The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1916, Page 1

mh : THE ONLY VOLUME 19. PAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., W.J.BOTHWELL _ KILLED IN RAID BY DRY SQUAD Foliowing a conference with Mayor Gili, Chief Beckingham lald plans Tueeday to have all the bar fixtures removed from the Ferguson hotel, where Wil- Ham J. Bothwell, former city lier, was killed In a gun fight, after wounding Off eere W. W. Morris and C. V. Harvey, while they were raid- Ing the place at 5:30 p. m. ers jumped into an automubiie and freached the barroom just an the | two wounded officers were ewerg- ing from the door, intending to try to reach a hospital. | The coroner will quest in the Bothwell death Friday [morning at 9:30 at the public | morgue Officer Tells Story On a cot tn the city hospital, ot Y |ficer Morris told the following An order of condemnation | story wes to be sought from the |_ “Seret. Putnam had told us to oO out and get the Ferguson bar, ‘The fixtures, Mayor Gil! said, jas reports had een coming tn will not we hgcpoas. but re- [thick and fast from the place. Moved and put in storage. | About &:30 we sent tn J. T. Ep Bothwell had been employed employe: ler, a new emergency tnvestigater, @0 a strike guard, and used his jto try and buy a drink of whisky ¥ gt cathe Aegge he 00 | He came out and said he had been ry equa served, in exchange for a marked tavestigators. | dollar He was standing at the bar in| “We waited about two hours, m when the officers en-jand then hat Eolir co When. tie. gene of water ‘aud J. Franbam, manager of the Fer. whisky were in front of him, we — .* was behind the bar walked in © shooting, and who grap- Bartender S$ pills Booze cag Officer Harvey, denied | “Officer Harvey walked behind had been drink'ng in theline bar and I walked u ip to Epler. the afternoon, or that he We didn't want anybody to know |squad, so | went up to him, Mashed the shooting |my sar, and grabbed, for the whis- Headgaarier sky lass. Ort Mor-| “The bartender grabbed for the leg and arm,|giass with beth hands at (he-same in the Darryom dnd |time: +The Whisky was spilled Man endjost, Officer Harvey, back of the, tie RE b- arappled with the oartender ae on page 5) ' WOUNDED PATROLMAN CALLS WIFE ON PHONE By Cornelia Glass Some way one always thinks of & policeman as a hardened sort of Person. without very much feeling Shout the things he has to do. T had always felt that way about # until this morning I went out today.to the home of Patrolman W. W. Morris, the offi- | Cer who was sho’ yesterday in the ' Faid on the Ferguson hotel He lives at 6601 ist ave. 8. There I found Mra. Morris. She came to the door, with two Youngsters clinging to her skirts. They are both boys. Both have the bright yellow hair and the blue eyes of their father. One is nearly 5 years old Other is barely 20 months She's a Tiny Person Mrs. Morris is a very tiny little Person, herself, and rather at the Mercy of the biond young giants/ who were her sons. She has a friendly little way with them that makes one think that Perhaps if the three were alone ghe might romp on the floor with an inector "Yow Pow. * 4 The them. Right now there is a worried line|M*® Wo Wi Morris, Wife of on Mrs. Morris’ forehead, and the boys are a little serious even in their play The S-year-old stays close to his shoulders Something has happened that the children do not quite understand It makes them want to be close to: BACK 5 MILES gether. Called Up on Phone “Daddy called up on the phone} ie Inst night,” the 5-year-old confided PETROGRAD, “July 18.—The to me, “and he said he wouldn't be| Germans have retreated nearly home for a few days and that || ten miles in Vothynia, under ; y was to take care of mother An’) the advance of Gen, Kaledin’s } I'm doin’ it, too, ain't I, mother left wing. in their retirement Mrs. Morris hugged him closer to | several thousand more prtson- er “Indeed you sre, son,” she whis'| org, a number of ‘heavy guns pered “You see,” she said, turning to-| &%¢ lange. supplies of war ma ward me, “Mr. Morris called me terial have fallen into the up himself last night. He was hands of the Russian afraid I would be frightened if The retreat was ma ec: sary when several Ru: n reg- iments broke thru the German front and threatened to sur- round a part of Gen. Von Lin. singen’s army. The Russians have advanced Itheir lines to the north bank of the nome one else told me of the acct: dent. I have always told him that some day ne would be shot, and he has always laughed at me for be ing afraid when he wasn't.” Her voice broke. She's Still Afraid “And then last night I took down |river Lipa and are strengthening the receiver and he said, ‘Well, } their new positions on the entire did get shot—but I'm ali right.’ | front I took the children over to @|] phe advance widens the Russian neighbor's and Went In to the bO®'gaijent extending unto the Austro pital as fast as I could go. | W@%\ German front southeast of Kovel, ture he wasn't Gead, because J had talked to him, but I wasn't sure about anything else. He always says, ‘But f'm cll right The tears weled over in Morris’ eyes and-rolled down cheeks 1 am not hin wounes t nicely him mo slow!) thus removing the danger of crush jing enemy attacks on both sides “ the Russian wedge. Mrs her BRITISH STILL ADVANCE LONDON, July 18 Despite a heavy mist and rain, which are in terfering with the Somme offen sive, British troops made substan tial progress last night on a front of 1,000 in the region of Ovillers Halg reported. The Germans were driven from see, there really is| several strongly defended points ahd 20: oN the life of the aver- and prisoners and six Maxims were age bluecoat captured, worried about The doctors getting along worried about went on really ny roore. 4 ire bet I than ever € she " Gen j eattleS hold an in- | Epler was a-member of the dry) “Them. aman. standing outside) , TA THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1916. ONE CENT SOMEWHERE WHERE WEATHER MAN 1 GEORGE HERE STIL DAY HE REMARKS AND WEDNESDAY ON TK BEWS strikers and strikebreakers into riots. not want the strike, and that local strikers have been made the taken leaders in San Francisco. housing imported negro strikebreakers at the docks. From day to day, more and more of them have been sent out formed into groups to pass the Longshoremen’s hall. THIS MUST STOP! | that he sought to prevent a raid uptown by the police departme keep their men off the uptown streets. SUN 18 SHINING 1A8 Ay Bt rHO TC TONIGH QUIT JOSHING SPILLS SHOWERS, GENERALLY FAIR STRIKE ‘BAITING’ MUST STOP! HERE seems to be a concerted effort by certain interests to “bait” water front The Star says this advisedly, feeling, as it does, that the local dock owners did “catspaw” of mis- There would have been no such riots or bloodshed as have been visited upon this city if the Water Front Employers’ union had lived up to its original intention of uptown, after their day’s work. Many of them have been armed. Some of them have deliberately Nobody —not even special policemen—should be allowed to carry guns outside of the strike zone. Only yesterday two policemen were wounded and a guard” was killed because the guard was so drunk with his newly-acquired power “special nt’s dry squad. The mayor will be wise to put his contemplated order at once into effect stop- ping guards, as well as strikebreakers, from carrying guns uptown. In the interests of peace, the employers also could do no greater service than to SOME SUMMER HAS ARRIVED, SOMEWHERE THE AYOR GILL DEFIES HIS CRITICS NIGHT EDITION TELLS ABOUT _ POLICIES ON WATER FRONT | Blame, for tir ! other lawles growing out of Kg, at ness the water front strike, was laid by Mayor Gill Tuesday at the door of employers who permit strikebreakers and guards | to “invite trouble | His position, relative to the strike, was outlined in detail Ito a Star reporter in an intervie “Here in Seattle,” said the mayor, “the people probably |do not realize that we have been dealing with the biggest | strike in the history of the city ’ has been the biggest problem of its kind that has j ever confronted a al police department, and I must confess jthat I had been considering myself lucky the way things had gone until certain elements recently began to open up on me. | “It seemed to me that there was about the minimum amount of trouble. In fact, there has been no trouble at all on the water front property. It has all been outside of the strike zone, which has been carefully policed Mayor Has Personally Passed on Men Appointed Special Policemen | “When this present strike started, I told the water front | people that I would. permit them to have special policemen But I insisted that I be permitted to pass wanted responsible guards. And I insisted Jon their prog the men I lon ~ |THE FOOTPRINT OF MODERN EVE RESUME [MANIAC STRIKE KILLS 6; PARLEY IS SHOT, Mediator White Has Session | Fights Off Chicago Police Re- With Seattle Waterfront | serves for Many Employers | Hours |MAY DISARM GUARDS WIFE DIES BESIDE HIM Daten — CHICAGO, July 18—A dee perate battle, waged with dyna- COM. FOR STRIKE +, Vv Afkcom A July 18—Follows |” mite, rifles and automatics, ing a conference lasting until 4 for hours today In the noon, 600 members of the In | | of Chicago's populous ternational Longshoremen's as West Side. | saciation voted today to con tinue the strike, The vote was said to be unanimous and was received with cheers persone were killed and wounded. Henry Meirtyre, negro, ap- parently crazed, with his wife at his side, stood off the mobil- | Efforts at mediation between | the strikers and the Water Front Employers’ union were continued Tuesday by Federal Mediator Henry M. White. rhot for shot, to the besiegers. Mra. Mcintyre died beside her husband. She was found i'd when Detective He met with the Employers’ Muahes broke thre teeliee. | i union Tuesday morning, and the ere and rushed thru G conference lasted from 10:30 tol the doorway, opening fire on | 7 noon. Mcintyre as he stood beside yj White apparently wae disappoint-| the window firing at the po- ed by the results. “The employers are in no mood at this time to make any settle ment,” he said. “This is also true of some of the employes, There The body of a women, as yet un seems nothing to do except walt a| identified, who had been killed by few days.” | McIntyre’s rifle, was found on the Should mediation fall, Capt |poreh of an adjolning bouse Gibson favors the calling of a The dead are lice, who had taken refuge be- hind telephone poles, and windows and doors of ad. Joining residences WAT A big university is compelling public mass meeting to present Mr. Josephine Overmyer, white.| itg girl students to beautify their the employers’ side of the con ha Dean, policeman, 6°, / feet, it's in the business of devel troversy. white, : loping shapely ankles and pretty Say Issue Is Wages | Harry Knox, negro, |toes. Read about it in The Star to. Representing the Central Labor} Mrs. Hattie Mcintyre, negres®. | morrow. |Couneil, James A. Dunean and ( Alfred Mathews, negro | W. Doyle today declared that a| Henry Mcintyre, negro | | deliberate camp*ign of misrepre The wounded Ed Clemmons, Isentation is being waged by the | policeman Mrs. Harr Knox, ne | Employers’ association and com-|gress; Grover Crabtree, policeman, | mercial bodies | white. “The question of open and| Hughes’ deed was spectacular NAVY PROGRAM closed shop is not involved in this! He startled the besiegers by strike,” they declared. “It {* Just |calmly walking up the path toward a question of wages dor the long-|the house. As he neared the door WARMMATON, dain. the shoremen, dock workers, andthe drew his gun and walked into § G + duly 5 checkers the house. The senate today adopted the “The Seattle Water Front Em-| “1 found Mcintyre crouched at a| naval program urged by Presi ployers’ union operated under the window,” he said, “He was dent Wilson — eight capital closed shop before the strike, and jing | took no chances. I fired as| ships this year and 16 in three lonly the wage questiop was raised the whole | by the strike. “Now th has injected years. Passage of naval bill is near. HANSON CHEERS UP NATIONAL DEMOS jhe turned toward me.” | | Hughes’ bullet struck McIntyre employers’ association |in the forehead.” On the floor be itaelf into the situa-lsidg the murdered man lay the tion just as it did In the teamsters’ |icay of hin wife. Around her waist strike, and is trying to raise the |)? open shop question. If left alone, (Continued on page 5) the strikers and the employers di - rectly involved, can easily settle Statistics show that unmarried |their differences |men, ax law breakers, outnumber! yew YORK, July 18-—Chal The question of compelling #pe-| married men two to one lignes to reppbileane atl proses Jeial guards to leave their guns be- | Snidiontek eis dawate “Aner T AneM en hind when coming uptown ts being | hall Wilson Returned?” was weighed by Mayor Gill and Chief| flung broadcast at the national The mayor is inclined to tssue Ole Hanson, progressive leader of jthis order following the shooting hington now supporting Wil affair Monday night at the Fergu B. M. BOWER ™: pe son hotel, when J. W. Bothwell, one | “Wilson can carry Washington, Hanson asserted in a telegram to the committee of the special guards, attempted to exercise his police authority against She, for she is a woman, FAMINE TRAILS Base of Food Supplies ASHEVILLE, ©, duly 18. ai least, ficials. according to rafjiway of gasoline | the Black Mountain district, be great | Poster and Charlotte FLOODS Inundated District Torn From |MANY HEROIC RESCUES ~The 7, food situation at Asheville and Biit- | more, du@ to the floods, is serious, and none is expected for two days, ity officials are planning to take Over the supply to regulate the sale. The police took over the supply The latter was boost- | and it is feared the loss of life there will Only on body has been recovered and Loutse that the employers pay for the guards used on their own | Property | “I told them that the city would police the streets along | the water front, and pay the bills “This we have done “Now, an inquiry into the police reports shows that all | the trouble has resulted from letting strikebreakers and guards come uptown “They should be kept on the premises, where arranges ments had been made to keep them. I understood that em= |ployers were going to protect their men on their owl property Says Strikebreakers Invite Trouble by Coming Downtown “But they haven't been kept there. They have come downtown, which is inviting trouble. “If I were to appoint 200 or 300 special police to use on the streets, it would simply mean an increase in the tax J and would not solve the problem as long as non-union wode ers kept going downtown. “I couldn't get that many experienced officers if T The civil service commission couldn’t get. them, .—4 | “I don’t think the whple city ought to suffer jast be- | cause a few of these men want to come uptown. T have noty | yet decided whether or not to order all guards to leave their weapons behind them when they are not on the water front Declares Effort Is Being Made to, of. ed by some holders to $1.00 a gal lon, when it was promptly seized/tg Cause an “Open Shop” Campaign for the use of the fire department “Tha ie rt hich I k at and reseue parties. hat is a matter which I want to take up with the No word has been received from| council and talk over It might help some. Then again, it worse, fighting thing that these negroes were are bound to cause a lot of trouble, might result in more, and “It an unfortun brought in here. T at Baltimore, that of Charlotte} The mplays* could have gotten. along without them, Walker “Personally, I think there is an effort being made to bring About 20 persons reported miss-| . + , n shor ht in all industries. And I don't ing Sunday night were found yes.) about an ‘open shoy it in a € And lon | terday clinging to trees on the Van-| think it is up to the taxpayers to carry the cost of it. ere, Soares “There hasn’t been an act of violence on Railroad ave, hen the Swannanoa river left| “ re sel al 4 of the city 3, |its banks, Inundating the country, The force is key ing that part of the city open to traffic, John and Kathleen Lipe, Mabel All Freight Tied Up in Frisco; Docks Kept Open Here Walker attempted to escape, but were caught ond carried half a “In San Francisco they can't move a potnd of freight, mile before catching a tree. Char ‘ In Seattle we have kept the port open lotte Walker became exhausted, ‘ 4 and, releasing her hold, was car. ‘My critics have exaggerated in their statements. ried down stream. Louise was the “Judge MacMahon hasn't been on the police court bench | gi A 8 ¢ po atl ge cn BC go Mal rollmatel for 10 days, and when he was, he handled things all right.” | tenabted tor wt 05 the tr \ Critics of the mayor's policy during the strike have |} Wm. Cooper, Y. M. C. A. stu-! pointed out that Attorney MacMahon, who is attorney for jf 4 i jdent, after wrapping a rope about! several labor unions, has been permitted to sit on the police himself, swam (o within a few feet | of the tree. Sinks Instantly Miss Foster let go the tree in an | court bench and try cases involving strikebreakers MacMahon is the alternate polkce judge, appointed by | the mayor months ago, to fill the bench in the absence of ffort to reach him, but sank al > re Dont, instantly Cooper was car-| Police Judge Gordon ried down stream, but was rescued | Says He Intends to Pursue several hours later from a tree top Same Policy He Has Been Following Finally Robert Bell tore his bath . ing suit into strips, made a rope, I propose to pursue the policy I have ‘been following,” and, after = hour's work, secure went on Gill y tied Kathleen Lipe to the tree, “yp saci d 7’ otec with her head but a few inches I'll take care of all property and I'll protect all men above water. A boat reached the when they are where they belong tree later. She will recover. ‘But I will not involve the city in hundreds of thousands Five hundred families in Bilt } Ghhansastor en tc y oO . mde “wore lett without. ebelter. |! dollars of expense for extra men to fight out an open shop They are being cared for at the| Campaign tor anybody home of Mrs. ¢ WwW Vanderbilt. | The mayor was asked if he was considering the appoint+ lment of a citizens’ arbitration committee. 20 DIE IN NORTH CAROLINA ; "ay Aas” RALKIGH, N, C., July 18.—An ap-| he answered, “because the unions have maintained palling toll of damage and loss of|that they couldn't act independently of San Francisco. So a life taken by the storm sla oN citizens’ committee is out of the question. That came out at the North Caro! was revealed by k ite Nina ss yeginning of the aff na seen willing to act along every delayed. dispatch reaching| beginning of the affgir. I have bee s act along that here today Twenty persons are j line at any time when it will do any good known to have perished , LONGSHOREMEN IN POLICE COURT. THISTLE PICKERS COME HIGH, the “dry” squad has written some of the ] At the council ting Monday) begt Western fiction ever | Sam Raynos, laborer, was fined |night a motion by Counctiman Bol-| 1 $100 and sentenced to 30 days in ton to prea woes! Buniar ttorn | ere | jail. King Robinson, nonunion carrying thelr weapons uptown was rots = ; ‘ anadion. aik ¥, Whale, ivi jreferred to the public safety com: eae WASHINGTON, July 18.—Prosi. longshorenans Sail pending turther| . King county's road “and gathered and talked politics, |mittee, and will come up for hear Big. " dent Wileon today nominated |) sstigation into the shootir ‘| bridge fund is broke—again } During the month a most for- ing Wednesday at 2 o'clock author of the next novel- | Abram Elkus, New York, to be NYO. 0" nice market Saturday It has, in other words, suffer. |tunate thing happened, Had It Representing the Central Labor| a-week that begins in | United States ambassador nm oe hight, and the hearing of F. Me.| ¢dlte annual attack of bustitie, | | not the poor thistle pie kar might Younc es Duncan and Chas eS key. The nomination was decided BF edo: The same thing has occurred |not have got their money because i bn Io bobalt ofthe | mondey's Star. upon several weeks ago, but send pe and A, May, atriker pmonnee 1) every June since Lafe Hamil- {expenses incurred during Jtne had psolution ling ‘It to the senate was delayed Of chasing Jobn sstponed. until} teh has been in the commie. run the road and bridge fund He: “GOOD INDIAN” pending inquiries as to the yy |arater Sant Was, Doaspone until! sioners’ office $209.45 in the hole ability of Hlkus to the Turkish| Wednesday by Judge Gordon | Last January the road and bridge} However, during the last days Is the name. government ernoon accused of $1,837 |with $284,659.41 in its pockets to} 61, which was dumped inte | CHAS E HUGHES | | N Raynos was being |jast until next New Year |the fund and the day, or rather the | 2 | so i one of the men who attacked Ben! june 1 there was $31,623.98 left. | month, was saved No need to go into de . . Juni on il unas) a of Gray, negro strikebreaker, at First! {, was too much money | There are no more thistle pick Charles ¥. Hughes, repubit > ela ibe oe, WASHINGTON, July 18.—Prest- and Cherry, Monday noon Lafe sent a gang of men out|ers on the Kent road candidate for president, is mighty Bower's stories are not to + Witson caiied at. the capitol Tr. C. MeNally and R, Brown, by-| along the Kent raad to pick this: Rut Lafe has overlooked a bet tickled with the Women's Roose: be passed up pee to urke personally that sen. standers testified against him tles, and during the month spent There ts now a balance of $170.06 pres neces a of agg Fen aM. ders overturn the democrat-, Attorney McMahon gave notice | $31,833.38 in the fund that ough to be spent so informed Mrs. ¢ harton . Ly Lye r »peal behalf of Raynos, and| It so happened that there were y not give e boys a jo! | ds jie caucus legislative rogram, of appeal in Ma “ . president of the club, by letter. it Starts Monday, ends ie ype hl ein jp) REA gira Judge Gordon placed his appeal | nice, shady nooks along the Kent|down at Will Humphrey's Postof- is the firat woman's organization,| Saturday. wiche national child labor bill, | bond at $500. road where the thistle pickers !fice licking stamps? he declares, to bear his name.