The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 1

He's off today for a 60-day trip, » 3 the legisiator from your district You remember, he told you he sould serve the people Ne, giving efficient, honest serv ice, That was before election Watch him now at Olympia, Fore wes cast: “Rain tonight and Tuesday rain or * lt The Year of Achievement ! This is the year achievement. From the commercial standpoint, Seattle and Puget Sound are in a fair way to big accomplishment On the heel of the announcement of a $3,000,000 ship building contract to the Brem erton navy yard, Tacoma voted Saturday, 6 to 1, for a $2,000,000 bond issue for the acreage to bring the biggest army post west of the Mississippi to American Lake. 17.000 necessary trons are ievemer its off service to ers } abli Commissioner Ramsay truck the rig te when he declares himself free of partisanship, ready to treat public business on strict merit This state and this county are too | rhe legisla or political quarrels service than factional, sectional, ture, especially, needs a higher it has given heretofore li the governor and legislature are big enough, they will, in spite of sectional pressare, carry out the imis- plan, recommended by the educational to eliminate sion, duplication. It’s gox s bus so, besides bring higher al ¢ tency There ought also be s for phone servic t state € % not have to pay per ce for than other cities do, as is w the case THE STAR CALLS ATTENTION TO THE “MILLION DOLLAR” IDEA TO ADVERTISE THE STATE'S TEMPERATURE IN FULI PAGES IN EASTERN PAPERS AT THE PSY- CHOLOGICAL TIME—WHEN THE EAST p: PS e SWELTERING IN HEAT. WE HAVE THI ; GREATEST CLIMATIC ATTRACTION FOR 4 TOURISTS IN THE WHOLE UNITED i STATES, IN THE SUMMER, AT LEAST. There should be he ne tow not a subtertt and 1 Legislate should look upon humanita ta umt | ywn to beggars, but a and fa 3 4 tule 4 country sectional wondrous Wreck at Port! PORT ANGELES. Wash. The dead are: Conductor Clyde Jan. 8—Three were killed and Gibson, of a work train, and tw i 22 injured when a new track ‘When os a : i fill on the Twin River railroad Sethi collapsed a loce extension caved in. Six of the | ollv® and a tool car rolled injured will die. at an embankment. A re wae ae if train arrived at Port Angele ort a nm trying dea | and dying ADVERTISING MANAGER'S | Fireman Ferguson was terribl DAILY TALK it. Hi lv rushed, wrist Lroken and entire body sacaldec Engineer Harry Lege proved the hero of the wreck. Badly’ scalded, he nbed from the debris and ran half » mile to the nearest telephone to call help Construction Foreman Gibso had both legs broken Conductor Gibson, kill A ight under a huge boulder, which mashed t the wrer Those of the crew who escaped pried the rock off his bod WHO'S LOONEY NOW? WASHINGTON, Jan John Armstrong Chaloner, au thor of “Who's Looney Now,” today was refused contro! of his big estate in New York by the supreme court how PATROL ENGAGEMENTS PAR Jan Patrol engage mente the RBouchavanez regio MORE THAN 60.000 COoPiES nd the forest of Parroy were re DAILY II| ported in today's official tatement Kleewhe it was said, there wa | 5 ; nothing important The Seattle Star ATTLE, WASH.,, 1917 MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 7 <8 * * & THE PERSISTENT PURP! GET ovr }) CONSARN Ye tl NEW COUNTY OFFICERS TAKE OATHS ae 2 Oe ON TIME New county officers were in- Stalled Monday noon, following the taking of the oath of office In the departments where ad MISS GREY ON VACATION Cynthia Grey is taking a/ week's vacation. No letters will ( be answered during her absence but letters sent in while she ts} name CURBING JUDGES made, a gtneral house cleaning were was held and the new men { changes wothed ints spidh 6nd agen of WASHINGTON, Jan. §—Senator eb Owen today offered a resolu Sheriff Stringer probably ‘lon. providing ral made the biggest change of al! ‘ passed joint that any ares an act dogg site } away will receive prompt atten He established a criminal de to be SpeyeeT rer) tek: dial nt partment in room 317, appoint emed gullty of Judicial } ion, Rabe. her return, Monday, | ing Deputies Frank Brewer 1r} and removed, hia suc ¥ 1 Beott Malone, Matt Starwich, |e to be inted by the prest: | Www Frank Elfiott, Julius Von lent CONVI Gerste and Stuart Campbell as SUICIDE operators, This department | QUE STS UPHELD will have a daily bulletin serv NTI WALLA W AL I A Jan. §-—James ice showing the department's Ryan, a convict pntenced from El activity WASHINGTON, Jan, 8.—The su- lensburg, committed suicide Sun All guns and revolvers were|preme court today held that Call- day by tying jute cord about his t “ae te nd a new|fornia’s medical law, exempting neck and strangling himself ance will be made later Christian Scientists, but including) Ryan had served terms in several Perey WM. Tho ” oun- other drug practitioners, is con- other prisons before being commit ‘ork ne itutiona ed to Walla Walla ca ete Fre In another decision the court held “ , ie wel. California's Jaw covering ophthal-| VICTOR TATUM, killed Friday ' neg o the cash. mologists does not discriminate in in an auto accident, will be buried *. vetically no favor of regular physicians Monday from Ronney.Watson's te 2 Sint: amcenee eser rospector, argec ] « duties with a relish, and d " Es Hi Cc * lk weal Soong coupes away | Murder, Escapes His Captors by a niling face A “ ' re havin de a “ agai, naving ate « | Daring Ride Thru Burning Forest his department will be in vl rebiagey a halaa pi thn yings and goings. Two or three of ee The Priapecter them foregathered in the saloon i of {ssioners OR five years he had journeyed |“! ae ers on it = lo its busines paratory F between the little desert sta- | aes ow dynamite last trip, to givin to the new board tion on the Mojave and thie |e rber ioe bei ee Jerry Riordan comm his du-| range to the north. The towne h he's struck ft at last,” said another tos as clerk. In Superio Judge Pra- paid scant attention to him. eer iy nan nodded : departmen . jeorge «simply another “desert rat” | ea and booted ; ‘ took up the same work in| obsessed with the idea that gold | *? neers eee, ie, J Gilliam’s court was to be found in thore northern |*Warthy face gray with dust strode in and called for whisky r new men were to work! yijls, He bougbt supplies and pald - 3 n the liquor department, to re-\grudgingly. No one knew his nam Which way did he go, Saun lace those, Who feneived appoint’ aia on ‘i ders?” asked one : - | The prospector was much young “North, as usual,” said the ride nents in other departments er than he appeared to be, Slowly “Now, see here, boys, we got t |his mind had been squeezed dry of | ¢ind out if he's filed on it yet. and GERMANS CAPTURE jall human interest save the mem-| what his name is, and then ory of a child's fac that, and the Mebby we'd better find out { PRISONE! | memory of the child's mother. For| where it ts first suggested one 3910 Seo te ei mri” Fer| wre Ha gene on torget. The last five years on the | the rider BERLIN in Sayville Wireless, desert had dimmed the woman's And then jump him,” chorused lan. $—-Focsani was eaptured by|¥isloned face as the child came tie group, “He's out’ there alone. he Germans yesterday, with 99:0; more often between him and the | It's easy risoners, today's official statement memory of the mother, in his Meanwhile the pPoxpector toiled said dreams thru the drought of that summer Finally the desert flung wide the! hoarding the little yellow flakes he secret portals of her treasur house | washed from the gravel in the STREET TALKS PEAGE Sool vorten, ao ew vonk. 3 gos : ‘i oar canyon held his secret CHAPTER II pinay bagi xew Te tte had wandered into It, panned Water orts regarding the peace situation | ditt black sand, and found color All round him the waterholes and K. H. Gary's statement regard-\ i cny ne discovered the fountain-|bad gone dry, T ittle canyon ne iness were leading topes Of) 044 of the hoarded yellow particles | stream still wound down its shaded nterest as the market opened) ii is spell Power course, so the prospector fe e. strong today gain journeyed to the town cure i yenide the railroad, bought sup, Finally the stream disappeared MEMBERS OF the Grace Meth-, plies and vanished. Back in the With the last of the water he filled odist congregation at Sioux City,{canyon he set about his labors,! his canteen, Carefully he stowed la, are peeved because a Lyceum |finding a numbing solace in toil, | his gold in a chamois pouch and bureau double crossed them and . prepared to leave the canyon. His aubstituted a Hula Hula dancer for! In the desert town men began| burro had strayed during — the a singing act. to notice the regularity of his com- (Continued on page 4) THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE “THAT DARES_ “TO ‘PRINT THE NEWS a * H NIGHT That'o quite a big stride for a young tar. But the Bremerton navy yard, having just got a $3,600, 000 ship contract, is only beginning its march EDITION |RICH LIQUOR DEALER WON'T GO TO U.S. PRISON — * Py Lawson Refuses Names in Leak Probe TUMULTY’S FINE. IS LIMIT DENUL (5 FOR H.C.HUNT BACKED oY HM ATULS.HANDS Hunt, millionaire liquor shipper of San Fran- cisco, will escape a prison sentence and get off with @ By J. P. Yoder _ fine if convicted of conspiracy to violate federal inter- WASHINGTON, Jan, 8.— State laws, for which he was indicted by the United Mention of Ambassador Ger- States grand jury yor Gill, in his interview in The Star last Frie rged the United States district's attorney’s office ard’s name, a denial of charges by Secretary to the President backed by a Feat) pean prastiant Wh in the prosecution of Hunt, who, he said, statemen } 's u 2 ap Ss ith 1 fine son himself, and failure of ees hs “sll 4 ‘ pe Thomas W. Lawson to back District Attorney Allen today virtually admitted up his general charges with this to The Star. names and specific incidents, A nformal agreement roy The in phase of the situa featured: today’s investigation |tect Hunt from the penitentiary S3) ton, Aen ty ee Boo by the house rules committee Baker of the Jesse Moore-| Moore-Hunt ny) woul ae of the peace note peak charges i gree to turn over the business et een told , ents ogainst the company « that ' Pre ngs An agreement was reached 1 culat: | teys ereby the incrimi business on a ¢ informa Gil taten last F files ere turned over. The ¢ esident’s not to The st charged th Billingsleys were then arrested, The e of James W ( Billingsley are “covering up|and Logan's sensational confession, United States ambassade tor Hunt |involving Mayor Gill, Chief Beek lin, was mentioned while Seer Wants Hunt Jailed ingham and police officers, is ak being examined regard leged to have followed. | Tumulty wa: “Hunt,” the mayor declared, “is ing the peace note leak charges. the biggest figure in the bootleg: | U. 8. Holding Beer Representative Chippe \ ging game. We turned over to the| “What is the status of the case Tumulty whether he ad local stock broker Gerard replied yes, and after ed county, and the county to the U. , 8. district. attorney's jclean-cut, prima-facie evidence of! shipped by Hunt, was turned over his guilt, in a letter written to a py the city to be used as evid he said he had! local bootiegger over his own sig- ;gainst Hunt by the government? introduced Ge the offices of | natu He ought to be put in Me-| Allen was asked W. BL Hibb: ( Nell island. but you'll see, he'll The prosecutor showed copies of Turmulty said be visited Hibbs &ibe let off with a fine. A fine! correspondence, showing that means nothing to a man like that.”lcovernment refused to return the Mayor Gill, when he referred to b; Co. once. Gerard wanted to buy some| Correspondence, which the mayor | Leer legal representatives of the bonds, and asked me if there was | claims would have convicted Hunt | company, and later condemned the anybody I could recommend. I told|of conspiracy, was taken from beer, I could recommend Hibbs, so former Patrolman Margett when The present status,” he said, “is bim him there and introduced | he was arrested by the police here.' that the beer was condemned, but | When Margett ¢ federal aw |the case didn’t develop for prose ver had any business transac-|thorities, he is alleged to have/cution, because we were unable, tions with Hibbs & Co.?" jagreed to get business files from tho we tried, to get the correspond- Never. |the Jesse Moose-Hunt company jence from Hunt showing that the Teer peroce ‘Tuateny Tistshed' Ri] Wiieh woul! “lend “te BUNAE: | order wea aet = he testimony Thomas W. Lawson, who |leys to Alaska.” Was not present when bis name files are alleged to have Wasn't the shipment illegal on was called, entered the committer turned over to Margett and the face of the unmarked cartons room, The committ cessed for|(ederal investigators of beer? a brief executive session immediate Won't Prosecute Hunt It is not the policy of the gov ly after Tumulty left the stand Will this evidence be used to ernment to bring action until con Wilson Tells the Truth convict Hunt?” a reporter for The |clusive evidence showing the ship- At the ontaet of the leak investi.|Star asked District Attorney Clay | per knew the shipment was illegal gation today, Representative Camp-| Allen has been obtained,” Allen replied, ell, Kansas, moved that a sub poena be issued for the stock ex change firm of F. M, Lockwood &| Co., New York Tumulty, the first witness ' formal statement, closed in fy oe wiotiasenict™* cots PROBE OF BO OTLEGCERS RING from President Wilsor “| wish, in justice to Mr, Apparent calm prevailed in | scheduled to reconvene ang Tumulty, to say that he has the federal building Monday, 24 continue its probe into the boot- stated the exact faci. He had hours before the grand jury is legging ring. no knowledge of the note what ever until it was given out for publication.” Tumulty Denies Charge The grand jury will assemble at 10 a. m. Tuesday. Witnesses, according to pre vailing forec: will be called NICHOLS HEADS Tumulty made the following one at a time, and subpoenaes statement on important phases of the in- to resent the unjust intimation sued. 1 gave information to B, M . police officers were Mii poenaed in ard to ¢ Saturday night and Sun- note to the | last month day. They are said to have San by the secretary This in-| called on liquor, cases not tHe timation was contained in a state n the so-called Margett-Billingsley ment made to this committee by caaen Representative Wood of Indiana, a BY EDGAR C. WHEELER Just how long the federal jury man I do not know. To the best OLYMPIA, Jan. 8—The will remain cloistered before re of my knowledge, | have never met 15th legislature met at noon to- turning first indictments is prob Mr. Wood. Certainly he made no| day and organized according to jematica! ffort to find out the truth from! the schedule framed in cau fides Eee . me before dragging my name into| cuses yesterday. Guy E. Kelly, |, V\Ckme rom toe long sessions this affal of Pierce county, was elected | Petween Logan Billingsley and Dis- | wish to den ind| speaker of the house and Ralph = "ict, Attorney Clay Allen, it’ may specifically that I gave > in-| Nichols of Seattle was named | ‘#ke several days for the jury to formation to Mr. Baruch, or to any-| president pro tem of the sen. eview all the evidence relating to the Billingsley ¢ Billingsley ¢ ‘onfession, vody else in regard to the not { ate. did not know of the existence of The senate selection of Nich ols | TET TH this note, or that this government | furnished a thrill as it) was the contemplated the dispatch of such| consummation of an unexpected a note, until after the printe cop mashing of the slat which Lieut jes of the note had been given, to| Gov. Hart had framed the press by the state department.| ©¢, R. Mayburry was elected clerk U W SOON 1 was not consulted in the prepara-|of¢ the house and Frank Dallman ‘ 1 tion of the note. ecretary of the senate. “The conterence and communica The overthrow of the alate in the note were confidential between the| formal notice to Hart, who was be president and Secretary Lansing. I|jjeyed to be favorable to Senator new position, that of director know nothing whatever, nor did any | Carlyon for president of the sen-/of inte olla jate athletics, has other person employed in the ex-| ate, that his committee selections | been inaugurated at the University utive offi were not satisfactory to the in-|of Washington and C. J, Hunt of I have had no correspondence,| surgent majority Carleton college, Northfield, Minn, (Continued on page 5) Hart is to announce his commit-|has been accepted by the faculty ee appointments Wednesday, fol-|for the place. He will come to Se NO HOPE HELD FOR lowing the inaugural ceremonies. | attle immediately to take up his It is probable that Hart did some | new position, which will be on a “BUFFALO BILL” :" thinking last night and will/ par with any in the institution, ac Jprobably announce a diff t per-|cording to Graduate Manager of DENVER, Jan, &—"Col. Cody's! sonnel, not ‘Attempt to pack his} Athletics J. Arthur Younger condition is unchanged. There is| committees with reactionaries Hunt's salary will be $3,000 4 practically no hope for his rece Aside from the controversy over) year, He will have complete charge lory,” declared Dr. J. H. East, early |the educational survey commission |of all athletic activities at the lo today report, involving the University ot | cal eoll with the exception of, Vashington and Pullman college, | the crews, ile will be head footay FORMER DEPUTY Sheriff &. C.|it appears there will be little fric-| ball coach and also coach the Relding is in the city jail, awaiting} tion in this session, The bone dry | basketball team $1,000 bail oa a charxe of grand! law, it is believed, will be referred; !unt’s contract will call for his larceny. to the people's vote in 1918, jrervices for a term of two years, office, the | says. 200 cases of anlabeled beer