The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1915, Page 1

‘BG COKE” SELLERS ESCAPE PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 99,000 COPIES DAILY - GOVERNOR WOULD LET STATE HANDLE OLYMPIA, Jai Brice in hi read thie afternoon to the 14th legisiature, when he urged a broadening of the powere of the state public service com mission, so that it may also regulate municipally owned utilities, such | 12.—Gov. Ernest Lister furnished « distinct sur- as the city water department and light plant of Seattle. Advocates of municipal ownership had hoped for a word of encour. Bgement in their efforts to obtain home rule legisiation to permit cities, not only to regulate their own plants, but also those of private corpore- tions within their city limits. GERMANS SET BRUSSELS ON FIRE, REPORT ‘THE WAR LINEUP ; [ews eer] FRANCE—French assert desper. ete German assaults near Soiscone repulsed. Soth lost heavily. Ger- mane attacked north of Beausejour; | repuleed. AUSTRIA—Fighting along lower Nida; Russian attempt to cross the river repulsed, RUUSSIA—Fighting along Rawka Viver; German advance toward Warsaw continues. TURKEY—Weather bad: prob- ably Turks will not resume offen- sive before spring. GERMAN Y—Reported German cruiser Bremen struck mine; return- ed t Wilheimshaven badly dam- aged; Berlin deciares French re pulsed near Cernay; heavy losses; In Argonne 3,500 French reported captured since Friday. LONDON, 12—Storles that Brussels has been set afire and 's burning, brought to Amsterdam by refugees, are discredited by the Bel-| gian legation here and the Belgian rellef organization. It was s' Jan. “i at both of these places that thera! was no source. confirmation from any DAMAGED BY MINE LONDON, Jan. 12—That the German cruiser Bremen has put in-| to Wilhelmahaven, badly damaged, | house. having struck a floating mine in the North sea, was the report carried in a Petrograd message to the Star today. | Economy was the keynote of Lis ter's message. In this connection he advised, along with a general policy of retrenchment in appro- priations, the convening of a con- stitutional convention to consider, among other things, the following: Abolishing one house of the legisiature and confining legis- lative work to a body of about 25 members to serve 90 days at regular sessions instead of 60. A rearrangement of superior court districts, @o that the present § eituation, whereby Judges in some districts are overcrowded with work while im others there Isn't enough work, can be overcome and saving of about ser effected by eliminating al 10 courts. A constitutional amendment In relation to revenue and tax- ation. The governor recommends sev. eral changes in the general elec- tion laws and urges the adoption of tions, a preferential presidential primary law, the abolition of the compulsory second choice. He also recommends against the passage of a law, as provided by the republican platform, to compel voters to state their party affilia tions when they register. Urges Reapportionment Should the legislature fail to call A constitutional convention, the governor urges reapportionment of senate and house representation on (Continued on page 7 ATTACK PENSION OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan. 12 Striking at the mothers law, Senator King county, former speaker of the introduced a bill Tuesday morning to repeal certain sections of the measure. pension FEAR BOMBARDMENT | BY ADRIATIC FLEET Senators Ghent and W | King introduced a bill abolt second choice voting in congres sional and state offices Senators Brown of Whatcom and Iverson of Kitsap introduced a measure appropriating $100,000 for a state powder factory and creat- |ing a revolving fund of $600,000 for VENICE Jan, 12—The inhab-|ite aponntion. {tants of Trieste are in a panic In the house, little was done fearing bombardment of the city by| Tuesday morning. When Rep. Zed the FrancoBritish fleet ‘n the| nick attempted to introduce a bill Adriatic providing for one board of regents if @ for all state educational institu ADDITIONAL NEWS OF tions, Rep. Sima objected on the THE WAR ON PAGE 2 ils or | ground that house isn’t yet organ ized for business CC) TO LOOK AWFULLY SHABBY, You weg To GETA ¢ . T TOM, THAT SUIT 1S BEGINNING} (Yes, ir I'LL STOP IN TO-DAY j + \ DIDN'T Wear] |AND LOOK AT one VERY Went ae 4 non-partisan county and city elec-| MOTHER’S ~|are reasonable men. Howard Taylor of| VOLUME 16. DOYOUPAY WAGES T0 YOUR WIFE By Fred L. Boalt } 1 dropped into Boyd's Pharmacy, enth and Union, this morning, to get a magazine. Boyd eyed me Steority “A pretty pickle you've got me |Into!” he said “Sot said |. “And many another married man! In thie town, if | know women,”| said Boyd. “We argued about it} half the night.” “Argued about what?” although | knew. “About ‘DOES A wWIF! WAGES?” said the druggist. “2. Now, Boyd ts an aver man |He is neither very rich nor very poor. He is, 1 suspect, a little old fashioned in bis notions concern: | jing such things as “the sphere of omen.” “Does your wife earn wages?” .. -.“She does not,” said Boyd, “And, what's more, she doesn't want wageo—at least,” he qualified, “she |idn’t until she read The Star yee | terday.” | “She ts. then, an equal partner |" you? “Exactly.” sald Boyd “Thaw |whac I kept telling her last ight An @ jual partner with me” “You divide your money equally | and sive her half?” No, no!” said Boyd, “t don't! divide It. We share it. It ts ours The home, the store, the money | jal are ours DOES A WAGES? The answers to thie question are coming in to The Star so fast, and many of them are eo good, that we will print the best of them tomorrow, Thureday and Friday Married folke, get Into the con: test while there is time. Husbands, are your wives help- mates or pretty toys? Wives, are you partners in the home, or expens bric-a-bract “Runaway Jane,” a film story by George Randolph Chester, of a bride who ran away from her husband on their honeymoon rather than “degrade” herself by taking money from him, starts at the Colonial theatre Sunday. The mai int of the the tre offers a prize of $25 for the best letter, by a husband or af! wife, on “DOES A WIFE EARN WAGES?” which shall be submit. ted to The Star. The prize will be awarded Sat- urday, and The Star will print the winning letter. Aleo— Star Photographer Jacobe will take moving pictures of the win- ner and her hueband—or hie may be—on WIFE EARN | asked, EARN the “Run. This film will be shown Colonial Sunday, when away Jane” starts. “Do you mean,” I asked, “a literal | Out of hie office window in |Dartnership or & theoretical part the Burke building Judge Thom. |Rership? For instance, has your| as Burke looked down upon Wife her own bank account? Second ave., to the north and to “You don't get me,” said Boyd, the south, far as he could with what patience he could com see, and remarked to The Star and. “listen” | man: “My wife and | are partners. I'm | run the busi She “if anything can be done, | shall earnestly and gladly help.” Judge Burke was speaking of the high rent conditions on Second ave. What could be done? Look at it from any angle you choose, Judge Burke is satisfied you must reach the same conclusion he has reached, namely “The individual landlord ts the sole influence in this matter.” Judge Burke has spoken to indt the senior partner. ness and handie the money. runs the house, orders the my tends the children. ‘our way—giving the wife ail all very well for a it would Let me not do for a business man. ilustrat “My wife on ® Monday asked me for $15 with which to buy meat and groceries for the following Sat vidual landlords. He has received : encouragement from some. There Uday, when we were going to have company dinn jare others who cannot be reached Real Landlords Are Reasonabie “if | had done as she asked, | would have taken $15 out of my “IT find this to be true,” sald |Judge Burke, who ts himself business for one week. Kept in owner of the Burke and Empire the business, that $15 earned. 45 cents. With 45 cents | bulldings, on Second ave., “that the two pounds of meat—a cl | real landlords—those who own the | ground and the buildings, generally “You mean, then,” | said, “that women have not the h that men have ‘ours may have. | “The difficulty Is with those | landiords who own only a lease on the ground, and who have put up cheap buildings, with | ——— the Intention of gettin much money out of the | pos- Mine has not.” (Continued on SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JA HUSBAND AND WIFE, HOW DO YOU DIVIDE YOUR INCOME? Write to The Star and Tell Us! Maybe You'll Win the $25 Prize for the Best Letter on the Subject AAAAR AAR ARR AR ADDR DAA EPPO PP PPP PEPE PPP DPE The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News on ONE CEN? THE GIRL WHO WORKS! THE BRINK UPON WHICH SOME OF THEM STAND Girls Aren’tSafe at Hands of Men Even Civilized Times WARRANT OUT FOR COUNTY AUDITOR BY CYNTHIA GREY The Star on Monday printed @ story from New York, telling of a Jersey City girl who was rescued from a Chinatown ten KELSO, Ween. Jen. 12.— ement. She had allowed her. sel to be taken there on the Cherged with the embezzie supposition that she was going ent of from $700 to $800, a ® warrant |e out for the arrest of George H. Campbell, Ing auditor of Cowlitz county Campbell has disappeared, it to obtain needed employment Today, by coincidence, com In the mall a letter from a Se. dro-Woolley young woman which strangely parallels this retir woman writes 1 want to tell | Ko, | was al Gre ew days most trapped sible. These landlords are un- fo your city ing to my approachable first position, a girl of 18, but a “It hae been my policy not to mere child tn experience, with my enter into any evch leases, and hair in braid down my back, and In the light of experierce, there my skirts to t tops of my shoes Ie reason to hope there will be | Reside me on the train sat a| few such leases entered Into In woman who was the most re th futur pulatve person I ever saw | “The Star ts to be commended for : . Her face showed too plainly the| | presenting the question to public at WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-—~The!cussing the insvue. Mondel! led the ite she was living, and I turned Pica $$$» | house today began a six-hour de- debate in favor of the ation, from her (Continued on Page 2.) bate on the Mondell resolution pro Taylor of Colorado 4 of When the train was a few miles posing a constitutional amendment Minnesota being bis 1 eo from Seattle the conductor brought Gen, H. M. Chittenden re-elected | providing national woman suffrage. porters to me a well-dressed man whose port commission prestdent A final vote is to be taken after, Henry of Texas, chairman of the arance showed him to be of the debate. rules committee, and W 5 ant oeld to kite, There’ H. B. Earling, vice president of| Nearly 200 representatives have North Carolina were schedu ante hat Milwaukee, finds business better. expressed make the opposing speeches their intention of din WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED ———— Lt Go WITH You, YOU Were STUNG ON POTN You CAN Suorten 7) O¥ MY Ve THE SLEEVES — WD SHE PeKED OVT THAT mopeL. “F* ITS BEEN VIC Ave OR {TAILOR COME RIGHT IN AND ) [™e CARE OF THAT. IT REAUY Bow’ weep “74 one Guess.f wuo's THe Boss t AND IT WHEL WEAR JUST As WELL AS THIS #30 SUIT THAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Se PPP LPL LLL LL LLLP LLLP PPP PPP PP PPPOE IGHT EDITION Weather—Occasional rain TIDES AT SEATELE High 4:07 a. m., 11:85 p. m., Low 18.1 ft 7:08 a m, a 10.0 ft 14.0 ft. 8:96 p. m., oa ft MAN WHO OFFERED TO EXPOSE EVIL IS ONLY ONE CAUGHT What kind of a deal has B. L. Morgan got from the police? The Star, working Independently, secured a list of places where cocaine and morphine are sold. This list was turned over to the po- lee. 1 The namee on the list were, wi | drug firms. selling drugs from a certain room i The police arrested Morgan Thursday he wi Morgan, a private detective out, lof a job, approached Dr. Cornelius of the state some weeks £0, evidence! Osseward, president pharmacy board, and offered to against the drug-seliers. The board had no funds for the purpose. Dr. Osseward conferred with Dr, E. J. Brown, dentist, who has also labored to break up the drug traffic in Seattle, and Morgan secure was sent to Austin E. Griffiths, then) chief of police. Morgan made this offer: He ‘would furnish his list of — places where drugs were sold; he would give a city detective his (Morgan's) personal cards, peculiarly marked. Any one offering this card to a drug-seller would have no trouble buying cocaine or morphine. He did not ask to be pald until after the the sellers. The department, Griffiths told Morgan and Dr. Brown, had but lit- tle money to spend. His offer— $3.50 a day and expenses—was turn: j= down by Morgan eee Morgan, before approaching Dr. Osseward, had spent weeks win ning the confidence of sellers and “snowbirds” alike, He had posed} as both a seller and a victim and confidence of these people, you've | got to do as they do.” “I urged Morgan not to take a | risk so terrible,” says Dr. Osseward | "I do not know anything about Mor-| |gan’s morals or past,” says Dr, | Brown, “but I do know that he kept |faith with us and that his propost- | tion was a Bood one.” | Morgan, when baste a market |for his information, sald he didn’t | want pay until the entire traffic |had been broken up, and that, if the | authorities cared to employ him, | they would discover that the <ource| Jof the drug supply was a certain] }large drug firm eee It wae by pure chance that The pharmacy board, found Morgan and incorporated his name in the list which it turned over to the police. Not one druggist has been arrest: j ed. The only man on the list not a 1 druggiet is a prisoner at the stock: AND HE IS THE MAN WHO HAD OFFERED THE POLICE IN- FORMATION AGAINST THE TRAFFICKERS IN THE DRUGS, 1 police had established a case against) had taken to snuffing cocaine—“be- | cause,” he explained to Dr. Osse- ward, “if you're going to win the th a single exception, the names of The exception was Morgan, who, The Star learned, was na First ave. hotel. a “disorderly person,” and iast sentenced to the city stockade, where he is hice SAY PREACHER } in four states who are attempt- Ing to solve the marital mys — teries of Rev. James Morrison Darnell, a young Unitarian er. Darnell lives at the home of Mra. Edward F. Vaughn, whose daugh- ter, aged 16, he claims to have mar- ried Nov. 4 The parents of Ruth Soper, 22, sent word from their home fh Kenosha, Wis., that married Ruth and the father of a five-month-old baby. W. T. Mallett investigated the Soper charges for the Kenosha | Unitarian church, He s the min- ister insists he never married Ruth | Soper. “Darnell admitted,” Mallett’s re- port said. “a common law mar riage with a girl at Avon, IL, but | denied that Ruth Soper's child was his. He also admitted that Ruth had lived for a time In Kenosha and that he had introduced her there as his wife.” ‘ MRS, ROGERS TO BECOME MOTHER AGAIN SOON | NEW YORK, Jan. 12—“The |grand jury resumed today its in- vestigation of the case of Mrs. Ida Walters-Rogers, accused of mur of shame Star, working independently of the! dering her two children by feeding them bichloride of mercury after she herself had swallowed some of the polson The woman explained that she wanted to die because she was about to be deserted by Lorly Bl- ton Rogers, father of her children but not her husband. If Mrs, Rogers is indicted, her attorney, Abraham Levy, expects her condition to count heavily im her favor, as she soon is to become the mother of a third child = $.E.C0. ORDERED TO IMPROVE SERVICE Under an order of the pubite service commission being drafted today at Olympia, Seattle's street railway service must be greatly im proved The “peak” period of traffic is to be reduced from an hour and a half each morning and afternoon to one hour During these tv parts of the day an overload of per cent will be recognized as allowable, but no more. According to figures pre pared by the commission's experts and presented in a report, the over. loads have been running as high as 70, 80 and 100 per cent on vari ous lines. The” West Seattle Green Lfke, Kinnear Park and Mt Baker lines were named as the worst offenders By overload” the commission | means strap hangers, Under the > new ruling, if a car seats 40 pas: sengers, 10 other passengers may be carried during the hour of greate est traffic morning and*night | This hour varies on the differ- ent lines, and will be determined for each separately from figures gathered by the commission's in- vestigators. The order, under a stipulation, will be effective as soon as it is issued, which will be within a day or so, according to C. A, Reynolds, chairman of the commission. We will have men at wark at jonee checking up the service,” said he at Olympia today, “and will ob- serve ¢ ly how it is being obeyed order is tentative and may be modified at any time as need may arise.” Put in the briefest form, he said, |the order means more cars during the rush houras Darnell had x