The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 1

SEATTLE CASHIER IS ARRESTED —_ Prosecutor Will Ignore Liquor Order From Court | THIS ISN’T AN AD For the Saturday Evening Post. Just the same, this week's issue of the famous weekly has something you ought to read. We reprint it on the editorial page today. VOLUME 18 By the Editor of The Star O’ THE evening of the 16th of December, 1773, a half hundred patriots of Boston, disguised as Indians, clambered aboard the tea-laden ship Dart- mouth, in Boston harbor, and staged the little soiree which is known in history as “The Boston tea party.” On the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1916, Mayor Hi Gill, Chief of Police Beckingham, Port Warden Paysse and a squad of patrolmen and fire- men and “trusties” from the city jail, put om a modernized version of the tea party sketch at the Bell st. dock. The Boston “Indians,” armed with hatchets, broke open scores of cases and poured $90,000 worth of tea into the harbor. At Mayor Gill’s party, those present used axes. Crates were smashed and 12,000 bottles of beer were dumped into Elliott bay. In it was “taxation without represen- tation!” In Seattle, it was “representation without tax- ation!” And, tho we hate to brag, those Bostonians must have been stepping some if their party was VI AVAVAVAVAVAVAVAYAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVA VAY, Falls in Love With he Hated A big burly, mysterious man of the woods, find- ing Hazel Weir in the forests of British Columbia, where she went for a ramble, kidnaps her. He takes her north, against her will. They go farther and farther north. She hates the wilderness. She hates her kidnaper, Bill Wagstaff. But for a whole win- ter she’s compelled to live at his cabin, way up north of fifty-three degrees latitude Then something happens which changes the whole aspect of things. She has her freedom. She can go back east to the city of factories and rail- ways and street cars and autos. She starts, but— SHE RETURNS TO MARRY THE MAN SHE HAD HATED. This will give you an idea of the tremendous heart interest in— North of Fifty- arece Bertrand W. Sin The Star and ends Ay Ee IW Tt) oe | | / WV AVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAY VAVAVAYAYAVAVAVAVAVAVAYAVAVAVAVAYA IS. AVAYAYAYAY, It’s the new novel-a-week, by clair, which begins Monday in next Saturday. VAAL AMERICANS IN ANOTHER FIGHT BY CARL D. GROAT U. P. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 15. second fight between Ameri- and residents of Parral in consular forward- details PORTLAND SHIP | IS SUBMARINED WASHINGTON, April 15.— The Aberdeen bark Inverlyon, en route from Portland, Ore., to Limerick, was sunk by a Submarine on Tuesday, accord- ing to reports he Two Americ Some of the s No were General Funston's long code message, which was the Subject of a midnight confer. ence at the White House be- tween the president and Sec- retary Baker, it is believed rad- iso advised the state de- partment that the | did not attempt to e Fifteen min ical changes in the Villa hunt ee for ~ or nded. er. eves were recomme ps Secretary Lansing today sent h sul Rodgers, in Mexico City, de-| iuies yon er vam 19 ed instructions with Fegare 10) Gen. Carranza’s request for with-| drawal of American troops. Teeentenn IN HOSPITAL : While he refused to announce | QUEENSTOWN, April 15.—WiL the character of the directions, 1t/!am Ross, an American sailor was learned authoritatively that | from the bark Inve n, reported | Lansing informed Rodgers of the/*unk by submarine gunfire, t# in| administration's willingness to dis. | Fror hospital here today, suffering | cnsa the subject with Ambassador | oor as ere exposure in a life Arredondo at without food | Lansing’s willingness to treat|. ik, ab Fe, with Ambassador Arredondo con | cerning the requested drawal may mean that preliminary © AMERICAN PROPERTY AT PARRAL DESTROYED ations will be opened soon EL PASO, April 15.—Re Pressed for a statement with re ported Mexican attacks on gard to Carranza’s demand, Secre-| | american property at Parral tary of War Baker said | were confirmed by messages The status of the expedition || Ci cived here. Beeld as it was at the beginning. No| naaion at Pao Po change is contemplated | pos $500,000 mining mill in a suburb, local owners of the Par. ENTERS CAPITAL ral-Durango railway received WASHINGTON, April 15.—Ad urgent calls for help from the vices today by Ambassador Arre dondo said that Carranza was wel American manager at Parral. | | He stated the road's offices had | | comed with tremendous acclaim) been entered and all records when he entered Mexico City yes-! | destroyed. terday to establish bis capital | | there, o a THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE “THAT DAi DAES TO PRINT THE NEWS ean | any livelier than Mayor Gills When the mayor, in a published statement in Star Thursday, said he was going to “get with professional offenders against the pro- , the town took the news with a grain Frankly, few seemed to be willing to se- y accept Hi Gill in the role of a temperance crusader. But now Gill, apparently, has started his “rough stuff.” And The Star confesses, without shame, that it is mightily tickled by the mayor's auspicious beginning. Whether the mayor had the right, under the law, to destroy this contraband beer seems to be in doubt. Some declare the law says liquor thus seized shall be held until after the trial of the per- sons in whose possession it is found. But the mayor tells me he sees no reason why ppectiagy: fyatrremgpally ay: Adages) the way of smashing up the drug-store saloon business which, in Seattle, is making a joke out of the prohibition law. Gill's position, as set forth in an interview in The Star Thursday, is that the police must con- vince these drug store bloodsuckers that Seattle is REPORT $15,000 | | Frank Oleson, Jr., Officer of Codfish Company, Is Held HE'S SON OF ATTORNEY | The rough’ hibition law of salt. Frank satin, jr. 27, of 1721 Fourth ave. N., treasurer and manager of the Northern Cod | fish Co., dock, in the Grand Trunk i is under arrest, charged | fying the company’s he warrant charges a 30, covered by a falsification. urday that be and $18,000 of the funds have been secrete: the books juggled to conceal the theft. | Young Oleson, who Is a son of Frank Oleson, attorney, of | | of the company, declared Sat. | } | | SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1916 ONE CENT ON RING AND NEWS STANDS, O TO IT, HIRAM! .-. not scl to stand for their squirrel whisky traffick- ing. And Gill believes the only way to convince them of it is to stretch the law a bit and handle them without gloves. Gill has suggested that the police, when they're satisfied they have nailed one of these professional jackals, might wreck the place for him before they quit. NOW GILL HIMSELF HAS STARTED THE “ROUGH-HOUSE” TACTICS! During the recent municipal campaign, The Star intimated that Hi Gill, because of past asso- ciations from which it is so difficult for any per- son to divorce himself, would not be the right man to enforce the prohibition law. And everybody, “wets” and “drys” alike, wanted the law enforced, even tho possibly for different reasons. Now | am beginning to change my mind. 1 have talked the liquor situation over with Mayor Gi He professes to be a convert to pro- hibition “tis personal observations since January { have changed his views entirely. He says he will be a “dry” alw It was this naper which, shortly before the change in the police department which prefaced the present activity against the illicit sale of liquor Busily Booting Bottled Beer Into the sid the firm of Willett & Oleson, | is trying to raise $1,500 ball, | fixed by Judge Gordon | Shortages, said ' parent In both the thern € fish ny's those w n Co. manufacturers’ agents, in the same building Young Olesor ed by the North about a year, bookkeeping work for the company also. He is a Pierson Hamill declares it was necessary for him to start mandamus pro- ceedings in Judge Frater’s court three weeks ago In order to get possession of the Northern Codfish company’s books. The books, he sald, were found in the offices of Willett & Oleson Oleson, jr., 1s married and has a baby daughter. His employers say he had been interested in mining | stocks. COMPLETE DRAFT OF NOTE TO GERMANY WASHINGTON, April 15.—-What is to be said in the most important emp!) ish Co. en doing | Pierson | son-intaw of W. H| in Elliott bay Friday afternoon. ‘IS UNDER ARREST NEW YORK, April 15.—Guy Biddinger, former head of the Burns Detective Agency, was arrested today in connection with an investigation of alleged police graft in Chicago. He will | be held in the Tombs, pending arrival of officers from Iilinolis | | | note America ever sent to Ger-|’ with @ requisition for Bidding many {# practically drafted and| or extradition, signed by Gov. President Wilson and Secretary! Bunne. Lansing today scanned additional| piddinger played a prominent| Jevidence supporting their position] part in the McNamara dynamite | in the channel packet Sussex case.| PY". in Low An ai Sede satan It was underst that the ten-| 1. important w against Clar-| |tative An te takes such | ance S. Darrow, attorney, who was | &. posits papery uid gr |accused of bribing jurors in the dy-| make In ite aub- 1 |namite trial | marine pe other way| give the * asked | BURKE GOES EAST | FIEND MURDERS BOY | Judge Thomas Burke, president) of the Chamber of Commerce ALANY, N. Y., April 1 Little | Friday night for the East, to Billy” Clark, 8, for whom police and|a meeting of the United § have been searching for |Chamber of Commerce, of which he} eke, was found ded in the|i rector |e six miles north of this | | TALKS TO BUSINESS MEN », candidate for gov today that he had bee on | George A by a degene Relatives |ernor, addressed the Swedish Busi | letter signed “Black | ness Men's association Friday at the | Dogs,” threatening to kill Billy un-|Savoy hotel on “The Business Man! less a large sum was paid in Politics.” Indications w kt recelved a IME photograph shows the scene on the deck of the fireboat Duwamish during Mayor Gill’s tea party The picture was taken from the pilot house above. Mayor's Sec retary Jimmy Crehan Is shown in the foreground, kicking a case of contraband beer into the bay. thousand botties were thu I disposed of. BURNS MANAGER REPORT VESSEL WOMAN CRACKS: LOST IN NORTH GAFFENE’S ALIBI A mystery has the Seattle water front agog with excite- nant Saturday — tele-/ ment Saturday graphed to the San Francisco po A cablegram to The Star lice an alleged confession of Mrs. Saturday afternoon from Sew- Helen Hoozer, held here on a la ard said the steamer Dora, ar- | ceny charge. that she was marrie riving there Friday night from to James Gaffene, alleged to be} Kodiak, reported receiving an Pietro Torturici, murderer, in Kan 8. 0. S. message on April 10 | say City, eight years ago, and that from the liner Admiral Farra- |xhe lived with him at San Diego gut. during the past year The message, the Dora's Gaffene is now awaiting trial in San Francisco. This commander declared, said the Farragut was sinking. is a blow at Gaffene's state The Pacific-Alaska Steam. ment that he never married Ship company, owners of the He made this assertion when a Admiral line, said the Admiral | woman in New Orleans, also said Farragut, arriving in Tacoma be his wife, identified his pict Friday night from Southeast a8 that of Tortufic!, her husband ern Alaska ports, reported no Hyver since his arrest in Seattle, | trouble on the way Gaffene has declared that he is not| The identity of. the vessel | Torturici, and is a victim of mistak whose call for help the Dora | en identity received is not known. The Merchants’ exchange has re ceived no word of any craft in MARSHALL GUILTY trouble in Northern waters. | WASHINGTON, April 15—Unit “North of Fifty-Three” le up |i States Attorney Marshall of New| in a cold part of Canada, but | | York was pronounced guilty of con two hearts warmed to each , |tempt by a house committee yester other there, tho far apart at | |day for criticising a house subcom first. It's the next novela. | | mittee Investig impeachment witek to. The Ribr jehar st him by Rep vane @resentative Buchanan, The Seattle Star PAD PLD PAPAL PPL PDP LPP PPP PPP PLP PPP PPP LAST EDITION Well, looks like we’re going to have a good Sunday, anyhow. George Salisbury, our genial weather forecaster, gives us this ; message today: “Fair tonight and Sunday; heavy frost tonight.” in drug stores, pointed out the venal clutch of this evil gp the community. Mayor Gill’s wrath is chiefly directed against the pseudo drug stores which have sprung up, in the last month or two, for the single purpose of cheating the prohibition law by selling cheap, poison- ous whisky to creatures of the habit, at extortionate prices. The prohibition law provides a proper and jegal method by which persons who want liquor can get it. The Star stands squarely with Mayor Gill on this proposition. i There is no punishment too drastic for a pro- fessional law-breaker, who deliberately apportions part of his ill-gotten gold against the expense of his expected arrest and trial. Such a creature is the real anarchist, a thousand fold more dangerous than the bomb-thrower. He wrecks the chances for community peace and happiness. The liquor —— should be settled definitely—once and or al AND IF MAYOR GILL’S “ROUGH STUFP” IS GOING TO RID THE CITY OF THIS ODOR- IFEROUS ELEMENT, WHY, LET’S HAVE THE “ROUGH STUFF,” BY ALL MEANS. > LUNDIN STARTS AFTER PRESCRIPTION -BOGFORS | | Physician Who Gives Detec- tive a Prescription Is Ar- rested; Prosecutor Will Work With Gill. Indications Saturd f a 3 G. Emmonds, with offices ol ogee asks 34 in the Right hotel, was arrested afte Nees ie liduore Sn er he had given a prescription for forcement situation, are that Gill’ and 124 QUARTS OF BEER Prose 2un- ; ain are betes take TO CURE A HEADACHE the bit in their teeth, and Judging from some of the go slap-bang after illicit Prescriptions found by Lun- rug stores, law or no law din's deputies In checking Ss See PY o the prescription file at the Phe mayor started it Kelley drug store, the use of day afternoon by dump: liquor for medicinal pur 0 bottles of beer, poses has become immense- n a scow in the ly popular since January 1, si i a. One prescription called for East waterway this week, 24 quarts of beer, the prose- into the bay cu*or said, to be used to cure a headache. stor Lundin " ined the mayor's side & up on Upon others, liquor was ) ald’s rali er court Friday, that bars and fixtures |shall not be taken out of places ." “night work as raided by Lundin’s men. The pros directed by — physician,” ecutor says Ronald's order draws |the teeth ont of the prohibition law Will Do It Anyhow I shall instruct de aid, “who participate hereafter in quor raids, to yank out the bars and fixtures before the proprietor “whisky to be applied local- ly,” ete. Deputy Prosecutor Barto wes checking prescriptions seized at the James Street store Saturday, he has time to go to court.” John Ireland. soft whisky“to Police Sergt. Fred Smart, mart, Who declares he is in good z health, and that the doctor had no Attorneys for prietor of the ment of th pro: drink depart store, raided this reason to believe otherwise, took fanpee to the judge to re: the prescription to the J. J. Kelley |sheritt from carrying out I drug store, which was recently raids and had it prosecutor. Mayor Gill and L. instructions to take out his ed filled, according to The prohibition law that any physi FE. Kirkpatriek, | preserty tion w president of the Anti-Saloon league, ) belteve th | | star Saturday to inquire into the have his | city egal authority to legislate on Iam g 1 the amount of liquor stock a drug | fellows,” declared Lundin | store can handle. Lundin announced Saturday the| George D. Conger, secretary of start of a vigorous campaign|the Washington State Anti-Saloon Jagainst doctors who write the pre-| league, will be asked to assist in the scriptions for liquor which give sa-| inquiry, and later Corporation Coun jloon-drug stores their legal excuse'sel Caldwell will be called in for |for existence consultation DUMP BEER INTO BAY White caps on the bay seethed “trusties” from the city jall, ae Jand foamed Saturday and a malt ompanied by Mayor Gill, Chief Jaroma hovered over one little spot | Becking Secretary of Police Ja mile from the Bell st, dock Cha Nivan, Port Warden | Twelve thousand quart bottles of|Paysse and Fire Chief Stetson contraband Rainier beer, seized by | went quietly to the storage place, }the police as it was unloaded from The fire boat Duwamish nosed a scow at Harbor Island, wasup to the dock about the time they dumped overboard from the fire | arrived there. boat Duwamish, under the direc Gill Works With Coat Off tion of Mayor Gill and Chief Beck For the next two hours the city ingham Friday prnoon officials, with their its peeled, After its seizure Tuesday, the eht “trusties” from the 1,000 cases Were stored in t like horemen port commission wharfs at Bell s Warly Friday afternoon, eight (Continued on page 8)