The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1916, Page 9

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USED FURNITURE If you want to save money—investigate these Special Values in Used Furniture on sale Friday and Saturday Here are some examples of the rare bargains Eight Buffets and Side- boards, values to $75.00; waxed and golden oak fin- ishes. Sale price, each— Six China Cabinets, Early English and gol- den oak finishes; values to $70.00. Each— $25.00 Library Tables in fumed or waxed oak finish; values to $25.00, each--- Dressers and Chif- foniers, values to $37.50; all finishes in this lot. Sale Bed Davenports— golden and Early English finish; vel- our and leatherette upholstering; _val- ues to $45.00, each $13.7 511 Pike Easy Terms 48 Hours a Week Quick Way | to End Coughs, Colds #/ ye ag hagees and Croup | s New Bill's Aim PORTLAND, Oct, 26.—Providing |that women may not work for |waxes more than 48 hours a week, a bill will be introduced at the next session of the Oregon legislature by companied with sore-|the Consumers’ league, it was an nese, ickie, hoarsene jnounced today, following that or difficult breathing, or if your chtld | ganization’s annual meeting. After wakes up during the erty. just (its introduction members of the ant tasting home-made league will work for the measure cough temedy. Any Cony x |until it comes to a vote. supply you wrth Pour this into a| The act is similar to the law now pint bottle and fill the bottle with /in force in California, except that plain granulated sugar syrup it does not limit the hours to eight gh Seal a day. It is 20 worded that women may be obliged to work over eight jhours five days a week, and get a |half holiday on Saturday. An Excellent, Inexpensive Home-Made Remedy That s © a severe cough or You can feel this take hold of a bust- the and mem- line the throat and I 0 DBY es with such prompt- d certainty that it Is hing. Pinex ts a spectal and highly con- contrated compound of genul or A resolution was adopted by the |Central Labor Council Wednesday ge |night, asking the city council to and © vids. Its millions of en-|make the first ald treatment of th ve made it fa-|the city hospital more efficient. The resolution is the outgrowth There are many worthless imita-| . tions of this no mixture. »|of the ald tendered W. R. Thomas, baer « rg ae ae for, an electrician employed by the x,” w f = - . don’t accept anything city, who was electro uted a week antee of absolute satisfac-|4@0 at Eastlake and Nelson place money promptiy refund. aes with this preparation. The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. (Paid Advertisement) “Tell it to Sweeney.” in good enough for Us, «ade of all wool U. * 4 overcoat cloth f. oods That Have f Quality reoats, marine corps vol a2 | Blue Army Ove Overcoat» for b r rifice at o% 2h y Coats . 86-8656 as, blanket lined WATE canvas sa.00 | ‘I ft wool UT Seout-Overcoats 82.00 Mackinaw Trousers in-Proof Trousers oats for riding or for work 1200 Wirat Ave. Senttle, Wash, NEW REV PLOT DI BY WEBB MILLER ! | U. P. Staff Correspondent } EL PASO, Oct. 26.—Emis saries from Pancho Villa have been in thie city in conference with members of the junta of the new Mexican revolutionary party of Legalistss, according to reports of the United States department agente here, At it one Villista is known to | | have come overland on horse | back, crossing the Rio Grande | river below Juarez, | At this: meeting, the United \States authorities believe, an agreement was perfected for the bandit leader to act as commander. tn-chief of the field forces under the direction of the Junta of the new movement United | States se men have! SEATTLE SECOND ‘SHIPBUILDING GENTERIN U.S, Shipbuilders estimate that Se attle Is second only to the Delaware river region in the race for suprem acy In the revive ustry of water carrier construction. | Government figures, recently pub-| lished on data gathered before many of the local yards obtained present contracts, place Seattle and Puget sound fifth, They credit her with 182.090 tons on the ways, Be leause the contract tonnage has! leaped to more than 300,000 tons,| only the Delaware zone, with or. ders totaling 419,213 tons, is ahead} of the Northwest region, local dope sters point out Government figures place the) Great Lakes, with 216,046 tons, seo: | ond; Chesapeake bay, with 212,706 tons, third; San Francisco bay, with 211,028 tons, fourth, and Seattle, with 182,090 tons, fifth, ‘SEATTLE COMPANY TO SUPPLY NEEDS OF FOREIGN TRADE Commercial needs of China, South America, Australia. and Siberia will be studied, and later supplied, by the Pacific | Trading & Transportation Co,, J, E Chilberg, one of the promoters, told members of the Rotary club Wed. nesday. “We Intend to find out what these countries want, and give it to them, irrespective of whether the desired jcommodity is manufactured in Se attle or not,” he sald. ALLIES WIN GROUND IN MONASTIR DRIVE PARIS, Oct. 26.—Serbian and) French troops scored several vic tories in the fighting near Monas day. The Serbs captured a height along the Cerna river, and French Zwersda and Goldborda and Laisica, southwest of Lake Presda. PROBE EARLY FIRE f Fire officials Thursday were try ing to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed the one-story frame house at 4443 Rainier ave., and did $700 damage to frame) structures at 4437 and 4493 Rainier! ave, at 1:24 a. m. The flames} started at 4442 Rainier ave. and spread to the others. No one occu pled the houses. Almost before her first coat of [surged ebout the train when bgef jat tide water rates, The rallroads,| | protest against the rates, The rate! tir, it was officially announced to-/| cavalry occupied the bridges at| STAR—THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1916. PAGE 9 ANOTABLE SALEOF ]VILLA WILL LEAD | OLUTION; | SCOVERED already reported that such an! agreement is now In effect 1 The new revolutionary party In! its offictal newspaper here, Bl. Le gAlista, avows that the object of {ts formation t# to accomplish the De Facto President Carranza, Some members known to the authorities here are wealthy former land owners in the south ern republic, driven out of the Jeountry by the new regime and their property confiscated. Some! of these members are still wealthy | and able to furnish financtal back: ing for the new movement | Department agents here have under surveillance an American filibuster, formerly with Villa, who iw suspected of having taken med- jeal and surgical supplies to Villa lately | WILSON GIVEN ‘LUCKY PIECE’ AND CHEERS BY ROBERT J. BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent BAKERSBURG, W. Va,, Oct. 26 Carrying a lucky piece, given to} him by a workingman at Philadel-| phia yesterday, “to be returned aft-; er your second tnauguration next! March,” President Wilson today | passed thru here en route to Cin cinnat!, where a busy day awaits! him, He {s down for four speeches there today | Last night the president remain ed up late, greeting crowds that stops were mede along the rolte The president finds what he be-| Heves the best evidence of support in these herings. “It shows a lirge number of my fellow citizens belleve in me any way,” he sald today. More than 1,000 persons greeted him at Martinsburg, a strong re publican stronghold, late last night, | clamoring loudly for pech, but | the president refused, saying, “1/ would much rather work than talk| about it RATE INCREASES TO | SEATTLE HIT MANY Seattle manufacturers who pur. chased raw materials in the East and contracted for the sale of fin ished products made from them. did not fiture the increased freight rates ordered in effect January 1,| and will make a protest against the schedule Many shipbuilders purchased heavy materials, and figured their contracts on the basis that the ma: terials would be carried to Seattle) however, are urging shippers not to| on some steel products is increased 20 per cent by the new plan. ALASKA RAILROAD BRINGS COIN HERE Supplies costing on an average of $500,000 a month have been pur- chased for the Alaska railway com mission, thru ite Seattle office, since March. The total expenditures thru the purchasing agent during that time have totaled nearly $4,000,000, Be. cause practically all the supplies have been obtained, the purchasing department will take it easy until spring. JONES TO HIT WETS) In connection with the dry cam- paign that Is being carried on, U 8S. Senator Jones, of Washington, | will be the chief speaker at the paint had dried, the steamer Cauto launched in Seattle September 23, was chartered Wednesday by the firm of Williams, Diamond & Co. The Cauto will begin loading a cargo about the middle of Novem- ber for San Francisco, where she [will be afd on berth for Havana. RUMANIANS ESCAPE BERLIN, via Wireless to Say ville,, Oct, 26.—Part of the Russo- Rumanian force in Dobrudja es ca into old Rumania by fleeing across the Cernavoda bridge before the town was captured by Macken zen, the military critics of the semi official news agency reported to day. T. R. NEARS CHICAGO ABOARD ROOSEVELT'S TRAIN, CEDAR RAPIDS, Oct. This was Col. Roc today a8 he sped to Chicago for the two big speeches that will end his Western speaking tour. SHE TALKS ON BIRDS Mra, Granville Ross Pike, of North Yakima, one of the most prominent friends of birds and} jgame in the yrthwest, leaves Se attle Thursday for Olympia, where | \she will give talks in the Interest | jof the feathered folk of Washing | ton _ ONE GETS DAMAGES | Only one out of 13 elty employes lin entitled to compensation for 1n- ‘juries sustained while in service, according to Corporation Counsel Caldwell, Wednesday Ten of the Hat lose out because of the statute of Hmitations, while two more have recovered thru suits. (Paid Advertisement) “Tell it to Sweeney.” (Paid Advertisement) “Tell it to Sweeney,” -|pered. Hut there is real common rally in the First Presbyterian | church Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. Dr. M. A. Matthews and G, D, Conger will speak. Further ar- rangements will be made at the time to carry on the fight against initlative measures Nos. 18 and 24 PARIS, Oct. 26.—Artillery bom-| bardments continued thruout last} night on the Vaux sector northeast of Verdun, but the Germans made no new counter attacks, it was of- ficlally announced tod (Paid Advertisement) “Tell it to Sweeney.” How to Judge a Woman by Her Hair There are always the well-known and semi-humorous methods, such | as saying brunettes are quick-tem sense in just noticing whether the hair is well kept to judge a wom-| an’s neatness. If you are one of the few who try to make the most| of your hair, remember that it is not advisable to wash the hair with any cleanser made for all pur-| poses, but always use some good | ation made expressly for| voing. You can enjoy the} very best by getting some can- throx from your druggist and dis-| solving a teaspoonful in a cup of hot water when your shampoo is| all ready, After its use the hair dries rapidly with uniform. color. Dandruff, excess oll and dirt are dissolved and entirely disappear. Your tiair will be so fluffy that it will look much heavier than it is Its luster and softness will also| delight you, while the stimulated scalp gains the health which in. sures hair growth, REE—TREATMENT—PRen One week of trial treatment for rheumati. m DR. MAC 203 pier Bidg. $13 Second Ave, AIA (PAID ADVERTISEMENT) Hypocrisy Why did the high-salaried workers of the Anti-Saloon League, dominated by its still higher paid chiefs at Washington, D. C., play unfair with the state of Washington by de- stroying its second largest industry and liter- ally confiscate over FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS’ worth of taxable property? Why did these non-resident, non-tax- paying hirelings of an outside organiza- tion close the great brewing plants of Se- attle, Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane, Bel- lingham, Everett, Aberdeen and other cities of our state and at the same time frame, work for, and actually pass a The California whisky interests are reciprocating today by spending thousands of dollars, and working arm in arm with their bitterest foe, the Anti-Saloon league, to retain the rich privilege of flooding Se- attle and the state with their “bootleg” whisky. law that allows British Columbia to manu- facture beer not only for home consump- tion and export, but also to ship into “dry” (?) Washington? Thousands of well-meaning but mis- guided citizens of Washington who blindly followed the misleading advice of the Antis and voted “dry” two years ago, frankly admit the failure of the vicious Why is this same Anti-Saloon league permit system. and its corps of imported workers now laboring with all its force and might and spending thousands of dollars to enact into law in California a measure that not only permits the manufacture of beer but also wines and the vile “bootleg” whisky that is causing all this trouble in Seattle and the balance of the state? This misfit law has been in operation almost a year, and what are the actual results? A state over-run with “bootleggers” and literally honeycombed with blind pigs and fake drug stores. Is this what you voted for? Why were the thousands of well paid, taxpaying employes of our own big brew- ing plants thrown out of work and rob- bed of their homes and savings just to satisfy the cravings of a few zealous, pro- fessional Anti workers, directed from Washington, D. C.? We've had a reformed mayor swinging the axe by day and working overtime in the pulpit at night, telling you how clean(?) the city of Seattle is under the new “dry” law. A temperance chief of police working with all the energy and zeal of a Carrie Nation— —and still Seattle is (pay? Sheriff Bob Hodge has the entire police force under suspicion and Prosecutor Lun- din is trying to catch the sheriff's office in his drag net. Why were the farmers and hopgrowers of our state deprived of the natural mar- ket for their bountiful crops? Are not the Washington taxpayers entitled to the same fair treatment accord- ed to California and British Columbia? This same alien organization frames the mis-named “dry” laws for all states. Lovely condition, this! LET US END THIS FARCE! Its directing officers play the political Open up our own great breweries. game with all the shrewdness and cunning of a Tammany Hall, Give us mild, harmless, wholesome beer instead of California’s deadly dope whisky. Driving a great industry, legalized and s Let the taxpayers and business interests recognized by the U. S. government as a AB i 9 . legitimate business, out of our state and Of Washington enjoy equal privileges with California and British Columbia. destroying its property, is as nothing to ‘ them. If the nation later decides to dispense It matters not to them that the big Rai- with beer entirely, let all the breweries of nier plant, 70 per cent of which is owned the country close simultaneously—the by twenty-five widows and their Seattle- only fair and equitable way. born children, is an utter loss to its 500 stockholders. Vote for Initiative Measure No. 24 and you will have taken a long step in the This zealous Anti organization euchred direction of true temperance. the state of Washington out of, a FIVE MILLION export business and gave it to California, and called it a great victory! —and added millions to Washington’s foreign trade.

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