The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1917, Page 1

The Northwest has won the first round in the legal battle for equitable tourist rates, so as to compete on an even basis with southern California. The decision of the interstate com- , merce commission, removing the $17.50 discrimination against us, is now under attack by the Southern Pa- cific Railway Co. IT WON’T GO INTO EFFECT ON FEBRUARY 15, UNLESS SEATTLE AND NORTH- “Tonight and Wednesday, in creasing cloudiness,” says the weatiier man, But wily worry, as long as you have a stout umbrella Turn to page 4 and enjoy a laugh pastes Ey to Tell About Profits on Leak By J. P. Yoder WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—J. P. Mor- gan, the world’s the house note leak committee what, if any-| thing, he knows about enormous profits) | “gleaned in Wall st. from a leak on P’ Wilson’s note to belligerents. He was ordered subpoenaed today, dong! with his partner, H. P. Davison, Frank A.} Vanderlip of the National City bank and other big financial men. Orders to summon them came in the midst of new and glaring testimony of! Thomas W. Lawson, Boston financier. Law- son, in an impassioned speech, inferentially cast the charge of perjyry at Chairman enry of the committee. enry, he said, had committed perjury. He reiterated that Henry had mentioned , = One of the sensations of a sensational] |#a:»-0: | erovaleiscne tabetha Of tee bes : J eriff| while the statement so madaulin Attorney General Tanner a1 be seine teen obtained. | Boyd were called for conference ein: oma, eee j mittee, neve ad been obtaine 2 od with via} | HOt true, in fact, I have thought it morning was the revelation that Mrs. Ruth souncet toasy ne would « Baye He “une Senate” | Madden was closeted with special Nen;"to"'remove’ once. and. for al Reynolds to represent this » his A Nee inte th, and|®seuts of the department of justice.| wvery — possibl sored Visconti, a star witness, is missing, tho sub- (ri (ne "peuiion ot the rail ncpia aroused Brown's wrath, and/iya was walking the corridors,|crer),, Possible ground ok aly é e fo e de-| F > be cal m1 * 7) poena servers hunted her all night. [faade. for: a <reegria inl, the |tor, atone with accusations that he | "Stink to be called, at neon. |, |ters of local interest i ' as lah 9 cision of the inters minerce was “trying to senate They were expected to be aues-| scrutiny of a capable and certainly } Herpes cnty Bi ei oo “ | EM jcommission, putting the Northwest | Me the sentlemanttee Kine is| ti med on the dispositi Be Ri entiely dines d govern —particularly in the Mexican Aaked t6'tell What he tote pub-| 0% 2% cae! fonting wih Calltorais to be the great ‘I am’ of this sen- jor shipments seized 1 Paper official from another district and situation and later in the war. |lishers following the conference |! ,i* Did for tourlwls. gg UO gt abe Ita former ‘Peerotman | 4 Calling of Morgan and other [with le at which awson iatdal expise of to re a right here and aetive Tithe ih District Attorney Alien was a big business men means that [claims Henry named a cabinet a eerie ga oe : \the bootlerging ready Tuesday to send wit. f the committee is now launched | member, Lawson said : 5 bitt dratted by] Taylor challer aim to go out| the bootleening | sileged to, Nesses before the inquisitors in upon a probe, armed to reach ed them whether I should pvsare Prgms ~seapa into an ante-room and repeat what! entry quick succession. He spent Sat- ra tals of Ameri- | cpa ner Clam ofr yublic service iasion | Thomas W- Lawson, Sketched Especially for Tee Star, White He Was)" 2) l) have helped Logs sley CON) Urday, Sunday. and Monday aie into the very vi Z r with the case or drop it,” uced 6 ho he Ht Committee Last Week . bi duct a raid on s liquor ‘ f can finance to discover, if pos- And I gave them s tu os ies Bes Ries *at| wn" Before the House Loses Balance pnp pein 20 cop ane or sembling data and interviews sible, whether there is some roduction of everything |e o ong er rege $4 CRE Vl repeat what 1 said right|S¥PPIN in WHICH Oe ewthis inelden:| ind Probable witnesses. sinister connection between [that happened when I saw Henry.” | 917.000 Part of which ls 10 Bo ‘A here,” Brown replied, and hefore| were taken. | Tt wae tee et whicn indictments are returned > h r paying an ex or extra costs o} 7 cee hat ha an-| Preced rgett’s res hich 8 x ficials. Washington and the Wall St. Well, I'm willing to admit he| poe same it against ans attempt WHISKEY rd new what had happen: reiped make Margett squeal on the | prapably igo 3 Ye bese 2 ; rida’ f ed, ung, striking a hard |! " \¢ | probably | follo estimony 4 Representative —Harrison’® told Mr, Cosgrove of the World and |e eee eet eee an rate f Billingsleys and start the whole) ji} eyn and We HL. Piciaee motion was that J. P. Morgan, |. Morgan Called STATE biggest banker, must teil) le— Either he or * ~~ sat Ta | WEST BUSINESS MEN SEND SOME ONE TO WASHINGTON, D. C., TO STAY ON THE JOB AND FIGHT. It means fight, fight, fight! It means that a petition for a rehearing must be overcome, that a request for delay must be resisted, that injunctions must be prevented, that appeals must be met. The man who conducted the legal fight from the start is the man to finish it—Charles A. Reyndds, former chairman of the state public service commission. Every one. concedes that. Reynolds has given his services freely before. He should not be asked to make another year’s sacrifice—for it means a year of constant battling at least. It means a battle that will cost approximately $5,000. Lawson on “Stand Before _ “Leak’” Probe Committee | TAYLOR be. TOAD are FUND ia: Op Samper oe OLYMPIA, Jan. 16,—A fist fight between Senator Howard “TOURIST RATE” i Tayi of What- SUBSCRIPTIONS | | Taylor and Ed Brown Gom stirred up acommotion on verti, Tract ractioa, Light & Power Butler hote! to “for of trying to make himeelf paws of the senate,” and had Frye hotel . 100.00 Pw Gir Washington hotel . . 100.00 9 New Richmond hotel. ... 100.00 | Tayler Whikiedtered reven nal Fmt pice t lull to go out into an ante-room and eee 5.00 | } repeat what he had said on the 0.00 | | floor. Brown refused, saying | he would repeat his accusa- 50,00 tlons on the floor. Seattle Taxicab Co 100.00 Hits Him in ge ; Stevens’ Dancing Acad aylor reached over Brown's 5.00 | | desk and struck him a resound: ‘i : | j ing whack full in the face, ie ene ar vi 10.00 | Brown came back with his f S.« | Then, as Brown lifteu a to strike, the two were separ- ated by senators. BY EDGAR C. WHEELER) | oP hile the ight was in progress, OLYMPIA, Ja 16.—-It looks t but he was nowhere f fund. will be immediately proved the bill an | The Seattle Star PAINS AND that his ap palm of his hand on —- SEATTLE BUSINESS MEN CANNOT BE PIKERS!. THE TOURIST RATE VICTORY SO FAR HAS COST SEATTLE BUSINESS MEN NOTHING. But no thru, or victory will out of our hands. PRACTICALLY w they must come be snatched right Seattle business men are not pikers. They cannot neglect this matter. They must subscribe at once. Call up The Star of the Frye hotel. NIGHT that gone, Now has she had waited in ve called the grand after vain to before jury a officer may begin 3 a search for Mrs. busy with E. D. K., rain or shine. manny . as wurrrrcococmancmnceaeeeited - — i THE “ONLY PAPER IN, SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE ‘NEWS —— VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1917. ONE CENT On TRAISE Any Gill and Under leo a or Manager Bass EDITION WHERE, WHERE SHE CE 7 oe FIST FIGHT IN STATE SENATE MAYOR'S SECRE TARY BEFORE U. S. GRAND JURY Hodge Fire in Federal Probe jand the report of government gaugers to : |Sheriff Stringer that had- whisky probe today. Sergeant Putnam vestigation was to be } | water substituted. | The first witness sent before the |grand jury Tuesday was James Mc- Farland, mortgage and loan dealer elled for @ 8¢f!who filed suit against Mayor ont} in the superior court last week, ayment of a $15,000 sitet: to him the names of Secretary of State Lan- «: , Charles A. Re} the outcome of al tage sing, German Ambassador Von Bernstorff =y eee } a cen es I oa fires rt cio?) eo and Barney Baruch, New York stock specu- wasninston. D. ¢. to see that the jon Taviat “cblected® saying the| Allen prepared to investigate fur lator. tetct tate ease’ Sl. saade pes mmittee never had! mat or ap-|trer IG ote eden, iter. under heriff Sheriff Hodge, and Deput usand others about the alleged | {0.0 | - , United States probe H. P. Davison of the house of conversation, even tho he has sald| attorney & - oll aa! 2b share pte sins , Fred Billingsley There | Morgan, F. A. Vanderlip of the |i: was in confidence,” Chairman 4 eles ye a Bessy ge | Fred Billingsley was on } * stional City bank, New York, |itenry interrupted jae : t -| ign himnaell, Be tired & Spevy cone federal building 1 - { S. Bache and Sol. Wexter | | awson then recounted meeting ‘ at Reynolds having « - - and as about to strike him when} iieee stem aah’ tabd ‘an. appear i @ subpoenaed. The motion | john O'Hara Cong: Sunday ed-|, t thus far to a successful| Theft of about $3,000 arth: “T Wakke, oF Miu Thies. atfeet, ard me a ale re have done |#nee before noon prried. itor of the World, Erman J. Ridge-'|, hould be the one manh ®f Contraband liquor, while in jrtore. was placed in the count lor. atter the ficht wae{, Whether or not they would go “I think | might get some in- [way of ryvody’s, and Dor to see it thrn to a finish the custody of former Sheriff jail ra raid on the Salle 6 ef acd rt _—. ane before the grand jury today was| formation from them," Harrie |steponald, Boston financial wri It rstood that the amount, Bob Hodge, wae verified Tues. ‘out eight months 1 by Ry tt Vs o being made | ot definitely known son explained, afterward, with | and telling them the alleged con-| given by the public wervice commis-| day, when H. ©. Dodson, for- |liquor for some unknown reas ar the brunt of everybody's at-|" "~) ssies Smith. formerly emplo: “- ersation with Henry, Lawson sald) gion will go toward eOmpensating| mer govérnment gauger, sub. was removed from the county Jail . . f led by the Billingsleys a truck and Henry 4 @ state- Reynolds for his services | mitted his report to Sheriff and placed in the Kyres warehouse | ¢ vee tibord by te Pe ib Pe ont jar ide his first appearance ment to be give Henry, but! Stringer, following a close |two weeks before Hodge's term ex. |? TWO Session ‘ pata Pa » brought in by ta ADVERTISING MANAGER’S J that Henry p nis own check of the liquor at the | pired | 4 | government DAILY TALK side when he announced the state Eyres warehouse Dodson's test. made at the order , atch ‘eal Gttviie on tecek for ment Here’s Tom’s Pay _The liquor, the property of Jack |of Sheri{f Stringer, showed ” that Poor, Sad Tacoma! }\yiv2ii: sien the latter was ar! Pe aie Referring to the Henry confer-| ; < nine barrela of whisky had been . lrested, the night of October 10. —= lence, Lawson shouted || as Leak Witness tampered with. The contents ot || LAdian Solon Says||rested. the night of Detoner 1 “One of the other of us has com-| these various barrels has changed || He Likes “Rainier” |\w. 1. riciow with the H WwW mitted perjury—deliberate, ran} WASHINGTON, ies hk net to wat wa, | Billingsleys Guy ts veriery,/' ey Tawigh: who ack Hodge announced that his i Carleton; ex-Pé J. Mul e an | “Unless your chairman said Yh, $500,000 or #0,” in a i for the return of his goods bibl ng Be 16.—Here’s afin; Arthur Hatton, former. d T these things I'm a rank perjurer,|[ recent stock market break, wants would be heard in the supreme |f 9994 one on Tacoma: Jelerk at the Billingeleys’ Di our rade utfit to be'anywhére outside thell tt, he can collect $2 a day and 5 Jcourt at Olympia ‘Thursday he one memier of the ti Night drug store, and members of ters of a ri n.” ie: te for on fle he has trav | “If 1 win this case, which 1 ex.|J hovse of representatives who flit ag vars of a prison cents for each mile he ha , | fe dry squac Lawesnts dotiarat cose after, kellesed aud wilt 1, coming and ect to do,” he said Tuesday, “1 |} N&8 80 big vegetated te | James Crehan, secretary to May had faced intermittent objections |{ going, for his work as a witness WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— il assuredly for the re turn Sion, 0) SAO. WieEmerien cont | or Gill, was in the executive offices imony. He de-|| be the house note leak George Dewey, admiral of the [of all liquors ax they we change in the mame of thet] 1+ the city hall when Mullen, the heard fully. i : U. 8. navy, is nearing death jirom my place of business,” J} mountain le the only indian iy nended patrolman, asked to see asin igo ‘ ‘ member — William Bishop — of J] SUSPe" . : ‘ sat with this afternoon. |the mayor following his suspension jo WAS AC ood sc sad aiotily of | SNOW KILLS PAIR H iceinnen save | | John Von Herberg of the Greater ’ 1 Sa hed ¢ 1 p.m. by Dr. Fauntleroy Bishop says he isn't strong |! ,., abe raget Oe ee Lawson ed that he ba ad ' MORGAN WILE TALK ert pm, by Dr, , for “lifting the curse™ and sub || Theatres company, was in the y ed to Henry that the committee said: - or's office on thi a Tagive into cambore the elsest Fon “The admiral is worse than Horace C. Emery, a relative of stituting, an aboriginal name Tipeared before the grand jury last ap WHEN SUMMONED at any time since he became William Martin, and BH, 1, Skeel, || like “Tahoma’—a name which |v . e ty aunties irominent Seattle attorneys, and at ALU ai So li Asks for Outsider anid 5 Shortly thereafter, Dr, Fauntle ert = Stewa o Anchorage, aoe ; q The attorney general's office mW YORE, dan. 16: A0 the of) announced, "The end may! Alaska, were | Monday by a} bath wal 9 ‘ded 9°04 Fl an not finally advised me wheth P, Morgan & Co. it was! ome at any, minute snowslide about miles iniand|| enough for me,” he says, Jer or not Mr. Reames, the United aba lig ide ape admiral ife, who has} from Valde ne | States attorney for Oregon, will MORE THAN 80,0904F 0P1ES 7 As, eninote” i eta his be alinc con The men were inspecting a mine! the reservoir of a new woes AL to Seattle to us in the in DAILY . Pees ten tthe eahe neo his illness became jof which Martin is one of the big as much as an ordinary] ‘estigation now under way know,” Lawson flar Oth siincinedade wcll in said to be near col-[stockholders, Emery was manage ‘ of ink, and is shaped] Allen, “A request to that (Continued © 6 5) ' sa recult of her long vigil. while Stewart was superintendent. «6 fit the hand comfortably. is now under consideration, 4 ~ $3,000 worth of con- been stolen, substituted while stored with the Eyres St age company, were developments in the _. Chief Beckingham was scheduled to sign an order at noon, turning over to Ser geant Putnam all liquor held by the city. admitted than an in- started to see if large quantities of this liquor had been stolen and have r be granted ee elieve that it will Mr. Rea is a splendid law. yer, His presence here will def finitely remove from the minds of any of those concerned as to the srand jury's investigation all fear that its deliberations could or would be influenced by any pete sonal unfriendliness My own unfriendliness has beem hinted by a local public official, Plan to Implicate Mayor It has been general knowleige that they intend to tell alled ae counts of their op ions here, and implicate Mayor and Chief Beckingham Police records, showing the nums ber of times the Billingsleys and other bootleggers were arreste?, Where contraband = liquor waa stored and details concerning star During the recess prior to the res sumption of the session Tuesday, District Attotrney Allen probed the county angle of the liquor syn- dicate operations Mike Halley and Matt Starwich, deputy sheriffs under Hodge, were closeted with Allen Monday. They are supposed to know the relation of the sheriffs office to outsiders, selz operations. M and of Mrs. ire DeHann, of the women’s protective division of the police de partment, was called to Allen's of- fice for a confe: late Mond 1 don't think my summons was ustified by any reumstances whatever,” she suid afterwards, PALMER, GHENT AND BARNES, JUST THREE OLYMPIA, Jan, 16.—-The senate today passed a joint resolution fn- troduced by Senator Walter Davis of Pierce, memorializing congress to submit to the states for ratifi- yational woman suffrage out now pending. Only senators— Palmer, mt and voted “No.” . ee Appearance of James Crehan, secretary — Mayor Gill, before the federal grand jury when it reconveried at 10 a. m. Tuesday, & ¥