The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1916, Page 1

| DO NOT MISS IT! There is something mighty interesting on The Star editorial page today. Turn to page 4 and read the very first editorial. It's a humdinger. Who wrote it? Well, that the surprise. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS > ie VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1916 TRAINS AN NEWS STANDS, IAYOR APPOINTS NEW CHIEF BECKINGHAM NAMED TO SUCCEED LANG PRAIA PPPS PSPSPS PPP LL LL ALLL PLP PRP LP APPL APLAPALAERE The Seattle Star ONE CENT beat it? LAST EDITION It rained this morning. It rained this noon, But cheer up, folks. Here comes George, the weather man, and says: “Fair ~ tonight and Wednesday.” Can you them all—nine of them —wrong. lystery in Walla Walla Trag- | 7 edy; Was It Murder : Suicide? Miss Bara was desirous | peputer HE WAS 50 ); SHE ONLY 18) ork WALLA WALLA, April 11,— e mysterious deaths of Mary 50, continue to baffle the police today. |“Love Pirate Evidence indicated a suicide | Pemininit ren suicide. no motive could be found. Frazier was Miss Hawn's student at St. Vincent’s academy. Frazier had been paying her tuition, and parently manifested ly interest in her, The bodies were found lying, fully dressed, on 2 bed in the} Grand hotel last night Two capsules containing a white} powder Indicated the girl had} swallowed poison. | A slight abrasion about her throat, however, led to the belief that she was strangled or forced to swallow the poison. Frazier was lying with his head toward the foot of the bed. He had blown out his brains with a revolver, using a blanket to ) muffie the report. Both apparently had been dead several hours when the bodies were found. Two notes served only to deepen | mystery. | Both were in the man’s hand-| writing. This, the police thought further strengthened the murder| and suicide theory A note beside the girl said:|,, “Notify Mrs. Nellie Hebbs, 410) "The Devil's Daughte uth Toppenish ave., Toppenish, | Pretty nearly every Wash.” the country hfs told The man’s note said: “Dear! > Carmen,” “A “The Clemenceau Case. Daughter: “This is to say goodbye. | 1 hate to do this, but am powerless to prevent it. You will find my| papers in my satchel. May God| Vampiring Is Hard forgive.” Work, She Says AN OPPORTUNITY ser, Wash., and some stock in an| work I¢pho mine Tan } and lose myself Mrs. Maria Clingman of Free Complete exhaust ft, Ill, admits her age to be 106| day of work irs—which shows all women are) A year ago, when m ike. i display SHINGTON, April 11 Four hours spent at Oyster in the com pany of Theodore Roosevelt left ¢ wondering whether or not he is any question about the public and the politicians wanting him. Too little emphasis has appar- | yooq. What I meant ently been Jald on the paragraph wanted me the public the country must be n ithe colonel’s statement c consider duties as well a from Trinidad, in which h | and to face the _ponsibility that the public must have in sacrifice and self-denial in un mood something of the heroic, If | gertaking such tasks it want m might impose Da iti As pregident, or candi rice of honor, they don’t want | allegiance. If the count yw the colonel shot it | then I am ublican congressman And t This is we may nominate you | talk on the subject of the 15 minutes, the colonel | onel's entire unconcern laid down the law to his con- | or not he alienated a large n r in true Mosatic __ Judge Moore, one of our “strong councilmen,” efficiency committee because he didn’t get the clerks fired, was wrong. Councilman Erickson, who refused to vote, putting it up to the other council- men to “skin their own skunk,” as he termed it, was wrong. This being a public skunk, Pirate” of Movieland, The Star on “The Heart of a Vampire.” ae “Things That Ar: articles tn 0 letter to the edi: | The | Beare.” ‘This paper, learning BY THEDA BARA Hawn, 18, and C. M. Frazier, | Written Especially for The Star Would you like to be call “the Ishma ‘a ©=Vampire” short, “the woman with the most iy wicked face is what people call me be cause of parts I play in the Fox| Theda Bara m corporation’s productions of | first time ‘ool There what she thinks of me and NOW. |THE FIRST TIME, I A WHAT I THINK OF MYSELF! | ferred to as I was heartbroken ideals were shattered against which every Frazier was a traveling man Vampiring, such as I do He owned a restaurant in Pros-|WARDEST. KIND. OF _ woman's hand I was held u ed with the character STRUCTION AND EVIL Described as Cruel of All Women 4d on the billboards for the BY GILSON GARDNER 1 your mind,” the colonel we Roosevelt in » resolve them In not nominating me rls 4 or progre following his augural (assuming that the elec tion had gone that way) Far from it convinced that understanding that the vould accept the republican the mood to make rogressive nomination for pres- “ to maintain it dient | on iaiaie be not ere has ' Certainly he will not if th | I sald in Trinidad keep the country out of war But he would make no threats he was unwilling to back up, and he would insist with all the pow something of the herole country adequately prepare. He is convinced that the coun. try is in great danger of drifting stern-foremost | | | | In any way pre He feels this so deeply, that he is willing to take the nomination kind of a candidate not the man to run.” ‘e was much to tell him that | the same effect with quite called upon to do so anished from his gressional via ber of foreign-born voters talked to me at fashion The republican congressman “If there are any doubts in | went away somewhat dazed, New Council Fails on First T SUALLY some one councilman out of our nine will be right on any proposition. However, the clash Monday over the firing of three committee clerks showed who resigned from the council “It’s Just Hard Work,” Declares Theda Bara, Famous “Love in the first of her written articles for | Wrote this description of me } “Her hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, her eyes have the cruel cunning of Lucretia Borgia, TILL NOW held up as the wickedest woman of the world; her mouth is the mouth | of the sinister, scheming De- lilah, and her hands are those of the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory, who slaughtered young giris that she might bathe in their warm life blood and so retain her beauty “Can it be that Fate has re | incarnated in Theda Bara tne souls’ of these monsters of mediaeval times?” Hardly a day passes that the postman does not bring me letters | written along similar lines MANY OF THEM ATTACK ME (Continued on page 7) 5 U.S. TROOPERS :: SHOT IN BATTLE SAN ANTONIO U, 8. troopers were we Brig. Gen. Pershing He submitted the following cas ualty list Private Thomas Brown, shot ck and shoulder. Farrier B. P. Meindeville, two slight wounds. Private Joseph G. Bennett, shot in_ankie. Private Joseph Garbell, s} arm. Private Peter W. Gardne left arm, .o CALLS CONFESSION ieee ect wowit ve, OF THEFT A ‘DREAM’ |: the vampire woman,” SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.— | The confession by Jas. Moran that he a pal participated In the $1,500,000 registered ! robbery in New York was a mere dream, according to Post office Inapector Stephen H. Morse today Morse declared Moran was not released from San Quentin prison until March 25, more than a month after the New York robbery was committed. Gilson Gardner Visits Roosevelt at Oyster Bay; He’s Still Wondering, After 4 Hours’ Talk, if Teddy Is a Candidate What has Colonel! his mind when he talks of duty, sacrifice and the heroic mood? Not that this country would be | sense of freedom which came with the renunciation of future office He could say ex what he thought on an te He was no longer bound to consider the fears of timid po litical associates who might be d by his utterances ad burned his brid and was enjoying all the liperti of private life It is not a serous breach of confidence to say that Mrs. Roosevelt hoped this condition would be a permanent one. Sh ot happy at the prospect that husband may be drafted for » political war Oyster Bay bas again become a news center Six months ago, the New York papers were content to cover by telephone or by an occasional call at the 42nd street building o t the Metropolitan office. Now there are six grizzled po litieal reporters perman } on the job [the Rainter Brewing Co., Seattle concern, now located in San , Francteco. It had been consigned to Ketchi according to the pol!ce. th | allowed by ded fight ing Villistas at San Geronimo ac cording to reports today from} | being ‘WHAT DO YOU Say tt a it itly en camped at the Oyster Bay inn, and the telegraph company has been putting in extra loops and getting experienced operators IDAY, . It'S title is: est of Municipal Efficiency and Erickson being a public official, he was duty bound to help do the skinning. ; It seems plain that the council could easily get along without the three clerks, and if the council is going to get anywhere on cutting out waste and inefficiency in mu- nicipal affairs, there is no item too small to be overlooked. s All of the councilmen showed political motives in their votes yesterday. They did not handle this matter as if it were a straight business proposition, and that is NEW CHIEF SAYS HE WILL PUT END just what it is. SEIZE BIG [HORSE HAS CARGO OF NICE LEAD BEERHERE WINDPIPE Shipped From California and/ Meal Ticket for ‘Hoss’ an | Owner, State ts Charges. é 3 11,000 CASES ARE TAKEN GASPIPE IN HIS Fadl What Is believed a flagrant vio. Loaded on Scow in East Waterway. lation of the “dry law” was dis. covered Tuesday morning, when 1,000 of beer were seized, after having been \oaded onto a scow Monday night at Pier 9. The seizure was made at the The arrest of W. X. Rustall Seattle merchant, and J. J. Fredericks and Waiter Shelton, laborers, followed. rious set-back in Seat day, when J. Pettve “Bob,” a handsome tho wind broken bay, was found guilty of falsely repre mal's valu for several years. Some time in 1914 Except for the fact that “Hoss trading” received » se- Tues. nting the ani- it hold of “Bo! Bob's The beer bore the trade mark of] windpipa had collapsed, the horse) ./earlier in the day. this address had been scratched met of the cases, The packed n pasteboard cartons of 1 “8 each Authorities were informed Monday at midnight that the scow, carrying approximately a rload of beer, was making way up East waterway ergt. Smart, with Sergt. Melvin athered on eight patrolmer shore and watched all night the landing. The police patrol oat, with two officers aboard, also trailed the unsuspecting booze! When the acow ianded early) Tuesday morning, the two laborers | started unloading the cases | In the meantime, officers obtain-| ed a seizure warrant from Prose | cuting Attorney Lundin, and took charge of the 1,000 cases The property room at the central police station was filled with the contraband in a short time, an egotiations started to rent a store room for the rest “IEF EXONERATED | = | Game Warden Harry Rlef is absolved, Tuesday, of charges of Incompetency and dishon- esty, the county game commis- on having heard all the testi mony during several sessions. The commission recommend ed to the state game warden that Rief be not removed. The only point to some para Kraphic Ines is a period ® foriner| was a fine ani nal Pettvell had a piece of gaspipe was three men are being held on a pre of having more liquor than law in their possession but Deputy Prosecutor Patterson is investigating the case and in all probability will file a state charge.| The men declared the liquor was transported to Ketchikan. |Alaska, and that it was intended |for private use in the fisherte | there. vell would p: sidered weal thebe than Morgan did for tho horse. He then sold “Bob” t | , fo the testimony in Judge |Mackintosh's court showed. lAljeblad drove the oorse a dlock and he began to wheeze sold, this tin usual note. principal o to Ben Sm interests charged with boosting prices and fixing discriminatory rates, ratary organ ts Guanes: of Charles L. Beckingham, former county commissioner and until two months ago teller - Shd wae consigned in the city treasurer’s office, was named Rear Gal ueroen Mayor Gill Tuesday noon to succeed Pettvell was an auctioneer at the Kentucky Sales Stables’ of Police Louis M. Lang, whose resignation ithe mayor had demanded in a letter written ; Beckingham will be sworn into office as Jastalled in “Bob's” neck, in place goon as his $10,000 surety bond is arranged of the broken re and sold the horse to George Mor. Tuesday afternoon. gti tee Beckingham received the appointment, Wouldn't Sell Him Back ause he co * from Morgan, paying more on commission, and gave the commission” money to the r,|_ Beckingh in Victoria his note for the balanc B. ¢ and e Canada lad still has the note He car to Seattle when ary, 1915, “Bob” was again| Young man and entered the re to A. Christopherson, | estate t of Lynden, Wash he secured a county position Pettvell bought him back for less Appointed Commissioner than Christopherson paid, plus the| In 1907 he was appointed to fin “Bob” Is Sold Often October of the same year missioner. He served two years was sold to Ray T. Smith He is a republican, and belongs the Lesch! school, then to no organization except the Se thers, of E t, and/attle Athletic club. later to Jacob Jacobsen, of Portage.| For the last five years he has That was the | ale been teller in the city treasurer's Deputy Prosecutor Summers got office left that post two hold of “Bob,” took him to Wood-| months ago to undergo operations park, where he shot him to| for nasal trouble death in the monkey house in the; He has no relatives except his on December 23 last mother, in Seattle, but has a sister o is the wife of ~~ Corbalon tae ment é 5 “Mr. Beckingham is thoroly familiar with the liquor situa- tion In Seattle, and | believe he can help me clear up that WASHINGTON, April 11.— problem: The senate today unanimously directed Attorney General Greg. ory to bring in a full report of | “In my opinion, he showed a desire to economize when a county commissioner, that has nvestigations of the Stand. | stamoed him as having a clear ard Oil Company and other oil head in dealing with financial matters. “His integrity and honesty | can't be questioned | “He knows the men of the | department thru long years of acquaintanceship and will work 5 with them, and they with him. | “1 think he will be loyal to 9 || me. He Is good natured and at the same time has a lot of and the big, strong woodsman Don’t miss it. FIRST ~~~ |_ lected a mighty good man for > Dane ar r Socis | the job.” T HEATRE I Lak EG party ial Donald D. Olson, superintendent It doesn't make a difference which 1 can/of the Monroe state reformatory was offered the position Monday till find a good deal of id litional enjoyment each evening afternoon, but did not accept |by reading the latest installment the novel-a-week in The He said the reformatory would re Star quire several more months of his Next week, a story of North will h the boards, |time {0 order to complete work that has already been initiated Young school teacher lonesome woodsman. Kid- ee ee eee etter to La |naped, held by force, the rages against the lonesome lows North. Given freedom, she longs for the wild, open country “Dear Sir: Without going into detail as to reasons, | be- Neve the best Inter: of the INSTALLMENT NEXT MON-| ity would be served by your orth of Fifty-three.” ‘resignation as chief of police. iness. Shortly atterwardl ish the unexpired term of Charles Baker, who died, as county com fol- | ear back, according to Mayor Gill, because of his Pett knowledge of police conditions i in Seattle. an He is 41 years old and is unmarried. 4 Me a He lives with his mother at 607 15th So it turned out. Pettveil bought aye, N. Beckingham went into conference with Ni) || Mayor Gill immediately after Lang was lasked, at 10 o’clock Tuesday, to resign. Ho re The conference ended at 11:35 and the turned and demanded the money mayor made the announcement that B ck- _Pettvell told him be bad sol4 ingham had been appointed. » | DECLARES HE WILL STOP BOOTLEGGING “The one thing | think the police department ought to do is to stop boot-legging in Seattle,” Charles Becking- ham sald after his appoint- ment as chief. “I have no other ideas at present about running the cepartment. | will have to see first just how things have been left by Chief Lang. “Every man, woman and child in the city knows that it is a simple matter to get liquor, | think something can surely be done by the police department to stop the illegal trade. The drug stores ought not to get away with the stuff they are pulling now.” “| therefore request that you tender me your resignation, the same to take effect immedi- ately. “You will turn over the office and such funds on hand belong ing to the city to Inspector M. T. Powers, taking his receipt therefor. “H, C: GILL.” A Record of Turmoil Lang's record in the police de jpartment has been one of contin }uous turmoil Shortly after taking office, Mayor Gill wrote a letter to him, whieh was made public, in which the chief ' was severely condemned for orders he had issued to the police Probably the most serious charge brought against Lang had to do with his public exhibition in drank en company at Tate's cafes ast summer, followed by the chief's visit to a cabs girl's room at an y hour in the morning. The council, by unanimous vote, found nity guilty of conduct unbe- coming ar as an alibi that he went to the girl’s room to unearth a police plot against him, officer, tho Lang offered