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

i ice is going Mollie to marry We're going to give you another veek to guess page 7 gix feet high, and without a aie in it big enough for a cat thru, the Seattle park ” i ig building it a Se Gaonded to completely from Leachi park the ‘drink and ice cream store . to F. A. Lane by the Electric Co. park board and Lane, and wes the electric company, have of their backs up for some me. The “spite fence” was once before, last , Dut was not built be- A. L. Kempster, superin- of the electric company, certain concessions to says it is a deliberate at- of the commission to force a tribute to the park ‘of $20 a month in addition to he pays the electric com- Gambling In Store A matement. officially represent park board, issued Monday Cotterill, secretary, ad- is that | ¢ original cause of war nt over this fee, but! f since that time the situation | i More acute by reason that Lane sold liquor and gambling in his place, he ts are absolute falsehoods. “These ‘rumors’ are out of pure spite.” park, until seven years very indignant about | See VOLUME 18% =NO, 182. SEATTLE, WASH., ON THAINS A MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1915. ONE CENT KEWS STANDS, be PARK BOARD BUILDS A SPITE FENCE TO KILL OFF MERCHANT EDITION “Cooler; Tuesday fair and warrner TIDES AT BEATILE Migh. Lew. 7:50 a. m., 12:49 a, m, 2 6:02 p.m, 12:50 p.m, & 14.0 ft at 7 25 ft GERMANS GIVE GROUND BEFORE ALLIES; SERBIA GETS ira ITTLE TALKS. With the STAR FAMILY) | | we vie meant that The Star was a }party organ io pretty much the same sense that the P.1. ts a party | Organ, The man mistaken, We mention his mistake because we wonder how many folks have fallen into the same error. The Star is not a progressive newspaper, or a republican newspa- per, or a democratic newspaper, or & socialist newspaper. | ere | S preparing political slates. They have thetr editors tell | BL Smith to run and Sam Jones [not to run. They promise Sam Jones, if he will hold off this time {and work for Bill Smith, they will }Support him (Sam) next time. | They “trade.” They “play” poll es. The Star has never done these things. The Star has never asked any man to run or not to run for any office. The Star has never had any conferences, secret or other wise, to bring out any candidates) for any office Whatever The Star has had to HEARD a man & man say the other day that The Star was a progressive new iden Electric | say has been sald right out in pubd-| ‘The city then acquired | which Lane now pc the only one tn or near! the electric company ft. and the same arrangement | to continue ander the| | the agreement that $50 a/ ‘would be paid it. Can't Figure It Out r the city agreed not to! @ similar concession in the Later this fee Teduced to $20. About two years ago Lane bought ‘tore from Riley Bros. He con- paying the fee to the city for and then, one night, after his head for a long time ‘a2 adequate answer, still re- pustied to know why he pay the city anything. don't care if they do give a to some one else tn the ark.” he said. And 90 be quit paying ‘Fence Builders Start Work last summer the city was about | award a concession inside the Stipe according to the park et Kempster ap- and said he was investigat- | ithe Lane store, and that because gambling and liquor sales, oust Lane and there would a, trouble. was not ousted, Indl mis Kenner found nothing to Mbstantiate the “rumors.” this morning the fence build- six or eight of ‘em, started | had appeared before the| y and sald he was will-| to pay the fee. But the ‘said he owed too much money , and besides, it was too late, SEE Tiss Ballard Presbyterian Sunday Winners of the membership | Will be given a banquet by | on Friday, Oct. 8, at 6 jn the church annex at 17th st. |He—in the columns of the paper. The Star ts the only Seattie pa that can truthfully say ais ver asked any man, In lhe elty or in the state, to run or } not to run for office WE HAVE NEVER MADE ANY | DEAL WITH A ‘¥Y MAN BEFORE ELECTION, AND WE HAVE NEVER ASKED A_ POLITICAL FAVOR OF ANY MAN FOR HAV- ING HELPED ELECT. HIM ee ND as for The Star's being a political organ, we are un- able to see that there is any more reason why The Star should be, willy-nilly, progressive, repub-| lean or democratic than that the} Bon Marche should, willy-nilly, be Presbyterian or Christian Science. ee ee } E CAN'T help feeling sorry \W for Merchant Patrolman Gouley. was inexcusable, of course. The fault was not #0 Gouley's as it system's. Gouley was willing to do a city | policeman a favor. The city po liceman was after some motor. |eyclists. Both fired their revolvers. | it was accident that Gouley's, and not the city policeman's, bullet killed the boy. much dence that policemen still believe that police merit is measured by | brute force and gun force } 7— WASHINGTON, Sept Call ing today at the state department concerning Austrian Ambassador |Dumba's request for 2 “safe con- duct,” British Charge d'Affaires OME newspapers sit up nights’ The killing of young Carl Frisell | was a damnable/ The whole case is merely evi-| ! HICH reminds us Dr. Sydney Strong, of the Queen Anne Congress tional church, preached Sunday on Christianity and Our Police Sy» tem What would | dot” asked Dr. Strong, and answered the question 1 would take away every re volver and club. | would make of our policemen a combination of trusted watchmen, and firemen, and peacemakers. They would walk up and down our streets like ush- ers in a church or floor-walkers tn a department store. They would not go out In the morning to detect and suspect, but to remedy and {guide and help bulld up the com munity. Suspicion of the public is a wrong attitude of mind.” ! . . * WOMAN reader writes The Star to congratulate ua on the stand we have taken on the 40-year limit for elty laborers “It is not often I find myself tn agreement with The Star, but this time—-" and so on and so on Well, life would be insipid and boresome if everybody agreed with everybody else. We are giad the Indy reads The Star, even tf she cannot always see eye to eye with us. As for that 40-year rule, It's stily and arbitrary, and that's the best that can be said for it eee NE word more We like to friends call on us. We like to talk with them get their ideas. In exchange, are willing to give them ours. . have our and we our friends But, ob, friends! an AFTERNOON paper. From 7 a. m. Ul press time we are on the high gear ALL THE TIME. That is why, friends, when you call in the morning, we are tnclin led to be short with you and snap- | pish, So please call in the afternoon. | Then we will give you the most comfortable chair in the office, | both ears and our most respectful jattention. INVESTIGATE S. 0. 8. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27. into a mysterious 8. 0. call, which disturbed the cthort | [Coast Saturday. Federal authort- | tles expressed the opinion it was |the work of some amateur with a high-powered system today PERMIT ISSUED Permit for proposed new immigra- tion station, on First ave., at foot of Union st., jesued Saturday by city Plana to be forwarded to Washing- ton for approval SILENT AUSTRIA ON DUMBA CASE |Barclay was informed by Acting Secretary of State Polk that Aus- tria has not recalled Dumba, as the United States asked, or, at least, no communication to that effect had reached the department We even like to swap yarns with | we are running | Rigid investigation is being made | BULGARIAN ULTIMATU iT. R. the First and Third Showing Similar Storm Signals if you have paid a $5 deposit to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. at any time with. In the past y you now can go to the telephone office and get your money back. if you pald your five more than a year jo, the company says it has been applied on your account, and that it now owes you nothing. if you have not been given this rebate, go and get it. You've got it coming. je sure, how. ever, that you did not get the rebat The company says that after a subscriber has had the phone a full year, it has either returned the deposit or else ap- piled the §5 on account. Third, If your bill amounts to $2.50 a month, there were two months | when you paid nothing, says the company. Refunding of the $5 deposits was begun Monday, and will con- tinue until all accounts have been adjusted, aceording to the supreme court ruling, officials of the com | pany state A statement issued by the com-| pany follows “The deposit of $5 may be applied on the account, or if the account is paid for a month in advance, deposit will be re. funded in cash if the subscrib- er so desire apply to deposite which ha aiready been credited to the account.” Cash refunds are made at de- | of the subscriber, tho with \few exceptions, patrons are re | questing the company to apply the {$3 to their accounts. Officials say there is no need for! ja rush, as they will make refunds | indefinitely W. H.M.S. DELEGATES | HERE FOR MEETING cr | SAN DIEGO, Sept. Details of | Mlegal, unjust and unnecessary ts Attention of church people here a horrible massacre of women, |the manner in which the Pomona| will be directed this week to the children and other passengers on a|grange of King county sums up its] national convention of the Women's|gouthern Pacific Mexican train opinion of the $10 matriculation fee Home Missionary Society of the! near Torres, Sonora, were awaited |imposed on freshmen entering the Methodist weopal church, which | pore today juniversity this year. will open Wednesday. Early dispatches said Yaqui In In resolutions passed at Its last Publtc sessions will be held daily | qians derailed the train, herded 80| meeting, the grange declared that for a week at the First Methodist of the passengers into a hay car,|the people of the state are taxed (o church then applied the torch. The women support the university, so all may Mrs, W. P. Thirkleld, national!and children roasted to death. A | enjoy president, of New Orleans, and Mrs. nandful of passengers escaped. and that “the purpose and intent of May Leonard Woodruff, of Allen-| The Yaquis were army deserters, |the people have been defeated” by dale, N. J., national secretary, were jt {s not known whether any Amer. | the imposing of this fee, which is to among the first arrivals. feans were among those killed be used in erecting permanent A special train of delegates from buildings, “of no immediate benefit the South and East is expected 601/to the students taxed, but of last Tuesday Wall st., was severely injured Mon-| {ng benefit to the state.” Mrs. Thirkield, who is the wife of|day, when a piece of machinery Bishop Thirkield, spoke in Queen|struck him while at work on the, |Anne Methodist church Sunday, ‘steamer Umatilla, { SOUPERWOOO » UNDERWOOD Here's Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, in one of his crying moments, and Theodore Roosevelt ist, in one of his speaking moments, The picture of the youngster was snapped on the beach at Southampton, L. |. Note the similarity in the poise of the head and method of wrinkling the brow and using the mouth. ‘80 MASSACRED 'GRANGE GALLS BY MEX INDIANS U, FEE UNJUST Gus Seberg, a longshoreman, STAR Ww: ANT ADS GETTERS. ARE Go T AND JEFF—SHELLS IS SHELLS WHETHER ON EGGS OR SHRAPNEL. S TRENCH WARFARE MANES BiCK! Tm A MAN OF ESTON! T LONG To HEAR. THE om BUiLe Ts. I LONG FoR Me COMBAT. THiS INACTIVITY Bore ts N IS Cowae * HIDING BEHIND A TRENCH pin. BULLETS To Me Ane “U GIKE 5&0 MUCH SPUFFED RICE S (Copyright. BUSINESS op peer K LISTENING 1915, by H.C Fisher. Trade Mark Reg U. & Pat. Off) ~ ~“aatel 7? “Y-Ue Peart Vy PNY") (THE FIGHTING FACE OF THE ROOSEVELTS| a free and equal education, | M! BERLIN, Sept. 27.—(Bulletin.) Unconfirmed re- ports reaching here today said Bulgaria has sent an ulti- matum to Serbia. The allies’ diplomats are reported pre- | paring to leave Sofia. LONDON, Sept. 27.—The tide of war has turned to the | allies on every front The greatest artillery battle j of the German trenches along Lits The allies’ terrific new drive is smashing toward the rail- | ways, by means of the hold Belgium and | Northern France. German losses since Saturday are believed to exceed 100,000. The czar, too, has halted the Germans. Field Marshal Von Hindenberg has been repulsed in his attempts at Dvinsk and Riga \Italy Triumphs Against Austria Along two-thirds of their front, the Russians are on the offensive, recapturing villages, and taking enormous numbers of prisoners Italy Serbi vance in the And, more significant still into the war, supposedly on the Athens dispatches, the victorics London newspapers today point out that the allies prob- ably have suffered very heavily, Further, they hint that this reawakened activity is perhaps only a “feeling out” process, preliminary to the real offensive Western Battle Still Continues The battle from Arras to the sea and in the Champagne raged uninterruptedly Sunday and last night and still con- tinues. The allied batteries are deluging the German works with a blasting fire. This is accompanied by unparalleled hand to hand bayonet attacks. Thousands of reinforcements brought up in the past 36 hours have plugged the weak spots in the German line and j have slackened the momentum of the gigantic reawakened allied advance Despite the the allies have beea unable to stem entirely the German resistance, according to the Paris official statement |Germans Check Onslaught of Allies South of Lens and in the ( -hampagne region, Germans have checked the allied charges along a wide front. Midway between Arras and Lens the French, however, made import- ant progress Since Arras was reoccupied, a year ago, the French have attempted to reach the railway running from that city in the Aoui and Valenciennes to the German bases. Paris today reported them only six miles much coveted goal. ‘Thousands of dead and wounded are smothered amid the | burning ruins of Souchez, which is now entirely France’s, after Lwecns of seesaw bitter struggling Other thousands of unburied dead lie on the slopes of in history is blowing sections the Franco-Flanders front to which Teutons the Austrians \ustro-German claims fresh successes against artillery holding up the Balkans is ad- Bulgaria is hesitating to dash Teutonic side, according to while allies these fresh are gaining most desperate efforts, away from this (Continued on Page 5) REPORT BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK BERLIN, Sept. 27.—One Brit- ish warship was sunk and two others were damaged by Ger- man coast batteries during the bombardment of Zeebrugge, ac- cording to an official statement Issued here today. The British ships have been pounding at Zeebrugge, accom. panying the renewed Franco- Flanders drive by the allies, The British squadron retreat- ed after these losses. Concerning the gigantic offen. Sive on the West front, the offi- cial statement claimed the kal- ser’s forces had taken Prisoners In one trench sector 1,200 Brit. ish, including a brigade com- mander and several officers. RUMANIA ASKS AN EXPLANATION ROME, Sept Rumania has requested Bulgaria to explain her mobilization moves, according to the Idea Nazio- 'nale today BY BUD FISHER 27 Star Want Ads Can Be Very Useful to You—if You Will Just Give Them the Chance. Main 9400— Ask for Want Ad Desk. ALSATION PEASANT LADY DELWERING Rus ORDER OF HEN BRUIT * Seervmeue ait av ree wem