The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1915, Page 2

STAR—SATURDAY. F ‘High J inks’ Maidens Bring ‘Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling’ and “eho ee Songs to Moore: Good Vaudeville Bills A Group © Tango Girls Coming to the Moore Next Week In “High Jinke” Nag ae ey -EX-MAYOR COTTERILL TELLS TRUTH ABOUT MUNICIPALLY OPERATED PUBLIC UTILITIES A press-agency conspiracy was naa what George F. Cotterill, former mayer, Saturday noon termed the persistent series of attacks on Seat: _ se’e city-owned utilities. He made detailed answer to all these underhand thrusts at the _ Gity’s credit In a carefully prepared address to the Commercial Club. To the assertion that the city is paying too much for street lighting, he brought a etrong denial. He vreduced figures showing that, while Seattle is the best-lighted city In America, the cost per mile for lighting the strets and alleys is| as compared with $325 in Chicago, with a municipal plant, and $1,350 and $1,353, respectively, in New York, Philadelphia and contract system. attic, $3,638; Boston, The cost figures for each square mile of are. $7,593; New York, $10,233; Philadelphia, $18,527; “If the banke of Seattle, any ‘ene or all of them,” said Cot- _ terill, “had been subjected to false and malicious at- “Our municipal water system is unequaled anywher lighting system is the g rate reducer and public-service demonstration in America—not merely a success, but a busine: triumph. And the municipal railway is ready for a similar record if given half a chance. “SEATTLE NEEDS NO FINANCIAL GUARDIANSHIP —AT OLYMPIA OR ELSE. WHERE.” have been wrecked and iness crisis precipitated. ie F FALSITY AND IMPO- INCE OF THESE ATTACKS ID RESOURCES ARE WELL IDENCED BY THE ACTIVE ING FOR THE RECENT MUNICIPAL LOAN, AND ITS Be TO A MOST CONSERV- IVE EASTERN BANKING _ GONCERN ON A 4 PER CENT INTEREST BASIS. “An attack upon the good name | hospital. amd credit of Seattle from outside! a city would arouse the righteous 4: Sunday nights’ meeting of Men's } tion and united answer of pinie Study League, Worth-while citizen | Baptist chureh. ‘ Have Effect on Outside “Are the would-be assassins of ¢redit from within to be im- from similar rebuke, simply their ulterior motives are recognized and their public in- ce has been discounted to an incompetency? ie ‘the circulation of these sian-| was limited to Seattle, they, aon we well be ignored with con- but unfortunately they affect outside opinion of Seattle, ‘where the mendacity and misinfor- cannot be quickly recog: Unknown bicycle rider, hit by N. women scheduled Sunday in Queen Anne church forward movement. Wives of legisiators here for Lin- coin day banquet entertained at Col- onial. theatre Friday night. , Mra. Esther Woodruff, 88, oldest member Queen Anne Congregational church, dead. W. A. Cox and G. F. Reynolds get Jobs as policemen Rev. E. H. Broyles plans series of talks on Bible unfortunates at Mount Baker Park Presbyterian church, beginning Sunday night. H. N. Kennedy, general agent of N. P. freight department, transfer- red to Milwaukee, given “west banquet Epworth League, Renton * MM. €E. church launches membership cam- paign. “Seattle is on a more solid finan basis, with greater resources! less debts, with more to show her public expenditures, than, “any city in Washington. * Earn a Large Profit “Her public-owned utilities are ‘@aving the taxpayers at least "$2,000,000 @ year, as compared with rates paid for similar public ice where private monopo'y Makes profit from public resources. G. W. Dillin will “This result has been accom) purchasers of cs ik wees ce ar hed without the increase of @ tonight. oar in taxation. C. P, Bissett will talk on life of Lincoln at Tuesday meeting of Firat Presbyterian Men's club. Government charters power chooner Bender Brothers to carry supplies to stricken natives of Prib- llof islands, Bering sea. North, plosives King County Jurors’ association holds annual gethering heavily laden with ex Jon’t ‘ia It to Teachers Parents are often prone to plece the entire burden of the — upon. the |) ° ° ELSEWHERE ° ° U. S. supreme court to pass on constitutional! income tax law as applied to mining companies respondent, dies at Berlin. Falls, Mont., coal operator, ed to death when off road, Harry Robinson, vice president of seceding Miners’ union, shoots Thomas Monroe, mine guard, tutte, perhaps fatally Netherlands and United ent for suppres sion of opium traffic Friends of alleged robbers threaten Bowling Green, Ky., with death, and city with destruc- tion by fire and explosions unless men are freed. |. Grand Trunk Pacific railway |fages plot to destroy lines leading into Maine, Bat hip = North Dakota fourth time is crippled slipping of blades of her turbines. Carolyn Wilson, Chicago news aper woman, ordered to leave Gern following arrest ch of espionage Michigan G. 0. P. convention adopts pfatform calling for restora | tion of protective tariff and bigger | navy. Oregon legisfature turns down bill providing for worgen's services jon juries. | Jury finds Harry Carr, Cashmere | business man, guilty of murder in second degree for killing two men in Leavenworth court room crush tomobile skids ne is one mat- ter seriously affect- ing the future of every child which should occupy a nt place in training—that of Thrift. As an example to the children parents should maintain sav- ings accounts with the Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank; they could, also, with great bene- fit to the children’s future, encourage them to keep con- stantly in mind the cultivation of their little savings ac- counts at at this bank. DEXTER =R HORTON TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK SRCOND ANU CHERRY for KIRKPATRICK PROMOTED VANCOUVER Feb. 13.—KBarly uiting for the second Cana cavalry will follow appoints terday of Major Guy H. Kir as commander of the 72nd Seaforth | Highlanders of Canada. The major colonel, 'L. Beagle, autoist. near death in city Youth of church will be debated! Tabernacle, Meeting for men and meeting for, Steamer Santa Ana sails for the! Jake park | James Creeiman, newspaper cor-| Edward Gerber, wealthy Great| Judge | through | THE MOORE “tired if | ae | he business man” ised a ton les fo in “High Jinks,” which Arthur Hammerstein wil |present at the Moore th a week beginning Sunday nig Rudolph Friml, who see. ‘ad fame as a composer of “The Fire fly,” has furnished a musteal seore whose numbers are tu ful catohy The plot was contrib Otto Hauerbich, auth “Three Twins 1 “Madame ry a Sher The plot has to do with perfume which raises gets a whiff of it to the {heaven of hilarity An American | 1 magt nerve on a young female patient {operates so well that the woman throws her arme sround bir neck and kisses him rapturously Her husband witnesses the ceedings and, skeptical of the of the perfume, decrees that either the doctor shall die or else sur render Mrs. Doctor to him to pay hug for hug and kiss for kins | The doctor agrees to the latter and it | proposition, but secks to delude the Frenchman by passing actress as his wife. comes more and more intricate and more and more hilart after the! manner of farce, as the play pro coeds. The same which presented | "High Jinks” “In New York City | will be seen here. It is headed by Stella Mayhew. There is a singing and dancing chorus of 68 [THE EMPRESS DRED ° | Sallie Ounbar at the Empress |. The clever little star, Bisie Gil |bert, with her “romping girls and jcollies,” will top the bill at the | Empress next week. danced her way to the top with the “Top of the World” dancers. She is assisted by four young ladies and |four well trained collie dogs. Other numbers on the bill are Bessie Le Count, a tiny impersonator and sing er; Chas. and Sallie Dunbar in sone land dance; Reddington and Grant |pantomimic acrobats Frevolt shadographist; Golet, Storts and Lafayette in song and musical se lections. The bill will be rounded jout with another installment of “The Explvits of Elaine. ? "tHe PANTAGES | Fess cnn at} Grace Davis at the Pantages Headlining the new bill at Pan tages, opening with the matinee Monday, will be Harry B. Cleveland | and company in the musical come dietta, “Mum’s the Word.” Mr. and re, sketch “Davéd Berg,” vr “One Hun dred Cents on the Dollar.” Other numbers are Menomee Aiken anc company in “On Crocodile Isle, Pierce and Roslyn, presenting “A Whirl of Melod Vricht anc Davis in “The Love Insur Agent,” and the Williams brothers jin a splendid singing and dancing novelty 18 THE ORPHEUM Wil M. Cressy and Mayne and Sam and Kitty Mortor will share headlinedom on the new bili which opens Sunday afternoon Cressy and Dayne will appear in a new #k@ch, Mr. Cressy’s own Other sets: Maria Lo and com pany of girls In tableaux; Mae Me} ville and Robert Higgins in a skit | Cervo, a plano-accordionist; Harry | Watkins, contortionist; Bertish, ar exponent of strength und agility George Lagon's concert orchestra will be given the ranigef Neutenant-|and Jacobs’ motion picture of loca} happenings. ne oe whoever venth spectaliat practicing in Paris tries its virtues young | e! Robyns offer the ° © Blanche | : TWO AMERICAN | NURSES DEALT | WITH AS SPIES? Mail), Feb American of German with the British have been detect na LONDON That two nurses of tonality but thies, serving army in France. ed acting as eples and dealt with today by the Nursing Mirror There have been persistent ru mors of female By but them. on home,” saya the journal have been slow to believe Unfortunately, evidence of a vincing character has been placed before ua Lord Kitchener ton, discovered that at Southamp- there was a leakage of news going on and four women were found to be the cul | prita. Two of these were nurses, and th but in because discre. tion to they had tion. ‘On the other nel. two purses have acted course, effec it in good t not of English Americans with thies euemy been Incking side of the chan were proved to They were, of dealt with, and that they were nationality, but German sympa AN ODE TO THE JITBUS MAN When you totter Laugh it off }If your butter’s full of hair Laugh tt off If your married to a shrew Or your butcher bill is due. Or you're tortured by a Laugh it off ‘neath a care, If you're mangled Laugh !t off If a boil comes on your neck, Laugh it off | If a brick shoved from a wall [Lands upon you In its fall, | Do not be “put out” at all, Laugh it off. in a wreck If your engine will not run Laugh it off; Examination on the bum Laugh it off Should the motorcycle cop Trail your jitney for a block Miss Gilbert Arrest you ‘cause you wouldn't stop | it off. —Helen DEMAND GRAND JURY CHEHALIS, Feb. 1?.--Superio Judge Rice has under advfyement & petition presented to him by delegation of Centralia bank de positors who lost heavily in the tw September failures here, for th calling of a grand jury Appoint ment of a special prosecutor is also asked | Laugh Brown. HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET The annual banquet of the Young Men's Bible club and Men's club of the First Presbyterian church will jhe held Tuesday night. Dinner will be served at 7 | Clark P. Bissett, a lifelong dent of Abraham Lincola, a finisher jscholar and brilliant orator, will spond to the toast, “Abraham Lin col Theodore Carl Johnston |tenor, will sing, and Walter H. Wat | kins will read Lincoln's Gettysburg speech stu (Paid Advertisement.) Your City Light Plant —Is in— DANGER! If You Doubt It Read the Unscrupulous* Attacks in *the Kept Press Vote tor Public Owner- ship Candidates. WP, J McELWAIN H. BOLTON >» J. JACOBS DAVID McKENZIE C.D, RAYMER If you elect three of these men your munici- pal utilities will be safe. PUBLIC OWN i RSHIP LEAGUB ‘effectually is the assertion made aples masquerad- ing as nurses both abroad and at we ~ they were at once requested to go! off @ young | iniand, not because they were sus The plot be | pected of wilfully giving informa: | EB, 13, 1915. PAGE 2 HINDENDHNG AGED VICTIMS NEW YORK, Feb, 15 hope of unfolding a murder program of eight thorities of Bronx have With the sensational athe, the tohester decided to ex immediately the ob three persona, alleged to have been killed by the administration of arsenic in the German Odd Fellows Itome at Teekahoe. Frederick Mors, an orderly, has confessed that he killed eight patients with arsenic and chloroform! Testimony of aged patients and statements of orderiies have led district attorneys to believe that when the became too troublesome for lazy attendants, they were MUR DERED with arsenic or chloro form. By Karl H. Von Wiegand BERLIN, by Wireless to Lon don, Feb, 13.—-Once more Ger many rejoices over the victories of Field Marshal von Hinden burg. The “Old Man of the Lakes” has aroused the national spirit to the highest pitch It is becoming more apparent daily that the Russian offensive In East Prussia has been com pletely crushed, The Siav forces which es. sayed a drive against Konige burg and Thorn have been ex pelled from German territory, and some dispatches describe the enemy's retreat as so pre- cipitate as to be “dangerously near a rout.” Only @ small measure of the de tails of the German victory have The coroner is investigating a re b made public, but timates Port current among the inmates place the number of Russians cap. | that when the latter drug was used tured at 30,000 old men and women were prema Many Guns Captured turely pronounced dead and rushed Many guns and enormous quanti-| Off for BURIAL ALIVE! of supplies also have been Attendant Kept Diary The crack first line forces At the inquest over the ex Russian army were badly) humed bodies the authorities intend to prove that a regular diary of complaints was kept by Attendant Mors, and that when these became too numerous the county and the bume |tles |taken. of the eut up. Onc been the icti » strategy Russians more bave Hindenburg’s de sympa-| | | { The Odd Fellows’ Home at Tuckahoe, N. Y., Frank J. Fuchs, the Presi. + dent, and Amelia Bucnopane, the 14year-cld Girl Who COispensed the Poisons. As was the case when the Slave) were led into a trap and almost an-| jathilated at Allenstein early in the war, von Hindenburg again lured them on. The Germans withdrew before the ¢ guard of the enemy until! denburg thought the time patients were put out of the way The coroner expects to show, through the testimony of at- tendants and patients, every heipl old man KNEW that when he became “too much trouble” he would be murdered. Stephen Bleyman, a 92 Enemy is Thrown Back patient of the home, who ts in com Then he struck the Slay front and | paratively good health, has observed both flanks with such crushing) the workings of the methods of re force as to throw the enemy back | Heving the home of its troublesome in dleorder | patients, it is declared, and has told Only « Russian alr seont saved | how gas jets were lighted and cigare the Russians from a complete rout | frequently smoked {n rooms He discovered the German ma | This, the coroner says, would kill neuver and advined the Russian |the odor of chloroform commander of his plight. A ret Superintendent in Jail |was ordered before th Adam Bangert rintendent 0! |forces had completely the home, fs now in Jail, but no at their enem) tempt to question him beyond his meager statement has been made. Amelia katser sup { surrounded | \NEW YORK GUNMAN IS CAPTURED BY POLICE IN FRISCO In alias 14-year. ntiy sent to ked for them. Arsenic, morphine ana chloro- form, according to the testi- mony already obtained, were there in labeled bottles, which she had handled. She has admitted that while: «he iderstood in a general way the power of the drugs, she had no knowledge of the amount of any one SAN FRANCISCO, the arrest here of Scuth Thomas the police declare they t rles. 1 c San captured | after a long chase, on f the most | “ of c to kill a person notorious gunmen in New York t Chem necessary te Bill @ persex a “ Experts who have examined Mors Rikgarn re » Raye tebe dl gp canrgiad Ee} that he is sane, but afflicted “ morte orga res | with peculiar ideas him with the murder of Murray Hennesay last October | SAYS SUN WILL BE REHABILITATED With Thomas the police took Into attor loustody Benjamin Hall, aline Stifter and Char Williams aud Maxie | Marshall, alias Dorothy Macon The quartet were arrested as the were entering three taxicabs front of the Menlo hotel. a Hennessy was murdered in New| former empl told York as the result of a gang feud jof their plans for re-establishing He was Inred outside of a cafe by/the paper at the progressive ban- $ woman and there was shot to the Lincoln hotel Friday ss Fletcher Lewis for the yes of the Sun, quet at night | He said that the organization has acquired full title.to the plant and proposes to sell enough stock in j small denominations to begin pub- | Heation | E. H. Wells, J, Copeland former editor, and A former business man ager, are juded in the organ ization, and a new and aggressive | policy will be purstied ALLOW MAN TO DIE VICTORIA, #eb. 13.—Charge: that a man employed on C. N. R construction work was allowed to die following accident LM, OLAMK, D. lthe. medical $SSSSSSSSSSSSS fell rg py nearest docto CASE COLVON—Worth 82 nud More in the islature Repre sentative Hayward, The laborer} pted | was one of those who pay $1 month medical fee, Hayward said PAYS WAY; WOUNDED | VANCOUVER, Feb. 15.—lLieut Wolseley, who left Vancouver at Cut “prices remain exactly the outbreak of the war, paying his! tame during this discount offer a*/own expenses to expedite his ar-| a ee are on) vival at the front, was seriously wounded in a recent battle, says | repor® received today not ar because availabl with the way applianc inadequate 84 miles made le by will be ount of example worth of work, you can save 20 cent discount with this , and you save $16.00 on an $680.00 job, ote have $40.00 $8.00 the od only at the Regal BANK PLANS NEW HOME | OLYMPIA, Feb, 12.—The Olym-| pia National Bank is planning a new home to cost $40,000, it has been announced, food Oaly at the Neeal D Office Regal Dental Offices DR. L. R. CLARK, MGR. 1405 Third Avenue N, W. Corner Third and Union WINS VICTORY OF POISONER GENERALVON 'WILLEXHUME (jqaooR rE —suony Aut. WEEK $1.00 MATINEE WEDNESDAY. SATURDAY MATINEE 25¢ TO $1.50 ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN Presents the Tingle-ingle-ing Musi Year at the Casino High Jinks By tto Hauerbach | Jollity as Played for an Entire tre, New York and Rudolf Frimi with STELLA MAYHEW: Ar o the le Original @or Fle Matines Pp New $1.00 nnd $1.60 ANTAGE Unequaled Vaudevilie—Our Policy York of 68 Company Drean ( Never Changes BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE The Delightful Musical Comedietta “Mum’s the Word” Presented By HARRY CLEVELAND & CO —-AND— Mr. and Mrs. Robyns Other Worth-While Features In Their Big Hit “DAVID BERG” 10c and 20c { [METROPOLITAN PROSECUTOR TO ARREST MORE POLICEMEN The arrest of one or more police: men for intimidating witnesses against Paul Schuman, men charged with graft, ed the police- is expect: as an outcome of information obtained late Friday by Prosecutor threaten. de plot to get some the city before the In addition rtain witnesses, to Lundin Clares there is of them out trial 1 now have the name of liceman who, 1 understand, visited several of the witnesses,” Lundin said. “He threatened some of the, women with endless police persecu. tion, and warned them they would) be run out of the city. He also tried to persuade one woman to re pudiate an affidavit against Schu man Schuman and Charles Shea, cigar dealer, at whose stand the women are said to have left the bribes for Schuman, remain in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail TOLT HOTEL BURNS’ TOLT, Wash. Feb. 13.—Fire, starting in the kitchen of the Wing field hotel, completely destroyed the building. Loss esttmated be. tween $4,000 and $5,000. of one po THEY WANT IT GACK VISALIA, Cal, Feb, U.—It anneunced that the heirs of Horace Whittaker, former Dinuba rancher would sue the regents of the Uni versity of California for the recoy ery of 320 acres of timber land near Grant Forest which Whittaker deed ed to the institution war "KI-YIY' “IF IGNORANCE IS { BLISS"~ THERE AUST BE | A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 4RE HAPPY. STANDARD GHAND OFEKA CO This Afternoon at Haensel and Gretel Tonight at 6 Lohengrin Presenting “. HUNTERS GAME” and 5-OTHER BIG Keserved Se: One week ACTS — entitled “THE FROZEN sare” (Local branch International Bible Students’ Association.) MOOSE TEMPLE Second at Seneca SUNDAY, FEB. 14th At 3 P. M. Discourse by F. A. Acheson. Topic, “Earthquakes in Bible Symbolo Undenominational All are invited. Rev. M. A. Matthews Preach a Sermon Sunday ™ Botitied wu ing _ “Pleasing God” mon Sunday Night Will Discux the Subject “IS THE WIFE A QUEEN OR A QUESTION MARK?” ‘This will be the third sermon in the series on domestic conditions In this city Everyone Cordially Invited. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring PORTLAND POSTAL OFFICIAL ROBBED PORTLAND, Feb. characterized 13 by Despite its ex no trace had of the two rob- Oo last night compelled 5 perintendent A, G, Ott, at the point of a revolver, to open the safe ia postoffice substation “A,” at Union ave. and Alder st., then handcuffed him to a mail truck and rifled the strong box of $100 in currency and $600 in stamps. 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