The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 25, 1916, Page 1

“The first thing I shall do as mayor is to fire Chief Lang.” between himself and myself. AUSTIN E. GRIFF ITHS SAYS: “Mr. Gill says there is no great issue There is a vital difference. I stand for the enforcement of public morality and decency. GILL DOES NOT.” eee eee eee eee eee ee ~—“‘No man can be a good chief of police depending upon a salary under Gill without the danger of yielding to the risk of a penitentiary term.” eee eee eee eve eee eee —‘When I was at the head of the police department, we had the vice and gambling situation under control. Now it is running riot.” eee eee oes eee eee ee —‘*Taxes have climbed up when Gill controlled the city council. man, and we’re still paying for his extravagances and blunders.” Read How Wyoming Prepares Her The Star's ing plan,” on page 3, he volunteer high school ¢ greater effort PRESIDENT INSISTS HONOR OF NATION IS INVOLVED IN DISPUTE. correspondent his last article today on the adet oys tells, in “Wyom w girls cheer corps to VOLUME 1 SEATTLE, WASH., Ts They have climbed up when he was mayor. He is the original ‘high tax’ IGH EDITION Bandits Who Held Up Northern Pacific Train Are Believed to Be in Seattle Find No Trace of Robbers peat POUCHES ROBBED ‘ CRENRSAs enee DESCRIPTION OF BANDITS Both men wore long khaki | overcoats and masks of the Both had sia ae the tier hetght, 5 = rh The other weighs 185 pounds and is about 5 feet. 11 inches tall. Blood was running from a | jong scratch on his left hand when he was last seen. Two masked bandits who held up and robbed the east- bound North Coast Limited on the Northern Pacific, near Cov- ington, 10 mites burn, Thursday night, looting registered mail pouches, dyna- miti the ge car safe and firing several shots at the train crew, are thought to have escaped in an automobile to Seattle. This is indicated Friday in the reports of the train crew, who say that a few minutes after the robbers into the forest an automobile was seen Scorching away, headed toward this city. ‘oodhounds are being used at the scene of the robbery in an attempt to trate thelr movements. Police detectives and sher- if"'s7 poss scouring the city and watching all avenues of escape near the scene of crime, had reported no success up to @ late hour Friday. , Mall Pouches Rifled Four registered mall pouches, containing valuable matter from the Orient, were slit and rifled That may be all the robbers got They bungled the attempt to crack | * the baggage car safe. They over- looked’ considerable currency in the “xpress messenger’s stall Théy Got Rich Loot Mape than $6,000 In negotiable paper and registered mail sent frdéin Tacoma alone was obtained by the bandits, it was learned here today. Dr, D. H. Bell told the postoffice ficials that in one of the sacks of ma) taken was $4,600 wo negotiabl rtific of deposit that he had sent to a bank at Ken “mare, N. D. The exact amount stolen will Rot be definitely known until gov * ernment faapectors ss Spokane . thru the rifled sack According to Moore, of 2427 Fifth made a complete report I, BE. ¢ er, of the Northern Pa cific, the two men boarded the blind baggage at Seattle, at 7 7 Kicked Off a Youth At Auburn the two men kicked wth who attempted to steal fe Bogine er A ave we who| , and a few miles farther on,| tender, th climbed over the masks pulled down faces and revolvers in hand “One of them covered me,’ ‘(Continued on page 5) CITY LINKS READY Get out the ol” your goluf sticks The municipal links hill will be ready for pla day morning, after having closed since the recent snowstorm. The course is reported in good con dition. bag and dus Beacon ‘me i t off { T'S speed we want these 4: Every day {4 our buwy day “Action? -Action’™ t# the err. Man travels in the high gear. “Be brief!” says the sign on business man’s desk. le talks with an associate in New York over the long distance, sends a night letter by cable to an agent tn Caleutta, dictates his letters to a non-gum-chewing, non-gossiping, non-flirting dicta- graph, and takes his drama in tabloid form at the movies. vinger up, everybody! is money! Time was when folks, who Hed themselves busy, could buy a $1.50 novel and read it from cover to cover, That time is gone. The Star is bound to be in the over it is. That's giving our reade Are ing “The Rose Garden "? Great story, isn’t it? IF YOU THINK “THE ROSE GARDEN HUSBAND” GOOD, JUST WAIT FOR “THE RED EMERALO,” NEXT WEEK, The fine thing about these Monday-to-Saturday stories is that you can get as much goo fiction as is good for you in 15 You don't t week or tall Time to wait 1 next month for th ment You start jay and finish it & Then, too, these stories are remarkably fine collectior ery one a Jewel of its kind—every line good, clean, wholesome fic tion—fresh from the pen of the world’s best writers And you get these stories, |] which would cost $1.50 in book form, as part and parcel of your dally Star So, speed up! Hurry up! Call up Main 9400 and ask for the Circulation Department. A brisk young man will be glad to take your subscription. have If TODAY TIDES h 4 AT SEATTLE Low 2:04 w m., RE ft 5:55 p.mm., 2.3 tt, ARE TO BE EVIDENC Prosecutor Says He's Going to Introduce Them in Court MANY MEN MARRIED| Assurance that ail the wealthy alleged victims of the Seattle “badger” gang will be called witnesses when Lilllan Peterson comee,to trial here, hE by Prosecutor tundin — A new complaint against the two women and Sichler was to be filed in superior court by the prosecutor Friday, In which the charge in changed to “conspiracy to blackmail} Samuel I. Silverman, mining promoter, and others, tween April 1, 1914, and April 1, | 1915." Hold Photos as Evidence “Mra, Clayburg will be extradt on that charge,” said Lundin well as Miss Peterson, if she is ap-| prebended.” ] The former is under arrest in Los} Angeles and Miss Peterson Is said to be in hiding in that city Photographs of victims, all of whom are wealthy and prominent, will be used as evidence. The ple tures show them in compromising situations with the “badger” ayndi ca “sirens.” heriff Hodge said he bas been approached during the last two/ days, since The Star published the first exclusive story of the syndi-| cate’s operations, by many wealthy and influential men who wished to learn if they had been named as victims in the confession of Mra 8 a former member of the badgers.” “1 have @ sheriff, “that on now collecting the wealthy apartment here, who, I am told Angeles immed: was made pu CONFIRM FLETCHER WASHINGTON, | “Feb nomination Henry P. Fletcher ‘to be ambassador to Mexico was confirmed by the senate today sald women is rentals of a house owner hurried to Los after the story 26.—T he } | Led town of F by every business man in all the residents ve signed the WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Saturday. o¢ POLICE MAKE A BELATED EFFORT 10 Five alleged disorderly wom en were bookea at police headquarters Thursday. Membership in the police “purity squad” has been in creased from three officers to 11, and reports are current that a belated effort is being made by the Gill-Lang admin istration to clean up all out ward signs of immorality Hefore aries the t ad’ was under the gt. Fred Smart, a ficers Albert Johnson, M heim and A, A. MeNult yrought Bo trength the wudder of Sergt. Frank Melvin M. Myers a ( three ¢ ago Wednesday another which O ment was put thre, in cers H. D. Kinesey, ©. 0. son and J. B. are Owner waid t From ene family in France 72\have been assigned to the purity | under squad, direction of sisted by OF reinforce CLEAN UP CITY he 1 open results of the al tages preelection round-up were directed against we the names of Jennie G Ross, Ella Walsh, Mary Cleo Harris Hall women "lee § was negotiated eft the city Jal of them were oliciting other and the! booked for | was booked “disor » Kinsey and Peterson ar 1 the first two women Thurs ufternoon at 4:30 p. m. at 655 t uleh woman was arrested and MeNulty at Kighth ave cers Borsheim tthe same tim Officer Lee at Jackson st. and morning B, Orser arrested Mar Sixth ave, and i-|later he brought in Cleo Harris Kightt e and Jackson st iy | police officers are working orders to bring in women } “working op the streets.” | A MOTHER VISITS BELOW THE LINE’ She Tells Other Seattle Mothers What She Found; Denizens of “District” Say They Don’t Want Griffiths for Mayor; Men and Women Buy Liquor Freely; Policemen, She Says, Admit Conditions Are “Rotten” NE little woman, prompted by mother-love and an exceptional sense of civic responsibility, has thrown herself into the whirl of Seattle’s po- litical fight. Alone, she started out a month ago to learn at first hand conditions as they existed in the city under Hi . Gill, Now she is using every bit oh a gy and bfains at fhe Soins to help elect Austin E. Griffiths 2 mayor. Mrs. Remington Charter, maga- zine writer, traveler, lecturer, was not content to sit smugly back and believe what the women in her neighborhood thought about politics. She had come to Seattle from New York a year ago, with her two daughters, in search of health and happiness. She had heard much of Hi Gill. She had heard of Austin E, Grif- fiths. She believed a mother was partly responsible for any existing system as long as she failed to inform her- self and failed to vote accordingly. She believed that she owed it to her two daughters, in Broadway high school, to take part in the fight. “Il have been convinced all my life that the welfare of women is . only safe in a clean city,” she said. pa nena Coren: So, you see, I am fighting for women —and not simply for one man. “I put on my coat and hat and started out. newspaper writer gave me confidence. “T went up dim stairways. “1 knocked at doors that were opened slightly, while tired-looking wom- en looked out, amazed to see me there. “I stepped into dozens of rooms, and talked simply and directly to the victims of the system, “THE OPPOSITION TO GRIFFITHS THERE WAS WHAT TURNED ME TOWARD HIM. “1 FOUND THAT THE WOMEN IN THE HOUSES AND THE SLUGGISH MEN ASSOCIATED WITH THEM, WARNED THAT IF GRIFFITHS WAS ELE 2D HE THE LID DOWN ON THE WHOLE DISTRICT. “*TIGHTER THAN HELL,’ WAS THE WAY PRESSED IT.” Mrs. Charter leaned forward. It ia silly for any one to say t vice is not a disease in Seattle today. There are dozens of houses filled with girls and women. here is suffering and disease as a result of it. And there ts ambling 5 AFTER 1 HAD GATHERED PAGE AFTER PAGE OF OFFICERS AND TALKED THE ITUATION OVER WITH SYMPATHETIC WITH MR. GRIFFITHS’ IDEAS. SITUATION 18 RO’ IN “| had found out, and these officers admitted it, that the ‘district’ is widely distributed. out that both women and men can get liquor almost anywhere. One of them said to me ‘The old Wappenstein chain has ne and th mostly for the purpose of strengthening it only one It is, DON'T GE CAUGHT. “That man was perfectly sincere and clean, He didn’t know then that T was interested in the Griffiths tdeas,” Mrs, Charter has a keen, Years of experience as a THAT | FOUND DOWN OF SHAME, HAD BEEN WOULD CLAMP THOSE WOMEN ExX- TES, | WENT TO 12M, HKOTH OF BOTH OF THEM OPENLY ADMI' WO POLICE WERE 2D THE | found ‘er been broken. It has been We have added one command. broad viewpoint toward the pending struggle between Griffiths and oi. “This fight, to me,” she says, “is more than a conflict between two men. It is the struggle be- tween two conflicting | is that have a lot to do with the women of the community that | am in terested in. “| don’t believe that Hi Gill and Austin E. Griffiths could ever look at the same problem in the same way, And | believe that the big, broad, advanced Griffiths viewpoint is the better for wom ankind On the other hand, I don’t believe in sitting back and screaming terrifically at Hi Gill alone. In my belief, he ts not personally responsible for the rotten system in Seattle. His friends, who inke advantage of him, and the popular opinion among the men and women who don't care, that they are safe under his polee department, undermine community morals, No matter how hard Ht Gill would try to clean up, the same idea would dominate in the un derworld.” oe REPLY WILL ASK U. S. TO DEFINE SIZE OF GUNS FOR MERCHANTMEN CEFENSE, REPORT} LONDON, Feb. 25. — Ger- many’s reply to the American refusal to accept her armed merchantman decree, now en route to Washington, asks the United States to define de- fensive armaments, according to an unconfirmed Amsterdam message today. The reply should reach Wash- ington within a few days. Officiais here take the re- ported German query as indi cating that Germany does not want a break with America, and is preparing to yield. WASHINGTON, ferees on the German | Wilson today from his Feb stand situation failed to 25, According to the Amsterdam message, Foreign Secretary Jagow what America defense of merchantmen, view of her contention that these ships have the right to arm strictly for defense. It is believed the query is In- tended to prolong negotiations between the two nations until the excitement In Germany and America over the deci sub- sides. Then, it is presumed, Germany will find a graceful way to extricate herself from an awkward position. —Arguments of house com swerve Presid that the German armed | chantman decree transgresses international Jaw, end cans ought not to be warned from such veaséls.. * After near! an hour's session with Speaker Clark, Mi | jority Leader Kitchin and Chairman Flood of the house Pe jcign committee, there was still a disagreement between th president and congress as to the decree. | The upshot of the session, however, was no action to} taken by congress today, at least | President Wilson emphatically told the conferees thi jhe would not budge from his plan of insisting that Germany | recognize every Just as positively, American right Speaker Clark replied that the hi is overwhelmingly in favor of issuing a warning to Amerie |cans to stay off threatened vessels. | Following the conferencce, scheduled to consider the German problem Senator Stone's letter to Wilson , by insisting upon tabling them for announcing his view that a warn-/a ing should be issued to Americans not to travel on armed merchant- men elicited another letter from the president, in which he adhered Tension marked the senate pro- ceedings and Stone twice refused to allow unanimous consent to dis cussion of Bridge bills, fearing the to the decision that, while he would | talk might veer to the internation: try to maintain pe so only if the honor of America was upheld. The Stone letter followed a re-|of the senate today, . he would do | al situation. Jones Introduces Bill Immediately upon the convening — Senator Gore ported disagreement between him | introduced his bill making it egal | and the president in their Monday night conference. ker Tells of Conference aker Clark e is a rumor that the Ger. }mans will postpone operation of if The President's and Senator Stone's letters are to be found under a separate heading to- day on page 6. | | | their decree until the middle of March or the first of April. I am j Just guessing at this, but if it is sideration, If they j think the | the house ig concerned, will remain Jin statu quo The sum and substance of the |conference, outside of explaining | the temper of the house, and much | arguing on both sides, is that the | situation js fully set out in the two letters of President Wilson and Sen. jator Stone. We explained how the | house feels, We told the presidtnt that a warning would carry in the house by two to one, if it came to a Some say it would carry by pe to one.” Stone disposed of discussion of either the Jones or Gore measures postpone it, I true, it will give more time for con-| whole matter, as far as} for Americans to travel upon armed. session of the cabinet was? vessels during the war, and a reso | lution providing for a warning te 7 said, after the con-| them to refrain from such travel: Senator Jones of resolution by ashington, requesting President: Wilson not to sever diplomatic re lations with any nation and not to place America in a position where | she could not honorably avoid war, was tabled. WORKERS WANTED IN GRIFFITHS CAMPAIGN Volunteers are wanted to aid the campaign of Austin E. Griffiths for mayor. If you can spare any time to do work in your own neigh. borhood, call up the Grif. fiths headquarters, 362 Em- pire building, Second ave. and Madison st., telephone Elliott 2319. Women as well are wanted, The women’s campaign committee meets every day at noon at the Good Eats cafeteria, and invites all women to be present. as men | | teas Be in RIVAL CANDIDATES BOTH PLAN SATURDAY MEETINGS Mrs. Remington Charter, magazine writer, who made a personal investigation of the underworld district now in ex- istence in Seattle, will be the chief speaker Saturday at the Hippodrome theatre from 11 a.m. to 1 p,m. She will make two speeches, the first beginning at 11 o'clock, the second at noon, As soon as the plans for this meeting became known, the campaign committee for Hi Gill got busy, and an opposi. tion meeting was arranged at the Liberty theatre, to be ad- dressed by Mayor Gill Satur- day at 12:15. Gill also will speak before the German-American Repub: lican club in the evening with other candidate: Several meetings are being arranged for Griffiths by his committ Gill headquarters have been secured in the Mutual Life bullding. The telephone num- ber is Elliott 70, Griffiths headquarters have been opened at 362 Empire building. The telephone num- ber is Elliott 2319, the leading editorial tled: “That's Gratitude. well worth your while read it,