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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-30
LOCAL SINGERS
make A HIT

Local talent last night present
ed at the Tacoma theater the
"Chimes of Normandy" The
music was god and the audience
well pleased.
Miss Maud Handle as Germaine,
Miss Gertrude Rivers Geiger as
Serpolette, Tom Wilkinson as Gas
pard, j. Shannon as Grenicheux,
Oscar Thompson as the Marquise,
and Guy Llewellyn and John Nc
Cabe in the comedy roles all did
exceptionally well.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-30
YOUTH JAILED
FOR FORGERY

A young man giving his name
as A. M. Anderson was arrested
at O'Clock this morning while at
tempting to cash a worthless
check at the Atlas saloon. He
had secured $40 on similar
check at the Baltic saloon, and the
police were on the lookout for
him. The checks were made out
to A. M. Anderson and on blanks
of the Bank of California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-30
eOoIe TO Have Voice
III IdCOmd'S New
Government

Nv CT1NRrER COMMITTEES OUTLINES SYSTEM UNDER
WHICH CvTY WILL RULED BY CQNNfSSION-FIxIos DE
PAYMENTS AGREES THAT CITIZENS SHOULD AL
LOWED VOTE FRANCHISES
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
SHOOTS GIRL At
SMITH COLLEGE
Her Fiancs, After Killing Her, Blows
Out His Brains.

Northampton, Mass. Especially -
For the first time in the history of
Smith College. whose alumnae num-
Der thousands. and whose undergrad
yates have counted more than a
thousand a year for a decade past.
murder and suicide Mortified the col
Iege community when Helen Aver
Marden. of Somerville, Mass, a SEN
lor. was shot to death by her dis
carded f1ance, Porter McDougai
Smith, OF Chicago, graduated from
dartmouth In the class Of 1908, and
for many months a travelling sales
man. Smith engaged the girl in con-
Versation after he had met her near
one or the entrances to the college
campus, returned with her to the
college grounds and walked a short
distance to the broad pavement in
front of the students building.
He and the girl stood for a few
seconds and then there came the
muffied report of a pistol, for the
Snot was fired at very close range.
The young woman swayed with a
wound in the right temple and was
falling to the ground when another
shot was fired and the ball missed
her. She fell on her face on the
pavement, and as she lay there
Smith stood over her and drove a
bullet into her back. Men ran to
disarm him, but as they approached
he pressed the smoking muzzle OF
the new .32-caliber pistol with which
ne had fatally wounded the girl to
his left temple and blew out his
brains. He fell to the ground dead
his body lying within four feet of
that of his victim, who had lost con-
sciousness.
Dies In Two Hours.
Miss Marden lived until 11.3O
O'Clock, when she died. in the room
In the students building, into which
she was carried after the shooting.
Those who loved Helen Marden
most say that Smith was out of his
head and that he would not have
committed the deed had he been
himself Her sister, Louise Marden.
a member of the Smith Junior class,
says that she does not blame him
for what he did, for he could not
have known what 1t was he was do
Ing. Smiths own sister would make
no statement.
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OPINIONS OF THE RULING.

George r. Gather, counsel of the
Western Maryland, said: ''If
the reports of the decision of
the Supreme Court on the COM
modities clause are correct, the
coal-carrying business of the
Western Maryland will come
entirely within the law. The
Western Maryland acts merely
as a carrier"
Robert w. DeFOrest, counsel for
the roads in the commodities
case, said: Practically the
decision of the Supreme Court
is in favor of the railroads and
o. the public and against the At
torney General"
William S. Jenney, vice president
of the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna, said: THE decision
directly affects our company.
20 The Lackawanna will have to
divest itself of the legal own
ership of its coal properties and
form separate company to
take care Of them"
William S. Opdyke, counsel for
the Delaware and Hudson,
said: 'The Delaware and
Hudson sells it's coal in Penn
sylvania, and its status is not
affected blythe decision"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
BLACK HAND FIRES TENEMENT
Twenty Families In Dwelling in New York
to Which Torch Is Applied.

New York Especially Eight pei
sons, five of them children, were
burned to death and IA others were
injured, some of them fatally. in an
incendiary fire in a five-story tene-
ment house at 81 Spring Street. oc-
cupied by 20 Italian families. The
blaze followed demand by mem
bers of a so-called Black Hand So
ciety for the payment of $1,000
blackmal. 1t spread through the
building with startling rapidity, a.
the Railways were soaked with kero-
sense oil by the blackmailers.
Throw Babes Out Windows.
In panic which followed the
alaram the tenants fought their way
down the fire escapes or jumped from
the windows, while babies were
thrown from windows into the arms
of policemen on the sidewalks.
OF the injured, six of whom are
not expected to recover, three are
children.
Jacob Bruck, the proprietor Of a
grocery store on the main floor of
the building. received on April IS
a letter. reading:
1--WE demand $1,000 or death.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
Headache?

If it does, you should
try DR.. Miles Anti-Pain
Pills. Why not do so.
They will relieve the
pain in just a few min
utes. Ask your druggist
There are $4,000 druggists
in the U. S. Ask any of
them. A package of 25
doses costs % cents. One
tablet usually stops a
headache. They relieve
pain without leaving any
disagreeable after-effects
isn't that what you
want?
my son Frank Snyder has used
DR.. Miles AntiPain Pills for a long
time. He never had anything to
help him so much for headache. A
year ago he came home, and I was
down sick with such a dreadful nerv-
GUS headache He gave me one OF
the Anti-Pain Pills, and after while
L took another and was entirely re-
lIeved. 1 always keep them in the
house now, and gave many away to
others suffering with headache"
MRS. LOUISE LEWELLYN,
Powell. South Dakota.
Your druggist sells Or. Miles Anti
Pain Pills, and we authorize him to
return the price Of first package (onlyl
II Il fails to benefit you.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
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Bring it in Mott Street. Petrosino
Is dead, but the Black Hand lives.
BLACK Hand Society,"
On Monday Bruck received anoth-
er letter written in a similar strain
He turned both letters over to the
police.
Saturated With Kerosene.
The alarm was spread by the fir
ing of volley of revolver shots from
the windows of the burning building.
Policemen who responded burst in
the main door and found the hall
saturated with kerosene and blazing
fierceiy. Two half-emptied cans of
Kerosene were on the stirs.
The frightened, tenants fed to the
roof or thronged the fire escapes in
the rear, which were clogged with
distractions. Men and women were
lighting for. way down the escapes
when the police went up, aided them.
and entering the rooms brought out
several unconscious persons
In the scramble several tenants
were injured by falling from the
escapes, and the police had to club
the men to save the women and chill
dren. @.
The loss was about $4,000.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
THE NATURE OF SOIL FERTILITY
cent Discoveries Have Suggested the En-.
plOYm ent Of Novel Fertilizers

Recent discoveries in regard to
Ihe nature of soil fertility have sug-
gested the employment of various
novel fertilizers. Manganese has
peen applied with success, and now M.
Rigaux has published an account of
a series Of experiments, made in Bel
gium, in the employment of mag
nesia as fertilizer for cereals, po-
tatoes. beets and leguminous crops
The magnesia was applied in the
form of kainit, or Stassfurt potash
salt, which contains fourteen per
cent. of magnesium sulphate. Ri
gaux had previously proved that the
quantity of magnesia in arabic land
is smaller than is generally supposed,
tains less magnesia than the subsoil
Magnesia is found in plants in con-
siderable quantities, constituting, for
example, thirteen per cent. of the ash
OF wheat and eight per cent. of the
ash of oats. Hence, IL no magnetism
fertilizer is applied, repeated crop
ping must exhaust the magResia OF
the soil, to the detriment of succeed
ing crops. It appeared probable,
therefore, that the application of
,magnesia would produce beneficial
effect. This theoretical conclusion
was fully confirmed by the expert
,ments. The yield of sugar beets was
Increased by $500 pounds per acre,
and the percentage Of sugcr was not
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06

storm come tales of fearful loss OF
life and descriptions of whole towns
and villages completely wiped out.
The storm wave seems to have had
its origin in the North and swept
from the lake region South in irreg-
ular fashion.
The State of Tennessee was an
especially heavy sufferer. At 10
o'clock p. NJ. careful estimates in
dicate that at least so people were
killed in the Volunteer State alone,
while the loss in dollars and cents
will not fall short of million.
At Franklin and in HillsbOro there
was loss of life. The latter town is
said to be practically destroyed
while at Centerville and adjoining
villages the damage is reported very
heavy, both in lives and property.
Near Pulaski, in Giles County. the
death list reached IL and many were
injured.
In the vicinity of Chattanooga the
storm was felt at its worst. AS in
other parts of the State the tele-
phone and telegraph wires were
blown down and the movement Of
trains are greatly hampered. The
hurricane followed the Cumberland
Valley, wrecking small towns and de-
troying farmhouses.
At Ebenezer, IS houses were
blown down. At Knoxville the
greatest damage was from interfer-
ence with commerce.
At Charlestown the storm swerved
up the Hiawassee River from the
Tennessee Valley, destroying much
property. At Fayetteville three are
known to have perished.
At Cuba many houses we're blown
down and at Gilestown not even
shed was left standing. No fatalities
were reported from either place, but
information is very meager.
Memphis reports heavy loss from
towns within a radius of 100 miles
in three States.
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diminished. With grains, the in
crease varied from one-seventh to
one-fifth Of the total crop. On barley
magnesia had the peculiar effect of
diminishing the proportion of nitro
genous constituents. This property
is of advantage to brewers, who find
great difficulty in making beer Of
good keeping qualities from barley
rich in nitrogen. The crop of pota-
toes was increased from $1,000 to
$4,000 pounds per acre and was rem
dered immune to the attacks of the
Peronospora (mildew fungus), which
infested the part of the field on which
no kainit was used. Finally, the
yield of hay from natural meadow
land was increased from 5000 to T.
$50 pounds per acre.-Scientific
American.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
Castro on For Spain

Paris Especially .-Cipriano Castro.
the deposed president Of Venezuela.
left Paris suddenly for Santander.
spain, where he will await the ar
rival or his wife, who is returning
from tho West Indies on board the
steamer Gaudeioupe. Before his de-
parture Senior Castro confirmed the
statcment that he Intends bringing
q suit against the French govern.
meDt In connection with his forcfhl..
oXIlulElnll. from Tho IaIanL af IL.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
NEW SULTAN ENJOYING HIS POST
Subjects Accept First Chance to Get Good
Look At Him.

Constantinople Especially. = Meh-
med ", the new Sultan of Turkey,
clad in khaki uniform, and accom-
panied by a suite of half a dozen
officials of his household. drove
through Constantinople 10 and from
the Mosque of st. Sophia, where the
new sovereign prayed for nearly an
hour. The simplicity of this selam-
Xix was in strong contrast to the
pomp with which Abdul Hamid was
wont TO go and say his prayers, and
is taken as an evidence of the dem
ocratic tendencies of the new ruler.
Get Good Look At Him.
This was the first time the sub
jects of Mehmed V. have had a good
chance to look at him. They saw
a stout old gentleman who seemed
to be enjoying the occasion as much
as anyone in the immense holiday
crowd. His Majesty entered st.
Sophia through the Sultan's door.
This entrance had not been opened
in &c years, the last occasion being
when Abdul Hamid took. Rudolph
(the Crown Prince of Austria) to
che mosque
The moment the Sultan stepped
out of his carriage onto the red car
pet leading into the building a priest
in a black robe cut the throats of
two rams. and the sacrifcial blood
flowed almost to the feet of the new
ruler.
Prays For An Hour.
Mehmed V. prayed within the
mosque for nearly an hour, while the
Sheik-ul-Islam and a large number
of priests chanted the services.
Only a few other worshipers were
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

Ambassador Nabuco, of Brazil.
and Minister Arosemena, of Pana-
ma, have signed a treaty providing
for the settlement by arbitration of
disputes between the two countries.
Close watch is being maintained
by Washington officials on develop
ments in Northern Honduras, where
American business men are imperil-
ed at San Pedro.
Representative w. w. Griest, of
Pennsylvania, has introduced a bill
providing for the erection of a suit
able memorial to Robert Fulton.
Petroleum and its products have
been placed on the free list of the
Philippine tariff as reintroduced by
representative Payne.
The marine guards withdrawn
from the vessels of the Atlantic
fleet will be restored about June l q.
President Taft attended the cele-
bration in Alexandria, Va, of the
one hundred and twentieth anniver-
sary of George Washington's first in
auguration and the dedication of a
park TO his memory.
Next Wednesday the cavalcade of
army officers headed by Col. Robert
*. Evans, acting president of the
Army War College, will start on
their march over Virginia battle
fields.
Acting Secretary Oliver has ap-
proved a recommendation by the
Board of Engineers for a survey of
the Delaware River, with a view to
obtaining a channel 35 feet deep.
The Senate Finance Committee re-
ported its substitute for the maxi
mum and minimum provision of the
Payne Tariff Bill, practically revers-
ing the latter.
President Taft heard a further
protest from the shoe and leather
trade against the proposed restora-
tion by the Senate of a duty on hides.
Conditions in the interior of Mo-
rocco are bad, according to advices
which reached the State Department
from the legation at Tangier.
The Senate adjourned until Mon
day to afford the Finance Committee
an opportunity to complete it's work
on the Tariff Bill
The Senate Committee on Finance
heard protests from q large delega-
tion of tobacco men and cigarmakers.
Representative Hollingsworth, of
Ohio, prepared a resolution that
questions the propriety of the silver
service the State of Mississippi pro-
poses to give to the battleship Mis-
sissippi.
Dr. Wiley submitted to the Solici-
tor of the Department of Justice
some analyses to show how recti-
fiers are .palming Of: adulterations
for straight whisky.
John A. Benson, who was tried
for the alleged bribery of officials of
the government land office, was ac-
quilted.
The Attorney General has given
instructions to push the prosecution
OF Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma.
Secretary Meyer says that the bat
tleship fits long trip was not so
expensive after all.
The gross postal receipts for
March indicate an improvement In
business.
Appeal was received by the Red
Cross Society from Beirut, request
ing that funds he sent Sy cable, and
asking for authority to act as agents
OF the society for relief work in
Asia Minor.
Representative KinEAsd, of New
Jersey has introduced bill to per-
init subordinate posts of the Ameri-
can veterans of Foreign Service to
use the Krag-J Jorgcnseng rifles.
Contracts have been awarded by
The Isthmian Canal Commission APP
.toH<sn1tlnx IN value 81 900. coo for
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
ID Armenian Pastors Shot.

Marash. Asiatic Turkey Especially
The situation here has improved
and the missionaries and the city
are at ease. Many OF the surround
ing villages. however, are in ruins.
During the early days of the out
break % Armenian pastors who were
making their way to Adana TO at
tend a meeting of the district mis-
sionaries were killed by the Moslems
They had taken refuge in a church
during a storm. The tribesmen set
the building on fire and the pastor
were shot down as they came out OF
the door. Among them was Heg-
henian. who received his education
at Edinburgh and whose recent i'm
prisonment at Constantinople caused
the British Government to protest
to Turkey.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06

Atlanta, Ga. Especially. = An cpl
oemic of cyclones and tornadoes, the
like of which have not been known
Tor years, swept ahrough the South,
leaving in their wakes hundreds OF
dead and mangled bodies and the
cismantled wrecks of property worth
many millions.
An exact list of the dead and an
accurate estimate of the monetary
loss may not be compiled for days.
but from all along the path of the
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
$2.OOO.OOO Dot.

. Aiken. s.. C. Especially 1t was
said that before Count Colloredo-
Mannsfeld. Miss Nora Isehn's fiance.
left for Washington. papers were
signed guaranteeing him the trans
fer OF $2sOQQs00O to his name before
the marriage takes place In May
The fsellnsz will leave Aiken on Sat
'uFday- &cr New Rochelle, Count
Mannsfeld Will soon proceed FROM
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
AN EPIDEMIC OF CYCLONES
Villages Wiped Out in the South---The
Lake Region Is Also Storm-Swept.

Inc Middle West And The South Are
devastated BY A Fierce Storm
Ihat Swept Down From The
North, Breaking Up Into Many
small But Violent Cyclones On Its
Way To The Gulf-The State or
Iennessee Is An Especially Heavy
Sufierer-Death List Grows As
related Reports Arrive-StOrm
Still Raging And Heading South
east.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
TheoIogian Killed.

Chicago (SpeciaD = Rev. Hugh
Mcdonald Scott, professor Of ecclesi-
asticaI history at the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary. was killed here.
lie was crushed between two sur
face cars at State and Van Buren,
Streets. The. minister was confused
by, the storm and did not sea the
trap into which he stepped. He died
~ e. Il,ka,s IIoaalfn1l a short ffnnn
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Surely the Limit.

Some kinds of dishonesty are al
most unbelievable" say the PhiIoso-
pher of Folly. Cheating at solitaire
is a common form. But / know a
man who gives himself short change
at his own store"
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Grateful.

A patronizing young lord was seat
ed opposite the late James Mcneil
Whistler at a dinner one evening.
During a lull in the conversation he
adjusted his monocle and leaned for
ward toward the artist.
"Aw'y' know, Mr.. Whistler" he
drawled, 81 pahssed your house this
mawning."
"Thank you.r said Whistler, Quie1-
~. THANK YOU very much - every
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
Foredoomed,

Their is man in a miduand town
whose name Ia Burst. 1t is a misfort
une that would not have attracted
much attention II he had not called
his two children Annie May and Ern.
est Will.-Tit-B Bite.
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THE DEATH LIST.

This list is only partial and
oeiated reports announce further
loss Of life.
In Michigan, Wisconsin, Illi-
nols' Ohio and Pennsylvania
there were at least 25 additional
victims.
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Now that the chemical manufac
ture OF indigo has made the natural
product improbable. only 10 districts
In BURMA grow the indigo plant, saS
chiefly for local dyeinx purposes.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
The LAW IS VALID
BUT MAY Be EVADED
Commodities Clause Construed BY
United States Supreme Court.
REVERSES THE CIRCUIT COURT.

Circuit Court Decision BY Judge
Gray Is Reversed, Justice r. ID.
White Reading The Opinion
Roads Must Sell The Mined Prod
uct Before Carrying It The
Pennsylvania Is Not Affected
Practical Effect OF The Decision
-Harlan's Partial Dissent.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-05-06
Circumstances.

Circumstances: The man OF genius
creates them, the man of talent uses
them, the fool looks at them without
seeing them.-Charles Marcy.
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FATE.
CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
Effective Feb'y 24th. 1908.
"CHESAPFAKE LINE"


Effective Feb'y 24th, 1908.
"CHESAPFAKE LINE"
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS
COLUMBIA" AND AUGUSTA"
For OLD POINT COMFORT and NOR.
FOLK, VA.
Steamers leave Baltimore daily Tex
cept Sunday at 30 p. NJ and leave
Old Point Comfort at 90 A. NJ. and
Norfolk at 0O A. NJ. where connection
is made with the Rail Lines for all points
South.
YORK RIVER LINE"
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER
"ATLANTA'
For WEST POINT and RICHMOND,
VA
Steamer leaves Baltimore Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at p. M. and
arrive West Point ct As A. NJ, and Rich
mond at 90 A. M
Steamers call at Gloucester Point, Gle
ment's Clay Bank and Almonds.
STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE
FROM PIERS IS AND 10 LIGHT
STREET WHARF
Through Tickets T. all points may be
secured, baggage checked and state
rooms reserved from the City Ticket Of
fees, 10 +. Baltimore street, ARTHUR
w. ROBSON, Agent, 127 +. L>ltImore
street, or the General Offices, Light and
Lee streets, Baltimore, Md.
K e. FOSTER,
General Manager,
e. ]. CHISN,
General Er light Agent.
~. ~ McDANNEL
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admitted to the mosque and the Sui
tan was almost alone in the vast
interior. He was attended personal
ly by Field Marshal Ghazi Mouch-
tar ~.r1
Order Is Restored At Hadjin And
Adana.
Boston Especially A cable mes
sage announcing that order had been
restored at Hadjin and Adana, in
Asia Minor, was received from Rev.
w. w. Peet. treasurer OF the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions at Constantinople,
at the American Boards headQuar-
ters in this city.
According TO the dispatch, all the
missionaries and the mission prop
erty are safe.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-26

Interested in. In other words he
would make all of the temper
ance people Platform Demo-
Gratis"
Notw it hsta n ding ator
Scott's notion. there are some
people who think these things
should be divorced. that there is
not much in common between
the Democratic platform and tenn
perance Legislation. In any event,
senator Scott should realize that
everybody cannot be enthusiastic
about everything. Some people
are strong on local option. others
think the initiative and the ref--
rendum is all that is needed to
make this a political Utopia.
others believe that the direct pri-
mary will settle all our troubles
IN politics, and there are yet
others who think that the "pure"
Australian ballot, which makes
every body a crosser from top to
bottom, is the one thing needful
to bring about a reign of right
eousness.
But people are many-minded.
and some get excited about one
thing and some another. And it
is a good thing that it is so. For
it would be rather trying to have
everyone excited about every re-
form measure, at one and the
same time. Some of us would
take to the woods. Colorado
Springs Telegraph.