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papery matte ade of RAGE UE HOME EDITION Rockefeller H The bathrooms. likes has over 20 bath is the one he Have you a son or a friend in the navy? Are you interested in YOUR navy, the navy YOU help port? Then read this story about Dalley. Dalley's story, told without heat or bias, should be read by every thoughtful citizen, William H. Dalley enlisted tn ees believed that Dalley's plea pavy at Brooklyn tn July, 1908. to have his eyes examined by a He was a strong man physically, | specialist on shore was an !mputa- alert, sober, and with a taste for tion that Dr. Kennedy was ineffi- machinery—to all appearance the jcient to look after them. type of man the navy wants, He Anyhow, Dalley was had been three years tn the regu. | down, lar army, and up to the time of} His eyes wore his joining the navy, had been a/ worse and worse. His ship was locomotive engineer, He was 34/s00n to start ona long voyage, and unmarried. where they could get no attention. Dalley went in as @ machinist's | His eyesight was at stake, Dalley mate, second class, assigned to the | believed. U. 8. 8. Colora pro- So when on Aug. 28, 1909, Dalley moted to first class inside of six | got a special over-night shore leave months. His record was good both from Chief Engin Walla the as to conduct and ability. sailor, harassed and tormented, de. In June, 1909, a year after his enlistment, Dalley got a plece of brass in his eye. It was removed, but by the middie of July % began} to bother him. He consulted Dr.) Wallace's last words were et J, T. Kennedy, the ship's surgeon, /your eyes fixed up and don't be who told him he ought to wear | bothering us about them.” slasses when reading. So Dalley did. Shore Leave Refused | All the oculist’s Dalley let the matter rest for a|closed, of course, month, but his eyes kept getting reached Seattle. He would bave worse, Then he asked for two to leave there before any of the days’ shore liberty and a requisl- jottlc es opened in the morning or tion of 925 from the $40 he had/ violate his shore liberty, coming to him, so that he could Dalley thought only of his eyes. get glasses fitted. |He took the boat to Tacoma, had What happened then as told in| his eyes treated and glasses fitted. Datiey’s sworn nt as made It took three days. When he got him and erwmroed by him to back to Bremerton tt was to find Washington while he was stili in| that the Colorado had sailed with the service and amenable to naval jout him discipline, is a commentary on gov-| Dalley turned hurting = him =. FI Fa > he hi properly attended to and take the consequences. They were serious. offices were | when Dalk didn't try to escape the! ernmentai red tape and petty/ consequences. He gave himself up, tyranny, was arrested and held till Oct. 17, For ten days Dalley was sent{when he was Informed by Lieut from one officer to another. His|P. A. Udall, judge advocate, that Tequest was several times Matly re-|he must stand trial in the morning fused. Dr. Kennedy refused to rec- as a deserter. ommend shore liberty Doctor Was Angry The onlx conclusion that a lay: | man can come to ts that the ship's y asked if one of the ship's ers would defend bim. I act for both sides,” said Udall WOW ARE You AMY WAN ? HAVEN'T Seed ‘YOu FOR A LONG WHY - HELLO » FRED o1p BoY LOOKING FINE BRED|/TiEy HOW IS TWE Famyay? THAT 1S, THAT I'M RUNNING FOR COUNCILMAN IM QUR WARD AND WiLL. APPREUIATE YouR SvuPPORT (ieee) oA BY THe WAY FRED, | JUST HAPPENED To THINK OF SOMETHING -ANO— VOL 13, NO. 216 STORY OF HOW ONE SAILOR WAS TREATED IN UNCLE SAM’S NAVY cided that he would stay ashore till, “But I'd rather have a man who ™ he Seattle Star ONLY dates Are Generall: Strongly Against Tammany yesterd and the voters of wervative democracy, ax r Massachusetts re-elected F & democratic legistature, whieh senate, wovert servative democrat, Progressive dem land and Colambus, What does it mean? ty Seettteeeeeeeeeet tes that pu * next year, HARKER RRER EE (By United Press Leased Wire) H. DALLEY WASHINGTON, Now. 8.—Victory —_—_--—--——- for the progressives is everywhe would just look after my interests,” | shown today in the returns from the y | elections throughout the East, t hot entitled in the navy | only severe setback being in New to the treatment that even a com-| Jersey, where Governor Wilson lost mon criminal on land has,” Dalley contro! of the legislature, which | awears in his affidavit that Udall| will have a republican majority. | “for on land if a prisoner elsewhere a id victories for | ' point one. ask an officer to defend you, but The democrats are jubilant over he does not have to do it. Or you|the democratic gains in Ohio, em can hire a lawyer outside.” peclally in Cincinnati, and hall the | Driven to extremities, Dalley tel-| phoned to k. §, Hayward, a Seat-| tle attorney once, Hayward until half an hour before the trial.| CINCINNATI, Obio, Noy, §.—The With this preparation Dalley | oection of Henry T. Hunt, demo went to trial He told his story : and showed his recetpts from ocu as mayor of Cincinnatl over lists and optician jhis republican opponent, Louis He was found guilty and sen-|Sehwab, in regarded here today as tenced to six months at hard labor. /a direct slap at President Taft and | The story of Dalley’s experience |the severest blow which the repub- as a naval prisoner will be told to-|lican machine under Boss Geo. B. ow Cox has ever sustained. PUBLIC DOCK pealed to President Taft early in Insisting that the $250,000 erat, the campaign, with the result that the president wrote him an open WASHINGTON, Nov, §.—E returns show big gains 7g be ber ction ly King county citizens for dock |Clalists, Schenectady, N. Y., elect od a socialist mayor nd the citle ft r the acquirt f Ban “ sites be, aed for the acquiring Of lo’ Tosates, Ot. Marys, Martina one public dock, with warehouse {| Porry, Fostoria, Mount’ Vernon. cilities, Duwamish river adherents | Barbton, Salem, Luna, Toronto and Bs meolvex as Will Cuyahoga Falls followed suit in other location, if Ohio. Heavy gains in Toledo, Co that is shown to be more suitable. /jumbus and Dayton were recorde ) Port Commissioner Re The gain of the socialist party ever, spoke before the missioners, favoring the lof two or more dock al! portions of the harbor line nating thereby the possibility of a] BOSTON Nov. 8&—dGov For public dock anywhere Some discussion was had at the|@@mocrat, in spite of bitter oppost meeting yest about locating |tion waged by Senator Lodge, | the public doc © foot of Har | triend of Taft, and backed by the! rison st., on E national administration, was re- promise location, elected yesterday by a lead of §,000 who advocate the r ’ over Frothingham, republican. Senator Lodge, republican, took an active part in the campaicn, | making the tariff the Insue, and al: fwamish and bi ashington adherents. ‘FOOTBALL CLAIMS, | ANOTHER VICTIM Football probably claimed anoth-| CLEVELAND, er victim In the death of Harold) Tom L. Lyle Hankins, 16, © sophomore at the Lincoln high school. The boy Nov. 8.—Though Johnson ts pid: that “hi soul is marcung on” Is said by his friends to be indicated here today |the authorization by the city of a NAT REAL MAD | (By United Press Leased Wire) | & HOT "RINGS, Ark., Angered because the dr 7 Jot the Arkansas Der Gets Marriage that he “was so great Aatsians i dene Juissepe Michela climbed up influence of liquor that he had to Protanity tll this morning. be led on the stage,” Nat C. his naturalization pap But he win, the comedian, here toda on & eben eee taal Martin to} structed Attorney W. H. He thought he was legally mar bring sult for $50,000 against that | ried to Teresa Gedda in Italy 11 peper The critic we? _ a that | years ago. But the naturalization profane language Goodwin used | clerk discovered that he merely was plainly heard by those in the) yublished the bans, and overlooked audience. the rest of the ceremony - p So, acting on the advice of Judge PRN Notice. ** X | Prater, Guissepe got his wife to % | Water will be shut off on # SONG % Boylston av,, from E. Pike at, & | Se * to E, Olive st., tomorrow tron 4 | * 9a, m. to 3p. m The Taxicab Idea of Joy- Riding Through Life Demonstrated in the Seattle Divorce Court! Her husband was careful about)too, and after four months they dress, said Mrs. Ivy Applegate.| were married. Albert, on the eve He was a fastidious marriage, borrowed $200 from gentleman, | of faultless in attire—he even treated | M himself to silk underwear, was the story in Judge Frater’s court yes terday afternoon. But he was not 80 particular about his wife's dress, in while he converting ry, was said. On their honeymoon trip, } also advised her to put about $100 the hotel safe, and he volun the complaint alleged, and he did |teered to do that service for her. not worry about supporting her Later he withdre that mon either, she said. He worked only without her knowledge, she told Albert failed to go inter. Judge Frater. work, and bis property about half the time at his trade as carpenter, Mrs. Applegate informed to the court. Divorce granted. leats seemed rather indefinite, said Kight default divorce cases were| Mrs. Doull. So after a while she ranted yesterday. returned to Seattle, her ready having been exhausted mone: Expected Life of Leisure. ie expected a iife of leisure when Mary ©. Doull met Albert Doull|1 married you,” a letter from in Oakland, Cal, and told him| Abert read. Divorce granted, about some property that she own-| Della McComb became infatuated din Seattle. Albert told Mary|with a saloonkeeper back in Wis- that hevhad all kinds of property | consin, some property into ready cash, he) said Allen McComb, her from Harry kel. Buy While It Rains Tek RARE RRA RRR If you buy north end acres while it is raining, you will surely make a wise selection, Buy this land when it looks its worst. If you would prefer to go out later when the sun is shining, all right, but you had better call at the office and have us select an acre or two for you. husband, and she was frank about | ft. She told it to him, and to her | neighbors, too. Then she left for the West and the saloonk was to have followed, but McComb beat | him to it, the latter told Judge|} Woy bs Prater, ‘But it was no use. After |} We wil held ft until you ‘can a short while, Mra. MeComb beat <9 [it back to Wisconsin, her husband | |thinks, to live with her “affinity.” | Any Acre McComb was given a divoree. Earl Yeates told Judge Frater that his wife, Lola, had a taxicab $400 idea of life. She was continually | “joy riding,” he said, and was! taken in by the Seattle police on|{ Terms $10 Cash, Balance $7.50 at least three hilarious cooantene, Decree granted. The following were also awarded divorces: F. A. from B, L. Minard; Georgia BE. from James Ross; Lulu from William A, Morrison; Mabel Monthly. OLE HANG6ON & CO. Third Floor New York Block INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911 Insurgents and Socialists Win’ In Elections Held Yesterday Progressive and Radical Candi- | Successful—Taft’s Home State Goes tandpat Element. REAR AAA RRA AAR KEHARA suffered the severest rebuke in years, w York state yoleed disapproval of con predented by Dix , despite the whirlwind campaign made on the tariff insue by the republicans, Mississtpp! promises to elect a socialist lieutenant or. Arthur P, Gorman, son of the late senator was defeated for governor of Maryland crate were elected in ‘and 10 Ohjo cities elected socialists Mexico rebukes the conservative constitution makers by elect tng & progressive democrat governor, candidate for mayor was defeated in Philadelphia made gains throughout the country. being disregarded for progrensiyism Ap & standpat candidate for president will be defeated to come vo tum a'| Taft Repudiated ; s,, though Climbs Up Profanity Hill to Be “Naturalized”— IN SEATTLE of hav ing t Tariff-protected Kentucky elected will choose Ollie James for the nd & COD Cleve New Cineinnati, publican Soctall The standpat means that old party lines are It means that the party i dicdaDighelalialialiateleietelel jelection of Governor Fons in Massa chusette as a repudiation by the people of republican tariff prin elplies. The republicans, on the oth hand, are rejoicing over the result) \in New Jersey, and claim that the [Maine of thelr party tn eutting down | Poes’ plurality foreshadows the re- turn. of publican The socialists are enthusiastic over thelr gains, and predict that the national vote next fall will break all records. in which he endorsed the repubitean ticket, President Taft's personality thereby became a di fect insue in the campaign and in pelecting Hunt the Cincinnati voters disregarded the president's enee and wishes Hunt tx a strong supporter of} Governor Harmon, and it in be Heved that bis election will mater jally advance Harmon's for the democratic presidential bom! nation. President Taft left here at foar | \@clock thin morning } Wax consistent in practically all the | staten that held elections. Headers attribute the heavy vote to the continual campaign work car ried on between elections Indications are that the socialists have elected James T. Lester of Jacknon lHeutenant governor of Mississippl. The strength by the socialists’ candidates in this Southern state was extraordinary Tariff Loses in Massachusetts Mansachusetts is considered & tariff stronghold, the democrats won eastly Foss is the governor to be r second democratic Significance is attached to the preelection republican warnings to voters that the re-election of Foss the defeat of President Taft Cleveland ‘Names Johnson Man , $2,000,000 bond issue for a munict- ipal lighting plant, a measure for| which Johnson fought throughout his entire career. The Recall for Ohio. lreferendum. License Instead. the courthouse this morning, se cured a marriage license, and was married in the judge's chambers | And this afternoon he will get |his naturalization papers if he jpasses the examination satisfac torily. BALFOUR RESIGNS 4 Press Leased Wire) LOKDON. Nove Fe arian hat four today caused a great sensa \tion in English politics when he re- jaigned as leader of the conserva tive party. Balfour announced his retirement at a1 ng of the Lon- }don conservative committee, giving too old for the place and that his health was rapidly failing. RAE RRR * WEATHER FORECAST * * Occasional rain tonight and * *® Thursday, high southwesterly * * wind Temperature at noon * SPSEPSP See eee Eee EE ES by Home Town’ influ: | chances | Soctalint | shown | jas bis reason (hat he was getting! Victim - Nightmare Awakens to . . peen denounced by the Colonel Find He Had Slain Wife With Ax —— Concarn Me! LOOK HOW THAT BOY | © make great gains everywhere in the elections held yes- |terday, naming ten mayors in various cities and several state offi- ciale “Genuine Democrat Will Sweep Country’ ’—Bryan| SOCIALISTS ELECT 11 MAYORS -.: LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. §—Wm. Jennings Bryan, after receiving re of democratic victories in the East and Middle West, declared ioday that, “with a genuine democrat heading the ticket,” the demo- \ erate will sweep the country in 1912. "The democratic victories in Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky, Ne | braska, sas and New Mexico are most gratifying,” Bryan said | It goex to show that the drift toward democracy lly o the entire nation. I The vote on congressmen in Nebraska and Kansas indicates that the people have faith in democratic principles, and that they expect that party to solve the problems confronting us. Congress needs only | to keep faith with the people, and with a genuine democrat at the head of the ticket in 1912, we will sweep the country. is surging strong. OWN CHILD (By United Press Leased Wire) }An empty chloroform bottle was PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 8—Fol-|found in the girl's room, and soon lowing the discovery of bones al- after the bones were uncovered in leged to be those of an infant in|the furnace ashes. The warrant the furnace of the home of Mrs.| was sworn out by Smith, who George Kelly, on N. 23rd st., Detec:| worked on the case, and who al leged that the woman first chloro: F, Smith left today for War- baby and then cast its to arrest formed the tic, who is | body into the flames. tive B. |ren, Columbia county, Hilda Johnson, a dom died yesterday of blood poisoning. |in the victory of Newton D. Baker,| Retarns from 35 counti show | charged with the murdi ind incin. Little is known of the Johnson Ten days ago Harold, who was 4 | closest friend of Johnson, who {#|61 progressive delegates elected to| eration of her own child. woman. A year ago she was em | member of the second team, played | elected mayor of Cleveland by the! the constitutional convention, | ployed by a family in Irvington, and against the Tacoma high school Bones in Furnace left there, saying she was going to Iequad. After the game he the elty, Frank Hogan, the repub-( ity in that body and makes certain| The Johnson woman left Mré./ be married. | plained of bis knee hurting him. |itcan candidate, an-old-time foe ofthe inclusion of the initiative, ref-| Kelly's service Sunday after she| So far the police have been un Shortly after the knee broke out | Johnson, was simply smothered in lerendum and recall in the Obio con-| ad worked two weeks. On the | able to account for her whereabouts Jand a physician was called. Death the storm of ballots which spelled stitution | morning she dropped from sight it| between the time she left Irving followed quickly. The y phy-| victory for Baker, whose plurality! James R. Garfield, former secre-| ¥## noted that an unusually large |ton until she took a position with iscian, Dr, B. F. West, would not/ was 17,900. tary of the Interior in Roosevelt's | fire had been built in the furnace ais Kelly state positively that football was) “it is a monument to Johnaon,” cabinet, was defeated by Fletcher oe ~— = the actual cause of the boy's death, |said Baker today. “Johnson and| Malin, progressive candidate for| but thought it probable. his polici the issue as much | constitution: delegate, by 600 RENTS DROPPING | ‘Cotterill Says | Go as though he were alive today.” | Garfield refused to sign a Another Johnson triumph was! pledge demanding the {nitiative and | AROUND SEATTLE Slow on Civic Center| Oh, joy, rents} Pointing out both the benefits are dropping! — | and the dangers of the Ctvic Center | Yes, it’s true. ree Cotteril For the first before the Woodland Park time in many | Community league last night, urged = long moons rents] the voters to give ample study to in Seattle on| the matter. the downward) “It is unfortunate that the plans trend, It's great| are being presented to the people news for nine-|to vote on their entirety, without tenths of us, the landlord in who pro: affording the opportunity of r ing what may bi et considered {nad have to pay portion as population has increased.! visable, and accepting the satisfac Seattle rents have been HIGH, | tory portions,” he said Rent has been the nigger in the woodpile in Seattle's high cost of living problem But now they FIRE IN BALLARD are going down A fire which for a time threaten Many houses and apartments are|ed serious destruction extin. idle, At first the landiords and | guished at the H. C. Boloom Lumber owners of apartment houses gave |Co, mill, 1540°W. 46th st., Ballard, maintain idle father rents and than re the word to leave rooms e them But they have grown sick of it, and now they have begun to knock off from $1 to $5 a month for small apartments, Still rents are a whole lot higher than acl bia to be, last night, after good work on tpe part of the fire department. The \t was discovered in a kiln and showed signs of spreading in the 35-mile gale which was blowing. JUROR EXCUSED BECAUSE HE’S ILL jw 43, * eee eee eee ee Do OUR HALL OF RECORDS, LOS AN SLES, Nov. 8—Judge Bordwell oe excused Juror Wm, F. Clark, in GIRL IS SWIFT the McNamara trial, because of heart disease. He also excused NAIL DRIVER Juror Samuel Mendenhall because of the serious illness of his mother. In the case of Juror Byron Lisk the court refused to excuse at this time. ST. PAUL, Nov. 8,—Florence Wil- cox, of St. Paul, a junior co-ed in the Minnesota Agricultural school in tho annual field meet, drove twelve ten-penny nails in the girls’ naildriving contest in the record breaking time of 462-5 seconds. The previous record was 48 1-6 seconds, established last year. Both second and third winners emerged from the ordeal with badly bruised fingers, but Miss Wilcox suffered only a slight chip of the sktn from the forefinger of the hand which held the nails, Approve Tobacco Plan NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The Unit- ed States circult court of appeals this afternoon approved the re organization plan of the Tubacco trust proposed by the department of justice. Only a few slight modi- fications were required Getting mad at folks is a most successful way of wasting time. MURDERED HER |MAN THEN- ENDS OWN LIFE BY CUTTING HIS THROAT. (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. —Awakening from a horrible nightmare to find that he had literally chopped his wife to pieces with a hatchet, John Ed- ward Cooper, a prosperous contractor here, gashed his throat from ear to ear, ending his life at an early hour today, | The woman's death is but @ matter of a few hours. Planned an Outing. When Cooper retired last night he lay awake an hour planning an outing for his hap- py family today. He was the | father of three beautiful daugh jters, middle aged and fairly | well to The fatally injured woman is unconscious at the mergency hospital, her skull jfractured in several places, her jright arm broken, several fine |gers chopped off and her body jotherwise badly mutilated. Carried Girl While Asleep. Little Lillian Cooper, 7, said she swakened in the hallway outside her parents’ room, snugly wrapped in blankets. Apparently she had n carried there by her father during his somnambulism and be jfore the terrible attack upon his wife. “1 wasn’t all awake,” she said, |“but | knew papa was carrying me and he walked like he was dream ing.” Strikes Sleeping Wife. Cooper returned to his room secured a lather’s hatchet struck his sleeping wi awakened, rushed to the telephone and called for help. Then he hacke at her head and arms. | Awakening to find the hatchet, dripping blood, in his hand and see ing his wife's body on the floor, and the police at the door, Cooper | realized what had occurred. Se He and Sho jcuring a razor, he gashed his | throat. Find Him Dead. When Mrs. Cooper's call for help was re ved at the ce station over the phone, Steward Barend said he heard the shrieks of the |woman between her pleas for help. Officers were rushed to the house. | They arrived before Cooper dis |covered what he had done, ap- | parently, and it is believed thelr ar- Jrival brought him to his senses. | Then he refused to permit them to enter. When the officers finally foreed their way into the room |they found Cooper dead HELL HAVE TO TELL | (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8.—Chas. |G. Clark is in the county Jail today, and there he will remain until he expresses a willingness to give in- formation regarding $1,000 in cur- rency which he admits he buried. Clark was jailed by order of Su perior Judge Munroe during the hearing of a suit for separate main- tenance instituted against him by his wife. He admitted that he sold @ rooming house for $1,000. WILSON AFTER A NEW TRIAL | United Press Leased Wire) | OLYMPIA, Nov. 8.—After hear- ing the arguments for a new trial, | Superior Judge Mitchell will decide Monday on the appeal of Geo, H. } Wilson for a new trial on the charge jof second degree murder. Wilson, a section foreman at | Rainier, was convicted of slaying Archie and Nettie Coble in their bed with an ax last summer. Jap Legislator Here Congressman Saburo Shimada of Japan was dined by American and |Japanese friends at the Washing ton hotel this noon. He will be given a dinner by dents tonight, Japanese resi- RODGERS FLIES TO | SEASHORE SUNDAY LONG BEACH, Cal., Nov. 8.—Cak braith P. Rodgers will complete his ental flight at Long between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, The prop- osition made by the Chamber of Commerce was accepted at noon to- day by the aviator, Full details of the filght and the reception to be accorded Rod; s have not been de- elded upon. 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