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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
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sThe season OF the year has
returned when, in accordance with
the reverent custom established
by our forefathers. the people of
the United States are wont to
meet in their usual places of wor-
ship on day of thanksgiving ap-
pointed by the civil magistrate to
return thanks to God for the great
mercies and benefits which they
have enjoyed.
During the past year we have
been highly blessed. No great ca
lamities of flood or tempest or
epidemic of sickness has befallen
us. We have lived in quietness,
by wars or other ru-
mors of wars. Peace and plenty
of bounteous crops and of great
Industrial production animate a
and resolute people to
all the renewed energies of bene-
ficient industry and material and
moral progress. 1t is altogether
fitting that we should humbly and
gratefully acknowledge the Divine
source of these blessings.
Therefore, hereby appoint
Thursday, the 25th day of Mo-
vember, as a day Of general
thanksgiving, and ! call upon the
people on that day, laying aside
their usual vocations. to repair to
their churches and unite in appro-
pirate services of praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God.
'In witness whereof, have
here unto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washing
ton this 18th day of November,
in the year OF our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and nine,
and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred
and thirty-fourth.
tSigned.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
BARROW HURRIES
TO AID SPOKANE
PRISONERS
fBy United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SPOKANE, Nov. 16.-It is re-
ported today that several ma
tional committeeman of the Indus
trial Workers of the World are on
their way from Chicago to assist
in the fight being made by that
organization against the ordinance
prohibiting street speaking.
Clarence Darrow, who acted as
attorney for Meyer and Haywood
two years ago when they were
tried in Idaho for completely In
the alleged killing of Ex-Governor
Steunenberg, is en- route here from
Chicago to prosecute the habeas
corpus cases brought by imprison-
ed Industrialists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
\. ?. CASES
Up TODAY

The trial of the Northern Pacific
condemnation cases for the Point
Defiance line was taken up again in
federal court today with the suit
against w. G. Davies and Kennedy
for a strip of ground 120 feet wide
up at North 43d street facing on
Water street
This is one of the two or three
pieces left on the east side of the
city to complete the railways right
to go up the shore line to the
smelter.
A jury was secured at noon and
the taking of testimony started this
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
VANDALS CHOP
OPEN WATER
PIPE

Vandals have been at work in the
South End of the city again.
In water district 542, where
Wright & Sweeney are at work put
ting in water mains. some one went
with an AK Sunday and chopped a
big pipe after 1T had been laid.
1t is supposed to be the work of
some advocates of the well plant,
who took this means of showing
spite against ex-Mayor Wright for
his former activity for a gravity
water supply
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
for
ID Butchers

is $500.
The arrests here are but a part
OF the statewide campaign against
tainted meat.
The actions come as the result
of a visit made by Inspector Ad-
ans to Tacoma in September.
OF the 81 samples taken then but
II were found free from preserva
tives, and so per cent of the
hamburger and bulk sausage in
vestigated was declared by the
state chemist to be unfit for use.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
(By United Press Leased Wire.


PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16. -
That the Unietd States was forced
to humble itself before Japan at
the time the anti-Japanese feel
ing, aroused by the school diff
eulties in San Francisco, was the
startling declaration of former
Secretary of the Treasurer Leslie
M. Shaw that is causing COM
ment of a varied nature here to-
day.
Argues For Ship Subsidy.
Before the Neighborhood club
last evening, Shaw, In advocating
the passage of a ship subsidy bill,
declared that the United States is
pitifully unprepared for war and
that this country was forced to
bow before the Japanese because
the government realized Its in
ability to prosecute at successful
military campaign in the event OF
war.
"a short time ago." he
said, we had with us In this
city a delegation of Japanese
visitors. We told them how
much we loved them, and
how remote was the posi-
bility of a war between our
people and theirs. They
took it and smiled. But at
the same time their great
men at home are declaring
that the Japanese are the
rightful masters of the Pa
cific and they are limiting at
their willingness to defend
this attitude with arms.
800 Ships on the Pacific.
I'm not trying to tell you that
we are going to war with the JAP
anese, but you can't overlook the
fact. Japan has 500 ships of her
merchant marine on the water
and fifty more on the ways. Every
one is under contract to quit com.
merce and start another line of
marine activity at the call of the
government.
Swallowed q Bitter Pill.
"There was a deep-seated alarm
in Washington at the time OF San
Franciscos outbreak against the
Japanese. You don't know how
near we were. In order to avert
| 1t we had to knuckle down to
every condition they demanded.
Had we been in condition for war
and been possessed of a merchant
marine we never would have
swallowed that bitter pill"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16

Do you know this girl?
She is Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
Her face is thin and her eyes
are the only feature of her face
Which still show the beauty that
made her famous when her hus-
band was tried three years ago
for killing Stanford White.
To add to her troubles. her
brother, Howard Nessft, was ar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
BURY VICTIMS Of
MINE HORROR
e sseeeseeseesss . . .

May man shoot defsnse OF his dog? Especially IL
dog przewnning setter that had charg
ed and retrieved like true sportsman should and more ss
pecay shooting he is about to be elm
bulldog that has sunk his teeth in his
, victims frngy throat?
is OF law be thrashed out In JUS
Thursday afternoon and the defendant
other than IT. H Kelly
attorney the defense OF Mrs Martina Kyal
q shaug. trial for murder.
The shooting charged against Kelly several days
result nne bun dos belonging % e @ Por
Complaint having feen made 70
the police warrant issued the attorneys arrest
Thursday The charge IL usng firearms
Of the dead dog think
Ing Of bringing other charges but Attorney Kelly declares
. himself at AL worried - prospect
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
(BY THE FATHER OF COUNTRY
AND PRESIDENT TAF'S FOR 1909
"a PARALLEL l20 YEARS APART)

concord; to promote the knowl-
edge and practice of true religion
and virtue, and. the increase of
science among them and US; and,
generally, to grant unto all man
kind such a degree of temporal
prosperity as He alone knows to
be best.
Given under my hand, at the
city of New York, the third day
of October, A. d. 1889.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
BIG PHONE AND
TELEGRAPH
MERGER
TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY SAID TO
HAVE JOINED HANDS WITH
WESTERN UNION.
(By United Press Leased Wire.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Wall street
believes today that the announce-
ment of the American Telephone &
Telegraph company that 1t had OBJ
tanned a substantial minority inter-
est in the stock of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph company, means that
1t has enough voting power to take
active control of the Western Union.
This is reported to foreshadow a
merger of the two companies into
q billion dollar corporation and IL is
reported that william Fl. Baker, for
mer vice president and general man
ager of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany, will be the new general mana
ger of the Western Union.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16

lrested In New Haven, Conn, some
time ago, for attempting to sell
fake rings. Harry Thaw, from his
cell at Matteawan, sent $500 bail
money and Howard jumped his
bail and is now a fugitive from
justice.
Restaurant life, late hours, and
more worry than comes to ordin-
airy persons in a whole lifetime are
telling on Evelyn Thaw.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-16
JAPS MADE U.S. SUBMIT, SAYS EXz CClAABIlQET MEMBER
MAKES
STARTLING
REVELATION.

DECLARES UNITED STATES
WAS FORCED TO SWALLOW
BITTER PILL BY JAPAN,
OWING TO UNPREPARED-
NESS FOR WAR - CON-
PEELED TO KNUCKLE DOWN
TO EVERY CONDITION DE-
MANDED.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Trim Your Nails.

There Is certain eminent physician
who. wiser than the children of light,
plods his way along In an unbeaten
track and has no peer as q diagnosti-
clan. He Is always accompanied by
an expert manicurist, instead of a
white or colored valet. 1.-THE human
nail. like the human hair" ne said
to me, lis much affected by physical
conditions. BARRIERS will tell you that
in certain seasons the beard, for in
stance. grows nearly twice as fast az
at others. 1t Is 30 with the nails. At
times. according to how we feel, the
free edge may be a month in growing;
there Is some retarding agent. At
other times 1t may grow in a week.
Sometimes the nail has transverse
burrows, indicating periods of illness.
At other times 1t bears burrows run.
ming lengthwise-a sure indication Of
govt. My manicurist can tell by these
indications when your last sickness
occurred, and can tell what the NAL
adv vas
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Strange Fare for Parislans.

Amid the horrors Of the stage OF
Paris in 1871, one Cadol found time to
Issue book or recipes for the prep
aration OF the strange fare 70 which
the city was reduced. Our stomachs
are turned into natural history mu.
seums," he wrote, but we must make
he best Of circumstances, and rem
Ter our food as palatable as we can"
So housewives were instructed how to
disguise the flesh of dogs, horses,
'sses, rats and mice; and were shown
that, despite the old adage, one can
make an omelet without breaking
eggs. The recipe for an eggless omelet
was as follows: Soak an army bis.
cult In suSared water favored with
orange flower; chop finely and spread
on hot dish; powder we'll with sugar,
and then pour over, and set light to.
liberal helping of rum" With eggs
at six dollars a dozen and rum at but
little more than it's normal price. this
palatable imitation Of an "omelette
an rhum" became most popular dish
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Business Locals.

A furnished house to rent. Inquire
of Hayden Henderson.
For Rent-Three four-room cottages.
Inquire of Mrs L. L. Bradley.
: New line of Ladies shirt waists
Dutch collar at Engler Co.'S.
just received shipment of Florsheim
shoes for men at Engler Co.'S.
Ranchers looking for hay hands can
find them at G. A. Harrington's harness
shop. 5 -..
New line of mems spring suits and
Fancy Vests for the Fourth of July at
Engler Co.'S;
For Sale-A latest improved Smith
Premier Typewriter almost new. In
quire at the Henderson Bank
Save those natural teeth, thereby re-
tain your facial expression. DIR. Gill;
land 'the dentist" Office over the Drug
Store. Elko
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Heart Disease.

Hereafter let us require every con.
testant in Marathon to be exam.
med before the start, to see If his
heart is in condition to stand a
strain. Hearts are not as tough as
hey used to be. Too much high liv.
ing and low thinking The heart used
to be leathery; now it is more or less
like vulcanized rubber. 1t weakens
when appealed to. It's expansive and
'ontractile powers are not what they
were when we fought the Indians in
the forest or chased the wild archo-
'auras over the foothills. Instead Of
being elastic. we have in certain
'cnse become plastic. Before enter.
ing into q Marathonic competition,
boys. take trip through new Hud-
'on river tunnel, pass through the
compressed air chamber, and test your
heart. If you can survive McAdoo or
Jacobs you can run 9S miles in a day.
New York Press.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Letter "E" Caused Trouble.

The letter "e' has caused quaint
quarrel between the parish council and
the overseers of Brockenhurst, Hants,
England. The parish council decided
some time ago to add &c" to the name
Of their village, but when the overseers
received precepts for Brockenhurste
they refused to pay, as they said they
did not know Of such a place. Conse-
quently the council has no money and
has got into debt and now the over
seers are being begged to pay, at all
events, under protest, and leave the
"e" question to be threshed out at the
annual parish meeting.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Tells Secre, Of the Navy

Why are the wives of American
officers barred from war shipsP This
question. which has puzzled the fair
sex for years, has at last been answered
by Mrs. Robley D. Evans, who recently
passed through Boston on her way to
Bar HarbOr. That a friend of Mrs.
Evans herself is responsible for the
order which with every new cruise
separates thousands of husbands and
wives may be news even to those
intimately connected with naval affairs.
Several years ago the Rear-Admiraps
ship was in tropical waters on a neutral
mission. While in one of the tropical
ports. the wife of an officer was seated
on the deck one evening, when a man
crept up out Of one of the companion
ways and presented himself. A de-
feated South American revolutionist,
this man appealed to the woman to
protect him. He told such tale. of
wrongs that she finally capituluted and
consented to hide him in the ships
hold.
The next day, when far out at sea,
the hidden desperate was found by one
of the ships officers. The authorities
then made the ruling banishing women
from warships for all time.--Exchange.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
For Sale

Completely furnished, fve-room
dwelling, with bath, pantry, closets and
outbuilding. Sanitary plumbing; hot
and cold water; electric lighted. Every
thing new.
Also completely furnished and
equipped home of six rooms, with bath.
room, trunk-room, pantry, closets,
laundry and outbuildings. Complete
sanitary plumbing; electric lighted
throughout; cemented cellar and walks;
screened-in porches. Three lots with
lawn, garden, poultry yard and sheds.
One of the most comfortable and con-
venient homes in Elko.
For terms and further particulars,
address
G. F. hickey,
Elko. Nevada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Married In Prison.

A strange marriage recently took
place between young French couple,
M. Louis Jean Savenac and Mile.
Marie Octovier. The bride and
bridegroom have received dowry
from the state. The bridegroom was
awarded on the day of his engage
ment seven years hard labor; the
bride got two years on the same day.
They met in the passage leading from
the courtroom to the cells and
plighted their troth. They were mar.
ried in one of the prisons in Paris.
The jailers passed round the hat and
bought them their wedding rings, and
in presenting them TO the happy pair
the governor Of the prison made the
pretty allusion to their condition that
their friends all hoped that these two
little rings would be the heaviest in
the chain which bound them.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Calls Pluck.

A delicious German dish. Soak
pluck half an hour in cold water; then
turn off all except heart and lights
Boil one hour; add onion bay leaf and
some whole allspice. Drain, then press
over night, as 1t must be cold and hard
to cut properly. Cut in thin slices,
then cut these slices In long, thin
strips. ct takes one hour to cut it,
To prepare gravy. Larse piece but.
ter and flour well Drowned add
chopped onion and parsley; then soup
stock to make sufficient gravy. The
juice Of four lemons and grated rind
of one, pepper salt and little paprika
and last add tablespoonful sour
cream. .
German homemade noodles will
fried bread crumbs are to be servel
with this.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
FOR SALE
SITUATE D AT ALPHA
8S miles north of Eureka on the E. e. P.
Ry:, Eureka Co., Nevada.

$50 acres patented land, 40 rs of
contract land (inost all fenced md in
hay). Good range for horses, cattle and
sheep. 80 head of good cattle; 10 head
of which are cows and heifers broken to
milk. 25 head Of horses and some wild
range horses. Auto Fedan hay press.
Machinery aud wagons. Corrals, Barn
and Furnished House. 100 Fruit trees
set out this spring. Chickens, turkeys
and pigs. Water rights good.
Pleasant place to live. Reason for
selling is lack of school.
For further particulars address
A. w. CLAYTON,
Alpha via. Palisade,
Eureka. Co.. Nevada
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
Mkt Milk

From May 1, 1909, I will furnish
milk as follows: One quart per day for
one month, $3.50; gallon per day for
one month. $3.50; one gallon per day
for one month, $3.50; from five gallons
up per day 20 ceuts a gallon.
EUGENE l.. CIPRIANI.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
No Mystery.

Son, why don't you marry Emily?
You have been attentive enough to
her"
Father, will never marry Emily.
There Is an insuperable bar TO our
union
What mystery Is this?"
NO mystery. Only / asked Emily
and she won't have me-"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
The NEW TARIFF LAW

In the following statement Champ
Clark, the democratic leader of the
house Of representatives, sizes up the
new tariff law as it will he when the
conference committee gets through
with it;
'AOf COURSE" declared Champ Clark,
1T is not positively known what shape
the -Aldrich-S moot bill will show
when the conferees get through with it.
Enough Is known to enable q rational
creature to conclude: First, that the
Payne bill is worse than the Dingley;
second the Aldrich-Smoot bill is worse
than the Payne: third, the Payne
Aldrich Smoot bill, when finished by
the conferees, will he the worst of all;
fourth, President Taft will sign any
bill sent him.
"The truth is" added Mr.. Clark, q.
republican revision of republican
tariff bill is a startling ILLUSTRATION OF
falling out of the frying pan into the
Ere"
"The senate stand-patters exploit
The fact that while they have increased
the rates OH many items, they also have
reduced them OH several; but on ex,
animation, it will be found that the
reductions are on articles of which.
there is small production and on which
the import duties are hardly worth con-
,idering.
For instance the amount of none Y
cxtorted from the people on either the
cotton manufacturers schedule or the
WOODEN manufacturers schedule, is a
hundred fold as great as all the rcduc-
tions made by Messrs. Aldrich and
Smoot. Some of the most absurd
theories propounded since the confusion
Of tongues at Babel have been developed.
in the senate debate.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts,, the scholar of politics, ;
made the wonderful discovery that there
is no such thing as u consumer.
Senator Smoot elucidated the sui
.ect Of high prices By arguing that
retail merchants are the arch-sinners
in that matter because they charge
three or four hundred per cent profit.
But the fact is the average profits OF
The retailers are not over 10 per cent.
certainly not over 20 per cent Yet we
are all-ninety millions Of us-to be
skinned because Senator SmOot is a
lightning calculator and Il sleight OF
hand performer with arithmetic.
But the most absurd theory Of all the
absurd theories in the senate debate is
that tariff, instead of raising prices,
actually lowers them. The people ought
10 let the statement soak into their
heads Us the nc plus ultra of the absurd,
and then seriously ask themselves this
question: II the tariff lowers prices
how does If happen that Washington
FOR the past four months has been in
tested with great manufacturers or
heir agents lobbying against all rCduc-
lions in the tariff and in many cases
demanding increases in rates2
Does not every sane man know that
# a tariff lowers prices these same
manufacturers and their lobbyists would
be raising heaven and earth to have the
tariff abolished entirely?
"Mcssr. Aldrich Smoot and their
cOnfcrees seem to think they can induce
the people to doubt evidences Of their
own senses
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
A Hint to the Laundross

Recently while ironing I scorched
a fine white waist so badly | feared I
should be unable to wear It. but after
covering It with ordinary starch,
dampened, and laying It IN the sun
for an hour every vostige of scorch
fie" ~o1"e i.--Na'ic~e N-?-a+'.;>
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-07-19
EVERYBODY Happv.

The man who would rather be right
nan he president generally has his
preference gratifCd. PHILADELPHIA
jlrcoTd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-02
MAKES THREAT OF SUICIDE
JOSEPH p. TOMPKINS WRITES
LETTERS AND DISAPPEARS.
Takes the Precaution, However, to
Draw His Salary and Care for
His Clothes.

Joseph p Tompkins, member of No.
81 engine company, received his pay
check for October yesterday morning and
disappeared. A letter received by his
wife at their home, 1O11 Goth street, later
In the day contained the announcement
that the young man had decided to COM
nit suicide. Such information was also
contained in a letter received by Alvin
Neumeyer, his attorney. The wife is left
alone with one child.
The police of the third precinct were
communicated with and were asked to
find the missing man. They were told OF
the suicide threat but in view of the
actions of Tompkins shortly before his
disappearance. they. put no. credence in
that theory. Tompllins took what clothes
he had at the quarters OF the engine
company and carried them away in a suit
case.
In one of the letters Tompkins wrote
that he was in financial trouble; that he
was heavily in debt, and that he wanted
to liQuidate some of his debts before end
ing his life. He referred to his wife and
child in most endearing terms and asked
his attorney TO do what he could for
them.
Tompkins is a native of Houston, Tex.
He served in the United States Marine
Corps before coming here. He was APP
pointed to the fire department about four
teen months ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-02
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths were reported to
the health Office during the last twenty
four hours:
Catherine E Woodward. 90 years. 3917
14th street northwest.
Margaret O'Neill, "A years, Sd and H
streets northeast.
Dennis Mulligan. 65 years. 1871 L street
northwest.
Esther NJ Funk. Is years. 900 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast.
Mary E. Qrany. % years, Government
Hospital for the Insane.
Henry w. Birge. SO years. 525 Sd street
northwest.
Emma L. Cook. IS years. 2so7 NJ street
northwest.
Harry A. Hoover. 10 years. s21 C street
southwest.
Thomas c. Moisey. As years. 4s1 9Th
street northwest.
Louis Luders. 80 years, 1920 9Th street
northwest
Katie Taylor. 20 years. 500 18th street
southwest.
Burton G. Watts. months, 296 18th
street southwest.
Dorothy A. Walker, months. 1924 18th
street northwest.
John Evans French. day. 400 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast.
Margaret Lincoln. 2 years, 729 23d
street.
Edward c. winslow. . years. 4s6 S
Catherine Foster, 81 years. zoos 7th
street southeast.
Catherine Arlington. 63 years. 624 T
street northwest.
Samuel Contee. % years. 431 6la street
southwest.
William Coats, As years, Casualty Hos
pital
Harvey Stearns, 81 years, IL Madison
court northwest.
Seymour Wise. % years. 1914 10th street
northwest.
Thomas Lee c. Everett, % days, 1o2S
Linden court northeast