The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1915, Page 1

OLLIER’S WEEKLY says the United Press writers have written the literature of war. The Star is the only Seattle paper carrying United Press articles from the war zone. The Star prints the best war news—first. NLESS England she hurries "il be too late to help us,” Serbian offi- cial tells Star correspond- ent. See page 5. VOLUME SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1915 IMAINS ANY BEANDS, Be ONE CENT on SEW IGHT EDITION Forecast—Generally fair 7ibke AT ekATTLA lew. 215 © m., Weather 19.8 ft. 11:50 mom, 2.6 te 22 AMERICANS ARE HELD AS PRISONERS BY VILLA RUSSIA RUSHES TROOPS TO AID SERBIA TROOP 3 ! BORDER BATTLE OPENS DOUGLAS, Ariz, Oct. 30.— Five thousand troops und Villa deployed in battle forma tion on the southern and east ern sides of Agua Prieta today, threw up shallow earthworks, and waited They are several miles from the town. No field guns were visible in Villista forces, altho it is possible they may be supported by hidden batteries. On account of the rapidity of his advance, however, it is + betleved Vijia ieft bis artilier P a ing their victori skirmish with} Villistas last night at Cabuliona, ~% mites south, are husbanding | ir ammunition for a general as Banlt The Carrenzistas are known to Bave six field guns and 400 shells Carranza reinforcements report @d en ronte from Eagle Pass via 1 & soll had not arrived early toda 22 American Prisoners Twenty-two Americans are held prisoners by Villa at Frontenes, 30 Rifles south of Douglas. Their fate is unknown i Early today Gen. Fructosa Men dez amanding the Villa advance guard, occupied Naco, with several hundred cavalry | United States border patrols to- dey reported Villa's mafn army at San Hernardino, on the border 18 Bo east of Douglas. This ind! tes that the forces surrounding sua Prieta are merely advance guards American troops age paralleling the advance of the Vilifstas step by step, along the boundary. FIGHTING BEGINS ON MEXICO BORDER WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. “ight ing between Carranzistas and Viilis ta ‘ar Agua Prieta, across from Deougias, Ariz., has begun, Gen. Fun ston reported to the war depart-| ment today Gen. Callen’ 300 YVillistas at Villa patrol west was wiped out Six thousand American troops lin ed the border, ready to fire on the Villistas, should they attempt to In vade the United States side for a flank attack against the Carranzis fas, backed up against the border Mines ‘ outposts dispersed Cabuliana, and a of Agua Prieta Council finance committee appro. priates $1,509 to pay debts of Hotel Liberty. City gets $1,800 in tools, ete., in exchange. i \star to Tell About | M.E.ChurchMonday © YOU know when to sit down and when to stand up when you're inside the First Methodist Episcopal church? You may know alt about the Baptist or Episcopal or Presbyterian, for instance, bit—are you Sure about the Methodist? All services are at least a ittle different. All pastors preach differently Sunday night a Star re porter ,will be at the Firat Methodist church, Fifth and Marion, and will tell about the service@ in Monday's Star, in the third of a series of Monday church talks, He'll tell what Or, A. W Le@mard wears and what sort of religion he preaches, whether the choir is a good gne or not, and all about the services. Whether you ever go to church or not, you'H* enjoy reading the story. Don't Tor get to look for it. | more recently at the Moore theatre arrival | from Seattle and were ‘married be | rlage for social reasons. INSPECTOR INJURED Hesperian Torpedoed, New Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— The Allan liner Hesperian was torpedoed, and net sunk by a mine as Germany contended, the navy department reported today to Secretary Lansing. This report, based on a navy Investigation, will be made the basis for a new representation to Bertin. Lansing indicated, however, that the report would not r open the submarine controversy Old Man with Germany, except as to the “ facts of the Hesperian case ang | ‘PICK int indemnity to America jand over FIGHTS TO Gloom pe into the yard besides Judge Tallman Bob Hodge a right ordered County SHERIF LOSES hangs corridor and Ithe solar plexus Saturday Anditor sheriff's office Saturday and | 4 Sheriff straight to when he make out Bob's next salary warrant to Ole Hanson on a note signed by lyears ago |} Hanson KEEP HilS im) | secured a } Attacks Hanson attacked the as an giiennt to evade the ju As an aftermath of the recent wedding of Miss Sidi Wirt, of Seat Jack Spreckels, the San Francisco millionaire, learn ed here Saturc that an attempt | H. is being made to Calffornia to an nul the marriage of Mrs. Spreckels’ | policy sister, formerly Miss Christelle |salary Olive Wirt, to Harold Nimrod Eek-/| mann | day Eckmann, who Is the son of Har-| The county ry P. kmanh, 1210 North 49th st, hastened South soon as he learn ed of the attempt, thra letters writ ten him by bis wife, who, it is said is opposed to thelr separation. From what I can learn of the affair,” said Eckmann’s father, Sat urday, “It seems to be the wish of | my son's mother-in-law to have her daughter free to marry a wealthier man Employed Here Young Eckmann ployed as a clerk at Nelson's department Perry, before Hanson was entitled Hodge's salary that a warrant auditor direct Hodge's salary to now month and a half, H. is approximately Clerk has been em Frederick & store and In answe at in He is usher picture hotel His wife, with her mother, who| lives on @ small ranch at Hollow Lake, a few miles out on the Ever ett Interurban line, left Seattle about a month ago to be present at| the Spreckels-Wirt nuptials | It was bot a few days after thetr| fn San Francisco. Eck mann's father says, when his sor began to receive letters from hia! wife, saying an effort was be ing made to persuade her to sub. | **st mit to the annulment of her mar. | riage. Spreckels Writes Letter A dispatch today from San Fran cisco states that young Eekmann has protested that the troubles of the young couple, who ran away present working as an a San Francisco motion theatre and living at a for governor, in replied ran Hanson Hodge several fore either was of age, & the interference of Mr. Spreckel who, it is said, desire the annniment of their sister's mar. had long been |councils of Canada, and According to Eckmann’s father. the couple were married a year ago. Eckmann will be 22 years.old hext March, his father says, and Mrs. Eckmiann ie 20 Young Eckmann has written his father for advice. 1 hardly know what to tell him yet,” said th ther Saturda fun over | have employed two attorneys to| bya truck of asphalt EK. E. 16th ave Hall was WILL SEAM The ad-\ within a few, weeks. jubiladt today Albany, N. ington W ASHINGTO? mini#ration was over the organization, at Y., of at $2,000,000 steamship back of the line, under the Ameri¢an flag, to\corporatio carry Pacific trade, under the name real owne of the Pacific & BKastern Steamship The company Co can make profits, In view of the Pacifio-Mail’s with: laws will not drawal, under the plea of hard times/fect which the following the seaten's act, the gov- uted te them w in the new concern an. . The backers p helr removal and their now operating in the transform them for the begin operations|ice a» soon as powsible interest# are re it have the Pacific ernment 90 offset to lates The \ine = will jthe p aah gn [ety to the German: Am to but he also directed be drawn by the Hasson that camtpaign tions without having bim sign any notes, but that this loan was a pri-| | vate loan and not a campaign gift. | take care of his end of the case. ‘Spreckels has written me a lat- [ter, saying that he thinks the boy }is all right, but that, «0 long as the [mother wishes her girl \ free, he would advise m¢ not to pro-| I intend to protest, however.” f OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 30. re due to|Charles Tupper, former premier of ‘aod Mra, |Canada, died today in London prominent ed as one of her leading lawyers. sewer inspector, 654 suffering Saturday from bruiset sustained when he was and dragged several feet EN’S LAW | KILL SHIPPING? WELL, “: ANSWER THIS, THEN! While large New York and Wash: known new corporation, the in yapers do hot reveal the is held, ¢ and th to buy ships not Pacific dastern sery | This is the latest chapter In the Hanson suit Against Hodge for $ Hodge three judgment ‘against Hodge several montha ago, . met asstgnment payment of ement, and Jddge Tallman) sustained the contéation of John) Hanson's attorney, declared that it was against public for an official to. assign bis) he has earned ft. | Hodge appeared in court Satur) thru bis attorney, Judge auditor appeared thru | Deputy Prosecutor Ewing, who took | up Hodge's side of the case. Hanson Collects $320 | Judge Tallman not only held that Bell. | garnishee for) due. This} |amounts to about $320 for the past! pson's claim | the same amount, | with the court costs added. | to Hanson's suit, Hodge | claimed the money was given him| as a campaign contribution when he} 1912 i he hve) contfibu- | to be set Above, an interior view of the Bell at. public dock, crammi full of merchandise. As shippers come to realize the superior f d low rates offered, the volume of busin: rapidly, and the port commission is hard pressed to find space for it, tho the private dock own aid the dock was “too large.” Below is a picture of the half-miilion-bushel concrete elevator, one of the largest and finest in the world, ‘Sir He in the was regard- AURORA, Ill, Oct Preceded | by a weries of deafening explosions, | Ure today damaged the William | Jobbins Chemieal company plant to @ extent of $100,000 The origin of the fire mys tho offictale reger it as jafgnificant that the plant was work the. on war orders, and that it once before had beem the vietim fire that catised $700,000 damage: Following Stetson and Bringhurst in a vestigation of thie city, both | parochial "LABOR EXPOSITION howing the pub produc to be With the CHEHALIS, Oct lic that better work today ed by the laborer who i employed) 26, who in an emabliahment where harmony | ploding two boxe will be/terday, was Sixth and to 10 p.m to 10 p ean be nln it the new verse of Mail attrib exists, a labor exposition held at the Li University, from.2 p.m Sunday, and from 10 @ and}m. Monday. A number of | of Iécal manufacturers will be on) or temple m The explosion display. burial purposes, WAR MUNITIONS WILL INSPECT PLANT BLOWN UP CITY SCHOOLS The posure of the unsafety of Seat tie schools in cage of fire, Chief Fire Saturday planned that they will make a thoro in all " SHAKES TOWN WHEN HE KILLS HIMSELF asserted that Vaclav ommitt@ suicide by ex of dynamite ‘yes unbalanced He had beeh robbed of several hun dred dollars on a recent trip Bast shook exhilits!town, and it took several houss to that to thoroly change the minis collect enough Of the remains for tries does not imply oS Nil chandise of every description is’ arriving handled Private faster dock owners, who a° few “months ago n not get business, have now changed their tune Their new argument is ‘that it is not “dignified” for the commission to ad vertise in the shipping world that the public docks have lower rates and better facilities than private docks can offer. \ Star investigator visited all_of the harbor “projects” no longer, but accomplished facts— briefly the commodities now on hand at the public terminals and wharves. BELL ST. TERMINAL Salmon—$2,000,000 worth, 200,000 cases arriving on the steamers Jef- ferson and Spokane tonight Seven hundred tons of steel for bridge work, etc., railroad One hundred tons of hay for Ala ska hundred ns of thousand cases of ¢ thousand brick One thousand tons of Manchurian Thirty cars of Yakima potatoe In cold 100 cars of apy (35 tierces of salmon, each weighing 1,000 pounds; ring eral One wheat Six Seven ondensed milk grain storg es cars al SMITH’S COVE TERMINAL Righty, thousand cases of salmon from Blue being washed and lacquered for export by Horner Six handred tons of be shooks. Five hundred tons of coal Five tons of One thousand glassware, . etc three hundred tons rails A (Continued on Page 5 Star's ex. | tinue on | common For by permanen It is ge By William Philip Simms PARIS, Oct. 30.—"A not one fota from the fixed purpose to win the war and crush German militarism,” Premier Briand told me In an exclusive in terview today, “will be the new cab. inet’s policy It was the old min istry platform and it will be ours,” Ile received me at the office of the ministry of justice, He ts about to vacate in favor of Vivian, and granted me an interview prior to hia visit to President Poincare at the palace Pesentially vigorous and always eloquent, he spoke more forcefully than ever v have I seen him more determined “1 desire the world to understand Marshal deviation of country's schools in : public and turning fairs be primar YAK Relatives Jacobu, 0. mentally the whole! a change of jury reac “We will con- | hours policies,” he said, than ation of the The NORTH it cried can Star Man Visits Port Commission’s Docks; Finds Them Groaning Under Vast Quantities of Commerce Seattle public docks are chock-a-block with business The. wharves and warehouses are full almost to capacity, and mer- easily out ipal docks could not be made to pay and that the port commission could “projects” for ready Funn laska with our motto, vt t peace. rally point in ‘ily the ur 300 barrels of Alaska her- yesterday, and here reports} Al liner & Andrae railroad INEW FRENCH PREMIER SAYS CABINET WON’T | CHANGE WAR POLICY allies. believed new mi Al, COPENHAGEN, Oct. 30.—A great fleet of Rus- sian ships accompanied by cruisers has left Odessa and Sevastopol for Bul- garia, according to private? Berlin advices today. This dispatch of troops foreshadows early Russian assistance to the Serbs and French in the struggle in the Balkans. ‘ in to check the?” drive the Teutons across to Turkey is believed here. The Berliner Tageblatt also stated that it had learned large bodies of troops had left Odessa. GERMANS MEET BULGAR TROOPS IN SERB DRIVE ROME, Oct. 30.—A_ junction of Austro-Germans and Bulgarians at Egri Palanka, 50 miles southwest of Sofia, was reported today from Sal- onika., Fighting was of unbeliev- able ferocity It was regarded as péssible that the Teutons had traversed North- eastern Siberia and reached the Bul- |garian railway, from which they | made their way to Egri Palanka. | Athens dispatches also. claiined | that the Bulgarians have recaptur- ed Veles, which fs about 50 miles | southwest of Egri Palanka and less than 25 miles south of Uskup on the railway line leading to Sa- lonika. Unconfirmed reports told of French occupation of Strumnitza, followed by an advance into Bul- garian territory (MATHEW IS PEEVED be that mu- are they aska fed- CHICAGO, Oct, 30.—"With 5,000,- | 000 men in our order supplied with |explosives, we will blow up every chureh. and other dry property in | Iinoiseto stop the persecution of | saloons.” This message came by letter to Arthur Farwell, president of the Law & Order league, today It was signed "Mathew Joseph- son, executive agent of the Non- Chureh and Anti .' Prohibition j league.” [REV, BROOKS DEAD \ Rey. L. Brooks, Robinson. apart- |ments. a resident of Seattle for over a quarter of a century, died early Saturday morning after an ajlment of several months. He was |formerly in charge of the Bikur | Cholim synagogue, 17th and Yesler, where funeral service will be held Sunday at 4 o'clock, He was a member of Hildesheimer lodge of the B’'Nal B’Rith, which will conduct the last rites. led); 200 Calchas, } with the Victory | ory alone will we win} that the nistr? is a the nation’s af. ministry's action devoted to conductihg | the war to @ sucdessful issue, will A AUBITOR hed & deliberation, YAKIMA RB. Newcomb, former Founty stands acquitted today of the charge of grand larceny aghingt, bin FREED BY JURY, Yordic Oct Can be of great service Wy fy . ‘uditor fy to you if you give them the chance. “PHONE MAIN 9400. \ 30 The Latter 32 4 a ‘