The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1915, Page 1

George F. Cotterill Answers Calamity Gang. Read Page 2 ——_—se VOLUME 17. SEATTLE, W ASH., . GERMANY AROUSED BY STAND OF U. 8; * COPY OF PROTEST IS SENT TO KAISER CABINET WILL CONSIDER SITUATION 15 Shanghaied by Gunmen in City’s Harbor You have read stories without number of sailormen shanghaled aboard ships. But did you ever hear of a crew shanghaled off a ship? This maritime cart-before-the-herse stunt was pulled off in Elliott bay Friday night, when a dozen armed men boarded the steam schoon «er Columbia, loading lumber at the Schwager-Nettleton dock, in the West waterway, at 8 o'clock, and stole the crew of 15 men, |. The police are searching for the kidnaped safiors and their ab- ductors. Two theories are advanced. One that the kidnapers were members of the Sailors’ union, the crew of the Columbia being non-union, But} the captain says he has had no trouble with the union. POLICE SUSPECT BOARDING HOUSE RUNNERS The other theory is that the kidnaping was the work of Main st boarding-house runners. At 15 minutes to 7 saw 12 men fn an alley off Main st., boarding-houses stands. “At first.” said Majewski today, “I thought they might be rolling & drunk. But I saw that they were all sober. They were talking to- gether earnestly and quietly. They wore the orfinary clothes of ‘wor! ing stiffs’—loggers, longshoremen, sailors and the like—and the only thing about them that struck me as odd was that their clothes, though rough, looked new. “They left the alley in twos and threes and made for the Forty-five minutes later 12 ‘men, corresponding tn appearance the men seen by Majewski, called at the Pioneer boat house, foot | Fike st., for the launch Resolute, which had previously been ordered by telephone. Captain George E. Joris, and his)se! of 1,188 tone tn the service of) helper, Olson, took the party to the| W. R. Grace & Co., Leary building. Columbia, which was scheduled to clear at 2 a. m. today for Chilean ports. Obeying directions, Captain Joris last night, Detective Majewski, going off duty, | close to where a row of sallors’| water ' nied any knowledge of the kidnap ing. Bosses Have Lean Times SATURDAY, Officials of the company today de-| drew alongside the schooner, and all but two of the men clambered over the side. All Carried Revolvers “As they climbed up,” said Joris, “Il saw revotvers in their hip pockets. The two men who stayed im the launch came tnto the pilot house, where I was, and sat down.) They had revolvers in their hands, and one of them twirled his weapon bos*es to furnish crews at on his forefinger by the trigger guard. “All he ssid was: ‘You do just yeu told.” “There was no struggle that [) know of. Presently the party re turned, bringing with them 15 mem- bers of the crew. it seemed to me they came willingly, and I can’t help suspecting that the whole thing |* !vm was a put-up job. “They told me they wanted to go to pier 14, at the foot of Stacy st.. so | took them there. They| said nothing on the way. I was in the pilot house, but Olson telis| me they looked at each other and) grinned At the pier they pald for the launch, all went ashore, and dis- appeared. Police Search for Crew Captain C. bis ship at 11 p. m., learned his crew had been stolen, and reported to the police. Police patrol boat | The police are working on the {theory that the crew of the Colum. | bia, refusing to be enticed to desert the ship by offers of free beer and |a good time ashore, were forcibly taken off by thuga In the employ of the boardinghouse bosses, dis- guised as salicrs. The crew did not sign on in Se attle. It is the practice of the $40 to $50 per man “blood money,” which the owners pay, and the first two months’ wages of the sailors them | selves, With thousands of seafaring men tout of employment on the coust, the boardingho.se bosses have suffered Jean times. It is not easy, these days, to persuade snilors, even after! cruise, to quit their berths for a spree on land ‘WORLD'S FAIR WiLL | OPEN IN WEEK; TIDE. OF TRAVEL BEGINS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13—The Panama-Pacific expodition will! open its doors a week from today.) E. Allen, returning to| Exposition officials predict the at tendance will exceed 300,000. Railroad officials say lines en |tering San Francisco already are) Telegraph,| handling more than three times) with Officers J. R. Robinson and| their normal smount of traffic. . M. Bartlett in charge, and de- taile of detectives and motorcycle cops were detailed to the mystery. At 3 a. m, the Columbia slipped out of the bay, probably without a crew, for Mukilteo, where she is to finish loading. Three hours tater the herbor master’s men were searching the waterfront and bay for the schoon er, which had fatled to report on leaving. The Columbia is a chartered ves i PROSPERITY NOTE ABERDEEN, nouncement was made here to- day that the Donovan lumber mill, employing 150 men, will lume operations Monday. it sald that all idle mills on Graye Harbor will start up March 1. | Tom, MY NEW GOWN THIS | EVENING, HOW DO 14 Going To wear = You Like ivf Why Renew Licenses of City’s Immoral Cafes? See Page 3 FEBRU ARY 1915 MESSAGE OFICALL STRIKE t WARNINGSENT ON PORT JOB; TO CARRANZA, 250 MEN OUT | | Serious} Two hundred and fifty men en- today} ®#ged in the construction of the Hell street warehouse of the Seat- tle port district are on strike to- | day Two hundred of them walked out Friday afternoon, The remainder | laid down their tools today The employment of son-union liabor by the contractor installing WASHINGTON, Feb 13. and perplexing difficulties confront the Wilson administration in Mexico. Gen Spanish minister and his repeated efforts to embarrass the United) States are causing great antiety Carranza’s oxpulsion of the | A message has been sent to the/the cork insulation tn the dock is “tirat chief” by the state depart-| responsible ment, sharply informing him that! While this affected only craft, the men of the other crafts | working on the dock went out in| sympathy, The men refuse to go back to work until the contractor recognizes the union The men on strike include car-| penters, lathers, brick layers, | plumbers and painters Attempts by the port commission further troubles on that score will | bring him into serious trouble with | this country | It fe hoped that this will prevent |any new trouble or any further |break between Carranza and the | diplomats of the other powers. Advices from many points tn Mex | leo Indicate that the food situation |ts becoming grave. ers to effect an amicable settle | ie A ment were unavailing. In the meantime construction work on the dock fs at an abso- lute standstill. TACOMA GRAIN. SHIP WRECKED The British bark Andromeda, aden with $170,000 worth of Wash $2,000,000 ITEM “FOR ALASKA RY, ‘STANDS IN BILL | w ASHINGTON, 000.000 item for Alaska railway Feb 13.—The | struction stands today In the Ingt»n whest, fs a total lcxs at Pal laundry civil bill after passing mont), Eng. accorling t» cable |throngh a vicious fight in the grams received today In Seattle, | house. She was blown ashore yesterday It was attacked by certain con gresamen on the ground that they did not want to see the money used in the purchase of the Guggen heims’ Copper River railroad. Oth ers denied emphatically there was anything to show that President Wilson had any intention of buying that line. An effort to cut the amount to $1,000,000 also failed The opposition is expected to re new its attack In the senate, There the administration may try to get ‘| the amount increased to $5,000,000 | The bill, carrying appro. |priations totaling $126,090,000 was during a flerce gale Balfour, Guthrie & Co. charterers. The vessel ® Sep tember 7 from Tacoma with 111, $25 bashels. The grain was then valued at $1 a bushel, but is now worth a half more. SAYS LORD IS ROUGH, are the! One kick | Three blows on the face A couple on the head This in the Itemized statement of passed by the house today jthe process by which M. C. Lord, } a broker in the Burke building, ejected V. BE. de Camp, an anto ‘PROMISE SHAKEUP mobile man, from his office re cently. ' De Camp seys the entertainment IN INDIAN AFFAIRS: WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—~A big |shake-up in Indian affairs, it was | | predicted today, will result from #| Under normal conditions the in- Joint congressional committee probe dustries of Germany Consume about to be started in the Osage country! 1,000,000,000 pounds of cotton a soon after congress adjourns, year WOMAN SMUGGLER CAUGHT IN GUN BATTLE WITH OFFICERS the Salton seal Thermal, ought to be worth $2,500 to Lord He asked damages In that amount tn a suit filed Saturday | font ‘mountains in , basin, 10 miles south of Riverside county Two smugglers and two Chinese esceped They are thought to be wounded. Indian tratlers from the Martinez reservation are tracking the fugt tives, Those under arrest are: Gol die vans, said to be leader of the) gang, and H. Dugkley LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 eral immigration inspectors Pipe a | posse of Apache Indians, in a pitch- ed battle below sea level early to day, defeated a gang of American smugglers led by a woman, captur. ing two of them, six contraband Chinese, and two antomobiles. The smugglers were ambushed on dge of a dizzy cliff in the Look ONE jots responsible for recent There’s a CEN ° THE WAR TODAY | UNITED STATES—German am- boats advises state department eg outcome of Wilhel: in ore nae German retaliatory on England, in which Americans may | euffer commercially. Norway, | Sweden and Denmark prot id German note extending war zo —War office claims it in Prussia complete. lin claims = vic tories near Souin Mazzignes and St. Menehouild. BELGIUM—Germany de Brit. ish air raid on German-held towns In Belgium did material damage. ee BERLIN, Feb. 13.— The German foreign of- fice considers that the American note regarding the extension of the war zone has complicated the international situation. This was admitted by officials today. The im- perial chancellor today considered with the for- eign secretary the outlines of the note. He has assumed the po- sition that the American demand has greatly em- barrassed Germany and will have to be the sub- ject of a cabinet council. 1t Is understood the text of the message was forwarded to the kaiser, who is at the east- ern battle front. Chancellor Von Bethmann. Hollweg will leave to confer at once with the emperor. Although the possibilities Presented as the result of the note are fully recognized, it is insisted that Germany cannot change her position. It ts vital, the kaiser and his ad- visers have agreed, that England's |commerce must be checked. The proposed German blockade of England will be enforced, begin ning Thursday, February 18, it is declared The mewspapers have started a campaign against the super-patri demon. strations against foreigners, Itois believed the campaign from orders from the crown office The Lokal Anzeiger, in a semi-of ficial editorial, criticised those re. sponsible for the demonstration in a theatre recently, when U. 8S, Am bassador James Gerard was pres ent It declares shown “the hospitality SCANDINAVIAN NATIONS JOIN IN PROTEST WITH U. S. WASHINGTON, Feb. t was learned today that Norway, Sweden and Denmark have all protested to Germany against the latest decree extending the war zone. The Scandinavian countries copied the American note to Eng land and Germany regarding the use of flags and the endangering of neutral vessels in voleing their pro teats be and Americans must utmost courtesy son Article About Cuba. Page 4 British prize court; resulted | What the Movie Houses Offer Next Week Is Told on Page 8 Corking Good Bab- HIS VALENTINE ! SN SS SS Wm GERMAN FORCES STRIP BELGIUM © |Correspondent Phillips Describes Pitiful Condition of Country; Trees From Forests, Even Instruments. and Bandages From Doctors, and Send Them Back to Germany. By H. J. Phillips |Special Correspondence (by Mail). MSTERDAM, HOLLAND, Jan. 26-—Belgium is dying. The death rattle is — in a nation’s throat. A martyr to its honor, the little country has practically — |been turned into a desert—a little more and it will be a wilderness. ; | No tornado nor volcanic eruption could rival the invaders at accomplishing |the desolation that is now Belgiuim’s. Uniformed hosts have swept across the country and laid it bare. Whatever |survived the first blaze of destruction has been carried back to Germany to add sinews to that empire’s war for I have just come from the border where Holland meets Belgium. Here I met the refugees who are still passing over to Holland. Many among them are men who had homes which they were loath to leave till hard necessity now com- pels it. Some are doctors, lawyers, business men. I have gleaned much from them about conditions in Belgium today. The people are in desperate want. Their homes gone, their personal a taken, they have been swept to and fro across their tortured leagues. z At Ostend, where 6,000 of the 45,000 still remain, there is no meat except dition. Antwerp is almost entirely deserted, its population in desperation fleeing to other parts in the hope of finding food and finding less of it than before. To add tc the misery of the inhabitants are the immense and impossible jwar levies impused by the military authori and the floods of the creeks and (Continued en Page 7) AUTOHITSMAN LEGISLATURE Tee | F. T. Hansman, 712 19th ave. N. | while driving his automobtle down | I. AND R. LAW Jackson st., about 11 o'clock Friday) night, ran down and so badly {n-| om Murphine, state legislator, mittees.” jured D, Nakasota, 24, the young/told the 200 progressives who) Up to the present, Murphine sald, man succumbed an hour later at jammed the Lincoln hotel sree fae. session has accomplished noth- the city hospital Hansman claims that he locked |his brakes in an attempt to avert |the accident, but that the machine |akidded into Nakasota, Two pas ngers in Hansman’s auto corrob- jorated this version Hansman was released on his per- room Friday night that the present in: session is a circus. “There is the same old ring,” he said, “a different announcer, but} the same old ringmaster, the sae water carrier, the same old phant—somewhat clear external ly than two years a the same old Next week, he predicted, would be crucial. The big fight, he declared, would be over a bill entitled “to facilitate ithe initiative and referendum,” WHOSE PROVISIONS WOULD DE STROY ABSOLUTELY THE POW- Does THE BACK LOOK ALLRIGHTS “A PERSON GETS AwWT SATISFACTION OUT OF You! sonal recognizance. — donkey, its ears even longer, and|ER OF THOSE TWO METHODS ae braying as of old | OF DIRECT LEGISLATION. “Yes, we have still a moose, rath-| Senate bill No. 46, he said, would not pass in any such form as its present, because it is too raw even for this servile legislature to stom: er scrawny, it is true, More remark able yet, we have a Rocky mountain goat, gotten, it is reported, from the governor.” | ach, | Sims the Whole Show Frank E. Green presided. Dr. Murphine admitted he had been J. Allen Smith eulogized Lincoln, | James Bradford excoriated the legis- | lature for refusing the people hear- Ings on the Renick bill and No. 46. | plained, “when we first met that in/J. Y. C. Kellogg discussed party |a few minutes they would vote the'r| Plans for organization. Mrs. 8. P, | rights as representatives of the peo-| Woody spoke of the woman's place ple away and turn them over to a in politics. rules committee, and that this rules lcommittee would be run by three: bavi: SUBSTITUTES FAKE DIAMOND; 15 YEARS jmentbers, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Davis jand Mr, Sims. | “I publicly acknowledge my error | | Mr. Speaker and Mr. Davis do not! |amount to much.” 8 as legislative ethics Suter’s store on Second ave, Mustn't Tell Secrets _ One of the rings stuck to Shilll- “A legislator,” said he, “may vio-/toe’s fingers, it is alleged, as he prepared to leave. In its place, a at the supreme court and tease the | fake diamond ring was substituted, governor, but he must be ‘ethical.’! Saturday morning, Joe was sen- Being ethical means, among other) tenced to two to fifteen years in | things, that he must not tell nag pee reformatory The charge | mistaken in a prediction made at the beginning of the session “I told certain members,” he ex THINK SRE GoT We IDEA oF late the laws of God and man, laugh of the things that go on in the com-j against Mrs. Joe was dismissed. jhorse flesh, no vegetables and but little bread. Every other town is in like con- AND KILLS HIM WILL ATTACK — Germans Take Machinery Out of Factories, Coal From Mines, ~