The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1916, Page 1

SECRETARY OF STATE IL. M. HOWELL, CANDI RET eR ELECTION, 18 INCLOSING CAM IT'LL, BE COOLER TUESDAY, REMARKS GEORGE, PAIGN LITERATURE IN ENVELOPES CONTAIN THE WEATHER OBSERVER, 18 IT A FORERUN RECEIPTS TO AUTO MEN WHO P ; m1 NaE PAID UP NER OF THE ARCTIC FEELING IN SEATTLE TO- IEIR LICENSES. MAKING THE STATE CONTRIB WARDS WILL HUMPHREY HERE TO HIS PF re CAMPAIG -ENSES ms [": THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT TE " BDAY? ‘ORBCAS 4 ro D : DINK” WARD MG AIGN EXPENSES, IT'S {i THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : | NEWS TUESDAY? THE FORECAST J An . ¥ INKY DINK” WARD HEELER'S TRICK ESDAY, PARTLY CLOUDY, OCCASIONALLY ARR RAR ARRAS ; m VOLUME 19, HO ARRIVE COOLER TUESDAY SH., MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916 ONE CENT %y.,0"2)%2,.2°2 NEWS NDA, bo NATION IS ON VERGE OF GIGANTIC RAIL STRIKE | WILSON OFFERS ‘isiiscn, MAUTUTES MAN ASSES GIRLS ce THROWS 600,000 TIME TO MEET queer RAW TAX DEAL WHOLE TOWN’S AGOG MEN INTO FRAY 8 HOUR CHANGE AGAINST KAISER” BY ROBERT J. BENDER » © presiden 0} vow. | UP. etait Correspondent Cenk pikes orien posed | BY ED L. KEI L. KEEN WASHINGTON, Aug, 28— and = Secretary I e, th presi aa, President Wilson today pre- | dent's quatiaantial atview. in the | ™ LONDON, Aug. 28.—Rumania has — sented a new proposal to the [cabinet thruout resterdas | joined the allies, with her well trained army railroads of the country by After a final conference, the of 600. 000 “vem ne ee Be avert the (president was informed that legis ’ men. . reatene inal break betw lation, such h had pind, ici i the reads and the ralireed |could be put thru at this sessice One official statement from Berlin this Brotmernocds, and the “inev- | "Night Trip to. Capitol |afternoon announced that Rumania declared | e ndustria eorleis§ that ¢ president ade an unprec q would follow. | dented night trip te the eset ant | war on Austria last night. The French for- 1 Ane pi ident has det in. discussed his plans with Senato: ee ‘4 4 Ptr uiasleidiana hit Ae-1he +: Ree eemisodine aor tae leign office announced that Rumania has de- ommend the passage by this | If speculation, doubt and uncer |clared war against the central powers. b congress the following tainty marked the general strike Wi . <A 4 ithin a few hours after Rumania en- |tered the war, her frontier forces clashed with enemy patrols along the Transylvanian frontier. The German war office this after- noon announced that some Rumanian pris- loners were taken. : Germany will dismiss the Rumanian : So Assessor's Figures Com- pared to Rate Basis Show HOME RULE Is NEEDED Not only the Pacific States Telephone Co. but the trac | tion and gas companies are Permitted to place one value tion upon their prope: #@ making and another for taxation, under the pre public service jaws, it learned Monday The traction company has | filed an alleged valuation of $19,737,122 for its Seattle prop- erties, outside of power plant and sub-stations, with the pub- Hic service corporation in its Petition to be relieved from franchise obligations to the city But the traction company is pay ing taxe: Ked valuation of anly $16,248.) The Seattle Lighting ( measures: {situation Saturday, it may be said A law similar to the Canadian that today's development promised @isputes act, which averts fo rapid order a clearing up of the Strikes and lockouts for one year, now dangerous and perplexing alt Pending the investigation by a uation. commission of all details incident president was to see both to the dispote. today The railroads expect An eight-hour law for railroad |ed to ignore his eight-hour proposal employes— probably an amend. for peace and stand pat for arbitra- rent to the present 16-hour law— | tion KAS corporation) was give Ivaluation of $7 & with features covering matters of| The employes, unless they pre ¥ service corporation for Ex. Overtime and other collateral de|pared some entirely unexpected pe 3814 ' Be ‘od an tails. |move, apparently were certain to sos tk orien hatcher says that the] minister to Berlin today, according to a Details of such legislation occu-jorder a strike BY CORNELIA GL gas company this year i* assessed change telegraph dispatch from The Hague. There is every indication that Germany | will follow Rumania’s action with a declara- ‘tion of war before many hour: Rumania’s declaration was reached at @ Maybe it's the result of mod- [on a valuation of $4,280,000, and ern education; maybe it’s just [pays taxes on that amount only. | 1 instinctive in all of us; but, In other words, the three biggest | ‘ , anyway, it gets rampant on the | privately owned utilities in Seattle slightest rovocation 1 Ie are permitted to earn on Inflated The youth of Seattle is in a | vaiuations and’ ep fi WAR CHEST FOR STRIKE E turmoil over this business of | lid tay taxee token ture around choosing queens, one little and . people on an altogether different basis “6 yk m Pages NA ek lie one big, for the Advertising |" And in figuring thelr’ “coats of meeting of the crown council, summoned by “MP. Staff Correspondent - / need eerie rellet. 78 bi V3 | pia Bed dencuna vantant vo Ee eee ee ore permitted: te} Ki F rdi and last night. It came at WASHINGTON, “Aug, 28 | As'thsorsucettd men view tt Stain Re ands Indulge Ine tone cee pean edger: In economic waste, such as big salaries to outside officials, at public expense Fifteen million dollars bulge in their mignty war chest frobably | nor Danks, 6, 4212 Latona. the war chest of the railroad | would not be touched in the forth- had nearly 1,200,000 votes Monday brotherhoods. jcoming strike, for they believe it! |end of two years of anxious waiting in |the Rumania diplomats watched with tense | r juventle queen, which brings |" 17.) M F Osborne, the Girl Who Was Kissed . This amount, about equally (would be so brief that the men|her cone 1 to the top niews some move is made at the lee Frances Osperne, the , iy divided among the four unions, | would not tel the pinch of unem. | yer T enone {othe top. next session of the legislature to| SPOKANE, Aug. 28--A young man kissed the girl he in- | interest the military fortunes of the allies. ready teday fer distribution | ployment. lA Ta any Hall cousulpation in | TeRAIN the powers of home rule by tends to marry as they were enjoying outdoor movies in Nata The Rumanian declaration i: expected to This great war fund has been| mere Swiss cheese when compared ites, Corporation Counsel Caid. torlum park, the other night gathered thru weekly Contr. eee ae oat oe ene | well. Mayor Gill and a score of oth That one kiss has set the whole town agox | signal Greece’s early entrance into the war tions covering a long space of | jy yen crete moive (et believe the public service com A park policeman saw the kiss as it reached the full blos- | : f the alli time. The assessment varies cow een a ee er bine Fs Miasion will develop into a tool to som stage. He brought the osculation to an jon the side o e allies. power o files Danks’ campaign. fee station, where they were | Proally enthusiasm, fanned tojevents had close connection. it ig ; liminate the competition of b . k pe h cording to the members’ earnings.|” ghe entered late, did Misa Danke. |” p n of mu led boy and girl to the park pol . y a e b nictpal utilities |believed, since Rumania and I {but the total sum per year is writ-|im fact, voting bad been going on| PA! "tl | dismissed , +4 pe fever heat by the Bulgarian inva italy ten in fixed thousands. | Spokane citizens, like all the world, love a lover hey a srupt end, and jhad acted in concert in other | i tetete 10 northern Greece, broke out One little code word wired trom the intraded ‘ner plump and chi ] all wrought up over the results of this kiss. ig n Stara ivcnnt use oi sore wer ~~ = r« | Washington to every railroad ces-| ing person into the Hats Shall spooning be permitted in Spokane parks, or must it tag . nonatantine sour ago’ t5 36a the:'aittie al the jter in the country ts sufficient to| ‘Tie morning that the powers of | be rigidly tabooed? Athens Sunday. King Constantine | year ago to join the a | precipitate the strike ia house of Daahe agreed ever the That's the issue, which overnight became a burning one was dendunced for failing to ose an tyes fig attina isd ele |. Only 24 of the biggest brother-|breantast table that it won't hurt 00 BIG DAMAGE Wilbur V Hoag, an auditor for railroad contractors here, ort to the ailles, and was urged «em of. the.altied diplomat hood men remain here today Ac: | e » « was the kisser in the case 1 ears tae 4 . | <4 ‘Three white .women were ser|corting to thefr version, they toese cope. Ay Wyo epic Miss Frances Osborne wab the kissee | “The Rumanian third army, al-|the greatest enthusiasm in London, prised in a negro houseboat resort| stand pat on the eight-hour day| ved ie apoon from his oatmen! —4 Park Policeman Elmer FE. Woods was the one who broke {ready mobilized within striking | Everywhere the view. was takem et Lavilla, ten miles from Seattle,| with ten hours’ pay wa he bad bean taught to 40, tose to|, More than 1,600 acres of timber} into their rapturous moment ldistance of the Hungarian frontier, |that Rumania's entrance ito the on Lake Washington, when festivi The feeling in the men’s quarter =. ghny and, with brief and bril-,"@¥¢ been swept by forest fires in Young Hoag, who is given an excellent reputation by his lis expected to invade rrppereveie | a bg the wg ee 4 ies were broken up at 3a. m. Mon-|is that the strike is only a few t eloquence, nominated himself |t?¢ Snoqualmie national forest firm, has asked Chief of Police Weir to “fire the cop |before the end of the week, striking |of both Austria and Bul a Hay by the arrival of Under Sheriff| cays ott, fant. eloquence, » and the flames are still raging, ac He charges in a letter that Woods insulted Miss Osborne westward toward Besztercze. the conflict es Strindee ake & party of Gene rene a cording to reports received in Se by insinuation and beat him with a “billy,” finally handcuffing — | Transylvania Coveted | caster ata es - ‘ jes ho arrested every one present | | a r ad Bam cr. fant |Sttle Monday him, | The Rumanian general staff] Squeezed between the victorious and séized a large quantity of beer! | That afternoon nrg e | About 500 acres burned Sunday Woods denies the charges of insult and battery, but ad probably will send every available/Russian and Italian armies, the and whisky ee ee b or he|,.A Barty of 150 men was used by mits he snapped on the “come-alongs” when the “young man |man in the invasion of Hungary in|Austrians now find themselves | One of the women was dancing yard. The masculin pout 4212 La.|th® Northern Pacific to fight got fresh.’ jan effort to conquer Transylvania, |forced to defend their eastern bor ~ with a negro when the raiders ap entire Ghaeviee —_ Prey lle flames that threatened to destroy | The policeman has been employed in the park 12 years long coveted by the Rumantans. At /der from attack at a moment when peared SS ae er te F tracks and station at Kennedy, 76 He, ‘ thusiastic character witnesses |the same time a strong force will they lack men for the Russian and All the men taken are negroes Fe ne ree eee niewk in| Miles from Seattle, Sunday. Osborne, the girl's mother, defends the kissing. [be maintained along the southern |Italian fronts. Allied military ex 7% with the exception of Fujimoto, a lsc eset re tadterm. oad teiked on] Special trains carried pumps “Mr. Hoag is a fine young man,” she said, “There is noth Ru manian frontier to guard against |perts are confident that Germany Japanese chauffeur, who was BS. Siete ONCE. ee eatin |#24 hose to the scene ing unusual in his kissing my daughter. At the house we don’t [attack by the Bulgarians. jwill be unable Kes Sige any rem booked as a witness and allowed to win Parry, Seattle member of sas ged ap My a foren think anything of it. They have been keeping company for | Rumania's _Aeciston Ke expected |forcemente 1 the aid ot the: heads 0 on his ow: ecognizance. the federal trade commission, is “ jto be followed s i 4 4 H Hardin "guid > be the pro-|back in town, with a yearning “to sic masterpiece. The climax came SEATTLE CAN SEE sk ie! Wetr is silent. He must decide the policeman's fate jing of a great allied offensive in |disaster on both the Russian when he announced that his aunt Ithe Balkans that will aim to/Anelo-French fronts. prietor of the lonsebost, was un-/stay here rather than be president,” - o Mayor Charles Fleming, whom Spokane people call “Char imo . . abie to furnish $500 bail and was|and with oodles of work hr ih E aye Bina lve ee NORTHERN LIGHTS. lie,” said Young couples ought to p one eye on the po | squeeze the Bulgare pen sae 0 | pean aa one eee of locked up with the others The commission, according to| help us : A foeeni opposing forces, closin F . off ,, er.” ) thetr serv | Lag : ‘Sate ; netPuties Brewer, Campbell. Von| Parry, is working out a I ag ten pe most : According to Samuel Booth roya, | The Seattle park hoard has decided that spooning may be | Way the Germans cut thru Serbia to of Bulgarte and Turkey from come er | by i o ces 0 q he masks. # IDE > SP ; KEEP ‘onstantinople rived a large autemobile was found|tion is to be given to the lumber| The campaign plan is very sim-juniversity, the Northern lights, or| " ‘That's the view many Spokane citizens take | Rumania entered the war at al-junder economic and military J Standing in the send outside the re-jtrade of the Northwest | coc eR igeaendl dice cap ntl wheels “hemp Mead Mikes: 1 Any np But the question is still unsolved. No definite provision f lmost the same hour that Italy de-|pressure before the end of the press ave tee Vee enren ee euNdS) Pacey Will remal Bore ebowt a/ SV Tees Oo tnt cpetain. Clack. ay ps fie Chae aaa tan the protection of epboners. tian been’ made, : n for lelared war on Germany. The two ent year, of sin in every house {nw certain block.|night by forest fire smoke and fox okey : ‘Aad gan ‘ | mein pe et a tewnth ae | Also, {s at perfect Iferty to accost | But the arc of jumping green light Until the question is de idea, y Mn Mr Mons and Miss the: o wes general attempt to rid lany passerby that he sees with a/ Will be visible from Seattle for the Osborne will osc 4 . Ms per of : n air s home, where th ge Pees ae Gade “at Hiquor by |newsnaper. either tn hand or in|rest of the year, he says mother thinks it's all right and no rude policeman can “butt throwing bottles and glasses thru pocket, He makes his round each - in the windows into the lake, it fs| NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—French|*vening. and the chan ho has a i said, but a dog led Deputy Von|and British losses totaled 40,000 in| block where seversl- families are T 4 Berste to the foot of a tree ontside,| killed and wounded during one|«nbserihers to more than one paner | : climbing which the deputy was en-|week of the Somme offenses, ac-|'s * lucky chap, indeed, because Ed "4 abled to enter a cave in the bank.|cording to James M, Heck, former| ward has hinted at another prize BY JOHN H, HEARLEY ac enah (ny Nor. te concnntate her ‘ewhere several cases of whisky and/asgistant attorney general of the|for the most, votes turned in | United Press Staff Corresponden' maximum effort against Italy, ’ on fee were found |United States, who has returned| Fach morning nets at least 8.000 | | ROME, Aug. 28.—Italy declar- | said an official statement to- tringer ordered the party into] from London votes from these collectors, and Fd fe: Joueph: YC a | ed war on Germany, because | day. the car outside ‘ |ward {s urging them mercilessly | as Ee ate an be mabe cane ee Germany sent both hae ze | A similar statement was forwards ae ake.us ride 2 7 pe on partment of the id of Austria, | ie You aren't going to make us ride FRANK SPERRY, 21, of 107/on George L. Brooks} Nations! ink In an affidavit asking that the | University of Washington whone| —%® forces to the aid of / la, _|ed to the (German foreign office with those negroes?’ asked one of|Minor ave. N., died Sunday even Geta Grown-Ups Going . lest. living a: Bael « j - thru the Swiss government, setting the women ing at the Minor hospital from in-| The nalitieal germ has clutched | Of Commerce S lean) chowa Mon.|ontt Ceduct the emount of puy-/divmines! led to an investigation | PACIFIC MAIL BACK forth the reason for the declaration We're going to take you to Jall,| juries received when his motor-|aven the fathers snd mothers of Dayton ave, took lilt stone MMM | chases Mrs, Brooks made at @ lo le anericen Society iof Uni of war yesterday. me day to find out whether he versity Professors é been ap. Ch Just as you cxme out here,” Stringer] cycle collided with an auto at) rhe contestants. If you should/ ity Mie Hrooks, who te uing for [Cal department store atter she| vont dvirane sme, been ap UNDER OLD GLORY cepting the capture of Gorits, replied wisth gad Five’ F¥iday evening. breakfast. or launch. or dine, at) divorce, $1,000 maintenance | abandoned him from $1,000 he! ication in Reed college, Portland no event of several months has 80 F o a iia 3 —— | Rinne’s eate, yon wit! be ng money, and, altho she is not resid-|must pay her if the divorce is) Prof. H. P. Torrey, of Reed cat sco stirred the Italian public as the prot by the proprietor or the : Sco, SAN FRAN ing with him, at the same time| granted, Brooks charges his wife |joge, was Aug. 28.—~|news of Italy’s challenge to the chairman of the investi flag, the Pa tee, and Dr. Hart's| Fixing the American flag, the P& kaiser. Newspapers flashed the foot her bills for gowns and) with fraud gating com “ ’ steame from vour paper, in order that they | 11) varie | She bought $100.45 worth of per-|gelection as a member of Reed Jcific Mail Mner Ecuador abe word to the Sunday holiday crowds, ip s ta e in ove may he case for Grace Rinne Brooks says he must soon lose | sonal attire, he says, on his credit | college faculty is indicative that {OU of here yesterday, re-establish and an enormous throng quickly anspacific passe . > . whose bonnet Is In the ring for the) 1.1. voxition at the bank on account |and without his knowledge or con-|the report of the universits pro-|i8& American transpacific passer, |Sathered in Piazza Colonna grown-up queen of falling eyesight sent after she left him fessors may sustain the charge |S" Service. She was given a naval “4 great procession formed and pas : | A night or two ago a dozen men that he had been dismi Jescort in honor of the occasion.|raded thru the streets, shouting | out Into the atreet and invested $11 SAYS ALASKA wi | INCOME TAX STAYS political |. the Pacific Mail Co., and three jive the allies,” until midnight 4 views. For two years ! i in newspaners and cut them all to Prof. more are promised, For two year The decision of war against Ger- | proprietress for the voting coupons De Rol ; } f Herbert Lull ine 9c: onopolized | my, / A RS nieces in the lobby, in order that IN FALL AT PRESENT RATE »: ge ap ed the service has been monoy many followed by but a few ho Jimmy Farquhar was mate on a Pacific liner when he) {/0com in the loniy. ae ot hey con VOTE DRY ane whe me 7 re et missed at} iy Japanese lines a royal decree confiscating ‘hg hie met Ruth Osborne, daughter of a millionaire tained for Ruth Noble, who used to pei —ve by the regents that daternal wow 1d ebay adept tyes ,, operate the Butler exchange JUNEAU, Aug, 28.--That Alaska} WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—By a between the professors va CONGRESS WON T centuries, had constituted virtually it a misunderstanding arose on the ship. Jimmy could] ‘tt politics, and T think {t's In] wit) vote “dry” at the November dotnet Si to’ 10, the ‘sonale Waka cause yy an Austrian province in the higay clear himself as it involved a serious question of honor, | stinet lection was the prediction here of : day r He accepted dismissal rather than tell the fact yy. Strong, when he welcomed) ibiand evar 6 taught school at Seabeck, Wash , BRITISH PROGRESS i legates to the territorial conven.| Wood amendment which proposed | tiem nolton has been reine anes ry a t Vancouver, B. ¢ he joins two other They go tion of the W. C. T Saturday to reduce exemptions in the in-/gt the university, and Prof, Lull fused to accept the Under-| For the past year, Dr. Hart QuIT THIS WEEK of Rome, The Palazzo, a square of land | with two ancient palaces, was the erty of the pope, but in 1560 WASHINGTON, Aug. Hope rs 48 : ica 3 P Ten gome tax to $2,000 for single men | wit t » a member of the fac-|for adjournment of cong 8 this was presented to the republic of for a supposed treasure in a wre Ked vessel. Then) | oxnon, Aug 28—The British| SAID TO have wold iquor to aland $3,vv0 for married men, ‘The ulty at Kansas state normal, {week was killed today, when Sena-|Venice by Pope Plus 1X. It later en that bring Ruth and Jimmy once more across) | aie yrogross in last night's fight-|inember cf the police dry squad, |vote was taken after sharp debate. |" \tor Kern, democratic floor leader,| came into the possession of Austria er's live ing east of Delville wood and en-| William Haynes, 27, was in the elty|The Inw remains as it stands to-| MANY FRIENDS attended the|announced that the senate could/and was the home of the Austrian ; caged in several enterprises suc-| jail Monday, He was arrested in alday, Incomes are not taxed under | funeral at Mount Vernon, Sunday,|not possibly get thru with its pro-|embassy, The embassy documents his is only ay inkling of the story, “The Secret of the| cessfully near Moquque farm, Gen.|lodging house at Sixth ave. and| $3,000 for single men and $4,000|of KE. W. Ferris, former postmaster gram by Friday, as has been plan-| were sent to the Vatican for sefe Reef,” which begins today in The Star. Turn to page 4. | Halg reported today. \' columbia at. for married men, jet that town, who died Friday, ned. keeping