The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1915, Page 1

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f NTI - SUF GISTS and cans are today! Why over East. Suffrage g awful jolt. MARSHFIELD, N 3 Pitiful scenes were When the bodies of nine rsons known to have per- Khed when the steamship San ta Clara we South pit of Ce Yesterday were b € today. It is believed lost Among the r more sur Vivors were relatives and friends who had kept an all night’ vigil on lonely Bast dorif beaeh, trying ¢ breath of life back into the sand-begrimed corpses Eight bodies have been recovered and identified as follows MRS. GALE GRAHAM, Portland. Mrs. 0. H. THORNE, Hood River, RS. BRIOGET DUNN, Butte, EUGENE GILLENWATER, a chitd. Thirteen-month-old child of Mra. J. J. Crowley, Miss City, Ore. — HANDLOSS, member of the MINS. “HALE snd MADELINE! ONEY of South Bend, Ind. j The nine bodies were recovered during the night, but there may have been more victims. The Purser lost the passenger list and & careful check was impossible Smali Boats Overturn Most of those who perished went flown when two small boats over turned shortly after being launched from the stricken ship. Captain Lofstedt and six men, the elections See page 5. FRA- repub- happy ? Why, back ets an VOLUME | who occupied one of the boats, made their way back to the vemel and were later taken off with, breeches buoys. Those in the| other boat were lost | Strikes in Breakers The Santa Clara was en r from Portland to San Francisco, late yesterday ‘ shoal. Swerved fron ft was only a few m now P This was difficult task, be of the vy breakers. Many Survivors Injured ire nd suffered greatly from ex Py oncertain aht of lan tern® in at ttage on Basten Jorff beach, attempts we nade > resuscitate the dead, but with put avail cordiog to the Iatest figures were 48 pa gers and 42 anta Clara | Girt Tells of Wreck The S. 8. Ade bar dredge Michie tried for several hours to manenver close enough to the Senta Clara to be of service, but were unabl do #0. |. Mise Alice Church of Marshfield, wbo was on board the lMlfeboat | which swamped, carrying nearly all w aboard the of those who perished to their death, said The boat was launched without any great confusion, but had pro ceeded only a short distance when it wes swamped. There were about 20 persons in ft. I do not see how many of them could | shore.” MANY S$ Records in the office of the local steamboat inspectors di rectly contradict the statement made Tuesday night at the Y. M. C. A. “Marine night” meet ing by J. C. Ford, president of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Ford said that out of 75 ilors who applied for certifi. ca as able seamen under the new seamen’s law, 55 failed to the physical test: “We have examined 105 ap- plicants,” said Inspector Whit ney, at noon Wednesday. “Of this number all passed except 10 or 12, Some of these will | iris audierce by declaring the abir be able to pass the physical ping men themselves brought on| tests when they equip them: some features of the seamen’s bill selves with eyeg! to meet jig which they object the test for eyesight. jones declares that while he 25 Per Cent Examined posed some featnres of the Ford also declared that less‘than|seamen's bill, he favored sei 5 per cent of the sailors on the|the clauses’ to which t hi Coast will have the necessary cer-|are objecting. He ally conclud es by Thursday, when thejed by seying faw goes into effect, and many If we are to have shipping un-| ships will be ‘fed up, unable to/der the American flag we must, leave port operate on @ banis with the Chinese This is also con ficted at the and Japanese, or with the Fnglish Seattle office. Already 251 don't be feve this bill can bring per cent of the 400 sailors who|the wages of English, Ja come under the law, neve been e®-|and Chinese sailors up to our level amined and given certificate So we must go down to their level The office is kept open r t and to compet ith them Whether day that no ship might be tied/the American people want to do/n up Thursdoy. Prefe sis giver is a question for them to de fn the order of examination to cide EAMEN those who mut le Thursday |The other Heants will be ex-| j amine late All 400 gallora in Seattle we ot scheduled to } jat one time Thursda | Plenty Time to Prepare | Steamship men bave plained that de ment the go athington, t W officials ¢ have prevented m getting the right ort of equipment fife buoys, ete. for thei As the law ha [books for months }the buck right bac ship men for th | preparedness Senator Wesle Jones was the principal speaker at the Y. M. ( }A. Tuesday night. He surp de Smith and the 18. SEATTLE, WASH.,, WEDNE SDAY, NOVEMBER 3, GIRL WHO DIED TWO CENTURIES AGO TALKS TO WORLD; KIDS HER HEARERS Worth the Long Astounds Phrase of the Dead, Patience in Prominent Early Recites Poetry Men olonial Days; An and Drama of Story; Thru a Woman Who Cannot Tell Meaning of Strange Words. weeJa-board.”) Keal business mm en 4. the earth and the hereafter? hand? in St. Lowle have hem deveption—THE KEVELATIONS bested hyo able incidents here ree orded and the story and scoffed AKK MADE A few famou 4 the messages kepuine, and they ST Mo., Nov. 3.—This introduces Patience Worth—poet, { wisd lived 200 years ago and TALKS PODAY! Her is the hereafter, but she speaks to the world at me of { Mrs. John H. Curran at 1368 1 boulevard, St She vy means of the ouija-board. a heart shaped 1 vo with a yx inter at the up. Tin 1 nter spe | out board rds this case, which the operat nnot always unde From t pointer at the tip of)- this he have come poetry,| pumor, gripping drama—end a run | ning fire of comment on the foibles | of this century that has kept | hearers ghing and t | Also a novel, “Telka, | words | Prominent Men | Are Convinced | Mrs, Curran usually has her fio gers on the tip end of the heart! and itis thru Mra. Curran as al mi n that the best results are obtained Mra. Curran is not a spiritualist |ahe started using the oulja-board| largely as a “Joke. | She is a woman of education, but | | have reached | QUALIFY HERE | literary eritic not of a hi education. She does not understand the origins of lish language, or the forma use at moeane * tlence Worth are couch en. tirely in ancient English—not a word of modern origin has been found in them. Mra. Curran couldn't “fake these messages. Among the persons who came to scoff and who have been converted are Wm. Marion Reedy, editor of the St Louis Mirror, and “discov erer” of Elbert Hubbard; Casper S. Yost, editor of the St. Louis! jobe-Democrat, a widely known C, Edwin Hutchings, commis who most n the city park Hutchings, frequently holds her hands board with Mrs. Curra Curran himself is a former state {gration commissioner who is in bosiness in St, Louis secretary 0 and M sion now How Messages Are Received Picture a brilliantly lighted parlor in the Curran home Mrs. Curran and Mra. Hutch. ings with their hands on the oulja-board; Mrs. Curran's mother, Mra. Pollard, at their side with pencil and notebook. Grouped about are several Mrs. Louis, beltevere—the h r IN THR Ft oulja-board Biv 0 most assuring reasons. pronounced | 1915 of St. Louis by Conversing With Them Amazing Another Age Girl, iders whe kaow eatignted and heen iT OF IGHT EDITION FORECAST — Gentle probable rain. WEATER easterly winds; At nA ee tow ton tt ian tt 52 tt io tt ™. ON DMAINS AND ' NEWs REANDS, be Berlin Must Give It Up 2Daysa Week; French Premier AgainstPeace | By Wm. Philip Simms By Carl W. Ackerman | PARIS, Nov. 3.—France |} ‘ 40, 000 Women Take | po ged ers vie philosopher, woman) intends to fight this war to } ) = N, Nov. 3.—Ger- the very end. Action, not) the Places of Men } many will be using meat arge from the pretty -! ot tp J { RLIN, N 3—It | F er C2 f . Louis ' talk, is her watchword. } 3 Aratimates nat 40,000 and butter cards betote the contrivance, mounted Peace rumors do not inter- } women have replaced > end of the winter and a , } men in positions in Berlin. p i é words ot lettered | est her eee re ue were}; maximum price” will ae rstand ew premier, Bri: {on the $25,000,000 subway $ Placed on practically all - — ver of depu and the $10,000,000 dock im aceccitie , h under the § provements this winter. } * d necessities to prevent talk generally re ( naw extortion, Mayor Von Wey- thru whose John H. Curran of St. finger-tips on the oulja-board have come some of the most poems, nove English language! remarkable and dramas 'n the LA'S ARMY DB SCATTERED DOUGLAS, Ariz, Nov, 3.—Gen hands ele vated above thetr he: “a | garded as the complement of the mouth declared today. Eogiteh premiers yesterday. You do not expect a long dec was Berlin's first meat- laration f ».” he told the dep FUS HELP; less day in ordance with the tien ters We are at war government's new regulations pro- must act ry effc Thy of viding two days’ abstinence from in " f action. The Meat could not be bought anys | Pre never was more | where } Worthy to win. It will fight to vic Restaurants served vegetable, . i cheese and egg substitutes. concerned with| Ted O'Neil, a marine fireman! prigay, again, Germany will be since premeditated aboard the M nesota, was drown-! meatless war upon her. | ed the Great Northern dock 1 ve Packers Sentenced She will not stop fighting until the 7 on |, Wednesdays and Fridays will be enemy has been vanquished and a|*t 1:30 Wednesday morning, when |... 055+ days, as butter, lard and e pier, evidently | other fats will be unobtainable The government intends to en- foree these rulings strictly and to | this end, bas already sentenced two | p¥ekers for violations. }lasting peace has been guaranteed.” he walked off t | There is no hitch between Eng Intoxic aly. and refused to accept} land and France, Briand declared. | any aid from shore. He kept afioat | “We are in fall accord with Eng tumd:-regarding the conduct -of the | fF some. tine,.and Shows weeamnre.| war,” he said. “Serbla will receive 0 dock thought he would swim)” Germany is developing a social- all necessary ald ashore. Finally, when his body istic state. The last Seeraneenent was r® was brought to the dock, it was — Dern rg controls sup- gar as confirmatory of Asquith’s plies of grain and potatoes as well hint yesterday that the allies wiit|f0Und he was dead, as bis lungs) \e ih) state.owned rallwave and 60 hurl their legions from the Gallj.| had filled with water, tho he did| pep cent of the factories. Further, the state provides employment and ‘not sink 5 fixes food prices | poli peninsula into the Bankans | A Question of Prices ') HORRIBLE EXAMPLES PARADE NEW YORK | “There is no question of food shortage at all,” said Weymouth. |} STREETS TO HELP FIGHT FOR EUGENICS It is a question of price. Prevail- jing high prices have been cansed jby unequal distribution I am not worried that the sup | ply will not last, because I know what we need and we have it. But jour duty is to see that every one |gets what he needs.” Piles of food in windows indicate that there is no lack | The mayor last night visited the | meat lines to see ho wthe poor ob- | tain their supplies. | Women Stand in Line Long rows of women stood in the | meat lines to see how the poor ob- tain frozen meats. Anxiety over the meat supply was relieved today by a telegram from the Holland government, per- mitting the exportation of 3,000,000 |tons of pork because of a Dutch Joversupply. At present pork is the highest priced meat and only the most wealthy persons are buying it. The potato harvest yielded 56,- 000,000 tons, a sufficient supply for | Germany Butter Prices to Go Down On Monday the prices of butter will be reduced 4 cents under the new government price regulation system |ROAMS STREETS IN NIGHT SHIRT his nightle, prisons SRaasylums be filled if my kind had no children? in Ciad_ only bare footed, and sans nightcap, W. T. Clotz, 88 years old, escaped from a sanitarium at 1 18th ave., early {Wednesday morning. He was cap- tured by the police on Fighth ave ere . Villa's army is apparently scatter-/in token of sur ender. They were] at Yesler, following an exciting One, a physician, skeptically reine ty the four winds. His ar-| received as prisoners chase of several blocks, which end- ; tillery ia retreating westward to-| Six more ran acroas the border! ed in a stubborn battle for liberty 1 hope Patience will come! Td Vota Naco, The last positions be-jonto Arizona soil and were placed | 2 Clotz like to find out what her game I!" foe” ayia Prieta were abandoned under arrest. ‘They declared the, I I | —— = 2 5 Mra Hutet ings, begins to move. Six hundred Carranziata cavalry. Horses are starvir | D 9 e eamnipiiabienensiaiiee v@-\ nen miliied out from Agua Prieta| Soldiers have mutinied and ion t al (Continued on Page 6.) and pursued the Villista rear fought for the seanty store of corn guard. A two-hour battle resulted, / which was being saved for the ar-| LOSES WATCH the Villistas being kept on the run /tillery horses a ai Mr Mallory, 1509 Ninth by the horsemen Denies Invasion Report | ~ Pa of to ea a at 4:05 a. m. Wednes Villistas Surrender NEW YORK, Nov “| to discover that her watch and, Fifty Villa soldiers ran toward| Gen. Funston denied today that} must drink alcohol to soak ocket had been stolen Agua Prieta this morning, their he had asked permission of Wash-| life, Shall | transfer tne crav -———= \Ington to invade Mexico ing to oth e s NALA AL DDO DR Villa has moved the bulk of bis| “1 cannot read this sign. Hy ' |WHAT'S THAT ABOUT A GUILTY CONSCIENCE?’ OPP nen Congressian Will KE. Hum- 7 tion. Here is what The Star dis phrey evidently feels gu mut | covered the purchase by the gove t The government pald $169 of @x lots on Sixth ave Se for the lots for a postoffice site boulevard “The talk that they are severa isnue lengthy de- | feet under water is ridiculous, fense of the purchase ° says Humphrey, in his defense. What prompted this defense | “I understand the city of Seattle four years after the purchase !s | has recently made an offer to the unexplained | treasury department to fill these * Humphrey, who is a candl- | lots and bring them to the level date for the United States sen- | of the others. ate, idently feels that it needs R. W. Hill, real estate man, po- explanation, so he's aining.” | litical crony of Congressman His “explanation” naturaly | Humphrey, is the man who nego draws attention to the transac tiated the 4 | iner Luce investi (Taft was pres and reported the over with local gressmnan Bumphrey, who had recommended the site in the first place, then became chief promoterof the sale Humphrey wrote a letter ridi culing Luce’s statement and relt erating his recommendation that the land {# ‘worth $169,600. Frank W. Baker, also a political | crony of Congressman Humphrey, n ~ OR ORCS HOC ADIN OE. some of the land sold to Baker alfo rep own owned the government resented some of the other orn The site will have to be aban doned as unsuited for paatoffice purposes, as it ts in the wrong part of town, It will have to be sold for whatey it will now bring The price it will bring will be about one-half what Congressman Humphrey said it was worth and what the nment paid THE RNMENT WIL LOSE FROM $60,000 TO $80,000, r price forces to where he Villa's about 8,000 Cabulléna, found food strength is reached him today The withdrawal from Chiltwahua le ves now reinforcements this nijles south, the field open to the Carranzistas in that state Funston Prepares | After a conference with Villa, Gen Funston, commanding the American troops, today ordered four troops of the Teath U. 8. cav alry he from co, Ariz Four additional troops of the 13th }U. 8. cavalry, ordered here fr Columbus, N,N, are due in a few hours ‘If any shells fall Douglas,” ‘he said, I shall be se y 23,000, having 8,000 m | what right have | children | These and milar signs were | carried up and down Fifth ave, end Wall st. in a novel pubiicity cam paign in favor ‘of birth control and Read © them every day. Every one of them gives an oppor- eugenics, just launched by the Med you jeal Review of Reviews, under dl ity rection of Frederick H. Robinson tunity to increase the | Robinson is one of the criginal buying power of your backers of Margaret Sanger in her| j wnatte 9 fight to legalize birth control | dol and surely that William Sanger, her husband, has is important bee to tos mstock detective, tention, rhe best bar- who represented himself as a friend ; : : oft ne movement re gains from Seattle's The procession in the heart of best ores are in The the metropolis is the first eten in al “be : |nation-wide campaign which willlods repealed Star daily. [seek to have the laws that prohibit Elimination of unfair marriages discussion of birch control meth-!is another object of the ayitation, FIFTEEN DIE IN WRECK OFF THE OREGON COAST | ERMANS STOP EATING ME eronRocks; ictims Die as Boats Capsize

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