The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1918, Page 1

FREEDOW FOR ALL FULL LEASED WIRRF y UNITED PR TANG VOLUME 19 ATTLE, WASH., MOND. ARRACKS|}s | ? against might, the state board in our own city | listens to sentiment that wrong may be right. “Private Held for “Gross | Carelessness” at Capital Post | LOSSES IN THOUSANDS, storehouse and post commissary building, at Wash- ! ington’ barracks today. inquiry having de | i yd ON | the / started by in the building. the grea supply commissary of ty Ih i i i HH i : j iT Lt i tion shoes, hats, blankets and cloth Ing and commissary supplies of all kinds were stored in the great build- Ing and much had been destroyed at 1045, when the fires were still rag- Ing. The fire surged thru an entire | city square of butidings, containing _ Munitions, food, clothing and gun © stores. Much of the structure was | old, and officials had long feared that a disastrous fire might occur. Huge columns of smoke rose up from the building, obscuring the entire southeastern part of the city. Explosions of small arms, Which occurred from time to time, rendered dangerous the task of fighting the flames. At 1259 a terrific explosion shook aff buildings in the vicinity. It was feported to be a large quantity of ammunition, which had been stored in bulk. ‘When the small arms ammunition began to explode, police reserves Were called in to help drive the crowd back from the barracks en- tmance, to prevent injuries from fly ‘missiles. Many Daring Acts No one was allowed to enter or leave the grounds. Soldiers and police reported scat tered incidents showing that many daring acts were performed by the men in fighting the flames. Sergt White, Co. B, engineers, was trap- ped by fire affer entering the build ing to find important papers. He leaped from a second story window and was slightly hurt. Private J Bellow dragged Sergt. White to safety from a precarious position under threatening walls, where he bad fallen, and was lying temporar. ily stunned. U-BOAT SCARE AT GALVESTON GALVESTO: Jan. 14.—An enemy submarine was sighted late yesterday about 125 miles utheast of here, according to wireless reports received her from an American patrol bo: Altho officers at Fort Crockett | declined to comment on the report they admitted troops of the Coast artiliery away for the evening on [ leave, had been hastily summoned Jast night to man the shore bat. teries, and that all passes have been suspended. While the report might be a case of mistaken identity as #0 often has ‘happened along the Gulf and At antic coasts, in the past, the au FP thorities evidently were taking no D chances America has chosen to give her blood for humanity that Right, not Might, shall prevail. We have dedicated ourselves, and are going to sacrifice our sons to establish, once and for all, that wrong cannot be right. Yet behold this spectacle, in our own great city: An attorney rises to address a state board, and unblush- ingly pleads: “Right or wrong, the 1914 gas valuation should not be disturbed.” Right or wrong, he wants to win. the gas company, to win. Lord! Is all our fighting on the battlefields of France to be in vain, after all? A century ago, or a decade ago, a lawyer might have ‘flaunted such a shameful sentiment without arousing any- thing but cynical amusement. Even a year ago, the ques- tion might have enlisted debate. BUT THIS IS THE YEAR OF 1918! How could the state public service commission have heard this statement of moral treason without losing its own self-respect? If in 1914 the gas valuation was fixed at three million more than it should have been, how could the commissioners permit their own attorney, as well as the gas company’s, to jeer any attempt to have the wrong righted? But they did. There wasn’t a blush in the entire crowd. Think it over, folks. It’s one of the tragedies of this war, that men, presumably of high intelligence, shall have failed so miserably to understand its true lesson — shall have failed in real patriotism. AGED FANATIC . SHOOTS CHILD | | | CHICAGO, Jan, 14,—William Dal He wants his client, ling. The | killed. Aided by his daughter, Helen, 30, | wounded in the arm His daughter is held as a wit-| ness HOUSTON, Jan, 14—Sixteen per sons were killed and 20 injured when | a Houston & Texas Central north little girl was instantly WARNING 1 TO CHICKENS Chickens (feathered variety), be- ef it running around the vicinity 21 Kast Republican st. Neigh PRICE FIXING MEASURE kowsky, 82, who turned a children's! mimic warfare into reality yester-| of STEAL RAZORS AND COIN ‘Twenty-three dollars and four) razors were collected by a thief who broke into the barber shop of T. Sawada, Japanese, at 310 James ot, officials here today The dead and injured, reported to Include soldiers, were all on train N 164, Dallas to Hearne, standing on a siding at Hammond. Bursted steam Children of the neighborhood were “digging a trench” in the snow in front of Dalkowsky’s house. Dal-|congress when it is presented, ac | kowaky, who Is said to be @ religious|cording to the statements of Dr.| fanatic, suddenly appeared in his | Charles McCarthy, assistant food ad- | door with @ revolver and began fir-! cninistrator. ministration’s hands if a bill of the president's, now being drafted, passes | ahip, displacing 8.615 tonn ‘ ‘by the New York Shipbullding ¢ leall for help was a - arsed bound passenger train split a switch |} bors have compla . ,, |day, was under arrest today, ¢ : Be wt a bt Seo with murder. He shot and killel CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Contro! of all at Hamm Tex., early today, ac | Stella Kozulowski, 8 years old food prices will be placed in the ad-|cording to word reaching company pipes scalded passengers to death, department announced AY JANUARY 14 1918. TheSeattleStar . THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE ‘ST Says Eternal Triangle Led Brother of = Judge to AILL HIS FRIEND DISTRESS CALL CATCH GERMAN SAYS TEXAN IS ABOUT TO FIRE HIT; 63 ABOARD U, S, EXPLOSIVE d Wear- | , an American | captain and carrying papers + ] AN etnees PORT, mysterious “S 8 Jan. A rs) steamer which arrived today, of the Hawalian steamship line, been sunk The moeasage, which ts said to havé come from the Texan, tion. It maid “We were struck amidships sinking. Lowering life boats star gave no loca board side, Have lost aft boat Spilling of] on water, We have 63 men. Lowering forward lifeboat Goodbye. No more.” The Texan is a large steel steam feet long and was built in 19 Sho in regintered at New York Immediately after the dramatic heard, monsage was picked up. either being went from or steamer Wilammette aseistance be rushed to the Texan. Efforts to get a reply Texan after her good-bye, no more, It to and perator final were unavall ing. Whether the Texan was struck by another #hip, rammed an icebere or perhaps waa torpedoed, is not known. The steamer Texan was comman deered by the U OWNED BY HAWAIIAN CO. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-The Amer. jean Hawaiian Steamship Co., own- ors of the Texan, supposed to be In a) sinking condition, verified the report] iscuiry committees which, Texan had been struck. | that the Word reached here early today. Further than that report, the com party knew nothing Capt. Knight is in gommand of the veusel REPORT TO NAVY WASHINGTON, Jan navy department today rec ports of 8. O. 8. calls from t fean-Hawalian steamer Texan. apparently waa ine great distress and was about to sink haa been sent ANTI-DRAFTERS DUE FOR JAIL WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Seven persons who tried to defeat the draft plan by inducing young men not to the the nerve them. in decid anti-con- register last June must sentences imposed upon supreme court ruled today ing appealed cases of the scriptionists Emma Goldman Berkman, New York anarchists Louls Kramer and Morris Becker. also of New York, and three Cleve and Alexander land socialists, Charies EB. Ruthen berg, Alfred Wagenknecht and Chas Baker, are the persons afficeted RAMSAY WON'T RUN, IS RUMOR; HORR ENTERS Ralph Horr, former graduate man ager of athletics at the University { Washington, and chairman of the King county republican central com mittee, filed as candidate for mayor Monday morning. He was primary candidate for prosecuting attorney in 1914, and is a graduate of th universities of linois and Washing: ton It was rumored today that County Commissioner Claude Ramsay has | decided not to run Ole Hanson continues to be the most active candidate thus far. His nization now embraces every precinct, it is claimed. e : ° ° ° ° BULLETINS? By United Press z Seeeceeoeeseoeoe Pia 'CANADIANS MAKE LUCKY RAID IN LENS AREA LONDON, Jan. 14.—North of Lens | Canadian troops successfully raided | |enemy lines, taking eight prisoners nd returning without casualty, 1d Marshal Haig reported tod st of Mericourt, he reported trol resulted in favor of the British. gts Jan, 14—French fire broke up a German attack around Goose hill, on the left bank of the Meuse, today's statement declared. AMERICAN TRAW ROCK; CRE WASHID 14.—An American trawler, * operating in Eure pean waters, struck a rock and was lost, but all aboard are safe, the navy today. nea, picked up early this morning by a may indicate that the oll tanker Texan, Are She is another was the ordered | from the S. shipping board last Reptember and went at once to| the Atlantic const. The Assistance counters in which the fighting | NORFOLK ing the army showing him te many a man Walter Sporrman ‘ m ing his name as| 2 Sporrman, who is sald to be a Ger-| : while try! magazine « man lieutenant ed States aboar submarine (ried letters on vial he bad been paid enorm money for work in thip by Capt Bernstorft. Boy Bight confederates, also are understood to be un wom der arrest uniform Old Point Comfort Va, Jan. 14. ot » be in the pay of Ger. giving was arrested to- ng to fire t the aviation station at Va coming to the Unit d the t ted these shores, his person, showing car Ea RUSS SAILORS MUTIN 62 OF OFFICERS PETROGR. two Russian Viee Admiral mirals and Y; LYNCH AD, dan, 14.—Sixty- of rs, including Novitski, three ad- one army general, were lynched in a carnival of horror at Sebastopol, according to word received here today. Ballors of the Meet joined in the | lynching. ie officers | Matakof? tower | convicted 17 | f punishments prisonment Admiral Black Sea flee’ result of the m: Nemetz. were all and shot A majority were members of the in 1912, rebellious Russian sail ors and condemned them to varying rom death to life im urders PEACE CONFERENCE TO MOVE TO REDS LEAVE FOR FRONT PETROGR WARSAW AND AD, Jan. 14.—Rus- | xia’s delegates to the peace con- on Toesday, day. be transferred to Warsaw. first detachment of red guards, ference will return to Petrograd according to word received from Brest-Litovsk to- Future negotiations will The under the Bolsheviki army plan, left for the front today. A German offic escaped to the foreign diers we front, a 1 that e ‘ont where this refusal Gat tale 6 orectas pahigpaat font, |store at 6, but received no response. | Prof. Edmond 8. Meany and Riley ree the. German. commander had| At ® Mrs. Swayne sent Bob Meyers,|Allen, the well known Honolula: rel egg ‘“*) \6-year-old delivery boy, and Bob| newspaper man, were editors, “ |e pelaved advices ax to the final ses.|2YN%, another 16-year-old boy, to| John F. Main, state supreme | sone of the peace conference .at|<? "re. court judge, is an older brother of Brest-Litovak, ax received today, d Boys Find Body ae LSadere 4 to youngest clared that the Russian del | They found Swayne lying in the| 6, r Main start: demanded return of war refugees|back room with his head beaten in. one started (Seka from the Polish tricts r who deserted and Russian lines told the fice today that German sol-| refusing to go to the West at once on the north h and Lithuanian dis before the self-determination plan waa carried out. A further stipulation by the Rus sians was that mobilization of jans. CITY FISH murder spread. Swayne was| |pepular and had a wife and little HASN'T OPENED YET cnitaren J | Seattle's municipal fish market,| When the funeral was held, ABs Oscar Main was asked to serve as where salmon will be retailed at|palibearer, and he did. one-fourth the present quotations, | on the startling news became cannot be opened for at least anoth-| known Sunday that Main had been Three masked auto bandits er week, Health Commissioner Mc.|@!Tested and was held in Chehalis} Walked into the Seattle Oyster tess Besoin jail parlors, 109 Pine st., took $29 ais vee Herman Allen, the prosecuting at from the cash register and The council wax to pass the fish |torney, and Sheriff Berry had been| 13.95 ¢rom Mike Tanios, a walt- market ordinance Monday,” he said, | working on the case all week. er, whom they struck over the q ‘a a erything is awaiting this Inquest Friday head with the butt of a revolver, ‘da | action | The coroner's inquest into the kill ’ . x ped at 3 a. m. Monday. Some of the fish has arrived and| ing will probably be held Friday bn Phat teh which tua’ eal | is in cold storage | Allen and Main are both Uat-| gently been stolen from JosepBi eS | versity of Washington graduates. & | Barker of Olympia, was found de « THEY’RE FRIENDS NOW | hea fg ae Agrts Bs nd has ,* Apn' | serted on the Tacoma road today. ji >, |aee 9 and a daughter, age Mrs-} Police officers reported the car It was just a friendly fight. We| Main was Miss Virginia Carroll | sae ance Georketuenset fall ph are good friends again | Seattle, before her marriage, in 1904,| shortly after the time of the robbery, This was what Douglas Anthony and is the niece of W. T. Whitney, | ortly after the time of the reuiesys ny cms peshigsen} . prem ent et Mighinnd Arive. had entered a chile parlor at 1439 bes yoda bags ee ee . C. A. Worker Second ave. and robbed James Gard- Aggy ARE EOP aS ent for the David P.I ner there of $8. ‘ fighting on the street. “Remain friends and quit fight ing," said the to go free. Gustaf Meye: | belief that ba handkerchiefs f thief stole $120 nd hidden ” hotel, Main st., Sunds OLYMPIA draft board changed from $ ce for each fied, ac ‘ding here from the Washington, Jan there be no forcible the Poles or Lithuan. MARKET judge, allowing them GUSTAF LEARNS LESSON is now firm in his nks better ‘or keeping money, A ) he had rolled in a from his room in the Railway ave, and night ay CHANGE PAY SCHEDULE of en 14.—The pay members hast 1 an hour to 30 nh man finally to word Ls war department at powder 53, when that us sume of | untry both | and Ambassador including one taken to commanding the t, has resigned as a than| NIGHT EDITION: Forecast: 1% " rain PRICE C DN OSCAR MAIN, U.W. \Prosecutor Allen Confronts Him With — Charge of Killing Napavine Groat Week Ago With the arrest of Oscar B. Main, prominent Seattle — and Napavine real estate man, University of W: |graduate and brother of State Supreme Court Judge |F. Main, for the alleged murder of Fred Swayne, Napavine: |grocer, one of the most sensational murder mysteries in the history of the Northwest developed Monday. Swayne was found dead, his head beaten in with @ hatchet, in his store at Napavine, Sunday, January 6. County Attorney Herman Allen today indicated that the “eternal triangle” was the moving factor in the mi jand said that Main was seen in the neighborhood of grocery store at the hour that the murder must have been committed. Main not only asserts his innocence, but denies that he was near the store at the time. ie ss piak it's whl Hac tik fat i ‘ormer puty Prosecuting Attorney Donohoe, who has been retained by Main to defend him, declared t day. that the charge against his client would prove grow less. By ‘2 ms “Main is in no way connected with ‘this crime,’ |Donohoe. “There has been no proof of any sort brought |forth against him. He was not near the scene at the tin of the murder. There is absolutely nothing to any lk jof undue intimacy between Main and Mrs. Swayne, wife of- |the murdered man,” og Supreme Court Judge John F. Main, brother of the ~ jailed real estate dealer, is here investigating the and former Prosecuting Attorney H. E. Donohue has |retained for the defense. Main was arrested at his home late Saturday night by Sheriff Berry on a warrant issued by Prosecuting Attorney | Herman Allen. He submitted without Laity He was an jold friend of the murdered man and served as pallbearer at the funeral. For a week prosecutor and sheriff) rastman Real Estate company Seattle, at Napavine, and delt re investigated clues concerning the logged-off lands. | brutal murder. yne ix believed to have been] At the University of Wi attacked Sunday, January 6, while|where he graduated in 1902, coe [he was invoicing his grocery stock.|Main was an active and | His wife and &-yearold daughter| student. He was a member of passed the store at 4 p. m., going| Y. M. C. A. cabinet, and of Sigma” ” home from a neighbor's, and rapped | Nu fraternity. on the door. They went home to| In 1908 he helped establish the prepare dinner, and phoned to the| Washington Magazine, of whish quarters at Napavine three years |A bloody hatchet was near by. Ap-|ago, but spent seen time in eat parently the murderer floored! He was a member of the Swayne with a blow with the blunt | ciub, side of the hatchet, and then crushed | jhis head. The safe and money " AUTO BANDITS, Swayne's pockets were untouched. news of Was Pallbearer ng ran high as the | the FRANCE IMPRISONS FORMER PREMIER ON TREASON CHARGE PARIS, Jan, 14,—Joseph Cail. ; ‘The chamber of deputies and a ir premier and min. |Special ‘commission heard the ian pret "; aot ages charges against the former premier, ister of justice for France, was [1+ was alleged he aided Bolo Pasha formally imprisoned today, as |in the Levantine's efforts to deceive tho outgrowth of charges of trea- | France into a German made peace; son lodged against him in con- | that he sought to create discord be- nection with the Bolo Pasha | tween France and Italy and was com case, stantly opposing the nation’s war Caillaux is a member of the cham. efforts. ber of deputies, and until that body| Madame Caillaux, wife of the ac recently voted formally to suspend cused, was the center of one of Buy |the immunities. from prosecution rope’s most sensational murder | granted all r s he could not be trials a few years ago when she was a |format!!y haled before a uibunal on | acquitted of murder of Gaston Cab a the charyes. "nette, editor of the Figaro,