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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
RANCHMEN AT WAR WITH
PESTS WHICH DESTROY
THEIR CROP.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 8.
Field mice destroy crops on
hundreds of thousands of acres of
land every year, and in the CEN
ters of population the ravages of
rats entail a direct loss of $780,
100000 annually. In addition,
the rat excites grave apprehen-
sion because of its agency in dis
tributing the dreaded plague and
other diseases. Investigations
conducted by the department of
agriculture and the marine hospi-
tai service have prompted the au-
thorities to send out a warning
against field mice and house rats
Although losses by field mice
have proved steady drain on the
resources of American farmers
and nurserymen, yet only occa-
sionaly, and over limited areas,
has the damage been so great as
to attract special attention. The
extent of the destruction. of crops
by mice in the United States has
never even approached that in
Europe, where they have overrun
whole provinces, leaving ruin in
their wake. During the past year.
however, a native species infested
the alfalfa fields in Humboldt val
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
Loss CAUSED BY RATS
AND MICE AMOUNTS
To MILLIONS

ley, Nevada, in such multitudes as
to destroy nearly the whole crop
Data on Destruction.
The rat continues to cause great
losses throughout the United
States. During the last year an
attempt was made to ascertain the
approximate damage done to
property by this rodent in the
cities of Washington and Balti-
more. Many business men were
interviewed, including dealers in
various kinds of merchandise,
feeders of horses, managers of ho-
tells and restaurants, and manufac-
turers. The inquiries included all
sections of the two cities, and
both small and large dealers
Data were obtained from some
600 firms and individuals, from
which it was estimated that the
annual loss from rats in Washing.
ton is about 100000; in Balti.
more, upward of 100000, AS
suming. as is probable, that SINH
lar conditions obtain in all our
cities of over 100000 inhabitants,
the damage by rats in these cen
tiers of population entails a di-
rect loss of S2O,000,000 annually.
This enormous sum gives an idea
Of the still greater total loss in
f1icted by this rodent throughout
the length and breadth of the
land
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09

on the journey to New York. He
suffered hunger and all kinds of
hardships. He made his way on
foot for nearly 500 miles, and
rode on freight trains and with
teamsters.
When he left Mount Vernon,
Rhodes was a stalwart young
man. Now his hair is gray and
in other ways he shows the effects
of his terrible experiences. Tues
day night he sought lodging at
Mount Vernon police headquarters
and was arraigned yesterday
morning in special session on a
charge of vagrancy and allowed
to go on suspended sentence
Friends raised a fund to send him
to relatives in New Jersey.
1t was shown when his pardon
was granted that he killed the ma
tive in the performance of hi
duty as soldier.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
MISSING PASTOR
SUSPECTED OF
MURDER

PORT HURON, Mich, Jan. o.
Two false teeth in the dismem'
bered body taken from the heat
ing stove of Columbus Methodist
church have been identified as
those of Gideon Browning, the
carpenter, and 1t is now supposed
that Rev. John Carmichael, who
has not been seen since the body
was discovered, was the murderer
A reward of $500 has been Offered
for his capture.
It developed yesterday that the
minister had just completed writ
ing a novel the day before the
murder. A dispatch from Benk'
leman, Neb., says Carmichael was
pastor of a church there in 1896
but that he was criticised for al
legged indiscretions and dismissed
after charges had been preferred
against him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
rWO DEAD IN
SUICIDE PACT;
LOVE is Fooled

Korber's parents told the police
of the boys love for Mrs. Wood
and how they had opposed his de,
termination to marry her. 1t was
this opposition that is supposed to
have led young Korber and the
girl to death.
Mrs. Woods marriage with
young Edward Townsend Wood In
1905 was the climax of a brief ro-
nance, when the girl was 16. They
separated in a few months, Mrs.
Wood charging cruelty.
Korber had been her playmate
sweetheart, and, after her separa-
ton from Wood, called at the Or
loft home. Recently the girls
family stopped the young mans
visits, urging him to wait until
Mrs. Wood obtained her divorce.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
ON TRAIL OF
MURDERER

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Be
lieving that Dwight E. Clougn
murdered his mining partner
Jefferson d. Etter in Honduras
three years ago, Miles Wallace,
former district attorney of Fres-
no, Cal, is prosecuting a search
for Clough on the Pacific coast.
Wallace is of the opinion tina,
the fugitive is now hiding In
Portland, Ore, and the authori-
ties of that city will be asked
to join in the hunt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09

nv United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Jan. "a ro-
nance ending in supposed sui
0)de pact was revealed In the iden-
tliloafion of the bodies of a we'll
d<1eged young man and woman
Gcond with bullet wounds In their
fe1nples In the woods near Yon-
Arthur Korber, Is, son of a
wealthy dentist, is the man whose
t4atuation for the pretty wife OF
tNvnsend Wood led him to kill
Il ~ inamorata and himself.
Hrs. Wood separated from her
\ IVsband and was suing for a di-
Vorce. She lived with her mother
Mrs. Macmillan Orloff. She was
2 descendant. it is said, of Count
Orloff.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
SAN FRANCISCO
MARKETS

Wheat-No. I California club per
Genital, $1.67 n Ito; California
white milling, $1.75 q 1870;
Northern bluestem, $1.75@
1.S0; of grades. $1.5001.6O;
reds. $1.621 " @1.671s.
Barley--Feed, $1.42k 01.45;
common to fair, $1.35 lao;
brewing at San Francisco, nomin-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
SOLDIER TURNED OUT
ON 3,000-M!LE TRAMP
PARDONED AFTER COURT-MA RTIAL4 REACHES MOUNT
VERNON AFTER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Alfred
Fields Rhodes, 80 years old, who
enlisted In Company F of the Fiji
teenth infantry, in 1898, and who
was court-martialed and SEN
fenced to fifty years. imprison-
ment for killing a native in the
Philippine islands who tried to
take his gun away from him while
he was doing sentry duty, tramped
into Mount Vernon Tuesday, after
suffering many days of torture.
Through the efforts of Con-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
RANCHER FROZEN
TO death

A dispatch from Mission junction
says: Harry Scorey, rancher,
aged about 40 years, who lived
with his mother and two sisters
few miles from here, was, frozen
to death two nights ago.
He had been in town and was
driving home his double team. 1t
is believed he was thrown from
his wagon.
Early next morning his team
wandered home. His body was
found by his nephew.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09

gresham Andrus, President
Roosevelt pardoned Rhodes on
November 5, 1907, after he had
been a prisoner on Alcatraz island,
in the harbor of San Francisco.
After his release he was i'll for
months in a San Francisco hospi-
tai, his illness being due both to
wounds and fever contracted in
the islands.
A month and a half ago he left
San Francisco with only IS, which
had been given him, and started
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
BUSINESS SHOWS
BIG GAIN

Harbor Master Captain Cliff re-
ports an increase of business in
Tacoma shipping for December of
nearly a million dollars worth of
goods over November. The ex-
ports were $2,579,4S4, and the
imports $1,706,751. Exports
alone increased $S04,3S0. There
was 1854, 400 feet Of lumber
shipped out, S26,967 bushels of
grain and $4,000 barrels of flour.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-09
PRESIDENT HELPS oI,PHANs.
Corrected Daily.)

Hundreds of orphans have been
helped by the President of The In
dustria1 and Orphans Home at Ma
con. Ca, who writes: I'VE have
used Electric Bitters in this Insti-
tuition for nine years. 1t has prov
ed . most excellent medicine for
stomach. Liver and Kidney troubles.
We regard 1t as one of the best
family medicines on earth" Il I'm
vigorates the vital organs, purifies
the blood, aids digestion. creates app
petite. To strengthen and build up
thin, pale, weak children or rum
DOWN people IL has no equal. Best
for female complaints. Only koc Al
all drug stores.
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
HAD A RIGHT MERRY TINE.
Presents and Souvenirs Distributed on
casey's Birthday.

"Yis," began Mrs. O'Toole, "ye see.
II was Casey's birthday yesterday, an
Casey brought home two bottles OF
rale stuff-one inside an one outside
to sillybrate the occasion. an they
fist had the tonne of their lives last
avenin'. Iv'rybody happy an iv'rybody
handin' out rrisents an souvenirs OF
the evint to iv'rybody else!
Casey gave his wife an his mother
in-law black eye apiece; his wife
give Casey a punch In the bread
basket; his mother-in-law give him
side swipe with skillet; an Casey
give the old lady another black eye to
keep company with the first one; an
the police come an give Casey a ride
to the station house; an this mornin'
the Judge took hand in the game. an
give Casey ten days!
"oh, twas a gran sillybration they
had all round. wild remimbrances an
souvenirs handed out regardless OF tx
pense or who they happened to hit!'
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
Senate Tariff Program.

Washington. - President Taft was
informed Friday Of the Senate pro-
gram for the administration Of the new
tariff bill.
It provides that a minimum tariff
shall apply to all countries for one
year. At the end of that time the max
imum rates will go into effect against
all countries which, in the opinion of
the President, are not giving the
United States their best tariff rates.
The difference between the mini
mum and maximum rates will be 20
percent
1t is planned that for nine months or
one year the minimum rate shall ap-
ply to all countries, without distinc-
tion or discrimination.
At the end of this period the maxi
mum rates automatically will go into
effect against all countries which in
the opinion of the executive are not
giving the United States their most
favored nation clauses.
If, in the general inquiry which
will be made during the probation
ary" period, the President finds that
certain nations are discriminating
against the United States he will mere
ly refrain from issuing proclama-
tion regarding these countries and the
maximum rate henceforth will apply
to them.
This plans gives to the executive
complete power of inquiry and deci-
sions. The Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States in a case involving the con-
stitutionality of the Mckinley tariff
act, decided that Congress, by similar
methods of administration, was in no
wise delegating its authority to the
executive.
President Taft, 1t is understood.
strongly favors this idea Of applying
the maximum and minimum principle
and it is believed that it will finally
be agreed upon.
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
Third Reading in House.

The House April 2nd passed the fol
lowing bills on third reading:
S. B. &c, Lines. support Of peniten
tiary.
S. B. so. Drake. support of Agricul
tural College and experiment station.
S. B. 1872. McCue, relating to wills
S. B. 373, Bardwell. punish those who
interfere with electric wires and me-
ters.
s. B. 374, punish those who inter.
fere with gas pipes and meters.
S. B. 81, Burris, support of insane
asylum.
S. B. Ss5. Campbell. grant Kansas,
Colorado road right-of-way across in.
sane asylum grounds.
S. B. 326, Cove, abolish third degree.
S. B. 4, Carpenter, development OF
state normal.
S. B. 2s, Ehrhart, support Of reform
atory.
S. B. 80, Carpenter. continuing ap-
preparation of one-fourth mill for state
normal school.
S. B. 6s. McCue, support of home for
dependent and neglected children.
>. Is. 2lf, lrDy, TO require railroad
companies receiving charters from the
state to maintain headquarters In
Colorado.
S. B. ZIG, Cary. providing that stock
inspection board shall have exclusive
control of stock on range.
S. B. 81. Cary, enrolment of stall
lions.
S. B. III, Cove. acknowledgment Of
deeds.
S. E. $50, Burger, leasing of state
lands.
S. B. 391. Carpenter, extending the
corporate life of Union Colony at Gree
ley.
S. B. 431, Wood, relating to public
trustees.
S. B. 191, Carringer, salary of min
ing superintendent of state land board.
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
DAILY RECORD OF EVENTS
TRANSFERRING AT STATE CAPITAL
hou,e Proc eeedIna. AprII 1.t


The following bills were passed ON
third reading in the House April 1st:
H. B. 279, Hicks-Increasing number
Of judges In the Ffrst judicial district
to two.
H. B. 21e. Luxsn-Providing for the
initiative and referendum in co-opsra-
tive companies.
H. B. 1873, Metz-ProvidinG for salar
ries of s125 a month for court stenog-
raphers in counties Of the first class.
H. B. 314. Weiser-Providing that
the state shall pay the election ex-
penses of state officers.
H. B. 452, Hicks-Tor road from
Tolland. Gilpin county. to Yankee.
Clear Creek county.
H. B. 121, Wheeler-Making 1t fel-
ony to impersonate any person In .
marriage.
H. B. 436. Weiser-Providing that
physicians from states other than
Colorado need not testify in cases with
out consent of parties involved; pres
ent law now applies only to Colorado
physicians.
H. B. GOA, Bell-Governing leasing
OF public lands by State Land Board
and permitting board to sell parcels
of state land Of less than forty acres.
H. B. 4sS, Foley-Appropriati $685.
900 for construction Of driveway from
south side of Denver to north side OF
Colorado Springs.
S. B. 1s9, Senator Carringer-Pro-
vidng for leasing state oil and mineral
lands.
s. B. 261. Senator Carringer-Ap'
propriating $46,500 for State Industrial
School for Girls.
S. B. 20, Senator Carringer and Rep
resentative Carver - Appropriating
$154, 200 for the State School Of Mines.
s. B. 100. Senator Twining-Fixins
the classification Of Pitkin county and
the salaries Of county officials.
S. B. 1879, Senator Carringer-Creat-
ing the State Capitol Art Commission.
S. B. 147, Senator Tobin-Regulat.
ing the practice of veterinary, medicine
and surgery.
S. B. 242, Senator Casaday-Appro-
priating $4,000 for the University OF
Colorado.
S. B. 100. Senator Casaday-Provid-
ing for leasing or sale OF state lands
upon which there are improvements.
S. B. 81. Senator Ehrhart-Appro-
priating $14,5O0 for completion of cell
building at the State Reformatory.
s. B. 1O7. Senator Croke-Ceding
jurisdiction to United States govern
ment of additions to Fort Logan mill
tary reservation.
S. B. 102, Senator Button-Making
it felony to tamper with or start
any automobile without consent of the
owner.
S. B. 80. Senator Lines-Permitting
assessment for public improvements
in cities of less than 100000 and In
corporated towns and giving mayor or
Board of Trustees right to let such
contracts.
S. B. 17s, Senator Gove-Concerning
officers before whom acknowledge
ments Of conveyances Of land may be
held.
s. B. 11s, Senator Carringer and
Representative Carver-Appropriat
$4,000 for construction and equip
ment of building for an ore dressing
and metallurgical plant at the State
School of Mines
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The Yale-Harvard boat races this
year have been set for July LIST.
A wife, according to ruling by
no right to search her husbands pock-
cts for money.
Following the abolition of the policy
of leasing the service of its convicts
to private employees. Georgia will EN-
bark upon extensive construction of
public roads with convict labor
On board. the steamship Hamburg.
near the Azores islands. March 29th,
an insane Italian made rush toward
ex-President Roosevelt with knife.
He was intercepted and placed in
irons.
Mrs. John H. Vincent. wife of Bishop
Vincent of the Methodist church. died
at indianapolis March 31st, at the age
of seventy-seven years.
George B. Cortelyou. former secre-
tary of the treasury. has taken up his
new duties as president of the Consoli-
dated Gas Company in New York
City.
The Brown University baseball team
will go across the continent from
Providence, II. l., to Seattle, Wash, in
June to play ball at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition.
George Aunger, vice president of
the City Council a. Ashtabula, O.. has
been sentenced to eighteen months at
hard labor in the state penitertiary.
Aunger was convicted of soliciting a
bribe of $1,000 from the gas company.
Reassessments of duties amounting
to total increase of $1,239. 900 on
sugar imported by the American
Sugar Refining Company at the refin-
cry of Havemeyer & Elder between
December. 1901. and November. 1907,
have been ordered by Collector Loeb
OF the port OF New York or the ground
Of fraud.
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

President Taft, who is paid month
ly. received his first months salary
April 1st. 1t was for the sum of $5.-
625O1
The secretary of the interior has ap.
proved the Union Pacific railroad land
list for 1876 acres in the Evanston,
Wyo., district.
Frank B. Cunningham of Cheyenne,
Wyo., has been appointed supeHntend-
ent of construction of public buildings
in the treasury department.
The statements of the estimated
value of foreign coins show that for
the last three months there has been
a net increase in the value Of fine
silver of 1876 cents an ounce.
A resolution by Senator Clay COLI
ing upon the secretary of the treasury
for information concerning the sugar
trade was adopted by the Senate. The
information covers the cost of refin-
ing sugar, the quantity of beet and
cane sugar raised in this country, the
quantity imported, and much other
data.
Money to the amount of 100000
900 may be borrowed by the secretary
of the treasury on the credit of the
United States for the purpose of erect
ing public buildings which are author
lied by Congress for cities having a
population of 5000 or more people. If
the bill recently introduced by Senator
Scott of West Virginia becomes law.
1t is stated in Washington that
America is to have an areo club COM
posed of women who have become in
terested in aeronautics. Prominent So
ciety women, including Mrs. Robert
Goelet. Mrs. Cortland Field Bishop and
Mrs. Max c. Fleishmann, are said to
be interested in the propect.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the secretary of the interior TO make an
examination OF lands in Bent county
Colorado. with a view Of designating
suitable areas for entry under the new
320-acre dry farming homestead law
His request will be favorably acted
upon at the first opportunity.
Rear Admiral George A. Converse
died at his home In Washington on the
29th ult. Of uraemic poisoning. AL
though placed on the retired list sew
eral years ago he was In active SER
vice at the time of his death. being
president OF the naval board of con-
struction. 1t was under him as chief
of the bureau of navigation that the
battleship fleet of sixteen vessels
which recently circled the globe was
assembled.
President Taft has declared himself
In favor of Il tariff bureau to be created
at this session of Congress.
President Taft has appointed Rich
ard f. Sloan to be governor of Arizona.
He is now an associate justice of the
Arizona supreme bench. with station
at Prescott.
President Taft has stated that he
does not consider the appointment Of
judges to be part Of the patronage Of
United States senators. The President
thinks that judicial appointments
should be free from political influence.
He considers himself to be competent
to pass upon the fitness of them for
the bench. and will do so, while at the
same time he will receive suggestions.
The Springfield herald., 1909-04-09

A plan has been successfully put in.
to effect in New York of reserving for
the exclusive use of women the rear
car Of all rush-hour trains in the Hud-
son tunnel system.
Prince Kasatkin- Rosteofseff. .
member of one of the best known fam
lilies in Russia. was killed at Warsaw
on the 31st ult by Rosa Bauer, con-
cert hall singer The woman made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide.
A heavy earthquake shock. followed
by q light one, occurred at Charleston,
W. Va, early on the morning OF April
I'd. Houses were shaken and pictures
fell from the walls. The shock was
also felt at Winchester and Harper's
Ferry.
That section of the new insurance
law of New York which limits to $780,
100000 the amount Of business an In
surance company may write In one
year, has been declared constitutional
by Justice O'Gorman in the New York
State Supreme Court.
Word has been received at Manila of
the murder OF DIR. William Jones, the
noted anthropologist who was in the
field for the Columbian museum OF
Chicago, at the town of Dumobato. at
the head waters of the Cagayan river
In Isbela province.
A Mombasa dispatch says that since
the advent of the rains, lions have
been terrifying the natives within four
miles Of Kilindini. where the Roose-
welt party is expected to land. An ele-
phant made its way into the bazaar at
Masingi and played havoc.
A union label department of the
American Federation of Labor has
been formed to promote union labels.
Officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, John B. Lennon. Bloomington. H.
linois; Vice Presidents, Max Morris,
Denver, and Owen Miller, st. Louis.
By strict party vote, Of 353 to 135.
the British House of Commons refused
to express lack of confidence in the
governments naval policy. The vote
was on a motion declaring that the
government was not building enough
battleships to secure the safety OF the
empire.
A decrease of nearly 10000 In the
number of idle coal cars during the
last two weeks in March gives an in
dication of the strenuous efforts the
railroads are making to store coal for
the expected strike in the anthracite
mines in the East. The number OF
idle box cars increased by 1850 cars.
Murmuring a prayer for her soul,
Mrs. Mary Farmer was quietly led to
the electric chair in Auburn IN. W
prison shortly after 6 O'Clock on the
morning of March 10Th and executed
for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan
at Brownville, last April. There were
no sensational incidents. This was the
second infliction of the death penalty
on a woman by electrocution in New
York.
King Peter of Servia has Issued q
ukase changing the names of his sons.
The step is taken to provide for the
name of George as the head Of the
house of Karageorgovitch. The former
Crown Prince George, who last week
renounced his rights to the throne. will
henceforth be known as Alexander.
while Alexander. Georges younger
brother, who has been recognized as
crown prince, will be known as George.