The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1913, Page 1

-—— Se y — RAIN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; MODERATE SOUTHERLY WINDS. 2322 = . = : Oh, Kids! Look at This! i : . Our Cards on the Table ht Horse” Harry Lee, who The Star claims BETTER THAN 40,000, and ame an aide to Gen. Washington at the . ° = rr - ‘ = " i -_— bie and willing to prove it has this num: came 4 ton at ¢ [ Serger THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT.DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. HOME | jl ber, Some in. Me Aversion, "rhe book | NO. 197 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1913 ONE CE fe al EDITION til ALASKA COAL STANDS U.S. TEST: ENGINEERS MAKE THEIR REPORT The United States Navy is going to mine its own coal in Alaska. Coal of sufficient quantity and quality has been found at the Matanuska coal fields by the navy Alaska coal investigation expedition now at work there, to warrant the opening of a mine by the gov- ernment, according to unofficial information secured here today. Members of the expedition arrived in Seattle yesterday on the Alaska liner Mariposa, from Seward, MIRE ase’ dad homes in ihe district on Ouecn ) ae rey me to obtain supplies and outfits for moving coal taken out for tests, from the fields to the sea coast. EIRE 3 s als n Queen Anne hill, shown by this diagram. A bill which will give the navy the right to open its own mine at Matanuska is now before congress. The newspaper census-taker found that five of these homes were empty, and at Its passage is said to depend solely upon whether the coal deposits in Alaska are found suitable for 11 of these homes the occupants were not in when he called. Of the 88 homes can- vassed, 84 take regularly one or more daily papers. The Star has not had a solicitor in this district during the past six months. The following statistics were compiled from signed statements made by the occu- pants of these 84 homes, and the names are on file in the office of The Seattle Star. navy use. j : a This will mean that Uncle Sam will quit buying coal from the private mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, or in Australia, for use by its Pacific coast and Asiastic fleets. le reports have of the navy de-| # expedition, that a survey has n made of a nev shorten the haul to navienble water by 50 miles, and LINER THAT BURNED for the navy's Alaska coaling station at a seaport Such favor t partment fromm route, which w rn went to officials NUMBER OF HOMES, 84 NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS, 293 which {# now known as Passage canal, or Port Number of Star Subscribers 42 or SO per cent | Number of Star Readers 145 or 49 per cent dat the northwest limit of Prince William sound, has Number of Times Subscribers .. 47 or 56 per cent | Number of Times Readers ... 160 or 55 per cent ed upon as a land-locked bay, too deep for anchorage Number of P.-I. Subscribers : 36 or 43 per cent | Number of P.-I. Readers 125 or 43 per cent Number of Sun Subscribers 28 or 33 per cent | Number of Sun Readers ; 99 or 34 per cent WHAT THE NEWS WILL MEAN TO SEATTLE That government tests prove ly mean more to this city than STATE OF WASHINGTON STATE OF W beyond question the worth of ” eg gold that men, have COUNTY OF KING Alaska's enormous coal supply means cheaper fuel for the 1, Lew + Clarke, Mastin Vikcuar of hs geatits Stor, 2———————aeon is one of the most gratifying peopie of Alaska and for the being duly ewern, depese and TLAVE BEST messages that ever came out people of the entire Pacific of Alaska to the people of Se slope. It means a new era in attic. It means the develop the North and that Seattle, the ment of the coal fielda there, of gateway city, will share in the i an induetry that will eventual advancement | —_——_ say as follows That I received the state ments obtained by KB. Junker from the eeeupants of the homes shown im the above din gram, and that I new have the same im the office of The Se attle Star, and that the above Ngures show the tree and cor reet daily ctreutation of each and every Seattle paper in that district. Signed PCs Ket f Clare Re EE TE eee tere me this 15th day of Orte- «ow Ay and wire West shown In the Maps just completed by Capt, G. BE. Rude of the coast and geodetic | survey, which were filed at t headquart today, show plenty of anchorage and a shore & mile long, from h docks may be built, making the location of a coaling station possible. The bay ts 11 miles long QUALITY OF COAL IS PROVED That the Matanuska fields contain coai seams which can be mined to better advantage than those in the Hering fleld was determined as a | result of the expeditions sent to the two fields by the geological survey.) | It is sald that the navy department expeditions have confirmed this) | report. ; ‘Thy quality of the coal ‘hax been proved by ‘both private and gov- ment from an sceapant of every home, except in the ease s N gM Sag Mowe 3 TZ IZ figures are a true and ex summary the made by said ereupam Signed 7H JIT. OP AVE Saberrthed amd seer ty he fore me tals 18th day of Getw WEST C&0C WEAT J ber, 191s. ber, 1918 ernment tests. It ie the finest bituminous type, which is known to Saned ” ce [: lack. ai bess age wm. T. JOHNSTON "ithe. route to Phsvage canal from the Matamuika follows. the old asl ede ee sont al. Wedlianen cobeen Alaska Northern survey to a point at ihe head of Turnagain arm | im Seattle. at Seattle ¢ it turns east over Portage pass, instead of continuing to Seward, (Seal.) 72 ve" = (seal) 50 miles further south. The route is surveyed to go under Porta 2 = | wat fommicton expires Jan 7°AVE WEST a commission expires Jan glacier, through a tunne! about two and a haif miles long | Attempts to grab a right-of-way over this portage and to bottle up the only ground available for a dock site have already been made by private individuals, and in at least one instance by an army officer | Reports or this are known to be in the hands of geodetic EXCLUSIVE CIRCULATION (Where only one daily paper is taken.) Homes taking Star and no other 10 or 12 per cent | Readers of Star and no other 39 or 13 per cent survey officials and officials of the interior department. | Homes taking Times and no other. 15 or 18 per cent | Readers of Times and no other 53 or 18 per cent It is og oe ey who Beare of the new gorvey elegant * . "ort y ‘ond C plan me 0 ure t y u Homes taking P.-I. and no other 7 or 8 per cent | Readers of P.-I. and no other... 25 or 9 per cent ha oe oan Pee ~My verdad ah a tat (eee Pockid Date Bann 7 Homes taking Sun and no other 8 or 10 per cent Readers of Sun and no other 30 or 10 per cent decide to build his own ro: Steamship -Volturno, of the Uranium Line, Burned in a Raging Reports wired to the secretary of the Interior today will check-|] storm in Mid-Atlantic, on Her Voyage From Rotterdam to New York, mate this scheme. With a Loss of Life of 136 of Her Passengers and Crew. PRIVATE INTERESTS GET COPY OF SURVEY | Rig Mike” Sullivan, agent for the Portage Bay railroad, secured a copy of the geodetic survey of the new harbor by application to the de | partment | : He secured his copy BEFORE ONE WAS DELIVERED TO THE wat HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT IN SEATTLE. When asked about this, Capt. Rude stated that permission had been granted from Washington to hand over the copy | Capt. Rude arrived from the North last night on the Alaska liner i Mariposa. Other goveqnment officials arriving were officers of the : — - 8, director of the bureau of mines Dr. Holmes, who has just completed an extensive tour of the gold pa itis Arn 4 Matanuska, but stated that he had complete reports on all matters,!and bands still biistered from the|the masthead, the rigging fell, but which would be laid before the secretary «t the intertor the fire he helped to fight the ropes and the canvas cover of rowel _ —— — — —_——_—, FAMILY PAPERS—(The paper all the members of the family read and like best.) Out of the 84 homes, The Star is the family paper in 25, the Times in 32, the P.-I. in 15 and the Sun in 12. Sunday papers—Times 43, P.-I. 36. Watch this space tomorrow for further truths regarding the circulation of Se- attle’s newspapers. satiate coal expedition, and Dr Joseph A. Holn heat of Dr. Holm es is quite enthusiastic over the Nenana coal fields, near) on the Volturno all of last Thurs-/a boat broke my fall somewhat. aD - Fairbanks ae day, and the frightful night which ‘ I climbed another ladder, scarce- | The fuel there is a rather high grade lignite, which, he can f eyes still sta y able to ha , and djusted AVIATOR FOUND |What Wonderful Detectors of ve tne fuel there ie a rather high grade lignite, which, he ear, ca oad his vee til star |i abe fo Mane oo, and | With this system much low grade ground can be worked, whicl|which he played a part, Second Of- be used again. 1 ° | stherwise could not be touched rer Lioyd of the lost steamship Boats Can't Reach Shi ALIVE FAR OUT Crime These Cops of Ours Are! | IN PLAN TO SEAL ee is Bice ov ofthe Toe, seamahip |, Mowte Cant Reach Qhip | A . 9 . urtnerat taney: nen the first ex-|laundlied busts; but nce Geman IN THE ATLANTIC Just See the Catch They Made! Jim Morrison’s Going to Talk om isiuc.'s22i'psittieoittiog’ f2iciee"won: tone ot ee Other ships began to arrive. They +) BURNING SHAFT ‘ lhe said, “and at the same moment The captain flashed wireless ial | that | heard the crash there came a ages for help, but they am- A decrepit old man entered the; given in return for the quinine and | hat s rong ith City in Next Ion et | vd that the sea was too heavy —Oper a ED $16 Broad-| brandy oui |—no ovat could live in it. We tried NEW sate ihe Lpiiaged Broadway pharmacy, at 7 i - Thay took Pierson Gown to police| . CARDIFF, Oot. 16.—Re-entering . ’ | niente haalie mietee thought |#8ain and lost two more lifeboats, ators at several wire Jway, Jast Sunday morning, 8M4/negdquarters. The decrepit. old|the wrecked and burning coal mine uz: Me Kuns at skeller TOW tor a moment the entire ship was|TWard morning the captain sent tions along the Atlantic coast lasked the proprietor, F.G. Pierson,|man, apparently grown much at Singhenydd at the limminent sien ’ ablaze. A terrible storm was rag-|200ther wireless: ‘My God, this afternoon caught reports [ror a small amount of quinine. stronger, accompanied the party.! of their lives 2 ite Siena eg ale ing. ‘The watch off duty came tum.|4n't stand this long. Our boats that Aviator A. J. Jewell had As Pierson made up the order the| Pierson was formally booked on the | hada been called . ff by the » worn By Fred L. Boalt | The members of the W. C. T. U.| ping upon deck, and we ran for-|8Te fone. Send us boats.” been picked up alive at sea by | fter.|Charke of selling Nquor without a! rola and ONHWEa Geis james °W. Morrison is going to|%,Not belleve that “saloon control” | ward We've tried our best,’ they re a elainer old man toid a pitiful tale of suffer-litcenge, put up cash bail, and went| rot, And owners had suggested) james W. Morrwon ie eonatter | Will do at all. ‘They want absolute|” Ripping up part of the deck |PHed, ‘but the sea is too heavy, No { Nothing has been heard |ing, and of his hard struggle for a) back to his store MIOtheTiee te ee eens Ot ith Beatle at the’ Gommieroial) Pmoniidion arotia thy batohway. we broumne| Oost Sen dive ~ from Jewell since he started (jiveiinood for his wife and hit | Some time within the next few gb vin oa a force} lab Saturday evening, when the| | €xPress no opinion. Good re-levery piece of fire apparatus on| ,,,..Volumteers to Man Boat from Hempstead, Long Island, After a nearch through his ciothes| ays the druggist will be tried, and ER res slap ay est at ceucnd acssinth of The Star’a| Porters never do. 2 ard to play in an effort to sub- “We'll show them,’ shouted Capt, Monday to take part In the Co. | * , the decrepit old man and Patrol entombed but 1 A party | vhat's the Matter With Seattle?” |, /,have the agsurance of the W the Maine turning to the crew. He call- / lumbus day aerial derby and [he produced a silver doilar. A® he) men Hur and Geer will be on eit Beate et ving men lnenigveus and etfla will be held Cc. T. U. that it will nominate a) «gat it was soon evident that we r volunteers to man another failed to return. |handed it to Pierson he asked if it| hand to against him loka shes Behihae Or teint I don't know what Morrison inj *Pee well qualified to cope With | were accomplishing lit Capt. |POat. It was almost certain death, | | aneglPt number of fatalities | boats ni . whatever arguments Moyrison may ke ; y but many offered to go. Four sail |wouldn’t be possible to secure a rom the explosion would be re.|8olng to say, But I do know he| Miarerer & Inch ordered the crew to man the |little brandy with which to take the IN WIRY ORDERED!” to it was stated. is the proprietor of the Rathskel-| Mivanen it favor of “tempe ance” /poats. Hoats 1 and 4 were swung ore were chosen and I was given | Rescuers at W lar, and I imagine that, among . . rege aad overside, the crews took their places | COMMMAnG- quinine ork sresident o' > 0} ‘este: hey lowere > HAW R 5 | The rescuers were Jother things, he believes in “saloon | President of the union in Western /ang ug ‘many passengers as they|,.. )2eY lowered us over the aide, Mindful of punishment ineted ont} working de Washington, will speak, If not The waves were terrific, but w | N .—T | . " yposed to "pro! ‘ . aK ot, climbe: © the: | . got appeals| LONDON, Oct. 15.—The board of |perately to reach the imprisoned | regulation,” as opposed to "probl-| oie wint send son > in her stead Hic! ball Sas ‘i ee bi off safely 4, But} trade today ordered a full invest{-/men and more volunteers were de- | bition es Labor Man on Program | “While the sailors rowed, I kept when he had heeded suca ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 15.—Julian|in the past, Plerson refu a s lone » 8. 8 scending te , says, it will ne, the author, was releas-|the old man was quaveringly in-| ation of the loss of the 8. 8, Vol-|#cending to help them, though jt| Whatever he sa Cc. R. Case will be the third Boats Cut to Pieces flashing my rke nt . : | ae, ‘sh Ase re G 2 shing pocket electric light, from the federal peniten-|gistent. He desired !t, he sald,| turno. ; was sald the re was more than an| worth — neat Lea ge mee f speaker, Case was formerly pre “Boat No, 1 was caught by the | so that the watchers from the ships tiary, where he has been serving @| merely to use with the quinine. So) The Inquiry will be directed to. even chance titey would not come | broag-suage eh an of hin | Ment of the Seattle Central T s|crest of a gigantic wave and swirl- e that we were still alive, term for u the mails to defraud, | finally the druggist added to the| ward determining the accuracy of|up alive. level head and the cours "*/ and Labor Council, and he is now |ed directly under propeller, | had an awful struggle, and as writer of pr tuses and ad-lquinine a sufficient amount of| intimatic ; th rei out ffictals ; Phe paorieane 1 ps ty, according | ¢ aw hone ye: Mave Besakex city street commissioner which chopped the boat and its oc- d miles, but we made it. vertisements for 4 bogus company, | brandy to make the dose palatable.| of the anium company,|to word sent up from Inside the . 0 8 talk should — be ce cupants into pieces. Boat No. 4 : 248 apts which Was intanectse, one ide id be pa after the aged cus.| Which operated th vel that the| mine, were in a small chamber to| After I had secured Morrison's ate ean Ave gies yy, be Wed wamped almost as soon as it! Kyrfuorst “eats pr for York at 6 a, m: He tomer had left the store Patrolmen| fire was incendiary, and probably | which the afterdamp had not yet| promise to take | part WW. ep te (charge of the publicity work in|had touched the water, We never the Imes. iss . “2 health and seemed , Shor entered. They | due to the efforts of rival shipping | penetratec gress, | sought out the einai 4 : aw.t x more oO 0c as in . ee a ne et by 9 Humphrey and G ntered. Th peated Taean tS RASS THEO he Ale WA lastvain sig ch i |Z 8 connection with the forthcoming SW anything more of {ts occu I austed, and as good #, but would not dis-| demanded that they have access to | yal, and national convention of the Ameri. | pants they were hauling me in, the boat cuss hi like aaah voxteter Jup di tisfaction in the p | Row the could survive ‘was prob. | can Federation of Labor, which| “The wireless was sending the| sank almost from under my feet, > armitt , among the um's sailor ematica eo helk nity ‘e 3. 9, 8! call veral ships re toda: . Pierson permitted them to go|®™ ' Panag rgege will be held in this elty early in |‘S ps re Sailors Show the W. 4 : through {t, and the officers pro-| The sdeq of the lost iiner'a| The entombed men told the re next month sponded, and the captain decided ay. and at Hyatt seine ; But we had shown them that a 1 a a ed allver dollar life-saving equip also will be|cuers that 15 other miners were This is what of ro. not to attempt to launch another |) |duced a marked sliver dolls ‘ iy thoroughly inquired into known to have taken refuge in at T call SOME pre i boat could live, and almost imme- old man was the dollar @ an! Now it's up to the Puget Sound) gram boat until help reached us or the diately i : | others were lowerd trom Traction, Light & Power Co. Seattle and the state are facing ,sea subsided, the liners and the life saving be- wetand-dry — stru ° “ 2 |failed to respond to signals and ‘ 5 and : ie, ane Passengers Sing Hymns rn | were belleved to be dead | ‘The eity counell is willing to have * i ga enc 1 fair-minded folks will want to| “When we told the passengers! "Asxedq how it happe: ‘ PENNANTS COvren — | STILL NEED HELP) ice nai”), rtcte et! ewan tug ig ito. ¥en oe gee nh NO. 93 + Help 1s still needed In the storm] Shortly before opening jing conductors introduced in Seat-| And the question of organized la. to a mighty cheer, Some sang!yjoyd replied : ba Alawka, ac-| munication with the still imprison. | tle cand has said so In a resolution) hor was never more important hymns, and there were prayers be: Jadjotning chamber, but that the com: | our coupons clipped from, The Star, consecutively num. |/awept city of ome a “God knows. No oats w sad hen Pherae ie at The Star office with 15 cents, will cone | cording i me pakes Sa pbb is bi ne ue rescue 4 ‘ + ut penetrat. | adopted Tuesday eats ees em rie say aid in a dozen different lan-|jowered from the Os ae pcos + 0 5-cen oxas Pennants are iow out. || today ne cablegrams were from|ed a chamber in which there were ho us' custom of having a guages after we had shc . ie evscsio will boraein ty arat 1,0 cinte additional for each Per || Jones and Dr. Mustard, | 18 survivors and sent them all safe.{ GOV. WALLACE RECOVERING | quts period after each talk will be) “At [1 a, m, the fire put the wire ata Ve DAR Spe SOS ae nant is enclosed. Bringor mailto The Seattle Star, 1307 Seventh lent of the Chamber of Com-|ly to the surface PASADENA, Oct, 15.—-Govy, A, J.| followed, You are tnvited to take |less out of commission. Capt. Inch! An Oregon gunner goes’ after | Ave, near Union 8t. to Inquiries sent! Thirty.one corpses had been re-] Wallace is recovering from a minor! part, £0 remember the day and | Jad for some one to climb the rig-| geese with a four-barrel gun of his \ ‘ wl | » chambers covered operation, hour-—-SATURDAY, 8 p. m, ging end repair it. | was nearest|own construction, — 7 7