The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1914, Page 1

Ls ALLIES ATTACK; WHO GETS THE AP Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SOME NICE TRIP, HEY Biii!! See these two worthy inseparables snugly sitting in upholstered hotel chairs. They are Senators W. L. Jones and William Lortmer. What are they doing? | VOLUME 16. NO. 205. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OC’ They are making an imaginary trip from Washington, D. C., to their homes and back—an imaginary trip | for which they asked Uncle Sam to pay them 20 cents a mile in real money. Jones’ bill amounted to $1,260. Lorimer has been kicked out of the senate. and get rid of the list of standpatters. Mis. Carman FLEET SHELLS | GERMAN FORCE MINEOLA, L. I, Oct 2 Dam- aging testimony against Mrs. Flor ence Carman was offered at to | day's session by Cella Coleman | ber own negro m ‘On the night of the murder,” the maid testified, “Mra. Carma came downstairs and walked out of Tt was believed that the Franco- day to have been fru : the house through the kitchen. A Anglo-Belgian forces hoped to dis bombardment from the British war-| ™inute or two later I heard the lodge the kalser’s troops from the. ships. } breaking glass and the r Yicinities of Nieuport and Ostend.. They dismounted katser's Byrne PT plies pe enagze The British fleet was said to be| cannon before It could be used ef-| Minute she entered the kitchen and participating in the operation by! fectively sald LONDON, Oct. 21—The de- velopment of @ turni move- ment by the allies against the Germans’ extreme right in Northern France and Belgium ‘was admitted today by the war office here. | bombarding the enemy from the |sea, and a naval brigade, disem | barked for the purpose, it was un derstood, to co-operate with the Belgians on land German attempts to mount heavy coast artillery for use against Brit- ish naval guns were reported to the shot him. Had a Revolver The witness was closely by District Attorney ALLIES’ PACIFIC COAST SHIPS COMBINE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—Verification of reports that British ench and Japanese warships were concentrating off the coast of| , within thern California was brought here today by the steamshipa Coro-|in tee pad? he aoe” Anything ado and Newport. Shipping men believe the allies are concentrating| “Yes” the maid. replied to wipe the German fleet from Pacific waters. a long, blue revolver. 1 bce casa pen cpemead ing nea the pantry he came over to me. touched her the arm and said What are you going to do now? Tam not «eo questioned She | had RUSSIA STRENGTHENING ITS ARMY PEKIN, Oct. 21—Russia is withdrawing practically all of its first line troops from Manchuria and Siberia to hurl them against the Ger-| mans on its western frontier. in DISSATISFACTION AMONG RUS SIANS? 7 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 21—That Foreign Minister Sazonoff, of Russia, | office should consider it necessary to come out in a for: ment, re-| Pudiating the sentiments of those of the czar’s subjects who sympathize The body w with Germany rather than with Great Britain in the present war, was | 00 the floor operating commented on today suggesting that there must be considerable of |table. I stayed in the room for a w “ Dw hoped God would forgive her TH E PAST YEARS Then she asked me to say noth A few days after the murder I Cotton last week reached 45 per cent of the total for the corre and she did burn something wheat crop. fath to get rid ment has ordered 5,000 tons of steel for bayonets from the Crucibie this sort of feelin: | minute and a balf and then return She said she would eare for my ing of what had happened the night The grand total of this nation’s exports for the year to date ex-| nuit a fire at Mrs. Carman's re Sponding week of a year ago. » weeks after the shooting Exceptional orders from abroad, got her father Stee! compan Carman’s me Came to Her Room she followed of a woman « lying ear th ere fndant go? I did not see her next morning room before it was to get up and sald she don’t ki again unt came to my time for m ver. fo among the Slavs. | t ff] Jed to the kitchen lid the de BIG IN CREASE OVER little boy as long as he lived if any | thing ever happened to me before.” Says She Burned Letters €eeds $670,000,000, more than $20,000,000 ahead of the corresponding | quest,” said the negress. “She sald period in 1912, and only a little behind the record of last year. |she wanted to burn some letters Cotton exports now exceed the previous weekly maximum by over/ the defendent sent me after hi 30 per cent. Rains in the West have made certain a bumper winter | father, saying she ‘wanted continue to pour into American factori From Pittsburg, for example, comes news that the French govern. YOU aldn't Pink last nissed get a Ar night me mighty pictures and inte in band certain to stimulate new trade, | vol i | | COTTON MILLS BUSY | European war has quadrupled the norma! demand for absorbent cot " y Be in Great and night to meet the demand zood HELPS CLOTH TRADE ‘Dry’ Parade The business done here A i bardm cloth as a result of the ardn is showing Ithy the and t war cov new 4 the and the surope crease. hea in world to ity the last minute The Pink distances competitors every evenir Don't be deceived by imitators, who now are using pink paper in an ef- fort to horn in on The Star's popularity. GET THE STAR PINK 10 000 Will | COLUMBIA, 8. C., Oct. 20.—The! | ton. Plants here are running da owt FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct 0 rance demonstration” ef HAT FACTORIES HUMMING 10,000 men, women and|_. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.--With the| Jeutting down of the foreign-made| parade to boost for) hat supply, Orange, N. J., hat fac bill ar-|tories are working overtime to un the of| meet the demand 8. Lipp: be arshal ade Lenora afternoon, in which ap-| proxim star children the prohibition ranged Thomas grand The ay. an u has been direction who will —— GET ORDERS FOR SHELLS RICHMOND, Va,, Oct, 20 ders makers of shells—chiefly mareh First av. to Washing-| shrapnel—continue to pour in from ton, then turn to Second av. and|the warring nations, but the local up to Lenor: There will be nu-| factories are busily at work on or Merous fi and banners. ders for the govern The parade probably will be the| ment, and have turned down all|lea eet ever held in Seattle contracts thin offered te will start Or st. at 2 at First o'clock to down When you lose something, ve it to STAR WANT ADS find it. United States Smith. | She | Jones comes next. Vote for Ole Hanson on November 3) Bandits Are Surrounded ate * | BELLINGHAM, Oct. 21— | The five bandits who, last Sat- | urday night, shot up the town of Sedro.Woolley and rified the vaults of the First National bank, have been located today near Ferndale, eight mil north of this city, and 13 miles south of the Canadian tine. Canadian and American rev- | enue officers are guarding the border line, expecting the bandits to make a br for 1 Canada. Sheriff Ed Wells of Mt, Vernon. with a posse, including The Star's | correspondent, who has been sworn | in as a deputy and armed, left here ata eting to close with the robb Thetr capture ts expect before night Seen at Ferndale The men were seen at 2 o'clock | this in Ferndale, The| fmmigration officer sted six men, ap-| In the streets he found himaelf look. e muzzies of six gune. do him to keep his regarding the affair jand took themselves off They are belleved to be hiding in the woods just outside the town. | A cordon of officers has been thrown around the place. | Seattle Man Head of Gang The bandits travel only at night and camp and sleep during the day Sheriff Wells thinks, An attempt |is to be made to capture them this afternoon before they break camp. | The sheriff declares they are the same men who have robbed other banks throughout Washington and British Columbia during the last | few weeks The head of the gang, he asserts, in a Seattle man, He did not give |any reasons for thin belief | |e morning States ple Aw tel lown t ace trians, ne The mouth closed ° WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Thursday. Light southerly winds. | ° THE ALLIES WERE SUCCEED.) ing today In bending their battie line toward the main German de fenses in Northern France and Belgium. The towns now mentioned In the official reports as the present cen ters of conflict are slightly east of la line drawn directly to the north ward from Arras. This latter city is pivot because of ite highway connections for an east-| ward swing by the allies against | Germany's northern lines of com: munication | Two weeks ago it marked the| | limit of the allies’ northward climb) out of France into Belgium. ee the natural railroad and THE ALLIES’ EFFORTS TO | awing to the eastward from Arras |reveal the fundamental basis of [their northern strategy. The necessity they were under of aiding the escape of the Anglo- Belgian forces from Belalum caus John Clark, Editor The Star: Knowing your attitude toward men out of employment, and who are willing to work, | take this opportunity of writing to you about my condition | at the present time. In the first pl | have been | a resident of Seattle 25 y during all thie time | have been employed by the Seattle Electric Company, for 15 y conduc. tor on the old North Seattle cars, then for five years as conductor on the mail car. Known for 20 Years to Seattle Street Car Uncie John | to call on those of the company NIGHT EDITION on AND NK TRAINS 1914, ONE CENT Hogs Apple WeekCash Mr. Consumer, The Star owes you an apology. Without intention, we have misled you concerning the apples. We were, and are, strong for Apple Week. We boosted for it with might and with main. We believed, and still believe, that “red apples make red cheeks.” We urged you to “buy a box of Washington apples—and do it now!” We roused in you sympathy for the apple growers of the state, from whom the European war has snatched half the market. But we didn’t know Apple Week was a Western av. get-rich-quick scheme. We didn’t know that Apple \Week was to be, not primarily a show, an exhibit, to bolster up and advertise a great industry, but a “big ‘selling proposition” engineered by |Western av., which never grew lapple, or a cabbage, or a turnip, or a potato, or anything else. ip gobaeer The growers are angry. They find they have been Under thie head It was my duty |fooled. They are caught and can’t wiggle. to call on those of the company® | They brought their apples here in train-loads, ex- i ja condition to the com: | pecting to give an apple show and run it themselves. wearing ail ee ears | nae Western av. stepped in, took charge, and said: “You official for disregarding any of |can’t sell an apple except through us. You can only the rules of the company. show your apples.” And Western av. gets its regular little old 15 per Men as After this | was made what is | known the welfare agent of | (Continued on Page 3.) | HANSON AND CHIEF GRIFFITHS TO TALK [nickel invented in apples or apple orchards! lcent on every box of apples sold. | Western av., the parasite which not only never grew |an apple and wouldn’t know how, but which also hasn’t estern av., the cute, the cunning, which doesn’t IN 3 HALLS TONIGHT ores ee Ole Hanson 1 Austin F congress date f Griffith: State resent candidate nator Dan Landon, Rep tive Thomas F. rphine and W. D. Lane, candidates for the legisiature, will speak at three meetings in the University district | tonight They will talk at Ravenna hall, May's hall and Masonic hall The meetings will begin o'clock at § Some good may come out of Apple Week. Growers from Yakima, Wenatchee, Walla Walla districts are making plans to open permanent apple stores in Seattle as possible, and sell apples direct The’ this « Here your chance to hear them thoroughly discussed by some of the ablest speakers in the as soon after Apple Week state. Hanson will be the next!i. you United States senator, judging by ps : the exceptional? great meetings Under this plan the grower will get a little more for and enthusiasm for his candidacy his apples, you will get apples for a little less, and Western displayed in every section of the - state. His plan of state develop: ment has taken like wild-fire. You should hear tt are in mpaign is important issues and other av. will get—nothing! This is the story of a box of extra fancy Jonathan apples ~ after you have bought it for $1.25. GIVES HIMSELF UP H. RB, Smith, 21, told the police last night he was wanted {n Port land for robbery, and would they please lock him up, as his con sclepce was hurting them, The police were very obliging. Port land police confirmed Smith's statement Reduce Beer Tax) os to grower of production WASHINGTON, Oct, 21.—House Cost of freight to grower and senate war tax conferees vir- Cost of cartage to grower tually agreed this afternoon to re-/Cost of delivery borne by grower duce the tax on beer from $1.75 to| Western av.’s commission $1.50 .per barrel; to eliminate the additional tax Imposed by the sen ate on rectified spirits and to elim inate tax on gasoline Imposed by the house bill GERMAN SOCIETIES are cutting English and French words out of the German languege ed a diversion, and the Germans’ counter offensive against Dunkirk and other French coast towns fur ther delayed the development of the eastward movement The allies were compelled to swing not to the eastward, but to the westward, away from the Ger- man lines They succeeded, however, In re taining their north and formation as far to the northward as Arras. line bent backward coast to block the German counter offensive. GEN. VON BOEHM’S GERMAN army, which sought to extend itself to Dunkirk and Calais from the east, suddenly found itself in dan: ger of being flanked at St. Omer, 20 miles from its coastal objective: Then the Germans were driven back 30 miles, This Insured forces of a union the Anglo Belgian with the main and vice versa the words out and go back to making signs! DAILY ANALYSIS OF WAR NEWS south | ward from Arras. From that point their | an advance entrenched force about toward the|ten miles east of the Arra al | toward it. Oh, thunder! Let's cut all Grower's profit iS Western av.’s profit ze ‘ " 42 make our position perfectly clear, consumer. Our chief intere in you. We didn’t boost Apple Week in the hope that the growers would make a pile of money. We boosted to help tide a big and important industry over a critical period Ve want to What we hoped to accomplish was to help the Franco-British army THE 30-MILE GERMAN RE tirement at the same time straight ened the allies’ line, enabling it to regain its north and south front north from Arras. Since then the allies have re sumed their original objective— that of bending their front east: growers to stave off bankruptcy and to get for you a big, red apple for the least possible money. We certainly didn’t boost to help Western av. Our only excuse is that the woodpile looked all right, and we didn’t discover the Ethiopian gentleman The Germans have thrown out v stan, of until today. allies are swinging | a They have progressed as far ae Armentlors, eight miles ENGLAND T0 SEIZE ALL GERMANS LONDON, Oct, 21 for the assembling of all northwest of Lille and as Fourne: the same distance to the south These towns are five miles east of Arras and mark the extreme ad: German and Austrian residents of| .iiteq. tre corto cems | reat Britain between the ages pe arnt ttc gag a ritish/ 17 and 50 were announced by the| informed of all British troop and Star here today, the plan being to! ship movements. This force is in Lille and the send all the men to concentration camps as prisoners of war his action was said to have re- Government orders vance of the allies’ northern of. fensive. The occupation of now to the forces’ oblective. Lille Franco