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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
MAN KILLS DIVORCED
WIFE and DAUGHTER;
Then ENDS OWN LIFE
REFUSAL OF WOMAN TO RE-MARRY HIM rs
GIVEN AS CAUSE OF TRIPLE TRAGEDY
COMMUNITY THROWN INTO FEVER OF
EXCITEMENT FOLLOWING SHOOTING.
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OLYMPIA, May ii.

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OLYMPIA, May II.
A. Dawson, night watch
man at the ice plant at
Three Lakes, a small tim
ber and mill center a few
miles from this city, shot
and killed his divorced
wife and 14-year-old
daughter and then COM
mitted suicide today.
Mrs. Hiram Morgan, q
neighbor, heard the
screams coming from the
Dawson cabin and noti-
fled the crew of a logging
train. The men hurried to
the cabin. When they ar
rived Dawson appeared in
the doorway with a revol-
yer in his hand and warn
ed them away.
While the men stood at
bay, Dawson placed the
revolver against his tenn
pile and fired. He fell TO
the ground and died all
most instantly.
Creates Great Excitement.
The triple tragedy has thrown
the small community into fever
of excitement. Dawson, who had
been employed at the camp for
three years, had been living alone
with his three children, having
been divorced from his wife.
Mrs. Dawson appeared in the
camp yesterday for the purpose Of
paying visit to the children. and
lit is believed that Dawson en-
deavored to induce the woman to
remarry him. Her refusal to do
SO is supposed to have caused the
tragedy.
Desperate Struggle.
When Mrs. Dawson attempted
to leave the camp this morning
Dawson, who had Just come from
his nights work. attempted to
prevent her.
In the struggle that followed
for the possession of Dawson's re-
lvolver which he had drawn, the
daughter was killed. Then the
man killed his wife and after
ward ended his own life.
A married daughter OF the Daw-
lsons lives in Arkansas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07

The organization Of the union
which gives the postal. telegraph
and telephone employees the right
to strike, followed an attempt on
the part OF an employer commit.
tee to see Premier Clemenceau.
The premier pleaded illnas ana
refused to see the delegation.
which wanted to present ID him
a complaint that the government
was not living up to its agreo~
ment, made when the recent strike
was declared on.
All France is excited and real-
ICES that crisis is at hand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
WANTS $4,000
FOR LOSS OF
AN ARM
VICTIM OF ACCIDENT IN SHIN
GLE MILL WANTS PAY FOR
INJURIES.

The $4,000 damage suit of c.
s. Robinson against the Milton
Shingle company is on trial today
before Judge Shackleford. Rob
irEon lost his left arm and was
otherwise injured as the result of
An accident at the mill about two
years ago.
1t is alleged that saw on
which Robinson was cutting shin
gle holds was defective. The ma
chinery was started suddenly one
day and the saw burst. several OF
the pieces striking Robinson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
STORK DOES GOOD
WORK FOR TACOMA


The stork landed 100 little
folks in Tacoma last month,
while the undertakes were
busy with only so cases,
which shows a clear gain IN
population due to the stork
of 20.
Pneumonia was the cause
Of the taking on of III ,per-
sons: and heart disease XIII
ed Is. I,@
The report Of the health
offfcer shows ct5illy1({G lIEz1I1
activity IN fnvesti ie4tinx q q
stores and other places tlot
have q bearing on publto
health. -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
&IEE AND CHILD
IN CARD GAME

y
Jacl& JONES, CAL. May 4.
day Dan, an Indian. to-
wife the possessor Of the
propHand child and all the
. Tf6rty OF John McCash as
wb bsult OF g card game in
thHch McCash staked every
y1ug he owned. Word Of the
AiQue game reached this
lfost today from the Indian
Ivlllago In Quarts valley.
Altar al MoCaah's coin had
found its wsy to Dams side Of
tho blanket on which they
played, McCash offered to
tj&c& tle little ranch n waU-
9r II Innt 1 stipulated sum.
child quietly followed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
CONTINUED on Page Three.)

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FLUSHING, l.. L., May THE
prosecution in the trial of Cap
tain Peter G. Hams, slayer of
William e. Annis, devoted its time
today to retnttal of the testimony
of the defense that the officer was
insane at the time of the killing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07

Mrs. Rosenburg 54s5 street. certainly is entitled
the show experts
breeding for aise laying eAuss ana point Mrs Rosen
equaled chick with four las hss been hatched IN her
That Is going some Tank of coming to the table with
roast fowl with four drstick and four second Joints
Mrs Rosenburg IL entitled II she make th
breed stick IN future generations Of poultry
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
ASKS NEW TR1AL.

After q verdict allowing him
|t2.6o0 damages for injurieg re-
|ceived several months aGo, Hvan
II. R0dorick, who hae been suing
the T&oon1 Railway = Power
|conzpary, aled 8 petition Tor now
triA1 t641y in The superior coert.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
Ia1rRovIsem - on.M.E. 2. :! :. 4 !. !.

- ~ 81 GoSlaERCn Rooms
Eleetriciana are at work on the
chamber 81 Commerca rooms today
prses5ins,E !, sof or, @ sr9es ;ssn ssnihis1pn ,o
chamber Of eommerce has disposed
81 the billiard tables which were
sold TO the armory and the head
quarters will hereafter be strictly q
s-<,siness enterprise to boom Tacoma
Pierce county.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07
KDNAPERS
NOT ALL
CAUGHT
Boyle Admits Guilt in Court, But
Says Three Others We're In
vOlyed in Plot-Dramatic Scene
at Trial of Woman Abductor.

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MERCER, Pa, May Mrs
James H. Boyle, ON trial accuse.
Of kidnapping Billy Whitla, face,
the boy today without the slight
est show of emotion when h,
pointed her out to the jury as tn,
woman into whose custody he wal
placed by Boyle, convicted yester
day of abduction.
Billy retold the story of tn,
kidnapping. He was good wit
ness and apparently enjoyed tn,
novelty of being on the stand
The defense made no attempt I.
|cross-examine him and he was dis
missed after being asked fey
unimportant questions.
Mrs. Boyle was heavily, veilet
this morning: She sat by her hus
band and listened intently to tn,
testimony. 1t is understood tha
she. will be placed on the witness
stand later in the day. -,
Boyle Creates Scene.
While Attorney Whita was O,
the stand Boyle was called befor,
the, court, the attorneys for tn,
state desiring to ask him wher,
the. letters were which had passed
between himself and Whitla
Boyle threw the court room int,
an uproar by blurting:
II. want to know where /
am at. I want to know be-
fore ! say anything. I
haven't had a chance to say
anything yet and want to
say something Just now. /
want fair deal and I
haven't had it. / want to
know where. I am at"
Mrs. Boyle looked scared and
sank into q chair and the excite
ment in the court room was onl,
checked by Judge Williams sterI
interruptions:
I'VE will show you where yo,
are at If you don't keep quiet"
Attorney Cochran then asket
Boyle If he had the letters.
II did have them but haven
got them now" was Boyle's reply
Boyle was dismissed and the ex
animation of Wnitla taken vi
again.
Three Others Guflty.
S During the intermsBion II III
trial todex Boyls oduftted 4
Judge Williams that Ne was So1'
nected with the kidnapine ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-07

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BULLETIN.)

tbUlILEllN.)
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NEW YORK, May 7.--Evelyn
Thaw's attorneys announced to-
day that her $3.50 millinery bill
would be settled this afternoon
Upon this promise the counsel for
the milfiner, who obtained a judg-
ment against the former Flora
dora girl, agreed not to insist
upon her commitment to Jail for
contempt of court.
NEW YORK, May 7.-Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw may be placed in q
prison cell.
Because she is in contempt OF
court for failing to pay a fine i'm
posed on her last week, an order
directing the sheriff to arrest heI
was issued last night.
The order followed the an
nouncement that the appellate di-
vision, had refused to stay pro-
ceedings in the case.
The fine was imposed on the
woman because of her failure to
appear in supplementary proceed
ings on a judgment of $3.50 OBJ
tained against her by Elsie Hart
wigsa milliner. ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
UNION LABOR
 WINS ITSFIGHT
Assistant Building Inspect or Will Be Selected From
 Mason Craft.
Mayor Lee to Neither Veto Nor Approve and Ordin-
 ance Will Become a Law -Hydrant Inspector Or dinance May Be Defeated.

This city is to have an assistant building inspector who shall be com petent mason. Mayor Lee said this morning that the 35 days he is allowed in which to veto the measure expires tomorrow, and that he was going to allow the ordinance to. become a law without his approval or disapprova1. He says he takes this course in view of the large vote which the report re- ceived in the council.
 There are four candidates for the place, Thomas Burns. Ward M. Cowles John Neff and Joseph Pacquette and the ordinance provides that the office be filled by the common council
 Tomorrow is also the last day that the mayor can hold the report rela- tive to a hydrant inspector. The mayor said that he did not know how he would dispose of the matter but that he was inclined to veto the meas ure because Fire Commissioner Strong had informed him that $1,2OO salary allowed was S100 more than the Fire board had contemplated paying for the place.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
THREE OSBORNES PLAY IN CLUB
 POOL TOURNAMENT

At the Algonquin club tonight will open the Inter-Club pool contests be- tween the Seaside club and the AL gonquin club of this city for hand some silver cup which has been offer ed by the latter organization. This cup was presented six years ago, and for the first two seasons was won by the Seasides, and the next two sea- sons by their opponents. During the last two years the interest has reviv- ed The Seaside club will be repre- sented by John M. Wheeler, Stephen c. Osborne and T. M. Adams, and the Algonquins by David F. Osborne, De Forest B. Young and Henry Osborne. It will be noticed that there are three Osbornes in the contests, all being brothers.
 There will be nine games played, of 15O points each. Tonight's game will be between Wheeler and David Os- borne at the Angonquin club. To- morrow evenings contest will be, be- tween Steven Osborne and Young, at the Seaside club. At the Seaside club the table has been set up in the spa cious ball room, while seats to accom- modate 15O spectators have been ar ranged. At the Algonquin club the table will be placed in the bowling alleys with seats arranged in tiers. The friendly rivalry which exists be- tween the members of the teams will bring out larges crowds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
WILSON'S SUED
 FOR PRICE OF
 FLOODED COWS
Deputy Sheriff Doolan At taches Stock and Farm in Fairfield for $2,OOO.

Deputy Sheriff Peter Doolan to-day attached ten cows of the celebrated Holstein-Fresian breed, belonging to Samuel F. Wilson, Mrs. Frances Will son and her three daughters of Fair field in favor of the Stevens Brothers Hastings Co. of New York city. The New York company are breeders of this celebrated stock of cattle of which they have over 5000 at present. Some time ago they sold ten to the Wilson's for $2,400, and received promisory notes due April 10, 1907. There was a further agreement that the company was to have all the calves from the stock They were to give in return $50 for each one. The Wilson's gave up seven calves. A few weeks ago one Roscoe Sargent. the attorney for the company. visited the Wilson's in regard to the payment. They put him off. saying that they would mortgage their property, which is worth about $5,0O0 and free from all incumbences. Friday Sargent called on Attorney John W. Banks It was then found out that the Wilson's had placed a $1, 800 mortgage but none of the money had gone to the New York company The company then called in Doolan. He got $20O from the Wilson's Saturday. Arrived at their place at o'clock in the after noon and waited till 9:3O in the even ing. This morning attached the prop erty for $2,0OO.
 MT. Wilson conducts a saw mill and griSt mill in Fairfield.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
a complete victory.

win a complete victory.
 Indeed it is somewhat doubtful if they can effect the compromise The mayor has been recently boasting that he had the strength to win" If ha is correct in his claims the compromised will fail.
 Some surprise has been occasioned in we'll informed circles by the attempt on the part of the mayors forces toE revive the contest at this time. It hadl been believed that they would wait ur1 til the little joker legislation before thel General Assembly is put through. Thisl is the legislation which puts back intol the charter of the city the pprovisionf requiring damages to be paid to own-I CTS of upland when harbor lines arei laid
 It is understood. however. that the news has come through that the rail- road is about to discontinue the Nau- gatuck dock in order to convenience the operations of it's steanboats. It has been pretty well understoo4 that this was in the works.
 1naSnuch as the friends of the grab have always claimed that the railroad would tear down the Naugatuck docks only as a concession for the area in volved in the grab, while the oppon-i ents of the grab have always claimed that the dock was in the company's way and would have to come down any how,<1t was found embarrassing by the grab element, that the dock should be destroyed before the line is changed, in complete exposure of the deception that has been practiced.
 The frenzied haste, in which the grab is to. be conducted is shown in the effort to discontinue the existing line before the new line is ready, a1-s though the hearing upon the new line is set for May 3, only a few days away.
 The aldermen who favor saving the greatest possible amount of harbor to the city will show that this haste is reckless. and unnecessary. They will demand that at least the existing city lines remain unchanged until new lines are ready. The desperate haste of the grabbers will be thoroughly exploited. Indeed there are those who claim, comes. that part of the grab plan will be abandoned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19

cause of dissension was a. controversy between President Castro and the Bar Der Asphalt Company.
 It was alleged at that time that the funds for the revolutionists were pro- vided by the Barber Company, which was the head of the asphalt trust of America. Again, in 1904 the matter was agitated to such an extent that warShips were keut close to Venezuela, and to this day the asphalt question continues to be a matter of controversy between the two countries, with the trust always figuring prominently. About ten years ago, MT. Barber founded the Locomobile Company of America, in which he held a. contrOll- ing interest to the day of his death.
 MT. Barber was in the real estate business in Washington in 1876 when small piece of asphalt pavement was laid in Pennsylvania avenue as an ex- pertinent. He saw the possibilities in pavement of this kind and two years later bid for contracts. The Barber Asphalt Company was organized in 1883, and in 1888 he obtained from the British government concession for the lake of asphalt on the Island of
 The use of asphalt for paving be- came general in the years following g the obtaining of the concession, and one company after another was organ ized. Then came the process of ab- sorption, and in 1900 the Asphalt Com pany of America, known as the As phalt Trust, was organized MT. Bar Der retired from the business at that time, and a year later the Trust went in the hands of a. receiver.
 Three years later, in 1904, he went back in the business and was president and principal owner of the~A- l.. Bar Der Company. with its principal office in New York. He was. a competitor of some of the reorganized subsidiary companies of the old Trust. and had a, suit for libel in which he asked S100,- 900 damages pending against some of the officers of the Asphalt Company of America.
 He was one of the founders of the Ardsley Club and had been it's vice president since the organization. He purchased the old Cyrus w. Field es- tate at Ardsley, and part of that is now the golf course of the Ardsley Club, leased from MT. Barber. .
 He was also we'll known yachts man, and at the time of the Spanish American war sold his yacht, the Sap phire III, to the government, and as the Yankton it is part of the United States Navy now. He was first to apply the turbine engine to yachts on the Lorena, now the Atlanta, of George J. Gould.
 MT. Barber always maintained a home in Washington. although for a time he owned and lived in the man. sion at Mo- S71 Fifth avenue, which he sold to the late William c. Whitney and afterward was purchased by James Henry Smith. He was a member of the Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht and the New York Ath- 1etic clubs of New York, several clubs in Washingt and a trustee of Oberlin College, from which he was graduated in 1868.
 The New York~American says today:
 ''He left the bulk of his property to his wife and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Le Droict L. Barber, the wife of his dead son, who, with her five-year-old daughter, has been living with MT. Barber since the demise of her hus- band.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Rosa Belle Calander, wife of Henry P. Ellsworth, died this noon at her late residence. 1SS Cottage street, after an illness of some duration. The de- ceased was the daughter of the late Philan1ar and May Hart Owens.
 Robert F.. one year old son of George J. and Hanna Penney. of 30 Fairmount street, died last evening at St. Vim cents hospital as a result of burns re- ceived from Scalding during the week.
 Funeral services over the remains of George B. Halloway were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. 10 West avenue, Rev. MT. Richardson of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Interment was in Park cemetery
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
ANNUAL CONVENTION GRAND LODGE OF
 ODD FELLOWS
Mayor Thoms of Waterbury Probably Will Be Elected Grand Master and w. HI. Marigold Reelected Sec retarv.

Wednesday May 19, will mark the an- nua1 meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which this year is to be held in Hartford. For this occasion the seven lodges in Hartford are mak- ing elaborate preparations and have engaged the Foot Guard Armory, Unity Hall and Opera House. On Tuesday evening May IS a degree team of 100 members of the Hartford lodges will confer the first degree upon a number of candidates at the Opera house. This work by such large team will be well worth seeing.
 The annual session will be held on the 18th and will be presided over by Hartford There will be the election of the Grand Officers.
 It is expected that Mayor W. F. Thoms of Waterbury will be selected as the next Grand Master, his name having been announced for the can didacy some time ago. He has met with little or no opposition Grand Treasurer William H. Marigold of this city will undoubtedly again be re- elected to the office he now fills. In the afternoon of the 18th all the visit ors will be given a dinner at the Foot Guard armOry, while in the evening there will be an entertainment and open meeting, to which the public will be invited. At this meeting the speak CT of the evening will be Judge Rob- ert Daniel, one of the best speakers in the country.
 will meet within the coming two weeks to select delegates. The leases for the new lodge rooms in the new & Johnson building, at Broad and Cannon street, have been signed. The rooms, which will be finished April 1, 1910, will be among the finest set of lodge rooms in the country and a credit to Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
HARBOR COMMITTEE WILL PRESENT TWO REPORTS.
 FOR AND AGAINST, "GRAB"
Majority Report Favors Immediate Discontinn,
 anCe of City Line.
Minority Offers Compromise Line Which, If Adopted, Will Save to the City Five and One-Half Acres of the Nearly 12 Acres Comprised in the Grab

The effort to consummate the Harbo1 Grab which will be the chief monu- ment of the existing city administra- tion, if it is accomplished. will be re- newed this evening.
 A number of hurry up calls have been sent out for meetings of the Com mittee on Harbor Improvements. A partial meeting was finally secured Saturday night.
 Alderman Cassidy was absent AL derman Mahoney refused to sign the report proposed by Alderman Tague, who. though a Democrat. was appoint ed chairman of the committee by May or Lee, the only known reason being that he is a hearty syrnpathizer with the contemplated grab.
 The majority report demands, it is said, although it is kept a dark sec- ret,' the immediate discontinuance of the City lines There are the lines on the west shore of the Pequonnock riv- CT, which were established under the administration of Mayor Reynolds in December, 1906.
 The report then proposed a hearing to be held May 3, on new City line, to be co-incident with the government line.
 In other words the report proposes to turn over to the New Haven rail- road company eleven acres of the most valuable portion of the harbor.
 There will undoubtedly be a report by a majority of the committee, favor ing a new city harbor line. which will be concident with the government line between Stratford avenue and the Naugatuck dock. and which will di- verge from the government line at the dock in such a way as to divide the disputed area almost in half, so that the railroad company will receive about six acres. and the city of Bridge port about five and half acres.
 The minority report is in the nature of a compromise. It is dictated by the fact that Mayor Lee, backed by the powerful influences who will be bene- fitted if the grab is completed, has hent a large part of his official inf1u- enee to aid theS grab. so that it- is doubtfui if the friends of the city could
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
STOLEN TEAMS
 BOUND THIS WAY

The police have been asked to look out for two teams which were stolen in Irvington, N. J.. last Wednesday night Horse thieves have been un- usually active this spring and the po- lice have been asked to look out for stolen horses frequently. One of the teams mentioned was bay and the other grey. With them disappeared two large market trucks. The teams have been traced into Connecticut and may come this way
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19

where he will remain for few days
 Patrolman Hall did duty Thursday and appeared as well as usual On. Friday he took powders to al1ay a severe headache. In the afternoon he was seized with vertigo and took to his bed, where he has remained since pr. Trecarten says that his affliction is not serious and that he will be out again in a few days.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19

Mrs. William Koplin of 91 HamiI- ton street, has complained to the po- lice that Saturday she was fiim-fam- med out of one dollar by a smooth talking young man of whom she gives good deScription-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
PETE HALL
 GOES TO HOSPITAL

Patrolman Peter Hall was reported as much worse this morning and his physician, Dr. Trecarten, advised that he be sent to a hospital. The officer was taken to the Bridgeport. hospital.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19

Washington. April 19.-There will be no decision today by the Supreme court regarding the constitutionalitys of the commodities clause of the Hepburn rate bill.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
CARD OF THANKS.

We extend our most sincere thanks to our kind friends and neighbors also those who sent floral tokens and those who assisted us in the sickness and death of our father Thomas Ellsworth Signed FAMILY
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19

GIRLS WANTED.-In manufacturing business, to learn trade. Paid while
 learning. Apply 164 State St.. Room Is. between and Il o'clock Monday morning. U IT bso