The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1914, Page 1

in Gold for Re he Es Floto cireus, w Buffalo Bill” as headliner, is gomg to be in Seattle for thr hich the prizes are aders of The Star RESERVED SEATS A I ! be FIFTY DOLLARS IN GOLD, AND FIFTY HE SHOW One man there is in the United States whose life has been so varied, so filled with adventure and wit ¢, that ever eh nd loves him H is Co William Frederick Cody, (Buffalo B cout he has been, and showman; the friend of the Indian papooses upon the reservations, the guide ' ’ anting expeditions into he alone knows, the friend of kings and queens Now this is the contest: “Buffalo Bill—What Has He Done for America?” | For the best essay n the subject, The Star will pay a first prize of $25. For the next best a prize of $12 50 t t est a pr f $7.50, anc w the fourth best, a prize of $5 re will be rt essays which will come near the point, for which they should receive m prize t t e, tw eserve eat tickets to the “Sells-Floto circus and Buffalo Bill (himself will be given rhe next 20 best essay writers will receive one reserved seat ticket apiece The conditions are simple. Keep your essay within 150 words, write it on one side of the paper only, and mail it to The Star, on or before May 27. Letters should be addressed to the Buffalo Bill Contest Editor of The Star Col { nally award the prizes the morning of the You've read the conditions, have you?’ You've digested the subject ond day the Very well sec circus is here Go get the pen and ink, or better still, a typewriter and write that essay. It may mean money to you MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News The Seattle Star [Lero)) WEATHER FORECAST — Fair ‘ tonight and Tuesday; gentle west- 4 erly winds. | WONDER HOW LONG that Ray- mond laundryman would advocate 10-cent meals for girls if he had to eat ‘em himeelf for a week. NO. 72. VOLUME i6 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 18, 1914. ON THAINS AND NEWS SFANDS ONE C T i, mets have a commission system in the store where I work that allows a girl to draw $7 a week if she W _ sells $100 worth of goods in a week. Ifa salesgirl is short 25 cents of the $100, she gets nothing |f 7 for her efforts. The bookkeeper told me no one had ever come up to the required standard since she had ‘ been there. And she is an old employe.’’---Testimony of a working girl before the welfare commission fixing the minimum wage at Olympia. ————_____ You'll Be Interested, Then, in oe | Fate of Subscriber Who = | Refuses to Pay. 3 | HANGS ONTO HIS FIVE NE SeMRRIR, esttantay THAT'S One of the Reasons Why — | Collector to Carry Out Washington Is Going to Have a © ees Minimum Wage Law. ; ing-aling-a-ling! Threat to Sue. There's a genial gentleman over | sare apectat in the offices of the Pacific Tele ” ; ithi (ghee Ca, C. Solty op name. | OLYMPIA, Wash. May 18.—Within a few weeks, the: | who is due to get a nice, hard joit Order of the Washington Industrial Welfare commission, | For # long time the telephone |jestablishing a $10 minimum wage employed company. Utpugh yolly Mister | mercantile establishments, will go into® say ae . Jolly, who ite ite cotlector, has been Washingto ill th ie thy ; tis a lextracting money from {ts patrons igton will thus, as in the case of the workn jin fivedollar lumps, known as a/COMpulsofy compensation law, be in the vanguard an “cancellation charge.” a the states in the union to promote the conditions of labe He Keeps Your Five In th °O; o we Ss iesicnel If you. decide to move before you| Fa In o ee rds a ia State Labor Commissione hate hed ous of the. companys] LAware son, may be found ample reason for Wash= phones a year, or decide that you|ington’s advanced stand don’t want the phone any longer, They tell of one case where four girls roomed |the Jolly Mister Jolly informs you|two of them taking turns sleepin; ii ee t Rp Berne g on the floor at night, while — that you owe him $5 to pay him for|ene others occupied the bed. the trouble In taking the phone out Bee : i —that is, providing you have not} _ They tell of the struggles and the hardships on the part jbeen compelled, before getting the/of hundreds and hundreds of girls to “make ends meet.” jphone, to put ap a $5 deposit, in| They tell of g conor : i Unict! eveat his faok’ KHabe pon]. 128 ! of girls economizing in their meals in order to_ pay for their room and scant clothing ONE MINUTE LAUGHING, NEXT MINUTE DEAD; Photographer Takes Remarkable Snapshots of Officer’s Death in | five. | i . } They tel! of giris “saving” on 4 Picture on left, marked (1)—Snapshot of Mexican federais firing on Photog by She. eam piicrogreptier, in the same Subscivers, te A reneral’ thing,| 204 Because they found them: rebel attackers from intrenchments within the city. In picture, note the spot. It was his next exposure, for while he was winding up his film. have fallen for It ns | selves at the end of the day % federal officer reclining on his elbow, smoking a cigaret and grinning, the Mexican soldier who had been laughing and amoking a cigaret, while Dut now comes L. L. Veliat, al “tee tired to cook their own “ 3 Mexican-like, his contempt of the rebels. The photographer took the watching his comrades shooting at rebels, WAS HIMSELF KILLED BY clerk, of 3222 Walnut a! ond tells | and, after nibbling at a | Mec ed CR ee cedars sea dene AREBEL BULLET. cot in tin AE, Fa |the Jolly Mister Jolly to'go plumb| seme cold food, going to sleep se ae tie PRE - - om |to the dickens with his demand for| a'f-fed. P | $5.00 | During the investigation,” the “4 “And,” writes George Olson, Vel-| Commission says in its report Re 3 e |lat's attorney, with offices in the —, — were —_ pn not aa j 5 | Alaska bufiding, to Jolly, “you are| >“? ® Warm meal for a wee ‘ : [hereby notified to stop harassing | Rooms Cost $3 a Week Mr, Vellat with letters regarding| “It is impossible to get a room | i ; this matter.” }for less than $2 They Should Worry | The jolly Mister Jolly wrote Vellat that if he didn’t pay up at once he would “place the account for col 50 or $3 a week said a girl at a meeting held by| the commission in Tacoma | Four She was earning $6 a week | 1 did my first clerking in Walla PUT ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Survivors of Bi Steamer Picked Up ZED U. S. DOLLAR “and you Want the American troops to go to Mexico City and SAYS, IS JEOPARDI By Fred L. Boalt save it? lection.” | Walla for $1 day,” she said Thirteen Days-at. Sea, By Mail From Vera Cruz, Mex., May 10, 1914. “L certainly do. i'm an Amertean citizen—" “Ish ga bibble,” says Vellat r 7 rs ago. Six x t thing in Mexico is a jeopardized American dollar. How long have you lived in Mexico? Mrs. Magdalina W. “Go to It,” says Olson years later I am here clerking, get ape. iY ee "g Twenty-five years.” ot Henry Werner, the murdered te.|. The Star will keep the jolly Mis-|ting $1 a day. In Tacoma they) TELL TERRIBLE. T, - You can hear its cries any evening on the Plaza de la Cathedral | “Pay any taxes in the United States?” ter Jolly’s victims around town {n-| took me owt of a Het of 100 appli saquah “What,” the American business man who has fled from Mexico Certainly not. My property t# all In Mexico.” eateea aOt wecpohs ie orritl:|formed about what Mister Jolly|cants. I got $5 to start with, and Eleven Bodigs Th tat wants to know, “are we loafing here in Vera Cruz for? When are “Ever go home to vote? band’s killing, before a packed Vie, | does about it I had to go to my employer and de rown Into our troops going to march on the capital?” No.” itors’ gallery today in Judge Ken.| “t's all a bluff,” » Attorney | mand It before I got a raise of $1 Sea as, One by One, } The American business man left Mexico City hurriedly. He left “Then you, who don’t care enough about your country to live | nay Mackintosh's court. Olson. “The company has no legal “They have a commission j Members Succumb. a business worth, say, $100,000. For all he knows, the federais have | rant American soldiers there sometimes or to vote or pay taxe right to collect the money. And system in my store which al- burned his store and looted his safe. He wants to know {f there are such things as the rights of property. It is the duty of the United States government, he says, to protect Americans business interests abroad. “What is your business {n Mexico City worth?” he was asked. “One hundred thousand dollars,” he said, and groaned. | HUERTA WILL [TAXI DRIVER UIT—BUT IN. IS ARRAIGNED HIS OWN WAY VERA CRUZ, May 18.—President| Stewart Steele, a taxicab driver, Huerta will resign, provided the| charged with kidnaping United States will loan $400,000,00 | °, Odéaiert; & vaudeville to Mexico, lease Magdalena bay for) $99,000,000, bar Carranza from the | ‘ress, and attempting to attack her presidency and allow Huerta some-|in a wild ride through Seattle thing to say concerning the choice | streets out into the residence sec of his successor. [tion on the evening of Feb. 19, was This was the information from a) reliable source in Mexico City to- | placed on trial for the second time day. |today in Judge Giiliam's court It was added that the dictator| A in the first 4 forwarded instructions accord-| , te fusly to bis envoys at the "A.B. c."| ave stood 11 to 1 mediation conference. | It is understood that he plans the | expenditure of $400,000,000, assum- ing his proposition were accepted, under the supervision of a commis. ‘amila ac fury trial jn the for conviction Camila, with a blue hat and biack gown, sat timidly between two women officers. She cast furtive glances at the sion consisting of two American: poreeriag a6: fh ‘jurors were. ex fwo Mexicans and one represents |" Gisole was arrested after she tive each from England, France Germany. 4! told a harrowing story of her ride | with him, after getting into his cab at the King street «tation She jumped from the cab, she j sald, as it sped at 30 miles an hour, to escape BSteole, Hyatt-Fowells, 4th and Pins. bas « rep the * Advertiaeinent. ¥ AS KIDNAPER Miss} Looking quite demure, the pretty | Selection of a jury probably will be completed by night A curious throng of women watched for a sight of the prisoner as she was led to the defendant's chair by Deputy Sheriff John W. Roberts. Mrs, Werner sent to Mexico City to save your property “But don't you see that I am not alone in Mexico? There are hundreds—yes, thousande—of American in business in Mexico City.” 7 eactly,” spoke up one of the newspaper men. “The census of 1910 gave 15,000 Americans in Mexico, and a total population of 16,000,000. “Of the 15,000 Americans, we'll say 5,000 are men working for the big mining and of! companies for wages and small salaries, That leaves 10,000 of the big fellows, And you want 90,000,000 people to come to the rescue of 10,000! “Well, if we don't do something soon, it will be impossible to do business tn Mexico,” “Therefore, we must teach the Mexicans a lesson? If we were to march on Mexico City, how many Americans do you suppose would die?” was dressed in black, Her stay in jail has tm. proved her physical condition, She seemed an entirely different wom- an from the one who was led, faint- ing, to a cell shortly after her ar- rest Attorneys George H. Rummens, C. K. Poe and Col. Howard Hath- away, the latter from Everett, ap- peared as counsel for Mrs. Werner. Assistant Prosecutor J. Edgar Wright represents the state in the trial SPEEDING FALLS OFF: ONLY ONE ‘I don't want any of them to die,” the American business man protested 1 “But they will die. A lot of them will dle. Let's say that one man would die for every $10,000 worth of property owned by Americans. | Ten would die for yours. | had to leave the capital in a hurry, too. 1 | left behind a piano, a dress sult and some other things. | demand | that my property rights be protected. MAYBE A SOLDIER WILL | DIE FOR MY PIANO AND DRESS SUIT, ALSO! “The man who will dle for my plano joined the army from patri- otic motives. So did the 10 who will die for yours, They are better Americana than you, because they stay at home and vote, and pay taxes. They are producers and some day they will be—{f they are not now—huabanda and fathers of children | { But, doggone it! haven't I any rights at all in Mexico?” | “Not one, You knew Mexico was turbulent when you came in. ARREST SUNDAY You took a gambler’s chance, because there was a prospect of big profits, You've lost. T ou've lost | Then all the little 1 Amertean dollars CLAMORED Residents in the University dis- | TWICE AS LOUDLY AS trict are complaining of speeders | But the army at Vera Cruz sheds few tears with the weeping | along 14th av. N. B, from 45th to | 4 American dollars! 56th. They say autoists and motor- cycle demons often race on that thoroughfare, regardle of groups of children playing thereabouts. Chief Griffithe today said speed- jing and reckless driving have fallen off perceptibly the past day or two The only arrest since Saturday, on a speeding charge, was that of W. D. Preston, a salesman. He was gathered in at 8:35 a. m. yesterday ‘by Patrolman P. F, Haubris. UNDREDS of thousands of visitore were attracted to Seattle H from June to October, 1909, to see the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, which Is acknowledged to have been the great ent of Its ki er held on the Pacific co: At the present time Beattie bo. an area of 94'4 equare miles, of which 58'4 square miles land and 36 square miles le water, the latter being made up ¢ throe beautiful lakes and Eljlott bay. If they ever dare to come Into court with a claim that they have, I'll knock It higher than a kite.” And If Vellat doesn't have to pay, neither do you! DO YOU GET IT? ENVOYS KISSED NEW YORK, May 18.—The Mex fean envoys to the A. B. C. media tion conference were here today Several Spanish and Mexican resi dents of the city met them at th Hotel Astor, and visited, embracing and kissing excitedly in Latin style The envoys leave for Niagara Falls tomorrow DO TELL, DO TELL! The executive committee of the taxation bureau of the Chamber of Commerce expresses approval of a revision of the civil service regula-| tions, as outlined in the new char. ter, in a report to be submttted to the chamber trustees tomorrow jnight. ITWILLNEED | A LOT OF TALK The Hinky Dink charter was de-! fended again by Elmer E. Todd, charter commissioner, in a talk be fore socialists last night in Socialist hall, 711 Olive st, He said that cities | whose councilmen served at a nomi nal salary were most su sossful in reducing taxes, lows a girl to draw $7 a week HALIFAX, ara if she His $100 worth of ‘ May 18.—Thi goods in a week. If a sales | United States revenue cutter Sem girl Is short 25 cents of the |®°& arrived here today with survivors of the freight steamer G 100, she gets nothing for her § gets 2 a veo | lumbian, conte. Ton betnbeueer dane which burned at sea me no one ever had come up | “4¥8 ago . to the. required etandard eihes They were picked up yesterday she has been there, and she is | *fter they had been tossed about 4 ™ 13 days in an open boat. commission, with} The men rescued were: Officer the of Labor Commis-| Robert Tiere, Satlors Oscare Ken- sioner Olson, who is an ex-officio |/4all and Peter Belanger and Fire member, is non-salaried, But each|™an Mitchell Ludwigsen. a of {ts members, Mrs. Jackson Si) Eleven Die in Boat baugh of Seattle, Mrs. Florence H Eleven other men in the boat Swanson Raymond, Mra, W, H.|suceumbed to injuries and pri Udall of Tacoma and Rev. MH |tions, and were thrown overbot Starsin of Seenveiee stu. | The death roll of the lost freighter dents and we sf so | NOW stands at 15. celal and industrial conditions, have Picked Up Yesterday given months and months of con-| The survivors were exhausted, scientious investigation of the min-|and unable to speak. Two were un- imum wage question conscious. The men had given up | Get Estimates on Expenses all hope of rescue, and dumbly iam Over 30,000 blank forme were |*Waited death ’ distributed by mal and through} Off Tiere told of their terrible person ss to employers, em- | &* mass. bl end’ Glaintevestha . Cttieene When the boat was launched,” asking for estimates on the cost of ne Said, “there were 15 on board. % living for girls. |We somehow got separated from Information was returned con-|the other boats. The next morning a cerning 11,059 employes. we were alone a Advertisements were inserted in Three Steamers Pi g iy newanmpesa th re informa-! “During the first 48 hours three 7 on A the ‘oaat board and | Steamers passed us by, but they did 7% room for a working girl, and the|ROt see us. ; Average cost th 66 pletch pareen For six days and nights the em a tire 15 survived. Then the biscuits and hardtack gave water was exhausted, May 10 Ofler George Hull died, He was stripped 9 of his clothing and his body dropped J into the sea We spread ally investigated month or over $5 a week How could girls earning $5, $6, even $8 manage? A laundryman, who estimated the cost of a girl's living at $400 a year or $7.69 a week, told the commis. $22 was out, and our or tarpaulins to catch sion: “THE ORDINARY WORK. rain, and thus prolonged our lives, ING GIRL WEARS A_ SUIT, The men died one at a time, and DRESSES, UNDERWEAR, ETC, their bodies were dropped over | TWO OR THREE YEARS,” | board a