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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
Club Women
Help Girl

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. =
Moved by the plight of 19-year-old
Anna Langley, who killed her
husband when goaded to despera.
tion by 16 months of abuse, club
women of the city already are plan
ming to save her.
Standing by their daughter,
James .1affney and his wife went
with her before the court.
"I couldn't sleep last night, the
girl-wife said piteously. at wasn't
that 1 was afraid or had any re-
grets. l was thinking of mother" /"
Her clutch on her sobbing moth.
er's arm tightened.
And 1t was a strange place to
sleep, anyway. There were negro
women and awful people from the
Barbary Coast, and talk such as 1
never heard. 1t was like some hor-
rible procession.
"I have no regrets at all. I had
to. Now I have mother again.
Don't you see-I was too proud to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
and
Scofield Are
Named
MAYOR SEYMOUR PICKS BUSI-
NESS MEN TO ACT ON CIVIL
SERVICE BOARD.

Mayor Seymour today nominat-
ed George Scofeld and Elias F.
Messenger prominent business
men for the vacant places on the
civil service board.
"I think the commissioners will
confirm them," said the mayor.
"And they're good men, with lots
of backbone. If we don't stand
by them then the people can hold
us responsible"
Scofield is a member of the firm
of Savage & Scofield, contractors
and real estate brokers. Messen-
ger is president of the Hunt &
Mottet company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
CHAUFFEURS
PUNISHED
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Aug. 3.-While the
coroner's Jury was returning a
verdict of death from man un-
known" over the body of Chauf-
feur Joe Taro. killed by a passen-
ger Saturday night, two other
chauffeurs were in trouble in po-
lice court.
The police say that Taro had
pursued a respectable young mar
ried woman to go Joy riding with
him shortly before his death and
hint that this may be the cause of
the shooting.
The other chauffeurs, w. e.
Begg and Thomas Pope, were ac-
cused of taking two girls out on a
joy ride. In dark place on the
boulevard, the girls testified, the
men stopped. the car and put out
the lights. The girls protested and
were told that they would have to
stand for it or walk home.
The girls walked. The men
were fined SO and costs each.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
People Won't Stand for Courts
That Act AS Straight Jacket
fRv United Press Leased wire.) says:

says:
"It is simply nonsense to supi
pose that the country will perma+
nently tolerate a line of action
such as the court followed In de-
claring the. compensation act un-
-Four federal
judges who have written me re-
garding the decision agree that
the action Of the United States
court of appeals is utterly reac.
tionary and an invitation to rcyo-
luton. My plea is that the courts
act with ordinary statesmanship
and ordinary regard for the con-
stitutIon as living aid to growth
NOT as a straitjacket."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

There will be no Quirting or
fancy riding on this horse, because
he can BUCK! He's been chin
ming with the other horses on the
California cattle ranch where this
picture was snapped. and they
have put him wise. Maybe in a
month or so the ranch owners
kids" will be riding him. But
you never can tell.
They're trying to tell us that
there's nothing picturesque left
about the American cowboy. too!
Get aboard a craft like the one
In this picture, and any cowboy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
ROOSEVELT ATTACKS COURTS
Gum Shoe Plot
ToNan1e Sammy

Iaid-very quietIyto make Perkins,
standpatter national committeeman from Washington
succe r /. Mccormick. =
w. who
meeting
Spokane staunch progressive,
Hopkins o. Olympia.
going nominate Sammy all by himself
q
committeeman.
this
ing to put through regardless
attempt make the country think that
the standpat band wagon said
Murphne of Seattle, Poindexters King
during the last campaign.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

Society says 1t was q former
sweetheart that Vincent Astor
greeted here today when he ex-
tended his hand to Madeline
Force, his fathers bride-to-be.
Col. John Jacob Astor first felt
his heart going out to the fair
Madeline, so the story goes, at
time when. his son was showering
her with attentions. The romance
begun on the tennis courts 10
about to eliminate in marriage.
| Young Astor, according to ru-
NOR, has found solace In Made
lines sister Katherine. so far
the rumor has gone without CON-
tradiction.
The wedding ceremony will
probably take place in Newport. az
Col. Astor's divorce decree pro-
hibits remarriage in New York
state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
Washington Gets Two
New Congressmen
REAPPoRTIoNMENT PASSES SENATE TOTAL MEM
BERsHIP

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 8.
The senate today adopted with
out roll call the. house bill fixing
the number of representatives in
the next congress at 433.
AS passed, the bill was changed
in two particulars. both of them
amendments by Senator Burton.
One provides that candidates for
the house might be nominated in
the same manner as candidates for
the governorship.
The other was that re-district-
ing shall be done by state legisla-
lures except in those states where
the Initiative and referendum is in
force, where these laws might be
invoked.
The bill as passed provides for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

(By United Press Leased Wire.l
LYONS, N. Y, Aug. 3.-That
the people of the United States
will not endure the reactionary
methods of the courts with re-
gard to the constitutionality of
laws in which they are deeply in
terssted. is the substance of for
'mer President Roosevelt's attack
on the United States court of ap-
peals decision on the workmen's
compensation law. Letters writ
ten by Roosevelt to Editor Belts
of the Lyons Republican, who had
criticised him, were made public
today. The former president
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

SAN FRANCISCO Aug s-Polce Judge Deasey refused TO
bail though urged to do so y Chlet
andP Commissioner Sullivan
precedent" Judge Deasey SAID
verdict of the coroners jury you
gentlemen can will at set low bail Tor
girls release. -,
Deputy Whaen communicated with ana ao
White that his office could handle the inquest oy
today. !, -
Chief Corporal DeGrancourt to round up
the their at the coo
ner's office early possible.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.--"Isn't
she cute?" Col. John Jacob Astor
asked the reporters as Miss Ma
define Talmake Force, his fiance,
went aboard boat at the N. Y.
Yacht club with her mother.
And the colonel beamed and
blushed. He said the marriage
would probably take place in the
fall.
Astor was active in the Span
ish American war. While his first
wife was suing him for divorce
two years ago, Astor's yacht was
lost in a storm In the West In
dies, and there was talk that Mrs.
Astor would drop the suit. But
the colonel rode the waves safely,
the suit went on and everything
Is now reads for Mrs. Astor No. q.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

|of the Rancho Baluarte outfit will
gamble his stake against anything
you care to name, that before
you're through you'll find enough
of the picturesque to last you
well, at least until you can sus-
pend taking your grub from off
the dining room mantle.
You bet! There's Just as much
of the. picturesque in the life of
the modern cowboy as there ever
was. And in some ways, more.
For the cowboy has developed to
the place where he can enjoy life
without whisky,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
Is This What We
Are Coming To?
lny united Press Leased wire. }

VIENNA 3As a result of the governments
Austrian Hungarian
further mporaons from Argentina,
of all of life
condition Of the
is>desperate.
a which the rich in Vienna af
In the whole
rents dema the unblest homes.
broken through parents necessity
to the of the
state number of suicides the
The situation
buted of monopoies, but
there seems N sign of any change in its policy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
NEWS ITEMS FROM
THE HICKTOWN BEE

II anybody has seen a strange
oung man around town, please fetch
him to the elm tree in front of the
Bee office and hitch him. He is
the town fool of Willer Creek and Is
feared to be over here in Hicktown
today.
Miss Pheenie Phurr of Lower Mills
is visiting in town today.
Some good fellers Is so good that
they make a liy in at 1t, Lafe Water
tower remarks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
ARTICLE NO. 2.
BY NJ. G. Larkin.

SMELLING. Cal. Aug. 8. -
"Whee-oo-ah! Look at him buck!"
Just real photo of real cow
boy on a real broncho.. The pic
ture doesn't need a story except
what 1t tells itself. The chap is
the kind of cowboy that will al
ways live because there's no way
to break COW pony except to
ride him, and nobody to ride him
but the cowboy. -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
SdLoonists 4
OuerruIed

Judge Arntson this afternoon
overruled the motion that the anti
treat cases be dismissed. -
The case Will be carried to the
higher courts. The de feDse based It's
claim on the fact that the city bTl
employing stool pigeons to fprcs
the saloon keepers to violate the
ordinance were a party to the crime.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
Adrift on the
Ocean

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug.
g. Fifty members of the
Holy Ghost and Us society
are reported adrift off Cape
Hatteras in a disabled yacht
and the revenue cutters On
ondaga and Seminole today
were ordered to sea from
Norfolk to search for the dis
tressed vessel.
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40 KILLED

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8.-Forty
persons are known to have lost
their lives today as a result of a
which inundated the
town of Pachuca.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
ban kER KILLS
SELF III JAIL
TIRED Of FIGHT
EMbEzzLER
SUICIDES
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press leased Wfre.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. sc.
A. Marker, former bank president
Of Pearl, ILL.,, who was charged
with embezzling $40, 900 and who
gave himself up here last week
died at the Emergency hospital
as a result of self-inflicted stab
wounds In the neck from rusty
penknife.
Markers death Is tho subject
OF an investigation here today.
The police assert that when Man
ker was put in the cell at the
city prison, everything was taken
from him.
At the time Manker gave him
self up to the police here he SEEM
ed cheerful and declared he was
anxious to go back to Illinois and
face the people from whom he
stole.
Markers death is the tragic
climax of the three years evasion
of Justice. He fled from Pearl
in December, 1908, Immediately
following the expose of his $20,-
900 embezzlement. Taking his
family of three daughters and one
son to Eagle. Neb.. to live with
his wife's mother, he hurried TO
Canada. He returned to this
country later and last April came
west. He worked as carpenter,
.draushtsman, waiter and dish
washer under an assumed name.
When Manker reached San Fran
cisco ne was penniless and Ill.
Failing to secure work, Marker
decided that he could stand 1t. no
longer, went to the police station
and surrendered himself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

sPOKANE-To prove that the
Occur d'Alene and Spokane riv-
ers are navigable, Arnold Owen,
a former sailor, has set out for
Spokane from Wallace in a IA
foot cat boat. The streams. are
dangerous and swift.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 3.-Mrs.
Carey A. Manker collapsed today
when apprised by telephone that
her husband had committed sui
eide in the San Francisco jail
while awaiting extradition to IL
linois on a charge of embezzle-
ment. Mrs. Marker has been at
Eagle, Neb., where she made her
living as a dressmaker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

an Increase In representation .
follows:
Alabama, 1; California, sg
Colorado, 1; Florida. I; Georgia.
4; Idaho. L; Illinois. q: Louisi-
ana, L; Massachusetts,, 3; Michi-
gan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Montana.
/; New Jersey. q; New York. o,
North Dakota, 1; Ohio, 1; Okla
homa, 8; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania,
a: Rhode Island, 1; South Dako-
ia, 1; Utah. L; West Virginia, II,
Texas, @; Washington. ..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
VEN POLICE ARE STIRRED BY DRAMATIC PATHETIC STO
He Was No Good So
She Shot Him Dead

ANNIE I.ANGIEYs STORY ES POLICE CHIEF AND HE
URGEx COURT ONCE - WHEN THIS
FAILS HE HURRIEs CORO NERs INQUEST so YOUNG
WIFE CAN FREED FRO NJ JAIL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

NEW YORK-Taxicab conn
panies pay ss62.000 a year in
rent to New York hotels and res
taurants for permission to leave
the cars ON the street In front.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03
The Weather

Fair tonight and Friday. Lighi
westerly winds.
TodaY's Temnerature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-03

NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. g.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27
LOST FAITH IN WHITE MAN
Eskimo Tested Efficacy Of Telephone
Scheme, and Realized He Had
Been Deceived.

An interesting story Is told regard
ing the efforts Of an Eskimo to con.
struct a telephone line. The Eskimo
came into possession of piece Of
wire of considerable length and never
having seen wire before he asked
Professor Mcmillan Of the Peary north
pole expedition what It was and what
1t was for. He was told that the
white man strung 1t on poles stuck
in the ground and voice talking
to an instrument at one end could be
hoard at the other end. After some
search the next morning the Eskimo
was found to be engaged in telephone
construction work of his own. He
stuck some sticks in the ground and
hung his wire on them. He held one
end of the wire to his mouth and
talked to 1t at the top of his voice.
Then he ran as fast as he could to
the other end and held the wire to
his ear with the exceptation of hear
ing his own words repeated.
When he failed to hear any sounds
the expression on his face revealed
his opinion of his white friend
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27
Socially Launched.

In his native town Jimmy had al
ways been most popular with young
and old, but when he was sent away
to boarding school, he was for time
too homesick to make friends. His
first letter was little more than q
wall. t
I'm way behind the other boys In
everything" he wrote. dolefully.
"'Tisnt only studies, but It's gmyna-
stun and bari1os and everything.
don't believe they'll ever have much
use for me-"
But the second letter, written after
a week in the new rchool. was quite
different in tone.
I'm all right" he wrote to his
mother THE boys say they're proud
to have me here. l can stretch my
mouth half an inch wider than any
other boy In school, and my feet are
the longest by full inch. So you
needn't worry about me any more."-
Youths Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27

of the day remarked: at is a good token
when patriots are honored and patriotism ex-
alted Monuments which express the nations
gratitude for great deeds inspire great deeds"
The figure Of General Logan as represented
In this statue 141s feet In height Is character
lied by vigor and animation. The general is
represented as riding along the line Of battle
his sword drawn and carried low In his right
hand He faces toward the south and the
horse is represented In the attitude Of NOV
ing at a slow trot. The pedestal Of the statue
Is 20 feet In height and is adorned with two
impressive bronze groups In the form Of pan
els. One group shows General Logan sur
rounded by officers Of the Army Of the Ten
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27
mr. LOGAH Mxzx0HlN ROOM

with flowers. From Dixie the pretty custom
spread to the north and took root In various
communities However there was no generai
celebration and no fixed date for the placing
of the floral tributes until In the year 1865
General Logan, then acting as commandern-
chief of the Grand Army Of the Republic, TOOK
the initiative that secured for us Memorial
Day as we know 1t in this generation he
issued an order fixing May 80 as the date for
the annfal Memorial Day exercises and called
upon every G.. A. R. post in the country to
engage in fitting ceremonial and scatter to-
kens of respect over the last resting places or
their comrades In arms. Later the legisla-
lures of various states took up the project and
made the designated day legal holiday
When we appreciate the very important
part that General Logan played In the estab-
lishment of one Of the most significant holi-
days on our calendar 1t is easy to find signih-
canoe in the circumstance that every year
after his death there has come a profusion of
floral offerings to the chapel in the national
cemetery connected with the National Sol
diers home at Washington, where the warrior
was laid to rest. II has been matter OF re-
gret with some of his comrades that the Ia
nous leader of the Army Of the Tennessee
was not at his death honored with an elabo-
rate monumental tomb such as has been
erected over the remains OF other dominant
figures in the war for the Union.
And yet in way 1t would be difficult to
dnd more fitting environment for the found
or of Memorial Day In his last dreamless
sleep The National Soldiers home at Wash
ingtou was the forerunner Of those homes now
scattered all over the country and including.
of course, the Illinois Soldiers home at Dan
Vile, where General Logan, as citizen OF I'LL
nois, is always especially honored on Memo
rial lay and other ceremonial occasions. The
national cemetery connected with the first OF
our national soldiers homes is much over
shadowed in size by its neighboring national
cemetery, Arlington. across the Potomac. yet
more than 5000 Federal dead are buried on
the wooded slope where General Logan was
laid to rest. Fortunately there are only about
three hundred unknown occupants of this
silent city and all the graves---including more
than two hundred where Confederate soldiers
are buried-are decorated alike on Memorial
Day by the veterans in blue from the neigh
boring soldiers home.
Easily the most interesting Of all the re-
minders Of the personality and career Of the
founder Of Memorial Day are the relics and
trophies which for years had place in the Me-
mortal room In the residence Of Mrs. John A.
Logan at Warrington. Here were gathered
thousands Of objects bearing In one way and
another upon the life and public service Of the
dashing Civil war leader. II II probable that
III thought Of transfsrring this unique collec-
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27
a GAR. MX2H02l4Z nv CEREM0ny

nessee while the other panel depicts General
Logan in the act Of taking the oath Of Office
as United States senator, the oath being ad-
ministered by Vice-President Arthur Included
in this group are the figures Of Cullom, Ev-
arts, Conkling. Morton, Miller, Voorhees, and
Thurman. On narrow panels on the north and
south faces of the pedestal are allegorical fig
ures representative of war and peace.
The Grand Army Of the Republic, through
the instrumentality of which General Logan
secured his most enduring memorial-Memo-
rial Day itself-had its origin in the year 1866.
when there was conceived the idea Of ma
tional society composed Of honorably dis
charged Union soldiers and sailors whose mot
to should be Fraternity Charity and Loyalty
Post No. /, located In the city Of Decatur. In
General Logan's own state Of Illinois, was for
mally mustered in in April Of that year and
the first national encampment was held In
indianapolis in the November following Gen
eral Logan was one Of the early commanders
in-chief of the new countrywide organization,
and 1t was in less than two years after the
new movement had been started that he made
use Of the infant organization to introduce the
idea of q fixed and permanent Memorial Day.
General Logan is indeed the best known of
all the commanders-in-chief OF the great or
ganization of veterans that numbered at one
time nearly 100000 men and his popularity
with his comrades In arms was eloquently at.
tested by the fact that he served three terms
In the highest Office in the gift Of the mem
bers OF the @. A. r.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1911-05-27
SOZlIZ1R5 HQHE Av lHvyzXLk.Xl

tion would have been long deferred had not
advancing years compelled Mrs. Logan to cur
tail her domestic responsibilities.
General Logans widow has been for years
the recipient of pension of several thousand
dollars a year-one of the largest annuities
paid by Uncle Sam to any woman except the
widows of presidents-and this income, com
bined with the revenue from her extensive
literary work, enabled her to maintain for
years a handsome residence on the heights
overlooking Washington and the United States
capitol building where her late husband had
a notable career as United States senator fol-
lowing his service in the army. When. how
ever. the care of this residence became too
much for Mrs. Logan some disposition had to
be made Of the great relic collection which
had overiowed the entire house and had oc-
cupied in particular one immense room, which
was in effect a memorial museum. Included
in the collection. It may be explained are not
only the books formerly owned by General
Logan and many volumes bearing upon him,
as well as countless pictures Of the swarthy
warrior. but his swords. battle nags, the gifts
and decorations bestowed by individual admir-
ers and the United States and foreign govern
ments, and even the mounted figure OF the
famous war eagle that was 30 conspicuously
identified with Logan'a command during the
most trying periods Of the war.
Easily the most imposing existing memorial
to General Logan Is the handsome equestrian
statue in bronze which occupies Iowa circle
or Logan circle, as It is sometimes called, one
Of the miniature parks or plazas at the seat
OF government. This statue, which cost $685.
900 was authorized by the congress Of the
United States in the year 1889 The national
legislature appropriated $4,000 and the Grand
Army OF the Republic-at the head Of which
General Logan had been when he originated
Memorial Day-donated $4,000.
The Logan statue. which It Is believed will
ba the forsrunner of others that will ultimate.
~ be erected in other parts Of the country,
was unveiled IN the spring Of 1901 In the pres
ence Of q most distinguished company and It
MCKINLEY IN Delivering the principal Address