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Race Meet Opens Ado! f Should < rc ADOLF, Dis® i339 A Dog at Madison Park TREADMILL, UND VILL FURNISH / DERE —= DOT * Old time racing men of the PowaR FoR cour CHURNINGS, 188 R aur coast are making thelr last DEREFORE You Vii. ASBISD.. Vile a eae stand in the five days’ meet the Seattle Blood Horse aswo- DER _MNBSAGE, HE elation is holding at Madison park this week. The first races were held yesterday be- fore a crowd of several thou sand spectators. The 2:15 pace was won by Tad Sumner and the 2 trot by Sweet ‘Adene. The four and a half furlong runuing race was won by Gelico, and the six furiong by Cantem. Dene woh the mile race, Seeeeeeeeeeeeee Stee ee ee eeeeeeene * | Reker eaeeeeras! SMALLPOX RAGES (ity United Press Leased Wire.) JUAREZ, Mex. Aug. 16.—Black smallpox is raging at Guadalupe and many other points south of here, and many fatalities have re-) sulted. Dr. Wilson and a corps of | assistants have been sent froni| here, Be ee eee een win, omnes | MPU ST Bring On Greatest Strike in History UW cness-onns OANSER AND DOTS CONT SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, A This torture in terrible, [hope to find water tonight.” | pera | thiret of the Mojave desert. June 12 or 13. He had been ki on the desert for more than years, . this afternoon fptroduced in the senate a bil] making unlawful the publication by any newspaper the District of Columbia of kind heard the other evening wasn't) But the woman of globular pro-|that fat women were willing to pay |dies of any 7 9 portion —- well, that’s different! any price if the garment would fit, Preted, “here's someone who bas wore fat women,” sald Miss Thayer. me. fy “fat women only.” | Would insist upon taking a garment around or fussy frills are not for | 25, when mil are well cared for by it might, with a little altering, |frock that requires a belt. It spot! everybody in the garment making! serve their purpose. @ proportions.” facturers’ association. }mins bill, abolishing the monetary | rest, takes 48.8 cubic inches of jadopted in the senate today by i vote of 32 to 36. ‘inches. Before a large and enthusiastic | ~~ of spectators, the Zist state | it opened on the club's courts yester- | 2221 NOTICE OF added interest to the) probably make it one— it successful of recent! === SPECIAL COUNTY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 5th day of September, Si i 1911, at the appointed polling places in each of the several districts or pre- cincts of the County of King, State of Washington, an election will be held GUESS WE'D BETTER for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of each and all of said districts or precincts for approval or rejection the proposition of creating a GET ARRIED ‘ff port district to be known as the “Port of Seattle,” co-extensive with the “Sihough hey lave been ining (fy limits of said County, which proposition shall be expressed on the ballots in together two months, it was only the following terms: today that a Seattle young couple learned that they are not married. | The “husband” called at the mar. | mk gh SO re ee riage license clerk's office wi - Heense secured two months ago. “I “ ” Gat tha vest of this filles tn,” be} Oe OE BOM i ac cin ccele nat. cwpes 06% s canes No 0 said. eres Sevan ne men (hot There shall also be elected at the same election Three (3) Commission- and “fill it in” ers of the proposed “Port of Seattle” to hold office respectively for the seaetal nd’) us. | term of one, two and three years, one being a resident of and nominated from each of the three (3) County Commissioner Districts of the said King County. All Candidates shall be voted upon at large, and the candidate residing in commissioner district number one receiving the highest num- ber of votes shall hold office for the term of three (3) years; the candidate residing in commissioner district number two receiving the highest num-: ber of votes shall hold office for a term of two (2) years, and the candi- date residing in commissioner district number three receiving the highest: number of votes shall hold office for a term of one (1) year from and after the first Monday in December, 1911. eeathetel iu HEE ofl se 3 < make Edna awful mad. I guess, we'd better get married right off) quick.” , } . Women Will Serve * * on Juries at Night, (By United Veews Leased Wire) | VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. | Admitting that it is not a ples prospect, but declaring that cal too can remain on jury duty all night “If meu can,” a score of wom- en whose names are among those on the general jury list just drawn, today asserted that they would not attempt to dodge service at the mext term of court on account of their sex. Out of @ total of 2,000 names on the list, 250 are women. | Said proposition is submitted and said commissioners elected at said election all in accordance with a Resolution of the Board of County Com- missioners of said King County, duly passed on July 26th, 1911, and in com- pliance with Chapter 92, Sessicn Laws of Washington, 1911, approved March 14th, 1911. s SAENGERFEST VISITORS HERE One hundred Germans from Los| The Polls at said Elections will be opened at eight o’clock in the morn- ing and remain open until eight o’clock in the evening of the same day in all Angeles are in Seattle today to help {\ Precincts IN INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES, and will be open- ee ema sche 8 event ed at nine o’clock in the morning and remain open until seven o'clock in the Hundreds of others are expected J} evening in all Precincts OUTSIDE OF INCORPORATED TOWNS AND to arrive during the balance of the) CITIES. week from all the Northwest | Pics beslieis houses have ton Dafed at Seattle, Washington, this 29th day of July, 1911. orated their establishments with tho committvon “charge of “a | OTTO A. CASE, Bee tanita wit extipes a pre (Auditor’s Seal.) County Auditor. vious events of the kind, The opening concert {s tomorrow | night at the Moore theatre. You THE STAR—WEDNESBDAYpAUGUST 16, 1911. = = = — ? — = = = ——————— Mind the Treadmi!!, But How Does He? . . . . Nyorss.b” Schaefer MOR LACE Your, r CHICAGO, Aug. 16.The biggest} Each “system federation” repre-|railroad trade. Already the shop, ‘The railroad magnates declare | WAIST Too, “ |eents a different railway system.|workers, boiler makers, telegra- they will not treat with the “system Ss |industrial strike of modern times,| por yours the agreements between 1 am lost and’ cant find| 207% % sure to come within SIX) h.on expiring on different dates of the firemen, engineers and others |rate trade, as they do now, tub | ‘This was the notation In the diary |S€tee to a complete remodeling of | general strike, as each branch was combine all employes, so that every day lof Albert Williams, ploneer pros- | conditions, ‘pector, whose body was discovered | The “system federations,” organ. m 16 miles northeast |1204 during the last six months, have lof Johannesburg, showing that tho |Precipttated what railroad men and old miner had succumbed in a dee = : It is figured that Willams died nel What the actual saving counta of murders, crimes, stil ‘That rustling of the atmosphere | business. | “Another thing I observed was|cides, accidents, injuries or trage Qn exaggersted Sound breeze. It \i., Thayer ought to know, She| “It was then that I got the idea | w LUMBERMEN was a unanimous sigh of relief has had a varied business experi of trying to supply their demands.| We We from all the—well, the portly wo-,ence in selling ready-to-wear gar My methody ere very simple, * men of Seattle. ments. have my customer's measure tal T0 REORGANIZE.. » _| “When I was a clerk in a depart: |and when she wants a gown ot | ND. 16.— “Thask goodness,” it was tater-| ot store, most of my customers other garment made, she sends Sal sencutted teal aie ee fie © “ | 0 Washingtoy, come to our rescue at last.” |"They never seemed to be able to| “A corpalent woman needs to be) ee ote ie a teaeocls 's when they heard about get things to fit them. Fat women very careful as to the lines of her tious of Jumber manufacturers will H. R. Thayer, modiste, who aren't fussy, either. Many of them | gown. Of course, stripes running! nase from oxistence about Augnet caters to Miss Thayer says the slender wo- too small, just in a vain hope that her. Nelther should she wear a| mond, Wash. and perfect a scheme to consolidate them under the name of the West Coast Lumber Manu ————— ee — RSET = — = STATE TENNIS TOURNAMENT taabne miata ie Cum. The avernge man eo neo any unnecessary OPENS ON MADISON COURT \commission January §, 1912, was] tuto his lungs in one minute; 1n| AND WOULD BE WELL BOU AT THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. So! YOU gear \ Der sssagel \ FAT INGRATEeR! POOR Doaqie! vou ALL HAF ID! yo atv A VELTY t Gigantic Combine of Railway Employes May (Dy Oelted Press Leased Wire) jomployes alike admit ts a crisis. jever, combine every branch of the;may be called |phers, switchmen, blacksmiths, ma- federations.” They declare they jinvolving millions of railroad em- the railroads and the various|chinists and sheet metml workers, are willing to continue to treat with us. branches of thelr employes have| numbering 700,000, have joined, and | committees representing each sepa” 1} months, say labor leaders here, un-| different years, In this way the are contemplating it, |they will not accede to a d 4 lose the managers of the roada|railroads were protected from | This “system federation” will thet all contracts expire the same” under contract not to strike until| contract will expire the same day.| More than $50,000,000 « year ig! ite agreement had expired. | in this way, if demands are not met, additional wages, it is said, will 700,000 Have Joined. |a strike involving every man in| demanded by the different “ The “system federations,” how-\every railway system in America| federations.” in ae- in dollars and cents means to the Kohler & Chase piano club member The Kohler & Chase Piano Club is being organized to buy five hundred pianos. The pianos were bought AWAY BELOW what they are actually worth. To the purchaser who wants to buy a good, dependable, trustworthy piano, without ing money into a “hi Zine hase on orneimental care, THEY ARE WORTH alr The club will pay TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND A HALF apiece © for them—the price to include everything—even to the — privilege of paying for them AT THE RATE OF ONE DOLLAR AND A QUARTER A WEEK. 4 THIS IS AN ACTUAL saving of NINETY-SEVEN ~ DOLLARS AND A HALF—what does this mean? It means that a member of the KOHLER & CHASE PIANO CLUB gets as good a piano as his neighbor paid $375 for—and has enough money left on which to take a three-weeks’ vacation and have over $30 a week to spend. “ It means that-he can pay for 130 music lessons at 75 cénts a lesson or 194 music lessons at 50 cents a les- son ON WHAT HE SAVES. It means that he saves 27 per cent of the money he has to spend for a piano. It means that he can take the money he saves ($97.50) and loan it out at 8 per cent interest : and it will earn him’$7.80 a year. < This big KOHLER & CHASE PIANO CLUB presents an opportunity to the careful and pru- dent buyer that cannot be LIGHTLY PASSED. These are the FIGURES. You can IGNORE them —you can’t CONTRADICT them. The Saving of $97.50 Is Not All a Kohler & Chase | Piano Club Member Gets 4 A Kohler & Chase Piano Club member gets advantages and privileges that piano buyers do not always get. He gets advantages that mean as much if not more than the saving of the $97.50—and he gets them in writing. Let us enumerate them: First—He gets a guarantee for 5 years that guarantees, and he gets it in writing over the signature of The Kohler ” & Chase Music Co, . Second—He gets his money back if he wants it at any time within 30 days. Third—He gets a whole year’s trial of the piano with the privilege of exchanging it. Fourth—He gets-the privilege of paying as little as One Dollar and a Quarter a week without increasing the cost of the piano above the club price ($277.50). Fifth—He is given the privilege of reducing the club price by paying faster than a Dollar and a Quarter a week. Sixth—He gets his piano tuned twice free. Seventh—-He is given life insurance that provides for the cancellation of all unpaid payments in event of his death during the life of his contract so that the piano will be turned over to his family free from all incumbrances—and he gets this in writing, also, ——e JOIN THE PLAYER PIANO CLUB; YOU GET A $750 PLAYER FOR $487.50, ON PAYMENTS OF $12.50 DOWN AND $10 A MONTH, BESIDES ALL OTHER CLUB PRIVILEGES ve at Kohler