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

> COACH DOBIE! VOLUME 19. Y ATUNIVERSITY FOR JACK LONDON, DARING NOVELIST OVER GRIMM Varsity Players Threaten to Strike as California Game Nears GRIMM CHEATED Members of the Washington football squad voted, 14 to 10, to go on strike at 1 p.m Thureday They SAY continued the discus sion, however, after the vote had been taken, and final ac tion has not been determined. Whether or not Coach Dobie's Washington football team would go, on strike was to be decided Thursday afte-noon, when Capt. Seagrave called a special meet ing to discuss the action of the board of contro! and faculty committee, which has ruled that big Bill Grimm, tackle, can not play against Callfornia here Thankagiving day. The joint committee at noon sued {s which sald the on had been cheat story examination,” and, an investigation by the board of control, he had barred from all athletics for a vote was 5 to 1 on the ng irimm was permitted to play at Berkeley last Saturday, subsequent to this vote. The football players contend that, regardless of his or innocence, the punishment shouk! not be zinat the football tea Dobie agreed with them The faculty members, headed by Acting President Haggett, intend to stick by their decision, it was unof. ficially announced. If the players strike, men from the class teams will be whipped In so shape to defend Washington's d of nine years without defeat, against California Seagrave holds that the action is unfair to the team, because Grimm or bis teammates have violated no conference rules, and that the weeks of toil on the gridiron are depreciated by what believes is a silly idea of justice. The team will walt until Friday before definitely going on strike, Capt. Seagrave said. There was no Practice Wednesday. Some of the men have broken training. Light practice may be held Thursday {f (Continued on page 6) MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS BY TURKS REPORTED cial agency dispatch om Baku, Asiatic Russia, via Petrograd, declares the Turks have massacred be- tween 5,000 and 6,000 Ar- menians at Sivas, Turkey. BANK DEPOSITS BREAK RECORD Bank deposits in Seattle have in ased since December, 1915, to er than $2,000,000 a month, accordin. to official reports furnished by of the comptroller of cur Sa 916, the de 8 banks total on $87,816,076 December, 1 309,037 HAVE CHARGE OF U.S. MINE STATION HERE 1 metall Secre state unl ty campus, and a minimum of 600 will be spent annually to rry on the work. Equipment in e school of mines, and new quipment to be purchased by the nt will be at the disposal coverntt the on f g men from Oregon, Was fo Idaho suthorit electro The Skinner & y soccer team 1s scheduled to tangle with the Se attle Ce at Dugdale j wark, LONDON, Nov. 23.—A|} Body of Writer, Who Dies Suddenly, Will Testifies at Trial of Former Be Cremated, According to Wi h, With- out Prayers or Ceremony of Any Kind. SANTA ROSA, Nev. 23.— Without ceremony of any kind, the body of Jack London, nov elist and adventurer, who died at hie Glen Ellen ranch sudden- ly last night, will be cremated at noon tomorrow at the Oak lamd crematory No minister or priest wil! pro- nounce a benediction, no pray- ers will be sald, no choir will sing a requiem, Believing that death ends al! and that there is no hereafte London often said that when he died he wished to be cremated and buried without ostentation. His wishes will be carried out Only his wife, daughters and any the body to the His mother, Mrs, Flora London, Is seriously ill In her Oak and home and has not yet been {n formed of her son's death S secretary estimated that st's income from his wrtt time of his death aver ag out 20 cents a word. “te habitually wrote 1,000 words a dpy and this would make his annual in come about $73,000 a year from new literary work alone So far as the secretary knows, the only finished work by London which has not been published are two full novels, two short dog sto- ries and several Hawallan stories Arrangements for publication jthese had been concinded. At jtime his death, London working on a novel of life, called “Cherry,” which w well advanced. It ts understood Mrs. London elther will complete the novel herself or will engage some other writer to complete ft. How much other unfinished work London had started Is not known. The novelist's fiveyear contract with Eastern publishers would have expired next year. Re | cently a representative of an Baat- ter will accor rematory Londo the nove: ings at the fa f the was Hawatiar ern company was at Glen Ellen to| ptomaine polsoninng or | tInduce London to renew his con ! DS Jack London tract and London had purchased rallroad tickets and arranged to leave San Francisco next Wednes day for New York to discuss the matter He expected to retarn to n Ellen in February, when he hoped to be able to visit either Japan or Norway—he was undecided which London's was sud Wednesday m ng when his snese valet went to waken his master be found Wondon uncon scious in bed at hie Glen Ellen estate near here, Physicians were summoned who declared London} was suffering from a touch of te in (Continued on page 6) FALLING BUILDING _ _ KILLS (, HURTS 6 | NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—One man was killed and T Into a A fellow always gets deep water when reiating fish story! There are those who even go 0 far as to claim that it was a fish, rather than an apple, over which Adam and Eve had thelr first spat. | Yesterday The Star carried a | story about Lee Wakefield, Se- attle salmon catcher, herring packer and banker, and how he got his hunch about canning Alaska herring, according to his friends, | six injured today when a three-story building | of construction at 64th st. and Third his Proves a Fellow Gets Into Deep Water by Telling a Fish Yarn | in course In August, 1915, Capt. Thomas made known his plans for erecting! & sardine cannery at Port Wolter. He talked the matter over with Mr Wakefield, a sampling machine w vs erected at Ketchikan, and Mr | Wakefield made arranger to finance a sardine cannery It then developed there was also a market for ined kippered her ring, the war having cut off the Scotch supply. Capt. Thomas wired his investigations to Mr. Wakefield, jand that is how the latter got his! hunch and decided to go into the} Today we are told, with amused|canned kippered herring business.” tolerance, that facts, fish and names were all snaried up in giving the “queer bunch.” We have this on the authority of|of packing herring nephew of| the business of + lL. Thomas, jr, @ Capt. A. W. Thomas, who, bis rela tive says, was the man first to real the opportunity {n packing Alaska herring for market We » told with a real fieh }erman’s derision, that the “mystery of salmon swallowing herring alter: nately tail and head first” {# all bunk, Alas, for a common layman's credulity and ignorance! “Your article, writes N L. Thomas, jr. “was doubtless very }interesting to those who know no | better than to swallow these stories ize too, without any head or tai “Capt. A. W. Thomas, known aa the ‘Alaska bait kir originated the idea 1 Mr. Wakefield nothing of it until months later ‘Hughes | LAKEWOOD, N. J., Nov. 23. —Charles E. Hughes, repub- | tican candidate for president in the recent election, last night sent to President Wilson a telegram congratulating him upon his election. Mr. Hughes said: “Because of the closeness of the vote | have awaited the official count in California, and now that it has been virtually completed permit me to extend to you my congratulations upon your election. | re desire also to ex- for a suc- ovember, 1916, at a rate of more). ai +4 Wakefleld as originator of | Wakefield | the President’s Reply; | | So there you are! | | We hope Capt. Thomas and Mr either or both—do not! find the business of “hunching” and as ticklish ae is riting fish storfes! ROLLER ROLLS HIM BUT HE STILL LIVES 8AN ANSELMO, Cal., Nov, 23 Wm, Brown, chauffeur of an eight ton steam roller, has a chance to recover, altho the roller ran over him in toppling over an embank ment. He has @ broken leg and internal injuries LONDON, Nov A success ful alr raid against German hydro planes and naval forces at Zee brugge was announced in im| alty report todas on and cessful administration.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.— President Wilson today sent the following reply to the mes sage of Chas. E, Hughes con- gratulating the president on his reelection “Charles E. Hughes in-the-Pines, Lakewood, N. J | am sincerely obliged to you for your message of congratula tion, Allow me to assure you of my good wishes for the years to come. (Signed) “WOODROW WILSON.” Laurel SE name on seven different oc- lone when the vote had in lity been cast for Stringer Archibald, upon cross-examina admitted that had been tioneering for Stringer and \ , Was inter 4 In the outcome of the sheriff's racd Saw Votes Misread } waa pres ff and on dur ing the counting of the ballots hruout the evening.” testified Archibald noticed during the earlier part of the counting wh John Walcup was reading the vot that Stringer was leading later | returned and Rief was reading the votes. What caused | SATTLE, WASH.,, THURSDAY, SAYS HE SAW VOTE FRAUD Game Warden Rief as to Count FAVORED HAMILTON 8. R. Archibald at Snoqualmie, in the opening session Tuesday of the trial of Former Game Warden Henry storekeeper Rief on a charge of misread of Lafe candidate for sher ing vot favor Hamilton, in iff at the primary, testified that” he heard Rief read tamilton’s | me to suspect nallot was read on amed K precinet for an voto for given teeman. | vote | mine wan the only vote he Kc “1, also, voted for Stringer, and| Rief fn reading the vote for sheriff | on that particular ballot gave it to! Hamilton. 1 heard him read Ham-| flton's name on six ¢ ballots Jand I waw that the checks on the} ballots were Stringers name. Lee Defends Rief After all the ballots had been counted, Rief remarked that Ham iIton got 43 votes and that showed | wh t bis friends could do for him.” | Attorney George Lee represent | ing Riet, objected to the submin- nion of the poll books as state ex- Miss Legia May Blinn, ‘ NOV. 23, 1916 The Seattle Star "" | SOUP-POISONER SUSPECT IS NOTBALLROW “DEATH ENDS ALL” STOREKEEPER [DO WOMEN LAWYERS» FLIRT? N. Y. JUDGE IN Seattie lawyer, but, of course, this is not her | courtroom Oo tromen lawyers filet in order to win cases? hibits on the grounds that there nwo oar oe proving that the| ¥dge Louls Gibbs of New tallies and fitures had not been; York the other day said they tampered with do. Miss Leola May Biinn, Se- The court permitted the books attie attorn ays they don't. to be admitted after Clerk C. H.| The jurist—mean thing that Hateher Identified the figures in| he ie—said women lawyers the sheriff vote to be made tn his| were frivolous. hand writing. Snoqualmie Folk There Deputy Prosecutor Helsell, who is conducting the case for the state, sald that he would submit fe: the ballots to the jury in substan-| Hi tiation of Archibald’s testimony. | erite Rief was accompanied tn court | ting by bis wife and attorneys, George | Port Leo and John Murphy. A large delegation of citizens and witness | os from Snoqualmie were present | in NEWEMPEROR — It awa ‘em all in the they flirted minine arts towards encing judge and jury. in court, dressed up giddily, and employed their infiu- net ern © went further. He not only cised, but he gave advice, up commandments to mod fas, thusly Don't giggle Don't talk too much Don't dress like you're g 9 to a ping pong party. Don't ogie the court. Don't flirt with the jury ® lucky y off tn New York for Judge Gibbs he's And he's way off the truth, too. Miss Blinn declared. “Women law. | anyhow NIGHT EDITION ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS, be ONE CENT CHICAGO, Nov. 23.— Crones, whom the police |the poison soup incident a several months | today. | Crones, employed as a Wa | | Archbishop Mundelein | made ill, but only one died. CATCH SUSPECT as OMAHA Neb No Ma shall William Burns, of Spaulding N who idenufied suspect as Jean Crones, is so sure he has th right man he was afraid to ke the priso in the city jail, @ took him to the county seat Bartlett ‘police to have poisoned the soup at < FOR THE NINTH SEASON, COACH DORIR OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM GOF oO TRIKE, AND U_ OF W. HAS BEEN PUTTING OUT A CHAMPION r AWE I HER HOT AROUND THE CAMP SHIP POOTRALL TEAM, YET NO ONE KNOWS oT HERE, GKOR Y, OUR WHETHER HE'S A REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT OR NEATHER PURVEYOR, CAL PRE r SOCIALIST. WHY NOT ELECT OUR GOVERNOR jOING TO BE COLDER 800 He THUSLY PUTS THE SAME WAY—ON WHETHER HES PIT THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS iv; “TONIGHT AND FRIDAY, FAIR; COLDER RATHER THAN WHICH PART > BELONGS TO? ARRESTED NEBRASKA CONSTABLE JEAN CRONES AT LAST — A man believed to be Jean hunting in connection with t the University club here arrested in Spaulding, Neb., cook at the club, is said by a banquet at which the speaker. Scores were PLAYING POOL Burns identified the man from a photograph while the suspect was playing pool last night. The man under arrest is five feet t inches tall, 30 years old, has ight hair, talks with foreign ac cent, is well dressed and wore a sol- dier He is said to have aulding yesterday, GET BACK OF PRES, WILSON, SAYS WILCOX NEW YORK, Nov. 23—Hav- | ing acknowledged defeat, and President Wilson having re- plied to the message of con- Qratulation from Chas. E. Hughes, Republican National Chairman Willcox today de- clared it was now time for ev- ery one to get behind the p costume. : ident and give him undivided yers—and I have seen many of Je m—are always sensible in their, Support. dress. After studying law for sev.| “! Would have expected the dem- ocrats to take the same action we eral years, mak bill fight | age De Ay wh ry Men ook had they been in our post in most cases, there is little frivol ity left in one. I always expect the | tion.” said Willcox, commenting on | same treatment in court as a man|‘hé delay marking the dispatch of |gete—nothing more, nor anything | /ushes’ message. “But now that less.. I remove my hat when I ap-|it {s all over, it is time for every pear in court, and do not expect |D® to get behind the president 1 know of no frregularities in; the vote in Calffornia,” he continued, tho 1 have heard some talk along this line. We waited until e of- jor invite gpecial courtesies.” | “What about using feminine arts on the Jury?” she was asked Lawyers use little arts of ora -' Ci gies i tory always,” he declared, “votes ficlal count was practically com. i tions pauses gestures. j bleted because we felt that other- wise the people who voted for Mr. They re all emplyed to nfluence| | the jury—a shrug of the shoulder,| Hushes might have felt we were/ a lifting of eyebrows, tears, laugh-|20t doing everything possible to| ter, Men lawyers use these meth.| Protect him and make sure that) ods, why not women? If she uses|‘%¢ ballots were counted as cast.” | her natural smile and charma in|, Willcox said he would return to this manner, {s {t not exactly what | #kewood today and remain over is ‘her rightful privilege?” |Sunday. He will then resume his | And Miss Blinn smiled. Maype|'®¥ bracuce re bap Free aa Judge Gibbs would have said she 4 ares to ge A at ae aad flirted ‘or the presen e said he did| ‘ ‘ot believe Hughes had as yet con- | Well, he’s probably old not t Hughes ae an old fogy,”| sidered any definite plans for the | future | PLEDGES FAITH TO GERMANY LONDON, Nov. 23.—Emperor Charles Vill. of Austria Hun gary—new ruler in the place where, until Tuesday, sat the aged Franz Josef—today exer. cleed hie first powers a sovereign. | He issued orders confirming appointment of all of the min- Isters which his grand uncle | had established in power. Vi- enna dispatches also said he had issued the following mani- festo: | Are you a good fellow? Well, The Star wants to see the A Ow alm has not yet been/| Seattle oF pee y Bert Levy, the famous cartoo! achieved The enemies’ illusion of| archy and those of my alles ts as| Snakes and Worms et not shattered I know I am in harmony with my people in my un bending decision to continue the struggle until the monarchy's peace and development ia assured I will do all {n my power to ban ish as soon as possible the horrors PORTLAND, Nov. 23 Likewise worms! in Drinker’s Cell in Portland Jail!' Will Good Fellows Take Orphans to and From Free | eases So niaeomt sce 5 ee you're the fellow we want to talk to. 1 hambra theatre packed to the | doors Saturday caues it's going to be a free show for the orphan kiddies of morning—be- nist Snakes! ‘The presence of | lay ‘ANNA L, STRONG | LABOR COUNCIL ind artist, is the Jan premier enter | tainer in the world for kid ] eycoyeetd -y we kide—and Anna Louise Strong, candi- \it's really his show. Any one who | has seen Bert on Orpheum time| date for the school board, Thursday stands indorsed by | the Women's Good Government league. | In @ statement issued Thursday, she desires to call especial atten [tion to the fact that she is not a doctor of medicine, as her title led knows the boy and girl orphans are going to have a mighty fine time | That is. if enough good fellows | provide for their transportation. | Automobiles to take ‘em to and from the show are needed If you have an auto—and if you 1 are a good fellaw—you'll call up |™M&BY to believe the Alhambra theatre, ask for Cari|, She !8 & doctor of philosophy, | Reiter, the x having received the degree from ert rang or any one t Ph Ohiacs for who happens to be there, and | \niversity o ni ago for three | tell ‘em where they can get you |2cats Btaduate work in education psychology and philosophy. Before that, she studied in Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, Germany, and Switzerland The Central Labor Council, on a and your auto | The phone number is Main 4111 Call up without de ose vipers e olice 8 The show is te and sacrifices of war and to secure | ti” caumbte. ai aplaen! oh ae owing 41 abe sory eeaay motion made by Frank Gates, also | peace a# soon as the honor of my |}ium tremens todny 1,200 to 1,500 kiddies whol ware |{udorsed Hob Bridges for port com: | arms, the conditions of the life of| W's ‘Toole, 60, was arrested on|to see it who can't afford cartent| missioner, and approved the bond my countries and thelr allies and} charge of drinking alcohol, In|you know 4®, | bropositions coming up at the elec: the defiance of my enemies will|hiq ‘pockets, the desk sergeant | }tion December 2 alow |found assorted worms LONE BANDIT ROBS Fisuworms,” he explained as | \NEW PASTOR COMES GIRL FORGER WILL they were scooped from his pocket MAN EARLY TOD | The sergeant stowed them in. the AY! TO SEATTLE CHURCH ESCAPE PEN UNTIL safe in a pigeonhole, marked “ | Livestock | Clad in a long overcoat, and ca i | ‘During the night they excaped,|rying an extra big revolve a Tone | gate ta renre. tn the palplter the HER CHILD 1s BORN daylight found them wriggling |hold-up man robbed N. L. Jones, | Seco! United Presbyterian church ut will over the marble floor at Washington, la, Rev. W. R. Saw eral alcoholics were severely shock- | $3.80 cash, a $1 watch and a pocket | who lives at the Richelien hotel, of | hill has resigned to fill the vacancy PORTLAND, Nov. 28.—Bl-loq at the sight. Many of the hor! knife at ‘Ocotd Jin the First United Presbyterian ale Vedder, who will soon be-| tid things were put to death, ave, at 4 mm. Thureday eel!Foad |church in Seattle. Rev. Sawhill will come a mother, was sentenced to eeanaatbacnAL silts i EYE rive in this city Saturday, and from one to five years in state|¢ will preach his first sermon Sunday prison today for passing worthless checks. She was paroled until aft er the birth of her child, when fur. ther court action will be taken Mrs. Vedder's home is in Ta-|® coma W. P. Willlams, who claims to 0 a West Point graduate and a veteran of several Mexican cam paigns, Was Jointly acused with the girl, and was ¢entenced with he He recived the same penalty, one} | to five years Williams was led from the room, Mrs, Vedder jump. ed from her seat and kissed him, || Prayer LOS ANGELES, Nov. short of a miracle. Milholland declared his daughter was saved from death by an act of Providence, as a result of prayer. Physicians who gave up all hope of saving the noted suf- frage worker some days ago admitted today that Mrs, Boi a falr chance to recover. vain now h Saves “Beautiful Inez? Save | Her Father, Who’s at Her Bedside | ~~? 23.—In an interview today, John E. Milholland, politician and business man of New York, declared the recent improvement in the condition of his daughter, Inez Milholland Boissevain, who is critically Il! here, was nothing >| ie will succeed Rev, Ralph Atkin son, who will take up evangelistic work 'HOLY SEE WILL NOT TALK ABOUT POLAND ROME, Nov. Replying to the central powers, the Holy See has stated its inability to consider the Austro-German pronunciamento as to Poland's autonomy before con clusion of peace proceedings, it was announced today, \& WILSONITES TO GET $35,000 IN BETS TODAY Good morning Have you collected your Wilson bet? They're paying, Thursday, at nearly every hotel, cigar stand and billiard parlor in town. The congratulatory message from _ Hughes to Wilson was what stake- holders were waiting for. It's been sent and answered, now. Virgil Garvey, manager of Brown Hulen’s billiard establishment, said the firm had $35,000 unpaid stakes that would be distributed during the day. “We've only paid state bets,” he said. It is estimated that $100,000 will have changed hands by the end of the day. Everybody was paying up. HOLD-UP MAN SHOT BY COP ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23.—Pleading with the police not to bury his dead “pal” in potters field, Charles Alfred Lewis, who says he is a horseshoer of Sacramento, Cal., told detectives at his bedside today that the name of his companion shot to death early today by Po. lice Sergeant Flaherty when the pair attempted to hold up a drug store, was John Joseph Davis, 2 of Omaha Lewis himself is in a serious condition of four wounds inflicted the drug clerk CAN SIGN PETITION AND REGISTER LATER In an opinion to Councilman OL iver T. Erickson, who heads the Nonpartisan league of Washington, Corporation Counsel Caldwell de- clares that voters who failed to vote at the last election, Novem. ber 7, have lost their registration standing and are therefore inel- igible to sign an initiative petition unless they re-register. A voter, under this opinion, has a right to sign the petition and lat- er register—but it must be done before the petitions are being checked up by the registration pf. ficials. seteessssss: ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK You can learn many things well worth knowing by a careful reading of the ads each day in The Star.