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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

Then add slowly one pound of sugar that
has been boiled with half cupful of water
until when dropped into cold water it
forms a soft ball. Beat continuously over
the fire until the mixture, when dropped
into cold water breaks apart in the fingers.
Add one pound of sugar that has been
boiled until it is brittle and clear when
blanched almonds and pour at once into
shallow pans that have been lined with
rice paper Cover the top with rice paper,
and when cold cut into strips the width of
the pan and one inch wide, 1t requires
two people to make soft nougat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
THUG DISGUISED
As A CHINAMAN

SEATTLE. Dec. 3l.--A thug disguised
as Chinaman assaulted and attempted
TO rob Mrs. Mary Hart at Yesler way
and Broadway at $3.50 o'clock last night
Mrs. Hart, who is widow 81 years of
age, screamed after she had wrenched her
hell away from the thug. lie fed when he
believed that help would come to his VIC
tim.
Mrs Hart was just entering the house
Of friend when the thug, disguised as
a Chinaman, grabbed her. He put one
hand over her face and threw her to
the ground. He was attempting to get
her purse when he loosened his hold on
her mouth and she was able to scream.
The police are certain that the thug is
a white man, but has adopted the Chinese
garb to prevent Identification.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
INTERURBAN TINE CARD.

Leace Tacoma (cor Eighth and A Sts.)
-6:l5, 7:3O, 8.35, Ltd. no stops, $3.50,
1890 1870 a. M; 1890, 1880, 2;3O, $3.50,
4:35, Ltd, no stops, $50, $3.50, $3.50, 1880
p M; 1880 p. m and 1918 a. m. to Kent
only.
Leave Seattle First Ave. So. and Jack
son St.)-63O, 7:3O, S:35., Ltd, no stops,
$50. 1890, 1880 a. M; 1890, 1870, 2:30,
$3.50, ABS, Ltd, no stops, $50, $3.50, $50,
1890 p. M; 1880 p. m. and 1915 a. m,
to Kent only.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
DAMAGES FOR
BROKEN Lee

A damage suit was filed in the superior
court this morning by Charles Thorn
against the J. L Steeb Shipping company
for $500. Thorn alleges that while EN-
ployed as a longshoreman by the defend
ant company his leg was broken through
the carelessness of fellow workmen The
defendant, he says, has refused to pay the
expenses he incurred as result of the
accident.
Thorn was injured last May by being
struck by a swinging beam while loading
lumber at Quartermaster harbor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
FREE LECTURES

Professor NJ. f. Knox, founder of the
Mental Science college at Seattle and vice
president of the international Mental Sci
enee association, will deliver a series of
five lectures in darker hail. lll7h Tacoma
avenue, commencing Sunday evening, Jan
uary 3, at o'clock. The subject of the
opening lecture will be How to Overcome
Poverty and Accumulate Wealth" The
first three lectures will be free
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
NEW YORK HORSE CARS
TO THE DUMP HEAP
GOTHAM STOOD A LOT

NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-With the new
year New York win at last cut loose from
the horse car. The last crosstown rattle
trap win be allowed to fall away into the
junk heap. The last ring-boned, spawned
skate viii be inferred in the boneyard.
For years these horse ears should have
been in the museum. Instead they kept
on rafting from river to river They're
lurehing over the cobbles today But
they've laid a train of live wire under
them. In the tomorrow of the new year
the metropolis win finally be fully troll
leyed.
Why New York harbored the RAM
shackle horse car this last decade is
mystery. No factory town in all the
country but would have banished them
years ago. Perhaps it's because the New
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

Yorker is short on local pride Perhaps
it's because in this town they can take
your nickel in anv wreck on wheels. At
any rate. the prehistoric horse car has
tangled on year after year across Broad
way. 1t will just fall short Of overlap
ping the subway. When people have been
flying a generation or two they will prob
ably be extorting nickels in the subway
Any town on the map can shy stones at
New York on street Transportation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
HIS TROUBLE

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 3l.-An
additional Indictment has been returned
against John Benson, the wealthy real
estate dealer of San Francisco, who is
charged by the interior department with
being the head conspirator in alleged land
frauds in dozen western states and ter
ritories.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
| INCREASED
BUILDING

During the past year 1874 building
permits have been issued by the city, SO5
of which were for dwellings. The total
value of building in the city during 1903
is 81 ,692, 424. against $I,l27,6 500 for last
year. The building inspector says that
had it not been for strikes the building
permits would have reached a higher f.
ure.
During 1902 the city issued 1893 building
permits, while in 1903 the building in
spector issued 1874 permits.
During last March the building permits
amounted to $306,Ol2, more than 100000
heavier than during any other month for
years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

sesses hardly any advantage over the
others. In some places where one product
Is a failure another makes up for it. and
the homeseeker is sure Of safe returns on
money invested in any part of Washing
ton. ,.nA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
CHEESE DISHES SERVED WITH
SALADS.

Cheese Balls.-AIix together thoroughly
one and one-half cups grated cheese, one
tablespoon -four, one-quarter teaspoon salt
and few grains cayenne; then add the
whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Shape
in balls and roll in fine bread crumbs. Fry
in smoking hot lard and drain on paper
Cheese Puffs-One-half cup water, one
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
FOOTBALL

Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock the
second high school football team and the
Indian reservation aggregation will play
a match game here The high school team
beat the Indians at the last meeting. but
the reservation boys have been practicing
since then and are full of faith and ginger
now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
INQUIRIES OF
HOMESEEKERS

A. Van Holderbeke, state horticultural
commissioner, is receiving many letters
from farmers of the middle states who are
thinking of settling in Washington. All
want to know the best part of the state
in which to settle. The information is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
DIVORCE

Because her husband refused to speaMB.
TO her for days at time and was generally
uncivil and cruel Mrs. Jennie r. Thomp-
son was today granted divorce from her
husband, Alexander Thompson. Judge
Huston signed the decree. The Thomp-
sons were married in this city II years
ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
LABOR MEETINGS

The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Workers, local union No. 80, and
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, local union No. Al,
met last evening. Regular business mat
tiers were taken up at each of the meet
ings.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
MONEY WENT TO OTHERS

In a divorce suit filed in the superior
court this morning Marian Handles charges
that her husband, T. S. Randles, has given
his affections and means to others and has
never provided for her as he should. She
also alleges cruelty Mrs. Randles asks
for separation and the custody of her 2
Year-old baby
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

A crew of men under Government En-
gineer Ricksecker are taking soundings in
the channel where the dredger Pacific is
working This work is done monthly. The
average depth of the channel on the east
side is now % feet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
SPECIAL SERVICES

At 1880 New Years morning and at
O'Clock in the evening services celebrat-
ing the signing of the emancipation proc
lamation will be held in the Olivet Dap
fist church.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

Among the freight to go out on the
Cottage City for the North is the iron
work for the new government penitentiary
at Juneau.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
U. S. COURT

The United States district court will be
in session in Tacoma January 6.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The crew of the Olympia viii be signed
before Deputy United States Shipping
Commissioner Swift today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The steamship Queen from San Fran
cisco is unloading freight at the Ocean
dock. She will get away for Seattle this
afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The Sound and Alaska steamer City of
Topeka, which has been laid up in Seattle
for some time, is to have thorough
overhauling. New boilers win be placed
in her and it will be several months be-
fore she resumes her Northern run.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

When / dropped into the New York
Kitchen at 926 Commerce street l found
the Big Swede hard at work making
batch Of his famous pies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The steamship Pleiades, loaded down
with general cargo, left for Seattle at
o'clock this morning. She has small
the Sound for the Orient Saturday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
SOFT NOUGAT.

Beat the whites of four eggs to very
stiff froth; pour into them, beating all the
while, one pound of hot strained honey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The French ship Vile de Mulhouse has
finished loading wheat and is anchored in
the stream.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

We wish all our friends and patrons
a Happy New Year. Jolls, 944 Pacific
Ave. ***
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
MARINE CLIMPSES

The Seattle-Tacoma steamer Flyer makes
four trips tomorrow instead of three, her
regular schedule.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The schooner Expansion arrived at the
Tacoma mill this morning from San Pedro.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

The French bark Eugene Fautrel has
shifted from the Commercial to the North
western dock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

Captain Olesens tug Elf is laid up for
repairs at the Puget Sound drydock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31

We wish all our friends and patrons
a Happy New Year. Jolls, 944 Pacific
Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-31
NEW YEAR DINNER FOR EIGHT.

Blue Points.
Boullon.
Roast Duck, Currant Jelly Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes. CauIihower au Gratin
Rice Croquettes.
Celery. Olives. Sailed Nuts
Orange Ice.
French Fruit Salad.
Club House Cheese Sandwiches.
Mince Pie.
Ginger Ice Cream.
Cakes. Grapes. Bonbons.
Cafe Noir
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
NEW COMMERCIAL YEAR.

Today, September Il marks the be-
ginning of the new commercial year,
the most important period in the
affairs of commerce of our country.
1t is especially so in the South
where the principal money crop is
cotton, for about this date the staple
begins to move, starting up ginneries
and congresses and giving employ
ment to HUNDREDS of thousands of peo-
pie, necessary in handling the crop
after it is un'oaded from the wagon
persons who have been practically
idle since May, hast.
This vast army of people who will,
for the next eight months. be en-
ployed at good wages, embraces street
buyers, samplers. classifiers, shipping
clerks, compress managers and hands,
CIeths, UUOhhe6poI > etC., W say uUtu-
ing OF the revenue that will pour in
to owners of ginneries, compressors,
and factories, all coming from the cot
ton crop.
And then, too, the millions of mon
ey that will be brought into circula-
tion to go out into avenues Of trade
to swell the volume of business, all
this is to be considered, and al the
crop all ovsr the country is reported
to be the best for years, it follow:
that the commercial year which be.
gins today, will be an suspicious one
one full of golden promise, mean.
ing an abundance and peace and hap
pine Is, so far as plenty is concerned,
for all.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

Ii now developes that United States
V &c Co 1sul William c. Magelssen,
who was reported to have been assas-
sinated at Beirut. Syria. last Sunday,
was shot at only, and was not even
injured. Mr.. Magelssen was apoint-
ed to this position about two years
ago, from the state of Minnesota, and
the report of his assassination created
grave apprehension of further trouble,
President Roosevelt even ordering
that a squadron be sent to Beirut to
investigate the matter. Trouble OF
much import seemed imminent, and
even the intelligence now of the fail.
IRE of the ASA isination, has Dot re-
lulted in the recalling of the battle
ships.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
AMERICAN VS.. EUROPEAN LA.
Dor.

One of the brainieEt men that the
great state Of MISSISSIPPI boasts of to-
day, is John Sharp Williams, and few
men are looked upon as higher au-
thority than he, therefore, now that
the question of free trade and Euro
pean VS.. American labor is being
again discussed by many leading
moulders Of public opinion, it would
not be amiss to give to the public the
closing remarks made by Mr.. Will.
liams in speech before congress sew
real months ago. He said
"Now, why il it that Great Brit
ain has, next to America, the highest
wage scale? Because the British Ma
ton possesses, next to America, a
larger body of fertile and cheap land
than any orher country upon the
globe, and although those lands are
in Australia, in Cape Colony, and in
Canada, still i is true that there is
hardly an Englishman who has not a
cousin or a brother or a father or a
son that has gone 90 the colonies. So
that is just like moving from Con-
necticut to Ohio, or from Ohio to Mis-
sissippi-jus like our interstate i'm
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
Jackson, Miss.
September | til Dec.
To Subscribers.

The books OF the old ownership of
The Progress are in such conglon-
Grated condition that il makes it
almost impossible to get at the true
condition, dates. ETC., of subscription
accounts.
own the books and the accounts
and this Is to say that hereby throw
myself upon the mercy of subscrip-
tion patrons by asking them one and
! all TO immediately drop me letter
telling me to what date they
are paid, how much they are due,
and if anything send the amount
along with the document above
asked for. There are several hun
dred of these subscriptions and the
burden is too heavy to be carried in
its present condition, and all who
have not replied to and complied
with above within ten days from this
date their names will be dropped
| from the list.
If J. ]. HAYNIR. Prop. Progress.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
SrECIAL ELECTION.

Ordered. That special election will
be held in the City of Hattiesburg TO
elect marshal to fill the vacancy in
the office of city marshal caused by the
resignation of B. NJ. Moffett, which is
TO take feet on October !, 1903, said
election to be held on the 22nd day OF
september, 1908. and the clerk is hereby
directed TO publish notice of said special
election for at least ten days as the law
directs.
1t is furt her ordered, That ]. E. Ar
ledge, G. l. Wainwright and l.. L.
ren,on be and they are hereby ap
pointed "a election commiss oners &c
hold said election, G. l. Wainwright tt
be ticket commissioner.
Given under my hand and seal Of
office this 18th day of August, 1913.
augl1 A FARLEY, City Clerk.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

Toe much can hardly be said in
commentator of the northeastern
railroad officials for the efforts they
are putting forth in the interest of
the experiment station at Mcneil.
The excursion to that place tomorrow
is but another demonstration of this,
and that such efforts Will result in
much good, goes without saying. Let
every one take an interest in the
matter.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

People have gone insane for many
reasons, but few have ever had their
mentality overbalanced on so small
occasion as did Michael Kusic, a
youth of II, who was driven insane
by the blowing of a locomotive
whistle at the Erie railway station,
at Sharon, Pa, last week. The
youth had just landed in this country,
and having never seen an engine be-
fore, the sudden blowing of the steam
whistle was so great a shock as to
produce q violent mental alteration.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

The Enterprise Times tells of a
stalk of cotton growing in the back
yard of the postoffice at that place,
the seed from which it sprung being
sent from the agricultural depart
ment at Washington, being of a variety
which does not bear until the third
year. The stalk is now said to be
four feet high, and what seems to be
troubling the editor of the Times
most is, how it will go through the
winter without being killed or blight
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

The amount appropriated by the
last legislature for Mississippi to be
properly represented in her exhibits
at the st. Louis fair, was $50, 600,
and it is thought by many that when
the next Legislature meets, this
amount will be doubled For the
Chicago exhibit only 50, 500 was ap-
propriated. Col. r. H. Henry, of the
Clarion Ledger, is doing good work
canvassing the ate, urging people
up to the Importance of contributing
of their products TO the exhibit, to
the end that the same be in keeping
with the progressive spirit of the day
and rebound in everlasting good to
the state, as all eyes will be upon Us
at the fair, and as the exhibit shows,
so will We be judged.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

Sumter county, Ala, has jusf vot-
ed 1920, 900 for the purpose of building
better roads, and the writer can say
that if there ever was a county that
needed good roads it is Sumter.
Having tried trip from Livingston
to GAINESVILLE in mid-winter one time,
he knows whereof he speaks. 1t was
a case of taking the lower road'
all the way, and it wai a going OF
about three feet Gown through the
mud to find what was left of that
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

If the old saying be true that moth
ing not original and true TO life can
live, the following story told by an
exchange ought never die. The story
goes out that an Irish undertaken was
laying out the deceased husband of a
weeping -Hiberian widow. The
corpse wore wig, and it was very
difficult to induce it to stay on
straight, as wigs ought always to do
even if they don't. The bereaved
widow was called in to assist. go
an git me a pot of glue, Mrs. McGov-
ern,i said the undertaken. SO that /
may keep this wig where it belongs. !"
Mrs. McGovern set out after the stick
ing material, and after time she re-
turned. Here Is the glue for ye, >,
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

Perhaps one of the most peculiar
deaths ever recorded, is that of a lit
tie girl of Creston, Iowa. A telegram
from that place states that she was
the seven-year- old daughter of John
Ponte, a Burlington conductor, and
became i'll and died in the space of
ten days from what the physicians
pronounced dysentery. An autopsy
was held, revealing the fact that the
child had swallowed peas whole, and
that they had sprouted and were
growing in her stomach, thereby caus-
ing death.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01


AS long as you can keep down the
supply of labor in the factories and
in the mines by keeping a safety
valve of escape toward the farm and
the field. toward cheap land to buy or
to rent--as long as you can maintain
a LAND VENT so long are you going
TO have comparatively high wages; and
when you cannot, when you have set
tied this country so densely that you
cannot do that, your wages will not
possess the comparative advantage
that they do today, nor any advan-
tage, except that proceeding from or
ganized labor, in unions, intelligent
ly and firmly directed Now, there
is another reason. Where land is
cheap to rent or buy, wherever men
feel free by reason of the land VENT
they are filled with an incentive and
with hope in their hearts; there they
work better.
"They do not work as though they
were chained like slaves TO the galley,
to do certain task today and .hel
quit. merely to earn their wages. but
each man was taught when he was 6
boy that he may be a millionaire
some day, or the president OF the
United States, or a congressman, even
So he works with hope in hi. heart
hope singing merrily and ambition
squirting him like good rider on {
thoroughbred steed, and he is no
like those in the class of labor found
for instance, in Austria, who know
that all they can hope to do is to ge
morey enough to buy their food ant
gaiment and glass of beer or TWO,
after the days work is over, Will
barely enough LEFT to pay three kreut
GERS to sit in the park and listen Il
Strauss's band
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
A BOYS WILD RIDE FOR LIFE.

With family around expecting him
to die, and son riding for life, IS
miles, to get DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consump tion. Coughs and Colds,
w. H. Brown, Of Leesville, lad, en-
dured deaths agonies from asthma;
but this wonderful medicine gave In
slant relief and soon cured hirl. lie
writes: Il now sleep soundly every
night" Like marvellous cuies of con-
sumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis,
Coughs, Colds and Grip prove its
matchless merit for all ThOat and
Lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles soc
and 81 90. Trial bottles free at Bufkin
& Cadenhead's drug store.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

At the national park at Vicksbnrg
there are to be placed soon one hun
dred and twenty-six new gun car
tiages, sixty-on3 On the defense line
and sixty-fve on the investment line.
There are also to be placed one hun
dred aud seventy five battle tablets,
to stand as permanent markers. tell
ing the particulars of the seige OF
Vicksburg in the sixties.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

The United States pays to foreign
vessels for conveying freights and
passengers upwards of $40, 600, 600 per
year, and much OF this money goes to
steamers regularly enrolled on the
merchant cruiser list of foreign
governments, and which are manned
by naval reserve officers, who in case Of
war, would be found lined up against
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01

The editor of the williamsburg,
Miss, Watchman-Jo Journal, in a per-
sonal letter TO the editor of The Daily
Progress says Il have Just seen a
copy of your paper, and am struck
with its makeup. 1t plainly show
that its editor has plenty of hustle
about him. Enter my name on you:
list, even if have to pay for it. -
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-01
NOTICE.

TO all persons having claims against
the estate of j. G Foster, deceased:
The estate of J. g. Foster, deceased,
having been declared lnsolvent by 4
decree of the chancery conrt of the
second district of Perry county. in
vacation, on the 25th day of August
1908. and the Sth day Of December 1903,
having been fixed by said decree for
the examination and adjudication OF
claims against said estate; ali persons
having such claims, are notified TO tile
the same with the clerk of this court
on or before the day named for such
examination and adjudication,
Aug. 81, 1903.
H. M. MCCALLUM. Clerk.