The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1915, Page 1

i) } Bolton, Candidate for Council, Replies to Attack by Gill CITY TO FIGHT RAID ON PORT PROPERTY LAST EDITION OSIAH COLLINS, as member of the state senate in 1913, voted for an omnibus appropriation bill that put $7,000,000 more taxes on the people than the 1911 legislature. Collins voted for an appropriation that would have put another $1,000,- 000 of taxes on the people —the “pork barrel’”’ road bill, which Governor Lis- ter vetoed. Collins voted for many other ap- propriations'which would have added to the taxes of the people, but which, “Worse-Than- Harbor Island”’ Steal to Be Target for Civic Organizations’ At- tack This Week. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News fortunately, were turned down by oth- uM # : VOLUME 17. SEATTLE, WASH,., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1915 ONE CEN1 Ca iy eee er members, or vetoed by the gover- the 1 et e pe nor. f As a member of the “pork barrel” en har organization at Olympia, Collins vot- a a pa ed for $18,000,000 of appropriations, Seidl, i many of which were to pay off, in one ; ; way or another, political debts aniza , ! to ward heelers. The 1913 legislature is notorious for the way it spent money like a drunken sailor. Even the Seattle morning grouch was aroused at the The immediate object is to prevent the passage of senate time. Josiah Collins was one of the bill No, 78, now pending. This ringleaders in this enormous waste. measure would bestow the port's rate-making power on A vote for Josiah Collins is a vote for higher taxes, for political spoils, for higher water and light- ing rates to the people of Seattle. Economy had no place in Josiah Collins’ work in the legislature. Economy will have no place in Col- lins’ work in the city coun- the public service commission. It ie branded by port com missioners and leaders in the civic bodies as than | Harbor Island A canvass of the legislative worse situation has convinced the port commissioners that the leg istators have been led to be lleve that 95 per cent of the people of King county are op posed to the port program, whereas the facts would ind! | cate that about the reverse is er bill reorganizing the perso: lof the commission would resylt in| putt BRISTOL - q 2 3 hs Made to Lease Docks | > 43> | ltt Te a om cil Vote against him. ‘ $PROM RA yd A io IS The Blockade of the British Isles Established by the Kaiser. The Dotted Line Shows Area Where German Submarines Are Believed to Be Roaming. Zeppelins Are Aiding he Sub- marines in Making the Blockade impassable The petition assigns soms why the proposed bili a shauid not become a law that te the present port commission FE es were of med for t . Pes and its policies have the sup port of the vast majority of the abe | popple of King county; that hase Doctors Replying to an attack made upon, nance, which clear! the present commissioners | panernoented him by Mayor H. C. Gill in a Seattle le have demonstrated trustwor | WwW morning paper, in which the mayor | Labo thiness and competency; that WASHINGTON. Feb on Man and ife| declares: “Bolton is in warm sym the opposition to the commis | wi SEW YORK Fe hy with the W. W.’s, and Is not t sian is due to the commission's dent son today Charging they were & leadef of organized labor, accord policy of public ownership and | t my view,” T. H. Bolton, pres! coftrol of the water front and . t { the Central Labor Counct! Shipping facilities, as oppesed | t jidate for the city council to private ownership, and that BLOWN UP a charge a the public control of wharves ‘ Gar | i is making a statement | for days and docks means a reduction in € ut in BREMEN, } 22.—The first American vessel to} ws to be absolutely false evaded the the present exorbitant rates, { - | t tos ke aatenntot nsequence he na 4 ived in prejudice and ut-|abie to an # and ‘that privately owned | Curtaliment of Seattle's | " $10 suffer destruction as a consequence of the naval war- : Bg rae — br grit ng his te th dorks will have to cut excess street railway service, as acon |Geo. Rubles of ( 8 \fare of Germany and the steamer Evelyn, a e De counc a nen rat no o r ° eet t ‘s ea 1 1 ° = when Gill himself espoused the ya A Recto stop bes go ig Pjock | sequence of the jitney bus In She struck a mine, yn lity undetermined, off of a faction of the L. W. W.'s ei: W. Y charges at San Francisto and | vasion, has already begun. Sars um island in the North se ate Saturday She and attempted to have an ordinance oa ~ ar con. Further extensive reductions ’ . ~ 4 reonal an othe here public co u 6 oe is supp i to be a total loss. officers and crew passed that would give Seattle po licemen even greater powers to ar trol prevails, are much lower on various city lines will follow than at Seattle, where private in rapid order, according to an “OY STE pa sae eee sage gna) gad es tue control has prevailed, and that announcement Monday of Su n carried a cargo of cotton from New DY rpownet 5 as As for his ‘statement that I a the statement that funds have perintendent A. L. Kempster. iat wats é ! at present exercise, cb stars heen wastefully and unwissly | B Y¢ 27. She arrived at Rotterdam February tier cams ep beftre coun-| 0% T2i08 “a BOS Ay are SOREN “10'S "t Madrona nf he gt yey etter Armament |; and was expected to come here to discharge. She foe mare to the fact that I clutely fal the Madrona “hitk ot Gecras eye : i : 7 a ell committee in connection with an] io ary of ag olen pm sg teothe se cl a tS WASHINGTON, Fe Despite| was insured by the United S government. ordinance by which one branch of ‘ “ a the fact that holida ; ¢ tite? the I. W. W. would have had a per cit and have bu D aegha tinea t 9 rhe scene of her destruction is not within the sea mit to speak at will on the streets | "cor di propriation bills. in a to war zone recently de ined by German) and the other branch of the same or wind up all the work before it th — ‘i ¢ ed of: WON'T HOLD GERMANY ACCOUNTABLE CHILDREN SING ganization would have been ru the streets “Gill appeared tee urging the ure. \4 Killed at Calais |?" ‘ore the commit ge of this of addres: VASHINGTON t be h usion of the ¢ “He declared the policemen er| of the °. oth ‘ W. and National Guard t the present laws, had not suf tl ell f by German Zeppelin ¥, 65th at jownt Gardner reiterated 1 $s authority to arrest persons for caus. a3 What the next lines to be affect n}that the coast defe ine Saturda ing riots on the streets. , A ¢ an Ze 1 are, Kempster today refused to Willled to repulse att to prese “The Central Labor Council ‘ ‘ know Sea coast guns, he declared, have ) passed a resolution protest! , 1 1 ri They wi announced from! and fed-bammunition sufficient to last 45 entire r of the ord ‘ id he er Most nrinutes fightin € t against the p LONDON | WAS GETTING PRETTY EXCITED) ) ABour THAT TIME. WHEN | SOME ONI GAVE MEA TERRIFIC | agin \ Ber are tf 5 Nad\§ | Tom, | WiSH YOU WOULD BE A LITTLE | MORE SOCIABLE WITH BROTHER. { | CECIL WHILE HE IS HERE, Now Gg IN | AMD TALI To HIM OR TELL Hit | \ HELLO CRGIL —- \ BIUST TELL You WHAT HAPPENED) } TO ME ON THE WAY HOME THIS EVENING — THE CAR WAS CROWDED AND SOME ONE KICKED | Me IN THE LEG LIKE THAT — [——— L. he | i | LOOKED AT THE LADN STANDING AT MY SIDE AND WAS SURE IT WASN'T HER, WHEN | GOT ANoTHE: Kick LIE THAT- JUST, THEN, THE } CONDUCTOR CALLED OUT MY STREET ANDI GOT OFF THE CAR AND u— AFUNNY — — SIE Live AT! \ " VERY WELL res A HARDER one lea [Lie Th DION'T FIND OUT v e | TOMMY } Y one British to treets, singing | Are Coming, They ge from to the air of “The t Bremen to Coming 8 was Who'd Like a Pig? Newbill of Pr attle on a mis Austria Extends Zone to Adriatic = ble | PARIS, Fe \ eva dis: — the the a t to tl In- vast 1 for the Austrian ad- ear ty | ered the Austrian is stopping at the Frye | fleet t rk € merchant vessel bij re ‘in the Adriata,