The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1915, Page 1

the Inventor, Laugh about it on page 3 He Made Tom Edison, S° YOU can bet it was the real article in “funny” line. Edi- gon laughed and enjoyed himself. He eouldn’t help it. Bud Fisher, who is ing to draw “Mutt and Jeff" for Re Star, made him laugh Read HE vd NITED STATES trade commission traveled Ihe Star having spoken i 1 way from the city of Washington to the Seattle port commissign, wl 1 ‘ ‘ a ome asking for a chance to be state of W ashing nm, complacently listening to the plaints athe bien ils fecth me Special Privilege When Bridges hotly i Consciously or unconsciously, this commission, whose that he resented the attitu duty it is t find out what is wrong with business, and fusing to listen to complaint then rec ommend remedial legislation to congress, was and others who, he says hearing only one side of it commission's public work When the commission reached Seattle, The Star became interested pointed out fact It was borne in upon him for the first time that the VOLUME 18. NO. 144. its mind Bridges, of the men whom the commission 1 had written the commission Seattle, were not representa heard, and ®ad been ignored, interests in the country, and t half the story nformed Commissioner Parry Davi 1 the first to de of the federal body in re wanted to be right against private dock owner He suggested to Col, H are interfering with the port he met ally in Seattle tha in Seattle, Chairman Davie glad to hear all sides of the busing EVEN THE WOR And yc terday The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : SEATTLE, WASH,, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915, REDDY By H. P. INNIPEG Man than this: That he p “Freddy” Hail which sent him “across ) That was the real beginni finished today when the Still in his tiny recruiting sta That meant that to Canad. tst of all British military cross! | the dark-eyed woman with; fray hair lying between in an upper room in at 179 Spence st. the of the Victoria cross to a to Canada—does not an the same as it does in the ot the “Little Bldck at York and Main sts. She is not the glorious re- of a hero BUT THE [R OF ONE. tg be the mother of even a cross hero cannot make everything. will understand When I say that “Freddy” Won the insignia of his he fell dead—shot thru Wtemple by 2 German bullet Would not have It otherwise, Mrs. Hall from her bed of , but if only he had not had| = what I Odore Elijah Burton, former- 4 4 States senator from Ohio, oken of guardedly as a presi al possibility, is a visitor in Burton's at the! White in Cleveland, the folks smile of Burton in the I i the country takes him ser. ee, for he Psd a big man in the : ean part on is a tall « Man, a Mo weholar ie cold. He elderly, old-tash confirmed bachelor, He is formal, pre has no sense of Men Cleveland, tho it pokes fun Py itton, does not question his a mm and ability. He probably WINS GLORY AND ETERNITY prrespondent Tells How He Won Victoria Cross‘. _and Thrilled All Canada. ..,: Manitoba, Aug. 6.—"Greater love hath no|'¥ Jai! Thursday . foom at their top that, si contingent to the defense of E ngland.” wrote after the name of F, the two magic letters, V. C HALL A. J. SPECKERT “1S EXAMINED FOR SANITY Attorney aidan Aloysius J, Speckert, | who, prt incarceration to his In the ty jail on a grand In eny charg was to have gone East to of harge of a branch eult, ts the and ance of alleniats A. P. Calhoun. nt of the Steilacoom tna jasylum, and Dr. Donald A. Nichol son, brain specialist, made an ex jamtnation of Speckert at the coun They will report }to Prosecutor Lundin. former super Burton, lay down his life for his|“’ne Nicholson declined to’ make public any statement as to Speck jert’s condition after the examina I have = just | tion climbed the nar- | “There will probably be several k more consultations he said row back stairs! gpeckert has been confined for, that lead darkly} oo seston on a charge | t ol misappropriating a t to the left of the|finge bred 4 old barn that} He was formerly a lecturer on re- . ‘ the | Usion and pastor of the Temple of stands at y i. Light. Later he jumped to the corner ot OMK) Yoga cult and bec: ame an ardent Raiph M. De Bit as head of the and Main sts. | follower of “Dr.” whose resignation {cult here came after his arrest on stairs — dingset,!, statutory charge with Mrs, Dor smudgier or loos-|othy A. Gerber, wife of a San Fran er jointed. Yet) cisco physictan Never were they arc sanc- tified for all) time, for these} PEOPLE FLEE stairs are the first! rung that Hal! has climbed to an undying BY HENRY WOOD fame. | NAPLES, 2—The , great volcano avis It. was right] Sine and Brrombnl!' hove vee here, in the little) dently become active and are ix months ago, he wrote the| belching eteam and amoke. seas,” a member of the Lava pouring down the first! ern slope of Mount Etna | from two new craters, threat- aa { | ening Sicilian villages Naples and Messina are te: ror stricken. The Inhabitants are flocking to the churches, | offering prayers for the safety | of the citie - “th En route from Athena to Naples has come ‘the aboard « Greek steamer, | person the award of the Vic-|aqny witnesned the reawakening of |the great volcanoes. Passing thra the Tonian sea, |smoke from Mt. Etna was visible for miles. The cone of the voleano, standing two miles above sea level, was shrouded {na thick cap of black smoke and steam, At Messina, 60 miles northeast, the people are clamoring for the traditional procession to the Ma- dorna Della Lattera, popularly be- Heved to ha often saved them from Mt Etns’s wrath ‘GERMAN JEWS ‘SEND MUNITIONS PROTEST ing of “Freddy” Hall's life- staff officer of the 90th regi- room at the top of the rickety M. Hall, sergeant- ja, to Winnipeg, honors, There is a stretch of ground that) runs from the sandy marge of the Norman sea to the far slopes of (Continued on Page 5.) SUSTAIN CHARGES AGAINST TAGGART 12.-— INDIANAPOLIS, The principal Ind., Aug. charges against Thomas Taggart, democratic na tlorial committeeman; Mayor Pell, Chief of Police Perrott and more than 100 other politicians indicted | recently were sustained by Special | oo Judge Eichorn today BERLIN, Aug. 12.—An associa, Judge Eichorn upheld 63 counts |tion of German Jews today made! | public thru the military their rab | bis’ protest against the shipment of munitions to the allies for distribu- tion thru neutral powers of the charges of conspiring to corrupt elections against the men ruling against only five minor counts. COUNCILMEN ENJOY THEIR DAILY RIOT Councilman Hanna was the insti gator of the dally riot in the coun ell budget committee meeting Wed Fire ¢ nett nesday, when he ask | Stetson why the chief mechanictan would not b allowed to @ moble parts of fir It reauited In most of the council men » in opposition to fire men bufiding engines, in Mayor Gi opposing ft strong, in Coun ciiman Dale telling Councilman Lundy he talked too much, and In Lamdy admitting tt | Hanna contended the mechanics from each station should be given a chance at engine dullding, The mayor thought if they could be spared for this work they might be dropped altogether, and added that some of the stations should be dome away with as unnecensary.| “Oh, 1's pany enough to bring up| opposition,” «nid Hanna. It's easter to make foolish ments,” said Lundy, coming down hard on his wad of cum. Capt. George Roberts a BULGARIA FOLK This roused Bolton You may know tt all,” he sald to Lundy, “but they do ft eeanpers: “ Hanna cited Spokane ample of where the fives alae apparatus The mayor said they did it with the second platoon, and that neither the unions nor the firemen WAR QUESTION SOFIA, Aug. 11.—(Delayed |here would stand for it 9. y Lundy, who says he fs a machin nar emer enks Aus- st, deciared a man can't be a ma| Visite no: 20 pn s vo) chinist and fireman at the same) tonday; “eneldiigs:: \ifermation | | time | A Chief Stetson added thet a fire] So.i¢ We few. prepsento of the allies to obtain Bulgari ticipation In the war. it is understood they inform. | ed the premier Germany was | about to begin a new Serbian offense and promised Bulgaria important concessions if Czar ® par | man can't be made to work eight Pp |hours as a mechanic and then 14 hours as a fireman. | | Councilman Dale at this point at |tempted to speak, but Lundy beat | im to it | | afternoon, nad heard, from Boston to |. G. Brown, president t Internat 1 r tive of ALL the business eavers’ unior t urthe med tegtir hat the commission had but the suspicion in the ct r tt 1" n had not performed it ‘ how that he neerel The mir n te | » different from tl t tol mill ( awthorne and other m The mm na I t ' ci re t the commission would be ommendati in a letter, which he promised t intensely human story of From now on it may be hoped that the commission NG MAN IDI will remember that it should be at pains to get at all at the ‘Tacoma hearing sides of the story, even that of the “underdog cm ne 6:55 po ON THAINS AND NEWS WTANDS, Be ONE CENT BROWNSVILLE, and forenoon, three Mexic running fight with cedes and Donna this Thirty-five bandits w river by the Americans, bu PIONEER OF MARINERS ON SOUND DEAD WEATHER FORECAST—Fair Aug AST EDITION TIDES AT SEATTLE Low m., 128 Mh 182 wom, 24 ot m., 180 ft FIGHT RAGES ALONG BORDER; FEAR ATTACK ON TEXAS TOWN 12.—After a quiet night an bandits were killed in a soldiers and citizens between Mer- afternoon. back acros§ the were joined by ere driven t there they 100 others and further trouble is expected. Three companies of the Ninth infantry arrived jfrom Laredo today. It was rumored this afternoon C George yberts, 64, dean ce > of Puget Sound and Alaska mari-| ‘at 5,000 troops had been ordered here. ners, one of the organizers of the Iwo troop trains from Gen. Obregon’s headquar- Alaska Steamship Co. and the ters at Monterey arrived at Matamoras last night. Puget 8 Navigation Co, and This is regarded as significant in view of threats Ja oh : ener . of an attack on Brownsville in case of intervention North Pacific water by the United States. to heart failure at With terror prevailing all alongthe, Gov. Ferguson has asked that " : Mexican border, practically every more troops be sent to the Rio Springs Wednesday night able-bodied man of Cameron, Hi- Grande by the government and He bad been in poor ith since | dalgo and Starr counties was under every rancher in this region has his wife's death, a year ago last| arms tod all firmly belleving joined the volunteer forces who March. they are facing an attempt of Mex-/are engaged in running down the % leans to seize a part of Texas by bandits and organized bands ter- aaa Rares: ome. a eait.| "holesale massacre and destruc: rorizing the community. ing ship from England, Rea zing |' Tb ss Reports of additional Mexican the opportunities here, he bought} e “army of liberation for Mex- forces arriving on the border and the amall schooner Ld. Perry, pnt|!cans in Texas” is declared today |crossing the Rio Grande are con- steam into. her, and began his|', be spreading. stantly reaching here. One report Puget sound ateambost career. | Im snatching the border land declares 1,700 Carranzista soldiers Retires in 1905 | from the United States, the Mexi- have crossed the river, being scat- With ¥ soy ‘Oanée son of the | C#N® are said to be pledged to slay tered out over 120 miles between Po paesldent of the N. P. rafl-|¢very American over 16 years of| Rio Grande City and a point below road, George H. Lent and Charles om Paice FE. Peabody, in 1894 he formed the Alaska Steamship Co., with the 8 8. Willapa the first large stea When he retired in 1905 the com “ATLANTIC FLEET pany owned ten large steamships and had prospered immensely. A BY Cc, P. STEWART large block of stock {s still in his} WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— name | President Wilson faced an in- The number of steamers has| volved Mexican tangle today. been increased since to 13 | defied him. These same four men, together} It is known the administra- with Frank E. Burns, C. H. J.| tion intends to answer, and | Stoltenburg and Joshua Green while this situation is being later organized the Puget Sound) dealt with, conditions along | Navigation Co., and at the time of! the border are becoming more his death he was a member of th | serious. | board of directors and one of the! The entire Atlantic fleet will largest stockhgjders. | leave Newport for southern Sadness Among Mariners waters on August 29. Tho it Capt. Roberts, up to the time of is denied at the navy depart. retirement {n 1905, was usually in ment that this movement of command of the finest steamer eD-| the warships has a thing to do | You've been talking all morn-| Ferdinand would remain neu. [saged in either the Alaska or with Mexico, their presence at | ini shouted Dale. “Now I want tra Puget sound business In turn, he} the southern dr rounds will }@ chance. socialists are demand. | commanded the Olympian, City of} 01 them neare = Slaxican {" "1 admit I'm always talking, but! Ig a popular referendum be | Kingston, City of Seattle and many} POX Snem Haaser the © eeia I don’t say anything,” sald the ef fore Bulgaria takes a decisive (other ploneer steamers | Even before Secretary Lansing | fervescent Lundy. step. Practically all the veteran mas-| Bs aye Beek cy i Tiere’ conten Dale appealed for law, order and ters of steamsbips in these serv.|and the pan-American | confereg | reason in the discussion fees were schooled by him, and inj had time to make a final “get to- Fitzgerald came to bat with »/ ARTILLERY BANGING 1% »earts of an steamsnip ofticers| gether’ Appin to ya received plea for peace. It was Fitzgerald ltoday, there is genuine sadness, tions, President ilson received | who two days ago called the mayor/ ON WESTERN FRONT He ‘was never known to have an|Carranza’s message warning them la “bald-headed stiff.” lenemy. His habits were exem-|to “cease meddling hits. plary Generals Stand by Him PARIS, Aug. 12—The most furi-| Capt. Roberts ts survived by one This was followed by a_ pro- FRENCH AVIATORS ous fighting that has occurred on| son, George T. Roberts |nouncement from Gen. Heriberto the western fr - |Jara, a Carranzista chief, scoring nt in a fortnight ts it Verdun with ar in progress a BOMBARD 2 TOWNS tillery rocking the region and vio jlent assaults being made against BERLIN, Aug. 12- 12.—French avia-) entrenched positions |tors dropped bombs upon Swej-| Hand grenades and large bombs \brucken and Sankt Ingbert, in Ba-| add to the din of exploding shells varia, killing eight civilians and|from heavy guns. wounding several, |i was announced The crown prince ts hammerin ng | today, hard at the French line near Vien-| Swelbrucken and Sankt Ingbert|na Le Chateau are but 10 miles apart. Both have Strong attacks are being made| extensive machine shops, manufac-| by the enemy in the Pont-A~Mous turing establishments and tron | sen region, it was stated ie IT MADE MARK ANGRY ‘TURKISH WARSHIP stark Wood, a tongshoreman, is, S REPORTED SUNK |under arrest Thursday for tearing is up four payroll sheets when he got LONDON, Aug. The admiral: | into an altercation with the fore-|ty today was without confirmation man in charge of the work on the|of an Athens cable stating that Admiral Farragut, Wood claimed) the Turkish warship Goeben, re |he was being victimized of 15 min-|named the Sultan Seltm, had been | utes’ pay. torpedoed near the Bosphorus. at, Ho! What Have We Here? Theodore for President? 0, NOT THE THEODORE YOU’RE THINKING OF! THIS:IS THEODORE BURTON, WHO HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR knows more about the rivers and) Family assocmtion from 1901 to|for drawing comle cartoons of the|nesday night from Snokane. He} harbors of the world than any one! 1903 and president of the Amert-| ultra-ridiculous sort | was given an informal reception on earth can Peace society from 1911 to| He invented a carteature of Bur-|at the Press club He was chairman of the tniand 1913 ton which hix newspaper used| Thursday noon he was the guest] waterwara commission, chairman He t# chock-full of statistics and | whenever Burton was in the news.|of the Chamber of Commerce at a! watehe antional waterways. comi-|cold, hard, inexorable facts. He is| It showed an elongated Burton |tuncheon at the Butler grill, where| Or eaten, and a member of th® na-.a standpaiter and safe and sane al-|carrying a suitcase. And on the|he spoke on “The Present Out] Honal monetary commission ways suitcase was lettered j liook"” A one-time advocate of Me nites big books, on such, When at home he lives alone tn) “I VOTED WITH®ALDRICH 114] peace, he preached preparedness) ltopies as “Financial Crises anda beautiful apartment in a Cleve-| TIMES t for war. Periods of Commercial and Indus- land sburb This carieatu@ of Stanley's irr] Gg Friday he will address the| trial Depression,” and “Corpora . tated Burton so that he couldn't! Young Men's Republican elub.| tions and the State.” Under Burton's cold, almost! leave Stanley out of his speeches.|'This will be a political speech, the BOK, prim, extertor, he is human He would start out to discuss the|only one he will make In the state He ran for mayor of Cleveland). In Cleveland there lives, or used] tariff, or ship-subsidy, or rivers|'Then he will leave sfor Tacoma, ome and wan badly beaten. He|to live, a little newspaper artist|and harbors, or finance, and Wind) Portland and San Franclaco placed ‘Taft in nomination for the named Stanley, who got under Bur.) up with Stanley ary presidency at the republican con- ton’s skin | "He was very severe with the Hit-| @urton looks gloomily for. vention at Chicago in 1908 Stanley is a modest little fellow| tle artist hetinh a athe aioe iat Atte’ Vesela He was president of the Grant|about five feet tall, with a knack Burton arrived in Seattle Wed war. the administration, lean conference the pan-Ameri and financial in- REPORT KAISER IS WILLING T0 LEAVE BELGIUM LONDON, Aug. 12—A dis- patch to the Times from Milan today declared it was report: jand pledging armed | outside interference. In addition, Carranza’'s here made public resistance to agents telegrams from OFFER CHIEFS AN WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— The general Mexican situation was regarded as more hopeful ed that Germany was Nid today. The pan-American con- to negotiate for peace on the ’ erees with Secretary Lan- basis of a heap from sing have dispatched a note to Belgium, and had already made the warring factions urging overtures to the pope for medi- them to meet in a peace con- ation. ference. The correspondent declared There are indications, it is the Austro-Germans were not sald, that under such a plan, willing to endure another | @ basis for an agreement with winter campaign. Gen. Carranza might be reached, Gens. Carranza, Villa and Zapata now have another chance, under the MAY CALL OUT EN Gen, Funston's voluminous re “1 will either be followed by more war,” he sald, “or at |Dort, received here, has not yet least by the maintenance of been made public fully armed camps all over the Gen, Funston said Texas poll world. Ucians are fighting their own bat “1am, and always have been, { {tles with the Mexicans the advocate of peace, but J ges . realize that conditions have | 4; army tu the Mexican border te changed, The frightful conse- aie dered a if taly pew ts consi¢ elopment quences that may result from |inat may come at any hour. As to the war In Europe are beyond |actual intervention, an authority our azomprehension: Jeorroborated by the pan-American Ex-Senator Burton is an advocate) address to the Mexican factions to of the pational defense movement.| day, declared this step would not he taken unless anti-foreign out Zachary T. Wilcox, of Carson|breaks occurred City, Nev., a veteran of the ‘eivil| ‘The gunboat Sacramento left war, has not shaved for 82 years,| Vera Cruz at 6:20 last night for and his whiskers are now eight|New Orleans with the Brazilian and one-half feet long. jand Guatemalan ministers, their! | terests on both sides of the border,! ORDERED SOUTH Carranzista leaders, including Gen- jerals Obregon, Gonzales and Tre- vino, declaring they would have nothing to do with any program which Carranza does not approve, and pledging their loyalty to re- sisting an enforced compromise with the “reactionaries.” Carranza Messages Are Insuiting The tone of the Carranza com- | munications are not only defiant, but insulting. Some officials think he has sought to compel ac- tion by the United States as means | of consolidating all factions on his side and winning the sympathy of the pan-American powers. Secretary Lansing was the first of President Wilson's advisers to | consult with him upon his return from Cornish today. The Latin-American envoys have refused to endorse intervention. They opposed it thruout the con- ferences with «Lansing and today, thru the Carranzista agency, came the announcement that the Prest dent of Argentina had cabled Car- ranza that Argentina entered the conferencs on the understanding that Mexico's domestic affairs and intervention cussed If the United ates intervenes, the administration must, therefore, not only act on its own initiative, but act against the vigorous oppo- sition of the Latin-American con- | ferees, . OTHER CHANCE pan-American program, to agree yupon a provisional president, who |shall be recognized until a perma- |nent regime can be established | ‘This would probably be within a |month or two after peace is de- jclared. Villa has agreed to this program. |It is believed Zapata will also ac- |quiesce The Carranzista agency here saxs the “first chief” would consider get ting together with other leaders if representation in the peace confer- ence is in proportion to the ter tory and number of people each fa {ton controlled, TIRE U. S. ARMY families and their suites aboard, the state department was informed today would not be 4 The situation along the border had today become temporarily more alarming than conditions tn Vera Cruz or Mexie¢» City. Gen. Funston sported that marauders styling shemselves the “Army of Liber, of Mexico and Texas” are operating in the Brownsville section, Funston de clared his troops captured a_pre- tentiou» battle flag Tuesday, bea ing the juscription, “Army of Lib erty.” At the war department It Is be- Neved the pandits are merely us- ing the flag referred to by Gen. Funston as on excuse for wide spread brigap dage.