The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1917, Page 1

Y ELECTION’S COMING It wan just a splendid day, Sun- Three weeks from tomorrow the city election will day, wasn't it? But along comes have been decided. One of the most important ques Weather Man Salisbury and spills tions ts the municipal market, for which bonds of $600, A the beans. It’s going to be colder 000 are asked, What do you think of it? Write The ARI PW ARAARAR ARR AAAD ARR APRLAA PPD LL LAS tonight, he says. In other words: Star a letter, not more than 250 words, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS “Tonight and Tuesday, fair; colder | Kaiser Holds Americans as Hostages ‘STOP SUB WAR IF YOU WANT PEACE™ WAR WOULD END IN q SODAYS WITHU.S.IN, ANSWERS | DECLARES RUSSELL SERS | By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL WASHINGTON, D. ©., Feb. 12.—Suppose war > GERARD RESISTS | GERMAN THREATS BY CARL Ww. ACKERMAN ited Press Staff Cor (WITH. AMBASSADOR GERARD’S © PARTY AT BERNE.) Berne, via Paris, \Feb. 12.—_The German government intends | to delay departure of Americans now in Berlin in order to have such citizens in hand for retaliatory measures, in case America declares war and interns German citizens in {the United States. ; Permission for Americans eventually by depart was only obtained by the stro stand of Ambassador Gerard. From neutral soil it is possible to reveal the pressure the German gove does come to us because of the stand we have taken— You believe and I believe that war is the sum of all things terrible and hateful. | ought to believe| SY ROBERT J. BENDER i? * United Press Staff Correspon I have seen enough of it. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12— Yet war between the United States and Germany| president Wilson today formal. | i H H > nt | now would not be a thing to shudder at or be sorry-for.| ty notified Germany that the | . sos U. S&S. government can enter It Would Be a Thing to Rejoice Over the A udpiaieedait wadtas +0 It would not be a war fought with guns, shrapnel) avert an armed ctash between and bullets. it would be a war where moral conviction) the two nations untii the new would be found stronger than all such, weapons and| U-boat decree is withdrawn. eh ages - .. oe “ The president's communication, bringing a surer and quicker victory. ® seat thru Swies Mininadr Ritter, | yf you have not thought much about this the fore-| representing Germany in the U. 8. | going statement will seem too far-fetched a RITaVa-|was made public at the state de: | gant, But it isn’t. It is just cold-blooded fa partment after it had been admit: | brought to bear on the American amb It Will End Whole War in 90 Da }ted overtures? had been received | dor to force him to sign a treaty hi : n ys from the Gertijan government. This ; f-A$ h fet of Germa : Ni ted States and Germany | «overnmeat it would glad: ; : | would guarantee the safety declare way it will el be over and the war in Europe |(,.2cciamyiune, vith Germaay| fi A ships in American waters. Gerard persi will be over, too. Peace will be made, or in the making. |"!hira~s ber ("boat decree of 3 ently refused. : 4 pens it e" Jan. St and renews her pledge of} \ Meantime, in all probability, not an American lite) May 4, last, im te Sussex case. | ~ es Ses, | such proposals to Washington i av 4 y J ican b s i In admitting it bas recelyed af : a z jess he was granted freedom of pal have been lost or a drop of American blood shed oats Mapes rere a mma = | pari; ype daienns ¢ Uni Nal hy de pert ' q : . i Then the « American “tntettigent German ain: the tranche rae ter Ai ml ms ; a e Jeutes ascertained that 1h fectly well that it {s all off; the game is up for Germany enn tab cng gi “4 ay Vhs it WARBURG | [likely to be held as hostages in G ® t € mi wh e ME e's '! r 7 Every man in the ranks of the entente, trenches or anywhere els rmany was igitiating nexem} “, f pone? for America’s guarant German ships’ safety. will know ‘perfectly well that his «ide is certain to win vine Ualaed or | . a AS WELL BEAT PLANET MARS AS UNITED STATES is teal Serine an anted permission All the world will know these things. To win, Germany must beat|derartment of etate menes the folt , ere finally I leave with ltrain, but received their passpo the United States. By no human possibility could she beat the United | toy ng statem a 4 rard on his 8} nly four hours before the ti (Continued on page 7) ‘ itor the Senarcaier ~ was made orally ram for the departure. to the department of state ‘atel WASHINGTON, Feb. a Gerard Defies the Kaiser igh crimes and | When the American co | Saturday efternoon by the mint “Bond we Nope—tondly Go we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Ne Catiahe. r . - }of Switreriand that the man | Yet, if wills that it continue until at! the wealth piled by the bondman’s 250 years of unrequiting toil! int nd bed Re dents in Berlin went to Gerard i> government is Ifink fo Aemoliole shall be sunk, and until every drop of bicod shall be drawn by the eword. as was said 3,000 years ago, so| tration of currency laws, Rep. 4 jody and told him of what they with the United States provided etill it must be said, ‘The judgments of the Lord are true and righteaUs.aitogether.”—Abratiam Lincoln, inj Lindbergh of Minnesota to hag heard, Gerard replied: that th ommnercjal blo¢kade| Second Inaugural Addres: day on the floor of the house 1 told Count Montgelas that against FE nd would fot bé in terfered with AL the ‘request ¢ asked impeachment proceed- sit there until Kingdom Come, ! tion was made in writing and pre members of the Federal Re After. this the Berlin offie MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12— | these perished, firemen belleve . a ony serve board. ings against Governor Hard- 16: jeave until all Americans Wel po siagl mu sented to him by ti mints Is WAR cost IN granted passports to those desi hirteen lives are believed to Jn account of the ‘oon Lindb gh charged “conspiracy” + ~ ice which forn ter Sunday night " r Se eaeaien, |t0 leave with Gerard. K ve been lost in a mianight firemen have b follows ENGLAND Now |with J Py Morgan R we * n Americans Are Anxious F. pen hav n amcondumth _ Loeb & CO, in which Paul War) 4 large number of America fire which destroyed the Ken- i burg was a former partner. the! sti) remain in Berlin and phe Wood hotel here. Bodies of 12 their search for the bodies of oth + tbh : 1 i to sa LONDON The war ‘is st National Bank of New York, | anxious to leave, but the indications | is, now as before, will now .costing England $28,177,035 i other banking Imstitt-| when the Gerard party left were.” to negotiate, formally in (25,790,000) a day, Chaficellor of tions. that they would be delayed ba victims are believed to be bur- "Victims ally, with the United Seatex the Exchequer Bonar Law declared Pau Warburg Lindbereh | and even weeks. Searc il be ied in the ice-encased debris of Sear bed ' the comm albyijrera The Berlin government, fearing the hotel. The body of the ‘8! OF other victim, a woman who net England ropes that America may declare war, ap § @0@\ parently desires to have a fet died from injuries suffered as American citizens in Germany Of He declined even to commu March 4, 1865. | aurted late to omorrow,, Chief R tore providing Osland clung to a win until tos fingers were so. When h Johnson, who building to b , » . ‘ charges, had been active WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.— F ee Aonroiy on ep today NEW YORK. Feb. 12—Fire, |ing the federal reserve le The fight of a 17-year-old girl ie statement was made in connec the interests of big b h 5. probably killed the enanes lion with a move for a vote of reported in some quarters to | iD th * peed a fdas gpm of senate confirmation of the credit when she jumped to the street from a third floor window, is at the morgue. vlockade aga be broken th (Signed) P RITTER 4 ye. “ have resulted from an ex Phe blaze which originated on his memorandum was given ht to Influence and obtain the Which retaliatory meas Sireéture. was discovered and probably! Yotowing. reple was, dispatched, ofaysen. President Wilson's | GUARD NEARS HOME rc American liner Noordam, of the board |Ameriea are interned 11:40 last night. Lives of 6 os ’ physician, to be rear admiral Ie citernoea. the weencken | In connection with the “lobby-)” Meanwhile the foreign office i sons living in the Spectators who arrived before My Dear M The girt is Miss Dubose, daugh — this afternoon, The Noordam’s | in the framing of the legisla-| striving to keep America out of the” ter of Capt. Dubose, of the SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. The pier is near those of the North on Lindbergh said most unusual! y “ mt ious ped mated at piling boxes against rise sacri loan: navy medical corps, over whom [Oregon and Washington troops,| German Lloyd ships, which | iowers had been vested in this|.., Sues ie ae party oaea $25,000 nb kagwn dead outer walls, which served as in nowled: A Grayson would jump in his |who left Calexico shortly before| have been in port since the | joa jas beseen - xe rion: ont Mrs. Lucille Squire. jumped from for the lower floor Sg Beghpan nga. ong distance promotion midnight Satukday, should . reach | outbreak abe ae RBS. e of the U. S. hei support of the statesmen on the It de Much of the downtown fire a loped today that she had/ home some time tomorrow, it v4 d been injured to the third floor; head crushed, died at Wilhelmtrasse. ty a > . the hat the govern © | bee ry senator with the plea | stated today at the headquarters of 4nd four overcome by coal gas and } . t a ot paratus was in service at anothe ov ; been to nator wi al lay a ai several billions of Gol-| rhe ne . 3 peerital. ; fire when the al a n, ¢ i States would ¢ discuss t father ought to have the the western department of «the | are in a dangerous conditior 1 dministration of The general feeling of Americana Missing and believed dead ve i. i of tae a in, delay-| with the ( 1 KOV ent any |i) that his record was untar-| arm fhe trains ‘bearing tt Al. are members of the Noor lars thru maladministration Of cur jer jn Berlin was expressed by the!” Mrs. ——- Van, Gladys Thurst,/!2¢ the arrival of the department. | tic i may mramone leh. | PiaC at his record was arjarmy. ains ‘bh , 6 ‘ nbers ¢ i Dil penne taeh youngaon oe: Davidineate? 3h es When the fire company arrived aM 4 i argh nished in 41 years’ service, and in|troops were declared to be in| dam's crew. A Oo p.m 8 d Margaret Sheppa pa on are ri ts t 1 eve a wil or Siitton Fairs, Blanche| minutes Iate and without ladde sion were ft to withdraw Its proc: |that wervice he had been in actual| Northern California today, ap-)*till burning in the hold Ss, ee bis rages feet on Amer em Elmer Johnson, C. Luce,|the infuriated spectators attacked | mation of the dist of Jandary | way and every corner of the globe | proaching the Oregon line Noord Wei nuanest Gatnen : stl coe Con aeeia, TT Saree ee unidentified man, Detroit, Mich.; |the firem Capt. Tim Sulli ch, suddenly and without pre-| where the navy goe ship to her is the freighter Har - 1; unidenti-|of Engine Company No. 4 j led the urance which it |qyit) that Graysons, nomination is {Ue BOATS RENEW away. A still alarm was turned in not only from the trip, but from the Agnes ——. charwom Te nep yogyees a and hi his ‘ip au a ad given this government on the) sidetracked indefinitely and teat to the Hoboken fire department TO WAR ORPHANS ge rant geet r= 4 5 firemen when they arrive not feel that it can enter into any | responsible. She modestly . says pouring from the Noordam wher PARIS, Feb. 12.—James Stillman | SWiss officials and the allies, swithout ladders were drive . discussion with the German g0v-!gne did not want the lobbying| WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—De-\they arrived. A emergency today remitted to President Poin-|Gerard plans to remain here for patreains of water K ernment concerning the policy ¢f| knows struction of tonnage by U-boats! «quad, wearing gas helmets, enter: | car check for a million franes |f@W days and will then go to Parisy _ Firemen base their belief t submarine warfare against neu |showed an upward trend today, ac-|ed the hold of the ship and rescued | ($200,000) for distribution among | ftom there going to Spain for the many perished in the fire on the| trels which it is now pursuing un cording to Lloyds’ report, forward |several men Two were carried the children of members of the| Yey#se home. In the meantime, he te siitement of Allen Paulson, one 9 less and un German govern SsuBS WONT FIRE led to the state department by Con-lout apparently dead One was {French Legion of Honor, who had{!8 communicating all details of the » of the first to arrive, He saw ment renews {ts assurance of the sul Skinner at London. He report-| found to have a chance for life, | been killed in the war. past week to Washington by cod@ many persons come to third floor 8 (fourth of Ma and acts upon the ON LIFE BOATS ed tons destroyed dispatches windows and cry for help, then| assurance, I am, my dear minister, |last report Mary's hospital LINCOLN PINCHED! fall back into the flames All of ate | BERLIN, via Sayville, Feb, 12 é } 5 HIT BY AUTO, HE n Kupurssoek, 37, a coal pas LONDON, Feb. 12.—China To His Excellency, Dr, Paul |“No German submarine ever fired} LECTURE ON SWEDEN senger, was dead PORTLAND, Feb, 12.—While the] Ritter, Minister of Switzerland Jat lifeboa nor will do so in the| Manritz Endersted(, newspaper! ‘The ship had been loaded and|memory of Abe Lincoln was being | WARTS NEW PANTS on this enb- | future declared an official press | man from Borro: to sail next week, a honored today, Abraham Lincoln the| however, and was rushed to St has broken off diplomatic re N o other exchange: ADVERTISING MANAGER'S den, will lec:} was prepari DAILY TALK | lations with Germany, it was ject have t place between this |bureau statement today, denying|ture on his at the Luth-! full crew of 240 men having been |40, an Indian, was arrested on a| 4 authoritatively reported here = covernment and any other govern-' British versions of the sinking of|eran church, 911 Stewart st. Mon gaged. The fire was in the coal charge of picking James Adams’ “You don't expect me to gee = er ae today. | ment or persons.” the British 8. 8. Havestone. day evening. } bunkers Ipocket and stealing knock down and then get noth- - - - aa ———— | ing out of it, do you?” A Good Way to Start | Wallace Frosberg, who lives at the Week 1416 24th ave., got up, after being knocked down Monday morning by a car driven by J. L. Lewisy 8 18th ave. at corner of | BY E. 0. K } Richard Harding Davia carried {cgaret, 1 soliclted conversation, as; At least a dozen rice eaters) Fruttis, they are all blooming dis: | across the big pond, between Kaiser! Third and Senec demanded teresting ba Tong WAR Correspondent binoculars, but it would have be-|a good war correspondent naturally | passed me in that hall, but all re-| courteous to war correspondents Bill and the others. When I sidled|damages, Lewis offered to take | Tong are tough things, but |hooved him to lug a microscope | would, hoping to get a line on some | fused to fire, I decided then to pull and kept their conversation well|up and began to grow confidential,| him to the hospital, But he didn't Standard F |they are searcer than hen's teeth |and a special letter of introduction |of the staff officers of the Lame| my whiskers off and my coat and censored he closed up his mouth just like C.| want to go there. f f any one should |to the lee. Tong to ge en an ideal Duck faction at to allay suspicion, and get a H. C, of Noodles Allen Dale when you ask him why “Give me a new suit—that will 4 | wsk me. of what was going on in the} “It was hard on Charlie’s« neck | new disguise thusly I ventured a question to one of he tried to load that $1,600,000 Se-| do.” 3 | Armed with a! trenches where the bullet . went thru last Censor Their Talk the Chinese merchants who stood ,attle, Renton & Southern brain But Lewis didn't want to do 2 | yale of rabber Th Milwaukee hotel, Dead | night, wasn't it?” says I, fingering Back and down! like an owl behind a stack of knot- storm on the people of Seattle. | 4 vil precis, a jong Man's hil’ of Chinatown, anne my penell In my pocket } Ai the stairs. 1 ted grass and what appeared to be Officer Ed Hagen’s was the only erg was not injured, a hole . veard. made to/a very ordinar He responded with two perfectly Ought the eager dried onions, if the tong war had friendly face encountered during| in his pants at the knee being the pury my identity, hotel, save for distinct snorts and a wong wong h crowd about the advanced the. price of Chinese the whole muddy and rain-soaked| cause of his ultimatum ind a goodly wad couple of shatter Not to be denied, I pulled the balletin board on | noodles, nuts and kimonos. He afternoon 5 : Kiot spearmint as a! ed holes thru the collar of my coat up around my jche corner of Sev sald it was hard for folks to keep Mar te VeuKRnowWhed Beaton Tells of the guise, 1 nied syself south of the | window neck and beat it for the Ivy hotel snth and King. A their noodles—even in chop suey § | b * 4? slot inte the very heart of the wa Whistling “Pret where some of the One Lu are \ lor orange: joints There were hundreds of Chinese Booze in Library zone, bent on adventure ty China Lad sald to have a mobilization camp olored sign bad There fs an unusual demand for Walking aimlessly around, gather The dry squad raided the library, e's best stores appear req o Man's Land in this Jatest bit sauntered up to al At the top of a Jong flight of jus peen tacked up, It was clut- them, he said, and he appeared to ing in little knots and from all ap-{according to William J. Beaton, ‘3 ‘d paths jof vetion here the belligerenta | youthful looking stairs, th was a hall, long and|tered with Chines words, It| fear a shortage: pearances awaiting some great}ho runs the cigar stand in the = = ailed to ser diplomatic notices, | individual, whose eyes and com | black as an underground passage | might have been a call for volun He appeared quite human for a vend ‘but ike all aa public safety building, MORE THAN 60,000 copies || %? {@" as | was able to determine, | plexion led me to believe him to be| way. The end was lighted by a|teers, or the casualty lst us far/moment or two, and I thought event, Sut ike all other wars, this!” “They found booze in. the ail DAILY lies between Sixth and Bighth | an Oriental single lamp. | braved the fricassee|as I knew, or apparently as far as/1 was sure to find out soon what one proves that the war correspond: |tionary,” he said aves. in the vicinity of King and Gives Him Bull of odors like ® highlander weath-|1 would ever know. For, be they |the war was about. But it remain-|ent is up against what Mr, Sher-| Beaton told this joke with every \ Ss : Maynard sts, Proffering him a Bull Durham fering a gas attack, Bing Jungs, Hon Kucks, or Tuttjed just as puccling as the fight, man said. purchase Monday, F * y, ‘i i ri ‘ .