The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1916, Page 1

WHO FIRED THE SHOT THAT KILLED THIS YOUNG MAN? \\ HE GUESTS at Philip Maxwell’s house party couldn’t tell. None of them seemed: to have seen or heard anything of the events that led up to the death of young Max- well in the library, where he was pressing his suit for the beautiful Mildred’s hand. That is, they told the coroner they hadn’t. But when Hunt, the so- + ciety detective, began to put two and two together, some interesting things occurred. You'll want to read every word of this fascinating book-length novel, “The Maxwell Mystery,” by Carolyn Wells, which begins on page 4 of The Star today. Installments will be published daily, and the story will be concluded in Saturday’s issues. Next week there'll be another, “One Million Francs,” by Arnold Fredericks. ‘apesare. ves The Seattle Star iss: coro butcher says it is. Geo. W. Perkins tells on = NEWS : } = gman till Easter to show that lid. Weather f page 8 how to get the best beef for lesat cost. : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THI THE NEWS : } NEWS cast today: ‘Rein Monday and Tussdey.” oh VOLUME 18 SEATTL PURSUERS LOSE VILLA TRAIL CITY DADS IN THE WAKE OF VILLA AND HIS BANDITS BANDIT SAFE ALLIES HIT. STAGE HOT Aumhulance Corps Cares for U. S. Soldiers Felled by Mexicans in Raid| Ambulance corpse of Troop G, Eighth United M BA i States cavairy, picking up wounded soldiers after the | A | | a skirmish with Villa bandits, following the attack on | ONG HI LS, i 1 and Dale ‘Say Naughty Columbus, N. M. The arrow points to a wounded sol- toate tnd dier being lifted to the back of one of the members f. of the ambulance corps. Another wounded trooper Things to Each Other | By H. C. Rachine | Pteee of 50 Planes Reta:iate Hh Press Staff Correspondent for German AT LAST MEETING, TOO ‘The old counci! put a 42-cen- DOUGLAS, Ariz., March 20. —Rumors| — timeter finish to ite work at WASH.,, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1916. ONE CENT ee ere that Francisco Villa had escaped the Ameri- teases GERNANS' BASE 3 LONDON, March 20.—In ree taliation for Sunday's German air raid on the Kentish coast, 50 |can trap and was safe in the Sierra Madres, least of Madera, are current today. It is oon Monday when It passed > A page water ‘com ban |known that Gen. Gutierrez’s scouts have lost| atiies aeropianes attacked Zee ta brugge, the Teuton submarine tine franchise by a vote of six track of him. base, and military works at | Spread out like a fan, half a dozen| Houltade, inflicting severe dam |American detachments are combing the, se with high-power vombs, it |country south and southeast of Casas; Se hnerrel se |Grandes today. Gen. Pershing is making) ...7"°3'535 *uiiut tr" semua, pall |his greatest effort on a southeasterly direc-| Each machine bore missiles iy and finally re- : ; j tion. This is taken to indicate that Villa is} a rraetine a anit ath ae S , cae h\ near Nuamiquipa or the Babricora ranch. weighing a total of 200 They were rained down on the seaplane station at Zeebrugge and on the asrodrome at Hout- tade. 10 postpone it Ly have more confi- , BY E. T. CONKLE Accompanying bom . noes eee ~~" anes Press Staff Correspondent : were 15.“battle hae Uni ~ 8 c heavily armored ig c Avorn to. Pramtag the fran- F s , EL PASO, March 20.—Reported hemmed in among the |formea a protective cordon ties” y ~ ane > ee 7 es ; ‘ ° canyons of the Guerrero mountains, Francisco Villa is be-|the smaller flyers as they bu ape Bp Landy . ‘ t é cs lieved to be surrounded today by several Carranzista columns Bre at serene on the enemy ts one of the retiring councilmen. Y . Bea " ait 3 > bs and the American expedition closing down on-him from the ER RCCD SUDEP OD . 4 “Pade port Legg Bag vs cement north, | The admiralty announced every tactics. I know thee "avon ont Indications today point to a long pursuit of Villa far into machine returned home safely. IMexico, and the problem of supplying the expedition with| Ths 1s the first time that the =~‘ SUZZALLO HONORED OPPOSE LARGER eet aatd food and munitions was uppermost in the minds of army men.| after a raid. It will be the Britta! 4 ~ Dale jumped to his feet. A few considered that withdrawal of the expedition with- policy every time hereafter. “You are intimating trickery.” be sound “tou rere vo romrt Tardy Installation Begins Today; ARMY INHOUSE) SAFEIS ROBBED y s t 0 for Lord Derby is reported to have out capturing Villa is likely as an alternative t forcibly tak-| ing Mexican railroads, defying Carranza, and possibly pre-|Come to this decision soon after be- Landy was quick to reply: “I suppose I ought to hold my tongue 1 ing named minister of aviation. cipitating intervention, with a year’s bloody warfare against cleven were killed and more a all factions |than 30 injured in the German raid’ but I want to say that you man, with a big smile, came jan guests in the Faculty Men's WASHINGTON, March 20-—— | ISSAQUAH, March 20.—Robbers : 4 . e The Kent raid was only one of eS m early this morning. They got de facto government troops thru 1 S. territory troba Eagle against England by German ma-« Six months ago a roly-poly ;president and regents to delogates _In view of Pri esident Wilson's past favors to Carranza, | jon Kent. now, are low "applauns From Crowd versity of Washington. | Meany hall at 2:30 p. m. resentative Kahn's 2 There was a ripple of applause It took him about 20 minutes | President Butler of Colombia. to the May bill for a larger reg. | about $100 in cash }Pass to Douglas, the desired permission to ship American ee from Zeebrugge. ffom the crowd which packed fie| to get off his coat and start (which university Dr. Suzzallo left) Ulan army. Kahn's amendment In thelr haste they overlooked | military supplies by rail and perhaps to send reinforcements | n¢ sel pre ay Drought down was in favor of making the action. to come to Seattle, will make the | between $50 and 875 in cash and 8 over Mexican railroads, was expected. i serv When the vote was at last taken, In @ week he was shooting (chief inaugural address Tuesday | ilitary forces 220,000. | ilies AE pei : taan che yet See ae Bolton, Hesketh, Lundy, Marbie,| around the state like a water afternoon. This vote was considered a Ld heen in the postoffice, Says U, 8. Will Get Line Fitzgerald and Erickson voted for| bug, trying to keep up with a Among those who will take part ens pet ag of con- nm the opinion of Marshal Liv-| Gen Garcia belleves Carranza WRITE _ the belt line franchise. schedule of speech making |in the ceremonies are Gov. Lister, ional opposition to # large |ingstone, the work was done by wii! grant the request , ing army. |experts surances today | lobby. % ore: eee and Dale voted br upon him, Oscar Fechter, president of the) it believed th |” Nitroglycerine w 4. wane! He repeats his ; aga irders were issued right and board of regents; Bishop O'Dea, Dr. | cho aia tly yee agate Ae ‘ar ier’ meh thet Carrassa wanted to cocpe S Hates sald ought to be ivon| hand the compos ines Vetintt Goes; Prt Wunsr Gas |dhereorgasantion ht mi hw re MGroUvary ma Gel usiewea ae’ withthe Atercaas ove |Mrs. Clayburg Tells It to The Star more consideration. Attorney} ately livened up under contact . oe show Bigg tga theo ible. y ip rc now Everett, of Brown unversity: | ported before adjournment | patehs with which the work - was by A yet chaleied ‘suiontih a France for the port commission with this high tension educator. Chancellor Elliott, of the Univer ‘ * raity, A roll call on Hay's bill was showed it oo given a great| Dr. Henry Suzzalio didn’t have of Montana; President Wilbur, of | planned ; | deal of study by the present coun-| time then to go thru any installa-|Stanford university; President Co-| The senate planned to pass Sen- done. Villa fs heading into the moun-| Several residents who live not/taing of Durango, where he was eil—and it would have to be gone|tion ceremonies. He was too busy man, of Washingto college; Chamberlain's bill, w for trom: tee arom Speers’ toGay st ? ov nit again by the new body, {f|{roning out the old institutional | President peutroeds ne Wradksonn ‘tek pe aoe cata, dvanles thal they heard three explosions about! vijtistas. under the command of When {t was all over. Dale ofter-| *™!™*!e*- lege: Josephine Preston, superin.|number of West Point cadets se.) “!™ fet |Generals Calixton and Reyes, with ed an apology saying he thonghe College H: Gather | tendent of public Instruction; Presi-| lected from the ranks of privates | |the remnants of the rie vt 4 This week he is taking time off|dent Wilson, of the Ellensburg nor- in the army ie— | Gen, Tomas Urbinar and Benjamin Lundy accused him of trickery. | Judge King Dykeman,| Tomorrow the senate will pans | SOFT SNAPS | Argumedo, are lurking there ito te formally fnaugurated mal colle Lundy replied, saying he did not) '? iC iieee presidents and pro-|of the alumni, and Prof. Edmund 8, |on Senator Tillman's armor plant | Me fans Fanybody who tried to delay fessors representing about every in. Meany, of the faculty. bill. os stitution in the land have all gath Distinguished guests include Dr. Am NOT MAKING erea around to make the affair one | Samuel Capen, of the U. 8. burean c of education; Prof. Inglis, of Har. ‘TAGGART iW “SENATE. ENOUGH MONEY “To The council also passed on Lun-|f the most pompus bits of cere PAY MY WAY IN | Dodd 60 Miles Behind Villa fs reported {n the Chihua hua mountains, riding toward Du-| | rango. To an expedition a6 large | as Pershing’s, the trails which | Villa uses present an almost im-| a vard; former President Galt, of the 4y's resolution to provide a special) ony that Seattle h am J ble obstacle, } The two days’ program started | University of South Dakota, and A FREE MUSEUM! passable obstacle. prosecutor, as Mayor Gill asked, to! Monday at 12:15, with the Washing. |former President Bryan, of the Col, Dodd's cavalrymen are said | to be 60 miles behind Villa, but 60 | miles means two days’ marching in those mountains Between Villa and his supposed | | goal at Durango, however, are the | Tarahumar mountains, also one of |his favorite haunts 5 handle cases, B: a eae em tee wean neten,|ton alumn! gathered at tho Butler | Washington State col od pw cor] fon coun-| hotel for luncheon, to hear Dr. | red to the new corporation coun) vicholas Murray Butler, president 2 Shively, deceased. At noon the firemen's band, then |f Columbia university, ‘speak SHOTS FIRED AT the police band, came into the Program Starte Today BULGAR PREMIER PLAN | CONVENTION | mayor's office and serenaded Hi| The program on the campus start Gill, who begins his new term Mon-|¢d with a concert on the chimes Cslom it t > | He ts approaching them today fee at 1:30, followed by an academic | Manh. @nTee CHICAGO, March 20.—Aitho the » A ne and is not yet out of the Carranza The new council met at 2 p. m.| procession at 2; reception to visit-| at Promi subcommittee on arrangements | \trap. W. H. Moore and R. H. Thomson|ing ladies and university alumnae | remier jfor the republican national conven | Carranzista soldiers are attempt take the places of Charles Marble; at the president's residence at 4:30,| rode in an open ton meets aged de of ing to drive Villa toward the Guer-| f and Ira D. Lundy. and college-night for the alumni of| Gofla, according to dieparches [eye nbOrary chairman will prob: |rero district. Troops from Chthua-| Councilman Haas, according to|of all universities in the gymnasium! today. eviy be postponed “une. Apr hua City, Guzman and Numiquipa| the slate agreed upon by a secret|at 8 p. m. The shots were said to have NOMINATE BRADFORD \; oe PO are closing in on him. | = vanens of five councilmen, will be) Tuesday's program starts with n| been fired by a Bulgarian pos- WASHINGTON, March 20.—2.M.|| BELLING G The American vanguard is crowd-| i nominated for the presidency of the|concert on the chimes at 10 a. m.;| tal employe. The premier wae |Rradford was nominated postmas- GERMAN SOU~| |ing him from the north, while his| j council to mcceed Oliver T. Erick-|an all-untversity assembly in Meany | uninjured. One bullet hit the |ter.at Juneau, Alaska, by Presi. |\VENIR FLAGS IN ENGLAND | : fon. hall at 11:30 a. m.; luncheon by coachman. ‘dent Wilson today. | (Continued on page 5) | NO TICKET SALES OR HEAT IN CARS; NO PAVING COST OR FRANCHISE FEE; _ A STRAP INSTEAD OF A SEAT IN CARS-THE LOVELY DREAM OF GEO.A.LEE @ H ‘The average merchant attends to his business, competes with his For Instance, George A. Lee would be only too glad to approve | paying its share of the cost of bridges on which Its car tracks 7 fellow merchants, and never thinks of depending upon public officials | the Lee bill, or the Lee-Brockett bill, which would make a perpetual | run, of ite share of the cost of paving streets on which its car to give him special favors. He mixes in politics only to the extent of | monopoly of the Seattle Electric company, regardless of present fran- | tracks are laid, of a 2 per cent payment of its gross receipts doing bis duty citizen. chise agreeme | ity under its very f It {s different with the Stone-Webster corporation, If !t can governor can appoint a “satisfactory” supreme. court judge | THE FRANCHISH ALSO REQUIRES THE COMPANY TO SELL | MPs. lsabel Clayburg, Alleged “Queen of the Badger Girls," Who Will ; control the governor, the legisiature, the mayor or the council, it can nee ® vacancy occurs, or a superior court judge. Stranger things | TICKETS AT 4 CENTS EACH. BUT IT REFUSES TO SELL THEM Begin the Story of Her Life and Adventures in Tomorrow's Star, 3 get special privileges. | than the appointment of a judge like Norwood Brockett or James B, | ON STREET CARS, WHERE THE PUBLIC CAN BE ACCOMMO. That is why it Is in politics all the time. It spends thousands of | Howe of Seattle Electric Co. fame, have happened DATED, IT REFUSES TRANSFERS ON TICKETS, IT REFUSES Pr hire. teaser Glaybuce, cow uncer attest at tose at sel = sea dollars to keep up a small army of hirelings to keep it actively in pol | lh keh Be PROPER HEATING ON STREET CARS. of conspiring to blackmail prominent men of wean ap ‘Seattle, ities EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IS THE APPOINTMENT BY THE The public service commission has the power to regulate service. | hae become the mosttalked-of young woman on the Pacific uate. am It subsidizes newspapers. It has its representatives in political | GOVERNOR OF THE “RIGHT” KIND OF A PUBLIC SERVICE COM. | It’s important for the Stone-Webster corporation to have a “good” Beginning tomorrow, SHE WILL TELL, THRU THE STAR, THE gatherings of all kinds—and it is most active just now in “handpick- | MISSION publiv service commission, and the governor can give Stone-Webster | STORY OF HER LIFE? ing” a favorable list of candidates in state, county and congressional | When Gov. Hay appointed George Lee as chairman of the public just what it wants, if the governor is one iike George A, Lee. She will reveal her meetings with the mysterious woman wh: districts | service commission, a few years ago, the Stone-Webster people felt re eee gy ed alleged confession to Deputy Sheriff Hally led to the arrest, in San In George A. Lee, the Stone-Webster corporation would that at last they had somebody “real WHO ARE STONE AND WEBSTER? WHO ARE THE MEN | Francisco, of Miss Dottie Coots and Miss Lillian Peterson, the coud have an ideal governor, and a governor means considerable to | He was. He approved the proposal to permit more than a nickel 6 WHO TRY TO DICTATE POLITICS IN THIS CITY AND STATE? beautiful young women who were released Saturday from the county | jectric company. | carfare by a “zone system” as one of his first acts in the 1913 legisla TOMORROW THE STAR WILL, TELL YOU SOMETHING | jail on bail. ernor can veto bills that might take some profits from the | ture. It was indicative of his point of view. ABOUT THEM. THE STAR HAS HAD A SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR A CORRESPONDENT OF THE STAR INDUCED MRS. CLAY. company to which it is not entitled. A governor may approve vicious Just now the Stone-Webster corporation hae an applica- IN THE EAST TO LOOK THEM UP. BURG TO WRITE HER STORY, FOLLOWING HER ARREST AT bills proposed by the corporation. tion before the public service commission to be relieved of | SEE THE STAR TOMORROW-—IT WILL OPEN YOUR EYBS. LOS ANGELES, YOU'LL WANT TO READ IT, * a I USER,