The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1914, Page 1

ie HICAGO, II, April 27.—In a little third-fioor flat on the soulh side the mother of Samuel Marten, the young marine who was killed in Vera Cruz during the firet day's fighting, begged report ere and photographers to tell her that the reports of his death were mistakes. The ctficlal newe of ner son's death had ‘vet come to Mra, Melsenberg, She held the letter of sympathy from Secretary of the Navy le her him only tast Saturday take. It ie a mistake EL neighbor women who had come to con “1 AM PROUD. BUT MY SON 1S DEAD.” Josephus Daniels in her hand and looked dazedly at the "Yes, | know why you com d to the newspaper men. See, he sent his picture “But | can't believe it, | can’t see my little Sammy detd. What they say isn't #0 He was a smart sailor man. He operated the wireless, How should ne be killed when the wireless is not in the street? Ach, Gott! Tell me it isn’t so. Why, | got a letter from it is a mise MORE THAN _ 45,000 Paid Captne Daily The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT VOLUME MONDAY, APRIL 27, 16. "SHOWE S, TONIGHT FROST; NO. 53. c SEATTLE, WASH., OU'VE got to read The Star to get the news and pictures first. Saturday, The Star published first picture to reach Seattle of the landing of United States marines at Vera Cruz. That was Saturday, mind And you have seen no picture of that event, the biggest and most en a of our whole trouble with Mexico, in any OTHER Seattle paper yet, have you? We are publishing herewith a few more reached Star off.ce this morning. more tomorrow. tures that ere will be Exciusive photograph, showing the men of Battery C, Sixth F ieid artillery, United States Army, training their big gune on Juar- ez, Mexico, from the hilltops near El Paso, Tex. This is the position these guns will fire from the moment Villa and Carranza’s rebels give signs in Juarez that they will begin war against the U nited States. Infantry of the Fifth brigade, Second U. 8. Army division (Gen. Funston’s), leaving Houston, Tex., where they had been on a practice march, for Galves- ton, to board transports to Vera Cruz. TUESDAY FAIR; LIGHT WESTERLY BREEZES THE NEWS 1914, ONE € NIGHT. EDITION ROCKEFELLER UP ON CARPET; PRESIDENT GIVES HIM ORDERS! President Sends John D. Ultimatum That Butchery Women and Children and Shooting by Strikers Colorado Must Cease. WASHINGTON, April 27.—President Wilson issued another ultimatum today. feller. of in It was directed at John D. Rocke- Rockefeller was told to get busy at once and settle the strike in Colorado, where strikers are fighting pitched battles with militia recruited from gunmen of the cities, or the United States would take matters into its own hands. The strikes are in mines controlled by the Rockefeller interests. Chairman Foster, of the congressional ters until he could have a talk with Rockefeller. This conference was held today Foster found Rocke “Nothing was accomplished,” said Foster. “I am not s It was said Rockefeller listened, but refused to concede ai ' When John D., jr, recently before the congressional committee which investigated the strike in the Colorado coal fields, told the com mittee no concessions would be made to the strikers, he said his utter ance was a reflection of his father’s Views Accordingly, the president this morning sent Chairman Fogter to demand of the elder Re + immediate action to end the strike If Rockefeller complies, | out of t 1 fields, If he ret be used to restore peace and or federal troops will be kept »ply fails to act, regulars will was stat There bax been no denial of the fact that Rockfeller, #r., controls the Colorado Fuel and Iron ©o., which owns most of the mines in the Southern Colorado field, and there was bigh authority for the statement | that the president proposed to make him ¢ cise this contro! in the in terests of peace or take the situation out of bis hands. dent's attention. He has received hundreds of telegrams demanding troops, includ- ing one from Gov. Ammons. The order sending the regulars into the fields was prepared and! would have been issued last night, but for a belated suggestion from | Congressman Foster that Rockefeller be interviewed first. a Bas oc Wilson/agreed to this, but paid Rockefeller must Sociée p.m, Charges have been laid before the president to the elfect that the! operatgrs control the Colorado militia, and that the regiments have been Mied with professional gunmen rlals of the Colorado Labor Federation and other labor interests have not been alone in calling for regulars. j Representatives of the owners have also insisted that they were needed, blaming, not the Militia, hut the strikers, for conditions. Manager Welbor of the ColoradoFuel and tron Co. insisted that unless federal troops came soon, every official of the company in Colo- rado would be assassinated |Workingmen Clamor for General Strike, Says White DES MOINES, ta. April 27.—That a great demand prevails among workingmen for a general strike on account of the condi- tions in Colorado was the declaration here of President White of the United Mine Workers. “The miners have been ordered to surrender their arms, but the gunmen go armed and the militia ps the gunmen, aid White. “Colorado is bankrupt and unable to pay her own troops.” PEACE NEAR IN MEXICO FUSS? WASHINGTON, Aprii 27. ations, but the talk f p That Argentina, Brazil and Chile will have hard work to put through | a mediation program between the Washington administration and | Huerta was conceded. Nevertheless, peace lovers are hopeful. One piece of news eived with much satisfaction was to the effect lthat England's, France's and Germany's representatives in Mexico were | doing all in their power to persuade Huerta ¢o yield. News from Mexico is favorable. | > oben WHEN HE THINKS | HE KILLED WIFE: “You'd better come on to bed,” said Herbert Carpenter, 38, to his wife early last night Officiaidom | here continued war prepar- under American control Tampico actually is anxious for & landing of U, 8. marines because {t fs believed that would be the} best protection againat the rebels. | Villa is preparing for an aiiack | on Saltilla, As the first condition of a mt with President a, negotiations for which begun Saturday night by Argentina, Brazil and Chile, President Wilson will insist, it was announced today, upon — longer,” she said Huerta’s immediate retirement He insisted. She refused, and and a full apology for the in- they quarreled ult to the United States flag at Tampico. The offer to act as interme-|and choked her into unconscious: diaries in the trouble with Mexico | ness rae arenes ee He thought he had killed her. preside . “4 the three South American repub-| i914’ Terre wan te ere einrement at ee he sent a bullet through hfs brain. ahs ¢ died an hour later at the city hos. offer. pital. The wife was not seriously hurt Carpenter worked for the Thomp: son ‘Transfer Co., 805 Western av “No, | want to read for a while Carpenter, in his president accepted their Huerta Is Willing It then was transmitted through the Spanirh ambassador at Wash ington to Huerta through the Span ish government's representative at | Mexico City | Spanish Ambassador Riano. tn | N Washington, received an answer | last night to the effect that the | 4 Mexican dictator also would ac ‘ 77 cept the mediation offer. | Will Ignore Rebels Forty-eight hours seemed likely to determine whether the United Indicating some of the Seat: | States must Ko on with it cam tle cops, at least, only |paign of force, or withdraw troops schoolboys grown up, a com and marines from the southern re plaint wes filed with Chief public's territory Griffiths today, declaring un. It was said the rebels will be ig. fair methods were used by en- nored, unless they recognize what-| trants in an examination for ever compact is agreed upon. | sitions in the department. The Colorado strike nas rivaled the Mexican crisis in the presi-| anger, seized his wife by the throat committee, which investigated the strike, asked the president to delay mat- feller obdurate. ure that I shall make another attempt at a settlement.” nything. \ é66PVHE killing and ill treatment of Americans in Mexico is the real cause of our going to war with Mexico. —SENATOR LODGE IN U. S. SENATE. “Lying behind the insult to the flag are years of vi- olence and anarchy in Mexico. Lying behind it are Amer- ican lives sacrificed, millions of American property destroy- ed and thousands of Americans reduced to poverty. Those are the reasons for war."—SENATOR ROOT INU. §&. SENATE. At the ie cilia sie these impassioned} _ words were being uttered in the grand and || United States senate, AMERICANS WERE DOING | TO AMERICANS IN AMERICA bloodier and more | LER’S MURDERERS WERE BURNING BUTCHERING CHILDREN IN THE TENT COL- ONY OF LUDLOW! The bloody minions of the sniffling Rockefeller were pouring machine gun bullets into the poor, comfortless tent-habitations in which THEY KNEW | WERE NONE but women and children and babies! They were doing this horrible work—this dreadful savagery—in the United States of Ameri-| ca, because the fathers and husbands and brothers! _ of those babies and women had struck—had re fused to return to work. WHO IS GOING TO WAR FOR THESE} “KILLINGS AND ILL TREATMENTS,” SENATOR & LODGE? WHO IS GOING TO WAR FOR THIS “VI- OLENCE AND ANARCHY,” SENATOR ROOT? | God help us! What have we to say to halfe} civilized Mexico when we consider th MASSA- CRE AT LUDLOW? SUNDAY STORM 313,029 1S TAKES TOLL IN POPULATION NOW, HUMAN LIVES SAYS UNCLE SAM pores natrowly ¢ Ww. ASHINGTON, _ ‘April 2 ing on Elliott bay and Lake Wasb-| population of the United States pe 5 jington last evening, when a heavy have reached 109,201,022 by Bed oe | squall accompanied by thunder jan increase of 7,000,000 in jana lightning, a sudden darkening | years, was the announcement of the sky, and a gaie of wind,| of the census bureau. struck Seattle, | 1; Wy Two people are reported missing. | he estimates show that Towa's Mr. and Mrs, B. E. Noble of | Population had decrease S901 aaa Rainier Beach were on the lake in| 1910. rowboat. Friends feared they |, The biggest increase was made bj ware drowned until word came to-| New York state, with a gain of jday that they had spent the night | 147. Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsyly, lon Mercer island Texas and California follow in ' Capt. R. H. Rash reported he | order named, saw a skiff with two men capsize), California's increase was 380,346, in Elliott bay, about a half mile, The bureau gave San Francisco's west of the Seattle Lumber Co, Population as 448,502, wharf at the foot of Harrison st Launch Rescues 13 * Capt, Lewis Garnett, of launch Vasten, rescued 13 people} Portland, 260,601, in two boats and a launch on the| Seattle “313,029, lake. Spokane, 135,657. The smaller vessels were fast} Tacoma, 103,418, filling with water when roached by| Capt. Garnett, } y escaped drown- coast cities, as announced by bing! the | Census bureau, follows: Launches and larger craft from i 4 Johnson's boathouse at Madison : ¥e a park and the Leschi boathouse, scoured the picked up many canoeists, overturned by the squall «Both houses boats and patrons ounted for, | Boats and canoes were all around the lake, many of them | making shore with great difficulty Lawrence C. Fisher, assistant to | | Weather Observer G. N. Salisbury, | jon duty at the time, says the storm | was the most severe in ten years Wil! Lead Parade Governor Lister and Mayor Gill will ride in the opening parade of nevgotie man can secure & ithe Master Bakers’ state conven- {i poh ae tion tomorrow, CONFERENCE TO SETTLE STRIKE Mayor Gill and representa- he T ort all. their ion met today to attempt lement of the teamsters’ » The Team Owners are willing to take the strikers back to work if the union will call off the strike. hour's w Phone Willott 644 —Adv. The population of other Pacific