The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1916, Page 1

B Welcome, Suffragists! ECAUSE it is a valuable privilege to honor those who sacrifice time, labor and energy in any cause which makes for progress and lifts humanity to a higher plane, Seattle and the state of Washington are genuinely glad of the opportunity to welcome the v: IT’S THE BEST The Star's MORNING EDITION, with all the hot news of the world up to 9:15 ional Union for Woman Suffrage. Liberty is a right belonging to women and men alike, and no human being is free without a voice in government. a. m., made its appearance today. Watch for it. It’s a winner. STRIKE VOLUME 19 THE ONL SEATTLE, itors from the East who are with us today and Tuesday in the inter- ests of the Congre: WASH., MONDAY, MAY It is with no small pride that The Star, the only Seattle daily paper which dared to advocate woman suffrage in this state when it was adopted in 1910, today echoes the sentiment of the entire state in declaring that woman suffrage has made a greater, better and happier place for us to live in. It is our ncere wish and hope that the object sought by the Congressional Union—equality of suffrage thruout the nation—shall be speedily brought about. God speed you, women of the Congressional Union. YOUR CAUSE IS JUST. YOUR FIGHT IS RIGHT. 1, 1916. The Seattle Star PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ONE CENT Siws"sranna, be NIGHT EDITION George believes in woman suffrage. Leastwise, he’s doing his best for the visitors from the East. His forecast today: “Fair tonight and Tuesday.” he CALLED IN LUMBER MILLS | IRISH REBELLION BROKEN; ‘LEADERS ARE SEL | CAPITAL CITY OF , DUBLIN IN RUINS, By W. S. Forrest United Prese Staft Correspondent DUBLIN, May 1.—All Dublin rebel commanders have surrendered, it was officially announced today. Irish rebels holding St. Stephen's Green — sur- rendered last night. About 450 i ts, intrenched “in the central part of the city, also laid down their arms at the foot of the Parnell monument. Large forces of rebels at En- truce lasting a day and a half. Several isolated detachments are still holding out, but the back of the Irish rebellion has been broken. Skirmishes continued in Oub- lin of Sunday, but there was little fighting in the heart of the city. More than 1.200 reb- els have been made prisoners. It is estimated that 200 have been killed and wounded and Countess Captured Presently several! bends | dered. There punishment may t surren is no intimation of what given rebel ners, who include the Countess ecies. Looks Like San Francisco British troops Courts. ‘The last portion bt Vh: rebels have surrendered — an¢ soldiers are systematically cai vassing the city, searching for arms and ammunition and arresting aus- where rebel uniforms are | The center of Dublin recalls San Francisco after the fire. Fine | buildings are crumbled ‘nto cuins janc blackened by smoke | Gaont, bullet-scarred walle are swaying in the wind, pierced by shells and ready to topple. | issue Rations to People Soldiers’ rations are being fed to the populace. Long lines of dest! [tute have formed at the food de pots, the poorer women and chil ‘dren with hunger-pinched fac es] Top—Sackville st., scene of riots in Dublin. The postoffice, seized by |rioters, and many noted buildings| jare located on this famous tharo- |fare. The monument of Lord Nel-4 json, an Irishman, is shown in the |distance. The Gunpowder office is |the first large building at the left, Below—Sir Roger Casement, held| by Britieh officials on suspicion of; leading a German plot to stir Ire land to revolt. who entreat “the standing wealthy residents wuthorities to re whieh the | rebels commandeered when the riot began Each a port {of codfish and canned meat soldiers accor each eitizen to} {his home and search the premises. | Offer to Surrender applicant receives ion Two Pate rebel and James Connoll roached the au tles a nied to arrange leaders, a ‘ata wounded rom @ British Liberty hall wounded in the leg. gun boat struck arse was bargains in Star Want Ads, | women EASTERN SUFFRAGE ENVOYS ARRIVING AT THE KING STREET STATION oceupy the Four fw This picture shows Eastern suffragiste who arrived In Geattie aboard their special train at 7:30 a. m. Moi of the Congressional union, and will spend two days here, helping organize the new woman's party. were undisturbed, but at 9:30 a lerge crowd of Seattle men and women were on hand for the official weicome, Councilman H: ate chairman of the union, addressed them, and members of the party responded. They then paraded thru the Frances Axtell, streets in automobiles. * Suffragists’ * * Envoys “ Get Warm Welcome as Their Special Pulls in THE SUFFRAGIST PROGRAM MONDAY Welcome addr t depot, Trip about the boulevards. Luncheon at Good Eats cafete: Harriot Stanton Blatch Receptions at various homes. Mass meeting at Moore at 8 p 9:30 a. m. ria at noon; address by Mrs. m TUESDAY Breakfast as guests of Women's Civic club Getting out editor Meeting at university, 10 a.m Suffrage edition Luncheon at Washington hotel, of The Star; Mrs, Biatch, 1pm. Street meeting during the evening. With flags and bunting min. | gling the red, white and blue | of the nation, with the purple, | white and gold' colors of the suffragists’ cause, the King Street depot presented a gala atmosphere Monday morning when several hundred women and men welcomed the arrival of the “Suffrage Special,” car rying 23 envoys of the Congres sional Union A cheerful, optimistic, confident spirit pervaded the assembly, and! it grew. apace with the firm im pression that the Congressional Un fon is not looking Into a dim, hazy future for its success, but is pre paring an active, practical cam paign for present day Will Use Vote Lever It. the « of the na tion unite, e of It is this Con-| gressional women Vote they hold the national electio lever which the Union proposes to tse, and the visit of the suffragist lead ers here purposes to cement the voters of this state in the movement to ate a Woman's party at Chicago in June The Eastern envoys comed by Mrs, Frances Axtell, Bellingham, state chairman of the Congressional Union; Acting Mayor A. F. Haas, for the cit dss Hulet M vis, for 2 Ps , counell otterill, | gh suffrage |p ature nt Labor. | pe we inode iveit! of! fh n the Dur der idment James A Mrs, Blatch Responds a Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch of | th New York responded for the vis-| th | itors “We extend to you a glad hand tion o tell, “and agsure you that ours is Yo! you of GIRLS GET COLD FEET"; WON'T BE STAR NEWSIES The suffrage edition of The Star will be out Tuesday at 1:30 p.m Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, editor of this issue, and her corps of assistants from among the suffragist workers, will have entire charge. The plan to have university girls and other women sell The Star had to be abandoned be cause they were rather shy of being “newsies.” A few brave ones volunteered, but it was decided by Miss Whittemore, who has charge of the suffragist visit here, that the regular “newsies” should stay on the job a real live interest and zeal in your | rk that you have undertaken If it were exist part slave and part is fundamentally Anthony amendment your eltizenshtp, the act definite op uld ake ponsibilit Says They're After Votes Ire, Blateh outlined th ign of the Congressio 1 one whieh proposes “to 6 womanhood of the fe constitution She declared that this state may vote, We vortunit possibilit our they rk, Olio, or any other a wrong for this nation free and ancient custom did not make tt right, it for congress to withhold the Susan depriving and an tiquity does not give respectability of the West have wrong eam Union write nation into while women lose You can get a lot of good land|and a warm heart,” said Mrs, Ax-' their equality if they move to ier slate For more than an hour, the envoys ° They are members “played made m She lea ister ney So when Matilda came to live with her, Susan found that if wanted to keep Matilda satisfied, it would be policy for her to begin to “fail.” @She took to her bed voluntary she and became a invalid @ But Jane,” her niece it her, thing when “Sunshine came to began to tell tory. which Warner in her Jane,” next be publi @ Anne | about it {8 “Sunshir | novel-a | hed will week i gor ' urday It at ¢ be the to in Star dif erybody enjoy, we're sure where equal suffrage does not ob tain; that tro» equal suffrage must await the time when the Anthony amendment is adopted “Frankly speaking “we're coming votes You'll get nudience eri ang with The rear € she after said, here your a woman in the and the depot em! 1 ont Luse were app made Suffrage the dof the leial Say It's Great losue Both Wells and Duncan sized the woman suffrag paign as the most important bef: the nation—greater than military preparedness. “It is a preparedness battle for WON'T DISCUSS | | | i} |{nstructions as to how far to go In | | | dent sald Wells. the plan to for congress the greater humanity,” Cotterill indorsed make every candidate plainiy state his position on federal amendment Following the speechmaking, the visitors and many local residents went for a drive about the boule-| after a parade up Second] | The Commercial Club, as well as many private individuals, furnish ed the automobiles Mayor Gill's absence was due to a previous arrangement to speak| at Sequim, Wash A WITHDRAWAL: Gen. Scott Instructed to Stand | « Pat in Border Con- ference PRESIDENT DECIDES BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, May 1.—The administration does not intend to heed General Alvaro Obre- gon's suggestion that the Amer- ican expedition withdraw from Mexico. Scott and Funston have again been instructed not to treat with Obregon looking to. | ward a withdrawal of Amer! cans. Instead, Scott must again ex co-operate with the expedition. Secretary Baker called on Presi Wilson, following the receipt of Scott's request for more explicit the next conference Baker must have instructions quickly with Wilson minutes received the as his confer ne lasted only 1 EL PASO, May 1.—Gen Funston stated that there would probably be no session of the Obregon-Scott conference to. day Maj. Sample, in command at Columbus, was ordered to ob- tain Gen, Pershing’s opinion on the Carranzista demand for an immediate withdrawal | Gen, Scott is said to on the Issue Funston is to be opposed to yielding to the Hoth, however, put the quarely up to Washington It was reported that Baker the Americans how would affect the Mexico itself. They replied said strongly | demand. decision asked a withdrawal border region and with a long code | mesexge, which, it Is said, contain ed the opinion that a withdrawal would undoubtedly lead to new bor | der raids, /SHE CONFESSES TO ukewarm | ev affects wages mostly were reduced ELEVATOR MEN STRIKE FORT WILLIAM, Ore, May 1 Sixteen hundred grain elevator workers went on strike here today king a total of 2,000 now out Arthur men are also striking | STREET CAR MEN OUT | PITTSBURG, Pa, May 1.— | Not a street car moved early | today, in the car strike called yesterday, Conferences of of ficials and street car men until midnight resulted in agree- | ments on every proposition ex- cept the wages. A quarter sengers walked to work. was no disorder. | of a million pas There hey 50 cents a bottle for her police say. She was ree to pay the scale demanded, went out Mon- agreed to the ‘erage demands. Maccabee hall, Ballard, at 8 p. m.| Monday to consider, among other The order Juneau to San Diego, will walk out eight-hour day and a closed shop, |there is sentiment for a strike until ing munitions plants, granted their |in the blood of the laboring classes, hour wage It is understood the longshore- will work together in an effort the up-Sound bootleggers. tional nature in the murder of eS | bottles and demijohns. Wilson woman with an ax in the $150 bail REACH AGREEMENT Orders for a general strike of the Inter- . A * * eae national Shingleweavers Union, in District No. 1, comprising all territory north of the Oregon-California line and west of the Mis- souri river, in the event mill owners refused day from general headquarters in Seattle. In the Everett Jurisdiction, which | includes Mukilteo, all mills except one refused the demand and. th men walked out In the Hoquiam jurisdiction ery mill except the Northwestern eight milis paid the « An increase is raerer hth to 17 cents a thousand for sawyers, and| Representatives of the Interna to 10 cents a thousand for packers. |tional Longshoremen’s union from Union men employed in the Bal-jevery port on the Pacific coast are lard mills will hold a meeting in| gathered in annual convention here Monday to discuss the local situa |things, demands for more wages tion. The entire district affected jand better working conditions. by the order has about 2,500 union! ,, Several hundred of these,|, .7n¢ first session opened at: the s y W. H. Reid of the inter-|*00r Temple at 10 a.m, national sald at noon, are already} Whether or not members of the oat International Longshoremen’s asso- those {ciation of the Pacific coast, fram mills whe two years ago. jin a general strika for higher wages, asi |was not determined at the opening OHIO MACHINISTS OUT meeting of the convention. YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 1 They adjourned for the day im- Five thousand men re ¢ mediately k here today, following a str greeted, }) machinists demanding an| “We won't know whether or not with nts an hour minimum |delegates have reported,” said Prea- wage. \ident John Kean of San Francisco, : | Reports will be heard Tuesday, DEMANDS ARE GRANTED The adjournment was in honer of CINCINNATI, O., May 1.—Thirty.| the rable May 1, in the first ve hundred | machinists struck |@ays of the French revolution, when hans sola eral shops the streets of Paris were drenched Jemands | Officials of the union declined t discuss their plans in detail, Bul CARPENTERS OUT stated that one of the important AKRON, ©., May 1.—One thou-jissues to be considered is a read- sand carpenters went on strike to-|justment of the wage scale, to give day, demanding a closed shop, an|the longshoremen a share of prow eight-hour day and 55 cents an/perity due to increase in shipping, men will demand an increase of 5 jcents an hour, or from 50 to 55 Jcents, and from 60 to 65 cents, | Seattle and Tacoma police to stop the “underground rail- way” smuggling of liquor by aus » tomobile between the two citie Tacoma officers say that great quantities of liquor are nightly taken from Seattle in automobiles and delivered to have detailed men to wateh MURDER WITH AX the intercity highway, and several arrests already have been made, The. Seattle police ed 50 gale VANCOUVER, B. C., May 1. |lons of whisky in an automobile in —Developments of a Sensa- ja garage at the rear of 1628 Terry | aturday. It was contained in Rose Wilson, aged 35, Indian woman, took place last night. Charged with selling whisky Ta- Mary Cole, also an Indian, Known | peled “wild cherry pop,” Rose to city police for years, who had] Force, 609 Weller st., was arresbes charged Cecilla — Aquirre, alias} by the police Sunday night Peru,” with the crime, confessed | charged that she herself had murdered the| pop, the leased on cabin at Alexander day afternoon, followin votween the women o the WASHINGTON, May 1—A substantial agreement with the senate’s plan for army reorgan- ization was reached in the con- ference today. It is considered a marked tre umph for big army advocates, n which self-confessed mur deress wa dinner Both had been drinking She claimed that during tercation the victim selzed the and rushed upon her She wrenched the ax from the rip of her assailant, she states, and cut and battered ber to death. the al ax | after the officers were Rose —