The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1916, Page 1

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RENNICK BEN THE WOODLAND PARK <2 BUFFALO, IS INTERVIEWED He Tells a Star Reporter Why He’s for Prepared- »'«: ness; His Forefathers cers tery ¢ Couldn’t Fight. This is Ben the Buffalo, who lives fenced in a grassy lot in Woodland park interviewed by a Star SEATTLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, Pictorial War-Map of the Coliseum! Here’s the Lineup WE ‘ANT TEDDY” SINGING, THEN YELLS yy 1 t new andi oh gshaluanc Abs yead the DELEGATES COLISEUM; LE TO MARCH TO LAUGHINGLY FORBID THEM WANT FADERS Coy ALTERNATES AEPUBLICANS WARMED When the frost is on the boomiets and the favorite sons are shocked, When the bosses pick the winner with the darkest horses docked— When each delegate is herded and delivered to his stall, And the mob of “party leaders” dmitted to the hall— When the writers and telegraphers begin to tap their keys, And the smitten hopes are uttering their last despairing pleas— Here's the lineup of the battle (and the battle is a sham); Here is how the Coliseum will accommodate the ‘jam old Ben, the buffalo at Woodland park, to order a coffin. couraged with Ife in ot fence, the ring spec a wire and the that i thre eatened onkeys and be pine ‘ALL RIGHT, BUT WE RAN" | ran { don't blame any ¢ ou | fight ns for my fate makes | nothing except rur ‘ raged is ought ye RA o I go to the happy wife thetede dl the Instead of butting the op: ome museum off the prairies, the patch my bones to ; . 8 yaa heir beards were shage and me off in & cor iy sucthe ‘ees of 16Te the extinct mammoths | jog gurvivor nes Bee aad natural history gather around and the bisons were rattle my all T hunt car that wher ing penter gether ground will sition unti ready to two gener race been Ben's fect on Gu land park ar NOW GUS WILL MARCH I ain't felt bag for a wild animal in he said, as he turned and Gu whee What prepare asked the Elliott Mu guess I'll ma wants to b ator Kr on pones were b mal tend right w ONLY “WANTED THE GRASS to conceal his ou mean, topped rier fen,” you we aude when right but Ber price for the verybody roaming ies, from the ROOSEVELT YESTERDAY de Rockle t r e to pro e Un Pacifie “4 . n Ch ap te ru, used to tracks, on ling we |them to nominat ui n event| mar block th« Hughes was named by republicans.! r hi An Umbr Ore umbre r Ro D ella P NEWS TO TEDDY STER BAY, June De e fact that Col, Roose vate telephone line is ng him with the Black n Chicago, t heard of he said the tre a United Press respondent told him of it after it was an hour old Roosevelt was in the library of + home reading a book asked for a state nstration, he emonstra formed, he sald: “1 statement on any nstrat der He ing resumed his read Favorite Son Calls Him Jating pol a not surrender a Carry Banner to Stage Roosevelt demo tra ing a it to the with Cali Dakota, Texas and all the state unted peaker at their 1 brought (Continued on page 7) GOETHALS 10 RETIRE » to private ident Wilson within a Here is where the hectic multitude will congregate to see How they nominate a leader for the frantic G. O. P Here is where the grand excitement will be tSotted in and loosed When the national convention is old-guarded or bull-moosed By the hidden strings from somewhere-where-you-cannot-take-a-look When the frost is on the boomiets and the favorite sons are shook! REPUBLIC ONVENTION AT A GLANC Meets at 11 a, m. Temporary Chairman Warren G. Harding of Ohio “keynote” speech Resolutions committée begins open hearings on platform Senator William E. Borah announces withdrawal from race. Allies claim three times number of votes that Hughes has. Hitchcock claims for Hughes more than total number of orite-sons votes. Informal details of negotiations still pending between pro gressives and republicans. makes PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION AT A GLANCE Meets at noon Temporary Chairman Raymond Robins of Chicago delivers “keynote” address. Committees are assigned Convention adjourns until Thursday. “ STRIKEBREAKERS. BEING MOBILIZED Ninety strikebreakers were mobilized at Pier 14 Wednes-* day, ready to unload Blue Fun- nel liners the minute water front employers gave the word The employers are aqweal tiny news from Franci where the union I enguhoeariae 8 officials are conferring on the strike situation. Union picket tro) the water f tho there was litt action there. trangpacific liners are lying the San Francisco con ae LIST IN MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 7.— More than 160 persons were killed by a series of cyclones which swept a large district in Mississippi and northwestern Missouri, Arkansas and western Kentucky Monday night, re- ports show. being This nonunion men sons Three of the Alaska Steamship company's vessels are tdle mag tbe of t are ific-Ala ation Co.'s Admiral Watson the “ regular j Lee Line company between TO FORM BOAT CLUB \i\ s01'ssseo0re ress e carried a heavy pa was tied to the riv tornado hit her, broke bles and sent her out ream continued to £ ont Wednesday, Two idle, pene ference | are loaded by includes 20 when list missin death reported steamer Hleanore was capsized in the Mississippi 17 miles Memphis Monday night The being boat by per crew work 1 Navig dead are teamer cket of th Men Senge ba sae when th wire ¢ the small boat MH meet at owners of Pip tore at § to form a Canoe and Lake Washington 9 er & Taft's Seneca st m. Wedne night ‘oat club, diay the H north o taken out of the into | BY HARDING'S ORATORY Rain-Soaked Delegates Are Cheered by His Keynote Speech; Many Audito- rium Seats Empty. BY PE -RRY ARNOL D Col , CHICAGO, Jur ainst a hans t e very conven- Chair- the the audier started Hardir iinutes later at speech of Fifteen least three-qu f the seats minute of two ufter the conver tor Lodge of Mass h chairman ted chairman of the repub. ah of Idahe rland of Hican resolutions committee imme Fall of New Mexico; Mads Jdiately after the organizatio Illinois; Howland of Ohio: |meeting of committee w of Pennsylvania; Wadsworth | called York, and Con- | Charles F. Scott of Kansas Jelected secretary of the resoluti Little Enthusiasm | committee tands of enthusia Lodge was authorized to appoint to the entrance subeommittee of ni and other stampede-creatir the platform jand stopped T ee mittee lopte There was t or motion for a mnt 1 the rains B her Co when the six-foot One them, they handed ov hert and entered Pas, | was ele Suthe the Clark of with pep in and para hall eu their the | given ¢ lia nents of wot } he Utah del whic — enator Smoot with this ling for the progres- (Continued on Page Seven.) tion assem- greeted dele- drafted will t ator Lodg We are } = bh form, blow! ibcominittee on pl