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Dexter Avenue—What’s Best Plan?—Read Mr. Justice’s Story ayor Brown Will Ask Seattle to BUY SEIZED POWER SYST “The Newspaper With the. Big rest Circulation in Washington WEATHER mgrens Mar EM! = The Seattle Star 0" ii SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1924. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ~_ Alu Backs Skagway Tip SEEKS. 10 END of Swiss Family Robinson to Give Seattle and HEAT FOUGHT | fe Gre Gee is wo lazy she'll go | Rrevolving door and wait fo fo come along snd turn it «es fa multy, ther: thing about the round. ; . | Bi tins ou wet! Tell Experiences. | of Property gon the bumpers. —_—_———— | 7 — -somdiae What heat content in gaa is the|present complaints of present gas : BY W. B. FRANCE irk GEE GEE, THT OFFICE | * | most efficient and economical? rvice, rates and equipment ! The Spokal Co. wants a gas |tion between officials of the city of Ss gebthaced Las hua cated cise. yeamenmamaleell CA tert. Den : ; Seattle and the county of King, the i follts believe themselves permanent Sa tor € ' . t \ rat ~ $ Se . ane rule fe wore “am terest: ‘ uget Sound Power & Light Co. t musicians = who ne bs giews a ay Warned to change miniasic f A ent : r pal railway tax fight Saturday ees on a phonograph. t Olympia, when attorr t 1 morning when jt filed suit asking a, ee ~~" |senting Seattle, Tacoma bg Spo und econom t is aad Spokane ie for an injunction against all efforts 3 . kane expounded their view in op w hans a heat content of 550 B. T. & ; of the county to hold the power eto my and | bamition to the gas companics of the ('. but it pays $2.15 per thousand a company or its property lable for assumed hums! state, which are seeking a lower /cuble feet, compared to 95 cents at 2 ae £ ‘rer the city’s share of the accumulated heat content. Denver, , “ eos, pes ae i taxes Seattle was represented by Assist-/ Tacoma, with a gas of 450 B. T ¥ a (Ae eo sai ets! With the complaint was filed a} ant Corporation Counsel Walter B./U., does not jain of the quall * M . Beals and Clark Jac atperin- | of wants lowe tendent of pubti b J contends that if thy o « en A * 515 it ximum oF gaa is lowered, {t should be t- {ey c cattle wants low ed by reduced rates. T aten and better plant facilitie ~~ Seattle ie interested in the eet or © eueatton wilh betevidend. feo ° = ago, thata content and rate question because a 6 commission on the testimon. ounty, filed two days ago, that hearing on this city’s complaint offered Friday jtemporary restraining order would man who has re-jagainst the Seattle Lighting Co. will) Mayor Charles Fleming and Ct ; 4 wadoi pate {be appliéd ‘for in federal court on Io doesn't want has pe heid next. Tuesday, in the Cham. | Attorney Jim Geraghty represented . eo s 4 the same day at 10 a. m, amavis G3 to what [0 ner of Commerce axsembiy room Spokane at the hearng, and E. kK.) i i ay tore were ea the cal | - sen ny, ¢ ttorney, represented) — 7 . urday mornigg upon the city an¢ “tote $0 into the con-| ——| Family R bison cruise prea Seattle to | ’ ' 3 y, |county treasurer, and Mate Starwich farteén ses. | Held Tuesday—Customers Asked to i Will Halt Sales) notice that application would be made for a temporiry restraining order Wednesday, May 28, at 2 pm At the same time notice was filed in the Ol Colony ‘Trust © young fellow named @ fat girl, 2 whaler | Saturday announced it had assumed sponsorship of the vekenakitig and would immedi-|*%* sheriff, both of whom Laaed made -; WORLD COUR T NOW ately set about to provide Pentz with the necessary equipment. This equipment, Paul ba a SB beeps" mr, Jones Perry, president of the Ad club announced, would include a 16-foot gig, sail and)\,, the two cases would be heart rs, a tent, stove, portable typewriter, cooking gear, camera, a goat to furnish milk for | jointly before either Judge Cushmit 03 5 . the Pentz baby, 6 months old, a bed, gun and revolver. The Elto Co. is furnishing an | wo has jurisdiction of the eee of engine for the boat, Pentz selecting an Elto because, he said, he felt the Elto was the | °¥ sult, or Judge Neteter, who has : 3 R ' ; 3 the present actto & Ss Planning to hav mly engine that would stand the trip. Seattle business houses will be invited by the Ad |‘"* "ent Sstie® $n their bonus money will i coming mint lub to complete the equipment. Picture shows Miss Hazel Britton, secretary of the Ad talon igen a Coolidge Faces Sivan Battle to That ‘lub, Pentz and Perry, confetring Saturday over the route Pentz will travel in the haz- | FIRED, OFFICE be |iedous trip thru northern waters. Evi ugk te Fought by Woodrow Wilson Man has sued pt we Tad attatepeceeensderned APPEALS ag eu [ie in fs iin ith oar th ago ; on an rete _EUACUATE TOMS What Do You Know of |Cop Who Lent. Badge Asks press coe (ie ie sites thaw at | Ceti ete] New Dexter Ave. Plan?) temtsfenen ‘or President Coolidge today. t the council and axsembly cok oil field, w » be nerved F his dismissal from the he first gun came when the sem i PRBS mi ioe i “ollowing his dismissal fro The wild gink The first gun came when th ‘ league by a “separate elec: || on 47 residents today ty Marshal poliee department Friday afternoon Whe bits you in (2%, {ores Felations committee, by jroral council” and an “aasginbly of }| Hugh 1. Patton, ot the federul Extension and Regrade Scheme Include) ie reat or trinle auto accident he see tg court at Cheyenne . . at Dexter ave., and Nickerson st., the eye with a| Pepper plan for American adherence | ‘The compulsory arbitration provi- Under the eviction decrees. all New | ake Union Brid e iThursday night, Patrolman. Jom na tennis ball. jte the world court. The Harding- json protocol of the court also ene buildings must. be removed and g | wuchterl declared Saturday. that he \ Hughes plan was defeated, 10 to 8 |te oliminated. fajlure to obey. the order will re. would appeal the case to the police The committee’s action is a defeat! ‘the committee amended the Pep. ; for Coolidge, who made ft plain yes-| ner pian to provide that any na the sage of terday that he would stand solidly Says he can't re- |behind the Harding-Hughea plan, ee ings. What is all this about the Dexter! A number of years ago, a. good | reinstatement. tion having a brad ae yf “—_ ‘The eer _~ tg following || .venue extension, anyhow? |man named Riley had a dream about} The officer was charged by Chief tory power could appeal to the!| «uit by the Ohio. Oil: com a rae | Polic , 1 vi " When he didn’t chew tobac-| considered himself committed to it, ol f= om of the oourt chien 4 lotnraa 6 chad, avd Reays Most of us who have been here | thorofare leaving First ave., near| of Police, W. B. Severyns, with al. ee When he didn’t have! und would go to the country for it. cen oO! ‘ i ca 8 Bile ANS Ag na Se ve noush have been hearing of Vitsinia. st. cutting across” lots -in'| lowing a civilian, M. E. Wood, 8007 r i 7 (Turn to Page %, Column 4) nce righta on the land and. that |/10ng enough hays, been hess x erly direction and connecting | Aurora ave., to use his police badge ae NEW PLAN WOULD erritory thin the village. i wl -iye aes . Dexter DIVORCE LEAGUE t development of its oil HERE One “yy eae Be From there it would skirt around the’ declared that altho several witnesses be sink who iy ai pete lind Goal tithe hack moun ; twill mo kel teave yon io the ust side of Queen Anno hill and | testified that they smelled liquor on to Sour er. erepe sere. boom 24 ey gdh cee come out not far from the Fremont | both Wuchterl and Wood, he was not foui-bts until to. llauded ax an international leader, eD 5 ‘ : i |bridge. This would make a great) convinced that they had been drink- land embroiled himself in a battle | | northern highway. ing. “ce . page ree ae Hit and-Run Autoist Hunted Senator Declares MUScle |sivcesie train ot ie. raoyn| nite and Wood were nth loses have been a great many others | officer's car when it collided with a rn |lett him, defeated and broken, in the | After Hitting Man iriven by:Mrs, W. A. Har | 3 ” |dreaming. Some of them’ dream of | Machine driven by: Mrs, a rap Weng em | Shoals Kiss ACK MAIL \ssineek rat toate ant ess money, | F479 Thackeray pl, and another | per y 1 SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 jothers of nightmares, big essoss.| ar driven. by. Robert Painter of js PAN: BHANCIOOW, May d eile |ments and lost homes. While the | Black Diamond, crashed into them. Great Britain May =", ""° sid Ne was James Ray Diantt Kiss Her; She Kissed Me,” Says) rst of ws, it wo had a dream on the | Blinding headtights, a sharp curve ton, Wash., was found ubject at all, it was like being in| @M4@ @ narrow road played parts in| Siew! Stop World Flight toaay dphhig thsi ”yabant Yo hier Norris in 1 Senate Hearing a swamp at sunset with the fog| the smashup. by 8 : Allof the witnesses told the same LONDON, May 2 Central | painfully injured Sonne down ct I ge story, that Wood had taken Wuch ny mi ce, | ce case Montacen, 2 nen oa.| He Mrs.-Kdmundson smiled PROPERTY OWNERS at Wood had tal S a ed ling ‘ or MacLa tish roun ; fort skeu or 5 yIDE! Sunday “at | that Major MacLaren, British rout ie ee eee no ana aldwt Kise that, girly ane: kissed Norris asked her if Heflin. | ARE DIVID iolik tie tolteding aol eeeonerel rey | the-world flyer, may abandon his at . shrek : soeritiy: a ; Z iA Chadrmal Norris, brought her before the commit- Recently the project has been com- | ‘ ra of the car, he said, leaped out,| ™e-” shouted Chairman zi oe | nothing. No one was injured in the ets sxe Our sport- |tempt unless favored with a spell of | driver ba aped out.) of the. senate agriculture. com | tee to tell the ‘kissing story. ing to the front with much energy.} smash, | ¢ told police that an automobile WASHIN N. May att terl's badge and posed as an officer, } ‘Cover the meet. They | 00d weather. ac him by the coat collar to the} “Why, senator, she Inter. |The Denny Hill regrade, No. 2, has 5 MacLaren still is at Akyab, pre-| jot, rolled him over and sald: “Now| posed eweetly. ‘'I intended it | had a good deal to do with this. The only as a, pleasantry. I didn't |proposed Dexter avenue crosses _ it would “hurt you so. | the’ Denny Hill regrade’ diagonally. ‘put up.’ "* vi ere was nothing mittee, today, charging Mrs. B. +3 vented from flying by terrific rain | stay ther Professor, have an- |squalis and strong winds. At pres-| Then the man left. my Fido can't cst them, | ent the dispatch says there is no sign} Poll © % good description of Pcs. fof the weather improving. the car and driver. pois other, in fact, the Dexter avenue ex ‘ : . tension would be out of the question | ! Jo ¥ emember the fine a Hig cts: Eekiinon tive! ee ea eee ee ee a 8 ba Pin : FAMILY 1s DYING without a Denny Hill regrade, Many | with attempting to blackmail . | A. Edmundson, on the stand, | him because of his opposition to Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals One would help lower the cost of the enator Norris, if you might sion. you, sith 3, iSolmes R O Over Auto S peed not. favor the Fort otter. You |Mother, Father and. :Two) the {uals oat! for: tho Tester | Another Eruption | W said ‘possibly.’ You said ‘it 1 Hl | LYS. @qtersiOn. seems to come mally | —_— 4s ered could kiss one of, these pretty Children Mutilated from large Property ownera.on Wire | 17.0, a, Hy: May¢@4-—Ahothor | girls, maybe: 1 could:be bribed,’ — avenue, and a few large property| viotenty outbreak ia) brewing jiiside NEW YORK, May 24.—Pretty Stirred by scores of letters de- Yell, you did kiss one-and you M@ivorn, ‘Tex. May 2%4.—-Four| holders.on the Denny Hill, of »Kilauea, the volcano which Misu Abby Rockefeller, grand- | manding to know if New York nst the Ford. offer. It | membars,of the family.of Roy Mur-} \ The)main, objectors are theshome | jas" heen’ in eruntion. for 10%days daughter of John D., found her. has “one law for the rich and an wha a. betrayal itor, ome 4 Ras owners within the proposed: district. Yone self today in the center of a. |, other fot the poor,” Mayor Hylan Se eto uth or, [TAY Were found unconsclous; in thelr ATigs tho iim. | 280 MGR NSA) Slalined, at clpast lone : ent buys a new| lively little muss ifvolving a po- |, hias ordefed the papers in the hor statement and, answered that :! |Home fourymilos south. of Milfordsto: ment club of Hirst avenue N. py SIA aA sa ae Pi he ving tha ‘ors what becomes of lies judge, Mayor Hylan, taxi | case sent to his office. The may “intim ne have been given me | day, suffering from wounds’ inflicted | also nters protest on the ground that i saa e ee Exhecs el piss fare manufactured,| drivers, and indignant repre or was moved to tuke this action that if { did not fayor Ford's | with a razor and an axe the Dexter avenue extension would today :by Glose ,observers and acl: % entatives of equal rights for rieh when motorists of high and low ||” offer, something of! this” kind Murtay and hin wite wero lyinke in} eros tray e otaon. First. avenue and | entlais ahaa eo ei ak & Mh und poor eo who had suffered the Jash would be hung over my head.” Ay 7 i ‘the Ballard dridge route, \the continued tremblingroft the "earth Mins Flockefeller started some jaw as it applies to speed Norris had put, Mra, Bdmund. hed, Murray's throat was eat with @) Now, let us’ consider what would {in’ the vicinity of the voleand, the thing when she speeded her protested — indignantly von-on the stand at the request | razor: and his wife's ‘skull © was | tike place if the latest proposdd "Dex: | conditionsof the fires ins the pit, of roadster down 10th ave, and was ‘i st leniency to Miss Rocke of Senator Heflin, Alabama, a crushed with an axe | BIGHT BLOCKS WOULD %) the erate and on their knowledge: served with her second ticket supporter of the D ‘Phelr two children, 4 and 6, were| BE CUT DIAGONALLY of. the: voloano’s moods. for the offense. And Magistrate fome of the letters wore ‘our story is a hood," | 1 vather room, thelr akutla nigo |, 2¢ Would mean elght blocks would] Hour explosions have occurred ip Norman KE. Marsh completed it anonymous, one being slgned Norris shouted again. I Know a ph Shs I . be cut diagonally, and thore would|tho last 86 hours, In one instance when he gave the oll king's “One of the Common People.” blackmail plot when T see it crushed with an axe bo eight diagonal street Intersections | throwing boulders a thousand foet granddaughter a suspended sen- Mixa Hockefoller ts the daugh “If you were not a woman, this Physicians feared all of the in:tbetweon Second ave, and Broad st.{Inte the air and scattering them tence, ter of John D, Rockefeller, Jy. would not be the end of this,’ jured would die (Lurn to Page 2, Colunm 1) [two Tiles" away. from the, crater, Charging a fraudulent combina-| ! Fr » kane % t jstruck a direct blow in the munici-| ‘o's suit oguinst the city’ and} it In contempt of court proceed BY J. R. JUSTICE dari, civil service commission and ask for | ave, at Broad st.jin adjusting the accident. Severyns | They eat candies forint Rl en BB ae ihet 4 of the home Owners in this district | oe nary Miss Rockefeller Is in ; boi PHUEREOE tonite j want. the regrate but not the extent! Vy qingng Rumblings Forecast | TITION; MAY HALT SALE ‘Public Service Commission Hears Case U.S. Is Asked tar es ene soe tits vs eat Olympia—Seattle Hearing Will Be uot Injunction That Purchase of Lines by City Offered as Solution for Tax Trouble BY JOHN W. NELSON Purchase of the transmission lines of the Puget Sound Power & Light {ce y the city -will be asked by Mayor Brown The transmission system has beer ondered sold for taxes, Unless an injunction halts tie sale, the prop erty will be offered to the highest |bidder on June 10, | Acquisition of thesproperty by the jolty would result in elimination of competition with the city plant, the mayor said. | Brown will ask authority for the |purehase in his annualgmessage to ithe city council TAX CONTROVERSY VEN AS REASON Failure of the Puget Sound Co. [to pay its 1919 street railway tax. thereby forcing county. officiats~1o take action to caliect the money by sheriff's sale, caused Mayor Brown jto, advance. his plan. | “It is, distinctly economical to {eliminate competition against our jelty light plant, the samc as we jhave eliminated {t in the water de- partment,” the mayor suid. “I favor acquisition of the facilities of the Puget Sound Power Co., preferably | by condemnation or by puréhase.” Corporation~Counsel —@, J. Le Kennedy declared Saturday that th city would be clearly within its legal rights to condemp the property of the Puget Sound Qo. for the public welfare. It would be necessary to havo the | money for payment for the prop: jerty on hand before physical posses- |sion could be obtained, Kennedy |said, unless the power firm agreed |to accept bonds or warrants. The state supreme court has upheld the jright of cities to condemn property lon numerous such occasions TRANSMISSION LINES | ANLY ARE REQUIRED | “AIL that we require is the trans. mission’ lines, ‘substations and facili- }ties for the distribution for power that the company possesses in the city of Seattle,”” the mayor declared. “The city’s own power plants can produce enough hydro-electric power to supply the needs of the city. It would not interfere with | the company’s business outside the city. | We do not need their power plants, COMPLETE POSTING OF SALE NOTICES Undersheriff Archie Hutchinson Saturday completed; posting notices of sheriff's sale on “the $2/000,000 worth “of the power company’s property. The property will be soli by Sheriff Matt Starwich June 10 to collect $655,000 in back taxes, Both Prosecuting Attorney Mal- colm Douglas’ and. Corporation Counsel Kennedy _recelyed interroga, tories Saturday in the power com- pany’s suit to enjoin the seizure of its property in the tax controversy. |The principal question asked is |whether or not the city and the county haye agreed not to collect the taxes from the street railway jsystem, Kennedy and Douglas both denied nny such agreement, Irish, Flag Slips Thru Golden Gate SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—The flag of Ireland came in thru’ the Golden Gate today—for the first time in history. It was flown by the Limerick liner Knockfigrne, which arrived for a for: eign cargo, and is the first Trish Free State vessel to enter a Pacific ports «cw "WHO WANT S ~THIS: ONE? Ifyou are looking fora, Used! Cariwith! a. sifiadly downy payment! 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