The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 1

itself EO. W. PERKIN page 5 today. | BLOWNUP; | ALL SAFE Palatial Dutch Vessel Believed to Have Struck Mine. TAKE PASSENGERS OFF neers ——@ WASHINGTON, March 16.— A state department inquiry | Into the sinking of the Dutch liner Tabantia, with the Ameri- | cans reported aboard, will be | started, It was announced to- | day. AMSTERDAM, March 16.— Three hours after a terrific ex- plosion amidships, the Royal Dutch finer Tubantia sank In the North sea, it was reported today. She carried 87 passengers and a crew of 300. Ali were said to have been saved. Tho the Tubantia’s captain might have been tor- pedoed, reports at the com- pany’s offices said she hit a mine. She carried mails and a number of passengers. The captain was taken off by a reacne boat. He said the Tubantia was wreck- ed by a terrific explosion amid ships Hole Ripped in Stern A huge hole was ripped in her stern. Wireless messages calling for help immediately flashed over the sea. Passengers and crew abandoned the stricken liner at once, tumbling Into lifeboats while still half asleep. Some were terrified by the explo- sion, the darkness and horror of the Moment, but no panic was re- ported Several Dutch torpedo boats and life saving craft appeared on the foene at 4 reak, picking up shiv. ering lifet cargoes Only the fact the explosion oc curred while the Tubantia waa near land prevented heavy casualties. Lifeboats Reach Lightship 'wo of the ship's heavily laden ched a_lightship lfebo: T WAS the night of the city e fice in the city hall hummed. Newspaper men, portitic! byists and other “wise ones” were Street financier, has applied bus- iness principles to housekeeping. H first article, telling you how to save 20 cents on every dollar, appears on S, famous Wall NEW MEXICO GUARDS MAY BE CALLED OUT WASHINGTON, March 16. —Official war department advices today from the ad- jutant general of the New Mexico militia sald his citi- zen soldiers might be called on for duty during the hunt for Villa. 11 a m. today. Tho it is possible some passengers or sailors may have perished during the excite ment, the company’s advices said all were saved, The Tubantia departed from Am sterdam yesterday, bound for | Buenos Ayres. | She is owned by the Royal Dutch | Lioyd line, is of 13,911 toma, 540 feet long by 65.8 feet beam, and is Jess than a year old | manded by Capt. H The liner has been jonly a few months, and is one of jthe most elaborately outfitted | “ocean palaces” on the Atlantic. |LINER ESCAPES ‘SUB’ 1 NEW YORK, March 16.—After K, Wytsma tn service WHAT WOULD YOU DO These and many other situations ¢ Ke “T ax ee 1 an) situs $s go to make “The Maxwell tery” will be printed in The Star in six consecutive installments. IT Notice, Housewife She is com-| | | | | having been attacked without warn-| |ing by a submarine, the Fabre liner | Patria, flying the French flag, with 20 Americans among ita 900 pas sengers, docked safely here today | Captain Dechelles declared the submarine attempted to torpedo his vessel March 1, while he was off the African coast. The torpedo, he said, missed his rudder by leas than 30 feet. Passengers were | thrown Into a panic. | | ‘BOY KILLS PLAYMATE | — | Cavan Folson, age 11, was Instantly killed when his B-year- old playmate, Curtis Perry, pointed a shotgun In his face, called out laughingly, “I’m go- Ing to shoot you,” and pulled the trigger Wednesday after | noon. He thought the gun would not go off, he said. They were playing on a | ranch six miles east of Kent TODAY'S TIDES AT SEATTLE High. 4:26». m., 2:28 p. iat ft. am o lection, The city comptroller's of- lane of all shades, office holders, !ob- there to digest the returns. Clerks rushed hither and thither with precinct figures. Jim Agnew, chief clerk, posted bulletins every once In a while. Adding machines and typewriters clicked busily. By 10 o’clock there was no doubt how the election had gone, from mayor down to the port belt line p It was a rare morsel for politi each other “how it happened.” | sales manager Billy Grambs, Marly Seattle, better and more fami) roposition, But the crowd lingered. ical appetites, and they kept telling . of the Stone-Webster interests in known thru his activities as a lob- byist in behalf of the electric corporation, was there most of the even | ing. feet? TOWERS AS : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEW: VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH. If you were a guest at a house party and suddenly, during a What would you do, if you were a woman, and brained, butterfly-minded and extremely conceited young person, but I have the misfortune to love you as I love life Mystery” one of the most fascinating bits of fiction that ever came from the pen of Carolyn Well AR ABOVE THE SO-CALLED MYSTERY STORIES AS THI The Seattle Sta THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1916. a man mad SMITH BU Ane on TRAINS SRW RTANDS ONE CENT be CALDWELL DEPUTY IS ATTACKED er, of 622 Seventh ave. N., pre- sented a petition Thursday to U. S. Hopes Carranza Will Capture Villa BY R. J, BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 16. —President Wilson hopes Gen. Carranza will capture the Seattle Bar association, Villa. asking that disbarment pro- The administration today ceedings be Started against made no effort to conceal action it would to have Carranza bag Villa before the Americans can reach him, Great danger ls seen the probable attitude peons who cannot be ed thru ordinary Thomas J. L. Kennedy, one of Corporation Counsel-elect Hugh M. Caldwell's appointees. | He charges that Kennedy, while | deputy prosecutor under John F.| Murphy, in 1914, violated the law | in of h providing that “no prosecuting at} call. hse will. nok cee tiie Uke torney shall be employed or allow-| ficial statement that the ed to conduct any action for a di expedition Ie not an “In- vorce on the part of the plaintiff vasion.” or applicant in the courts of this White House feeling to- state.” Davis cites his own case as an instance in which Kennedy appear ed in an alleged illegal capacity as for Mra. Effie M. Davis, determine trol over hie forces, counsel -— - — his wife. | Judge Ronald dismissed the case | on April 17, 1914, after both par-| ties had agreed to an amicable set tlement, and the papers in the suit were withdrawn from the records Another Instance mentioned by Davis 1s Kennedy's appearance in| THE PARK BOARD ERICAN TROOPERS ON VILLA’S TRAIL IN THE DESERT COUNTRY OF NORTHERN MEXICO) | AMERICAN TROOPS RIDING THRU THE ROCKY DEFILES OF NORTHERN MEXICO, NOTE THE BLEAK, ROCKY APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY, IDEAL FOR AMBUSHES. Pass Appropriation. for Puget Sound Yard WASHINGTON, March 16.— The senate today p ator Poindexter's m progress was aided in a measure |by a DIM Introduced by Congress. man Humphrey of Seattle to ap- propriate only $20,000 for Bremer. 8 ap- Propriating $2,065,000 to equip the Puget Sound navy yard for | ton battleship construction. Later Humphrey raised his This appropriation is merely the amount to $600,000 beginning of the government ship Senator Poindexter however, building program which is to go to wa able to show the senate that Bremerton Bremerton is the best site, accord 00, it was The sum timated by Senator P er taking the matter retary of the Navy Daniels needed to put the navy yard at Bremerton and Charleston, Wash., in such condition that the govern ment can undertake its own ship. building there. Separate appropriations will then ing to all unprejudiced views, and that the amount needed to fit it up for shipbuilding purposes is $2,065, 000. His victory in the senate today was complete ndexter, with will be up RIGHT-O, PROFESSOR Oe ee Oe pe he seainst! Charles F. Munday resigned|be made for such new ships as ne Page, filed November 30, me ; " ¥ - yout Fast : ltrom the park board Thursday, In| may be ordered built ae CL VOReaIGUA Nae iiine ant 1914 la letter addressed to Mayor Gill, he|, Since the preparedness campaign | | piO8 vd in! Two days after, Judge John E.|n letter addressed to Mayor Gill, he|s,0 begun, naval. experts have Versity, urged the teaching of Humphries, now dead, gave Page| said: “The demands of my own] unanimously testified that the navy S¥imming in public schools at a a decree on the ground of incom-|y.sineas so fully ocoupy my time Lon Puget sound is the beat in, meeting of the Central Council of See on tne Tiillis, Kennedy's | business 8c y Fi me | yard on Puget sound ne ae tenes is ct Ga oe oat sh tae ieee t |that Iam unable to give park mat-| the country rr Weaneatas segs are ters. the time which their im-| It Is the most easily accessible : é es coke i ss ortance requires, and cannot af-|for first-class battleships and is| ¢ i ford to neglect my own business. ideally located for shipbuilding —FISHERMEN— WEATHER FORECAST Mayor Gill said he would not| A strong lobby from San Fran Something ‘For You! Showers tonight; Friday, ||name a successor until he had|cisco had attempted to get this! | gee Tomorrow's Star Sport | generally fair. | I given the subject several days’! shipbuilding appropriation for the Page } s consideration Mare Island navy yard, and their! "4 e He bubbled over with enthusiasm at the results About 11 o'clock a well-known municipal ownership ‘od into the comptroller's office. ‘ovicing Grambs, he approached him and sald “Well, old man, you've won. Grambs, all flushed with excitement of victory, who it was had addreased him Absent-mindedly, he replied “YES; ISN'T IT FINE? ISN'T . advocate scarcely noticed IT FINE?” o- The Stone & Webster Interests are in politics, Not passively, not disinterestedly, but actively, aggressively, continuously, If once, the sta nt has been repeated by thousands in the past week: “The Seattle Electric Co, won out this time.” Perhaps you have made the statement yourself ‘The Stone & Webster activity was more noticeable In the last election than in other campaigns, lance, The bil! will now go to the house.| t dead at your very “You're a rattle- your host was mysteriously st ly in love with you proposed, sayin Beginning Monday, ‘The Maxwell Mys- ABOVE COON HOLLOW. READ IT. ILDING aun utinous Carranza Army Plants Batteries in Path of U. S. Soldiers DOUGLAS, Ariz. March 16.—Concentration of 3,000 mutinous Carranzistas at Cabullona, 18 miles south of Doug- las, is causing United States army officers here grave con- cern today. Plans are being worked out to move against this force if developments necessitate such action. Scouts report that the disaffected Carranza men are engaged in active defense operations, entrenching and plac- ing batteries facing in the direction from which the U. S. Booey from this section must come to start their hunt for illa, Gen. Calles, at Agua Prieta, just across the line, has been informed that the Cabullona forces believe he has sold out to the United States and have forbidden him to come to their camp, according to messengers from Cabullona today. Calles denies this, but says if Sonora state is invaded by the United States troops he will protest. Troops Pierce Deep Into Bandit Country EL PASO, March 16.—After having bivouacked over night near Palomas lake, nine miles from the border, the maia | American detachment hunting Villa was reported marching deeper into the bandit country today. Cavalry is scouting ahead of the toiling infantry columnss Bringing up the rear, comes a long train of army wagons, es | corted by nen Col s men were reported this afternoon crossing | the Chihuahua desert. following the line of Villa's retreat from Columbus, The trail was marked by many wounded Villistat who were unable to accompany their comrades. When they weakened they were abandone Col. Dodd Making Forced March Col, Dodd's column, which crossed the border yesterday jor today southward from Culberson’s ranch, Arizona, is said {to be proceeding along the Sierra Madre foothills. Their march is forced, as they are endeavoring to relievd the town of Dublen, where a colony of Mormons is believed |to be menaced by outlaws * é Americans at Guzman believe the Villistas there have not | heard of the U. S. expedition, as outlaw bands were still lin- | gering in the vicinity of Casas Grandes. They said a Carranza censorship had been in effect since the Columbus raid, to pre- American plans filtering into the interior, se Slo vent any news of Mystery enshrouds Gen. Pershing’s whereabouts. It was ine creased when he was reported personally commanding a third column said to be crossing the border south of Hachita. Censorship Strongest in History Pershing accompanied the soldiers from Columbus to the: border, and was then rumored to have gone back and started for Hachita. All movements of troops and commanders were hidden, however, by the strongest censorship in America’s his- tory A base of operations pobably will be established at Guz- man, as munitions and food are easily sent to it by railroad from El Paso by way of Juarez Constitutionalists in Chihuahua state, acting under orders from Carranza, transmitted thru Gen. Obregon, are Co operating with the Americans. The report brought by tray elers from Columbus yesterday that the vanguard met slight opposition from de government troops at Palomas proved to be unfounded | Villa Planning to Destroy Property Villa was last reported in the Galeana district, near Peat= son, headed toward a $1,000,000 lumber plant belonging to the Pearson company, a British firm The outlaw had sworn to destroy all wells in the desert country to attack the American Mormon colonists at Casas Grandes facto and There is only a small Carranza garrison in Pearson, but the Carranzistas have announced they have enough men at Casas Grandes to protect the Mormons from bandit attacks, The 13th cavalry, Sixth and 16th infantry, a t i jof the 18th infantry, a battalion of the Sixth field artillery, land a portion of the Fourth artillery are following Villa’s | trail from Columbus j|Arm y Aeroplanes Leave Columbus by Air Several army aeroplanes, brought from San Antonio, are Ischeduled to fly today from Columbus in the wake of the column of Col. Slocum Col. Dodd's force is expected to cut across northwestern Chihuahua and join Slocum. From Guzman the two com mands are to spread out in a wide enveloping movement for the purpose of surrounding Villa, Carranzistas located south of Villa’s whereabouts are depended on to co-operate News of troop movements continues to come only by automobile parties which traveled in the wake of the expedi- tion or arrived from Columbus Prior to the close of the registration period, Norwood Brockett, one of the attorneys of the corporation, whose activities as a lobbyist in the legislature were directed with old-time “hospitality” in a pri | vate mansion at Olympia, was busy drumming up hotel registration downtown Together with the Employers’ association, the Seattle Electric Co. sent out over 100,000 circulars to point out what they considered “maladministration” by the “Erickson council.” Cards on which slates were fixed to get the er were scattered about the city by the bushel “is alee Ey | easily convinced vot So much for the active signs of Stone & Webster political ac | tivity: | | However, that is but a small part of it Unlike the average voter, the Stone-Webster Interests work at | | polities the year ‘round, in season and out of season, | Occasionally, they show their hand, Generally, however, they | work “invisibly Much has been said about “invisible government.” Exposes of this nature have only scratched the surface. The Stone & Webster corporation has a small army engaged in “invisible government” work, It often takes the form of committees of one kind and another, appearing before the legislature to protest against a bill or to advo cate one. Big delegations are brought to council chambers to support some object of the Stone & Webster company—and often many in the dele gation do not know they are being used as the corporation's catspaw, Thru individuals, thru societies, thru secret combinations, the big corporation is diligently engrossed in polities. JUST NOW, WITH THE CITY ELECTION OVER, THE STONE & WEBSTER CORPORATION HAS TURNED ITS ATTENTION IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, THE STAR WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT TOMORROW, % ‘