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ats HUNDRED fine, upstanding young m€n are turned into physical wrecks every year by the United States army. We tell you about it today on page 3, in the third and final article of a series on the army. Read it, and see if you don’t think it’s time for Uncle Sam to do something for these boys. TONIGHT SOveTUNUUNNNANAUN NUH TaNN AAU UOUUNaneAAAANaTa eee More Than 44,000 > IME, 3 o’clock this afternoon! Place, the 42-story Smith building! The Star will release 100 balloons from the skyscraper’s roof. if you get one, take it to the Moore theatre and get a $2 seat free for ‘The Blue Bird.” We are giving away $200 worth of tickets. Come and get one! AND SUNDAY OCCASIONAL RAIN; MODERATE SOUTHEAS’ A LOVE affair and an aeroplane] Turn to page 8 and read Frederick Pal- mer’s great story. It is one of the series of short stories, by the greatest Ameri- can writers, that The Star has been run- ning every Saturday for the past year. “The Broken Wing,’ it is called. Read it, then watch for next week’s TERLY WINDS E) 2 NANNONOCUUANANESUETOUDEUAUANAANAGUGLUUAA HANG CL Paid ees Daily ey UMAAUONANLOUNNAUUUNANUUENEUUEUAUOUNANUUONAAOUAAAO NNN) The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS jute VOLUME 16. NO, 28. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1914 ICTURED THE STAR’S BILLBOARD P%ssinc GETTING HOT FOR LAFE BOALT SAYS HE'S THROUGH HELPING MULES! Coast Coal company's Cannon mine] Humane society directed to “Ress.” at Franklin were NOT GUILTY of 7 y pinched “Re cruelty to “Bess sup ent and the drive Finds Bess at Mine was ed asa wit 1 was sort of dragged into the | state T am through trying to help slipped one over on me yesterday Superintendent Fined But for the duplicity of “Ress,” t the jury would never—bdut, w “Bess!” It ts not proper to ulate on what the jury might have | done if “Bess” had kept her inter mule I ever saw My My camera shed tears typewriter sobbed as would break. Thus was the attention $12, 000 SALARY | 2 | OFFERED T0 OUR COMMISSIONERS CITY MANAGER Should Seatti © plan tts city manager will be # business manager, and not a social It represe: patatty » to make speeches. Ing by the def So the self was prev charter commiasion decided yester jay | “We don't speeches to lodge meetings #0 he #0 popular we w I him if he day, befe cane the fering nose out of it ‘The jury in Judge Ronald's court found that the it and drivers at the + PETITION FILED “TORTECHC OF? supertn Pacific! f the and she a “Re oo ‘had a sore on her |there was no sore. “Bene “Bess” Is Ungrateful You must understand my |tion. 1 felt sorry for body loves a mule. No! had a mule for a pet olf. So much was happy ones es, & new Specifying three hree chare 8, snotty petition, including both ty Commissioners Hamilton Knndsen, was filed today with y Auditor Phelps. The sign-| the was announced yesterday ase that her again. to make | “Beas Tries to Bite Boalt Oh, tt was “Beas and Cecib,H, Upper cons _Ob, tt was “Bean” 1 Ge October $F to defrand King © county out of $3,000 through the ‘ se of an automobile ambu : Rate, sieges to be the property ov but In reality owned by) isey of $12 Hamilton. This porct oe ap lager 2 proved Hamilton an rr ae te Tee ageend charce I» that Ham ce, MAS wrovited, Guat and Knudsen approved on) nn Oe a) oembers cs nary 9 the payroll by which |)\" 30 m , may eounty paid Cecil H. Upper) ia cack $3.76 for work on the county) | D onl 4 is which, it is alleged, he had/ | power ov that the com vs BOGUS MONEY: : -_ MAKERS RAIDED inefficle Charles fixed a max ‘or the city man majority s te remove also to have the him Roy Moorehead, Seattle's ad murderer, t C. Weat, ty morgue today, after t smpt at suicide last angled him arge t Rutherfor at $150 © month and an sue see and W. H. Johnson as traction ed dent teries in the reial Club r ted in the rem Commiasioner Hamilton office. BOAT {s BURNED ° PORT March 28 rocks in the during a snow Bowe t Bertha ¢ escaped in gold pleces was sesete n. He n the Nort |ed that ing in the 8 Through Peter Densmore. Alaska hotel, his operations name of “McDonald Patterson is setings with West, who a ted with e want ad, asking for unem jot er ed by |'men with money to go to on railway work TOW. were for the right fined fants ap Thuraday and nearly all strong. mp, and worked | \hard and long, and “Ress” scare, with Hot flung bigh and eare did any work at all quivering with vigor. Rens.” admitted wanted to make her declining years | quivering lege My motives were pure. | ingratitude Resa” nt and would testify. We all trooped downstairs to see Then the jury viewed all right 1 MURDERER KILLS HIMSELF IN CELL “want! confessed slayer of nant and Det Nes tn the with rt in a pad ed death ts the last at bafflin history o ned boat up on the na blind bunt for the 1 and his discovered CHARTER ” COMMISSION DECIDES FOR THE WARD SYSTEM ? THAT RUMPUS AT WASHINGTON - | | knew her ri inht § away 1 loo! ked tat | doo tn clover, this minute. | 5 of! If she wants to go on haullt d, cars of coal from the mir to the dump, let her. If st it's fun pulling cars of coal, why,| ahe can continue her frolic until] she drops, for all I care | But why—-why did she look at me! 80 sadly, so appealingly, so wretch. | edly, when | saw her at the mine| mouth? | swear her eyes were the| very home of tragedy. Anyway, since “Bess” slipped one} over on me, I'm through trying to} old ‘help mutes. | | TORREON RUNS “RED AS REBELS USE MACHETES GOMEZ PALACIO, Mex. March |, ‘Torreon’s federal garrison was | jecin fighting this morning "| The rebels were in town, how-.| y and stout | ever, and all night long the battle) legs, with fla and defiant/ raged in the str From the |} even; a good {f croas-erained.|housetops the federals poured a ‘ Had it All Fixed |murderous rifle and machine gun Oh, very well! I had tt all fixed/fire on the rebele below. There | up for “Hess” to e to a ife of| w idieness and ! If Td had my |, way, she would be standing knee | mouth | thinks | the « 1 od me over cold) . and tried to bite off my Oh, It was the same old “Bess,” sure enough. But, somehow, the didn't seem the same. The difference was material, rather than spiritual. was Now there was meat on bones n! which six weeks ago had boas’ ed no padding. Now there emooth patch of healthy where | seem to remember - six weeks ago, @ Six weeks ago driv lack in the court room, {t seemed posi-ito me the jury regarded me with No accusing eyes. Where was the/ er jemaciation I had described? Where lows between the cre the weak and] Where the hideo gai yea re n atever she was six weeks ago, Re I-condition mule, with a # of morn her. as A constant smashing of barrt aded windows and doors as the} |rebels forced their way {nto the| houses to get those who were) raking them from the roofs The « je of small arms was essant, Much of the fighting ito-hand and the machete igured freely tn tt Much of the town was on fire and * furnished sufficient Hight | © bloody struggle ma Farmer Hardman's the 3 Right Sort of a Man George C. Hardman, a rancher at Pleasant Beach, came into The Star office today “I'm not rich,” he said. “Far. mers seldom are, But I've got more than enough to eat. And | read from time to time In The Star of people—widows with big families, maybe, and the like— who haven't. 1 come in town every Tuesday. If you'll give me the name of one of these families | can leave them some butter, or some fresh eggs, maybe, or milk.” We gave him the name “Of course,” Hardman said, sn’t much, but just think how many people could be helped if a hundred more farmers would do it.” in Detective Captain Charles Ten tives Bergstrom and King Cochran waited for Moorehead as ae m out another ad in a news night. p arrested him Thursday thi J e a full esion the admitting he killed oar, Thursday night nself when he and » sleeve a under himself to Moore J but later the sua if he ha sald rad said he m to have and us to It gotten over » notion talked decided to t through, aller Litse \ 9 unhappiness leas man and chief complaint tances ack on een whi rried mised to love and ch ON TRAINS AND ONE CENT Swart Ne. EN POKES OF ERFORMANCES WHEN | LEFT IT LAST, WEEK IT WAS RIGHT HERE WHERE _ WAS IT Now 5 YOU ra SEATILE is HUNTING FOR ITS” SPRING WEATHER En id =e <9 HOMES WIPE OUT IN A DA Nine families had ceased to exist when the last reel of the human moving pictures of was reached yesterday afternoon in Judge Mackintosh’s court. It was a repetition of a so common that no one offered comment. The same stories of a difference in temperament; the same old story of subsequent desertion, + The Star has urged the appointment of a divorce investigator in the hope that at t a part of the increasing marital disappointment can be stopped. In all cases yesterday, wife. “It was simply impossible for us to live together any longer,” as Investigator, out the why nine decrees staggering scene was | am aout in the experience of other cities, has been able in man A divorce” in this impossibility, and patch up the misunderstam % to find There were rly total is yesterday. Nine a day make about 250 a month. eee eee three childr in Ohio in the troubl Gillette, with her in for a diy They were married the court all about way the default ‘He simply made life miserable for account of the children And 1 to do better. I could not stand it any longer Margaret, 12, said she had heard her father talk Yes, I would rather live with mother,” she said Louis, 19, said he believed a divorce was the only he told the court, his father strike the mother Mrs. Etta Gillette “Just tell That's the came 1893 with yc ust y begin me,” she s besides, I felt ¢ from Orland Mes! ur husband,” said the attorney. cases " “I left him three times but went sorry for him mean to her mother. way out of the trouble in 1911 Things all seemed we Francisco me. It “We le, but i action married San Carroll were wn in he left Davis went right for @ gainst Ella which who was they both me,” said 1894, at life burde Superio He made West nsome for Wis., in “He w very cruel to J. M. Edt as Edberg, time oe ee oe Arthur C. Brace, married in Mi forced to seek Di their part ot They were last she according to Edith Brace, reapolis in 1891 relief was the cause She said he sipation on the unhappiness r her and at was Minford bro wife. For n Chey Here Mir the m Ase in was a man appearing nford deserted him in 1906, were married Nettie Carter her after their marriage gz in testify John Wes- ive me money At ‘times he got whom he liked better. He used » support our child.” M une 1902. He aged 9. rried in says she deserted him me lain Gordon Smith all right fre fa ther in Smit! home larrison L. ed her, and Lodema } he says ile she m 1909 until 1911 Lowell, Mich , but he wa Couldn't an outside influence have helped to patch up some of these things? ' DIANA DILLPICKLES IN “BACK TO THE MINES, PAR- PAH!” —A 4-Reel “Sereecher” Film| HOW'S THE ICE CREAM COMIN’ ALONG “m-M-m} FoR THE PARTY, PUR-PAH Z HURRY, IT'S NEARLY THEY'RE THROUGH DANCIN’!” DONG! MY IT's Goo-ooD 1!" "GIMME A bays WEENY Page “Don'T BE. AGSORD, Pur-PAK! THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH TO Go 'ROOND!” “DURN IT, THEN 1 DECLARE A WALKouT!" ste i" 2 FOR POULTRY FANCIERS Today The Star's classified columns on page 7 will offer you many opportunities of increasing your grade of — stock. Also a chance to obtain hatch- ing eggs—old stock and supplies. One party offers a decidedly advantageous- ly side line .to poultry —something that can be cared for at no ad- "JEST YUH “LOOK CIKE YUH WANTA CRAB THIS SWELL FUNKSHIN W{TH ANY O' YUR ‘DIRGCK ACTION’! JesT YUH » TRY IT!" pee "Low e ee pity ~ ditional cost other than the initial expen- diture. Mr. Powers has an interesting offer to make poultry people as a side line. Read his Bee ad. | SE :) there was no particularly tragic cause given for separation of | He always prom= — He had just couldn't agree,” said Faye Davigy™ failed to