The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1916, Page 1

SAY, WHO ARE YOU FOR IN THE SEATTLE MAYORALTY RACE? AND D WHY? | HERE are three candidates for mayor, Hiram C. Gill, Oliver T. Erickson, and Austin E. Griffiths. None is a “dark horse.’ here a year or more has had an opportunity to become acquainted with their personal qualities, their official conduct, their policies, and their abilities. They have been in public life for many years. Every one in Seattle who has heen The Star, therefore, frankly invites a discussion of these candidates in the columns of the paper. Every vo t¢r is invited to write a letter in 150 words or less, discussing why the preference should be given one of these men against the others. Address your com- munications to the “Mayoralty Editor,” The Ster. Strange, Isn't It? ONDER what ornery, low down fellows sneaked all th booze into the Rainier club without AAAS letting the president know about it A mean trick, say we. VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, Announces He'll Prosecute When Deputies Seize Big” Su All busines ested in the w their own pocketboc -urged t attend a mass meeting next Tuesday noon to learn h they and their fellow citizenss in Seattle can escape be- ing robbed of a million dollars a year The meeting will be held under auspices of the Seattle _Hotel_Men's..as sociation for the purpose of explaining further the fight being made to knock out differential railway passenger rates discrimin- atory against Seattle T. D. Rockwell, chief counsel for the Hotel Men's association. is ar- ranging for speaker case ar it stands Most vitally interested business men Will Throw Meeting Open “The other day,” he said, “I ask-| ed Chairman C. A. Reynolds, of the| public service commission, to ad-| One of the trucks in which sheriff's deputies hauled the large stock of liquors found in the Rainier dress the hotel men and explein|club raid Monday away to the courthouse. (At right) Scott Malone, the deputy sheriff in charge of the Just what they are losing each year! raid. it was Malone who, “assisted” by the president of the club, searched the rooms and found the booze. thru the discriminatory rates a erce siz sce: S STONE BLAMED WIDOW NERVOUS INTERVENTION wants to attend. I underst ge case tecee) FOR FORGERIES INMURDER TRIAL UNDER DEBATE ~ case Wants Hall for Noon Hour Demand of Senator Precipi- “if The Star will suggest that State's Attorneys s Outline Case Mrs. Mohr Hears Witness tates Argument in some downtown theatre or public in Trial of Report Her Killing Senate hall manager donate a place for Gillies | Threats the meeting, the thing can be mar | _— SCORE "REPUBLICANS Sged. We will need the hall for TRACE BANK ACCOUNT|TELL OF CONFESSION but a short time during the noor hour.” Speakers representing the steam boat men's organization, the Com-* mercial Club, the Automobile club.! wholesale merchants and other in-| terests, will be asked to talk brtef ly “IN get Alex. Tinling, assistant) general freight and passenger ent of the Northern Pacific, to 35 atl iocallian Had an declared Assistant Attorney er. phar WASHINGTON, Jar OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 18.— final effort to get quic “Every time Frank W. Stone, ‘the Mexican situation, a his intimate friend, forged a * ! t senate warrant and cashed it, the bank ‘ pitt, proposing account of John F. Gillies, for- | mterventior mer claim agent of the indus- Senators opposed to the a trial insurance commission, a jtration backed his effort grew out of proportion to the : jacrimonious debate ensu salary he was receiving.” Chairman Stone of t | foreign committee ald tod. jconferring with Secretary Lansing that the state department's report 1s ane of 0 - wis on the entire Mexican situation in a 1 a H ROOD i & tried on one of three . awy 64 to the senate tomorrow, as t t tf 4 B | requested in a recent resolution b charges against him | nnection ¢ | . ry x of the “ate B | Sen. Fall of New Mexico th the nd res i Lippitt demanded !mmediate con rial insura e fu « 000 to by eid ap : sideration of his resolution, but x the sole defendant ta ‘théil ‘ {Chairman Stone insisted that It be 5 tp " ase: jreferred to the foreign affairs which charge for mittee. Did Mrs. Hugh R: Rood marry In other Indictment hargin Senator Lippitt Aroused Dr. Nevin D. Pontius? grand larceny and conspiracy, he ; di 1 see reports that this nation Well, now nobod seems to | jointly used with Stone and EF. } will not act,” retorted Lippitt, “un know W. Kearns, a saloon man. til the other pan-American coun She is alleged to be we J Cashed Them in Saloons b F |tries assent. Can Senator Stone in 000.000 According to the state, Stone did " form us how long it will take the He is an eye, ear and none sye-|the actual forging of the warrants government to get permission to clalist, who recently went to the|then cashed them In saloons in Se oh |Protect the lives of ite citizens? war zone. attle, Tacoma and Olympia } To this Stone answered But Seattle got the tip that the Gillies was described ae | The question is inconsequential doctor had married the woman with timate friend” of Stone. h and so far ath a senator's dig all the money, #0 everybody has|were partner the own ip of jnity that 1 ne to answer been speculating for a week and /fishing boats | | This seemed to rouse Lippitt } | ve (Continued on page 5.) General John M. Wilson in his! statement to th iry this morning nobody knows for certain In reply Thomas Vance, attorney | This situation,” he continued,| Both went to San Francisco.|for the defense, vigorously attac Mrs. EF Mohr ‘resulted from President Wilson's Roth went to New York Go Lister and the industria | Indianapolis utterance It fa all Ah! There you are. surance commission PROVIDEN R. 1, Jan, 18—/right for the Mexieans to spill all| And Mrs, Rood said something! “The insurance commiasion i# tolwrhe public has no idea of what | the blood they wish about how “maybe” she would blame for not properly checking its |), wen Mont “take a trip to Europe.” according |accounts,” Vance declared, “and in to a Seattle publication. And the ‘order to shield hia commission, the! sone long ago. ioda ‘cot t hate ae’ ein doctor sald ail along that he was chief executive of this state hax is ahi ot on WPvaitadia rnane- ane difcsest Micae of peck going to Europe, ; 1, [Adopted methods repugnant 10 de.) Monr, alain last summer as he rode/and one of them {* American, If | eee ere ee io Bn aca. Slow t apy the with a prett air heard these) had beew president, a day would not oct et a Vanco dwelt upon the fact that | words thday, in her murder trial, have panse the army would ; f 1 nowEpAL tl attributed to her by Constable Jas!) have in pursuit of these Santa Anyway, each has been married|ter publicity the mmisaioners | Weligea ch telah he pa to cower! As he utte: them, Mra. Mohr| “There are two or three senators ei bikes - » the mystery of the missing | SRARARRARARARARADRADTP ADA | OD he om r h *lovered her face with her glovedion the republican side.” ans i ands t hands, and her body trembled one, sharply, “who are athirst for Weather Forecast } vaileert ne Hight other witnesses had pre-|war with Mexico, but a declaration Tonight and Wednesday, fair; s WILL FIGHT ZAPATA ceded the constable to tell of the of war would break their hearts, It } Mot much change in tempera whereabouts of Cecil V. Brown, the! would leave them nothing to. tall sure. GALVESTON, Jaf. 18— Twenty |negro accused with Mra, Mohr aslabout. They are past military age thonsend of Gen, Obregon's Yaqui|the slayer of the doctor themselves, but thetr capacity fer TIDES AT Shs " Indian troopers | been went to| Wallace corrobor { the state-|voluble declametion te untmpitred More ind Olxaea to conduct almont. of Chief O'Neill that Brows women in Stone Lambastes Republicans place would have killed Dr With that and pusillani 2 by worked jointly with PAD RAR PRADA AD AAA $87 ym, 9M. N908 wm. Lon. {/gnerilia campaign against tho jand his negro companions had con-| He who learns to do by doing. | Zapatistas. fossa’, killing the doctor gots practical experience. rrr ners! THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT “DARES TO “PRINT THE NEWS| JANUARY 18, 1916. ONE CENT NEWS STANDS, LUNDIN MAY TRY TO ABATE RAINIER CLUB UNDER DRY LAW pply of Liquor in Raid r SEATTL [Hauling Booze Away From Rainier Club and Officer Who Led Raid PrettyGirlFound on Shore of Lake, Her Mind aBlank “Do you know me?” “I don't remember of ever having * said the girl She is very attractive. Bowles said All knowledge of her identi ty, and of her experiences of the past have been wiped from the memory of Minnie Andriff, a 16yerrold girl, who was found in dripping clothes, un conscious, in the bushes near the Mt. Baker pumping station, on the shore of Lake Washing- ton, Monday night After more than 14 hours In the city hospital, her mind still is a blank She is unable to recall even the surroundings of her child hood. Details only of the im mediate past can be summon ed up in her memory Shortly before noon Tuesday Had Waded Into Lake F. G. Sehmidt, 1504 Lake ave saw the unconscions for lying in the bushes as he returned from visit to his father’s home, near by 10 o'clock Monday night Hee checkered skirt was dr ping wet up to the waist line her hair waa wet. The police be Heve she waded into Lake Wash ington, Her clothes, from silk stockings to furtrimmed coat, in dicated that she was from a com: fortable home. Dr. C. E. Guthrie was notified and, after a hast amination, the girl wae sent to the etty hospital Identified by Attorney The girl was indentified by William A. Bowles, an attorney the New York bullding. He eame sh té the city hoapital and asked to|could remember something to think | gee the girl had known For hours nurses and physicians watched for some signs of ret Says “Head Is Empty” * the girl said head ts empty remembered magazines and Do you remember what ) newspapers ? arned that she had made her home — with James Marion Frye, 47 N. E,, and at tended Lincoln high school, Her parents live on a ranch near Bel lingham Tho gir) has been going to school Seattlé for two years, She started for school Monday, after lunch, and did not arrive there. where I've been : | Back of the bar were lockers filled with liquor and locked) And the wet clothes Vietim of Hysteria |“No Aristocracy of Lawbreakers,” Says Bob ent of the Western Hos-| + t Stetlacoom, |} One jug of whisky taken had attached to the handle @ an examination » credit the theory waded into the lal complained, frowning TheSeattleStar ics EDITION AND iq MEMBERS’ WIVES, CE DECLAR Millionaires whose private stock of liquors were sei in Sheriff Bob Hodge's raid on the exclusive Rainier € will be given the same fair treatment by Prosecutor Lund the latter announced Tues is accorded the commig sale or giving away of hquary club, and convictions are tained, the prosecutor said vould be taken to abate premises and close them under the provisions of the dry law. As soon as the ownership is established of the whi gin, champagne and other fine liquors which were seized, law will be allowed to take its course, whomsosever it hit. When Deputy Sheriff Scott Malone, who led the she men into the club Monday afternoon, has made his ret lon the search warrant issued by Justice Brinker, a he: Avilh- he d@keimthe Aatder’s .court,.to establish the iden the liquor owners | This done, Prosecutor Lundin said, he will prosecute those thus accused under the new dry law's visions “It was a strange coincidence,” said Sheriff Hodge day, “that the rooms in which my men found the contrabai liquor were rooms to which the management declared t had lost the keys.” | President of Club Is Amazed | Judge J. V. Brown, presidentgof the club, said he jastounded that the baaties found liquor concealed in }elub, and assured them that he and the other club office lknew nothing about whose liquor it was Three hundred bottles of miscellaneous fine liquors, eral gallon demijohns of whisky, Rainier beer in ca a quantity of champagne are red Tuesday in the cow house as evidence in the case Sheriff Hodge said he had been given the “tip” ther was liquor in the club Sunday afternoon, by three wor whose husbands are members. i “They phoned me,” he said. “One woman was cryii ge | She satd her husband had just come home intoxicated. gathered from her talk that he had beaten her. “Another said her husband had returned home fre the elub dead drunk. Another asked if 1 could do anythi to put a stop to it. All said they had voted for prohibition “T assured them their husbands would hereafter be sobet when they got home, as I intended raiding the place, of them laughed and said I dared nx Scott Malone Leads Deputies Into Club Hodge called Prosecutor Lundin to his office Mondaya and asked for a warrant to search every room and locker “3 the club. 4 At 2:15 p. m. Monday, Deputy Malone, with a foree GF he asked her.| other deputies, entered the clubhouse at Marion st. and@™ Fourth ave Malone's huge frame towered above the others as he led them thru the main entrance. He was visibly nervous Inside he asked for Judge Brown, the president, and re the warrant “We'll start looking around right now, I guess, judge” he drawled. “We don’t intend to take anybody to jail right ™ away, so they don’t need to hurry out on our account,” ‘There is no aristocracy of lawbreakers recognized hy cating the contraband, When the search party broke in @ jdoor on the fourth floor, the juc threw up his hands ia amazement !" he ejaculated. “We knew nothing of thi They found a small bar equipped with glasses and trays, Other lockers were in the course of construction In another room, a “linen closet,” which was locked and the keys “lost,” the deputies discovered a trunk crammed with liquors of superfine quality rs bearing the name of a millionaire Seattle banker. ‘There is no’ aristocracy of lawbreakers recognized by¥ [the sheriff's office,” declared Hodge, “We will go after them where we find them “Anyway,” he added, “I was running out of fuel for my reed nae heater I'm going to burn Rainier club champagne jin it hes hereafter.” ASKS 5 MILLION FOR AN ACADEMY WASHINGTON, Jan, 18,—Ap- "| Washington was proposed in a : i bill Representative Humphrey $5,000,000 for a of Washington interduced to naval academy in the state of | day, propriation of