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Temperature Last 24 Mours Maximum, 6 Mi HIGH CARFARE DUE Train Hits Auto! 3 Kille BALKAN STATES Howdy, folks! your vacation yet? Made plans for So've we. COOKERY DEPARTMENT Matt Starwich writes testi monial for a bake-oven cure, Gosh, we didn’t know he had been baked; we thought he was hard boiled. evening at” Dede Here Ted Keache, the the ever I saw, and ‘the King County Medical Society did attend in a body, him in the adenoid id “Kick him in the si Harrah for bloodshed ! And Joha Carmody, Judi And so to home, mach pleased. A wife is a woman who saya, ‘Now, John, you've had enough.” o. If Seaburn Brown, the Sheik daliyhoo of Krach to this office. he wil re ndsome, nickel-plated guftaw from the editor of this colyum see Personal: Caterpillars are so thick In Oregon that the trains are” blocked. that's nothing. In Seattle there are so many earwigs that the lot ve to be nai down or the: dragged aw “Everybody is simply crazy about me,” remarked the keeper, as he locked up the asylum for the night. an Deyle says that married remain married in heaven. that’s not h. Huh, SSICS Theo Karle, noted tenor, is asking people to suggest songs for his con- cert at the Stadium, June 18, All right, Theo, try these: Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, The Bear Went Over the Moun-) tains. Mr. Dooley. Bill Bailey. We don’t care what sings «0 long it Have No Bananas!” Theo isn’t “Yis, <arle We as It Henry F idegt, Henry'ti cars rd is here will be no ¢ need all the cted pres- ngreasmen. nuts for his It Fi diately start major problems people: 1. How to get enough rmanay gether to make the first y 2. How to make it sts yreather. & How to tak of the doors and f # electe ould imme- the three American to work or of the in ‘cola the squeaks out iders, Conan Do; says a spirit’s ecto- plasm can be easily seen Now to star Cleopatra's ectoplasm in the movi TOUGH Ain't it tough, girls, to be at 4 Charity ball selling Kisses at a dollar a kiss, and then find that your hated rival is bootlegging them in the conservatory? Intoxication which you like ix that when a a string of pearls. are When, however, you only see three golf balls teed up, the trick is to hit the middle one, oad TRY 'EM WITH MUSIC (Courtroom scene) plaintiff: “Ie made n what Tan today, Th beautiful star witness: “People call him Lovin’ Sam, he's the Sheik of Alabam,’ * The d@fendant: “1 picked a lemon in the garden of toy ‘The prosecuting attorney ad- dresses the Jury: “He's a devil in his own home town.” Counsel for defense addresses jury: “For he's « §olly good fel- low The jury won't go home until morning. The judge passes sente . “She vas happy till she met y and the fault was all your own, Behind the bars; “Alimony blues,’ The deliberate, We will | But | a bel {road making condition in| golf ball looks | RESIDENTS OF HOQUIAM DI WW COLLISION ght Fans Are Mangledbya Freight Engine On Way Home Three Hoquiam residents were killed and five injured early to day, when the automobile in which they were returning from the Bercot-Krache smoker, at Seattle, was struck by @ ast. bound Milwaukee freight train, aS ner, 10 milcs southeast of q a, 4 F Aubr married, Hall Karl The injure married; Je oft n G marrie nf Puy necident . owner and Sonne be da The party came to Hoquiam Tuesday afternoon, jing over for the fight and returning late that evening. The automobile craslied into locomotive, throwing the occupants jof the car aguitist the train and along the road. exp ty s from atay then JATTLE, W ASH, Taking 2,700-ft. Plunge the ‘The injured and dead men wore| picked up by the train crew and fa passing automobile and imme diately rushed to Puyallup. Tho freight train which the auto mobile struck was east bound. Engi neer Hafry Cessford and .Conduc |tor H. W. Wilson were in Hall was killed outright, Ramstend ‘died at the mnabend disregarded or did not hear the warning signals at the jerossing and drove his car directly in the path of the train in charge of Engineer Harry Cessford and Conductor H. W. Wilson. Vision of the rail crossing is obacured in part | by a high bank on one side, the rafl- @ sharp turn at point. Enginecr Cessford said he s only traveling at 15 miles an hour at the time. FIVE HURT IN AUTO CRASHES | Five persons were Injured in three traffic accidents Tuesday after- noon and evening. | William C. Smith, owner of the Fuhrman phar- was in the city houpital Wednesday suffering from a broken lee possible skull fracture, received Tuesday night when. he was struck by an auto and thrown into the path of @ street car at Harvard ave. and Shelby st Smith was waiting for the street car in the street when the auto, without warning, struck [tossed him several feet }landed in the car tracks and was (Turn to acta 9, Column 4) ” LARSON WRITES - TO GOV. HART charge Jensen ospital Fuhrman Executive Has Not Taken) Action on Matter ‘The original copy of his petition | for clenmency, accompanied by @ |personal letter to Goy. Louis F. , was mailed to Olympia. Wed ‘nesday by Ole Larson, former presi- dent of the defunct Scandinavian. jAmerican bank of Tacoma, who is | attempting to escape a five-year son- \tence In the state penitentiary thru; a pardon from Hart The governor's office |was in receipt. of the \tition which was mailed Monday afternoon by Mrs, Larson, but was wid no appeal, outside of this petition, had yet reached tho of- | fice. ‘ Gov. Hart was | Wednesday and Vednesday printed pe- jn not not hed Olympia had an matter. Larson, in his letter to the ernor, further pointed out what he considers the injustice of ” being made to suffer for a Mine which lim committed, believing that hé was | acting in good faith with the de. positors of his bank German Marks Sell Thousand for Cent NEW YORK, June 13.—German | marks sold a thousand for a cent at the closing wf the New York ox: |change today, The par value Little lens thin 25 gov- the n ents, this | him and/ Smith | it} opportunity to take up the clemency | WE :DNE SDAY,: a NE RUSH TROOP The Seattle Star | es ATRME N PLAN Fe, EAN FL AG HT AN DIEGO, (General Warfare Is Feared From Bulgar Revolt ATHENS, June 13.—Four Bal kan states called troops to the colors today and rushed rein forcements to their borders. Urgent measures were institut ed to prevent the Bulgarian re volt and counter-revolt from spreading Mobilization of thousands of fresh nnion of civil if § ca aint in which have Ver for the onnel flight tved from pret to Hi arate 1 be bor, test to fights ry m _ © STATE BOOZE In Budape { tal, ed that ne garia bad be ar andi n caph on the ot port mobi men had taken play Greece today instituted wartime mesures to reinfo 6 Greek-Bul garian frontier Jugo-Sla via | Serbian reserve thousand officers and hurried j additional troops to the border with mmunition and supplies | Caecho-Slovakia, farther removed from the storm center, watched with anxiety and ‘prepared, for possible military wetion. -|oAt Prague nif wageanticmed that Here is Price Miller, youthful dargaevit de luxe, as he takes off from the wing of a plane on & 2;700 foot plunge. He doesn’t pray when he seens falling to certain death—he cusses when the TeraeyN ts tones 3 don’t work. o & Carter, Mer Stale Photograph Dare-Devil Miller Tells How It Feels to Drop From Clouds and Trust to Parachute . BY LESTER NT | lite did not HAT thoughts would flash thru | kaleidoscope your mind if you were plunging, > toward the earth from dn altitude of} He was not a boy playfully beating 700 feet? his baby sister over the head with a It is y to find out but no one| Mik bottle one in: nt and a man but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would | exceeding the celestial vpeed lmits ever know what your’mental action | the next. Neither did he atthmpt to was, unless you hada partiot | Polish his soul for angolic inspection. And if you had a parachute your | SWORE AT THE ROPES | thoughts would not be the same as|HE COULDN'T UNTANGLE tho you were plunging to certain} Instead he swore at death with nothing to occupy your!which had locked his uxcless | mind, rachute and strained every muscle Price Miller, sald to be the young:| in an effort to break them. That he Jest and most original daredevil in| 1 is evidenced by the fact the business, is authority for the| that there is no pleture of Miller in above. He has survived two accl-| Sir Arthur's ectoplasm gallery, | dental dro hen his parachute re-| Miller's last narrow excape cane fused to function and one intentional} two weeks, ago Sunday above La | drop of 2,600 fect | Washington after he had severed the | During each of the accidental falls | r f one parachuto and could not thru atmosphere Miller belloved that| release the pin which held a second. |he was about to gaze Into the eyes|He had dropped 400 feet and | of his But, contrary to| 600 feet from the water, falling he awcepted the events of | (Turn to Page 9 Column 3) Dry Agents “Entertain”’ ns Little Al and His Pals |Bootleggers Flock to Hotel and Fall Into Arms of Federal Men flash before of death him in 5 Ho was too the r¢ bove 4 ancestors, theory, hiv BY STEVE ARNETT ‘Hello! Is this Beacon - “Well, say! , You know me, | feel like I had just crossed the hara. What can you do for }1'm in room 00, in the § on Second ave.” | “I'll be right |do you want?" I want a ca afford a quart. * - Daath a denis 7G “Wy * exploded Al, renaae PMdeTaetostanent late the $10, which happened to be mark. |ucsday night, Al was waiting in| was taken from him and 1 lthe hall when his knock was an-| freed. Into: another room. of gwered, The ddor was opened gen. | Stlte, where he w by a tly and mysteriously, A volce inside |CePtion committee third asked, in whisper, “Who's | Mbition agent | there? | “Welcome, “lm your lagent, as hi | Soon the | the visitor, | “ome in mys. (other “Friend Al who had |terlous volee a jon the ‘phone by the same | |prohibition agent and had been paid “ine TEN \with marked. monéy. laken” a Viwbnt |from the first. After a time a third quietly Into the room, | two mon were waiting with 4nd then a fourth victim was ushers ed {nto the reception chamber ind: a. parched appearares. demanded ment, and|inally a halt de had the bottle which he ear. |brought in and the was com. rmly plete: All wx of the? polite 4 genties my leave and nd Al, as he (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) took the mon Please men, “We ALI} “No; 1 hd turned to go. sald of Mh ir company.” must said Al My cally. me you under should be so imy while under arr How much |two mon in unison. “We a |far-famed prohfbition agents, you must remain our guest,” \Gty, EN GLAD WE one the | busines “No; nor leave me? | wre hotel, pas to Al up, the and but T can e, only we 4 met of a re. pro: welcome,” said guest took a chair. guest was Joined by the little friend, Al," said an: Aly’ rplied. the DEMANDED POT TOS dry lips Little AL turned over Wrapped v “T gueas ll t that tenypot,” wald Tr on party ®\ tion said the | the | heen | away | heen | Bulgaria wae partly mobilizing in dey | fiance of the treaty whicls ended that | country’s participation in’ the world war. A bad impression has been cre fated in other Balkan kat ila by this | knowledge. At Belg the ctown councl! de cided to request Bulgaria to demo xe immediately what vol have been enrolled in excess of | the number allowed the Neullly. The Zankof mini tras sling to put down a growing pe ant counter revolt, has appealed for mo istments, rmer Premier Stamoulisky, overthrown by the Zankef coup Wett Saturday, still is variously reported dead, captured, sur- grounded and leading a strong band of peasants and hill tribes- men toward Solia, One, at least, of E bors, is reported toh ws of “whites,” headed by th professor-premier, with enthusiasm. Hungary is reported to have se ly called up the classes of 1900, and 1902 A report the. effect nd main hat depose by treaty of eted the 1901, was to; Kin this afternoon that. the youthful Sing Ferdinand tors of the revolu. Stamboulisky, The jatte ntiroyalist tendencies were feared the Bulgarian monarchs to conceal intentions to effect a con- federation of Gulmaria with Serbia. -EX-PREMIER MAY BE DEAD) LONDON, June 1 Former mier Stamboulisky,,of Bulgaria, | Killed Tuesday by troops of the Zankof government, according Central News dispatch from Vienna | quoting Sofia advices. ‘The report is unconfirmed, idiers of the new go | which was estabjished by Boris the Pre. was new to a rnment, 1 bloodless | the | | Moran, | “drug | coup d'etat Saturday, surrounded the | former peasant premier in a for | Slayostsa and killed him after he had attempted resixtance at the head of a handful of loyal followers, aecord- ing to the Central News, Other dispatches say capture alive is expected mom ly, while others describe with f talls what ts belleved to be a counter-reyolt, julgaria. is believed by , officials hore to be seething in the initial stages of civi: war, which a strict cen sorship prevents what correspondents have penetrated to there describing. Only information fave lable to the new government comes direct from Sofia, | Dispatehes from (urn to Page 9 TWO BROKERS PLEAD GUILTY EW YORK, June 15.—Wdward M. | Puller and Wm, FY, McGee, late heads |of the brokerage house of 1H. M. Wul- jler and gompany, today pleaded guilty to a charge of conducting a hop. wore renianded to jail in cus- uty marshals until Iri- ar ae Vienna, Athens Column 2 of Hullor and MeGoo are alloged to | have vietimized thousands of “amby" Hin all parts of the United States who ont thelr savings to them for pure pose of buying stocks and getting Jreh in a hurry The failure of thelt brokerage ex- tablishmont was the first of many in Wall street. Stamboulisky's | BOUTS PROBED MADISON H both have been made and no public denials made thereof, resolution said. Severson, author of the state dry enforcement law, said he was moved to call for a probe calling for reports of “boozing’! by. legisia jtors and that wet lobbyists were | bringing liquor fato the capitol. The resolution calls for a commit tee of three senators with power to subpoena and collect \ evidence Revelations that Senator Barney who disappeared last on the of a taxation vote ald to have been drugged and kid the outstanding fodture of and app sta elec wes eve w ution. esolut states that it that cause ona him” to be transy the by who and rted ROBBERS TAKE | been absence publicly. charged of Moran was tain employes of th ed and. atupefic then caused him GROCERY SAFE A steel safe, weighing 300 pounds containing $300 cash, st n by burglats who entered the Piggly Wiggly store No, 8, at | ave and Beacon | Wednesday. R. W. Johnson, store manager, discovered the theft at 8:15 a. m.. when he opened the store for busi: ness. The fore a rear door and the afe Was carted bodily into an alleyway and loaded into an auto truck, ac ae to he ‘eee a | Speedboat Races: s uve. early Scheduled Today) POR D, June 13,—Featured by a speed boat regatta this after- noon on the Willamette river, second day of the annual rose festi- val will afford plenty of entertain- ment for the thousands of visitors in the city, it is assured. The water entertainment will bring ome of the fastert boats on the Coast into competition, offered the winners in the event different children’s parade and a demon- | | stration by Boy Scouts,.together with | a big ti also featu eworks display tonight are s of the da! Sugar Drops Half Cent a Pound Here Another drop of one-half cent per pound in the price of raw sugar was announced Wedr the wire of James Macfarlane & Co | Seattle brokers | Here Is Another Good Bargain Perhaps you Whyen't to buy a bome because payment way too big to handle, Well, here that iy mighty y tor been the for Fn first you one hh . ONLY You may move room house PRICK ONLY This House has bi Grated. inside out class shape in every way new bath fixtures; bont tires; also extra pret fixtures: also has n place, ete, ete $100. CASI right in this 6- House now vacant $2,250 n newly dec first brand of fix~ y ghting tile fire~ an Turn to and find and where he Want Ad columns more about this jome you can see it, ne AFLAME! was | uth} burglars had entered by| the | with valuable prizes | Jay morning over HOM EDITION TWO Cl Hurt! BROWN OKEHS BOOST Mayor Signs Bill FEARS WIFE CANDE VETIN “ayaa Hat in Overturned) Contract Parley Craft Identified by K. Barnes | Identification Wednesda By John Ww. Nelson 3 iwin J, Brown signed the rfare ordinance Wednes- day re-establishing the 10-cent single fare and the $'4-cent token fare in effect upon the city municipal car Unes wil the first car that operates after m. urd At the same time the mayor signed the emergency ordinance transfer= 000 from the city light fund street railway fund, relieving angled condition brought about by the refu of Seattle banks to cash the w nts of the street rail- way The two ordinances re special council Wedne: reet raflw May emergency 7 } morning r of the 616 E, Kenneth Barnes, Air Compre , of the hat rturned that of mana: found Tw Lake his wife at Mrs. two women cano> on lead the to hi of the poll arnes was om re employes. station ear ops iti’ meet 9a hearing , Ali was wa come dows in ave drowned Tue nes came to the Wednesday mornin of fe employes the ord! nee to bes at the tellers’ wins asurer Ed L. Terry’ offic rants were cashed as fast os they were presented. ROVIDE FOR RAINIER VALLEY TRANSFERS With the return of the 8% cent fare will come a measure of relief for patrons of Seattle cars who must ride on Rainier Valley lines, The noe from him Tuesday | new ordinance provides that trans afternoon and identified the over-| fers to the Valley lines will be issued turned craft as the one, The hat} with token fares instead of the cash which Barnes identified as that of |10-cent fare required under the for | his wife was in the canoe when it| mer ordinance. This will not be ef- was discovered upside down on the | fective until the state department of lake, | public works establishes the rate: © Cc, B. Clegg, boathouse employe, Now that the troubles of the street — declared that thie Woman belleved to | railway are temporarily solved, the” Mrs, Barnes had given him: two | way tters to one —— to 5 . Bowser | ne lb let. decla tha iptions y rented t Tuesday left honr «x afternoon, | f without saying ve women h whom, she was , lared owner of the boat: house, de that two women rented a ¢ be is cleared for the opening of negotiations seeking an extension of 5 time in whieh to’ pay the street rail: way bonds, Mayor Bor. sald Wednesds MAYOR {Cc d a Bellingh Following Mrs, Barnes as one of the missing women, harbor patrol Loats wer preparing to drag the lake bottom near the scene where the eanoe was found. YS FIVE \T FARE IMPOSSIBLE 4 “We have definitely established that the street cars cannot be opers ted on a S-cent fare basis and” | meet our obligations to the bond: | holders,” Mayor Brown said. “While | we were operating on the é-cent — jfare basis Seattle was giving ita He patrons more for a nickel than | |any other street car system in me countr “Now we can open negotiations: with the bondholders or go into | court with clean hands. We are — | doing our best to meet the carfare situation and are in shape for th |Next move in the adjustment of the situation.” ant The mayor strongly indorsed | day of school, Friday, the 15th, will | | Gouneliman 6. by Hitgakas aed it 9 See several thousand bo 1d girls, | initiative measure be wie! both high and grammar school, head- | consolidate all city utilities. and Fee: ing toward their respective school} buildings to obtain the last report ks cout we bee Rr the | cards of the year. Among them will] jight department, the waren dy be Preston Eldred, 13, The Star’s| ment, and hes stvedt Sal eay marble champ, who, the last week ; in ‘the month, will play in the na- gag when: uveereaneserey tional marble tournament in Atlan: . tie Cit J. Now school is bad enough for any~ body during the spring days of the year. But pity poor Preston, He's} |had a heap to think about, Blue skies and warm breezes have carried his thoughts even further than usual past the ol’ swimmin’ hole and the| fish pond—past everything nearby, Preston couldn't help but think con-| | siderably about Atlantic Just the same he expects to “get | thru” and to consequently be ready for his sophomore year at We: tle high in the fall. In the | time-—well, the marble player and his mother, Mrs. Hldred, leave | Seattle June 20 for the tournament grounds in the Hast. And the boy | says if he “CAN HELP IT,” Seattle {will bo the national marble champ | town, Angels of Virtue Have Descended U pon Shelby |And Shelby Is Going to oing to Clean Up So As Not — to Lose the Big Fight EDITOR'S NOTE: Max Miller, for the past year editor of the University: of Washington Dally, whose unusual articles and editorials have caused whdeapread comment both Inside und. outside school circles, ivf vacationing: near Shelby, Mont, the scene of the fistie encounter on the Fourth of ween Jack Demprey and Tom Miller Is writing w secten of articles for The Star about shelby and the surrounding country, and whl xive his Impressions of the bout and, it . BY MAX MILLER SHELBY, June 13,—Angeia of vir- |tuo descended on. Shelby today, and | will continue descending, ‘They came |from Butte and they came tvom Jitavre, and they camo from Gr Valls. Most of them wor silvery ovals and vilvery: stars, Shell to join the pligrimage of the stra ond narrow=just Iko other plac Jor there wil be no fight duly 4, or any other (ime, the of PRESTON READY FOR TRIP EAST Marble Champ | Leaves on June 20 for Atlantic City The days draws nearer—the uch bonds would bring a prem.) ium and pay no more than 5 per cent interest,” the mayor said, CLEARS WAY FOR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS The mayor declared that his ace | tion in signing the higher fare bill | Was prompted by a desire to clear the way for further negotiations” nd also avoid a repitition of the | difficulty of the past few days, “Another warrant issue faces us June 25, and I did not want the street railway employes continually | confronted with the problent of hav ay ing their pay held up,” the mayor explained. ; Hereafter all warrant issues of the street railway department will — be handled by use of funds in other e jean city department, Counciiman C, B (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) And Shelby, afraid of neither man nor fine, certainly has one Achilles’ — heel—the probability of he figh and so is complying with the ‘ mandment,. Shelby already is a dite ferent town from yesterday, and — will change still more--for the gov- ne croment officers say so, and the ~ promoters of the fight say so, and — 4o do most of the citizens of Shelby, — SHELBY IS JUST A PLAY “SLIPPERY GULCH” ' Once in a while some organization or other in Seattle stages a “Slip ery Gulch,” or some such thi Whisky flows abundantly in Injagination, and poker tables squ Fundepthe weight of play bills and~ |play money, and overybody looks |tertibly tough, and In one corner | the room is a performance where the “Queen of Sheba," or some sit debutante, is advertised to do a WI (Lurn to Page 9, Column. a hs

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