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ry‘ that they can possibly control. intention of making it an issue in the present campaign. ful manner. They have stopped at nothing. Unless you register, you will have no voice in the matter. Do it at once. And then vote. PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 99,000 COPIES DAILY VOLUME 16. SEATT LE, WASH., MONDAY, FEB The city tight plant is most decidedly an issue in this campaign. Or do you want to keep this institution which has made Seattle a city to be proud of? It is a duty The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News RUARY 8, 1915. Don't be caught asleep at the switch. Don’t be caught unregistered when election day comes round. .£fforts are being made by advocates of special privilege to have all would-be destroyers of the city light plant registered. They’re spending money to print cards; money to pay for advertisements. They’re strenuously in earnest about getting every vote registered The special interest organs are now pretending to have a new-born love for the light plant and are disclaiming any Don’t be deceived. These organs have been knocking the light plant for a year in a most vicious and untruth- Do you want it destroyed by an unfriendly council? On the ballot in the March election there will be several propositions and charter amendments, as well as the names of candidates for the council. You will be asked to say whether you want to continue the policy of extending the benefits of the light plant and reducing rates or not. You will be asked whether you want autobusses or not, whether you want the municipal railway extended to Ballard to make it a paying affair or not. You have until Tuesday night at 10 o'clock to register. you owe your citizenship and your city. IGHT EDITION | Weather Forecast—Probably fair TIDES AT SEATTLE High low ont am 6:23 p.m, m., 118 tt m., 128 ft LFPPELIN IS NTERVEEWED! Cuba Smarts Under Tariff, Babson Writes: Financial Expert Gives Reasons, Why Cubans Dislike Americans; Sugar Industry on Island: Is) Stunted by Tariff. U.S.WILL ASK ENGLAND FOR THE WAR LINEUP FRANCE—Paris statement claims French artillery succes. ses from Alane to Champagne district. Declares Germans pre- vented from massing for gen- tween British and Germans along LaB. canal, POLAND~~Kaleer watching Germ. Russian line at Kamion, on left ‘bank of Szura,. Germans. termined to end menace against thelr left wing. Czar reported | at front near Bolimow, ENGLAND—Premier Asquith announced British casualties to Feb. 4 were 104,000. BELGIUM—Lowlands = inun- Activity confined to ar- By Roger W. Babson HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 8.—“Why do you Cubans dislike s Americans?” da tillery. “That question is asked me by almost every man whom I meet from your country,” said one Cuban host, a merchant. “Because you sent a few soldiers over here and helped WASHINGTON, Feb, §.—Senator Stone, chairman of fhe foreign re lations committee, after a confer : ence with President Wilson, Indi whip the Spaniards when we already about cateq today that Great Britain had them whipped is not the wh story probably would be asked within a *, “You must remember that we had been few days to furnish the United States government all the facta re garding th the American flag by the liner Lusitania on a re cent transatlantic voyage Although he denied discussion of the flag incident, Senator Stone voiced the personal view that the use of the flag by belligerents to prevent seizure or destruction had been improper (Continued on Page Seven) | The senator declared he believed # congress might consider resolutions | United States by merchantmen of bellige nations, although he WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Se- | attle was found to be the healthiest place in the United States in 1913, according to an- nouncement here today by the | fighting them for nearly 50 years, and that we feel it was rather revenge for the blowing up of the ‘Maine’ t brought you into the - Se war than any love for us. However, we'll be generous and give you the benefit of the doubt. But how about your tariff legislation? “You have harmed us more with your iniquitous tariff legislation than you helped us with your glorious Spanish war. use of dent and the “i by the department hand pre: state GREAT BRITAIN EXPLAINS ACT BY ED. L. KEEN Seattle held the tinction In 1912. The death rate in Seattle for 1913 was 8.4 per 1,000; 8.9 in Spokane and 9.5 in Portland. The highest death rate was in Memphis, Tenn., with 20.8 LONDON, Feb. 8 per 1,000. does not ext any - |the [Inited States as the result of flying the American flag during her nt trip to Liverpool, in order te vold the danger of attack by Ger a man submarines. Seattle housewives will be buying, ten said, “that Mrs. Seattle House.| The British foreign office ts con fresh bread ot 6 and 12 cents a jont wife, to a large degree, will begin ed that the use of the Ar and day-old bread at 5 and 10 cents, making her own bread.” colors has been shown to hav beginning Wednesday, as a result The bakers raised their price justified by international law, of the bakers’ action Saturday night|cause of the rapidly per yi ny he ; @* ion aa o sy Stoel jal price ae Scie many and the United States Secretary Patten of the Seattle Re tail Grocers’ association declared grocers have no other alternative than acceptance of the new figures. WILL REOPEN CAMPS Many were dissatisfied, he said EVERETT, Feb. 8—Members of that: the price was increased in the Puget Sound Loggers’ associa stead of the size of the loaf re tion will reopen gamps #bout Feb. duced. * or March 1, it has been ‘The advance — also means,” same dis government census bureau. Spokane was second and Port. land third. been and be rising wheat OPPOSE PROHIBITION HELENA, Mont. Feb. 8.—The State Federation of Labor has gone on record as opposing prohfbition the delegates voting aaginst {t, in cluding four women. Commission }form of govérnment {ns also disap. proved jruary 15 Pat agreed WHAT IS THE | | |e HAD Some “TROUBLE PANSY | AWFUL BAD Luck svi i TODAY MISSIS | On missis | | ive ' 4 ae \waar isiT PANSY 2 ¢ thought the matter could better be! Great Britain | protest from | rican | BILL SEEKS TO LEGALIZE | OLYMPIA, Wash. Feb, 8— “| A bill to repeal the law against capital punt nt was intro duced in the today by Senators Paime Nichole, McGuire, Boner and i Sharpstein. Capital punishment was abol- ished in the 1913 session, where It received a bare majority of REGISTRATION IS. +. STILL VERY LIGHT . Registration picked up a bit Saturda day's total of 2,355 w: In all, 54,726 have qualified to — pi vote thus’ far, which is still well be over 10,000 less than the regis: | movement as by the volce. OF OLYMPIA _ EXPLANATION EXECUTIONS) SCANDALIZED OLYMPIA, Feb. 8—Shh! The horrible truth is out. Ruth St. Denis and her most-pertect- man-in-the-world husband, Ted Shawn, weren't invited in a regular manner to the high so { ciety reception where they made remarks that scandalized many of the quests. | The affair was given the vie- iting legislative tadies at Olym- pia by the Ladies’ Aid society of the Methodist church, in the governo! on last Mrs. Lister was one of the host. | esses. | Some oye who, it if not Cisclesed | invited the dancer and her hubby Then another terrible bignnder pmebody asked Ted to talk. He Id the Methodist asnemblage that the day would come when hould be dancing in the pul t, for worship, he sald, could as expressed in rhythmic tration for the corresponding Then, most terrible of all, they| period in 1914. ca ] nm Ruth And Ruth told The registration office at'the (them, very bluntly and frankly Prefontaine building, Third and (that the human form is beautifull Yesler, will remain open Mon- — undraped, and other remarks about day until 9 p.m. and Tuesday ithe futil of « until 10 p.m. There will be no further chance then to regis: yj ter until after the election of fy + March 2. mal explanation TO REPOT MERITS sii: OF THE CANDIDATES The public is invited to a meet-} |tng of the Munictpal league Tues day noon at the Good Hats cafe teria. The committee appointed to investigate the councilmanie candi dates will report USE LIQUID AIR IN EXPLOSIVE SHELLS “ PARIS, Feb, &—The Germans have a new and powerful explosive |the French call “bottles of cham pagne” and which sclentists think The missiles, may be liquid alr somewhat resembling a bottle. travel so slowly they can be fol lowed with the eye, but explode with terrible effect when they fall. | GO BACK TO FARMS Ph PARIS Feb. 8 Territorial re servists have been granted a two-| w week leave of absence in France so they may assist in spring sowing, vine cutting and‘other farm work. | LONDON, Feb. §—C. W hac templat reach San Francisco March 21 The a's tried to keep it dark. Olym seed the terrible \ leaked out The news took t form of a “for issued by the La-| Ald noctety Here is one paragraph fair has received un- desirable. publicity, and we de- sire te explain that, through a deplorable mistake by one of our committee, and unknown to the others, certain guests were there whose p » marks embarrassed those who | gave their best efforts to pre- | sent the true ideals of our | church.” - So now everybody feels better d will try to forget it all | PRESIDENT TO: REACH FRISCO ON MARCH 21 WASHING" TON, Feb. 8.—Prest nt Wilson told Sen.elect Jas, D. jelan of San Francisco that le definitely decided to leave ashington next month on his con 1 Western trip In time to | He also said he would send al | me mber of his cabinet to San Fran. AMERICAN IN WAR isco to oven the Panama-Pacitic | exposition on Feb, 20. | AGED WIFE DIES | art, 11 yeark a caviiry offi PALOUSE, Feb. 8—One day af. the United States army, has been|ter Mr. an Mrs. J. C. Poe cele imade staff captain of the HKighth| brated th Oth wedding anniver. | Canadian Mounted Rifles a NOW PANSY, DON"T SAY IT'S A MATTER OF LUCK, BECAUSE THERE 1S NOSUCH THING ry, Mre died. She was 82. NO SUCH THING AS Luck £ Dip INK | ald, ‘HIGH SOCIETY ANOTHER i MOVIE STAR 500 Seattle girls whowanted to be a Star reporter as Margaret Byronapartments One of the gave her name dress as apartment S, in the a movie Jones star. She and her ad- FILM COMPANY CLOSED; ITS PRESIDENT IN CITY PRISON ne door of 1110 Hoge building, | charges dre filed, they probably will recently headquarters of the Occi-|be based on assertions made in a dental Custom Film Co., is locked | prospectus which the officers had today and the gilded name Is | circulated sera ee from the glass, | The al hundred Seattle girls he passage way leading up|@Md young men who had entertain. uve the intricacies of the Lib-|ed glowing visions of movie star erty theatre building to the dom with tmmense weekly salaries studio” of the producing movie | #re hovering in the background firm is dark, On the door is post-| Watchfully waiting ed a notice, informing all interested | Some are disappointed at losing be | the $5 they paid for stock, some are persons that the director will Were 2p. m crestfalien, some are bitter at what they term the way they were ‘ as A pers x iar be ete bilked, and some are simply trying aa teat tne ctracta, tT] So thus for the present, one of] Nie atanred a Star reporter that | Seattle's busiest and most rapidly he liad quit the Oc ental, quit growing industries lies completely i. ¥ . ait | collapse: ‘em cold, and without even waiting | “lapsed to get his pay He was emphatic in his assertion EAT CATS AND DOGS PETROGRAD, Feb, §.—The peo- ple In Lodz, captured some time ago by the Germans, are eating that he never had agything to do, with the company and was simply | an employe for a day ‘The president, L. Donald McDon.- | is atill in the city Jail, where he was taken Saturday night by De tective Barton police and the | cats and dogs to keep from starv. [prosecuting attorney's office are | ing Famous Inventor of War | Dirigibles Discusses | England’s Charge That Zeppelins Slew Zeppelin, inventor ef the Zep= ir, granted by him to Kart of the thinks repre their re possibilities, The see~ I be published later. By Karl H. Von Wiegand United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyrighted, 1915, by the United Press} | Copyrighted in Greet Britela.} Via | BERLIN, Feb. 4; The Hague and London, Feb. 8.—‘‘Does any one for a moment believe that ;England, in her determina- tion to crush Germany by every means in her power, jeven attempting to starve }women and children, would jnot use Zeppelins if she }had them?” ‘ It was Count Ferdinand \Von Zeppelin, creator of |Germany’s dreaded fleet of jaerial battleships, who poke. This was his answer to the protests raised by Ger- many’s enemies against the juse of Zeppelins and the jdropping of bombs on un- \fortified places, _ killing {women and children. “No one regrets more than 1,"—here the voice of the aged soldier and inventor carried a genuine note of grief unmistak- able — “that non-combatants have been slain. But have not non-combatants been killed by other engines of warfare? Why, then, this outcry? “Let me tell yqu: It is because | England fears the Zeppelin dirigi- |bles, She realizes that they prom |" (Continued on Page 2) |SCENIC CAFE WILL NOT GET LICENSE To grant or not to grant a license to the Scenie cafe was the.subpect of battle in the council committee meeting Monday, and an expeeding- ly heated discussion ensued be- tween some of the councilmen and the attorney for the cafe propri- | etor The license committee will re {port against granting the license. looking into his operations, If} UH EBER UPSET AN BOTTLE WHEN IT WAS EMPTY 2 For the love of Mike, don't puff; smoke in the face of Miss Charlotte | F. Jones | In the first place, she doesn’t like it, and in the second place she |threatens to make it a national question, like prohibition, if she's bothered by. the “nuisance” and is compelled to breathe “foul, polluted alr Resides, if you,puff smoke into |her face, especially if it happens to be in a restaurant, she’s going to {have you pinched for assault and battery, and make a test case out of you | And that's got all Listen to | Charlotte, who Is a lawyer, and who ‘prepared an ordinance to be submit. ted to the council Monday to pro- WOMAN ATTORNEY WOULD STERILIZE CIGARET FIENDS hibit “smoking in festaurants and cafes and lunch rooms ‘The legislators who are trying to pass laws at Olympia to steril- ize the insane and criminal ought to turn their attention to the cigaret fiend instead, 1 will con- cede that a man has a right to pvided that he is steril so that he cannot propagate his kind Goodness gracious! Based on the precedent establish- ed by Judge Smith in putting the ban on smoking in street cars, Miss Jones will soon start suit, she says, if the council fails to pass her or- dinance, against some restaurant owner who allows smoking in his place So there!