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PICTURE AT Gem of the Fruit Country, as Exhibits Open Star Staff Special. _the hotels to capacity. THOUSANDS PRESENT FOR OPENING DAY BEETLE Ha of the big fair. zh FEREEGE 3 Ha d g ft i ; if i : f FL q F fa z z 4 i E ; | i 5 alt if Ht and seasoning of all in- gredients entering into the composition of JILG Supreme Quality Sausages Insist on Jilg’s— the ideal pure meat Sold by Bétter Class Delicatessens and Meat Shops AND AT JILG’S SAUSAGE KITCHEN Booth 132 Sanitary Market 1519 First Ave. COLORFUL | STATE FAIR Great Throngs at Yakima,| YAKIMA, Sept. . 20.—Sun-browned farmers in flivvers, farm wagons, trucks and Limousines; tourists clad im khaki and drab; tall, straight In- @ians with braided hair; fat little Squaws with sleeping papooses Wrapped in red silk shawls; horse Wranglers and stock fanciers with tall shoes and the perfume of stables on their blue flannel shirts— Sightseers from Spokane, Seattle, | A motley, colorful mass thronged - into Yakima Saturday and Sunday, Faced for places in the free camping | ground near the big bridge that spans | the Yakima river at Selah or jammed | _ Thousands were on hand for the| @pening day of the annual state fair, Monday. Dustcovered khaki disappeared | Sunday and dust-flecked serge | grays appeared. Hundreds of necks surrendered to stiff, | lars. Even the churches | ed, and the movies did/ usiness, geod natured, rollicking! rubbed shoulders on the there some lanky Indian & gaily dressed Indian maid streets, Here and there a stable worker toted an over. of applejack—a sturty second | Opens Wednesday; Special of numerous women's clubs of Se attle make certain the unqualified | success of the first annual Seattle food show which opens fn the Arena | partment of the Seattle Federation of Women’s Clubs. Se vitally interested in the food show,” said Mra, Weeks. “The club women ry . | terest to a majority of the house | etub day, Features of interest to the the same kind of meat! for $20 delivered. and the cost has increased. a pension and let him quit. ment out of dollars. And Starwich is right! Our Costly County Purchasing Agent HE sheriff's office was buying meat for the jail and stockade at 1014 cents. commissioners arrived turning these purchases over to the county purchasing agent. Then the sheriff had to pay as high as 15 cents for An order from the The potatoes bought by the purchasing agent cost this office $43 a ton. “Too much,” and he went out on the market and bought potatoes declared Starwich Auto tires used by the sheriff's office run into money. They cost $53.55 when bought county purchasing agent, while the city purchasing agent provides the same tires to the city for $41.50. The sheriff's office formerly handled its own print- ing awards. Now the purchasing agent attends to it It costs King county directly $1,000 every month to maintain a purchasing agent. According to reports on the department, it would be cheaper to put him on These are just a few samples of what the county is getting for its $1,000 a month. Two printing con- cerns have virtually a monépoly on the printing bu: ness; competitive bids have almost become obsolete; and dignify has been substituted for efficiency in pur- chasing the county's supplies, The sheriff's office promises a saving of more than 21% over last year. Starwich has cut down his cleri- cal and deputy force and gets more work out of the smaller force. This office has aroused a lively compe- tition among its employes in the practicing of econ- omy. Every man is checked up to the penny on his expense and comparisons are issued in bulletin form. Starwich says that it is discouraging to economize and trim at every corner to save the pennies and then have inefficiency somewhere else gype the depart- Why don’t the county commissioners correct the evils of their present purchasing system? FOOD SHOW TO | DRAW WOMEN Group Days Planned Enthusiastic support on the part Wednesday, according to Mra FR. F./ Weeks, chairman of the civic de “AN the women of the city are I am sure expect to give it thelr un- qualified support. The plan to de vote certain days of the show to cer: tain group organizations will make the show more attractive to the various groups. The club women, you may be assured, will give their hearty support to the movement.” With the opening of the show Wednesday afternoon, the manage ment will announce the special days for the groups and the special features prepared for each. Among the specially designated days which will be of particular in- wives of the city will be Community many Community clube will be pre sented. Then there will be a day de | voted to the parent-teacher associa- | tions, of which there are more than) sixty in the city. Every day, however, ts food day, and the interest of every Seattle res- day during the ten days that the| show is in operation until it closes October 1. 7,000 MEN JOIN BIG OIL STRIKE Situation in California, Grows Tense TAFT, Cal, Sept. 20—Compara-| ve quiet, with the 7,000 Kern county trict, was reported thruout the oil fields today. The strike, now in progress for nearly a week, was called when oil workers charged the ofl operators re- fused to agree to continuation of fed. | eral arbitration in adjusting disputes | over wages and working conditions. “We have accepted a wage reduc- tion of $1 per day,” the strikers an- nounced, “But we wif] never end this etrike until the United States government has a hand in its settle. | ment.” Altho no serious disturbances were reported today, the situation was ex- | ing into the district that determined | efforts to bring in “guards” or! | “strikebreakers” would be made by | the oil operators, | president of the Oil Workers’ union, | | methods of administering justice | jand preserving order which the | | and order guards.” | strike district is booze,” he sald. jour strike committee, composed of | deputy sherifs. | ag0 of the “law and order guards” is | jon duty protecting oil wells, ‘ordered to the scene, Finney said, ceedingly tense, owing to word com- Harry Raker, international vice discussed in an interview today the union has adopted thru Its 450 “law | “The most dangerous force in a| “Every man who comes into this dis- | trict as @ stranger is examined by “It he is ruini®\ booze, the deputy sheriffs run him to Bakersfield, | where he is held to answer to the! law, “It he carries arms, he {s dienrmed | and deported. We do not want gun- men here.” r Baker 4 lared the largest percent WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Fed- | eral action will be taken to keep gov- ernment oil wells in operation in the | California ofl district, Secretary Finney, first assistant secretary of | the interior, told the United Press| today. ENGINEERS HIT CUTTING WAGES Argue Living Costs Have Not Dropped Enough Using charts to represent the rise | in the cost of living, representatives from the ctly engineer's office en deavored to convinces the committee on revision of city employes’ salaries, | Monday night, that the time is not yet ripe for the reduction of wages. The discussion en the part of the engineers was led by Charles Newhall, past president of the Seat tle chapter of the American Associa- tion of Engineers, who contended | that the city does not pay its engi- neers a9 much aa do the railroads. Two years, the engineers ‘would pass befpre the cost of living would return to the same level it oo cupted previous to the war. The next meeting will be held Mon- day night, in the council chamber. HE MIGHT HAVE OMAHA.—Theodore Bernhardt, 15, was sentenced by his mother to wear slared community property, ac | cording to Wilmon Tucker, counsel for Mra, Andrews, In his decision, Judge Tallman up- held the will made by Andrews, giv- ing one-third of the estimated $300,- | 000 extate to his widow, one-third to} o¢ py his daughter, Mary de Hart An | drews, and one-third to his son, EB. W. Andrews, Mra, Andrews’ contention ts that the estate 1s community property |and she is accordingly entitled to one half outright and to one-third of the remaining half as hetr, Mrs. Andrews, at the me of berlin the movien” |husband’s death, was 60 yéars of age, and was married a year later to an artist, Arthur Talbot, 23 years old, |who was granted a divores decree the following year, The daughter of Mra, Andrews, Mary de Hart An-| ldrews, now 14, became estranged m her mother at that time and is now being educated under the direc tion of Daniel Kelleher and ts at tending school in Connecticut. The son, & graduate of Yale, re turned to New York city Monday night after testifying in the case, He expecta to return to Seattle next year to become connected with the |Justlo® some might eall it—that it|Funeral for Local National City bank, of which his| Fatty Arbuckle ts convicted for the ° ° death of Virginia Rappe, a beautiful Man Killed in War father was formerly president. DEMOCRATS TO in County Local democrats have donned the war paint and are out to eliminate waste and extravugance in the county and city government. A committee héaded by County Chair. man M. W. Taylor is delving into the county’s expense columns and preparing for an effort to cut the county tax rate at the coming budget hearings. again and again, the voters once more ‘listened to the usual preelec- tion promises ef our opponents. “It ts a costly lemon, but tt has been forcibly driven home that the courthouse needs a thoro cleaning. | This ts the only posible chance for reliel.” ‘With thts idea tn view, the demos are making plans already for next years campaign. Waste, extrava- gance, Inefficiency and the attendant high taxes will be the issues, accord |ing to leading democrats, “We give the present offictals warning,” said another prominent USED KNICKERS | democrat, “that they wil be called | to account next year for this wild | |rampage with the taxpayers’ money, girl's dresses for a week as a punish- ment for running away from home. will make thetr heads swim.” Bar HE BON MARCHE NT GAIN BASEME These Are Good to Look at And They’re Good to Wear! ident will be reached on some certain | [| New Fall Coats $24.75 Handsome Velour or Silvertip | Bolivia Coats with flaring or belted backs and large, wrappy collars of | self material or generously cut col- lars of fur. oll strikers still in control of the dis- ||) figured cotton-back satin. Trimmed with stitching, fancy but- tons, long silk tassels, braiding, em- broidery or three looge panels fur- | balled or tasseled. Shown in shades of brown and navy blue. You'll Be Glad to Buy These Women’s Low Shoes $4.89 SIZES 3 TO 8—WIDTHS AAA TO D Cuban or military heels, Goodyear welt soles, calf or kid, in lace or one and two-strap styles or Theo ties—isn’t that a splendid variety? | Combinations of light or dark leather, ball straps, wing tips are other desirable features. KNITTED BLOOMERS 25c Women’s Pink Knitted Bloomers, sizes 36 to ®. CHILDREN’S KNITTED UNDERWAISTS 35c Children’s “Pyramid” Underwaists, with strap re- inforcements and buttons—2 to 12 years—35c or 3 WOMEN’S COTTON STOCKINGS 29c “Seconds” in Women’s Burson Hose, with hemmed tops and in regular and out-sizes from 814 to 10%. Government oll experts have been In black only. and we will give them a fight that coat lined with od fHE SEATTLE STAR FAILS TO BREAK _ ANDREWS’ WILL today with characteristic stolid: |to cater to hin Taken 1 outward boredom the de Immediate appeal will be taken from the decision of Judge Boyd J Ho in acc ‘allman Monday, denying the peti.|Plaint . signed by Mra page penegea ct Seated per} Maud Delfont, vengeful friend of| Bo at the | tion of Mrs, Sarah O. Andrews, wid-| 114 dead girl, of the crime of mur. |party” invitations low of FE. W. Andrews, former prest-|qor, Lodged against him also, both|to many girts | dent of the Seattle National bank, to|by grand jury indictment and cor-| usual prettines |have her deceased husband's estate |oner’s Jury verdict, is the charge of |by special bid of Arbuc manslaughter. Hunched forward, his great bulge ing shoulders sagging, hin 19 neck straining at his collar, his face such | dull Morid color that it is almont purple, he sits all day twirling his thumbs, twiddling his fingers. They are the barometer of his thoughts, jow-moving imagination. If something goes against him, he ce mp then on they go again, whirling, whirling around each | jother, He must have registered! system, Jover a million revolutions since the |law stepped in and blamed on thone same fingers the excruciating death | of Virginia Rappe, “beat dfemed girl THINKS NOBODY Ot courve, people wonder what goes on in his mind, what he thinks| gnoula the ing him, I belleve be ts thinking. | by the aguinst him. He never looks at them, jbut they look at him, and, ugh! what venom and contempt lurk in their glances, es | It ts a strange coincidence—poetic ing © man who laughs no more, ponderous grotesqueriea. | / ‘ “Last year we went before the |]! voters of the county,” enid Tuytor to program of economical administra tion. After having been decetved STORE HOURS 9 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. FATTY IN COURT IS BORED, STOLID} Faces and Dreads Female Vengeance; Array of Movie Beauties to Testi SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20,—jcelebrated in studioland he sought;companions, and those who drifted | came in t tre. B. Meud Delmont, Immediate Appeal Will Be} roscoe dratty) Arbuckle continued to|the mame type of v found their way who came| ‘Then in the pas le and his | police say, number RINGSIDE NOTES ON . soni F | And those are some of the girls i stops twirling his thumbs for just a Ordered Beacon aus port isi Ne Walon apaiion sanitary fill. jthe Arbuckle sensation. “Tham Referred to city utilities and fyiance committee ordinance author- ’ izing « bond iswue of $680,000 for improvement of municipal railway | °°" criminating c | ansembla | but departed w Referred to Tivense and public safety committees the bill regulating | 0" 8m of them are ing B sules conducted by “temporary merchants.” Passed ordinance fer abandonment of fire station No. 4. Keaffirmed decision of 1920 allowing jitney service to operate only as feeders for car lines. Decided to use money saved city—$317,159.88—t6 reduce the ‘they're pretty, or interesting, oF f LOVES A FAT MAN ‘ils tax tove. 7 fe vn ee awful drag with by | comptrol about while fate is weaving an un-| Councilman Philip Tindall Monday known destiny for him. For watch-| at the council meeting, be approved Ucense and public safety verily, that nobody loves a fat man. | committees all merchants @ and that expecially all women ar?) gates as “bankrupt signees,” or advertising fire or t miles, will be requested file a statement under ,|to give a complete description of |¢#ch day at the door of the jai |young woman, women will convict Funeral services under the direc him, half a dozen of them, all young | tion of Bonney. Watson Co., will take and nearly as beautiful place at 2 p. m. Sunday, for Om Among them are typea—chow girt, | 5. Norguard, $15 Ravenna bivd., adventuress, “chicken,” bathing | @ttle man, killed in SEEK TAX CUT ==: and the dark, oliveskinned | France, September 29, 1918. Services “vampish sort of person.” will be held from the Questa at the fateful revel whence | Methollist church. Burial will be —— the handsome actress emerged hys | Without military honors. Deolare War on Expenses| att i te Gr cil on te NEVER Arbuckle professes an eye for DID PAY, ANYHOW puichritude. DENVER.—H. E. Brock purchased In the films he played oppostte/a madetoorder officer's badge and |some of the most striking beauties | flashed it on a friend here. | of the stage—graceful foils to his| Grube, secret service operative, spled the tin shield and arrested Brock for At the parties for which he was ‘impersonating a government officer jin « tha ually when word went round | Mins t com i Zay P > Doty; c others, and remain. appe, most exquinite a 0 ness what Hy mong the first to ar y 4 grand Vatty” was in town and hold al court in a hotel suite. ING A LAT bor according to THEY DIDN'T FIND Tt | the prose ‘a plan, must keep de- throng which, | tails of the Arbuckle party fresh im 4 over 20 women, |mind so that they may be able rehearse it for the jury | “The prettiest p witne FOR HIM OL TSIDE. be men witnesses, of course, . It does not appear | buc is concerned about the lelose to Los Angeles when they wanted up here. But Arbuckle do seem to be more than a little cerned about the women. cinating, or something, they hay Jury—that 4 not made up of wom 6 “Katty” Arbuckle faced inevitably with the grim bustle ness of facing a jury, whether it be men or women—‘Fatty” Arbuckle, | Were received, whether or not the | whose $25,000 motor car, a palace of goods are sold by court order, and | ease, beauty and comfort, stands out, ler giving the complete do tails regarding the goods, It will be necessary to state the name of; the persons from whom the goods/ if ws ing and wondering whether lida picasa Arbuckle will ever ride on those rich cushions again, as he used to, bowl i ing out to his mansion on West Chilean Consul Is Adams. It seems to typify to the Victim of Thieves |pcople who gaze at his car Even a Chilean consul isn't safe|'Mély. covetousty, the fair things am ay 4 [the splendid freedom that Roscow with eneak thieves around. L. Vril-| «riuckle may have thrown away in ligas, its representative in Seattle,|_ moment of fo reported to pelice that his suit case was stolen by a taxi driver after he| Mian Killed When had left a party at 1332 EB. 62nd st Truck Ove: any Monday night. The sult case con- tained ladies’ wearing apparel While delivering a truck to Goerig & Co. near Port O WELL, DOES ANY in company with Harry the merchand! Ps William Cole, 25, 1818 Boren OFFICE HUNTER? | was killed when the truck si NEW YORK.—John Hopper, who|and overturned. Randall was ran in both republican and demo-|hurt.* Cole died on the way to @ cratic primaries for register and was | hospital at Port Orchard. He was « beaten in each by a woman, said|former service man. Cole is “neither knows anything about the|vived by his wife, parents and two office except the salary it pays.” brothers. ‘ Attractive Pretty Versions oi iheFallSweater | at Most Attractive Prices The Seattle woman who has succumbed to the, practical charm of the new Fall Sweaters, and who has a definite amount in mind to spend on one, will be delighted with the showing in our Sweater Section. We mention only four prices here-—there are others above, below and in between. — The Sweaters Sweaters at at $8.95 Novelty Sweaters, $12.50 Stunning Ones | at $17.50 | ° stitch effects or semi- Semi or full Tuxedo Tuxedo models of fine with novelty stitch mohair trimmed with blouse and plain skirt, brushed wool, finished with close-fitting cuffs, Fiber motifs in »bright shades are inserted in the wool sweaters, giving a novel effect—some show the color in the Tuxedo, other models introduce it Maude Adams collars, fiber bindings, longer skirts with fiber pat- terns, Astrakhan wool trimming, in fact a wide selection of jaunty styles _ or white rib on bright | FABRIC FLOOR—THIRD iI) aid of the “Drawing Master” Toy Section for children and grownups. to enlarge from any copy. | $3.50 to $15.00 | FOURTH FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE 1 and shown in a delight- autumn-colored sweat- fy} choice of smart, dull ers are the favorites colors or the brighter at this price. shades for Fall. SECOND FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE === === in the hem and cuff—and in flattering new colors either way you will find and color combinations— the sweaters at this price sweaters that are real interesting in color and additions to your ward- design. robe. ny You Can’t Make a Mistake _ by Buying These Towels and Shirtings Superior Quality Turkish Towels 40c Heavyweight White Towels, 22744 inches | Face Towels of Cotton Huck at 19c | Good weight, white with red borders, 16x83 inches 27-Inch Chambtay 12'c Yard | In plain shades, lengths to 10 yards | | 32-Inch Imported Madras Shirting 59c - Wide choice in patterns and colors Oh, it’s so easy to draw, with the Now being demonstrated in the A device both instructive and amusing A complete drawing board and panta- graph, which enables very small children A Sample Line of Coffee Percolators About 1-4 Less The “Manning- Bowman” sample line of fine Coffee Per- colators, while we have any, at one-fourth less than the regular selling prices. Here’s the way they are priced now: Percolators at $3.00 each Percloators at $4.15 each Percolators at $4.30 each Percolators at $4.50 each And up to $7.50 UNION STREET BASEMENT Learn to make your own clothes at home—join the October Sewing Classes 12 Lessons for $2.00 Classes are personally directed by Frances Grant Heverlo. Register now—lessons start October 3. You'll get many helpful ideas to make sewing easier. PERSONAL SERVICE DESK—SECOND FLOOR