The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1916, Page 1

yet So I9LG--The Year of Promise prosperity has reached us American Miners EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 12—In a helpless rage, this city today awaited arrival of a special train bearing the bodies of 16 | Americans and two Brit- ishers, bullet-riddled by Mexicans in Chihuahua Monday. Apperentiy nothing has been o either Zack Cobb, rep Benton bss c ). repre: Carta: er at Juarez, toward avenging the massacre of this party of mining men of the Csthuiriachio mining company. Bitter at Administration On every hand there was denun ciation of the slaying, and a spirit of bitterness toward the Wilson ad. ministration which found expres sion in sharp protests to Washing- ton. Official messages today told how the 16 United States citizens and two citizens of Great Pritain were dragged from a Mexican North- western train Monday, robbed of their $25,000 payroll, stripped of their clothing, and shot in cold blood. Direct order from Gen. Villa to his subordinates to kill every American or other foreigner caus ed the slaughte Report Villa in Command Villa personally commanded the firing squad which slew the unfor-. tumate victims one by one, it was Teported in some quarters. | When the Americans were cap. tured the Villistas began to shoot hem one at a time. Seeing death was inevitable eral attempted to make a run for . sev it, and were shot down as they ran The shrieks of the men as the were murdered w heard t Thomas Holmes, anot Americ passenger on the train, who escap the vengeance of Mexicans b hiding in the toifet room of one 4 the coaches. Brings News of Mai Later he succeeded to Chihuahua, bringing news of the massacre. The bodies are expected to reach here today. The border is aroused to fever heat. The slowness of Carranzista of-| ficials to take sympathetic action resulted in a mass meeting of mine rs 3 rs here last night at ch the delegates denounced the Washington administration's fexican policy i Lured back work by passports! Sranted by the Washington govern ment and thru the Carranza admin-| istration’s guarantees of protection, | the miners who went to their death | were refused an escort of 100 Car ranza soldiers | 15 Bandits Stop Train Fifteen bandits stopped the train | at Santa Ysabel In the party on board were of. ficlals and employes of a mine com of which Potter Palmer é The in coeaping the first e) comp rich Custhuiriachie. going to reopen t silver mines at The dits attited themselves in the Americans’ clothing, then marched their victims to a ravine close to the track and shot them, " List of the Di | The slain men w C. A. Pringle, San Francisco; C. R. Wat #on, manager, El Paso; Wm. J. Wal Hi ¢ e, El Paso; T. M. Evans, of El Paso, a Canadian; M. B. Romero, \ El Paso. uralized American; i Maurice Anderson, El Paso; W. D. ; Pierce, Los Angeles: R. T, McHat i ton, FE] Paso; J. P. Coy, represent i Union Iror rks, San Fran isco; FE. 1. Robinson, El Paso George W. Newman, El Paso; Jack : Hase, Miamt, Ariz.; J. W. Woorn,| El Paso; R. H, Simmons, addrens not 7 given; Avery A. Couch, Canadian | Alexander H. Hall, Douglas, Ariz | if (Continued on Page @ . get this Just read, in The Star today, of the shipbuilding activity all up and down the Pacific Coast, and believe us when we suggest that Shlby at la 18 the president of the board, in a public address yesterday, admitted NIN : DRANTS THAT NOTHING COULD SAVE THEM IF THEY SHOULD CATCH FIRE. The buildings are in danger, he says, but the children aren’t. quite see how he figures it out, but that’s what he said. Read about it, on page 10. The Seattle Star WASH., W JANUARY S-DNESDAY 1916. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES “TO PRINT THE © NEWS — ONE CE HOOL BOARD officials resent The Star’s interest in trying to safeguard the lives of Seattle school children, FRAME SCHOOL BUILDINGS ARE SO FAR FROM CITY HY- ox Ant & THAIN® N We don’t IGH EDITION SENATE DISCUSSES MEX INTERVENTION BIG SEATTLE SHIPYARD TO DOUBLE PAYROLL U. S. WILL HOLD CARRANZA RESPONSIBLE Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Plants Humming — With Business; Seattle Drydock & Gon- struction Co. Officials Declare Unprec- edented Demand Should Last 5 Years This is the year of promise. The Seattle Construction and Drydock company will, during 1916, put into circulation here DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY it has heretofore annually WASHINGTON, Jan. — | when Rep. Dyer of Missouri In Armed intervention In as. troduced a resolution asking the president to advise congress if eatablishment of a representa | sw vatchful waiting” ought not to tive government, and immediate | be ended American evacuation after this Both Sherman and Dyer are has been accomplished, was de republicans. While these attacks were on in Secretary Lansing rranza about the «# ie «6department manded today In a senate reso- lution introduced by Sherman, of HHinois, This resolution, actuated by | the Mexican massacre of Amer!- cane Monday, had more or less art in the how but the this message was not a demand on him The department expects him to | do all he can, and there will be vessel construction; id. CITY PIPE LINE IS below, general view of Seattie Construction and LEAKING AGAIN Leaks in Seattie’s wooden , consultation as soon as he learned pipe line have developed at | Of the situation. He said there was Molasses creek, three miles | %° immediate cause for alarm southeast of Renton, again Youngs Is Laid Up , Supt. Youngs was in too poor Seattle's water i passant physical condition from the ordeal supply. experienced in repairing the first Superintendent Youngs, who breaks to go to the scene. was confined to his bed Mon Further breaks are feared, as a| result of the air pressure leakage! day, after his strenuous efforts caused by emptying the pipes and for several days to patch the broken pipe, was called for a | ther consultation early Wednesday. I prevented Twenty repair men re at| Tues air valve Molasses cree » middle of the the discovered pape pony ath with the task of fixing the alr headquarters early Wednesday |ré 1 morning. The pipe had been buck Rainier Valley Still Ory ay bed apes ag ne no aad | After the water had been turn no collapse aken place. P ef on in the repaired pipe Tues ee Br bap ne gig nin{98%, 1t would not flow thru some tes’ Weanén He pernnrtle % ‘nla |° the Rainier valley connecting ne eace ‘eservo! D because of gener eene Chief Accountant Lamb Wednesday 4 1: # Anpareh sore Reteeg legcrrpnadeagy tosh ‘gd Lay Water department officials said ed by an ample supply of store” | the water would probably work its up water, there would be no cause ’ s way into the pipe In a day or se ai Me sesh R the meantime, these districts o shut the water out of the pipe| "" ” t ¢ line The Volunteer rvotr sterod In it Wednsaday worn, EXPLOSION KILLS 70 registered in it ednesday morn ing, and its total depth is 23 feet The pipe line is as flexible a BERLIN, Jan, 12.—Seventy per rubber hose, #0 the buckling uP! yong © killed and 60 badly in | does not necessarily mean an im-| | jured in an explosion in the am mediate collapse.” Mayor Gill called in Lamb for a| munition plant at Ile yesterday. no necessity for a demand for | tect American lives and honor. action until the first chief hae He demanded intervention un shown he is unwilling to seek | less Carranza gives assurance of hold Carranza greatly to biame, but instead for remaining informaily ish subjects invoived concerning the Brit It | | his power to protect American | Inte ite in Mexico. ment indicating that he does not | The British embassy inquired | blam Americans is ex in Mexico in the | pected England will make a sep face of warnings to leave. | arate protest to Carranza hh called dent | The state department expects Wilson's Mexican pollcy a com Carranza will promptly dispatch Promising, sidestepping, pro. | troops to seek the murderers crastinating and un-American | and protect other Americans in policy which hae failed to pro- | the Chihuahua mines, Busy Scenes in Mammoth Seattle Shipyard Above, a Water Line View—Where Seattle is answering the cry for ships, and prosperity is being forged under a tremendous impetus to Dry Dock Co.'s [REPORT PRINCE GEORGE MISSES ISTO BE REGENT ONE; HE DIDN'T | ORDER THIS SNOW sing it all © lips and ways, where work is at the highest pitch ever ROME, Jan. 12.—Unconfirm reports today declar the German had recalled to Berlin, probably to the re gency on account of the liners of his father, Kaiser Wilhelm The message sald the report came direct from Berlin WILSON TO OPPOSE COMPULSORY PLAN ed ed crown prince been assume on Salisbury wrong button or turned the wrong | chosen? George pushed wheel, or something George, you know, who maps out the weather in Seattle ix the fellow for us WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.— Aw a rule, George Is there with President Wilson is opposed to Dells. When he says we're going compulsory military service, |‘ have rain, down it pours Chairman Hay of the House WAen ie Says hel Stee e's Cold snap, it's not to be snapped at, and military committee declared in that body. CAN'T TELL HOW | SHIP WAS SUNK it's a wise thing to get ear muff But something went wrong Tues day. A northeast wind sneaked up on| and altho George said he'd give us fair weather Wednesday, we with us? A new blanket of snow There is a regular picnic aria for skaters. Hundreds of peo WASHINGTON, Jan, 12. | ple went out on the munictpal Lake Austria has notified the state | Burien line to Lake Burien Tuesday department, It was sald today, | There probably will be several thou that after a full Investigation sand Wednesday that governmént has been un The lake is frozen, and the city is able to determine how the liner | putting up cluster lights around the Persia was sunk shores to make possible skating at = night. (PIAA | About 600 skaters Were on Green lake Tuesday night The park board has ordered number of guards to be on deck to see that no accidents occur, Weather Forecast and Thursday, snow, Tonight | I ¥ jee. contracted for by the lesser concerns. the prospect is that this will increase during the year. “We have never before had such an amount of business,” q eral Manager H. W. Kent, of the Seattle Construction and Drydock Co., to &— saan jades,. Wie eae running to full sneeiy. and. are forced. to_turn awa: there is a clamoring demand. s the | Cecil Lewis and George when his back was turned, | what have/ | again | spent. The company’s payroll, |during 1916. now about 1,800, will BE GREATLY INCREASED ~ The plant will be enlarged by the addition of at least two slips, possibly more, These are positive assurances made by officials of the concern today, and in- dicate the reflection of prosperity upon the shipbuilding industry of Puget Sound. Construction activity has reached a mark away beyond former records, keeping — pace with other big shipbuilding yards of the East. Work, it has been announced, will begin at once on the yards of the new Skinner & Eddy corporation, a heavily capitalized concern, with two big freighters as their initial output. In the other 23 shipbuilding concerns in and adjacent to Seattle, the fresh |impetus brought about by the universal cry for vessels is also being materially felt. — Craft which the bigger concerns are now too rushed to bid on, are being built “We now have under Business is more widely scattered, af construction two 5,000-ton (deadweight) steel freighters ‘or the Ward line in the East, three submarines and one torpedo boat destroyer EVERETT GIRL EVERETI Jan. 12 | Ugiy thorns the patt | ther Wealth and soctal Wash and brambles, fringed life of 16-year-old Es for Aldeen Lyer position of the and who was child, boy who married her |the father of | chasm that the bo |not see bridged | So the boy and |mother faced a er made a his father $50,000 damage case, filed here today. Those dol {lars are to help lessen the pain Jand the sorrow and the anguish of a grim satire on rom James 1. Lye f the Citizens’ Bank & n Ey erett He ts st n the institution, and, with bis wife, Mar garet, fits snugly into the social niche of that town Met Pretty Country Girl -| Their 18-year-old son, Cecil Lewis Lyen, drove father’s car A little way out of Everett, near the village called Pinehurst, the girl lived, She was young and [et and 16 Early in the summer of 1914, the young son of the banker met the girl at Pinehurst. it was spring fine for the girl and for the boy During the months that followed they were often together and be came engaged June, in the year after their meet ing, saw their wedding His Parents Object A year of courtship had passed since they took thelr first ride tn Banker Lyen's automobile But did Mr. and Mrs. Banker like the idea of a marriage between the girl he had | They did not So the little bride never saw her husband after the day he pressed her hand and spoke the words that were meant to rivet their lives to gether The father powers of persuasion won the boy awa she says rhe boy left f 4 consultation with the man, The girl waited. But her husband never returned | Denied Word From Him She pleaded with his father and with his mother for some word from him. He has left the state. er told her, she says | know where he is.” In September the baby girl came. Lite Lois Pauline Lyen has never * the bank 1 don't seen her father, nor her father's father, nor her father’s mother The days and months quic the beat of the girl's angry h So, this morning, Attorne ©. Brown and John B, Hart of Se attle filed the complaint against the banker, his wife and his son | And a jury will be asked ay that $50,000 takes the place of a | husband, in a little home where the mother was courted a year and bore a daughter that the father has never seen. y's parents would and (Continued on page 6.) SUES RICH FATHER-IN-LAW WHO TOOK SON AWAY DAY AFTER WEDDING | Esther Aldeen Lyen, erett for $50,000 damage: who sues her husband's rich family in Ewe WINNERS PICKED IN STAR'S. MOVING PICTURE CONTEST Arthur Hogle 525 Bist ave son, Port Blakeley; Edith Swan. was the first to submit the cor- son, 7345 2ist ave. N. W.; Henry rect answer to the motion picture F. Pfromn, Box 43, Marysville. puzzle which appeared in The Star The next five prizes, tickets to during the past week the Clemmer theatre for a month, The photos of actors and act- go to the following: resses playing under the direction Hattie B. Minear, 730 N. 75th; of William Fox were cut up and Mrs, F. J. Fore, 3648 Dayton ave.; the parts mixed up, The puzzle Mrs, F. M. Stokes, 2002 Tenth ave. 2224 Eighth 1524 Tenth was to rearrange them in the orig-|N. inal pictures, and to give the|ave.; names of the players. ave. | The photos were those of Robert} Mantell, Genevieve Hamper, Theda Robert Sherry, Clara Barston, Bara, Dorothy Green, Dorothy Ber nard and William Farnum ) WEARS WAT A DAY EACH Some of the winners mi oth Rernard The prizes are seader aera YEAR IN CELEBRATION First prize, $2—Arthur Hogle. CHICAGO Jan. yee Second prize, $2—George Chorn Frank Green, manufacturer, The next eight prizes, $1 each, has just had his annual cel- go to the following Rose Good. ebration, He's baldheaded man, 2662 15th ave. N.; Mrs. Far) and hates ha’ but inger, 1515 Boren ave.; Mrs. J. C. one once a y That wi |Stalience, 6901 Colton ave.; Lulu the occasion of the celebra- Murray, 1920 Fifth ave.; Irene G. tion, Booth, 202 17th ave.; Jennie Ander-'