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Fair Warning The following letter has been Wistributed among the employes of the Panton Department Store by George Francis Rowe & Company: of men: We re A that cond! erative that the ntinued notfied the Panton’s nave already Brown Estate that we shall va eate the store on the Siet day of the present month Tf we can be of any Assistance uring New positions dito help. We are ur honesty, loyalty that we shall not hesitate to recommend your serv- ices to any concern which may es if you require make applications to — other houses, it be cheerfully er Please arrange for such time with the superintendent wit thanks for the help you bave given, and with best wishes little time to VE & t Ry George Francts Rowe Full particulars of the final prices will be printed in The Star tomorrow night. It {s said, on good authority, that the wind-up is going to be a tragedy. BILLBOARD BILL LEGAL, IS OPINION While there is a conflict of legal decisions relative to the constitu tionality of a billboard license ordi. mance, Corporation Counsel Brad- ford Wednesday advised Council- man Hanna that the supreme court of this state in similar cases ruled | * fm favor of the validity of such laws. Bradford suggested several amendments to the phraseology of the Hanna ordinance. |PACIFIC OUTFITTING CO | | COR THIRD & UNIVERSITY | DRESSES MEN - WOMEN | a) be Wik YOUR CREDIT IS 0.K SELECT DANCING PARTIES HIPPOD! ‘Fifth end Ustvereity ‘Ameomment wait. Phone Main 1068. 1023 Pike Street ISECY. REDFIELD WHITEWASHES U. S. INSPECTORS Pastiand was overcrowded Tt was apparent thruout the tn- quiry that Secretary Redfield ernment depart-| his peculiarly leading questions was . Seoretary Of] endeavoring to convey the impres Commerce William C. Redfield, and] sion that the Eastland waa not sweeping exoneration of subdordl| overioaded; that therefore the nates Instead of the sweeping 1-/ United States inspection was not to | vestigation demanded, fs a result Of) piame, but some other thing—any the tland disaster, blame for) old thing to let out the Inspectors. | which may never be fixed Karly Saturday morning the East }land toppled over, and more than 1,000 men, women and children were drowned On Monday Secretary of Com meree William ©. Redfield took oc to defend his subordinates against negligence, altho at the time he was hurrying to take tak No further seast }train for Chicago upon President) held until the oral grand Wilson's emphatic demand that the/ has completed ite hearings disaster be sifted to the bottom The county grand fury was con Exonerates Inspectors tinuing its sessions today On Black Wednesday—the day - ~ set for burial of most of the East land victims, Secretary Redfield formally. exonerated the United States Inspectors. THESE WERE THE MEN WHO PERMITTED THE EASTLAND TO/ [CARRY 2,800, THE NUMBER ABOARD WHEN SHE TURNED OVER! In the seme interview ad mitting that his inspectors did not make t for stability of vessels jbecause ¢ regulations did not ake it necessary, he sald he be-| lieved present laws regarding| steamboat inspection were very| jood” and “quite suffictent.” YET UNDER THESE LAWS THE EASTLAND TOPPLED OVER | © ND DROWNED A THOUSAND| Som Le: | “ehickene” w TRursday the coroner's jury! thelr gowns so | recommended that six men be held, 'ow that they on charges of manslaughter as re-| Catch cold in the sponsible for the Eastland disaster.) W'"0* TWO OF THE M WERE Ms FEDERAL INSPECTOR Investigation a Farce The federal investigation then }econducted by Secretary Redfield brought forth cries of “whitewash™| and “bunk.” | By DEAN HALLIDAY Stat Apectal CHICAGO, washing of a mont by {ts he Aug. 4oThe white Redfield Inquiry Into Eastland Suspended CHICAGO, Aug. 4 Secretary of Commerce Redfield's tnquiry into the Eastland disaster was suspend ed today after St Gen. Ublter te casior had been n will be jury after The guy with horse sense is the guy who can say “nay” at the right time The Star Tureday eald « headline in| Secretary Redfield’s examination ised te basses eo of the witnesses, particularly of U } a a daa ee S. Inspector Reid, who recently of-| Sprek of ia’ emoher Friday fielally increased the Eastland’s | ‘ageui “oses en cg ay load after bis son-in-law was given; scription of one Pinkman as one white & good position on that steamer, caused wonderment “t understand that you are guilty of having a son-in-law,” was the first question put by Secretary Redfield, with a beaming smile at Reid Oly mptn court by a for John R pons son, labor leade vieted of “Yes. der in connection with strike riots Did you make any arrangement! Deschutes valley in Oregon swept by which he became your son-inlaw/ py rain, hall and windstorm, caus and got a job on the Eastiand?” = {ing considerable damage “No.” | Pacific Telephone Co. Then Capt. N. B. Nelson, super-/the Kitsap Telephone © vising inspector of Cleveland, took! Crulser New Ortle: tand. | Bremerton from Mexican duty “Did you agree with the genius| We're weak on cheese in thie who discovered that the boat had a state, according to state reports fat bottom ked Secretary Red-|Dairy products for past 20 months| field, nodding at the witness. amounted to $20,625,800, of which| “No.” |cheese products amount to $101,154 Redfield Gets Sarcastic Town of Pacific In King county| “No?” asked Secretary Redfield,|&* no debts and has cash on hand wite mock surpiics of over $2,000, according to state re “Another genius has found that Port. Congratulations 2 Judge Mitchell, at Olympia, teok| coor aie ante no keel. Do YOU! wader advisement the injunction | No. jcases arising over the tearing up of “Speak up now, captain the street railway t manded Secretary Redfield P scald csechca ad Sullivan, the assistant state's | torney, is much Interested.” Secretary Redfield then winked In the direction of Sul- livan as tho to show what a sly fellow he was. During the inquiry two inspectors! }questioned by Secretary Redfield acquires returns to com “Mr. at +) In view of the fact 18 experts, more of less, have found the ballast that the same ballast tanks didn't take Im any water on one side oF other, of view versa; that the etal iy keet wee too short: that heaviness existed, and that Oppesite Winton Moter Car Co. The New Pt. Defiance To Portland discloses new scenic wonde: you a delightful trip via t CPOCREREOREORROLEDEEE it portant “Line of the Shasta Limited’”’ O-W.R &N. Union Pacific System gave conflicting answers on the im-| question of whether the that thing caused the Hastland to tip - ° Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, of Sing, expects removal, he says, because of his pronounced views on | bumane treatment of prisoners. } George H. Jones, who killed three! relatives in Chicago yesterday, later | fired @ bullet into his own head and | died. | J. E, Frost, former state tax com- missioner, recovering from injuries) |recetved Sunday when pinned under auto near Port Townsend H. T. Sibley, Rochester, N. Y., banker, arrived in Seattle Tuesday and left Wednesday. He rays Amer can business is picking up consid erably H, M. Martin, worthy grand ecribe jof Kappa Sigma fraternity, guest of honor at luncheon at Arctic club | Tuesday | Superior Judge Jurey issued writ of habeas corpus Tuesday ordering| Sheriff Bob Hodge to produce Ig natz Welss, arrested on complaint of wife, now in New York city, who | says he failed to provide for them. Robert Dollar began | loading what will probably be her last cargo under the American flag at Ballard Tuesday afternoon Steamer Congr sailed for h Tuesday night with over 500 pase % aboard | Steamers Dolphin and Humboldt jsalled Tuesday night for Alaska Both had large passenger lists. Report of Lebanon home, 1110 West 65th st. says over 61 cases have been cared for since Jan. 1, Mrs. H, Genes, 519 Third av., pain- fully injured when auto driven by ©. M, Johnson, 532 Broadway N, struck her at First near Madison John 8B, Carse, of New York, chairman of advisory board of VU. 8. Steel corporation, left for California Wednesday with wife and |xon after a two-day stay. Come jagain, John LOVE Witt Hortense, who war "Foods for the Laboring | Man, Professional Man Mother and Child | How to Save $1200 a Year TONIONT, 8 O'CLOCK Concert 7:20, Ellere Talking Machine Company FLYNN HEALTH CHAUTAUQUA Lenora, Hetween Second and Third Aves. One block north M: Admission 25¢, of this ad will admit TWO free, Tomorrow afternon Scientific Cookery theatre | Line rs of Puget Sound and gives he FIND A WAY qi . short ing one eve in the park They strolied hand-in-hand And sighed, oh, s0 low, And chose winding paths that were dark. At the end of » lane ped and he sald: Shasta Limited Leaves 9:30 a. m. Portland Express Leaves 10:45 a. m. Owl (popular night train) For CITY TICKET OFFICE 716 } i. L. HUDSON, D. F. & P. A. a a Leaves 11:15 p. m » Courtesy—Service Finest Steel Equipment. reservation and tickets call at —raT Bar All Mottoes BAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 4,.—All mottoes except “In God We Trust” were barred from the walls of the Federal building here today by Eugene Putnam, federal inspector of buildings and supplies, Second Ave. Main 932 by | mboat Inspector | Appeal filed in Colorado supreme STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, WHITEWASHERS AT WORK | I Secretary of Commerce W. C. Redfield during the Eastiand inquiry by Redfield’s picked committee. (2) W. A, Collins, inspector of Mil waukee, (3) Frank Van Patten, inspector of Milwaukee, (4) Lieut. Gov, Barratt O'Hara of Iilinois. sketched by Artist Satterfield sketches show (1) Solicitor General OWNERS OF LINE REFUSE TO TALK GIVE KIDS OUTING NEW YORK, Aus. 4.—Refusal of officials of the Pacific Mall 8. 8 Co, to confirm or deny reports that an option on the steamers of the pany bad to the Kaisen the n finar that} migh the rumors | been given Kaisha caused ire al ¢ Reports on Farm | In @ report to the county commis sioners submitted Tuesday after noon, F. W. Rader, county agricul- turist in the state extension work, ye that after an examination of he C. D. Stimpson farm he consid. ers it “the best adapted and best/ located of any place yet examined) for use a county farm.” | oR, L. R. CLARK PEELE, ASSET TEETH PULLED FREE From 8:30 to 10 Methods You Wouldn’t Want Carpenter to Work on Your Teeth, Either, Would You? Certainly not-—a carpenter knows how to build a house and do right, but should he start In to do dental work he would likely make a sorry job of it; because to do dental work properly requires a |very special training and knowl- ledge, which can only be gained by years of hard study and practice, under competent instructors. | The only kind of operators that) we employ at this office are gradu-| ate and registered men who have | graduated from the best denta! col- ‘leges and passed 4he examination of the state dental board and have their certificates hanging right on the wall in front of their dental chairs. We won't hire any other kind either, ause we realized long that this is the only type jof men that can turn out the kind of work that we can afford to go) }behind with our iron-clad guaran-| tee Our Business Is Growing Rapid! On account of our high cla work and conscientious service our business has been growing so} rapidly that we have been com-) pelled to add another graduate and) registered operator to our already | }large staff. The people certainly | appreciate our efforts to give them high class dentistry at the lowest} |prices and this is very gratifying to uk indeed Our tron Clad Guarantee We give you a written and signed guarantee with your work, signed | not only by the operator who does the work, but also by L. R. Clark, D. D. &., owner and manager of this office, who is thoroughly re- sponsible. Thus -you can see that we simply HAVE to turn out work that will stand up and be first class | in every respect. Of course, if we |didn't sign our guarantee we | wouldn't have to be so particular. | Our prices are always the lowest, |as tt {8 a rule with this office from | which we wilt permit no deviation, | |that we will not be underbid on| price. Furthermore, you can't get unsatisfactory dental work done here Regal Dental Offices ir. L, R. Clark, Mgr, } | | | |Carranza Rea 1915. PAGE 2. tae NSPECTOR. GEORGE VALER we. c. REDFIELD, SECT'yY Comnmtace . and Gen. George Unter, Albert Thurman of Washington JITNEY DRIVERS TO PORTLAND, Aug. 4.—The members of the Jitney Drivers union have voted unanimously to place their cars at the dis posal of the Portland Children's homes for two hours each day during August the tn maten may be ta r out ings Engineer Killed in California Wreck LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4.—Engl- neer Benton of the Santa Fe pas- senger train No. 61 was killed to- day when a runaway ofl car smashed into his engine near Pullerton Ca Gen, Car to Move Into pital GALVESTON, Aug. 4 ranga intends move to Mexico “ity withir * The Carran sta cons he received a mes sage to this effect today NO COMMISSION LOWEST RATES Washington Savings and Loan Association 810 Second Ave. nion Dye Works (Inc.) HVERYTHING IN CLEANING AND DYEING Pt and Office 10TH AVE. AND BE. UNION SEATTLE Fi TWO DAYS day, Aug. 6 Saturday, Aug. 7 Tents at Fourth Ave. and Lenora 8t. ’-BARNES: CIRCUS be THE DVFFERENT ey > ‘THATS ‘N GOO-PERFORMING ANIMALS-GOO 1% MORE EDUCATED, PERFORMING WILD ANIMALS THAN SHOWN BY ALL OTHER SHOWS COMBINED 1408 THIRD AVE, N. W. Cor. Third and Union, 2 Sarena) chief of the Inspection service, The smalier LOGS ADRIFT ~ NILAKE; LIFE ENDANGERED blic boat operators and owners private watercraft on Lake| Washington want to know why that tke body of water remains with out protection of any kind, police, fire, and menaces to navigation The lives of 14 people, including two children, were jeopardized Sun- day evening when a private launch struck one of several hundred logs escaped from a broken Brace & Hergert mill boom, and was beach- od just in time to prevent its foun- dering. A dozen boats have been damag- ed by collisions with logs from this same boom. The Satan, a high-powered speed boat plying between Madison and Lasch! parks, ripped off a section of the hull on one of them Monday night and sustained damage esti mated at $1,000. , Rulofsor operating barely os- Sunday evening wengers in the Pacer. Port Warden Paysse was notified | Sunday afternoon of the situation. | Because his department has no \funds availiable for patrolling the lake, Paysse could do nothing ex- cept warn navigators on the lake that the logs were loose, and notify | Brace & Hergert, the owners The mill people, he said Wednes- day, notified him they had a tug out picking up the logs. Many of them, however, are still adrift in }the lake, a menace to navigation. | Look at Porto Rico on the Map and say if Fine Cigars should not be made there Tobacco in its perfection is as native to the soil of one island of the West Indies as to the other. Porto Rican tobacco is known to have every good quality of Cuban leaf, but as now cultivated “‘in the field,” of her up- land plantations it has a delicate mildness which distinguishes it from the Cuban leaf in this one noteworthy respect. The RICORO Cigar (Cabinet Size) 3-for-25 cents or by the box of 50, 54 99 is a typical product of Porto Rican cigar-/ making and Porto Rican tobacco-growing. | Imported FREE OF DUTY and priced All the virtue of the wonderful tobacco in the cigar and all the skill in the workman- ship which belongs to the inherited art of the Spanish natives who make it. The RICORO Cigar is a representative product of the West Indies in which satis- faction is not sacrificed to the unequalled mildness that the RICORO will always be found to possess. exa UNITED iii CLG AR STORES» Sea Bill_ Means Emancipation SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.—The new seamen's bill, which goes Into effect November 1, will result in the first emanciation of the Amert-| can sailor in the history of this; country, declares T. A. Hanson of Chicago, secretary-treasurer of the International Seamen's union, be- fore the annual convention of the union here today. “Life on the sea for the average seaman has been involuntary servi- tude,” said Hanson. Fight Big Fire in California! SANTA ROSA, Cal, Aug. 4.— Fifty volunteers left here on a spe- clal train at 10:41 today to fight the forest fire in the vicinity of Casadero, which has already done $100,000 damage and threatens to! wipe out a number of ranches. ships. Next to railroad likes golfing, but the Western and the Pere roads—he's president of the fim and receiver of the latter—take # much of his time that bis recon on the links {is not so brilliant a it might be. 4 The man whose brains are value at $250,000 a year is a strikiag proof that the young man ist | always the BEST man for a big kt Felton was 62 last February. GORED TO DEATH BY BULL DALLAS, Ore., Aug. 4—Gorel by a bull, Fred Phillips, 60, stm hand, 1s dead today. i 7 The Hollywood Lunch and : Fountain, 212 Pike St—Ady. | AMUSEMENT (NEW PANTA Stars of the Movies 14—PEOPLE—14 | STORY OF MAN WHOWOULON'T WORK FOR $250,000 A YEAR If the pay envelope was the meas- ure of a man, Samuel Morse Felton would be about the biggest man in America. Felton has just declined the | Baldwin Locomotive companys offer of a two-year contract calling | for $250,000 a year to become muni- 8S. M. Felton | tions maker for the Russian govern-| ment for the next two years. Samuel M. Felton is a self-made American, not exactly fn the home- spun class, but nevertheless a plain man, and a man of simple tastes, a good neighbor, the folks around) Lake Forest, Ia., where he lives, say. Felton was only 15 years old when he started at the bottom, carrying a rod for a surveying crew) in Pennsylvania, his native state. | At 20 he was chief engineer of an/ important railroad; at 29 he was a general manager; at 82 he w road vice president, and at was writing psident of the Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; | Road” after his name. | Railroad magnates soon discov. ered “Sam” Felton had a genius for constructive railroad work; the weakest roads thrived under his nourishing care; stockhglders for- got to worry when Felton was in KARL EMMY’S PETS LOMBARD! QUINTET 10¢ AND 200 charge of their road. Railroad organization and rail- road reorganization—that's Felton's life work “The genius for railroad building) is in his blood,” railroad men said) years ago, and the former proved they were right, for’ in the last 25 years he has been president of 11 roads and he has! Matiness, 100 held several important receiver- Nights, 160 and Ue Buffalo » 94.00 New York ..... 110.70 Philadelphia ... 110-70 Boston .- 110.00) Montreal .. ‘| Kansas City St. Louis ......871.20 Chicago ....4... 72.50 Proportionately low fares to other Eastern points. limit, October 31. Stopovers allowed within limit. Diverse returning. One way through California at slight additional Three splendid electric lighted trains daily, Smooth Excellent service, Break your journey at Glacier National Park, on main line) season June 15 to October 1, Ask for information regarding the new fast rail and water line to San Francisco via G, N. and 8, P. & §, railroads to Fiavel | thence G. N. P, 8. 8. Co.'s palaces of the Pacific, Great Norther and Northern Pacific; only 26 hours at sea For Further Particulars, Literature, etog Apply CITY TICKET OFFICE, COLUMBIA AND SECOND A’ T. J. MOORE, ©, W. MELDRUM, City Pass. and Ticket Agent. Asst, Gen, Passenger Ageat Phones: Main 117 and Elltott 5609,

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