The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1914, Page 1

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Meh. Q—Littie boys and girls in the third grade class of the are reveling Logan these days in a new game de vised for them by their teach or, Mise Edith Hookey It te ca and is part of a course manners Six little boys a ge six chalr to form an imitation street car Then with ha tr heads an newapa u r their arms the: enter and take sea At a signal from th little girls tre a grownup ¢ grasp imagine oie n deside him, ris e teacher th Take my seat, mada The little lad 8 sweetly and sits down © Thank you, sir.” d evn QQUUUUNNNUUUUNANNUNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTNTAAEN ANAT A More Than TTI BRITISH ARMY THREATENED Officers Who Resign Rather Than Fight in Ireland Are Denounced. KING GEORGE 1S BUSY Ulstermen Prepare for Battle While Parliament Talks It Over. LONDON, March 23.—The threat ened disruption of the British army as a result of wholesale ree- ignations of oficers who refuged to fight for Irish home rule, “over shadowed all other topics through. out the country today ‘The danger came as a surprise to the government. Trouble in Ulster had been considered likely, but that the troops would prove re- ) fractory had never entered any one’s calculations. Denounce Officers Liberal papers denounced the re ealcritant officers. Resignation was) nd a conspir- to defeat the quite another. Some of the papers referred to it as treason. .». King George held conferences to- day with War Minister Seely and First Lord of the Admiralty Win- ston Churchill. eral engagements and kept in con- stant touch with members of cab- inet. one thing, they sa: Calis It a Blunder Premier Asquith published a statement in the Times today which that newspaper editorially sum- med up to the following effect “It is understood that the minister’s view is that there has been a quite honest understanding concerning the mature of the duties the army officers have been asked to perform in Ireland, and that the intention to reinstate those who have resigned and attribute the whole business to a blunder.” It was again officially denied t warrants had been issued for je Ulster leaders’ arrest. . THOUSANDS ST, March 23.—Though as outwardly quiet today, real war oreparations were going on at a great rate. Distribution was in progress of drab field nuiforms to their special service cofps of 4,000 men, and the report was, current that they had facilities tor transporting 2,000 armed men to any threatened point within three hours’ run from Bel- fast. The neat represents the «tions of Coun tn the period of Feb. 2 to of $5,963,351.73 general tax ¢ DIANA DILLPICKLES IN “PAR HADN’T BEEN COACHED “Swi He canceled sev-)| I ADORE IT, MR. HECKLINWENDER, GUT Tm SUCH A Goose IN TH’ WATER? PIM VOLUME 16. ARRESTED AS | A DYNAMITER Notorious Strike Breaker Is Charged With Plot Against Union Teamsters. PLANNED BIG PLANT? Prisoner Held for Beacon Hill Job Implicates Semple in Confession. Jack Semple, strike breaker, tm plicated last year in the dynamit- ing of the Campbell mill at Ballard but later dismissed, ts in the coun ty jail, charged with being leader of the men who planted a cache of dynamite at 1111 Sturgis way, Mareh Charles Kilman, 30, arrested as one of the men suspected of “fram ing the plant” to discredit union men, is said by officials to have made a full confession that Semple was the prime mover tn the affair, and led the party to the Rockdale | tunnel, where ten sticks of high ex plosives were secured. Find Bomb In Woodshed The dynamite and a bomb, with fuse and cap attached, were found by officers in a woodshed at the rear of a residence two doors from a bouse occupied by union team- sters. Deputy John the cache a trap credit striking about to secure guilty parties. } “I have evidence which leads me | to believe that Semple ts really the king pin in the game,” said Deputy | Roberts. + Says it Was Outrage “The planting of the dynamite was an outrage, as children playing about the shed might easily have exploded the bomb or the powder Semple has previously stated that he was instrumental in securing the arrest of Kilman and that he knew of the deal when it was being | planned. 5 Semple has been actively knows as a strike breaker of recent years }but stated some time ago that he had ken with the men who had employed him. Roberts declared intended to dis- teamaters and set evidence on the as Fiance Waits SAN JOSE, March 23.— While her fiance, Wm. Os borne, a wealthy San Fran- cisco real estate dealer, |] awaited Miss Palma Peter- son in the parlor of the Pe- terson home here last night, the girl drank poison. A note read: am not doing this because | do not love We wil! in the other “=6 BISCOVER CURE GET 6 MILLION | FOR PNEUMONIA March 23.—Rocke. aclentists announce new serum which cent of pneumonia NEW YORK, feller institute discovery of cures 90 p | cases mMmin’é the} ue DO — Tee BEFORE SHOWERS TONIGHT; TUESDAY GENERALLY FAIR; LIGHT WESTERLY WINDS. The Seattle Sta _ THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE ! NEWS NO. 23. DISRUPTIONOF JACK SEMPLE @ —=_——=_-- IRES are again being in- dustriously pulled in the city council to elect Harry Bruskevith to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peirce. Where would the city be the gainer by swapping Peirce for Bruskevith? Moreover, in view of the re- cent election, Bruskevith has no claim for a councilmanic seat through favor with the voters. He held office once through the grace of an elec- tion by the council---not by the desires of the people. '@ He had his opportunity and he im failed. His defeat by the friends of municipal owner- ‘@ ship_amounts..to a rebuke. 1 Wis is not the case of an as- ‘ pirant, who, unknown to the general public, merely failed to get enough votes. It was a rebuke to a well-known public servant WHO HAD PROVED UNSATISFACTORY. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 2 TAXI KIDNAPING TRIAL IS OPENED Lilian | where the attack is alleged t taken place, Charged with luring Mrs Roberts to a wood ard park and mistreating ill with the ‘o have told the jury he walk- woman ordered the party to the night of Jan. 18, C. M. Newall te town was placed on trial today before a er clothing was “mussed up, jury in Judge Mackintosh’s court. |he sald, and she seemed Mrs. Roberts, who fs only 18, tea-| nervous. tified that the two men in the par invited her to ride home in ajed to have been crying” after one taxi and that she supposed they of the jurors demanded e light were on the way to her resid on this point J. C. Wonders, who drov I'll never forget this night,” she | dance hall to the p! taxi from a , according to Wonders ‘DID YOU GET 61 | CENTS WORTH? HIBbIY | he did #0, The witness admitted she “seem- | OFFERS A PRIZE The Child Welfare Exhibit, Rab. bi Samuel Koch, chairman, has of. | fered a cold m or $10 in gold | The recent city election, In | re the best poster design in twe which 63,214 votes were cast, colors submitted for advertising use, All Washingtonians may en | the primaries and registration, cost Seattle $38,661.59, or about 61 cents for each taxpayer. |ter the contest, which April 20, I TEU You Whar TEACH You. °OH, THAT’LE Tc TEACH Be Joucy? Mou TO lp SO Love Swim!? To LEARNS clokes “Do You"SwiM ANY, MIR. DILL PickLes %” ‘eles ‘nia unquatifid endorsement of the | her over the AFTER «The police have no clew to the Ballard rowboat mystery They had one—or, rather, they thought they did—but it proved this morning to Captain of Detectives Tennant and his men face-to-face wiih a stone wall This much is known The man “McDonald,” though that probably is not his right name, rented the skiff boathouse, Salmon bay The same flat-bottomed skiff, or one very like it, was seen about 9 o'clock the Charlesworth and crew of the Stimson Mill Co.'s tug Tilicum, near the government canal locks. The channel being narrow’ and the tug engaged in towing logs, The man replied with an angry oath. A man and a woman were in the boat Charlesworth warned the occupants of the skiff to sheer off. ' The skiff hired by “McDonald”—that was the name he gave when HANNA HAS QUIT ~ eer it-——was found yesterday morning at the foot of 24th av., jo Ve F oy eens | The man “McDonald” was In an ugly mood. The woman was Will H. Hanna, county treasurer, | *fraid) Chilis /hikitaibiniatle- Notion e in arleswo. al them and the man answered mae quit the republican party. with a curse, the woman, sitting in the bow of the skiff, touched her No announcement fn -recent| companion’s shoulder with an appealing, frightened gesture. months haa agitated political efr-| Ry what pretext the man persuaded the woman to go with him as much as Hanna's with- ‘a tes eattr is a know n. He told the boathouse people he was “going eae Th and)‘ take @ friend to Bainbridge island.” awal from the standpat perty and The man slew the woman, after a furious struj id with an oar. wi , he heaved her le. But her hair, which come down during the me entangled in the oarlock and the splintered gun- The bottom of the skiff was awash with blood-discolored water. The bandie of one of the oars was covered with blood, Clinging to the splintered gunwale of the skiff, under an oarlock, were a hank of balr and several bits of flesh. The hair was shorn from the head, not torn out by the roots STORY BUILT UP BY POLICE This is the story of the mystery built by the police, bit by bit, le, by clubbing progressive party. Hanna has no intention of running for any office, and when his term is over, will probably go into private business | body over th fight for life, wale. ‘ THE MAN HACKED THROUGH THE HAIR WITH A KNIFE. The body sank. The man continued the interrupted journey. He landed somewhere along the canal, probably on the south side, and kicked skiff adrift. The movements of the murderer thereafter are a ter of con- jecture. Detectives today are questioning residents along the Lawton car line and street car conductors. Did “McDonald” catch a car to the city? agitated. Probably his shoes would have been muddy. He might bave shown marks the conflict. Perhaps his clothing was stained with the spurting blood of his victim. TIDE PREVENTS RECOVERY OF BODY Or has he gone into hiding until such time as he can get a change of clothing and make a quiet get-away? third party was formed. The past two years, however. have convinced him that the stand pat element in the republican party makes it impossible for progres: aives to remain under the same po- litical roof with them, and, burning his bridges, Hanna, who is admit-/ tedly the most efficient county of ficial King county has had in years, ia now a full-fledged bull moose. O'SHAUGHNESSY MAY QUIT POST, WILSON ADMITS WASHINGTON, He would have been will not be low water until tomorrow tied to deep water or buried in mud. blind-alley clew was a marriage certificate issued in 1901, at Gran ille, Idaho, to Alfred Bowman and Elnora Delmage. It was found, water-soaked, on the beach near where the skiff was picked up. Investigation today disclosed that the Bowmans were divorced two years ago. Mrs. Bowman, after the divorce, went to Cordova, where she is condacting a boarding house. Bowman lived alone in a shack, close to the spot where the certificate was picked up. On Friday Bowman sold the shack and took the steamer Alameda for Wra: nds going to the pier to see him off. The n k threw out a quantity of rubbish, in ing the and the wind carried it to the water's Th 4 that if ly on ac r it w count of poor he The president characterized as! Harry C. Goble, 19, this morning! G A 3 yr \ fn ioble orr 3 and George Valliere, absurd reports that O'Shaughnessy | was given a verdict of $12,000 u}coma boys, were ed at F was disgruntled beca of the ad-|jury in the federal court a t | ding, Cal, on August 25, 1910, when | ministration’s attitude the Southern Pacific rathway, ¢ discovered He also’ admitted that the Lind- injuries sustained from the attack n up. Valliere d Rojas conference had not produ upon him and a companion by wounds, and Flemming any real plan for a solution of the | Daniel Flemming, a railway police- convicted of murder. His case is Mexican tre able ca he | man, Who, caught them “beating /now on peal. Goble, it was The president sald the tolls fight | thelr way.” claimed ern thy was only @ squabble within the, —— hi ET TERE a SIPEE. Dermanentiy ' tajered nocratic party and that he was | F Mica hstouastacna paetee) SCALDED; DIES | ANOTHER DEAD resolution for the repeal of the ex a o mption clause this w TACOMA, Wash, March 23 BAS Switzerland, March 23. a ay Phillip J. MeMahon, 2, died as the i 2, 9 old ame: you th training et. |result of burns sustained from a aviator named Borrer Learn an4\ctumbling into a tub of bolling fell, with his aeroplane, from a take 4th and Ph \great height and was killed. Film “COMG OUT, YOU BIG, BLUNDGRIN’ Boos, AN' GIT : YA mMeDiICcING! att. 1 give! Water. —A 4-Reel "met Nor A LICK. SuT DIANAR SWIMS CIKE A. Fisd {" “Screecher Fort Unfortunately for the police, t here is today a neap tide, and there | Ry then a body could possibly | Y GETS $12,000 be a blind-alley clew which left Saturday night at the Holland same night by Capt. E. Me Captain NOTHER RECALL STARTS AGAINST Mee deweoree ro = Ln | = = = om = Attorney Thomas A. Meade am nounced today a new recall petition: will be started against County Com missioner Lafe Hamilton, follow ing the ruling of Judge Frater ts suing .& permanent injunction’ | sxainst the present petition on-the |grounds that the charges were in- sufficient. rs “In the new petition the charges will be made definite and suffi- cient,” said Attorney Meade. ; Hamilton wore a smile that roams t come off today, . Militiamen Arrest Mother Jones Again WALSENBURG Colo. |] March 23. — Militiamen | boarded a train here early y and arrested “Moth. Jones, as she wae fulfill. ing her promise to return to Trinidad in defiance of Gen, Chase and Gov. Ammons. The militiamen took her to the county jail, where she is held incommunicado. STRIKE GUARDS "FIRE A VOLLEY ~ INTO BIG CROWD BUFFALO, March 23.—One was killed and many hurt in a fight near Lancaster between guards on a train which was carrying strike breakers to the Lancaster plant of the Gould Coupler Co, and @ crowd of strike sympathizers, The train was stopped by a pile of ties. Before they could be re moved a crowd had gathered. n in the crowd began throw. ling stones, A number opened fire ‘on the cars with pistols, the strike | breakers crouching on the floors te Jescape being hit. The guard on | the train fired a volley. Stanislaus Skonolski, a boy, fell dead. Ane other youth was known to have ‘been shot through the leg. ! Spinning’s March Clearance Sale Ts now on in full blast. Mr. Spinning believes that prices talk. This is evidenced by the excep- tionally low prices he has put on his entire during this month, A few examples of the bargains he is of- fering will be found in his ad, which appears on page 4 in today’s Star. stock aa