The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1915, Page 1

IT WAS BIG NEWS WHEN 1,500 TWO decades, science has added five years to medical men find enacted every day in the realm of the average human life. germs! And this search with the microscope and That is BIG news, isn’t it? scalpel have revealed the fact that MOST PEOPLE ‘The time has come when the daily newspaper AGE NEEDLESSLY and fully half of them die be- must consider the SAVING OF HUMAN LIVES as {°° their time. ‘ F ; The Star is going to publish regularly during important a work as reporting their LOSS. the year, on its editorial page, articles prepared No jungle yarn is more exciting than the tales under the supervision of the American Medical as- PEOPLE DIED ON TITANIC! sociation, the membership of which consists of 70,000 reputable medical men in the United States. These articles will tell you how to live longer— how to keep well. They will deal with PREVENT- IVE MEDICINE. It is the biggest imaginable sort of news, the editor of The Star believes. Every reader of this paper ought to study these articles carefully. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VisLUME 16. oN 8 SHOOTS BURGLAR IN HER HOME | WITH STAR’S ARTIST BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES C. Leroy Baldridge Reproduces With His Pencil the Intimate Scenes of Camp Life With Which History and the News Dispatches ee Not Made the Public Familiar. Baldridge Marched and Slept With the Kaiser’s Soldiers. Complete market report, correct- ed right up to the minute, on page three. If you're a producer, looking for the daily prices paid for the things you raise, you will do well to watch The Star. It will save you IGHT EDITION WEATHER: Rain. TIDES AT SEATTLE 2.7 t 12027 ag 1.8 ft, :" t. Le Pom, 1 . SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915. QNE CENT peer Intruders Leave a Trail of BloodasTheyEscapeF rom ~ House; Had Learned Her Husband Was at Lodge. The burglars ‘called up Hugh McConaghy’s house, 822 Corwin place, at 8:30 last night. Mrs. McConaghy answered the phone. 8 Freeman there?” There is no one here by that name.” “McConaghy, then?” “My husband is at the Eagles’ meeting,” Conaghy. “Is there any message?” | “No,” came back the answer. “I must speak to him per= sonally. When do you expect him back? It’s important.” “Not until midnight, or later,” said Mrs. McConaghy. The burglars reached the MERE SEM McConaghy home half an hour She pulled the trigger of the re volver again and again, but jh: < later, McCon y is a con thing that soap vi tracting teamster, and is with known to keep large sums of | !%6 pin, after the first discharge. MeConaghy got home money in his house to pay off er midnight. He called the his men. The burgl knew ail the; needed to know—or they They found 4 trail of bloo thought they did. ing from the foot of the sti across the kitchen floor—a line, as if the wounded oe Rie te said Mrs. Me- ‘e! we way and wouldn't return til midnight. They had only to spatane, ith Aarons " an 1 4 house is isolated. Let them scream! But crooks are fools, or they wouldn't be crooks. They, being fools, did not know—or forgot if they knew—that a woman who gives herself to her home, her hu band and her family, may be dan- gerous. Last February Mrs. McConaghy shot a man. The man and McCon- aghy were quarreling. Mrs. M Conaghy came to her husband's defense, and put a bullet in the IN THE MIDST OF DESTRUC lun, BY C. LEROV BALORIOGE. town yyghem was destro: because of “sniping” by the inhabi- » airy iin wi a onl 80 that troops coming after could use SPAR every buildi ~aiielek guard spared the village b ackemith _ Also, Mrs. MeConaghy's proves are missing—-caught up e hurt man, it is supposed, — the wound. " day the police 4 neighborhood for a aan ae bullet hole in him. They have found such a man. The burg! had three hours to make get-away. WHILE A PRISONER IN A BELGIAN HOME NEAR ROULERS, | WATCH GERMAN SOLDIERS PLAY CARDS WITH BELGIAN GIRLS. By C. LEROY BALODRIDGE. | While at the front near Roulers, which, the cables say, the allies have just retaken, | was made a pris mK Thiel mination. | hed th bo inder thi of FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Allies| oner and sent back under guard ta Thieit for exa tion. aketche @ above scene under the eye sentry. The coldiers understood no Flemish and th girls no German, but that didn’t interfere with card E ENEMY; | believed to be developing operation: to expel Germans from Franc fierce attacks and counter attacks along entire line; sappers playing important part in campaign. GERMANY—War office denies gains French claim; deci Ger.) mane have progressed instead; Gal-) ames which they taught each other. hada when reproached by rman partner for inactivity, would say eh By the stove 8 t an old woman brother fighting. ometiwes she would 6 who had two sons with the Beigian silently at her cards, and, is thinking about her brother. BIGGEST PR OBLEM TRAILS HOLDUP man’s groin. This the burglars did not know. But she is not an Amazon. Cer- tainly she would not impress you as an Amazon, but only as a wom. an whose interests do not extend beyond the limits of the four walls of her house fellow,” said Mrs. Mi “I'm glad | didn’t kill WORLD AMI GoINe Toln | GOING TO DISH CLOTHS?” bind | INVADE HUNGARY OF LEGISLATURE _ 1S LIQUOR FIGHT Assuming that initiative bill )lquor measures need not be voted No. 18, the Schmitz brewery |upon by the people until the gen- and hote! bill, has received the era! election of November, 1916, 10) SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 2.—J. R. required number of valid sig (months after the prohibition bill) Weston, proprietor of a small natures, the liquor question wil! {has gone into effect and the sa-| market, begins the new year as the be the most important one,to loons and breweries have gone out ginator of a new method to re come up before the next legis of business, jcover stolen property lature, which convenes at Olym- Thus, there is plenty*of battle-| Three holdup men pia on.January 11. s sround to be traversed in the liquor| Place, locked a clerk Moreover, the liquor question war imminent In the legislature. box and took $60 from will take precedence over all | Insist on Alternative Bill register. ‘ T In the first place, there will be a|.. Weston slipped, unobserved, out | tight on the part.of @ éertain fac the back door and followed one of on se ee RG eel on 2m "He overtook. the jianditvatier a on the ballot for the people's com | nase of two blocks and politely re besides initiative bill quested the return of the money The holdup made no answer and Weston kept up with him, continu ing his request The holdup appeared to be puz zled by Weston's action and finally agreed to return the money if Wes. ton would quit following him. He gave Weston back $50. STORM IS DUE A severe wind lic forces accused of killing non- combatants by bombarding villages. | RUSSIA—Hard fighting betw Siave and Germans in Poland .| trograd claims repulse of Germans’ Miawa offensive; Turks and Rus sians fighting along 70-mile front in Transcaucasia. AUSTRIA—Four huge Russian; columns pouring through Carpa-| thian passes into Hungary. ENGLAND — Battleship For midable’s loss laid definitely to sub- marine attack; disaster occurred off Portsmouth; death roll estimated at 559. | The burglars—there were two of | them—entered through the front |bedroom window. They made a | noisy progress through to the din: jing room and thence to the kitchen, walking heavily, stumbling against the furniture, making no pretense at whispering. Mrs, MeConaghy and her two 5 small sons had just gone to bed}, 2 Legal entanglements now and were still awake. A small, pa-| blocking the improvement of Rak jamaed figure stole into her room,| Miler ave. and retarding the whimpering. |of Rainier valley must be el entered his} “Keep still!” she commanded | nated. es in the ice | tensely These results can be obtained im the cash} Later, she said: “I was afraid| two ways: is they would hurt my children.” 1, The purchase of thi Seattle, Dadri rs Fe revalvet, soa Renton & Southern raltway for ed, was in the top drawer of | $1,500,000 the dresser. Her groping fin- poy under a 26-year-payment gers found it there. She stood U nie on the top landing of the stairs, | nus ine ate cost or eno and waited. 000. The cae has practically d mined. by a vote of six fo thi put the first proposition to a vote of the people in March, WHY NOT ALSO THE SECOND VIENNA, Jan. 2.—(Via Berlin.)—Four enormous maaan passes Thies Nyskow,. Skyi, Turka and Gorlice, , instead of Western Galicia, or Germany, it had become clear, was the main object of the Slavs’ Uneasiness felt here concerning the situation oH ngarians’ peril, it was feared, might between them and Austria. There were linet ala }O SOLVE the resent muddle i the city railway situation, two results must be attained: : 1. Divisions A and C of the mu nicipal railway must be con: so that downtown traffic can handled. MAN TO DEMAND HIS CASH BACK Py before. | Farther to the northward, In Rus-| Poland, the Germans made a vain attempt to renew their of fensive Miawa_ region S marked by severe fighting. BODY CHOPPED UP: in the they falled, the effort was issian, river steamboats, armed | E with heavy artillery, bombarded | must be ttled before any oth er legislation can be taken up. The law so demands. The law/ Sideration, N 8. provides that when an-initiattye bill} No. 18. | is presented to the legtaiature, the) The Schmitz bill providies that no solons must act upon ital once, be- | S8loons shall be permitted to oper fore undertaking any other law jate, but that brewerles May econ- making . inue In business, and hotels having Ban: Pin Gldaion Date 50 rapms or more may serve liquor A to guests, eo legislature will have the) Of course, this arrangemen can: | right to submit not. only IDOL VO | enn eeitienter haemo bill No, 18 to the people's yote, but (Continued on Page 2.) also any other Iquor measure {t| reac may choose FRISCO PAPERS It will also havesthe distretion of | ADVANCE enya bi witched on the nthe kitchen. of them opened the door leading into the tiny hall. The foot of the stairs was flooded with light. | PLAN? The burglar entered the hall, | The first proposition, the 28. k on the dark landing above, saw | Renton deal, is filled with sanaee Germans on the Island of Jany-| ,, Opposite Vysogrod, forcing em to evacuate their position att | githey ha@lont heavily. 4 connection with | g operations, the war office remarked that the Slavs had car- ried the fortifications of Mahonka, : Gorlice, one of the points! ‘- which they are advancing |. through the mountain passes, tak-| be ing 3,000 prisoners and ten guns. In that region fighting was still 4 fn progress today, the Austrians| The other directing brisk ‘counter «attack | upper part of one leg. against the Russians The only clues found and Mrs. McConaghy, unseen | their Car. him—a tall man, masked, a re- | to the city, in the opinion of ft volver in his hand. | people, and therefore it is not exe “Here's t rs, Tom," aggerating it to say that there fs said, over his shoulder. much likelihood it will be voted He set foot upon the bottom ” | down. « stair. * Then what? The city is“eft in thewame old rut. The Rainier valley has gaine ed nothing, On the other ‘hand, the motorbus. volver downward, and pulled the Plan Involves so little expen that pected it has every chance of carrying, The man spun about and plunged A it will aggomplish everything down the stairs, half falling. the $1,500,000 deal can accomplish My God, Tom, I'm hit!” he said.) WHY SHOULDN'T THE COUN. ro 4 CIL, THEN, VOTE THE COMING The man lurched, or was dragged,| MONDAY, TO SUBMIT THE MO. back into the kitchen, Mrs, Me.| TORBUS PLAN TO A VOTE OF Conaghy screamed, She not|THE PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THE calm now, even outwardly 28-YEAR $1,500,000 PLAN? MRS. LITTLE TO BEA MOTHER DENVER, Jan, 2 copies of a New York paper of Dec. 21, and an Italian paper of the same date TO MEDIATE STRIKE? NEW YORK, Jan. 2-—-Chopped| into small pleces and wrapped in woman's clothing and then burlap, part of the body of a man was found early today, frozen in the marshes near Coney Island Two packages were found One contained most of the torso he head and arms were missing package contained the he #0 fixing a special election day SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 2.— that*a vote may be had on the| the Cail and the Bulletin, both liquor bill in 1915, and before the isco afternoon news- | reaching the proportions of a ter prohibition bill goes into effect, on) announced todaY an in. | rific gale, has passed over South January 1, 1916 price from 1 to 2. |eastern Alaska, and is now moving Or, tf the legisiature so desires cents per copy, or 40 cents per lon Seattle end other Washington {initiative bill No. 18 and all other! month seaport#. The blow is due tonight WASHINGTON, Jan. Secre. tary of Labor Wilson let it be known today that he was willing to appoint mediators to consider questions Involved in the Ohlo coal strike storm, which is cee In the heort of Mrs was a numbing fear. The fear was mixed with rage. Mrs, MeConaghy pointed the re- MeConaghy | |r were BUT, |S SHE SURE THAT HE IS ABLE TO SUPPORT HER IN THE © STYLE To WHICH SHE HAS BEEN ACCUSTOMED ? {Teut Me,on | Tew Me, WHAT CHANCE HAs A MAN ) 1S THAT THE FELLOW THAT SAVED HER FROM DROWNING LAST summer ¢ | SEE ETHEL ANNOUNCED HER ENGAGEMEAT TO AR. DRAKE TO-DAY | WHY CERTAINLY, SHE Lookep KIM UP IN BRADSTREeT'S BEFORE SHE FELL IN, L Mrs, Arthur/in which she may find one shred Little, the Detroit woman who is)of hope. Birth records previous to trying to prove that she is white,/{894 were destroyed by fire, hers and not tainted with African blood,|probably among them, as her htsband charges, has so-| The police are investigating im licited the aid of Chief of Police | formation which comes from a man O'Neill named O. N. Hilton, who recalls an An unborn child may come into application made by a negro family the world foredocmed to sorrow and for the adoption of a white child at disgrace unless she is able to prove about the time Mrs, Little was |she is really white, Mrs, Little | born. | writes. The family was named Wade, Mrs, Little says she was born/This is the name of the foster in Denver, A search of the health/mother of the present Mrs, Little, department records shows nothing |according to her letter, “WwiLITteTN