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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE
WATER TO DRINK YOU'RE
CHARGED FOR SPRINKLING

Water and light bills are now
being paid at the treasurer's Of
flee for June and a mighty howl
is going up on the part of water
consumers against the sprinkling
charge.
In June every year % cents a
lot is added to all water bills for
sprinkling, where they have out
side faucets. There is always some
protest, but this year 1t Is con-
tinuous performance almost.
eSprinkling!" shouted a citizen
this morning when he was told
what the extra amount on his bill
was for.
"Sprinklingl / would like to
see anyone sprinkle at my place.
Why, we have not been getting
water enough to drink. The other
night my wife forgot to draw a
crock full of water in the after
noon and in the evening my little
boy began crying for water and ]
had to take lard bucket and
walk five blocks to get water for
the child to drink"
j. d. Scott, cashier, says there
is an awful wall of protest from
the West End and the East End
over the sprinkling charges.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
PRATT TO ISSUE
PROCLAMATION

The Booster committee today
authorized President l.. w. Pratt
to issue Booster proclamation
for the big Tacoma day at the ex-
position week from Friday.
The mayor will also be asked to
issue proclamation calling on
everybody to close up business and
go to Seattle and committees were
today named to enlist the mer-
chants and other business men in
the movement.
Four thousand tickets have been
printed for the boats and they
will be placed on sale this week.
Another meeting to finish the
arrangements will be held tomor-
row.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
VANCOUVER MAN RESENTS
INSULT TO ENGLISH KING,
AND DOES SO EFFECTIVELY

Inish entertainment at the cafe,
concluded a medly of patriotic
airs with the music of God Save
the King" or America" as
Americans have it. The singers
are said to have concluded the
song with an unorthodox rendi-
ton of the line God Save the
King" singing it ITO H with
the King"
Just here Hood became active.
His British blood boiled, and he
is said to have projected one
heavy boot through the instrument
|of an offending musician. Walters
and patrons became embroiled,
and the affair threatened to as
sumo the proportions of riot
when the diplomacy of one of the
|proprietors Gained the belliger-
ants.
Hood left the cafe with his
friends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
MARRIAGE LAW
IS FR0WNEO ON
BY PHYSICIANS

Pierce county doctors, in session
yesterday, expressed disapproval
of the present marriage law. They
said the objects of the law were
all right, but the legislature
bungled In constructing the sta
tute to fit the case.
Doctors say the law is easily
evaded and that the examinations
required are not adequate. Fur
Their they find fault with the re-
suits in collecting their fees. II
they sign up the certificate they
get their fee, but, If they do not,
the applicant generally beats them
out of 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

{By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July IT,
an Englishman with good red
blood in his veins will not permit
the shade of an insult to his
king, even upon the American ma
tional holiday, even though the al
legged indignity was unstudied
and thoughtless. has been proved
conclusively by w. f. A. Hood.
said to be a wealthy resident of
Vancouver.
According to reports of the af-
fair that leaked out today, Hood
visited the Breakers cafe during
the evening of the recent holt
day, in company with Tom Dis
coll, the poloist; Douglas Grant,
golf crack; Edward Tobin, Ray
mond Payne, Harry Scott and
George Lewis, wealthy clubmen
of this city and Burlingame.
A trio of musicians who fur
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
DIVORCE DECREE
FOR MRS. ASIA

Nina M. Asia was granted a
decree of divorce from Samuel b.
Asia by Judge Clifford in the SUI
perior court today. The defend
ant did not appear to contest the
proceedings and the decree was
granted in default. The grounds
upon which the divorce was asked
were cruel treatment, personal in
dignities and abusive language
upon the part of the defendant.
They were married in Tacoma
May I'll, 1906. The decree stipu-
lates that the PLAINTIFFS maiden
name, Nina M. Mecham is restored
to her.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

This is an easy-going country,
and 1t was three full hours before
Heller could find anyone at the
station to have the car brought
up where 1t could be opened and
unloaded. Perhaps the station
employees had taken a sniff at the
doors when he was not looking,
and SO were lodging further work
in connection with the collection.
The smell of brine, garlic and
gamey flesh when the seal finally
was broken and the car opened
would have been enough to
brighten off pretty much anybody.
But Heller was so eager to get
the work well forward before the
sun got any hotter, that the men
called up to help had no time for
repining. The doors of the car
were opened and a sack contain
ing the complete skin of one Of
the giraffes was lifted out.
1t happens rarely that = giraffe
skin can be taken off without be-
ing cut into sections, for It is
heavy and adheres closely to the
flesh. Prof. Heller accomplished
a veritable feat in getting off in-
tact two giraffe skins~
Col. Roosevelt killed his two
and Kermit his one on the same
day, and owing to the heat has
tening decomposition, the old
hunters on the safari said that not
even one skin could be saved. But,
by working with the rapidity and
skill which have made his repu-
tation as a taxidermist, Heller
saved both of the colonel's gil
RATES., though all of Kermit's was
lost except the head and feet.
A delicate case containing the
bones of some of the small ante
lope required great care. Most of
these were not wholly preserved,
only the heads and certain
bones being taken, but at least
one of each species was kept in
entirety. One of the accompany
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
DRAWING RESOLUTIONS.

4 Special committee combating
of G. M. Riddell, B. w. Conner
and w. q. Hayden is meeting this
afternoon to draft resolutions in
honor of Congressman Cushman
on behalf Of the Commercial club,
the action having been authorized
at meeting OF the club yester-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
ATTEMPT TO
WRECK TRAIN

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
COLFAx, July 7.-An attempt
to wreck an early electric passen-
ger train on the Spokane & Inland
railway today was discovered
when a freight train that had for
tunately preceded the passenger
cut heavy chain that had been
wound around one of the rails on
q sharp curve at the entrance to
the Harpole tunnel.
The caboose and several ears
were derailed, but no serious
damage was done.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
LICENSED TO WED.

Marriage licenses were grant
ed by the county auditor today to
William Ford Lamson and Jean
Raymond Gee. Edgar M. Rodgers
and Mary Justina Upper, Jesse
C. vyse and Frances Hakerhorn,
William Turner and Rachel Jane
SNYDER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
SAYS DIVORCE
Is FRAUDULENT

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
CHICAGO, July declaring
thai her husband secured a divorce
from her BY fraud and that the
Seattle court which granted the
decree had no jurisdiction over
the case, Mrs. Clara q. jerks OF
Elgin, ILL.,, today. filed a petit
ton in the superior court to have
the divorce set aside. The woman
asks that she be granted a decree
and aitmony, alleging that her
husbands income q $4,000 a
year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

ling pictures shows the leg bones
of a giraffe being lifted out. Hell
Ter stands on the extreme left.
AS a Swahili native shouldered
the heavy bone, he smacked his
lips and said in his dialect to the
darby helping him: This make
boz"
Swahilis adore picking giraffe
bones, and 1t never would occur
to them that Bwana Jumbo tCol,,
RoosevelL) and ;Bwana Motto
ETERNITY have not the same
tastes.
THE HEAP ON THE GROUND
in THE NEXT LOWER PICTURE
is THE SKIN OF THE HUGE
BULL RHINOCEROS WHICH
CHARGED COL. ROOSEVELT
AND WAS SHOT AT IA PAGES.
1T TOOK SIX MEN TO LIFT 1T
TO A CAR WAITING NEARBY.
The specimens later were
transferred to store houses, where
they will be packed for shipment
to the Smithsonian institution. At
the time of skinning, Heller
scraped all the hides and bones
carefully and rubbed on salt as a
|preservatiye, but each piece must
be visited carefully to make sure
that decay has not set in.
The specimens preserved whole
include seven lions, one rhinoce-
ros, two giraffe, zebra and some
20 types of hartbeest, wildebeest,
thompsonian, grantii and other
smaller game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
BY WARRINGTON DAWSON.

UAIRoBI British East Africa May 20The arrival here of
capital Of British Africa expected that special
freight which attached
the ordinary
population
the victims the chief himself
But with CHARACTERISTIC modesty Heller had his car aacs
of
arrived Naob at o'clock when the inhab
tants sleeping peacefully.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07
no PROBE DEATH.


SAN FRANCISCO. July T.
Witnesses a< being summoned
today for an inqxest into the death
OF Mrs. James De La Montanya,
who was shot and killed in her
apartments here last Friday night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

STEAMER FLYER Will make
special trips this week We'd,
Thurs, Sat. and SUM-, leaving Sc
attic $3.50 p. m, Tacoma II p.
m. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

Here the first showing how the big spec
handled shipment United They
experiences
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-07

STEAMER FLYER WIN make
special trips this week Wed.
Thurs. SGT. and Sun. leaving Be-
attic $40 p. n. Tacoma II p.
m "
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
Gtatn Of sla in o. for L[ino COUNTY,

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington for King County.
Aurora Land Company, corporation,
Plaintiff, VS.. w. F. Stone and Jane Doe
name is unknown, and all persons I'M
known, if any. having or claiming an
interest in and to the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, Defendants. No.
68S69-Notice and Summons.
State of Washington: To the above
defendants and each of them;
, You and each Of you, as owners,
terest or estate in and to the
hereinafter described real property,
are hereby notified that the above named
linquent tax certificates issued by the
Treasurer of King County, State of
Washington, dated the 18th day of April,
1908 and numbered as follows, for the
in the following amount, and upon the
real property situated in said King
County, described as follows. towit:
$, Certificate No. B492s1, for the year
1905, 81 cents; Lot rs, Block s, Certifi-
cate No. B49293, for the year 1905, 81
cents.
That the taxes. for the following prior
and subsequent years have been paid by
the plaintiff upon said above described
real property, to-Wit:
Lot 23, Block 8, Ellis Add to C. of F.,
% cents for the year 1906; % cents for
the year 1907; 4S cents for the year
1908. Lot rs, Block 8, Ellis Add. to c.
of F., % cents for the year 1906; % cents
for the year 1907; As cents for the year
1908, which several sums beaer interest
at the rate of Is per cent. per annum
from said date of payment, and are all
the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon
and against said real property.
You and each of you Gncluding said
persons unknown, if any, are hereby
further notified and summoned to be and
appear within sixty days after the date
of first publication of this notice, exclu-
sive of the day of said first publication,
to-wit: within so days from November
5, 1902 in the above entitled court and
action; and defend this action and an
swer the complaint of said plaintiff and
serve a copy of your answer on the
undersigned attorney for plaintiff at
this office below stated, or pay the
amount due, together with interest and
costs. In case you fail so to do, -judg-
ment will be rendered herein, foreclosing
the lien of said taxes and costs against
each parcel of said real property for
the sums and amounts due upon and
terest and costs, ordering sale of each
parcel of said property for the satisfac-
ton of the sums charged and found
against it respectively as provided by
law, and as prayed in plaintiffs com
plant, now on file in this cause and
court.
AURORA LAND COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, Plaintiff,
F. ]. CARVER,
Attorney for Plaintiff Office Ad-
dress, Northern Bank & Trust Co.
Bldg, Seattle, Washington.
Nov. 5-Dec. II, 1903.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington for King County
Aurora Land Company, a Corporation,
Plaintiff, VS.. John Sullivan and Jane Doe
Sullivan, his wife, whose true christian
name is unknown, and all persons I'M
known, If any, having or claiming an
interest in and to the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, Defendants. No.
6901O-Notice and Summons.
State of Washington: To the above
defendants and each of them:
You and each of you, as owners, claim
ants or holders of an interest or estate
in and to the hereinafter described real
property, are hereby notified that the
above named plaintiff is the holder of
one certain delinquent tax certificate is
sued by the Treasurer of King County,
State of Washington, dated the 10th day
of April, 1908, and numbered as follows,
for the delinquent taxes of the following
year, in the following amount, and upon
the real property situated in said King
County, described as follows, to-wit:
Belt Line Add. to kirkland, Lot 20,
Block 2 Gertcste No B4 cen for the
That the taxes for the following. prior
and subsequent years have been paid by
the plaintiff upon said described real
Lot TO- Block 2, Belt Line Add to
Kirkland, so cents for the year 1906;
46 cents for the year 1907; 40 cents for
the year 1908.
Which several sums bear interest at
the rate of Is per cent per annum from
said date of payment, and are all the
unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and
against said real property.
You and each of you Gncluding said per-
sons unknown, if any, are hereby further
notified and summoned to be and appear
within sixty days after the date of first
publication of this notice, exclusive of
the day of said first publication, toaWit:
60 days from November 5, 1909, in the
above entitled court and action; and de-
fend this action and answer the COM
plant of said plaintiff and serve copy
of your answer on the undersigned at
torney for plaintiff at this Office below
stated, or pay the amount due, together
with interest and costs In case you fail
so to do, judgment will be rendered here
in, foreclosing the lien of said taxes and
costs against each parcel of said real
property for the sums and amounts due
upon and charged against each, for said
taxes, interest and costs, ordering a sale
of each parcel of said property for the
satisfaction of the sums charged and
found against it respectively as provided
by law, and as prayed in PLAINTIFFS COM
plant, now on file in this cause and
court
AURORA LAND COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, Plaintiff
F. ]. CARVER,
Attorney for Plaintiff. Office Ad-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

The depot at Meridian, Texas,
is about mile from the business
part of the town. One night a
sleepy, weary travelling man said
to the darby who was driving
him to the hotel:
"Old man. why in the name of
heaven did they put this depot
so far from town.
The darby scratched his head
in thought and replied:
"Wa-al, boss, rs fo'ced to adj
nit dat l hasn't give de matter
s'fcient cogitation; but Jes'
jumped up fer a answer like dis,
| s'pose dey done dat so as to
have de depot as near as posi-
BILE to de railroad"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington for King County.
In Probate.
In re estate of Matte j. Cole, de-
ceased. Order to show cause why real
estate should not be Sold No. 9485.
The petition of the administrator for
an order to sell lot 6, block Al, MERGERS
Second Addition to North Seattle, King
County, Washington, the community
property of said administrator and Mat
tie j. Cole, deceased coming on for
hearing, and it appearing to the court
that there was and is no personal prop
erty in the hands of the administrator
from the proceeds of which money may
be used to pay expenses of last illness,
funeral expenses and costs of admins
tration and it further appearing to the
court that it is for the best interests of
said estate and the minor heirs of Mat
tie J. Cole, deceased, that said property
be sold:
1t is now by the court ordered that
any and all persons interested in the
above entitled cause shall appear in the
court above named, before Robert H.
Lindsay, Court Commissioner, on the
10th day of November, 1909, and show
cause, if any they have, why an order
be not granted to said administrator to
sell the above described real estate and
the whole thereof.
Done in open court this 29th day of
October, 1908.
ROBERT H. LINDSAY, C. C.
CHARLES R. CROUCH,
Attorney.
Nov 5-Nov. 26, 1909,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

Telephone girls sometimes
glory in their mistakes, if there
is a joke in consequence. The
story is told by a telephone oper-
ator in one of the Boston ex-
changes about man who asked
her for the number of a local
theatre.
He got the wrong number and
without asking to whom he was
talking, he said:
Can l get a box for two to-
night?"
A startled voice answered him
at the other end of the line:
I'VE don't have boxes for two. "
isn't this the = theatre?'
he called GROSSLY.
why, no., was the answer;
this is an undertaking shop"
He cancelled his order for a
box" for two. Boston Record.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

And speaking of cats have you
heard the latest tale; it's going
the rounds SO rapidly that it was
even related at a recent Kings
Daughters meeting-not as part
of the proceedings, however.
Thus runs the tale: An old maid
had two cherished cats and when
some one asked her their names
she replied: ooh, l call them
Tom and jerry"
why not Cook and Peary?"
asked the friend.
81 assure you they are not
Pole CATS" replied their owner
with much dignity. louisville
Post.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-12-03

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington, in and for the
County of King.
Ida Evans, Plaintiff. vs. owen Evans,
Defendant.-No. 49,. Sixty-day Sum-
MONS
The State of Washington to Owen Ev-
ans, above defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within sixty (60) days after the first
duplication of this summons, to-wit
within sixty days 600 after the 9Th day
of November, 1909, in the above entitled
action in the above entitled court, and
answer the complaint of the plaintiff,
and serve copy of your answer upon
the undersigned, attorneys for the plain
tiff, at their office below stated and in
case of your failure so to do, judgment
will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the complaint, which
has been filed with the clerk of said
court.
In the foregoing action the PLAINTIFF
seeks to obtain an absolute divorce from
the defendant upon the grounds of nom
support and abandonment.
WILL H. MERRITT,
Attorney for Plaintiff
Office and p o. Address: sci New
ington.
Nov 5-Dec II, 1909.
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dress, Northern Bank & Trust Co.
Building, Seattle, Washington.
Nov. 5-Dec. II. 1909.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State OF washington for King County.
Aurora Land Company, Corporation,
Plaintiff vs. j. K. Litcher and Jane Doe
Litcher, his wife, whose true Christian
name is unknown, and all persons UNI
known, If any, having or claiming an
scribed real property, Defendants. No.
68S70. Notice and Summons.
State of Washington: To the above
defendants and each of them:
You and each of you, as owners.
claimants or holders of an interest or
estate in and to the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, are hereby mott.
fed that the above named plaintiff a
the holder of one certain delinquent Ia
certificate issued by the Treasurer of
King, County, State of Washington,
dated the list day of June, 1908, and
numbered as follows, for the delinquent
taxes of the following year, in the fol-
lowing amount, and upon the real prop
erty situated in said King County, de-
Scr1bed as follows, to-wit:
River Park Add, lot II, block 5, GER
amount $1.49.
That the taxes for the following prior
and subsequent years have been paid by
the plaintiff upon said above described
real property, to-wit:
Lot u, block s, River Park Add. 81
Which several sums bear interest at
the rate of IS per cent per annum from
said date of payment, and are all the
uupaiO anu taxes upon ana
against said real property.
You and each of you, (including said
persons unknown, if any, are hereby
further notified and summoned to be
and appear within sixty days after the
date of first publication of this notice,
exclusive of the day, of said first publ
cation, to-wit, 60 days from November 5,
1903, in the above entitled court and
action; and defend this action and an
swer the complaint of said plaintiff and
serve copy of your answer on the
undersigned attorney for plaintiff at
this office below stated or pay the
amount due, together with interest and
costs In case you fail so to do, judg-
ment will be rendered herein foreclos-
ing the lien of said taxes and costs
against each parcel of said real prop
erty for the sums and amounts due
upon and charged against each, for said
taxes, interest and COSTS ordering a sale
of each parcel of said property for the
satisfaction of the sums charged and
found against it respectively as pro-
v1ded by law, and as prayed in plain
lifts complaint, now on file in this cause
and Court
AURORA LAND COMPANY,
Corporation,
Plaintiff.
F. j. CARVER,
Attorney for plaintiff
Office Address: Northern Bank & Trust
Co. Bldg, Seattle, Wash
Nov. 5, Dec IT, 1909. q
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PROBATE NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
of King.
State of Washington, County of King, IS.
In the matter of the estate of Jane H.
Fosnaugh, Deceased.-No. 244O Notice
of settlement of Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that Salem H.
Fosnaugh, administrator and executor of
the estate of Jane H. Fosnaugh, de-
ceased, has rendered to and filed in said
court his final account as such admins.
traitor and executor, and that Monday,
the 9th day of December, 1909, at $50
o'clock a. M, at the court room of the
Probate Department of our said Superior
Court, in the City of Seattle, in said
King County, has been duly appointed by
said Court for the settlement of said ac-
count, at which time and place any per-
son interested in said estate may appear
and file his exceptions in writing to said
account. and contest the same
Witness, the Hon. Robert H. Lindsay,
Court Commissioner of said Superior
Court. and the seal of said court hereto
affixed this End day of November 1909.
D. K. SICKELS, Clerk.
(SeaD By PERCY F. THOMAS,
Deputy Clerk.