The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 2

THE TIME—Saturday 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. THE PLACE — The Leader Company THE BARGAINS TO BE HAD —the Best You Ever Saw THE REASON—We Are Quitting Business Here The sooner we get through the less we lose— that’s the reason you can buy at these prices. Enough said. Mostly Black and Navy. Values 4.98 up to $12.50, all go at... .$4.98 Any Ladies’ Suit in the store, worth sis to New Spring Velvet Skirts, nicely trimmed, suitable for Spring wear or skating; values to $8.75. ia Ladies’ Silk and Wool Dresses. $1.10 ones now 59c, $1.50 now 83c. The floss filling is worth all For your choice of about fifty pairs All- over Lace Nets; assorted kinds; white, cream, ecru; values up to $1.25. left; all fine ones; values to $7.50. Take them whil le they last, $2.25 Curtain Poles in wood and brass, with brass trimmings at a 1-4, 1-3 and a half the price you Fixtures for Sale Wood Counters, Glass Show Cases, Glass Wall Cases, Tables, Cash Drawers, Wood Display ay poe Sem Nee 0 Be FPP 1422 to 1426 First Ave., near The Store That’s Closing tag investigation by the council or an ‘BEGIN INQUIRY ON FIRE SAFEGUARDS Inquiry into the need of further fire prevention measures started Thurséay afternoon, when Council Man Hesketh held a conference with T. Josenhans of the buildings department. ~~ aor Fire Marshal Bringhurst will con- mae Haine ius otis ee fer with Hesketh Friday afternoon EW GaUvES Manstuns is calito Either a resolution cailing for an| fox. will be drafted. F. W. Kehl, of Spokane, son of millionaire, held by authorities on charge of sending scurilous post card thru mails to Providence, R. | Journal soe Latest Style $40 Talking Machine An Advertising Offer Without a Parallel in the History of : the Talking Machine Size—17x20 Inche Business ACT NOW! After a certain number of these been given away they will be sold for $40.00 each, Seattle Music Co. You Can Have One of These $40 Machines Free To introduce Rex Records we one of these high-grade Rex 1 oak or Mission, to every p Machines have will, for a short time, give free alking Machines, in choice of golden son Who will purch: vixty-six Rex Double Faced Records—-one or more a week—as desired The Records cost 75c each, All are double dise—all are 10-inch Come to our store and hear this wonderful instrument UNION 8T, SEATTLE Riddling Mayor Giil’s claims as & “tax reducer,” Auetin E. Griffiths, candidate for mayor, former councilman, and chief of police under Gill for the first ad few monthe of the latter’ ministration, today ad other contribution to the open forum of The Star for mayor alty candidates, His letter follows My friends, Mayor Gill and Mr | Prickson, are still calling each other j such unkind names as “faker” Nar It ts really too bad that should crop up. large claimants and as such, {t may be, not a little jealous the one ° Joining the other three may oralty candidates in the Open Forum of The Star, C. D, Ray mer, socialist, candidate for mayor, will address ye from this platform Saturday o- ¢ the other, I am sure had either the mayor or Mr. Erickson n up for election when God made the world, he would bave taken the credit and claimed it was made in one day instead of alx When Did He Reduce Tax? The mayor declares he should be elected because he says he reduces taxes. He ts surely a champion tax talker, When I was a boy | wa able to talk for the head of a nail almost do that half an hour on The mayor can) on the head of al tax Let us praise him for such! Doar-greatness But as to reducing a tax, when did the mayor do that? While he was in the old council the city ran riot in taxes and assessments. Not only that, but the old council deliberately, year after year, ia and) even in a campaign such assertions} not} Facts, not epithets, deeds, words, interest the people who foot| the bills. Evidently my frienda are both of! told that to be great one must be! STAR—FRIDAY, JAN, 28, 1916. PAGE 2 GRIFFITHS ATTACKS GILL’S | CHAMPIONSHIP OF LOW TAX Things Griffiths Says About His Rivais ' | @ If either the mayor or Mr. Erickson had been up || for election when God made the world, he would have taken the credit, and claimed he made it in one day | instead of six. @ While Gill was in the council the city ran riot in taxes and assessments. About $3,000,000 of our debt should have been paid before Gill gave up office in 1911 |} @j Reducing taxes is a serious business and I question if our mayor is apt at serious business. \ '| @| When Gill controlled the council, we paid 7 per cent | interest on street improvements, The new council re- duced this, | @ Can a mayor who engages in endless wrangles with brother officials reduce taxes? JUDGE COASTS; STATE RESTS IN | CUPID IS HAPPY — GILLIES TRIAL | Little Sled Almost Gets Mac-|. OLYMPIA, Jan. 2&—The atate Mahon in Contem today completed its case in chief . fc C t ergs against F. Gillies, former claim oe agent of the state industrial insur ance department, for forgery, and the defense began combatting the confession of Frank Stone and all the =m of other evidence heaped up {n support of his story of | BUT IT ALL ENDS WELL if Judge Thomas B, MacMa- hon's makeup wasn’t about 50 per cent irrepressible kid, he sraft = Gillies will go on the stand in hia| probably wouldn't have gone | oye | coasting at all, and Lewis Ed- gar Forsythe and his wife, Edith Ray, of 3237 Ferdinand &t., would be further than ever from @ settlement of their do- mestic differences Friday But the call of the snow got un- der judge MacMahon's skin. | When Forsythe called at the |Judge’s home with a bundle of legal |Papers, seeking adyice on woat to do next, the judge had already don The state today won a final con tested point, gaining the adminsion of the bank deposits made by Gillies during 1916, Between February 15 and September 29, the state showed Giliew deposited $4,710, the largest single depor!t being $620 The larger deposits approximate the dates of cashing of forged war rants. The state closed without call ing Dave Blake, Seattle saloonkeep- | TEETH F HE teat of the tuates what professions—that ness an uf Take time by val TRENCHES UY) \- UMAN weaknesses are noon discov ered under the severe test of serv ice In the trenches. It ts particularly | mouth and teeth. Sound teeth should significant that the men who keép in| 06 KEPT SOUND. Defective teeth Read rood condition—MENTALLY AS WELL | ould be PUT IN ORDER or REPLAC Th AS ALL AROUND PHYBICALLY—are | ED by sound ones, — But that the eS€ ie men with SOUND TEETH work 's done by # SKILLED AND RE LIABLE DENTIST Prices cue medical authorities at the front ntate that the men who succumb to qT! individual care and # disease first are the ones with defective modern equipment and the @ teeth, and that those with sound, heal- | ©4, methods which distinguish my work thy mouths RECOVER FROM THEIR THE PAINLE 48S of my Oralthe WOUNDS WEEKS SOONER THAN | *i@ method—THE SUPERIORITY of my THOSE WITH POOR TEETH known fact in the medical and dental c . IMPOR N" 1K. NG UPON " rer THE GENPRAL HEALTH. that noth RUB tev om le apa side Bg ing is as important to the individual | Pumlessness for all work: my G : well-being as SOU and a clean, WHOLESOME MOUTH OUR health—here at your share to keep in motion “bur —YOUR SPIRITS, Office open evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. H. 0. SIPES, L.L.D. and D.D.S. the (apper or lower) in the re, energy and COURAGE—depend than you know upon the state of your more Nature Teeth,” which are BUILT IN TO YOUR MOUTH to take the place WORTHILY—of the ones that GREW there, COST YOU NO MORE THAN or. dinary dentistry OU have only to read my prices here trenches imply accen- has been long a well the teeth have the TEE of ten year perfect service for all work—that these things COST YOU LESS than many of the so-called “bar- gain,” “®pecial price” and “cut-rate” den- tists charge for hasty, unskilled and often slip-shod work ND, USEFUL TEETH home, doing your the forelock—-phone for free appointment tomorrow. Nature Teeth Royal College of Surgeons Boston Dentists Member of Dei MURPHINE GETS ned his legxings and #tocking cap. Hurriedly, however, he heard For aythe's story. He had been served |with his wife's divores papers, al ‘lexing he had an ungovernable tem ud what waa he to do? jo right back home and make things as comfortable for her as you [know how,” said Judge MacMahon Are you sure’ atked Forsythe nored charter and state law, plain | and emphatic, that sinking funds must be biished seven years be-| fore any md teasue fell due In 1911, when the new council fell | per heir to the chaos in the city ball! 11 sinking funds ought to have been established by the old council. Not one was. About $3,000,000 of our then dent! ought to have been paid or provid) TEAS a rn: ed for by these 11 sinking funds |'*? 7" toe Juoe when Mr. Gill gave up bis office in], , Ai! Fight. If yoo say #0,” assent 1911, ed bis client, departing, just os the judge flopped onto his sied and I believe a city debt like a private) debt, should be paid when due, For that reason I am slow to go In debt, holleged for a clearance. Judge MacMahon was forced tol I] Pari A admit to Judge Prater Friday that er, at whose place a number of the forged warrants wore cashed } The e probably will use him} 6000 SUPPO T in rebu | Stone toatified Thureday that his | Caldwell and Guie Speak at share of the loot was $2,000. He maid he had been double-crossed by Gillies. | Madrona; Murphine Com- “mittee Organized ON CHAIRMAN CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—Bring on your wars. Signor Gregorio Car-| Praising the work of Tacwns F. culta, sword swallower and cannon|Murphine as leader of the inde- ball juggler, has joined the United pendents in the legislature, Former | States marines. Representative Eugene A, Childe thrilled an audience of 100 who met Thursday night to crganizo the ordinance revising the building code! ign in behalf of Murphine Avian who would reduce taxes)", bad misinformed Forsythe ECZEMA for corporation counsel, must know how to pay debts, and) PK my haste, | unintentionally While in the legisiature, Mur what is more, how to reduce ex.|*¢vised him to place himself in Se. | with its distressful itching, may -{phine led the Independents, who |\emapt Of court.” explained MacMa Were responsible for the passage of ve Quotes ‘Tok Wigures hon, sadly. “It was my fault, not] be soothed at once, healed [ith tre pension Jaw, the mint But 4 nae tha tax ieee carn) his. 1 overlooked an order remrain | quickly and all its ualy maal- um Wage act, the lazy husband val “that regeea supreme under ing him from returning home or {n-| festations driven away, jaw, labor measures, and direct Mr. Gill's old council, there was plenty of money extracted from the| suffering publ * these followiog figures show Begin with 1904: Onr vafnation Was $56,674,000 and tax rate 12, mills, From then until 1911, when Mr. Gill left office, both valuation) and rate went skyward By leaps and bounds, until in that year the) valuation was $205,262,000 and rate 17.90 mills fice tn 1911, ™ 1910. No doubt the mayor would like | to reduce taxes as a boy would play Altho Mr. Gill left of. he fixed this last rate serious business, and | aq our mayor is apt at serious bust | ness. Couldn't Run Peanut Stand In off moments, the mayor very candid, end I doubt not that if a strangling taxpayer were at that psychological moment to {n- quire how and when he had re duced taxes, the mayor would ad mit that could not run @ peanut stand or a corn cob business, much less reduce the taxes or handle the finances of this great and growing city. Our mayor professes to be expert | at fixing the budge and 1911, for which held mainly responsible before the new council got full contro! For 1910, deficits were $76 and abandonments were $240,206, msking a wild gue in budget making or of the needs of the city for one year equal to $1,007,781 For 1911, deficits were $347,610 and abandonments $447,633, or an- other wild guess of $795,263 | Gill Allowed High Interest Bvery one will recall how we were all choking to death with street assessments exceading | $6,000,000 a year when Mr, Gill was shaping the policy of the old coun ofl Take another sample of Mr. Gill's jability, foresight and tender care of poor taxpayers. While other cities in the state were paying 6 per cent, we were paying 7 per cent on street im provement bonds beyond six mil lions in amount a year. For in |stance, out of 107 special improve- |ments not yet under contract, August 1, 1911, only 7 were at 6 per cent, per cent Bighty-nine were five-year bonds only, ten were ten-year bonds and the remaining eight were immedi ate payments. These 107 improve ments amounted In estimated cost to $ 0,420. Endiess Wrangles At my instance, the new council reduced the rate of interest from 7 to 6 per cent and lengthened time of payment to ten years on nearly every one of these 107 im. provesnents At my instance, the new council also fixed the rate for all new street improvement bonds at 6 per cent and time at ten yeare as a relief to an oppressed people and also radically reduced the number of such improvements An engs brother In my 1 ha fiscal @ thru the hement pre-le duce them, I regret that, in this campaign Mr, Erickson and I are not united the better to expose the folly of '\e mayor's pretensions in the role dear friend of the taxpayer AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS. t a mayor idlers wrangles inln reduce taxes letter the n how, under Mr our taxes in spite ction promises to re who with off other to people Gill's soaring of his ve clouds o Let us take the budgets for 1910 he must be| all the others being at 7 | jterfering with his wife” Judge Frater scowled your honor” MacMahon} | hastened to add, “I might say that |by going home that Might. Forsythe smoothed things over with his wife,| and she doesn't want a divorce thanks to the incomparable | Whereupon Judge Frater diemias- remedy jed the case, Foraythe and his wife| jet the courtroom arm in arm, and FOR AILING SKIN | coasting is @ sport unexcelled Judge MacMahon resolved that’ (At All Druggists) } ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF THE iSUN Ss Market 109 PikeSt | Between First and Second Avenue | Saturday, January 29 A new, clean market with the best refrigerating system that it is possible to buy, AS AN EXTRA SPECIAL For our Opening Day we will give FREE a one-pound package of Barton’s @w) Sausage With every purchase of $1.00 or more. | | | | SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY | Pork Roast, ib.............10@| Sirloin Steak, Ib.. | Veal Roast, Ib 10¢) Round Steak, Ib... }f| Pot Roast, Ib 106) Bastern Hams, Ib Shoulder Hams, ! Lamb Shoulders, Ib Ib Ib... 10¢)| Eastern Bacon, 10! 4¢| Spare Ribs, Ib SUNSET MARKET | 109 PIKE ST. FREE DELIVERY MAIN 6066, PALACE MARKET SMITH BUILDING Second and Yesler. a a rk 7 Elliott 5. Palace Grocery | MEATS OF Best Washington QUALITY Creamery Butter, lb. | 35c; 3 lbs. . $1.00 | At Reasonable Prices, 2 cans Sweet, Tender Peas ... .++15e 6 10c rolls “Toilet Paper .25¢ Regular 30c Coffee, Ib. 26c; 3 Ibs. -75¢ Pot Roast of Beef, lb— 10c124c ar... Be 10c “12he 15¢ Cured whole, Fresh Spare Ribs, Ib...... Extra Senay Potatoes, per 100 lbs. ... .$1.50/ Fancy Onions, 4 lbs. .10c | Large Sunkist Oranges, | 40c size for ......30c/ Large Florida Grape | Fruit, 3 for ......25c| We handle full line of vegetables. All fruits at fruit stall. Sugar % or Hams, Dressed Chickens, Fresh Roasting pons. Hens, Ca- T | |B | Hutchinson, |don | solidation. legisiation Led Independent Vote “1 came to the legisiature as republican said Childe. ir. Murphine was a progres. sive. Party lines were sharply drawn in 1913, but above the petty party prejudices, Mur. phine towered big, forceful, and strong, and when some of the republican members broke dictate things at Olympia, Murphine naturally became the leader of the allied independents, | know him as a true m has the common welfare at heart, an honest man, and a capable lawye' The coming ¢ partisan and reference was y election is non. ti at the Murphine meeting to the fact that Rep. Murphine tried also to get a state and county non-partisan llaw passed Ole Hanson was chosen chair- man of the meeting which was held in the offices of Revelle & Revelle, in the New York block. W. Beeks wae selected secretary. Among others who pledged support |to the Murphine candidacy for cor- poration coun were Judge John Carroll, Dr. E. B, Edgers, Dr. J C. Snyder, A Rosenthal, C. J and Senator Dan Lan- Dan Landon Pri Him “1 shall do my utmost to sup- port Tom Murphin id Lan- don, who represented the same district In the senate as Mur- phine did in the hou “We stood for the same independ. ent, progressive principies in the legisiature, and | know him & Square shooter and an un- usually le lawyer.” A campaign committee of 2 be formed While the Murphine supporters | were organizing, two other candi- for corporation counsel ad ied a meeting at the Madrona | Heights Improvement club. Hugh caldwell, former deputy prose- Sekar, and BE. H. Gule, former speaker of the house, spoke in be. half of their candidacies, Assistant Corporation Counsel Plerce spoke in behalf of J. BE. Bradford, the present incumbent, and blamed the elty counch for delays of im- portant suits like the Seattle, Ren- ton & Southern cane. BOYNS TURNS DOWN MEDIATOR’S PLAN 5 will Preside Boyne of the Commer cial Club Friday enihatically re. jected a proposal by the tntermi dating committee of the Merchants’ Exchange, the Manufacturers’ and Employers’ association, to, take a postal card vote on the plan orig |inally submitted as a basis for con This plan, Boyns point- ed out, {8 so far out of the question that {t was never considered as a possibility, ‘The only | discussion, in Boyns’ opinion, is |the one submitted by the Chamber of Commerce itself, and this plan the Commercial Club favors with two exceptions, namely, the method of election of officers and the shap ing of policies by the board of trustees First word of the wreck came in a message to Capt, Nelson, com mander at the Golden Gate coast guard station. His men said first of the kindling that they iden tified as the Aberdeen was pound ing upon the beach below the Clift house on high rollers. plan up for the ARREST GANG OF |GEE! A COUGER BANK BANDITS! AMONG SQUABS 28.—Swooping | The railroad folders telling of Se- down upon a W Side rooming | attle’s beauties and advantages house today, the police captured) might mention the fact that real, five men and three women menm-| live cougars abound. bers of a gang recently arrived 80 C. H. Watson, 4249 Holly st, from } York, and recovered reported to The Star Friday. $7,800, a part of the $15,561 obtain- Watson solemnly avers that at ed in a daring holdup of “Jake! 5 15 p. m. Thursday, a cougar about Stahl's Bank” yesterday | four feet long invaded bis yard and The raid was made on a woman's! was making for the chickens when } tt. he saw the man and, with one Aw the officers jumped into the! pound was o a six-foot fence Quarters of the alleged bandits, .54 into a small stretch of timber they hurled « box with the cur-| 424 int rency out of the windo i A newsboy below sought to make | away with it, but was prevented by ta corddn of officers, with drawn | guns, surrounding the building. VOCATIONAL CLASS | WORK EXPLAINED Conferences on vocational educa- tion were held with King county teachers by W. T. Bawden of the CHICAGO, Jan. = PACIFIC OUTFITTING COR THIRD & UNIVERSITY DRESSES an WOMEN | oo it | | | | | | | J | federal ny “oe at} - >. “ He outlived. the generel more YOUR CREDIT IS 0.K ment in the direction of prevoca- tional schools at & session Frida: morning, and discussed methods | |that can be adopted by the schools | immediately. The conference was held in the! school board headquarters in the |Central building. Another was to| be held in the afternoon ! | Bawden has held conferences |thruout Minnesota and in Spokane on his way to Seattle, and will go/ from here to Portland, San Francis-' co and Los Angel: from her to Portland, San Franc and Los Angeles. Free Concert Manufacturers’ Exhibit & Exchange Stuart Building C0 ASSESSMENT UPHELD Pie | Lilliputian Judge Mackintosh, {n the superior | i court, upheld the city’s assessment — roll for the condemnation of West ompa Waite st.. Thursday Payment of, wns about $200,000 w: involved, none 3 P. M. Saturday of which will now be eseqeaea against the general fund Seattle's Reliable Credit House 1332.34 211 Second Union Avenue Street 1 = There's Going to Be Lots of Overcoat Weather In the Next Few Months °o Impressive Reductions In High-Class, New and Clever 35.00 26.25 3250 20 2335 30.00 OFF’ 22.50 Other Overcoats Reduced in the Same Proportions o ° o Fomerly Priced Price | Our Display of MACHINAWS Surpasses the Average Showing HATS SHOES MEN’S FURNISHINGS EASY CREDIT TERMS *\ ss if v0 not pay cash. It on requires a small deposit and the rest can be made in ea weekly or monthly payments. Credit here costs x nothing. IT’S AN ACCOMMODATION. |