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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-12

Mayor Seymour will have a
commission to LOOK into the GELD
storage proposition and make a
report to the voters. There will
be two members of the commits
sion appointed by the Commercial
club, two fro the Central Improve
club, two from the Central I'M
provement league and the mayor
will appoint two.
President Lyle OF the Central
Improvement league appointed G.
H. Dow and j. Cannon to repre-
sent the league.
The commission will go over
the plans, consider the prospects
for business and make a report
on the whole proposition.
Warren sheaf., 1913-01-23

Loan
S ss.774,7a
State Ditch No. 90
j. Smith, State
PRIV ATE, REDEMPTION

Receipts
BALANCE on hand Jan. ], 1912 S 1,s73.26
Collection ,...........',. 1856
Disbursements
Warrant issued 1912 ~. 14.6Os.5i
Transfer from r. B. Fund 99.la
balance on hand Dec 81.
1912 ...,..... 2,2S6l3
Total observation-disclosures 16.99410
Warren sheaf., 1913-01-23
judicial Ditch No. "a

91SS A. G. Lundgren, SER
vices in AUDITORS Of
nee ...$
9216 a. c. SWandhy, copy
ing bills and clerks
certificates 1883.
964S Casper Sands, dam
ages awarded by view
erS '..... -. -. .'... :.
Warren sheaf., 1913-01-23

TOWN, CITY AND VILLAGE FUND. )
Receipts
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1923 2,S40.92
Tax COLLECTION .......S..... 62,069.92
Total Observation-Disclosures 64,s1o.s4
Disbursements
warrants issued 1912 s2,ose1s
= back .., = 1. s.. 49,. :. . 1e6.47
4 1912 ......... 2.675.24
Total .S 64,91O.S4
Warren sheaf., 1913-01-23

State Ditch No. AZ
1922 w. j. Smith, State
Treas. Int. on State .
Loan .I,...$
$.
Warren sheaf., 1913-01-23

State Ditch No. 83
1e252 w. J. Smith. State
Treas, Int. on State
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

lion persons and onehalf to the re-
naming thirty-nine millions of the
population
One-Third of Land for Pleasure.
Excluding Scotland and Ireland,
at $9,205,0 100000, this income is divided
one-half to five and one-half million
persons and one-half to the remaining
live in houses with only one bedroom.
Estimating the total national income
where the condition is worse, in Eng
land and Wales one-third of all the
land is unused for agriculture, indus
try or housing. In the striking phrase
of the late Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
herman, it is more of pleasure
ground for the rich than a treasure
house for the nation" Four hundred
peers and peeresses, to use Mr.. l.. G..
Chiozza Moneys carefully prepared
figures, own 5,73O,0OO acres; 1900
great landowners own S,500,00O acres;
1900 squires own 100000; $500
greater yeomen own 4,7S0,000; 24,400
lesser yeomen own 4,140,000; 100000
small proprietors own 100000; 700,-
900 cottagers own 10000; while of
the remaining 100000 acres half is
owned by public bodies and half lies
waste. If the ownership be averaged,
it will be found that a peer holds an
average Of 1895 acres; great land
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

100000. Nearby is quarry from
which the landlord drew $500 for
the clay extracted.
AS in agriculture and in mining, so
in the towns for factory and business
sites the land concentration makes for
higher burdens. Some concrete in
stances, vouched for by Mr.. H. R.
Stockrnan, who has made q study of
the question, will show the result.
THE obvious creator of land wealth."
said that canny Scotchman, Andrew
Carnegie, lis not the individual. but
the community" Mr.. Balfour, in an
address in the house of commons,
said: The value of all land, any
where, just as the value of railway,
wherever it may be and by whomso-
ever 1T was made, by the state or by
private individuals, the value of this,
as well as of every other kind of prop
erty, depends upon the community"
But to whom does the unearned incre-
lent go?
unearned Fortunes for Landlords.
In fifty years the ground rent of the
town of Burton-on-Trent increased
from $4,000 to $350.000. An absentee
owner, the marquis of Anglesey, as
landlord receives this rent His local
taxes or rates are $500.
Sheffield, one OF the greatest manu-
featuring cities in England, is owned.
in greater part. by the duke OF Nor
folk. A dry goods merchant in that
city held lease on land at $75 a
year. Seven years before the lease
would have expired the duke granted
renewal on condition that the ten.
ant surrendered the unexpired part OF
the lease. paid $3.50 year rent in.
stead of $75. spent $4,000 in improving
the building and continued to pay all
the taxes.
A large part of the ground upon
which London's buildings stand is
owred by certain rich peers. Land Is
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

owner, 6,53S; squire, 1861; greater
yeoman, 496; lesser yeoman, 40;
small proprietor, IS, and cottager,
less than half an acre.
100000 Leave Farms In Decade.
What is the effect of this concen-
tration of land in the hands of the
few?
Land is the mother and labor the
father of wealth." q distinguished
economist has written. Land concen-
trated in few hands increases the
problem OF poverty, which Mr.. Horace
B. Samuel defines as "the economic
discomfort occasioned to vast masses
tribution of wealth" The use of the
land is necessary for economic produc-
tion, whether agricultural or ndus-
trial, and for housing, whether in city
or country. The whole trend of civil.
zation just now is away from agricul-
ture and toward industrialism. In
England this tendency is most marked,
Less than nine per cent. of tina popu-
lation of England are now engaged in
agriculture, 100000 having abandoned
the farm in the last ten years, as
many leaving the farm In a single
decade as the entire number of farm
owners in the state of Missouri. In
the United States one person in three
Is engaged in agriculture in some
form; in all Great Britain and Ireland
only one in ten is so engaged, and the
proportion is growing rapidly less.
The general tendency Of the situation,
to quote the significant and measured
words OF Mr.. Asquith, the British
prime minister. is "a process CO deple-
tion at one end and congestion at the
other, by which every year fresh ad-
ditions OF recruits are being made to
he ranks OF the casual and unem-
| ployed."
Land Hosslng spawns Great Evils.
Land concentration In Great Britain
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11
RATS HOLD SWAY ON ISLAND
Entire Population Is Threatened With
Extermination-Rod Even
Attack Cattle.

Tokio.-The entire population of
the small island of Nakashima of the
Ten islands group in southern Japan
has been threatened with eXtermina-
ton by yeritable plague of rats.
Nakashima is inhabited by dozen
families, all engaged in agriculture.
The rodents increased there at such
an enormous rate that they absolutely
took possession of the island, ravag-
ing the farms and devastating the
crops, and actually attacking cattle
and other live stock.
The inhabitants killed or captured
5000 of them, but not before they had
lost all their provisions. The authori-
ties were forced to save them from
starvation. Meantime campaign was
organized from without to exterminata
the rodents. This was difficult mat
ter. as they had burrowed retreats In
all parts of the island.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11
UOrld
LAND MONOPOLY IN GREAT BRITAIN.
BY DALTER UfLLIHMJ, LII. u
IDean sftr School afJounaR,m esi~ Un.ny Of fAhsour0

has promoted agricultural depression,
low wages, unemployment and discon-
tent. at is notorious" said a city Of
London barrister, that large areas Of
land which might be with advantage
farmed by desirable tenants willing to
pay fair market rent are kept back
by owners, who either sit on the prop
erty in the hope of being eventually
able to hatch higher price. or pre-
serve it for the purpose of game or
ornament for reasons of social pres
tige or sheer sporting instinct. The
extent of this retention of land is con-
clusively evidenced by the numerous
applications that flow in for every
farm that is thrown upon the market
and by the frequent abortive endeav-
ors by actual or would-be small farm.
ers to obtain at current market rate
new or additional land for agricultur-
al purposes" The evils of this state
of affairs are manifest. Not only are
many persons thus deprived of the
employment which otherwise they
| would be enjoying, but this swelling of
the ranks Of the unemployed, some of
whom remain in the country and some
go to the cities, tends to diminish
wages, and, so far as farm products
are concerned, to increase prices
Poverty, taxation, agriculture, unen
! ployment, housing, the whole economy
OF the social system, are affected by
The land problem.
Very "Soft" for Noble Duke.
The unnecessary burden which falls
upon industry by landlordism in the
form of mining royalties is another
evil result. Mr.. Lloyd-George, the Lib.
eral chancellor, estimated it at $40,.
100000 year. The average amount
of royalty on iron ore is 60 cents a
ton on every ton brought to the surf
ace and IS cents on coal. This is paid
to landlords for mining royalties in
addition to ordinary leases or dead
rents" in British phrase. OF the Goa
mines visited one example will suf
flee. A coal mine operating company
fourteen years ago sank the mine al
an expense of $2,500,000, and. although
as yet no coal has been taken out, the
company has paid in mining royalties
to the duke of Newcastle more thar
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11
WOMAN AGENT OUT
ARGUES A ROB5ER
Ticket Seller Refuses Demands
of HoIdup Man Who Threat
ems Her Life.
CALLED THE POLICE
While the Argument Progressed she
Calmly Sold Tickets to Score Of
Passengers Who Entered the Sta
tion, Keeping Nerve to End.

Chicago.-For half an. hour the 9TH
er day Miss Elizabeth Lilley argued
with robber not to kill her.
While the argument progressed she
calmly sold tickets to a score of pas
sengers who entered the East Thirty
first street station of the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad
Miss Lilley won the argument, the
holdup man departed without the
money from her cash drawer and with
out shooting her.
The robber appeared at Miss Lii.
ley's window and pointed a revolver at
her.
Come across with that money or
I'll shoot your head off," he COM
manded.
Please don't shoot me-" pleaded
Miss Lilley.
We'll, give me the money, then"
Two men came into the station at
this point and bought tickets, the
robber concealing his weapon after
whispering to Miss Lilley that he
would kill her If she signaled to the
patrons that her life was in danger.
"Now, come across!" the man de-
manded when the coast was clear.
Miss Lilley tossed him $2.25 in silver.
He threw it on the floor in disgust and
flourished his revolver menacingly.
Give me those bills. I know you
have got a lot of them. Hurry or I'll
shoot you. / mean what / say
IF you shoot me you will hang for
it, the young woman argued. You
can't have the money. 1t doesn't be.
long to me-"
So the argument proceeded, the rob
Der becoming more and more enrag-
ed and the young woman more and
more insistent. Several times they
were interrupted by patrons entering
and buying tickets.
You can't have the money and il
you shoot me you will be caught. for
there are hundreds of people around
here" Miss Lilley finally said. The
robber. convinced, pocketed his re-
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

London, Eng
land.-More than
one-half the land
Of England and
Wales is owned
by 4,300 persons.
Nearly 30,000,000
or two-thirds of
the entire popu-
lation-are land
less. Eight per
cent. of the pop
ulatior of Great
Britain live in
houses with only
one bedroom. Es-
timating the to-
tai national in
come at s9,205,-
100000, this in
come Is divided
one-half to five
and One.half mil
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

volver and walked out. AS soon as he
was gone Miss Lilley called up the
police, but by the time they arrived
the disappointed holdup man had dis
appeared.
Il don't know how l managed to
keep from screaming" Miss Lilley said
later at her home at 5021 Lake Park
avenue. 81 just knew had to keep my
nerve, / guess"
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11
overdose Of Peanuts Eatal.

Greene. Me.-William Philbrooke, q
farmer and prominent citizen OF this
town. dropped dead on a street in Lew
iston, from acute Indigestion brought
ON by eating peanuts while attending
football gama
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

OF the 1i,504 aliens WAC came to
Missouri last year, 116 have profess
sional oc -upations. School teachers
head the list with twenty-three. There
were thirteen actors, thirteen clergy
men, one editor, fourteen engineers,
one lawyer, seven electricians, three
literary and scientific persons, eight
musicians, six physicians, four sculp-
tors, two architects, three ex-govern-
ment officials and eighteen miscel-
laneOus.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

Municipal ownership Of public utili-
ties received a backset, for the time
being at least, in jefferson City, when
the city council, by vote of to 2,
adopted a resolution that no further
action be taken at this time on the
proposition. A committee" of citizens
has been working on the matter for
several months, and the ordinance
carrying a proposal to issue $150,OOO
of bonds for the establishment of
municipality owned electric light plant,
was introduced, calling for special
election January Is.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

The condition of the state treasury
and its transactions during November
are indicated in the report filed with
Governor Major by State Treasurer
e. p. Deal. Balance on hand October
81, $4,225,S74.74; receipts during the
month, s273.14S.3O; disbursements
during the month. s342,649.47.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

Members OF the board of prison In
spections have made up their minds
that they will either have to renew
the leases for convict labor at seventy
five cents day or have the convicts
left on their hands m idleness.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

The state, public service commits
sion has approved the sale OF the JEFF
ferson City street railway system and
the jefferson City bridge to the Nc
kinley system. The sale was really
made to the Jefferson City Lighting
Company, but 1t is owned by the
Western Railways and Light Company
of Maine, and the latter is the holding
company for they Mckinley system or
interurban railways in this state,
Illinois and Indiana.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

The state public utilities commits
sion has taken under advisement the
applications involving transfer of
the jefferson City Street Railway and
the jefferson City Bridge and Trans
fer Company to the Jefferson City
Lighting Company. The latter con-
cern is owned by the Western Rail-
ways and Light Company Of Maine
and is the holding company of the Nc
Kinley system of interurban street
railways. The companies here are all
domestic corporations and operating
under the laws of Missouri. They
were represented by Governor Hadley
and the Mckinley System was repre-
sented by j. /. Green OF Peoria, ILL.,.
1t is believed that the sale will be
approved If so, the purchasing COM
pany will ask permission, to issue
$125,000 of betterment bonds imme-
diately and to issue mortgage bonds
to the extent of 1 million dollars for
the purpose of extending the Jefferson
City line of street railways on to
Columbia, a distance of twenty-seven
miles. Governor Hadley believes tnat
the Mckinley system is getting ready
to construct line from st. Louis to
Kansas City
The amount expended for schools In
the state last year was SIG, 6,62l. 1855, as
compared with s14.639.S96 the previ-
GUS year. There are 919,166 white
scaool children and 37.S39 negro chill.
dren. The teachers of the state re-
ceived as wages for the year $685.
224. The average levy for school pur.
poses over the state was sixty cents
on the s100 valuation. The total per.
manent school fund of the state stands
at $15,016.596.
90
Governor Major has been forced to
cancel three engagements for speeches
because OF an attack of pleurisy.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11
WILL. RUSH WORK
ON NEW CAPITOL
Foundation is Now Practically
Completed.
STEEL ON GROUND IN 60 DAYS
Missouri Men to Be Given Preference
in Letting Sub.contracts-Su.
perintendents and Fore.
men Ready for Work.

jefferson City.-K. F. Gill, managing
director of the John Gill & Sons Com
spany, OF Cleveland, O., who will con-
struct the new Missouri state house,
will lose no time in commencing work,
which, under the contract, must be
completed and the buolding ready for
occupancy by July 1, 1916.
Mr.. Gill brought with him from
Cleveland when he came here staff
of superintendent and foremen.
Frank Collins will supervise the work
generally and d. G. Aronburg will be
chief office man and director.
Mr.. Gill said that he will have his
list of subcontractors ready to submit
to the capitol building commission
the quarries. Missouri contractors
are to be given the preference wher-
ever all things are equal, he said.
Actual work will begin in the wreck
ing of number of residences and
other buildings on Stewart street,
where the state purchased block and
a half of ground, needed for storage
purposes by the contractor Eight sub
stantal houses, for which the state
paid from $500 to $1,500 each, will be
sold for about what it costs to wreck
them.
Within sixty days Mr.. Gill expects to
have much of the steel for the super
structure on the ground and it will be
erected as rapidly as received. He ex-
poets to bring 400 workmen to Jeffer--
son City within the next three months.
Mr.. Gill MADE a survey of the new
foundation and pronounced it one tof
the best that was ever put under a
public building in the United States.
There are 2S5 concrete piers on which
the structure will rest. The piers all
rest on bed rock The foundation is
practically completed now.
James Smith, former building com
missioner Of st. Louis, who has the
sub-contract for erecting the power
house for the new CAPITOL has begun
work driving piling for the foundation
of that structure. He will also con
struct the tunnel that will connect the
power house with the capitol building
This contract calls for about $4,000.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

Governor Major has been forced to
cancel three engagements for speeches
because OF an attack OF pleurisy.
The Hayti herald., 1913-12-11

Governor Major has honored the
requisition of Governor Dunno of Illi-
nois for the extradition of Clark
Moore, who is wanted in Chicago to
answer to charge of burglary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
NEEDS OF MAYNARD CHILD.
Sympathy and Help Rather Than
Censure, Says Rabbi Simon.

The crying need OF the average modern
city child guilty of some minor offense
is sympathy and help rather than CEN
sure, according to Rabbi Abram Simon.
who spoke at the Eighth Street Temple
last night in the interests of the big
Brother movement. Little sacrifices OF
time on the part of older persons would
help greatly toward making the lives of
these children fuller and healthier. their
chief need, according to Rabbi Simon.
being friendship.
The speaker warned those who were
going to take up the work that it was
not pity or condescension that was want
ed, and said also that the first call upon
them would not be the last, as the most
important part of work of this kind was
the follow up and said that it would
require weeks and months and even years
to accomplish properly what was needed.
He added that there was not one of his
hearers who should refuse to offer a
helping hand to at least one boy or girl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
FAMOUS PAINTING GIVEN
TO CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Canvas Depicting Last Moments of
Late Pope Leo XIII Gift of
John D. Crimmins.

The Catholic University, it is announced,
VIII soon receive as a gift from John d.
Crlmmins of New York che famous paint
Ing by the Marquise de Wentworth, de-
p1cting the last moments of the late Pope
Leo XIII. Mr.. Crimmins is a member of
the board of trustees Of the university,
and the picture is to be placed in one Of
the stalls directly off the main corridor
in Gibbons Memorial Hall, the stalls
being designed for just such objects of
art The painting has been exhibited at
the Paris salon, in London and in Rome.
The artist has received substantial offers
for the picture. An effort was made in
Rome to have it added to the Vatican
art galleries, and Catholic club in
Paris is said to have offered $1,000 for
it, with view Of presenting it to the
French museum.
Art critics in this country maintain
thai it was not bought for less than $50
NO. but Mr. Crimmins declines to state
anything more definite than that he has
bought the picture and that it has been
offered to and accepted by the university
1t is a large canvas with fourteen fig
ures, in the center being the dying pontiff
in a half-sitting posture in a plain iron
bed. with DR.. Lapponi and the attendant
cardinals on either side. The artist was
at the Vatican when Leo died. and every
thing In the picture is painted from life,
the measurements being exact even to a
scale
Each figure, except the pontiff. is por-
trait from personal sittings and the work
occupied more than two years time
Among the persons represented in the
picture are Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli
subdean of the Sacred College: Cardinal
Rampolla. at that time secretary of sta.e:
the venerable dean of the college. Cardinal
Oreglia: Cardinal Macchi (since dead),
Cardinal Ferrata. Cardinal Vincenzo Van
nutelli and DR.. Lapponi, the Pope's ply
stefan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
HITS SOUTHERN|DEAS
At CLUB DINNER SPEECH
Representative Focht De-
nounces Davis at Banquet of
Sons of Veterans.

Denouncing jefferson Davis as an arch
traitor and conspirator, Representative
+. n. Focht of Pennsylvania last night
made q speech attacking various southern
ideals and ideas at the annual dinner Of
the Sons of Veterans Club at the New
Ebbitt Hotel
Representative Focht said that the peo-
pie of his state had not protested when it
was proposed to place a figure of Lee in
Statuary Hall at the Capitol. because
Lee was soldier and a gentleman but
he opposed the proposition to place a
statue of Jefferson Davis on the pro-
posed memorial bridge connecting Airing
ton and Washington. because there is
not a living man in Pennsylvania who
could believe it is possible for any one
to suggest it." He also opposed calling
the civil war "a war between the states
because. he said "the Union. army
marched INTO the southland to suppress
treason. Discussing politics, Represen-
tative Focht said that he had been de-
feated In the elections in November, but
that he looked forward to a reorganiza-
ton of the republican party. and he ex-
pected to be returned to Congress again
before long
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington
deplOred the custom OF regarding many
men in public life as being corrupt.
When a man honestly tries to do his
best, and honestly differs with others, .ie
is regarded with suspicion Senator
Jones said He added that such men could
take consolation from Lincoln's expert
ence.
T. T. F. Johnson. the president of the
club, presided. Others on the speaking
program We're: Ralph NJ. Grant COM
niander in chief, Sons of Veterans: Rep
resentative Addison r. Smith. II. V. Spell
man. Il. F. Bingham. Col. John McElroy.
Capt Thomas III. Mckee and Rev. III. n.
Holmes. Maj T.. r. Campbell was toast
master. Among those present We're SEN
ator p. j. McCumber and Representative
John r. Farr.
The following committees We're in
charge of the banquet:
Vice Chairman, Everett f. Warner:
secretary, Edward X. Depuy; treasurer,
Victor l.. Garrigus; speakers, Parker
Trent, Gurnon r. Scott Everett r. War
ner and Edward K. Depuy: reception, F..
T. +. johnson. Victor l.. Garrigus. E. r.
Campbell, George w. Sellers, E. d. Tur-
nure and r. Nj. Evans; entertainment and
program, Everett +. Warner, Charles NJ.
Overacker. +. r. Campbell, S. T. Cam
eron, +. S. Hodgson and +. T. F. John
son; press, George w. Sellers, G. o. How
ard, Parker Trent and William 7. Raley;
printing. T.. u. TGrnure. Gurnon Il. Scott
]. w. Lyons and Everett T. Warner; dec
orations, Gurnon X. Scott o. \. c. Oehm-
Ter. T.. d. Turnure and DR.. Joseph III.
Wood.