The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1916, Page 1

GH EDITION a heSeattle Star That's just another reason why you 't afford . a paige star Monday, and THE (": THE ONLY PAPER PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PR DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : will be completed ia six issues, VOLUME (EE ony pare WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916, OnE CENT Sh.c7ene P *. * * * *“ * s Ray LANSING INDIGNANT OFFICIALS IN — | a YAstineron 0. CHARGES (CATHOLIC PUZZL E OVER GPA TIRED GIRL bassador will be shipped home.” 6 AMBLING CHURCHES. with honey-col- This remark was credited today to a gov-| ored hair worked in ernment official in a position to make it, GRAFTING GUARDED MAN- OMAN 7 public library telling rivate jetective eclares Police Fear FREE ist Fugiti , stories to youngsters. German Ambassador Von Bernstorff, by Private, Deetive , Declares Police feu Ansecnst Paging e : Hy H H i | Protection | Attack } With “Robert” A. Gaffney still wearing male attire, the county One day she realized that she the logic of the aso anasied the man meant.) ngepes : Methorities are in a quandary Saturday what the next move *hould be : oe ae sige - Recent newspaper stories cred-| MURDER A “SIDELIGHT”| WRITES THIRD LETTER the case of this strange woman, who lived as man for 18 years and wouldn't be young so very much | |is0a to Teuton sourees conveying ; Married another woman four years ago : " longer. She wanted to have a rose CENSUS BUREAU | the Impression that America had| Five big Chinese gambling | | NEW YORK. Feb. 19 <A Prosecuting Attorney Lundin 'sad" Leuety Baeasenioetarves i cnt arden, and kiddies, and a husband. {changed gy enon ipo ge i Rae Mia. a Aone poesd * If any prosecution is to follow because she “married” under false But the opportunity never came— Bp ocnanl cgay twee ge thre nig elle ey oye until Mr. Guenthers, the gray-haired In the meantime, “Robert” is held in the juyenile detention cell clerical and entieseia! plot atta attempt to wreck them. bm case gave rise to a feeling money, and dozens of lottery |that a rupture might be at hand. E TS INT This feeling is said to have reach-| Semesters sre making period ical contributions to “oil the led a climax last night when a cor- i ‘ i | | | | | 8 8 $ é 3 2 : . corporation lawyer, and his meek lit- jrespondent asked Lansing if it She 1» suffering today from bruises about the neck and face, which s callilis ieee ; aks : : ‘ aturday by John W. Authorities ere partioutarty | Were inflicted upon her by an enraged woman in the same cell Friday tle wife, came to her with a bargain. Estimates Seattle Death Fig- ig Bete par-sapales cy Ae: pre sh mag ober aon cicenael “night, who mistook her for a man, She was to have her rose garden— ures; Dr. McBride | Lansing regarded the report that Rokerts, formerly deputy tidy make 2 daneeneee / The woman fs being held for examination as to her sanity - ‘ P +4 : i 6 sheriff, now is doing private Aker oo-g teste ee dpa and a maimed, invalid son of a rich Indignant [he might,resign as part of @ long | , oe a crowded church tomorrow. ATTACKED BY FELLOW PRISONER IN CELL : y 4 campaign’ of misinformation about | detective work with Frank The third of a series of letters te 7 The moment “Robert” was left in the same cell with her, she woman for a husband. The lawyer ASKS AN EXPLANATION, American negotiations . former Chinese immigra- | the New York Times purporting to flew at her and beat her up severely before “Robert” could be rescued had looked her over. He considered fe did not openly attribute thin| tion investigator for the gov- jibe from Cronex was in police poe — ‘by deputy sheriffs. “Robert” was laid up in bed all Saturday morning z J ‘ oeiips : tid: up to: the consid ‘Subbbe at |'° ais German embassy, but he ix | ernment. a |session today. In this the Tos = Teperter, “Robert” said that she would itke to continue) that she would make a satisfactory veuskianion te eanteta aaa said to have felt that it grew out of] |The murder. of YU. Park by {declared he had turned anarckiees Wearing the garb of a man because “convenience,” : yj " , oo : A Be of offenses against the dip-|gunmen, in the nese quarter, a result of the Ludlow, Cola, M4 be rere Seated! wife. She was weary, and longed for |. A tow days ago Dr. J, W. Trask, |iomatic propristics on the part of| Thursday night, is only one #ide| massacre. Peete i | trates Staten otter aivios of ihe | Bernstorft in the matter of giving |light on a gigantic system, Roberts| The letter was mailed at the | credit for being the healthiest city out information about informal con- | declares. Pennsylvania station while the po- lin the country, eal@ there were ferences. The cleverest Chinese gamblers lice were hunting Crones. The upshot was a decision to call in the West, according to Roberts,| The Knights of Columbus ball, at — “ram a satpenier snd: do Men's work,” she said, “and men's! the luxuries of life. And so, one day, sre necessary for kneeling beside her halfsconscious “Robert” A. Gaffney, herself, look: juare! | : * : : m3 herbelf, looked myuarey into the eves of « ml bridegroom, she guided his hand as it ’ . a q {2.673 deaths here in 1916. l aiteacemsaets kak eat tie ; ee dee. retype ace yA hg eg her: = slipped the wedding ring over her dg a lg 5 yes en F 20. deny. Or edimait. Pe | es ane aaa teal pave dn Sttendod. by, prominent _ Cate “Beca: vad. granted to rad er. wen post ai “d finger healther, gg in The | Whether he has done this ts not|a gigantic scale clergy and high city and state of- — them.” re ee | : Sica rr Ammpdigtelys telling |*RO™™- The system working in Seattle,|ficials, passed without any anarch- predicament Saturday, is “Mr.” Gaffney. Then the terror of what she had [him he was off on the figure Ne Ne ea ee “haya bea el hy fabsggiony Fore cn ist ageiye som cy as the police had mance Sa Mgmt] done, andthe swift impulse to go WP aReraae ae ae MILTED, KULS SELF ci = ie cae ie : back “to her library! “She knelt at imad at ah Inggod,-Di C.:and Prt a lage a ge argePs She TELLS “HER” STORY TO A STAR REPORTER the threshold of a new life, already Poe iy denier oo PORTLAND, Ore, Feb, 19.—311t.| ‘in search made at churches, publie| | “The discrepancy of 111 death® oq by his fi anything in Seattle's former hie lin due to the fallure of the Seattle |(Neft’ by the firm for onion se |e buildings, ferries, railroad sta health department to make re-worked, Lawrence Mitchell, 18, in ‘ports to the U. 8. health depart-) ment for 20 weeks, making it nec — today from the effects of pol-!ing ‘and who implicate two gunmen essary for us to estimate figures | imported from San Francisco, one) for these weeks. If the Seattle from Portland, and a local Orien-| sr. Palmer has “her” case under advise- this state, he says, for a woman to| admits the case of “Mr.” Gaffney has) 2 aenge e+ circumstances. | ffney explained in detall to The Star reporter just) bitter-sweet with its weird mixture i Ta 4 Roberts cl and reading rooms, clubs> of misery and luxury. . . . neta pnt pgs wll were warned today to be on tha” witnesses who saw the Park shoot-licciout for him, as he might apply for a position as chef, fing men's clothing for years before 1 met Mar) health official had been on the job, } 2 tal | “I wore trousers because they were more conven- BUT THE TALE OF “THE ROSE we would not have had -to esti | BATH PROV ES FATAL Yee Bow, whom the police ar- pag ind Bo cot Nye eel ter dy sah cot > * M f mate.” TO THIS MINISTER | rested in ‘connection with the carpenter and finisher. People do not Garden Husband,” Margaret Widde ee 2 H| : : ; Did thix hold Doc McBride? Not | — shooting Friday, is to be made the wore men's clothing. | mer’s enthralling book, is only half fin- so you could notice It, UTICA, TL, Feb. 19—The |"goat,” according to the private de- m need. She knew I was a woman. We | ished when Miss Braithwaite marries. “lf Dr. Trask was ofto bis job,”| Rev. William Herbert Hatch- | tectives. _ Would help her until she could get This novel, one of the most widely-read said Dr. McBride Saturday, “he'd| inson, rector of Old Trinity Tape, Roberts, Ah Lee, a local means of support for herself. That) . *, know that we don't send him any| church tn this city, died re- |merchant, and Mock Fon, a can- works that has come off the press in re- . 2 » an " T | P pera i be “ reports. The city health depart cently in @ local hospital. A went to the prosecuting|, Because Tuesday is a legal holl- TONGUES OF GOSSIPS cent months, will appear NEXT WEEK ment reports to the state health! few days ago he slipped in his office Friday, they|&Y (Washington's birthday), the we decided, we must to cut down we married. Peaple would have} ‘talked about us had we not. “As time went on, Margaret did not find places for her children. in The Star, It will start Monday, and board—and the government gets| bathtub, striking his head on [cjaim, and offered to swear out a|™@UuBieipal primary election will be end Saturda its figures there. the edge, and since then his |complaint against the gunmen for|"¢!4, for the first time in Seattle, . x “Anyhow, the government has no| condition became steadily [tne murder of Park. on Monday busitiess estimating. Dr. Trask) worse. Roberta said they were told to| TW candidates are to be nomi- She herself broke our compact while | was working in the Cotman butld- could have — us “g Bod ex-| |work with the police. + ag for mayor, two for corpora. _ ing as head janitor. pense and got the correct figures. MAY SEND | ‘The police, he declares, refuse to| on counsel, two for treasurer, and THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST OF inticue tana nse eae | REMINDER jarrert the gunmen. eit for the Counc. | Oona * ; “ Fe VU. 8. Deputy Pi it 7 one who a long list of book-sized, popular “We don't report to the surgeon re F 7, Bullivan has Vana ciaglones pel has filed for comptroller. x general, except on contagious dis-| WASHINGTON, ‘ 4 The polis will be open from 8 eases. We report deaths to the |State department admitted today ob) Pen Se pee See oe m to 8 p.m. It va ae know novels that are to he published EVERY Jeensus bureau, and we have for-|!8 considering sending England a They will make another @ffirt |v odue pice, caiiaah ae pee fe in this paper “Robert to “his” sex. To the most critical eye “he” looks ifke a man. _ Conversation shows “he” reasons like a man. But “his” voice is high pitched. Th S e Saturday to swear a complaint he Star overlooks no opportunity to |warded reports, covering every-|“reminder” that she has o> an- i e . ) poy \direct against the all istration office, Main 8500. INSISTS “HE” MARRIED TO PROTECT WOMAN give its readers the best it can get for |thing up to December 1, 1915.” American protest |“HNer or | oye get ms The ballots will give the “T want to tell you I know men,” “he” declared. “That is why I married Margaret. A man might have befriended her the way I did jut he wouldn't have stuek to her. “It makes little difference about me, now that the truth is known. People with whom I have amociated all my life will consider me out of their class. I have no age now; I'm just flotsam. “But 16 years ago,’ _fleciared, “I was a pretty good-looking | woman, if 1 do say it my Mrs. Gaffney, who runs a rooming house at 2023 Terry ave, tote} a different story. She says she did not know she was marrying a woman for months | In fact, she never was certain of ft until “Robert” 4 The census bureau ts still to be heard from. statement alleging bim to be a of the candidates in alp! the money. Publication rights to these copyrighted books have been purchased, a o littl fror h | ne nifinianteiliee at m ittle expense, from the origina ‘INDICTED EDITOR FIVE PERFECT FEET FIGHT U. s. STEEL Co. For corporation counsel the can- publishers. It is a new idea in Seattle: didates are: Bradford, Caldwell, A complete novel in a newspaper AT HOME COLONY ——- a 1 : STAMFORD, Ky., Feb. 19.— |. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Creation |Guie, Murphine, Schmitt. EVERY WEEK! Be sure to start the i) Andy Adams has a funny |of a huge combine to fight the U.| For city treasurer the candidates first one, “A Rose Garden Husband,” on | TACOMA, Fob y)—Indleted at} MAAK of nature in the way of |S, ate! corporation was foreseen jare: J.T. Gilbert, W. C. Hyatt and Monday. tas aamabes ee abtidhin om be a five-footed hog. The porker |today by Wall street, following | Hd L. Terry. 46 Angeles for p ig aller weighs about 125 pounds and |the announcement that the Rethle For councilmen the candidates inflammatory articles in El Regen-| hay five well-formed and de- [hem Steel Co, had acquired the jare: FE, J. Brown, Ed Brunini, Otto rng a A one Ae Pkber | veloped feet Pennsylvania Steel company . Aaron Fislerman, C. B, sans Mie ony sa go oN Fitegeraid, C. J. Gerald, V. P. Hart, member of the Hip Sing tong was|Mer. For mayor the PORKER BORN WITH absolutely false are: Erickson, Gill, Griffiths and Raymer. SAYS “H FORBADE HER TO ENTER “HIS” ROOM “He was away nights,” said Mrs. Gaffney, “working. He slept in day-) pected, be arrested near here to- time, and I was forbidden to enter his room. I was suspicious of his ree Charlotte F. Jones, Charles Marble, sex, and once accused him of being a woman, but he grew so angry Owen has been at Home colony, DEC >| DES BOO ZE CASE ee aiceetiee non tk Bs a jen anarchist settlement on Puget “ . H. Thom- oy ” for three of these, or for if {they was aes as a “lazy husband” and ordered ‘Rumor Ruling Against Rainier Club 1 A osagge Rp apa Be a ‘ — tom morta ee DOES FUNNY “| would have gone,” “he” said, “but the work, I knew, would be| pe Se BITE RSI i an too hard for me.” Col. Joab Peeved by Letter to Paper) ST UNT | GARAGE! Presiding Superior Judge Ronald) would “pass the buck” to the state WIFIE’S BISCUITS ; « jlate Saturday afternoon will hand | supreme sr ph TOO MUCH FOR HIM — | 6 : | TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 19 tnal action taken in such a case OAKLAND, Caly Feb, 19 [down his decision in the million-| sont to typlote Tor tamer : oN ; Springing to the defense of George! The warrant was sworn out on) payig Munro punched the |aires’ liquor case, He ts out golf-| early in the day DETROIT, Feb. 19.—Ignate i FOR M A YOR Washington, frst president of the complaint of Joab by Prosecutor) Wrong button on his automobile |g and left word hell be back at] ‘The Rainier club and the homes| {ietes" that’ he bryretens Si e4, »| e an, 4 } p. | eves s improv si { Ventine oitieen have, ewore out &|- Cel. Josb was furious on the second floor of = garage. | 4:90, of other defendants were raided| Ignatz told Judge Murphy that ; feompiaint today for eriminal libel| “I can prove by statements trom | pie an acrobatic act thru the l, Word went around the court: |for Mquor recently by Sheriff; hard, cold biscuits were the t fla ‘ “ window ouse about noon that e de-| Hodge. Criminal proceedings w ° . 1 ite) Je were) * VOTE FOR AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS—Under all the cir- |#ainst Paul R. Masser, who wrote) Alesander, Others that-Fraseer nes —_—-_——-- cision would overrule the demur-|brought agaist the alleged tic| Canntte, he eaid, wens oneeal cumstances in the present contest, Austin E. Griffiths is logic- Tribune, ta which Washington was] falsifying blackguard,” he declared. | David Francis, former governor |rers of the Rainier club, D. E, Skin-|lators of the prohibition law who! or bought by bis wife, Lena, ‘ ibe Jof Missourl, asked to take ambas-|ner, John Eden and W. EB, Boeing,| pooled their interests in one Joint from whom he was granted a q ally the man to be named mayor. His election will tend to bury the bunk iseues which have been fought out and definitely settied in the past. Moreove: described as “a profi . divorce. 6 man and an) aadorship at Petrograd [the defendants, and, in effect, | test Sonatina icigettgeeee [eee MUMMIONSPLANT CE TEETTHS DISCUSSES MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS | Sp pele geng Talks on Public Ownership, Dams and Street Car Lines in Letter to Star counciiman and chief of police has eed antisfuctory, * He hag TO ARREST ILLEGAL man of high ideals. The city will be much better off with Grif. | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb, 19.—The s 4 fiths oe rere eee nestel in the esuial Oy dig air he VOTERS ON MONDAY $10,000,000 plant of the new Du Practical municipal owner- { One is, that the more utilities/\COSTLY ‘BLUNDERS HAVE} bridges and highways is just e would be in the mayor's chair, ra | Pont Federal Dyestuff and Chem-| ship is gg) ts a iene by in tn acquires, rN seeks to ory RECENTLY BREN MADE Division A Line f A check is being made ‘4 " 7 Griffiths, candidate (quire, the more money or cred ‘ 3 — ‘ M periaes ware oe. 4 Prosecutor Lundin of all down- | {cal company at Kingsport was re-| Carpal ah submitted for the the city must have. Around 1890, when the first) We have Division A railway, offers nothing of any importance tothe city, He asked to pe eeutele where it iv alleged |ported to have caught fire from in-| Gren"Forum of The Star. The Anotheniaggte siore the city en. Bonds for $845,000 were voted to hung like a diamond’in the sky— be vidicated two years ago. He said he would not run again. tow eat number of men and |cendiary causes early today, and| Célumne of The Star have been [gages in budMess enterprises, the buy out a private water company,|Lake Burien line glimmers in the a 9 col He should have kept his word. women registered {ilegally. |to have been damaged to the ex-| open to the mayoralty candi- |more business sense, foresight, cau- only 16 persons voted “No.” |distance. These two lines, of Lundin has put some extra | tent of $500,000 d to express themselves on tion and judgment are imperative-| In the second vote for more than | Coruse, must be united by a com men on to dig up the evidence, The plant was engaged in mak- sues of the campaign. |ly required $1,000,000, only 51 voted “No,” 1/mon user to be obtained in some — 5 / FOR CORPORATION COUNSEL | i ing plerie acid, a constituent of Each of them has spoken to City Has Many Problems don't recall a defeat of bonds for fair way, If necessary to go that explosives the voters thru The Star. In | ANOTHER FACTOR OF AT municipal ownership until 1906, In| far, We shall get such relief from 7 & a letter by Griffiths today, he |(MPORTANCE IS THAT W -'that year a scheme for city-owned the public service commission. 7 they will be challenged. A VOTE FOR THOMAS F. MURPHINE-—His ability, cour: Muraber of arrests are‘expected, |FASTS FOR SAKE. OF sutiines his ideas on making |NOT HUILD THIS CITY UPON street raflways was voted down.| We voted, five years ago, to ao | and integrity were put to the test in two sessions of the legisia- |STOMACH;: HE CRC YAKS | municipal ownership a success. (ONi ISSUE. MANY PROBLEMS) Since then, either as a city or|quire the Rainier valley railway, @ ture, and he made good. | \* ‘Soto hd " It is as follows AND MATTERS REQUIRE BRAIN state, school district or port dis-|Lately the council let that grand” % PROBE AERO SCHOOL Tew , 9 I would like to say a few words AND MONEY IN THE MAKING trict, we of this city have led in/chance slip away. Not the people, | AUBURN,’ .C Feb, 4 Jupon the progress and difficulties OF A GREAT NEW CITY. LONG ‘voting great sums for various pub-|but cold feet in the council, did) 7 FOR CITY COUNCIL D sis cath aamane ok } After fasting 72 days, a4 the [iP municipal ownership in Seattle. BEFORE MOST OF MY CRITICAL Ne ownership or utility purposes. this tito ih nee to stg Be Poy pot ie of ‘is “stomach anearen iam blamed by a few radicals) FRIENDS CAME HERE, THE We bear the chief burden in pay-| Last December we voted a bond VOTE FOR THREE OF THESE SIX: THOMSON, MOORE, = ordered an exhaustive. investi) Fraime for not going into debt POLICY OF THE CITY IN PAVOR ing for light, water, street rail-|issue for a belt line—soon money CAGE, MARBLE, FITZGERALD, PAYSSE. The Star recom. tion of every phase of the adminis Four killed in Syracuse, New! But facts are lke a dry dam.|OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP) ways, garbage collection, ferries,| Will be voted to build it. When monde Thomson and Moore, but makes no recommendation as tration and ce ct of the govern-| York, acid plant making products They stay facts, whe ther we like|W FIXED, AND HAS NOT parks, playgrounds, school | reeiriae c te the third man. raent aviation ecbool at Ban Diego. I tor war use, them or not, BEEN SHAKEN, EVEN THO.ings, harbor improvements, canals, (Continued on page 8)