The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 20, 1917, Page 1

nee ; PAPA RARA PLA PPP PPP PPP PUBLIC INTEREST REQUIRES THE RENOMINATION OF ERICKSON AND HESKETH TODAY ONE CENT) ‘The Seattle Star ALL EDITIONS Rtas $b ee aMaL Breet tC TTD 05 Ns All the Time } THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE Ca nnnnnnnnennnnnnannnnnnennnnnnnny VOLUME 19. 100,000 King county is to be stung this afternoon for $100,000, if a few rich auto bugs have their way at a meeting of the county com- missioners. The taxpayers are to be soaked for a “beauty” road at Stev- Zens’ pass, near the crest of a mountain which no one but pleas- ure hunting autoists will use and then only two months a year. i _ NIGHT EDITION Winter's not over yet by any means, if you take ¥t from the lips of Weather Man Salisbury, who ly bespake the weather condle tions for the next 24 hours: “To night Wednesday, snow or rain NEW ONE CENT and on NeW Women, Babes in Arms, Riot for Bread in New York City “BEST FIGHTER FOR SIZE” DIES WITH BOOTS ON’ SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. 20.—With fh at half mast and every khakiclad man a mourner, the body of the late Maj. Gen. “Fred” Funston was in Fort Sam Houston today, following his sudden death in a hotel last night. Tonight the remains of the “best twofiated fighter in the world for his inches” will be transferred to San Francisco, There on Saturday he will be buried with full military hon. ors at the Presidio. The body of Gen. “Fred” Funston will lie in state from 3:30 this afternoon until night fall in the Alamo—the very spot where “Davy” Crockett and his Texas heroes perished more than three-quarters of a century go. w men Were more popular with SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY SBRUARY 20, 1917 a> THAING wTA ‘Yael ng “Sweet Marie,” Leader, Arrested | . After She Leads 300 Followers ~ to City Hall and Police Station — NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—-Crying “We want bread, we want bread,” more than 300 women, bareheaded, scantily clad—their — warmest garment being a shawl thrown about their shoulders, | stormed up the steps of the city hall today demanding relief from |Mayor Mitchel from the high cost of food. Some declared their families were starving. Most of the women carried babies, their faces showing the pinch of hunger, in their arms. For a time there was the greatest confusion about the building. The women demanded to see Mayor Mitchel. Police reserves were called, and arrangements were finally made for a committee to enter the hall. THOUSANDS WATCH WOMEN Within a few minutes after the hundreds appeared a crowd of thousands had gathered in City Hall park, watching the demonstra- tion. Marie Ganz, known as “Sweet Marie,” led the women. “Sweet Marie” Arrested ) A serious outbreak was threatey 1 when Marie Ganz was arrested POTATO PRICE HERE j that if all the men in the She was hurried to the polic trenches were to be siain to | precinct station . in the city ba! . morrow, En and then into a patrol wagon " Vy sig bs w a Fos! ye eT ’ ei ‘The experiences of the war are | screaming and demanding her re- U ie after the main of women bad been dispersed, The crowd in City | Halt by this time numbered thousand doing tremendous things for women /iegse, A line of police was quickly ot the poorer classes | formed to stop the on-rushing wom- Thousands of women who bad en, and the patrol whisked away. | never in all their lives had so much ° But do you hear the so-called “taxpayers’’ leagues shouting bloody murde: like they do when a janitor’s salary is raised $5 a month at the courthouse, or when the city council refuses to drop a $75-a-month clerk? Ss No, siree! And you don’t see any glaring headlines in those newspapers who yell like thunder about “economy” when the county commissioners appropriate an extra hundred dollars or two for mothers’ pensions. Yes, and where is Perry Polson, of the taxation bureau, who is always fuss- ing himself into a blue streak when a measly few pennies of taxpayers’ money i involved, as compared with this big gob of $100,000? THEY’RE ALL AS MUM AS A BOTTLE OF WHISKY ON ITS WAY TO DRY TERRITORY WITHOUT A PERMIT. Why? Is it because a few influential auto bugs want this exclusive road It may mean a lot of fun for them, but the money comes out of the road and bridge fund alloted to the North district of the county, where there is a crying need for roads that have practical value to farmers and setlers. Oh, these penny wise “economists They'll scream about a w pennies when they’re playing politics, and they'll shut up like) |," 00 were more vopular with | ers when a raid of $100,000 is made on the taxpayers’ money ‘he short “tehting Fred A pro-| their auto touring friends. Sodas bid inte wil bee athoalt} to his place will be a difficult | “ one to fill It was this tirelessness Will the NEW board of county commi “rte away with it? in work and application to hin duties th d the general's | death. He ome greatly | aoe ; “ kened b steady grind of f the fe es under him, but it was like th ting Kansan to this country’s army or navy {n en-| gaging in any trade or commerce with any -belligerent country as a7 Mrs. Will Irwin | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. women of England are finish fight In the wa So says Mrs, Will Irwin, formerly Inez Haynes Gilmore. known American writer, who has returned after a ar thru erent co Europe.) “lL am perfectly convinced ioners let them get “MRS, REED” IS | at Dinner When Smiling, and apparently at ease,/ “Mrs. Reed,” who, federal agents! urging The; a we’ Marie” has been identi agitators here and the ly sought to separate demanding Swoet fied with the} police quic er from and to stick out e same. | rshing. just back] sumed temporary uthern department ke no complain his work just th Maj. ¢ ' from Mexico here be the women a WASHINGTON, Feb, 20.— Secretary of State Lansing and Death News Came SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.—The Following reports that wom- Speakers was bein @ ized P* SOLONS TO MEET Attorney General Gregory to- day asked the senate judiciary committee to pass immediately a bill which would w trade or commerce. president power to handle the | Some difference of opinion ex-} international situation without | ists at the capitol as to just how) recourse to war. | far such a law would be held ap If this bill passes, it is under- | plicable in the present situation. stood, the president will not go | Senators and representatives say before congress at ali, uniess | that since this government feels it some act should occur which | is a “matter of obligation” to keep would force him into a request its trade open to any belligerent for a deciaration of war. that can profit by such trade and The bill empowers the president | commerce, the bill would mean that | employ the land and nayval|the president would be vested with of the nation to “enforce| broadcast powers in keeping Amer ppliance with and prevent viola-|{ican ports open and in keeping of, the obligations of the| American ships plying the seas Pnited States under the laws of} Following the visit of Lansing nations. and Gregory today, the committee) Briefly such a law would mean| announced it would take action on| that the president could employ the bill Thursday. Wants Phosphorus | ; ! BOOZE TRIALS property and many manufacturing plants by use of phosphorus bombs, Clarence L. Reames, U. S. | district attorney for Oregon, Representative Swale of Everett in troduced a joint memorial today, fasking congress to restrict ship- ping of phosphorus from one state to another. > returned to Seattle Tuesday and immediately took up work in connection with the govern- ment's booze-graft conspiracy case against Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham, ex-Sheriff Bob Hodge and others which comes comes to trial March 6. Reames said he did not know }iong as international law, as under stood and agreed to by this govern- | ment, is not violated by any such TROOPS AT DEPOT MPLA, Feb. 20.—Breaking a lospManding rule, the lestslature | will hold a special session Thursday, gton’s birthday, to welcome A, Signal corps, and Troop ¥ vomp® x to show appreciation of their|how long he would stay, or wheth- service on the border. When thejer he would be on hand during the soldier boys arrive in Olympia, at 11444), ee ee eae ee eee aia,| District Attorney Clay Allen also Bs oerne house chamber |Profensed to know nothing definite ‘There Gov, tdster will give the |CoNCerning the program: address of welcome They wils Despite this refusal to talk frank- ey ly of their plans, it is known Reames has accepted Allen's invi- tation to help handle the cases. Chief Beckingham said Tuesday ADVERTISING MANAGER'S he had not yet engaged an attor- ney to defend him. ste lhe sgicet | Seattle will see two sensational {trials during the second week of |March. The Everett I. W. W. casen | will be heard before Judge Ronald and the booze conspiracy cases will be heard by Judge Neterer in federal court. NOT MUCH INTEREST IN COUNCIL ELECTION Six counciimanic candidates were being nominated Tuesday out of a field of 18. The polls opened at 8 a. m. and will clone at 8 p. Councilmen Erickson, Hesketh and Dale running succeed | themsely 1 Little interest was manifesied in the primaries, Three of the six nominees will be elected March 6, Add to Your Savings By increasing the buying ca- pacity of your money. You can do this by watching the ads carefully in The Star and taking advantage of the bar- gain opportunities of which they tell. The best offerings of Seattle’s Best stores ap- pear regularly.in The Star. How much you profit from them depends on yourself m MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES | DAILY when city and port bond issues willjof the city at 7 a. m, street car|discussing the British claims that/the top of runway, built back of the| ber of Commerce and Commercial peachment board. also be submitted, say, is the connecting link in an organized gang of opium smugglers, denied all their accusations Tues: day Bhe was arrested by Special Agents Paul Watson and W, L. Sischo, of the treasury department, she alighted from a Van couver, H.C. train at the King Street station Monday evening. In her sult case were 24 five-tael cans of the costly drug, and she carried another in hand bag. The opium she carried was worth $1,200, the federal agents sald. “You are under arrest,” the gov ernment agents sald. She merely “What for?” When the agents found the opt um in the sult case she continued to smile. They had been watching for her, tho they know little of her history, except she is the “well- dressed woman” suspected of car rying opium worth thousands of doliars from Vancouver to Seattle Asked {f she didn't know the mere possession of opium was enough to land her in trouble with the government, she said “1 didn’t know it was against the after can her law to bring it here.” I i lives in British Co , according to federal author. They do not know her full HE HAD WIFE; $0 SHE GETS $20,000 ORDER L, Ella Hewitt bore a broken heart into Presiding Judge Smith's department Tuesday and was fm mediately awarded $20,200 when Washington Lee Bartlett, some- times known as Wilbur or W. L Bartlett, falled to appear to con test a breach of promise suit, Miss Hewitt claims she and the defendant agreed to marry August 23, 1916. Then— “1 found then that he already had aqwvife,” she complained Who Miss Hewitt and Bartlett are, Attorney James Kiefer, who filed the suit, refuses to say. They do not appear in the directory MORE SNOW TONIGHT SAYS WEATHERMAN More snow and rain is promised by Weatherman Salisbury for to- night and Wednesday Karly Monday morning Seattle had quite a flurry of snow. With a holiday coming Thursday and snowing now. the kids are all whooping It up” for another spell of consting Monday night the ature was 2 highest temperature 45 at noon There wa lowest temper at rhe wa Monday more snow in Mt smiled, and asked, | body of Maj. Gen. Frederick Fun- ston will be buried in the national cemetery at the Presidio here, ac cording to announcement today by Maj. Gen. Bell, commander of the Western department of the army Mrs. Punston was prostrated to- q at her home at the Presidio here. She came here a month ago. | Mrs. Funston was giving a dinner at her home last night, tn honor of her sister, Mrs, William Cullen, |when the news of the general's |death came ‘HONK! HONK! THREE | GAS WAGONS GONE Auto thieves were busy | when three cars were stolen to the police, N. P. Comstock, 1119% Howell lst, lost a five-passenger Ford at Second and Madison st RK W. ‘Thompson, 1454 EB, Harrison at., lost |his Ford, which he left standing in front of the Moore theatre Mon jday night. FE. C. Braun, 1020 4 at., reported that his Buick was taken from his home late last night. SAYS AGED MAN WAS | DEAD THREE DAYS Edgar D, Wise, 60, was found dead Tuesday at his house, 103 Lakeside ave, by Thomas Billing- ham, engineer at the Leschi power station of the Puget Sound Traction Light & Power Co. Wise had appar- ently been dead since Saturday, Deputy Coroner George said death was due to a hemorrhage. Wise had a son and daughter, it is said, in Denver U-BOAT CAMPAIGN CURBS IMMIGRANTS NEW YORK, Feb, 20.— Monday, reported many has had the effect of stop- ping the immigration to this cow try of approximately 40,000 sons, PENFIELD WANTS INFO FROM AUSTRIA AMSTERDAM, Feb, 20,—Ameri- can Ambassador Penfield, at Vien- na, has asked the Austro-Hungari an foreign office what attitude that government is taking on the sub- marine warfare, THis inquiry was specifically whether Austria withdrawn its assurances in Ancona and Persia submavining per- the Sa at whoever dares. pene zone perishes government Wireless It must BERLIN, via to ville, Feb ed again that ltrate the barred declared the official 4 be rep } | | | i i) ! j an a new dress unless they pulled it out of some garbage can, are now earning living Wages, buying them- selves clothes and furnishing their homes, and acquiring habits of clean living and industry.” LISTER SIGNS BONE DRY LAW OLYMPIA, Feb, 20.--Gov, Lister signed the bone dry law Monday at 2 o'clock, Rep. Halsey, author of the bill, claimed his pen as a souvenir of the occasion. The law goes into effect in June, 90 days after the legisiature ad- journs, The law prohibits even the | possession of liquor other than slco- hol for mechanical purposes, and to clergymen for religious ceremonies. Penitentiary Sentence Alcohol cannot be purchased legally except of an auditor's per. mit. Physicians are not permitted to preseribe alcohol, tho they may administer it, Permits to druggists, hospitals, ete. to import alcohol, can be obtained from the auditor only after a hearing, attended by the prosecuting attorney, Penitentiary sentences of one to five years are provided for third | offenses. Referendum May Halt It Only a referendum, signed by more than 20,000, can prevent the law from becoming effective in June. A referendum would hold up the Jaw until November, 1918, | it has | when the people would pass upon it directly. LIQUOR SHIPPERS WARNED BY LISTER OLYMPIA, Feb, 20.—-Any at> tempt of liquor ehippers from San Francisco and other states to send Admis- | - money to Washin, sions today by agents of steamship | q ablerendudr a op eg ee lines in New York, show that the! wat be met with vigorous prosecu- U-boat warfare inaugurated by Ger-| tions, said Gov, I Aster today. SENATE VOTES FOUR- YEAR COUNTY TERM OLYMPIA, )». 20—The bill to establish four-year terms for coun- y officers was passed by a vote | | At 11:30 the hoge throng was, waiting patiently for some word from their representatives who had entered the building. They expect- ed some word from the mayor. The women were headed by Mre. Ida Harris, president of the Moth ers’ Vigilance league, and “Sweet Marie.” They came from the Rut gers square tenement district, where pushcart peddlers have been raising prices until the women de- clared they are now utterly unable to feed their families, are starving: we want .” was the constant cry raised by the women as they surged about the entrance to the city hall. Walk- ing across the City Hall park, the women were at the very steps of/ the building before they were no- ticed. «They swept up the steps. The doors were banged shut in their faces and wild cries and impreca- tions followed, A swarm of police reserves and plain clothes men appeared. They drove the women down from the steps. Marie Ganz then mounted the steps and addressed the wom en. She urged the women to re main in the street, and especially to do nothing that would give the police an excuse to arrest them With this the crowd quieted, and “Sweet Marie” and Mrs. Harris were admitted to the building as a committee. Mayor Was Not There Mrs. Harris was told that Mayor Mitchel was not in his office, but was promised that he would meet them later today or tomorrow. At noon a delegation of women had gathered in front of police headquarters, demanding to see Po: lies Commissioner Woods. At the same time the police re. ceived word that 2,000 additional women were forming in Rutgers square to march to the city hall The city hall meeting followed riots in three of New York's con gested tenement districts, Push-carts were stripped, over- turned and burned by frantic wom en. In the Williamsburg section, on Long island, the open-air mar- ket was wrecked, Police reserves battled to restore order, The riot followed a sudden jump !n the price of onions and potatoes to 18 and 10 cents a pound respectively Later 2,000 residents of one dis triet assembled in mass meeting to hear the peddlers’ side of the One man declared he made but cents on a barrel of potatoes that of 25 to 13 today on reconsidera-| cost him $10. tion, after being defeated yester- day, PY BILL PASSES Ww ASHINGTON, Feb. administrations — espionage pessed the senate today, 60 to 10. Keep High Watch at Bremerton Yard BREMERTON, Feb. 20.—Sen- | The dealers charged they were allowed to purchase potatoes at one time from only two cars, wher were on the tracks, A boycott in which women of these districts will agree to buy no 20.—'The | more onions or potatoes until the bill | price goes down, and in which the dealers will agree not to purchas any more, seems probable PROMINENT ALASKANS were entertained ata luncheon Tuesday noon at the Arctic club by the Baker park than any other section|presa bureau today, in a statement | tries at Bremerton keep watch from | Alaska bureau of the Seattle Cham: men reported, the submarine war has failed. industrial plant, It is 12 feet high.’ Club, en were rioting for food in New York, w © potatoes have aviated to 10 cents a pound, an army of local street |Pestaurant Men | May Campaign for | Municipal Market; Restaurant men aren't in love with the treatment they get from Western ave. foodstuff brokers. That's the reason they appointed | a committee Monday night to look into the $600,000 municipally oper- jated market proposition. The restaurant men may put their shoulders to the wheel and cam-| paign for it } And in the meantime, they've de- jeided not to serve any more free j potatoes and coffee with meals. | | Oh, Mamma! This Is Prize Fish Tale PORTLAND, Feb. 20.—Speaking! of fish stories, a smelt run surged linto Cowlitz creek so strongly today ithat the stream was jammed from bank to bank, Folks who were! jth latly assert the finny tribe} piled up and made an actual bridge Jabove the surface. Fishermen went| lto work with scoop shovels. The price of smelt dropped to 2 cents a pound Markets Multiply Despite Old H. C. L. Despite aviating food prices, there {s always room for one more market The city council Monday granted |the use of Sixth ave. between | Westlake ave, and Virginia st., for |market purposes. That mean jthree feet of the sidewalk and the abutting five feet the roadway can be utilized FOOD PRICES SOAR AS FREIGHT STANDS CHICAGO, Feb, 20.—The freight car congestion and shortage, char- Jacterized a Week ago as the worst] in the history of the railroads, r mains practically unchanged. Prac: tieally every embargo clampe! on by Bastern and Western roads con tinues in foree, being lifted only in special cases or to take care of 'o cal conditions. LINBERGH PUSHES | CONSPIRACY CHARGE WASHINGTON, Feb tary of Commerce Redfield, Comp troller of the Currency Williams, J P, Morgan and a host of bankers all over the country can prove of Secre ry thet ted inte stimon inan Representative | street Wall inbe Minne house judiciary com discussing his im-| charges against ey sota told the mittee today by former Councilman P. Revelle Tuesday to cam paign for the municipally oper ated market system. The proposed issue for the proposition will be put before the voters March 6. The fact that local prices for © foodstuffs continue to hang at @ dizzy height, forcing most families to curtail to the limit, was expected to have a telling effect on the vote, Manipulate Potatoes Here Potatoes were still being quoted at $73 and $75 a ton Tuesday, Small dealers charged manipula- tion on the part of Western ave. brokers and greedy stubbornness on the part of growers who they say are trying to force the market up to $100 a ton, x Restaurant men have organized to campaign for the city market plan, Grocers have held two meet- ings and indignantly protested against it, on the theory that it will confiscate their business, 40 Speakers Volunteer Revelle, who has already signed ‘ \up 40 speakers, was the father of the present public market system, — | which he says has developed too far toward a landlords’ proposition, Farmers, too, complained day on the ground that Western ave. brokers will pay only $60 and $62 for potatoes, while they com tinue to hold up an artificial $73 | market. Small dealers say potatoes have gone too high for the average com sumers, “And there are enough potatoes — between here and Tacoma to feed Seattle for a year,” said H. Tartea, manager of the Lucky Strike Fruit company, in the Economy market, “Probably one-third of the potatoes ~ have rotted, but farmers and brok- G jers are both to blame for the situa- (ion which is hard on consumers ~ and small dealers alike.” s Truck loads of potatoes, he said, = eome from the warehouses of Jap | anese growers south of Seattle © every day, They have quoted a progressive scale, with next week's quotations higher than present ~ prices, q “They hold out for $100,” he sad, I would like to see a boycott on potatoes, People can eat rige, 7 hominy and spaghetti for a while” Speakers for the municipal mar ket have been equipped with facts and figures by a commit- tee of the Central Labor council, which is back of the plan. We will try to convince small dealers that it is to their advantage to work for the city market,” said James Duncan, secretary of the La. — bor council, Tuesday. “One of the plans is to permit them to benefit by purchasing from the city, “If we had had a big city buying: igency we could have purchased all the potatoes we wanted for $22 a and pleased the farmers. The ators on Western ave. pald ibeir potatoes and system Me ¥ ton manipy or lots of eople could n d out that Seattle ave saved more than $1,000,000 on potatoes alone this year on the contract system, whic! was urged by the growers, as wel as union consumers, last fal,