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receive fatlowing lel'e peoouse it dips tuto the reworking for not mv married igr—Dear Si a young fellow Ke Tpoks to me as though auoat of the fe ey all aay, “What's t T lene taking & cir fo keep ows Its No Cinc to Be Secretary to Mayor 1" i ILLMAN MECOURT foeo 10 ~ABIEW “B Hillman, the millionaire | ial eotate man, must serve hi two years and six months gland, The supreme the United States today appeal for review. E convicted of frand ‘of the mails. It was Bis trial by dozens of wit condueted a gigantic defrand smal! investors savings, He promised to tive buyers permanent fintectorics and mills which bh sie belid on part of the land he % Re promised railroads terminals on certain Tn many instances that he exhivited to sre one tract of land, but | description of another ing out the dedd ued The Seattle Star cf a million dollars paper published a series concerning the Hitiman | Wis cases were thrown he convicted one year Monworth’s court, but om appeal through courts. Declaration spendence aot ls Burned . CITY, Apri 1.—The | deciaration of was burned he afire which destro; at Iguala, in the | Guerrero. it is be fubel troops set fire to | rebels yester- | . @ passenger train Mg sixty federal soldiers | 38 miles south of | dn the clash, which | 0 federais and sev- were killed. “ADVANCE Tex. April 1—Rebel. fvancing on Torseon to- to advices received 4 Monterey, Mex. Gen. othe rebel commander-in ts to ha an Aen of fail bis forces are concen leva federal oF | EN. GRANT ILL YORK, April 1—Major Frederic at, U. § @ Former President U. § Ee eranted four months the army here to. It that General G Being with « throat affliction 16 the disease which killed t 80,000 Judgment p i $30,000 » railway mao Wayland and Lewis red in a collision of btains at (4 Wash by the United § Bb court of appeals t Were injured while lestock and hi oe the fami! mor Everett, Wa 0 Mor Wayland was given $14,000 . $16,000, Submerged MOND, Ind. Apri 1 are submerged and ated. with a tot beta 109. a8 a res the gorges of the Ca The submerges b Water Valiey and me in en ate today nd Three 000 dam of few) imet Scheni | a JUST LIKE 30 CENTS ND, Cal. April 1 IY fellows iook like shall rn 20 to two earch | pock- | up thelr HR, Cal, 4 1 i pril 1 teamed that hia hous 884 his neighbor Jone him. He escaped fro led room by 0-foot leap nd, to find Jones rushing = Hs blazing hore | —— ND, Cal, April i at Mrs, R. dy who, beaming i, anded her a purse © the street peeved that ihe WM atetractes $50 was | was ‘Oh, | Young with she Too late honest inge ing married nowadays are y See Page 4 by The Star, should be worth heart of the young unmarried fel veh money and feel nervous avout As nearly as 1 can figure it out, ry much ) warriage is going to get less and ive you the laugh if you talk about be use? It costs too no h to live >” Tam pretty safe in writing thin h VOL. 14. NO. letter, because T don't think many on me. dally labor in a haberdashery keep a wife. operas and that sort of busin for not hooking up and wetting married on the girls once in a while for spending so much coin that the shy off on the single aide of the road, ‘ wt Weel wetting married « bit if | found }make a go of It on $18 per, provided we could | know more th would be, girla will be dotng the leap year stunt For, be it known that I reveeive 18 large dollars a week for my The boys because all the girls are at 1 y that it takes a fortune to K for glad rage, theatres, ts of times | hear young men roasted Wonder why they don't land fellows Honestly, now, 1 wouldn't mind the right girl and she dope out bow to do it, t ain one fellow who would be tickled (o death, or thinks he are more or less ex ; : » he perts on all the de to ait under the home lamp with wifle mending his socks.| noble art of standing on our feet and The Se was willing to! attle Sta Aut this dress talk about the girls is searing « lot of them out encouraged to write this spasm when I read that som were going to pay not more than $10 for their gradua dresses, That Made some bit with me, I'm one of the bunch that sells abirts and Collars all day; just an everyday yap that inn't setting the world afire but Who takes @ lot of Interest in everything that Koos on. I'm no men |14) prodixy or given to deep griefs, silent sorrows or great asplrationr | 1 like the vaudeville shows, read the aport dope, grab the Cynthia Grey column, like to hear the heavy boys, like Bryan and Roosevelt, rattie it Off, and join with the rest of the mob in calling them great, Us fellows f the day, in addition to the ing your shirt with your tle. high sehoo! girls ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER "INi SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 1 1912. MUST HOME AINS AND STANDS Be ONE CENT 3}, 1 was} r suid an $18 a Week Man Fight Shy of the Girls?” Asks This Shirt Seller be to complain of my lot, Mr, Editor, only 1 some- I don't see any easy chances of a salary I'm not an angel, but I never signed from hitting the high places, S80 f figure I ought to get by, but how? Hut ie it any use figuring that T ought to tackle some little girl and ask the big question? If there's a Jane, though, that wants to try traveling double on $18 per, 1 wish she'd get busy and give me « line on how a counter jumper can become a family man, | envy these married fellows whose wives buy all their shirts and are and socks from me, who stands behind the counter all day. In other words, “I wish 1 had a girl like the other fellows have.” But tn it | worth while to try and get away with It? Yours KAY ©. Fay it from me Umen wonder where 1 will end raixe, I'm no big catch for a girlie 4 contract with the police to keep Don’t Believe EVERYTHING You Hear or See Especially on April 1 EDITION RVE SENTENCE It Was a Perfectly Good and Innocent-Looking Umbrella Ming the submission to a referendum NIGBLING AT THE UMBRELLA Tt was a dollar umbrélla. It was & cheap, Mashy, bargain-counter | umbrella. It was a deceitful um-) brella. It looked like five dollars’ worth any day In the week, | For two hours this morning it) leaned negligently against o tele-| phone pole at the corner of Yenter | way ond Third ay, Being a deceit, ful umbrella, it tried to give the ap- | pearance of having been left there | by its owner. It was deliberately tying to tempt passersby Into tak-} ing it. - Is it honest to take an umbrella! that doesn’t belong to you? Other | people take yours, ~Whet does! your moral code say? , Quite 80 per cent of the people who passeo didn’t even see the um- relia. if its handle had been, of pure gold, studded with diamonds, they would’ not have seen it. Just one per cent Saw it—and grinned. They remembered that this is the first of April. Perhaps one per did not covet It. So much for bon f And 48 per cent saw it, and cov- eted it, and would have taken it— but were afraid. Alas! it wonld seem, according to this test, t there are more) covetous women than men Hut women are more timid than men. They edged up to the umbrella. They darted furtive glances all nt saw it and). about to see If they were being ob- served. Their hands went out to wards the umbrella, then drew | bark | A country woman, carrying a) market basket, let car after car go| by while she tried to come to a de-) cision, She car—witHout the umgreiia. While she was standing by the telephone pole, a fat woman saw the umbrel. la. She scrutinized the country | woman, She determined to wait| until the couriry woman left. If) she did not take the umbreiia, the! fat woman would get it. But the fat woman had a wom-| an‘s curlowity. She couldn't make | th untiry woman out | rdon me,” she said, after 15 minutes of waiting, “but does this | umbrella belong to you?" | No, it don't.” snapped the coun try woman id it don't belong | to you neither j The fat woman went away | A man in a flat felt hat, without | hesitation, picked up the usnbrella, ee ence ene nee omens | WORRY POLICE “A party at Main 168 wants you to call him up?” That was the usual run of April foot stunts pulled off in most downtown offices today. April 1 is probably the busiest day in the year for the police, and the phone wires are con- tinvaily kept busy by the jokers. “Main 168” is the po- lice call. pee T. R.’s Still Busy WASHINGTON, April 1.—Plans for a busy three-days' ap ing tour through West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland for Form President Theodore Roosevelt were announced here today. Roosevelt will leave New York tomorrow afternoon, speaking on Wednesday at Charleston W, Va. Ashland, Olive Hill, Moorhead, Win chester, Lexington, Frankfort and Shelbyville, Ky., and ending the day with an addres# In Loulsville in the evening. The Umbreila Catches its Victim examined it eritfeally about, saw a policeman and biked. Then a smailish man of 50, per- There finally boarded the | was decision in every étep aiid ges. He the case A car came The conductor The umbrella umbrella and haps, carrying a cabin case. ture. He saw the umbrella. acted instantly. He set beside the umbrella. along and stopped. opened the gates. snatcher picked up case and dashed for the platform. “Pardon me, you have my um med the owner, it. | brelia!” excl dently appearing The small man dropped it if it burnt his fingers. looked put it back OVER 400,000. - MINERS OUT ON STRIKE Mines Will Be Idle for at Least Two Weeks — Thousands) More Are Quitting Work in| Different States Today. (By United Prees Leased Wire: | INDIANAPOLIS, April 1. — All | bitum and anthracite coal | mines are idie today an a rewult af! [the walling out of 460,000 miner} [Upon the expiration of thelr agree {ment with te ne operators at }midnight Sunday. The walkout in| pdifferant from a# strike, in that the} [Miners left pump men and others in the mines to protect them from | Mood or other damage while idle. |. The bituminous miners probably | Will be idle but a few weeks, pend: { nou | Yote of the compromise reached im} || Cleveland last week. The anthra-| cite miners, numbering about 15¢ 000, will be out longer. as no agree | jment has yet been reached. They} Will resume negotiations with the} operators April 10. « 50,000 Idle Here | PITTSBURG, April 1-—President Feehan of the local miners district ated today that he expects the coal miners of the Pittsburg district! accept the proposed wage scale | compromise and rexome work tm: mediately, | Fifty thousand miners are idle today in Western Pennaytvania SCRANTON, Pa. April tall the mines in this section of the an- thracite coal regions are idle today. The big companies announced that! -|no attempt would be made to op} erate the collieries while the Teg: heaven's sake lock (hat woman up!” ular mon are out. It is éxpected? } that peace will result from the t ing between the anthractte miners | and operators in Philadelphia April? ej 10. ' | eee Chief of Polic Fan Popularity contest from the family of a member police say they are going to bav season passe®. Save your coup night. Wateb for Chief Bannick Thirty-six lives were lost shortly} after 5 this morning when a heavy team owned by Henry Pol jhetmer, a farmer near Kent, ran away and crashed into a large sleeping tent filled with Greek and Italian laborers engaged in clearing and grading land for allotments just south of the city Folheimer was driving into Se attle with a load of potatoes drawn by two young and skittish horses. A quarter of a mile from the eamip a vicious dog.ran into the road and nipped one of the horses on the hind leg. Instantly the — horse reaved, its team mate plunged, and with the first plunge Folbetmer was |thrown from the seat | Pluckily he hung to the reins and was dragged a considerable dis-| clock COMING UP Hannickh's eandidaré Chief Bamnick bas named a contestant THIRTY-SIX LIVES Ree LOST IN ACCIDENT | The MILITIA READY TO QUELL MOB, BUT THERE'S NO MOB DR. HAZZARD IS WEAKENED. BY HER FAST But She Says It’s No Sign of Failure—Simply a Critical Time the Long Fast| Period. BStrenuous horseback riding yes- terday exhausted Dr. Linda Burfield | Hezzard today to such an extent) ‘That she felt obliged to give up scheduled automobile ride this morning with Dr, Bernarr Mactad- den, the famous physical eulturist. | Dr, Hazzard was compelied to rest) in her room all morning. She, how: | ever, felt sufficiently strong to go to’ the Theosophical hall this after-) noon, where she gave the second of | her ffee public lectures. | fy alt probability Dr, Hazzard has | lowt titres pounds during the past M boars, She looked more tired and fatigued today than at any time doring the fast. She claims, however, that its merely oxhaus tion, and not any sign of weakness. Dr, Haezard was put under neve: teat yesterday afternoon when she watched Bernarr Macfadden sali| into & big tenderloin steak dinner | the Savoy hotel. She merely took a Mass of water 1 didnt minds it at all, It didn’t make wy mouth water or whet my appetite,” she sald. REAR HRRRRHE © * WEATHER FORECAST ® Falr tonight and Tuesday; We light southerly winds, Tem ® perature at noon, 58 * ee ee ee Lock ’Er Up, Says Judge OAKLAND, Cal, April 1.-—"For Cavairy troop B of the national guards of Washington, Capt. Hart- well W. Palmer, commanding, is to- day stationed near Olympia, ready at a moment's notice to descend upon the “mob” or strikers in the Grays Harbor cities of Hoquiam and Aberdeen. Opponents of the strikers’ cause have repeatedly sent out informa tion that? mobs” have been formed by the striking mien and that riot ing ts imminent But there is no “mob” there * * * * * ehotited Judge Waste, ax Mrs. Min nie Ellenberger poured out « tirade of abuse against her divorced hus bavd . After Gye hours in Jail she hadnothing more to say . THE STRUKE BEGAN, 10T WAS FIRED BY KER, EITHER IN HOQUIAM DEEN: In Aberdeen, two wounded but they were not strike akers. Over cager special policemen, anxious to exhibit their newly acquired author ity, playing -with thelr new toyr (fired the shots The striker# have and didn't have any night, Police Chief Quinn quiam ordered the arrest of = the leaders, tneluding Dr. Hermon , . who represents the inter-| ational shingle vers union, on charge ‘of conspiracy to inter re of the law And the prisoners were led away to Montesano handeuffed like crim Is, two by two. Even bail was refused them until Sunday morn ing, when Mrs. Titus finally got a reluctant judge to fix it at But this talk of “mob draw attention away from th question at Issue, whieh is: “¢ man of family exigt on $1.80 day?” ia The Star's Wonlah of the police department e something to say yoge—from the Star » candidate. he about those Pink ¢ no firearins Yet Saturday of Ho. tanee. Finally he was obliged to release bis hold, and the now fren zied team dashed on. Just before reaching the grading camp, the team left the road, the wagon careening against stumps and ham: mocks, and charged straight upor the sleeping tent The occupants were still aslecy havoc awful, Sheil sereams of fright and pain rent the morning alr, Those who did get away oxcaped by dashing from the tent In thelr night clothes In one corner of the tent was a box containing a cat and three new bern kittens. One of the horses stepped tv the box, and the cat and her kittens were instantly killed One cat has nine lives, Four times nine are 36. April fool! The town of Raymond will have to answer damage suits, probably aggregating more than a quarter of a million dollars, for the “strong! arm” expulsion of the 200 striking Greek mill workers last Saturday. The complaints are being prepared today by some of the leading attor. neys in Seattle, including, among others, the firm of Aiderson and Murpbine. The Greek minister in Washing ton, D. C., bas also heen appealed to, and it is claimed that the ac was HERE’S HOW IT FEELS TO FAST FOR FORTY DAYS| “Appetite is passing. come! Dr. speaking. informally Tanner, the 82 old Dr. Linda Burfield in her rooms at the 1 She has suffered—yes. Hazzard was Ancoln hotel, Sunday But wait till hunger of the ent fasting cure, was taining her friends She was chat originator ting with Bernarr Macfadden of the wavy locks and the bulging bic the Chicago Macfadden, the vegetarian pbysical eulturist, who ke fit by fasting when he isn't dining physique of # Hercules and the appetite of,a wren Macfadden are old friends. on lettuce and nuts, and who bas the Dr. Tanner and! sweet, the pulse normal. You will know when the time Is at hand. You will be hungry, You don't know what real hu It only comes | after Wasting, when the stomach is empty and clean and clamoring far food. You would eat leather or ten-penny nails if you were really hunery “When | broke my 40-day fast | was laboring under the old mis- taken notion that to fill my stomach with food would be most danger: ous. My doctor had told me so. So ! called for a glass of milk. | sipped it. Did you ever pour a cupful of water on the desert? It was like that. 1 called for another and bigger glass of milk. | sipped that. They were discussing old times, Very slim, and almost girlish, Dr.| Frenzied, | catlea for a third glass and took it at a gulp. Hazzard looked in her tailor-made shining, and ber pa were parted “The first week is the hard one suffers the pangs of appetit with hunge Did you ever have dyspeps crave the most outlandi appetite, The drunkard’ for tobacco are appetite. “Dr, Haz a i" The woman, hearing her name spoken, looked across the room, smiling inquiringly “What would you like to eat now?” now, thank you, doctor. And that is strange, because ordinarily | can’t bi “Nothin pork. “WHEN APPETITE “Appetite!” said Dr, Tanner he went on, Then there was a period whe When should a fast be broken? distaste for food passes, and bun Appetite is abnorm: dishes at the most unearthly hou craving for drink and the smoker's craving/it so'that the Inscious heart showed? It danced up and down and dared “I suffered the torments of the damned the first week When appetite is conquered, when the suit, Her cheeks were pink, her eyes| in a smile / ” said Dr. Tanner. “It is then that You must not confound appetite Even dyspeptice have appetite. so, you know what it Is to suddenly That ts! This morning | wanted salt pork. r the thought of salt 18 CONQUERED” “When I was making my 40-day fast,” oful. the thought of food was dista er comes. Then the breath will be 1 was certain I was killing myself. The doctor had would surely die if 1 did not break the fast gradually, 1 called for} three large peaches and devoured them. I called for three large Calf fornia pears and devoured them, And, still hungry, I went to see my | doctor. | “In the street I found a watermelon which some one had dropped | on the sidewalk. It was a big melon—a whopper—and the fall had split told me 1 me to eat it. I forgot dignity. in it until my ears were wet. when | got fhrough. “1 told the doctor what | had done. ‘I knew you would make a fool of yourself,’ he said. ‘You will be dead in 24 hours.’ “The great Dr, Hammond, who set himself up as a medical pope and Who had set the limit of human endurance af 10 days without food, | admitted that my fast was bona fide, but added ‘He has ruined his stomach, The first food he puts into it will set up inflammation, and he | will die.” “IT went to bed, thoroughly frightened the morning I had_ham and eggs and griddle cakes, had ‘ruined’ is still doing business at (he old stand for amy stomach on earth,” 1 fell on that melon and buried my face There was only the thinnest rind left And slept like a child! And the stomach 1 1 wouldn't swap it| Strikers at Mass Meeting Yesterday at Electric Park, Near Aberdeen. Picture Taken by Star Photographer tion of the Raymond citizens was Injof Captain Hart W. Palmer of troop direct violation of the treaty pro |B to Adjutant General Llewellyn, im visions of this country with Greece. | response to an order for the troop.) Many of the expelled Greeks were |to be in readiness to go to tha American citizens, too. Others had|Grays Harbor country to quell the taken out their first papers. jstrike of the lumber workers. . The expulsion ured when @/ Palmer is superintendent of the citizens’ committee” issued an ulti St Paul mill here, one of the matum to the strikers to either go/ largest in the Northwest, The troop to work immediately or leave town.| was organized 12 years ago by When the men held out for the) Major Everett G. Griggs, president strike, they trotted to the!of the mill company, and most of ships and railroads and arbitrarily /its officers have connections with moved out of Raymond | the aamameaiee : % | Two cattle cars are ready on a TACOMA, April 1 1 have 40 /sidetrack, with arms, ammanition, ok en ready to move at an| forage, blankets and everything the the report today/cavairymen will need sat ——— CONSCIENCE | (My ed re Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, April 1. Stung by a lively conscience, Har- vey 8. Sprague, ex-safe cracker and exarmy deserter, cannot rest until he has answered to the law for all his misdeeds. Having already served a term in federal military prison as a deserter, Sprague today gave himself up to the police and asked that he be sent back to Sal. mon City, Idaho, to be punished for cracking a safe three years ago. fee ee eo * * Medford’s First Marshal Dies, * MEDFORD, Ore., April 1 * John 8. Miller, who came to * Oregon in 1846 from Polk Mo. at his home He was shal of Med moke’—Dr, Suthers says to lie n the right side is healthier than on the left Brokes—Bilkins says no. And he’s a lawyer and ovght to know more about lying than doe. TRENTON, N. J., April 1—Gi- rt Roe, former law partner of enator La Follette of Wisconsin, filed today La Follette’s primary petition for the republican nomina- tion at the New Jersey state. pri- mart Petitions for President Taft and Col. Roosevelt alreddy j have owen filed here. * ford. * Teeter eke eeee WOMEN TAXICAB DRIVERS, OMAHA, Neb,, April 1.—Omaha is o have women drivers of taxi ca for social excursions and shop ping tours, A taxicab company here is advertising for women to fill these positions Just Ask for It It has never been The Star’s idea to sell circulation on the “blindfold” plan. This style of salesmanship does not appeal to The Star. Of course, Mr. Advertiser, if you be- Settee eee EE lieve in accepting the circulation statements of any solicitor without proof it is up to you. But, The Star has at all times, for the bene! of its advertisers or any reputable business firm in Seattle, an analysis showing its circu- lation in excess of 40,000 Paid Copies Daily and Where They Go

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