The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1915, Page 1

A® YOU wearing a knot of green in your buttonhole today? How many persons know who St. Patrick really was, and what he really did for Ire- land. Seumas McManus, the famous teller of stories, of Donegal, Ireland, has written the story of St. Patrick’s life for The Star and its sister papers to give their readers today. You will find it on page 7. ATTACK ON LAWS STARTED Copies of the “outlaw” meas ures against which the refer endum ie to be Invoked will ve in the hands of the secretary of state at Olympia in a few days. A committee, consisting of Corporation Counse! Bradford, Rep. W. D. Lane and Hugh C. Todd, was appointed Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of the newly organized State Referen- dum league to prepare the necessary documents. President Oliver T. Erickson of the “city council was elected to Bead the organization, subject to approval and ratification of the mass meeting to be held Friday evening at the Labor temple. All organizations, civic, com mercial, improvement and labor, are invited to send delegates to this meeting and affiliate with the central organization. To Make it State Wide Immediate steps will be takea to ‘take the State Referendum ‘league e wide in its scope. It was tentatively decided Tues day that the following measures be subjected to referendum: H. B. 120, initiative and referen- dum “amendments”; H. B. 178, re call “amendment the fitney bus Dill, the Renick bill, 8S. B. No, 272 the port commission bill and S. B. 301, “certificate of necessity” bill 8S. B. 301 fs still in the hands of the governor. It is possible he may veto it Explains League's Plans } In a pubiie invitation to other/ organizations and individuals to af. filiate with the State Referendum league is to obtain a statewide may be some differences of opinion on some matters of detail as to which measures passed by the last The Price of The Star Is Now, as It Always Was, ONE CENT REFERENDUM COMMITTEE ORGANIZ eraeea vena UU aE GIRLS CAUGHT IN RAID! WORLD'S BIGGEST BATTLE FLEET CLOSING IN FOR BOMBARDMENT OF THE DARDANELLES legislature should be subjected to referendum. “Those who join this league do not nece: rily bind themselves .to support every one of the measures that may be under referendum,”| said President Erickson. “The! object of the State Referendum league is to obtain a state wide organization where all these refer endum measures may receive con sideration. If, after all the refer endum measures are filed, certain organizations choose to circulate only a few of the measures, it will ORDER IS IGNORED The Seattie Electric Co. paid no attention today to the order of the state public service com- mission that all passengers on the Alki point line must be seats. The number of care would have been necessary to foliow out the commission's mandate. A check on Alki cars = Wednesd: morning showed an average of six pa» sengers standing. The fact that West Seattle rest! dents preferred to hill and take th give thelr nickels to pany, prevented the extreme over crowding this mo: follow yesterday's the commutation agreement | The company refused to renew) ermination be their privilege to do so. | this agreement with the ferry Officers Are Elected | Miss Lucy R. Case, executive!on the ferry secretary of the Direct Legislation) This was partly accounted for by the port commission's new 2-cent fare, which took effect toda City Car Service Inspector Mc league, was elected temporary sec fetary at the meeting held Thurs day in the office of Corporation Counsel Bradford in the Central|Cloy kept a check on the Atkt building. Former Mayor Geo. F|cars between 6:30 a. m 4 8:46 Cotterill was elected treasurer. Ja m. During this period 630 pas Miss Adella M. Parker was chosen| sengers were carried Into town vice president committee was deferred to a later meeting. ‘The committee will meet again uraday afternoon to receive the) W4Y | in vé The commissioners’ checkera| will do the best we reports of its law committee and on ways and means of securing the| Will essary funds to carry on the rendum fight All contributions of money may be forwarded to Geo. F. Cotteril Seattle. Permanent headquarters for the league are to be established 496 of them seated ‘The election of an executive|ioad was carried. by a car which passed First ave. and Spokane st jat 7:18 This car had 74 pas sengers. Eighteen stood all the| British Columbia | yet obtain thetr favorite drugs. can to look aft are left suffering In Ipatead of failing off, patronage increased materially report to Chairman Reynolds) er at the end of the day. Upon their tabulation rests the commission's decision as to whether the com Wenatchee fruit shippers organ as soon as possible. J ize. ENGLAND’S BLOCKADE COSTS UNCLE SAM $100,000 A DAY when the war first started WASHINGTON, March 17.— ‘The stoppage of American im- ports from Germany, as the re sult of the British order in council establishing a block- ade of Germany, will mean the loss to the United States gov: ernment of more than $100,000 a day in customs duties. This was the estimate made today by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and Senator Waish of Montana, after a conference with President Wilson and Sec: retary of Commerce Redfield The stoppage of exports alro means a reduction of the world's consumption of American cotton 20,000 on a week Py. The cotton trade with Germany 4 Austria which wuffered seri-| ously } was just getting well started a | when the British blockade was an nounced The latest move, if carried out, | will check it completely | Justify her that the United St ble » attempt of Great Britain action THE UNITED STATES WILL FLATLY TELL ENG LAND AND HER ALLIES THAT THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT AND CANNOT RECOG NIZE THE RIGHT OF ANY BELLIGERENT TO ESTAB LISH A BLOCKADE ON THE HIGH SEAS, of elles. Only a few of the The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME SEATTLE, WASH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1915. ONE CENT «= 9x titan anu faded: | | An actual photograph—the first to | reach this country—of the huge | Anglo-French fleet closing in for its | original grand assault on the forts | most powerful batt wembled, are shown here. This remarkable photograph was taken from the French battleship | Bouvet just before the bombard ment. | City Hospital Doctors Ready to Aid Dope Fiends Drug Victim Who Tried to Commit Suicide Cannot dope fiend, who attempted to end his life by ewallowing me Drug Fiend Writes The Star for Help DITOR THE STAR seen in The Star that « dene fiend named Rerestord tried A few minutes later he rea ed at the window throat when unable to get a supply of the drug to which he was accustomed, ing his end in the city hospital as a result of mercury is approach. of the two children were f walk down the rather than » car com many more canes like thie, hospital in # dyte expect @ reat influx of drug fiends at the hospital within! the next few weeks as the supplies of drugs laid In before the feder 1 seeking Samuel father of the Ing, expected to is prostrated with told the police she Tam young—only ¢7 new what such gan using heroin tab association with peuple were ndicted to the habit will have at ber of wild men and women on log the children in the kitchen CALL CHARACTER WITNESSES FOR AUSTIN AND SALT Prosecutors Silvain and Butler and Mcintyre of the School to the extent of the! hospital's accommodations sent to the stockade for treatment eal rush of suffe have to procure cial quarters for Tam not able to and rather than people know Tam a dope fiend, The heaviest fany of the city’s will put them the care of 1 been to two or three in physicians and which the latter od knows I have tried to ASK FOR EMBARGO for good sportsmanship ny is complying with {ts order an club here bas issued an from the sparring bouts they spor was the general charac THEY’RE | refusing the | Tom, THAT PoLLN 1S (A VERN SMART BIRD AND 19 WORTH EVERY ae YOURE A FINE PIECE OF JUNK OW You’RE A SMART BIRD TWENTY DOLLARS | FoR A DUMB OLD ) BUNCH OF FraTHERS| \its THAT 15 4 RIDICULOUS Se d her request ates regard the kade as a_parallel to the action of the North ‘during the American | civil war will be ignored by the ad ) ministration HURLS BABES WELL, THEY'VE FAR TO DEATH PUT IT ACROSS: NEW YORK identified man dropped Sadie Lieb from the fifth story of Fishermen Who Undersell Rivals Are Persecuted = | The city health department has won its fight, and the fishing boats which use the muntetpal fioat, foot of Madison ast. now have glass covers for their live fish The glass covers are an awful nuisance, AND THEY DON’T DO ANY GOOD, but the letter of a city ordinance has been enforced As stated in The Star Tuesday, the ordina requiring foodstuffs to be k inder glass was Intend. shops, not on ships lers ashore “sicked” the health department on the fish ermen. The fish-sellers ashore do not lke the fishermen, because the lat and broke into the house befc could give the alarm. Immediately | the wildest alarm broke loose. | In an attempt to avoid arrest girle | IGHT EDITION | WEATHER FORECAST—Rain TIDES AT SEATTLE High Lew ft. 12:07 p.m, 42 ft ft ES FOR FIGHT AAD PPAR PPP PPP PPP CLANCY’S | DANCERS ~ ARRESTED It is a sad St. Patrick’s day for Johnny Clancy, proprietor of the well known roadhouse at the Meadows. J Deputy sheriffs raided the Clancy place at 3 a. m. Wednesday, while the fun was at its height, and are rested Clancy and D. P. McRae, the house manager. Both were released on $500 bail each. Guests at the roadhouse made their escape through & windows and by v of the cellar when the deputies marched in. Fifteen men and six women were brought to jail as witnesses. Clancy put up bail of $50 each for three of the women. Clancy's roadhouse has been in operation at the Meadows since last Potlatch and has been raided several times by Sheriff Cudihee. In each case, however, evi- 7 dence that Clancy had been selling booze failed to come 4 forth. d According to Deputy Campbell, however, the pres- ~ ent sheriff.has a.strong case against the roadhouse._ The place was under observation by the five depu- | ties for more than two hours before they entered it. They watched auto after auto unload the “guests” bes @ tween midnight and 3 a.m. The piano worked ‘over- 73 time. The dancers never let up. It was one merry trot 7% after another, and the booze, they say, flowed merrily. Shortly before 3 the deputier ]—— placed the doorman under cu leaped out of the windows to the} lawn ’ One or two deputies soon checked this, and then ensued a confused scene of men and women rushing | from one room to another, up and down stairs, All the rooms were guarded by the deputies, and a thor ough search of the place was made be | 4 In the bathroom the deputies | a found a large assortment of beer ; and whiskey glasses. 4 In almost every room they claim a to have found bottles of booze. Outside, on the deputie SOUTH SHIELD. picked up further of booze . F bottles, strewn ev MARCH 17.—THE § The deputies claim that in the|BLOODE ARRIVED HERE TO- z confusion that followed their entry |DAY AND REPORTED THAT 4 Clancy and his e¢ yloyes threw | SHE HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY dozens of bottles of booze out of | 4 2RMAN AIRMAN IN J the windows. ies beac ‘ ne aN John Clancy Wednesday declarea|TAUBE MONOPLANE. THE AVE- he was not selling any booze, an¢é| ATOR DROPPED A BOMB, KILL- ter sell direct to the public at half/that no evidence of booze was foun¢/ING ONE OF THE BLOODE’S the prices fixed by the sellersjon his premises, CREW ashore. | He saya the deputies broke into a 7 " barn owned by another man, @)| LONDON, March 17.—The re of the testimony offered by these neighbor, and there secured a quan |markable prowess of Germany's witnesses tity of liquor new submarines was demonstrated Pat Scott, pugilist, who took part), Clancy claims to run an out-of in a striking manner today when in one of the bouts on the fatal/tOW restaurant—and nothing more |the admiralty announced that the January 9, and C. G. Parker, an|., '® previous raids he escaped by| British steamer Atalanta had been automobile man, who had a seat) {he plea that he was selling “near | torpedoed off Inishturk close to the ring, testified Wednes-| Deer.” and not real beer Simultaneously it was announced day that the blow which knocked that the British steamer Fingal Anderson out jn the final round EAGLES WILL CHEER was torpedoed off Northumberland, Was uot eevee eiotelto have England. The Atalanta reached anid Goat port; the Fingal sank ie teat sans win goto ve, FOLK AT FIRLANDS "3s ich step at micauny, Savy. late Wadneaday ‘attaraton which is on the coast of Galway, Headed by little Crawford White | the German jersea boat must as drum major, the Eagles’ band have had @ cruising radius of near 1,060,029 GERMANS LOST of 40 pleces will go to the Fir ly 3,000 miles ROME, March 17.—Copenhagen lands hospital for tuberculosis pa This fact tends to onfirm re advices declare the casualty list of tients, at Richmond Highlands, | ports that the new rman sub the Germans now totals 1,050,029.| next St afternoon and enter- marines are equij to make a This does not take In the Wurtem-|tain tt its from 2 to 4 with across the Atlantic if neces+ burg, Saxon and Bavarian lists nd concert “TYou COST TWENTY DOLLARS, | You BRAZILIAN SPARROW - | Do You THINK You'Re WoRTH IT € 1 = ™ MARRIED peer eee | _SAY HELEN, | TAKE] ) THAT BACK WHAT | \ SAID, THIS IS A | DOGGONE SMART |