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CITY EDITION Pipe thie fair & Her simple name is Rose; ttle maid, ~ VOL. NEW GIRL IN TARO MURDER’ ! That's Joe,” “Wh; i . Deepens Mystery. Another girt enters the mystery of the shooting of Joe Taro, chauf- feur, who was murdered in hi juto by an unknown man last Saturday night. And the case je still un- solved. The story of this girl and other facts were brought out at the inquest, being held today. M. H. Weich, 217 21st av., said that he was walking along Cherry st. and was about 50 feet from the taxicab when the shooting took place. After the disappearance of Taro’s assailant, a big crowd gathered. Some automobiles stop- ped. Other people came from the houses in the neighborhood. A young girl In the crowd, when she saw the dead body, stepped back, “Why, that’s Joe Taro!” She began sobbing as a young man Girl in “Very Quiet Fellow.” Pete Kiger, a chauffeur, whose stand is close to where Taro kept his taxi, said be did not think any sir! was connected with the e. ‘Joe was a very quiet young fel- low,” said Kiger. “I knew him pretty well and as far as I know he never took any gir! riding except the girl to whom he was engaged. He never spoke to any one unless he was spoken to and he was not much of a ladies’ man,” Can Identify Stayer. Kiger said he could positively en Se the man who went out with Crowd Cried—“Don't Make a — If It Is Joe,” Said Man—Inquest Held Taro, He sald he appeared nervous He had asked 0 to take him out to the Denny-Blaine addition and | Taro asked Kiger about the fare. | The passenger had said he was go- ing to Maiden Lane. Kiger said | he was a goodlooking young man who did not appear like one who would commit murder or rob any one. When Taro hesttated about ente~ ing the car, because he was not certain of the location of Ma’ Lane, Kiger offered to take the p. senger. The passenger made no ob- Jection, but Taro said he would take him out. Kiger said he was quite certain that Taro did not know the passenger. Others Describe Him. Cc. B. Lamont, Mrs, Lamont and the conductor and the motorman on the Madrona Park car all agreed fairly well with Kiger as to the de. seription of the passenger, He was a slender young man, between 20 and 25 years of age, wearing a blue serge suit and a gray or brown hat with a darker band, He was well dressed. The evidence indicated that Taro fired his two shots first and tha his assailant followed with four Brery one of these took effect. Dr. W. A. Monuich, the city hospital physician, who sxamined the body said that four bullet holes were found, two of them probably fatal The coroner's jury was still tak ing evidence rend this afternoon “KELLY ARRESTS HOGAN: Here's the latest sensation in the fight for office between “Game Warden” Kelly and “Game Warden” Hogan: This afternoon Kelly arrested Hogan for “interfering with an of- — Hogan wanted to take office as game warden, | per orders o the SRRRARR AAR ARR RES CHILOREN LIKE UNCLE SAM'S NEW BANK CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Uncle Sam's bank books at the Chi- cago postal savings bank show today that the first day of that intsttution ended with 359 de- positors on the books and many of these were children. Youngsters were lined up be- fore the deposit window long before the opening hour, The total deposits aggregated the sum of $9,416. * * * * * * * * od e * . * * * * teed eeee eee Ee EES * * * * a * \* \* * * * * * & * ao Kelly Case Continued SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.--The case of S. Foster Kelley, a Seattle banker, charged with having as- sisted in the evasion of a court order in connection with the at- tempt of Mrs. Iva May Henry to kidnap her children, was continued here today before Police Judge Shortall for one week, at which time the case will be set for trial Kelley recently achievd notoriety as the alleged “affinity” of Mrs. Hary. “A LIMERICK. $ a cad The ‘said, “Can you act?” The maiden replied: “It's a fact That | can't, but you know V've been abducted, and so vn fit pines son aoe your house with my act.” county commissioners, and Kelly re- fused to let him. Kelly had the “bulge” on Hogan, as he hold a deputy sheriffs badge, so he calmly arrested him and escorted him to the county jail Then he returned to bis desk in the game wardens office. Yesterday afternoon Hogan tried to take charge, and Kelly turned | him away. RIOT ENDS SIMONS’ RULE (By United Press Leased Wire.) PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Aug. | 2-—After a riot here today in which four men were killed and many in- jured, President Simons. power is plainty broken and he is preparing to flee before the advancing revo- lutionists, who already are.on the| outskirts of the city. Simons’ wife and children have already boarded the yacht America, which he recently purchased from the Haytien government. The American will remain in port until the Atlas liner Allemania arrives, and then, in company with that vessel, Simons’ yacht, with himself aboard, will quit Haytl - P iN Councilman Griffiths’ straphang- ing bill was passed along from the public safety committee to the judiciary committee this morning. Griffiths fs the chairman of the committee. KILLED IN EXPLOSION. * BLUEFIELD, W. Va, Aug. * 2.—Four persons are dead and * nine injured today as the re- sult of an explosion in the Standard mine, xt Shannon, near hete. * * * * * at Pat ka Pde tas ~ POLICE WORK Too MARY HOURS Employes of the city are prohi| ited to work more than eight -teomet The police dey it has been violating this law quite regularly of late. Many policemen are working ex- tra hours every day. During Pot- lateh it was the rule instead of the exception. days a week, and they say that when they work 10 or more hours sree day, things begin to get mo- They are working seven notonous. Councilman Hesketh last Mon- day introduced a bill giving certain members of the department who had put in extra time two days’ ex- tra pay to compensate them for their extra work. The list of men had been made up by some one in the office. Among the names ask- ing for this well earned mon those of Chief Bannick and Captain remnant, LOOKS LIKE SOME FUN It begins to look as if the joyous chance to knock off the political blocks of a people might soon have another fine lot of corporation lawyers and fifty-seven other varieties oe stand- patters, Big Business lackeys, The eminently respectable etc., etc, advocates of the special interest pirates are even suggesting Richard Achilles Ballinger as a candidate for governor. That’ that’s in store for the people. Can you imagine what would happen to “Dear Dick Well, if you can don’t whisper it out loud like to get Dick into this race. 's just an indication of the fun Truly we woulud It would convert what might otherwise be a tame election into a real hummer. And there’s a possibility that Richard might take a chance. He is so alarmeed lest “the mo ob” might actually get a look in on law making in this state that he would take ‘almost any old chance to save bleeding Big Business. And then, too, Dick is one of those optimistic fellows. You remember last year, how confidently he predicted how the un- trampled American citizens of one Poindexter? He was su alive ; but, durn it, if “the mob” elect Poindexter by the bigges' But there is a big stake t dupes can get next to “Dear Dick’ law of untrampled citizens. his mob,” At any rate here's hoping of anything that would add te to have “Dear Dick” as a cand sacrifice corporation “the this great state would repudiate re Poindexter would be flayed didn't ignore “Dear Dick" and t vote ever? oO fight for now, and if enough they might induce him to practice again to beat off that he does. We don't know » the gaiety of an election than idate. 13, NO. 13: geeenneeeyeeeney| The Se ONLY OAVED FROM LIVING TOME (By Valteg Brose Leased, Wire Diveet to JOPLIN. | Mon” Aug. i Damen Clary, who has been entombed in a mine 78 feet below the surface here | since early Sunday morning, w extricated today from hie perilous position. Telephone Instalied for Him. While the rescuers were work: ing today with feverteh haste, Clary was talking soothingly to bin aged mother over a temporary telephone which had been rigged vp between her bedside and the bottom of the drill hole. The young miner's mother was prostrated when news of her son's tmprisonment was first | brought to her. Begging her not to worry, Clary told her he would | soon be home. Four-Foot Shaft Mad A shaft four feet in dia: er was eut through the limestone forma tion, following the course of the drill hole through which communt- cation was established yesterday. The water rose rapidly today, de- spite almost constant pump and Clary, Immersed to the shoulders, was in grave danger of drowning. He had had no sleep since the cave in occurred and food and stimu jlants were passed down to him at | frequent intervals that he might |keep up his remaining strength until the rescuers could reach him. | When brought to the surface Clary nearly collapsed from weak- ness. The lack of sleep was al most too much for even the wo dertul nerve he exhibited through out bis imprisonment. He was at once taken home. He Waan't Scared. Clary was in good shape this af- ternoon, following a short sleep, and was able to tell something of what he had gone through during bis long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth. “1 was never very badly soared, even at first,” he sald. “The roof jof the drift was solld limestone, and I knew it would not cave it. The air was bad from the very start, and kept getting worse. It seemed Uke an age, though, before I heard ‘the thumping which apprised me |that they were making an attempt lto rescue me, Then the Urumpt consed and I knew that the hol [bad missed. } “Time had almost stopped, it seemed, before I again heard | sounds. Gradually the pounding grew plainer and plainer until at last a hole appeared in the side of the drift and I got a breath of fresh pong 1 kept getting bangrier, until finally I thought I could eat a plug jof tobaceo If I had one. Rescued Just in Time. “The water climbed up by de grees, and I could feel tt creeping jbigher and higher until it finally jreached my npits. When the drill came through the roof of the drift toward the shaft I felt.as if I had received the best news I had ever beard. Then I heard some one | shout, and milk and whiskey were passed down through the hole. They were the best things I ever tasted.” 30,000Cheer Him. More than 3,000 persons, including the doctors and Clary’s fathe: wept and cheered as Clary, wa foaked and grimy, was taken from The crowd he wae taken home and hundreds lingered watch the meeting between mother and son. Astor Engagement Means “War” (By United Prese Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Battles in the Astor family are forecasted to- day as the result of the announced engagement of John Jacob As- tor to Miss Made- line Force, and society, sur. prised by the news, looks for spicy doings when the fight begins. Rumors of war come from the di Astor voreed wife of Astor. She will demand sole con- trol of their children when the mil- Honaire 1s married to Miss Force. to fight. r Final | Clearance Men’s $20 Suits | ‘ Straws and Panamas 1-2 Price Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex. SEATTLE, WASH,, WEDNESDAY, A 4 |BRIDE LURED FROM AUTO IEWSPAPER , 1911, INDEPENDENT IN TO Oe 'H, POLICE THINK MRS. BEATTIE, VICTIM Of MYSTERIOUS MURDER, RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 2—New/fiater gave evidence of the*murder. evidence tending to support the po-}A Man Bnd & woman were standing «,, ,deaide the machine, the man ap- Mes. theory that Mrs, Howry Cley ntly attempting to repair it, Beattic, Jr, wad murdered whilef fetectives are searching for standing in the Midlothian road be: other girl to whom it was sald side her husband's automobile, and! Beattie has recently paid attentions not while seated in the car as Beat A theory that Mra. Beattie re. tie alleges, was developed today SEATTLE ONE CENT. Lew At NEWS CITY EDITION Amaryilis D 0 Is @ blonde, blue her eyes; Amy's very, very fond Of frosted lemon pies! HOW LONG WILL SEATTLE STAND FOR JAKE FURTH? How much longer will Jake Furth be permitted to blockade the public streets while enforcing his petty regulations upon the people? HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THE GREAT CITY OF SEATTLE STAND FOR THIS FINANCIAL BULLY? How much longer will the mayor of this city and the chief of police remain idle while this bloated corporation makes a farce of the law and outrages every right of decent people? Day after day Jake Furth blocks the public streets and holds up thousands of people because some one has not obeyed his ridiculous rules. Jake Furth’s rules are above the people’s law. The law says no one shall block traffic on a public street. Jake Furth’s rules say, “Block traffic until my subjects obey my rules.” AND JAKE FURTH, THE CHAMPION AMONG THE FINANCIAL BUZ. ZARDS WHO HAVE FATTENED OFF THIS CITY, HAS THUS FAR GOT AWAY WITH THE BLUFF. SION BY THE LAWLESS ed her bueband for bis friend. Bight youn) } ip with the Binford girl, and bile party the night of the crime/threatened divorcee on grounds| |told the police they passed an au-| which it was said would have made | tomobile, apparently stranded, at) | the elder Beattie disinherit sis son, | the spot where the pools of look ie also being investigated REMARKABLE WORDS “You seem to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine, indeed, and one that would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” | A “crank” wrote that—a “disturber,” “one of the mob,” not to be trusted with the recall of judiciary and such weapons, His name? Oh, yes-Thomas Jefferson. Wrote it in a letter in 1820. ne ousemnnnausmate | WAR ON CHAUFFEURS WHO LURE GIRLS GUT JOY-RIDING ~ The Seattie authorities and Sherjaisters. They did not release the| iff Hodge are today beginning cleitis until after dawn of the next | ~ememael and then the girls ma vercome by fatigue and} | girls to lonely highways outside thet city and then abandon them. prosecuting attorney » and} Several such cases have beemit ia belleved that the arrest of the! brought to light within the past few) mon will be accomplished this week | weeks. ) Ther are said to bave gone to Chi- Last night the police arrested T.lgago, The older sister was em {Pope and W. E. Gee, chauffeurs” ployed as a’ telephone operator in and locked them up in the city jallelgne of the down town hotels. |The men are charged with luring pe young women into an auto for “litte ride.” The girla accept and were taken out on the Wa ington boulevard. Here a quarrel ensued, the police allege, and the | chauffeurs left them on the boule vard and sped back to the city. Ask Star's Heip. Less than a month ago a Ballard woman brought her 19-yearold daughter to The Star office and asked for aid. The night before the girl and her younger sister, only 16, were invited for a ride by « chauffeur who Is known to the po llee, and who has since fled the city. When this fellow got his two young victims well out of the city: he and a male companion made an aprostons attack upon the kta Ve The case was turned over to the BUMPS HELP BOB (By Uniied Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, Aug. 1-—Bumps on his head prociaim Senator Robt. M. LaFollette to be the only hope of the republican party in 1912, according to Dr. J. T. Allen of Aurora college, who has acquired considerable reputation locally as a phrenol- og'st. Dr. Allen says that LaFol- lotte’s head tells him that with the possible exception of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, LaFol- Jette is the only man whom the republicans can elect to the Presidency. Child Is Born to » Mrs. Napolitano MRS. NAPOLITANO. (By United Press Leased Wire Direct to Seattle Star Office.) SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont., Aug. 2—Mrs. Angelino Na- politano, who was recently reprieved from death after conviction of the murder of her husband,*today gave birth to a robust girl in the jail hospital here. The Children’s Aid society will take charge of the child. In Case the woman, for whose pardon thou- sands have memorialized the Ottawa government, is later set free, the child will be returned to her, CORPORATION. it had not expired, but ( AN ACCOMMODATING POLICE FORCE MAINTAINS ORDER AMONG THE DELAYED PASSENGERS UNTIL THEY ARE WHIPPED INTO SUBMIS. A pleasing spectacle it is for citizens of Seattle, this monopoly executing its petty spite upon its patrons. It was an inspiring sight on Second av. this morning when Furth’s new transfer rule held up a string of cars loaded with people = had paid to be taken to their destinations. One woman, who had walked up Second av. from Madison before posal a Bellevue-Summit car, refused to pay an extra nickel. Her transfer from the cable line was good, the time |: corner she had walked up several blocks. THAT’S AGAINST FURTH’S RULE. FOR GETTING EXTRA NICKELS, SO THAT CAR WAS HELD. stead of standing on the THE PASSENGERS WERE BUNDLED OUT TO TAKE ANOTHER CAR, |BOSS FURTH WON AGAIN. HE BLOCKED THE CITY’S MAIN STREET |THAT HIS RULE IS ABOVE THE PEOPLE’S LAW. If Seattle’s mayor would tackle this bullying corporation, this daily outrage — |could be stopped in short order. He could instruct the chief of police to prevent — lany more blockades. He could cause the arrest of Boss Furth, the responsible jhead of the company, for breaking the law. --|AND HELD A THOUSAND PEOPLE 10 MINUTES EACH, BUT HE SHOWED He could put policemen on every car that the company fails to move off the street and he could compel that it be run to its destination. Less than a year ago in Tacoma a branch of this same Stone-Webster-Furth Lae was practicing this same sort of petty despotism in that city. Then lold suburb where cars were BRYAN {3 ATTACKED Democratic, Leader Under - wood Calls Him a Falsifier— Speech Greeted With Cheers. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2— Denouncing Wm. J. Bryan on the floor of the house today as a falsi- fier, Democratic Leader Underwood t the power of the “Com- moner’ days. Thundrous applause from the democrats followed the statement of Bryan, which was in reply to a recent charge by Bryan. that the house leader was a protectionist. “I know the statement is false, Mr. Speaker,” said Unde: know it ts false, and the of this country knows it is false. Bryan insinuates that I attempted to prevent consideration of a re. vision of the steel schedule. That also 1s absolutely false.” Underwood then called upon Con gressman Kitchen to reply to Bryan's statement that he (Kitehen) had denounced Underwood before the democratic caucus. Kitchen stated that Bryan was “the most badly informed person in the world.” He asserted that F was not responsible, and declared he never dreamed that any demo- crat would slanda Underwood. SURAT EES ES OE YES * WEATHER FORECAST. * For Seattle and vicinity *® Fair tonight, Thursday fair * with rising temperature; light * northwesterly winds. Tem- - perature at noon today 61. *' * * * * * * bed TOI ik ik tek ” ig not what it was in former | hting mayor, Fawcett, took a hand. He took 20 policemen, went to the ing a public street, put two policemen on each car, oom gave them orders to keep the cars moving. e corporation fumed and spouted, and threatened, but its cars ran. ‘There. oe no more public streets blockaded. Jake Furth is playing the people of Seattle for a lot of dupes. He has got away, |with his game for a long time but the lim't has been reached. The people are about | ready to show who's boss i in this city. Here's a tip, Jake Furth. The people of Winniveg, Canada, have just TAKEN OVER an electric street car system. They are going to run it for themselves, for their own bene- fit. And you would be surprised, Jakey, if you knew how many people of Seattle are thinking of TAKING OVER your street car system to run it for the benefit of the city, instead of for Jake Furth and those fat and sleek Boston chaps. MOTIONS DENIED LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2— Motions to quash the indictments against A. B. Maple, F. Ira Bender and B. H. Conners, union men charged with attempting to dyna- mite the Hall of Records building here last September, were denied without argumnt by Superior Judge | Wills. i FIRE CROSSES. MOUNTAINS: SAN’ BERNARDINO, C Gal Ai Ate, & 2. —Fanned by a stiff breeze, forest fire on San Sernerdign; range, sweeping aside the feeble Horts of the fire fighters, crossed the divide today and headed to ward the Mojave river and di leaving a multitude of black stumps and smouldering ruins im its path. In response to an appeal for al@ to this city, a big force of men is en route to help head off the flames, and according to telephone messages, those already on ground have succeeded partially im doing this. Reports from sections of the fire zone are less encouraging today than they have been on any day since the firg started. Complete. Judson—What ts your wife's plam for a country home? Hudson—Fourteen closets and s pergola, Piscine 's Bazar. NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE WH! Bittercat has come back from hi vacation y. He Jooks pretty pale and will rest up for @ ays tn bed. ble Hen Toxier is thinkin keting his whiskers cut off, they make him look like ‘You'll have to cut your head Hen, we're afraid. The derry crop ts so good the appl the felds ain't got ain About Tipe now for one o' them $399 piano aglesmen. HAVE YOU A LITTLE BIRD LIKE “THIS ‘The home bird sometimes wanders From the home fireside The wife bird sadly ponders. Kite, ete. Ever notice ho wthe Seattle bust- ness man, the clerk, the doctor, the lawyer and the candlestick maker makes a bee line for home when the busy day is o'er? Regu: lar home bird stuff? And did you ever notice how the same home bird, when he meets Jim or Jack or Bill, forgets to hit the airline for the home nest, where the wife bird is waiting, and the baked beans and Saratoga pudding are getting cold on the table? Well, just stop and notice some time. The man with the pale or ange side whiskers probably never things of stopping Into the gilded caffay or the Bibulous Buffet for a home-going nip of tonic. The studious-looking young man with } | |nobody cares. the high brow and broad spectacles | j never casts a glance toward the} glistening mahogany bar, But the best of ‘em, the regular busy down town man, falls somes times, Maybe not often; possibly, once a month, once a year—but the best of ‘em fall. Then they creep home en the late car. Their breath smells funs ny, their head pounds hard, and they are busy wondering if the wife bird will stand for it at all. It isn’t strange when the bar bird does it, ‘cause it’s a habit. The gay, young crow, that hasn't built @ home nest and doesn’t want to, may take as many nips as he may, an@ It's when the home bird goes up against the corn juice that something drops, and there is hard glitter in his eye, am righteous, upraised hand Never Again, That's how it hap. pens with the home bird. Have you a little bird like this iq your home?