The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1915, Page 1

7 HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND YET? EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! TURN TO PAGE 8 Are You Going to Move? F YOU move, telephone Circulation 400, and our carrier The Star. Main 9400, Remember GERMAN PRISONER FLEES FROM NANAIMO T ESCAPES FROM B.C. WAR Department, boy hat you do not miss a single copy of the The Star's Main will see number, Ve ALASKA fingers clasped about the wrist of commercial industry, have} noticed the quickened pulse, a throb of new life denoting a} tremendous activity as a result of the opening of Alaska | through the government railroad @ Alaska is at last to be opened—and opened RIGHT—as The Star and a nation-wide group of affiliated newspapers urged years ago and have been urging ever since of realization in Seattl @ The glad smile wire countenance concerns are unanimous in their city's outlook for greater wealth and prosperity is greater than ever before because the long happened. @ The dream of years has come true men who know what it means - Alaska will be dependent upon rt} Seattle for many years to come for all her provisions and equipment of various kinds, and we merchants feel confident that business activ ity here will rise in a gigantic crescendo. Through Seattle, a great tide of people will surge into the North. Their mouths will be fed by Seat tle, their bodies clothed by Seattle and their homes built tained by Seattle —-OMER FOIS president and manager of the Seat- tle Grocery Co. . As the population of Alaska grows, Seattles business impor. tance must inevitably increase. Se- attle is bound to be the converging point of travel, through whieh homeseekers will reach the North. ‘There is no doubt that Seattle will be the main source of supplies for) all Alaska, and Seattle people will reap the benefit —N. 4. LATIMER, president Dexter Horton bank. see Tt will mean the return of the prosperity enjoyed before railroad building operations were suspend. ed there several years ago, when this city was getting the bulk of the $4,000,000 annual payroll. It will mean that money circulation here will be increased immensely and immediately, It means to Se- attle a complete restoration of ac- tivities. CAPT. R. H. STRETCH, secretary Alaska bureau, Seattle Chamber of Commerce. ore Tnquestionably it will open up a wonderfully increased market for supplies of all kinds in Seattle. It fs the biggest event in history, by far, for Seattle wholesalers, job- bers and manufacturers. All down the line of industry and commerce we are sure to feel the satisfying results. If we are alive and wise, it is entirely within our power to bring to Seattle an almost fabu- lous increase in money wealth. W. R. PHILLIPS, president North- ern Bank & Trust Co. . The real terminal of the Alaska railroad is not at Seward, but In Seattle. We are the home port. We are going to get the immense trade of Alaska, just as we are go- ing to get the great trade of the Orient. There is no argument against the fact—OTTO CASE, secretary Seattle Commercial Club. “2° A supply station, that's That'sghow and why Seattle will be benefi by the Alaska raflroad. And that’s enough.—C. H. BLACK, manager Seattie Hardware Co. We look for an increase of 15 to 25 per cent in our business next year. We believe the opening of Alaska and its development will be slow and permanent. There will be a little excitement at first, perhaps, but It will quiet down and give way fo a sure, steady growth CHARLES R. KEARNY, Love War ren-Monroe company, wholesale dry goods. eee There's something doing in ina- chinery row. Our company has fur OPENED © RIGHT: SEATTLE TO REAP BENEFIT @ Seattle business men, big and little fellows alike, with their] n ) is written large on every live- id joyous heads of big business acclamations that today this] -looked-for event has actually And here is what the to Seattle say about it | {nished the government with serap-| ers, plows, slips and a lot of other} equipment for building the first) part of the Alaska railroad. We're shipping one lot today, and have another carload coming from the factory to be sent right up. Seattle| has taken away the machinery bust-| ness from Portland In a very cap able way.—L. A. NUTTER, Western | Wheel & Scraper ar Everybody down here ts on his} |toes after those contracts for ma-| chinery. We all want to sell the} government that locomotive crane. | Everybody and everybody's firm has | sent In a bid. We're all anxious and we all look for SOME BUSI NESS trom this time on.—F. R. SCHOEN, American Hoist & Der ritk Co. € ». } There ts no doubt that the open: tng of Alaska will be of big benefit to Seattle. That can not be ques tioned.—A. L. JOHNSON, Pacific Knitting Mills | eee It begins to look like the old days}! here, just like the old days before! the gold rush We have a lot of orders going up on the next boat I think the amount of merchandise we will ship in for the road builders will be as nothing compared to what we will send up when the set- tlers begin to move. Alaska's open- ing will do wenders for Seattle. H. P. CHAPMAN, manager Chas. H. Lilly Co. | FOX-TROT BUGS | WON’T TANGO IN NOOKECHAMP From Our Special ponaent | NOOKECHAMP, Wash., April 15 Joe Lytle believes his fortune | | made. Since fall the fruit house has | been shut up, but the other day Joe! decided to clean it out and get ready | |for the berry and cherry and peach | |packing, having decided to tend to business this summer, instead of fooling away his time feeding city folks. He noticed that the place was lalive with cockroaches, and started jto clean them out, when he saw what they were doing. There were 14 couples of them, paired off, fox trotting, and five old crickets were |furnishing the music Evidently the bugs watched the city folks last summer, and learned} all the new steps. Joe caught three of the orchestra and six couples of the cockroaches, and allows to take | them down to Seattle and show | them. | They fox-trot and canter and do |the hesitation. Joe says they per form fine when he's alone with them, but they're bashful, and he ts | having trouble teaching them te tango. They seem too modest | | CONG. HUMPHREY TALKS Congressman W. KE. Humphrey spoke Wednesday night before 100 |men of foreign birth at the Y. M C. A. He outlined the ideals of a| la true American citizen | Funny John Bunny Sick in New York; Cannot Recover ‘105 JITNEY | lon. | $2,500 bonds for jitney PARRA AAIRAARAAAAARAARAR AR AR ADDR DAA DPD APPR PPP PPP 1LUME 18 NO, 43 KICKLESS! | Prosecutor Lundin may bea | | Sunday schoo! superintendent, | but he says he can tell booze when he it. And, in apite of the fact that Judge Frater Thureday, upon application of attorneys for John Clancy, proprietor of the Pacific Social club at the Meadows, ordered a chemical of the liquor seized by In a rald, Lundin de- clares he hae the goode on Clancy. | Clancy says the sheriffs deputies up a dancing party at) the roadhouse at 2 o'clock In the who broke John Bunny morning got only near-beer, which | NEW YORK, April 15.—John | cheers but does not Inebriate, Bunny, famous movie actor, is Says it's Real Booze critically if at his home, in Lundin says the haul consists of Flatbush. Bunny broke down | Whisky, gin, vermouth, and sundry two weeks ago. it was declar- liquors, and that it's the @d today there was little hope kind of booze, if he knows of his recovery. | ng at all about it Attorney Vanderveer expressed |deep and pained surprise in court | }that any one shoyld suggest that | d the Hauora dispensed at the re house conducted by his client.) Johnny Clancy, might be intoxicat | | ing. ured the court that the stuff, now held by the sherttr, is an innocuow milk. He asxe@ that the selzed goods be chemical liy analysed Lundin objected that fees the defense with a ¢ tale would disclose to Un the state's evidence Says Nea “Raids,” said Lundio. “have been made before on Johnny Clancy's roadhouse. The place ts notorious. Near-beer haa been ‘planted’ there for officers to find. There may be a bottle or two of near-beer in this Vanderveer a BUS MEN SECEDE! Jitney bus drivers have rebelled agsinet the Auto Transit aseocta and its system of advocating der the law recently passed, which Is to be attacked by referendum if} the supreme court permits lot for all 1 know 1 " day night a nm « ight to an analyels 1616 Third ave.. formed an organ. | Tne had # right to J « 1b tried next Thurs {zation to be known as the Auto een en , Drivers’ association. elected offi. “* fo es . pald their dues, and retained William Hickman Moore as coun, Tells Why He Let ' sel It was charged by speakers that Passengers Drown the old association was not work | ing for interests of the jitney men.| BERLIN, by Wireless to Say F. M. Chandler was elected sec-| ville, April 15.—That his orders are retary of the new organization,/not to take any person not accus none of whose members have|tomed to living on a submarine taken out the exorbitant bond re-| aboard his vessel, was the offictal quired by the new law. explanation today of the com - ro Pa mander of the submarine which }wunk the liner Falaba for bis fail lure to rescne the struggling pas sengers of the ship. AND EIGHT DROWN ° rie tors of't:2 persons, tne com: | mander declared, was due to the PRIS unseamaniike work of the crew in PHOENIX, Apri! 15.--Elght per. " boats from the son are known to have been drown. a vrar See, Pees : ed when the Lyman reservoir, 12) — — miles above the town of St. Jobn#, OR. ROBERTA FORD TO SPEAK ‘orthern Arizona, broke, early! The second of a series of lec-| Several persons are miss-\tures will be given Friday after-| ing, and ft is feared the death list/ noon by Dr. Roberta M. Ford at will be heavier the John B. Allen school SAID THE COMMISSIONER FROM THE FIRST DISTRICT TO THE COMMISSIONER FROM THE THIRD The board of county commissioners has been seized with a “sudden” attack of generosity. They're going to give Prosecutor Lundin two extra And they're doing it without even consulting Lundin, out any request from him. Why all this generosity? The board says Lundin’s force is overcrowded with work and needs heip to handie some canal litigation. | Lundin says he has retained Deputy Evans just for the very | purpose of the canal litigation. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the commissioners want to appoint John F. Murphy and George A. Lee, law partners. | Incidentally, it may aiso be mentioned that George Lee fought | the election contest suits for Commissioners Carrigan and Knud. | sen. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 15 The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 1915, DOAN SAYS ZDPELN = HIS BEER’S TERRIFIES | ENGLAND | Total British Loss Thus Far 139,347 LONOON, April 15.—(Bulle- tin.) —Brith casualties from the beginn of the war to April 11 total 139.347, it was stated in the house of commons today. The announcement was made by Uncer Secretary of War Tennant in response to re- quests for a starement. LONDON, April 15.—(Bul- letin.)—Eleven tives were lost when the 8. S$. Ptarmagin was torpedoed In the North by a German submarine, it was learned today. BY W. & FORREST LONDON, April 15.—Towns and villages of the Tyne dis trict, Northumberiand county, have heard the crash and tear of Zeppelin bombs. Two men and one woman slightly hurt, one buliding de- stroyed by fire and three dam- aged, represents the destruction wrought by a German cruiser of t which visited the dis trict last night. - For 36 minutes. the Zeppelin cruised over the Tyne district. Eleven towne were attacked. Explosive Incendiary bombs were hurled upon them from the sky. At least 30 missiles tore great holes in the ground and spurted flames. At the end of the bombardment the Zeppelin fled across the North sea, while machine guns rattled harmlessly, sending a hall of lead in the invaders wake Neweastle, undoubtedly the Zep pelin’s objective, escaped Newcastle in Darkness Warships and guns are assembled at the great Armstrong works there but warning of the approach of the alr raider was flashed to Newcastle and the town and shipyards were completely darkened. The Zeppelin groped its way in wide circle about Newcastle, drop- ping bombs upon every village in its path Right bombs were dropped on Blythe, where the Zeppelin first ap: peared At Newcastle a big concert was| in progress when the warning of the approach of the Zeppelin was flashed from Blythe. Lights throughout the town were extinguished, and the crowd attend. | ing the concert was left in absolute darkness. Baby Has Narrow Escape After a moment of silence the audience joined in “God Save the King.” Five bombs Wallsend. 01 roof of a hou! a room whe! ing her baby The explosion of the bomb wreck were dropped on ashed through the and penetrated into a woman was wash. ed the room and demolished the child's bed. The woman was struck fn the head and slightly wounded, but the baby escaped Injury. At Cramlington two bomba were dropped, exploding without damage It was there that the Zeppelin faced its strongest attack Two illuminating shells were first fired, lighting the sly, revealing the airship, The craft was apparently an easy target, and guns were soon booming Crew Is Plainly Seen The crew could be even throwing out be last while sbellé burst about the bag. The coast guards at Blythe also fired on the Zeppelin with rifles We ONE CENT YA, tiuatse aay ESCAPED WAR PRISONER IN SEATTLE x MINING MAN SAYS HIS WIFE USED FRAUD TO GET DIVORCE Adolph A ning Gust, wealthy Oregon and paid for by Mrs. domestic dif-|sttorney, Edward Judd ulties were aired in a sensational|, rs. Gust obtained her decree sult in which hie wife, Sarah A.|t8Tough the testimony of Lesife B [@ust, got a divorce and $12,000 ali-, D@wson, who, Gust says, was paid mony two years xO, brought a $1,000 by Judd. counter sult in the superior court). The principal testimony Thursday, alleging the divorce was |Gust at the time the divorce was tained through evidence bought; ST@nted, in July, 1913 was that are given by Dawson, who swore Gust and a woman named Pauline Miller just and her man, whore 50 Yrs. Ago Today were on terms of great intimacy | | in La Grande, Oregon. Abe Lincoln Died Gust says this testimony was false and was trumped up by the opposition. Flags in Seattle are flying at half-mast today, in commemora ‘ton of the 50th anniversary of she death of Abraham Lincoln, On the night of April 14, 186 John Wilkes Booth entered the At 4 o'clock Thursday morning, president's box in the Ford the }/ for the first time in ower 1,000 aire, Washington, and fired tha fatal bullet at Presideut Lincoln, after which he jumped to tue stage and escaped, with the dra- matic ery, “The South Is aveng- ed.” President Lincoln died the following day ‘AGED BACHELOR FOUND SLAIN __ INCABIN NEAR PORT ORCHARD Kitsap county officials are en-[ered Wednesday by George Cleve | deavoring Thursday to link togeth-| land, a neighbor, | Cleveland had seen no signs of chain of evidence that will] ® Oe Seen + + Stephen | RANAKe about the latter's cabin for murderer of Stephen) nearly two weeks, he says, and, feel. Ranage, & wealthy and eccentric) ing that something must be wrong, old bachelor, found tn a lonely cab went to investigate, in, pine miles south of Port Orch-| Robbery is thought to have been ard, with the top of his head blown the m ers motive in shooting off. the old man, as a bareau had been years, the earth and the planets Jnpiter and Venus were in a straight lin Farewell reception to Rev. Mr. Mrs, C. E. Frisk given at Lutheran church Tuesday lead to the Ranage, it is said, had quarrel-| ransacked, Ranage’s legacy, which some words with a neighbor several ntly came to him, the days ago. The dead man's body of which is unknown, but be had evidently lain in the cabin} lieved to be considerable, is still on labout 10 days when it was discov-’ deposit in a bank at Bremerton “TMAA Be OVER TO | CALL ON You To~ MORROW MRS DUFF wou! LH 1 WISH You LO DON'T | Hear You Asw THAT MRS. KNOK To. CALL ON You? is YES, swe’s COMING OVER. You SHOYLDN'T ENCOURAGE “THAY GossiP ‘To CALL HERE — DO YOU ENJOY HEARING YouR. NEIGHBORS ‘TALKED ABOUT 7 y SAY THAT | AS LONG As | Keep HER WERE | KNOW SHE IS NOT TALKING ABOUT ME RON STNEVER THOUGHT OF INCREASED MORE THAN MONTHS. that period? Main against | -| “One afternoon AST EDITION ATHER FORECAST—Fair THs AL SRATOOR iow High 17 tt : a8 tt 11:8 ® 1688p. on tt no tt O SEATTLE RISON ’ pe LEAPS OFF TRAIN TO GETAWAY | | John Wolert, 24-year-old Ger- man sailor, and for three | months a British prisoner-of- war, has arrived in Seattle, following a sensational escape from the alien concentration camp at Nanaimo, B. C. Wolert brings the first story | from the provincial camp since the outbreak of the war. Wolert effected his get-away by running a gauntlet of armed | Canadian troopers. Fourteen mil across the border, when he thought him- self beyond the reach of the Canadian authorities, an Amer- ican immigration officer arrest- ed him, and turned him over to a Canadian official. Then Wolert again escaped by leaping off a speeding passenger train four miles this side of the border. Accused of Beina Spy Wolert was sent to the detention barracks four months ago. He was |taken from the kitchen of a C. P, | R. dining car, in which he had been an employe two years, thrown into jail at Vancouver, and accused of being a spy. He was sent to | Nanaimo without trial. | Wolert charges the Nanaimo |camp is insanitary, poorly ventilat- ed-and cramped. The food, he asserts, was often junfit for human consumption, He |says two German prisoners went insane during the first two months, Tells His Experiences In broken English, lert relat- ed his experiences to a Star te- | porter at the home of Mrs. Henri- etta Kelly, 1144 44th ave. 8S. W., | West Seattle, Wednesday night. “Relatives, they are of the as the prisoner, ed to enter the bar- racks or have any conversation with the inmates,” he said. “The wives and children are given the | privilege of occupying a cell with |the husband and father. “One man, whose name is Kusan, if has his wife, an Englishwoman, and their 1%-year-old baby with him. All three live in a cell sep e from the other prisoners. Both the mother and baby have been ussigned regular prison num- | bers. The baby is known as ‘No, 106." “Quite often the prisoners are taunted by ghe soldiers. Once a number of “privates deliberately threw cigaret stubs at the feet of a German and ordered him to piek them up. He refused. His punish- |ment was 24 hours in the ‘black jhole,’ @ tiny room without win- dows, and through which the steam |pipes passed. After 24 hours of \this, he gave in. “He picked up the cigaret stubs while a crowd of soldiers stood around and laughed. Describes His Escape while the men were being counted, a guard for- | got to lock one of the doors. I slip. ped out, made my way along. a dark passageway and hid in a small room, little used, where I planned }to remain until after dark. |. “Night came and | started to look | around for some means to get over an eixht-foot fence. I climbed |upon the building. tore my shirt into strips, and made sort of a lad- der, I threw this over to the fence. All the while I could hear. the tramp of the sentries outside. There we eight of them pa- trolling the building, it was here I had my narrow. est escape. I had just swung down from the wall and was preparing to let go when I heard some one com- ing. An officer came to the corner of the butiding below me, He passed within three feet of me, | whistling “Tipperary. ADVERTISING SPACE IN THE SEATTLE STAR HAS IN-_VALUE 22 PER CENT DURING THE PAST 12 Do you know, Mr. Merchant, of any other conservative in- vestment which has increased in the same proportion during The Star’s Phone Number is 9400. y Be