The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1916, Page 1

SUMMER YOU WANT BASY, BREEZY SUMMERTIME THAT'S WH AWEEK IN THE STAR CO THIS TIM NEXT MONDAY DIGTRESS CALL FOR TROOPS IN GALICIA BY JOHN H. HEARLEY | United Prees Staff Correspondent ROME, July 11—Kaiser Wil Relm and Emperor Franz Josef have sent an urgent request to. Cs Ferdinand that he dispatch | troops to the Galician and Trentino fronts to help check! the Russian end Italian offensives. | This information was received from Geneva today A delegation of Austro€ military and diplomatic arrived at Sofia Sunday, carrying the requ They pointed out to the Bulgarian ruler that continued Successes for the Russians and Ntalians would bring Rumania into | the war and that Bulgaria would then be squeezed between the Ru manian army on the north and the allied forces in Greece and erushed. Czar Ferdinand replied that the ‘withdrawal of Hulgarian troops for gervice in Galicia or on the Italian front would invite an tmmediate attack by the allies from Sslonitke He promised, however. to submit the appeal to the Bulgarian gen eral staff. | 271,000 PRISONERS | PETROGRAD, July 11— —Gen. Bruisiloffe hae captured more than 271,000 Austro-Ger- man prisoners since the aa ning of the Russian offens! tt was officially announced | Wile afternoon. Wilson May Take Stump NEW YORK, Juty 11—Today' President Wilson is planning to dis regard presidential precedent and make a brief stamping tour in the interest of his candidacy for re election, it became known here to- @ay. Democratic campaign man- agers refused to discuss the matter THE today President Wilson has always wanted to make a trip to the Pa- cific coast. Kf the Mexican situation clears up and German-American relations re- main undisturbed, as at present, politicians here today predicted that the executive would make his { long-deferred trip westward TO BE NOTIFIED AUG. 5 WASHINGTON, July 11.—Presi- dent Wilson will provably be notl- fied of his renomination Aug. 5 at the summer White House at Long Branch, N. J., {t was learned toda: He has already begun the speech of acceptance work om NO TRACE FOUND OF JOHN GILLIES OLYMPIA, July 11.—No trace of John F. Giilles, former claim agent of the industrial insurance commission, or Henry Roberts,/| who escaped with him from the county jai! Saturday night was | ) found Tuesday. | present the final arguments before commerce commis RIGHTOR ELECTED | AS EXALTED RULER BALTIMORE, Md., July 11—Ed ward W. Rightor of New Orleans; ted grand exalted ruler of was | the Elks over Lloyd Maxwell of | Marshalitown, lowa, by a vote ot} 983 to 288. | Boston was selected for the next reunion in 1918 J udge Doesn’t Know What to Do With Guilty Prisoner VANCOUVER, Wash., udge Back ts in @ quan today over what to do with Mrs. Bessie Mitchell, who yesterday pleaded guilty to manslaughter for shooting and killing her husband a month July ago Mra. Mitchell pleaded gullty only on condition that Judge Hack sentence her to In an effort to gradually educate one to twenty years in the |the public to shop early, the pub- state reformatory at Monroe, |lic markets will close at 9:30 and recommend her for parole |m. on Saturdays, starting August at the end of one 1. The city has already decided to The superintendent of the |close the farmers’ market at 9 reformatory today telegraphed |m. on Saturdays Judge Back that he could not receive a woman prisoner. The | board of contro!) must decide | TODAY'S TIDES AT SEATTLE now whether Mra. Mitchell High Le cas can be sent to some other Oe od de pba he Be @tate institution, = LITTLE GRAY SHOE TIME! READING FOR THE BRE THOSE NOVELS. ME IN JUST RIGHT AT STARTS CHAS, REYNOLDS “IN TOURIST CASE Charlies A. Reynol: resign- ed chairman of the state pub lic service commission and champion of the people of the Northwest in their fight for just tourist rates, wired The Star the following Monday from Los Ang “Received the following tel egram: ‘Attorney general rules we cannot pay your ex- penses to argue the differen: tial tourist rate case. (Signed) Blaine, Lewis, Spinnin . pected this. Smal! politic This means that Attorney eral Tanner and Public Servi Comminstoners Blaine, Spinning have stopped, from co the Sow nolds against hern Pacific tem, the winning of which will add if not millions, of tour. ist dollars to the Northwest annu thousands, ally. Reynolds was to argue the You say the “state cannot pay” his case before the supreme court. /{ The purnose of the case fs to, expenses. equalize tourist rates from Chi-j ]cago to San Francisco, and return | | whether the route tr Northern lines or Southern ern lin are $1 over Northern Hnes, The ern Pacific controls these rates Reynolds Led Fight Reynolds, having led the fight of | was con en agalnrt | the all camps logteal start parties the people from agreed upon by cerned in the the railroads as the man interstate Washington, D. C time of bis the sion at At the from the public sion, Reynold to understand would bear half Oregon the other ways that this the expense important mission The people's cause, the railroads gleefully admit, is in jeopardy any other person's hands of constant effort to figure out Other Way Out But Reynolds and have an “out,” happily. If the state “cannot pay” penses mercial organizations back fight to pay them. Will they come TO CLOSE MARKETS to the front? AT 9 P. M. SATURDAY Lewis and as far as it {fs in their power to stop, Rey pleting his fight sys aveled be over lines |The present rates over the Sout! . & much longer distance 0 per passenger less than South: | resignation service commis he was given atate and half of sending thim to the national capital on that because of its intricacies that took months the people his ex there are enough big com of this hapter? i Why, Mr. Tanner? Why cannot the state pay half of Charles A. Reynolds’ expenses to Washington, D. C., that he may per- form a service to the people free? Why, Mr. Attorney General? Frequently the commission hires special counsel at fancy prices to do odd jobs. Very often the commission pays even more handsome figures to spe- cial engineers and appraisers. But here is a man who would do the state a service and charge nothing for it. All he asks is his railroad fare. Oregon is anxious to pay his fare one way. Yet you turn down his of fer. Why? The Star and the people are grop- ing blindly for a reason. CAN IT BE POLITICS? STATE WILL ASK (MILITIA CARRIED | FOR MILD TERM IN RICKETY CARS COURTROOM Waukegan, Til, July 11-The anomalous position) of the defense asking the death pen WASHINGTON, July Secre. tary Baker was today called upon alty for its client, If convicted, and|/by unanimous house vote to an the state asking merely a prison|swer charges that the railroads sentence, was the position in the ha transported the militia to Orpet trial today Texas in dilapidated cars, that the As the closing arguments pro- men en route were poorly fed, and ceeded, it was learned that the de- that many men left for the mobill zation camps improperly equipped The action was taken on a reso. lution of Representative Moore, Pennsylvania Another resolution proposed by Representative Gardner of Massa chusetts was adopted, calling on Baker to advise the house how many members of the militia of fense will ask the jury to eliminate | half-way measures and either hang| lor free Orpet Special Prosecutor Joslyn, on the contrary, was expected to ask a |mild prison sentence as an “object lesson.” The | pected to occupy at closing arguments are ex-| least two days Arizona, Texas and New Mexico more after today failed to respond to the presi dent's call for border service and 3 i were excused from service TO FIGHT STRIKE c : = , MILITARY HONORS SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 7 million dollars is being gathered FOR CAPTAIN BOYD here today by a “law and order” | committee of the Chamber of Com | merce to back up the fight for the| WASHINGTON, July 11-—-With ‘open shop” on the docks. full military honors the bullet That sum was authorized at a|marked body of apt. Charles of the Chamber yesterday | Boyd was buried here in Arlington n, und $200,000 wax Imme-|cemetery, Secretary of War Bak subseribed € Maj. Gen, Scott, member of | Speakers declared it was impos-|the general staff, and other hig! |sible to move goods to and from|army officers attended to pay to certain docks ;"due to mob intim!-| the hero of Carrizal the tribute dation,” due his rank, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE VOLUME 19. Is It the Final C — n A i, Be MAY QUARANTINE CITY OF NEW YORK; DEATHS INCREASE BY K. W. PAYNE. a WHAT IS INFANTILE PARALYSIS? Poliomyelitis is the technical name for the epidemic that is sweeping New York and menacing the rest of the nation! All that there which is spread by nasal discharges arry it It that known virus pr is of a ects the gray the nt matt way the disease is in the spread is membrane of the Flies and dust nose may er at the base of the brain, and even if the child recovers, he is usually paralyzed for life Tho « disease ommonest among babies, adults are often victims, and people of 60 and 70 are known to have died of the 1 JUST A MERCHANT SHIP WASHIN( | That the « iTON, July 11 reat Germap | hoat Deutschland fs a merchantman was the state dl Capt. H e rh report made to t tment today BY CARL D. GROAT BALTIMORE, no —With Raft Corresponder Md., July restrictions up: he | by > "1 on them, Capt. Hughes, U. S. N., and customs men boarded the big German supersubmari Deutschland this afternoon to inspect her for armament. Thi action was taken upon permis | sion of Manager Hilken of the Ocean Transportation company, after Capt. Koenig, commander, had agreed the men could learn no secrets of the vessel's con struction, and that they ought not to be hampered if they car ried government credentials. Their inepection was at the in stance of the state department which has had suggestions from the allies that it was improper to harbor the ship as a merchantman Questions pot mly of the Deutechian status, as a war ship or merchantma but as to her cargo sho e back to Ger. many wit be taken up by the he state de partme Embargo The Deutschland’s ome-go go is expected to ontain alone may cause a number tior it was learned cause em goes on any ort of goods from Canada or Great Britain to this country which might be im yorted to Germany by the Deutsch and or other submarines which ure reported on their way to the United State Ninety per cent of the nicke 4 in this country }comes from Canada | Under Guard The enormous deep sea rover | still lay under strictest guard at her pler on the outskirts of the city today Stolid armed Germans, re inforced by city police, saw to it that the curious were kept at a dis | tance Truste man longshore | bes were the only ones admitted | jnear by parture with her rubber and ni | The time of the Deutschland’s de ckel cargo was 8 kept secret—and will be. Captain Confident In this connection thé story went out that England may send over some motor patrols and some of her big ocean nets to entangle the Deutschland after she dashes out to sea from the Patapsco river, Rumor | [has it, too, th Jalready conc at British cruisers entrating beyond |three-mile limit Ke his Capt hrugged strange smile As should worry jdon't violate law.” 1 we was th nig, however, shoulders. », and commented Americans say ‘as long as the a the threemile 1 ought here that the only smiled o ‘We ies imit the |Deutschland's sister ship, Bremen will come to Baltimore eventually, even tho it n may visit Rio Jan iro, ‘as dispatches from there stated will One prospe Deutschland Simon Lake who frankly says ly land out infringement rae not p tion, if any, He will not rate, he says. Not Libel Her pct of trouble lay In the submarine that the Deut appears to of his patents ared to say what he plans against libel her here, at for inver visit the of ntor, her. any TEUTON MERCHANT ‘SUB’ EXAMINED BY U. S. NAVAL OFFICER BERLIN 18 JOYOUS BERLIN, via Wireless to Say ville, July 1i.—Every Berlin news paper today devoted a large part of its news columns to the arrival ‘SECOND SUB NOW ON WAY, REPORT SAYS RIO DE JANEIRO, July 11. —The state chancellor has been officially informed that a | sister ship to the super-sub- meraible Deutschiand is now crossing the Atlantic and will arrive here within ten days, the newspaper Rha declared today | MAY COME TO FRISCO } OAKLAND, Cal, July 11.—Theo | dore Gier, wealthy Oakland mann facturer, declared today he had ‘t nuthority that the German rine merchantm Bremen would arrive at San Francisco be tween now and Aug. 6. He refused to divulge sources of his in mati Gier was made a chevalier by the kaiser four years ago. ALLIES PROTEST WASHINGTON, July 11.—Great Britain and France will do eyery thing in their power to prevent the United States recognizing the super sub ne Deutschland as a ship of comme and to prevent the oper ation of a line of submarine freight carriers proposed by the North German-Lioyd Steamship Co. This was admitted at the embasstes of |the two governments today | MAY DEPART SOON NEW PORT NEWS, Va Plans were completed today for bringing the German submarine Deutschland here to complete load ing cargo before returning to Ger many. It 1s believed her departure | will be sooner than officials of the | North German-Lloyd line have ind! | cated. | — nics July 11 Fines of $25 each, paid by 30 men |arrested in a gambling joint at 218 Washington st., Friday night, swell ed police court funds Tuesday $750. They pleaded gullty Five other) pleaded not guilty and were dis-| missed COAST HEALTHERS TO MEET SATURDAY | Washington, California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Colum bia health officers will confer pal how to combat infantile paralysis | in the West at a conference in Portland Saturday, July 15, ac cording to plans cutiined here| today | The officials of alP the states but British Columbia and Montana have already wired that they | would join the conference. | MRS. NORTH TO LECTURE Mrs. Joe North, Danish — seulp tress, will lecture Tuesday night on “India,” at the Woman's tx-| change, 209 Union st. | | ease there yesterday. An increase|14 cities—Chicago, Boston, jas to the | not less tha aiser Asks Bulgaria to Hurry Aid! The Seattle Star NIGHT EDITION THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD TODAY, ACCORDING TO THE GOL NUTS, 15 GEORGE, THE WEATHER MAN, HE CINCHED HIS TITLE BY PRO- NOUNCING “FAIR WEATHER TONIGHT AND WEDNDPSDAY ONE CENT Staff Special NEW YORK, JULY 11.—IS THE BIGGEST © CITY IN THE WORLD TO BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE? Absolute quarantine of New York has actually been suggested in medical circles. as With babies dying at the rate of one an hour from infantile paralysis, the most mysterious and most dreaded malady in the list of child disease, and with new cases springing up so rapidly they can’t even be re= corded, much less given full attention, New York is facing one of the most serious problems in the history |of the great city. It is said absolute quarantine of the city may be iy the only means of preventing a spread of the epidemid i to other communities! he The total number of cases re-]New Rochelle today protested |) ported is now 1,278. Of this num-|the local bealth board against the” ber 195 new cases were reported|number of children coming ® © today. This is an increase of $2) those towns from the greater city, over yesterday's report Of the/fearing the epidemic will spread total new cases reported, 155 were | there. oie in Brooklyn. In 14 Other Cities yous 68 New Cases | Cases numbering from one to 15, Only 68 additional babies were|which may be traced back to zc found to be suffering from the dis-| York, have developed in each of in the number of new cases was | land, Trenton, Paterson and also reported from other boroughs. a ark, N. Newport and_ | Seven ew jes were reported Wa; Kingston, Binghamton? of the submarine Deutschland at! trom the Aronx, against none Yes. son, Albany, N. ¥.; ‘San Frage | Baltimore, and in their editorials, | terday: from Queens 13, against |and “Los Angeles. : praised the submarine’s crew |one yesterday, and from Richmond; Dr. Harvey W. Wiley’s ; PR A amc neg Bed gy be six, against yesterday's four. Four-/tion that the malady ma ran are A n RE shine are pein teen new cites were reported injto other cities rapidly has enforce reintiaos wie in < Saeeee fal | Marhattan ed the natioral menace of the site Phone bse MF sed Kay ee All states slong the Atlantic sea-|uation. There is not a mother im | ooeka se Hg ing ry ye vou board as far south as Virginia |the city who has not been on tem © tg are of about 2 have written to the health authori-|ter hooks all week and now the ties here. < for information possibilities of the plague are bringing just as great concern to (Continued on page 5) The authorities of Yonkers and | #* COV. LISTER WILL RAISE MONEY — IF PLAGUE SHOWS HEAD HERE Plans are being outlined the] The city, county and state offi state board of health Tuesday to|cials, now holding their annual adopt statewide quarantine regula-;conference in Seattle, passed reso tions to guard against the invasion | lutions requesting federal finaw of the infantile paralysis plague. [cial aid in guarding the state Following conferences with Gov. |against the plague, ey Lister and Northwest physicians, | alien the state health authorities have|NEW CASES IN CHICAGO agreed that tsolation hospitals} CHICAGO, July 11.—Health Com. must be ready for any cases of in-} missioner Robertson left for New fantile paralysis that may break| York today to study that efi out in Washington method of handling the infant Lister Offers Funds |paralysis epidemic. Two new Patients will be quarantined for |cases were reported in Chicago to= eight weeks, and per-| day. by sons exposed will be guarded for —— ten days at least TWO IN KANSAS Altho no state funds are on| TOPEKA, Kan., July 11—Theae@ hand for any aggressive cam-/second case of infantile paralysi® | paign, Gov. Lister said monev|in Kansas was reported to the could be raised if the situation be-|state board of health today from | comes critical McPherson county. The victim is »me of the Washington state | Ruth Rariden, 3 years old. health board plans are patterne — after the Orpgon rules which went| THREE IN SAN FRANCISCO into effect Monday. The lack of} SAN FRANCISCO, July 1L— funds here makes it impossible to| While preventive steps were taken follow them completely by the health authorities today, Ask Federal Aid close watch was kept on the three The Oregon officials have estah-| known cases of suspected infantile lished quarantine offices at every lysis in San Francisco, Milk railroad station in the state, and | dred Davis, aged 4, who caught the all passengers under 15 years of| malady in New York, will prob age are inspected there, This ac-/ably recover, physicians said to tion was taken, following the -ve-|day. Helen Van Dorn, 5, is at the port of several suspicious cases al-jisolation hospital. A third suse ready within that state. |pected case is under observation, GIRLS, THIS BALL GAME | NEEDS PROMPT HELP the boys at the bor. we still remember them! TREATY A CHECK ‘TO “OPEN DOOR’? Their mothers let them go to serve their country. And when they got to the border they found the other boys were enjoying little lux- | Let's show der that uries—sugar for their coffee and butter on their bread— that the Seattle companies didn’t have. So, The Star has arranged a ball game between the City Dads and the County Fathers, to be played at Dugdale park, | WASHINGTON, July 11.—Sena- an. Friday afternoon at 5 tor Lewis of Illinois, today intro Mela Star has no one to sei /@uced a resolution directing Secre the tickets {tary Lansing to report to the sen- Here is a fine chance for the|ate whether the new RussoJap- py ' and dah sepiedsy of STs anese alliance {s not likely to close attle boys at the border to show | sit all .) their patriotiem by helping to add| te “open door” in China and rey to the comfort of those who/|Sult in disaster to American bush marched away |ness interests. One hundred girls and young| [It became known today the Unit women are wanted to sell tickets |e States government already hag to the militia mess fund baseball) begun quiet inquiries abroad re ag game. carding the treaty, It is the um 4 Will you help derstanding that it contains impom | Then be at room 210 at the |tant secret provisions, and it 1@ county-city building, and osk for |about these that the United States Mr, Hull, at 9 a, m., Wednesday jis chiefly concerned.