The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1916, Page 1

tion. about $600,000 must be spent, for buliding ways 950 feet long Cantilever cranes and a massive SEATTLE'S GREATEST SOURCES | overhead traction system will cost) OF BUSINESS. $250,900. } oo this construction would be|have stiffened with the announce. | 2, the bill tion it I* proposed to use for small-| A er oe equipment and to enlarge Putting the Skids Under Living Cost That's what the big financier, steel trust magnate and economist, George W. Perkin la doing in his articles telling how house Keepers can knock the tar out of the high cost of food. TODAY'S ARTICLE I$ ON PAGE 7. IN NAVY YARD WOULD MEAN! * A new era In navy yard de- velopment in the United States, and indirectly in Seattie’s | Prosperity, will be marked by the transformation of the Puget WHAT THEY THINK OF BREMERTON'S FUTURE Sound navy yard, at Bremer. “Bremerton’s population ton, to a shipbuilding base of will doub: soon hip oe first class, if the house at | construction is started at inington ratifies the action | the Puget sound navy yard.” ie} the senate tense in vot —A. F. Reeves, mayor of 4 2n appropriation of $2,C65,- Bremerton. “Poindexter le on the job, and at laet a Pacific Coast yard, that hae the greatest natural facilities of any navy yard in the country, has been justiy recognized.” &. J. Friediander, secretary of the Bremerton Commer. cial Club. “Shipbullding In the Puget — probably the first time In history, politicians have recog nized natural merit in prefer. porn ta political pull in deter. mining a sizable navy yard ex- penditure. ure, appropriating $2,065,000, for the immediate develop- ment, has yet to pass the house. sound navy yard ma the Rut Bremerton is confident that moet important develop. the bill will be passed. The stim ment in the Northwest since the discovery of gold In Alaska "—W. 8. Jessup, Bremerton Sah | present facilities of the yard. it is understood that crus which would take iiating effect of the sena! » ion felt ere immediate:; yor the! cfty. Would Add 3,000 Machanics ‘Three thousand of the highest type of skilled mechanics wil! be added to the present staff of 1,400 if the yard takes up battleship con- struction. . The annual payroll, aside from the thousands of dollars paid ‘o +n. listed navy men there, was $1,350.- 000 during 1915. It would be more than doubled under the new era. AND 76 PER CENT OF THIS MONEY, ACCORDING TO THE RREMERTON COMMERCIAL It CLUB FIGURES, EVENTUALLY Charleston, Manette and Port Or. FINDS ITS WAY TO SEATTLE. (chard eventually will be Incorporat. | first of Janvary, 1917, if the appro- | priation program goes thru mechanics basy been assigned to the yard Expect a Bigger City ruc- | of from 30,000 to 36,000. THE PUGET SOUND |¥ARD WILL THEN BE O navy yard for battleshfp co NAVY Bremerton real estate within the six| ment of the senate’s action the passage of The rest of the appropria probably, months following busied themselves taking general shifting of real thei transfers has commenced. . He Is Loading Hunt for Mexican Bandit estate BRIG GEN. JOHN VU. PERSHING T THE last session of the legislature, Norwood W, Brockett, a rented a rather palatial residence not far from the state house There he kept “open house.” Members of the legislature felt free to drop in at any time and partake of the food and drink that always was plentifully on tap Norwood was, and 1s, an engaging fellow He could tell a story with the best of them, and he sessed, also, of a vast amount of information on pending bills in the legislature. He always was willing to explain any little detall of legislation to the busy legislators who couldn't find time to read and study the bills for themselves. s+ ewe At each session of the legislature there are a thousand or more bills introduced. The legislative session lasts 60 days. The first 30 @ays are mainly spent with the introduction of new bills It fe in the lest half of the sion that bills are considered in (ha, aagag ond senate. seemed pos ’s a Thriller, “The Maxwell M RARARARAAAR Anny a battle three years to build, would be the Jirat job for the Puget Sound yard. Ma- terials for its construction would | begin to arrive at Bremerton by the Repair work that will keep 1,400 for two years has is estimated that Bremerton, To transform the Puget Sound ed into one city of a Joint population | OF} values Weeks ago several Seattle dealers | options. | THE VOLUME 18 ATTLE, W hospital In El Paso, 1 Paso station by doctore who saw that they Man, covered with a sheet, leaving etation at El FRIDAY Resident of Columbus, N. M., wounded when Villa bandits raided the village, being rushed to a where alt wounded were taken, The train rele eer Paso, where he was taken, with other wounded, a Sonya Seenete were rook at. the MARCH 1 191¢ ONE CENT BUSY AT LAST ON PREPAREDNESS President Signs Army Bill; House Takes Up Hay Measure MUST FOLLOW BANDIT INTO WILD MOUNTAINS EL PASO, March 17.—If Carranzistas do not win the race to capture Villa, the U. 8. forces must follow him to his favorite haunts In inous Western Chi. This was made evident today by © reports from the advancing forces. While Gen. Pershing’s troops were laboring thru the dust and heat of Chi- huabua desert, Villa and hi followers were sald to have arrived in the forbidding mountains of San Buena Ventura district. Villa is familiar with the wild Sierra Madres, west of Central Chihuahua, having roamed the country ovtiaw since his youth. A T leng gueriiia campaign, with bloody night raids by the bandits upon American camps, is looked for. BY BOND P. GEDDES United Press Btatt Correspondent | WASHINGTON, March 17.— | Congress, dropping all other con | siderations tod work on army rganizatio: ator Chamberlain reporte Jarmy Increase bill from jand announced he was tual began his nitter ready to | call it up for consideration Monday Chairman Hay of the house mil tary committee opened with «a |apeech bearing on his house bill |to make the regular army 140, 000 strong “On a question of this charac ter,” he declared, “all Americans should stand together.” Tremendous applause greeted this. Hay called the bill a “reasonable measure,” and said Tt will meet position from those who a posed to any de fensive legisistion and from those who think it does not go far enough a volunteer system In and must deal with conditions as they are, not as else where in countries where there {s compulsory military service. He's Against Conscription “An army of 200,000 men would | | | after the attack of Villa HODGE SAYS HE’LL TELL ON ’EM Threatens to Expose Badger Victims Who Aid Prisoner Sheriff Hodge announced Fri j blackmail Samuel I. Silverman, a day that he will wait until Fri- | wealthy mining promotor and club day night for word from Los man, and other persons here €. ttle 1 Angeles that Deputy M Hally had left there for S with Mrs. Isabel Claybury | leged Seattle “badger queen | and then— | if no word comes— Gives Notice of Appeal Defense Attorney Earl Rogers of | Los Angeles gave notice of an ap peal to the circult court, which ac |tlon would delay the case here for |several weeks, meay compulsory service. I don't |think the country would such a proposition.” | Great applause at this point dem conscription sentiment Continuing, Hay said including the names of every vic An army of 250,000 men would | tm the gang photographed during | cost the nation $750,000,000 as the two years or more of their op-/ally, I don't believe congress erations and the pictures them-/ready to saddle such an expense as selves, to the newspapers that on this vuntry in times of ‘At the same time, using photo- | graphs as evidence, I can charge a} President Wilson signed the Joint | number of our best citizens, #0-|resolution of house and senate called, with crimes. The mimimum | bringing the regular army up to its | He will open up, he says, on Thursday afternoon Attorney Penalty for such crimes, I belleve,| full strength, It provides for an | wealthy alleged victime of the (john J. Sullivan of Seattle ap-|!8 two years in the penitentlary |immediate increase in the bes cen woman In Seattle, who. he says, | peared unexpectedly tn the case While Mra. Clayburg’s fate ts still | of fighting men are aiding her fight against [at Los Angeles, and associated |"ncertain, Miss Lillian Peterson ——— extradition, and “give them all |himaslf with Rogers, according to &nd Miss Dottie Coots, the two | the publicity they want—and | word from the California city other alleged “badger girls” brought FT. LAWTON TROOPS then some.” ‘One of the victims has gone here for trial from San Francisco They are hampering the ends of from here to Los Angeles, and Is ae languishing in the county jail MAY Go To ALASKA {justice,” he declared. “They must financing the Clayburg fight in the, Both girls are innocent of the be dealt with summarily background,” sald Sheriff Hodge. Charges against them, according to The Second battalion, now at Mra. Clayburg was refused We have a line on him, as well John Murphy, their attorney | Fort Lawton, may go to Alaska writ of habeas carpus in the su. on others who are still her e @| to relieve the battalion there, |perior court at Los Angeles Thurs I announce right now that If WEATHER FORECAST | if a recommendation made by jday, and given 24 hours in which to, they don’t withdraw and let the law Fair tonight and Saturday; || Col. Wilson, in command at Iprepare for a trip to Seattle for|take its proper course I will turn) | frost tonight. | Ft. Lawton, is accepted by the trial on a charge of conspiracy tolover every bit of evidence I've got,!@ —@ war department. if It takes considerable time to read 1,000 billa—and most of the legisiators do not read them. They take some one else's word for what they contain A legislator is a busy man. He hag much correspondence to care for. He is nearly always interested in some little measure of his own, If he can get action on that, he is wiiling to take the other bills for granted and he usually spends more He gets only $5 a day for 60 days than that to live in Olympia. He going to read a lot of dry he can get out of it, That's where Norwood B: WAS N measures—1,000 of them—if ckett came in mighty JER TOO BUSY TO fan't nicely to quite a few legiviators. HE EXPLAIN SOME OF THE BILLS WITH WHICH HE WAS 80 THOROLY FAMILIAR, Norwood Brockett {s not an “uplifter.” He does not claim to be. He didn’t keep that big mansion in Olympia merely to give the | | | TS FICE, HR HE FITTED UP A MANSION FINE, FOR NORWOOD SPARED NO GOLD; HE ASKED ’EM THERE TO DRINK AND DINE, AND FUNNY TALES HE TOLD boys a good time because he sympathized with them for their hard | labors and their underpaid sa jes, He didn’t study bills in the leg islature out of a high sense of civic duty, so that the state, thru in- formation he gave legislators, would profit Brockett is a very matter-of-fact sort of chap. HE RENTED THE MANSION BECAUSE THE STONE-WEB STER CORPORATION PAID THE RENT, HE PAID FOR DINNER AND © RS AND WHATEVER OTHER ENTERTAINMENT LE SLATORS AND THEIR FRIENDS GOT AT HIS PLACH BECAUS TH TONE-WEBSTER CORPORATION FOOTED THE BILLS | lie talked for certain measures because the Stone-Webster cor poration wanted those measures passed, He argued against other | bills because the Stone-Webster corporation wanted them killed Norwood Brockett, you see, was, and is, one of the attorneys of the Stone-Webster corporation. He heads the army of lobbyists for this big company. oe eee The last session of the legislature was very nearly owned, body sm IF BOTH BRANCHES READY accept |OF $72,000 a day, |E }onstrated there was a strong entt-/ | Lamping said Jexpected to introduce a resolution | AS" EDITION 5, AVIATORS a ARMY WB EMERTON FACES ERA OF = T PROSPERIT 1. TROOPS FIND VILLA CHASE IS TOUGH JOB EL PASO, March deserts of Mexico, Francisco Villa today hind an Driving 17.—Swallowed up in the hills and two American expeditions are seeking while their movements are screened be- netrable censorship. z the eastern slope of the Sierras, Col. Dodd’s column is expected to reach the American colony at Dublan toda Finding all Mormons there safe, he will continue his forced march toward Casas Grandes, in an attempt to cut off Villa’s retreat into Sonora. The American army which started marching slower south of Palomas One hundred Carranza scouts and an army aeroplane are |being used in the effort to find Villa Sweeping in a gigantic circle miles in extent, the aero- plane is flying ahead of the column, seeking indications of the Villistas or of Villa himself. alm from Columbus is For the present, at least, the bomb dropping ability of these seep eee pil will not be tested, owing to the fact that th numt of Carranza troops in the Casas Grand also trailing Villa, and it would be hard for the birdmen to tell friend from foe while flyin thigh. a | Thousands of Mexicans Reported Ready |to Join Villa in War Against Americans Reports from Presidio, Texas, tell of renewed bandit raids by Villa sympathizers on American soil. It is declared thousands of Mexicans in the great stretch south of Pre- | sidio were ready to join Villa Desertions of Carranza soldiers thru Chihuahua are re- ported. A rumored revolt in Ojinaga, in which the com mander was said to have been assassinated, was officiaily denied | While the censorship is expected to withhold details of with men, fighting Dodd's expected Civil Villista bands recently seen just ahead of Col unofficial stories of skirmishes are hourly authorities are inclined to doubt Carranza’s sin- cerity. They ask why the expedition was not permitted to use the railroad to travel from Juarez to Casas Grandes instead of having to make a terrible forced march over the barren desert. Deep sand is impeding the progress of the column from Columbus. Wagon trains find it hard to keep up with the cavalry The infantry is greatly troubled with the treacherous sands. At midday it is intolerably hot, with no shelter front the burning sun. Brief halts are occasionally made during the day, but for the most part the soldiers must plod steadily onward thru suffocating clouds of dust | Chase After Villa Costing $72,000 a Day; Millions May Be Spent Before He Is Caught It is costing the United States government $50 a minute, to hunt Villa, according to Maj. Wm, Millons may be expended before the (Continued on page 5) BANDS IN ALL PARKS That’s What Lamping Will Propose play in all|be estimate. iott's Bands will probably iven a chance to hear them.” of the city parks next summer. Such a plan was advanced by bik CO lnetniee : Geciiaa .% The Star last summer, but the ‘ar! ommissioner Georg board declined to adopt it. Con- Friday morning he |certs were provided for Volunteer park, and semi-professionals played at the park board meeting this aft-|in some other parks, ernoon providing for equal dis —-—___ —_______. tribution this year of the board's NEW WAR BUDGET UP $5,000 muste appropriation. "T believe,” he said, “that the board made a mistake last year in| BERLIN, March Introdue- not dividing up the appropriation |ing a new war budget in the reich: among all the parks stag today, Dr. Helfferich of the It is my idea that two or three German treasury declared enemy bands of equal size and merit |agents were spreading rumors to should be employed to play this |hinder subscriptions to the kaiser's summer, and that everybody should fourth war loan, and soul, by the Stone-Webster corporation, Gov, Lister, however, Was not satisfactory in many respects, His power of veto held some of the measures in check, Others, not quite so plainly of Seattle Elec tric Co, origin, were passed over his vetoes, Now that the city election is over, the Stone-Webster political corps is busy. The average citizen lays off between elections, Not 80 the Stone-Webster corporation, It's in politics the year ‘round, During the past few we al Secret conferences were held by prominent factors in the r party and by a number of news- paper editors in Seattle, Spo Tacoma A political slate was for Heading this slate, George A, Lee, ufftil two years ago a resident of Spokane, but now living in Seattle, is to make the race for gov. ernor. Lee's selection by the slatemakers is natural and entirely logical, He faithfully served the Stone-Webster corporation, and from that standpoint he is entitled to reward TOMORROW THE STAR WILL TELL OF LEE’S “SERVICES,” ystery,” New Novel-a-Week, Starting Monday in The Star — The Seattle > star ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THI PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS ee