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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
ALLEGES FRAUD

Wealthy Ann Baldie, who is suing
for divorce from r. II. Baldie, has
fled q notice to the effect that any
paper she signed conveying the title
to lots and 10, block 1514, to #. II.
Baldie doesn't go. She alleges that
If such an instrument was signed by
her the signature was secured
through fraud and misrepresenta-
ton and that she still has an undivid-
ed half interest in the property
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

HOBOKEN, N. j., July 13.-"Bil-
ly, the Butter" was the name of a
pet ram owned by local truckmen.
They call him BILLY, the Booser, "
now.
The truckmen went to play ball
the otE9r day. They took Billy and
a barrel of beer along. The beer
was drawn off in buckets to assuage
the thirst of the players. Billy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
w. G. T. U. MEETING

The w. c. n. IT, will meet at 2
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon in the
headquarters, corner of Ninth and G
streets. Miss Blanche Sturgeon Hoyte
will conduct a Bible reading during
the devotional hour.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
TOURISTS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE

YOSEMITE, Cal, July 13.--Allen
Bates of Palo Alto and Ned Corbett
of Fair Oaks, who fell into the ledge
below the summit of North Dome
Sunday night, were rescued early this
morning and are now at Camp Curry.
The spent over 36 hours without food
no water, but will be all right again
in a few days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

was in the box for the locals and
Butler was against him. The score:
r. II. e.
Seattle 100000 % 8 8
Portland % 0O30 00O0 % 8 8
Observation-Disclosures and Wilson;
Butler and Shea
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

expended $1,000 to repair the wharf.
1t should not be leased for so small
a sum. 1t is reported that other par
ties are anxious to rent the wharf and
the commissioner was instructed to
interview them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
BEGINS SENTENCE IN
THE PENITENTIARY

Charles Knoxon, who was convict
ed of entering a house in Puyallup
and sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary, was taken to Walla Walla
last night by Sheriff Denholm. 1ngle,
his alleged accomplice, was brought
up before the court yesterday, but
pleaded not guilty. The latter's trial
will not take place until September
and Knoxon may be brought over
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
STRUCK ON HEAD
BY FLOATING LOG

SEATTLE, July 13.-An unknown
man in the employ of the Bryan
Lumber company of Fremont was
drowned in Lake Union yesterday
afternoon shortly after o'clock. He
was working on a boom of logs, when
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
MILITARY HOP

The chief social event of the COM
ing week will be the ball and recep-
ton to be given by the Chamber of
Commerce to the military officers of
the maneuver camps at the Tacoma
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
GUILTY or PETIT LARCENY.

Thomas Brown was found guilty of
petit larceny in police court yester-
day afternoon and fined $50. Browns
offense was the taking Of pair of
shoes from Benjamin's store on Pa
cific avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
THESE FOOTPADS KNOCKED OUT
COLD FILLED Teeth Of VICTIM

PoTSDAM, July IA Piano
tuner named Schlaubenheimer has
the champion hard luck story to date.
Schlaubenheimer was going home
the other night, footpads held him
up. He had no cash and the high
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
How WOULD YOU LIKE TO Be BILLY?

, should have been drawn off but he
wasn't Between innings Billy pro-
ceeded to drink off a bucket full Of
beer.
At 2 o'clock the next morning a
policeman found Billy unsteadily
trying to find his way home in a
badly intoxicated condition. Billy
didn't seem bit afraid, but then
Billy isn't married.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
National League Standing.
American League.

American League.
AT Westinghouse. Louis 6
Washington 2.
At elphia-Philadelp G
Chicago 4.
At Boston-Boston 10, Detroit s.
AT New York-Cleveland 8, New
York l.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
BIC STEAMER
IS LAUNCHED

GLASGOW, July 13.--The new
Cunard liner Caronia, of 21,000
tons, the largest steamship ever built
In Scotland, was launched today.
Mrs. Choate, wife of Ambassador
Choate, christened the vessel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

waymen were about to release him
when they noticed that three fronG
teeth were filled with gold
Promptly they knocked him down
and, while one held him, the others
broke the molars out with a paving
stone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
National League.

At Chicago Chicago 5, Boston 3,
At Cincinnati-New York Z, Gin
cinnati A.
AT st. Louis-St. Louis 4, Brook
Ign 0.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
e.
"The Diamond King

AT the Lyceum theater this week
THE Diamond King" is being pre-
scented by the Lyceum stock compa-
nv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
PARKER WILL NOT
TAKE THE STUMP

ESOPUS, N. Y, July 10. Save for
the arrival of about zoe kilograms
and letters, Judge Parker spent a
quiet day. Sheehan left for New
York this morning. and while he is
there the date for the meeting OF the
national committee viii be fixed
Practically all the intervening time
until the election will be spent by
the candidate at Esopus. There will
not be swing around the circle.
but towards the last he will visit a
few OF the largest cities where the
fight Is hottest
Cleveland Will deliver one address,
but Bryan's intentions are unknown.
To date no congratulations have
come from the Nebraskan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

from the penitentiary at that time
as a witness for the state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR SALE--s110, 2 fine lots within
two blocks OF South M and 10th
ST. car line. j. A. frost, 524 Cal. Bldg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

The Totmes, of the Kosmos line, is
due In port today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

The barkentine Aurora has finish
cd loading telephone poles at the sc.
Paul mill dock and Will be towed TO
Port Angeles tomorrow, where she
will finish her load. The crew will
be signed by the shipping commits
sioner tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
A STRIKING EFFECT.

1T must have produced striking
effect when you hit Welcher'
ut did--a striking effect.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

American League Standing
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13
ANGELS ARE
HERE TODAY

Pacific Coast League Standing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-13

The following prices we're quoted
by the wholesale men to the jobbers
this morning:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
vent the practice and in doing so treated it
The Jumma Musjid.

In the center of Delhi and on the highest
eminence Of the city stands the Jumma
Musjid, almost unriyaled among mosques
There is nothing elsewhere outside of Con-
stantinople that can compare with it, either
in size or splendor, and we are told that
10000 workmen were employed upon 1t
daily for six years. 1t was built by the
great Shah Jehan Of red sandstone inlaid
with white marble; is crowned with three
splendid domes of white marble striped
with black and at each angle of the court
yard stands a gigantic minaret composed
Of alternate stripes of marble and red
sandstone. There are three stately portals
approached by flights of forty steps, the
lowest of which is 40 feet long. Through
stately arches you are led into a courtyard
$50 feet square, inclosed by splendid ar
caded cloisters. In the center of the court
is the usual fountain basin, at which the
worshippers perform their additions, and
at the eastern side, facing toward Mecca, at
the summit of fight of marble steps is
the mosque, 26O feet long and 100 feet wide.
The central archway is eighty feet high.
Over in one corner Of the cloisters is a
reliquary guarded by squad OF nerce-
looking priests, which contains some or the
most precious relics of the prophet IN ex-
istence. They have the 1nvariable hair from
his muStache, which is red; one OF MS SIP
pers, the print of his foot in stone, two
copies of portions of the Koran-one or
them written by his son-in-law, Imam
Husain, very clear and well preserved. and
the other by his grandson, Imam HaSan
They are both beautiful specimens OF
chirography and would have high value
for that reason alone, but obtained especlai
sanctity because of the tradition that both
uara written at the dictation of the Prophet
himself. and are among the Oldest copies OF
the Koran in existence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
JAPANESE LITERATURE.
Development of the Novel in Cherry
Blossom Land.
From the Critic.

From the Critic.
TN to 1895, novel writing was not looked
upon as respectable profession. Inc pun
lie would not permit 1t to be called seh'ie
mans work. 1t was regarded as an uh
pardonable diversion of unworthy proolsies'
The authors were accused OF being oe-
moralzing influence. However, the Iaui'
may be with them, since they ihouiseo'
often provokingly, in the depietion OF 'he
lower class of women. The geisha was
their fayorite heroine am told that Ogai
Mort was often warned by his surgeon gen
eral oOeai was a higher army doctor) that
he would shorten his dignity by his mover
publication There is no place IKE tne
Japanese army where even an Ih-ne.ns
dignity is necessary. Once Tor some Yeas
Ogai stopped writ ng, seeing hlmsen III
danger OF losing his place What preJu-
dice! But happily such thing couiul
happen today, when the invasion OF western
thought has cleared 1t of. authors nave
come to command respect They couion
make a living by writing only twenty years
ago but today they are on the iair rodu ~
prosperity, the public demand Tor hteratuIe
of any sort having tremendously increased.
They will put a price on their Wrltlng,
counting the pages, If not the words, like
Americans Nearly all the young students
turned to writers at once Hence tne over
flow of novels in 1899 and 1900! Not one IN
a hundred had literary merit-too often,
alas! they verged on the coarse ana the
scandaIous The books were hardly pic
lures of human life. What could those
Young writer's tender brains know? The
gentleman above thirty-fve would not be-
stow even a glance upon their work.
Where is the human INTEREST,"" he would
sternly demand Our Japanere woman rare
Iy reads The books circulate only among
the students. who are glad to be imbeciie.
They lost the public respect at once. which
they had gained after the hardest battle.
You win see no more of literary events to-
day. Commercialism has destroyed every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28

thing: And the well-established authors,
ike Tsubouchi, Koyo or Roban did not
come to the rescue in the crisis. For the
last three years the public is denouncing
the modern novel; So it is in America, isn't
lit Japan is also floating up and down ON
the worlds current.
The literary newspapers have been grow
ing In power for the last ten years. Soho
the field, whose artistic writing. sensible
conception and frequently witty reporting
are nothing but the best literature. Minoru
huga or the Nippon "a newspaper is not
WIZ, nonor; his rigid style has been q
tonic Tor the younger minds. Now the in
teiiectual Japanese are welcoming the news
papers with a greater respect than they
ever showed before. permanently forsakins
the feeoie speculatfons of novels. And the
students of serious bent are turning TO
scientific study, to real experiment., TO
practical works. Their eyes are set upon
the spheres OF social philosophy psychicaI
analysis and exact evidence. There has
been no time in the past thirty-six years
when there was exhibited such a serious
thirst for western intellectual books.
And the public discovered only a year or
so ago that the reading of western novels
was the very way to feed their minds spir-
ltualiy They are ready to admit their i'm
measurable superiority to the native writ.
ing. Their translation has astonishingly
increased with the downfall of the native
authors. Some fifty books were translated
Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame" Alhponse
Daudet's "Nabob," George Eiiot's ROM
OLA" Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter" ana
Maeterlinck's plays being among them.
And the philosophical mind has taken up
Emerson. A few TRANSACTIONS of his works
have already appeared. And the Student. q
semi-monthly publication for the study or
the English language and literature issued
its Carlyle number last September, and in
directly denounced the present condition OF
Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
Save the Parks.

From the New York Mail.
There is something In the parks of the
city that makes them as persistently allur-
ing to official meddling. corporate cupidity
and private mischief as the Roman domain
land, or the common of village In the
old days some one was always squatting on
the Roman domain. fencing off a part of
II and establishing title through adverse
possession. 1t is no unusual thing nova
days for people to turn their cows and hogs
on village property at night, and plot for
converting a part of the common to- their
own uses. The same phenomena are con-
stantly recurring here.
1t seems to be an impression that a public
park is a fair mark for encroachments and
that we have too much park land anyway.
The elevated railroad squats in Battery
Park coterie of Tammany men attempt
to cut a slice off the western side of Central
Park for a trotting forse speedway. A
clique of cyclists try to appropriate it's
bridlepaths and turn them into cinder paths.
One commissioner let's to corporation the
privilege of furnishing seats and charging
for them. Another puts up an advertising
fence. Some one concocts scheme to erect
temporary school buildings in the smaller
downtown parks The latest enterprise,
and perhaps the most extraordinary, Is to
cut off for driveway ninety-foot strip
from end to end of the 9Th avenue side Of
Central Park, although IL would involve
the reconstruction of nearly all the park
buildings. the destruction of Thousands OF
trees and shrubs and the arrangement Of
half the landscape scheme. Have we not
had enough of this mischief and foliyf
When will all the people understand that
the only changes the community win sane
ton in its park domain must add to rather
than subtract from its area?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
Korean Architecture.
From the Housekeeper.


The Korean style of architecture is suited
to anything but an extreme climate such as
prevails there. During the winter months
1t is very cold. The houses are made of
bamboo frame work, plastered within and
without with adobe mud The roof is
matched with rice straw, which is weather
proof The inside may be made into one
room by the sliding back of a screen-like
partition. Just why these were introduced
it is impossible to say, for they are but
rarely used. as privacy is never desired in
Korea. This open space becomes the living
room, and even when travellers are passing
along and must halt for the night they are
invited to share a common sleeping place
on the floor with the entire family The
discomfort of such an experience is extreme
during the summer. In the kitchen, which
is just without the living room, there is
located a most curious kind of stove. From
this clay pipes extend under the floor to the
living room. They warm the house sum-
mer and winter alike, for 1t has never en-
tered their minds that some means could
be devised whereby the heat could be turn
ed off from the other quarters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
A Remarkable Record.

Those who are familiar with criminal sta
tistics will, I am confident, agree with me
that this is a most remarkable record for
a incubation of 300 100000. illiterate, super
stitious impregnated with false ideas of
honor and morality, and packed so densely
as the people of India are. The courts or
Justice have reached a high standard; the
lower courts are administered almost exclu-
siyely by natives; the higher courts by Eng
lish and natives together. No trial OF I'M
portance ever takes place except before a
mixed court. and usually the three great re-
Hgions-Br hmanism, Mohammedanism and
Christia nity-are represented on the Dencn.
One of the most difficult and delicate
tasks of the British authorities has been TO
nreyent infanticide, because from time I'M
memorial among all the races of India 1t
has been practiced openly and without re-
straint and in many sections as religious
duty And what has made 1t more dlmcuit
n prevailed most extensively among the
ia miles of the highest rank, and among the
natives, communities and provinces when
were most loyal to the British crown. foi
example, the Rajputs are the indian chlv-
airy They trace their decent from the
gods. and are proud of their nobility and
their honor, yet 1t has been the custom
among them as far back as TRADITIONS run
to strangle more than half their girl babies
AZ birth. and until this was stopped the
records showed numbers Of villages where
there was not single girl, and where there
never had been one WITHIN the memory VI
man. oo
As late as the census of 1869, seven VII
lagos were reported with 104 boys and one
girl twenty-three villages with 2S4 boys and
twenty-three girls and many others in sim
mar proportions The statistics of the re-
cent census of 1901. by the disparity be-
tween the sexes, still show that this crime
has not yet been stamped out. In the Raj
putana province, for example, there are
2447. 4O1 boys to 1878 girls. ana
throughout the entire population of India
there are y, $685. 1851 boys to 40 .516,3s1 girls.
Among the Hindus of all ages there are
1O5. 163,345 men to 101. 945,387 women, and
among the Sikhs who also strangle their
children there are LA, 543 men to $50, S25
women. Among the Buddhists, the jams
and other religions, the ratio between the
sexes were more even
Sir John Starchy says in his admirable
hook upon India: These people have gone
on killing their children generation after
generation because their forefathers did
so before them, not only without thought
that there Is anything criminal in the prac-
tice, but with the conviction that 1t is right.
There can be little doubt that If vigilance
were relaxed the custom would before long
become as prevalent as ever The meas
ures taken by the government have been
radical and stringent. A system of registra-
ton of births and deaths was provided by
an act passed in 1870, with constant In
spection and frequent enumeration of chill
dren among the suspected classes. and no
efforts were spared to convince them that
the government had finally resolved to pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28
Liszt and Gear Nicholas I.
from the London News.

From the London News.
During one of LISTS visits to st. Peters,
burg he was invited to soiree at the win
ter palace. and was asked by the ear
(Nicholas u to play He went to the piano
and began one of his Hungarian rhapsodies
But the car entered into an animated dis
cussion with one of his generals, and, after
minute or so Liszt, without troubling to
invent conclusion to the piece stopped
and left the instrument. Missing the ac-
compartment to his talk the czar sent one
of his chamberlains to ask why the per-
Torrance had ceased. THE car must well
know said Liszt. with steeely flash in
his gray eyes. that while he is speaking
every other voice, even that Of music Is
bound to be mute,v and. turning his back
upon the outraged functionary. he stalksd
out OF the room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-28

The following table will show the total
daily average of prisoners, men and Wo-
men, serving sentences for penal offenses
in the prisons of India during the years
named.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-09
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED.
Cripple Creek District Is Now Under
Military Control.

Denver, Colo, June S.--A special "a
the News from Victor, Colo, says that
martial law was declared in the Grip
pie Creek district at 2 o'clock this
morning by the posting by Acting
Governor Haggott OF proclamation
at a number of places In the camp
The posting was done under the direc-
ton of Adjutant General Bell who ar
rived at Victor from Denver at an
early hour this morning with the proc
lamation. Conditions in the camp are
quiet according to all accounts. Cen
eral Bell has assumed command of the
military and control OF the district
and has called council of the local
military company officers He has
also ordered Col. yerdeckberg, who
had charge of affairs in the district
when martial law ended there several
months ago, to the district.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-09
Special Excursion to the Worlds
Fair.

The Denver G. Rio Grande, In con-
nection with the Missouri Pacific, will
run series of personally conducted
excursions to the worlds fair during
June. These excursions will run
through to st. Louis without change
Of cars, making short stops at principal
points enroute. The first of these ex-
cursions viii leave Portland June 7th,
and the second June 18th. The rate
from Astoria will be $67.5O to st. Louis
and return. Excursionists going via
the Denver & Rio Grande have the
privilege of returning via a different
route. This is the most pleasant way,
as well as the most delightful route, to
cross the continent. The stops ar
ranged give an opportunity to visit
the various points Of interest in and
about Salt Lake City, Denver and
Kansas City. II you wish to accom-
pany one of these excursions write at
once to w. @. Mcbride, 124 Third
street, Portland, for sleeping car res
ervatlons.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-09
TRAIN HELD UP.
Brakeman Seriously Wounded by Two
Masked Men.

Brakeman Seriously Wounded by Two
Masked Men.
Salt Lake, June S.-Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train No. 5. west
bound was held up near Palisade, Col,
a station just east of Grand Junction,
at an early hour this morning.
Brakeman shellenberger is seriously
wounded, the result Of bullet from the
gun Of one Of the two holdups, and
the conductor had his lantern shot
from his hand.
The robbers tagged the train about
two miles from the station and when
the trainmen went forward to learn
the trouble, were confronted with re-
volvers by two masked men.
After marching the conductor back
to the train they detached the engine
and express, car from the coaches and
blew open the safe, after running the
locomotive and car some distance up
the track.
The express officials at this hour are
unable to say what amount was OBJ
tanned, but claim it was small.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-09
CHANGE IN TARIFF.
Canada viii Make II in Favor Of Some
Woolen Goods.

Woolen Goods.
Ottawa. Ont. June s.-Hon. s. Field
ing. minister OF finance. In statement
In the house has announced that there
is not to be a general revision OF the
tariff until the next session OF parlia-
ment. In the meantime, ne said. a
few changes had been made. The
British preference on woolens has been
diminished by about per cent. which
gives that much additional protection
10 the Canadian manufacturer. I'm
portatlons OF stations and mares are
prohibited when valued under $50:
coal oil previosly cents per gallon
has been reduced 70 2h cents gallon.
and a bounty OF III cents a gallon
given on crude oil manufactured In
Canada and crude oil imported free.
A provision is to be inserted in the
canadian tariff TO impose special
duty on dumped" goods equal TO the
difference between the price at which
these goods are held for delivery in
Canada, and a fair market value in
the country of protection.