The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 1

Feets Vine morning wit ent “YEAR OF Seatt Tonight and WATERWAGON JOYRIDE HERE NEW YEAR'S EVE. Beattie tried to take a New "Year's eve joy ride on the wa- fh wagon late Sunday and ea: Caméis equipped with se Im the middie of Sa- Couldn't have had more ‘There were only seven ar. Pests for drunkenness. ‘The eighth shocking episode between Phyllis rly morning matinee at the Alhambra. She's the temperamental young Woman of high thespian hired by Martin Bolt” and jomeo an fana « «Phyllis Is Magician When Phyllis stepped out on the ) Boards at 1 a m. and tried to put ever the song about Alice and t marble slab, it was too much “even for a booreless crowd “Be a magician and make your eelt pear.” somebody yelled did the magical act tried to s Wieky | “she might have had noth- Pico were crowded. Special tall page 5) i ZONA HAS "2 GOVERNORS PHOENIX, Jan. Jan. 1.—Forcing ring thou. by armed Tom Campbell, Governor-Elect and menaced by strange men whose pockets bulged sus- piciously, Tom Campbell, Ari- ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK RESOLVE To start that profitabte habit of reading the ads with to- day's paper. January sales are on Wiest now, and the savir © Very considerable " Standard to. nes Furniture Page Grote-Rankin Co. Woodhou unb: Furniture Co. MacDougall-South wick oe... Bow Marche Brederick & Neison B-Movies are ¥% Full particu Year's progr ee Page 5 10 10 Ke rs of the MORE THAN 60,000 Copies DAILY | it's @ good start for this great The weather forecast is: to wake up New Year's hout that brown taste, ACHIEVEMENT” in Tuesday, rain “VOLUME 19, PEACE NOW IS UP TO KAISIR, WILSON FELLS BY ROBERT J. BENDER United Press Staff Correspondet WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—A hint to all neutral countries | that “the time Is opportune to act” toward bringing about peace, was conveyed to neutral capitals by U. 8. diplomatic representatives abroad at the suggestion of this government, it became known here today WASHINGTON, Jan. The life or death of the pr peace movement rests wholly in the hands of Germany Thi known positively to be the belief of Washington of- ficlaidom, from President Wil ton down. Furthermore, while adminis | tration officials beti: the en tente allies have left a loophole for Germany to prove the sin cerity of her original peace pro- porals, they believe peace ne Setintions today are further off than they appeared to be at the start of the present | movement. Altho the administration contin wed today its policy of absolutely refusing to discuss the International situation tn it is positive ly k government feels that more frankly declare | eH in regard to ne and specifications” if she is to keep alive any peace negotiation senti ment among th lied rman jetep in her next move--insisting, however, that her terms be held in jconfidence—is deemed possible by | many officials for the following rea. leons Conviction that if peace does not come, Germany and the United | States will be drawn to the verge jof an inevitable break tn relations, lowing to U-boat activities Fear that the German people, ny must and either a vigorous pursuit of war jor a more determined effort for peace. No secret is made in this coun try of the danger point reached in relations between the United States and Germany, as the result of Ger }many’a resumption of submarine | warfare on a large scale It is now accepted everywhere that Germany must realize this ad mitted danger, in view of the “back |handed warning” to the central powers contained in the president's “peace note.” and emphasized in the two Lansing interpretations Whether it will influence Ger | many in her next step remains to be seen. WRECK STORE WITH DYNAMITE LOS ANGE mite early ‘Jan 1.—Dyna wrecked the gro- cery store of E Fuller, on Mis sion road The entire front of the store was torn down and goods were scattered about the floor by the force of the explosion. The damage was about $1,000. The po ice have found no motive for the explosion zona’s new cowboy governor, en- tered the capito! grounds short- ly before 11 a. m. The building was locked. Camp bell demanded admission A care taker opened the portal a few inches jand the governor and his attorn land a few newspaper men entered After completing .his inaugural apeech, in which he declared, amidst a wild demonstration, that the ballot | box must not become a juggler's hat, he demanded admission to the lexecutive chambers, which were |guarded by deputy sheriffs | ‘The officers refused te |door on the ground that legal holiday The crowd outside began to mur mur, but was informed that law and order must take their course. For. mer Supreme Court Justice Sloan. and the last territorial governor, at filed mandamus proceedings in the supreme court to oust George W. P. Hunt from the session of the office M ¢ is in the saddle, Campbell. “I will be at the |tomorrow, ready for business Hunt left the building shortly be. ell arrived, His secre. remained in the office behind locked doors. Several windows in the south wing were broken during the night, in spite of the heavy guard main tained. Hunt says he will be at his desk as usual tomorrow Immediate danger seems to have passed, tion is tense Hunt refused to surrender his of- fice until @ recount of votes 1s com pleted it once physical pos said capitol of violence but the situa DR, HAMILTON WRIGHT MA Die, associate editor of the Outlook ma ne, died Sunday at his home jin Summit, N. J. from uatural} causes. iP? PAP PAP AP AP IPD ALAA The Seattle Star enn |THE ONLY PAP ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS How to Make Seattle Both Happy and Prosperous in’17 men at the head of | may take this gigantic! | ready restive, will demand greater! |representation in the government. | & | LAUDER’S SON SHOT Feeding Rats Costs LONDON, Lauder Scotch at the day. WASH., MONDA REV. 1917, JANUARY 1, ONE CENT J. D. O. POWERS (Paster Boylston Ave. Unitarian Church.) MAKI and SEATTLE BOTH prosperous in 1917—this. is wish, it not, of every citizen? But how to do it—there’s the rub! How yrevent the strikes and labor troubles of ear? I make a suggestion, in fine with Mr. F. W. Strang’s letter: Remove all fear, all worry, all anxiety from every individual, from every home, by seeing to it that every able-bodied man and woman has permanent work from which they may secure “something like a fair chance to make of them. selves what they can in the world, and to have some fair share in its joys and its prosperities.” A job for every man and a man for every well paid, and it is done! And why not? Just take $50,000,000 of the boasted $100,000,000 and over in our savings banks and put it to work in productive enter- prises in the city and it is done. Money should be used, never hoarded, if we wish to prevent hard times. But more: A links, and our ployment and w dition soon become and the strongest lutionary.” LET We in yet HAPPY the 6 1S shall we the past 5 chain is as strong a weakest weakest links are the men out of em ith suffering familie Such a en with the noblest its con- dangefous, e becomes rero- PHA prosperous era in history, out of employment the Such a condition of us; and in time US NEVER #ORGET the most ore live have m tates turns and men in before and ultimately explodes in socialism, lich the “first United than ever soon to dynamite ; in public ownership, in internecine strikes volution, all of them, in wl last and the last first.” wishes a strikes of prevented employes do or or shall be Surely labor troubles can and should The majority in re bitter They them them and repetition of the 1916 during 1917. No one want no one and be wants ot not —————————————— | ‘WANT $40,000 LAND John auder, the comedian, killed front, it was announced to Jan, 1 son of Harry Capt CHICAGO, United feed the rats in this country, cording to Health | Robertson today, Jan, i—It has been ac consumed by the rodents and does not include general destructiveness | U. S. 65 Millions | which mounts into big tigures\ Dr | Robertson costa the Tequiring ratproofing of buildings. ates $65,000,000 a year to Commissioner |went on a strike Sunday againat This 18 for food |$1 increase in rentals, I am sure the vast majority of employers would do almost anything to avoid them AND IT CAN BE DONE LIKE BROTHERS IN ONE SHOULD There should IF W GREAT F WILL ACT AMILY monthly heart-to-heart en employes and employers in which both to nsibilities nt fair to troubles would be confer ences betwe should be perfectly frank with each other as all de tails of their respective In the majority of both might be agreed upon before arose \ good heart-to-heart talk, indeed, settle most of the differences of the world But not carry this out to its logical con clusion and ¢ perfect co-operation and the utmost service of the employes because they are a part the concern Why Henry Ford and pay the largest wages possible and then give a fair share of all returns to the ones who do so much to create wealth? WHY A THAT ‘THUS and re an adjustm burdens instances sides why not emulate BUSINESS MAN CANNOT SEI HE WILL NOT ONLY SECURE FOR HIMSELF TENFOLD THE WEALTH HE NOW SECURES, BUF WILL ALSO MAKE WEALTHY EVERY FAMILY CONNECTED WITH HIS BUSINESS, PASSES ALL UNDER- STANDING. . Every business in Seattle could double its put this year if it would adopt this pla. The ployer would not only increase his own wealth, out- em but he would insure the peace and happiness and prosperity of the community. The employe with such in centive would become a part of the concern, a poten tial employer, and would become the most potent fac tor in doubling again and again the business of his firm Why tive broad-minded men plan similar to the the world in happintss, great men and happen if some next decade! an a committee or council, of representa and women to work out sdme so that Seattle lead prosperity, in peace, in God only knows what will formulated within the above in may women?’ plan is not urged a city ordingdgce | BELLI of this city \islature for adjoining the normal for improvements. will cost abdut $40,000, SHU RG, Jan, 1 DWELLERS IN 200 Bronx fig Citizens will ask the state I ur blocks of property school The property! quent as his spoken beply. he } Now | AR AAAARARARRAD AAR eg According “® “Cupid” Gage, lem year broke al records of Seattle The girls did well, 's the boys’ AND * nwa wrANDe te IS STRANGLED WITH HER SILK PHILADEL PHIA, that draped the | Mrs. Grace Roberts, pretty 1 in her apartments Saturday jafternoon and revealed rivaled the most weird drea The name of the ma | killed the woman now is in laccording to detectives, will in business circles of Chicage Jan. Groping in the dark for flimsy brutal mur¢ the STOCKINGS 1. Ey he curtain of mystery ler of Mazie Tolbert, alias nodel, who was found dead night, was drawn aside this | story of a tragedy that ms of Poe. n who tortured and then the hands of the police and, lead to a man standing high » and this city. clues, detectives | followed the trail to New York and then to Chicago, |where they say the mystery 22-! Out of the scores of men the 2 rold beauty had met she | a frail moth thru the re was one man anely, grew Jeal admirers and then gay who kk ous of the othe brutally slew hat was the gr the police a orking, and the expect a “surprising arrest” within 24 hours, This man was attentiv to Mrs. Roberts for it a year The pretty little model's hea turned the bright lights—the sparkle of the wine, the swing of the dance—but for all that d for this unnamed man. When tin to men mind upon which to she visit quarrelled Hair Pulled Out In the Wilton apartment }Mrs. Roberts lived, no ot her death struggles § i, a suicide plant effect her assailant walked off to busines: unscathed Yet Mrs. Roberts’. \ strucgie} jaainst death bad beew so violent) that her hatr was Mpped from her head, blood spattered all over the ed clothes, and the once blue silk pajamas had been dyed red She had first been struck in the face with a fist, and when this |little woman of the world—known ag the daughter of life—showed she could fight, her assailan: used a flatiron to crush her skull, and then tied her own silk stockings around her throat Watched Her Die The murderer probably stood jand watched the girl drag herself across the floor and there collapse. | iG t pools of blood at that sr | proved it was where she had ¢ | By the dim light of a boudoir lamp, the man lifted her body and placed it on the bed. He pulled the stock ings as tight as possi yalled the |sheets over her face, and tried to efface any traces of the struggle. | A rubber hose had. by attached | to the gas and placed in the dead woman's band. Her it, how ever, had forgotten to turn on the gas other Finger Prints Betray Him Finger prints, stamped in blood, | covered the bed clothing and walls. | They were all of the same pe and, detectives pointed out, proved | that, while the man probab aa planned the murde he vis ited the woman, he a novice at crime, A master before was they care to criminal have taker gloves. It is the levidence he » could have mo » enough to give is virtually ended. Another finger print had been left on the girl's forehead, where an ef- fort had been made to pull her hair down over a wound, A blood- tain silk shirt and collar that bad never been laundered were lso found to have the same prints, TRIES TO STEAL $1,000 A MONTH Jao. 1.—Stilt he is a klepto- he tried to steal him a $1,000 a month income, Kenyon G. Peterson of Ravenswood, Ill, who surren- dered to the police and confessed to an amazing series of robberies ond forgeries, is today the center of interest at the city jail, Mean- time, the police are checking his tory of operation . thruoul evuntry Thus far, no reply has been re ceived to the telegram sent the lad’s father, a wealthy railroad of- ficial. Among the crimes the ANG ntaining niac, that | youth told of was the passing of a worthless check for $6,667 on A, R. Arnot in San Francisco. Peterson, who is 21 years old, ted today he cannot resist the mpulse to steal. His expenses, he aid out $1,000 a month, and he was forced to be dishonest to ive the gay life be chose. HAIG MADE MARSHAL LONDON, Jan. 1.—Gen. Sir Doug- las Haig, is elevated to field mar- shal of England in the usual New Year's list of honors announced | today. Maj. Gen command: Jan Christian Smuts, -in-chief of the British forces in East Africa, who has ren- dered such invaluable services to C t Britein, was rewarded with promotion to the rank of honorary utenant gene ral. NEEDLESS DEATHS CHICAGO, Jan. . — Fifty thousand babies one 20,000 mothers die annually in the United States because of im- proper care at child-birth, said Dr. Joseph B. Lee to club wom- en here today. ATTORNEY INHERITS _ JEWEL WHICH DEALS DEATH TO CHINESE CHAPTER I The Ring of Aladéta Y curiosit in in which the public handled it, +1 react « up the ring flash, Mr across the ring was trator ward to pi Quick as a hand shot Don't! have heard the r This very morning sorting these papers of your father’s, 1 came across the small box. Just as I opened it in came Charley Yen, one of our regular Chinese court interpreters. He pointed at the ring. Notice the set? No, no, don't touch it, It's jade—Chinese green jade. clean and bright enough now; it | was half hidden by a layer of dirt “T handed it to Charley, asking him what he could of it \pwice he wet the ball of h with his tongue and rubbed the set so he might examine it better at once the clattered on the jdesk. Charley erumpled up on the floor—right Where you're sitting now He didn't make a soynd, De 1 cried in horror. Mr Unruh’ desk “Wait till you while T was make De simply “Why—what-how id the thing happen?” I stammered. Mr, Unruh's gesture was replied as elo- “You can search me, Poison? ~~ tt It looks | thumb | All| Unruh, | an couldn't find the least trace an Perhaps poor Charley Yen ed it off “If you'll observe the way the thing’s made—how the metal comes up all round the edges of the set— may how anybody could with ring—even carry it clo hand—without the Je set touching the flesh. Th ain it might And are.” 1 shuddered. pains not | the set little foo! in his there With considerable to let my fingers touch 1 dropped the ring into the carved ox and snapped down the lid. It was stowed away with most of my other belongings, an a day or two I on my way back to New York to resume my interrupted studies. The conversation just urred shortly after my death.’ Altho personaily jwholly unknown to you, my father’s name instantly will be identified with hyming advertis. ing catchline which has stared America in the face, from all sorts of unexpected places, for more than @ generation FERRIS TBAS ALWAYS PLEASE,” He was none other, in short, than the late Peter B. Ferris, whose chain of teq stores at one time dotied the country over, Long before my father walgyiur- ried, he was “buyer” for a Yeam- |inent New York tea and spleen a (Continued on» page 4) recorded father's T may be.