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COUNCIL VOTES AGAINST DANCING IN CAFES EARN the song we're sing during to ‘ping, Dong! Here's s the Liberty Bell Soot Coming Here | | 0! EL YOUR Seattle is going to have [ffowende of visitors this This is in addition to those attending the big con- ventions to be held here. _ Every day now they are tipping in and out of the ‘ity, without our knowing it They are coming on | special cars and _ special | trains. Each delegation Bumbers from 20 to 150 and more. Most of them “ate spending a day with us, to and from the San Fran- cisco exposition. What are they going to tell the folks back home about Seattle, when their trip is done? What will be heir impressions of this ? Why leave the question fn doubt? Why not fix it © they will become per- el Seattle boosters? Otto A. Case, secretary of the! Commercial Club, Thursday sug- ested to The Star that all of these Maknown little delegations be met Tat the train by Seattle folks, wel fomed and then taken for auto rides found the city—shown around a and treated to Seattle hospital Sees Big Returns in Plan Plan. He believes the few dol- pats Seattle spends on the visitors V2 this manner will perhaps net ands in valuable publicity for elty = Star agrees with him : ‘* send ‘em home talkin: About us Yesterday afternoon a reporter the raflroad offices and talk to the passenger agents. It was PMB eye-opener for him Most of them could tell him only the delegations which are coming Within the next week or two A few had a tentat for the whole summer @ reporter picked from the Mass a few of those which seemed 800d ones for § tleites to meget They -do not include the thou Sands who are passing thru here on Bertonally conducted and other va- Meties of tours ive schedule Here, Folks; Now, Get Busy! The Star suggests that Seattle le interested in the same thing Visitors are iterested in meet gations. church people t church delegations; Y men meet the Y. M. C. A. tion; newspapermen meet the| “Smile With Nile” Shrine CITY: HERE'S Secretary Case sees big returns in’ 5, all going week VOLUME 18. OMAN GAGGED, BEATEN, IN | SEATTLE, WASH., i RIDAY, IULY 3, The Seattle Star was written by members of Nile j ee ee ses cle |: The Only Paper i in Seattle That Dares to Print the News c 13 Try it on your piano NO. 109. 19158, ONE CENT ide eee NEWS STANDS, AST EDITION Weather Fair; not so warm 11vis AT SKATTLE High 1 400 wom, WA ft 41d aft 9:86 p.m, 162 ft, 2:28 p,m AND be HOME BY MASKED ROBBER | ! The bell willbe placed aboard | members of commercial organ- izations. Another meeting ef the com- mittee, of which ton | secretary, will be held at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Police Chief Lang's office. CHANCE newspapermen, ete. Ask the pas Senger agents. They'll tell you when they're coming. Here is the list The Star man| picked CLEVELAND Y¥. M. C, A. party of 70 arrives July 3, 9 p.m, ©. PF. R. boat from Vancouver. N. “Owl” for Portland, 10 CHICAGO BOARD OF REAL ESTATE MEN arrive on Great Northern July, 5, 7:30 = m. 4 Dp m., via Glacier National park, to Chi- engo. BOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Party, special train of 11 conches, arrives on N F. from ‘Frisco 2 =. m., July 5. Depart over G. N., same day, 7:10 p. m., for | Spokane. PATERSON, IND., TEACHERS, party of 35, Arrive on Shasta Limited July 5, mt 8:10 p.m. BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION, three sleepers, arrives on N. P. July 15, | 6:50 & m. Departs 4:35 p. m., same day | for St. Paul, on N. P. | NATIONAL LEATHER DEALERS |AND SHOE FINDERS ASSOCIATION | arrives July 1%, 1:55 p. m., from Portland. Leaves for Eas! t morning at 7:19, NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRAC- TOMS, party of 25 to 80. Arrive here morning of July 2%, O.-W. KR. & N CLEVELAND, O., TEACHERS’ TOUR, |40 tm party. Arrives here morning of July 19, OW, BH. & N NEW JERSEY SONS OF THE AMER. ICAN RE TION, 30 in party, arrive daly 17, 11:15 p. m., 0. Ray ALISTS, 75 Amited, 8:10 party, arrive m., duly 21, NEWSPAPER MEN, Trunk steamer frou Rupert, July 21 NEW YORK BOSINESS MEN, coming on Grand Trunk steamer from Prince Rupert, Augost 17 MONTKEAL BUSINESS MEN, coming vis Grand Trunk in August. Date still indefinite. ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE, arrive evening of August 11, via C8 i. MAMABAJA OF — KAPURTHALA, wealtiiest man tn In vives, with ty, morning of duly 22, over OW. Kt MARKET MEN, en I convention at ‘Frisco, | August 4, 10°25, AND HORTICULTURISTS, arrive A 15. Time and place indefinite aa PARTY HEADED BY HENRY ©. COX, [district superintendent of Chicago achools, More complete pians will be | made then. | There is not a child in the Unit-| ed States who has not heard of the Liberty Bell It had had a unique history be | fore ever it rang Iberty to the 13 colonies in 1776 and since that date has undoubtedly become the most famous bell in all the world. wi Cast in 1752 jell was cast in London} Owing to flaws It was re both that Liberty in 1762 }cast in Philadelphia tn jand the following year. | In 1753 the Philadelphia state house, now called Independence hall, was the meeting place of the Pennsylvania assembly, and the fine old bell was used to call the assembly together. This was the | first time it had been rung | At that time the bell actually |bore the inscription which future levents made such a remarkable| coincidence Proclaim Liberty | thruout all the land unto all the! inhabitants thereof.” Leviticus, xxv, 40. The original purpose of the bell | was to celebrate the granting of the second charter by William Penn to the province of Pennsy! 'PERJURY CHAR TRIAL OF OLE Echoes of a fusillade of perjury charges and insinuations still re verberate in the King county court: | house today, following the testl-| mony taken Thursday afternoon in the case of Ole Hanson against Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, prog sive candidate for governor in 19 Hanson sued Hodge on a note for $250. Judge Bell of Snohomish county took the case under advisement In presenting bis argument to| | the court, Attorney John Perry |representing Hanson, declared Hodge's testimony - was “plainly | | false and unworthy.” | Perry used almost the same lan-| | guage which Hodge employed fn| | characterizing testimony in a depo-| sition of Kenneth C. Beaton, news paper man, now of San Francisco. who had managed Hodge's cam, paign for governor arrives July 20, 6:50 a. m., on N. P. |” Denied "Twas Personal Loan | NEWARK FLKS, party of 127, sf-| There were several tense mo vee 1 a. m. duly 98) on N. F, Leaves| There were severs no. | next morning ments during the examination of! And there are scads more of| Hodge them, Ask the passenger agents.’ The sheriff claimed Hanson se TRUE GHOST STORIES The oth.) i first of a series of the pick of the records of the Society for Paychical Research will appear tomorrow in. The Star. THE GHOST THAT FRIGHTENEO MARION HARLAND WILL BE THE FIRST. ers will be published on the five succeeding Saturdays | | Mayor Meets Patriotic Bodies to Make Program en electric car and carried thru (by year and may eventually de the principal streets under an | stroy the bell. escort composed of police and Any den jar will be most dis-| lastrous and this journey is to be permitted only witha companying to | safeguard & COOLER TODAY; | | day jand told him he needed money for family expenses and that Ole Han }son, shortly afterward, came into Butler hotel headquarters. j the | money was paid over by Historic Relic Will Be in Seattle Five and One-Half Hours on July 14, America’s most historic relic, the | vania Liberty Bell, whieh rang out the How It Became Historic glad tidings of liberty of the Unit-; In 1 when the I aration ed States in Philadelphia in 177¢ Independence was adop will be In Seattle on Wednesday,| rang out Independence to July 14 colonies. thereby becoming it will arrive here at 9 o'clock | toric }that morning and will in the It was only after long cogita city five and a half hours, when|tion that the Philadelphia city | it will mtinue on ite journey toc nell decided to all ner the Panama-Pacific exposition able relic to leave | At a meeting of local patriotic For the bell in its old age is|" organizations with Mayor Gill last | stricken with a strange disease ( night, plans were dis ed for the/one for which there is no cure. | 10 | bell’s reception | The bell has a crack tn It The crack in qotting deeper year mimittee ac ‘YEP, HONEST TIS}, Weatherman Sallsbury* ther mometer @n the roof of the Hogue} bullding “toughed the T4«legree | mark at 17:20 Friday _morning, | while the Rovernment kio#k at Sec-| ond and Yesler stood at 83 degrees. | It was Cooler than Thursday Hundreds of people flocked to the bathing beaches and resorts to- and the parks had their full| quota. Pretty giris cut capers in| the waters at Alki and Mount | Baker park beaches, and we have a strong bunch that the old swim- | min’ hole of many Seattle small) boys was*not deserted | The weatherman promises cooler | | weather Saturday THE MEANEST BURGLAR PORTLAND, July 2.—A burglar designated as the meanest in town entered the convalescent ward of St. Vincent's hospital early today gathered up eight watehes and $20 j belonging to patients, and eseaped ‘by a window. GES MADE IN | HANSON SUIT cured the $250 In question from the State bank and turned it over to the progressive campaign commit: | tee; that it was not a personal! loan to him Beaton had testified that Hodge came to him during the campaign] Hanson had contributed $400 to $500 to the campaign, Beaton said and when he was told of Hodge's| need of mor he agreed to en |dorse Hodge's note at the bank for | $250 as a personal loan Got Money From Hemrich I didn’t get the money at the! bank,” he said. “Hanson took it} jand turned {t over to the campalgn| comm President Solberg of the State bank and Hanson testified that the} Solberg di-| rect to Hodge. You didn't |from Hanson accepted Hemrleh, the want to take money said Perry, “but you] contribution from Mr brewery man, is that jaring, how ven instrne gn committee | accepted mitted it, ¢ ever he had tions to the that no money with strings on It.” that mpi was to be WOMEN INITIATED | tion for England You will, never get| there. This was at first taken as a joke. |But in view of thé®fact that a sub: marine came alongside and sent the Welsbury to the bottom, the| admiralty js displaying great in terest In the warning Fears are felt for the White Star liner Adriatic from New York It was recalled today that sim flar rumors of the vessel being The famous writer on cookery and other women’s topics vouches for| Fifty new members have been| the accuracy of thig story—the tale of the little woman who visited her| added to the ranks of the Daugh.| home regularly, un@i— ae eg soceahia sas a ‘A SKELETON WAS FOUND UNDER THE SIDEWALK ano | tare on qaaton cereeaien GIVEN DECENT BURIAL. were held Thursday night in Scot-| These stories will send cold chills down your spine—they certainly| tish Rite Temple of Freemasonrs are thrillers. Don’t miss them! kh public reception and program The first appears tmammerrow, followed. |his veto measage, the council, mecting of the committee of the! nance, Mayor Gill sets out two main Dale’ reasons for his action in [STORK TO VISIT MRS. VANDERBILT NEW YORK, July 2—The stork i hovering over the home of Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose husband perished when the liner Lusitania unk off Kineale by a German submarine. ze: RANGERS FIGHT FOREST FIRES Federal and state forest rangers re fighting & number of smal! for eat fires today in King, Snohomish, iray’s Harbor and Whatcom coun Nope of the fires threaten any perious damaxe, and with the ald of men from the various lumber camps the rangers expect to bring the fires j ender contro! control ehortly. = POUN FALLEN CTIM Gagged, bound and beaten by a masked robber, who entered her home in br daylight today, Mra 8. Simonson, wife of Samuel C Simonson, 315 Pontius ave, was forced to tell where her purse was hidden, and the robber escaped with $8 She was found lying in a dazed condition on the floor of kitchen about 11 o'clock, by Mrs F. Ruggles, a neighbor. The rob bery occurred about 10:30. Mra. Simonson told the polices the man bad walked Into the house unobserved and seized her sudden ly from behind, cloth into her mouth He then tled her bands with a belt, threw her on the floor and pummeled her with bis fists until she told him where to find her money GILL; VETOES REVOCATION OF LICENSE “I will not be a party to 5 even a = fourfiushing ordinance,” sald Mayor Gill, Friday, in ve toing the council bill which re- voked the liquor license of the Rathskeller cafe because the management permitted dancing there. An old ordinance prohibits dancing where liquor is sold. While the mayor was p whole, Friday killed the amendment, allowing dancing hotels and cafes Councitiman Dale was one to vote for his proposition, ie change. Propose New Ordinance An amendment offered by Coun- er place climan Fitzgerald to permit danc- conducted, but whose license has| ing in hotels having 100 sleeping not been revoked, the mayor de) rooms was also killed clares the Rathskeller revocation) The sote was 6 to 3 aring ina the only the one cight members voting against Councilmen Erickad 1, Hesketh and voting for it Dale then proposed a new ordl- nance to permit dancing in hotels| lieved the forcing a wad of| Fitzgerald} HAVE YOU WRITTEN TO BOB YET? DO IT TODAY | | | This Is Councilman Hesketh, the man whose vote will decide wheth- er YOUR babies are going to be exposed to the danger of tuberculosis thru the milk they drink or whether they're going to be protected thru purification of the milk. Ciip the coupon below and mail it to him, care council chamber, city hall, today. OUNCILMAN BOB HESKETH on Friday morning received many letters, asking him to vote for the McBride milk ordinance, providing for safe milk. These letters were in response to The Star’s sug- gestion, phe yesterday, that Seattle folks who be- McBride ordinance was a good one, should | | and cafes upon liceases issued »Y|tell Mr. Hesketh about it. the council The new proposal will go to the} hen the lice itt of th n i cense committee o e CO! tar} 1} yet which way to vote. Tuesday, and will take its reg turn on the council calendar. Gave Two Reasons oing the revocation ordi In ¥ The first, he says, is a legal one. {nasmuch as the counctl state why the Heense was revoked.| 0st of the is that the The second, he says, penalty is too great Calling attention to sale of liquor) to minors and to the case of anoth-| d where dancing has been} Prev! bill is unworthy of consideration. Hesketh, whose vote will break the deadlock in council Tuesday, fate of the McBride measure is to be determined, doesn't know | Being a conscientious man, he is weighing all arguments carefully in the balance. Four councilmen believe In the McBride ordinance; four don’t. Hes keth is the man on the fence. It is his vote which will determine the fate of the bill. | He has just returned from a three weeks’ absence In San Francisco, failed to| 3t @ time when the milk fight was waged hot and furious. He has missed ‘gument. Now, the big question is—WHAT DO THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE WANT? Milk that is either pasteurized or which comes from cows which have been submitted to the tuberculin test (as the McBride ordinance )? Or do they want milk NOT PAS TEURIZED; from cows NOT TU- BERCULIN TESTED? Maybe they want the latter, as the four dissenting councilmen con end. WE don't think they do. WE OF THE STAR KNOW WE DON’T FOUR BIG STEAMERS SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES: BY ED L. KEENE LONDON, July 2.—German submarine commanders are be- Ing “tipped” on the departure of British vessels from Ameri- can ports. Definite reports to this effect were received by the admiralty today, coincident with the renewal of submarine at- tacks on a large scale. sinking Reports of the three big st er and a bark were received by the admiralty in rapid succession today. The night's work by the submarines represented the biggest haul made since the Lusitania w sent down, All were vessels of more than 3,000 tons, two of them being of more than 4,000 tons, The steamship Welsbury the victims, was warned that she would be sunk soon after sailing from Cuba The crew found, letters in the forehold, one of painted in large! the inserip. You have a cargo of sugar] marked for submarine attack circulated when the Lusitania wai Jon her last voyage, Every jtion will be taken to protect liner as she nears British waters, were precau-| the man Robert B. Hesketh, to vote in favor | WANT TO JEOPARDIZE OUR LIVES OR THE LIVES OF OUR BA- | BIES WITH UNSAFE MILK, | It is with the idea of checking up on the opinion of the people that | we have asked The Star's readers to fill out the accompanying coupon | and mail it to Hesketh, so he may know for sure whether the opposing | teur councitmen know what they are talking about. Put the coupon in an envelope and address it to Councilman Robert B. Hesketh, Council Chambers, City Hall, City. Send it UNSEALED, with a one-cent stamp. stamp will be necessary. If sealed, a two-cent Mail it today I hereby earnestly urge you, Council- Officials believe the “tipping” sys. | of the original McBride milk ordinance. tem of the Germans has been per-! fected only within the last two Name ows Cia tete eb SME @0 (00,9 6: ofererevel eagueaeen, weeks. { | By keeping the submarine com-| PAABORE 65st foie fs eS | manders informed of the departure) of British ships so that they may — be waiting for them, |Grand Admiral Von | campaign The vessels reported sunk up to a |late hour today were the steamships | | Caucasian, Inglemoor, Welsbury, the schooner L, C. Tower and | bark. 90 WOMEN DIE ‘MARSEILLES, July 2—~ Ninety persons, mostly women, were killed by the explosion of a pyrotechnic factory engaged in making rockets for the army | here last night. The victims | were blown to bits. In the | search of the ruins today, only | | four whole bodies were recov ered it is believed | Tirptiz hoped) ito terrorize British ship owners by |the effectiveness of his submarine IN EXPLOSION Cool, Comfortable SHOES at Popular Prices | || Are spetialized in by the Boston Sample Shoe Co., whose ad in today’s Star appears on page 10. Their || aim is to combine style and comfort and yet sell their shoes at4ow prices. That they are succeeding | | in doing this is evidenced by the rapidity with which their business is growing. ad today new Their selecting will be a valuable aid to you in shoes for the Fourth. your He Bn eee