The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1916, Page 1

We Don't Like to “Pester” You, But-- It certainly will be a crime if any of your friends or neighbore who aren't regular read ers of The Star don't get their names on our ciroulation liste by Monday, when we begin publishing a BOOK-SIZE, POPULAR NOVEL EVERY WEEK. Please talk to them for us! Tell them about it! SE VOLUME 168 BOY TENOR BESIEGED BY WOMEN Theo. Karle Johnston Enter- tains the “I-Knew-Him- ° When” Club HE SCORES A TRIUMPH PREG eee Our native son, Theo, Karle Johnston, doesn’t wear Spats or carry a swagger stick. He came back to Seattle in the same clothes he wore when he went away, before he sign- ed to sing with Geraidine Far. rar. But the single women of the [ “i Knew Him When—" club are willing to overlook that. They are plotting to get him. It's legp year. About 250 hungry hearted school teachers of his, girls who went to the same church, and they who knew those who knew him well, bought good seats Wednesday night for Johnston's appearance with the Philharmonic orchestra at the Metropolitan theatre. Women Send Him Notes They had the ushers: running til! their “tongues hung out, carrying Husband Doesn't Want Wear. Her little Dillets of greetings and con- gratulatio: innuendoes. “cee Only Theo and the girls know what was written in them. Several times he was saved by a rising curtain when the women made a bolt back stage dur- ing intermissions. They went In twos and threes. The alr was heavily laden with sighs. And no wonder. Has Wonderful Future Young Johnston is only 22 years old*and has a future tucked away that would make a princess yearn to pat her feet in his lap. He fs a great big, healthy look- ‘a fellow, with a contagious RUSSIA GOES ON | Best for the Nation. RESULTS OF ONE YEAR PETROGRAD, Russia, nA “bing? Feb. _17.—Russia._ has he threw back his head} taken a long breath, Lg pg reags 2h pve dig Boe | raised her solemn right Nard. He pulled ‘em half out off hand, and sworn: their seat: " ” No one would hold it against ever again: the female of the species for feel- A year without vodka ing fluttery at the thought of car- re tying Theo's grips. has convinced the offi- Call Him on Phone cials, from the czar down, He's going to make a pile of see money, and be a lion in the music| that prohibition will al- World. ways be the rule in Rus- “The telephone started ringing} WAYS De the early this morning and he got sia Here are some re- tight calls before he could sit sults of the first twelve- (Continued on page 6.) month without liquor as ——Read “The Rose Garden Husband” — n reported officially and MAY TRY TO PASS semi-officially from all BILL OVER VETO over the country: Crime (ali kinds) has de- creased 62 per cent. Councilman Hanna's public safety Absenteeism in factories committee decided Wednesday to| hae fallen 60 per cent. Tecommend the bill board ordt- Suicide rate has dropped nance to the council for passage; *rormously. ‘ ‘ over the mayor's veto. Members Hoepit or of the committee are Erickson,| Crowded are not 1 boa , . Marble and Bolton. Bolton is| _ Efficiency In factories In- EEittest the measure. creased 10 to 15 per cent. send tke todo Garden Mushend’ Practically every inhabitant Is at work. COLORADO SALOONS vings deposits have In- creased 8 per Fire damage has fallen off 38 per cent. Wages in some districts raised 500 per cent. (This ap- P to peasants working as day laborers. People are eating better and costiler food. Better clothing Is worn by the poorer classes. SERVE AS Y. M. C. A.’S| DENVER, 171— Colorado, under prohibition, 1s | Colo., | more prosperous, less inclined | | Feb. to get locked up in fall, and better off in many other ways, according to dry reports from all sections of the state today, after nearly two months’ ex- perience with the dry law. Agricultural implement sales In the Rockefeller mining 60 per cent A camps the saloons have been Imprisonment decreased 72 converted into Y. M. C. per cent. ra Offsetting these remarkable re- | sults of Russia's sudden dryness is |this startling development: buildings In a few instances, ~—RKead “The Kose Garden Husband’ The death rate from drunken- ; USE TELEPHONE TO iS. has increased enormously! pom AID TOM MURPHINE sieines vy tnis seatomont enat aip Countees Wears a Five-Cent Mask’ So She Can Wear a $6,000 Gown Her to WAGON TO STAY: Czar Convinced Prohibition Is since the Masked Marvel caused al sensation mask has been the thing in 80Cl-|hecame known after & | guest, spending Sing. EVERYONE'S WEARING IV MASK IN NEW| YORK; WHY? OH, IT’S THE STYLE!) Staff Special NEW YORK, Feb. 17. — Ever in wrestling here, jet¥ circles, theatrical quarters and| crook’ lines, |thief from a society cannot tell a leader, theat- Nowadays police TTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, British Parliament Germans Lost Two Aircraft During Last Bomb-Drop- ping Invasion of England. LONDON, Feb. 17. —The Germans lost two Zeppelins in the last raid on England, aerople bombarded Ramsgate and Broadstairs, near London admiralty at the time. Read “The Rose Garden Husband” DEMAND PLEDGE FROM ENGLAND WASHINGTON, Feb. Great Gritsin must pledge that her liners will not fire upon German submarines be- fore Germany will instruct her undersea commanders not to attack armed merchantmen without warnin, This is Germany's counter pro- posal tn answer to America's ob- jection to the Teuton decree pro | posing such unwarned attacks, ft 17m Informal conference between Am | bassador Bernstorff and Secretary rical star or banquet guest bUrry-| agreed upon, the Laaitania settle ing home in the wee ema’ hours. Juat’ the other - who is a well-known crook the winter out of Sing entertained 100 members of| the Friars at a dinner All Friars wore masks, so the! lcrook might not feel out of place | Broadway Last night a bevy of girls from show appeared masked fn a restaurant, and danced until the place closed musical comedy, Next week Broadway Is to see a called “The Mask ed Model.” Even now {t ts seeing a model 1| who wears a mask that may cost as much as 5 cents and a coat said to) be worth $6,000. was stage-struck and her hu wasn't that the countess] | has to wear a matt The story is #80 she to keep the count from recognizing her. | dwelling house formerly Read “The Rose Garden Husband” |FIRE DESTROYS HOME Fire early Thursday consumed a| occupied | by school teachers at Seahurst, near Everett, | perior court here to recover $1,000,| the purchase price of an auto, from| Pred | Lake Burten. The occupants had left the house| Sunday night Read “The Rose Garden Husband” |Evidently This Bus Was Not Raised to Be Jitney) cot word of the fire, followed soon || William Biel and Ben Alma, of have brought sult in su | R. B. Tolsma. | the |a day forever.” They allege Tolsma told them machine “would run 24 hours! They say it won't Read “The Rose Garden Husband” | PLANNING SUICIDE? | | somaniace have turned from vodka | to methylated spirits and other ss HS substitutes. Read “The Rose Garden Husband” Fair tonight; Increasing { cloudiness, turning to rain Fri. | day. ) Thursday is Thomas F. Murphine day. All his friends have been} urged to use the telephone in order | to bodpt his candidacy for corpor-| ation counsel. Friends of his are ito call up their acquaintances and irge them to do the same, making sort of endless chain. ' | ZCHARGE DETECTIVE CHIEF HELD WOMAN IN HIS LAP OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 17.— Makins apartment, Mrs. Peterson Charges of a clandestine court- heard ibe compe kissing, and, upon nveatigation, found Mrs. Makins ship, to say nothing of public in a bathrobe, while Peterson, she kissing, are on file in the di- /aileved, was fleeing thru a side vorce action of Mrs. Florence | door V. Peterson against Detective | Peterson gained considerable Captain Peterson, formerly |prominence last year thru an ad chief of police. dress on the vice question, in Mrs. Meta K, Makins, di- |which he declared man is polyga DS vorcee, is named as core- |mous, and that “we have tried pondent. prisons, lashes, contempt and ban. Among other things, Mrs. Peter-|ishment, alas too long, in our ef- son alleges Mrs. Makine sat in|forts to control, mitigate and sup- Peterson's lap publicly at a New|press this great social problem.” Peterson was a witness for Mrs. Makines when she received her di voree, Year's celebration in a local hotel i) and that they kissed each other Mest once while passing the Feb. A) {STERDAM, 17.—"It it is necessary to commit aul cide, please drown or hang yourself.” Thus reads a placard {asued by the burgomaster of Boltes ford, a small village near Brus- sels The German military author itles recently fined the village $1,250 because a citizen so far forgot himself as to suicide by shooting. The Belgians are for. bidden to have firearms Rend “The Koge Garden Nusband’ Men Who Like to Dress Wel Will be much inter- ested in the announce- ment of Tonkin’s, on page 6 in today’s pa- per. It tells of a sale of a lot of men’s high class suits at halt price. Don't fail to look it up. Want ir Star |acreage for yor Lansing Germany and America are ex Ss erartne ients on those of the past, must be cared for. | Lansing insisted upon adherence jto the previously proclaimed Amer fean stand for the right of mer jchantmen to arm for defensive purposes Bernstorff indicated he must ask | Berlin for instructions before meeting American terms. He does not expect to see Lansing before is week Read “The Kose Garden Husband” —— LINER IS AFIRE; REACHES PORT SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.—Re }ports that the Toyo Kisen Kaisha|in a t | steamer, Panama Maru, fretght-| | lac Jen and with a few passengers, laued for divor 20-minute | Earl © Kitchener de- clared today in the house of lords. On the afternoon of Fob. 9 was fr ted that two German) The British officials reported no| damage was done. | Dispatches from Berlin of Feb. }10 said that tn the raid, Zeppeline |bombarded and sank the British cruiser Caroline and the destroy ers Eden and Nith. j This was denied by the British | gan Francisco ‘for Yokohama and/ Jother Oriental ports, was afire, | were followed today by further ad vices saying she had docked safely at Yokohama on Feb, 15 The T. K. K. line here had no advices from their Japanese head | quarters. | The marine department |Chamber of Commerce, of however | by the cable telling of the arrival | of the ship. The Panama Maru the Seattle trade, formerly tn 23 with a large cargo, a crew ot about 100 and only a dozen pas- sengers. She touched at Honolulu Read “The Kose Garden Hnsband’” ON RAMPAGE; CAUGHT SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feb. 17 Acchibald Duncan, "Santa Ana rancher, who went on the ram was taken into He will page with a rifle custody near here today be charged with insanity Head “The Rose Garden Husband”. 6,000 SLAVS KILLED the) sailed from here tion for a divor EBRUARY 17, 1916, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS The Seattle Star on 18 News ONE CENT iGH EDITION ANY TWO ZEPPELINS SHOT DOWN IN RAID ON BRITISH TOWNS Bchool Board Members All Fall Down on Brain Test Given to Child Pupils © Earl Kitchener Tells! GET YOUR FRIENDS PARENTS PROTEST IN ON THIS SNAP its readers day! ment! storel 25 cents a month. ture. Rose Garden Widdemer, AND ENDING THIS NEWSPAPER. @ Wonderful stories of ro- mance and adventure are comprised in the list of books to be published in Star, ONE BOOK- , COM- PLETE EVERY WEEK. The Star is going to give MORE MONEY THAN ANY NEWSPAPER IN THE CITY OF SE. HAS GIVEN THEM BEFORE. @ A standard, $1.50 book of popular fic- tion published EVERY WEEK, ning on Monday and ending on Satur- No long waits for the next install- No expensive visits to the book Not even a trip to the public library! Just a telephone call to the cir- culation department of The Star, and the paper will be delivered to your door for FOR THEIR ATTLE EVER begin- @ Begin with us Monday on this new fea- Read the first of our books, “The Husband,” BEGINNING by Margaret MONDAY SATURDAY, IN PARENTS. TUG AT CHILD IN COURT WHEN DIVORCE SUIT IS DISMISSED BY JUDGE: | Mre | brief “You give me that boy!” | Mre, H Shrilled Mrs. Alameda Hill, of 1116 Fifth ave. N. “He's mine and you can’t have him!” William M. Hill, her hue band, looked down at her and, clasping their S-year-old son tighter In hie arms, kissed the little fellow. “ORI” cried Mra. Hill. “You!” Leaping up, she grabbed the child by the arms, and pulied. This scene was Vaart! atic drama enacted Thursday room in the attic of the King county courthouse, Mrs. Hill | Years before another drama ended ndy ke er in a w rT screaming, of a noosed rr ne Judge French, of Kitsap county, held court in the hangman's room Thurs to alleviate congestion in the courts below | Judge French found that Mrs Hill's for a divorce. She tentifie last March, Dykeman refu when Superior , at the home that lived with not her parents, and Galen Chester Hill, “The law does declared Judge French as you left at his mother support you.” In-law's, Hill had come prepared to test fy as to his fitness to hold the son's custody. He had brought along a box of tools and a football he intended to introduce | W |as evidence of his affection for his had presented the the mother-in law's home last Christmas as gifts | for Chester These He sald he ball at fon. tools and A can full of pebbles and sawdust, empty of explosives, with eight Inches of fuse, con- stituted a “bomb” addressed to Chief Louls Lang that was found near the N. P. tracks between Auburn and Sumner | Wednesday. | “Some hobo had a weird sense of humor, that's all,” says Spectal Agent Payne of the railway cor pany, Who brought the tinware an sawdust to the chief Wednesday \‘Dan McLeod, one of the watchmen. | pulled it ont of a gunny sack lying The “bomb” was wrapped in a Ad will aed six feet from the tracks. high corresponds to the Pacific ave. There are no 00 address in Tacoma buildings or houses block there. “T shall souvenir,” Wednesday, the in keep the bomb for declared Chief Lar “I refuse to worry, she had lived since Jndge d her first applica in that same oe trag en a man, a murderer, was to his death at allegations were insufficient’ the nil, | her make it a | man’s duty to support two homes “As long your husband to live he need not pee They had been thrown out of AMSTERDAM, Feb. 17.—Five|the window into the mud, he said, thousand Russians were killed and/after he left the house and the several thousand wounded in the|boy never got them last three days of battle before| When Judge French dismissed | Erzerum, Turkish Armenia, said|the case, Hill picked the ehild up | Constantinople dispatches today, in his arms, with the result that SAWDUST BOMB CAN'T SCARE #2! wwocer “OUR POLICE CHIEF, B’GOSH! jhe had fetched jand uttering no word, the close of al the “You! go of that boy! ed Mrs. Hill. | Hill's face grew hard for a mo-| | ment then set the up hands relaxe tenderly his big He lad ple the room, lookirg straight Read “The Kose Garden MAYOR DAVIS’ WIFE sband” BAKES OW N BREAD] Councilmen “Fall Down” on Test CLE Harry L. wife of Cl land's mayor, bakes her own bread "1 do it because I think no housekeeper ought to buy from the baker what she can make herself,” said Mrs. Davis today “Beste Harry likes = my bread Read “The Rose Garden Hushand’ FIVE MEETINGS FOR AUSTIN GRIFFITHS Austin E. mayor, will address five Thursday evening. at Thorne’s hail, ¢ Labor temple. riake North End Progressive club the Zion Baptist church. Read “The Rose Garden EPS “EVERY SHE SEES TROLLE 8T. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 17 Because she Weeps every time she thinks of a trolley car, Miss Rose Mather ts today suing the St, Paul City Railway Co, for $22,500 damag claims her condition from her being in a street car ace paren een Lake, shana” TIME “The Rose Garde RENO, Nev. Feb, 17—No was returned today by the Mineral jcounty grand jury at Hawthorne inst Dr, Frank McKinley In nh agency superintendent, and R. Ballou, agency farmer. ‘They copy of the Morning Grouch, with,were accused of killing Frank words “Dangerous—Do not open,"TWeber at Schurz ‘ast December scrawled over tt with a pencil he alleged = straveutation of “There wasn’t any explosive in| Weber, however, will not be drop the can,” explained Payne. “Lang's | ped |name was written ‘Long’ on an at Read “The Rose Garden Husband’ tached note that said: ‘Mr. Chief Long, | have 75 bombs, and if this} IS ROCKEFELLER OIL don't get you, one of them w oo PE 343% P. ha isoarat ‘ia :DINC s U-BOATS? A well known bluff about 150 feet 8, Feb, 17 Is. the Standard Ojl company providing fuel for the 26 sub marines now actively engaged in torpedo warfare in the Medi- terranean? The question is often asked in Greece since tor pedoings have become frequent. Hill engaged with him in a tug-of-war on the spot where | Death tugged with condemned man several years ago. Let life of a} down, the Christmas presents and strode out of ahead Griffiths, candidate for! meetings He will speak the school ““|This Pretty Miss Has Forsaken a bill QUESTIONS; GILL : ALSO IS ‘STUMPED' | Bi You have heard a lot about “the city with the best public 7 schools in the United States”—Seattle But wouldn’t it give you a j to learn that, according to an official mind test used in the public schools on 12-yeate 3 old children, most of the officials who govern this remarkable @ municipal are “feeble-minded”? a say that some of them have proved themselves’ @ | practica imbeciles”? According to Binet the ranks © of the mentally unsound have been augmented by the follows the much-discussed test, ing distinguished company: Mayor Gill. Councilman Hesketh. Councilman Fitzgerald. County Clerk Sickels. Sheriff Hodge. | Secretary Jones, of the school board. | AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ‘BOARD OF | EDUCATION! The Binet test, the invention of two French psychologists, j has been under criticism in other cities for some time. _Under |its provisions hundreds of public school pupils here have been, — | declared to be mentally below par. | Parental Curiosity Leads to an Inquiry | Parents of some of these children finally began to as themselves, “What is this test under which our little ones_ have been branded as feeble minded?’ This started The Star in its inquiry. éacth Star ented that when a pupil’s work begine to m par, he is put thru a mental The he fails to pass, he is placed in a class the rest of the students. He is then known as a "deficient, A totally deficient child is sent to a school for feeb minded at Medical Lake. Here are two sentences which children, under the Binet are expected to repeat after hearing them once: “TI saw in the street a pretty little dog. He had curly brown hair, short legs and a long tail.” test, A normal child of 12 is supposed to be able to repeat the | Sentences exactly Not one of a score of grownup Seattleites, officials and ~ private citizens, could do it ’ When Mayor Gill was asked to repeat the sentéhce, he leclared he would not attempt to “L'il bet any man in Seattle $100 that I can start in at the top floor of the Alaska building and ask every man on jevery floor the same thing, and there won't be 10 per cent of them that'll do it correctly. I don't believe 1 per cent | could.” Councilman Hesketh gave the answer this way, after the ences had been repeated thrice to him: “I saw in the street a pretty little dog.’ He had brown @ |eurly hair, short legs and a long tail.” 4 He had the words “brown” and “curly” transposed. | | | | Here’s the way Councilman Fitzgerald got it: | “I saw in the street a pretty little dog. He had curly 7% | hair, short legs and long hair.” ‘ Sheriff Hodge, after the first reading, repeated, “I saw & | on the street a pretty little dog a cunning little tail.” | When told that the dog had a “long” tail, the sheriff leaped out of his chair and declared the two sentences were misleading “Whoever heard of a little dog with a long tail?” shouted. “I got the sense of the thing as it should be. (Continued on page 5.) He had brown curly hair and he A Drawing Room for Fame in Movies Fade out, “Society life,” cut In, “Seeks Movie career.” Tha what Miss Nan Carter is doing. In private life she is Misa Nan B. Sigourney and prominent in society, but now ene hae forsaken the ae drawing room for dramatic relies in filmiand,