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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-18

Hon. Geo. w. Clarke seems to be
far in the lead in the gubernatorial
contest and the indications are at
this time that he will be nominal
ed at the primaries and elected at
the election. Mr.. Clarke has been
in public life many years and has an
excellent record.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-18


and authority given cities to do the
work themselves. The council could
employ a competent overseer, hire
men by the day, purchase all mater
la, and thus be assured OF an hon
est job. Specifications would be car
RED out to the letter If no oppor-
tunity for graft were offered. Every
body knows that under present
methods contractors can and DO
swindle the public by cheating. II
the contract calls for base five
inches thick the contractor who is
so disposed can make it only four
and a half inches in places, thus
saving more than IL per cent in
material, and If it is stipulated that
the mixture, Tin the case Of con-
ciete) is to be five to one-five parts
sand and one part cement-the con.
tractor can mix it six to one or sew
ell to one, and the council and the
public would never know it, except
perhaps in the durability of the paw
ing, then t would be too late to
remedy the defect. Cities now have
the authority to employ an overseer-
s- to see that the work is executed
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-18

that conductors and brakemen On
passenger trains must swelter with
their coats on. Legislation cannot
force sense into the craniums of the
'thigh officials" but time may do it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
GLOVE NEWS OF TIME
Ky INTEREST.

Anticipating the demand for gloves
incident = the Easter season, we have
assembled an especially attractive line
Of fine imported kid and silk gloves in
all colors and lengths. You will find
no difficulty in getting gloves to match
your new spring costumes at our glove
counter. Two good tnree4button gloves
for street and general wear and the
longer gloves for formal wear. Fine
Italian silk Gloves in black, white,
and ,colors, soc the pair.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
$l.25 ANTIsEPTIC DIAPER CLOTH, 79c.

Tins is one Of the very best cloths on the mar
ket. 10 yards in a bolt, q inches wide. Saturday
night only rec bolt
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
FINE WASHABLE
COTTON voTLEs, 25c Yd.

We have Just received another ship
ment of beautiful sheer cotton voiles.
All Of the popular spring shades arc
sHeluded-Light Blue, Pink. copenha-
gen, Hello. Light Gray. These fabrics
are woven of a very fine mercerized
thread and have the appearance of
the better grades of worsted volles.
AS an inexpensive material for an
evening gown nothing could be more
desirable.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
SPECIAL
ALL DAY
SATURDAY
SOC AND Csc SWISS CORSET COVER
EMBROIDERY, 2ec.

An important item in our comprehensive snoring Of fine
E"'6T0lderies for Saturdays special selling is the line
dainty Swiss Corset Coper Embroidery Full 10 inches
lde made of sheer Swss These goods pere imported only
recently and you will have an opportunity to select from
pariey Of the pery newest designs close inspection VII
convince you Of the quality fabric and workmanship For
Saturday only, 29c the yard (See wiadop display
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
MANY ATTRACTIVE
JEWELRY NOVELTIES


The popular Neeawear of the sea-
son requires the wearing OF pins and
many really pretty novelties are be-
ing shown. Among our line of French
Jeweiry you will md variety of col
lar and 3aibot pins in plain and mount
ed styles; the assortments Of 5eweIry
novelties at $50 and soc includes
waist sets. vail pins. cuff suttons, belt
buckles and pins, stoclS pins, cloisoone
novelties ana pearl. An especially
pretty line of bead necklaces and
chains in white, blue and Helen pink
at from csc to Osc.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
30, $500, $3.50 to $4,000.

eautiful dresses we have ever shown, as
Btyle, workmanship and quality. Those
70 see these dainty and exquisite dresses
Efreet, and dressy foulards, messalines,
Ih hand embroidery, beading, fine laces
west popular styles; all are stunningly
sgest city stores. Specially priced for
lido not, can not, describe the wonderful
Rsteful, appropriate attire, yet marked
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-31
l0c sixty PER CENT LINEN erase, SIC YD

AFgIle Crash, very absorbent, unbleached
Crash, splendid for every day service, roller and
tea towels. A regular 1Oc Crash. Saturday night
only 57ac yard.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Telephone Voices: They Make
Thrilling Novel, Says Phone Girl

When Is my divorce suit go
ing to be heard?'
I'd like to have you prepare
the best dinner you know how for
a party of SIX
You can quote the coroner as
saying that she starved to death.
GIVE lost everything
"'Yes, l made a ten-strike on
that stock
He went by way of the booze
route
Send the patrol wagon; we
got an old soak down here
"'I want to lay, 500 on Gov
Gray to win.'
"'Will you announce in your
paper that my subject for Sun
days sermon will be THE Colder
Viper of the Gambling House,?
"'No, he can't live.'
Will I see you at the dance
tomorrow
These are some Of the things
that the voices say. They dom
mean much separately, but put to
gether like jig-saw puzzle-why
they'd make thrilling novel;"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

Campbell
Resigns

Detective w. J. Campbell, who
got into newspaper controversy
over his shooting at Ray Smyser,
violinist, early last month, has
resigned.
Last evening after a talk with
Chief Fraser he said that he would
quit "for the good of the depart
ment."
HE quit Ion his own accord"
says Fraser, Claiming that
enough trouble had been caused
by the affair, although he vows
that 1t was not his bullet which
was found in the door of a near
by store directly on a line with
Smyser's head from where the
shot was fired. Campbell was a
good man and If 1t had not been
for this affair / would not have
accepted his resignation"
Campbell, looking for suspic-
ious person in the neighborhood
of Twenty-third and X streets,
saw Smyser and ordered him to
stop. Smyser started to run and
Campbell fired. He said he shot
in the air.
Campbell, formerly a govern
ment employe, entered the force
about three months ago under the
civil service. He had never done
any police work before but pass
ed the highest of any of the ap-
plicants, being above 80 per cent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

ing picture of all of life.
"Do you get what mean? What
you get from these telephone
voices is a complete exhibition of
life all spread out before you.
First, you hear somebody say:
He died at o'clock this evening,
and then somebody else's voice
will break in, That dress you
made for me doesn't fit
do you get me now? It's a
life in tabloid.
"'Your little girl is in a dam
gerous condition. Can you come
right away?' is voice, suppose
from a hospital.
"'It's boy, mother says an
other voice that floats in and
away over the wire.
"And all day they keep coming
like this, each of 'em separate
voices. but all together they read
like a novel:
"' You know dear, 1 love-
I'm tired of your nagging and
I'm through with you.'
This is Important.
Yes. old man, I'm engaged.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

Mister, do you know IL it
wasn't for my cheerful disposition,
these telephone voices would give
me melancholia?" said a Tacoma
telephone girl. "If anybody would
stop to think seriously about the
things than can be heard at tel
ephone exchange, he'd go crazy
brooding.
"It's hard to realize what
mean unless you're at telephone
exchange and get the voices that
float across the wires and are i'm
mediately lost. Maybe there as a
cross wire or something-you
know those distant voices you hear
sometimes when you pick up your
telephone receiver.
And then maybe what you
heard wouldn't mean much to you
If you weren't in the mood-when
you're all tired, out anyhow and
you have that toh-what's-the-use'
feeling. What you hear separately
hasn't much of a meaning in it,
self, but when you put them al
together, why, it's regular NOV
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Likely to
Drop in Weeks Dept

The elimination of George
Wood, foreman of lines in the
light department, as announced
by the Times Saturday, has not
quieted the storm raging around
the head of Commissioner Weeks.
Citizens who expected him to
remedy the defects of the Lawson
which ran $50,o00
behind in construction work the
first year say the elimination of
Wood is not enough.
And another element has enter
ed.
The appointments of Weeks and
the work on the gravity water
line in inspection is attracting
-notiee.
Men who went up there last
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Man Hunt Is On
For Black Fiend

covered came shortly before noon
In telephone message from the
chief of police of Santa Ana tell
ing of the escape late Tuesday
from the custody of Santa Ana
constable of a negro arrested for q
series OF assaults upon white wom-
en-. The negro broke away from
the officers and escaped on q mo-
torcycle. Z
Among the leaders In the man.
hunt is William HaskIns, husband
of the dead woman. He II heart
broken over his wife's death and
declares he will shoot down her
murderer like a dog In the event
of his capture.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
.lopen1ent
a Failure

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
Mildred Brooks, a pretty Is year
old girl who had been missing
since August 29, is home today.
She went to Oakland with
Clarence Hawkins, a bellboy, who
promised to marry her. He went
out to call taxicab, she said, and
never came back. He left her 81.
She was found by the Oakland po-
lice half starved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

week on the gravity system found
a drunken brawl in progress at
one camp-on city time. Charges
are being freely made that Weeks
is filling his ranks with inspectors
drawn from followers of the
Royal Arch.
At the head of his gravity in
spectors at $3.50 a month is Dave
M. Rutherford, and included In
the list are Dent Hoge, George
Lawrence, J. B. Delongevin and
others well known among sport
ing men.
There are II inspectors in all
on this one job. They drew down
$1,602 last month.
Something is likely to drop
soon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
100 FACE
DEATH

made for the lifeboats.
For few minutes panic reign
ed but the officers restored order.
The vessel hung for a few min
utes on the rock. pounding heav-
lily, and then slid on into deep
water.
Answering wireless calls for aid
rescue tugs rushed to the scene
and escorted the vessel to tho
dock, while the pumps kept the
craft from sinking,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

(By United Press Leased WirD)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. T.
One hundred passengers on the
steamer Santa Clara faced death
today when the vessel struck the
rocks while entering the Golden
Gate In fog.
The passengers preparing to
land were thrown to the deck by
the terrific crash. Women and
children screamed and a rush was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Plead For
Negro Boy
(By United Press LEASED wire. }

(By United Press LEASED Wire.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. IT,
Countrywide fears that Earl Gill
christ, the 15-year-old negro boy
convicted of the murder of an
other negro lad, would hang,
which resulted in Gov. Donaghey
being deluged under a flood Of
letters, kilograms and petitions.
If the supreme court sustains
the boys conviction the governor
will commute the sentence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
YIN. GA. MAN
QU|TSPLACE

G.. F. Nevius, for the last seven
years general secretary of the Y.
M. G. A. and the man given credit
for the splendid association build
ing here, one of the best in the
country, has resigned.
Explaining that His health was
broken and that he would prob
ably have to seek change OF
climate, Leon Nevius presented his
resignation to the trustees last
night.
No move has been made yet to-
ward getting a successor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Found Dead In
Lonely Cabin

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SCAPPOSE, Or, Sept. 7.-Be-
lieving that a tramp murdered
Mrs. Daisy Wehrman, 35, and her
four year old son in their lonely
cabin four miles from here, Sheriff
Thompson today ordered his depu-
ties to arrest all suspicious look
ing strangers.
The bodies of the woman and
child were found, half nude, ly-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
BRIDGE is RE-OPENED.

The temporary bridge nAt out
of commission by the Steamer
Chippewa yesterday afternoon by
running into it, was opened for
traffic again this morning. At
5 O'Clock it was ready for foot
passengers and by 8 it was opened
for teams.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Hillman Loses

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
OLYMPIA, Sept. THE su-
preme court yesterday upheld
King county superior court In
throwing out the damage suit
brought by c. D. Hillman for his
children against the Seattle Star
at the time he was indicted for
fraudulent use of the mails in his
real estate schemes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

ing on bed by . neighbor. The
door had been padlocked on the
outside.
The victims had been badly
beaten, then shot, apparently at
the severe struggle. The murder
occurred Sunday night.
Frank Wehrman, her husband,
is employed In Portland as
baker. He spent Sunday at his
home and reported for work in
Portland Sunday evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Av|ATORS
KILLED
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased W1re.)
STRASSBURG, Germany, Sept.
7.-Aviators Lieutenant Neumann
and Leconte, the latter carried as
a passenger, were instantly killed
at Bilzheim today when the motor
of their aeroplane exploded at
a height of 100 feet and men and
machine, enveloped in a sheet of
flame, were dashed to the ground.
Both men were crushed beneath
the motor.
Paul Senge, an amateur aviator,
while making trial flight at
Karlsruhe, fell and was picked up
in an unconscious condition with
a fractured skull.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
(By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Z. = En-
ragged by the brutality of the
crime, forty officers, augmented
by 600 citizens, all heavily armed,
today are securing the country
south OF Los Angeles for a negro
who late yesterday shot and killed
Mrs. Melvina Haskins.
Every male citizen of Compton,
where the crime was committed, Is
engaged in the man-hunt. Feel
ing against the assassin is running
SO hight that it is doubtful If a
lyncbing can be prevented IL the
negro is apprehended.
The most valuable clew yet dis
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
BACK TODAY

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Sept. 7.-Secrstary
Fisher is due here from Alaska on
the revenue cutter Tahoma at 6
o'clock this evening. He will
leave Friday night with President
Elliott of the N, p.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
WIDOW
DROPSS9OOO
OVERHEARD

(By United Press Leased Wirc.)
PORTLAND. Sept. 7.-- Nine
thousand dollars worth OF Jewels,
property Of a woman who claim
ed to be Mrs. Adelia Russell.
widow of mihonaire member OF
shoe manufacturing concern, re-
pose at the bottom of the Pacific
ocean.
George Primrose, formerly min
strel man, whose wife Is suing for
divorce, and Mrs. Russell we're
together most of the time on the
trip up from San Francisco.
Primrose was telling one of his
best stories When number of
other passengers started a race
around the deck. Primrose, Mrs.
Russell and others stood in the
way.
There was a clash of bodies,
and the next moment the chate-
laine bag on Mrs. Russell's arm
burst open and the jewels rolled
into the sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
DENVER AFTER FLIRTS.


} Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
DENVER, Sept. Z. - A
handsome Beau Brummel
can get a good job in Den
yer as male decoy to enmesh
J flirtatious females in the
tolls of the law. The city
has a girl cop to nab mashers
} and now wants a Lothario to
} bring the girls to court who
. make goo-goo eyes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
NEWS ITEMS FROM
THE HICKTOWN BEE

If you ain't split up all the wood
you need fer the long, cold winter,
better do something about IL right
away.
Say, did you get transfer today2
Everybody belongs to the union
except your wife. Lafe WatertoweTI
says.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
Arizona to Put Recall
Back Into Constitution
(By United Press Leased Wire }

PH0ENIX ITO back into the constitution
of Arizona the provision for the recall of the Judiciary already
the republican
70 a o all republicans September 20.
that candi
pledge
the constitution.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

made a hurried visit there. 1t
is rumored that a minister has
been found to marry them after
others had spurned even a $1,000
fee.
Dignified William II. Force,
father of the bride-to-be, chased
newspaper photographers today
when they tried to snap him. One
camera man caught him in a good
pose as Forse lifted his cane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
ROBBED AND
MURDERED

(By United Press Leased Wire }
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Sept.
7.-The paymaster and as
sistant paymaster of the Lee
high Coal & Navigation COM
pany were robbed and murd-
cred ON a mountain near here
today. 1t is reported that the
robbers got $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
WEATHER FORECAsT.

For Tacoma and vicinity: Oc-
casional rain tonight and Friday.
Light westerly winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

Mrs. Russell Admits Loss.
SPOKANE, Sept. =. = Mrs.
Adelia Russell, who fs visiting
here, admitted today that she lost
chatelaine bag containing S9,-
900 worth of jewels at sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
PROSECUTOR
SCORES
MAN
Nv

BEULAH Is BOOKED.
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D NEW YORK, Sept. = q
D Freeman Bernstein, a thea 9
D trical booking agent, stated Z
D today that Beulah Binford q
D will appear at the Liberty {
D theater, Philadelphia, next Z
D Monday. He said that her Z
D act probably will consist of a q
D couple of songs, adding: "It g
4 doesn't matter what she does {
D Just SO long as the people q
D have a chance to see her." Z
n = n n n n n r = q = r r
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
By United Press Leased Wire


(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CHESTERFIELD CO U r T.
HOUSE, Va, Sept. IA charge,
regarded as strongly favoring the
defense, was given today to the
fury which will pass upon the
guilt or innocence of Henry Clay
Beattie, jr., accused of the murder
of his wife.
Commonwealth Attorney Greg
ory, an old-fashioned lawyer and
Confederate veteran, opened the
argument for the prosecution.
His plea bristled with quotations
from the scriptures. He reviewed
the evidence of witnesses regard
ing Beattie's automobile being
seen on the roadside shortly be-
fore the killing and added:
Points Out Motive.
"They saw no one else there.
The prisoner alone had the means
and opportunity of committing
this hellish crime"
Referring to the motive, Greg
ory said:
untouched in sin, vice or shame,
and proud in her motherhood.
But this man, filed with venom,
corruption, vice and sin, left the
innocent woman with his own
child on her breast and took to
his-arm a woman of the streets.
There is the motive!"
The jury was plainly impressed
by the argument.
Gregory concluded his argu-
:ment with burst of oratory, de-
manding vengeance for the crime.
Beattie sat unmoved.
Attorney Carter for the defense
declared the defendant was "ami-
able, peaceful and incapable of
the fiendish and cold btooded
murder"
I'VE are not trying to free a
niggah for stealing chickens" he
said. 1--WE are trying a man for
his life"
Carter attacked the credibility
of Detective Scherer and revived
Beattie's conduct on the night of
the murder, feelingly describing
the defendants grief. He talked
in low, pathetic voice. Beattie
hid his face to conceal his tears.
The case may go to the jury
late this evening.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 7. =
Beulah Binford and Paul Beattie,
who have been detained in jail
during the trial of Henry Clay
Beattie, jr., for the murder of his
L wife, were released today.
Beulah Leaves Jail.
Beulah Binford left the jail here
at noon today and took train
for Washington, where she will
f1ll a moving picture engagement.
She will pose for films in a plot
representing the Beattie' case.
One thousand persons gathered
outside the Jail when she entered
an automobile and sped away.
Miss Binford wore a heavy veil
She was accompanied by three
representatives of booking agen-
cies.
Paul Beattie, overjoyed. rushed
home to his wife and baby.
Many women were in the court
room today to hear the final argu-
ments. Judge Watson told them
there would be parts of the case
that would be unfit for them to
hear and asked them to leave
They left.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Sept. To-day,
set for their wedding, will not see
Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss
Madeline Force married.
Astor admitted this fact today.
When asked If he would marry
within. the next 72 hours he
laughed.
Great excitement prevailed to-
day about the Force home. Astor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-07
A CT TN
RAN G I'LL

We are offering within two
miles of the city hall. 16 lots,
nice 5-room house, with base
ment, a good small barn, sew
eral good outbuildipgs. includ-
ing chicken and brooder houses.
The lots are all cleared and
under cultivation. There are
20 bearing fruit trees, lots of
small fruits and berries.
These lots all lay nice and
have been put of record. This
property is close to car line
and 10 minutes service. The
owner being unable to care for
this property viii trade for
smaller place or sell for $500.
on very easy terms.
e. F. GREGORY CO.. Inc.
S.. R. Webb e. F. Gregory
I'd Floor Natl. Realty Bldg.
1117 Pacific ave.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1911-02-23
ARTICLE /.

The name and title of said corporation
shall be, Widow John Hebron Coal Co"
and said corporation shall have power and
authority to exist and enjoy succession by
its said corporate name for the full period
Of ninety nine years from the date hereof ;
to contract, sue and be sued; TO make and
Use corporate seal, and the same TO break
and alter at pleasure; to hold, receive, pur
chase, lease, and convey, well as mortgage
and hypOthecate, and pledge, under its afore-
said corporate name, property both real
personal and mixed. together with any or
all such rights, privileges and franchises as
said corporation may possess or acquire; to
name and appoint such managers, directors
and officers, employees and agents as its in
terests and convenience may require, and to
have, possess and acquire all such other
rights, powers and privileges, as, by the
general laws Of Louisiana are, or may be-
granted to corporations.