The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1915, Page 1

You Reading Gouverneur Morris’ Story, “The Goddess’? FT 18 deing pudlished back page of The Star moving pictures, with Earle Williams ana Anita Stow at the Alhambra. It you arent reading it, start now, There's a froopsls with today's Installment day by day, on the and shown in munition Supply Low in Germany { | | ONSPIRACY IS FOILED BY | | | | Four desperate prisoners, facing long penitentiary terms, narrowly prevented Sunday morning from executing to overpower their guards, possibly murder them, Mm throwing open the doors of the county jail for a generai| ry of its inmates | © Only thru the bravery of H. H. Brooks, awaiting trial a charge of first degree forgery, who rallied four other and, by tricks and threats, held back the four was the plan foiled | SON TOCALL These are the facts presented Thursday to Prosecutor Landin, in| the form of sworn statements of Brooks, G. MeNichols, Victor Val-) erto, Giovanni Metlo and a number of other prisoners, who either took part in preventing the jail-break or saw the attempt from their cells. Prosecuting Attorney Lundin : ; metas Thursday said he will file charges dent Believes War of attempted jail breaking against Peril in This Country (cach of the alleged conspirators i This is punishable by penitentiary Is Over. term of six months to five years. MAY GATHER OCT. 18 & Landin said the laws of thls state | inflict a heavier punishment for at WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— Wilson has about de- tempted jailbreaking than for con to call an extra session spiracy to murder. The latter Is only a misdemeanor, while jail the senate on October 18, it ms authoritatively learned to- breaking is a felony j for consideration } The four conspirators had arm led themselves with clubs, knives jand fron belts taken from the cell) |doors, which they had managed to [remove from their hinges. They} {were outside their tanks, in the |main corridor, with ouly an tirictos.| Tend jed door between themselves and| Cent) j liberty, when Brooks interfered. | Two Guards on Duty is Convinced there is no| The alleged conspirators are Fred) | Sager that America will be drawn Starr, Everett interurban bandit; A.| ity the world war. |W. Williams, sentenced to serve 5/ believes the fact that jingo'to 20 years for robbery, and W.| . and inflammatory resolu-| Hazzard and M. Harris, facing a| mes inthe upper house will not (charge of burglary Beutrality has bees firm-| The time of the attempt w |about 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning. when only Deputy Sheriff Jack |Madden and Superintendent Mike | Halley were on guard duty | Madden walked once around the }tanks, under the very shadow of according to statements South American ‘RA LABOR TO BAR CMURCH DELEGA | death, FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.—-|given Lundin tn writing, The four faternational convention of the | plotters waited at a corner for him, & Structural Iron Workers’ | with the intention of going to any| fn session here, will vote to-\end in accomplishing their get- om 8 resolution, asking the/away, it is said. | Federation of Labor to) Made Threats to Kili to seat as fraternal dele-| With Madden out of the way, ies representatives of religious they would have had but to enter ns |the jail office, seize and bind or kil! Jailer Halley, take his keys and Tesolutions assert, “but we : 1 ‘Boor, os trade unionists, that the {Per the Joors to all the prisoners tional churches have not | pty Bh Barring acco ; about 9:39 and mw several men Jafar Lneafh teres ples with clubs. He asked them what they meant to do, and they told ae acres the work-!}im the door of their tank (the vita least tank) was open 7 | He saw then, he eaid, that they ater |also carried open knives. The |men, he sald, told him they meant | to kill the jailers. Pays Son’s Keep “Swiftwater Bill” Gates, famous | . ene BODY OF ARABIC VICTIM FOUND ie character, who cleaned up) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Con | are not opposed to religion,” and who was recently arrest © complaint of Mrs. lola Beebe, Brinker's eourt, as guar-|the body of Dr. Edmund Woods, of Mites that for 12 months he will| Wisconsin, a victim of the liner ‘Bkest sum by cornering the Alaska Mether-inlaw, who charged With failure to support his ton, |Stl Frost, at Queenstown, reported $20.8 month for the boy’s sup-|Arabic tornedoing, had been recov red. Market during the gold rush | ¥ Thursday filed a $500 bond in |\to the state department today that MUTT AND JEFF—WHA I T'S Pxer Dury } WA convey, Ace | Teor 6 Do's | The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, JOHN D. IS GIVEN MUSTMAN GOON | LESSON BY GIRL JUNK PILE AT 40? _ - | Financier Amused as Child) Boalt, Who's 39, Doesn't! Explains Big Think New City | Dividends. Rule Just | S/EXHIBITS ED. SILVER! By Fred L. Boalt. | With something akin to dismay, 1 learn that the civil service commis | sion has set the age of 40 as the |maximum at which a man may ap ply to the city for employment at common labor Ido not need employment at lcommon labor, Nevertheless the lintelligence atrikes a chill of terror) to my heart. | might some times need desperately such employment, TRINIDAD, Colo, Sept. 23.— On this, the second anniversary of the declaration of the strike In his coal mines in southern Colorado, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. motored to Walsenburg on his personal inspection tour. He chose to continue his in- vestigations into life among his workmen and their famili rather than to visit the Miners’ day at the county fair he After seeing Walsenburg, the oll king will visit Pueblo, then go to Denver next week to tend the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. directors’ meeting. Colorado sun and wind combined today, at Rouse, Colo, to bilster John D. Rockefeller, jr's nose so badly that it peeled. On his trip about his coal mines he was forced to stoy some cold cream, and he confessed ruefully to newspaper men and movie operators, with whom he paused to fraternize, that even cold cream could not touch Colorado. sunburn. 1 “lt am 89, me War te Tee Bed | I learned at the office that Silver Making & visit to Walsenburg to-/ 14 considered « good workman. The | day, he passed the Aguilar colony, test of a common laborer ts, can with its 26 abandoned tents, lhe do much work as “the man Informed that these marked the) siongs! > site of a strike battle, he anawered, Silver, at 5&9, cannot only keep It lw too bad to mar the beautiful! pace with “the man alongside,” country with warfare.” But he| whatever his age, but can generally dodged all further questions as to outstrip him {n the race. Employ the strike or conceruing national | —————————— politics. | The oll king stood In the coal dust here and talked with T. A. Mitobell, a big negro member of the miners’ grievance committee dur- ing the strike. Shakes Negroes’ Hands He also talked to another negro who had met the elder Rockefeller years ago, and shook hands with a number of negro employes. Sata 0 dation Tata Rockefeller is still chuckling to- day over the leston in high finance | ,,7He same rate went Into effect he received on his trip yesterday, raised alike by the Standard Ot when a bright little girl in charge Union Ot] and the Shell Ot! com- of x achool bank told him she'd been | paniog able to make 30 or 40-cent dividend | "The ofi company managers sald on each 10 cents in stock issued tn | the increase was general along the | a community school supply venture. | pacific Coast Praises Girls’ System The wholesale price of gasoline, “Don't you think that was doing|benzine and stove distillate has | pretty well?’ asked the girl,|also been boosted a cent a gallon. | earnestly. - Sse The oll king solemnly assured her he regarded it as remarkable. 1 am 39 yearn old! This morning | went to the city free employment bureau for men jat Third and James. I picked from | the crowd of jobseekers a man who} [seemed to me recently to have) | Passed the 40-year age limit He's a Good Workman This man’s name was Ed Silver, | He lives at 6786 48th ave, 8 W. 1) selected him because his blue eyes were alert and tntelligent, his body thick and moscular, bis hands | strong and capablelooking, and his movements active. He laughed when | suggested he| was in the neighborhood of 45 years old for he sald (Continued on Page 4) Gotng ap’ Gasoline advanced | cent a gallon Thursday. It's 12% cents now, where 24 hours ago it was 11% U. S. MARINES DEBATE POLICIES AST EDITION Unsettied; probably showers TiDKs Mie 4:01 a om, 444 po my AT #KATTLE Lew. 10:27 = m., 1107 yp. m™., an tt aa tt 12.7 tt on 194 ft MAINS AND 1915. ONE CEN’ NKWS BEANDS. be FIGHT WITH BAYO | PeCTI | ED SILVER, HALE, HEARTY, OVER 40 IT as @ fiddle, Ed Silver, a plain workman, strong work to the newest rule of the civil service commis the reason that the age of 40. only one of many who would thus be denied the city ‘ and healthy, can't for the city, according sion, Silver work he is above is by IS PUSHING ON TO PETROGRAD LONDON, Sept Teuton and Slav are fighting a bloody duel lfcr pomsexsion of Dvinsk, strategic railway center on the path to Riga ‘and Petrograd. The battle is now at close range. At many points the two armies are fighting it out with the bayonet, according to the offi- clal statement from the Petrograd war office today. This anftouncemént was interpreted here as further proof that the German supply of shells is decreasing and that men, instead of ammu- | nition, must now be sacrificed in the hope of gaining a victory cver the | Russian horde. | Serbs Massed to Stop Bulgars LONDON, Sept. 23.—Bulgaria and Greece were brought nearer to war by developments today. Rumania’s attitude was seemingly in doubt. Serbia replied to the Bulgarian mobilization maneuvers by moving two divisions within striking distance of the Bulgarian frontier. The commander of the Serbian patrols warned the Bul; jans that any trespass on Serbian soil would result seriously for the invad- in view of the already strained relations between the two coun- Crown Prince Alexander plans to lead the Serbians if war results Armed Strength of the Balkan States Others Reserves. Available. $20,500 100,000 100,000 175,000 25,000 125,000 200,000 Serbia 32,000 208,000 60,000 Greece is the oniy nation witn a navy, This stands at two mod- ern battleships, bought from the United States, one cruiser battle- “phip, three older battieships, eight gunboats. three monitors, twelve destroyers, ten torpedo boats, two submarines and 4,000 men and officers. Peace Strength. 60,600 95,000 Bulgaria . Ruman' Greece from the seething Balkan situation. The Greek cabinet session continued until after midnight. At many places it was reported that Greek officers on leave had been ordered to be ready to go to Athens immediately. The Duke of Meikienburg wae reported to be en route to Bucharest, with German authorization to promise important concessions to Ru- mania if she would remain neutral. \Germans Bombard Serbs NISH, Serbia, Sept. 23.—Though the Austro-Germans have ham- mered at Serbia from the principal points of the Danube since Sunday, their artillery fire was without military result, according to an official statement at midnight. The lassie informed him, too,} that the school bank's $5.00 deposit had been loaned out in part on good security, and that she was now seek ing “a permanent investment for the rest of our money.” sailors was fired on by Haltiens Rockefeller thus far has kept his | Tuesday, Admiral Caperton report | opinions concerning working and /ed to the navy department today. living conditions tn his mines a eres ciony there in a strong beliet that | SAY HE TRIED TO BLOW UP MILLS he intends to make extensive im FIRED UPON! WASHINGTON, Sept. 23,--A col umn of 50 American marines and provements, particularly in view of his keen interest In the changes which have been the outgrowth of the strike. | GARY, Ind., Sept Mike Bog jowich, an Austrian, employed tn \the Aetna Powder mills, faced pre | Teachers Get Out | CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Judge Jobn O'Connor today issued an injune tion sought by the Teachers’ feder ation, restraining the board of edu cation from enforcing {ts recent rule forbidding membership in the organization or affiliated unions i (Copyelant. 1 Court Injunction ‘liminary hearing today on charges of conspiracy to blow them up re- \cently THAW ALIENIST | DIES; APOPLEXY NEW YORK, Sept. 23 | | | Aus- Dr. teachers to bold |tin Fllnt, 79, one of the men promi-/and Frank H. Short nent In the prosecution of Harry Thaw, is dead today of apoplexy T’S THE USE OF WAITING WHEN YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO GO? O18 be HG. Wiwher, Trade Mark Rew. tT . : A * \Taubes, Disguised, Raid City BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The allies are using false markings on their bate began aeroplanes, it Is charged In an official statement reporting an air at- Senator T. J. Walsh, of Montana, tack on Stuttgart. Four persons were ki and many wounded when presented a minority report favor. enemy aviators, bearing German markings on their machines, dropped ing federai control under the leas-/ bombs on the city. ing system. | ; Berlin Denies Hesperian Attack The minority report was favored by four out of 12 members of the resolutions committee. BERLIN, via The Hague, Sept. 23.—The admiralty today . submitted to the foreign office a memorandum declaring po. tively that no submarine sank the liner Hesperian. The state- HANNA OPPOSES | Ba: ope se bape ipod hei cag er bi a — 2 ITEMS IN BUDGET. e kaiser’s intention to receive U. S. Ambassador Ger- ard soon after returning from the Eastern front is regarded evidence of his desire to arrange a speedy and complete Pe adjustment of German-American relations. o 9 . Allies’ Airmen Bombard Bruges AMSTERDAM, Sept. 23.—Allied airmen bombarded a submarine 1916 and military base at Bruges on Sunday and Monday nights, inflicting | heavy damage and destroying a German factory. ON WATER POWER PORTLAND, Sept. 23.—In ~ the final day's session of the water pow er conference of the Western states, meeting here, the delegates are working toward the climax this aft ernoon, in the adoption of resolu- tions embodying the doctrine of state control, and declaring for making the national public domain subject to eminent domain right by the states The resolutions of the majority, as presented this morning by U. 8 Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the resolutions committee, favor nothing but a declaratory act by congress, which is in line with the desire of the water power interests for no legislation, and the granting of water power right In perpetuity to private interests Reading of formal papers was concluded this morning with those of U. S. Senator Clark of Wyoming 3 Councilman Hanna has declared) himself as opposed to the items of $227,000 for bond interest and re- demption and $37,000 for increased street lighting rates, in the budget CAUGHT IN SHAFT; KILLED TACOMA, Sept. 23.—Nelse Hange. bachelor, Is dead today as the of California, result of an accident at the Peter after which the resolutions were man Manufacturing Co He brought on the floor and general de- caught in a revolving shaft 'Germans Take Many Prisoners BERLIN, Via London, Sept. 23.—Germans closing in on Dvinsk from the west have penetrated the Russian advance positions, taking was | 2,122 prisoners, the official statement said today. The Slavs are re- tiring upon the outer defenses, BY BUD FISHER | ® Pat ofty Tomorrow Is Remnant Day AT MacDougall- Southwick’s This has come to be recognized by Seattle people as a day of ex- ceptional bargain giv- ing, and tomorrow no exception, is An unusually attrac- tive list of specials has been arranged for the September Remnant day, and a_ full and complete list of them will be f@und in the big ad on page 5 in to- day's paper ths SO wi NU