The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1916, Page 1

Baby's health Is Seattie’s wealth, That's the reason that Seattle Ie not Qolng to stop preaching better bables Saturday—the last day of Baby week. An educational war hy of more than 1,000 babi AND POVERTY. been declared against the needicss death every year, from IGNORANCE, DISEASE A fight will be made for the birthright of FRESH AIR, PURE MILK AND CLEANLINESS, And that Is not all. AROUND BY THE CHILD WELFARE DIVISION OF THE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, under the direction of Dr. W. C. Lippin cott. The object Is to give free examination of needy children under school age, or of any older poor children not attending school Every Monday morning, at 11 o'clock, the mothers of Rainier valley can take their babies to the Settlement buliding, at Rainier ave. and Atlantic st, and have expert advice on what should be done to help them raise better babies. ave. N. W, and Ballard ave. The central baby clinic, that wae started last summer, has been moved to the city hospital quarters in the city hall, and will be main tained MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS, at 1 a.m, The Friday clinic will be especially dedicated to better babies. Specialists in children’s diseases will be there to give expert at tention to the little minde and bodies. Is the matter, When a family is absolutely destitute, a way will be found to give the child treatment, no matter how complex or long-drawn-out the trouble may be. In the meantime, there are 10,000 mothers In Seattle who ought to hear the lectures, the exhibits, read the literature that is avail able during Baby week. The afternoon programs are held on the fifth floor of the Bon Marche. Clinics are held at the League building, Fourth ave. and Univer. AS” EDITION Every Wednesday morning, at 10:30, Ballard mothers may take their bables to well-appointed quarters in the old city hall, at 22nd The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } VOLUME 18 ONE CENT 2% q,7RAINS ANP MEXICAN BANDITS MAKE RAID ON U. S. TOWN. ELEVEN AMERICANS SLAM er sate ‘ Tu, I Heartily Indorse President's ae VILLA LEADS BANDIT GAN Youll, ® RS TAKE? FORTS Pan Germany, After Long Dispute, Finally De-| ®v cHas. Pp. stewart clares War on Portugal Today; Trouble; _‘ON°ON. March 9—By 8 COLUMBUS, N. M., March 9.—F Follows Question of Interning Ships. hundred Villistas, who attacked Columb from two sides under cover of darkn sudden smash at the French BERLIN, March 9.—Ger-|>y Portugal, on the plea that they about 4 a. m. today, were driven off center, the Germans have cap- tured Fort De Caux, the village were needed for transports. many declared war on Portu- Cleched | vn | ; A i gal today, following the Portu- aca nearly two hours fighting with 300 Am WASHINGTON, D. C. March 9. — State of Vaux and adjoining positions five miles northeast of Verdun, in claims. Germany issued a statement This makes two forts in the guese refusal to restore in-|Polnting out that selzure of Teuton| hands of the Germans attacking . ships violated German-Portuguese | Xerned German. vessels: seized treaties, providing, in the event of) : . 4 in the Tagus river. |such seizure, arrangements for ade- | department dispatches today declared American — The reply the Portuguese quate compensation must first be troops crossed the international boundary and entered minister last Saturday handed made. Paris failed to confirm the re Mexico in pursuit of fleeing Villistas after the raid on Columbus, N. M. sent troops to cooperate with thé /foothol Parents who can't afford medical examinations for their children MORE FREE CLINICS WILL BE are welcome to take advantage of the movement, to find out just what MAINTAINED THE YEAR ° " Inside Tip om “An Outsider" It's about the new novel we're going to give you next week. Our tip is that you oughtn't to miss it. Begin Monday. 3 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916. Verdun. The capture of Fort De Vaux plac Fort De Tav- venes, two mi! southwest of Vaux, In a dangerous position. was a flat refusal t@ restore portugal alleging ita territory there |were ejected from the village of ‘ svili been invaded. Portugal later | Vaux _a. tamaporary can soldiers and civilians, after. 30 or there. Mexicans had been killed atid wounded four American soldiers and seven civili had been slain. Five civilians were wo The Americans were aroused from sleep by Me: cans firing in the streets and into houses. Several weré shot as they-ran from their doorways. Others fell in” |the sharp fighting before the raiders were driven bac! }across the border. Several buildings were set on fire. Rumors that several guests perished in the Come mercial hotel when Mexicans set it afire, were discrede ited. However, the ruins are being searchd. Mrs. Gean, wife of James Gean, was shot down beside her husband, who was also killed in the defense ~ of their home. “ News of the attack was reported to Brig. Gen, Pershing, at El Paso, by Col. Slocum, commanding of- \ficer at Columbus. j Eye-Witness Story T. C. Miller was slain by the bandits before they set fire to his drug store. W. T. Richey, proprietor of the Commercial hotel, attempted to de-| | fend his property against the squad of Villistas that attacked it. Their | first volley killed him. Three oth British in thelr operations against) Official statements from Paris of German African colonies. The Brit-/and Heriin agreed the fighting at ish-Portuguese treaty bound Portu-|Verdun is approachin a cris! gai to send 10,000 men to Great |Parie estimated German casualties Britain's ald if needed jat 125.000, while German experts jestimated the French had lost around 70,000, many of the be Pougtenth had ° P da the power to be involved in the world con- flict. Thirty-five interned German mer- ehantmen, tying at anchor in the ‘Tagus river, were recently selzed REYNOLDS TO FIGHT Railroads Seek Delay in Rate Case Charles A. Reynolds, chairman | been for some time, and were! of the Washington public service | merely Hing.” | commission, is in Washington, D.| If he succeeds in bis misaton, tt C., Thursday, endeavoring to have|is possible that the $17.50 differ. the controversy in the matter ex | 90: per which ts keeping more than BLIND NEWSIE I$ HIT BY AUTO the $12.50 differential in Western |90 per cent of the tourists out of year nig whose cther nec ts tourist rates reset for hearing by|the Northwest, may be eltminated. |i; preter, lies in the city hospital the Interstate commerce commis-|and equal rates established tn time | a broken le A = fi sion this month. to give the Northwest some bene-| Min ns ree hw, On ant one Railroads against which the suft/fit this summer ine! taplag — vali caghohaa elie, Pos fs directed, the Southern and Union| Originally the hearing was to Dench at Ploneor square Thursday Pacitic and {ts allied Mne, the O-W. have been held in the federal |MOrning, at 9:45. R. & N., recently were successful | building here next Monday Madi Sarge vc baa egy omit Sie who was driving the truck, was 1 4 t | = in delaying aye} charged with reckless driving at the months. A. postponement police station and later released on when the railroads pleaded that/heavy German attacks against | recognizance more time was needed to gather | Methincourt have been repulsed by| Witnesses say that he swung off and compile certain data relative the French, the war office offictal-/ First ave. where he barely missed to the sult. jly announced today. Methincourt|several pertons, before crashing in ascertained |{s eight miles northeast of Verdun.|to the h blind man. The aid the communique,struck belongs to ©. H. Maust, 116 possession of this data, and have lasted all night. w 70th at found in front. of the bank, | They probably intended to loot it. the hearing wae. ducal PARIS, March 9%.-—- Repeated Villa Led Raiders “Villa himself led the raid. ers, according -to citizens who know him by sight. It was certainly a hot fight. The Mex- icans were not driven out un.) til there had been nearly two houre of fighting. |! under-© stand Col. Slocum has not! asked for reinforcements, but) | wish you would say we need» more troops here to protect | our people.” The town settled down after the battle, and all was quiet befo! noon. The Villistas, in their re treat, carried off a number of U, iS. cavalry horses President Wilson won a complete victory when the house of representatives, by a vote of 276 to 142, tabled the McLemore resolution, The McLemore resolution, as did the defeated Gore resolution In the sen- provided that American ould be warned off armed merchantmen. President Wilson was opposed to such a measure. The fact that he forced the senate and house to go on record as to their st was a Vic-/er civilians gave up their lives aid- tory in itself. The fact that both houses went strongly behind the president's policy was a tremendous! ing the American troops. | expression of national faith In the ability of Mr. Wilson to steer the American ship of state thru storm-| J, 1. Greenwood, president of re. the Columb benk, an eye-witness, | BOTH OF THEM the first volleys. Armed citi- zens tried to help the troop: Holding that. both parties had reasonable cause for a divorce, But the Mexicans’ first rush car- ried them thru our patrol lini Judge Walter M. French, of Kitsap county, sitting here, granted de into the heart of the town, Three dead Mexicans were Crees Wednesday afternoon to Clyde L. Morria, former president LANSING WILL TAKE ACTION WASHINGTON, March 9.—Secretary Lansing will tele- graph Carranza, asking permission for American troops to Morris, Both alleged cruelty. lena he DENY “BADGER” GUILT 2 More Women Arrested in Frisco ‘The sheriff says he ts convinced that the combined wealth of at least | half a dozen Northwest millionaires Lillian Peterson and Mis® | is pledged, if necessary, to prevent Dottie Coote occupy cells in the | extradition of the three women. San Francisco city prison | With tho three here, he says, it Thursday. is more than likely the entire story Both women are wanted here of the alleged operations of the In connection with an alleged “badger” gang will become public conspiracy to blackmall wealthy | knowledge, to the chagrin of the seattle Millionaire Started as Greenhorn NOW HE’S NOTEDEXPERT BY JACK JUNGMEYER There is no guesswork, nothing haphazard NISQUALLY, Wa March 9—The fact that Diversification has been brought to a science by A. L. Brown fs a millionaire owner of Seattle A. L. Brown, who 12 years ago quit being a business property cuts little figure in the inspir- “bum lawyer” to become a crackerjack farmer. ing story of how he developed hie “parcel post Beginning with a few cattle, he found that farm” here. hogs were needed to utilize waste products. He's a farmer, first of all, competing with Thousands of gallons of #kim milk today form his neighbors and performing more actual work a big staple in feeding 1,600 hogs, on his 2,600-acre Nisqually ranch than any of his Chickens had to come to help swell profits hands, of the cattle and hog departments by using up Held pending the arrival of officers from Seattle, Mis cross the border and hunt Villista bandits, who raided Co= Mrs. Mor lumbus, N. M., it was learned at the state department this Tweive years ago he was “a bum lawyer,” as he puts it, in Seattle. The country drew him |ike a magnet. He went out as a greenhorn, employing a greenhorn man- re “Because,” he explains, “I didn't want my man- ager to know more about farming than I did.” He borrowed the money for his ranch start, and bought 1,100 acres, mostly overflow salt swamps, with only 560 acres under cultivation Today his place is a show farm of the West, and a big moneymaker. Most of the 2,600 acres, to which it has grown, are under intensive cultivation. There are 600 dairy cattle, 80 work horses, 1,500 hogs and 12, 000 chickens. A big creamery and a $20,000 packing house have been built. ‘The farm activities are conducted by depart ments—cattle) hogs, poultry, ete.—each with Its manager, and_ 60 men, inspired by Farmer Brown's energy and initiative, carry on the work EVERY BIRD AND ANIMAL ON PLACE HAS TO DEMONSTRATE RIGHT TO REMAIN THERE This gigantic institution of men and machinery centers finally on the parcel post, thru which now 50 per cent of the products are sold, and which, Brown believes, will shortly be the marketing medium for his entire output. Every chicken, every cow, every pig and horse, as well as every square foot of ground, must pay its proportion of profit, based on the amount of the total investment it represents. And because of the system employed, Brown knows any day in the year whether hen No, 44 is making good and paying her way, and whether cow No. 1007 is paying interest on her stable room and cost of feed otherwise waste products. The pennies saved thus began to mount into hundreds of dollars Neighbors laughed at him, “bookkeeping farmer.” NOW “BUM LAWYER” BROWN IS FARM EXPERT WHOSE ADVICE 18 SOUGHT But while they were sleeping or grumbling, Brown was reading government bulletins, organ izing, thinking, getting out of the beaten paths Today those sell their hogs Brown's packing their chickens his poultry department Some of them are they were 12 years Was a marsh “System!” explained Brown ying close tab on every animal, on every bit of feed “By very simple bookkeeping, any farmer can determine whether or not his cows, chickens and hogs, his corn or oats acreage, are profital ‘Then, by weeding out the poor stock, by experimenting with cheaper feeds cultivat ing more closely, bu cutting out the little wasteful drains that the ordinary farmer allows fo go unchecked, ergetic man can do on his own place wh » have done here Brown, 47, 1s no longer a greenhorn ment experts are watching his place carefully His advice is eagerly coveted, The things he is doing have a vital bearing on land development everywhere Further details on his system of management and their bearing on the success of his “parcel post farm,” will be cited In the next story calling him the to to neighbors house and ittle further ago, when than ranch along Brown's by all Govern (Continued Tomorrow.) ris, on the stand, testified that her husband hed beaten and choked her in their home on Federal ave He declared he was unable to stay at home on account of their strained relations, and had moved away, spending most of his spare time ‘on his farm near here. Their property rights were set tled out of court DIVA CAN’T EVEN | WEAR HER SMILE SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, Mme. Melba is aboard the liner Wilhelmina, en route to Honolulu today, but her trunks full of clothes are on another ship on their way to Australia, They were shipped from New York to Australia in bond The diva changed her mind and decided to go to Honolulu instead, She asked Collector Davia to surrender her trunks, but he maintained they were under bond to Australia and to Australia they went, despite Melba’s tearful pleadings Gre has made enormous amounts from its merchant marine since the outbreak of the war. Freight rates are so high that the proceeds of a single voyage some tt xoeed the value of the ship making it. men of prominence by the use | victims, of victims in | siderable note. f Women Deny Guilt Miss Peterson, who is said to be Miss Peterson and Miss wealthiest young men, has been |eisco | charged jointly with Louts P, Sich ler, a financial agent and private | detective, and Miss Isabel Clayburg, Aly |now under arrest in Los Angeles, with conspiracy to extort money from Samuel f. Silverman, wealthy mining man, and | prominent men here. The arrest of Miss Peterson and Miss Coots is said to complete the chain of evidence wanted by Dep- deny any when taken into custody other) with Miss Clayburg | prior to the latter's Angeles authorities were asking if he Coota, arrest, at that wanted all of whom are of con 4 Coots, engaged to marry one of Montana’sfaccording to word from San Fran knowledge of any Iackmail operations here, and say \ hey know Miss Clayburg but slight Miss Coots is thought by Sheriff | Hodge to have been in close touch for some time as Los time, Miss They protested their innocence uty Sheriff M. E. Hally to clinch the state's case. | Hally is in Los Angeles to bring back Miss Clayburg, who ts fight ing extradition, and whose habeas| corpus hearing has been continued| until next Tuesday. He anticipates a hard legal fight before his three charges are extra dited, and, in spite of the fact that Miss Peterson and Miss Coots have signified their willingness to return to this state without protest, has advised Sheriff Hodge to have ex tradition papers issued Victims Don't Want Trial “We want to block any attempt that may be made by the wealthy pirates that are behind Miss Clay: burg’s contest to hold the other two| thing to do immediately. women in California,” said Sherift| getting busy is the bi Hodge Thursday, vent homesickness, BAKER, SWORN IN, WASHIN ton D. Baker ‘ON, March 9. of Cleveland, found one of the war department | tion tention, Shown fighting at said dispatches Columbus, N. M,, GETS MEX. REPORT; New-| was sworn In as secretary of war today. As he entered his new office: he| 8 | worst troubles, the Mexican situa-| red hot and awaiting his at-! describing he “It looks as tho I'd have some- However, t way to pre afternoon. SCORES DEAD! EL PASO, March 9.—In a battle between Villista bandits and Unit- ed States soldiers at Columbus, N. M., folowing an attack on| the city by Mexicans at 4 a, m. today, four American sol- rs were killed, four wounded, and | seven citizens of killed and four wounded. known number of bandits was Slain, according to news Brig. Gen. Pershing gave to the United Press| today. Pershing’s statement jon a report from Col. Slocun manding officer at Columbus Dead Mexicans, Slocum declares, strew the streets of Columbus, During the fighting four principal buildings in the city were set on} fire and destroyed by the raiders. Women are said to be among the | dead or wounded civilians, After | beating off the bandits, the troops | pursued them southward toward the border, Slocum reported American soldiers dragged a ma. chine gun into the street and was based | com: | * * sprayed the Mexicans with bullets. After a sharp fight, all Mexicans were beaten off and driven from town. Is There Anything NEW Under the Sun? You'll say “No,” right off-hand. But the Eastern Out- fitting Co. believe they can disprove you. They have evolved a new merchandising plan, which they claim has never been used by any merchant, any- where before. They explain the details on page 2 today,