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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
PUTS PEARY
IN COOKS
CLASS
(By United Press Leased Wire.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March o.
The house subcommittee oil
naval affairs voted unanimou sly
today not to take any action upon
the various measures which have
been introduced for the purpose
of rewarding and honoring Com
mander Robert E: Peary for as
discovery of the north pole until
actual proofs of his discovery are
submitted.
This action followed a critical
analysis of Peary's narrative of
his expedition in which Represen-
tative Macon of Arkansas put
Peary in the DR.. Cook class"
Macon declared that a careful
survey of Peary's story showed
it was merer ecord of the num-
ber of miles travelled per day. lie
stamped the narrative as a stretch
of imagination. He declared:
I'm Peary's travels from Cape
Columbia to the point where Cap
tain Bartlett left him and return
ed, he covered an average of SOC
miles per day. That is not as
good as the average made by Dr..
Cook in the same latitudes.
"The astonishing feature of
Peary's statement, however, is the
number of miles he says he travei-
ed every day after Captain Bart
lett left him.
"His greatest marches, singu-
larly, were all north of BartleL.'s
camp.
"He claims that he made 80
average of 26 miles per day from
Bartlett's camp to the pole and
back.
THE greatest increase com.
menced, singularly. on the We v
day he left Bartlett"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
LOCAL OPTION
ELECTION ON
CBy United Press Leased Wire.)
LEWISTON. Idaho, March g.

LEWISTON, Idaho, March 3
An election under the local option
law is in progress throughout
Nez Perce county today. The
weather is fine but the condition
of the country roads does not ia
vor a big poll in majority of the
precincts. Lewiston's registration
is $3.50, the largest on record,
and a full vote will be cast in the
city. Both sides claim victory and
the result is very doubtful. Lew
iston is expected to give a major
ity of about 600.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

and the fight told on him at the
polls. He ran far behind his
party in most of the wards.
julius Hedelsheimer, a promin-
Continued on Page Eight.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
No Time Limit Wanted.

The receipts last year were
over 100000. This year the 40
per cent would amount to over
100000. Next year it would be
from $225, 900 to $250,O00. In
1912 the plant will be done. Then,
instead of having only 1900
horsepower to sell, the city will
have 10000, and at the same
rate for power the receipts would
leap to around the million dollar
mark, and then the plant would
be paid off in a couple of years.
This was the intention of the
people when they voted. That
would be the business-like way of
doing the thing, but certain of the
city officials seem to think 1t a
mark of craftsmanship to saddle
la per cent interest charge on the
city for the next third of century
nearly, thereby making the people
pay for the plant and pay for it
tagain in interest charges.
Part of Contract Already Let.
Directors to the scheme say the
government that it will enable the
city to finance the proposition
easier is not good. They point
to the fact that it has already
awarded the biggest contract in
the whole business for $3.50, 900
on the plan of paying for the war
rants with 40 per cent of the re-
lceipts, and they declare the rest
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 9.
1t was learned this afternoon
that Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, will go to Philadelphia ON
his return from Chicago.
Whether he will take charge of
the strike in Philadelphia depends
upon the Developments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
Taking Notice
ofLittle Things

has lead to great successes
for many. The telegraph, the
sewing machine, the tele-
phone, the miracle of cleo
tricity, nearly every great
invention is due to the pow
, er of seeing little things.
There is no better illustra-
tion of the great degree of
usefulness of little things
than the want ads in Tho
Times. Every day many
people are benefited by read
ing and using Times Want
Ads Phone your wants, no
extra charge. Main 733 or
A 1893.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
CHANGE IN POWER PLANT
FINANCE PLAN ONLY FOR
BENEFIT Of BOND BUYERS
WHAT PEOPLE VOTED FOR

~ po"'h
To issue 100000 bonds for
right of way.
To issue the rest of the cost i'm
5-per-cent warrants to be paid off
by 40 per cent of the light and
power receipts.
At the present rate of growth
the entire plant could be cleared
of debt in frOm five to seven
years, then light rates could be
lowered.
In the city attorneys office to-
day the scheme to saddle a long
time debt on the city for the pow
er plant is being revised, and an
ieffort will then be made, it is eX-
pected, to railroad the thing
through the council.
The new ordinance. as first
drawn, provided that nothing
should be paid on the debt at all
until 1915, excepting the interest.
Then only $125.000 a year was
to be paid for both principal and
interest, which would have re-
duced the debt so slowly that the
people would have been compelled
to pay interest at > Der cent on
the warrants until about 1910,
All the fellows who are engineer
ing the scheme would be dead long
before that, but the children of
today would still be paying trib-
ute to the warrant buyers.
The scheme was so bald a
bunko game on the people that
the improvement clubs, when the
situation was revealed by the
Times, began raising a howl. So
today the ordinance is being fixed
up in the hope that this will lull
the objection and let it go through.
The only important change,
however, is that il proposes now
to begin paying ON the debt in
three years instead of five, and
will pay &25, 900 IA year more. But
even this scheme means that the
people must be saGdlcd with that
excessively high rate of interest
for the next % years at least
They will still be paying for the
plant when the destructable part
of 1t is worn out.
Under the plan of the city orig
inalIy for which the people voted,
the city was to pay the debt off
Just as fast as 40 per cent of the
light and power receipts would do
it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
thus scandalized by one of its
cigaret-smoking young dudes
marrying an honest shop girl.

marrying an honest shop girl.
The very idea is past tn"
bounds of reason and young Phil
ander rushed to Washington yes
terday and went before his sire
to tell him that 1t was all rot. !"
He pleaded for forgiveness. hs
had done the best he could. He
was inexperienced in such matters
of course but his wife had had a
family row with her stepfather;
that should count for something.
But the secretary of state was
stern and unyielding. Young
Philander had committed the un-
Ipardonable sin of overlooking the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
WHAT COLLIER'S EDITOR
CALLS PRESIDENT
TAFT

An easy mark.
A toy of politicians.
A toy of lawyers.
A toy of moneymakers,
with whom he plays golf,
walks and eats.
A gullible president.
One who thinks he has a
judicial temperament.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

Girls and women fearful of
their peach bloom complexion
should remember that this is the
month of freckles. Last year in
March 107,456,723,O25k freckles
were pasted on faces of women by
Jealous Dame Nature. Please
report all fresh freckles to the
weather bureau.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
BANK CLEARINGS
Gill and "0pen Town
Win in Seattle

LEAD OF REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE is SMALL, HOWEVER,
AND THOUSANDS LARS WERE LOST BY CoNFI-
BETrERS-ADOPT CHARTER AMENDMENTS WHICH
ABOLISH PARTIES COMING ELECTIONS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

WEATHER FORECAST.
For Tacoma and vicinity: FAIR
tonight and Thursday. Light east
winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09
WHAT Is PROPOSED NOW
To build the plant.


TO pay for right of way with
bonds, which has been done.
Not TO pay anything on the rest
of the debt of $t..OO, 900 until
1913, excepting the interest.
To begin i'm 1913 and pay only
S15O,0OO year for both principal
and interest.
AT this rate il would take about
20 years to pay for the plant, and
the people would pay over 81 ,OOO,-
200 in useless interest.
can be done the same way.
If the new scheme goes through,
the light and power rates will have
TO he kent uD for the entire 25
years high enough to pay the in
tereSt charges. II the plant is
paid off in a few years the rates
then can be simply cut down to
mere operating expenses, and Ia
coma will have the lowest light
and power rates of any city in the
world.
This million-dollar interest
grab has reached the point where
it warrants the close attention of
every taxpayer and of every light
user in the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

San Francisco-Little 4-year-
old Ernestine Trapp was struck
by an automobile travelling 80
miles, hurled SO feet, yet escaped
with a slight scalp wound and a
few bruises about her legs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

Scranton, Pa.-Frank Constan-
tino is dead here today as Q result
of shock following his drawing
a royal flush in poker game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

II wonder why Mrs. Rounder is
in mourning?"
why, Rounder is dead. Didn't
you know that?"
"Yes, but 1 was wondering why
she was in mourning"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-09

A man of letters may be Jealous
II his wife gets a few.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30

the swollen fortunes that Roosevelt has denounced so vigorously. It is strange that he did not suggest that a way to prevent their creation in the future is to reduce the tariff which has made them possible"
 Just before the conference broke up, Secretary Thomas Smith of Tam many Hall, announced that the fol- lowing fifteen names had been men toned in connection with the head of the ticket and read them off in the following order: Alton B. Par ker, Edwin M. Shepard, John A. Dix. James s. Ravens, D. Cady Herrick. Martin H. Glynn. James Gerard, Her man Ridder, William Sulzer, Victor J. Bowling Herman A. MetZe, Martin J. Keogh, John S. Bensel. Thomas M. Osborne and F. Howard Hutchinson.
 When all the other leaders had left MT. Murphy himself appeared at the door and said: "The candidate for governor will be chosen from that list"
 Was there any significance in the order in which the names were given out?"
 Absolutely none The man We se- feet will beat MT. Stimson. We'll beat MT. Stimson." The conference then adjourned with the situation as much in doubt as ever
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
CONSERVATION OVERB0ARD
A Report Adopted ApprN- ing Dismissal of Glavis- One Delegate Attacks the Good Faith of Form CT President Roosevelt.

Los Angeles, Sept. 29-The Ameri can Mining congress not only placed itself on record today against all of Pinchot's policies for conservation, but by vote practically unanimous de- clared itself frankly in favor of state control of water, waterpOwer and all natural resources. Conservation only as it relates to prevention of waste was endorsed.
 Then, not content with having torn the entire fabric of the Pinchot theories into fragments, the congress accepted the report of the committee on Alaska mining laws, in which GIavis and Jones, land office special agents who were dismissed by. Ballinger, were at tackled and applauded a delegate when he classed Roosevelt among the con servatiOnists, whose activities were in one resolution characterized as mere sham and pretense."
 This delegate, E. A. Wright of Searchlight, New, paid a tribute to Pinchot as an honest and sincere man. But he added that the same could not be said of most of the other prominent cOnservationists, chief among them being "a recent occupant of the White House who instead of conserving the federal revenues, raised government expenditures to an amount that equaIled each year the entire amount of the national debt and made the presidential office cost the people s125,- 900 a year."
 The rO-cOnservatiOn delegates be- gan losing heart long before the reso- lutions committee submitted it's report. and when it was read and showed that the committee had gone much further than anyone expected in declaring for absolute state control, they backed down entirely, and but one or two feeble protests were raised.
 Next to the anti-conservation stand, the greatest interest was aroused by the report of the Alaska mining laws committee which advocated the imme diate opening of the vast Alaskan coal fields. denounced the proposed leasing system as confiscatory and unjust to legitimate claimants, and declared for more home rule and less interference from Washington in the affairs of the northern territory.
 It was in this report that the slap at Glavis and Jones was given. Refer ring to the activities of the land of flee agents, the report said that many of the special agents had not visited Alaska, but had written reports on Alaska in Seattle. other government agents, the report continued. would not recognize a coal mine if they were transported to it in a palace car"
 The place for the next meeting of the congress will probably be select ed tomorrow. Arizona has two cities in line for the honOr-DOuglas and Prescott-and probably one of these will be selected.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
THERE'S LlIILE REST
 FOR THE COLONEL THE PROGRAM UNTIL AFTER
 ELECTION. To His Work At Home there Is Added
 Much Abroad.
To His Work At Home there Is Added

Oyster Bay, Sept. 29.-Col Roose- welt returned early this evening with the scalp of. the republican 'old guard to be added to his big collection of trophies. Col. Roosevelt went to bed early tonight. He expects little rest until after election. He was tired and hoarse when he reached Sagamore Hill, but was in fine spirits.
 In addition to the campaign at home, Col. Roosevelt has a great deal to do elsewhere before election time Next Thursday he starts on his south ern trip, which will extend over lit- tie more than a week. On this trip he speaks at Knoxville, Tenn, before the Appalachian Exposition; at At Ianta at the Uncle Remus day cele- bration, and at Hot Springs, Ark Then turning north he will speak al Peoria, Ill.,, before the Knights of Columbus and will make a campaign speech in Indiana for Senator Bev- eridge.
 In the latter part of October. he goes to Massachusetts to help Sen ator Lodge by a campaign speech and to New Hampshire to speak for Rob- ert Bass, the republican candidate for governor. Early in November he starts for Iowa to make two campaign speeches just before election. He al so has promised to go to Ithaca, N. Y. for a days tour of the abandoned farms.
 At his offices in New York tomor- row the colonel will hold some con- ferences and lay first plans for the campaign.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
COMBINATION URGED
 OF C0NsERVATI0NIsTS AGAINST COMMON ENEMY OF
 ALL CONSERVATION. An Address By Pinchot Before Ma
 tional Irrigation Congress.

Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 29.-Gifford Pinchot was wildly cheered as he pleaded today for consolidation, to the enemies of national conservation; for men and the "nationalists" in an ad- dress before the National Irrigation Congress.
 Only by working together, he de- clared, could the opponents of all conservation be fought successfully and the natural resources kept in the possession of the people. There is only one enemy to fight" he said, "the man whose politics feather his own nest"
 "The last year has been the turn ing point" he continued, "the people realize that while they have rights and that it is our duty to use all we need of the minerals, forests, lands and waters, behind and above all. equal and stronger is our duty to administer our birthright so that we may hand down to future generations a nation richer. stronger, purer than the na- ton that inhabits it today"
 Pinchot declared that the loudest cries against the new policy. the most bitter fight against it, come from those individuals and organizations who see their individual profits in danger.
 Any fight of this kind must have . focal point" he said. Any great contest always centers around a few men, and organizations. The basic principle of this fight-yours and mine-is that it is better to help the small make living than to help the big man make a profit; to endorse the idea that the natural resources do not belong to a few rich men mainly in Wall street, but belong to, and must be kept in the possession of the people believe that the contest between states rights and federal control, so prominently before this congress, would never have arisen but for some special interests, which believed they could control by taking refuge behind the states"
 c. E. Ballerich of Pueblo presented Pinchot as trustee, a gnarled big stick" out of the forests of Colorado. studded with Colorado gems and prec- ious metals, with an injunction to de- liver it to Theodore Roosevelt, a man who is wise and strong enough to use it impartially for the bene- fit of all; the only man strong enough and gentle enough to use the big stick as a shepherds crook"
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
CHINESE UNHEAVAL
 IS NOT EXPECTED
AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY IN
 READINESS
To Meet a Situation Like the Boxer
 Affair.

Washington, Sept. 29.-China is de- clared to be on the verge of another upheaval similar to the Boxer up rising. and the lives of foreigners are said to be in jeopardy. Recent ad- vices from government officials in China express the belief that an out break at any time would not surprise them.
 All through the summer months there have been mutterings of dis content in some of the Chinese pro- vinces due to the rice famine, dynas- tic differences and dissatisfaction over the acts of the Pekin govern ment, and foreign investments in China. Good harvests have mitigated to some extent the gravity of the situation, but there is still a general feeling of unrest
 The army and navy are prepared for any emergency, solely as a pre- cautionary measure. Authentic ad- vices from those charged with keep ing in touch with conditions indicate that the only thing lacking to paral- Tel the present situation with that of the preceding Boxer troubles is the matter of organization and it will only need a leader to effect that.
 Every vessel of the Asiatic fleet, a: well as the military forces at Manila arc prepared for almost instant ac- ton in the event of trouble
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
REPAIR COMPANY CHECKS
Which He Received as An Accommodation for Men Who Could Not Afford to Seem Connected With the Osterman Concern.

Chicago. H., Sept. 29.-A. c. Good rich. a self confessed go-between, and Henry C. Ostermann, former president of the Ostermann Manufacturing com pany, vied with each other before Mu- nicipal Judge Bruggemeyer today in stripping bare the secrets of the al- legged combination charged with swind- ling the Illinois Central railroad by car repair frauds Goodrich, like Os- termann, was placed on the stand as witness for the prosecution. He described in detail the methods that he said the Illinois Central officials used to conceal their identity as stock holders in the Ostermann repair con cern.
 In testifying yesterday Ostermann said that certain payments were made to the railroad officials by checks through Goodrich. When placed on the stand today Goodrich began his testimony at this point.
 ''The checks were made out in my name" he said. Frank B. Hartman had asked me some time previously if would agree to let him have the checks made out in my name and ac- cept certain payments for him. agreed. I do not know what source the checks came from, but I received number of them. I know, however, that they were issued by this com pany, of which I have been reading in the newspapers. I endorsed them and placed them to my private account in the Fort Dearborn National bank"
 The name of Ira G. Rawn, late president of the Monon railroad and former vice president of the Illinois Central, was again brought into the proceedings when Goodrich testified that on December IS. 1909, he wrote check for s1O.OOO to Ira G. Rawn. which was cashed by Rawn on De- cember 21. The s10,000 check, he said. was in return for two s5.000 checks sent to Goodrich on December 13, and signed by Niles.
Arizona republican., 1910-09-30
CHAPTERS GATHERED
 IN GOVERNMENT NET
THE UNLAWFUL USE OF THE
 MAILS CHARGED.
Disseminators Throughout the coun-
 try of Shady Mining Stock.

New York, Sept 29.-Following one of the most sensational raids ever engineered by the federal authorities in this city, directed today against the firm of B. H. Scheftels & Co, curb brokers in Broad street, seven mem bers of the company, including B. F. Scheftels. were held in heavy bail this evening for a hearing on October , on the Charge of using the mails to defraud.
 Tonight a search is being made for George Graham Rice, whose real name is said to be Simon Herzog, the orig inator of the race track bet-tipping system, and who is declared to be the real head of the concern. At the time of the raid here the announce ment was made from Washington that warrants had been issued for the managers of the company's branch offices in Boston, Providence, Phila- delphia, Detroit, Chicago and Wilwau- kee.
 According to agents of the depart ment of justice, the Scheftels com pany has been engaged in promoting the sale of mining securities of doubt ful value in all parts of the country. Estimates of the firms dealings place them as high as s5,O0O,OOO. The seven men arraigned are B. H. Schef- tels. Chas. F. Belzer, secretary of the company; George T. Sullivan. Clar- ence Mccormack, John Delaney, Will liam T. Seagrave and Charles B. Stone Warrants for fifteen men had been issued, but the others, including Rice and Charles H. Herzog, who is said to be his brother. eladed the raiders. Rice had been in the office earlier in the day but left before the officers swooped down on the place.
 A surety company gave bail of S15,- coo for Scheftels, $3,50O for Seagrave, &. 900 for Stone and $2,500 for De- fancy Belser, Mccormack and Sulli- van were committed to the Tombs as bondsmen were not forthcoming. While the hearing was set for october ,. it is expected that the federal grand jury will take action before that time.
 The firm was organized about two years ago and conducted large bus mess, mainly through an extensive advertising propaganda. Mining spec iaIties were its chief offering to in vestors A weekly newspaper was published to reach clients and corps of thirty-five stenographers is said to have been required to attend to its correspondence. After the arrests two patrol wagon loads of papers, books and memoranda were siezed by the inspectors.