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

MINNESOTANS! Gov. Hammond of Minnesota, with jal party, arrives in Seattle Sunday at 8:45 a. m,, over the Great Northern from the East. He and his party jeave again at il a. m for the South. Here's YOUR nce to do YOUR share of the summer's booster work Call up all the Minnesotans you know Saturday night PAY ONLY NE CENT FOR THE STAR vo) Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : | and get them down there. Be there yourself. Take your Minnesota banners and let the governor know he's among his own folks, The Commercial Club will have a com mittee on hand to meet him, but you be there and help things along @ TEACHERS! Fifty teachers from Cleveland, O., will : The Only LUME 18. NO, 122 SEATTLE, WASH., SA arrive in Washington railw. the exposition, and are teachers are entertaining Seattle Sunday, 6:15 a They now en them today m., have been route on the Oregon- sightseeing at home. Portland So far as The Star knows, no entertainment has been provided for them City Tl RDAY, WILY 17, 1915,ONE CENT chool Superintendent Cooper says the school staff The Seattle Star ON TRAINS NEWS STA MINNESOTANS! TEACHERS! HERE’S CHANCE TO BOOST YOUR CITY © is worn out by Shriner week. All right, then, supposing you individual teachers call each other up und orrange to meet them, at least, and extend them Seattle's welcome It will help a lot. The mere surprise of being met will be something they will never forget. Let's make ‘ce... Se attle boosters! | PP LLLP SLL LL PL LPP LPP PLP PPL PPD PPP PPP PPP AST EDITION Weather—Fair; warmer TID es High. AL BHATTLE 110 ft ae ft tA 14m RECORD-SMASHING STATE WHEAT | CROP MEANS DOLLARS I FOR CITY \ STATEMENT that Washington's wheat crop this made today to The Star by R. B. Jarboe, This means that more than $40,000,000 will be laid for the numerous flour-milling conc Especially does it mean prosperity of unusual Saetes that tornadoes and storms have ashington is the only great wheat state which gc ; Ly disastrous weather. Revised Estimates of Crop Indicate Big Increase Ove Last Year’s Record-Breaker; 40,000,000 Bushels Being _ Harvested; Seattle Mills Will Get Benefit. will flow year no doubt will be at least 40,000,000 bushels— $,000,000 more than the government estimate and 2,000,000 more than last year's record-breaker— state grain inspector, with headquarters in Tacoma. into the state, and that a remarkable basis of pros- erns of Seattle. extent because of repeated reports from the Mississippi flattened and battered vast fields of grain. 7, R'Aroosits . Sarrenyit(p Tez os y SOCIETY GIRLS TO DANCE IN KIRMESS TO HELP CRIPPLED TOTS IN HOSPITAL xs to harvest without having been threatened with ——“ Harvesting beg this week in| Walla Walla, Grant. Franklin, | — { Adams and = part of Whitman | { county By next week al st all of Best ern Washington will be a vast har vest fleld Average Remarkable One of its counties will easily hold third wheat county States, with far more than And at that be 1,000,000 year's mark Still one other remarkable fea ture of Washington's crop will be « phenomenal yield per acre. Un lean a disester of great extent comes at once, there will be many 40-acre tracts in Walla Walla coun ty this year which will average 60 bushels to the acre Right Up Front | This surely will bring it right up fn the first half-dozen wheat-pro- ducing states of the Unton—and every year showing en increase, while some of the Middle West states are beginning to go back For instance, the United States expert says that the average yield in the United 16,000,000 bushela— many large states Whitman's yield will bushels shy of last to the acre Huh! Any Eastern Washington farmer that couldn't do better than that—twice os good—would have }to do another season with this ears car, which is an awful nui nee because it hasn't a self starter. 3,000,000,000 Loaves Coming down to us city folks, that 40,000,000 bushela which this ttooray, FER THE AMERICAN or about three billion loaves in all and all full weight! That would be about 2,000 loaves each for ev ery one in the state if we wanted to keep it all here However, the folk Europe are getting pretty about now, and, due to versions which have their attention somewhat been keeping up to seratch. That's why Seattle milis will be busy making flour—and payrolis—and why Seattle will take rank as one of the big wheat-exporting harbors of the country, over fn hungry other di distracted have not thelr crops strictly & oo Whe KHonm AD) OBJECTS. TO ENGLISH PRIZE COURT _MASHINGTON, July 17.—In a delivered Wednesday, the States informed the British Office that it will insist ‘Mon ful! American rights under in Srtional Jaw in all prize cases t limitation or impairment in council or other Brit Wegislation,” the state depart Announced today Great Ta Britain was informed the States will not recognize Hours by Sea Their usual Sunday morning late sleep will be denied a lot of live-wire Seat’ boosters this week, who will be up almost as early as The Star staff comes to work on week days, so they may trains bearing visitors from other citie Gov. W. 8. Hammond of Minne sota and his official party of 40 ar rive on the Great Northern from the Fast, at 8:45 a m The Commercial Club will have a committee to bid him and his party welcome. With them will be a big party of Seattle Minnesotans Hot 7 ns s Validity of prize court decisions the restraint imposed by Municipal law in deroga-|ed by Col. J. M. Hawthorne. Every | MR OP the rights of American cit poke 4 woman and child who hails M8 under international law.” from Minnesota and who is now res Lansing declar- | jdent in Seattle, is invited to set the was filed merely t0| alarm clock and turn out to the big Americans generally in welcome Court cases, the impression t the protest from American 48 to the detention of 31 Cargoes was responsible. Pian Auto Ride Inasmuch as the party leaves at 11 a. m. for San Francisco, there will be time only for an auto ride, Ht not only attects meat, but y will tton . . but during the spin the party wil ponents be filled full with Seattle hurrah MiLson LEAVes material. LWASHINGTON fa oe propt. | If the Minnesotans think they are Wilson will probably leave going to undergo hardship in ris tomorrow, arriving here ing early, they nave another guess Monday to prepare for the| coming. Meeting Tuesday, Just about the time 'Minnesota’s Governor to Get Big Sunday Welcome Also Cleveland Teachers Ma: the first day. TRAP BURGLAR IN HOTEL ROOM night Be Met in Early Morning Charles Crane, porter at itle Teachers. the New Richmond hotel, is in the city hospital, suffering from tn jbirds are seeking the early Worms, | jirieg received in an encounter with at 6:15 a. m. Sunday, to be exact,| Crane first noticed the man} Not Sure, But— about 11:30 crawling up a fire es Now, The Star doesn’t know for! cane on the fifth floor. sure that anybody will meet them.| 11, reported the matter to the po But we have a hunch that there'll! lice, who investigated and found no trace of the man About 6:45 Saturday be a bunch of Seattle school teach-| ers at the station gates, with their hands out in welcome morning The Star Saturday asked City|Crane saw the same man on the School Superintendent Cooper fire escape, He endeavored to cap. about ft. He Indfeated the Shrin-|ture him ers had put the entire city school| A scuffle followed, during which the burglar fired one shot, did not take effect But the burglar, obtaining the up. per hand, threw Crane two flights |down the fire escape. He is not seriously which system under the table, and refus ed to shoulder the responsibility of the teachers’ entertainment Therefore, The Star is making a personal appeal to the teachers to turn out Individually, and get in| the tooster work early in the day.| Seattle Pennsylvanians boosted the visiting Shriners from their| state at a reception Friday night,| at the Chamber of Commerce The police have*been asked Sat Delegates t@ the national conven-|yrday to locate Mrs. Audrey B tion of the Sons of the American) packard, 25, who has been missing Revolution, bound for Portland,|«ince July 2. At that tlme she was were being entertained with an au-| working for Mrs, Emily Richardson to and steamer ride and luncheon,!of 18 W. Lee st. She left then on at the bands of the Seattle organi-\ account of illness, saying she was injured Whitman | its own as the) the country over will be 16 bushels state is harvesting just now means | a trifle over 79 loaves to the bushel, | GOVERNOR TO LEAD MARDI On with the dance! Old fogey dignity will take a back seat Saturday night, and all Seattie will come forth in comic costume to trip the light fantastic in the streets. Ragtime, the madcap king of gayety, will reign from 8 o'clock to midnight. it will be Seattle's demon- strative farewell to the men \ ee ¢) POLICE WILL CLOUT 'EM There will be no arrests of rowdies during the Mardi G tonight | RUT Chief Lang hes Instructed his men and the 200 Shriner police who will ald him to clout every hoodlum without ceremony and with much gusto. ! “Deal with the rowdles sum marily on the spot,” the chief's message reads As interpreted by the patrol men, it means: “Clout ‘em on the bean.” e sn and women "swe, this week, made this city the wonder city of the world—the Shriners. “Get out your masquerade costume, doll up, and come,” urge ert Swezea, chairman of the committee In charge. Earlier in the day, at 3 o'clock and until 5, dancers may have the entire Manufacturers’ roof garden at thelr disposal Prizes will be awarded to the most skillful couples Governor to Lead March Rut the big event will not begin until & o'clock At that time the monster Tilikum grand march will open the Mardi Gras festival, swing ing south on Second ave. from hinge Washington hotel to Union thence to Fourth ave. and north [nase the official Shrine grandstand at Lenora st Gov, Lister, Mayor Gill and members of the executive commit tee of Nile temple, will lead the march under escort of the Tillkum drum and bugle corps and the Tilt |kum drill team in lodge regalia. | Only persons in costume will be | permitted to participate. Judges will be seated in the grandstand, and, as the marchers pass, will choose the prize winners. Will Dance in Streets From that time until midnight, the streets and every other avail able space large enough to accom modate two swaying people, will |be a surging, reeling mass of mer. | rymakers, Bands, playing the latest dance music, will be stationed at the of. |fictal grandstand and the Bell st ldock. Another band, on wheels, | will drive about the downtown se ° | | tion, stopping at various points and no couple need fear that they | will not “get In on” the fun | Automobiles will be allowed to enter Second ave. only at Stewart {and James sts. All other intersect ling streets will be roped off for | dancing. | Special Police on Job | Tilikum police, in plain clothes, | will mix with the crowd for the| purpose of preventing rowdyism. Costume shops found themselves | well nigh stripped of |parel early tn the afternoon, and ‘the contest for prizes promises to be a hot one. Masks will not be permitted by the nolice At midnight bombs will be explod GRAS MARCH freak ap-| | Photo by ¢ Girl dancers in the (left to right, then down): Skinner, Doris Mohundro, Saily Clay, Marga Dent, Margaret Panton, Katherine Esterly. Kirmess | Frances “Lala! La-lla! now the left! Miss Lila Agnew Stewart of New York and two score of the creme de la creme of Seattle's younger society set were dancing Kirmess dances on the stage at the Orpheum. The Kirmess? Ob, the Kirmess {s the annual | society show given as a, benefit to the children's orthopedic hospital. | It will be given at the Moore the- atre July 28 to 31 There is a pretty hind the Kirmess, to think of it rich will dance for those who can not dance, whose poor, deformed little arms and legs and backs need the attentions of surgeons and nurses. Society Women to Dance And, on the other hand, there is Just a wee hint at something racy about it M-m-m-m! Walt until you some of the leading soctety of Seattle doing the fox-trot, the Argentine tango and (dear, dear, must we say it) the Oriental dance! But just now, the Kirmess is in the making—pretty well along and progressing rapidly toward the dress rehearsals un direction of Miss Next week the soc Now the right, sentiment be- when you stop see dames wart y dames will begin their rehearsals at the Moore. | Only their nearest, dearest friends will be permitted to witness their first efforts. Rehearse Folk Dances But at the Orpheum this week, rosy youth is learning the steps of some of the intricate folk dances representative of Me various | periods between the time of Colum |bus and the present day The Kirmess will | revue. Dances will show the styles and the manners of Queen Isabella's court, the departure of Columbus, the discovery, the Indians and gyp sies. A grand march will depict the Colonial period, Another seene a historical ‘zation, which boosted Seattle all|going to the home of relatives, but ed to announce the cessation of the) will show Cail war times, and the ‘has not been heard of since, dance, |more recent period of the war with The children of the} er the capable | GERMANS ARE HURLING GREAT FORCE AGAINST WARSAW: BIG BATTLE IS ON RUSSIAN LINE FALLING BACK | PETROGRAD, July 17.—The first great battle since the mighty conflict of the Mazurian lakes is now imminent. | Mackenzen are also showing re- newed activity in southern Poland Austrians Again Active The Austrians along the Dneister | jare also attempting to resume the joffensive, resulting in the greatest | battle line since the beginning of | Retiring slightly before the new offensive of the Germans trenchments from,Courtland to the Vistula. The troops under command of Field Marshal Von Hinden- jas yet believed to be between comparatively small forces, a |general engagement, upon which the fate of Warsaw may Within the past two days the! Germans have been reinforced by |strenethened, tho the Slav forces, | viously selected positions. Aiming at Warsaw Warsaw thru Przasny the Polish | ‘ity 50 “miles to the north of the the Russiens earlier in the week |The primary object of Von Hinden- \fortress guarding Warsaw on the Members of the city council Sat | northwest. inquiring into the conduct of as- situation with the greatest op. | timism. It was pointed out that | *!tants In the office of the corpor- against Warsaw have been easily handling of private cases while in defeated, and another repulse is office. The forces of Field Marshal Von ed,” said Councilman Will Hanna, “It ts easy to conceive that some of these men may find himself mixed up in the wrong side of a in Poland, the Russians are taking up positions in strong en- |burg are advancing with great rapidity, and altho fighting is |hinge, cannot long be delayed. |the arrival of 150,000 men. The Jare falling back slowly upon pre-| The German center is aiming at INVESTIGATE capital, which was evacuated by burg is Novo Georgiewsk, the urday declared their intention of The war office today viewed the similar thrusts of Von Hindenburg ation counsel, in continuing the predicted. “It certainly should not be allow- time, if the practice is kept up, one cage in which the city hi an in- the wer. | terest. Besides, the city is paying Military experts regard the ob-/them for their time and their tal- Ject of the Germans as being to} north and|e@ts: The city should get what it | pays for.” City Matters Delayed Other councilmen asserted legis lative matters often were delayed because the corporation counsel's |office pleaded that it was too busy Spain. ‘to handle them. | Will Show Ragtime, Too | Members of the corporation coun- | And the closing scene will show | sel’s staff, except Assistant Coun- the dances of today—the ragtime|sel Howard Hanson and Polico |frenzied people of Seattle | Prosecutor Van Ruff, who are spe- | Mrs. Trafford Huteson will rep-| cifically exempted, are under civil lresent Queen Isabella, and Harry | service rules. Thus the same rules Whitney Treat will be King Ferdi! | apply to them as apply to city fire- |nand, Charles Eugene Banks will|men, several of whom were firell ‘appear as Columbus. jand suspended by Fire Chief Stetson In the Colonial period, Mrs. H. C.| because they were owners of a jit- Henry will be Martha Washington, | ney, which they cperated in their jand Theodore Haller will act the off time. Rule 15 of the civil serv- role of George Washington ‘ice code says no civil service em- Directly descended from the fam-;ploye may derive revenue from cth- ilies of the persons whom they will jer than city sources, represent, Mrs. W. B. Gaffney will! Condition Has Long Existed be Lady Fairfax of Virginia; Mrs.| The present condition of affairs W. D. Perkins will be Polly Stark,|in the corporation counsel's office jand Mrs, Harry Whitney Treat,|is not the fault, especially, of Janes press forward to the |south of Warsaw, so that it may be |rendered untenable, and a with- jdrawal of the Slavs made neces- |sary to avold an enveloping move- | ment Lady Campbell |E. Bradford, head of the depart- ’ |ment, nor of Frank Egan, the as- WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE \sistant, whose appearance in court Water will be shut off on Mt.|in a private case was followed by | Rainier Drive from McClellan st. to| publication of an editorial in The |Serris on Monday, from 9 a, m. to| Star Friday. The practice has been |4 p.m, also a portion of the dis-|condoned in the office for years, trict between Mt. Rainier Drive and| Councilman Hanna, as chairman Hunter Blvd, and Lake Washington |of the council’s efficiency commit- may be short of water during this | tee, was looking into the matter time. Saturday |Star Want Ads Are: | Result Bringers | rhe Seattle is read daily | buying public of Seattle and trade zone tributary to Seattle. 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