The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1915, Page 1

PAY ONLY ONE CENT VOLUME TheSeattleStar | The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to’Print the News : 18. NO. 180. SEATTLE, WASH.,, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, ON THANG 1915. NKWS BLANDS, Be ONE CENT AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair TIDES AT #HATILE ™ Vow. 28% am. 1 ft, OO wom, 42% po m., 18.6 ft, 10565 pom 40 tt 6.2 ft GUILTY AS CHARGED,’ LANG VERDICT ncilmen Unanimous in De- claring The Star’s Charges har Sustained; Assert Chief is) — Deserving of Severe Pun- ishment; Pass Buck to Gill. fice Chief Louis M. stands convicted, by nimous vote of the cil, of conduct unbe- ing an officer. our members of the city the investigation, made public an. nouncement thru all the nows Papers that, if the council found Lang guilty as charged, he would disroiss him. It was a stormy meeting that de. veloped in the executive session of the council Just before the final re- ports were brought In for the de. elding vote. Exprese Their Opinions cil late Tuesday after-| No member hesitated to express unreservedly his opinion of Lang's voted to fire him sum-| Conduct na rerearen by the test! ly. They are Council.) ™oay Chairman Erickson a th Lundy, Marble, Bol- Sa behing session, which was held behind Erickson closed doors with only members of her five, a majority, while the council and new spapermen Present, with the statement that h Lang guilty as charged, vot-/ understood each councilman had refer the matter of his re-| prepared a report of his own which back to the mayor without he wished submitted to the mayor any “orem 9 There wee a divided opinion as are Councilmen Hesketh, to what sort of final report should Haas, Dale and Fitzgerald. be made to the mayor. Counett the adoption of this re-/ man Hanna was the first to take Rh was also voted, 6 to 3, to to the mayor any part of, the floor, “I don’t care t aie t ay lo Rive the mayor Conaciiman Lundy a: he any recommendation,” he mid. he mayor is clothed with author.’ 2 Sisco ity to the chief. piss th: tack: Sg ah is, compromise, ‘their original idea that Lang fired. am in favor of the council pass- hold-|ing it back to the mayor.” @ The council, late Tuesday afternoon, unani- mously found Chief of Police Lang guilty of every charge made against him by found him guilty of conduct unbecoming an of- ficer. He *Then why aid you vote to 1 the buck to the council, aud vestigate?” demanded Counctiman! _ (Continued on on Page wv. Ailes The Star— | “'DUMBA WILL RETURN HOME WASHINGTON, Sept. 22-— Avatrian Ambassador Dumba today notified the state depart. ment that his government had informed him to return home. Because of this, he asked the for him onduct “on leave of ab- IRLS! Women! You G all want to be beauti- ful, don't you? Most of you naturally at tractive, but you may have let your features become coarse and wrinkled thru neglect. Or perhaps you are beau. tiful now, but fear that the crows’ feet will soon ‘round your will fade from your cheeks. You want to avert that calamity. NEW YORK, Gept. 22.— Swaliowed up in a canyon when the street above the new Sev. enth ave. subway suddenly opened, six persone aboard « crowded surface car early to day lost their lives and 200 passengers or pedestrians were injured Collapse of the street follow. ed a dynamite blast in the sub- way. Seventy-eight persons were jammed in the surface car, which wae bearing them to their work. Suddenly the street beneath dis | speared for almost two blocks be jtween 23rd and 25th sts. Great timbers supporting the! street flooring of the subway snap ped under the force of the blast The street car, the street and its traffic sank slowly out of sixht The car telescoped junder the welght of timbers and’ wreckage Its passengers were hauled out thru windows, many of them crushed by the heavy debris Hundreds of shop girls, into the p' ambered out, | ing with terror. Men and women were Lege Istricken as the car sank out | steht, 30 feet into the yawning He, and flattened like a mushroom. | Women jammed upon the rear platform, fighting vainly to escape. Many Ambulances on Job Police calls bronght scores of lambalances: fo the scene. Police toner Woods "came In his! jauto and took personal charge of! the rescue work | While early morning crowds) jammed the streets near by, an-| other section of the street above! the subway south of 23rd st. caved slightly also. Police drew their lines tight and ldrove back the crowds for fear the |whole street would fall in and take with it a greater number of vic tims Brewery Truck Engulfed The subway was under construc tion and had not yet been put into operation. One of the Incidents of Tes under bis arm and went fish the cavein was the engulfing of a| n& lheavy brewery truck, carrying a, Most of the members of the coun load of barrels and casks To add to the horror, a water main broke, forming a pond at one Kay Laurell Very well, The Star is go- Ing to tell you how to do it. Kay Laurell, of the “Zieg- feild Fol ." one of the most beautiful and winsome women in America today, has been asked by The Star to tell its readers how she found the beauty secret. BEGINNING THURS. DAY, SHE WILL IN- STRUCT SEATTLE WOM. EN, THRU THE STAR, BY MEANS oF PHOTO. GRAPHIC POSES, HOW TO GET AND KEEP BEAUTY. hurled scream. : ANTHONY COMSTOCK, FOE OF VICE, DIES NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Vice has one less enemy. Anthony Cometock died last night of pneumonia at his home in Summit, WN. J., at the age of 71. For many years he was secre- tary and special agent of the Society for the Suppression of View. MAYOR | GOES ‘ON A FISHING TRIP There was sweet peace and wel come caim about the lthe city ball Wednesday, ing the storms of Tuesday mayor took his troubles and wor follow. the creosoting plant st Hagle Har. bor, where they are inspecting the ge Plot to Steal Water Power Rights The | Montana. FARMERS ASK GOVERNOR TO “SPIKE” PLANS | Farmers and water users re in the White Bluffs and Columbia River Irrigation district, in this state, Wednesday forwarded a communica |tion to Gov. Ernest Lister, who is attending the water power confer- jence at Portland, Ore., charging that the General Electric Co. and its subsidiary corporations are the prime movers in the effort to remove federal control over water and power sites and to place the same under state control. It was pointed out that Henry J from Seattle to the Portland confe trie monopoly which is seeking to deprive 750 farmers in the Hanford ‘Irrigation district of paramount rights to the use of water and power ed from Priest Rapids, on the Columbia. ree wus not selected a delegate by a representative body of farmers in the district affected, altho he represents himself as head of the Priest Rapids Lan. vwners’ association, which, it is claimed, is only an association “on paper,” and has no real existence. it is practically charged oy these farmers that the agitation in this 6 for a change to state from federal control over water and power sites has been chiefly prompted by the electric monopoly for the pur- |pose of gaining outright control over Priest Rapids, to the detriment of the settlers who have been depending on the congressional guar- antee that their water rights would perpetually remain paramount to mode of any private corporation In the communication addressed to the governor, the farmers point out that when the Hanford Irrigation and Power Co. secured a permit from the government to generate power on the west side of the Colum- bia river at Priest Rapids, in 1906, it was granted for no other purpose except as auxiliary t ment of an irrigation enterprise. A great many believing in the integrity of the Hanford company.” the farmers now declare, “and in the government's attitude toward the settlers, brought their lands to a high state of cultivation They have increased the taxable values from $5,000 in 1906 to more than $2,500,000 in 1914.” About 1910, it is alleged, the American Power and Light Co. and the Pacific Power and Light Co., subsidiary corpora- tions of the General Electric Co. began purchasing the stock of the Hanford Irrigation Co., and shortly afterward the latter company went into the hands of a receive Thus, the Hanford irrigation propert' fell into the hands of the electric monopoly, and the charge on the supply of water was immediately advanced to more than $10 per acre per sea- son, where the original contracts required the payment of but $1.50 per acre. The new companies have also been trying to get the farmers to release them from the existing water rights. Failing in this, the next move, the farmers allege, is to have the Priest Rapids site turned over to state eontrot in order that federal protection to the farmers, heretofore carefully enforced, would be lost. The farmers enter a most vigorous protest against the proposed amendments to the Ferris bill in congress that would tolerate such a change Pierce, accrefflted as a delegate is really an agent of the elec- | SMOOT LEADS FIGHT FOR STATE CONTROL PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 22.—-Leading the opposition to the plan of Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane for a leasing system, under federal control, of water and power sites, is Senator Smoot of Utah, one of the delegates to the water power conference now in sesston here. Smoot made a strong plea for state control as opposed to federal con- corridors of | trol. Leading the supporters of Secretary Gov. Lister of Washington lane is Senator Walsh of ‘avors some sort of compromise. Commissioner of Public Lands Clay Taliman vigorously took to task those who, he said, are pre-judging the Ferris bill, which gener- ally embodies Lane's plan, and are losing sight of the purpose of the conference, namely, to discuss the water power problem on its real cll left the city early for a trip to/ merits. @ Four of the nine councilmen voted to fire him - , * + end of the trench, but ergenc outright. The other five voted to refer the mat- | SAY, MISTER, CAN = [2x’, °%, th, trench. but emersencs ter back to the mayor. NONE OF THE COL ja threatened flood x , ie #6 oe oe mere: NONE OF THE COU YOU BEAT THIS? * (222225. °%he0 around were merits of creosote wood blocks as paving material. "JOHN D. SPENDS NIGHT IN _ THE HOME OF MINE FOREMAN BY A UNITED PRESS STAFF his companions took breakfast CORRESPONDENT at the camp boarding house, TRINIDAD, Col, 22 and apparently relished the “Dancing with liquor in mit waukee prohibited,” says headline. Dancing with a pre’ ty girl is preferable, ella one Kas com he got his It was $1.20 for 10 After months of patient waiting on the part of a long-suffering pub the commission, directing the re. | duction from 50 cents to cents, | some time before the commission "ees, or any other fest with Mr. Gill, who par. or for putting them to the uble. A STAR WANT AD WILL GET THAT YOU WANT. VEITH- CAMMACK STORE CLOSES SATURDAY and every effort is being made by the management to get the stock closed out by that time. The merchandise is being offered at greatly re- duced _ prices. In their ad, which ap- pears on page 2 in today's Star, will be found full particu- lars, prices, » the mayor being the only the city clothed with pe that the evidence be fo the mayor for such action Pert ae he thinks Justified. ' Gill, at the beginning of MUTT AND JEFF—JEFF IS QUITE PARTICULAR ABOUT THE FIT OF HIS SHOES. (Covyrient, 19 Fisher, Trade Mark Ree. U. & Pat GEFORE I Gor A 6s Sure . (im A CINCH! f Hii PAIR to FIT Me ! ! Because — Ts ey \ Y hid len ee nm the mene within a few min VOTED FOR LANG'S ACQUITTAL. There's only utes Unanimous as to Lang's guilt, the council No competition—absolute mo- | steep sides of the hole and carried hopoly—-that explains the case [up a number of unconscious | him of ¢ Sylvester, who ran a women * eo. im. @ The Lang case goes back to the mayor now y ialers' wore thre apartment Rockefeller, jr, woke Rockefeller fondled and talk i c cil” a ous st n a e ouse ie took this morning to see the sun ed with the children, -E with the council’s unanimous statement that the in the house. Sylvester took | teening in thru ten’ wladiatite consea? dinyet ee dis. 20. of the humble severe ce . ‘ Haske, mine foreman at treated the overall of he Pay enchia pean ee On September 1 Primero, inthe heart of the | Gre aa nie ereralled foreign. sill may fire him or he may no e may sus- coal belt which the Rockefel- Rockefeller t pb him, as is usually done in similar cases with On September 18, he gave ler millions control night shirt lack B up the house. He got another W. lL. ‘Mackenzle King, night and Mrs, Haske’s hair. = gas bill, It was $14 and a few Rockefeller's companion on brush and comb this morning. prospects are the mayor will give him another ats. for 17 days. the "coal district, passed. ts chance. actually going to get, before long,|departs for San Francisco, to at-| night in. the cabin of Steve a i at * aly 4 ae, arc Pending appeal to supreme court that reduction in the mintmum rate tend the National Association of Sp jo, a Slav miner. @ If he does, it will be purely a deed of mercy, Nac: doar of fonee’heatch, na| aie ane ber 12. | at various places about the = TY AT ge Ee Pine, as a disorderly hanse; su-|ie service commission, told The Twenty days after service of the camp q GUILTY AS CHARGED. perior court fixed bond of Jay Al-| Star Wednesday that in all proba-|order, the reduction will become Rockefeller “len, owner, at $15,000. | bility_an order would be entered by pany In Seattle. They lowered ladders along the divided on methods to be employed in punishing housekeeping place at 8% Le | Sept. 22.— fare city’s most important peace officer is deserving charge of the house on August home of Jos talls with. thelr mothers aca di ays. borrow Haske’s night shirt last ordinary police officers, or he may not. The cents for 17 days his personal experience tour of He, it beging to look as If Seattle is Public Service Commissions, Octo. The rest of the party bunked for Lang has been found— held the Derby hotel, Second and! Chairman Reynolds, of the pub: effective. 4 the novelty of it all seemed to enjoy He and BY BUD FISHER | ory wei, TS6E You GT A PAR, EASY, MteyT AT? + (ot Took °&™ (cee, 1 NEVER. OFF a DEAD } I HAD To SHOOT fee THOOGHT OF THAT, I Gor BuT «t ‘em Waoart TYR ON THE GATTLA FIELD TWENTY-TWO TURKS T™* GONNA 66 Ger A PAIR Such A CincH ¢ aurep es ea ST oe, eon ete,