The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 1

NIGHT fter getting EDITION ae The major general's remarks at } Olympia on universal training were Gell ringers, were they not? Weather forecant today , the scribes at The Seattle Star night and Saturday, occasional rain; Olympia still nee warmer tonight.” idote to the hot air poured in ies _THE ONLY PAPER IN _SEATTLE. ‘THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS j Temperature, 6 a. m. 32, noon 35. to their ears, why not try this? SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 ONE CENT kw TAINS AND AND BILLINGSLEY-MARGETT © FEUD STARTS EXPOSE If rival bootlégging gangs had not fallen out last fall, they might still be selling carload lots of ‘whisky in Seattle instead of telling their stories before the federal grand jury today, which the probers expect to result in the indictment of Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham, and others. The history of the rise and fall of rival syndicates makes plain the reasons for the present federal probe. Logan Billingsley, his brothers, and others, composed one of the rings. Ex-Patrolman E. J. Margett headed another. Both factions bought liquor from the Jesse-Moore Hunt company, in San Francisco. Prior to October, there was talk of a combination. A bootlegging ‘‘trust”’ with Billingsley’s brains, Margett’s knowledge of local condi: tions and plenty of money might have survived all attacks. Outwardly everything was peaceful. As a matter of fact Margett had refused to join the Billingsleys. Then, on October 9, Logan Billingsley is alleged to have gone up to the county jail and told two deputy sheriffs that he knew where and how they could make a big booze “FRED BILLINGSLEY * QUIZZED ON VISIT Logan, Ora and Fred Billingsley, whose stories all federal officials expect to result in indictment of Mayor Gill , Chief Beckingham | Many others who are alleged to have helped protect the Billingsieys in their bootiegging activities, ” _ The three intercepted a tr learrying 6¢ DUTLAW TELLS OF What Was Your Favorite wore wey ae WINNING BATTLE Book in Boyhood? Many 0 was diverted | Margett if the warehouse, andjed, Altho th A | ° T : “1 ate Se 00 Ee Hao FROM BECKINGHAM He 1 said to ha been one of Chief Visits Fred You grown of the present | posed to have captured,” sha elaten ol officers wh« wat te. the Bs Fred Billingsiey was called 1 ng but did not get a chance LANSING, Kas., Jan. 19.—“Tex” Schapper, only | senerstion: What 18 the name of! Archie in, pi ever worked out of Central station. | ments, saw Fr | before the federal grand jury jt continue his story Friday mora 2 9. Hanede Dek : ~_| the book you read many years ago | Hive Jay ¢ t th The next day he planned his re-|the chief explal ar Peiday. chaseing: :tehowing the... ee é one of 17 Kansas prisoners given Christmas paroles| and can still remember some part|(7i1) on Pike street | venge Two hours later a squad of po-| . te 9 Former police operator Lee Gam publication in Thursday's Pink nm was on hand and it is sup- | i oO a rack a a of? Twain's “Tom Sawyer’ and saw * Hla preference ss A Billingsley truck disappeared. | lice, ded by Chief Beckingham, | who did n t report back on time, told his story today.| 7.04 "Ronson Creese” lead an on the fact that."Tom Sawyer" mite | ‘The conclusion in the Billingsley |iiad’ captured Margett, guarding| Star of a statement from Chief | posed he was wanted to tell about The story appeared in the prison newspaper, of which) tavorites among Seattle folks, the right apot In a boy's heart by (camp was that Margett had stolen whisky in his warehouse | Beckingham that he had vis |'¢ shone calls received by Chief he was editor before his parole. | Chase siviey, of Daliand 8 tamne,|deing both interesting and very | it P | iH his, Dockets | was $2200 In| ited Fred's flat in the MeKay See ane Billingsleys. “Tran across some ef-the wild -bunch,” “Tex’ the book | whieh shade the ess utitorstace et Wecktaghame abose >. jane thane aevoréetant con po aayenecpire eiewiegs fl one [to The Star last ais a vt om | ereatest impression on his mind Two Like “Scottish Chief; e wrote, “down in Texas. They laughed when | said} when a boy was “Swiss Family, T¥o men, although unknown saline night of Oct. 10, willed into | show : ; on grafted po t r Th sttinh | the booking office and announe | that | was coming back to face 10 years. They called| Rebinton Ap bgee rect wen are. the Ravocgna| the number. on « track, @ me a fool for even thinking of coming back and, like) tion, t bodt 9 p. m.}the Jeske Moorediunt company, | Chief Beckingham, abodt 9 | « how he had pido vey to| Pike et, the night of Oct. 10to /noon and first printed in the Pink, ship large quantities of | get a tip on where to find Ex- follows: Patrolman E. J. Margett. “1 got a call on my nilhg : about Fred occupied the jury’s | rag private wire p. m., October 10, from ingsley,” said Beckingham, "Th 0. Pow Margett had been trapped p, esting and holds the child's atten. | | rs, of the Unitarian orders for all police . The letters would convict him—| | in lnstructive different ani.|Church, and Ole Hanson, who gives ut for it, as it had t las {t describ 7 time thruout the forenoon and | » asked ef oO the fool they thought I w: ' wavered. male whic h_the family are sup-| his reason “That it Is the beat boo! es stolen. T and probably the Jesse Moore-Hunt| jt ig presumed that he was al k a ie Iw ald relsoaa “Just across the Rio Grande ! fever written by a woman to the Billing peoy | boys we had arrested that night que: joned minutely as to the , “when caught with a truck load of ised the € cause It in ats from ef didn't tell the report clerk #0.} But he clever Mexico, and 1 know xico ine r Chief's visit and other visits ! ; : } in lest way o booze if he would teil me how F | you know the palm of your hand sae OS a ep hoxt . iach age 9 tau} the Billingsieys are alleged to (could catch Margett. 1 told him I ins ; lols gerquist, manager of| Fords to k So he agree i au 4 ‘ me oday there is an insistent is : Mindi i ter Coe An hour or {t was locat-|thorities how to get t 9] Se ae ee. et omer vou He said he would tell me ) mand for strong men peor of the} Sim's cigar stand, in the Cobb n hour s | 3 Fred. how to get Marge "9 - . owt hb ave. t the Bilin vs | ow to get Margett quick if 1 would. Hi building, says, “It is about even | ed, komew! 24th ave, and | again lings! | Logan, who spent two Lovrs and i re 5 1 ., J k n Tw irive: of He kne that pre ire had been | . mg x " up to his apartment. Tt tirthde ‘ambi aubteemsat may be with me between Robinson Crusoe | Jackson st wo drivers. one of} at | is ‘Ja half Thursday afternoon before | « ve your car a Iftis aan ‘ ‘ * and the tales of Cus ! hem named Charles Smith, alias|brought to bear upon orney | the jury enla ia thareteey he a 4 for the wioning. Once acros ae iene atfns 2 D Edmond dx, a former Billingsley et | Ge er eoury. 0t ‘Waahiagton to | the 3 Ae eee om tee are NO! trom “the McKay apartment house the border with those old friends Je u ha noe by ; denced i ce erinant pel cemta osecapbte | told 7 > Star last week about how! hecause you are known and I don’t of the campfire and saddle, no a ee his answer, he is very fond of jhe got and operated under police) want to cause you any embarrass- tection, was about the federal | ment,” Fred told me. “ 2 ve BY CHARLES P. STEWART at Pernambuco. Rio De! the great outdoors tle. Powerful influences wer p yower Dy ecg by sal bare ie United Press Staff Corres ent |Janiero dispatches stating that the Tie street car conductor on th lbabind this move | Brote beeen e fBermpesed me back. “T was ra Copyright. 1817, By the United Press British steamer Yarrowdale had ar-| Renton line said he likes “Oliver | » rest of the story is fairly | ey ular driver bets border, and I know whereof | BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 19— | rived at St Vincent Tuesday with| Twist” because he clwave fol o ls fs |bome, so I got a motorcycle officer speak The German raider is still at |) 7 ight vietima of th vila and tomes that it tt | “Maree played for immunity up and I left the car of miles from prison. the ‘square| De Jariero today are correct, to th dentification, | deal’ policy held me. | could think! has increased her score of mer- aveee OO eS, eee aie of ‘nothing else. One morning} chant ship victims by six. By when I picked up a Fort Worth pa-| this time she may not be alone per and the head in her depredations, it being SQUARE D . - Ty . N Log Tells Story : 2 DEAL EDITOR ONLY) accepted here that she has ; re A aa TO E A SHAL | MAN NOT BACK LANSING The m graphic story of the HAV! M R transformed one or more of her ut I could not go. Hundreds large, and if reports from Rio r aboard, also quoted those | w E € partment and there he The Rio report as to six a pagan er of trouble with the gov told me where I could get Margett. by the German srntes nt, (“ear thru” with tl 1 told him that when Margett cam | Baker Here as aurice lease the two boys, one of who ' » Baker, of » company, | was named Smith etly sipped to Seattle, r| By 1 o'clock the next morning That a gigantic merger of and the story which said the boys! prizes into raiders like herself pare ti Ps anion tae imate, OR OLD TOWN HALL the Jackling and Guggenheim [ea at the Ethelton hotel under the | d- raided Margett 8 warebg xe t around a ta praying for In the meantime the greatest ght ashore with the survivors copper interests, which would fiame of rke, and testified| gy EDGAR c, WHEELER and arrested him release Tex’ to return, I : sea hunt in history le on In the following our departure from Per eure carry with It consolidation of Jagainst his old customers, the] OLYMPIA, Jan. 19.—The state| o-nat ws h 1 I yi back South Atlantic. Allied warships 1100" NK ON di ‘eaual UMATILLA, Jan. 19.—"We | the Pacific Steamship Co., the | jiiiingwley mere inte ce at 1h Licce hat was the only time T ever “It was the hardest battle I ever! are concentrating to sweep the nad ihe log related. “At that) Will NOT have a city marshal | Alaska Steamship Co., owned So did Charles Young, the mat ture will leave tt to Attorney | visited, Fred Billingsley or any @& fought in my life, but the honor| most dangerous menace to al- tins we were traveling withaat| in Umatitia,” said Laura | by the Guggenheims, and the [yor whom Margett worked and funds to cover the actual axe| ci et. Say ceeree ee system has won. } lied shipping that has yet sailed (Continued on page 10) Starcher, the mayoress, in a Hill steamship lines, is being who fs the Seattle sales agent for] penses of Charles A iy oo fi ever made any other visit is @ - RES | the high seas into a corner and | firm voice, today. arranged, was contained in Je oore-Hunt people. Leet terra pyntiameday stele teed Pte mperiiinionp stan i 4. F. DOUGLAS, manager of the| destroy her. Councilman Stephens, one of | press dispatches from San | jogan, Fred and Ora Billi | the preservation of the Nortnetset The Smith released by Beckiaay Ear. Bou in . bh Salueiekahk ot the: saidare Gx| Oro ———| the two males in the feminine Pranciece Friday. yt Piclow enh Willan Oh | the preservation of the Northwest's |ham is known to the police as a and Frank J. Mille ales | dacit w here today. From the | Greenlake Almost city administration, withdrew | Despite denials from H. F. |transfer men who had | Ra ae ini | former Billingsley truck driver, He manager of the log of the British steamabip Rad-)| gy ds Cc his opposition gracefully. When | Alexander, president of the Pa. | ijauor maentk: were ten | Plated in this allowance. ng com: Las been under, subpoena to appear bompany told the norsbire, one of the victims, it was a now Corner he attempted to argue in favor cifle company, R. W. Baxter, Logan was arrested in San Fran-| te, senate appropriations com-| before the federal grand jury. MC. AL Thursds learne he German cal took @ @ of having a marshal, the mayor- head of the Alaska company, | cisco lala ccoreualitian be quia jase Deputy sheriffs and policemen Reauisites of the moving pict d enlake alt had a corner! ess crushed him. | and Judge Brown, chief attor Legen Decides to Tell her's Appropriation is made large | who have been under subpoena for § = r of variou » belief on snow this morning, the little The administration has de- | ney for the Hill interests here, f " were | °° wie a several days were restlessly pacing uw ere today the raider hide Vase there a| termined to abandon the old the report in San Francisco, nt ar ment decided | Co fesers! building cone aces: at araviohes lakes beginning to OPW Ot Tee teall: ebealiee. It le: outer contig he 8 anures Usually In Gare Breh ment decided ‘day again, awaiting their call to $0 ig JOHN J. KELLY, president o Report Six Other Victims 4 m. It was not till 11 o'clock | gate, and has already used the full touch with such sizable [Or and Pielow ded United oad irene nt | before the booze-graft investigators, the Union Transfer Moving and| This ide ution caine after ad-| that snow a little—very listle ax to slash $57 monthly off the | deals, persisted States marshals who were hunting : wc D. McKinnon, secretly indicted oe ‘ 1 é > ve one| K}clared he wanted to have the a} by the federal nd jury o Storage company, yesterday, filed {ditional questioning of survivors! also fell downtown | expenses of government. The n if made, will be one! fcr them - bape cme ; i : ary On & candidate for the city council 7 - . “A ————|of copper interest varily and} Logan was kept in BT ten ieee ena ihe arian {charge of selling liquor without ™ as a candida TL SAE OM nnn | OF onmhsip lines secondarily ‘ana Fe eee ee a te tani { Mis office and not from the public | government license, was arrested UH SONG B { It's all rubbish and too silly to/could be arranged. His friend ovpecr rae cobeats Friday and later released on bond, A = see Y amon uny< DED | deny said Baxter had seemingly deserted him. He | provided for a $10,000 appropriation ADVERTISING MANAGER’ > , heard notbing of any meré] became bitter, and finally decided | P. the service commission DAILY TALK lele and shoulder ac niment; catch-as-cateh-can rules; no holds barre: 4 the Hill steamship /to tell his whole story to District! was reported back to the senate ) f and I am sure that 1 would! Attorney Allen yesterday $1,200—the amount which Kass = SS sh-cab-buh-ra I ub-sa h-folks it’s all uh-beat, heard if there was any uch | He did—and the startling rumors | was to have been set aside for the | It’s all uh-beat afoot,” sald Judge Brown. |that his confession implicated May-||"seict rate case—-was choppe é ‘ ‘ ourist rate case—was chopped wioehould & : men Seattle’s Live Business Oh, ah utawtit beat “I've heard rep 8 that the Jack-lor Gill and Chief Beckingham sua | ic ia the uadaretal tp P uld see the most saper’ ie That's.ub-wainut ub her wh. ling and Guggenhetm copper inter-|cenly spread ig the ainaunt which Taanameomine attractive woman you Institutions wh-loose Back and on her uh ests in A 4 might be merged The king bootleggers were trap-|is to furnish for Reynolds’ actual ever met. leay town, sean }jexid Alexander, “But Mr. D. C.{ped by the government, Each one | expenses. Tanner assured the com what would be your first 4 Well-uh gal came out in ub-bula skir And-nh her ub-hair is that mh-bunk and uh-cheat {| Jackling, a director and heavy | told what he knew in a play for]! mittee that Oregon would appro: A j Nbaerrag ay stessingn And-uh I uh-says wh-Marthy ub-Abagail uh-Lee {| Stockholder in the Pacific Steam} immunit | priate a like amount for the same ape anit Listen to 1 Uh {|ship company, has not told me! sidelight developments broke in | hurpose: oe ‘ Listen to me anything about it louick succession | aj i as React dasa Uh-put on your uh-shoes, and uh-your ut If there's anything to it, the] Of these the arrest of Patrolman wees ar etia ate os | eamship end of Hobe of fc ullen was the mo: r M Ob, ub-gal uh-came out in ub-hula skirt Chim chp ih A ont 9 it ae a G J. Mullen ¥ ie . most st ne. French Mirors a niah shovidanced uh-this uh-wa Ke mino: iportance compared to the|He was caught by government |< > a And-u ah-dan ROR MINE Aint cou se whole merger. I haven't the slight-|ageats and a dictagraph, when he |} for Senators : est idea of why the Hill st Yes, uh-come ub-right uh-way with me amship |) attempted to persuade the Billings. | } But uh-Marthy ub-Abagall uh-wouldn't go, x etion with it.” line should be mentioned in con-|jeys and Pielow to flee the country. |) Wives; State Pays | ; she wouldn't uh-go I ; | He w suspended patrolman— |} é { § _ she wouldn't ub-go Reports of the copy merger} but afterward, in his play for im-|; OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan, 19 2 Sho is ub-still right ub-there in that uh-eab-buh i ere been Moi for several days.| munity, he told the government |\ With 57 committees of i Show Jackling is In New York |that he had been suspended as a|) house and 51 committees Show, | | » Billingsley s , ving to me y he uh-danced in uh-that uh-way! And ub-freezing to uh-death | uh-know tall” sent to the Billings! senate trying to find m : ‘ Now, to ub-folks who uh-go to that uh-cab-buh. |by Chief Beckingham places, the senate took the best nner Be SHAS TE Se BN ANTE ACY On uh-old Proad-uh-wa ii | Mullen Denounced room and appropriated $150 for pedatiptegalt mort i 1 wh-want to uhaa ey: was emphatically dented, |) f it with Wilton rug aA ae : That wh-gal never learned to uh-dance this uh-way BOG -SiRieh. | SSURA STOUR, h A OUrrORs, CAP’: yRleS 4 They uh-#said uh-name was uh-Wacky uh-Wee ? F Pet nut’ and a “Har ) rockers and a cretonne screen { ; But { wh-saw that uh-mole on her uh The investigation is nearing a!{ for eight wive mbers The young hero of 3 | ; ; | j Kne § |climax today, with Logan Billings-|} Senator Palmer, of King, is . » for And | uh-got up and uh-yelled i OKMULGER, Okla, Jan, 19.—'} ley elfconfetsed corrupter of |) the author and backer of these ut Wing Bowles” fol- Whee! Three bandits, Oscar Poe, Will Hart|the eity and county government, |) purcha lowed the girl he loved— . You uh-can't uh-fool me ? and Harry Hart, were killed by | telling in detail how he gained and 1 The include 2 Wil and landed in Arizona, § uh-can't wh-fool m § 2} posse headed by Sheriff Roach in a|operated under protection {ton rugs 5 oa rocker wh-gal i Mar ' agail uh-Lee In uh-good ub-old uh-Huh-chin-son, K fight 18 miles southwest of here to-} If, after meet ok the stories, the |) $24.70 Fre ey mi , $63.8 Hi adventures make > . from uh ub ou ub-see vo! day. Chief of Police Bowman of|inveh-talked-of indictments ore re-|) oak table 7; 3 card ta teresting. fictio dea ORE THAN SO0n0 SOPIES From uh-Huh-chin-sor Kan-han-sas, A rin uh-Hub-chin-sor $] Okmulgee, a member of the posse,| turned, Seattle will probably wit-() bles, $9; 12 folding chairs, $12 IntereshNg: NOTE Read DAILY Bee ' {}was wounded in the hand in the|ness the most dramatic legal bat-!) 4 yards cretonne, $3 the story in next week's fight | Ue of its exciting histors FOES Ve (Star AA RAAAARARRAAARAR AAD ARR DARA ADD DD ADR ARAAR AREA DLDDLP RAL PDD ALD LLLS . Aner