The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1916, Page 1

.AND WHY NOT? VOLUME 19. SE TT WASH,, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, LAST EDITION EXPECT THAT THE KAISER'S UNDERSEA FREIGHT FLEET DEUTSCHLAND, BREMEN ETC VHEN CHRISTY MATHEWSC ( NCIN —WILL HOB UP NEXT IN HUMPHREY'S POSTOF WHEN CHRISTY MATHEWSON TO 1D | CINGDE FICK SITE IT'S JUST AS REASONABLE AS TO : - 4 IBPECTS OF THE RE SUPPOSE HELL HAVE THE SENATORIAL TOGA ww LED ¢ ny +. LD 7 peed c a z RAPED OVER HIS 8 Ir “ . “LED O ( OLD STI ) HE Beet VES ih Rion eat ae THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | OME MORE FROM PORWCASTER SALISBURY: “TO JT AND THURSDAY, SHOWEE 1916. TRAINS Ws SEAN A 0) iE CENT Na BILLINGSLEY SAYS HELL OUT START ON CAMPAIGN Petitions will “Be Circulated Within a Few Days, They Say BRADFORD ADVISES 'EM Members of the Seattle Auto Drivers’ union are out gunning for three members of the city the result of their at Monday's coun- il meeting in favor of jitney President iting. of the union | was bitter Wednesday in his de munciation of the councilmen claiming they had broken faith | with the {itneymen. ouncilman Dale hed given me. his word that he would stick b: President Whiting Strength of a petition bearing 29, 000 signatures of citizens objectin, to stringent regulations for the jitneys : | It is necessary to obtain signa.) tures representing 25 per cent of | the number of votes polled by each councilmen at the last elec tion to make possible a recall election. Ze ts believed it Sitney men the persons who signed the jit- “petition will sign recall peti- Moore poll gerald = 31,707, and last - the union, conf Tuesday and sald the councilmen could be recalled without diffi culty. Between 1.70 and 1,800 persons | Signed the petition sent to council! urging jitney regulation. The sug- gestions contained in this petition, if carried out, would spell certats death to »uto transportation, per sons acquainted with the system insist —_ It is said the recall petitions will be r for cireulation within a few days. “I wouldn't be for any ordinance | keeping jitneys off of the same Streets electric cars run on,” said Mayor Gill Wednesday, “but I do not believe any one, including jit- ney men, would object to regula- tion restricting more than nine people from riding in a Ford.” He said friends of the jitney bus jumping too quick” if they idér recall proceedings. It's a foolish play,” he said, “at is stage of the game. The coun cilmen haven't done anything yet which gives the friends of the jit neys a case against the! HE’S GOT ONE NOW While investigating papers seiz- ed by the police from Logs Rillingsley’s drug store, James Cre- han, secretary to Mayor Gill, dis- covered correspondence between Logan and Al Jennings, widely known Okiahoma “reformed ban dit,” Wednesday morning. Jennings addressed Billingsley as “son” and said he hoped Logan would ‘always find an easy Scope _ ‘The correspondence indic: an old- time soquatetanes. U. S. BUYS ISLANDS WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26. Signatures closing the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States for $25,000,000 are expected by White House officials before the day close A treaty between Denmark and e U. 8. signed me ti will a clause in waich the U. S ‘will re 7 linguish all discovery claims to a Danish colony in Greenland —_——— Praise-theLond That was the name pro- posed for a child, at the brink of the christening font. WHERE? WHEN? In the opening para- graph of the next novel-a week, which starts in Monday's Star, “Amazing Grace.” " READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT MON- DAY. il 4 TWO WOMEN FIGHT FOR BABY TURKS CLEARED OUT OF ARMENIA BY GRAND DUKE PETROGRAD, Juy 26.—Cap ture of Erzingan by forces of the grand duke and small ad- vances against the Teutonic defenders northwest of Barano witchi, following a fierce battle, were announced in the war of fice statement today. The of Er clears all Turk from ja, and f yer opens an ad vance acr A M eninsula toward Angora ar Besides ant lig west of Baranowitchi Austro-Ge line on t front, in pe, Russian force ithstood # ttacks whict ight to in the re Duke Nicholas and army have completed nearly one-quarter of the journey to An Russian troops are forcing back the demor alized Turkish forces and establish ng a record for quick advance Their rate of progress has been al t of a marching army tn 6 \ eastern terminu he 1 ad iT » Con tantinople. It sbjective of the Ru an ad © Berlin and other German cities sre noted for the enthu m with which the wome in the |cultivation of flowers in window | boxes. CHICAGO, July 26—-The fight for the famous Matters baby by two women, one a fashionably gowned and beau tiful woman of society, the oth er a little Canadian backwoods girl, was begun in Judge Lan dis’ court today Mrs. Annie Dollie Ledger wood Matters of Chicago and “Margaret Ryan,” unwed war bride of the village blacksmith of her Canadian home town, were the women Both claim to be mother of the child Sister St. Celestine, mother su D of the Misercordia hospital Ottawa, Can. was the first wit ness Tells of Hospital Visit Talking in a low ve to Judge Lanais, ehe t Matters’ isit to the She had to had sald she adopt Her hushan me, but the anted it to child wa did not want truth her | yond to kr the Mother “Gobs” in Court The ter then went on born to Ryan’ —her re for obvious reasons—was take the room of Mrs, Matters and operation performed upon woman Mis died Roth Mrs garet Ryar zaret an” wa Ry Matters and in co ght in it to Mre were ters, “Mar wroke sobbed Both women the child since Mr Matters to win its love. It is about @ girl baby lave it was Both have year old now wealth no chil Celestine directly of Mrs hospital last reall i r | name is not giver the told the bab Mar irt, The When ¢ Mat down an mothered taken from sought a| | QUARTERS FOR POINDEXTER TO OPEN THURSDAY ters to boost the candi-| erator Miles Poindexter tion, will 0 od | at 320 Alaska buildi Ric secretary to th will be temporarily in campaign commitiee aniz n already taken campaign during the a or at hi ional capital 1 it is report ed, is thre one in favor of| Poindexter It 1 expected that in Seattle also, a ett ommittee will vol | untaril on in behalf of the junior senator Baby Girl Born | With Feet and Hands Missing} Rorn hands, little Frances Campbell, 7, of Lorain O., toda a arrival at a hospital for crippled ehi ELYRIA July 26 without 0. feet or new dren Orthopedi to equip the physicians hope | little girl with ar tiflelal leg » that she will be able in time to walk and use artificial hand in performing | simple I around much to ment of curses the amaze: tasks ces hops and rolls | SITNEY MEN WILL START RECALL AGAINST 3 CITY COUNCILMEN | READY TO ‘Logan Sulingsiey, — in Jail| NOTORIOUS PRISONER TALKS TO GIRL REPORTER; TELLS HER OF HIS LIFE AND AMBITIONS Miss Cornelia Glass, girl reporter on Th e Star, has interviewed Logan Billingsley in jail, where he is held on a charge of first di Siueton She gives an interesting insight into the character of this young man, who, with other members of his family, ‘tes been weralll y Mayor Gill and other c'ty authorities that the town “is going to be made too hot” to hold them. Miss Glass’ story follows: BY CORNELIA GLASS ~~ a man yesterday who has a queer twist in his moral make-up. : His name is Logan Billingsley, and he is held in the city jail on a charge of murder in the first degree. When the policeman brought him out of his cell into the room where I was waiting, I saw a rather slight young man, very pale, with brown eyes and dark curling % One hand was thrust deep into the pocket of his rough brown tweed overcoat, and the other, hanging at his side, was fingering.a soft black hat. I told him who I was and what | wanted. “IT have come for a personal story of you—just about you and nothing else,” | explained. Mr. Billingsley answered in the slow, drawling voice of the South, with slurred consonants and broad vowels. He was quite willing to talk of himself if 1 would find it interesting, he assured me. He was born in Tennessee. His grandfather fought in the civil war under Lee. he came here, has been spent in the South, in Tennessee and Oklahoma, father and mother. He has never married. At one time he was state manager for Oklahoma of the North American Life Insurance company. Doesn’t Mind Being Arrested for Bootlegging, But Murder—That’s Different ‘vasa “T have several pictures of ‘Cémpany banquets in the Astor House in New York on the walls of my drug store,” he drawled. Later, | reached his drug of the dry squad crushed them. é Most of his life, until with his three brothers and his store—the Day and Night—just in time to see the pictures before the axes “That is all there is about me, | reckon,” he went on, “except that I have been arrested several times for violating the liquor law. do not understand this time why I am held. They tell me it’s an open charge. If it is liquor violation again, | do not mind, but if they are trying to connect me with this murder it is a very different thing. Murder is serious.” 'You do not consider the violation of the liquor law a serious thing, then?” I asked. He has a trick of holding his head a little to one side, which strengthened the impression of laziness created by his drawling Speech. At my question he brought his head up with more celerity than I had yet seen him show. ’ " ‘ “No,” he answered, “I do not think it wrong to sell any commodity for which there is an economic demand, as long as one does it honestly and frankly, treats every one right and pays his debts.” His animation ebbed again. “1 believe that many laws that ate made by the courts MADE LAWS ARE BETTER DISREGARDED—MOS1 stand. I do not believe in lawlesStiess—"he shrugg i wish to say.” Selling Whisky Is His Profession, He Says, One He Means to Follow, No Matter Where He Is are bad,” he went on. THINK MANY MAN- OF THEM, IN FACT. Please do not misunder- ed his shoulders—“I find it rather difficult to say what “Perhaps you mean that all good laws are natural laws, anyway, and will be followed as such,” I suggested. “Yes,” he said, “that is what | mean.” He smiled whimsically. “T have been called a bootlegger often, but I do not deserve that. I have sold lots of whisky when the authorities did not want me to, but I was always perfectly open about it. I have a government license to sell whisky and it is my present profession, one I propose to follow, no matter where Iam. | know that I have always treated every one as a gentleman should.” He laughed outright. “But I think | will quit now, with it, and I dislike publicity. thanked him for talking to me. back to his cell. Never once as at least in Seattle,” he said. I have paid enough fines into the city treasury for one He assured me that it had been a pleasure, “There is too much publicity in connection man, | think.” and the policeman led him did he lose his attitude of cool indifference to his surroundings, nor the air of gentility that made the bare little waiting room seem a natural place to meet. Never for a second did he cease to be the “gentleman” his ideal of himself demanded. And going down in the elevator | could not help but think of the rather nice distinction between “gentle- and ‘ poe during the interview man” BILLINGSLEY BROTHERS CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER; BECKINGHAM BELIEVES JAPANESE WAS PROFESSIONAL GUNMAN Chief Beckingham announced lice tliat Suehiro was recely ations based on the allega-| Ora, another brother, and R, W, at noon Wednesday that the $300 a month for his service ion that the bootleggers were be-| Billingsley, the father, who were police are tracing reports In Pretty high for a warehousejing held without a charge against) ¢ ed along with Logan and dicating that |, Suehiro, who | watchman,” said Capt. of Det them i, a both at liber They killed Sergt. Weedin and (tives Tennant. “We haven't been) He said sday morning were released late Tuesday, wounded Officer Wiley Monday able to ny of the Japanese his applica man Billingsley, the other night at the Billingsley ware- who 4 ed to know me | brother, has not been found by the house, on Westlake ave, was a thing rd by Judge Dyke-| po professional gunman. Prosecutor Lundin filed charges | man, afternoon, he in-| Information was received at po Information was brought to us of first degree murder against Lo tended arguing the matter before|lice headquar' Wednesday that gan and Fred Billingsley in Pottce | the court notwithstanding. In case|Sherman, in an automobile, drove Japanese quarter that from the “ Judge Gordon's court at the exact/of a denial, he intends asking Judge Suehiro left $100 with a friend and c } j Suehiro left fury me with It if 1,time Attorney George Vanderveer Gordon to fix bail, he said (Continued on page 5) j lget in trouble,” said the chief.) Was pushing his applications Wiley Near Death \ fyrom the same source it was said Writs of habeas corpus unde After passlug thra an operation BRITAIN TO EXPLAIN’ dsr peys t Providenc hospital Tuesé that he was a professional gunman fhe int Delvan henesatie “Detectives are “ape trying to lo alana tai rh who was shot in the gun fight at y sIN cate the source of the statement warehouse, js In a}. WASHINGTON, July 26.—The Japanese who, it was pointed out Will Demand Bail r British government will make a de |to us, know about Suehiro, refuse to The charge alle that the Bill in the balance tailed explanation of the purposes and extent of application of its ndants ltalk. They have closed up Ike) ingsleys “did counsel, encourage at the hos \clams. The information was first hire, command and induce J. Sue commercial blacklist in the house picked up by an iceman in the Jap-/hiro,” the Japanese, to murder wounded the groin|of commons. in a day or two, it anese quarter.” * | Sergt. Weedin just t he emptied his gun into} was announced to the British ems watchman [bassy today Information also came to the po-| Vanderveer’s habeas corpus ap jthe Japane é