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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-26
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-26
MEN IN WAR

AMSTERDAM, Holland, Jan.
20, via London.--A telegram re-
ceived here from Berlin sets
forth that in the Province of
Brandenburg, in which Berlin is
located, there have been called
up for medical examination the
50-year-old unframed men of the
Ian dstrum.
These are men of the 1886,
1887 and 1888 classes.
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ana Attorney Tom COrkery who
started the scheme.
the bunch to his fellow workmen.
They got together and Tom made
them a speech in the office of the
Spokane Press.
The result was that the Gam
lily Mems Labor Bureau was or
ganized with an enrolment of
100 family men who were idle
at that time. r. c. Carter was
elected president. Headquarters
were donated to the members,
and furnished free.
Tom Cookery drew up the by
laws for the bureau and advises
the men occasionally on matters
OF Importance. Daily in the
Press appeals are made to the
citizens OF the city for odd Jobs
for the Family Mems Labor Blu
real and these appeals have been
heard. Up to the present writ
ing the bureau has received over
500 odd jobs and the members
have received about $500 In cash
for their services.
No fees were charged. A man
remains at the desk every day
and depends upon the private do
nations of the members.
The principal object OF the or
ganization will be to find work
for unemployed men who are at
the head Of families. It has al
ready made good in this city.
There is no reason why IL
shouldn't be worked out in other
towns.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-26
Pioneer Dead

Lorenzo Dow Hurlbut, 76, Ia
coma pioneer contractor and
builder, is dead at his home,
South Sth and Adams streets, to-
day, from heart failure. He was
stricken yesterday afternoon In
front of his home. His mother,
90, survives him at Muscatine.
His widow, Mrs. Mary A. Hurl-
but, and several children are liv-
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FEW weeks after the birthday
Of Abraham Lincoln, next Fri
\ day. February -. comes the
fftieth anniversary of his
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Anniversary of His Birthday This Year Will Have
Deeper Significance Than Usual Because of
Assassination April Ia, 1865

and the audience filed out of the build
ing rapidly to spread the news of the
assassination.
About the first to reach the wounded
President were two paymasters. who at
once called for the White House coach.
But this order was countermanded by
DIR. Charles Taft, an army surgeon who
rushed into the box, for he saw at once
that carriage drive would be fatal.
with DR.. Taft holding the head and
several other men the body Mr. Lincoln
was borne out Of the door Of the theatre
and into the house Of William Petersen
at SIC Tenth street. just opposite Ford's.
II seems that "A ledger in this house
had heard the commotion in the street
and opened the door to ascertain the
cause. The open door and bright light
at once caught the doctors attention,
SO the dying President was taken gently
up the steps and laid on small bed
in a rear room on the first floor.
This apartment was occupied by Will
lam T. Clark, a soldier of the Thirteenth
Massachusetts Infantry. The bed was a
walnut four poster and on the walls
were several famous engravings.
The fatal shot had entered the left
side of the head behind the lift eye,
traversing the brain and lodging be-
hind the right eye The surgeons at
once recognized the fact that the wound
was mortal ON this humble bed the
President, surrounded by personal
friends and several high Government
officials as well as his family, remained
peacefully all night. unconscious to the
last. At % minutes past Z on the
morning of April Is, 1865. he ceased
to breathe.
As his pulse stopped Secretary Stan
ton stepped to the bed and, looking
down into the countenanCe on which
an eternal peace rested, said in a low
voice. Now he belongs TO the ages
The Rev. DR.. Gurley, the Presidents
pastor. dropped on his knees in prayer
Then out on the wires Of the world
flashed the news of the death.
At IL O'Clock that same day Chief
Justice Chase administered the oath OF
office to the new President. Andrew
johnson. in the old Kirkwood House
which stood at Pennsylvania avenue
and Twelfth street.
The funeral service Of the martyred
President was held in the East Room
of the White House Wednesday, April
Is. at noon, the coffin being then taken
to the Capitol. where it lay in state in
the rotunda till April 81. when the
funeral train started for Springfield
| III. 1t reached that town on the morn
ing of May 3. on the 4th amid a ma
tons tears and the most impressiv,
ceremonies that could be devised tn,
remains of Abraham Lincoln wer,
placed in a vault in Oak Ridge Gene.
terry.
To return to Booth and the rest OF
the Conspirators. The assassin had flee
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Europe breaking up of the Roman Empire

tains. Here lived the Goths. Franks,
Angles and SaXons.
The Roman historian Tacitus in de-
scribfng Germania said that in spite OF
all the wildness Of their country the
people lived in houses raised crops Of
grain and had herds of cattle and drank
curdled milk and even in those days
beer. The men were described as
having tall and powerful bodies, fierce
blue eyes and reddish hair and boards.
Their chief business was fighting, and
many of them became soldiers in the
Roman armies. Suddenly there came
upon these Germans, out OF the east, a
wild tribe from Asia called the Huns
A German-G Goth who wrote the story OF
his own people in the year 55l de-
scribed the Huns as "fiercer than
ferOClty itself"
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Europe in Soo at end of Charlemagne Empire.

able to help themselves without serious
opposition. When a ruler had nothing
better to do he would go out into his
back yard and dig up piece of Po-
land.
When Napoleon was at the height of
his power his dream of the Continent
under single chief was almost real
lied. His stepson was Nceroy of north
'ern Italy, his brother Joseph was King
of Naples, his brother Louis was King
of Holland, his brother Jerome was
King of Westphalia in the centre of up
per Germany, his brother-in-law was
Grand Duke of Berg. He protected the
Confederation of the Rhine and his
troops occupied dlsmembered Prussia,
now a small territory far removed from
the Rhine.
The empire Of France in the northern
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he imagined would be that of a pa
triot.
For some months he had been living
in Washington, where he had discussed
plans with a band of conspirators
These plans at first looked to the cap
ture of the President by taking him
boldly, concealing him in one of the
cellars of the old Van Ness mansion
till a chance offered to get him out OF
Washington and then spiriting him
away to Richmond and compelling the
exchange Of southern prisoners for his
freedom.
But these plans having gone astray,
Booth decided on the morning Of April
II to kill the President I'm the theatre
hat evening and escape at once by the
rear alley, making his way across what
is known as the Navy Yard bridge at
AnaCostia into Maryland. and thence
to Virginia. He never seemed to doubt
but that his crime would meet with
appreciation
shortly after i. NJ Booth got his
horse and led it to the back door of
the theatre, leaving 1t in charge Of a
boy named Joseph Burroughs but nick
named Peanuts"
About fifteen minutes past 10 he en-
tered the theatre, and, walking unno-
ticed down the aisle. entered the rear
of the Presidents box. The guard
who should have been on duty at the
door was down in the parquet i'm order
to see better. Had he been AT his post,
it il believed. Lincoln's life might have
been saved. But as IL was Booth
gained easy access to the box and
placed i'm the doorway bar which had
evidently been prepared for the &C.
casion by some one in the conspiracy.
one Of the actors, Harry Hawke, was
speaking when. at twenty minutes past
10. Booth fired shot into Lincolns
| brain. At the sound of the pistol Rath-
bone leaped to his feet and grasped
Booth, hut the latter thrust him aside
after stlbbing him several times in the
arm. Booth then laid his right hand on
the box railing and made "A leap down
ward to the stage but as he did so his
spur caught in the folds Of the Treas
ury flag and he fell in n crouchine
attitude. which resulted in broken leg
Though suffering untold agony. the
assassin sprang to his feet. ran out OF
the rear door OF the theatre into the
alley. jerked the reins from the hands
OF peanuts" leaped into the saddle and
in another second was Gathering out
of the alley into F street, then away
toward Anacostia like a madman-as
| he probably was.
In The meantime in the theatre the
suddenness Of the attack had left the
audience hewidered. 1t was not unit
the screams of Mrs. Lincoln rang out
shrilly that people realized what hat
/ hannapaH The widest confusion
suited; but quiet was finally restore,
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NATION TO OBSERVE FIFTY
YEARS OF LINCOLN'S MEMORY

from Washington, and safely passing
the guard on the bridge at Anacosta,
galloped down into Maryland along
road on which the consprators had left
friends with supplies of guns and whis-
key.
Pursuit was at once begun by the
Government. Col. l.. G. Baker having
charge of the force sent to capture the
murderer. Knowing that Booth had
sought refuge in Maryland and would
probably attempt to cross into Virginia.
Baker followed in his tracks, rightly
arguing that a man in his condition
could not conceal his identity.
After some work in tracing the assas-
sin, Baker at last stopped at the home
Of farmer Richard ii. Garrett, near
Port Royal, Va. Having every reason
to believe that Booth and a fellow con-
splrator. Herold, had stopped at this
place. the soldiers surrounded the house
about o'clock in the morning of April
&c and raped at the door. Garrett APP
peared and denied any knowledge of the
men. but young son informed Baker
that those he sought were at that mo-
ment sleeping in a wagon house or
barn.
Throwing u guard ABOUT TINS Uuliu-
ing. Baker sent young Garrett into the
place to demand that the inmates sur
render. Both men at first refused. but
Herold at last weakened and came out
to be manacled Booth declared that
he would never be taken alive, and
stood his ground, far back in the shed,
leaning on a crutch, with carbine lev
elled at the door
Col. Conger. wishing to expedite mat
| ters lighted a wisp OF straw and struck
It through a crack into pile of hay in
"A corner inside. In a moment the in
terror was ablaze and everything within
| in full light. The flames showed
Booth standing with his gun in his
| hand. but retreating before the leaping
fire. \ shot rang out and John Wilkes
| Booth, the murderer of Abraham Lin
coin, sank to the barn floor dying, with
n bullet in the back of his neck. The
shot had been fired by a Union SOL
der named Boston Corbett.
Booths body was dragged out of the
burning shed and placed on CARROTS
porch. His last words, uttered with
great effort, were, Useless, useless" re-
ferring to his inability TO lift his hands.
But before this he had told a soldier
Tell my mother I died for my coun-
| try: that I did what I thought was
best" Booth received his fatal wound
"A little after o'clock in the morning.
but fingered, in agony till sunrise. when
! he ceased to breathe.
His body was sewed up in an army
blanket, carried in an old wagon to
Belle Plain and put on board a boat
to Washington. Reaching the capital.
it was taken down the Eastern branch
to the old penitentary. There. in one
of the large cells, the stones were taken
up. grave dug and the remains, which
were enclosed in a pine coffin. inferred.
They rested there till 1863 when Booths
brother Edwin had them removed to
Baltimore and buried in the family lot
in Greenmount Cemetery i'm that city.
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FEW weeks after the birthday
~ of Abraham Lincoln. next Fri
a day, February II. comes the
hfteth anniversary of his
death. on April Ia, 1861, the Union
flag was hauled down at Fort Sumter
and the war became fact. on April
~, 1865. the man who had been the
head of the Union during the struggle
was shot by an assassin. The observ-
nucc - the anniversary Of his birth
viii therefore have deeper significance
than usual this year.
The world to-day realizes the tragedy
Of his assassination, but not so well
the shock 1t caused at the time The
shock was the greater because it came
without warning.
on the afternoon Of April H. 1865,
President Lincoln, accompanied by his
wife. went for a long drive, happy in
the thought of the dawn Of peace after
the long night Of war. Little did he
dream that at that very time a band
of consprators were plotting his death
within few hours and that he would
never see the sunrise Of another day
As a recreation he had planned that
night To see the famous actress Laura
kecne in Our American Cousin" which
was being played in what was then
Fnrd's Theatre. on Tenth street North
west between Il and + streets Wash
ington The building now belongs to
the Government and is occupied by
offices OF the pension division of the
War Department
Gen. Grant was to have been one Of
this theatre party, and the fact that he
was Unexpectedly called away probably
saved his life, as there is no doubt that
his murder was also contemplated.
The'Presdent's box had been draped
with two flags. a silk one borrowed
from the Treasury Department being
placed in the centre. 1t was in this
that Booths spur caught when he
leaped from the box after shooting Lin
coin. Within the box was placed a
rocking chair for the use of the Presi-
dent. At half past S Mr.. Lincoln, ac-
companied by Mrs. Lincoln. Major
Rathbone and Miss Harris, entered the
box to witness a play Of which they
were destined never to see the end.
As the President sat quietly in his
box for an hour and half John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin was lowering near
waiting for favorable opportunity to
fire the fatal shot. Booth was a hand
some, gay. romantic young actor of
the famous family Of actors. Edwin
Booth was his brother and Junius Bru-
tus Booth his father
Young Wilkes Booth--he was COM
monty called by his middle name--was
an ardent Southern sympathizer, and his
frequent visits to Washington brought
him in contact with people Of similar
sentiments and gave him the oppor-
tunity to put into effect a plan which
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part ran up beyond Hamburg and took
in all the territory west Of the Rhine
above Switzerland. In the south il eX-
tended to the kingdom of Naples. Eng
land alone as mistress Of the seas APP
peared 10 stand between him and uni
versal dominion
In 1915 after the fall OF Napoleon and
the treaties which followed France was
no better IF than she was in 1890, when
Napoleon was u years old and nm
known. But Prussia had grown, 1t dom
mated the German Confederation, and
by these treaties obtained a tract Of
land On the Rhine, and with slight
break stretched from France 60 Russia.
So II came about that what Napoleon
brought about that was most durable
was the strengthening OF his c"untry's
bitterest and most lasting enemy.
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hundreds of thousands of men were
slain and untold millions spent over
the question OF the possession Of a
throne.
Poland. once a great territory, was
soon to be divided up among the neigh
boring Powers. Except Russia, Poland
was the largest kingdom in Europe, and
the worst damaged. II had several
hundred thousand mobiles, mostly very
poor. the Parliament consisted entirely
Of mobiles; and no measure could pass
that body If there was a single vote
against it. The king was not a heredi-
tary ruler. but whenever a vacancy oc-
CURED the mobiles chose a new sovereign.
usually foreigner, and the various
European Powers always took a hand
in the election. Poland is the one
country to which the Powers have been
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The Roman Empire at about 100 A. D.

ture on "Thr Making Of Europe; How
Wars Have Changed the Map"
Al the time of the supremacy of the
Roman Empire all the lands on both
sides of the Mediterranean Were under
the dominion of Rome The history OF
Europe is made up, first, of the steps by
which the States of the earlier peoples
came under the power of Rome, and
second, Of the way in which the modern
States were formed.
1t will be noticed that the rivers
Rhine and Danube, rising near each
other and flowing respectively into the
North and the Black Sea, form an
almost continuous line. For hundreds
OF years this line was the chief boun-
Diary between two great races. To the
north was Germania, a vast and dismal
region of forests, swamps and noun
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The regenerator OF western Europe
and the founder of modern Europe was
Charles The Great of Charlemagne 1t
was he who conquered the Lombards
that had laid waste the Papal territory
and who reestablished the Pope at
Rome. In THE name of the Roman peo-
pie the Pope offered him the imperial
crown. and on Christmas Day in the
year 800 Charlemagne was proclaimed
Emperor of the Roman Empire of the
West.
A great change had taken place in
the map of Europe toward the end of
the eighteenth century, after the Seven
Years war. In the early part of that
century were fought the wars OF the
Spanish succession and the Austrian
succession, involving nearly all of
western Europe except England, and
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TIME names Of the countries OF
Europe have not always meant
the same extent of territory as
to-day and their boundaries
have changed from time to time, and
always as the result of treaties after
war France has sometimes been much
narrower than It is to-day, extending
toward the east not even so far as the
River Rhone (Which runs into the
Mediterranean near the eastern houn-
daryl, and at other times it has spread
farther east than now, even to the
River Rhine.
Looking back upon the history of
Europe it seems as If it consisted of
nothing but wars and treaties of peace
treaties which were usually broken by
another war. This is pointed out by
William Webster Ellsworth in his lee
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Booth was not the only one to suffer
death for This murder. There were
many other conspirators. prominent
among them being Mrs. Surratt, who
made her home at GOA ii street North
west; George A. Atzerodt, David T.
Herold and Lewis Payne, or Powell. for
he was known by both names. All four
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Of these persons suffered death by hang
ing as punishment for their completely
in the crime. DR.. Mudd Of Maryland
who assisted Booth both before and
after the deed, was also convicted, but
his sentence was a life term in the
Dry Tortugas.
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1t is impossible 10 find any marking
of Wilkes Booths grave. There is
none. The ivy growing on the base of
the tall shaft to Junius Brutus Booth
-Wilkes's father-was lifted up. grave
dug close in at the back of the stone,
and the bones of the i'll fated man re-
pose there to this day.
Connecticut western news., 1915-02-18
ASHLEY FALLS

In the absence of the pastor last Sun- day Christian Endeavor meeting was conducted by the president, R. P. Lee.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Plumb, of Vest field, Mass, were visitors at R. L.. Hurlburt's from Saturday to Wednes- day.
 Little Virginia Tullio was taken Tuesday to The Sisters Home in Springfield, Mass. .... .,,~>
 John Griffith and family, now sof Great Harrington, were Sunday guests at R. P. Lees.
 a, MT, Griffith has purchased the Her man Ca1lendar place in Sheffield and will move his family there the first of April.
 The entertainment given in the chapel by the scholars of the public schools, was we'll attended and the various parts were we'll taken. The Victrola for which they have been working supplied the music under the direction of Superintendent Tower.
Connecticut western news., 1915-02-18

here and there can be seen cattle, and occasionally little shack by the road side. Blackberry, Arizona is in the desert. The mountains here are very high, very rocky and are void of vege- tatiOn, and yet cattle are seen and they seem to be in fair condition. This is the country of the cactus. There are miles and miles of territory covered with them. Young calves can be seen running by the side of their mothers, unmindful of the train as it goes putting past Occasionally house is in sight; they are the homes of the natives, are small and dirty looking places. Their inmates are called Greasers. The Greasers are small in stature and their complexion is swathy. The bones of cattle are to be seen all along the track and it is gruesome looking sight to a Litchfield County farmer How these poor creatures would enjoy being turned loose on a Litchfield County pasture; no doubt they would stuff themselves to death. Kingman, Ari- zona is quite place as they figure population out here. We ore just leav- ing this place and crossing into Cali fornia and our train is putting into the station at the Needles.
 Here as in New Mexico and Arizona the earth is covered with sand. All around the depot can be seen Indians, the men sitting around while the women are trying to sell their shawls, beads aud necklaces. They seem to know how to count money, but have not seen them make a sale during the time our train is waiting. Some of these Indian women look to be hun. dred years old; their faces are wrinkled deeply yet they seem to be active. Near here, I am told there is an Indian school.
 Continued next week