The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1916, Page 1

You'll Sit Up Nights Next Week, Folks! Because, if you start “The Red Emerald,” the next book in The Star's Novel.a-Week series, you will get so interested you can’t lay your paper down, It starts next Monday and finishes Saturday. VOLUME 18 | GRIFFITHS TEN DEAD, 'A ] TOOPPOSE 16 HURT, , HIINRACE IN WRECK’ Erickson Eliminated in Pri-| New Haven Passenger Train, mary; Caldwell Polls Runs Into Derailed Big Vo Vote Cars } BRADFORD _IS Is SECOND| NEAR MILFORD, CONN. | NEW YORK, Feb. 22—In the THE VOTE | wns Haven system in many months, three trains today piled up near FoR MAYOR Milford, Conn., killing six pas- se Ee nominated) | sengers and four trainmen and Griffiths | Injured 16 other persons. Erickson Passenger train No. 79, bound Raymer 1, for New York, had stopped near FOR CORPORATION COUNSEL Milford because of defective air (Firet_ two nominated) Caldwell 18.559 —. ~e -. A epecial passenger train Surphine 11 17%, following crashed into the rear, turning over the engine of the special and the last coach of the stalled train. : A moment later, a New York- bound freight on the next track hurtled Into the wreckage, piling up the freight and blocking all iy | tracks. The thjured were picked up by a fourth train and taken 12 miles back to Bridgeport. rer are ‘CUPID CALLS ON THE STAR STAFF The Star office " Jooked Uke a matrimonial clearing house Tues (First stx nominated) Moore 21,499. Thomson > Fitegeraid 2 9 cs Rranini 4.765. Gerald 4,696. Jones 24 Fislerm Richard FOR CITY TREASURER (Piret two nominated) Gilbert 6,107. feceiving the largest vote ever given a mayoraity candi- date in a primar) election In Seattle, Hiram C. Gill was re- nomin: Monday with a com- setccbie Main over the com- bined voté of his three oppon- ay. Radiant young women ied willing young men right to the editor and/ gave themselves up as candidates for The Star's leap year wedding, to be performed on the stage at the Strand theatre, at high noon, Feb- ‘ LU =sarentiels ~ ents. Austin E. Griffiths re- | risry 29 ceived second place, and will Looks like we'll have to draw PROLOGUE contest the final election with | straws | (Scene: Hithermost side of Gili on Tuesday, March 7. Don't be discouraged, tho, tf you! the River Styx. Old Doc Charon oo, emcee 18,000 voters @i4/nave proposed to a man, girls. monkeying on a raft in mid not @xpress themselves on mayor.) Grab him tonight and lead him| stream. Shade of George Wash- Of this number, 13,000 didn’t £0 t0|+, The Star office. ington discovered descending the polls at all, tho they had reg) “you stilt have a chance to get a| the bank.) ptared. he Gin|{ree license, a wedding ring, a| Shade: Halloo, my good man! If he hopes to overcome the ‘ill | preakfast, life pames to the Strand,| Come, take me to yon strand lead 10 the next two weeks, Gril) nowers and a big cake—maybe a| from whence | am departed. ting be find it necessary to peg (lot of other things. We can't tell| Halloo! Halloo! the bmited support of Erickson’ and |{01 of otter thi Char: Can tik Sig. tlbn Aare, ymer voters, besides drawing | on a jarge part of the vote which | absenfed itself at MeuenyY | GIVES UP WIFE TO guy. This ain't no jitmey bus. Shade: Your words are strang- But hurry! | would » martes ata) day. When | ~ Caldwell Leads Ail my 7 Fow. eorporation counsel, Hugh BECOME U. S. CITIZEN my ete at was a notable in c led fn a field of five, z with Games F. Bradford, the pres Char: Don't kid the help. Get orporation counsel, about} SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 22.—| on the float. And don’t blow out tes behind him. George Alexander, an Englishman,| the gas. Sit down. Don't rock s F. Murphine ran third, | Sot a divorce from hia wife, Maude,| the boat. Guie ‘wag fourth and Schmidt, so-|today, in order that he might Shade: I'm going back— etalfee, tite. come a citizen of the United Stat Char: He's going back. Fogmer Mayor William Hickman ae aay Ps Shade ‘ To see my native the 13 council candl- heath again— Moo ie ‘other five nominated | THOSE HIGHBALLS Char; Poor nut! “RK. H. Thomson, ©. B, Fitz- MAKE ’EM WOBBLY Shade: To mingle with my gerald, Otto A. Case, Dr, BE. J countrymen. d own and Charies Marble, PORTLAND, Feb, 22.—The grain SCENE I Ed Terry easily led for treasurer, with W. C. Hyatt second. Little Excitement The campaign was devoid of ex- citement, There was little speech makifig, and most of the candidates were well known. Gill's remarkable vote {# attrib-; nted largely to the socalled “high| and low” tax issue, which was pre clpitated during the winter when the council, led by Erickson, got {nto a controversy with the mayor. There were 58,640 votes cast out ot a total registration of over 76,000. Mayor Gill heard returns at the (The Shade of the Father of His Country enters Washington, pC) Congressman (kneeling): Give = this day our daily bread, our another tidewater alcoho! highball is the most popular \unlawful drink in Portland. Of. ficers have found numerous drunks in a peculiar and very wobbly con dition. Doctors advised the police to look for contraband ~ stores of pure alcohol postoftice ARE YOU READING THE STORY OF LITTLE ‘LIBERRY’ TEACHER? G “The ‘Liberry Teacher,’ severely work-garbed policemen's ball at the Hippo and weather-draggled, jerked herself from drome, then, at midnight, went papers ‘ that was ‘ at your a Ae heady ta Chakeen the mall mirror that was unkind to you at your Wright's and ate a big steak best. ‘I'm sick of elevating the public,’ she said hard lodging weeks and car 51 sick of -working my board and ‘Tm for to herself. out of 52 U.S. MAY HAVE fare and shirt waist I'm sick of libraries and | 000 000 MEN being efficient. I want to be a real girl. Oh, 5 ‘} wish—I wish | had a lot of money, and a rose | garden, and a Rysband * * *’”” WASHINGTO: Feb. 22. 4 ner 2 . ae more than 1,100,000 Does she get her wish? Well, if you started ained diers in twe years, My 4 plang of house leaders materialize ‘The Rose Garden Husband” in The Star 6 gE 17 renga a Maga call Monday you now are in a fair way toward finding i lor the following \ be . FY teeta of the yeguiar army to out. It is the first of the $1.50, book-sized F ra Sen . popular novels that are to be published serially, Incre of the militia inder federalization, to 425,000 each novel complete every week, in The Star. A reserve of 75,000 regulars and a re : dene ie a 100,000 militiamen thru annual re The second installment appear todas on page tirement 4. Next week, “The Red Emerald,” by John This n would provide for nom Reed S {nal state control for drafting the Reed Scott. militia in case of war, and would provide lederalized training. i SEATTLE, YR lin LOT OO ANA Oe mw ame Fae nnn eee WASH,, TUESDAY, b- Sedorbhed a in CABARET SS A ig 2 Sateen ing) How times have changed since father was a boy! (The Shade takes a slant at Wall street.) Chorus: dough! The beautiful dough! Shade: What do you here? One of the Chorus Washington's birthday. We're celebrating. Not much busines today. Just sold a congreseman to the Blank & Southwestern rail- road. | Shade: Am 1 Father of this? j SCENE II } (Shade lamps the fashions of the street.) The dough! The Shade; These women must be wading. | Woman: Sir? This is the lat- est mode. Back to the farm! Shade; Am | a dad to this? SCENE IV, (Shade wanders into a cabaret.) Entertainers (singing): When old Bill Ballee plays his Uku- What song Is thie? Girl at table: Hullo, dad! Sit down! Buy a drink? This is Washington's birthday, y'know. Ever hear the one about the cherry tree? Shade (aside): At last I've found some one who knows, (Aloud): Let's hear you tel! it. Girl: Cut It, kid. Say, | ain't a camel. Shade: Am | Father of thie? SCENE V (Shade arrives in Seattle.) Doe Sydney Strong: This is no time for preparedness! Peach, oh, Peace! FEBRUARY 22 WH GREE, GA | ' |” Doe: This te | , 1916. 'AM I THE FATHER OF THIS? Imaginary Seven Scenes | effec cific wr th His Shade: good man. Indeed, yes. ed with a ryan, Hurja and Ford—peacemak- ere but misunderstood. Shade; Am | Father of this? SCENE VI. (Shade discovers Clarence Ger- ald« campaign band wagon.) Shade: Let me hasten back to You seem sorry, my 1 am array- worlds. rence t len't like it used to was—! The Prohibition bee can buzz. the Sweet libertee Was not for me. some candi. Halloo, eee ak some changes since Shade: (% Charon! my George Washington offic was born. Poor George would be an awful quince dea FIST BLOW CRACKS ‘ERICKSON WRITES SKULL IN FIGHT in the For > First ave. 8, C. C. land, 58, Hes in the elty hospital morning with a fractured and C. F. Moran, a black is being held by the police. says he had a fist fight and and that Ferland him with a buteber After a row amith Moran with F threatene knife JURY TAKES UP CASE WAUKEGAN, IIL, Feb, 22,—Th grand jury here will start on March " 6 to consider the case of William Orpet, accused of murdering his \aweetheart, Marian Lambert, a high jwchoo! girl A LETTER TO STAR) | Editor The Star: Please accept ; r » . oO stenc ) yhotograph, a co ¥ 7 |my thanks for the courtesy extend-| told of the existence of the photograph, a copy of which he} ed to me and my committee during} Was Shown, with the result that he invariably “came thru” the primary campaign, I also wish] with a large sum to express my appreciation of the Nearly a score of women are said to be included in the work done by the volunteers who| fo ” "The lead in & 3 worked so faithfully because of SOUP OF — sirens hey worked not only in Seattle, it is their interest in our publicly own-| Said, but in nearly every other city on the Pacific coast and] ed city utilities, 1 like to feel that| in Spokane | no effort for the common good is} The confession of the Belmont av ' lost. Our defeat at this time is the : FEN ORAS, ts aa but temporary, ‘The campaign for| follows public ownership will continue un-| About September, 1914, I went]into his private office, which I bo eit ae hy ig ta been| t, the office of Mr. G , to oo yore he sald to me, “How aken out of private hands poe ; Sica , in. Would you like to make some | OLIVER T, ERICKSON, |##¢ him about collecting some in-| oney? 1 would like to talk to and $ were confronted with the photographs and were sold the| negatives. Victim List Reads Like Blue-Book reat set of martyre— booked The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE ONE CENT on NEW HTANDA, Be THAIN® AND BLACKMAIL MILLIONAIRES! 9 { Sheriff Hodge Orders Arrest of Two Women After Seattle Woman Confesses to Wholesale Extortion by Means of Pretty Girls and Hidden Cameras in Bedrooms; Declares Men Gave Fortunes to Gain Possession of Photographs, Fleecing Seattle iiitinioe, wealthy bankers and | Sheriff Hall |mailers for several weeks, the arrests of Lillian and of , zs, Mont., and Isabel Claberg of Los Angeles een these t These women Ja wealthy 7, Billings j ordered Off luring the wealthy | situated in various parts of the city, jlation, photographs were made of the victims in compromising} situations rulous 000, The list women. of hours, The syndicate has operated under prot police, according to the woman confessor. hi The story of the plot and its unfolding, o! tious investigations by Deputy Sheriff Hally, reads like fiction society Actual photographs of some of the most prominent men} in financial and commercial affairs here, bankers, dowrtowar skyscrapers, and others, areheld in the sheriff's office as evidence against the several persons to be arrested. The alleged gang has operated all up and down the Pa-! coast, Sheriff Hodge and Deputy Hally for the arrestrof several othe Arrest of the higher-ups in the affair is a matter} it it i Seattle lumberman Millionaires, it Prominent officials out of thousands of dollars by an ingeniously devised blackmailing scheme by which the victims were secretly photographed in compromising scenes, a syndicate of “badger’’ artists, said to have been counseled and advised by two Seattle attorneys, } |today facing wholesale arrests. | Warrants have already been issued for the arrest of er = }women. Several further arrests are to be made. Yop ~ 4 | Upon information furnished to Prosecutor Lundin by who has been on the trail of the alleged black icials in cities were duly wired to that are specifically ,accysed of blackmailing $s an “9 of national as multi-millionaire well as internatonal affairs are said to be among the victims According | hand-in-hand to here women worked prominent firm of attorneys in to handsomely furnished houses where, by clever manipu-| the confession, the two with a sums of money, frequently as much as $10,000 is declared, were obtained when the victims) Of Seattle! of victims reads like a “blue-bool owners of is charged. Warrants are to be asked for by! s said tion from the! quiet, cau- If all the alleged facts gathered by Hally during the last} H ¢. She admitted she had been a member of the “badger” syndicate and revealed, names of other mémbers as well as those of the persons Cc ADR RRR Aner | Fle, Today cloudy, and occasionally threatening tomorrow {| Mre ) Mr. DE RR nnn remark : “This is a frame-up on the part of Chief Lang and De- tective Humphries to get me. Deputy Hally, in the days following, questioned Healey concerning his reasons for making such a statement. Healey ed a house on Belmont avi had nas 2 oman had enga hi for takin, arpenter Rig Up Camera to T: He had made a secret camera room under the stairway he said, bedroom of the interior of the bedroom could be obtained. made a thoro investigation, ealey had described it, and called the woman to the sheriff's and Ww ally Today. Sotient Bhade: Come, plict me across |Victimized. , the Styx; this One victim, Hally says the woman told him, had been | In no place for me., followed by the gang for two years. Their efforts to “land” My countrymen think him took them half way around the globe, but he finally so ete “fell,” it is said, for $10,000 They s } : F a lan A Char: Get on the boat; you're : Another, a prominent banker, is said to have been black- right, old top. mailed to the extent of $5,000 on one occasion, after he had The world’s all bunks | been shown a picture of himself and a young woman clasped much more than |. , ‘ ate you have sald in each other’s arms. The next week, it is alleged, another Diogene’ lantern's | photograph was taken of the same man in a compromising lost wick long | situation with another young woman, and he was again years ago. ‘orced to pay a large sum as ice of silenc Voces bocter off quite forced to pay a large sum as the price of silence. How Rich Men Were Approached After the photograph of a victim had been secured, member his office There wife was about to start divorce proceedings of th | surance for me. saw Mr had met some time before thru a , he two months, which led up to the woman's final confession, prove true, the greatest tale of crime in the history of the! Pacific coast has been brought to light. Chance Remark Starts Investigation at ‘or alleged burglary, eight weeks ago, muttered the y, a county jail prisoner, as he was being I know too much about them.” in the course of his talks with Hally, said he with a secret device he told Hally, to perform Ve e Bedroom Pictures work, had cat a hole thru the wall looking into a ith the camera placed in position, a photograph found the as in several successive interviews, the a | | ne law firm, it is said, would call the victim to] was informed that thru another attorney his He was also While in the of. you about a proposition.” . whom 1| 1 said to him, “I would like to make some money, but {t would all asked me to step) (Turn to page 2, column 3) AS” EDITION *|eign committees, and is now pre- NATION TO ACTIN SUB WARFARE | Fees aced Determines Agaii Compromise, Is Report WILL SEND NEW NOTE GERMANY TO INSIST UPON CARRYING OUT. SUBMARINE DECREE BY CARL W. ACKERMAN United Press Staff Correspon- dent. BERLIN, Feb. Germany's patience toward America vanishing, not the slightest Uesire is manifest here to postpone operation of the Teutonic decree of war- fi against armed merchant- men because of United States protestr. The ,opular feeling is that Americans must suffer the consequences if they embark on armed ships, instead of eking poems, upon neutral, 22.—With longer exists, because the — popular feeling is that Amer- ica already hi hindered 90 many of Germany's plans. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22— The administration today prac- tleally decided ta end the In- formal conferences between Secretary Lansing and German Ambassador Vo Bernstorff over diplomatic questions and to dispatch a fo note to Germany, emphasizing the need for unequivocal assur- ances about Teutonic subma rine warfare. The only thing that can inter vene to frustrate this plan is the arrival of definite assurances that the Teuton proclamation of war fare against armed merchantmen will not become effective March 1, — as ordered. Moreover, Germany must make such assurances square with the promises given during the Lusk tania negotiations. 3 Authorities expressed concern ~ over the receipt of an warnings by American passengers” booked to sail Thursday from New York on the French liner Espagne. _ The president conferred last night with Chairmen Stone and Flood of the senate and house for ~ pared to co-operate with congress — in every step of the future nego — tiations with Germany. Secretary of State Lansing and © the president conferred today for half an hour at the White House the Lusitania situation, but neing, upon leav refused to say what they had discussed, % Friends are putting pressure on ., the president to have him convey to the country a clear idea of the status of pending negotiations, ex- actly what is demanded by the | U. 8. and how long the administra: tion is going to pursue its “diploe ~ matic chase” in the Lusitania site uation, 3 Senator Stone {ts preparing to” make a speech in defense of the — administration’s course toward the decree. It 1s understood the state depart” ment gave Stone tnformation con- 7 cerning its attempts to secure @ promise from the allies that they ~ would disarm merchantmen. ‘ e Fathers, } Brothers, | Sons— There’s a message for you on page 6 in today’s Star on the big, vital subject of life in- surance. It contains some mighty good food for thought. Don’t miss it.