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The Pink Sporting Edition of The Star—published after the game—contains complete results of and national figures in the world of sports. Fomdeatt got the epart depesaloes peu read tha it fenator La Follette, great progressive leader in the upper idrese to the senate today made a bril- ind operation of the Alaskan iJ pai Here is the United Presa dis- of La Follette’s history-making speech today: : . & United Prees Leased Wire. 2 WASHINGTON, ug. 21.—Immediate development of the mineral publi utilities, wharve and docks, and through the actual mining of = pos oe tame oa] | LAFE eat bly SAYS: “Saengerfest fellers sing over their } ‘troubles and grow fat. But then, it Y a everybody that knows how to j ” LL HUBBARD S UCE ENDS; CLIMAX NEAR will be four meetings of | of resisting the holdup for the extra Crawford line patrons in the|°&t fare ifthe Crawford managers Valley district tonight, but | decline (0 agree to @ transfer meeting will be at Hillman) The meeting at Hillman City will “There will be a complete | start at 7:30 o'clock and ft is urged of the Crawford line or | that the women of the district turn ” Hugo Kelley said today. [out in big numbers. Atkinson will speak on| G. F. Perin, new manager of the ownership as applied to| Renton line, arrived here from the ear lines and the citizens’ East yesterday. will make definite plans! The latest truce ends today. by Use of Veto, Resists Attempts to Break Down ‘United Press Leased Wire.) A third revising the cotton tariffs INGTON, Aug. 21.—After/will also die aborning. Two of im hs and five days of un-|them, the wool bill and free list bill, sin ‘ind, the congress of the |the president has vetoed. He also States today w able to vetoed the statehood bill. The dem- two big legislative meas- |ocrats made ineffectual attempts to into lawe—the Canad: pecans ee bill |js 1 na haze of technical defeat be- campaign contribu-|tween the senate and the house. The reap-| Acombination of democratic and nt bill, fixing member: ‘insurgent republicans, led by Sen- next house of represen- jator La Follette (Rep., Wis.) in the bat 433, was another finished jyenate, enabied the house demo turned out during the fivelcrats to put their tariff bills through that body in some sem- democratic leaders were en-| blance of their original shape. But over the campaign ma-|the combination exploded the they have fashioned from |!ast minute, and only the com- mings at the extra-seasion, | Plaisance of the standpat repub- scheme of tariff revision, |lcans allowed passage of the vot- the democrats declared |ton bill, to which were attached re- slat Rid cut down the tariff tax on| visions of the fron and steel sched-| can people, has crumbied | ule, the chemical schedule, the cot- under the power of the|ton machinery schedule and an dent's veto. Reciprocity with amendment providing for f coal was the only reason given |from Canada, President for convening the} A bill providing for the direct B session on March 15. election of senators by the people democratic tariff bills, one | will be left in conference between the wool schedule, another |the two houses when congress ad- Meat and bread on the free|journs, The house passed it and been lost in the shuffle.the senate amended it. or La Follette offers the progressive members of con- ‘of both parties a chance to end the nasty Alaskan scandal at the Morgans and Guggenheims are determined to loot house there can be no doubt. The letter of Perkins showed it. The activity of Dick Ryan showed it. iifiatse briptais $ government owned and operated mine. government owned and operated railroad. d government owned and operated ships and docks. mine will set a standard of decent wages and working railroads, ships and docks will prevent the formation coal trust by transportation monopoly. was bought by the United States from Russia and ney was taken from the United States treasury to pay It was not bought for the Morganheims but for the people. ) With government mines, railroads and ships there will be trust on the Pacific coast. child labor in Alaskan mines. 9 railroad monopoly. steamship monopoly. Hi will be developed for the people of the United and of Alaska, and Alaska and the Pacific coast will aS a rose. wood verages 46 Miles An Hour ATWOOD’S GREAT AIR FLIGHT. N. ¥., Aug. 21.—On his| flying time for the distance cover at Lyons after flying 104|ed was 19 hours and 58 minutes, or Buffalo without a stop,|an average of a trifle more than negotiated 930 miles|\46% miles an hour. Atwood taile flight between St. pects to reach Albany tomorr New York. His petunt | Want, “VOL. 13, NO. 154. OEE jAlaakan coal by the government, all to be administered for the benefit of t large through a boa -AFOLLETTE CHAMPIONS P of control, plan out peo} lined by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin today in a speech in th | senat EOPLE’S COA ames in the National, American, Coast and Northwest leagues. ink Star. LIKE PENNSYLVANIA SITUATION, ! “Any one must eee that the foundation is being laid in Wall street | for the building up of a monopoly in Alaska equal to that which now controls the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, When we have be | Declaring that every day makex more evident the tact that tho| f | ’ y ore J iT ‘ore us the history of the anthracit le, hi i |American people are waging a losing fight -In Alaska, Ia Follette as ‘ nether Mise slile comiosl” neaines th, fore it was time for the government to take an active hand. “On one side,” oped resources. the world ever saw La Follette said, “are 25,000 plone |!ne thelr lives and fortunes in exploration and prospecting for undevel- | | On the other side are the millions of American people | pas to whom this great storehouse of natural resour of Alaska through government ownership of railroads, ships, them is the enormous power of the greatest * who are risk belongs, Between entration of capital ANYONE SEEN THIS WOMAN? MRS. GOULD. Kitt Gould, 6317 Linden ay., and his two little children are waiting for Mra, Gould, their mother, to come hone, left home last Tuesday and hasn't been seen since. “If you find her don't oe her request of the father to the police. Mrs, Gould tx described as being 37 years old, though looking no older than 30. (By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-—-Preat- dent Taft this afternoon signed the bill admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood. Only the re- fusal of the two territories to com- | ply with the conditions Imposed by congress can now operate to pre | vent them from entering the Union jin about three months. Under the provisions of the bill, New Mexico must veto the proposal | of making its constitution more sus- ceptible to amendment. Arizona ts required to eliminate the recall of judges provision from its constitu- tion. These steps taken, the election of state officers and congressmen must then be held. EDDIE SMITH DYING (By United Press Leased Wire.) OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 21.—Eddie Smith, the well known referee, to- day is in a very critical condition, and grave fears for his recovery are entertained. Smith, who has been suffering from brain fever, had a relapse last Wednesday, and in his delirium insisted on leaving the sanitarium. Father and Son Arrested. (By United Preas Leased Wire.) CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 21.—Jobn C. Bylana of Boone county, Ken- tucky, is under arrest today and his son Raymond has been sent to the Kentucky penitentiary for five years for embezzlement of $18,000 from the Richwood, Ky., deposit bank. TAFT READY 10 VETO COTTON Bilt (Hy United Press Leaned Wire.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The cotton bill probably will be passed by the house this afternoon. Presi- dent Taft is preparing a veto meas- ure, and is expected to retarn the measure Without approval imme- diately after it reaches him. KARR KRKRRHK * POPE HAS RELAPSE ROME, Aug. 21.—Pope Pius suffered a slight relapse to- day, being obliged to remain in his room. Overextion and yesterday's heat are attributed ag the causes of his condition, which the phyéicians say is not. critical, They report that a complete rest is necessary. KKK NEW YORK—-Col, Zupan down- ed an old Heidelberg beer drinking rival whom he met at Waldorf, by putting away 39 Seidels- SERRE REESE SHEEEE EEE SED to say “X" between drinks, WHITE PLAINS, Ky.—Because Charles Burchard dyed his ir wife is seeking a divorce. Sho sald he did it to conceal the fact that he was an older man that he had told her he was, TOP ABUSE OF YOUNG GIRLS? each one) at a gulp—with only time enough | DILLING PETITION fo oMORT With lees than 6,000 bona fide signatures of a total of more than 10,000 on the petition for the recall of Diliing, and with not even suffi. cient names to recall inst the counciimen, it appears today very doubtful that any recall election will be held this fall. Should the same ratio of nun bers be rejected on the petitions for the recall of the councilmen, there will only be half of the sufficient number of names signed. With the present against the recall is improbable that enog will secured to insure call election on the mayor. The old Dilling campa’ mittee has been reorganized. work will be to push prosecutions against alleged fraudulent signa tures on the petitions, Th i association will* have 10 file supplementary petitions after the Yo ga petitions have been i sentiment names the Te The recall of the councilmen ts fn a different position. The number of names on the petitions were in- sufficient to warrant their filing with the city comptroller, The re call association fe given as much time as it may want to complete the Ii Therefore, unless the sen- timent against the present recall campaign is so strong that it will be impossible to get enough names, the recall election on the counctl- man may be held later, However, it is believed that public opinion wil! force & delay until the regular elec- tion next spring, at which time the unsatisfactory councilmen could be removed without extra cost to the city, Adjourn Tonight? (My United Press Leased Wire, WASHINGTON D. C., Aug. 21.— To adjourn congress tonight was the hasty plan urged by @ majority of both sf of the hause late this afternoon, Representativos besieged Speaker Clark and Democratic Leader Underwood to send the cotton bill to the vice president immediately and thence to the president late this evening. ABIG CUT (By United Press Leased Wire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—~ Between now and October 1 about 4,000 men employed in the operat- ing, construction, maintenance and motive power departments of the Southern Pactfic railroad will be laid off. About 40,000 men ts the normal force. Slack freight traffic is given by the company asi the reason for the reduction in force, THIEVES ROB ‘CHARITY BO Three hundred pennies and seven Canadian nickels were stolen from Wolf's cafeteri by thieves last night, who, ent by using a pass key. The belonged to t children’ ing donated by the people, and placed in a box, Chicken Ranches We need a year to grow a pig, atoer is big, jay every day. apread, is fed, Alfalfa t A horke The lay every of grain just once we reap, ly fleece take off our sheep, o hens lay every day yield the honey store fruit and all is o'er, jay ever day. Wor other things too long wo walt, Our life and pay day late, The hens Iny every day. A tow week ‘Then, dio The We are placing on the market some fine five-acre tracts, suit- able for chicken ranches, located 4% miles east of Auburn, % mile from P, 0.; large mill, store, ete. Fine soll, plenty of water. Price $60 per acre, $10 cash, $5 per month, OLE HANSON & CO. 914-315-316-317 New York Blk. j nie adguat campaign, it} = Muted in the Morgan interests holding complete contro! against the whole’American people, can we expect a different repult if the Morgans and Guggenheims are permitted to contro! Alaska? » power will lie in the control of docks, and the limited outlet to the world's markets. “The government should regard itself a bourd of directors, pledged | to properly care for the development of property in which the Ameri lean people the stockholders. wharves, mountain ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1911. IN SEATTLE CHARGES AGAINST The charges that unfortunate young girls placed in the House of the Good Shepherd are exploited and shamefully over worked for profit are now up to State Labor Cominissioner Hub bard. Business Agent Charles. W. Doyle of the Seattle Labor Council, Saturday night wrote Hubbard telling him of the con ditions at the home as were outlined by ‘The Star and supported by sworn affidavits, and putting it up to the state official to jaction. Mr. Doyle also called Hubbard's attention to numerous violations of the eight-hour law in Seattle JUDGE FRATER IN EARNEST. Judge Frater of the juvenile court repeated his statement today—a statement made calmly and after just deliberation “The quotation credited to me in The Star on Satufday was cor- rect in every particular,” said Judge Frater. “If the affidavits making these charges are convincingly true to me, 1 WILL NEVER SEND ANOTHER GIRL TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. $ : It is significant that City Probation Officer Boggess has KILLED BY _ (BEATTIE ON A SPLINTER FOR W A mother with two little children, living at 937 Emerson at, are today without a pro- vider. Cruel, cold-blooded, modern industry took away Martin Jen- sen, 30, the young husband and father, last Saturday. densen, who was an em- Ploye of the Shaw Show Case was fa injured a fiying splinter, which struck him in the abdomen. He ‘was taken to the Seattle Gen- eral hospital, where he died a few hours after, A MORE DRASTIC. STRAPHANGING BILL Another straphanging ordinance will be introduced into the city council this afternoon, Council- man Kellogg is ite sponsor. It is more drastic than the Grif- fithe’ bill. It provides that the AVERAGE load within any period of 20 minutes must not exceed seat ing capacity of any car. In other words, on the AVERAGE, there will be ho straphangers. The proposed bill further makes it the duty of the superintendent of utilities to look after the enfored- ment of the ordinance. THT PLANS A THREE WEEK VACATION (By United Lonsed Wire.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Presi- dent Taft will leave for Beverly late tomorrow evening for his long deferred vacation, if eongress ad- fJourns tomorrow afternoon, Other- wise he will be compelled to stick lit out in Washington, cooled only by the drafts from the White House cold storage room, which is directly under his office. The president will have only three woeks’ vacation, as he expects to leave for the Pacific coast Septem- ber 15, to attend the ground-break ing exercises of the Pamana-Paeific exposition at San “Francisco. He will visit Oregon and Washington also before he returns to the East. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Aug |21.-—Positively refusing to divulge |the place of safety to which he has sent Dr. A. W. MeDavit, wealthy ‘dentist who is alleged to have held Miss Jessie McDonald, 21, a captive) he “woman in the case,” * for fifteen months in a room ad-|* Beulah Binford, 17 *! joining his office, Sheriff Ralph|* * * * * kee RRR RHR HH |this afternoon announced that Mc Davit would not be returned to Ban Bernardino until the date of the preliminary hearing. is set for August 31, The wild young Virginian accu above, and the home of his wealth and his wife lived with the elder B KKK KEKE * * The murdered woman— * Louise Wellford Owen Beattie, 21, The accused man * * Henry * Clay Beattie, Jr. her husband, * * seeeeee | Cy United Press Leased Wire) | CHESTERFIELD COURT i HOUSE, Va., Aug, 21.—Henry Clay The case | Beattie, Jr pale and nervous, but | | otherwise showing no sign of emo-| |tion, settled himself solidly in his | jchair beside an array of counset in| signed the Joint statehood resolu-| sre Ue Ol court Neues reed to tion, which was the sent to Presi |grant a stay of trial on the indict- Gent Taft for signatire. |ment for murder of his wife, Mrs. or ine Wellford Owen Beattie, on | WASHINGTON.—Vice President Sherman and Speaker Clark today the Midlothian pike, near Rich- NEWS ITEMS FROM mond, July 18, THE HICKTOWN BEE Beulah Not Present. Beulah Binford, the 17-year-old | girl who bore Beattie a son, and for They have got a new brown spot- |whose sake he is said to have ted wup at Will Bittercat’s house. lidiied his wifey was not present |The authorities, deeming her pres: Main, st, today. @ lence unnecessary, left her in the Quite w number of strangers Henrico county jail aayed. in thin hustling city | ‘The crowd inside and out of t! Semen ne. EOL BO ome ONE lee court room received the court's | We noticed quite a lot o' holly hocks blooming in front yards on pop. der wi - 8 m, | P sero ain't @ hero tint after new [order with a buzz of satisfaction, | dem@bLate Watertower says It meant that their long journeys | ONE CENT. 3% It contains pictures of the world’s athletes—local L PLAN IN THE SENATE OWN TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES, The firet step should be the creation of adequate transportation facilities, The government should own and build these, and t wharves, docks, railroads and terminals already constructed should be acquired by the government Immediately, The government should own nd operate at least one great mine, with whieh to supply naval and military needs, selling the surplus product at a reasonable profit as @ check against extortion by private corporations developing other mines, BOARD OF CONTROL. and practical thing to do 9 to create a board of pub Me works a, similar to the isthmian canal “Our future naval power on the Pacific ocean, upon the utilization of Alaskan coal.” LAFE WATERTOWER SAYS: “How many fellers is there in Seat- tle who'd vote for the recall of their TAINS ANE f Ke : A mother-in-law? EWS STANDS be, HOUSE OF GOOD SHEPHERD PUT UP TO STATE OFFICER ever recor n n nended that a child be committed to this institu- It is significant that neit Dr. Merrill nor Mrs. Jordan, the officers of Judge Frater's court, have recommended that a girl be cominitted to this institution since last May. There is no question of DENOMINATIONAL PREJU- DICE in this matter. As an honest newspaper and as a cham- pion of the greatest good to the greatest number, The Star could not do otherwise than give pu y to the sworn allegations against the House of the Good Shepherd “If the charges are true,” said a prominent churchman to The Star today, “then the evil must be remedied. Young girls who have met with misfortune and who are committed to ANY institution by the judge of the juvenile court must be PRO- TECTED and not EXPLOITED.” The affidavits in possession of this newspaper will be gladly turned over to any investigating committee, to any public official bent on making an inquiry, OR TO THE AUTHORITIES OF THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD should they de- FE murper Olo ENGLISH OTAIKE [a | ENDING (A222 0222222 022 2 8 2] * Credit for the probable set- * Ulement of the great strike in © England is largely due tow Lloyd George, chancellor of ® the exchequer. The workings # of the conciliation act of 1907 ® was the chief cause of dis- % cord, and a joint committee of ® five members will recommend w changes. Long hours and & small pay are the basis of the # trouble. * REKKREKEKREEEEEER made eeeeeeeeee (By United Press Leased Wire.) LONDON, Aug. 21.—Charging the railroad companies are king faith by discriminating inst some of the strikers, Secre- tary Thomas of the Railway Em ployes’ association today threatened a renewal of the strike unless the companies’ promise of impartial re- Instatement are fulfilled to the let ter. The government is expected to force adherence to the agreement by the companies, however, and it is believed there is little danger of further hostilities. ‘Thousands of men returned to work today. Only employes of the Northeastern railroad are refusing to resume, asserting that the agree- ment does not cover their union and demanding a weekly minimum wage of $5.50 for an eight-hour day. The dock workers at Hull are reported as preparing to strike, and & cruiser has been dispatched to guard the harbor there. that bo LIVERPOOL, Aug. 21.—The lock- out of the dock workers here was settled tonight and the men were ordered to return to work imme- railway employes already adjusted and the dock men now resuming work, the general strike is believed sed of cold-blooded wife murder to be at an end in Liverpool. y father, a banker, below. Beattie ype AARRAAERERKRAH enttio. * For Seattle and vicinity: ® from all parts of the country near|* Fair tonight and Tuesday, © here would not come to naught. * light northeasterly — winds. * During the examination of the|* Temperature at noon today, 54. talesmen, Attorney Smith for the|<*****2 ee *e* eee defense demanded a list of the wit- nesses for the prosecution. Special YOUNG MEN'S COLLEGE SUITS, Prosecutor Wendenburg, in agree- “One witness for the sn SPECIAL $ the defendaft as connected with| certain transactions. An amateur} detective named Ridd, associated | with the defense, told Josephs: ‘You did not seo Beattle, and you are not sure that he is the man, Yr you say that he was we will send you to jail.” Seven jurors were temporarily ac cepted. ing, said wealth, John Josephs, identified $12.50 and $15.00 , 5 5 BOYS’ ALL-WOOL FALL SUITS | With Two Pairs Knicker- 5 bockers, $5.00 Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex. —— PRUDENCE. teody pool, cg on brink, oy from school, Watch frog sink! « diately. With the difficulties of the * =o Ra GET aR ES)

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