The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 29, 1916, Page 1

WHY THE STAR IS AGAINST HI GILL! READ THE EDITORIAL TODAY ON PAGE 4 RRR PPR PRR APPR RRR PDA AAPA PPPOE AAARARAAARAA AAR Annnnnnnnnennnennnn nnn nnn ASIi lium, Keen-Eyed Mam! 1A Dewnure Miss Who Loves IBlim! A Cattle Ramge im Idaho! It Soumds Mile am Interesti timg § Sto ry, Doesn't It? Next Week tures you will follow next f the story ou'll ayYmpa the her The story start After the death of her mot too savor hich was no fault rea-blooded t hate on Monday and end on t ever «¢ for ite readers, And Beet st Me Weenie oe | Feecaa Wakes sorix, Senin seach wis Wok, attic peace ee SSC TS: Soecar hae ea Gietebeaey, | MNTRe Mine titan vonic, “Tee Mes Mutts ville’ ne, | Shele Gos an AOE Dr. Brown Remts Fl Theatre at Ballard e € a Cc IGH champion, to debate the latter's tax record tonight at the Princess theatre. ast ac {THE ONLY PAI ees OR OPAPP RRA ene eee coumta Feageral wa "leading another en : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES — ‘TO PRINT THE NEWS EDITION DAY VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH., TU SBRUARY GILL TRAPPED LEAP YEAR | FOLKS GET | KNOT TIED 1916. INE CENT Siwe'sresne’ =< _— Zh <= a EAlg ‘2. a Save Griffiths Quit “Like a EMPEROR ; _ Yellow Dog” in Face of WATCHES — | Threatened Trouble; In-! C 4 — 22 AND cussr LALK rm: FACTS 5 a aa 4 A 5 a | What Gill Said in His Campaign Speeches: _ The Real Truth About It: tj ti f F t Di ‘ ad Said in His Campaign Speeches:} | The Real Truth tlt: | vestigation of Facts Dis- Pic Ausioncs Sox Star Couple | “GRIFFITHS PUT the dam where it is against ®MFFITHS VOTED sasinat ping te dam sr closes That Mayér Again , Married at Strand ha aides f ” a ee, ee a on ee arr oe Kaiser Gazes Thru Glasses the advice of experts. porte U mE) Theatre 4 S a y is a en. pon Bloody Verdun Battlefield ‘ IVEN GOOD SENDOFF “ey a Va ad SRITTTS ance apr ; GRIFFITHS WAS NOT in the city council when the j G : W HEN GRIFFITHS was in the city coun- question of extending thé elty light system te Tuk Ries ova dant a TROOP TO ENVELOP TOWN The big Hudson Super-Six auto cil he voted to extend the lighting system to Wwila came up, He wae chief of police under Gill at packed house at the Princess Griffiths resigned November 7 — a4 Mobile howled up Second ave. and Pilesits be wreg tai a ; é the time. theatre, in Ballard, Monday In other words, Griffiths resigned PARIS, Feb. 29.—Standing Bs came to a sudden stop in front of ukwila because the single taxers out there night, for the first time elabor- (before the meeting which, accord-| © @ hill, four miles north of a the Strand thea Pp + @ T 5 . Phd ated upon his previous insinua- — {ng to Gill i shat on ke! Fort Douamont, Kaiser Wile 4” i wesdaay. nace. got mad at the Puget Sound Traction Co. gies vere Jas previene focaee- . |inete GIL, sae hs quit “li | sim seatehed “fee arial Out jumped The quit as chief of police becau AS A MATTER OF PACT, GRIF. ring struggle there, Pe Star's leap year oT ef , > Sein : - oie * GRIFFITHS TOOK the job as chief temporarily, to of “cowardice.” FITHS TENDERED HIS RESIGNA 0 German prisons =, THE C OW ARD (Griffiths) quit as chief the ak Ht Fedeems inant, ‘Tunde wile na aaete on diel 4a). you'why'the coded (Slaw REVEAL, “MONTHS TED Sheets of rain and snow Then, with the first time trouble showed up and ran like a any kind. Griffiths tendered his resignation on ran like @ yellow dog the first. PORE THAT, IN JULY, AND GILL| Whipped the crest, driven by @ mass of blooms sie ” ; July 1, but Gill asked him to stay till September, time real trouble showed up,” COAXED HIM TO REMAIN A LIT-| fay" ind. | Staff officers, fear. from the Holly yellow dog. then persuaded him to stay longer. Griffiths re Gill d. “Look up The Star TLE LONGER es ‘or the kal because of ; wood Gardens in 7 signed in November, 1914. GILL AT THAT TIME and nee for yourself. Look it Roth Gill and Griffiths, according} PIs recent iliness, urged him | ber arms, Vesta Ludington, biush PRAISED GRIFFITHS AND GAVE HIM CREDIT up and see The Star of No io the fi} The ila ee ee ie = He Fs ing, stepped out on the stage. FOR WHATEVER SUCCESS THE GILL ADMIN. yeubet 9 oF 10, 1914, files of the other Se news| : neaey pels yw cetaaaal ‘o a = Ais Onage Ward. tho young tes ISTRATION HAD ENJOVED AT THAT TIME Fi _ 2 ain caplos ra oe pers, attended that meeting in Red heed their ‘an pe: aul ww to whom she proposed, ‘ Ty piers . z : ‘ Bund fist ¢ ~ ng me ntently he ed thru his walked out with his best friend, “GRIFFITHS MARRIED his wife becaus: GRIFFITHS MARRIED a school teacher, the daugh- uindny night previous and talked) Git! was jeored and hiswed at that/ glasses until the men of Brandeme) | Clayton Anderson. tees Ata . ter of a poor homesteader in Nebraska. Wet ot fine tetowa: mane of then, meeting. Griffiths was heard with| burg had stormed the fort. = The wedding march died away. | she was a millionaire. who wanted work. P *) tesrect Befor> his view lay @ panorama Gill said the city could do noth-/of frightful execution. Whole bat- 7 ing for the unemployed men—that tations melted under the fire of the |the county had the duty of dealing| French guns before Teuton hows hout | With charity work jitzers silenced the fort. 4 something about| Gili guid that if the men could get| In the village and on the plaim oe were tak elt |no work, “THERE SEEMS NOTH-| joutside the fort hand-to-hand come | Tells ‘Em to Look Up Star |ING LEFT FOR THE MEN |bats now rage over piles of dead. “The next day L told Griftithe— CEPT TO APPLY FOR DMIs. Foemen and defenders are in 8 TO THE STOCKADE, SEND! gieg in death. under, a u A Niort Se wore nat coke wot Ee ae aaa ‘or these fellows maki TIGe at tre the eoward que (TH TR CHILDRE! TO THE DE-| The slaughter to the Look up The Star of those dates| TENTION HOME.” the Pepper Heights equals yourself and see.” .On November 10, 1914, t¥O! Dounmont. The French command When The Star reporter who! 1#ys after that meeting, The Star|every foot of the approach, while | “covered” the Gill meeting got back | Published an editorial on its first/an inferno of shrapnel bursts to the office, he looked up the files |P&E*. severely criticising Gill's Un-lthe plain. ,. Rev. Robert Ava Smith of the! Central Presbyterian church faced | them and performed the ceremony | _ The Tiffany ring, from Burnett | Bros.” jewelry store, was slipped! over a finger that trembied slight-| body Ap..the_agdianes sim ded ‘him “deadtorights.” 7 Oe leap year. had been fit} Fiat ioe settinots: hs wntcn tne! 15 mills. I did not know two years ago | was whole town had been invited, and) : my " » . at de. ed ent is| running with a couple of men (Marble and ‘I told ‘em how we wanted them |to get work, but wouldn't stand for jany trouble sad "RK ATTACKF ” , , GILL SAID In public speeches: “Griffiths dragged I HAVE ATTACKED no woman in this i SR tecpetine ereneeens i eeitithe, Oana campaign. . ambition.” He also assailed the looks of another woman. He the false and unmanly insinua- ‘ tlon that the @ money bargain in the mar . . riage of Mrs. ett to Austin E Grifhiehe, | ~ : phe eet amas, a “COUNCILMAN MARBLE agave a writter COUNCILMAN MARBLE, never made 1 4 ween im . a " oy , . + MARBLE WAS NOT A CANDIDATE WITH GILL promise not to vote for a levy higher than aot ne Pyningll doors, didn't close the festivities Lundy) WHO WERE LYING INTO mentioned by Gill jfgeling statements, especially sn) Ali German attacks’in the big for the young couple. ~' | “Put Wives in Poorhou: | view of the fact that at the time the lfensive before Verdun for the They were fairly weighted down OFFICE. | He found that the meeting Gill 5 ord 24 hours have been repulsed, the) by the huge wedding cake sent up |referred to wae held the evening of| (Continued on page 5) jofficial communique claimed today, — jadding that the French entirely surround Fort Douamont, the scene of several days’ struggle. It was officially admitted Germans had captured Manh: village, 11 miles southeast of Vi | | dun, in an eastward drive to force evacuation of Verdun thru\a’” squeeze from both north and so ‘ RIED 0 GE HIM: nament, today, told oF te 4 | ] ] ] statement today told of taking, in the Woevre region, where the Ger > Hazen J. Titus, dining car su-' perintendent of the Northern Pa-j| ‘effic. “GRIFFITHS HIRED men at 50 cents a day —_ GRIFFITHS NEVER hired any men at 50 cents a > ° 4 day. On the contrary, he gave the Hotel Liberty and made 'em pay their own board out of it.” men the best contract they received in the winter of 1914-1915, as the manager, Henry Pauly, plainly sets out fully, elsewhere In this issue. Incidental ly, Gill declared these jobless men shouldn't get even a cent a day, “GRIFFITHS IS QUOTED as saying that the GRIFFITHS HAS not been quoted in this connection “gNY, ; has not said anything about the Felix Crane money collec ted by Felix Crane went to The Star has commented on it editorially, higher-ups.” While the crowd cheered and gave them congratulatory applaw the newly wedded Mr. and Mrs. Al. pha Omega Ward stepped back in- to the big Hudson car and were whisked down Second ave. to the 1 ther cat There, in a private dining room. | Manager A. Cheshire Mitche!l had the wedding breakfast waiting Where the couple went after the Dreakfast—nobody knows. ee . however, and stands by what it has said. ) Mrs. F. M. Kellar. of the North mans are assaulting to the south: | American Life Assurance Co. re. | , ar -” Pa “wee < gee t 4 t of Verdun, 16,575 E Went # the groom with a $9.00 in “WHEN I TOOK office, 50 rat catchers and TSEMIENEN “tir Se ak enanace tothe otty: pe Giers. 228 officers, 68 cannon afd #m lurance policy, paid up for one} 12 sanitary inspectors were dropped. The month. At that rate each rat catcher would be machine-guns. year. | SiS ” getting a salary of over $177 a month, Hi Gill is The Germans passed Dieppe, -Ba- Mansger Smythe of the “Strand total saving was more than $11,000 a month. just faking on this statement. cort and Blances and captured Maz gave both life passes to his heulles, Champlon and a portion i theatre. a French trench northeast of Ba a ‘The Hudson whirled around cor. villier. ee ners and over the boulevards under =! MEETING WILL BE CRUISER [ATTACKS 4 , HELD WEDNESDAY! 'S SUNK; 50-YEAR nants of eight German regiments | ~~ OF CHINESE TONG? | @ ee rw BE THERE, MR. MAN! 13000 DIE, RULIN oem PARIS, Feb. 29.-—-More than Attacking th 50. rage rub W Re! ‘4 Estimates of the total dead, 4 ; wounded and missing in the Ver & 45,000 GERMANS ARE KILLED IN BATTLE © LONDON, Feb. 29.—More th ss 45,000 Germans have been killed ii the Verdun offensive, according to an Amsterdam dispatch today, Hiow terrible the butchery is wal evidenced from the report that rem- Roberts, a private detective, for a ‘ - — 1,000 men are believed to have jadopted by the civil service com ‘ ‘ ts of wepadiinine 64 Eee Cormnet mi. whe ; . du drive run to at least 160,000. 7 Augen it Sew eagdk Why te (0 srinig 8 Pigg Fs A po pnatee?, when the eg ° com perished when French auxil | mission and sanctioned by Mayar 7 ¥ ay ™ Such frightful losses, critics quest was not held in the case of | Worker for the 0 ommission opens its Inver) japy cruiser Provence, carry- | Gill, Otto A. Case, candidate fe We, ; lieve, coused the kaiser to order a 3 Y. U. Parks, a Koréan, who was| ms Pi ead Sioctavaias es ip te bs re, March 13 ing 1,800, sank Saturday inthe |the council, Monday night ad-| sttoa of massed assaults Upee p< ‘ : rubbing Wedne - t Wednesday noon’s meeting at ‘oad the Verdun forts for the new effor water during the} ands of Chairman CG. A. Reyn- |the American theatre, the differen.. Mediterranean. jdreased a meeting at the note $a . ta take them by heavy ire * Plodsoutor’: Lundin . informed eof the public service com all will be ss explained, ax che RAT oF rite toll | Mrs C. L, Austin, 2218 North ae 5 Pe Se ¥ Wt Si < from thé cast. - 5 mission well on it works to the great ni te 7. * the, bowed he. volleys Noverts Ae editor of the Railway and riment of every business house| told of 296 landed at Malta, | Case reviewed his work along z turphote? and Robert’ q Marine News, Kerr has pub and business m in-this section of| and 400 others at the Greek [economy and efficiency lines 4 . USING YOUTH IN A ‘ bends Seal: sehasaiara tal. the lished several articles concern- the United States island of Melos. }county official, end his study vagie $00 Yeo Bow, whe ts ing the alleged rate discrimina A later official atement [civic affairs while secretary of the] HURT FOR BANDITS — bein, Road gecused of the ‘mur- tion practiced ads the said that 870 were saved, mak. | Commercial Club. ~ bh wae Northwest by the Squthern Pa- ing the missing around 1,000. | “We have the same fight in the - ‘ , —— cific and allied roa } Ten boats now at the scene |city aw in the state legislature,” h : Jacob Polinski, 19, who says. he 1 he m1 are continuing the search for [said. “You remember the bills . mpfr was with the» Northern Pactfie -— april —@| Reynolds has promiaed i Phy other survivors |which were meant to kill off ou 7 ; 4 at Se |bandits the night they held np the — OFT SNAPS knock the spo’ 4 “a a |public utilities In the last sessio: ‘, Sood. vy i ‘J North Coast Limited near Coving ~~ -- —@| mass meeting for (Cs ig He The ro The wame interests are busy noi\ 5 ewe : ‘ jton last week, is being used by AMERICAN 1 ban pik #g tate athe ‘ }to undermine the same instith-} ‘ . : Sheriff Hodge in an effort todo 7 WEDNESDAY NO! 1 submarine, a mine, or an ae-|tions thru the control of the coun x i e the robbers . Those who want to see the mov John Doe,” who was picked upc deit Ten | * Hing pleture show after the meeting| raving mad on the street Friday The Provence is the palatial ln-| - | — may do so as guests of the manage-|night and who was subsequently|er, formerly in the transatlantic P “pyre a ‘ ] ment declared insane and ordered to an! service but more re on admt-| MAYOR OBSI RVES Oty i MEETINGS TUESDAY Sines lives, connie Waal chon Beicagreo dete Of diators, \eelty duty.) ‘The’ ves of 18! HIS 10TH BIRTHDAY] isabel Clayburg—A Photograph Taken Shortly After Her Arrest at Los) GRIFFITHS — Norwegian-Dan tives, living in the Kast, have t it developed Tuesday was the vic.|000 tons and 600 feet long \ Angeles, and Just Received in Seattle } ish club, Boren ave, {| — forced to abandon contemplated vis-|tim of a erook who administered| The Provence was probably car DALI Tex. Feb, 29 er complete confession of the * the joint rate diffefential of the| After having been confined since onika. Malta and ielos, the land ebrated his 71 0ty birthday to- ing a supreme effort Tuesday Oat chee, anees ane ta om aaee | ave. and Stewart Southern and Union Pacific line®) his arrest in a padded cell at the|!ng points, 600 miles apart day. He would be 44 years to secure her release from jail | ,,, said Hodge “There | res gee". a ¥ Cy e he vease ne. oe) no ne i | xh Ry. $3 . ee . as hetng: received daily by T. D.icounty jail, “John Doe” awoke! It Is Hkely the ‘essel Sank be) old had he been horn one day in Los Angeles, where she is | way a beautifel young girl in the! | @jLL-phalen's hall, Colamblt |Rockwell, one of the Jeaders in the| Monday night and announced that|tween Malta and the Greek west) earlier. Aw it is, he has a birth being held as an alleged con- office when I arrived | . r te fight, his name i* Hans Knudson, a gea.|coast | ay .onty ORE rary sur Lag spirator to blackmail Samuel I. | “I had been there less than five! | MEETINGS WEDNESDAY i hese letters will be used as ev!-!faring fisherman and proprietor of na oe ta le aera Silverman and other wealthy | minutes when she began to talk to] GRIFFITHS — Taxpayere™l & dence that the joint rate ts discrim-|@ small lodging house at 2307 West MB S HEIR yeer he had none from 1896 to and prominent Seattle men. }me in a manner I thought to be league, Federated | Ms ee ern ave _ WHITCO I ih Sheriff Hodge explained today jentirely too familiar. [did not ‘fall } provement clubs, and | D To ho ts perfectly sane, and] |how an effort was made to “get”|for her approaches | Legislative federation, | pital for 20 days for observation, | yn, op the heirs to $2,000,000 left}#aw “Uncle Tom's Cabin” for the|blackmatl leader several months|would have been in the same. pre noon. Efthun KEMPTON, Ind, Feb. 29. lo @ by bis late father H. Whit. 6th time recently, He has not! ago ae a felicantent today one “They waa GILL—Green Laks, Thorne FAKING ACTATION FROM —Six miners are reparted. | WEATHER FORECAST comb, snvelope manufectstrer, ot raisnatt Xho piny fn Bare then. 35 xne has been informed “tha pelts Rithy sniia, Ara iie..Cbey ema hall, a i Worcester, Mavs, who died Keb rare, a ows fo. a de, tho he did not 0 ‘get’ 1 $ s | F AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY — litied, in an onplecion J te Sage thhight aad. Waanenssy< 7 leach time he sees it, lknow it at the time, Mrs, S——, protection, ¢—_-—_—- — —- | Davis mine. oo; ——@ ruary 13, * e ‘ 4 »