The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1917, Page 1

———E ay ranting about taxes. Very well! Let it provement bonds. without at this time. the city water plant. $50,000. notorious Renick law. vice its real value. the co fact that “to be. The for example. DALE BRITISH ARMY | LONDON, Feb. 26—Kutel- 4 Amara has been recaptured by British forces. , Chancellor of the Exchequer Anérew Bonar Law made the announcement this afternoon in the house of commons. He said the Turkish garrison was in full rete Prisoners taken numbered 1,73 © Four guns, ten machine guns ar ree mine throwers were taken | land much other war material and supplies captured The fighting | now becomes open READY TO ARM RCHANT SHIPS * NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—If the . address of the president before congress today means arming American ships, the American fine passenger ships will be ed once, and the com- pany will advertise r imption of transatiantic traffic, the line said today. zy ¥ phen | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S | | DAILY TALK LOTS OF ADS TODAY, FOLKS Seattle merchants seem ¢ made up their minds that business is going to be mighty ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time If it were not for the Dale 00d here this spring. They're starting right after it with vim and enthusiasm Today Standard Furniture Co. Page 2 Liberty, Theatre Page 2 Grote-Rankin Co Page 3 MacDougall-South wick a Collseurn Theatre 6 ‘lemma Theatre Page 6 Page 6 tatein Purni Page Page 1° Page 10 appear regu MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY { \ be taxes! “statesmanship” Dale is a costly luxury to taxpayers of Seattle. on, this, as well as on othér scores. se The Abt Tes between Dale and Lane for tiiedpiae, Late’ docs ‘not fav and “beauty” Mecessary street improvements or such $300,000 “luxury” newspaper and corporation champions want to foist on the taxpayers at Stevens Pass, IS FOR LUXURIES. LANE IS BOR TIES. THERE IS THE ISSUE. RECAPTURED BY | S!6GEST Laven Dockstader Famous “Politician” Comedian s Told to Alhambra Audiences Sunday) 1 had just arrived in Seattle and was walking up one of your streets when my attention was attracted by a man who tipped his hat and threw a kiss at ev ery flag he passed. My curiosity aroused, a native about the queer vidual Who is that man? Oh, he's ronning council,” | was told Allen Dale. The 1 asked indi 1 asked for the That's C There's - Onily One American in Hell, , FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 26. the municipal free employment bureau, is in receipt of two let- ters from widely divergent places. One was from a woman in Paradise, Tex., cook. friend in Hell, Norton of Boston—who b: that he was the only American in Hell, the others being Nor- wegians THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATILE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS| Having failed to fool the people with his schemes, C. Allen Dale is trying another. y flag + costly pro What other city taxes do we pay, outside of administration expense? The city light plant is self-sustaining, costing nothing to taxpayers. The same undoubtedly will be the case with the port belt line, ity which would reduce the price of food and other articles to the ultimate consumer The city car lines cost taxpayers $50,000 a year, and the Renick law costs another excr WHO is responsible for most of the taxes in Seattle? It is none other than R. H. Thomson, Dale’s pet apologist. We are today paying interest and redemption IT IS THE BIGGEST ITEM OF OUR TAXATION. Thomson, as city engineer, influenced Seattle to undertake big result, we are paying for local improvements out of proportion to our actual needs. Even now the Thomson-Dale combination wants the city to vote $450,000 bonds on Tuesday, March 6, for so-called arterial highways that the city can do taxes on $11,042,000 of street jects VOLUME 19. GIANT CUNARD LINER IS SUNK SE “Dale and Taxes!>({(5 advertising It is the old gag of im- As a The same with the car lines might be self-sustaining if allowed to extend into profitable territory, And Dale is the only one who defends the On top of that, Dale wanted to impose a burden of $1,600,- 290 on the city by advocating the purchase of the Renton line at He wants to add to the taxes of the city by relieving the Puget | Sound Traction Co., whose chief messenger he is in the council, from the payment of cost of paving between its tracks and from _the payment of 2 per cent gross receipts to the city. relieved, and taxpayers soaked, _ franchise calls for such payments. He wants in spite of the And he ought to be defeated HOUSE FAVORS roads a Dal | NECESSI- TOURIST FUND OLYMPIA, Feb 6.—House Bill adequate |578, appropriating $5,000 to employ} an attorney to handle the North.) | West tourist case, was reported out | 500 Babies Starve Yearly in Chicago Baby Farms: CHICAGO, Feb, 26.—The city council health committee and juvenile court officials, headed by Alderman Willis O. Nance. today started a fight on profes sional “baby farms” in Chicago. The action is the outgrowth of an investigation Officials estimate that more than 500 babies, from 4 months to 4 years old, are being starved to death in the “baby boarding houses” every year. The average charge for keep- ing a baby is $3 a week, of which the “landlady” spends 60 cents for the child's food, the rest being pocketed as profit Besides crowding dozens of babies into filthy hovels, where they slowly die of mal-nutrition commonly known as starvation and attendant diveases, many of the houses are abortion mills, where a baby may be “disposed of” for or $50, the investi gators found, Babies are said to be carried out for burial in suit canes. st Spruce st ATTLE, WASH.,, T0 KEEP PEACE BY CARL D. GROAT ASHINGTON Wilson eh ” lent pe for American to nomen t 1 permis cl . arme me for full and diate assur dee nece n hand ary Ameri the Germar an ti Decl dd neric the act that hich 1 the action of this cou tep w rht bring w thru He No rae of lead to war ome only co! m he said by the willfal “agKression of others Must Defend Ri: te that, “We must defend our commerce and the lives of our peo ple.” He emphasized that while he may now have full power to take what steps are necessary, be de “by its own that It in behind him in whatever he may decide is nec sires that show congress, thing should be done. Asks Ample Credit The president also asked “a sy ngress to ing itua ntemplate 1 cou an act of Ger choosing will War can} acts and | ommary While he asks specifically for power to arm ships, he said he could not be any more specific, |since he can only decide as the sit- uation develops what — specific af. ficient credit to enable me to pro vid je adequate means of protection |r» they insurance present war risks. against The house galleries were packed in tense ai- lence as the president outlined br | with people who sat man submarine zone. MONDAY, | ere lacking, tnetuding | 19, 19 FEBRUARY 26, 1917 , * GILL 1S DENIED SEPARATE TRIAL ——} tion; WIFE'S GRUDGE Jack Dusky, charged with being one of the men who held up the Citizens’ bank of Renton, October . took the stand in bis own the | defense Monday ond traced his ac-) tions previous and subsequent to the holdup. He testified that he queters said. NO BAR TO DUSKY: ONE CENT Mayor Gil to get a separa federal grand jury tr roa NEWS RTANDS, TRAINS ond attempt jal on the indictment charging him with being a con- spirator in the booze-graft case failed Monday Judge Neterer ruled from the bench that more “substantial juatice” could be done by joint trial. However ask Mayor Gill to stand trial with Jured lany defendants who will be used as down witnesses for the government case As late as the morning of the and warehouse of the North Star| located about 12 miles north This means, according to United |of Hailey, he said half of Morrison. 1 would n had worked| trial, those can be separated ANN ot The Seattle Star 15 ARE KILLED IN SNOWSLIDE i P ¥* WILSON ASKS FOR ARMED NEUTRALITY + darreagic 2 ne Idaho, Feb. 26. men were killed and 15 others in-| when @ snowslide swept! the mountain side and de in the |stroyed the bunkhouse, compressor mine. Idaho. e mill Everett favorably by the appropriations |developments since Germany Me gy Ih pea cig a Fd holdup | States Attorney Allen, that the Bill-| All but six men have been remoy-| When she was sunk, it was stated committee, The bill is on the cal-/sued her U-boat decree jand had left with approximately|{pasley , brothers, William Pielow,/ed from beneath the slide. These | here today at the Cunard line j@t ig endar for today, Oraft Bill as Asked O. Eddie Baker and E. P. Weidman|men were left when officials of the} fice 5 j | While “practical results” of the went to my former wife’s|Probably will not be tried with Gill,|company abandoned rescue work| The Laconia was manned | by | The appropriation referred to Hew German sub-sea campaign are) pone at Taylor's mill,” testified) Chief Heckingham and the indicted |for fear another slide would wipe British officers and a British crew. 7 |will secure the services of C. A.| “not yet fully disclosed,” the presi | Dusky. ‘after I left Everett,” detectiv as they will no doubtlaway the 90 men conducting the| She carried contraband cargo in ad- | Reynolds, who hax conducted the! @@nt said; and the overt act has not!” wiyidn't you claim that your wife) be Witnesses for the government. | work dition to the mails. P Northwest case thus far—success-| curred, it will be foolish to de | ied 4 grudge against you after) Sixty-five jurors will be on hand) The injured men were removed Her last trip from Liverpool end- fully. A private fund of $3,000 haa|"¥ that the sitnation i* fraught) Jol. divorces” Deputy Prosecutor) March 6, when the trial starts, |to Hailey, where medical attention) 0d bere Feb. 14, when she brought | wen raised, but if the house and) With gravest possibilities and dan) iis cross-examined Judge Neterer told Attorney Tuck.|Was given, The slide was caused|°37 Dassengers. She sailed again 73 senate accept the committee's’ rec | Bers You, she did.” er, who argued for Mayor Gill Mon-|by an extremely heavy snowfall,| for Liverpool on February 18. “4 ommendation, the private fund will} Chairman Flood immediately Well, fan't It rather odd that a/%9y which was followed by rain. Americans aboard the Laconia in. be returned 10 thone who subscribed] Called @ meeting of the house for-| could live aloue with hie f Calls "Em Cut Throats cluded ‘ to It oign affairs committee. The com |e wite for two or three weeks My defendant cannot Sen at Miss Phyllis Barker, 24 By 62nd The committee which recommend: | mittee will consider a bill which | she held & Btuése against him? fair trial,” Tucker had said, “if we SAYS BELT LINE jst. New York; Mrs. F. Harris, ed the passage of the bill {s headed | Flood #tarted to draft before the |"") Av UM he didn't belleve so,| Must face the same jury that at-| Hotel Wolcott, New York; Arthur” by Representative James Davis. The|Metage Was delivered, incorporat-|lusky sald he Catt ere toitomers for the other defendants | AIDS WATER RATES|” Kirby. Brainbridge, N.Y, rE action today follows a vigarous cam-|'P& #is0 the ‘Tegisiation necessary) tare. Meponald because e@he| Will select. We want high-minded Floyd § bbons, a war corre 7 paign by The Star and ite ister pa-|' Bive the president the power be) Voy io and unable to cut her own| MeN on the jury—men who are o; ‘spondent, Chicago Tribune, was | pers in the Northwest | Wants, | wood, posed to Hahor traffic, not friends |, Railroads operating switching | among the American passengers a \ — of it, as would be the jurors ac.|tT@ek8 along the water front, and| The names of the other Amer | WILSON ASKS ee ceptable to nearly all of the other their Mouthpieces, are opposing the | cans were not available, 4 CAR 18 STOLEN TROYERS IN botenante public belt line proposition because | F.C. Henriot, 2516 32nd ave. 8.,| IN DEFENDING PR Felnerad “to Gorse ctlies y want to handicap water car DENY AMERICANS |repotted :o pualee headquarters |defendants. as “common cut |Trs from bringing goods here at that his seven-passenger Stude-| WASHINGTON, Feb. U 8. throats,” who “came here to defeat | OW rates. according to Hamilton ABOARD LA 4 night from in front of the Liberty | President's addreas follows | the Taw, and “on whose word his | meeting in the interests of the belt : ‘aaatre. 3 “Gentlemen of the Congress client had evidently been indic ted line proposition in Steiner's hall at | LONDON, Feb. 26.—(4:30 p. mam have again asked the privilege of | District Attorney Allen declared |" Phat at Announcement was made at the | jaddressing you because we are LONDON, Feb. 26—British |the evidence that would go be we : office of the Cunard line that there |moving thru critical times, during} destroyers met a German de- | the court would show a “conspiracy LONDON, Feb, 26.—England’s | were no Americans aboard the Lae | which it seems to me to be my duty| gtroyer squadron between 11 | *° interwoven that a separate trial |“win the war” loan subscriptions | conia jto keep in close touch with the| o'clock and midnight, Sunday of the defendants would be unfair|totaled 1 0,000 pounds (ap. | — ‘ houses of congress, so that neither night, in a heavy engagement in to the government . proximately $7 ),000) of new! The above statement is in direct counsel nor action shall run at! the North Sir Edward Car- Mayor Gill's motion for a sep- money, Chancellor of the Ex | contradiction of the statement of cross-purposes between us son, first lord of the admiralty, | “rate trial was based on an affi. chequer Bonar Law announced inithe New York office of the Cunard Reminds of His Warning | ‘Announced in commons thie aft. {davit declaring he was at logger. | the house of commons today line 4 q , “About ‘onefourth of the ba ‘On the 3rd of February | of-! erneon. heads with other defendants, and " —__—_—ae | piss are iMiegitiinate,° sais Ar- | ficlally informed you of the sudden! “ater a heavy engagement with | that his defense would in no way thur A, Gufld, officer of the |and unexpected netion of the fm-| « 7 . Nhe connected with theirs, but to go L Cc Su nk '* e r “In many eases the children | claring its intention to disregard! otent of the enemy damage is un-| bandicap come from homes where the |the promises it had made to this|\nown The mayor himself did not ia} z father or mother has deserted. | government in April last and under-| «Another force of enemy destroy-| Peat im the court room. Omly a ‘ the family. And there are @ |take immediate submarine opera-| ars shelled Broadstairs and Mar Jamall crowd listened to the argu: | few instances where a family |tions against all commerce What-\eate this morning, but fled. before | ents is able to take care of the jever of, belligerents or of neutrals | our desiroyers arrived on the baby, but does not want it |that should seek to approach Great | scone.” bround.”, |Britain and Ireland, the Atlantic! Garson reported that two housea| Ue OF W. MEN TESTIFY |coast of Europe or the harbors of! were damaged in the shelling of| BURNS KILL HER {th cotter Meaitgrrancan, and 10) proaastalts qt Mareate ‘FOR PROF. MORRISON |conduct those operhtions without re x | _- gard to established restrictions of] Parra. 5 Waa wes Mrs. Josephine Miller, 63 years |international practice, without re Bartenders Serve Afier an attempt had been made jold who was severely burned Sat-| gard to any consideration of human Punchless Punch to ee ata serene cubsie or nrday mo whe i court and a special sanity board had See ee ea ny tesa ane (Continued en page 10) SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 26. jadjndged Frank M, Morrison to be ny way, died Saturday night at the PARIS, Feb, 26.—The Amer. —Liquorless punch featured the A sane man, the sensational divorce city hospital ican freighter Orleans has ball of the Sacramento Bartend trial brought against the former Mrs. Miller told the police that| entered the Gironde river, and ers’ union here, No booze was | University of Washington mathe her clothing had aceidentally will dock at Bordeaux tomor- allowed on the premises. This jmotics professor was renewed in caught fire from an oll heater in| row. information was contained in [oven court before Judge French her room. Her entry into the Gironde the invitations issued for the Dr, H. A. Benson, professor o' The Laconia, according to advetising pampnicws iwiished The Surviving Mrs. Miller is a daugh | means she has successfully event. The average bartender |chemistry at the university, and| Star, along with the above picture of the liner by the local Cunard line) ter, Mrs. Matilda Aldwain, 2910] pi id the danger of the Ger. | never takes a drink, the ban. Dean A. R. Priest testified in be-lagents, was of 18,150 tons, 625 fee t long and 72-foot beam. Her sie ter ship, the Franconia, was sunk earlier in ti Fifteen | NIGHT EDITION “If you kill too many drinks at midnight, you will be half shot at sunrise,” says the Old Sage The werther forecast is To night and Tuesday unsettied weath- er; propably rain or snow AMERICANS “WERE OM ~ LGON —With jthe J of one life, the 18,150 jton Cunard r Laconia was |torpedoed and sunk without | warning by German sub- | marine off the coast of Ireland ht | | American Consul Frost res | ported from Queenstown that |278 survivors were en route |there, been picked up | by another liner, which is exe | pec ted to land them this evens jin. ig | While it was reported here that no ans were On | bo nia. the Cunard line offices in New York said six were among the passens The Laconia is the largest tim of the German U-boat jcampaign since February 1, % \ said further statement today that a majority of the | survivors expected to fand at Queenstown, and the jothers at Bantry, Ireland. |. Fifteen survivors already th beea landed, according to repo from Queenstown this evening. ome, among the others now being brought to shore, were said to be injured. The Laconia the following Three thousand cases of empty shells and other unloaded ammuni- 40,000 bushels of wheat, 2,843 | bales of cotton, 900 tons of pro visions, 1.408 boxes of fruit, 200 |tons of steel plates and castings, 7 150 tons of sundries and 1,000 bare © rels of soda. : There were no explosives aboard, Cunard officials said. 6 AMERICANS were be Ags was loaded with» NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—Six Amer — icans were aboard the ner Laconia ware