The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1919, Page 7

American Fire Fighters Sh French How Fast Work } Is. a { Yankee firefighters showed the illy equipped French companies a trick | ' or two when called to a blaze in Bassene, a suburb of Bordeaux, BAGMEN SHOT IN HUNDREDS || BY BOLSHEVIKS (Special to The St WAKSAW, Maren 6. Every | who comes out to Russia talks about }"the bagmen Three years of war and a year of revolution stopped the main flow of grain and potatoes from the |farma to the cities, Peamn's kept } their but and cheese. And thelr | grain, most of it, or so much of it ax meat | the soldiers or revolutionary commit Joos didn’t and take away Many peasants dug secret vaults for come = eee ae &| | hiding their produce } And the be a? the cities travel ntry buying stuff from peasants who will well, They take thelr bags lof produce back to the cities, who have They thru the whore they sell to tho#e money jto pay While Russia was still in thousands of these bagm: |lively biftines# all over W aia. The first nut more bagmen bus Kerensky the war did a tern Rus brought The reve into government against the bugmen's trade It did There were too many bag rest and ¢ jet and pur army, the police and the 1 have not had t if they had cleaned no K me ony ish. T courts wot anything ¢ the bagmen. Shot in Squads governmer number of bagmen in squad a th ruthless han the Bolsheviks failed on t meet unllee of the big top ngs. They ed bagmer and razzed til bagmen. the country and back potatoes or cabbage any food in a bag on your back were od only to workingmen’s com members, This plan has well toward getting a supply to some indu In still other ¢ the peasants « their grain hid, tho this has been mad and in extreme The a crime canes THE SEATILE STAR—TAURSDAY MARCH 6, 1919 A Well-built Chamber Suite In Golden Oak, Ivory Enamel or Mahogany Finish REDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE ASDPINE STREET 4 “ti ii} THE COMING OF SPRING is the signal for the householder to look to the needs of the home—to replace Winter draperies and floor-coverings with those more suitable to the coming season—and to work a transformation in certain rooms by new furniture. This store is capably ready to help fill these seasonable needs. Nature’s Glories Are Vividly Pictured in The New Spring Cretonnes EAFY bowers, glowing moons, br ight-plumed birds and overflowing baskets of sun-ripe fruits and exotic flowers pattern many of these beautiful cretonnes, pointing the way to the achievement of strikingly individuai drapery and upholstery treatments, for living-room and sun- parlor. Others, in soft, mellow tones, will blend beautifully with library and dining-room furnishings, while lovely chamber chintzes are here in profusion. Slip-eovers for your upholstered furniture, gay cush- ions for wicker pieces, cretonne window valances and side draperies—screen panels and lamp shades—these are only a few of the ways in which Cretonne will help chemicals and manned them with trained Americans. When they dropped aline of hose over the edge of the French dock and set the machine in the has got the death penalty for certain ping in record time the French almost forgot the fire in their “ ‘COUNTRY Bi BOYS BEAT CTI CITY MEN IN HEALTH FIGURES BY A. WASHINGTON mtry boys are . but city GELDHOF D. C.. Mar 6 healthier than boys are more are shown by com ons of the drafted men rejected from the army. given in Provost MUSED MENTS WERE” Se to $1.50; Mata $00 to $1 Plus War Tox. MOORE > . “THE se yet HUSBANDS” ‘With Jack and Kitty Bryan George Yooman and Listie, Sidney Townes, Bue Smith, Los Rodrigues, HE! n. TOOMER fa “THE WIFE SAVER” Orpheam Vandesille KE THEATRE PLAYERS | Pitth at Pine. Now. with Sat ‘Blanche Walsh's Saccees “THE STRAIGHT ROAD” Nights Pescte Mats, 200-34, jus War Tax ~ Biltote 2525 Mat ATA A ORPHEUM THEATRE ‘This Week—Rural Fon “THE COUNTRY G1 With the 30 Beauty Girts except foxcept 1s 100 ‘Mats. 2:20; Nights, 7:15-9:15 PALACE HIP Continuous Daily, 1 to 11 SILVER FOUNTAIN” Acts PANT. AGES :20—Nights, 7 McKAY'# SCOTCH Ft With Wee May Me De no W m Sin Lowe and Baker singing and A Littl Bit comedy, PAINLESS DENTISTRY Look into your month and see our gums are sloughing or Zang. If 0, you have RIGGS’ iz, S$O0-CALLED— PYORRHEA THIS disease in treacheroun, a . health, and ch trouble. ntal office in Se- tiie inal 9 specializes in the trem ‘and cure of the above dis- » In our office you will find N licensed operators and ma fers of the dental profession. Special care taken of childr ixaminetions and estimates yxenronciad guarantee for 16 re on all work. A reasonable ant given to all union men their families. ‘United Painless Dentists e Wiott 2622, —Hi0 a. mm. to Op. mm. Sundays—O to 12, | 608 *shird Av. lative of ever {draft boards in all the states [3.9 per cent of all rejecti |atudied were , | |tions were on account of weak eyes,| was at | } jhe country. i that the ¢ y all ¢ If «a Russian a big k of cab back, it's a bet he's stuck ir is shirt ry road with bage on got a Heense | pocket Marshal General Crowder’s annual | General | C ‘- Undertaker Faker to Blame, She Says « al Crowder doesn't mi these statements directly, but Los March 6.—As serting was duped by a ire doped out from the fig ures he prese.ts, which make an old problem of the city vs. the farm man pow for a firm of ur jo Lynton also known as Mra. Lynch, said she Crowder tea n draft boards in the cities of New York. Chicago, ladelp leveland, Milwaukee Cin | was innocent of embezaling given her to pay the expenses of the funerals of two women. Mrs figures from rural) tynton is in the county jail await He | ing a hearing “A man came to me in my fice and demanded that I pay bill for the funerals of Mra. G or 21 per! Hayward Severence and Mrs. ¢ Shropshire.” she said refused unless he gave mo a re cel He returned with a type one and I gave him etar vent y part of the countrys Then he took 100,000 men classification, « a basin 1 found then took for each that: ot tht Country Healthful Daey the cities, 21,675, , were rejected. the country . were rejected. hen Ail of these men were rejected for 7 money.” physic: ea.80 0 not o ACCOU or at unt of! “Mra. Lynton maid the Doesn't that show that country| his name as George M. Adair, boys are healthier than city boys? | When confronted by the real On the other side of the fe nce, | Adatr. cong ong — . " es show nite; She says the receipt ts in a safety Crowder’s figures show that, whit ‘epont fs try boys in eight states which were account of mental deficiency, only 1.5 per cent of city rejections were on that account And that shows that city are more intelligent Interesting details are given to show the various physical deficien. cies which caused rejections. Weak Eyes and Feet In the city, the majority of rejec 16,894, or 16 per but Rial Burglar Active Again in boys} SAN FRANCIS@), March 6 “funeral burglar,” | self like homes of the aggrieved his appearance again. the home of ‘The who garbsa him has made ‘This time it Mrs. hernia, *or fiat-foot Kohler. In the country, the majority of re Mrs. Kohler had Jections were because of ailments of | funeral of her mother. the bones and joints, ailments of the| dressed all in black, heart and blood-veasels, and hernia. | house by means of a In other words, country boys have| stole a phonograph, a better sight and better feet, while) and a pair of earrings. A neighbor city boys have better hearts and| saw him leaving the place, but from bones his appearance believed he was a Another interesting thing shown in| mourner and paid no further atten | the report is that, Judging by the per-| tion until he learned later of thé centages of men rejected for physical | burglary reasons, the Middle West and North. | West are the most healthful parts of | to the urglar, He BEDROOM CABINET Perhaps the most curtous cab | meetings in English history those held under the premiership of for-| Pitt. Pitt suffered from gout, WINDBAR SA The steel freighter Windbar, merly a flagship in nery traffic, sailed on her first voy-| age Wednesday as a member of the | used to have the bedelothes piled up. Ad=niral line, bound with miscellane-| on him, but for some reason or other | ous freight for Oriental ports, had no fire in the room. ‘arrie |} “At first Tif) a the | man gave} Mr. | | San Francisco) & mourner and robs the | Anna the | gold brooch | and! Northern can-| when bedfast with it his cabinet met | in his bedroom. The great tninister | oe | FALLEN FOR FREEDOM | \Total American _ Casualties to Date} Killed in action (including 381 at Died of wounds Total to date Washington State Casualties to > Date Killed tn action ... az Died of ry ied of dixeane Jed of accident an Wounded in action Missing in action . next of kin Mra. hitly xt of kin B, Andrew Torstenson, Melson, 910 KB. 65th st, wounded severely. Washington state casualties, including the above, are as follows DinD FROM ACCIDENT AND OTHER CAUSES Name- Addrens. ext of Kin Private Amon Bock . - ‘ord... . Mra, mangares cunningham | Private Roy A. White . :B, Centralia, Hugh Riblett prep ‘or DISHASH Private George O. Wirsdorfer ...... Chehalia, WOUNDED SEVERELY Private Rdward 8, Melson Private Milton L. Mower WOUNDEL Mra, George Wirsdorfer Corp. Allen F Thomas 2, Law “FW. Stepbins de ‘'Mra. Betty Nelson Private Harry A, Nelson . wou Poulsbo ... DED SLIGHT? Corp, Andrew T. Torstenson « -Beattle.....Mra. Andrew Torstenson N example of the values featured in our extensive assortment of serviceable, well - designed Chamber Furniture at moderate prices. The pieces illustrated may be purchased separately as fol- lows: wand ESSER, with top 19x38 inches, $32.50. THE ESSING TABLE, with top 19x32 inches THE rt LL-SIZE BED, at $25.00. 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The Set consists of 6 6 6 6 Cups and Saucers 1 Vegetable Dish 1 Platter Dinner Plates 4-inch Plates Sauce Dishes The 32-piece Service, $ ‘THE BASEMENT STORE More Foreign Money in Russ Industry Than Home Capital ay answer to th pee of a money stake did the al-| lied nations put into Russia the war and during the war? I put this question to bankers, fi nancial editors and government of ficlals in Sweden and Norway anid Russia is so big and tr ters are body knows something and nobody knows nance, France into Ruswa up till 1912, a one Stockholm authority. It is not easy $878 $388 ures showed England to have At the time BY CARL SANDBURG to get a straight uestion, “How | 000, 000 was st The best that ale lor my cite Russian | lschchanian. He put for in Russia in the ye They | amounting altogether tc rubies. (A ruble in normal times was worth 60 cents, tho it ran uround 10 and 15 cents now.) was split among outside nations as follows an 4,400,000 rubles $2,300,000,000 | Germany, 0,000,000; England, ording to | 872,000,000; Belgium, 253,000,000; oth His fig-!er European countries, 200,000,000 | nounced ed to be figures, Also, the development of Rus: 000,000 up to 1907, of which loans outside a has ancial editor nment was M one ore | & | to »s-Were given out stakes of foreign capital. Bi ney mat nearly every so tangled capital ers came in panies the big war came anything about Russian fi- alone put along, ie) these totais were an- they were generally believ- a good deal under the true financial seen its increases since the foregoing They indi ate, however, something of the im mensity of Russia as a field for the eon 1911 and 1913, there were »mpanies founded with Russtan In the same period, foreign and founded 82 com So we see that just before about one new company out ef nine ta Poesia was started by outsiders I talked with an American who It should be noted that the enter-| made the trip between Vladivostok prises started by foreign capital|and Petrograd. He jotted in his” were larger those of Russia | notebook, rhe country we went ‘The averai pital of the for-|thru today was like Kansas.” The eign companies was 1,736,000 rubles | next day it was Oregon, or Wiscon= per company, while the average | sin or Montana, share-capital per Russian company} There is, land, coal, iron, climate, was 1,220,000 rubles. everything physical resouree, We get a line on Russia as a plo-| needed for the makings of a great neer in modern industry by looking] nation in Russia and Siberia, All at these figures: Before 1890 only] they need now, on top of what 16 stock companies in Russia oper-| they've already got, is—well, that's ~ ated ‘on foreign capital, In the next] what the peace conference and the years 215 new ones came in, And | whole world is talking about. On the — between 1900 and 1910 there were | answer hangs the history of the bag. 160 more. 10 years or a hundred.