The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 1

Star Man Tells What’s Doing in Vancouver, B. C. enn MILLIONAIRE LEAPS TO DEATH The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTL WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1915 PROGRESSIVE PARTY SHOULD QUIT In 1909 and 1911 were of progressive com the legisiatures, overwhelmingly republican, During these two sessions some of the most important progressive laws were enacted, LIKE WOM AN SUFFRAGE, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW FOR WOMEN, THE INITIATIVE, REFER ENOUM AND RECALL AMENDMENTS In 1913, following the birth of the third party, the legislature fell into the contro! of the old guard, and in 1915 the reaction aries rode roughshod over all progressive and social. justice meas ure ive party shail continue as @ separate political party in thie stae? ing this question today at a conference in the Boston block headqu Is there any reason why the progr Progressives are deb ters. THE STAR BELIEVES THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY SHOULD DISBAND. Having successfully checked a growing oligarchy in this gow ernment during the memorable election of 1912, the progressive party has accomplished its work. It has been able to jolt a few bosses loose from the reins of government—and that has been a good thing for the country Aside from that, the progressive party has not been able to accomplish anything. In this » the reactionary element has gained, through the third party existence, a control it could ne have acquired otherwise. in 1909 and 1911 party controlled, to a large extent, 1913 and 1916 they were on the outside. Progressive principles, in other words, had a better chance of victory in thie state before the birth of the progressive party than afterward. the men who later joined the progressive In the affairs of state In ONE CENT Sea kuae WRARR AA AAR ALR APR ALD ALL PPLDPPLPPPPPPEPPEPPLPPPRPEP PP PPPPPPPDPPPPPPPPPEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPAPPPEPPPPPPPPOPE VERY BAD SPOT FOR GERMANS Boalt Sees Neighboring City in War Time; Prominent Germans Thrust Into Prison; Wealthy Captives Take Servants With Them and Live in Exclusive Camp, Apart IGHT EDITION Tonight and Sunday probably fair TIDKS AT SEATTLE Low. vat ia tt 12:03 pom, —O.8 ft It is futile to hope the progressive party can gain control, It From Others. can merely serve to defeat one or the other of the two big parties in and that cannot possibly be enough resson for separate existence THE THING TO 00, THEN. I$ 10 APPLY THE PROGRES By Fred L. Boalt. SIVE STRENGTH IN A PRACTICAL WAY TO ACCOMPLISH j VA) UVER, B. ( May 1 hat DEFINITE, ACTUAL, BENEFICIAL RESULTS IN HUMANE, nd Pe GI CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION AND ADMINISTRATION, THAT Ra CAN BE DONE FAR BETTER WHEN THE PROGRESSIVES USE n Tue THEIR INFLUENCE WITHIN THE OTHER PARTIES THAN BY HOLDING ALOOF was And when that progressive influence finally controls again in i ilar this state, as it must before long, then all parties will be wiped out, ub 16. ah and this state, like California, will become non-partisan THE ELIMINATION OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY, AS future is fraug SUCH, WILL MERELY BE THE FORERUNNER OF THE DEATH in British house in his night, party which residence on was a jolly neither a defiant mass meeting of been reported unwisely ¢ | ht h danger f Germans nor and, because of it, the r every German and Austrian Columbia OF ALL PARTY POLITICS. The Vancouver INSOMNIA CAUSES_ SUICIDE A. B. Graham, millionaire President of the Atias Lumber Co, in the Alaska building, whose home.is at 721 Ninth ave., leaped to his death at 10 o'clock Saturday morning from the 20th ave. bridge in Raven. ‘na park. Altho there was no witness, Patrolman Wilson, who inves- tigated, reported it as a case of undoubted suicide. Graham indicate a was discovered by Or. J. H. Sayer. Graham had been troubled with {nsomala for 10 years, and for the} past two weeks had complained he didn't have a wink of sleep. 11LOST ON SHIP SAN DIEGO, May 1.—The 8. S Victoria, Ensenada to San Diego, gank today off the Coronado islands, with nine of her crew and two passengers, according to im migration service officers who have been on the scene. The Coronado islands are 18 miles southwest of San Diego. The Victoria is a smali vessel owned by the American-Mexican Trading company PUGET SOUND FARMS CO. FIND STAR WANT ADS PROFITABLE THE‘HOP” HUGGED, TONIGHT HE SAYS Tilik Invite Cit to Big, Cushman Declares Wife Took oi ae Sy gid . Moonlight Rides With Married Men. practical business For some time he had retired from active Downtown Celebration of though he held important tnterests in a number of well-known firms io May Day. | Seattle and elsewhere. sur| DANCE ON S TS | | FILES DIVORCE PLEA | He had large Interests tn fc | mills fn Seattle and West Virginia | He established the first big four | mill In this city, the Novelty mill. | He also owned an interest in the Turner Investment Co. He father-in- of E. P. Jamison, the millionaire machinery manufactur nd Louis Bean, genera) mai | Asserts She Smoked Cigarets and Drank Beer in a “Noodle Joint.” Moonlight rides with married men over the boulevards, sea- “Spened with abundant huge and kisses, constituted a regular di- version for Mra. Merrill Cush. « man, according to the divorce complaint of her husband, Thomas J. Cushman, filed Fri- day Mrs. Cushman two or thr days ago filed a sensational fidavit in which she alleged she | had been made the victim of | “keyhole” detectives hired by her husband's father, who is Secretary of the M. Gunst cigar Parade and Program Will Pre- | cede Merry-Making at | Metropolitan Place. a Summer ts here. Tonight all Se attle is eA! eg urn out in ree: Rate Ne = rosy + thy To ated fos tivities which retit center around mond merchants, #21 Secon "ave, | Sits, policemen, city officials, fra Graham is survived by his widow | (¢Feal organizations, Tilikums and lead-five caiiaren, George, Wintarn | foctety folk will and D meet in i & pageant will form. It will include i erycama firemen, policemen, Mayor Glil, the ¢ | Tilikumes, and a host of others in| (JURY SAYS SHERIFF fo"! | Down Fifth to Union, the Ine of MUST PAY $2,500 march will extend, thence to Firat, to Pioneer place, up James to Sec FALSE ARREST ond, thence to Union, to Fourth and FOR | back to University place. Sinks sein gia fer husbands Tom Cushman, ond u Old Glory » er husband, Tom Cr " Mra. Sarah Low and Fred Low, Niget Arn pte yg 5 “af of Biel she were married in Tacoma | her son, Were each awarded $1,259 wit) rend th@ air. At University July. 1913, when they were Lote | against Sheriff A. V. McDonald of place, the program of the won 9 — a ~~ Poa po Te c eve! pretty children’s | bie « ys the nan Mason county for false arrest an6| eroreet will og Gren }brought annulment proceedings imprisonment on s burglary charge.| °r. brogram includes Miss | against her, but the supreme court The jury's verdicts were read 1M! 1 uise Snowden, 11, in a too da knocked that case out Judge Mackintosh’s court Saturday | the Tilikum quartet; 18 little fe Married in Flirtation morning. in dances; a May-pole dance Cushman ts now asking a divorce Mra. Low and her son were d¢/ iittie girls and boys in the maxixe,| He says he married the girl “thru a tained by McDonald in the county) ang other pts flirtation on the streets,” and “not Jail for 24 hours, the testimony) At the Press club there will be;realizing the full consequence of showed. They had been accused) moving pictures, and the Manufac- such an act | of taking some household furniture,| turers’ exhibit in the Stuart build Shortly after the marriage, says which, it developed, was their own. ing will remain open until 11/Cushman, he discovered that his o'clock wife had been in the habit of visit Everything will be free. No ro. jing Tato’s cafe about six times a dyiam will be tolerated at any place month, bat her long suit, he int along the line of march. “Ticklers” mates, wan to go out riding on the and confetti will be barred by boulevards with married men for a lee order hugging and Kissing bee. GOING TOBRIDEIS | newspapers were printing long lists of and soldiers slain at Ypres. Many of these ancouver men n Canadian officers \ bar ‘DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY FIRE ON THE | dead were The drank with noisy Si 8 RUE er his She of the and ngs abandon rejoiced. At the party they Fatherland—softly at first, later and sar int Grey It i is a suburb of Vancouver, but a separate mu- given over largely to Germans of wealth. reserve officer, came to British Columbia a enting a syndicate of capitalists, of which member, inquire into the investments, for the of Count Alvo Von Alvensleben in lands ind mines—investments representing $5,000,000, | Baron Kept Under Surveillance His business de uver s« Che baron, Ww years 4 kaiser , repres was a idicate me, the baron announced that he liked well he would make it his permanent residence. Fate t tne $800,000 Connaught bri | at Cambie at. Vancouve ator the Thursday fire, for which alien ene mies are biamed by the public. The, jentire middie span is a ruin. ‘AGED MINISTER _ BLACKMAILED; DRINKS POISON LOS ANGE 1—The Rev. Dr. J. H of Oak land, is dead today, with the mys tery that shrouds the reason that prompted him to swallow poison still unsolved | The aged minister died shortly | ' | He lived a life of quiet leisure beled COMMISSION WON'T He swallowed poison in a drug} jerroneously, that the was distantly related to the REINSTATE KAUFF kaiser, the police kept him under polite surveillance. store, Thursday. He had just tele- 4 his attorney that he had arrested and intimated that! Sergeant Hood, when the war broke out, was given charge an attempt to blackmall had been | the “alien enemy” department. The sergeant, a grizzled, made c vete: m Whe. gates hallows’ the bigabenats taciturn veteran, made it his personal business to be acquainted ers impersonated 6fficers with the movements of the baron. Count Alvo Von Alvensleben had to quit Canada, and property was confiscated. But the baron and his friend, Otto Grunett, not molested. oh 4 if As it was reported, probably baron CINCINNATI, May 1—The (0! National commission today re- fused to reinstate Benny Kauff, outfielder of the Brooklyn league club, in organized base. This meane that Kauff cannot play with the Giants, his Dr were Rules for Dancing Kissing on the Streets TAKE OFF HIS COAT, THUGS ROB FARMER, rhen the party, with agents of Sergeant Hood surround- Read Their Following Statement STAR ADVEKTISING rAYs The advertisement helow described was the most profitable in oar bust- nese career, It was the cause of three direct sales and several proapects, ‘The Seattle Star has heen « great help to us for the past three years, and we are sure of continued success with this paper. PUGET SOUND FARMS CO. 05 Third A RE SURE AND SER OUR GLENWOOD VALLEY FARMS ADDIT NO. 2 Before you dacids on anything else, ae these tracts are the beat buys on Puget sound. They OUND FARM# CO, 605 ard Ay You can phone your want ads to The Star, Call Main 0400, nek the classified advertising, and you will receive prompt and courteous tention. "Tom, | HEARD | HE WAS A [LAWYER, Wonder | IF KE Is? | SEE OUR NEW EIGHBOR 13 MAKING A GARDEN (—— “sumed 1,70 half of which was grown in Rus ing rules for dancers is urged by the Tilikums space after ed bounding the dancing space. tween Fourth and Fifth on the Uni versity one will long os neighbor a chance 8 Tilikums are urged to be present at the P the TLLSTEP OVER AND HINT AROUND, AND FIND OUT WHAT His BUSINESS 13 — Strict observance of the follow So enthusiastic were the oncula. tory exercises on the night of March 18, 1915, says young Cushman, that the Pord car in which hia wife and a certain married man were riding swayed from curb to street car tracks” for lack of attention to the steering wheel On the night of March the complaint, the girl served with a married man ping every now and then on street for an extra squeeze kina or two. Says She Smoked Cigarets Then, on the night of April 5 says the complaint, Mrs, Cushman went with # girl friend to the Nan king eafe, on Fourth ave., “the same being a Chinese noodle joint There, young Cushman Mrs lunch He Enter at Fourth and University. Exit at Fifth and University. Completely clear the dancing h dane ik the line Do not bri establish. 10, says Observe your best decorum. The dancing space will be be He the street pavement. Every and a entitled to dance like, but give your be as the: The Tilikiim parade will begin at 30 from Metropolitan place, All 48 club at 8 o'clock, to form of parade. Russian cotton mille in 1913 con 000 bales of cott and smoked clgarets denies he still loves her. was ob-| alleges, | Cushman drank beer with her ing the house, listening to songs of the Fatherland and fiery and patriotic he police say the burning of Connaught bridge, a $500,000 structure, and the incipient blaze at the Granville bridge, in the same hour, vursda Of “oe e: w ASHINGTON. | n> ess ie te at ne e © arly rT ur morning, were a “eo rincidence.” | partment of justice today announe re public does not agree with the police. They say the ed the pardon, at the request of bridges were fired by “alien enemies. | Ambassador Von Bernstorff, of Ed jwin R. Scott, English resident of Fires Stir Smoldering Fires of Hate | Tacoma, Wash., convicted of writ jing threatening letters to the |man envoy. Scott was | to six months’ Imprisonment | CHILE HAS A QUAKE : WASHINGTON, May 1.—Af the | saletnopraph Mivision of the-weath b ve : Jer bureau the belief {s expressed “ermMans and / About 30,000 sheep lost In snow-|that Chile was the scene of an are laborers who storm in Oregon Thursday. Loss|eartbquake reported today on the construction $180,000. the wart speeches TACOMA MAN IS PUSH HIM IN RIVER GIVEN A PARDON The two mea | cording to Oscar Pe | farmer near Auburn, a the | chaps who held him up early this morning on the county road, a mile and a half from Auburn. After securing his watch and $15, they marched him to the Green.river, pulied his coat off, and pushed him in, After a struggle in the swift waters, he swam ashore, noti- fied the sheriff at 3 a. m., but the thugs left no trace of them- selves nest thug Under the circumstances public opinion here is more ine flammable than any bridge. Times are hard in Vancouver. The blamed. Germany started the war: this is Vancouver easoning. In the interest of the publie peace, the police give it-pedal version of the ge fires. rhe party and the bridge fires, smoldering fires of hate to white heat. There are 1,200 \ustrians in Vancouver alone. Most of these the war, were employed in railroad war is bri house nevertheless, stirred the before hey Since hay WELL SIR, ae | Oi THE LAW eee, | | THESE DAYS ? | HOw, DONT Go OVER). AND ASK Hi — He. \MAY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT HIMSELF ¢ ee lived in wretched poverty on Alex- Their poverty was made was discontinued, recently In des- peration a mob raided restaurants and groceries. Now it Js inot for “alien enemy” himself in the street At the outset of the war “alien enemies” were required to report to the police, some every other week, some every week, and some every day Since the house party so many arrests have been made jthat the detention camp at Nanaimo is overcrowded. The |government has given the newspapers in Vancouver a hint |that conditions at the Nanaimo camp are not to be discussed. Take Servants Along to War Prison When the Baron Von Luttwitz was raided and baron, Dr, Grunett, Paul Koppe and Frederich Stritzel arrested, the leaked out that incriminating pa- found which lead to further arrests at Point colony Yesterday ‘the ervants were that ander, Fowler and Cx sts acute when the bread line safe an to show TAM INCLINED TO | tee THE MAN Is NOT ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW WHY Don’ NOU ASK some Lay home of lthe j were story |pers were may their wives, children guard to Vernon, B. C shall form the nucleus enemy” prisoners. To Ver- nt i either German ers or have wealth ur social position, baron, the doctor, taken under heavy planned these two families ur exclusive society lier will \ustrian Jnon be se war w are or reserve