The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1916, Page 1

‘ eee The President’s Corner ny PRESIDENT WILSON G.0.P. Choice for Navy Secretary Is ‘sue’ stots tof ositive Menace Danger lurks right ahead for the Northwest, especially for Seattle and Puget sound, if Hughes is elected. The Alaska railroad is threatened. Its aban- donment means the loss of millions to the North- west. The Bremerton navy yard program of battle- ship construction is under attack. Its surrender would mean the loss of a permanent payroll and increased commercial as well as naval prestige to the Northwest. What are the business men of Seattle and the Northwest going to do about it? Are they going to permit these disastrous consequences? They are threatened if Gov. Hughes is elected president. WEEKS FIGHTS NAVY PROGRAM Already the worst enemy of Bremerton navy ard is mentioned as Hughes’ favorite for secretary f the navy. It is none other than Sen, Weeks of coey real the ardent reactionary who = the a ooeinst, government. constr Ls, Hughes nor any of his thus far seen fit to discredit the statement, often re- peated, that Sen. Weeks is to be secretary of the navy. If he gets that position, the navy yard pro- gram at Bremerton is absolutely doomed. And what about the Alaska railroad and the territory’s development? Hughes came to Seattle, and so did Fairbanks, and so did Sen. Beveridge. They all remained silent as to the Alaska railroad, the greatest government project in the entire North- west, of vital importance and interest to Seattle. Government ownership and operation of the Alaska railroad is a settled Wilson policy. What is Hughes’ attitude toward it? Sen. James Hamilton Lewis says there is now a scheme under way to kill the Alaska project. HOW DOES HUGHES STAND? Government construction of battleships at our own navy yards is a settled Wilson policy. Wili Hughes continue it? Sen. Weeks’ ani- mosity is the answer. There are undoubtedly greater questions on which the nation will determine the presidential election than either Alaska or Bremerton. To the Northwest, however, they furnish ad- ditional reasons why Woodrow Wilson must be re-elected. POINDEXTER AND TURNER George F. Cotterill, progressive democratic candidate for congress in the Seattle and Kitsap county district, is right, absolutely right, when he says that Alaska and Bremerton need men at Wash- ington who are fundamentally right on government ownership. That is why, too, Sen. Poindexter, progressive republican, is needed at Washington, as against George Turner, reactionary democrat, attorney and advocate for Guggenheim interests in Alaska. President Wilson has plainly outlined his poli- cies on these two propositions, which mean real dollars and cents to this portion of the country. Hughes is allied with interests opposed to these projects. The danger sign is out. Stop! Look! Listen! A sensible regard for “Safety First’ requires that Seattle and the Northwest vote for President Wilson’s re-election. CHARGE HUGHES ISIN DEAL WITH GERMANS NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Fol- | te lowing the meeting of repre- sentatives of the American In dependence Conference and as, &. Hughes, at which the Pemocratic national committee harges an “agreement” was reached by the republican can didate and German propa- indisto, the conference made the main plank of ite platform the advocacy of Hughes’ elec- ar the democratic commit according to We call upe Americar tunity which the present campa loffers to condemn the (Continued on page 10) erted In a statement to. | people to use the opp abject sur |render of American rights to Mex lico and to Buropean nations and checking up on it. to support the man who has openly pledged himself to maintain these|forcing the dry law ought to get alscious records of his changing life The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE VOLUME 19. SE GILL PLANS TO CLOSE UP WET = Action Follows Smashing of 2 Drug Stores by Dry Squad COUNCIL HAS POWER Mayor Gill took a hand in the bootlegging crusade Monday by requesting council! to revoke | Heenses of all drug stores that |, have gotten into trouble with | dry squad during the last . ! made to police investigators. The list included the Wash ington Annex, People's, Secord, Molin and Auto pharmacies. "I'm going to ask places be prohibited from doing business tn this town from now on,” he sald, “regardiess of whether their cases have been cleared up in |the courts or not | The recently passed dry ord! nance gives the council power to revoke the licenses of offenders Wets Quote Seattie Paper Mayor Gill recetved a copy of the |Haltimore Ameriean Monday, in |which was a full-page advertise. |ment of the brewery people, qnot- ing Seattle papers on the bootleg ging situation m going to speeches,” he said. Ruins in the war zone had use ft in. my Each establishment wae res duced to wreckage by the po- lice dry squad during the week- end for violations ef the liquor law. After Dr. T. W. O'Brien of the |etty hospital had removed all plosives and dangerous acids, ky officers mng into the glass cases and sbeiving. less than an hour to destroy furnt-| ture and fixtures. Marked Money Used Marked money had been changed for booze by dry squad tn crusade. At the Washington Annex phar macy, which was wrecked at 10:30 |p. m. Sunday, Manager Carroll Da Oko, were arrested, and each re leased on $500 bali. Denies Hitting Japanese Officer Ford of the dry squad de- nied Monday that he had Ba ol be Japanese employe of the W ton Annx drug store, who pone the dry squad officers, when they | Wrecked the place Sunday night. Pressure was brought upon Chief Beckingham to discipline Ford for | striking the man. “Even if he id struck the fel low, which he denies, | wouldn't suspend Ford.” the chief said, -16'8 one of the hardest working officers on the dry squad.” At the People’s pharmacy, wreck- ed Saturday night, Manager Felix Harper and A. J. McArthur, phar macist, were arrested. They each put up $600 bail Many Complaints police headquarters thick and fast against both drug stores, |quantities of Manor during the sea the wrecking macy had a duiab nected the count were located that preceded waiter that con with the store ent | he of liquor, how-| jever, was uncovered by dry squad officers in the Lennon apartments, at 19 W. Thomas et., in the Queen co,” who occupied an apartment in |the place |more than the legal liquor in his possession. In the basement storeroom, with amount nalia worth about $3,000, been crated and stored there, to- gether with a dozen or #0 oplum- smoking pipes. and were destroying it Monday. Patroimen Help Now Police officera on the beats have! in locating | April Chief | hopeless begun to hootleggors, the | peck'ngham or The tip on ign , ments came from a p chief said, “and two d ed on the job all co-operate the according en #tay- riday night, | “Officers who co-operate in en- little credit.” that these) ex. |—— vestigators prior to each wrecking | | vis, and his Japanese porter, Roy) Complaints had been coming to Small) People's phar-| Anne residence district, late Satur- was arrested for having of the booze, was gambling parapher- It had The police seized all of the stuff} upon graduation the He was one of the few in ATTLE, W ASH,, ‘se MONDAY, STOBER 23, 1916. Here’ . irst Photograph of Eugenia | Kelly Al Davis a as | | tion-wide attention. 1| “Nellie,” Sheep-Dog, Battles During Wa | NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—All along the docks and wharves today shipping men are waiting VILLISTAS WIN ‘ANOTHER BATTLE | JUAREZ. Oct. 23.—Reinforce- ments from the Carranza garrigon jhere are being rushed to Chihua-| jbus City today, following an appeal |for aid from Gen. Trevino. eu Oct. 23.—That immander of the je facto troops wae killed with the his command cut to Sanaite, pleces and Col, Martin jo the command ously wound ports received he: agents of United & Here is the first picture of Mrs. Eug It took them | | husband, Al, since their marriage, half a Remember, Eugenia a tango dancer, and, in spite of her bacenatne aicnns nd Her Dancer-Mate | CREE Tee Escapes in Many r and Was Aboard Alaunia When That Liner Went Down | to learn from London whether Nellie, the English sheep dog and beroine-jinx of more than one sunken battleship, was saved when the Alaunia struck a mine and went down last Thuraday. N * fought" at the battle of Dardanelles and elsewhere, and has ridden the waves on more ill-fated ship than most dogs ever see. War enthused; when mobi! {zing British troops interrupted her sheep herding on an En- | glish downs in 1914, Nellle fol- | lowed the troops to a transport and sailed to France At Mons and the Marne she went thru the roar of battle with her company, then board- ed a hospital trawler for home. The trawler struck a mine and sank, and Nellie was picked up by H. M. 8. Majesty. To the Dardanelles with that ship went Nellie. She was one of the Majesty's survivors when that ship foundered on a mine ment departments, and trans She swam ashore under a mitted to Washington. rain of Turkish shells, swam Large forces of the bandits, un-| out egain, boarded a British de | der personal command of Villa,| stroyer, whieh five minutes | were later was blown to pieces, miles east of Chihuahua City, men-| towed a drowning sailor to the acing the large nd best fortified city in Northern Mexico, according to these reports, CHAT | 1 Buy a Farm on Sight WAS sitting at a late hour in my room above the college yard, correcting daily themes. I had been accredited with “bril- -|Hant promise” in my undergradu- ate days, and the college had taken me into the English department ‘That was seven years ago. I was still correcting | daily themes It was # warm night Most of these themes were 1 tolled hottor ature of the Janes pile came Robinson the class a th tI eig vith the real literary instinct d from some near-by New En, land village who went home over Sunday and brought back uncon- there. myed at Fresno, only ;| in early | en Elizabeth, and later was invalided home on the ! This is what 1 read ' and the first warmth of it lays a benediction on the spirit, even as it tints the earth with green. barn door, standing open, framed @ picture this morning be- in hay—the soft roll- The Ap oat last Our the. tleide A the rattle an Robinson had spring fever, too! Then I fell to dreaming. Home! I, John Upton, academic bachelor, had no home, no kith nor 80 | | meditated ARAARAARAAARARARADPD DD AD DDD PDD PP PLP LPP PPL PPP PELE NEWS ON TRAINS A NEWS STANDA, ONE CE umanians Lose Seaport and Flee PPP PLL ALLL LLLP LPP PP PPP PPP NIGHT EDITION TURNER, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATH ATE, WAS ATTORNEY FOR GUGGEN ST8 IN ALASKA AND ALSO LOBBIED GEORGE FOR THE 161M IN SE TER IN WASHINGTON, D. C., FOR THEM. BEAR THAT IN MIND, ELECTION DAY, THE WEATHER FORE. CAST FAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ND be ALASKA RAILWAY AND BREMERTON PROJECT THREATENED BY HUGHES — MACKENZEN CUTS OFF FOE | FROM SLAVS AND ROUTS IT BERLIN, Oct. 23. FEL Sy Rumania’s greatest seaport, has fallen before Field Marshal Mackenzen’s armies, it was offici announced today. The capture of the city is the greatest single achievement for the central powers since Rumania entered the war, eight weeks ago. The victory is hailed by German military men as of more im- portance than all the offensive began. Official dispatches fices indicate that the Russo-Rumani rout. DOUBLE MURDER CONFESSION IS CALLED A FAKE , 408 ANGE cLES, Oct. 23.—De- armies occupied first the Ruman- weaithy Santa Monica farmer, surrendered himself to the police, telling th he had kil. ed his wife, Mrs. Irene Barrett, | and her son, Raymond Wright. olined to doubt According to Barrett, his wife and Wright attacked him, and ne kiNled them in self-defense. Ho totd) how he burned the bodies and dis-| played a heap of charred bones to| prove his story, but detectives de-) clare the bones are not those of a human Instead, the theory was advanced that the murder may have been pre- and, with the charred bones and his story, Barrett thought) he would be acquitted of actual murder at a trial, and surrendered himself for that reason Today detectives planned to move several tons of hay stored in the arn of the Barrett ranch, where, tt believed, the bodies may be hid- den, Blood stains and other evi- dence tends to show the deed was done in this barn, and not in the yard of their home, a6 Barrett de- clared tn his story A neighbor woman told officers she heard four shots last Wednes- day, coming from the vicinity of the Rarrett home STEAMER IS SUNK; 16 BELIEVED DEAD LONDON, Oct, 23.—The British steamship Fortuna has been sunk. Ten of the crew were landed today, Aut {t is believed the captain and 18 others were drowned. COMISKEY IS Sk K CHICAGO, Oct Threatened with pnevmonia, President Com iskey, of the White Sox, today is pering to go to Excelsior Springs, Mo., to fight the fever.,He| caught cold recently when drench- ed on a hunting trip in Wisconsin and returned here tll, Saturday. kin | 1 had my college position, and a shabby remnant of my old am- bittons. “Why don't I go back to it, and give up this grind?” I thought. I began to play with the idea. I sought for a copy of the ript, and ran over the real) ads. Here was a gentle-} estate, with two butlers’ | pantries and a concrete garage that would hardly do! Besides I should have to hire help, I mus‘ find something practical to do to elf, What? I went to bed with a very poor pinion of English instructors But God, as the hymn remarks, works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform, Waking with my flicker of resolution quite gone out, I met my chief in the English department, who quite floored me ‘ | tity of her supplies. | remainder of the road. gains made by the allies since the Sommé from the German and Bulgarian war of ns have suffered a disastrous 10 MILLION =| LIGHT DEAL IS UP IN COUNCIL’ Opinion among city council- men wae Monday, The advance was made during a | torrential rain and over sodden |ground. While the extreme right wing was occupying Constanza, other detachments fought their way across the Constanza-Cernoa- voda railway line east of the town of Marftlar, 13 miles west of Con- stanza Smashing northward along the Black sea coast, Maeckenze |jan port of Tuzla and then swept jonward thru strongly fortified Ru- jinge of Gefense, marching Regist im a Tittle than two daya, Retreat Disorderly The rapidity of the advance fs ac- cepted as an indication that the Russians and Rumanians became demoralized and made an extreme- ly disorderly retreat An official si nent from Sofia earlier in the day, reporting the capture of a village six miles south jof Constanza, prepared Berlin for news of a great victory. No surprise was manifested here when it was announced that Mac kenzen had pushed on thru the ruins of the old Trojan wall and oc- cupied Constanza itself. Since Rumania entered the war, Russian transports have been bringing Slav troops, munitions and other war supplies to the ald of the Rumanians. Cut Off Slav Aid “Large bodies of Russian troops have arrived in Rumania thru the port of Constanza, whose capture by the central powers effectually | end to the transportation of ns thru the Bla The 25-mile Constanza-Cernoa voda railway, leading across the Danube, is. the carrier over which Rumania has derived a large quan The Teutonic right wing {s now astride that rail-/ $10,000,000 project of =e Ing the light and power b uting system from the Puget Sound Light & Traction Co., In the city and at Snoqualmie falls to establish a municipal monopoly of the service. : Moore and Thomson be lieve condemnation proceedings should be started to acquire the equipment, and have even hinted that they will introduce an ordinance, calling for the procedure shortly. It would cost approiaantaty $10, 000,000 to put over the deal. Councilmen Oliver T, Erickson, who has played a prominent part in the development of the efty- owned utilities, is not sure that he favors the plan. The other councilmen say they want to learn more about it before venturing on oririon. The chie? object of the plan, ae cording to Councilman Moore, is to “do away with duplication.” “I'm tn favor of enlarging our own plant until the traction come. pany’s wants to sell,” said Erick- son Monday, “The question of duplication doesn't enter into the matter vitally at this stage. We have already duplicated “Of course the proposition all simmers down to what it would way at Constanza, while Macken-|cost to acquire the traction power zen’s center and left wings are|property. 1 believe the city would swinging forward to capture the|be required to pay an exorbitant Mackenzen is aiming principally at Cernoavoda and the great bridge over the Danube. QUAKE SHOCKS FELT BERKELBY, Oct. 23.—The seis- mograph at the University of Call-} fornia registered three slight earth-| quake shocks last night, it was an-| nounced today. The first began at | 6:44 and continued until 6:54.| After a slight intermission, the} second shock began and continued | until 7 p.m. The third tremor be. gan at 11:44 and continued for seconds, None of the shocks was violent enough in this section to be felt by humans. price for the property. I'm in fa vor of the city baving a monopoly on the business, but I'm not in fa- vor of paying the figure that would probably be arranged for the com peting cv. vonpan) King’s Son Must. Get Up at 6:30 a. m. LONDON, Oct. 23.—Prince George, fourth son of the king, is undergoing rigorous training at the Osborne Naval Cadet school on the Isle of Wight. Like the sons of ordinary tradesmen, the prince has to shiver out of bed at 6:45 a, m, and drill and study the day long. He will be 14 years old December 20. day, sma ituseganssassssasssesseestsrssseesessees] (SSTSSSSSTSSTESESeER There they found 28 canes of os gene By whisky in pint flake, ‘dentical i with the shipment confiscated when| A Novel “Shea of the Irish 6 . 4 99 Walt Pritchard Eaton A Novel |former Patrolman FE. J. Marfgett Brigade” e wih alter A Week war arrested A Week ¥ wiwenee PARRISH Copyright, 1914, 1915 ee Find Gambling Outfit bt Ry Doubleday. Page & Co | Harry Stanley, known aw “Prin. (ccceoccore Tv seapagegneasntsceabeeettentitsetin: Fey gE vasvrossegas ests vessnves QEDaSTEDSTEIOOTEISOETEISTES STEDTSEEaSEDTERS TID SoEaOETS Porrronrninn ro MEET find extra; widow.) rfering with my In the course of our wanderings to be a reader|Wwe reached, one night, a certain publishing house|New England village noted for its views and its palatial summer es- tates, and put up at a hotel there, The professor, whose hobby ts real estate values, fell into a dime cussion with the landlord on the by asking if time—“without academic duties for a certain which had just consulted him about filling a vacancy. I told him frankly that if I got the job I might give up my present post and buy a farm, but as he| subject, |didn’t think anybody could live on|” ‘phe landlord, to our astonish: a manuscript reader's salary, he) ment, informed us that building laughed and didn’t believe me, and two days |sites on the near-by 1 as $5,000 an acre. hat does farmeland cost?” I 1s i much se ra |duce you to pay,’ hen came; if you were a f it for $100 an “Where is there a farm for gal The landlord looked at me dubl- ously, But he volunteered that @ (Continued on page 4) + h is later Thad the job. hills soley > formes can in he laughed, “But er, You might get 1 good enough. aster vacation Professor Farnsworth of the eco- nomics department had invited me on a motor trip for the holidays, (The professor married a rich