The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-04-02


according to plans today. The
money! will be distributed In two
concert work and parades.
he purses being $500 and ST.
300 respectively.
PORTLAND, Orc. - Portland
ministers today are on record as
'avoring the instruction of the
children in the public schools In
he bible.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland
today are determined that
he clty's milk supply shall be alb
'olutely clean, and are preparing
% enforce strictly an ordinance
'assed some time ago keeping out
II the city all milk not up to a
certain standard.
LONDON---Bent ON flying from
london to Paris II weather conc
ions prove favorable. Aviator
Gustav Halem, accompanied by
Miss Mary Davis. started from
Hendon aviation grounds here al
1898 a, m. today. At 11,15'
o'clock Halem passed over Dover,
headed for the French shore
across the channel.
PASADENA, Cal---iAndrew Carr
negie has seen the Carnegie obser-
vatory ON Mount Wilson by proxy
Today. At his suggestion, John
Ross. chairman of tho Carnegie
Dumferline trustees, travelled to-
the observatory in a make-shiftl
sedan chair ON the backs of 12t
Japanese, who worked In relays.
Los ANGELES. Cal. - Miss
Ruth Boettcher, Denver heiress,
Is not engaged to Sir Thomas LIP
ton. Neither is she engaged to
Lord Kitchener. Nor Ia she to
become the wife of Harry Scott.
She emphatically expressed the
wish that someone would pull out
the tongue of Dame Rumor.
PORTLAND. Ore.--WiIiamette
Falls is today the mecca of the
fishermen and they are pulling the
king of fab out by the score. It.
Is believed more than 1000 SAL
mon were landed by Willamette
river anglers on the first day of
the season.
FREMONT, Neb. - Fremont
faces today a famine as a result of
the appetites of $500 passengers
stalled here today by the floods
on "a overland trains of the
Union Observation-Disclosures trans
lines en- route from
Pacific coast points to Chicago.
The passengers have consumed
everything edible in the town and
are DANGEROUSLY hungry today.
SAN FRANCfSCO--CeIeste Gil
ormenti went to an Italian mas
querade ball attired as Marc An
tony and won the prize. So puff
ed up did he become that he In
sisted ON parading the streets i'm
the costume. He forfeited 800
bail.
SAN FRANCISCO-With the
Panama-Pacific international ex-
position in San Francisco in 1915
as the central feature of the I'M
the congress of festi-
walls, attended by delegates from
all the leading cities of the Pacific
coast opened its initial session, at
the st. Francis hotel here at 10
o'clock today.
SEATTIE-Joseph AIassa, chef
at the Butler hotel, is today hope
full of recovering $4,000. of which
he was fieeced by two of his coun-
trymen as a result of his conf
dence in the Italian game called
"Boccio," which resembles the
English sport of bowling on the
green. Leandro Farrato and
Reinarri Sisto, the ]. Rufus Wal
lingford expert on "Boccio," were
arrested in Butte yesterday.
IEhGN--I Fesfueut udn II
bringing strong pressure to bear
upon the authorities of the va
rious Chinese provinces to con-
tribute the money for payment or
the Boxer indemnity, now several
overdue. Unless the re-
CURED sum is speedily made up,
the president looks for compiled
tons between China and the pow
ers to which the money is owing.
OYSTER BAY, y. Y.-Bounc
for a three days speaking tour OF
Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland ana
West Virginia, in the interest or
his candidacy for the republican
presidential nomination, Theodore
Roosevelt leaves here at sos this
afternoon. The colonel spent the
day at Sycamore hill.