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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-29
HAPPINESS DID NOT STAY
WITH SEATTLE BRIDE CAST
OUT BY UNLOvING HUBBY
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We we're very happy, planning
our life together but shortly he
had an offer to go. to Seward,
Alaska, and / was left behind.
For a while his letters we're
my only solace and then he said
y want you to come up here.
l want you to meet my friends.
| have made friends with the very
best people in town. l have told
them of my fiancee. You can
come here and II you wish you
can get a position where you can
be near me until we are married"
To Go North
l didn't go just at first.
didn't have good enough clothes
and | wanted Arthur's friends to
like me. | wanted to make him
feel proud OF me.
Some one has said that love Is
composed of pride and desire.
think I'm woman it is more pride
than desire. A woman wants her
lover to be proud of her. She
wants to be proud of him.
You may think It is strange,
but all this time / had no thought
Of those terrible years / had
passed back in Cincinnati. I was
so sure of my own parentage that
those years seemed but a dream.
had told Arthur that had
no relatives and had been adopt
ed by a family but he had asked
no questions and I had volun-
teered no further information.
Liked Alaska
Life in the little Alaska town
was all Joy. Arthur introduced
me to all his friends and they
took me into the most select
circle and ever and anon Arthur
would whisper to me-"some
day, little girl, We will be mar
ried."
My only unhappiness was that
he was not well and he finally
seemed to tire Of the place and
he asked me II I didn't want to
go back to seattle.
would have gone to the ends
of the earth with Arthur II he
had asked me. What woman
would not when asked by the
man she loves? History tells us
OF many women who have gone
to hell for their lovers.
His Sister iii.
Soon after we arrived In Sc
attic Mr.. Titles sister came over
to regain her health. Arthur was
in poor health and naturally was
earning very little money, and his
sister married man almost to
insure herself home, but doctor
bills and sickness piled up and
her husband could not pay for
them, and as she grew weaker
and weaker, she wanted to be
with some one she loved and she
came to me.
For three months I took care
of her and kept the baby with
me two weeks after she died.
Love Means Sacrifice
At this time Arthur was very
Ill and learned that love meant
sacrifice. day and night devotion,
but | was glad to make this
sacrifice.
Every woman who has ever
loved devotedly will understand
this. We offer ourselves up upon
the pyre Of our love, a living sac
rifice every day, and when sick
ness comes we are in constant
terror lest our sacrifice will not
appease the fates and we lose our
love.
Happiness Comes
After Mr.. Titles sister died he
began to recover and shortly we
returned to Detroit and then that
hapDy time came, which he was
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supreme courts own action in
refusing to grant the writ of ar
ror In case where an alleged
jurisdictional question was pre-
sented In motion filed at q
time not authorized by the prac-
tice of the state where the trial
took place.
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Costs Lots To
Feed Prisoners

It cost Tacoma $295.76 dur
ing the past four weeks to feed
city prisoners and the unem-
ployed.
City jail Cook James Shiel to-
day presented a bill to the coun-
Gil for that amount, figured at
eight cents each for 1897 meals.
During the four weeks Shiel fed
an average of 100 unemployed
men each day. besides the pris-
oners.
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For more than a week the re-
mains Of horse killed In an auto
accident have lain by the side of
the road leading to PuyalIup a
mile and half from the Tacoma
city limits. Several complaints
h~-c been telephoned the Times
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LITTLE GIRL FATALLY HURT
IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT

Jennie Ford, 10-year-old daugh-
ter of Mrs. Ella j. Fore, matron
at the Cushman Trades school,
was run down by a motorcycle in
Seattle yesterday afternoon and
probably fatally injured. The
child was crossing Union street,
accompanied by her mother, when
Edgar Moore, age II, dashed up
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Neil Maxwell, a stationary en-
gineer of Token, Alaska, came
to Puget Sound last week with
500 in his pockets, started from
Seattle to spend the Christmas
holidays with his sister, Mrs.
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200 Tacomans
In "sMe ssiah''

1.-THE Messiah" one of the most
wonderful musical oratorios ever
written, will be sung at the Taco
ma theater tonight by nearly 200
of Tacoma's best voices assisted
by an orchestra of 35 pieces. A
long series of rehearsals was end
ed yesterday, and every person on
the program is ready for the rem
dition tonight.
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TACOMA SISTER OF ALASKAN
FEARS HE HAS Been KILLED

William Jones, 1884 Grant ave-
nue.. Tacoma, and has not been
seen since. Mrs. Jones reported
to the police last night that she
feared her brother had met with
fou! play. No trace has been
found of the missing engineer.
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Read tho Classified Aus on
Page Six.
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been put In operation, and some
idea gained of the amount OF
traffic.
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After Mr.. Titles sister died he
began to recover and shortly we
returned to Detroit and then that
haDDy time came, which he was
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WashingtonLeaderi Good Roads

miles. This latter route will pro-
vide two new entrances to the beau
tiful park that surrounds the base
of majestic Mount Rainier.
$24O0 a Mile Average Cost.
The roads built by the different
counties during the biennium cost
on an average Of $4,000 a mile, prac-
tically all being gravel surfaces.
During the same period these coun-
ties spent in maintenance a total Of
$3,220,000, which, based On a total
of $4,000 miles in the state, give an
average OF s43 a mile upkeep per
year.
Out of the $13, 000,0 900 purse dis
tributed throughout the common
wealth in the past "a months were
built many miles Of what is claimed
to be Ne highest type of highway
Observation-Disclosures roads with a
five-ineh concrete base, two-inch
sand cushion and four-inch brick
pavement. Practically all the brick
roads are in King County. They
cost between $4,000 and $4,000
a mile and are located on the route
of the Pacific Highway leading out
of Seattle on the north and south,
and were paid for out of the $4,000
600 bond issue voted by King County.
Washington's highway improve
ment is being carried out on a sys-
tematic basis. The 1913 Legislature
passed a law providing, or rather
designating, a number Of primary
roads leading to the trade centers
which were to be built first and a
series of secondary routes and au-
thorized surveys and Investigations
of a number of feeders"
OF great Importance to the state
was the opening of the route across
the Cascade Mountains, known as
the Sunset Highway. The highway
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Lure of Country
for Boy or Girl

HERE are some sentiments taken
from recent publications which
express the lure OF the country
for the boy or girl who is so for
tunate as to live within reach OF
country sights and sounds:
"A child whose early years are
spent largely in the country will
fondly remember his youth and his
beloved animal companions, for
country life for a child is rich with
happy associations, while the youth
of a child kept constantly in the city
is a starved sort of a thing"
when we say widen the outlook
for the boys and girls we do not
mean that they must go away from
home to find the world. If you will
just show them that the world is
right under their feet and over their
heads, and that they have all the
science right at hand, and all the
arts for that matter, they will not
wander from home. Still it is neces-
sary to furnish them intellectual
tools and stimulus in the way Of
books and magazines. Unfortunate
ly, most Of our country homes have
only those papers that give a ques-
tionable lot Of passing information"
"a country cannot hope for agri-
cultural prosperity unless the face
of the youth of the land Is turned
toward her fields and meadows, and
the boy Of this country, alert, eager,
questioning, will face the direction
of most vital interest-the city, if it
offers the greater thrill and oppor-
tunity-or the country, II 1t beckons
with big enough call to the pulse Of
the youth. But the appeal has got
to be genuine; it has got to flount
a banner and stir the blood and
promise some sort OF a tangible vic
tory.
Now Is the time to consider the
plans for making the surroundings
of the country home attractive, that
environment may exert Its strong in
fluence in the right direction. The
tin cans and other unsightly accumu-
lations of rubbish should not be a
part Of the memory Of home which
any child carries into adult life. A
few seeds Of vines planted where
needed will make a thing of beauty
of some ugly object which cannot
we'll be removed, and "a thing Of
beauty is a joy forever"
This is a practical phase Of home
life which should not be crowded
aside for what may seem to be more
Immediately remunerative interests
Make home surroundings attractive
and beautiful and so increase thu
hold of the country home on the
young folks
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Infant feeding has passed through
a remarkable cycle In the last two
decades. The studies Of food Values"
which threatened to dethrone Ma
ture as a food manufacturer ten
years ago, have established the ven-
cradle old dame on her throne
again, with the comforting assurance
that laboratory-made infant foods
are rank %pretenders in comparison
with the kinds supplied by cows,
chickens, and broad acres.
DR.. Henry Dwight Chaplin, who has
been Natures sturdy champion for
a full generation, has this to say
about infant foods:
"All experiments with animals
tend to show that milk, eggs, cereals
and legumes, when fed in various
combinations, produce the highest
possible physical development, while
attempts to base feeding merely on
protein, fats, carbohydrates and
calorie yield, are moves in the wrong
direction. The most scientific foods
for infants, that is, foods which will
produce the best physical develop
ment, are readily prepared from milk,
eggs, cereals and legumes, through
simple, easily-learned methods by
which their chemical integrity is but
slightly altered. The most natural
methods of taking these natural
specialized foods apart and putting
them together in attempts to improve
on Nature may produce unscientific
food, because an important, although
small, element may be left out or
put in wrong. Such methods of feed
ing have little to commend them.
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across the state cost upwards of
$500, 900.
The Inland Empire Highway, in
Eastern Washington, serves a rich
agricultural section.
Route to Cross Cascades.
Up in the northeastern part of the
state a great amount of road con-
struction has been under way, and
September, 1915, will witness the
opening of another route across the
Cascade range. 1t is known as the
Cascade Scenic Highway and reaches
from the great apple growing regions
of Chelan County through the TIM
bered foothills of the mountains, to
Seattle.
The splendid progress made dur
ing the last two years and the abso-
lutte absence of any ~dissension at the
18th annual convention of the Wash
ington State good roads convention,
which was held a few days ago at
Spokane, augur well for the future
Of the better highway movement
during the next two years. When
the state lawmaking body meets In
biennial session at Olympia In jan
uary, 1915, it will be urged to make
appropriations to complete the routes
planned before providing for any
additional thoroughfares. This SEN
timent has the vigorous support OF
Governor Lister, members OF the
State Highway Commission and a
large number of State Representa-
tives and Senators who are members
of the good roads body.
The rate of progress Washington
is making in improving its routes
Of travel can be better appreciated
by the report just made by High
way Commissioner William r. Roy,
in which he divides the total OF 81
0GG miles in the state as follows:
Improved earth roads, $500 miles;
gravel roads, 3700 miles; hard-sur-
faced roads, $50 miles; planked
roads, 200 miles; unimproved earth
roads. $4,000 miles.
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under the direction Of the Missouri
State Poultry Experiment Station at
Mountain Grove, as an extension de-
partment of the experiment station.
Each farmer agrees to keep an ac-
curate account of expenses and rev.
enue from his flock, and these re-
ports will be used as a basis for a
comprehensive report on the value
Of poultry as a farm sideline.
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across the state cost upwards of
100000.
The Inland Empire Highway, in
Eastern Washington, serves a rich
agricultural section,
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$50 Acre
Stock Ranch

All good land. 80 acres in alfalfa.
More can be put in. Abundance Of
free water. 800 acres fine wheat
land. Balance bunch grass pasture.
Big free outside range. Fair build
ings. Water piped to them. An
allotment in Forest Reserve for 1900
sheep goes with land. A first-class
stock and wheat ranch. Located in
Eastern Oregon. Price only So per
acre. Good terms. Write US about
our stock ranches. Big money will be
made in stock and wheat the next
few years.
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Missouri Experiment,

As a result of several meetings
held near Mountain Grove, Mo-, thirty
farmers in that vicinity have signed
agreements to handle their poultry
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The University of New Mexico has
bought over 1000 acres Of land adj
Joining its campus.
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$l2 PER ACRE

240 acres. adjoining the best farming Sec
ton OF Lewis Co.. Wash. Rich clay loan
land. bal. fine pasture: well watered BY
creeks and springs: close to stores. post
office, high school, two railroads, eta. viii
make a first-class stock ranch. Only {12
per acre. This Is one Of the best buys we
have ever had in Lewis Co.
ACME REALTY COMPANY,
401 Equitable Building,
Tacoma, Wash,
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HOP GROWERS.


You know that the time il not far
off when your hop-yard viii be I'M
profitable. Why not plant q Grated
vrOoman Franquettc Walnut Tree in
every fifth hill Zach way Of your
yard? As you cultivate your hops you
will be cultivatins the walnut trees
without additional expense. As wall
nuts can be dried in hop-dryers, you
are already equipped to handle this
crop. Look into the possibilities Of
this coming industry. We are pre-
pared to give you information, as we
have a bearing walnut grove and have
made a study of this business. Write
for our booklet on soils, culture, va
rifles, etc.
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Ferd Croner & Mcclure
H~ILLSBORO, OREGON.
1900 ACRE
Stock Ranch

1900 acres in Eastern Oregon, 100
acres alfalfa land, several hundred
acres good wheat land, balance bunch
grass pasture; fenced, fair buildings,
well watered by fine creek and
springs; 100 head Of horses go with
place. Price, $40 per acre. Good terms.
One of the best stock ranches in the
John Day country.
Evening star., 1914-11-15

Fear. The spring had come, with running
brooks and blossoming trees. There was hope
for all nature, bound so long in an iron grip;
but nowhere was there any hope for the mel
and women who lived under the yoke of the
terror. Never had the cloud above them been
so dark and hopeless as in the early summer OF
the year 1875.
Evening star., 1914-11-15

brooding and malicious eyes, had devised
new attack upon those who opposed him.
That very night as the half-drunken COM
pany broke up, he touched McAIurdo on the
arm and led him aside into that inner room
where they had had their first interview.
"See here, my lad" said he, "I've got job
that s worthy of you at last. You'll have the
doing of it in your own hands"
"Proud | am to hear it," NIcAIurdo an
swered
"You can take two men with you, Mandcrs
and Welsh. They have been warned for ser
vice. Well never be right in this district un-
til Chester Wilcox has been settled, and you'll
have the thanks of every lodge in the coal
fields if you can down him."
"Ill do my best, anyhow. Who is he and
where shall find him?"
McGinty took his eternal half -chewed, half
smoked cigar from the corner of his mouth,
and proceeded to draw rough diagram on a
page torn from his notebook.
"He's the chief foreman of the Iron Dixie
Company. He's hard citizen, an old Color
Sergeant of the war, all scars and grizzle.
We've had two tries at him; but had no luck,
and Jim Carnaway lost his life over it. Now
it's for you to take it over. That's the house,
all alone at the Iron Dixie crossroad, same
as you see here on the map, without another
within earshot. It's no good by day. He's
armed and shoots quick and straight, with no
questions asked. But at night well, there he
is with his wife, three children, and a hired
help. You can't pick or choose. It's all or
none. If you could get bag of blasting pow
der at the front door with slow match to it"
"What's the man done?"
"Didnt tell you he shot Jim Carnaway?"
"Why did he shoot him?"
"What in thunder has that to do with you?
Carnaway was about his house at night, and
he shot him. That's enough for me and you.
You've got to set the thing right"
"There's these two women and the children.
Do they go up too?"
"Thev have to-else how can we get him?"
at seems hard on them; for they've done
nothing"
"What sort of fools talk is this? Do you
back out?"
"Easv, Councillor, easy. What have l ever
said or done that you should think | would be
after standing back from an order of the Body
master of my own lodge? If it's right or if it's
wrong, it S for you to decide"
you'll do it, them"
"Of course | will do it."
"When?"
"Well you had best give me a night or two
that l may see the house and make my plans.
Then"
"Very good" said McGinty, shaking him by
tho bond 1oavo II with 1o,, n will he
Evening star., 1914-11-15

viewed his two subordinates, Manders and
Welsh, reckless youngsters who were as elated
as if it were deer-hunt.
Two nights later they met outside the town,
all three armed, and one of them carrying a
sack stuffed with the powder which was used
in the quarries. 1t was two in the morning be-
fore they came to the lonely house. The night
was windy one, with broken clouds drifting
swiftly across the face of a three quarter moon.
They had been warned to be on their guard
against bloodhounds; so they moved forward
cautiously, with their pistols cooked in their
hands But there was no sound save the
bowling of the wind, and no movement but
the swavng branches above them.
AIcAIurdo listened at the door of the lonely
house; but all was still within. Then he
leaned the powder bag against it, ripped hole
in it with his knife, and attached the fuse.
When it was we'll alight he and his two COM
panions took to their heels, and were some dis
tance off, safe and snug in sheltering ditch,
before the shattering roar of the explosion,
with the low, deep rumble of the collapsing
building told them that their work was done.
No cleaner job had ever been carried out in the
blood-stained annals of the society.
But alas that work so we'll organized and
boldly carried out should all have gone for
nothing, Warned by the fate of the various
victims, and knowing that he was marked
down for destruction, Chester Wilcox had
moved himself and his family only the day be-
fore to some safer and less known quarters,
where a guard of police should watch over
them 1t was an empty house which had been
torn down by the gunpowder, and the grim old
Color Sergeant of the War was still teaching
discipline to the miners of Iron Dixie.
"Leave him to me-" said McAIurdo "He's
nv man, and I'll get him sure if have to wait
a year for him."
A vote of thanks and confidence was passed
in full lodge, and SO for the time the matter
ended. When a few weeks later it was re-
ported in the papers that Wilcox had been
shot at from an ambuscade, it an open
secret that McMurdo was still at work upon
his unfinished job.
SUCH were the methods of the Society of
Freemen, and such were the deeds of the
Scowrers by which they spread their rule of
fear over the great and rich district which was
for so long period haunted by their terrible
presence. Why should these pages be stained
bv further crimes? Have | not said enough to
show the men and their methods?
These deeds are written in history, and there
are records wherein one may learn of the shoot
ing of Policemen Hunt and Evans because they
had ventured to arrest two members of the
society,-a double outrage planned at the
Nerrnissa LODGE and carried o11t in cold blood
Evening star., 1914-11-15
CHAPTER vi. Danger

TT was the height of the reign OF terror Nc
= Murdo, who had already been appointed
Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some
day succeeding AcGinty as Bodymaster, was
now so necessary to the councils OF his COM
rades that nothing was done without his help
and advice. The more popular he became,
however, with the Freemen, the blacker were
the scowls which greeted him as he passed
along the streets of Eermissa. In spite of their
terror the citizens were taking heart to band
themselves together against their oppressors.
Rumors had reached the lodge of secret gather
ings in the Herald office and of the distribution
of firearms among the law abiding people. But
McGintv and his men were undisturbed by
such reports. They were numerous, resolute,
and we'll armed. Their opponents were scat
tered and powerless 1t would all end, as it
had done in the past in aimess talk and pos
siblv in impotent arrests. So said McGinty,
AIcAIurdo, and all the bolder spirits.
1t was Saturday evening in May. Satur
day was always the lodge night, and McAlurdo
was leaving his house to attend it when Nor
ris, the weaker brother of the order, came to
see him. His brow was creased with care, and
his kindly face was drawn and haggard
"Can l speak with you freely, Mr.. Nc
Murdo?"
"Sure."
81 can't forget that 1 spoke my heart to you
once, and that YOU kept it to yourself, even
though the Boss himself came to ask YOU
about it"
"What else could l do if YOU trusted me? 1t
wasn't that agreed with what you said"
"I know that well. But you are the one
that can speak to and be safe. I've secret
here" he put his hand to his breast, "and it is
just burning the life out of ne. l wish it had
come to any one of YOU but me. If | tell it, it
will mean murder, for sure. If don't, it may
bring the end of us all. God help me, but 1
am near out of my wits over it,"
McAIurdo looked at the man earnestly.
He was trembling in every limb He poured
some whisky into glass and handed it to him.
"That's the physic for the likes of you" said
he. "Now let me hear of it."
Morris drank, and his white face took a
tinge of color 81 can tell it to YOU all in one
sentence" said he "Theres a detective on
our trail"
McNIurdo stared at him in astonishment
"Why, Man, you're crazy" he said. isn't
the place full of police and detectives, and
what harm did they ever do us?'
"No, no, it's no man of the district. AS you
say, we know them, and it is little that they
can do But YOU heard of Bretherton's?"
"Ive read of some folk of that name"
"Well you can take it from me you've no
show when they are on your trail. It's not
Evening star., 1914-11-15

MCMURDO thought long and deeply over
~ the commission which had been SO sud
denly placed into his hands. The isolated house
in which Chester Wilcox lived was about five
miles off in an adjacent valley. That very
night he started off all alone to prepare for the
attempt. 1t was daylight before he returned