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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

needed a lot of fixing, and 1t was
only after an extra supply of wood
and filling all the buckets with
water that he was sallowed the
afternoon off to go to town.
From Fowler, the family moved
to Muncie, Ind, and there the OPP
portunities for throwing the ball
around came easier. In Dallas,
Texas. where the Johnsons next
moved, Ote joined an amateur
team, but was discovered by an
eagle-eyed manager who placed
him on the professional team of
that town for try-out. He made
good, and stuck with the Texas
outfit for three years, when he
Joined the Little Rock, Ark,
team in 1904. Two years sshe
stayed with them and then jour
neyed to Charleston, S. c.. where
he held down the third sack until
1907, when he was gobbled by
McCreedie, manager of the sPort-
land club. He has beenie with
Portland ever since. 3ss1ai
Stallings of the New York
Americans has had his eye on the
terrible Swede for some eetime,
and thought enough of him to
slip three thousand good hard,
silver dollars into the reluctant
paw of McCreedie.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
TODAYS SPORTING NEWS
TIGERS PLAY
AT SPOKANE
TODAY

Tacoma plays a double-header
with Spokane on the lot of the
enemy today. Spokane is making
a desperate effort to get start
with the hope of overtaking Seat
tile, which hope seems very remote
now, for Seattle walloped Aiber-
deem seven straight last week,
while Spokane got trimmed pref
ty well at Portland, so the distance
was widened between them.
The Indians win not give up,
however, and so Tacoma will have
battle on. In the meantime Ia
coma is straining every nerve to
get out of the cellar. She is
only three games behind Vancou-
yer now and the Canucks have
gone to pieces. Cliff Blankenship
is expected to join the team at
Spokane and he ought to strength
en- 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. e.
Going, going, gone at $4,000 to
Che New York Americans-and
the Pacific Coast league has lost
another cracker-jack ball tosser.
Ote Johnson, the Viking third
baseman of the Portland Beavers,
is the gentleman under discussion,
and natives of the Webfoot city
are mourning his loss.
Johnson is a short, stocky fell
low who covers the difficult cor
ner with speed and precision sec
ond only to Rollie Zeider, who
has been sold to the White Sox.
He has very bad habit of TAX
ing a healthy clout at the ball at
a critical moment and then step
ping aside to allow the opposing
team to gather up the scattered
fragments of game he has bro
ken up. 1t is this habit that has
endeared him to the Pacific Coast
fans and will doubtless have the
same effect on the bugs of the
Eastern circuit.
Ote began playing ball in the
town lot of his native village,
Fowler, Indiana. Instead of work
ing at baseball, in those days he
had to work in order to play base
ball. Ote's father had healthy
farm outside of town that always
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
BY ellison Gardner.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. g..
widening circles of the
Alaska coal land fraud cases bid
fair to include former Secretary
of the Interior Garfield.
AS the case stands now, a rec
ord has been demanded by Presi-
dent Taft, and such record
would include. all the proceed
ings during the Roosevelt-Garfield
administration as well as under
the Ballinger administration.
1t can be positively stated that
Garfield considered the cases alb
solutely closed so far as the claim
ants were concerned, and he was
merely proceeding in the cases in
order to have a final finding
made that would clear the title
of the coal fields so that they
might be open to legitimate entry.
Tht the Alaska coal cases were
understood by Garfield's subordi-
mates is shown in a report pre-
pared by Assistant Commissioner
of the General Land Office
Schwartz, and presented by
Schwartz to a select committee
of the house of representatives on
Jan. 80, 1909.
In that report, and referring
to the same claims now under dis
pute, Schwartz said:
Investigation has shown that
the most valuable coal deposits
in Alaska have been cornered by
claims; and 1t has been proven
that hundreds of these claims
were located by prospectors in
the employ of wealthy speculat-
ors. In other instances
men had entered into contracts
to pool their issues and form a
corporation. This was illegal I'M
der existing laws"
Schwartz's report goes on to
which Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Pierce ruled had cured
fraud in the Alaskan cases.
lSchwartz's report says: at Is not
thought, however, that congress
intended nor that the terms of
the act will permit the consum-
nation of schemes which were
entirely fraudulent in their In
ception.
81 Fred bennett, commissioner of
the general land office, was pres
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
AUTO JUMPS OVER
50 FOOT BANK;
TWO HURT j
(By United Press Leased wire.

eha'11 tNoS A<1aDN1 ~
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 6.
Mrs. Marguerite Beuhner and
Miss Celeste Moore were injured
seriously early today when an an
tomobile in which they were rid
ing plunged from a sixty foot en-
bankment on the Taylor's fefry
road, one mile from this city,
Both women lay helpless in o
ravine for two hours while men
In the party sought aid. Mss
Buehner sustained a broken leg
and internal injuries, and MIS-
Moore was seriously but not "a
tally hurt.
Neither woman could tell the
cause of the accident. but 1t Is
believed that the machine be-
came uncomfortable on a steep
grade. Miss Buehner is a daugh-
ter Of Phillip Buehner, treasurer
of the Eastern C Western Lum-
Der company Of this city. Miss
Moore is the daughter Of Dan
Moore, proprietor of the Moore
hotel at Seaside, Ore.
w. F. Slime, president Of the
Fall sCity Lumber company, was
one Of the men In the party.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

The little girl scrambled on the
car ahead of her mother when 1t
stopped at the crossing and ran
forward to a seat. Her mother
followed more leisurely.
When the conductor came for
fares one ticket was rendered.
The conductor seemed a bit in
doubt.
"How old is the little girl?" he
asked.
Five" came the terse answer.
The ticket was accepted and
the conductor returned to the
platform.
The little girl fidgeted in her
seat. Plainly there was some
thing she wanted to say but she
was just bit reluctant about ut
teripg it. At last, however, she
couldn't keep it any longer.
I'm 5 and mammals 35,"
she piped up, making an audience
of the entire car full of people.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
BOXING MATCHES
On CARD FOR
TONIGHT

The Ruston Athletic club this
evening will hold a smoker at
Eagles hall ant pull off couple
of boxing matches. AS sort of
for the big events,
Frank Riley and Young Sandow
will give a wrestling exhibition.
Ttere will be moving pictures and
then the smuggling will start.
Young Phillips and Kid Ber-
nard are down for six rounds of
pummeling. Four round fights
will also be put on between Eddie
Shepler and Louis Hoffman, Paul
Steele and Harry Mussen, RUDE
Nelson and Joe Linke. and Billy
and Joe Lyons.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

tent at the hearing when
Schwartz's report was read.
The Alaska cases were first
held up under Garfield by rea-
son of a telegram from Special
Agent Lewis CLAWS. CLAWS lat
er satisfied the department that
in the language of Schwartz's re-
port the schemes were entirely
fraudulent in their inception" 1t
was then ordered that the claims
be pushed to a final hearing, not
with the end in view of granting
the patents, but so as to wipe out,
formally, the last vestige of the
fraudulent entries and so clear
the title to the coal lands to the
end that future bona fide entry
men may not be harrassed by
litigation based upon the original
frauds.
1t is known that after Secretary
Ballinger had resigned from the
lpublic service and visited Secre-
Itary Garfield at the home of the
latter at Mentor, Ohio, about a
year ago, it was to urge, as attor-
ney, the reopening of the coal
| land cases. This was refused,
and Ballinger had to be content
with merely filing certain affida-
Wits for his clients.
The curious thing about the
present situation is that Assistant
Secretary Frank Pierce, together
with bennett and Schwartz, is
meeting the attack that is being
made upon the Alaska coal land
cases. These men were all in the
department with Garfield when
the cases were held to be fraud
ulent in their inception"
The Alaska coal land cases
probably represent the greatest
single stake ever played for in
this country.
Not only are there great veins
of bituminous coal, but also fields
of anthracite, all making a depos-
it worth hundreds of millions of
dollars. 1t has been estimated
that the Alaska coal fields are
| easily worth billion dollars, be-
sides giving the United States a
tremendous advantage both in
commerce and war on the Pacific
, ocean.
For such a stake will the fight
wage before President Taft.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
'YA &C! ![l CLUB H Q!g |!
b|G REGATT IA TODAY
NEW CLUB HOUSE FORMALLY
DEDIC ATED - SEVEN
SPEEDY CRAFTS OFF IN THE
POWER BOAT RACE.

The Tacoma Yacht club today
formally dedicated its new club
house on the tidefiats with a re-
ception and open house all day at
the new quarters and a regatta
on the bay.
The boat races started at 7
o'clock this morning with the pow
err boat cruise. Seven of the
speediest power boats in Tacoma
belonging to the club members
were sent away in this contest for
the 75-mile cruise on the bay.
They are expected back this after
noon about o'clock.
The other races started this
afternoon. There is good list OF
entries In each event and some
fine sport is expected.
The club house will be decorat-
ed with Japanse lanters this even
ing and the club members have
arranged a unique program.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
LITTLE STORIES
OF THE STREET

Theirs was June wedding.
They went to housekeeping out in
the West and were just as happy
as newlyweds should be.
He had come from a nearby
city. She was a Tacoma girl. His
mother thought that every house
wife should be able to bake her
own bread. That was her gauge
of ability.
So when his mother sent word
last week that she was coming to
Tacoma for a visit, it was duly
decided that mother must be
bluffed. For the bride had new
er kneaded dough. When she
wanted bread all she needed was
cash.
Now the bake shop which they
patronized put out "home
made" bread. 1t really was a
worthy imitation. So when moth
er sat down to supper after her
arrival a plate of this bakers
VI eau Was pIOuuC0u.
The conspirators had arranged
everything carefully. Hubby had
slipped out the back door only a
moment before supper and return
ed with loaf. still warm and
pleasant to smell.
Mother certainly did like that
bread! The first slice. disappear
ed before she took time to say a
word. Bride and groom beamed
at each other across the table,
happy and satisfied. . r,bt
That's mighty fine bread,
daughter" mother said at last,
pausing to give due praise. "You
baked it yourself, of course"
Quick glances were exchanged
across the table. Hubby nod
ded.
ooh, yes; yes, indeed" came
the brave answer.
Think I'll have to have anoth-
er piece, it's so god," said moth
er. Think I'll take the crust.
always did like the crust"
She took it. Alas for the pref
tily arranged deception!
In their haste and anxiety the
bakers label had not been re-
moved from the end of the loaf
And of course mother took that
crust!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
CLARENCE HENLEY.

team, remaining with it until the
fire, when he went to the Pueblo
team of the Western league. fin
ishing the 1906 season with that
club. when he returned to San
Francisco. Henley, like Rube Ell
lis. Rebel Cakes, Ted EasterIy,
Orvie Overall, Heine Heitmuller.
Busher Haleight, Harry Krause
and others who have been taken
from the Pacific Coast ranks by
the big leagues, is Native Son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
AT THE TACOMA.

The popular and = delightful
musical production, ''The Girl
Question" comes to the Tacoma
theater Thursday for one perform
ance. Such popularity has this
play received during its tour that
those who were so unfortunate as
to miss it when it was produced
here some months ago, will be
glad of its return. The seat sale
starts Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
PITCHER STRIKES
THREE MEN OUT;
FALLS DEAD


PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. g.
John Stauffer, who pitched for the
Carnegie Steel company team, is
dead today, due to the bursting of
his heart valves yesterday while
he was pitching in a baseball
game. Stauffer had just famed
three men in succession and the
crowd was cheering him when he
sank to the ground.
The enthusiastic fans who had
poured onto the field to carry him
out on their shoulders fell back
in dismay. Then a few rushed
forward to his aid, but before he
was picked up from the earth
Stauffer was dead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
WIFE WANTS DIVORCE.

Mary j. Savage began suit for
divorce against Harry Savage in
the superior court Saturday, alleg-
ing that he has abandoned her and
refused to support her for several
years. They were married in Still
water, Mimi. Aug. 5, 1895, and
have two children, both boys,
aged IL and 10 years. She asks
that she be granted $25 month
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
AT THE GRAND.

The new bill at the Grand,
which is claimed to be one Of the
best presented in months, will be
headed by the little comedy playlet
entitled ga High Toned Burglars
Christmas" Other numbers on
the program include the usual va
riety of good features.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
AT THE PANTAGEs.

"Menetekel," or the mysterious
hand writing on the wall, will be
reproduced at the Pantages by a
magic master this week. The act
is said to be an astounding one.
The bill includes the usual num-
Der OF features.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Games Yesterday.
Sacramento 4, San Frsncisco 2.
Vernon 80, Portland 81.
Los Angeles %, Oak,and 0-3
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
TACOMA TAKES
The SERIES
BREAKS EVEN WITH vANCOU-
YER IN DOUBLE-HEADER.

Tacoma lit onto Jack Hickey
like a thousand of bricks in the
last two innings of the game Sat-
urday, and, in the final inning,
broke the clubs record for the
year by getting 7 runs. The con-
test was all one sided. Butler
broke Hickey up with home run
to center field with the bases full
in the eighth.
Yesterday a double-header was
played here. The Tigers took the
first one, thereby winning the
series, but lost the second. Scores:
Saturday R H e
Tacoma IL Ii L
vancouver $500. L b 8
Batteries: Butler and Brooks;
Hickey and Stanley.
Sunday-First game
r H E
Tacoma 10 IL 2
vancouver ...... D D
Batteries: Hall and Brooks;
Flanagan and Sugden.
Second game r H p
vancouver L
Tacoma 3
Batteries: Erickson and Stan
ley; Newhn and Stevens.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06

Str. Flyer will make special ex.
position trips DAILY. leaving Sc
attic $3.50 p. m, Tacoma 11:16.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
Standing.

Games Yesterday.
Detroit 8, ST. Louis 1.
I Cleveland 6, Chicago 1.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
AMERICAN SCOUTS AFTER
HERO OF PLANNING GAME

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. e.
Clarence ('Cack") Henley, the
San Francisco Coast league teams
elongated twirler, is expected to
make his bow in one of the big
leagues next year. The scouts
have been looking him over and
there is every reason to believe
that one of the American league
teams has made an offer for him,
although the local management
has made no announcement to
that effect. Henley gained fame
when he pitched and won that "a
Inning game early in the season
against giant Jim Wigs of the
Oakland team.
There is nothing spectacular
about his style, but he is effec-
tive. True, like all pitchers, he
has his bad days. He's like the
little girl in the nursery rhyme.
When he is good, he is very, very
good. but when he is bad, he is
horrid. The horrid spells, how
ever, are few and far between,
and "Cack" generally chalks up
on the winning side OF the score
sheet. He is cool under fire and
works hard all the time.
Henley began playing with
the California Outlaws in 1903.
The next year found him shooting
tbs elusive benders over the pan
for the edification of the fans in
the forests Of Oregon. In 1905 he
Joined the San Francisco Coast
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-06
EASTERN GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday.
st. LoLuis 6, Cincinnati 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
HAVE EYE TO BEAUTY.

The Buddhist priests in China
are, as q rule, unshaven, unwashed
and uneducated men, with low and
sensual faces. They have no home
ties to help to purify their thoughts,
yet they possess wonderful artistic
faculty. They show the most ex-
quisite taste in the selection Of the
spots on which they build their tenn
pies and monasteries. When tenn
pie is to be built they select some
place, with the eye of the artist who
has caught the secret of natures
charms, where the mountain peaks
rise above and the great silent val
leys stretching at their feet are made
musical by the echoes of rushing
streams.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
COLLECT HISTORIC LAMPS.

Collecting historic lamps is one Of
the new fads, or rather the collecting
Of replicas of historic lamps, since
only in rare cases can the genuine
article be obtained. An Italian am
bassador has just presented to we'll
known American woman, who was
hospitable to his staff upon certain
occasion, a huge Pompeiian bronze
lamp, the like of which one may ad-
mire in the grand vestibule of the
Ouirinal. Mrs. Larz Anderson, who
passed several years in Italy, has
gathered all sorts of lamps in present
use and those of ages long ago. She
has some treasures which were used
by Etruscan women, who were far
in advance of their day in the matter
of brooches, hairpins and bracelets.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
CARRYING TOO MUCH WEIGHT
Discovery That Caused Mr.. Porting.
ten to Consider Precautionary
Measures.

"Within the last year or two,
said Mr.. Portlington, I've noted a
growing snugness in the fit OF my
garments. | 90 always to the same
tailor and have my clothes made
from the same measure, and so !
came to recognize finally that | was
growing stouter. Certainly my
clothes couldn't be growing any
smaller, made always from the same
patterns. but | filled them out more.
| was certainly growing plumper.
"My good boy ! said to myself,
that's your good living, and CRATE
full you ought to be with health and
happi-and some slight portliness.
L smiled when | thought of my hav-
ing some plumpness of figure.
''This morning. to my dismay |
discovered that Icannot cross my
legs over quite as far as | used to.
Yes, sir; that's what | mean, !
found that | couldn't cross my legs
over as far as | used to; the leg that
| used to be able to throw clean over
I now find stops sort of naturally on
the other knee! In other words.
without my having realized it, J
have come to have more than some
slight portliness of figure; am get
ting fat!
''This may not seem = matter OF
grave Importance to you, but it is
to me. The snugness that before
had made me smile now strikes me
as a warning, and from now on
there's little more of labor and less
of good living for your Uncle Port
lington."
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
WIDOWS PAID PENSIONS.

The idea Of pensioning widows
has steadily grown in Australia and
it has been found wiser for the state
to pension the mother for the care
Of her children than to condemn her
to such employment as would cause
her to neglect the children. The fol-
lowing new scale of weekly allow
ances was authorized by the recent
parliament and took effect May l,
1908: For one child, $1.22; two
children, $1.10 each; three children,
81 cents each; four children, 81
cents each; more than four children,
a maximum of S43S.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
STICK TO THEIR CLERKSHlPS
Bricklayers May Be Better Paid, But
Young Men Prefer the High
Stool and Pen

"You often hear clerks say they
would rather be bricklayers on ac-
count of the pay, but they don't
know what they're talking about.
Clerking beats bricklaying every day
IN the week and twice on Sunday
He took another cheese sandwich
In his long, pale, ink-stained fingers,
and, perched on the lunch counters
high stool, he detained warmly:
CLERKS, however poor, are popu-
lar with the ladies on account of
their fine clothes; but bricklayers,
when they 60 sparkling, get the cold
shoulder.
"a bricklayer, no matter how
much he makes, has trouble in get
ting into swell boarding houses, for
his clothes soil the fine furniture !;
but clerk, with his white hands, is
welcome in any house he can afford.
81 know what Pm talking about,
for l bricklaid two years before l
took to clerking. And you'll find lots
Of young bricklayers forsaking the
trowel for the pen; but, though
clerks often say bitterly that they'd
rather lay bricks than push pen,
they don't really mean it-they
never turn"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
STUNG.

The rich bachelor sighed and
looked at the beautiful girl tiNedly.
"Things are at SKIES and sevens
with me. | feel the great need of a
woman in my home, one who could
straighten out my tangled affairs
and make life worth living again"
Her glance spoke an interest
which Appropriated expectation.
''Yes," she queried, softly.
"Do YOU know of any good, able
bodied woman whom | could get to
clean house Prom the Bohemian
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
THE WORST.

Doctor" the patient begged, '1et
me know the worst. I insist on it,
''Well, if YOU will have it, | sup
pose | may as well tell you. It is my
opinion that YOU will live to have tc
explain to your wife how it happened
that YOU were in an automobile with
three chorus girls q miles from
home at four o'clock in the morn
ing."-Chicago Record-Herald.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
KEEPING IN PRACTICE.

'FYou are in splendid FORM sale
the leader of the band to the bass
drummer. 81 must compliment yor
that after a summer of idleness yor
have lost none Of their technique
Have you practiced all the timer
Haven't touched my drumsticl
since we closed the season." was the
answer.
"But you must have done some
thing to retain your ability unim
paired as you have"
"Well, | put in most of the sum
mer beating carpets"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR.

Tommy proposed that he should
90 and cheer up his sick sister by
reading to her the latest jokes.
"You mean from the comic week
lies?" asked the fond mother.
"Of course" assented Tommy.
The mother shook her head. "Not
tonight, DEAR" she said, with en-
phasis. "Your sister is still very
low"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-05-06
WOMEN LAW CLERKS.

While there are comparatively few
women lawyers, the sex is said to be
in great demand as clerks in law
offices. These clerks have finer
grasp Of detail than many of the
men clerks and for that reason art
preferred in many offices where neat
ness and accuracy are of the greatest
importance.