The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 1

VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO PASS ON 10 PROPO: SITIONS AT THE ELC OF NOVEMBER THESE INCLUDE ONE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND. MENT, SEVEN REFERENDUM MEASURES AND TWO Ese Bune tee’ Oe's ARE THEY ABOUT? A CON crs MN y OF THEM ALL 18 GIVE PAGE T TODAY Me ree 2 AGED PRIESTS DIE IN FLAMES MIUSICIA WIFE MAY A United Ci Peace! Few’ words Peace.” The longshoremen strike is over. re is peace on the water front. coal miners have accepted the new wage plan. There will be peace at the mines. than are sweeter Seattle, industrially at peace, free of local quarrels, undisturbed by inter- nal warfare, can now, in perfect unity and harmony, take up the city-wide en- terprises, which mean so much to her 7 future, with the revivified Seattle 4 All for one, and one for all, playing fair and giving a square deal, Seattle is primed and ready to bid for its natural commercial and industrial place as the - queen of the coast and the New York of the Pacific. iy e Ends; k Stri Terms Suit All ___ The longshoremen’s® strike is over, after a_fo1 The long struggle between the dock owners and the men came to an end last night, after a series of con- ferences thruout the day between employers, employes and Federal Commissioners of Mediation William Black- ~ man and Henry M. White. Only completion of the peace details remains. And _ it is probable the men will resume work Friday. They _ got formal notice of the end of the strike Thursday. SA FIRE DESTROYS COLLEGE AND . 4 ARE KILLED § ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5—Four | persons are oc and as many | missing the result of the fire which destroyed Christian | Brothers’ college here today. About 10 firemen were injured. The de 92 Brother Carmack, Clement, 78; Louis 35, Morrisonville, ti1; Lieut. Buddie, of the fire de partment. Brothers Carmack and Clem- ent were bur the infirmary, on floor, and Nolean died of in- juries received when he leaped from a fifth-etory window. When a wall collapsed at noon. dozen firemen were buried in the! |debris. Eight scrambled from be: | ;neath the wreckage, but Lieut. | Buddie, who was hit by a heavy timber, was killed. Rescuers say they have located three other bodies. Fire Chief Henderson said four of his men re missing, and it is thought | they are dead beneath the timbers. The monetary loss ts estimated at | $200,000. | Brothers Carmack and Clement, among the oldest brothers in the order, were on the retired list and lived im what is known as the in- firmary on the fifth feor, The in- firmary was cut off almost imme. diately following the outbreak of the fire. The destruction of the college probably me the abandonment f the institution of the order in St. Louts. ~ PRES, WILSON IN NEBRASKA | OMAHA, Neb. Oct. 5.—Fired | By &@ spectacular reception from 150000 Nebraska: resident SEATTLE, WASH., THUR *. * & RICH SL FULL MOON SDAY, OCTOB AYER . * OF § --AND LESSER LIGHTS! | ? mnnnnnnnn! NIGHT THE DECLARATION FRONT EVIDENTLY 4 ALISBURY, THE WE TALKING OF A PINCH DAYS, HE GAYLY PRONUNCIAME DAY TO rer EDITION THE VITH OF PEACH 1ADE A Hi ATHER DISVENSER, AFTER OF FROST THE PAST TWO FORTH TODAY WITH THE FAIR TONIGHT AND FRI WATER FRIEND Idaho, Trial of | HJ. Rossi Begins” * ne Sot agence HEY, FANS! GATHER ROUND STAR’S By L.D. WALLACE, Idaho, ¢ Angevine ct. 5.—The sinking of the Titanic, and the drowning of internationally famous men and women, was of world in general than is th | which began today, to the {try which walls in this little no more importance to the ne trial of Herman J. Rossi, mountainous mining coun- metropolis of eastern Idaho. | _ Rossi, one of the state’s most prominent men,” twice mayor of Wallace, a statewide politician, inter-” mines, and member of five 7 | ested extensively in several fraternal organizations, s nds accused of the murder of Clarence Dalquist, a Wallace musician and insur- ance solicitor, in the lobby | June 30. | the interest of Idaho been while the stage is being s a rare court drama. One of the star roles of the Samuels hotel, here Not since the Moyer-Pettibone-Haywood case has’ so aroused as it is today, et for what promises to be in this drama probably will I played by the pretty and vivacious young wife of | Rossi. The defense will see jhe took the life of Dalquist Altho Rossi is well into the mi prime of manhood, she is but 25 lAvely and attract she was a popular belie in this little city’s social life, oy What Did Wife Tell Tim? Dit of a clear sky broke the storm on that afternoon of June 30. Rossi had been away, attend ing a political meeting at Boise. | Returning to Wallace, he went di | rectly home. Before he crossed the thresh jold of his home he was a sane, \hard-headed man of affairs. When jhe came out again, a few moments | later, a change had come over him, He had been converted sud |denly into a madman. | He walked directly to the Sam- k to prove that it was for her UP THREE CENTS Batter advanced three cents pound in Seattle Thursday, and ft ~ is predicted that it will cost the consumer, before long, 45 cents a | pound J The advance js due, it is claimed by the packers, to the extra heavy demand of Eastern markets and the consequent raise in price to farm ers for butter fat. The buying” quotation for butter fat is 39 cents a BUTTER CLIMBS har SCOREBOARD AT PIPER & TAFT’S AND SEE WORLD'S SERIES PLAYED fs RPE ye baseball : The peaceful adjustment, reached at 10 p. m., came} ‘as a surprise, for earlier in the day Captain Gibson, | president of the Water Front Employers’ union, had ap-} plied to Sheriff Hodge for 1,000 deputies to guard the} Wilson today made his first |uels hotel. Friends of his say there campaign appeal to the West. Speaking to 300 members of t Omaha Comme: at a noonday luncheon here, the president challenged criticism nigh now. A siortage of feed also com was a queer, “terrible” look in his! eyes. He failed to recognize them s*tbutes to the higher price on the |] as he strode down the street |rancher’s products, the wholesalers claim. It was a dramatic moment when, | ©” ; staring fixedly ahead, his jaws set,|, With the price of fresh creame: Gather ‘round, y water front. A statement issued by Gibson indicated that the employers were determined to keep up the fighi indefinitely and had broken off negotiations for a set- _, tlement. jternational President O'Connor tained an optimistic view the Longshoremen's union, who Tacoma Peace First here Tuesday night from’) Commissioner tiackman dropped York, and Secretary Madsen the Seattle angle of the strike yes- Of the local union, however, rei (Continued on page 6) edate Men Buy Stars From Movie Actresses Dorothy Morgan and Edna Small Selling Stars Sedate men jostled and fought to get near pretty Edna and Dorothy Morgan, les movie queens, when they were selling Stare on the downtown streets to win a bet. They'll be selling Stars again today. Their Wednesday salew went over the 600 mark. If the girls earn their way to New York by selling papers they win an $800. bet with Charlie Chaplin and seven @her movie men, who dared them to try it. They started in Los Angeles two weeks ago, and have sold in San Francisco and Portland, and will go from Seattle to Spokane, They're stopping at the New Washington. MT. LASSEN BUSY REDDING, Cal., Oct For the second time in two days, Mt. Las- |nen, California's volcano, showed signs of activity today. | Mott bay of his business legislation and defined its purpos He was in a happy mood. His lroute from the station to the club jhad been lined with thousands of| |people, who cheered continuously. | | His entrance to the banquet room lresulted in an ovation lasting five | minutes | The president was in great fet-| jtle today, after further enthuslastic |receptions en route thru fowa to lday. At Councl! Bluffs there was a big crowd, with a singular number| of old people. One® elderly man,} reaching up to shake hands with the president, said Let me shake hands with a Lin-| pow coin. An old lady greeted him ‘God bless you, my dear the men of Omaba today, | ness president declared | passed when the facing America can be done in the | old way | “Those.” he said, “who hesitated lto break traditions and who did | not confront the new age with new | td ‘are going to be left at the pos For the next decade we've got) to serve the world,” he said. “And| this situation has altered every po. litical and domestic question “Heretofore the work of Amer fica,” he sald, “has been done by those who wished to exploit the | world. Hereafter, {1 must be done by those wishing to gain the confi | dence of the world | He challenged legislation under |tion, saying eriticisf of the his administra | Brooklyn, ther way to ge baseball In a spirited address to the bust-| gown to Second ave eca and Spring sts time bes) saturday and every other day while big, new things | the series is on which Press wire direct box carry in its columns each day the Arena |livest and most authentic news of) at 3 the big doings. fans and fanatics! The rs outdoor score board and extras during the world’s series will be the best ever. Arrangements have been made for a gigantic score board to be erected in front of Piper & Taft's, on Second ave. which will be a complete score card of the big games. Besides this, the siiver-toned D, Sait will be on hand with a mega phone, and will read the de scription of the game, play by play, calling balls and strikes, Next to holding forth in the front at the parks in Boston and will not be a better all the thrills of the big esic than to meander between Sen about 11 a. m this bulletin furnished by a United from the press Th: Star will Hesides service, in the stands, And The Star extras, with a com | plete description of the games, will) be on the streets as soon after the) last men are ont as the best me-| prizes worth much more than that chanical and editorial skill can get) them there. BERLIN, Oct S.—Allied gains north of the Somme were admitted | lby the war offtce this afternoon, | |but it was announced that th | | ish }losses at one point Eng were defeated with severe Give me the verdict of the next 25 years. | care not a peppercorn for the verdict of 1916," | He brought tremendous applause |when he added | “I've known men avho tied up | their ideas in their head, same as an old woman may tle up her sav- ings in her handkerchief-—and when they unraveled the knot, they found their ideas were no longer currency. I have known such men {n politics.” CONGRESS RETURNS | The Congress, which burned re cently off Coos bay, arrived in Bb under her own steam Thursday, and is soon to be rebuilt at a cost of $600,000 | America's longest double-decked, | reinforced concrete bridge is near ing completion at Cleveland, and will be 2,880 feet long, 80 feet wide and at its highest point 591 above the river. JOSEPH LINCOLN can write character novels —there’s no question about that. He’s one of the most popular writers of amusing dialect stories in the United States. “Mr. Pratt” is the name of one of his latest, and best liked stories. It starts Mon- day and ends Saturday in The Star. Plan te read it. Start Monday. Babies Will Parade in Pageant at Land Show Greetings! Have you entered The Star's Baby Pageant? Well, if you haven't, better fill out the coupon and mail it to the pageant editor, in care of The Star Here it In: roperly ers and girls 12, and under, Meet at the torlum at 3 p. filled out bables One for moth Another for with dolls. Press club audi m, Friday, Oct. 13, prizes $25, first mothers and $10. prizes idioms — division 1 wish to enter The Star Baby Pageant second. for the other winners Name oa Cash prizes girls’ divis | $20, first: $10, second Address third, with added | prizes Baby or Doll Pageant Then there's a special --— - @|$25 for the best appearing entry If you are a mother, with a|who is the wife of a tenant or em baby you're proud of, or a littie|ploye of the Metropolitan Building girl, 12 or under, with & doll |Co. you're proud of, and read yester-| The merchandise day's Star, you probably know all|orders for about the Pageant coal, candy It's to be a gala affair at the | prizes Friday afternoon, Oct. 13, - — 30 o'clock, in connection with FAIRBANKS COMING the Northwest Land Products ex Charles W. Fairbanks, mate with Charles Hughes in | position. There given the coming election, will open the big republican fall drive Saturday night The meeting will be held in the Moore theatre nd will be presid ed over by Mi Poindexter. The vice presidential nominee will make only two speeches in Wash ington, one in Seattle and the oth er in Spokane Monday mm und merchandi are prize of prizes merchandise, a dolls ton of dozens of fine are $95 in cash prizes to away, and merchandise running be The Star Baby Pageant is to be nothing more or less than a pretty | good-natured procession of moth Jers wheeling their babies and lit tle girls wheeling their dolls in decorated carriages. Of course, a lot of folks plan on |decorating the carriage, the baby jand themselves, with the idea of |gaining some of the big money He will arrive in This you should remember from Oregon Enter now by sending in coupon, | California SOUTH AMERICA NEEDS LUMBER Washington At present he is in SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 5. and three-quarters of this comes Stocks of North American lumber/from the United States and Can- in South America are running low ada," he said. because of lack of shipping to carry| “Chile and Peri, too, are in the |cargoes from the Pacific coast, ac-|market for huge quantities of }eording to Roger Simmons, of!North American lumber,” Washington, D, C., government ex Simmons paid a tribute to South pert returned from an extensive American business men as brainy study of the subject of South Amer- and well educated and having high fean lumber conditions ethical business standards He is here today to confer with lumbermen of California, Oregon jand Washington Little Willie—-Gee, proud of your grandpo “The Argentine consumes half a Robbie—You betcha billion feet of lumber every year (used to lick pop reg'lar. you're awful ain't you? Why, he | include FROM MILLS OF THIS STATE he entered the lobby. It was crowd Jed, as usual, with friends of his 'They came forward to greet him. In the lobby, also, was Dalquist Brushing his friends aside, Rossi the madman, approached Dalquist drew a revolver and struck him over the head. Dalquist crumpled on the floor, | but arose again quickly and started to run. Rossi aimed and fired JAltho hit, Dalquist darted, lie a hunted hare, behind the clerk's |desk and cringed there, helpless | with terror, as Rossi silently close< in on him. Rossi aimed again, but friends snatched the weapon from him Rossi then started out of hotel, saying he would give quist 10 minutes in which to le Jtown, Dalquist said he'd go if he {could find an auto. But when phy |siclans examined him they found he was mortally wounded. He died Jiate the next day Mrs. Rossi Taken Away Meantime the once gay and | vivactous Mrs. Rossi had become hysterical and a nervous wreck he was taken to a sanitarium in (Continued on page 6) BETRAYED GIRL | SHOOTS TO KILL MISSOLUA, Mont., Oct. 5.—With blood gushing from a ragged wound /in chin and throat, Fred Huffman is dying in a hospital here today Surgeons unable to stop the bleeding | Huffman was shot by Miss Bessie Smith, who declares he betrayed her The girl first complained to the district attorney Sheriff Whit aker wes sent to make the arrest Miss Smith accompanied bim As Whitaker was reading | warrant a deputy shouted: “Look out, she’s going to shoot.” | Miss Smith fired immediately {The bullet hit Huffman under the chin. TROOPS WILL STAY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 5 There will be no withdrawal of ops from Mexico as a result of Gen. Carranza’s insistence on this point in the discussions of the American-Mexican — commissioners here. Gen. Pershing’s column wil Jnot return to American soil until foreign life and property are as sured of safety south of the Rio Grande. the Dal are the butter advancing, storage butter, is expected, will be unloaded to a” | considerable extent TURN OUT, MEN, ‘TOMEET TROOPS When the Seattle members of the Second infantry, National Guard of Washington, arrive from” y afternoon, they will be met a large delegation of citizens ~ from the commercial bodies of the city, as well as by representatives of many other organizations Citizens generally are urged to |turn out and escort the troopers from the depot to the Armory. A military escort will be provide jed by the naval militia and Coast artillery At the Armory an jception will be held. | The Chamber of Commerce also’ plans to arrange a military ball during the week with which to cap the welcoming ceremonies. GOETRALS TO HELP PROBE 8-HOUR DAY OMAHA, Neb., Oct, 5. Wilson, it was learned today, has jasked Gen. Geo. Goethals, recently | governor of the Panama canal zone, and Commissioner Clarke of the im terstate commerce commission, to be two of three members of the board to investigate the operation of the eight-hour day on railroads, The entire hoard is expected to be announced today | TEST LIQUOR LAW | The first round of the test litiga- tion directed against the new city jordinance requiring druggists to lapply for a license and file an in- jventory of their liquor stocks took Place before Judge Gordon Thurs. }day morning, when he fined Man+ Jager H, F. Gibson, of the: Phoenix |Drug Co., $10 for refusing to sign the application. Thru his attorney, Fred Peterson, the case was immediately appeal: ed | by informal re President English physicians are experi. menting with @ parasite, with - which they hope to exterminate flies. mp at the King st, depot, at 3:15 7 a = br. “a