The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 1

6 Days More to Register Time is getting short. you register by February will lose your vote in both it now. * * * Ni DAMAGE G LIES LOOT “OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 4.—The giant Gothic pariiament buildings here stand today a smoking ruin, and six persons are known to have Jest their lives as the result of a fire that swept thru the structure} during the night. j Shortly before 3 a. m. the fir had been controlied, tho flames still flickered thru the senate side. ‘The great library appeared likely to; _ be safe. | | The dead are: Mesdames Bray} end Morin, guests of the wife of) Speaker Sevigny. cut off in apart suite; Alph a dominion police- man; Robert Fanning. waiter; two men buried when a section of ll collapsed. nepainatod im the st of 4njured reral officials. Ne origin of the blaze is a mye Tett Stories of Explosion At the same time there were stories of explosions at the outset, giving. perhaps, tangible support/ gto bomb theory. & The fire, which caused damage| estimated from $4,000,000 to $5,- 000,000, began tn the reading room bout 9 p. m. The flames were Foon shooting in spirals thru the! Gothic towers, and spreading sparks | ‘some distance beyond. Speaker's Wife Trapped The first word of the fire came Just before 9 o'clock as a handful of legislators were debating a fish ers’ measure. Members scrambled for safety while gallery spectators, in a panic made for the exits. The fire trapped Mme. Sevigny the speaker's wife, in her suite, with } mary and the final elections. Unless 10, you the pri- Do VOLUME 18 x * * * AGAINST 0-W JN IN EARNEST ALL in, Mr. Business Man, The Harriman railroads’ clared a blockade. Fall in and man the guns! It has come to a showdown between the Harriman railroads (the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and O.-W. R. & N.) and the Northwest. Equal, indiscriminatory: tourist rates from Chicago to San Francisco have been demanded by the Northwest and refused. Arbitration has failed. Diplomacy has been sneered : From now on it is a fight to a finish—a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, a life for a life! The railroads are hauling, the fight is on! interests have de- | and declare they will continue to haul, tourists from the East to California and return via Southern lines for $17.50 less than they will allow them to be hauled via Northern lines. The Harriman interests control the situation. The result is a blockade against tourists entering the Northwest. IT MEANS THE LOSS OF MILLIONS OF >» TO ‘YOU, MR. BUSINESS MAN! Your captains in the fight for equality with California business men have been named. They are Joshua Green, Perry Polson and A. C. Mitchell. YOU ASKED THEY ARE. Fall in, and stand behind them till the fight is won! The O.-W. R. & N. is discriminating against you and your ®usiness, and at the same time asking your patronage. WHEN A DOG BITES YOU, DO? FOR THEM. THERE WHAT DO YOU SEATTLE, WASH., e Seattle star “THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO “PRINT THE FRIDAY, MORE SNOW STORMS * * i Bomb Plot Blamed for Destruction of Canadian Parliament Buildings |OLYMPIA EMPLOYE IS CONVICTED OF F ORGERY > $4 000, 000/CiTv’s BATTLE VERDI OF GUILTY IN GILLIES «hat OLYMPIA, Feb. 4.—John F. | Gilles, former ciaim agent in the state industrial department, was found guilty at 10:30 this morning of forgery in the first degree by a jur which deliberated since 8:15 insurance last night. This is the first of a series of charges filed agninst Gillies an? | two alleged confederates, Frank W, | Stone and J. W. Kearns. Stone tm) 4 partner of Gillien In some fixhing nterests, he turned state's witness Kearns is a on man whe ashed, in part, the forged warrants the state fund. It in claimed that between them the etate was looted of an amount of $15,000 $25,000, Gillies will appeal to the supreme court, The next cherge of grand larceny will be taken up againet GEiew tm- ison armounced toda it wan learned today that three Nots were taken before mined by the jury FEBRUARY 4, Gillies | rat ballot last night ts re {ng fabulous prices for food neces. |!nated Jackson st, to 12th ave. » have stood seven for con: | sities, steps were taken at the city), “While the city government is Second ave. to North Seattle and five for acquit hall Priddf’ to Jathetigate the att-|tomee ine tocnct cone ane gonioms barns. e second was eight con: | cause the law of supply and demand Westlake to Fremont. vietion, four for acquittal juation governs prices of butter, exes and First ave. N. to foot of Qu This morning the third ballot! Extortion will not be tolerated milk, we will try and discourage Anne bill. was taken, resulting In 12 for con | Half-pints of milk and cream, | the practice Wallingford ave. | vietion Mayor Gill and the health depart Checks probabiy will be made or a0 ole ian Monday, Gillies is to go on trial | ent were notified, are being sold grocers who are making capital out Seattie, Renton & Southern. iGH EDITION OMING! % NEWS : } ON THAING NPWS STAND A 1916, ONE CENT * + # hh Pair iar SNOWY? HORAN SHOULD WORRY i He Takes His Daily Swim in Bay Same as Always CARS MOVE : TODAY ON OEVERAL LINES today. snow More Still sno to- more Additional snow on top that, Saturday Weather Observer Salis- bury threw up his hands CAR LINES PARTIALLY | OPEN TODAY, PROMISE Slowly but surely the snow) lying on street car tracks isi) being rolled back Friday by the § — use of large gangs of men with J shovels, scrapers and plows, — with the result that the chief dispatcher of the Seattle Elec: | : of former swimming instructor at Harvard, now of 1G his dally swim Friday morning in Elliott bay. The |pleture above shows him tounging in a snowbank, The picture be- low shows him poised on the edge of the dock at the foot of Broad st, ready to take his plunge. ; DEALERS BOOST PRICES IN With many small dealers demand-;condition, extortion must be elim. tric Co. announced the follo ing lines would be open this af-| "Phioney oe st. Bish roth Broadway to Prospect st. E. Madison to 14th ave. = lof the threatened foodstuffs famine es in some districts are being}! Commissioner McBride is com by neighborhood stores at/municating with all milk supply 75 cents a on. stations and asking for co-operation ron because of|in handling the situation hig’ 25 and 50 ce as high as and cents. Other lines are being opened as rapidly as possible, and an effort will be made to keep those | already cleared free of snow in case more falls during the night. quoted de Stocks have low whe delivery difficulties. He has asked dairymen not te All over normal cost plus cost/charge more than normal prices Lig: of emergency delivery charges is|plus delivery cost | in despair at noon Friday extortion.” Mayor Gill said, Friday.| Many individuals and children, | and declared he would And in a time like this, when every-|he said, depended upon a supply of | aha body is suffering from the san iIk to keep their health | make no attempt to pres a sie dict the end of the storm which has held the North her two children and three guests - : Mme. Bray and Mme. Morin were 77 | west in its grip for two found unconscious. 4: | days and three nights. Hurts Children Into Net | My Snow fell steadily Thursday Mme. Sevigny calmly cared for} |night and continues to fall Friday their children first. Standing in everywhere in this state, with the ths window, outlined against the 2 sinte ‘viele ide vba wereamel' st Rvemen| ; xception of the immediate - Below to spread life nets. She ‘ eae erent , ity of Seattle. le to stand he eigh Grays arbo: « nm e Be! hurled the children safely into the PP plese wigetermiege Pag Be meal pe enie oang hg oalpe MaeReoragy A Oregon, Idabo, Nevada and Brit net. then jumped herself office, a two-story frame building being maintained, With those ex | #2 ish Columbia are in the grip of the Minister of Agric re Burritl| : bly " r ¥ -?* - ae gions ta bis office at the first at 308 East 72nd st. collapsed jceptions, no other railroad lines | ig & storm and the weather indications . Jabout 11 o'clock Friday morning. | are open - are that the worst of the bilsssrd on, his way out int If Seattle business wm win] We could not interfere, under the No one Wa d. The mail) Probably the first Eastern mail - . ers tne rd. vt Op ne Ay dente with smoke he| their fight against the Har provisions of the present inter was ve yuilding was'to reach h will be that on a | @ . i 2 3 imbl har he hall i was railroads, and the Interstate com-|* commerce act of 1910 practically demolished, New quar-/Great Northern train stalled at ‘. ‘ * Wires are down along the coast, Mumbled down the hall and was) rallroads, Drafting a Bill ters © extablished across the Ellensburg. An effort will be made | Magen greatly handicapping the weather rescued by the secretary of state| merce commission knocks out the a co Siac ik ean tac: Cansadun to a here, . however, is pre stree 0 shove it ¢ asca ® bureau in obtaining inforniation, and ot ee E tourist blockade in the Northwest eo wil’ eruie Mails to and from Portland, night, it ts sald Pa It ts belleved: the storm:benkaiaa rctors Say {ll recover 7 . iio is believe e@ sto e Premier Borden fled uninjured. | th is 0 " t Poindexter af Se somewhere off the const. F. Pardee, Mberal whip | Friday, to pres the riman sman Will E. Humphre mie - Frederick Be ee ee tied ues| roads from dropping thelr rates duction in both houses of er The barometer at the local ob: ar vegeeen to. jg ape “AS still lower and ting another amending the Interstate ‘ roa wie weather man said, later repotted to be e > : de Fag > situation exact! ar o * act to empower the com ke a spoiled child. me city. ‘But with the pport of 4 A . we most. want it to it with the united support of | mission to fix a minimum rate J. F. Gillies Member Reported Missing | avery business min,” declared| Such an amendment, he a3 | — \ work” he said, “it gets. stubborn Dr. M. Clark, M. P., was burned) my aieman ¢. A. Reynolds, of the| will block the Harriman Interests|on a grand larceny charge also in| Jand quits. It hasn't acted for 24 in groping thru the flames for his! i. service commission, who|from an uch move and insure|connection with the looting ot the | oe ‘ hours. | loli Fpl S. Loggle, M. P..| hay led the fight thus far “we can|equal rates once the present pref-| accident fund oes 1? ‘That's nothing ay There is no indication of warm Was reported missing. overcome the possibility of such a| erential is eliminated Following that trial, Frank Stone FI Vit 1 i that the| [t's almost f ing point? Well,|er weather for some time ; av f such ind F ghting in the streets be itney men complained that the b Gen, Hughes, militia, sinister. | catastrophe Reynolds has wired an appeal to| will be tried for forgery and then! tween Seattle Electric em. | street car employes were endeay- | well , Vetoes. Snow Appropriation Fescued a number of persons and| Law Must Be Changed oth representatives in cor the trial of Kearns will follow ployes. gd jitney drivers was | oring to keep them from han@ing| It doesn't bother H, S, Horan in|,, Because the $10,000 approprias @ once called out an overseas'reBi-| tie pointed out that the 1 ng them to introduce th 0 The penalty for forgery In the! feported'to the police from al- | traffic. The company says the Jit-line joast. Give him any kind of [MOM,ordinance passed by the eoums ment to police the lines man ‘fiterests control t i ame t bill. Thet firat de ror ' to| Moet every section of the city |neys keep their tracks filled with |‘"°.! iive him 3 k cil Thursday read, “To give em Mayor Martin of Montreal saan teas aaticdae tb Fran-| plies follow }20 years in the penitentiary Prides snow so that it is impossible to) Weather ¢ Salisbury can turn! ployment to deserving unemployed F other members and a police cisco and return, via the Souther men Answer | There are n men anc No one was reported injured, | move cars out. Horan will take his morning of the city in doing work in public Claimed today that the fire 50 cheaper than the t Pre ward such five women on ju On® | however, and the police were To hamper jitney and other anto.|plunee regularly—every day—just |Places,” Mayor Gill vetoed the bli 4 preceded by rp explosion between the ss termi ! trodue of t largest dee ‘ able to handle the situation mobile traffic, the company Chad fe Friday : that it sprea h terrible rapic the Northwest, tho the gethe th h leg. |sembled tn the ton county! without trouble. el Friday afternoon in m: : Fortunately, the title of the, bill | th way {# 253 miles) iutation she 1 t braved iy to s ar the! Anout 11 o'clock a telephone aces resorted to digging ditches And he plunges where steam jig not the real cause for its pas® Thi eemed to strengthen e ne jarguments of r ttorne message from Broadway and Pine | across the beaten roedways at fre-| radiator re far awa age he said e emergency nb theory W those W. BE. HUMPHREY General Wilson f bp ter ind | + informed The Star that one jit) quent intervals $e takes tite 1 every morn-|is caused by a heavy fall of snows Members Jump into Nets i Vill be glad to introduce bill as|Attorney Vance for the defense. |ney driver had been struck over) This ms it practically impos-|ing in Elliott bay, at the foot of Unemployment does not exist to @ Members of the house of com- |, nan railroads could | Wilson insisted that no promise line head with a shovel by an elec-| sible for autos travel and hin-| 05 ° : degree that necessitates a $10,000 Highs told of narrow escapes. Some groy thelr rater $17.60 lower and | (Continued on page 8) ae immunity had been given daar tric company man in a riot at that| dered greatly the passing of pedes ave or Atlantic sts. When he's, yhropriation, and hasn't all wine of them jumped from dow cana —— |W. Stone illeged accomplice 0 | point trians. on e fo t swims a few minutes ter, T wont advertise @ situation groped the way thr {lie 10 ied state's witness . |One o' wo mor hen HE |ehat doesn't exte found an ex ane eed Bio A special council meeting Prt fire electrif! - oran a ask 1 ng pros: « cry of “f lectrified t E PF N ERS WALK FAR T0 | “K 7 Barthes it ee Deve, |day afternoon passed « bill authors ‘ 4 tren | sie ‘thay. “who swat from {Wing the street department. i oe aeent er jumpe , mm | | ele nd Laan Rn rag OM! spend $10,000 out of its Jantaty the and joined with the 6h | West Sea © town during Shrin-| siowance for cleaning away tha ers the mad ie wees with 8 hands I n snow vetoed t provided 4 — - ember | a a ny ears Horan was ut/ for Money out of the gene-al funds en yer: floors, leaped into life Ole, the count at, occupies zed in the Rainier club raid, and ss | tepeiedesieenschsitartieticn lin arvard as a ysical trainer, In PULMOTOR BRINGS Gets below bh the Jail yard Friday, a/bad partaken of the contents inJu-| MA. neil the court mould fe | TACOMA, et. 4—James Me RAISE MINERS’ PAY |: ton, he used to ewim wien it R DECLARES vietim ncute alcohol He was buried with {mpressive|miastble to sell malt beverages|Cormack, a Tacoma’ and Seattle cob age Rl AR wae LIFE TO PARALYTIG Last night Ole wa wcked, aa remonies, De heriffs Bruce,|that do not contain liquor,” de-|merchant, telephoned here toda - deal, it was nothin ” him to GENDIARY 1 the “evidence roo ac Stark and Waddell acting as pall-|clared Prosecutor Lundin Friday.|/from taster, where he is stalled) WALLACH, Idaho, Feb, 4.—With | take wim for 20 miles. { giant’ «aca . n't “n wear any am ‘and para FIRE IS IN to Jail Superintendent hear and erift Hob Hodge| Under tile ruling, “Lifestaft’ | oy @ Northern Pacific train, that/a view {0 voluntarily increasing], Horan doesn en wea any | aries Grand. © ee iF 1" i} I . and dr as na ne Bold ), e 18 years ol¢ » D JASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—De- M , aying the bagpipes: and similar drinks may be sold. | sengers and trainmen are walk-| wages of ‘niners in Coour d’Alene,| vig, tow inches over aix feot|the Manitoba hotel Friday mori @truction of the Ottawa parliament d idn ‘ he cat beg “ | Hi BACK HOME |" back seven miles from another | several mine managers met in con-|in height broad shonidered andjing, by turning on the gas stove iidings last night was denounced act queer! Ktack of neuees. ‘Then ee nnn, WwW marooned train to get food for|ference here today, They discussed] pig fisted, with a ruddy glow of{and laying his bead over the ap yaeten. pavuerces S00 LAT Ae ire a/Gt anh auesomies. 5 os AT SHAT {| WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Preal-|womap and children fa proposed sliding @ale, which will|health on bis cheeks, and fumes Enates incenitiar . ae post mortem examination dis-|| s lente. 11008 6 nt Wilson returned here at 1:30]. He reported two trains snowed|mean an Increase of the payrolls of| (Li John Mills Day and Geo.| ‘The proprietor of the hotel noth: tT kadar 4 to oxed that Ole bad found a leak in) 4 int, anu m, from his Middle Western pre-|in west of Lester and three others | $50,000 a month, Three thousand | Cotterill: ) [tied the police and Strand was The reso'utiom was referred to ; Ait | 4 ¢ eaking tri east of there. miners will be affected, Me doesn’t smoke or drink, [stored to life with a pulmotor, o7> nities, «ie of the may barrels of 10076) ww rrrwrwwrrwrenwwwwwwrwews [parrediions apeaking (ip, yeas c