The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1917, Page 1

Wasn’t He Cute? Yes “The Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. should have a councilman to represent it.” Dale's speech before the Women's Good Government From Counciiman THE ONLY ‘PAPER IN" VOLUME 19. Wasn't he cute when he sald it? BUSINESS A BvYSY Dizzy} an a ee SEATTLE SAVES IBLALIF A MUILILION A total of $517, 088, 76 was saved in Seattle residences in 1916 on electric light bills. home in the city saved from 50 cents to $2 month, from $6 to $24 a year! This was due to a reduction of the light rate from 8} cents a kilowatt to 54 city light plant show a total of 8,618,146 kilo- watts were used in Seattle residences i i means a saving of $258,544.38. did as much business as the city plant, $517,088.76, for the private company had to reduce when the city lowered its rates. Councilman Erickson made this direct saving to home keep- He fought for and secured these reductions. Councilman Dale fought AGAINST the reductions. Dale wanted to save money (WHOSE WA BY ADDING IT THE HOME KEEPERS. Erickson saved enough money to every home in Seattle to pay, on an average, one-third of the total city tax on homes. CHICAGO WAS OLD HOME OF WOMEN SUB VICTIMS Mrs. Hoy and Daughter Were Known Socially in Windy City at the home of * 8° 8 Records of the Assuming the Seattle Electric Co. saving is double, ers possible. FOR THE ‘LL-HOP HE TO THE EATTLE ELEC IS IN THE TRIC CO. ; ; FAX BURDEN OF COUNCIL) CHICAGO, Feb. 27 som, of Hubbard W { London, and daugh ‘ é nt Lone When they left Chicago, they ed to have been drowned when the Cunarder Laconia was tor » prominent in Chi Dr. Hoy Stricken Grief Over Loss of Loved Ones Leave It to George; He'll Watch for ‘V’ to Chicago from Racine, ars before moving to still maintained connections here LONDON, Feb. 27.—Dr , who lost his wife and daughter sinking, was stricken down with grief over his loss as he talked over the telephone to the United Press office today. moved to his room and put under physicians’ care. to manage alm y to rejoin them, 4 ing several months here. were guests at the Congre entertained at the bond man The new dollar ones look Uke them without the SEATTLE THAT DARES _TO PRINT THE NEWS Battle lines for the Gill booze-graft trial | were being drawn in earnest Tuesday. With only one week left for final prep-| |aration, attorneys who will against each other in the booze-conspiracy | |case before Judge Neterer next Tuesday team of the University of Penney! Vania, is believed to have been | were working hard. i - It was predicted that the trial |the most dramatic in Seattle’s hi | would last more than a month. The problem facing government attor-| |neys was to dove-tail and arrange the mass \of documentary evidence that will be used line, tho until yesterday this road | |in the effort to prove that Mayor Gill, Chief |Beckingham, ex-Sheriff Hodge and four| | city detectives were involved in a gigantic) Union this + |conspiracy to permit the Billingsleys to sell | | liquor in Seattle: | On the me Ce man and Tucker, who w the re by gressive iring the trial to obtain) opening a “high the mayor's interests | noun e beat served by jurors op-| range liquor traffic below Hold Again 0 wil Reames Tak Clarence 1 head the force o n a in tria prrived from Portland Tuesday, ready to stay thru the trial Hiram House, special government account cial agent, was in harge mass of evid | His task is |written matter to b |government filed and ready for at sir hands on ft K and arranging the torneys to pla | wi |when it is need j tar | Government Has Big Force tiiuee | There are piles of pa t includtr respondence turned lingsle and the Jesse Moore Hunt |Company, San Francisco liquor will be submitted ime chal agents ready to assist him. “| defense of Mayor Gill, is president Jot both the State and Seattle. Bar nd his colle rederick Bausman ociations tt has been a‘ former state supremo)) torial court judge Judge William R. Bell and John}? yay $10 sheriff Hodge, of Captain Dore will defend ex George Tennant, broth lof Detectives Charle |defend Dan Mi ser, Jack Pooln {retained to defend Chief Becking | han U.S. Bans Anthem PORTLAND, Feb, 27.—-Col uel R, Jones, United States qua Jud tment today that "The ep Spa bit. be arrayed {per and former ful would bein TI story an joing on the brooma can Tucker told Judge Net-| old on es, Chief Becking nts," he said Two new 6 » opposite kind of 4nd Gus Hasselblad will be placed | n charge neferred and o} nothing | to do but OLYMPIA | National Guard code iner | annual appropriation for st erday With only six dis 8 and doc: | senting 4“ of cor The chief objection was that by the BIF| tional Guardsmen had bill and other 6 will have Dis ey Attor-{ REMEMBER THERE’S . Allen, Assistant U, 8. -At} '. }torneys Moodie and Martin, and a} Wilmon Tucker, aseacfated in the} 4 EDITORIAL IN STAR }| in Frida » The Star will § The editorial must be 350 words long, written on one and must be signed The Star will pub of those already ably contained in cab from American — re abroad, it was stated eliming jany necessity for further investig | tion che te Laconta incident what shall shall not more must be nant, Will ? the sheet, nnan, Meyer Pey ‘Tomorrow nand James Doom. } jjsh some | Attorney Walter, Fulton has been |) fered JURY FINDS DUSKY After two b deliberation ate Bill or creatin artment Monday to promote guilty of| distribution consumers night f ar | robbing the gled Banner” is the offictal|/ton of $1,400 on October 19, 1915, national anthem Army musicians| Prosecutor Ellis and Attorney P. are forbidden to play + o* a medley hy Willett, for the defendant, and expense d closing arguments, | MPU, “My idea of a smart man is one who can change his mind, his collar Yj) | or @ thousand-dollar bill when it's 19 DEAD INTRAIN | WRECK ALTOONA, Pa. Feb, 27 Every passenger, 19 in all, in the Puliman sleeper Beliwood, was killed this morning when the Mercantile Express, on the Pennsylvania railroad, which had stopped at Mount Union for minor repairs to the brakes, was run into by a fast freight train. At 8 o'clock this morning nine bodies were recovered, al! unidentified gineer of the freight, A farrisburg, and a Pull her car rece’ They were the ted injured. lof thone killed, It is also believ family was willed; inciud- ing his young wife, baby, two rela. id |tives and a nurse |their way They were on to Utica to attend the allt of Mrs, Minds’ father necessary,” says Old Man Sage, Weather orecast: “Probably rain tonight and Wednesday; gentle southerly winds Mother and Daughter ‘Are Victims of Sub Attack on Laconia By Ed L. Keene LONDON, Feb. 27. a, American |women were among the 13 killed in a Ger- inds, coat operator) man submarine’s unwarned torpedoing of ack on the football -| the liner Laconia. _ They were Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss. American Consul Frost at Queenstowil jmade this report to the American embassy In the Minds party were nine here today, adding that the four other Amer- — |They were all killed This is the second wrec} didn't have a wreck for many years carrying millions in safety The following is the official list of dead in the wreck at Mount roing LY, Brooklyn tt A 1A CLA = DS, wife Raney, Pa MRS. MORT OWEN, sister | Minds. RICHARD OWEN, 7, Rane Inephew of Minds DOTTIE OWEN, 6, GENE OWEN 4, nieces of Mind A. CALFISCH, 20, brother of rs, Minds, Raney MRS. SEGUR DELLING, Cleve that new |land, with Minds party n BRIGHT, porter on Pullman |New York ROTON HYMES, 474 W, 178th st © district |New York CHARLES LEVINE, New York. PHILIP POLAND, New York T. K. MANNING, Plattsvile, Wi Manning's bride, who had a Bible in her suitcase marked “Miss Ella yuses | Palmer, Hoyt, Denver.” DSKEI, New York tified bodies, be Harry Rogers, First ave. clothing merchant, surprised his friends ays Chiet | Tuesday by passing around a box |< oat they can't do that |of cigars, leaving the lid open |- oll keep changing. “it's a boy,” he said. TO BE A “CLEAR CUT CASE” |: BY ROBERT J. BENDER SR, Plattsville, Wis. and one child, one day|icans aboard the ship were saved. after another, on the Pennsylvania | They were Floyd P. Gibbons, Mrs. F. E. Harris, A. T. Kirby and Rev. Father Ware- ing. Mra, Hoy from exposur They were and Miss Hoy died! — ee in an open boat. | fed at Son They LACONIA SCORE " who s Pp ne launche r succumbed to afloat eight hours} LONDON, “Feb. 27.—Official | figures of the Laconia disaster | today showed: | Total passengers and crew, | 294 Survivors landed at Queens. | town, 267, Survivors landed at | Bantry, 14. ! Drowned, five. Died of exposure and buried | 1 at sea, eight. | In hospitats, six. The figures were furnished | by the American consul at | Queenstown and sent to Am- | bassador Page today. Consul Frost reported that | the Laconia sank in one hour | after the torpedoing. | » a panic i lately * eae et . and ision, |Pers today was almost unanimous mand their mark |! the be that the Laconia was the f ploding |@ “second Lusitan and the oth r further! London editors professed their s compar. | belief that President Wilson's a heavy | “overt act” had been accomplished in this torpedoing rowned 281 Survivors Landed others wer : Consul erican 7 survivors Ireland, re¢ At Queenstown were landed Ban the ath list is women. two Sur ed and crew of th ttle of anythin ut there w ll running on the sea ‘Comment of the London news “If it is ignored or condoned,” declared the Chronicle, “what will in effect be admitted by the Ameri- vent is the claim that WILSON HOLDS LACONIA SINKING. ens eh American citizens under the penal- ath from traveling to Emg- anglish lin P. Ivatt, repe according to d missing, perishe test reports. Ivatt was m r for the actress, {te Seek ant tow ie eal te 4 ne | Mitzisikeosi, reported among the Jis altogether in the hands of Pres : WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— The sinking of the Laconia, ac- cording to highest official in terpretation, is “a clear cut case.” No investigation is neces- sary. This became known as the administration attitude, follow- ing a conference at the White House between Secretary Lan sing and President Wilson at 10 a. m. today Evidence now in hand, pr disps resentatiy PASSED IN SENATE The house foreign affairs com- | mittee, split on President Wil OLYMPIA, Wash,, Feb, 27,.—Sen-} 1 by. Senator Metealf,| the international situation, fail- or of The purpose J | inter erated it uray marketin it] Flood bill, giving the president to reduce waste marketing by or -|ganizing co-operative societies of sellers and buyers, ident Wilson decision, it was flatly stated = must come from him | It was strongly intimated that|]) ADVERTISING MANAGER'S the president Has no immediate in DAILY TALK tention of gain going to congress. | The official interpretation of the | Laconia incident a clear cut act,” did not bring in the word |“overt,” but the manner in which | it was described left the very trong impression that “overt” a¢ Are being featured strong In the ow. And nowhere can you get as authentic Informa Hen abc he new atyles, ma- terials and prices a right from the ads as hi pear in The Star from a. | day. And there are many bare gains being advertised, » CONGRESS TO GIVE WILSON AUTHORITY a GARE D. GROAT 1 eas Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— son’s request for authority in | ed today to report out the that power | Instead several committee. MORE THAN 60,000 GO! men sought to inject amend- DAILY men The upshot was that the commit (Continued on page 7) ———