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sweeping reductions on these -|heaters—_ —the Fairy Em- press pictured is for either coal or wood, polished blue steel body, hand- somely nickel plat- ed, heavy cast iron fire pot—special for the week: mow. ....818.75 Iinch fire po was $27.50— AIN FLOO. "TACOMA: 6. SONOEMFELD 8 SORE a SN / Nour © J Credit Board |Daken Addresses Meets in Tacoma | he intercounty river tmprove % commission, which meets Wed- in Tacoma, will consider rati Of @ new agreement between | and King counties over the| ee ae improvements along ¢! ite, and Puyallup rivers. King Ps D. Daken, International president August, Dr. J. W. Mahan and J, day, iM be held at 3 o'clock at 7 Fremont chapel of the Home . Company. Rev. C. L. | Linrentelter, of the Seventh-Day Ad- will officiate. dic hospital, Mra. country By means of the for a distance of 40 miles. a 6% PER ANNUM COMPOUNDED SEMI-ANNUALLY has been earned by savers here for more than eight years FOUR MONTHS’ FULL DIVIDENDS WILL BE EARNED BY SAVINGS LEFT HERE BEFORE SEPTEMBER 5 —————_—_ — Strictly mutual in its operation, this association possesses every safeguard for money entrusted to its care. Ite funds ean be invested only on first mortgages on improved real estate and gov- ernment and municipal bonds. Its expenses are limited by law. Its directors are substantial men of well-known integrity. if ‘ You can start saving here by mail—send check or money order for any amount from $1 to $3,000 and recetve your savings book by return mail. DIRECTORS FRANK W. SHILLESTAD HENRY, R. KIN FERGUSON JANSON GEORGE R. HANNON EDGAR EK, CUSHING WILLIAM D. COMER —ESSSo—————— MUTUAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION SECOND FLOOR, LEARY BLDG. THOMAS S. LIPPY REMOVAL POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 10 Owing to unforeseen delay in securing possession of our new quarters at $15 Second Avenue, removal to our new street floor home at this location has been postponed until September 10. sore ‘ mre Co. 100 Per Cent Club/?~ Speaking yesterday noon to the Hundred Per Cent club of Seattle, T. the clubs, sald that the clubs. from Los Angeles to Vancouver, B. C., bad each pledged itself to bring at least one new club into the organization before the next international conven. . | on, in Seattle and Vancouver, next A Westman, of the Vancouver club, were guests at the luncheon yester- It was decided at that time to chal lenge the winner of the baseball game next Saturday, at Rainier park, between the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, for the benefit of the Orthope India has the greatest number and greatest variety of beggars of any nals may now be sent under water es THE SEATTLE STAR } WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 7920. NEW STATE | ‘MAY BACK ~ SUFFRAGE Suffragists Look to Connec- ticut Following Muddle , in Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1—All, Teoord of ratification of the suffrage amendment was expunged from the record when the Tennessee represen: | tatives met yesterday for the first) quorum meeting since August 20, A Vote of 47 to 24 was Gast to noneon. | eur in the action of the senate in ratifying the amendment. Twenty were not voting. ° ee WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Suffrage leaders today announced they will start immediately a vigorous cam: paign to get Connecticut to ratify the 19th amendment, granting na- \tional enfranchisement to women. | While officials of the national woman's party said they had no, doubt yesterday's action of the Ten- (Reasee house in rescinding Me previ- ous approval of suffrage was illegal, \they declared the effort to get anoth- jer ratification will be redoubled, According to word here, Gov. Hol- comb hag called @ special session of the Connecticut legislature to pase |laws providing for registration of Lowestone, England. In fact, he mgr pe nttreen-ef = set \ and, tho it has five legs and | Officials of the department of jus | thee refused to give a formal opinion of the action in Tennessee yesterday, but said there was no doubt if Con- necticut ratified, Tennessee's action would be immaterial | OFFICIALS HESITATE TO GIVE OPINIONS It was understood the hesitation of | jofficials to give an opinion was be | first glass of beer.~ sald Burke. cause they expect & request for one |That was two years ago, when she It was said in| used to come down to the corner of formally at the department, however, |Chrystieg bareheaded to meet you that the question of Tennessee's rat: arier supper. She waa & quiet sort ifigation would turn om three points: of « kid then, and gouldn't speak ee first ar. - nine | without blushing.” ‘enneasce house to reco \ e failed while suffrage opponents were| “She's o little spitfire, sometimes, absent, prevails, Whether the rigtt to offer @ mo tion te reconsider in Tennessee auto- matically died two days after the res- olution to ratify suffrage was first adopted, Whether the absence of a quorum at the time of the first reconsidera tion invalidated action of the Ten Newsee house Suffragists Ready to Continue Fight NEW YORK, Gept 1.--The Ne i] “mermaid-centipede.” were Burke's last words. |was my girl and I was to sneak out | to @ dance coupled up with an Annie, Vd want @ sult of chain armor on under my gladsome rags, ali right.” Fe HY legislature in rescinding that state's ratification of the suffrage amend ment is illegal, today began “round ing up” ita suffrage tiajority among the Tennessee assemblymen = in jparation for continuation of the ue FACES INQUIRY AFTER KILLING Wyoming Real Estate Man Held in East i £ 3 ¢ i run down over twisted high Geels, and were strangers to polieh. Her hat would scarcely have passed into of * gat, and punched the but ton with the air of milady ringing for her carriage. The waiter came with bis largechinned, lew-volced familiarity. Lis smoothed her aliken ekirt with a satisfied wriggle She made the most of it. Here she could order and be waited upon. It was all | that her world offered her of the pre rogative of woman. “Whisky, Tommy,” she anid as her jwisters further uptown murmur, “champagne, James.” “Sure, Miss Lizsian What'll the chaner be? “Seltzer. And say, Tommy, bas the Kid been around today?” “Why, no, Misa Lisse, I haven't saw him today.” CHICAGO, sept. 1.—"Every man Wyoming carri un,” Gerald A. Stack told a coroner's jury In ex plaining his part In a fatal road bouse row here early Tuesday, He waa held by the police, after admit ting shooting Paul Williamson, after, it was alleged, Williamson insulted a i girl in Stack’s party. Stack said his party had had sev- eral highballs, and that he waa con fused as to how the fight started. He claimed he had been struck from behind, that he used his gun as a club, Finally, he said, his arms were pinned behind him, and that while he was so held the gun was disctiarg. od four times. He exhthited holes in the back of hig coat to substanuate | the story. | Stack, a real entate broker of | Lander, Wyo,, stopped in Chicago [with his wife and two children, leav ling them Monday jevening for a "business conference,” |for the Kid was known to be one who required rigid upholdment of the dignity of his fiancee, “T'm lookin’ for ‘m,” said Lia, after the chaser had sputtered under her | none, “It's got to me that he says jhe'll take Annie Karlson to the dance, Let him. The pinkeyed white rat. I'm lookin’ for 'm. You | know me, Tommy, and the Kid's been engaged. Look at that ring. Five hundred, he said & cost, Let him take her to the dance, What'll I do? T'll out his heart out Another whisky, Tom my." Big Timber Region . . wouldn't Haten to no such re, Will Be Auctioned |,,1,, Mien Liazie,” said the waiter WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. le-A. F. | omoothly, from the narrow opening | Crowe, crown timber agent here, an- above his chin. “Kid Mullaly's not | hounces 76 square miles of timber!the guy to throw a lady like you | limits in this province will be #0ld! qown, Seltzer on the side?” st auction at thin office here early! Two years,” repeated Liz soft , en: this fall, The land is located on the |ing « little to nentiment under the | east side of Lake Winnipeg, on the| |magic Of the distilier’s art. “I al Bear and Maskawa rivers, about 99| wavy used to play out on th miles north of here. It is in three ‘ oes es tes jof evenin's ‘cause there was nothin’ |] tracts of 25 square miles each. doin’ for me at home, For a long Wife Too Thin; Is me I just sat on eps and looked at the lights and the people 1H goin’ by |]| Cast Off by Hubby | iin, che cvenin and weed mee | CHICAGO, Sept. 1--Here's land I was mashed on the spot for || chance for fat girls. John Ammo, |fair. The first drink he made me @ son of the Prophet and a follower |take I cried all night at home, and of Allah, told Judge Trude he could | got @ lickin’ for makin’ a noise. And |J,not live with his wife any more|now—say, Tommy, you ever ave this 1] because he likes fat girls, He said) Annie Karlson? If it wasn't for per in his country women are more vo-|oxide the chloroform limit weuld luptuous. The judge ordered him|have put her out long ago. Oh, I'm to pay his wife $10 a week and he| could live where he pleased. John's| wife also has @ grievance, and said] lookin’ for '‘m. You tell the Kid if he comes in. Me? I'll cut his heart out. Leave it to me. Another whis- he would only be satisfied with a|ky, Tommy.” harem of beauties disporting by aj] A little unsteadily, but with watch |] fountain ful and brilliant eyes, Liz walked up aha “plat Be — the avenue, On the doorstep of a Water Is Cause brick tenement a curly-haired child - _|sat, puzaling over the convolutions of Basement Fire! ot ‘0 'tancied string. Lis flopped HOUSTON, Tex. Sept. 1—-Rain|down beside her, with a crooked, started this fire; Fifty tons of car-| Shifting smile on her flushed face, bide stored in a basement; add water | But her eyes had grown clear and streaking in after @ hard rain and artless of a sudden, the firemen then had a difficult fight; “Let me show you how to make a with a fire caused by water which |cat's-cradle, kid,” she said, tucking ignited the carbide, |her green silk skirt under her rusty a pyenrea | shoes, Melons were first extensively cul-| And while thoy «at |] tivated in France early in the 17th |Highte wr century Se i tising club dinner, beats Pb a rooms, there the being turned on for the dance in the hall of the Small Hours Socia) club, It was the bi-monthly dance, a dress affair in which the members took great pride and bestir- red themselves huskily to further - areade| "a adorn, rman Rogers, in-| At 9 o'clock the president, Kid "aided ind | Mata Paced upon the floor with a the Truce lady on his atm, ae the Loreley’s | Fluently came the “Miss Lizzie,” | Two yeai me) And then the Kid came| BEWARE! THE BEACH BUG! Scientists are not wondering, and students of nature are |not puzzled, at this queer “freak” found on sea beach at found any warm day five arma, it isn't considered The lassies who make the creature declare it is a it can Starts oa Page was her hair golden. Wer “yes” was softened to a “yah,” but its quality of assent was patent to the most Mileaian ears, She stepped upon her own train and blushed, and—ahe amiled into the eyes of Kid Mullaly. And then, as the two stood in the happened to prevent which many jJamps are burning nightly in many studica and Ubrariea, im the hall leaped Fate in a green wkirt, under the nom de guerre of blacker than jet, She did not scream or waver, Most unwomanly, she jorted out one oath—the Kid's own favorite oath—and in his own deep voice; and then, while the Small far an the length of her knife biade pee ee Saree ot ber eee. Pep And next came the primal instinct ©f self-preaervation—or was !t self annihilation—the inatinct that eoci ety has grafted on the natural branch? Lis ran cut and Gown the street wwift and true as @ woodcock fying thru & grove of saplings at dusk. And then followed the big city’s biggest shame, ite most ancient and rotten surviving canker, ite pollution and disgrace, its blight and perver- sion, ite forever infamy and guilt, fostered, unreproved and cherished, ded down from a long-ago cen Hue and Cry. Nowhere but Im the big cities does survive, and here most of all, where the ultimate per. fection of culture, citizenship and al leged superiority joing bawling, in the chase, They pursued—a shrieking mob of fathers, mothers, lovers and maidens ~-howling, yelling, calling, whistling erying for blood. Well may the wolf in the big city stand outside the door Well may his heart, the geuUer, fal ter at the siege. Knowing her way, and hungry for her surcease, she darted down the familiar ways until at last her feet etruck the dull solidity"bf the rotting pier, And then it was but a few more panting steps—and good moth- or Bast River took Lis to her bosom 4 jsettied in five minutes the problem |that keeps lights burning in thousands of pastorates and col legea, . e “Two years,” repeateed Lis soften dreams one has sometimes. Poets call them visions, but a viston is only « dream in Diank versa I dreamed the rest of this story. I don't know how 1 got there; I suppose J bad been riding on the Ninth avenue elevated dr taking pat ent medicine or trying to pull Jim Jeffries's nose, or doing some such little injudicious etunt But, any how, there I waa, and there was a «reat crowd of us outside the court room where the judgments were go. ing on, And every now and then a very beautiful and imposing court officer angel would come outside the door and call another case, While I was considering my own worldly sing and wondering whether there would be any use of my trying to prove an alibi by claiming that 1 lived in New Jersey, ¢he bailiff angel came to the door and sang out “Cane No, 99,852,743," Up stepped a plain-clothas man— there were lots of ‘em there, dressed exactly like preachers and hustling us spirits around just like cops do on earth—and by the arm he dragged— whom, do you think? Why, Lis! The court officer took her inside and closed the door, I went up to Mr. Fly-Cop and inquired about the case. “A very sad one,” says he, laying the points of his manicured fingers together. “An utterly incorrigible girl, Iam Special Terrestial Officer, the Reverend Jones, The case was j assigned tome. The girl murdered jher fiance and committed sulcide, She had no defense, My report to the court relates the facts in detail, al of which are substantiated by re. Hable witnesses, The wages of sin is death, Praise the Lord.” The court officer opened the door and stepped out. “Poor girl,” said Special Terres trial Officer the Reverend Jones, with a tear in his eye, “It was one of the saddest casos that I ever met with, Of course sha was" “Discharged,” said the court offi- cer, “Come here, Jonesy. First thing you know you'll be switched to the potpie squad. How would you like to be on the for middie of the waxed floor, the thing Out from the circle of apectators Hours Social club went frantically to pieces, she made good her boast to Tommy, the waiter—made good as Rory of the basest barbarity— the soothed her muddily but quickly, and | nights | 1 thought I was in the next world | ! |!" MACSWINEY j | PLANE ON FIRE, FLIES TO SAFETY Aviator Lands Machine on} Mt. Baker Slope BELLINGHAM, Sept. 1,— Diving from an altitude of 6,000 feet in @ binging airplane, Dave Loge, of fe attle, former army pursuit pilot, waved himself and his passenger, Clyde Banks, when he pancaked on the treetops of the Mount Baker slope yesterday. lone waa attempting to fly over Mount Baker when the fusilagé caught fire, At the time they were nearly & mile above @ desolate val- ley, with no Ianding place within sliding distance. The flames ran over the highly inflammable “dope” © cellulose compound—with which the fusilage and wings were coated. leas immediately threw the ship into @ dive and hurtied downward with the full power of the engine aiding in the speed of the descent. | 10GG WELL KNOWN IN SEATTLE ; The plane landed on « giant tree. | Loge and Banks, who had calmly) unstrapped their lifebelts during the plunge for safety, fell from the diaz | ing plane, Heavy foliage broke their | fall, and they were abie to stand and wateh ¢ “Dus” become a charred wreck above their heads. The aviators were forced to walk 15 miles to @ ranger’s cottage 40 milea from here, from which they telephoned for an auto which carried them to Bellingham early this morn ing. Lord Mayor Terence Mac- Swiney, of Cork. HUSBAND COMES “mec. | TO AID OF WIFE his red Curtian d aay tmerly in the United sinter aeriai/ She 's Released Pending merly in the United States aerial mail service, In association with Probe of Man’s Death - CHICAGO, Sept. 1-—Under the ‘The Star, he conducted the first ex- pertment in @istributing newspapers protection of the husband whom # bad sued for divorce, Mrs. Giady by airplane in this country, deliver ing early editions of the paper to Everett and Btanwoed. Jacobson was free today, pending re sumption of the inquest over How- ard B. Rhodes, mysteriously shot and Clyde Hanks, his passenger, is a former member of the photo section of the United States air service. Pennsylvania Miners Stay Out on Strike POTTSVILLE, Pa, Sept. 1.—Defy- ing the warning of President Wilson, about 60 per cent of the miners in the southern anthracite field re mained away from work today. The strike affects principally the Shamo- kin and Mahonoy districts, In these sectiona the pump men afid firemen quit work. Operators had to put at | work men employed in other depart- ments to prevent the mines from flooding. In some of the mines the mules were hoisted to the surface Colver to Quit at End of Trade Work woman, An inquest was begun yesterday, but continued ten days, while police seek further for witnesses. It was crepancies in the stories first told by Mrs. Jacobson and that related from the witness stand yesterday, Rhodes was shot, Mrs. Jacobson said, by & bandit who fed without revealing his motive, Rhodes was & merchant here. His widow, mother of his two children, attended the Inquest, but was not called to testify. $200,000 Fire Hits Portland Warehouse PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 1-—Two firemen were injured and several overcome by emoke while fighting a fire which last night and early this morning @14 $200,000 damage to a branch warehouse of the Meler & term tember 26. Frank department store here. Guests oat ore te nn cmmeanend at the| im an Bajacent hotel vacated thelr White House that Colver had fe) rooms at one time when it was feared the fire would get beyond con- troL Up! Up! 20 Per Cent jin which Lewis waa riding collided killed while auto riding with the/ also desired to eheck apparent dis | MOTORBIKE HITS AUTO; TWO HURT Tried to Swerve Around a Sprinkling Wagon i. G, Lewin, « sailor from the bat- Hleship Miswinsippl, stationed at iremerton, and & hen Berg, 706 Third ave, were palnfully but not neriously injured at 2:30 a, m, today, when Berg's motoreyele and an auto near Third ave. and Columbia st, Both victimn were taken to the city hospital, badly bruised and shaken up. Berg said he had swerved his machine to cut in behind 4 sprink ling wagon and erashed into the auto, Montana County 2 . Gains in Census WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—-The cen rus bureau today announced the pop- ulation of Powell county, Montana, as 6909, an increase since 1910 of 1,005, or 17 per cent. YOUR TEETH X-RAYED FREE Dp. L KR Cark each morning between the hpurs of 9 and 10:30, _ i] No cost or obligation || whatever. We have a fine, brand new X-Ray Machine which we are placing at your dis- posal without charge be- tween the hours men- tioned above. Please come as early in the morning as REGAL DENTAL OFFICES | | | Up on Round Trips Roundtrip tourist tickets on all rail lines advanced 20 per cent here today. The consolidated ticket office at Second ave and Columbia et, was rushed by lastminute purchasers yesterday. —_ Small Loss Here ‘Two mill fires were reported to the | fire department Tuesday, The Rogere-Myirole Lumber Co. mill, at 5725 12th ave. N. BE, was damaged $160 from sparks, while the Puget Sound Box Factory, 14th ave. N. W. and W. 48th st, was damaged $200 when an overheated motor fired te POI nn, maaei | panaromeoaed Now, you quit making these false arrests, or you'll be transferred— wee? The guilty party you've got to} look for in this case is a redhaired, unshaven, untidy man sitting by the | window reading, in hia stocking fect, | while his children play im the streets, Get @ move on you.” Now, wasn't that a silly dream?” SAVINGS DEPOSITS made up @o and including September 3 will draw interest from September 1 O compounded semi- annually TO GET YOUR | | | | Regular $15 NORTHWEST TRUST & SAVINGS BANK Second and Union We will be very glad thorough examination or obligation to you. The Nation 990 “COR LU Phir vt \ You'll Never Have a Better Opportunity Best Gold Crowns Special at $10 And remember you get the same high class workmanship, the same good materials and the same guarantee of absolute satisfaction as if you were paying regular prices. 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