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been at AVE you ever Brown's church and East Republican? The Star man who Monday church talks. But he'll be there Sunday night. It’s the Pilgrim Congregational, and Rev. Brown is noted as an optimist. The Star will tell you about him Monday. to Hugh Broadway Neither has is writing the a MAY DISMISS CONSUL GENERAL * J i CSO 2Oe @) © (e “VOLUME The Seattle Star ALE LEADS PRINCETON IN 3RD PERIOD ROA PAAR RADAR AAR ARAL ARPA PLP APPEAR ADP PDP PPP PDP PDD PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPL PPL PPP APPA PP PPP PPP LPP 18, *_ * WASH., SAT URDAY |_: The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : SEATTLE, IGHT EDITION Occasional rains; warmer tonight PPR, ee Tipe At SRATILE nearer tow AY, NOV. 13, 1915. ONE CENT Swe Si asps. be tee dn ae 18 9:37 pom, Oa ft. ¢ _* * # Ce a ee Se AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL IS CAUGHT IN PLOT | a ® _* © * * * } SOCIETY GIRL |OUR AMERICAN FIRING SQUAD-HOW IT WORKS ~ BRINGS HOME How State of Utah Will Shoot Down Joe Hillstrom' - BODYOF MAN, (i A STRANGER| bean Ga., Nov. Choate ATLANTA, 13.—Miss Julia Crumley’s weird dream ro- mance, culminating when the girl, her brain afire, br ght home a man’s + aly and claimed it to be that of her dead sweet- rt, has vanished, leav- ing behind a puzzle for psychologists and nerve | * doctors, and a_ sensation *~for Atlanta society. lice and members of her fam- _ My turned today to investigation of how the girl's fancy resulted tn her Claiming an unknown body In a Chi- cago morgue and bringing it home as that of “Dr. Alleyne Hensley,” a Canadian widower, whom her imag- ae pictured as her fiance. Friends of Romance a t her family insisted the! body was that of the girl's hus band; later that the girl was seif- hypnotized Miss Crumley, prominent in At- lanta society, pictured her “ro mance” to friends. She seemed joy- fal. Then a cloud seemed to come} over the affair. She was disheart-| ened. She had been jilted, she said.| Then there was the “reconcilia-|s:art special she was to wed. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov Friends entertained 12.—This is how America’s most honor of the event novel engine of execution—THE Suddenty the girl's strange imag-'UTAH FIRING SQUAD—will kill ination pictured her “fiance” killed|Joe Hillstrom, 1. W. W. poet, at ’ flroad wreck. the state prison next Friday. = for her in Gets Body From Morgue Masked from his sight and from later, sorrowing, she brought | the witnesses, their identity known o-” Dorrep SIND ATING ROUTE PRSowER ia ag Stare CBee ‘NEARLY ALL WHO DIE ; ; CHOOSE GUN METHOD Staff Special. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 13.—Joe Hilistrom wi Diagram sketch of the Utah state prison ward, showing how Joe Hillstrom, poet of the Industrial Workers of the World, will be put to death on a charge of murdering J. G. Mortenson, a Sait Lake City grocer, and his son, J. Arling Morrison. | | Dorreo IM DICATING ROUTE OF and song writer ‘administration. ._* * *_ * *_ * & *_ * Begins Widespread Investigation of Spy Activities Quick Federal Action Follows Disclos- ure by Former Consul Goricar of Anti-Allies Conspiracies : WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. —Evidence obtained by the statedepartment concerning the activity of Austrian Consul General Nuber, of New York, as leader in alleged anti- — allies plottings, has made him persona non grata with the — The decision as to what will be done — with him lies with Secretary Lansing. These facts developed today in the wake of disclosures__ | If Lansing takes the step he is reported to believe warranted by the }exequaturs and terminate his official status. Otherwise, if the secretary concludes that larger diplomatic matters with Austria would be complicated by such a step, he will probably let the matter rest, trusting that the department of justice will circumvent | future plottings alleged against Nuber. Lansing’s information is that Nuber has been intimately associated with a half dozen schemes to embar- rass this government, ranging from passport frauds to tying up export of munitions. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, disclosed to the administration that a foreign agent approached a “high federation official” with an offer of $200,000 to cause a general strike of longshore- men. ‘ evidence, he will revoke Nuber’s | ernment’s efforts "JIT MAN FINED "1 CENT; JUDGE ome the body of the “doctor,” to none but the sheriff and prison)) be the 19th person to meet { which, it develops, she got from a warden. five riflemen will send four ) the death penalty in Utah. } Chicago morgue. bullets into Hilistrom's heart. ) He is the 15th to choose { Just before the funeral of the sup Four bullets—because one of the | ghooting in preference to | posed sweetheart, suspicion arose.|five rifles will contain a blank hanging—the choice which ‘The girl broke down under ques-|charge, so that each executioner ) the state law gives its con- F = tioning and admitted her romance may believe that he, perhaps, has demned men. had existed only in her imagina-|NOT killed a man. { Reig Pa } tion Each of the riflemen will re- Bi Beg ghia aig ’ anging, two were Indians, } Chicago advices report that the ceive $40 in gold Gas take. on. iatinaee | body she brought home was that of Utah used to pay $25 for kill 1s vealed debleribe en a on the Illinois Centra! | pe Oh but the price was { The third ch this form | x | h h Self-hypnotivm may account for For 24 hours before his execution ae Ae yi ile mue' ( the strange fiction the girl com-| Hillstrom will live on the fat of the ah oceania anamition ty. | ames: Goctore Sey, a shooting thru the punish- ( | He will choose his own menu, in- } 5 |stead of partaking of the regular} ment meted out to spies in prison tare } TWree the custom of giv Night and day his cell will be } ere 9 flooded with light {ing a man his choice of { From a list of volunteers the;) death 1h ctr no one | sheriff will select five men. In the|} seems to know. } 5 absence of volunteers he can assign, Www his deputies to the firing squad. | the chair. This has never been necessary Hillstrom will be led to the The supply of volunteers has al- execution chair specially con- | ways exceeded the demand structed of pine boards, At the Five of Hillstrom’s comrades 7 in the I, W. W. have started NEW HAVEN, Nov. 13— | from Toledo to ask they be per- ‘ le had Princetan defeated, | mitted to fire the fatal shots. ot 0 7, at the end of the third Si cett: Gheteds won't promis . i ' Period here today before a them the job. crowd estimated at 60,000. | Muhanilas to le Masked slaned two field Between midnight and sunrise the goals, and after Princeton had jo Wie are to constitute the firing f scored a touchdown in the sec: squad wil be taken to the peniten je ond period, Way, of Yale, re Itiary blacksmith shop, from which eer eee oumme and réced the missiles are to be fired for # touchdown, |Ptlistrom will be led down the I. strom »@ led do ei ttindladti leorridor of the cell house to the * Three persons instantly killed at|doors leading to the prison yard Twin Falls, Idaho, Friday, when Before the doors are opened Hill their auto was struck by a freight|strom will be masked train The guards will guide the con A delegation e@f 20th ave. N. K. | The board wriggled in its sev residents swooped down upon eral chairs, cleared its several the board of public works, Fri- | throats, said “Hem” and “Haw day, with a petition that the and most disgracefully side board extinguish the chicken. | stepped raising-for-profit aspirations of We,” said the board, “ha Mrs. A. D. Rogers irisdiction in the matter. The residents said they had no the board of health or the su objectic nybody'’s keeping | perlor court \ chickens fo rivate consump. IN FINANCE COMMITTEE b ieighborhood, but Searching for the board 3 ut a chicken ranch, health, the delegation found the yrofit, was offensive finance committee of the city t yes and noses, and council, Just what jurisdiction $ was bound, moreover, to have a | the finance committee could have over chicken ranches is not quite clear. Nevertheless, the deprectatory effect upon real es tate values | back of the chair is a box of nd. The firing aquad will then be ad mitted to the rifles chair, chair. At will speak a given signal the execution chair to the right carr ng arms and ammunition with 48 Turks aboard, off Crete committee listened to the dele gates, all of whom talked at once The delegafes wanted an ordi nance passed inst r making it u wal to operate a chicken ranch on or near 30th ave, N, Ey The committ promised to consider the matter pro and con and the delegate arted suspecting that " more con than pro in the committee's deliberations A public aring will be held by the committee on Wednesday Meanwhile 20th ave. N, B., is all het up. There are yuld finance h h signers to the pe 10 feet from the Hillstrom will be strapped to the rifles demned man around the left to the The spectators will follow guards taking positions at a point roped off some distance from Small French war vessel with crew of ten men captured schoone and | bull moose ‘ning 1 Can Mrs. Rogers Keep Chickens? Council Will Have Public Hearing to Decide Big Question! — conviction two we | PAYS IT FOR HIM Irl T. Replogle, of 5648 46th ave 8. W as fined 1 cent Saturday for running a fitney without a per mit Superior Judge Frater, who as sessed the fine, dug down into bis| pocket and, fishing out a bright new copper, paid the penalty bim self. He also excused Replogle from paying the costs of an expensive jury trial, which resulted in his} Replogle’s plea of poverty led the court to | lenientiy with him It was shown at the trial t Replogle operated a jitney the city and Gatewood, disy cotae | a sign, “Free Bus.” He charged | he customers if they Two stool-pigeons employed by the tle Electric Co., testified nut Replogle. They said they ch had given him 50 cents, which he took returning 40 centa in change. SAYS PRESIDENT STOPPED T00 S00 NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Wishy washy! That's what former Progressive Congressman Victor Murdock thinks of President Wilson's mili tary preparedness program, as out-! lined in his recent Manhattan club| speech i the run Kansan annour party is still in the to fight fier and ready tition, a dozen of whom visited the city hall HAS FRIEND IN COURT Mrs, Rogers stayed away, She had one friend In court, however, John Mead, 6032 30th ave, N. BE. who braved the scowls of his neighbors and sald that the ag on against Mrs. Rogers was the result of spite worl Mrs, Rogers, before she went into the chicken business, four years 0, Was a college pro: fessor, he taught Latin and Greck at Baldwin university, Oblo, and Bryn Mawr If she is in bad with some of Following this statement, the Goricar disclosures, \y investigation have been redoubled. Federal Attorney Marshal of New York, in charge of the Robert Fay bomb plot prosecutions in New l York, arrived today and conferred with Assistant Attorney General Warren ove Attorney General Gregory sought to quiz Goricar, but the Providence Journal, which printed his story, informed Gregory that the former Austrian diplomat will not be “available” for several days. ‘ Many persons are under surveillance, and it has been found necessary to increase the investigation force. The frequency of bomb explosions on ships and fires in munitions plants will be thoroly looked into. It is deemed significant that the announcement came only a day after the charges of former Austrian Consul Goricar, of San Francisco, that he had been forced to flee and then resign because he refused to do the | bidding of Austria in getting plans of American fortifications, and that a definite spy ring is harbored in the | United States under the direction of Ambassador Von Bernstorff and Austrian ( -onsul ‘General Nuber. NEW CHARGES OF BRODERICK UP seartue ans rast ‘SPY ACTIVITIES! FOR VIOLATING FROST OF SEASON “MADE BY PAPER MINIMUM LAW|!" and other corrobatory incidents, the gov WOMEN HERE TO GET VOTES OF CONGRESSMEN get excited over this cold folks. It's all a bluff to make the California team think we're a cold-weather country The weather sage says that by a a night there may be rain, and then | PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Noy, 13. George Gund and Henry Broder poe more o Sunday, tho he Miss Virginia “Arnold, of W ash- Following up its “expose” of an al- ick are named as defendants in doesn't, sniff any very largeflington, D. C. national suffrage he rigs rest ¢ Ger .y/complaint filed in Justice Brinker's | drops approaching de wer ‘in this counts? ‘ha detatied court Saturday on charges of vio: Friday night Seattle had the}| Worker, is in Seattle, organizing a system In this .f " lating the minimum wage law for|| first heavy frost of the season. }| representative deputation from all b former Austrian Consul Gortear po y Fors women. He charges that they em-|| The thermometer went down to], Women’s clubs to enlist the active Jand to answer the W ashington Aus. OW, Supporting a son, for $9 a week/fan extra blanket Humphrey in the Susan B. Anthony trian embassy's claims that Goricar ®t the Winsor hotel, Fifth and| Some damage to late vegeta-}| national suffrage amendment wan a discredited diplomat Union. It {a further charged that|{ bles was reported The delegation will wait on Hume yhrey at the Washington Hotel An- x they required her to pay for a room at the hotel. a week despite the To this it declared it can prove beyond question that Consul bai nity ral Nuber of New York was fact that she used it only to hang Any one interested in the move welve out of 14 moving picture with Miss Arnold at the Annex. tr te cantor Miss A ld organized a similar th who were| in Its firet step was publication of a men matte, charge that Editor Berko of an Aus-| found violating the law, were eager Seattle's front was being deputation to visit Senator Wesley trian paper In New York furnished to mend matters, says Olson, but|Safesuarded Saturday by a contin-|Jones at North Yakima, Mrs, Sue an Austrian army officer with his|two who failed to heed his demands| ous harbor patrol, inaugurated at|Lambert, president of the State passport will be tried before Justice Brink-|the request of Port Warden Paysse | Federated clubs, spoke. When the U, 8. sought to inves: | og. Two additional polic were as-| Another delegation visited Sen- |tigate the case, Berko claimed the signed to harbor duty, thus making|ator Miles Poindexter, at Spokane. Jpassport was stolen and that the Bull fights, chicken fights and/the service of 24-hour duration, in-| Support of Oregon representa-* lofficer had written an apology for) gambling have been prohibited in| stead of from 8 p.m, to 4a, m., as|tives at Washington likewise was the theft after reaching Austria, i Mexico state by Gov, Molino. formerly solicited her neighbars, she still has pow. | The property roundabgut, the also keeps ducks tween my property and thel erful friends. The Federated | the vafie of which a chicken I invite a comparison by the | she said. “They® stopped me, Women’s clubs are taking up the | ranch is supposed to depréciate, | board of public works between | claiming I was putting the fence cndgelg tn her behalf, and the Pa- | consists largely of small, unplas- | nf chicken establishment oper | five inches over the line on their cifle Poultrymen’s | association | tered houses. Just opposite my | ated for profit and the chicken |. lot promises to stand by her to the place is un ared brush, a two. coops of my neighbors, For the | 1 employed a surveyor who last diteh story house and a dilapidated | life of me, | cannot see how, fifa | found thet the fence was two J am alone in the world,” said | chicken coop chicken coop operated for profit | inehes off the lne—on my side. Mrs. Rogers, “and | must make Of my neighbors who signed | is unsightly and odoriferous, tt Mr. Taylor was dissatisfied m living somehow So far I the petition, the following keep can be claimed that a private | He employed a surveyor of his have made the chicken business } chickens; Mrs, J. Lund, Fra | chicken coop is beautiful and | own, And the second survey pay. [am not going to quit Greaves, Mr, Jeffrey, F. O, Wil. | sweet-smelling showed that my surveyor had NEIGHBORS KEEP 'EM | SON, rs, Bassett, Mr. Kensinger, | It was, sald Mrs, Rogers, her erred. The fence, instead of be- My place is half a block from | K. Kallgren, Mrs, Jacobson, Mra | next-door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. ing two inches off the line, was the city limits, The street, by ©, L. Russell, Mrs. F. L. Taylor F. L. Taylor, who started the | five—on my side! the time it reaches my place, has and Mr, Stiffey | trouble “The Taylors have been un degenerated into a wagon road, “I might add that Mrs. Bassett | 1 was putting up a fence be- | able to forgive me,” r the situation. q by former Austrian Consul Goricar, of San Francisco. 4

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