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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-05
SENT
TO PRISON
BOAS, DANIELS AND RILEY
START ON JOURNEY TO
STATE PENITENTIARY To-
DAY.

Three men went to the peni-
tentiary from Tacoma today.
They were George Boas, black
mailer; George Daniels, forger,
and e. ]. Riley, thief.
Boats and Riley must serve
from one to Is years for their
offenses, while Daniels has been
sentenced to from one to 20 years
in prison.
Riley committed a theft in Old
Town barely week ago, while
Boas and Daniels had been in the
city and county jails here for
months before their cases were
settled.
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STIMSON TALKS
TO CONGRESS
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 5.
.-Inferentially scoring the pro-
miscuous granting of valuable
water rights to private interests
and insisting that the taxpayers
should get the benefit of them,
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son addressed the National Rivers
and Harbors congress here to-
day.
Senator Miles Poindexter of
Washington is scheduled to de-
liver an address before the con-
gress this afternoon.
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OPPOSE TAINTED GIFT
TO STATE UNIVERSITY

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SEATTLE, Dec. 5.-The Seat
tie Commercial club Tuesday
night adopted resolution en-
dorsing. the right of state univer-
sity students to protest against
acceptance of a gift of chimes
recently presented to the institu-
tion by A. j. Blethen, newspaper
owner.
Ben. F. Shields, chairman of
the committee which presented
the resolution. urged it's adoption
las a matter of honesty and de-
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And remember
The capitalist stands no better
chance than the wage-earner OF
getting Laura Margaret. You
cannot buy this Christmas present
with dollars alone.
December 10 will be the last
day of the sale. Your bid after
that date will not be considered.
On Monday the 10th the highest
bidder will be informed that ne
has been successful, and
On Christmas morning he will
find Laura Margaret, 8 years old
and the finest Christmas present
in the world, in his stocking.
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cency.'
Other members of the commit
tee and speakers advocating the
resolution declared that they were
arguing purely for a matter of
principle; that the donor of the
chimes had stood and worked for
principles which they considered
opposed to good morals and the
general welfare of Seattle, and
that they believed the students
were right In opposing the accept
ance by the regents of a gift
from such a source.
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CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 5. -
Practically certain Identification
of the dead woman who commit
ted suicide in Wade park here
yesterday by taking poison was
made today. 1t is believed she
was Mrs. o. N. Kleppel of Water
town, N. Y, who formerly lived
in Los Angeles and San Francis
co and returned East after the
death of her husband.
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VESSEL SAFE

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-Despite
reports that the steamer Rouse
simmons, laden with Christmas
trees, sank in the Great Lakes
with all on board, numbering II
persons, it is believed here to-
day that the vessel NAV besafe
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PORTLAND, Dec. 5.-FOr the
next four years at least there will
be no republican election clerks
and judges in Oregon.
The state law governing the
appointment of election officials
says these must be selected from
members of the two political par
ties that cast the two highest
number of votes for presidential
electors at the last preceding pres
idential election. =
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HOTEL MAN CASE
HEARD TODAY

j. w. A. Nichols will be given
a chance to explain why he didn't
nave IRE escape cards in the
hehry George and Madison hotels
petore Justice Evans this after
noon. He is charged with yiolat-
ing the hotel law.
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Skinny White hitched his nag
Snail outside a hardware store
today and lazily lost lap in his
Christmas shopping race with
Fatty Black The latter was seen
by our artist en- route home with
an armful of bundles. I'm glad
to get these off my mind, any
how" he said, spraying his ban
danna with the brew of his brow.
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$4,000 SACKS OF
ONIONS LOST
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STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. s.
Probably $4,000 sacks of onions
grown in San Joaquin county will
be thrown into the river this
year, largely on account of the
present low prices. Local grow
ers and commission men defend
their action by declaring that the
yield has been exceptionally heavy
and that there is an unusual
amount of culls.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses have been
issued to John Norbye and Kris
tine Hanson, both of Tacoma; w.
T. Hedrick and e. j. Leroy, both
of Puyallup; Thomas Cooper and
Florence G. Hill, both of Taco
ma, and T. l.. Crowder and Alice
A. Millhollan, both of Seattle.
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FIRES ENDANGER
MANY HOMES

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SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec.
5.-Forest fires are furiously
sweeping the foothills about
Santa Barbara today and grave
fears are felt for the safety of
the fashionable suburb of Monte
cito,
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FATE WITH JURY
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REDDING Cal, Dec. 5.-The
fate of William e. Clements, on
trial here for the alleged mur-
der OF William c. Lands, prob
ably will be in the hands of the
jury Saturday. The state rested
its case at the morning session
today and the defense began pres
entation of evidence without de-
lay.
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AMERICAN MISSING
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 5.
Gable dispatches to the state de-
partment today from the COVER
nor general of the Philippines say
that j. w. Green, living at Siyou-
yam has been missing since the
great typhoon which destroyed
Tlacoban. the principal town of
the island of Leyte.
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PROVISIONAL VICE-PRES.

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VIENNA Dec. 5.-That Mon
signor Caccieri will be provisional
vice president of Albaniais is
the announcement here today.
One -atholic, three Mohamme-
dams and three mem mbers of the
Greek church comprise the pro-
yisional government.
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MURRAY TRIAL

Charged with grand larceny
through snatching a woman's
purse, David Murray is on trial
today in Judge Chapman's court.
ALI morning was taken up in Sc
lecting a jury.
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How can I keep my beard look
ing silky?-Whiskers
Run a file over your crop be-
fore each meal, and every night,
before retiring, soak them in
red paint. If the paint doesn't
produce the proper result, l can
give you recipe for brass polish.
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DENVER, Col, Dec. 5.-The
blizzard which swept Colorado
and Wyoming yesterday and
last night has subsided today.
There is foot of snow on the
level here, and three feet in the
mountains. All the passes are
hlockaded, and it is feared that
many prospectors are in peril.
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Miss Genevieve Clark, daugh-
ter of the speaker of the house, a
popular Washington girl who
aspires to be a newspaper woman
and is busy learning how under
the direction of a woman reporter
in the capital city.
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Wy OHIttU Il TtSS LesfStU WIFt.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. s.
That ]. Frank Hickey, accused
of the murder of Joseph Josephs,
z years old, and a series of other
crimes dating back for ten years
or more, is believed by alienists
to be sane, is the report here to-
day.
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NDy ohiteu TreSS Leased W1re.)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.-For-
est Bailey and c. H. Bless, teach
ers at Manual Arts high school,
pummeled each other two rounds
for the delectation of their pu-
pills. 1t was faculty vaude-
ville' show. Each consented to
a return match.
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Whose works shall l buy in
order to be a poet?-Poems.
Don't buy them. Read the
cigaret ads.
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SANE ANSWERS TO
FOOLISH QUESTIONS

What can you recommend {,
keep the head clean?-Blacky.
Water.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-05

How can 1 rid my dog of fIeas?
Saturate the neck of each flea
with coal oil and apply a match.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-12-05

creasing the cost of haircuts.''
Haircuts after December 81
will be 80 cents in Tacoma.
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AUGHS, they say, are the
best cures for the blues.
Allow us to introduce you
to DIR. Jokesmith, with Of
on the editorial page. Never
ID.
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q CERTAIN baby was born
~ under the same star as
Walt Whitman. Lucky
child. Read what the
tars have to say about It on the
page today.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
TAFT'S ADDRESS
TO GOVERNORS
His Effective Plea for Rural
Credit Plan.
COMMITTEE TO TAKE ACTION.
The President Urges Uniform Leeis-
Iation To Make Possible d Sys-
tenn OF Low-lnterest-8ear-
ing Loans.

Washington. President Taft, in a
speech to 26 governors here urged the
adoption of uniform state legislation
which would make possible in this
country the adoption of system OF
rural credits and low Understanding
loans to farmers, similar to that in
vogue in many European countries.
I'VE are not going to adopt a sys-
TEN over night said the President.
1T is going to take considerable time
before the country shall receive the
benefit of it, but the earlier we begin
the agitation the earlier we shall
achieve the purpose We have in bring
ing the matter to the attention OF the
public.
There is no subject" continued the
President, "of greater importance to
the people of the United States than
the improvement of the agricultural
method, the keeping of them up to
date in all agricultural communities,
the securing of profits to the farmer,
the attraction of the young men OF the
country to farming as a lucrative pro-
fession, and the lowering of the cost
of producing agricultural products and
the lowering of their prices to the
consumer.
I'VE have great capital in this coun-
try and we have farming property that
is producing farm products of i'm
mense value. 1t would seem clear
that with these two elements it would
be possible to introduce a third by
which the farmer engaged in produc-
ing the crops should be able, in view
of the value of what he produces and
the value of the land on which it is
produced, to obtain money on the
faith of the land and the faith of the
product which will enable him to ex-
pand his acreage and better his
methods of cultivation and produc-
ton"
While conditions in this country and
in Europe were somewhat different,
the President said, by modification of
the European plan the idea could find
a proper place in the United States.
The following committee was named
today to draft uniform rural credit
legislation to be recommended to the
states:
Governors ONeal, of Alabama; ;
chairman; Johnson, of California;
Plaisted, of Maine; Foss, of Massa-
chusetts; Hadley. of Missouri Har-
mon, of Ohio; Mann. of Virginia; Nc
Govern, of Wisconsin, and Carey, of
Wyoming
On motion of Governor Hadley reso-
lutions of thanks to President Taft
for his active interest in the idea were
unanimously adopted.
A general credit system for the f.
nancng of farmers, as outlined by
President Taft to the governors con-
ference here will be considered as a
part of the general currency reform to
be attempted by the subcommittee of
tn House Banking and Currency Com
mittee
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
PRUSSIA TO TAX BACHELORS
All Getting SEC Year Up VIII Be
Specially Assessed for Remain
ing Single.

Berlin.-The Prussian diet Is now
giving its formal official consideration
to project for taxing bachelors. The
original bill has been amended so as
to make the tax effective only in the
case of unmarried men whose income
exceeds $3.50 year.
Such men will be called upon in
case the bill passes to pay a tax of
from ten to twenty per cent higher
than married men with correspond
ing incomes.
The bachelor tax will take the form
of an income sur-tax. The idea of the
legislators who are backing the bill is
that men who have have to support
wives or children ought not, in JUS
tice, be compelled to pay as much to-
ward the support of the state as men
who are leading the care-free, ire
sponsible lives of bachelors.
The project is fathered by the con-
servatives Of the diet and has every
prospect of becoming a law.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
THE RAILROADS
AND CONGRESS
House Unanimously PasesPhys-
icaI Valuation Bill.
STOCK AND BOND INQUIRY.
Purpose OF the Bill Is To Have Rail-
road Rates Fixed On the Basis
OF Income On Actual
Investment.

Neutrality-suspicious. to authorize
complete investigation into the
question of interstate carrier corpora
ton stock and bond issues, the bill by
Representative Adamson, empowering
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to make a physical valuation OF the
property of railroads and other COM
mon carriers was passed by the House
without a dissenting vote.
The measure, asked for by the Inter
State Commerce Commission, provides
for a far-reaching inquiry with the
view of having railroad rates fixed on
the basis of income on actual invest
ment. 1t would authorize the employ
ment of engineers and other experts,
with power to summon witnesses and
take testimony, to make an inventory
listing in detail the property of every
interstate carrier. The investigators
would be directed to ascertain the
original cost for railway purposes of
each piece of property, the cost and
value to the present owner and what
lHcTedSe Ill value is uue 10 ImpIONe-
ments. All questions relating to exist
ing stock and bond issues of such car
riers also would be inquired into and
reported upon.
Representative Mann, of Illinois, Of
fered the amendment directing the eX-
animation into the stock and bond
issue question after point of order
had been sustained against his amend
ment authorizing the Interstate Com
merce Commission to regulate and re-
strict the issuance of securities by car
riers. The amendment adopted pro-
vides that the proposed investigation
by the commissions experts shall "also
cover so far as practicable questions
pertaining to the issuance of stocks
and bonds by common carrier corpora
tons, subject to the provisions of this
act, and the power of Congress to
regulate or affect the same, and par.
ticularly methods to prevent the issu-
ance of stocks and bonds by such cor.
porations without full value being re.
ceived therefor"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
U. S. HORSE DECLARED FIRST
Flco, Ridden by Lieutenant Adalr
Leads Big Field In Broad
Water Jump.

New York.-The United States won
the international broad water jump
at the horse show and Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt won the Nata challenge cup
contest for the third year in success.
sion with his Sir James, thereby TAX
ing possession of the trophy, valued al
$3.50. The latter event was confined
to amateurs driving their own horses
attached to rigs. William P Kearney,
driving his splendid black stallion,
Triumph, was given second prize, the
reserve ribbon.
Fico, ridden by Lieut.. H. R. Adair
of the Tenth United States cavalry,
outclassed thirty-five other horses, in
GLIDING several foreign entries, in the
first-named event by jumping eighteen
feet. Second prize went to Spes, rid
den by Lieut.. c. H. Labouchere OF the
Royal Holland Huzars, and the third
to Deceive, exhibited by the United
States Mounted Service school.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
CREW COMMITS HARA-KIRI
Six Japanese Sailors on British Bark
Helpmate End Lives When Mix
ado Dies.

Rehavana. Java.-The British bark
Helpmate, Captain Steers, arrived here
from the north Borneo coast manned
by an island crew of natives picked
up by the skipper after his former
crew, six Japanese. had committed
hara-kiri upon the deck of the vessel
after learning of the death and burial
of the mikado.
Captain Steers says that he was
proceeding from Pelori island to
Zamara on the Borneo coast to COM
plete his cargo of copra when he was
hailed by the British barkeniihe Clyde
Town, from the master of which he
received number Of items of news,
among them being the information of
the Japanese emperors death and
burial
Without realizing what 1t might
mean, Captain Steers gave the tidings
to the men, and Immediately tho
were as stricken, raving about the
ship and engaging in loud lamenta-
tions. When he demonstrated with
them for allowing the bark to drift
aimlessly they threatened his fife and
he said no more to them until he saw
them gathered on the deck, each with
knife in his hand and stomach barred.
The captain thereupon realized what
was about to happen and came forth
from his cabin with repeating rifle,
but the men paid no heed to him and
upon a signal each killed himsef.
The Helpmate, the captain aSone
alive on board, drifted helplessly, but
finally made Hadgona bay without
serious injury; and here Captain
Steers succeeded, after some days. in
prevailing upon enough natives to man
his ship and sail i 10 this nort.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13

killed by small white worm, ranging
in length from one-half to three
fourths of an inch and about one
eighth Of an inch thick. This bores
beneath the bark of the tree, leaving
its excrement. which, when the limb
or sapling is girdled, prevents the san
from ascending, and then the tree dies
Becker says he has been close
observer for a number Of years and
finds that this destructive worm near.
ly always begins it's work at the trunk
of the tree. He also claims that the
reason so many die is the killing Of
woodpeckers by boys. who, as soon as
they get a gun. begin to exterminate
the most useful bird-guardian of the
forest. He claims to know dozens Of
trees in his neighborhood where he
can show how this worm does its
ravages.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
AERIAL BOMB
DROPPER KILLED
French Aviator Shot in His
BipIane by Turks.
STEERED MACHINE DYING.
Secured Photographs Of Enemys Posi-
ton For the BuIgarians, In
Whose Service He Was
Operating.

Paris-The fate of Or. Jules Con-
stantin, French aviator in the Bull
garian service, who was decorated by
King Ferdinand for bravery is de-
scribed in a dispatch just received
here DR.. Constantin started from
Surma village on his last fight over
the Tchatalja lines, with the object OF
dropping bombs on the Turkish troops.
His biplane disappeared rapidly, and
some hours later was seen to descend
near the Bulgarian camp.
The aviator was found lying on the
ground dead, with wound in his
chest The wings of the biplane had
also been pierced by bullets.
The instruments showed that he had
reached a height of nearly 1000 feet.
He had photographed the Turkish
lines and evidently had been shot, but
had strength TO guide the machine
back before he expired.
The Times prints Constantinople
dispatch embodying an interview with
the grand vizier, Kiamil Pasha. With
regard to the peace negotiations the
Grand Vizier said Turkey could not
permit Albania 10 be cut in two to
enable Servia to reach the sea and
could not give up Adrianople. He re
fused, however to indicate what con-
cessions Turkey was prepared to
make.
Asked if the government favored
Turkeys entry into the Balkan fedora
ton, Kiamil said that all depended on
the value of the federation and what
advantage Turkey was likely to find
In such a union.
With respect to the POrtes attitude
on foreign affairs Kiamil said the
Porte desired and was required to
stand well with all the powers, but
that it must not be forgotten that
Turkey vas a maritime country, and
1t was, therefore. her more special
interest TO have good relations with
certain maritime powers. The gov
ernment's policy, he added, would be
an extremely liberal one and would
introduce numerous reforms as soon
as the end of the war permitted.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
POSTAL CARD LESS POPULAR
Gaudier Postcard Is Now Largely
Taking Its Place.

Washington.-Th public appears to
have forsaken the governments sober
postal card for the gaudier production
of the souvenir shop, for the report of
Public Printer Donneily shows that
only 77O,253,3 99 cards were printed in
1912, while in the preceding year the
big establishment turned out 1,2S0,S95,-
$40. The printing office is run on a
cost basis, for Congress and the gov
eminent departments. Its business
for the past year amounted to $6,775,-
S25, the largest in its history, and the
Public Printer promises a reduction of
per cent. in its charges for the next
year. Speaking in typographical
terms, the printery produced 1902
e7S,306 impressions during the year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
FROM AGATE TO ZINC.
Everything 70 Be Revised, Says Rep
resentatiVe Underwood.

Washington complete revision
of the tariff along the lines indicated
IN the bills passed by the Democrats
in the last two sessions of Congress
will be made during the special SEES
sion, according to Oscar Underwood
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee. Congressman I'm
derwood called at the White House
and, after talking to President Taft,
outlined the special session program.
Hearings on tariff revision will begin
in January. When the special session
begins in April, the Ways and Means
Committee will have sufficient ma
terial in hand to send it's schedules to
the House without delay.
Everything from agate to zinc, -
was the reply of Congressman Under
wood to a question as TO what would
be revised.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
GETS BILLION DOLLARS.
New Treasurer of United States Signs
for Vast Sum.

Washington.-The greatest single
financial transaction in the history of
the United States was consummated at
the Treasury Department, when Carmi
A. Thompson, the new treasurer of the
United States, gave Lee McClung, his
predecessor, receipt for $1,519,28
9OS.57, representing the money and
securities in the personal custody of
the Treasurer on November 81, when
Mr.. McClung retired.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-13
OUT RED HOT STOVE
Philadelphia Resident Also "h'p'
His Wife and Sparks TWO
Sisters.

Philadelphia.-John Lepis, OF sV4
cottonwood street, doesn't ike 70
have his wife ask him for money Oh
pay day. Just because Mrs Lepls
asked him for money he gave ner .
beating, then spanked his two sisters
who went to the assistance OF Mls'
Lepis, after which he proceeded y
throw a red hot stove into the Stree
He was finishing his house wren,
ing job by breaking the last WIZ ~
window in the house when Pohcemso
Nonamaker and Lukweine took nim =
the police station where ne W"
locked up after the police nau 's and
rated him from his pay enVeiope o.
given it to Mrs. Lepis.