The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1916, Page 1

MOST ANYTHING That's the title of a de t 4 boned gg 5 dae yes Soak a bit of the joy ji tu: f Belindnd eee natured fun, observa VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH.,, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, The Seattle Star & ‘1 THE ONLY PAPER ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : 1916 ON! LAST EDITION You've got to give a man credit for trying, and that’s what our friend, George Salis- bury, is doing these days. His latest offer is: “Generally fair tonight and Saturday.” IE CENT CANS ROUT VILLISTAS. * 8 8 8 30 KILLED IN BATTLE WITH DODD’S CAVALRY | FOUR AMERICANS WO UNDED; VILLA CRIPPLED GERMANS CLOSING GRIP ON VERDUN; CITY IN FLAME By Carl W. Ackerman WITH GERMAN CROWN PRINC ARMY, VER- | BATTLEFIELD, March 27 (Delayed).—With an iron! the crown prince is closing in on Verdun. Storms of artillery fire are preparing the way for a great! ry advanice.. Despite official statements, there is no real) the fighting. \ Every day has been utilized in completing preparations | the final blow. Every indication is that the great advance | The fortified villages of Malancourt and Bethincourt, 101 } morthwest of Verdun, are already hemmed in on three! Both towns are certain to fall when Ger- moves on the west bank of the Meuse. . Verdun is burning in three places. From captured hills smoke. German shells ignited Belleville, , 1 hill on the ‘Verdun estern battlefield was spread out) to ‘panorama. the Gistance the spire df Verdun cathedral glistened ; the sun. In the foreground we could see Belleville, a tr of houses at the roadside. | _ Across a silver streak on the landscape—the river Meuse was Dead Man's Hill and Forges, which were stormed py | Nel March 6. | _ Cumieres wood, Bethincourt and the surrounding hills | out from a gray curtain of smoke. To the west! ourt could be seen, just a great brown splotch. _ The daily artillery battle was beginning when we took} our position. Below, on the green slopes, birds were ing in the trees. The vast land of trenches appeared At noon bright sunshine routed the Meuse mists. The of a heliograph flashed over the hills. German guns ran roaring. A French chorus of noise replied. As a German officer pointed, six shells struck of Belleville. Instantly the village was aflame. LONE MAN TRIES ‘GERMANY WILL _ TO SEIZE SHIP, MAKE EXCUSES = | United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—Pres- |{dent Wilson and his cabinet again discussed the submarine crisis to- | day, facing a muddled problem in the mass of evidence before them Of the four vessels concerned in |recent German U boat attacks, it is | said the Eagle Point was in the service of the British admiralty Germany will contend the steamer Englishman was torpedoed only when {t tried to escape, and that the channel steamer Sussex hit a mine. Sandy Hook. Officials believe it a foregone! Sehilier’'s comrade: however, | conclusion the kaiser will advance | backed out just before the Matopho | some defense for the sinking of} P sailed trom Hoboken the British S. 8. Manchester Pn-| ourself, convicts probably appear Thereupon, Schiller says, he de-| # pe OE were on board all of |! b@ tnwholesome company ae iuipe, | You would not want to bring a cided to execute the p ne. ‘ ‘ these ships. | mine t.proved the Matopho was) th |convict, in his coarse prison cloth his prison-bullt shoes and his outside the three-mile limit when or he held up the commander, Schiller} SAN FRANCISCO.—Bandits stole A belongs in the Capt. Kidd class, and| $1,000 from Spring Valley Lumber one ap, into your poe fs Mable to be hanged by the British|company office after dynamiting Lag pobocreni phd eis OO ‘ 4 vatch por , ; aa a pirate. safe and overpowering watchman. | ag aueytubie hat’ vod lalleved ——<———$—$————$——— gabe ptneermggeeepameeeeamamnecemngamns | not to be. And the only way Bright Spots in The Star | |them in the gulve of a convict, as I in the + daring plot to capture the 5,000- ton Gritish steamship Mato- pho, with her valuable cargo, and take her to sea, was reveal- ed today by Ernest Schiller, who was overpowered after holding up the ship's command. er and attempti: to seize the veces: single-handed. Four other men, he said, conspir- | ed to stow away aboard, spring out) at a given signal, overpower the of- ficers and cow the Chinese crew with revolvers. All this was to take piace just off BY E. A. PETERS HE average person of to- T day, fed up with lurid tales by sensation-loving police reporters or the alleged crook thors, has a warp real “criminal clas You imagine a convict to be @ tough bird, his ugly skull shorn of its hair, his teeth showing in a gleam of hate, his every attitu of bitter de- fiance toward society. But your impression is produced by untruths stuffed into a receptive }imagination, In comparison to to know convicts {a to go among | have done. It seems unfair, in my mind, to re fer to these men as “convicts,” be: | cause the word conjures up unpleas Jant thoughts in any mind. They g How are we going to prepare? Read, || are MEN, brothers in this man }| made world of ours, And they were on page 11, what some of Seattle’ $ prom: || |men, not convicts, whom I associ the jute mill, the yard” of Walle; inent citizens, think of this preparednesa | siei it in prison Did you know the price of rags has i) I was treated with equality and| loubled? Read the interesting article re- } ||Justice by other prinoners. | Since {they knew me a# a follow-prisoner, | doubled rags on page 7. » i201 knew that all things about all | e known to all within those Do you know where Casas Grandes is? } voty grins walie tithe penitentiary, ut out the big war map of Mexico oe [they a morning so cone al. we )| As “Peter son, Convict you'll find on page 10. : {|o047" 1 never met w more pleanant cell- house: A. are in bag a di are {she oo I-houses, ma! \* + Walk ny others a 9 ition ye Of cours, there are “bad men,” BT nieetitiincpnmenmctennmorcinest perience than I met. in! PRISONERS VERY M “When ¢ a Villa Needs a Friend!” ch row, three stories high, ir backs adjoining en, there are 84 cells on the opposite side, In this way, it will be 168 prisoners. and many of them, inaide the insti tution of prison society, are outcasts in Klobe. just as bad men all parts of the I talked with men who were serv-| ing life sentences for murdering their wives, sweethearts, children 1ey gave me advice on self-control and personal conduct as a prisoner that I shall never forget Men in the Walla Walla peniten tlary who are looked upon by soci ety as “desperate criminals” spoke to me with all the polish of Jan- guage, ease of expression and genu ine sympathy over my misfortune of wrong-doing that I would expect to hear from the most famous philoso: phera in America Ruin! —Of the United States —could it be accom- plished? (See Page 2, Colums 4) But they are the outcasts | There | arked with an arrow), id of in one cluster, holding I found the prisoners to be a lik able, pleasant group of men, Ac cepting their misfortune stoically, they are making the best of it From the “inside,” they reminded ne more of A great school,or college, | where all were banded together by a common tie, than of a “gang of crim-| inals, (Continued on page 8 column 3) SEATTLE HAS BIG LEAD ON PORTLAN In the Y.M.C. A membership campaign, Seattle Thursday made 120,576 points to Portland's 64,950, bringing the to- tals for Seattle to 326,035, and for Portland, 228,495. The republicans, led by Jos Black, led all teams with 39,675, Dr. Park Weed Willis bringing In more points than any other one in dividual intercity Funeral services for Pratt, who died after an operation for transfusion of blood from veins of Howard 6. McDonald failed, will held from Seattle Undertaking parlors Saturday at 2 o'clock. rary (tween the Seventh U VIS “FREEZE-OUT” IS UNDER WATER an the public considers them. | When | had finished my bath, that] Charles | U.S. TROOPS CHASE FLEEING BANDIT SOLDIERS 5 HOURS AFTER A SURPRISE ATTACK WASHINGTON, March 31.—-The war department today re- |ceived confirmation of a report that Villistas had been badly beat- en in a clash with the American expeditionary force. Col. Dodd’s cavalry struck the Villistas at 6 a.m. Wednesday, near Gurrero, according to a wet department message from the San Geronimo ranch. The dispatch was dated yesterday and trans- mitted from Gen. Pershing via Gen. Funston’s headquarters. Villa, suffering from a broken leg and other injuries, was not in the battle. The Villistas left 30 dead on the battlefield. Others are believed to have been killed. Dodd captured rapid-fire guns, many saddles, horses, munitions and supplies. The, attack was a tremendous surprise to the Villistas. laid not have time to arm before the cavalry was upon Dodd’s men had marched 55 miles in 17 hours to overtake the bandits. | The Villistas showed no fighting qualities. They merely grab- bed the nearest guns and, mounting horses, fled. A running fight ensued. The battle lasted whil: Americans and Mexicans gal- \loped side by side for 10 miles, fighting. At last the bandits sep- jarated and fled to the mountains, abandoning a number of Car- lranzistas, who had been taken p-isoners in previous encounters. Four Americans are said to have been wounded, none of them iseriously. The battle was waged for five hours. | REPORTED SLAIN IN MESSAGE TO CONSUL GaRcrA| BY E. T. CONKLE | March 31.—A battle was fought yesterday be e S. cavalry and a Villista column, ac cording to an official dispatch made public today by Consul reia. The message, which was handed Garcia by Gen Accompanies Officers in Search for Buried Gavira in Juarez, said: Treasure “Lieut. Col. Refugio Davila wired from Casas Grandes that he had been instructed by Gen. Pershing to inform me EMBALMER CONFESSES NEW YORK, March 31.—Dr, that the Seventh cavalry, on March 30, fought a Villista col umn of 500 men under Eliseo Hernandez, at San Geronimo The Villistas lost Herandez and 30 men. Several Americans were wounded. Confirmation has been received that Villa was wounded in his last fight with the constitutionalists, and 1s hiding in the vicinity of Guerrero 53 Arthur Warren Waite was in- dicted today on a first-degr murder charge. It is alleged | | he poisoned his wealthy father- in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich, ‘SAYS S.R.S, DEAL'FARM OF COUNTY ed by the grand jury foreman to Judge Nott in the court of gen- eral sessions, Waite, it was stated, will not be arraigned on the murder charge until Monday, His illness is much improv- ed. District Attorney Swann is expected to demand that Waite be tried in the supreme court Composed of District Attor. ney Swann's men, corps of law. yers, Dr. Waite, and a host of newspaper photographers, rode thru the lonely stretches of Long Island at dawn today, looking for buried money. They were hunting for the $9,000 which Eugene Kane, undertaker, admits having received from Waite after the death by arsenic of John Peck, Waite's father-indaw. Waite claims he gave Kane the cash so he would testify that he put arsenic in the embalming ‘luid, thus explaining the presence of that poison in Peck's after death Kane says he got the money, but denies ever having any intention of giving false testimony He was included in the strange party which went probing among the Long Island sand dunes for the money Kane led point out treasure. Workmen with shovels and picks delved here and there while the mfessed polsoner, who says his ‘alter ego ade him kill people, stood and ed out to sea, EL PASO, When Deputy Sheriff Frank Ell “The Willo coun farm near Kirklaud, | guperior Judge Frater indicated | Friday he will perit a reorganiza jott arrived at lt f ty industrial yt ion the Seattle, Renton &) cin. priday, with ten farm prisor | Southern Railway Co, under @ plan jers, he says he found the greater | which, it was charged in open | fertile portion, comprising about 100 |court, will leave small creditors | acres, inundated. “holding the bag.” | The prisoners were put to wor | Unless attorneys for building sleeping quarters for them [intents get together with coun-/ selves, preparatory to putting tne nel for the bondholders, Judge Fra-|farm under cultivation to raise prod | ter sald, and agree upon a different | uce for other county institutions plan before Saturday morning, he| “It will take six miles of drodg ‘will approve the reorganization |ing to open up the river channe |scheme submitted this land won't flood,” he decl: “This plan is a cold-blooded | The farm was recently purcl game of freeze-out,” declared [ed from C. D. Stimson, for $11 Attorney Vivian Carkeek, rep- {County Commissioners Marnilion resenting a large portion of the jand Knudsen approving and Com “We realize missioner Carrigan voting against but we it It consists of 423 acres tion euch a plan ae this. is not under water, Elliott “We recognize the power of the | rocky and cannot be farm | bondholders to freeze out the smal!) wiliott said, however, that he be | creditors,” said en. L. Moore, “but lieved the water would drain otf or ©. the small | claimant: All that ays, is crowd, he the where | we ask that the plan be not allow: | seep into the ground in a short time. ithe company be sold the; TONG MURDER CASE than that the reorganization plan organization, they asserted, is Pea.|of Yee Bow, a Chinese, charged |ior court and failed to reach a ver ‘ trying to buried his SAN FRANCISCO, March town on the evening of February enlisting enough reerults to get, Largest gold mines in the United Jed to go on record as having been) approved by the superior gourt.” "They urged that the vray of ‘JURY DISAGREES IN und hammer on May 1, a8 has already | {been provided by the court, rather | be approved. Possibly averting another threat The only claimant to gain by re-|ened tong war, the jury in the case lhody, Houghteling & Co., which|With the murder of Y, U. Park, a | own, out a total of | Korean, da reed Friday in super. dict after 24 hours’ deliberation Park was shot down in China Chicago and San Francisco are | 17 racing neck and neck for honor of second place in fight to increase |States east of the Black Hills are| U. S, army by 26,000 men, in North Carolina. system ¢