, hematical measure of his ‘vindication. The quality of the votes cast for him will more than wipe out this majority in the sense of the nation If Lorimer is proud of the event he is welcome to his pride.” Chi SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 2. “AN debts and Habilities to the personally are declared