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JOBREGON DEFIES U.S; CALL MILITIA HE municipal golf course on Beacon hill, the park board re ports, is making more money this year than ever. the month of April, 4,700 persons played, T enjoyed the links during any month | During 300 more than The park board je discreetly silent regarding the effect of this patronage on the vocabularies of the 4,700 budding golfers. There are some as do say that “darn” is the strongest word ever heard on Beacon We've tried the game ourselves. it year pill, but you can't fool us OUR EDUCATIONAL MOVIES—(Ziz! Bing! Bang! Z am! Hear the Sounds of Conflict, Rollo!) IN ONE REEL, ZOsM, | FINALLY MADE \T' 2 Next Saturday Is to Be Presidential Election Day in Seattle—Watch The Star! HOM do you favor for president? in leading department stores, restaurants and other more or W The Star is arrang : ing a monster “straw ballot” less public places, 4 for next Saturday Every man and woman will be placed be permitted to vote ONCE. WANTED, GIRLS! Girls who will volunteer to help the Mother Ryther home by selling tags Satur- day will please call up Main 15. It’s a worthy cause. Your aid will be appreciated. 1GOV. STRONG ON 1 WITNESS STAND | INRATE HEARING ri Ballot boxes wil! Gev. J. F. A. Strong, of after Reynolds had introduced testified before Ex. | Clark Davis, a mining operator and Wilbur La Roe, jr. of lextensive traveler, of Seattle and vos | Alavka, a witness to compare the the Interstate commerce com- | scenic attractions of the Northwest | “mlation, here Tuesday that the | with those of other parts of the] < saged schedule of tourist (country, the railroads’ representa | 2 from Chicago to the Pa jtives declared they would admit cific Coast and return acts as @ artificial barrier in divert- traffic from the North- and works as a decided to the development } that Washington's scenery was not only comparable with, but supertor |to, any other in beauty and grand- eur. Attracted by Scenery | “But this {s not a travelogue, “as one of the lor San Attorney C. W. Durbrow, of San Franciseo, representing the man Charies A. Reynolds, of (Southern Pacific. “This fs a hear | the Washington public service (ing on railroad rates. I don't see Commission, at the arbitrary (the need of such testimony passenger rate hearing in the Reynolds explained that it was » federal buildin, _ | the contention of the plaintiff? that The public service commission | with other things being equal, the Batis for : slimisation th ® natural route for the tourist is thru ferential tourist rate the Northwest. favor of the Southern Pacific eo The tourist is a peculiar type,” | Way and its allied lines, which).aiq Examiner La Roe. “He natur. i», possible fo ge a ally is attracted by scenery jo from nies Many Attorneys te and return Phi the] The opposing sides are repre- Rorthwest, ax cheaply as he Can £0} sented by two heavy batteries of S farther distance by Souther" |iggat counsel and Central routes. Chairman Reynolds is assisted Tells of Development by Public Service Commissioner Ht is contended that this differ-| Frank J. Miller, of Oregon; J. O (tial is discriminatory against! bailey, Oregon assistant attorney | fhe Northwest because it diverts | coneral, and L. M. Leeper. a Port i warists to the Southwest i lland attorney, representing the BO. Graham, attorney for the | commercial organizations of that public service commission. was the lcity and of Pendleton, Dayton, | nnd Ae H ea | es 4 River, Astoria, Newport and | ineer, was followed by : " 0. Calderhead, rate expert yo ae ~ an pg Sol Caaebial Chiat three briefly outlined the schedule | z ce ya ant : @ fates over all vende trom Chi. |224. Chamber of Commerce; Spo- See weet, er al roads ft oe aaher ot Siemmmarve Seat _|tle Chamber of Commerce er: gay te. who ciel peen, SS ett Chamber of Commerce; Seattle onl ‘Bion oJ — oe vr Munteipal league and Washington sah to tod ng mene cies Hotel Men's association are Inter ; “What is the government of the | “Rovresentin United States doing towards the | We cu ene Cc. W. Curbrow fevelopment of Alaska?” Reynolds the railroads are | of San Francisco , W. H. Bogle, F. M. Dudley and ( feked Gov. Strong, 4. |H. Farrell, of Seattle: J. W. Quick, | Congress has appropriated $25.-|4¢ Tacoma and A. W. Hawkins, of 999,000 to be spent on a railroad | portland | a, = a vast territory there Examiner a Young Man | ge Noa |. Fifty hotel, railroad and steam: | “Ww , ‘hat is the natural route of | oat men were present at the hear- | the person traveling from Chicago ner have been elected from the Seattle and King ty districts as delegates to the republican convention in Chi * cago. Ed Sima and Scott Bone, On Monday the results will be published in The Star You see, it's this way E. C. Hughes, C. 0, Bowles, Howard Taylor and T, B, Sum. coun. VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., TUE Millard Hartso annd Chas. Lund a the delegatesat- large. They are uninstructed. Now, how are they to know whom the people of ttle and King county favor for the nomination? This is one way of telling them. But democrats also are invit The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SDAY, MAY 9, 1916 Rkns sraxne. se ONE CENT be a complete ballot, and ought to give a pretty good view of the local vote Remember — Saturday Presidential Election day ed to vote Wilson's name will on the ballots, and Bryan's, and the socialists find Allan Benson's name. Seattle LAST EDITION For the love of Mike, what’s the matter with Forecaster Salisbury? This is May, George—May, not April. But George ups and says: “Tonight and Wednesday showers—warmer Wednesday.” appear is will in It will HISCARDS UP LAWTON ARE ONTHETABLE READY TO G0 Says He’s Not Smashing Drug 14th Regiment Ordered Out; Stores Under Prohibi- Battalions Scattered in tion Law ! Northwest IT’S ON NUISANCE LAW CHAMPION GUNNERS Chief Beckingham was disguised Seasoned regulars of the in a shower bath at the Sea Fourteenth — known thruout Athletic club when he first heard) the United States and in the | lawyers bemoaning the fate of his Orient as the best markemen Carrie Nation operations after the! in commission—were restices | courts got thru with them and ready Tuesday to get | The lawyers figured that the) away from Fort Lawton and* | mayor and the chief would get| be on their way to the Mexi. | e | can border, dumped for several thousand dol-} Ti encial reports reached the lara for going shead with the #xes | fort early in the morning that the | before the courts bad proven the/ war department would. call the bootleggers gulity |14th, one battalion of which is in| Gossip in the County-City butld-| Seattle, one at Fort Wright and ing, along the same vein, bas been ‘the rest of the outfit in Alaska, current, and it is even reported / and a call to the one battalion of that superior court judges Were|the 2ist at Vancouver, Wash, to laughing up their sleeves at the | go south plight of the mayor and his chief We can get out of here as fast | Tueeday morsing Mayor Gilllas the cars can be pulled along placed his cards on the table. aide,” tt was atated by officers There is a general misunder-| Tuesday. “It will be a matter of standing that | am using the dr as far as we are concern law to justify the smash ed, sitho the railroad routing may said the mayor, “I'm not work take on that theory at all, | contend.) Ty} regulars are in the and will do so in the courts if I! pink dition have to go to the mat this prop The hine gun company ts osition, that the places we havelconaidered one of the best in the wrecked are public nuisances and | service that we have the right to abate| The men are under orders at them present to sail for Alaska June 24. | T will contend that when a/ However, the Mexican situation, It/ drug store has a drawer full of }is expected, will result in an en blank prescriptions, signed by phy-|tirely new distribution of the sicians, and sells $10,000 worth of | troops | booze to every nich th of drugs, that it is a n And | am not yet ready t CHARGE WOMAN IS that an honest jury would t such reasoning WHOLESALE SLAYER NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 9. —Authorities are investigating Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilligan, proprietor of the Archer Home for elderly people, at Windsor, who Is under arrest today on a charge of murder. it was announced the bodies of ten inmates had been found FOUR MORE SINN FEIN MEN SHOT LONDON, May 9 —Cornelius Col bert, Edmund Kent, Michae buried in New Haven county lon, and J. J. Heuston, lead Two bodies were exhumed the Sinn Fein revolt, are reported for examination to have been executed Nineteen sentenced to death, but their sentences later LAKE STEAMER LOST commuted to prison terme Two were acquitted £°|ing--raiiroaders in the majority, | "In. the house ot commons, the| WITH TWENTY MEN Peet fe ge ame Examiner La Roe, who was sentlexecutions were denounced by 4 | Would Decrease Traffic from Washington, D. C., to preside| Laurence Ginnell, Nationalist, as SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, “Do the steamship companies |%% ¢*aminer for the interstate com-| “murder May 9.—The steamer Kirby, "erating between Seattle. and|merce commission, isa young man,| In reply to John Redmond, the! With its crew of 20, Is reported "Alaska have special appointments {Considerably under the years of|Irish leader, Premier Asquith, sald] today to have been lost in last tor tourists during the summer?”|™ost of those appearing for the| Gen. Maxwell had been Instructed night's gale on the lake. “Yes,” | contestants. *\to inflict the death penalty spar Le “What effect would an artificial| Brevity was demanded in one of | ingly, only to case of men guilt diverting traffic from|his first orders to the array of|in the first degree ATTACK REPULSED Washington to the Southwest|lawyers before him, and Aad hear. We on the tourist traffic to|ing proceeded with rapidity from <9 > ; ‘°c NEW Alaska?” |the start |HE’LL BE UNCLE’S NEW) paris, may 9A violent Ger "It would tend to decrease {t.”| It adjourned at noon to re TURK AMBASSADOR man attack on Hill 304 this morn Admit Scenery is Beautiful lopen at 2 o'clock, and wil! Iikely . ing repulsed with heavy At the very opening of the case, be closed some time Wednesday slaughter, the official communique see eo 8 | today declared Northwest Should Get Tourist, Declares Herbert Schoenfeld No reason exists under the , Rain? Look at Los Angeles sun why, with railroad rates It may be of interest to know | qual, Seattie and the North. that they had 1% straight days of West shouldn't enjoy as good a rain In Los Angeles while | was tourist business in summer as there. And when it rains in Los California This is the opinion of Herbert A. Schoenfeld of the Standard Furniture Co., who h just re “ with his family after a ree months’ visit to Los An eles. (Continued on page 8) PHYSICIAN FINED IN LIQUOR CASE! Accused of issuing prescriptions “Our scenery here in the | for Mquor promiscuously, Dr. W. Northwest has California |¢; mmone Tuesday morning | sagty backed off the map.” | pieaded guilty before Judge Ron-| hanageeroenteld. “Theirs ald and was Jet off with a $50 hand-made. Every bit of it peal artificial. Nice enough, of Emmons had previously been tree. but far from the real fined $100 under city ordinance. b ING we have in Washington. fudge Gordon lity has a kK eye in’ jt is charged by the prosecuting he continued. “Our attorney's office that Dr. Emmons » been talked about and) whose office Is in the Wright PNtien about and exaggerated until hotel, on First ave. near Cherry "Age think it doesn’t do anything |st., has issued 789 prescriptions Wut rain, Isince the first of the year. ELLINGWOOD KILLED | Walter P. Ellingwood. lof the manager Puyallup branch of the Pu get Sound Electric railway, is dead at Puyallup of injuries received Sunday in an auto mishap John B. Shorett and Miss Edith Townsend w#poke at the Henry ‘ord Peace club 8 cafeteria | preparedn | \ |PLAN A NEW DRY LAW meeting at Good Monday, against ABRAM ELKUS Fae Pinte CigutAtiGe ibe wit he Ws the sultan of Turkey Ave disc ed here t wee when Abram Elkus {« acceptable, Elkug| the committee of ed the will become United Staten ambas./4TY Campaign two years ago meets sador at the sublime porte'’s capt t oo the Bosphorus NORTH, SOUTH, f t and Weat Elkus is a New York lawyer and|to be represented at States din was nained to succeed Henry Mor|ner to be given at First Presby genthau, who resigned terian church Tuesday night. | ‘ oe ee = - “NS Coos: ony y “edecnraprarnmseussittele Gren Obregon. @ In Eleanor Ingram’s novel, “The Unafraid,” which will published in The Star next week, Delight Warren, a beautiful New York heiress, falls in love with a nobleman of Montenegro. Her relatives do not approve, but the match is arranged @ Just before the wedding comes a message from the bridegroom that because of a broken ankle castle in the Balkans Delight to ec American girl, what week in The Star in the Ending Saturday be © He ks J Find met out next starting Monday Aged Inventer Gets $2,000,000 for a Substitute for Gasoline Louis En-4 NEW YORK, M the sold secret formula and-a-half-a-gallon sub: 100,000! the little rieht f hie stitute nas penny for line for ea neighbors In Farmingdale, down on thought Enricht he claimed | Enricht’s village of Long — Island, dreaming when could operate an a mysterious green vented Hut the the d to pa nd $1,000,000 entor The process of manufacture, according to Enricht, is very simple. Four ounces of a strange chemical mixture, green in col or, is stirred into five gallons | of water. | | | | | automobile with liquid he in fig bas Maxim Munition Co. formula so good it $1,000,000 in cash tock to the In The solution goes into the auto’s tank and the auto runs just as it would If fed with gasoline LOUIS ENRICHT Henry Ford visited the inventor who is 79, and he came away con vir Enricht's discovery ‘ {t is said tank of an ) releases the hydro: The cost of manufecturing the | sen the water liquid is about one and one-half, The hydrogen into the ents per gallon carburetor, where it comes into Here is as much of an explana-|contact with the nitrogen of the tion of bis invention as Knricht 1#/ air, taken into the engine thru the willing to make air intake pipe. The explosive en The addition of his “green mys-|ergy to drive the engine ts the re-| tery’ to the water in the “gas! sult of this combination. WARRIOR BRAKES WITH CARRANZA By Carl D. Groat United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 9.—Gen. Obregon has demanded | that a time limit be placed on the stay of the American exe |pedition in Mexico. This the United States will refuse posi- | tively, it was declared at today’s meeting of the cabinet. The | policy will be continued refusal to limit the expedition’s stay south of the border. Messages from Gen. Hugh Scott to the war department today indicated ‘his conferenées with Gen“Obtegon had probe y ended, and that efforts to secure a peace pact had been | shattered The United Press was told that Obregon had not actually. threatened to use Carranzistas against United States troops if not immediately withdrawn, as had been reported, but had said “the situation is all good and that we might as well | prepare for trouble.” | Believe Obregon Has Broken With | Carranza and Will Try to Seize Government Army officials carefully concealed the contents of the re- port from Gen. Hugh Scott There was no mistaking that its tone was very serious | Obregon has broken with Provisional President Carranza jand has taken affairs into his own hands, is the view of many | here. | Reports that a break was imminent had been widely cir- culated lately J Obregon had ar ithe North if he rtunity to ra certain leaders in ve he is now ina strategic position gain control of the government. | Militia of Three Border States Called Upon | by President to Patrol United States Side of Line | For the first time since the Spanish-American war, the | president today called out the militia to aid the regulars in |the international crisis with Mexico The use of militia will not call for any action by con- gress at the present time, since the national guardsmen will so desired and many be be used patrolling the American side of the border. The militia of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, the three tates affected by the call, comprise 5,360 officers and men President \W ilso ordered infantry to the | Phe following units of ntry have been ordered to the border: The Thirtieth, of Plattsburg, N. Y.; Third, of Oswego, N. Y.; Twenty-first, of Vancouver, Wash., and the Fourteenth, {of Fort Lawton, Washington The decision to call out the militia followed a conference between Wilson and Secretary of War Baker after the latter had received two code messages from Gen, Funston. |Mexican Ambassador Declares Raid Was Engineered From American Side of Border the four regiments of regular vorder move, Baker th In announcing said the step constituted no change in the pol United States toward Mexico, Mexican Amba \rredondo told Secretary Lansing today that he believed the raid on Glenn Springs, Tex., was om the American side of the border 1 that I. Villareal was probably responsible, Villareal had attempted to stir up mutinies y of engineered He charg asserting that ede de facto troops. CHARGES RAID AR RANGED IN U, S, WASHINGTON, May 9.—Mexi-| American side of the boundary and can Ambassador Des ate Arre. W8tch the conspirators who were . endeay to stir up a mutiny donde ‘ ference this fore : loudo, in & conferen © amon rranzistas and inflame noon with Secretary Lan*ing. border iment charged the raid by Mexicans on| The most important develop- Glenn Springs was organized in'ments in the Mexican situation the United States were expected following the receipt Arredondo named tL. Villareal of a long code message from Gens, as the principal agitator responsi-|Scott and Funston, ble for the raid and plots. Its importance was indicated by | Wants Stronger Guard the fact that Acting Chief of Staff He urged that a larger body of| Bliss remained at the war depart troops be stationed to guard the ment until 3 a. m. to receive it. ORDER MOBILIZATION OF MILITIA PHOENIX, Ariz. May 9— the paper strength of the state Adit. Gen. Harris, upon re. guard, are available, it is es- ceipt of orders from Washing. timated. ton this morning, ordered im- Mobilization orders were greeted mediate mobilization of the quietly here. There was little Arizona militia for border demonstration on the vart of service. Only 400 troops, half guardsmen, ne : it > | + 7