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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-20

Editor was assassinated while
ON his way to his office the other
day. No, this was not In Tonnes
see, but In Turkey.
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EXTRA SPECIAL BARGAINS IN
ROOMING HOUSES
THIS IS A FINE BUY

THIS IS A FINE BUY
60-room, steam heat, fine iocattoni
rent $50 month; 2 year lease; "a OF
the rooms are furnished with new
furniture balance unfurnished. Here
is a chance to get into a house fof
a person that has some furniture on
their hands. Price 1900. Terms
ma property.
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NEW BUNGALOW BARGAIN

5 rooms, full lots, graded street.
side s nd IN ess, OF evdsrytning . n
lights, large airy rooms with c1os-
let's and fine pantry; slash grain
finish concrete foundation. Bear In
mind 1t Is brand new and In hest
ION K st. Price only $1,000: 400
cash Don't delay
CURTIS 4 LINDLBY
NJ ISIS. so7 Bsrnics Bids
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Count Julian in "The World and
His Wife,"
Paul Handke of Chicago woke
to find that his wife no longer
loved him. That she loved anoth-
er man, Carl Wunderle, his friend.
Both are musicians in the Thomas
orchestra.
1t was the same situation that
Count Julian thought he faced in
the play. Handke's answer was
the same.
"If You love him, you must go
to him. The heart makes its own
avs, and human laws, nor conven-
lions, nor the happiness of others,
nor even the vows of matrimony
can hold you when the heart says
go. Go to him. / will help you
free yourself"
No dramatfcs, no angry cutlery,
no violence. Just acquiescence as
though to universal law.
Some people wondered at the ac-
ton of Handke. Yet in history a
number of men-and they include
some of the greatest names in art
and literature and politics-have
been broad enough to recognize
love as the supreme law of life.
The case of Ruskin, great Eng
lish writer, who gave up his wife
to John Millais, the painter, and
his dearest friend, Is well known.
Ruskin, big Drained, his head and
heart full of images of beauty and
power. was physically a weakling
and an invalid. He married be-
cause he needed someone to take
care of him.
With the coming of the painter
to Nhe Ruskin household, the
woman In Euphemia Gray woke
up and demanded it's own. Sud
denly she realized that life had
cheated her, and every instinct
cried out that 1t was wrong. Rus
kin, the secret confessed, made no
outcry. He allowed annulment
proceedings to blaze the trail to
his wife's happiness. What of
Loneliness and suffering this cost
him no one knew.
Robert Louis Stevenson was the
winning figure in an almost paral-
lei case. He, too, was an invalid
and unprepossessing. He met a
Mrs. Osbourne, woman married
to a man who didn't understand.
She was trying to express herself,
to fill the vacancy by painting por-
traits. She met the writer. They
fell violently in love.
This time 1t was Osbourne, the
American husband, who realized
that he couldn't hold the woman
he had won. He helped arrange
i the divorce and gave Mrs. Os-
bourne away. The new nuptials
were singularly happy.
In the life of Liszt, the must
clan, was another striking case,
(, When the Count d'Agoult found
that his wife was in love with the
tempestuous pianist, he was great
lily grieved. But he recognized
that love was a permanent obsta-
Gle 10 his own married happiness
and agreed to separation.
Lady Belbourne. wife of the
prime minister of England, became
infatuated with Lord Byron, who
though club-footed and ugly, had
a wonderful way with women. Thu
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HERE is A DANDY BUY
ONLY $500 CASH DOWN

10 rooms, best part of Il st, near
18th. Extra good furniture; rent
$40. Price, If sold this week, $7b0I
terms $500 cash.
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Al rooms, clearing SITS month";
rooms all furnished; good furnfturei
very fine location. The price is
this. rent only $125, with a 2-year
lease. Don't overlook this house. IL
is a good buy
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LOCK HERE!

yakima valley wheat and fruit
lands for sale on easy terms or ex-
change for city property, 2607 SIN
|ay., M. 1913; Res. M. 1873.
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II she loves him she must go
with him. II 1 send him away I
send her heart and soul with him
If what you say is true. There
would remain here with me merely
the empty form of a woman-who
shudders at my Approximations
lips will chill under mine-whose
arms deny response to my embrace
whose eyes, cold, pitiless, will
never shed a tear except for him,
her lOver-forced from her by a
husband, Jealous and disdained.-
Count Julian in 1.-THE World and
His Wife,"
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PACIFIC Av. BOOMING HOUSE
CHEAPEST RENT IN THE CITY
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SMALL FURNITURE, FINE LOCA-
TION; BEST PART OF e ST.

81 rooms, newly painted and pa
pered, extra good furniture; never
a vacant room in this house. For
the best of reasons owner will take
1880 for this place, on easy terms.
N. B.-If ever you expect to buy
rooming houses. buy now before
prices go up. We have several ex-
cellent buys just at present. NO
trouble to show houses. Oldest firm
in the city in this line.
n. H. GOODKIND CO.
31S-19 Bankers Trust Bldg
Main 4096, A3741
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Two Cracker Jacks

8 lots and 2-story modern house,
This will bear the closest examine.
ton and is priced for quick sale
and is the best buy we have had on
our list. Close to two car lines on
south side. Can make some terms
81, 400.
3 lots and Groom new house, that
cost $1,400 to build, and ground
worth $1,000 today. Price all fur
nished, new Majestic range, Singer
sewing machine, 8 bedroom suites.
sitting room and dining room iur-
niture. $4,000; without furniture
$4,000. Close to car line on East
Side. 90
are ideal homes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-11-30

a ONDON, Nov. 29.-Lord Morley's
powerful speech was the absorb
ing event of the budget debate
today in the house of lords.
The secretary of state for India di-
lated upon the Importance of the
struggle as viewed at home and
abroad and called attention to the fact
that foreign nations we're watching
anxiously the outcome of the conflict
to see whether there would be any
change in England's fiscal policy. He
quoted Burke to the effect that the
house of lords mao no right In any
sense to the disposition of the public
purse, and contended that if there was
one thing that could not be wisely
submitted to a referendum it was the
budget with all it's complexities. In
addition, "a referendum would weaken
what was most important to maintain,
a sense of responsibility in the house
of commons.
AS to the lords contention that their
action would arrest the wave of So.
cialism, he refused to believe that
British artisans were predatory or
anarchistic, but even granting that
misery existing in some classes had
produced movement akin to social
ism, it was hardly wise of the lords
to take up proposition exposing them
to the charge of straining of the con-
stitution as between the rich and the
poor.
Lord Moreley continued his speech
with an impressive warning that to-
morrow when the curtain fell upon an
empty house they would know that
the note had been sounded for an an
cry and perhaps a prolonged battle.
When the secretary resumed his seat,
the small minority of liberal peers
broke into enthusiastic cheers.
Many other peers spoke, including
Lord Rothschild and Lord James of
Hereford, nearly all in favor of Lands
downe's amendment The debate was
adjourned at midnight.
Although the result of the division
tomorrow is foregone conclusion, it
cannot be doubted that the house and
the country have been greatly i'm
pressed with the oratorical skill dis
played in the upper house and espe-
cially by the powerful arguments of
liberal peers against the course the
lords are pursuing. Evidence of this
is beginning to show itself in the con-
serVative press.
The Daily Telegraph which has
been firm advocate of the rejection
of the budget, makes the significant
admission that the moral of the bril-
liant debate is not that the house Of
lords should not be abolished or be
shorn of the power of veto, which is
essential to it's own existence, but
that it should be reconstructed so that
it's more distinguished members
should not be swamped in the lobbies
by the peers who have given proof OF
political character.
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REFORMS FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT
TO Be VERY SWEEPING IN CHARACTER
Secretary Meyer Will Deal Sharp Blow at BeaurOcraic In
competency and Will Put Navy on Business Basis
Limiting Power Of Bureau Chiefs

Then came the Lubee board, which
was asked to make recommendations
concerning the consolidation of the
bureau of steam engineering with
other bureaus, a step undertaken by
Secretary NeWberry. Finally Secre-
tary Meyer appointed the Swift board
to consider reports of the other boards
and to make recommendations for the
improvement of business methods of
the department With these reports
as basis, Secretary Meyer has
evolved his plan of reform.
The secretary found that the bu-
reaus of the department were inde-
pendent of one another and that he
must make all decision between them.
The aides are to advise him on these
points.
According to the Meyer plan, the
board of construction becomes use
less and, therefore, will be abolished.
Under the new plan the operating
branch, which deals directly with the
military use of the fleet, will origi-
nate military features of new con-
struction in consultation with the gen
eral board, of which the new aide for
operations will be member.
Other officers also will be called in
for advice and criticism, both before
and after the sketch plans have been
prepared by the technical bureaus.
These officers will be selected be-
cause of pronounced success in ord
nance, engineering or torpedo work.
The bureaus will be called upon fl
nally to prepare the actual plans and
will be responsible for their correct
ness.
With the growth of the business
of the department Secretary Meyer
found that duties similar to those of
the equipment bureau were performed
by the bureau of supplies and ac-
counts, construction and repair and
steam engineering.
At the navy yards Mr.. Meyer has
decided to divide the single manufac-
turing department established by Mr..
Newberry into two divisions one of
machinery and the other of hulls-
according to the general practice in
shipbuilding establishments in this
country and the naval departments of
England and Germany.
Inefficient work or performance, or
irregularity under the different bu-
reaus, Secretary Meyer found, has
been inspected casually by officers of
those bureausw reporting directly to
(CoVtinHed on Page FourD
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ADRLFT IN BOAT
PICKED UP BY RESCUERS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Fiye of
the members of the deck crew of the
gunboat Marietta, who were adrift in
a gig off Port Limon, Costa Rica, were
picked up by rescue party of the
Des Moines today according to dis
patch received at the navy depart
ment The men had made their way to
shore at Cocta Point. about 20 miles
from Port Limon. The gig was not
recovered
The five men adrift on the whale
boat CT the Marietta have not been
heard of. but it is thought their res
cue will be reported soon, as search
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amendment, says the amendment will
be defeated.
Early returns indicate a landslide
against the amendment and succeed
ing bulletins fully bore out the ear
lier indications.
Jefferson county, in which is Bir-
mingham, the largest city in the state,
in spite of the fact that the fight had
been concentrated here, gave a ma
jority of more than 1000 against the
amendment. Mobile, Montgomery and
Cullman counties show the largest
majorities of the victorious side and
apparently the amendment carried in
only three Talladega, Macon
and Sumter, with Lee in doubt
Today's election cannot be regarded
as straight anti-prohibition victory
because personal politics were in
jected into the issue. 1t was fight
in which Governor Conner and his al
lies attempted to name a successor for
the governorship in Judge N. S. Kley,
author of the prohibition bills, and
these matters have figured prominent
ly in the result
Rural precincts, small towns and
cities, for the most part returned sub
stantial majorities on the winning
side
A fact of especial interest in to-
days election was that it was the
first time in the history of the state
that an expression of the whole cleo
torate had been obtained on prohibit
ton
The statewide prohibition bill was
passed by legislature elected on a
local option platform
In Birmingham the election was the
most exciting ever witnessed here.
Hundreds of people crowded around
(Continued on Page FiveO
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Wanted for Very
Clever Murder
In Seattle

EATTLE, Wash, Nov 29.-The Chi
cago police department sent word
to the Seattle authorities today
that Charles Smith had been arrested
in that city in connection with the
murder of Hugh Mcmahon in this
city in November of last year.
Mcmahon, a bartender, was found
dead in front of his home at daylight
one morning with no mark of violence
on him and his clothes unruffled. The
police and physicians insisted that he
had fallen dead of organic heart
trouble.
Several days later it was learned
that money and jewelry had been
stolen from the body and an autopsy
revealed that Mcmahon had been gar
roted in the most skillful manner, his
pockets rifled and the body laid down
carefully.
Some months after the murder, Nc
Mahon'S watch and other jeWelry
were found in Spokane pawnshop
and the pawnbrokers identified Peter
Miller, highly educated and a Social
list lecturer, under arrest in Seattle
for burglary, as the person who had
pawned the articles. Miller, accord
ing to the Seattle police, admitted
having pawned the stuff, but he de-
clared he had obtained it from Charles
Smith and a man. named Rose, eX-
convicts known as bludgeon men, who
of
fense soon after the murder.
Miller on his trial for burglary, was
his own attorney and displayed re-
markable learning. He was convicted
and sentenced to five years in state s
prison, but his allegations of police
brutality, led to the calling of grand
jury which is investigating the city
and county governments.
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Floods Doing Damage
To Railroads of
Northwest

DELLINGHAM, Wash, Nov. 29-Two
lid steel railway and two wagon
bridges across the Nooksack river
have been carried away within the
last "a hours, entailing 100000 loss.
The Bellingham Bay and British Co
lumbia bridge at Everson is said to
be under mined and swaying. When
it goes out it will carry a wagon
bridge, $50 feet down the river. with
it. A jam is forming against the
Great Northern railway bridge at
Fernsdale. During the last "a hours
the rainfall has been 2.S7 inches.
Railway traffic is almost completely
blocked by slides and washouts. Bel
lingham has had but one train today
that from the south at noon. The
Northern Pacific and Bellingham Bay
and British Columbia roads are COM
pletely tied up. More than five miles
of the Northern Pacific track is under
water. The Skagit branch of the
Great Northern is out Of commission.
Eiinkiock and Hamilton are under
water and two miles of track are
gone. The Puget Sound & Baker
River railway tracks are washed out.
There is no hope that the Skagit river
dykes will hold. If they break. the
Great Northern main line With COW
cred and the whole Skagit delta will
be under water.
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WARRLNER DRAGGED MINING
COMPANY INTO INSOLVENCY

CINCINNATI, Nov 29.-Alleging
condition of virtual insolvency, Will
liam S. Kissinger today sued in the
Kenton county, Kentucky, circuit
court for the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Mutual Mining COM
pany, of which Charles L. Warriner,
former treasurer of the Big Four rail-
road, was secretary and treasurer.
Warriner has been chaged with en-
bezzling $643,000 from the Big Four
railroad.
Kissinger, who was president of the
Mutual Mining company, capitalized at
$50, 900. claims that Warriner recently
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T REENSVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 20
" After numbering his mother and
deputy sheriff who attempted
to arrest him and probably fatally in
iuring another woman and her hus-
band, Cloide Weaver, "a years of age,
committed suicide this afternoon.
Weaver was declared by physicians
to be afflicted with exaggerated ego
and was under suspended sentence by
the probate court.
At 2:30 p. M, the sheriff and a
deputy went to Weaver's house to ar
rest him. The appearance of the Of
ficers seemed to drive the man violent
ly insane. He opened fire upon them
from an upper window and Deputy
Sheriff Ferra fell wounded. A mo-
ment later Weaver's mother ran from
house, crying I'm shot" and fell dead
at the feet of the sheriff: While Sher-
iff Haber was trying to revive the
woman, Weaver walked from the
house carrying a revolver. He went
to a woodshed where Farra had crawl
ed and fired at the wounded man, kill
ing him. He then jumped into the
buggy in which the officers had come
to the house and drove to the home of
Levi Minnich, a neighbor, from whom
he demanded protection. When Min
mich hesitated to allow him to enter
the house, Weaver drew his revolver
and shot Minnich through the back.
Weaver then turned on Mrs Minnich
and shot her twice.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Heeding
wv the cry for reform in naval af-
fairs, Secretary Meyer on Wed
nesday will inaugurate the most
sweeping, changes in the navy depart
ment since the establishment of the
bureau system in 1912 Himself a
former director of banks and CONNER
cial establishments, he hopes to put
the navy on a business basis beyond
the dreams of his predecessors. The
keynote of his reforms is the subor-
dination OF the bureau chief.
Summarized, essential changes in
the Meyer plan are.
The selection of four responsible
advisers on subjects within the four
groups into which duties of the de-
for material, the aide for personnel,
the aide for opertions of the fleet, and
the aide for inspections.
The grouping of the bureaus into
two divisions of material and per-
sonnet, according to the nature of
their duties.
Inc Establishment OF ulNlSlOn OIL
operation for the fleet.
The establishment of modern eff
ficient cost-keeping system in the
navy department and at the navy
yards.
The separation of navy yard work
into two divisions of hulls and ma
chinery.
The abolition of the bureau of con-
struction.
The abolition of the bureau of
equipment.
Henceforth officers who fight the
ships are to have more influence in
the navy department.
Chosen men from among them are
to be the official eyes and ears of the
secretary. laden with full responsible
ity for their reports, but not his
hands.
The secretary will retain his ad-
ministrative and executive powers for
his own use, and that of the first
assistant.
All reforms go into effect Dec. z,
except that of the abolition of the
bureau of equipment. which congress
alone can do.
When Secretary Meyer assumed Of
flee he found some confusion in the
department and in the navy yard, due
to changes instituted by Secretary
Newberry few weeks before the
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Bishop GiOes Notice Of
Excon1n7unicdtion OF
Carrigan

hENVER, Colo, Nov. 29.-For the
first time since the inception of
the trouble between Bishop N. G.
MatZ and Father ]. P. Carrigan of
St. Patrick's church, which resulted in
the reading of formal letter of ex-
communication of Father Carrigan in
the churches of the diocese yesterday.
Bishop Matz today made public
statement.
The letter from me read in the
churches OF Denver yesterday does
not alter the status of Father Carri-
gan in any way" said Bishop Matz,
but it publicly informs the communi-
cants of the Catholic churches that
he is outside the pale.
"They have been able to make the
excuse that they had not been notified
and that all they knew they CLEANED
from the newspapers. But now they
know it from me and it is matter
for their own consciences."
In view of the difficulties between
Bishop Matz and Father Carrigan,
significance attaches to the mortgage
which has been given Mrs. Allen
O'Neill on ST. Patrick's church prop
erty Mrs. O'Neill is the sister cf
Father Carrigan, and from her he bor-
rowed $24,600 at per cent to pay off
the indebtedness of the new church
building.
The transaction ties up the property
even if Bishop Matz secures Judgment
at Rome against the priest.
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PREPARING
AMENDMENT
President Considering
Interstate Act
Reuision

4A1 ASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Following
wv lengthy conference at the
White house today it was an
nounced that the administration will
exert all its influence toward secur-
ing a comprehensive revision of the
interstate commerce law by the in
coming congress. A rough draft OF
the proposed amendment to this law
was submitted to the president by At
torney General Wickersham
The president has as his advisers
a number of prominent men in Off
cial life, and Frank B. Kellogg, trust
buster" of the department of justice,
and Secretaries Wilson and Dickinson,
also gave their views.
While the president has not yet
made his selection of the men in con-
Continued on Page Four)
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CHURCH TREASURER SHY.

PITTSBURG, Nov 29.-William c.
Lille, former treasurer of the Pitts
burg Presbyterian church, who dis
appeared on September 29, is short to
the amount of $21,034 in his church
accounts, according to a statement
given out today. The trustees would
not say whether or not they would
nrOsecute
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close of his administration. Steps
were taken to ascertain how far it
was desirable to follow reforms out
lined by Secretary Newberry. The
Sperry board was created to report
how the various conflicting oredrs
and regulations could be reconciliated.
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Exaggerated Ego Was
Cause Of a Tragedy
Kills Mother and an Officer and
After Shooting 7wo Neighbors
He Commits Suicide

A large posse quickly surrounded
the house and two deputy sheriffs
broke through the door They discov-
cred the body of Weaver under bed.
He had used his last bullet to blow
out his own brains.
The condition of Mr.. and Mrs. Min
mich is critical.
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BANK ROBBER SENTENCED.

MADISON, Wis, Nov 29.-George
Benton, 19 years of age, last week at
tempted to rob the Peoples Bank of
Masomanie, few miles from here,
was sentenced today to IA years in the
state reformatory.
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BOOKMAKER RELEASED.

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 29-Book-
maker Charles Brown, arrested with
Charles d. Martin, on a charge of vio-
lating the anti-gambling law on No
vember 27, by taking bet for 50 at
the Emeryville race track, was held
today by the superior court to answer
to the charge Bail was fixed at ST.
00O Martin was released on the
grounds of insufficient evidence.
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Alabamans Reject
Prohibition Mouen1ent
Personal Politics Injected Into Cam
paign Had Some Effect on Re-
suH---Much Disorder at Polls

I'D BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 29.-All
ID indications point to a majority
of between $4,000 and 10000 in
Alabama against the prohibition con-
stitutional amendment today.
Chairman ]. LIE Long, who has been
in charge of the fight against the