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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
SANTA IN BETTER SHAPE
TO HEAR FROM CHlL DREN

Four dollars and a half came
from the following: l.. Tynbok,
j. Goldman, G.. Fisher, A. Bloom
and P. P. Belling.
Mrs. Carpenter, dolls, clothes
and books.
Hayes and Beth, toys and books.
Santa is in much better shape
now to hear from the little poor
children than he was last week,
thanks to the good people of Ta-
coma. More letters arrived to-
day from persons who wished to
secure the names of needy parties.
IL any of these have by some
means failed to receive their an
swers they may communicate with
the Times. In every instance
there has been an immediate re-
sponse to these letters.
Those who have given would m
ded be happy could they learn of
the joy which their kindness will
mean on Xmas morning In Ta-
coma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
MRS. TOTTEN MUST
SERVE FOR LIFE
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.WENATOHEE, Wash, Dec. 16.
Convicted of murder in the first
degree for having shot and killed
James Sutton, farmer, because
he trespassed ON her farm, Mrs.
Della B. Totten was today SEN
fenced to life imprisonment I'm the
penitentiary at Walla Walla. Her
mother, Mrs. Hannah Beebe, aged
10 years, who was convicted on
granddaughter for completely in
the murder, was sentenced to an
indeterminate sentence of from
one to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
When sentence was passed Mrs
Totten did not show much emo
tion but her aged mother broke
down and wept.
Mrs. Totten killed Sutton Au.
gust 10 while he was engaged in
cutting a wire fence that had
been built across an unsurveyed
road that passed through the farm
owned by Mrs. Beebe. Previously
the Suttons had used the road
without opposition on the part OF
the woman, but finally a quarrel
arose and they were forbidden tC
cross the property, and the fence
was constructed to prevent them
doing so.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

General Otis, who is busy erect
ing a cross for organized labor on
the Pacific coast, was unable to
3. appear at the annual banquet of
the Builders exchange held at the
Commercial club rooms last night.
The general was seized with an
attack of rheumatism as he was
about to board the Interurban
from Seattle.
John Kirby, jr., president of the
National Cash Register company
of Dayton, Ohio, and of the Ma
tional Manufacturers association,
accompanied by H. S. Hastings,
secretary of the Employers asso-
citation of Oregon, left Seattle on
an early Interurban, which
promptly broke down, delaying
their arrival until 10 o'clock in
the evening, by which time the
banquet was well under way.
Mr.. Kirby was introduced, and
expressed his regret that the gen.
erals health prevented him from
being present. He also stated
that he himself was in a state of
exhaustion and in no condition to
speak. He did, however, make a
few remarks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
TAWNEY CALLS
1T A SCHEME


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WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 16.
THE war department has join
ed the jingoes and is trying to
'Hobsonize' the country" accord
ing to Congressman James A.
Tawney, chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, who
sees in the cry of unpreparedness
for war the prelude for an assault
on the treasury.
Tawney does not believe the
United States is defenseless, and
he does not believe there is an
immediate demand for a record
breaking appropriation for the
war department. He means TO
hold the financial fort against
Hobson, McLachIlan and their war
department friends.
Replying to Representative
Tawney's charge that there is a
conspiracy to stampede congress
into adopting larger appropria-
tions for military purposes, Rep
resentative James McLachlan of
California said today that it is too
childish to be taken seriously, yet
1t carries too dangerous an i'm
preston to be overlooked.
"Tawney says it is coward1y to
make known the admitted nation
al weakness either to our own
people or to the world" he said.
"He admits that we are like fat
ted capon and would have us pose
as gamecoeks. In other words,
he would have us trust the ma
tional security to 'bluff.'"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
ButternakerS
Have Contests

Some fine butter was Shown IN
the annual butter show of the
Washington Creamery Operators
association in convention in this
city now. At the scoring yestel-
day c. P. Hansen of the Sherlock
creamery, won the De Laval cub
for the best butter; N. G. Hall,
Ridgefield, Wash, got the $25 for
the best average for three samples;
I. Benedictson of Spanaway, won
second prize of $40, and Louis
Johnson of the City Creamery,
Tacoma, took third prize of SIS.
The association showed itself in
favor of more rigid butter inspec-
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 16.
to stick to her hus-
band, even If that meanss pending
a term in the penitentiary, Mrs.
James Knott appeared with Knott
and Alton Armstrong today for
preliminary hearing. The three
were arrested yesterday for hav-
ing attempted to work the bad
GER game on Henry Rosenthal, a
wealthy business man of Washing
ton. Nine photographs of Ros-
entihal and Mrs. Knott, the cam
era with which the pictures were
taken as the two sat in the cosy
parlor of the Knott apartment in
the fashionable Cairo apartment
house; the mercury light that was
fixed in the ceiling and the rest
of the appliances used in securing
the photographs were taken into
court. The three principals were
formally charged with blackmail.
The officers intercepted a note
which Mrs. Knott attempted to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
GOOD news FOR
BRIDGE WALKERS

The dinner-pail brigade that
marches over the Eleventh street
bridge every morning and back
again at night, is not to be held
up by every little tugboat and
fishing smack in the future.
From $50 to 1880 in the morn
ing and from 8 to 6 in the even
ing the old bridge will not swing.
The city passed an ordinance
to this affect some time ago. I'm
mediately some shippers thought
their toes were tramped and
rushed to federal authority for re-
lief.
Major Kutz came over and held
a hearing in the Chamber of Com
merce rooms this morning.
There seemed to be no opposi-
ton so Major Kutz will have the
city's regulation embraced in q
federal order.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
COOK SAYS LIFE IN THE FAR NORTH MAKES
PERSON SEE. TFIINGS' GUM DROP STORY A FAKE
ARCTIC EXPLORER FRANK IN
talk TO PUBLIC
Man Called "Worlds Greatest LIAR Admits He
May Have Overworked His Imagination.
(By United Press Leased wire.)

NEW YORK, 16."No should discredit until he
during and half
with shudders
with speee-rdden night with
garing cracking Arctic
then he understand oondo nat the time and
ciate fe what believe to be true"
WAS HONEST.
IN A. INSTALL
II Hamptons
groundwork his defense not of
Which with
merit but of his honesty in believing he had accomplished this
marvellous
through story terrible
he probability
the he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
48 PEB BLES
IN STOMACH

ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 16.-
Stephanie Neurwith, a pretty Aus
trian girl IT years old, Is in St.
Joseph's hospital recovering from
an operation made necessary by
the fact that eight years ago she
went to a travelling circus and saw
peofrmer swallow" 48 pebbles.
Stephanie came out of that cir
Gus very much impressed and in
an initiative frame of mind. AS
she walked along the street to-
ward her home she gathered up
48 pebbles and swallowed them
one by one. Ever since then
she has been painfully conscious
of the fact that her stomach was
not originally intended for a
stone quarry, therefore the opera
tion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
Pictures Man Took of Wife and
Another Man Are Shown In Court

give her husband.
7I'll stick to you through the
whole thing" she had hastily
scribbled on bit of paper. IF
You go to the pen l want to go,
too"
Mrs. Knott, who is scarcely
more than a girl, was formerly
known in Washington as Florence
Bennett. She was nervous and
unstrung in court today, but her
determination to stand by her hus-
band was unfaltering.
81 made my mistake" she said
in an interview given just before
the hearing started, when l left
home. / have ben getting into
trouble ever since. But l am GO
ingfto stick to my husband to the
last"
The girl said her home was
formerly in Detroit and that she
had run away with a man named
Weiss. She left him, she said,
when his money was exhausted.
She afterward met and married
Knott
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

From photograph taken a few
weeks ago when DIR. Cook was at
Poughkeepsie, n. ", negotiating
with HamptOn's Magazine.
same. At midnight It was the
same. At 6 O'Clock in the MORN
ing 1t was the same. Let us, for
the sake of argument, grant that
all our instrumental observations
are wrong. Here is a condition OF
things in which l still believe the
eye without instrumental assist
ance, places the sun at about the
same height for every hour of the
day and night.
iHere, then," the doctor con-
cludes, ~ felt was an important
observation, placing me With fair
accuracy at the pole, and unlike
all observations, 1t was not based
on that impossible dream OF abso-
lutely accurate time. My mind,
starved by impoverished blood,
and shaken with faintness, reeled.
The Thought that l was here, on
the very apex of the world, circ-
ling an unknown mystery where
no man had evr stood, was intoxi-
cation"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
Jim Hill to Be
|. Here Tomorrow

The annual inspection trip of
the Great Northern officials head
ed by Jim Hill is now on and they
will be in Tacoma tomorrow or
Sunday.
With Hill are George B. Harris,
chairman of the board of directors
of the Burlington; w. B. Dean,
director of the Great Northern;
w. G. Dunwoodie and e. C. Cooke
of Minneapolis; Samuel Hill, and
M. r. Browne, his private secre-
tary.
In Portland yesterday Jim Hill
declared business good but he
said too many people are crowd
Ing into the cities. He wants
more farmers DO raise apples and
wheat and other farm produce In
this state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
HUSBAND AND WIFE
MAKE CHARGES

Charging her husband, Thomas
VALLEY with beating and choking
her and at times even threatening
to kill her, Mrs. Elizabeth VALLEY
is suing for divorce in Judge Cliff
ford's court. They were married
in Salamanca, N. Y, In May,
1893. Before their separation a
year ago they resided at 4071a
South e street.
Valley made a cross-complaint
alleging that while they were liv-
ing in West Virginia Mrs. VALLEY
became acquainted with man
by the name of w. A. Lyons, and
soon lost all affection for him as
her husband.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
SUGGESTPERMANENT
PEACE TREATY

(By United Press Leased Wire.
OTTAWA, Can, Dec. 16.-
With a view to establishing per-
manent peace between the United
States and Great Britain, it was
learned today that a resolution
will be introduced as soon as par
Lament convenes urging the Brit
ish government to enter a perma-
nent peace agreement with the
United States. The English gov
ernment will be asked to take i'm
mediate steps in this direction.
The idea is to prevent forever any
bloodshed in the settlement of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
MAN DROPS DEAD

A man, whose identity cannot
be discovered, dropped dead at
Fourteenth street and Pacific ave
nue. last night. The body was
taken to Mellinger's and the
clothes searched, but there was
nothing found that would offer a
clue to his identity. He is
thought to have died from apo
plexy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
World News
-%In BriefI~

Marion carson Williams is dead
here. aged 70. She WAS the only
woman In North Carolina ever a
bank president. She neId that po-
sition several years in the State Ma
tional bank, OF Italeigh. and was up
to that time the only woman who
had ever held such a position in the
United States.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Dec. 16.-
Wright Powell, a travelling sales
man, lighted a match while his
gloves were saturated with gaso-
line. His clothes caught fire and
he saved his life by jumping into
rain barrel filled with water.
TRIMBLE. Tenn. Dee. 16.-The
nine-year-old daughter of Adolphus
her dress caught fire from an open
CRATE before which she was dress
ing.
manufacturing jewellers has shipped
to New, York what is probably the
most elaborate dinner service in
America 1t was made for former
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana.
and will be used in mis- s7.000,000
1t cost $121,ooo. and contains SOC
pieces.N
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-Declar-
| ing that her 12-year-old son had
been taught by a teacher III Wash
Iington public school that the Bible
was a collection of myths and
fairy tales" Mrs. Mary Abernethy
ANNOUNCED today that she intended
| to bring the matter to the attention
| of the school heads.
PAINESvILLE, o., Dec 16.-The
war between Mayor ]. B. Burrows
and Prosecutor E. +. Blakely over
the presentation of the Passion Play
at moving picture theater last
Sunday resulted in the arrest of the
mayor today on a charge of break
ing the Sunday laws.
| LUDLOW CENTER, Mass, Dec 1t
Hogs saved the life of large
buck deer, which, pursued by dogs
bounded into the hog yard OF M. G.
Davis and rolled in the mire, and
then sped along. A minute later q
dozen braying dogs appeared. The
scent was lost among the hogs and
the buck escaped.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

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VICTORIA, B. c., Dec. 49,
That the steamers Iroquois and
Chippewa will be placed in a new
service running between Puget
Sound ports and Southeastern
Alaska, is the report from Port
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
SURROUNDED, BANDIT
KILLS HIMSELF
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PARADISE, Kan, Dec. 16.--
The body of the bandit who yes
terday held up Cashier Bert
O'Brien and four other men. rob
bed the Paradise State bank of
$4,000 and killed himself when
surrounded by posse, was
brought into Paradise today. An
inquest Will be held tomorrow.
Efforts are being made to
identify him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

PICKING, Dec-
16.-By a vote
of 102 TO Is
the Peklng sem
ate today passed
an e,dict remov-
ing the tradi-
tional queue
from the heads
OF all residents
of the Chinese
empire
The order to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

between the two ma
tions.
1t is asserted that such a move
would be the first step toward the
ultimate goal of universal peace.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
Work Desperately to
Save Ent0mbed Miners
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LEYDEN, Col, Dec 16.-In desperate he
lives miners entombed
No. and endeavoring
working with fevesh
hope that they able
through point nearer
han the eexplos ion
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 16.-
M. A. Newland of this city, who
gave 100000 to charity and then
went into seclusion to avoid the
plaudits that he dreaded, has re-
appeared at his home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
OYOU KNOW

That 1T would take all the sea
water in the world 100000 yearS
to flow over Niagara?
That IL will take 100000 yards of
ground to make the Tac 1ma avenue
fill2
That it's safer to stay in Ia
coma? Start for Seattle by cleo
trio car and they mangle you up.
Go by boat and somebody's liable
to sink you
That on some clear nights you can
see what time it is by the city
clock, and on other clear nights
you can't? Something wrong with
the lights.
That a man may work out fine
at the county jail at the rate OF
SO a day, and the city Jail at $2
a day?
That owing to the wonderful imf-
tntions that are poW made of rubies,
their value has fallen greatly?
That Freeland, Lawson and John
ny Meade of the city elective Off
GERS were all gold seekers in
Alaska?
That Tacoma has more and live
lier improvement clubs then any
city in the west?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

That 1T would take all the sea
water in the world 100000 yearS
to flow over Niagara?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

That ii will take 100000 yards of
ground to make the Tac 1ma avenue
fill
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16
EVERY CHINK MUST
NOW HAVE HIS
HEAD SHAVED

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

WEATHER FORECAST.
Rain tonight and SATURDAY.
Light outhwest winds
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

That owing to the wonderful imi-
tations that are now made of rubies.
their value has fallen greatly?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

That Tacoma has more and live
lier improvement clubs then any
city in the west?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

The thing that convinced DR..
Cook and his two Eskimos that he
reached the pole, was the fact
that they attained point where
their shadows at noon and mid
night we're of equal length.
''At noon,' he says. 1.-The shad-
uw represented In its length of the
altitude OF the sun, about 12 de-
grees. At 6 O'Clock It was the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-16

Inine-year-old daughter of Adolphus
Trimble was burned to death when
her dress caught fire from an open
CRATE before which she was dress
ing.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-28
FINDS Many Boeu. Picture..

N. Carrier Belleuse the French artist
appointed by the French courts as an
expert to pronounce >+ipon the value OF
the paintings composing the gallery OF
Mrs. Hamilton Paine. Of Boston. has ar
rived at some conclusions not AT all fat
tering to American purchasers Of pic
lures. Mrs. Hamilton Paine. it win be
remembered, brought an action against
a pseudo French nobleman, said In reality
10 be the son OF n London tailor. whom
she accused of selling her at inflated
prices number OF old masters which
turned out to be clever frauds
What astonishes me is the simplicity
Of these Americans" says NJ Carrier
Belleuse. After seeing some OF the
aoominable paintings which composed
Mrs. Hamilton Paine's gallery I cannot
understand the error OF the victim. A
child would not have been taken IN. Il
Is certain that these worthy foreigners
have great deal OF money, but they are
entirely lacking in the artistic sense
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-28
AMERICANS WITH TITLES
Question that Cost Federaist Term in Congress Back
in 1875.

naturalization laws were materially
amended, and it was left undisturbed
when in Jenerson's first administration
the residence period required OF foreign
ers seeking naturalization was reduced
from fourteen years to five years. The
I'VE - period had prevailed in Yir-
ginia IN late colonial days. Oddly enough
the first man known TO have been natur-
allied m this country. Augustine Herr
man, once Of New York and later OF
Maryland. received from Lord Baltimore,
about 1866. the title OF Lord of Bohemia
Manor.
Some naturalized foreigners have been
known socially in this country by the
titles which they abjured on giving notice
OF their intention 10 seek naturalization.
though in all public relations they have
figured under simple surname and Chris
tian name. or the few native Americans
who wear titles Of nobility. most perhaps.
owe them 10 the Pope.
a good many years ago the common
council. OF Philadelphia, was scandaIized
70 receive a request for permission to
make use Of the streets I'm the course OF
some building Improvements from a
native resident OF the city who attached
a title Of nobility 10 his name. The c0un-
cilmen were for denying the privilege
Until the citizen would apply for il with
out appending his title. but when the ex-
PLANTATION was made that the patent OF
nobility had been granted by the Pope,
a sovereign without temporal power. the
objection was withdrawn. though the
noble Philadelphia came in for a good
deal Of ridicule
American hankering after titles. which
fell into general disrepute during the
! French Revolution. revived early in the
nineteenth century. and # is said that one
thing 20 attract some men 10 Burr's ex-
petition was the hope held out that his
Spanish-American state would have or
ders Of NOBILITY. Young men making
ready to join him bantered one another
as to the titles that they should bear. and
a clever woman IN the confidence Of Burr
was said to have gone so far as TO draw
up rules for court ceremony and make
I sketches for ceremonial costumes.
Within a few years a young Virginian
oii'NANA sumo u HIS hlliololA u9 tApdNIldl L
/ ing himself in order 10 claim an English
title long in allegiance in his family II
is said. on the other hand. that although
/ the De COurseyS. Of Maryland. have an
entirely clear and legitimate claim 10 an
! English title. the rightful heir declines
20 give up his American citizenship fol
/ the title.
/ The son and heir of an Irish barone,
long lived in Ohio. but never used his
/ fathers title. and his descendants. plain
folk. some Of them doing business in New
York. have almost forgotten that their
ancestor was enlisted TO write Sir" be-
/ fore his name.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-28
CHRISTMAS WILL FLY
Local Aviator 10 Compete in
international Contest.
INvENTs SPEEDY AEROPLAEE
Physician to Represent washington
I'm Big Soaring Event at Boston,
Where worlds Most Daring Man
birds VIII BE Entered-Can Make
SeVenty-six Miles an Hour.

Dr. William W. Christmas. OF 10
Twelfth street northwest. viii represent
Washington az the Harvard Boston avia-
Ytion meet. which Will be held September
, 20 10 at Atlantic Park. Boston RMS
will be the most important meet held IN
this country. and about thirty European
and American aviators VIII compete.
Or Christmas. who viii drive an aero
plane OF his own invention, believes he
has a splendid chance TO win several
iirsts. and gain substantial part Of the
$4,000 prize money. From one 20 three
aviators Will accompany him, who also
VIII demonstrate the Christmas aero
plane
This aeroplane is Of distinctive, de-
sign. differing radically from any already
exhibited There are two definite points
OF suspension which do not change. due
10 the shape Of the planes. This Sc
cures automatic balance. and should the
motor stop while the aero is in flight.
there Is no danger OF an accident. Also
IN heavy gusts OF wind the machine IS
entirely safe. and. oddly enough, II be-
comes more stable in exact ratio 10 the
Increase OF the wind
Machine Practical Commercially.
Dr. Christmas states that his machine
is practical in a commercial sense be-
cause Of its speed. which is about sew
enty-six miles an hour, and its absolute
stability under all conditions. Mails and
passengers can be carried successfully,
while its value TO the army and navy, he
said, is assured
The three-city flight. which has been
urged by Washington. Philadelphia, and
Baltimore aviators. will be attempted
by DR. Christmas possibly in September
or October. regardless OF the fact that
the contest itselfsis not assured.
Charles X. Hamilton. who few from
New York to Philadelphia and return.
within the next few days will try Dr.
Christmas machine Mr.. Hamilton will
probably use one OF these aeroplanes N
the Harvard Boston meet.