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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that a petition to create a district
in which livestock shall not run
at large has been filed with the
County Auditor of Pierce County.
Washington. by Jno. G. Day and
Commissioners has fixed the 29th
day of August, A. ID. 1912, at IL
o'clock A. NJ, when a hearing will
be had on said petition at the Of
flee of said Board in the Court
House in Tacoma. Washington. or
ing may be adjourned to-, to hear
all persons interested in the ques-
ton presented by said petition, and
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN,
that said proposed district shall
consist of the following described
territory:
Commencing where the dividing
line between King and Pierce
Counties meets the meander line
of Puget Sound; thence in a south
easterly direction to meet the east
boundary line of Section Fifteen.
Range Three East; thence in a
southerly rection along the east
line of Sections Fifteen and Tween
ty-two in said township and range
until said section line extended
meets the meander line Of Puget
der line of the waters of Puget
Sound to the point of beginning,
said territory being greater than
two square miles in area, in Pierce
County, Washington.
BY order OF the Board of County
Commissioners this 18th day of
July, A. d. 1912. r
w. A. STEWART. :
County Auditor and Clerk of the
Board of County Commissioners
of said Pierce County, Washing
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
7-Acre Chicken Ranch

acres near Country Club, in
good soil and nearly all cleared. Has
small shack on 1t, some good tim
Der. Will take small house or lots
balance. Better look this up;
$1,000 2-3S
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BIDS FOR WOOD

Bids for the annual supply of
wood for the court house were
received this morning and will be
opened this afternoon.
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40 Acres Near Roy

Forty acres good bottom land, all
in good timber; Is only one mile
from Roy. This Is being given
away for $3.50; $3.50 cash, balance
semi annually. 2-F
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II you don't get your pa
per regularly before 6 O'Clock.
b every evening kindly call up
1.-THE Times circulation de-
partment, Main IL. We are
/ glad to receive complains or
2 suggestions as to the deiiv-.
cry of your paper. You are
entitled to perfect service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
Summons for Publication

SommOns IOt E-uUAHcHtIOm
In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington in and for the
County of Pierce. No. 32s4S.
Sadie Huske, Plaintiff. VS.. Peter
e. Huske, Defendant.
The State of Washington to the
said defendant, Peter e. Huske: :
You are hereby summoned to APP
pear within sixty (60) days after
the date OF the first publication OF
this summons, towit, within sixty
days after the 10th day of July,
1912, and defend the above entitled
action In the above entitled court
and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff and serve q copy OF your
answer upon the undersigned at
torney for plaintiff at his office be-
low stated; and in case OF your
failure SO to do, judgment will be
rendered against you according TO
the demand of the complaint which
has been filed with the clerk OF
said court.
This action is one brought by the
plaintiff against the defendant for
q decree OF divorce upon the
grounds of abandonment and fall
II. II. JOHNSTON.
Plaintiffs Attorney. p o. Adfiress
700-1o Fidelity Bldg. Tacoma,
Pierce County. Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
Trade for Seattle
PrODertY

Unobstructed view of Sound
and mountain. Handsome 7-room
modern bungalow. with fireplace.
furnace. stationary tubs, cement
2 feet above grade; fine lawn, few
young bearing fruit trees; facing
Sound. in paved district. all assess
ments in and paid.
VIII trade this beautiful home TOT
lots or a home in Seattle or Tacoma.
4-25)
To Exchange for Seattle
or Tacoma Property
rs or So acres berries and fruit
land for income property or vacant
lots. VIII assume mortgage.
Trade, Groom House
Six lots for one or two acres and
small house or lots, near car line;
must be Improved. 4-21
Tel. evenings, Main 9139.
To Exchange
West End
In walking distance, magnifi-
cent modern 6-room home the in
terror finish very best slash fir.
plumbing the very best money can
buy; cement foundation, with one
half cellar and cement floor; on
two fine lots. three feet above
grade; half block to 9Th av. car;
is minutes walk to Pacific av. To
exchange for several lots and small
house, West or South End. Price
$4,000. (4-6)
To Exchange
Fertile bottom land in valley ad-
nj N a nf IN
miles from Tacoma; all free of in
cumbrances; to trade for apart
ment house or business property.
VIII assume your mortgage. 90
Surety Bonds. Fire Insurance.
e. T.. GREGORY co.
8. r. Webb. e. r.. Gregory.
Second Floor Natl Realty Bldg.
1117 Pacific av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
Trade, Groom House

Six lots for one or two acres and
small house or lots, near car line;
must be improved. 4-21
Tel. evenings, Main 9139.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10
To Exchange for Seattle

or Tacoma Properly
rs or So acres berries and fruit
land for income property or vacant
lots. VIII assume mortgage.
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Clerk of the Town of steiiacoom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-10

Equity in 5-r. modern, partly fur
nfshed house, in South END, cheap.
Address Box 565. Tacoma
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
EQUITABLE LIFE
BUILDING BURNED
Magnificent New York Structure
Ruined by Fire.
SEVEN DIE; OTHERS MISSING
Firemen Sacrifice Their Lives to Save
Lower Part of City From Destruc-
tion-Fire Chief is Missing
Loss $1o,4oe,523

New York. - The immense mar
bic and granite home of the Equi-
table Assurance society, covering a
whole block in lower Broadway,
historic landmark of New York's early
period of skyscraper buildings and one
of the city's important financial CEN
ters was destroyed by fire with loss
of six lives and probably $6,000,0OO in
property. A dozen persons were in
jured. Valuable records, including
two priceless libraries which cannot
be replaced, went up in flames. The
fate of hundreds of millions of dol
lars worth of securities stored in
safe deposit vaults is in question, al
though it is believed that the fireproot
construction would save them from
damage.
The building was the home of the
Mercantile Trust company, the Equit-
able Trust company, the banking
house of Kountze Bros, the Mercantile
Safe Deposit company, and the Harri-
man railway lines.
Deputy Fire Chief Walsh is missing.
He is dead in the ruins.
Three men lost their lives by leap
ing from the roof. 1t is believed an
other was killed in one of the vaults.
According to an officer Of the Equit-
able, tie great safety deposit vaults
in the building contained securities ag-
gregating between $250,000,000 and
$500, 000,000 The vaults are believed
to be intact.
William Giblin, president of the Mer-
camille Safe Deposit company, was i'm
prisoned with three employees in
vault, but was rescued after f1remen
had sawed through several two-inch
bars.
Most of the vital records of the
Equitable society were kept in branch
offices of the society in the Hazen
building, several blocks from the main
Offices.
An officer Of the Equitable Life said
the society had duplicates of every
record in a building several blocks
away from the burned structure. The
fire, he said, would not affect the COM
pany's business with its policyholders
throughout the country.
The Offices of the Hartman lines,
which were in the building, were be-
ing moved to 165 Broadway. Every
thing had been moved except the pa
pers in the legal department. Many
valuable records, including the auto
biography of E. H. Hartman, were
there. 1t was believed these and 9th
er valuable records were destroyed.
The Equitable building occupied the
block between Broad and Nassau
street and Pine and Cedar streets.
A gale of wind sweeping through the
streets drove the flames through the
building from end to end
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
Andrew Carnegie.

ruin and if the bill now before con-
gress is passed you will have some
thing to prevent such panics."
In the written statement filed with
the committee, Mr.. Carnegie pointed
out that the steel committees task
had arisen from the fact that the
law of competition in business has
seemed recently to be impaired in
certain fields, notably those of natural
oil and steel and tobacco. Even now
a gigantic railway system, embracing
nearly one-half of the worlds railway
mileage, has been effected, and sew
eral retail companies have been con-
Victed under the Sherman law"
Continuing the story of his life,
Mr.. Carnegie said that during the
Civil war he suffered sunstroke and
was ordered to pass his summers in
a cooler climate.
81 went to my native land, Scot
land, and there l watched the Bes-
semer process of making steel. There,
too, l met Mr.. Dodds, who had in
vented patent for hardening the
face of steel. I purchased the patent
and brought Mr. Dodds to Pittsburgh,
where we built a furnace and made
the first hard surface rails in this
country"
Mr. Carnegie referred to that
great mechanical genius" Charles
Schwab, "as the greatest man I ever
knew in that line"
Witness explained how the Carnegie
Steel company had purchased five
sixths of the Oliver Mining com
pany's stock in the '9Os. Mr.. Stan
ley asked him why the final sixth
was purchased on a valuation basis
of $17.0OO,OJO for the whole tract,
though originally the company was
capitalized at only s1,200,000 Mr..
Carnegie expressed surprise at this
question
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
MONETARY BOARD
ON BANK REFORM
Commission Drafts Bill After Four
Years Work-To Prevent
Money Panic.

Washington, D. C-The national
monetary commission. after four
years of study and labor, have drafted
a bill to revise the currency system
OF the United States designed to pre-
vent a recurrence of such unfortunate
financial conditions as prevailed dur
ing the money panic of 1907.
The bilF consists of fifty-nine sec
tons and in general follows the lines
of the socalled Aldrich plan. But the
commissions bill shows some impor'
tant changes from the original or even
from the revised draft of Mr.. Aldrlch
plan.
The bill incorporates the Nationai
Reserve association of the United
States, with an original capital OF
$20o,O00,0OO instead of the $500 .OOO,-
600 as first proposed by Mr.. Aldrich.
Through an elaborate machinery IN
volving fifteen branches of the associ-
alton, each branch being the center OF
a group of local associations OF banks
the National Reserve association is au-
thorized to issue notes against prop
erly Endorsed commercial paper inc
bill provides for the admission to the
reserve association of state banks
and trust companies that subscribe to
it's conditions as well as of the nation
al banks already in existence.
The bill attempts to prevent the
Capitalization of the control of the
system in any one locality. In the dis
tricting of the country for the fifteen
branches, division is made largely by
geographical and not financial stand
ards.
The sections which will attract
widest public interest and arouse the
most debate are those relating to the
issuance of currency by the associa-
ton. The sections follow broadly the
Aldrich plan.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
FRUIT MEN ELECT OFFICERS
D. E. Bingham of Sturgeon Bay Is
Chosen President of State Fior-
ticuIturists at Madison.

Madison-One hundred and fifty
fruit growers of Wisconsin attended
the annual convention of the Wiscon-
sin State Horticultural society here.
w. H. Hanchett of Sparta spoke on
the New Era in Wisconsin Horticul-
ture." Secretary of State Frear de-
livered an address on Opportunities
to Secure Splendid Agricultural and
Horticultural Land in Wisconsin.
A. K Bassett of Baraboo, P. A. ROg-
ers of Gravette, Ark, Prof. G. F. Pot
ter of the university and Frank G.
Pellet of Atlantic, r., spoke.
The officers elected were: Presi-
dent, D. E. Bingham, Sturgeon Bay;
vice-president, G. L. Richardson,
Stanley; treasurer, L. G.. Kellogg,
Ripon: secretary, Frederick Crane
field, Madison. The executive COM
mittee, named from the various con-
gressional districts, are: William
Sandberg, Lake Geneva; G.. w. Riele.
Madison; William Toole, Baraboo;
w. C. SEEKER, Milwaukee; H. G. Mel
cher, Oconomowoc; E. Gonzenbach,
Sheboygan; Fred Muehlenkamp,
Sparta; w. A. Rasmussen, Oshkosh;
A. w. lawrence, Sturgeon Bay; r.
wing Smith, Ashland, and o. Elan
ders, Bay Mills, from each district
respectively.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
No Authority.

William Dean Howells, the Ameri-
can novelist, tells the following story
OF himself:
Il got into an argument one day
with my wife on the propriety of US
ing a certain word in a sentence. My
wife maintained there was no right in
favor of my usage, and l held that
there was. So, to end the matter, |
took the Century Dictionary and look,
ed it up.
"'Ah,' I said, here it is, with just
the usage I employed" and l read the
justifying quotation aloud. But my
vile was still dubious. Whose quota
ton is that?' she wished to know
Again l studied the printed page.
Why, it says Howelis.
"'Oh, answered my wife with a tri-
umph of scorn, he's no authority"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
CARNEGIE ATTACKS
j. s. BANK SYSTEM
Tells Story of Steel, DodgeS Cap
itaIizing Query.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO SCHWAB
ironmaster Forced Before Stanley In
Vestigation Committee Relates
How He Got Hold of
Bessemer Secret.

Washington.-'I does my heart
good to think l got ahead of John D.
Rockefeller, my fellow millionaire,
in that Lake Superior ore DEAL
Andrew Carnegie, former ruler of
the steel industry of the United
States, gloated thus in testifying be-
fore the house committee of inquiry
into the United States Steel corpora
ton.
Mr. Carnegie had just told the COM
mittee about his deal with Mr.. Rookie
teller whereby, at rate of Is cents
a ton, he obtained control of Mr..
Rockefeller's iron ore holdings in the
Lake Superior region, which when
turned into the steel corporation
later formed a large part of the as
sets valued at $700,O00000
Mr.. Carnegie said he began his
steel career in November, 1861, with
the firm of Miller & Small and that
in 1852 he borrowed $500 from the
National bank Of Pittsburgh to en-
gage in a partnership in the Key
stone Bridge company at Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Carnegie denounced the bank
ing system of the United States as
a disgrace TO civilization"
When panics come in this coun-
try" he said, they are due to the
fact that we have the worst banking
system in the world. Panics spread
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
WOODMEN CLERK A SUICIDE
Belot Man Ends Lite on Eve of Ar
rival of Auditors to Check
Up His Accounts.

Beloit.-Two hours before a COM
mittee was to audit his books as
clerk of Beloit Camp No. 2, Wood
men of the World, Scion r. Hayes,
who had held that Office several
years, shot and killed himself.
The shot that killed Hayes was
heard in the police station next to
which he roomed, but nothing was
thought of it as there is also a shoot
ing gallery near. Two companions
had just left Hayes to go to the post
Office after being admonished by
Hayes to hurry back. On their re
turn they found him nearly dead
with bullet through his brain.
Hayes three or four years ago at
tanned high place in the Woodmen
of the World, having been made dis
trict manager with good salary.
Two months ago he told story of
having been robbed of more than
$500 belonging to the local lodge.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
GOLDFISH WERE LOST AT SEA
Monkey Reached in a Glass Globe and
Fed Them to Much
Pleased Dog.

Lightly loadee, the Oriental linei
Rygia, Captain Meyer, from Hongkong.
was buffeted about forty-eight hours
by violent gale two days after she
lad left Yokohama She kept pitch
ing and rolling, often going over until
the seas were on a level with her rail.
The propeller was out of the water
and tanning the air half the time. The
steamer was nineteen days from
Yokohama to the Columbia River
The Chinese boatswain is mourning
over the loss Of a fine assortment OF
japanese goldfish he was bringing to
Portland There were two thousand
in the shipment when the steamer left
Yokohama, but the number had been
reduced to thirty-fve before he found
out what was becoming of them.
When he did learn, his ire knew no
bounds
The glass globe in which the fish
made their home stood near the cage
of a large chimp3nzee. another pos
session of the boatswain. The owner
decided to solve the mystery of the
disappearance of his fish. and so he
kept an eye on them for one whole
day when the Rygia was within about
a weeks run of the river. Along about
noon he heard the chimpanzee give
a succession of low whistles. lmme-
diately a black chop pup came rush
ing out on deck. Wagging his stumpy
tail, he squatted down before the cage
of the big simian
With deXterOus movements of his
long arms, the chimpanzee reached
into the globe and brought out two
handfuls of goldfish, which he threw
down in front of the pup. The dog
had gulped them down and was lick
ing his chops before the astonished
Chinaman could make a move to put
a stop to the proceedings. He chased
the pup away and returned to have it
out with the chap in the cage. But
the monk only grinned and whfstled
some more, which caused the pup to
return in a jiffy The chimpanzee fed
the pup I 1865 goldfish during the pass
age and the Chinaman figures his loss
at many yens.-Portland (Ore.) Letter
to Philadelphia Press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
LORIMER SAYS DENEEM
DESERTED HIM IN FIGHT
Tells Senate Committee He Never Az
thorized Edward Hines to Do
Anything for Him.

Washington Senator Lorimer told
the story of the days and nights Of
planning and plotting which ended in
his election to the United States SEN
ate.
He told Of his relations with Ed
ward Hines, the millionaire lumber
man of Chicago, declaring he never
authorized him TO do anything
He told how Governor Deneen, to
whom he referred as man for whom
he felt friendship akin to affec-
ton" had knitted" him in the fight
for the senatorship because the news
paper men of Chicago opposed his
Uorimer's) election.
In fact, his story on the witness
stand was a history of Republican
politics in Illinois since 1909
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
ARMOUR VICTORY IN RULING.

Letters Bearing Signatures Suppcs-
eddy of the Packer Are Barred.
Chicago. Ogden Armour scored
point against the government in the
packers trial by a ruling of Judge
Carpenter in the federal court.
By order of the court, documents
which contained almost the sole evil
dence in the governments possession
tending to show Mr. Armours per-
sonal connection with the alleged sell
ing agreements of the packers were
excluded from the records. The rul-
ing also weakened the governments
general case, as the letters were con-
sidered important links in the chain
of circumstantial evidence the prose
cution is seeking to construct
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
Japan's Paper Industry.

Next to cotton spinning, the prodLc-
ton of paper is Japan's greatest in
dustry. The country produces over
$1S,O0O,00O worth of paper annually
The justly famous handmade Japan
csc paper is produced largely by
farmers, in the intervals of their reg
ular work. There are no less than
so, 600 families engaged in the indus
try. You are wrong in thinking that
paper manufacture originated in
Japan. 1t was in Egypt that the first
paper was made. From Egypt the art
passed on to China. Japan and thence
to Europe through Central Asia by the
Ara bS
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
Christmas Punch.

The late Ida Lewis, keeper of the
Lime Rock Light at Newport. saved
many sailors from drowning, and
saved many, too, from drunkenness.
Ida Lewis once rebuked a half-dozen
sailors who were preparing to brew a
Christmas punch.
ct will get you into trouble" she
said. These strong Christmas
punches always do. A fine young sail
or-but he's filling a drunkards grave
today-once offered me a glass Of
Christmas punch, saying:
Drink it. ma'am. It's food and
drink in one
Yes said l, and nights lodg-
ing as well if you take enough of it. =
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
ICE JAM CAUSES
APPLETON FLOOD
Hiuh Water Floods Mills, and
Power Plant.
LIGHTS OUT AND CARS STILL
Great Ice Pacts PiIing Up Endanger
Dams and Bridges-Neenah in Dis
tress by Stopping of Utilities in
Neighboring City.

Appleton The huge ice jams,
caused by the intense cold, piled up
against the dams and railroad
bridges, have so backed Up the wa
ter as to flood the mill power and
electric power plants and cause an
unprecedented situation here and
throughout the Fox river valley.
The plant of the Wisconsin Light,
Heat and Power company was closed
for several hours when the high wa
ter flooded the premises.
BY building a temporary Golfer
dam about the plant and pumping
out the pits, the traction companys
power plant was able to start one
dynamo and furnish the city with
lights, and as soon as the cables
which were flooded and frozen in the
pits could be thawed and dried, pow
er was furnished in full.
Neenah.-Great inconvenience was
caused here by lack of electric power,
due to the cold, which caused the
plant of the lighting company at APP
pleton to cease operations, the supply
for Neenah being furnished from that
source. Social events were called
off, newspapers used hand power, in
terurban cars did not run. For the
first time in many years, it has been
necessary to cut ice away from the
big Neenah dam to prevent the dam
being pushed out.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
= FORTUNE OF DRAKE A MYTH.
Those Who Advanced Money to Get
Portion of Estate Losers.

Portion of Estate Losers.
Bloomington, nl.-Through the
cooperation Of the London Times,
local interests have made an in
vestigation of ali the records obtain
able in Great Britain regarding the
alleged estate of Sir Francis Drake
and the result shows that numerous
persons in the United States who adj
vanced money in an effort to get a
share of large fortune might as we'll
have invested in the South sea bubble
The results of the investigation,
summarized, show: That the estate
presumably passed to the heirs unuer
the will 315 years ago, and its present
value is not known and cannot be
estimated, but probably is not large.
There is no litigation pending for set
tlement and distribution of the es-
tate. There are no heirs known to
be in the United States.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-17
STATE TRADE ACTS ARE FIT
Supreme Court Upholds Commerce
Body in Fixing Reasonable Rates.

Body in Fixing Reasonable Rates.
Washington. = The grip of the
interstate commerce commission
over the commerce of the country was
frightened through a series of decisions
by the Supreme court.
The principle was laid down that
shippers suffering from civil injuries
from railroads must so to the commits
sion before rushing into the courts for
relief.
The paramount authority of the
commission in reasonable rate making
was upheld by the courts decision.
The legislative field touching the &C.
ceptance of goods by railroads was
marked forever as federal territory
and states were warned to keep eff.
The supremacy over state laws Of
similar import of the federal hours
of service law the enforcement of
which is confded to the commission,
was upheld