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Aged Recluse Dies in Squalor Amidst | His Starving Pet When Silas eral years later, however, he married during laint ever! Thomas} ittorney, inform-| Report on Arpirants ji." for the City Council iin’ i0"s. the shortest bill of tn Hildebr wants a divores | tilly aa morning THE SEATTLE STAR Municipal League |Shortest Divorce Reports on the 14 candidates for} a eenene 5S any” Apap : ; another woran. the city council, submitted by a com: | ah ee . C ws boon 17 yours in this clty, war! Breen, 68, « recluse who lived on alanother woman. mittee of the Municipal | SAF foue S Fried October 6, 1920, han no ch from here, failed to af una adopted by that orga TA and no property | wation Tuesday noon her husband of non-support The committee consinted of Robert us iden name restored Howes, chairman; Paul V. Dick, J. L.| nome time Baldwin, H. ©, Fores and Charle a defendant's a1 Ryan, Bach inte viewed half an hour and also filled | out quostionnalre, From them three are to be chosen by the voters | #* March 8 ax members of the council WHAT REPORT SAYS ABOUT CANDIDATES rt the report concerning each candidate ix as follows Nz capacity of ‘ She died eir ‘Ten years ago he made the third attempt at matrimony. With the birth of a sn, who died in infaney, v0 |the woman became an invalid. Breem cord for they fou swarm with t all of a good fortune on her, the words and white mice. On & too, died. Since that time denies complaint.” neglected bed they found Breen's| ne had become more and more hety My . “ayy body. It ured that be bad been | mit-like, coming only to town to get | . Jead fo woekn aij and such meager provisions Bomb Explodes in Gmeny te animate’ found se ne needed to keep toay Sakae | Newspaper Plant the p 11 small poodien ther dachshund, ROCK IBLAND, Il, Feb. 16—A ge pernard bomb exploded at the p! of th! wcities, fire Rock 1 News, a weekly paper] aitovether rly today but tittle | oat A similar explosios at Me plant three year The paper has been published the editor in jail league, we farm 20 miles | dren community ly apes for bis mall for de his tumbled pear at the pontoffic nelghbe ied to in two week ent len aback dogn her m we “Close Eye Kept on All For- - Gigners,;"Espetially-Amer- ___ icans, in Empire _ BY FRANK V. MARTINEK Sey Sete tat Sted oF | for fre B.A AsiAMe Meet.) ahon ago brok wer it ng r.|*ary for the with three “Defendant eat ite but she, CA ts a would fund maybe ont eo were one |t ant a man on he lacks other re h ome two water spaniels, 11 bulldogs airedalen there full of whi the remains of a dozen canary cages, broken of 4 fish 41 of domestie aniraals |“Painless Austin” Sued in Stock De | P L. Auetin, dentist, known “Painless Austin,” is on trial f Judge Mitchell Gilliam'’s court, |charged with grand larceny. Theo. J Meyer accuses Austin of selling him $5,000 worth of stock in the United Products Co, representing faleely that the company was free of debt, countant three Scotch 10 were 60 na for an efficient nt Kaward W, Me mongreis dogs When a nation begins putting the Ainishing touches upon a war-making rehane muning and a cellar mic one of the earliest indica ute Of that action ts an overseal-| ‘Observation of foreign nationals. | i I was last in Japan I was) finally under supervision or 4 of some sort, my baggage 4 searched often. curred ago. while year char | weveral bowls and a be All were in a de condition. bel) Hreen was apparently normal, No wuntil his death of bh for animals. t no one ver visited him at his farm. writing desk was found an ing $4,600 in bills asking that the money Jing for the animals h Holt rm nye won average was criminal serving @ on a 26; Would repudiate onttact; reduce fares is not familiar —- poine| WALTER KNAPP, COOK, would | : € » a oud 2. . f the} not be fired, the Benate pool ha . . jeaid. In Justice John B, Wright’s|. ) jcourt he tried to collect $13.60 for | °™ three dayn’ pay, Wednesday morning He was awarded $9 | one hob had ¢ In his But this was! Immediately Ro be expected, and I had nothing Wh any of my luggage that would be Interest to an investigator every other American, as well @nknown English, French er Ger tourists, was watched from the | use Judge Adjourns to Two Feet of Land In the midst of a dispute over two feet of land between Samuel H. New- comer and Matthew C, Carton, neigh bors in Fremont, Judge A. W. Frater adjourned court Wednesday and | went out with the parties and set ‘the stakes where they belonged. pe conta be used in pro jin case of hia ¢ | Breen came t braska, many ye | pretty wife. Shortly farm, his wife ran ay other man. After that Breen he very little to do with his ne or with any one for that m John W. Carroll, 44 Jury and investiqatory tp Bopp. views county, Ne ago, with a fter buying the with BOISE. move for state. Northern Idaho establishment of a starts ion new rather young and inexperienced in mat. f city government, cation oF reviston vere an 4 hhors Bev DNS S INTRUSION Buspicion engenders suspicion, and Uneasy conscience dreads intru ‘This is just as true of nations Wt ts of individuals, Investigating itions, by the way, is little differ- ‘ent from investigating individuals. While other powers of the world limiting armament or seriously | that limitation as an eco and peace measure, Japan is Boing ahead with the building of her ar machine. Experiments with . Warfare mathods begun the war by scientists of the and «the central powers | and by them discontinued with | armistice, are being furthered | iy in Japan. She is experiment-| with liquid fire and with lethal She is making more photo- material than the whole 106 Rebuilding Home |dred men . | eyivania Town of Lincoln’ - PETERSBURG, Ill, Feb, 16 Work is being rushed here on the jon of the deserted town m, where Abraham Lin coln spent much of his early life Five of the origina! buildings of the ‘ town have been copied and are com: edge of the affaire | plete and the work is progressing on | DOUNTS EXPReAsky OF | the remaining 25 bulldings. COFERAILL’S TRROUEED | Judge G. B. Nelson, president of the Old Salem Lincoln League, ts 4) recting the work of laborers fur} nished by the state, The'state legi» lature recently appropriated $50,000 for the reconstruction of the town. It was at Old Salem that Lincoln studied law. Ann Rutledge, the nweetheart whose death is maid to Ind work SPORT, back shops Six in hun at Penn 64: Thinks street car 4 be tested in court; favors ‘TheBonMarché ESTABLISHED 1890 Miss Eleanor Anthony of Washington, D. C., has been chosen to lead the procession of women attending the suffrage convention February 15-19, when they bear tributes to the suffrage memorial statue at the national capital, She is a great-niece of Susan B, Anthony, suffrage pioneer. sm City of Peaceful Bliss All Stirred (222%: | of doubtful financial stability Charles W. Doyle, 49: Favore reducing A Drummer’s Sample Line of Pocket Knives at 95c ae fs aver of going could consume were there no material manufacturing im the world. She has stored | quantities of such minerals as | ‘ig unable to find in her imme-| Iron wire in her} haa been replaced by copper: g has a great reserve of this metal. | Up by “Intruders” BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE ZION CITY, Il, Feb. 16.—They're raising “Cain” peaceful bliss. A holy war has broken out between Wilbur Glenn Voliva and Thomas H. Nelson, who has erected the Grace | People and for Zion people only. “No gentleman, not to mention a in Zion, the city of| Christian, would break Into a church | nettioment and attempt to hold meet ings, or to establish a counter organ ization. Those who do are nothing more even tn re ract; has not consideration to Mkagit iam. Commitior city’s problems to have a have tinged Lincoln's whole life with sorrow, lived and died at Old Salef. | Lumber Mills Begin | to Reopen; Pay Cut! | Stin’s shining, skies are clearing in the business firmament, too. Lumber Made to Sell for a Whole Lot More Than the Price Asked This is the best offer we have ever been able to make on Pocket “ eee ene enmne thing i = and logxing camps thrvout the Puget Sound and Grays Harbor country are | generally reopening, a survey Wed- nesday showed. There was only one gloomy feature, and that for the worker. Wages are cut 15 to 20 per cent. or Tess than religious bums, tramps and vagabonds, with lems honor than a gang of highway robbers and © thugs, “Get out of this community tf you have a drop of honest blood and go establish @ settioment of your own. GAUNTLET IS THROWN BEFORE E ¥ “Persona coming in here to hold meetings at the invitation of traitors porch climbers, election thieves and tally sheet mutilators, need not ex pect any courtesy from Zion.” Nelson lost the first battle of the holy war today, when word was re- ceived from Waukegan, where Zion folke do thelr “lawing.” that his $700,000 suit against Voliva had been | thrown out of court, | ‘The suit grew out of the above | mentioned bill board, which Voliva erected opposite Nelson's church. Knives, We got an entire sample line of imported and domestic knives—-920 in all—at such a low figure that we can say 95¢c each. Some made with pearl handles, some with,stag handles—with two, three or four blades—every knife in the lot a wonderful buy. UNION STREET BASEMENT—THE BON MARCHE shipments of wood and mineral | missionary church right in “Voliva’s ‘and fuel from Eastern Siberia, | domain ete. Voliva, who makes it plain that he KEPT AT |e full of “righteous indignation” DRILL | over the evangelical activities of his! had her army observers on | rival, said he “bounced” Nelson out ry front during the great war. | Of his faithful flock a year ago. army, from being a duplicate of | IN WALKS ANOTHER Imperial German TO STEAL HIS FLOCK fF of 1914, has become more! “Who can blame me for being tn- less parade-marching. | dignant?” asked Voliva, “Here we! ‘Her soldiers never rest, her ships | were, getting along nicely under my are maneuvering continuously. It i#| administration as head of the Chris rill, drill; work, work, work, every | tian Catholic Apostolic church of minute. Her non-commis-| Zion and overseer of Zion City, And officers are high trained. in walks another preacher to steal Daily she is developing her air) away my flock. lorces under the tutelage of foreign! “An ecelesiastical goathouse has and daily she is build-| no right within this settlement. The ig airplanes and seaplanes. She i*| war is on red hot, and will be waged ing flying fighters. But here} night and day until every traitor ‘a sidelight on Japanese psychol-| goes to his own place.” A French officer teaching Jap- “What's your epinion of persons to fly was observed studying | who start churches in your city?" | The court held the sign did not neces finished student’s mancuvers in| Voliva was asked. | sarily mean Nelson and his followers. alr. ahead with Skagit p 40. Believes p At-wupporting. eoraid, ‘Baby Is Hurled | expert impartial commission shesid m-~- Safety in Smasb-up saree edt Cotten bo.| LOUISVILLE, Ky... Fe. 16,—Be | eves he has a. comprehensive ander. (fore two autos crashed Rose Hildartu t ity's financial problema | Waa sitting in the lap of her waiter, | . Mrs. Michael = Bildartu. After the crarh Rose was aitting in the more other car, unharmed. tain present arpius te shown, believe repudiation Feaciesion of purchase contract untenable; believes ew Children’s Sweaters at $2.65 ALL WOOL—THE SAME ‘ SUPER-VALUES WE OFFERED A WEEK AGO Little Girls’ Sweaters that every one praised at $2.65 THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMEN 4 % “That's it," he replied, pointing out| “The court's action shows how I will be shown Thursday at _ “Dont you fly with them when | a huge sign. stand,” said Voliva, , | the same low price. are concluding their instruc-| The sign, captioned “A Perfectly If they want to know who's boss To Buy at Lower Than Usual Prices At least half a dozen styles _ ton?” he was asked. The reply was) Plain Notice,” read as followw: | around here, let them start some Ses cP wth kee Oia ie "This city was extablished by Zon | hing else. to Handle siople ond pp pnd po of which button up high. At less Than Usual Expense to Sell Gres oo ie ela At More Than Usual Savings— That Is the Bargain Basement System Seek Home for Girl “erate cem| With Infant’s Mind thinking and muscle co-} | CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Nineteen-year-| be given the care, she will develop . @ must give way to eset Oe Mary Zundak, whose broken! speech and learn to talk and think inking——" an expressive! mentality was mended by the trans jomebody has got to care for the Shrug of the shoulders completed | panting of a monkey's thyroid gland | child,” said Thorak. “She should be the sentence. in her neck, was marooned in a hos-| placed in the care of som who FLYERS FAIL To pital here today while physicians | could give her an education. Doctors - REACH NAGASAKI waited for philanthropists to come to | cannot spare the time. It ia a pity, _ The worid was interested not long | her aid. use Mary is unable to think for ) ago in the exploit of two Itallan air} Mary's brain snapped when atrick. | herself and she cannot walk proper > gervice Meutenants who flew fi én with infantile paralysi# when she|!¥. She is still in the class of a yoar . ‘Rome to Tokyo, and Japanese official) was six months old and for 18 years old baby Gircles were much wrought up over} «he lived in a basement of her par “The thing to do ts to get the ald Jents’ home at Joliet, I11., where she |f some philanthropist to pay some “If the Italians can do this, why| was discovered by health officers, | Woman to care for the girl. Several ‘cannot we?” they asked, greatly per-| The girl could neither talk, read nor | people would be willing to raise the turbed. They were interested more The parents, foreigners, kept | #irl if they could be given financial than the average, because not long) her secluded because they thought | assistance.” before this five Japanese flyers} that the best way to protect her. started from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and Dr. Max Thorak, surgeon and chief _ were unsuccessful. of the medical staff at the American | ‘The equipment of the Japanese | hospit al here, volunteered to attempt @nits in Siberia was excellent. The! the restoration of the girl's normal “men are clean, physically. That is| faculties. He performed the opera- one of their cardinal principles: they | tion of transplanting the monkey's iknow hygiene and observe its laws.|giand. A monkey was chosen b But they have a peculiar marching | cause it is the nearest to the human | instigated against them white step. It really is a shuffle, and in| species and it was thought that one |) ¢, “6 one never had to look out|of its gl « would be able to fur-! 4 , the window to know that the passing | nish the spark which would fire the | acca named Taabhen ty "aca | Patrol was Japanese; one could hear | brain, suppressed for 18 years. | ate and the laborers beaten and their shuffie far down the street and| Since the operation, two months Jong after they had passed. It is a the girl shown improve bake toa cr - ‘on tendo oo gait that at times tires them com-| ment in mind and body and hospital |‘? ©) i gonraiga te Maeda tt pletely. This was evidenced in| authorities are now faced with the| Poll v0 agai the tay hn Siberia in several of their campaigns. of educating her. li ge a: p> er o ‘api a ry | said, but he believes that if » . . pice i ON OFVICERS AAA RAAR AR RAD AAARA ae j Mexican help, while many white The lack of initiative that the pen ‘die: ‘owing 0. anikaploy aviation instructor fownd in his ment in the oll fields pupils was evident in the army oie | maneuvers in SiberM, where the 1914 | German mass attack tactics May Cut Wages of | wholly successful. Let a While foreign techn: | ment, however, and it is quite likely|in teaching the Japan to build,| DENVER, Colo, Feb, 16.—-Re to be gnnibilated. ‘The thin wideauis thile abi, 4 duetions in wa of 3,000 miners troops are wholly dependent and underweas forces, it in Colorado w xpected to be Gheir officers and noncoms, If they | that not an American i¢ #0 employed, | thorized today by the indus deprived of their pre they,| Gertian and: Ansteian trial commission following failure of ing automatons, taught and uiding Japan in her miners’ representatives to appear @rained to be fighting automatons, | boat building. Not long ag | yesterday to protest agninst the| are lost. | the Japanese Jingoists, who is wage cut by 48 mining} But do not be misled into thinking | often in the vernacular press General depression in that they, are not good fighters.| stated that Japan must. be »| the m industry wan giving a They fight to the last m elalert, preparing for a war with a|the’ reason for the proposed re certain countr | duction from $4.50 to $4 a day fot quitters. They have 4 and that. this prep: flar to that of t Moharom | aration must take the form of exten- | 'Dry Leader Loses California Vote They are fighting for their « | sive sea power building, with ships, PEACH, Cal, Feb, 16. and, dying in battle, they go imme-| submarines and airplanes and uctively in construction, Randall, dry leader, was hin race for reelection | diately to their he P Withal, their army ts a cumber-| In Japan, ax I have stated before, some affair, somewhat unwieldy. On; the militarist party ta in the contrary, their navy ix “up to| notwithstanding that the peace party snuff.” And here ix a peculiar divis.| i numerically the wceording to complete fon of the militarist party gr of the Op-| returns on’ yeatarday's special ‘con greasional electic in the ninth Cail Metrict, Major Walter F. Line. republican, led Randall by 10,000 | the negative, "Don't you trust them?™ he was is not the point.” the in- | & great imitator. “When he ia told rose, buff and Copenhagen. Sizes 2 to 6 years. Little Wool Sweaters at $1.65 Just the cleverest little /75 \ Sweaters, as sketched—slip-4\__// } on style, in buff, turquoise, / ie) peacock blue, American’/ ~ 32% S beauty. BABY SHOP, SECOND FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE When he is told that pulling the control sends him Pushing the control sends down, etc., he is wonderful Our Showing of Smart New Season _ HATS at $4.95 Will Be a Revelation to You Whatever your color scheme for Spring and no matter what style or shape of hat you pre- fer you will surely find one in this assortment that will appeal to you. There are hundreds of becoming models in all the newest favored colorings, trimmed most invitingly and made from silks, straws or fancy braids. If economy is an object to you be sure to see these splendid hats at $4.95. At $19.75 New Dresses of Taffeta, Tricotine and Crepe de Chine Every one of these dresses is less than three weeks old. Some have been on the racks less than 48 hours. So you can easily see that they’re NEW. In fact, the styles alone should prove to you that these dresses are in smartest modes for Spring. The taffetas are in brown, navy, black, gray and midnight blue, the tricotines in navy only and the @epe de chines in taupe, black and navy. Large women will be glad to know that in taffeta and crepe de chine we have extra sizes up to 52. The tricotines are in regular sizes to 42. Sizes 2 to 4 years. FOR THURSDAY—APRON DAY Gingham Aprons at $1.50 Two Neat Styles to Choose From One style is slip-over effect—in pretty plaids with plain colored ruffle on each shoulder with sash tie, and bound in white or colors—easily laundered. Another model of plaid or plain material—with wide sash bound in rick-rack. APRON SECTION—SECOND FLOOR Rangers Protect Mexican Laborers RANGER, Feb, 16.—Po |lice and state rangers are patrol ling camps of Mexican laborers here following a reign terror Texas of by 36-inch Stratford Cretonnes at 20c yard. 28-in. Junior Cloth lengths to 15 yds., 25c yd. FABRIC FLOOR-ATHIRD) Girls’ Excellent Wash Dresses at $1.69 ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE OF WASH DRESS WEEK Dresses of especially good value —as regards style, workmanship and materials, Made of plain and checked Amoskeag gingham. One «style with folds on skirt and deep Kem —deep* flat collar and wide sash —another is.in apron style, fin- ished with sash—collar and cuffs finished with narrow braid. Sizes 8 to 14 years. The plain colors are pink, blue and orchid—the plaids are in pret- ty color combinations — trimmed in plain colors. SECOND FLOOR-—THE problem ums : are conservative, in all matters. NO AME) EMPLOY inclined to feel its way were mall de- | ians, mechan upon is notable oe lea mechanics | compn a sea LONG Charles defeated control, uw in greater to congress, and that the army, trained in ft#| powed to the war and wish peace, jaye by the German junker | especially with the United States Officers, is large, unwieldy, cumber-| The militarist part some, ite officers and members look| hold upon the people down upon the navy and per-| efforta have been largely sonnel—and the navy, trained by the| for British, a fine fighting, well equipped | great Were arm, is conservative The army |to their grip. warty wants war, the navy pWrty in, third rdte nation maintains its because its! nearl its responsible of the five militariot Japan would be BON MARCHE making Japan one the “KEEP | Jeet of Dr d Parker be | all-wor embly Broadway high school at 9 a, m, Thurs¢ "ING M T” will be the sub powers fore an one at