The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 1

Te aaaanaamaanaanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaee The Seattle Star from the four East, West, South. Armed with a 30-30 rifle, with which he was peppering at per- sere who attempted to cross the raltroad bridge at Issaquah, | warning them that the viaduct was “haunted, Edward Curtis, 4 le believed to be men. tally unbalanced, the condition | being probably due to brooding ever the violent death recently ‘The father, Samue! Curtis, was fun orer and killed by a train on bridge where the lad had post Bimself. George. the dead is said to have } sees ‘What {s Seattle to do when the goes dry? ‘This was the question which was officials at the city hall + Thousands of dollars fo be cut from the city’s rev When the prohibition law Into effect next Januar only this. but the closing of brings to the front the mat- ‘adequate comfort stations in district. The harbors committee of the coun. considering Thursday how to supply them, and how many amis are required. ‘0 Tax Billboards Comeiiman Will H. Hanna Wed- completed the first draft of @rdinance providing for taxing Billboards in the city | cent a foot as one method of bol- Up the city’s finances. It add $6,900 to $7,000. ice went to Corpora. Counsel Bradford Thursday 48 opinion as to its legality Promised to direct his at ation to it immediately, so it may ady for Hanna to submit it to council Monday. N-E-W-S Spells News Y GIVING our readers the news corners of the earth, The Star is carrying out the meaning of the worth NEWS—North, FIRES AT ISSAQUAH WORKME his death but a few days ago The boy's actions were reported Wednesday afternoon, when Sher iff Hodge was informed that Cur tis had warned four workin, keep off the bridge and th several times at them wh did not heed his cries Sheriff Hodge and Deputy Spaight hastened to Issaquah in an auto, but the boy could not be found when they arrived. They waited at his home until early morning, but he did not retorn, probably having slept all nt to the woods Spaight remained at the bridge, and, when the lad appeared to take his post Thursday orning, had no difficulty in making the arrest T ARE WE GCING TO D WHEN THE TOWN GOES DRY? Means Fight Foster & Kleiser, Pacific coast billboard magnates. who, in con- trolling billboard advertising in Se- attle realize a gross income of more than $165,000 a year here, will al certainly wage a desperate fight. Councilman Hanna ts dent, however, that his meas ure will pass the courts It is drafted after the billboard ordinances of Chicago and Denver, where it in working satisfactorily Two recent court decisions were scored against the billboard men in favor of municipalities. Lavatory Problem Various methods were suggested Thured, r providing comfort stations. Both Superintendent of Buildings Josenhans and Superin tendent of Public Utilities Valen tine disapproved the curbstone type recommended by a joint committee lof the Municipal league and Com- jmercial Club. Josenhans suggested the saloons turn over their lavatories as com fort stations. The big business buildings of the city may be asked to open their lavatories to the public. most legal mraians FROM |FEED ALLIES ON _ AMERICA LANDED NAPLES, July 22—Two thor fight for italy. Great the homecomers. They given a great ovation, and, by bands, paraded the carrying American and flags. WASHINGTON, Consui July 22— Desoto has eigian and interests in Warsaw, idor Marye reported to State department toda: that the ? oY by the Germans |s im- ‘LOOK INTO WAGES (OOF CHICAGO. A phone girl | duly 22.—How the tet hearings of the federal in r of the commission airman Frank P. Walsh, show Italians, volunteers from the | States. janded here today | crowds | HELLO GIRLS. ives, her earnings and INE conditions will be studied commission in session here Agents in} Many cities have just made reports ¥ that the highest wages are paid Francisco and Los Angeles, M04 the lowest in Madison, Wis ionecammag cr IE STAR today has an Indig-| fant letter from F. R. Single- Secretary of the Cham ton, / / | The British government ts pur | chasing practically all of the low grade canned salmon on the Pacific | Coast, with which to feed its army, }it was learned today | There {s little demand for high jgrade salmon, it is said, and the |loases in price over last y | probably range from 10 to a case BECKER HAS ONLY cents SIX DAYS TO LIVE. W YORK, July |F. Becker, under senten for complicity in the Herman Rosenthal, has }more dave to live Gov Whitman that he found nothing tn atatements which would 22 Charles eof death only six repeated today Becker's influence CANNED SALMON : The Onl VOLUME 18. COUNCIL TO - INVESTIGATE O. K., SAYS BRADFORD ° ARMED MADMAN RUNS AMUCK; OLDS BRIDGE NEAR SEATTLE NO, 1% LAW EXPERTS Hanna Plans Inquiry Into Conduct of Corporation Counsel's Assistants. | Declares Reports of Private! Practice Are Greatly Exaggerated, Councilman Hanna Thursday an his ink © resolution tr nounced f introdw for of charges that mem counct! ao veatigatior bers of the corporation counsel's| staff are pursuing their private law | practice on the side. / | James R. Bradford ounsel, declared Thursday that the corporation alleged misconduct had been exag Rorated There has been a rule all along he sald that men in our of h not carry on any out side practice, We have overlooked that rule in a few cases, When we take attorney out of private practice and add him to our staff, we cannot ask him to immediately drop all the casea he has pending Hradford declared that for each minute his men gtve to private af. fairs, they give hours of their time | to public matters, working nights an and Sundays, when other people are resting. 1 shall alw: inaist upon puble efficiency,” he sald. He sald, however, that he would not order his men to drop their pri- vate work STILL FIGHTS TO STOP EXECUTIONS | PHOENIX, Ariz, July “Tl will} not desert Warden Sims such a grievous moment, when he is called upon to perform the dastardly duty of hanging five men.” 1 With this statement, Gov, Hunt of Arizona today announced that he would not attend Arizona day fes- tivities at the San Francisco expo- sition. The hangings of five men are scheduled for Arizona day, and Hunt, who has done everything tn his power to save them, is deter. {mined to stay here and fight to the murder of} i his opinion of the guilt of the man. | | WASHINGTON, July 22 and Carranzista forces are belleved to be in’a death grapple just north of Mexico City. It was reported to day that the the enemy RO ber of Commerce taxation bureau, |COURTS,” the letter continues, 4 this newspaper to task for| ing to criticize the malicious | the credit you like. All right, Mr. Singleton, take all You're welcome er ew. to It. 4 : @ declares The Star lied when| as Gd the Renick bill will cause a| Mr. Singleton denies that the 4 ee this city of $60,000 to $100,-| Renick bill will cost the city from # Year; that it lied in declaring | $60,000 to $100,000 a year s, Mhe bill designed by Seattie’s sub-| It will cost all of that, maybe Newspapers. | more. No man can foretell ped ‘ ays the bil! is the outgrowth [number of costly predicaments the WM the work of his bureau, \city will get itself into because of E ARE PROUD OF THE) thin measure WICK Law, AND DO NOT) TO BE ROBBED OF THE|Ballard bridges, for instance, Be In the case of the Fremont and Villista | Carranzistas have | today | been trapped between two fortes of 'Golden last He ts hurrying the work of cireu lating initiative petitions against the executions. EXCITING CHASE A chase thru the streets, a wild) plunge {n the bay, and a 70-foot climb to the top of a gravel chute, prefaced the capture Wednesday afternoon of Kugene Campbell, 17, a teamster, who fs charged by T. M BILL GOES ON SHELF The judiciary committee of the city council recommended Thursday that action on Coun. cliiman Lundy's resolution, call- Ing for a referendum vote on the McBride milk ordinance, passed several days ago, should be indefinitely — postponed, which amounts to a rejection of his plan to let the people decide for themselves as to whether they p milk from tuberculin tested cows only. The McBride ordinance pro. vides that no milk shall be sold in Seattle unless pasteurized or taken from tuberculin-tested cows. LANCASTER, Mass., July 22 Edith Longfellow Dana, daughter of Henry W. Longfellow, ts dead here She was the “Hdith With Hair,” of whom the poet wrote in “The Children’s Hour.” the city has been forced to sell the total amount of the bond Issue—$9: 0, nt im the bonds drawing 6 per terest ’ The bond market is a fickle thing it is good now A few |months from now it may be off again Had it not been for the Renick law the city weald have sold only enough of the issue to cover the reliminary work on the bridges. There would have been no need of fearing the fluctuations of the bond market had when It came time to appro [priate funds for further work on y Paper in Seatt COMMERCE AND THE R SHARE OF CREDIT WHICH BE-|cause of the Renick law, LONGS TO US FOR SUPPORTING iT AND DEFENDING IT IN THE for if the market had been | SEATTLE, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915. WASH., Boys’ Bathing Suits on Girls O. K. Put ’Em on Boys and They’re Vulgar PORTLAND “BATHING SUIT” CENSORS HAND DOWN THIS UNIQUE DECISION | | | | } | | The girl in the black professional bathing suit is the one the cen- sors thought had “too much” on. And the bathing sult without the stockings the censors thought sen sible. They didn’t object even when the suit was minus the short skirt. But the censors DID object to the lower picture. They thought the stockings were “immoral” and too “attractive.” The stockings should be removed, they decided. PORTLAND, Ore, July 22 Awful! Awful!” ejaculated the When Mayor H. R. Albee, of this|mayor when he read the letter. cpeliorsned Bil! Bill! BILL!" he yelled to city, recetved complaint from Chris! his secretary A. Relchen, a phys! ; dist, that the girls at Portland river swimming resorts were wearing {m modest bathing sults appointed } For heaven's sake, tell Harbor Captain Speler to take a censor committee up the river | and find out about this.” A general inspection of all bath-| i culture fad la censor committee to investigate.|ing resorts resulted in a verdict The mayor received the that Portland's bathing girls were shock of hie life when the cen. [dressed modestly enough, BUT reported—not that the | THAT THE MEN WERE IMMOD-. ie wore immodest or too tiny ESTLY GARSED! The censors did not think boys’ bathing suits on bathing suits—but—that THE girls were immodest—they declar GIRLS HAD TOO MUCH ON. e That Dares to Print the News : ONE CEN ORDER HODGE “TOTURN OVER "7 PRISONERS ON TRAINS Attorney General Telegraphs Sheriff to Give Up Federal Wrongdoers. WON’T BE ARRESTED Probably Will Drop Prosecu- tion; Hodge Threatens to Make Trouble. Attorney Genera Washington, D. ¢ ing touches on the t nm the federal justice and Sheriff county Thursday the sheriff by wi Prisoners Edward Charles Houston States marshal Pierce county District Attorney ned Id be made nated threa: Sheriff Hodge f would be droppe befe when he dir The Star that © finish controversy be. department of Hodge of Kin re to transfe Phillips and to the United Clay Allen tn the transfe ore night and tn poution alleged contempt Attorney General indignant “L do not wish te newspaper controversy | “and | am sure the federal court the first volley. would dislike it as it seems entirely that Sheriff Hodge ed with contempt such men as Houston and Ph to roam at large, » enter into this he declar ich as I, altho possible to ma could be charg. for permitting lips “It cost the government a large amount of money to convict Hous. ton, and, quite naturally, the attor- ney general js indignant “There Is no good faith behind | Hodge's pretense that he is run NEWS BTANDS, Se 3 KILLED, 12 HURT IN “N.J.RIOTS | 1 High. 4:29 p. 11:09 p. AND m | BAYONNE, N. J., July WEATHER FORECAST—Fair m, PLL PAELLA PPP PPP PPP BRAD PEPPER PPA PPP PPP PPE PPP PEPPER PEPE PREP DPD PPP PPP POPD PPPOE POPPE ae AST EDITION 10S AT SHEATTLR low I2A ft Tt wom, 22 tt 11 fC 6:00 pom. OM ft 22.—With three killed, atithree fatally wounded and many others injured in re- newed rioting of strikers from the Standard Oil Co.’s plant here today, Gov. Fielder at 1:20 p. m. jordered a detachment of militia to Bayonne. jOil has developed into one for removal to/conflicts in the history of New ,.|those shot down in attacks upon the plant today, scores are suffering from injuries struck by flying stones and clubs CHILDREN WO! The strike of the 5,000 employes of the Standard of the bloodiest industrial Jersey. In addition to ece received when they were UNDED | | Iwo children were among those shot today. They were watching the attack upon the plant and fell at iknown. The extent of their injuries is not Two strikers were shot and KiNG | cee this afternoon when an attempt was made to charge the pliant of the Standard Ol! company and ecale the walls about the property. This was the second charge made; by the strikers during the da: | “In an earlier attack this morning |three men were probably fatally ning his prison by the honor sys. | Wounded and several others seri tem.” Telegram Was Expected Attorney General Gregory's tele-| gram to Hodge had been expected by Inspector Joseph F. Fishman since Wednesda: Fishman, who was sent as a spe of absence from the eral days ago. “Haye authorized 8. marshal to trans to the Pierce count to Hodge. This t your authority for oners into the ma’ for such transfer.” Sheriff te | Houston was convicted some time | ago for defrauding the government| ready to answer a call from Sheriff| pany was in a coal swindle. able wealth Hodge declared he had been misqu newspapers as this controversy saying had been brought |elally detailed man from the depart. | ment of justice to investigate the | Hodge honor system ble for the arrest of Prisoner Phil | lips, while the latter was on leave county Jail, sev and directed U.| fer Federal Pris Joners Edward Phillips and Charles|put the incensed strikers promise | Houston from the K g county jail elegram will be del rshal's custody’ indignant He has consider- indignantly woted by that rtaf he thoug ed them safer and saner than the/to turn the spotlight of publicity Clarke, fitney bus driver, with an, “The girls at Willamette river| clumsy old-style bloomer suits | | attempt to rob him j bathing resorts are very vulgar, But the censors did object to wrote Relchen. “They garb them-| “boys’” bathing suits on men. leelven in scanty boys’ bathing out They said some of the men MILK REFERENDUM fits, no #kirts or stockings helping| bathers wore tiny sults which to hide their legs or shapes. This made their legs and shoulders | atick out like “big ham GIRL JEALOUS, DRINKS POISON should be stopped “If you give all your kisses to; some other girlie, you can't expect | Paul Webber | kinses from me.” had spent an evening devoting his| | time and attentions to a girl other| TRY TO KIDNAP GIRL than Miss Helen Anderson, return. SAN BERNARDINO, July Struggling with two burglars who jentered her bedroom early today | Miss Sadie Mills, 18, fought until one of the thugs endered her un conscious by squirting chloroform in her face. | | request that she marry him She refused for the | sons Followed a terrific Miss Anderson spat, ending | swallowed | ‘ when on he is at the city hospital, doing nicely |__ Fred G, Smith, real estate man of | The police believe the men plan-| Minneapolis, says Seattle is des-| ned to kidnap Mise Mills |tined to become one of six largest When she regained consclousnoss jelties in the United States. the men were gone i my office,” | who knows me shor such statement was made by me. from the German tion upon himself. “I don’t presume he saic¢ some later time the public will know just what was| animus behind the tion “L take my fob as a serious prop. | osition, and it is no’ ridiculed, If I am am right, no schoo ington is going to n Federal prisoner lips and Charles Attorney peral 11:30 o'cloc' of jail at custody marshals. THE HAGUE, Turkish legation h that emissaries fo en route to tiate a separate allies deputy United American situa to be bigger than d, “and any one ild know that no At soon, perhaps this investiga- t my desire’ to be wrong in main- This was the ultimatum handed ‘taining an honor system here. ‘Thursday, after he| want the public to say so, but if T Iboy from Wash- make me quit.” s Edward Phil Houston were ing Thursday to the latter, with the | transferred, according to orders of Gregory, from above rea-| King county to the Pleree county | left in States k. They | TURKEY DENIES IT |: July The ere today denied r the sultan are| Switzerland to nego peace with the Ithe bridges, the elty could have|THIS INTEREST WILL GO ON. drawn on some fund against the| PRELIMINARY WORK ON THE time when the bond market agatn | BRIT 3 WILL REQUIRE brightened MONTHS-—-AND MEANTIME THE But the Renick law prohibits|5 PER CENT KEEPS RATING transferring from one fund to an-|AWAY AT THE CITY'S VITALS jother. THE RENICK LAW PREVENTS ENICK LAW the Renick law would be $10,000. The fact that the city has $ 000 in the banks, cent interest, and but must instead money and PAY 6 for it, is only on 100,- | drawing per cannot touch It, 1 borrow more per cent interest e of the pla where the shoe pinches. There are a grea the situation whic evidently has not Mr. Singleton says the stop frenzied financeering true. BUT So now the city has sold the total|THE CITY FROM USID THE issue of $925,500 of bonds at 5 per |$3,000,000 TRUST FUNDS I NG cent Were it not for the Renick |IN THE BANKS AT 2 PER © yi 1 it would have sold only about! This is just one of a dozen ex- $200,000, THEREFORE IT WOULD |amples that might be cited where HAVE SAVED THE unnecessary interest {is piling up ON THE DIFFERE agatnst the city. TWEEN TH [ AMOUNTS . ° 500, WHICH, AT 5 PER Mr. Singleton figured ft all out |BQUALS $46, ANNUALLY in his letter that the most the city NOBODY KNOWS HOW LONG |could lose under the provisions of t many angles in h Mr. Singleton thought of law will IT ALSO EFFECTUALLY | STOPS LEGITIMATE AND COM- MON BUSIN PROCEDURE. was respons!-| reads At-| torney General Gregory's dispatch | strikers Very | ously hurt. In both Instances, the strikers approached the Standard Ol! plant under cover of buildings. They then charged, scaling the wall. As| they appeared at the top of the | wall, guards on the Inside fired on them. A total of 13 wounded strikers | possible |had been taken to hospitals this} afternoon It was estimated that} jat least 25 were wounded when | guards if the oil plant fired directly | into the massed men endeavoring | |to storm the gates | | Not only were threats heard to idynamite the plant this afternoon. |to avenge those who were killed | Sheriff Kinkead was fired on by | from the Standard Of)| plant here this afternoon A tank |into flames shortly before the | shots were fired at the sheriff bat | |the fire was extinguished Several regiments of militia were |Kinkead fn case the strike of the '5,000 Standard Oil employes here | should get entirely beyond control | Strikers in Control Rayonne is completely in the hands of the strikers, The town| was kept in a state of terror last night, following the rioting during | the day, when one man was killed and scores injured. The torch was applied to several outbuildings of the oil plant. A string of box cars was destroyed and the Standard | Ol) private telegraph office was set on fire. The blaze in the office, as well as those about the plant, was extinguished, but firemen were wearled and fagged today from the strenuous work of the night to pre. vent flames from reaching the} great oi! tanks, No Leaders There are no recognized leaders | with whom negotiations might be conducted, The strikers en masse | rejected an ultimatum from the Standard Oil officials, declaring | their demands would be considered, provided they returned to work to | day A conference between some of the officials and a body of strik- ers is scheduled for today, but what the outcome will be was prob. | lematical STRIKE SITUATION TODAY Five thousand employes of Standard Of] plant at Bayonne out Three killed, three probably fatally wounded and scores in- jured in rioting and attacks on the plant to date. Fires started in plant caused 000 damage. e militia called out. The fight about the plant was the result of a well-planned attempt to storm the place by about 150 strik- ers. They secreted themselves be- hind a church a few yards from the plant and then rushed forward and endeavored to scale the walls. As they reached the top of the wall, guards on the inside opened fire, Several dropped to the ground, wounded at the first volley, It was reported that two guards were also wounded by bullets fired by strikers before they were shot from the wall. Sheriff Kinkead swore in 500 spe- cial deputies last night. The depu- tles were secretly mobilized in the courthouse and can be hurled into pring pris-|car near the Standard plant burst|the strike zone upon a moment's notice. Damage $100,000 Geo. B. Clifford, manager of the Standard Oil plant, said the com- standing pat” in its re- fusal to grant the demands of the strikers or negotiate with them un- less they returned to work. He in- timated that the factory barri- caded and that preparations have been made to resist onslaughts. The fire in the plant last night resulted in damage of $100,000. is WASHINGTON, July 22.— (Bulletin.)—Upon the request of Sheriff Kinkead of Bayonne, the department of labor today appointed John A. Moffitt of New Jersey and Jam A. Smith of Pennsylvania a > ciliators in the strike of the 5,000 Standard Oil company em- ployes at Bayonne. They are expected to arrive y town tonight, WHITLOCK BETTER Whitlock, commissioner, stricken with paral- ysis Monday, was reported scious Thursday at tne Seattle Gen- eral hospital John © United States con- For many years | | | | label on their wearing apparel. now the Graham store is having a sale Seattle ladies have been proud to show the J. S. Graham And a clearance in which some most attrac- tive bargains are offered. Merchandise of highest quality is being offered at prices. very great reductions from Fall particulars of this interest- regular ing event will be found in the large dis- play ad which appears on page 2 today. ns, Mme