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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

said she was in the house on an
invitation from Mrs. Schiff. Il
will show how the story was con-
ceived and also those who aided
hinFin publishing it. Schiff in
tends that the entire story be
made public, so that the respon-
sibility may be shown"
Myrabeau Towne, represent
ing Brandt, resented Nicoll's
statements, declaring that rather
than that the woman should be-
come involved, Brandt was will
ing to. spend the remainder of his
term in prison.
Detective Joseph Woodbridge,
who arrested Brandt, testified
regarding the alleged manufac-
tured record, on the strength of
which Judge Rosalsky sentenced
Brandt to 80 years. imprison-
meIt,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
KEPT CHILD IN
CROWDED
CAMP

Mrs. Thomas s. Burley today
got an order for Robert M. Be-
dolf, her ex-husband, to come
into court and show why he
didn't return their five year old
child to the state.
In an 1S-page affidavit the
mother tells how the child was
taken to Oregon two weeks ago,
where 1t is held in a construction
camp 40 miles from a railroad
by Bedolf's relatives.
"His father. mother, sister and
my son live in one-room cabin, /"
the mother recites. She says too
that dog sleeps in the same
bed with the child and that the
dog has fleas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
[. A. STONE OUT

l.. A. Stone, president of the
South Side Improvement club,
has SHE'D his castor into the po-
litical arena and will run for the
job left vacant by Ben Weeks.
Il am going to run because /
want to see the light and water
departments made ko," said
Stone.
Stone worked for five years in
the light and water office, helped
to inaugurate the record system,
going through all tse positions in
the office.
Stone is the man who brought
the street car company to time
two years ago and compelled it
to run to South Tacoma by fling
cases against it as r. w. Wilkin-
son did this winter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
Belated Romance
Is Now Divorce

The belated romance of Thorn
as T. and Regina Armstrong
has faded.
Married Is months ago when
he was 60 and she 81. the wife
says that Armstrong at once an
nounced that he had married for
money and that she must sup
port him. When she refused, he
left, the wife says in her divorce
complaint today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
INJURED WORKMAN WHO
ASKS FOR WARRANT is
MET BY CIVIL SUIT, AND
ATTACKS COUNTY OFF,
GALS.

Everett e. Harding, a work
man crushed on the 18th st.
bridge Job in September, en-
-ployed ]. Matthew Murray to sue
the company.
Murray settled for 5000 No
vember 90.
Harding was to give him 40
per cent II he settled and 80 per
cent IL he sued.
But Harding only got $1,000,
he says.
Three weeks ago he got tired
waiting for the rest of his money
and asked Deputy Prosecutor
Burmeister for a warrant Bur-
meister refused to issue one. So
did McMurray.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
Phone Company
Loses Chance

! The Bell Telephone monopoly
was saved from prosecution fer
its extortionate rates by tho de-
sire of the Commercial club to
give 1t a chance to do right, but
now that the new schedule of
rates has been made. II Is found
that Tacoma is still Disseminated
against in favor OF Seattle.
The clubs traffic representa-
tive, Jay McCune. will probably
take the matter to the state conf
mission now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
VICE GANG
CONlFI|DE
WITH DECENT ELEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP
ISTER SALOON CROWD HOPES UNSEAT PETITE
AND RESTORE EXCESsES OF RoYs REGIME

If the election were held tomorrow, Petit would
be defeated
So said one of Tacoma's shrewdest political OBJ,
servers today after study OF the registration lists.
Think that over.
Has Petit been failure? Has he broken his
election promises? Elected on a pledge to clean up
the town, has he gone to the enemy? Also, has
the town changed it's opinion since it elected Pettf
Has Tacoma around to "wide-open town" way
OF thinking2 Does Tacoma, after one year Of de-
cency, want to go back to the of the Roys
regime? Does Tacoma want gambling and gded
cafes and restricted. district again?
The answer to each of these questions is big en-
phatc NO.
What then is the explanation?
just this--the people who have the best interests
OF the town at heart aren't registering
And the other people are.
Every saloon man and every saloon hanger-on
whom they can control or influence has registered.
prey for the freebooters who rob of their souls
and men of their or---all these down on the
citys registry books
And the good people not.
It's desperate matter for the open town gang.
They've got to register And to vote.
They know now that their only hope of winning is
by the apathy of the decent people.
They have tried every crooked scheme they could
think of to discredit Petit Lies have been told,
traps laid forgery and theft and open perjury re-
sorted without effect. Petit has grown stronger
with each attack-for behind each scheme was plain
ly evident the menacing hand of the Forces of Evil
Failing to win by these methods they are pnning
their hopes on the Indifference of the decent cit
izenship.
''The good people aren't registering. Well win,''
is the secret exutant boast of Tacomas underworld
It's time for action We must be ready to serve
the city.
Just eighteen more days remain for registration.
Less than $4,000 people have registered far. Last
year the total vote cast exceeded 24000.
All kinds Of schemes and agnments may
appear between and April q the date of the pri
mary election.
Unless you are registered before March IL you can
not lift your voice in protest
3 We may realize before then much more clearly
than the scope of the vice gang IS desperate bat
tie to regain possession of Tacoma
Unless you are registered you must stand by idle
and see them win.
Get ready today.
REGISTER!
sIHoNnR EHsANcEas W1II.4BD
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
SEYMOUR BACK,
FEELS HAPPY

Mayor Seymour is back at his
office again.
He appeared for the first time
for over six weeks at the meet
ing of the commission this morn
ing.
"I had a bully good time but
if fellow wants to feel real good
just let him go to bed for a while
then get up and out where he can
see the green grass" says the
mayor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
Couple Makeup;
LAWYER Sues

Francis M. Fawcett, brother to
the ex-mayor, made up with his
wife after she sued him for di-
vorce in October. 1909. as she
had done before and did later.
but Atty. Walter M. Harvey wants
$9S,43 fees out of the near case,
anyway. He sued for 1t today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

John Williams. author of .The
Mountain that Was God, : Is in
court today answering suit for
$8O9 worth of printing brought
by the Pioneer Bindery & Print
ing Co. Williams sues for $1,000
damages, saying the work on
1900 books was unsatisfactory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
REFUSE TO
PR0SECU1 E
THREE SERIOUS CHARGES THREE DAYS DISMISSED BY
PROSECUTORS OFFICE-ONE NAN FOUND GUILTY IN
COURT.

Refuse prosecute for lack of evidence
seduction OF
of 49,
Maple saloon
months Jail police court
Monk" Warwick saloon for attack
girl.
office in three days
in furnishing alleged crimes
of getting a familiar
What's the matter there?
These If these guilty, each
given There serious
innocent girls
of trouble for the police
police testified
direct testimony which left doubt
the minds of jurors.
against serious A servant
with girl friend. 1t
in plausible
ured into downtown hotel
only day. overwhelmed terrible
tried yanly herself and
that told her employers the
Young arrested
the office And Young went Free
a had Schwartz and Lewis.
Young Lewsthese not school boys They
responsible
Perhaps No desires innocent
man punished -
office to leave stone unurned until the
guilty punished
What's the matter with the prosecuting attorneys office?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
WANTS BIG DAMAGES.

II. A. Burnham fell In alight-
from a street car two years ago.
He is suing today for 100000
damages
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

The county prohibitionists VIII
hold a convention Friday at thu
w. @, T. u. hall, Lunch at viii
follow the politics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
HONOR FusANCEs wILLARD.

The w. G. T. U. will hold q
Frances Willard memorial at the
room headquarters. $40 SO. eth
st, Thursday afternoon. Rev. w.
A. Moore and Others viii speak.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20
World News
.%ln Rrief%

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO. - William Penn
Nixon, veteran newspaper editor
and politician, is dead here.
Death resulted from heart failure,
which was chronic with Nixon.
For many years he was editor of
the Chicago Inter Ocean.
SALT LAKE CITY.-Count
Rainier Halffy, Austrian noble
man, is a suicide here. He fre-
quented pool halls several days
and his losses are said 70 have
been heavy.
MARPSVILLE, Call. Fritz
saved up $125 intending to marry
Miss Eva Lamb. Fritz says he
gave her the money to buy furni-
ture but instead she bought a
ticket for Reno. He's on the
Fritz.
SAN FRANCISCO.-s'Get your
mother to leave and I'll withdraw
my divorce suit" Marion Lem
lons told his wife. Mamma-in-
law skiddooed, lawyers were dis
missed and the couple are all
smiles again.
OAKLAND, Cal. - "Your
money or your life," a thug said
to Mrs. N. J. Miller. Mrs. Miller
failed to scare. Instead she jab-
bed the bandit with hatpin until
Ihe begged for mercy.
NEW YORK.-"Nothing do
ing" That was the invariable
answer made today to an army
of fortune hunters by Miss Mary
Chase, spinster who has in
herited 100000.
PORTLAND, Ore.-Patrolman
Griffith was hunting blind pigs
when he entered Bessie Levy's
boarding house. He spent the
next half hour treed on a dining
room taDie Dy ner Dulldog, which
she "sicced'' on him.
PORTLAND, Ore.--Guissippi
Attrata, being examined for nat
uralization. was told to read the
preamble to the constitution. He
did, although he held the book
upside down. He wonders why
the papers were not granted.
BOsTONs-Forced to pass the last
forty years of her ltfs practically
|penniless. Mrs. Luck ID. Fisk. widow
OF James Fisk, jr., partner of the
late Jay Gould. died in South Bos-
ton today Rivalry between Fisk
and Edward s, Stokes for the
to shoot Fisk moro than - years
ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

NEW YORK.-"Nothing do
ing" That was the invariabl,
answer made today to an army
of fortune hunters by Miss Mar!
Chase, spinster who has in
herited 100000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

PORTLAND, Ore.-PatrolmaI
Griffith was hunting blind pig
when he entered Bessie Levy
boarding house. He spent tn
next half hour treed ON a dininI
room table by her bulldog, whicI
she "sicced'' on him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

OAKLAND, Cal. - "Your
money or your life," a thug said
to Mrs. N. J. Miller. Mrs. Miller
failed to scare. Instead she jab-
bed the bandit with hatpin until
he begged for mercy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

MARPSvILLE, Call. Friti
saved up s125 intending to marry
Miss Eva Lamb. Fritz says he
gave her the money to buy furni
ture but instead she bought {
ticket for Reno. He's on the
Fritz.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

BOsTON.--Forced to pass the lost
forty years of her lifsl practically
|psnniless. Mrs. Luck d. Ffsk. widow
late Jay Gould. died in south Bos-
ton today Rivalry between Fisk
ana Edward S, Stokes for tho
smiles of Josie Mansfield led stokes
to shoot Fisk moro than ~ years
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-20

SALT LAKE CITY.-Count
Rainier Halffy, Austrian noble
man, Is a suicide here. He fre-
quented pool halls several days
and his losses are said 70 have
been heavy.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
ELECTRICITY TO KILL PESTS
First Experiments Made in Washing
ton to Destroy Moths and Aphides
by Ineandescent Lights.

Some experiments in electrocuting
tree pests, said to be the first ever
made, were recently conducted in the
state of Washington by w n. Frost
and J. C. Lawrence. In a six-year-old
orchard many second-brood moths
and green aphides were killed in a
few minutes. The apparatus consist
ed of storage battery and incandes-
cent-light globes of siN-candle power.
netted with fine steel wire, coated
with copper and tin alternately. The
globes were placed in the trees, at
the ends of covered wires. and the
moths flying against them completing
the electric circuit. were killed. and
fell into receptacles beneath the
globes Mr. Frost estimates that one
battery TO an acre of trees will keep
the moths under control. dispensing
with the usual spraying anG saving
many dollars. He is preparing TO wire
his orchard of ten acres. containing
seven hundred trees, and some neigh
bors will do the same. Several thou
sand acres of bearing apple trees will
be thus equipped by spring. If COM
mercial electric wires are extended to
orchards the expense of batteries may
be saved by making direct connection
with them.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

The annual meeting of all the
stockholders of the Delta County
Orchard Company will be held at the
office TO said company at 447 Main
St, Delta, Colorado, on Tuesday,
the 2Sth day of June, A. D. 1912.
al the hour of 400 P. NJ, for the
purpose of electfng directors and
for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come be-
fore said meeting.
Also the question of bonding the
Company and securing the SINE on
property of the Company by mort
gage or deed of trust, will come be-
fore the stockholders for consider
ution, at which time and place the
amounts and terms of the bonds if
any, will be fixed and decided upon.
All are urgently requested TO at
tend
Dated at Delta, Colorado, this
Gath day of May, 1912.
SAM SNOW,
President,
GENEVIEVE HARTIG,
Secretary.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
LOOKING AHEAD.

One year from now the Repub-
lican party will have over one mil
lion dollars to distribute over the
state if a good roads bill is not pas
sed low, and naturally they are not
in favor of any steps being taken
to make half of this sum available
now"
The above is the closing sentence
in an editorial in the Pueblo Star
Journal, calling on Governor Shat
roth to convene an extra session of
the legislature to enact a law to
take care of the internal improve
lnent fund.
The Republicans of Colorado will
lie glad to know that the Star Jour
nal sees the handwriting on the
wall, and admits that one year from
now the Republicans will be IN con-
troll and will be distributing the in
te-nal improvement fund.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
BUSINESS LOCALS

wanted-Clean Cotton Rags. At
this office
Rooms from 81 up. Good store
room. Basement short order fur
nlshed. NJ. R. LINCOLN.
For Sal=Desirable Residence
property in Delta. Best of locations.
Inquire at this office.
Protect your home against fire
by insuring with Stephan & Obert-
See WEIGH & Merrill for Real Es-
tate, Loans aud Fire Insurance.
Take your feet to the Spot Cash
for Shoes.
Fore Sale Cheap Slightly used
Piano. Also good piano for rent.
Minney, $50 Main street.
First class Seed Oats. clean and
free from weed seed, testing 43
pounds per bushel, by R. S. McClel-
land. Phone Eckert 23-I. At
Bronze Turkey Eggs tor sale. ST..
so per setting. Phone Delta 1913.
For Sale or Rent-Five-room mod
ern house, barn, large garden, lawn
and fine shade trees. Mrs. c. E.
Dana
Wanted-Work at cleaning car
pets, cleaning house, making or car
ing for lawns. Rudolph Paulus.
Leave word at l. NJ Conklin's store
or at George Crabilrs.
For Sale-One good team mares,
enc colt two weeks old. See George
W. Meyer, the Racket man.
mead piann
cheap. Payments If desired. Ad-
dress Piano." care Delta indie
pendent.
For Sale-so acres land, 80 acres
in cultivation, fenced, 50-inch farm
fence, SO acres water. Good loca-
ton. School, church. R. F. D. P.
o. 9. miles from Delta. $4,000. 81
900 cash. bal. IN years. ]. B. Skin
ner, Delta
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31

George Dane. Colorado's giant vet
Gran of the civil war. died in Den
YER Sunday. Mr.. Dane served with
Company e, First Colorado caval-
ry He stood feet, Az inches and
was built proportionately large. He
served in some of the greatest bat
lies of the civil war. but his great
size never proved an effective large
for the enemy's bullet. He was new.
or wounded. Veteran Dane died AT
the age Of II. He came to Colorado
with the gold hunters in 40. He
was Mason and n G. A.. R.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
GOT JUST WHAT
THEY
DESERVED.

So far we have found only one
paper in the United States, not
boldly proclaiming itself Socialistic
or anrachistic in policy, defending
he Industrial Workers of the
World, that Internal. lawless and
strictly unAmerican outfit which
has caused so much trouble in San
Diego recently, and in other Amer
lean cities from time to time. and
that paper is in Grand Junction.
San Diego citizens dealt harshly
with these anarchists. just as they
should be dealt with. Harsh methods
and emphatic actions alone can stamp
out such aggregations The /. w.
VS. are entitled to no sympathy. no
federation and no mercy. They
should be driven from the shores
OF this country.
We were considerably surprised a
the action of the National Socialist
conventiY last Saturday lin which
convention the mayor of this city
sat as delegate) in donating
$3.50 to assist the campaign for
free speech" in San Diego. while
at the same time refusing to recog
Eize the l. w. w. as an affiliatins
organization.
The idea of comparing the attack
of the citizens of San Diego on
ibis blood-thirsty and law-hatng or
ganization with the old Salem witch
craft deeds, is sufficient to make a
the slightest room for a comparison
l. is a desperate effort TO create sym
pathy for these anarchists.
We hope that every city in Am
erica which has to deal with these
individuals who curse the Amer
lean flag, curse American institu-
tons of all kinds and are willing to
steep their souls in crime of any
nature to gain their point. will
deal with them as strenuously and
as effective as San Dioego dealt
with them.
Can any thinking man or woman,
believing in law and order, and in
spired with patriotism. agree to toll
crate an organization whose an
nounced doctrines are as follows;
That workmen are to use any
and all tactics that will get results
sought. with the least possible eN-
penditure of time and energy.
The question of right or wrong
not to be considered.
The avenging sword is to be un-
sheathed, with all hearts resolved
on victory or death.
THE workman is to help himself
when the proper time comes,
No agreement with an employer
of labor is to be considered by the
worker as sacred or inviolable.
The worker is to produce infer
Tor goods and to kill time in getting
tools repaired and in attending to
repair work; all by tacit under
standing.
The worker is to look forward
to the day when he will confiscate
the factories and drive out the own
ers.
The worker is to get ready "a
cause national industrial paraly sis
with a view of confiscating all in
dustries; meanwhile taking forcibl,
possession of all things that he may
need,
Strikers are to disobey and treat
with contempt all judicial injwac
lions. Grand junction Sentinel.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
FIELD WORK FOR BEETS.

he melHOuS sOl CulllNdllOn are
various. The object sought is the
elimination of grass and weeds,
md loosening of the soil around
the plants. Beets must be kept clean.
By this term in sugar beet growing
is meant more than in corn growing.
Ii is desired that beets shall be
rich in sugar. The sun and air are
rich in sugar. The sun and air are
This result. Weeds and grass must
be eliminated from the crop in ord ]
that this may be accomplished.
Beets are vigorous crop and they
should have all the sustaining power
of the soil and not divide it with
waste plants and weeds
After the first cultivation the hor-
izontal blades OF the cultivator
are replaced with eliptical blades
which penetrate the soil three to
four inches and loosen it, making a
dust mulch which conserves the
moisture and promo tes the growth
of the plant. The cultivator is usual
ly drawn by a single horse and is
manipulated by a single laborer who
time. 1t can be seen that this part
of the work is not particularly la
borious. One man and horse cal
cultivate many acres OF beets in the
course of season. The number of
civilizations given a crop varies ac-
cording to the eMgencies of the
case. If it is a dry season cultivation
should be continuous in order to
maintain a dust mulch and con-
serve the moisture. If the beets are
excessively wedy, hand hoes should
be used. The number of times the
teets should be hoed also varies.
The crop should be kept abso-
lutely freed from weeds and the
ground should be kept soft and in
good condition. If the land has
become foul, the more hoeing the
better for good results. A cultiva-
tor should be brought into requisi-
ton at the errliest moment and
the services of the weeder or har-
row continued alternately with the
cultivator even after the plants are
up. Cultivation should be contin-
uous from the time the plants come
in sight until they become so large
that it is impossible to continue.
Good results are just as effective
in teaching a farmer as in any other
business When doing things GER
tain way results in large profits,
the farmer is disposed to repeat
the operation. In order to procure q
good crop of corn, potatoes or any
other cultivated field crop, it is
not really necessary that the fields
should be absolutely clean. They
may be well cultivated and kept or
dinarily clean during the growing
season and still good yield may
be secured. But yield is not the
only consideration with sugar beets;
they must be pure and high in sug-
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
THE TELEPHONES
BROADER FIELD

You know the telephones
mechanical ingenuity. But
do you know the ingenuity
Of its every day uses.
Ordinary uses Of the tele-
phone are pretty well under
stood; but there is an enor-
nous field of long distrance
telephone service just out
side the ordinary. every day
uses of the average family.
Many families get twice.
three times. FIVE fold and
even ten fold the real service
from the telephone that
others do. They have no
advantage over their neigh
bors. being subscribers to the
same Bell service. But they
are ingenious. They turn to
the long distance telephone
in emergencies. They en-
ploy long distance to give in
creased convenience. to re-
lieve anxiety. to bind the
family together in spite Of
separation. to promote social
life. share happiness, express
sympathy and enlarge their
interests on every hand. To
them the telephone is far
more than a convenience for
ordering groceries.
These wider uses Of the
telephone are important.
And. by the way. long dis
lance messages are not as
expensive as you may think.
Call Long Distance" and
inquire about rates.
THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-31
Green Celery.

A home gardener at Greenville. Pa.
prefers Giant Pascal to Winter Queen
celery. He claims that Giant Pascal
is more solid and that there is less
tendency for 1t to become hollow. 1t
also grows more erect than Winter
Queen. but its great height makes
blanching more difficult These. with
out doubt, are the leading varieties
Of green celery grown in the United
States.