The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1916, Page 1

DECLARES WAR! Prosecutor Lundin is going after the drug stores. He tells something about conditions now existing in Seattle in an article on page 8. || STRICKEN: SUDDENLY Richard Harding Davis Drops Train Back Street Car. eSeattleSt THE ONLY PAPER | IN _SEATTLE VOLUME 18 AUTHOR IS One Woman Killedand ” Many Injured When THAT DARES | TO PRINT APRA PAP PL LLLP LLLP PLL PD LL 12, 1916. ONE CENT INESDAY, APRIL ' we SEA TLE, WASH., W en = -ATSY GREER, WHO WORKS IN A FIRST AVE. | L Sut JOTING GAl LE RY, TALKS PREPAREDNESS ini © Into THE NEWS : | a Ha MAINS STAN AND W@— NEW CHIEF TELLS STAR OF HIS RDER WRECK INVESTIGA LAST Nobody will deny that EDITION ’s the best ttl town in the world to live in when friend George is feeling right. he says today. Thursday,” = ~ ex “Fair tonight and S PLANS ION! Beckingham Says, KILLS HIS | “The Past Is Past;” NEPHEW | Going After Liquor AND SELF _ Law Violators. Veteran Yesler Way Gripman a Dead of Heart : . | ; ERT MANO Thought to Be Vafiure er the ection of Coroner Mason, deputies } w chief was embarr Demented BODY FOUND BY WIFE) to fix the responsibil wie eat M May | m him about here and there. His erstwhile fellow clerks in the PROMPTED BY QUARREL mie w killed t sma hen an Alki Point city treasurer's office had presented him with some flowers, ‘sieht. train “at steht: Mal jand instead of the familiar “Charlie,” had addressed him Apparently without any es Pitentay as “chief.” Congratulations had been showered upon him| #¥se, David M. Carette, 52, a ay ere ured the street car from many source Ne ermen had asked many| 9fipman on the Yesler way hit | Asid questions cable line, at 6 o'clock Wed- As adside } Charlie Be nger in political ctreles, th nesday morning, killed his Mabel Gale, was to "de lin rece 5 not been so active, and to the average| Mephew, Joseph J. Ogris, 39% citizen n « cll known as he was a few years ago agent for the Great Eastern . th \ | To all the newspapermen he is, however, as always, just| Casualty Co, then killed hime 17 : the: Sralstie wats casita “Charlie"—a ad sidered, good-natured fellow who al-| S¢!f with a revolver. he he Pedal na ; toets |ways liked to enjoy to make friends, and to be friendly. | _ Corie was building # fire | “What're your plans, Charlie?” The Star man asked | [In the basement of the house fre The 4 apher, with his “Sit here , “Hold your at 3000 Yesier way, where the vas w that hand this way, chief.” and “Look stra the camera,| Carette and Ogris families power to g the ‘t epee eae’ Ichie had just finished | both lived, when Carette folk pall ; | lowed him, and, without warn The trair k ar squarely i ee “ 99 | Phe train c nh Blinks Every Time He’s Called “Chief tas dhak been: :- | ith, says ngham 1 relieved | As he came upstairs, Carette | <a 1 his ’ we ec y ar, a : by time ard himself called “chief,” he blinked. | was met by his 14-year-old son, Ede F yer whether or r oy carne i | It's 3 me, of course,” he said. “You see, I| ward, who asked him: The injured taken to the th y didn't know about this until a couple of hours be-| “Did you shoot Joe?” a {hit . fore I wa Carette replied: “Yes, I shot CAPT: J. W. SIMMIE, 70, | responatbilit ‘ as | : : “ta oe alae wwaled back and right leg injured. He Pe police avte en were or The mayor called me in and asked me if I thought I}him. NEW YORK, Aprit 12— makes his home in San Fran pe Be ihe —— " oes wih jcould make a better chief than Lang The boy begged his father to Richard Harding Davis, the au- bag — SROUGHTON, 4, |reecte work. : a “I neéd not tell you, for you well know it, that I’ve]shoot no one else. Carette quickly | thor, dropped dead of heart Riverside fisherman; both | The streat car compuny sent out lknown Mr. Gill-a great many years—have known him well—| stepped into the front room, placed fatture jast night as he wi | tege injured, internal injuries taxicabs to help carry victims to and he has known me. We have been intimate, warm|a handkerchief over his face, and i! ing over the telephone at SJ. ARNOLD, 0), 40, Ba | the hospitals. friends. shot himself tn the temple. 2: home In: "Mount Kisco, it} carpenter; jaw probabl } aan as” <P mai += "When he-asked me about being chief, T knew>that he} Rom men died instep. geben as ll etal MRS.) RUSSELL HIBBARO, believed I could take hold of the office and make good. Ijhad been despondent ince his over the telephone about 9:20 p.m.| 2217 42nd ave. 8. W.; cuts on knew, t that I would do anything to make Gill's admin-| mother died on February 20 and ~ when he was stricken | head and suffering from shock | giethdn' is memaronm 3 bis Wife died o8 Marek it. "i d or th RUSSELL HIBBARD, 2217 | r . , To this was added some worry og ng ws oxo ne Berg “| 42nd ave. S. W.; cuts on body Patsy Greer | I was no seeker for the position, and therefore it was not]apout a threatened loss of prope he had gone into another room to V. STEVENS, 64, Riverside; Kindly stop the prepared- | making me a.living,” she explain-| friendship, but the mayor's confidence in me, that prompted |erty read. right knee injured. ness discussion tong enough to | ed They are rotten shots and (the appointment ars, Ogris believes Carette was After some time, when he fa H. ABRAHAM, logger; cuts — , [they don’t know it. They shoot, mentally unbulanced. Steen oa ss cate. seca Devie t on head and injured internally SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, | hear a word from Patsy Greer and I manage.to shoot |Promises Loyalty to Mayor Gill | He had also been drinking Tues her daughter, Hope, investigated MRS. M. J. MUIRHEAD, and } —John D. Spreckels, jr. Is be She has a few remarks to (just a little bit better—and they 7h ian tate. tik mayor w uld not ask me to be chief if|287 Mebt, sho l«lieves, and bought ‘They found Davis dead on the| ‘year-old daughter, Lake Bu ing sued for $100,000 alleged | make about Mr. American Cit- | pay the bill, see?” Pe ie . et lM lhis revolver before coming home floor. He had been in poor health| rien; both brulsed and suffer. | alienation of affections dam izen, which are not in keeping Angular white rabbits he thought it was no place in which I could make good. Nor|at dinner time. for two weeks ing from shock ages today, by Harold N. Eck- with the teachings In the jand peculiar looking Gv would I take-the place if I had any doubt as to my ability to| He partook of no food, and re Davis was the author of numer | Others slightly mann, cigar saleaman. school book histories. | birds moved tn endless, automatic jaid HIM ": | mained moody and silent thru the ~ ! wl | alao wrote|Conductor ©. B. Eckmann charge that Patsy says that Seattle's young | procession under the lights back o! a ‘ 5 levening. Only cnce did he speak, Several saccessfal, plays, But, he| Ward st, taken to & Spreckles made his wife men emulate hunks of Swiss| the counter So here I am, ready to do whatever, in loyalty to the| He then sald, “Well, something was perhaps best known as a wax| hospital; Mrs. Hanna Schc 833 teving him. lcheean when {t comes to handling} A row of clay plpes stood ready | Mayor, ought to be done. I've had no time as yet to take|has snapped.” correspondent. } 59th st.; Otto Johnse Riverside Mrs. Eckmann is a sister of (a rifle to be mowed down by the enemy’* \up a definite program, but | The night before, he had some Davis was born in Philadelphia | hotel; Alvin, Martin, Spreckels’ wife, who was for. | Patsy ought to kné fire, Beckingham’s jolly disposition is proverbial. But now he| ¥orés with Osris over a dog. §2 years ago. He began work as| “¥e.; merly Miss Sidi Wirt of Seat « works bebind the carpeted Can't Even Hit Targets 3 ; setly iy Carette is survived by three chil. & newspaper reporter after having|?. B tle. counter in a little shooting gallery! “It has taken me months of con-|W4S Serious—earnestly serious ; dren, Edward, 14, Ernest, 13, and attended Lehigh and Johns Hop-|!#am Kir J The plaintiff le a son of a |at 1110 First ave tinuous practice to be able to put) There IS one thing I have thought about. It’s the| Rath, & kins untversity - agg to : furniture dealer in & Men Shoet Against Her down these targets with a 22-call-| Booze questic tlegging has got to be stopped. I know eae Sorta ne entice 9 ohnson, 1 1 , e clever | be ifle , ylained caure ; a | ’ In 1399, Davis married Miss Cecil | od ‘canaae Oeubteies, 2 Recently Mrs. E filed Most men think they are clever| ber rifl oun a oy ; Me ane that a good deal of it is going on, You know it just as welll ine Puget Sound eacttie Co. Sell Clark of ‘Chicago, but she divore- | *t.; a sult for annulment of marriage, on| With a rifle,” philosophizes Patsy, | shoot every day, and shoot te ag a § ) | f ed him in 1912 ave. ne ithe ground that she was not of [e-| ho ts just turned 1 remem-| who pays, I have a chance here to /4 ue a 15 years. Four years aro he married Miss} The street car was bit by thet cal age when the ceremony wa| ber something in the little red his-| get pretty good Personally, I haven't had a drink since the dry law went So MP Bessie McCoy. | at 208 of fo Lrelant stn, hte ed in Vancouver, B.C tory about the minutemen pleking| "The men” who come in here into effect. But my friends have told me again and again| Davis wrote more than 20 nov.| ¥8$ ar ying — days er suit’ was instt| off the Britishers from behind the/| can’t consistently hit wooden rab. how easy it was to get booze. © els and books of sketches, includ.|*!an munitions at a rate of three), oi ae atl. | tone fences bith that never jump out of line y g : ing: “Soldisrs of Fortune,” “Gal-|0T four miles an hour. % aie at oo Taunt tts | believe, after working in aland that always go at the same “Well, I'm going to try my best to stop it. It isn’t the| lagher” “Priacess Alire. an| The car toppled from the tracks, + edie OF bg te Bog shooting gallery for three years,| speed,” she said, “If they can't /square thing to let illegal booze sales go on in drug stores, | i «Bibber.” “Three Gringoes in” Ven-| 2nd dropped from t fats, where |&ckmann was 17 when she eloped! that nearly every man in the coun-| handle a target rifle in @ shooting soft drink places, and so on—and I'm not going to let this ezuela.” “The King’s Jackal,” “Tha | feet igh, to the a jats, with Weeibe ec BRM j thinks he has inherited this| gallery, what would they do with (Conti " ah taal 8) \ \ Lion and the Unicorn,” “in the|!t turned over TE Petecagiee o> te nulment @c-) Voack from his revolutionary fore-|a high-powered gun that carries | (Continued on page | 4 Fox.’ ‘Captain Macklin.” “The | Second Aasiatent Fire = fet |tion was sae cones a kich and complicated wind: | | WASHINGTON, April 123 a Bar Sinister The arlet Car” | Georne larlow, with a squad They come strutting up to the| gauge sights” | | ASHINGTON, Apr’ 2.—Two By and “The White Mice.” from Co. 7, helped t ~ BRITAIN HAS EXCUSE counter here, take a look at tar Pre iness,” says Patsy, “is navy documents ‘which have been § from the wrecked str ts 20 feet away, and then thelr a mighty big question, and I might suppressed must be made public by q } Woman rab peng! in Wires 0 T CAL tive pride swells. Finally they|as well admit it's making business ry Daniels. The senate to- 4 FLAMING LI UID Gasoline torches iit up ene| FF R PIRA | ACTS offer to shoot with me to see who| better. Tell all The Star readers scary Daniels. |The aa for the reseue work fave the to come down 1 and spend him to do so ‘ ond 1 pays t i Mrs. W e. Muirhead and he: WASHINGTON, April 12.— Unpreparedn: Helps Her from one and a half to two hours a One of the papers is the general aye ar-old ¢ aug - or ere 5 noel In) German subjects seized by It tickled Patsy to think about it.) day shoot in ae em good navy board's report of August 3, wree axe i os wip tl vir British naval authorities from “Our national nprepare dness {sj an I won't mind ta bit im 11914 containing a series of advices ; the werk of tae tir the American liner China were | regarding the navy’s condition, . jshe h ork of th engaged ia wnnevtral servies, This also gives preparedness rec- ae shifting a Teutonic base of op | emmendations PARIS, April 12—Again | 4.9820 Aint, erations to Manila from Shang The other is Admiral Fiske’s re- transferring their activities to hal, Great Britain contended, in Monday to board the | fhe west bank of the Meuse, Mabel rely 9/4 replying to this government's | Cerreace ‘weet, on natackad | tow days for the Hawaitan| Protest, the state department | 5 orth. |! revealed toda islands y eastern approach to Deadman’s | the couple had been married 3 +4 year Simmie had bra 7 eer Their charge was made be- |}). soagto be with him nearly all ' ASSASSIN GIVES UP Gov. Hiram Johnson of Cali BERLIN, April 12.—More hind a shield of flaming liquids. | | thet time. fornia will be In the state of | than 3,000 British were killed The assault spread southward Tell of Wifo’s Death AUBURN, Cal. April 12.-Jim| Washington In May. This was | and thousands wounded in an on to Cumieres Woods. . J Cox, hunted by bloodhour 4 4 his telegram sent unsuccessful attack on Turks Scores alt the Parte bey were going to Weat Seat nur Jhounds and| indicated in his teleg | Pr Lar a eer mee the Parte when the accident occurred, in | Posies as one of the men who mhot| Tuesday to Otto A. Case, secre- | cnet ° it mare, acco q , to board hoon- | Constable Defendner he ast Bun D ee ed. The Germans have not at there to board wad Fe oeegs ae a dner h t Sur tary of the Nonpartisan league, | 'n@ to anys feet # tempted a new attack east of nash Ag <a} an |e Waa place in fail “relay oday In which he inquired as to the | This is the most Cienat ous ao the Meuse, but their artillery is Nh 1 time he should come here. Case’ [feat the British forces have mu active between Duaumont and Wed m 4 reis’: foun: to. lx d since they first attempted to - weeks “ ” kiile garrison in Kut El Amara GCA 3 OUT CLEVELAND, 0. April 12—Tris Arrangements will be made to It occurred, the report said, near P 1 saat Prins Geel ea have Johnson speak in Seattle, | yy, illen gaat Ot The Olty: Speaker, former star swatter of la f ; ——+- i ( I he Boston Red Sox, tod rned| Tacoma, Spokane, North Yak- jin a bend of the Tigris river. LISBON, April 12.—The Portu | the accie Pica dace gl Mog Glereian Ima, Bellingham, Everett, Wal- After an hour and a half of ar gnese cabinet has resigned, it was| curred and aide ‘contract with | the Cleveland] jg Walla, and perhaps one ortwo |eiiery bombarding, the enemy at divulged today | work GA tht’ Faporta Ga 1 fe Psd other places. \tacked with all his force,” declared a : sol pede |the account Speaker's salary would be some he battle raged for six hours trated parts of our trenches, but | HEAR DR. SUZZALLG WENT TO LAUNDRY ='\:0st:‘10'sio'cet — trenches and before we counted 3,000 British i wonderful tk it acts myste is] It can President Suzz of the Unt Young Mr. Hjalmer Nelson, Hate pps nichey , In| versity of Washington, addressed! age 21, who works in the New " ‘i apes 4 Che Star, {the Brotherhood of the First System Wet Wash laundry, is ‘ c xt n ‘ AT, | tigt church Tuesday night, on $50 richer Wednesday because BILL Ss FRIENDS MEET the the man ate es tremen-| simplicity of the American Mind.”| he found three diamond rings dou I ie held her ca ¢ ¢ ed when | that had gone Into the wash, ed | STEAL vie’s WATCH tied to the apron string of Mrs. An elaborate program has been ¢ 1 f t th T. W. Jackson, 261! Fourth |prepared for the celebration of the e the us fre J I poe | enary of the death of Will e of the pla id big moun 1 fresh} t's not a good idea to snooze in Mrs. Jackson gave him the | ti Shakespeare tepresenta the wooded country. wove pell about her—and!a pool roo ys Victor Hanson,| money after he had recovered |tives from most of the prominent a A 6 te ie * PESTS ag PMR to’ wet, bac page Horne the jewels, worth $1,000, just nizations of Seattle will meet o “<a giltodd 93, ra pagel *§ ‘ ‘ VI fod tt dec , heduled to |soon and perfect plans for the cel ; he ie Mae Victor tried it in a Second ave.| before they were scheduled to 1 ¢ stuffy city life in the ha arlor Tue night go thru the wringers. ebration. The meeting will take tt hum terest He sawe nd found his new| He is married and has afam- iplace Friday afternoon in the Met. Charles Beckingham, L ; I INDAY I HI rAl atch gone ily, at 1507 Eastlake ave. N ropolitan theatre i Seattic’s New Chief of port of November, 1914, sounding a warning against the unprepared con dition of the navy. EDUCATE JANITORS PORTLAND, April 12.—A course of lectures for janitors in public schools will be given under the aus- pices of the Portland school board, beginning April 22 Police, Poses for His First Photograph at His Desk at Police Headquarters