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

PR nes The Seattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. PPP LLL PLL LL PPP PLP L PLP P PLP PD AST EDITION Weather—Fair; warmer Wednesday I sANG CASE SUDDENLY CONTINUED BY COUNCIL | THE ARMY IS NOT BOSS In Why? Because every able-bodied Swiss belongs to théarmy, while he peacefully pursues his own occupation. Read the second article on the Swiss army in The Star today, on page 7 Switzerland TIpes High. a7 pom, 188 p.m AD SHATTLE Low. 29 tt o2 tt 192 ft 19 tt 71% a.m. ON THAINS AND es NEWN BEANDS, Be —+ VISITING BANKERS AS THE STAR’S ARTIST SEES THEM HKKKHKASHRFPFREHGEB HEHE BPEP BARAK HAGA ESTE LE SAD tH NO. 167. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1915, ONE CENT nd Yo eb SIG HESS AGH GE sag ges + ( ‘ THER + i . ‘ ONe OF BuRN= A ae! a 4 Sead E ARE TWO KINDS DETECTIVES JITINEN «= i 5 THE “FoR Hire” Met \ + OF BANKERS — THE DISGUISED STOGEE GLOOM) FIND IT TOUGH ; FAT.ONES AND THE <> Fad i PICKINGS AMONG (HE # THIN ONES. BANKERS f } +e ee —_! Bitl TAFT + Witt. BE HERE WEONESDAyY © THE AMERICAN Se FAGLE TAKING A FEW OAXS OFP THE ee BP sivcvee rs v3! eee pao é z a tora “ee, DOLLAR Fw. SHEPSHHSSHSHHARHESHKCSCKLSESDSCHBHESS HH HPPA HPSHSDADADABAD SHB “THE CASE 7 |BOALT GIVES THE VISITING QUAKEROCKS FLIMSY EXCUSE lla BANKERS THE ONCE-OVER LARGE PART GIVEN FOR WEEK’S When a defendant pleads guilty in police court, in the su- perior court, or in any other court, the judge is then ready to By Fred L. Boalt. that we should trust them so im-| pass sentence. No time is wasted on a trial. Let us talk about money this see . . . . orning. Well, they * a fine, solid lot How different is the case of Police Chief Lang. Whats: vide. ects aalon ak of citizens. There. In. something NEG APART Gn .The chief admits he went to Tate’s cafe. the-wiey--mhentienat moneys. [SOM ce amen Tithe aan Gavotscncihaukees. tase —————— He admits he drank some of the wine that flowed at the cea | tees et MX |truat them, without knowing ex pads se aig he ni With no previous hint of}. Weene ay tig one: Sn ee q : e 2 aurien actly why rockes osta Rica, Nicaragua the proposed change, the City! heard the first wit y ‘| table he and some friends occupied. day of school, | fall naturally | White money te the rost ef alljand elsewhere in Centralfcouncil Tuesday was. unex-|""the hearing. was scheduled to He admits a cabaret girl sat and drank with them at that © iar'tte Serra Cine ie [oz tare een Ct en ae ccs cd Lower Menica|vtely urged that the inves Bern, Tamsin “aferbaon wih’ | | list of witnesses and the character jot the evidence to be decided upon postponed to next Monday,|as the first step in the probe. some of the councilmen| Chief Lang is charged with con- |duct unbecoming an officer. The jinvestigation results from disclos- (This being 1 have one sliver dol- On Friday | will borrow two-bits for lunch money.) What do we find on this sil- ver dollar which | am holding tigation of Police Chief Lang table, tho the cafe rules prohibited such conduct. | He admits he met the same girl after the cafe closed, on a downtown corner. mare go. | Then why do all bankers ride in| yy. ‘ | be automobiles? All bankers own|1¢clare. Cable service to these} | 4 large, luxurious, high-powered cars,| Sections is interrupted, hence ‘S id to cthis No one ever saw a banker in al/no details are available as to) YSTe ready to yield to thi reports to the cable companies] . . in my hand? We find on one | Ford. |the damage. Cable officials| ¢alled-for delay lures to the effect that he visited ] sore he went to her room in a downtown hotel at J) \.,77 "ns? wise Cineriy |The dulenten may e seoerash|thought, Neo, ‘that possibiy| It appears some one has|Tate's cafe on the night of July 22, and the € Pluribus leally divided, Those from the A ne " 4 Z| suc » disc < s a) and during a wine party, one of the about 2 a. m. Unum.” lantic seabosré asd from the Pa.|Panama and the islands off| suddenly discovered there is a/tt cere oe eae ained to sit In the opinion of The Star, LANG ADMITS EVERY ES.- | AL FACT WHICH BEARS UPON THE CHARGE convention On I and drink at the table at which he Central America, had suffered.| bakers’ town, and that is urged as aland his friends sat, tho this was with spread ing wings and the words, “In God We Trust.” jcifie Coast are mostly youngish jmen. Indeed some of them—not- ably the New York delegates—are : * ; T HIS CONDUCT WAS UNBECOMING AN OFFI- | |. CER, ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT OFFICER HAPPENS | TO BE CHIEF OF POLICE. + Yet the council must waste time with an elaborate investiga- What do we learn from this? We learn that wo are a free people, at liberty to spend our money in any | way we see fit, foolish or other wise, and that, when this dollar is gone, God only knows how I'm go- smooth-faced, boyish “live wires.” The bankers from the Middle West are gray-beards—heavy, stogy, con servative old fellows. They may be divided another way: Fat and thin. Either a bank- er is fat and placid or thin and ‘STATE BANKERS reason for postponing the in- vestigation Just what a bankers’ con- vention has to do with the business of calling a police chief on the carpet is not dis- against the. rules of the house. | Later, is is charged, he met the | sity on the street and accom- panied her to her room, where he chatted with ber until 2 a. m Lang, answering the charges, ad- [mits going to the girl’s room, but $a ‘ELECT H.C.LUCAS Jing to stick it out tll Saturday he did it because he wanted to ‘tion of admitted facts. What a peculiar state of affairs! 5rd the kamera ane | “taate ak ed banker I could} With the election and installa | Tears is some talk, also, of bers of tbe potboe Sipartey ed tare ; Lang’s case ought to be no.different than the case of the In convention In Seat! nla not find. I mean the old-fashioned |tion of « new official board, the| postponing the investigation shadowing him. “humblest cop. It should be no different than Detective Mc- Shot: diieude’ barore and plug Wat—the Kind thet sneer | will end les twecdey anneal conten | until after ‘Thanksgiving, be-|, lang vill be represented st the Lennan’s case. McLennan was reduced in rank without ine J) uf’ Tiiter sine (Sextet pnthis Sonnet ae ee eee ee ee eae bie’ football “chandes, Togo? and Willett & Oleson. vestigating admitted facts. Lang himself has fired cops and J) [2227 29. iy"eiummy Intl. [fine dunk bullding ase aign ot | wat goeauiett of the organization. /and after that, of postponing direct the investigation for the city. macy with Mr. Latimer; but (wasteful extravagance, He was a|dent, and J, A. Swalwell, of Seattic, it Still further, because it “So far as I'm concerned, | suspended others without councilmanic investigations of ad- |} am ready today to proceed 4 A | every once in a while he wri hard-fisted old curmudgeon, whose | vice president of the National Bank | Might not be in keeping with Nhe eh | | mitted facts. me a letter in which he ® chief diversion was foreclosing |of Commerce, was named as his|the spirit of the approaching oer clad Count me es ,’ 7 . s hi °° himself down as very truly mortgages. 1 guess the old fellow | probable successor | Christ holid; z Pp ounse! ford, What’s there to investigate in his case? mine. While Mr. Latimer’s let- | must be dead The noslation opened its ses.{ Christmas holidays. | Tuesday. ters are friendly In tone, they een sion at 18 o'clock at the Seattle From the admitted facts in his case, the council can de- do not inquire after my health Far be it from me to tell tales out! clearing house in the Alaska build ANOTHER IS SUNK| TAFT WILL HAVE 4 ° ate H or that of my family, or In- | o¢ school, but | noticed that Sheriff! ing, with reports of the credentials cide — tk gio nga = re pep = pr geoe' duige in idle gossip. He is, Police Chief 3, Capt. of |and legislative committees and that | '° on waste tirne on a lot of re however: & asidbted Detectives Tennant, Capt. Thomas Of the secretary " . 7 2 > lope. JUDGE HIM BY 'N STORY ara Detectives Tennant, Capt. Thomas] tijuana Law of Philndeipha,| BERLIN; via London, Sept. 7—|s tape. JUDGE HIM BY HIS OW (6) . 2. Walter Thayer, Seattle manager of|Tetiting president of the American |That the German submarine U-27| I learn at the convention's head: the Burns Detective Agency, were! Bankers’ association, addressed the |sank a small British cruiser in the] Hite - quarters that 1,800 persous have h ate body on “The Banking Situa-|West Hebrides islands region |registered, and that 800 of these August 10, and was believed to have| _ “Bohemian Night” at the Hippo- [with progressive whist for those| are sure-enough bankers, the bal W. J. Burns Talks been sunk herself a few days later, drome Was enjoyed by more than uw | who do not dance. 1 NS ance being members of bankers’ might call a police precaution. It William J. Burns, the detective, | was announced by the admiralty to- 2,000 bankers and their wives Mon- f About 1,500 yeomen are to visit | fauhities jen't likely that the visiting bank.|!8 Scheduled for a talk on “Modern | jay |day evening. Following a supper, Seattle during the convention | By careful computation, I find) 0° wit ekylark. But 4 they | Methods of ee. Laas at uci he : | about vag tables for four, and a : eit lat thes viditing bankers Te Ithe afternoon seasion, following re concert, in which 150 WITNESSES ARE | sum of $9,286,489,946,230.441,285. |, a kers, and making a poor job of |{"@ nomination committees i |H. H. Tuttle, “Mrs.” G. F. Russell, 856.01 i it A feature of Monday's meeting a Mrs. S. E. Brush and others, the CALLED FOR TRIAL) nrowsvrin soot 7—ix| Th, anention, arinen.. why de vas tadeot of the Weticanl CRY Dost | ootor MON 1k Me leg Dee, bese Se ates ee em” Vecmea pg es - ; were killed in a brisk /meheme, and plot and intrigue for ‘he owner af : Ff lene. of Seattle and vice president of | trail Snser foc. the Yellowstone| The former executive is to\te tie Will assemble in Seattle at 7:30 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7—Nearly|clash with Texas rangers at Cava-|money, Then we hand it to the) 18 owter S. & one te tlome® Jlthe Clearing House association trail anecctation, since he. left|Suest while: here of the Young q Welock Wednesday morning for the 159 witnesses have been sub-|zos Crossing last night, advices re-| bankers. Do we worry? Not we. 1 ple ‘cone dak Teams batiahied Pp He likened the banking business | pjymouth Rock, Mass. He is now| Men's Republican club, Ralph Horr Shnu2zi state convention. A parade poenaed to testify for the prosecu: ceived today stated. A captain and | Our money ts in the bank |to baseball. Play must be fair, he in this state, heading for Seattle, #24 J. T. Killoran, representing the g id Wed co is of David Caplan |leutenant of the Carranziasta garri Personally, I haven't the slight When a delegate registers, he | said, because of the two: efficient : - Or eenting| club, will meet ‘Taft in Tacoma . ade eae oh Senet tue ects | aun 30, I aeomldt’ dened aacous [aon at, Matarsorta, the revert: tae! |éae nota what the bank does with Lrpeap lt Meds aty ope Potna jumpires, the national and state an AnD Oe eagad Oe satne Thursday and escort him here. He slic , e McNamara brothers | cated, were among those slain my money only know tha’ pank examiners pbs w be honor guest at an in- etree rat haa aad fag oh Keine of the Los An-| The Americans “Inid n trap, the|there when I want tt back. No fuss and loaned by Seattle bankers, | | Doctor M.A. Matthews and Rev paint, nate? |formal reception. at 8:30 ‘at the After iuncheon at the Good Eats! geles Times building, according to| Mexicans walked in,” the message | at all pe Sortnte’ ae Aton pa o Ww. W eudder, superintendent of Re A |New Washington hotel. Friday, be- Gsfeteria a competitive drill will be|a report issued at the district at-|laconically explained. Two Mext And when» I absent-mindedly Van Kiave avoute 4 ee =| Congregational churches of Wash LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Har. tween 11 a. m. and 12 o'clock he held at the Hippodrome, where, in| torney’s office today ans, captured after firing from an|overdraw my account, the bank ric jankers ju Sper a lot | ington Idaho and Alaska, were rison line steamer Dictator has j wall be a guest of the Press club, the evening, the Pioneer Degree, Ortie McManigal, the dynamiiter | automobile, were put in Jail thoughtfully reminds me in a polite! of money. They ain't doing | prominent on the program of wel | been'sunk by a submarine. The ee abt. Ababa fem of Minneapolis. touring the| who turned state's evidence, bolds| Summary action was taken by|note in which the management de-) Iti come : | vessel's crew of 42 men’ were | Miss Janet Richards, of Washing- Country will exemplify the degree| almost daily conferences with the| American forces with Aniceto|clares Itself very truly mine |. Foolish fellow! It is because | Lister Welcomes ‘Em | rescued and landed saday. The jton, D. C., well-known woman lec- and ritualistic work, A grand ball|attorneys for the state, helping | Pizano’s ranch house, 16 miles from| ‘There must be something ex they are frugal that they are Gov. Lister welcomed the visitors! Dictator was a vessel of 4,116 | turer, visiting in Seattle while en , after, prepare the prosecution's evidence. ‘here, when It wax burned down. | traordinarily fine about bankers! rich. in behalf of the city pec route td Celifagaia asnsitions will take ce immediately m Back on Shipboard Some Way - - By “Bud” Fisher yright, 1915, by H.C Meher) A Trifle Rough, but We Had to Get The {rt canrr = APLODE UNLESS roses SOMETHING | f yes, BUT { SUPPOSE rr ers, sore -rHinG) (cane ' CLO \/ AND Att hd foo Bay | Meee Comes Ye, Quy iF) ' { wit \ A-roareDo GHT 10 Reacn)| WS SHOUD || : CATER & SHO EUkore By 7 | IT woUrd BE Curistmas Prima spot ( | f Lear's Vr Tie CARRY rersees) Us PART x to make The Star adver- tising columns your buying guide, Every day you will find the announcements of TT's ALC RGHT, MurT, IT'S SOFT COAL, Seattle's best stores with their best offerings in The Star. 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