The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1916, Page 1

A the Rio Grande. SEE PLOT acy to Kill Government | Built ‘Battleships At Spokane next Monday and Tuesday, a so-called prepared- mess convention Is to meet in pursuance of a call issued by 4 Press agent of Astoria, Wash. whe has attacked the Breme ton navy yard. At Red Wing, Minnesota, an- ether preparedness convention ie to be held next week—and Astoria is prominently repre. sented by de! At Wa Mogtens D.C, before the house naval committee, Congress- man Humphrey of Seattle Wednes- the Poindexter appropriating $2,065,000 ta equip Bremerton for building bat-) be made part of the gener} dill, SENATOR POIN-| PROMPTLY POINTED OINT OF ORDER COULD BE | DE THAT IT WAS AN IM. ROPER RIDER ON GENERAL LEGISLATION. Charge a Conspiracy Seattle friends of the Bremerton avy yard today charged that a na- tion-wide conspiracy exists, plainly fostered by the shipbuilding trust. to prevent government building of | battleships. The plot is being helped in Seat-| tle as well as in other parts of the state by certain men who have selfish motives for so doing, they “No one ever seriously believed Astoria is entitled to consideration @ naval base, with navy yards al-/ ready established at Bremerton and _ at Mare island. Yet Astoria is looming up thru out the nation, by the ald of a pub- lielty fund, as a possible contender. | Who Furnishes the Cash? ‘There is some curiosity as to the source of the money being expend- ed to give Astoria so much pub- Heity. The convention at Spokane has been called by the Columbia naval _ base committee of Astoria, and the fame number of delegates are a lotted to big cities as to small towns in Washington, Oregon, and Montana. Surprise wa: expressed here Thursday that Astoria? Ore., should seek a convention in Washington. | It is charged that the plot is) upon Bremerton in its own state by packing the convention with full delegations from small towns in Oregon and Montana, while the} people of Washington apparently are asleep at the switch. | YUAN GIVES UP MONARCHY PLAN 2, PEKING, March 23.—The monarchy of China is gone and the republican form of govern- ment has been resumed. A state department mandate issued last night declares the | revolution indicates the demand | for a monarchial government | is not unanimo and there- | fore Yuan Shi Kai rejects the emperor's crown and agains takes the title of president. | Yuan Shi Kai wi jected i VOLUME 18 professor said, as a student of human nature. adventures of “Mutt and Jeff.” TALKING OF WAR —Our own little war with Villa, we mean— you'll find today, on page 8, a lot of in- teresting information about what Uncle Sam’s lads in khaki are doing down below THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEwWs : } — NEWS : } Every day this pair of “nuts” The Seattle Star SEATTLE, | A $75,000-A-YEAR ARTIST DRAWS PICTURES EVERY DAY FOR THE SEATTLE STAR HARVARD professor told a psychology class not long ago that “Bud” Fisher will go down to posterity as one of the rare humorists of all time. “Bud” Fisher gets $75,000 a year for drawing one strip of comic pictures every day. perform across the tup of The Star’s sport page. WASH., DO YOU DO AGAINST DISHES MR. SHIP PLAN HUSBAND? Seattle Men “Charge Conspir-| Most of Our Bus Busy Men ml fess They Work Around The House. The city editor didn't get down to work until 20 minutes after 7 yesterday morning. He came rushing into the of- fice with a worried look on his face. The managing editor didn’t like it, because he hi habit of being on the job at 6:45. At 10 minutes to 7 he starts watching the door. Five minutes later he sur- veys the desks. At 7 o'clock he is ready to go to the mat with any tardy sign- ers of the pay roll. So the city edi mumbling hie alibi, started for their wives. ‘Missed my car,” he ventured. _ ASTORIA IS SUSPECTED|THEY TELL ABOUT IT| “They can't wait on the corner while you dress, y'know,” replied the M. E. “I'd have made it housework now ‘Sure; I alw And that started an argument. The M. E, said that don't do work around home. The C, E. I hadn't tried busy men maintained that any plainly to have a black eye cant | body who DOESN'T work around home is missing a lot of pleasure and shirking some of the specifi tion Just to decide their argument, ienk. leations of the wedding conversa list of names was skidded across ‘all ‘em up, and find out ff any body beside the Blue Pencil pusher here ever greases the griddle or mows the hay,” ordered the boss Nine Out of Ten Do Work Around House “Sure, said on my flower garden or 80 ago I kept chickens, and I work around home,” {dish washer.” | | | | ; Villa’s R THURSDAY, MARCH ‘anks Report- gz ed Swelled by Large f Numbers of Desert- ing Carranza Troops, Btatt Ce March 23 against United Press EL PASO, ithe Carranzistas ing Villa were over of Mexican railways the punitive expedition rreaponden| t cans were traveling from military train indicated the approval of de By E. T. Conkle Rumors of incipient rebellion by co-operation overshadowed ry The report from Carranza Gen c that facto government representatives with Americans today by the reported United States forces to Bertani that 200 Grandes to Madera Gen. Pershing’s asas Brig. Pershing Took Over Line Three Days |Ago; Action Is Kept Secret ago. It was learned that Pershing Northwestern line from Casas Grandes to Madera three days The action was kept secret If American infantry has gone to Madera as reported,| took over the m step had hunt- taking speed Ameri-! a Mexico ithe United States soldiers may be south of Villa, tho all in- dications now are that he escaped the trap set for him. t ‘° |equipment to the Mexican lines locomotives jdeserts and he| more acute, “I spend all the time I can 1} used to be a pretty good chef and lalso Sure, men like to do littie things | contrary 24 hours. preparing to turn cars and Transportation of heav mountains by impracticable. It was unofficially learned that Americans. will ‘sending provision trains over the railroad from Juarez Y Q Local railroad yards over to the supply loads 200 miles motor truck has been |Credit Report That 2,000 Carranza Soldiers Are Marching to Join Pancho Villa A report that Gen. Luis Hererra has revolted is credited ing from Chihuahua with 2 in the absence of official denials. wit fr They are negotiating for the transfer of American | are! army.| over proved He is said to be march- 2,000 Carranzistas to join Villa. Consul Garcia denied the Hererra report, but the de-| nial was merely his personal opinion, based on a knowledge Hererra’s enmity for Vil Hererra has been of la a member of both Villa factions at various times credited in the absence Heavy Rains Fall in Mountains; American Troops Exposed to Danger of Illness Reports of heavy speedy supply routes. The nights are extremely creasing rains in the mountains cold and pneumonia is the Carranza and The defection of Col Cano and 900 men to Villa was { official dispatches to the where the| American vanguard is located emphasize the necessity for} | in- A threatened dysentery epidemic is expected to be fore- stalled by the accessibility of fresh and pure water at Casas Grandes. There has been no word of whereabouts since Mon- day. It is believed he escaped the net of soldiers which par- tially enveloped him. Col. Cano’s 900 Carra a troops who were reported to have defeated the Villistas at Namiquapa are now feported to have changed sides and to have joined the outiaw’s fol- lowing. This would explain Gen. Ga- silence with regard to the outcome of that encounter. vill following the arrest Meichor Herrera, Until a week| Herrera The result was that an office} tnjess the American vanguard | precedent was established that will) rorurned to ite base when it heard hold for all time. |the Villistas were rapidly increas | NINE OUT OF EVERY T ing in numbers, army men believe | BUSY SEATTLE MEN DO™A LIT-| the United States troops tg be hot TLE WORK AROUND THE!on the bandits’ trail. The Ameri HOUSE. leank were near Namiquipa on Or, at least, they say they do. | Monday. Mayor Gill was the first one. Fears of a local uprising are of brother of Luis Reports that the Carranza garrt- son in Juarez is on the verge of re volt has resulted in the reinfore: e GRIFFITHS TO WRITE ON CITY EFFICIENCY Few men in Seattle have made as exhaustive a:study of municipal ire as Aus. tin E. Griffiths. A lawyer by profession, a student by nature, experienced as a councilman and as chief of police, Griffiths has further broa d his knowledge of civic affaira by studying conditions in other cities. Griffiths has written sever. al articles on municipal effi- ciency in Seattie. They are unbiased, unprejudiced > cles, dealing with efficiency problema and the oppor. tunity for cutting down the expenses of city administra- tion. Th articles are not critical o y office hoid- ere in the city. They f with no personalities. They LAST We thought it today: ox ymar AEWA RTANE 3, 1916, se CENT GEN. PERSHING SEIZES RAILROAD FCARRANZISTAS JOINING FORCES OF BANDIT + Motor Transportation Over Desert Fails; U. S. iJ Use Entire Mexicam Syste ‘bau ved iif Hi) | if | TO NIGHT, = gveve SArvERTIC) OM $5,000,000 FIRE AT AUGUSTA, a |Hundreds Rendered Homeless; Relief Funds Raised AUGUSTA, Ga, March 23.— | Flames sweeping Augusta were Nearly 130,000 National Guardsmen Are Mend pet ie vagy sod Available for Chase After Pancho Villa miles, Inciuding 10 busi and 20 residence blocks. j Three thousand are sheiter- leas. The loss is estimated at $5,- 000. } The number of ‘officers and men each state has available for government use is shawn by the following table Enlisted Men. States or Districts Alubama . Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. of Col Florida 1915, Officers ~ 164 States or Districts Nebraska Nevada N 1915. Officers Enlisted Men. Several | jured. | Business ts prostrated , Militiamen pace the debris-litter }ed streets thru blocks of blackened ruins that once were homes, guard ing piles of household goods in the gutters Fire fighters are on the ground | firemen were in- Hamp) New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio from Ma | from Macon, Atlanta and Savan-|} Geynein pos ER With the flames curbed, the vol- |} Hewat Oregon... unteers and regular firemen are Idaho Pennsylvania searching the cooling ruins for J [!inols Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah .. Vermont Virginia ... Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Indiana lowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts. Michigan Minnesota Mixsissippl Missouri Montana *No organized militia, BOY OF 3 KIDNAPED | more dead Immediate relief for the victims was asked and thousands of dollars subseribed at once. Starting in the commercial dis trict, the fire destroyed a number of the city’s biggest office build ings When it was thought to be ex | tinguished, a high wind carried em bers two blocks and started the laze which devoured six blocks of idences, Total mustered out May 2! | FIRE IN NASHVILLE | NASHVILLE, Tevn., March 23, Thousands of people are homeless | i583, for a five-year term. ‘ober, | Jimmie Crehan, the mayor's sec | ment of the strong border guard Fd net leer backward, but today aa result of a $1, 500,000 fire aatiiges jretary, always {# down at the city in Gavira and Mayor ante uenanteee ie te ae ee hall early, with 4 smile on his face | Preto of Juarez are said to be sp ge? 5 CHANCE TO ENLIST Si cme vowta isis he taa'time to lon the quention of how “to” creat | The firat article witt be J ball of yarn inte a vacant’ lot. Whisked Away From Home in Auto | work at home, But he claims to be} Americans in Mexico ses aR Me: lg A 60-mile-an-hour wind fanned|. With candysas the bait to lure;tomobila. A second later the ma IN NAVAL MILITIA rd ane big man around his house osm the flames, which, in a few min. little %-vear-old Richmond Boyd | chine was going at high speed to. ‘ | vy Pais *t peisedalic & BELIEVES PERSHING utes, spread to a planing mill and | Barker from back yard of bis home | ward the city fe a4, th pe et My leaped from house, to house and at 6 ast 73rd st. to the gate,! Police were notified by the moth ‘ Friday evening, siantinaban’ dit | BeFintend all of the housework OBTAINED CONSENT G0 TO PULLMAN NOW buil@ng to building, destroying ev. two men kidnaped the youngster /er. Ina few minutes the word was naval ™ Then | mow the lawn, britig in the srytt in Its path. and whisked him away ina big red! being telephoned open an enlistment campaign at| rata aety | . i te erything in pat! Meo rg tech Mig RA & telephoned to patrolmen the Armory, in which the remain-| (Continued on page SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 23 Pe ey ape t/. The National Guard was catied | automob) ya 80 a.m. \ thruout the city and a special de ing 15 men required for full! |-“I believe Gen. Pershing may Dr. athe hon and ¥ ghee peel ped bale to prevent looting. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. | tail of detectives was searching strength are to be enlisted ARREST ATTACHE have taken over the Mexico North: the Washington State college at) The Warner public school, in| Fred O. Barker the downtown hotel district Since the formation of the new |western railroad, operating from | Pullman, will be formally inaugur-| which there were 800 children at pivorce papers were to have| The boy was dressed in check- givision in Seattle the rivalry be- | OF U S. LEGATIO |Casus Grandes toward Cumbre tun- ated Thursday and Friday of this|the time the fire started, was to-|peen served ‘Thursday on the fa,(ered hat and trousers aad a black tween the old and new divisions | owes lnel, altho he has not reported to week, President Suzzallo of the/tally destroyed, tho no one was) ther ik polly coat. His hair is black and has been keen. Cruises are taken —- me,” said Maj, Gen. Fred Funston University of ashington and) hurt é i | Neighbors saw a tall man in a{ curly and was bobbed by the two divisions every two| PARIS, March Charged with | today many of the educators who came| At Kast Nashville, the subpostof-| yack overcoat hold out a bag of| Fred O. Barker, the father, is weeks and competitive gun crews, |bribing a police official, the chan-| “Of course, he must first obtain|to attend his inauguration left|fice and several churches were | candy and beckon to the youngster, | Pilot on the Alaska river boat Re wignal crews, and athletic teams |cellor of the American legation at|consent of the local Mexican com-| Wednesday for Pullman burned to the ground | who came running toward him Hance. have been formed. Sofia, Bulgaria, has been arrested,|mander,” added Funston. A second later the man had the| | Mrs The naval militia will leave at & | according to dispatches today Headquarters officers emphasized) in proportion to population @ — @|child in his arms and was running of the child in her divorce applica p. m. Saturday evening for a| It was alleged he paid the police|the need for speed south of Casas among cities In the United States, 1 up the street on. eruixe to the ocean. Sunday will | for passports Grandes by pointing out that the Cleveland has the greatest number Women in the neighborhood P% 7 be spent in practicing with the big) The American minister demanded | line runs where Pershing is most of telephones, and New Orleans heard the child's cries, They saw! You can get a lot of good land gone ! his relea Ki kely to want troops suddenly, |the fewest. ——e@lthe pair Jump into the waiting au-| bargains in Star Want Ads, The strip reflects the amusing we got ready for bed last night, zowie!—look what the weatherman says “Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; HEAVY FROST TONIGHT.” Pe commandant here, Teoma Barker had asked custody |ed that the land wire connecting | repaired, | He is a genius, the EDITION was pretty chilly when but— MAY CALL NATIONAL GUARDOUT Consider Summoning Militia for Border Duty REGULAR ARMY BUSY BY ROBERT J. BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 23— For the first time since Villa Started his border raiding, the government today seriously considered the possibility of militia forces being a necessity on the border. | Every available regular may Vitista field forces when thoy Villista field forces are reinforced by docbetion Carranzistas. If the entire regular army bor- der force marched ‘into erloo, is believed President Wilson have to call militia or volunteers to guard the line. As far as Secretary Baker's vices show, Americans in have not fired a single shot, there had been no soldiers since the expedition marched from Columbus, Baker did not deny he is consid- ering calling the militia. Besides almost all of the coum try’s mobile army already either in Mexico or on the border, the goy- ernment still has its Coast artillery, Philippine and Alaska forces and several thousand marines that could be used in an emergency. The protocol under which opera tions against Villa are to be con- ducted awaits Carranza’s approval today. Maj. Gen. Fred Funston reported as entirely unauthenticated the story of General Luis Herrera and 2,000 men going over to Villa, but officials admitted the situation pre-_ sents grave possibilities. The report that Colonel Cano, commanding 900 men, is parleying with Villa increased official con- cern, Another rumor was that Gen. Ga- vira at Juarez is rebellious. FUNSTON SCORES WORK OF AVIATORS — SAN ANTONIO, March 23.— | Headquarters here today wirelessed |Gen. Pershing urging an immediate report on the case of Aviator Gorm rell, lost with his military biplane, somewhere between Columbus and Casas Grandes. Maj. Gen. Fred Funston fs very juneasy. The aero mishaps of the jcampaign have been a great disap- |pointment to him. He referred to |the aero squadron's work as “very poor.” Three machines have been | disabled and a fourth lost. 'MEXICANS PLOT TO BURN EL PASO EL PASO, March 23.—Police Capt. Hall today claimed to have information of a plot con- to burn and foot ti city, Eleven suspects were arrested, Including Melchor Herrara, brother of Gen. Luis Herrera, Carranzista leader, ‘PURSUERS OF VILLA SUFFER HARDSHIPS EL PASO, March 23,—Sergt, W. |H. Harrison, of the 18th cavalry, arrived here Wednesday under care of the hospital corps with a tale of Ithe terrible suffering incurred by |the American soldiers in the dash jafter the bandit Villa | The soldiers’ eyes, according to | Harrison, are swollen by the des Jert alkali, their feet cut almost to |pieces and swollen by the hai jroads, Harrison himself is suff ing from dysentery, brought about by drinking water from an irriga- tion ditch | } COMMUNICATION | HAS BEEN RESTORED SAN ANTONIO, March Columbus and infantry headquar. [ters south of Ascencion has been restoring communication The wires were cut } with Pershing. by Villistas,