The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1916, Page 1

ye * ONE MORE DAY! 1UST ONE MORE Day TO WAIT, AND 2 VR'LI HAV FE SENATOR MILES POINDEXTER. IN ATTLE HE WILL SPEAK AT THE DREAMLAND INK FRIDAY NIGHT. LET'S TURN OUT AND SHOW M THAT SEATTLE APPRECIATE ) RVICE : i Mayor Gill clashed with the 100 business men| ednesday who called him to the amber of Com- Merce for a conference on how to protect life erty during the water front strike. The meeting had been called by 100 signers of a petition for sterner police activity, but more than 200 packed the assembly room, many standing thruout the Meeting. A resolution was passed at the end of the session Which called on the mayor to “exercise his full power Judge Burke presided. He said the city was “f ing a reign of terror which might spread like wildfire, and declared that the police force order if the proper commands were issued. He regretted that “business men in pursuance their duties” should be attacked by “outlaws” the city would wake up some day to find man shot unless action was taken. “Before calling on the mayor isy there anyone else who has any- ng to suggest!” asked the judge. Nobody spoke up. Call on Gill “Judge Burke,” said the mayor, SL came here to be told how to at this thing. to get tome advice. pay any I'd like to have It.” “As far as the danger to busi-| Ressmen on the waterfront goes | bave learned that Mr. Green, whose injuries we've heard so much about landed in a Turkish bath Sunday Boon, with a prescription for aj} tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours. He hadn't been out playing golf or on the waterfront either, when he got bruised up.” Stands for Order “I don’t yield to Judge Burke or any man here in a desire to have the law enforced and life and prop-| erty protected. But when a bunch Of negro strikebreakers are permit: | ted to come down town, and the dock men won't do us the courtesy to phone the police department Labor Council Approves Gill The os antral Laber Counsii Vvotéd Wednesday a letter of Mayor Gill for the nonpartisan stand he took before the Cham- ber of Commerce strike meet. ing Wednesday afternoon. ise to infotm us when parties of imported negro strikebreakers (Continued on page 5) REVIVAL RIOT IS PUT DOWN FORT W ORTH Tex Aug. 10 When they are coming, we can't| All's well on Scuth Main street expect to do away with al! disor.|Once more. Mayor Tyra took a hand in the ders in all parts of the cit “It would be about as reasonable) to call a meeting every time there| a burglary in the residence dis-| trict and protest because there wasn't a policeman in the house |preacher-police feud originating from Police Commissioner Jamie son's order to reopen South Main to traffic in the vicinity of the tab ernacle where the Ham-Ramsey re vival is being neld and prop-| force was adequate to en-) of | and said} a business | Independent Senator to Speak | | MEETING BEGINS AT 8 }dexter idepot.. Tucsday: jcrowd of | was ir jwho | most-unheard-of ; ashington of RE PRE SENT THE ONLY PAPER IN PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 19. Call for Peace olved, that the citizens of Seattic, as here represented, de clare their devotion to the best interests of the city and all its and their earnest wish tain its reputation sober, industrious, progre: and law-abiding community In this spirit, and without Prejudice as to any previous or Present controversy, we deplore the conditions which have lately admitted of so much disorder and violence on the streets and in public conveyances and of so many assaults upon persons in- tent only on their peaceful pur- suits. We believe it to be the duty and within the power of the mayor and the police force of Seattle to compe! respect for law and to maintain order, to keep the city free of mob vio- lence and unseemly turmoil and to protect all citizens In their honest employment call upon the mayor to issue such orders as may be Necessary to the fulfillment of these purposes and to rcise hia full power te the end that his orders shall be obeyed. POINDEXTER TO GET HERE FRIDAY at Dreamland Rink in Evening In S kane. Sen. Miles Poin- weicomed at the night than was 500 and “the sena more ntroduced as * ator had been doing that al thing at |ING THE PEOPLE In Seattle, Friday night, he omen Testif | bya} will speak at the Dreamland] rink, which is capable of seat-! “, an audience of 4,000. The meeting will begin at ag with George H ulker as chairman ign the same time, Senator Poin dexter will be welcomed at the union depot by a citizens’ delegn-| jteved to be tion, and an auto procession will! |take him up Second ave. and then to the hall band will add to the gayety of the welcome to the Independent sena tor of Washington The meeting at Fireworks and a brass| along as SEATTLE, WAS {Gin Who I Did Her fer Leap Year Year » THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916, ear Duty | “WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ GIRL ASK SSEATTLEITES BY CORNELIA GLASS “This leap y’ bunk to Alice She in “That's My Horee,’ s this week. Pant r stuff Girls are afraid to pro what some one said who Is playing at the Alice rose to her 5 feet 5), inches “Girls are not afraid of thing—teast of all a man asserted in the city an to all of them fo pr Some one chose three posal tour morning, and I a “Choose any bachelors, T waa set for was invited aperon or something three I will propose 1 mean it.” i a directory inent men he Thursday Thought Men Would Wed When I to feel met the Dreamland| prominent men Miss Sher I rather sorry for the three T felt that it nd be to go jswer with Finally on © stage itself, he told her, with the scenic artist, the electrician, a stage hand and my self as witnesses, be would meet her there again in a year with her answer. He did it with ail the charming bashfulness of a girl. and the actress accepted his an great fortitude were leaving he asked to have luncheon with As we us, politely him Boeing Misses Something Our next call was William upon }E. Boeing, millionaire da in aeroplanes and timberlands. He was out of the city 1am sorry for Mr. Boeing. He will never have an o " like that again began | Smith building Our last visit ing Crawford was to big, laugh E. White in the We found him of flee deep, in suave gentlemen. Mr was | White is running for something, I | | oring one eye and | | |chureh offtcials to pa The Seattle Star ONE CENT ON TRAINS hws # y Against Billingsleys LOST PLACE AG PATON, HE CHARGES. Rev. David J. Westheim, for 20 years a minister of the gos pel in « e of a cong tion in lingham, f for divorce here Thursday, de claring Mr Westheim had forced him m the pulpit by false accusations that he had become unduly familiar with other women, He declares his life made “a_ veritable earth” by her cruel treatment and her “evil disposition.” Westheim recently 30 Three caused bh t for alleged abar donment and failure to support her in Whatcom county, he says, and had him confined in a “common jail” to make it impossible to further prosecute hin a ministe Says She Hit Him Hing a The Westheims were married in 17, 1895. Minneapolis on May oo” for him | — PPP PLD LLPPPP AYS GEORGE, THE WEATHER MAN, TODAY PROBABLY FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY BUT KORGE'S FAIR 18 NOT THE KIND OF FARE THEY OLLECTED ON COUNTY AUTOMOBILES TO THAT ENUMCLAW EXCURSION, THAT FARE 18 UNFAIR, AND SEE MAN RUN AFTER WEEDIN © MOTOR PARTY A small, bareheaded and coatless man chased the automobile which carried Sergeant Weedin to his death in front of the Billingsley warehouse on Westlake ave., on the night of July 24, it was learned Thursday dure ing the preliminary hearing of the first-degree murder charge against Fred and Logan Billingsley before Pos lice Judge Gordon. Two women were led to the stand and a list of witnesses called. Mrs. E. Francis, proprietor of a board= ing house at 2102 Ninth ave., testified Patrolman Wiley, Sergeant Weedin and other officers were visiting her house on the night of the murder. “I had never met Sergeant Weedin before,” she said. “We had four quarts of beer and then we left with the officers to take my friends home. | “Going down Ninth ave. I turned jaround and noticed a small man running after us. He held his arms up in front of his face and — couldn't see whether he had a gun, Sees Four Men “When we were between Vir laa and Lenora streets, Wiley, the oer | driver, who was also shot, said he BY ED L. KEEN | would get the man and got out. United Press Staff Correspondent | weedin took the machine on and ALLIES KEEP UP VICTORIES: 12 years, Rev, Weatheim allege: be has been subjected to personal! _ LONDON, Aug. 10—New and jet us out.’ Indignities tn the home, which ber| eteiking successes for t e allies | Deputy Prosecutor Patte i. gan with Mrs. Westheim striking| in their triple offensive were who ix handling the hearing for him with ber clenched fist disfiguring bis face Six years ago, he @ plate at him, and on May 25, last hurled a book with such force and violence at his head that his #pec tacles were crushed Threatens His Life In the last two months, he says she has repeatedly made threats to take his life. Her alleged false accusations that he had consorted with other women on the outskirts of Bellingham were made, he charges, by insinuations to a deacon of the church in order to force his resignation says, she threw Despite the fact that he had turned over half his salary for the previous month and had ordered | all due him to hin wife, Westheim says, his wife | had him arrested for fatlure to sup-| port. Her real reason for this, he says was to cause his disgrace After | seven days spent in jail the charge) | P inst \ WwW estheim was dismissed Kiss Worth Four Bits to Man, Only Two Bits to Girl DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 10.—A worth twice as much to aman as it is to a woman John F. Murphy, police judge, so ruled today. He fined William M, Madden 50 cents apiece for kisses be stowed on his fiancee, Lucile Marin and fined the girl 25 cents apince ‘or those she re turned On the testimony of neigh bors, who complained to the police, Judge Murphy assessed the boy $10 and the girl $5. Figure out for yourself how many times William and Lu cile kissed each other. Court attaches took one look at Lucile and returned the ver- dict that the judge gave Mad- den bargain ry ' tes. waiting for him countermanded th pavilion will be noteworthy both| going to be hard for them to re-| believe ja weckewners Sreak Word e3 oye oagrony <i ee ccgy from the fact that it will be the} main bachelors He cleared the office of suave When this strike commenced | OVC ts or the meeting last night |DIggest attempted thus far in the| She looked as tho she had step-|gentiemen as ion as Miss She Some of the dock owners came| Qii out automobdiie horn obligatos,|C@Mpaign in behalf of any candi-/ "ed out of Vorve or Vanity Fair, |told him she hed come for a pri fown and asked if I would give/ aig tive noncombatants, innocent |4ate. and also because of the his-|!0 exquisite gra leur with | vate interview. In fact, he was In them protection along the water! victims of fists and clubs of |torical memories it brings A ittie ite fox curled favor of <1 ¢ it of me, until front. This I agreed to do, aNd! jreachers and policemen in yester-| It was at the Dreamland, six) #bout her thre Miss ned have done. There hasn't been any| qay's riot were aole to sit up today.| Years ago, that the state was told The first on our list of three PL will you mar disorder on Railroad ave. nor a dol clearly the story of Senator Poin.|'va" Lewis Hanne pronounced | ry me? jar's worth of property destroyed.| SUPERIOR JUDGE SMITH dis-|dexter's popularity. He had been| Haw-zee, who manages the M Bully for You, Crawford And the dock owners promised to| missed the case Wednesday in|read out of the republican party by|POlitan theatre, and is Klaw & Crawford E,W =: SO feed and house their strikebreak-| which J. Y. Kellogg, congres-|the would-be bosses, but the people| Etlanger's right-hand man prosecitilig-s Matha. seve ers on the docks, and this they| sional candidate, attempted to have |raiiied to him, and the Dreamland| He greeted us very affably ean ticket, gazed at her for one have failed to do. voting machines thrown out in the/ rink meeting in Seattle astonished| Miss Sher crossed to his de! long, appreciative second, Then “They have broken their prom-| coming elections. the standpatters. It was the big-/#nd I withdrew into a remote cor | with one stride he was at the aay goat ever held at the time. Senator|"@r and hunted up my notebook | door, tore it open, and disappeared }Poindexter won the republican| #4 pencil Into the hall. Before we could nomination {n 1910 hands down | “Mr. Haase,” she said easily, “I| regain our breath, he was back This year practically 5; bane here caste to ask you to be my dragging a bewildered gentleman bas, ae reer usband by the arm ganaiions, cunts and azn the| 'Ghernald charmingly. Wer ‘Stns my_gpriner—name's peopie'’s faith ins ess repre.| voice $8 round and rich and has) Gallagher,” he panted. “Want sentative at Washington little bubbles of joy in it ed witness to my answer. | Px He Stared Stupidly should say | will!” Mr. Ha stared at her stupidly Hia enthusiass: was refreshing I hate to say a thing like that| He turned all wedding arrange HOPE T0 SAVE Jabout him, but T can't soften It 4 | ments, over to Mr. Gallagher and | bit. myself, with only the stipulation lessee tapmiial | beg your pardon,” he gulped.|that it be before the primaries be-| Commending Senator Miles | ber of that committee, will be | aon think I quite understood | cause a married chap has bet | r chance than 4 6 e Poindexter’s work in behalf of in an even stronger position to ST rae, wien came ual rapeateal a ho says leap year is “bunk?” the Bremerton navy yard, and | aid Bremerton If he should be tas taka awe ect showing his fearlessness in es- reelected, Aiding the Puget Lewis Haase cleared his throat, | pousing government construc- sound navy yard, conceded to EUREKA, Ca Aug. [0 bai dubbed lis eyes, crossed his ‘knees, tion of United States batti be the best in the country, is of saving ihe Bear, which | and then swallowed violently went aground on a ships at the local navy yard, aiding the entire Northwest. reef near here while others opposed it, the His re-election,” says the Jour-\in June with a loss ives Bellingham Progressive Journal “will increase fis value as ajran high when it learr strongly indorses Poindexter r of that committee, as the |ed that the * which e the for re-election. which senators are able| first pull to the vessel last night Because two other senators pends largely upon the|had succeesded in getting her afloat on the naval affairs committee of service in a basin that had been dug are to retire next year, and a | Stands High around her, It wa at first be counts, | lieved the final pull would not be the rule of seniority prevail: Poindexter, Experience and seniorit who Is now a mem- (Continued on page 7) POINDEXTER NAILS A STANDPAT LI SPOKANE, Aug. 10—Senator Miles Poindexter srday branded as @ pure fabrication statement in a Seattle paper that he had spok en and voted against a tariff on lumber and shingle cannot imagine how any one could innocently ma A grome satatement id ator Poind e I introduced an amendment lace a tariff on shingles spoke for it. I spoke and voted con jstently for a tariff ou 1 and shingle Tawney free lumber amendment in the senate The tariff bill, as passed, was also an tax bill, and {t fur thermore provided 10 per cent margin brought over in American ships, and 1 voted for it “! shall make it a point to discuss this matte: night” voted against the income for 0008 in Seattle Friday | but last night's sful that it Is attempt to water before made until Sunday effort was so succe believed the tugs ma bring her to deep that time E NAVAL MILITIA OFF you Per ha Didn't | see coming from Va My, Such I think not ce eooll We | Vancouve Wilh | offer?” Klaw & Erl Headed for Santa Cruz, Cal, 56 officers and men of the First and i) d divisions of e W ington state mili yarded the ulser Vicksburg Wednesday and began their annual training tri Upon the return trip, the militia men will hold target practice at Port Townsend, They will return| to Seattle August 26. The cruiser New Orleans will leave later this week with a num. ber of civilians aboard for a crulse to Southern California, savoir faire nger's beginning on t with a dark sistenc id the ® not lo he He rer e vely opt boat mur ou Al.| been to m right-hand to regain his | Why, supposo 1 what should I say he asked. He sft!] had the air of dealing gently with the Insane, Mise Shor thought seriously Yeu aren't suppoged to be that, |she said slowly Aut even if you are Demands Her Answer theatre yroke in Mr, Haase ha t We saw t tre, from lobb to fly galler He told how he 1s going to redecorate the nouse in pearl gra ench rose, and sev eral other things—many of which sounded slightly incoherent. All the while, with a sweet persist ence, Miss Sher pressed him for his final answer ‘TOLL OF FLOOD MAY BE 50; BIG DAMAGE : CHARLESTON, Va., Aug. 10. —Altho reports from Hunting ton, Montgomery, St. Albans and other points estimate the dead in the cloudburst which swept a flood down Cabin, Paint and Coal creeks yester- day at from 60 to 75, state of- ficlals said reports of their in vestigations showed only 16 known dead. All except one are women and children. The loss to the coal com panies operating in the Cabin creek coal fields. will reach $2,000,000. Gov. Hatfield ordered two more companies of the Second regiment into the West Vir ginia flood district, along Cabin, Paint and Cove creeks, today, when reports of terrible loss of iife and suffering ap parently confirmed early es- timates, The Kanawha river was recedir this morning, but was still several feet high, running swiftly and car rying down houses, barns, chicken coops, pianos and hundreds of pieces of furniture, One house that swept along on {ts current car ried on top the body of a boy. Boat men went out and recovered it The number of homes carried from their foundations was not known early today, but there were hundreds of them Property damage in the district. was enormous, estimates stricken being as high as $5,000,000. Hun dreds of miners and members of their families are homele Two companies of militia were sent from the mobilization camps at Kanawha City with tents and supplies: Floods, started by cloudbursts at the head of Paint creek, Cabin] creek and Coal creek affected a zone of 30 miles’ radius from Mont gomery. disco: | reported in official dispatches | from the war office this after- the state, asked Mrs. Francis what she saw next. noon, On every front the allied cap- itals announced gains in the last 24 hours. Pushing rapidly eastward on “I saw four men back of Billings- ley’s warehouse. Then some began shooting. ‘I heard six shots jand then we all ran.” Lena Belmont, 2019 Ninth ave, the Isonzo front, the Italians the second woman to be called, vag; | have occupied the Austrian po- ified Mrs, Francis’ testimony im sition of Boschini, and have | every detail. captured more ground from the | ‘The Billingsleys appeared in court calm and composed, wearing their customary smiles of self-reli- ance. They were accompanied by their attorney, George Vanderveer, | retreating garrison of Goritz. The Austrian aviation station of Aisovizza, six miles north of Gor- itz, is unofficially reported to be in Italian band* Witnesses who were called in- Russian troops have captured clude Ruby Clark, 610% Pine st; the railway station of Chryplin,| Boyd Nordguard, 216 Boren ave; only three miles east of the impor-| “Jane Doe” Campbell, 610 Ninth tant city of Stanislau, and the/ave.; George Serple, 122 Boren right bank of the Bistritza river. | ave; Edward Navone, 2113 Carry Chryplin is a raflway station on | ave., and Officers Flattum, Hassen« the right bank of the River Bis-| pblott, Sissler and Capt. Tennant. ritza, Earlier unofficial dispatches! Identity of the man who chased |had reported (hat the Russians|the automobile was not learned. | were approaching the river. Edward Navone testified that he The Aus jermans, in falling | appeared at the scene of the shoot back upon Stanislau, blew up the |ing and said the dead Japanese railway bridges over the river and | had his coat on are preparing for a stand on the| “{ bent over his body as soon as left bank I got there,” Navone said, “and Further south, in the region of saw the bullet holes thru the coat.” Worokty and » Rivers Btaly The coat cxhibited in court, Czeremosz and Sutchaya, the Ru The heari was adjourned un- fans advanced several versts i2 n (A verst is about two-thirds of acon a mile.) Delayed dispatches from Buchar. est today reported that the Rou |manian war party, favoring action on the side of the allies, has been stirred to great action by Russia's WILL MEDIATE unexpected stroke in southwestern Galicia and the surprising victory | of the Italians en the Isonzo. SALESMAN DIES AS JAIL SUICIDE Striking longshoremen are ready arbitrate At a meeting Thursday morning between Mediators Henry M. White a William Blackman and represe! ntatives organized labor » following arbitration commit- appointed to as WACO, Tex \ug. 10. ‘The cor oner’s jury todiy returned, a ver FE. P. Marsh, president of the dict of suicide in the death of D,| State Federation of Labor; W. M. |. Stanton, 35, < St. Louts travel-| Short, president cf District No. 10, ing man,.who was found dead in| United Mine Workers of America; the city jail late yesterday, He/|J. G. Brown, president of the In- | haa taken’ a quantity of poison aft-| ternational Shingleweavers’ union, je being arrested on a minor and Charles Doyle, business agent tharks, of the Seattle Central Labor Stanton cashed a check for $100 | Council. |shortly after arriving here yester-| White and Llackman were ale dav afternoon, bet only $1.50 was/thorized to bear the message to found in his pockets when he d any organizations interested in the Stant home address was 1 settlement of the strike Thursday Mis ave louis, A broth. afternoon (nat the committee was Mt Slanton,. has an office ready to consider plans for @ sete at’ 708 Olive st that city tlement of the strike DECAPITATED BODY POINTS TO THEFT OCEAN SIDE, Cal. Aug. 10-- | Completely decapitated, the body of Ernest Jobnson, 35, a bridge worker for the Santa Fe was found | THREE G. 0. P.’S IN | _ COLORADO CAMPAIGN 10.—The | race for | DENVER, most spirited Col, ‘Aug. publican governor in yoars featured the!here today on tho railroad track, opening of the republican state a8-/the Owl train having severed his sembly here today Governor head, On the body was found a rge Carlson, Samuel D. Nichol-| whisky bottle almost full son and Allison Stocker were as Welts on the bead led officers ured the necessary 10 per cent to believe Johucon was assaulted ote in the convention to have | and robbed, and then thrown om their names placed on the ballot In} the trac Jol appeared on the Septemoer primaries the street night with a big The six presidential electors to! roll of bill friends declare, be named today probably will be|No money was found In the pocke followers of Chortes EB, Hughes ets when the body was found, Before the opening of the con Bivtst vention toda plans were rife to WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE make a bid for the support of the Water will be shut off on Colorado bull moose party which| East Jefferson st, between holds its state assembly here Broadway and 12th ave, on to: | ‘ morrow, Friday from 9 a. m, to 5 p. my (