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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

SEATTLE, Dec. 2S.-Eths.I
Williams, central figure i'm SEN
sational case now on trial in San
Francisco. Is a Seattle girl. r
This fact was just learned to-
day by friends Of the Williams
family in this city, although the
case has been on trial I'm Califor-
mia for n week.
Deception by DIR. o. c. Joslen,
a wealthy San Francisco physi-
clan, Is charged by Miss Williams.
and the doctor is now standing
trial on that charge.
The girl lived In Seattle until
less than two years ago, when she
went to California with her fam
lily. The picture of her printed
in the Times today was taken in
this city two years ago, and shows
her ir riding costume.
Ethel, when she first met DR..
Joslen, was working in a candy
store
She was earning IS a week. The
do ctor, she said, took her to
luncheons and dinners and gave
her automobile rides and costly
presents. Later, she alleged, he
deceived her under promise of
marriage
Letters Against Him.
Fully a score of letters and tele-
grams sent by Joslen to the Will
lians girl have been introduced In
court, for the purpose of showing
that he had promised 10 marry
her
The doctor Is married man,
ant most of the letters were writ
ten while he was on an Eastern
trip with his wife. The letters
were not very affectionate, and
they contained no direct reference
to Joslen' alleged promise to
marry the Seattle girl.
Cne of the letters real as fol-
lows:
"Dear Baby: Was sick last
night; one of my old stomach
troubles. But l am feeling fine
now just line this morning.
Yorus. DIR. 49,
"Been gone just week now.
"Wife went through my pockets
while was taking bath just now
and read this letter. Didn't see
much, did she? She got into il
with a hair pin. You can see
where she dug it open. we are
getting along as nicely as ever,
you see."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

walls and on the ceilings remained
There has been developed else
where a modern system of moisten-
ing dry mines with steam or over
head spray.
But this, too, is costly. Economy
is the rule.
IT'S BUSINESS.
One inspector was employed at
Cross Mountain mine. 1t was his
duty to go from entry to entry and
from room to room in the mine in
the morning before the men came
to work, in order to find out If
they were safe to work in.
The interior of the mine covers
an area of Is miles-impossible
for any man to cover in three
hours. At least six men are need
ed for such work.
But that, too, adds to the bud
get. Ordinary expenses must be
met. It's no individuals fault.
p IT'S BUSINESS.
"OH, GOD, GIVE US HUMAN
ITY!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
She's a Girl Cop, Is Ruth Francs
And Going to Policemen's Fall
The girl cop.

The girl cop.
Yep, it was bound to come
woman suffrage, woman lawyers,
and woman lawmakers now the
female Bobby"
Ruth Francis is it. She is not
on the regular force2just an
honorary member. And she
doesn't >arrest anybody-only
their attention, for Ruth is known
as the '.tiniest cop, and is at the
Empress sthis week.
She is only four feet and an
inch or SO tall but she has played
cop SO much from Gotham to Ia
coma that everywhere she IS
greeted by the cops as one of 'em.
She is going up to the policeman-s
ball Saturday night. She played
with Henry Irving and the other
big ones before going into vaude-
Vile.
Miss Francis is too pretty for a
real cop. Big brown eyes, a COM
piexion like a June morning and
teeth that-O, we'll, nobody would
object to being arrested BY such
a cop.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
PLAN VERY DE LUXE
CHICKEN SHOW HERE.

Talk about dentistry for dogs
and private bathtubs for tabby
cats they are nothing compared
to the provisions made for the
chickens that will be exhibited at
the annual Tacoma poultry snow
which opens in the New YORK
block next Tuesday for a week $
run.
Why, those old hens AMI -chesty
cockerels are having their -beaks
polished and their claws mani.
cnred three times day now and
the quarters. they are making for
them would be regarded as Glass
"a" by the building code.
Every year these chicken shows
have been getting more recherche.
And they are growing bigger
too. There win be 1900 pullets
and hens and other things with
feathers on at this show and they
will be worth from 90 cents to
$500 a bird.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
: NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Declar-
ing that only the interposition OF
Providence prevented cholera and
other infectious diseases from
gaining a foothold In New York,
Governor John A. Dix today de-
manded the immediate resigna-
ton of DR.. Alvah Doty, chief OF
the quarantine station since 1907.
Dix charges that Doty failed to
maintain an effective safeguard
20 the health of the city and state,
and that he has not gwen any
thing like an intelligent, honest
and efficient administration"
Charles Bulger, the commits
sioner investigating Doty report
ed accusing his administration Of
misconduct, extravaganza, dis
honesty, depravity and immoral-
ity."
Doty, a republican, blames poll
tics for the onslaught on him.
E. IMMORTALITY CHARGED
Governor Dix's letter to Doty
says in part:
Immoral practices are in
dulged in by orderlies with immi-
grant women and girls, while In
quarantine. Squalor and unclean-
illness in the rooms where immi-
grants are kept prevails shocking
to r,y sense of decency. 1t makes
one ashamed of his country. In
addition, orderlies have been per-
mitted to carry deceased children
In their arms to the morgue."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
MAN
JURY

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
y Los ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 2S.
The federal grand jury today
resumed its inquiry into the al
legged dynamite conspiracy Miss
A. Murphy, stenographer in
OLAF Tveitmoes office was the
first witness.
Tveitmoe, Anton Johannsen, E.
A. Clancy, Eric Morton and sew
eral other labor leaders were
present. ]. e. Munsey, labor lead
er Of Salt Lake City. held long
conference with Oscar Lawler,
who has charge of the probe.
Fl. w. Pohlman, labor leader OF
Seattle, was before the Jury to-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

The Briceville school will prob
ably have to shut down for a long
time, because it was kept up with
quarters contributed monthly by
the men who worked and died In
the mine. Every child in the
school has been orphaned. OF
course, the company might, out OF
its own funds, support the school
But then, you see, is the company
the orphans keeper? Ethically
speaking, it is. But it isn't ethics
that's involved.
IT'S BUSINESS.
One-third- of the men found in
the mine perished, not from the
shock of the explosion, but from
the afterdamp that followed. Men
died miserably in the pitch-dark
caverns, while cropping for air
and light. Sam Miller and his
crew perished thus after wander
ing for three days.
And every one of them might
have been saved, had there been a
permanent rescue crew of trained
miners in the Coal Creek region.
But such things are costly. Mines
are run for profit, not for men. It's
nobody's fault in particular.
IT'S BUSINESS.
But the $4,000 the company has
had to spend for coffins would
have equipped at least three res
cuers.
Cross Mountain was known as a
dry" mine. The dust stood shoe
top deep. Dust has caused most
of the explosions in mines. 1t
caused this one. To keep the dust
down, water is used.
Every once in a while there was
sent through the mines chambers
a water car with a wide-mouthed
faucet in the rear of it. WHEN
THE FAUCET WAS OPEN RID,
THE WATER WOULD RUN ONLY
BETWEEN THE TRACKS.
The sprinkler did not possess
the efficiency of an ordinary
street sprinkler. The dust on the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

Give
Up

(By United Press Leased Wire.
LONDON, Dec. 2S.-Tien
Tsin dispatches to tho Ex-
change Telegraph today de-
clare that the members of
the NIanchur royal family
have decided to flee from
Pekin. The Manchu princes
are in panic and fear that
Yuan Shi Kai will be unable
to prevent the establishment
OF a republic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
CAN'T JUCGlE
N|CKLE FARES

There'll be no juggling of five
cent fares on the Short Line if the
county commissioners can help it.
Before the franchise was formal
ly extended today, the railroad was
required to build station 200 feet
inside the city limits at Lincoln av.
They must also spend $4,000
in construction work in the coun-
ty outside TACOMA during 1912.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
BOY FREE WILL
LEAVE CITY

Elga Roberts, 1S-year-old High
school boy accused of threaten
ing to kill his mother, was re-
leased today after week in jail.
He will go to Denver and make
his home with DR.. John Pasco
there, a friend of the family.
Il. M. Bailey, head of Tacoma
avenue motorcycle store, the
boys employer, told the judge
that Elga was one of the hardest
working employees he ever had.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
HUNDREDS DYING

isI terrified lest it be stricken with
same unknown plague.
The deaths were at first attrib-
uted to ptomaine poisoning
caused by eating tainted herring
which the inmates of the asylum
had brought in from the streets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
Men See
Plot to Kill
Women's Law

women's clubs and which support
ed the law and ask their aid In its
enforcement.
The case against Mrs. Webber
will come up In Justice Evans'
court. The date has not been
set yet. Mrs. Webber has asked
for jury trial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

(By United Press Leased Wire.}
BERLIN, Dec. 28.-With fifty
indigents already dead in the
Berlin municipal night shelter
and other asylums and 200 9TH
er cases reported. the whole city
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

Physicians today, however, con-
fess that they are unable to dag
nose the disease.
The victims die quickly. They
are seized with spasms of severe
vomiting and within few hours
expire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
43O DIE in FIGHT

We're wounded in six-hour battle
here today.
The battle was mostly at long
range, the Spanish machine guns
spreading death and ruin among
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

the tribesmen, who were finally
forced to retreat. The trlbesmen
carried their wounded off the
field, but the dead were left lying
where they fell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

SEATTLE, Wash.--As a result
of floods of inquiries for names
of men seeking life partners,
Marriage License Clerk Claude F.
Gage will maintain a matrimonial
clearing house at the license win
dow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
REMEMBER WHITMAN

BAKER, Ore, Dec. 2S.-The
one hundredth anniversary of the
coming of Whitman to Eastern
oregon was observed In this city
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

SAN FRANCISCO.-More than
81, 100000 worth Of cards bear
ing Christmas greetings passed
through the San Francisco post
office
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
HUNDRED DEAD; N0B0DY'S
FAULT; IT'S BUSINESS

27.-Within six months OF
the widows and orphans of will be
will Brce VILE take the places In the
the Cross Mountain where more than 100 ded
widows orphans will make
the
providers lived. particular
individuals fault that this will be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
SNOW TONIGHT

B-T-T-T.
"Snow tonight and colder; Fri
day fair" says the weather man.
This may please the small boy
with a handsled getting rusty on
the runners, but the family man
with the coal bin empty and the
woodpile low-well.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
La GILLETTE
SCORES
TARIFF
fly United Press Leased Wire

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CLEVELAND, o., De-. 2S.-
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette left
here today for his second days
invasion of Ohio cities.
Five thousand braved a bliz-
zard here last night to hear him
attack the trusts. made no d.
rect mention of President Taft
or of his own candidacy. He de-
nounced the Aldrieh-Payne tariff
as "the most outrageous assault
of private interests on the people
in tariff history"
LaFollette is making his tour
on regular trains and electric in
terurban railroads and attending
himself to his own baggage. He
speaks in Toledo tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
ODD BITS o, NEWS
VANCOUVER,

e VANCOUVER, Wash.-Miss
Minnie Wyman travelled from
Iowa to have the letter "Y" in
her changed to Il E." She
married Albert Wieman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MELILLA, Morocco, Dec. 2S.-
More than 400 natives were killed
and 80 Spaniarjs perished and 10
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
TAFT OF HIS TRAIL.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Des. 2S.
President Taft intends follow
ing Senator LaFollette on his
three days speech making trip
through Ohio. He will speak in
Cleveland January 20, at Colum-
bus January 80 and at Akron
January 81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

SEATTLE, Dec. 2..-Scott Cal
houn, Incorporation counsel, re-
fuses to run for mayor and HI Gill
recalled mayor, expresses a will
|ingness to tackle it again. Joe
Smith, progressive newspaper man
will run unless Gill has real oppo-
sition.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
WIFE ON STAND

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2S.-
Speaking in g. strained, babyish
tone Mrs. Otto c. Joslen today
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
Seattle Girl
Sues Doctor

told of meeting DR.. Joslen and
Ethel Williams one night il Au-
gust. 1910, as they emerged from
the st. Francis grill.
WAS this the first time any.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28
Outrageous Assault On
People By Interests
...-LaFollette On Tariff

when it maxim q the 1909 tariff competition
between the protected which Hamilton, Clay,
Blaine Mckinley had said would the people from
monopoly had been wiped out BY combinations We faced
a problem.
"And difference the progressives and
exactly The progressives vast
of economic they recognize that rad
changes needed i'm tariff revision But the stand
changed conditions and believe
important to keep profits for the COM
ned mar than keep down prices"
Q . . . q = . . . . .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

PORTLAND, Ore. =
When Mrs. Margaret Cool
fonnd a burglar in her
home. when she switched
on the light, she turned 1t
out again, picked up a .
chair and hammered 1t
against the library table. +.
She smashed chair and
table but the marauder
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2;.--.
Amateur anthrepologists among
the police have rival for Ishi,'
the aborigine, in the person of q.
human enigma now at the deten-
tion hospital. Though resembling.
in build and color a Filipino, he
speaks an unknown language and
writes an unknown hand.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

LOS ANGELES, Cal.---Selecting
the top of Lookout drive, as the
scene of his last act, Joseph M.
Vincent, a graduate of Columbia,
today committed suicide by blow
ing out his brains with s~tolver,
No reason is known.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

/ Ethel Williams, pretty Seat ,
tle girl who Is the complaining ,
/ witness against wealthy San ,
Francisco physician. ,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-28

} . esssseseess'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05

May, seed used being Coke's prolific
and put eighteen inches in drill and
rows IL feet apart. tie used four
tons Of stable manure, SEQ pounds OF
10 per cent acid, 60 pounds muriate
OF potash and 115 pounds of nitrate
Of soda. On the demonstration plat
Of one acre. tho corn was cultivated
shallow six times. The yield was Ct
bushels. AS already said, the yield
was not as great as it ordinarily would
have been with such fertilization. on
account of the dry weather. Yet II
ls a most creditable showing.
That the yield was cut short from
lack OF moisture is clearly seen from
the fact that the demonstration rec
ord acre wls part of 6 "a acre field,
the entire field being worked under
demonstration methods. and the yield
on the whole was 385 bushels, or an
average of So 1-27 bushels per acre.
This was most splendid average con
sidering the season during which it
was grown.
We hopo Mr.. Cayiness will next
year excel his good record of this
and that others will be found in like
endcaVor TO better each year what
they Gid the last
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05

buyer in his locality who will buy
the cotton and take title to it imme-
diately.
mo 2.-The owner will receive $40
per bale in cash on account and Will
also receive a negotiable certificate
setting forth the interest which the
owner has in whatever price may
thereafter be received for the cotton.
''No. 3.-Tne cotton owner may al
any time prior TO January 1st, 1913,
name q date when he wants to
finally fix the prices he is 10 receive
and on that date that he SO name,
settlement will be made with him on
the basis of the privilege quoted
price for that date.
"No. 4.-On this settlement, the
farmer will be allowed the price his
cotton is worth on the date named
and from this sum will be deducted
the s25 already advanced to him (no
interest will be charged) and also 81
as the cost of grading, storage, insur-
ance, etc, together with sum equal
to one quarter of rise in price which
will be the syndicate's compensation
for it's services.
In other words If the price does
not go up the syndicate gets nothing
except 81 for grading, storage, in
surance, etc, and if the price is ad-
yanced through this movement then
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
THE BEST CORN GROWER IN VIRGINIA!
He is a Fifteen Year Old Boy and Was Born = =
Halifax County, North Carolina

YOU can't keep a North Caroline
boy down. He just will come to the
top even if he is transplanted to Vir-
ginia or some other State. In last
weeks issue Of this paper was pub
lisheu the picture Of Mr.. p. D. Finch,
Of Davidson county who had made
che largest yield Of corn in that sec
tien Of the State as far as heard
frc1n. The yield was 1bS bushels and
40 pounds.
We also printed last week an article
showing that young Charles w. Par
Aer. Lr., q Sixteen-year-old boy Of
Menola, Iertford county, n. c., was
the champion corn-groWer Of North
Carolina. He raised 1875 9-10 bushels,
or q fraction more than SO barrels,
on one acre Of ground this year.
There is a young man nvIng at
Jarratt, Va, Mr.. j. a. Johnston, Jr..
son Of Mr.. J. A. Jonnston, of that
place, who has been growing some
corn and won the best prize offered
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
ANOTHER GOOD YIELD.
Corn Crop Grown by En-
thuSisatic Demonstration
Makes Creditable Show
ing in Spite Of Adverse
Season
EMoore County NeWS.)

I'M OOrG county NGWS.}
We have been given another corn
record--this week by a man who has
been an euthusia site follower of i'm
proved methods ever since demon
stration work was begun in this coun-
ty-B. D. Cayiness, of Cameron. Mr..
Caviness was one of the first to see
the need of a change from the old
methods and as soon as demonstra-
ton work was inaugurated he entered
heartily into the plan and has since
been one OF it's most enthusiastic
workers and IleartieSt supporters. The
result of his efforts this year is not
50 great rs it would have been had
he been favored with more rain, as
there was too much corn on the
ground for the amount of moisture
available. However, the yield is far
above the average even under the ad-
verse circumstances and he did much
better than would have been secured
under the old methods.
Mr.. Caviness' soil is black and gray
sand and clay about eight inches deep
The plat whose cultivation and yield
is herein taken is q bottom on the
farm Of Mr.. Caviness near White Hill
church The crop Of 1910 was wheat
followed by peas. 1t was broken Jan
uary the first thirteen inches deep
and sown to rye for a winter cover
crop. Rve was disced under 18th Of
May. 1911, which was a little too late.
The corn was planted the 18th OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
DETAILS OF PLAN FOR HOLDING UP
PRICE OF COTTON ARE MADE PUBLIC
Plan Til Goes to Desired Point and Then to Sell
Quarter OF Advance SecTedI1 Does NOT
Go They Get Nothing

the syndicate gets one-quarter Of tho
advance through this movement then
other three-Quarters.
"Of course it is not possible for my
principals to deal direct with every
individual farmer and it is therefore
proposed that in each State there
shall be a committee Of three Of the
leading citizens of the State who viii
ct ae tho trErtonS for all Of the farm
ers IN their State and will see that
t.e IafI.. i,.tei est5 ate pl oteCted.
For example it will be the duty of
these trustees TO see that the neces-
sary banking arrangements are made
SO that the unpaid part OF the pur-
chase price is fully secured.
at the present price the farmer
would receive S25 per bale in cash
and there would still be due SIS to
$40. This money must be deposit
cd in local banks or some arrange
ments satisfactory TO the trustees
must be made in each State so that
this 50 TO $40 is absolutely secured
to the farmer in order that his GER
tificate or receipt may have real
value and be something on which he
can borrow money
by Monday / will be ready, /
think, to suggest other plans which
will be satisfactory to US and may
better suit the planters"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05

TO the corn raiser in the State Of Vif-
girlia. Young Johnston is now fifteen
years old He was born in Weldon.
Halifax county, North Carolina, and
lived there until he was nine years
old 1t was therefore in North Caro-
lima that he cot his best training, for
some great man has said: LET me
keep q boy until he is eight years old
and I care not who has him after
wards for I have put my seal upon
him" North Carolina put the seal
upon this young chap and he has
been showing the Virginians how a
North Carolina boy can really grow
corn
Upon the brow Of j: A; Johnston;
Jr, has been placed the laurei
wreath Of 1911 as the best corn raiser
in the State of Virginia. He left the
men in the State so far behind tnat
he is being widely hcralded as the
champion corn raiser. and he mace
his record. too, in year WneLl
drought was exceedingly injurious to
the corn His record is 164 S-4
bushels of corn to one acre. The Ut
most care was taken in the meas
urement He wins the $3.50 prize OF
fere0 hv the Southside Fair at PETERS
burg, Va, for the best display OF an
acre Of corn. and he also gets the
Norfolk and Western Railway cup as
the best corn raiser in Virginia, ana
he will! join in free trip to WASH
ington next month together with one
boy from every other Southern State
who made the best record IN Taisihs
corn in his own State.
In addition to the prize ment1onec,
in this clipping he also won the BOYS
Corn Club prize at the same fair or