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uting d for ts. ards ial- E IT’S SEATTLE’S MOVE! Call a mass meeting. Let the citizens be heard on thi Seattle does not want NOW IS THE TIME The Bell monopoly, which owns the Sunset—also the Independent It wants that Independent franchise, which gives the people something like a square deal, wiped out and for-”| exact gotten. -It wants to operate telephones here under the Sunset franchise, which puts no limit on rates and no The Bell fears municipal ownership—that is the only thing it does fear—and that’s the reason it bars to rotten service. A resolution is now before the Commercial Club, calling for a public meeting. to ire it. j Right now, the Star believes, is the time for the Commercial Club to come to the front. Here is the op- IT’S SEATTLE’S MOVE NEXT. ‘ VOL. 13, NO. 217 YOUNG WIFE COMMITS SHICIDE “The letters will exptain It all.” ‘These were the last words spok- en by Mrs. Leonore Eyster, a well- educated young woman of 23, after ghe had taken cyanide of potassium in the home of Mra. John McCarty, 6302 22nd av. N. W., where she w: boarding. She took thé®poison about 9:15 last night. She r ferred to six letters which she had mailed while out walking with Mrs. McCarty about two hours earlier. Rushes to Room. When the two women returned to the house, Mrs Eyster rushed up to her room without any ex planation. It was not more than five minutes later when she al most tumbled down the stairs and madly rushed through the parlor to the dining room. and fell pros-| trate on the couch, saying: “I hw come here to die.” Mra. McCarty tm ed to the telephone to call a doc ately rus tor, but Mrs. Eyster died within New York building, t* creating Com | ation. ‘The orphan kiddies bad « 9 4 five minutes. siderable , Gfeat Iangh when the mischievous The suicide was probably caused Bridges aa pe twins made their showing =m ¥ by a quarrel with her husband, a : At : Gnesection of the lower Moor was} a Ie Eyster, a traveling salesman ave more or lens real estate busl- | ¢itied with “kiddies” from the va ‘ ‘ 4 Alte psd yer ag sone Gens to 40 for the patlic and far | Gale arohen Deddh, ond "ine ait The Star told yesterday of William H. Dalley, machinist's mate in the navy, who was sentenced to six * Bank building. She visited bim thet reason: theif private: partuer-| deed socmed to enjoy the play im-| motte? St bard labor for desertion because he overstayed bis teave of absence by two days in order to Set i ths eatitn ana 1 ta bedeved, aa ic caneneaned et tiaik ot pate Lardine 7 wuahaaaeh wane seokiaas bis ares properly attended to after the ship's surgeon had left them neglected and refused to allow him 6 5 me to get them e interest ts pi ure of t haa threatened te take pelee is we rye poe pati after the departure of Hin story today takes up the manner in which naval prisoners are treated She boarded with Mra. McCarty SRRREREEEMSER ESS cnn Dalley’s eyes will never be as good as they were when he entered the navy—owing to that neglect, alone,.the young couple having evi-| * *! / But that isn't the worst feature. Dalley left the navy, after nearly three years of service, almost hating dently deen separated for several | Seattie may bond itself for iH Orchard It, feeling that he was done a great injustice. weeks. Mrs. Eyster first came to lw 000 more before it There must be something wrong in the navy system when such things happen the McCarty “home on October 29. * the constitutional * Dalley was entitled to 60 days off , time. on January 1: “Thus comes a year Her bus®and was notified, and ® Yimit. The municipal indebt * as Reformer out of his sentence on good bebav-| For criticising the ship prison in| well begun to a sad alee. he took charge of the body last # ness on November 1 wax $12, # jor. This is eall-|the presence of other sailors, five| January 1 the year before had night | 744.280. ‘The assessed alos #| (my Guited Preae Leased Wite) ed “good time” | days’ solitary confinement and 25/seen his promotion to second class i % ton of city property im $ * of by the sailors. | days’ good time machinist oo BOISE, Ida, Nov. 9.—Harry ot hg & 887, 076, fixing the limit Sl Gicknk calc vettnoce In the Dalley lost For talking back to a marine who| Dalley was finally restored to duty & debtedness at $21,118,807 *| Moyer-Pettibone trial in the days of his ridiculed him, five da solitary 26, and reassigned to the # ood time” be- | confinement and 25 days’ good time hose office had Western Federation of Miners 6 we are » whose officers | Rete eneeeeee case, self-co ed murderer of cause of petty of-| The cell w ley was con ht on his troubles. He asked | 2 14 persons, ani ving life in fens He also | fined while “c ry" was be- for assignment to another ship ar? # | é ce ° . . got 12 days’ soli-| neath the wa iron cham urchase his discharge from thé : * the Idaho penitentiary for the got - pate discharge frte Aner. voting for years in| fa Stop Picketing | ‘+, isso, renttentiary ter tne Etry “confine |ber 34842 Inches mle, hin ony’ navy." Hoth Tequesta, were trae King county, four Montgomery =~ al ment air coming through holes cut in the | down. aecthes wie tews lived in y United Pres Leased Wire) Sementerg, today ie peeing os His offenses|door. His food was bread and! While still in the navy Dalley ad- : rly hP oni MRS. LOUISE VERMILYA. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 9 & prison reformer. were like thi water. dressed to Secretary of the Navy numciaw for rs, recer ' . > Me ~ ore uke v4 “— esses 0 Se t, e dD x (By United Press Leased Wire) | canization, who stated that Mra. | The rumor that Chief of Police Wm Oreners Shen, thet, hare week For whistling, As soon as Dalley was released Meyer his appeal for a new trial ly discovered that they were met citizens of the United States. Their father had omit- ted the duty of taking out his second ‘pape: ind the ch dren, who wei minors when they came to this country, had believed right along that they were citizens. Then William Wallace Montgomery completed a law course at Ann Arbor and discovered that they had been voting illegally. So yesterday all four brothers applied for natur and were admitted to Judge Frater. Still Deadlocked The council is still deadlocked over the election of a successor to Corporation Counsel Calhoun. Brad ford, Tindall and Murphine are chief contenders, with none getting any nearer to the necessary five votes than when the votin on Monday afternoon Boosting the Fair SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 Fifty-six of San Francisco's leading citizens left last night by special train for Phoenix, Ariz.afor the pur pose of boosting the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915 at the Arizona state fair there. It is expected that Arizona will 0,000 for exhibition pur world’s fair here s trip, began The trouble with a crank is that he never turns himself. aaa ARRIVE It’s almost tur- key-time no and the first and gobblers are beginning to ar for Thanks Y hens at this season and fatten them nksgiving table. Hens sell at 27 cents per pound, live weight, and by fattening a goodly number of extra pounds can be added, at @ profit to the feeder The birds are selling at 20 cents & pound dressed now and indica tions are that they will hover around that figure during the early holiday season, but will likely go higher as the demand increases. strangle hold before the coming of the Independent, and IT WILL GE’ i HOLD IF THE INDEPENDENT 18 FORCED OUT OF THE FIELD, ©\O'HER SUCH STRANGLE | to nic the peta) be ee Neither does Seattle necessarily want two phone systems. i SEATTLE DOES WANT DECENT’ SERVICE AT ‘A REASONABLE RATE. Pe hs Redapenden Cor no The Seattle Sta nS) ha "| folks who buy up young telephone question. portunity to let the PUBLIC VOICE BE HEARD, AND HEARD IN AN MISTAKABLE MANNER. ; the Sunset again to get a strangle hold on her citizens. The Sunset had such a Throwing out Independent phones doesn’t get anywhere on this phone question. Such action only serves There may be some way to solve this problem other than through municipal ownership. If there ig The Independent Co. has violated its franchise, and on that violation the city can revoke‘its grant. Thus FOR SEATTLE TO STRIKE FOR IT. the way is opened for municipal ownership. If Seattle can successfully operate a water system and a light- -wants the Independent forced out. | ing system, Seattle can operate a telephone system, and, with no watered stock, no holding company ta tribute, the city could make a progt and low rates. ' would welcome the elimination of its Independent sytem from the field now—before the people take steps NLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911 ox Tals mwa eT Another Victim of | |FAWNCY THIS! REAL LIVE | Woman Poisoner| LORD LOST IN SEATTLE! Really, this ia no spoofing—.it's ‘@ jolly true story, y'know Lord Sholto Douglas ts lost tn Seattte. e's of English aristocra cy, & brother of the Marquis of Que@n#berry, who is now in Chicago. His lordship used to run a cigar staid at 2383 First ay, Seattle and he was in town only yesterday, according to VieeConsul Mur ray and Mrs. F © D. Knapp, 118 Twentieth av. N. who bas known him since he was a mere lordiet. Lord Douglas has his wife and a | 10-year-old won in Seattle, An oleder son is in college in England Yesterday the Douglas family moved to new apartments. ' And fawney this: No one knows where they have moved to. And upon that e comes the rawther nasty news from New York that an on identified as the Lord Douglas, ha» i there, Of course, the Marquis in Chi cago dented ft Douglas has never been known to do any sueb things, don’t-cherknow—and his Seattle friends, too, think it’s a blawsted spoofing affair that some jolly rotter has put up in New York Bat, anyhow, {t would be a bally fine thing to know where his Lordship is today, they say, so that he can tell these newspaper men himself that he's not dead. BRIDGES AND (ODES HVE FINE = McKENZIE ARE | TIME AT THEATRE And the Man Who Is Tired of Paying the Feed Bills sncueaiss St = NAVY PRISONER GOT BREAD dealers on an office door in the| great appeal to the younger gener | } while at work, from solitary confinement, despite and for the clearing of his naval two days good his weakened condition from his record. In it he told his whole ‘amed as beneficiary | Ahern had received orders to call| @nd standard literature, in his | | CHICAGO, Nov. 9—Another|” cinilya was et policy for $1,250,|% halt in mase picketing at the} @pinion would tend to make name was aoded today to the lis 6 an insuran of supposed victims or Mra. Louise (ior by Chas. Bowen Southern Pactfie shop entrances by| # 6Fiminal's mind healthy, and ot 3 } aken out by Chas. Boysen, spoken time. starvation diet, he was put at road story as told in The Star yesterday. Vermilya, in jail here charged with | o¢ in the policy as her affianced | Striking federation members as soon by ong Fay terse v pre For being slow | work around the Bremerton station,, Nothing happened. |the murder of Policeman Arthur|iusband. Mrs. Vermilya and Boy-|## the result of the municipal clee-| thoug es sagt ented do obeying ord ers of at scraping the hutis of vessels. Friends of Dalley wrote Secretary Bisonette, and suspected of having von both protest that their reia-| ton on Tuesday was made known,| tem wi wy Se state should (Dalley was sit-| Dalley's “log book,” or diary, is at) Meyer, President Taft and Rear poisoned nine other persons who}iions were purely platonic was verified today. The executive} see that all convicts were pro. ting at the time, | The Star office. Admiral Robley D. Evgns about his |have died mysteriously within the ii at. Mer ileves. | committee of the strikers was in vided with work on their re and says he got On January 15, 1910, is a memor-| case. | pest efx years, when friends at day-| f os an [formed that picketing tn 9 body Je | up as quickly as|andum while Dalley was in “the! Dalley’s appeal was denied. |son Ruppert, a Soo line fiveman, in-| . 4 aRoeque, would on longer be tolerated wor 39 he could and not | black hole”: “Bitterly cold in ceil.| In due time he was mustered oat, \formed the police that he died in|aunt of Policeman Bisone de When you see another fel-/Trenk his glasses), two days’ soli. 1 begged them to me a blan-| honorably discharged, his conduet, me manner as Bison. | clared that on one occasion she be-| low’s hat blow off, always) tary confinement and 10 days’ good | ket, but they refused.” on the basis of his deportment after ng at the Vermiiya| came Ill after ing at the vies | MARKET TODAY yank your own on tight before Another touching entry is found| his imprisonment, marked “Good.’ exactly the ette, after ¢: | home. milya house said that Mra r = = i | Mace: Dissnveriin | Vermilya cooked the dinners but did] Some market things, are still tak: | YOU begin-to laugh. . | a Further disclosure gainst the|not eat with ber guests. ling altitude flights, while other oman enies | woman were also made today by| Mrs. Vermilya on her cot in the |prices remain firm. A scarcity of SHOW FOR US! | Killing Babe lthe secretary of the Home Guards |hospica: has abandoned her calm at-|cucumbers and cranberries is now | of America, « benefit insurance or-titude and i hysterical today |felt- ine retail price of cranberries | | lis 15¢ a quart. A relief is in sight (By United Press Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 9.—Miss = Hildsh Johnson, a domestic, charg Pp anblh swesrenger if ed with the murder and incinera Sapa A 1ON Vue, nT tion of her 2 hours old babe was DO | aa — |with a promise that a supply will | W ] h L ft 0 ] SENATOR GORE larrive at the last of the week. Cu | a $ e n y |cumbers are selling as high, whole | HERE TOMORROW sale price, as 18, two for 25c. But! | 125 000 ter and eggs are firm, while Oregon | | ’ Senator Thomas P. Gore of nd Eastern butter have taken a} | ¢.—It Js reliably} Oklahoma, the blind orator, [few Upward jumps. | arrested today by the police. She CHICAGO, Nov was found at the home of her sis: | reported here that the estate of the will be in Seattle tomorrow HICKS BOUND OVER ter in South Portland, The woman | » John BR. WwW als is worth only He will speak at the Y. PORTLAND, Or., Noy. 9.—-Burt hysterically denied all allegations | $125,000" Before his banking and A, auditorium. Senator | ticks, shop owner who killed W, A. | against her and asserted she was railroad enterprises came to grief not a mother, despite direct asser tions of physicians that she was. The woman was removed to the police station where she became #0 hysterical that physicians were summoned , progressive demotrat ro : rikin, chinat; ‘i he wns"rated st $15,000,000, Most! whe has been In the forefront |vontr anes ty the sand fury ote of his wealth went to settle two) during recent years in the fight |terday charged with murder. A huge notes, one for $7,000,000 and) against privilege. He is still @ | union mass meeting held to protént another for $3,000,000. His will 18| young man, and his rise, |ut the kill ea yyped sv dated October 23 last, a few days| 4g, hie physical handicap, | favoring an unbi 4 trial for Hicks before his release from the federal) jg one of the most remarkable i ocrats and progressives of ali par tle and to this end will hold a | prison at Ieavenworth, | achievements in the country. | es - errr, | “ Reception for Progressives. e "1 Seton Aid, ga ‘“ ” r Prog MEN’S OVERCOATS | “Profit and Loss Senator Gore wants to meet ders Don’t Sit gs | GM. ¢ n of Rippe & Chap. man’s cate, charging up He was {n a rush to kitchen when he was Around | and Wait The race may not always be k lay | ception at the ttle hotel tomor to profit and los8./row afternoon between 4 and 6 back to the | o'clock, The reception will held tn that | the hotel pariors Pe ee * #* Our weather prophet pre: # dicts snow for the first time | $18 $20 bill. He later discovered that won by the swiftest, but ft can 4 en the numbers on cach side did not| (By United Press Leased Wire) be won by the man who }|* hte season. Snow or rain to q leoincide. Outside of that and sev-|, MEXICO CITY, Nov. 9.—-Reporta enters the lists | wenightand Friday is the official WE CANT MAKE YS THANIC | » today declare word. Temperature was cold i wh. and Gr 1 other reasons, the bill might You cannot expect to b A PROFIT. You you! from Juchitan by een all right . © hat 5,000 rebel troops I eging the rrison have been routed # est al noon, too, 36 di * being the record. \* RRR RRR ek xtures, as well as Plain {| Blacks proaperous and independe less you start to save, and then Invest your surplus We believe that the best fn vestment for a small amount of money is the land we are sell Ing for KNOW THAT 4 Juchitan ¢ If you are going to repent, PY, 250 fed / : The federal lose do it before you pull the trig- at 40 mon, including ¢ ger. ido, the chief of that z Bete ey Fede © ontimated neral Amer ne. Was your nose red this morning | Well, it was cold enough to m |red noses this morning. It was! Jcolder this morning than in 16 |, | years, for this time of year, ‘Thin |S lice froze in places, and some miles | hove Green lake {t snowed : Local weather bureau records the OVERCOATS SPECIAL “TEDDY GETTING REAL BLOODTHIRSTY W YORK, Nov. 9-—-Capture of the New York embly by the republicans has brought Col. Theo $400 PER ACRE Situate north of the University, with fine view of Lake Wash | | | | | | dore ysevelt again to the front in opposition to the We. 610 cash bat ae leadership of “Bill” Barnes of Albany, the new standpat |} por sma “Mm balance $7.60 boss of the state. In a statement credited to Roosevelt, Come in before ‘the choice }| How that this morning broke printed here today, the colonel intimates that he is going tracts are all taken. pryet> Nopona Ly pits toe rly art Piconande vad’ ‘eélect front to have a voice in the organization of the general assem Offise Hours, 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. {! thermometer went to #1 on Novem eee bly. He is also credited with the epigrammatic declara- ber 6 and 6. tion of war against Barnes, in the words: ins ata tsene hee. At 5 o'clock this morning it was |} Sfyoafer Bros “Barnes must be retired from power in the state. We Third Floor New York Block eae = gna te ge ypcrs y birch P e Now watch the coal trust put that Arcade and Arcade Annex will cut his bowels out, if we must, to do it.” talked of advance into effect! 4 PPAR AR AR ARAL AAA