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Don't Cheer! Get Busy!

THE b»»t booat idaa Saattla haa war had

la maatlng lonaaom# dalvgatlona of via-

Itera thl* aummtr and ravaallng to

aamplaa of Saattla'a hoapitality. To do

It, tho. avarybody muat gat Into harnaaa. Aak

railroad paaaangar aganta If anybody

YOU'RE Intaraatad in la coming. Than YOU

maat th*" 1 -

Seattle Realty Men Give Glad Hand to Visiting Brethren

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COUNCIL TO PASS MILK BILL

Chicago Party

Is Surprised by

jWarmßeception

rhey're Met at Train, Taken to

Breakfast, and Then Shown

Around City in Automobiles.

By Fred L. Boalt

Chlcagn"*

» IVI "Morning. SntUtf

* "My nunt'i Smith,"

i "Olad to know you, Mr Smith M■■ name'* Jone* ■

INtCom* to our city, Mr Joiim Meet trty wife

"Ho*-<J«m!o. Mra Smith? Hle»« my »oul, »here dirt all the«e i>eo

jkcoD* from*"

Uaattie Real Eatate aarnclgtlon AND w|*e« AND children'

"Yes don't mrvi to aay that you folk* went to al! thla trouble Juat

to—"

"No trouble at all. Mr Jone*. • • * H*y. <»reen. come o%*r here

Frank E. Case and Mayor S. F. Woody of Bothell. raal estate men

OHM local commlttct which mat vlaltlng realty man at the train Tuee

•y and showed 'am the time of their Uvea. The Blar photographer

Mapped them in front of the Arctic club.

I want vou to know Mr Jone« • • • You let us look after your bag

P*» * * • Now then, all ready" • • • Meres another on« o'

•' I *anr you to meet. • • • Come over here. Robinson Shake

toads with Mr. Jonee. • • • Now wa'll go and g»t some breakfaat. '

That la about the way It started.

The Chicago Real Estate Hoard, having attended the eighth annual

«*»entkm of the National Asanclatlon of Rea! Kstate Exchange*. at

Uw Angeles. la en route home via Seattle, Spokane and Glacier park

The members stepped off a Orest Northern train at Tuesday

travel-weary, hungry, and

Yon know how It la youraelf. Gray onwn Strange lown I'nfamll

afreets, leading you don't know where Crowds of peo. le. and not

°»e of 'era gives a darn about you. No one to meet you with a welcom

t*« tend

Oh. sure, you ran BUY courteous attention anywhere For a gratul

T* porter will doff his cap to you. Auv waiter, almost, will permit his

•oodsn countenance to crack In an obsequious smile If you cross his

Wlm with silver.

But that lsn t HOSPITALITY

Now, those Chic ago real estaters dldn t know they were going to be

at the train A good many of them have brought their wives and

k»*hfer» along There are 55 In the party.

*n1 I give you my word that It made a hit with them to be met hy »

"inch of live wires like themselves at the station It put them In an

optimistic mood Helng In an optimistic mood, they will be able to

Seattle s advantages over other cities In their true light They will

B** back to Chicago and pass the word sround that Seattle is a fine

>l»c» to live and do business In

That« psychological It works both ways I have a friend who

"** a really beautiful wife On.lnarlly. when my friend regards his

•"'across 'he breckfast table, he realizes and rejoices In her beauty.

once In every so often he stays out late snd goes h"me half

•Ms-over, in the morning be Is filled with remorse and !>■•*<lmlam At

**h tlmc« be regards his wife across the table with * Jaundiced eye,

»iie looks positively plain.

The Chicago party was escorted to waiting automobiles. They were

"sen u, tb«» Arctic club. They had breakfast

At » o'clock guests and hosts started for an automobile tour of the

™' y - At noon came luncheon snd afteiward* a trip In launches was

taned around Klllott bay. In order th%| the visitors might se<« the bar

"w fojw.ts of the port commission.

The (,'hlcagoans will leave Tuesday night for home

• • • • •

Other deleg.,lions to the l»s Angeles convention are bended thin

**'• Home have dallied In Han Francisco Others have I irrled at Han

'l»Ko One his side-tripped to Honolulu. The HeatLe real estaters |ilan

w Bieet them and entertain them as the come

If every stranger could be welcomed aa he steps off his train In

■Wttle, *h«! a |„t „f good will we could create for ourselves' tjood

*"1. like poker chips, has no home, but, again like poker chips, It s a

* 00<1 thing to have when the time coraci to cash lu.

m m • • •

The Seattle S tar

: The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News :

VOLUME 18. NO 112.

Assailant of J. P.-Morgan Cuts His Wrist in Cell

DANCING

BILL IS

LOST

The city council llrenae commit

tee Tueaday unanimously toted to

re-ommend that Councilman l>nle»

new bill, providing for the llrenalng

of dancing In hotel* and rafea, he

Indefinitely poatponed The mei*

ure «ai to go la the council Tue«

day afternoon with that rccomrnvn

dation.

The bill. Introduced at a meeting

of the council a* a committee of the

whole ae\eral daya ago. after an

other bill had been killed provided

for dancing apart from the main

bar. but made It permlaalbl* In

room* where only aertlce bar* were

maintained.

An amendment by Councilman

KltigeraM. providing for the allow

ing of private dancing partie*. wu

given no official notlco

Councilman t>al» Mid In defen*«-

of hi* bill that he believed the bent

Internal* of the city demanded that

thera b« a little liberty allowed In

•tich matter*

Ts»e hill In revokes the flutter r»f«

license went back to (ho counril

without discussion

RAILROADS TRY

TO DODGE BLAME

IN FATAL WRECK

| msff

RAINIKR. July * Attorneys for

s both tbe N. P. and Milwaukee nil

; roads. u |>on which occurred the

| wreck Saturday, are attempting to j

avoid liability of damages aa a re

ault of the amashup when the

crane of an N r. steam ahovei

knocked the props rrom under a

Milwaukee trestle and caused a

paaalng Milwaukee train to crash

thru on top of the shove!

Three were killed In tho wreck

and 20 Injured

The coroner's Inqueit today I*

attended by representative* of th«'

State Public Service commission

«nd the Interstate Comnwrie com

mission. They are all reviewing

the evidence to ascertain the ex

tent of the railroad* liability

Thla afternoon the Jury will hear

the evidence of Krank Ruaaell, rear

1 brakemsn on the Northern Pa

■ dflc freight train, who will teatlfy

that precautions were tiken to pre

veot the accident.

Albert f>ehrke. an eye wltneaa of

the accident, will alao testify.

BOMB IS EXPLOOED

IN POLICE STATION

NEW YORK. July « Following

Rn attempt to blow up jiollce head

quarters with a bomb laat night.

John Koss, an Austrian, waa discov

ered hiding In a hallway opposite

headquarters at the time of the ex

plosion and waa detained today.

Several windows on one utile of

the building were shattered, and *

heavy door was blown otf hy the ex

plosion. No one was Injured.

AMERICANS KILLED

BROWNSVILLE. Tex. July 6 -

Two Americans are reported to

have been killed ni-ar Lyford by

Mexican raiders.

J. Duncan Spaeth, professor of

Knftltsh at I'nlverslty of Oregon,

urges one-year conscription for

Americans

Seattle Teachers to Meet

35 Visitors From Indiana

City School Superintendent Coop

er told The Htar Tuesday that rep

resentatives of Seattle schools

would be at the train tn greet the

35 teai hers of Psterson, Indiana,

when they arrive on the Shasta

| Limited. Thursday evening nt X in.

llu said the teachers would be

SI Mill. WASH., M l SPAY, in \ 6, 1915.

TRIES TO

COMMIT

SUICIDE

MINEOLA. L 1.. July «—

Frank Holt, who ahot J. P.

Morgan at Olan Cova Saturday,

altamptad to commit aulclda In

hla call in the jail here during

the mgnt M.a condition la not

aanous. jail official* say.

Holt attamptad to cut an ar

tery m hia wrist with a laid

pencil.

Only prompt action by a

turnkey fruat'atad Holt'a at

tempt upon his Ufa Ha had

loat conaidarabla blood whan

tha diacovery that ha had

gaahad his wrlat waa mada,

but tha jail doctor was hur

riedly summoned and tha

wound *»• up

Altho mill weak l{nlt Id recover

ln« from the beating ho received at

lh.' hamls of Morgan anil aervanla

when he ahot do»n the hunker.

Convinced Ha'a Intjna

If lh« prlaoiirf Is not <x>nsl<W>r»4

I'rmr enough to h«. taken from the

to Men c»vt tomorrow, how

ever. til* preliminary bearing will

bo poMpKltnl Officials tnd <»«Wtor»

are roll* In CMS he I* ln»an«

Holt ha* declared h» will tell the

full story of hi* life when arralgnel

before Justice l«u>*ter. and the po

Ilea hope to clear up the mystery

resulting from r»p>uts of ihe cloae

re*emb!ance Ibe prlaoner bear* lo

Krkh M'lenler, former Harvard pn>

fessor. who fled afler l>elrg ''harged

with the murder of hla wife.

Turnkey Save* Him

John l«eck»r*trlker. the turnkey,

had watched Holt at Intervale thru

the night. Soon after midnight he

noticed blood trickling down hla

clothing

He ru*hed Into Holt'a cell and

found the blood pouring from a

garb in hla wrlat. A bloody pencil

waa on tbe floor of the cell.

Holt a attempt to lake hla life I*

regarded a* significant. in view of

the fact that he 1* now auepected of

being Krlrh Muenter, wanted on a

murder charge

Try to Identify Him

fharle* Apted. a«*l*tant cuatodl

an at Harvard, Mailed Holt In hla

cell today He aald the prlaoner re

rambled Muenter. the mlaalng pro

feaaor charged with the murder of

hi* wife, but that he wa* not po*l

tlve Holt was actually Muenter.

He Inlenda to aee Holt again aft

er tbe bandage* about hla head

have been removed

Holt dl*mlaae<l T J. Heady, wrhoni

he fir*t engaged aa hi* attorney,

and today retained Martin l.lttleton

to defend him. A telegram from

Holt a wife In llallaa wan received

today and delivered to the prisoner.

In he. mexaage, Mra. Holt aald:

"Have beat counsel here. Ad

vised to re*t and wall. You rauat

do aame, living greeting* hourly.

Beautiful tribute to you In both

evening paper*. I am tarrying for

detalla of our finance*. I will rome

when you need me. Ihjn't be afraid.

Heat. (Hlgnedi "I.KONK."

MORGAN ENTIRELY

OUT OF DANGER NOW

(SLBN COVE I. I. July fi Phy

sicians attending J P Morgan an

nounced today that becmise the pa

tient Is practlcnllv out of dsnger. no

more bulletins will be Issued from

the Morgan home here

All future bulletins will come

from the Wall st. office of J, P.

Morgan A Co.

Morgan Is becoming restless be

came of being forced to remain In

bed while the wounds are healing

Morgan himself feels that lie will

soon he able to leave his bed again

and take a hand In Ills vast business

affairs from bis home at least.

treated to a sample of the hos

pitality inherent In nil Seattle

♦earlier*.

Klne! That'll go back and tell

all the youngsters about It And

when the youngatera grow up

they'll remember It and come to

Seattle to live!

IT PAYS TO BOOST!

HOLD PUBLIC PICNIC AT HANGING

Where five men will b» hanged! Seen* at a public execution at Bay Springe. Ml»*. Th» crowd was aa

jovial aa If at a picnic. Ncta tha woman with a baby In her armi standing in the foreground.

Morgan called bta office on the

telephone Unlay and dtacuaaad husl

ne«* affair* with hla pirtmri Mor

Kan * old hla asao<iatea ha now "frit

fine."

WIRE SAYS HOLT

IS NOT MUENTER

OA I.!.AS. Tex . July « "Frank

Holt and I'rof Muenler the same'

lnipo«*lblo. abaurd, Inconceivable"

Thla the wife of the man who ahot

J. I* Morgan told Ihe I ulted Pre**

today thru her attorno;

"Osrar Sen*abaugh. Mra. Holt *

brother. said. however." ho vrul

on. "that Holt went to Mexico in

about IW®. It was In thla year that

the wife of I'rof Krlch Muenter of

Harvard died mysteriously and

Muenter dlaappfnied Holt staved

In Mexico for two year* Ken*il

haugh said He then came to Ihe

►Virt Worth Polytechnic Institute,

whore he met hla present wife

From then on hla life la an open

book, hut before It ta admitted to

be a tnyaterjr."

ESKIMO BRIDE

TAKES POISON

Deserted by her huaband. who

lrft her without fund* and a year

old baby. Mrs Mary Otten. 21. an

KaHino, attempted suicide Tuendav

at her home 1 K Cherry at . by

drinking poison

She l« In the rlly hospital, nesr

death The li b' is being taken

rare of by neighbors

Mr* Otten «as wooed and won

by a Japanese, «hn formerly oper

• ted a photographic studio on Jacl.

son st

The marriage tooU place at St

Michael*. Alaska, two *ear« ago

The young Eskimo woman was

brought to Seattle by her husband,

who, she aaya, deserted her last

March

SEVEN KILLED IN

POWDER PLANT

MONTREAL* .lul.v « Seven

were killed and many injured

today by an explosion In the plant

of tne Canadian Explosive Co., at

Helolt, CJue The dead Include an

inspector for the Hrltlxh govern

ment. assigned to the factory dur

ing the war, and two girl employes

WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE

Water will be ahut off In the

district between Hrandon and

luneau atreeta from 37th ave

H. to 42nd ave S , Wednesday,

from 9 a. m. to t p m.

...

ONE CENT ■»m» >MMn' hr

Thousands Will Gather to

See 5 Men Enter Eternity

Mississippi (iallows to Be Worked Overtime; (iirls

and Boys Not Barred

BY FREDERICK E. HAMLIN

NKW OHI.KANS. U. July B A

alorm of proteat I* going up all over

Mi**l**lppl and other part* of the

country over "hangman'* day,"

Augtiat 6, In thl* state

ON THAT DAY FIVE MUR

DERF.RS WILL PAY THE

DEATH PENALTY. TWO OF

THEM WHiTE MEN. THE

OTHERS NEGROES ON

AUGUST 5 ANOTHER NEGRO

WILL BE HANGED.

SIX HANGINGS IN TWO

DAYS IN MISSISSIPPI. AND

FVERY ONE WILL BE A HOL

IDAY EVENT!

The execution* will be In broad

daylight, there will he no limit on

the number of person* to attend,

and any one can wltne** the grue

some event*

Strong appeala are being pre

pared by friende and relative*

of the condemned men to have

Gov. Earl Brewer commute the

aentencea to life imprlaonment,

their main argument being

that the wholeaale executiona

will b* aa much of a ataln on

the hiatory of Miaalaaippi aa

the hanging of Leo M. Frank

would have been on Georgia.

Excuralona to Hanging*

So strongly linn mob spirit ruled

at public executions that a wave

PROTEST BAN ON

PLAYER PIANOS

Protest against passage of the

proposed ordinance prohibiting

player pianos In front of motion

picture houses was lodged with the

public safety committee of the

council Tuesday at a special meet

Inn

After lengthy discussion, the

committee deferred action until Its

regular meeting Wednesday afier

noon.

Fifteen representative* of small

picture houses explained they can

not afford to advertise their wares

In newspapers, and the pianos jre

the only way they have to attract

attention

SGORE I FOR PROHIS

VANCOrVKH. Wash July fi

Advocate* of prohibition poltvM'd

with pride today to the fact that no

arrests were made here for drunken

ness during the Independence day

celebration, while at least I'll) were

taken In tow a year ago

Vancouver was wet theu. It is

dry now.

•if sentiment again*! hanging*"

already I* being felt In this part of

the country.

Take the public executions re

cently at Hay Spring*. Ml**, and

Aberdeen. Ml**.

You would have thought the

town* were holding a county

fair or street carnival Inatead

of hanging*.

People came from every di

rection. From Laurel, Mia*.,

a doien milea or ao from Bay

Sprlnga, an excursion train

wa* run. It carried nearly

1.000 persona.

The negro In the case was Mose

lohnson He had held up and rob

bed a lumber company pay t »r.

shot and killed the paymaster and

wounded two other white men.

Posses searched and searched A

deputy sheriff stumbled over him

in the Hoods nfar the scene of the

crime Me had burled )2.00u and

was digging up some of it "fo' gin."

Thousands Sea Tragedy

The negro »«s condemned to

death

A scaffold was erected In the

courthouse yard and the board of

supervisors of the county ordered

a public execution.

Seven thousand men, women and

children, some babies, were wit

nesses.

Just n week after the Bar

Sprlnc* <a*e, th*> morbid got anoth

er "trfat" at Aberdeen, Miss. A

negro murderer, condemned to

death. fell In a faint two daya be

fore the day of hi* execution.

Braces were built on the

■caffold to hold hi* uncon

■clou* form while the trap

wae set and sprung.

Morn than 5,000 persona Raw

that horror.

JULY CLEARANCE SALES

ARE IN FULL SWING

livery woman knows what a big bargain feast

the July Clearance Sales bring. Nearly all Seattle's

leading stores are having such a sale now and they

arc buying liberal space in The Star to tell the readers

of this paj»er all about it. Today's paper contains

much money-saving news, which it win pay you to

read and read carefully. Remember, Seattle's best

stores advertise their best bargains in The Star reg

ularly.

Last

EDITION

Unarttlad; probably ahowera

TII»M AT NMtll P.

111*1* |«t.

I »1 p m , 110 ff All • m , 4 0 ft

II M p m 14 I ft. «4» p m , 7.» ft.

HESKETH

SAYS HE

IS FOR IT

Snowed under by Star

coupons, importuning him

to vote for the Mcßride

milk ordinance; buried in

communications urging

him to do it; called from

his bed at all hours of the

night by all sorts of peo

ple he never heard of be

fore, who announced they

were Star readers, and

who sternly demanded

that it be "Aye" when the

clerk called the roll, in

council Tuesday after

noon, Councilman Robert

B. Hesketh, until Tuesday

"the man on the fence,"

has capitulated.

He said he would vote

for the ordinance.

"I am worn out," h« aald "t

ha»e milk on the brain!"

Heaketh liaa obtained the ap.

prorml of M amall dairymen, here

tofore the b!1l'» atroneeat oppo

nent* ?!•» ajient Monday Inter

viewing theae dairymen and ob

taining their Tt#«*

They approve without qualifica

tion the tuberculin test for all

cows, but believe the bill should

lie amended to remove the power

of condemning cattle from th«

health department officials, plac

ing it In the hands of Inspector*

the dairymen themselves choose,

or that ina[>ections be made by fed

eral inajiectors.

Hesketh's decision assures a

vote of 5 to 4 for the much-fought

over ordlnaee.

During an Informal discussion of

the measure Tuesday forenoon, by

Councllmen Lundy. Hesketh.

Erlckson. Bolton and Fiuserald.

Lundy announced he would vote

for It, providing that If It carries It

is afterwards submitted to the vot

ers for rejection or approval as a

referendum measure at the regu

lar March elections.

Lundy has been one of the four

opponents of the hill. Erickaoti.

slso heretofore opposed to It, an

nounced h? would consent to vote

for the bill If Lundy's plan were

adopted.

Bolton made no comment, but

did not say he wouldn't vote for It.

Marble, the fourth opponent, was

not present.

CHICAGO CHILDREN

SEE LIBERTY BELL

CHICAGO, July 6—Chicago wt l

pay homage today to the Liberty

Hell, which Is due to arrive here at

5 p. m. on ita trip across the conti

nent to San Francisco.

Thousands of school children as

sembled at the various public

school buildings and marched to the

Iji Salle station to see the bell.

The children were escorted by

teachers and relatives.

OHIO FOLK SEE BELL

I.IMA. O. July 6.- Twenty thou

sand per*on* of Northwestern Ohio

Kreeted the Liberty Hell here today.

Oov. Willi* and Mayor StandUh

headed a parade.

Approve tha Taat

Wants a Referendum