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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
Cold Facts Marshalled
Up Against Taft's
Cabinet Member
ATTORNEY BRANDEIS IN SUMMING EVIDENCE AGAINST
BALIINGER DEALS SOLELY WITH FACTS SHOWING BAL
LINGERS RECORD DOES + AvOR INp4REsTs

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May ~,
"A keen and critical analysis OF
Secretary of the Interior Richard
A. Balilngcr, whom he character.
izes as 'irresolute," ''shifty" aud
"unethical," "A public officer tried
and found wanting, was the sum.
ming up of his case by Attorney
Ilrandeis, counsel for Louis II
CLAWS, before the Baliinger in.
vestigating committe today.
Brandeis dealt in facts, mar
shaled chronologically. His sum
ming up was cold, concise and
Unconditional. He seldom dealt in
Ioratory.
BaliInger Unfit.
He described the Cunningham
claims, declaring they showed
Balilnger unfit for public office.
He declared that one of the main
essentials in an adequate secre-
tary of the interior is resoluteness
W iCSlol db6l CDblOhi vi
otherwie. He declared that Bal
linger exhibited q lack of this
quality.
In the spring of 1907. he said
BalHnger agreed with Secretary
Garfield that thorough investiga-
ton of the coal claims should be
made. He went to the Seattle
land office, Brandeis continued,
far away from Washington, where
the pressure of the claimants un-
Idoubtedly was great.
BalIinger Weakened.
"Balilnger yields to the claim
ants, and the investigation is
stopped" the attorney declared.
"In December Balilnger is in
Washington, and to him there
comes L. r. CLAWS and urges the
resumption of the investigation.
Now the claimants are 1900 miles
Continued on Page Eight.)
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ltroversy.
Such is the neighborhood
wrangle when it reaches the po-
lice court stage. And Judge Arnt-
son is at his wits end to know
how to shut them off.
A neighbor's dog scratches up
the flowers on the lawn, a neigh
bor's chickens get i'm the lettuce
bed. a neighbor throws stones
against the door, and then the
whole community is wrought up
by expensive litigation saddled on
the county in the end to try to
straighten things up between
wrangling neighbors.
Judge Arntson will give a med
al to some fellow who evolves a
system for avoiding neighborhood
quarrel in police court. He has
an average of one a week. They
are nearly all alike. Good, re-
spectacle citizens are usually in
volved, bitterness is engendered
children are prejudiced, and when
1t is all over everybody is worse
off than when the trouble began
For nobody can win i'm a neigh.
hood quarrel.
Everybody is a loser.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
CASHIER Of
BANK IS
GUILTY

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore, May Ell.
w. Scriber, cashier of the de-
funct Farmers and Traders Ma
tional bank of La Grande, Ore,
was today found guilty on four
counts charging him with en-
bezzlement, forgery and misappli-
cation of funds by jury in the
federal court.
The attorneys for the defense
took an order for a ten-day stay
of judgment to consider an ap-
peal.
Evidence taken during the trial
showed that there was a shortage
of $134,000 in the banks funds,
and that 100000 of forged securi-
ties were in the vaults.
According to testimony of wit
nesses, Scriber had been misap-
plying the funds of the bank for
five years before his shortages
were unearthed by national bank
examiners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
WILL PROBE
ALASKAN
AFFAIRS
CONGRESS MAY INVESTIGATE
CHARGE THAT GUGGEN-
HEiM-MORGAN SYNDICATE
CAUSED FEDERAL JUDGES
APPOINTMENT.
(By United Press Leased wire.C

(By United Press Leased Wire.1
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 27.
The direct charges of Delegate
Wickersham of Alaska, before q
of the senate tu-
dicial committee, that the Nor
gan Guggenhefm syndicate caused
the appointment of T. r. Lyons as
federal district Judge, the NOM
nation OF John Rustgard as Unit
ed States district attorney and
Herbert Faulkner as United States
marshal in Alaska, II sustained,
today promises to start a move
ment in congress for an open in
vestigation of Alaskan AFFAIRS.
The investigation which ds fore
by previous develops
ments would not be confirmed to
any special phase of the land sit
uation. Every political activity
which 1t is charged the syndicate
participated would be probed and
the probing would be open to the
public.
The officials, alleged by Wick
ersham to be syndicate appointees,
will act in the Cunningham cases
which are pending in the territory
unless the government .interferes.
They also would act in all cases
in which the syndicate is interest
ed.
Judge Lyons was one OF the at
tomeys who defended Edward
Hasey when Hasey was on trial
for murder. Hasey was deputy
federal marshal. Hasey's attor-
neys, according to charges before
the committee, wrote a letter TO
a Guggenheim agent at Seattle,
itemized bills for enter
tainment OF witnesses at the
Hasey trial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Every morning she dragged her
self out of bed for another dayeof
toll. Even her Sundays did not
give her rest. Instead of health-
giving weariness she suffered with
chronic. exhaustdng fatigue. -
Work burns up the tissues of
the body. Nature restores these
tissues during sleep. This process
makes for health and happiness,
land decently regulated labor is as
necessary as sleep or food. But
Rita Hobbs, with the other thou
sands OF her kind, worked so hard
-sometimes IL hours. a day--thai
sleep did not restore her.
Nature couldn't keep up. Every
Iday a little more tissue was de
Istroyed than nature could replace
lShe was giving away her strength
las the cherry blossoms gave awas
their perfume. with no hope o
lreplepishing the store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

But one day her tired eyes
a little; just a little,
though, for the fires of youth
were burning daily, for she was
haggard and scared. like the dy-
ing cherry blossoms. She was IN
love. she was to be married.
You see she thought she was like
any other cherry blossom.
And married she was. A little
girl baby came. 1t was pitifully
weak and thin; 1t didn't have
enough life in its little body TO
even cry. It batted it's eyes at
the world for a few hours aud
then closed them forever. AS II
|it understood what chance a little
lgirl baby stood in a mill town.
The strength that should have
lbeen ten baby's Inheritance from
Its mother had been sapped OUT
of It's mothers body IN the fatcors
years before.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
TELEPHONES
PUT IN
TODAY
GREAT NORTHERN USES
FIRST TELEPHONES FOR
DLSPATCHING TRAINS.

(By United Press Leased Wire.
WENATCHEE, Wash, May 81
The Great Northern railway
this morning began the use OF
telephones for train dispatchins
between the Sound and Spokane,
marking the beginning of the end
of the telegrapher on H1ll's roads.
The phones cut in this mornrng
are those between Spokane and
Leavenworth. The phone system
between Spokane and Troy, Mont.
will be ready inside of week.
When these are in use, the Great
Northern will have about 1900
miles of track over which the tel
|ephone has replaced the tele-
graph. The advantage over the
telegraph, in case of wrecks OF
other emergencies, can be readily
seen. IS ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Reducing the payroll" by the
city commission looks a good bit
like the boys at Washington re
vising the tariff"
The way it is framing up now
most of the city employees will be
we'll looked after first and then
the taxpayers will be considered
later.
A general boost for most heads
of departments Is booked.
The city electrician is to get
5000 instead of $3.50. Pete De-
broe in the water department is
booked for $125 instead of $110.
Cliff Davis, chief clerk Of light
and water, win get $3.50 instead
of $110 Daniels used to get.
Commissioner Freeiand wants a
general boost In his department.
Ed White Is to get 5000 instead
of $125. Paying teller will get
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

(Spec1al COrerSpOndence.)
LONDON, May 27.-When AL
|exandra, the queen mother, and
Mrs. Geo. Keppel, the favored
friend of the late king, met at
the side of King Edward as he lay
in state at Buckingham palace,
the queen graciously accepted the
proffered coincidence and even
seemed to sympathize with the
borrowing favorite.
They parted in the room where
llay the body of the man who had
been husband to the one and best
friend to the other, and 1t is
likely that they parted forever.
Queen Alexandra can never for
lget the close friendship that ce-
mented King Edward to the wife
of one of his orderly officers.
1t has been announced that
Mrs. Keppei will leave England
and reside on the continent here
latter. George v is distinctly hos
Continued on Page Eighty
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
Cherry Blossoms the Banquet Table, Story Rita Hobbs Baby Girl

Another baby came. 1t died the
same way. ..
And then the mother died
just whithered away.
That factory, like all the other
factories. had been killing two
generations at a, time. Not only
the strength of living children but
the strength that belonged TO chill
dren of the future had been sac
rificed to buy art treasures from
old world palaces and autos and
suites in ocean Liners and fine
clothes and kins's- food-for the
stockholders In the mill.
The health authorities say
that 400 babies. were born
I'm Fall River in 1900. blight
hundred and twenty Of them
died before they. were . year
old. A thousand and twenty
eight children under the age
q 1--WE died In tho town Last
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
DEMOCRATS
MAY MEET
IN TACOMA

Representatives of washington
democracy are attending the state
central committee meeting at the
Olympus hotel this afternoon and
1t looks as if the invitation of
Tacoma will be accepted and the
state convention villa be held here.
King county. however, was in
clined to advocate not holding a
convention until after the prim-
aries. Then the new committee
elected at that time would make
the call.
If this plan Is followed the con-
vention could not be. held before
the list of September. Practical
ly all the convention will have to
do will be to name candidates for
the supreme bench and adopt a
platform as the rest of the ticket
will be named in the primaries.
Pierce, Thurston and Kitsap
county representatives who came
in at noon all seemed to favor
an early convention before the
primaries. If this is decided
upon 1t is believed there will be
no doubt about the convention
looming here.
Hugh Wallace was circulating
laround among the delegates this
Afternoon buttonholing different
leaders and it. is believed Hugh
will be out for office this fall.
Local men say. Hugh will not be
hard. TO persuade. to get in the
race. either for. congressman or
senator. .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
.. se sse .
DICKENS IN WASHINGTON.
He, Too, Saw the Betrayers of the People.

. among them Cthe representatives of the
honest patriotic
of America? Here and there drops of its blood
and e they scarcely coIored the stream desperate ad
ventures which that for profit and for 1t is the
game strife of politics fierce and
brutal destructive se-respect In worthy
shall be kept aoof
they left battle out their selfish views
And thus this lowest OF all crambng fights goes
who in other countries would from their inte
make the laws, do here
fatherest from that degradatoin Dickens In Ameri
written after his tourf the United States in 1872
n a n = = = q q = . D q n o . . D .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

FALL RIVER, Mass. May 27,-A cherry I'm. fun
bloom table,
flowers would cherries; each
cherry would its
The diners shifted didn't think
sacrificed them.
After the banquet the thrown aside there little
buds did
But their strength yellow and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

1926 instead of 800, receiving
tellers $115 instead OF 500, book
keeper 500 instead Of $50, and
lassessment clerk 500 instead OF
$50.
M the controllers office, too
there are boosts. Bookkeeper
| is to get 800 instead of $50,
check clerk s100 instead of $50
and other clerks 500 instead OF
$50.
Several clerks in the light and
water office will be boosted from
$50 to $50.
The city clerks deputies hav-
ling no commissioner over their
department to especially boost
their game seem TO be in for the
Isame old salaries, but they are
making a good eort at lobbying.
/, The whole matter win come up
I'm new ordinance next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
Want to Make Money? Sell
Your Skin for $l.65 an Inch

performed one grating operation
on Johnson, when he covered one
twelfth of the burn.
The doctor desires to secure
enough human skin to cover the
remainder of the burn and offers
SIS to each person who will give
up three square inches of his skin
to be grated on Johnson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Next year the commission q
may cut out the sprinkling q
charge of 25 cents a lot for q
all who sprinkle during June, q
July and August. and make q
a general assessment of 25 q
, cents a lot. on all lots in the q
, city for spTinkhng. 1t is be- &
lieved this would bring in q
D much more money. and would q
D be more satisfactory. Mayor Z
D Fawcett thinks the idea {
D looks good.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
WOMAN SHOOTS HUSBAND
AND SERVANT GIRL

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
HENDERSON, KY, May 81
Mrs. B. w. Ehelen is held in the
Henderson jail, charged with hav-
ing killed her husband and dan
gerously wounding a servant girl
at her home. After the shooting
Mrs. Ehelen surrendered to the
police.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

BERLIN, May 27.-Kaiser VIII
helm is suffering from a malign-
ant abscess on his right hand. 1t
is declared that an operation may
be necessary. The court physi-
clans have been in consultation,
but have not yet determined
whether the operation will be per-
formed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The factory owners of Fall
River, Mass. just Hike the factory
owners in any other city where ch
ildren are allowed to work, are
showing this same thoughtle ~
ness. But their thoughtlessness
is criminal, because the cherry
blossoms which they are demand
ing are ldydng children.
This is the way they do 1t in
Fall River, one of the great min
and factory towns in the country;
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Fifteen years ago Rita Hobbs
let US imagine that is her name,
for there are thousands of her in
Fall Rdver-leift school to go to
work in one OF the factories. she
was fourteen years old then; per-
haps younger.
She went 10 work at a loom,
mot day passed that che did mol
do too much work Tor her. frail
body. Every night she was tired
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
TODAY IN HISTORY

May az, 1879.
he British par
lament passed
|the habeas corr
us act. 1t is
|slill in force in
Tacoma, being
about the only
|act passed by
the British par-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
TAFT'S SECRETARY
RESIGNS BECAUSE
OF ILL HEALTH

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May
27.-Frederick w. Carpenter,
secretary to President Taft,
resigned his position today
and was nominated minister
to Morocco. 1t was an
nounced that Carpenters
health is in danger of
breaking down from over
work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
(By United Press Leased Wire.

VANCOUVER, Wash, May 81.
Human skin, If healthy, is val
ued at $1.66 2-3 square inch,
for grating purposes by DR.. ]. p:
Guerin OF Vancouver, who desires
over 500 square inches to graft
on a burn suffered by Otto John
son seevral weeks ago. DR.. Guerin
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
R. A. BALLINGER SHIFTY AND UNETHICAL
NEICHBORHOOD ROWS ARE
FUNNY BAD THINGS; NOBODY
WINS: EVERYBODY LOSES

ONCE EVERY WEEK, HOWEVER,, NEIGHBORS CARRY
THEIR QUARRELS TO POLICE COURT AND THEN
TROUBLE BECOMES TROUBLE AND
COSTLY, TOO - JUDGE ARNTsON is WRESTLING
WITH THEM TODAY
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
Marriage Licenses.

Fred Buding and Lena Rhodes.
Fred johnson and Ruth Kreger,
]. Lloyd Davis and Minnie john
son, Sreka Blanko and Yile Cor
lmorch. ..-.--......l - ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
(The End.)

School Inspector: Most anus
ing thing happened today. ] was
questioning the class and asked a
boy, "Who wrote 'Hamlet'?" and
he answered tearfully, "P-please,
sir, it wasn't me-"
Village Squire (after loud and
prolonged laughter): Ha! Ha!
That's good; and / suppose the
little devil had done it all the
time.-London Taller.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Willie was an obedient child.
He had been told never to touch
a live wire with his hands.
So, on a wet day, when he
found one spluttering in the road
he remembered what he had been
told, and touched 1t not with his
hands, but with steel umbrella
rod
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

BOISE. Ida, May 27.---oneida
county today is the sixteenth in
Idaho to vote itself into the dry
column. The local option issue
carried here yesterday by the
overwhelming majority Of $500.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
REDUCING THE CITY
PAYROLL UPWARD

FOLLOWING WASHINGTON
FELLOWS WHO REVISED TILE TARIFF EVERYBODY
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
0S0a-~
T6~-A-

BOSTON, May 27.-Julia
Ward Howe. author of THE Bat
tie Hymn of the Republic" is
celebrating her 91st birthday an
niversary today. Surrounded by
relatives and intimate friends, she
received scores of kilograms, cable
messages and letters of congratu-
lation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The famous singer who goes by
the name of Johanna Gadski is
known In private life by her real
name of Nine. H. Tauscher.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

Although Washington wanted
no salary as president, it was fix
ed by congress at $4,000 a year.
President Taft's salary is SIS, 900
a year, besides $4,000 a year for
travelling expenses.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The nrst sewing machine waz
made in lsAe BY nllaa Howe. r..
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29
SUIT AND A WATCH
HIS WORLDLY ASSETS

With assets totaiing SO. claimed 70
be exempt. as against Ss90.35 liabli-
ties, NJ. Gordon. a cigar manufacturer
Of this city, yesterday filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy. GOrdon's
worldly wealth consists OF a suit Of
clothes and a watch
Albert L. Hamlin. a local carpenter
and builder. offers his total property
OF $l.15l. consisting mostly OF mining
stocks. TO cover S4.460.9O liabilities. iu
a petition for voluntary bankruptcy
flied yesterday. Hamlins chief credi-
tors are the McConaughy -Lossee Lum-
Der company. the Felt Lumber com
pany and the Utah Lumber company.
Carl A. Onasch. a machinisI Of Mil
Creek. filed similar proceedings to es-
cape sl.44S.44 liabilities. He claims ex-
emptiOn for his assets tOtaiing Sz55.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29

Hotel Virginia, and is at her apart
ments in the BransfOrd.
4 \
Miss Nellie Pearsall returned last
Thursday evening after five months
absence. She spent the summer
months travelling with friends in Eu-
rope. and has spent the last two
months with friends ana relatives in
the east
X
Mr. and Mrs. W O. Cieiand have
returned from a months visit in the
east. and are al home at the Keith
apartments.
y
Mrs. George Tying of Santa Bar
bara is visiting in the city at the
home Of her son. Charles Tying, in
East Second South street.
Mrs Edith NJ Richardson. who has
recently returned from an extended
European trip. is at home TO her
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29

Young friends al a delightful Hallow-
cen party Pumpkins and autumn
Leaves were used in the decorations
OF the rooms. and games incident TO
fhe season We're played. Mrs Love
~ assisted in entertaining by Mrs.
4 q smith and Miss DeNoli.
X = x
Mrs. S. H. Babeock viii entertain
next wednesday with a luncheon.
Mrs. o. j. Salisbury will entertain
informally Monday afternoon in honor
II her mother. Mrs. McGiivrey' OF
X
Mrs Edward McGurrin VIII give
luncneon We Inesday nj the Alta club
COR Miss n enc MeGurrin OF Detroit
X =
Mrs. Ferdinand Dickert has re-
turned from Long Beach. where she
has spent the last three months al the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29

friends in the Caithness, where she
has for her guest her mother. Mrs.
Adams. who accompanied her home
from the east.
X y
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pierce, who
have lately come from Washington.
ID. C.. where the former occupies the
position of assistant secretary of the
Interior. will remain for several weeks
in the city, and are al home at the
Knutsf0rd.
Mr. and Mrs, Hubbard W. Reed
have returned from an extended trip
abroad, having also spent some time
in New York.
Captain A. J. McNab has returned
to Fort Douglas. after visit with his
family on their Montana ranch
X x
The Misses Josephine and Winnifred
Cummings and Willard Cummings
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29
BIRTHS.

Mr.. and Mrs. David F. Lewis. SIC
Yale street, girl.
Mr. and Mrs E. H. cardwen. SO y
street, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph johnson. Judge
Mercy hospital, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Williamson,
i5S East Eighth South street. boy.
Mr.. and Mrs George X. Scott. 1886
Fourth East street, girl
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wilding, 323
West Fourth South street. girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. William John KnoWl-
den, 43l Bryan avenue. girl.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-29

Harry II. Wyman and Marinda Heap.
Lethbridge. Canada.
Clyde H. Howell and Edna L. Sands.
Salt Lake.
Harry S Wheeser and Margaret Mis-
ell. Salt Lake.
Orson Leo GustOfsOn. Butte. Mont
and Hilda Holgren, Duluth, MINI.