The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1914, Page 1

P JOSH WISE * joan, our village cut-up, basa ory that th’ air o° th’ Alps must be very pure, takin’ into consideration all th’ Swiss cheese they send away from VOLUME 16. NO. 174, SEATTLE, WASH., TT nneenanteatt SIT) nmnnennnaan By Fred L. Boalt HAT is news, I'd like to know? And how is it to be measured? The day has just begun. As I write, the telegraph instruments commence their chatter. The operator slips a sheet of flimsy through his little window, and, méchanically, a desk man reaches for it, scans it, yawns, and runs a pencil through it. Six months ago a man was killed picturesquely and horribly in Seattle. Just one man! And we smeared half the front page with it. Now the desk man reads the flimsy, “cuts it down to the bone,” writes a modest head for it, and a copy boy takes it to the composing room. A month ago we would have smeared the entire front page with this story. "printing. The Germans, says the dispatch, are on the north bank of the Aisne river. They are fighting desperately. Thousands are being slaughtered. The rains have set in. The rivers are swollen. Bridges are down. The country is a bog. The heavy guns and wagons are deep-sunk in mud. Men and beasts strain and sweat. The men curse. They are wet to the skin, and plastered with mud, and they are weak with hunger and haggard from loss of sleep. Many are wounded. The fighting never stops. There are corpses everywhere. “Old _ stuff,” says the desk man. H What kind of a time would she be having if she were dying in agony? “Horrible?” Newspapers are only eight columns wide, If an eight-column head adequately describes an interurban smash-up between Seattle and Tacoma, what kind of a head can adequately describe the war in Europe? Clackety-clackety-clack! go the telegraph instruments. “Rome: Italy may join the Allies.” What of it? Who cares? One country more or less doesn’t matter. “Petrograd: The reported engagement in the Baltic sea between the German and Russian fleets has not} been confirmed, though it is learned through Scandinavian sources that heavy firing has been heard, and ef Shall we chuck it? If the whole of one fleet and half the other were sunk, and we had exact and gory Now it’s hardly worth * * 8 * e e EADLINES are like adjectives. A young girl, bored at a party, says she had “a perfectly horrible time.” details of the fighting and slaughter—well, that MIGHT be a “story.” * * HERE comes one which for a moment drives away ennui, and we smile. value,” though. f Lady Maxwell, a patriot, is also, we suspect, a jingo. She hurls her scorn at the stay-at-homes in England. While every man in Russia, Germany, and France, able to carry arms, has gone to the war, Englishmen stay at home—‘“watching cricket games.” “Will Englishmen alone stay at home and spin?” Well, | once watched part of a cricket game (it lasted three days and we had tea each afternoon), and it was a tiresome business. But I was not more bored than now. “London: The first detachment of native troops from India reached the allies’ front in France today. They came by the Suez canal and were rushed to the fighting line by rail. It is understood they will be used by Gen. French in his effort to envelop the German right wing. The war office declares——” Be Never mind what the war office declares. These war offices are always issuing carefully worded pronounce- | ments that don’t say anything. We want news. A million dead! 4 “Paris: Military experts’—what boneheads these military experts must be—‘declare that the position q of the Germans on the Aisne today is the strongest es ave held since they am France. Nevertheless, Moelinc Winod REPORT SHIP PEPPER GETS Moclips Wiped vii rss. Fith YEARS _ Out by Big Fire aa | Bight years’ imprisonment at San HOQUIAM, Sept. 16—Fire early today practically wiped out Mo- Not that it has any particular “news MARSHFIELD, Ore., Sept. 16.—A large vessel, name un- learned, is in distress off Gold beach, according to telephonic ‘ Quentin was the sentence imposed today upon Abraham Pepper for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy John his |#0n of Tacoma, a bride of a week, tlips, a summer resort on the ocean, about 30 miles from here. The| wasps FORCE PRS ' YO DE Sadat eae Ret 24, » loss is estimated at $25,000. | pid play ie om tgy eon Through iis attorney, Pepper itively known, withdrew his plea of not guilty, Whether any lives were lost is not positively heard at 4 a.m. A violent jand with the consent of the dis A number of persons lived over store bulldings that were destroyed, 8nd not all of these have been accounted for. storm Is raging. trict attorney, the first-degree mur. ing crew at Bandon der charge was withdrawa and one 2 id. f aught The entire block of business structures facing the Northern Pa was summone of manslaughter substituted, to Cific, 12 bulidi destroyed. A shift in the wind saved the re- Shortly after this the tele | which Pepper pleaded guilty. ? “ar iteb eres tas pha phone wire, the only means of Mrs. Johnson had been Pepper's Mainder of the bulidings in town, consisting of three small structures. Ith Stine Syst Que Man QRINQV communication, failed. Gold Beach is on an_ isolated por- tion of the Southwestern Ore- gon coast. CITY OF LIEGE! sweetheart. When she other man in Tacoma and came to San Francisco on her honey moon, Pepper also came here from Tacoma and shot her. He then| fired two shots into his own head| with suicidal intent rried an — | | | i] WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1914. Newspaper Office---Glimpse Behind the Scenes BELIEVE 42 DEAD ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.—The banks | of Bush creek, two miles south of |Lebanon, Mo. are being searched |today for victims of yesterday's wreck, when a St, Louls & San} Francisco train plunged from the track, which had been softened by | a cloudburst Twenty-seven | corpses already have been found, und it is belleved at least 15 bodies were washed down stream AVIATOR KILLED. PUEBLO, Colo,, Sept, 16. ator Weldon Cook of Oakland, ¢ was killed here today while ing an exhibition flight at the « fair grounds : 1S ABANDONED: BERLIN, Via Rome, Sept. 16. That the German troops have abandoned Liege is officially announced today. It has been reported German lines of communication were threatened, but no intimation had been received that any strong force other than the themselves was operating the kaiser’s troops in Belgium, and it was doubted If the Belgians alone |were strong enough to recapture | Liege | It was | Liege troops ward to help France | am glad, indeed, that the United States has ordered its troops home from Vera Cruz. | It will be very good for Funston and his men to get back, They have done well the work which they were sent down to do. Huerta has feparted. The entire regime which he represented has been upset. Mexico is now in the hands ofa government representing as nearly as any can the will of the Mexican people. There remains no use for an American army on Mexican soll. There are reasons why to ~ have continued it would be to run neediess risks. It is natural for soldiers to want work; and the work which appeals Most to soldiers is fighting. Fighting means excitement and the chance of promotion and “glory.” The temper of soldiers doing a tedious + Watchful waiting detail in a foreign land is to yearn for livelier em- Ployment. First they hope that “the enemy” will “start something. By degrees they reach the frame of mind which impels them to help a Vera © joldiers had | - | t at era ruz many 6 reached thie second Stage. Spurred on by the contagion of Europe's) Clara Barton Tent, Daughters of Unofficial returns show demo-| War; eager to give a demonstration of American arms, they were much | Veterans, will give a card party to- too eager for a turn of affairs which would force complete intervention, night in Veterans’ hall, Armory, that the Avi thought % had the possible the been sent for Germans in % torial election was 3,300, ‘is also a p te | ERSONALLY, Mike Carrigan’s a pretty good fellow. can tell a story with the best of them. youlike. BUT---read what The Star thinks of his qualifications for the office of county commissioner. last page today. This is the first of a non-partisan series of Star discussions of various candidates. Tomorrow’s subject, E. B. Palmer, candidate in the 47th district for state senator. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News the numerical superiority of the allies may be counted on to——” e n e Eastern Pru ssia to personally investigate——— Again, “Paris: what the kaiser does? The kaiser is going to Give us something exciting. He The sort of a man It’s at the top of the w rain ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be ing ONE CENT Never mind AST EDITION EATHER FORECAST — More for tonight and Thursday is the opinion of the w. m. this morn Oh, very weil! RIVAL ARMIES MIRED IN BOG AS STORMS SWEEP FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE GERMANS ARE NOT YET BEATEN the rest of it. Shucks! Who cares “Petrograd: Russian victories in Galicia are said to be the greatest achievement in the history of warfare. The capture of Archduke Karl Franz is looked for shor tl) en't got him ye But they and When they do, we’ll men PA DOES ALL THE STUDYING THESE EVENINGS 1 WON'T HAVE To STUDY ANY GEOGRAPHY To NicnT! Old Fo The reporter called at the Savoy hotel twice The first time Mrs. Ludke said “Would you mind coming a lit-| tle later? You see, Henry's asleep I'd hate to wake him, he gets so tired traveling ‘round.” She spoke in a whisper, and fol lowed the reporter into the cor ridor. “It's funny about men,” she ex plained. “Now there's Henry. He's worked hard all his life, up before daylight sometimes; he always was a ser But now that he 4 to work any wm aving sort of a secon¢ ymoon, Henry takes to the life of ease like a duck to water. Owns the Opera House “I'm not that way. I'm set. 1 ve to get up at 6 o'clock, the same as I've always done.’ The second time the reporter called he found Mr, Henry Ludke dressed, shaved and fed Mr, Ludke 1 He owns the opera house t, Peter, Minn, He rous merchant—or was, before He and Mrs. Laudh were mar ried at St. Peter 50 years ago. This is their golden honeymoon. “Mother and | sort of figure,” he r cratic plurality in Maine guberna | said, that we've got a little fun|cal 8 jcoming to us, Not that we haven't bre: Iks Com Here on Golden Wedding Jaunt . and their line is holding, except at married, the way young folks do, and now they've got children of their own. “Just Jaunting Around” “So I.got my business in shape and turned it over to the five chil- dren that live in St. Peter, and mother and I are just jaunting ‘round “We've just come from Portland, where a daughter lives, and now we're going to Spokane to visit an other, “I don't see what there is about two old folks like us—mother’s 68 and I'm 72—that would make a piece for the paper, But that’s your lookout, not mine. And now, young fellow, if you'll excuse me I'll get busy with that trunk, If 1 don't look out, mother'll pack it herself. 1 have to watch her like a hawk e had fun before, This ts extra 1 “We've worked pretty hard. And| | We've got seven daughters and | four sons who've gone off and got INVADERS TURN ON | ENEMIES PARIS, Sept. 16.—The Germans on the north bank of the River Aisne are re- forming their lines. They have heavily entrenched the low hills and seem prepared to make a determined stand, though some experts think they will try to hold their present position until they have completed stronger de- fenses to their rear. Country Flooded Sharp rear guard skirmishing fs in progress, Conditions are becoming increas- ingly hard for military operations. Heavy rains have continued. The rivers are raging torrents. Bridges have been generally destroyed. Pon- toons have been swept away. The streams are too swollen to ford. The countryside has been con- verted into a bog. German Position Strong Military experts admit the Ger man position on the River Aisne is the strongest they have held since they invaded France. Defensive conditions are said to be ideal. Nevertheless, it is expected they will be overwhelmed by the allies? numerical superiority. The British are attempting a fury ther crumpling of the kaiser’s right wing. 'KREISLER IS A | VIENNA GUARD ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.—Frits | Kreisler, world-famous violinist, has joined the Austrian troops and has been assigned to the corps guarding bridges in Vienna, accord- ing to a letter received by the father of Albert Stoessel, a St. Louis musician, studying in Ger many. ADDITIONAL WAR NEWS ON PAGE 2 Spend Five Minutes THE GERMANS IN FRANCE) munication and avenue of retreat h 1 will be gone. * * © have ceased their headlong retreat THE FACT THAT THE GER mans are holding their defenses all |along the Aisne cannot but mean that they have been reinforced. This being assumed as true, Gen. their extreme left The left had retired to the Lor- |raine fortifications on the German | | 7) nee A ike joffre very properly directed a pada 4 the Herter, | more cautious advance. This army in Lorraine is prac:| The G ale Him ene tically an independent force, and| dangerous positoin, but it must be |Its retirement to the shelter of the|emembered that they probably anent German fortifications | Umber more than 1,000,000, and a siesta |serious blunder by the allies, re- probably means that much of its suiting from an over-ardent pur- strength has been detached to re- sult, might easily mean disaster for inforce the right wing of the crown|a great part of the latter's forces. prince's army and the German cen-| The German general staff doubt- ter, north and northeast of Rheims, less counted on the possibility that and the River Aisn impetuous generalship would lead | "This line is the invaders’ criti-|the French into some trap of thelr gic position. If the allies own making. it, the German lines of com-| That Gen, Joffre realized this You'll Know All About the European War Here Every Day and was shown by his present slowing up of the allies’ offense. vee RUSSIA'S ADVANCE ON THE San river suggests that the czar’s major operations in Galicia may have reached a point which will permit a Russian march on Berlin soon. Once in force on the west side of the San, the Muscovite troops will be past Austria's main fortified line, and if there is truth in Petrograd reports of stupendous Russian victories in Galicia, Cra cow should be reached without sem lous opposition. Once in contro! of Cracow, the czar will dominate all of Galicia, which he covets to annex to Ru® sian Poland, Then the Russian general staff can give all its attention to plam |ning operations against Berlin,