The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1916, Page 1

SER’S SON WRITES STORY OF GERMANS’ WINTER FIGHTING IN FRANCE Ps, ne Germans in Snow Costumes Fighting in the Champagne mentee of Like Mother Eve, 100 Maidens Fair —pay no attention to modern styles in “Undine.” Yes, it’s a movie show. If you want to know what’s going. on at local movies, read The Star. Page 3 today. oe, acdc 18. 10 LET HUSBAND SFRICKSON AN J GILL HOLDING \ BACKHOT SHOT et going to pop. Yes, the mayoralty fireworks. Maybe you thought everything is going to be all nice and quiet Well, you can get over that idea right now ‘The ammunition is all here, but the firing is merely awaiting the “psychological moment.” Take it from Hiram Gill, Oliver T. Erickson and Austin E. Griffiths, | When the real cannonading begins—weill, it'll make some of those he agequnsand machine guns in Httle olf Europe look like Cartetmnat | Woman Asks a I a Divorce to Let Rival Take Her Place MAKES LOVE SACRIFICE age instance, Hiram Gtl! has a bomb up bis sleeve which he hase’t| yet, but which he has tucked away to bounce off Erickson right ater the primaries, provided, of course, it {s Erickeon and Gill in the “final heat. © meal Erickson has a big stick of highly combustible material ae ieee ‘ pies coh mua Runclation, Hiram can unload on Oliver on the milk subject? ihe marriage, were in she in TWENTY- FIVE. TONS OF GOLD SHIPPED HERE |, Twenty-five tons of gold $11,609,020, was received in § from Alaska dur THIS 1S experience in such attle ing 1915. Canned salmon, ; dhe seattle seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PR IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., ‘SECO, ‘STALLS“™25 5 “MARRY ANOTHER worth | where, he ay French eptember, 1914, at HE kaiser’s son has just written a spirit coped with German on, Belgium doggedness until blood wonderful description of “the battle in the Champagne” ran in rivers down the winter snows and dead bodies choked the ways! : Prince the greatest continued sides fight in all history! As Third of hell, during booklet r the men of the Russian commander of the astern campaign written fe Oscar Id Prince hac to Army, unced benefit of the just anne Prussi. unte } This is the of the he this tremendous onslaught “ Ihe first sttetietiatettaiataieateten aa aaaaaaaaeae oe opportunities witness wound received province who fell France ar in the Champagne MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1916. ONE CENT me vewe +] te TILL AID CHORUS GIRL TO LAND JOB, BUT NOW THEY ARE LIMBS OF FAMILY TREE IN HEAT HEARING ) Ask State for Continuance; | Plead Lack of | Notice | CITY Is ALL PREPARED With the city ready to fight for heat In the street care be- fore the public service commis. sion Tuesday morn w Se attie Electric attorn otarted for a They declare they were not given the sufficient ten days notice of the hearin Assistant Corporation Counsel Pierce and 24 Witnesses are ready {for the hearing. Pierce will be on hand in the Chamber of Commerce |assembly room for the bearing at} | 10 o'clock Tuesday Chairman Reynolds of the com- mission is checking up the records in Olympia to see whether or not the fo ood company lawyers will The witnesses who will be de pended upon by the city in the hearing are patrons of the Faunt- leroy, West Woodland, Mertdian, |Green Lake, Phinney, Ballard, FY Lawton, Beacon Hill, Eastlake, Broadway and Green Lake lines. They are and wife, 4326 eer Fhickteidy ¢241 ‘onto tol « ~~ Chorus girls in “Very Good Eddie!” Left to right, daughter of a Pittsburg lawyer, daughter of a | Denver clergyman, daughter of a Baltimore clergyman and a graduate of Vassar college. BY IDAH McGLONE GIBSON | NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Different | requisites are asked of the chorus |girls of today than of the chorus |kirls of yexteryear Today it is still a question of limbs, but they are the limbs on | the girl's family tree | A woman—a big; womanly wom: | an, a woman who has been con-} OF AMERICANS cerned with the business end of the stage all lier life, has done! | this. She is Elizabeth Marbury jof the most suecessful play jers—and more lately producer New York This season lard 1696 O THE fair-minded, unprejudiced voter, the re- port of the Municipal league committee on can- didates must appear as a colossal joke. This is particularly apparent in the summary of the candidacies for corporation’ counsel. The committee reports the record of E. H. Guie in the legislature as “satisfactory.” In the same breath it reports the record of Thomas F. Murphine as “good,” and also takes a dig at him. Guie’s and Murphine’s votes on every import- ant measure in the legislature were directly op- posed to each other. Murphine voted as an independent. voted with the “machine.” one | brok in | | VANCOUVER, | —Canada is to “American-born Sam Hughes, K. C. B., minister of militia, has author- lzed Maj. C. Seymour Bullock, late of rw York, now of the 97th battalion, American ile gion, stationed at the exhibi- tion camp in Toronto, to com- | plete plans for a Dominion- ) Campaign for men of American | birth and parentage to join the | | her production of Very Good Eddie” is breaking the records at the little Princess theatre | I firet commenced with the chorus, you know that “Very | Good is a musical pla and {t seemed to me it was time | to denature the chorus of its vul- | garity,” said Miss Marbury I determined to have personal! 'tles—the right kind of personall Guie Canadian army. | With a view to facilitating speedy) ‘Then, can you not imagine the torrid words that will flow from Manet. the silvery tangue of the silvery haired Oliver as he portrays the night by the presence of Seattle's chief of police, obtain the attendance =. Scott of Chicago in undertaking their wine table of the prettiest cabaret girl in the shop? one of the greatest sacrifices a« in a downtown hotel at 2 a. m,? her husband, that he may go his ete iy way with “the other woman.” Bradford Replies to His "25. 4 i, [She told the jud Reserving bis answer to the charge that he has been allowing his received no letter fron. her ‘assistants to engage in private practice while drawing liberal compen- husband their Oak Park bungslow same real estate appraisers continually in condemnation proceed. 7 ‘a system which, it was claimed by Thomas F. Murphine, inde-| ‘The ietter said Scott hed exiled ine. |pleaded for Mrs. Scott to divorve Mr. Bradford's letter, in ~ follows j him, a ‘handful of witnesses’ as ap- praisers. In my last letter I show | about using a local man and those leas experienced in vaiuation Suit to foreclose a $250,000 dieisl “It is charged that because of the} grge heid by the New York Life iow values offered by the city in Madison # started Monday | property owners. ‘This charge is| ing 61,451 tons in superior court. labsurdly untrue. The values fixed| 894 valued at firm of theatrical managers, are % are not contested at all ed and then defendants. “Prior to a trial this office shows pay off the indebtedness at the teasons therefor. rate of $25,000 a year “It is charged that the city pays life of a certain chief of police whom Hiram refused to fire, tho the Ster7 Can you not hear the sarcasm of the “hide-and-seek” decatiff work woman can make. On the wittness stand in Juage 9, y after their rails arge Taen, two years inter, #he went sation for public service, Corporation Counsel Bradford Monday sub-| Lait June she got a letter ~ from New York for South America pendent candidate for corporation counsel, who first brought up this “One ambitious candidate refers! FORECLOSE ON that Instead of employing only four | and court work along with those of Insurance Co., on the Orpheum the-|settiement, most of the condemna- 3 Sullivan & Considine, owners of hy our appraisers have been so} $9:129.644 wan The insurance company alleges | a1 its figures and Jays its cards on No part has been paid, its appraisers too much money, and council found him guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer? staff Spectat Can you not see the picture of a maudlin group of revelers who, for CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Mre. Albert ‘this chief as he visits with said fair cabaret singer and a pal at ber; She t« suing for divorce to free MeDonald’s court she pleaded way on a visit of two months mitted a second letter dealing with the charge that he has employed *4y* but it was not written ‘charge, induces extravagance as well as the bullding up of a political with “the other woman,” and Ito the evil of this office employing or five, as charged, we have used THE ORPHEUM mugh wider | work packed in 2 aire’ property at Third ave. and ition cases are contested by the, 399 cases, weigh w the property, and John W. Const-|fair as a rule, that from 90 to| ent down to dine, surviving member of the old 9% per cent of the condemnation | Seattle, unload pasidine borrowed 1,000 on his the table. We show them to law Rote on sune 1, 1912, agreeim™ to| vers and their clients, and give our pinint states. the com (Turn to page 5, column 2) JAMES SPURNED ELLESLEY GIRLS NICE ‘NIGHTIES? 2. WELLESLEY, Mass, Feb 14.—Composite waist and leg measurements of Wellesley Because James 0. girls show they ont mer Alaska sourdough, ~ 4 sleeping in his underwear, Venus. The Wellesley of in the fine nighties Mra inches, while Venus’ was bought for him, and because he inches, while Venus was snored, she couldn't spend her Wealthy youth who pay lim nights in the same room with him.| ited calls at Wellesley say She started an action for divorce) Venus wasMa: in the running Wednesday, alleging, among other! When it comes to form discouraging things, that he came to their home, 420 24th ave. S., on Nicholas Murray Butler, preat the night of January 16, after she|dent of Columbia university had locked up the house, and broke! come here and speak at inaugural in the rear door and smashed the| exercises of President Suzzallo, of | furniture | University of Washington B Buzard, for persisted in inmead | Buzard college venus to! ernoon, UD FISHER gets $75,000 a year fur drawing a daily picture of Mutt and Jeff. in The Star every day FOR A PENNY. tles and I would only have a few! lof them, consequently there are only 1 girls in the chorus of Very Good Eddie, but each one stands for good breeding and | bright, clean, young womanhood. Jand against the verdict of Broad | way they bave canght on. The chorus of “Very | die” contains three girls who daughters of clergymen, two who came from hom of lawyers and jone girl who is a graduate of Vas. |sar college ‘PRESIDENT DELAYS | HIS CHOICE OF MAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— The expectation that President Wilson would announce Secre. tary Garrison's successor to day was upset when, upon his return to the White House, it became known that the an- nouncement may be deferred for lenlistment of men from all parts| A glance at the 191 of the Dominion, Sir Sam Hughes: [has ordered military authorities to! open offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Fort William, nto, Montreal, Quebec, 3t. Jon and Halifax j It is expected that over 10,090 American-born will be fully equip- ved and trained for active service in October or November PREFERS APPETITES TO DAI ’ TOOTSIES ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. 14 Rig appetites and healthy lungs are more to be desired b university co. than dainty feet, Miss Georgiania Sanford, president of the wom. an's council of the Hamline university, told her class WILSON’S HAT IN RING: WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Presi dent Wilson today formally an nounced himself a candidate for re for election. He wrote Secretary of orth| State Hildebrand of Ohto, assent aft- ing to the use of his name on the Ohio primary ballots all the | whipped parts world Salted salmon, weighing 1,467 tons, and worth 24, and 1,999 tons of fresh | almon, worth $155,814, went thru the port A ton of $2,000, was boats These are figures from the annual report of Port Warden Paysse, just completed EXPECTS MORE RAIN Salisbury promises but he insists to of record is “satisfactory,” if Murphine’s is “good,” Here measures in the No. Bill— Its purpose. B. 34—To repeal women’s eigkt B. 41—To repeal eight-hour irw B. 301—Certificate of necessit’, public ownership Good Ed worth Alaska salmon ees, checked off all 178—To detroy recall! B. 367—Anti-picketing bill Weatherman fairly warm weather on rain Monday The temperature got up to Sunday, and it may get that warm Jagain Monday, he says GRIFFITHS SPEAKS Austin EB. Griffiths, candidate mayor, Will speak before the End Progressive club Tuesday at 3:15 ries B. 76—Renick bill B. 310—Requiring tuition fees B. 136——Fake first-aid bili B, 231—Timber graft bill B. voters H. B. 140—To allow railroads to breakers special policemen WHAT DO YOU M _ISFACTORY? @IPPIT SHSTT wrT | RAR, Tonight and Tuesday, occa- sional rain. | | | eral days. | | ] convince even the blindest of blind that Murphine’s was not, 120—To kill Initiative and referendum B. 388—To destroy Seattle por: 147—Requiring property qualification record must if Guie’s and 5 legislative is “bad.” Guie's are the votes on the 15 most important 1915 session: Murphine. No No Guile. Yes Yes hour law on public work aimed against ‘ Yes Y B. 229-—Attack on direct primaries B. 229—Amendment favoring presidential prima commission at university for make strike EAN, GUIE ument paper lation The continued battle in the greatest of all wars! Written army commander who is son of kaiser! You want to miss greatest by an Germany's will this! It begins tomorrow! The Star! not In OPP LPL PL PLP PPL PPP PPP PPP PPP PPAR PAA Dag IGH EDITION |Drug Store Clerk Ad-— mits Selling Bottle to Student Shortly Before High School Girl Was Found Dead of Poison in © Woods; Prisoner Tells of His In- timacy With Victim and of Their Walks in Woods Together © MADISON, Wis., Feb. 14. — Startling evidence that may have a tal ef © fect on the case o} He Orpet, accused of killil ee 18-year-old Marian I bert, was unearthed to when Chas. Messenger, a drug store clerk,, admitted Selling. .Orpet .ap_. ounce bottle on the day. Orpet’ left ‘for his bien with the girl. ‘ Hessinger admittet he sold Or pet abortive we icine, thru | friend, last Auznst i He denied tho poison fn the « 5 persona'ly on Tuesday. In ashes on the estate where older Orpet works; was found day two lumps of cy sium in a wooden containet which poison was kept. No trace was found of the b from which Miss Lambert | poison. | Whether the death of | little high school girl was | case of suicide or the result of | @ death plot paralleling the — killing of Miss Avis Linnell, for which Rev. C. V. T. Riche son of Boston was electrocut- ed, remained today a mystery. 4 | State's Attorney Dady, lodged a murder charge pail Orpet, after the young ‘man " told of his intimacy with the cir! and of his walk with her woods where her body w found, admitted he was 1 | which theory to enterta’ Girl's Mother Aids Boy Efforts were made today to |the lad. The girl's mother believes Orpet innocent of giving poison to © | the girl under the guise of a medi- | cine to correct her condition. | She is aiding Orpet’s mother in |the fight to save him. 1 am not seeking vengeance, but justice,” declared Frank Lambert, jfather of the dead girl. 1 do not want the prosecution of Orpet dropped. 1 believe he ts jguilyy of her death and feel sure |she did not get the poison from |my store of insect destroyer, Or |pet must have bought it.” ‘ The Lambert and Orpet families, — as caretakers of adjoining million. aire estates at Lake Forest, have | been friends for years. Says She Planned Suicide Miss Josephine Davis, chum of the dead girl, will testify that the’ latter planned suicide, according to Orpet’s parents. Letters passing between Miss | Lambert and the prisoner have re vealed to the authorities that for some months they were involved in a love affair, For a time both wrote | fervid letters, | One letter told her of his love | for another—Miss Celestia Youker, a normal school teacher of Dekalb, | On the day before the 18-year-old high school girl's body was found, Orpet admitted spurning Miss Latis bert and { rming her of an ene gagement to the Dekalb teacher, Orpet passed a quiet night in his cell and was refreshed this morn. He dressed carotylty, and tre iranner enind to Tes He again asked that his mother, that there pty bottle he # q ing. conlere boy jturn to Bim lhe wight: see At o'clock Monday evening, |the Erickson campaign committee Na meet at the Good Eats cal 6 You get one of these $75,000-a-year pictures, besides a lot of other good things,