The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 1

They're Going to Work The Fat Off the Boys G* LEONARD WOOD, at Plattsburg, N. Ye training camp, explains things to Star correspondent, Looks like Seattle business men are in for an invigor ating experience, See page 8 HETHER there is oil at Tenino or not, be slow to invest your money in oil stock, One weil dows not make « profit-yrelding oo: belt Even should 0 real well of rich, paying oil be uncapped at the brase-band function arranged by the Crescent OW Co.. for Tuesday afternoon, it does not mean thet the Crescent of any other company has any more wells. or ony other basis for the sale of oi) sock investors There was one oi! weil at Calgary—just one. But there were scores of fly-by-night oil com- 27 DEAD IN GALE; LIST GROWING DALLAS, Tex., Aug 18 Twenty seven persons are re- dead in Houston, Hitchcock, Bellaire and Morgans- today as a result of the terrific storm which swept Texas ing the past two days With five reported killed in Galveston and property dam- running into millions, the state is awaiting the unfold of full details of the hurricane which it is now believed prove to be one of the most disastrous in the history the southwest. | Hear of Towns Wiped Out Estimates of the dead so far received are based only upon Heports of the most meager character received by wireless or from a few refugees or workmen who have reached points 4 Gat of the center of the storm area ) Stories of towns being wiped out and families drowned off tte beginning to drift in ¥, Relief measures have been started but so completely is and all other communication paralyzed that even this inot be carried forward Tale of Disaster From Galveston With details lacking, it is feared a large death feported when communication 1s restored There is grave anxiety that Galveston will develop a rtening story. It is feared the property damage in gulf district may even be greater than in 1900, when eston was inundated and 8,000 persons were swept to death. It is believed the great causeway erected by Galveston aed of more than $2,000,000 following the storm 15 years , has saved hundreds ‘of lives. “The city is now out of danger but the water, lighting and toll may rtation systems are out of commission, and there is h suffering. e Three hundred feet of the great causeway has been | yed. teen Bodies Are Found Every effort is being made to reach Galveston, but railway men tracks washed: out and roads flooded to an impassable depth fs standing from three to fite feet deep in the city, which Is to resemble a huge lake. Railroad men reported finding sign ripped from their places by the wind in Galveston, more than Miles from the city. At Hitchcock, 20 miles away, bodies. Seabrook is reported to have been wiped out. declared to have been al! but destroyed, and but g at Sylvan Beach. Few houses in Houston Wreeked or damaged. The wind reached a velocity of 80 miles an hour there, and the water and telephone plants have been out of commission since| [9% m. Monday. The damage here wil! run into millions. At Texas City the United States army military base, heavy damage | done. Gen. Bell reported ten soldiers drowned % Morgan's Point ts escaped being fires raging in Galveston JEFF Was Full TLL BE Dos~GONMED \(emv, wort, Te IF BismarK DONT LOOK, || DECIDED To 60 TO Sometning Uke MS. \yHe Ware ING NO WONDER HE WAR A DECIDED To MAKE Rear MANe BY GOSH, IF A NAME FOR MSeLEY RONNIE BEEN A SOLDIER, THAT WILL BING DOWN J MIOHT HAVE BERN A TAME Prous Gime Cine THE HALLS OF , ALONG BIDE OF BISMARK, “Sao CARSAR AND KID. BROAD 4 ' partictpated In wy: | whe Santa Fe employes reported finding | one house ts! | Late information is Jacking as to the progress made in fighting two) off” has been oil s this state could hope for to the otate The Star hopes there is not only one oil well at Tenino but that there are several oi! belts in thie COP SOUSED IN PUBLIC PLACE: CHIEF AROUSED Aroused and indignant be cause of the alleged conduct of | a policeman is said to have got drunk with a party of revelers at Magnolia beach Tuesday, Chief of Police Lang Wednesday ordered an immedi ate investigation. The chief indicated that po | Nice officers, because of their responsible positions, should show a sober instead of a drunken example, especially in public pla Aceording to everal partion beer buat” who reports made by to the police, the at Magnolia beach wi & woman camp-| three boys under or, two girls an age, and the policeman It is reported he belongs to the Pallard district, and Capt. Bannick of that precinct has been ordered by Chief Lang to get to the bottom of the affair at once. LUNDIN TO ASK GRAND JURY TO QUIZ SHERIFFS Prosecutor Landin began Wed. nesday an investigation as what he terms the “hidden forces” whieh | are frustrating his efforts to dong the city of the gambling and light evils He announced he intended plac ing certain evidence against the heriff's office before the grand jury when that body is called in November. His action followed a long series of peculiar events, the climax of which came Tuesday, when Deputy Sheriffs Wiley, Wadell, Marshall, and others who participated in a raid of a Chinese gambling den six weeks ago failed to identify the de fendantsa in justice court That was the rawest deal I ever saw sald Lundin, Wednesday ‘They previously told me all about each man they arrested, and | made notes of what they sald.” Lundin's special investigators, Saari and Ajax, who were gleaning jevidence in red-light abatement cases for the prosecutor, have been forced off the job, Lundin says, because they were “tipped to the proprietors of practical- every “joint” in the city, ly AND = AMDE FROM THE PERSONAL GLORY, IT 18 THE DUTY OF EVERY “AN WITH RED BLOCH th HIS VEINS “TO Soits (N THis GREAT WAR OP WARS SEATTLE, WASH,, state. The Star wants to be fair to everyone in But remember this: Ninety-nine per this thing. cent of oil stock never yielded a penn: Whatever oil Woes just so much paper. There is no real basis of security for it. You may be able to sell it tomorrow or higher price than you paid for it, and you may not. If you don’t sell it, you are more than likely to get “etung.” Reproduction of an editorial published on the first page of The Star on November 23, 1914. WEDNESDAY, is offered for sale today is It certainly offers nothing alluring in the way AUG. 18, stock, mak y of dividends. The’ Star will print all the reliable oil news obtainabie. next day at » The Seattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. 1915.ONE CENT O SLOW IN INVESTING YOUR MONEY IN OIL! panies and there were hundreds and thousands of tung. There may be one oil well at Tenino. But there are lots of oil companies fishing for easy money. The Star earnestly hopes that struck in nch, paying quantities at Tenino. It would be as great a blessing It would bring greater prosperity than even the Klondike discovery of a permantnt investment 12:09 p 008 p. ON THAINK AND NEWS STANDS, come, warned its readers to It ww news like amy other news. But mai it warns you not to take too seriously even the un- While other newspaper capping of the Crescent well. investments in oil stocks, Even if that well proves to be what its owners ‘ ie : A ie claim for it, remember it is but one well and noth- nine per cent of oil stock MOB ACTIS ° DEFENDED BY MAYOR Aug. 18 former governor of today ridiculed the report that hie life would be tn danger should he return to Georgia be cause of the temper of the people who are aroused by the lynching of Leo Frank whom Slaton saved from execution. In the same breath that he con doned the tynching of Leo Frank, 4. G, Woodward, tuayor of Atinnta; ATTACK ISLAND ROME, Aug. 18—Twenty Austrian warships and one aer- oplane attacked Pelago ministry of marine announced this afternoon, Italian artillery repulsed the enemy craft. Four Italians were killed in the bom bardment. TEPPELINS RAID ENGLAND AGAIN; "TEN ARE KILLED LONDON, Ang. Zeppelins again raided the east coast of Eng land last night, the admiralty an nounced today. Ten persons were killed and 36 wounded by the bombs hurled from the air craft. This is SAN FRANCISCO. John M. Slaton, Georgia, 18 the third air raid on England within | two weeks. The admiralty report stated that the raid occurred against the “east counties. The official statement expressed the bellef that the British antisir craft guns which fired upon the in vaders damaged a Zeppelin. Bombs were dropped upon a church and other buildings by the enemy airships. With the ten killed and 36 wound ed last night, 100 persons have lost their lives and 280 have been }wounded by Zeppelins in England of Kultur and MUTT Was Full of Mail (Copyright, 1918. by I. C. Fisher) i in ao @ ‘eas before the members of the California State Assessors association here, warned Slaton to keep away from the South The mob which took Frank from the Georgia prison got the man that murdered Mery Phagan, declared Mayor Woodward. gia is a state where, when the vir. tne, chastity and honor of a woman has been violated, the man who does it is going to suffer. “t know Jack Siatpa, have known’, him for 30 yeare—ever since he was a young man. I have been friendly with him, and, while T hate {to say it, I would not advise him to return to Georgia for a year—tif ever GOVERNOR WILL __ INVESTIGATE | FRANK HANGIN 18 ATLANTA Aug Harris will supervise the probe be Ga, Frank “Geor- | | 7 Gov.| made into the lynching of Leo) by a mob of 20 men who dragged him from the Milledge ville prison farm. The governor is not satisfied with the interest shown in the! case by the state prison board. | He also desires an explanation of Milledgeville, offi un conditions at which resulted in the being entirely prison cials apparently prepared to defend their prisoner, and why, when the mob appeared, no resistance was offered Action of the Atlanta police in permitting the crowds to view Frank's body In an establishment here yesterday also be investigated. taine t ASTOR KISSES GIRL; FIRED BY | WEATHER FORECAST TIVES AT High. S ECRETARY EMERY WILLIAMSON in a state- ment yesterday to stockholders sang the funeral dirge over the remains of the Crescent oil well. The result was not unexpected. ’ While the trumpets blared and the Crescent pro- p toablige a ee pratt yb Bert moters, with premeditated bra s-band effect, noisily un- money they're going to spend in drilling operations, capped their hole in the ground, The Star, on Novem- and find out who the men are behind the company ber 23, fearing the very disappointing end which ha go slow in investments. encouraged hare-brained The Star declar While other newspapers at the time of flurry were responsible for the losses of thousands of dollars among stock investors, The Star published the warning reproduced herewith. BIG SUM IS AST EDITION ~FAIR SEATILN Low. 19 ft 14.7 ft ed that “Ninety- yielded a penny.” the oil never concresATION TAKEN BY Prosecuting Attorney Lun din has issued a warrant for the arrest of Harry L. Dona- way, cashier at the Yesler way ticket office of the Northern Pacific railroad, charging him with the embezzlement of $2,066.25. Donaway Is missing. The traveling auditor of the rail- road is going thru his accounts. t Donaway, a young man with a wife and child, attributes his alleged to have taken came to the ticket office in the shape of two checks mm Sullivan & Considine, and was in payment for the trans portation of vaudeville performers Takes Out the Cash Donaway, it is charged, put the |checks in the cash box and took EW: Cheesenran out the equivalent in cash. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 18.— J. C. MeMullin, city For the third time Charles V. |@sent, who was Donaway's super lior, said Wednesday. “Donaway La Fontaine, “the Kissing Pas- tor.” has been expelled by con- gregations of the Church of the Nazarene on charges of im- Proper conduct toward women parishoners, This city has joined Chicago POISONED MULES; NEGROES LYNCHED HOPEHULL, Ala, Aug. and Los Angeles in branding a-Thres Keo on him unsuited to wear the cloth. | be wreased Man flail on A jury of six church elders |} Charges of mule poisoning, declared him guilty of kissing were lynched by a mob here Mra. E. E&, W, Cheeseman, a | |] today married woman, while she lay helpless on a sick bed, La Fon- |ROOF AND CHIMNEY reafter made a public apology and left the district. My husband,” testified Mra. | Cheeseman, a striking blonde wom-| VANISH AT NIGHT an of 19, “sent for Mra. La Fon-/} taine to come and pray with me. But Mr. La Fontaine, coming in When J. W. Burton, 4237 The better element of Atlantans today bitterly denounced this ac tion. Accompanied by Mrs, Frank and several friends of the Frank's body was en route today ‘to Brooklyn AGAIN I REPEAT IT 1S COWARDLY To STAND BY, WHILE OR FELLOW BEINGS ARG STRUGGLING FOR THEIR NERY ENSTANCE. TM NO SAafHEAd! TIM MO MéLLYCODDLE , 1 family, | undertaker's!| stead, will} and kissed me. found me alone in the house! 36th ave. S. got up Wednesday T rebuked him, dut He called) Morning, he tubbed his syse again, and while my mother was| 900d and hard. Then he pinch- in the kitchen he leaned down and| ed himself to see if he was caressed me. He and my mother} awake. Was it a dream? Nope, had just finished pri I ovd him out of the house. for the kissing in the church coun cil it really happened. Somebody had stolen the roof, front porch, chimney and front door of his portable house. He took upon himself all blame during the inve: Yes! TAKE THIS LETTER FILE OUT AND mAILy THOSE LETTERS Di vou ARNG SIR? (?} lber of | ‘out ! downfall, in a note which he | left behind, to gambling. The money which Donaway is! BUD FISHER N. P. CLERK had been with the company a num- years and was tiked and trusted. Several days ago he fell il, and as I do not know the com- bination of the strong box, tho [ do know that of the safe, I sent a substitute to Donawsy’s home in the Abbotsford apartments to get from him the combination, as witb- it we could not make up the balance sheets, not knowing the re- s of the day before. “The substitute returned with the combination and the strong box was opened. What we discov- ered was enough to warrant calling in the traveling auditor. Donaway Disappears “Meantime Donaway disappeared —Yesterday I think—and his disap- pearance, coupled with rumors to the effect that he had been gam ling, roused our suspicions furs ther Donaway was in the King st station ticket office for five years before being removed to the Yes- ler way office. Before that he was with the company for five years in passenger | Tacoma. Mrs. Donaway refused to see re- porters Wednesday. REICHSTAG TO VOTE ANOTHER BIG WAR CREDIT By CARL W. ACKERMAN BERLIN, via The Hague, Aug. 18.—A majority of the so- cialist members of the reichstag will vote in favor of a new war credit of over $2,000,000,000 when that body convenes tomor- row. This support of the gov- ernment will be given despite the opposition of Dr. Cari Leib- knecht, the socialist leader. Dr, Leibkrecht will ask the government regarding terms Germany would consider toward reaching a peace agreement. The labor element in Ger- many is insisting upon action against food speculators and op- posing certain lanstrum orders which have been issued. |[nteresting | Thing ABOUND today, IN THE ADS If you're s wovie fan you will.find full de tails of the new at programs Seattle's best moving picture houses on pages and 3. 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