The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1916, Page 1

\ wyerentests The seadtle star bgp It’s worth $50 to you if you can be the a eee : first to identify The Star's “girl-in-the-red- : Weatherman Salisbury is still having his ow at ihe: Arena and value : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : | and Wednesday; Light Frost.” prizes. See her picture on page 8. VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1916. Ox TRAINS AND ONE J ENCH VICTORIOUS AT VERDUN || STATE PROHIBITION UTS SEATTLE’S HIGH RE GIRL WRITER TELLS OF “PRETTY BOY’ ON TRIAL DOUAIMONT > Law Results Prove} __ Crowding the Favorite a _ Soft-Haired, Red-Lipped, © | Delicate, William Orpet Sits Composedly With © | Father and Mother in Illi- ~ nois Courtroom. BY HONOR FANNING | WAUKEGAN, IIL, May 23.—A girlish, brown-haired is on trial here, charged with murdering his sweeth | Weak-chinned, delicate, violet-eyed, red-lipped, he surpri: jeverybody by the contrast between his ‘fragile appearance: and his strong composure. - Greatest Blessing That | AETAKEN IN | Has Befallen Second-Av.| | Merchants in Decade. " ALO ] (ly | When the people of Washington shook the tree of pro . i | hibition, some of the biggest plums fell into the baskets of the merchants in Séattle’s old “high-rent” district | The “dry” law is proving itself the greatest blessing that has befallen Second ave. storekeepers in a decade Less than a year ago these tenants were doling out fabulous sums each month to their landlords, and were j finding it a hard fight to keep their noses above water PARIS, May 23.—After all- | _ One little shop, with a 12-foot frontage on the avenue, He is Will Orpet, 20, a college boy, whose sweetheart, night fighting of great fury, | Paid its landlord $600 a month | | Marian Lambert, 18, was found dead—poisoned—in Helm ‘ French troops expelled Ger- Today prohibition has forced rent of that shop down woods at Lake Forest, the morning after she was known to mans from all except the north- | to $450, but the store has lost nothing in trade as a result have kept a tryst with Orpet there. eastern corner of Fort Douau (of the passing of the saloon He is not the type that would slay by violence; there’s ~ mont, it was officially announc- Before the “dry” law, the landlord could demand a rental nothing of the cave man in him. i ed today. of his own choosing. He could tell his complaining tenant He is not the primitive, abysmal brute that feminity : is supposed to admire. : There's none of the red-blood pose in him. He is not the sort that rules his sweetheart with a loud © | voice and tells his friends, with a knowing swagger, that ~ |“women like to be bullied!” 4 | Prisoner Is a “Mamma’s Boy” Type, 4 | Soft- -Voiced, Soft-Eyed, Soulful 2 His, rather, is the “mamma's type”—soft-voiced, soft-eyed, 2 soulful, “pretty”—a heartbreaker. He maintains that Marian took poison after learning he was to marry Celeste Youkers, who had supplanted her in his affections. a You couldn't imagine Orpet STRIKING a girl; lso you'd think, would send cold shivers up his mer A dagger would be out of the question—he’s not the dagger | sort. But poison is the weapon the state alleges—and there is a This is one of the greatest | “If you don’t like the rent, I can put a saloon in here victories of the Verdun cam- | that will pay me more than you are paying now.” PAAil Parla is celebrating the | Average Rent in One Second Ave. Block Cut Oral ton inckares by the war From $500 to $350 a Month office that French soldiers re- | entered Fort Gatseeneane ainee Today this situation has ceased to exist, and Seattle mer storming German positions | chants have a correspondingly better chance to make a profit along a mile and a quarter |in their business instead of a loss went, } Rents for ground floor space in one whole block on Sec- in the greatest counter of- panate ne the Verdun cam. | ond ave. have been cut since January 1 from $500 a month for paign began, French legions | the average storeroom 20x120 feet to $350. ‘ are carrying their banners to- This is an exceptional case, but, generally speaking, rents . sebinst sbtion mn jare considerably lower and. west of the River Meuse. j tikhaseshas been no stiffening of the market and the land?) The German official state- (lords are disposed to let space go at the reduced rental) scone while admitting that ‘4 |charge,” said Arthur E. Goodwin, secretary-treasurer of the boa ne dai lle le | Seattle Real Estate association specifically denies the claim 4 fs m ” that Groutieatty ei the wreck. | “The Bon Marche's recent purchase of part of its site, poser for the trial jury age of shell-shattered Fort | he added, “may have a tendency to strengthen the market. It wit WOULD Orpet, to whom the gun and the sword alike Douaumont is in French —s |has given assurance that the trading center will remain where | —— ' i o ZATTERFIE/D — seem foreign—®/OULD he use the quiet, silken method to Berlin vn fem on por heia [it is.” 7 rid himself of a sweetheart who had ceased to interest? OF Germans. | A. year ago Second ave. frontage was renting at about/ Orpet sits in the dingy court between his father and his Further gains were also reported $400 a lineal foot. Today it rents nearer $350. |mother—only a foot or so from the curious spectators on the west bank of the Meuse. “Where the saloons were clustered,” said Henry Brod- gathered to watch his battle for freedom. ted -94 fn gle wry Ol He hy president of Henry Broderick, Inc., one of the largest When his parents leave the room he moves up to his partly offset by word of British re-| rental agents in the city, “the reduction is naturally more lawyer's table. Verses near Vimy ridge. |marked. In some cases it is as great as 50 per cent.” James H. Wilkerson is the boy's attorney. The Bavarians there thrust back J ‘ ; ty 2 ~ | Having Hard Time Trying to Pick are oetanetre. On First ave., between Madison and Pike sts., rents ha Any rash on the skin may He and Ralph J. Dady, state's attorney, are having a a : | | Bloody hand-to-hand fighting has sobbed | “ “« ” continued along every foot ot the| gone down about 35 per cent since the saloons went out. The IVEN 1 i) dl mean smallpox. By calling the | | hard time picking a jury with no “fixed opinions. Verdun front since Satorda storekeeper today can teut a 20-foot front for about $75 a} 5 pei health department, Mais | Orpet, an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin The slaughter along the hills! you can co-operate in at Madison, and Marian Lambert, his neighbor, school chum, h. stamping out the di Med- “ northwest of Verdun is growing] ™ont 2 ‘ ees 1] _. and later sweetheart, live uak: $ deadlier every hour. On Third and Fourth aves. the change has not been 80! pyerett Jury Awards Girl ed pars ger ao Fg hn | Democratic Platform,Says Rus- Chicago. ed cat Lake Sores 5 Germans Repulsed marked. | Verdict Against Father- || | sell, Will Harp on “Our Un- enches have been pounded to Speaking of the homes and apartment houses, Secretary iwieer | UP on cases, If notified. | an soachitae’ “a iinselbeh Everybody knew of their devotion, but nobody knew to Bt. LER .| Goodwin, of the Real Estate assoc jation, said the town as al 4 ia RAO Sts | PP what extent it had gone, until her body, stiff and stark, was. jor in ayone' . | | e oO ods 4 or irugiier to the death Tenet whole is pretty well rented BANKER TURNS PALE ——— |MORR COMEDY erupg] ‘Utd #1 the wodds silittie way from hes aa The most intense battling is oc- “Perhaps we are a little overbuilt,” he said, “but all the Seaperuryae City physicians have been ‘ - On February 10, when they had the last of many try: curring at Hill 304, Deadman’s Hill! }etter class of homes and apartments are rented.” EVERETT, May 23.—Fift working quietly night and day This is the second article In jin Helm woods, she learned, it is believed, that another gt and connecting positions west of Fred W. West, president of West & Wheeler, large rental F for more than a week to get the which this noted political writ. |-—Celeste Youkers, a school teacher at De Kalb, Il.—had Wnty o both | Sty would not “simit that Second ave. rents had slumped| given 16 nabath Resbar Abaper Reger Hand et. sr, eueten. cue er telle what the party plat | won her lover's heart meaty ‘ae ellen ag rah bk piri . Bile Loan. ¥ break of smalipox in widely forms will be like in the com- Orpet left the wood alone—it was morning. except north of Thiaumont farm, wry ‘Ad are 2,880 feet of ground floor space, counting Banker J. L. Lyen and Mra. Separated districts. ing election. Marian was on her way to school. She didn’t follow him. on the east bank, where Teutons ac ‘oe f Second ave. from Madison to Pike st,” he said,| LYe™ Parents of Cecil Lewi Tuesday there are 16 suffer. 2 Her half-frozen body was found the next day. Her lips Rained entrance to a trench recent.| both sides of Second ave., C © $1,500,000 vei. There | Lyem must pay the Judgment, ers being treated in the Isola. |BY CHAS, EDWARD RUSSELL] were burned with cyanide. . ly seized by French that rent for about $1,250,000 to $1,5 ) per year. here | the jury in Ralph C. Bell's court Notes Aimer Bloodiest Night In History has been no great drop in rents i in that section F; | found last night. tlon hospital at Firlands. oted American Political and Eco- Now the state is trying to prove that Will Orpet gave her When today’s official report was ” —__—————- | Young Lyen Is In Denver, Saturday there were 17 nomic Authority the poison that cost her life. Ismed, os , conflict was grt neg bien he went the day of the There have been no new cases in oe - the juctest jokes about po- Orpet is trying to prove that she committed suicide. more terrible every minute, follow. wedding. two days, itleal platform making 1s that the Only once has Orpet lost his composure, so far. ing one of the bloodiest nights tn DRILLED MEN WILL The jury found that his par Health Commissioner McBride makers toil, ‘i ae % the history of Europe, ents maliciously sent him |ror the first time in a week is al. niehii. weble, ae This was when there was exhibited in court a packet of his love letters to Marian—a packet bound with a crimson Amid the ruins of Douanmont, there to keep the young folks |/most certain the threatened ep!- gue, quarrel and German detachments were still of from living yg gis demic has been checked | 3 sometimes beat| ribbon. fering herole resistance | It was 9 o'clock when the jury| Under the personal direction of| ‘3 one another with Then Orpet blushed as red as the ribbo hed With bayonets, hand grenades, filed into the court room with &/ Dr, McRride and Chief Medical In-| ri fists over PE ot mA Land, : : n that sate trench mines and clubbed muskets |verdict, The room was filled with} spector Stith, all infected districts | shall go tn soldiers fought individually there, people, many of whom had re- nm surveyed and a general * * * * * a platform, | Every man in Seattle who In contrast to the trained, and * refusing to retreat and dying where y traine t mained there since morning {campaign of. vaccination and fomi-| \ partially trained, citizens will be paig na and fumi-| when it ts my rcwreee has ever packed a service rifle, tnt of Seattle Produce associa-| Standing room had been at a pre-| gation carried out, All known cases nobody whether in a boy's academy OF tion members, members of Greek|mium thruout the 10 days of the now are isolated } it but the the regular army, will be organ- —jetter college fraternities, members| trial The smallpox cases observed are proof re and EMPEROR TALKS ized into one great unit In the |of the cooks and assistants’ union| There was a tense silence during] mild, they say, and the symptoms he think un preparedness parade, Saturday, j|and thousands of professional men the reading of bigs verdict very similar to pices pox. derpaid. Six June 10. and tradesmen Lyen appeared very nervous One case was found In Mother montha later ite AO Aeridge rab 4 seeped This unit will reflect the | The council resolution seca As the amount was named he|Ryther’s home. cg ile , : today declared he was certain proportion of citizens who j|for participation in the parade on|turned slightly pale, but soon re-) All dependents there have been couldn't tell you} MAYWOOD, Ill, May -Ce ~ the contrat powers would ulti- have received any kind of train- |the part of city employes was re- jsained hia composure, vaccinated and the pla fumigat- what was in’ {t|leste Youker, who was engaged he] aahaly heneeh ing for service in time of war. jferred to the judiciary committee, “I wish to move at this time for/ed | without looking it} Wm. Orpet, believes him innocent He. praised hi Former navy men have de- | Menday dismissal of the case despite the| Hight cases were located at the| ip in an alma-|of the murder of Marian Lambert, suogeeeral ettenaia cided to hold a meeting in the | If it is deciared legal, the coun-| verdict of the jury,” said Attorney | Roslyn hotel. Five were street car| nac. his former sweetheart, and will so the Italians and also said it Arcade bullding assembly Fri jell will pass {t Monday and Mayor|H. D. Cooley for Lyen employes Another teat of testity at the trial, she declared | was a mistake to underesti- | day night, to get together ali |Gill will head a committee to work| “I wish to enter the same motion! Pupils in the rt and Emotes, teats 00) caaay, mate the enemy. | who have done service on the out details of the city’s part in the|on behalf of Mrs. Ida Marguerite|Lawton schools, wh # were While a platform|, 18 her first Interview she denied | “They proved exceedingly seas. pa t Lyen,” said EB. C. Dailey discovered, have been vaccinated| mative’ 40° | being d to Orpet, but as. 7 | “The motions will be argued at aland the rooms fumigated | serted she had faith in him a a th " | The motions wi va 8 sole | brave,” said the emperor. | later date,” said the court, excusing — | GE. Russet eae ot solemn | “Whatever else he has done, 1| ype fury , Iwill do if it gets its hands on the| Know he did not Kill Marian sho} his opening argument yesterday, ward pays the slightest attention | that eon page ‘ | “He was the kindest boy I ever * Oliver H. Cline, former cashier te Hi Cooley in his opening state-|_ Stops {n the Pike Place market | any such pledge, but rips right). oy. He could not.bear to see or of the Pacific Coast Co, entered | ment stated to you that in this mar- LS ec ea rg a he at lan. the whole thing, planks and) isc: pain. He was a nice, clean Walla Walla prison Tuesday to be- on Saturdays if the eouncll adopts | all. gentlemanly fellow, a trifle bash |riage there was no bridal march; m - —— gin a sentence of five to 15 years that there was no kiss upon the|tte recommendation decided upon | KEYNOTE! ful. oer veneehomers. “Just a family quarrel.” ~) partners in the W. H. Plerson Co,,|bride’s lips and that there was no cominittes ‘Tussday. Petitioners | — ——@| “I had never heard of Marian This 1s the explanation of the | ™anufacturers’ agents. ed also | sw anos of were hess . representing union butchers made| Pico A tell me in washlogien until I read of her death.” owned an interest the Northern Under cross examination has | that the greater part of the omnsiiienl "NOTHER WAR CREDIT |e: of Frank oteron, jr, acquitted pbk Rasulo rp lheen revealed to you the whole| ‘Me request | Gemocratic: platform will ‘he |TO STAGE MURDER SCENE Monday, by an instructed verdict Pjerson's complaint to the prose-|fraudulent, fliegal and immoral | devoted to the marvelous and | aepaeent mh, Wipe Be | 2 in Judge Gilliam'’s court, of any! cuting attorney, was base specific-| conspiracy to cheat and defraud} S$ unapproachable excellence and | roseutor Dady, in the trial o' gonen ate ae Sierras chareet of irfeglerition in tue ao-| ally on efenapee that youns Oleson lie yours .wite COMMUTE ENTENCE. achievements of the present | Wm, G. Orpet, on a charge of in the house of commons for a | Counts cashed a check for $15 which was Instead of the bridal veil they administration | murdering Marian Lambert, war credit ef 300,000,000 These were filed by his credited to Pierson instead of Ole-| have attempted to place around her WASHINGTON, May | 25.—On|@ - ——@| proposes to re-enact the scene ounds, or $1,500,000,000, | father-in W. H. Pierson on , young form the mantle of shame| ground of newly discovered evi FOREIGN POLICY! in Helms Woods, where the | F ats cil Oleson is well known in Seattle However, in addition to this|and infamy sce, President Wilson commuted | @ @| girl died, for the benefit of the NELS HAGGSTROM, convicted|He ‘® the son of Attorney Frank specific charge, Pierson also ac-, “Instead of a kiss upon the] thre r sentence of Geo, Poole,| In the midst of a terrible con-| Jurors. and fined under dry law, Monday|Oleson, of the firm of Willett &/cused the young man of having| bride's lips, they placed a Judas/alias Moore, convicted in San Fran-|flict convulsing the rest of the Boy and girl actors from called off appeal and paid fine and | Oleson. |taken several thousand dollars. kiss upon her brow and asked her|cisco in 1913 of conspiracy to im- — school are to take the parts of Celeste Youkers, | @ourt costs, Pierson and young Olesgn were, hese charges fell flat in court, to sign a paper. [port optum from Mexico, {Continued on page &) Ornet and Marian. 7