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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
Seattle, Washington, Sept. "a, 1910.

Seattle, Washington. Sept. "a, 1910
AS know that will Oregon
Friday night but which
go as .eergram
telling ss hs @
this hope win following
dell started clean
a-warden first notified Bergman
through inens that the Sheriff Would raid the
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the Mayor rceded after Hodge
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(sgned) A.. J. BLETHEN.
Portland Ore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
PETE DABROE
GETS THE AK

The ak fell for the first time
in the light and water department
yesterday and it hit Pete Dabroe,
foreman of mains.
Pete was an ardent Lawson
follower and he made such a
noise in the campaign that Weeks
took quick action on him and he
is now out Dabroe knows more
about the city water mains than
all the rest of the people in town
put together for he has been on
tn job most of the time for over
20 years.
James Agnew, engineer at the
Tacoma theater building. gets the
job.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

MRS. WILLIAM e. CARTER.
She amazed guests of the FASH
ionable Bellevue-Stratford hotel
in Philadelphia the other day by
nonchalantly promenadingS the
corridors clad in green tights. She
is Virginia beauty, a descend
ant of President Polk. wife OF a
very wealthy Philadelphian, and
has been presented at European
courts.
When he alighted with a
friend from her motor car and
entred the big, brilliantly Light
ed lobby nothing unusual was
noted. She wore a chic Persian
hat and a long opera cloak. But
as she strolled about the cloak
became a trifle oppressive and she
flung it open and back upon her
shoulders and continued strolling.
Her sang froid was decidedly
piquant, considering that in
throwing open her opera cloak
the full length of the green silk
tights was displayed. The tights
were of glossy silk and a vivid,
IL tempered green.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

SEATTLE. May 24.-A. ].
Blethen, editor of the Seattle
Times, who was indicted by the
grand jury yesterday, today made
the following statement to the
United Press:
"The cause of this entire up
heaval. resulting in the calling of
a grand jury and the finding of
indictments against me and the
managing editor, the city editor
and the Times Publishing COM
pany, lay in the election of Hiram
Gill as mayor in March, 1910, as
he ran upon a platform demand
ing the re-establishment of the
restricted district-and the plac-
ing of the same in the Second
ward.
"As the Times was the only
newspaper that supported Gill for
the mayoralty when his admins
tration was attacked 1t fell to the
Times to defend him and incident
ally his chief of police.
when Gill was inveighled from
the city on twelve days voyage,
after he had given the chief leave
of absence for a like period, and
Wardall had started the upheaval
of an investigation, Immediately
charging the chief of police with
graft; threatened his removal and
the same was wired to him by Mr..
Boyce, the mayors private secre-
tary, 1t naturally followed that
Wappenstein should wire to me
for the facts and ask whether he
should return to Seattle at once
or not.
Hence my letter to Wappen-
stein, which was reproduced in
the Post-Intelligencer this morn
ing.
Wanted to Beat WardalI.
81 was determined that War
dali should not get the chief of
police within his jurisdiction be-
cause by keeping him out, War
dali could not remove him, since
he could only remove the man
he found in charge, and that was
Inspector Powers, who had been
named as temporary chief when
Wappenstein was allowed to GO
south by the mayor.
incidentally, one might inquire
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
IMPROVEMENT CLUBS ARE
AFTER SEVERAL REFORMS.

The Central Improvement Club
league met at the city hall last
night with fourteen clubs repre-
sented.
The league took up the location
of the new South End High
school, and named H. G.. Williams,
G. J. Langford and DR.. s. M. Le-
Crone committee to investigate
the matter.
The league is also working on
an ordinance for a city sealer of
weights and measures. The mat
ter will be presented to the city
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
nth STEET BRIDGE
WILL BE REDECKED

Commissioner Woods was auth
orized to redeck the. 11th street
bridge this morning He said the
floor is in bad shape and should
be replaced at once. 1t will cost
about $1,000 for lumber for the
job.
Commissioner Woods says the
old bridge is in bad shape all over
and the city will be lucky If 1t
does not collapse before 1t can get
a new one built.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

The power of congress to regu-
late the supreme court has been
80 long neglected that 1t has
been almost forgotten Few peo-
pie realize that the constitution
reposes such power in the repre-
sentatives of the people. Such,
however, is the fact.
1t Is not contended by pro-
gressives in congress that the
second of the two proposed meas
ures would prevent decisions like
the Standard Oil decision, in
which the supreme court usurps
the legislative power and reads
words into the statute. Such
an act, however, would place a
wholesome check upon the sr-
preme court and would head off
any attempt by the supreme
court to nullify the Sherman anti
trust law when the law had been
again vitalized by a congressional
declaration eliminating the word
reasonable"
Another proposition which is
under consideration by progress
sive senators and representatives
Is the drafting of an entirely new
and ion clad law for the regula-
ton of trusts similar to the Brit
ish Companies Acts"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
1000 LIVES NEEDLESSLY
SACRIFICED EVERY YEAR

stirred that body to renewed eff
forts.
More than 10000 lives and $2,-
OOO,00O,000 in property" said
Merrill, have been lost by fire in
America within the last 20 years.
Four-fifths of the loss was need
less and might easily have been
avoided"
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(By United Press Leased Wire
LAKE MOHONK. N. Y. May "a.
the United States senate
in all probability will ratify the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty
was declared here today by Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler OF
Columbia university, when, as pre-
siding officer, he opened the ses-
sions of the Lake Mohonk confer
ence for the promotion of interna-
tional arbitration.
President Butler also announced
the plans of the Carnegie Peace
Commission. He said the trustees
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
MOORHEAO ASKS
FOR NEW TRIAL

Motion for new trial was filed
by Attorney Lefebvre for Roy
Moorhead in the superior court
this afternoon. The defense al
leges that Moorhead did not have
a fair trial and the motion sites
fifteen irregularities in the court
proceedings during the trial.
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on, SARAH, HOW
| SWEET OF YOU!

SIOUX CITY, Ia May 24.---A
certain spot in the back OF Rene
Simon, the fool flyers" hand is
destined to remain always dry, In
accordance with q vow taken by
the aviator today to leave forever
there the kiss imprinted there by
Madame Sarah Bernhardt.
The Divine Sarah watched ST.
mon during flight yesterday in
which he circied over three states
at f6ight of /. 800 feet.
When he aliEnfed shc rushed
over Ettf his hangar and seizing his
hand pressed It 10 her lips.
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(By United Press Leased Wire. }
NEW YORK, May 23.-More
lhan one thousand lives are need
lessly sacrificed each year in the
United States by fire, is the state
ment of Prof w. H. Merrill be-
fore the National Fire Protection
association here, which has today
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as ]. w. King, who, with the other
three men. is believed to have
come here from Oregon.
Pearl fishers lately have been
making rich finds in the Ken
tucky river, and it is believed the
four dead men were robbed and
then lynched by the men who plum.
dered them.
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Lame Duck Club
How React:onaries Who Were
Retired b. the People Have
Been Given Soft Places.

One of the sins with which
President Taft is charged by the
progressives of his party is the
use OF federal patronage to re-
ward reactionary public servants
who have been repudiated by the
people. The latter are generally
called "lame ducks"
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FIND FOUR BODIES
HANGING TO TREE

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CAMPTON, KY, May 24.-Mys-
terry as to the identity of the slay-
ers Of four men whose bodies were
found swinging from tree In re-
mote part of this county today is
still unsolved. Only one of the
bodies has been identified. It is
that of a pearl fisher known here
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Picked Up From the Days News
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(By United Press Leased wire.)

bale of hay fell on him striking
him In the back of the head and
driving his face into box OF
dynamite, breaking the box and
knocking him senseless. The
dynamite did not explode and
Chubb is being congratulated.
VALDEZ, May 24.-Prospect-
ors returned from Valdez glacier
have brought effects and bones
OF the body of F. B. Fisk, OF Bos-
ton, who was lost in the winter
of 1909. He starved to death in
a cabin leaving notations on the
margin Of an almanac telling his
fate.
NEW YORK, May 24.-The
birth rate In this city for the first
three months of the year was
2S.11 per 1000. the largest on
record.
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OLYMPIA, May 24.-The
state tax commission reports
that Pierce county collected
In taxes in 1910 $4,000, $780,
68. The railways paid b Ia
Of the total. the street rail-
ways "a percent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24
Hunts for His Arm.

SACRAMENTO, May a.
James Hurley has been searching
Sacramento for the past week In
quest of his artificial arm which
he left In a lodging house after
sleeping of a "jubilee." Hurley
left the lodging house In the
morning, forgetting to screw on
his arm.
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Suicide browns
In Bathtub
(By United Press Lensed wire.)
BAKERSFIELD, CAL, May "a

BAKERSFIELD, CAL, May "a.
Berger, 35, wealthy
Swiss. is dead here today, a sui
eide by drowning. He had been
sick with erysipelas. After Sc
curing admission to hospital
Burger severed an artery with a
piece of glass from an electric
light bulb. Bleeding profusely he
got into the bathtub and turned
ON the water.
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Still. AT 1T

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., May "a.
When the senate convened at
noon today Senator LaFollette re-
sumed his speech demanding an
inyes igation OF the Lorimer cleo
tion. ts.str
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commission later.
William Crehan spoke on the
Weed Day movement. and suggest
ed that there is an ordinance now
compelling all prenerty owners to
cut weeds. Ths levance COM
mittee OF the eli will probably
demand that the{ enforce 1t and
bring to book owners of va
cant lots.
w. Nelson, Z 3. KennelI and
Q. p. Green we appointed to
ask the mayor name a aax COM
mission to look into local taxa
|tion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

HUsUM, wash, May 24.-Roy
Chubb was loading a lot OF baled
hay and dynamite when a big
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

BANK CLEARINGS
.........$5 .$594,895.41
Balances -.......-. 5,793.74
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WUATHER NORDfJAar.

Showers to. 'ght; fair Thursday;
light westerly winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

farewell, and then burst into
tears.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-24

BOSTON, May 24.-Urged by
the prisoners aged mother, Gov.
Foss today took under consider
alton the removal OF some of the
restrictions that have made Jesse
Pomeroy, the famous Charleston
"lifer" a modern counterpart OF
the IMAM in the iron mask" Pom
eroy is kept in solitary confine-
ment and never sees or is seen
by any of the other convicts.
SAN BERNARDINO, May "a
my uncle, r. z. Mcdonald, al
ready owes me $4,000. cannot
advance any funds for his fun
eral."
This was the answer sent by
A. r. Urquart. a nephew, In re-
sponse to telegram announcing
McDonald's death In the desert,
where he had spent years in
prospecting.
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former senator from Missouri.
Warner voted whenever his vote
was needed with Nelson w. Al
drich. Repudiated by Missouri. he
has been appointed by the presI-
dent as the civilian member of
the board Of ordnance and forti-
iIcatioas at 5000 per annum.
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COMMUNICATIONS OF |
bLETHEN To WAPPY

Telegram and Letter Sent to Former Chief Show
That Blethen Was Very Friendly to Ousted Of
ficial.
SEATTLE May 2A-Among other kilograms
passed between @. two
following
POSTAL
scoop II Ad Chg.
, ~ ,. Seattle, Sept g.
Hotel Manx
Telegram of
register Fone me long distance A. j. BLETHEN
Chg. Times.
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TANGIER, May 24.-Au of he Europeans in Fez ar
oday their attack rebellious
Who have been besieging the capt. al.
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ID Go to Hotel Oregon and keep out of sight Don't
me long distance. A. j. BLETHEN.
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Oakland, California. has emerged from a ner
struggle between the forces of consery atism and
radicalism. Score, Socialists, e.bs2, combined o
position, I1,soe which is another "crushing defea
for the sfsms.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-06
The Story of Last Island

and the heat became so intense that the
island seemed to be burning. Puffs Of wind
blew across the sea, and tossed the water
gently, turning it to an opalescent green.
But there was no refreshing breeze and
listlessness and lassitude came upon the Wis
ominous silence in the air, and at night the
angry sun went down in sky as red as
blood, and threw blaze over the ocean as
though a world was in flames.
All that night the superstitious fishermen
declared that they heard out at sea strange
sounds and hollow means, as if some crea-
ture not of earth was in awful agony.
Next day the atmospheric conditions re-
mained the same. Toward night there came
up terrible thunderstorm: Accustomed as
watched and listened in awe and wonder
The lightning flashed from zenith to horizon
in broad purple, green and hamecolored
blaze. Each crash of thunder sounded like
the crack of doom, and was followed by a
sulphurous odor.
On the morning of the 10Th, the thunder
and lightning ceased, but the rain continued,
and the wind blew fercely from the south
west.
That evening the grand and last ball of the
season was to be held. The band of the
New Orleans French Opera House was there.
1t was made up almost entirely of strings,
and its music was of the most delicate and
dreamy character.
set upon brick pillars six feet above the sur
face of the earth. The ball room was con-
structed in the same fashion. 1t was distant
from the main hotel twenty yards, and was
reached by covered way elevated to the
level Of both buildings. Broad piazzas sur
rounded the ball room on three sides, upon
which doors opened The room itself was
one hundred feet long and eighty feet wide.
On the day of the 18th the sun shone but
it was of dull orange color and was sur.
rounded by a misty haze. At night the
clouds were of inky blackness> There was
vivid lightning, but no thunder. AS the
waves came rolling on the shore, great bril-
liant lights burst from them; far out in the
ocean phosphorescent fires twisted and writh.
ed in serpentine forms, and at intervals there
came an unearthiy moan, as if from the
depths OF the sea.
Everybody realized that Nature was in one
Of her hercest moods, but they did not look
for any real danger. This was but the begin.
ming Of the eIEnoctiI storm, and so, as on
that fatefll night in Brussels before the bat
lie Of Waterloo. they said:
The Washington herald., 1911-08-06

"On with the dance, let joy be unconined
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure
meet,
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet"
At 10 o'clock the dance was at its height.
The storm was raging with fury; broad
flashes Of lightning and the phosphorescent
blaze of the sea lit up the intense darkness;
the wind howled and moaned and the warm
rain poured down in torrents
While the band was playing dreamy
waltz girl screamed. Her dress had been
wet by water coming up through the floor.
Terror struck every heart. There was q
wild rush for the hotel, but the covered way
was gone-carred away by a wave from the
raging deep!
Mothers had left their little children asleep
in the hotel, but how could they reach them?
A tossing, boiling flood of breakers rolled
between: 80 there was praying and weep
ing in that room and the music was husbed
and the lights looked upon scene of sad
farewells. At midnight the moan of the sea
changed into an awful roar There came a
tidal wave, ten miles wide and sixty feet
high. 1t swept with resistess force over bo.
tel and ball room, and all were swallowed I'm
by the merciless sea.
There was mourning in many households
for 400 adults, besides children, were lost a
powerful negress caught on to a door that
was floating by and was carried safely to the
mainland. A girl baby, of eighteen months
who had been placed upon table. WAS
found on the shore alive, forty-eight hours
after the storm.
These were the only survivors. OF the
lovely isle nothing was left but few broLon
brick pillars to mark the spot where uno,,
women and little ones had gone down in nnm, tbs,
night and the darkness. ia Vie
The Washington herald., 1911-08-06
&2H6 Greatest N61dGTZ><%


1T is" he said, "as you know, the Gus
tom of our race to hand the governing power
to the one who by his courage and skill
brings back the most speaking tribute OF
his prowess. | am prepared to choose from
among you a leader to succeed myself. Are
you ready for the test?"
As they assented, the chief called one OF
the young men by name, who stepped forth
and faced him.
people, and at the big mountain that rises
again sc on 'es certain R"i day Ny Eh"s choice led me
to the east over the mountain, crossing vast
like rivers to the lowland. I made my way
to summer land by a distant sea, where
the snow was famed by soft winds. l found
there a .peaceable people and saw many
the shore of vast inland sea found a tribe
OF men from whom l obtained my offering.
When the sun goes down with US, the night
sets IN and darkness covers the earth. Not
30 with them, for found that they had the
and make their nights like day. The frst
night l tarried with them I prepared to
sleep, as is our custom, but was amazed to
see the room as bright as day, the Light COM
%eh about Ss the
power This | assumed to be q marvel we'll
worthy my attention, and this light is my
offering. 1t issues from the gourd in that
distant country like a fountain of water"
Saying which, the youthful adventurer
produced vessel of stone, poured from it
a thick substance like the sap Of tree, and
with two flint arrow-heads and some dry
wood ignited it.
10 the amazement of the lookers-on, the
cave was illumined with a bright light, and
there was murmur of wonderment as the
youth retired and another competitor took
his place.
Drawing aside the covering of the vessel
he carried, he showed to the chief an egg as
large as a mans head
Of a, bird so large that it could slay a nam.
moth-a gigantic hawk-and I am the only
man who ever attacked the bird and escaped.
The egg is source of fortune to all who
own owl 1T; so said the dark island people from
Placing the egg by the side of the light, the
speaker gave place to another.
too, have had strange adventures"
said. the third young man. II have crossed
a wide ocean, the burning sands of a desert,
lived with strange, people and saw many
marvellous things, but this'-and he drew
from 4 package q lizard-"was stranger than
all. The animal has the power to change
its color from the bright green of the forest
trees to the deep blue Of the sky, or from
The Washington herald., 1911-08-06

and terrible, so appalling in the havoc and
the grief which it brought about, that 1t
will never be forgotten in the South, and,
when summer storm breaks upon the land
of jasmine and of roses, the memory Of an
awful night in the past is recalled, and men
and women tremble until the fierce winds
die out and the sun smiles once more upon
a peaceful world.
Last Island was long, low strip OF land
resting upon the bosom of the sea, fifteen
miles from the louisiana mainland. A line
OF dazzngly white sand surrounded it, the
soil was rich, and the air was heavy with
the breath of flowers. Japonicas, jasmine and
hundreds Of plants unk known to the North,
made the island a perfect Eden.
Orange and lemon trees, olives and olean-
ders, swung their blossoms in the semi-tropic
air. There were perfume and fragrance ev-
erywhere. The verdure was of the deepest
emerald and everything that was rich and
lovely in vegetation seemed to have found
a place on an isle fit to be the home of
Prospero and of Ariel.
The life which was led on this wonderful
island was dreamy and happy one. When
summer days became long and fierce heat
fell upon city and country, men and women
gathered on Last Island from Louisiana, Mis-:
in the warm and delicious surf, or lounged in
cottages empowered with roses, or, with the
silver moon envelopng all things in list radi-
ance, moved through the ball room of the
great hotel to the sweetest and most languor-
Gus music
The season of 1856 was one Of the most
delightful that had ever been known on the
island Summer visitors had never been
gathered there in greater numbers, and the
laughter of happy children was heard on
every side.
The morning of September 10, 1856, was
one of marvellous loveliness. The sea was
now like glass in its clearness, now blue like
the sapphire, now as green as an emerald.
Fishing boats SKINNED the ocean, looking
like great white birds, while the summer
mist half veied tall oaks and graceful olcan.
ders and touched them with an almos. ethe-
realized beauty.
As the sun rose higher, the half-tranpparcnt.
Aalf-nebulous vapor was lifted from the sea.