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REGISTER NOW! LISTER HAS DESIGNATED NEXT SATUR DAY AS THE BIG STATEWIDE REGISTRATION DAY POR THE COMING PRIMARIES BUT YOU CAN REGISTER IMMEDIATELY, IN THE COUNTRY DISTRIC EVERY ONE MUST REGISTER, IN THE CITY, THOSE WHO FAILED TO VOTE IN THE MAY ORALTY ELECTION IN MARCH MUST RI PER Gov VOLUME 19. THE [": THE ONLY PAPER IN | PAPER [": THE ONLY PAPER IN | SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., W The Seattle Star IN SDAY, AUGUST 16, 1916. ON THAINS ONE CENT NIGHT EDITION Al- ON oes f IT HAVE EFFECT THURS CA vCH GOING HUGHE vi [ARKED ro COOLER ATHER MA HE DOES THUS CHIRP FAIR THURSDAY GOODNE READY LEFT BATTLE? IT AYS GEORGE, THE WI INCE WORD: iF NIGHT D THURSDA TO. COOLER NTERURBAN HITS AUTO:1 DIE HUGHES TALKS TO CAPACITY ARENA CROWD Introduced as “the president-to-be,” Charles E. Hughes, presidential candidate on the republican ticket, dressed one of the biggest meetings on his trip at| le Arena Tuesday night. He scored the democratic administration as inef-| ficient both at home and in its foreign policy, announced the doctrine that labor and capital must work together) and “there must be no real reason for discontent in America,” declared for preparedness but not for militar- ism, recurred to Wilson’s handling of Mexico again and again because “it is such an apt illustration of | what ought not to be done,” stated he wanted to see| Alaska developed, ridiculed the claim that Wilson kept} the nation out of war and asserted that he brought us| Closer to it. Arena Was Too Small It is estimated more than 6,500 heard Hughes at the Arena, every seat being taken, and several hundred being unable to get inside. It was one of the biggest! meetings on the Hughes trip, and is said by the Wash-| ington correspondents to have been more demonstrative han most of them. Hughes’ speech was frequently ctured by applause. )0 RAIL MEN ~ TO SEE WILSON Will Visit “White House to Hear Argument Against Strike IT MAY BE THE CRISIS By ROBERT J. BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— One of the most dramatic inci- dents in the history of Amer!- can labor will be enacted to- morrow in the East room of the White House, Six hundred railroad workers, representing 400,000 of their fellows, will hear from Pres. Wilson his rea- sons for believing they can ik noes differences with their hom Sromitencs weapon—paralyza- of transportation. The men are coming to hear| the appeal the resident has made to their sub-committee. Word was conveyed to the president at 12:30 today that the conference in New York between the members of the committee and W. 8. Carter of the Firemen had resulted in nothing definite beyond coming to hear) him. Arrangements were made at) the White House for the president to receive then: tomorrow With the agreement by the man agers to accept the 8-hour day, pro- viding the question of overtime! shall be submitted to an investiga tion, the employes today were con sidering a proposition embracing this temporarily with present rates for overtime. Both sides would thus yleld’ somewhat from their origins! stand BUILDING FLOATS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16—A 1,000-ton building floating down the Lay was the un‘que spectacle San Pranciscans saw early today when e structure which officially repre nted Ohio at the Penama-Pacific position was raoved to San Car-| in yesterday's fighting . miles south of here. The| Delayed dispatches from the Aus » hiding was purchase by the Pe-|trian war office covering Sunday ninsula Country club of San Carlos| fighting make similar claims as a clubhouse, It was lifted bod-| The Italian war office announced | fly on barges and towed south to. | the capture of Austrian trenc hes| day south and east of Gorltz | Cheer Him a Minute When the presidential candidate appeared on the platform with Mrs. -Hughes, County Chairman Ralph Horr and State Chairman Hartson. the audience broke Into cheers, and the applause lasted more than a minate. Again, when he arose to speak, the applause exceeded a min ute in duration. Several hands and soloists enter- tained the audience before the ar. rival of the distinguished speaker Hughes spoke in part as follows “Americanism means a long look | ahead and a fundamental policy. It| jmeans not simply that we shal!| make the most of the physical re sources of this country; it means (Continued on page 5) ALLIES SCORE TWO VICTORIES By Ed L. Keene United © ff Corr LONDON, Aug. 16.—A steady | advance by the Russians and an Italian victory south of Go | ritz were announced in official dispatches from allied capitals today while an almost plete calm settied over Anglo-French battle front In southeastern Galicia, the Russians are forging westward and have captured two villages besides other Austrian po: tions, the Russian war office announced. Only in the born Austro- rman west of the Zlota Lipa river has checked the czar’s troops, is there any indication of a slackening of the Russian advances In 10 weeks of Gen. Brusiloff’s | great offersive the Russians have taken 358,602 prisoners and a great amount of booty, Petrograd am | nounced. The German war office! countered upon the Russian claim of further gains with a statement that Russian attacks north of the Dnelster were completely repulsed s pondent com. | ree | where stub resistance ‘orth Biggest Cow Cupboard in the World Is Made in Washington The largest cupboard for cows ever made in the state has just been completed This bovine larder is known technically as a Tung-Lok silo, and was built by the Union lamber Co., of Union Milla, Wash., for the Tennessee Dairy Co., of Dallas, T Its dimensions and it contains 66,000 lumber, The ustial output of silos at Union Mills is from 20 25 wilos a da It required two days to complete the Dallas masterpiece product to its Texas home R. C. Pierson, manufacturer, says that a cow would be fixed for life if she had the contents of the silo when filled “One bossy could eat three squares a day for 270 years on the 2,000 tons of ensilage which silo holds,” Pierson esti 6 40x80 feet feet of Tennessee Dairy Co, is the largest concern of Its kind In Texas, and at present has two silos measuring 20x65 feet It is estimated that the 2,900 of food which will be up for a months period will enable the to milk about 1,000 cows tons stored winter dairy a@ day. om #ix to seven average aix on can be loaded on a freight but it required three cars transport the Washingion | personal list | publicist. A FEW OF HUG SIDELIGHTS ON HUGHES VISIT He doesn't stnoke any Thinks it hurts bis throat cee Dr. Norman Edward Dittman New York physician, sprays the candidate's throat before and after every spee . . “When the battle gets says the doctor, series of speeches in spray him in the auto, . hotte re” | . “I mean spray tuto,” corrected the doctor . . James C. Marriott private shorthand artist oe He has taken down every politl is Hughes cal speech the candidate has ever made. Two expert stenographers, C. A.) seg and F. D. Elmer, trans the the. apeeches “We had to make 50 copies in| Chicago,” explained Marriott, we'll ke 20 here. The news paper boys get ‘ f ‘om Mr. Hughes valet te William Gib-| son, But the candidate doesn't him “valet” for publication He is termed “messenger” eal! on the “But he don’t only message,” confided Henry, the porter on the | candidate's train. | dirt on Mr. Hughes’ Gibson uses the era o- » this boy Charles Farn! am, ager, arranges for at the hotels the fice water eee And «+. R. Van de Bogart, trans- portation manager, tips the porters. is wearing his whiskers cioser and closer every week,” noted Perry Arnold, United Press correspondent, “It'll be a Van Dyke by election time if he ien't careful.” Mr. Hue He gets ora juice on ‘em now and then. . the governor's favorite fruit,” says the official “He three ev: morning and three every night, and drinks the juice when he's over heated.” “Oranges e breakfast foods, games—especially Shook hands Cobb got ball go over run the next Goes to ball Curing the campaign with Cobb at Detroit fussed, and let a fly his head for a home inning ee is the name paint Hughes’ private “Constitution ed on Candidate car “It's good stuff,” his (Continued on page 3) says pub SLAVS CAPTURE 358,602 OF FOE: PETROGRAD, Aug. 16.—Rus- sian armies under Gen. Bru- siloff, from June 4 to Aug. 13, captured 358,602 Austro-German prisoners and 405 cannon, It was officially announced today. Other booty includes 1,325 ma chine guns, 338 mine and bomb throwers and 292 powder carts. his throat in the} notes into press copies of | the tour man-! HES’ ATTITUDES AS SEEN HERE & » A = more. | MRS. HUGHES SETS PRECEDENT BY | CAMPAIGNING WITH HER HUBBY | AND TELLS STAR_HE WILL WIN, choose a wardrobe for h a trip. and she assureed me tha and| that, no matter how carefully one planned, one always found one had chosen the wrong things. She has with her four traveling suits, two hats and a couple of gowns for aft just in tartes and two special bodyxuard: and @ valet, they are traveling quit alone BY CORNELIA GLASS A great deal has been said, deg 9 Pres Room Full of Flowers candidate for pr | After the reception, | mgt Mrs great dea! more prob; {Hughes tm her room. I found her be said of him before the cam. [arranging flowers. Never before, paign is over loutaide of a florist’s shop, have I fuk they setae be neneea And in every story that die lle, BR comn gi | ps vogge! She smothered a yawn once asd cusses him will appear the one . ah vse Rage eso water lilles, of sweet peas. Every |!uehingly apologized. ree a a | bit of furniture In the room, save! id Gov. Hughes were rude That phrase has to appear. [for one chair and the bed, was lit. /!¥ @Wakened Tuesday morniny. | everywhere that Gov. erally covered with flowers, and Very early. They were dragced out , and everything (Mrs Hughes was drifting among “Pon the observation platform and them, stroking first one bloom and Didden to register admiration while then another with all the Joyous Iit the movie men, on @ trailing flat le exclamations that a girl would |cat. filmed them enjoying thelr/ con, first view of the Cascades, and the} She {a very slight, with black hair) 12 Newspaper persons sat cross-leg and wide gray eyes, Her laughter ged on the flat car and wrote burn comes in girlish little gusts, and in|!98 descriptions for their respective her speech she totally disregards Papers - lall rs. Tuesday night she wore a| Mrs. Hughes is very sure that al performance for a woman. |biue taffeta traveling suit, with «|Charles E. Hughes should be pres There is no precedent for it” |thin white blouse Everything ‘dent. I know she is, because I principally because Mrs. |about her was exquisitely neat and|*#ked her. Hughes is the first woman whe | dainty has ever accompanied her hus- 1 band on a presidential cam- paign. | vermiy with MABEL FURRY WINS “urea 0) STRENGTH CONTEST! She shook hands each committeeman, name clearly, and then turned to recognize her husband's introduc | tion to the next in line. There was no suggestion of limp weariness! Mabel Georgine Furry, daugh- about her. ter of Mr. and Mre. George W Eyes Betray Wearin: Furry, 174 Highland Drive, and | Only by going close and percety.-| physical instructor in th ing the dark hollows beneath her| Queen Anne high school, © eyes would one know that she was| celled all other women entered tired | in a strength test given in the Mrs. Hughes has not left her summer school of education, dispatch: from Boston said today. Mi Furry scored a total of 459 points. Since her graduation from husband's side since the trip be-| gan, In Butte he went down into| the University of Washington been prominent In ath- a mine, and she went with him; she} has gone in the same car to every hail in which he has spoken; she has stood beside him in every re. life in the city. | of the Mountain expert swimmer. | thing, as nearly as she can. Tuesday evening, in | ihington hotel, | watched | the pair of them shaking hands | with the hundreds of precinct committeemen who o in a tong line. It wi the LABOR INVITES CHAMBER'S AID : | Want Help ii in Bringing About Peace in the Dock Strike | ARBITRATION. WANTED | Organized labor officials author |Ized William Blackman, of the con ciliation bureau of the federal ta. bor department, at a me ting | Wednesday to ask the Chamber of Commerce to take a hand in the attempt being made to bring about arbitration in tne longshoremen’s strike. Following the raceting, sild he would confer at once with | Judge Burke, president of the }Chamber of Commerce, and other | officials and members to urge the | |crganization to use its influence with waterfront employers who ‘Tuesday [fer to arbitrate J. A, Madsen, district secretary ked bh if it w hard to ceiving line, and she has played opposite in every motion picture in which he has been starred. Save! for 12 newspaper men, a manager. two stenogra hers. _thres secre ANGRY FOLK KICK OVER ASSESSMENTS | 2° from Capitol Hit fa amendment to enforce the taxation [treenre ‘A scnlahiogs sradietiel board of equaliza of all state property that brings in n committee of | revenue | Wednesday a long struggle before charged that real Why don't you tax the $93,000, | the waterfront strike on the Pacific mets In their dis:}000 of idle movey lying in the| Coast could be terminated, | ade by: officiats | tank? | Madsen said the longshoremen of true values.) “You know we can't touch that,” | hed become embittered over the Some lots that recently sold for|said Asser Thatcher | action of the employers, tho a re 2.700 and $2,500 have been as-| “The present assessment fusal had been expected, and were evsed as high ns $5,000, a fol-de-rol,” exclaimed Council:| more than ever determined to ad- 50 per cent. valuation at|rion Erickson, a member of the here to their original demands for that, they protested board, “Property should be taxed| better wages ana working condi Edward Prady, W Davis, W.}on its full valuation | tlons and Arthur Hutehinson, F. R.| ‘The petition of the committee to| “1 believe the action of the em McLaren und A Robinson com-| reduce assessments on Capitol Hill | ployers,” he added, “will have a posed the committee vas denied | heneticial effect both on the public You don't know When the Martin Investment! and on our association, The public wre Geants property on the company asked that a $3,500 as has an opportunity of seeing of values that oxtsted six sessment on the refrigerating plant | employers 18 we have seen! {ago,” Brady lured Sanitary market all along, and understood It | to take cut to $1,500 ve they are the open that plant da today on, Instead sessed in eight years drawing imagination We'll send a deputy down to|cials declared that their terminals have many & hairs to look over the plant” said Thateher,!are operating on a normal ba tooled. I don't want to be babled.| Fifteen minutes iater the protest | with full gangs of men, which | There should Le a cons stitutional | » vas withdrawn by letter [nothing to be s¢sired, | Blackman Swooptng dowr upon the county tion Wednesday angry taxpayer Lroperty asses trict had been who kn nothing t law is ‘ and on alall basis | a 7 | values or you basis years lin the lave., b the now the 1515 First | them it developed | them not been as| ‘The | meet de values market of 1| be aut m went your employers in refusing to h the labor organization offi on your b teiabios will be declined to accept the of-| | BALLARD MAN IS KILLED ON WAY TO PICNIC One man was killed, another seriously injured, two , Sustained minor injuries, and four escaped without harm when an auto collided with an interurban car on the Ses attle-Everett run, near Lake Ballinger, at 10:30 a, Mm Wednesday. The dead man is M. S. Fielde, 70, 3303 71st Stig Ballard. The auto was driven by Dr. C. W. Knutson, his son-in-law, and was occupied by eight, including the wife and two children of Dr. Knutson. The party was on its way to a picnic of the Gilman! Methodist church, held at Lake Ballinger. Revg Randall of that church was one of the passe He escaped injury. B. L. Hunt, 1542 collar bone. lhe accident occurred when the auto’s engine went “dead” suddenly on a private road crossing between Esperance and Lake Ballinger The interurban caty which left Seattle at 9:30, ran into it at full speed, The car was hurled aside and smashed. Hy rk M. Bs 52nd sustained a fractured 3 DEAD, 2 ARE DYING; ATE PICKLED FIS VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug, 16.—| cently. Mrs, Sipes and two children, at| The whole family was seized Port Clements, Queen Charlotte| with terrible pains. The mother islands, are dead today. Mrs. Sipes’| and children collapsed before aid mother and another child are dy-| could be rendered. There is no ing, all as the result of eating fish| doctor on the Queen Charlotte tse which Mrs. Sipes had preserved re-! lands NAVAL BILL TO PUT U.S. SECOND ON SEA WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—What largest naval ap made in the the world, was pted by congress be the second largest In the world when the plans of the bill are com» pleted. “I do not expect or want war,® he said, “but we must prepare. Two months ago the democrats d the immensity of the bill's ape propriation was svicidal, Now they vre clamoring for it. Former pas cifists are now voting for a mille tarlatic measure which outrivalg sers and four any move ever made in Burope bes started in 1917, | cause they can sve the necessity of claim credit for get-| protection and know that arma rb "the Gil “sited $0 promptly, ment is not insanity.” asserting the adrainistration would Other sections of the bill include have still been dickering over de- appropriations ‘or navy yard ime |tails if they hadu't demanded ac- rrovements, including Bremertoa, tlon ame MEX, BAND PLAYS: Lies Dead in Morgue pee CISCO, Aug. 16, - AMERICAN AIRS | day wondered why it did not starg on time. called up the office of the and asked for a new chauffeur, failed and 20 minutes later the announcer held up the megaphone cise he said facetiously. | Inside lay Thompson, a suicide, Republican Leader Mann said Sightseers Had to Touriata w sg clambered into @ CALEXICO, ‘a, Awe. 0 ae The announcer looked vainly Harry Thompson had not appeared, men's ‘To your right is the city morgue, is said to be tae propriation ever United States, virtually comy Tuesday The amended bill provides for the creation of 157 war vessels dur. {ng the next three years and an increase of the naval personnel by 74,700 enlisted nen Four battle cru blicans how enervating and fierce gets it wilt guards here. has the desert sun utterly to enthusiasm distance lounged a number of Gen, Cantu’s Mexican troopers. A of cordiality exists between Mexican and American soldiers here From the band in the Plaza of the |@ Jeroes of Chapultepec, the Mexi cali park, strains of favorite Span h operas rolled across the line to| |the American listeners. | Despite the heat Oregon and | Washington men responded gener ously. They used their best newly | acquired Spanish to shout compli-| ments, to which Cantu’s troopers re plied in Mexicanized English These amicable exchanges were at their height when, unexpectedly, the Mexican band played an air that fairly threw the Americans to thelr | feet. Heels clicked, lithe, somber | Khaki-clad forms straightened up.| tion to ask, but it’s réally ey oR to salute and re | not the important thing, The Mexicans were playing “The| tho Anne was an actress, Star Spangled Banner.” that the United States navy would Wait; Chauffeur | sight seeing buss on Market st. to. jaround for the driver and 4hen, matter he said. A new driver was sent Within speaking remarkable spirit the only dead place in San Frane TO! ‘S$ TIDES AT SEATTLE High, Ww 26am, 12.6 ft. Orta, m, 4.9 ft 7:08 p. m., 14.3 ft. 12:95 p.m, 37 ft How Old ‘ That may be a fair ques- Naturally, the story has to do with theatrical life, for Anne is the central fig- Assay ‘wuuy,, ur ‘aun the novel written by Juliet CG which will ap- week in The beginning Monday, WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be South Park on a.m, to S p.m be shut off in the 25th ave. 8. and Hanford st. to the same hours shut off in all of} hursday, from 9] Water will also district between d 8., from over st, during | Sager, pear next Star, ave An the line ~ Was Anne? |