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b> f Weather Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 49. ‘Today neon, 44 Minimum, 40. Tonight and showers; sh s westerly nerey Entered as Sevond € # Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, 23, SEATTLE , MONDAY, APRIL AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH TILL EN ROUTE! Conservation, eh? Every little added to what ya got now makes just a little bit Well, 1° tell a man that the big boys have accumulated this text, Whether we ultimate consumers have or not. From all indications, the chief business institutions of our fair Jand are playing safety first, and if the bullsheviski come tomorrow, Re plute will be found without an extra bar of soap. You see, it's this way: I've | Watched for more years than I have fingers and toes the hotel Barometer, and when they start to leave second-hand soap in a $5 foeom, watch out—the revolution is Jest around the corner And I have discovered a soap conspiracy. Slim and thinner is ‘he keynote, and about all there is Jeft of hotel soap is the sme!!, and that abideth forever The last time I traveled, hotels Weft regular hunks of soap in the Bath and beside the wash basin, Dut today they are wrapping tiny, Microscopic cross-sections of snap @ violet paper, and the guest who ‘@ndeavors to wash both his hands Gnd feet in the same week is out of HERE is a good deal of expensive falee pretense @bout thts hotetr basi ness. Every city has some one hotel that ts emaidered THE place to stop, but frequently this famous hostelry is Bving on reputation, and its ao eommodations are not up to the Standard set by less advertised Pivala, Indeed, about the ohly dif ference between the “best” hotel and the next best in any American efty is the extra $2 a day the “best” hotel charges for a room. But a large per cent of the trav | eling public is snobbish, and it ‘would rather squeeze into the gar ret of a big hotel than take the Dridal suite of any other; to the snob there is a satisfaction in showing off fine feathers in big lobbies and tn writing back home to the folks on embossed hotel sta- tionery; indeed, many of these folks steal the hotel paper and use the hotel lobby, and sleep nights at #ome obscure rooming house on a Ddack street THE ran from San Francisco to Los Ange les I was ministered to by a Pullman porter who was of the old school— & soft-spoken, courteous, efficient colored man of the antebellum f¥pe. I asked him how long he had been on the job “[ started train work June 11, 1873, sah,” he said. I suggested that he had seen some changes in train service, “Indeed, I has. We used candles and oil lamps and wood stoves. We set up the brakes by hand, and we had no sleeping cars, nor chair cars, mostly benches—yes, sab.” Forty years of going to and fro, 40 yeare of shining other folks’ shoes, of following others’ whims, of wreck and storm, and nights without sleep—the story of such a man's life would make an epic I watched the brakeman on this yimited train, All he had to do w to leisurely stroll 30 yards to the rear of the train and put a torpedo on the track once ry three hours or #0, Not much like the old days of hand brakes, when the brakemen ran over the top of icy freight cars, setting the brakes on every hill, and then ran back, unsetting them when the grade was reached. Then, too, the fireman has a snap thes nothing much to do but stick head out o that there s. No coal to shov asionally to see of the track, and to wave a sid hand at the « rural youth. When firemen had to cut their own wood from the forest beside the track they had think about t bose. And I notice that the section hands are having it easier ? more do they pump up and down, ] pushing the hand ear for miles after the d work is done 0, sir; they have a gau engine on th hand cars now, and when they call it a day they mount their chariot and ride in state to the station house Of course, conductors, those lord: ly soveréigna of the road, always have had it easy. You will notice that conductors are ever fat, and usually are good natured, Nothing to do but loaf in « soft chair; may be 26 minutes of actual effort in a IS-hour run—a soft job, my breth ren, and one that T might have adorned with great welf-content had I risen to my opportunities early in life and Oited mywelt for this high calling. omething to he sins of Nine Maniacs Flee Prison; Women Hiding in Terror CHESTER, Il., April 5.—Nine maniacs, desperate and convicted for murder or criminal ass roamed this district after their escape from the state hospital for the criminal insane here. Fifteen escaped, but six were recaptured. ) armed posses searched the countryside today for the itives, while frightened women and children re- mained in tightly barred farm houses. SEVEN IRISH TOWNS CLED BY TROOPS 500 Sinn Feiners Are Arrested Follow- ing Easter Uprising with. @ deliberate, spiracy to make the country ungoy HES ‘GOOD’ Streets Superintendent Case Also to Retain Post | for Present, Says Mayor in a statement issued Manday head of police department “There in no vacancy as far as the joftice of police chief is concerned,” “And as far al now know there will be none,” Caldwell also denied rumors that there is any change to occur shortly in the superintendent of streets de- criticising the efforts of “to force candi ie mayor declared greatly hampered | far-reaching con f ‘S—More than 300 Sinn Feiner have been ar- rested In a new series of raids by police and military, following the Easter uprising, according to estimates at Dublin castle today. The south of Ireland still was under virtual martial law, North Ireland was completely cut off from telegraphic commu- nication today. Cordons of police surrounded Dublin, Derry, Cork, Limerick, Newry, Thurles and Dundalk. Two British warships were lying in Kingstown harbor, miles from Dublin. Total police barracks burned and bombed thruout Ireland stood at 99 © waa being government home rule bill printed In a morn At Guerteen 10 armied men entered the residence of Kier yan to the door of } and killed him cemen were fired on from ambush in County wounded dangerous * was suggesting suc. of chief of| NEW YORK, April 5.- nted an in as charming to her husband as | Aidate for tatement of Irene Bordont, famous | French pas | would! She was tallang about charm | j | atroved the tax re ould |; me rule bill was crit a meeting of the Louth today In Dublin troops were confined to Officers had orders to be prepared for any eventuality |The night passed quietly. An unusual and ominous movement erformed \their barracks British Press Voices . | Anger Against Ireland |where bands estimated at more than were MAN I 700 men marched thru the country and confiscated thousands of act n Ireland has now g of ntories | in driving owners off estates |Ten grazing tenants were forced to leave one estate t Dublin castle today est! mtaed the damage to property in the at more than $500. at the outbreak the London were Easter outbreak ¢ trouble.making INDICTED COPS FILE DEMURRER Ask Specific Statement in Federal Court would be forced to pay 6 were blown up The Sinn Fein flag was stil fy he admiralty pler at Queens y. Halyards had been cut flag pole greased government's grapple with the while it continued to deplore Briti language strong enous scribing fresh Gutbreal terize the criminality country a by-word More Showers Due Says Weatherman Weatherman & among nations. organization. had struck at the basis of govern: | tax records, | would make enforcement Meadowdale t aid who appeared showers,” he re. ELFAST ISOLATED AND WIRES CUT southwesterly IRST SALMON” SENT TO WILSON -bers see that you are trying. You] wires were cut alleged lack of us to the contents of the and charged with as ded not guilt This Copper Takes No More Chances as extinguished. Pledge Support to Armenian Relief 41 other centers for Armenian Washington underground to Committees: repr troops to aid the At Newry one is hoped to raise 3,000 Coal Miners Idle During Strike rs in Staunte construction a man trying to set fire construction INE’S BUSY” I WISCONSIN TOW MILAUKISE, nd Benod were today owing renounced th telephone for the wedding ring. atinfied with their e new secretary is confronted | the new contract. PE FIEND IS SOUGHT IN URDER OF TWO On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 APPA PPP PPP AAO ARR Two CENTS IN SEATTLE ALDWELL SAYS HE N’T FIRE CH WARREN IS Why F rench Women Ch arm Ceaneithers Are to Be Rounded Up Trene Betray ys the Secret siiseics ain ete me | {RENE BORDONT No wom! she ix to other men!” This is the| why French we n are #0 charming. | ne reason she believed American ris are not as charming as the French i that they grow up in s much closer campantonship w oye than do the French gir Her first statement is in the nature of n analo UNUSUAL TO THE FRENCH GIRL } “American girls p ‘tag’ with boys when they are young; they go to school with them; they work with them The French girl's attitude toward men is entirely different. She sees! them comparatively seldom, A man] * something unusual in her life n she meets one she exerts her: | © him—and th. result is that the French girl is what ,wu « harming.” mi | Another angle of the question of charm is the influence of beauty “Why are French women arming?” repeats Miss Bordoni. “I am tempted to say, because they are | ——— | not so beautiful as American wame and must make up for it somehow.” | Three things that fo to make up are courtesy |charm, she explains, | |ood breeding and tact. French | girle are trained from their earliest | jays at school always to be cour | teous. DON’T LET OTHERS YOU TRY TO P! “Charm {s# partly a matter of de. siring to please, But don’t let oth From Lake Michigan must be at your ease to put others | ut their ease “Cultivate grace of movement Miss Bordoni'’s advice to American viria, “Don't walk in quick, nervous starts. Be attentive when ye are spoken to; don te yourself, but try to be your bet | Missing heiress, by Mrs, ¢ K found T taken from Lake Michigan today by ize too strongly that you ean be | worker. ery charming without Gold fillings jauid to be similar to the fillings in }the teeth of Miss De Kay, were) found, | Mack oxford shoes and a corset, fade in Switzerland,” were worn by the girl, police found ne 1 father is ed in Py eye Switzerland. The Swiss markingson| Diagram shows position of cars as they were when the her clothing caused the belief of po. missing heiress. | both reled * TACOMA, April 5.—W. D. Ask ren, prosecuting attorney for Pierce county, Who was shot Saturtny, hight at the door of his home by a {woman in male attire, was reported Jat St. Joseph's hospital today to be limproving. He rested well Sunday ‘hight and according to Dr. G. G Kuntz, his physician, a good chance for recovery, Miss De Kay, a ward of Addams, of Hull House, disappear veral months ago, Her thy American, now living w lice that she was th Mrs, Julia Smith, convicted of per-| Sir Oliver Lodge, distinguished forming a criminal operation, and] British scientist, will speak on “Life accused by Arxkren as his assail:| After Death" at the Arena Sunday ant. is beld in jail without bail evening, April 18 IEF CHIEF ORDERS | CITY CLEAN-UP | ‘All “Ho p-Heads,” > and Underworld In a general order issued at noon today, Police Chief Warren de manded a general cleanup of the city of all drug addicts, underworld characters and persons with no visible means of support. The order would be held responsible for the moral condition of his district, “The long list of crimes that cul: ted in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Scott have been committed by persons of this character,” the order sald. eee eee Detectives, police and deputy sheriffs, working er, were apparently fast closing in late today on the bad man, bandit and gunfighter, known as “Blackie, the Rat,” who, after holding up a number of auto parties on Rainier blvd. early Sunday morning, shot and killed his pal, Elmer Cady, lin an auto in which they were fleeing after Cady had mur- dered Sheriff Robert C. Scott. “The Rat,” deputies say, is a dope fiend. | After the double killing, “The Rat” disappeared, takin ‘with him the loot of the many robberies, and is believed to! ‘have “holed himself up” in | some secluded hotel. With a good description of ithe gunman obtained from \nearly a dozen different per- jsons, scores of detectives, po-| \lice and deputies, are scouring|| To what extent te ‘the city, certain of arresting growing evil “The Rat” as soon as he comes | sponsible for Seattle’s latest from his hole. wave of crime? Two weeks ago, thru underground lehannels, “The Rat” sent a death) “One of the bandits came towarl |threat to Deputy Scott: “I will get us,” Beebe said. “We all thougirt: you, Scott, and Fred Dubrey and | scott had got out of the seat and was Phyltis Marr.” Dubrey and Mrs.\ behind the car with us. The bandit — Marr are special investigators. ung open the door, said something, Scott laughed a boyish laugh. But! and shot twice. Vaughn and I both ten days ago, when Fred Dubrey shot about the same time, and the 7 indicted by the federal grand jury bandit staggered back, yelling fer his 7] on @ charge that Scott told Deputy | pal to come up. Sheriff Herbert Beebe he bel! he| “The other holdup knelt down in was “framed” by someone influenced! the middie of the road and started te by “Blackie the Rat,” Scott began to rejoad his gun. I fired at him twiees take the threat more seriously Then he got behind three of the men He told Phyllis Marr of the warn: he had robbed, and marching them ing. and for days they had been ahead of him, came towards uss working to “back track” the charge ‘We couldn't shoot without hitting. ve |Body of Heiress Is Taken CHICAGO, April 5.—Jeanne de . missing heiress, has been body of a young woman, jing 4 be afraid to smile, | police,;was identified as that of onion car, where they could command |! ertrude ltor, brighter self. I cannot empha. | Howe Britton, Hull house social | being beau.| According to police, the young! woman fits the description of Miss | De Kay. The body is that of a young woman of 26 years, Miss De Kay,| police said, had pockmarks similar to | those on the body i in the lower teeth. against Dubrey, who had been locked in the county Jail tround back of 6 house to Coerial RETURNED TO FIND where we thought we could qrosse HOLD-L RTS fire. sy night Scott and Beebe “Ry this time everybody was walle were detailed to investigate a killing ing around in the middle of the road. at Lake For Park. They had re-|The bandits got two boys, Earl Eba, turned to the sheriff's office about of 10020 Rainier ave, and A Jy midnight, when word came that two | Smith, 2 Washington st. and told bandits were holding up motorists in Smith to get into our car and drive’ Rainier Valley them to town Immediately they set out in Beebe's | OUT IGNITION TO car with Deputies Vaughn, Pyncheon CRIPPLE CAR and Hughes, the th e latter sitting ee tie Cane peat Ecaee ak thc or “Smith opened the door of our mas in’ Geol as right side. chine and saw Scott's body on the Driving out the Beacon Hill road, Seat. He said, ‘There's @ man ip when they approached Rainier biva., there. I can’t get in’ they saw three autos standing in al “Then one of the bandits said, group, as if tin aceldent had oc- | ‘We'll fix their car eo they can't use curred it’ Somebody threw up the hood | Beebe drove his car forward to and cut the ignition wires. Later E Phage A atasis found Smith's hat in between the en+ “We discovered it was @ holdup,” |#ine and the mud guard: 4 today. “Two machines had|, “The bandits marched the twe boys ked off the pavement, An.|0Ver to another car. Smith said, “E J other car stood in the middle of the|°a"t Grive” Ebs sald, 7 can alae nisin] eee anaes towark eae a eee And the bandits told them of people were standing in front with |{9 fice the wheel and drive like hell their hands up, and two men were or they would blow out his > a going thru their pockets. Another like they had done to Scott, Them auto was approaching from the oth-| they drove off.” er direction, As we neared them, Sostt pulled ‘his’ gees ad’ leveled tt Mmniye etch to the story told by Ebay over one of the spot lights. a ae on the way into Seattle, the last TOLD ScoTT NOT being the “prowler, \TO OPEN FIRE \equipped with swinging spo as : » ».| that sweep the roadway ahead. : BE ed Sarna pie hi iat car approached, Eba says, one : |shoot, for fear of hitting some of the| wrong, you're done forse innocent persons, but to wait until], the bandits approached the car. The | PASSED POLICE three deputies then climbed out of| CAR AT HIGH SPEED ‘ ck seat and Beebe left the| Fearing the bandit, he said, and aring the police would shoot \thinking he was a bandit, unless a view of the whole sceno without |4rove at top speed, Hba says he | being observed by the bandits, Scott | “stepped on her” and flashed by! the) 7) |remained in the seat, (Turn to Page 15, Column 9 wheel and went around the back of | |sheriff’s auto drove up, just before the killing, of Deputy Sheriff Scott. With the spotlights turned full upon the other cars, four deputies concealed themselves behind t their auto jand w nicer for ie pants to come up, Seott remained in his « seat and was killed, The two bandits then fled in the autog | pate north towards the city.

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