The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1917, Page 1

State cover all the expenses and a reasonable fee Reynolds, former chairman of the state public service com mission, who conducted .f from the beginning the legal battle campaign. state who, at a person was willing to underta’ that prepa time pr labor. commerce commission, Re conceded to be t the fight, as it is app tribunal to another by t Pacific and other railways west. By its terms Stone Organized the Wome tnion, which « fon support before sixcent coins, The weather fore SEATTLE SUBSCRIBES $760 TO TOURIST FUND | LCity Cannot | Afford Drop. ig Rate Fight “TOURIST RATE” SUBSCRIPTIONS Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. .$150.00 } A. S. Taylor, manager of Post-Intelligencer. .. 50.00 Butler hotel ......... ee ‘ 100.00 Frye hotel . base iWece ee piheets 100.00 Washington hotel 0.00 New Richmond hotel 100.00 loop Bon Marche Busch hote ‘ 0O Leamington 20.00 Seenic Hot Springs ee 3 y 10.00 j Geo. Moore Investment ( 5.00 Total $760.00 veral hundred dollars have been subscribed to the “tourist rate’ fund to push the Northwest victor) to a final conclusion in the supreme court of the United if necessary. That, however, is only a beginning. A total of $5,000 will have to be raised, Charles A 4 for equitable tourist rates for the Northwest Whe The Star plunged into the ist rates prevail trom the East to a year ago, Reyn San Francisco, whether by way of ‘one of the few lawyers in this the Northwest or by way of Cal sact nia Imost seemed hopeless, He Februa’ 4 the complaint, filed the of $1 went to Washington, D. C. | Southe never got a cent for all his;h . S. P. Appeals Case Now having won the first ro a décision from the Interatat eda tior ha also as to keep up order changing the m one | tip until April e Southern, In order to comba pynolds is | case and sitions sue or at Suggested t etained ttle This means a legal a year. At pre ciston rests in favor of cial attorne 1 the psiness 1 TT eens | Sead of | y tar cos y to its logical end in the U. 8, su PLAN IN INAUGURAL *;)",.°." sally becaus nmerce says it has for this fight nds of Reyn: had urged im to run t but this n ew of the cond of the tourist rate case v ld ssary funds tor Re ndorsement of the © both by The e hotel men in tt reas ce oe oon wowen vo ve TAX STRIKE MAY Southern Indica int to a settle right,|of the strik of the driv of the s Wilson|Seattle Taxicab and Tr r Co, ffragist; Mrs. J npaigned George De Lappe veral of the drivers,” he said who do not ec 1e back men, The s will be other cc with oth the same as pai ADVERTISING MANAGER'S a 7 the ei? sient Pee DAILY TALK Je Lappe said tha © company al tie-up had cars, but that a gene | been avoided At the Theatres You will find full pa he Star toda The m holy days have P come to about 3,000 and some P odd students at the University hs of Washingto Pa These melancholy periods Pa are of semi-annual occurrence bases They are as certain in thelr . b arrival as the season G are as disagreeable as an ep Ron. A demic of the hive ‘ Pas To make matters short, e M J Pas amination are just about to make their annual svake . amongst the student body It is every undergraduates MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES honest opinion that the fate DAILY awaiting him in two we will which be r than tha = - i fell Belgium, hurried thru ¢ dicated by the t cro fore adjo trols th other Northwest hou ioe ieee: sacin) END BEFORE NIGHT) Mra. We Martin turday night, according to ned to work, We will was only operating a few of its cast: “Fair tonight and Sunday.” RAR ARR AR AAR Annan RAAARARRAAARAAAAN THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 19. GRAND JURORS ‘COPPER KING MAY | SURPASS JOHN D. DELAY PROBE OF BOOZE RING The suspense of those fearing federal grand jury indictments in the booze-graft conspiracy cases today reached the snap. @ point when the inquisitors adjourned until next Tuesday for final action. Higher ups and lower downs in the alleged corruption en- tente had nerved themselves for the verdict of the government Jurors today. Report had gone out that this was to be the day of revelation To the anxious ones the delay has in it a Machiavelian tor- ture, like that of a reprieve for the condemned man who ailter- nately ho and despairs. That the grand jury is not to be nal 1, and vesti supersenss the probe has reach of i Dp, Was in new pha adjourn New Clues by Distriet At ay indicated he was 1 a new lead in the dicate probe 1 corridors, instead of being with a continuously mov ing throng of witnenses, investixat ors and reporters, were practically bare The angle of the situation now néer investigation was not reveal jal agents for the depart- of justice, however, were ; busy working out of ailen's dffice. it ts not definitely known wheth- er or not any of the Billingsleys! Ul be baled before the grand wien 1 reeetrenne 3 ; Tuesday They did not tell their story be. roment Friday n Herberg, of the Great ompany, which con Libert hn V Theat to the spent hou oseted Patrolman’ C. J, Mallen, who was t t ent who e of his ar lt t try < ( 10. E. Hedberg, cler the N DISCUSS EMBARGO ON LOCAL SPRUCE ACOMA, Jan : FOSTER ISLAND MAY BECOME CITY PARK Foster island, on Union bay, may acquired by the city for par urpose ng it from the MeGilvra ¢ $15,000 Frida It co rises six acres, adjacent to Wash ington park The council will have to confirm the deal before it can go thru The white plague is no more distastrous than the senior ex ams, they think Hence the worrying In London lights are turned out at 9 o'clock, On the campus they are refilled at this time. In Paris the women are clad in the morning. On the campus they are wearing wet towels about thei swe—that I, fig ratively king—for the man who originated the “towel” treatment for tired brains dis appeared long before President Suzzallo's da However, the tudes a ried Conscientious on buraing municipal electric juice , SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917. guardsmen got a line the breech stated t shore, appa W. A. Clark, of Butte. BY JACK JUNGMEYER ex-United States Senator From Montana. ing around 35 cents per pound! Clark bag @ $15,000,000 home on eaethey palace tn Los Angeles and » old home here former senator from Montana, overhauling richest man in America’ where they know the pedigntes f fixtures for } and possessions of mud smelier” metals have increased Clark's War prices on enormously already fabulous *em Everywn what has happened during the day on all his holdings. He gets bushel basket of telegrams ev ery evening at the New York District Attorney Allen and| A French syndicate recently “The Old Man,” 1 don't want a pound for all the ore actually ks against Serra, German official stat 770 CHINESE MAY BE DEAD IN BLAST Manchuria ‘ fearec » examinations x too much into a 1 an effort to eut in the muck of slothfulnes against senior a dress suit Will substitute a the mental te s comfortable ighed Sehif. Six cents for nickel cigare is threatened by local dealers. Wow! Also Zowie! Still, it's comforting to know that mo one has yet sug gested national legislation to create ONE CENT ee 4 MAN SHOOTS BRUTAL ‘467 IMPERILED AS U. S. CRUISER GOES AGROUND SAMOA, Cal. Jan, 13.— Floundering almost helpless in a heavy sea, the United States cruiser Milwaukee, which went ashore west of here in a heavy fog before daybreak today, was lying, at noon, broadside to the breakers. She was rolling and pitching badly, and fears were expreaned by some observers that the tide, then coming in, might turn her over. Shortly before noon the coast aboard the vessel, and hastily prepared to use buoy in an effort to impertied men It was t 450 men and 17 officers ¢ on the ship, 44 men and offi * being absent on sb eave The cruiser in 400 from Uy with a h y lint to sea, A high wind was blowing sending mountainous seas breaking completely over b resene t rr, at times who! ly obscuring the ru the haze which enveloped scene, men could be y on her deck, moving yut no Word came from them. Th wireless apparatus, which had « ered t fog the first news of the disaster, was sile Evidently 4 broken down under the tering to which the Milwaukee been a ted Prepurations were rushed to use the br hoped to have the on shore and in #a honr re company | fore many | tranded w “itech vit amar cate aboard “the” submarine H-?, which! she was trying to rescue when she} suffered a lke DENY PLOT T° KILL JOHNSON SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.— How soon he expects to place before the grand his formal charges that Thos. J. Mooney, Alexander Berkman and Eleanor Fitzgerald were con- cerned in a plot to assassinate Gov. Johnson was not disclosed today by Deputy District Attor ney Edward Cunha fate Dispatches from Sacramento to: oted Gov. Johnson as sa hat he b r he ot any plot to offer him viole tho he had often received thre cranks, which he had as o tional W such plo te icies, ARREST ATTORNEY WHEN CHEGK’S BAD. attorne A. Sha lo in the King count check for $10 on a Second ave. de partment store s leford adn passing the Beard Interferes With Necktie, So Bert Gets Barber Bert Swain, house manager of the Rosita Villa apartment, 1208 Tenth ave. W., had his Van Dyke beard amputated Satur day. “It was wearing out a red necktie | got for Christmas,” he explained. Tononow |/MID-YEAR EXAMS STRIKE TERROR TO HEARTS OF CAMPUS COHORTS AT ‘U’ What good is Prench to a police reporter? he wishes to be enlightened Joseph Blunt, forester and candidate for a skeepskin, is another who is “agin” showing his mental wares before the faculty, He say “I don't have to take them but they're no good, anyway Matt O'Conner, poet linreate of his class, and Harold Allen journalist, have uttered thei mite against the possibility of gettin ted at the home plate, Allen says: “A student ha no opport late and review his work scientifically, ity to e« NIGHT EDITION the witch of olden days would had a tough job to compete with the of turning whisky KILLS MAN FOR WHOM SHE GAVE UP FAMILY TIES 13.—Mrs. John Lawrence Smith, who two years ago came to Denver from Eureka, Cal, following a quarrel with her family because she maf. ried her father’s s chauffeur, shot and killed her husband 7 claimed he had beaten and abused DENVER, According to Mrs. Smith’s sto a.m. today and immediately started to abuse and beat his wife, tearing her clothe 4 Mrs. Smith picked up a who fell to the floor. Smith came home desperation, and shot Smith, .32 caliber pistol” , Was the divoreed wife i , son of the late — d the shot and rushed upstairs p reached the daughter of Alex Britton, a wealthy” her almost nude of Beaumont, ~ Ones but now Iv. and marks where her hus sand had beaten her, stoop over her | ches-buoy rig, and it was| husband's bod e Shoots Him Again afraid that first shot did not She placed the pistol At noon the monitor Cheyenne |against Smith's mouth and blew the and the naval tug Iroquois were ly-|top of his head off with another Jng clove by, but helpless to aid the) shot, according to the story Bendle Couple Mad Parted : Following her divorce from Moore Smith returned to her step. father’s home at married Smith, father’s chauffeur, in June, 1913. The couple had been living for several months. hip, fearing to come|told the police. He is being held as\.aid to own valuable oil properties, Atear es Psst she | deri es an | finish him.” Mrs. Smith > Salithy, at (he time etre SHOOTS GIRL AND SELF I IN HOTEL have sailed this morning for Portland on the 8. 8. — Hy . Last night over Jem’s de SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 Following a . 34, a marine fire- man, today shot and seriously Dora Roberts, 27, and then committed suicide tragedy occurred at , where the girl was “I was awakened early today by” something which felt like an ele k,” the girl told the police, "Then I saw Paul standing over mg a}Then I felt blood on my cheek, and ) knew that I was wounded.” ae CHOIR GIRL'S MURDER IS CHARGED TO YOUNG MAN Weldon H. Wells, 25, of Kansas Huntington, ne the woman lying tion in the murder a fashionable hotel hi be brought back olumbus by police. An affidavit charging Wells with first degree murder was was intoxicated and Village Choir Girt le oir girl who was (Continued on page 8) REP. WICKERSHAM, according is leading his votes for con It Just About Broke His Father’s Heart BUT TOM WENT WEST JUST THE SAME be proud of Afterward Read all about Tom and his family affairs in “Bobbie,” the novel-a-week beginning in Monday’s Begins Monday. Ends General Manager,” Book-length novel for 6 cents. chemistry de his own record th of crabbing the ca riment will shat- r man who ever the campus with on social engage- ments will be limited, » dormatories and sentence and ap. This will continue until » awful days are over and » students can draw sighs of and begin a new n looking for a job, , but necessary, say