The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1915, Page 1

were going to NO / VOLUME. 18. COVERS LOSS OF SALOON ‘There were glum faces around the ball Friday. Despair was writ- large on the faces of city of- Wails of anguish coursed m the air. ‘was all occasioned by the news bet Mayor Gill proposes to cut the | estimates of departments tolling all day Thursday and fato the night, the mayor and fy Crehan completed a let- Bio the council pointing out approximately $570,000 may from the 1916 budget est!- ‘course, the council Is not ob- to follow the mayor's lead, mayor announces he will ‘at the budget meetings, & begin probably Tuesday of ‘nd that he will employ ie sirens ergument to carry his q dicated. she for Big Increase pte 018 budeet was $3,740,290.25. ts ask $4,099,940.92 for Fi the budget would be $3.529,- ®hich would be less than the J by $210,249.23. _ The mayor figures that this dif- r bined with unexpended | which he says are lying| fe from former budget appropria-| ‘Will wipe out the loss occa- by the cessation of liquor ‘The mayor says he will keep the, levy down to 18.78 be done, and the mayor m9 it,” said one city official. declared around the city levy could not possibly be 22 mills and might be 25. Biffer With Mayor ‘mayor is considering only the} licenses, it was argued, cid Joss of $100,000 by the | sick law, combined with adverse | decisions on assessment rolls plied to the Shilshole and other | districts, will also cut a A meeting of the finance commit: | @heduled for Friday after fo clear the decks for next | warfare. it among his recom- are that the police de- get along without the) pmumber of additional men} by Chief Lang, and that the ‘§ department cease matin-) the city's planked streets | fresties out of the general If abutting property owners Wish to keep these streets , the mayor recommends | be torn up. emphasizes the necessity for y in his recommendation | Absolutely no increases in sal-| be granted the Mayor's letter to the council Bert as follows: HARBOR DEPARTMENT The port warden requests a new ‘at the cost of $14,065, with an * employe, known as a of the beginning of the greatest struggle the world has ever seen, 127 | tlons. IIRL PP PPAR RRL PARLE PD PADDED PREPPED PDD PRP PDP P PRP PD PDP P APPL ONE: year ago today Austria sent its impossible 48-hour ultimatum to Serbia. war. But no one could realize what a modern war, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915. ONE CENT ayor Slashes Half Million Off Estimates for 1916 Budget on NEWS KEANDS, Be L Fair. TRAINS AND V OMAN SHOOTS FALSE LOVER The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : | Saturday fair and warmer High 417 pom, 18 tt EDITION TIDES AT SEATTLE ont REAR GUARD OF A GERMAN FORCE IN EAST WAITING FOR ORDERS TO GET, INTO ACTION! Here is another picture from Staff Photographer W. H. Durborough, who is in Germany taking war views. The above was snapped on the Eastern front during a battle with the Russians. It is s interesting to note the position of the men. Lying down, all facing the front, and alert for action. CHILDREN AT PLAY AS GUNS; ——————— BARK IN RIOT BAYONNE, N. J., July 23.— Rumors of dynamite plots kept the police on the alert here today, but up to a late hour this afternoon there had been no re al of the fight- ing which marked the strike of the Standard Oil Co., employes yesterday. Special deputies sworn in by What Is the} Man Doing? HEAR OF PLOT TO DYNAMITE AUTO PLANTS CLEVELAND, July 23.—Local federal officials upon orders from Washington today notified the Peerless and White Automobile companies and the American Steel & Wire ympany of an alleged plot to dynamite their plants. All of the companies thus warn- ed have been manufacturing muni- Guards were thrown about all! gheriff Kinkead patrolled a three plants this afternoon and ev-| «gead fin drawn 500 yards ery precaution taken to prevent! ¢rom the wall about the oil strangers approaching. The plant®) piant about which the 1 employ 12,000 men, all engaged in) Conflicts were fought yester- day. Strikers ‘and sympathizers paced up and down on the other side of the line, which they were forbid den to cross, but no shots were, fired since early morning. At that time there was intermittent firing No one was reported wounded Mediators on Job eo Guards inside the Standard Of! NEW YORK, July 23.—Supreme| plant were warned by Sheriff Kin- Court Justice Philpin today ordered | kead that if they fired a single shot getting out | out huge war orders. | RAY OF HOPE . possibly desirable, neither Opinion is necessary, , eliminate both, together ail other new items suggested does not include salary in which | will take up Sir.) The department is work Mtisfactorily at present 1 POLICE DEPARTMENT ihe entimate of the chet a Pe fe based upon an effort to More men in the strictly res- Section of the city, and ap- assumes that the elimina | Continues | on n Page 9) mM YOU HELP HIM?) ® 8 younz man who had to ew. for his health Kentucky he held a teachers’ tim te. §=An accident crippled And he now walk» on crutches Ip Beattic now, looking for a Seeasebere he might earn his board ing. He will do any sort His name ts Elbert Rob- ae? 04 Can help, call up Bea and |trial should not be granted Charles| they the state to show cause why a new | except in defense of their lives, would | arrested, Mediators appointed by the de) arrived today. | F. Becker, former police Heutenant, convicted in connection with the! partment of labor py r uthorl er of Herman Rosenthal They conferred with the aut | steptciad ties, but prospects of a settlement | were regarded as gloomy because WANTS GOVERNMENT | TO HAVE MONOPOLY tte WASHINGTON, July 23.—A gov-|small children ernment monopoly of the cape streets, ture of munitions was advoeated by| | They peered around corners upon Clyde Tavenner here) strikers. or peeped out to look a ‘oo games pai (, “Ythe ofl plant, thoroly enjoying the 2 that, despite the tact | “fun.” |enat' a quarter at a Billion dollars | ‘The calling of militia to Bayonne ™ or appeared to be Imminent plead gue ghia annually upon thel sheriff Kinkead admitted he pavsyllt r ergp Sd a would be helpless with his deputies | not prepared fo’ armed only with clubs should the We are spending a quarter of a eee esterday be ref | the strikers not organized and |there are no recognized leaders with whom the mediators can ne | cotiate conditions, about the warlike played GIRLS AND BOYS! Take a good look at the picture above! Can you tell what he is doing? Watch Mim from picture to picture—his hands busy—but billion annually upon the army and erie ery obtained munitions evidently he is very g “ave are . busy at what? navy, enough to have prepared U4) a hing the night, and today were y at : for war at this minute,” he sald. |pUtieved to be well armed CAN'T YOU TELL |"But we are not prepared | Your firms during the last 17 lyears re ceived contracts for $17 The ten countries with the largest 000,000. They were paid from, 20 | populations are, in the order nam: to 60 per cent more than the muni-|China, India, Russia, the United) More than half the world's popu- tions could have been made for bagi Germany, Japan, the United} lation lives jn tropics of the Old government arsenals.” Kingdom, France, Italy and Austria.| World, you guessed right Look on page 5 and see whether! | prominent and influential connections, { PENITENTIARY OR GAMBLERS Thero's the very deuce to pay on Profanity hill It seems that somebody made a “mistake” in raiding a Chinese gambling joint a while back, and got a bunch of Chinese who have many at 219 Washington st. Chinese merchant The prope’ As it happened, the officers got the yellow The gambling joint was located rty 1s owned by Ah King, wealthy men with the goods, {and it looks like such a dead open-and-shut case that Prosecuting Attor- | ney Lundin is going to try to convict the offenders on a felony charge, | Instead of permitting them to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and take | | a fine, as has been the custom “If I can send these fellows o the prosecutor, “it will have an ex ver on a penitentiary charge,” cellent moral effect said Gamblers will | not pass the word so readily that we are willing to tolerate them,” | | | | siderable difficulty | discourage the called up the jail and gave | Several persons who may have been supposed to have in- fluence with the prosecutor, have gone to him and asked that the arrested games! Lee Sing, Jack Lee, Ah Dock, Frank Chan and Ah Bow, be permitted to plead to a misde- meanor. To all of them Lundin made the same answer, that he had a good case against the men and was going to push it to the limit. The prosecutor has met with con in his efforts to clean out open gambling in the city Recently, after several men had been arrested in a carefully planned raid, he discovered that the pris oners had been booked at police headquarters, charged with a tis: demeanor, and released on bail. He hasn't seen them since. In another raid, later, deputies invaded the place at 219 Washing ton st., arrested 100 men and con fiseated a great quantity of gamb. ling paraphernalla. The evidence are moving; | was all that could be desired and the the fetony prosecutor determined to press} charge in an effort to}! gambling fraternity He Instructions that every man arrest ed be photographed before being released on bail, #0 that positive identification might be made when the cases came up in court. A few days later he asked Jailer Halley if the photographs had been Halley said they hadn't, wanted to know why “The men didn’t want to be photo: jeraphea,” Halley is alleged to have replied. | The cases came to trial taken, Lundin One of |the deputies who made the raid |took the stand, He was asked to jidentify several of the d ndants. |He said he couldn't be sure they | were the men he had arrested. | Deputy Prosecutor Carmody, who | was trying the cases, iinmediately| asked for a continuance. The trial| | now is set for next Tuesday | In the meantime, Lundin has} | him and given them a talking to. He is confident now of etegied convictions VICTORIA GRAFT IS | SEIZED BY GERMANS SWINEMUND) 2 via Rerlin, July The American bark Dunishire, from New York to Stockholm been brought into this port by a German warship Victoria, B,C. The ‘ards show it sailed from San Franeiseo April 17, via the canal, and arrived at Helsingberg, Sweden, July 17, pre- sumably en route to Stockholm. called the arresting deputies before | has | The British bark Dunsyre is probably meant in the foregoing | |dispatch. The Dunsyre hails from One year ago todas the workd vialteed for the first pes that the aredt E uropean nations with all the modern instruments for destroying life, would mean. we take a check. And we find that TWO MILLION AND A HALF MEN HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ONE YEAR OF THE WAR. The figures may be found on page 8. Also a day by day history of the important events of the war, right down to the present time. NOW T0 | STAR PHOTOGRAPHER IN WAR ZONE SENDS ANOTHER PICTURE DIRECT FROM THE FRONT;| Today, on the first anniversary 12,500,000 DEAD IN ONE YEAR OF WAR! NARA Ann nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnrnn) As ¥ IKILS FATHER OF HER SON, WEDDED ANOTHER Lillian Alvie, 30, a chambermaid at the Byron hotel, 20174 First ave. N., shot and insta killed ; Howard 3orders, 30, a teamster, in her room t the | hotel, at 11 a. m. Friday. ] The woman, in jail, declares Borders was the |father of her 10-year-old son, and that when she de- jmanded Friday that he marry her, he refused. “I shot to frighten him,” she sobbed. “I aimed over his shoulder, but—but the bullet went thru his | heart.” W. Murphy of Wapata, Wash., that both Borders and the but that Borders had King county superior court at 119 Nob Hill ave., and to have stayed Thursday n The divorce hearing w day, according to Murphy, been a witness. Leavy his legitimate day morning, Borders is supposed to have gone directly to the hotel, where the Alvie woman began pleading with him to marry her. In vain he pointed out to her, accord ing to her story to the police, that jauch a thing was impossible, inas much as she was the wife of an other. For an hour she continued her supplications, finally drawing the revolver and firing. Borders dropped without a word, shot thru the heart Occupants of the hotel who heard | the shot rushed into the room to find the woman staring wide-eyed at |the prostrate form onthe floor. | The police were notified, and Offi leer C. J. Hart placed the woman under arrest | Borders’ parents are said to ré- side at Ballard, He has a half- brother working at the Henry Pack- ing Co., this city. According to the woman they lived together for several years at Fargo, N. D. It was here the boy |was born. Afterwards they drifted japart, and both were married to others. The woman had been working at jthe hotel but five days, according to witnesses, It was declared that she had ap- peared suddenly from the East, after Borders had practically forgotten her. It is supposed he went to the hotel Friday morning to try to in- lduce her to go away y again. REPORT ONE MAY HAVE DROWNED The body of an unidentified man, drowned near Seahurst park, Three-Tree point, was found Fri- day morning. He is believed to be the person seen earlier in the morning, struggling to retain a grasp on a rowboat that had upset near Fauntleroy park. The man was about 50 years old, baldhead ed, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighed 220 wife Pri | pounds Thomas Duffy, pilot on the American-Hawalian steamer Hono- inlu, Friday morning reported to the police that as the boat neared Fauntleroy park, on the way from Seattle, a green rowboat half-filled with water was noticed in the dis: tance, to which some person was clinging desperately A swell| caused by the big steamer washed the party off the rowboat. Duffy! could not tell whether it was a man or a woman. arlier in the morning, J. W. Ban- do, 5709 Alki ave., reported the loss of a 14-foot boat. It was stolen at} 1:30 a. m, by two men, who, he said, de their way toward Faunt- divorce a told the police were married ‘tion pending in the from his wife, who resides with whom Borders said ight. as to have come up Satur- who says he was to have WILSON NOTE IS DELIVERED TO VON JAGOW BY CARL W.A ACKERMAN BERLIN, July 23.—The new American note in protest against Germany's submarine warfare, is in the hands of the foreign office. It was handed to Foreign Minister Von Jagow at 1:15 this afternoon. The note arrived at the Amer- ican embassy, having been re- layed from Copenhagen, early in the da nd was immediate- ly decod and prepared for submission to the foreign min- ister. Alvie woman is BY Cc. P. STEWART WASHINGTON, July 23.— Delivery to Foreign Minister Von Jagow today of the new American note as to the sub- marine warfare will cast the die so far as this country’s fu- ture relations with Germany are concerned. Ambassador Gerard has b : instructed to inform the department confidentially of the reception accorded the new communication by the German officials. Evidence of the effect upon public opinion of the note in- forming Germany that a repe- tition of the Lusitania disaster would be regarded unfriend- Summaries of the note were to- day sent to American representa- j tives in other foreign countries, and will be furnished the representa- hoe of the belligerents here today, A submarine, presumably Ger- ;man, attacked the liner Orduna, bearing 21 American passengers, without warning July 9, during the vessel's recent voyage from Liver- pool This was conclusively shown in & report submitted by Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York, it was learned on high authority today. The public will |be given the note tomorrow morn- jing. It will be given out for re- Namaig in morning papers. ‘JACK NOW HAS VALET AN S: FRANCISC 0, July 22— When Jack London arrived here to- day from Honolulu he had a valet, World Mill inery Adds Suit Department The World Millinery s || proprietor, of plete line of ladies’ coats day’s selling, this store shopper. |] in their large display ad, in today’s paper. 1316 Second ave offers several spe dies’ suits which are sure to appeal to the economical Full details of these bargains will be found tore, David M. Blackman, has added a com- and suits. In addition to some most enticing bargains in millinery for Satur- cials in la- which appears on page 2