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rC HIRED FOR | SHOE SALE ‘Two Million Pairs at $1 to $7 on Sale in Chicago CHICAGO, Aus. res = ‘The Coliseum, | which rents for $1,000 a » te for the time being a retail store, run by Ben L. Eppstein gelling, he says, 2,000,000 pairs shoes—the largest number ever at one sale in : & e the United Bat | While band wagons with great literally “drum up business” the streets a cordon of police keep crowds of buyers in order, Eppstein is selling shoes from $ $7 a pair. Ho says he is the mtative of the Community Bales association, and that this) ts made up of “manufac: and jobbers.” tein is so silent on the subject Kis associates that lots of folke! he is the owner of the shoes | Retailers, he’ say are “spies” to his “sto Be that as it may—Eppstein saya! he believes the day of lower oe prices has arrived “These shoes cost from $5 to $15/ retail stores.” Eppstein claims, We're selling them at prices Wholesale. Everybody in the 0 knew that shoes were selling high and they passed the buck @ach other. Now, when the has come. the consumer is the reward.” ESS WHEAT IS IN CANADA Pct. Decrease in Prairie Provinces [WA, Ont, Aug. 3—The Dureau of statistics has an estimate of the acreage this spring to grain, hay andi thruout Canada. The exti-| total area sown to wheat is! acres as compared with) -ecrea In 1919, a decreane 2,205,000 ‘acres, or 12 per cent @,afen planted to fall wheat t+ acres and to spring wheat mcres as against 15,453,175 fo 1919. area sown to oats ts esti at 15,291,000 acres as com- ‘with 14,952,000 acres last year, increase of 339,000, or 2 per cent bas an acreage of 2,574,900 as compared with 2,645,509 In rye 730,100 acres as compared 783,081; peas 219,065 as against i; mixed grains 900.900 as 901,612; hay and clover 1 Qs against 10.595.383. and a 220,500 as against 226.869. The Planted to potatoes is esti at $02,500 acres as against) ‘The area planted to pota-| ted at $02,500 acres as} 8,767 last year, a decrease! os Sf 2 per cent. | ‘The area in the three prairie prov- sown to wheat totals 15,502,700 as compared with 17,750,167 last year, a decrease of 13 |ANADA BUILDS "BETTER ROADS Alone to Expend| ~ Some $185,000,000 “2% 4 & | ( "AWAY Ont, Avg. 3—Ontario ‘epending $5,000,000 on good roads year and the department of works is preparing a plan will call for an expenditure of 000 for the construction of| miles of a highways five y 8 F. Bauire, President of the pn Good Roads association, that there are 350,000 miles highways in’ the dominion, as red with 37,500 miles of rail and that the land utilized in highways is today worth $750, “These highways, declares Mr. , have been constructed with government help than has been| led the railwaye, and he fur-| gays that the value of the stock used on the highways! approximately equal to that of entire capital stock of the rall the nutomobiles alone being at about $500,000,000 thewan has just voted im- eependiture of $413,900 out) total appropriation of $1,706 ided by the legislature. The nt of highways has alread: contracts to more than municipalities, and entered! agreements with 260 rural mu-| ities for the maintenance of! isting main market roads Steel and concrete, and wooden construction is proceeding idly in this priarie province, and yneing June 1, a comprehen-| @ road building program will be h rapidly as an army of men can do the work | British Columbia, Alberta, Mant ‘anf Quebec all report unusual] ity in bridge and highway con Hon, and every province ting the rapid completion of Pv continental highway from| neouver to the Atlantic const “Herbert Hoover ts widely quoted roads advoc in hie it that during the war fifty cent of the avaible food in} and the United States never shed market, due to the lack means of highway transpor- ve | one @ tes a Parachute; /Save Womans Life 1 N—By Mall)—Frau Em-| ‘Westphal, living on the cso of a Berlin apartment house, ow of her window but} mately in the court below. pists acted as 4 parachute. | from Vancouver ' Radicals and Co Conservatives j hearing. “| Their argument is that there is no lof the American Federation of Labor, |Pinched in Raid; | applicants were denied, Tides in Seattle TURSDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 First Low Tide Las am, 2G ft | First High Tide Tae am, 88 ft | Recond Low Tite jLa0 p. | Second ne Piest High Tide 24 am, he te Second Low Tide 12:88 pom, Second High Tide ah my 128 0. NEW YORK, Aug, 1—The stock [hour today under heavy buying of moat the session was marked a3 We AT te 10. S. K. Lines Due With Big Cargo Loaded with 229 tons of silk, from en exe, Wood oll and general car the QO. & K. liner Arabia Mar due in Victoria Tuesday. of There was no particular re buying seemed to be for inv Northern preferred « Steel recovered e Mexican Petroleum tieally thru the let, n 4 North ate f 5 pointa, The is She will at Victoria and Vancouver ° Seattle Arrivals and Mer dem: for money call mon: first time since July 17. The market closed higher, . NEW YORK, Aug, %—Opening pr’ today showed some strength follow! ieee oral weakness at the io. Traders y Tacoma |! the view that the market, had rr: hadiambra | WAY from August ay Redond rt Alaska at 3:15 p, Bo, Opening prices up 4%; New Maven, 314, up NM; Steel, $1M, off My; Atchiaon, 80, up Stated Steel, 56%, up %: New York STM. Up St Vanadium, 69%, up % Immediately after the opening considerable weakn Studebaker, 63, August 2—8tr Spokane for Southeast te Jertereom Dorang ie via Ran Francisco. ai atr J. A. Moffett for Ban P m.: tow Storm King for San Fi Port Angeies at 11:20 a im ‘The buying strength which devel eee have any Vessels in Port at Seattle | ,, ae Cove torminal—Dge Henry Vil \ Great Northern pier $—8tr Mukilteo. Pier Bir West Jester, or B-ftr Raster Leader, or t-Btr Bkagway, Rmith Cove terminal—itr Mitkesam Maru, Pier Date A I Menley. Pacific Coast bunkers—U. @ L. WT. Umatitia, Hanford st. terminal—@tr Rastera Tem- ple, Duthie yarde—ste thie Bastern Exporter, sr Mant Waterway terentnad——er West Wim. fot Port Ban 14S a om. new lows The market strengthened nited States Steel reaching 86%. uF per cent « ave increased etren: On announcement that the selling again came into the market lost. There was some resistance NEW YORK, Av early this afternoon A severe } ain tr Amur, te and possibly the real reason for a Practically the whole list. Barlier reports today indicating pean tension weakened the market views from London and engineer @ series of market raids support due to short covering, but Puget Sound Bridge & & Dredging works |¥*FY little support. UB & Patterson, Lake Unton—Huite Broxton, Leota, Enay- mica, Fort Jackson, Addison, Rough. eormomt. Rourneville, Allen burst. Abilia, Adria, Capra: my tra, Gelwin, Abydos, Arcademia, Aca Gomia, Peauta, Diack Wolf, Biekiand, Dastine, Bianford. Agro: Authon. Fort Harrison, Fort Sanwix, Imufka. Kitoa, Loott, ne, Cagnacas, Cotten, Cineyras, Card's, Elissa, sehre Hen: Wilson, Saivater, Alles, motor sehr Oregon. Ames yarde- Str Roosevelt. Meth m arydee! ~Moter sehr Coolche, otr Challambr Stream _ 65, whtch was oft, off 6%e al ee NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—The New afternoon: “It was rather obvious from th solated canes. being made good, and therefore the 1S LABOR WAR IS ON IN CANADA), ut The olle were in good form joyed sporadic spurts forward. ‘The equipment issues again wore » of the railroad descriptions.” WHEAT FUTURES | GOING UPWARD: Reach Highest est Price in Sev- eral Days in Bitter Fight WINNIPEG, Aug. 3—The labor unions here which stood united just one year ago in the greatest indus. trial battle Canada ever witnessed, are engaged today in a “ctvil war.” “Ww, C. poo War to the finish” between the| _.CIICAQO, Aug, 3 wheat futures one big union, composed of the radi-| days this afternoon when March de- cal labor elements that seceded from} livery shot to $2.32% at the close, the Trades and Labor council when |!7'$¢ higher than Saturday's close ithe general strike collapsed, and the 33% 0 eves Sotay 6 epenine: Pe: reorganized council, composed of the of the conservatives who adhere to the in.) ternational trades union movement has been declared one year, almost to the day, since the so-called lution of 1919" came to an end. EXPECT SETTLEMENT BEFORE WINTER Before next winter, it In expected, one or the other of the divisions will have conquered. Federation organizers are being sent into every O, B. U. camp in the West “to expose the fallaey of the one big union theory and to win back to the counct! the few unions that have been misled into seceding.” The O. B. U. has its workers’ de. fense committee, created originally to raise funds for the defense of the strike leaders who are now in prison, | but now the propaganda division of the radicals’ union, At regular union meetings and at mass meetings the war is bein, waged. At O. B. U. meetings the international speakers are subjected to heckling, as are the O. B. U speakers at international meeting. but on the whole the rank and file is disposed to give the rivals a fair Ife over pening and 15% *. The other grains followed wheat September e 1 December $1.2 wheat area were mor veral fact Including @ greater ntereat in cash wheat by exporters, failure of yesterday's local F to come up to expectations, selling pressure ‘and covering ts the close, Decom at $2.17 and closed at $229, while March started at $2.20 and closed at $2.32% ‘The corn situation continued to be bullish. Lut little precipitation was reported from the dry area Offer- were light and even the ed to cause any material selling. September corn rush juat before ber, delivery. ope dat tember oat opgains, at 69% | UP See, closed at T0i4c; December opened % chigher at @%c. and cloned | at 70c. Gata was affected by the rise in_wheat and corn Provisions were higher in sympa- thy with grain and the bulligh show- ing in stocks. . Chicago Live Stock CHICAGO, Ang. 2.—Tlo g Receipt 18,000 head; market steady to 100 Bulk Of males, $13.50@16; buteher 16.10; packing, $1219.80; lieht, @i610; plas, $1416.50; roughs, 2.40. Ue—Receipte, 11,000 head: calves strong. Beef, $10 rat $5@ 14.78: canner $2.7807.25 cokers and $669.75; cows, 86@12; calves, “NO YANKS” 18 CRY OF 0. B. U. ‘The ery of the O. B. U. organizers “No domination by the Yankees!” ses is tue reason why Canadian labor should be subject to the ordess of international unions, officered almoat entirely by Americans and dominated by the American local unions ‘The argument of the Trades and Labor council debaters is that the la bor movement must be international to be strong enough to deal with or- ganizations of employers, which are international. They answer the O. B. U. speakers by quoting the statement made by Samuel Gompers, president market ts owes, $10 head 6.70; w PSTLAKE Mtan 16-17, flour, 20; in Montreal recently, showing that Canadian unions received from inter: ‘national headqdarters more money than they paid in as international dues. Pingliah Breakfast tea, funbright cleanser, ginger snaps, Tb,, 200 cans minced elams, ake. Stall 112 2 Iba, 260; ru Sugar stall, Gold Bond flour, $3.25; Cen- Stall prunes. Ihe Ib. Crisco, 2 tha 4 Ibe. 6 Ibe, 2 and ‘Wertiake Special tennial Bost, $2 beans, beans, pink abe; Out on $500 Bail J. P. Palmer, A. Bush and Frank Cody, arrested by the police in a raid on the Sunnydale roadhouse ;Sunday morning, were taken into | | federal custody on bench wartants | Tuesday, and each released on $500 bail. "35 Are Admitted to U. S. Citizenship ‘Thirty-five men and women were admitted to citizenship Monday and 25 more were scheduled to appear before Superior Judge Frater Tues |day for examination, Hearings of | four applicants were continued pending additional study, while five Stall Ihe, Abe mili, 26 tlon mi Wb. eut tomatoom, wnat oe dor crate. Stal! 26, salmon smoked Chinook aaimon ise Ib, Stall short ribs, 106 Ib CORNER heat fresh churned butter operative milk, 476; pea Me fresh ranch exer, rick che abe bottle Lib oi) wardines 1b Lhe 17, pure A 4 the., 900 at. Stall 46 12%e. Stal 2 packages macaront 100 Ibi xwoet corn, solew, lamb chops, be, Stall 102 Feastorn on ate Ib.j pot roasts, ib, SANITARY Stalls 24-26, Mazola oll $1.15 half-gal $2.20 per gal Yellow Label tea, 750; 3 for, $1.60; oltrus pow fearchlight matches, 2 beans, Z6e, Stall 45, Mills Maximum cottee, per tb, White shortening, 260 tb 41.96; Wenson oll, qt... The ib, 206; rolled oats, 3 Ibs. ECONOMY pure cane sugar, 2 Ib bulk oh ae pt, 1b. M co pk a Ibe, 400 at, Lipton’ Hh cof 4 boxes white M. J.B, or can, 600; Finke 6-1b. can eriavo, noda crackers, Ibe $6,205,447.51 1,348,400.11 | 1,440,962.00 |, 279,041.00 | Clearings . | Balances Periinad Btall 36, 4 Ibs. for 406 Ibe di 6,433,317.94 821,696.55 Clearings « jalances ve | Heavy Selling Again Cuts Down Gains in New York’s Trading largely to the International situation and new lows for the ment wore reached in a number of stocks atment purp P m the early low, Foreign exchange was Increasingly weak in tne tate afternoon, ster Of circuses and political con-| proceed to Seattle after discharging | ing falling to $3.63%. As a consequende ¢ and there waw considerable buy! unchanged Baldwin, Reading, after opening at 88} to STM and United States Stee] lost ite gain of %, to a new low on the present decline, the present decline within the first h lasting strengthening effect i. 1—The stock market showed extreme weakne ish defeat and the breaking off of! armistice negotiations between the soviets and Poland was the c Paria were seized upon by bear operators to Another unsettling factor was @ further break in #terting exchange to Franca, market that the liquidation movement of, yesterday was overcome, The} pening was irregular without much pro’ ‘The recovery was quick and broad, of time with values holding pretty well. “Strong and weak spots were neverthele ‘The steels were distinctly non-resitient over Saturday's | cy howed a high! | here was @ general buying | THE SEATTLE STAR TOM WATSONS Vegetables Hold Steady A car of Tom Watson watermelons, market rallied during the last half railroad shares. ‘The market during| by bear attacks aseribed present move- repoate own in the Weat, arrived ‘Tuesday melons & on Wentern ave. from California, at 4 cents a pound, which is slightly above the market for ordinary melona. Blackberry offerings are increas ing in numbers and quality, with 450 « ‘Tuesday. Vegetables hold steady. and eggs remain unchanged in price, altho eges are reported to be firmer if anything. Local Markets Prices Paid Wholesnte Dealers for Vegctabies and Fruit ascribed for the late rally, but the ex and large blocks of Great was taken up, United States Valdwin nearly 4 points and movement extended pri ‘acific covering declining stock prices and a oY Tates eased off to 6 por cont, the ee son the New York stock exchange ne yesterday's Muctuations and gen At the opening Were apparently tak- cached the oottom, temporarily, any & power United Sta 106, up %: TK i Texas Company, 43, Central, up Mi Keadin up 1% however, market again showed %, auickfy reacted and then dropped 85%. Moat of the other steels mado if hour, oped at the market opening falled to n prices. toward the eb p' 1% from the low, eth to prices. h offensive had broken down, heavy | Rhabarb— and about half the early gains were! thia second raid Rubber, #4 ublic Iron & f Me: United 10%, ‘orn Products, 58%, the Green Peppers-Per ib Letiuee—Loval ° Onlone—Red, per Yellow of the first hour, Call money at § tennible series of bear raids which ‘depressed Polleh reverses and a neral Puro- after a strong opening and later ad- Pelco astern Washington .. Gravensteing, Cal per bom.. Apricots Per lug . Rananae—Per Ib Blarkherries—Per rane | Camtatoupee —S\andares Local oenee During the morning there was some in the afternoon the market found lire and mark quotations were ee York Sun financial review says thie ¢ course of prices in today’s stock | need change save in some however, most } ” Hat settled down to @ quiet marking aganbrerice—ler erate Oranges—Ver case Pearhee—Callfornia Pineapple Crate ... quite numerously sprinkled Plume—Califoraia thruout and some of the motors en- ng in company with the tendency | Turkish omstone—F Watermetane— lee Cream Melone—Per ib. NUTS Prices Puld at Wheireale Almonde—rer 1. Foreign Exchange Aur Foreign ex- “4, off T%e sterline " Tike, off 4 centimes; tine. Demand sterling was offered at W284. off tue; demand france, 7.4le, off 18 centimes: demand lire, B.1%6, off 9 contimes, and demand | oft 3 centimen, Money on Call NEW YORK, Avg. 2—Money on marks, demand DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid te Shippers Fage—Strictiy treah Milk—Per owt .. DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid Whelesale Dealers Butter—Leeal creamery, eubes, Mrteks Fage-Fresh ranch . Pallets , . a Status of Frisco Market SAN FRANCIBCO, Aug. 1.—Dotter— ate per Te im SEMC Per dow | dirticeNe. Mie per dont extra pallets, S0c per Seen Oke. por ten ats, fancy, Jie per Or. trtptet Wisconal Limburger Young America Block Swine Wash. triplets... jene—Under 4 Ibe 4 Te and up Meviters— Ai Hope to Avert Fuel Famin Further East BY HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 3— Right of way, for coal cars from [Ohio and West Virginia mines to |Lake Erie ports, and for empties from these ports back to the mines, jis to be ordered by the Interstate Commerce comminsion in an effort to relieve a thre ning winter short age of fuel in the Northern Prairie | states, ’ | It is hoped that before long a) | minimum of 4,000 cars of coal daily jean be dumped at the ports of Te io, Lorain, Cleveland, Conneaut and Ashtabula for transportation up }lakes by boat. | Thin was decided at a conference | of Commissioners Clark and Aitcht son with busivess men from the | Northwest. | At least eh e Some — ive. Sper ib. POULTRY Prices Paid Wholemlere Uveee . ‘ae | Hoge—Taney « Veal—Fancy Medium .... Quotations at Stockyards Heee— Primes Medium to chotee Rough heavy - 17 s0@18 +18.60@ 14.00@15 12,609 16.00 110001159 950@1050 7.00@ 8.50 * Medium t Rough heavy Rest cows and helt 11.00@13.80 a 1@ 6.50 HAY, GRAIN AND FEED Wholesale Price Per Ton, City Price Bariey-—Wh 78.00 74.00 19.00 20,000,000 tons of coal! must still be transported up-lakes, the commissioners were told, if that | section is to be saved from famine. | gg, |The schedule of 4,000 cars daily, if attained, would supply approximate: | Corn 1,250,000 tons weekly for the 15 b 16 weeks before navigation closes, |Chop To do this, however, it will be i on necessary to curtail shipments Alfalfa coal to sections normally served by > \auee aM rail. While the special movement of |Werch jake coal ix under way these sections | Chiek Food |may expect little more than enough | \¢ re for current needs. 1 supply expected to! follow the commiasion’a 100 per cent! |car-supply order has not, it ts mitted, been as great as hoped. Officials In the car service section |M of the I. C. C. take a much more} complacent view generally, or than members of the commission Itself. | Yet it is thru these officinis that the commission must functic Until the commission of its subordinates, whose pto see that orders are enforced, little lean be expected in better car supply and car movement Most of the men have come to the commission's jemploy from req affected by th Whoje racked Wholesale Beef Is prods some Job it is] CHICAGO, beef pri terially” th pr cording day by meat Th the Aug. 3.—-Wholesale have “declined ma thruout the country from Hing in June, ac to a statement issued to. the institute of American ‘kers, ve Fast de 8 now commission's ord Works on Sawmill Job for 67 Years | CLAREMONT, N. HL, Aug | Mins Miranda lo, 84 years jhas been employed for 67 in the same mill here Paper Clothes Now on Londun Market LONDON.(By Mail)—In an ef. fort to bring down laundry prices, entire outfits of paper colthes are being placed on the London mar. kets lemon flavor, 60 tn 16 wholesale reased from 10 to nt from the last of the last of July, the statement ‘suid. ‘The decline on less costly grades wae than that on choice ¢ supply was greater in June. price m The July than Ste old, ears Colligan on Job in Deputy United States ry nk Coll U. S. marshal's office in the federal building during the absence of W. FE. Theodore, chief deputy, on his an- nual vacation, pure 3, pot black pep roasts, 160 Ib.) Hamburger Vou) stoake, 200 1b; pienios, 260 ty first agricultural United State, Ib college in the 200 1b; AT FOUR CENTS Blackberries. Incre asing; said to be the finest variety of water- morning They were selling erate the established price Butter ++ 1600900 at 590.8: 1 bee Cheaper, They Say June | Marshal’s Office} Marshal | an is in charge of the| Cleveland, Ohio, wan the site of the HERE’S MORE ABOUT JAP PROBE STARTS ON PA@: ONE Freeman cc manded the naval train. ing station here; Kd, Clifford ts an ex-president of the Bolo club and 4 Spanish war veteran The national committee of American Legion includes such men Bishop Prent, of the Episcopa chureh, who has had much mission ary experience in foreign lands 4 who certainly represents the high ideals of Christianity, I leave you gentlemen to judge tiv of men like these a Murphy, who is giving in behalf of a 4 of his capabill the Ja ne afternoon making & personal Inspec tion of the Seattle Japanese colony BOY WRITES | Disappears “After Message in Jar the mystery surrounding Cectl near, 14, and bi picked up on and turned jay by Madinon oth ave. “Tell 16th ave the note. Detective John Flint, Mra. Monear’s house, that Ceell wan often rarely showed at home. er, Clifford, 15, ast Thursday on Enterprise. That quit became displeased with the work. The note was sealed in a Pond’ cold cream jar, pencil on heavy paper. was attached to the Jar, this reason Flint believes strange death note the Fauntleroy beach over to police Tuer Harold W. Fox, of st., and A. KR. Poyntz, 93 Mre. B. E. Monear, 5. W., that her son ts a “loat” board and fo Thursday. Ceell Ho frequently threatened than a month ago, that he was in a despondent mood. Because of the barnacte, Fiin war inclined to believe that note had been written before Cecll is a p rince strange disappearance of the boy. this possibility was Flint said. Mexicans Accused of eribility that it was writter Julien Parro, 36, butcher knife and a gun in Higuera, also a Mexican, firet degree assault Prosecutor Fred C. Brown. ix in the city hompital nursing a gun slashed his life, hand. He accoriing to the with which he warded off his assail ants until help arrived. Fired on Account B. A. Turner, cashier of the Jepartment, charges | charged because he port O. M Auditor Norman Wardall was released from duty last Friday nty Auditor Wardall, on other hand, declares Turner's state ments are unfounded and that ormer assist he was dis falled to sup- jan office decision to reduce penses, ex Funeral Services Mra. Friday evening Hanford st., noon in Washelli vices were held at Jennie Cassell, 51, at her home, cometery. 2 o'clock taking company. Rev. Elbert E. Hicks officiated. Mrs. Cassell had been a resident of ttle for 23 years and is sur- vived by her husband, Harry E. | Cassell, _bullding contracto! Boy ‘Has 12 Toes NEW YORK, Aug. 3—Paul An- reson, 11 years old, who was ad. mitted to Bellevue hospital, toes a smail finger having been duplic by mother nature, He was ta to the hospital to have the super: fluous toes and fingers amputated. TAKE THE BOAT TO Trip FAREOO’ BUGET SOUND NAVIGAT ION DAILY DAYLIGHT IEXCURSIONS TO SAN JUAN ISLANDS we Saaaagiacs Dvua leaves Colnan deck 7 m, dally (excopt Monday), Sun- at all Ban Juan riving Bellin, Tuseday, t Soun venday, Friday, Sund Wy PUGET SOUND, NAVIGATION CO man DOC MARION ST the | between the mo-| Dr. | for © committees members are thin SUICIDE NOTE Sealing} Detectives are attempting to solve Mo. 1216 bas bottom of the Sound,” read the Getafed to Aincovered and His broth- lunched with him the tug afternoon Cec his job on the tug when he It was written in A barnacie that the, note must have been written before | was eccentric, his mother | ‘mid, and subject to fits of temper. suicide. She believes he wrote the note more when she noted the quit the Enterprise Thursday, There | that time, and because of the heightened, 1st Degree Assault and Joe Landa, » both Mexicans, who ran riot on/ August 1 with a revolver, a razor, a their Ppomension and used the various in- struments successfully on one Joe of 1207% Yesier way, were both charged with Tuesday by Higuera | shot wound in the thigh and a badly | probably owes | police, to his manipulation of a fence slat Politics, He Says county auditor's pear As muccessor to Turner the ne was relieved from duty because of for Mrs. Cassel who died was buried this after. Ser- in the Fremont chapel of the Home Under. and 12 Fingers! . has 12 d 12 fingers, the small toe and ted en os SPRINKLER OR ALARM? WHICH? Fire Protection for County Garage Discussed The King county board of commis sioners named a committee, com poned of J. W. Blackwell, head of the city building department; W, W. Mow Guire, superintendent of buildings, land Fire Marshal Harry Bringhurst to decide upon a system of fire pro tection to be installed in the garage of the County City bullding Tuesday, Blackwell objected strenuously to the suggestion made by Bringhurst that @ firesprinkler system be ine stalled on the ground that the pres The State Railwaymen’a Welfare | ont high cost of such a system prac. league, after a prolonged sennion | tleally made such an installation im with leaders of the state Nonpartl | Domstble, league at the Richmond hotel! Blackwell suggested an alarm eye h voted to ablde by thelr original | tem of some sort and the installation nonopartisan program, That is, they |of @ fan system for ridding the base will remain free to endorse candi-|ment of smoke in case of fire. He dates in any party, and will join in| sald that @ sprinkler system would the third party movement only to|coet $2,000, while an alarm system the extent of attempting to obtain| could be placed in the garage for candidates favorable to them. ‘The | $1,750, n have thus far endorsed| Chairman Claude C. Ramsay des dates, Forest L. Hudson for | clared he favored a retrenchment v nited States senator, and Thomas | expense because of the necessity Corkery, for representative in the|reducing taxes and cecareds ae Spokane district, both in the repub-|ler system at this time could pot be Mean primart afforded, British experts have Invented cold vulcanizing process which make possible manufacture of rubber lines in which hot ing wan impracticable, James J, Hill, railroad "1 predicted an ironless age by 1960, CANADIA PACIFIC | — & Vancouver, B. e| ee 3:00 AM. FOR VICTORIA AND V. 11:30 P.M. DAILY FOR VANCOUVER DIRECT SPECIAL TOURS TO VANCOUVER ISLAND~ TS Four Transcontinental Trains FROM VANCOUV BC 9:30 A.M. oo P.M. RAILWAY MEN OKEH LAMPING Spokane Men Indorse Him for Governor a| SPOKANT, Aug. 3.—ftate Senator G. B, Lamping, of Seattle, was en dorsed here last night by the local branch of the Rallwaymen’s Welfare league, for republican andidate for |governor, ‘The league declined to en Robert I #, of Seattle, who uned to file a» a republican, The league, in alliance with the ‘parti«nn jeague at the Yakim: nvention, decided to invade the re publican primaries, 1 5] dor req a} ig rap ay mr Stop Mooing Cows, Says Dogs’ Friend In protest of a more stringent ordi- nance relating to the curbing of “barking, howling and baying’ dogs, Dr. R. M. Paimer, #447 Renton ave. breeder of blooded Alredales, penned a letter to Counciiman William Hick- | man Moore Tuesday, “The present | legisintion is sufficient,” wrote Dr.| Palmer, “and | would suggest the) council frame laws stopping mooing | cows, which have had their calves | removed, and yowling cats that are | wont to sing nightly on fences in the rear of apartment houses. “Good counsel,” opined Counell- man Moore. Oh, Boy! Chance to Bathe in Booze Bathing in the waters of Elliott bay is expected to become a more | popular amusement since customs officers poured 1,700 quarts o& whis- | ky into the brine Tuesday afternoon. | This is the largest single confisca- | | tlon of bottled goods yet made in Se-/ attle, and represents the seizures of | customs agents during the last sev- eral months. The whisky had been held at the | appraiser's store, Western ave. a Lenora st. the rate of 122,000,000 barrels an-/ ually. 3 t r eI ny} Mexico Is now exporting off at | LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS We pay New York market price and tnterest, deducting for brokerage OMB) PER CENT on $60 and $100 denominations and ONE-HALF OF ONE ENT on larger denominations You can figure the CORRECT SELLING VALUE of your bonds by Geduet-| tne the brokerage from the market price and adding the interest. Bee quotations below: ana tna 3a 4%4'0 $84.52 $58. 2 168 27 $8011 $8548 $00.27 $5026 $9020 & MORRIS BROTHERS, Inc. 8 CENTRAL a (GROUND FLOOR), SEATTLE ‘The Premier Municipal Bend H. c Established Over » Quarter Contery Telephones: tet CANADIAN WHEAT FARMS IN SUNNY ALBERTA This year’s crop will be rs greatest yield and highest pricq — in history. 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