The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 1

The Seattle Star |. ~—:: weather man, MORE THAN 61,000 ml ge Coun 244,000 are Star And don't forget to vote, Tuesday, } THE ONLY "PAPER IN- SEATTLE “THAT DARES "TO ‘PRINT THE NEWS i for Erickson, Lane, Hesketh ‘our to a fam aut VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917 ONE CENT Shy 2h SD HELP! HELP! IM A PATRIOT THIS TABLET Reserveo fo DALES ‘450,000 BONO 1SSue FoR ARTERIAL(2) E 5 " p HIGHWAYS ns : . ; AT EXPENS' A OF ‘TAX PAVERS! agree?“ 08 Oe TALE OF A CROOKED DETECTIVE RUSH ON HERE ‘Serves Kaiser Confesses "cnnn AND HIS NAME | | | FOR PERMITS eee Diot Against U.S. == IS “WARDELL Amazing revelations of foreign . ‘ spy activities are promised if bone dry Saturday this country goes to war. Espionage in the United States Is costing the European | = BERLIN, Via Sayville, March 3.—Foreign AES charge in connection with t —_—_——_ rt house next Monday to attend seador Sa Tho! Seattle is technical This was the gener Fie gente By the City Editor of The Star to face trial on a murder » Ey When it was announced the other day that Inspecto men who verdict « the law after } that i ning | he E : mm Mi lat r Pow: taad the ‘aeatoffice bi ts tf ;} belligerents TEN LLION | Zimmerman today justified Germany's action in seeking toJerett sor fight on November 5,| Mike Powers of the Seattle police had been charged by ove Li DOLLARS A WEEK, or $520, J King f t ycutor Lundin with accepting a bribe, and arrested, you liquor into dry states 000,000 a year! ally Mexico and Japan against the United States. King county officials will barricade nantbe hided ‘the ian Sree one Just when County Aud will have to close uf There is no reason to believe Such a course, he said, was merely a defensive measure— ‘he h »ining Judge Ronald's | dou Ait bse fs polar) -: st by Lundin’s inf his permit counter, or wh law would prompt the! Senator Overman was not over. not to be carried out except in case the United States de-|°ourt with fences ¢ marked money pai o him by Lund n was found on his person. ; estimating when he said there now on the Way, WAS! are 100,000 spies in the United | Clared war on Germany. Moreover, he says, it was no more unsettled. States, These men cost their |a “plot” than the “plot” which was reported in South Ameri- “I don’t know whether the fol wh ke out permit masters, in salaries and ex- | can newspapers as having been undertaken against Germany ‘ today or have stuff on the way are lating the law or not pesraeesg all of $100 a week /by the United States when America sought, according to ‘ declared United States District Attorney Clay Allen, “and I| {¢ experience of European coun-/S0uth American and other newspaper reports, to line up the ™ the bill.” trie American republics in common action against Germany pr is} will be fou The foreign secretary commented on America’s pro-ally sympathies. He refrained from admitting specifically his au- thority for the letter to Minister Eckhardt at Mexico City, , government to seize permit st fences are being ¢ o be placed in p There didn’t seem, on the surface of the affair, to e court room has been filled.| Much room for doubt. . It struck us the same way—at first. HIS NAME WARDELL Inspector Powers had a plausible story, of course. A man named Wardell, he said, had been in his office just a moment before the deputy sheriffs entered to arrest him. — When the man named Wardell left, the inspector found some ~ money on his desk. He picked it up, he said, and started for won't know until I Bill Is Effective } “I consider that the ma Dr. M. A. Matthews partially | purely federal,” he said, “and until celvable an red up one angle of the conun- | District Attorney Allen orders us to) ab m when he announced that in a/refrain from selling any more pe been adm! the doors will mnish county will send four wor s in munitions King county w tel gram from Congressm Hum-/| mits, I will do nothing fac ards, and his entire discussion of the matter was, he was careful ,, tie! the. next room to turn it over‘ to ‘the police cna .. phrey he had been informed that| Prosecutor Lun authorized ain the big ms thralto state, based on “English reports” of the “German plot « to keep order d : ; Ah property clerk, tha law weat into effect tn statement, which litor Warda the in the | eg Mexic lecl. 1 Sta j the but before he got there he was arrested WITH THE r 4 wis % get Mexico to declare war against the United States anc “ * ately after the president signed his| will stamp on every permit, a ‘ ing companies and ¢ ‘s ald axsinet the United Statec” It is estimated the first case will) MARKED MONEY ON HIM. name to the bill view towards prote qi y ist er o secure Japan's aid agains’ e¢ United States. aah tans thks 6 TAGAIA cn a Se And we'll le the socks oft in its sale of permits, to the follow working int t the al Asked About English Report {Germany « pected and ished ts “\ MAN NAMED WARDELL!” om,” said Dr. Matthews, “if they | ing t ure in the te The official today /remain wit e States o ~ ~ Mies ares eternal lestca aio y to amend the bill in December. s permit does not sanction or| change, where b Is to ad the tolls terms of friendshiy nease | —~ Fa Byte ame stirred an clus ive memory, eeu a & Cot sidhielas the vin Sat as cscs on pass *) a : the Ut Staten’ te 1 war|} O)O)O WARDELI The next day it came to me. a Prosecutor Alfred Lundin threw utes of the United States now in ex was { a eta ‘ we prepared (i & It is the story of another “case” in which a self-styled a little cold water on the bone dry |istence, or which may t nereaf official ( an pre a Ot Gotenas: I fall to see 0 ¥ private “detective” played a part. The name of that “detete igen ct pointed out afer been the t Eng repe i 1 ye” in inspired by tive’ was Wardell possible phole which may save | transportati f r vevenled i A : unfr on our part : . : the permit tipplers. | Won't Refund Permit ure War ag the Un § Feared U. S. as Foe s Here is the story ss ig ee ct ‘Maybe it Offers Loophole The de fea in the Liquor depar nd ecure Japan's aid against It would mean nothing but th es aS e on As I underst the law,” he! ment wer: shed with these United States lwe would use means universall | At 9 o'clock on a stormy night in December, 1915, while® said, “it prohibits shipments into! stamps shortly before noon “The state secretary for foret d in war in case the United I was sitting in my home on Queen Anne hill, reading, the states where ‘the manufacture a0d| fn case the government orders im affa ates declared war ilanhone ced : sale of liquor prohibited.’ In| mediate dis ion of t it r a that it r The impor part of the 7 ? a} 1» ‘ Washington ‘sale’ is legalized by|system, De County itor), WASHINGTON, March A lleged plot is its conditions and i Mi ¥ST is is Ware a voice said I want to see you | prescription. This may offer @/ Hart announged that no money “ripping. fox day greeted the rn T whole “plot” falls to the ay right away on a very 1 rtant matter Can I come to your — would be refunded for permit housands of Americana who ca moment under ground in case the United States |) hous a Allen said he ¢ them on their|to town to see the pre stance doen tecli r against u : ’ until he had | oy ices,” he announced rated 5 Was “Friendly” Plot And if we 1 the report oT UVC x } ib ‘ f l 1 he i q . so ee ee pm: Se - py e bill, which Satur will undoubtedly see the; At noon tomorrow President Wil ‘Therefore, may I be allowed alleges, considered the possibility + a planat ) s business, but he said he could not discuss 18% ne io three dave or 10 biggest business in the sale of per-/800 Will take the formal oa limit my answer to what 1# said in{Of @ hostile act by the United Ht gous over the phone. I finally permitted him to come. d vermit connter wi probably | mits since the state went dry of nie a crs . - ad-\the Hnglish reporté, which most States against me then we really THE “FRAME-UP” @ open until somebody make usbands, wives and their rela OF SRO ORLA 1 dents | certainly we not inspired) by|had reasons to do so rr 1 shortly before 10. I had never seen th q j a rip ony ace’ 1 ) arrived sho ref ( ac s he 3 a move, Auditor Wardall said tives # d into the courthouse he capitol sympathy with Germany? | “‘An Argentine newspaper which H he did mar ed Ai i “a Php: Permits Wait on Allen Fifteen lines were formed. Many of vars '. a the ry inet and cee The reports expressly state that] (Continued on page 8) ; owever, he did not leave me long in the dark ag ate families o ident and Sito the nature of his errand f ent, The C a detective. He had been trailing mé Ison will be pre the function ex cert iin interested parties. He had not succeeded. The ' Prosecutor Lundin said that the/the lines extended nearly to the county would take no steps to dis- | courthouse corridors = continue the permit system until he} The women clerks at the women’s Dave been ver : had been instructed by the federal/har expressed dissatisfaction with Vited to at : government. | President Wilson's action in signing “@sires to have J 7 sensat —_— — | the “bone "bill, asserting that it|tremely simp Wilson will take] stead, finding that I was a fairly respectable sort of chapy = | would cost them their jobs the oath th oad time on Mon a7 §{ with a family he : id become soft-hearted. Unable to cately Thirsty Take Chance ee eae ia yy ig anything “naughty,” he had been instructed by higay f 4 | add smiled and announced they were WHICH | WOULD INNOCENTLY WALK INTO. to take a chance o 1% nation of German Foreign Secre-| man letter in the U. § a == fi]! “iPing to take @ char . ty PRESIDENT URGES tary Zimmerman and an abrupt Up until a late hour Ja théir consignments returned to Cal : night 4 | TRAILED TO BUTLER 3 eine \termination of the diplomatic ca-|German papers had not on per aT VENSO ’ 4 at a‘ pes caree rae _ on eer PASSING SPY BILL reer of Count Johann Von Bern-| mitted to publish anything con. oO | E V el NSO! ) But then he had remembered his own little ones. A waves orf, N f { ) | AMSTERDAM, March 3.—Resig:|low the revelation of the Zimmer wherever th of compassion for poor me had swept out of his mind ally ; (Continued on page 3) Amusements rman ambassador | cerning the Zimmerman letter, Ef ates, is regarded | forts to obtain some word from former ( to the United The crowds attending their last purchasing to John Bar a happy lot, and show lit} man Webb of the house judiciar 1 concern over the true im-| con port of the president's actions A number were orn WASHINGTON, March 3.—Chair by Duteh officials in touch with | these circles failed oasis German conditicns as certain to fol Dutch officials refuse to discuss { late toda ill ask for the plot fer publication, but pri ) 5 TARTS DAY rule on the veral ¢ PAP DALAL IIL. 4 ; %\vately it was stated that the at they really w glad This was decided at a meeting of U. P. Gives Senate § tempt w ning blunder of 4 4 Th a dad 1 mo y {| Teutonic diplomac } \| eens eo lencumeer ares, | Pint Report ot | 3 INOW ‘Know Your Man, Lundin 4 bia, and rai old interstate com White House Committeemen |} Plot Confession $ BERLIN PRESS is } me PM ser pce meree regulations? Calloway, Igog and othe The |) ; ens , tion anak go! 4 1 t tok - SHIN ) : tion pressed a wish that the Dill be WASHINGTON, March 3.—) 5 ‘ eee ; COS GROEN ‘the ae aie No” ia the answer of Allen, Cus-| passed When Senator Brandegee, Con- DF . 7 ; splendid efforts now being made to rid the city of offi- : D) ) cial grafters by pinning hiS entire case against Mike “d As I under the law,” ex detective. § BERLIN, March The Berlin nig =] = toms Gollector Drumheller, George } necticut, opened the debate on {/press today supports the govern Conger ant eat ZEPPELIN EXPLODES, | vs x-d,veetrsi", boas) ent an acto of taking pra i ti) ial eesteans yy pinay i te ee 1 d 9 |( Senator Sherman, Iilinois, pre-) tionary measures against attack by QU ’ ? plained Allen, “anyone who order { sented him with a copy of the ) the United States thru the proposals 5 ‘ ' < : : . ; or causes to have shipped liquor { United Press dispatch from Ber- }/ transmitted to the German minister Lundin should first investigate his man Wardell, within the state guilty of infra ‘ lin, admitting authenticity of {/at Mexico City To push a case that was “framed up” by a cunning tion.” AMSTERDAM, March A new ( the Mexico-Japan plot letter, and, % { (~)( y) y) (( )) stool-pi n hurts the entire camy n against graft, Drumheller’s private opinion was! Zeppelin, on its speed trial at Ghent |} upon Brandegee giving permis THE SEATTLE Home Consun Y) me 1) ( Mos \ 9) 4 Thathowhy ‘The Star. is‘ anaiole’ tant nnd eee that his department might be ee Monday, exploded, burning 10|) slon, the dispatch was read to }/ers’ league entertained a num Pe a ae od C 3 nat y ta i k ; tructed to prohibit foreign ship-lot those aboard It, according to dis-|) the senate by the clerk Sr Alesha plousere at its meetmg 2 © O 0 O 0 OB DO O34 exactly with whom he is dealing ments from getting into Seattle. | patches from Belgium ‘ ee flin the Chamber of Commeres {eee eee