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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
PLAN TO LEND
AID TO HIGH
SCHOOL GIRLS

Help is to be given to poor
girls who find it difficult to
go through the high school
for financial reasons.
An organized movement
has been started by Mrs.
Friars, a member of the fac
ulty, to get together a fund
with which to assist girls
who otherwise might have to
stop school. A candy sale
Tuesday netted $25 as a
starter for the fund and do
nations and other means of
swelling the fund will be re-
sorted to.
An employment bureau is
also conducted in the school
by Miss Liddell and Miss
Workman who will place
young girls in position to
earn money to assist them
selves.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14

Engineer D. D. Dunlap was the
first witness called. He declared
that no slow flag had been shown
by the section foreman to warn
him of possible danger.
H. e. Patterson, Lakeview
agent, declared the train had
aassed through Lakepview 3S
minutes late. The engineer ad-
mitted he was making 60 miles
an hour in an endeavor to make
up time.
Division Superintendent ]. J.
Mccullough, Roadmaster Dave
Russell and Conductor F. e.
Cramer were also called upon to
testify. They testified the track
was in average good condition.
Only two of the three members
of the public service commission
were present, Jesse Jones and ex-
Judge M. N. Goldman of King
county, newly appointed chairman
of the committee by Governor
Lister.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
MAY INVOLVE
HIGHER-UPS
in SCANDAL

SAN FRANCISCO, May IA -
Disclosures involving the "higher
ups" in the police graft scandal
were limited at when the eight
indicted detectives come to trial
on a charge of conspiracy in con-
nection with the operations of the
Italian, bunco ring. 1t is said the
defense will be that the accused
men released the bunco men from
Jail on orders of certain superior
officers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
POLICE GUARD
STREET CARS
FROM MOB

CINCINNATI, May 14.-With
hundreds of police on guard, an
attempt to resume operation of
street cars was made today.
Guarded by three hundred and
fifty policemen, the first. three
cars manned by strikebreakers
were moved. Ten mounted police
and tI<ee automobile loads of
foot police went ahead of the car,
and two loads of police followed
behind. Patrolmen were ordered
to use their clubs, and revolvers
in case of attack by strikers. The
remainder of the police lined the
route taken by the cars. There
were no passengers on the cars.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
MUST MUZZLE
DOGS; JUDGE
STILES ORDERS

All dogs viii have to be
muzzled after Judge Stiles
gets the ordinance fixed up
and the council passes IL as
ordered this morning.
The strap muzzIes will not
go either, each canine mouth
must be incased in a wire
cage or ''basket" mnxzIe.
.sFrom the number Of
children who are bitten of
which complaints are made
to us daily / think something
ought to be done," Chief
Loomis told the council to-
day.
So the attorney was order-
ed to- get up the ordinance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
WIDOW MARRIED. MEETS
DEAD HUSBAND--.FAINTS

ABERDEEN, May 14-One day
after her marriage, May 4, to s.
ii. Robertson of Elma, Mrs. Adel-
lie, Fern Barnes-Robertson met
her former husband, Mart Barnes,
whom she had believed dead these
six years past, ON the streets of
Hoquiam.
Yesterday she appeared before
Judge Mason Irwin and Sin justice
to the plaintiff prayed that her
marriage to Robertson be an
nulled," which prayer was grant
ed.
Barnes was her second hus-
band. They did not get along
well together. About six years
ago he disappeared while they
were in Oregon. Later reports Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14

+. Judge Mitchell of Olympia pre-
sided over the unusual case. At
torneys Frank ID. Oakley, Charles
Sullivan, Fred Remain and Har-
old Preston represented the jul
dietary, and the county was de-
Tended by Deputy Prosecutors w.
w. Reyes and Fitch. One ofg the
bitterest fights over constitu-
tional technically ever discussed
In the Tacoma courts was taken
up when court convened this
afternoon.
The salary or Pierce county's
judges was advanced from $4,000
to $4,000 last January by the re-
firing county commissioners. The
sffew~syoard of commissioners re-
fused 20 give the additional sal
ary and reduced the judges pay
to the original amount. Suit was
brought by the judges, under the
title of an agreed suit" meaning
that facts of the case We're agreed
to by both sides.
According to the constitution,
the salaries of superior court
judges of Washington Is $4,000.
A law was enacted several years
ago allowing counties to pay $4,-
900, and the statute was never
contested. In Seattle and Spokane
the judges receive $4,000.
Tacoma's judges declare that
they are entitled to the additional
salary. The county attorneys say
that the statute is completely un-
constitutional.
Attorney Sullivan, who repre-
sents the Spokane judges, and At
torney Prescott Of Seattle, repre-
senting the Seattle judiciary, are
fighting for the constitutionality
of the salute.
If the statute is found unconsti-
tutional in the Tacoma case, the
Spokane and Seattle judges must
refund 1000 for every year that
they have received the extra sal
ary.
Deep interest Is taken in the
case, attorneys saying that the
technical point of constitutional
ity is one of the finest bits of law
ever argued here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
Wants 2lC
Per Minute
AlinOny

NEW YORK, May 14.-About
$213.6O a day, $13.06 an hour, or
a trifle more than 21 cents a min
ute, is the amount of alimony
asked by Mrs. Blanche A. Heye,
wife of the scholar and financier,
George Gustav Heye. Suit was
begun in Brooklyn today.
The alimony demanded would
amount to $1,000 a month, or
$4,000 year. Mrs. Heye also
ASKS for $4,000 counsel fees.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14

his death reached his wife and
his acquaintances. She later re-
turned to Elma and she and her
friends believed she was a widow.
Mrs. Barnes and MIR. Robert
son Were well known to each 9TH
er and were married week ago
Sunday.
The next day the couple came
TO Grays Harbor ON business mat
ters. While walking on the street
the woman came face TO face with
Barnes.
She remained composed long
enough to explain the situation
and then collapsed, and for hours
was I'm the doctors hands. She
Is still suffering from the nervous
collapse
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
cenariOizing" is the new pro-

"ScenariOizing" is the new pro-
fessiOn!
There are 13 letters i'm it. but
it's been mighty lucky word for
the folks who have been FORUM
ate enough to "get in ON the
ground floor"
It's a product of the moving
picture business, don't you know.
It's the work of putting a book
or a play into moving picture
form. In other words it is ar
the story of a book or
play so that it can be photo
graphed for the screen.
Here's one of the tip-top men,
bers of the new profession. She
is Nell Shipman. A short while
ago she was an actress. But
there's more money in scenario
izing" and you don't have to go
away from home, either.
Miss Shipman has a fine studio
of her very own up in one of the
new buildings in Los Angeles.
Money in it? Well, yes, we
guess!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
NEWCOMB ACTS
AS WITNESS
In COURT

Charles Newcomb. held in the
county jail for the murder of
Martin Kvalshaug, had a brief
cutting from his cell yesterday
afternoon when he was permitted
TO enter Judge Cards court to
testify against J. H. Gooch. in
sane. Newcomb enjoyed the
Grief respite from jail, where he
has been confined four yars. and
gazed eagerly from the windows
of the court room
Gooch was later taken before
the 1unacy commission and COM
mitted to the Steilacoom asylum.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
Trout Pulls
Sheriff in
The Water

EVERETT, May 14-Sher-
iff Donald McRea is not only
a catcher of fish. At Gold
Bar yesterday he landed
three rainbow trout having
a total weight of twenty-five
and a half pounds dressed.
One trout was thirty-two
inches long and weighed nine
and o half pounds dressed.
It was the largest trout
caught in Sn0homish county
this season.
In attempting to land the
largest fish Sheriff McRae
was dragged from his feet
and precipitated into swim
ming water.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
GIRL MEMBER OF
BURGLAR GANG
FOUND GUILTY

SAN FRANCISCO, May II.
- Jessie Clifton, pretty
young art student of Stock
ton, dragged into the net
when the Shea gang of bur-
glars was caught, was found
guilty Tuesday and will be
sentenced Saturday. She pro-
fessed ignorance of the char
acter of her friends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
WILL CONSIDER
NO LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, May 14.-The
present special session of con-
gress will consider no general
legislation, according to Majority
Leader Underwood. Underwood
admitted that strong pressure
was being exerted to force con-
sideration of the Burnett-Dilling-
ham immigration bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
ASKS JOHNSON
TO VETO BILL

SACRAMENTO. May 14.-It
was announced at IL O'Clock that
Gov. Johnson was preparing a
reply to the telegraphic request
from Bryan that he should veto,
the anti-alien bill. 1t is expect
ed the reply. will be wired Bryan
some time during the day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
CLUBS. WIFE TO DEATH
FATALLY SHOOTS GIRL
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE

SPARTA, Wis, May 14.-In a fit of insanity
William Hogue, farmer, aged 20, beat his wife to
death with club, fatally shot his daughter wound
ed his son-in-law and then committed suicide.
Hogues wife was recently reconciled after many
wears of separatiOn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
FUNERAL

The funeral of r. A. Town,
who was killed in the railroad
wreck, will be held tomorrow aft
ernoon at Q o'clock from the fun
eral parlors at South Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
cause OF BIG
WRECK STILL
A MYSTERY
EnSineer Testifies He Was
Going at Rate of 60 Miles
an Hour to Make Up Time
The Track was i'm Good
Condition

of the evide public
their probe into the for the r.
N. Lakevew repairing
section hands the the of G.
which
practically quashed this theory.
According to story a ties
time the wreck he his
working that From this it would
the weakened track without disaster,
the idea that removal of ties had
ed the track andCa he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
RANK CLEARINGs.

Bank clearings for today were
$525,604.2S, the balance was
s135,16S.6I and the transactions
We're $1,20S,140.16.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
JUDGES ACT
THE ROLE OF
PLAINTIFFS
Bitter Fight to Seek Endorse
ment of Action of Former
County Board of Commis-
toner's i'm Raising Their
Salaries

-Four Tacoma Judges pleading their before judge
brought from Turston Of
the lawyers Sound formed the
occurred In superior afternoon
the occasion of final in brought
Pierce Judges Chapman, Clifford
Spokane acting with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-14
)LICE Dept. FACES INVESTIGATION
RAID Of BLIND
PIGS CAUSE
BIC STIR

COMMISSIONER MILLS SAYS
HE COURTS PROBE OF DE-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND
MILLS IN JOINT CONFER
ENCE.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07
Postmaster Receives Facts
in Regard to proposed New
Parcel Post Rates.
BIG REDUCTION IS MADE NOW

Schedule of the new parcel post
rates for the first and second zones
which will be in effect August Is, have
been received by Postmaster r. ".
Baker. These two zones cover about
one hundred and fifty miles and in the
case of Kenosha the following cities
and intermediate points are within the
limits of the second zone: GAINESVILLE,
Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Fond
du Lac, Chicago, Milwaukee and Beloit
The limit of weight Of parcels of
fourth class mail for delivery in the
first and second zones has been IN
creased by the new order from eleven
to twenty pounds. The rate Of post
age on parcels exceeding four ounces
in weight shall be five cents for the
first pound and one cent for each addi-
tional two pounds or fraction thereof
when intended for local delivery, and
Eve cents for the first pound and one
cent for each additional pound or frac-
ton thereof when intended for de-
livery at other offices within the
first and second zones.
The pound rates Of postage in the first
and second zones shall be as follows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07
TEN LICENSES IN A DAY.
Cupid Working Overtime in Effort to
Get Licenses Before New Law Arrives.

Cupid is having hot race with the
publishers of the Wisconsin laws and
this resulted in all records for the is
suance of marriage licenses being brok-
en- in Kenosha on Monday. County
Clerk Jones and his assistant issued
ten licenses on Monday and five more
had been issued before noon today. 1t
was the biggest business ever done by
lie license bureau in Kenosha county.
Some of the licenses are for marriages
which are to take place a month and
even sixty days from now, but the
bridegrooms are anxious to get the IL
censes so that they will not have to
come under the medical inspection law.
The word has gone out in Chicago that
the bars are to be closed down in Ke-
nosha soon and two of the licenses is
sued on Monday were for people resid
ing in Chicago. 1t is expected that
the copy of the new medical inspection
law will reach the clerk on Wednes-
day or Thursday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

appeared Tie man brought back from
Racine promised to point out this wom-
an to the police and the district attor-
ney and at midnight last night he took
he officials to four houses N the city
but the woman was not located in any
of the places, The police believe that
every possible effort is being made to
protect this woman from arrest and
that she may have left the city. Every
effort to get at the identity of the
woman has been blocked by her
friends.
The men now held as suspects in the
case will probably he given a chance
to tell just what they know about the
case this afternoon, but the police have
little hope that these stories will aid
them in getting at the real facts in
the case.
The police have declared that if
necessary wholesale arrests will be
made in an effort to get some facts in
regard to the person who did the
shooting.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07
GOES BACK into HISTORY
Milwaukee Man Shows Big Increase
in Cost Of Running the State Under
Present Progressive Laws and urges
People to Study State Expenses.

Ellis B. Usher of Milwaukee, widely
known as q newspaper man and a Stats
tlclan has made a study of the appro-
prlatlons made by the last legislature
and he has issued statement in regard
to them. Here is what he has to say:
1.-THE latest figures as to the appro-
prIations Of the recently adjourned leg
lslature providing for state expense for
the next biennial period, give the ag-
gregate amount at $36,29S,030 Certain
ly a very tidy sum, and j was moved
when | saw the figures to refer back to
beginning of progressive fnanciering,
as shown by Robert M. La Toilette s
first message to the legislature, in
1901. In that message / find table
showing the disbursements of the
state for ten years, from 1889, to 1898
inclusive, to have been $30,30S, $685.
and Of this showing the governor then
said:
!" 1t shows steady and rapid in
crease in the cost of state government,
an advance of almost so per cent in the
cost OF state government within a
period of ten years is entitled to high
rank among the facts worthy Of grave
consideration in all departments of
government.
1.-THE increase in the succeeding
thirteen years, from an average Of 49,
100000 a year, in the decade to which
the governor then referred, to an an
nual expense of over $lS,000,000, is in
the language of the street, going
some Instead Of an increase of SO
per cent it is increase of about 900
per cent. The biennial cost Of the
state in 1S97-189S, was 81 1865 .43.
For the current biennial period it is
$40, 298,030, or almost five times as
great.
"Such facts ought to impress those
who pay taxes or have any stake in
states prosperity. But ther are other
facts quite as significant, perhaps
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

adopted in Wisconsin are discovering
that instead of receiving the full
annuity they expected only a pro rata
portion of that annuity can be paid
them. Now Wisconsin teachers are
subject to the same legal provisions
under their law as are these eastern
teachers, and it would seem as if they
would want to know just what the
probable actuarial results of the Wis
eonsin teachers pension plan will be.
In way, perhaps, it is a good thing
that legislation on the subject of teach
ers pension was not adopted by this
Legislature because of the fact that
friends of teachers pensions are claim
ing in good faith that the experience
under the law has been too brief to
give basis for any estimates which shall
be actuarial verities. This may be
true, but the actuarial basis must come
SOOu6E VI ldJ6I VI Tile J0dC1efS Iu6Iu-
selves may have disappointments as to
the results which their pension funds
will return.
1t is an insurance question, this
teachers pension question, just as
much as any other question of that
character and even if the state makes
the necessary payments to make the
fund adequate it remains an insurance
question for the reason that the state
liability must be fixed. The teachers
pension fund should also be placed on
an actuarial basis if it is really to re-
main a permanent thing and to give
the teachers the reward in the way of
final pension which they expect and
deserve. The teachers should view it
in this light and be themselves anxious
for an actuarial basis for their fund
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

These continual shooting and stab
bling ARRAYS are not adding anything
to Kenosha s reputation as a peaceful
law abiding community and some way
will have to be found to put stop
to them no matter to what lengths it
is necessary to go. AS beginning an
ordinance or a state law forbidding
the display of revolvers and knives in
store windows and further regulations
requiring proofs of good character
from intending purchasers of deadly
weapons and complete report of every
transaction of this nature to the police
department. from all dealers might help
some. AT present any man with the
price can supply himself with the
means to commit murder without the
slightest difficulty and no questions
asked.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

Moving picture films are to be sup
piled free to theatre owners warning
people Of the dangers of trespassing
ON the right of way of the railway
companies. There is no surer or more
effective way of reaching a great num-
Der Of people than through the medium
of the "movies and as there is no
class of business men reader or more
generous than the theatre owners in
forwarding any movement for the gem
eral good, the films supplied by the
railways are sure to be given the wild
est possible circulation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07
CLAIM WOMAN USED REVOLVER
Hand of Mysterious Woman is Told
of by Men Arrested in the Case But
Officials are Unable TO Get Any
Trace of Identity of Woman.

The shooting of William Kurvenski
on Sunday evening is proving one of
the biggest mysteries ever tackled by
the police department. of the city and
the further the police get into the case
the more they are convinced that every
possible effort is being made to mis-
lead them. Kurvenski, the injured
man, is recovering at the henosha hos
pital and the statements that he has
made have been so misleading that they
have been of no value to the police
The two suspects arrested on Sunday
night are still held at the city lookup
and the county Jail, but the police be-
lieve that it is very improbable that
either of these men did the shooting.
Chief O'Hare declared this morning
that he believed that the shots were
fred by a woman. This theory was
urged just after the shooting and two
witnesses were found who claimed
they saw a woman fire the shots, but
these people could not be found by the
police today Chief O'Hare and Dis
trict Attorney Drury went to Racine
on Monday night to make an investi-
cation into the case and they brought
back with them a man who gave the
name of George Tuzinski, who is said
to have been connected with the case
in some way. 1t is declared that the
Racine man knows a lot about the
shooting but he is unwilling to tell
what he does not know. In Racine it is
declared that Kurvenski is married,
but this statement does not CORES
pond to the information furnished the
police here. Chief O 'Hare thinks that
if he could find the woman who the
Racine police claim is the wife of Kur
venski that he will go a long way
toward solving the mystery. There
was another woman at the dance at the
park with whom the injured man was
very friendly, but this woman has dis
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

There is likely to be ruling made
by the city engineering department.
that satisfactory proof must be furn-
ished by contractors having contracts
for public improvement work with the
city, before they are allowed to begin
operation, that the materials to be
used on any job will be in the city
before the time they are needed in
the work. The department. does not
enjoy receiving continual complaints
from interested property owners when
an Improvement contract is allowed to
drag along after the streets are torn
up. The willingness and the ability
of contractor to carry through job
within reasonable time after the work
is started should be given more con-
sideration in making awards in the
future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

The following note of explanation
sent out by Postmaster General A. S.
Burleson, accompanies the new schedule:
The rate for local delivery shall APP
ply to all parcels mailed at postoffice
from which a rural route starts for de-
livery on such route, or mailed at any
point on such route for delivery at
any other point thereon, or at the post
office from which route starts, or on
any rural route starting therefrom, and
ON all matter mailed at city carrier
office, or at any point within its deliv-
cry limits, for delivery by carriers
from that Office or at any office for
local delivery.
Fresh meats and other articles men
toned in paragraph 2, section 81, par
eel post regulation, when inclosed and
wrapped in the manner prescribed by
the last sentence Of that paragraph,
will be accepted for mailing to Offices
within the first and second zones.
To get the second zone rate null
tiply the number of pounds by one
and add four.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-07

In order to make possible the claim
ing of state and county aid any money
raised by private subscriptions for
road building in 1914 will have to be
paid over to the town treasurer's by
the middle of this month. From pres
emit indications, every county in the
state is going to put more money in
roads next year than is being expended
this summer. The totals will run into
the millions.