The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1915, Page 1

CHARGES BRITISH INSULTED UNITED STATES FLAG = PRIS PRL RRL SAPARD PRL LAL RP ALL SLALAL ALLARD PRLPAL PRL RDP AALAND PPPS PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP No Wonder J. Pierp Wants to Sell Us His Alaskan Line! J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., telegraph dispatches tell us, discussed yesterday with President Wilson the proposal to sell the Copper River & Northwest- ern railroad to the government. : The idea of government ownership of any- thing so valuable as a railroad would have appealed to the elder J. Pierpont as nothing short of an- archism. But times change. Just now the reigning J. Pierp is strong for government ownership. And no wonder! For he knows his line is doomed. If he can palm it off on easy-going old Uncle Sam he’ll be just that much ahead. The road crosses the Copper river on a $2,000,- 000 steel bridge a short distance below the Childs glacier. A short distance indeed! The north prong of that ice river has just advanced 1,660 feet in a single year, and at present is only 400 feet from the ANOTHER SEASON’S PROGRESS WILL BRING IT TO THE ABUTMENTS OF THAT MAN-REARED STRUCTURE AND CRUSH IT LIKE A FLY UNDER THE THUMB OF A BLACKSMITH. The railroad, if it wishes, can build a new bridge 500 feet lower down! That would cost an- other $2,000,000, and when the ice flow crossed the narrow intervening strip, away would go an- other fortune. . Beyond that, topographical hindrances stand LANE DENIES HE FAVORS BUYING IP COPPER RIVER Staten | (Correspondent for The Star) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Secre-| By Karl H. Von Wiegand tary of the Interior Lane hotly de- nied today that he ever bad favor- United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN (By wireless to ed the purchase by the government Sayville), Jan. 19.~—Charges of of J. P. Morgat's Copper River & | Insults to the American flag Northwestern raflroad. He had been quoted in a Seattle | and improper __ interference with his vessel were transmit. paper as favoring the deal. } The Alaska engineering commis. sion is expected to report ita find ings in about two weeks. It will} not, however, recommend any route. The president will be left to decide this matter. “There is absolutely no truth tr | the report that I have announced | myself in favor of purchasing the | ted to Secretary Bryan at Washington today by Capt. Farley of the American steam- er Greenbrier, now at Bremen. The captain declares that Dec. 20, while he was proceeding along | the German coast, flying the Amert can flag, a British cruiser fired a solid shot across the Greenbrier's bows. The bEritish commander Copper River & Northwestern sent a cutter to the steamers side } | | i | | pub Secretary Lane said to me today ‘I have talked with President Wil son several times about the Alaska railroad situation, but we have ar. jrived at no conclusion as to the route.” Secre Lane's attention has » called to a recent volume on and an officer came aboard and de-| the 4 shadiee; aéauas leh otk | manded to be shown the ship's pa-| miles of the track of the Copper pers | River rong built, 1s moving Thete were shown, Farley as-|=)"e 7004 fs built, is m ing | serts, and the officer then called the crew of the cutter aboard and | When these arrived, the American | Ordered From Bridge OF PENSION LAW He refused and he says he was - then ordered from the bridge while) OLYMPIA, Jan. 19.—The mothers a prize crew took over the ste pension law, giving state ald to de er, hoisted the Union fent widows, was unanimously headed the ves: or England During this voyage, Capt. Farle declares, the was damaged Alaska glacier studies just lished by the National Geographic | society, in which ft is shown that declares the British ordered hin haul down the U. 8. flag and hotst the English ensign. ommended for repeal today by the senate tax committee, which brought in a report on the measure as the result of incompe ° Taylor public utilities bill! the, British crew in n avigatl was reported by the committee on| Space municipalities and placed on the| to resume con we eral file for passage | N.Y. WANTS H. THAW SHINGTON, Jan, 19 mand of the ship and go to Leith but be declined to sail under the British flag. After three the American says, he was allowed to hoist his own colors and then con sented to go to Leith Dep: | Soon thereafter he was allowe General Kennedy of to continue his journey to Ge c y applied to the t many court for a mandate di-| The Greenbrier, loaded with cot-|recting the New Hampshire au | ton, sailed for Premen from New |thorities to Harry | Orleans. Thaw to New | | DEADWOOD THAT MIGHT BE CUT OFF TO REDUCE TAXES The city spends about $15,000 a year in salaries for meter readers. Why can't the police read city water and light meters and save thie| money? It'wouldn’t be out of a cop's way,as he patrols his beat, to take a peek at the meter once a month in every residence in his district He could do a block ore day. Another block another, He may be able to do two or three blocks a day. the policeman familiarizes him sei with the location of the meters, it wouldn't take him more than a! Jiffy to read them The difficulty will be suggested that the cops report to the poli@® department and not to the light and water departments. But that’s| only red tape, which the city can cut easily enough if it chooses, | verity of which was relieved b |JINS TO RIVAL JITS ! The Seattle Star [N The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VULUME 16, SEATTLE, WASH., in the way of any further evasions of nature’s man- date, “Thou shalt not enter here.” Five miles up the river the railroad encounters even a more serious obstacle. For five and a half miles it runs across the face of the Allen glacier— not in front of it, or alongside it, but on top the naked ice. And the Allen glacier has started a rapid ad- vance! The tracks are thrown frequently out of alignment, and in a short time, if the flow con- tinues, traffic will be an impossibility, repairs or reconstruction a travesty. On the east side of the stream the choice of TUESDAY, SEATTLE WOMAN GOES SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT SLEEPING! JANUARY 19, 1915, ONE CENT the And an alternative route is made impossible by towering eight-mile face of the Miles glacier. it, too, is advancing! The world’s great geologists believe in what is known as the Bruchner theory of glacial retreat and advance. Without going into the technical angles of this hypothesis, be it said it holds that sun spots and other factors that influence climate oscillate in 35-year swings of a rainfall and tempera- ture pendulum. Nearly 40 years ago the glaciers in all parts of the world began to melt faster than they built up, and then to retreat. This was due to a lessen- Miss Whitehead Forfeits ON TAAINE AND vA IGHT EDITION WEATHER. FORECAST—Falr TIDES AT SEATTLE Low 12:53 a. m., 2:22 pm, a tt 24 tt 115 ft NDS, Se ing of the rainfall and snowfall at their sources. For 35 years the retreat continued. A few years ago the pendulum swung, majestically, un- mistakably, and now the ice rivers are growing longer, thicker, more terrible. IN JUST A FEW YEARS THE CHILDS AND THE MILES NO DOUBT WILL BE DEBOUCH- ING THEIR SWOLLEN TORRENTS OF ROCK AND ICE INTO ONE GRINDING MILL OVER THE VERY RIGHT-OF-WAY WHERE THE MORGANS LAID THEIR RAILS. NO WONDER J. PIERP THE YOUNGER WANTS TO SELL! Right to Change Her Mind GLUB GOING RIGHT AFTER GOOD TIMES |Justice Finds She Must Stand by Her First Decision in Women’s Case A woman may change her mind But when a woman becomes a Judge, she loses that woman's priv llege yardstick, of perhaps six feet. But} Three women—-Evaline Reed, Ed- between these (wo, as society mens-| na Russell and Aiiiie Sincia ures values, was a gront gulf fixed. were arraigned before Justice Reah| The woman wept. She vowed Mary Whitehead yesterday, charg: she could not pay, She threw her ed with disorderly conduct self upon the leniency of the court The Reed woman ts the proprie: and begged for mercy. The lawyer tress of a resort on Weller at. of for the defense added his plea to which Russell and Sinctalr are in- that of bie client. mates. a Deg Ot Russell and Sinclair pleaded gull ty, and the prosecutor, betng Inclin ed to leniency, recommended that they be let off with $10 fines, which was done Great Guif Visible The Reed woman promptly chang ed her plea of “not guilty” to a guilty,” presumably ‘n the expec tation of getting off equally lightly Judge Whitehead, charming in a blue serge tallor-made sult, the se Her Ming” * Even the prosecutor was inclined to say a word for the woman who had erred. Jadge Whitehead's lips were com-) pressed in a thin, straight line. Per-| haps In her heart she felt pity She quoted the law, mentinoning! recent decision of the court may not modify when once rendered | I know of nothing In the law,”) a said Judge Whitehead, he) justice of the peace the right to/ change his—er—his or her mind." _The woman paid | its opinion) dainty white lace collar, fined Reed woman $100 and costs. Between | the immaculate woman! | SHORT ONES city’s history. 19—Jin be he as B, C. SESSION TO OPEN VICTORIA, Jan. 19.—With the ma OAKLAND, Jan, rikishas as rivals of the jitney busses proposed in a letter received by Traffic Manager J. jority of representatives already tn H, Brown of the San Francis. | 1115 ouy everything ja in readines co-Oakland terminal railways _ Desai: sapage, cori aber netenes from a Japanese signing him. | for the opening of the legislature | Thursday afte ». One of the first measures to come before the! self Yar “1 propo wish to you,” the letter re: hat Japan |lawmakers {9 a provision for the boy be allowed space between of the Dominion’s unem rails to run jinrikisha from middie Seventh street from ee Piedmont park, maybe on (|ASK LISTER TO VETO 18 shady side of ple without street for peo Opposition to the calling of a spe-j umbrella to keep clal election for any purpose, espe. } on the bench and her tarnished sis ter before the bar of justice was a distance, a8 one measures with a bigher| the diagnosis of one of the «trang court to the effect that a justice ent cases w | vietim of this giving aj seven years. *‘|numerable doctors with whom she h Seattle medical men begen today h which students of medicine have ever wrestled. The strange malady, a woman, says she has not slept for Unable to obtain relief from, in has consulted, Mra pealed to The Star today ward she consulted Dr, W fin, in the Empire bullding According to the woman's story she has snatched only half on hour's sleep during her long siege of tnsomnia. She lices at Mra. Hauck any more, she says passes most of the night hours In a roct ing chair. She describes her nights ax ones of torture She has tried dru: Ed Hauck ap After G. Grif 2 14th ay. S goes to bed without re sult. She says she ever even feols sleepy Mrs. Hauck is the wife of a former moving picture theatre pro prietor, She blames nervousness for her plight GERMANS ARE CHARLES sun off. Rikisha has very good, [cially that provided by Initiative | AEBBERD easy riding. Jap boy wear | meayure No. 18, the liquor bill, was me sandal and pants of yellow. | voiced tn a communication the Se-| sre, Many stops In quick succession /attle Congregational Ministerial 7 an A to run against jitney auto Jaswoctation will address to Gov. | FROM ahh Lister. The governor is urged to SPOKANE OREGONIANS FEEL QUAKE use his veto power in such in new earth disturbances were re wee | ported today from Summerville,| BAKERS DIVIDED Union county, where residents de A apecial meeting of the hoard |, PETROGR/ AD, Jan 19,—Bloody clared a tremor of sufficient vio-| op directora of the Master Bakers'|@&hting for possession of the lence to rock several barns and|agsociation was being held Tnes-|2ortheast section of the province frighten horses in the pastures had| day afternoon in line with a pro-|° Plock, in Russian Poland, has occurred Sunday night |posed advance in price which wil! | resulted In a decisive ¢ of the * . rs. a on at & meaaral. meeting | rerTtOe ording to announce VANCOUVER INDORSES Thureday night. Bakeries which | ment by the war office today SINGLE TAX still have a supply of flour bought}, The énemy has been forced back VANCOUVER, Jan. 19.—No former prices on hand, are fight. | tthe frontier, the statement adds. | stronger indornement of the | ing the move This is the district through | single tax could have been see | which Gen, Francois’ German army made than was shown in the attempted to advance toward War- | | re-election of Mayor L. D. Tay. | |saw several weeks ago. | x lor, the city’s leading single | Naval collier Hector will take) Military experts belleve tt Indi Some sights that appealed to Vic, tax advo for is the | submarines A-3 and A-5 on her deck i] onton the defeat of another serious | cial Club's “Citizens’ dinner first ex-mayor jected In the | from Hremerton to Honolulu jerman offensive in that section "Tom , LOOK HERE A MINUTE, | pont THEY |"eane ARE SOME Good MoneNt | BARGAINS '" THIS WINDOW 1T WOULD PAY TO LOOK STREET SHOES TOO. 00K GOOD FOR THE. HEED A PAIR OF + _| BELIEVE You HAVE A VERY DAINTY LITTLE FooT 1 SHOULD - - INSIDE at the Butler hotel, Commercial Club Will Cam- paign for Development of Home Industries. PLAN IS ANNOUNCED ROLAND COTTERKL for Adding Half Million to Local Payrolls. | Seattie business men for «@ long time have talked optimis- ‘prosperity. “It’s going to be a great year,” they have sai “Better times are at hand.” But It has been little more than talk. And they them. selves knew it was little more than talk. There was nothing tangible upon which to base any high hopes. es HE CERTAINLY ENJOYS A CIGAR. | ERNEST CARSTENS PRESIDENT OF THE GERMAN~ AMERIC: Four hundred and fifty busl- and professional men of ie Commercial Club’s “citizens’ dinner” at the Hotel Butler Monday night, heard outlined THE FIRST REAL PLAN TO BRING BET- TER TIMES TO THIS CITY. The club, now in process of re organization, and with a greatly enlarged membership, is going to boost for home industries. Blanks have been mailed to ev lery firm in the city doing a manu- facturing business. They have been asked to tell, confidentially, what they manufac: ture, where they sell it, bow much Say! 7 SHELDON ( WHERE mp | ‘AN BANK (Continued on Page 2) PREDICTS DEFEAT FOR $1,500,000 DEAL night was far from harmonious on this point. About 100 attended. James D. Blackwell, formerly engineer for the Renton line, de- clared the operation of the S., R. & S. would prove such a colossal failure in less than seven years, that the people would demand its disposal at any figure. He also predicted that if the $1,500,000 28- y purchase plan is submitted to a referendum vote of the people, it would’ be overwhelmingly defeated, SIR JOHN RUNS WAR FROM LONDON HOME LONDON, Jan, 19.—-Sir John French directed all the operations of the British army by telerraph for three days from his home near Hyde Park, London, where he visited for ithree days The Star artist, at the Commer- Monday night. ) IM GLAD ITS WHAT WOULD 7 ‘T | SAY YOU, NEVERMIND THIS DAINTY yiny ‘ { LITTLE "Foor STUFF -ALL You VE al sov To DO 1S TO SHOW US Some. = DO YOU FOLLOW ME. | OR WILLT HAVE TU COME Back For yous | Banquet Guests Hear Scheme tleally ‘about the dawning era ’ Called by advocates of the pur chase by the city of the Renton line at any price, a meeting at © Phalen’s hall, Columbia, Monday