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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
DEAR BOOSTERS, GET BUSY!

Tacoma Boosters:
Do you want it to go out to the world that Sc
attic has five times as much population Tacoma9
If not, it is time to get busy.
Seattle has $4,000 voters registered today.
Tacoma has only 1895. When the outside world
looks at those figures it will Immediately jump at
the conclusion that Seattle has five times as many
people as Tacoma, and the registration will indi-
cate it,
-Four men are sitting around doing nothing good
part of the time at the city hall waiting for voters
to come in and register. They draw their salaries
just the same whether anybody comes or not
A lot of citizens are always growing that city en-
ployes do not their salaries. these registrars
do not whose fault is itf
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
UNDER THE NEW CHARTER
SERIES LITTLE STORIES EXPLAINING THE CITYS
NEW CHARTER, WHICH GOES INTO EFFECT NEXT
APRIL

chase or acquire otherwise any
light, power, water, gas or heating
plant for public or private par
poses, to buy, condemn or build
street railways or docks, or other
public utilities and to regulate the
Liberation and rates for all such
|uslities so owned. s>
.The city may become indebted
to- the extent of 1-2 per cent OF
the assessed valuation of the city
for public Improvements without
"a vote of the people. With a
|three-fifths vote it may make
debts amounting to 8 per cent or
the assessed valuation. II the
money is for water, light or
sewers owned by. the city ap addi-
tional S per cent OF Indebtedness
may be contracted on vote OF the
people.
Nine pages of the new charter
ARE taken to simply name the
lpowers the city may exercise. Ul-
der the new charter the power q
the city for good or evil will b'
tremendous.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
N. .0..0RD|NANCE
UP TONIGHT

The ordinance submitting the
municipal street railway question
to the voters at the coming Apr!i
election will be up for the council
to either pass or reject Wednes-
day might. 1t is being rewritten
now and will be all ready.
/ Councilman Lynn, who forgot
to have 1t rewritten last week,
says he did forget, but that It
was not a case of desiring 10
dodge the thing.
81 have been in favor of the
proposition all the time and have
stood by 1t to push 1t along" said
Lynn today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07

The Times is authorized to
make this proposition to the citt-
zens of the suburbs by Commits
sioner Dickson, who with Commits
sioner Peterson, voted to appeal.
Dickson's vote alone will be SUI
ficient to change the whole affair
as Mettler has always opposed the
appeal.
Commissioner Dickson in ex-
planning why he voted to appeal
said: These little separate petit
tions had come in as stumbling
blocks to the general annexation
program and the general comm.t-
tee for some reason seemed in no
hurry to get it's new petition in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
RECEIVED YOUR
TAX NOTICE YET?
QUEER ASSESSMENT WORK BRINGS FORTH COMPLAINTS
FROM SCORES NS-SONE ASSESSED FOR
PROPERTY THEY NEVER OWNED

tax had been boosted 600 per
cent over last year. He went to
the court house to find the cause,
and he found it. He had been as
sessed for a sewing machine which
he says he never owned, and
which had never been in his
house. He was assessed for BIZ
cycle, which was likewise a COM
plete stranger to him.
How the assessment was made
is a mystery to Lane, as he says
an assessor never entered his
house, or even called, so far as he
knows.
"He must have stood out on the
street and guessed at what we
have" said Lane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07

$50 we decided that the only way
to save the annexation project was
to appeal.
1 believe that we stand more
than an even show before the su-
|preme court. We are SO advised
by Deputy Prosecutor Oakley and
the article written by Mr.. De
Wolfe and printed by the Times
not only shows that the law seems
to be in our favor but also cites
|precedents,
ave know that an appeal VII,
dekay the annexation movement
|uptil late in the summer and II
the citizens can settle their differ
ences and come in on one general
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
More Millions Gone.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. z.
The formal announcement To-
day of the engagement of Miss
Margaretta Armstrong Drexel to
marry Montague George Fitch
Hatton, is taken here to mean that
more American millions are to be
turned into the Golfers of the
British nobility.
The announcement today, how
ever, was not much of surprise
as Mrs. Drexel and her daughter
have spent much time abroad and
1t has been more or less expected
that she would wed a noblemau.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07

petition embracing all the terri
tory that was favorable at the last
ELECTION we would be only too
glad to do our part to expedite
matters"
If the appeal is not withdrawn
and should be decided in favor of
the commissioners it would bring
into the cities several suburbs
which voted against annexation at
the last election. If, however
another general election can be
held those suburbs unfavorable
can be left out and only those
suburbs willing will be included in
1.-THE annexation district.
1t is up to the citizens of the
Isuburbs to get busy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07

There is something rotten in
the county assessors office, or
else about one-third of the county
taxpayers are badly mistaken.
Complaints against the manner
in which property has been as
sessed have been pouring into
the Times office during the past
few days. Complaints of boosted
taxes, of taxes assessed on per-
sonal property which never exist
ed and various other peculiar
stunts have been brought to
light.
Robert Lane, 1926 East G
street, when he received his as
sessment notice, was startled to
learn that his personal property
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
MISS DREXEL
To WE'D A
TITLE
ANOTHER HEIRESS CAPTURED
BY ENGLISH NOBLEMAN
AND MORE MILLIONS GONE
ABROAD.

LONDON, Feb. Formal an
nouncement was made today of
the engagement of Miss Margaret
ia Armstrong Drexel, daughter of
Anthony J.. Drexel, of Philadel-
phia, to marry Guy Montague
George Fitch-Hatton, viscount of
Malstone and heir to the earldom
of Winchelsea and Nottingham.
The wedding will take place her',
in June or early July.
The bride is the sister of An
thony j. Drexel, jr., whose en-
gagement to Miss Marjorie Gould ,
daughter of George j.. Gould, re-
Gently was announced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
ADVICE FROM THE.
1s CUB REPORTER

. Girls, when looking under
coiiches for : sidecombs, don't
strike matches to furnish the
light. One young lady did that
this morning at the home of John
w, Barry, 1854 South e street,
and the fringe of the couch-cover
connected with the match. The
fire department responded in time
10 prevent any great damage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
DICKSON WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
To THE CITIZENS Of THE SUBURBS

r Lemons Beach will tdawt an
n Is
the rroea no be sily
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
Answers Description.

According to Solenberger, the
description of the woman and her
clothing agrees entirely with the
supposed school teacher, except
that she wore felt hat something
like that of soldier, instead of a
straw hat, such as was found by
the body.
Solenberger made an examina-
ton Of the remnants of clothes
Continud on Page Eight.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07
GET CLUE IN
SKELETON
MYSTERY
MURDERED WOMAN WHOSE
BODY WAS FOUND NEAR
MOUNT TiMALPAIS SUP
POSED TO HAVE BEEN KAN
SAS CITY SCHOOL TEACHER.

Qy United Press Leased Wire. }
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. .
The first definite clew to the iden-
tity of the young woman muir
dered upon the south slope of
Mount Tamalpais was obtained
today by Coroner Sawyer when
Walter T. Solenberger, of Mill
Valley, reported that last summer
he saw young woman, fitting
the description of the dead woman
in almost every detail, start up
Hog Back trail every Saturday
morning for eight weeks.
Looked Like School teacher.
She looked like she might
have been a school teacher" said
Solenberger. "She was always
reading a letter as she walked by
my house and started up the trail,
and seemd so absorbed in it that
she paid no attention to anyone
and never stopped as she passed.
Il am sure sne came from San
Francisco, as she always appeared
about ten minutes after the ar
rival of the morning train from
the San Francisco boat.
Il remember very well that the
last time l saw her go up the trail
was on the Saturday following the
Fourth of July.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-07

Diana Investigates the
high cost Of living. See page
8 today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
NEW SCHOOL
 DISTRICT URGED
Property Owners of Southern City Limits Meet and Make Plans for
 It's Formation.

The property owners and residents of the southern suburbs of the city he'd a meeting at the office of Craw- fCrd and Hooker here yesterday for the purpose of urging the creation of a new school district in this county to be known as School District No. 19. The property owners behind the new District live between Olive street and the city limits, the Cotton Belt rail- road tracks and Township 7-9, all the property adjoining the city on the south. A petition is being circulated which will be presented to County Judge James Gould within the next .ew days. There are seventy-five prospective pupils in. the District, while. only thirty-five is all required by fars, .a t;3l formation of new Distrle6. 4 new school building will be erected m the District when it is formed.
 The present District in which their children are schooled is cut in half by Bayou Bartholomew. The property owners who desire the new district tre urging it because without sepa- ate district their children will be without school facilities. The propos- ed District embraces all of the Aus tin and Taylor addition, Lynchs addi- tioon, Miller's addition, Mills Home Addition, a portion of the Park Vew and Warden's addition, c. Phil Waters addition, F. G. Smart's ad- dition and the property along Hazel street south of Twentieth and north Of Twenty-sixth avenues.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
FUNERAL OF
 WILLIAM H. BASS
Held in Little Rock Yesterday and Was Largely Attended-Many Flor al Emblems Attested Popularity
 of the Deceased.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 2.-Sad, in- deed, was the homecoming of Will H. Bass, and a guard of honor of ten sorrowing friends met the remains at S:30 o'clock this morning, coming ov- CT the Iron Mountain from Denver. The cortege Wended it's way to the residence, 2420 Marshall, where the casket was literally banked beneath offerings of flowers, tributes from the T. P. A., the travelling men and oth- CT friends.
 Hundreds attended the funeral ser vices at the First Christian church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The tra- yelling men marched in a body to the edifice.
 The services were conducted by Rev. J. N. Jessup, pastor, assisted by Rev. Ben Cox, pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was in Oakland. The pail bearers were two from the following organizations: Travellers Protective Association, Jeff Alison and T. Ashley Sims; Ark ansaw Travellers, H. s. Spivey and T. o. Branch; Woodmen of the World, M. E. Akin and Charles s. Hafer; First Christian church, John F1etch- CT and Thomas M. Cory
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
KEEP COOL

Every Sunday, after p. m., cars will run through from Second and Main to Forest Park, also each week night, after : p. m., except Saturday. Ladies and children who ride stre+t cars to Forest Park g. night will re- ceiye a fee ticket for the Merry-Go- Round otherwise a cnargc of , cents will be made. The Figure Eight will operate afternoons and nights at , oonts S-2-6t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
MOVING DAY
 AT STATE PEN Old Pen is Abandoned and is Being Torn Away
 Convicts Moved.
CAPITOL NEARLY DONE
Will Be Read. for Occupancy soon Traffic Arrangement Over
 Bridge is Demanded.

Little Rock, Aug. 2.-At 9:50 rues- day morning Supt Pitcock of the Arkansas penitentiary, stepped to the side door of the office building at the old penitentiary, pulled several times on the bell rope and the guards oh the walls were called in for the first ti-ae in 56 years. The gates were thrown wide open and in the afternoon tiln work of tearing down the walls ie gan. The outhoHses were the first to fall followed today by the dining rooms and kitchens. By tomorrow the convicts will begin working od the old hospital building and the walls themselves, and by the close Gf the week there will be nothing but fNlad- at;cn stones to show where the Ark ansas penitentiary once stood Al convicts who were kept under guard at the old penirentiary with all fe- cords of the prison, were mo fed to the new penitentiary south of tEe citN Tuesday morning. There Wn)e oily 3 sick eOnvicts, and three men under sentence of death, sent to the peiitentiary for safe keeping These men were Harry Poe, Hot Springs negro, who will hang September for criminal assault: Will Bowmaa, un- der sentence of death for a similar crime committed in Fort Smith, but whose case has gone 10 the supreme court of the United States, and Oscar Pullen, the young man who admits he assassinated Lafayette Deloney pear fenced to hang September 2. The safe keepers were handcuffed to the wagon to prevent their making any effort to escape The last meal serv- ed at the old penitentiary was Tues day at noon when a number of friends of Supt Pitcock gathered at the walls to celebrate the passing of the old prison.
 Board Meetings Postponed.
 Business is evidently pressing with state board members, for it has been impossible to hold a meeting of the boards which should have met the first Monday of the month. A quor- um could not be secured by the state board of Charities, so after waiting in the city for two days, the members who came have departed for >- their homes to return again next Monday and attend to routine business. The return of Gov. Donaghey will make possible a meeting of the Peniten- tiary Board today.
 Want Traffic Agreement.
 The activity of the promoters of the Argenta street railway system in attempting to secure a franchise to operate an electric line on North Main street from the end of the free bridge across the Arkansas river to Markham and Main streets a distance of one block, will probably mean a one fare rate to any point in either city. Members of the city council who have been approached by Senator James P. Clarke, the head of the Ar genta company, and asked to support the ordinance for a franchise, state they will never consent to the ordin- ance passing unless the street car
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
RAILROAD FUND
 GROWING FAST More Than S2,00O Added to Grand Total by Commit.
 tee Tuesday NOT MUCH HARD WORK 'ommittee Members We're soi ,bI, To Get About Mucl, During
 Da! Fund $62,5W.
NOT MUCH HARD WORK
+ l. I. + + + < 4. + I, # +

The M D. and C. Railroad fand continues t0 3roW, jumping to S62.- 903 Up to ; . clock yesterday after noon. The sub committees, raising the $lo0,000 bonus for the road. did not get out much yesterday and the two thousand dollars added to the fund vas secured by members of the various eommitteeS who caught bus- ness men and other property owners passing their places of business and they readily signed I'D for subscrip- tlons, upon being requested 10 do SO One os the members of the soliciting committee was out of the city during the day and several other were d. tained at their offices because Of pressing business.
 Two large donations were received yesterday ay-one of $50o from the pao- ple's Savings Bank and Trust Col- pany and the other of the same amount froa tue Riley Commission NoiipdHS He ldI2eSt SuDocflDtiCH listed during the day, however, was that of Taylor Brothers, who gave $500 to the fund
 Many of the largest property own- CTS have not been seen by the com mittee as yet and when Shey are it is expected that the fund will grow much larger with the goal being reached in a few days.
 The names of new subscribers 'ist- ed yesterday and the amount 3,ib- Scribed by each of them follow:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
STA1E COMMITTEE PLANS CAMP PA|CN Met in Little Rock Yester- day and Outlines Demo
 cratic Fight. PINE BLUFFIANS ON List of Speakers-Hayis Nixon and Judge John II. Elliott Are
 Among Them.
7N PINE BLUFFIANs ON

Little Rock, Aug. 2.-The campaign committee of the State Central Dem ocratic Committee, held meeting in Little ROCK Tuesday afternoon for the purpose Of selecting speakers for the Democratic campat tgn Those present were t. F. MilWee, chairman of the State Central Committee, of Claren- don; Edgar Brewster of Pine Bluff and Bruce T. Bullion, secretary Of Little Rock It was decided to have the campaign open August 22, with speakers in all sections of the state, and the strongest ones in the parts where there is a warm contest It is the intention Of the committee to car ry every county in the state in the fall primaries, and Secretary Rull- lon will commence at once making out itineraries for the speakers, TWenty-tWo prominent Democrats of the state have volunteered their Asr- vices as spell binders, to go into the highways and byways and pilo, the wavering voter into the straight and narrow path of Democracy. To this list of volunteers the committees de- cided to invite 24 equally prominent Democrats from different sections of the state to take up the gauntlet and wage war against the enemy. The volunteers are: John P Logan, of Grannis; Seth c. Reynolds, Ashdown: Chas. L. O'Daniels, Marinna; E. w Hogan, Benning; M. H. Patterson
 Augusta; A. c. Martin, Conway; Dr.
 Horace E. Ruff, Heber; Judge El- gene Lankford, DeValls Bluff; Gus tave Jones, Newport; T. Havis Nixon
 Pine Bluff; John H. Hinemon, Arka- delphia; Otis T. fVingo, DeQueen; and James A. Gray, James H. Har- rod, Louis Rhoton, Judge John E. Martineau, M. E. Dunnaway, Harry c. Hale, c. C. Kavanaugh, w. M Kavan- augh, Gus Fulk, and Oscar H. Vim, H. ed to make speeches in the campaign in be half of Democracy are Congress- man Joe T. Robinson, Lonoke, Steph- en Brundidge, Searcy; J. Wythe Wal
 ker, Fayetteville; T. H. Carraway, Jonesboro; Harry l.. Ponder, Walnut Ridge; Congressman Bruce Macon and John Ike Moore, Helena; Tillman B. Parks, Lewisville; Thomas c. McRae, Prescott; F. E. Brown, DesAre; Con- gressman Charles c. Reid, Morrilton; Congressman Ben Cravens, Fort Smith; Congressman J. c. Floyd, YelIvilIe; H. M. Jacoway, Dardanelle, w. s. Goodwin, Warren; Congress- man w. A. Oldfield, Batesville; s. M. Taylor, J. L. Caldwell and Judge J. M. Elliott, Pine Bluff James D. Head TeXarkana; w. H. Martin, Hot Springs, and Senators James P. Clarke and Jeff Davis, and X. o. Pin dall, of Little Rock. Besides these speakers, all candidates for state, district, county and township offices are expected by the committee, to make as many speeches and as vigor- ous campaign as possible. The state officers, headed by Governor Don aghey, Attorney General Norwood and Earle w. Hodges, have pledged themselves to make speeches whereY- Yer desired by the committee.
 1S
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
PARKER ROAD
 1 DEAL d!S OFF eiers Refuse to Put up pv and Road Goes By F Present at Least.
LIRE MADE KNOWN
Irker Will Not Give Up, But five Statement is Made That Thing is Off.

Parker Road proposition
 lien flat for the present at least.
 vas the positive statement made
 ight by one who is in a posi-
 b know and the recent visit of
 |al Manager J. M. Parker, of the
 bsas, Louisiana and Gulf rail-
 who has been exceedingly &C.,
 n behalf of the proposed line,
 or the purpose of informing his
 Bluff friends and the Parker
 enthusiasts Of his failure to
 the deal through. Although no
 al announcement has been made
 be matter, it is generally known hg those who are in touch with
 promoters that all hopes for se- hg the Hamburg to Hazen, via
 Bluff extension at this time, are ted
 his announcement will doubtless &te no little surprise in Pine
 because the people of this city
 always had the greatest confi- Be in the ability of MT. Parker to e good, but it is stated that MT. ker, who has aINays acted in good D, is not to blame. The failure of Parker and his associates to se- E the financia assistance expected h Chicago capitalists and others at last moment put crimp in the ject.
 eyeral months ago, 1t is stated, the |nciers who were to have financed road, sent representative to this ,lon on an inspection tour. The tleman was taken over the Ark as, Louisiana and Gulf railroad n end to end and then shown the te and adjacent territory of the posed Parker road extension. He in Pine Bluff, Monticello, Ham, 3, Hagen and other prosperous ss and towns included in the route witnessed the remarkable pro- ]
 's and activities in the agricultur- 'ecuons, especially in the rice IS Of this immediate section. Up- als return to Chicago, it is stated, unfavorable report was made by representative.
 ;cordlng to reports, the Chicagoan rted that in his opinion the busi- to De derived from the country ugn which the railroad was plan old not justify the investment was to be made in it's construc-
 ms report was offset by facts figures presented by Mir. Parker, meeting of the financiers called ,nicaso recently for the purpose lflhg the matter. Notwithstanding 'etermlned efforts of MT. Parker to ce the flnanciers to take hold of proposed railroad, he is said to Deen turned down. and his ese hopes were shattered. MT. UT did not give up, but was per- nt !. and after failing to get the fi- fai assistance sought, he came to biun Monday night and at a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03

A CHECK ACCOUNT at this bank guard in the transacting of your fi- nancial affairs.-Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Go. 7-28-6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03

A five acre tract for sale, joins the city limits and has new house and barn. Cotton Belt Savings X Trust Co 7-31-4t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03

Some of our best makes of high price suits Saturday and Monday at 5000 eaci.-KastOr and Bluthenthal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03
(Contiued on Page A.

FOR RENT-A cottage on South Cherry street Modern conveniences. Belt Savings & Trust Co.
 7-29-4t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03

Miss Lenora Gdldsby, who has for several weeks beg visiting Mir. and Mrs. T. [. Jones ib this city left yes- terday afternoon for her home at England, Ark
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-03

FOR SALE-A desirable piece of property on w. 9th. ave Lot 50x162, located in best residence section.- Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Go.
 8-3-4t.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-09-24
SPECIAL PREMIUMS
At APPLE CARNIVAL
Athletic and Banquet Committees Get.
ting Busy For Big Event in
October.

Arrangements are going forward for
the Apple Carnival to be held here
the last week in October, and which
promises to be a bigger and better
show than last fall.
The athletic committee held a meet
ing in the Peoples Trust Co. building
and decided of offer premiums for sew
eral new contests. These are piling
largest number of barrels on end with
out assistance; carrying the largest
number of loose apples in arms for
distance of one city block. Valuable
premiums will also be offered for fac
ing. packing and heading apple bar
rels. This committee consist of Isaac
VanMetre Homer Small John N. Por-
terfeld. Paul McGuffin and L. w. Will
son.
The banquet committee will hold a
meeting tonight at O'Clock Ia room
II, Peoples Trust Co building.