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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-31
CONVICT
MATHEW
SCHMIDT

LOS ANGELES. Dec. al
Mathew A. Schmidt faces life i'm
prisonment today as the result
of his conviction for completely
in the dynamiting of the Los An
geles Times building.
A recommendation of clemency
made by the jury saved Schmidt
from the gallows.
Postponement of the sentence
until Jan. IL was asked by the
defense attorneys to prepare argu-
ments for new trial.
Schmidt was convicted on the
first ballot of the jurors.
David Captain, another alleged
accomplice, who was arrested
last February near Seattle,
shortly after the arrest OF
Schmidt, is In Jail aweSting trial
on a charge of murder.
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U. s. WILL PROBE
BRITISH ACTIONS

CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-The de-
partment of justice will investi-
gate the alleged statement that
British army officers have been
recruiting soldiers in hicago.
Circulars are said to have
been distributed showing Uncle
Sam and John Bull clasping
hands. Investigations will also
be made of a report that an
American recruiting Office is
being maintained In indsor, Ont,
opposite Detroit.
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1916 GETS
POINTERS

CONTINUED From Page ~
the 365th day of your reign you
will be weary and old and worn.
Your robes, once white, will be
draggled and torn and stained,
as Tapping rags about your
withered legs. Your hand palsied,
your step halt, your eyes dim,
you will die; and the World will
60 on. SO take 1t easy, and
don't get excited. If you sigh
for a Place In the Sun. let it be
on a park bench ON summer
afternoon.
Do these things in calm judg-
ment and you may accomplish
more than yo uexpect.
Forever affectionately yours.
THE OLD YEAR.
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AUSTRIA
in
TO u. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The
United States and Austria will
not quarrel over the torpedoin8
Of the Italian liner Ancona. This
is the official opinion here to-
day.
Austria has substantially COM
piled with the American de-
mands in the note which arrived
In Washington today.
Secretary Lansing refused to
make the contents of the note
public until Minday.
There will probably be further
negotiations over minor points
in the controversy.
1t Is unofficially reported that
Austria has ordered the punish
ment OF the commander IL the
submarine, granted a disavowal
of the torpedoing, agreed to offer
reparation, concurred in the prin-
ciple that enemy vessels shall
not be destroyed until those ON
board are rescued, unless they
flee or resist, and desires to
maintain friendly relations.
Austria's reparation for Amer
lean lives lost will be arranged
In a personal conference between
Lansing and Ambassador Zweidi-
mex.
The probable effect of Aus
tria's answer on Germany in the
Lusitania case is regarded i'm
portant. It is believed It will
clear the way for similar German
concessions.
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400 Pounds of
Meat for Needy

Ensign Darwent, of the Saliva
ton Army, will give away 400
pounds of meat to needy families
today and tomorrow at the Army
quarters at 1877 1-2 Commerce
street. Orders will be filled by
calling at the headquarters.
Darwent says the meat gifts at
Christmas proved so successful
that it was decided to make a
second gift. He urges that early
applications be made.
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POLICE WILL TEAR OUT
ALL STANDS MONDAY

All sidewalk confectionery
stands which by Monday morn
ing have not complied with the
city ordinance directing their
removal will be torn down by
the police.
Chief of Police Loomis was
instructed to this effect by the
city council today.
There will be only one excep-
ton to this order in the cose of
Coleman Burke, who runs a
news stand at 18th and Pacific.
II was learned that he has a
widowed mother and several
brothers and sisters and that his
stand is the family-s only means
of support.
The council decided he should
be given special consideration.
The order abolishing all con-
dictionary, fruit, tobacco and
other stands was to have been
effective Jan. 1, but the pro-
prietors will be given until oMn-
day to move out.
When Chief Loomis appeared
before the council and asked fol
instructions, the question oil
whether the resolution should
apply also to comfort stations ant
other rooms below the sidewalk
was raised by Commissioners
Woods.
City Attorney Stiles gave the
opinion that these below-side-
walk rooms can legally be re-
moved If the city so desires. and
LOOMS was instructed to use his
own judgment in the matter.
j. f. Murphy, a newsdealer
complained that the public would
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BRITISH
CRUISER
Is SUNK

LONDON. Dec. 31.-The Brit
ish cruiser Natal is reported to-
day to have been sunk by an in
ternal explosion. or the crew,
325 men remain unaccounted for.
No details of the sinking have
been given. The harbor where it
occurred or the reason for the
explosion were not announced by
the admiralty.
An immediate investigation
has been ordered.
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GREECE KICKS

ROME, Dec. 31.-Greece pro-
tested to the allies today over the
seizure of Austro-G German diplo-
mats at Salonika.
The consuls of Austria, Ger
many, Bulgaria and Turkey are
reported to have been taken
aboard French warship. The
news created great excitement in
Athens.
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CARRANZA. LID
ON RACE TRACK

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. al
Carranza officers plan to pre-
vent the opening of the Tia
Juana race track and casino to-
morrow in Lower California, OF
in case it is started, to shut II
down soon after the opening.
j. w. Coffroth and A. B.
Spreckles Of San Francisco are
promoting the project.
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VILLA REFUGEES
DYING OF HUNGER

Ell PASO, Dec. 31.-Hundreds
of ofrmer Villa troops. women
and children, are crowding into
Juarez, which is already filled to
the limit iwth the battered
remnants of the Villista forces.
Much hunger and several
deaths from exhaustion have
been reported. Fever has broken
out aomgn several of the bands
of refugees.
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Canneries
Show Big
Business

PULALLUP, DeDc. 31.-An
annual report made by the Puy-
allup & Sumner Fruit Growers
association shows that the two
canneries Of the association han
died S.S05,S07 pounds Of fruit
and vegetables during the season
just past.
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WILLQUIT

CONTINUED From Page H.
Vets and drys alike point out
that neither Washington nor Ore
gon will have real prohibition.
The laws OF these two states are
practically the same, and allow
the shipment into the state of
liquor In small quantities. Idaho's
law, on the other hand, is what
the prohibitionists call drum
tight"
There is nothing in the laws of
Washington or Oregon to prevent
anyone from drinking all he wants
to, provided he doesn't fall under
the public nuisance section.
There's nothing to prevent him
from Keeping all the liquor he
wants In his house-if he can get
1t. There's nothing to prohibit
him from carrying all the liquor
he wants across the state line for
his own use.
Little Bookkeeping.
But he cant take it on a COM
mon carrier. The law merely lin
its the amount of liquor a COM
mon carrier may carry to each in
d1vidual, and the laws strictly for
bid the manufacture or sale with
In the state of any liquor contain
Ing more than one-half of one per
cent of alcohol.
Drys believe, and public Of
ficials profress to believe,
that bOtlegging In Oregon
and Washington will not be
. popular profession. In the
first place, they argue, the
bold bhnd-pigger will have a
hard time getting his wares
into the state without bend
ing or breaking the law. He
will run tremendous risk
trying to sell it.
And finally, they argue,
who's going to patronize
blind pig and run chance of
being arrested when there's
simple means provided for
getting 1t legitimately?
Efforts of the Washington liq-
uor men to find illegal hole in
their prohibition law we're watch
ed with bated breath by the Ore
gon vets. When the supreme
court finally decided to leave the
law alone, the Oregon liquor men
also gave up hope.
Although the prohlbitionists
are congratulating themselves on
having knocked king Booze"
flat on his back, they will have to
knock him down again next No
yember.
In Washington the law auto
matically goes on the ballot again.
In Idaho the voters will pass on
the amendment which will give
constitutional authority to the
law already passed by the legisla-
ture. Oregon vets are taking
steps to circulate petitions which
will again put the prohibition
question before the voters next
fall.
Lawyers have declared that
with the Washington supreme
court decision, there isn't loop
hole in either the Oregon or
Washington law.
| There isn't flaw in the drug
store provision, they point out
Drug stores cannot sell liquor fol-
any purpose. The nearest to gen.
uine booze they can sell is ethyl
alcohol.
Il Some druggists might contend
that 100 proof" corn whisky is
nothing but ethyl alcohol, but
there's SO much red tape connect
ed with buying even a little ethyl
alcohol that 1t would be long
time between drinks for anyone
who hoped to evade the law in
This way.
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be done great injustice by the
removal Of the news stand at 9th
and Pacific, and asked the coun-
oil to permit a display on the
outside of the building In which
the dealer has rented quarters.
Mills said no.
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HANGS FROM CEILING

Making from tying through
clothing rack Johnson climbed
chair the Richand yesterday
His dead body discovered evening
tor of the hotel
The dead mans barely touched the floor He believed
suicide
explain his showing deposit
$40
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GETS $4,000 CASH

Twentyone thousand dollars
the Fidelity Trust Co valued $4,000 will Elizabeth
Dane Sinclair of the her husband Thomas
Wallace Tacoma millionaire who died 1910 This
of Judge Chapman in probate yesterday.
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BOOMS WALL STREET.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The
most active Wall street trading
in weeks resulted today from
the news that Austria had sent a
favorable reply in the Ancona
case. Some stocks rose as much
as three points.
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What's Doing
To-day

Watch night services at st.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church, beginning at 8 o'clock.
Social hour with refreshments.
Annual poultry show of Taco
ma Poultry association; Betz
block; afternoon and evening.
Salvation Army distributes to
the poor 400 pounds of pork
backbone. donated by Carstens
Packing Co.
atch-night services in prac-
tically all Tacoma churches.
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Tomorrow

Opening of service on new
O-W branch between Tacoma and
Olympia.
New Years day services in
most of Tacoma churches; morn
ing.
Annual regatta of Tacoma
Yacht club; club house; Point
Defiance park.
International Bible Students
association begins two days an
nual conference; Odd Fellows
Temple.
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REBECCA OF
SUNNYBROOK
FARM

ron,ahs |. your Last chance to sec ~under Cover"
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on sunday night now since he had
the pedometer and the diet. I had
previously made other arrangements
for myself.
How do you feel?" | asked him.
Il feel just this way he answered.
I'm going TO so to that icebox and
get the zone Of that roast and run
under the bed with IL, and I'd like
10 see any one get II away from me.
MY nc supper scheme is a boomer"
The standard distance to he walked
every day is ten miles. according to
the usual prescriptions handed out by
mos; Of the discerning docs" The
redometer is a small machine. not
unlike u wrist watch in size, but gem
orally hung on or about the waist
line. 1t is adjusted 10 the wearer's
stride as the sreedume.er is adjusted
TO the size of the automobile wheel.
But | have been told some pedome-
ters are adjusted TO cheat, as. indeed.
are some speedometers and taXime-
tiers. The motion of the body jog
Cling the ~pcdumrter up and down with
each step does the rest. But some
actions besides walking will make "a
pedometer register distance.
For instance. this friend II mine who
is looking for health in walking
couldn't understand IL one night when
he tool OF the registering machine
and discovered he had made twenty
miles hat day.
Il don't think l had walked that
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RANSLATING the message Of
good cheer which they brought
from the South into helpful

!" RANSLATlNG the message of
good cheer which they brought
from the South into helpful
deeds for the suffragists Of the
North, the three Arkansas travellers
Mrs. T. T. Gotham, Mrs. Alice Sankey
Ellington and Miss Gertrude Watkins
Of Little Rock, are at work in the New
York campaign for votes for m
They are speaking for the cause at
street meetings somewhere in the city
every day; they are carrying word OF
the coming vote on the woman suf-
frage amendment to h pleasure
seekers at Coney Island and other
seaside resorts; they are addressing
by invitation organized bodies Of men
and women.
First AID for the North from the
South" Mrs. Ellington laughingly said
IN telling Of the purpose which rough
the Arkansas flying squadron to
New York. Our own vote will not be
taken this year, and so we have time
10 help you and incidentally strengthen
our hands and gather Information
about methods to use e our cam
paign begins in arrest
is there much interest in suffrage
in the South? Why. you have no idea
up here OF the real strength OF the
movement south OF the Mason and
Dixon !.ne. The whole South Is red
hot with il. The little fact that some
OF the Legislatures have failed to de-
clare for 1t is by no means an indica-
ton Of the opinion that prevails every
where in that section Of the country"
The vote by watch the bills passed
or failed IN the different State Legis-
latures OF the South Is regarded by
the sufragists as Significant Of
much as Thomas Carlyle would have
said.
In Arkansas a suffrage bill passed
the Senate on February ! by a vote
Of 20 10 u. and or February 4 the
house passed a similar bill by 81 to IS,
There is a provision in Arkansas, how
ever, that only three amendments 10
~" Constitution may be submitted TO
the people at n election, and as
there were already three bills ahead
of rle suffrage measure this will have
o. wat its turn. The s~uffragists hope
10 have il voted on in 1917,
The situation In Delaware is I'M
usually interesting from the suffrage
pout OF view. on February 3 the
Senate received a favorable committee
sport on q woman suffrage bill, end
on the day after Washington's Birth
a. sigma. zed It's sympathy with the
Suffrage cause by "A unanlmo . vote
t. amend the Constitution and give
The vote ~ the The House
also voted In favor Of the bill Ac-
corG.nE to the law in Delaware the
General Assembly must concur in this
ac''on in 1917, and II It does the bill
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fore the joint Commission Of both
houses II the LEGISLATURE and intro
OUced woman suffrage resolutions into
the Senate ard the House Of Repre-
sentat.vcs. The measure passed the
House in Apr.,. but the Senate post
poned action until later
In oklahoma. although the woman
suffrage hin JOS; ~ a vote of II to 20.
much legislation favorable L. women
was enacted through the influence ~
the womar sufIraEists.
In North Carolina last, year a woman
suffrage hll failed Of consideration,
hut th!> year the measure was brought
mp again ard received a vote II 80 to
6S.
South Carolina has q bill pending
before the LEGISLATURE to- give the vote
to white women. South Carolina boasts
the Youngest suffrage club ever re-
corded, a band Of little sir.s 5 and ?
years Of age, Thu c.Ua was organized
in Columbia a year ~ TWO ago by
Eleanor and Alice Rall, twin daughters
Of II, II. Bah, editor ot the state.
Tennessee hopes to share with West
virginia the honor of heinz a campaign
state IN 1915. ON January IS the
Senate voted, 90 To 3. IN favor Of a
suffrage amendment Ia the state Con-
stitut.on, and January - the House
also passed the amendment by a vote
Of - 10 II, Tho amendment must
lie submitted to the next LEGISLATURE,
and then 20 To the vote Of the people
before II can become a Jaw, thus max
Ing 4 two years more before tho law
can become operative. This VAS too
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and dieting I have felt 20 to 25 per
cent. better"
He was one of those per cent. fans.
He invited me to TAXI a walk with
him the next Sunday.
I've made IT a practice lately to
take a long tramp every Sunday" he
declared, land then we don't have
any regular supper at home. We
have a nice roast on Saturday night.
and whenever any m of the family
feels hungry on Sunday he Fan go
of the bone and eat it in a sandwich
or something"
He didn't invite me to supper, but
confined his hospitality TO making me
his walking companion. We started
early and tramped hard. His pedom-
eter licked off the miles and his feet
pounded of the shoe leather.
The doctor told me l must walk
ten miles n day to be healthy" he
painted. II guess we've gone further
than that"
II guess we have" l answered. but
there We're a couple of rainy days this
last week when you must have fallen
below your average. You'd better
make ii up to-day"
That's right" he answered. trying
hard TO be game.
1t was supper time when We got
back TO my friends apartment, except
ne had already told me they didn't
have any regular scheduled supper
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comes through better when he thinks
| walk so far
OF course. a lot OF these followers
of the latest craze do o take all
conditions into consideration. Some Of
them dance, which runs up their
standing in the league. Others fire.
%quently walk with young ladies OF the
type and size known as chickens"
and. in accommodating a stride to the
length and rapidly Of the young
lady's. the pedometer just races. Also
marking time on the pavement out
side a stage door runs up the clock
the same as when "A taXicab stands
still with the motor going.
Various other elements confuse the
returns. There is the case Of the
man with the hiccoughs who hic-
coughed himself as far AS Chicago
before he got himself under control.
Another decided to ride home in a
jitney bus one night. and IL az just
as good as walking as far as the
pedometer went. Every time the
rickety motor painted he ree,ed off a
couple of miles or SO. lie. naturally.
didn't live IN New York.
II isn't hard to fool the pcdomctcr.
A friend of mine who is in the latest
style got To shaking dice one evening
and the pedometer showed eight miles
when he got through. But II he had
had a cash register to note his win
nings II wouldn't have been bothered
nj all. II might as well have been
dead. He didn't need any.
This pedometer thing is not a bad
idea in many particulars. II YOU can
induce your wife To wear one and get
her enthusiastic you will save ~ lot
Of carfare. II is worth trying. as the
/ initiAl Investment IS moi very laIre.
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She might like it as well ms dancing,
although | doubt it.
"A pedometer isn't what I should
get my wife to wear remarked a
party to a discussion of the new
craze. What she needs is a cash
register"
Don't I've surprised if YOU should
see "A man or a woman pounding his
heels a little hard when he walks
They are trying to emphasize the
steps and get them positively regis
tered. Some Of the deyotees OF the
sport are SONG hareheadcd. hut most
are a little shy about admitting they
are equipped with one, "A pedometer
and not a head. As | have said. IL
is a tender subject, as is a boys first
love AFFAIR or "A health belt. IL is n
sort of secret. hut when pedometer
wearers do gather and ak of their
accomplishments. golf players. poker
experts and summer resort gossips
have nothing ON them.
! was present at such "A discussion
the other night.
"lf the pedometcr rang up every
time those fellows tell "A lie about
low far they walk remarked "A nom
redometer wearer afterward. some OF
them would have been twice around
the world Tonight already"
Walking has come back into its
own. But so far. the street railways.
taxi companies and automobile or
CARNATIONS have not attempted to get
any injunction against the pcdometer
wearers that | have heard Of. The
craze is like the summer tan follow
ins a vacation. II soon rubs off.
And going lareheadcd does not ac-
CELEBRATE the machine. 1t may save
the hair. though.
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Cally established TO his satisfaction
that if all the steps Robert, the hand
some and voiUbie waiter, takes in a
day were placed end to end he would
be in Yonkers, n. Y, every night.
provided, OF course, they were placed
end 10 end in that direction. But
Robert declares he does not intend
10 place his steps end to end because
he doesn't desire TO he in Yonkers.
since all he would have to do after
he got there would be TO come back
again. And Mr.. Thompson will prob
ably print these facts, resulting from
his scientific research. in P~edrson's
Mdpdsinc, Of which he is the editor.
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There, his job and name and all are
now tipped on, y friend got him
10 ride home in his automobile he
other night, and Mr.. T. vas very
sore about it.
My days record is spoiled he
complained. Il should nave walked
home n made my regular average
on the pednmeter.'
And Robert. the waiter, said the
other night, not within the range OF
Mr.. Thompson's ears:
Il just set the pedometer ahead
myself every night TO please him, lie
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far to-day" he unused.
Where did you eat your dinner"
! asked him, like william ]. Burns,
always looking for a clue.
with Irwin Cobb he replied. And
have you heard that new story of his
about his experience in the hospital"
why. they don't give a guy n
chance to he in a private hospital,
declared Cobb. You know he has just
been there for an operation. Nurses
are walking in and out of the room
all the time without being announced,
and some OF them very pretty nurses,
co.. A mar doesn't have any more
privacy than a goldfish, and a gold
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ter workout and is one of those folks
who is like a golf player. He has
the habit himself, wants to hang one,
a pedometer and not a habit. on every
body he meets. the same as the ordi-
nary expert at the Scotch and soda
game endeavors TO make a disciple
Of each innocent stranger he runs
across. Already he has put one on
his poor old father and has got
him ambitious to walk ten miles a
day. His latest convert is Robert,
the handsome and voluble waiter, at
his favorite chop house.
Il wonder how far you walk every
day." asked John Thompson. the
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friend there's no use in keeping il
a secret, n night as he selected a
hSh.
Il don't know" answered the busy
walter. \ god ways, | guess
probably about as far as 10 Tipperary
What will You have tonight, Mr..
Thompson
We'll" replied Thompson. reach
ing into his pocket for a small pack
age, put on this pedometer and let's
see how far YOU 20 around this res
taurant every day"
Mr.. Thompson has now scientih-
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fish in a glass aquarium Is the last
word in exposure"
Did you think that funny" I
asked my friend.
The best thing I've heard in years
he replied, Il laughed until my sides
ached.'
And you probably laughed about
fifteen miles right onto YOU pedome-
ter incidentally" | told him.
Il lever thought of that" he an
swered.
This same friend OF mine is very
conscientious about his daily pedome-