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

JOSH WISE SAYS: \ a appearance o' Beeleys. & downtown street has been y improved by th’ removal of an eyesore. Soy Bean, our village cutup, hae gone on a two week ii *we_wooks!_ voentiai, r | VOLUME 16, NO, 160. Kaiser Will Stake Eve LONDON, Aug. 31.—“You will take Paris or all Ger- many will die in the attempt.” This, in substance, was the kaiser’s order to his army when war broke out, according to German officers and sol- diers taken prisoners by the French and British. The London Times is authority for the story. _ Fred Boalt Finds an Old-Time Pal, | “Broncho Billy,” the Movie Actor Star Man Can’t Exactly Place His Friend, Whom He Sees ina Se-| attle Hotel, So He Sticks Out His Hand and Introduces Himself ; He’s Just One of Billy’s Millions of Moving Picture Show Ad-| —— ro mirers. _ By Fred L. L. Boalt And then | knew! had known him—"Rroncho Billy,” a ‘ou aren’t—" the cowboy, the sheriff, rough, b He was an old friend of} «1 ami with a laugh. | aweyaea tele " mine. So much | knew | “-—-BRONCHO BILLY! | Anderson has come with “The * * Candy p” to look over the right away. 1 knew him| G. M. Anderson ts the head of! forth west He's thinking of es the Eesan: company and own biishing headquarters for t> intimately, and liked him! of “The Candy Shop.” which 1s|EBxsanay company in the Northwe tremendously. I knew him! Playing at the Metropolitan the anently, with offices tn Se as well as I would know) my own brother if |! nad) ed gp | scenery explained. kes a change of once in a while, he ex They are getting tired | one, of Caltfornt: Th oT But, curiously, I couldn’t| mountains, the dense forests et] think for the ife of me evergreen, the tumultuous rivers. fine settings hare. for scenarios. what his name was or where it was we had chum- But, oh, I have ort my chum! haven't any right to him. 1 . . med together. SO Oe re apt to bint thas 20, x ot it 4 ‘ - Odd! Could 1 possibly | heaven knows how many other , hag ge 1 looked} on Lg Ae hy, I met"Rroncho Billy” the) gain. He was sitting in }first time in Cleveland. J ran | jacroas him again in St. Loufs, and! |again in New York. We've met in| big cities and in crossroads settle | ments | Then, for stxpence, 1 saw him in London, where they serve cake and tea at the movies. And darn if jour paths didn't cross one time in the little town of Harlingen, in Hol. | land, close by the Zuider Zee. It seemed I couldn't go anywhere without meeting “Broncho Billy | pg lobby of the Washing- ton Annex. I had a good look. I was not mistaken. No two men could have ex- actly similar faces, even to noses broken in the same place. Now, where was it, ‘ad how had that nose been 4 we “Broncho Billy” atre this week. 1 have known An-| derson—on the films—for years) and y It as “Broncho Billy” that I Down in Vera Cruz there's a big oroken? |corrugated shack dignified by the| OS ae the clothes were wrong. | name of the “Teatro Oltmpia they were entirely too | They have moving pictures at the SEIZE 30.000 Too stylish and ‘too well | “Teatro Olim pt And the first | Too “effete.” These [time t nt there, the fat Spaniard ‘ana hot the clothes my old chum Jon on ide of me and the thin had worn when we were pals to- |Mexican on the other, the two/ wether. Wore “Chaps” and Gun What kind of clothes, then, had American marines in front of me} | and the German merchant, his wife, and numerous family behind me. RUSS. TROOPS he worn? I flogged my laggard WASHINGTON, A Ane, 31--Thit land all the soldiers, sailors, ma ig. 31-—Thirty memory. Chaps! Yes; he had rines, planters, peons, adventurers, worn chaps. And he had packed|thousand Russians were captured indians, soldiers of fortune, stnor in East Prussia, foliowing three big! itas, ge colonels, admiral battles, according to a wireless) smal! boys, pickpocke: combers ali about me ach, to | message received at the German) himself or herself, with embassy here. | with a thrill of a gun. A Western man. Yes, it was in the bed somewhere—but where? * © There had been a girl. Now what had happened to that girl? pleasure: Kidnaped, it seemed to me. | “WELL, IF HERE ISN'T MY And this old pal of mine—he's| Gen, Von Moltke OLD FRIEND, = ‘BRONCHO one of the quiet, kindly, chivalrous BiLLY!"” } eee Sells Medals BERLIN (via The Hague), Aug. 31.—Gen. von Moltke, the German commander of the army, who had many British, Russian and Japanese decora- tions, had sold all of them. Other German officers have been directed to foliow hie ex- ample. KING MAY QUIT PARIS, Aug. 31—Bucharest sort you sometimes encountered in the West which is now tamely re- flected in the Wild West shows— had saved her—I'd forgotten how. A quiet, kindly man, but cool and oe in a pinch—that's my chum That's why it hurt when—though “Broncho” did not mean to be un. kind—he brought the Interview to | a clo and said formally that he | glad to have made my ac- quaintance. You eee, | had never seen one of my movie favorites In the flesh be-| fore, and— “My acquaintance,” in- | deed! | refuse to give him up. HE IS) STILL MY CHUM, THOUGH | | SHARE HIM WITH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN CHRIS- TENDOM! © Bat what fn thunder {fs his name? Strange that it should escape me! Well, I'd chance J anwar. 1 stuck out my hand. “My name's Boalt,” | said. He stuck out his hand. “My name's Anderson,” said he, and smiled the old, loved amile | Robert Rounder, on Page 3, Today Tells of the Hidden Pitfalls That Beset Seattle Youth and Gives Warning to. Parents of Best Way to Keep Their Children “Straight” The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1914, IN DANGER! AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—instead of being fair tonight and tomorrow, said the w. m. this a. m., it will be HEWH Pt Ad ti generally fair much for him ON VHA rything Upon ONE CENT DASH 10 PARI! } | | O Underwood. & Ved enwood Prince of Wales Edward, Prince of Wales, whose family name is Wettin, photo- leaving Buckingham palace, London, to join his advices received here today ly in favor of the government MANY SPIES SHOT 1 am not interested in this popular panic attending the alleged 1 floundered, “but, said King Charlies of Row | n't for the mania, who has been iil, le we met.” wort It Is repeated that his “What's your line?” asked my| abdication Is likely. Hie heir is his nephew, Prince Freder- aper,” | sald. lek of Hohenzollern, a pro- JOYFUL AT NEWS| ‘s moving pictures.” German. | We didn’t seem to be getting - | ywhere. Florida receives more than! new YORK, Aig. 31.—German | “Essanay,” added my chum. | $1,000,000 a year from the trade In| abassador von Bernstoff ts jubi nd—” alligators ths brekvens of bee Gerais ' BERLIN (via The Hague), Aug. 31.— |" “Presa dis ne said, “in’ The British troops in France have been cut} dicate « iniformly successful Ger man advance, A sgnificant state off from their base by a flank movement, ment is the St. Pete ru dis. patch that Grand Duke Nicholees and a German column has interposed itself retin th the Ponkiantmity 1” between them and the coast, an official | cates that at least one of the al notice by the war ministry says today. | Hes’ population ts not unanimous | ANOTHER FIGHT REPORTED OFF GERMAN COAST WHEAT SOARS KING SEES |I!'m expected to do something for PARIS, Aug. 31.—Paris is still in a state of ine tense excitement today over Sunday's exploit by the German aviator, who, flying over the city at a height {of more than a mile, dropped four bombs into the Place de la Republique and Rue Ricollet, and near the |Gare de L’Est and the Quia de Jemmapes. Though the authorities deny serious damage was |done, the feeling is that with such a thing possible WAR MAP ss is safe. The incident also brought a keener |realization than the city has had before of the Germans’ proximity to the capital. BOL a6 “The German army,” said a notice which the avia- BY EO L. KEEN sRgetics Pn fort peed | There is nothing for you to do but to surrender. to be “war lords,” King George and| (Signed) “LIEUT, VON HIDSSEN.” Additional precautions are taken bv the mili- the male members of the royal authorities to guard against a repetition of Von family are taking their parts in Engiand’s greatest war. ssen’s enterprise. With the ald of elaborate maps in his private offices, the king is following every movement of his fleets and armies. He is kept con- Hi work of criss-crossing searchlights, and a corps skilled aviators was held in constant readiness staotly informed of the latest movementa by the war office and cn aerent end om canal See inte a map admiralty. yin the heavens. a bj! by hid hting,” the’ war office announced today, “is pro- The prince of Wales has ~been aa fretting over being kept from the | front while the name of his young ler brother, Prince Ajbert, appeers sources to break down the allies’ defense, but our position is er of the Dreadnought lao than ever. The prince of Wales claimed his | The effort, however, by a vigorous French offensive move- right to join a ship by virtue of Ment in the south, to compel the shifting of part of Germany's his rank as a Meutenant, but the northern forces in that direction apparently had failed. admiralty flatly refused to risk the | It is believed the kaiser has’ staked everything on a quick life of the heir to the throne in a}; i modern dreadnought battle jinvestment of Paris. | pe It is to pacify him that King| The French military authorities seem confident of their George made bim « Heutenant in | bility to prevent this. the Grenadier guards “The enemies are large out of all proportion to the allies,” eae pF yen Gere have. done. | |said War Minister Millerand. “The fighting has lengthened company; at least the bat- his lines of communication and shortened ours. The result talion to which he is attached (has been advantageous to us. The Germans are facing us in foots shat war tee © |the strongest positions we have held yet. Our ranks are tle or no ¢ |filled. * “Along the Lorraine frontier the French have met every German move with a counter attack, keeping the advantage along our northern line. 000, ing activ with them. Prince Arthur of Connaught is | 5 major in the famous Scot's Grays | al wate oa ergot side. . ¥ x pe (Second Dragoons), and is ‘The enemy everywhere is losing more heavily than we.’ with his regiment Nevertheless, Gen. Gallieni, military governor of the Paris ind Sheen és tua’ saa tamity | district, has completed all preparations for banishing from who is Inconsolable {s Prince Hen.|the city, in the event of the siege, every one aot entitled to ry, schoolboy, third son of King remain. rz J. M. FRINK DIES While viciously kicking cushions around his room at Buckingham palace, a young staff officer queried respectfuly, “Feeling bad. sir?” Almost in tears, th in : awored. “You'd fel bad te ay | John M. Frink, one of leading ding op Frink Frink was a pioneer resident of place. Albert's in {t and ‘Davie’! ponents of organized labor, presi-| Seattle, coming to this city in 1876, of the dent Washington tron| Frink was 69. His health had ly head of the|been good until two week: yr park board, was stricken nm he was seized with (the prince of Wales) will be go- ing soon, but T can't go and fight i tack the soldiers and sailors, and d'ye k of heart fail- of heart failure, which ou know what that something is? r home on Cozy|him to worry. knitting. How would you like to |cove, across Lake Washington, ear-| Frink was born In Montrose, Pa, knit for a couple of hours a day?” ly today, and died at 6:15. He was!He came to Seattle as a school Queen Mary has got all the “un. taking a bath when, with a short ex- teacher. From 1891, he served in employed” members of the royal clamation, he toppled over, Dr, E. A. the state senate eight years, In household knitting socks and sew. Churchill was called, but Frink |1900 he was nominated for gove ing for the soldiers and sailors, died a short time afterward. lernor. Spend Five Minutes Here Every Day and You'll Know All About the European War Little by little the censorship curtain is lifting in the theatre of war. The time has come when the allies can no longer deny German victories in the north of France, On the other hand, the kaiser is silent when St. Petersburg tells of Slavonic armies rushing southward unchecked Into Prussia and Aus- trian Galicia. The curtain rises; and, remember this: THE FIRST ACT OF THIS TREMENDOUS DRAMA OF BLOOD AND IRON HAS BUT JUST BEGUN. And what a cast! Germans and Austrians and British, French and Belgians, fighting tooth and nal! in northern France. Germans and Austrians in Prussia and Galicia fleeing before the advance of the first line of offense of 8,000,000 Slavs. German diplo- macy coaxing Turkey to join the struggle and win back Macedonia and the Aegean Islands. Bulgaria, | Sixth Bresiau corps of the German army—Poies, mostly—have mutinied, siain their officers. A regi- ment of Austrian Slavs has gone over to the Rus- sia These are but incidents, but they indicate de- moralization. . Now, consider the allies. Amiens, unfortified, and but 72 miles from Paris, Is the apex of an angle formed by the rivers Somme and Avre. Gen. Plo quart and the Second army corps are there. The fortifications face the open side of the Somme- Avre angle, beginning at LaFere and running 45 miles through Laon and Rheims. The Germans aim to pass through this angle by three roads converging on Paris. They must cover the LaFere fortresses, as they did those at Namur, descend the hills along the Somme, cross the stream, traverse 20 miles of plain between the rivers, cros f food. PARIS, Aug 1 The spy mania “ag | Greece, Roumania, Ser id Montenegro ready to | the Avre, and ascend a series of heights. PS might. be Sei eldwe wean Puget sound. But here | have only|is rampant, It Ix sald that num | cnc AGO, Avg, 31.—Whoat wa| LONDON, Aug. 31. — Ger. | fly at the throat of the unspeakable Turk. And half: | Gen. Sir John French, the British commander, says to look out over the bay and find ample ways of defeating the food) bers have been shot for attempting vanced 34%4@4% cents today over) many's advance in Northern | barbaric troops, black, brown and yellow, hurrying | that, owing to geographical conditions, the Germans pebbers. to give information to the e Saturday's close during the first France iumed today, ac- | from Africa and the Far E. to bolster the losing | will invite di: er if they engage the allies along it has been a tradition here on the Sound from the time the first] There is talk of a wire half hour's trading. Brokers were| ¢ording to a dispatch from | cause of the Entente Cor: thie route. pioneer mingled with the Siwash, that nowhere else in the world could) stallation on the top of a fashion awamped with Waving orders Paris. The curtain rising, we the Russians in Konige- There is cunning In Germany's attempt to drag the man who was broke or the man who was lazy, find a living so| able hotel in the Champs Elysees Rumors were current of heavy! berg, Prussia, but the Germans holding the citadel. | Turkey into the conflict. The Turks could invade easily. Peay dds Pf brags the milf firing off the German coast, and tt NORTH OF THE CITY, AS PAR AS THE BYE CAN Bavet with pen of succes for Great Britain has var a little vigilance is all th ary called he other morn is believed another sea fight {s| SEE, T only 17,000 native and 6, ritish troops In the land r Bee ion the tae, a on vet can dig ‘clams and spear crabs, | ing, held a court-mar and sum. GET INTO GAME} reging. The reports could not be; MEN, FACING SOUTH, ADVANCING. AND EVERY | of the Nile. Then when the tide corhes in I4 brings the drift wood with which to, marily executed the manager | Sonfirnisd. | MAN'S A SLAV. The Invasion would pass through the Holy Land, feed th ary to prepare your catch for your palate. And “4 A 1—A force of} The government denies the Ger In Galicia, the same. The Russian line is through | past Jerusalem and across the Sinai peninsula. With hen thei end of it, and the finest in the world. So there's Bishop Robert Mcintyre, of the British from New Zealand capture | man claim that communication has Brzukovitze and Przemyslany Kaminenka, The Aus- | the sultan the head of the Moslem church, he could tite danger of us going hungry yet a whi’ | Methodist diocese of Texas, Okla-| Apla, a seaport in German Samoan} been cut between the coast and the trian reinforcements are hurrying to Lemberg, where | incite fanaticism among uncounted millions of True Mitte course, we can't all live on the beach, but my point is that if the| homa and part of Kansas, lecturer |island territory, Saturday, accord-| British on the continent, ‘The road) the fighting is terrific. Belie nd France and Great Britain, hi Ike would only get back a little to the fish and clam diet of yeare| and prose and verse writer, died in|ing to the official information bu-| will be kept open, it is sald, even We know the Austrian raid into Russian Poland loni t Africa and As ag Aad food robbers would disappear. Westley hospital. Chicaga, reau here, though Paris should be besieged, has failed, and that the invaders are in retreat. The preaialnine |tor dropped with his bombs, “‘is at the gates of Paris, sky above the city Sunday night was a net- “The Germans plainly are utilizing all their immense re- — lili li tienen nate evi intial tae