The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1919, Page 1

~~ - Tides __ VOLUME 22 OLUME 22. ~ NO. $3 | COMING TO. NEW YORK! So Says Mysterious Loof} Lirpa in Remarkable Seattle Interview ARRIVES IN TOWN -TODAY BY 0. es Loof Lirpa got in today. “Chasearound an’ ” said the city edi “tho is he? “Absolutely the — mbst unreliable individual to fon | in is ing syrup into his sinews. MORE’S GOING TO HAPPE | THAN WE SUSPECT company will gas stop monthiy bilie, and the | pan is passing an embargo a: hibiting Japanese from leavi pon. “The chief of police will all the crooks hanging aroum and lawyers will stop getting tha out of jail. “Boles Penrose will beat D@s for the socialist nomination for presi- dent next year and Woodrog WU- son will run for a third terre But @ presidentess will be inaugerated i} | March 4, 1921, and unless fhe's a widow there'll be a ‘first ntle~ man of the land,’ and papem will be tell about the presidentesg being accompanied by her husband, | YOUNG JOHN D. TO LE. HOBOKEN BOLSHEVIK! “Leon Trotsky i¢ now n@otiat- ing with a Wall st. firm t@ shear the lambs, and young John [fRock- efeller has been offered the jader- ship of the Bolsheviks at Hibokon. ‘ew basements will be tatotally dry after July 1. And the irgreased demand for water will lowerthe sea level several inches. “The republican party wi abol- fH] 6 ish all war taxes, and doubi ry: | «body's wages. However, thé demo- | | cratic party will do even bélter by us next time it gets elected some- thing, ©The democrats will ve the government take over everg indus- try but rocking the cradie @d then nobody but mother win fave to work. “The New York Giants gill win the pennant in the eastonaibecaues Ban Johnson, as per usual, ill cop | the flag in the American fedgue, Se- | attle will lead the Coast leqQue, and ] the Woodie Wilsons are suff to fin- ish better than second fin the League of Jona. “Jess lard will work#39 min- utes for $100,000 July 4th Bnd Bill Jones will work all day fog$?. NEVER AGAIN’LL WE HAVE 17-YEAR LOCUSTS “The Vi-year locusts will appear same time the 12-year bre@ comer, | and they'll hatch out eac be 16- | eggs and next time th be Year locusts, #plitting in difference, 60-50, ‘The boll weevil will be @ined to | Pick cotton In the South anf colored | labor will be released for he Pull | Man cars and African piiferds, “Henry Ford will mak@ flivvers | that you put on just iffe rolier| Skates, and Tom KEdisonthas in- | vented a new wort of wirelgs which > Nets you telegraph home fr money —and get it nothe much that (emorrow th one pt the second of April wl come Sround.” gloot Lirpa-—start at the ex- ie right of his naan? read | ward, | TROTSKY 7% RN eennnnnnnnnrrnn nnn PAARL RRR PPADS An American in Seattle Entered as Reeond Ch He Holds | Record - for News Telling "BIG WORLD CONTEST IS DEFERRED |Five of Canadian Team Are Taken Down With Illness Before Final Match TWO HAVE HIGH FEVER With five of Les Cana- diens, Eastern ice cham- pions, down in bed with at-| \tacks of the influenza, the jdeciding game of the! ‘world’s puck classic, ‘scheduled for tonight at the local Arena with the Seattle Metropolitans, has been called off. Hall and MacDonald, two of | the visiting players, have been More Pacific Tro Troops Are Ex- in bed since Sunday and their pected In This Week condition is serious. Each has| NEW YORK, April 1—Eager to a temperature of 104. The! ate the woods and vales of the North- players are now at the Hotel, west, and every man with « mile /Georgian, but will be moved to at mere mention of the tact | hospitals some time today. toon be hots waata, mem: | ‘The games for the title stood ot bers of the Sist division who have | twoat and one more win wax needed arrived at thie port within the past | t0 clinch the title for either team it has been one of the bitterest | (WO Gays ere anzioge to be On Chele/ /.cae title eeries in the history | | way across the continent. lof the sport | For them, the war is entirely end- Manager Kennedy. Herlanquette. ed. The sooner they can don civil. | Couture and Lalonde of the Cana fan clothes and get back on the old diens are the other visitors who are Job, the better. affiicted with the “flu.” Their at tacks are mild, according to attend ‘There were few men from Wash- | ing physicians. ingten on board the two vensels May Never Play which yesterday and Sunday! There i# but alight chance that the brought the Slst organizations back | series will ever be settled, and the to the homeland. Washington troops Kreatert ice contest In history will be are expected to arrive Wednesday or | called « draw, The Canadiens might Thursday, on the steamer Siboney be able to put seven men on the ice ‘The division first saw action in the | Friday night, but St. Mihiel sector, ax a part of the! very slight First army. Later it was transfer- The Seattio men are in none too} red to the Argonne. It was here it) good condition themselves Bobby | made its mark. The division casual ties bave been heavy, and evidence | ~LOOF LIRPA 91ST MEN EAGE TO COME WEST the chances are Rowe, Seattle pilot, and Frank Foy ston are both banged up from the | of this fact is witnessed by large re-|atrenuous games, “Cully” Wilson. placements, scrappy Met wing, is under the Marshal Foch, following the big | weather and needs « good rest to battle in the Argonne, ordered the | division to Belgium, to join King Al bert’s army of liberation. Houvse-to-house conflicts with recover his strength Sapped Their Strength The Seattle Meta annexed the first the game by; an overwhelmin ncore fleeing enemy marked their service arnt i 6. aus” Ceaenies ing reorganized and awaiting new! tit winning 4 goaln tc in the prs when the armistice was) third game the Mets again finished . ahead, winning 7 goals to 2. In one| Among those who arrived with the Gist yeeterday were the following Se- attle men Capt. Frank T. Wilt, base hospital of the most wonderful struggles ever staged in hockey the teams battled 80 minutes to a scoreless tie in the fourth rs 50, formerly nerve speciatint at Fort |fUrt® same. In the fifth gam ps with the Seattle men ahead 2 goals Steilacoom insane asylum, 741 18th fry “he See apeagy to 9, the Canadiens rallied in. the e ast and vl core. Lieut. Harold W. Burchard, sor. Dekua ther hows neem. Te Fento hotel, son of Mr. and Mrs. D./ft0i64 goal’ The two otra. W. Burchard, formerly cashier of | cvertime gamen aapped the atroneth the Northern Commerc Co., of os OOo rer cow oveumment of the players and made it almost a physical impossibility to tinue the games. which his father is president, Lieut. Clifford L. Evans, supply company, Bitter Lake, formerly a cfvil engineer with the Title Trust con s Matter May 1999, at the # MATTLE, \ ASH., But it was so « im just kK that sort of a man fr whom one b fidence. Yet he w himself, He helped always—gladly, to last penny. Me really the street others the aia for he very it Mary ells you about him Mre, Rinet is the authe K Mrs, Rinchart America’s most famous nove) int, and “K" ts one of her ereatest novela, It will begin IN THE STAR FRIDAY! SOLONS FAVOR BIG NAVY PLAN Bremerton Yard to Be En-| larged for Fleet CIRCULATION OF TUESDAY, ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST APRIL 1, 1919. it ame FLU STOPS FINAL HOCKEY GAME -aper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Mall, Tear, by 6.00 to $9.09 ht ntle “and wind. “Weather Forec vast: Te & PLEADS INSANITY MURPHINE CHARGE SYSTEM Plans Express Service to} Speed Up Long Trac- tion Hauls WILL CUT DOWN TIME Express service that will eut down (ie time from the center of the city to practically all the outlying residential districts—in many cases as much as 15 min- utes—will be the first great im- provement in the operation of Seattle traction lines under mu nicipal ownership. a jowntown dis peedier load he first im to make te ot operation of the ng portant changes | street railway systems of the city At 11 o'clock Monday night, ac cording to the final agreement be |tween the city fathers and the of-| | floors of the Puget Sound Traction, | Light & Power Co., all the physical | lequipment of their street railway lines in the city beoame the prop: | erty of the olty of Beaty tle for & con: | siderayion of $15,900 Without blake neg tinal trangio- ‘dona necermary for the city to ae quire the traction linea, were dom pleted tate yeaterday afternoon, juat | in time to pertait the aale to be re corded with the city comptroller and | the last papers signed before the of flee closed for the day. Tuesday, the city owns the equipment. real property and good will of the Puget Sound Traction company | | Here’s the Man Who'll Worry About City Traction T Troubles GARRISON GIRL MAKES HER CLAIM ,Declares She. Was Insane’ Wihieh.She Poisoned Her ;. -Riyal.Two,Weeks Ago BUT'SANE NOW, SHE SAYS: | Temporarily insan when she » poisoned » Mr Grace Storrs two wee ago, but-sane NOW! This was, the plea tered Tuesday afternoon’ Judge Tallman’s court’ Ruth Garrison, the (8-y old girl who confessed ihad placed strychnine {the fruit salad eaten by the ~ wife of Dudley. Storrs, the |man with whom she was - | enamored. : |. When court convened, a |large crowd had again fill- 1 | ed the hallways and court- {sper to + it was ready to plead, her attorneys ane |swered for her. She is represented |by Thomas Askren, of Seattle, and | Reuben Hilen, of Snohomish county, both personal friends of the Garrison. | family. | “Would Be Safe” “Not guilty by reason of insanity Is bag ig In diseussing the limited train lat the time of the commission of the é Murph said, by way of If c 0." we he technical wording of Expansion of the Bremerton | ju,trution, that there are three dow dagen posal vary % navy yard to nearly twice its | bie track righteofway running to! Ss FOOL ‘Accompany ihe: te erst. Athinanalae present capacity, » port of en | fatlard alone. One of these will be was also a written plea setting forth barkation for sending Camp | used for local stops entire that since the date of the crime,” Lewls soldiers to Hawai and jer, from Third and Pine t Ruth Garrison has been sane and the islands, and development of — mont bridge, will be wu would be “safe to be allowed && the Puget Sound defenses are press line. At these point ite promised by the seven members connections will be om | The extraordinary: plea is ‘made of the house naval affairs com | «tops will be made from i= Inecessary, the lawyers explained mittee, in Seattle Tuesday. euch terminal ae lcceroard, ‘under. the Jaws Ghaae Support for the plans to develop Help West Seattle \" | state, in order to give Ruth Garrison the Bremerton navy yar! so that Among the other districts to have ja fighting chance for liberty. The ft can keep a great hen: ady for | fast service are Wallingford, Green law requires a written statement at” action off thin and provide’ Lake, Meridian and Phinney the time of entering a plea of insan- greatly increased pro for all why the lity in which the court must be ap Alnska, wi from the congrem P ute run can prised as to whether the defendant sional inspection tour. These plans | not be reduced minutes still claims to be insane or whether are in accord with the naval expan: | with express tr and my |sanity has been recovered sion program, It wan st lan is not to ru 1 trains Just It will be up to the jury, when she pad soe gin other oer ge 08 poet bgt ng ech ae lis tried, to determine first whether ps0 yt MB econ ve ae Age's |Miss Garrison is guilty of murder, eet ae xine ore ace fr cere ae [notwithstanding her plea of insanity, Thix means that the Pacific Coast! West Seattle will have its “limit Tom Murphine and his Tuesday smile. “Laugh! Grin!” commanded |0T Whether she is innocent by reasom will have to be prepared to keep th tu,’ too, when the physical connec-| he camera man. “This is the bes t I can do,” replied Murphine, “I've | Of insanity. fleet ready for sea.” he sald, “Wey tion between the elevated structure} g0¢ a lot to worry about now.” } In the event she is fount: 7m guilty,” the jury will have to answer shall need more naval static . dry-| and the surface lines has been made * * * cs pe tic et ? whedia h docks, repair shops, submarine| Another feature to be | oper he specific question o nether. she, bases, shore honpitals, training here will be t ip-stop ° e is still insane, If the jury says “no, o thes oe IN T t Ch f S Id |she will go free. If the jury believes camps, target ranges and aviation! plan. This should cut down the IW@W i raction le fe) he ill ao Sreet ft Uae stations on this coast Ume ‘rom terminal to terminal on ¥ at te ‘ . be at large, Miss Garrison will be The utilization of the a all Unes vy st Want ten. eelmaiies, sd sent to the insane ward of the pene harbor, which tw part of the Average Kight Hours igars, Flaye ootba sent to the {nehne Se ee Lewis seeervatioa 1 a “L have a few ideas of my own on ; freedom, she must not only be ao barkation. lao wi hav cking | the per jon of street railway quitted o de Di she us' ott "commitve "mambers when | ine maya Morphine "X‘city and Worked in Woods 022°0.22"e. ae (CONT'D ON PAGE NINE) jating a traction line, by reason of 4 which she claims led to the munéan not having to pay taxes, not being | Superintendent of Utilities Thomas, In 1905 he again went to the unl-|4oc¢ not exist any longer, called upon to pay out 2 per t| Murphine is today general manager | versity and matriculated in the law| May by Lif lof its gross earnings, and other|of the greatest municipallyowned | school | May Get Life means of economlzing, has the ad: | traction system in the world It wes while studying law that| If she is found guilty of murder— vantage over a private corporation Fourteen years ago, the city’s trac-| the now street railway head in the event the jury disbelieves her We shall take advantage of the ad-| tion chief was dealing cigars, cig- ated his little cigar store at insanity plea altogether—she faces ® vantage, arets and smokers’ sundries across|ave. and Union st. Married, and /life term in the penitentiary. | The new superintendent of Seat-)a Third ave. counter with a family, it was necessary that, If she ts found not guilty of mut Y lan de sijot | Ue transportation says also that he| From cigar clerk to traction chief he keep his income coming in. {der but the jury declares her sti ST. JOHNS, N. ¥., April 1-—-Pilot | nopes to be able to arrange the|in 14 years is a big jump Attended Conventions insane, she must remain in the ine Hawker, of the Sopwich airplane, | working schedules of all train crews} In the apace between he has found) ya 4913 and 1915 he was a mem-| rd of the penitentiary until with which an attempt will be made | so that they will work from 7% to| time to become a lawyer, attend tWO| per of the state legisleture. being (the court should order a new trial BY to fly from Newfoundland to Ife | §% houre a day. Ths will give an|soasions of the state legislature, | foop leader of the progressive and |# Jury to determine the question of land, declared today tha * expect: | average of eight hours serve as a special assistant attOre municipal ownership forces in both |e? sanity. She would remain inthe forced 2 dc Be enh Mak at ney general for Washington, then 48 | sessions, He has been chairman of | Penitentiary until a jury decided she Co. Home at Bitter Lake leed M. Sergt. Lioyd H. McMoran, 5563 N More ranige 29th ave. to Co Corporal Lioyd A. Day, 513 N. 68th mplete Task a Vaccine to complete the fmocula tion of the Queen Anne high school Corporal Howard 8, Simpson, 161st | | infantry, 2937 Fubrman ave. page seep wang? Pocrmiage A a 300 Corporal. Jamey C. Hearty, 1922|°@ from San Francisco Tuesday, tho jee aee work having been held up Monday Private Ralph C. Armstrong, 2521 yar nay er esones08 aes | Wwostnwu bee |A fresh supply, which will sol Dl Pritats “taries Boehtke, ¢540|CitY Physicians to vaccinate the pu = : pila of grade and high schools, will] Greenwood a Chic 4 Private Leon A. Paris, 6053 25th; come from ‘at 6 AB ‘as Pi) of the week Private Walter Peterson, 463 Blew ett #t. Private Andrew 7546 16th ave. PLANS FLIGHT TO NORTH POLE fine Bartlett, ‘Veteran Ex- plorer, to Make Trip G. Argus, Must Pay “Where's yer nickel?” No good!" And Kelly, of O'Brien, or Casey, or whatever the name of the member of Seattle's polic fire department most concer will have to “cough up the cold cash or walk That's the Badge? first announcement of Thomas ¥. Murphine, who, at paar |] 11 o'clock Jast night, became LANDON, April 1—Captain general manager of all city Robert Bartlett, of New York, street car lines. plans to fly to the north pole No deadhends! ‘That's the new order. It does in June, starting from @ base at 0 o effec mediately, Cape Columbia, it was announced Go: Ito sttene: inure not but within the next ten days today, only train crews and members of Bartlett, who i# 44 » re old, etart the main ed his polar exploration as a mem. ment, whose work ber of the Peary expedition, in 1897 ride on the He headed the Canadian government expedition in 1913-14, when he cross ed on the ice to @iberia, policeman and every No are Even Coppers Street Car Fares! fireman of the city, who finds it necodwary to ride 6n the street railway lines, will have to ha ne jitney—cash money—for an other edict soon to come forth will announce that no tickets will be published other than those for school children. 1 don't know who will pay the fares of the police and fire artments,” says Murphine, “Their departments, I suppose. But the day of free rides for them is over, Why should they and employes of the traction of fices, barns and shops ride for nothing, when they are only em ployes of the city, just as every worker in the city hall? “And they will have to pay cash fares, too, because tickets are the curse of the street car business, and we will publish none except for school children,” | assistant attorney general, and final | Hanson Says City |1y hold the office of commissioner of Ownership to Win | puviic utilities for Seattle—under LOS ANGELES, April 1.—There | VhOKe department the newly: a0 }ia no question but that street car| Wired street railways will be oper lines thruout the entire country will | td. eventually be owned by municipal: | | ties,” declared Mayor Ole Hanson, of Arrived 36 Years Ago Commissioner Murphine began life attle, In discussing the taking over |in Hillsboro, Ohio, July 7, 1878. He lof the Seattle street railways ame to Seattle April 1, 1883—just “The main reason is that there iy |36 years ag and he says h not enough money left in the city| looks upon April 1 as the most atreet car business to give both div. | eventful day of his life, ‘Frinstance |idends and service, If the street today ar He attended public school and the University of Washington, graduat ing with the degree of B. A. At the companies pay big dividends t publie gets no service. If the pub |He gets even fair service the com panies pay no dividends. university played football and won “Hence the municipalities will bo| the prize for oratory, among other | | forced as we were to take over the| things. | |iines and conduct them at cost and| He selected the lumber and! give service, | shingle business then as giving him | | the greatest opportunity to display | | his business ability, and even worked BUDAP? March 0. (Delay ed.)—-M. Fenyee, representative in the woods, He might have been the Hungarian soviet government Ja captain of finance, he admits him in Vienna, told the wentative of self, if he had not had a. leaning a Vienna newspay that “our eco ,toward the law, He quit the lumber nomic relations with German Austria (trade, in which he had become part | owner of @ firm and woods manager of their logging camps. must be the closest possible,” it was learned here today, 1 was no longer insane. | In a conference between and her attorney, Thomas Askren, Prosecutor W, C. Gresham of Okas |nogan county, and Deputy Pros«, Jecutor John D, Carmody, of Seattle, Ruth refused to talk of her relations to Dudley M. Storrs, or whether om. charge of drafting bills for that| Mot she would testify at the trial o& 7 legislature. On June 1, of that year, | her paramour. Askren advised her when the sessions ended, he was | to hold her silence. made special assistant attorne Tuesday was the third time that eral, He held the post until ac Miss rrison appeared before ing the office of commissioner Judge Tallman to plead to the public utilities in this city | charge, That he has not lost the benefit] The first time of his early participation in ath-|March 21, two days leties, is evidenced by one good look | fession, the next was Friday, March at him, Asked how he can do it,|28. Both times Judges Tallman Murphine merely remarks: granted her attorneys an extension, “Mountain climbing and golf!" poe — the Washington progressive de’ tions to the national conventions. 1912 ea In his delegates were steam-roll- out of the republican conven- herself tion During the 1917 session of the state legislature he served as spe-| cial assistant attorney general. in gen ept of was on Friday, fter her con- He forgets to add, running a . $15,000,000 railway. Some a Essen Planning in itself, s ‘ ; ; General Strike When H Whit of 5507 First] COPENHAGEN, April 1 gen ave. N. F., grabs his pole and techie eens strike was scheduled in Basen” and fares forth for fish, altho he may | for today. The workers demand Pete not know it, the jinx will be on his! ognition of the soviet system, & Sit trail and get him. He took out the hour day and a first fishing Ueense on April 1, in wages. in’ 25 per cent Increase. ~ ’ | # your