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

PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 55,000 COPIES DAILY 1@ Power Co., ace VOLUME 17. NO. 303. Suspension of service on the Alki Point, Ballard North, and Mt. Haker car lines is being considered by the Puget Sound Traction, [today to The Star | This ; | pro SANS Noes T LINCOLN THOUGHT OF WAR! PAGE 4 COTTERILL WILL REPLY TO ENEMIES OF CITY UTILITIES Ex-Mayor Cotterill will be the\absolutely incontrovertible facts speaker at the Seattle Commercial with which to support his words club 12:15 Saturday, in the club- The public is invited to be pres- rooms in the Postal Telegraph ent pers. contain many startling statem buliding. - Cotterill is going to tell the truth QNE VOTE DECHBES will deliver an answer to the at- COURSE OF SENATE tacks ‘Made upon the municipally operated projects by two Seattle pa —_— ts. tempt this afternoon to require the; He has put in a considerable! senate to take a ballot on the ship amdunt of time and effort to obtain purchase bill failed by one vote about Seattle's public utilities, He His talk, it is intimated, will WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-—-An at Stone & Webster are raising a row, Something’s wrong with their big Boston Cow; : That little Ford jitney Got hold of her titney, And they wonder who’s milking her now. [We Don’ WANT euy yer You \To GET IN BAD "y PHONE Wi a wine BE GLAD , TO HAVE You FOR DINNER drastic aiopted by the tra an ® means of curbit of the _jitn ‘s 50,0007 car servic hich the ji busses . on ve operation on three car lines Prvsident Leonard of the traction coma on aaked N " e repile te you considering the mat ter I would rather not discuss It at this time sald Leonard Kempster Denies it Traffic Superintendent A L. Kempater was more decisive in bis answer Nothing to it,” he said Ever since the advent of the jit ney busses, the traction company has been aining because It has been deprived of a consider able portion of the cream of Its business, the short hauls. to handle all the long hout the or i ying she » Ballarc ot be mal company official Should the plan of suspending operation on these long haul | be adopted, it would mean a ing of a large sum of money to the company Such a course would the company is ready franchises for these lar lines. Under the franch terms, the company is¢ compell to give adequate service, and delib erate failure to do so ts ground for forfeiture of franchises Whether the city would attempt to enforce the franchise visions, instead of. declaring the franchises forfeited, is an angh the situation that has not yet r ceived the attention of the council and the mayor. Unless the t up its tracks muniet of th m to fe thre n that ction company these line y could take ney by running routes pany attempt to ks, litigation, com ous, is bound.to a its tle up the city s cars on the pose of and tn ntiment in its fa accomplished to Bradford il oration Counsel nbers of the coun satisfied they to meet any such ome ) NOW You FELLOWS MAKE NYourRSELYES al : reports may be company popular ap oon Ou li } that new —Mrs. Her grabbed wat Ale —Some of the fellows trying to will get meeting of the North Improvement « e|dard pr sjextra collars —The sophomore class at Broad | Congratulatio of yours wi cilman some —The sing to gown-up for SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1915. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ONE CENT gx MAINS A TANDS, Se Weather Forecast IGHT EDITION Probably rain 1bke AY SRAVTLE 20 1 f 10:00 ». The United States is still pouring supplies into Belgium by the shipload. Millions of dollars have already been spent to keep this unfortunate people from starving. is Belgium, aft@y six months under the conqueror state of affairs in this stricken nation. O’Reilly, tells ? published Saturday.—EDITQR OF THE STAR. Explain Your Traitorous Votes! The following article, Another article, from H. J. Phillips, will be Is their condition cabled O SENATOR SHARPSTEIN AND SPEAKER CONNER OF THE LEGIS- LATURE: You are in town today and will be spokesmen tonight for the legislature at the Young Men’s Republican club’s banquet in honor of Abraham Lincoln. The Star wants to talk face to face to you. called you traitors—you, Senator Sharpstein, and Speaker C nnor, who voted like you on the emergency clause in the McArdle land board those yr Sta ‘toda: ill make itself even plainer, for fear you are a bit thick- le ‘ay sata Adis , ‘that.th McArdle bill. i led i this state for the “immediate Yesterday The Star and all preservation of the public peace, health, safety, etc.” YOU LIED, SENATOR SHARPSTEIN AND SPEAKER CONNER, AND YOU KNOW YOU LIED! You voted that way to cheat the right of referendum. Deny it if you can in tonight's speech. Abraham Lincoln ernment “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” to cheat that people out of their legal rights. Lincoln didn’t lie and play petty politics. people out of the d this is a gov- Lincoln didn’t try TONIGHT, AS YOU BRAZENLY PRETEND LOYALTY TO THE PRINCIPLES OF LINCOLN, THE GREAT COMMONER, IN YOUR SPEECHES, WHY NOT EXPLAIN TO YOUR HEARERS YOUR OWN TRAITOROUS VOTES? who ate in on the council third-degree at the Phinney Ave Al God ng some horn the ub Fri yably will take al reelected all its La Fray's young’ the lucky kids k. That boy nt or coun sche ers was on Kirkland hello girls are a swell dance night. If the laying are tine ar a lot of do there here who tuff J. W. Johnson, 115 Yes told Constable Lang some man her purse down on the front. That'll go cc Paysse, the port warden BUT HELEN,LisTeN,) ANN OLD THING WiLL PES bo | TIME? I'M PREPARED TO ENTERTAIN TONIGHT A agajnst| « | NO-WHAT Do You THINK TH/S THEY'RE NOT FUSSY,) | PLACE h5, A HOTEL THAT | Yop CAN BRING A FLOCK OF YOUR FRIENDS om IN AT ANN OLD BEAT RICH OLD BANKER AND HIS WIFE TO DEATH OAKLAND. 12.—Mr, and 1Mrs, Jacob V Galindo st. were murd their home some time early today by unknown —A lot of folks are going to the G. A. R. ladies’ social and ball at the armory Saturday night —Ed Russell was one of the ar rivals from Juneau yesterday, Ed has fine habits, only he is a news r editor | The Fourteenth Infantry band re going to give a concert As all the girls: will obably there t atch Chuck | Tully stick out his chest and wave his cudgel. Some of the seem to think is the only fellow who can do that. They give us a pain —Our robbers The « while putting up dam is a yum dam. Al showed some lant sual the Arctle club ball last night Some of the women folks got sort mad at the way the men all danced with Marian J who had on a lot of swell clothes from New York, but they got even by raving over Hugh Caldwell, the good looking attorney-atlaw —Dr. Muller, and not Dr. Stobbe, will succeed Baron Wolf Von Loehneysen as German consul at Seattle, the Kaiser having changed his mind, All the nice things we {sald about Dr, Stobbe go for Dr. opéra| Muller. BIl might change his Cedar river! mind again highly respected port warden Is going to put up a wire 8 in office so he can talk to the ships as they come in, It beats all how Alec is always thinking uy new things —A\ Goddard, who would like to hold onto his job in the town coun ed oat the Grand Al said the SAY BOYS, | GUESS YOv.L HAVE TO EXCUSE {We WIFE THis EVENING, SHE'S [SICK IN BED AND OUR MAID LEFT YESTERDAY, | AWFULLY SORRY? o NOT ouple were beaten to death |, a fight for their] | | —Everybody had a fine time at lives and property, as was indicat- ed by the disarranged furniture and blood bespattering several rooms of the home, which is in an outlying district Vogel was a retired and was wealthy It was evident from the condition of the bodies, which were beaten with an ax or club, that the o! couple put up a desperate resist- ance. It is not known the burglars obtained. Blood-soaked papers, found the victim's pockets, gave the fir jon of the prominence of He was one of the lea aciers of California, it de capitalist what property veloped He was president of the ager, president of the nk of Fresno and director of t s' National Bank of Fruit ot /_POWER | | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 mats and government officials here d astonishment at d by the American rmany, the n made pub generally express the “kick” carri notes to England and |texts of which have | Ne | The note whih wase sent to Ger many sets fopth that the United States WOPLD BE CON STRAINED TO HOLD THE IM PERIAL GERMAN GOVERNMENT |TO A STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SUCH ACTS OF THEIR NAVAL AUTHORITIES AND TO TAKE ANY STEPS IT MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO TAKE TO SAFE.- GUARD AMERICAN LIVES AND ican citizens the full enjoyment of their acknowledged rights on the high seas.” In the note to Great Britain the United States put It up to the for mer to restrain ve@sels of British neflonality “from the deceptive use of the flag of the United States in the sea area defined in the German |declaration, since such a practice would greatly endanger the vessels of a friendly power navigating these HEAVY “KICK’ ip lo] TO IMPOSE UPON THE GOVERN. PROPERTY and to secure to Amer-| improving? . How by Mary Boyle By Mary Boyle O'Reilly | LONDON, Eng., Feb. 12.— The conqueror is house-wreck- ing Belgium and moving the debris back to Germany! S Military au- thorities have inaugprated sabotage of war on church ornaments, precious met- als, memorial brasses, grills B. and i | Mary @. O'Relllly ¢ ee in Namur and other cities of the devastated nation. French prisoners are leveling the for- | ests and the wood is being ;sent back to the Fatherland. | At Mons, Liege and Charle- roi, 40,000 prisoners are min- ing coal for Germany. Ig- |norant of the methods of dis- | secting the bowels of the earth, | dreadful accidents are happen- jing among them. All factories, especially the | textile plants of Ghent, Court- rai and Vervieres are being dismantled and the machinery sent to Germany. The khown war joss of the Beigians now amounts to $1,- | 100,000,000! Germany has of- fered to end its destructive | measures on payment of $100,- 1.) (Continued on Page 1 U.S. NOTES TO — S HAVE |MENT OF .GREAT BRITAIN A MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY {FOR THE LOSS OF AMERICAN LIVES AND VESSELS IN CASE OF AN ATTACK, BY A GERMAN NAVAL FORCE.” Some authorities expres the opinion that the note to Germany would require the United States to go to war with the kaiser should n ships be sunk by German ar zone. in the istration officials, however, at, despite the “str h of displayed by both notes, neither one woulinvolve the Unit- States in international difficul- t They were confident that both England and Germany would acqui- jesce in the position taken by the American government and would srant the relief demanded, assuring safety American shippi and passengers in the affected waters, Counsellor Robert Lansing of the state department drafted the notes, but it is understood President Wik son himself “read proof” on them, The chief executive is said to have furnished many of the ideas adopted waters AND WOULD EVEN SEEM |in the communication, eet...