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

| NE VOLUME 18 With St ATTLE, \a the busz of a senatorial many orator shments ] bee egging him on to the limit, Omitting the q fritla, how Congressman Will E. Humphrey °%@% this is what the congress : delivered himself of several ee ORT pages of speech before the Young —“Fettow republicans: We got Men's Republican club Priday ta win the next election. We're which may or may the congressional phrey spoke on record. his old hobby lamity Uniess Hicans Run It.” ndpat and couched his TO GUESTS. Bellbeys in the American hotel | made an average daily profit of $5) selling liquor to gue’ who were! charged $8 a week for rooms “un-| Jess they raised a holler.” under the | Proprietorship of I. G. Evans, he! testified before a jury in bas Alston's court Saturday Evans is charged with accepting | money from women alleged to have} operated under police protection in| his hotel, during the time Paul | Schuman, ex-policeman, was on) that beat. Schuman is serving a Jail sentence. | Says He Demanded Money Accusations that Evans demand-! ed $5 a week from Frances Martin for the privilege of “working” in the hotel have been made by Pros- ecuting Attorney Lundin. The, Martin woman testivied she had) paid him that amount. Evans took the witness stand Saturday He denied accepting more than the rules of the place called for in rent from any woman place,” he nd as fast as any complaint was made about any one in the, house, they were ordered to leave. Our rates were $8 a week. Renters | were charged that amount as long as they stood for it. If they raised | a holler, rather than lose them, we reduced the rates.” | jeliboys Sell Beer He admitte his bellboys solid beer in thé house, which they | “kept on hand in an ice chest in their room. He paid his day bell- boy $5 & week salary, but the boy in attendance at night “lived on his tips.” “They made an average of $5 a é day,” he testified. “You know what the tip. aystem is like. “When couples came to the hotel, I never asked to see their mar-| riage license. I considered it none of my business as long as they paid their rent and acted like ladies and} gentlemen.” Mrs. Nettie L. Slocum, his house- hot get into Hum “This Country Is in a State of Ca Repub- Humphrey used a lot of words. phrases with loning money by letting the ocr while some of us, linger and Sam Pil to private e no appointments And that well thought of by the ave like Dick B are retire We ca from Wilson. Sketch Showing the pt Nome to Candie and Return, of the Al we stay on the public payroll, expect fellow is too durned WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL voter, But we gotta fick “him The way to do it, boys, Is to talk calamity “in strictest confidence, | tell you that it's one of our greatest assetse-—-to talk about hard times and have everybody sit tight with and never loosen up in busi. enterprises. That's what | talked calamity in congress till | wae Diack in the face-—not referring, of course, to the color of my whiskers, It didn't make Sweepstakes Dop Race U.S. WILL WATCH JAPS WASHINGTON, Aprii 17.— Secretary Daniels announced today that Admiral Howard commanding the Pacific fleet, had diverted the U. 8S. cruiser New Orleans to Turtle bay, on the west coast of Mexico, to in- vestigate the activiti of Jap. anese warships. The New Orleans was en route from San Diego to Mazat- keeper, admitted that she knew | what was going on in the hotel, but because she had money had maintained silenc Mrs. Slocum ran a notorious place before sne Dought into the American,” said Evans on the wit ness stand It was the Afton, now called the Baden.” “How do you know it torious?” he was ked. know a see one “Well, I've he answered MRS. JOHN Do you been around some,” , LEAVES MILLION TO CHARITY NEW YORK, April 1 Speeitic bequests ageregating $556,000 to individuals and the disposition of the remainder of $1,500,000 by bequests to institutions, is provided for in the was no- } Oterious place when you! invested, | | | will of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller which was filed for probate here! today and her To her millionaire husband her son, Mrs. Rockefeller left trinkets and jewelry, directing that) her husband be given the “old ruby and diamond ring” and other me) mentoes TRY TO RAISE F-4 WASHINGTON, April 17.—The navy department is hopeful that the actual operations of raising tn F4 tn Honolulu harbor might be started before night COME ON ‘ON DUFF, ARE YOU 60ING To Lynch? ; LUNCH TODAY HARRY, I'm NOT \ DONT BEE ve WiLt BAT ANY VERY HUNGRY lan aikiok ordered to Turtle bay, Although Daniels does not ac cept reports to the Japanese having established a naval base as true, a complete prebe has been decided on The action in ordering the New Orleans to Turtle bay is | in line with the decision reach. | | ' ed during a cabinet m yesterday. BUY TAG TODAY! | LEND A HAND TO. MOTHER RYTHER the Ryther Child Home| ting This Is Tag day. Be sure to buy a tag. The Ryther Child Home ts unique in Seattle. Mother Ryther has fought for vears a courageous | fight and she has de few de mands npon the public for support Her home for destitute mothers | and children does a work that no other institation In Seattle can do. The tag sale is being conducted by the Seattle Women's Card and Label league. The “Tag day her estate of headquarters is in the candy shop! various! at 919 Second ave. | Members of the “Candy Shop” company, now playing at the Moore theatre, turned out in force at noon and sold tags from automo-{ Diles Members of the Card and Label) league and their friends, who have sold tags through the day, will at tend the interunion “mixer” dance te be held in the Labor Temple as sembly hall Saturday night JUDGE DYKEMAN TO SPEAK At the monthly dinner of the Men's club of the First Presbyre. rian church, Tuesday evening, at 30 Judge Dykeman will speak on} Juvenile Dependency QUITTING TIME ~ MY STOMACH 1S BEGINNING To fee. PRETTY ¢- 17, GERMANY MAKES PEA( 1915 IT MUST BE AWFUL TO BE LIKE WILL IS! any difference to me, you that | wae kind of comfortably fixed with a $10,000 salary and expe account, | maintained times were bad, That is the duty of all good standpatters——to make times as bad as possible. “If hard times continue to get worse in the next 18 months, the republican party will be able to put it across 88 ways from Sun day f “Sometimes | fee! utterly die couraged. | am disgusted with some of our Seattle bankers es r After Crossing the Line, ‘Scotty’ Allan and Seppala Racing Over Sne Seppala Leading, But Tehepione: eley in Di ME, April. 17 “IN drive the hearts out of Beppala’s wolves,” sald “Scotty” Atlan It was fust before the start of the 41$-mile all-Alaska sweepstakes dog race over the snow t from to Candle and back. Wednesday The race will end late today Seppala and his 16 Siberian wolves are still in the lead. Allan and his 16 Alaska-bred malamutes re not far behind. and coming strong. A more grueling finish was nev- er seen in Alaska Allan is driv ling a heady race, and may make good his boast Making a Game Finish Telephone reports from the trail describe Seppala as haggard and staggering, his wolves nearly “all in.” Scotty” is closing up the gap bes tween his team and Seppala’s Wolves or malamutes! Craft or sheer, dogged grit! The malamutes, rested at Bos ton, seem strong for the finish The wolves drag their bellies over the snow, but they do not falter. The race started at 9 in the morning Wednesday. Five teams, the fleetest and stoutest-hearted tn the world, got away, all Nome cheering Time Beats All Records Allan jumped into the lead at Solomon, 32 miles from Nome. Sep. pala took the lead from him at Gold Run, 182 miles from Nome, his time belag 28 hours 41 minutes, five hours faster than last year. 6et, | I'M AS HUNGRY AS A DEAR ~ "LL MAKe hy FOOD LOOK SICK WHEN | GET HOME IGHT EDITION WEATHER FORECAST TIDKN AT shATTLE® Fair High lew 506 om, HLA TL Ite om ae tt 408 pom, 185 f. Ie pm, 20 ft i Take.M. F. Backus, for instance. He claims to be a republican, but he is talking good times and real- ly believes they are coming, and #0 are Maxwell, and Arnold, and even wise old Kellene 1 wish they were like Latimer and Chil berg. | tell you there is a pair of republican princes. They talk hair stands on end with fear that the Alaska railroad construc tion will make good times in Se attle and the whole state “Now here is my advice: Do your best to frighten people who have money; tell them Wilson is controlled by ‘isms’; if you can throw the scare into them, they will hang onto their money, and calamity and hard times ali the as long as they do, times will be and always stand without more or | hard. Follow my hitching example, and I'll give you the su “This boom In stocks in New preme joy of letting you elect me York also gives mea pain, and my United States senator.” REPORT GRAND DUKE SHOT DRIVING FINISH TODAY IN ALASKA SWEEPSTAKE| BOXES FARS "OF GENERAL; _ GEFS BULLET BERLIN (Via Wireless to Sayville), April 17.— Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the | Russian army, was shot in | the abdomen and serious- 1 j ly wounded by Baron Sie- | vers, according to a story | published by the Duisburg General Anzeiger today. | Baron Stevers is the commander lof the defeated Tenth Army corps, |routed by the force of Field Mar | shal Von Hindenburg, in the recent | fighting in East Prossie j mitted suicide The shooting is said to hav occurred after a heated quarrel we | tween nd Dy Baron Sievers The Anzeiger declares it receiv ed its information from “unimpeach. able sources The grand duke boxed Sievers’ ears jshot his commander and then took | bis own life Bit noes in the Snow it was Snow to No phone Messages Report Him| Stress. $ | nde ‘April 17 solved the ap. Wash, just Bert Peters has r mystery of his automobile tires. | He was then one hour and 14) Since last September. in spite of minutes ahead of “Scotty ‘the fact that he has bad bis small Seppala held his lead to Candle) car out of the garage only a few and started back. but he could not | times, because of the condition of increase it. Allan nursed bis team | roads, he has had to buy nine new along with all the skill at his com: | tires mand, planning a strategic finish The first exploded early one He passed Seppala,.and entered | morning after he had been driving Boston first. And Boston is only| the car at night 85 miles from Nome. | When it happened the second “Scotty” Tal a Nap |time he grew suspicious, When he Then Allan deliberately unhitcb-| found the third tire. mutilate ed hin dogs and lay down and! came to the conclusion some enemy ale He had traveled 305 miles|wax chopping his tires with al in hours and 17 minutes Seppala and his wolves reached hatchet Yesterday morn ng he was asleep Boston 33 minutes later, He was) in his room when another sharp ex told that Allen was asleep. He) piosion awakened him. rested his wolves 20 minutes, and|” seizing his gun, he sprang to the started on garage just in time to find a mink Tell ‘Scotty,’ he said in de-| crawling dazedly, across the floor. parting, “when he wakes up, that) The blow-out” evidently had { hope he slept well—and that, !f/ caught the mink he's going to run the hearts out of Bert killed tt iny wolves, he'd better come a-run Now he recalls that just, before ning.’ the first tire blew out last Septem Allan slept peacefully for four) her he ran over a mink and killed it hours. Then he hit the trail again He thinks the mink’s mate has He is, without doubt, counting on| heen biting holes in his tires for the rest his dogs have had to win. | revenge Neither Seppala nor We wolves vt have slept since the race started At 7:15 Friday night Seppala entered Council, He was then 85 andies, and his mukluks were torn to epirere miles from Nome, having driven ither Seppala nor Allan has miles in 68 hours and 15 min-|lost a dog as yet. It is a marvel utes ous exhibition of engurance A telephone message says his The remaining three teams seem eyes were glazed, and that he no| hopelessly beaten longer pushed upon the sled han dles to help his wolves, but clung | to them for support i His mittens were Star Wants Ads iind the lost frozen to tho [articles | LET PANSN HAVE THis AFTERNOON OFF AND 1UDST GOT US SOME TOAST AND TEA’ For DINNER. TONIGHT TOM ~ Vou Don*T MIND DO Nou 2 } After shooting the grand duke a the president thet no negotia-| the-beron-te dectired to hive com! tons can neforward except with | Nicholas and{ states, | whereupon he VINDICTIVE MINK IMC) AT NOOKECHAMP, | EXPLODES TIRES which started the present mael- stunned It "PROPOSAL OF AMBASSADOR TURNED DOWN © By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTON, April 17.—The administ n unable to take official notice of 1 overtures looking toward peace, made by ( nt Von t German ambassador t United State Unle Berr ff mak I t ome (more n H t « ed jthat President Wilson been assured in def and un- mistakable terms by t British, R French am- bassadors that. terms of the unofficial als for peace put out by Von Bernstorff are entirely isfactory, and t the present is no time to enter on and indefinite | that | pour parlours Despite official denials, it is learned that Von Bernstorff himself is responsible for the reports circulated in Washing- jton in regard to Berlin's will ess to consider peace pro- |posals. With the understanding That he ehoeild 0k be quoted, se proposals were published They were substantially as follows (1) That Berlin would not sue for peace. (2) That the subject might be discussed on the basis of a return to the status quo at the time war was declared. (3) That Germany is unwilling to consider paying an indemnity for the damage to Belgium. | (4) That Belgium be evacuated by the German armies. (5) That Russia shall have a way out through the Dar- danelles and that proper arrangement should be made by Germany with Turkey to accomplish this result. (6) That Alsace and Lorraine must remain German ter- ritory, | (7) That Germany shall purchase the Belgian Congo for a reasonable sum. (8) That in case of future wars, neutral commerce on the high seas shall not be interfered with; and that other matters should be left bed 7 adjustment. TO.GET MUSIC, MAYOR SAYS. tions on the basis of the ee informal | Wagner's band music will be overtures would be a waste of = | the first place, the Brit an and Freoch aintparition >. ithe consent of all the allies, yond | there are many conditions men- tioned in these informal pel which would stand in the beginning as permanent barriers to any pos: | sible understanding. | Allies Are Determined | Englend would insist. for exam-| heard in other parks beside ple, on an indemnity for Belgium} Volunteer park this summer. the permanent assurance as So declares Mayor Gill. jend to the neutrality of that countr But the one thing which is con trolling in the thought of the allies The park board has given no intimation to this effect, but the mayor is positive that the original plan of securing a 40- is the determination to m impos: sible recurrence, at least in the Piece band for Volunteer park near future, of any such outbreak) oMly will not be the program. as that on the part of Germany, “1 am that Wagner's re band, foeulea to 25 pieces, will give a number of concerts in strom | Until the allies have used the ut-| other parks," said the mayor jmost of the force which they have| Saturday. “There will also be jbeen preparing to accomplish thie) ther concerts by other bands.” end, they are not willing to delay The park board Friday afternoon their military preparations or com-| Contracted for a 40-piece band with plicate the diplomatic situation by| Dad Wagner for Volunteer park considering von Bernstorff's over-|and with Albert P. Adams for a tures, | series of 20 concerts by semi-pro- It is understood that the French | fessionals for the other parks. and English do not regard von Bern-| This arrangement, however, the storff's proposals as serio made, | mayor says, is not a hard and fast Don't Take Him Serioasly jone, and mote must livision They are intended, it ts charged, | Orth Wasner bar banda, ss an offset to the prevailing beliet | **,t? be made . ves, *') ‘The contracts been that Germany has been not only re- sponsible for beginning the trouble, but from the start has been un- willing to consider peace proposals by the United States When President Wilson attempt ed to mediate at the beginning of the trouble, the German authorities signed GERMAN AEROPLANE SEEN AT YORKSHIRE p as determined and as out LONDON, Apri! 17.—A Gere spoken &s the allies in r | man aeroplane flew over Selby, the good offices of the United) 44 miles from Yorkshire today. ates, Yorkshire is 175 miles north- Our secretary of state was as west of London. The appea' sured that the Germans had no ance of the Taube over York- the of doubt as to the successful outcome of their veniure, and that only when their arms were crowned with suc cess would they consider terms of | peace. | It ts only the more optimistic who see in this von Bernstorff Incident shire represents aerial invasion within 60 hours, GIRLS DRESS LIKE fourth England any hope for the beainning of MEN: RIDE ON DARE serious negotiations looking to Ree ep Bae . at age RY pitt PASADENA, Cal, April 17.—ate tire] in men’s clothing and carrys ing large revolvers, (Wo young wom- VIENNA, April 17.—Reports that en on horseback ved here to- Austria has attempted to negotiate days ago and are riding to the A separate peace with Russia are San Franetsco. utterly unfounded, the Fremden- It is said they left Coronado five dlatt, offic n of the govern- days ago and are ridign to the iment, de northern elty on a dar Here’s the Way STAR CLASSIFIED ADS PULL Star Publishing’ Co., Gentlemen Seattle, Wash During a portion of the month of March, we had a want ad in your paper at a total expense of $3.36 We are able to trace to resulted in a pr to us of over results, We are highly pleased with ad column sults she busine vhich besides indirect Star want this ad, $50.00, The particular Yours "AS re Ww in our business truly IFIC POULTRY By Jay CO Phone your ads to Main 9400, ‘OFFER |