The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1920, Page 7

» | WELD MEAN UNING AX Cut a Few Hundred Thou- sand From City Light De- partment Estimate Nearly half a million dollars were pruned from the city light budget submitted for 1921 by Superintend ent J. D. Ross Tuesday afternoon, by the city council budget committee. Tho cutting was made to keep the expenses of the department within the revenues. Superintendent Roms asked for ap Propriations agsregating — $2,997, 227.50. an increase of $750,000 more than last year, His estimated re celpts for 1921 wan $2,460,000, or $537,227.50 lees than what operating expenses had been figured. Councilman A. T. Drake, chairman @f the budget committee, declared he Would not consent to an appropria: tion calling for h miltion dollars More than the department could pow sibly make. He said a cut was ab- solutely necessary Reductions were made as follows A stice of $199,957.50 was made tn the appropriations for the bond re d@emption fund, while a cut of sev eral hundred thousand dollars was Made in the estimate for fuel ofl for the Lake Union plant. NEW FIRF TRUCKS ARE DENIED The proposed estimate for operat- tng expenses of $131,000 was cut to $125,000, while the engineeing esti- Mate for production and distribution Was cut from $293,500 to $257,000. Several new clerical positions pro- Posed for next year were cut An item of $76,000 to purchase » Seven fire trucks was struck from the fire department budget, after Chief F. L. Stetson declared the de partment was only 50 per cent mo tortzed. Mayor Hugh M. Caldwelt's request that a central garage for the storage of all city cars be created, was dis allowed. The building department Was allowed an appropriation of $20,000 for the construction of addi- tional comfort stationn There is still remaining $30.09 in the fund) Of last year for the same purpose. The city council will own its own Qutomodiie. An appropriation of $2,750 for the purchase of the car and $300 for maintenance was al UNION OIL CO, GAS 28 CENTS New Rates for Coast Are Announced ee rere St ator, “Bla today announced price ‘The average rate of increase is 3 cents a gallon, altho in Seattle, where 28 cents has been fixed as the Rew price, the raise ts but 2 cents. A few weeks ago Union Oil boosted their gas from 24% to 26 cents. “ The following prices to the con- sumer are in effect Wednesday at Seattle, 28 cents a gallon; Port © ered state road tax) 29; ; Sacramento, 27%; Be Deen 27%: Stockton, 27%; 37; Los Angeles, 27; Fres- Bo, 27%. Importation of Texas and Okla- ‘the distributing points named: made the price increase necessary, . according to a statement issued over the signature of E. W. Clark, vice President and general manager of the Union Oil company of California. Standard Ol! company is still sell- ing gasoline at the original price of 24% cents a gallon In Seattle, and no intimation of any change has been received here, according to John J. McLean, district sales manager of the company. Shell Co. maintains its price of 39 cents « gallon, which was established @ few weeks ago. In Tacoma, tire dealers announce that arrangements have been made to import 10,000 gallons of Wyoming gasoline a day to relieve the short- age there. This gas will sell at cents a gallon, it is said. Pleasure vehicles in Tacoma are! restricted to three gallons of fuel a Present, while in Seattle the ration is five gallons. STATE SHORT IN NEAR EAST AID Thousands ‘Dollars for Ar- menians to Be Raised ‘There would be no Armenia today had it not been for American food supplies provided with funds con tributed by the people of the Pa Northwest in response to the appeal sounded by the Near East relief com- mittee, much of the work of which, at home and abroad, is being done by prominent men and women of the Northwestern 8. Alexander Khatissian, president of the Armenian republic, is authority for this assertion. “American commissioners in Ar menia a year " he declared, “saw | bodies, as high as 1 victims of | starvation, taken from the streets of one town in one day. A lief arrived in time to ch ful harvest of st That most of this effort may not be lost, the president says, his coun- try must have further aid thru its task of redeeming the Near East from its political chaos, restoring its people to their homes and in the erdeal of reconstruction. Barely one-half of the $20,000,000 meeded by the Near Fast relief or. ganization to finance its program of rescue and hehabilitation in Armenia has been rained. ‘Thousands of dollars must yet be| afternoon. paised in Washington, Idaho, Mon- tana and Utah as well as in Oregon Before the states’ full quota in this ‘mount are reached, ‘| marry Capt. T. |] COPYRIGHT, 191 (Continued From Our Last Iawue.) A Chinese boy was surprised by the sudden entrance of man and dog in the act of spreading coal dust with his fingers upon a portion of the paved floor,. He came to his feet with a leap and confronted Kerry, The spaniel began to scratch feverishly upon the spot where the coal dust had been artificially spread, Kerry's eyes gleamed lke Steel. He shot out his hand and grasped the Chinaman by bis long hair, “Open that trap," he sald, “or I break you tn halt! Ah Fung made no attempt to oboy | the order. “For the last. time,” sald Kerry, drawing the man’s head back so that his breath began to whistle througe his nostrils, “open that trap.” As he spoke he released Ah Fung, and Ah Fung made one wild leap towards the stairs, Kerry's fist jcaught him behind the ear aa he | sprang, and he went down Iie a dead man upon a amall heap of coal which fliled the angle of the cellar Kerry stooped, and with his hand kerchief dusted the stone slab, The spaniel danced excitedly beside him and barked continuously, “There's some sort of hook to fit jim that crack,” muttered Kerry. He began to hunt about among the debris which littered one end of the cellar, testing fragment after fragment, and finally hit upen the piece of bent wire which was the key to this door of Sin Sin Wa's drug | warehouse. Five seconds tater he had the trap door open and was peering down into the narrow pit in which wooden steps rested. The spaniel began te bark wikily, whereupon Kerry grasped him, tucked him under his arm, and ran up to the room above, where he deposited the furiously wriggling animal. He stepped quick ly back again and closed the upper door, His movements, from the moment that he had opened the trap had been swift and as nearly noiseless as the dififeutties of the task had per mitted. Nevertheless, they had not occupied only by the aged Sam Tuk. Sam Tuk sat motionless, his hands jconcealed in his sleeves, bending decrepitty forward In his chair, The chief inspector stood glaring ftlercely at the limp frame of the old Chinaman, and, as he glared, his ex- pression dirty floor not a yard from Sam Turk’s feet was a ball of leaf opium! “Hal exclaimed Kerry, and he stooped to pick it up. Oh, Yes! Girls Still Change Their Minds LONDON, Aug. 4.— A woman's privilege of changing her mind was the cause of a heap of bother to | Miss Helen Butler, English lassie, in an affair that concerned two gov. ernments, She went to Canada to N. Kitchen. On the way over she met Capt, Paul Mellor and decided to marry him Instead. Because she changed her original purpose of sailing for Halifax, the Canadian government sent her back to England. And Miss Butler has this to say: “I have had a very rough time of It and am tired of be ing chased about. I have traveled |6,000 miles since leaving home and am glad to be back. All I did was to change my mind, and surely I have a right to do no, a matter of so much ‘|my own wedding.” wedding bells are expected soon in| England. 21 Voting Precnicts in City Eliminated For the purpose of eliminating 31 sets of election officials and thus re- ducing expenses, 42 Seattle voting precincts were consolidated into 21 by an ordinance passed at a special meeting of the city council Tuesday The majority of the pre- cinets were located downtown. porate “C good!" but Boldt'’s apple vie is Ady, DOPE BY ROBT. NS BRIDE € CO. As he did so, with a lightning | movement Sam Turk whipped a loaded rubber tube from his sleeve and struck Kerry a shrewd blow across the back of the skull The chief inspector, withoutyword or cry, toppled face downwards be. fore his assailant, Silently that set of shelves nearest | to the inner wall of the vault slip! open, and Sin Sin Wa came out. — | Mra. Sin, aroused by her husband from the deep opium sleep, also came out Into the vault, “Awake, amy wife,” crooned Sin Sin Wa. “Only a fool seeks the black smoke when the jackals sit in 4 ring.” Mra, Sin gave him a glance of smiling contempt— passing him, rested finally upon the prone body of Chief Inspector Ker. ry. Her puptia contracted to mere! pin points and then dilated blackly. | At this moment Kerry groaned loudly and rolled over on wo his wide. Mrs. Sin, who still moved tn a semiphantasmagoric world, swiftly raired a hem of her kimona. From A sheath attached to her garter she| drew a thin atilletto, Curiously feline, she crouched, as If about to/ spring, Sin Sin Wa extended his hand, grasping his wife's wrist. “O, woman of indifferent tntell. gence,” he said in his queer sibilant language, “since when has murder gone urfpunished in the British do- minions?* Mra. Sin matched her wrist from bso." been #0 silent an to escape the at-/ tention of the preternaturally acute | Sin Sin Wa. Kerry found the place | | low, husky volce: changed. Lying on the| i Meanwhile Kerry, lying motiontens | | success; and women, his grasp, falling back wild-cyed. “Yellow ape! yellow apef she maid hoarsely, “One more does not mat ter—-now.” “One more™ crooned Sin Sin Wa. He paused and then suddenly re sumed his pidgin Engtish. “You putto topside pidgin on Sir Lucy alla lghteo,” he murmured. “Givee hi mhell alla velly ploper.’ The pupils of the woman's eyes contracted again, and remained so. “Who tolt you that?” she asked contemptuousty, “It wan the doll woman who killed him—I have said “You tella me ro—hol, hot! But) old Sin Sin Wa gotchee you alized up| allee times.” Mra. Sin snapped her fingers un der his nose. “Listen, old fool,” she said in a “I have done with you, for good! Yes! I killed Lucy, | I killed him! He belonged to me until that pink and white-thing took | him away. Iam glad I killed him. If I can not have have him neither can she.” She glanced down at Kerry, and:| “Tie him up.” she directed, “and send him to sleep. Entering the inner room, Stn Sin | Wa begun to extricate a long piece of thin rope from amid a tangle of other materials, Mra. Sin stood look- ing down at the fallen man. Neither Kerry nor Sam Tuk gave the stightest evidence of tife, at the feet of Sam Tuk, was doing some hard and rapid thinking. | He believed that he could tackle! the Chinaman with fair prospects of however mur. derous, he habitually disregarded as adversaries. But the mummy-t deceptive Sam Tuk was not negll- gible, and Kazmah remained an un known quantity. From under that protective arm, | cast across his face, Kerry‘s fierce eyes peered out across the dirty! floor. Then quickly he shut his eyen again. | Sin Sin Wa came tn carrying a coil of rope—and 1 Mauser pistol! CHAPTER VII. The Empty Wharf. ‘The suspected area of Limehouse was closely invested as any fortress of old when Seton Pasha once more | found himself approaching that/| neighborhood. He had spoken to sev ®& glance which, | eral pickets, and had gathered no} | news of interest, except that none of | them had seen Chief Inspector Kerry since some time shortly before dusk. | Musing upon the sordid mystery | which seems to underlie the whole of | this dingy ‘quarter, Seton pursued | his way, finally to emerge near op-| posite a dilapidated gateway giving access to a small wharf. He was about to turn back when | & sound attracted his attention. A| dog was whimpering somewhere | near him. | Like Kerry, he always carried an! electric pocket lamp, and now he di rected its rays into the Interior of | the building. A tiny spaniel, whining excitedly, was engaged in scratching with his | paws upon the dirty flopr as though | determined to dig its way through, It was a toy spaniel of a breed very popular among ladies of fash-| fon, and to its collar was still at-| tached a tattered fragment of rib- |lamp in his pocket, stepped into the! | building and dropped down upon his| | knees beside the dog, applied his ear bon. Seton acted promptly. He snapped | off the light, and, replacing the to the floor. In spite of that fron control which habitually he imposed upon himself hia heart was beating idly. He | had learned at Leman »#' at Kerry | * | tistening; | | detect. ti had brought Mrs. Irvin's dog | Prince’s Gate to aid in the search for the missing woman. He did not doubt that this was the dog which janarled and scratched excitedly be side him, Dimly he divined some thing of the truth. Kerry bad fallen into the hands of the gang, but the dog, evidently not without difficulty, had escaped. What lay below the wharf? Holding his breath, he crouched, but not a sound could he) ‘There's nothing here, old chap,” said to the dog. Responsive to the friendly tone, the little animal began barking loud ly with high staccato notes, which must have been oudible on the Sur. rey shore. Seton was profoundly mystified by the animal's behavior. He had per sonally searched every foot of this particular building, and was confi dent that it afforded no hiding place. Yet in view of the dog's be- havior he determined to cause the place to be searched again, as secret ly a8 possible, (Continued in Our Next Issue) THE eae FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET New Silk Dresses at $29.50 MART new Dresses of Taffeta, Satin and Tricolette, are featured at inter- esting prices. They are in styles for afternoon and street wear, with many new touches which indicate their modish- ness. : Tricolette models ‘are embroid- ered, and made in simple straight line effects. 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