The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1914, Page 1

JOSH WISE SAYS: “Even after th’ war is over an’ th’ viet'ry won, about all th’ survivin’ private soldier will git out o' it is a scrap-iron medal fer bravery Ley VOLUME 16. | GERMAN ARMIES NO. 199. HIS MAJESTY, YOUNG CHIEF SEATTLE, RULER’ His Majesty, Chief David people need to be told your whereabouts? He was a no-’count Indian. He did His earliest recollection is of St. Joseph's school register is “David Seattle.” had for him no significance. He worked when work offered—in -lumber farms, in canneries. He hunted, White men ordered him about. called He was “Lo, the poor sage They OF ALL THE SNOHOMISH TRIBE, PAYS VISIT TO STAR TO PUT ROYAL EDICT IN THE PAPER Then he told us, in simple language and no gestures at all. * * * * . » not say so, by looking at him that he had been until recently a no-'count Indian. school in remember when he joined the school or who took him there. On reaching young manhood he left the school to shift for himself. His name camps, fished, trapped and tramped. And always his.mien was humble, his spirit meek. 1 him 6éTPHE KING is dead! Long live the king!” * - * The king died long, long! ago. He was a good man, | and lived worthily, and he left the throne empty when he was gathered to his fathers. But the king lives. Long live the king! His majesty called on} The Star this morning. He was lean as a wolf, and foot-sore, but he wore his s with dignity. | “Lam David Seattle,” he said, “chief of the Sno- homish tribe. 1 wish you would*put a notice in The Star that my home is in Orillia and that any of my people wishing to seek m my. counsel will find me as he Wr promised his fi that we would do wished, “But how,” we asked, “does it happen that your but you could tell simply He name does not on the Tacoma. His construction camps, on He wandered far. } “Jot contemptuously, Charile David Seattle, only living son of Chief Seattle, the First, waits for death. He is very old, and his work is done. There came to him in Sno- homish an Indian of another tribe. “I met one of your peo- pie in Seattle,” he said. “His name is Seattle, like yours— David Seattle.” “Where,” he asked, “were you born? And who was your father?” “I do not know,” the younger man replied. “I was put in St. Joseph's school in Tacoma when I was a BY WM. PHILIP SIMS PARIS, Oct. 14 the allies A resumption of the attack on German baby.” And he told the old man! center was reported he today all he knew, which was little, french aviators hav enough, though {t served this part of the kalser’s “It was I put you there,” sald ened by the transfer of troops to Charlie David Seattle. Your | the north father was dead some time before.| the renewed pressure « ared these (Continued on Page 2.) recall omp | knew a young fellow once who dabbled in swimming swimmer mcst people agreed. He could dive with the besi of them He knew the crawl stroke. He was an expert when swimming on his back. The side stroke was second nature. Under water he was a reg ular fish. But yet—he was only an experimenter. He never really learned to swim, And one day a canoe tipped over. The young fellow drowned, because he never had practiced endurance swimming i knew a young fellow once who dabbled in music, beyond doubt, said his admirers, and his music teachers. But he picked up a few popular airs, learned to imitate a music box, and stopped. He shunned the hard scsles and the real work, And in musical gatherings he took a back seat while others, less talented, shone in the spotlight of favor. | knew a young fellow once who dabbled In books. Blessed with an excellent memory and a versatile memory. But he skipped about, helter-skelter, from light to heavy reading, and back; and presently @is mind was a confused jumble, and his reading had been for nought. But there was another young fellow. Not particularly bright, pop ular or gifted. Yet he concentrated his energies on the thing for which he thought himself best fitted. And now he's a top-notcher in the busin world. He wi not a dabbier, Did you ever know any young lows Iike these? A good | Talented, | ALLIES RESUME: THEIR ATTACK ON | hich Teutonic right Today's official from Bordeaux said ‘On our left in turn would weaken the communication | as far as the Otse. nged. At th sing in the There 18 concerning our the altuation ta unch center we are progr y-nu-Bal port fan field there have engagements aroun) y on Oct. 12 aad The French oceupled Y | REPORT PORTUGAL WILL JOIN ALLIES LONDON, Oct. 14 agency dispatch from and British have A news Madrid, report ed today that Portugal had de clared war on Germany. The here permitted publication of the message, but without unconfirmed, officially war bureau ite ac cabinet | was said in news agency dis | patches to London to have | summoned parilament to au- | 1 guaranteeing our The Lisbon thorize a complete mobiliza- tion. WORK FOR PENSIONS ‘lans for a campaign to urge passage of the teachers’ retirement fund bill were made yesterday during a meeting of the Seattle Grade Teachers’ club, | SEATTLE W ASH a ernest DAT AM A PUFFEC'LY FRESH AIG, SAH | ARRESTED BY MISTAKE: SHE. GOES TO JAIL Mra. J Reid, 2618 Ei Union! st, spent last night in the city| Jail because a man mistook her for a woman who had robbed him of $40 In the Scenic cafe yester day afternoon, and didn’t learn his mistake until Mrs, Reld was tried in police court today Mrs. Reid went into the cafe yesterday afternoor for her husband, who had gone the doctor's office She says the proprietor came up her and asked her if she in tended to “work out of this place, she would have with $6 for pro- Scente wait to to adding that if so, 1 me through tection Just then she says, a man rushed in with a policeman, and after glancing about, pointed her out, She was promptly arrested Seno GERMAN CENTER postpone TRIAL NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—New cal has been temporarily denied what promises to be the big sensation | of the year, the trial for murder! of Mrs, Edwin Carman, wife of a Long Island doctor, acew slaying one of bis women pat The trial was to have begun yes terday. H has been postponed un til Monday SHIP LOST; ALL SAFE It is practically certain today that all hands were saved when the Charles Nelson Co.'s schooner 8 which left this port 18, went to pleces on/ in the South Pacific, 28, firat word of which reach Seattle yesterday. The crew pee captain, according to di patches, reached shore in small boats. | July Katu teland, Se et IT’S THROB, THROB, THROB! | Autos Are Feet for phew Now, an d ar Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, of Marching Is Gone; Also Fife and Drum By Wm. G. Shepherd ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF SOISSONS, Sept. 19 (by Mall to United Press).—Twenty sol diers in red and blue are sit ting by the roadside circling & great sheet-iron stove The sides of the stove are punctured with many holes about the size of a golf ball, and the rays from the red hot coals light up not only the gay colors of the French soldiers, but the meadows behind them WEDNESDAY PREPARE FOR OCT. 14, 1914 ON 1h News ONE CENT A) HANSON AND GRIFFITHS TALK AT LABOR TEMPLE, FRIDAY, 8 P. M. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 2 aecam WEATHER FORECAST Te night and Thursday partially cloudy, probably rain. Increasing AnD be FINAL ATTACK ON KIAOCHAU TOKIO, Oct. 14,—Gov, Wal deck of Kiaochau having re- fused to surrender, the Japanes and British were preparing to- day for what they delieved would be their final the German defen the meantime non-combatants were quitting the fortified zone. This of the armistice entered into Tuesday to time for the burial of the dead on both sides and the removal of the wounded Waldeck of fever, ing tions. Willis R. Peck, U. Kiaochau, will leave the settle ment Thursday with the womer and children of the German colony 6 MEET ATHLETICS PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14, —Only six baseball fans were at the station today to Greet the Athletics ,return- Ing from Boston after their encounter with the Braves. The train was four hours late. Manager Connie Mack refused to be interviewed. CUT OUT HIGH JINKS The university faculty is cutting down on the students’ high jinks The social calendar has been sub. ult on was under cover give Gov though very {I persisted in superintend. the German ‘ense prepara S. consul at jected to an unmereiful pruning The Tyes Tyon society's annual dance has been omitted, and the Rooters’ club dance will be abolish ed after this season and the great elms under which they are sitting. It is almost bedtime This {8 a campfire scene tn France You think of the old elvil war song, “Tenting Tonight,” and then suddenly you notice these men are not tenting. Drawn up alongside the road is a huge covered auto truck In this tr the soldiers not only sleep, but “march.” On rainy days they eat in it and play cards in it, | | | ‘DEPUTIES STRIP HOUSE; TENANTS __SLEEP ON FLOOR Three furniture vane drew up before the Olympic Court apartments, Yesier way and 20th av., yesterday afternoon, coincident with the arrival of a lawyer and a deputy sheriff In a short time 10 homes had been stripped to the bare walls The apartments at Nos. 1917, 1919, 1921 and 1923 are rented by Mrs. Rose Butler and sub- let by her, furnished, to ten- ants, who pay in advanc Last night these tenants in all, Including babies and children, slept on the floor. Mrs. Butler said today that Rob. ert B. Woten, of the Pioneer n & Investment Co., had a mortgage on the furniture, and that had two monthly payments of 0 each Said She Paid $400 My equity in the furniture,” she said, “amounts to more than $400 I had no notice of foreclosure from the sheriff's office, though a dep. uty sheriff camo with the furnt ture van, and in one instance broke in a door, All I had in the way of notice was a letter from Mr. Wo. ten’s office. It looks to me as if she the sheriff's office is being used! asa aKency 1 and his wife, who live at No, 1917, we out when the furniture men and Mrs Clark's sister had come in to mind the babies We slept on the floor,” said Mrs, Clark, ‘and the babies slept in their go-carts. We feel sorry for Mrs. Butler.” Deputy Breaks Door Woten said Mrs. Butler had patd $200 down and had made monthly payments of each, ma king a total of $280, and still owed $420. This contradicts Their hammocks swing from its roof, They carry their huge stove in it, and when they please they can warm their auto-tent his was my first view of a ‘ound camp. ng the next mile I count of automobile batt Du 40 mps At last the country road be- ean to change itself into a vil lage street. A sentry stopped me, looked at the pass which per. mitted me to enter the village, these ! | story told by Mrs. Butler. “Then she stopped I had to protect myself, ten One of the tenants said she locked her doors leading to the hall, and that tfe deputy broke it in paying and| said Wo: He told me the next time the sheriff came I'd better open the door,” she said. “Must I, then, open the door of my home to every man who shouts through the key hole that he’s from the sheriff's office?” HAMILTON ASKS FOR DISMISSAL OF SUIT A motion was m de today to miss the suit of the Western Dry Goods company against Lafe Ham {Iton, county commissioner, for $1,400, alleged to be due from the Beehive store, Georgetown. Hamilton is accused of having a direct interest in the store. with his relative, Lester E. Hamilton The Beehi considerable goods to the The dry it failed t to pay goods concern claims its bill WILL MEET TONIGHT Two progressive meetings will be held tonight, at which there will be county and legislative speakers. One meeting will be held in Ever green and the other at Newcastle Salvation Army receives offer of four | $190,000 to send nurses to Holland Funeral for H. L. Sizer takes the place Thursday. ! IN THIS GREAT WAR and a few more steps brought me into the midst of the big. gest automobile show I've ever seen. On both stood auto London sides of the road buses from Pa ind Bordeaux They were ered with mud, but through the bespat tered windows I could see sol- diers eating, playing cards or writing. In one or two I saw the glare of stoves, with smoke pouring from tin chimneys. As I entered the town and southeast winds. pelt Meets: IGHT EDITION G ALONG BELGIAN COAST }KAISER TO INVADE ENGLAND? PREPARE TOCROSS CHANNE DUNKIRK, Oct. 14.— The German advance on {Dover strait continued re- |morSelessly today. The |kaiser’s cay alry and military bicyclists were sighted les§ |than 20 miles from the coast. ‘ The allies were ma issing to resist this coast |movement. Everyining ime \dicates a speedy renewal of desperate fighting on an enormous scale. The censorship prevents jany reference even to the |approximate location of the battle ground chosen, in ad- vance by the Franco-British The Germans have the al- | Hee’ extreme left in a danger. ous position. Asa result of the lines’ lengthening, this Franco-Brit- ish wing now extends across the frontier into Belgium, par- alleling the coast to Ostend, or a little beyond. Experts admit the Germans could not have chosen a more fae vorable position in Europe for attempt to bottle up their versaries. The Belgians having escaped iso- jation at Antwerp, the Germans re |leased from the siege of that city were advancing west and south toward the coast. Moving Toward Coast At the same time a column de tached from Gen, Von Boehm’s army was moving on the channel, swinging in an are in a northwest. erly direction The country along the channel at this point fs fat and suited to de fensive fighting. The north of the allies’ wing is Holland, a neutral country. To the west is the chan: nel The logical thing seems to be for the wing to slip to the southward if it can, along the coast, until it finds a suitable spot for giving bats tle to the kaiser’s troops. Increased anxiety is felt in England as sult of a threat. ened German offensive move- * ment from Ostend and other ports on the channel. Although there is little to feat from an invasion of the enemy by ppelins, Ostend being 60 miles from the British coast, the Ger- mans are reported to be equipping themselves with a new and power- <rupp gun that will throw a 5 miles, To Cover German Attack A Berlin report says these guns, having three or four times the range of any guns yet made, are to be installed on the east coast of rait of Dover, and under their cover, German troops landed on the sh coast It is also r ported the Kiel canal, closed to general traffic. is crowds ed with German warships, upon which the new guns are being in- stalled ASK NEW BUILDINGS A request for new buildings and additional classroom space on the compus will be included in the bi- jennial report to the legislature by university regents came to the square the rays of the lamps of at least 50 auto- mobiles were focused on the clock tower, which stands in the midst of the plaza, The shadows of the soldiers who passed before the lights were thrown giant size on the tower walls Every motor was throbbing, for the cars had been prepared | to take several hundreds of | soldiers to a new position (Continued on Page 4, forces. It was learned, however, the allies’. .eme. trenchments are already | prepared.