The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1917, Page 1

RRS is Wan ne os ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time VOLUME 19. The seattle Star { THE ONLY ‘PAPER. _IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT Ky te NEWS WASH,, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1917 NE CEN Mg Pe hitg LAST EDITION PRL DPD forecast toda Rain tonight and Thursday Storm signals for small 5 have been ordered displayed. Weather craft 1 BETTORS THINK THAT JURY WILL DISAGREE M’RAE SAYS HE |[verenan unces | REBEL VET, 81, SAW TOM TRACY __S2YS TOENLIST! WOULD ENLIST: FIRE FROM BOAT. ~ BOYS ARE SLOW Sheriff Denies Saying He Col. McDowell Says Nation Should Hoped All on Verona ? of Would Be Killed Rapidly WAS AT BEVERLY PARK “Didn't you tell me, when we were talking about this case, that you were sorry the pring line didn’t hold so you and your deputies could have shot every on the Ve- roma?” shouted George F. Van- derveer, one of the attorneys for Thomas H. Tracy, detend- ant in the I. W. W. trial, at former Sheriff Donald McRae, state's witness whom he was ‘ ayes cross-examining Wednesday 3 lared, they morning. ate, Pn “No, | didn't tell you any troops. Tt such thing! | told you it was a was'e: depet crime the line didn’t hold and ane tip "em ail in the bay; that's what | told you,” responded the sheriff, quite as loudly. McRae as sheriff of Snohom- Ish county, was at the head of @ company of citizen deputies who met an incoming boatload of 1. W. W.’s at Everett Nov. 5. Tracy, with 73 co-defend ants, is charged with the mur- der of one of the deputies, Jef ferson Beard. Tuesday afternoon he testified “Yes, I saw the defendant on the Verona—that man sitting right over there. He was shooting from Youth Enlist HE CAN DO HIs BI't “1 can't dig a trench or lead a charge, but, sah, | can throw ink while the young men throw bombs.” This is the sentiment of Col E. C. McDowell, 81, Confederate veteran and Spanish.American war survivor, who yesterday of- , fered Uncie Sam's quartermas ter corps his services in case of war, Col, McDowell lives with his daughter, Mra. G. N. Wal dron, 304 17th ave. N We are w man They chould be storming the recruiting offices,” he says “But, sah, that’s what the young men of today lack. They don't know what obsdience and atten- tion are, Obedience to duty would make them eager to rve the nation, and attention to duty would make them its efficient servants.” o | Walks 40 Blocks Daily MeDow rom a dod nan. is a Col. E. C. McDowell iM is far His youth's, and walks 20 blocks from the second or third cabin window in my direction.” mect Tracy directly with the case, Asked about the 41 men who were) ——__ October 30 to Reveriy park, where 1c the defense claims they were beat- stra P boat was met by 35 or 40 deputies, ) his home downtown, and returns # and as the captain was not going h It's my exercise.” he ae to make the return trip to Seattle, | Since the civil war the ¢ the men were put in automobiles a student of war t he “Did you go?” j soldiers are tradesinen, “I did. 1 took one Raised Artillery Company It was the firat evidence to con taken from an incoming boat = CONGRESS ASKS en and injured, the sheriff said the ornt r th and taken to Beterly park, where | is not the kind that talks « ahey were released and told to ned glory of attle He realizes back to Seattle. | Gays, that it 1 oad, and t man out in} Col. MaDowell + ™y automobile and told him to go! BY ROBERT J. BENDER to Seattle and tell his friends if! United Press Start ¢ of colonel as th they dign't Iay off of Everett I WASHINGTON March would get a rock pile and put them) President Wilson wil! hav on it. Then I went back positive, definite and “ you go back to Cetail to what he hat evening?” gress is the I went home and today “on bill ready for the Mond opening ticn in his co Beverly put on A vast FOUR GUARD UNITS 22)...’ jthat way ee it They IN EAST CALLED OUT)". what he nts d has 1 DOG SHOW BEGINS IN SEATTLE THUR. Bow-wows, from the mighty St. Bernard to the little Chinese toy, will come into their own Thursday, when Seattle's an. nual canine exhibition will get under way, at 10 a. m., in Kol ler’s rink, First and Seneca F " ADVICE COST ROBERT ZINN HIS SPOUSE you contemplate marriage, tie 40 your wife can't the advice of Alva to Robert Zinn, salesman for McLaughlin-Taylor ( Zinn ts geod out the plan His wife, for divorce and as | community propert granted both, Tuesda to be too WASHINGTON, March 23.— Vanee” Four more National Guard reg- iments were called to the col- ors today. They are the First West Virginia, Seventy-fourth New York fantry, Second Connecticut infantry and the | ved here jence of | rhaps disastrous dela program BURGLARS TAP DRUG Second New Jersey infantry. STORE’S W I K AUTO HITS 2 WOMEN Sill sca " eee ee N. and E. Republican st Two women, Mrs. M. Le Count,| oitcred last night by thieves. who aoi4 Burke ave, and Mrs. A. R salen. Seallion barrel of Ken Sandell, 1714 N. 39th ave,, were in-|firiy “Rennrve” w Bo pe e jured early Wednesday morning Stag Roc as when they were knocked down aad én “Bing an automobiie driven by J ten, of 654 New York block accident occurred at Pike st Fourth ave. quarts of trance the rear door was The dying wish of Mrs. Emma C. DYNAMITE P. 0. SAFE Van Sickle, of La Crosse, Wis, was AT REDMOND; GET $25 that she might be buried in her private cemetery, beside her five| An unknown husbands. |dynamited the ilies | nese y nt secured $2 rob bber or ‘obbers postoffice Redmond and | ording to reports | “lat the sheriff* office. No trace ADVERTISING MANAGER'S has been found of the culprits. DAILY TALK Deputy Sheriffs Joe Hill and Scott sala res Malone are Investigating | was pulled off | A similar robbery - 700 OLD T0 CHANGE CANNED MILK TO HABIT; JURY FREES COST MORE SOON, “anamutfac ture of whisky in a the | PORTLAND, March Can-| till near the Snohomish county jued cow” will no Jonger sell for) tine, was acquitted by a jury in ]10 cents a tin, All of the leading | Judge Alston's court Wednesda |brands of condensed milk manu | morni The jury rendered a 5 factured ‘n the Northwest advanc-| ealed erdict Tuesday night and 30 cents 4 ca wholesale to-| reported in the putting it entirely out of the} Jurora said im ail cl {thought Parham 1OWA WOMEN MAY i=) rb VOTE ON SUFFRAGE U. S. TO TAKE OVER | DANISH WEST INDIE que VASHINGTON a possibility for lowa. The state | Danish West Indie rl » tod without ord of | ly rn over by PAPER 7 THE FASTEST GROWING and by a vote of 34 to 7 en the IN THE NORTHWEST \1 sased a Joint resolution such }be hauled down a referendum, flag rai LT safe carried Mabel sued him division of » Ralston BIG NEWS TODAY IN THE ADS are a number c heduied for to be mentioned Standard Furntture Co Rankin Co. Furniture Co. Pa ed weand ade 4 day, (fall p ” Movie ne Vraser- Pater ent Manufa morning ward who Youth, afte that th had made had the Frederick & habit You are sure mighty worth whi pot reading the ads in T fully every da DES MOINE beat offer erendum vote by ee vee Nabe on the equal suffrage March A ref women exclusive | March 28.—The will be forimal United State Danish flag will and the American ed over St, Thomas, stores app tion the for each} | BERLIN hig ho Rw | own liquor-graft case. ry with one lank th the witness chair, but deadly earnest figure, tell- ing his version of the often and va duced Seattle to wilderment. his hands. W he the truth, entanglement of quer; had to tell one that would hold together force of truth or’s testimony fering audience took breath, NO FEAR OF GERMANS LOCAL SCHOONER WASHINGTON While ble ith that me cations Report con wns have concentration at SLAV ADMIRAL IS {ral stat The | proposed to open all fronts the plied that he sia, Ma trom official pre “N eine It Around!” The Star proposes that the gres of the people themselves—those long to none of the commercial and civic organizations, whose voice will be heard in Washington—have their s too DO YO ELIEVI PFHEORY OF PUL, rARY TRAID > FOF Al ABLI D YOUTH IF YOU DO, THEN AROUND!” ae ATIV CON( BODT! “NOISE ot REPI OLDIER, HAS THE MI Y TO RI RS MAY POINT THAT And that these young men, whom you have seen about Seattle streets in uniform during the last day or two, are soon to be put under orders for service—some- where in Seattle? The ! ich cer the ernr Fiske 1 “the female among the nations, depending for safety upon the absence of any foe, deserving to be known as ‘Aunt Elizabeth,’ rather than ‘Uncle Sam.’” The Star saw, pe still sees, in this method the only real solution of our problem of national defense. Within the 24 hours, word has Seattle that congress, in special k ay attempt to sub- training plan for cam- \ committee from ‘Business Men's Training on, consisting of President Treat, Vice President h, and Lieut. H. V. Hop upon the task of placing ington unequivocally ing universal training > have been asked to th e tl i : country, tion should also be dem and because universal service places the ice equally upon all, rich or pe ge you t support the Ch mended by you r hed eachee army organiz ocratic, burden of west mberlain bill, re the senate committee om mci8 and hitney 1 hope t secure ston of “A Whole Courtroom Watched Mrs. Gill, but Only a Few Saw Mayor’s Love Pat: BY MABEL ABBOTT Mayor Gill testified in behalf Tuesday in And then Judge Bausman | called—“Mrs. Gill!" And the mayor's wife followed the mar- I thru the craning crowd. It was the first time most of Judge Bausman questioned Mrs. Gill, Had there been any such call? Was there any other woman in the house but herself? At what time had the them had ever seen her, prob mayor goné to bed? How did ably. Mrs. Gill is as little she know these things? known as her husband is well She answered simply—a little known. nervously, her furs rising and She faced them quietly, a failing with quick breaths be. pleasant picture in her pretty tween her words—but clearly hat of the new mustard-yellow, “There was no such call and her brown furs that fell There was no other woman in apart to show a modest trinket the house; | had let the maid go dangling at her throat home because it was Christmas It was a simple, tho important eve thing that she was to testify to “We have three telephones in —merely whether her husband the house. The one in our room had had any telephone call at is on my side of the bed, and | their home on Christmas eve always answer it, because Mr Logan Billingsley has claimed Gill’s hearing is very defective, he called the mayor at his and he cannot hear it He house that night; and in telling could not hear it more than 20 of the call, he said the tele or 25 feet away, even if it rang phone was answered by a loudly, and it is muffled, so he woman's voice (Continued on page 8) |ARMED TONGMAN |S IS IN BAD PLIGHT CAUGHT NEAR COURT Bender The near-tong courthouse Wednesday for the ond time recently. Ah Fook arrested by Deputy Sheriff Frank Brewster and charged with carry Flattery,|ing concealed weapons. Ah and several of his countrymen were loitering near the park ent the courthouse, and, acc his the Lean, cartoonab!e, lisping, leg hooked over he leaned forward in a serio-comic he other ariously told story that has re- helpless be- He had a man's size job on was telling he had a barbed wire lies to con. if he was telling a lie, he terrible against the interrupted the may- The long-suf- jury and the insatiable Recess IN MEXICO FELT March 28—| The ssibilities of trou-| Bros thering in Mex-| from for Seattle, is the | reported to be in distress off Port cope! Crescent, just inside Sporadic out-| according to word received at the border raids are (he! Merchants’ E: Wednesday arded against. Indi The sropellor 400 against any real rili-| i prog | deputies, were acting as tho lookit |miles from Tatoosh island, and then | for the approach of an enemy. ‘The r, inside the |¢ ‘hinese fled thru the building and unfavorable| Were all captured. No ons were found on any except schooner, Arctic points power war invaded the was realizing px noted Vessel, boun from Germans Alaska authorities ured today ernment is prepared to Cape ituation ance to rding to change Vessel lost its danger to the government show| clusively that a great many Ger- straits the wind been and still are flee-|/and the boat is drifting toward the Reports indicate | sea, Torreon, | The United States coast guard | jcutter, Snohomish, left Port Ange: | jles at 1 p. m. for the distressed | | boat It is ne known whether} | | | used its sails, How te Mexion |ASK LID ON THALIA, Suit Thalia Union, Tallman the W. B Co. It is a nuisance. The action is brought against William Hodge, R. I jand others, but tt is | Hodge sold his to C. V fo cancel to its loc was b the Jease of the tion, § pnd and before Judge morning by | there are passengers aboard. ‘DEMOCRACY GETTING ‘CHANCE IN GERMANY BERLIN March. 28. REPORTED KILLED Mareh 28 Hutehinson Arrests of charged that an offielals continue, ac- g to Stockholm information Barrel rad, published by the bureau today. Admit Viren has been killed, it was|Von Bethmann-Hollweg may de. ed cide to grant electoral reforms in sald Gen, Wojejkow | Germany, looking toward increased and let democracy in the empire before the but the ezar re-|end of the war, according to a sig Kus-\ nificant hint contained in the Go-|have logne Gazette today, I folk, the cafe Chancellor held t in the that interes cafe North Dakota nearly and nine-tenths enter, could not betray Mississippi country German: Ah Fook. | Investment | Van Nostrum | ! pen Oe — Booze-Gralt Case Nears End; Mayor Is Good Witne Without warning, the ‘booze-grafé swept toward an abrupt close Wednesday The fate of Mayor Gill, Chief Bec ham and Detectives Peyser, Poolman, Lennan and Doom, accused of conspiring secretly aid the Billingsley bootlegging dicate, will be in the hands of the jury l {tonight or some time tomorrow. First public intimation that_ the fendants had played their last card came 11 a. m., when Attorney Frederick Baus: suddenly announced: “The defendant, Jley papers seized by the police: e Day and Night drug store, red to Logan Billin August 3)—the day he saya id the $4,000 bribe to : om The mayor insisted that | was no correspondence to or fi ses were|Logan Bil'ingsley among the quick r ion to tear| pers he returned. down minor points of defense tes- Questioned About Letters timony or plug up holes in om “Will you say positively # joVernient case, At noon U. 8.| were no’ letters. from a Attorney Reames said the rebuttal | Moore. Hunt Co, to Fred |Yould be completed in short order | Joe Bush?” during the afternoon. No,” answered Gill. That meant that the arguments “Were there any letters jto the jury would start this after-|to paying protection mon jncon, Whether or not they would | be completed and the case go to} the jury tonight depended upon al made late in the Neterer |Young was an agent for the program ted. / Moore Hunt Co?” the case will to the B | had heard so. a night ses Otherwise Wouldn't Have Considered gsuments will no doubt be complet He was handed a series of ed tomorrow ters addressed to “Adams,” and “Young,” and asked if were among the seized papers, I don’t think these letters pong them,” said the d if they were I wouldn't paid much attention to them,” knew, from months of expel |how the Billingsleys were op ry and Hiatel Government Ready to Fin | the govern you positive?” Yes.” Did you know that Chal aecision to be If the rus jon Bets Favor “Mung Jury” Bets around town today favored u ury.” which is a disa-| 1 would permit the ent to try the again | a verdict of the defend If they are ac itted, the case is ended ing. exchanges t né Attorney Reames mar ing mor ts of the sharp cross-examination morning. | » turned | But 1 couldn't enee to ® government |any court.” $1,000,000 in f He Was Vigilance Committee” rom esse At one time Gill answered? t the govern-/ filed the courthouse full of confiscated ship-| better than that stuff (the apers), and the prosecuting att $5, 000 Note Sering ney threw up his hands and done that in half}be couldn't get anywhere & an hour a aid there was a vigilance committee " an ef cope with the Billingsieys. F yor W head with the vigilance, Reames propounded que i (Continued on page 3) :|| BRIGHT SPOTS IN GILL’S TESTI “Dr. Matthews got the rumor resulting in the indictment: from John Evans, an exc vict, reporter for the Times.” “There was some criticism In The Star about the agreement —(the compromise with Biilk ingsley)—but | thought it was _ a good thing, regardiess of the criticism.” “| don't know any more about the law business of the firm of — Gill, Hoyt & Frye than you (As — sistant Attorney General Reames) do—! haven't even a showing | desk down there.” 4 liquor firm in Montana had “1 filled the courthouse full — Gill, Hoyt & Frye regard. of proof better than that Poa ing the diversion of a barrel of} (some of the Billings! liquor to Seattle | pers), and the prosecutiii bare Asked Frye to Explain torney threw up his hands and | saw this letter in the news. said he couldn't get anywhere — |yaper,” ald Gill, “and 1 asked without a vigilance committee. Mr. Frye here to explain it the} 1! gave him the vigilanesi r day | squad.” | The mayor said he had retained | “L turned over 15,000 quarts name in the law firm of Gill,| of beer to the treasury depart. lhioyt & Frye “because no man,| ment that would have made Mr, elected mayor, likes to become dis-| Hunt, of the Jesse Moore Hunt jsoclated from his profession,” | Co., subject to a million-dollar and cited how former Mayors | Humes, Miller, Ronald and Miller | |had retained their firm names, — | | Tucker Stops Questions | Attorney Wilmon Tucker, of | Gill's counsel staff, objected to the ine of questions “We're not trying the Jon ethics,” said Tucker The objection was sustained | Reames immediately inunched Iquestions concerning the Billings: anything in the ¢ which should their plan of op tween Gil Was there vondence clusively show ations? Oh—I knew in general, have proved it. prt te how that hard up” at the with the | handed admitted The note the time his comprom was Pillingsley e $5,000 not which he heen signed in 1909. not yet been paid Ex-8 Robert led a fense witness, to give » to Logan Billingsley’s testi |mony that he had paid Hodge $500 one da at the county jail 1 wasn't in ther Hodge | Quizzed on Firm's Business | The cross-examination of Mayor Gill when court convened Wed esday Did you know, the iloyt & Frye wa liquor firms. shipping this territory?” asked No, | don’t know about that firm's law than you de I haven't even down there.” He was handed a letter, has | - Hodge w town was resumed promptly at 9:30 a. m firm of Gill engaged by liquor into Reames. any business a desk more More false than hell thought of being” (referring to the Billings! bribe story). “Tucker (Gill's own attorney now) was largely responsible — for my recall in 1911." “Never took a drop since Now vember, 1910. “Prohibition law inherently weak because druggists are pen mitted to sell alcohol.” ever | witnes