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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
STARTS MOVE TO
SAVE LITTLE
CRIPPLE

Humane Officer William S. Van
Voris has under his care 12-
year-old boy who has been. on
|crutches for the past three years,
"a victim of hip disease. With Mr.,
Van Voris' aid, the little fellow
was taken to prominent hip spe-
cialist some time ago. and the doc
tor stated that he was positive an
effective cure could be brought
about IL the lad were confined to
a hospital four months.
The boys mother is dead, and
his father is unable to stand the
expense of the medical treatment
1t is estimated that the cost will
amount to $50 per month, and the
humane officer intends to raise
the money by popular subscrip-
tions. A small Campaign will be
instituted at once. and 400 per-
sons are to be asked to contrib
ute 81 to the fund. The little
fellows limb. and probably his
life. will be saved by the treat
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
MIL K
MUST Be
BOT TLEO
Mayor Issues Orders fo1
the Tacoma Diaries to
Adopt a New System
Of Delivering
Product

All dairies doing business
in Tacoma must bottle their
milk in the future.
Mayor Linck has given or
ders to DR.. Rhodes, city dairy
inspector, that he shall notify
all dairymen and milk deal
ers that nothing but bottled
milk shall be delivered In
this city.
Most of the milk now de-
ivered in Tacoma is hauled in
cans. From the large can
the milkman pours 1t into a
measure and then into the
crock or pan of the house
wife.
"It is a filthy way" says
the mayor. "These drivers
drive along in a cloud of dust
and 1t settles in their cans
and measures and then goes
into the milk. Hereafter they
must all bottle their milk and
deliver 1t that way"
The orders issued today are
In the line with the city cam
paign to compel milkmen to
toe the mark, and protect
consumers against diseased
milk.
Not only will 1t be COM
pulsory to deliver the prod
uct of the dairies in bottles.
but dairies must be clean ana
sanitary and cows must be
free from disease.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
PoIiceman's S Star
Returned; Thief
Didn't Want Il

Patrolman Frank Roberts, whose
police star and four dollars In
cash were taken from him by a
pickpocket at the A.-Y.-P. fair
Tuesday, while he was viewing the
exhibits, received his star by mail
yesterday morning with the COM
pliments of w. p. Wappenstein,
chief of the A.-Y.-P. guards.
The pickpocket evidently had
no use for the Tacoma star, and
threw 1t into the shrubbery of the
Cascade terraces, where one of the
A.-Y.-P. guards found It.
The Tacoma officer states that
the "dip" must have been one of
the best, for his trousers pocket,
which contained the star and
money, was turned inside-out and
all Its contents taken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
TAFT PLAYS INTO
ALDR|Ch'S HANDS,
SAYS LAFOLLETTE
Declares President Has Turned the Public Down by
His Action in Tariff Q usstion, Enabling "Czar
of Senate to Free the Rich from Taxation and
Put Burden on Backs of the People
(By United Press Leased Wire }

(By United Press Leased Wire
MADISON, Wis, June 26.-Edi-
torially speaking, Senator La Fol-
lette finds many things to criticise
In the attitude of Pres. Taft on the
tariff question in general, and the
presidents attitude toward Sena-
tor Aldrich on the proposed in
come tax in particular. Under the
leader. "Taft's Service to Aldrich, -
in La Follette's weekly, issued to-
day, the Wisconsin senator says:
"The presidents recent message
to congress was inopportune and
not in the public interests.
at would have been great help
to the band of progressives max
ing a fight in behalf of the pub
lie interest and for the mainte-
nance of party pledges, had Mr..
Taft seen fit to send a special
message stating whether the party
pledges were, in his Judgment,
being fulfilled by increased tariff
rates or by re-enacting the exist
ing rates. Because, be 1t remem-
bered, the president is the one
who has the final word, His ap-
|proval or his veto decides whether
the work of congress shall stand.
zone fact stands out high and
plain above all else in the situa.
ton. This message came to con.
|gress at most opportune time tc
serve the fixed determination OF
Senator Aldrich to defeat the in
-, tax, and to aid him In pass.
ing the tariff bill with its exces-
sive duties Just as he wanted it. 7
The article says that the income
tax was an independent PROPOSE.
tion and some of the senators wht
voted with him on the tariff re-
fused to follow Aidrich's leader.
ship against this measure.
Mr.. Taft had said in his speech
|of acceptance that In his judg.
ment, an amendment to the consti
tuition for an income tax is not
necessary" continued the arti
|cle. '.In his special message te
congress the president stated thai
he had changed his views, but
certainly. in justice to the mer
who had been working to frame I
law that would stand, he shoult
have informed them of his change
of plan.''
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
BY w. G. Shepherd.

NEW YORK. June 26. - The
murder of Elsie Sigel. the Chinese
mission worker, brings up again
the old-time mystery. of the fas-
cination the Oriental character has
for white women.
81 would rather see my daugh-
ter dead---if had one-than mar
ried to a Chinaman," said Mrs.
Florence Todd, Oldest Chinese
mission worker. in New York, TO
me, as we sat In chop suey
house in Chinatown. She was
having her dinner, using chop
sticks, after Q days work in her
Chinese rescue home. across Mott
street.
"Elsie Sigel used to. come to the
rescue home very often. She spoke
TO me many times about Leon,
whom the police say strangled her
and hid her body in . trunk in his
room.
81 didn't. think she was in love
with him, She was such a devout
mission worker, and she declared
so many times that God had called
her to save the souls of the
Cinnamon, that I thought her in
fatuation for Leon was only the
love that teacher might have for
her pupil.
IL don't believe In young girls
Teaching Cinnamon. The Oriental
character seems to hold a fascina-
tion for young American girls,
after they once come in contact
with it. ''t'@-'F
'I think 1t is dangerous for
white girls to go to Chinese chop
suey houses or on Summing trips
| to Chinese sections. There is
something so bland and attractive
about Chinaman. especially after
he Is partially educated, that the
ATTRACTION is full of danger"
The .Sigel ease Is the first
known in New York of a white
girls love for Chinaman leading
to murder.
Many of these love cases have
arisen and ended in that matri-
mony which, Mrs. Florence Todd
Says, is worse than death.
Twenty years ago. In Brooklyn,
la white girl in Chinese Sunday
|school married one of her pupils
and the public protest was great.
Later the frequency of these
cases caused public sentiment
against the intermarriage to wane.
In Brooklyn and New York in
1908 three white girls who were
Sunday school workers married
Cinnamon.
One of these girls was Mae A.
Borhees, beautiful Brooklyn
society girl, who became the wife
of Chan X. Kew, who Is grad
uate lawyer and serves as inter
lpreter in New York courts.
Kew was so wealthy he gave his
wife deed to an apartment house.
The New York police are not
very considerate of women who
engage In the Chinese mission
Continued on Page Eight.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
Graft Lamb Bone
On An Injured
Man $ Leg

(By United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, June 26.-With the
leg bone of an Illinois lamb graft
ed to the Joint from which form
eriy depended his own right tibia,
Docearl Townsend is the object OF
unusual interest among medical
men In this city.
Townsend was injured in an ele-
vator accident, and 1t was thought
his right leg would have to be
aniputated. DR.. Cassius Rogers,
called in consultation, suggested
the rare operation of grating the
bone of lamp-an operation new
|er. before attempted in America
and only two or three times before
insurgical history.
Townsend bore the operation
well. and his complete recovery
is predicted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
Armed With Gun
Boy Drops Out
Of Sight

Armed with a .22 caliber re-
volver and followed by his
faithful dog. little Henry Brooks,
13 years old, started out from
home yesterday afternoon at
O'Brien, bent on seeing the world.
Little Henry has not been seen
since, and his parents have grown
Q1ite anxious as to his safety.
O'Brien station is. on the third
rail section of the interurban
tracks, but it is believed that the
lad knew about the danger 1urk-
ing in the rail. Interurban train
. men have not seen the boy, and
Iit may be that he has gone off
into the woods to hunt and has
been lost. The boys parents, who
are frantic with fear for the
boys safety, notified the police
this morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

(By United Press Leased Wire.
ST. MICHAELS, Md, June 26
That Edith Thompson Woodil
met her death because she would
not submit to an attempt to levy
blackmail, is theory advanced
by the detectives. Emmett e
Roberts, who the police are al
most certain was Robert Emmett
Eastman, New York broker, who
has been missing since the alleged
theft of 100000 of his clients
money, is believed to have been
the man who demanded hush
money from the pretty ward oi
Lyman j. Gage.
Knew of Her Past Life.
Investigations conducted yester-
day and today by the detectives
revealed the fact that Eastman
knew the girl before she went &c
New York where she met Woodill
1t is thought, also, that he follow
ed her across the Atlantic, and
back to California, where he
pressed his suit.
Demanded His Pay.
That Mrs. Woodill went to the
bungalow where she met her death
in response to Eastman's request,
is another fact that the police be-
lieve they have established.
A letter to Winnie Bradcome
an actress in the employ of Klaw
& Erlanger, is said to have ex-
pressed Eastman's intention OF go
ing away ito make his fortune" +"
The fortune, the detectives be-
lieve, was the money he hoped to
compel Mrs. Woodill to pay as the
price of his silence regarding their
past life.
That Emmett Roberts, the man
who was shot by posse early yes
terday, was Robert Emmett East
man, is thought to have been es-
tablished beyond all doubt by
Louis e. Pedlar, a newspaper
artist and cousin of Binnie Brad
come, who viewed the body today.
Letter Sheds Light on Crime.
That Eastman played no actual
part in the killing of Mrs. Wood
i'll, is the assertion he made in
the letter to Winnie Bradcome
that was found in the dead man S
pocket.
Intended to Kill Himself.
The letter said:
"Vinnie, take this money and
go at once to McDaniels, Talbot
county, Maryland, and claim my
body and my property. My body
will be there. The property con-
sists of 22 acres Of land and the
bungalow; also motorboat. Have
sale and convert everything to
cash.
No Hand In 1t.
Little girl, ! had no hand I'm
that awful tragedy. I was there.
and removed the evidence after
the two couples had fed. I did
this for my own preservation, for
/ am haunted.
"The victim was my particular
friend; we were not mated. I
had known her but three weeks.
Blackens Her Name.
1--WE all, that is two men and
two women from Annapolis, went
to the bungalow for time. Ev-
eryone got full except Edith and
myself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

81 was left with the corpse, and
cannot take a chance for trial.
Life to me Is very bitter, and I
will pull down my shades and say
goodbye
The police believe the letter is
a fabrication to save the memory
of Eastman, and to clear his name.
They are, however, searching for
the alleged companions OF the cou-
pie mentioned In the letter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
BANK
STUNG

The National Bank of Com
merce will have to stand $8,567
of the loss due to the embezzle-
Iment Of Accountant Pinkham of
the Old Town Mill company, last
simmer, according to the verdict
OF the jury in federal court last
might.
THE bank had cashed checks for
Pinkham while he was flying hign
drawn against the Old Town mill
atd Aligned by Pinkham as ac-
|cduntant. The jury under the In
structions of the court and the
evidence held that they had no
Authority to cash them and that
they must bear the loss.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
12-YEAR OLD To
FACE COURT FOR
MURDER
(By United Press Leased Wire. J

(By United Press Leased Wire
MODESTA, CAL, June 26.-
District Attorney Maddux stated
today that he favored prosecuting
12-year-old Frank Hopkins, who
shot his baby brother and buried
him alive, as he would prosecute
any other murderer.
A formal complaint against
the boy, charging him with MUIR
der, probably will be made.
1t is though he will be bound
over to the superior court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

Edith tried to win
one of the girls fellows.
While lying ON the bed
she was hit by the
other girl on the side of
the head three times
with a full champagne
bottle. She fell over on
the floor dead. The fell
low was hit once, and
did not come to for an
hour.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
CALHOUN GETS EXTENSION

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.--
Two days additional time was
granted Patrick Calhoun today
to prepare petitions for change OF
venue of his trial for the alleged
bribery of members OF the former
supervisory board.
The defendant will appear
again In court next Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

NEW, YORK, June 26.-
Captain Calvin. of the China
town police, accompanied by
Yuan Yick MIN. interpreter,
departed today upon a mis-
sion, the Significance of
which is guarded jealously
by the police. Calvin was
given an Indefinite leave
of absence by his superior to
follow up what may be an
important clew.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
Cd MAD IN
>|N TENSE
HEAT
New Workers are Driven
e Crazy by Sultry Wave
and Run Amuck with
Knives = Relief Is
Brought by Rain
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.
NEW YORK, June 26.-Crazed
by the terrific heat, Louis Loonam
attacked his wife with a butcher.
knife at their home early today
and inflicted injuries that may
prove fatal.
: Soon after arising today, he
seized huge butcher knife from
the kitchen table, and after cir
cling around his wife several
times, muttering savagely, he
leaped and struck her between
the eyes.
Loonam was overpowered. The
Elan Is confined at an East Side
police station, where 1t is thought
he is hopelessly insane.
Another victim of the fearful
heat, Francesca Habatin, slashed
himself with a razor early today
He probably will die before night
Yesterdays awful record con.
tains twelve additional deaths
and more than fifty prostrations
Many of those who were over.
come probably will die. Thous-
ands again slept on the sidewalks
last night, and the suffering was
intense in every section of the
city.
A life-giving rain, which fell
in the early morning. has moder.
Many persons rushed from their
beds to stand in the downpour.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

(Hy United Press Leased Wire. j
RED BLUFF, Cal, June 26.
Charles Sligar. railroad en-
'ploye, fell from q limited train
near here today and was killed in
stantly His neck was broken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

HoQUIAM, June 26.--A
goose. raised IN this city ana
killed at the Grayport hotel
today, proved = gold mine for
tho hotel. In the birds gig
zard was found three gold
nuggets the size OF 8 pea-
Several fowls have been kill
I ed recently In the city in
whose gizzards was found
gold.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
MOVE TO cur
RATE OFF FARM
TOOLS IS LOST

fBy United Press Leased Wire }
WASHINGTON, d. g., June 26.
Bacon amendment to the
tariff bill, placing agricultural
implements on the free list, was
defeated in the senate today by
n vote of 46 to 20.
Senators Clapp and La Toilette
were the only republicans who
voted for the amendment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

{HF United Press Leased Wire,
l6AN FRANCIsCO. June 26.----l
HRvnard Logan, who Wes shot By
|Ptliee Captain Michael Collhoy|
s.l.tIe tho letfer was frfo<icafed. !.
Will recover from his wounds.
|aeeordins 70 the belief fo his ply
I>ian, DR.. W4f<ace Terry.
Formal cheracs aGaius. gonhov
WAL be filed Nith the police COM
|naission TAaxsday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
CABLE LINE WILL
Be SHUT DOWN
SIX DAYS

Owing to the necessity OF maxi
ling repairs in the engine room,
the Eleventh street cable line viii
be closed down for six days next
week The cable will stop run
ming Sunday at midnight and will
not again be In operation until
the following Saturday. In or
der to handle tho traffic up the
hill. the T. r.. & P. has made ar
|rangAments to inaugurate q FIVE
minute service on the Sixth ave
|ilue line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
POSING BEFORE MIRROR YOUNG WOMAN ENDS LIFE WITH Gun
New York's S Chinatown
Holds Fate Worse Than
Death for White Girls

ELSIE SIGEL YOUNG WOMEN LURED
STRANGELY FASCINATING ORIENTAIlS
SUNDAY MARRIAGES
WHITE GIRLS AND SLANT-EYED HEATHENS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
BLACKMAIL MOTIVE
IN THE WOODILL
MURDER CASE

MRS. Edith Thompson Woodill, Washington Girl
Slain by Broker Because She Would Not Submit
to Extortion, According to Theory Now Advanced
Supposed Slayer, in Last Letter Before His
Death Blackens Woman's Name.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26

TREASURY STATEMENT.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON. d. O., June 20.
The treasury report today
showss Receipts, $1.843,298;
Disbursements. $1.420,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
BANK CLEARINGs

Clearings ...s....S919,414
Balances ..s.......s4S 1865
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26
Relief in Sight.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 26.
The United States weather bu-
reau issued a forecast today, pre-
dicting cooler weather for the sec
ton of the country lying east of
the Rocky mountains.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-10-28
VOX POPULI.
SPANISH SWINDL
SENDING OUT LETTERS
WestviIIe. Fla Oct q 1909

Westyille, Fla. Oct q, 1909.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
l note in a recent Journal a Wash
ington, d. c., dispatch giving an &C
count Of the Spanish swindlers oDer-
ating in that section. The same par
ties, l suppose, attempted that identi
cal trick on a friend Of mine. a farmer
and mill man, residing near West
Vile He was deceived by the cum
ning1y managed scheme and overioved
over the prospect of soon possessing
immense wealth. He came to ME in
strict confidence, to secure my aid in
obtaining wealth enough for both or
us. On reading the proposition, which
was accompanied by pretended Clio
pings from European paper. giving
an account of the robbery, arrest OF
the principal and incarceration in a
Spanish jail, etc, corroborating pre-
sisely the writer's statements. I saw
at once that it was an ingenious
scheme to fool some fellow out of his
hard earned cash, and after a while
succeeded evidently much against his
will In persUading my friend of that
fact. have never heard anything
more in regard to it, until today, when
L read the Washington dispatch. and
saw at once it was identicaIIy the
same trick. II is to be hoped The
Journals publication will warn 9th
eTs to let such a scheme severely
alone.
W. D. WILLIAMS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-10-28

championship series between Detroit
and Pittsburg, and by the way, if my
memory serves me right, the Tiger
rootel were in a majority. BIT, by
what method of figures or dope I am
| at a loss to understand. l WI at
this moment act the egotist, and if the
line of dope that l am going to enum-
crate in this article is not the same
as the business man uses in his re-
spective commercial way to base his
gains and losses, then figures go for
| "Sweeny."
Now, to begin with, the eight regu-
lar men of the Pirates team led the
Tigers 81 points in hitting for the
/ past season Apparently small mar
gin, but to the classy ball player it's
some and some more percentage
Take the four leading run getteTs or
both leagues, and the Pirates have
26S points against the Tigers 262,
with the mighty Cobb declared in the
count. Now, the individual base
stealing of the great Honus of Car
nigie, was So, while the Georgia Sun
flower pilfered rs, but did this mighty
i want $4,000 next year" man go
against such catchers as Archer,
Doom, Bergen and Bresnahan? Well.
the enlightened fan can answer that
himself Now let's get a line on these
-
and as a base stealer, if Wagner did
not make Cobb look ike a selling
platter, l am bad on my dope. Take
the willow swinging end Of this talk,
and the Pirates have four men hit
ting in the 300 mark, while the Tigers
have only two. In fielding records
the Pirates lead by a good margin,
and in long hits. There is only one
end Of this proposition that l can see
where the Tigers have it on the Cham
pions, and that is the pitching depart
ment, and at that there is a doubt.
Now fellows, q mean those Detroit
backers), how did you figure that the
American Leaguers had look in?
What method of dope did you use?
Now in conclusion, whenever a prop
Osition of this kind comes up again,
and you want to be on the high side,
take the averages of the two teams
and if the one with the high-side fig
ures don't land on the top, then dis
card figures in your business and cast
the arithmetic to the tall timbers.