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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

bobolinks, meadowlarks, tree and
white-throated sparrows, snow
buntings, waxwings, swallows,
tanagers, warblers, thrashers, rob-
bins and bluebirds by scores and
hundreds.
IAN instance of the destructive
power of fashion is shown in the
case of the ptarmigan grouse. In
the summer it is brown and black,
but i'm the winter 1t is snwoy
white, and it's plumage may be
dyed any color. The flesh of the
birds is good food, but the food
demand did not rain the supply.
When the feathers became fash
fonable, however, 100000 birds
were killed in four years; one
shipment contained 10 tons of
wings.
. Twenty thousand paradise
birds are shipped annually. Or
the hundreds of thousands of
herons which once glorified our
marshes only a few birds remain,
since the aigret pdumes becae the
fashion. In one year Venezuela
exported 1,53S,000 plumes of
herons, and these figures do not
take int oaccount the birds that
were killed but not found, and of
possibly double the number OF
young herons which starved In
their nests for lack of parental
care"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
IT SAVED HIS Leg

"All thought I'd lose my leg,
writes j. A. Swensen, of, Water
town, Wis" Ten years OF eczema.
that Is doctors could not cure,
had at last laid me up. Then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it,
sound and WELL" Infallible for
Skin Eruptions, Eczema, Salt
Rheum, Boils, Fever Sores, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts and Piles, 25c, at
Ryner Malstrom, Prescription Spe-
cialist, 93S Pacific ave., for pure
drugs. go"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
Fever Patient
Cuts Throat

gBy United Press Leased Wire.)
DAYTON, Wash, Sept. S.-De-
lirious from the effects of a ty-
phoid fever attack, Emil Erickson,
recently of Portland. Ore, escap-
ed from the Dayton hospital, it be-
came known today, and after Sc
curing a room i'm a private lodg-
ing house, killed himself by cut
ting his throat with a razor. The
dead man was &c years old and
iC the son of wealthy Gordon,
Neb., farmer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
KILLED BY HEAT

NEW YORK, Sept. S.-While
all New York was suffering from a
sweltering heat wave today, Street
Commissioner Edwards presented
the eity's advertising for bids for
snow removal for the coming WIN
ter. There have been one death
and several prostrations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
A SUSPENDED CARPENTER SUES
UNION FOR $4,000

have been suspended from the
union pending the payment of a
$50 fine. He appealed, he says,
to the district council and the In
ternational union, both of which
bodies are said to have decided
that the fine and suspension was
not according to law.
Mccullough charges that he has
lost $50 per month on account OF
his inability to work since his sus-
pension. He asks that the court
order the union to reinstate him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

Elijah Butterfield died yester-
day at his home, 405 South E
street, yesterday of paralysis. He
had been in Tacoma 81 years, and
is survived by a widow, four sons
and three daughters. The funeral
will be held Friday afternoon at
1880 from Piper's undertaking
parlors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
or
WIFE MURDER

NEW WESTMINSTER, B. c.,
Sept. S.-The dead body of Mrs.
George Reid, who rs supposed to
have been murdered, was found
in her home at Clayburn, ON the
south side of the Fraser river. CD
posite Madison City, and her hus-
band. who is missing, is suspected
by the police of having committed
the deed. 49,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

The funeral of Charles Chand-
Ter, who died at Dockton Tues
day, was held this afternoon from
the Notwithstanding under
taking parlors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
NEWS
TIDES TOMORROW.

The recent floods in Japan so
delayed intended shipments by
the o. S. K. steamship Chicago
Maru that she reached Tacoma
yesterday noon with only 23S
bales of raw silk and 81 cases of
silk goods, the smallest shipment
received since the line was open
ed. The vessel carried ~ pas
sengers and a general cargo of
1855 tons, valued at $1,000, 900.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
FLIES over
BOSTON LIGHT

BOSTON, Sept. 8.-C1aude Ora
hae-White, of England, sailed out
to Boston light and return late
yesterday in his Bleriot mono
plane, the first competitor for the
Boston $4,000 prize, the blue
ribbon even of. the Harvard-Bos-
ton aero meet at Atlantic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
PROHIBS STILL AFTER
NORTH YAKIMA

NORTH YAKIMA, Sept. s.
The question of local option will
be taken up again at the general
election here this fail. The "drys"
decided yesterday to try once
more to make this city prohibition
territory, although the "wets"
last December after a
campaign.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
3 KILLED.:
IS HURT


yDy OHlbeu Iress Icascu Wlre.)
KALISPELL, Mont, Sept. s.
Charles Money, Conrad, Mont,
and William Smith of Whitefish,
Mont, were killed and Is serious
ly injured in wreck of the Bur-
lington train on the Great North
ern railway at Coram yesterday.
An unlocked switch caught the
smoker and rear end of teh train
and switched them into a freight
car. There was an awful crash
and the smoker was made into
kindlng wood.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

John T. Heffernan of Seattle
was awarded the contract for re-
pairing the Watson. The bid is
$22, 1868, time limit % days. The
contract calls for renewing IA
plates, fairing and replacing 10,
fairing and repairing IL pilates in
place. The bilge keel is to be re-
renewed and replaced for
its entire length.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
NOTES

The funeral of Gilmore Mum
son, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs,
Gilbert Munson, was held this
afternoon from the family resi-
dence, 1923 South L street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

The funeral of Louis Frank Da-
Wis, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank l.. Davis, was held this aft
ernoon from the c. c. Mellinger
chapel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
CHINANIAN SOAKED

WALLA WALLA, Sept. s.
Seid Wing, a Chinese arrested for
running a ''blind pig" was fined
5000 and costs, the maximum pen
atty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08
Can't Collect If
Hurt By Hearse
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By united Press Leased WIfe.)
OLYMPIA, Sept. S.-Mrs. Clara
Kimble of Mt. Vernon, returning
from funeral, was run over by
the hearse. She sued, but the low
er court and supreme court de-
cided she couldn't collect.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

The steamer Harold Dollar OF
the Dollar line deaves San Fran
cisco Monday to take the place of
the Watson. The work of the
Watson until the Dollar arrives
will be done by the steamer
Jeanie of the Alaska-Pacific line,
which sails as scheduled Septem-
Der 10.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

Tacoma Ice Cream Co., only ex-
elusive ice cream company in Ia
coma. Phones A2802; Ma. $3.50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

"Yet, chief among the enemies
of the birds is woman.
Woman as we'll as man may be
held responsible for the destnuc-
ton of our forests.
'In shopping districts, where /
have made ornithological studies
on women's hats, 1 have found
woodDeckers. fycatchers. orioles,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-08

Drs. Thomas. Fidelity Bldg. **'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
Club News

~ OUTHERN spirit and southern
sentiment was manifest yester-
~ dav at the Friday Morning club
when Miss Lucine Finch related tales
of the south and sang the quaint old
religious melodies of the negro mann
mics" The stories of "Moses in the
Rullrushes" and the "Creation," as re
lated by one of the old mammies of
plantation times brought back Vivdly
the childhood days of many of the club
women, and tears and laughter min
gled at many of the "reminiscences.
1t must be understood that all we'll
brought up southern children had q
spoonful of onion syrup at bedtime
and when seated around the open fire,
thew would listen open -mouthed and
wide-eyed to the marvellous tales which
the enterprising old nurse would re
late. The description Of Miss Pharaoh,
who always wore long satin train,
no matter what she was doing, was
well calculated to induce "ohs!' and
'ahs!" from the children, who realized
quite as we'll as their nurse that the
daughter Of a king could do no less
and maintain her dignity and royalty.
The old colored woman whose stories
formed the basis of the entertainment
was herself of royal blood, her mother
an Ethiopian princess and her father
a Moor and she always styled herself
! the "alabaster princess"
The entire program was delightful.
and the change from serious problems
to which the women OF this club are
wont to devote themselves to a morn
| ing where simple entertainment was
the object, was pleasant variation.
DR. Dorothea Moore will give a talk
on "Mexico" at the meeting next Fri
day, and afterWard she will be the
guest of honor at a luncheon at the
club.
The paintings by Martin Jackson
which were exhibited at the club
caused much favorable comment.
Clara V. Underhill will present an
informal review of Man and Woman" ="
by Havelock Ellis, at the meeting of
the College Women's Political Equality
league at the Y. w. c. A. building this
afternoon. Guests will be welcome.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

horn, the author of Sweet Peace" and
hundreds OF other we'll known sacred
and popular songs, will conduct a
musical service and sing some Of his
own songs.
TO CLOSE TENT MEETINGS
The evangelistic services conducted
under the auspices of the Central Pres
byterian and the Friends church in a
tent at the corner of Second street and
Fremont avenue will close with the
Sunday evening services. A special
| service will be held at p. m.
The Rev. George A. Henry, pastor OF
the West Adams Street Methodist
church, will speak at the vesper service
at the Y. w. c. A. Sunday afternoon at
4 o'clock.
The Rev. Arthur S. Phelps, who went
to the Northern Baptist convention in
Chicago, will occupy his pulpit at both
services Sunday, administering bap-
tism at both services. He will speak at
the morning service on "Denomina-
tional Breezes from Lake Michigan,
and in the evening on Gods Pictures
in the Grand Canyon" DIR. Phelps will
preside at the Yale dinner to be given
DIR. A. u. Hadley Monday evening.
Another new church will be organized
in the First Emersonian New Thought
church. which will hold it's first SER
vices Sunday morning and evening in
the Ebell clubhouse. The Rev. Mar
garet c. La Grange, head of the move
ment in Southern California, will speak
at both services and is prominent in
organizing the new church. At the
morning service Mrs. La Grange will
speak on 1.-THE General Principles OF
Psychotherapy." At the evening service
the subject will be 1.-THE Ministry of
Art" Special music has been arranged
for these opening services.
COMET" Is TOPIC
"The Comet" will be the subject OF
a prelude by the Rev. A. C. Smither
pastor of the First Christian church.
to his Sunday evening sermon. He will
take for his subject, Man in His
Church." which will be the third of
a series of sermons. Next Sunday
evening he will speak on Man in Pol
itics," and on the following Sunday
evening on THE Ideal Man.
]. d. Radford of the -Ameri-
can Savings bank will speak at the
City Union Rescue mission, 606 East
Fifth street, Sunday evening.
st. Pauls pro-cathedral choir will
give it's annual entertainment for the
choir boys camp fund at the
Gamut auditorium Wednesday even
ing. Ernest Douglas is director, j
Shaull- Hallett, pianist, ana freeman N
Saunders, stage manager
The Southern California Pentecostal
association will hold it's third annual
meeting at Carter's camp, Sierra Ma
DIRE June l to IL.
The Catholics of the diocese have OBJ
| served the Ember days of fasting and
abstinence this week.
The young men of st. Joseph's parish
will give a play the latter part OF
June. The play and characters will be
selected at meeting to be held Mon
day evening. The Rev. Casian Tritz
o. f. NJ, the pastor will direct the
play.
Evangelist George w. Taylor and
Prof. L. A. Wegner, his soloist, will
! e at the Young Men Christian as
sociation mems meeting Sunday after
noon at 1920. Mr.. Taylor's subject will
be much Every Way"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
The TheaterS

The last two performances of by
Right of Sword" will be given at the
Grand opera house this afternoon and
tonight. Commencing with the matinee
tomorrow Charles King and his stock
company will offer How Baxter But
ted IN"
Foster and Foster, the team of mu-
sical funmakers at the Los Angeles
theater this week. will close tomorrow
night After a short vacation they Will
resume their work.
Only four more performances Of
"Forty-fve Minutes from Broadway
remain at the Belasco theater. Monday
night Mr.. Stone and his associates will
open in Edwin Milton Royle's famous
drama of the west, THE Squaw Man, -
which will be given for one week only
After five days of the most strenuous
work they have ever done the Burbank
players and mechanical forces were
given Frederic Belasco's 90 x" after
the scenic rehearsal yesterday, and
THE Rose of the Rancho" was declared
ready for it's first performance tomor-
row. Everything is complete from
Marjorie Rameaus little Spanish song
to the big festival scene with its merry
dances
The last week of the Kolb &, Dill
engagement at the Majestic will begin
tomorrow night, the third week of
"The Merry Widow and The Devil"
After next week the Majestic will be
dark for a week and James x. Hack
EFT will then open brief engagement,
his first bill being THE Pride of Jen-
OicO"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

on his arrival in wyoming married an
Indian woman and thereby was rele-
gated to the social cellar of the state
with the degrading epithet of "squaw
man" ATTACHED to him.
To this story Mr.. Royle built and
added from the wealth Of his expert
ence until he had fashioned a short
one-act play, which was given at the
Lambs club in New York during a pub
lie gambol. So well did the little effort
take that Mr. Royle set about rebuild
ing 1t until he had created four-act
play. In a happy moment Mr.. Royle
read his play to George Tyler of Lieb-
Ter & Co., and Mr.. Tyler jumped at it
provided some few changes were made
to meet his ideas. These were made,
and today 1.-THE Squaw Man" stands
as an attested popular success and one
of the best plays that the Belasco COM
pany has ever given, 1t having been
used to celebrate the return of Lewis
S. Stone and the fifth anniversary of
the Belasco theater last season.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
TO GIVE 30 TOTS
FIRST COMMUNION
Special Services Planned for Sum-
day at ST. Vincent De
Paul Parish
DR.. GLASS TO BE PREACH
Los Angeles Pastors Announce
Interesting Choices for Sub
jeCtS Among Them Comet
DR.. GLASS TO BE PREACHER

Sunday will be a special day for the
parish of st. Vincent de Paul when
first communion and confirmation will
be administered to two large classes.
At s a. M, the Very Rev. DR.. j. S.
Glass, G. M, will celebrate high mass,
at which a class OF fifty children will
receive first communion. DR.. Glass Will
preach the sermon. Preparatory to this
celebration a retreat has been given,
opening last Thursday and which Will
close with the service Sunday morn
ing.
At $3.50 clock in the afternoon a
class of seventy-five will receive the
sacrament of confirmation, the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Conaty to administer the
sacrament and preach a short sermon.
Special music will be rendered and the
church will be elaborately decorated
for the services.
DR.. Charles Edward Locke, at the
First Methodist Episcopal church, will
hold a service on Sunday night in MEM
cry of Queen Victoria and her illus
trious son, the late King Edward VII.
Hq will discuss the subject, BLOOD
Is Thicker Than Water; or Gods
Great Call to England and America. ."
The English Jack will be displayed
with the stars and Stripes, and pa
triotc hymns will be sung. Dr. Locke's S
iuOIlilHb SuDJNNe N4Ai ~ - - %N~-N -
Keep.
PASTOR RETURNS HOME
DR.. j. Whitcomb Brougher is home
again from Chicago, where he went
to attend the Northern Baptist con-
vention. He gave an interesting report
of the convention at a largely attend
ed player meeting Wednesday night
and will have, something further to
say concerning the great cities of the
east in his sermon Sunday morning.
His subject will be "The Square Deal
in Christianity"
DR.. Brougher preached for two of the
great churches of Chicago while east
and also with q number of preachers
spoke at a midnight mission on street
corner to a great throng in the red
light district" He will have something
especially interesting to say on Sunday
concerning the problems that a clty
church has to face.
At night he will continue his series
of sermons on "Life's Big Fights" The
special topic will be, THE Fight with
Temper and Tongue"-with some side
remarks upon the much-mooted ques-
ton, "Do Men Gossip More Than Wo-
men?" There will be baptism at the
opening of the service and a special
musical program will be rendered by
the Temple soloists and chorus.
Friday evening, May 7, the Temple
orchestra will give its second popular
free concert, in Berean hall, Auditor
ium building. A splendid program has
been arranged by the director, Prof.
c. B. Hamrick. The soloists will be,
Miss Grace Mccormick, violin; Miss
Edna Zyl Mode, whistling.
= TO HOLD ANNUAL OUTING
The members of the Baptist Minis
ters' conference of Los Angeles and
vicinity are planning to hold their an
nual outing at Long Beach Monday,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

TN HE story of the manner in which
Edwin Milton Royle came to
Il write 1.-THE Squaw Man." which
will be given at the Belasco theater
commencing Monday night, is one that
will bear telling. To begin with, Mr..
Royle Is a native of the west. He was
born In Salt Lake City, and brought
UP in a cattle country-in Wyoming, to
be exact. His growth was to the ac-
compartment of the thunder Of hoofs.
the crack of the stock whip and the
whjz of the lariat, and so it may be
Judged that when theme was so
handy to his mind 1t was inevitable
that he should write a strong and
truthful picture of the life that was
his from earliest infancy.
To Mr.. Royle one da-- came an Eng
lishman who had sacrificed himself,
his hopes and prospects by taking on
himself the onus OF charge of embez-
element in order that his cousins wife,
whom he regarded highly, should not
be made to suffer disgrace, and who
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
10000 BIBLE WORKERS
MARCH IN BIG PARADE
Wife of Vice President Sherman
Leads Women's Meeting

WASHINGTON, May 20.-To the
strains of "Onward. Christian Soldiers, g"
an army of more than 10000 members
of mems Bible classes from all parts of
the world marched down Pennsylvania
avenue today and around the capitol,
on their way to a monster mass meet
ing in convention hall.
This was the feature of today's ses-
sions of the Worlds Sunday School as
sociation, now in convention here.
Practically every country in the world
and every state in the Union was rep
resented in the parade.
AS the convention hall was not large
enough to accommodate the crowd, an
other meeting was held in Mount Yer
non Episcopal church. simultaneously
two meetings for women were in prog
ress, at one of which Mrs. Sherman,
wife of the vice president, presided.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
WASHINGTON SEISMOGRAPH
RECORDS DISTANT QUAKES

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-An earth
quake, estimated to be from 1000 to
5000 miles from Washington, was re-
corded by the seismograph at George
town university this morning. Father
Francis A. Tondorf. professor of as
tronomy. said he was inclined to be-
leve the disturbance was in the vi
cinity of Costa Rica. The instruments
indicated that today's vibrations were
only of moderate intensity.
Remember the Druids' picnic Sunday
at SchuetZen mark.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
UPSET IN SURF

LONG BEACH, May 2O-In putting
out a city lifeline at the foot of Lin
den avenue this morning Engieer Her
bert of the launch Virginia was thrown
into the ocean by the upsetting of his
skiff on the crest of a breaker. Charles
Baettge, wharfinger, so years old, who
was on shore, sprang into the water
and assisted the man in distress, help
ing him to right his boat and get out
of the breaker line. The lifeline was
$50 feet long, extending from shore
posts to a 5000 pound mooring block.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
MORE SCHOOL SITES

LONG BEACH, May 2O.-A Mrs. Fer
guson Of Los Ageles today submitted
four more Polytechnic high school pro-
posals to the board of education. Of
fering to sell either 10, 10. II or % acres
at Anaheim street and California ave-
nue. for $50, 900, $4,000 $4,000 or $64, 800
respectively. F. D. French has reduced
the price on his site Of thirteen acres
from $35, 900 to $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

Henry Edmund Earle has composed,
a song Ballad of the Kings Chhdren.
The verses are in English by JulIus
Ludovici, and Mr. Earle mas dedlcatGi4 "a
tho work to Roland Paul who sang II
Thursday evening in Pasadena at
recital at the Shakespeare club.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

Miss Lillian G.. Smith, pianist, will
give a benefit recital Tuesday evening,
Nav 81. in Blanchard hall. She Will
have the assistance of Minnie Gazolla-
Love. soprano. Miss Smith expects to
leave soon for Chicago, where she will
remain for a month, going from there
directly to Germany to continue her
study of the piano.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

Miss Mabel Brousseau, pupil Oh
Herr Thilo Becker and later of Mosz-
kowski in Paris. has organized class
for the study of musical literature.
The class meets each week IN her
studio. III South Avenue 66. The next
lesson will be held Monday evening,
when the subject will be ADA. MISS
Rrousseau uses the finest Victor rec
ords for the musical parts of her les
SON. and for this opera will have these
solos: Soprano. Gadski and Magluilo;
contraIto, Homer and Colombati; ten
or, Caruso and Constantine; baritone,
Scotti and Novelli; chorus of LA Scala
(Milan), and orchestra selections from
La Scala and New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21

Mrs. Elizabeth Strong and MISS MISS
Eleanor Strong will give muslcale III
Mammoth hall Monday evening.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
CHANGE DATE OF GAME

LONG BEACH. May 2O.-Yielding to
continued protests against the playing
of the state championship girls. bas-
ketball game on Memorial day. the adj
visory board of the high school decided
today that the game should be played
Saturday, May 2s
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
Blernishes
On the Face

Don't go about with face full of
blotches or other skin eruptions.
Clear off these disfgurements in a
short time at little expense. These
unsightly blemishes come from inn
pure blood and a disordered sys-
tenn but will all disappear after a
few doses of
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-01-28
1t Saves You Money

The special half price sale OF DR..
Howardr specific fer the cure Of con-
stipation and dyspe psia by Jno. E.
jackson means the saving OF f1w
dollars on every family's yearly bill for
medicines
Each 90 C bottle (Mr Jackson sells
1t for 55c) con, aims 90 doses Of med
icine that Is pleasant TO take and
which can be depended upon to cure
the worst case II constipation, dyspep
STA or liver trouble. Mr. Jackson has
so much faith in the superior merit If
this medicine that he says: IF DR..
Howard's specific does not cure you.
come back to my store and 1 will re-
turn your money"
This remedy is not an ordinary med
icine. 1t Is the favorite formula Of a
well known physician, and has the en-
dorsement Of hundreds OF physicians
OF eminence in their profession, who
prescribe 1t in ali cases of constipa-
tipattoD, dyspeysIa or liver trouble,
Knowing from experience that it will
make q complete and lasting cure.