The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1916, Page 1

& 1 . THE RED EMERALD,” BY JOHN REED SCOTT. TODAY. PAGE 4 I | It’s the Second of The Star’ s book- length, popular novels, complete each week. Begins Monday, Ends Saturday een nnn eens MAR ARAAAA ~ wens , wee nar A Chamce to See a Leap Year Wedding Seattle girl proposes to Seattle ol man and the wedding will take place at the Strand theatre Leap ET ROS 2 Year day, Tuesday, February 29. “— Ser EDITI Adiateston trast: Rand Mil ubois } THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES | TO PRINT THE NEWS : } = NEWS : } : it on page 7. VOLUME 1& SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916 ONE CENT Siwa'tranna, ee NEWS RTANDS, fe L00SE TONGUE HRAM|K AISER TRIES TO EN D G You have indulged in a lot of loose talk, Hi Gill, but you havef’t got down to brass tacks on the real issue. You haven’t yet put for- ward one reason, or even ONE — EXCUSE, wha vou shosld be | These Are the Victims Of Greatest Battle Ever 7 elected mayor again. You can’t nown Rages Around fool the people of Seattle any more. Gill’s Slanderous Tongue Verdun; London Ex- | You can’t get votes by calling ‘ Bk ee ee lA Glimpse Into the pects Other Offen- Griffiths and his wife names. XN Home Life of Austin @ And calling names and spouting bunk don’t answer the big, | E. Griffiths; Some- Sives. vital question. They don’t constitute any grounds as to why you one -~ Pa LONDON, Feb. 28.—With all his re- should be re-elected. et jaar a gar A the kaiser is striking for an over- see aR ; Said, Public|ourres: me. ' i @ Calling Griffiths names doesn’t excuse you for keeping a Louie | Speech, Had. Reon whelming victory, intended to end the war. | Lang as chief of police. Calling names doesn’t explain why vice The past week’s battling for the fortress and gambling have run rampant with petty police graft, under of Verdun is but the prelude to a grand as- | “Dragged Down to the Level of a Street the cloak of your apparent reform and respectability. Walker” by Her] 22ult along the Western front—the most tre- @ Even the high-faluting statement in the morning paper, | Husband mens dine cee ear pinns: - ever sect which somebody else wrote for you and to which you signed | \qnepeaeen: |e acer amiga bee wih pst any operate your name, doesn’t furnish any reasons or any excuses for |, it & modest, smallish home out] gO shine te due to ro ae ar ight a your re-election. "and i shelters + fine «141000 | Tuesday. P TY oe : Austin E. Griffiths. Prince Henry of Prussia has No snobbery, no mitilion-dollarish| taken over a high navy com- 3 airs, no evidences of the sordid] mand preliminary to this. GIRL BRIDE SUES erialism with which Hi Gill) London is tense. be to stamp it in bis innuendos . She awaits news that the Ger enets: ve aatasing90020| ny Meet.is coming out Into the | FATHER-IN-L | ae ‘Aa 0 key to @ prospective aiayor'é eas oo or that Zeppelins are ap) ‘i character and public deportment,| T° | his home life is a matter of geteral It ts the real thing at last,” said tntereet the Times critic today. | Declares T. E. Jones Alienated And it is for that reason this is| While Europe and the world are| Affections of written, not in patronizing defense|°" ©48¢, perhaps the greatest ar-/ Heatant of a home that needs no defense. ee os peng tbe od mae This is Mrs. Austin E. Griffiths and the modest Griffiths heme.| Mrs. Griffiths’ name was linked | ADO™ 1 hyp cabana | This is the woman Hi Gill baselessly slandered in his speech at the| with that of her husband in the gg gods ea from Verdun. ; TELLS JUDGE OF AFFAIR Liberty theatre Saturday noon, and again at Turner hall Saturday) Gill diatribe e position has changed hands @ If you are going to depend on FALK, Hi Gill, stick to your line of stuff. Don’t let some rhetorically-inclined editor put big words in your mouth. a? date_your. TALK. comprises these things You called Griffiths a 7 and a coward; @ You called Griffiths’ wife a foul name. In the next breath you said Griffiths’ wife was worth a million dollars when he married her. In another speech on the same day‘you said she was worth a half million dollars when he married her. G The Star has said, Hi Gill, that you are |f\Xi Saver Gi today trying to epeatedly during the past fox] 7. &. (Tommy") Jonas “Griffiths married his wife be ¢ was a millionaire,” Gil! sald|deny that he compared Mrs, Grit. | GA?® sia iain wealthy contractor and builder a 22-caliber man. This sort of stuff Out |] at noon. “He dragged nis wife to the level of a street walker to gain hie/fiths, in his diatribe Saturday, to| Two miles west of Dowamont, the) of wharves, of 1017 Queen ja Anne ave., sat unmoved, with his jaw hard set, in Judge Frater's court Monday, while his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Carol: B. Jones, aged 17, told a jury | ambition.” treet walker. French are projecting the fame | 4 “ fllery across the Talu ridge and “ da half lion,” Gill said in hie speech Saturday, He is trying to wiggle out from | At | oa married a half a milli spee ui 7 | ander the storm of criticism that | the approach to the Pepper Heights, | thy ly the thy assailed him for bis statement barring the advance to Verdun Ji Take 0 leok:et =the Griffiths residence, Tammy. the heme! AustroGerman guns are shooting of a millionaire or a “millionaire heiress,” or of a “half million,” either. Its import was shock of your own mouth proves it. 1 &¢ THE STAR IS FOR GRIFFITHS AS tons of explosives *into the armored A h Ll j iit te Gin | ing, no matter what its | slopes of the Pepper Heights in an) the’ spectinns ot tas ae I ST U F R M YOR BEC USE motive or exact wording attempt to blast the ridge away old husband, Thomas C. ‘send A G A N YC ) | ) A A Jent location, Gill declared “I don’t see how Mr. | thus opening the road thru Bras to| The young Mrs. Jones, the pret- .Grittithe put the dam where it eg . Verdun. ty mother of infant’ boy, t GRIFFITHS Is A MAN. the advice of experts.” Gill could have said such Checked at Verdun by French! prattled to his grandmother Aan Iso Ug tion of | things about Mamma,” ex- | reinforcements, the German crown| the course of the trial, 18 suing hee 1. “ABUSINC WOMEN a ws | claimed Griffiths to friends | princes drive is spreading to the] father-in-law for $25,000. | c Ae ; 2 soy once | B 7 after Gill’s unbridled in Champagne, 40 miles west of they Tears came copiously as Mrs, ‘ Caldw i and KE. Bradford,| | ective Verdun woods Jones rehearsed her courtship candidates for corporation coun The Berlin official statement to-| days and told of the cul << ' fo 3 8 C culmination of 7 F M se Ed Terry candidate fe | ‘Mamma Griffiths! day virtually confirmed the French] her love affair, her wedding at Ew ‘ Makes Vicious Attack on Mrs. | treasurer; Harry Carroll, cand There's a fine old-fashioned ring| claims that the Verdun offensive is|erett, October 31, 1914 Charter in Public » for comptroller; Dr. Walter J.| about that | : y bac mnt nth Pp 9 Ss halted, temporarily at least | On their way back to Seattle in ! Speech : papel rs nee ineop — o& , Pear So used was Griffiths to the word At the same time, Berlin reported| the elder Jones’ auto, she testified, a aon pen ric aD, ae resident | that seems to sum up all that i8/ the capture of over 1,600 yards of} the bridal party, consisting of her GETS IN WRONG ON DAM |" one of Gill's newpaper chan-| on and wholesome in family re-ltrenches and the Navarin farm, the| self, her mother and her sister, pions Geliberatety ornitted Sat lationships that it fell quite Un-| scene of desperate conflict in last] Miss Adelaide Owen, separated from evan pee —. ‘7 ate | conac jously from his lips September's ofte ansive. | the rest of the crowd at Fremont. ao ae WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Ger-] was recently give Laisaebide L the mayor's rence to M Grit.| Tells of Visit | ‘Tommy, my husband,” she satd, § H #. 28.—G va ently given to Lansing by! EXTRACTS FROM HI! GILL'S | yi. 1 nie Saturday noon speech.|to Griffiths’ Home VERDUN BLOODIEST ayed in the machine with his many's reiteration of intent to tor-| Von Bernstorff SPEECH SATURDAY NIGHT Saathae? Chaar ahdlelied Ger. 1 was deserted on my wed | TO GIVE WARNING ANYWAY | | pedo armed merchantmen, begin-| ‘The Austrian charge d’ affaire “} was Incorrectly quoted in | lait treat te ten sandey edition | Hea oa pal pliner Fl ding day —- ning Wednesday, was handed Sec-| visited the state department efter, The Star. | have attacked no on 1 pon bi sn0pss t fits perfectly with my impres. OF BAT TLE ELDS To fix her husband’ | BY CARL W. ACKERMAN retary Lansing today by German) Bernstorff, and declared Austria's women in this campaign, nor | | ra iets he maaoee meted of} sion of the household at 301 22nd) tion in the mindenee prea | (U.P, Staff Correspondent) —_ | Ambassador Von Bernstorft views were identical with Ger-| shall | do so. bviaky ie nal ; ave. N., gained during informal Pa er ne re sister, Miss Owen, testified that | BERLIN, Feb. 28—Germany | | ansing’s only announcement was, WANy’s “Mes. Charter is an imported | . | visits there. dun wood may go down in his. |YOUng Jones had moved and assock | will not torpedo passenger [+s ribassador Von Hernstorff left| England's alleged ‘orders to mer-| | thing, with a face like a futur. | It jibes with the donfestic life of lun . y 9 d'e bloodiest | 8ted with the wealthiest families in liners without warning, even | | nig government's memorandum.|chantmen to attack submarines, as| . !st cut | oh yg an gr weeny orgie pean ar batt field eo a ce Ce eee : | after Tuesday, when her war- | | That is all I can nay claimed by Germany, seemed toda eatin E. Griffiths married Ask Extradition can home, free from pretense and K gay ORE rg A On @ day soon after the mar fare against armed merchant- The German envoy was equally|to offer the last hope for a satis-| | @ half milllon, He never earn | social fonr-flush. mattaks Stan caked a wching |tiage, Miss Owen testified, she her men becomes effective, the | uncommunicative factory adjustment of the German. | ed @ dollar in his life. He has) for Mrs Cla bur: | “We met as children on the} shattered = mon | are evvcarfur self called up the fathenin-law all United Press was reliably in- Later, however, it was learnef| American deadlock a swell farm which he got the ° prairies of Nebraska,” says Austin| here, giving evidence of fearful | oo a hiss to anden. 00 alee | formed today. the memorandum contained the re If these orders are proved to ex same way he got the rest of it. i ‘BR d ” C | ort ffiths, in a statement printed) carnage north of Verdun, Lae he en | Marmany ‘will endanger ‘hu |1 ort of submarine commanders oniist, the American porition toward BD nl AO yy Borghi n a ger ASE |! eisewnere in fut eee ee ae eeentinS | Ske eaid ahn.4uical at cee eink’ tw ony Wome alts clgst spasi sv omg tages qs bono an position towar signed as chief, but | haven't “And we were wed because we| eastward with reinforcements | ne oa n ae 4 its | atiompts te soonpe, * a score of cases, in which it is al many may be somewhat altered got the time now.” | Application for extradition loved each other, We have been| and munitions to fill the gaps | S0n was coming, to which he gave, Ai flew on a dubmarine or to ram ieeed British yr hantmen used! Ambassador Von Bernatorft's in papers for the return here in |married 28 years and we have five| ™ade by the German offensive. — that he wished Mrs. Jones heir armament offensivel structions from Berlin, however, of- @— a o' custody of Mrs. Isabel Clay: #) ohiidren “There must be 30,000 wound. | Would give his son a dive ue art ioe Save further references to|fered no apparent basis for a seitie 1 petore thal] PUN, Rew under arrest in 1)” Gill, in his ill-chosen reference to] ed men dying in agony in the | ane latter replied that ahe would Hs aislavehos. between the | | Rueeed , Beer itish admiralty’) ment short speec ; 1e|] Los Angeles for alleged con. Pl ity opponent's private life, sought| tain and snow, simply because [N0t. positively, and Jones then is Pe erence te wubmarine | (orders t0 destroy submarines Congress is not expected to inter erican Republican club spiracy to blackmail wealthy Tl to create the impression that Grif-| thelr comrades cannot reach | said to have declared that his son ee eae that The original copy of the order|fere in the administration's German night, Mayor ait agsin men of prominence, has been fiths had married the mother of his * said a surgeon today. | Would never live: with | his wife, wal found on the seized liner Appam! American course. {a former chief of police signed by Gov. Lister and || ‘Phe percentage of dead will ex. Armed ships will not be con na sunt © Griffiths, now his rivai| ve a cn |children because “she was a mil-| e centag ad | sidered legitimate peaceful SOFT SNAPS el Posy: lg Be nee ovens thet are being forwarded to Cali- | lion-dollar heiress.” ceed that of the champagne last SUSPEND SENTENCE | | fornia Monday. | “We both taught school before September. trading vessel Tho the tragedy of Verdun is Commanders will not tor- GILL WILL VETO IT con pel yeti cqrengeicnene, e A hearing before Gov. | ‘ oe pedo every ship encountered, | WONDER WHEN mamnost taf ge Pie Algo ioe Johnson, of California, is set (Continued on page 6.) | written on the faces of the Parisian| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. trusting later that they may A MUSICAL. COMEDY ) Mayor Gill announced Monday |an » adsailed the looks for today, according to a men and women, they are, never-| the supreme court today Peerencnn vneere ror’ .£6r \_ WILL OPEN HERE i) that he would vet tit | Remington Charter, the|| Teesage received here from MOTHERS TO HEAR theless, cheered by the latest ad-| agreed to hear the whole case offensive. hi a ea ‘ould veto the council bill a enine ‘aha Wate a See Deputy Sheriff M. E. Hally, vices indicating the French le of David Lamar, “Wolf of Copmmmmnrs 40 oot Vislete alling for new water pipes at vere investigation of conditions 1 who went South to get Mrs. 9 holds Pepper Heights, while the) Wall Street,” on its merits, proviows' tnetructions te warn Laurelhuret Sen ee cuder worl’ Gletrict Clayburg last week DOCTOR s LECTURE canter and right are counter at-| thereby automatiggMy suspend. passenger liners before sink- Water Supt, Youngs has told the| tie again stated that Griffiths ng from the ruins of Doua-| jing sentence to ince peni- ing them. council that new wate pes are ° ee capt at. | whens ere invite » it | saoat | tentiary for impersonating ex- pee is not courting spe ly 4 i os r pipes are married for money, but reduced Mother are Invited to the ‘llus-| Rep. Meine Pt 9 the am mount from a million to half /Two MJURED IN FIRE trated a million 1. € > efore the taxes went up, in 19 but declared it was trouble with America, but if a future accident endangers Americans, Germany will con sider she is not responsible, in- asmuch as she has warned i tal Yeo" PREDIGT FALL IN| | 3:20, at the Bon Marche, under | | PROTEST ARRES Reece the auspices of the Mothers’ Train NOTHER FO TNIGHT T wo were ling school. The lecture is enti /A R een { ted Care of Children’s’ Teeth In a resolution ie jis | Americans and the American | NORTH YAKIMA, Feb, 28 n of munic firemen | : adopted by t government officially. | Mra. H, D ier gion Na getied 4 | —murees. will sino. damonptrate ‘4 BERLIN, Feb. 28-—The att | pirth Cor ange ge ! almost instar Jaturday when 1 to reduce the next » building at Fourth )& Pee en her es Mer} of Verdun, possibly within a {9 ndey evening at . ae een: ka my in which she was riding ! i | . = | fortnight, was predicted by |W t hall, protest is made - re Over @ baat ; to Grit fireman, fell 36 military critics here today against the arrest in New York-at 5 ar AT SEATTLN TODAY denounced him as|feet from the Toof of a building] EVERETT, Feb. 28.—Search ts They pointed out that no |imima Goldman for disseminating dg — bow taxer,” |}and was seriously hurt. Mrs. Lulu} still on for thieves who stole 00 fortress since the war started |information about birth control. j AN USHER IN THE COLISEUM WEATHER FORECAST how Grif Mecullough rr indy ot the room [worth of silk and adic cs has withstood a German attack | The resolutions were addressed to aia :02 a.m. i22 Ht. 7:00pm, LO Pe Be ae a od the building ing house, was badly braised when|from Dolson & Smith's store Fri-| once a breach was made in the | Judge Brinn, Harlem court, New y “AT ROME = man Amant) Tuesday fair. dam at ite prea. she fell downstatrs aay | outer defenses. York f - SO DAA AAD AAP OPA PPP DP DARI SN DON Te tw EU |) pr COILS ~~ Attend the mass meeting Wednesday, at 12:30, at the American theatre, to join in the fight being made by Seattle and the Northwest against the unfair railroad rates that are keeping summer tourists away from our city. Admission is free. You will hear good speakers. You may remain and see the moving picture program.