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Xmas, gentle reader! In the month of Augu Let's remember Tn a wa The peta fall; Winter quickly follows fall. tempus fugits y distinctly horrid. Is from the rosebush NG COST IS st torrid VOL, 14—NO. SOARING AGAIN; | RAISE “aad IN MEATS | ” Make Good Their Threat of. Increase i Following Dissolution of Trust—Rise in it States. ARARATA RARER AERA EE ARE DENVER, Aug. 2.—With the record price of $8 per hundred cattle prevailing in ed to soar still higher, Denver today is paying the highest ce in ite history for steaks and other meats. $7.75 this morning. In the catt Aug. 2—With prices stock yards higher ‘other time in the his- ‘city, the warning of the that prices would the dissolution of trust Was brought home to ymerican today with striking Jones, president of the exchange here, and a cat Matriduted the diame, ag that while grasping offt- the beef companies are ible, considerable re- for the soaring prices ih the opening of Western ‘and grazing lauds to set * of meat here today $ to 15 per cent higher months ago, and the end to be in sight. Dis- the prevailing situation to ARROW 7 Preas Leased Wire) £8, Aug. 2.—When day of cross-examination 8. Darrow, on trial on a bribing Prospective Jur- 'N. Lockwood in the McNa- s) 1) By Vales Burns detective, Bid- te witness, who testified by Darrow to give nts and other in the indianapolis J. McNamara was Rasdenied that he hired tive to tell him on in the Burns introduced the tele between A. W. who had been @ by Darrow in the Hay- Ml in Boise, and who the introduction be- and Darrow. ‘a telegram to Tur- St September 8, 19117" ask- ." replied the witness. a telegram, which wr te 00D FOR GRACE ‘A, Ga. Aug. Attor- Pin the case of Mrs. Daisy O. of attempting to mar- husband, Eugene Grace, ™ the case today ‘Gxpectation is that the de- Will be acquitted. It is be tase will go to the jury ¥ Me court ruled yesterday that me could not testify against his LIKE TROUBLE GTON, D. C., Avg. Of a serious battle in Mexico soon between the ‘fad the forces behind Gen Was made today in dis ever, com 6 troops at Steever said the country sowing more turbulent th 2 COCO SO OSE Whiz! What’s Them Wimmin Folks Goin’ to * rs Take Next? Now Took Men’s Socks and Garters! POCO Oo eeeeeeeeeoeseeeeooe <I meget AT IA 6 4, sald Uncle ae om the back ¢ of the ear, and grabbed for the oo folks is allus Somethin’ us men has. MA while there won't be any firnishings tall. it'll be pens, and us fellers can oy by the papers the other Wimmen wuz a wearin’ | to keep ‘em cooler, but | ralsing states of the West and Northwest reaponeibie for the boost In prices, PHEAATA AAA RARER RRA ERE ER QUES DUT THAT DETECTIV Darrow identified as the one in| What it wanted, and to make a test/a furtive The| the stock market here, and ex- rass-fed cat. Cattle dealers here say a ateeeeeee * | | “Of course, scarcity of cattle ts) » bound to have its effect on pric The situation is extremely serious,” high prices are caused, Jones said, by Increasing popula tion, a8 a result of Immigration, the overcrowding of cities, the aban donment of cattle raising in corn growing states, and the opening of Western breeding and grazing lands to settlement, j | tae | Meat Orders Cost More. NEW YORK, Aug. 2-—That butchers and other middlemen do| not intend to shave their profite during the beef boom, and that, as) | uaual the “dear public” will foot th entire bill, was indicated in a notice | served on the patrons of New York | restaurants today. “Starting tomorrow, read, “all meat orders will be ra |from five to ten cents per portion.’ TIONED | |queation. In doing so he said: “[ want you to understand that }T sent this message in answer to one Turner sent me.” | “Have you a copy of Turne: message?’ queried the cross-exam-| iner. “Yes, I have. torted Darrow. The telegram was read to the jury. It said: “Would not prom ise except to do right for anything of vaine,” and was signed by the initial “D." “Did you receive another tele- gram from Turner, September 8. reading: ‘Party here; will leave soon with valuable stuff. What ar- rangements shall I make?” “1 did.” * Under Ford’s questioning, Dar- row admitted that most of the tele- grams sent to him while represent- ing the McNamaras were destroyed as soon as received. It is probable that the Darrow jury will go over the scene of the Valleged bribery of Lockwood, at Third and Los Angeles sts, some ‘time today. | BLEEDS TO DEATH (By Usited Press Leneed Wire) CHEHALIS, Wash., Aug. 2— Chris Wendling, fireman, nearly bled to death when he cut the radial artery in his right wrist while fighting a fire, which gut ted one of the principal build- ings here early this morning. The Stager Bros.’ book store and the Chehalis Bee-Nugget sustained the greatest damage, their fire loss alone amounting to about $20,000. The total loss is approximately $40,000. SPEEDER FINED Theodore Leman was fined $30 in Judge Gordon's court this morn-| ing for using East Union st. as a speedway. H. Houghton forfeited a ball of $19 on the same charge. So have you,” re} POTTS HSHHHOOOD They've Gone and * o t ”" the notice d | people and agree SEATTLE’S 132. SE. COMPANY HAS COUNCIL LOBBY PACKED! Want Franchises for Car Line Extensions Granted Without Over. A new ruse was sprung by the Se attle Electric Co, this morning to save it from the city's club on the car extension matter, The scheme was to pack the council iobby with a number of men ostensibly repre- senting the people in the outlying districts, but really serving the traction company interests. This lobby voiced the unprece: dented demand that the city counet! should violate the charter and sub mit to the demands of the Seattle flectric Co. by granting franchises to extend its lines without putting in the saving clause that the city may take over that property by em nent domain, but without paying auything whatever for the fran chise iteelf Give the Seattle Electric that { « franchise,” said F. G Drew ident of an alleged car extension league The charter provision which the company ob- Jects to Is an unwise one, anyhow. Drew said that the com y want ed to make a test case of that pro vision, and If the council would be Willing to forego that clause in an extension franchise, would be made, He took the ponition that the supreme court had left it op jonal with the counell follow charter amendment or o amendment had n passed by the Initiative of the people. Laat spring a “Joker” amendment t ercome its provisions was put be ore the people by the traction fn ests, but the people overwhelm ingly defeated it, Councilman Blaine this morning, as a member of the franchise com- mittee, voted to grant the 8. E. Co. Co. d to vt case afterwards. Counciiman Grif- |fithe voted against the report, and! the council will have a divided re- port before it on Monday. Council. man Wardall was absent. Couneil- man Oliver T. Erickson, who is mot a member of the committee, scored the attitude of Drew and Counc man “I certainly shall not favor over- tiding the expressed vote of the to violate the charter in behalf of the railway people,” he sald. $. BLYTHE. TAKES IT REAL EASY Pag Blythe, With Seattle's Sun in His Eyes. Men in public life have a long and stiffish hill to climb. They start in their youth, filled with hope and virility. They climb and climb and lelimb. Sometimes they slip and fall back. But always their eyes are on the summit, where fame awaits. Without going into detail as to what a public man must do to achieve fame, we will assume that he gains the summit. And Sam Blythe pute him in | “Who's Who—and Why,” in the Sat whillikins! if them eqbweb| stockings couldn't keep ‘em cool, I ¢@ap't see as how socks can do any| good, “But did that stop ‘em? NOT. Now they've gone swiped mef's garters to* their socks up with As if th wusent enough rubbernecks hang- ing aroun’ the windy corners now It did ja tour of th without givin’ ‘em more to rubber atl” urday Evening Post. That's fame. Samuel B. Glythe is in Seattle this minute. All our public men have given word that if Mr. Blythe should call, he is not to be kept waiting. Blythe is a big man, who looks nobby in a Stetson hat. Since the Baltimore convention he's been rest ing on his ranch, in the Gallatin valley, Montana. Now he's making American cities, Later he'll write about ‘em Blythe started as a wepaper reporter. A notion, prevalent but erroneous, is that newspaper report- ly retire to ranches and smoke 60-cent cigars. Blythe does, but he’s the only one we can think of at the moment, rT ercrrrrrrer ee. 2 2 7 * * WEATHER FORECAST. * Fair tonight and Saturday; # moderate westerly winds, Tem. % perature at noon 60. * * * * * * * * * RAKE HHI SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1912, Clause That City May Take Them The Seattle Star ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER ON TRAINS AND WWs STANDS Be ee ‘ONE CENT HOME “FUH-FOR FUH-FUN,” SOBS BOY, AT PARTING OF WAYS It's a hard job, seeing that the city’s waifs and boys without parents’ care pone Pe sy and narrow paths,” but Seattle is doing her work pretty well—read and find out. i] ie boye who must largely shift for themselves. Many of them are at the parting of the ways, and it is the job of men tike Sergeant Boggess to put them on the right path, BY FRED L. BOALT. He stole, but he was not a thief, “Why did you do it?” asked Sergeant Boggess. “Fuh-fuh-for fuh-ful-fun,” the boy blubbered. Sergeant Robert L. Boggess is head of the juvenile and humane division of the Seattle police department. He is a big, clean-shaven man with pink cheeks. The boy stole again, and still he was not a thief. “Why did you do it this time?” Boggess asked. : And again the boy sobbed in genuine fright and grief that he stole fun.” The sergeant’s mind went back to the time when he was i hat boy has not? It is fun to raid a melon patch. “Robber’ } fun. | th-fuh-for fuh-fu a boy and stole © fun mes are always exciting The boy stole a third time. his is the third time,” said Boggess. “Why?” th-fuh-fuh-for fuh-fuh-fun,” wept the boy—but they were crocodile tears. There was ve, cunning look in the boy's cyes.. He wept artistically, but without grief or fe Crises like this one Boggess dreads. He must make a momentous decision. Shall he give the boy another chance? Or shall he be turned over to the juvenile court? j The boy is at last a thief. Heno longer steals “for fun.” He has come to believe that} | Boggess is “easy”; that Boggess will always give him another chance. And he has discovered jthat the things he steals have a money value. Here is the “criminal intent.” The predatory | | instinct has been aroused, | ; | THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. The boy, then, has reached the parting of the ways, Must he take the road that leads| to Mercer Island, the state reformatory, and, finally, perhaps, to the penitentiary? Poggess visits the boy's home, The father is a negligible quantity who considers his duty done when he has paid the tent and stood off the grocer. He doesn't really know his own children. ; “Stealin’, ch? Wait until I git my hands on him! Just wait! I'll lam the daylights out of am The mother is a slatternly, incompetent, made worn and waspish by the impossible prob- lem of feeding many mouths on what's left of her “ol’ man’s” Saturday envelope after his beer and ‘baccy money has been extracted ; “Goodness knows,” she wails, “I'd have to have 10 pairs of eyes to watch ’em all. I've tried my level best to do my duty by ‘em. Anyhow, he ain't any worse 'n plenty of other boys in this neighborhood. I don't see why you've always gotta be pickin’ on my Johnny.” Boggess cogitates: “I can get no help from the parents. It's unlawful to spank the boy and, besides, it might make him more of a sneak than he is now. If I give him-anoth chance, he'll know I'm ‘easy If [turn him over to the court, he'll go on record.as a thief. How shall I get this boy through the dangerous period of adolescence?” 2,000 BOYS AND GIRLS. get a bird's-eye view of the juvenile end of Boggess’ job. ial vision 2,000 boys and gils. Each case demands individual But how is one man to remember 2,000 cases? Boggess records in his ledgers the whims and phases of adolescence as methodically as a/ merchant records profit and loss, Turn to the B's in his card index and you will come to} |“Brown.” Look through the “Browns” to the T’s and you will learn all about Tommy} | Brown, the boy who wept crocodile tears. PUTTING WAIFS ON RIGHT ROAD. In the past year Boggess has taken 93 bc into. his own home. He kept them there} days and weeks, living with them) talking with them, peering cautiously into their hearts | and the backs of their ( / } Now his off tion There are constantly in and sympathetic atten- minds | badly wounded, |King county's sheriff nabbed him. |to the Kent | vigorous knock: jhe Merry X Putting Boon co EDITION Sheriff “Bob” Hodge took an ear ly morning ride in an auto this morning and captured a burglar. The man had attempted to rob the postoffice at Thomas. The post master discovered him, and a re- volver due! between the two fol- lowed, in which the burglar was but escaped until Here's the whole story: At 1:30 am. Long Distance} called the county jail from mas, | a station on the interurban between Kent and Auburn. He came an excited voice orgiar just got away from he | There was some shooting at postoffice Sheriff ing in an ad. the | Bob” Hodge was sleep-| ining room, resting up |from the ru dd expe of his campaign tour through the the people's candidate for go’ But “Bob” sleeps with open, 80 to speak. He dressed in a jiffy Ring up Joe Hill and Roberts,” he called to the Jailer. He himself went | phone |Herb Be |sheriffs automobile At 1:55 the machine was speeding towards Thomas. At Kent the bear- ings burned out and the machine tailed. There was no time for idelay. “Bob” ran as fast as he could—and Bob is some sprinter— Garage, gave several and woke up the was up and to the other jatter drives the didn't get time to get mad at being aroused so late. He | probably did the quickest job in his “er, and the soon at Thomas Postmaster Charles Leonard | blinked at the posse when they got | to the postoffice, and rubbed his eyes. Sure, he rang up the jailer’s| office a short while before, but} really, while he knew that Sheriff Hodge acted promptly, he didn't think he'd be out there for at least | another two hours. ° How It Happened sheriff's auto was Hodge found stains of blood that |” led to the railroad Leonard modestly admitted, he caught the burglar red-handed in| the store. The postoffice is located | in the genera] merchandise store of aeonard & Hughes. The burglar) was rummaging through the stock. | He had not touched the safe yet. | He got some stamps—not very much—and a little money, The burglar made a mad dash through the door when Leonard came upon him about 12:30 a m. The post master called on him to stop. But/ he didn’t. He had a motorcycle | waiting for him outside. The! burglar fired. Leonard fired back at him and must have winged him. The blood spots showed that. But got away Hodge picked up a lantern and followed the stains. Under one of the railroad ties, Bob found some! dynamite, a pair of shoes, a rubber | shirt and a rubber hat. Hodge divided his forces and started into the woods. Joe Hill, some distance down, came across a man asle He said his name was | Jones, Yes, Jones had seen the| burg He was wounded, The} burglar told him he had just tried track. Yes, He drew out the good in them, discouraged the bad in them,| and set them squarely on the right road In the same period he has found jobs for 87 | workers. They are the managers of ¢ employed he circulation managers of the newspapers and the heads of the telegraph companies work with Boggess. They send erring newsboys and messengers to for treatment “The b the waifs of the street,” says Boggess, “are the most difficult are quicker thinkers than boys with homes, more res The genuine street boy is pretty sure to g ys. He has a wonderful staff of volun hier some of Seattle’s biggest stores and factories, where boy Boggess special homeless ys, They versed a rceful, more reckless yw up into a very and more in deceit fine man or bad one “Creatures very having the predatory instinct—whether wolves humans—go in gangs. have personal knowledge of a downtown gang whose members range in age from 16 to Ten of them least, are “snowbirds”—that is, they use cocaine. They are all thieves will not stop at highway robbery if the hour is propitious and the victim drunk “They wear good clothes of exaggerated cut and pattern. They are glib of speech and| affected in manner. They hang around pool rooms, being experts with the cue. One of them| is a dilettante pickpocket, and uses other members as a “mob” to supply the rough work “Nearly every one of these boys, a few years ago, sobbed out in genuine fright and grief to some policeman who wanted to know ‘why he did it,’ that he stole ‘fuh-fuh-for fuh-fuh-fun,’ ” “MURDER IS WORSE THAN | GRAFT,” SAYS WHITMAN wishes to rehabilitate the the foree he will catch R slayers, Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo sent out a general order to-| day to his 10,000 men, and specif: | feally to his inspectors, that Hor- | rowlts and Rosenzeweig must be | caught at once, Failure, he threat: | or I 20.) They STOP! LOOK! | (Ry United Prous Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Charged with being one of the four assal who slew Gambler Herman Rosen. thal In front of the New Metropole hotel here on the morning of July 16, “Whitey Lewis,” whose real ins name is Frank Siedenshue, is being sweated today by Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty as to his knowledge of the crime, which has d New York. is” is the second of the al agsagsins captyged. “Dago Ciroficl was first. “Lefty Loule” (Louis Rosenzewelg) and "Gyp the Blood” (Harry Horrow itz), the other two who are alleged to have killed He thal at the com- mand of Police | Chas. Becker, are still at large, The police de- elare both of them with “Lewis” near Fleischmann, N. Y., where he was captured last night, and that they are aure soon “to be taken. Stirred by the widespread custom of police since the Rosenthal mur der and by the declaration of Dis- trict Attorney Whitman that if he Frank” eng, would result in a clean sweep | of the detective bureau and the in stallation of new men, “who will get results,” | Basing his action on the truism | |“murder Is worse than graft,” Dis- trict Attorney Whitman let it be known today that, until the slayers of Rosenthal are found and their guilt established, he will not press the police grafting charges CLAUDE HAPPY, ANYWAY LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—Clande Parker, collector of internal rev- enue, is happy today. He received 70 per cent ef his back salary Other federal employes in Los An geles are still riding the gloom wagon because congress is still too, busy to,pass the appropriation bill A white line that flickers and finally disappears when the little white square is gazed at steadily. TOR OOO Rk tk DEFIANT AT 104 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.— Chipper and defiant, despite her 104 years, Elizabeth Lew- is, d fugitive from the relief home, was brought to police headquarters here today. to hold up a place and he would pay Sheriff Leads Successful Early Mi Who Tried to Rob Thomas Postoffice—James Webster Caught, Badly Wounded. mas, gentle reader! W's @ sin us all besetting, off until tomorrow Presents we might now be getting. mes Yuletide’s hurly-burly; 80 do your Xmas shopping early! BOLD POSTOFFICE BURGLAR CAUGHT BY “BOB” HODGE lorning Hunt for Man James Webster, Wounded Burglar Jones Mberally if he would help hin get away. He had gone farther into the woods the last Jones saw, of him. Hill got word to Hodge, who had gone to Kent by this time. Hodge instructed his deputies to be sure to guard the interurban depots, and tore into the woods with Dep-{ uty Roberts, About 6 o'clock they emerged near Kent and walked to the depot. A young man was sit ting there, both hands in his pock- ets. He had carpet shoes on. He | was waiting for the first interes urban. What's your name?’ he was * he stoutly offered. ¥, just to shake hands,” Hodge replied and reached for the man’s right hand. The game was up then. He couldn't cpnceal his wound. He had another bullet wound in the ab- dom He gave his name as Webster, “You need medical Hodge said. “Yes,” Webster said. to a hospital.” Hodge telephoned to Dr. J. Tate Mason, jail physician, rustled bim out of bed, and when the posse re turned to the county jail Dr. Mason was ready to give the wounded prise oner immediate aid. WARNING ’EM WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Voting 51 to 4, the senate this afternoon adopted the Lodge resolution warn- ing foreign nations not to establish naval or military bases on the American continent The negative vot Cummins, McCumber, Percy and Stone. McCumber’s attempt to tone down the hands-off policy enunciated in' the resolution was treatment,” “Take me were cast by TRIAL COST $800,000. > VITERBO, Italy, Aug. 2 morrists, which broke all lasted more than 16 months, ceeded all world’s records for Judge Bianchi, who presided that it cost, including the v $800,000. The recent trial here of the records for length, having is also believed to have ex- Figures completed by throughout the trial, show work of gathering evidence. cost Just Suppose, for Instance that you have los cents for a thre: The Star’s Class get your pencil t something. Pay thirty e line advertisement in ified columns. NOW, and figure out what it has cost you to tell The Star’s readers of your loss. Circulation statisticians figure that at least five persons read each paper —this makes over 200,000 readers of The Star that you reach EACH EVEN- ad. 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