The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 1

LOLI LLPLL PLL PPP P PPP PILL PP PPD PPD PDIP PPP DPI PDPP PDP PPD PD PPD DPD PDP PD DPD PDD DDD PDD DDD RODDED D DDD. “nn ~ anna OOK ) here, folks—a chance to win a prize! Write limericks on ibe sport shirt! o you a sport shirt fan? full details of the contest on page 12. Here are three samples of what we want, already submitted: As Pishotemelt said: “’Tis to laugh” S You squirm, perspire and sigh f To lamp a humaa giraffe VHS In a collar that’s tight, stiff and high; ith a seven-foot neck ‘His low a bean, y’ poor fis. Ina sport shirt. By heck, \ | For a sport shirt. You'll wish There’ 's nothing so funny, by half. { You'd bought one ’way back in July. enn WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO VON HINDENBURG? ILL the army, pushing far meet with the befell Napoleon's ago? See map and the similarity be- two campaig It on German nto Russia, fate that a century same forces article tween the explaining VOLUME 18, _NO. 158. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1915, R [D0 not because they were unfortunate in meeting with an accident—but because it was party By C. P. Stewart WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—What may be re- eearded as Germany’s preliminary explanation as to the king of the liner Arabic is now in the hands of the “state department. Its tenor may be known before night. i | | drinking party as a mere GET THE SAME DOSE. His case is even worse While the cops fired by drinking quietly, Lang made a public ful hour to a young girl's room : GIVE LANG A DOSE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE, He not only went out on a drinkir but he used Lang were off duty, the chief is of himself, t party, ays on duty, spectacle MR. MAYOR. Be 2 er to nN By Fred L. Boalt There is no such thing as “Honest Dan.” warfare and is prepared to give | easy as an old shoe,” playing golf? A month ago he scorned golf an With the receipt of the mes. A , Sage from Ambassador Gerard ' 4 | 9 | full satisfaction for the loss of lives on the Arabic. 6 5 }a game for old men, young ladies and college chaps, } i dropped into Dan's office in the Empire bullding yesterday after. | noon, reporting the results of his con- Administration officials today said | The poor devil's hands were trembling and in his eyes there was |a feverish light. To his stenographer, he said | a shall be busy at court all the afternoon.” hen ference with Minister Von Ja- | — A dig party ts Friday searching the essential thing is that the kaiser he fied, with his pockets filled with golf balls Gow and explaining Germany's | ined | Position, It was expected it bit of woods, every nook, 248 clearly shown he desires to re little hillock and another, ™ain friendly with the United ee ee | ANY years ago I was a victim of golf. I was long powerless to M resist its lure. Daybreak found me at the links. Nightfal found me knocking little gutta percha balls about in the dark would be found that it bears out all early sta ents in that the is dragging the bottom of the | States. off Fauntleroy park, where, As the administration wants the 1 do not care to dwell upon that dreadful time. 1 will only say that ambition died in the fierce heat of my passion for golf, What Imperial government has al- ready met America’s wishes in the conduct of the submarine Florence Kelly, 18-month-old | s®me thing, it is declared future dis! = thter of S. J. Kelly, of the cussions and even controversies can- OLF ts not ° Kame ne is yt ingto fs not be other than friendly. immunity from it. I've got it ta I caught it from Dan Landon, Can you imagine Was a career compared with the prospect of beating a skiliful, though mythical, old golfer named Colonel Bogey’? 1 neglected my work, my | family. FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Aug. 27 —Frank Creeks wes hanged here at 10:09 o'clock this morning. In nine and one-half minutes after the drop fell Creeks was pronounced dead. Creeks was very weak when he walked upon the gallows. His face was very white and he was sup- ported by a priest. mune. od to teaet, ‘Warten Gaiith sarees THEN YESTERDAY 1 W 'T TO THE MUNICIPAL LINKS on | the trap. | BEACON HILL WITH DAN LA ‘DON. . There was perfect stiliness thru-| id Seba out the etbed ‘extant for the sing A ND I beat him, doggone him! Meat him one up, for all he's been/ Finally my wife and the minister of our church brought me to a realization of the depth to which I had sunk. They brought my son, | then a wan, sickly child, to me. | “For your boy's sake!" they said. | It was a bitter struggle. * * © I won! I thought I was im- ing of crickets as the execution! playing every afternoon for weeks | was taking place. Then Ole Hanson came along and beat me because he had Seventy-five persons all the tuck. And Tom Murphine came along and beat Ole. the hanging. | I kept meeting people | know. Most of them seemed in a rage about Creeks murdered one of the!something. Or else they were despondent. Golf affects people that guards in an attempt to escape way. It never makes them happy from prison. i Sometimes regular, sure-enough golfers come from the Country California {s the only state on/| club and patronizingly go round the course. Hut most of those who the Coast where capital punishment | use the municipal course are beginners, and they are the worst kind. is not abolished. | While Dan, Tom, Ole and I were playing the 18 holes in something! |like 150—Colonel Bogey does ‘em in 87—we encountered the follow- ing novices Louis R. Plechner, clothing manufacturer; Stone, the tallor; Vine} the stove man; Bornstein Bros.; Dr. Charles Ballance, L. Singerman, clothier; Dr. Tom Mesdag, dentist; O. E. Spencer, Health Commissioner | | McBride, Jimmy Crehan, the mayor's prt ad and many ecg 1} w, The mayor used to scoff at golf, Jimmy says, but he's! «typ ggg Aeirned | ‘The father Friday obtained the citing the contagion from his official family. He says ‘he would F sine | Tharetay aterhotn 0 Ot ne rene ante Friday more|sive the thing a try himself if it wasn't for the ding-busted rheuma-| ile her mother and a group of/ing trom one of the baby's dresses, /ti8™ In his shoulder ee | prank eves for s moms ; and, as luck would have it, T ran They turned away for a moment y THE SKEETER editor of The Star. I wasn't supposed ee rn ee was he, for that matter a bird of prey, | san" Night came, bringing with it the about at night. ] The managing editor couldn't tu hi hths of it is beak, stances ized Gud’ mentees’ iit nieet| And tiweclnths sovetite, And when I was leaving I bumped into the editor himself. He | hout result. And fifteen-eighths or so is buzz, “ae RRS a cht The child bas light hair and large| And nineteen-eighths is bite. Well, You’ve Got to Hand It to JEFF for Trying (Copyright, 1918, by witnessed Florence Kelly fo., dropped from sight Thursday oon, almost under the eyes ‘her moth, | Mother, father and neighbors hed all night. They are stili hing. The parents are almost tic. If the babe toddled off and WALL SMITH 15 THAT RiowTt blue eyes. When last seen she wore a gray dress with red stripes,| i asleep, they fear she may be/biack stockings and tan sandals.| ring, frightened, thru the’ she disappeared Thursday about ods. Either that or she ven-| 4-30 smack Into the managing to be there, Neither bawl me out under the etreum.- | (Continued on Page Eleven.) Anyway Fisher) Come cn, tauTr, Come on, GET UP! “AST MieHY YoU Come om Ger op! You 5 545 Murr se (wees, I owiet iN 4 TOLD ME LAST A MiNUTE GET uP! OLD ME To BE A ‘ io IONT To Nor Come on! RE AND wake ONLY WAKE You : YOu UP ar 5,30 BUT To see THAY You gor LP The Seattle Star er in Seattle That Dares to Print the News AND THREE DAUGHTERS - N’T PLAY FAVORITES, Hl bya time ago several patrolmen and Sergt. Lee Dagner were fired from the police force as the result of a drinking party CHIEF LOUIS M. LANG WAS THE MAN WHO FIRED THEM They had gone out, while off S\ in Dagner’s machine. It was his own car, not the city’ I'wo of the policemen took the car for a spin when Dagner wasn’t looking. They planned to play a joke on him An accident resulted which brought the drinking party to public attention Lang fired them all without delay, including Dagner, who wasn't even in the machine when the accident occurred. Presumably they were fired proven they had been in a drinking If it was all right to fire those policemen, Mayor Gill—and no one has yet had the presumption to condone their “indiscretion"—IT IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAT LANG HIMSELF SHOULD a city machine for his “joy or ought to be cafe rules, and ended it up by DON'T | First ave. cross, |confiscation of property. ‘MME, LA BARRAQUE | Ir do you despise them? ? ) ? ) A “Goof” His neck- ON TRAINS NEWS STANDS, AND be ONE CENT SAN FRANC mage Shing, wife of Brig. ( army, and her three ride.” did their a disgrace- While they a visit at Write us about it, ina limerick. ot inside his new shirtie, A broad-collared, low bosomed “Gertie.” But the poor, careless du Had neglected to scrub the effect wasn’t “purty.” Partially cloudy; unsettled TIDES High Dil IN FIRE GEN. PERSHING LOSES FAMILY Aug. xen. Pershing of the United States daughters were burned to death at 5 o'clock this morning, when fire destroyed the resi- dence at the Presidio occupied by the general’s family. RE YOU A SPORT SHIRT FAN? COME ON, GET IN THE GAME! You'll eee AST EDITION | | AT SEATTLE Low 12:14 m., BA tt 5m o Sf OO pm, 4 27.—Mrs. John J. Per- PLAY FAVORITES. Warren Pershing, 5, a son, was rescued from the flames by soldiers. —— Gen. Pershing, who is in command of troops ST beerving on the The dead are Mrs. Mexican border, Pershing, 35; was notified by wire. Helen Pershing, 8; PLA jAnn Pershing, and i Pershing, By jen structure, No. 22 in the Cn 70 INSIST |post at the Presidio The fire started about 5 a. m. and had made considerable headway be- fore it was discovered by sentries. A general alarm was turned in and all the troops in the main post re WITH PROTESTS Protest against the city's filling nop that part of the East Marginal "P02? Way improvement crossing pgfan dr Bech An Fosse pould y cece et £ 0 meander of the old Duwamish river iri wats teneenes Cae ni bed, where East Marginal Way nowy bor and was waged Friday before the franchise committee by James Keefer, attorney, represent ing property owners in the district As @ result of-bis protest recom- mendation that an ordinance be passed calling for bids, was deferred pending a joint meeting of the franchise and street committees, Monday morning, when Keefer promises to have his clients ap- pear. | East Marginal Way ts the great arterial highway the city plans to found in a rear room of the house wandering about through the smoke. He was not hurt The bodies of Mrs. Pershing and her daughters were found i front bedrooms. Believe She Suffocated So rapidly did the through the building after it started that the four victims were killed as they slept. The bodies were not badly charred Officers at the post believe Mrs. Pershing was suffocated as she improve so industrial sites may be | slept developed along the Duwamish wa Mrs. Pershing was the daughter terway. If the meander in ques. of U. S. Senator Francis E. Warren tion ts filled property owners a of Wyoming. She married Gen Pershing at Cheyenne Jan. 26, 1905. A Spectacular Career the old river bed will be shu oft from shipping. They want a lift bridge instead of the fill ; > Robert Bridges, of the port com 5 peirgpt sborbeer sige Poser gn hays c mission, ne declared that part of the} Soma river bed is nothing but a shallow} |ficer in the U. 8. army. He graduated from slough, which is filling with silt.) point military academy in 1886 and the West He intimated that the agitation| against filling was all a real estate botberilarag gs eaewed pau: ove. | i move During the operations of the) “If we fill across the old river! bed,” he said, “these property own: ers cannot command so high a price for their property He reminded the committee the| matter had been hanging fire two! years, and said Carstens & Co. told him Thursday that if something definite wasn't done immediately that company would have to aban don its property in that district and devote improvements to its Tacoma plant. Keefer declared that filling the old river bed amounts to a practical army in the Philippines he served! }as captain of the regular army and as major of volunteers. In 1906, while captain of the Fif- teenth cavalry, President Roosevelt |jumped him over the heads of a long list of colonels to be brigadier general, He has served in the Phil- ippines since then Visitor Escapes The wife of Lieut. Boswell, a guest of Mrs. Pershing, escaped with her two children, Jimmy, 5, and Billy, 2. She was aroused by the smoke and endeavored to warn the general's wife. Mrs. Pershing’s door was locked, however, and the cries of Mrs. Bos- well brought no response. The Heutenant’s wife tossed the two little ones from an upper story TO SING WITH BAND Madame Christine La Barraque,| window into the arms of waiting | the Seattle prima donna who re-|soldiers and then leaped to the| cently returned from the exposi-| ground herself. tion at San Francisco, soloist with Wagner's band at Vol unteer park Sunday, Mme. La Rar raque will sing “The Holy City” and “The Star-Spangled Banner, with band accompaniment. By will be th LONDON—Fashionable Bond st jewelers are offering for sale pieces of shrapnel taken from soldiers’ wounds, mounted in gold and jew- eled (Comrenghi. FOS by HC Piaher UPONCOMMON USER RIGHTS fire sweep) franchise | | “BUD” FISHER The council “Franchise committee in the) Friday sent to the council without recommendation the matter of the city’s applying for a common user on the poles of the Puget Sound Light & Traction Co., in its proposed extension of light and power lines thru the White River valley. The public utilities committee al- ready has approved of the plan. The city has no intention of mak- ing extensions now, but under the certificate of necessity and con- venience measure passed by the last legislature the city would be barred forever from making exten- sions unless the referendum on the bill at the 1916 general election | carries. The Electric Co.'s application for a franchise comes before the coun- ty commissioners for a hearing next Tuesday, at 10 a. m. GIRL ACCUSED AS THIEF ASKS $15000 DAMAGE Suit for $15,000 damages was filed by Amy Moe, a domestic, against her former employers, Wil- liam C. Phillips and Cora 8. Phik lips, 2822 Tenth avenue N., in the superior court Friday mornng. The girl alleges she is entitled to this sum because of disgrace and injury to her reputation caused by her arrest Aug, 21 without cause or warrant, and her imprisonment for two days on the charge of theft of $4,600 in diamonds from her mis- | tress. She was released after two days when Mrs. Phillips found the jew- elry in a drawer she had over- looked in the search. Bargains in Shoes for the School Children Are told of in the ad of J. B. which appears on page Robinson, 9 in today’s paper. In fact, today’s Star is just cram full of inter- esting, money-saving the You can’t spend an hour to opportunities for Saturday shopper better advantage than by reading the ads thoroly today.