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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
BLACK HAND
after T. r.

(United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, April ia
member of the American
branch of the Black Hand So
ciety was arrested today near
the italian Swiss border en-
route to Geneva. It is be-
lieved by the Venice authori-
ties, whittier the man was
bound, that he had planned
to attack Theodore Roose-
velt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
URGE SUFFRAGETTES
To VIOLENT
METHODS

(By United Press Leased Wire }
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 16.
Misses Ray Costello of England
and Alice Paul OF Philadelphia ara
making street speeches here today
urging the suffragists to adopt
militant methods"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
Chinese Leaders Plot to Destroy
All Foreign Devils" In Empire

tics" the News says, ''but is di-
rected by new generation Of
student Chinese. The authorities
are constantly encouraging the
movement.
The Wesleyan missionary So
ciety here today has been notf-
ed that the threatened mission
aries have fed to Han Kow for
safety.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
CHINESE RIOTERS CUT THE
TELEGRAPH WIRES

(By United Press Leased Wire.
PEKIN. April 16.-One of thc
British gunboats arrived at Chana
ISha today but owing to the mum.
|ber of rioters in the city dill mol
lattempt to dock.
Wires out OF Chang Sha have
been cut and reports today are
meager.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
ANOTHER WEEK To
| GET A JURY

The selection of jurors in the
trial of Martina Kvalshaug, charg-
ed with completely in the murder
of her husband, is progressing
slowly. The state has used three
|peremptory challenges and the
defense four. II may require all
next week to get the jury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
BIC WAVE THE
| CAUSE OF
| WRECK

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.-
Edward Miner, first passenger on
the submerged North Pacific
steamship Santa Clara, to reach
this city from the wreck, told
the story OF the accident and de.
clared that the vessels loss WAS
due to a gigantic wave which
broke over the ship as she was
passing over the Humboldt bar
Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
Adulteration of Food:
THE CASE OF DES|CCATEO EGGS

WASHINGTON, April United of
agriculture has published proceedings
the court of the DISTRICT
six packages Of desiccad the Egg
Chicago. ~
The government
Washington, in the hands Holmes filthy de-
composed and putrid condition
The court ordered that destroyed
and that Holmes pay the costs. $3.50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
Weller May Plead Insanity.
(By United Press Leased Wir,

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
LONDON, April 16.-The news
papers here take an alarming g
view of the anti-foreign uprising
in China. They express the fear
today that the uprising will be
worse than the Boxer disturbances
of 1900.
"The anti-foreign movement is
no longer in the hands of fana-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
IS PERISH IN
SUBMARINE
BOAT

Q TOXIC, April 16.-Sub- Z
. marine torpedo No. so with
> her entire crew while prac- &
. ticiug under the water OF. Z
. Hiroshima Friday, failed to q
. come to the SURFACE. IT is {
Q believed that her command
. er. Lieut.. sakuma. and her
. crew OF 10 men were suf- {
o forated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
(By Staff Correspondent of the
United Press.)

VIENNA, April 16.-Pleadi lg
his already. filled program, Theo-
dore Roosevelt today declined,
gently, an invitation to shoot
woodcocks on the royal game pre-
serves. It is believed that the
sport appeared a little tame 10
the African hunter who had Just
returned from charging elephants.
But without the shooting, Roosr-
velt's was well filed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
q u u s.
- "A ~ ID -
r N u S

Don Shaw, the famous pugi.ist
OF the city hall, has the whooping
cough.
Dry Debater: For every glass
OF beer a man takes he shorteDs
his life bv a week.
Wet Debater: Then I must
have died 100 years ago.
"Do you know that every time
the clock ticks Rockefeller makes
s5,OOO?" said one man, pointing
yver his glass to the clock.
'srhen stop the clockl" cried
the other.
Hubby: You never call me
dear" as other mems wives do.
Wife: Hal So other women
love you?
Josh Wise Says: There's tn
man who's alius flgurin' how much
money he Lin put AWAY in q year,
an, ON tn other ham, there's Tn
man who's aiIus spendin' Lii
naoncy afore he Rits is."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
FINED FOR SHOOTING
DUCKS OUT OF SEASON

Pete squalley was fined $25
and costs today for shooti g
ducks and pheasants out of sea-
son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-16
Mrs. Holmes Is Grateful

wish to thanks to all who have interested
themselves In behalf acknowledge the kindness
they have shown surprised when
first to house and suggested they going
contribution for but do give thanks to ALL
see cannot thankfulnes
Lord is always willing to help time Of need
Impossible for to help those who have helped but
may be time others who may
. then be in need Respectfully
A. w. HOLMES.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21

News of grim, red-handed war comes
to us from New Orleans, where the re-
tail grocers, backed, we suppose, by
the moral influence Of the druggists,
the marketmen, etc., are about to ap-
peal to the legislature for a law pro-
hibiting lagnappe and making it's
practice a misdemeanor, says New
York Sun. Lagnappe is a picturesque
survival, the bestowal upon small puT"
chasers of trivial donations, regulated
by the size of the transaction, of gum.
drops, candy, and the like. They have
tried to fight it by combination and
mutual agreement. but have failed.
Some of them would not tote fair"
The institution is more than hundred
years old, and it dies hard, so after
the modern fashion of running to the
government on every trivial provoca-
ton, the grocers are about to ask the
legislature to protect them against a
custom of a century and half's stand
ing, of inconsiderable importance in it.
self and SO easily "evened up in Frac-
t1ce as to make 1t negligible.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
SOUND SENSE FROM jim HILL
is OPPOSED TO SIx-FOOT CHAN
MEL FOR RIVER.
Archbishop ireland and Gov. John
Burke Among the
Speakers.

st. Paul. Hon. James ]. HILL
empire builder and railway magnate,
was the principal speaker at the open
ing Of the new st. Paul hotel.
Surrounded by men prominent in
every active walk of life, Mr.. Hill dis
cussed the problem of transportation
in the Northwest, with special appli-
cation to the Twin Cities. He criti-
cized the plan of constructing six
foot channel in the Mississippi river
from the Twin Cities to st. Louis, say
ing that less than 20-foot boat was
beaten by box car every day in the
week. He referred to st. Louis, where
a 10 to 12-foot channel from st. Louis
to New Orleans is the regular order,
asserting that even under such condi-
tions, less than 1 per cent of the
straight business done out of that city
was carried by water
IF we could get a IA nor 18-foot
channel it might do some good, but
you might as we'll lath and plaster
the river as to dig a six-foot channel.
/ built some boats on Lake Superior
and they were the largest boats on
the lake. They carried 5000 tons.
Soon I found that for S28 day more,
I could run boats that carried 10000
tons. A box car will beat any ten
foot channel on earth, but when you
get a fifteen-foot channel, the boxcar
is out of the running.
Speaking again of the waterways
questions, he said that deepening the
channel to 20 feet made Duluth the
largest seaport in the world and yet
the largest part of the lake business
of the freight there is handled by rail.
Governor Eberhart talked of the adj
vantage st. Paul and Minneapolis
hold in commercial way and said
that the Twin Cities were the key 10
the commercial situation in the North
west.
The program of addresses was as
follows:
Observation-Disclosures Butler.
1.-The Growing Northwest" james
]. Hill.
"The Business League, Promoters of
the New Saint Paul."-Paul Doty.
"The State of Minnesota. Cover
nor Eberhart.
"The Future. Archbishop Ireland.
"The Sister City and the New Saint
Paul" Mayor James c. Haynes.
"The Press and the New Saint
George Thompson.
"The Railroads and the New Saint
Paul Howard Elliott.
North Dakota and the New Saint
Paul. Governor John Burke.
"The City and the New Saint Paul"
The Mayor of st. Paul.
''The Management of the New Saint
Paul. Henry d. Laughlin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21

Relic hunters have been breaking
into the church where President Taft
worships in Washington. During the
past year it has been twice necessary
to reAuild the presidents pew, and it
is no longer safe to leave the hymn
books in the rack or the cushion
on the seat after the chief executive
has attended services, says Chicago
Record-Herald. So many books and
cushions have been carried away that
officials of the church now take every
thing that is movable from the pew as
soon as the president finishes his de-
votions. Cannot something be done to
lessen the hardship that is thus put
upon the relic hunters? Why not fur
nish a plank for the president to sit
on when he goes to church, and then
leave it for the relic hunters to whittle
up and divide among themselves?
By having it made of some kind of
soft wood the comfort of the presi-
dent and the convenience of the relic
hunters would both be provided for.
We are a great people and ought to
be able somehow to keep our relic
hunters from feeling that they are be-
ing deprived of their rights.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
MASKED men HOLD UP TRAIN
SOUTHERN PACIFIC OVERLAND
ROBBED NEAR BENEcIA, CAL.
Amount of Loot Secured Not Known
Nine Sacks of Registered
Mail Is Stolen.

Benicia, Cal-The China-Japan
mail train, which left San Fran
cisco over the Southern Pacific railway
for the east at nine o'clock Saturday
night, was held up by two masked men
at Sprig, two miles east of here, and
robbed of nine pouches of registered
mail
The train carried no express matter.
Four of the pouches have been recov-
cred, but the robbers rified the others
and now are hiding in the hills and
canyons between Martinez and Oak
land. Sheriffs' posses from two coun-
ties, detectives and post office inspect
ors on horses and in automobiles are
engaged in the man hunt. The robbers
were well armed and a battle is antici-
pated.
The passengers on the train were
not disturbed. After getting the mail
sacks, the robbers cut the engine loose
from the train and sent it wild, throttle
open, down the main track to the
east.
In the direct path of the engine was
:" oNSNAOh VI p1oSCA6CI II Gill 4NO' ~
west-bound, heavily loaded. But for
the presence of mind of a telegraph
operator at Suisun a serious collision
would have taken place. The engine
was thrown into a ditch in the nick of
time.
The train robbery is the first in Cali
fornia for several years. 1t was plot
ted and executed in daring, spectacu-
lar fashion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
STATE TACKLES OIL TRUST
nessee Chance in United States
Supreme Court.

Washington, d. C.-The government
has for the moment given way to let
the state of Tennessee wrestle with
the Standard Oil in the arena of the
Supreme court of the United States.
While the main attack upon the
great oil corporation under the fed.
eral antitrust law has been deferred
for weeks, or perhaps even months,
by the courts decision that The case
must be reargued, subsidiary battle
will be fought before the court this
week over the attempt of Tennessee
to GUST the Standard from doing bust
ness there because of alleged viola
ton of the antitrust statute of the
State.
The state courts have held against
the corporation, which now appeals t.
the federal supreme court from the
Judgment of custer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
TAKING OF CENSUS BEGINS
Army of 10000 Enumerators Starts
Out to Count Uncle Sans Fam.
ily-Work Ends in Month.

Washington.-An army of 10000
ing army-Friday morning began
the task of counting the population of
the United States. 1t is estimated
that Uncle Sam has about 90,000,0O
children and the work of checking
them up must be completed in one
month. In the cities the count will
be made in Is days and some of the
returns from them are expected by
the first week in June. The exact
population of the entire country, how
ever, will not be determined before
September.
The enumeration will cover all the
46 states, the two territories, Hawaii
and Porto Rico. Alaska, the Phil
ippine islands and Guam are not in
cluded, as special arrangements are
made for numbering the people there.
The inquiry comprises three principal
branches: Population, agriculture.
and manufacturing and mining.
The questions cover the acreage, the
value and the product of farms, in
cludlng an especial enumeration OF
animals, and the capital invested, the
value of products, and the number of
employees of mining and manufac-
turing plants.
Director Durand is counting upon
90,OOO,000 names. This estimate is
based upon the calculations of his ex-
perts, and makes allowance for an in
crease according to the tendencies
shown in the last three censuses. Be-
tween 1870 and 1880 the increase in
the population was 80 per cent; be-
tween 1880 and 1890, rs per cent; be-
tween 1890 and 1900, 81 per cent. If
the decrease should continue at the
same ratio there would be falling off
this year of II per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
$4,000 PERISH IN RIOTS
British Consulate Only Foreign-owned
Left Standing in Chang Sha,
China-Missionaries Safe.

Chang Sha, China-In the rioting
here, in which not less than a.
900 persons, including the governor
of the province of HUI Nan, have par
ticipated, all the foreign-owned build
ings in this city have been destroyed
by fire except the British consulate. All
the buildings rented by foreigners
have been looted.
The Chinese officials as long ago as
Thursday issued a proclamation that
they were unable to protect the lives
and property of foreigners, and there
upon all foreigners made haste to
leave the city. So far as is known no
foreign resident lost his life.
The missionaries attached to the
American Episcopalean Alliance, the
United Evangelical church and the
Wesleyan and Yale missions, number
ing forty-one in all, took refuge in
boats. They lost all of their effects.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
GIRL FOUND SLAIN IN SHED
Mutiated Body Of a Six-Year-Old
Child Is Discovered Near
Her Home.

Chicago.-The body of little six-year-
old Alfredo Boverlska, was found
slain and mutilated in a shed
three doors from the home OF
the Boverlska family. The child mad
been attacked and was strangled, &C
cording to the police physician, while
trying to call for aid. Her little gar
ments were partially torn from the
body.
Beside the body was found little
bag of candy for which the girl left
her home unescorted on Thursday
night. After her exit from candy
store she was not seen until her body
was found covered by tin cans and
large strip of mating.
Barney Bizoska, thirty-four years
old, a blacksmith helper, is being
held on suspicion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
GERMANY AND
CANADIAN WHEAT
LOOKS TO THE CANADIAN WEST
FOR HER SUPPLY.

A dispatch from Winnipeg, Mantle
ba. dated March Is, 1910 says: That
Germany is anxious to secure q share
of Canadian wheat to supply uer ina
ports of that cereal." The recent ad.
justment of the trade relations with
Germany has made it possible to carry
on a Canadian-German trade with
much fewer restrictions than in the
past, and considerable development
Of trade between the two Countries
Is now certain. The great men of
the United States are alive to the
Wheat situation in this Country now,
and there is consequently the deepest
interest in every feature that will
tend to increase and conserve the
wheat supply. With its present $780,
100000 bushel production of wheat
and all efforts to increase it almost
unavailing, and the rapidly growing
consumption of it's increasing popula-
ton, there is certainly the greatest
reason for the anxiety as to where the
wheat is to come from that will feed
the nation. The United States will
be forced as Germany is to look to
the Wheatfields of Canada. One
province alone raised last year one
eighth as much as the entire produc-
ton of the United States, and but a
twelfth of the wheat area has yet been
touched. The Americans who have
gone to Canada, are to-day reaping
the benefit of the demand for Canadi
an wheat and they will continue to
join in the benefits thus reached for
great many years. Splendid yields
are reported from the farms of that
Country, and from land that the Gov
eminent gives away in 100 acre
blocks, and from other lands that
have been purchased at from $12 to
SIS an acre. John Munter, near Eye
brow, Saskatchewan, a former resi-
dent of Minnesota says:
Last fall got over 80 bushels OF
wheat to the acre and had 80 acres of
it; also 20 acres spring breaking ON
which l had flax of which got almost
20 bushels per acre. Had 20 acres
in oats and got 20 bushels per acre
and 500 bushels potatoes on one and
three quarter acre, and can therefore
safely say that had fine crop and
am well satisfied with my homestead"
He is considered but small farmer,
but he will be one of the big farmers,
some of these days. There are many
others, hundreds of others, whose
yields were beyond this, and whose
average under crop was vastly
greater The story of the experience
of American farmers in the Canadian
West is a long one. The time to go,
would appear to be now, when splen-
where land can be purchased at prices
that will be doubled in couple of
Vpa~S
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
Kisses DID NOT HURT HIM
TAFT SENDS KINDLY LETTER TO
WOMEN SUFFRAGlSTS.
Says Only Regret Is That Incident
May Embarrass Leaders of
Movement.

Washington.-With the receipt of
kindly and thoroughly good
natured letter from President Taft.
the convention of woman suffragists
emerged smilingly from the cloud left
on the gathering by the kissing cpl
sode of Thursday night. The presi-
dent fastened to assure the women
that he harbored no i'll feeling as the
result of the experience, and hoped
that it soon would be forgotten.
The text of the letter follows:
II beg leave to acknowledge your
favor of April Is. I unite with you IN
regretting the incident occurring dur
ing my address to which your letter
refers. / regret it not because of any
personal feeling, for / have none on
the subject at all, but only because
much more significance has been
given to it than it deserves and be-
cause it may be used in an unfair way
to embarrass the leaders of your move
ment
II thank the association for the
kindly and cordial tone of the resolu-
tions submitted and hope that feature
of Thursday nights meeting which
you describe as one giving your asso-
citation much sorrow may soon be en-
tirely forgotten"
Monday the suffragists moved upon
congress and presented their gigantic
petition for votes.
The hearings on the petition were
held on Tuesday by the senate COM
mittee on female suffrage and the
house committee on the judiciary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
ARMSTRONG COMPANY is HIT
Insurance Actuary Charges Nearly
100000 Is Missing From Treas
ury of Casualty Concern.

Charleston, w. Va.-That the active
managers of the Consolidated Casual
tt company before it's reorganization
here this week, under direction of the
insurance department of West Vir-
ginia, collected $757,114 in one year
and nine months, of which only $751;
637 remains, and that they made false
entries on the books of the company
and false returns to the insurance
department of the state, are charges
in the report of John f. Roche of New
York, consulting actuary to the insur-
ance department, made public Friday.
The actuary found that the entire
management of the company was in
the hands of Robert B. Armstrong Of
Chicago, president; G. II. Burras, vice
president, and A. S. Mitchell, secre-
tary and treasurer, as officers, and Of
Armstrong, Burras and Mitchell D.
Follansbee as the executive commit
tee.
The actuary's report states that the
condition of the company's books was
such that correct audit is almost i'm
possible. Among Irregularities charged
are cancellation of stock issued, a col
lection of partial payments for which
nothing was issued, and the issuing of
stock which was not paid for. The
actuary recites that President Arm
strong drew salary of $1,000 per
month June 80, 1909" the report
says, cit was discovered that he (Arm-
strong) had overdrawn his salary
S2.312."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
One Term ENOUGH SAYS Taft.

Washington.-Twice President Taft
declared to Washington audiences Sat
urday that one term in the White
House is quite sufficient for him. The
first time the president made this
declaration was in talking to the Dis
trict of Columbia branch of the Amer
lean Bankers association. He made
it again in the course of talk to
gathering of Washington's quota of
the Psi Epsilon fraternity. Both
times the president spoke in joking
fashion, but under the smile there ap-
peared to be much seriousness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
THREE ARE DEAD IN WRECK
Six Others Fatally Hurt and Like
Number Are Missing-Freight
Train Leaps Track.

Spokane, Wash.-As a result of a
disastrous wreck on the Northern Pa
cific railroad three miles west of Spo-
kane Thursday, three men are dead,
six are probably fatally injured and
six others are unaccounted for.
1t is supposed that the mangled re-
mains of the missing will be found
in the tangled mass of wreckage.
Eye witnesses state that freight
train not under control, and which had
reached a speed of so miles an hour
was suddenly seen to leap into the air
and disappear in a cloud OF dust and
debris.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-04-21
WORTHLESS FARMS.

American agriculture shows a strange
contrast. With the price of farm prod
ucts higher than ever before, farm
land has deprecated In value, and the
Increases. Figures gathered by the con-
servation commission are surprising.
1t is shown that there are 10000
square miles of abandoned farms, chief
ly in New England, New York, the
southeast and the middle central states.
That is, there are in the United States
at present 100000 acres of abandoned
farm landau area as large as the cul-
tivated part of the Canadian north
west, Is times the size of Rhode Is
land, four times the size of Connect
cut, twice the size of Massachusetts,
or half as large as Ohio, says Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. OF the many rea-
sons advanced to explain this deser-
ton of farms, two or three are espe-
cially worth noticing. Most impor-
tant Of all, perhaps, is the wasteful sys-
tenn of cultivation that has so long
prevailed in the United States. A
fertile soil has in countless cases been
exhausted by taking everything from
1t and returning nothing to it. Add
to this the fact that there is marked
trend of population from city to coun-
try, and that farm labor has become
so expensive as to leave little profit
from the work of a laborer, and it is
little wonder that so many owners of
farms do not care to cultivate them.