The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1914, Page 1

¥ CAP blessed PP ito that time, of JOSH SAYS: Mexioo. t bas a buzzard.” i JN of Chief same antiquated, SE 4 “Soy Bean, our village cut-up, suggests a new coat of arme for It's th’ same as th’ old one, except in place of an eagie ae VOLUME ‘toes beaten © DEA 16, then affairs at the responsible. NO, 155. tria Decl AN ARMY WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—A wire- lese meesage received today by the German embasey here from the foreign office at Beriin sald the Germans had captured 10,000 “@WOnch soldiers, including several generals. It is also said the Ger mans now contro! Longwy and most of the Beigian-Franco frontier. One dispatch received by the Ger- man embassy said: “The Germans chased the French, defeated in the battle between August 17 and August 21. Numerous ensigns, more than 150 guns and 10,000 pri were taken in the capture of Luneviile. FRENCH ARMY CRUSHED “The German crown prince’s army chased the French west of Longwy. “The “army commanded by the through Belgium and. crossed the through jum a o e river Semois. vancing French army. “German troops then advanced west of the river Meuse toward Maubeuge. “The greatest part of the Franco- Belgian border is now In German DEFEND TITLES NEWPORT, RI, Aug. 25.— Maurice E. Meloughlin and Thomas C. Bundy successfully de fended their title as tennis doubles champions here today by defeating Church and Mathey, 64, 6-2, 6-4. ® mpathy is cheap,” ie the cynic’s cry. me jet sid tell you what sympathy has done for one woman who suffering from an incurable disease. She made In view of its helplessness to heal her, she! il) to give her a painiess death. | She wi of science. wanted to die. one last reque asked that it use its Science refused. Then this m i, r, In which she voiced her resentment th the broken body the life which was only a burd of all afflicted In like manner to Join with her In @ movement to secure the enactment of laws permitting such lives as hers to be snuffed out by in frequent communication through the postal service. She did not get her law passed; Journal of the American Medical The flood of messages of sympathy from all over the world suddenly | + filled her life with ev; ont of eympathy—s flood of eyrienty mngathy makes life eweet, an interest it had an object as the demand for forgot her desire for death. 't crushed the ad-|; her- received thousands of letters in reply. At once she found self yee midst of a circle of friends and aides, scattered widely, but wanted to live. | The butter situation this week has been like a pop vaive just Although the average price hae held steady at 34 cents, it has threatened to rise to heights heretofore un- known. The war ts to blame. Canada is bidding feverishly on Seattle butter. Canada is in a bad way for but- ter. Canada has depended much on New Zealand for her supply the past few years. And now that sup ply bas stopped. Seattle hasn't as much butter as she needs for herself. Yet Van- couver and Victoria jobbers are bidding on the local markets at prices higher than Western avenue jobbers are willing to offer. Drawing on Reserve Supply. One commiasion man told The) Star today that Seattle is drawing} on her supply usually kept in storage as a guarantee against emergencies. Those controlling the stored) stock, however, it A aight hope that this city may draw on the East to fill the breach is blighted by the fact that Eng- land is playing the same tactics on the Atlantic markets that our Canadian neighbors are playing re. nthe Fast soon will be in the same straits as the Pacific Coast. Dealers here agree that there is no limit to which butter may soar, Eggs are in much the same con- dition as to prica. They are hold- ing off at 37c and 28c now, but give promise of leaping their bounds and | increasing considerably. With though, the molting rable woman wrote a letter to a) | that most wonderful of inventions, | but the result was marvelous. The! sociation described it. | not possessed. She was the recipi- Even when It is created by such! She j ‘This story is a wonderful one to me. | do not feel | can express Ite! full meaning. uh as jomat 1 in body, but she was still mo soul. Once) Teepe je Ta her body-ill ness became of jess moment. Prior she had not 4 d been living. She wanted complete death in- death. Sympathy is a tonic in a real medical sense, are holding onto| % SEATTLE, WASH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, MURDER LURKS IN OUR CITY PRISON! of Police Griffiths’ ideas of a hu manitarian jail and poli Seattle has the d jail a police system, policy. jail system whereby a man can be thrown into a receiving tank for beaten, or even kicked to death, by vicious, drink-sodden maniacs, at dangle their keys in ignorance a few yards away. jail lapsed into their old rut. Why not find out who he is? at the city jail caused The Star to start an agitation which resulted in the enatid adh in positions of authority have grown so hardened to bru- will not, stop murder in the city jail, THE STAR IS GOING TO SEE TO IT MADE TO. Season is more to blame than the European situation. There were rumors today of a twocent-a-quart increase in the etal! price of milk, The majority of the big dairies denied it, but said an increase was imminent. One dairy sald they were pay- Ing the farmers more for it, but hadn't raised on their cus tomers yet. Here again the war ts exonerat ed and the dry season—the longest of years—is branded the culprit Tt bas dried ap the pastures and decreased the milk supply months earlier than usual. Grape and Canister From Scene of War ARMY GRAVEDIGGERS ¢ BRUSSELS, Aug. 25—Accom- panying the regular German army in the field is the special corps of gravediggers. Germany is the only country having such @ corps. it was formed for the Franco- German war of 1870, {TURNIP DIET FoR BRITIEH LONDON, Aug. 25.—The Royal Horticultural society calis on Eng lshmen to sow turnip seed in their | front and back yards immediately Turnips sown now will ripen before winter. t ~ WEALTHY GRAB FLOUR ° VIENNA, Aug, 25.--Only one Kio (2 1-5 pounds) of flour is sold to any one person at a time, The result has been that the wealthy people hire others to travel jin circles buying up the flour. ¢ * LIKE SOCIALISTS'NOW ¢ " ROME, Aug. Socialists he have reports of a meeting betw the emperor and empress of Gar. many and Herr Witt!, the socialist leader of Munich The royal pair lavished hand- shakes and smiles upon the social- ist. ° \¢ AIREDALE LONDON, Aug. 25.—The war of. fice is considering the purchase of 1,000 Atredale terriers for war pur- poses. The Alredale requires little sleep; can go for a long time without food or water, and isn’t afraid of any- thing. WAR DAWGS * LABELING SOLDIERS ANTWERP, Aug. 25-—All German soldiers are required bearing their name, regiment and rank. That assists in iden- tifying the dead, | taxes, etc, and at the same time *| NEUTRALITY OF U. S. ANS|PRICE OF BUTTER (GRANT OF RE SOARING: MILK TO GO UP TWO CENTS) yarip! S.R.S. C0. Because the city didn't die | miss the cases to compel the ttle, ton & Southern to charge only a nickel in the city limits and to issue tranafere, and beacuse it col- lected taxes on the railway Property, Judges Cushman and Neterer, of the federal court, | yoke the company's franchise. The decision was filed today | The Renton franchise ts there fore held valid. The decision says nothing about the city’s right to }run the munfelpal cars on Fourth av. under the “common user’ clause of that very franchise. Define City’s Rights The judges hold that the city should have done one of two} | things—either compel the company | to issue transfers and accept the | nickel fare, or else revoke franchise and Jet the company charge more than a nickel fare in the city limits and refuse transfers juntil such time as the last court | decided the revocation case in fa- vor of the city. The decision saya the city not blow hot and cold” and “tt cannot eat the cake and keep It, too,” meaning that the city could not ask the company to live up to the franchise agreements with re jgard to fares, transfers, service, cancel the franchise, The company, however, Is al- lowed “to blow hot and cold.” It claimed a valid franchise, but refused to live up to the franchise terms to let the city care run on Fourth av. The decision says nothing about this phase of the caee. TRY TO PACK POLL BOARDS | agree | | In a desperateyeffort to pack the! election boards on September 8 and | November 3, the Hamilton-Knudsen | |wang today disfranchised the pro- precincts Commissioners Hamilton and Knudsen arbitrarily ruled off} everybody who signed the recall | petitions against them, Court action may be started to |compel the commissioners to give the political parties equal repre- |sentation on the election boards. Candidates on the republican tick- et aro also worried because the | Hamilton-Knudsen outfit 1s behind! | the candidactes of Judge Gay for prosecutor, Will K. Sickels for county clerk and Connor for county auditor WILSON PROCLAIMS WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.— hold that it had no right to re. | 1914. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ONE CENT w NEWS BLAND, 66 nort ares War on Japan! ENGLAND DAZED BY DEFEA ROBERT ROUNDER HAS GAY OLD TIME AT FORTUNA PARK; LOTS OF BEER AND PLENTY OF ‘JANE the | | might life, attended a party of this | the other might, gressives from representation tn 37| Monday. JAP CRUISER | America’s neutrality in the war was prociaimed by President Wilson this afternoon, { between Japan and Germany Te THE BEER CAST ITS SPELL OVER FIRST BUY TICKETS p———___ AND EXCHANGE GIRLS WOULD CLASP THEIR ARMS ARQUND THE BOYS NECKS - THE. SOUL KISS FOLLOWED © smiled reater or lees it of Inte at private parties in Se- | Robert Rounder, who, following bis | pose of Johnny Clancy's road house, ie writing a series of articles on Seattle's kind He will tell about it in his next article. Watch for it. By Robert Rounder A puritanical father laid down the law of Sunday ob- eervance. A plous mother helped him in its enforcement. Church morning and evening. Bunday school. A heavy din- ner, eaten mostly in silence, with grace before and after. Buch talk as was permitted had to do with the tedious sermon we had heard that morning. But In this | could not Join, Father did ali the talking. Mother agreed with father. Games were sternly forbidden. Mughter was frowned on. I might| read, but I could not read story books. My young eyes traveled wearily over the printed pages of essays written by dead-and-gone | theologians who assured me that!" hell was hot and that the torment of sinners was everlasting. A day of deadly monotony through which I lived, waiting for The fly in the ointment of my Saturday, which, being a holi (Continued on Page 3.) ISIN STRAITS TACOMA, Aug. 25.——After a record run from San Francisco, the Japanese cruiser Idzuma, which left San Francieco bay two days ago on a mysterious mission, d into the Straits of Fuca early today, according to advices received hi The Idzuma was expected to put Into either Victoria or Van- couver to take on coal and await further orders, THEM FOR BEER JAPANESE TEL HOW HE WOMAN LS CHOKED TODEATH SALINAS, Cal, Aug, 28. Details of the murder of Mise na Wood Smith, the artist, cleared up here today by George Kodani, the Japanese photographer. He admitted he killed Miss! Smith during a moonlight walk,| from her bungalow at Carmel to the beach Kodani's complete — confesston followed a visit to his cell of a del- egation of Japanese, Including the Rev. H. Kobayshi, K, Nina, J Takagawa, and K. Aoki Had Appointment With Her “T killed Miss Smith,” sald Kodant, “on Wednesday night at midnight, 1 was at her home tn the afternoon, I had an appoint ment to meet Miss Smith and we walked from her home to the point where I killed her. “Miss Smith carried with her some lunch, including some figs and pears, and she had her steam- er robe tied up with a fish cord. “I told her I was going to Ne- vada with another woman to mar- |ry her, and then she got mad and | started to tussle with me. Ties Cord Around Her Neck “I saw an abalone shell near by and picked it up, striking her on the head. I did this to protect my- self. “After this I took the fish cord and tied it around her neck, 1 strangled her. I was mad—wild |Then I tied her feet. I sat with the body until nearly daylight and then I dug a hole and buried her. “Later I was arrested in Monte- rey, After I was freed I went to Point Lobos “Then I took to the hills back of the fishing camp, and for days I sat on the mountain and watched the people hunting for Miss Smith and for me.” CHARGE AWFUL CRUELTIES LONDON, Aug. 25.—Blood-curdiing accusations of atrocities com. mitted by soldiers in Belgium were office statement issued here today. made against the Germans in a war “Following a fight between Belgians and Germans, in which a Ger- man officer was killed,” said this statement, “the Germans burned six | farm houses, then dividing the mei ditches, where soldiers struck them down with thelr rifle butts, turing their skulls and killing them against the women and children, “Yet not a single civilian partic! man officer was killed. The Germans maltreated an aged man, him with fire and finally burning hi ‘ in into two groups, placed them in frac- » Atrocious crimes were committed ipated in the fight in which the Ger- im to death,” See tonight | said Austria, as Germanys ally, 9 | would be involved. | Instead, however, it was an- AST EDITION EATHER FORECAST — Fair and Wednesday; gentle hwest winds. VIENNA, Aug. 25.— (Bulletin.)—Austria today declared war on Japan. — When the Japanese prociaimed hostilities against Germany it was nounced an Austrian Kiaochau bay would proceed to @ | netural port and disarm. This was taken as meaning the Vienna gove did not consider iteelf con cerned in the Oriental bier | laration came a report from | hai that the cruiser would nee ae : ler all, disarm, but would help the ~ Klaochau Germans to resist the Japanese. By Ed L. Keen ‘ | (Correspondent of the United - | Press.) | LONDON, Aug. 25.— Namur’s fall is admitted b the war office today. : jsuccess by the Germans is jregarded as ending all of a speedy termination of the war. will be compelled to send every available soldier in tt country to help the alli forces already fn the }demanding explanations on |the loss of Namur, but be. lyond owning that the Ger= mans have taken it, the war office is silent. Experts suggest that the French, over-confident, advanced too fast and were overwhelmed by the Ger- mans. have been enormous, “WHEN IT BECOMES KNOWN ONE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SAID, “THE WORLD | WILL BE STARTLED.” | Reports continue to circulate |that the Germans are overrunn! (the French department of Meurthe- jet-Moselle and that {ts capital, ney, has been captured, but they }are unconfirmed. | England Is Dazed | Namur’s fall fairly dazed Eng land, That such a fortress could |be taken, at any rate without @ |protonged siege, had never oo ‘curred to any one. The newspapers admitted an jactual German advance toward Paris was at last on the program, “England and France,” said the Chronicle, “must stubborn- ly resolve that, come what may, they will never surrender to Germany. We must stick to her as she stuck to Napoleon until we pull her down, “So long as we hold the sea we cannot ourselves be vitally stricken.” Won't Give Detalis “The enemy,” said Premier As |quith, reporting to the House of Commons, “pressed the British hard, but were shaken off. It is undesirable to say anything more at present beyond what the French war office published Monday night, “I can add, however that the Frenth government states that the British troops, despite hard march- ing and desperate fighting, are in the best of spirits, “The government has no Hat of casualties to make public yet.” ‘ALLIES FIGHT " ONDEFENSIVE | PARIS, Aug. 25.—Following the |fall of Namur and the reverse the | Franco-British allies suffered at the Germans’ hands in Monday's fight- jing In Belgium, the former were on |the defensive today. The Germans, pressing th ad- je are enveloping the Franco. gian and Franco-German fron. tiers, A war council was held at the Elysee palace, Later the war min ister announced: “There is no doubt of the final outcome in the minds of any of the French officials. | Germans Fight From Fort Namur’s fall was unexplained, It was reported that the Germans |succeeded in capturing one of the |forts, which enabled them to fight in greater security and more effeo tively than in the open, that they mounted siege guns in the defense |they had taken, and that the other fortificat’ ~ catered thus ene ata tim mn ¥ cruiser in The British, it is believed, — The newspapers are all © British losses are understood to