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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-11-16
Refuse Overtures

Refuse Overtures
Meath and Oakley, after reading
the document, refused to accept
the money. Another tender was
written at once.
This was broader, but still not
broad enough for Meath. Another
and another were made, and again
and again the county treasurer
held his ground. Meanwhile
Meath's orders to close the plant
at Electron had been carried out,
and each minute was meaning a
loss to the power company. For-
tunately for those In town who
were far from home, 1t takes an
hour and half to shut off the
power or many belated shopper
and town employe would have
reached their home only by the
means of their legs.
They Give In
Finally the fifth card was played
and Mr.. Meath trumped it, and the
big Jackpot was the county's. It
was a tender from Mr. Howe Of
fering to pay, not only the princi-
pal on the three years taxes, but
$12, 600 interest, all to be paid u<-
der protest however. Until this
time the $12, 900 interest that had
been left in the machine outside,
was brought in and placed with the
rest, and the whole taken charge
of by Mr.. Meath's men, and taken
to the Fidelity bank.
IT meant that thought there was
still chance in court for the COM
pany to recover the money, until
a long series of legal tangles were
Strengthened out, the $132,000 be-
longed to the county, which at this
time is sorely in need of cash.
Will Get the Rest
The money paid yesterday was
the taxes due on the Puget Sound
Power Co. for the years 1S07-'0S-
'09. There remains to be paid
by the T. r. & p. and the Puget
Sound Electric Co. about 20S, 600.
Meath says that every cent will
soon lie in the county treasury. His
plans for the future he does not
at present care to state.
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Peder Jensen.
Beaten into the Washington
senate by the fists of a street rail-
way slugger.
His assailant is in the peni-
tentiary, his neighbors have five
cent fare and Peder goes to the
upper house to legislate.
Peder Jensen is the only man
who broke the republican slate in
Pierce county at the recent cleo
ton.
at has long been my ambition,
but / was always barred from
realizing it by being democrat,
but this year there came the op-
portunity in situation that
made it possible, so I ran and
won," says the new senator from
the oath.
Jensen is something of an
idealist. Yet he has store OF
hard practical common sense In
that round Danish head. He has
longed to be a senator, not just
to be senator, but because there
are things he wants done for the
people.
Jensen used to run little drug
store up on Commerce street with
the windows always full of bar
berry bark and other bitter stuff.
On the window in big letters was
the injunetion: ASK jensen"
Ask him what? Well, anything,
from the time the next boat
would leave to the price of wheat
on the market.
Hospital For Peder.
Maybe Jensen could not tell but
that window showed his desire
anyway to be of some practical
utility in the world and a willing
ness to help his fellowmen.
For the same reason he has
had an ambition to go to the leg
islature.
And when the five cent fare
fight came up at Fern Hill Jen-
sen was in it to try to do some
thing for the people. And then
he was beaten into the hospital
and when he finally emerged the
people brushed aside party labels
and elected him to the senate.
Jensen Is democrat but you
won't know 1t when he gets to
Olympia.
He is going to vote for Poin-
dexter to start with. against
George Cotterill, conceded to be
the best and brainiest democrat
on the ~Pacidic coast-because
Jensen believes the people want
Poindexter.
81 am making no promises;
will enter no caucus; ] will make
|no deals; I am forming no COM
binations; l am going to Olympia
free to do the best can TOR the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-11-16
MANY PROSPECTORS
DIE OF EXPOSURE,
(By United Press Leased Wire }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MONTREAL, Nov. 16.-Scores
of prospectors are dead and
many others dying on the trails
south of the Porcupine gold
camps in Northwestern Ontario,
according to w. r. Mclean, a
mining expert, who arrived here
from the North today. The men
either starved to death or died of
exposure. The Dominion gov
ernmeat's agents in the gold
country were powerless In the
face of failure of supplies.
The story of the stampede from
the Cobalt region to the new
Porcupine country surpasses in
horror, the sufferings experienced
by the gold seekers of the Klon-
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dixie. When reports of the strike
on the Porcupine reached Cobalt
all who were able to pack pro-
visions left for the new gold dis
trict. Many carried only meager
supplies into a country where
there was no game and which
was barren and desolate. Owing
to the poor roads those who car
ried plentiful supplies were COM
PEELED to abandon them and rely
solely on the food they could
carry on their backs.
Mclean, who has mined in
Australia and California, declares
that no gold rush contains the
stories of suffering that the Por-
cupine rush will reveal when the
details become known.
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INV United Press Leased Wire. J

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-If the
persistent rumors in circulation
today are to be believed, Lima
Cavalieri has come into possession
of more Chanler money, this time
a mere pittance of $4,000
1t is said that the money was
turned over to her upon her
promise not to come to America
and sing during the opera season
Of 1901.
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PASSENGERS AND
CREW MAROONEO
(By United Press Leased wire.]

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SELKIRK, Man., Nov. 16.-
Sixty-six passengers and the crew
of the steamer Wolverine were
reported marooned on desolate
island in Lake Winnipeg by an
Indian runner who reached Sell
kirk today. The Wolverine
foundered three weeks ago and is
believed to have sunk. 1t is
unknown whether all the passen-
gers reached the island In safety.
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Has Cavalier Agreed to Stay
Away From U. S. for SIS, 900?

While there is a question as to
the exact amount paid over II
has been learned from authorita-
tive sources that Cavaheri accept
ed the sum offered by one of the
Chanlers direct and has agreed to
remain abroad.
At present she is under con-
tract for operate and concert per-
formances on this side, hut it is
confidently expected that they
will be broken soon.
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estlng developments may ensue.
The executive committee is COM
posed of Paul e. Page of Buckley,
Peter Henretty, miner OF Gle
Elum, and Clarence Parker of
Tacoma.
The object OF the committee is
to draft-a bill for adoption at the
legislature which will give the
worker a moral leg to stand on,
as it will in the event of his an
atomical leg being chopped on be-
cause of employers carelessness
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LIABILITY
COMM TEE

A meeting OF the executive
committee which is undertaking
the PRONUNCIATION of an employ
ers' liability law Is being held
this afternoon at the Commercial
club rooms
In all probability some inter
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Two Killed
In Wreck

(By United Press Leased Wire-)
BOISE, Ida, Nov. 16.--James
Frye. a freight engine fireman,
and William Lynherst, brake
man. were killed in a collision be-
tween two freight trains on the
Oregon Short Line today, four
miles west OF Payette.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-11-16

A large 70-foot flag staff, the
tip of which is 290 feet above the
level of Pacific avenue, was placed
into position on the tower of the
new Realty building yesterday
The tower when completed will
be used by the local weather bur-
eau.
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GIRLS SAY NIX
ON TIGHT WADS

SYLVIA, Kas., Nov. 16.-An
anti-tight-wad club to boycott
young men who can walk bravely
by an ice cream parlor without In
viting their companions to a
treat has been formed by %
girls of the Sylvia High school,
comprising almost the entire
younger social set of the town.
A set of ironclad rules forbids
the members being seen in COM
pany with any young men boy
cotted by the club. The girls are
IA to IS years old.
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q oaGL4r
0 nd~
RNd@

BOISE, Ida, Nov. 16.-By ma
jority of five i'm the senate and 10
in the house, the republicans will
control both branches of the Ida
no legislature, despite the demo-
cratic landslide at the the recent
election.
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In a dear little village there
lived small boy with proclivi-
ties.
Owing to the nature Of his pro-
clivities they called him Meddle-
some Mortimer. Leaving things
alone was the best thing he didn't
do.
In certain period of his career
he wandered down to old man
Lignite's coal elevator and pulled
the rope that controlled the nut
coal bin, negecting to stand so
feet from the rope while pulling
it.
This was also the most success
full period of Meddlesome- Morti-
mer's career, in the sense that q
period means full stop.
i (THE END.)
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NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Eliza-
beth Marbury, closest friend of
Anna Morgan, commenting on the
Paris report that Count BOni de
Castellane seeks an alliance with
the house of Morgan to recoup
his fallen fortunes, said today:
''Miss Morgan has no intention of
becoming engaged to the Count
de CasteHane."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-11-16

Striking dressmakers In Paris
use hatpins and umbrellas az
weapons when attacked BY the
police.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The fed
eral government today filed it's
answer to a petition by attorneys
for the indicted Chicago packers
who asked change of venue
from the court Of United States
Judge K. M. Lands to the United
States circuit court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-11-16

WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair tonight and Thursday.
Light easterly winds.
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 10.
The population of the state of
Indiana was announced by the
census bureau today as 2,70O,-
S76.
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The population of Great Falls
Mont, is. 13,94S.
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He: 1t was mighty kind of
you to give me that dance this
evening.
She: Yes, you see it was a
charity ball.
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WASHINGTON, d. O., Nov. 16.
The census department an
nounces the population of Salt
Lake City at 02,777. 1t was 3d.
|531 In 1900. Augusta, Ga, lost
in population in the decade, hav-
ing only 81 1926 now against 3d.
All in 1000.
The sun., 1910-02-15
RAILROADs OPPOSE IT.
inject Co Rln for Federal inspection Of
Locomotive Boilers.

WASHINGTON. Feb. i4.--0n the ground
that IL is necessary for the protection Of
lives OF travellers aud employees on rail-
roads. the passage Of bill providing for
the Federal inspection OF locomotive
boilers was urged before q ssub-committes
on the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce this morning. Representa-
tivss OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers and OF other railroad en-
plOyees' organizations were heard in ad-
vooacy Of the measure. and motive power
oeacsrs Of several OF the larger railroad
systems OF the country voiced opposition
to the bill
1T the railroads thought this bill would
better protect life and limb replied one
OF the railroad men at the hearing, Il
do not believe a single railroad would be
represented here in opposition to it
NYss. they would" replied Senator
Burkstt: they fought the AUTOMATIC
coupler. the air brake and similar DEVICES
The railroad men opposed the bill for
the reason that they maintain a careful
boiler inspection service and it is TO their
own interests not to use boilers which are
unsafe or which endanger life. The EN-
ployees' Representatives oontended that
the Federal inspection OF boilers and the
other requirements OF the bill were neces-
sary. just as automatic cOuplers and air
brakes were found To be necessary few
years ago.
The sun., 1910-02-15
HARDY,S SPEECH ExPUNGED.
HIS Criticism Of senator Bailey stricken
From the Record.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE House
Judiciary Committee will not have to
pass on the question OF whether speech
inserted in the record recently by Repre-
sentative Hardy OF Texas, criticising
Senator Bailey OF that State, 10 in violation
Of the privileges OF the House. Mr..
Hardy to-day secured unanimous consent
to strike the speech from the permanent
records. The committee was TO have
held a final meeting this afternoon 70
decide whether the speech should be
expunged.
Although he withdrew the remarks
to-day, Mr.. Hardy contended before the
House that he had said nothing improper
about Senator Railey and hoped the day
would come when the attitude and vote
OF any Senator or Representative might
I've freely criticised in the way in which
he had criticised Senator Bailey's position
and vote
The speech TO which objection was
taken was delivered by Mr.. Hardy at
Cameron. Tex. last October and inserted
in the record two weeks age under
leave to print IL was an arraign-
ment Of Senator Baileys tarin position
and his failure TO follow in all instances
the Democratic platform OF the Eenver
convention
The sun., 1910-02-15
TAFrs COMING TRIPS.
Many Speeches Outlined for Him In Chi
cago-HePe on WMshlngt0n's birthday.

Many Speeches Outllned for Him In Chi.
cags-HeFe On washIngtOD'S birthday.
WASHINGTON. Feb. lt.-When President
Taft goes to Chicago on March II 70 attend
a banquet OF the Irish Fellowship Club
he is going 10 give the people Of that city
more speeches to the square minute than
he has done since the campaign days,
according 10 arrangements tentatively
agreed upon at the White House to-day.
Former Judge ElbridGe Hennessey, repre-
sntink the Fellowship club; Alfred l..
Baker. Alexander Mccormick. Charles j..
Vppicka and q half dozen other Chica-
goans.rspresenting the associations OF the
city interested In the conservation OF the
natural resources. Senator LOrimer and
Representative Madden, all called to-day
to take a hand in pertecting the details
II was decided that the President should
March II, coming possibly from New York,
where he may 20 on the 18th on purely
social matter. On the morning OF the l7th
he will attend a reception in his honor
given by the Newspaper Club OF Chicago;
at s O'Clock he will make an address At
the Auditorium TO tho conservation nists
at Z clock he will go to a reception at
the Hamilton Club. aud about ?. n. he
will wander over to the la Sale Hotel,
where the banquet OF the Irish organiza-
tons il to be held. He will leave Chicago
that night. As planned at present Mr..
Taft may return TO the capital by way OF
Rochester and Albany, n. Y. where too
he may make speeches.
senator kean of New Jersey to-
day made the final arrange
msnts for President Taft's trip to
New York and Newark on Washing
tons Birthday. The President will
leave Washington on the morning OF Feb.
ruary %. according to the plan. and will
make an address to the New Jersey So
ciety OF the Cincinnati at a banquet at
the Plaza Hotel that night. He will stay
over night at the home OF his brother
Henry W. Taft. The President will leave
New York about noon on February 29 and
will stop on at Newark. where he will ad-
dress the Board OF Trade. Probably he
will return to WaahlnRto that night.
The sun., 1910-02-15
TAFrS SPEECH A PUB. noe.
senator Hale Has II Inserted In the Cen
grcssIsnal Record. a.,

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE regular
Republicans are not overlooking any OF
portunity to have published as Govern
ment documents utterances OF the Presi-
dent and party leaders that are hostile
to the views Of the Insurgents in Congress.
In the Senate this morning Senator Hala
had the Presidents New York speech
in defence OF the Payne-Aldrich tariff
hill inserted IN the Congressional records.
and also secured permission for its publi-
cation as a public document.
Ii was Senator Hale who asked the
Senate TO publish as a Senate document
the Presidents Winona speech and the
one delivered by Speaker Cannon at
Kansas City. both Of which approved the
new tariff law.
The insurgents have not been as active
as the old hne Republicans in securing
recognition Of their views on Government
publications. Recently a speech by Sena-
tor C,immins OF Iowa, which was delivered
in Chicago in support OF the cause Of the
insurGene. wAs published az a Govern
ment DOCUMENT at the instance OF Senator
Borah OF Idaho.
The sun., 1910-02-15
swITH 0v COTTON EXCHANGES.
4. n. Marsh says There is Nothing In His
Report Worth while.

WASHINGTON. Feb. Il-Ths report
made by Herbert Knox Smith on cotton
exchanges got jolt to-day at the hearing
before the House Committee on Agri-
culture on the proposed legislation to
prohibit dealings in cotton futures.
There isn't anything in Mr.. Smiths
report that is worth while" said Vice
President A. r. Marsh OF the New York
Cotton Exchange. He added that in his
opinion the Commissioner of Corporations
when he framed his conclusions was
obsessed with past conditions
Representative Sims OF Tennessee was
anxious to get Mr.. Marshs opinion as
to the feasibility OF attacks on future
transactions.
"You can't draw a law attacking con-
tracts for future deliveries in New York.
Mr. Marsh replied. without its applying
TO delivery anywhere in the United States.
Mr. Marsh declined to answer Mr.. Sims O
query as 20 whether or not such a law
would eliminate the pure speculator.
Then Mr.. Sims endeavored to demonstrate
that the committee 10 after the speculator
alone. r
A question by Representative Lever OF
South Carolina as 20 what proportion of
the transactions on the New York Cotton
Exchange were illegitimate was hotly
resented by Mr.. Marsh as Insulting
The sun., 1910-02-15
SENATOR BRISTOB AEAKE
And went Allow Committee to sleep Oh
Hls EiectIen Resolution.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE Senate
Committee on judiciary is not going to
be allowed to sleep on the resolution
proposing an amendment TO the Constitu-
tion for the election Of Senators by direct
vote OF the people. il Senator Bristow OF
Kansas keeps his strength and his voice
Following his action OF Monday last. the
Kansas Senator quizzed Senator Clark,
the chairman OF the Judiciary Committee
when the Senate convened this morning
regarding the status OF the resolution
Senator Clark said the committee had
given consideration to the resolution,
but had rea ched no conclusion with re-
gard to ID He declined TO commit him
self as to the future OF the resolution, hut
declared that his committee was acting
in good faith in the consideration OF it.
The committee will not lay aside its
other work. continued Senator Clark
-to consider this resolution. but l will say
that the meetings OF the committee are
open to the Senator from Kansas at all
times. and il he desires to be heard on
this particular subject he is at liberty to
do 80 at any time"
The sun., 1910-02-15
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CURES ECZEMA
QUICKLY.
New Discovery Has RevOIutIonIzed the
Treatment OF skin Diseases.


Treatment OF skin Diseases.
Nothing in the history OF med ioine has
ever approa ched the success of the mar
velous skin remedy known as poslam m.
which, IL is safe TO say, has cured more
cases OF eczema and skin diseases than any
remedy ever offered for these ills.
The success of poslsm il not at all sur
prising when II il considered that even a
very small quantity applied to the skin
stops Hchin immed lately and cures chronic
cases in two weeks. The very worst cases
OF eczema. as well as acne, herpes letter
piles. salt rheum. rash. crusted humors,
scaly scalp and every form Of itch, yield
to IL readily. BemIshee such as pimples
red noses. muddy and ln1amed skin d lisa D.
pear almost Immediately when poslam Ia
applied. the compile xion being cleared over
night.
Every druggist keeps both the s0-cent
size tfor minor troubles) and the 81 jar. and
either ofthese may be obtained in New York
and Brooklyn at HeReman's. Riksrs,
Kalish's. Kinsmanis and JunEmannS, a.
well Hs other reliable drug stores. ,..
But no one is even asked to purchase
posla my without Arst obtaining an experi-
mental pa kagc which will be sent by mail.
free of charge. upon request. by the Emer-
gency Laboratories. 80 West twenty .hfth
street. New York City.
The sun., 1910-02-15
Bul TO increase Merchant Marine.

WAsHIN0ToN. Feb. r.-A bill intro
duced in the Senate to-day by Senator
Smoot OF Utah proposes to add to the
American merchant marine steamships
OF foreign build to the extent OF one mill
ion tons displacement The measure
gives the right 70 citizens of this country
or corporations to acquire by purchase
without payment OF duty foreign built
ships to the amount Of the tonnage stated.
In acquiring the right to ny the flag OF
the United States free OF duty such ships
are TO become a part OF the American
marine service and arc subject TO the
oall OF the Government in time OF war.
The sun., 1910-02-15
Prom otions in Ensiueers Corp.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE President
sent to the Senate to-day the following
nominations:
Corps OF EnEineers-MaIor to be Lieu
tenant Colonel, Henry q. Newcomer: Cap
tain to be Major. william d. Connor; First
Lieutenant to be Captain. Robert r. Ralston:
Second Lieutenant to be First Lisutenant,
Edward d. Ardery.
To be- PostnfAstsrs--New York. Ezra
Sayre. Corinth: PennsylvAnia. Frank r.
Holt. Rochester.
To be Secretary OF Legation Jacob
The sun., 1910-02-15
To Ascertain the Number and VaIue sf
Live stock on the Ranges.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE Census
Bureau is making unusual preparations
TO determine approximately the exact
number and the value Of live stock on the
ranges on April IS next. IL will en-
deavor TO obtain the moet complete and
accurate figures ever gathered on this
subject. The bureau will try to assure
the Tanchmen and farmers, especially OF
the Western range States. that their
interests will not be affected by a frank
and full disclosure OF their live stock
possessions. The information gathered
BY theCensus Bureau will be held strictly
confidential It will not even be impaired
to any other branch OF the Government.
The sun., 1910-02-15
CHINESE TROOPS MCTINY.
SEQ sf the vicereys Men Revolt. Bat
Are speedily Defested.

WASHINGTON. Feb. IA mutiny among
the Viceroy's troops at Canton. China,
was reported 70 the state Department
to-day by the American consul there.
About 500 troops participated in the re-
volt
Thev were defeated and order was
restored. the despatch added. The cause
Of the mutiny was not given
The sun., 1910-02-15
TAFT SEES AERO PROMOTERS
says Ne VIII Attend the Internatisnal
Meet at College Park, Md.


WASHINGTON. Feb. ls.-Cortlandt Field
Bishop, president OF the Aero Club Of
America Mayor Mahool OF Baltimore.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles. Thomas Nelson
Page. former Commissioner H. B. + Mac
Farland Of the District OF Columbia and
a dozen other aero enthusiasts called at
the white House to-day to tell President
Taft something about the plan for holding
the next international aviation meet
near Washington. The Presi dent made
a little speech TO his visit ors and said that
asit Was one OF his duties under the Con-
stitftion -to increase the gate receipts"
he certainly would be present at the meet
next October.
Washington and Baltimore have raised
siOO, 900 TO have the meet held at Col
lege Park. Md. about nine miles from this
city. and the President said he would like
to see the aviators hy there. He said that
he was interested greatly in aviation 4.
despite tho fact that he didn't suppose
a man his weight could 10 up in heavier
than air machine. Mr.. Bishop replied
briefly.