The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 1

4 |\ZEPPELIN SINKS ‘HUMPHREY ] k \ - Register Tonight! The books at the Prefontaine building will be open Thursday until midnight. After that it will be too late to qualify for the mu- nicipal elections. VOLUME 18 REFUSES » TO TALK \ OF oITE BY F, M. KERBY WASHI ON, Dz. C., Feb. 10.—~Humphrey sidesteps. “I will make no state- ment or comment ‘what- soever!” is his attitude in ee the expose of the Seattle ') postoffice-site expose. ; I went to see the Se- attle congressman today to find out why he said > that there is not one thing »to show that he interested himself in the Seattle " postoffice-site deal (which ) the treasury department _ found it necessary to re- E pudiate), altho the rec- * ords of the department are filled with letters to Sand from him in the mat- + ter! “Mr. Humphrey,” I said, “you afe quoted & a Seattle newspaper Gu oan last ie way: of the eite. in fact have refused to take any Part In negotiations having to do with the expenditure of govern- ment money for sites within my district. * It le ridiculous to assert that | participated in the Regotiations. On my return from “Washington city, | found that ne- “gotiations had progressed to the int of acceptance, and that there was a serious row on between lo- “fal realty men over the whole “thing. | refused to tak in this AND THERE THING TO SHOW THAT 1 IN- TERESTED MYSELF IN | ANY WAY, NOR DID I’ “Is that a correct quotation?” > “t will mot make any state } nak te LANDSLIDE WRECKS SIX HOME: IN WEST __ SEATTLE: SEVEN TRAPPED INW The Seattle Star |: y part OT ONE | clency. 17 IN| her salad. U. S. Treasury Department Tells Humphrey About lis Duck Pond EDITOR'S NOTE—IHere je a letter written to Congressman Wm. BE. Ham- phrey of Seattio by the assistant see partment after he had finished anh site In Seattle, in which Humphrey said he was “not interested” in = purported interview, bat about which, it has been discovered, he has had = great deal of important correspondence, as this paper has already shown. Hon. Wm. E. Humphrey, House of Representatives, vear Mr. Congressman On April 29th last the postmaster general suggested to the sec retary of the treasury that a joint investigation should be made by yresentatives of the two departments of the site purchased by the government in Block 283, Seattle. ported «3 follows: a @ postoffice only. te it would have to be hauled and dispatch; a spur track could not be successfully oper ated. «3) for six yearn. The (4) he per cent of the purchi This site Is not desirable from the standpoint of For the purposes of a general federal building it is very undesirable. The mail would have to be hauled a distance of 3,100 feet from the cars to the site, No Improvements have been made In this vicinity improvements will, made, consist of manufacturing plants and warehouses. it is recommended that the present site be sold, Price could be obtained for it. tary of the United States treasury de- a of the undesirable postofticn June 23, 1915, The representatives have re id practically all of back jain for distribution when eventually ‘esent time, not more than 50 It Is recommended that a site should be acquired which (a) would be convenient of access to the general public and federal official double haul of the mail; and (b) would not ental a lengthy (c) would be convenient distributing center to the eight posta! stations in the cen- tral, northern and eastern parts of the city. The above is transmitted for your information, and the con- 4) fidential report mentioned, which is on file in this department, will be at your disposal when you find it convenient to call. Very Sincerely Yours, BOOZE CASES ON TRIAL FRIDAY Boeing, Skinner and ‘Eden Have Hearing Together HODGE HAS EVIDENCE Four hundred gallons of booze! In bottles, demijohns and casks, it stands locked In Sheriff Bob Hodge's “evidence room.” It is of varying degrees of “effi Some of {t is the lightest wine—the kind milady sups with And some of it ts ro to stronger. A cat, unwittingly one night, licked up a bit that trickled from a) ment whatever in this matter if it! cask, and keeled over, dead as a ~ Is to be printed in the SEATTLE | mackerel. _ STAR,” said Congressman Hum. | Phrey In reply. _ “But you understand, Mr. Hum- phrey, that I am representing not only the Seattle Star, but a news| ionaire, will do battle in Judge Ron-| “sssoctation which serves the Seat- ‘tle Star and many other newspa- rs ALL OVER THE UNITED ATES. What I wanted to get Jou to explain is whether your Statement as quoted is correct, in w of these letters which I have e from the treasury department les _ “| will not make any statement Whatever about that which Is to be furnished in any way to the Se attic Star,” reiterated the Seattle WINDOW BLOWN OUT; GIRL HURT One girl was severely cut and several other passersby slightly hurt by flying glass when a large window in the Metropolitan bank, }@t Fourth ave. and Union st., wi Dlown out by the high wind short- y after noon, Thursday, The girl was rushed to a doctor's ‘e, near by. Bank officials re- fused to give out the girl's name or the names of others who were in- fured The window measured 12x14 feet and was of heavy plate glass. . | | For the possession of those bot- tles, demijohns and casks and their! fluid contents, three of Seattle's wealthiest men, one of them a mil-| ald’s court Friday against the county's legal department. They are: W. E. Boeing, wh home at “The Highland: ed by Sheriff Hodge's men; fabulous amount of liquor, and J Eden, who has assumed respon | Wbility for all the booze confiscat- ed in a raid of the Rainier club. These defendants have hired the | most able lawyers in the Northwest} to contest the right of Sheriff Hodge to seize their stocks o! Mquor. They will contend that their con- stitutional rights as citizens of the United States have been violated, Deputy Prosecutor Meter will rep- resent the state. Pitted against him will be Hughes, McMicken, Dovell & Ram- sey, Donworth & Todd, and Hast- ings & Stedm: TURKS SELL GIRLS GENEVA, Feb. 10.—With the Turks again massacring Armenians, thousands of men and boys have been shot, and many girls sent to Constantinople, to be sold into harems, according to dispatches to-| day. WE MAY SEE STELLA Famous Painting May Come Here Stelial She wants to come to Seattle. After spending the surnmer at the Gan Francisco exposition, where thousands of young men, old men, fat men and thin men W went crazy over her, and a lot of women got sore at he is nutty to come up here! t has many, many Seattle is about the most de < of a woman that up on @ canvas. ¢ to do with fash Stella—so lies she there, azing at you, while your eyes drink in her beauty; reading your thoughts while you vainly try to fathom hers,” writes her Manager to the elty authori- ties, “A little more dreaming on her part, a iittle more watching on yours, and lo! some day at evening might not STELLA rise to her shapely feet, stretch our her wondrous arms, and, tn a voice vibrant whom came these tidings, could retuse?” That was the message that came to Mayor Gill from Edward Vaughn, Stella’s manager “Can't Stella come up there?” he wrote. He wanted to know ff a Heense is nece I'll pass it over to the censor ship board,” said the mayor with long-suppressed emotion, say to the spellbound spec tators: ‘I am the spirit of beauty in women; On your knees, all who me, and worship.’ “And who among you, to love ~ | plied, Skinner, whose cellars yielded aj ¥OT¢. BYRON R. NEWTON, Assistant Secretary. AUSTRIA MUST EXPLAIN TO U.S, WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Austria must explain why a submarine stopped the Stand- ard Oil tanker Petrolite re- cently on the high seas and helped itself to stores aboard. In announcing thie today, Secretary Lansing said t request not a je, tho “per| re may be de- mands i\ater.” The demands are based on affi- davits of Captain Thompson that |the Petrolite, flying the American flag and showing other neutral markings, while en route from Al. exandria, Exypt, to Philadelphia was fired on by @ bmarine and one member of the crew wounded | by a shot after the ship stopped. | The submarine commander sought provisions. Thompson re fused to sell any. “We'll take them anyway,” the commander is said to have re suiting the action to the and meantime holding an American as hostage on the sub. marine Thompson's affidavit claimed the submarine fired on him as he was rowing to the diver to pre sent his papers Officials refuse to conalder the ase as a new “crisis” in interna fonal affairs. They say that if the situation {s as outlined By Thompson, Austria will offer repa- ration and indemnity as she prom- ised in her Ancona note. HALIBUT TRADE — HERE IN DANGER’ WASHINGTC Feb. 10. —secre-_| tary of Commerce Redfield suggest-| ed to the state department today the advisability of beginning nego- | tlations with Canada with a view | to protecting the halibut industry | from Canadian competition, which | threatens to destroy it. | | He suggested a compromise |whereby the Grand Trunk railway |would give Ketchikan, Alaska Jequal faciiities with Prince Rupert, |B. C., as he believes this would be better than a tariff on halibut jshipped from Prince Rupert to the Eastern United States | The halibut industry, producing | 61,000,000 pounds yearly, has cen- tered in the past at Ketchikan and Seattle, but the railway at Prince! Rupert is rapidly taking this lead | away Redfield mado his after hearing the ap | Strong of Ketchikan. ARMOR PLATE BILL COMING UP MONDAY WASHINGTON, Feb, 10,—Chair. }man Tillman of the senate naval |committee today obtained permis sion of senate leaders to call up | the administration bill for govern | ment armor plate manufacture as a special order of business for Mon- day. The president has endorsed | pushing the bill, w | suggestion | ul of H. C.| | | . SEATTLE, WASH., ere ON CRUISER AND TWO OTHERS. BERLIN (By wireless to Sayville), Feb, 10.—In their last raid on England, Zeppelins bombarded and sank the British cruiser Caroline and the destroy- ers Eden and Nith, the Cologne Gazette reported today The British admiralty recently denied that any ship bad been sunk in the last rald HERE'S A GOOD HUNCH CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 10. —H. K. Keapp, prone to do what his name imp! after the alarm clock rings in the morning, used to get up, shut the thing off go back te bed and oversieep so much that he got three more arousers, put one in each corner of the room, and now, the he hi th a mesarid up. REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY With 5,361 registered Wed- nesday, it now looks as tho the registration for the com- letration has come thick and heavy. From downtown hotels, pecially, be eo. the registration has in big. The total at mid- it Wednesday 70,088. ast day for reg- THE BOOKS WILL BE OPEN AT THE PREFON. TAINE BUILDING, THIRD AVE. AND YESLER, UP TO MIDNIGHT. HOBOES FARE WELL IN DE KALB, ILL., JAIL DE KALB, fil., Feb 10.—Ho- boes have struck a soft snap here. Besides being accommo- dated at the local jail on cold nights, the unconsumed delica- cies from banquets are sent in to them. Renn nmr, Weather Forecast—Occaslonal rain tonight and Friday. ARGAIN GALORE The ads are just full of money saving op- portunities these days. Some are beginning to tell of the new spring styles also, which makes them doubly interesting, It’s the “day of 100 Specials” at McDougall-South- wick’s tomorrow, and you know that means bargains well worth looking up. Details on page 5. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1916. = NEWS : } NRECKAGE ‘ie EDITION readers: HEN acandidate for mayor two years ago, I made cer tain definite promises, They have been fulfilled, fn a measure, thru the which I have received. There is much yet to be done along the same lines for the greater good of our city. With your help, I will con- tinue the policies of the past two years, without isme or promises tmposst- ble of fulfillment, and made only for the sake of | riding Into office Deeds are more substan- tial than promises ANSON EGISTRATION closes today. DROPBOMSS ERICKSON “SHAM” friend is a greater menace to public ownership than the council, insidious influences have been busy ~ the time, working un- ~ our ely ‘wititiee, These interests are too clever te propose what they would Ike to happen-—the abandonment of the light plant. Instead they have tried to kill off profitable business by opposing ex- tensions to Ballard, Du- wamish, and elsewhere. Open attacks against me on the question of munict- pal ownership have proved futile. So now the fake issue of taxes is raised. The fact that never be- fore has my record for economy been disputed, even by my enemies, proves the fraud in the so- called tax Issue. Voters of Seattle, a week from Mons primaries the two candidates for mayor, six candidates for council, tweandidates for corporation counsel, and two candidates. for city treasurer, who will fight it out in the fitys, With little more than a week of the pre-primary campaign remaining, The Star asked four candidat. for Mayor to state, in 100 words, why they think they should be elected. The Star has been the open‘orum thru which these candidates have expressed their views to the people. “Why I Should Be Eleced They now summarize GRIFFITHS Y RECORD has been an open book. As councilman and as a private citizen, I have fought for municipal ownership, but I am against dry dams that make dear utilities” and discredit public ownership... Have yoo seen your tax statemeats showing high- er taxes than ever before? Have you seen our dam, costing, with interest, $2,800,000 that will not hold water? I am for administrative efficiency, municipal econ- omy, home rule, sensible public ownership, law en- forcement, good work for good pay, fairness and good will. Whatever may be done to bring social and indus- trial justice and prosperity to our city and people, I shall try to do Sh seins a tS scale NE ELS Mayor" will select at the city thm for this paper's RAYMER AM not a politician, al- tho I have run at the request of friends among soctalists. I was always a good loser. I never stayed up all night merely a beginning. stand for public ownership of all public utilities, street railwa) gas plants, tele phones, coal bunkers, mar. kets, dairies, lodging houses, banks, a free gen- eral hospital and clinic, etc. ‘What would be my first official act, if elected? To fire the present chief of police. Why? Because he is out of sympathy with the working class. Olas TS. Crehsors, Ubpstec Geof petlae, Bora 2XQarg rentey— SHE ASKED HIM TO DANCE; HE DID But His Wife Saw Them, and) Oh! What She | } Did Say HE’S NO FLIRT, HE SAYS Every timo Joseph W. Collins, secretary of the Collins Wet Wash; laundry, of 414 12th ave., got Into an argument with his wife, she| would best him with her more flu } ent tongue, | Then he would always say: } “Just as you say. I should| worry.” | “But the last time T said it,” he | testified, at his divorce hearing be- |fore Judge Frater Thursday, “we | were sitting at the table eating sup- jper, Just as I said, ‘I should worry,’ I got a caso knife in the Mary Elizabeth Gibbs Col lins, the demure young wife, is con testing the divorce with a general denial of everything her husband has alleged “1 ain't of no Jeatous disposition and everybody will admit that 1 ain't no flirt and such as that, or | nothing whatsoever,” testified Col-| lins. “One night, tho, we went to a dance. It was the annual Labor day dance, and a girl saw me on the floor t I hadn't seen for a | year, She twas about 18, and ran |over and put her hands on my | shoulders and turned me around. “She says, ‘Let's have a dance,’ } and I says, ‘Sure,’ and we did, Well, | what does my wife do but up and| tell that girl something, What she} didn’t tell her wasn't worth saying.” [OLD BACHELOR GOES ITO SCHOOL; LONELY MINNEAPOLIS, Feb, 10.— Emerson Wesley, 63, bachelor, for 24 years a mail carrier, finds Prescott high school an excellent antidote for lonell- ness and old age, he said today, ‘MORRISON'S PICTURE PRINTED THRU ERROR Frank Morrison This pieture of Frank Morrison, formerly field claim agent for the industrial insurance commission, was used by mistake in The Star on Feb. 4 for a picture of J. F. Gil- lies, convicted on that date of forgery in connection with short ages in the commission's funds, The Star learned today of {ts er- ror, and hastens to reprint the ple ture and make amends to Mr. Mor- rison, who had no connection what- ever with the Gillies trial, HIS PEEVE IS OVER AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10.—For the first time since the kaiser gave him the hearty slap on the back that broke off friendly relations between the two rulers for several years, Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria {s to visit Berlin in the near future, ac cording to reports. ———_—$ $$ SAILORS - “HELP IN RESCUE more houses were ed shortly before noon Thureday, when two great Slices of the Alki ave. bluff b loose | valanches that cut short the efforts of police and fire department forces sent to help move furniture from the threatened residences. More than $2,500 worth of Property was destroyed In a few minutes’ time, No one was reported Injured, The destroyed hou are at 1110, 1154, 1364, 1366 and 1380 Alki ave. Great sections of the bluff threaten to give way any min- ute. Lieut. Dolphin of the West quarters in aiding people in the danger zone to move their prop- erty less than an hour before the last slid Seven People Trapped Seven people were pinned under wreckage while asleep, and barely escaped being crushed to death, when another avalanche crashed down from the crest of Alki! ave. | bluff at 6:25 a. m. Thursday. Sailors from the U. S. S. Pitts- burg, firemen and police hurried to the scene and aided in the work of rescue. The injured are: 5 Stewart, ribs broken; Thomas H. hed about legs; Harry fe 20, cut about hands Mrs. Charles Berger, cut about body; Clinton Stewart, age 15, cus about arma, Those who escaped uninjured were Olive Stewart, age 17, and Margaret Stewart, age 7. All lived in a house at 1590 Alki ave. W., owned by Matt Dee. Neighbors who heard the crash telephoned the police that two fami- Mes occupying the house had been buried in wreckage. Mrs. Stewart, awaking suddenly, sensed the danger and threw her self over her 7-year-old child. Her act probably saved the child's life, When Dr. E. H. Smith arrived front the city hospital he found the mother suffering from broken ribs, Harry Stewart was pinned fast under the bed. Aside from lacera- tions on his hands and body, he was none the worse for the accl- dent The others managed to struggle out by the time the rescue parties arrived, and were searching for Harry. The sailors who aided In the res cue were regular service men sta tioned aboard the naval militia cruiser Pittsburg. The victims of the avalanche were taken by the owner of the wrecked house to 1394 Alki ave, They will stay at the new address, The loss is estimated at $1,500, Move From Danger Zone Hundreds of families rushed the work of moving out of the danger zone Thursday, More than a mile (Continued on page 5.) TIDES AT SEATTLE High Lor w 8:29 a. 5 ft. 2:19 a. m.,@6 ft. 10118 p 0.0 ft, 9134p. mm. 8.8 ft,