The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1914, Page 1

JAPANESE CRUISER bLOWN UP! § GERMANS BEATEN AT DUNKIRK The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News IGHT EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Harken to the w. m.'s well-known refrain: For tonight and Tuesday, we'll have SAYS: “Cale Dornick, who dared Soy Bean to sing at a recent musicale, h. been presented with a medal for bravery.” Ez ONLY (3 OF SHIP’S CREW SAVED TOKIO, Oct. 19.—Hitting a floating German mine off Kiao- chau bay, the Japanese light cruiser Takachiho was sent to the bottom, with the loss of 344 of its crew of 357, it was announced here today. No further details were made public. The Takachiho was built in 1885. It was of 3,700 tons d placement and had a maximum speed of 18.5 knots. NOT PLEASED WITH THE STYLE, FARES IS BLOCKED Application of the Seattle, Ren. RAISE IN ton & Southern Railway Co. for permission to establish the “zone system” of passenger rates, and In cidentally collect two fares from passengers in the city limits of Se. attie was turned down by the state public service commission, in an opinion handed down this morning by the commission at the Chamber of Commerc The application provided for a five-cent fare zone from Fourth and Stewart to Orcas st. and a second zone from Orcas to Ryan st., the city boundary. Corporation Counsel James E. Bradford and Ralph Plerce opposed the granting of the application be- fore the commission. Their contentions were entirely borne out by the opinion handed down today. CINCINNATI SPENDING CINCINNATI, 0., Oct. 19.—Over $1,000,000, to be spent on muntetpal improvements, will keep hundreds of men busy this fall. wouLD'nT | LOOK A FRIGHT IN AN OLD-FASHIONED THING LIKE TODAY IS THE DAY! HAVE YOU BOUGHT A BOX OF APPLES? With the hotels, stores, express railways, steamship lines and public organizations boosting with their might, Se attle and the Northwest this morn apple, intent on nce of the 1914 companies, all ing fell upon the swallowing the bala crop betore week ends. Already the advance of the ap ple-eating allies is marked Everybody this afternoon Is eat ing apples It has become the Napoleon hat collars that hitch the redingote all the rage, the up astern and If you're on the street today and! an apple, you're not than you would aren't eating in style, any more be wearing a Merry Widow hat or a long, slit skirt (did you know they were out of date?) Seattle hotela making cial displays of apples today where their guests will see them, and are offering to take orders from these guests to have apples went to their friends. The hotels will send these orders to the apple bureau at the apple show in Bon Marche park, which opens tomorrow at Fourth Pine, and from there they will b a ape ‘distributed to the retailers, i} The. express companies have | reduced their rates on apple for the | It's a great chance to show the folks back home how the West's apples outclass the ones on the old, hara-scrapble farm A central office of all the ex | press companies is be ing establtsh-| exposition | ed today at the grounds in Bon a Marche park The big show at the Bon Marche! park was supposed to have opened today, but the exhibits of apple beauties from Yakiina and Wenat chee valleys were delayed in arriy al. It will be in full swing, how. ever, tomorrow after 10 a. m An apple-cooking contest at the Press club, in which cash prizes will be awarded, is planned for to- morrow and Wednesday by the Or. egon-Washington Ratiroad & Navi gation Co Hesides the prize awards, the woman chosen as the one who can cook and serve apple palate-teasers in the most attractive and tasty manner may be employed by the road us traveling demonstrator. First prize is $20; second, $16; third, $10; fourth, $5; fifth, $2.60. fforts are being made to get nv, Lister here tomorrow, official ‘Apple day.” } | | | public | for |from the United States | MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1914. CHEERY TRADE - REPORT | The Star told Maturday how It made = canvass of the nation tm Actor mine whether there ts any foundation CHICAGO, Ml, Oct new union station here, to cost $55,000,000, will give employment this winter to 10,000 men. Other local tndicatioas = mont $200,000 over salon. Marshall Pleld reports buying active in wholesale lines. Several hundred men have re turned to work tn the Chicago plant of the International Har veater Co. PRE! PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS NEW YORK, N. ¥Y., Oct. 19-— Thirty thousand idle men will be “THE WAR HAS SIM- PLY THRUST PROS- PERITY UPON US!"— A. H. McQuilken, of the Business Equipment Jour- nal, to 300 trade paper edi- tors in convention at Chi- cago. “THE UNITED STATES IS AT THE BE- GINNING OF ITS GREATEST ERA OF PROSPERITY!" — Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes, of the Central Trust company of Illinois. | Top—First National Bank at Sedro-Woolley. given employment here as a result lom—Commery See of the decision to press work on} —— improvements. Also, an or der for 1,000 trucks from France and Russian armies has been ac knowledged here KAISER’S ADVANCE CHECKED By Ed L. Keen LONDON, Oct, 19.—Success by the allies In a series of des: perate fights for possession of Dunkirk was claimed today by the official war bureau, The struggle began, it Is said, with a drive against the French seaport from the southward by Gen, Von Boehm This attempt was repulsed | Reinforced, the Germans then started r the coast a second time, moving to the northwest from Lille by way of Saint Omer, The British who faced them, ing outnumt retired slowly before their advance, At Saint Omer, however, a large force joined the British ORDERS FOR BLANKETS BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 19.—Or-| ders for several million blankets from governments at war have been received here, but #o far they | have failed to moet the market prices WAR HELPS FLOUR TRADE ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 19.—An| order for 110,000 barrels of flour has been placed with a local con cern by agents of nations at war PACKARD GETS BUSINESS DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 19—A contract for 180 motor trucks has been closed between the I Motor Co. and the Russian ment, the vehicles to be delivered as woon as poset Motor orders from abroad have brightened the business outlook {n motor circles here FRENCH BUY BARBED WIRE PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct, 19.—The ch government has placed an for 500,000 reels of barbed with the Pittat at Monnessen, Hoop compan Pr ord wire pany Sharon BIG PLANT REOPENS BATAVIA, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Sev eral shut down departments have! ‘Thereupon the allies resumed the been reopened here by the Interna-| orengive, and the Germans, in tional Harvester company, This rye jturn, were driven back, So vigor plant employs 2,000 men ous Was the attack that the retreat of the Germans carried them |yond Armentiers The allies restored their former }line, extending from the coast t the west. of Ostend, and to the | southward through Armentiers ENGLAND NEEDS HORSES KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Oct. 19. Every Western city haw a standing | order from the English government 6,000 horses, It ts estimated that if the war laste a year, the aly . : : | Arras lies will buy a half mifion horses "hfe wenne that Ad'Abeir opera a | tions against Dunkirk the Germans Camille McFarland, 20, San Fran-| will be foreed to throw a direet cisco, melancholia vietim, found| frontal attiek ‘Against a strongly with a gas tube in her mouth, so far|intrenched and Well-manned line of gone she died on way to hospital. =| French, British and Cage, and in Lower Left-Hand Corner French | and ONE CENT ON nN —. bit oy » re The Arrow Indicati | Staff Spectal. | SEDRO-WOOLLEY, | Armed poss are scouring country hereabouts for the five bandits who shot up Sedro-Woolley Saturda, night, robbed the First National bank of al! its vault and cash drawer Oct. 19.— whom has since died. It is feared the robbers have got clear away. The robbery was land succeeded, probably, because ployed Sedro-Woolley is the one oasis in a large “dry” territory. On Satur: day night Sedro-Woolley is gay. | On that night ranchers and loggers come to town to bank a part of their earnings and to enjoy them | selves. Commercial travelers “Sunday” |In Sedro-Woolley, Sleek “drum- mers” and lean woodsmen find con- viviality and comradeship at Sedro- Woolley's bars. see At 8:20 o'clock Saturday night five men rounded the corner of the Wixac block The pool room ts Jat the corner, The bank is next |door. The hotel is next to the bank The five who looked like Austrians, paused in front of th bank, Then four entered, The | firth drew a revolver and began to | shoot | “Get off the street!” he shouted, and sent a bullet through a win dow across the way "Get off the street!" he shouted men, i of the boldness of the method em-| TRAINS RTANDK, fe Door by Which Bandits Entered. AND PICTURES TAKEN BY STAR MAN AT SEDRO-WOOLLEY; PILLAGED BANK, CASHIER GUDDALL, AND HIS CAGE Be- Cashier J. K. Guddall, WILD WEST STYLE BANDITS WHO SHOT UP TOWN GET AWAY yagalo, "and fired over the heads of | the) contained—$20,000— | and wounded three persons, one of | Sedro-Woolley's merrymakers Street Quickly Emptied The street emptied as by magic. Fat commercial travelers forgot thelr dignity in their hurry to get under cover Pool siickers” of Saturday night local fame | dodged back into the pool room. spectacular | ple and rural visitors ch other ‘> crowd into st or behind ners, The four entered the bank with pistols drawn Cashier J, K fire his revolver once. One of the four fell, only to spring to his feet instantly, appar ently but slightly wounded. Two of the four started to shoot, not at Guddall, but at ceiling, walls, floors and windows Buildings Riddied One hundred shots were fired in the bank itself, Fifteen bullets plerced the bank windows. The lookout knocked holes neat ly in nearly all the windows of the buildings across the street for a distance of two blocks William Wilson, 10, bound for a moving picture show, reached a corner of Main st. a block from the bank and fell to the sidewalk with a bullet in his stomach, He died Townspe fell over € cor juddall had time to jlast night Fred Carlson, a bartender, ran to the door of the saloon where he is employed to see what the racket meant, and crumpled up in the doorwa A bullet had shattered (Continued on Page 2.) some more rain Star man on scene tells graphic story of Saturday night’s holdup, a la Jesse James, of little town of Sedro-Woolley. On this page. CARMAN TRIALIS MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 19.—For the first time in American court annals, dictagraph will play the central part in a murder trial that opened here to- day. Mrs. Florence Carman, the beautiful wife of a prominent Freeport, L. L, physician, goes on trial for her life on a charge of having shot Mrs. Louise E. , a patient of her husband, while she was calling on the doctor in his office. The murder occurred June 30. The dictagraph that will figure in the trial was found in Dr. Car- man’s office after the murder. Mrs. Carman coolly admitted she had it placed there so that she could “spy” upon her husband while he was closeted with women patients. She confessed she was jealous of him, Expect to Prove Cause The state expects, by dictagraph records, which it has in {ts pos session, to prove that Mrs, Carman had cause to be jealous of her hus- band. This, the district attorney ex- pects, will supply a motive for the murder, Mrs. Bailey was slain at night. Dr. Carman’s office is in his home and Mrs. Bailey had called on him. The fatal shot was fired window from the out- side of the hot The weapon with which the mur- der was committed was never found The streets were crowded today with hundreds of curious persons, Many fashionably dressed women drove to the courthouse in automo biles, Dr. Carman was confident that his wife would go free, Island residents sympathized with the defendant and freely predicted her acquittal. She Will Take Stand Mrs. Carman is anxious to take the stand in her own behalf, and it was believed her attorneys would let her testify, Mrs. Carman's mother, | Platt Conklin, and her Ida Powell, were prepared to cor- |roborate her statement that she was ly{ng down in her bedroom at the time Mrs. Batley w Cella Coleman, the neg has declared that Mrs. Carman, clad in a kimono, passed through the kitchen of the Carman home soon after a shot was heard fn the direction of Carman's office, and that sbe carried something in her left arm which she kept concealed. Mrs. Jennie Duryea, Mrs. Baile: mother, and Wm. Batley, the slain woman's husband, are expected to attend the trial Dead Woman's Mother There Mrs. Duryea says she has never seen the defendant. When I see Mrs, Carman and hear her tell her story,” sald Mra, Duryea today, “I will know wheth- er she fs telling the truth or not, I bear no malice, 1 don't want her electrocuted, Taking the life of a woman will not right the wrong done, but if she ts should be punished.” Mrs, Carman, accompanied by a deputy sheriff, appeared in the court room at 10:12 a, m, She were a blue suit, white shirt- waist and a small hat with a whit ostrich plume. She was somewha' pale, but otherwise looked well. She remained cool and collects duriag the morning, smiling quently in the direction of her a torneys. Three tentative jurors we chosen after eight talesmen ha been examined, They are Robert Ludlum of ove ter Bay, a builder; Alois Angeler of Central Park, & barber, and Frank Mrs. ister, Mra. 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