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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

ing opened up. Five great sugar
mills are now constructed or are in
course OF construction at a cost Of
more than a million dollars. What
effect do you suppose that a reduc-
ton Of 20 to 80 per cent viii have
on the industry Germany has fos-
tered an industry so that she is an
exporter of sugar, and the vast sums
that went abroad to buy sugar are
now paid to the home producer.
What was good craftsmanship for
Germany is equally applicable here.
The value of imported sugar for the
year endinA June 80, 1911, was
more than $50, 600. Would it
not be good craftsmanship to foster
an industry that would detain all
that money at home instead of send
ing it abroad?
The production of both beet and
cane sugar in this country is in
creasing with giant strides, and
while 1t may be a burden on the con
sumer for a short time, yet if pro-
perly protected will in a few years
equal and then the home production
will surpass consumption and this
Will bring about cheap sugar. | am
sure that in five years that the cane
sugar Of the South, Porto Rico and
the Sandwich Islands, and the beet
sugar of the West will abundantly
supply us if not interfered with by
fool legislation.
The man who believes that free
ftrade Will ever obtain i'll this coun-
try is a dreamer. China with her
four hundred millions has just adop-
ted the Henry George system Of tax
alton and free trade is the motto of
Sun Vat Sen. Does any one believe
that high priced labor of the United
States a or will compete with Chi
hODC at ~ CCAto al udy lit
party that does not protect the la
borer, whether in the factory, the
farm or the ranch, will die.
| am only advocating legitimate
tariff for revenue applied in such a
way that it will foster and develop
new industries and protect American
labor. The public has become accus-
toned to attribute all the increased
cost of living to the tariff, just as
the Doctors do in cases of mysterious
illness whether due to unrequited
love or hook worm. they say it is
malaria. | do not hesitate to say
thas the American people are the
mos enlightened, the most just and
patient people in the world; but it
4 astonishing that they have borne
1.-THE iniquities of the tariff so long.
| am hoping that the democratic
party will give us a square deal and
Thereby continue e live. | am hop
ing that a statesman will arise who
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01
H OLD ORDER N

Today we take another step in
the direction of the greater Browns
Vile. This is the beginning of free
mail delivery in our city. Within
three months time we shall be won
dering how we ever got along with
ont it-why we did not begin the
needed agitation and the needed
preparation years and years ago.
Did any of us hesitate about put
ting up the proper receptacles, OF
about signing the blanks sent to us
from the postoffice? Maybe we did
b,,t in a week from new we will
never admit it-never in the wide
world. To the visitor from way UP
month. who inquiries about it, we shall
say:
ooh. YES. Sure, we have free mai
delivery. Did you think we were
Hottentots, or Zulus, or blanket
Injuns down here? Why bless your
neart, we tnlnh hoChiHS -
VILE Of such luxuries as the delivery
of mail at our own doors. How
long have we had it?" "Oh-well-
ever and ever so long. You dont
want me to go back into mediaevaI
history, do your
However lightly we may speak OF
1t. and however careIessly we may
have thought Of it in the past, tins
first day of June, A. d., 1917 th'
day when the grey-clad postman frs
started on his rounds, is a real land
mark in our history. indicating
point where the old order began t'
change. giving place to the new.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01
An Ingenious Fire Box

A very simple, but nevertheless
effective, method Of making fire is
used in the Arfak mountains, in
Dutch North New Guinea, says a
writer in the June Wide World. The
natives cut a section of bamboo,
usually about nine inches long and
two inches in diameter, and into this
is put a supply of finder and a small
fragment of anything hard-prefer-
ably a piece Of china, if the natives
can get hold Of it. The finder is
covered from the wet by a piece OF
bark, and the "~ire-boX' is then
ready for use whenever it is wanted
To get a light the native merely
takes the piece of china and a lumI
of finder between his thumb anC
finger; then, holding the bamboo in
his left hand, he strikes its surface
sharply with the china, causing Z
spark, which soon ignites the finder
Even the white man DON acquire.
the knack of doing this, and thu
process is much more effective anC
infinitely less .laborious than thu
usual method Of producing fire b,
friction.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

can Interpret the aspirations of the
whole nation and all the island de-
tendencies. We have too much OF the
type of the barn yard cock who.
standing on his own dunghill and
Growing, sees no further than the
corral fence.-Dr. w. IT. Cole.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

Bonci, the opera singer, is suing
the New York Central Railroad for
alleged damage to his voice because
a car was not properly heated. An
other high c tragedy.-Chattanooga
Times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

anarchy to peace and intervention Dy
Uncle Sam. Queer taste, same people
have anyway.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

vtime
beautiful tribute to
of those who we're
the wreck of the Titanic
EN- by Herbert Kaufman
)ylished in the June number
, WOTlu.
Ewn, down, down, on the floor
The sea, two miles under the out
Nv bergs, lies the Titanic, a splen-
did m%ausoleum of steel and brass, in
Whose shattered hold rests as fair a
company of good knights and brave
ladies as ever smiled in the face Of
death. Soldier and sailor and mer-
chant prince-play-actor and jour
nalist-idler and drudge-peasant
and nobleman-Saxon and Norman
Latin and Celt-Slav and Jew
strangers in motherhood wrought in
to brotherhood-equal at last in the
glory of their end.
There was Stead, whom kings
loved, but who himself loved the
helpless more. There was Millet,
whose paint throbbed with the song
of souls. And Harris, who climbed
back and gave his place to a woman.
There was Butt, the fighting man;
and Straus of the open purse, with
his wife (and no queen was ever
greater, for out of courage spranv
all real nobility
And there were a thousand more,
and none were less than these.
Swart peasants Of a hundred tribes
children of moil and need-slaves
of the Observation-Disclosures
stewards-barmen and BARRIERS;
when and where before was there
woven so mighty a memory with
such strange and varied strands of
caste.
They told us that the world was
drunk-mad with the wine that
weakens-that the ancient stock of
Sparta and the Macedonians hills
was gone-that the red blood which
coursed in Winkelried and Rienzi
and the Old Guard and Lawrence and
Hale, was no more; but they were
wrong-the breed Of heroes will new
err perish!
SO long as yesterday shall illum-
mate her tablets with the splendor
of martyrdom-so long as history
shall remember %valorous emprise-
so long as the purple tide of nobility
shall scorn the grave and leap the
generations-so long as sacrifice
shall quicken pulse and redden heart,
the hour will never call in vain for
the man.
Straight from the dimmest ages,
tn suA.gh evolution and revolution,
down fro% the hills and up from the
plains and on. on the sea, the an
.swer has always rnng.
Their is no cause fol grief. Save
your sorrow for infamy; weep at
failure; moan over treason: Abut
shed no tears for the lost of the All
They are already of the immor-
tai few whom eternity has kissed.
They wear the accolade of fame;
their names are deathless.
The human hour is but one beat
of Times fleet wings. Millions on
millions, we pour from out the
mother-womb, and millions on mill
lions we sink back to. the dust of
our making, without one lasting
footprint in our track, or one endur-
ing thouvht to mark our passing
through.
The longest life is as a mote when
measured with the unborn dawns.
What is a day-what is a decade to
the hoary stars? Existence was a
paltry price to pay to fall with the
hundreds at Thermopylae, to fight in
"the thin, red line at Balaklava, or
to perish midst the handful al the
Alamo.
Those who have gone have bathed
their souls in the Golden River:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-01

Supremacy.
This is the reading of the horo-
scope in the hands of the narrator,
who today tells Herald readers about
the famous trip to Tampico.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.-"I
wanted to beat him up good, so
he'd be afraid to be mean to her
any more, but l was too little.
Then / went to my room and
tried to think of some way to
scare him; and l thought if | shot
him in the arm maybe he would
be scared to treat my mother SO
mean any more"
Martin Rickert, the 4-year-old
boy who shot and killed his father
here recently, after years of abuse
of himself and mother, shuffled
his feet nervously and his chin
sunk, still deeper on his breast.
The lad sat in the reception room
of the detention home, where he
is being held, pending a decision
as to his final disposition, and
about him were gathered five
trained social workers, all familiar
with psS cholCgy of violence, all
anxious to get at the truth of the
killing.
Mrs. Leland Norton, superin-
tendent of the Legal Aid society,
whose daily life is handling GRIM
inals and delinquents, asked keen,
inquisitive questions, seeking no.
tives. Martins shoulders twitch-
ed, but he replied unhesitatingly.
Yes" he replied, Il shot him
because he was mean to my
mother. He's always been mean to
her. Nom, he didn't beat her very
often, but he cursed her and
knocked her about. He was al
ways tellin her HE was the boss
there and ordering her to keep
her d mouth shut"
What started these rows?" I
asked. why did he curse your
mother?"
The boy shuffled his feet and
shook his head as if some inner
memory reused all the rage IN
him.
"Well," he said, slowly, at last
every time she told any of us
boys to do anything he would tell
us to do something else"
"Who did you obey?" question
ed Mrs. Norton.
Her" said the lad; "he didn t
have no right to tell us not to
mind her. He didn't have no busi-
ness to call her fool and knock
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
WATER WILL Be
PURE WHEN It
IS TURNED IN

just as soon as DIR. James OF
the health department gives the
word i will send the Green river
police up and the work of clean
ing UP the watershed will COM
mence," said Mayor Seymour to
the Times this morning.
He has appointed IL. e. Chest
nut, l.. ii. Carter and II. A. AM
derson, experienced sanitary Off
GERS, for this employment and If
there is any such thing as clean
ing up u watershed it is believed
these men will be able to get re-
suits.
Much discussion has been pre-
cipitated by the publication of the
reports of sanitary authorities
that there was pollution in Green
river. The commissioners have
tried to lull the people who i'm
agine they are about to be served
with polluted drinking water,
with a statement that the water
will not be turned into the mains
for weeks. The commissioners
believe the water will be pure
when the work of cleaning up the
watershed is completed, but at
any rate Green river will be pure
before it is turned into the mains,
So there is no danger.
Bushes men generally are up
in arms against the stories being
sent out of the city that the city's
source of water supply is bad.
A woman who has lived up on
Green river for years called up
the commissioner of public works
and said that Green river water
is naturally the purest water in
the country but that the sudden
pollution found by the officials
who have lately analyzed it is
probably due to the fact that an
army of about 300 Greek railway
men went up there some time ago
and camped on the edge of the
river.
All such sources of pollution
will be eliminated, say the city
authorities, as soon as the Green
river police get busy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
DENY NEW TRIAL

Judge Cushman this morning
denied new trial to the North
ern Pacific and Hartman rail
ways against which Cyrus Mentzer
secured verdict of $4,000 last
week for the burning of the Ment-
Zer mill by engine sparks. He
also denied Louis Godo new
trial. Godo sued Carstens Pack
ing company for $1,000 for in
juries, but got nothing.
The argument of the motion for
a new trial for Fred Hogan, whom
a jury decreed must pay Nellie
Storlie $4,000 for breach of
promise, was postponed for a
week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
SIX SUSPECTS
ALL PROVE
AL|b|
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(By United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Captain
of Detectives HaIpin is convinced
today that the four men and four
women suspects are innocent OF
the murder of J. p. Logue, the
diamond merchant found dead in
his office here last Friday, but he
intends to hold them in connec-
tion with various other robberies.
The suspects are believed to have
established alibis. The police now
believe that Gertie Frisbie, a no.
torious Chicago character, a for
mer sweetheart, Eddie Taft, an
alleged safeblower, and two as
sociates of Taft, may have muir
dered Logue.
A woman answering the Frisbie
womans description frequently
called on the diamond merchant.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
CHARGE ENGLISH
IN SLAVE TRADE

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-That
the Monroe doctrine may have 20
be invoked to stop atrocities
against the Indians of Peru by
British contractors, was the state
ment today by Stuart Fuller, U.
S. consul. The situation requir-
ed quick action, said the consul.
1t was a question of the greatest
Importance and would have to be
settled at once in the interest of
humanity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
HOLD SIX JAPS
ON BLACKMAIL
CHARGE:
Arrests Follow Threats Made Against Wealthy Jap
anese Merchants of Tacoma-Four Others Be-
ieved to be Members of Desperate Gang.

Six japanese are under arrest
and four more are being sought
by detectives today, as members
of "a gang which for two months
has been terrorizing their coun-
trymen's colony here, threatening
death unless their demands for
money were satisfied.
They were trapped last night
in a house at 18th and e streets,
which they had fitted up luxur-
iously as gambling joint.
Numerous reports were made
to the police Saturday by those
who have been victimized, all
Japanese. AL lof the complain
ants are wealthy business men
who have been long established
here.
They reported that the gang
operated in twos and threes about
the city, calling on the Weather
class of Japanese and demanding
money. Death to themselves or
members of their family was the
penalty laid down by the alleged
blackmailers in case they were
refused.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
LOCAL SOLONS
ARE AGAINST
TAYLOR
Election of Spokane Progressive Speaker of Next
House Made Certain by Coalition in Which Taco
ma Legislators Play Big Part.

Tacoma progressives elected to
the legislature have apparently
sealed the doom of standpat
Speaker Taylor of King county,
who has been claiming pledges
from enough members to insure
his re-eleetiOn.
Thomas j. Corkery, Spokane
progressive, is the candidate for
speaker on whom forty-n,ne mem
bers, comprising progressives,
democrats and republicans, have
united.
In telephone message to the
Times today Thomas Murphine,
the Seattle progressive candidate
for speaker. announces his with
drawal in favor of Corkery.
"Corkerys election as speaker
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23

is certain" said Mr.. Murphine,
"and the Pierce county boys by
coming through strong turned the
trick"
The hackers of Cookery claim
that they have forty-nine positive
pledges, which is a clear ma
pority.
Pierce county progressives who
are supporting Corkery are A.
NJ. Bryant of Buckley, Dix II.
Rowland, N. Jolidon-Croake, II.
o. Herber, Eli p. Norton, A. ].
Gillbox and e. J. Langford OF Ia
coma; Frank Sweet OF South
Prairie and Daniel Gilkey of Ta-
coma have not fully decided TO
vote for the Spokane progressive
leader but it is believed that they
will join his ranks when the time
comes
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
Six Are Arrested.

Those under arrest are: S.
Kiyota, 50 years old; H. Yama-
mota, &c; U. Kono, 80; T. Shiba,
20; Y. Terai, 80; and Y. Hiro,
80. The first two were arrested
last night by Detectives Mckay
and Thompson, the others by De-
tectives Geary, Milone and Huck-
aba. All were caught at the
house they had fitted up as a
gambling resort.
Among their effects were so
decks of playing cards. All were
well supplied will: money.
Y. Terai is believed by the po-
lice to be the leader of the gang.
None of the men under arrest
will say anything of their opera
tions here.
Fear that the gang would carry
out its threats, the complainants
declare, has kept them from re-
vealing the identity of its men,
bers up to this time.
Detectives believe there are at
least four more of the gang still
at large.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
NORMAN BECK WON'T SPEND
CHRISTMAS AT HOME; HE
BETRAYED LONCMIRE

When Norman Beck, the 2s-
year-old son of wealthy Montreal
parents, was taken from his cell
yesterday afternoon that he might
reach home in time for Christmas
a number of letters which he was
smuggling out for other prison
ers were found on his person and
he was thrust back into Jail.
Two kilograms, one from his
mother, the other from his faith
er, Edward Beck, and both CON
tanning money to cover his trave,-
ing expenses to Montreal, await
ed the boy in the jailer's office.
The one from his mother read:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
KILLED ON
R.R. TRACK

F. w. Carrg, aged % or 90
was almost instantly killed this
morning at the intersection of the
N. p. tracks and | street, when
in trying to avoid a switch en-
gine he was struck by another on
the parallel tracks. His body was
cut in two.
The dead man was removed to
the Notwithstanding under
taking parlors. Letters found IN
dicated that he has relatives In
Ashton, Oregon.
A companion who was with the
man at the time of the accident
has disappeared.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23

Here Is $50 for you 10 come
home to use for Christmas
Wiring $40 additional to bring
you home. Your mother wants
you" said the telegram from the
father,
Sheriff Longmire ordered the
lad released a few days before his
S0-day sentence for petit larceny
expired that his people might have
their son at the Christmas feast.
Beck had consented to make an
attempt to smuggle out letters for
his cellmates. Jailer Longmire
discovered the trick and sent
Beck back to his cell to serve the
rest of his time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
SALARY BILL READY
FOR THE FINAL VOTE

The salary boost ordinance
was given second reading in the
council this morning and is now
ready to be put through next
week.
Whether it will go through is
still in doubt.
1t now provides for an addi-
tion of about $25, 900 to the pay
roll.
The chief of police is raised
from $3.50 to $175 a month, cap
tains get $40 more and everybody
in the police departments gets a
raise from So to $25.
The chief of fire department is
increased from $3.50 to $16O and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
SEARCH FOR
SURVIVORS
Dy United Press Leased Wire

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ST. JOHNS, Mild, Dec. 23.-
Hoping to find survivors of the
Furness line steamer Florence,
which foundered on the ledges
west of st Shots Friday with 20
members of her crew aboard,
searchers left Trepassy today.
The coast is honeycombed with
small caves and huts and hope Is
entertained that some of the crew
reached land safely.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23

the rest of the firemen get ad-
vances from So to $40 each.
Dock superintendent is raised
from 500 to $125 and DOCK
hands who have been getting 500
are boosted to SIS.
Commissioner Lawson raises
all linemen 40 cents a day, also
increases the pay of helpers and
straw bosses, the latter to $4.60
a day and adds from So to $40
to some of his leading clerks In
the water and light office.
The council is not yet apparent
ly satisfied with the ordinance and
rumblings are heard that the
whole bill may be changed as it
takes four votes to pass it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
Women's War
Lowers Cost
OF Fresh Eggs
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(By InIteU Press Leased Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IS
All Pacific coast cities profitted
today by the fight being waged on
the high price of eggs by club
women of New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Dispatches received here show
that Chicago women sold more
than 100000 eggs yesterday at
"a cents a dozen as a warning
to grocers and commission men.
AS a result of this fight, Chicago
grocers were forced to lower their
prices from 80 and 40 cents a
dozen to the level offered by the
women, representing Chicago
clubs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
GEMS IN PERIL
IN BIG FIRE

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 23.
More than $6,OOO,OOO worth of
documents, cash and securities
are safe today after being in
danger of destruction in a fire
that threatened to gut the city
hall For an hour late yesterday
firemen fought the flames, con-
quering them only after a stub
born battle. Crossed electric
wires are believed to have caused
the fire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23

her about. I told him not to hit
her."
did you tell him that the
morning you killed him?" l in
quired.
"Yes'm; but he didn't say moth
in except that he would beat me.
He was always mean to us all, -
he burst out. He never spoke
to us 1ess'n it was to say some
thing mean or call us down. He
tried to boss everybody-that's S
all.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
BREAKS DOWN
AS ATTORNEY
ENDS SPEECH
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. %,
Defense Attorneys Daniel How
ell and Clifford Langsdale of
Kansas City, A. II. Fiebach of
Cleveland, and w. N. Harding of
Indianapolis each argued for an
hour and 80 minutes today for
union men on trial here for ille-
gally transporting dynamite Sem
ator John w. Kerns' argument
will follow next.
The first named attorneys rep
resented w. j. Mccain of Kansas
City, Peter j. Smith of Cleveland,
George Anderson and w. Bert
Brown.
Defendants Brown and Murphy
broke down as Langsdale closed
his argument.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
IDENTIFY BODY

The remains of the Indian
woman who was found lying or
the beach near Vashon island
Thursday afternoon, have been
identified today as those of Mrs
Sallie Ann Grant, aged 43 years,
They are at the parlors of G. c.
Mellinger.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
DENIED WAGES:
KILLS EMPLOYER

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.
23.-Demanding money due
him and being informed that
he would get it I'm the morn
ing, William Barry, n bar
tender i'm the employ of Pet
er Greenwald, became abus-
i've and when threatened with
election, drew a revolver and
shot Greenwald dead. Barry
is in the city prison charged
with murder.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
FLIES OVER
1915 CITY

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. -
"The city itself looked very small.
1 could see far out over the ocean
and could make out ships in the
bav very clearly"
This was the way Silas Chris
topherson, aviator, described here
today his fight over San Francis
CO last night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-23
RAILROAD PRESIDENTS
INDICTED BY GRAND JURY

railroad and Alfred Smithers,
Chamberlin of the Grand Trunk
board of directors.
The indictments are the result
of an investigation which showed
an alleged traffic agreement be-
tween the Grand Trunk and the
New Haven line.