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Help! Look at This! The Morning Grouch is chang- ing the map of Europe. See the “GIST” ‘column on page 6. You can get many a laugh out of the “GIST” column, Keep your eye VOLUME 18 SEA TLE, ? IT’S A LONG WAY TO VIENNA, BUT )LYMPIA TO GIVE STATEA SHOCK 5,500 LES FROM To TRIEST ATLANTIC OCEAN YORK Pr ndent ]‘For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father w forgive you.’’—Matthew, sixth chapter, 14th verse. tion with the probe into the looting of the state industrial insurance fund. . The governor indicated that there would be definite action say not unto thee, until seven times; but, until seventy times seven.’ thew, 18th chapter, 21st and 22nd verses. these is charity.”—Corinthians, 13th chapter, 13th verse. ‘And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN .SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS_ OR WASH., WEDNESDAY 191 GOVERNOR STARTS orn JAUSTRIA GETS SHARP REJOINDER @LISTER HINTS AT STARTLING DISCLOSURE | State Department Gives Out CHARGES OFFICIAL ISINON REV. GEO. KING HAS BEGGAR ARRESTED! DOES REV. KING REMEMBER HIS GOSPEL? ill also The first direct charge that a higher-up in the state adminis is going ~ be a stat q . : clean-up,” is the latest word to- G T hen came Peter to Him and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin ae Seo teh te erate day from Gov. Lister in connec: against me, and | forgive him? Till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, ance fund at Olympia was *"_Mat- made Wednesday in Seattle by Joe Fleury, a shingle filer and foreman Fleury, whi engineer in working plant two years ago, working as an before fong. it was not im- — wae severe), injure “probable, he Vntimated, that” | This is a hard nut to | He bopes ta wort Ay to the’ rs hestraing pe inner etl there may be sensational devel- | crack Be anquille tn where he hag ery i baa. Ae The 1] was allowed by the state com | : Mawel ops, Canada, w » Has friends 4 ZD IN M YDG opment in the next 24 hours j The Star would like to | and wher NOT health can HOUSE. -1 had previously} ‘lesion: This morning Prosecuting Attor | hear th pinion ‘ 2 be restored. i: Leleett. wae weet neers his rg: Speer new Rey Yantis, Assistant Attorney Gen-| “ip Be gpa : ere He gave me money and| ever: he says he w ac eral Tanner, and State Fish Com-| ‘°° aoa 4 * This is Brown's story clothes. ed by ¢t highersip ane In missioner Darwin were closeted Vas Rev. George ( 1 am a native of Montreal. 1 Rev. King did not inveatigate.| formed that the $1,500 claim for a long time. pastor of the Queen was educated for the n but | He said in police court he “doubt would be os smeethly ae Last night, E. W. Kearns, an Meth t gave a years to t I}ed” my being a Methodist minister previege Upeaty/ wears. 0m Olympia saloonkeeper, was arrest t ’ } taught Latin and French at the At the Methodist. conference in| 5-50 a atl @4. He is charged with alding Har night oF wrong HAVIOR | British Columbian New | Portland, Bishop Cook in gated | Furthermore, he nays, the o te old Leinan, wanted in Tacoma for an apparen n-and Voestr r, in 1896 | my entials, found them genu-|*** made that she burglary. to escape arrest here out brother ar. Il was the astor of t Rox ine, and the conference took up a this bares Mk n That this charge may not be the|/ thodist church, Box Elder, | collection to bring me on to Seat. | Ul#r emple under this o} , fal chief one, seems to be admitted on tle. 1! had walked over two mout es ) st fr é faking up all sides. Kearns himself expected tain ranges to get from California | °?* cla ® nothe Arrest, and predicted it thruout the| lto Portland Says He Hae Witnesses day ¢ 8 e clares that he dai While the arrest of Kearns m las as ‘ Brows Nel? the dtl oo this adminiatratior ¢ have po direct co tion with th ic Bishop Cook ‘ see She r c industrial insurance looting, it is| ¢ v n ithern Califor. | King He fooled the conference ex overhear several ¢ Delieved it has a direct bearing on prove it—was r In Low Ang Rev. Locke,| He fooled Dr. Leonard wees a ee si dupes oie : the alleged operation of the opium| from the st of the First Meth burch, sent | Ter ae: When the {ime came for his first and vice ring, which is sald to have} ; me to Dr. Haddon. Spring at.,| “Even if | am bad as Rev paymen : ° r cag ree iB made headquarters in Olympia. ther day who examined me and pronoun | King thinks | am,” counters nee es co move tase Prosecuting Attorney Yantis ad HE HAD SERVED 63 case chronic tuberculosis he| Brown, “he did not follow the | $200 (the eget tong be could ne if mitted as much today. | DAYS FOR BEGGING *. He gave me a letter which | teaching of Jesus of Nazareth j recall) and his , signed ; It is stated that Leinan made a| \ > rey admitted me to the county hospital in having me ‘arrested and | Warrant that come in payme Jong statement, revealing some of} [IAVING BEEN AR “Later I was again examined, at| thrown in prison—twice. Christ | *! called for just $157.5 the work of the ring. Leinan, who} RESTED AT THE RE- | the hospital tn San y| healed the sick. He forgave | 5050 arrangeme ad taker was later caught, has been in the) QUEST OF REV. KING, Dr nd Dr | sine. He lifted up the fallen.” | ect, Deere rey LACS Tacoma jail since last September FROM WHOM HE SO al tar , sul d i vay’ Pes Mreottioentl aryl poet iret’ Kearns, it is also charged, has . o ibercu toms I The above 2 unadorned state. | COM! n P onerts eashed some of the forged vouch LICITED AID red of tu slots | t of the facts of the case ax| that he was obliged to » his rs on the industrial fund 4 confeas wit ame that _atter resented Rev King, Brown | fmil t has 5 ey a for * ni nim r” mont in hospital, where I was|and others, together with the views | *!mce, he says, by ng cour eae Ring cove. The pen aero given wine with egg daily, I devel-|of the tw concersed Laid Evidence Before Lister nesday. “He is not even a min nd an appetite for drink which It is » questing Fleury says tha when the dis ister. He is the son of a min almost mastered me. Drink stim-| Did Rev, King do hia duty to so-| Closures regarding the com niasion r. He is a pr sional beg ilated me. 6 me artificial|clety when he had Brown arrested? | Were made publi he placed iis evi gar and very clever. He is able | Strength, and helped me to forget,| DID HE DISOBEY BIBLICAL IN. | dence in the hands of the Burns to simulate sickness to perfec for a little while at least | STRUC TION? \¢ ives, and also lata it before tion. He victimizes Meth- “Thank God, I have the pica governor. Lister, he says, re hand of drink now 4 to investigate fully odists and Methodist ministers. Men eevested in Lae An ‘Rev, King seems to be my Nem esis, When I asked him for help. 'VILLA TROOPS I affidavita iry yesterday made to these facts BY CHAS, P. STEWART 9 a few y ago when | ‘ 7 » his affi¢ " 2 the “HRISTIAN' Nec. 22 | had @ pulpit there. He served | he gave mo 17 cents | | ,,l0, his affidavits he named tt CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 22—Henry pulp! wEN, WHEN 1. WS GONE higherup. His disclosures are ex Ford's dreams of getting the boys| three months at that time MB ee pth bcc OR: Ha Pont pected to give an entirely new out of the trenches by Christmas It was pure accident that we nee if angle to the Olympia investigation have gone the way of dreams, his|™met again in Seattle. He didn The city 4 led with aisuthe @ close friends believe know | was the same man who b | i 1 mith sleuth hey suggested today that he re-|had him arrested in Los Angeles 008 AD Medea eetmaotes izes the hopelessness of getting| Brown 1s not a sick man. He ts geen PeokeAb wise svereinhine concrete results and that he pl simply a clever faker et come out are pre dt functorily and as ee ‘ ‘ Hate, inconspicuously as possible Brown was sick and weak from SO, Dec With plana hs seception Norway gave him| hunger,” said Chief Guard Roberts for surrender of zt i Ca stilit at the stockade, “when he was irrender ¢ o the Car brought her HE HAD CHILLS poss puty 2 1 , ody rT ppoint or ge ste VD PEVE AND HIS TEMPER. | diat Db vail pact ia leat nag a wefatera na thacalys nappy Magsravely disappoin h ' IT UP TO 105 hounds t Duvall early Wednes-| ed today sweeping into that city. | ¢ . = + “hes Mr ~ er, ATURE WENT UP TO 105 , Ps . | SAN FRANCISCO, De Ar cage 3 valle ger ong a nwimmer,| “We sent him to the city hos-|day for farmhouse five miles| Renewal of rioting was feared. It! raignment of Baron Von Brincken who suggested the cruise of the | Te eee ie etayed two weeks, Northeast of that town, where three| had already claimed several lives. |C (Crowley und. Mra, Margaret peace ship Oscar II, have kept se-| Pita), hers enemas better, but 4 men, supposedly the Duvall| Villa was reported ding the] Cornell, alleged German bomb plot eluded for several days aiiit weak we made him a/State bank robbers, one of whom| troops, tho border reports had indl-|ters, was scheduled toda rd is rapidly recovering from ||, and m to work in the yvounded, stopped Tuesday night] cated he might be In the viein Bi a ness and the party will leave — oo house roved a good and demanded food Chihuahua and that Carran Ag ~ar, criminal or victor to ‘ He hot | soldiers stretched thet earn pre Caren . eae ate in the hi thought, in the bat-| ver escape ) Weather Forecast $! The nurse who tended him, under |":6 between the robt 1 Duvall] Police reports at an early hour! Joe Morgan is in the county Jug Generally fair tonight. Thurs} pr. Leach, at the city hospital, |itizens. alve the bank looting Sat-| today waid that 1.000 Villistas had) Joe is red-headed ‘ day unsettied; probably rain. { waid: “The man was very sick. He urd ght. fon, | Mhtered the southern part of Juarez, What's that got to do with it AAA AAP ~\had malaria. He was not tuber ans w attempted to follow|and that fully 5,000 others were A whole lot, Some red-headed AAA AAR RAAT panei " ft fleeing bandite| within striking distance. fellow haa been robbing a lot of f TtDKA AT SEATTLE Sati tah) = hetshg - ele loge dropped it, courd people recently, and deputy sher LBs Low brought his stor to The headyway, owing to the} BERLIN, Dec. 22.—Kalser Wil-|iffs have been arresting all sus {Sige me ieee it ae & me os ft. §| When last heard from, he wa which had washed out| helm is {ll, and unable to visit the| pects. Joe is the latest suspect { whats being out, on foot, for Everett [western battle front, as he planned.’ He 1s charged with vagrancy LONDON, Dee. 4—(By Mail) —The last place in the world to look for the | ‘ Armed with a rong magnifying pe I would seam to be in the war sone. But hundreds of letters See ad ate TARR" Can) ee win ae per ae mca to thelr wives and mothers contain [ong toe Naval rin ge where | could easily observe the effect of the he cesite'a tale which carries the true Christm: @ crater held by the enemy, 30 isthet opr, He ie ee ce te hie wite In the huge ilar mound of newly turned earth, a O'heitts eee “ lying a hand of death had left the — { uniforms lay side side. British Tommy and Pr By Mary Boyle O'Reilly Jot a sound, not a stir ZONK OF THE Jamies Somewhere in France, Dec. 22.—On the uddenly a khaki clad form began to move, feebly; a morning after the attack at I witnessed one of the most ed out and clasped a water bottle lying near The co splehdid incidents I have seen inthe war fully raised to the bloody, bandaged face, It was empty , nch howitser officer tolan agonized wail, “WATER” I went to the front line trenefles with 4 Fre MARY BOYLE O’ REILLY TELLS OF UNOFFICIAL ARMISTICE IN THE TRENCHES riscope, very} The weakened frame sank back on the ide of the crater and the} English Five minutes-—we'll see an offi to a point of wind wafted a babble ofdelirious ravings from the stricken otter ive minutes later a typical German officer appeared, very spruce, witzer f on Voluntesra: ter-& re © party sprang up everywhere, Two sol|Spick and span, He held up two finge o indicate that he permitted dier inarmed, crept out from the lip of the crater {wo men to go ont score of #0 Our enemy was trying to rescue the man xX” instantly spran. ura lowed by our stretcher 1 Roche The two gray-clad figues were only five yards away when first X" saluted German officer, who gravely returned it seen by our men, who started clapping. The enemies, hastily retired. | Our poor Tommy was lifted onto the Stretcher and carried “home,” hand *tretch And the ery arose again—"WATER! As the rescue party reached the trench, “X" doffed his cap and ttle was pain Xx." who knows German, joined me. To yelled éver the parapet: | called for three cheers for—the enemy Then came) "May we take our wounded man in? So ended the armistice—unofficial, without permission; IT WAS Two gray-capped heads rose a i 5. ONE CENT Stwa"Stivoa? i! Text of Second Note Dis- patched to Vienna on Sink- ing of Steamer Ancona. ~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Acid re ei refused, in her second to Austria, made public today, to argue details of the Ancona sinking. Instead, the administration renewed its previous demands which called for disavowal of the tor«: pedoing, for punishment of commander and reparation for lives lost. The note rested America’s case strictly on the Austrian admiralty’s own ad~ | LONDON, Dec. 22.—The American note on the Ancona torpedoing I} has reached Vienna, according to reports today. 1) |mission that the Austrian commander sunk the Ancona after her engines had stopped, and while passengers were still aboard. J On the strength of this statement, the note branded the commander as wilfully: WHAT WILL BE pied ANSWER TO THE UNITED STATES? x sonfs “19 HOW EMPEROR FRANz OKS TODAY violating international law and “the humane principles which every belligerent should observe in the conduct of war at sea”; it said his “culpability had been established in any case.” Never in the history of the submarine controversy arising from this war has the administration made its note so brief, so aireetly to the point. Addressed t Ambassad Penfield, the nu Y uc , an \ Hu 1 minist f foreign affairs tually a Phe ernment of the United States has received the not y excellency relative to. the sinkins the Ancona, which wa livered at Vienna on December 15, 1915, and transmitted to Washington and has given the note immediate careful attenti “November 1 915, Baron Zwiedinek, the charge d'affaires of the imperial and royal government at Washington, transmitted to the department of state r t of the Austros Hungarian admiralty with regard to the sinking of the steamship An a, in which it waa | (Continued on Page 5.) bove the earth line and shouted in[Nor WAR, BUT IT WAS MAGNIFICED