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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Lady Decies Gets
Honor Of First
Presentation

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON. May 6 Heart burn-
ing and gnashing OF teeth prevail
ed among social leaders today be-
cause to Lady Decies. formerly
Vfvien Gould of New York, Wilt
fall the high honor of being the
first American to be presented to
King George and Queen Mary.
The presentatio Ions will take place
at buckingham palace next Wed-
nesday, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife
of the American ambassador, In
Producing Lady Decies.
It is said that the former Miss
Gould has spent fortune exceed
ing In price her entire bridal
trousseau. upon the dress which
she will wear when she appears
before their ma1esties
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Mcnamara Trial
To Be June l

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, May 6-Charg-
ed with murder on indictments
relating to the death of 19 men
in the explosion which wrecked
the plant Of the Los Angeles
Times October 1 last, John ]. Nc
Namara and his brother, James
B., were arraigned before Super
ior Judge Bordwell late yesterday
afternoon.
The men were instructed as to
their rights and June 1 was set as
the date to plead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
ALLEGED COUNTERFEITER
ARRESTED AT PORTLAND

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
PORTLAND. May 6.-James M
Connors. waited in Tacoma and
Seattle for counterfeiting nifty
cent pieces. was arrested late last
night In Portland. He will be
taken to Tacoma tonight by fed
eral agents to face the charges
against him. His alleged conder-
ate, Hederly Fair, was arrested in
Tacoma Thursday and charged
with having passed spurious com
on milkman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

CHICAGO. May 6.-Presideni
John s. Nollen of Lake Forest
college went to ball game. He
heard the undergraduates Yell
XIII the umpirel" Get off the
diamond" when did you leave
the farm7" Later he lectured
them. saying IL baseball barbar.
ity is not abolished the game
should be. ~ heard the crowd
jeor the pitcher when he gave &
base on balls. It was most un.
gentlemanly."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
JOHN B. KING
FOUND DEAD

John B. King, wealthy local
real estate dealer, was found dead
in his room at the Tacoma hotel
this morning. Heart failure was
the cause of his death which was
not an entire surprise to his
friends as he had been troubled
with the disease for some time.
Mr.. King, who was SO years old,
leaves wife residing at North
Thirty-fifth and Ferdinand.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
HILL.-HARRIMAN
] RVS. COMBINE?
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased wire.)
SPOKANE. May e.-with How
ard Elliott, president of the North
ern Pacific railroad due to arrive
here today from Portland: Louis
Hill. president Of the Great North
ern from Helena; Carl Gray. pres
ident Of the North Bank from
Portland. and Julius Kruttschnitt,
vice president and director OF
maintenance OF the Hartman
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Orders Officers to Be Ready

president was taken upon the ad-
vice of the cabinet.
AT San Diego the armored cruis-
ers California, Maryland, South
Dakota, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, the gunboats Vioksburg
and Princeton and q fiotilIa of tor
pedo boats are in readiness. Near
Galveston are two scout cruisers,
three battleships and four armor-
ed cruisers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Plan Big Time
For Wilson

Plans are going ahead to give
the governor of Minnesota big
send-off here next Wednesday
when he will speak at the sta
dunn. Mayor Seymour was In
telephone communication with
Governor Hay this morning invit-
ing him to be present and the To-
cal Minnesota club is taking steps
to make the event big one.
There will be speaking In the
stadium in the afternoon and in
the evening a banquet will be
held.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
BY EsteIIe Lawton Lindsey.

~ hHhWboH luhuStJs
Los ANGELES, Cal, May g.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter OF
the secretary of agriculture, diff.
fers from Miss Flora McFlimsey in
having plenty to wear, as we'll as
to say, and resembles Tetrazzini in
being able to sing c and F above
high @, is built on the plans and
specifications of Juno, and has a
voice to match.
Added to all this, Miss Flora is
a suffragist, with Views, and ism
afraid to air them.
Queen Victoria proposed" she
says. Queen Wilhelmina did. If
queens. who are supposed to be
the pinks Of propriety, do such
things why should not WEI" Miss
Flora smiled out from under the
brim of her 500 hat.
Personally. the matter is not
worrying me. When women gain
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

lines. expected here Saturday
night, 1t is believed that an i'm
portant conference Of the railway
chiefs has been arranged. Krutt-
schnitt and Elliott Just concluded
a two-day conference at Tacoma.
While railroad officials VIII not
talk much, It has been rumored
that a combine OF the Hill and
Hartman interests IA tho North
west Is under consideration but
this cannot be confirmed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Duty Above Mother-I.oye

NEW YORK, May 6.--Given UP
to the authorities by his mother,
John Lubey, IL year sold, assist
ant bank !. teller, charged with
stealing 500, was brought back
from his hiding place shackled to
a. detective. ~.
ut was my duty to tell the bank
where my boy was hiding" said
the mother. ut nearly killed me
but I did my duty"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON. D. c., May c.
Believing that the situation in
Mexico has again reached the
acute stage, President Taft has
caused precautionary orders to be
sent to all flag officers within
steaming distance of the Mexican
ports to be ready for instant
movement. This action by the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
FINAL HEARING ON
CUNNINGHAM CLAIM

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., May g.
Final hearing of the evidence to
determine whether the Cunning
ham land claims shall be granted
is scheduled to start Monday in
the office of Fred bennett, COM
missioner of the general land Of
fee. Secretary of the Interior
Fisher will participate in the hear
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

Attorney John Coogan of Hart
ford, Conn, was robbed of dia-
mond ring. He testified against
the thief, then turned In and. won
his release by impassioned speech
to jury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Crushed to Death
Under Log Train

Preston Miller Randell of Bis
marck, a conductor on Northern
Pacific logging train, was crushed
to death by his own train near
Alder early this morning. No
one saw the accident but 1t is sup
posed that Randell slipped be-
meath the trucks. He was 26
years of age and leaves a wife and
his parents residing at Bismarck.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
WHAT COLORADO
LEGISL.ATURE DID

, The railroad commission
, Bill passed by the house;
, killed in the senate.
, Headless ballot-Ordered ,
, by the house committee too
D late to get on the special cal
D endar; hence dead.
, Public utilities bilI-Kill- ,
D ed.
D Employers liability bill
} House struck out the enact
D ment clause. [
D Public service commission ,
D bill-House killed by adverse ,
D report.
, Recall bill - Passed by ,
D house; pigeonholed In the
D senate.
Deoseseseseeeee,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
WARBURTON FOR
FREE LIST BILL

NDy OHiteu IresS Leased WIre.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., May g..
In advocating free sugar yester-
day on the floor Of the house Rep
resentative Warburton declared he
would vote for the free list bill OF
the democrats but wanted an
amendment to put sugar and rice
on the free list also. He said the
tariff should be taken on all food
stuffs which we have to import.
because we cannot raise enough at
home. He believed the land de-
voted to. best culture for sugar
could be more profitabIy employed
in other crops and the whole peo-
pie would save cents a pound on
sugar were it free.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
TAKE DOWN SIGNS

Instead of that Dig sign on the
headworks of the Green river
gravity system announcing that ii
is being built by Seattle contrac-
tors one is there now announcing
Headworks OF Tacoma's $2,-
100000 water works" II was put
up yesterday and the contractors
align painted out
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

That Intervention is not immin-
ent and will only come If events
so force 1t, is the belief of Con-
gresham William Sulzer, chair
man of the house committee on
foreign affairs.
Unless American citizens In
Mexico are outraged in such a
manner as to necessitate interyen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

tion In order to protect our peo-
pie there is no disposition on the
part of America to intervene" !"
Sulzer said. Members of the
various interests, the president
and the state department, are
working together, resolved to
keep hands off as long AZ possi-
ble."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
SAYS
HE'LL NOT
RESIGN
(BULLETIN.)

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
ELL PASO, May 6.-COntradict
ing earlier reports, a rumor be
came current here early this af
ternoon that the Mexican armis
tfce had been called off at /
O'Clock and that an attack upou
Juarez before nightfall was posi-.
BILE.
MEXICO CITY, May 6.-That
Porfirio Diaz will not resign at the
request of the insurrectos, but will
fight to the last ditch, was indicat-
ed by a statement given out to.
day by Manuel Bonilla, president
of Honduras. following a visit tc
the Mexican executive.
"Diaz is fighter through and
through" Bonilla said, "and will
not resign. He told me that he
did not like the idea of being vir-
tually forced from office by the
insurgents and favored fighting
for what he believed was right
and what was for the best inter-
ests of the Mexican people,"
Fearing that Diaz will not re-
sign and that the capital will be
the scene of terrible conflict,
foreigners are leaving the city by
hundreds today. No less than
5000 armed rebels. it is reported,
are In Mexico City awaiting orders
to start firing. Business is prac-
ticaIly at a standstill while the
residents are hoping against hope
that the peace conference today
will agree upon some plan that
will bring the war to an end.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
AGAIN PREPARED FOR INTERVENTION
MEXICAN SITUATION
ALARMS TAFT
Will Not Make Hurried Step But Officers are Mott
fled to be Prepared
(By United Pre- IS Leased Wirc. ,


WASHINGTON ID. O., May a Of reports
from Ambassador Wilson, details
Mexico have been arranged
such step except last resort In addition
and the cabinet the military
close touch with tuati
Intervention be in
of double INVASION
side and the marines from on the other
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Made En- Dance In Nigbties.

MADISON, Wis, May "a
bold man, armed with revolver
and shielded by a mask has been
breaking into the girls dormi-
tories at Wisconsin university and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

Five hundred, Yale alumni will
meet in Chicago May 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
She won't Practice kissing,

NEW YORK, May 6.-Helen
Scholder, 16, refused to be kissed
at rehearsals. Producer Ham
merstein fred her. She's suing
for breach of contract on her
$100-a-week job. Willing to os-
culate at performances, II neces-
sary, but denies need of practice.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Laughed at Comedyi Pinched

Laughed at Comedy; Pinched
CHICAGO, May 6. - Gabey
Stinson of Algona; Iowa, laughed
while others sobbed during a per-
formance at the Olympic theater
and was arrested. When the desk
sergeant asked the manager what
Stinson had done he began, indig-
nantly: He laughed" and re-
membered that his play was ad-
vertised as a comedy. He hast
lily asked that Stinson be re-
leased.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Blonds Too FickIe, He Says.

WAUKEGAN. Wis, May e.
"Blonds are all right" says Sotor
Togog, green grocer, 27, and a
blond, "but they do not last long.
A blond wife Will soon leave her
husband. (Which isn't. her fault;
it's her nature" sotor Is adver-
tising fora brunei better half.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair tonight and Sunday. Light
westerly Winds
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

John Clavorie killed two rob-
bins at Ell Verano, CAL, and was
fined s35. W
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
Picked Up From the Days News
(By United Press Leased Wire. J

(scaring the co-eds into connip-
tfon fits. In the soroity house he
forced two girls to get out OF bed
and dance in their night clothes
for his amusement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06
ate Bulletins
(By United Press Leased .wire.)
DENVER. MAY a..

DENVER May 0.With only a few hours until rnidncht when
the otoado legislature adjourn
the election OF United States senator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

The ring given by Queen Eliza.
beth to the earl of Essex, the
|non-return OF which cost the earl
his head, is to be sold at auction.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-06

La FolIette's presidential boom VIII be financed
by popular subscription. II want him, you
should "pat mp. There else o II, ex-
cspt lot of fellows like you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03
Editorial Comment
Portland and BANGOR,
tPortland Press

tPortland Press
All accounts agree thai Lewiston
has been shut up tight. or IS the 10
cal papers put it, made AS dry As
Waterville, not 20 mention the trite
covered bridge smile, Memorial
daE' says the Journal, found Lewis
ton quiet. dry city" Ard the Sun
adds that for the past three DAYS tho
curtains of the cumshops have been
pulled and the doors locked. Sheriff
Lowe has appointed two additional
civil deputies. but the officers in their
rounds have found little Illegal trade
gong on and have been able to make
lew seizures There is doubt how
Iohg the close season will last, wheth
ef fer few days or until after cleo
con, but there is nc doubt that con-
didons became so bad thai something
mad to be dore ous of shame. \ num-
Der Of new rumshops had been fitted
up. ii is stated, and the old places
were making improvements and en-
larsing the stock preparatory for the
Fourth of July business. when they
expected to reap a harvest. Indeed
1t got SO that the rumsellers them
selves were growing, not at the
amount of drinking and drunkenness.
70 be sure. but at the competition.
There was no money i'm the business
they said, hecause so many we're go
ing into 1t and there was too much
competition.
But whatever tho real motive in
shutting the lid at Lewiston aud Va
lefNlile, the recent experience has
demonstrated one or two things. For
one. It has given the citizens an oh
lect lesson in what seally wide
open town is like and what an open.
Iegalizef saloon would mean. The
carnival of drunkenness may thus
nave been. in sense blessing in
disguise. The sudden AMI complete
shutting up Of the traffic after it had
been tolerated for weeks. shows also
that the law can be enforced whet,
the officers whose duty it is have the
Will All but Portland and Bangor.
These seem To- be in a class by them
selves, bangor from inveterate habit
OF notification ard Portland from
ne" use. He would have been re-
garded rash prophet il anv had pre-
eieted six months age that Portland
would get into a class with Bangor
With regard to lawlessness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03
Dealing with the Unreasonable"

The New York Evening Post gives
striking instance of the ability of
communities to some time compel
unreasonable" m0nopolies to provide
service and refrain from bulldozing
tactics. 1t says:
"A man in Hawerth. n. J., has a
the company refuses to give him an
instrument. Another man is within
100 feet of a wire and his wife nearly
died in the early hours of the morn
ing recently because of his inability
to call a doctor. Other Haworth cit
liens are similarly situated All this
is because the Town Council has re-
fused to give the New York and New
Jersey Telephone Company fran
ehise on the company,s terms. From
the time that the council first denied
the too generous grant, the eompanJ
has refused to put in any new in
struments or renew those temporari-
ly discontinued 1t said that. having
no franchise, it could not afford to
invest any more capital Meantime,
Gov. wilson's public utilities law was
passed and the Hawerth people be-
gan to see light ahead. The council
has passed resolution granting tho
company temporary rights, and will
mission tomorrow at Newark to de-
mand immediate relief
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03
"Safe and Sane Fourth" Plans.

The New York organizers of safe
and sane Fourth have set themselves
to carry out an ambitious scheme to
merge into one grand Independence
Day parade representatives of every
foreign nation that has fed the new
nation whose birth is to be celebrated
Out of thousands of emigrants from
each of the Old Worlds people, one
family will be picked and costumed
in native dress for this unique pa
geant. Bearing scores of foreign flags,
these groups are to be assembled be-
meath the folds of Old Glory, while all
cosmopolitan Gotham will stand about
to see and cheer If the coming ma
tionai holiday fulfills half the expecta-
tions of the reform promoters in vari-
Gus parts of the country. it should
reconcile the people to the modified
mode of celebrating it. and save hun
dreds of precious lives and limbs. II
should reduce the casualty list of the
day we celebrate. this year. to some
thing less than the number of victims
which usually come out of the modern
war
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03

A Water Famine Scare.

New York city Is becoming distinct
~ alarmed over the prospects of n
water famine. We have had occasion
to call attention to the conditions there
several times in recent months, and
every report shows that the situation
is becoming worse instead of better.
Reservoirs are becoming dangerously
low. and desperate means are already
being adopted to provide against leak
age and waste of the rapidly decreasing
supply Millions of dollars will he Law
ished in the next few weeks in an
effort to locate and lock up leaks in
the mains from which it is estimated
that millions of gallons of water are
now escaping daily. Martial rule has
even been suggested in order to make
necessary measures effective because
of carelessness of New Workers. who
are leaving taps open and faucets
dripping. If the great city keeps it's
water supply intact until the fall rains,
1T is already admitted that wonders
must be worked. A drouth in the
country where crops dry up and stock
must be diven miles to streams and
rivers. is small in comparison to the
residential state which must exist in
d great city of millions of souls with
out source of water.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03
The Crown Goes to tho New York
Fisherman,

Names champion liz fish story
teller meekly retires to his hole and
pulls the hole in after him, allowing
the crown to go TO New York. whence
comes a fish story that beats them
all.
II is told by the custodian of City
Hall. who startles the world by talk
ing of aerial fishing. which does not
near angling from an aeropIane or
catching flying fish in the air cur
rents of the skyscrapers. He beats
the feat Of Simple Simon of Mother
Goose fame. who tried to catch a
whale in his mothers pail, by report
ing a good catch, on dry land, and a
hundred feet above the street level.
Up to this time. Maine fish story
tellers have believed they We're sup
porting the truth when they described
Maine lakes as better fishing terri
tory than the roof of business build
ings in greater New York But ac
eordibg TO the story Of this Ney
Yorker. Il is possible 10 make goo
haul of trout or bass from the roo
of Gotham's grea1 cities. This is tn
way he accounts for it:
Something recently went wren
with the supply pipe of large tan
on the roof of Cit Hall building. In
yestigation showed that a lake trou
had tried 10 find its way through tn
pipe, and. dying in the attempt, ha
stopped it, Further search reveale
the fact that the tank was swarmin
with hungry fish. With hook an
line the custodian captured one trol
end eight bass Ia 8 short time. all {
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03
To the eiddeford Record.

The infantile intellect of the edi-
champion of the Rum Trust en-
beavers to be real sarcastic and ask
sassy" questions in tone supposing
itself to be unanswerable. And this
organ of Democracy thus opens the
way. unintentionaliy no doubt. for
the very points we wished to shoot at
ii.
THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL HAS
ALWAYS SUPPORTED THE PRO
HIBITIoN PARTY!
my, how you gasp! Go ahead and
crank up the place you call your
thinker and listen.)
The Republican party of Maine has
ever been a prohibition party. If you
do not think so. why. just give guess
as to how the prohibition law came to
be in the Constitution.
And here is another one, demanded
by you. with which to swell out the
walls of your comprehension. How
ever much the congressman owner of
this paper. together with the senator's
and other representatives of Maine
who oppose the drink evil, may have
wished to withdraw Uncle Sam from
the rum business, they were helpless
with Maine the only prohibition State
IN he m he n m IA
ter of pride to your loneliness. as it is
to the rest of Maine, that this State
was the pioneer in the moral work of
driving out Old Split Hoofs right
hand man. Statistics prove a reduc-
tion in the number of criminals. more
and better schools. more efficient stu
dents, less mortgaged homes. less
crime of all sorts. more money the
savings banks. more happy and con-
tented families. more children wearing
good shoes-all these in spite of the
persistent and unending opposition of
the shallow Drained and unprineipled
in open defiance and violation of the
law.
Perhaps you will say, at some time
in the future, that the owner of this
against the liquor interests in the year
1911 To be sure the gentleman to
whom you refer is away a large part
of the time and has no time to devote
to the editorial department of his
paper. but we feel sure you will begin
to mistrust before Sept II. that he
approves of the Kennebec Journals
opposition to the Dem-o or -rumocracy.
You say: But one political party
has protested against the licensing of
the sale of liquors by the federal gov
eminent. the prohibition party" You
are wrong, even in that. In addition
to the prohibition party (Which is the
Republican partly have been the
forces of the Prohibitionists, fighting
braveiy and we'll year in and year
out. They have helped to maintain
the law and its retention and better
enforcement will be largely due to
them
II you get your ears open in time
you may hear grand chorus before
September IL. of Republican party.
churches, grange. and all the temper
anee parties and societies singing:
Down with the liquor evil and up
with moral standards"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-03

which are supposed TO Fave come
through the pipes from Central Park
Reservoir, five miles distant. An in
vestigation Was promptly started
and it Is discovered to the great joy
Of other real estate holders that their
tanks contain plentiful supply Of
fish, and daily catches are being re-
ported.
Maine people may be able to mag
inc summer colonies established on
the rims of the water tanks Of Goth
am