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THE SEATTLE STAR a Seventh Ave, Near Untow | oR sCRIPUS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS | Telegraph Ne Service Latted Press Asm tiee | ce Entered at attic, Wash ffice as Second-Class Matter, yan 4 Out of city, dio per month up to € moa; & mos $1.90; year $3.80 STAR—THURSDAY, J { Trial of Wm. Hohenzollern BY BERTON BRALEY Before a German jury and a German judge, William Hohenzollern had been put on trial for incompetency and criminal mismanagement of the work he had been in trusted with by the German people. After the attorneys for the state and defendant had made their pleas, the magistrate charged the jury a follows THE CHARGE TO THE JURY NTLEMEN intelli Will the evidence plain to the every clearly shows that defendant t un iam Hohe took a frugal, efficient and industrious people, who were rapidly conquering the world commer cially and scientifically under conditions of peace, and plunged them into war with the statement that he was seeking a ‘place in the sun. With the effect of this | action upon other nations, this court cannot deal; the de | fendant is on trial simply for what he has done to Ger many. And what do the facts show he fas accomplished | for iy by this war | how indisputably that he has piled up a debt | of sonie twenty billion dollars, that he has caused the death of at least two million of Germany’s best men and | the maiming of five million more; they show that his act | wreckec 1immense and gre trade which was mak ing ( ny a hive of industry, that it instantaneously removed from the seas and tied to the wharves a mi nificent and profitable merchant marine, and presently lost to the Fatherland practically every colony she | possessed | “The facts, gentlemen, show further that as a direct | result of this wav act of the defendants, the country was | on rations—r ms which, as the war ame slimmer a mmer, until they lett shment fr which it will take the tions to recover, So much for the iF J atter “When we come the moral consequences defendant's acts find evidence still more n We find that his cynical disregard of the treaties and covenants between nations has made all the world re- } gard Germany as unworthy ible to trust; that his ruthless barbarity in ¢ t and the vast and cosmic destruc n wreaked by his rs on land and sea have served no military purpose and have banded the The Germans, before America entered the war, must | whole world in ance aga the system that perpe often have laughed at England 3 e. Since we entered trated them: we find, further, that the defendant's clumsy the war, they must often have {atus. For in Holland conspiracies in the name of diplomacy have irritated the Denmark, Norway, Sweden Switzerland they have had| few neutral countries left, and that the deliberate sav- perfect funnels thru which our produ have poured into] ageries of his agents in France, in Belgium, in Serbia, Germany, rendering of no avail part of the British sea block in Rumania and in Poland have made the name German ade of German ports and discounting in part our newly-de-| a synonym for Hun, Vandal and Goth, and given the clared hostility to the country of the kaiser German people an evil and malignayt tame which it will Some of the things Germany needed most to keep it from take them centuries to live down starvation, to keep up its munitions supply and clothe its “In brief, we find that William Hohenzollern, as troops, have been obtained from this country They have king of Prussia and emperor of Germany, has taken his been secured thru the neutral funnels nation from its place in the sun and cast it into a gloom Even a casual study of the exports of this country to] out of which it will not emerge in your time or mine, and the neutrals close to Germany will reveal the facts with] that, quite aside from what he has done to the rest of a Startling clearness nee fair world, he has ruined and betrayed the country For instance, Denmark in 1913 took 415,479 bushels of] he ruled. These, gentlemen, are facts which any intellt our wheat and in 1915 took 2,754,746—nearly seven times as} gent man perceive, and it is for you to determine much. Holland took 14,832,000 in 1913 and in 1915 took er they are sufficient to warrant # conviction j 31,551,992—more than double The jury returned a verdict of guilty without leaving In 1913 Denmark took 108,515 bushels of our rye. In their seate.—Of course it couldn't happen, but wouldn't It 1916 she took 2,047,562—nearly 20 times as much bea wonderful thing for | Germany, and the world, if it did? In 1913 Holland took 6,788 pounds of brass in bars, ses oa Ha plates and sheets. In 1916 it took 1,950,943—over 250 times as much. In 1913 Sweden took 9,080,914 pounds of our copper. 1915 she took 34,545,504—nearly four times as much In 1913 Switzerland took 2,699 pounds of leather. In 1916 she took 1,553,936 and all other neutrals took similar large quantities. In 1913 Norway took $4,743 worth of r icals. In 1916 she took $350,806 worth The figures cited for the selected ind typical of all these neutrals. Allowing for the fact that these countries were cut off from Russian and Argentine wheat, from Russian leather, from German chemicals and from European brass and copper supplies, allowing for the fact that they, therefore, turned to America to make up their deficit—there still remains so large an increase in their im ports as to preclude the belief that all they have bought within the past three years has been for home consumption In riscellancous chem idual countries are The conviction will not down that they have acted as purchasing agents for Germany To that extent they were assistants to Germany. They helped her circumvent the blockade And that is where the new exports council appointed by President Wilson under the espionage bill will be of enormous service to the cause America and her allies against Ger- many. It will stop the leak to the enemy President Wilson's embargo proclamation Sunday was the first step in this direction The 14th of July July 14 is the great nz memorating the fall of the Bz July 14 should this year in America be observed as never before ° Let us do honor to the gallant sister-republic that stemmed the first tide of German inv nm and has so far borne the heaviest share of the fight for world democracy that now has become OUR fight! In Seattle, the entire French population, with the consul ional of France, stile holiday com ~at its head, will celebrate with a special program at the |man, but any woman can beat him Stockade hotel at Alki | ° l handling a hairpin The Star suggests that the tri-color of France he dis Editor Ss Mai played prominently thruout Seattle Saturday, the 14th of July; that bz play the world-famed, inspiring “Marseil-| RAPS POLICE Jaise.” the national air of France and of freedom; and that| Editor The Star: If re Seattle y a es take a few minutes fro F ssmer ds police de tment would use as we Seattleite | ke a few he rom our busy day for}Pors? Cergy in catching murderers thought of the bravery and gallantry of our glorious republ Jand women-sluggers as they do in can friends who were our benefactors in 1776 and are our|trying to catch some poor person allies today |with a bottle of booze in their ¢ _—_—_—- think the public would | EDITORIALETTES | } 1T’S A poor injunction that doesn't work both ways—for the trac tion company. Injunction stops jits till they put up bonds. And in Junction stops the city from collecting paving costs and gross receipt payments. SECRETARY BAKER congratulates Secretary Daniels on perfect carrying out of the plans to get those troops across. some job, seeing that the Germans were onto those plans. the It was AND NOW the president of China is a fugitive. When we con- sider the kings and presidents of these times, we begin to believe that pushing a lead pencil over nice white copy paper is some sinecure. WAR CENSUS sie Seattle a population of only 275,000. That's! carrying the economy campaign a little too far ELKS WILL give a million for war relief work. That's living up to their reputation for speed BELLINGHAM STORES have adopted Wednesday halt holidays for July and August, and a week's vacation, with pay, for all employes. Congratulations, Bellingham! WHILE THE chancellor seems to have been dented a bit, the position nevertheless failed to knock a “hole” in Hollweg. THE WOMAN slugger? Oh, y he has not been caught yet. “| Editor STAR BEAMS . . By E. D. K. Some fellers are always ex |iman Sas anything to put in his pectin’ th’ unexpected t’ happen. rr now evey ee have not re STUFF = LOSE were such profits | they went to deal ers other than those on trial The combination | ees Of coal operators was not an unreasonable restric: | tion upon trade, but was in the in-| terest of the public.—Statement by | the attorney for the coal operators, in opening their defense in their ltrial in the United States court In) |New York city us; Dear E. D. K When I have Jany leftover bre which {is not jmore than nen a day, I |rave it until T have enough to make la bread pudding. Will you please tell me what I can make out of the left-over bread pudding?—Mrs. C. 3. eee NOT KNOCKING THE CONGREGATION phard of Horton Rev. J. | | ed his pulpit and will D TOPPED His | the arme in the army the Rev. | | ORIVE AT THE six Th bard will get his pay every 30 ROLE yesTeRony | JESTER ON Jamestown (Kas) Opt } <a SPANISH CURSE ON HENKY | Mayor Mitchel of New York an nounces that he is in favor of mu bag r) xorice. ny By | ne "i nus » cro erty sol y my hee |. Henry Gween, nicipal ownership. It must be grow. | $y ould By my eskand, Moory Owen ing close to election day Signed Mrs. Restle Gween. ef ~Advertiaement in Akron The United States flag floated ci ae er | over the Briti#h parliament build There's a war against the waste| ings on the Fourth. We'd a great| of everything but talk | deal rather hear of it floating over) iy i | |the Reichstag. | Twenty and cents a drink - ee whisky is coming, say distillers. | The clothing designers, meeting |The more it goes up, the less it will | in Chicago, are talking of omitting | go down. fockets from men's clothes next eee | season. It’s a sensible idea. What A Word From Josh Wise | _ —— — -—~| Thomas A. Edison may be a great 25 pest I [be ne satisfied. | ps they need a donation) en Or Matthews A READER. | WORKING GIRL WRITES The Star I am a work ing girl and have been hunting a position now for a wee | DENTIST I find the stores pay wages that | ot enable o pay rent} ¥ of experience hi will not enable a girl to pay rent| Years of experience in a respectable place, buy clothes you want the best. and food. I live economical, pay | $2 for room and cooking gas, do) WHY EXPERIMENT? my own laundry, cleaning and! 1 heave hundreds of pationts who pressing, mending; and yet the way! will testify to— food prices are, I can't make it ME peiniet, Majnods, If a girl cooks, or 18 a waitress, able fees, | chambermaid why are they not} suLnchenee Tt Beve aid the same wages as the men, t bees BF tua Jan hove ‘who’ do the satis ieee sume work in some of these places? A girl has to pay as much to ride on trains, boats or cars as a man, jas much rent and as much for food, and work as many hours, usually Please print this, as It may soften lthe hearts and open the purses of |some rich employers who are killing off women and girls, and robbing them of their hard earned pennies. MAUDE CRAWFORD, 1406 Sixth st that insidious dine Pyorrhea (Reg | but your time ag minutes any day In 1 will diagnose you just what EXAMINATION inet mine a few the week, and your case and tell you need and KSTIMAT) RED sceal ALL WORK GUARANTEED PAINLESS AUSTIN ULY 12, 1917. PAGE 6 (“Robinson Crusoe” BY DANIEL DeFOR = me (Continued From Our Last Issue) yon Then 1 took four muskets, and} [ had not a moment to lose, for loaded them with two sluga and|nineteen of the dreadful wretche five mall bullets each; and my|#at upon the ground, all close bud two pistols [ loaded with a brace| dled together, and bad just sent of bullets each. I hung my great |the other two to buteher the poor sword, as usual, naked by my side, | Christian, and gave Friday his hatchet ‘Now, Friday,” says I, “do ex When | had thus prepared my-|actly as you see me do; fail in self, | took my perspective-glass, | nothing.’ and went up the bill to see what) So I set down one of the mu 1 could discover And I found) kets and the f ing-plece upon the quickly that there were oneand-| ground, and Friday did the Ike b twenty savages, thr prisoners,| his; and with the other musket I jand three ca , and that their) took my aim at the savages, bidding whole business seemed to be the| him do the like triumphant banquet upon these! Friday took his aim so much bet three human bodies ter than I t he killed two of 1 divided the arms which T had tnem and wounded three more, and charged, between us. I gave Fri-|) killed one and wounded two, They day one pistol to stick in BIS!) wore tn a dreadful consternation girdle, and three guns upon bis| and all of them who were not hurt houlder; and [ charged him to jumped upon their feet, but did not behind me, and not to} jnimediately know which way to stir, or shoot, or do anything till! sun or which way to look, for the I bade him, and in the meantime! new not from whenee their de not to speak a word | struction came In this posture I got into the!” Friday kept his eyes cose upon wood, so that I might come within! me, that he might observe what I shot of them before I should be! gid’ So 1 took up the fowling-plece iiscovered and Friday did the like; he Here | called softly to Friday,|/ me cock and present; he did the and showed him a great tree, which was Just at the corner of the wood, 1 bade him go to the tree and bring same again re you ready, "ways h try in the boat I was filled with very naming of the white man, and going to the tree | saw plainly by my glass a white man who Jay upon the beach, with his hands and his feet tled with rush and that he was an European, and had clothes yet loaded, “follow me Upon which I rushed out of the wood and showed myself, and Fri day close at my foot. As noon as I perceived they saw me, | an loud as I could, and bade Friday | do so too; and running as fast as horror at the ground. cent bathing beach. Fronting the low tide. You find wading, for their daily dips. While the bathing beach is only highly desirable feature. ly among the trees. you find also the inviting Swimmers at Indianola rest, is an accepted fact. for large tracts ten minutes’ walk $60 from the wharf for large tracts one block from $200 ine. enact and $600 for extra large water front tracts up to 300 feet deep. $550 Terms Are exceptionally as low as $3 per month —== desirable tract is sold on the ground at lowest Seattle prices, and you may secure this on easy payments as well, A comfortable tent camp can be erected in 24 hours; a more pretentious summer home in a week or 10 days. It is not yet too late to enjoy THIS summer at Indianola Beach. easy Payments secure a Lumber - = - 1$ Next Novel 1) “PICKWICK PAPERS” | | BY CHARLES DICKENS } ( PIPL LD AAPL LL ALLOA LS | poor vietir The two butchers, who were just foing to work with him 4, at the surprise of our first fire, fled tn a terrible fright to the seaside, and had Jumped into a canoe, and three more of the rest made the same way, {turned to Friday, and bade Friday?” said 1 | Sioces in an instant 1 shouted | I could, 1 made directly towards the up ach. That an investment here at present prices will prove pre is also predicted by many men of business who have the faculty of looking ahead* On this account a num- ber of buyers of last season have this summer increased their holdings. Perfect Title WarrantyDeed No Mortgage him step forward and fire at them He understood me immediatel and killed two of them, and wounded the third, so that he lay down in the bottom of the boat ar if he had been dead While my man Friday fired them, I pulled out my knife and cut the flags that bound the poor victlin and lifted him up and asked In the Portuguese tongue what wan Latin, “Christ sked him what And he said answered in Then I countryman he was “Expaginole.” ignior,” said I ish as I could make up, “we will talk afterwards, but we must fight now. If you have any strength left, take this pisvol and sword and lay about you.” He took them very thankfully and flew upon his murderers like a fury, and had cut two of them in with as much Those that were in the canoe was surprised to find another poor creature lying there alive, hand and foot, as the’ Spaniard was, for the slaughter I immediately cut the twisted rushes which they had bound him with, and would have helped him | but he _kroaned most piteously, bound | |with Mr. _ Ly it seer still, that he v oun order to te kille I Friday speak to him, ang tell h of b erance. Bap in his , y one how Friday 4 a ‘ 1 and bout agai © before | what was the ne a little he told me that tt was Tt put an end fo our pursuit of t with the other say. ages © now gotten almost out of I then spoke to the niard to let Friday help him to the boat, Friday took the 4 quite up upon his back and carried him away to the boat, and set him close to his father, and presently step ping out again, launched the boat off, and paddled it along the shore, So he brought them both safe into our cre But t were neither of the able to walk Tor f 1 made a kind of hand-barrow to lay them on, ang Friday and I carried them up both tocether upon it between us. Then day and | made a very hang tent covered with old sails, and above that with boughs of trees, being e space without « outward fence between that and the grove of young wood which I had planted 8 soon weak rescuetl prisoners them shelter and given and a place to rest me word If he could see there plain t fly, then,” says I, “in the| worked hard to get out of gunshot.|them, I began to think of making ly what they were doing name of God.” " Friday would fain have had me) some provision for them. He did so, and told me they with that I fired again|take one of their canoes and pursue! | get Frid to ingulge of his wore all about their fire, eating the the amazed wretches, and|them. So I consented, and run-| father what he thought of the ew flesh of one of their prisoners; and go did Friday ning to one of their canoes, || cape of the savages in that canoe, that another lay bound upon the) “Now, Friday, says 1, laying | Jumped in, and bade Friday follow | and whether we might expect a te sand, one of the men whom he had/ down the discharged pleces, and me. « turn. But it was his opinion that told me of, that came to their coun: taking up the musket which was But when I was in the canoe I|they were so dreadfully frightened with the noise and the fire, thag they would not dare return | (Continued in Our Next Issue) | You'll miss one of the most fam |ous characters in English tere ture if you don’t get acquainted Pickwick. a principal attraction at Indianola Beach, it is far from being the The tract is beautifully wooded and in the last twelve-month a con- siderable number of charming little summer cottages and bungalows have reared their walls snug- Here and there between the firs, cedars, maples, dogwood, madronas and alders tent camps so typical of Puget Sound. Picture taken July 1, 1917 Indianola Beach has several miles of good streets and several more miles of wooden water mains which distribute pure water for all household and sanitary purposes Men who brin where you might spend The water supply has been pronounced free | Ideal Summer Home Sites at | Beautiful Indianola ments You who have, from time to time, longed for a place of your own, the summer in peace and quiet and perfect rest, have your chance at Indianola Beach. Just as surely as the site upon which Seattle has been built was destined for a ged hee so surely was the place which is now Indianola Beach designed by nature for that great c Nowhere else on Puget Sound within similar distance of Seattle will you find such a magnifi- entire property, a distance of one-half mile, this grand beach of hard, clean sand, stretches out to deep water, showing a silver strand of 600 to 900 feet width at swimming and diving at its very best here. rapidly popularizing Indianola Beach and residents of less favored resorts come here by the boatload Lovers of the water are from impurities by the State Board of Health, and all necessary precautions have been taken to conserve its purity Che supply is ample, even in the driest season There are ferns and flowers and wild berries at Indianola Beach. If you crave unmolested quiet and absolute rest, it is yours to command. If you enjoy the association of neighborly and hospitable people they are there f you to cultivate. If you find pleasure in tilling a patch of ground, you will be amply rewarded for Indianola Beach soil is fertile and responds generously to the coaxing of man. FRACTS ARE LARGE AND PRICES LOW AT INDIANOLA BEACH That Indianola Beach is a Mecca for lovers of nature and for the seekers after health, enjoyment and itable in no small degree You Can Live at Indianola Beach and Work in Seattle « their families to Indianola Beach can reach their work in Seattle week- day mornin at 5:15 and 6 5:15 p.m. and 7 to take boat at 7 return to rest and enjoyment, leaving Seattle To see the property it leaving daily 30 and 8:30, They can on Saturdays at 2 p. m., 80 p,m is most convenient and Sunday at 9:30. All boats leave Pier 8, foot of Madison st. Come over enjoy a real outing ket and bring your camera and bathing suits, Sunday, if not before, and Pack your picnic bas- family—yes, and your Handsomely illustrated booklet with complete boat schedule at office, free for the asking. Single trip tickets, 25c. Elliott 317. Special low rates on family and commutation tickets! INDIANOLA BEACH CO. 920-921 Green Bldg. s | had secured my two,