The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 1

mpoDAy is your last chance to register in your home precinct. By doing so today, you will not have to register for four years, if you exercise your voting privilege every year. If you do not register in your home precinct today, you will have to go downtown, to the Prefontaine building, and perhaps have to wait for some time to get your turn. If you do not know where your polling place is, call the registration office, Main 8500. Register at once. at the coming city primaries in February, and at the election in March. Register now and avoid the rush. «2, The Seattle Star ” , aa aT YD ity tak Gar Water “off, ‘too. ("; THE ONLY PAPER, IN SEATTLE TH. ‘THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NN eee VOLUME 1& SEATTLE, You must register before February 10 in order to vote Registration books will be open in the precincts until IGH awe EDITION CITY WATER PIPE LINE BROKEN CITIZENS URGED TO CONSERVE WATER SUPPLY | SOLDIERS ‘How IDiedandCametoLifeAgain’ Russian Author in Cell Writes of How He Bade Farewell to World in Suicide Pact With His Sweetheart ' GUARDING |. Seattle Out of Luck! “W HAT’S a fellow going to do?” a citizen complained over the telephone this morning. WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1916 Half of Seattle may be without water be- fore night. For two days and two nights a crew of water department workers have been fight- ing to repair a 150-foot cave-in in the big wooden conduit pipe that is the only feeder from Cedar lake to Seattle. ns mw doe cel to die eh y uraged inhis struggle for against his I from the st are its > sensat k and disc leath—what down ‘eithit his sweetheart, Valent determ adow man, § ife But \ unfolded. vent eath eff returned mb t tale yet the down ut the q 0% 5 ; ? n author, skilled in C u words, and a poet, it unknown to the world Hl PUTS KIBOSH ON LANG ORDER Mayor Is Peeved by Chief's) Decision to Banish | Women. SAYS ITS UP TO CITY) Chief Looie M. Lang is sitting in| his office Saturday with bis hair) mussed, biting his natis. i Friday the chief was full of bust- (gnt.so busy be had to do - somethitig. So he issued an order. He had noted that a good many | ez-cafe girls were starving and had begun working the streets This made the chief hot. He ultimatumed “They must follow the boore out | of the state.” he is ended the busy day. Upstairs sat one the chief had| reckoned without—Mayor Hi, in| fact. | Hi has the evening papers served | warm from the press, and one of | the first items he lamped was the | chief's order. Hi's lissome figure moved unrest fully as he perused the article. Hi tseues Order “So he says they'll h: out of the state, does h poet. “Well, there'll be another order| feaned, right now. Nobody has to Set out of this state'” People in the next have heard a pin drop, y e he thundered. “This office don’t sanction any such or ders as ‘get out of the state’ We don't have to kick a lot of poor} women around. We don’t need to to get) he vol-| room could} but HI) Rioters in Youngs town pillage, burn and Kill; District of Eas Business t Youngstown Wrecked; Many Injured YOUNGSTOWN, Jan. 8—A plot to up the Republic plant, in the night of rioting, when disguised militia men overheard the plotters wake was and rted to their su rey periors The first of the na guardsmen were imme diately detrained to guard After strikers had engaged in one of the wildest orgies of rioting, pillaging and burning in industrial history, 2,200 state militiamen hurried here today and are aboard cars in the yards of the Youngstown Stee! & Tube company, ready for ac- tion If the trouble breaks forth afresh. Brigadier General S§ manding, planned to h reserve and not to send t st Youngstown ation demanded it Nine hours of rioting during th [night by 6,000 steel stri at least one person, inju destroyed $1,000,000 worth of erty, according to Mayor ¢ ham The the strike may be settled t unless the situ inning shift responsibility onto some other |night thru the men’s acceptance of community. We'll take care of ‘em right here.” And then he added, “Of course,| if they are working the streets, they should rightly be picked up. “But probably mort of them can| get jobs sooner or later, right here| in Seattle. We'll keep ‘em.” | Police After Women J. T. McGill, plain clothes “spot and Sergeant Smart, also in plain clothes, have been garnering m the “women of the street.” One of them, Mayme Ruddy, Police Judge McMahon that hadn't solicited Smart, but that} Smart had, if the facts must be} made clear, really solicited her | “He approached me,” she sald,| Wand winked. Then he took me by the arm and talked to me.| “I am a married woman, and am not in the kind of business | am accused of. I've never been in jal before.” She was fined $40 and costs is serving it out “When I get out, reporter, “I shall go to m and, if | can, square myself. I don't know what some of the other girls are going to do-—the ones who really depend on this sort of life for their living.” told she She she told a Star husband Strong Show at the AMERICAN The American the- atre will show the powerful play, ‘‘But- terfly on the Wheel,” starting tomorrow. This play has created great interest where shown. The big on page 5 in today Star tells all about SY ad an offer of against f centa previous wage of The organizer of "ederation of Labor tance. Business District Wrecked Practica the entire busines: distr of the city ing 15 blocks, was swept away t flames started by 1 ers’ The strike started a Yesterday ped with stoning of non-unic men and guards, By night grown into a saturnalia of destruc tion An attempted looting of a threats to wipe out the section and firing of the night one of terror Police Start Trouble The trouble brewing for days came to a head last night whe Chief Woltz of the Tube com; police force fired into th to frighten per hou the has America advin torches. week a the first delivery, th shots, ma a shot away a the plant ering shots blaze thron. At Anim out and @ number of persons we injured The to burst ed putting torch Fire departments of Youngs and East Youngstown were drive: rioters seeme: They siness section and star’ anger of th tow was cut po! fleeing from it wounded, neen a guard and caped Flames Light Streets Aw the ury grew stores of night wore on, the mob f Strikers liquor’ in #aloor rh one man known to be dead wa an he into a W saloon At midnight, streets nted b flames, showed ata dened me bent o ing everything be them All saloons were closed today an shot led a crowd in breakin: flson wt neering Abou mad rushing the mill men not tempt to operate their planta unt they are assured the night's trot ble will not be continued, Fift men were arrested it bad ade 19 cents of 10,000, cover. drink-crazed strik eal trouble de-| on d e severa & d € set out t n n ' ‘a rat * K il atone, dynamite car, | Gillies and Bugene residential! Ithe lootin nsurance fund, for oon as hie trial is over rand harge, # adait sisting a first commission to joining Jollars Vasilieff and ed entered a lives at ” ake e early me 15. Vale ve There rning was a ce left in the body He hur hospital and her lover was ried to e city recovered The law deals harshly those who attempt suicide, Vasilieff was fined $250 Still penniless, he must serye out the fine in A Tgffh one ees But, the may while he lies in his world, he has de know his story e chose death and to die actually ex sensations he avers his be cell asilieff's weird which cell Star in hi “Their Final Minutes” How tranquilly they walked down the street! How gay their countenances looked! Laugh ing, aw if they were preparing for the ball, they wrote thetr parting letters. After that went to the Orpheum theatre CARESS IN THEATRE How she cares bim there! She pressed him closely. putting head on his shoulder, as if were afraid to give Nobody, seeing them could have thought they were sitting beside live ghosts After theatre they to a restaurant, where they or they her ahe him leave. the went GILLIES TRIAL OLYMPIA, Jan, 8—Judge Mitch: ell today set the trial of Frank W harged with J. F » W. Kearns with with jointly larcen state industrial January 24, As the trials and Kearns will follow and Kearns yest guilt Stone, Gillies a to the t them, and the to choose which tried first made until id be was not other charges. pcords, forgery will be Januar forger) arged, in with as grand lar also faces a a grand larcer PASS MINING BILL GTO Jan The the senate was providing @ and codify five thousand 1 for hear tates and WASHIN bill to pase toda modif Smoot's lawae, Twent wan appropri n the mining Alaska JEWISH RELIEF DAY an, 8.—Presi today named lef da He Jan ill pro should Arriving at her residence. wad Wait shall counterpane PREPARE FOR DEATH they ting in a in the a lake Wise, banker. president. It is Wine represented new moneyed ispepiatgi owners BALLARD FOLK TO PETITION COUNCIL |": and were urda $44,000,000 ASKED With and harbors committee framing of the bill appropriations wil continuing $4,000,000 for ed p GAMBLERS RAIDED being held at day, ch gambling 109 Second ave. 8 were ‘bling re Anotoley V body liv He Sweetheart. She w. Then they where their be ended to him leave my hat with A | later boat t waa about 1 ieft, dered a good dinner, and then went to that place diatremed for and me. 20 In the morn bathed ything was BOSTON, Jan. Harvard coach, Hallard citizens Harry Whitne ghts line are net Harry's 191 measure They want a re a regular motorm a regular line Petitions have WASHINGTON, Ja rivers tarted, the ided tod sought charge de for about present ojects William Carle, 30. the elt with kame, raide be for ‘ort going elty ¢ cil to take houre a y jail conducting a d Friday Nine other men being in a 8—The Bos- ton National league team was sold today to Percy Haughton, Arthur Haughton will be understood and who have Treat's Loyal to pet ular been prepared and acheduled for cirenlation Sat n day thereunder $40,000,000 projects. and | ler maintaining complet mariner Satur who to kill him successful taken by The Star photographer in the county jail today. lives take a middle to ride action economy conductor like gam- | ( should die nice emiling blesses Anotc she sa The Loo f night itse With an assenting nod at rapidly toward gathered some shrubs and laid ding the her rected the boat the shore. He grass and brok them in the boat counterpane over then: soft bed was ready THEIR COFFIN READY What boldness! What self denial’ There was neither dread nor apprehension in their conversation And #0 he whispered, breast “Strong senmtions coursed thru him, A shivering cold ran thru hin body. She repulsed him with her hands. ‘Iam happy.’ she told bim we will die so AB eons forth their weapons of destruc- fon. hi g BOAT BROUGHT ASHORE Then—they were seen by the near-by inhabitants, rushing out and shrieking alarm, Many men kathered and the boat was brought ashore. A terrible picture’ Streaming with blood, in death moans, two bodies were lying in the boat. He was sent to the hospital, for he not mortally wounded, but * * she died ore our coffin is ready,” pressing her to hia The writer here inserts a head ing: “THE VOICE OF A SELF. MURDERER.” says his soul Is dead, but hie ge. in a suicide pact with hie He was not. This picture wae where are they? As long an I lived | saw only hu milation, slavishness, the servileness of men DEAD, BUT STILL LIVES “l eaw men who are ashamed of love, scourging their sent! ments, bartering their will bending their heads before idols, begging for gold—and chains! But, hear! My sutcide is the end of all my sufferings from ban ters, jeers and violences—the end of all that which bade me sell myself as a slave 1am dead! But still I live-in lingering death!’ and soundest — slumber Profound slumber reigned upon the lake except, at long intervals, when the wheels of street cars creaked No lights shone win Even the street lamps had extihguished people were resting from day's toll The night was sit. GIRL GOES GLAOLY To DIE of ‘Oh, how agreeable was the reappearance of stars, pour ing their radiance over the wa in ter! How graciously the moon she 1 dows FIX DATE FOR PERCY A MAG EMPEROR ILL-ADMITS PERIL: Haughton Buys Club Yuan Has Apoplexy Senate Warns U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan, § ate today unanimously Secretary of the Navy make public Admiral August report, which a foreign fleet ican shores TOKIO, Jan. 8—Emperor Yuan Shi Kai was reported here today to have fallen suddenly ill with apoplexy. Tho the story was unconfirmed, his iliness was sald to be serious by Sen. Lodge of Mass., such publication Daniels has opposed on the ground that he did ne Yuan Shi Kai was reported, |foretgn nations to know Hongkong dispatch to the tents, The resolution was China World have conditionally | Without debate ‘Report Emperor Has Resigned Post SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 8.—1I peror Luk Chink Tseng ae pre and secretary of foreign affair The was that Yuan would remain tn power until April, when @ new cabinet would be proclaimed still under the monarebical form of government, and a er out of $40.85 CONVICT ROLETTE Business chance agents in gr number were present in Judge Ronald's court Saturday when one of their number, A, R. Rolette, was guilty or grand larceny in dealing with a client, Mrs. Alice Butler Rolette sold Mrs. Butler story SAN response FRANCISCO to a letter from Frank Walsh, chairman of the ations committee, th cisco labor council wil cial meeting January 21 the establishment of trl letter successor to San Fr local relations committee urged prompt sure printing of 200,000 the committee's stated a concerted effort is made in Chicago to prevent the Dil ling of these documents hotel efgar stand at a figume ve which he represented was about inventory price, It was learned at the trial that he “gypped" Mrs, But ler ut of $40.85 action, to ound tous report the for Weather Forecast Rain or Sunday snow tonight and is} NEW YORK to unseat BK. 1 as chairman of the steel corporation at committee {s imminent to rumors in Wall st. today Frick was reported to be opposi “tion candidate, Jan. &,—A Gary battle executive ding enry ar SEATTLE Low 12a am, 140 pom. ont 6:49 pom, IER ft waft The sen instructed | Daniels to} the Fletcher's declared could land on Amer The action came on a resolution | Sonally requesting | publication st wish |imade by its con passed REPORT PRINTED ...::'’ Jan. 8 Us industria hold a spe to discuss indus aes 8 copies o: Walsh being print It is feared that a water famine cannot be prevented. Because the auxiliary line is being rebuilt, Seattle has had to depend upon the one seven-year-old wooden pipe line to bring in water. The snow and ice, and general weather conditions have put the pipe in poor condi tion. Further cave-ins are expected. | The water department Saturday issucll 2 |a warning requesting that everybody use as \little water as possible during the next 24 /hours, so as to conserve the supply. Mayor Gill paid that the old could ‘up ew cshington sill re sary as a last resort. “There is no danger of the whole city be- “If the : ing left without water,” he said. emergency demands it the Lake Washingte pumping station can supply a great area of the low districts. We would rather, however, © that the people economize in their water for a short time, when the danger probably will | be past. If the water department's stren-yter department officials |uous efforts to patch up things are} The low districts, those less than successful, Seattle will be tempor: | 250 feet above sea level, are in no jarily out of danger Sunday night jdanger for at least ten days, Fear Further Damage say. : But other cave-ins ax a result of|,,,Seattle has enough water storm the meiting now are feared tricts. ng in the om dis The first water users to feel the | Gi Ps effects of the water famine will be ree ee : |those obtaining service from what| “There is no reason for immed! is known intermediate dis-jate alarm,” said | trict Schunke, who ts taking charge of This includes the Capitol Hill, Madrona Leschi Heights, South Park, Park, Green Lake and B Get Water From Re | All of Seattle pipe line as the Heights, |of Superintendent Rainier | storage capacity will supply water on Hill.|in the low districts for at least 10 rvoirs jdays has been fed by], Chief which {s tempor. out of commission. If there | more cave-ins, or the present k fs not repaired, the city will real be dry Youngs. “Our Clerk Schunke advised economy. Lay in Small Supply people who live in the higher parts of the city would do Well to lay up a small supply of While the repairs are made, the | water—enough to carry them @ etting its water from the |day or so,” he said that were full at the| The broken pipe of the break seven years old Break Occurs at Noble | “It should still be in good condi- The first break occurred Wed-|tion, according to the engineers,” nesday at Grouse Ridg Before |said Mayor Gill Saturday. “The it could be repaired, a washout of other line has been permitted to water collapsed 150 feet of |/run down, It was neglected right in the vicinity of Noble, about |after my recall, and when | took > miles southeast of Seattle | office, the matter came up and we | Superintendent 1 BK. Youngs | decided to rebuild it. There was | Went to the break Saturday to per-|no reason to believe that the other supervise r work pipe line would not hold up.” feet of snow are hindering | No Real Thaw in Sight department of-| “Indications point toward a cons repairs will be tinuation of the present weather night or Monday |¢ said the weather man | morning Saturday It is just warm enough The first district to feel the ef-| when the sun is out to thaw ont fect of th pr shortage was the the snow Rainier vicinity of There is m¢ Columbia dry | mountains than there has been in Saturday it is sup-| years, but there is no danger of a plied directly fron sroken pipe. {real thaw there unless the weather diate dis s a good deal warmer parts of We have no indications by above sea level,) which to predict either a colder or according to wa ‘ls warmer period SEATTLE FACED _ FAMINE IN 1911 the one artly The line is about time | pipe Two virs ficials sa Sunday litions, i vre snow in the That fet noon becuse the interm which includes all the city 250 feet will go dry next Then the auxe iisry pumping stations were mar shaled into water wagons e sent around the city by Mayor Dilling to supply those whom the reservoirs and pumping stations ould pot reach, and within four or five days everything was normal, tho the break was not repaired for several dys after. Lake water was also pressed into service, but the public was carefully educated not ‘to use it unless properly boiled. Seattle faced a water famine four jine was the » break in the city from the worst years ago when 1911, a few miles 1914, a few miles from the place where the break occurred thi It was then charged by {i} former City Engineer Thomson at other experts that Milwaukee ‘ailroad was responsible because it had changed the course of The river, causing a swift current to wash out one of the pliers. The first day of the water vme use same we time the fam Chief Clerk residents of /the local situation in the absence