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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Special Correspondence.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-Her
mouth, throat and stomach were
burned, but the doctor said that
the bichloride of mercury she had
swallowed would not kill her.
The nurse said she might talk
a little. She smiled family with
the delight of knowing that. at
least, someone was kind to her.
She told a story that might be
true of any girl alone in Tacoma
or any other city.
Edith Thomas was forced to
choose between bichloride of mer-
curry and champagne; through her
burned lips she told the story.
81 left my mother, three broth
ers and a sister in Sherbrooke,
Canada" she said. II knew l
was pretty, but no one can say
wasn't sensible about 1t. Pretty
girls were wanted on the stage,
and i got place in a company
that came to our town.
tNew York was beautiful. 1
saw all the great, beautiful, bright
hotels and restaurants, and I did
mot understand they were not for
me. Everybody. seemed so smil-
ling and happy that 1 did not
lrealize that they wouldn't be will
Hing to help girl alone In New
York.
'T thought my fortune was
made. My family needs money
Iso badly that I felt sure I could
help them lots.
But the manager broke up our
company, and he didn't give me a
Icent. All / had was a little money
mamma gave me.
| 81 was such a little silly that
tdidn't know l was beaten, even
then. l saw all the beautiful
stage girls going into the cafes
and smiling and joking, and 1t
tseemed to me that in the midst of
such happiness there surely was a
place for me.
"But what I needed most to
help me was love and faith In me
and a kind word. But ! couldn' t
find a bit of kindness. There is a
price on all the love and kindness
and Friendship for lone girl in
thiss city.
II had only s8.e7. MY room
rent of So was due. / couldn't
eat very much with $1.67.
II knew that when finely dress
ed men spoke to me / could get
Jail | wanted to eat and drink with
them-mostly to drink, though,
which means champagne and the
easiest way But / hated them,
with their fine clothes, their
canes. their gloves and all their
fashions.
But / studied it all out. /
found out that the painted, tired
women / saw on the streets used
Ito laugh and drink in the fine,
great cafes, just as the girls are
doing here now.
"As soon as I learned this !
picked out my own easiest way
It's better than theirs.
"when you're young life looks
sweet and death looks terrible.
But / could not live painted
woman. To die that way is too
slow and terrible.
II had my choice between bi
chloride Of mercury and cham
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

Tacoma poolrooms are to be
thrown open to boys.
Only such youths as are black
listed like a drunkard by parents
will be prohibited from making
the pool rooms their hahgouts.
The blacklist for boys is not even
as effective as for drunkards, as
the parents will have to notify
every pool room in Sown person
|ally not to allow the boy to play.
This makes a farce OF the thing,
land 1t means simply that pool
rooms will all be wide open to
practically every boy in town.
Police records show that the
boy criminals of Tacoma are
|habitues of the pool rooms. There
they assemble, many of them
gamble on the game to see who
pays for it, smoke cigarets and
start on a training for future ap-
pearance in police court.
To open the pool rooms to all
boys will probably lead to many
acquisitions to the ranks of the
irresponsibles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Y Did Four Chamber Trustees Vote Against Annexation WHY

Chamber of Commerce trustees endorsed annex
alton and the membership will ratify the action at
la mass meeting Tuesday night but four trustees
voted against it.
| The practical unanimity of annexation sentiment
in every walk of life elsewhere has caused consid
cradle comment the action of these four in stand
ling against the door and refusing to open to the en-
lthusiastic knocking of the 10000 people who want
Ito come in and be one with u.s.
Why are these opposed to the Greater Tacoma7
Every improvement club in town that has dis
lcussed the matter has voted unanimously for an
|nexation; Union labor has declared with one voice
flor fellowship with the suburbs equal terms; at
the Commercial club meeting not voice was raised
against the great plan for expansion; all over the
lefty the Greater Tacoma movement seems to be
practically unanimous, yet here four among the
I''no'
The incident is not important. Annexation will
lgo ahead and will win, but the four piping ''no
votes shows that there is quiet opposition afoot
that will bear watching.
BUT WHY?
Have these four found some weghty argument
undiscovered by all the rest of the city indicating
that the growth of the city will be bad?
Are they animated by desire to protect Tacoma
from some awful catastrophe sure to follow becom-
ing large and great city?
OR ARE THEY SIMPLY PICAUNISH REAL
ESTATE OWNERS WITH ACREAGE OUTSIDE
ON WHICH THEY FEAR TAXES WILL BE
BOOSTED, OR HAVE THEY ACREAGE IN
SIDE WHICH THEY FEAR WILL NOT BE IN
DEMAND so MUCH IF THE OUTSIDE ACRE
AGE BECOMES AVAILABLE7
Manager Dimmock is opposed to annexation.
But that is question of nickels for Stone Web
ster. His motive is clear.
Is it compassion for the phianthropic Stone
Webster syndicate that moves the four trustees or
do they really great light denied to the vision
of the multitude?
When the Times started the annexation move
ment it rather expected to hear plants of woe
from some short-sighted realty owners who are
hanging onto vacant property in town like grim
death, while others build the city and make their
property valuable. This type is generally opposed
to opening new realms of opportunity while their
own purses still untitled, but there has been but
slight opposition even from this quarter.
The four trustees are puzzle.
BUT THE ANNEXATION GOES MERRILY
ALONG JUST THE SAME.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Polar Explorer to Defy
Barrill, Man Who De-
clared He Didn't
= Reach Top Of Mt.
Mckinley
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(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MISSOULA, Mont, Oct. as
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, explorer,
and Edwin N. Barrill, guide, are
to meet in a joint debate tonight
at Hamilton, Mont.
DR.. Cook is the Brooklyn ex-
plorer who in addition to claiming
that he was the original discov-
erer of the north pole, also de-
clares that he ascended to the
summit of Mount Mckinley, the
highest mountain in Alaska.
Barrill is one of the guides that
accompanied DR.. Cook on the
Notwithstanding expedition, and
he has made affidavit in which
he says that the Brooklyn explor-
er never reached nearer the sum-
NIT than fourteen miles, and that
the photographs of Barrill and the
Stars and Stripes purporting to be
taken on the summit were taken
on a lower level, perhaps IA
miles distant from the summit in
an air line.
Cook VIII Explain.
Or. Cook left Missoula early
this morning for Hamilton, where
he is to deliver a free lecture to-
night explaining in detail all the
hardships he endured in making
the record-breaking climb.
Barrill, who has promised to be
present, says that he will call the
explorers bluff" and tell the peo-
pie of Hamilton exactly what DR..
Cook did on the Mount Mckinley
expedition.
Barrill also has promised to
bring with him Printz, another
guide, who is said to have accom-
panied the Brooklyn explorer on
a part of the expedition, to cor
roborate his statements.
Full of Fight.
DR.. Cook is full of fight, and
says that he is anxious to face
his traducers.
In the meantime Hamilton is
all agog with excitement, and a
sensation is promised If Barrill
fulfills his promise of meeting DR..
Cook and repeating the charges
In his affidavit.
In his affidavit Barrill main
tains that he and DR.. Cook were
alone on the ascent, and the high
est point reached by the explorer
was IA miles distant from the
summit.
Publication of the affidavit
brought speedy word from DR..
Cook, who was in Philadelphia at
the time, that he had heard that
Guide Barrill had been offered
money for information about the
Mckinley trip. He asserted posi-
lively that he could prove the
ascent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
TWO DIE IN
INCfNDIARY
BLAZE
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(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Two
persons were burned to death and
fourteen others were seriously In
jured today In a fire of incendiary
origin, which destroyed two three
story tenement houses on East
Fifteenth street.
The dead:
Herman Tiedt, aged "a years.
Emma Tiedt, his wife, aged 27.
Those who are responsible for
the blaze made careful prepara-
tions to the end that the struc-
lures, filed with sleeping people,
would be burned.
Oil was poured over the floors
In the easements and lower floor
of one of the buildings and piles
of infiamable articles were piled
in back room where the fire was
started. The police are now
securing the vicinity for the gull
ty persons.
The loss will total $50, 900.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Cook to Meet
His Accuser in
Debate Tonight

l"I saw Cook and talked with him
both before and after he made
his try for the summit. He showed
me the instruments with which
he noted the altitude Of the
mountain at various points In the
ascent, and had complete record
of his observations.
II made entries in my diary of
all that DR.. Cook told me. That
diary is in my trunk in a Seattle
hotel now.
Cook inspired every man who
met him on that trip with con-
reached the top of Mckinley. and
think he did"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
STRANGE MAN KIDNAPS
THREE -YEAR-OLD CHILD
Leaves Her In a Roomingl
House Where She Is
Found After an ALI
Night Search by
the Police
OFFICERS NOW ON
TRAIL OF CAPTOR

The police are today looking
for a man named Arthur or AL
bert Evans to clear up the mys-
terry surrounding the disappear
ance of little 3-year-old Irene LII
Han Loddie, who left in his COM
pany from the home of her par
ents at the Dewey rooming house
South D and Thirteenth streets
at 6 o'clock last night, and was
not found until 1880 this morn
ing In a rooming house at Twen-
ty-first and Jefferson.
The child was found after an
all night search by the police,
Evans has disappeared, having
left the roomfng house at G
O o'clock this morning.
Evans started out to take the
child to a moving picture show
and promised to return immedf-
ately after the program. When
the pair failed to return by 10
o'clock last night, the parents be-
came alarmed and notified the
police.
Followed Child Home.
Evans first became acquainted
with the Loddies last Tuesday
afternoon after following the lit
tie girl to the house. and asking
the mothers permission to buy
her candy. After some hestta-
tion the mother permitted him to
take the child across the street to
a candy store. He returned i'm
mediately on that occasion.
Yesterday, he again came to
the house, and stating that he
was a foreman for the Tacoma
Gas company, promised A. L.
Loddie, father of the little grl,
who is at present unemployed, a
position as pipe layer in South
Tacoma. He said he could start
to work this morning. Evans
stayed at the house for a short
while, and then obtained permits
sion to take Lillian, for whom he
professed an especial Hiking, to
the moving picture show.
Case Shrouded I'm Mystery.
That was the last seen of him.
The child was found in the room
in the Jefferson street lodging
house, which he left early this
morning. According to Mr.. LODI
die the child had not been mis-
treated. Further than that,
neither Loddie nor his wife are
willing to say anything or help
clear the mystery.
Inquiries this morning show
that Evans never reached the
show house he had promised TO
take little Lillian to, and that his
story of being a foreman at the
Tacoma Gas company was only Il
fabrication to gain the Loddies'
confidence.
Evans was dressed in overalls
when he disappeared SO myster-
iously with the child, and wore
heavy logger's shoes. He is about
six feet tall. His description tai
lies with a we'll known character
that has been frequenting saloons
on Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth streets and Pacific avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
De LARA
GETS OUT
Of JAIL
Fight to Save Mexican
From Fate Of Martyr
Is Partially Successful
When He Is Released
on Bail.

(By United Press Leased Wire }
LOS ANGELES, CAL, Oct. 2S.
l.. GuiterreB De Lara, the
Mexican socialist, who is charged
with being an alien anarchist, was
released from the city Jail shortly
after moo ntoday on bail of sS,-
900.
Plot to Shoot Him.
According 30 the friends Of the
imprisoned Mexican his arrest
was direct result of activity on
the part of the Mexican govern
ment, of which De Lara was an
active opponent. They averred
that the charge was "trumped
up" for the purpose of railroad
ing De Lara across the boundary
into Mexico, where, they stated
he would be lined up against a
wall and shot.
Travelled I'm Disguise.
More than a year ago when
John Kenneth Turner, the author.
decided upon trip through Diaz
country, De Lara volunteered to
to accompany him and to assist
him In gathering material for the
expose of the frightful conditions
of peonage which are alleged to
exist In Yucatan and other SEC
tions of the republic.
His release today comes after a
persistent fight in this country to
prevent the government from
sending him back to Mexico,
where he would undoubtedly be
executed as a spy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
WHEN OUR GIRLS VOTE

Mrs. Emmelfne Pankhurst,
the great English suffragette
leader now in America, says
the following are among the
things which will happen
when American women vote:
Women will be treated
with greater courtesy by men.
Women will find their in
fluence over men increased,
because men will have to
consider them political
equals.
Many 'enslaved wives"
will hold their heads up In
defiance of brutal husbands.
Mothers will be better fit
ted to instruct their children
In patriotism and good gov
ernment.
A boy will be ashamed of
q mother who cannot an
swer his questions concern
ing politics.
We will have better laws
to government morals and
home life.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Fighting Suffragette Here Stirs
American Women to Action
Eastern Women Fired by Militant Attitude of Mrs
Parkhurst = Mrs. Sage Expected to Back Move
ment With Millions
Especial Correspondence

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-with
Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst, the fa-
nous London suffragette. here
addressing vast audiences. with
many fashionable New York and
Boston women enlisting in the
cause. and with Mrs. Russell
Sage announcing her intention of
basking her sisters with some of
her many millions, the American
woman's suffrage movement is
having big boom.
1t took Mrs. Pankhurst to nut
fire into the campaign. She is
the little. motherly woman of soft
voice and daring action who has
led 100000 Englishwomen in vio-
lent attacks upon parliament and
Prime Minister Asquith. She has
served Jail sentences, has starved
herself and has led wild demon
strations in London streets. She
says now that ali this was to show
Continued on Page Eighty
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WILd1TS, CAL, Oct. 2S.-J. D.
Barnwell OF this city today enter
ed upon his fortythird day of
fasting and he declared that he Is
not ready to stop yet.
Since Barnwe1l began to fast
he has lost fifty pounds, having
weighed ITO pounds when he be-
gan, while today he tipped the
scales at 100. He is seventy
years old.
The aged man began to starve
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
Aged Man Fasts 43 Days
and Loses 50 Pounds

himself with the view of getting
relief from stomach trouble.
which has AFFLICTED him for soma
time. After abstaining from food
for fourteen days, he attempted a
little soup, but found that ne
could not retain 1t. On the thir-
tieth day he tried a little voni-
SON juice. with a like result.
Barnwell dec1l-ss that he Is
feeling better and he asserts that
he win be well man when ne
breaks his fast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
sTARvEs; GOES INSANE.

Tony Casseti, an Italian, who
has been living with Felix ven-
ditti and his family at 1883 South
M street, was taken into custody
on suspicion of insanity by a
deputy sheriff this morning and
taken to the county jail.
Venditti states that up to about
two months ago Cassetti was per-
fecly sane. About month ago
he was suffering from rheuma-
tism an dthought he could cure
himself by starving. According
to Ven dltti, he refused to eat
anything but very little fruit
for SO days when he was reduced
to almost skeleton. Then he
began to eat again, and last Sat
urday became violent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

GREBNvIlLE, Miss, Oct. Is.
THE Oleander bearing President
Taft, passed this city at II
o'clock this morning and at the
rate the vessel is now travelling
will reach viclnsburg about o
Io'clock tonight.
The nine other vessels making
|up the feet bearing the congress-
men and senators to the water
way convention IN New Orleans
are stra ggltng behind
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

Sophia Stine was given a YER
dict of $4,000 against the city of
Puyallup by jury in the super
ior court today for personal tn
juries sustained last February
when she fell into an excavation
on a street which was being i'm
proved, because there was no
light to warn her of danger.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
'eeeseeessseesessseessssssss ;

The city councmen want to know what hit them any
way.
When they step out of tn cir jobs April
fellow Will have itle book
new charter which wipes them OF the political
Last night resolution adopted calling IN
clerk TO have 1000 copies OF the printed
these LOO are TO be bound In leather for eaoh
councilman and for city officials. the councmen will
have nothing to do with legsafing chnxter
and win be out OF their Jobs the document
becomes effective the object getting the special
them probably that each fellow might have souvenir Of
previous something refer to to show
, just where he got on.
Anyway every gets copy of the charter bound =
, leather. 9
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

( But the. council last night voted
to open the doors. The boys of
Tacoma have some dimes the pro-
|prietors of the pool rooms want
and the council ordered the city
attorney to prepare an ordinance
to let them in.
IT the people who have boys do
not want them to have the kind
of training and association they
get In the pool rooms 1t is up to
them to get busy. The pool
room men are not asleep and will
look to their interests.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

payne, and think took the best
the poison. I'm glad l didn't t
die. I'm going back home as soon
as I'm well, and I'll be happy to
be In a place where folks will love
you and be kind to you for moth
ing"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28
SAYS Cook Got There.

Los ANGELES, Calf, Oct. 2S.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook has a
warm supporter in the Mount Nc
Kinley controversy in o. e. King,
a miner from Nome, Alaska, who
is in Los Angeles today.
"At the time DR.. Cook claims
to have made his ascent of Mount
Mckinley, was prospecting on
the Susintia river" said King.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-28

No Kindness or Friendship or
Love for Her i'm a Great City
Unless She Pays the Price,
Says Edith Thomas, Stage
Struck Girl Who Took Poison
in New York.
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-10

by mail patrons, who are supposed to
keep the roads in good condition. In
many parts of the country the roads
are maintained and kept in fairly good
condition, but thousands of miles of
roadways traversed every day by the
carriers are wretched, and later in the
year will become next to impossible
We're it a matter of great expense or
effort to keep country roads in good
condition it might be something Of a
hardship to farmers, but the intelli-
gent use of the split-log drag has prac-
tically solved the problem Of country
road making and road maintenance
and people need to get busy in en-
ploying them on the highways. In
many parts Of the country, especially
in Iowa and Missouri, hundreds of
miles Of roads are kept in passable
condition the year around by means of
this cheap and inexpensive implement
When once a highway is placed in
good condition any farmer can keep up
one mile Of road the year around by
dragging it a few times a month after
rain has fallen, a work that will take
the time of a man and team less than
a half a day all told.-Denver Field
and Farm.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-10
Stable Ventilation.

Some years ago Prof. T. H King,
Of Wisconsin, made an experimental
study of the effect of ample and de-
Iioient ventilation upon twenty mich
cows. The experiment was made in
half-basement stable, represented in
accompanying figure having three out
side doors, thirteen large windows and
door leading by a stairway to the
floor above. The ceiling was nine feet
above the floor and the stable con
tanned $50 cubic feet Of space per cow.
Leading upward from the ceiling were
two hay chutes two by three feet in
cross sections, twenty feet high, which
could be opened or closed at will, and
a ventilating shaft terminating near
the ridge Of the roof inside.
During the trial the COWS were kept
continuously in the stable with the
hay chutes closed during two days and
then with them open two days, the
trials being repeated four times. Fol
lowing these four trials the hay chutes
were left closed during three consecu-
tive days for poor ventilation and left
open the following three, making four
teen days in all
1t was found that measurably the
same amount of feed was eaten under
both conditions OF ventilation. But
during the days of insufficient ven
tilation the COWS drank, on the aver
age, ia pounds more water each
day and yet lost in weight an aver
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-10
Sell Less Wheat Abroad,

The calendar year 1909 will show a
smaller expectation of wheat than any
year in the last decade, and an in
creased home consumption, both in
amount and per capita average, says
a report of the Bureau Of Statistics on
wheat production, expectation and con-
sumption of the United States.
The continued decline in exports Of
breadstuffs lends interest to the state
ment. The expectation of wheat for
the nine months ending with Septem-
Der amounted to only 27,76S,901 bush
els, against 6S,17S,935 bushels in the
same month of 1908; flour exports were
6,2SS,2S3 barrels, against 9,42S,347.
This reduction in exports of wheat
seems to be due to increased consump-
ton at home rather than at any de-
cline in production. The average an
hual production for the last FIVE years
has exceeded any earlier fve-year
period.