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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13

Where is womannood crushed
lowest
In India.
And $4,000 American women,
representing all sections of the
United States, are fighting for the
w2men of India.
Here is now the most crushed
and most helpless women in all
the world" Mrs. Caroline P. Wal
lace reports from Calcutta, India.
1t is to Miss ]. M. Holmes and
Mrs. Wallace, both of Los Ange-
les, Cal, who visited India as
travellers eight years ago, that
these $4,000 American women
owe their gratitude for an oppor-
tunity to fight for the most hope
less womanhood in the world.
When Miss Holmes and Mrs.
Wallace saw the terrible condition
in India they Immediately or
ganized the 1ndo-American Wom
ans Restoration league.
The child wife system of India
Is terrible. India is nation born
of babies; child wifehood, child
child widowhood-,
which means that the girl whose
husband dies must never marry
again and must live in seclusion
are the most terrible things that
women are called upon to suffer
anywhere today on the face of
he earth.
Statistics taken in recent years
IN India show that at that time
s5S, $50 baby girls under 4 years
IF age were betrothed. There
we're 2,2O1, 4O4 wives whose ages
ranged from 8 to o years. There
we're S,1O5,759 wives whose age
ranged from 10 to ii years--in
Ill, 1O,3O7,163 wives under ID
years of age.
Hundreds of women doctors in
India tell terrible stories of the
physical wrecks which these child
wives become.
They say that India is literally
BORN of baby girls.
An Indian husband has full
power over his child wife, and
,an cruelty punish her into sub
to his desires. A mem
Der 70 the restoration league in
India one day heard loud screams
is if someone was being smoth-
cred. She found that husband
and his mother had placed his
child wife in a creek. The man
explained that he was trying to
irive the devil out of his baby
wife because she had repeatedly
,ried to run home to her mother.
who lived so feet distant on the
other side of the creek. A re-
bort which the American women
nave made has stirred all India.
they say, in part:
"The faces of Indian women are
her ,saddest sight the traveller
ices on his round-the-world tour.
It is a land of stately ruins, an
that Is the marvel of
men, but in the very shadow of
is dream-like, beautiful Taj-Ma-
lal there are practices Of licen-
iousness, suffering and degra-
lation inflicted upon its little
inconceivable to the Eu-
opean mind unless actually wit
lessed, and impossible to set
orth in bald language. \
"Infants are betrothed when
hey are born, and baby girls
rom 6 to IL are married to men
( any age. One case is on rec
I'd of child of II being the
lother of three children. We
ear much in America of these
hid marriages, and It is com
lonly believed that they do not
take effect until the
midwife reaches maturity, which
a India is the very early age Of
] years. but these Impressions
re not born out by the facts,
ccording to the testimony given
ut by native writer's, and travel
RS OF undisputed veracity.
'If girl is not married at IL
ears she is thought to be old and /
nmarriageable and disgraces her
'Hindoos all over Indian are said
. DO agreed on two points: the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
MRS. LOUIS WILSON Or
TAINS JUDGMENT AGAINST
MRS. MGILLIVRAY IN
ALIENATION SUIT.

SEATTLE, Nov. 12.-Judge
Wilson R. Gay, in default of an
appearance by the defendant, yes
terday granted judgment of
$4,000 to Mrs. Marie Wilson
against Catherine McGillivray,
who, she says, deprived her of the
love, affection, comfort, support
and assistance of her husband
Louis Wilson, for a time connect
ed with Seattle transfer com
pany, and two years ago at the
head of a physical culture insti-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
FATHER TELLS OF SHORT
COMINGS OF PILES s
YOUTH WHO TRIED TO. ROB
BANK.

JEFFERSON, Ind, Nov. ~
Thomas Jefferson Hall, the 16-
year-old lad who yesterday killed
Cashier Fawcett and dangerously
wounded President Woodward and
Chauffeur Tucker, after attempt
ing to rob the New Albany Ma
tional bank, is held in the re-
formatory here today.
hTe lads father, William ].
Hall, a cabinetmaker, today ad-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
TRIED BY
CABLE

(By United Press Leased Wire
SEATTLE, Nov. 10. l..
Larsen, charge dwith shipping 500
ptarmigan from Nome, Alaska, in
violation of the Alaska game
laws, is being tried today by
cable. According to District At
torney Elmer E. Todd, Larson
will plead guilty and his fine will
be named by Judge Moore Of
Nome.
The birds were confiscated On
the steamship Senator by Game
Warden Ref, acting in the capa-
city of special agent of the de-
Dartment of agriculture.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
STREET CAR COMPANY COM
PLIES WITH ORDER OF
CHIEF OF POLICE.

Flat wheeled cars that have
been Gathering along Tacoma
streets were pulled off this morn
dng on final notice from Chief
Dudley that arrests would folio W
II the running of fiat wheels was
continued.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
CONTINUED From Page One.)


the gallows upon which Finch was
to die.
Killed Prominent Lawyer.
James A. Finch shot and killed
Ralph Fisher in the Mohawk
building in Portland at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, November 2S,
1908. Finch had been disbarred
from practicing law in Oregon.
Fisher was prosecutor for the
Oregon State Bar association. It
is thought that Finch was labor
ing under the hallucination that
he had been prosecuted instead
of prosecuted" which he shot
Fisher.
Had Been Warm Friends.
The two had been warm per-
sonal friends. Both were prom
inent before the bar. Finch,
however, became addicted to
drink; his clientele fell off and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13
PAGE THREE

Tacoma company 10. 8. Uns.,
form Rank. knights Of Pythias. u
maxim gelafborare arrangements
for a military ball to be head at
Masonic temple Thanksgiving
night. The affair promises to be
most brilliant one. Invitations
have been issued this week. 8
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-13

Child Girls Married to Men of
Any Age Before They Are Hard
ly Beyond Babyhood - Most
T Crushed and Helpless Women in
the World and How America
Will Aid Them.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
TACOMA WILL
 HELP Al A5KA
(sy United Press.)

SEATTLE, Jan. 27.-Tacoma men are joining in the Alaskan Day move ment and will do all in their power to make the agitation successful. Next Saturday has been selected as the day. Literature setting forth the need of good roads in Alaska will be sent to every part of the country and requests that influence be brought to bear on congress to give an appropria ton of $l UoO. 900 for good roads in Alaska.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
tsy United Press.)

BERNIE, B. C., Jan. 27.--Twenty miners were entombed this afternoon as the result of a gas explosion in the Morrlsey coal mines. There is another entrance to the mine beside the one that had been blocked mp and it is hoped that the miners can es- cape. Everything that is possible is
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
GOnfERS GETS
 CONGRATULATED
(By United Prsss1

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2L-Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, and under sen. tence of one year in jail for con tempt of court. celebrated his 59th birthday today. He received hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from III parts of the United States.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
LAND SCANDAL
 IN OKLAHOMA
tsy United PressJ

MUSKEGEE, Okla Jan 21.-The town lot frauds in which Gov. Has kell is interested are being invcst. gated by government secret service officials. Detectives are guarding members of the federal grand jury now in session here. Three secret indictments in the land fraud cases will be returned.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
IS
 INAUGURATED
Csy United Press.)

OLYMPIA Wash, Jan. 2I.-Gover. nor Cosgroye was inaugurated at 8 O clock this afternoon, arriving from California on special train two days ago. He was in very weak condition and dispensed with the usual inaugural speech. Governor Cosgroye has been suffering with Brights disease for some time and at one time it was thought he would not be strong enough to return to Washington.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
CAPTAINS WERE
 NUT G0WARDLy
tsy United Press.)

SEATTLE, Jan. 26.-The marine in. spectors at Juneau have exonerated Captains Farrarer and Hamilton Of cowardice at the time the Star of Ben gal was wrecked last October The captain of the Star of Bengal alleged that the wreck could have been pre- vented had Captains Farrerer and Hamilton stood by him. They said they had done all that was possible and the inspectors agreed with them.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
ARE PREPARING
 FINE EXHIBIT
(By United Press.J

SEATTLE, Jan. 26,-special Com, missioner Farmer has returned from Washington, D. C., and says the fed. eral government is anxious that the exhibit from Alaska at the A.-Y..P. exposition be the best ever collected for any previous exposition, Com. missioner Mcbride has opened head quarters with a large office force,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
JUDGE REID
 MAY ''RESIGN''
(sy United Press.)

FAIRBANKS, Jan, 26.-It is ru, mored here that Judge silas H. Reid will soon resign as judge of the Third judicial division and become the law partner of Attorney Tozier.
 Capt. Roediger has bought two. thirds interest of the Fairbanks Tribune
 The bail of Robert Dunne, slayer of Carl Elbing, has been fixed at S4O,OoO Dunne cannot obtain the amount
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
ROOT RESIGNS
 FROM CABINET
(Ry United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2G.-EHhu Root has resigned as secretary of state to become candidate for United States senate from New York. His resignation has been accepted and Robert Bacon, assistant secre. tary. has been appointed secretary of state.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
KING MENILIK
 REPORTED DEAD
tsy United Press.)

LONDON, Jan. 27.-A report has. reached here stating that King Meni. lik Of Abysinnla. Is dead. No con-. Hrmation of the rumor can be se- cured.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
Twenty Men EnUombed In British Columbia Colli- cry. They Have Chance To Escape By Unlocked Entrance. Rescuors Are At Work.

being done to save the imprisoned miners. Several volunteers have en. tered the mine through the rmblocked entrance in an effort to find the i'm. prlsoned miners and guide them to safety. The wives and families Of several of the miners are gathered about the pit opening. praying for their safety.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
CAPITALIST IS
 OPERATED UPON
(By United Prs.s.)

NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-August Bel mont. the capitalist, vas operated upon today for appendicitis. The operation was successful and a rapid recovery is expected.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
ANOTHER JUDGE
 FUR ALASKA
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-The ju. dietary committee or the senate has reported favorably on the creation of a fourth judicial district in Alaska. It is thought the measure will pass congress with little opposition,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
JURORS
 ARE SECURED
tey United Pross1

SAl; FRANCISCO. Jan 27.-Elght jurors have already been selected in the trial Of Patrick Calhoun, presi- dent Of the United Railroads. who is charged with bribery
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27

William Oakley an old time musher. who has been in skagway fo the past week. left this morning for Whitehorse. He intends to leave for the interior in the spring to do some prospecting.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
FAMOUS FRENCH
 ACTOR IS DEAD
Csy United Press)

PARIS. Jan. T.-CcQuelin. ths greatest actor on the French stage. died here this afternoon after a brief Illness. Ills death WAS caused bJ ansinn pectoris
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
LEAVITT WON'T
 FIGHT DIVORCE
Csy United Press.)

PARIS, Jan. 25.-William Leavtt. husband of Ruth Leavitt Bryan, an. nounced today thSt he would not fight the divorce suit brought against him by his wife. Mrs Leavitt is the daughter of William aJenuinSs Bryan.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
EMPHASIZES
 LEAVE FRANCE
tsy United Prsss.l

MARsEfLLEs. France. Jan. d. The United States battieships NebrAs. ka and Georgia sailed from bere to- day for Gibralter.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
BACON
 IS CONFIRMED
(ey United Prsss.l

WASHINGTON. Jan. 27-The sen. ate today confirmed the appointment of Robert Bacon as secretary Of state to succeed ElIhu Root
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
Announcement

During the Cold Weather we have been busy getting our stock in shape, taking inventory and opening up and placing on display new goods and can now announce that we are prepared to show our friends the most complete stock of Dry Goods, Wo' mems Ready to Wear Garments Mems Clothing and Habe1dashery to be found in Skagway
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27
ON ROOSEVELT IS
 STRICKEN FROM RECORDS
tunn.. pr.s. rsIsqraph.casI. s.ryIe,.l

Record. willet referred to the Presi- dent as a -four fIusher and false alarm" "a bogus hero and imitation tyraut," He was compelled to leave the floor at the time by s vote of the House. leaving his speech unfinished
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27

WASHINGTON, Jan 27.-By a un. animous vote Of the House Of Repre- sentatlves, the speech made last week by Congressman wnlet of New York excoriating President Roosevelt was expunged from the Congressional
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27

Mrs. S. c. Orchard is still con fined to her home with illness.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27

Mir. ". c. Cash of WhitehOrse. was a guest at the Elks' smoker last night.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-01-27

DrOspeCLInS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-17
The Einal Act.

Golfers Weekly: President Taft
within a few days of the time this
page is printed, will sit before huge
parchment document filled with tar
iif duties. Were his imagination the
most elementary, he can hardly fail
to be thoughtful. His signature, or
his refusal to sign without further
changes, will affect the clothing, the
shelter. and the food and drink, will
largely determine the economic sta
tus of 20,000.OOO families for 10
years TO come. And to economic
equality, to the opportunity to get
enough food and clothing and shell
ter without labor so severe that it
degrades-to these things happiness
and morality are close. Whether
children may have another year in
school, whether young men can af-
ford TO marry at reasonable age,
whether daughters must go out to
work-for millions of families, these
questions Turk in that mass of figures
and percentages on Mr.. Taft's table.
Not ancient kings with autocratic
power over the fortunes of their peo-
pie had more occasion for conscien-
tious consideration
Whatever thoughts may come to
Mr.. Taft through the stimulus OF his
unique position, whatever tests he
may weigh in the balance of his mind
to determine whether to sign or not
to sign, one overtops all the others
and is alone sufficient to decide:
"Will this bill meet the reasonable
expectation of an average man in
Mr.. Taft's audience last fall at Mil
waukee, at Des Moines. at Cincinnati
or elsewhere, who listened to Mr.
Tatts promises of substantial re-
vision downward" If Mr.. Tai:
LINKS the bill does not fairly meet
s'iose expectations, he will not sign.
80, -, hohor could not sit at his elbow
u ne oid- 1t may he that Mr. Taft
! peheVes the bill does fulfil his nrou.
lses; 1t may be, indeed, that the IN,
! in its final form will meet tho
promises. for there is ample oppor
tunity for reductions at the last mo
, ment. There is abundant chance
, while the bill is in the conferenc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-17
n Days Dispatches.

News dispatches, when considered
collectively over long period, are
used by historians as thermometer
by which to guage the trend of con-
ditions. Even a single days news
may serve to give us line on the
pulse of the nation.
We read in a dispatch from Wash
ington that the bigger half of 90
100000 consumers of the United
States appear to resent the proposed
advance in tariff rates The pres-
dents mail is clogged with protests
against the Payne-Aldrich bill.
An Associated Press dispatch from
New York informs us that both Will
liam Il. Corey, president of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, who ar
rived from Europe, and Judge FL
bert Ii. Gary, chairman of the cor
poration's board of directors, who
ed the Payne-Aldrich measure as an
ideal prospective law
Mr.. Corey said that almost ev-
erybody is satisfied with ne tariff
bill as it now stands" and predicted
that the result of the bills passage
would be a speedy acceleration of
prosperity and long era of good
times"
Judge Gary declared the new bill
should be generally satisfactory, and
President Taft, the cabinet and con-
gress are entitled to great credit for
their successful work. The revision
has been conservatively downward.
Business will improve rapidly from
now on and steel will come into its
own again, with new high records. "
A Washington news item tells us
that the Hon. John A. NJ Adair.
speaking in the house of representa-
| tives. declared: There surely is
much alarm in the fact 1000 men
now own over So per cent of all the
wealth of the country and each one
of the balance of the 100000 peo-
pie owns less. than $500 in property.
ne records show that 81 men, who
have been the beneticiaries of spec
ial legislation, now own 100000
of this country's wealth. 1t is a la
mentable fact that one thirty-fiIth
of the entire wealth of the United
States is therefor concentrated in the
hands of 81 men and these men-are
today debating the legislation of this
special session of congress-
Still another dispatch informs us
that Bishop William Bell, of Los An
geles, in addressing the Yosemite
Valley Chautauqua, declared that
If President Taft fails to make good
| on the tariff and disappoints the peo-
pie after making them promises, it
may be necessary to recall to the
White house Theodore Roosevelt"
After scoring the ministry for in
| difference to politics. Bishop Bell
| closed by saying: Wealth is center
ed in a few individuals and the time
| is coming for a division of this
| wealth even if a revolution is nee
| essary.'
And all this information was con
| veyed in a single days news, Won
| der if Senator Aldrich ever reads the
| newspapers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-17
Taft's Great Opportunity.

Chicago Journal (repD: Senator
LaFOllette, true to the interests of
the state he represents. is an ardent
advocate of a lower import tariff
His announcement that the Aldrich
bill as it stands would increase the
average duty more than five per
cent puts an end to all pretense OF
revision downward.
Perhaps it may even disabuse
President Taft of the delusion that
Senator Aldrich has any regard for
the consumer.
President Taft has time and again
let it be known that he respects the
coordinate branches of government
and will not interfere with their
functions, except in an advisory way.
The presidents course, while the
Aldrich tariff bill was being framed.
was strictly in line with his theory OF
the independent responsibility of the
legislative branch of government.
Yet Mr.. Taft knows better than any
one can tell him, that the power of
the president can be legitimately
used in the peoples interest without
risking any charge of intermeddling
or interference with congress.
Both houses having completed
their tariff-framing labors. President
Taft's great opportunity has come
AS the bill goes to the conference
committee, the wishes of the Ameri-
can people are to be either respected
or ignored. President Taft is the
logical instrument of impressing the
popular will upon members of the
conference committee.
We are told that President Taft is
fighting against the necessity of a
tariff veto. If that be true, there is
only one way in which he can escape
the necessity for veto-by insisting
that the complete tariff bill shall
not leave the conference committee
without radical downward altera.
tions.
1t was this pledge for downward
tariff revision that contributed more
than any other single cause to make
AIR. Taft president of the United
States. His time has come to show
appreciation of the fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-17
The Argus Daily Short Story
Barbaras Donation-By Elizabeth Van Nest.
Copyrighted 1909. by Associated Literary

with Il mysterious package. Shortly
after the doctor drove three miles to
borrow his microscope and was in
formed that he had disposed of it,
Il have so little time for expert
mcnts. you know" he explained. with
heightened color. Il could use the
money 10 better advantage
From this emanated rumor that at
length reached Barbara Deans ears.
The new minister was so philanthropic
he had givon up his pet hobby TO aid
the poor
y wee and timid question mark set
itself upon her heart Perhaps she had
been haSty. There was none quite like
him-So big. So firm so brave. 1t was
very singular that he had not asked
again-hc who in theory scorned de-
feat. Pretty Barbara did not know
that the hope crushed by her laughing
was the only ineIastic one In his stock
of dreams.
AS the third quarter drew to close
without remuneration the minister
mentioned the fact again, this time
with fewer bushes and n graver air
His needs were urgent. Day after day
| he scanned his mail anxiously for the
| expected check. only to be disappoint-
ed. Rut. approaching the hard times.
| other trips to the city with mysterious
| packages We're made.
Returning from one of these visits
! one night. Mr.. Morgan was surprised
| to see motley collection of teams
| and vehicles around Widow FlemiuS's
gate. Lights Shone from every win
| dow of the cottage Including his study
and bedroom The minister was tired
ANA in no mood to participate in a
! surprise party on his landlady. But.
knowing her limited space. ii would be
| churliSh to demand privacy. He must
| meet her guests who had overlooked
| her apartments into his. with minis
terhI welcome Forcing the WEAKNESS
| from his face. he ran lightly NIP the
steps and opened his study door.
| Ranged around the wall was a solid
| row of chairs. from which smiling
| faces glowed upon him in welcome
| Overrunning the center table and. piled
| on the floor was n collection that nj
first seemed to be the stock of gro.
Gerry store. He singled out a sack of
hour and various stone jugs with corn.
cob shoppers as he picked his way to
IL small oasis of bare floor beyond
But, stumbling against one. of the
bulging packages the p;rpeR burst and
a stream of walnuts poured forth
Pardon me- he gasped irving. Ia
repair the damage on his knees. VERY
awkward of me. I'm sure
The silence WIS portentaus. and
flushed with confusion. the minister
booked up straight into Barbara Dean.
owes. The light in them. tantaiiziny
amused. WIS his undoing. The wa!nu.
slipped from his grasp and. strikin;
another bag. liberated peck of pop
corn. He stood up guiltily.
please forgive me. Mrs. Fleming
he apologized. Il am sorry if my aXk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-17

TALL webut closely observan
polish
that from traveths Gilbert Parker Candas
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and educated the church He deacon but
switched
literature at Trinity College, Toronto
Australia his health
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body;
this Goeth produced Sydney
"The
literary fiction
His remarkable Pierre and his People,, literary
Hudson Bay They
tales the field
ngfng
revelation the marked the debut kpGng
Chief had sold OF
added o
This dramatt member Of
Parliament London, House
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