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STAR—SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 1918. PAGE 2 IGAS HEARING ENDS | ) STATE ST DUSTIN Wyrartiee tae cfr Star of “The “oma ” Virginian or not 50,000 Seattle all time Pr | ina » forced to @ public should not be forced to ‘i f r conta | returns on a greater figure than " ae. esti Picturization # each © company has expended here. * | of— | month, and an additional 15 | / ya for the gas company, in cents for every 1,000 feet of cas d that the 1914 valuation used, rests in the hands of the | is a closed record, and ean not be di state public service commission | turbed, whether it be “right or ors today. | wrong. The city's fight against the in-| Attorney Hance H. Cleland, repre creased burden clowed late Friday at|senting the public service comm the Chamber of Commerce assembly | sion, continued hin tactios Friday aft where the public service cont-|ernoon of attempting to ridicule Dr ners have been hearing expert | Bemis, the city's expert witnens: testimony since Wednesday | He attempted to show that Bemis Closing minutes ¢ the he ne | thruout the country, had usually rec were marked by @ vigorous appeal! ommended lower “than were by Aasistant Corporation Counsel | adopted Walter Meier, for the city, who ¢ Great Work, Cleland manded that the commission turn | “You are making a studied offert back in ite work and correct the | to discredit the city’s witness,” Meter | physical valuation of the Seattle | said at one point; “are you assuming Lighting Co.'s property, made in 1914] this burden for the gaa company?” as a basis for rate making “No,” Cleland answered; “I'm pro Ray It's a Closed Record tecting the comminaion.” According to teatimony of Dr. Ed-| “I haven't noted any attempt on ae . ward W, Bemia, Chicago ¢ t, this | your part to probe the credibility of | separa serait Ul valuation should be reduced from ap-|Dr. Lee, the gas company’s expert | vung oH MNT wine proximately $9,000,000. to. approai.| witness,” Meler remarked OT NR UM cfr Ch ‘ | IW} mately $6,000,000, by excluding| “That's up to the city,” Cleland an: charges for paving never laid down | swered t¢. Ra! i II" lH) 4 i) and for “development cost" never ex-| At a later time, the public service Pil Mi pended |comminsion’s attorney was in confor Nowhere in the public service|ence witlr gas company representa law,” Meter aald, “doen it specity that} t n the hall outside the assembly previous findings shall be establish: | room DENY MEXICAN BAKER PEEVES — 4 DIPLOMAT WILL | PROBERS WITH PLOT IN JAPAN BRISK REPLIES) A PACIFIC PORT, J BY L. C. MARTIN vw Juan Burns, former Mexice United Prese Correspondent | general in New York, is going to WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 Senate | Japan as consul ge al for the Car y probers today again raked | ranfa governs t ad any & of War Baker's « 1 |“necret mission,” Gen. Ram . » supplies for Americ " | Negri, consul general for Mexico for die the Pacific Coast, announced toda Inwtead of going into cantonment He branded stories printed by cer. construction with a view of hasten. | tain newspapers that Burns is en ing an end of the hearings, the com- | tain nepeangate, Sit Sian 0 lng an ons sf te Beteinen the com asa | with Japan as “laughable.” today and doggedly hammered at his Burne is going to Japan a# a con: | calm in at initial needa of wul," he sald, “He is accompanied | the army | n properly met. | only by a secretary, There is no Foints Out Camp | ‘mysterious Japanese treaty’ or ‘gm-| “I have no dixponition to cavil,”*| munition purchase mystery.” said Senator Chamberlain, “but your Fourth, Pike and Union ‘Hurne is remaining on board a al statement is calculated to Continuous 11 to 11 Japanese liner in the harbor here, 1 that necessary he maid, “because of an indictment equipment is all in the hands of the returned against him while he was) troops. ~ in New York. He is free on bonds; “I maw the commanding officer o + but fears he may be rearrested if| Camp Sherman, of Chillicothe, Ohio, | Matinees 10c he lands.” |today and baked him whether his} Evenings 15c| Two naval officers boarded the men were fully clothed. He sai Japanese ship and sought to cross | they were short several thousand Children Selexamine Burns, but he refused to! blouses, In the face of that, your “mi wi Rive any information. statement has the effect of *lulling/ ——————-- BL BSP SERVE earn 6 Includes | -— cas the’country into @ false sense of ne. War Tax) O1.D RESIDENT PASSES AWAY | curity Andrew J. Hedreen, 10, a resident “The country is entitled to feel of Seattle for 25 years, died Satur | **cure,” maintained Baker. day morning at the home of his| “The country is entitled to know daughter, Mrs. I. M. Cohen, 4803/ the facts," mid Chamberlain. Alki ave. Baker Orders Keport Funeral services in charge of Ben| Baker at once asked Assistant Bec Hur lodge at the Seattle Undertak. | Tetary Crowell, who was present, to ing Co., 1812 Fifth ave. at 4 o'clock | jorder Gen. Goethals, quartermanter Sunday. | general, to wire the officer in com | mand at Camp Sherman for an im mediate report on clothing cond! tions there. “To have the commanding officer | of a camp tell senators or any one | j else that men have no uniforms is a | serious matter,” «ald Baker. | He asked Crowell, who four weeks THEATRE jago visited Camp Sherman, to tell what conditions were then E SAILORS NEXT Wednesday Eve. January 16 | “Ninety-five per cont of the men al “PERFECTLY SPLENDID,” SAYS oe | Satag'sow "roomie Sam cng jan. — a the: were not ‘ully provided cw. [MRS. PA PANKHURST OF SUFFRAGE, SEATTLE eo Seto ie aN mA | Se nds | HUE HARMON MESON valle sTRON e can complete the| ©” tes cae Correspondent — of t countries in the | over. Now we can work togeth- the action of our own house of Two hundred " : lords in appro ‘ c and fifty to 300 tele er for the good of humanity. rds in approving suffrage was | R H STRA grams a day is the record establish our solemn repo y . Trembling with excitement crag at ty on Fr jed by the telegraph office at this Doug, humen cyclone, visits Nature’s panorama of painted rock, the Grand Canyon of A of Ari zona! A trusty Ford, a real pippin of a girl, a villyun, a band of Injuns—mix these — with a rattling g story, add a thrill to every baa scene and a hair-raiser every reel—and you have A KANSAS MUSKETEER ceiving the vote at a time wh and joy, this was Mra. Emmeline ce a en camp since the first mobilization Pankheret's exdlamstion today, the country ix endangered and #0 and the haga : ration. when she learned from the United much ts at stake. babegedrp nade tthe andres J sages are government business, the Re: E " | States howe ot _sepremeniatives | ve ~ be as to win-the-war camp who are still in touch w ail Bt in approval of suffrage , we lowe t vote Mal Ch civilian Wusiness, according tO Ma ate . ee, pg ta gat ale orus jan Wusiness, ng Mar wish she e use \ n'a first cox Walley Stiskte a . a B ° said, “words do fiot go far duty is to make the country sate under direction of onthe . ys oy peg Bh ort argains | enough to tell how deeply T fee! No doubt the wo:nen of Am John M. Spargur, Conductor the camp than dispatched Are to be found daily It was perfectly splendid of ica feel the same way. I am glad The leading Musical Organ Each week more than 1,500 money fm THE STAR Classi. them. And President Wilson sup to offer congratulations to our teations of the Pacifie North drafts are received at Camp Lewia. fied Columns. Look | — bs : Mae caine ote |, Sateen Peale a In their su west in a brilliant Orchestral It takes all the time of five civilian he fact the trit conan ch asx In our own.” . Prog operators to handle the volume o ‘em over and—“SAY din Unit Renerion got eutradahine BY : and Choral Program. sorb re to handle the volume of you SAW it in THE ts on Sale Monday STAR.” ment on the same day is a habpy THREE DEAD IN Los J “i wary 14, at 10-A.M | — — - how Br OUT TORACCO vag ea ge | SCHOOL PUPILS SEE HOW HE QUIT TOBACCO, ANGELES ACCIDENTS | —” |" CITIZENS IN MAKING LOS ANGE Jan. 12.—Three Season Seats Also on Sale | are dead and three are injured today|| MAIL ORDERS oe wear ace: as the result of a number of for many yeas. He Mobile accidents, police and hospital | ted to quit, but records show. The dead are: Jean The federal court, Judge Cushman psiding, was converted into a class. om Saturday morning Fifth at Pike Continuous 11 te 11 It was naturalization day. D. A Admission 20c Children 10¢ needed something 10 | Vere, > Staeger, teacher of civies at Frank Includes War Tax help bim Vergez, aged 7, run down an au jlin high school, took his;class to the He’ teneaed °es tomobile onadel +] | [ 10e, 26¢, S0c, The digs beuh taat tothe | ell winded Rua pi ons |courtroom to learn how foreigners Mats., 100 to 60c [| about tobacco habit, and how to conquer Fetaworth, 96 er ei become American citizens, Soper? aera, See POeey. «38 bile collision, yeaa | eThe class of boys and girls visits gent letter be writes: the court twice h year, Staeger for tobacco any mor | wa paid. —— MARRIED HIM TWICE; a Real Hunch | EARS jilted her and married another. She aang lg o |12 PRO-GERMANS LAND |CLOTHES BLOODY, HE |TOOK THEM 4 Y daha Her money bask. Paotinite cocnee: iat. 5 Senators ASKS FREEDOM NOW | IN UNCLE SAM’S NET IS HELD BY POLICE TO riteaat WEDDING - “HOGAN'S |New York © You wil! be The first t 4 Youe of 5 incr Tie Miovedrome Acts land pleased. “Look for auietal nerve wan married the experiment Waa ct g A young man or a young ff) ederal and police officers were| 108 ANGELES, Jan. 12—Hial pu ne oa ae ahesetaens ftps stsoning | band, Jesse G. Couc mn r : Germans Saturday, following the de-| Price was arrested here early today | completed today by “Judge J ic- Weekday Mats. 10¢; Eves. & Sun. 200 J other advantages if you quit polsoning os puch, drank and Hf dance rapidly degener- §j| yourself. treated her cruelly. So she got a di |tention of 11 suspicious characters|0n & charge of suspicion of murder) Loinan when he pronounced Nels Better Looking - _ ——| voree. ates into a | Friday night. They were held at the| When he was about to put on fresh! Christensen and Hilde Odlund man —Take |, But-he begwed her to return:to him [United "States immigration station | apparel, Price related a story of ac] and wife. They procured a eense nt ee \and promised to be good. She did pending examination. Arrests were Cepting an automobile ride with alto.wed four years ago, and consid- |But he didn't keep his promine, she s made in various parts of the city, in-|*tranger on a Kern county road.| ered this was all that was neces- a C cluding the waterfront, by both po-|Not tong afterward the machine was | gary, Had it not been for question: declares in a suit filed for a second i fs divorce, alleging physical and mental lice and United States immigration| wrecked and the stranger terribly | naire returns, they would never have =... cruelty. officers. 4. Unable to drive the ma-| Known the difference, eeeitiannatonstie ORA chift, Price carried the man to a — —_—— VOTE POR CARL GETS MARRIED ON BOARD proving Mis story." “| MISS CHEEK DOES NOT J D prepared by ne AND ANGERS DEPUTY Wallflower fTourdsred andwas tort wittrall| RRGRPSION Ie sUNDay | TURN THE OTHER CHEEK gecea varus AK MUT like ME had Casi W, Davis simply can’t remain on board off the north st of Ire LOS ANGELES, Jan, 12.—Instead pl “ - . The Franco-Amerique Committee ee pp 1] tore A ty hare om or ke * a single. y land Wednesday, an admiralty state-| 5 6). : se |of turning the other, Miss Bertha better keep out of voLITICS Modern dancing is fJ| mont announced today Joffre will hold a reception at Mane. |e i eiied sult, She alleges she toh hag yd eas for a wh At least, it appears that way from ; Larne hall @untay, Gihederc? Vial Bh Sap eite ined Bd superior court records. taught well and rapidly — ee ‘ — ey cea Sunday, tn honor of vis: oe bataked” Charles, Taylor, oh Deputy Prosecuting Attorney fF at the RE Jannouncement, by mistake, said the Sailor, to the amount of $559 upon etulahood csdayeyou peareene ae SOME VIM YET in order to Palmer 4 er announced Saturday he | | yromise of marriage, and that he : three-fold pature, reception woutd be Tuesday. Y make that 35,400,000.00. would cite Davis for contempt of "acparate In ® nenses | rieataeereeeitcnnies ~ —— ner avant Give beats ‘ have court before night on the ground % iT dangerous after effects, 1 want to be ESPECIALLY Phat hn: Saved Within’ aie Donihe COMING SU iO abatert the btle andl nerceins die, gure that phat diveroe’, and for not sup | The phynical nat sof mocese peeps tahoe dadng Ee h boxes wR. D. G. YOUUGGREN Pal Pig id the ecorda show the 7 Int Tye with mmentattt ace Rake ake buys a 5/ package of UTS from dcanea wi satanel Tuly 20 O17, ana Fifth and University In re: nity n'but wealth. Ail druggats: Poke oe or two ZOBLE GROCERY v0. that he married in Bentan county on a: eeeniaal ‘ WESTLAKE HAXKET October 17, 1917. Prof. and Mrs, Oswald Pees mtonn saneere on ileal To render grave opinio: 5 i IN (today. OIL STOVE EXPLODES have 30 assistants. | ‘AC trials In mental court. “APARTMENT 29” Lodge Cafe And while we study mature, Yours FOsemseS OF, SHICAGO, Jo 2.—More | Y " ; sik pakecher Wore coir n hie te anh Learn to Dance | On ench tain MUIT, « we ss 6é 9 ard Near Vourth—Weetlake—Pine ar weather mar wen an ol eee This Is a Hunch CLA A” in Cabaret—Dancing Side apartment house and. threat . Werld's Largest Dry Cabaret. ened destruction of the building. teal