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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
freed FROM ASYLUM
WOMAN Tells STORY
OF BRUTAL TREATMENT

Back into. the world after six
years in Washington's inferno,
the SteilacOom asylum, Mrs. Alice
vinsot is today preparing to re-
enter life.
Judge Easterday said yesterday
she was perfectly sane. The asy-
lum authorities tried their best to
keep her, but the court said no.
Her release and the story she
tells of brutality, inhumanizing
and s0dden brutality, is enough
to carry one back to the dark
ages.
There Is every reason for be-
lieving that not day of the five
years and nine months Mrs. Vim
sot was kept in this bastile of
mental alteration was she insane.
But she was kept housed, not
even allowed to 60 out into the
grounds. Gagged like a beast and
kept excommunicado. She was
not allowed to see friends. She
was not allowed to write letters
outside. She was denied legal
counsel, denied exercise, denied
reading matter, and allowed Just
to sit with the demented on q
bench and look at the bare walls
Of the crazy house.
That Mrs. VinsOt is today sane
is testimonial to q strong consti-
tuition.
Release was only secured after
years Of dropping letters out Of
windows, one Of which some kind
hearted stranger picked up and
posted when guard was not look
ing. II came to Rev. Abbie Dam
forth. She employed Attorney
Harry HI. Johnston, and Mrs. Vim
sot was brought to the court and
freed.
1t was a six-year wait for JUS
tice with the powers of the state
with all their force and prestige
fighting against her.
There are many there Just as
sane as can be who ought to be
out, said Mrs. Vinsot to the
Times today.
And when she has rehabilitated
herself In life she is going to de-
vote herself to helping to get
them out.
20, they are waiting in sus-
pense to know whether 1 got free
or not, / know. But they will
have ! hard time to learn. They
will not let them have papers
often and there IL nothing done to
encourage the patients who should
be out.
Mrs. Vinsot had . home. a
daughter II and was happy In
Ballard- She was suddenly
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

J. Milton Curtis, prominent
real estate man of Tacoma, presi-
dent Of the realty firm of j. NJ.
Curtis & Co., lies in precarious
condition today at the Tacoma
General hospital as the result of
self-inflicted cash extending six
inches around his throat.
Curtis attempted suicide some-
time between II o'clock Sunday
night, when two friends, Attorney
II. G. Hoge, and William Gardner,
left him at his office, 4O8 Nation
al Realty building, and 0 O'Clock
yesterday morning, when he I'M
locked his office door for Gardner.
Gardner had become suspicious
at not hearing from Curtis during
the early morning. realizing that
'an important business deal was In
progress, and when he knocked on
Curtis office door, was astounded
to have the real estate man un-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
BANDIT STILL
alive IN Mine

SALT LAKE, UTAH, Dec. g.
Though dense smoke, sulphur and
other fumes have been pouring
from the Utah-Apex mine for
more than IA hours, Ralph Lopez,
the sextuple murderer, was alive
inside the workings at o'clock
this morning. He was heard ham,
mering on an air pipe which en-
ters the mine, in response to tap
pings from the besiegers outside.
To later rappings he made no
reply. The besiegers took no
risks, but continued to feed the
fire at the only unsealed entrance
to the mine. The bulkheads
would not be removed, it was said,
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yesterday. and was preparing 20
leave today for mis- ranch in
Northern Oregon. where his wife,
Mrs. Christie M. Curtis, and his
five children are living. He was
brooding Sunday and friends ana
business intimates feared his in
tended suicide.
He had evidently stayed awake
all night, brooding over some in
tense trouble, and used the knife
upon himself shortly after day
break. His wind.plpe aad been
severed by the insistent cutting
and slashing at his throat, and he
was scarcely conscious when
found.
Mrs. Curtis was notified ey
telegraph last night and win ar
rive IN Tacoma latsl ;tRis aftsr-
noon. There has been no es-
arrangement between Curtis ana
his family. intimate friends said
today.
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Miss Juanita Beckley, Cham
pion Lady Swimmer of the Mid
Pacific Islands.
HONOLULU, Dec. 2. - Miss
Juanita Beckley.- daughter of the
late Admiral Becxley, belle of
Hawaii and the champion woman
swimmer of the mid-Pacific
islands, has performed a stunt
that is the marvel of the seven
seas.
She swan three miles against a
strong tide through shark in
tested sea to the wreck OF a
schooner.
II suppose 1t was a foolish
thing to do she said. "but I
couldn't resist the temptation.
Twenty-three years ago another
vessel was wrecked on that same
reef and the best Kanaxa swim
mer OF, Hawaii made the same
swim. wanted to equal that
feat. My friends laughed at me.
Have you ever been laughed at?
II you have then you can under
stand why I made that swim.
II knew nothing about sharks
until afterward. Sharks, you
know, won't attac person as
long as one continues in action.
never stopped. used only one
stilokes all the way--the Hawaiian
cf6w1."
The marine underwriters pre-
seDted Miss Heckley with a gold
brhcelet In appreciation of her
felt and gfave her the wrecked
ships bell as q souvenir.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
TIMES FINDS HOME
FOR LITTLE GIRL

The Times baby has found .
home!
Two weeks ago the Times pub
lished q photograph Of q beautiful
baby girl that needed q home.
Dozens of replies were received.
Nearly q hundred men and women,
most of them childless, begged
that they be given the baby.
Today we are proud to an
nounce that the baby has found
a home-a real, motherly nome,
where 1t will have all the mother
love that its little heart Graves and
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unless Lopez announced that he
would surrender. This is consid-
cred unlikely, as persons who
know him declare they are sure
that he would die rather than
give himself up. His escape seems
impossible.
The only word from. Lopez yes
terday came when he approached
a bulxhead and called out for his
friend, julio Correflo. Correllc
was not among the crowd of for
eigners that had hung about the
mine entrances all day, and by
the time he was summoned, Lopez
had retreated to the depths OF
the mountain again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
one MILLION
FOR AVIATION

PARIS. Dec. 1.-,rhs national
subscription for Frances military
Aviation corps has reached e1,-
722,S0O, according to figures CIV
sn out today by the national avia-
tion committee. In addition to
this sum nearly 1000 acres OF
land have been given to the war
department for landing space for
neroplanes, workshops, etc.
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all the fatherly protection that :
growing child needs.
The little girl is delighted with
her new parents. The foster
mother and foster-father, never
having had child Of their own,
are lifted to the highest pinna-
cles of bliss over the arrival in
their home of a child that has
taken their name and viii -
reared as one OF their flesh and
blood.
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and tina "a Ston
S
to the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
WILSON NAMES
PINDELL AGAIN

WASHINGTON. d. c., Dec. 2. -
The nominations of Brand Whit
lock of Toledo, Ohio, to be minister
to Belgium, and Henry Pindell to
be minister to Russia, Were sent to
the senate this morning.
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grabbed at the instance o. rela-
tive and whiskeo away to Stella
COON without chance to con-
suit attorneys. Her daughter
made fight to get her out, but
was denied even access to her
mother. She disappeared. The
home went, and Mrs. Vinsot
comes back to the world stripped
of everything but a few fine
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

pieces Of lace she made while in
the asylum.
Her story Of tho asylum reads
like . history Of the inquisitiOn
and beggars the worst told Of the
Mexican prisons. II confirms the
story told By several others who
have been freed BY tho courts ro-
Gently against tho opposition Of
the asylum authorities.
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ones allowed to remain in the court
room were the one actually on the
stand and DIR. Craig's 15-year- old
daughter. Marian, to whose pres
ence, on account of her relation
ship to the prisoner. the state did
not object.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
TAKE TESTIMONY TODAY

SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Dec. Q. -
Testimony for the prosecution be-
gan today in the trial of DR.. Craig,
charged with numbering DR.. Helen
Knabe of Indianapolis two years
ago. OF the witnesses the only
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

DR.. M. J. McNerthney forgot to
take the corks out Of the end Of
his gun barrel before he blazed
away at . flock OF ducks Saturday
and the gun burst and came near
blowing off his hand.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
NAY OFFER SUBSTITUTE

or Bryan's approval will not be
known for some time, 1t is said
here. The proposition, evolved BY
Sidney A. Witherbee of Michigan.
has been before the executive and
premier since last July.
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with Tacoma
CITIZENS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

WASHINGTON, d. g.. Dec. 2. -
Whether the proposal to substitute
a concert of all powers in the west
ern hemisphere for the Monroe
Doctrine is to have the presidents
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BOYCOTT GETS RESULTS

NEW YORK, Dec with many
organizations throughout the coun-
against the present prices charged,
Mrs. Julian B. Heath, president of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
DOESN'T WANT IT

Mrs. Madeline Chappell. against
whom suit for divorce was filed re-
Gently by f. r. Chappeil. filed an
answer otday declaring that there
was no reason for divorce and
that she did not want 1t granted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02
PROBE PRICE OF EGGS

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. .. -
Representative Mcclellan is taking
prominent part In pushing the
federal investigation into the price
of eggs. He is authority for the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

statement that Attorney General
McReynolds. is receiving hundreds
of letters daily from citizens offer
ing information as to the alleged
egg combine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-02

the National Housewives league,
expressed the opinion today that
before the end of the week the
commodity would be forced down
to a reasonable figure.
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AMONG OUR prominent news to-
day:
HUERTA STILL LIVES.
HARRY THAW is still on the sus-
pended list.
PUYALLUP ELECTS a mayor.
THERE ARE a number of other
things, but they are inconse-
quential.
HERE 1T is AGAIN: BRIBERY
New York.
THOSE TWO WORDS are getting
to be synonyms.
HOLLY ASHBY, the young sta
tionery salesman, now vies with
w. w. for gallantry.
ishing a stray on a crowded car
he saw woman pick up
heavy bundle and hurriedly
leave the car, leaving covered
BASKET.
- HE GRABBED it and ran after
her, dropping it in her arms
just as the car started.
WHEN HE CAME back to his
strap, another woman he had
' not noticed before suddenly
seized his arm.
SNOW YOUNG MAN." she hissed.
would you mind telling me
:. what you have done with MY
basket?"
A MAN CAME up to A. b. Com
fort the other day and after re-
1ating how an unknown man
had soaked him in the eye, was
given warrant of the usual
kind in such cases.
THE COMPLAINANT read 1t and
gave a whistle.
s'THAT WAS THE BUM that hit
me, hey?" he calculated. why,
/ was Just down in tho detec-
tive department and seen a doz-
en- warrants for this same guy,
John Doe"
ALL THE ACTORS at the Prfn-
cess will be Paid in Full" this
week.
WE ARE RUNNING an awful risk
in printing this, out frenzied
appeal by Charlie Richards
touched our heart.
AND JOHNNY SEIFERT has
promised to tell us "reel''
good story.
IF THEY WANT to settle this
Mexican trouble quickly, let
them import dozen English
suffragets.
HOW MEXICO should he gov
erned:
President, Huerta: vice pres
ident, Huerta; secretary OF
state, Huerta; secretary CT war,
Huerta; cabinet, Huerta; con-
gressmen, Huerta, Hureta and
Huerta. ;
'.IF I MISTAKE NOT, you are the
spirit Of the ball"
THIS is NOT to be fondly ad-
dressed to a large bottle OF
brandy, but to a masked per
- son at the charity ball.
JIMMY O'BRIEN LOST his horn
on his automobile the other
day. and for the moment was
nonplussed.
TIL ISN HE STARTED whistlina
The Trail OF the Lonesome
Pine" and now he does moi
need any horn.
AN ADVERTISER says that hi
will give pair of IS glasses tc
any one who subscribes for 81
magazine for year.
MY, AREN'T SOME people kind.
hearted!
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WASHINGTON. Dec. :. - Ex-
President zelaya OF Nicaragua. has
agreed to return to Spain If Nioar-
aqua win drop the extradition
against him
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ENTERS PLEA

Savario verone. the aged italian
held since last summer for the
murder of Augustine Trovani, his
SON In law, was taken before SUI
perior Judge Clifford late this aft
ernoon to enter his plea to the
charge of first degree murder.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
WOOD AND ATTFkUX
 TRY ID PROVE ALIbI
Say Were at Meeting When Dyna-
 mite Was "Pianted''
TAssoc1ArED PRESS DIsPArcHl

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl
 BOSTON, May 21-The defense in the dynamite conspiracy trial sue ccedcd today in introducing evidence that OF the night of January l9. 1912. at the hours when the government alleges that President Wm. NJ Wood, Of the American Woolen company. and Frederick l.. Atteaux Were fur thering conspiracy to plant" dyna mite in Lawrence, both defendants were attending q conference of mill agents. at which an appeal to the strikers to return to work was agreed upon.
 Since the beginning of the trial the prosecution sought to prove that Wood. Atte,tuX and Dennis J. Collins conspired with John J. Breen and Ernest w Putnam to prejudice the public against the strike of the tex tile operatives in Lawrence by hid ing dynamite on premises occupied h&- the strikers. Earlier in the day Judge Crosby refused to allow the introduction of q record of telephone calls made by d switchboard operator in the office of the Woolen company. By this record the state hoped to show that Wood and Atteaux Were in communication day or two be- fore the explosive was placed.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28

children into their own homes, on a visit. to fit them for homes of adop- tion. one well-known woman said tha- she and a friend had taken charge of several baby girls, employing a trained nurse. who developed them into such beautiful. healthy children that they will be welcomed in their new homes.
 The association wishes to have a pa iron or a patronesS for each one of he $50 children in it's care-a person to be interested in each particular child. Already about 800 children have such friends who are watching their prog ress. Sometimes, when a child deVel- ops unusual talent, those patrons help with it's education. and in other ways take the part of a fairy godmOther.
 one lady has taken under her charge a delicate box for whom she is getting the best medical attention. She often takes him out to walk. one day when they were going up Fifth avenue the little boy was fascinated by pair of mink naiamas decorated with teddy bears which he saw in a shop window. He declared he would rather possess those paiamas than anything else on earth. The wonderful garment is now his and is doing a large share to re- store him to health and happiness.
 Other ladies are gathering together the discarded, half-Worn clothes of their friends children for the benefit of the boys and girls who have to be fit ted out to make a good appearance when they go to free homes. The more of these people who will enlist in the work of the association, the more lit tie children can be rescued from un- happy surroundings and placed in good homes-S. C. A. A. News.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
should present it.

should present it.
 A few days later Edward said. That woman, MT. President, is here again"
 Let hcr-in, said Lincoln. What can be the matter now?"
 For the second time he heard her story. The presidents card had been a magic passport. But she had ar rived only in time to follow her son to the grave. His wounds, his death the story came in eloquent frag ments through her half-stifled sobs. And now would not the president give her the next one of her boys?
 Once more MT. Lincoln responded as if talking to himself. T have two, and you have none" Then he again walked to his little writing table and took up his pen to write for the second time an order that would give the pleading woman one of her boys. { And the woman, as if moved by an impulse she could not resist, moved after him, stood by him, and with
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
NEW LINCOLN STORY
Another Illustration of His Sympathy
 for the Unfortunate

An unfamiliar story of Lincoln that shows how human grief and human sympathy overleaped all the barriers of formality when the great man was really touched is told py Helen EIco- lay.
 Is that all?" Lincoln asked of Edward the usher, after the usual tered and presented their requests, petitions or grievances
 There is one poor woman there yet, Mr. President" replied Edward. she has been here for several days. and hasn't had a chance to come in vet
 Let her in,'' said MT Lincoln. [ The woman told her story. She had a husband and three sons in the army. and she was left alone At first her husband had regularly sent her d part of his pay, but now no more remittances came. Her boys had become scattered among the var ious armies and she was without help. Would not the president dis charge one of them, that he might come home to her?
 When the woman had ended the
 presidents lips opened, and he spoke as if he were in abstracted and un- i conscious self communion. T have three. and you have none. " i That was all he said. Then. taking /, q blank card, he wrote upon it an i order for the discharge of one of ] the sons. and upon another paper he | wrote out in great detail where she
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
PARENTS BY PROHT'
Work Done for Homeless Children anu
 Childless Homes.

We are probably all more or less i"- ,,,iIiar with various kinds of parents associations. but recently there was gathering of men and women inter GU" in children that was really a meeting of parents of parentless chlIdren' l. might be described as an assoclatloh o4 parents by proxy.
 The meeting was held at the house of Mrs William B. Rice, first vice n1Sasident of the state charities aid ',s- sociation. Some eighty friends of chli- dran attended They were chiefly peo- nIe who have become foster parents by proxy through furnishing $50 for which the placing g-Out department ol the association offers to place home less child in d childless home.
 William E. Harmon, chairman of tie committee for placing out children Tn homes, presided. Homer Folks, secre- tarv of the association, and other mem bers of the staff, told what the associa : tion was doing for homeless children and also for childless homes.
 Some of the patrons and patronesses of the associations children gave some of their experiences. One gentleman who is fond of little girls has provided the money to place forty in homes ot adoption. He has a photograph of each one. and every six months he hear' how each is getting on.
 Some of the ladies have not rested content with paying the $50 for Whicf the association offers to provide th5 child and the home to bring them to- gether they have taken some of ;ht
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
\ PARK THAT
 HAS NJ NAME
New Breathing Space by \. NJ. C. A. and Federal Building Begins to Look Like Park, but is Name less So Far

Wnal " tile name of that new 5..ro jhaI ls just in the making south e. tue federal building and east of tue 4 M C. A"
 Tu.. walks are about finished. and the I.uu almost ready to e" in. II be- sins ta b, am issue about the sign |" .- -4tccd upon the cltN'S newest pleasure ~pol AM tho other parks lu the limits of Phoenix are supplied with names uf some sort ur another, Ilt uo one ever suggested that d Itug aIpellation be taclled to the I.t.-t pulkatorial ac4u@ition
 THe newest park is not very large, It. il promises to be one of the most ,uNcuuut arI therefore most pop u..r resting places in the city. With tn- lr4o possibility that splendid s,.t of citv and county buildings will -5riu4 mp nearby to make the blocks a,ts,.cn Monroe and Van Huren and central and Second avenues a mighty ,Itt. center. the little open space by tU. ru~tofttDc Niu be am invaluable atesthiug space among the tall buildings. Generously wide walks fre been marked off with deep ear.Iu- curbs ot concrete. and when tf.. debris or building i- cleared away
 
 r. ready to receive the first atten- rluu- ut the lawn gardener. In ad afti.u To the palms near the corner .ud the other trees that line the irritating ditch-uoW converted into .u underground pipe-more trees and some Towering shrubs will soon be l1t in tu decorate the park In fact almost everything has been done or :.rlug,7I Io Dr done to this park eN- c,rt provide it with a good name.
 There is some rumor of 2 name having been selected. but what it is, how i, Was chosen. bv whom-noth- ing more than the report is known. The Republican first inquires how a name can be selected. whether by tte city council citizens or commis- sion. and then rises to remark that q bit uG competition for the selection of a suitable title would not be en- t.re'r out of order
 All the other parks or tarrying places kept lip by the city have names There are the Statehouse Grounds, the Eeahr park around the Carnegie library. Eastlake park. City 1iau park. and the Courthouse park
 Now, what is to be the name of the civic center park?
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
CHINA DIFFERS ELECTION.
Adoption Of Constitution and Selection
 Of President is Postpo ned.

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
 PEKINC1 May 27-The adoption of a constitution and the definite election of a president of the Chinese republic has been deferred for an indefinite per iod owing to q deadlock among the par ties in parliament, the assembly is un- able to exercise it's functions and there is seldom q quorum of members in at tendance The government troops con- tinue to march toward the south, but 1t is believed they will only attempt to surround and not check the rebellious faction in the province of Kiang Si.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
ATTORNEY O'cONNELL DIES-

Word has been received in Phoenix of the death in Bisbee of J. N. O'COnnen. one of the best known mining lawyers in Arizona He had been in the Cop per queen hospital for several days. having been stricken with pneumonia Attorney O'Connell was in the employ of several of the largest mining com panies in the southwest. He was well known in Phoenix having visited here frequently and having been twice a member of the territorial legislature.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
CITY PAYS EXPENSES.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrspATcH1

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
 LONG BEACH, May 27.-All the eX- pense of the funerals of those killed in the pier disaster here on Saturday, together with that entailed in caring for the injured is to be defrayed by a fund to be raised by a special tax levy At a meeting of the city council tonight Mayor Hatch instructed the city at torney to draw up an ordinance pro- Viding for tax levy.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
OPPOSE COMPENSATION ACT
ASSOCIATED PRESS n1sPArcHl

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-After three days of heated discussion dele gates to the biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men. now in session here, went on record late today as opposed to the federal Workmen's compensation act now before congress. The vote was nearly three to one against the meas ITO