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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
BLANKET
CATCHES
INFANTS

Hemmed in on all sides by for
est fire, and the lower part of
their home in flames, the family
of Herman Halstead, a rancher
living above the Narrows, hall
way between Sixth avenue station
and Salmon beach, escaped almost
certain death last night by jump
ing from a second story window
into blanket held by neighbors.
Each of the three Halsteaf
children was dropped into 1t by
the father. Then Mrs. Halstead
took a plunge from her smoke
filled windew, and escaped safely.
Halstead was the last to jump.
The Halsteads are the first VIC
Tins of dangerous forest fire
that has swept over many acres
of Narrows land for two days.
Cedar shakes, of which the
house was constructed, caught
fire just as other ranchers, who
had spent the night fighting fire,
saw the danger.
Although the family was saved.
not an article of furniture or
clothing could be removed from
the house. Even the fruit trees
on the ranch were destroyed by
the intense heat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
along the rail toward the dock
Watched Victims Struggle.

watched victims Struggle.
The Eastland turned over at
7:45, just few minutes after II
had left the dock. Thousands on
their way to work heard the cries
of terror Of the passengers. There
was wild rush towards the dock.
In a few minutes, there was q
crowd Of tens of thousands.
The struggling and fighting OF
the victims in the water was seen
by thousands Of men, women and
children.
The water was filled with hu-
man beings. One by one they
were seen to go down for the last
time.
Scores of rescue boats were
soon plying about the sunken
ship.
The cries of the imprisoned
passengers inside the Eastland
could be plainly heard, but there
was no way of reaching them un-
til the steel plates were torn off.
A few were dragged through
port holes.
Fought For Life-Preservers.
The majority of the passengers
could not even reach the exits.
Those who were rescued told OF
the horrible scenes that were en-
acted when the Eastland listed
and overturned.
Women and children were
knocked down and trampled in
the wild panic. Men Fought for
life belts, chairs, or anything that
might keep them afloat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
HOW TO COLLECT

The Puget Sound State
Bank, Tacoma, has installed
under the trained supervi-
sion of Mr.. H. w. Birdsall,
who has proved his eff
cheney, to handle such mat
tiers during the two years he
has been associated with US
Ia Department at Window
No. 3, for the collection of
drafts drawn on individuals
and firms; notes past due
md TO become due; sale colt
Tracts of every nature, par
Mai payment bills Of sale:
papers left for safe keeping,
agreements held for settler
ment; moneys and instru-
ments left in trust or in
escrow.
Through this Department
We Issue Travellers Checks
and drafts payable every
where in the known World,
and are self-identifying. You
are invited.
H. N. TINKER.
President.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

$4,000 IS
SAVED ON
CITY JOB

For nearly $4,000 less than the
city's estimate, the Ntzhugh, Con-
tracing Co. of Tacoma was yes
terday afternoon given a con-
tract to pave the last unit of the
South Tacoma boulevard, from
Center and NJ SITS. to the end of
the present pavement at Cedar
and 38th SITS.
The city had estimated the work
as costing $4,000. McHugh re-
ceived the job on bid of $32.-
1872. Close competition marked
the contractors bidding, as evil
denced by the fact that the
Western Paving Co.'S big $32,257
just $25 more than McHugh.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
LIBEL
ARMS
CARGO

A suit which probably will
force showdown on the owner
ship of the cargo of the myster-
ious schooner, Annie Larsen,
which put into Grays Harbor in
distress a month ago with a hold
full of rifles and munitions, was
started in federal court here to-.
day. ~
Something regarding the sup
posed Mexican revolution plot
also is expected to become public.
The owners of the vessel, OIL
yer j. Olsen and Andy Mahony of
San Francisco. sued to attach the
cargo of 1894 cases OF arms and
munitions for alleged non-pay-
ment of charter-fees by the chart
erers, M. Martinez & Co., San
Diego.
They filed the suit Just az the
charterers> were beginning to UNI
load the mysterious cargo, it is
said.
Originally, the Annie Larsen is
said to have been chartered for q
voyage to the Mexican coast with
the munitions. But adverse
winds drove her up the coast un-
til she put in at Grays Harbor.
The United States is interested
in the ship because 1t wishes to
know what Mexican leader the
arms were being shipped to. The
collector of port at Grays Harbor
and District Attorney Allen of Sc
attic both have investigated for
the national government.
Owners claim in suit that char
ter fees were paid simply to July
Is. when they ceased. Rate, they
claim, was $3.50 month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
Come Mourn With
Stone 4 Webster

SEATTLE, July 24.-The lit
ney-buses and municipal owner
ship have the. Seattle Electric
Co.'S goat.
The bleat Of said goat was
heard before the state public SER
vice commission at Olympia to-
day when the company asked
that it no longer be required to
pay 5 per. cent of its gross in
come to the city, or be required
to pay for the paving between
it's wheels" (Louis Bean please
note.)
The .company's complaint is
that the city has started a light
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

Terrible scenes were enacted
only a few feet from shore az
hundreds of excursionists strug-
gled for life. Men endeavored to
hold their wives heads above
water. but were themselves drag
ged down by other terror-stricken
victims.
Children we're torn from their
parents and carried down in the
swirling tow as the steamer sank.
Wild Panic.
Many women and children
jumped from the boat, only to be
crushed as the side Of the steamer
bore down on them, as 1t capsized
and crushed them.
A wild panic which prevailed
retarded the work Of rescue.
Every pulmotor in Chicago was
rushed to the scene but many died
after being taken from the water
despite all that could be done 70,
them.
Tear Bottom Open.
To aid In the work of rescue
the police directed that the bot.
tom of the steamer, which had
capsized and left part Of her keel
and bottom protruding above tbs
top of the water, be ripped open,
SO as to release the hundreds who
are still imprisoned in the state
rooms and lower decks of the
steamer.
Their screams can be heard
above the noise of the automatic
drills used for cutting into the
plates which make up the sides
of the ship.
The dead were taken aboard
the steamer Theodore Roosevelt,
which was turned into an impro-
vised morgue.
After Capt. Peterson had been
placed under arrest, he said he
thought the cause of the accident
was a broken air chute, which
had let water into one side oil
this hold of the boat, causing her
to capsize.
But William Plummondon. one
of the passengers ON the ship
blamed the navigators OF this
boat, who had permitted the hun
dreds OF excursionists to GROVE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
SUPREME COURT
THINKING PAVING
LITIGATION 0VEH

The state supreme court after
a hearing at Olympia yesterday
OF the application OF the Pierce
county commissioners and the
Washington Paving Co., asking
for a writ of prohibition estop-
ping Judge Mitchell and the
Thurston county superior cours
from interfering with the Stella
COON highway. took the case UNI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

and power plant which has
knocked the particular spots off
the profits the company used to
make, and that allowing and
licensing jitney-b,ises, the city
has busted into the monopoly
profits which the company claims
its franchise gave 1t.
And since, 1t claims, the fran
chise has been thus wrenched
and busted, the provisions which
are unfavorable to 1t should be
repealed, also.
Company claims It loses $780,
900 a month from jit competi-
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
FIVE EDUCATORS
OF TACOMA ARE
ELECTED TO FRAT

Five Tacoma educators were
included In the list of % who
were initiated into Phi Delta Kap-
pa. honorary educational fratern-
ity. at the close of the summer
session of the University OF Wash
ington.. Those who were honored
are: Dio Richardson, w. G. Pag
w. J. Stanley, H. A. Whitene
and ira A. Morton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
OF
AUTO RULES
AT MOUNTAIN

Physicians who took the trip
TO Mt. Tacoma yesterday COM
planned today Of the manner In
which the auto traffic from Mis-
Qually glacier up to Reese's camp
Is handled by the rangers.
They say that yesterday their
80 cars we're lined up ready to
start, aud that then several large
public buses we're permitted to
head the procession.
These, the doctors declare, held
back all tho privnta cars BE-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

WASHINGTON, d. c., July "a.
The United States of America
today has served solemn notice on
the kaiser that 1t will maintain
the principle of the freedom of
the seas, without compromise
and at any COST"
In what is by far the strongest
of the notes which this country
has sent, following the Lusitania
disaster, Secretary Lansing in
formed Germany that fits previous
answers had been entirely unsat-
isfactory.
He added that the United States
fully expected from Germany a
prompt Acknowledgement of its
fault in sinking the Lusitania,
and concluded that this country
would regard a repetition Of such
an attack as deliberately I'M
friendly"
ACTION, NOT WORDS
Thus, without taking the
form of an ultimatum, the
note of the United States
really il nothing less than a
notice that this country ex-
; poets prompt action and not
mere words from the impe-
rial government.
AS an introduction to his note,
Secretary Lansing told Germany
he fully appreciated the new cir
cumstances which had come into
naval warfare since the invention
of the submarine--a circumstance
not considered when the various
nations drew up the laws of In
ternational naval warfare. But,
he says, although acts not allow
able under this law might con-
ceivably be permitted against an
enemy which itself was not obey
ing the laws Gas Germany believes
England to be doing) they GER
tainly cannot be justified against
q friendly, neutral country such
as the United States.
RIGHTS BASED ON PRINCIPLE
"The rights Of neutrals,"
he said, ''are based on prin-
ciple and not expediency, and
IL Is the duty OF belligerents
to adapt the new circustanco
(submarine warfare To
theni."
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cause of their slowness, and
raised terrific dust, much to
the discomfort of the physicians.
They also complain that at
least one of the buses lacked the
required state license for 1915.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

. Apparently he has forgotten all
about his promise to stay here all
summer, IL necessary, to make
The Times "eat them words"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
BLACK AND WHITE
SHOES ARE NEXT

ST. PAUL, MIMI, July "a.
Black and white shoes are being
turned out by the hundreds to-
day by st. Paul's shoe factories,
second in size In the nation. The
black and white IL an upshot Of
the war. They were formerly
used In Europe. to Indicate
mourning. Their attractiyeness-
caused q demand In this country
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
FAREWELL, DAD, FAREWELL

Goodbye, dad!
You've served quite
1t has been hot and have been diversion Like Judge
like the funny stories womens fur you've been fit
attI the foolish
fallen entertainmenwhy Judge Hum
plres a marker
of with a pile good
speeches have left taste ofer shall
we say indelicacy?
thesear details, dad"
Goodbye, OIL scout!
your grow less
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

to read their law SO as TO exclude
Flynn from the peddler's license.
Flynn will leave town this ev-
ening. after a months operations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24
Well Have a Jitnette

win have its first jitnette beginning
She Margaret Reynolds, $500 North Ninth III
will the Point Defiance
Mrs Reynolds has driven car for good many pears she
drive
without giving the press chance for another
disasterp
There are number Of women who own jney busa 81 1S
coma, but this Il the first oVner-driyer. = S
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See page 8 for interesting story
OF the exploits Of the Annie Lar
sen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

@ WASHINGTON, d. c.,
o July 24.-Officials here do
o not fool themselves-they
o agree that the U. s. note to
@ Germany is an ultimatum,
@ although not in the form of
@ one.
& Opinion differed as to
9 what Germany would think
@ it to her best interests to do
9 defy the United States or
@ give up submarine warfare,
8 as previously practiced.
@ Many thought the note
g would show whether or not
@ the war-caste was completely
@ in control of the imperial
o government.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-24

, WASHINGTON AGREES
IT'S AN ULTINiATUM
, BERLIN, July 24.-Dis-
cussion Of the note was alb
solutely refused.
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B . 90 o o o o o o > o o o 9
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nglist Girl Today Has Chance Page Today
-E-W-S Spells News

BY giving our readers the news
from the four corners of the earth
The Times is carrying out the
meaning of the word NEWS
North, East, West, South.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
The Women of France.

! am coming home for the winter,
and will be in Boston almost as soon
as this letter. My experiences in the
French army convince me that the
French have left nothing to chance.
They are the best prepared of all
the nations of Europe, not even ex-
cepting the Germans. Take the So
ciety called Les Femmes de France
the women of France. 1t probab-
ly numbers fifteen million members.
that is, every female in the Repub-
lie. from five to ninety-five years of
age. This wonderful organization
of all the females of a race Is, I be-
lieve, not equalled even by the or
ganization of the Kaiser's army.
From the nobility of France to the
poorest seamstress in a garrett every
female of France is today giving
money. work. clothing, food. brains.
to help the injured of their army.
think they will effect enough of
extra cures to put a new army in
the field of men who in other wars
would have died, to equal the army
of Kitchener or all the reserves of
the Emperor William.
There is not railway station nor
crossroad where train stops but has
a committee of Les Femmes de
France These women wait on the
badly wounded, sometimes take
them off the trains to their houses
or to local hospitals. They give cof-
fee, bread and delicacies to the
brave, suffering fellows from the
front. Even plain housewives who
have never seen a wounded man be-
fore will lift a stretcher and soothe
a shattered man and give him care
that would do credit to the best Red
Cross nurse. / saw forty or fifty of
such women in one long splendid
vigil look out for the needs of twelve
thousand of the wounded from the
battle field near Rheims.-"Here and
There in Battle-Scarred France"
Peter MacQueen, in National Maya
zine for January.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
Pecans In Kentucky.

Here and there over the State will
be found an individual tree bearing
nuts plentsQusly each year. The soil
in the State seems well adapted to
this as to all nuts. but. unfortunate
ly, the farmers do not realize their
opportunities in this prolific nut.
Every farm should have trees enough
to give nuts for family use at least.
In the southern and western part
OF the State along the Ohio River
Their are forests OF pecans that bear
every year. The nuts are gathered
by the farmers and taken to mar
kets like Henderson. and they find
the sale very remunerative. Dealers
In the river towns handle pecans by
the ton. Improved paper shell pc
cans will grow In Kentucky Just as
well as the native trees and the nur-
series over the country are prepared
TO furnish strong grated stock to
our farmers. -.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
New Term Opens,

The mid-winter term of Hartford
College opened January IL, 1915.
Rev. Ray, of Pennsylvania, was
present, conducted devotional exer-
cises and addressed the student
body.
DR.. Ford and Mr.. Henry Carson,
of the Board of Education, each
made remarks of encouragement
and expressed their satisfaction at
the increasing attendance of the
school. The new pupils were as
sured of the hearty cOrdiality and
cooperation of the faculty and cit
lens of the town and invited to Wis
it the homes, churches and Sunday
Schools.
Mr.. Byars, of Olaton, a patron,
was a welcome visitor.
Twenty young men and women
from the rural schools matriculated
to take teachers training or con-
tinue high school. Others will en-
ter as their schools close.
On Tuesday morning Mr.. VIM. H.
Stout of Indianapolis who lectured
the previous evning at the audi
torium. visited the school and gave
a very pleasing address. This was
much appreciated both by the fac
ulty and students.
Following are the matriculates
this week: Misses Irene Ward, Con-
nye Ralph, No Greek; Hazel Jones
Elizabeth Jones, Concord; Cliffie
Felix. Hartford; Mae Allen. Crom-
well; Pearl Brown. McHenry; Mae
Byars. Olaton; Mamie Minton. Hart
ford r. 3; Minnie Lauterwasser
Hartford r.. 1. Messrs. Arthur Min
ton, Walker Cater. Leslie Hager'
man. Dukehurst; Clyde Ralph. Nc
Creek; Auburn Tichenor, Beda; Ray
Sanders. Noah Legrand. Olaton. Ern'
est Wilson. Prentis; Anthony Daniel
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
Is on the way right now.

is on the way right now.
He has succeeded in raising SO
tons of tomatoes from an acre of his
land. He maintains that he is going
to boost the record every year.
The New York state tomato spe-
cialist came to his task pretty well
qualified. He is a soil and produce
expert. graduate from the agricul-
tural college of his university. For
years he was employed by q large
eastern dairy company dispensing
his knowledge to farmers who SHE'D
clear of science when applied to teas
ing more money from the soil In
the shape of better and more crops.
The muck on which the record
crops are grown did not seem worthy
of consideration at first. But Cock
bourne actually fed the soil. He
helped starving nature. Before set
ting the tomatoes he applied 500
pounds of fertilizer and later scat
tered SOC pounds more about the to-
mate plants at the time Of setting.
Cock bourne has had similar success
in raising other crops. He declares
that scientific fertilization is the Sc
cret of his record yields.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
4. S. of Il. Speaking.

National President Crist of the A.
S. of E.. will speak at the court
house in Hartford next Tuesday, Jan.
18th at one o'clock p. m. Every
body invited and urged to attend.
At the same time the question of Sc
curing a county farm demonstration
will be taken up.
President Crist will also speak at
the following places in Ohio county:
Dundee. Wed. Goth, / p. m.
Narrows, Thurs, 21st, 10 a. m.
Buford, Fri, 22d, p. m.
Centertown, Sat. 23d, l p. m.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

Sheriff s. o. KeOwn returned from
had gone with a requisition from the
Governor of Kentucky for the arrest
of Whalen King, wanted here for de-
sorting his wife whom he had marri-
ed to escape prosecution for seduc-
ton. Sheriff Keown arrested King
at Tyronza, Ark, and took him to
Little Rock, where Gov. Hayes of
that State at once honored the re-
QUESTION of Governor McCreary.
King was lodged in Jail, but will
probably be able to give bond.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

Rome, Jan. 13.-Italy again has
been visited by an earthquake of
wide extent which, according to lat
est advices resulted in the death of
10000 persons, and the injury pos
sibly of 10000 more in the destroyed
towns and villages.
The shock was the strongest Rome
has felt in more than 100 years.
The town of Avezzano, in the Alb
ruzzi department, sixty-three miles
east of Rome, has been levelled to
the ground. Here 5000 persons are
reported killed.
In many small towns surrounding
Rome buildings are partially wreck
ed, while at Naples a panic occurred
and houses fell at Casserta, a short
distance to the east.
From Naples i'm the south to Fer
rera I'm the north, distance of more
than 900 miles, across almost the
whole width of teh country, the un-
dullatory movement continued for a
considerable period.
In Rome it was thought at first
two shocks occurred, but the sizes
mographic instruments showed only
one, beginning 1855 a. m. and last
ing from twenty to thirty seconds.
In the capital itself, so far as
known, no lives wer lost, but a great
deal of damage was done, churches
and statues offering the most. For
time the people were fear stricken,
and there was a veritable panic in
the hospitals, monasteries and con-
vents.
Owing to the wide extent of the
disturbance. it's evident terrible con-
sequences and the actual effects Of
the earthquake are not at present
known. OWING to the cutting off of
communications.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

ton Building here. Mrs. Liggett
came here recently to shop and ate
luncheon at the Y. M. C. A., and 1t
was there that she met the Jap. Mrs.
Liggett was married at that time.
but on Wednesday of last week she
obtained a divorce from her first
husband and 1t Is said she became
engaged to Kur0da the day after
getting her divorce. Mrs. KurOda Is
a pretty blonde.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
GREAT EARTHQUAKE
KILLS THOUSANDS
Italy Visited By The Worst Dis
turbanCe In 100
Years.

London, Jan. IA (4:05 a. M
One thousand persons were killed
and 500 injured by the earthquake
which completely destroyed the small
town of Aielli, to the east of Rome,
according to a dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company. Mag
liano also was destroyed. In the
province of Aquila forty persons we're
Killed.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

The basket ball teams of FOrdsville
and Hartford will meet at DR.. Beans
Rink tonight at eight o'clock. This
will be the first game local enthusi-
asts have been enabled to see this
season and a good crowd should turn
out. The game will be hard fought
as both teams are anxious to win.
Hartford being especially anxious to
take the opener. Fordsville teams
have played here before and are very
popular with Hartford fans, this be-
ing caused by their manly and sports
manlike conduct.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15
Cornell Man Grows Record Tomato
Crop.

Cornell Man Grows Record Tomato
Crop.
Why take on the worries and I'M
certainties of Wall street and fren-
zied financa when commonplace,
blushing. lucious tomatoes bring
wealth. happiness and independence
at low cost?
That's the profitable philosophy OF
Frank Cockbourne of Chautauqua
county. New York. Cornell graduate,
soil lover and record tomato grower.
Several years ago Cockbourne gave
up an enviable place in the bustlins
commercial world and bought a
small kingdom of his own-just 80
acres. Cockbourne loved tomatoes
and he knew that millions OF palates
were just like his. So he set about
TO make fortune out OF them. He
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

Don't faiI " see Onas. Flake, the
Yankee Commedian, in buck and
wing specialties. See Ford and
Flake in their double tango specially.
BE sure and heor Mildred Ford sing
that song, that comedy song, entitled
Hes A Devil" At Beans Opera
House, Jan. 81, 22 and 90.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-01-15

EDUCATION consists Of knowing
ings-KNOwING how a range is
made inside and outside. CALL at
our store during our SPECIAL MA
JEsTIC RANGE DEMONSTRATION
OF Jan. IS to 23 inclusive.
E. p. BARNES & BRO,
Beaver Dam, Ky.