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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
I. R. MAKES
HIT IN
EGYPT
SPEECHES ENTHUSIAST1CAL-
LY RECEIVED AND GREAT
DEMONSTRATIONS GIVEN IN
HIS HONOR.
(By Staff Correspondent of the
United Press.l

(By Staff Correspondent of the
United Press.)
KHARTOUM, March 17.-Col.
Theodore Roosevelt and his party
bid farewell to Khartoum at 9
o'clock tonight and on a specia!
train will go to Assouan, where
the former president will spend a
day.
Colonel Roosevelt 8 last day IN
Khartoum was bus one. Dur
ing the morning scores of callers
came to bid him farewell. Among
those who called were members
of the hunting party.
Although Roosevelt will proba-
bly, see all of them, except Gun
ninghame, within a few months
he was visibly affected by the
parting.
Congratulations were heard on
every hand today on the speech
which Colonel Roosevelt maize
|pratising the advancement and
progress of Egypt under British
rule. The utterance has created
hosts of friends TO Roosevelt and
every appearance on the streets
today caused demonstrations in
his honor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
EIopes With Nurse After a
Courtship Of Two Weeks
BY United P,ess Leased Wire }

(By United P,ess Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, March 17.-Ending
a truly romantic courtship which
lasted two weeks, with an elope-
ment and wedding in Tacoma,
Mrs. William Hayes, formerly Miss
Hazel Elizabeth Dahlmann, teach
er of chorus music in the Seattle
high schools, is in California to-
day, and her husband is back in
the Minor hospital under surgical
treatment.
A meeting at fashionable ho-
tel, an illness and an operation,
in which Hayes played the role of
patient and his wife that of anna
teur nurse, preceded the elope-
ment, which le1kcd out last night.
Mrs. Hayes is again playing the
nurse, at the bedside of relative
in California. Hays formerly lived
in San Francisco, where he work
ed on the newspapers for some
time. He came to Seattle four
years ago from Oakland, entering
the state university.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

the roof is a wind gauge, looking
like weather vane, with four al
minimum cups at the end of the
pointers. There is also a ther-
mometer on the roof, and the two
on the roof are connected with
the machine in the office by cleo
trio wires.
When the sun shines 1t heats
the mercury in the thermometer
and causes it to rise, which COM
pletes the circuit and sends a lit
tie current down the wire to tell
the pen on the machine to click
off five minutes of sunshine. or
one minute. When the sun shines
this little pen makes mark every
| five minutes. When the clouds
Continued ON Page Seven.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
ONE WAY TO ESCAPE
GRIP OF ABSTRACT
COMBINE
REGISTRATION OF LAND TITLES UNDER TORRENs LAW RE-
MOVES NEED OF ABSTRACTS ENTIRELY-LOCAL
NOPOLY WORKS USUAL "TRUsT" TACTICS.

The cost for placing land under
the TOrrens system sometimes
runs a little higher than the cost
of simple abstract would, but
once there. that is the end of it,
and all further transfers can be
made at a total cost not to exceed
$3 for deed, recording and every
thing.
To head off the Torrens law and
keep citizens from registering their
land under it the local monopoly
lis resorting to all sorts of lodges.
Prices for abstrae J are being cut
to pieces where there is any dan
ger of the land being registered.
Then the loss is made up on thost
who are not contemplating regis
|tering.
In one case where the abstracts
for a certain piece of property
would have amounted to over ST.
100 when the abstractors heard
the land would likely be register
ed they cut their price for alb
stracts for the whole thing down
from $1100 to $127.
In cases where additions have
been plated and there was danger
of the Torrens law being used
some prices as low as 81 an alb
stract have been made. This
keeps the property still at the
mercy of the abstractors,' and the
next time it is sold will enable
them to get back to their old ex-
tortionate rates.
Several Tacoma additions have
already been put under the Tor
rens system, however. In these
cases when lot is sold no alb
stract is needed. The title is
guaranteed at the court house,
and everything shows right on the
record, so there can be no mistake
and no flaws in the title.
The people generally have not
understood the law, and have been
slow to embrace the new system
which is much better and cheaper
than the old, but the abstract mo-
nopoly, by its recent hold-up
game, has aroused much interest
in the new law, and many prop
erty owners will soon have their
titles registered under it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

Evidence accumulates daily to
show the grip Of the abstract COM
bine on Tacoma and illustrating
the extortionate methods of the
management now in control of the
local situation.
One Avenue of Escape.
There is just one way of escape
for property owners, and that is
through the Torrens land title sys-
tenn. The legislature of 1907
passed the Torrens law providing
for the registration of all land
titles and their guaranty by the
state and county. Abstractors
tried their best to defeat the law,
and when this was impossible to
amend it to make 1t impracticable.
The law was finally passed,
however, will offer an avenue of
escape from the grip of the alb
stract monopoly, and in the pres.
ent crisis citizens are turning to
investigation of this system for
relief.
The Torrens system simply pro-
poses that property owners shall
have their titles cleared up by the
courts and then registered. There
after they are free forever from
the Vaccinations of either alb
stractors or lawyers. After once
the land is registered all that is
necessary to transfer title is to go
to the court house and make the
transfer on the books, the auditor,
under bond to do it right, hand
ling the whole business.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
ISL, ,000.0 INTEREST GRAB BLOCKED
FIGHT MADE BY THE TIMES AGAINST PROPOSED
STEAL ON POWER PLANT is SUCCESSFUL

$150000 beginning in 1918 years
should
it DESIRES grab
limit was3 years.
There is big difference IN the
tied by the council the original
to be rushed through Times
which provided that the city should begin paying
thing the debt for the five then
s125000 year, most of which would interest which
would string the debt out just about 80
pie to interest wodld have people
would for the plant than twice
The first of the deal the
scheme raise the of paying from
and to cut down time to
years The arousng of the people by the Times
yesterday broke the plot
disposition last night down to earth
to permit the people from burden
in reasonable of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
Verdict In ''Blockade'
Suit Is Victory
For People

After deliberating but As MIN
utes last evening the jury in the
Fern Hill blockade" damage case
of Matte La Claire against the z.
r. & P. returned a verdict of
$1,000. This Is the price the
railroad will have to pay for not
carrying the girl to her destina-
tion after she had paid her fare.
Miss La Claire is a fatheriess
girl, who helped her mother sup
port the family by working in a
laundry. On the night of the
blockade she was forced to wait
many hours in the chill and fog,
and later forced to hire rig and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

about $50 of them, and gets them
off on the $500 train.
Then he gets out the Tacoma
forecast and sends this about the
city. In the meantime he is re-
ceiving and sending many tele-
grams, covering the state. Then
he has nothing to do but work
until o'clock. Constantly the
ocean steamers are plowing into
the harbor and he has to visit each
one, get the barometer readings,
a part of the log and a few other
details of the voyage, all of which
he compares with his observations
and sends to Washington, ID. C.
There is little machine oper-
Iated by clockwork and electricity
in the weather mans office. On
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

drive home.
The case will be appealed py
the T. r. e. P, as eleven other
blockade suits" have been filed,
|aggregating damages of $21.740.
AL sother cases practically depend
on the outcome of this case, and
If The supreme court stands by
the jury's findings it may mean
|fiye-cent fare for Fern Hill, as
the. fear of more damage suits
would prevent the company from
participating in another blockade.
lust what action the Fern Hill
people will take now, in view of
yesterdays verdict, has not been
decided upon, bnt the outcome of
the suit is considered a distinct
victory for the people.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
1OWD III BE- HE WEATHER. MAN

Maybe you'd like to be the
weather man, and tnen again may
be you wouldn't, for the weather
man, has to WORK.
He doesn't Just loaf around. all
day, occasionally sticking his nose
In the wind or squirting at the
sky and then say, More rain.
more rain" or fair weather."
Original Hard Working Man
Not in the weather bureau. L.
c. Cover. Tacoma forecaster, is
the original hard working man.
He has more troubles than a po-
liceman, and he has been mar
ried" TO his job for 18 years.
When he says, More rain," it's
time to get out your galoshes and
umbrellas. because he is only al
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
We GET QUICK
ACTION ON
THIS
THE TINES PRINTED IT ON
MONDAY AND TODAY IT IS
A CITY LAW.

On Monday of this week
the Times printed an article
exposing the reckless manner
in which the street car COM
pany is operating its freight
cars without air brakes, thus
endangering lives of the peo-
pie. As a result of this the
council last night passed an
ordinance introduced by Glib
lett to compel the company
TO equip all cars at once op-
Grating within the city limits
with airbrakes.
The company is to be al
. lowed 60 days in which to do
the work and any car operat-
ed after that without either
air or magnetic brakes will
subject the railway officials
to a fine of from $40 to 500
for each offense and each trip
made by a car without brakes
will constitute a separate Of
fense.
In addition to compelling
freight cars to he property
equipped with airbrakes the
ordinance may eliminate the
little see-saw single truck
cars which are operated on
Mckinley hill and some 9TH
er places as it will be so ex-
pensive TO equip these little
cars with air that the COM
pany may prefer to buy new
ones instead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

calculator, somewhat of a mariner
and just a little bit of an artist.
And he has to make good" at
every one of his many trades. One
tiny little mistake brings letter
from Washington, d. c., and sew
eral of them would bring him a
sudden transfer to the life of a
farmer, or any other occupation
than that of weather forecaster.
Cover begins work early. The
first observations have to be made
at 4:40 a. m. and the last at 4:50
p. m. He generally leaves the
morning observation to his assist
ant and gets down to his office
about o'clock. Between and
8:20 he has to make out the lit
tie weather mans sar the state,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

(By United Press Leased Wire.
CINCINNATI, o., March IL
Labor leaders who attended the
special convention of the United
Mine Workers of North America
mere, intimated today that the
only thing which will preevnt the
strike of 100000 coal workers
after April 1 will be an advance
of wages.
otherwise no wage scale will he
signed, and the men will be or
dered out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
The interest grab is blocked.

The of the Times of this scheme saddle
the people quarter a century bearing
which might be paid years. brought people
the city hall rumbngs coming
storm last night and broke for shelter
Before the regular council meeting Councilmen
Gbett and Jameson the judiciary hastily
gether and decided that the scheme
What they had been willing stand for the be-
fore they in different
made to reach other solution would
relief.
Jameson finally suggested a compromise
much of the objection the debt while preserving
all the advantages that
whereby the city with the
sons of the lighting system and have do
with and yet be able plant
able time. The final solution should pay
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
|. R. &P. TAX
HEARING ENDS

According to statements of
Jacob Furth in the final hearing
before Master i'm Chancery Wor-
den yesterday in the suit to escape
taxes by the Stone-Webster rail-
ways here, when the Puget Sound
Electric paid Bird s. Coler of New
York $253,000 for shares of T. r.
C P. common stock at the rate OF
1927 a share, the company was
"held up" Furth said the stock
was worth in the market about
$40 share but the Stone-Web-
ster people wanted it and so paid
the price, and he thought the re-
suits justified the expense.
The testimony has been finish
ed and 1t will go to the court now
to be analyzed and a decision
made up as to the facts. The
company is trying to escape about
$4,000 taxes on the property for
1907.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
FORGIVENESS FOR
KNOX JR. IS
PROBABLE:
(Ry United Press Leased Wire. j

(By United Press Leased Wire. j
WASHINGTON, d. c., Mar. II.
sit is whispered today that Sec
retary of tSate Knox is preparin g
to issue a peace proclamation and
forgive Knox, jr., for his recent
elopement with a sales girl.
although the American "pfe-
mier" has apparently not shown
much interest in the activities of
his son since the young mai S
marriage it is known that he has
been watching developments
closely.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
SWINDLERS TAKE AD-
VANTAGE OF COMING
OF HALLEY'S COMET.

D BERLIN, March IL
D Taking advantage of the ig-
D norance and superstition of
D the masses, swindlers in
, many party of the empire
D are reaping a harvest in the
, shape of subscriptions for
special prayers for the deliv-
of the world from Hal
D ley's comet.
In Kie and its vicinity the
} scare is general and CORES
, pondingly profitable to the
solicitors. Widely scattered
leaflets describe the comet as
, a sign of Goods scourge and
} the harbinger of universal
} war and famine, If not of the
} end of the world"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

lowed to make few mistakes a
year.
Three mistakes mean q cut of
$2OO In his salary, and there is
never any second reduction of sal
ary. A new man is found to fiji
the place. His work is checked
up by shree experts in Washington
ID. O., who insist that he figa. .
accurately just how many minutes
of. sunshine, cloudy or rainy
weather, and just how many hum
dredths inches of rain fell i'm five
minutes and which five minutes
of the day contained the largest
rainfall.
Must Do All Sorts of Stunts
He is everything from a ham"
operator to a lightning
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
OWNER
SUED

Emma C. Kueff, recently divor.-
ed, and the woman who was ar
companying Jessie Moore when
the automobile driven by Elmer
Boldman struck Mrs. Moore, fa-
tally injuring her, lis now sung
s. B. Sanford. owner of the ma
chine, for $500. The machine
also struck Mrs. Kueff but did not
injure her seriously.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
DRAW BRIDGE.
IN NEED OF
REPAIRS

The city council had its atten.
tion called to the poor condition
of the drawbridge crossing the
Puyallup river on South Twenty
first street last evening. Commis-
sioner of Public Works ID. B. Shell
Ter said the bridge had been OPEN
ed at 6 o'clock yesterday moraing
and that not until five hours later
was the bridgetender able to swing
1t into place again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

On Monday the Times printed page one an excellent
clear picture of Mrs Cudahy the first one
received n Tacoma.
On Tuesday the Times printed page one a picture of
the ebautiful Mrs Knox r likewise Ia
49,
On Wednesday Tacoma paners finally ra
ceved pictures of the forthwith printed
them on its first being days behind the
D Times
And as to quality, we'll just pictures
with those in the other The both on
quality and speed.
,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

The members of the three
Christian churches, the First. Gen.
tral and Roosevelt Heights, will
unite this evening at the Central
Christian church at North L and
Steel streets at prayer meeting
In preparation for the evangelistic
campaign to be held here early in
April.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

A live wire dropped down the
elevator shaft in the Fidelity
building yesterday afternoon. mar
rowly missing two workmen.
When the wire came in contact
with the steel beams and girders
blue flames shot out several feet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
O ID ID s.
- "A " ID
E. ~ ID s.
The shamrock is ii today.

Sporting names were we'll rep
resented at the marriage license
counter in the court house this
morning when Mr.. Pitcher secured
. license to wed Miss Archer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
"A Fool There Was"

Mr.. Joshua Forcum of Elm
Grove walked IA miles through IA
inches of snow, with the thermom-
eter 10 degrees below zero to OBJ
tain his marriage license the other
day.-Waverly (O) Dem.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
u. S. Weather
Bureaus Forecast

For Tacoma and vicinity:
Showers tonight; probably show
Iers Friday. Light southery
winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

The American hen lays over
16,000,00O,000 eggs annually, be-
sides the Easter eggs, for which
the rabbit is given credit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
Revised Nursery Rhymes.

This little pig went to market.
Where its owner sold it and i'm
medfately after bought an 49,
room house on Euclid avenue with
the money II brought.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

There's hardly man who
doesn't like to pretend when he
goes to a restaurant that he's so
well-known that they always try
10 do something special for him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

''It might have been," he COM
mented, thoughtfully.
might have been what?" they
asked.
might have been triplets, and
it's only twins" replied the op-
timist.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

A bill to punish any person in
turing or killing a skunk has been
introduced in the Massachusetts,
legislature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

Hamilton is expected to come TO
Tacoma this afternoon to complete
for his appearance
with his Curtis biplane Saturday
and Sudnay. 1t is expected that
he will accompany his aeroplane,
which was to have arrived here to-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

BANK CLEARINGs
Clearings ......s ...... $S53.210.92
balanCeS ........ oo, oUO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
BIRD MAN" IS
SUED BY HIS
MANAGER
by United Press Leased Wire.)

tBy United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, March I7.-Alleg-
ing that Charles K. Hamilton, by
reason of too frequent libations
and spending Friday night in live
ly company rendered, himself un-
fitted for flying last Saturday at
the aviation meet here, A. L. Croft
ton, until two days ago his man.
ager, has filed suit in the superb
or court against Hamilton in the
sum of $3,250.
The complaint set forth that by
reason of his unfitness, Hamilton
allowed and caused" his bipiane
to strike the water of a small lake
in The Meadows, disabling and
wrecking it, and for lack of nec-
essary help to put the machine
together or replace it was unable
to give any exh.b .bition on Sunday
or successful exhibition on Mon
day. Crofton alleges breach OF
contract.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-04-28
STANLEY SMITH CO.
BUYS BOX FACTORY

A deal has been closed during the
past week whereby the Stanley-Smith
Lumber Co. has bought the box max
ing machinery and equipment of the
Hood River Box Co., and it is the in
tention of the new owners to set up
the plant at the Belmont Planer OF
the company, and manufacture boxes
for the shipment of Hood River fruit.
The local box company which has been
in business here for number of years
will go out of business May Is, when
it will be necessary for it to vacate
the premises which were recently sold
TO Capt. c. H. McCan. The old COM
pany has contracted for enough lum-
ber to keep them busy until that time
manufacturing berry crates. After
the middle of next month the plant
will Immediately be dismantled here
and the machinery taken to Belmont
where it will be set up in connection
with the planer already running there.
Additional power will be secured and
it is possible that the Stanley-Smith
Company will secure more machinery
and operate still larger plant in order
to make all the lumber which they
have available. The new owners of the
box apparatus expect to have it in
operation again by the first of June
and they will manufacture apple boxes
during the summer. The larger con-
cern will be able to utilize much lum-
ber in making boxes which would be
waste without this means Of working
up by-product.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-04-28
IRRIGATION BOND
SALE is ENJOINED

The sale of $50, 900 in bonds, which
has been advertised for the past four
weeks in the Glacier, by the Hood
River Irriagtion District has been en-
joined and friendly suit will half to
go through the cuorts to test the
legality of the amended law withre-
gard to bounded irrigation districts
which is deficient os far as. providing
fnr the needs of the local district is
concerned.
The old law under which the district
was oragnized and operated was
sucffiient for the needs of the district
but when the law was amended by a
recent Legislature there was no pro-
vision made in the amended law for
the selling of bonds by district
already organized and doing business.
The Eamended law made no provision
whatever for the raising of money by
a district which had already expended
all the money realized from an auhtor-
lied bond issue. According to the pro-
vision of the amended law when the
bonds are voted, the whole amount
which it is possible the district will
want to use, has to be voted at the
election. In accordance with this pro-
vision at the recent election $40, 900 in
bonds was authorized while only $500
was to be sold as present according to
the plans of the directors. The suit,
which was filed in the Circuit court, is
to ascertain where the Hood River
district stands with regard to the law
and just how they can proceed to sell
bonds under circumstances which were
seemingly not at all contemplated by
the legislature in drawing the amended
act. The plaintiff appearing in the
suit is Charles Hall, who owns pro-
perty in the district, and it is bruoght
so that an opinion may be received
from a higher court on which the dis
trict may proceed. The matter will
push through to the Supreme Court as
rapidly as possoible. The attorneys
for the district are Bennett & Sinnott,
of The Dalles, and A. ]. Derby appears
as the attorney for the plaintiff.