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| CAREFUL, GENTLEMEN! THERE’S A DANGER SIGNAL AHEAD Men and women are being discharged from their jobs in Los Angeles because they favor Job Harri- man, socialist candidate for mayor. Their employers, Assuming that such employers sincerely believe club to influence votes, hadn't they better pause and | in many cases, make no bones of the matter. they are serving society by using the bread-and-butter ook a little deeper? IF A MAN HAS NO CAPITAL SAVE HIS ABILITY TO LABOR, DEPRIVING HIM OF HIS JOB IS PRECISELY LIKE HOLDING HIM UP ON THE H IGHWAY AND STEALING HIS PURSE. IT IS A } RESORT TO FORCE. IT MAY BE EQUIVALENT TO ASKING HIM TO CHOOSE BETWEEN VOTING FOR HIS CONVICTIONS AND RISKING STARVATION FOR HIMSELF, HIS WIFE AND HIS | CHILDREN. About two-thirds of all the voters in the United States work for wages. business men who employ them may reduce them to starvation wh If the comparatively few n they refuse to obey the bidding of the masters on election day, then “freedom of the ballot’ is an empty phrase and the republic is ruled absolutely by the few who control the jobs. Is it possible that the emplo: g class is so short ighted as to invite the appeal to force in settling the political, social and economic questions of the United States? We hope not; it suggests a terrible prospect. want a littie mild excitement, stick your head in the mouth of a hungry lion, but don’t tell American workers that you will starve them to death if they don’t vote your way. nom) The Seattle Sta 1 without having it cut out, 1 COMPLAINT UP TO GRAND JURY MEASURE. Fisher Co.'s Attempt to Enforce ixed Price” Contract Against Grocer Is Laid Before Grand Jury as an Alleged Violation of Law Prohibiting Restraint of Trade. The t and affidavits of the Fisher Flouring Mills , *. A, Swanson, the Westlake Market gro. mection to stop him from selling flour under the facturers, may be the instruments to bring nal ¢ of conspiracy in réstraint of trade against the officers of the flour company. Puts Complaint Before Prosecutor, | = This morning Swanson turned | ever copies of the complaint and af- fidavits to Prosecuting Attorney | Murphy and Foreman Corliss of the grand jury, and has offered to ap- fe before the probers and give further testimony showing that the Fisher company, along with sev- eral other wholesale firma, has been Violating the common taw and the state constitution provision in re lation to monopolies. “In addition to this proc we intend to bring the ma' the at ” lederal authe ‘ites deral grand jury anti-trust law Remaberg, os, is ter, seek r the prices fix anges ne. to senting Swar The ce the company e * court. es the that was a con t wit Swanson, hibiting him selling Fisher flour under fixed prices | Swanson certain but was! ot} ring, continued ‘o the abse one of "hae Swanson’s contract with the Fish. er company reacs: “The seller re serves the right to cancel the unde- livered portion of this contract if the buyer does not mainta:n the re fait prices as set by the Fisher Flouring Mill Co.” The risher company’s particalar| grieva t Swanson sold} pound sacks « flour for 91.30, when they fixed the price at »1.5 | AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 17—Mob-| Wization of American troops on the/ Mexican border, it is reported here today, will soon be ordered. | The report follows the publica tion of Gov der that the entire fc Texas rangers be distributed tomorrow in order to ald the U. S. government in en forcing neutrality. It is expected that the maneuvers will be similar fo those along the border during the height of the Mexican rebel-| Won last spring. The jatest startling reports in Tegatd to the development of the Reyesta revolutionary movement is the cause of the governor's order Hundreds of Americans are fleeing from tke @ zed country and the anti. sentiment is de clared to ong. APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT FOR SPOKANE}: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—It was ton, here to pros the announced at the department of|leged census padders, says little justice today that the government offenders will be asy, but will next week appeal to the U, 8. for real conspirators to defraud in supreme court from the decision of | the census the government will ask the commerce court in the Spo-|the court to let the punishment fit kane rate cases. An immediate crime. review of the decision will be a sked It’s sad to wake up some dreary day and find that you no longer Th lost| have an irrepressible desire to run ‘after a fire engin WHAT ABOUT IT? Whither are we drifting? If this so-called state utilities commission has the power to change franchises, regflate telephone companies, regulate cities, car eon then the people of Seattle and every other city in the state had better begin to get acquainted with this commission, a body which up to the present time ha or less of a strang It S wants cheaper phone cheaper st fra ete., Seattle can't get them, it seems, without the commission's consent, This commission Is appointed by the governor. It is a long way removed from the people’s control. It is not directly responsible to the peogre, REALLY REGULATING THE CITY é The supreme court is to decide whether or not this commission hae power to regulate The case comes up today. It’s the telephone proposition, in which the commission overrides the franchise in which the compan ed to maintain certain rates, The commission, while pretending to regulate the phone company, in fact is regulating Seattl the strap-banging bill, passed by the council afte of fighting. Judge Dykeman enjoins the enforcement of inance, pending the decision of the supreme court, which is to determine whether or not a city has anything to say about the conduct of the various corporation beasts in the municipal jungles. Under the etroum the court appears right. Cc. A. SWANSON Big Schooner in Danger nited Press Leased Wire) HFIELD, Or. Nov, 17.— The schooner Advance, which is engaged in the lumber trade tween the Coquille river and San Francisco, is in a dangerous place off the coast near the bar of the Coquille river, and fear is felt for her safety. dhe is a small schoon er. The boat is anchored about two miles north of Bandon and near to the breakers. Only a wind from shoreward will permit her to get out to and she is in danger of being driven ashore. It is im- possible for a tug to get out of the Coquille river today, so the little [schooner is entirely at the mercy lof the changes of the winds. TACOMA, No 17 $. Atorney G c Asnistant A. New 40 al street been mor months The validity of the strap-hanging bill is nothing in importance when | compared with the great big issue as to whether or not the people of a city really have any control over their public service concern: If it Is finally decided that this stranger to the people—the utilities commission—really haw this great power, the people, of course, will set about first to get acquainted with that body and then to get control of that body The people certainly havt is no dispute on that question through a utilities commission, through the present system Or mayhap the people wili decide that they don't want this utiliti thing at all, They may create something of their own. the right to govern themselves, There If they have to govern themselves that may be just as satisfactory as i] VOL. 13, NO, 224 be-| many | ONLY SEATTLE, WASH., GAR TICKET FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Came x. C¢. the past 14 years, when h dreds of shows like it d of the 17-yearold messenger moving picture show. Put | | was slugged in Now York in | | On the ground that the 8, B. Co. will gain rather than lose by the sale of street car tiekets on cars, Judge Hanford yesterday denied the application of (ne company for an Injunction against the city's en: forcing the car ticket ordinance. what he thoug steseeeeeee BY 8. C, ROGERS The most wonderful thing In my life was the trip to the ploture show yesterday, In company with @ ae ordinance according to| Star reporter, Here was a tittle Judge . autort, will atimulate the | theatre—the littlest theatre | ever |Sale of tickete—peoplo will ride| wae in, Some guy was playing on more freely. Besides, adds Judge | the piano, and | walted for the © Hantord, people will jose many | tain to go up, Bang! She start tlekets, and company will con-| No curtain went up, but | saw an sequently be clear gainers, So| empty stage and a white curtain that, all in all, since the ordinance | behind. : Will not tend to injure the 1 saw thr le come on the pany’s pockets, their complaint | *taxe, an old man, a young chap about impairing the obligation of AD @ pretty girl. That waa the contract cannot be sustained, saya | first time I ever saw people adting Judge Hanford. behind the ‘curtain. There they And Judge Hanford therefore | Y®Te. moving about. 1 could see rules with the city. for the company |them through the thin White bur will not suffer any financial on a> st Pia ao ny an | could see them bow and em- brace and then laugh, and thelr tips moved, but the funny part of It wab that they didn't speak. Then, after awhile, by watching them, 1) Im agined | heard what they wer say- ling. It wae the firat time | ever {saw actors moving their lips with: : jout uttering a sound. | ‘Then they came to New: York. | There was the Hattery, just lWkp lit was when I was & messenger | boy The girlie Gress differentiy jnow, that 1 all, That wax swell jwoenery, I thought : | Suddenly another act read, “Out- t skirts Paris.” Therd was & SAL Rati Tent Reet 8) | bequtiful river, trees swaying te dent Samuel Gompers of the Amer. |th@ Wind, boats moving about and lean Federation of Labor was water ripping before my eyes. target for an attack by the W That was too much. “How dy ern Federation of Miners, whi pa act that back of the staget asked The Star reporter. was made today at the conventi = Of the labor federation here, when |. THEO hetold me. It was the frat ainers introduced # resolution | ime I realized thrt tlobody was sete demanding that all members of the |'8# back of the stage, but it was | American F ion of Labor ait coming out of a machine near latsn from onal civic feder the ‘root of the theatre ation. | But it was real. ‘They looked Gompers in a prominent member | ke living belngs. The river, and lof the civic federation, and has re if tt rage Ph 0 is real a | peatedly stated that he considered “ gre Pre my eyes 1 will never forget that show, {his membership in that organtza-| : < lon of vale ‘4 would not |APd it's me for the moving picturd p him, a ‘ yd shows every afternoon when I get The his oof etlon. with i load of the hospital for good. the committee on lutions, KIDNAPING Te AL r which discussed the matter heated. ly. The Committee refused to state (By United Brees Leased Wire. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov, 17.—Coum what decision they reach ty Prosecutor Baker declared today | No Attempt to j2.crwienmatets, | Oust Bradford the temporary tngunction by Hanford the suit njunction against Ucket ordinance is stilt ed for a permanent thi pending na’ resolution was referred to | Los Angeles for trial there, on the} charge of dynamiting the Times, wiil be tried here on a charge of |kidnaping next. spring. | ey's office| Baker said he bad decided to walt dings tO/ until the Los Angeles trial is comé) from the | pleted, and then take Byrns into} |gffice of corporation counsel. This| custody. Officer Fred Hosick of] was decided by Deputy Prosecutor | the Low Angeles detective force will | }Evans. The prosecuting attorney |aiso be arrested and tried on the! is the only person in all of King| same charge. me a ‘\Seattle at the The prosecuting a will not institute proc oust James Bradford who would-have the right to bring the action. Ole Hanson intended to bring the suit himself at first Hanson's objection to Bradford's taking office is based pon a city charter provision which was in paid a } tended to cut out rotation In of-] (By United Press Leased Wire) fice by prohibiting both elective SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17— | and certain appotntive city offi-| President C. C. Moore and the | cials from taking any other city| directors of the Panama Expo- vffice during tho term of their| sition are in conference here office. today with former Senator In the corporation counsel's of-| John L. Wileon, proprietor of tice, rotation of office has been the| the Seattle Post-intelligencer, |rule now for about 20 years. Congressman We. &. Dempin “ rey of Washington, and J. D “SMOKING WOMEN Lowman and C. B. Yandell, president and secretary re spectively of the Seattle Cham- (By United Press Leased Wire) PHILADELPHIA, The ber of Commerce, in regard to Seattle's participation in the | world’s fair in 1915. Seattle is planning to have one of the increasing number of women in this} most extensive exhibits from ntry who are both drinking and smoking in private and public, ac cording to John Wanamaker, mer. chant prince, are a menace to the the coast | |nation. Wanamaker also declares | | that. any political party that ignores | the necessity of the suppre: n of the Hquor traffie Is doomed. These assertions were made by Wana |maker in an appeal for wniversal |prohibition at. the Jobn Chambers Memorial Presbyterian church. ee |* * * WEATHER FORECAST * * For tonight and Saturday, ® * * * Nov. 17. Vassar college claime fame be cause none of its graduates has ever figured in a divorce. Enter the Rent Man will year try to home 1912 will soon be here, you continue paying rent after year, will prepare for & future owned by yourself? or you we high southwesterly winds. lw Temperature at noon, 50. kkk hhh kh th ht IDo Your Cueistmar You can now secure a beauth ful home site, a whole acre, with fine view of Lake Wash-'{| ington, for $400. $10 Balance $7.50 Month, Cash, Per Within two years we expect a car line to be built, which would enable you to live In the }| country, with all the advantages $| of the elty | Land \ies north versity, north and Country club, of the uni! | east oft | | | | OLE HANS6ON & CO. Third Floor New York Block Rogers, Seattle's miraculou was known as George Kelly at the Lyceum motion pleture theatre, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 17, 1911 dual pe the firs ing hin existence as € hoy who awok: yourself in Rogers’ pe 1897 perfect in all its details, as produced today, if you bad ni of it for Star readers today ee ed If you we 8. C. Roge as fi E. C. ROGERS, MAN OF LOST MEMORY MARVELS AT MOVING PICTURE SHOW raonality was t he ever saw wKe Kelly ition. he, what who remembers nothing of his yesterday While he ha his sensations yest m a long sleep Picture shows were would you © heard of one before IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. RARER EERE EERE EERE RRA RRR ite the Kue 1 probably seen bun day we thowe walked into his first not known when he of a pleture show Rog and think See ee EEE EES who was for fourteen years George Kelly. Two snapshot pictures taken on Second avenue yesterday, after Rogers had seen his first moving picture show. Star Reporter With Rogers Tells How He Marveled at ‘“‘Mystery”’ BY THE STAR REPORTER “Holy amok And 8. CR shoulder and t Ev tion that had ta idence hospital mine laid by # | went up 100 fee nas Rip Van after a 20 years’ slumber and gazed In 1 en place in his native village, so 8, ( gazed with even more astonishment World’s Faire sore m0 ve « e! Did you see that?” jumped a foot out of his seat, grabbed me by n slowly Winkle a His eyes glued to the stage, on the tier of That seats In front # wonderful!” an fell buck came down out of the aculated as rs and were blown into the Roxe and chats tekill mounta at the transforma. Rogers Pr at his first picture into his theatre tonishment of Indians ran onto a That one redskin an army air, ® leaned forward with elbows drank in the exhibition smoke!” were repeated time eagerly Holy ne as the progress of the play continued this man of lost jallowed to watch the first was being acte |from a machine, Rogers ben’ anate from the I sure wor tures. Then w “bow it ts ¢ tinct pictures p ne of film and was given a yard of it, in which he He put it in his pocket tion Never tn hi hour as dawn the mirac to fection. mem pletu: din the rea’ operator's box 11d like to s He explain ass the slide story, perhaps, ned on § him Told his neck to wateh e that do he he would be taken up and shown. He kept up a running comment on them. went up to Operator 4 the C, Rogers yesterday of a moving picture show He wa thought it hrown light em was done He learned how it without explanation. that the pictures the rays of sald ed ple He was pron T ne turned again to the H: Bennett, who showed Rogers nachine and told him how 940 dis minut Rogers asked for tried to find th has a human mind grasped gs much in afternoon, when he viewed in all its modern No Work and His Pride Killed William Angel Somewhere jn this city a job was waiting for William R. Angel, 40, and if that job was not found, friends stood ready to help him. But Angel had never been a dependent, had always been able to take re of himself. So, when he had tramped all over the city, looking for work, day after day, and finding none, and when money failed and hope departed, | his native pride was all that he had left. Too proud to beg, William Angel died fast night | death was by putting a little carbolic acid in a wine glags and drinking it. His manner of His landlady, Mrs. J. Walton, forced his door and foyind him dead. He had told her that unless he was able to pay his rent soon, he would | have to die. Which of us, knowing of William Angel's desperate straits and des- perate resolve, would have refused the helping hand that would have saved one life? DOUBLE United Press Leased Wire) DENVER, Colo., Nov. 17.— Two white girls and two Japa- nese are two result of a which ocourre Methodist m Henry Shirat here today as a double wedding, d at the Japanese ion when Rev, pastor of the mission, performed the nup- tials for Miss Metty Arntz and Frank Katsuba, and Mrs, Lulu Fisher and Frank Sawamura, The Japs are. employed in a grading camp near here. They se cured the weddihg licenses yester day, while the brides, fearing op: position, did not accompany them, |but waited several blocks away ON THAINS NEWS ‘BRIDE SEES HER - HUSBAND SHOT | | xe teeeeee Take our advice, gentlemen, and don’t do it. If you That's dangerous! 2 eS Ses EDITION lerstood wife. Np A De be Young Spokane Man Accidentally Killed in Presence of Hig Young Wife in Los Angeles—Bride Tells Story. (By United Prone Leased Wire) ing & LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17—Unable | gow: to give a connected account of the to tragedy because of emotion, Mrs, Jessie Saraceno, a bride of but | and 11 days, is held by the police here, | ar pending a full investigation into the | the death of her husband, Nicholas Saraceno, a former grocer of Spo kane, who was shot and killed in t tage their home at 10:45 o'clock this Sara b morning. ‘ cod Were Just Married trunk with him that he from 8p hot gun and tossed unk, | picked it up was | ed, and he My rs touched discharged, My husband and died without a word! of her recital Mra. hysterical and 1 charge of (he matron, Charge Enters Brain. ge, which fired at ered Saraceno’s siting instantly, tracted to the ceno's screams, ling across hig and hands k to her, bors she scious when her t be merly wa Oregon ¢ th ‘re i wa ived. no uncor The Bride's Story. told peautifal n, appare bout 19 Her hu was 27, the were ex nd that they were w seconds before ‘ K ato Nick we child, KAISER PUNISHES CROWN PRINCE BERLIN 17 a liam t e Crown 1 ay days ordered deten- ent for during ricuous of the ade upon him, PROSECUTION CREATES SENSATION AT TRIAL a RRA RN ee he & & & lrendy in the box, brought the total to The two new jurors intel hard-headed Amert cans of type. They are J owner of a big orange grove hambra, who has also a real office in Los Angeles, © came here from Nebraska and was school teae There ig yet have to be brother court reporter of Depart. of the superior court of jthis city, fs at the point of death his home here. As a result of the exercising of exercising of chal.) Peremptories, the state now has McNamara murder |Mly five left and the defense 11, rose-|@ decided advantage for the laters After 40 Veniremen five permanent sworn ju the who ha survived challenges on both 4 ror ac by both defense cution, the McNamara r case came to a sudden halt noon, while the sheriff and his scoured t city and That Diary Did It toss ss ae Giehti pene as | case PERMANENT JURORS Robert F. Bain nter * Los Angeles F. D. G mor Byron Lisk, president mi " Pasadena J. B. Bextor Alhambra Wn Angeles best Po. a real est forme range grower Andre, carpenter, Lo: half former ment 1, eee E EE HEED sod Wire) ; LOS AN-|" With one of the rors in Dox. expected by the whom ced | the pere ry men experie hower of peremptories two men survived to the three al-|at deputies only added (By United Press Learee Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov ~An innocent little be neath the ot written tions night picked hat “uss. ve Women Cooks Now | ed a di-} George, in J | stole voree fc from her bu Graham's And I ne ooked beca ted her sacred, per sion,” said George, after locutory had down, at the pages | the dia as| the Inter. been handed ! own decree MEN’S SUITS SPECIAL hai gan, in the Seamen's just host A new shipment receiv ed, embracing a of the popular brown and gray mix tures. § the water This must be John Pierp Vander Astor's yacht,” he mused, as he gaz- ed towards the “chuck” factory. He looked fore and aft Davy Jones is after right.” He rubbed his eyes. Yep, t Was the same old tub, all right, i been sailing these many But there was a woman cooit ding over the ary dep. She was togged in sa emed to ocupy her por » clambered up the a week's vacation Board of Trade on Men’s Overcoats Special $18.00 | me, all A mighty smal! price to for a coat of this character. Well-ma terials, including plain black pay | ment fashion and s sition with the appearance of per manency, | ‘rhe innovation was adopted by Capt. H. W, Crosby, manager of the | Washington Tug and Barge Co, who says women make better sea cooks, anyhow, aid especially because they don’t go off on sprees when they get je she . of good heavy mixtures ma and Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex ‘i