The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1918, Page 1

KARL PREPARES TO FLEE AS AUSTRIA ASKS SEPARATE PEACE; |} ACCEPTS WILSON TERMS, INCLUDING INDEPENDENCE OF CZECHS IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR IT a The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Entered as Second Clase Mattor May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattio, i ~~~ FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1918. VOLUME 20. NO, 207 AUST We oh. under the Act of Congress March §, 1879 COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEW —— i 4 TRACTION LIN _AT $16,000,000 when the voters go to the polls, a; thoroly experted the books of the Pu: | MAYOR VALUES Vote for the Purchase of the Street Car Line HE people of Seattle are entitled to decent car service. They are not getting it now. And they won't get it at any time in the next 15 years if the Present private company controls the system. 150 BODIES|ALEPPO NOW OF SOPHIA'SIN HANDS OF DEAD FOUND ALLY FORCES 343 Go to Death Off Alaska Italians Pushing Austrians | Coast, Making Desperate | Back--New Gains Made | Fight for Life in West tomorrow, they will have | get Sound Traction, Light & Power : ae 9, akeees 0 purchase a street |Co.. and the books of all the com- The reason is very plain: The company’s franchise Phen | Gar ester valued at $16,184,000 for | panies which were merged into the/{ expires in 1934, so that between now and that date, |) er | FRENCH WEEP AHEAD Gaty, Gib.nn0.200—end. at that, they | Puget Sound Traction, Light & Pow || it must make all the money possible, make as few | VICTIMS UNIDENTIFIED) $s i not have to pay any money ex-| er Co, ‘ r . give as ’ i Soe ont at Ooo earnings Fron ee. | is atatement showed that up tol improvements as possible, make no extensions, gi Hib és een ; the gist of a statement pre-| January 1, 1918, the production cost little service as possible. Pamengers of the iIfated Princess | "ny United Press Leased Wire f Mac ghes ‘sieeon of the property to the producers was In short, between 1918 and 1934 the company must pis. arg ate Pay parnsytnk Painyond | Direct to The Star } 1. gpl tad lapproximately $15,303,000, In arriv-/| take out in car fares enough money to pay for its || Went down, off vanderbilt reat eee | “We must have good traction serv- - ibis, 2- x : Lynn canal, near Skagway, Friday LONDON, Oct, 28.—€ f } fe ing at this valuation, the account i 4 INDON, .—Capture o! feo in Seattle,” he declares. “The |/NE ") this Valves, Simpson haa | eatire investment, and a profit besides. night, made a desperate battle for! Aleppo by ‘the Hritish, In Asia eampany has failed, and will com) iien the production coat of the com: Residents of Seattle KNOW that for the past sev- | life, according to <narine men, who! Minor, establishment of a strong | ane to’ fall, in that reapest- THY | panies which owned the properties |[ eral years, there has not been a single extension made er pede oo ot aaies, wogether | bridgehead on the east bank of | | must make all the money they | before the merger, and the net addi |} j i N li bei tablished coltaps feboats, as pi | the Plave in the Italian offensive | make no improvemnents—five as Ute) i inereto made since that time by | m car service, o new lines are being ¢s' Ss + |) their assertion. | and an important advance by the de service as possible, in order to i Luce sound Traction, Light & altho seriously needed in some districts. Is Seattle to 4) Of the 243 who went to their death! French on the West front, be | take out their acoomg. Aggann thelr} Dower Co. In another column witt'| be thus stifled for 15 years more? ’ o> ee - wind and — the tween the Oise and the Serre, | franchise expires, in 1934. La fen in| Pod found the cont of the property, de- It will be if the carline deal fails to be ratified by |) Podien of 150 victims nave teen m.| were the aes neamstae a | manewsins line. i gon cidade ot ‘aubnenaitie’ ‘ex the people a week from tomorrow at the polls. tragedy in Pacific coast shippitig: his | be med dig cing ree “Now, how @id the council and the any stock or bond transactions of The proposition is up to the voters of this city. The |! tory, men and women prominent in’ ‘The British Tenth army, co-operat mayor arrive at the $15,000,000 valu: any kind were taken into considera question is whether the city should pay $15,000,000 for 4 fewest ighak eget yaad ing with the Italian 11th army, cross ation? tion. The company's accountants | the traction holdings in Seattle of the Puget Sourid [ijn e’\cy water toxether Serene 00 & ee ee ea eS rrne cae ct. | ere eae ne oo eer || Traction, Light & Power Co. | "Advices from Vancouver, B.C. mites, it was officially’ announced. { : ; ¥ . le raft. | ‘ ~ : developed that the company de| he com} refused to lease | ‘. : today state that a collapsibl They reached the line of Rocandelle, | vired to abrogate their franchise obli-| itq eiette cme tae aity vetened antl OT a cent of this money will be paid out of the || with the bodien of four Unidentified | midway between Cimadotmo and San / “ 0 It, been and tp addition thereto #°- | increase of fare, because of an exist:| general fund of the city. Not a cent of cash is ]/5, tne barren rocks of Lincotn |). Where they are in liaison. with cure the dity officials the right | ing state law which definitely states : ‘ the British 14th army. Later the al- to ‘conte tare and 1 cent| that no corporation shall charge|| Paid at all. The carline itself will pay it all. The || ‘and. ing feet continues its | Nes captured eaxo and Butgomena- decided to lease | more than 5 centa within the corpor- | nickels of the passengers are to it in the next 20 Asedboape pot notte. ' ‘one fact stands aut clear-| wp, the . ate limits of any-eity in this state. || years, ‘There ‘will be no burden on or-on ee tn eae 0 French advance between the P e) Otse and the Berre riverw resulted { ia Biyarts Rsoks “Wihat aid the ty Ciipoe ee for | the passengers. The same nicke] that would go into |/In inasters at sea —~w: ut fh * | im ender to arrive at sts valua-|tne property, payable in per cent || the company's treasury will go into the city carline Cee tire onhia’s otfoers ana | fant of more than 15 miles. The ten "tion, accountants were put on the 29-year serisi utility bonds; no cash | fund to pay for the system. i lorew when they realised that death | Dortant town of Crecy.Sur Serre was | company’s books, and it was found down and no obligation on the part The city is to issue $15,000,000 of utility bonds, which |} ne omer mgt ele ala nth J. & Simpson, of the public! og the taxpayer to pay either princi: | P y. ype. ’ fage rege i general line of Vertaignemont wood, ; commission of this tate, had | rei or interest. will be a lien against the carline only. | pe rnele Ore wee AO emy Sfp |Landifay, St Bertaignemont, Mon-| “Did the company accept? Reports of experts to the mayor and city council set Jo ethegthen ution headied on the |oeau-LeNeuf and = Montigny-Sur- |_ “Within two weeks the company | out, in itemized form, just what the city is to get, and |} deck, but rescuers state that no boat | O°. a accepted the offer. subject to detaiie’ || it is claimed by them that the actual cost of pro- | could live in such a sea, and life belts) ang ete te nn renenal Gates. settieme: 0 i froni poner vedi duction is more than $16,000,000. were an qanvisiiids fighting reached practically straight 99 “When was the settlement made? | Certainly, as compared with what it cost the city to [| 14, Waters raised in waves that | “after four more wosks of negetie: build Division A, this estimate is not exaggerated. | cowered & full 20 feet above the reet, | Per ths te a tions, a settiement satisfactory to t - 7) { : : 4 must have crushed and smashed any | tne G, " ) ett Y Seer ghey ten orhane.” act | HAT the city will be able to operate the traction || boat made by man. There could | sre counter attucka’ bet ait, broke we | Shiai thientead Aectent system at less cost than the company, is evident | DA¥* been Re hope for anybody. tut git rf Enemy Every person in Seattle must | “What does the city secure for the | from the fact that at present the company carries a All laat night the watching fleet. | pulsed tise In the Chunwaen At waar gauze influenza | $15,000,000 5 per cent seria) bonds? li hed , i ‘wi who peered into the darkness for peeey, AS ith » Sak enian’ eect lam Gidet te abcunde the following: long list of officials at fancy salaries that will not be we eeeree ood tO thelr task, In| SNe and Meuse regions. | cm, cary, in stores or among street | 204 miles of street rail needed by the city. The legal department of the com- |} ppite of a gale from the northeast Y mAnRF by qrewds. way track, together pany, for instance, costs it many thousands of dollars and a blizzard that blew the heavy U ENDOR fm ‘These masks can be obtained | with trolley wires. every year. The city won't have to bear this expense, ]/ now in impenetrable arkcougie peed ' Red Cross headquarters, 315 es gh aye gp It already has a legal department of its own. The ne, Does Che weet bate in privet vacated wer ewe | thle track Is unpaved city won't have to spend thousands at Olympia or else- J! survived the disanter | IGHT ay ‘Those without masks are liable. | and 145 miles paved where to maintain lobbies in the interests of the trac- So far the dead remain unidenti- | “304 te arrest. [pe Sey tion system. There will be no expensive lawsuits to | fed and are now lac te eae miation. 60-Lakionutt ts tiee People working ensen- y feeders ‘ tg A . . yr} ™ ollector « resignation of sud m1 Ge a eis saees stay eden bac a ei ps tie maintain in a continuous wrangle with various officials, Ele H Alaska. district; William hes ‘a military Fes gorpeg oft are instructed to break ured on the cost of as the company has had to maintain in the past. | Scouse, of Seattle and Dawson, who |er he had disagreed with Prince Max ras “epithe nucieus of a crowd when- Division ‘A,’ built by In short, the city is in a position to eliminate much |) hoisted the first bucket of gold on| over acceptance of Wilson's peace t ever it forms. the city In 1914, would s i a 4 Klondike creek Walter turns, terms, said a news report to The n't 3 tel which allow undue be worth _.$11,684,000.00 || expense which the company has—and thus will be ]/ ovithy hydraulic operator, and Mrs. | Hague, recelved by the state depart. | me © qromés to assemble will be clos- }540 treet carn, a able to give the public a better and more efficient ser- ] }. Beaton, pioneer Aalaska woman, | ment today. | pe a . |’ tear. nema of Mag it te oe ane the city and the company, | were among those lost. f Al COPENH an Bett drink places are closed which have been s# e city wi in much better position to retain the || “ev. Thomas Riggs, jr.. of Alaska, OPENHAGEN, Oct, 28.—The new to cases where they serve cured during the past i y] 7 is believed to have arrived at the | civilian control ousted Gen, Luden- da: = | two years, 50 entirely nickel see aoe the company would be charging | ene ot the wreck on the C. P. R.|dorft following disagreements, ac | new, These cars, bas us shortly six and seven cents carfare. The legisla- |} snip Alice, which was dispatched to| cording to advices here today. —— Ith authori-| ed on the average val ture meeting next January would undoubtedly sanc- [| the scene of the disaster _ Ordered by the city health y sane ka tr) tes to don gauze masks wherever | ue of what the city is tion it. : Rescue boats waiting to take pas-| LONDON, Oct. 28.—Gen, Luden- oA Bie consroente, thounsnde & 24.| Minneapolis, at 90.500 Taking the transaction as a whole, looking at it ]/f’short distance of the Princess So: the German armies, has reslgned on @uafters and drug stores Monday| each, would mean a broadmindedly and with an eye to Seattle’s present |} pnia until shortly before her plunge. Official word of his action was an- ur themselves value for these cars needs and future development, the carline proposition || They were waiting for quieter weath- nounced in Berlin Saturday night, | a of $3,510,000. Five || should be indorsed overwhelmingly at the polls Tues- || ** '" Which to make the rescue. It) More than 60,000 masks, hundred thousand dol || day, November 5. (Continued on Page Five) am teen oki is T. Red Cross workers, were distributed lars should be taken | | saa sis he official communication fol- ‘At times a line more than a block | from the above price, | lows: Jong: stood waiting for masks, dis| in order to allow plen ——<—<———— snot Puce bee wa - 2 The emperor, accepting the re- ‘tributed . at 215 University st ty of money for the | | quest to be allowed to retire of In- ee Sieaeare’ pharmacy, in the} repair of all rolling i} i} |fantry General Ludendorff, the first "Cobb building, a supply of 1,500) stock. The balance f quartermaster general, and com- masks was exhausted in five min-| would leave, in round | mander in time of peace of the % | figures, a vaiue for | 25th infantry brigade has @rders, summarized these cars of 3,000,000.00 ] “ 4 ps , him on the unattached list. The | tbove, sie tenet by Health Com-| Real estate, figured on | | woneres Ce. Oct y ag a emperor decided at the same time Missioner ont 5 H ould - | Mandalay is ashore, 5 that the lowe: Rhenish infant os theca vonebaeromanat sd pepobiit on. be 550,000. P| AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28.—Emperc WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES|Crescent City, No details of the teatinent No. 39, of wiih the ede * een Seinianen seaaittad. health re-| Buildings, car barns and sry ba ori age coy 2 sa [IN THE FIELD, Oct,:27—(Delay-| Wreck are known here. eral has long been chief, shall bear | . |mier Wekerle's resignation, accord- WANS } i - Bw to be on the Mieeriase ‘recher|°veest would amount to 560,008,00 ing to Budapest dispatches’ received |) Sigs slopes of four mountains) rng Mandalay ia a 488-ton steam-| gorge" Ame aber: : than decreasing. There were eight | Supplies of stock on 7 jhere today. jWrested from the Austrians in the|er, gross, owned by the Crescent) ‘pho resignation ef Gen. Luden-| deaths and 105 new cases reported| hand, at ita cost value 300,000.00, Karolyi will summon Karl before | new allied drive on the Brenta-|City Transportation Co. She was) gorf was the cause of intense sur- s Monday morning, making 4 total of Machinery, tools, equip: the Hungarian diet to proclaim Piave front in Italy, were found) bullt 1n 1900 at North Bend, Ore.| prise thruout the central empires, | M1 deaths and $55 new cases in the ment, ete., and =nixcel Hungarian independence. = Count | strewn with enemy dead Her length is 1424 feet; breadth, | and @spatches from neutral source: 4 last 26 hour» laneéous items, such a# Karolyi is the Hungarian inde Sie helvtite arash ‘rakaine 32.6 feet, and depth of hold, 12 feet.| comment on it as a sign that Ger- h Mayor Hanson threw himself into! trucks, etc, .......... 100,000.00 pendence party leader ained by the) Austria Admits—20 PG 1... «-./man militarism is abdicating. r- the work of flu cnask distribution ——_—_—— | Sites rm ” in the face of the most | -_ | Monday morning. and several hun Saale tate $16,184,000.00 determined enemy counter attacks, | battle ‘fed people who crowded around his Mito, outside Red Cross headquarters, | _ eeived their masks from his hands. | The mayor then sped his machine Sout town, delivering loads of Masks to drug stores. Summing up Bis experiences on his return to the hall, he said: one trouble with the distribu: | tion is the fact that people don’t have to pay for the ~nasks, and getting them for nothing means that they ate careless with them. The Red is not permitted to charge for | the masks. I would like to suggest | {0 all Beattie citizens, however, that When securing masks at drug stores, turn over a donation of 5 or 10 fnts, to be given to the Red Cross sists could muke this easier by 4 cigar box or milk bottle on the counter, properly labeled, for the i of these subscriptions.” To rent a house To sell a house To buy an auto To sell an auto To get help To get a job want fulfilled, make known to the largest Telephone Main 600 To have any reasonable it au- dience in the Northwest. You can have the want ad 3 Wait in Rain ‘Before tea Crows headquarters || charged. Downtown branch © Mened, a line of people was waiting | Bartell’s, 610 Second ave. Be ~ Montinucd on Page Ten) ing 50 officers, Italian forces: Many ENEMY HEIGHTS machine guns were captured : 4 ri st, 28.—'The British | ing. PARIS, Oct. 28.—The Serbians enka | ” LONDON, Oct. 28—The F ing legge hed the heights to the Tere oe the peaks which |troopa improved thelr positions) Why? | south of the important town of! trian dri is In the Aus:| long the western edge of Mormal| Hecause John, who Is an Armen- | Kragusey the French war office | Austrian menace of a drases, the | forest and north of Ralames, Field ian, declared weeks ago that he reported today the rich Italian plating. "P°? | Marshal. Haig reported today |would lock up the place and stay The retreating Austrians have iMag ct pp German counter attacks against) home to celebrate when the allied ed the evats railway depot farmers, two miles south of Valen-|armies captured Aleppo, — John fired the Kragusevats railway depot / BULGARIA AND AUSTRIA |cicnnes, wore renuised yesterday, |came from Aleppo. And news dis- of the town. | tho official report stated. patches today told of its fall. pert eS —— | ARE NOW UNFRIENDLY On the Lys front, south of| “We're all celebrating out here,” | ld brea a Oct. i Austeia| Deynze, French forces captured a| John phoned from his home at 2706 is refusing to permit diplomatic ; ; uA ‘ll celebrate | rts strongly fortified farm, taking 100)W, Hayes st. “And we'll celebrat |Peace banag tan Work messages of ite former ally, Bul-| priyoners. | acaba when the Alles take. Can- garia oO pasa over graph wi: | —_ | ‘tinople.” | Nation’s ar fn une into the dual monarch: veiinaie pid ks as er ptt ae Wie: WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 i c HAV Si eee — ltary men today hoping that} EVERETT SOLDIER MISSING WASHINGTON, Oct, 28—Lous of| _ GUNS BUSY IN BELGIUM |peace de suld come| OTTAWA, Oct The two airplane he death of three | HAVRE, Oct, 28.—Enemy arti fuickly, They said peace talk was|V. 1. Belfountaine, of .| marine aviators on the Belgian front |lery is again active along the front having a demoralizing effect on saa | nation’s war work, Dst among the missing. 4 was fought for A separate More than 4,000 prisoners, includ- . were taken by the| for Celebration) | | John Boyd's drug store, 701 Union | also | st., was closed tight Monday morn Wash., is in the Canadian casualty HAIG’S TROOPS “sree.eptered,, line in Belgium, the Belgian war | was reported to the effice reported today. ment today, navy depart ‘ NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Yeas, vy Mail, $190 to $9.08 SPAPER Weather Forecast: NTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Tonight and Tuesday, unsettled; probably showers; moderate southwesterly winds LONDON, Oct. feared in Vienna, ceived here today. Karl breczin. PARIS, Oct. 28.—Austria, replying to President Wilson, accepts all his conditions, ally from Berne | it was learned of pendent nations.) Austria; it is said, declares her to enter negotiations RIA YIELDS! GERMANY ASKS FOR ARMISTICE IN REPLY NOTE 28.—A revolution is according to advices re- The archduke has taken: |\refuge in the castle at Godollo and Emperor is said to be planning to leave for De today. Austria accepts Wilson’s terms regarding the 10 miles, advancing a depth of three) Czecho-Slovaks and. the Jugo-Slavs. (The president said that Austria must negotiate directly with the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, who desire to establish inde- regard ures toward an armistice and peace. LONDON, Oct. 28.—A Reuter dispatch from Amster dam stated, it is learned, that Austria has replied to Presi- from Guise southward to Crecy-Sur | dent Wilson’s note of October 18, accepting all his conditions and proposing an immediate armistice. BERNE, Oct. 28.—Riotous scenes attended a debate of the Polish question in the reichstag, according to advices received here today. Foreign Minister Solf declared the program of Presi- dent Wilsor did not mean that the city of Danzig had been ceded to independent Poland. LONDON, Oct. 28.—Autocracy has been ended in Ger- many, Foreign Minister Solf claims in his reply to the last note from President Wilson, according to an official Berlin wireless message here today. The German reply states that the peace negotiations are being carried on by “a people’s government, in whose hands rests, both actually and constitutionally, the power of making deciding conclusions.” The military is placed under the powers of the reichstag |in the new reforms, stated the German note to President Wilson. The German government now awaits the allies’ armis- |tice proposals, stated the note. The German reply follows: “The German government has taken cognizance of the songers off the liner cruised within dorff, first quartermaster general of answer of the president of the United States. “The president is aware of the far-reaching changes which have been carried out and are being carried out in It stating that the kaiser had accepted| the German constitutional structure, and that peace nego- ‘tiations are being conducted by a people’s government in {whose hands rests, both actually and constitutionally, the |power to make the deciding conclusions. “The military powers are also subject: to it. “The German government now awaits proposals for an armistice, which shall be the first step toward a just placed Peace, as the president has described in his proclamation : “SOLF.” It is stated in neutral dispatches that the crown coun- cil, under the direction of the kaiser, decided Friday night to send a new note to President Wilson, purporting to point out reforms enacted in the German empire. (Signed) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The German reply reached It was practically the same as the Swiss legation today. the press version. It was stated today that the president probably would |not reply to the “German acknowledgment,” as the whole {question of an armistice is now up to the military com- |manders of the United States and the allies, subject to the japproval of the Versailles conference, morrow. The next word on the situation is expected to come out of Versailles or Paris. Bavarians Want Liebknecht for Republic Head WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-—Bavari- lic, with Liebknecht at the head, cording to dispatches here today. Munich independent have bitterly assailed the majority to be tools of the kaiser. duction, |Yankees Threaten 25-Mile Front in | WITH THR Americans on Meuse. launching bitter The American pressure continues, | German communications are threat: Michigan is increasing sheep pro-| ened on a 26-nile front on both sides [of the Serre river. to hold immediately, \less of the result of the other negotiations, land asks Wilson to take appropriate meas- which meets to- | Meuse Battle Zone AMERICANS IN an socialists are demanding a repub-| PRANCE, Oct. 28.—The Germans ac-|2re now attempting the the banks of the They have been ordered to socialists | hold ground at all costs and are counterattacks socialists who permitted themselves | ee he Arnesnee on the east 7