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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Adventures of Average Jones
BY SAM'L HOP KINS ADAMS.
Copyright, 1911, by Bobbs, Merrill Coz

smaller, carries a small but ef-
ficient bullet. This curious
sheath"-he pointed to cylindri-
cal jacket around part of the rifle
barrel-'is a Coulomb silencer,
which reduces a small-arm report
almost to a whisper. Here is an
electric button which was con-
nected with yonder battery before
l operated on 1t with a chair, and
disturbed its parts, part to the
gun, part to the flash-light pow
der on this little shelf. Do you
see the plan now? The instant
that the governor. riding thro Ayh
the street yonder, Is sighted
through this glass, the operator
presses the button, and flash
light and bullet go off instan-
taneously."
But why the flash-light?"
asked the governor.
Merely a blind to fool the
landlady and avert any possible
suspicion. They had told her
that they had a new invention to
Jake IlaSn-ugnIS at distance.
Amidst the other flashes, this one
wouldn't be noticed particularly.
They had covered their trail
WELL"
ftWeH, indeed" said the gov
ernor. May / congratulate you,
MI. Morrison, on this interesting
achievement in ballistics?"
@As4, there is no way of prop
erly resenting an insult from q
man in your position" said Nor
rison venomously, II will reserve
my answer to that outrageous
suggestion"
Meantime" put In Average
Jones, "let me direct your atten-
ton to a simple mathematical
formula" He drew from his
pocket an envelope on which
were drawn some angles, sub
Joined by a formula. Morrison
waved 1t aside.
Continued Tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Carrying with him Miss Gene
We've Buckner, a pretty miss
chosen by the Seattle Star from
a score of applicants. Cliff Tur-
pin, a slender young pupil of the
Wright brothers, who looks more
like a golf player than death
defying aviator, is planning to
startle Seattle people this after
noon.
"If were to go up to the roof
of this hotel and look over I
would get dizzy" said Turpin.
But when you are two or three
thousand feet above the earth all
fear of height vanishes. You
seem to be standing still. 1t is
as if-as if"
The birdman snapped his fing-
ers, then puffed his cigaret to
help him find the words.
ut is as if you were the only
living thing in the universe. You
are absolutely alone-and glad
of it."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Build New Church

The United Presbyterian
church of North America in gen.
eral assembly at Seattle now is
making ample provision for ex-
tending the work. One move
ment is to purchase four lots in
the North End here and build a
new church, giving Tacoma
three u. P. churches.
1t is expected that the dele
gates, including many of the
leading thinkers in the country,
will come to Tacoma when the
assembly is over.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Case Makes Hit

(By United Press Leased Wire
SPRAGUE, Wash, May 20
At one of the largest political
meetings ever held here, Otto
Case, progressive candidate for
governor, scored big hit when
he outlined his plan for loaning
surplus money from the school
funds to farmers on farm mort
cages, in periods of depression.
Case also demanded a living
wage for girl workers and made
a strong plea for the recall of
judges. He speaks at Spokane
tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Fraud Is Charged In
Land Transfer

Carl Mettler is not satisfied
with the report of Commissioner
Worden filed with the federal
court which indicates open fraud
in the transferring from Simon
Mettler to Carl Mettler of nearly
100000 worth OF property to
beat creditors and has filed bill
of exceptions with the court, alleg-
ing the referees conclusions do
not harmonize with the evidence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Fairgrounds Will
Aid Immigrants

L. H. Weir today addressed the
rotary club on the necessity for
being we'll equipped with parks
and Fairgrounds for the proper as
similation of the foreign tide of
immigrants that will sweep into
the Northwest when the Panama
canal Is opened.
He insisted that the athletic
field, parks, swimming pools and
the like will help to Americanize
the foreigners faster than any.
thing else that can be put into the
city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
VALLEY MEN BANQUET
Try United Press: Lea,

(By United Press Leased Wire
PUYALLUP, May 29.-Busi-
ness men of Sumner and Puyal-
lup banqueted last evening and
discussed the necessity for Or
ganization in all Valley cities.
The Puyallup business men are
taking up a movement to get a
new road cut through to Ora
ham. The latter settlement has
no way to get to town now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
San Diego Troubles
Are Now Ended

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
SAN DIEGO, May 29.-With
San Diego preparing for the big
gest memorial day parade in her
history, the I. w. w. troubles of
the city are today apparently =.
an end.
superintendent of Police Sehon
has issued an appeal to the peo-
pie asking their cooperation in
preserving peace and order.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Gray Headed Jury
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(By United Press Leased Wire.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, May %.
"A jury of white haired men
will try Gorham Tufts, jr., ascetic
and mystic, on charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses.
Tufts, who was the founder of an
Oriental cult and against whom
his wife, Mrs. Jennie Roe Tufts,
has instituted divorce proceed
ings, was placed on trial late yes
terday before Judge Willis. The
defense, within a few minutes,
had exercised its ten peremptory
challenges to rid the panel or
young men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Photograph Flying Birds In
Effort To Fly With Wings

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, May 29.-Carl Se;-
fert, a German aviator, is trying
to solve the problem of human
flight by moving picture camera.
He is dissatisfied with aeroplanes
and dirigibles, and longs to fly
with wings attached to his body.
With a cinemetgraph camera
he is studying bird flights and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

trying to record the number OF
wing beats it takes bird 10 cover
a stated distance. He already
has established the fact that the
heron, one of the most cimber-
some of birds, flaps its wings at
12O to $50 times per minute and
he hopes to work out the exact
number of flaps necessary to sup
port a man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Captain Canned

(By United Press Leased Wfre.)
LIVERPOOL, May 29.--Em~
phatic denial of a report from
Boston that Captain Lord was to
be relieved from command of the
liner California because his ves-
sci failed to heed distress calls
from the Titanic was made here
today by General Manager Roper
of the Leyland line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
Wrinkles Go Quick
Easy Home Treatment

Beauty Doctors and the Medical
Profession stand Aghast in
wondrous New Method of Re-
moving Wrinkles, Which Has for
Ages Baffled the Leading Experts
of the Earth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
INDICT SHARK
(By United Press Leased Wire. J

PORTLAND, Ore, May 90
nj. e. Sehouweiler and Adolphus
Lane have been indicted here for
running a loan shark office.
The indictments are based on
the nuisance statute which covers
almost every unjust act. 1t is
believed that if this statute holds
against Schouweiler and Lane
wholesale prosecutions will fol-
low.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Robert Burger went to settle q
dispute with one Covert over own
ership of a watch at Spokane and
Mrs. Covert took a shot at him
with a rifle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Four hundred farmers are
meeting in Spokane to boost CO.
operation and get organized fol
national marketing to eliminate
middlemen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
WOULD keep JAPS
OFF THE COAST
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 90.
that the Japanese
population of the United States
Is increasing at the rate of 1900
a year, Representative Baker of
California today urged the house
immigration committee to report
favorably on his bill to exclude
Asiatic laborers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Attorney General Tanner says
the right to take kelp from tide
lands is vested in the owners OF
the tidelands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Are you reading the Times
Pink? It's out with the crack of
the last bat every day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Thursday night dancing class
at Sloan's academy has been post
poned one week. Prof. Sloan is
confined to his home. go
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
HERE AFTER EMBEZZLER

Deputy Sheriff Sturcke of San
Joaquin county arrived In Taco
ma last night to bring George
Granville back to Stockton, Cal.
George is charged with embez-
cling $500 from a widow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Adelbert Clark, waiting trial
for alleged murder of Lawrence
Bar, is the only inmate of the jail
at Centralia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

Moose Ninasicha. Tacoma theater.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
State News

Becky Beck, I. w. w. leader,
was acquitted at Seattle on q
charge of assault In a picketins
melee.
New insane hospital at Sedro-
Wooley was dedicated yesterday.
Tohu Saka of Japan asks the
state industrial insurance board
for compensation for the death of
her son, Sankichi Saka, in a mill
at Midland.
Inefficiency Of the ministry it.
self and unspiritual congregations
were given as reasons why there
is lack of young men for the
spread of the gospel, at the U. p.
general assembly in Seattle.
Northwest Music Teachers as
ISOLATION meets at Walla Walla
tomorrow.
f. B. Hubbard, Centralia, re-
elected to head the Southwest
Washington Fair association.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-29
How the Wives of Leading Democrats Dressed
For The Dolly Madison Breakfast Party

FROM FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AT THE
BREAKFAST IN WASHINGTON ATTENDED BY
400 DEMOCRATIC WIVES IN HONOR OF DOLLY
MADISON'S BIRTHDAY.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
ENGINE MANGLES
BODIES OF WOMEN
Four Killed, Two Hurt, of Party
Struck While Walking
Track.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 19.-Four
women were killed and two injured last
night when a Baltimore and Ohio pas
senger train struck an outing party on
the Western Maryland railway extern
sion, one mile west OF Frostburg sta
ton.
The dead:
MRS. CARRIE SCHNEIDER, aged
twenty-seven, wife of Oscar Schneider.
ORLANDO FLORIDA, who was visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Morris Welmore, of
FTostburg.
MISS JENNIE SCHNEIDER, aged
twenty-five.
MISS BESSIE WILLIAMS, aged thir-
ty-two.
The injured:
Miss Edna Raley. aged thirty.
Miss Minnie Schneider. aged thirty.
John Dixon, of Baltimore, who was
with the party, escaped injuries.
The young folks were walking toward
Frostburg, returning home, on curve
with their backs toward the approach
ing train. A freight train had just
passed on the westbound track.
Passenger Engineer Frank Cunning
ham saw the danger and blew the whis-
lie, but he was speeding about thirty
miles an hour and his train was on
them before he could slow down. The
engine pilot plowed into the party bad
ly mangling the bodies.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
INSTITUTE WEEK. AT
GREAT FALLS CAMP
Interesting Program Of Lectures
and Sermons Has Been
Arranged.

This is institute" week at the Metho-
dist Episcopal. South, camp meeting at
Great Falls. An interesting program of
strong lectures and sermons has been
arranged
The institute" opened today with a
morning watch at : o'clock. More than
200 persons attended this service. The
Rev. G. w. Gather was in charge.
The first lecture of the institute" was
at 9 o'clock by the Rev. DR.. ]. w.
Smith. who spoke on Europe in the
Sixteenth Century" This was the first
of a series of lectures the Rev Smith
will deliver this week on Studies in
the Reformation" He lectures each
morning at 8 clock.
A series of morning lectures also was
begun by the Rev. DR.. J. A. Rice. He
spoke on Isaiah: The Majestic Holiness
of God: the Persistence and Power of
His Kingdom DR.. Rice will speak
each morning this week at II o'clock
Each afternoon at 3 o'clock the Rev
DR.. c.. NJ. Bishop will lecture on the
general subject of The Master Work.
er." His subject this afternoon is
Jesus the Man"
Dr. Rice breaches tonight at o'clock
on 'Selfhood and Service"
The Great Falls and Old Dominion
Railway is operating convenient
schedule to accommodate Washington
1ans who care to attend the meetings.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19

in the suit on the bonds which the
Government took"
Those who knew of the tragedy of
the Shoshone applauded and then the
vote.
A defeated woman started Westward
today from the National Capital. She
returns to tell those who have lost
S42, 900 that a billion dollar Congress
holds inviolate the right OF wealthy
nation to present it's claim ahead of
the individual, no matter what the
circumstances may be. The hopes of
years have come to nought, and the
power OF the Presidential veto has
triumphed over the majority of both
houses of Congress and the woman
from the West.
Returning homeward, Mrs. Macdon-
aid will hear the purr of the waters
about the highest dam in the world"
Her eyes will I'LL with tears and the
landscape will seem blurred. In Butte
she will enter a home which isn't hers
now, and the neighbors and the inno-
cent claimants will come in to hear
from the lips of their emissary to
the Nations Capital the story of the
lack of six votes and "just another
veto from the President"
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
TELEGRAPH ORDERS
SENT TO AGENCIES
TO PAY PENSIONS
Claims Have Been Held Up
by Deadlock in
Congress.

kilograms authorizing the payment
OF about 100000 overdue pensions to
Zo,"o Government pensioners were sent
out by the United States Pension Office
today to pension agencies at Indianapo-
u.s. Knoxville, Tenn; Louisville. KY:
ne" york city, Philadelphia. and To-
peka, Kas. These pensions should have
peen paid on August 4, being included
In the group of agencies which were
scheduled to pay on that date. but were
unable to do 40 on account of the dead
lock between the House and Senate
over the s16o, 100000 pension appropria-
ton bill. The controversy between the
TWO houses over the abolition of the
pension agencies was not settled until
late last week and the bill was signed
by the President on Saturday
Many of the pensioners were veterans
OF the civil war, and the money that
they will receive today or tomorrow
Is badly needed by them. They depend
on the Government for their living,
and the least delay, according to pen
sion ofhc1als Is apt to cause much in
convenience and suffering In the pres-
ent case many pathetic appeals were
received from them for assistance
Just as soon as the Government tele-
| grams reach the agencies today checks
will be mailed out to the 100000 or more
waiting persons. These checks have
| been prepared for mailing, and all the
agencies will have to do is to put them
\ in the mail.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
Did Little Lobbying.

Objectionable sense of the word Sine
appeared before the Senate and House
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
Paid for BY Poor People.

I'VE looked to the Government" con-
tinued Mrs. Macdonald. I'VE supposed
wo would have the right Of lien on the
project. We did not trust the con-
tractor on his own responsibility, but
those who let the contract, in this in
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
UNCLE SAM WANTS
LATEST STYLE FLAG
Emblem With Forty-eight Stars
Needed for Speaker and
Over Capitol.

Give us an up-to-date flag" was the
appeal today in the House of Minority
Leader Mann. He criticised the failure
of the House officers to provide new
flags on July l, containing forty eight
stars. by adding two stars for the new
States of Arizona and New Mexico.
Even on the flag over the Speakers
Mann declared. "On the ag floating
above the Capitol the old forty six-star
flag fiies.''
The House adopted Mann's resolution
to order the latest fashion in banners.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
Outing Is Called Off
For Camp Fire Girls

There are lbs sadly disappointed girls
in Washington today. The proposed
camp at River View of the Camp Fire
Girls will not be held as planned.
The Boy Scouts that have been en-
camped at this place for seven weeks
have been through a number of heavy
rainstorms and many chilly nights, and
as the weather man refuses to assure
perfect weather for the next two weeks
II was decided not to hold the outing.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
Esperanto Congress On.

Washington is not represented at the
Esperanto congress that is being held
at Cracow, Poland 1t was the inten-
tions of DR.. and Mrs. f. c. Reed, of
this city, to have made the trip, but
business engagements prevented. Last
year there were six persons from Wash
ington in attendance at the congress
meeting in Sweden.
The Washington times., 1912-08-19
Meeting at Clarendon.

The Citizens Association of Clarendon
will meet tomorrow night for the pur-
pose of appointing a committee to can
vass the citizens of the county In an
EFFORT to secure their cooperation in the
plans of the association for the better
ment of local conditions. The principal
object of the campaign is to provide for
an improved water supply and sewage
disposal system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-24

Diaz insurgents. would virtually open the
way to an advance upon the capital. 1t
was expected that the leaders Of the fed
eral columns would make a pretense or
attack and then surrender. To the as
constituent Of all observers the attack
was made in earnest and it was the in
surGents rather than the federals who
put up only show of fight. The end
came swiftly. The Diaz party seemed
stricken with paralysis and made far-
cicaI defense. 1t took only fifty men to
capture Diaz himself. though he was
then surrounded by about three hundred
Of his troops.
Probably when this Diaz movement has
been fully studied it will be found that
there has been treachery on both sides
1t may be that the apparent weakening
of the federal forces at the first stage OF
the Vera Cruz campaign was design TO
trick Diaz into the belief that his way
was easy He seemed to be overconfi-
dent. Perhaps he thought that he had
only to raise the standard of instruction
in the name OF '.Diaz'' and Mexico would
be his for the asking. His uncle. Don
Porfirio. has thus far shown no disposi-
ton to support or Sympathize with the
instruction. which has been as Iamen-
table a farce as the Reyes revolution
which followed shortly after Madero's
success. This victory by the government
at Vera Cruz. while it will not neces-
sarily have an effect upon the guerrilla
wars that are In progress in both the
north and the south. nevertheless re-
moves one of the gravest menaces which
have confronted the present administra-
ton since 1t was established.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-24
Diaz's Revolution Collapses.

Things seem to go by contraries in
Mexico. IL Is q good deal like the stock
market. in that the happenings are usu-
ally about the reverse of reasonable ex-
recitation. Here is this revolution of
Felix Diaz, that three days ago appeared
10 he assured of success. now in utter
-ollapse with the leader "A captive fac
ing death, and his followers imprisoned
% scattered When Diaz took the field,
m cooperation il was believed with Ia
yata. the southern insurgent chief there
was good reason to think that he was on
he way TO victory He captured Vera
cruz with practically no difficulty and
the federal forces showed signs of weak
ching in Their allegiance to Madero. Some
of the government troops went bodily
ever 10 him. all bat few officers of the
rlen of war in the harbor openly sympa-
thi-ed with his cause and IL was expected
that the forces that were sent to attack
him would al the proper moment aban-
don Madero and join the standard of re-
volt Preparations we're made for bat
t.e an Vera Cruz that, if won by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-24
Robberies.

Seldom has robbery been executed
with greater daring than that committed
yesterday afternoon by two men. suppos-
eddy Italians. who entered a mapmak-
ing establishment on 18th street and loot
ed the till after brutality maltreating the
plucky young woman who was in charge
of the office. Although the manager of
the establishment was within call on the
floor above accompanied by half a dozen
workmen. the intruders moved so swiftly
and successfully that they were not de-
tected OF mOlested. Fortunately a good
description OF them has been given to the
police and 1t is to be hoped that they will
be apprehended soon. Washington has
suffered severely during the last few
months from tiievery Of all grades and
as the winter approaches it is to be fear
ed that If the rogues are not caught they
will extend their operations and take a
heavy toll from the householders and
business men OF the city The other
night a thief broke through the show
window Of local shop and stole some
valuable furs. A man captured in Bal
timore and brought here Is believed to be
the culprit in this case Pocketbook
snatchers have been active for some
months. Is all this marauding and steal
ing the consequence Of special conditions
or Is It due to a slaol1ening Of police vigil
lance? The latter can hardly be true. and