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Bret a comminsion to outl financial affairs, w ‘of a commission will ine a system whereby the city can ithout the control of the big banks?) the mayor appoint? that resolution of Councilman Erickson, for the ap-;until a workable plan is devised Then the council! must pase thi How will Max Wardall vote Blaine? And Councilman Petree is plan, or another more suitable. on this program? How will BL! might enlighten us—we bankers, or progressives, or a hodge-podge of not much| well acquainted with Peirce as yet, And then: there fs Bre'r Hi + ‘this commission hie, but must ou wanted | Beattle quite right chy is the first step. tine a practical plan, A fair, able; if such a one is not appointed, the campaign for | issue, This plan of Erickson merely contemplates the giving to the people control of their public money, and the using of this money to promote ere, and the mayor alone will be re- ‘commission is appointed, It must get busy, and keep buny | York cold storage houses have eggs that'll be s ‘as the hens continue to moult. ff trictly fresh i} VOL. 13 NO. _ 268 people? elvic progress and prosperity, instead of giving some big banks from | Wonder if anybody knows how Haas will vote on a plan thdt contem The report must/ plates the lifting of the Stone & Webster yoke from the necks of t ‘The other councilmen, The Star believes, will be right on this are not very to six millions of cash to figh' boas The Erickson plan has for ite t public progress. controlling motive the greatest good of the majority, and if put to a vote of the people would pass o whelmingly, tot it drag? What excuse wil) any councilman hi ve to oppose it, or Any excuses they may have will be demanded, for the public ts going to have a lot of interest in this Erickson plan, that means the epeedy coming of the municipal car line and the emancipation of the town from the special interests. wtead of the interests that rob the Here te a chance for some of those $3,000-a-year cor show that they are working for the people who pay their salaries, in- iimen to people, Seattle ts big enough, rich enough, has sense enough, to run ite own business and use its own money for ite own affaire—nobody doubts that but Jakey Furth and a few bankers. Well, then, the sooner some sch plan as the Erickson one is put into effect, the sooner will the town do things for itself, and do them right. Bo again, Mr. Mayor and councilmen, what are you going to do abot this big reform? Are you going to help, hinder, boot, knock or just #it on the fence and swap yarns? Some of these questions will be propounded to the four gentlemen who may desire to fill the oe8 of the counciimen who retire next March. ‘he seattle St ORE DEAD IN NO $10,000 JOBS LYING Jan. %-—The} me court today ‘Sonstitutionality of | ing inter: ing cases | Northern, North- Pacific ratl-| U M4 the order reduc Mm Yumver from the 9.—While at wi or here today of Miss Detla “44, 1908, the rope fell flat on the floor Was bung over the are Drape and ned suspended unt!) pro- Ged Examination tater to physicians, | Sethe tan been broken ne Tax ~ Law Valid : Winans Jan, _ rele court iter handed | sustaining the con mality of the income tax jaw to the income tax Se et? 884 recommended | c Taxation Reform & test case) y after the| into effect, mine the sxprem law went 10 dete tad Jitledahe ee mt Tate ur the re. and i''o othe, Pag Would also * beg the T. R. ached. © City Star. * HARK KE MTECTETERT TELE TCTT ETT TTT \* Candidates for Corporation Counsel of S eattlh—Caldwell MUGH M. CALDWELL (This is The Star’s first article on “Who's Who” in the race for corporation counsel of Seattie. Speaking pugilistically, Hugh M. | Caldwell has the advantage of reach jin the contest for the corporation counsel's job. He stands a head [higher than hie nearest opponent. And there are five candidates in th face at present. Caldwell, too, wa the firet to part with $48 for the privilege of ranning--he sprinted to the comptrotier’s office several days ahead of the other asplrants. At present Caldwell is the chief deputy prosecuting attorney of King county, He's taken @ greater fan- ey, however, to giving legal advice to the city hall than to prosecuting icone on dab cid hih. The second will appear tomorrow.) Caldwell was born in Knoxville, Tenn., got his law degree in 1904 at Washington, D. C., and came to Se attie the following year, so that he could soon after qualify as the first presidery of t «6 {s.married and has thre dren, all born tn Seattie. He lives at 2717 Tenth av. N., where he has) a collection of biographies of great men. He Ikea to read about the big ginks in history whenever he gets the spare time away from the law books. In national politics, Caldwell is a republican. He nev. er held public office until he ac cepted the position of deputy prose- eutor, in the ) fall of aie HERE IS WHAT EMPEROR HAS TO SWALLOW SHANGHAI, Jan, 9.—The terms offered by the republicans to the Manchus as agreed upon by Wu Ting Fang and Ting Shao Yi at the last meeting of the peace confer- ence, prior to Ting’s resignation, which were telegraphed to Yu Shi Kal yesterday stipulated: First, the emperor will be’ treat- ed with all the dignity of a foreign } sovereign on Chinese soil “Second, the emperor shall have a residence at Jehol or at the sum- mer palace. “The emperor shall have a liberal allowance settled on him by the ‘national assembly. “Fourth, all ancestral tombs and }temples will be secured Intact to the Manchus.” TOLEDO, O., Jan. 9.—Another victory for the people and * against corporate greed has just lower street ear fares, For some time Mayor Brand officials have been trying to get * * \* in Ne last week Monday the city council ordinance for all the car lines in the city, and put it up to the people to enforce it by refusing to pay more than 3 cents, The people were eager to enforce it, is \* * company officials came to the ad merey, i* i xs + le le * date. tory for the people, ‘The street car company refused to grant the lower fares, The s-Hee, a Scripps paper, and the ONLY pi fight being made by the administration, aroused the They were willing to do almost anything if the 3-cent fare ordinance would be held up, at Jeast for the present Finally an agreement was made, pending final franchise ne- gotiations, to grant, beginning Monday (yesterday), 3-cent fares on all lines for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, and six tickets for # quarter the rest of the day. The company also agreed to pay the city §70 a day rental for the lines on which the franchises expired on Nov. 10 last, to The city, aided by the News Bee, has won a tremendous vic- been won here, the result being Whitlock and the other city a Scent fare for the people er to back up the people, and summarily passed a 3-cent fare and on Thursday the ministration and begged for SESHESESRESS ESSE ESSE SESE S * * | ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IND SEATTLE ¢G HOME EDITION ia sii ‘Ach! What do ‘they oliee want Senator i Burton managing Taft’s campaign ini Ohio for? Isn't Bob La Follette man-|j} aging it? EW YORK FIRE AROUND, SAYS FURTH IN REPLY TO WIZARD “There are no men as scarce today as thee salaried positions. “1 have from 20 to 30 Pay from $10,000 to $25,000 per ye tens wre can fill the high- open right now that | would gladly ir for. “The one requisite to get a high-ealaried pasition is to do his lower Job better than any —Theodore N. Vail, graph Co. There are nt of plenty of high the Ameri¢an Telephone and Tele- “There are no $10,000 and $25,000 jobs lying loose in the country. | “Men create the high-ealaried jobs and fill them. The jobs don't go looking for men."—Jacob Furth, Seattle, Theodore N. Vail, the wire whe ard, who was recently in Seattle, on returning to New York, made} the startling statement that there | are plenty of high-priced Joba walt- ing for the right men to come i. —there are vacant $10,000 and $26, 000 jobs galore, he sayn. Jacob N. Furth of Seattle, pres ished when they have done the) ident of the 8. B. Co, the Puget) Seand Electric Co, chairman of the board of directors of the Seat- tle National bank, and head of sev. eral other big compantes, does not agree with him. Can't Pick Off $10,000 Jobs. “The positions carrying $10,000 salaries are not so plenty that they | can be picked off trees,” says Furth, “Usually the men who fill those positions croate them them- selves, This ts the age of spectal ining. The man who does bis work, whatever it may be, better than any one else, is the in who rises. He measures up to the full capacity of the lower job, and he fs} bound to expand. He does not necessarily have to grow bigger in| the same business or profession that he begins In. He may branch | pa into another Sele. But ue can only i) the bigger place ean fi the smaller place. Some Work by the Clock. “There are those who work by the clo¢k, * They don't —— up to the high-salaried jobs, for their day's work in done with the tick of thé clock. It's the other kind, the men Who call thetr day's work fin- work that was needed that day. They're the men who seek to im- prove om the way of doing that | work. ‘Those men get big positions, |with big salaries, because they | practically create the value of those positions themaciven. It's not the position that's highwalaried, It's | the man who occupies It. The man who creates big situations in bust- ness dows not need to ask, ‘Where (do beomedn? He lands with both feet. The low-salaried man re mains eo, in Svet majority of cases, because be does not specialize to }do bis work better than others— who: ts satisfied to let well enough alone, “The bigh-salaried men are those | whohaveanderstood the work they had to do~and did tt without being Lapse basal the clock.” State Decision on Hours for Men Knocked Out (By United Press Leased = WASHINGTON, Jan. —The United States supreme court today declared unconstitutional the Wash. ington state law prohibiting the em | ployment of railroad men for more than 16 conseeutive hours, This reverses the decision of the state| ‘That A. B. Clarke, who shot and killed the president of the Mer- chants’ and Farmers’ bank, halls, may have been Tesponsible, for the finding of Miss Wilma Me Knight, the Seattle girl, in an un- conscious condition in Portland re- cently, is the belief of Sheriff Urquhart of Lewis county, Among the effects found on Clarke at the time of his arrest was a slip of pa per containing the name of the girl Bianchi o on Trial Today City Detective Joseph Bianchi was put on trial thie morning In Judge Ronald's court on the charge of manslaughter for the death of Frank is, whom he shot fast fall while the latter was attempting to escape arrest on a petty larceny charge. The morning was consumed in| the selection of a jury. One wom- an, M Doddridge, is on the jury. Attorney John F. Miller ojected to her being separated from the men jurors at the moon recess and jaced in charge of the woman ailiff. Judge Ronald, however, overruled his objection. “I refuse to subseribe to 18th century regulations for 20th century conditions,” the judge said, “IT am satisfied the requirements of the law are satisfied if she is kept in charge of a sworn bailiff, although her quarters may. be separated from that of the other members of the jury by a screen or light par- tition.” LO .—Dispatches from Pekin’ to the Excha graph today declare that the armis- tice in China has been extended to|*® January 15, Public opinion, it is stated, favors a division of China, the rebels taki the South as a republic, and the Manchus remain- ing in power as an empire of the|* North, mn ‘Did Banker’s Slayer Know ~ Wilma McKnight, Seattle Girl of Che-| | courts, The United States supreme court held that the law conflicts with a similar federal statute, which was the defense of the Northern Pacific rallway in @ teat case brought by| | the attorney general of Washington | The supreme tribunal sustained the | y of the cane. a] | railroad company's vie jand the boarding house where she |was stopping, while attending jachool, and he has asked the local police to investigate. Mise McKnight ts the daughter of Mrs. Emma McKnight, who lives at the Carroll apartments, Bellevue and Thoma: mt the family has jdeen visiting in Montana for several months. Friends of the family state |that a young man named Clarke visited at the McKnight home fre- quently. KRHA ARS * ® TWO FLED FROM ° A TIMID JAILER LE, Kas, Jan. 9, —John Williams, a negro pa roled convict, in jail for theft, and L. D. Bell, a white boy, fled the bars of their cell last night and escaped. A city em ploye working in the building heard the noise and notified the Jailer. The jailer decided to walt until one of the night patrolmen dropped in before inyestigating. Several hours elapsed before the patrolman ved, and the prisoners were gone, i POSSESSES EEE EE ESS Pa HHSKEEEESEE SES EE EEE EE OER ENARERERN YY NOT IN RACE, SAYS BRYAN (By United Press Leased, Wire) WASHINGTON, 9.—Final deciaration that he is not a candi- dan. date for the presidency was made by William Jennings Bryan in a statement=here this morning. rrr arrears * WEATHER FORECAST % Raintonight and Wednes- *® day; high south winds. Tem- k Deratire at noon, 43. Kea ARK RA KEK * * * * * * * * if he} He Called Her His Princess; But Now She’s Gone Is Hard Up and } | | | MRS. EDNA GA NEW YORK, Jan. 9—Do you re member Henry Hutt, creator of the “Hutt Girls,” who was kept busy | not many months ago making ple- feat for the magazines? And do you remember his wife, Edna Gar- | field Belle Torre Hutt, she whom he called his princess, and used as a model, and described as “more beau }tiful than Venus?” Well, he is down and ont now, j}and is suing to have his alimony re duced. He has brought to court pa pers to show that he has only $3.80 in tash, owes $6,000; that he is sick abed, and his sister is paying the wages of his nurse. Editors no longer fight pietures, he says, In fact, he can't get rid of them. He has shown t court a sheaf of rejection letters the heartbreaking kind, more often received by creators who have not yet “arrived” than by artists who have casi been national fads. (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The next national convention of the democratic party will be held on dune 25. itimore, Maryland's big the convention, two things were decided on at today's session of the democr ic national committee, held hi The committee allowed represent tives from the competing cities ‘to Present 30-minute arguments. Bal 30-minute arguments. Bal- Men’s Underwear SPECIALLY PRICED Winsted Mills’ Wool Un- derwear reduced to $1.35 a pms: Globe All Wool Under- wear reduced to $1.80 a gar- ment, Stuttgarter Imported All Wool Underwear reduced to $1.60 a garment. Better quality at $2.25. Cooper’s Underwear, $1.35 a garment All Union Suits propor- tionately reduced. Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex lon | for his| BALTIMORE GETS CONVENTION | & roads last week contracted for | & 75,000 kegs of spikes. Got to sod Henry Hut (LUO WILL No Longer a Fad AUN NTO MILLIONS EQUITABLE LIFE BUILD- ING AND OTHER SKY- SCRAPERS DESTROYED IN GOTHAM’S MOST DISASTROUS FIRE. (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Jan. 9—In a fire which completely destroy- ed the 14-story Equitable Life Assurance company building and other structures this morn- ing, at least 20 persons perish- ed and the property loss is es- timated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, depending upon the amount of the securities in the vaults. ; During the fiercest part of the fire President William Gib- lin of the Mercantile Safe De- posit company, with two com- panions, entered the burning building to rescue valuable se- curities. Thev were hemmed in by the flames in an empty | vault and were held prisoners for two hours. The firemen finally reached them and drag- ged Giblin to the streetein’a dying condition. His” two companions, however, — per= ished. ‘ Among the dead is Division wire Chief Walsh. -He was last seen on the third floor, which crashed shortly after the fire was discovered, and Walsh is supposed to have been jcaught in the debris. Acting on reports of persons whe reached the building shortly after the first started, Fire Chief Kenion eee keakaeheeae RFIELO HUTT The Hutts were married in 1903. They separated in 1907. Mrs, Hutt | aceused her husband of indulging too much In intoxicants, and named B. Cory Kilvert, Harrison Fisher, Penrhyn Staniaws and other artists as friends who had bad influence | over her husband. She was given | alimony of $125 a month, which |) Hutt wishes reduced to $100. In 1910 Mrs. Hutt, who called her hus-) band “Daddy,” wrote him a pathetic letter in which she said: “Let's work together as we did in the old days, won't you? See if| there's not a spark of love left for me. | do love you and can't live| | without you.” She signed the letter “Your Prin- The pian failed. And now Hutt’s sick at his stadio and can’t sell any of his many pic tures because the Hutt fad has} passed on and he no longer has a | model “more beautiful than Venus” to ssid him. * Financiers estimate that *& more than $350,000,000 in & ie cash and securities are in the % * vaults of the Equitable Life ® * building, and untold millions ® * more are contained in the & \* vaults of the Mercantile and ® Equitable Trust companies and ¥ other banks and brokerage * offices in the burned building. & All vaults are reported intact, & but as they cannot be reached, & it is unknown whether the con: & tents have really escaped the & ravages of the fire, * | cet * RREKRERRKERKERNRH this afternoon ordered rescuers in- to the still burning structure ta seek for bodies, The chief was in- formed that 18 firemen and em- ployes of the building are missing, |and he fears that all are dead. Ken- lon said unconfirmed reports indi- cated that the death list might reach 25. Men this afternoon are probing all portions of the ruins. All buildings bounded by Cedar, Broadway, Nassau and Pine sts. were either destroyed or damaged by the fire, which was swept by a strong wind. Three thousand firemen battled with the flames for hours, and a crowd of people estimated at a mil- lion watched the spectacular sight, At the height of the fire, bodies of men were seen falling from the fifth floor of the building and strik- ing the street were covered with piles of debris before the firemen could rush to the rescue, Number of Dead Unknown. Just how many perished probably. will not be known for many hours. The property loss will not be known until the ruins have sufficiently cooled to permit ef examination of the vaults of the Equitable Life, the | Mercantile Safe Deposit company and the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, all of whose of- fices were in the burned area, Most Disastrous Fire. At noon, with the fire under con- trol, only the bare walis of the block will stand, and they are crack- ing and falling in many places as the bitter cold of the streets con- tracts them after the heat of the fire dies down, Most of the Broad- way front of the Equitable bulld- ing fell into the street early in the day, Never in New York has a moré severe fire occurred, so far as ite fire fighters are concerned. Heated like a furnace, the narrow streets about the destroyed block were ter rific to work in, timore’s strong argument was an) offer of $100,000, and this proved) amply sufficient, St. Louis put up a hard right, and Denver and Chi- cage “aleo ri Ce ee * Iron Age reports that three * nail things down with all these ® politicians about.—Wall Street ® Journal. KR RK BENDING TO IT +eeeeeeet — “ “We bend the knee and not the elbow,” shouted an orator at a tem- perance meeting. “That's so,” said an unreclaimed sinner at the back of the hall; “it’s the only way you can get your mouth to the bung hole,”