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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
LOCAL COMPANY
TO Get The
CONTRACT

The Commercial club building
at Eleventh and A streets will be
built by local contractors. This
was announced by members last
evening after the trustees and
building committee had gone
over the bids submitted in the
afternoon. 1t is announced that
the Hurley-Mason company is the
low bidder, and this firm will
probably get the job.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The British steamer Chatham
will go in the dry dock Heffernan
Tor cleaning and repairing before
loading general freight for the
West Coast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The British steamer Century of
the Weir feet finished loading
lumber for Australia last night
and left port at 4 o'clock this
morning for Sam Francisco.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

To load plaster for Vancouver
the little British steamer Fingal
arrived in port yesterday and Is
loading at the Pacific Coast Gyp-
sum company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27

The American Hawaiian liner
Mexican left port yesterday with
general cargo for Honolulu.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-27
SHIPPING NEWS
TIDES YESTERDAY.

To load her first cargo for
Nome and other Alaska points the
'teamer Elihu Thompson of the
Pacific Cold Storage company's
leet arrived in port yesterday
rom dry dock at Elliot bay.
After loading cargo for the
Orient the British steamer Ay-
neric shifted down Sound yes
erda Afternoon to takye on addi-
donal freight.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

No doubt l am expected to write
something about Christmas. Editors
usually do, of course, at this time Of
year. Christmas is a good subject, all
right, but it has been haggled over
Ny so many editorial Jack-knives
that l am 10th to disfgure it further
with any remarks of mine.
It's awful hard to be original when
you write about Christmas. Every
thing seems to have been said, and
in most of the Christmas gush there
isn't any more originality than there
is in a chairs leg. But l will try to
call your attention to just few
thoughts that have never had print
er's ink smeared over them. These
thoughts are not only very original,
but they are also very funny.
thought best to tell you this, as you
would not be apt to find it out any
other way.
This is the time of year that the
thirsty inhabitants of prohibition ter
ritory are looking for express boxes
on every train and the Sunday School
girls button-hole a fellow and make
him cough up for the Christmas Tres
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
MoRAv1AN FALLS NORTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER 1910

graft And when the fruit of the tree
IS gathered the presents go to a few
pets and nobody says "Howdy" nor;
Kiss my foot" to the rest of the
gang. 4
We had it hammered into us in our
pinafore days that there was an old
| white-bearded guy who came around
At Christmas with pack of candy
down the chimney, they said, and it
was wonderful to us that he didn't
get smutty all over. A few more
years brought to us the knowledge
| that all this was lie, but as it was
| q very pretty lie, we didn't make any
fuss about it. The myth Of the older
'olks is still the Santa Claus of the
children, and maybe it is worth while
| to keep the old lie going. I don't
know.
I guess Santa Claus viii come in
| flying machine this time-an aero5
plane, perhaps-and just drop the
| little trinkets down the chimney as
| ne flies over.
! But the thirsty will get their ex-
press boxes, and that will be Christ
mas enough for them. The birthday
of the Christ will be given over to
drunkenness, rowdyism and devil
ment as usual, and the world will be
just one year closer to hell than it
was last Christmas. That's all.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
UNCERTAIN AS HE'LL.

| often hear some of the 1imber-
tongued, linguistic lollipops remark
ing that so-and-so is "as uncertain as
hell" Now look here, you shallow
Drained, coarse-mouthed, rotten
hearted lump of mortal mud, do you
have any idea how uncertain hell is?
Life, and friends, and money, and a
great many other things may be un-
certain Life is as full of uncertain
ties as a dog is of f1eas. But if there
is any truth in the old family Bible
and some of us are fools enough to
believe there is--then, it occurs to me
that hell must be a reasonably sure
thing. So if you snotty-nosed sinners
don't want your fat fried in the dev-
IFS old skillet, you'd better watch out.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
VOLUME ONE
CHRISTMAS MORNIN'.

Oh, the Christmas dawn's a-breakin
An the children are a-wakin',
An their little hearts are achin'
To arise,
An to know the happy feelin
That forever comes a-stealin'
Into little hearts a-reelin'
With surprise.
Although clothin' is a blessin',
They have business that is pressin'
An they take no time for dressin',
Like the rest;
Out of bed they come a-hoppin',
With their nighties all a-f1oppin',
An they never think of stoppin'
To be dressed.
To the fire they come a-f1ockin',
ALI a-grabbin' an a-knockin',
To discover what each stockin -
May reveal;
From the leg a doll is peepin',
With. her china eyes a-Weepin',
An a Teddy bear is sleepin'
In the heel.
There are candy men a-grinnin',
An little top for spinnin',
An that isn't beginnin',
I'll be bound;
Hear the toy guns a-shootin',
An the bugle-horns a-tootin',
An the little trains a-scoOtin'
All around.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

"The Fool-Killer" is unique in con-
tents and conception. No one but a
misunderstood literary genius could
have the audacity to issue it and fill
it with such "doggon" unconscious
seriousness, artistically blended with
such nuctious philosophical humor
that it produces such an irresistible
desire to read this "goldarn' paper
from beginning to end.-John w.
Smith, in The Amateurist, New York.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
SOME SINGING, DONCHERKNoW?

There is certain kind of unearth-
Ily screeching that they call fashion
able singing" Ever hear any of it?
If not, you've missed a treat. Just
go into most any city church on Sun
day morning and they'll give you a
sample of it. Here's how you will
know when it's a-coming You'll see
somebody go to the piano or pipe or
gan and begin to claw over the keys
like puppy digging for a ground
mouse. Then you'll see a young lady
march out onto the stage with her
arms full of sheet music and her face
set like the time-lock on national
bank vault. She stops and gazes over
the audience as solennly as a convict
= the electric chair. Then she un-
folds her music and begins to pucker
her mouth till it looks like the BIOS
som end of a swivelled cucumber.
Everybody holds their breath. Some
thing awful is about to happen.
Suddenly the young lady's mouth
opens like the nose end of a tobacco
sack and you hear noise that
sounds like pulling yard of Bologna
sausage through a tin horn. Her eyes
seem to bore through the ceiling like
two left-handed gimlets and her
throat works like q frog swallowing
June-bug. Her voice seems to have
been made in joints and put together
with brass rings, and it rattles a.
gainst her Adams apple like drag
ging a log-chain over bridge.
The audience leans forward and
drinks it in like young cat-bird
eating a worm. Of course nobody
understands a word of the song, and
if they did, the song would be a fail
ure 1t wouldn't be fashionable
singing" The only thing required of
you is to sit there like a chicken with
the gapes and drink it in. Let it run
in at both ears and ooze out through
the pores of your soul.
The singer stops to get her breath
and to wait for the audience to catch
up. The organist hits the instrument
in the face few times like nigger
woman beating out peas, and then
they sail in again. Lickety split they
go, up and down the scale, like two
hound dogs after rabbit, and all the
while the expression on the singers
face looks like mixture of cramp
collie, death agony, toothache and a
sneeze.
Once in awhile the jointed melody
comes in such volumes that it almost
Jars the shingles loose, and then il
fades away till it sounds like where
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
NO. II.

the little end of cat-fght tapers Off
to nothing.
And when it is all over, you go
home feeling like somebody had run
a wood-rasp over your sore tooth
But it is the Fashion, you know, and
Fashion is a great old gal.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
A POPULAR PREACHER.

A preacher is usually judged by
the size of his audience, and if he can
get four or five hundred of the breth-
rem and sisteren out to hear him toot
his gospel horn once or twice a
month, he thinks he is a pretty bang
up preacher. And each member of
the flock is expected to shell out a
dollar Or two about every SO often to
help grease the gospel gimlet.
That's all very nice and proper, no
doubt, and l haven't a word to say
against it; but what I started out to
say is this: If preacher is judged
by the size of his audience, then 1 am
some preacher myself, for [ am
preaching once a month to an audi
ence Of over 10000 people. And I
don't give them just one little sermon
and quit, like the other preachers do,
but | stay and preach six or eight
good sermons on every trip.
And then just think of the price!
Your preacher thinks you are mighty
stingy and close-fsted if you don't
grease his pocket to the tune of ten
or fifteen dollars a year, and he will
not get mad if you double or treble
the amount. But l give you more
preaching and better preaching than
he does for only 25 cents year; and
| if you'll hitch up the wagon and
bring several of your neighbors to
meeting with you, you can all get
your years preaching for fifteen
cents apiece.
Now, can you beat that for bar
gain? | think not. There has never
been so much good preaching offered
so cheap before, and if you ever ex-
pect to get the cuckleburrs of sin
curried out of your name. now is the
time The currycomb of truth which
| use will remove the burrs and also
bound sinners. 1t may hurt consid
erably, and you may have to squirm
and twist like five hundred, but it
will be good for you. Delay is dan
gerous, so don't put it Off, but buy
your ticket to-day for a years ad-
mittance into ''The Fool-Killer"
church and tell all your neighbors to
do likewise. Help me to get the big
gest congregation of any preacher
! that has ever opened his mouth be-
tween the two oceans,
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
HAS PASSED SENATE
RAILROAD BILL. PUT THROUGH WITH MANY VOTES TO
 ePARE.
UNDER DISCUSSION i2 WEEKS
The FInai Vote on the Administration Pot Measure Wac 50 to f2-La Fol lette Closed Debate Wkh Warning to Aldrich.

Washington, June 6.-The admins. tratious railroad bill was passed by the senate last night at 10 o'clock by vote of 90 to 12.
 The negative votes were cast by Democrats Rs follows:
 Bacon, Fletcher, Frazier, Hughes, Money, Newlands. Percy. Purcell, Ray her, Shively. Smith of Maryland and Smith of South Carolina
 Ia Senate ia Weeks.
 The railroad bill that now goes. te conesrence was repoted to the senate en February 25. The debate upon it began March IS, when Mir. Cummins commenced his four days speech against the measure as 1t then stood Since that time t has been continu- ously before the senate, covering 6 period of IS weeks~ The original Hepburn law, ot which this Is amenda. tory, was reported on February 26, 1906, and passed the senate May IS, 1906. aftG ten weeks of discussion.
 Wrsn the bi1 emerged from the cc~msk&ee of the whole into the sen ate prSysr Mfr. Lato<ietts obtained a ron aaa oa his physical. vsluStiop ansadnonA and t wee hnsA by vote oz 34 to e2
 Every effort put forth by MT New lan4s to obtain favorable action on hks views regarding federal incorpors ton, etc. met with failure. on one oi his propositions even the yeas and nays being denied him
 Mg. Gore endeavored to add a sec ton providing that whenever any car rter brings suit to prevent the col lection of taxes imposed against 1t such suits should take precedence over all others. It was rejected.
 LsFoIIctte Closed Debate.
 The debate over the railroad bill was closed in short but somewhaa sensational speech by Mir. LaFollette the measure fell far short of what the people had right to expect. How ever, it contained some good thing and would receive his support. H' spoke directly to Senator Aldricl when he reminded the senate that MT Aldrich had said two weeks ago tha he laughs best who laughs last ant suggested that this may have beer the Rhode Island senators way of sug gestins there may be changes in the measure when it comes out of con ference
 WsrnInu' to Aidrich.
 If 1t were materially changed MT LaFollette declared. 1t would not re ceive a majority vote of the senate or the conference report He warned the Fenate that the country was aroused over this question and that senators will be held responsible for any aci I&2t tended to lessen the merit that wds found in the bill now and for which senators had fought so strenu ously and determinedly. MT IsaFollette analized the measure, pointing out wherein the people had been benefited
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
MOTORISTS HURT NEAR JOPLIN
Two of the Five Passengers May Die As a Result of An Upset
 on Curve.

Joplin. Mo, June 6.-Fonr persons were injured. two perhaps fatally when motor car driven by s. G Hammon of Columbus, Kan, left ~hs road while rounding curve at high speed four miles west of here and crashed into an embankment.
 The injured are: Mrs. c. H. Ohl haul en of Joplin, arm broken and in ternal injuries; may die Miss Vefda Bush. IS years old, of Joplin, leg broken and internal injuries; may die Grafton Bush. 21 years old, both arms broken. s. J. Hammon, Columbus Kan, leg broken. ribs fractured
 Miss Corrie Hammon. the ffth pas senger in the car, was thrown clear of the wreckage and escaped witn s..sht. bruises. The motor car rsde " f;a'ss the concluding event in famliy eeio bration of Miss Bush's hineteenu birthday anoiyersa-T.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
CONVENTION DOINGS.
State Meeting of Democrats Resolve For Pardon Board and Specifies
 Tax for State Institutions.

Special To The Star.
 Little Rock, Ark. June s. The state Democratic convention this morning adopted resolution fayoring the maintenance of all state institutions by a specific tax. It also favored the creation of a state penitentiary board to be appointed by the governor, to consist of five members. The convention accepted the report of the subcommittee on the Senate rial race and sent the Carl Lee Smith contest back. to Cross coun- ty for a second primary. Little Rock won the next meeting by a close vote. Fort Smith getting 293 to Little Rocks 309. But for fact that Garland county switch ed after vote was cass, Fit. Smith would have won.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
10 DISCUSS INCREASED RATES
Shippers and Railroad Representatives Meeting in Chicago to Talk Over the Subject.

Chicago, June 1.-The legal repre- senIatlyes of 25 Western railroads eOmInenced meeting in this city to- gay to devise a defense to the govern. neht freight rate injunction suit. in as evens 1t Is pressed to an issue. 1t expected this meeting will continue No ways and certainly until the re- sal's Of the conference of the railway lnovn.
 oa tuesday the shippers will meet strengthen their lines of attack. representatives, of commercial associa- uo0s ol is cities will assemble in this .'V to frame action against future at rates
 ~ "eonesday the railroads and
 suul''ees from the shippers will es sa in Joint conference in Chicago.
 ]. 'a1 time each side will know it's ,a asa position; the attitude of the s.'s'ament will have been made clear.
 .,, quo Il is hoped that a comnromise
 MY v reached which will stop the
 ,l en' ,'. war and consequent unrest in
 \ lines Of interest.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
MADE BAD MONEY IN PRISON
ton Discovered In the Mis- sourI Penitentiary.

Jefferson City, Mo. June 7.--Govern. ment Secret Service Agent McHughes of St Louis has unearthed counter feiting plant in full operation at the penitentlary Lee ]. Jaynes, a Kan sas City forger, who is serving a five year sentence. is the alleged head of the counterfeiters. A plant asserted to be his was seized. It consisted of two plaster of Paris monlds, quite a quantity of babbit metal and some lead pipe The latter evidently was used for making the spurious coins, forming an alloy with the babblt metal. As a result of McHughes' in. yestigation. the federal grand jury will be asked to indict Jiwnes. and if this is done Gov Hadley will be requested to pardon him. to the end that he may be convicted by the government Of making counterfeit money.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
TO SPEND DECLINING YEARS HERE
Mir. and Mrs. J. J. Noone. of Chatta.
 nooga, Find Mena Attractive.

Mrs. J. ]. Noone, mother of Mrs. J. A. Council, after spend- ing two weeks visiting here, re- turned to her home at Chatta- nooga, Tenn, this week, for the purpose of packing up and nov ing to Mena. MT. Noone. who came at the same time, will not return to Chattanooga. He IS a retired locomotive engineer, hav- ing been the oldest man in the employ of the Nashville, Chatta- nooga x St. Louis railroad, and has the distinction of receiving a substantial pension as a reward for his long years of service for that road. It is the purpose of MT. aud Mrs. Noone to spend their declining years in Mena' s comfortable ond Healthfui clim- ate.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09

the committee on privileges and cleo tions.
 Senator Cullom offered tho memorial without comment and the reading was begun by the clerk. It had proceeded only a few minutes when Senator Borah entered tho chamber and in- quired what wac being read.
 Senator ci,llom explained. and then by his consent the matter was re- ferred without further reading.
 There were few persons in the sen ate chamber OF in the galleries, fin marked contrast with the scene of in- tense excitement when Senator Lori meY made his bitssF speech ten days ago He was not present.
 The pesnfs pasG1,pssai tS a very long dctqnxaA. aHfbo@yhfs yfis confessions Ut Waise aud nAssrs~ tAas they were bribed to vote feB LeYimes; the brib cry indictment against Lee O'Neil Browne. and otherwise summarizes the allegations heretofore published as af fectiDg Lorimer's election
 This memorial now places fOrmG charges before the committee. and a basis Of action. which 1t has not had before
 Charges that William Lorimer was elected to the United States senate over Senator Hopkins. the primary nominee. by means of bribed Demo cratic votes, were made in the Chicago Tribune on the confession of Repre- sentative Charles A. White.
 It was said by White that he had been paid sl ,500 for his vote for Lori mer and that he also received $500 from the legislative jackpot" for votes on bills kN
 Following Whites osu fessiou Repre- sentative H. J. C. Beckenmeyer, Repre-. sentative Michael s. Link and Senator Daniel HolSlaw confessed to having accepted bribes to vote for Lorimer. Holtslaw said he was given $2.50o for his vote.
 Grand juries at Chicago and Spring field are actively at work on the de velopnients in the bribery cases
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
EXPERT SLATE MAN COMES
Q. O. Jones from Vermont to Take Charge of 0uarries of Ameri-
 can Slate Company.

D. 0. Jones. an expert slate man from Castleton, Vt., has ar rived in Mena aud will take charge of the working of the slate quarries of the American Slate Company, located east Of Meua.
 D. w. Carter, manager Of this company, with a force of men, have began dismantling and pre- pariug for hauling to the guar ries, tho heavy machinery for merly used by the Atlas Slate Company at the establishment iu Mena. When this has been ac. con1plished active operations will begin at the Americans quarries.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
WOULD SUSPEND RATES NOW
President Taft Sends Special Message to Congress Asking That the
 Railroad Bill Be Changed.

Washington. June S-President Taft gross in which he recomwended that the clause in he new railroad bill which gives the Interstate Commerce commission power to investigate and suspend increased rates filed by the feet immediately upon signing of the act. As it stands in the bill the pro vision would not take effect for 60 days
 The president bases his request upon the agreoment he reached with the railroads whereby they agreed to withdraw all increased rates until the new law is signed
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
FORMAL CHARGES IN
SENATOR LoRlMER OF lLLlNoie ACCUSED OF BUYING Hls
 SEAT IN SENATE.
PRESENTED BY HIS COLLEAGUE
Senator Culiom Lays Before senasJ Memorial of President of Illinois Voters Loague-Referred to Gem. mIttee on Privileges and Elections.

Washington, June a-Formal charges against Senator William Lorimer c. Illinois have been laid before ths senate by his colleague, Senator Cul- lom.
 The proceeding was the presenta- ton of a memorial by Clifford W. Barnes of Chicago. president of the Illinois Legislative Voters league, eln- bodying the charges of bribery of members of the Illinois legislature.
 The memorial was read only in part and was referred without comment to
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
|'OAu GOOD WHEAT PROSPECTS
eoourn We'll pleased After
 visit to Fields of Ford County, Kansas.

coAu,sse .'.y' Kan, June 7.-Secretary bus - s,.,. v. .ne state board of agricul- |Eountv .a 'ne wheat fields of Ford |hrooyh Al'er drive of many miles hAea, F aa,n slmost unbroken lines of hs se,'s aslos the secretary said that kAtIss S.a not have believed the possi. been so,s. "aa the story he witnessed
 As yhss, eu to him. He pronounces |fea eass,lp sss prospect as almost perfect
 IN, va. saanty has 14.Ooo acres in whea,
 @ basbs,ss saa !. t is expected to average
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
FLOODS NEAR JOPLIN
Special to The Star.

Special to The Star.
 Joplin, Mo-, June s. A heavy rainfall, amounting to almost q cloudburst fell over this section between here and Neosho about 10 o'clock today. Water flooded over several miles of the Kansas City Southern tracks. but none of the track was washed out.
 It is reported that 1000 feet of the Frisco tracks near Neosho are washed out and trains are be ing detoured over the Kansas City Southern tracks to Joplin.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-09
Here for Health.

Fred c. Trask, general agent for the National Fidelity n d Casualty Company. has moved to Mepa from Ardmore, Ok <, and, wi.h Mrs. Trask, now occupies the pretty cattage formerly owned by Charles Roberts Il Magnolia avenue. Other members of the family are expected to join them soon.