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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
JOHNNY BASSEY
SIGNED FOR
TIGERS

But four players have so far
been signed up for the 1910 base
ball season and Manager Blanken-
ship and President Quinn will
have to hustle or miss the cream.
Quinn returned Saturday from
Portland where he signed Johnny
Bassey. the little outfielder of
Portland last vera.
The outfield is practically COM
plete with Bassey. Billy Stevens,
Hartman and Dudley Clarke. Bill
Hurley has not yet signed the
contract rendered him. Stevens
played with the Tigers last yeas;
Cliff Hartman was picked up In
the South and Clarke is a Uniycr-
sity of Oregon man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

the full swings that Wolgast land
ed on his back.
Try as he would Nelson could
not get away from them and when
the battle was over his kidneys
and not his head and stomach,
were the secret.
Nolan expected Dick Hylant,
who has quite a kidney punch.
to hurt and possibly stop Nelson.
but Dick was not equal to the task
as he fought himself out early In
the game.
Nelson may be able to recover
from the effects Of the beating his
kidnevs received. but IL he does
he viii be an even greater physi-
cal marvel than he has been cred
lied with being.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
Saved From Awful PERU

Il never felt so near my grave"
writes Lewis Chamblin, of Man
chester. Ohio, r. r. No. 8, "as
when a frightfui cough and lung
trouble pulled me down to 115
pounds in spite of many remedies
and the best doctors. And that /
am alive today is due solely to DR..
Kings New Discovery, which com
pletely cured me. Now I weigh
160 pounds and can work hard. It
also cured my four children of
Group" Infallible for Coughs and
Colds, IT'S the most certain remedy
for LaGrippe, Asthma, desperate
lung trouble and all bronchial af-
fections, soc and $1.00. A trial
bottle free. Guaranteed By all
druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
Four Days Ahead Of Schedule, Weston Battles
BY Tip Wright.
ramp, tramp tramp.

Today a road-weary little man,
who next month will pass the
milestone on life's
highway, is plodding steadily to-
ward the rising sun, through the
great American desert.
You look at him to marvel. You
see his lined, tanned face-the in
fallible Misunderstanding of the man
who has lived in large places.
You see him plodding between
the rails of a great transcontinent-
al railway. He is the only animate
object upon which your eye falls.
All else Is desert. Save for the
endless ribbons of steel, the man
is lost in sea of sand.
Where the cactus crawls and the
sagebrush spreads,
On sea of alkali."
Picture the desert - sand, sand,
sand, as far as the eye can see; the
dead flatness relieved in the Wis
ionary distance by hazy hills which
may or may not be a mirage; veg
citation is limited to the cactus and
sagebrush. from which a plains
RATHER or ella monster creeps.
Williams. Ariz., is $40 miles by
rail from Los Angeles. 1t is the
route taken by Edward Payson
Weston. who. in apparel as gray
as his silvered head, from the
choking, poisonous alkah, is cross
ing the desert on his second ocean
to-ocean walk.
Weston passed through Will
Jams four days ahead of his sched-
ule, which through the mountains
was cut down from the 45-miles-a-
day gait at which he is now driv-
ing through the wastes, whitened
by the bones of men who have
died in the clutch of the sand.
You ask yourself what makes
this man torture himself thus?
Surely the prize must be great.
Weston's reward il he reaches
New York in 100 days, will be
nothing but satisfaction. Salts
faction for a self-imposed task
we'll done.
Hardy indeed the man who
trifles thus with nature. His foot
steps, jaunty in the cool hours of
early morning, lag, and his erect
body bends as the day draws on
and the terrific heat of the YER
teal rays pierce his very being.
Wonderful the determination that
can conquer the desire to give up
in the face of such an adversary.
Was there ever another man like
him in this great wide world? Is
there a man today of ~ years who
can cover the ocean-to-ocean walk
at the rate of As miles day for
100 days, as Weston is doing? 1t is
doubtful. People used to doubt
Weston, but he converted them by
his dominant will.
Weston's first walk from the At
iantic to the Pacific failed by five
days, because of 3 risurmountable
snowdrifts in the Sierras. Disap-
pointed, but more determined than
ever, he declared his intention to
return over the same route.
He started from Los Angeles as
planned Feb. 1, and now, with the
Sierras behind him, is conquering
the second great obstacle. the
desert.
Weston may not succeed. Sick
ness, an accident or the grim reap
er may stop him ere he reaches
Broadway, but his life will not
have been in vain. He has hand
ed down to posterity living,
breathing lesson on the value of
to succeed in the
face of obstacles, which he says
are but things to be overcome.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
TIP WR|GHTS COLUMN
BY Tip Wright

Aren't these amateur athletes
and amateur athletic officials fun
ner than funeral? Honestly, il
comedians pulled off some of the
things that these fellows com,
through with, they'd draw larger
salaries than Harry Lauder OF
Alice Lloyd.
Just now the simon pure are al
het up over the suspension of Mel
win Sheppard, the Olympic hero
who was charged by the Militar,
Athletic league officials of Phila
delphia with demanding NOR,
than legitimate expenses for the
New York-Philadelphia round trip
Sheppard was invited to run in
some games in Philadelphia, and
was told his expenses would be
paid up to $40. 1t is charged he
wrote to the legue officials that
$40 more would be necessary.
Someone has figured how much
an ordinary man could spend on
this trip, and returns $11 as the
outside expense. including liberal
tips for the length of time Shep-
pard was gone.
1 don't doubt the amateur ranks
are filled with men who, If fairly
investigated. could be proved pro-
essionals-men who have violat-
ed the spirit and letter of the am
ateur restrictions and who made a
little on the side"
One reason why they get away
with 1t is that the only penalty is
dismissal by the ruling amateur
body. when caught with the goods.
And, as a usual thing, the men pos
ing as amateurs are good enough
to go out and continue to get it in
professional company. when ex-
posed.
If we had laws such as they
have in England, which makes
masquerading by a professional as
an amateur punishable by i'm
our amateur ranks
would be more respectable and a
lot of otherwise fine young men
would not be hypocrites.
In. the days when the Sheffield
attracted the cream of
the sprinting world to England,
takers were for a time nu-
1t got to be common for
men good enough to win off the
five or six-yard mark at Sheffield,
against the fastest fields in the
world, to enter the amateur sprints
and either back themselves OF
have someone else back them.
But after several amateurs
had been deprived of wigs they
were wearing, exposing the coun-
tenance of well-known handicap
sprinters to the light, and SEN
fences up to IS months had been
by the authorities, this
thing became rare.
I don't believe the amateur def
milton in England is as fair as II
might be, but it bars takers and
it wouldn't be bad idea If our A.
A. U. rules we're given shaking
up and some of the best points OF
the English regulations incorpor-
ated.
1t Is certainly time for thor
ough cleansing of the amateur
ranks. If gone about honestly
without the influence OF the bis
eastern athletic clubs swaying the
investigators. number of CLASSY
amateur" performers will be rel
egated to the professional field
where they really belong.
~~~~~>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr Thnfnaa OQfannafhn 80
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
FOOTBALL GAMES
SCHEDULED

Coach E. E. Perkins has made
dates for future athletic events
between Tacoma High teams and
Seattle High teams. Tacoma will
meet Lincoln on the gridiron oc-
tober Is in Seattle and Broadway
November 5. No Thanksgiving
game was scheduled. Line DIN
will play Tacoma baseball In the
local park April 22 and the sec
ond game in Seattle May II. A
track meet between Tacoma AMI
Lincoln will be- held May Z.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
TACOMA GIRLS
WIN AGAIN

Members of the girls Tacoma
High school basketball team
plunged into the arena Saturday
night and defeated the Olympia
contingent with a score of IA to ..
The Shelton girls have beaten the
Aberdeen team and an all-star
team of the Aberdeen, Shelton
and Elma teams will play the
Tacoma girls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
TACOMA BOYS
BEAT LINCOLN

Outplaying the Lincoln High
school basketball team at every
stage of the game the Tacoma
High team won the game Saturday
night with score of 23 to 10.
A third game must now be played
to settle the interscholasric
championship, the Seattle team
having won the first game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
PLANNING -FOUR
SIDED MEET
IN STADIUM

Arrangements are being made
for the holding Of a quadrangular
track meet to be held in the sta
dunn in May should it be complet-
ed in time. Tacoma. Lincoln,
broadway and Queen Anne High
schools would join in the biggest
meet of the kind ever held in the
Northwest. The meet will prac-
tically be held to decide the
championship of the western part
of the state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
NEWS.
TIDES TOMORROW.

In the cargo of the steamship
Seattle Maru, which leaves Taco
ma next Friday. is shipment OF
nearly 60 carloads of agricultural
destined for Vladivos-
tok, as well as three carloads of
binding Irvine. There will be a
shipment of locomotives and re-
frigerating machinery for Japan,
and five carloads of miscellaneous
freight from Eastern mail order
houses. Yesterday the Seattle
Maru shifted over to Seattle to
complete her cargo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
CAPTAIN OF j.
TEAM QUITS

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Feb. 2S.-Jimmy
Clark. captain of the University
OF Washington baseball team,
has quit in huff and says he
will not play this season. follow
ing a quarrel with DR.. Hall, ath.
ietic director.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

Jim O'Rourke,
the grand old
man of baseball,
who this spring
has concluded AZ
consecutive years
of active life as
player, captain,
m a n a 6 Q r and
club owner, has
told his story to
Zip Wright.
Tip Wright has
written what he
heard for the
Times, which up
ON this mage be-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

ginning tomorrow, will print one
installment day for the next six
days, Of one of the greatest base
ball tales ever told.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The American-Hawaiian steam
er Virginia arrived on the Sound
Saturday from San Francisco and
early this week will come to Taco
ma to lead freight for the Ha-
waiian islands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

Royal Dairy Ice Cream. Both
phones. M. s6, A21sb, 800
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The schooner Samar arrived on
the Sound Saturday and is expect
ed in this port soon to load lum-
Der.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The steamer Olson & Mahony
arrived in port Saturday from Cal
ifornia with freight for the J. b.
Stevens company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The barkentine Kohala, which
arrived Friday from San Francis
co, towed yesterday to Eagle Har-
Dor to load poles for Southern
California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The bark Albert, with a cargo
of lumber from Port Ludlow, tow
ed here yesterday to ship a crew
and will tow today to sea en-
route to Kahalui. Hawaii.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28

The schooner Gamble arrived
yesterday from Port Gamble, ship
ped crew and sailed with her
lumber cargo for San Francisco.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-28
Start a Checking
Account

The safest way to pay your
bills is by check.
Until you have a checking
account you'll never realize
how much money is slipping
through your fingers from
week to week without anything
tangible to show for it.
A check is the best kind of a
receipt. Pay your butcher. gro
Ger, milkman and iceman by
check. A man won't dispute
his own signature If it's on
check.
Talk 1t over with your wife
tonight, give her a regular al
lowance and have her open the
account If she pays the bills.
Bankers
Trust Co.
Bankers Trust Bldg. Pac. Av.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19

In a lecture before the Royal Geo
graphical society Capt. Bertram Dick
SON said there is a large sanctuary at
the top OF Jebel Judi. where every
year In August is held a great fete.
attended by thousands of energetic
Aoslems. Christians and Yezidis. who
climb the steepest of trails for 1000
Feet. In the terrific summer heat. to
do homage to Noah This mountain
seems to have been held sacred at all
times, and certainly it has a wonder.
fully awesome fascination about it.
with its huge precipices and Jagged
crags watching over the vast Mesopo-
eamian plain. The local villagers can
snow one the exact spot where Noah
descended, while in one village. Has.
sana, they showed his grave. and the
vineyard where he is reputed to have
andulged over-freely in the tuice of
the grape" The owner of this de.
olared that the vines had been passed
from father to son ever since.--Lon-
don Evening Standard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
Conservation In This Line Amono i'm
portant Subjects Discussed by
Eastern Farmers.

State College, Pa.--Among the Inn.
portant subjects discussed at the
fourth annual state college farmers
week. was the problem of supplying
the necessary food for man, when the
time shall have arrived when the in
creased population will necessitate
more intensive husbandry and greater
economy il the rations of cattle. In
other words, 1t is believed by DR.. H. p.
Armsby, head of the department of
animal nutrition, that the time will
come when the demand for food in
this country will be so great that it
VIII be impossible for man to live. II
we continue to feed animals much of
the food palatable to human beings.
Thus. complex experiments are being
conducted here under the direction of
Ut. Armsby. The machine employed
10 the work Is an animal calorimeter.
Steers are put into this apparatus
and BY means of infinitely accurate OBJ
servations made every 30 seconds. is
earned the exact disposal of every bit
d the ration OF the animal. Through
'hanges in the diet Of the bovine sub.
ects knowledge is acquired as to the
most economic feed and by the sup
lying of foodstuffs not desirable to
nan but tasteful to cattle, informa.
Ion Is obtained along the lire of con-
CRYING the food supply of the coun-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
MINER ,SLONG WALK

treatment, remained in the wIlds, trap
ping and prospecting.
Three weeks ago he strayed several
miles from his cabin visiting his traps
and when he returned he found his
cabin blazing heap of ruins, it hav-
ing caught fire in some way In his
absence. Every possession that Nc
Murray had in the world, except the
clothes he had on. his rifle and about
twenty rounds of ammunition and
chunk of raw frozen moose meat that
was hanging in tree near his cabin,
had gone up in smoke. McMurray did
not even have match on his person.
Realizing that he was in perilous
predicament, McMurray at once
struck out for Teslin, packing his
frozen piece of meat on his back. II
was terrible trip. The weather at
times was rs or even 80 degrees be-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
Animals Consume Our Food

try. Speaking of the calorimeter and
ITS allied investigation. DR.. Armsby
said:
"A sufficient food supply is funda.
mental necessity of civilization. and
It's conservation is as important as that
OF our mines. forests or water pow
ers. We are at last beginning to re-
aiize that there is such a thing as
food problem, and that when, in the
not distant future, our population
reaches half billion, 1t may be a very
serious one. All the available mate
nal Will then be needed for human
consumption. A large part of the
products of the farm, however, can
not be consumed directly. About 10
per cent. of the wheat crop is con-
tanned In the straw and the milling
residues, while hay and similar forage
crops we cannot consume at all. We
can. however. feed them to farm ami
mails. and thus AFFECT double saw
Ing"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
Origin Of Life.

Nothing new is to be reported un.
DER this head. The status of the an
Client problem remains the same. The
whence and what of life remain the
same impenetrable mystery. Where
NE comes from and what it is after
u comes no man, can tell. This much.
however. seems to be generally accept.
70. mat life can come only from life.
Huxley declared, just before his de-
parture. that the idea OF creating life
rom nonvital matter was the dream
OF fool. and nothing that has hap
pened since Huxley's death has served
% oisproye the soundness of his state
ment.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19

low zero and as McMurray had no
matches he was compelled to keen
travelling through the cold nights to
Keep from freezing. Near the noon
time in the day, when the sun was
high. he would burrough in the snow
banks and snatch few hours of brok-
en- rest. Even then he suffered bitter
~ from the cold and both feet were
frost bitten and he was compelled to
wrap his drawers about his feet.
Only his indomitable Irish pluck kent
McMurray going and at the end OF
sixty days travelling he staggered into
Whftehorse, half deIirious and almost
wholly exhausted. There portions of
the bone were removed from the palm
OF McMurray's right hand and it win
be several weeks before he will have
recovered from his trip sufficiently to
leave the hospital.
McMurray says he will return to
his isolated retreat early next spring.
He says he has located no less than
six promising quartz lodges, five of
which carry free milling gold and the
sixth copper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19

One thing, however, it is impossible
to guarantee, and that il that the re-
tail dealers keep the oysters in good
condition. 1t has been found that it
sometimes happens that the water in
which biyalyes are put to keep them
fresh is contaminated and In that way
those who partake of such oysters are
often infected by bacteria. OF course
the larger and more reliable firms
are very careful to provide pure wa
ter, for they know that even slight
scare will put them out of business
for considerable time.
1t can hardly be imagined with
what painstaking care the government
service continually investigates all the
iceland waters, even many miles
away from the oyster beds and pits.
The direction Of the. currents is as
certained by ingenious devices: also
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
GIVE OYSTERS CARE.
Dutch Government Exercises
Supervision Over Industry.
Beds and Pits Where BivaIves Are
Grown Carefully Watched by In
sPectors = Water IL Given
Painstaking investigation.

The Hague.-Just now is the right
time of the year for oysters and nc
hrst-class menu in Europe is com
plete without the far-famed iceland
oyster. But it has required many
years of labor and many patient re-
searches by the government Of Hol.
land to secure this position of pre-
ominence to the national product.
Only short time ago the wholesome
ness of the iceland oyster was again
challenged by Belgium and there was
cutie scare among the "gourmets'
OF Europe. The Dutch government
has, however, allayed all fears by max
ing 1t widely known with what ex-
IRENE care control is exercised over
all breeding places or oyster beds,
and over the so-called oyster pits"
There the mollusks are kept until
they are at for delivery to both
Dutch and foreign dealers.
1t is since 1903 that such parental
government solicitude has been ex-
tended to this inmate of Hollands
waters, for in that year many per-
sons in Holland, France and Belgium
suffered evil effects from indulgence
IN the iceland oyster and for a time
the trade in oysters and mussels was
paralyzed. In parliament and in the
provincial states" as well as In
iceland municipalities, the matter was
taken up and the result was that a
government inquiry was instituted.
This disclosed the fact that the waters
near Hertogenbosch were contaminat-
ed by the sewers from the town and |
by the drainage water from two sugar |
factories. The water in the harbor |
was simply alive with deleterious bac-
terra and the oyster pits near by got |
their water from this very harbor.
All the cases of serious oyster fnfec-
tion." as it was called, were traced to
the fact that the victims had eaten
Of oysters taken from these oyster
pits. The government Immediately
had them closed and they have never
been used for the purpose.
To prevent such a scare in the fu.
lure special government service was
instituted for supervising oyster
growing. the fisheries and the oyster
.rade In general A laboratory was
'uilt In the district and there a min
tie and careful study is made. both
chemically and bacteriologically. The
water from the ICELAND streams and
and the mollusks themselves
ire continually under observation"
here and only when all has been
'roved to be In good order does the
Dutch government give an Official
certificate to the buyers of
10Th oysters and mussels. So IL only ,
very dealer insists on getting the
guaranty with the wares
e and his customers can be perfect +,
= sure that they run no risks IL
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
Appeal to a Thief.


The other evening M. Alfred Ed
wards lost pocketbook containing a
sum Of f444 as he was leaving the
theater. This morning letter from
him appears in the Figaro addressed
to the presumed thief. who must be
. most ungentlemanly one indeed If
he does not answer 1t at once. The
letter says:
In leaving the Antoine theater last
night after the 'Papillon' had been
given some very def hand abstrac-
ed my pocketbook, containing ten
bank notes of 1000 francs each and
~ others of 100 francs, with some
photographs and papers that are i'm
portant to me. II the person who has
appropriated my property is so we'll
inspired as to read the Figaro / beg
Dim to send me back the pocketbook
and the papers, which are of NO use
TO him. To hope that he would also
send back the bank notes In ex-
change for a good reward would be
exceeding the limits OF optimism, and
do not dare to expect it. But my
papers-what use can they be to
him Paris Correspondence London
Telegraph.