The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1914, Page 1

JOSH WISE SAYS: “Newt Fridemuah, who bid tow fer macadamizin’ Main street, will make money on his Mei Only contrac’ after all. He's haulin’ — broken rock from another me Oa street.” VOLUME 16. NO. 134. You Can Have Your Pick of 30 Real, Live, Wriggly Babies them ¢ chin, and babies will coo and gu ages oseigal po , whether they are the st of t the rich. They'll kick their heels aad their into your hair and eyes, just as uncere- “moniously, no matter whether they are blue-blooded, so- ~ called, or the offspri: FIRE: F One charred, unrecognized body in the morgue, four people mourn- ed by their relatives as lost, and 16 others injured, is the accident | ry Children’s Home Society has them. é you want a baby and can give it a home, here is your You can have your pick from quite an assortment. Superintendent Covi has sent out a cry for help. e home at Ravenna Heights is becoming overcrowded. The $ mission is to find parents for homeless children— to keep them at the institution. “All we ask,” says Covington, “is that the intended foster able to give the child the proper nourishment, edu- moral training.” i es pes vagy a Sagepittagn ication now at Lippy building, Third ave. and FITHS MAY RESIGN sives, including 'W. D. pueneeas we De tans Lane, an others, waited on the chief early in the week and urged him to make the race. The chief declares his candidacy does not necessarily mean he will resign, but it is known that Griffiths had not ex- mf fete to be chief more than six tovong when he was tendered the by Mayor Gill. FARMER HANG ONTO WHEAT Fearful that a general blockade |pating a general declaration of war ‘will be declared in the event of/and a still still greater a advance. European war, Seattle DOCTOR FINED general grain exporters are virtually out of the market today so far as buying Sypris No exporter quote prices on wheat loading. Dr. A. Ripiarcet, 720 16th av., in the Chicago pit, where for-| costs by Justice Gordon for prac- were made and lost by a rise|ticing medicine without a license. 50 a ton, Northwestern farm-| The complaint was filed on Decem- are holding their grain, antici- swept the Grand Trunk Pacific dock to destruction Inte yesterday afternoon, and damaked the Col- man dock and stores. The loss on the buildings, which were protected by insurance, is es timated at about $375,000. The wood-burning steamer Mon- ticello lay alongside the dock. Officiais believ: > ape park E. O. Wheater, proprietor of the Afredale apartments, 408 Walnut st.; O. A, Linn, day watchman for the Pacific Alaska Co., which oceu- pled the lower floor of the dock; H. E. Harvey, 35, driver for the Lioyd Transfer Co., and an un known woman are believed to be dead in the ruins of the building. Search for Victims Firemen today are searching the ~—| smoking pile for the victims. Re! atives were also on the ruins, pa- thetically looking for some trace of those believed to have gone down with the building. Perhaps the sadde feature of man, who is believed to Educated & pharmacist in the East, he came to the Northwest re- | cently on account of {Il heal H._B. Jackling, business agent of the Marine Engineers’ association, made a spectacular leap for life. He saw Littlewood and Wheater working with a house hose and yelled to them to run, Jackling Jumped from a second-story win- dow, cleared the dock platform and reached the bay In a leap of prob ably 60 feet. He was picked up by a boatman. Firemen Badly Burned Firemen John W. Stokes and Patrick Cooper, of station No, 5, on the water front, were badly burned when their truck was trapped and destroyed in the dock building. They were removed from the City hospital to the. Providence hospital todi They are seriously hurt, but may recover. E. F. Corthey, Eggs, | read in the news dispatches, are going up! In a few short weeks they'll be “up” ard you'll hear the same old oy roar and racket because the hen has gone to putting her food into a truckmal a tained several fractured ri nd { new dress of feathers instead of Into eggs, and somebody has cornered) ,., injured leg. He was struck by eggs. Boycotts have been tried. Swatting the cold storage man has been } «tried. Legislation has been tried. Pennsylvania has a law requiring the / marketing, not later than December, of all eggs stored in the ‘Most everything, from statute to moral suasion, has been trie we'll soon have the same old boisterous scandol about eggs. Yet, withal, relief is easy. Let the housewife preserve the eggs! Our grandmothers used to do it. They depended largely on their own eggs, and had to do what the more modern housewife leaves to the cold storage “sharke”—carry eggs over from spring to winter. lowever, it le easier to roar than to Lge ees iy | Hamonde in the shirt fronts of the fellows whi a _ Gerving eggs. falling timbers. He hospital. BH. J, Forman, wharfinger of the }| port comission dock at Hell st., fell while watching the blaze, One arm and both legs are broken. He is in the Woodland hoxpital. Make a Brave Fight A. KE. Frazier, a cook, was sert- ously burned and is at the City hospital. Probably 30,000 people witnessed the course of the fire. in the City jo—a fact that puts business of pre ¢ — ee eN ee ale toll of a disastrous fire which 5 WOMAN IS AMONG THE MISSING . | attempte: SPECTACULAR LEAP FOR LIFE The Seattle Star Paper in Seattle That meron st to Print the Hows SEATTLE, WASH. FRIDAY, ‘bebe 31, 1914, ONE CEN’ POWERS GRAB OCEAN LINERS: RUSSI THEY'RE GIVING °EM AWAY at Children’s Home Martial law proclaimed throughout Germany. against Russia. government cash to avert war jic. Russian fleet threatening German ship; England preparing for war. Germans in Baltic sea. MARKETS ARE PANICKY; U.S. OFFERS HELP WASHINGTON, July | ) SERVIAN WOMEN OF ‘LEAGUE OF DEATH’ TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY the engine ignited chaff on the lower _ Sera ‘qr ire idly ‘The flames spread with amazing ity. Fire Chief Stetson says 1 of gasoline exploded. This was responsible for the terrible a 4 of the flames, he said. fore men and women employes of the different offices were aware | market to pauic figures. of their danger, the flames had Both President Wilson and Secre- nearly covered the dock and many/tary McAdoo indorsed the tempor- were trapped. |ary closing of the New York stock They saved their lives by jump-| exchange. ing, clothing afire, into the bay,| They are preparing to rush the where boatmen rescued them. | organization of the reserve bank eee | board. The governor's action here was due to the fear that the New York exchange being the only one of the first class in the world able to handle a world-wide stock business, such an unloading of securities would occur as would depress the John Miller, a mber of the board, also conferred with the president. took the position in order to be in| He was anxious for a quick se- the open. }lection of a successor to Thos. D. His wife ts a well-known singer | Jones of Colorado, whose nomina-| Turks. The result Is that even In Seattle churches. She is pros-|tion for membership on the board| the women are fiercely patriot- trated at her home, 7510 Second av. | was objected to by the senate cur lc, Many fought in the war of R. Griffiths, engineer of the dock,|rency and banking commission. (We youre: ago. The women saw Linn and Harvey la: 3 ed the president to y ge. The three men were aiding fire- | withdraw nomination. whe are willing to go to war, if men in the bullding. Griffiths said xchanges in New necessary to save the country, he saw ry try to ning gr 2 _ ae ioe ws pe Francisco, have what they call “THE mes, but was turn: | He ai other large cities, as well ” last seen at the end of the those abroad, were closed BERR OE. Rae! tere cture surrounded by ‘flames. jay a result of the war. league is officially recognized Harvey was dragged nearer the In New rk three brokerage by the government, which sup- fire by a hose, says Griffiths. Grif-| firme suspended. plies the women with rifles fiths jumped into the bay and was and detalis soldiers to drill saved, with Janitor G. F. Little ohn them and teach them how to & shoot straight. to rescue a woman who - wood, by boatmen from the Kitsap. rushed into the building for her == LATE =—_— ————} Mra. G. F. Littlewood, panttress, baggage. The woman did not re- Learning to Shoot The Serviane lived 400 years under the crue! rule of the “Crumbling he sald, wehou Investoi turn, She is thought to be lost. Run on ‘Today on Bank of England LONDON, July 31.—Crowds were lined up in front of the cashiers’ windows at the Bank of England at 3:30 today, Such was the vol- ume of withdrawals and applica- tions for loans that a-run was ap- proximated. There was no panic, however. The minimum discount rate was increased to 8 per cent, the in- terest loans to 10 per cent and the rate on bills to 10% Der cent, Officials of the Grand Trunk Pa- cific announced today that a new structure will built once, ED CAN’T GET A DRINK NOW Ed Linerud of Enumciaw will now have to climb aboard the wagon. Judge Frater this morning signed an. order de- claring him an habitual drunk- ard, Linerud is the third man In the county to have that dis- tinction, {It will be unlawful for anyone to give or sell him booze. PORT ASKS BIDS BULLETINS LONDON, July 31.—Suffraget headquarters issued an order today for a suspension of militancy while England is threatened by war, NEW YORK, July 31,—The cot- ton exchange opened for business as usual today, but closed its doors an bour and a half later. The market was weak, It was announc- ed that the exchange may re-open tomorrow. TODAY'S BEST JOKE “You're a mighty poor talker, es- PARIS, July 31.—Occupation of the Austrian port of Cattaro, close to the Montenegrin frontier, by a/ Montenegrin , force was reported | here this afternoon. pecially to the girls. How did you raise the nerve to propose to Miss E) weet ?”” The port commission yesterday “Oh, I didn't say much of any- ALLENSTEIN, Germany, decided to call for bids on laying| thing to her. 1 handed her a soll) july 31.—A Russian said to iv and paving tracks on Whatcom av.,| tlre ring ge she 8) iGipet it on ET ee, Gearlppemeser koa key fa for cement for the grain elevator rights it fh inger and sal All} foaay: they'll build on the Heffernan dry-| "ht; ft fite!’” | saat dock site, for excavating and bulld- ing the substructure for the new wharf in the East waterway, oppo- site the new cold storage plant. VIENNA, July 31 Austrians today repelled a Servian at- tempt to cross the Bosnian frontier, Losses were small. Andrew Jackson, seventh presi- dent of the United States, was first employed in making saddles, ARM PANIC IS THREA THE “WAR SITUATION Brokerage firms in New York fail. New York stock exchange closed. Diplomatic relations betweer Russia and Austria broken. London foreign office announces czar has mobilized entire military forces of European Russia. he hoo ag and Germany requisition ocean liners for use in war. Saxonia, arriving today, may be held AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — We thought the weather man would say rain today, but he didn't. usual; MAKES Fair, as ON TRAINS AND NEWS KTANDS, be cooler Saturday dddECE This is believed preparatory to declaration of war Pre.ident Wilson offers This is a virtual declaration of war. ing at Bosporus. Fleet pe mysterious mission thought to be destined to engage BERLIN, July 31.—Relations between Russia and Austria were broken, the Deutsche Tage Zei- tung declared today. rdered held at New York pending further orders: The Inperstoi’s telling from Hamiberg wae cancolllll The Victoria Luise and other ships on the German reserve list were detained in port. ‘There was a rigid censorship. Messages com cerning army and navy movements were held up entirely. i A dispatch from Vienna to the National Gazeti said Austrian Foreign Minister Von Berchtold by Japanese ambassador, and it was reported that Austria sought an alliance with Japan in case the Austrians or Japanese became involved in war with Russia. The Reichs bank increased its discount rate from 4 to 5 per cent. LONDON, July 31—The British admiralty today requisi- tioned for naval purposes the Canadian Pacific transpacific liner Empress of Asia, ni at Hongkong. The Hami American ship Saxonia, due to arrive here this afternoon from Portland, may be ordered to remain at Seattle to await developments, it was announced at the local office. The Saxonia was to leave for ave for the Ori Orient. BERLIN, July 31.— (Censored.) —Orders issued today to practically all reserve navy, i warships, to remain in port. LONDON, July 31.—The czar has ordered the entire milll- tary forces of European Russia mobilized. This was officially admitted today at the foreign office here. Commanders of Russian, Black and Baltic Sea ports have received orders to seize olf and coal and to allow only enough it ships to reach their nearest ports. e jand, is being kept informed concerning de oT. PETERSBURG, July 31.—Mobdilization of all Russian troops in districts west of the Ural mountains has been or dered. Naval officers and reserviets were ordered to report for dut : y: BERLIN, July 31. 1. (Passed by the censor.) —It was semi-officially denied here today that a German army mobilization would be ordered Saturday. re ; Messages plosions Wad been heard on the Russian side of the Austro-Russian frontier at Myslowitz early today, and. it was reported the Russians were the big _— on the Vienna-Warsaw railroad. Prices of food imported from Russia -doubled. Potatoes were unobtainable. NISH, Servia, July 31.—That Austria’s forces had failed to capture the pass admitting them to the Morava river valley, by which they planned to invade Servia, was announced by the war office here today. It was stated that fighting was desperate and that losses were heavy on both sides. Two Austrian divisions, it was added, had failed to force the Kovateoh defile after an all-day fight on the banks of the river Drina. 3 ROME, July 31.—Three Russian crulsers and two destroy- ers, according to a report today from Salonika, are steaming | full speed for the Bosporous to seize the Austrian and German shipping there If war le declared, t e! vung coaner wae t| HOLD CAUCUS Lloyds’ was insuring today | against an Anglo-German war} Progressives wi will hold caucuses within six months at the rate | /{n many of the precincts in King of 70 per cent. | jcounty Saturday to nominate three seta | citizens, one of whom must be A suit for $85,000 damages was |named the county commission- {begun this morning against the/|ers as election officials on primary city by W, H. Marks, who alleges|day, Two years ago there were that his property suffered by rea-|no progressives at all on the elec. son of the courthouse slide last/tion boards, but the law now pra winter, ‘vides for them, i| More News on Inside Pages were received saying a series of ex- — x