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PAID CIRCULATION AST EDITION s GUARANTEED OVER WEATHER FORECAST—Falr TIDES AT SEATTIB } | 55,000 pees COPIES DALY Reessae tay Gee “8 1915, ONE CENT ibis ps ar 90 fc 188 be mm Be PARAGRAPHS Peculiar, Pertinent, Personal and Plain Newsy. GERMANS CLAIM A VICTIM, 100, IN NORTH SEA FIGHT : Berlin and London dispatches today disagree |sharply as to the outcome of a sea battle yesterday, 75 ‘miles northwest of Heligoland. The English version is that in addition to the destruction of the German cruiser Bluecher, a four-fun- |nel cruiser was badly damaged and that the two cruisers cae which took refuge in the mine field are unaccounted for. (pasts The Germans admit the loss of the Bluecher, but assert that the other vessels of the squadron returned safely to their base, and add that one British battle cruiser was sunk. Grain Movement Ever Witnessed in the West) .2":"222-°.": | COUNCIL WILL THE TRUTH ABOUT SEATTLE! Ca UL investigation has convinced The Star that Seattle, and the Northwest are fundament- ally in splendid business condition. The European upheaval and other causes have held us in a temporary depression, but their effect is rapidly passing. A splendid wheat crop is being marketed ag tee Eo ci laste at almost unprecedentedly high prices. An immensely increased acreage is being prepared for next Pye cap ie lescaph pre dlecrrere season. The actual construction of the Alaska railroad soon will begin, and that will bring about Seth, the paroayems inating two the expenditure here of millions of dollars. The lumber business is getting better every day. rolather, than kill a $900, prise That this means prosperity for the Sound country is too elemental a truth to need elaboration. his crop, Walter Wheeler, owner of The Star intends, not to let these forecasts of better times stand as mere assertions, but to devote | week to proving them. IT WILL BRING YOU, ITS READERS, CONCRETE FACTS, FIG- URES AND PICTURES DEMONSTRATING THAT A GREAT BUSINESS REVIVAL HAS ALREADY BEGUN. “Which Ie better, bath tub or| auto?” will be the subject for de the di ond, had the bird operated | on at a Washington, D. C., hospital.) thi Molly ie a horse belonging to Jacob Abraham of Hammond. Ind Recently Molly's right hoof was re-/ placed by a wooden one, following an accident. The wooden part of/ Molly burned off when she stood too near a bonfire. A quacklese duck that sneezes in- stead, and featherless chickens with Efsarcst Seattle Forges Ahead of Portland in Biggest Married Women’s club joins forces opposing Senator Taylor's attack on mothers’ pension. Hoot men! Cal. edonian society w and Clan McKen zie will give Béb by Burns anniver sary concert Mon day night, Doug Jas hall. Students of Metropolitan Business se college, who struck because they didn't want to be bossed by Re ceiver O. L. Miller, will hold aanua! 9g ball Friday night. Nope, they sunk by the n the na fight in the North sea yester- | | | day, the German government declared in an official etate- ment issued today. It is admitted the German j armored cruiser Biuecher was sunk. The other German warships returned to their base without | | | sustaining material damage. | A comprehensive set of reso- The statement declares “the Brit-| lutions, putting the issue of haven't asked Miller to come. ish ships discontinued the battle 70| Municipal ownership squarely } Patrolman Scott White, who sub- mitted to blood transfusion to save fellow officer, in hospital as result of infection in arm. | Based on mate rial furnished him by women to NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—John whom he wrote D, Rockefeller, Jr. torpedo boats were engaged. propositions, one to establish mu- The British fleet consisted of five| =icipal auto busses and the other to miles west by northwest of Heligo-| before the people, was pre- \land.” pared Monday by members of The German battle cruisers Derf-| the city council, and will be finger, Seydiitz, Moltke and Blue-| Pvt on the ballot on March 2. ®icher, four small cruisers and two| Mayor Gill's vetoes of two bond (Réttor’s Nete—Whee the sews recetved ed strikers were shot dows, The wall of the calamity |pattie cruisers, several smaller|©*tend Division A of the mun! | for Ideas, Rev. E.| the cause of “good unions” to- | howler Is stili audible in Se- |cruisers and 26 destroyers. railway to Ballard, are } fe the resol voted P. Giboney strug-| day before the federal commis- . ~~ attle. # soon as they sighted the Ger upon: “rhe ocean, 4s ante to gied through ser : Why? ~ : the statement says, the Brit’) cet an expression of opinion from mon on oman's the conditions that resulted mi Ish began to close tn. the le H Ideal Man” at Ma-| those unions which permit the Maen ef the fai "Cates | Seattle today is figuring in Realizing the overwhelming su- Ses ceenai tate ownership. Corp | Fide wetbeae: “alerewiee “te me one.cf the greatest grain move--.|perlority. in numbers, the kalser’s| to gupsit the toneaun ‘Women said their {deal of a regular| “I believe tt to be just as proper man was one who smoked and who} and adfantageous for labor to asso- —_ ments in the history of any (ships turned about and headed back | issue in the a doesn't wall-flower at dances. clate itself into organized groups four Pacific coast city; is about to (to their base, For three hours a wrest away from Portiand a /rtinning battle lasted, vessels on for the advancement of its legit! bri It of their bij Charley King, hurt when coaster large percentage of ite over- (both sides bringing a! 5 peopl hit car, dies; brother Otto still un- prot Ba see eget unee” vaat TH, N. J., Jan, 25, sea business; is so busy ship- |———coinued on Page 2) | Wuestion fs not legally binding om consciou: Rockefeller. “Such associations of| 7~"J¢8us asked for bread and | ping grain it will be almost im- * the city, as the bond propositions Cops 4 on card game in . they gave Him a stone. We possible to properly handle lum- " would have been, nevertheless it Raleigh hotel, nabbing 14 men for|'#bor manifest themselves in pro” ila “te bread and they gave ber exports, expected to open |MARK CHANGE IN would be an advisory vote which gambling. i hort time. the counefl could not very well ig- Sree yer, who klled W. F. Mon Ko" tuertcndented grain move| BRITISH POLICY |icr. seremith, who he thought had da |ment is on. There is such a de! By J. W. T. MASON | The questions to be submitted stolen misplaced money order ei |mand for boats that it cannot be|.~NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—It was ap-| are: draws life sentence. 4 S Che filled. At present there are but/ Parent today the British ad- _ 1, Shall the city council con- — ithree boats in the harbor fit for | miralty has not only changed its| tinue ti policy of the fast Strictly person grain corrying | policy of silence, but also its sys ing and Bs Judge Boy¢ Charters bave been taken on ‘ov.| @™ of patrolling the North sea a thepe temasineg fl man earns | Indications suggest that up to jery large boat. The craft still idle|tne time of the Scarborough raid, | 2. Shall the city connect Di. $4,000 a year, but visions A and C by means of he isn't married are to be used, too. One of them,/the British dreadnaughts were in municipal auto busses, the ap- yet. the Meteor, has been put in dry-| hiding along the west coast of Eng- Propriation not to exceed $50,- Congressman J. W. Bryan telie j dock Her owners, it is said, ex-|land, Scotland and Ireland. After) pect her immediate charter. the Scarborough rafd the British) 0007 Bound for South America |dreadnaught cruisers were ordered 3. Shall Division A be extend- Two Alaska craft, the Tampico|to patrol the North sea. Five of ed from its present northern the New York Republican club tha‘ and the Eureka, which formerly laid| these participated in yesterday’s| terminue to ‘d, at a cost F government ownership and opera idle during the winter months have! battle. | of not to exceed $100,000? g i tion of railroads is inevitable devel been put in the South American|. The British warship Tiger is the 4. Shall the city purchase the i] opment of early future. . trade, marking the opening of a ist word In dreadnaught cruiser| Seattle, ton & Southern Members of Oregon legisiature néW field for Seattle exporters,|Costruction, having been complet-| line at a cost’ of $1,500,000 on a have to turn out to fight fire in ©UOERWOOD + UNDERWOOD Both vessels are hastenin rosy ‘ied in May, or just two months prior| 28-year-payment ba 3 state capitol heating plant to save| After the Attempted Massacre in Roosevelt, New Jersey—Wounded Strikers Lying on the Pavement, Awaiting the Arrival of Ambulances 6 to South} +, the outbreak of the war. The FE. capitol building itself from destruc- en mae ce Sn i dip ng tion. ig = = % ‘ lesson in yesterday's battle is the q | us—bullets.” ge Lind days Ss ee i . ae ne of regen men + Sonttte|**™Me A that of all previous naval 3 f jue eyes looked at me fr e opening of e West Seattle moting collective bargaining, in an| Paddy Carman spoke these is blue ey KRUPPS BOMBARDED engagements of the war. The steamship Dacia, loaded with . ‘y behind a haze of agony, and when grain elevator by W. H. Hauser has cotton at Galveston for Rotterdam,| effort to secure better working and| words to me from a dying bed. i proetid it was with difficulty ané| Big guns and high speed are the brought many new boats to Elliott! determining factors in victory. Tac / fs etill sticking around, waiting, her ding ma One of 20 unarmed strikers ? e 7 captain says, ecantil weather pondl nines Weureny M lvadeas may| shot down by gunmen at Car. | between little, feeble coughs which | AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25.—The | bay. Nine vessels have been char-| tics after the encounter begins are | a ” theless to torture Bis) Hand, lad deci. tered by Hauser to take care of the/of little use. The main strategy in : tions are better. ly and without prejudice to the teret, N. J, he lay on a nar. | seemed never! jandelsbiad declares today the i . Jitney bus rid vidual be taken up with the) row cot Ina native atthe | dullet-ridden body. | Krupp automobile works and | rapidly growing business Ee waders Cat Is to pit & superior ; | management. Alexian Brothers’ hospital, In | “THERE'S WAR | nearly 400 newly finished ma- | Of the nine boats, the Monarch,| ship agalhet an Inferior one. 4 ers, beginning to-| Says He Didn't Know Elizabeth, N. J, where 11 of |IN NEW JERSEY” | chines at Essen were destroy- Notre Dame de Arvour, Queen Eu hen that is accomplished, per- . day, are to be de) y! bs ata vey. | 1 1 thought he| ed by bombe dropped by Brit. | ene, King Edgar, Duland and Aina] Sonal courage does not count. A 4 fun |. Referring to the Colorado strike, wou As he lay in bed, I thought tk aio. | had never dropped anchor here. super-ship comes through unscathed, on " prived of the fun |» vefeller asserted that the hiring! One man, Desiderio Alessandro, must be a man of 40, but years of) |® | "Charter has also been taken on| While the inferior ship is a death-| Carrying Nefl McCloud, 27, tatally of riding on Tun-|and discharging of men and the! nad died of his wounds during the 1!!-nourishment and hard work and thi canned taudir WB. witec COP | wounded by a gun shot at Snoquale | » p ning boards tz|framing of agreements as respects | night, the devastation through which the UNIONS LOSE FIGHT Se se eeakan eMPIMAA “abe” te hes - | mie falls early Sunday, an automo. H Vancouver, B. C,,| the same are fgnctions which he re- . _|body and soul had passed in the fetes WHEL A AUbebna of onl 6 000 GIVEN work bile bound for Seattle, and driven police decide. | Rarded as rightfully belonging mi Another one pi oe npc last 12 hours may have made him bv priek: D by Claude Northern, skidded oft the 4 ig \the management, and not to the rades in the fertilizing plant o 4 . ecumcte an p icy road and dropped down a 50-foot United Railroads in San Francisco | en nolders or directors. Williams & Clark at Carteret lag | ocean ce eee saat? = AVASHINGTON, Jan. 3 The After Portland Busin PITTSBURG, Jan. 25—More than | embankment. sdmits it is losing $1.00 « minute all) “1 had no knowledge of the man-/on a cot in the same room, and 1) 11. version of the shooting of the so lh Ay oftictal to com-| Port Warden Paysse is devoting | 6,000 workers were given employ-| Dr. R. 'T. Burke and D. Thorpe day long as result of jitney compe: | ager’s decision until after the strike | occupied a rocking chair between! tie uno one of the priests ctareonyles sone ak Pood tay Pe a large part of his time In efforts) ment today when the mills of the|were thrown out of the machine, = |to attract the major portion of the| Pittsburg Steel Co. at Charleroi and | but escaped with minor scratches. New Westminster, B.C., newsboys| Rockefeller anserted his cOmpany,| Ga'rean who had been operated| (the Alexian Brothers’ staf! Had) Kansas, was upheld today by the) Northwest’s grain to Seattle for Monessen resumed operations | The car did not overturn. U. 8, supreme court | transportation, instead of Portland. | - — John Cuozz0, laborer, em- complain the jitney traffic robsithe Colorado Fuel & Iron, con- on the night before I reached the| (Continued on | Paysse says he's well on the road ployed by the Brace & Nettleton tition. | had been\declared,” he said. the two cots. je Seven) them of street trolled only a small percentage of : “ hospital for a bullet wound, and Logging Co. at North Bend, was ar Anne Whitney, 93, one of the old the mines involved in the strike, | | Ito success. eat sculptors in the V.8., dled yes-|qnd could not have dictated their Who, it was thought, had ht «| ODEN RELIEF SHIP THAW WINS A POIN | Paysse also ts investigating fa rested Sunday noon as he stepped short time to Hive, was propped on aeteness mie as soon as the matter was re- |ported, and they telephoned a de- jscription of the assailant to Se- | attle. F The arrest was made by Deputies* |H. A. Nets and 8, Campbell and | Sergt. Donlan | McCloud is at Providence hospt- | included as one. of its provi- | sions that widowers with | children and unable to earn } a livelihood also shall be protected. | Such men will draw $15 a month for themselves and is © ny's earnings, off the train at the King st. sta- Taree laseionstos at $250 000 was ieatading ponds wed by the Rotke several pillows. The bright morn-| Visitors will be admitted to the “HW YORK, Ja 26 Ube sina gerd ‘at be dane AND MOTHER T 0 So ccloudee Wate: done eo femmes firemen were in-|fellers, never exceeded 3% per cent Int sunlight streaming through the| Belgian relief ship Washington Bin LR hon a nage : ecry eg energie age ny ik ot rage | Or ecloudteal cil F ! wide windows at which he was tak-| Monday. It is anchored at the Stacy | Thaw not b © Mat-|by this po opening o | ¢ no : 4 = when three big mera [eer annum, he said. Ing what wax perhaps a last look at\st dock, The value of the cargo to| teawan asylum, pending his trial|the coal fields and the starting of BAA ca gate pin 259. wo. 3 Ce tite re carb soko pe wd 2 Mrs. | 'Tention, company—annual N. G.| the world, accentuated the blue pal |8° aboard the Washington is|for conspiracy, Justice Davis ruled|railroad work in Alaska this sum Pa og unaaiandaty. Bog . Sheriff Hodge and Deputies Ma. 4 G. 8. Sherwood presides W. ball at Armory Friday night. | lor of pain which showed even un-! $519,296 . today mer, . _____ |] mothers’ pension bill but i |jlone and Brewer went to Snoqual. | HELLO MR. DAVIS, NICE | WEGET INT —He WEATHER WE’ RE HAVING ~| ALL HIS V6E THE PHONE NeXT. 7 |, TOM.DID You MAIL THAT) | WHY- A~NO~ WELL GO RIGHT Ta;THE DRUG Yoo SEE, HELEN, ba ter aach:chiu ory Some, fo "Think He’D Loosen! leat. ‘ LETTER 1 GAVE You Nop sae, | p01 Store NOW AND i | Nou over To ~ CAN IGET SOME STAM Zp, \Nov'o Thine Ooser { {NESTERDAY F HAVE ASTAMP || | STAMPS. You'lL CARRY IT IP vr A STAMP ; RB ‘sop “(ulate 2A" lg! NICKEL AWAY FROM A JITNEY [P. yards, the car crew looked b three blocks Monday morning for 33 ; 4 tae RUS iH Does the traction company need | west. A jitney bus appeared in the t the nickels? Indeed it does, distance. q A Fort Lawton car backed up| Seizing the bell-cord, the con. ductor pulled it vigorously, giving one passenger. It cheated an ap-| three bells, the signal to back up, | proaching jitney bus by inches, The car gathered speed, won the | It happened on Grand View boule | race and got the nickel |vard. An inspector was on the car,| A, H. Lane, 3221 Gi avenue, Crossing the bridge over the N. and Al Higgins, 2647 west, and saw a man waiting at 17th were on the car, The inspector was a man named Wiley,