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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
KEEN in
FRISCO PRIMARY

distributed about all the booths In
the city, each one bearing a white
printed slip, reading: Charles M.
lFickert, for district attorney"
They are fighting to gain the
democratic as. well as the republic
can nomination for Fickert, as the
space for this office was left va
cant in the democratic ballot.
The Heney men, on the other
hand, say that a great number
of republicans are writing Heney's
name in the place of Fickert. With
both sides claiming victory. 1t was
hard to forecast the result.
Both VIII Be in Race.
1t is, practically certain, how
ever, that both Heney and Flick
ert will be in the race at the cleo
ton next fall. 1t has been an
nounced that Heney will run in
dependently even IL he should lose
the nomination today.
The contest for the mayoralty
nominations are also developing
great interest, and this afternoon
all sides were confidently claim
ing victory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
Loss OF CHILDREN
UNNERVES MRS,
KvALSHAUG

When Mrs. Martina Kvalshaug
was informed yesterday at the
county jail that her two little girls
Amy and Evelyn had been sent to
live with their grandmother in
South Dakota. pending the out
come Of her trial for completely in
the murder Of her husband last
April, she broken down completely
and refused to be consoled. She
was interviewed by her brother
in-law, George w. Dilley. who told
her that the court had ordered
that the girls be left with their
grandmother.
The date for the trial has not
been definitely set, but it will take
place early in September. New
comb will probably be tried before
the woman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
BIG HARTMAN OFFICIAL
VISITING TACOMA TODAY

railroad. Everywhere I go see
signs of wonderful development. /"
Mr.. Cory had charge of filling
in the break in the Colorado river
when the water was turned into
the Salton sea. 1--WE threw money
into the river at the rate of mil
lion dollars in 80 days on two &C.
casions," he said. 1T cost the
Southern Pacific a lot of money
to handle that project. But we
are building up a country there.
In 1902 there were nothing but
horned toads in the Salton sea,
and now there are number of
prosperous towns, among them
Calexico on our side of the line,
and Mexicala just over the Next
can border.
They have a way of shifting
Hartman officials around, and !
thought I might as we'll look over
the terminals while I was here.
l have no idea that I will be sent
here, but / certainly would have
no objections to living in Tacoma.
"Oh, your mountain? / always
call it Tacoma. / was not afraid
to give it that name when / was
in Seattle. Everybody will call it
Mount Tacoma next year."
Mr.. Cory will leave for Portland
tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
LIFE OF A PIMPLE
Compilations Are Cleared and
Pimples Disappear Overnight
Without Trouble.

The dispensers of poslam, a new
skin discovery, ask that notice be
given that no one is urged to pur-
chase 1t without first obtaining an
experimental package. Everyone
who has tried 1t knows that the
fifty-cent box. on sale at NAL
strom's Goth and c SITS. and 93S
Pacific Ave. J, the Crown Drug Co.
and all drug stores, Is sufficient
to cure the worst cases of eczema,
where the surface affected is not
too large. The itching ceases on
first application. 1t will also cure
acne, letter, blotches, scaly scalp,
hives, BARRIERS and every other
form of itch, including itching
feet. Being flesh-colored and con-
tanning no grease, the presence of
poslam on exposed surfaces. such
as the face and hands, is not per-
eeptible. Water and soap cannot
be used in connection with 1t, as
these irritate and prolong skin
troubles, sometimes even causing
them.
AS to the experimental package
of poslam, it can be had free OF
charge by mail of the Emergency
Laboratories, 32 West Twenty.
fifth Street, New York. 1t alone
is sufficient to clear the complex,
Ion overnight, and to rid the face
of pimpies in twenty-four hours.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
ORTING DON'T WANT
HOME FOR THE
EEEBLE-MINDED

James r. O'Farrell, postmaster
at Orting, is in Tacoma today and
says that they are still fighting 10
retain the soldiers home at that
place, J0d hope to succeed,
"You an set 1t down that II
we can't retain the home we don't
want the institute for feeble-mdnd-
ed. We shall make the hardest
kind of fight against allowing
those people coming to Orting,"
said Mr.. O'Farrelf. 1.-THE feeble
minded have been moved once and
1t was an expensive proposition.
Chehalis did not want the institute
and it cesr 100000 to move it.
Such an institute should be To-
Gated close to any city for as the
inmates grow up they mingle
more or less with citizens and
the effect is dana ging."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
BANKS OBJECT To
ASSESSMENT

All the leading Tacoma banks
were represented at the session of
the board Of equalization this
morning when the matter came up
as to whether the banks should be
assessed separately upon their
fixtures and their capital. They
claim that the fixtures are bought
out of the capital, and therefore
should not be assessed aside from
it. This was a new question for
the board, and it was decided to
hold 1t under advisement until the
state board could be questioned
upon the subject.
ID. Shafer, who had been noti-
fled that his assessment would be
raised from $4.25O to $1,000, aft
er a long talk with the board,
persuaded the members that they
had over-valued him, and the as
sessment was fixed at $500.
The Mcdonald Shoe company
protested against the raise from
$3.50 to $13,500, and the mat
ter was taken under advisement.
L. H. Sessions declared that he
had been unjustly raised from
$3.50 to $4,000, and the board de-
cided they had made a mistake,
and allowed the original figures
to stand. spss
This is the last week of the
session of the board of equaliza-
ton, and the applicants for reduc-
tions are falling off. About 800
cases have been passed upon dur
ing the session.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
BALLINGER FORCES
STAY UNDER COVER
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.-The
acuteness of the Pinchot-Ballinger
controversy manifested itself here
today more strikingly by the dead
silence at the interior department
and the suppressed but all per-
vading atmosphere of enthusiasm
at the forestry service bureau.
Assistant Secretary Pierce who is
back again and is acting secretary
of the interior department, does
not care to discuss the charges OF
maladministrataion made against
Secretary Ballinger by Chief For
ester Pinchot. Acting Commits
sioner Swartz of the general land
office, has the same aversion.
An effort was made today by a
representative of the United
Press to review the entire records
at the land office in connection
with the mooted filing on land at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17

II. T. Cory, assistant to the
president of the Southern Pacific
railroad In Mexico and general
manager of the California Devel-
opment company, with headquar-
tiers at Calexico, Cal, on the Mex
lean border, is in Tacoma today,
and is being shown about the city
by Robert Lee, general agent of
the Hartman lines.
1T is 10 years since i was in
Tacoma" said Mr.. Cory to the
Times, land the progress the city
has made in that time is certainly
remarkable. You have got to a
point now where you are bound
to go ahead. ] notice that you
are turning your attention to sky
scrapers here. There is nothing
that will help a city more than
large office buildings.
II attended the Irrigation con-
gress at Spokane, going from
there up to Alberta and to the
coast on the Canadian Pacific
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17

Bozeman, Mont, by President
Ramsey of the Riverside Land and
Livestock company. 1t was this
filing that Pinchot originally de-
clares was in the interest Of the
power trust.
This statement was specifically
denied by Acting Commissioner
Swartz several days ago.
An attempt to have this record
examined by a land lawyer was
disapproved by the department Of
the interior officials.
"The whole subject" said an
official, "is threadbare. 1t is our
policy to let the matter drop, not
withstanding the counter charges
which have emanated from the
west that this filing was In the
interest of the so-called water
power trust. The public has all
the information we care to give at
present"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17

The U. P. tunnel is throwing
gravel down into the gulch at Pa
cific avenue at a lively rate these
days, and more than half the fill
has been made now. The street
here when finished will be on a
base of solid gravel from the bot
tom to the top.
The fill will save the city at
least 100000, according to the
estimate of Commissioner McGreg-
or. Up to July 1t has cost the
city just $1,000, and the T. r. &
P. is expected to pay half Of this.
The city has also filled a street
across the gulch farther up and
disposed of another bridge.
Commissioner McGregor is a
firm believer in the policy of fill
ing up the gulches rather than
bridging them. Then the city Is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
MRS, OTIS
. A SUICIDE
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

10y Oulttu IFcsS lLC"sCu "hO't
LOS ANGELES. Cal, Aug. II.
That Mrs. Tilt Otis, divorced
wife of Tom Otis, mining promot-
err and associated with Fps Ran
dolph in railroad deals, commit
ted suicide at the Van Mugs hotel
in this city Aug. 4, was confirmed
today when her death certificate,
signed by Deputy Coroner Fred
Williams, was found at the city
hall. The death of the former
Chicago and Los Angeles society
leader, famous whip and golfist,
is attributed in that document to
suicide; hyacine poisoning"
In the same file in the official
records is q statement to the eff
feet that Mrs. Otis left the follow
ing laconic note, illustrative of her
WEAKNESS of the emptiness of
society and of her world, adj
dressed to William Coleman of
San Francisco:
1.-THE game is not worth the
candle. (Signed) Ada Tilt Otis. +"
Mrs. Otis, with her maid. ar
rived at the hotel early this
month. To friends she had con-
fided her intention of going to her
parents in Chicago in the near fu-
ture. She was a daughter Of
Jose Tilt, a millionaire real estate
dealer of Chicago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
HEIEEI NN ||EEl E1RRR E3EfE

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Aug. 1.-THE
heat wave from st. Louis and the
whole of Missouri have been suf-
fering for the past 70 hours con.
tinues unabated today. Despite
predictions that the backbone or
the heat wave would be broken
today reports from all parts of the
state are discouraging. Early to-
day the thermometer was press
Ing the 80 mark and was gradu-
ally rising. The latest reports
show that seven deaths already
have resulted from the excessive
heat and twenty prostrations were
reported yesterday.
The various hospitals of the
city are taxed to their utmost to
accommodate the heat victims,
and the suffering in the tenement
district is intense.
Eighty horses have dropped
dead on the streets within the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
FRIENDS OF HENEY AND
FICKERT ARE BOTH CLAIMs
ING VICTORY-HEAVY VOTE
CAST BY ALL PARTIES. DC &
(By United Press Leased WIRE,

tby OniteO t'fesS Leased WTre.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IT,
All sides are predicting that more
than 10000 votes out of total
registration of $4,000 will be cast
by 6 o'clock, San Francisco's first
direct primary. The crowds about
the polling places showed the
great interest that is being taken
in the races for the mayoralty and
district attorneyship. as well as
in all the minor contests.
The fact that a great amount
of writing in" is being done by
the voters in all parts of the city
is claimed by the supporters of
Francis j. Heney to mean that he
is receiving a heavy vote from all
parties for the nomination for
district attorney.
Distribute Lead Pencils.
The republicans caused a great
quantity of lead pencils to be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
CONCERT ENDS
ENJOYABLE DAYS

The Worcester board of trade
party closed its day here with a
concert, in which 1t was assisted
by the Orpheus club, at Temple of
Music, last night. The hall was
filled and the concert was one of
the best ever given in this city.
The visiting organization is
certainly star in the musical
world, and Tacoma showed her
appreciation in a manner that was
very gratifying to the visitors.
The. Worcester party voted this
city the best entertainer 1t has
come across yet in its long jour-
ney from coast to coast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
COMMITTED To ASYLUM

Sigurd Orten, a sailor aged %,
was today committed to the in
sane asylum at Fort Steilacoom by
an insanity commission composed
Of Drs. Armstrong and Schug. The
doctors call the case melancholia.
The young man is a native of Nor
way and has been in America
about three years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
BLAZE VISITS
GLASGOW - THREE HUN
DRIED SLEEPERS FLEE IN
THEIR NIGHT CLOTHES.

GLASGOW, Aug. IA dis
astrous fire causing a loss Of ST.
900, 900 visited this city today,
and for time threatened the
destruction of the entire busin ess
section before 1t was gotten un.
der control.
Falling walls almost buried thu
fire headquarters and a number 81
firemen narrowly escaped with
their lives.
Among the buildings destroyed
was public hall and lodging
house, where three hundred sleep
ers escaped in their night clothes
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
OFFICE Is 70 BE
REMODELED

The county treasurer's Office n
the court house is to undergo a
remodeHng which promises TO
make 1t much more convenient for
the taxpayers, as we'll as the en-
ployes Of the office. The county
commissioners yesterday awarded
the contract for the job to George
Il. Frier for s4.e92. The work
is to begin within shout two
weeks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
PARIS. Aug. 17.-E. n. n

PARIS, Aug. 17.-E. H. Har-
riman, the railroad king, is far
from being a well man. He was
too Ill today to see the reporters
an dwas undecided about starting
for America tomorrow. Harri-
mans private secretary stated this
afternoon that the railroad king 8
present indisposition is not due to
a relapse but TO the after affects
OF the strenuous "cure" at Bad
Gastein.
Even IL Hartman sails tomor-
row he will be unable to resume
work for several weeks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
MORTALITY NOTES

Miss Margaret Fitzsimmons
died last night at the home of her
brother, ]. F. Fitzsimmons, GIG
South Twenty-ninth street. She
was visiting here from California
and besides her brother ]. F., Is
survived by two other brothers
and a sister.
Estella Russell, aged IL, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse F. Rus
sell, died at the family residence
in Seattle Snday, after an illness
,of three days of diabetes. She
had resided in Tacoma up till last
January. The funeral will be
held from Hoska's chapel tomor-
row at 1880. n
Maurice v. Iliffl, aged 4S, died
yesterday at his home at Gig Har-
Dor. He was a carpenter at Gig
Harbor and well known there. He
is survived by his widow, a daugh-
Ger, his mother, four sisters and
three brothers. The funeral will
hs held from the residence tomor-
row.
The funeral of Kathleen Gal
lagher, aged Is, who died at the
residence of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Gallagher, Sunday,
was held this morning at $3.50
from st. Leo's church.
Mrs. Carrie johnson, aged SO,
died yesterday at the home OF her
dau ghter, Mrs. John T. johnson,
1924 South Fiftysixth street. She
was a native of Sweden and had
resided in Tacoma only since last
April. Her daughter is her only
relative in this country. The
funeral was held today at 2
o'clock from the residence.
Roy Almquist, one-month-o,d
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Aim
quist, 1859 South Sheridan ave-
nue., died yesterday. The funeral
was held today from the family
residence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
NJ C[ELLAN
ON ROCK
(By United Press Leased Wire

(By United Press Leased Wire.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Mayor
Mcclellan today is being again
raked over the Goals. This time
the campaign committee of the
Republican club charges that the
Mcclellan administration forced
the city to pay $75,000.000 for
property valued at only 100000
000,and alleges that the remain
ing $45.000,0O was graft.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
LTCENsED TO MARRY

Marriage licenses were granted
by the county auditor today to
Leroy Marshall Rarick and Coral
lefty Harch, Arthur B. Mitchell
and Margaret 8. Condoo, Anthony
Joseph Bell and Abbie Louise
Baker. Lee John Peters and Ethel
Gertrude Foster.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
BROS. INCORPORATE

Articles of incorporation of the
Miller Brothers company were
filed with the county auditor to-
day. The incorporators are Gus
tav o., Charles A and William B.
Miller. They are to carry on O
butter, and egg business In Taco
ma. with a capital stock of $780,
600.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
CULCH MORE THAN. HALF FILLED

through with the expense. In the
work thus far the expense has
been slight, as the gulches have
been used for dumps, thus afford
ing a place for refuse dirt and at
the same time saving the city
from bridge building.
At the Pacific avenue bridge
now the city is commencing to
dump with wagons, and Commits
sioner McGregor expects soon to
have them driving right down on
to the fill made by the sluicing.
The Milwaukee has some more
concrete culvert to build on its
property, and the entire corner
will then be filled up even with
Pacific avenue.
Str. Flyer will make special ex-
position trips DAILY, leaving Sc
att1e Q.3O n. m. Tacoma 11.16.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
UNFURNIsHED ROOMS

FOR RENT-A clean and pleas
ant unfurnished 4-room flat on
second floor, linoleum and cur
tains furnished. Apply 1912 So.
i St.. Phone Main 1895.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
past As hours.

past 40 nOurs.
NORFOLK, Neb., Aug. IT,
Three persons are dead In Nor
folk and vicinity today as result
of the terrific heat. The dead
are:
CARL UHLE, a wealthy grocer.
CARL REAUGSE, a retired far
mer.
G. ROWE, farmers son.
Last night was the hottest
night in this vicinity for. ten
years, and hundreds slept out OF
doors. Suffering to man and
beasts have been intense.
Three Die at Omaha.
OMAHA, NeIb., Aug. 17.-With
three more deaths this afternoon
Omaha's death list from the ter
rifle heat of the past few days
now totals seventeen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-17
uTUATION wANTED-FEMALE

WANTED-work by the day.
Phone Main 1904.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
IondOn's
IN SPITE OF ROYAL BIRTH

A man who distinguished himself in
spite of royal birth, Karl Theodor, duke
of Bavaria and doctor of medicine, died
yesterday. Dissatisfied with the social
duties and perfunctory military rou-
tine that pertain to his rank, he gave
way to his natural bent, beam one
of the most skilled oculists in Europe,
and for years worked hard in the char
liable clinic and hospital he had es-
tabished.
The fatal results of close intermar-
riage among the Wittelsbachs that
were manifested in King Ludwig and
his lunatic brother seem to have
passed over Duke Karrs branch, the
former sovereigns in the remnant of
the Palatinate, unfortunate as 1t has
been. His father Duke Macmillan,
was a poet and writer, and brought his
family up so simply that all chafed
later at the court etiquette that was
forced upon them, and showed their in
dependent spirit. One sister was the
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who
built the Achillelon; another Queen
Marie Sofia of the Two Sicilles, the de-
fender of Gaeta; a third the Duchess
d'Alencon, who was burned at the
Charity Bazaar fire in Paris. Their
brother was permitted to turn his
striving for freedom of action into a
useful and honorable calling that en-
deared him to the people of Bavaria
and of all Germany.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
and are thus adapted for furnace lin
ings and boiler masonry.

ings and boiler masonry.
The new" moon at its newest is in
visible to us, the Illuminated side be-
ing entirely turned way, and dis
cussion has arisen among certain as
tronomers as to the earliest age at
which it shows its slender crescent.
The matter appears to have some de-
gree of Importance, as, in Mohamme-
dan countries the month for relig Gus
purposes is said to begin when the
moon first appears after sunset to
two good witnesses. A lady's state
ment that on May 20 she saw the cres-
cent when only S9h hours old, has
brought out the old record of Kep er
that he saw the old moon in the MORN
ing and the new moon in the evening
of the same day, so that the crescent
could not have been more than Ell aht
hours old. Kepler, however, was gifted
with such unusual eyesight that he
could count fourteen stars in the
Pleiades instead of the six ordinarily
visible. An observer in Belgium, who
questions the accuracy of the kepieI
record, saw the new moon on NoVem-
ber %, 1889, when it was only eighteen
hours and twenty-five minutes old; and
in Great Britain, w. f. Denning, F. X.
A. S., saw it on March 80, 1881, when
only twenty hours and thirty eight
minutes old. 1t is pointed out that
time and place must affect the observa-
tions, and that the clear winter sky is
more favorable for seeing the crescent
early than the brighter sky of summer
twilight.
The dew-ponds of ancient England
were basins followed out in the ground
and lined with straw under a layer of
clay. In an improved form seen at
Gibraltar, wood is substituted for the
straw and iron for the clay, and under
all is a layer of concrete. Rapid cool
ing on a clear night condenses the airs
moisture forming water in the BASIN
For developing photographs in day
light, a practice which has advantages
for the amateur, a new German pro-
cess prepares the ordinary dry plate
by placing it in a per cent solut. on
of potassium iodide for two minutes.
The silver bromide is thus converted
into nonsensitive iodide, and after this
preliminary operation in suitable
cloth bag is not affected by daylight.
Being first rinsed, the plate is devel-
oped in equal parts OF these two So
lutions: (a) water, 600 grammes; an
hydrous sodium sulphite, 20; metol,
l; hydroquinone, 8; potassium bro
mide, 40. (b) A per cent solution of
caustic potash. The developing re-
qures about five minutes and the fix
ing-by the usual process-a little long
er than usual.
Summarizing London's summer
weather from the Greenwich records of
fifty years, c. Harding finds that the
season of April to September has aver
aged seventy-four warm days. with
a temperature of 10 degrees or higher;
and the greatest number of warm days
was 127, in 1865. With the exception
of 1906, the last ten years have lie
cool The summer season rainfall has
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

The melancholy days are here.
The autumn leaves are falling;
The candidates are everywhere,
The bill collectors calling.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

N oil rig it has lots of nfatuaton
oi the question,
producer" easily be figured in dol
GH Lucky company number such wells The
instance spelled Mascot
Section Midway and absolutely
100 be-
flowing wells with
production 240O barrels daily.
Oil Company the best
wealthy California oil fields
safely depended be
understood that this
Their
depended for
he generous day in the