The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1916, Page 1

Get Busy---NOW! night. You have four more days aft ; today to visit the Prefontaine build i ng a get your name entere OSES RR wrinnnavoccccnavcciaeeds dia wens ating i eutitatandl ST Re Re : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS EDITION NEWS BTANDS, Be LUSITANIA SITUATION GRAVE IGERMAN NEWSPAPERS WARN BERLIN TO GO SLOW F rab as . ov ~ . | in i . : ear tgeiene oes = er ee tial ae OIKS! LET S VIVE _ tacks Tightens Tension; ~ peer | POOR OLD, DEFENDS | President Lays Aside All Other Work to Cope With - ts i » an abnormal i; 1 W ndustry, commerce an transpor- Situation tion are temporarily paralyzed. Seattle is just starting on the gigantic of wresting herself from the clutches of the worst snow storm in a J) that is what tno Seattle Cham quarter of a century. ber of Commerce has finally decid It is a time for sticking tosrether. Sasa ements snes Wn tee tome ABOUT 125 MILES OF STREET ff: bicckade CAR TRACKS ARE HOPELESSLY cine oie ey | BURIED BENEATH SOLIDILY PACK: Joee i ciition. bereun ‘mmore D ICE AND SNOW. | wosid tale hast in the compet | ae stots car people axe fighting fi oes ites: tre taei| ff They have 500 men and ‘what equip- prow a ee or which follow. i ment is available bucking a job that is | Coltsmith doosn’t think it is tair|] 2 the washing | out of an none too small for 10,000 men. ' They are spending thousands of dol- lars in an effort to resume service. . Until their task ‘is at leas} partly ac- jto the Harriman ratlroads to ask|J earth dam in California a ? Ns mplished, Seattle suffers in a VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916 ONE CENT On FRAING ARP ‘ LONDON, Feb. 5.—Reports that Germany and America are near a rupture in relations were displayed prominently im | London papers today The consensus of opinion was that physical participation by the United States on the side of the allies would be un- desirable because it would cut off a source of ammunition supplies, but the papers agreed that moral participation will % be of great value Be Amsterdam advices said prices in the Berlin bourse drop- = ped heavily on reports that a break is impending. Several Berlin papers were said to have pointed out that a break in relations would probably be followed by war. They @ expressed the hope that the government would consider where ~ the nation is drifting. see * * ®@ f | WILSON FORMULATING NEW : POLICY TOWARD TEUTONS ~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—The | The confidential report of Presi; Lusitania situation is very (dent Wilson's personal envoy, Col. With German-American (House, now in the president's entangled anew, Presi- hands, says in substance that Ten- ton public opinion is so opposed to meet Secretary Lansing today an admission of illegality in the In the first of a series of con- case that the hands of the foreign ~~ ferences to determine .Amer- office are practically tied. tea’s future policy toward the | The Lusitania clouc submerged “af Teutons, | political and congressional tate The of the case arises nd the time being. the American demand for a ban House. ° “hav avowal of the torpedoing of the [been cancelled, and President Wil- WHAT ERICKSON SAYS OF ATTITUDE ON DAM Who located the dam is not of vital importance; the members of the present council had nothing to do with it The suggestion ef “sav. ing” $1,400,000 by building an earth dam, in: id of concrete, will strike the read. ers funny bump when he learns that the concrete dam has been completed at a cost 009. |them to raise their tourist rate few days ago is a sad com- from Chicago to California and re mentary on the folly of such turn $17.50 higher than It is now, dame. and thus make {it equal to the joint rate the tourist must pay ff he [wishes to travel 253 miles shorter jand come by way of Seattle. @ discussion of the Cedar river He sald so. dam, Oliver T. Erickson, candi- “We hare tale Pe whole mat. te for mayor, contributed an- Devoting the entire letter to 14, suffering terribly for Inck of iis Forum platform of The Star, . ° int liner. No decisive step | bess. In this letter, he shows that the son has dropped his preparedness : was planned for today. * DO YOU WANT TO HE‘LP? |terterenice. Teen ingen more In| Cedar river dam was located dur : ; : President Wileon had before him | fe oagamar a iri | fairl ing the first administration of i ‘pe Yer aces jthe memorandum Ambassador Von | Realization that America fs near- Have you enough community spirit to W dadise wands Profit Mayor Gill by then City Engineer a Sabian , 5 ; |Bernstorff presented to Lansing |er being embroiled in the Ewropean do your bit? Should the Harriman lines raise| Thomson, that it comt but $1.2 yesterday afternoon, wherein was! Guarrel than at any tine since the | | 000 and that therefore enemies of revealed Germany's opposition to war started, has caused tension in . their round-trip t ‘tat All right, then turn out for an hour Jiviiia visw Satie to gee nant ey | municipal ownership. necessarily meeting the disavowal proposal. | citicint cecrtons lithe tourist business from Chicago He when they say they could have Will Not Disavow Sinking The point has been reached saved $1,400,000 He accused Gill of bad faith to wards municipal ownership by or so today or tomorrow and clean the tracks in front of your house. Sloat tourate In the tummmer pre | %azae Tunica “ownarahip’ by breach between the two nations,| ‘The diplomatic deadlock between 1F EVERY MAN WOULD DIG IN J ro sce’ sa | omnes <7 Stade a line See ~ ' ent, D uch 8 00 e term legal,” as a led to AND WORK FOR AN HOUR THE foot iri percent of them arent| is letter follows eae by leper uA drasite. Lasitania attack. 7.50 © er dam ¥ Ee SN PROBLEM WOULD BE SOL.VED. Bio trver the Southern way a subsect of much milsrepresenta NEW: YORK; Febs Giccdloesocs | For no other than selfish reasons, it J), 7% Harriman system owns the| 7 iolic officials, supported be] that started tn California six MANY CAR LINES would be energy wisely sperit. tea Worthen, sak thee satuse te these organs “| months ago budded into the mar ; 7 Because the project is of such © of Geraldine Farrar, to lay before St o ore | WOUNDS. FORGET FOR A DAY QB) i'siiae sxpect the chamber tol extended statement about it thea] legen. 20, morte tor, here| | ‘| ANY | STINGS YOU MAY HAVE Ee ee ae eaee ae other att ene eee eee tedan t *| Half the Company's Trackage| Superintendent Case _ Tells SET FOR ERED AT THE HANDS O!F THE SE- “ay part of the Harriman system, so| It bas been set forth by these cor-| in marrying legen, Miss Far Cleared; All Short Lines | Merchants to Watch Their Germany stands ready to make|where there must be a “show- jto California, and Seattle bust trcsegaeea further concessions to avoid a down.” ‘men would profit immeasurably. j |they can't. But we can win with-| poration papers and by Mayor Gill io a . | Open Basements ' § ATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY. out them.” that I and other members of the|"*’ Dfoke two vowe—-not to mar ” vw " i peg city council located the dam where) TY until she was 49, and to marry TnERIRBANS RESUME|PREDICTS BIG DAMAGE If 10,000 men would tarn cut Sunday, Big R |it is and the obstactes encountered| only an American | Bre each would have to clear sewen and a ig Roundup of orn i sed Gate to meee ina], Tebepeas fore in. Hellas, of» The following street car lines Warning was issued by Thteatenes “rae patwaen . ri charged to our folly in particular| Greek father « one ther, | ss 4 : 2 | half feet of track-to accompli'sh the job. Aliens Ordered and to munielpal ownership in gen.| was acting for the movies in bin Aig grt hier Bion meh apt ese gred |hicle drivers and employes of the a a eral | Southern California when the op o 2 : aturday to all merchants in - ts About half of the 253 miles of track in the Dominion! "S\,, jocates the dam te not of] era singer was playing for them. | ..N" halted Wellingtord te the | Seattle Electric Co.. engaged in and Ballard, Wallingford to the Bf Bt the downtown district to have ——- vital importance, tho no member of|, The newlyweds have had thelr varsity, Bauntleroy to Youngstown,] watchmen on duty i | i . ‘ ir | ve s y in their OTTAWA, Feb. 6—The | the present council had anything to|honeymoon—one day—for their |, Jackson at., 19th ave, to 14th and cleaning off the tracks on Broad- way, developed to such a heat Fri- ¥ has already been cleaned. 4 ve ‘2 basements Sunday, to watch 4 ? Greatest roundup of aliens | do with it, managers ould allow them nO/\iaqison, South Park to George-| day afternoon that a hand-to-hand WILL YOU DO YOUR BIT? . since the beginning of the war It is interesting to note, however,|more time away from rehearsals. |sown Jackson st, to 12th ave, and| oUt for floods from the snow | confict was only averted after a The Star and the Seattle Electric com- J) (37.o°%s;05, "ine Dominion | that the mayor, who was at the Madison, James and Yesler way) paged in the streets and al |issty conference between, Street A . ‘ A q head of our city government when cables. i< ene | Supe a pany think differently on many things J} ‘!4 to apprehend ali foreign- | the dam was located. turned. tall RIOT IN Capitol HIN lines are being ate] NO flood ts anticipated, however,| Superintendent Case and Traffie - ers who left Ottawa the night | and joined the traction company’s tacked by shovel gangs, with plows |>Y Weather Observer Salisbury Saas yews six days out of the week. the parliament bulldings burn- | forces In throwing mud at munict tacked by shovel gangs, with Diowt| The thermometer raised from| , Jitney drivers, grocery supply . " drivers, milk men and laundry men BUT SUNDAY IS THE SEVENTH! || *: val ownership ax soon as trouble! = ff ISBON fake division, Kis hoped, may be|35 degrees this morning to 38/4"vers, milk men and Iaundry men ‘ ‘This step followed close upon an-| came. | jartialty resumed this evening. jabout noon,” he said, “but I have| way where snow shovelere were : other fire early today that did $500,- Tells of Work on Dam About half the company's track-|no information that points to trou- making an effort to keep traffic 4 =e ee damage to the Grant, Holden &| The question of bullding the dam PARIS, Feb, B—A riot as- tae is now cleared |ble from melting snows. from picking the unow Qian ae Graham Co. plant, and the apparent | at some other location has been be Alki Point cars have a clear track| Building owners who have had the partly cleared tracks. effort of a stranger to reach the/ fore the council since | fuming proportions ofa revolu. 11, West Seattle, but officials would snow from downtown roofs thrown| "Traffic became congested Victoria bridge, Montreal, for what! member, and I joined with the city “a broke out in Lisbon last | not say when the remainder of the |into alleys are urged to get It out! ‘phe only place where vehicles authorities think was a blasting at-| engineer, Mayor Cotterill and four, "@ht and continues today line would be open. as quickly as possible. |nad a tent Way Was. ane ae tempt. other councilmen in proceeding Crowds are attacking the re- | noth the Everett and Tacoma| “Danger of costly floods is in-| cleared i it fo doubt ten hanceet& publican guards and pillagin, ‘ " shoot | avery . ae ug! suppor: ridge} with the construction of the dam ‘ging After being closed for two school sing every hour,” said Ca%e.| The §. E. Co, laborers would not plotter lost his life by drowning where it had been started. It Inj Stores days, Seattle’s public schools will) The water may be doing big dam-| give in J | oo : ” true, this was done after a board wee geet re-open Monday jage by Saturday night or Sunday.”| They dug deep trenches across STRIKERS WILL MEET of three engineers recommended | ~~~ | Attendance fs not absolutely com-| Announcement was made by the|the street, Wagons and autos that ¥ % es ag - — Boiler makers and ship builders | that we stop work and consider Tonight and Sunday rain. or | Pulsory Parents of children who! street department Saturday that|tried to pass became stuck in the 4 SALEM, Ore., Feb. 5—Mrs. J. R.| The theory is that he was trying!on strike will hold a meeting at| constructing an earth and rock dam live far from schoot, and where|only registered voters would be| trenches Hinkie, 66, was brutally murdered to rob the Hinkle home, and that/the Labor Temple Sunday after: | — snow; not so cold, traffic is suspended, may use their|given employment cleaning snow} Arrangements were finally made Me in her own home last night by an| when Mrs. Hiakle surprised him, he}noon at 2:30 (Continued on Page 3.) Te annannnannnnannaneresinw (own judgment in the matter | Monday [to let the vehicle traffic thru. > unidentified robber killed her | t Efforts have been redoubled to| Mrs. Hinkla’s body was discov-| = = 9 = es den Tn eter wats, "rent ee 2°; Qur Amiable City Editor’s a Sober, Quiet Fellow, But When ) who escaped two weeks ago from turned home. It was lying on the 9 9 the penitentiary kitchen floor, the head crushed and Ms Dre opcitenetpats nim "Ey alga tn ea He S First Hockey Game—My Goodness, What a Bellow * ficiala say evidence points to him Fifty dollura.in cash had been e ees VY VY gy a a e Ce) as the murderer of Mrs. Hinkle stolen: frontythe: Bouse, | BY THE CITY EDITOR young mén, grotesquely garbed, I have always been interested | er, intent upon driving the puck game impassionately, only to the game. That must be left to | Calm 1 was, and bursting with | push a bit of rubber around with | in mob psyehology into the Seattle goal, missed it make the disturbing discov- the sporting editor, who will do scorn. Who, me? Get excited | sticks. I was | ring this phenome- | by a hair and himself plunged ery that | was yelling at the | it wellyon another page, Besides, over fee hockey? A fat chance! Still, 1 had to admit the non when an frritating interrup: | headlong into the goal top of my voice. | didn't | my recollections of the final mo- i Lose my poise and dignity over ® | men could skate. They od | tion oceurred | He collided with one of the iron know why. | ments of the game were curiously ‘ silly game strangely interested in 7 + | Posts, and the back of his head What was I saying? | was | blurred, 1 tried to yell, but could j — For I have seen many games of | the Ilitle plece of rubber, which, A STRANGER; MY WORD! =| touched the small of his back calling on the Seattle players | only hoarsely whisper. Then I & Chetic@s valued at several hun 450 GERIAANS DROWN many kinds—dog fights and priza | Tam informed, is called a puck, & fat gentleman, a perfect | He lay still for a space, rose, to murder the Victoria play- | was going away from there, be- dred dollars were destroyed whe hts, cock fights and bull fights, The purpose, | soon discovered, stranger to me, who sat 6n | skated in drunken circles, and ers. | was telling the Vice | cause it was all over, and Seattle ; ire ‘broke out 4m the Sasement of % P foveal and baseball and basket- | was to drive the puck ini ® my left, whacked me on the | was off like a swallow, | toria players that they were had won, 6 tc ch AMSTERDAM, Feb, 5.—Four ball, psig pons and tennia, bil | soreen goal back and demanded to know | “DIDN'T KILL HIM!” stupid, low-browned villians, ited vift’s Pharmacy, in the Eitel| hundred and titty Germans, attack-| jiards and battles royal and There were two of these, one at what | knew about thatl® iat dean ane ans toy vlahe deserving death in its basest, | And when | got home | was bulidihg, at Second ave. and Pike:ing Dvinsk, were drowned when| gollut elth nd, Now and again some 1 was inquiring of him, sanheds ne pre Raho f a ; most brutal form. | still babbling. And my wife Russian fire broke the Dwina river , . ve the 4 uk exchanging : | i ° st., Satr morning So, when my friends told me of player would drive the puck wyh somewhat incoherently, 1 ‘ FA Twas exchanging jocular | said, “Where have you been?” \ After O-minute fight, firemen, |!ce beneath sew | the thrills of tee hockey, I pooh- | violence straight at the goal, but fear, what | knew about what, 'T rican spate blows with the perfect stranger “To the hockey game,” 1 Bien oxygen helmets, put out the ‘oohed, 1 smiled wearily. I | a sturdy young fellow would re- when a young woman, to It think it was about then that | on my left said. Wi FRONTIER Is CLOSED ponent ceive it nonchalantly on his shins, whom | had never been intro- the madness seized me. For one It was a hard-fought game. “Where did you go after Ne tag kins iat: | dliatalin q To be polite, I said I had no | stomach or chest, and it would duced, hit me on the other thing, I knew by now which was | Twice the score was tied the hockey game?" | threatened juable surrounding - | doubt that ice hockey was a nice | bounce away side and exclaimed, “Oh-o-o!" | the Seattle goal and which the | AN OUTRAGE! TERRIBLE! “Nowhere, m'dea ‘ Property noke damaged stoc AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5.—The Rel-| game, if they wished ft, I would WHY GET EXCITED? I was tempted to give her a | Victoria « | A Victoria player lost his tem- But she didn't believe me, in the ricker Millinery and gian frontiets has been completely| go to the rink, I went | At firet it seemed remarkable | piece of my mind, only I realized Tama atiie man, am I not? | per and threw his stick at 9 She regarded me reproachful- Block Bros.’ trunk store adjoining. | Closed to tra velers, it announe-| | My, what a lot of foolish people | to me that the crowd should get | she was too overwrought ‘oy | I don't live in Victoria, do I? attle player, Looking Back on it ly Mru a silent, uncomfort- Schuyler Sander, an employe of ed toda 1‘his fs believed to indi-| 1 found there! so tremendously excited when some wild emotion to be biatned Well, then! now, | know ft was a regrevtable able breakfast this morning. the dr t me ghtly burned mportiert concentrating, pre It is absurd to sit in the freez ever the puck alm entered the | for the indiscretion My next impression is that = | incident; it was rude She thinks I've found a bout the face aud bands. liminary & 4 strong offensive, ing cold aud watch two sets of | goal. At that justant @ Victoria play- 1 thought | was watching the 1 cannot write technically of blind pig v y ‘ ick. : NOTIN