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| erately we {fh Eg Weather Tonight and Tuesday fair; warmer T' Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 66, Today noon, 55, esday, mod- sterly winds. Minime bb. am, Entered as Second Class Matter May 3. | BY TEN THOUSAND PLURALITY THE ST ORR eee YANKS, JAPS FIGHT IN CHINA! AR IS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise VOLUME 23 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress B, 1921. SEATTLE, (| }a | } Skea - | Greetings, folks! Have you chipped Your $26,000 apiece to Seattie’s| boosting campaign’? eee “Sheriff from Kankakee, IM., says fs wonderful city, but adds the finest insane asylum in the) World is located in his own home| town. Naturallly, he’s crazy to go) dack. Which makes it fine To rhyme with violet. Four women shoplifters In Chica- ro teere sentenced to attend church @very Sunday for ® year. But not to pass the collection plate. . ‘The dogs of war have been un viest fight: | Jeadhed aguin, but the heaviest reported at Kattowitz. fing today 1s reported A battle at Kattowitz, | Sounds kittenish and well; But war is war, and _ % | ‘re quite aware, } _ What Sherman-said.tt ras, | A WORD FROM JOSH WISE | You don’t find many men gittin’ a raive on uy their hindsight. account Turkey's bis the war is a| Turkey's big hero of the war deaf general. Where he wins ts in being deaf. He can't bear the ad vice. See “| win find Dempsey’s weak spot} pretty quickly,” says Carpentier. Hit him on the pocketbook, Georges. eee (Great Britain owes Uncle Sam| Wipe s00.000 and the British govern-| ment has asked Uncle Sam to loan it that amount. If It intends to pay | 1) we the interest with the borrowed | | money we move it be loaned. * Four of the largest religious de fominations in the United States have started a movement in favor | @isarmament. It will interest us| more when Charlie Schwab and| Judge Gary oa ome . The supporters and the opponents of the sales tax bill are battling in Washington. But get it right. The hattle is not over who is to pay it| but how the consumer will pay it. | —_— Overcast skies boded i weather, ; wt there was a song in the heart Frankie Kiolet, winner of The BtarUniversal I company con | tent, when she left her home in tailard this morning and started on her shor tour in her big Lex ington 8 il Thorobred motor car Happy Vrankie Kiolet @ay evening and all day Sund Le vinited by a host of friends and well agers who called at the Kiolet, | day morning. . | stantly. —S- ASSISTANT TREASURER IS SUICIDE Trades Union Bank Man Finds Detectives on Trail; | Seeks Death While two detectives shadowed his house, 104 Garfield st, from across the street, John Hemenway, assist: | ant treasurer of the Trades Union Sayings and Loan association, shot himself thru the right temple Mon- He died almost in-| Hemenway had just returned from & walk thru the park. Two detec tives, J. D. Sandusky and Charles Lippincott, operatives of the Burns Detective Agency, who were shad- owing Hemenway, dashed into the) house at the sound of the revolver books Monday. Hemenway had been nervous for the past week. When he entered his | home after the morning stroll he learned for the first time, it is be | Heved, that detectives were trailing | him, It was only a few minutes lat-/ er that he shot himself. ‘The body ts at Butterworth’s, W. L. Nicely, state bank exami! er, who was checking the bank’ books Monday, announced that the| bank was fully protected against any| shortage Hemenway might have cre | ated by Hetenway's $50,000 bond. | Nicely refused flatly to give out | any estimate as to the shortage. “I don't know,” he said, “and I probably won't know until I finish | checking the books, The shortage might be $500 or it might be $5,900. The work of finding out is compli- cated by Hemenway’s killing him-| self. “I asked him Saturday to come down this morning and have a con ference with me. This he agreed to do. 1 had hoped that this would save us from making an audit of the books.” TAX MEETINGS Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and the Whole State Are IN THE SAME BOX| NAVAL MEN FIGHT JAPS kane. DOUBLE. City’s, need. taxes twice as high? SANK OFFICIAL |SHORT IN ACCOUNTS KILLS HIMSELF EATTLE'S TAX PROBLEM bs the state's tax problem. Let no one bamboozle you on that score. Tacoma's tax rate iy as high, or higher, than Seattle's. higher in 1919. Spokane’s tax rate was practically as bigh. The 1919 figures are uved because they are the latest official figures available fer most citles in the United States. The tax for each $1,000 of property, full value, for 1919, was a» 27.93 7 3o 18.50 Don't let us be ridiculous and try to fool ourselves, There are many ¢xtravagances in Seattle, and they've got to be cut out But Seattle is not particularly more extravagant than San Francisco, or Jersey City, or Portland, or any of the rest of the cities men tioned. Nor is Tacoma particularly more extravagant. Non Spo- Why, then, is the tax in Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma more than twice as high as San Francisco?’ Why is the tax in Washington cities higher than in Portland, Los Angeles, Jersey City, Denver Do you see what that means? person than Jersey City. Seattle spent less per person than Los Angeles, but its tax rate was 60 per cont higher. Seattle spent $2 a head more than San Francinco, of about § per cent more. But its tax rate was 116 per cent higher. If expenses are lower in Seattle than in Jersey City, why are If expenses are practically the same as in San Francisco, and lower than in Los Angeles, why are taxes double here? The answer ls plain. The tax SYSTEM Is rotten! Cut local expenses? By all means. The Star will go richt down the line for every cut conceivable and possible. scheme that can do it. It i for a citizens’ committer, It ts for an engineers’ committes, But The Star is not going to be satisfied with local reductions alone, because THE NEVER bring the tax levy down as low as San Francisco or Jersey STAR KNOWS And that's the goal The Star is alming at. It ls the goal at which every home owner and every property owner, and every home rent er, must alm. The goal cannot be reached except by a special session of the legislature, and let no one sidetrack you on that point, Mr. Taxpayer. A special session of the tegisinture is the taxpayerw most urgent It hits the tax problem in « vital spot—and that’s why you hear some people squeal at the very mention of It! | ‘No Bonus; He Passes YET ITS TAXES WERE NEARLY WASH., MONDAY, MAY : The Seattle Star March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 EDITION DAILY ELECTED SEATTLE’S FAVORITE PAPER PPP PPP LLLP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PAP TH LATE al Mh} Clash It WAS Dispatch to Tokyo Shanghai Reports Cas! ties at Woosung TOKYO, May Los Angeles ....... San Francisco Portland Jersey City 18.61 13.70 from Shanghai, saying on May 22 22, patch. The Japanese ceived. Jersey City Seattle SPENT leas money per BREAK J at Everett ready to use guna. tation to Walla Walla. AMERICAN 23.—The Japanese vernacular press to- Fifteen hundred Bedouins are day published a cable report | Streaming toward Ramleh to tment today said no official report had” been re- DESPERADOES i Dangerous Gunmen Escape Four men sawed the rivets from | the top of a tank in Snohomish coun: rest’ them are warned that they are Dunn was being held following a es GING IN ] From! Bedouins Going to Slaugh- ual- | ter; Dead Lying in Streets of Massacre Town CAIRO, Egypt, May 23.— ‘take part in a general revo- that jutior Reports of last with gasoline and thetr cloth- ing set afire. navy in the streets. Alexandria. The Egyptians con tinued ugly, attacking the British particularly, but threatening all Briti#h officers efnceled all leaves and prepared their men to meet any attack, Large bodies were sent out to support detachments which might be cut off in event of a general up. rising. Tourists flocked here from Egyptian points, anxious to the country before there is further trouble. AIL all It is for every ty jall, climbed up the window to the/ It bs for a consolidated taxtevying board. roof and let themselves down to lib- St N b erty on a rope mads of thelr blank ar Numoer ety at 19 p. m. Sunday | oat $ that local reductions alone can In the request nent out by Sheriff M OH 600 W. W. West of Everett to peace of. ain ” ficers of the Northwest to appre Beginning today, when you tele hend the men, three of them are de-|] phone The Star, tell central you ncribed as “desperate and danger] want Main Oh-600, instead of ous. All persons attempting to ar. Main 600, as heretofore. As ex. plained. several days telephone company, ago, the in installing These three are Joe James, 35, J./] the automatic system, has found B. White, 33, and Joe Dunn, 40. The!] jt necessary to change all num. two former had been sentenced to || bers having less than four digits life imprisonment as habitual crimt!| py prefixing a cipher. You |nals. They were awaiting transpor- || wilt find The Star's new number in the new directory, distribution of which was started today, Tuesday, £:00 p. m—Joba B. Allen | preliminary hearing on the circ sehool eae aes | stances under which he shot Fred| ; Wednesday, 729 p m—K. al ” ” 5, e ne © (representative ef fraternal nd || Bo u ( “h ck t B Peters April 15, when be and Peters | Military Engineers 1:50». ma emersen wchoet. * Ss é O uy hand le bandaged as the resut of a| Meet Here Tonight Thursday, $:00 . ce ¥. Day 2 wou aid to have been inflicted by| Regular meeting of ttle post Friday, 4.00 p, m-Duniap school - Pote Society of American Military Engi 4:00 p. m.—Seward school, Parent- l Or a (4 The fourth man who escaped was! neers, will be held in the rooms of the Salas soaaation 9 B. J, Ward who had been sen- | Seattle civil service commission, Ar tenced to the state penitentiary for building, tonight at 8 o'cloc! ; ial ‘atching his baby starve for, “If we can save Mra, Wesserling |srand larceny. He ts sald to be oe ke ek ace Gs Delay Womans Trial mix, c. c. center, overseas veteran from ions, I'am perfectly willing tOlwamed in Spokane in ‘connection | anaeut, Goll CA. Seoane, U. for Slaying Man|* *7 72% out of work and out | fNe this boy @ chance,” said the|with a case of automobile theft. in this vicinity, will address the ying Jot funds, wrote a check for $3 on al? sty, | Jail officials of Snohomish county | meeting on “The Cable Systems of CHICAGO, May 23.—The day of}! ” “0 way ne hae “i ° : Tl give a dollar toward repaying | any the m edly had aasist-|the Pacifi H reckoning of Mrs. Cora C. Orthwein, | DOAK in eee ae ein ldn Weanerting | Der, that $3." shouted Downey, WhO |ance from the outside, Shortly af-| formerly with the Séth eng confessed slayer of Herbert P. Zeig-|°°'%) oie . on his feet at once. ter the break the theft of an auto-| yi! “The Ope of Pacific City food for his child. pst dh on will speak “The Operations of the ler, was postponed again today. Nonen the clan yore he Til give anothpr dollar,” chirped | mobile was reported and it is be|seth E rs (Searchlight) in Mrs. Orthwein’s trial on charge of so Shaws res is os * Attorney Atwood A. Kirby, who had |; the four men used the ma-| france.” murdering the high executive of the a ot — - y wg wes been listening with great interest to chine to make good their escape. ES ee CT REN Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, |07 Monday he was brought SY (wep. | the case. | James and White are both de. . was to start today but a crowded |UtY Seat “ena Des ey from| “And I'll give the third,” sald Sulll | acrined as “stocky tn balla while) Bodies of Everett docket in criminal court caused de- nortigetsharnrenctho fie “¢ > | van. Ward is said to be slim and Dunn 4 tay until Wednesday. | Daiton's court to answer to the mis |" Whereupon Center went his way| nard,8 sald to be slim and Dunn) War Heroes Buried ‘The defendant shot and killed Zeig: pimped wa hs ; ‘i free and Mrs. Wesserling, who 18) root ¢1, ia eows Walr and ¢| EVERE May 23.—Bodies of ler in her apartment on the North| ©® the way he told Downey his herself struggling to make a living | eyes. White weighs 170, 1s § feet 7%, | William Shoenrock, _infantryspan ined Grive. story. He had been under the im-) on her little farm, had no desire to/ and has light brown hair and blue|@Md Charles Leroy Kelly, marine, vo SR ae a ia pression that his bonus would be | prosecute further, # brought here from overseas last |paid by the state in short order, he} ee ortega pir * w were buried here with full mil | Ward weighs 160, is 5 feet 8% woe bee ea Loss of Husband said. “He had seen his wite and two| Gp to Pick U BP ggg cP fon Peg aye Is Worth $8,600) (22%, "22uerd, to. straitened oops fo Fic P hingleweaver, Dunn te 8 feet 6 - isdeigte ’ circumstances In his home at 74 : H | pacha bee hae wo Bid " > TT As compensation for the death of |Thomas st. He had taken a chance Corn; Boy Blinded intngh Maal pardy. Reny Male and Sine INISTERS PL yi : her husband, James Sadler, 46, killed because his baby eried. | AURORA, Ind., May 23,—8ix-year a shir alee SKIDS ON SHOW by a train within the city limits, Mrs.| As they entered the court room|] old Robert Hart stooped over to pick WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE DE . May 23.—North Denver Catherine P, ener ‘wag awarded | Downey saw Attorney J. J. Sullivan! yp an ear of corn as he was feeding Water will be shut off on At- | | ministers got out of bed at 2:30 this $8,600 from the Northern Pacific ra{l-| and told him the story, asking him| 40° (1008 ck tt Oe | | antic st, botween Fl | |morning, held a conference and suc way by a jury in Ju Calvin §.|to represent Center } 4 p | | and Cdlorado ave, on , | |eeeded In making a noisy carnival Hall's court Monday. Mrs, Sadler| Sullivan agreed readily, repeating |S the eyeball and bursted it, blind | | from 8 a.m, to 5p. m | company pull up stakes and move on had sued for $27,100. the facts to Judge Dalton. ing the poy x —___wafter an appeal to the police, homé, 7339 2ist ave. N. W., to ex- tend congratulations and voice their hope that she will one day be movie dom's greatest star At 9 o'clock this morning in her handsome ear, the gift for the of the ShieldsLivengood com 1024 HB. Pike wt © little girl de parted on her itinerary of stores and shops where articles of her wardrobe, the gifts of Seattle mer- | chants, aWalted her coming. Following her in another car waa | itowala Bros, the camera staff of the Universal Film company. Hefore each shop where the win ner entered and the camera was set | crowds gathered to see the new can fidate for stardom and watch her in action before the lens, She stopped at the Pinehurst Flor- al company’s store for her corsage bouquet and for other flowers at There was a long, mysterious box | Shop, She chose a fluffy afternoon) motor coat from the Goodyear Coat for her at the Knettle Corset Co. | dress, es Meathy “ik Gas, -aintionery,. & Dainty silk I Burkes were To go with her sport suit she " the New York|found a lacey waist at the Market|#fench {vory hand mirror at the Blous¢ p and sport shoes at the| Standard Furniture store, a bathing Upstairs at the Florence Store she | Brown-White Shoe Co. | sult, cap and half-hoi & found a nifty sport sult, into whic Black satin pumps, with a fan-|Taft’s—all these wer in he changed and came out to face| shaped decoration on the arch, at| the shopping trip. the clicking camera and a throng| baxter & Baxter's; a wonderful knit) ‘There was a suit case at the West- | that blocked the street cape from the Octonek Knitting Co, ern Trunk factory, boudoir moce fuke anything in the store,” said | Salig's Silks silk for a sport skirt, | sins at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, pro-| biggest the Peanager of the Sweet Sixteen! street shoes from the Buck Sh oe Co,,| fessional photographs to be taken at| Wednesday night she and her party | derful even ig 1 won,” she sald de, 5. nary uprising, according i American and to reports here today. Japanese bluejackets engaged | lin a fight at Woosung, China.|rioting at There were séveral casual-|"¥o Europeans were sprayed | ties, according to the dis- | night's! dead were said to be lying leave |ters were under including the Map of the World: aC) | BREAKS IN GERMANS IN ~ REBELLION! PORTUGAL! |Report Says Cabinet Minis-|Thousands of Teutons Are ters Under Arrest; Dis- turbances in Progress LONDON, May 23.—A revolution. jary disturbance is in progress in Portugal, according to heavily cen- | sored messages today. The various ministries were re- |ported under naval guard gathered by Machados Dos Santos, a former S| naval officer who was imprisoned Alexandria said for his part in previous revolutions. One report said all cabinet minis arrest, Premier Bernardino Machados. | ‘BURIED UNDER 4 i The president was said to be con- Egyptian and European |ferring with presidents of the sen-/ &te and champer of deputies with a wiew to creating a new cabinet. The changes were said to have been ac British soldiers were tn control of | complished peacefully. ~~ FALLING WALL (Rescued After 15 Hours of Torture PORTLAND, Ore, May 23.—Wil- day afternoon. him. exhausted cate himself. ger ¢ terday jam Kruger is fighting his way back to life at St. Vincent's hospi: tal today following his rescue yes- terday from beneath an avalanche jot bricks that had held him pris oner for 15 hours. Kruger, a brick mason, was work- ing alone in the cellar of a deserted building on the east side late Satur A wall collapsed on Badly injured he worked until in an attempt to extri. When his strength gave out, Kru- Ned all night for help. morning he Yes- was found un conscious by his wife and a small party of searchers. | Scaffolding Falls; | | Painter Breaks Arm J. H. Roseoe, of 3706 18th ave. 8. w., is in Seattle General hospital, with a badly broken right arm and severe bruises about the head as @ | result of falling two stories from a scaffolding on the Heffernan build. ing. day morning. at Sixth ave. and Pine st., Mon. toscoe, who was a painter, was working on a scaffolding. supporting ropes gave way, and Ros- coe plunged more than 30 feet to the pavement below. John Nagleberg, who was working narrowly escaped in- | jury when the falling scaffold grazed with Roscoe, | his shoulder, are between roation parade. day of the mittee, 1 Hartsook's studio, a five-pound box| are to be guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Hood's of Victoria Candy Co. CIVIL WAR VETS NEED YOUR AUTO There was the time when the ivil war veterans and vigorous. 75 and 95. they are going But it will be an auto parage, so far as the Grand Army public is concerned, > an auto, you are urged s host to the old vets. jet in touch with the Elks’ com Elliott 92. chocolates One were young Today their ages On at of the Deo- to If Then sfe went to the Vogue Hair shop, in | “do. | Tuesday she will be the star re-| pre | porter for The Star, local story of the in the American Bank build- » for massage, manicure ang hair Clemmer theatre, beginning Tues overing” the day. POLES AND Rushing Into Silesia to Aid in New Conflict OPPEIN, Upper Silesia, May 23.— German volunteers have routed 43 ish insurgents at Albrechtdorfft L Lowoschau. The Germans charged in great numbers and overwhelmed the | At Gogolin, which the Germans © took last week after a sharp fight, @~ iy in Upper 6 If the allies do not act to halt how tilities between Poles and G the situation will be serious, it stated. re . Disregarding French protests, Ger. man volunteers by the thousands 3 pouring into Upper Silesia, the for eign office declared today. In o= places free railway tramsportation ig — being offered to attract prosp fighters, it was said. * Heavy fighting was progress around Kattowitz, 3,000 German volunteers Polish insurgents. The Poles made a headquarters of Kattowits — and had encircled the city troops. They were well armed. eee eas . British Rushing Men ye Into Silesia Zon LONDON, May 23.— Four talions of British soldiers will immediately for Upper Silesia, it was announced officially by the war of fice today. fe The men will be drawn from the troops along the Rhine. The bat: talions will augment the allied forces sent to preserve order until the plebiscite has been determined. Unofficial reports here today sald that fighting between Poles and Ger- mans is continutng in Upper Silesia, In the neighborhood of Kreuze burg, Rosenberg and Kappitz, the - fighting was said to be of guerilla — character. ¢ ‘Well-armed Polish forces were dis persed by two columns of Gi armed with revolvers, who marched | boldly into Grosidnier forest, where large Polish forces awaited them in roughly made barricades, The Poles, after a sharp conflict at Lovietzco were overwhelmed by the Germans. They set fire to buildings, | terrorized the German inhabitants jand withdrew. The most extensive damage there was the burning of Grossteiner castle, a notable land — mark. ‘ Loss on both sides was said to be mounting. 2. % 200 Irish Soldiers __ in Sudden Riot LONDON, May 23.—Leaders of 200 |Irish soldiers who rioted last night in the village of Aveley were arrest: ed today and taken before their offi. cers for strict examination. The motive for the sudden out- |break was not known. The soldiers }iooted a hotel, smashed windows in |business houses and held up and searched motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, Other military forces suppressed the uprising. | | Raby elephant purchased for Woodland park now in new quan ters. |. Savage at a farewell reception and banquet at thy Hotel Butler, The moving pictures taken on her shopping trip will be shown at the day, in a litle scenario showing her sress from the time she entered the contest, “I bad no idea it would be so