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OW THAW PREDICTED: FLOOD. DANGER Passes Danger of a flood ip remate Saturday, according to Weath thaw possibly tonight and with fight rains flurries of snow jons are, he seid, that the thermometer will \ slowly rise from ite present point, 35 degrees above zero. The high pressure storm rea, he sald, has moved over tana and Idaho, Ingileati | ARAINS NOW RUN All trains on the Northern Pa- cifie are reported running out of Seattle on time Saturday. Five transcontinental trains that had been stalled in the des during the blockade arrived here between the hours of 3:15 and 4:45 this morning The North Coast the first to break the trail ward. That train left here Ellensburg Friday night Great Northern trains are detour Limited was East for | that more | Three snow here te im: probabl Tran mental = trains again moving Saturday, and street car traffic has partially resumed, Eastern Malls Arrive Eastern mails arrived }here early Saturday morning, the firet for three days. Delivertes | will be made practically on time | by carriers to all parts of the city Parcel post matter ts being han dled promptly, except bulky pack ages destined far out NING ON TIME {ing over the Northern Pacific thru} | STAR CIRCLE the Cascades, and al! G. N. trains feast are leaving on time. Great Northern officials said they hoped to have their own line open tonight, Trains on the Milwaukee are moving a trifle slow, with hope of the tracks being opened and regular schedules resumed by night. The first train for the Bast was routed |to leave here at 10:15 a.m. Those stalled In the mountains will likely arrive here by afternoon, officials jsald. 1,000 MEN STILL From 500 to 1,000 men still are available for laboring jobs, accord. ing to the announcement made at | the municipal employment bureau Saturday If you want one, cal! Main 105 Si than 2,000 have found tem- employment shoveling WEL FAMINE IN Sawdust ts being used to keep the fires of the Grays Harbor Railway) Co. burning, because of the tuel | fansine that threatens Aberdeen. Millis have closed down. Slab wood is being shipped in, Dut not fast enough to relieve the situation to a great degree. The hay supply is running low, farmers say, and all of Southwest CITY KEEPS FORCE The street department's shovel gang began work early Saturday on Fourth ave., and is continuing its work of opening up the wholesale and retail district. All-day Sunday the force of men ‘will be heid at work with shovels, plows and wagons, hauling the } snow to the bay. About 12,000 cubic yarde dumped in the bay Friday. The municipal employment of- | fice made all applicants for jobs prove their citizenship by show- ¥ their precinct registration w # fast possible, wire service being restored. Service between Seattie and Portland has been « tablished by way of Spokane, and a Gala Time Coming Tonight The New Washington Hote! dining room will be the scene of gnother of those delightful Sup- per Dances tonight. These Supper Dance affairs are tting 80 t you will ind ft advisable to phone tn your ireservations in nee_in order music of Carlin orchestra Wednesday night. bi ginning at 9 o'clock, and com- letely forgot the snow storm that was raging outside. last urday night there was « verit- ie multitude of merrymakers lancing and the ipper are hoth covered by the charge of 75 cents per person. SEEKING WORK snow, Many of them are going from house to house and making clean-up contracts. The price of wages has varied from 30 cents to 50 cents an hour As high as $1.00 an hour was paid for cleaning snow off dangerous roofs. MANY CITIES oomermggam is suffering from a milk famine. In Eastern Washington, Wenat- jchee, Omak, Waterville, Mansfield jand Douglas are reported to be out jot coal Roofs have caved in at Monroe and La Conner. The fuel shortage at Bellingham was relieved Friday with the re- lceipt of coal shipments. E ON JOB SUNDAY line on the Postal Telegraph ays }tem has been opened to Butte, thru which California and Salt Lake may be reached, snowBoUND HOMES DAMAGED BY FIRE Snow-banked roads and the icy cleared spaces have made {t almost impossible for fire apparatus to re- spond quickly to calls, Flames did more than $6.000 dam. age to three residences Friday af. ernoon, where equipment could not }get thru in a hurry. A 12-room house occupted by J. E. |Ontario at 5532 12th a S., and lowned by R. Rossi, and a five-room | cottage occupied by Mrs. Carrie | by her son, were destroyed. |__A house occupied by J. H. Black, 5528 12th ave. 8. damaged by flames from the Ontario houne. ‘TO REOPEN CLASSES Street car service and weather | permitting, classes will be resumed jat the university Monday. Fi lreofed bufldings have all been clean- ed of snow, and those thought dan- peerens ave been braced. |\CARL RAVE IS FINED Carl Rave, 38, an iron worker, | was convicted Friday in Judge Gor- don's court of throwing valerian, a betance with a 42-centimeter smell, on foodstuffs. He was fined $250 and costs. Star Want Ads will sell the acreage for you. Ns Dicom 6S, Pah and, Olorious Comfort White pg a a . feck aren orth a snaking nit cout ‘ety ‘cates store Here Is. pret The uuitling RK i re it ie the best Dever used. Lt. eared i Lok ‘fre att LF oil the comfort tak ad, moltitade of runt: lerere ant PORPLCT oo ‘and OMPORE' sre possible. 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Dwecter, SCHUILING 1263 Murphy fare thinking of it mend or before Or ‘you prefer, but write It aod wend it AT ONCK. “Gare on” Send This Now RUPTURE INSTITUTE, Buliding. Indianopelte, Ina. "Piles cond me FREE in pain wrapper, your took oo Kupture and full pertienlare of your Trial Offer plan. are} Otay reservoir. The wai and killing many peopl Loulse Sconce, Wislock, Wash., was too late to win the prize last week with her essay, but Uncle Jack prints it just the same, He thinks {t is good, don't you? THE STAR CIRCLE By Loulse Sconce How many members or contest ants of the Star Cirele ever thought of the real meaning of the Cirele, or of its worth? Put on your thinking cap, and take this seriously, Very few! have the right idea of the Cire Does any one ever think of the! good it is doing invalids who can- not be ont? Think ef the happy faces watching the birds butld their nests in the house their brother: has made from directions | in the Cirele. Think of the eager Look at These Bottles Medicine bottles are scarce || The English Boy Scouts are now b} STAR—SATURDAY, FEB. 5, 1916. ANOTHER SAN DIEGO FLOOD SCENE A view of wreckage at Otay, one of the towne caught in the flood following the breaking of the Lbwer ff swept thru valleye near San Diego, Cal., has won the prize this week Think of the Interest {t arouses in the boys and girls of the happen ings of the world. Think of the fun It ts to follow the plana of the bird houses given in the Circle. How many people eagerly read the) sorios written by some kindly per son on “Birds,” and, while they! have enjoyed eeing them eat, | counted many varieties as they | could that were there’ I have taken Interest in the! numerous little happenings ac-| counted {n the Circle. To give a} final sum of the Star Circle, tt in| enjoyment for the sick; gives ev.) ery author, poet or photographer a| chance; reading material, and! nothing lacks In Interest The best way to find out {# to| BE A CONTESTANT AND NOT) AN OUTSIDER! | ~ Scouts Save Diego $200,000 to y he| Them to Purchase a War Ambulance»: ees a } miles to the seashore. | usy collecting them tn an effort to | Borg, 3857 25th ave. S., and owned|® England and therefore valuabiec.| raise a fund to buy a war ambulan Snow Is Theme for Next Contest; Get Busy and Win Coin Uncle Jack has already held one snow contest, but he thinks anoth- er one would not be out of the way So this time, write a 150-word essay on whether or not you like the snow. We have had over a month of snow, and {t is time you | made your decision The rules will be as follows The essay must not be longer than 150 words. Write on one side of the paper only; on the other side write your name and address neatly and legibly. Send |your letter in addressed to Uncle Jack and be sure to mail or bring it in so that it will reach him be fore 3 o'clock next Friday after- noon. Only children of 16 years and under may compete. — carter | LUCK NEXT TIME, HARVEY ° Harvey Grant, of Everett, ta the winner of this week's shadow drawing contest, with a very fine drawing of three boys playing in the snow Uncle Jack regrets that he can not print the winning drawing, but he is crowded for room this week. About 52 drawings were sent dn, but many of them were barred for the reason that they were drawn with writing ink. On an average, the drawings were excellent. | Seymour Nye objected to having his slippers eaten up and his bed occupied by dogs, #0 he obtained a Givoros f from Katherine, his wife. QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That te the Joyful « y of thousands uced Olive {NEWS OF THE SCOUTS} Collectors’ Note If there are any coin collectors among Uncle Jack's Circleites, this might prove interesting to them. In the February issue of the Amer ican Boy magazine, the following facts are outlined Mutilated or uncurrent Unit- ed States gold and silver coin is purchased as bullion, The mint has no pattern pleces for sale.~The government pays no premium for the return of any of its colons or paper money The mint supplies United States coins only, and not of any past date. The coinage of the following coins ceased in the years f and one-cent, cop: 1857; one-cent, nickel, 1864; half-dime and two cents, silver, and two cents, bronze, in 1873; 20 cents, silver, 1878; trade dollars, 1883; one dollar and three dollars, gold, and two cents, nickel, 1889. The Columbian half-dollar was coin ed in 1893. The Lafayette dol- lar was struck in 1899, the date on the coin (1900) being that of the unveiling of the memorial There are certain on every United States coin thet enable the place of its coinage to be located. Those struck at Philadelphia mint have no mark, but those struck at all other mints are diatin- guished by a small letter on the reverse, near the bottom These letters are: C, for Char- ‘. C, discontinued tn CC, for Carson City, discontinued In 1892; D, Dahlonega, Ga. discon d in 1861; O, for New Or and 8, for San Fran- markings Nev, for tinw leans, elsoo A person may buy a proof set of gold coins from the mint for $38.50, and a proof set of ailver and minor coins for $1.50. Tablets wh reating patients fo mati= | ation and torpid I Dr. Edwardes Tablets do + ntain ealome but othing ¥ le laxatt ot healing, | ot | | never force them t lon If you hav r low and t # bad brent f —atok he i} nnd only pleasant two Httle Dr Tablets at bedtir ¢ one or two every right. Try them r box, All druggists. ick one or find ‘qu results from dwarde ON Thousands ts Murphy Young, a messenger boy and a Boy Scout recently perform: ed an act that will be recognized by the scout authorities In the |form of promotion. In a fire in his city recently he ran Into the burning building and saved a large American flag from the flames. oe | Six Roy Scouts of Paris, Tenn., recently gave patches of their skin | in order to save the foot of a com-| rade from amputation. | oe. | | Boy Scouts of Port Jervis, N, J after a long and difficult search in| the thick forests in the Sha! wangunk mountains, near that elty, rescued Harry Taylor, a 12. Oly year-old boy, from freezing to death destroying a vast amount of property PAGE 5. FEATURES OF GREAT FLOOD AT SAN DIEGO Tho breaking of the great Otay dam, above the city of San Diegn, which let loose 11, 500,000,000 ballons of impound. | ed water to sweep down a val ley @earcely more than nile | tn width, was a flood catastro- phe second only to the «reat Johnstown horror, We give a few features ' | ——_————¢ The Otay dam and reservoir cost $1,900,000, and took ten years to! complete. It will cost the city of| | San The flood uprooted the biggest trees, hurled boulders tons in welght about as if they were peb-| bles, and carried the steel core of the dam, weighing several tons, six San Diego bay was literally cov ered with a mass of wreckage and| |the bodies of dead animals. A boat) could hardly pass thru the debris Thousands of rattlesnakes were! carried by the waters to the fa mous Coronado strand, and hun dreds of men and boys were em Ployed in killing them. The ter- rors of scores of the flood victims who took refuge tn trees were aug mented by the reptils that rm od over their places of refuge A freak of the flood was the car. rying of one of the largest houses | in the valley BACK UP the stream for half a mile and depomting tt on| ground considerably higher than/| that of ite original location. | One thousand feet of, railway track in one plece—ties and rails still joined—was swept four miles out Into the bay. Huge trees were seen 50 miles at) fen 36 hours after the flood. They endanger navigation United States torpedo destroyers are scour ing the ocean searching for fot fam NEW YORK GETS VERY,VERY GOOD Theatres Censored; Districts Cleaned Up; White Lights | Purified PUT “ON GIRLS NEW YORK, Feb. 5 bad better hurry TIGHTS day pects to find any New York's soul, For amazingly facts. ne York figures is getting mont and is proving it by and performances None of th bright been dimmed, but they purer atmosphere of late Anthony Comstock's eral times tering about the neighborhoc 4 42nd and Broadway iiterally tickled to death, if a ghost may #0 be tickled Consider the houses They ha n flefled and = shamy-sham for their naughty, naughty performances un til the censor has gotten out his little old quietus and put It on ‘em all Let the Inst word of that sen tence be emphasized, for highbrow, lowbrow and Intermediate have) been treated alike Beginning with the houses, several of which cloned and one of which was com pelled to put tights on the girls’ bare legs, the wave of purity has rolled up to the heights of the $5-athrow artiste aggregations, which leave nothing to the im- agination but a veil As for the commercialized vice situation, young Mr, Jobn D. Rocket rs Bureau of Soctal Hy giene has just reported that that has decreased more than 50 per cent In New York in the last year In 19) the bureau found 142) parlor houses with 1,686 inmates; but Nov, 1, 1915, th were =| ten such houses with 21 inmates. 5 MORE DA ve-6) Only four more ore days and an eve ning in which to register The books will be open day night until 9 o'clock. They will be open Monday, Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday After that there will be no chance to qualify for the primaries or gen eral election The primary election is Febru- ary 21 The general elect! election fs March 7 lights have sparkle in ghont se just York play burlesqu w Satur- /PREPARE TO PUSH OTHER GRAFT CASES OLYMPIA, Fed. insurance «raft cases on one charge; Young It is expected Stone will plead! guilty to forgery and grand larceny charges. the Gillies trial, probably will tried in Pierce county HOQUIAM PIONEER DEAD Houses of considerable size were found Moating, almost intact, in the bay | HOQUIAM, Feb. 5.—Mrs, Margar- 5.—Immediate lsteps will be taken to prosecute jthe rest of the sertes of industrial involving John F. Gillies, already convicted Frank Stone, his partner; J. W. Kearns and Arthur Young, who was arrested lin Tacoma after the beginning of be 6—NIGHTS—6 MOORE ec "Feb. 7 Bargain Matinees Wednesday and Saturday John Cort Presents Walker Whiteside And His Personally Selected Company in the Sensationally Successful Play— “THE TYPHOON” novel and beautiful to this unusual per seats before the NOTH musical formance of the In ord and | patron that they ting are curtain at 8 Prices—Nights 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to $1.00 may not miss the effects introductory urged to be in thelr BRO ‘& MADISON ‘A4ne Best ol Vaudeville STARTING Feb. 6 AND ALL WEEK SUNDAY MATINEE MATINEE DAILY The Beautiful Broadway Star Dorothy Jardon In a Selection of Character Songs James H. Cullen he Man From the West” Sam Barton Orpheum Travel Weekly ‘The World at Work and Play “The Passion Play of Washington Square” ad Sidney M’Tatron Hirsch, With Mary Servoss and Co. of Players ON eee el |NEW PANTAGES Unequaled Vaudeville Means Pantages Vaudevi :30 | BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE The Merry and Tuneful Musical Comedy in Miniature The Dairy Maids With Eddie Foley, Lea Leture and a Dashing Chorus EXTRA! THE MYSTIC BIRD~ THE CANARY CARUSO Presented by Master Paul, the Boy Violinist. Other Big Acts—10c and 20c Mirano Brothers In Thelt Flying Te McCormick & Wallace THE THEATRICAL AGENT a eetdcntentncenhe Sharp & Turek The Cho fies ped int > LAST Ti TIME. TONIGHT et Brewer, 81, pioneer of this state, | died here Friday. RUMANIA TO JOIN ALLIES: 500,000 MASSED ON BORDER BY HENRY WOOD ROME, Feb. 5.—Rumania, hitherto aloof from the strug- gle in the Balkans, is reported In private dispatches to be | ready to plunge into the fray | on the side of the alll | Her army, und is sued Thursday calling the | clase of 1896 to the colors in advance, will bring her mobi- lization up to nine-tenths of GIRLS! WOMEN! TAKE CASCARETS IF CONSTIPATED They Liven Your Liver and Bowels and Clear Your Complexion Don’t Stay Headachy, Bilious With Breath Bad and Stomach Sour Got a 10-cent box now. Tonight sure! Take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever ex perienced. Cascareta will liven | your liver and clean your thirty feet of bowels without griping. You will wake up feeling grand. 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Rumanians are fortifying the Bulgar border, expecting the Bul gars will drive against it if Ru mania attacks Hungary Arrival of Anglo-French rein. forcements at Salonika has con vinced the Rumanians that an al lied offensive would cripple the Bulgars should they attempt to in vade Rumania while the main Ru manian army was engaged against Hungary. England's purchase of 80,000 cars of Rumanian grain for $50, 000,000 in gold won the support of |grain growers because it convine- ed them of the strength of the al lies. How wonderfully . Resinol soothes itching skins! If you have eczema, ringworm or other itching, burning, sleep- destroying skin-eruption, try Resi nol Ointment and Resinol Soap see how quickly the itching stops and the trouble disappears. Reainol Ointment is also an excellent house- hold remedy for dandruff, sores, burns, wounds, chafings and for a score of other uses where a sooth- ing, healing application is needed, 101 contains nothing of a harsh or Inju- Prices— re ‘$1.00. tr |he can sink? He holds her above jall his lower self. His wife is set apart from every other woman ex- |cept, perhaps his mother. In my \case, Margie, you know I have held |You above my mother. You were jand are the one woman I respect | most and love best. “But all the time there has been another side of me which you could not satisfy—perhaps because [I DICK’S LETTER IS FULL I expect, little book, if you think | would not let you do so. at all, you think I am a very pe | just like every other woman | wishes to edie from the one wom- I do not believe there is & Wom-/an he calls wife all the worst of an anywhere in the world who, bAY-/himself. He wants her to be pu ing gone thru the agony that I have./in heart that she may alwai . ea j Would not have thought as T did/norit the beautiful kingdom of his | when she saw a letter from her * | home which he feels he must not husband with the word “Sweet-|/ profane in any wa | heart” used as its salutation. “I have sometimes thonght that Dick's letter, however, interested!if men would treat thefr wives as me very much, altho some of itithey do their mistresses there hurt me, as I think he is trying|wonld be fewer divorces. I know |to be not only honest but he is/ positively that if men would treat also earnestly trying to make me their mistresses as they do their understand the man's viewpoint. | wives there would be no mistresses. His letter began “Are you shocked Margie? You “Sweetheart see, | am trying for once to be “I have been thinking of you &/honest with you. I am no different jlot today and wondering just what/from other men, most of whom T you are doing, and just what you!helieve can love one woman devot- are thinking about edly and be untrue to her every 1am much afraid Margie that| week of the year both you and I will have to go a] “| did not mean to write you long 8 before we can come to/this when I began, T only meant to the place of mutual understanding. |jet you know that since T nearly I have never quite realized how far|jost you, my soul fs sick with dread apart are the standards of men and/that some day the awful thing | women until now, when the whole|might come true. jmess that I have made of my life} jand yours is before me “You know, dear, what a cad I| considered Harry at the time of his episode, Then I did not think it] possible for any man to treat a woman he loved as Harry had Eliene; now I know it is possible for i have teated you in the self same fashion and I love you. “Yes, dear heart, altho you may| not believe it, I love you, and, stranger still, I have never told any other woman than you in so many words that I loved her. Even poor Eleanor had to satisfied with ‘I want you, dear,’ ‘Oh, Margie, can't you realize the |great difference between “I love you” and “I want you"? }" “A man can want a woman with-| out loving her, but he can never }love a woman and not want her. ‘I think, Margie, that it is be cause I have trusted you so im-| | pli itly that I have perhaps not! been worthy of trust myself. I have always known that you were mine, | that no other man could take you from me “Does any Woman understand the | complex nature of man? | “Can she realize that every jman, who is a man, shrinks from) ''*) Sundays letting his wife see to what abysseS room 6, Hotel A “Dick.” (To Be Continued.) RELEASE SUSPECT oftawa, Feb. 5.—Col. Sher wood, Dominion chief of police, an- nounced today that Charles Strony, Belgian musician, had been releas ed. 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