The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1915, Page 1

+ former Officer on Minne- gota Declares German Advised Him and Others of German Birth to Quit. EVES LINER WILL ER CROSS PACIFIC WASH,, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915 Call | Main 9400 t Asserts He Doesn't Know Details of Plot, But Says Warning Came From }) Trustworthy Source. ‘One of the former officers on the Great Northern jiner Min- peeota, which sailed from Se- | atte Friday with war = muni- ene for Viadivostok, has de- accord informa- ten i | gained by The Star, that three of his fellow offi. fesigned thelr posts on be @ecretiy warned by a Ger- In thie city that it would be safe for them to cross thie trip. | The informant sald he and friends had been tipped off, thought, because they have names. declared he was ignorant ‘members of the officers’ mess German names or Ger- iat lineage quit the ship while she beading here. two passengers dared make They were the wife daughter of an official of the |The company explained the lack r gers was due to the fact the Minnesota is sailing for a for which few persons ever However, after leav. . Kobe, ag: . ther Japanese and Chinese 2 o'clock Saturday after- vessel had been reported WOMAN DYING: ORS’ HELD INCITY PRISON Otto A. Burger and Rothere are at the city jail, with practicing without a Laura Thornton, Baden hovers between at the city hospital, suffer- B from blood poisoning caused 82 operation. woman dies, it is Ikely Mt charges of murder or man- will be placed and Rothere. Thornton's * condition be- , he notified the police, and Mectives Majewski and Bianchi Burger y night. had an office in the Epler Burger's business cards that he is the head of the Remedy Co. Or. Percy Smith, president of the Medical examining board, Relther Burger nor Rothere be registered is sald to have told the that he scraped acquaint- With women in cafes and rec ded Burger to them, getting # commission. _ Mrs. Thornton told the detectives Met Rothere in the Baden cafe. f life and | to against) known to Dr. Harvey at the} and Rothere| | ves, gentle reader, | EXCLUSIVELY tn The Star eee eee YOU guessed tt! BY BUD FISHER, eee eee | ITS THEM! THEIR CREATOR. eee 2. MUTT AND JEFFII! DON’T MISS eee eee WHO, THE BIG laugh. eee a | BEGINNING Monday, CALL MAIN 9400 | | eee see | AUGUST 16, RIGHT NOW | ° + eee | | (NOTE the date!) AND HAVE Tho § | * ee . | | AND regularly thereafter— CIRCULATION manager ee eee | WILL be put START the paper : 3 THRU their joy jumps "TO YOUR home. JOVIAL UNDERTAKERS MAKE MERRY; CASKETS ARE GIVEN AS FAVORS It was in the DEAD, still hour of | followed, and, while one of the en midnight when the first annual ban-|tertainers at the Germania in the quet of the King County Embalm-|room below sang “Sympathy,” the ers’ club came to its end at the Ger-|club members agreed among each mania cafe Friday night. lother that everything was not just | Though the tables had been well|® bed of roses with them. } laden earlier in the evening, “For inetance,” said Frank NOTHING SURVIVED except the, Hamilton, who was introduced floral decorations and a half dozen) &* embalimer, undert Preacher, singer and other things combined, was the last legislature Yes, there was the last leg- \Islature! Passed a new auto- mobile license law! And hearses a now required to carry a sign: “For Hire.” On the whole, however, the em- balmers agreed that business ts not so dead with them that they can't enjoy a banquet. miniature CASKETS. ‘There were no MOURNERS. | As honorary guests, the embalm- ers had with them Dr. J. Tate Ma- son, coroner of King county; Dr. Thomas Tuttle, state health com-| missioner, and several other doc | re When the feasting was over, and| the waiters had carried off THE | REMAINS, President Frank Koep- | fit of the club introduced A. A. Col- | Lins as toastmaster. jae erhe embalmers and undertak-| ers follow the doctors,” said Col * | Xo one took issue with him “So therefore,” he continued, “ | will first call on Dr. Mason.” ‘The next speaker was Dr. Tuttle. ' REPORT GERMAN - TROOPS MUTINY’ | Hoth medicos said they were oer |giad to be with the undertakers.) HAVRE, Aug. 7.—Serlous |r. Tuttle touched upon a very im-| mutinies have broken out In the | portant topic in his remarks | German garrisons at Liege, | “The death rate in W ashington,” | Ghent and Bruges, according to lhe said, “is too low, according to) edvices today. The landsturm | some Washington, D. C., experts troops, upon being ordered to Every now and then they kick/ the man lines of the Yeer about It. So [ll PASS ON—the| front, are said to have refused kick. The law requires undertak-; to go. The leaders of the mutinies are reported to have ers to register every death. Some rsh been shot. times it may be an undertaker slips | up. If he does, that makes the | statinten Tel hae” | LUMBER MEN | ARE HEARD BY - Excursion to E Do you appreciate the fac the most beautiful bodies o One of the most beauti et Sound is the trip Ingeness, the home of th Which defe Puget Sound feursion will be run to I Whatcom,” leaving Sst just $1.00 for the roun Children from 5 to 12, and « % an opportunity for a co Nominal figure. Read the Colma q Tomorrow 0% ever SEEN its beauty spots? The undertaker speakers then | COMMISSION ee neem, | SPOKANE, Aug. 7.-—-What's Port Angeles | sro. ye ..0 iness? Lumbermen from Northern | Idaho, Me nha and t that Puget Sound is one of Washington, representing $7 000,000 capital invested in the f water in the world? Have industry, and employing 20,000 people, summarized their trou bles under three heads Over ful and interesting trips on production, cut-throat compett | to Port Angeles—you pass tion and fear of government in amous crab, also the forts ||] terference e fam Sa cine aah tie They watified before the fed Tomorrow a popular Ff | eral trade commission, which ort Angeles on the steamer |) concludes its hearing here to n Dock at 9 a. m It wiil day. The commission will hold d trip for grown-ups 50c for a session In Seattle next week, | hildren under 5 go free. This 1) yo more treating allowed In ol, delightful day's outing at |) riverpool saloons, which can te Imain open only five and a half full particulars on page 3 ‘ ‘ hours @ day now. ONE CENT |the Rus | vessels destroyed Seattle Star(= THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ANY ON THAINS AN te NmWws CORNER RUSSIAN ORCES Capture of Defenders of Warsaw Now Believed by Military Critics to Be Certain, CONQUERING ARMIES ARE AT RIGA’S GATES Teut Forces Retreating Rus Czar’s Troops Retir-| ing in Confusion Three Great Harassing mn sians; hoped for hours. With Kovno, the fortress of northwest Poland, and the Bal- tle port of Riga thr within the nm early occupation of th important points is expected. which re treated from Warsaw are still believed to be in danger of en- velopment. Kovno le being evacuated, according to advices reaching here. All treasures and moved and the civilian population Ws leaving as rapidly ae porsible, The Tetons are at the gates of Riga. Thetr entry is expected at any time. The Teutonic forces which cross ed the Vistula river between War saw and Ivangorod are now swing ing to the north. They are threatening to cut off |the retreat of the Warsaw garrison by coming up on thelr rear. In atch event the capture of the defenders of Warsaw is regarded as certain The Russians have not been able to halt the forward aweep of the widely separated wings of the Ger man armies Gen. Von Buelow on the north| and Field Marshal Von Mackenzen on the southeast continue to press) forward, one threatening the rail- | road to Petrograd and the other| pushing on toward Brestlitovek, the | new Russian base. These steady advances, coupled with the smashing of the Slav line| along the Narew by Gen. Von Gall.) witz, are adding to the confusion of retreat LINE IS IN RETREAT BERLIN, Via Wireless to Say-| ville, Avg. The Russian line north of Warsaw is {fn full retreat Gen, Von Schoelz and Gen, Von Gallwitz have broken the resist ance of the Slavs near Lomsa at the mouth of the Bug river and are driving them in confusion, it was announced today. SWEDEN UNFRIENDLY --MAY WAR ON RUSSIA LONDON, Aug. 7—The Post the fear that Swe- indly attitude toward may lead to wi It ie reported that warlike prepa tlone have heen observed northern Sweden, In The Swedes, it is said are embroidered by the German successes. 2 HAITIENS KILLED | satan | WASHINGTON Aug Two! Haitiens were killed, instead of one, as previously recorded, when the American marines began their work of disarming the natives at Port Au Prince, Admiral Caperton reported today. SIX VESSELS SUNK | LONDON, Aug. 7.—German sub: marines have sunk six English fish- ing smacks and set the Danish schooner Emil on fire during the last 24 hours. The crews of all the were rescued. PAPER STARTS FIRE Mrs. J. T. Nelson stuffed some waste paper in the stove Friday evening and her home, 312 Taylor ave, is damaged Saturday to the extent of $600 from the fire that ensued De. in Oregonian, First let us be agreed on the pre- mise. Where Is that conscience? WGerman-American Members of Minnesota’s Crew Warned HERE IS THE EVIDENCE, CHIEF! HIEF OF POLICE LANG has the wrong viewpoint. He doesn’t want any outsider to pick flaws in his police force. That is the thing that stands out uppermost as the result of this inquiry into brutality charges made against a couple of his officers. @ The chief did not thank The Star for calling his attention to this instance of what The Star believes was a grievous offense on the part of these officers. @ Any fair-minded man, in a similar position, would invite criticism. Lang resents tt. gq And when, in passing, The Star called attention to a grossly immoral show that was running wide open in the heart of the city, Chief Lang deliberately ignored the matter. The show 1s still open. The chief grins when he is asked sbout tt. @ Mayor Gill emphatically declared last Wednesday that the show would be closed. closed. Maybe he is waiting for his chief of police to close it. @ The Star has shown that the proprietors of this show have been permitted, WITH POLICE KNOWLEDGE, to stage the rottenest exhibition shown in Seattle in recent years, and to do it right out in the open. The Star would like to know why—AND WHY THE PLACE ISN’T CLOSED UP. @ Perhaps the chief still clings to the story that he has no official knowledge that such a show is in operation. If Lang will separate himself from a penny, and purchase a copy of today’s Star, he will find herein some evidence, to-wit: * * It wasn't * * Here's the place where the “Oriental Beauties” hold forth—the place concerning which Chief Lang ms to be unable to get any of- ficial information. See t ‘Men only” sign, chief. That should indicat jomething. And one of your patroimen, you know, has been inside the place on more than one occasion. This photograph should qualify as evitience. You can have the original, if you want it. And you can have the names, too, of the two Star reporters who saw the show—the one who saw it In its unexpurgated form, and the one who saw it ‘-(day, and who tells about it In the following article. “Shells” Help Take Cash From Suckers at “Oriental Beauty” Show; Proprietors Old-Timers in Seattle, Star Man Finds | Star sions.” In each the head of a girl! “The first act,” said the “lec-|ehscene, indecent of immoral nature, of By * Reporter | was shown turer,” “will. be . ‘Hunting the| Wuere Say, scmue. st seekenee The “Oriental Beauties The “shells” got busy. Two of Naughty Flea.” or In a revolting moral s ~se, or to permit show on Washington st them were obviously plain bums,| 1 refuse to describe It id tn any sOh 0 Soy Serey s not as immoral as it |!merfectly coached in “shelling.”| “The next will be a dance.” The ae net as whe tar called |The third was an artist of his kind. slim girl wearily rattled a tam) permit any was before The Star callec He told the logger and me that bourine. She and the fat one took te be used for the prod a few shuffling steps and quit “The next will be the Persian dance. Chief in- it was “some show.” He applauded the “illusions.” He directed humor ous remarks at the “lecturer” and the girls. The “lecturer” came back at him wittily THREE MEXICAN the public’s and Lang's attention to it decencies Do a Muscle Dance But it is still cheap and It wasn't It was the muscle dance, poorly and very briefly done. nasty _ Show Lasta Five Minutes It costs you 35 cents, This dialogue was part of the The tat one aid it. seal SH and you get nothing at all show. It wasn't funny. It was rot- he entire “performa —peep . . ten. There was a double meaning {llusions” and two-bit swin- for your money The sign in front, “FOR MEN ONLY,” is frankly 10 minutes. y out, gents!” sald the and opened the door in in every sally farce lasted | 10-cent pie- |—one of them vile | The whole 10-cent five minutes. A good BY TEXAS MEN | cisco and stayed there until about three months ago, when she opened with the “Oriental a bait. Men who read the | ture show lasts an hour and a half. om - sign, pay their dimes at |,, TDem the “lecturer” told us that,| TH oem, few minutes, and| BROWNSVILLE Tex. Aug. 1— } if we wished, we could pay him nt Three Mexi whe ticipated the window and enter, do |two.nits and pass on to the next gain entered, going thru the mo in an stank oa babuntion, Whiek a so in the expec “oe of | room, where we would see another | tons of paying at the window guited in the death of Al Sebastian seeing an immora yer- | show, concerning which he must and his son, were killed early today esta unfit for waned speak in guarded terms. | The DINe She Seay, ge by a posse which surrounded a 4 It was enough, he sald, to say| etress of the “Oriental Beau- (house in which they had taken and children that we were not Sunday school, tle Flossie Lowery, | refuge. y ate boys. This was “the rea) thing.” | She ran a similar show on The American citizens at Se- When I visited the “Ortental! “There 1s no compulsion, gentle-| Fifth ave. 8, In the days when | bastian were shot to death. Beauties” show yesterday after-|men. The price is two-bits. A| the tenderloin was running. A posse was immediately formed, noon, there were in the “audience,”| word to the 8 sufflicent.” | She left and went to San Fran- |and early today the house tn which besides myself, one logger and “Shells” Lead the Way | ¢lsco In 1910, |the Mexicans had taken refuge was three “shells.” “ny ” gaid the “shell’4n. During the regime of Police | located. The logger wore the sheepish alr) chief. “I'm going to take this in. Chief Bannick, she returned | The raiders opened fire on the of a man who knows he has been| This promises to be rich. What's! &Nd tried to get a permit to run |rangers and citizens In the posse, stung. He and I applied our eyes|the admission? Two-bits?” a show here during Potlatch and Ranger Andrews was slightly lto the row of peep boxes in the| co planked down the money. (It week: Bannick turned her | Rounded The house was finally |hope of seeing—what? We saw! was returned to him later.) down. stormed from all aldes i pigtures of women, more or less The other “shells” paid and She returned to San Fran- MANY ENJOY FREE passed thru the door. The logger and I paid, unclothed, some in tights, They weren't pretty; they weren't even WATERMELON FEAST smutty, This part of the show was And there on a #ix-by-eight plat-| ne zero - {form stood two of the three girls! Beauties” on Washington at. The “lecturer,” a bored-looking| we had seen in the fllusions.” One . b 8 fer : area t man {nan untidy dress suit, talked|of them was young and rather) Even after being pruned and) epe ‘watatiiaion Senet Was ets purified, the “Oriental Beauties” is|joyed by hundreds»along Seattle's to us {n a foreign accent. He urged] pretty, The other was old and fat, | ‘ me ‘oa us to come close to the railing to/and wore an “Oriental dancing cos.|!mmoral and indecent, In addition] Waren hla aby RL Ng see the “illusions.” tumo"-—white tights (dirty) and a|t being a swindle N. P. awitch engine crashed 1r “Shelia” Are @ Busy Lot knit undershirt Section 1 of city ordinance No. iia switch engine aa i ane ‘ livery wagon, owned by Smith Bre same, ondiant *aiualana “Hunting Naughty Flea’ says tiinceut Gaieeienien ” TareWeutn which have done duty in cheap] These two performers were tired) p24) op scattered melons all over the land scape end endangered the lives of Albert Morss and Charles P, Su play, theatrical stage or plat. | 40, who were loading at the time er any picture of an of the accident. jand bored ‘They didn't pretend to try to give the logger and me amusement for the money we had paid, “store shows,” side shows and dime museums since the first sucker was born! There were three of these “illu: produce, exhibited, displayed orp place in the el | any drama, form performance,