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automobiliets to get out and hy 7s “ ST Ths antes ° ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE 00 of government bent. Thay corned ie of horses they pasa on the road. The autos ai 2 - dened " $220 every hour, day and night, and so kept, SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911. ONE CENT. 23 wi"4ixt Ane the wolf from the door, [Corporation Spouters Adjourn |U’REN DOES BIG THINGS WE! ane menace oA «i The corporation lawyers, operating under the name of the State Bar association, have finished their labors for the present, They ano d and spouted for several days against the few forward moves made by the state in the way of better legislation, ~ They referred to the people as “the mob,” “the unthinking rabble,” ete, ete, ending the whole show with the solemn prediction that this grand and glorious state will go to the dogs unless—ah, there's hope a | unless the clients of these corporation tools be permitted to run the state and everything in {t, in thelr own sweet way ih When they meet again these silk-hatted spouters for "Big Business” oan Motorman Killed and Two Injured in Head-on Collision Be- | ¥!!! know just how little attention the ple are paying these days Ss. . ‘ Dany to the advice and warnings of political pirates and corporation, crooks. + Hest tween Seattle-Tacoma Electric Trains at Midnight—Mis- Z wilt taken Orders—Motorman Leaves Big Family. rr ; ee Au a result of a heaton collision ment. Tho_care were comptstely/PRETTY IRISH LASSES SAY WOMAN cet between two electric trains on the | wrecked, Tho Seattle-bound train 5 ent Tacoma-Seattle line, Arthur E. Bris was a special, made up of new « SUFFRAGE STARTED IN IRELAND! Plans UpSet by Charter Provision Making Forty Days the one is Ganae’ wenn ee ne borg, | lestee = ky Limit Between Filing of Petitions and Holding of Recall = y bo s had been a with ‘ote: ; det a8 and Gus Larson, are in Fannie Pad- people the death list probably ae Recall Association, However, Will Continue the dock hospital at Tacoma, suffering would have been large ampaign. q from numerous minor injuries. A dispatch from Tacoma to The The proposed recall election for September 5 on Mayor Dilling Running at full speed, the trains Star states that the passengers on and four of the councilmen is blocked. crashed together on a sharp curve the wrecked train were hurried to The recall petitions should have been filed a week ago in order near Milton at midnight. Misunder-| Tacoma in automobiles, and the in. to make an election September 5 possible. Under a mistaken idea 4 standing of orders was assigned as jured taken to hospitals. The train apparently the Citizens’ Recall association believed they could file the cause of the accident. Both from Seattle was 10 minutes late, the petition this week and still comply with the city charter. motor cars were telescoped. and trying to make up time when The charter provides, however, for a period of at least 40 days The Tacoma-bound train left Se- attle at 10:15, with three cars well filled with passengers, but when the collision occurred only about half « carload remained on board: Passengers said today that Motor man Bristol jamped and was killed fm falling down the steep embank TROOPS FIGHT VIRGINIA hae a law which require the accident ocourret, on a short, sharp curve. Motorman Leaves Big Family. Bristol, the dead motorman, lived at Taco: Lal wife and six children. His mother and father [live at 79th and Greenwood av., this Jelty. GREAT FIRE (Ry United Frees Leseed Wire) age. Women and children have he Seattle Star Cc. E. 8. WOOD. “But it is not the work of one an," U'Ren W. 8. UREN, w. U'Ren, the “father” direct legisiation in the West, w Seattle's Saturday night. U'Ren told ttle of his 20 years;men as C. E. 8. Wood, who h. fighting in Oregon to place the| worked as hard as | have. | have powet ‘of legislation in the hande|had the support of the farmers’ or 100 or 200 more men and women U'Ren Commands.” who worked with him. C. EB. 8. Wood, the famous Port He looks like a farmer. And he|land lawyer, and the radical haa been a farmer. He used to be| writer, who accompanied U'Ren to in the nursery business, He is now|Senttle, says that U'Ren is too HOME EDITION W. H. VANDERBILT, according to officl records at Washington, once owned $48,000, between the filing of recall petitions and the holding of a recall election. The city comptrotier says there isn’t time enough now. This ie what the city charter says on the subjec ¢ city clerk shall, within 10 days from the filing of the pe tition, check the register and the petition. * * * “If the petition is found to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the same to the council without delay; and thereupon the city coun- cil shall order and fix a date for holding said election, NOT LE! THAN 30 DA NOR MORE THAN 40 DAYS FROM THE DAT! OF THE CLERK'S CERTIFICATE TO THE COUNCIL THAT A SUFFICIENT PETITION {8 FILED.” The time until September 5 is now only 36 days. it would ree People. iganizations and the labor unions.| quire at least 40 days between the filing of the petition with the U'Ren {» not an imposing looking |And It is really remarkable the| clerk and the electio personality. On the contrary, he | amount of trouble a couple of hun-| The Recall association, although evidently blocked in their pres is Yery modest looking. And he is|dred men and women can cause| ent plan, will continue the fight, and the three of the four council- as mode an be looks, He says|for special privilege when they | men against whom their campaign has been waged will be forced to too much credit ia given bim. He|work toward the same end for 20) face a recall at the regular election. One of the councilmen, Kel- wants to divide his edit, with | years.” logg. gt out next spring, does Mayor Dilling. When the attention of F. A. Stirtan, the secretary of the Recall association, today was called to the city charter provisions by The Star, he said: “Our counsel had advised us we would have sufficient time if we file the petition this week It was our plan to hold the Brigit O’'Quinn and Mise Brig They arrived in Seattle turte Our old records prove Loughlyn the Kent Lumber Co. | surrounding the Kent Lumber Co, property at $1.25 an acre and that in to let continue conducting its mill for the SAN RNARDINO, Cal., July | been removed to Little Bear valley. & lawyer and has been for many | modest a had not though inything else. Wi 81.—-Oriven by a stiff wind from the| ‘The summer home of James E. PUK Ge dye thas’ te ine Tenson| "O'hen commends,” Wook oaye.| Sc copes ourctiven thet: the chection ceanct be haid Gegtemnaram west, the forest fires in the San| Mooney, Cincinnati multimillion. he knows the danger of govern-|"The rest of us do as he tells us.| fe i re — Bernardino mountains today are| aire, caught fire twelve times but ment by lawyers. When he ap-|It was in 1892 that U'Ren came to/ wr é ae burning toward the most heavily | was saved. peared at the banquet held tn his|me one day in Portland and showed | i ® timbered parte of the range. Al- _—_- honor last Saturday night, he ap-|me a pamphiet written by one Sul-| “i ready 15 square miles of timberhas| SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., July peared in negligee shirt and on/livan on direct legislation in| ag slid been destroyed. 31.—Sweeping aside the feeble op- the Whole was dressed more like a| Switzerland. We agreed it would wind Early today Assistant Forest | Position of the exhausted fire fight- laborer at a funeral, than ax a|be a good thing if we could get IN PROP ND Es Supervisor Long announced that he |¢rs, the forest fire which has been nation{amed lawyer at a banquet |it introduced in corrupt Oregon and rd had asked the government to send |raging on the side of the San Mise Marian J. O'Shea Mise Elleen Noone 39 aed DRED | Went fo. werk.” | To try to prevent the proposed paying about $32 an acre for land 2 several companies of U. S. troops) a on caeee today spread be- Mise Brigit O’Quinn Miss Brigit Macloughtyn Sus whee he eee te hatte tied 7. . Sete ~ pec, “yet | purchase of the property of the| now which it will not receive until * from San, Franclaco to, aid {n_con-| or 0g teet through the alr, |,, Hew many Seattle people know |league is endeavoring to create * | audience. He talks an if he knows |without U'Ren Oregon would man] went Lember Co: ta the CONS tre oe er ike ise: ba ae pont immediately. Wires are down |up the mountain side, the flames [thet the woman suffrage movement spirit of national unity in Krell (the danger of government by |have had the direct legislation ded by the finance com-|30 years, besides all the timber om or and it fs Impossible to obtain an|crossed the ridge, where the fight /vlarted in the Roverale late Genera-| tie te es It is doing this bY {convince ee Hi# manner is] measures it has. To U'Ren belongs mittee, Counciiman Goddard will | the land. accurate estimate of losses. Cour-|was made to contro! it, and spread | CT) AOS Me eieh are in| making public many almost forgot a te te open a fight on the scheme. | Goddard has opposed to him the fers arriving today told of the de-|to Westville’s canyon and Houston |, 1hT8e Pretty tied | rn c irik ES ASS TAs! The theory is that the 2,300/engineering department and the 2 ft Hundreds of dash healt y who solemnly assert ten facts of Irist ory re ‘ 4 45 4, 7 struction of the Elks’ lodge at Pine | fiat. ae — Sl that it's a fact | “Why, do you know,” added Miss acres, which includes the town of Kent Lumber Co., represented by, Crest. Squirrel Inn and Pine |for their lives, barely beat the ad (roo one ates Eileen (lan't| Noone, with a hearty Irish twinkle | | Barneston, is to be purchased by | ex-Senator Sam Piles. Crest, two of the largest camps in| vance guard of the fire into Littie| 0". soit name?) Noone, Mia# |in her eye, “that the suffrage move- | the city to prevent pollution of the| Goddard brought out the fact the fire zone, escaped serious dam- | Bear valley. y Z Mad. anead charted Wa tread eevere! 66” city water. But the proposed plan | that the city has condemned land. . their expenses goes to the Gaelic children they chose. But of WICKERSHAM. ‘i stay ye - 4 WASHINGTON, July 31—-Broad provisions for the development pf league. They are showing the course the English stamped it out. H. deuceel aad Cc rage gg ey Page Br Bg caper My hag used coal deposits in Alaska and the prevention of monopoly are made in'a|jaces at the MacDougail-Southwick| Four girls left Ireland with the WASHINGTON y Un 8.) i : ait y ist . bill prepared by Gifford Pinchot and introduced in the senate today by | store. exhibit, but Miss Marian J. O'Shea) SHINGTON, D. C,, July 31.—“Attorney General 7 . Sane: aa — $40 peegaped. ho: Gifford. Pint | cAWe are not really working for|deserted the company tn Philadel! Wickersham has shielded criminals in Alaska, This statement KAISER IS BACK Under the terms of the measure a license may be obtained to pros-|money,” said Miss Noone today,|phin several weeks ago when shelis made purposely and deliberately, and I am here to back it up.” GATES Is BETTER i PINCHOT HAS PLAN FOR PEOPLE — AND ALASKA COAL DEPOSITS pect for coal during a term of two years, and secure a lease of about | 6,000 acres of coal lands for 40 years. The interstate commerce com- | mission is authorized to fix the maximum selling price of the coal minéd | and to regulate the rates of transportation. All applications suggest- ing attempts at monopoly may be rejected. Coal producers are to pay a royalty of 25 cents per ton during the first year, 60 cents during the second year and $1 per ton thereafter. PrMraTiNN It FOR BEER SENSATION IN PATS FOR seER from the Bast yesterday. |that a convention was calied by The girls are skilled Irish Ince! some of the noble women, and that makers, and are here in the inter-| measures were discussed to esta of the Irish league, and what-|the women a voice In the ever profit is lett after defraying|ment and power to educa “but are here more than anything | received a letter from her sweet else to show the people of this|heart on the “ould sod.” She is country what wonderful work our|now enjoying her honeymoon tn country Women can do. The Gaelic | Ireland. HAS THE LIFE OF THE COWBOY LOST ITS ROMANCE? How about it? The Star sent M. C, Larkin to find out. “ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS SHIELDED CRIMI- NALS IN ALASKA,” DECLARES DELEGATE This challenge to the attorney general was made today before the house judiciary committee by Delegate James Wickersham of Alaska, in testifying in the inquiry into the de- | partment of justice with reference to Alaskan affairs. sham declared that the situation in Alaska was daily becoming worse, that the monopolization of the territory is most complete and that the Guggenheim syndicate can influence the appoint ment of United States officials and can and does contro! them after their appointment. |}iam Knight of Farmington is today Wicker-| at of pneumonia and next seven to contamin: the water for seven | possession of this. The Barnestom more years the same as before. site, Goddard declared, we will not After seven years the firm is to; get for 30 years, after its owners be allowed to run logging camps have taken everything off of any ars, thus continuing the city will come into immediate BERLI July 31.—| o liam returned today to Berlin after a vacation cruise of several days in northern waters, which was cut short by the acute crisis over the | Moroccan situation. On his arrival the kaiser went ad conference at once with Chan- |cellor Von Bethmann-Holl |Foreign Minister Von Rideriine Waechter. An official statement issued today says the emperor has jed Press Leased Wire. . The condition of John W. Gates today continues serious, but encouragement is | gained from the fact that his heart readily responds to stimulants. The greatest fear of the physicia they that the American financier’s case is most critical. | Lee OR ERE E REE HR HH * boarding house and singed the 4 Is the American cowboy gone? om nsec ay ken SS == received a stat the | fas that most picturesque figure of fact and fiction of the lx ONR BOLT ScORCHE ement of | | City Wntted Frew Leased Wire.) “Old Wort” pasted, like the Indian and the bison, with the wes 19 MOTHER OF 5 FRR Ok tt tt tte Sat OF te ee Progress of the Franco-German se: | CHICAGO, July 31.—When P. ward advance of population ? Ad Gases oie E 4 Whee) * */% MONTICELLO, N. Y., July ® PRE 0 | A. Murphy of Milliken, Colo., ‘That's the present day impression. We're being told that the FARMINGTON, Mo., July 31 * THE WEATHER. #/* 31—A streak of lightning & JACKSON, Miss, Jul: 21. . ) | entered a saloon, bought two business of sending beet to market has lost Its romance Aithough but 18 years old, Mrs, Wil-/® Fair tonight and Tuesday: #|* struck Charles Garetsky’s | ehree-cornered fight for the seat ¢ ot State Board of Control Charges} glasses of beer and gravely paid Mr. Larkin went to Rancho Baluarte, Merced county, Callfornt ® light westerly winds. Tem- * the mother of five children, the last Leroy Pi & hair of 22 people sitting in the #| United States connie kes a on a Printing Office With Scheme! for them with one irish potato, an average California ranch. He has just returned. What he three girls arriving together, welgh-|* Derature at moon today, 65, |e parlor, without hurting any se- *|and the voters of Missiasii iv * to Rob State of $90,850. receiving 5 cents in change, he has to say and what he has to show you'll find mighty interesting. */i2 seven, seven and five pounds.|* * | riously. te! decide the issue in tomer aan SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 31— > probably cheated himself out of ‘The Star'is going to introduce you to the ordinary, present All five are healthy, EEEESES eee EES. *! ONS EME M MEM HM HH ANd senatorial primacy pais The most sensational attack ever started on the state printing of- fice and methods of doing business is begun in a report to Gov. John- son by the state board of control, in which it is charged that the printing department, in con- ion with certain favored sup- ply concerns, is engaged in a “scheme to mulct the state of $90) between 50 and 75 cents a 850.92, for the benefit of certain) bushel. In the big commission business firms which have been! houses in Chicago spuds today closely identified with the sta were quoted at $1.40 to $1.50 printing office for years and ha a bushel, and hard to get at profited enormously as a ¥ that price. of vicious and illegal method esos. Bate SOME CHEESE. the conduct of that departmen' ‘ CHICAGO, UL, July 31—The NEW YORK, July 31,— %/|national dairy show, held at the Ralph Tomkins, a one-legged #| International Live Stock amphi- youth of 18, started today to #)| theatre here, October 26 to Novem walk from New York to Chi- #|ber 4, will have on exhibition a cago on a wager of $2,000. % | mammoth cheese weighing 10,000 Tomkins bet he could make #| pounds. This cheese will take 65 the trip in four months. # | tons of milk and cream, from 6,500 ahhh tht kh kh hh) cows. money—real money at that. For potatoes—spuds, or Mur- phys or wha choose to call them—are higher now that they have been for 15 years, and harder to get. The average price for pota- tt of the year is Ey Sed ee Aetna dade a) {] bt abe bee. Mass Meeting Tonight to Help day American “cowboy” In a series of illustrated stories, begin ning tomorrow, and leave you to judge as to whether his calling has lost its romance. SSCS ESSE SEE EEE SESS SSE SEE EE EEE RRR RARER ARK hhh Along City Owned Road Resolutions demanding that the he continues to fleece them. The {reply of the people will come in a city council pave the way for the) i cimous demand for the tmme- construction of the city owned rail: diate construction. of a new line way without delay will be intro-| parallel with the Crawford road. duced at the mass meeting at th Lakeside hall, Duniap, tonight. The) YONKERS, N. Y., July 31— meeting has been called for the| Ciara Morris, actress, ia gradually purpose of testing public sentiment) recovering her sight under the after the report of the alleged “re-| treatment of a famous European organization” of the Crawford line. | specialist, whore Identity has not It is the belief that the reorgan-| been revealed, according to state- ization “bunk” was given out to lull| ments made today by Frank Har Crawford's patrons to sleep while’ riot, her husband, ORD, HOW LONG? a eee = amed to feel bad when | see her, BY W. G, SHEPHERD. NEW YORK, July 31.—William| 4. Sullivan, champion hoper of the | “i'm glad somebody can e funny, “What are you fasting for’ smiled again, 'Found--Champion Hoper of the United States! “A uk “Hardship seems to help folks. “I think the time is coming when no one will want to drink,” said! Sullivan with a smile. “Folks will “Sometime no one will want to drink.” L | H 0 W 0 N G 0 H United States! Bring on your oth-| “Well, (ne doctors can't do any-|be lots happier then.” M > 9 9 er folke who think they are extra|thing for these withered up old| “These elevated trains are en s > at hoping. Bring on your/limbs of mine, and I took # notion |nolsy,” I said, as the rattle dis- Si 1 ” Are the residents of Seattle's suburbs to the south to be|on the people. who send that I'd try something myself. I've |turbed our talk. kK L peop damn you,|got an idea that maybe I can starve| “Yes,” he smiled. “Some day I i 1s | e executed on the altar of corporate greed, or are they to be reprieved? They would like to know. Their case is like that of the condemned man, granted a temporary stay of execution. There comes a time when the suspense is worse than the actual exe- They played their trump card. They got an injunction, The people were cornered. The Star kept up its fight for their cause. The Star showed how this rich and powerful monopoly, growing fat by virtue of special privileges, was able to ruthlessly trample upon the rights of the people because of a rotten legal smile” postal cards, and who be-| myself into a state of weakness and lieve in a sickly grin, even if you're |that, when I build up again, after dying. | my fast is over, the new tissue that I've found a hoper that I'l) stack| will grow will be fresh and strong up agcinst them all. His motto is|and will crowd out the tissue that “I'd die if I couldn't smile.” is paralyzed,” suppose they'll find a way to run |them quietly,” “Say, don't you ever feel bad?" 1 asked in desperation. He laughed heartily. “Look at this girl coming down Hose 25¢ VALUE i cution itself would be. system, The Star showed how quickly the injunction writ had Ho iat Me R n , 7 pe Was born in him 28 years} Then he laughed, the street here, red. For nearly two years—since October, 1909—the people of | always been brought to the rescue of property rights a8 against lago ay a grouch, or music, or| “Perhaps that sounds funny’ to "Bhe ge Taine: pone pn un- the Duwamish -Valley have been outrageously tobbed by the| human rights until the courts responsible for this condition of | genius is born in other folks. you? Well, it does to me, too. | usually pretty : Electric Railroad monopoly, fattened and fostered by ill-gotten | affairs had brought themselves into ABSOLUTE CONTEMPT 40-Day Fast. But, anyhow, I'm going to try it.”| “Td be ashamed to feel bad| Ma: y franchises and other special privileges. The people, almost powerless before the monster, have seen their families broken up because high fares made it impos- sible for husbands, sons and daughters to live at home and work in the city. They have seen property values drop until it amounts almost to confiscation and yet the outrage goes on in the meantime, despite all the decisions, despite all the} He came tottering down the pe ee i ogee ni8°] ing that. the women of his The state railroad commission decided, after a long and|contempt—and there was contempt aplenty on all sides—the|stalrway to see mo; he dragged a wil nal ho ¢ egy @ 10F Sunshine} Congregation think more of | palsted right leg behind him; his . their legs than of their souls, tedious investigation, that that rate gouge of October, 1909, was illegal, unreasonable and unbearable, A superior court af- firmed that decision. All of this had taken over a year. Seattle’s most valuable suburban section had withstood the death blow, but the break- ing point was near. It was plain that a crisis was at hand. ‘Then the enemy, h their corps of high-priced lawyers, aided by an accommodating judicial system, made a flank attack OF THE PEOPLE. Just as an incident to this two-year fight between plain people on the one hand and a big corporation on the other, the editors of The Star were hailed into court on a contempt charge and sentenced to jail. But that was just an incident. people are still enduring the injustice, still paying the exorbitant fares. Seattle is still suffering loss every day because her best suburban section is crippled and partly depopulated. The rate case itself is¢m the supreme court. It has been there for many weary months, and as a Duwamish Valley resi- dent writes to The Star, “the time almost arrived when w would «welcome actual execution. rather than longer suspense and suffering.” Sullivan {s Hving tn a back room| I Joined the champion hoper on in a boarding house in New York|his afternoon walk and on July 27 he ended a 40-day| He didn’t carry a cruteh or even fast, I went to see him about his|@ stick; he leaned on an umbrella fasting; I found that wasn’t half] “I like to make believe that I ‘as interesting as his hoping. don t need anything to walk with,” We passed a slum street. Yes, but some of the children here grow up to be wonderful men and women. Hardship seems to help folks.” right arm was shriveled and he through could pot control its twitching But the smile on his face! “Vm used to fasting now,” he said, “First | was hungry, Then, about the sixth day, | grew faint, put I got over that. Look how thin| “This whisky business is bad,” I lam.” He smiled, straight from/said, as we passed a gray the heart, as if being thin were!haired woman who was drunk, about myself, when I see a pretty | girl like that, crippled for life. Oh, Shocking! CHICAGO, July 31,—Declar- 50c AND Tic Silk Knitted Ties 35c and that after paying $5 for a pair of silk stockings they make up for their extravagance by dropping pennies in the col- lection box, Rev. C. H. Hey- wood, the youngest ordained minister in llinois, today quit the pastorate of the Wentworth av. Baptist church. Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex.