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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
Frank Ashby, colored, native of

Frank Ashby, colored, native OF
Alabama, occupation none, who
Just come to town from Chicago
by way of Pouland," did not sing
Nobody" as written by Alex
Rogers and set to music by Bevt.
A. Williams, for he sur was too
much occupied chewin' gum yes
tuh'day aftah'noon in police court
and Ashby amsur no such kind OF
man what Is occupied doin' two
things bofe at once.
No, sub. But when court was
over, Clerk Hackett hummed 1t,
Constable Fred Shaw whistled it,
and Captain of Police Read wish
ed h ewas thirty years younger.
for the "Cap" would have given
anything to shuttle his feet a lit.
tie to that Nobody" tune.
81 amt done nothin' to no.
body" was Ashby's story, told to
Judge Arntson yesterday after
noon, in answer TO a charge of
vagrancy preferred against him
ny OhGCl patCoAtI. i WASH
in town mo n a dozen or fo'teeu
hours. when this heah officer ar
rests me-"
Falconer had previously testi-
fed that Ashby could give no sat
isfactory account of himself, and
had stated he had just come from
Chicago, via Portland, when IN
fact he had In his possession let
ters addressed to him In Seattle
several months back.
"Y' see, yo' honor" explained
Ashby. 81 no mo- gets in a town
befo' gets arrested. So / tells
that story to the officers, cause
that am as good as any"
"But 1t got you into trouble
this time," said the Judge. at
you had told q straight story,
maybe the officer would not have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
Testimony in Kvalshaug
Trial Begins Monday

Journment until Monday morning,
but Judge Easterday ordered an
adjournment of court before Lof-
gren was passed for cause by both
sides.
Both state and defense state
that the jury is satisfactory to
them, provided Lofgren qualities,
and it is probable that the jury
may be secured and the taking Of
testimony begun Monday morn
ing.
The jury as it now stands Is as
Follows: Louis Nelson, j. w.
Beckett, Gabriel Lofgren, ]. T.
Willis, Samuel A. Andrews, w.
D. Askren, A. S. Raudebaugh.
Chet Hudson, A. R.Buynney, T..
}. Weeks, F. w. McKeehan and
w. M. Brooks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
WHOLE NAVY
Is SUNK

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 6.
The gunboat Tatumbla. CON-
prising the entire Honduran navy
was sunk near Port Cortez after
a desperate fight with smugglers,
according to passengers arriving
today on the steamer Paramins
from British Honduras.
Captain Ziella, commanding the
Tatumbla, encountered a stranger
coasting steamship and, upon be-
ing convinced that 1t was operat.
ed by smugglers, demanded its
surrender.
The smugfglers offered little re-
sistance.
Afte rdinner, the willy SNUG
glers captured their captors, and
after binding them set them adrifl
In small boats.
Then the smugslers boarded
the man-of-war and scutt1ed her
The Tatumbla later was met BY
the fruit steamer Harold, which
towed her toward shore, but sh;
sank before shallow water could
be reached.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
Annexation
Election
Is Set

The residents of the Fern Hill
territory, which is proposed to be
annexed to Tacoma, will vote on
the question on December 7.
The county commissioners to-
day set that date for holding the
election. No one appeared before
tie board to protest against hold
ing the election, although a num-
rer were present to talk in behalf
OF It.
The territory to be voted on in
his election is separate from the
main body of territory and will
be acted upon without any connec-
ton with the other sections.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
Weekly Suppressed.

Stating that he would discon-
tinue the printing of his weekly
paper If the action against him
would be dismissed, s. T. Todd,
who was arrested Thursday on a
warrant sworn to by Charles
Drury, charging him with circu-
lating obscene literature, appear
ed before the prosecuting attorney
this morning and asked that the
charge against him be dismissed.
Judge McMurray was inclined
to be 1enient with him and agreed
that the case would be dropped
A warrant which was issued to be
served upon a certain news dealer
for selling copies of the publica-
ton win not be enforced and 1t
appears that the entire matter
will be dropped.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
WATER TEARS BIC
HOLES IN THE
STREET

Lots of waterpower weat. 70
waste in the recent food that Wis
ited Tacoma. Not only did the
power go to waste but 1t played
havoc with Old Town streets.
Commissioner McGregor was
out investigating this morning
and he found the hill streets lead
ing down to Old Town all washed
out. Citizens had placed planks
at the cross alleys and these made
a fine dam over which the water
poured in great rivers and dug
out tremendous pits on the lower
side.
There are holes four feet deep
there in the streets and the peo-
Pile are now demanding that the
city fix them. They ought to do
1t themselves for they caused the
trouble with their .planks," said
McGregor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
FIFTY CONV|CTS
BEATEN To
DEATH
PROBE IN TEXAS DEVELOPS
EVIDENCE THAT PRISONERS
HAVE BEEN LASHED LIKE
BRUTES IN PENITENTIARY.

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
GALVESTON, Tex, Nov. e.
That more than fifty convicts in
the Texas state penal institutions
and farms have been killed by in.
human treatment and beatings
during the last three years, is the
startling revelation brought about
by the recently appointed legisla.
tive investigating committee.
After begging piteously to es-
cape appearing before the board
a long-term prisoner declared thai
he had witnessed three whip.
pings in the prison that had re.
suited, within few days, in the
deaths of the victims.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
JURY is PRACTICALLY COM,
PLETED TO TRY WOMAN
FOR MURDER.

Attorneys for Mrs. Martina
kvalshaug, whose trial for the
murder of her husband is going
on in the superior court, this
morning waived their right to
challenge any of the twelve jurors
in the box at that time and stated
that the jury was satisfactory to
the defense as it stood.
The state, however, challenged
George Lindsay and in his place
Gabriel Lofgren was called. The
proceedings went on until 1
O'Clock as the attorneys hoped to
secure the jury finally before ad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06

arrested you"
That's all right, judge" an
swered Ashby in an apparent ef-
fort to en- dthe session, for he was
visibly beginning to be bored
That's all right" busaly chewing
his ancient gum the while, II
knows all about that, and Use
willin' to stay my sentence in jail.
Use had that experience befo', yo'
honor, l sur done had 1t. 1 done
nothin' no time, but l gets in jail
every time in every town 1 Is"
Judge Arntson gave him thirty
days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
.W0LGAST TO
FIGHT POWELL

(By united Press Leased Wire. !
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. Sid
Hester, matchmaker for the Mis-
sion club, received telegraphic
assurance today from Ad wolgast
that he would be on hand within
a few days to start training for
his fight with Lew Powell on
Nov. %.
This refutes the story that VOL
CAST had agreed to fight Henri
Piet. the French champion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
WITNESS IS CONFUSED BY
RED WIDOWS QUESTIONS
Acting as Her Own Attor-
ney, Nine. Steinheil
Shows Skill-Evidence
Favors Her.
REI &.4-

PARIS, Nov. 6.-Madame Mar
guerite Steinheil, "the red wild
ow," whose trial for the murder
of her artist husband and step
mother. Madame Japy, is occupy
ing the attention of the world, Is
passing through the crisis today.
Eighty-seven witnesses sum-
moned by the prosecution are en-
deavordng to prove to the jury
that this woman, single-handed,
Is responsible for the murders and
every accusation being made
against her is seized by the court
as a further opportunity for bull
doing.
Bears Up Wonderfully.
Through 1t AN Madame Stein
he'll is bearing up wonderfully
well. She is being called upon
by the bearded prosecutors to ex-
plain every trivial incident that is
brought out in the testimony of
the witnesses.
She is doing it, too, in a man
ner that is winning the sympathy
of the entire court assemblage.
The spectators are indignant at
the bullying tactics assumed by
the prosecutors and frequently a
buzz of disapproval sweeps over
the audience.
Madame Steinheil is able to
sway the spectators at will.
When madame weeps, and 1t is
frequently, the spectators weep
with her. When she smiles, they
smile. too.
Even the prosecutors are aghast
at times at the manner in which
she withstands their sneers and
jeers. They are helpless in their
attempt to break down her testi-
mony.
Found Her Tightly Bound.
She won another victory today
when Remey Couillard. her hus-
bands valet, testified regarding
the finding of the woman tightly
bound, indicating that she could
not have done it herself.
Madame's attorney promptly
produced Couillard's written
statement made Immediately
after the tragedy, showing that
he swore that the "red widow
was tightly bound and in a posi-
tion that she could not possibly
have gotten into herself.
Makes Good Lawyer.
Madame Ste1nheil would have
made an excellent lawyer. Before
Couillard left the stand she took
a hand in the cross-examination,
and before she had finished with
the witness he was stammering
his replies and badly confused.
After Couillard left the stand,
the deposition of NJ. Lecoq, who
now is in America. was read to
the jury. 1t corroborated Couil-
lard's original statement that
Madame was tightly bound when
he went into the room.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
NEW WATER MAIN
FOR DEMPSEY MILL

A new water main with a Joint
that can be broken will be laid
over the Lincoln avenue bridge
across the Puyallup river to fur
nish water to the Dempsey. mill
until the old madn under the
river can be repaired.
Commissioner McGregor says
the old main cannot be fixed un-
III the river recedes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
|sAN IA FE To BUY
| STEAMER LINE

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad is to purchase the Allan
tic Gulf and West Indies steam
ship line, according to a rumor
that is current on Wall street to-
day. The steamship line was or
ganized by Charles w. Morse.
Financiers here agree that the
contemplated purchase is intend
ed as blow to the Southern Pa
cific, as the purchase of the lines
would permit the Santa Fe to
dominate the shipments of South
ern California fruits to New
York.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
TAXPAYER CALLS ON me-
AND METTLER' To HALT
N. I. Moulton Sends Let
ter to County Commis-
sioners, Calling Atten-
tion to Rock Crusher
Deficit, and Asking a
Few Questions.

In three months the county
commissioners have illegally spent
$68,321.40, according to a letter
of protest sent to the board by
N. /. Moulton, citizen and tax
payer. All public works amount
ing to over $50 Moulton declares
must be done by contract under
the law, but me and Mettler,"
In defiance of the statute, 1t is
declared, have been going right
ahead building roads by day labor
and putting their political friends
at work in manner that is bank
rupting the exchequer.
Rock Crusher Loses Money.
The rock crusher plant, too, is
sal dto be making good jobs for
| political favorites, but Is not pro-
ducing much in a saving to the
taxpayers. Moulton declares 1t
has been run at deficit of over
$4,100 already over what the
crushed rock could have been
bought for outright. According
| to his figures the commissio
are paving more than So for
every dollars worth of work
done.
Moulton has some more facts
and figures up his sleeve, he in
| Inmates, and promises to furnish
affidavits from contractors show
ing they would have taken the
work done by the commissioners
for much less than the county has
paid.
Moulton says the county has
produced but 1000 yards of
crushed rock with It's crusher
plant at a cost of $7,1S2.76,
which is over SO a yard, and he
says that the rock is only worth
1880 a yard in the market. His
letter follows:
Tacoma. Wn., Oct. 90, 'os.
Board County Commissioners,
Pierce County, Wash:
Upon slight investigation I find
you have done work by the day
since July 31st, '09, to and inclu-
lssze of October 9Th, '09, amount
Iing to $6S.S21.40. And as the
law requires all work exceeding
lin. the amount of $50 be let by
tcontract you must see at once
lyon have grossly neglected your
sworn duty, and as a taxpayer |
most emphatically protest upon
the continuance of this policy,
more especially as the road and
bridge fund is in debt about
l$120,000 at the present time.
| l also wish to call your particu-
lar attention to the condition of
the expense and revenue of the
county rock erusher during tn
same period:
August 41O,300 lbs; September.
l2,441, 600 lbs; October 16, 81
10,400 lbs; rip rap, 136,20n
lbs; total, 5,99S,5OO; 2,999 tons;
1000 yards.
1000 yards rocks, $3.50 per
yard, by county, $4,000.
Expenses during same time rs
per county auditor; $7,1S2.76.
Defcitt $4,1S276.
i This must be gross carelessness
Ito say the least, for there is no
account tahen of the use of the
machinery or any interest on cost
of same charged against the ac-
count.
My next communication will in
all probability show by affidavits
what contractors would build
some of the roads for that have
been built by you.
| l think you should call halt
l am, your very truly,
N. I. MOULTON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
EARTH TO PASS
THROUGH TAIL
OF COMET
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. g.
According to Director Pickering
of the Harvard university obser-
vatory, the earth will pass direct
ly through the tail of Halley's
comet May Is. when the comet
will cross the face OF the sun.
Professor Pickering said:
The tadfNof the comet is made
up of gasses--acetyiene, carbonic
and a number OF others. The
gasses will be rarified to such an
extent that we shall not perceive
them. In case the gasses were
APPARENT to the people the result
would be very disagreeable."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
GIu.FPnRT. Miss Nov.

GULFPORT, Miss, Nov. 6.
THE $1,000,0U0 donated
by John D. Rockefeller will
buy enough medicine to kill
all the hook worms in the
world, according to DR.. H. H.
West, who says that he has
cured many cases.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
ROOSEVELT 7 IN
-..
SPLENDID
HEALTH
~ - -
Alarming Rumor of Ex-
Presidents Death is
Dispelled - The United
Press Gets in Touch
With Big Fl u n t e RS
Camp.
(By staff Correspondent of the
United Press.)

NAIROBI, Nov. 6.-Colonel
Roosevelt and all members of the
party are in good health. There
is no ground whatever for the
rumor of the colonel's death.
Roosevelt today is beating the
brush in Eldame ravine where he
is hunting for bongo a rare spe-
cimen of African antelope.
Today 1 got into communica-
tion with one of the runners with
Roosevelt's party.
THE rhino get Bwana Tumbo! "
grinned a black hero worshipper.
"Bwana Tumbo get rhino quick
err"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
Reported SerinnsIy Ill.

PARIS, Nov. 6.-The Rome
correspondent of the Temps to-
day declares that Colonel Roose-
Welt is gravely Ill at his camp
near Nairobd and says that Mrs.
Roosevelt is hastily preparing to
go to British East Africa.
Her agitation, it is stated. Is
not caused by yesterdays rumors.
but by private information that
he has fallen victim to a fever.
The American embassy discredits
the report.
Little weight is given the
Temps dispatch here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06
HE NEVER DONE NOTH|N FOR NOBODY AND
NOBODY NEVER DONE NOTH|N FOR HIM

II amt never done nothin' to no-bo-day,
amt never got nOthin' from nobody 10 time,
And until get somethin from somebody sometime
II don't intend to do ncthin' nobody no time"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-06

TOXIC, Nov. 6.-The rumor.
that ex-President Roosevelt was
killed In the African jungles caus.
ed tremendous excitement here.
The newspapers in all parts of the
country issued extras. The, re-
port tended to excite the Jap
anese, who are still Ia nervous
state following the ekcent tragedy
when Prince Ito was shot down
by an assassin. -eEs
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-01
Recent Observation Important In Connection With the
Discovery Of Absence of Water Vapor
Ru ROSE o,HALLoRAN

own globe give only slight indications
of regularity of outline.
As telescope observers well know,
nights of exceptional atmospheric
cIearness combined with steadiness are
rare and probably on only such nights
can the intersecting lines be discerned-
The writer has observed Mars through
the Lick telescope several times dur
ing favorable oppositions. but though
the snowy poles. the Hourglass sea and
other tracts were readily identified. not
a trace OF the canals was detected In
spite of an ardent desire to greet them
usually.
On October Is an observation was
taken through the SO inch refractor
when the planet was not too far from
the meridian. and the whiteness round
the south pole. now exposed to sun
light for many months continually. had
waned to dimensions unexpectedly
small when compared to the unyielding
tracts confronted by Cook and Peary.
The Martian explorer, if he exists. can
sail to the edge of his frozen south
and study it with a field glass inde-
pendently of dogs and sledges. AS
water is not the only substance capable
of being CONCEALED by cold. it can not
be stated positively that the white
pole of Mars is snowy pole. Below it.
about third OF the diameter of the
disk, an irregular blue tract extended
across from the limb to the center This
was readily Identified from Schiapa-
relli's map as Mare Cimmerfum, and in
line toward the opposite limb. seem
ingly on the left hand side-for the
view was. of course. inverted-the Lake
of the Sun was family .discernibIe.
What seemed the lower half. a tract
1000 miles long and 1000 wide, was at.
tentively examined for some time. but
not trace of a canal could be seen.
On the map. conspicuously athwart it.
run the sizeable canals known as Titan
Eumenides and Tsrtarus, but the at
proof.
The courtesy of the director and his
assistants made the visit day OF
pleasure to be long remembered, bu3
their notable efficiency could not sway
the inexorable fluctuations OF the up-I
per air.
1t will be Is years before Mars ap@
proaches so near the earth as it has,
been within the last two months. ana
no doubt some scientific advances havss
been made, but perhaps nothing OF
more Importance than the recent spec+
troscoplc observation at Mount whit4
ney. which. under most favorable condi4
tions. was unable to detect any wats4
vapor in the spectrum of the Martisnl
globe.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-01
Tre Of the
"LeSSer Breed'

low what Kpng called "the lesser breed without
the law according the Engshmans theory takes Illus
traton the argument put forward support OF Lord
Kchener appointment be vceroy OF India 1t urged that
he big OF imposing stature and distant OF the
the natives with of his superiority Lord
Curzon the Office attributed to like qualities
reinforced by imperial pomp and circumstance that he main
tanned Europeans inclined to rdicue his aectaon OF royal
dignity and observance appears have reduced the native
mind condition of ubecon least
for authority On the other hand Lord Mnto whose democratic
made him such avoe i'll Canada, seriously lowered
himself the Hindu estimation by walking polo field to
shake hands with native prince whereas he had followed the
established regal etiquette he would have aide de
to summon the petty potentate to audience.
Barbour Lahrop who used to be in San
Francisco and since turned globe tells story of
Prosper Merrimee the French author in India You English
men, said NJ Merrme know how the natives far better
than do You say them, Look you damn niger
God. Get your knees but slap them
the back and say, Lbee equae fraernite Your plan
is right.
There conflict of PHILOSOPHERS This theory does not fit with
the the English Puritan who said the caffod
Il will believe that providence has sent few into
the world ready booted and purred and millions ready sadd
and bridled to be ridden
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-01

Two hundred and fifty years ago,
when the telescope had been al
ready half century in use, Huy-
ghens, one of the few skilled observers
of that day. gave some attention 10 the
surface of Mars, for its sunlit hue was
seen to be noticeably diversified with
whitish and grayish markings Fol-
lowing the lead of earthly conditions,
oceans. continents and snowy poles
were regarded as features of the red
dish orb AS Huyghens was the IN
ventor of the pendulum and interested
in clock making 1t is not surprising
that a tapering tract on the planet was
named the Hourglass sea, from its re-
semblance to device then much in use
for the measurement of time. Very
ftly it furnished distinct mark by
which the rotation period was. ascer-
tained; and this important discovery
was afterward confirmed by Cassini,
director of the Paris observatory.
Triangular in form. it points north
ward. is the most conspicuous outline
visible and in course of time received
the names of Dawes ocean, Kaiser sea
and lastly Syrtis Major. Thus, it's
fiuidity seemed to be internationally
established. 1t is strange that the Mar
tian canal system, subject of world
wide distrust. should eventually be the
means of disproving this accepted be-
lief. Across its greenish gray surface
light and dark streaks were discerned
in later years, which were. of course,
Incompatible with the theory of its
watery nature. An aqueous surface
can retain no enduring streaks. These
discoveries were made as early as 1852
by Lockyer. and later by Pickering and
Schaeberle in 1924.
The marked difference of opinion that
the canal or water course system
evoked has clouded the subject in the
the multiplicity of the fntersecting
lines that are in dispute as well as their
true nature. AS early as the beginning
of the nineteenth century Schroeder de-
tected some linear features and Schia-
parellis startling announcement in
1877 of numerous fntersecting lines was
confirmed by the observation of a few
streaks by Burton and Dreger in 1879,
and more effectively by Perratin, with
the 29 inch refractor of Nice. in 1856.
The added testimony of the observers
at Flagstaff. Ariz., where the climate
is exceptional, encouraged the view
that the intersecting lines are not only
watercourses, but of artificial construc-
tion and are evidence of intelligent de-
sign. However. when we consider the
veins OF leaf 1T is not necessary to
explanation of the evenness of the lines
on Mars. though the features of our
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-01
Medical Advertising

In future no licensed medical practi-
toner will be permitted to advertise in
Japan details of methods of medical
treatment or the history or success of
such methods. Doctors and dentists
connected with hospitals or engaging
in general practice will not be allowed
to advertise any information beyond
that indicating their degrees and spe-
cislties. In this respect the ordinance
approximates perhaps more to the
American idea of what is legitimate.
for it is quite common to find in trans
atlantic journals small rectangular
spaces containing the name. address
and telephone number of some practi-
tioner, with an indication Of the branch
or branches of work in which he claims
to he especially adept and instructed
Dundee Advertiser.