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

six cents for a complete novel! A LESSON TO READERS OF THE STAR: You would have to pay $1.50 for each of the novels printed complete in six consecutive issues of | The Star these days, if you bought them in book form. Today there begins a story called “The Smuggler.” It’s good fiction. If | you get started reading these recent stories you will discover it’s the most convenient way of entertaining yourself, and it costs you just | The Seattle Star | NIGHT EDITION JOHNNY MAULBETSCH, FAMOUS CAPTAIN OF » Y ‘LRETSC lous DESPITE THE CHILLY ATMOSPHERE OF ‘THE cote eaN OOTBAL SQUAD, AND Alle MORNING, GEORGE, THE WEATHER PROPHET, le PaLEBAC K, STARTS A SERIES OF GOES TO BAT WITH THE FORECAST THAT TO- Oster ear BB MODAY ON. THE a erone NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL BE FAIR. GEORGE aM p SEASON FN 2G : HAS BEEN CALLING THEM RIGHT FOR SEVERAL PASTIME RAPIDLY ADVANCING, WHAT COULD BE THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : DAYS PAST AND SHOULD BE GIVEN A VOTE OF c eLY? THANKS Business is humming in Seattle! With bank deposits totaling close to $100,000,000, with shipbuilding pro-| left bim $11,000,000 igher than ever before and payrolls increasing correspondingly, Seattle is up essing at break-neck speed in half a dozen yards, with its neck in a rising tide of prosperity. VOLUME 19 BUSINESS IS HUMMING WITH BANK DEPOSITS OF 96 MILLION ©2222 HARVEST MOON SHEDS RAYS HERE| cr commerce SEATTLE, WASI MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1916. STATE ASKS LIFE _OFBOY WHO SHOT HIS OWN MOTHER | Lawyers and Club Women of New Orleans, Are Trying to Have Him Sent to Reform School Instead of Gallows. | | By Frederick E. Hamlin ] NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 18—Willie Zimmer, 12, |slayer of his wn mother, Mrs. Mary Zimmer, mother of three other children, will face, within six weeks, the erim-| inal district court on trial for his life. The state of Louisiana will demand, for the first time in its history and the fourth time in the history of the country, that a boy be sent to the ‘gallows! A boy in short trousers—an urchin of the streets, | too young and uneducated to think for himself and deprived of proper parental training from infancy— must pay for his crime with his life on the gallows, UNLESS— The mothers and fathers of Louisiana enter a mighty protest or plea to Chandler C. Luzenberg, district attorney, to drop the indictment charging mur..c in the first degree, and allow Willie Zimmer | | | to be sent to a reform school, preferably the national ’ where thstitution “at W: CHANCE IN LIFE! Women's clubs, school parents’*clubs and individual mothers and fathers of New Orleans already have taken up the question of whether the Zimmer child shall have a fresh start in life and BE MADE INTO A MAN he can GET A Lawyers Donate Their Services Three of the leading attorneys of New Orleans have volunteered Wille a chance. They are fighting to give him Convicted or acquitted, they want him sent to their services to give ONLY A CHANCE. reform school. the*report of Coroner J. A hoy is sane, a shrewd criminal, | made into a smart man, Which Shall it Be? A SMART MAN OR A SHREWD CROOK—WHICH? | The attorneys, B. B. Howard, Hf. O. Hollander and Ulic Burke, lnow are preparing the legal defense. The boy is held without bond. Attorney Howard, who, by the way, has no sons, but two grown | danghters, says he does not believe any court can find 12 men who will convict the Zimmer boy } Mrs. Zimmer. and her husband had separated, she taking their ltewo daughters, 9 and 7 years old, and baby boy, 3, to live in a tene | ment room, while Willle stayed with his father. Court records show, the father several times threatened to kill Mrs. Zimmer; that they all the time because of his drinking. and brothers “grew up” in the stre: quarreis at night their lullaby. At the separation of bis parents, Willie Zimmer heard his father remark, !t is charged, that he would “bump the old lady off” if she O'Hara to the district attorney that the but that If properly trained he can be Boy Says it Was Accident Willie declares he took his father's pistol to bis mother and begged to! that he be allowed to stay with her. | | Instead of giving him love, Mrs. Zimmer ts alleged to bave chased | Willie with @ broom. The revolver went off accidentally, Wiille says, When the federal comptroller of currency issued a call Saturday for a re-|and his mother dropped to the floor, shot thru the breast. Willle threw port on conditions in banks at the close of business September 12, the returns showed $96,000,000 on deposit that date. The previous high mark was $94,381,570 on June 30 last. Pressed with orders for new ships, local shipyards are turning down work that a year ago they would have fought for, tooth and nail. On Thursday afternoon Skinner & Eddy will launch the first of a big steel! Miss Frances Louise Skinner, daughter of the firm’s fleet for Norwegian interests. head, will christen the new vessel. On Saturday afternoon a more nearly complete launched at the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock yards. will officiate. Overseas, coastwise and Alaska commerce for the second time this year has} The August value was $42,227,392. leaped over the $42,000,000 mark. Alaska.exports to Seattle amounted to $8,696,153. Alaska. ey he Kes RAIN WRECK 'Son Going to War, steel So Father Goes f GENERAL Work on the Farm TPLAYED INN. Y,. steamship — will Seattle sent $2,339,104 to STRIKE be Miss. Dorothy Alexander the pistol on a shelf and fled If they hadn't caught me, I'd ‘a’ jumped in the river,” said the boy~-and he was caught fleeing in the direction of the Mississippi, few blocks from the crime scene. The state contends that Willle Zimmer deliberately kiNed his mother, charging that the fact that the boy bad the gun concealed in la sack is proof he didn't want to give the w on to her for her own. defense PASSENGERS TESTIFY SECRETLY "ABOUT FIRE ABOARD CONGRESS caused by a short circuit,” he sald There were six lines of hose placed in the rear hatch, but they had no effect. The water simply grew hot and the flames increased. I never saw a fire gain such head before.” he hearing is being conducted Capt H. C. Lord, 1 8. in- A score or more passengers and members of the crew of the illfated steamer Congress, which was gutted by fire Thursday off Coos bay, testi- fled in secret before the fed- eral inspection board Monday | wi morning in the Federal bulld- by ing. The general testimony as to | spector of boilers, and Capt. RB. B the cause of the fire removed, Whitney There are 148 members PROVES FATA all blame from steamship offi-. |of the crew in Seattle, besides 264 OTTUMWA, Ia. Sept. 18.—Be cials and members of the crew. | passengers. It is believed that the em cause his son, 21, has enlisted in The testimony also showed [case will be concluded without ERIE, Pa., Sept. 18.—Four per-|the Canadian contingent which goes) NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—A gen that every possib' calling a great number of wit- . killed at the grade |t0 the front in the great European|eral sympathetic strike of organ-| the part of the ve unless unexpected test!- fons were — edhe war, Rev. Morgan E. Genge, pastor ized labor will not be called until| was made with a view towards develops crossing of the tracks of the New of the Firat Christian church of this Mayor Mitchel has made an effort! the comfort and safety of the Passengers who wish to leave for points other than York Central R. R. north of Girard city, has seen fit to tender his res to settle the difficulties between | ingers, witn said. Seattle are be- depot today when the fast mail ignation, to become effective at the traction company officials and| One of the passengers who test!-|ing examined first. Several pas 36 ‘bound, struck 00C®: He has gone to Wallace: their employes |fied at the hearing was Walter |Sengers are awaiting word regard ee fe. were, bridge, Nova Scotia, where he will| Mayor Mitchel will confer with |Featheringill, of San Diego. He|ing the ship's safe, Several thou the automobile of Mrs. Percy |take charge of his 480-acre farm traffic officials tomorrow, and la-\said that he heard theorled’ ad-|sand dollars were locked in the Sieger of Pittsburg. Those killed bor 1 r have promised him| vanced that the flames were due|safe, It is believed that this were: Mrs. Percy Sieger, wife of FRENCH WIN POINT will not act on a strike until|to everything from a time bomb to| money will be recovered one of the members of the firm of Thursday spontaneous combustion Sieger Pros BERLID Sept 18.—German This was the result of a confer. 1 am of the opinion that it was Mrs. K. Shipman, Pittsburg, be-|troops have abandoned Berny,|@nce between the mayor and six|due to a short-cirouited etectric | WIENNA REPORTS Heved to be the daughter of Mrs. | Deniecourt and Pons, between Har. |!8bor leaders headed by Wm. B.|wire tn hold 3,” he sald, “and this| Sieger. Miss Maude B. Shipman, |leux and Vermandovilliers, to the Fitzgerald, organizer of the trac-|seemed to be the general opinion | RIOTS FOR FooD 12, daughter of Mrs. K. Shipman.| French, it was officially announced ae strike tod VF afsicoed pA ol ie. pace | 7 ° re eu ow od 16 mayor announced that the] gers. ne officers ce! y were 6 oon | alsa wa so sax : OB si. | labor men had called upon him | considerate of the passengers, | LONDON, Sept. 18.—Food disor. NOBODY HOME BUT THEIR SODA CLERK INDIANAPOLI2, Sept. 18 There was nobody home tn the coun try’s drug stores today but soda clerk he's afizzie. The bosses, to the number of some 3,000, are here in annual convention, the and ; if for two re to intervene in the traction Police Commissioner Woods | promised fairness, sons, to make charges | They of police discrimination and to ask him strike. seemed to be doing every-|ders have thing they could to stop the fire. ©, T. Ramaden, chief steward of the Congress, was another who tes tified “I feel certain that the fire was $2 a pound. broken out in Vienna, sald a Vienna dispatch to the ex change telegraph today. Peef is Tas Lebieesdaber tebe reeaaiaaieal They believe he is a victim of evil environment, citing| WAINS NEWS STAN ONE CENT ‘LURE VICTIMS WITH HANDSOME - WOMEN AGENTS CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Over a million dollars is said by gov. ernment agents to have been secured from rich men and women all over the United States by four men and three women, held here today on federal warrants under prohib- itive bail. | The gang worked the® vic- tims much as did the black- operations in exposed early | were | in the year. | The members of the alleged blackmailing band will be ar- raigned before the federal au- thorities Tuesday for proceed- ings seeking to return them to Philadeiphia for trial. The charge is the kidnaping of a government witness at Phila- delphia. Wires Tapped The wire had been tapped, and | before the marshal arrived. a man representing Dineself to be the dop- uty marshal, called and asked Mrs Klipper is expected here late to- day to testify. The tango parlors, hotels and clubs of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlantic City and other large cities are said to have been the favorite hunting grounds of the jband, They have engaged C AND idow Loses Fight for $200,000 BADGER GANG, LIKE SEATTLE’S, GETS A MILLION: ! eee . Ernest E. Sirrine, an elderly Chicago widow, ‘lost $200,000 said to have been made by her husband in Bethlehem steel speculations last Christmas, in a legal contest in Superior Judge Frater’s court Monday. She left the court room possessed of but $3,000 of an estate valued at something like $300,000, the bulk jof which was deeded by her late husband to Miss Eliza- |beth Logan, with whom he is said to have lived for years here and in Chicago. Property worth about $45,000, located here a%4/ in lowa, an automobile and a palatial home at 3141 Dose Terrace, went to Miss Logan. Judge Frater ruled that Sirrine| had left no will, and that the deeds EZRA MEEKER 5 85, COMES FAR of property to Miss Logan were le- 1 When Sirrine came here from Chicago, he brought $57,000, the testimony showed. Later he got) $15,000 more from Mason City, Ia. Attorney McCord, representing testified |Kilpper to go with him to the/the executor, J. N. Ivey, - train. She awoke in Montreal,/that Sirrine had told him in his ba where she was detained Mrs. Office shortly before his death, i July 22, that he had made $201,000 in Bethlehem Steel This vast sum has vanished, to- gether with all his other cash, with the exception of the $3,000 left Mra. Sirrine. Miss Logan said Sirrine had giv- jen her money to buy the automo- jbile, and admitted he has deeded Ezra Mee! quaintest pio- neer of Washington, arrived here Monday, ending his fourth journey across the plains over the old Oregon IL. Over the same route that he traversed 64 years ago with E. Erbstein, « well-known criminal |ner most of his property oxen, Meeker has made the lawyer, and expect to make @/ drs, Sirrine said her husband| {oureey. S660 . miles strong fight for liberty hbk tived. slik | Miay , Lean OF shington, D. C., t Additional arrests of the mem bers of the alleged national black mailing gang were expected today lby U. S. operatives and police working here on the big plot H. C, Woodward, said by inves tigators to be the brains of the |mang, is being sought, and H. 8 |Clabaugh, federal investigator. sald today have positive clews that will lead }to his arrest and that of another woman in @ few days | Clabaugh also announced that |Richard Barrett and Edward J Thompson, whom he says were formerly members of the gang, have agreed to testify for the state, Their stories are sald to have caus- Jed Sunday morning's raid / Women Entrap Rich Men j ‘The women of the party are al leged by government (Continued on page 5) |FAMOUS KENTUCKY MOONSHINER SHOT HAZARD, Ky., Sept. 18.—Mose Feltner, famous moonshiner, it be came known today, was shot and killed last night by U. S. Deputy| Were early associates of his and de-| “He smoothed back his long white Marshal G. A. Sismore, when. he|Clate they recognized in Everett the | jocks tried to escape while being brought |>rilliant young Minnesota lawyer.| “17 it is necessary,” he said, here from his home in Leslie coun-| TY never mentioned the past to ty Feltner figured prominently in the | Hargis-Cockrell feud, before J, B. Marcum was assassinated in the courthouse door, in Jackson, more than ten years ago. CARRANZA TO SEIZE | LOWER CALIFORNIA | attle ferry landing | SAN DIEGO Sept. 18.—Carranza|. Louis Blagg, 36, 4532 dist ave troops, 100 strong, well equipped | 5. w,, driver of the truc k for the and under the able leadership of {Fairmount Fuel Co., sustained |trusted commanders of the de facto government, are in a concentration camp at El Palme, near Guaymas, Sonora, Mex., ready to take passage in army transports already lying at Guaymas, for a swoop on Ensenada, Lower Californian, to wrest posses sion of that state from ( Cantu, according to reports here today In the meantime, Gov, Cantu ts endeavoring to equip with ammu [nition and arms his own army of 11,200 picked men GEN. MILLS DIES | WASHINGTON, Sept |Gon. Albert L. Mills, division of military affaira, U his home here 18. Ma chief of the 8. A., \died at today of hours, that federal authorities | authorities | a “prairie schooner’ “I made the trip in the interest of the bill that is now pending,” he said, “to establish a national military highway over the old trail from the national capital to Seat tle.” With Meeker was Ernest Grot, of Mlinois, who drove the unique car, a l2-cylinder Pathfinder, the entire distance. Written by many hands on every |part of the car and its “prairie |schooner” body are the signatures of thousands of people who talked with Meeker en route. The white-haired veteran stopped Jong enough at the city hall to pay his respects to Mayor Gill, as he has more than 300 other mayors along the old trail. “On my first trip, 64 years ago,” he said, “the Great American Des- |years, first in Chicago, and later, before his death, at 3111 Dose ter- | race. | Sen. Clapp’s Partner | Hid His Identity 25 | Years in California REDLANDS, Cal., Sept. 18.— That Francis J. Everett, of this city, who was killed here a year ago, was really J. F. Cowi: law partner of Senator M Pp, of Minnesota, is the dec- laration made by the Standard Accident Insurance Co., in pa- pers on file here today. The company is disputing the claim of Mrs. Everett to the | man's insurance, on the ground that she never was legally his jert was a desolation of shifting | wife. sands. One can hardly believe his After her husband's death, Mrs. eyes going over the same route to- | Everett filed a claim for $7,500 In-|day, Where the sand once stretch- jSurance, and learned, thru insurance | ed away as far as the eye could see jinvestigators that Everett had pre-/are now millions of dollars’ worth viously been married at Fergus/of orchards and beet fields.” Falls, Minn., and that his name was| Meeker says he hopes the “Me then Cowie. Why he dropped out of|morial road” bill will pass the next sight from Fergus Falls, 25 years| congress, |ago, Everett never told any one. “Are you going to make the trip | Several prominent Redlands men|again?” he was asked him, however, they said ‘2 HURT WHEN ALKI CAR HITS A TRUCK Two men were injured, Monday morning, when an Alki Point car rounded the curve and crashed in- to an auto truck near the West Se- {lacerations on the chest, neck and face, and his helper, Harry Hall, 26, 5656 40th ave. 8. W., was bruis. ed about the knees, 'WILSON LEADER | SURE OF VICTORY) NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Return- ling from a Western trip, Vance Me |Cormick, democratic national chair | man, radiated confidence. | | | | | “1 found conditions in Indiana | very satisfactory,” he said, “and jthere is complete assurance that President Wilson will carry the In Chicago.I conferred with Western leaders. The party more militant than ever state, many is united [selling at $4 a pound and rice at| pneumonia, He bad been ill only 12] before, and things look bright forlothers slightly democracy in all that region.” ASQUITH’S SON IS REPORTED KILLED LONDON, Sept. 18.—Raymond Asquith, son of the British prime minister, was killed, it was an- nounced today He was the oldest son of the pre- mier, and a lieutenant in the Gren- adier Guards. The official an- nouncement said he was killed Fri- day. Premier Herbert Asquith has five sons. Three have seen service since the beginning of the war, and Arthur was wounded at the Dar- danelles. Raymond Asquith was re- cently in France, and it is more than probable that he was killed in the great battle on the Somme Frt- day, when the British resumed the offensive, GREEN MOTORMEN CAUSE 2 CRASHES NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Green mo- tormen used as strikebreakers on lines of the New York Railroads companies figured in two collisions today. In each instance one pas- senger was badly hurt and many bruised or cut by flying gla