The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1915, Page 1

Ele CITY OF SEATTLE is in imminent peril of being sandbagged by the legislature now in session at Olympia. A bill drafted for the benefit of the benevolent Boston millionaires who own the Stone at Webster corporation has passed the senate at Olympia. It is now pending in the house. It is known as Sen- ate Bill 300.. And it is a deliberately plotted attempt to lift millions out of the pockets of the taxpayers in cities of this state. ; | Senate Bill 300 turns the hands of the clock back 20 years. It takes away from the city of Seattle, and other cities in the state, the power of regulating their own @ franchise affairs. Senate Bill 300 would make every existing and future public utility franchise perpetual. IT WOULD GIVE OVER OUR STREETS TO THE SE- ATTLE ELECTRIC CO., AS LONG AS THE COMPANY DESIRED THEM, AS A GIFT. And it even would prevent the city from insisting upon requirements j such as compelling the company to pay its share of paving, etc. It would strip the city of all regulatory authority. It would ‘interfere with competition and encourage e monopoly. It would require cities, as well as private companies, to obtain from the public service commission, in which overworked body all power is vested, a cer- tificate of necessity before they could be permitted to embark in any new public utility enterprise. And the commission, by the terms of the bill, is prevented from granting such certificate as long as the existing public utility is giving reasonable service. IT THUS EVEN WOULD PREVENT THE CITY OF SEATTLE FROM AVAILING ITSELF OF COMMON USER PRIVILEGES OVER THE SEATTLE ELECTRIC’S RAILS IF IT COULD BE SHOWN THAT THE COMPANY IS HANDLING THE TRAFFIC. A referendum clause is attached to the bill. If it is concurred in by the house, the people will have a crack at it. The Star believes, however, that a referendum upon such a barefaced steal would entail useless expense. THE BILL SHOULD BE KILLED AT OLYMPIA. CITY OFFICIALS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE HAVE PROTESTED AGAINST IT BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES. YOU CAN GIVE THEIR PROTESTS WEIGHT BY ADDRESSING A LETTER TODAY TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. George E. Wright, a Seattle attorney, has denounced Senate Bill 300 in a paper read to the Municipal league. He says: ‘This act makes to existing public utility companies, without consideration, what is perhaps the most princely donation ever made by any American state to private interests.” The Star will print Mr. Wright’s 5 paper tomorrow. Every citizen of Seattle ought to read it. } CSD 0 ERE. GREED GERESS GD GSD GLEE: CET GETS GED CLD GSTS GSES SELES OPED CEE CEN CET! <' (exe=| TheSeattleStar [Nc ONE CENT The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News a Turkish Fleet in Flight Before Allies’ Strong Armada YOUNG WOMAN “AT ANY COST, 4 WAS THE GENERAL'S ORDER: THIS IS HOW HIS GERMAN SOLDIERS PAID AIRMEN | IN Cou RT In Mre Lucile Goldy was from the 6am jail 1 morn. visit her at the Milwaukee hotel. seal 1. F. Ocesear, the third alleged ate te “tae ar ae viet and complice in the crime, who pleaded the white woman 0 rushed out guilty to second degree murder last ene lene otc int ctl week, was concealed in Mra. Goldy’ Hower part of town, last Christmas |"0O™, according to the information Meat, uhen Quon Chew, a Chinese|omained by the police and the prosecutor. WEATHER FORECAST—Rain TIDkS AT SkATILE Nich “Low OAR a. m,, 19.9 ft 12:08 wom, 47 ft VOLUME 18 NO. 7 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915 ONE CENT 28, Titstss anu ee ee Oe te ee So Ws STANDS, Be trerchan wae murdered rs wor rman, neaily dressed| At Mrs, Goldy’s signal, tt i s charged, he struck the Chinaman . LONBON, “MARCH: 4- THe ¥ with a brush over the head and beat ys TASK _OF GIVING BATTLE him until death followed a few urs ater, TO THE POWERFUL ALLIED cen FLEET NOW ENGAGED IN FORC ING THE DARDANELLES HAS FLED, ACCORDING TO o1S. PATCHES FROM ATHENS Identifies Woman Tom Hom, a Chinese guest at the Milwaukee hetel, Thursday told of seeing Mrs. Goldy, and later TODAY Oesear, rush down the atairs These ships were expected by rough the cafe, and disappear. the Porte to meet the enemy inside s tively identified the woman, the Dardanelles. Instead, they j¢ een ber in the Milwaukee slipped under cover of a heavy fog previous from Niagara roads into the sea of - ork in the and aw Mrs, or shortly after committed and she 1 times t taxi call that in rounding 8 hours after d|Quong Chew had been attacked. 4 will stand separate € case is over, = civic BODIES PROTEST NEW PORT COMMISSION MEASURE Send Resolutions to Ol louncing Effort to Railroad | ugh. Qe ornwoog As far as the eye can see, the ground Is covered with dead Germans who charged across an open field in the face of a terrific fire of French machine guns at Champagne. “At any cost,” was the command th undered at the German troops. CONGRESS BOYRESENTS .2:% eres: = WOMAN SHOT ©. ADJOURNS NeW a eases BY HUSBAND: The compromise port bill passed |PORT COMMISSION SAVE SELF- by the senate Wednesday is noth-/ISH AND THOROUGHLY DIS- ing but a sugar-coated affair open CREDITED INTERESTS DEFEAT- ch to practically the same objections ED IN EFFORTS TO MANIPU- ” as the original measure, is the|LATE THE COMMISSION. They on the Asiatic Stand taken by the Seattle Com-jare seeking by misrepresentation mercial Club and the Municipal at Olympia to accomplish their pur- league poses, which are primarily to hold Telegrams by these organizations, UP dockage charges and prevent n Stating their objections, have been !ow rate competition of present sent to Speaker Connor of the Publicly operated fac rr house and to various members of As the regulation e, and the legislature, and to Governor | all h Lister nd for A report was made to the po WASHINGTON, Ma lice station shortly after 1 ing a session whic! lished more legislative ¥ ang other in history, the 6 o'clock this afternoon that a man named Reese had shot his wife at 215 Third ave. N. The woman was taken to the city grees was ended | Jimitation at Elizabet ead of ten The following is one of the tele continued the grams tahr ‘The compromise port commis- | the sion bill passed by the senate yes. / q terday is open to particularly ev- § Anti. efy Objection raised by our pre vious protest against other port bills “THERE IS NO PUBLIC DE issing MAND IN SEATTLE FOR ANY < dam- INTERFERENCE WITH THE WORK OR POWERS OF THE|t hospital with a bullet wound in her head. Reese has not yet been apprehended " WILL TRY apg SHOP Ae “i DROP BOMBS ON", RV ERETT, March (-—Asnosoce | CROWN PRINCE |= CETTINJE, Montenegro, March 4.—An attempt two Austrian ry remarks aod bidding members| w _ GUESS iF THEY’ RE MARRIED | igned ‘nah 4 for th adjourn eniten us BeRBIO for more t} e after a ADD DRAR ADD AD LDAP PPADS ear — « ; Ee: Nr ir é . There was a HELEN | BROUGHT . { ( How Just | ( \ — | ; TOM, YovRE ST W : So 01 TY? J ALITTLE BOX OF \, Youre \ JUST WHAT vg ONE MINUTE | urs) ONS |L00 KK NIF } - ‘ ; | A DEAR. \ WANTED, ° as cy Ve} CANDY FOR You | he ie | v ( \ | eines — —— L, Tee C { WIFE OUT OF BURNING HOME Mr. and Mra. C. P. Robertson spd | Robeyiacn 1902 W. 67th st, marrow! ed be death when home, at 2:5 while both slept Aroused. b which m flames on ered they oe ba = pounded sheets of fire Smoke poured into the bedroom.| were sii ghtly. b ured before reach- | The fumes bon overcame Mrs. ing the street. )