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SELLS WIFE FOR a On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi et 58S Ee RE a ae ae ge Qeather Tonight and Tugs sday strong southwesterly rain; winds ature Last 04 Hours 48, Minimum, May Entered as Second Class Matter F 4 Figures for 1920. Profit at 6\,c— Barring Depreciation. F Mayor Increases Loss. (OT INCLUDING a tion charge $ ‘ faearuc municipal railway vey @uring the months f ppthat the 6\-cent fare prevailed i This is shown by tho Biled today by City ¢ Marry Carro! 7. Comeanx published on jen from the ate =, SAYS TERRY SAYS MAYOR ‘ he b34-cent rare became ettective| System Soon to Be on a ‘Contends That Despite the ~ ll MADR IF Cash Basis, According Favorable Showing, Line to City Treasurer Is in a Hole STREET CAR STATEMENT on at th made tr eport com amptr DEPKECIATION Is BARKED August the car made it of $30,000, tion ing counted. $6,000 In 198.000. in Novemper it Ad Decembir $17,000 pfit for the ff 1,000. with & fare Poller Carre: Comeaux ‘ently be ion charge, but wi @urplus after that Bhe bonded inde’ = Including depre: shows th ar to be $1.0 Omitting the de ation charge of $677,178.66 for The year, the loss ix $395,841.54 ] ‘The loss in 1919, with depreciation ‘ supplies vitted, 1 15,0 hould — sonliigan dh = cians PURCHASER. OF WARRANTS $53.0 Period with the entire syst : } and, and iy ran only Division A n ~ entouen pee od by it $404,000 fe Burien line in the first jing this, the ante of 1919 at a we be t not | ing set aride 41 i2-month period from | °™ it absolutely essential that) until he accumulates ahs. ‘te Apen f i920, the mea provided for theloe interest ficipal line, not counting depre maak | 06. Seen, eariens lost $172,618 but in so 4 g no hazard UNDER CALDWELL tM roi Mi Mr ae. DWE ne warrants ‘e not wt, bawed SES 60 PER CENT jupon the present expenditures an April 1, 1920, to January 1.| present income, you estimate the during nine months of Mayor| warrants will have an average life| I's term, ‘the loss amounted to! of lew than 20 day: The lose was 60 per cent) “We feel that jn the spirit of con @uring the nine miontts of) operation it duty as citieent} i's administration than it wes! of Seattle to d& @fr part in meet the previous term. ing the condition, ‘This is with the #» accounted for in greater) Nope that upon Payment, of street mance costs of approximately) railway employes in cash, full at 000 tention and time can be given toi te comptroiier’s report also) constructive measures and the ulti The $404,000 we & ebarge of $61,000 for retir-| mate solution of the perplexing by using the daily Gertain properties because they! problem of the street railway syx [have been set aside during the past no longer to be used. This tem iteel jaix months, We wo what was net ts charged up in addition to; Figures on which the paying con-|4#ide to pay the wages of the men fegular depreciation charge. dition of the lines was shown are “nd bills for sup and ceased marized, the report shows & based largely upon the January |*ttting aside anything for interest eperating revenue for 1920 of| income, when revenues from the | >exinning in December. 0,764.62, and « total operating) ¢\ cent fare amounted to $17,-| NOTHING SET ASIDE of $5,555,201 | 421,95 « day and from the &%-cent FOR INTEREST INSTALLMENT aneous revenue. outsige of fare $15,425.80. Net receipts dur- ‘Taking the estim: the city iting revenwy, amounts to $52-/ing the month were $134,559.08 treasurer as correct, and we hope for 1920. land total receipts $540,061.85. Total that it on June 15, we will f Interets items amounted to $865-| expenditures amounted $405,- have paid our past Interest and oper | @01.87, expen to that date, but will REVENUES ALWAYS nothing on hand as having ‘LOW IN JANUARY been set aside in February, March It is pointed. out, too, that these |April, May and the first half of ficures are conservative, in view |\JUn¢, to meet the next installment of the fact that revenues from the |% interest, and the installment of car lines are proverbially | Principal Thie is the first month poor during the early part of each |7UFIng which we are supposed and also in of the fact @ anythin way with which the expect: n of reaching a|?8Y the principal ~ “Consequ should have $140,000 a pal) deprecia not In Oc Despite sink urces owned © comment ently street road to September it it lost made $24,( The tot months municips re tr pay em, Fr ober railway ind al ne y ved, t atements made fun quiries I we iw evident to have rece that the the #tr was I Te Tindall, fina been clear s of $422 mp ht fully Caldwell, « a onal not been hus Mayor Monday o treasure ban mmenting ement nnoun that pay, t to railway system 1 explain bi ne drawn SHOULD HAVE BE ABLE TO REPAY BORKOWINGS The co to iness as we the 192 pal rai than June 1 Ma oft value a payroll expense # obje on, re oth mayor the r for “On firnt b have 00, bor Not receipts city the ba be ts cashier, ares three \ it r daily ve have convir by the treasurer some be cash at par In’ order to comply with the con tract under whieh the turned over to us, we # | to wet ap this month, and to net aside each month for th 12 months, approximately $140,000 a month, haif of it being of interest for & six-months pertod—to Sept. 1—and theother kali being to meet the first Wistailment of prinelpal, The estimates «i out by emplate the ything between principat in year are now raising receipts should city treasurer do city’s setting aaid and June, for st for the present now or on of lomses, not thru operating ex , amounted to $85,451 tis produces a total deficit of| 020, including the depreciation , amounting to $667,178.65. It| Includes $35,000 in interest paid feneral bonds for Division A./ h the city owned prior to taking the Puget Sound Traction ey» atreet to ~eotmed to that cash view +f According to Comptrotie? Carroll d Chief Ac ant Comeaux, tenance aid lier in ¢ p t that the property taken m the private company probably | not in ndition am it is , after vy year or more be $630,000, at his estimates, nothing set e, but will simply have ught up in payment of bills, which does not contemplate any prepara tion for meeting the interest which is now running. In order f be on h to we th maintenance the railway fund we should $82,000 loan recently ral fund, with wages in December that should of $713,000, when, city tr we hand at that outstand| of r the with whi pay from to pay a total at that tin ding the have the gen which last or be HIE F LEAVE ; Prevorgfiate| com 12-INCH TRACKS] 1150.00 r materia ve Golly ae can it be? v mn not more than 3 Rweive inches was thoe tracks left ent iJ. D. She Summit ave. Sund. The footfect thief Sugar Magn: ate Dies |' ve ™ wer : at His ‘Austo Wheel tion cout andled 108 ANGELES, Cal i to asurer nothing on time but no wa With this u tuation, we ¢ by ante derstanding an feel pleased that warrants will be paid én that attention can raising the $713,000 be short on June 15 timates given out.” 6 TICALLY MANAGED thy en Shag the been co 1 dur They ex mer deve which im and d te we will taken | under MAKE GOOL SYMPATE al comment thruout the Monday was to the effect that wtreet railways will make mpathetica managed at few weeks practically 4, Column 2) the « the entire situa with proper Pronk FC mi SITUATION EVEN MORE hall sugar magn died FAVORABLE THAN IT LOOKS | ,) the steering wheel of his at = enn “ to the Municipal phere today e nion the op ‘ aay ! “ a sen (Turn to Page 3, Column 1) ' R. DOOLEY WAS IN BAD COMPANY Introd Mr, Edward Dooley And his er, four Whinky are in ja together. is 32 yea age how Seok eae — nd @ bollermaker BY K.P. CHALORAFT * ALYING MI wi é ‘; Wasn’t Following OP peter te Chosen Profession) fan Lee's when }mansized gun a Howell wt Bund Bounced him canw pdeased on deporit During the (Tarn to Fae ng part The Dooley nese as he psychology FORT 1 not | along. nny thing erb works,” he was say the careful how the Chink mind « long the stuff a Chinese ne us Lem Sue to betleve in pro thinks he job ia clothes fe washing cops found him te 1 they da, He was re of $100 bail CoLL JAR BUTTON PROVES USEFUL| cL AND, Feb. 7-—Alonz Rucker got himself a new collar but The rul a bullet fired by ntified | Man, Kucker's wound is wlight. te ‘ou can't find it, you can't thing out of him with the en goods on au id somebody has snitched on him old one was ed | and & e af p b ¢ get the! | versity sauntered ; 1899, at the Ponte SE ATTLE, office at Seattle, Ww ASH., Wash MONDAY «1 FE BR UAR Y under the Act of © i, 1921. ngrons March 3, 1879, Per Year, by M The Seattle Star KIDNAP GIRLIE Anna Case Here Thursday $404,000 Anna Introducing the first of @ series jot musical recitals to be sponsored by the of An noted Women's League the Uni of Washington, a Case, one of America’s mont lyric sopranos, will appear in concert at Meahy auditorium on the evening of February 10 The Women's league, which is pre senting Anna C in the largest women's or nation on the campus. |comprising a membership of 2,000, As no dues are collected raises ite ‘funds v nt undertakings. The aim is to maintain a fund from which any needy student can borrow $200 for two years, without GUNMEN WORK | AT NOON HOUR over the organization thru rious ty Stage Holdup “at Railroad Body Is Covered With 700 | sinning of the tenth y Ave. and Yesler Way | | That he at Railroad ave. and Yoaler way at noon was’ the tory told pPlice Monday afternoon by Julius Dpse, of 1221 Howell at Duse saiditwo men engaged him in conv tig and lured him 4nto an Where one preased a gun inst hify while the other rifled his ckets of-$17.50 Detectives were assigned to inve te his Ktory while oreycle men nf out to search for answering the Duse. was stuck up or yway me wo men description given by Swan Skins Come High for Charles clafmed that his v law was unintent nor Charles H. Mueller was fined $25 in federal court Monday for bringing swan skins into the United Statés. Sourdough Mixed; Sees Film 3 Times| Capt, J. G Yu koner, arrived recently and decided make the round of « theatres | At the end of his pilgrimage he slept | theu time | decided ‘to give it up, Attho tion of th ploreer attle to picture Geiger in 8 Saturc 1 motior ne three same and aaa | The a deore First fl was the Running swiftly the doorway and x the room indicated, Suey ding smoking outfit ‘ded, d officers gathered pit lodging b cht up and to your right!” order at the corner, of the men entered | ‘ooted up the where Lem had taire noe to information, un opium With Lern's chee the door to| It was dim | within, A pungent about the place all-exite: gu: und rless sweetish odor hung “Come out of tt ’ one of the officers said, shaking shoulder of | 4 man who was huddled between the | blanket dingy bea the door | Where i pipe Lem Suey stirred drowsily, you! the on @ near the stuff jof her | By the jit while Case interest, to pay expenses in the un! versity Unti Fair" was held by which the ex penees of the organization were met ‘This year marks a new policy of the Organization in bringifig highest class musical talent to the campus. Tickets for the arp now on sale and may be turned in for re werved seats February 5. which have not yet been turned in for the Gogorza concert may be ex changed for the Anna Case concert at the general ticket offices, which are Sherman-Clay'’s, Hopper-Kelly’s, Friediander’s, Pi & Taft's, Roy er’s in the University district, and the A. 8. U. W. office on the unt veraity campus BOY IS DYING FROM BEATING concert Lashes LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 1. Bearing welts upon his body from | almost 700 lashes with a’strop, Frank | of the Las was Lee, i-yearold Vegas, Nev. reporte® to be in a critical condition today in the Methodist hospital here | pupil grammar school, ce Saewes : = UNE PAYS, ALL WRONG, Helps “U” Students” Fund | The leader SCREAMIN VICTIM IS CAPTURED! Home Surrounded, Girl Is Dragged From Bed; Woman Is Shot in Attack WHITE Fourte 7 Mins PLAINS, N. Y., nm armed men abducte b. Anna King here at midnight, after a gun fight slightly Mino in which one woman was ml ri King, who was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Al bohna, was dragged from her bed by men. The party escaped in two automobiles, ¢ ¢ member of wound whot & was a woman. HONE WIRES vC leader of the party te that Miss King was his wife of the kidnapers had been found up to noon today. The “Attack on the Albohns house Jently was carefully planned. Tel wires were cut The 14 men and the surrounded the house and began pounding when Albo yelled at him Mise King The hos ‘0 trac ephone re . one woman midnight rs ned rren¢ on t hns op window, my wife, to #u | SMOTHER SCREAMS | ! Tickets | | | [N as a result of a beating alleged to| have been administered by one of the men teachers of the school because | of a trivial m Slow paralysis began to develop in| | the boy’s limbs after he was brought | here. An operation was performed Saturday on the spinal cord, Surgeons de-| but slight | meningitis developed. clared the boy has a chance for life. Mra. Dora Lee, the boy's mother, who is a teacher in the Las Ve high school, trated. She is stopping at the home is reported to be pros brother, Earle Eglington, Burbank District Las Vegas of young I steps to prosecute the identity is withheld Attorney Harley Harmon, is awaiting the out ‘8 condition before teach of con | taking er, whose but} Monday and were ea in} | the Unites | IN BLANKET The men, evidently house, ran to the King girl's bed. room. The door was locked They beat it down The girl was huddied in bed, They dragged her outside, wrapped her nightgown around — ber muffied — her screams In a blanket, and bore her to the front door, this year an annual “County gles o party efeaped in two autos be fore neighbors were aroused, The irl is believed to have been carried toa place in the Bronx, where the Albohns and Miss King formerly lived. 0, FOLKS, THEY WEREN’T HORSES Two horseshoed plugs stolen from H. Smith's poolroom at 3810 26th ave. 8. W. Sunday night. ‘sat? nt to say “two plugs of horseshoe.” | Today Is Start of Chinese New Year “Sin Ning,” or Chinese New Year, | fell upon the world today. al Chinese na two weeks’ ie obra tion. Under the present Chi | nese o: ndar, the day marks the be- r of the Chi. The greetings “Kong Ning,” meaning “Happy nese republic Hou sin w Year. ODGED LABOR; OKEH BLUE LAWS ROCHELLE PARK, N. J., Feb. “Blue laws” gaine n adherents here today, Ten men were dismissed from charges of failing to clear their sidewalks, blue Jaws prohibiting starting a suit on Sunday. |This Should Be an Easy One to Serve) Pong Hing, Chang Yow and Chan Tong pleaded giilty to dope charges ch sentenced to days in the county jail and $120 by Federa) Judge Neterer, Jail ee will date from 90 | tine se) mate 1 as (aaa Here Seen Their Cotton Duck? Asking $6,777.90 dams leged loss of 20 bales of cot ates shipping board ae sult in 1 court against the rican Rallway Expt It is ed that the goods were lost in by* the defendant July 13 os Aw clair transit 1918, = Co. knowing the | despite her strug-| Rockefeller Is Anxious to See Next President BY RAYMOND CLAPPER (Copyright, 1921, by United Press) ORMOND BEACH, Ft Feb. 7 n D, Rockefeller today told me he we id like Presi dent-elect Hare He expressed rest in the travel to meet ng. n ality next perso of the here?” Mr manifesting interest when he was I was one of the n with the president Harding ler asked, told that we paper men t's party Being told that ably would arrive ler’ said: Harding prob- later, Rockefel I see him; tb Harding was a chance that Rock and Harding would meet it Mi today tho no arrangements ™ for the president-elect the oll king I found Rockefeller near the modest cottage in which he lives ulsion at this little seastle y. He was just returning m a mile walk with a step that His shaulders the weight of 86 eyes I hope ve never Mr ere efeller on the here ce to cali on was almost were stooped by ye but his bright and pentrating and genial conversation revea active and alert mind. He wore a dark frock coat, a straw hat, and carried a gold headed cane under his arm, He didn’t Jean on it, In fact, he sel dom touched it to the ground, but used ft more like a swagger stick. There was a gray silk nfuffler be neath his coat and he wore large amber glasses, which he removed when in conversation, During the conversation, Rock- ofcller bowed te & woman soloist in the church which he attends, “You sang well Sunday morn- ing.” hé told her, “Did you hear her?” he asked, turning to me, adding, “You ought to have heard that sermon, with a humorous emphasis and a whimsical spry rm. an too,” on the “you,” smile MAN MURDERED; | 2 WOMEN HURT lsu ” Suitor Amuck in Home Runs Matt | Daly, 65, prominent democratic poli- ticlan, was murdered here early to- The murderer attacked and perhaps fatally injured Mrs, Daly |and Constance Lahey, a nurse who was caring for hér, All the victims were beaten with an iron bar. Aman giving his name as G. D. Larve, alias John R. Braywood, a Chicago clerk, and,said to be a re- Jected suite of Mrs. James Daly, | daughter-in-law of the murdered man announced. Chief of Police Gilles said the mo: tive for the killing was refusal of | Mrs. James Daly to see him, pressure brought to bear on her by the elder Dalys, He entered the house early ’ ding {o his statement to polic jand procured an iron bar from the | furnace room. He waa seen by the nurse, Miss Lahey, when he reached the first floor. He attacked her with the bar, he eaid, and when Daly came to her assistance a swing of the hi y weapon crushed his skull, Another blow felled M Daly, who «ld rushed to the scene. | Both injured women are in a criti }eal condition in Mercy hospital. La- {rue was arrested shortly after the | tragedy ?| PRAYER WILL BE POPULAR ANSTON, IIL, Feb, 7.—To stim- | ulate interest in the weekly prayer meeting, Dr. J. M. Stifler, pastor of \the First Baptist church, plans serv- ing home-cooked dinners before prayer DUBUQUE, Ia, Feb. 7 November | No undlastan’,” he muttered. “Hopped up!" James comp and the search was on. nted; watched the offic tisfaction Lem Suey leepily and with s white men! ‘Trying him tell them where his pipe and opium were! t bolled rat, let them look well! They would never astute a China tom long and find the of man as Lem Sue And be dropy d back into stupor. As Lem's closed, Agent reached softly beneath the clothes and withdrew a door key w him trying to diteh it as we he said, “Now we'll try he wanders in the bed James ! | room in that # ors | place, The vay of a Chink; or, Why Lem Suey Got Out of Bed fields.” It was a simple task to find the ame corridor to which the key belonged. *A bare cell of a with nothing to Indic y ve it had been occupied for ye With infinite patience the men ex amined the floor, woodwork and walls of the roomy tappéng, prying poppy | pulling, for the entrance to the secret | that | In o quarter of an hour a | cache, movable section was found bai in ‘board, It was removed. ‘From the hollow behind there were taken three revol *”, a can of smoking and Lem Suey’s layout—pipe oil lamp, yen hok and scale Lem Suey was awake men re-entered his room rowed lids he saw the conte of his ache He stirred, climbed out of n to draw on his clothes you dressing for, Lem?" asked. “Where are you loaded opium | peanut when the Thru nar Lem Suey'’s voice was disgu: “Me go jail!” heavy with he said. confessed to the crime, ia due to} today, | He Is Accused of Selling to Butcher for Land; Four Arrested CHICA oa 7.—Marie, 20-year. old wife of Eric Johnson, was sold to their butcher, Berger Peterson, for @ vacant lot valued at $500 by her husband, she charged to police to day ; ‘The transaction was drawn up in legal phraseology by a Chicago at torney, she said Police unearthed the alleged “sale* when Johnson, in an attempt to ree trieve his wife, went to an apart ment, where he was beaten, police by Gus Peterson, the butcher's brothe . The men were arrested for dig orderly conduct. Johnson told police that his wife had mm away from Rockford, TI with the two Peterson brothers, Berger Peterson and Mrs. Johnson were later arrested by police during }a gid on a hotel, It was then that she told the story that Joh agreed to relinquish all right to her for # vaeant lot in Rockford. All four are held in jail. Allied Governments |Want Loans Canceled | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Certain \of the allied governments have pro posed to the United States that this — country cancel the allied loan is bees debtedness. Secretary of th t lury Houston today told \judiciary committee foreign loans. Houston said such a proposal was unthinkable” and that all the re — quests had been refused. He declined to name the governments, saying he would discuss the question more fully — lin executive session of the foreign relations committee. TSA NAME, OT A DISEASE astrommonics— o, iv@ not a new kind of pet hydrophobia, nor synthetic psychol- }egy, nor indigestion, nor anything else that it might be. Fact is, it was from A. Mastrom- monics, 1036% King st., that a subtle thief elected to take $8.75 vim the pocket route, |Order Hospitals for Six Veterans WASHINGTON, Feb. |house today passed the bill fai ing additional hospital facilities for shell shocked and tuberculosis war veterans, The vote was 239 to 0. The measure authorizes the secre- tary of the treasury to construct five | new hospitals at a cost of $13,000,000, One of these will be located in the Rocky Mountain district and another in southern California. ILL SHORTEN | FRENCH HEELS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, | They're going to take a story or so loff the French heels this summer, sording to A. V. Holbrook, Bos: waid, cs lo -|ton shoe manufacturer, who is here today. The new heel will be just as Frenchy, he explained, but will be known as the “Baby Louis” in- stead of the staggering “Full Louis,” worn now. Neven at | Liberty on $20,000 Bail Nev., Feb, 7.—James H. , prominent Nevada politician, 8 at liberty on $20,000 bail today a charge of second degree murs RENO, Ne y un der The formal charge was preferred Friday following the death the night previous of Mrs, Etta Hannah, She had been shot thru the wrist and head, Neven thus far has refused to make a statement, He was released from jail yesterday and during the day held a conference with atiorneys, E COLLECTED; FOUGHT LATER NEW YORK, Feb, 7.—William Downey bet his brotherdindaw he | would be blessed with a boy. He col lected, celebrated and returned. “It's tvins, and one’s a gir brother-indaw claimed; “gimme my | money . | The fight cost William $10. |Mt. Lassen Again Blowing Off Smoke REDDING Feb, 7.—Moun Calife live voleano ruption today for the séeoné The eruption a about two hours, violent, the. mountat gave a pretty y as the smoke plume played nst the sunrise ‘The volcano had been active for + short time yesterday. | Lassen, was in time in }6 a.m. While not le