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The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
FOR MANY YEARS
| MRS. GREEN Was
SWITCH ANNIE"
milwaukee Girl. Whom Railroad
Company Found Prompt, Ca.
pable and Reliable
| SUCCEEDED FATHER
SHE HAD LONG HELPED
Once, by Presence of Mind and
Quick Action, She Averted
Train Wreck

MILWAUKEE-Mrs. Charles w.
Green, now having good home and
devoted husband, was known years
ago In railroad circles as Switch An.
ME-"
The slim, haxen.haired German girl
was for 20 years In charge of the com.
piicated system OF switches on the st.
Paul road In the Milwaukee stock.
yards. She performed her duties with
such regularity and unfailing accu.
racy that II. s. TEAL, former yard.
master. since deceased, expressed the
utmost confidece In the girl who thus
supported her widowed mother anu
elder sister for many years by her
earnings as switch lady"
Her father, Joseph Grandther, had
been crippled In a railroad accident
just before Annie was born. He was
guaranteed position for life with the
st. Paul road and was assigned to the
stockyard switches. The place was an
important one, as the La Crosse ami
Prairie du Chen divisions diverged
at that point. In addition there was
confusing myriad of stockyard tracks
and cut-offs, each with its separate
switch. All passenger traffic passed
this point on its way from the old
depot on Reed-st
Annie's father was unable to get
around without crutches, and the. in
creastnG volume of traffic gradually be-
|fgan to overtax his strength. So his
little daughter began to help him in
pis work. running and turning the
Fswitches furthest from his homely
brown switch shanty.
She gradually assumed more respon.
sibility and soon became the mainstay
OF her crippled father. Then one day,
while avoiding one train, he stepped
n the path of another and was killed.
- Annie wrote the railroad officials,
applying for the position left vacant
by the death Of her father, and she
was enrolled as the official switch
lady Of tho stockyards at a salary OF
$50 . month, enough to keep the fam
'tly In modest comfort.
4 Switch Annie" in her short skirts,
nigh boots. cotton gloves and broad.
brfmmed hat, soon knew every one
Nnd all knew her. She preserved her
dignity and kept the respect of them
all.
! While her father was still living,
-Annie averted what might have been
y disastrous wreck. A switch was set
wrong, and a clear track signal had
been efven to q fast passenger train.
Ann1e arrived, took in the situation at
q glance. and reached the switch be-
fore the fast approaching train could
'swerve into the siding and crash into
q long line OF freight cars.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
ELEPHANT PASSES
AS LUMBERJACK
American Logging Machinery
4 Succeeds Big Animals AS
Log Carriers

SEATTLE, Wash.-The schoolboy
OF the next five years will not see pic
lures OF huge elephants carrying logs
with their trunks nor read OF them
helping in the numbering industry of
Slam. The customs and manners OF
past centuries are being changed.
The Tacoma Maru, which sailed re-
Gently for the orient, took 5000 tons
of logging engines and machinery for
the operators who are getting out
timber In the teak forests.
y With the shipment went IL expert
mechanics who will install and teach
the natives TO operate the labor-sav.
ing devices. The exports OF teak are
expected to increase rapidly.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
OKLAHOMA INDIANS
!. ENRICHED BY ACCIDENT

GUTHRIE. Okla.-Land which was
absolutely forced on the Snake In.
,Aians In the Creek river country. OK.
lahoma. Is proving the source of in
estimable riches, owing to the dis.
coveries in that section by oil pros.
pectors. About nine years ago the
government decided to allot arbitrar.
NY to the Snakes. All the good land
was gone and they gave them allot
ments In section Of the Creek ma.
Z ton where the land was considered
worthless. The federal government
set aside 100 acres for each Snake,
the land being classified at 81 an
acre. Since oil was struck the rights
- the Indians have been carefully
guarded by the department of the In.
terror.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
FELLOWS MAKE
PLEA FOR HONESTY
Tells Law Graduates to Pin
Faith to Old Fashioned
Brand

The graduating exercises OF the De-
troit College Of Law were held in
the Detroit opera house, Thursday
night. when Is students were given
their diplomas. Judge Philip T. Van
Zile, dean OF the college, presented the
certificates: the Rev. Mac III. Wal.
lace gave the Invocation; music was
furnished by the opera house orches-
ira and addresses were given by Judge
Van Zile and Attorney General Grant
Fellows. Judge Van Zile referred feel.
ingly TO the absence of Elisha A. Fras-
err. who IL In a hospital. having re.
Gently undergone an operation. Mr.
Fraser had not missed a graduation OF
the law school in 20 years until now,
Judge Van Zile said. On the judges
suggestion. a bouquet was made up
of a single blossom from the floral
cluster OF each student and sent to
Mr.. Fraser.
Attorney General Fellows addressed
the graduates on The young lawyer.
He said In part:
IF should select the first and para.
mount ingredient Of the young law.
yer's success at the bar should
choose integrity. No member OF the
legal profession can be q success at
the bar unless he possesses the com
mon instincts OF old-fashioned hon.
esty.
II speak OF 1t as old-fashioned hon
esty because\I desire to distinguish II
from the class Of honesty which In
the great strides OF business for the
last % years has come to be known
as business honesty, and which in it's
last analysis Is to be as succesgful in
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
FIVE CHICKS FALL
BATTLE WITH BEES

One of the most cherished posses.
sions OF Miss Christie Corregan, of No.
81 Laurel-st.. Hackensack, is her chick.
ems. Next door lives Mrs. e. NJ. Wa.
tiers. who recently moved from New
York. To experience all the joys of
suburban life she installed two hives
Of bees In her back yard.
One day recently an undying feud
started between the hens and the
bees, how or why only they can tell.
Yesterday, by an apparently precon.
certed plan. the chickens attacked the
bees and there was fierce fight.
When the feathers settled Ave prize
hens had bitten the dust"
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21

business as one can and keep out OF
jcil. We cannot all of us preside on
the bench OF last resort, we cannot all
sit In legislative bodies. we cannot all
be called upon TO solve the questions
OF state. but II each one fills the niche
which an all-wise Providence has de-
signed for him to All and discharges
the duties which the life work he Sc
lccts calls upon him to discharge.
doing here and there that which Will
benefit the whole people. doing his
duty in everyday life. he has made
success"
The members OF the class presented
r. II. Aldrich. member OF the faculty.
with gold watch as a token OF their
appreciation OF his work in their be-
half.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
CONDUCTOR MISTAKES 4
ORDERS; ii KILLED

VALLEJO. Cal, June 20.-A confii-
sion OF orders brought death TO II
persons, late yesterday. when two
electric trains met head-on near here.
while running at high speed. Eleven
were instantly killed. three died with
in short time. and three OF the 80
or more injured are fatally hurt. The
conductor OF one of the trains, who
took orders by telephone from the dis
patcher just before the accident, Ia
among those probably fatally injured.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
MRS. BARTH, ORPHAN
ASYLUM MATRON, QUITS

Mrs. Margaret Barth. matron of the
Protestant Orphan asylum for the past
Is years. has resigned, on account
OF ill-health, and will sever her con-
nection with the institution, July 1.
She will retire to the farm OF her
husband, August Barth, near Dear
born. where he conducts a home for
boys, under the direction of Henry
Ford. The retirement OF Mrs. Barth
Is regretted by the management and
children OF the asylum. as she II
much liked in the institution.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
Still Introducing
Guaranteed Hand
Bags

After the sale is over you can't
buy them at CSC.
For they're worth $3.50 aside
from their very satisfactory fea-
ture-that of NOT PULLING
LOOSE FRONTIER FRAMES.
In each bag is a guarantee that
it won't. We take the guaran-
tee, which is good for six
months.
Some leather lined; many
shapes; many grains" Intro
ductory price, CSC. First floor.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
Palace Worth a1z.soo.ooo

LONDON, June 20.-The new and
comprehensive valuation " Buoking-
ham palace and It's contents was pub
lished today. The value OF the his
toric building and all It contains 10
placed at $17,500.000. The valuation
was made In order to reinsure the
place because Of suffragette outrages.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21

WASHINGTON. June 20.--secre-
tary of State Bryan was unable today
the cabinet the administrators note
replying TO Japan's secvud protest
against the California anti-alien bill.
Bryan said he hoped to deliver the
note early next week to Ambassador
Chinda.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
Windsor to Choose Water Conn.

Windsor to Choose Water Comr.
Windsor electors will vote, Thurs
day. June 26. to elect a water COM
missioner. a vacancy having occurred
through the unseating of Euclid JAG.
Ques. He will again be a candidate
Opposed to him will be Joseph Mar
tin. badly beaten by Jacques in the
municipal elections. last January. get
ting only about 200 votes.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21

eays Ssha 49,
Mary Ksanps e
for Slo.ooo. eharoi
ise. She says that HsoslNs
ising 10 maize ,hoS ~
Barbara School, llarob
The Portusu6ss tn
by thirty millioA pegu
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21

The prevention OF obesity rests on
regulation of diet. habits and exercise
No more food should be taken than
can be used up by the body. The real
burning up Of the food is not accom-
plished In the stomach. but In the
lungs and muscles. Keep them both
active.
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21

Dus1nsss-Iike Pvinttng.- No fuss and
NO feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks Yight. Times Printing Co.. Is
John k.-st Phone Main lleG
The Detroit times., 1913-06-21
CLOUe Purchases!
Mesh Bags
At Low Prices

Large assortment at lowest
price we've heard Of.
At $1.98-German Silver Bags
with sOldered link handles, regu-
larly $3.50 and So.
At $2.9S-Specially Fine Sill
yer bags in fancy frames, worth
1898.
At S3.50-Silver Mesh Bags
with fancy frames, worth $3.50.
Finer grades of gold or Ger
man Silver finish, up to $3.50
each. Main floor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

men piled into an enclosed whizz
car. The party was a merry one
and in the course of the gaiety
one of the girls dared any one of
the three masculine escorts to
kiss Miss Lawson. One of the men
took the def and in Miss Law
sons fighting endeavor to escape
the kiss, she cut her lip against
the side of the taxicab. She was
fastened to Bellevue hospital and
three stitches were taken in her
upper lip. The injury barred her
from playing the trumpet, by ne
cessity her engagement at the
Fifth avenue theater was can
celled and other bookings also
were called off as the result of
the scuffle cased by the stolen
smack. Miss Lawson sued the
clubman for 100000 damages and
got it.
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Ten thousand dollars for a

Ten thousand dollars for a
kiss!
The girl who received such
balm for a stolen smack is 1nez
Lawson, a solo trumpetist of re-
nown in vaudeville. She not
only has the documents to prove
that $4,000 buss was stamped
on her ruby lips, but tiny scar
left by the fortune kiss is pointed
to by the fair vaudevillist in sub
sanitation of her story.
How that $4,000 kiss was
stolen is a simple recital. Miss
Lawson was appearing in the
Fifth avenue theater in New
York, where she was billed as
1.-THE daintiest instrumentalist in
vaudeville" A taxicab party was
arranged after the show and
forthwith Miss Lawson, two girl
companions and three merry club
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

one of them means to buy one.
Pay by the week or month, or
on our new three-year plan. Each
and every instrument will be
found exactly as represented or
money refunded. Furthermore,
any of these instruments will be
shipped anywhere subject to in
spection and free trial.
IL you wish to buy a good piano
economically, come now. This is
truthful statement of facts, as is
every statement made by this
house. These pianos, player
pianos and baby grands are here
exactly as represented, and reduc-
tons indicated are genuine.
Practically every standard
make of piano was included in
this, our greatest Clearance Sale.
Quite a number of them are still
to be had, and all at prices posi-
lively the lowest ever offered.
MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS
Don't stop to figure or to ar
range to pay all cash. The sale
prices are cash prices, but for
the mere simple interest, not on
the whole amount, but merely on
the unpaid balances, we arrange
terms of payment confidentially
to suit any reasonable buyer.
And we guarantee the quality;
also give our binding exchange
agreement whereby any instru-
ment in this sale will be accepted
by us at the price you now pay,
and at any time before two years
from now toward payment of one
OF our fine new Kimballs, or
Chickering's, or Autopianos, etc.
Nothing could be more attractive,
generous or more thoroughly sat
isfactory to the purchaser. Eilers
Music House, the Nations Larg-
est Dealers. Eilers Bldg, 943-5
So. G st.
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Here's the Final Word
In Piano Price-Cutting
The Climax in Value Giving Reached in the Windup
of the Eilers Great Annual Clearance Sale
Six Highest Grade $575 and $675 Sample Pianos
Cut Square in Two. Pay So Month Other Fine
New Ones at Reductions of SLAB, $122, 500,
ETC. These Go at ST. Week.

Regardless of any claims for ex-
traordinary value-giving made in
the past--regardless of any claims
that have been made elsewhere,
we state without fear of success
full contradiction that the offers
we are now making are without
equal East, West, North or South.
CUT SQUARE IN TWO.
Doesn't 1t stand to reason, that
when were offering the finest of
highest-grade 1915 and 1915
sample pianos at exactly half
price that the climax In piano
value giving has been reached?
And when we say half price, we
mean exactly what we say. Not
q half off some fictitious value,
but genuine bona fide reduction
from the regular established re.
tail selling prices.
In this final windup we are of
fering the balance of the slightly
shopworn Enthusiastically brand
new. desirable upright pianos at
genuine and definite reductions
of $14s, $122, sos. etc.
And for $3.50 and STA you
can still secure choice of num-
Der of really desirable pianos
well known New York makes
upon payments of So and $40
down and $3.50 weekly, or Sc a
month.
Every instrument In this sale is
worth at least double. See them,
or write or telephone us for COM
plete descriptions of these remain
ing Kimball, Haines Brothers,
Hallet & Davis, Johnston, Fischer,
Ludwig and Hobart M. Gable
pianos, Autopianos, Weber pianola
pianos and grands.
Special today and Tuesday
$40 worth Of music rolls supplied
with each player piano free.
AT these iow-sale prices, to see
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! argues for it does not show the
real business transacted in the
city-only a part of 1t. Just
that part indicated by a record OF
checks cashed in bank other
than the one which they are
drawn. This manifestly is the
smaller portion of the banks
business. Thus If the clearings
today in Tacoma are $1,00O,O00
it"does not mean that that is all
the business done by check in
Tacoma today but really only a
part of it, and the real figures
would be generally twice or pos
sibly three times that.
A scheme to remedy this is now
being worked out by banks in the
country and in the near future a
real index to business activity
may be available but the clearings
it is evident do not show it now.
After all the banks have pre-
sented their schedules in the
clearing house Manager Mattison
figures up the balances due.
Thus IL the Pacific National
brings in a schedule showing ii
had taken in 100000 in checks
of the other banks and the other
banks all together had only taken
in $150,000 of its checks then
there would be $4,000 coming to
the Pacific National and the ones
which did not have balances In
their favor would have to pay
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THIS WOMAN WEEDS NINE TIMES;
MAN A PIKER---ONLY 7 FOR HIM

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
DETROIT, Jan. 27.-"Matrl-
|mony is all right if you can make
la success of it."
Thus said William Apger, SO,
today, after he had received in
structions from Justice Stone as
to the kind of treatment he should
extend to his present wife and to
four living ex-wives. Apger has
married seven times, thrice to
the same woman.
Wife No. Z in the order of mar
|riage caused Apger's appearance
in court on a charge of non-sup-
port. ~
Justice Stone suggested that he
owed to his family of seven
children-total result of all mar
Iriages-to keep his present wife,
l2O years old, in comfort.
Then Mrs. Apger No. Z wanted
the justice to insist that her hus-
band cease his correspondence
with his ex-wives. She said these
divorced wives wrote to her hus-
band, addressing him as dearest
Twill"
| The justice ordered the letter
writing stopped.
1t developed that Apger hat
been named as correspondent in 6
couple of other cases.
81 was only sued for divorce
once" said Apger proudly. 81
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over the difference to even at
. counts. This is done daily sc
every bank is square with every
other bank in town every "a
hours.
In the old days the actual cash
was carried in the clearing house
and paid over to settle these bal
ances but this is done away with
now. The banks have deposited
$500, 200 in gold in safety depos-
1t vaults at the Fidelity bank and
clearing house certificates on this
gold and checks are now used to
settle with.
If any bank has made an error
in it's figures which causes delay
in making the settlement a fine
is assessed of from SO cents to 81
This makes the clerks pretty &C.
curate and it generally does not
take more than five minutes tt
settle up the whole days bal
ances.
In the old days before there
was clearing house each bank
had to take the checks on every
other bank to its place of bust
ness and get the cash. The clear.
ing house simply makes this un
necessary and does in five min
utes what would otherwise take
bank clerks two or three hours
to do.
And that is all there is to 6
clearing house.
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SAM WAS TOO SCARED TO
TELL WHAT ALLIED HIM

ton, Kincaid thinking his charge
was insane.
Jimmy Shields, city Jail cook,
who has sailed the seas for many
years and is thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with pigeon talk" was
called to act as interpreter and
Kong was able to make himself
understood.
Kong couldn't remember what
the robber looked like but m
sisted that the gun was a foot
and a half long.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

AS Sam Kong, Chinese proprie-
tor of a lower street noodle
cafe, was leaving his place of
business at 1870 O'Clock this
morning, he was held up at the
point of gun by a highwayman
who relieved him of S..
He became so excited when ne
found Patrolman Kincaid, after a
few minutes search, that the po-
liceman was unable to ascertain
the cause of his illustration and
he was taken to the police sta
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sued for all the rest"

SOMERSET, Pa, Jan. 81
Esther Lipscher Spielberg OBJ
tanned a divorce yesterday frord'
Attorney Nicholas Spielberg,
whom she accuses of beating Hem
ry Wills record by having had
nine wives.
Damaging testimony was given
by his former classmate, DR.. Hen
ry j. Jaulusz of Pittsburgh. Both
were born in Budapest, Hungary,
and the doctor married Spielberg's
sister.
DR.. Jaulusz said he first knew
Esther Lipscher shortly before
her marriage to Spielberg in
Pittsburg, in July, 1911, and de-
clared she was his ninth bride,
The couple lived together ten
days.
DR.. Jaulusz gave the names of
his brother-in-law's nine wivesJ
among whom are Florence Knapp
of Los Angeles and Rose Vein
stein of San Francisco. =
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The OLDEST in NORTHWEST--HERE IS HOW IT WORKS

The total of all these cheeks is
what financiers record as - the
clearings for the day. Statisticians
use figures as an index to show
whether things are prosperous or
not in a community.
AS a matter of fact, according
to r. r. Madison, manager of the
clearing house, the clearing fig
ures are utterly useless as an in
dex of anything. This is true he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

tween the banks themselves. 1t
has quarters on the top floor of
the National Bank of Commerce
building and just as the clock
strikes II every banking day in
the year, clerk from every bank
in town is there to represent his
bank.
He is always there for IL he is
not on time fine of 81 Is put
against him. IL he fails to come
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TRACKS CLEAR.

SEATTLE, Jan. 27.-Frost
came to the aid of the transcon-
tinental railroads across the Cas-
cades today and the Great North
ern and Milwaukee lines expect
to have their tracks cleared with
in another "a hours.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

for Is minutes his bank would be
excluded from the days business,
but such a contingency never yet
occurred.
Each bank sends to the clearing
house in sealed envelopes a
schedule of all the checks 1t has
taken in against each of the other
banks. Thus each clerk appear
ing brings five envelopes which he
distributes to the representatives
of the different banks.
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PAGE EIGHT.
rhe Tacoma clearing house

Everybody has heard about IL
but few have ever seen 1t or know
Just what 1t is or how it operates.
Yet 1t is one of the important
functions in the city's financial
transactions.
The clearing house is purely a
banking convenience. Simply an
organized plan of exchanging
checks and settling accounts be-
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Several Sizes.

SCOT dictionery at your
house?"
Several. Want to look up a
word or press some clothes %
Pittsburg Post.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

BERLIN-Grand Duke Vladi-
mirovitch, youngest son of Grand
Duke Vladimir, left Russia today,
accompanied by Marie Inskaya,
an actress, and new mesalliance
in Russia's royal household is
feared.
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The Reason.

THAT man is continually grunt-
ing about something"
"That's caused by his business.
He deals in pig iron. Baltimore
American.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

Perfect fitted glasses $1.5O up.
Pfaff, Jeweler and Optician, 1147
g st. ADVERTISEMENT
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

Los NGELES-Oscar Sha-
ham, 16, seated himself on a 20
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

SAN FRANCISCO - Willie
Frantz took his girl into a candy
store and ordered ice cream. He
decided he wanted box of can
dy, but not having the ''neces-
sary," appropriated the box. Will
lie was pinched.
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In the counting of the United States which
tremendous machine. This
picture shows their
with almost human intelligence than
The machine is They are
hand and they fall into bag underneath when the
the handle. registers
number passing through hen worth
have been counted the bag is sealed and away
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

Floral decorations of all kinds
supplied by HIM, the florist, So.
9TH and X st. Advertisement. "
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-27

OMAHA, Neb.-Overcoming 40
guests, who, scantily clad, were
carried to safety, fire starting in
the basement of the Paxton hotel
here threatened complete de-
struction of the structure.