The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1914, Page 1

DRY MAJORITY ABOUT 15,000 JOSH WISE SAYS: “There little o° = Interest characterizin’ th’ social calendar of Beeleysport at thie time. There has been a slump in th’ ferment of swelldom since th’ apple parin’ last week. The Seattle Star VOL The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News sonbdenndie UME 16. NO. 219. — SEATTLE, WASH., THI JRSDAY, NOV. ONE CENT rain t ON TRAINS AND MEWS TANI, be WEATHER weather IRST EDITION FORECAST — The man says we will have onight and Friday, and we believe him. ARREST MAN ON CHARGE OF CUTTING OFF WIFE’S HEAD WITH AX; SAY HE CONFESSED JAPS ON THEIR WAY TO GIVE BATTLE TO THE GERMAN SOLDIERS = Infantry Leaving Railroad Station at Tokio to Reinforce the Jap Forces Alread, ; nn . WUE. in, Hum ha MAY ELECT TWO OMMISSIONERS Washington has voted dry by a majority of 10,000 to 15,- 000. It reelected W Jones, republican, by a plurality over W. W. Black, democrat, and Ole Hanson, progressive. It reelected Congressmen W. E. Humphrey, Albert John When Miss Rhea M. Whitehead takes office, next January, she will have the distinction of being the prettiest justice of the peace In the world. Also, she will be the first woman elected by the people directly to any office in Seattle. Miss Whitehead was one of the beneficiaries of the republican Jandslide Tues day. She won out by about 7,000 plurality, together with the other four republican nominees for justice of the peace in Seattle. son, and William La Follette republicans It elected Lindley H, Hadley, republican, to congress in the Second district, and C. C. Dill, democrat, in the Fifth district ate, Jones re 45,996 { hrey w recinct elected two r with t The put Whitehead as fustic two to EB out the state of Judges Cha comb to the 59,654; Holeon Hum measure ception ishing pri vate ment agencies and the pre g for first ald for injured workmen Blue Sky Law May Win The » sky asure also has a ch The defir are not in pre bolish em 20,642 202 a . was elect by about Brown, over Fred ( Pp ut 4,000 ts, Rep urality ov Robe was elect plurality alter T running @ with Mike Car Knudsen for county Krist y office are pluralitte aging LEGISLATIVE TICKET °° ire the Landon to d district 1W th ogrensives egislat ing Ralph nomt nouse ull other STRONG ARM BOYS ARE MEETING HERE here eattle for a cony t until -Monda f wh ilture h ie te work ir t the country led by Dr 4 of the ittee, The is being Geo hei J, Fisher international com work of the 1S DEFEATED BY| SEN, SHERMAN CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-—Comp returns from 96 counties in sg nols showed United Sta’ ator Sherman, Rep., to ph ees a plurality of approximately 15, 000 over Roger Sullivan of Chi- cago, democratic candidate The entire republican state ticket was elected. Late retu: show the election of 20 new republican congressmen in Ohio will not n ally change the politica! cor f anion al delegates elsewhere in the West Twenty-three other Western and Middle Western states, from Ohio to California, gave the republicans! A net gain f yur Weatern con gre en Offsetting this, the democrats one senator and acted « sin Michigan, Min-| nesota, Ne aska and Oklahoma. 1 In practically all Western states except those on the Pacific coast, | the progressive vote vanished, go- ing mostly to the republicans | Latest returns show that Senator of Utah has been re y ® pluralit | Colorado, Thomas, Dem., tn is leading in senator. or South Dakota, democrats elect Johnson senator. » senatorial fight in Kansas ts doubt N y, Dem is slightly & the lead, but Curtis, Rep., will not concede defeat. Rep resentative Victor Murdock, Pro. is running third ntana and adopted woman suffrag sult of the suffrage eb braska is still in doubt probably The re tion in Ne Nevada | | + CALIFORNIA SENDS PHELAN TO SENATE The ot cisco, Jos. R Heney, ap SAN FRANCIS the t enate of San Fy ‘ongresaman certain b attered pre 5 in the state llowing toals 81,2 Cur. ‘ Johns dericks, Rep. ations had carried the than John: | a plu a rec that ¢ atate b 120,000. are Vv of more ote taide the ord oO and fa running have been carrie The prohibition amendment was whelmingly defeated and the mendment prohibiting Hquor elec ma for eight ars appears to e carried Francisco and Oak Nght tement law strong appears to San re ab and Nov Two Belgian the Yser have fired ch gun firing 1,000) shells. The age to each Bel ‘gian gun 18 4,000 rounds since the beginning of the war, and the piece: soem as good as ever, LON batteries £,000 rounds, ¢ pon ay | | known as the BELGIAN SOLDIER BURIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHILE THE GUNS STILL THUNDERED PETS vim mee As fils corse to th urried, Not @ soldier dischi well shot O’er the grave wi /Sultan’s Ambass- adors Are Re- called From Four Nations; Fleets in Battle. | LONDON, Nov. 5.— Britain has de- clared war on Turkey, the office officially announced today. It was expected that France, Russia, Monte- negro and Servia would follow this example im- mediately, and possibly Japan and Belgium. Turkey Wednesday withdrew diplomatic representatives from England, France, Rus- ia and Servia NEW SOLDIER SLANG Yomr At ptitude for w gen Great war 1 all LONDOD king ts indulg nicknames erally referred Bill and the y as “Five Bob Bit.” ¢ known as “Little trenche the men at first to draw the German a “drawing room, attacks are reception the rear, Is called Craz Willte where The outer line the inner line, where the really men, is called the room.” The ground at where the dead are buried the “dormitory.” In the navy they refer to Admiral von Tirpitz as “Old Turps,” and eal Sir John Jellicoe “Hell-Fire Jack.” Submarines are called “wasps.” GEN. KEKEWICH DIES 5.—Maj. Gen, Rob- LONDON, Nov. 5 ert Kekewich, famou Kimberly's defender during tle Boer war, who had just been recalled to the colors for a high position in the army on he continent, died today at his home in Devonshire, But Rane ¢ Perriorgening With wis martial him. cloak around ne From. — fale of his fame fresh an We carved a line and we raised not a stone— But we left him alone glory, —Frm the in hie “Burtal of Sir John Moore.” BERTHA IS A CHARITABLE HE BEAUTIFUL lady whose picture we is Bertha Krupp \ Bohle of the late gunmaker Krupp and chief beneficiary « profits th supplies the with cannon says of her now Baroness Von mous of which world story Because of the fact ' recognizing the gunmaker important factor godfather , she has received many at-| kalser, was an empire, Berth. tentions. noted for acted The young the charit supports with her Immense fortune. | income from facture of the big guns a fraction From the Is set aside by Berti help some of her 50,000 pensioners. A large orphan asylum is supported by the Krupp money. The to kill lady and maim guns to kill the h million mothers, sweetheart guns million orph ru destruction desot starvatic unte but she Ans; id erwood Mee Soon. Bertha Hwupp. WOMAN SPY [2 YEARS. NEW HAVEN, Nov. 5.—A let ter from England to a member of the Yale faculty says a Ger man woman employed for many years in the family of Premier Asquith was discovered to have been for 12 years a spy for the German government. PARIS NEAR NORMAL 4.—F gre “Vit! WHAT AN ARMY’ PARIS, Nov recovering which arose German siege. op ned and thousands taken from the streets. the shops which were b have opened for business. ris is rapidly from the condition from the threatened Schools have of childr Many arded n of up Expected that A. Mitchell Palm. defeated by Penrose in Pennsy! vania for U, 8, senate, will be nam ed member of federal trade com mission, with salary of $10,000 a| year, Home Consumers’ Pacific Coast Cracker Friday, makes 16 A MANAGER LIKE "BIG CHIEF" STALLINGS! ENGLAND DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY: ALLIED POWERS ALL TO FOLLOW SUIT SINGING HOSTS RUSHED UP TO AID GERMANS, BERLIN, Nov. 5—(Via The Hague.)—The German advance | In the Ypres district continues in the face of desperate res ance by the allies, it was of- ficially announced today. Several battalions of British were said to have been cut off near Roye and forced to surren der. Teutonic numb LADY | show here daughter f the rm ne factory war-mad A news that th in the to matron is jes that she reinforcements in great passing through Bel to France and the manu- 8 are gium their Into northwestern Belgium Messages from Li load after trainload of tn a had gone through the the last three followed enormous shipments of ar and by ca torr and in sectic OREGON SWEPT BY DRYS WIN BY 25,000 MARGIN If tt on way a Krupp to d train sin: sol guns a million earts of mmunition carry do boat submarines ing a wives and to make a bring ation and Id millions. ns t 1 charity! NEEDS PORTLAND, Nov. 5. ent ratio continues dry at Tuesday's jority of 25,000 or belleved today Returns from all ver the state are showing an over whelming vote cast in favor of the ndment The amendment ect January 1, 1916. Senator Chamberlain's for re-election may re h Dr. James Withycombe's, Rep. plurality for governor is mounting, and will more than likely reach 1,000. In Arthur ongr plur » pres Oregon went ction by a ma more votes, it is will go into ef plurality 18,000, the Third district C. N, Mc Rep., at present has a lead 00 over A. F. Flegel, Dem., for with the probability that ity will be about 4,000 when the entire count is In Congressmen William Hawley and N. J. Sinnott, Rep., were re lected from the First and Second | distric 8. rae | league visits & Biscuit Co Wandering aimlessly, land apparently half-dazed, along the Great Northern |railroad tracks near Prosser, Guiseppi Spumpo, laborer, who yesterday cut off his wife’s head and left her ly- ing in bed with two sleepin, |children, aged two po three years, was captured | t 6 o'clock Wednesday | night by Foreman Cromley © of a Great Northern section gang. He is said to have com fessed to the murder. At the jail Spumpo is resign- ed to his fate, frankly admit ting he cut off his wife’s head with an ax when she threat- ened to have him arrested @ second time for non-support. Spumpo was arrested several weeks ago on complaint of his wife for failure to provide. Three hundred dollars wi found on his person. Suspicions of his fellow-work- | men were aroused by Spumpo's ap D | pearance and actions when he went to work on the section a few mine utes after he committed the mut. der. An investigation revealed the crime. Neighbors declare Spumpo was & |e and refused to clothe or feed |i family The children were found naked jand clothing had to be supplied by |neighbors, who are caring for them MEXICO HAS 2 | CAPITALS AND 2 PRESIDENTS PASO, Tex., Nov. 5.—A new alignment opposing forces “in Mexico, together with the abandon- ment of all hope of early peace, is seen in the fact that Mexico is now supplied with two provisional pres- idents and two temporary capitals, neither of which is in Mexico City, Gen. Carranza, provisional presi- dent deposed the peace confer- e at Aguascalientes, refuses to recognize the power of the confer- ence to depose him, and has called his cabinet members together and established a capital at Pue be- tween Mexico City and Vera Crug, wh he has the archives of the government | Gen, Eulalio Gutierrez, named |provisional president by the peace conference, has set up his capital at Aguascalientes. the meantime both Carranza and Gu ez are gathering military leaders friendly to their causes, “If all the constitutional chiefs abandon me, then I will abandon my native country nza is report: ed as saying n the other hand, if any part of them uphold me, will fight to the death.” Among the military leaders who are rallying to Carranza’s standard are Gen, Obregon, Gen, Blanco, cay- elry commander, and Gen. Antonio Villareal LOSE CROP 10 YEARS LONDON, Nov. .—To prevent a German advance a low-lying tract of land in Belgium is being inundated, which will make it impossible to cul- tivate the beet fields for 10 years, and cause an estimated loss of $10,000,000. BARS TO BAR WOMEN | | LONDON, Noy, .—Because of an increase in drunkenness among EL { Car But, women, supposedly the wives of ab- sent soldiers, London is going to bar women from saloons,