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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
RANCHER STAYS
| LARGE COUGAR

Ole Bakee, a Buckley trapper,
brought to the county auditors
office this morning the skin of a
cougar which he had killed on the
White river and which measured
exactly eight feet from tip to tip.
He also claimed bounties on three
cougar kittens. His total in
bounties was $50. But one lar
ger cougar was ever killed in
Pierce county. This animal WAS
shot three years ago by Otto
Haines, and measured 8 feet 3
inches.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
$3.50 WHEAT
REALITY NOW

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-Dollar
and half wheat is today real
ity, May wheat opening at that
figure this morning, showing an
advance of cent and five-eighths
over yesterdays closing mark.
July wheat made the same gain,
opening at $1.35. Other grains
are up. The May opening is the
highest since Letters famous cor
'ner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
STOP FIGHTING ITO CARRY
AWAY DEAD thD WOUNDED.

PARIS, Jan. 2S.--The German
losses in the fighting against the
French TN the last three davs to-
tai at least 10000, according to
the claim of the war office in
the official statement today.
1t is officially announced that
the Germans lost between u 600
and 10000 killed and wounded In
three days fighting for the pos
session of the heights near
Craonne.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
PRESIDENT vETOES
IMMIGRATION BILL

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Jan. 20.
President Wilson's veto of the
Dillingham; immigration bill was
received by the house today. The
president rejected the measure,
which passed both houses, be-
cause of the provision for liter
acy tests for immigrants.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

The presidents message, which
accompanied the bill, explained
that the measure would In effect
close the "open door," which the
United States has always main
tanned towards immigrants.
He objected to the use of the
literary test and oher restrictive
provisions of the bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

had pretended to sign the agree-
ment, he alleged, hut had never
revealed to him what she had
written.
II spent money necessarily on
her from the time she first came
to my store,- he said. ~ bought
her clothes, promised her property
and trips and maid to do the
Homework rs soon as we should
be married.
There Is with me no question
of age between us, for love Is the
elixir Of life--the fountain OF
YOUTH
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
THOUSANDS or
FRENCH KILLED

BERLIN. Jan. 2s. = Frencn
losses have gone far into the
thousands during the last three
days fighting on the Heights OF
Craonne. 1t is claimed in an Of
fetal statement today.
I'VE found 1900 dead in the
French trenches which we occu-
Pied" said the statement. Tn
addition LOO were taken pris-
oners."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

los ANGELES, CAL, Jan. IN.
The professed love Of A. &.
Gardner, wealthy music dealer
here, for Miss Marguerite Coffcy,
less than one-third his age, was
recently put to the acid test when
the girl sued him for $50, 900 un-
der breach OF promise proceedings.
Gardner, % years old, respon,l-
ed by getting marriage license
and declaring his willingness 20
marry the -year-old girl ut any
time or place, asserting that he
still loved her.
ut was only after ] had
repeatedly and futilely urged
our early MARRIAGE" explain.
ed Gardner. that I broke
our engagement. felt that
her apparent reluctance to
have the hams published
tokened that she really did
not love me.
IF Marguerite loves me,
as still hope she does, I am
not only willing but eager
to marry her."
The elderly sutton Of youth AMI
beauty asserted that while he had
signed am agreement TO marry
Coffey, the girl had
not consented to marry him. She
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
BITTER COLD
IN THE EAST

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.--The en-
tire middle west and central Sec
lions Of the country are today In
the grip of the worst cold wave
of the winter. Below zero wealth
er is registered in dozen states.
Two deaths are reported in Chit
cago. Suffering among the poor
is intense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
Open Canal On
Fourth OF July

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Jan. rs.
The formal opening OF the Pa
mama canal will be probably post
poned until July 4. President
Wilson told congressional callers
today that this date had been sug-
gested as more satisfactory for
the exercise than March 6. lie
indicated that he approved the
July 4 date.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
''SlASHE9'
WOMAN
HROAT

HOUSTON. Iex., Jan. e. =
Ward snyder, age ~, said 70 DO
the son Of q millionaire rittsbur,g
oil operator, slashcd his wifs's
throat from ear 70 ear and then
swallowed bichloridc Of mercury
tablets here today. The woman
Ii dead. snyder II dying. Mira.
snyder was = former opera aing-
or and was noted for her beauty
blood trickling under the door ~
the woman's room Was the first
intimation Of the tragedy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
TODAY's CLEARTNGs.
T0day's Best Joke

"Jonesby had doctor with
him all night"
Was he very sick?"
He was toward the last, when
the doctor held all the good
hands"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
A Young Deposition
Said the Other Day

mo man ever saves money by
putting It off until tomorrow or
next week. Now Is the time to
begin to save. / am now Just get
ting into position to save a regu-
lar sum every week, and I am
convinced that IL anyone will take
the small sum that is left over to
him, after paying his weeks ex-
penses, and put It away in a good
bank he certainly can save money.
Furthermore, it will grow"
Let us help you save your
money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
sELAH,

- Gunner r. Carlson, who fell
-four stories in an elevator at the
3Olympus hotel yesterday, sustain
Ing internal injuries and broken
legs, is improving today at the
county hospital.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

Aviators equipped with armed
aeroplanes will be stationed at the
outskirts OF the city. ready to
rise to attack the invaders the
moment they appear. II is also
proposed to have heavily armed
dirigibles hover over the city as a
support of the small air craft.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

PARIS, Jan. 28.--Increased
activity of German airmen and
rumors that the kaiser's advisers
plan Zeppelin raid over Paris
caused the war office to announce
elaborate plans for the defense of
the city against aerial attack.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
WANTS COW MONEY

Godfrey Fox of Flett began
suit in superior court today 10
recover 1925 damages for a COW,
alleged to have been killed by a
7. r.. q p. car last September.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

4 The hillsides near Craonne are
covered with bodies of dead and
wounded. There is lull in the
infantry fighting to permit am
balances to recover the wounded.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
|HALFYEAR OF WAR
AND WHAT IT COST

The great reached halfyear point today,
D. Six months today Austria opened It's Serva
For half the Europe have others
roats spending lives and with reckessness unpsral
leIed in history.
HOW MUCH HAS THE FIRST HALF YEAR COST IN
LIVES AND IN MONEY?
No figures either available the
IloydGeorge that Britain spends
sterling offers ground
for estimates.
months OF the $1,000 900 OOOor fully much the
1914 record crop Of the United states is worth!
Remember these military only German esti-
mates OF EurOpe loss because of the wabuness
depression ruined and sucgive $4,000 100000
whereas military have only little than
third of this
Rough estimates, connection with
ished by $4,000 killed
victims of disease This a battle
field victims since the began.
Take pencil and figure this awful flesh
blood First the table Of money costs:
England.
France 1,OOO,OOO,OOO
Germany 1,5OO 100000
Austria ........... ................. 8OO,OOO,OOO
Russia ,25O,O 100000
Observation-Disclosures. 1OO,0O0,OOO
japan 2OO,OOO.OOO
Belgium ..,..,.... Observation-Disclosures. 65O,OOO,OOO
Turkey 15O,OOO,OOO
Montenegro .......,............. 5O,OOO,OOO
Total ................. .......... 81,
to number of killed wounded. To place
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
TO END WAR?

BASEL, Switzerland. Jan. 20.
Private advices from Vienna
state today that Emperor Franz
Josef has sent Baron Rajecz. thu
new Austrian foreign minister. tnl
Germany to confer with the kais-
err with a view to ending the war.
No confirmation could be OBJ
tanned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE
Many talk. but
few are heard.
Observation-Disclosures.

ITO keep rubber plant heal
thy" writes Mrs. ID. T., give 1t
a spoonful of castor oil once a
MONTH"
But how?"postcards Puzzled.
Ans: The answer is easy.
Throw the rubber plant on its
back; hold Its nose SO as to shut
off it's wind. When IL opens ita
mouth to breathe, pour in the cas-
tor oil.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
PROFESSOR
FOR
|. | n 6

MiNNEAPOIlb, MIMI, Ian. -.
william Alien, professor ~
}topy &C tho Univcspity o.
AIfnnosota, was arrested today ftr
killing Carl NyralI whiIo tho lat
fer wss attempting to enter Al
lens home last night. Tho police
say that Nyrall was intoxicated
and did not know whist he was
doing. Allen profcssed no re-.
greet, saying: "a man who At
tempts 10 enter sn0ther's homo
may expect 70 bo taken Tor : bur-
glar and he must take the conse-
qucnccs."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28

o WHO SAID THAT? o
. "Naught venture, naught .
o have" D
y So said Thomas Tusser. y
o born 1915, died 1850. Tom Q
. evidently was an oil stock q
. salesman. @
. y @ o o o o . o 9 @ o p o o o
NEW Bt SlNESS FOR HUBBIls3
The young man OF engaging
manners who Is willing to hire
himself out as an escort to wom-
en- has a field for his activities
these days. The new profession
originated in New York. Par
ents who wish to send their
daughters to concert have only
to telephone the beaux's bureau,
indicate the mental complexion
that they expect of the young
man, and say whether or not
they want him to wear evening
dress. The bureau fills the or.
der. the girl hears the concert
and the young man is well paid
for his trouble.
4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
FAyoRITE FICTION

I'VE are so glad you came over
tonight. We just hate to be
alone every evening. and you are
such jolly company
AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
"Oh-h-h--um! We are SO
glad you are going home at last.
II you hadn't come over we'd
have gone to the show and had
good time. Anyone would think
you were tonguetied the way you
carry on conversation. GOOD
NIGHT"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
AS TT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
BILL CoUKRoACH.

Bill COckroach, most despiscd
Of all court house insectivora, sat
ON the back of a chair in Justice
Graharn's court, waving his FORE
fIippers joyously.
Father Vaughn had just tried
to point out the man who had
struck him In Portland ave. car,
but missed his guess. Instead of
Indicating the defendant, Father
Vaughn pointed at an innocent
auditor. Whereupon Bill was
heard to mutter:
"Wonder which way Father
Vaughn was going when he was
struck 2"
just then the floor flew up and
hit Bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
THANK HEAVEN

There is talk of both Taft and
Roosevelt going through the Pa
mama canal at the same time, NJ
the celebration. Well, it's big
canal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-28
SPECIAL DISPATCHES

GIG HARBOR, Jan. 28.-So:ne
people git all that's coming to
EN-. Hank Smith is shearing his
sheep with a safety razor.
PUYALLUP. Jan. 2S. - Nate
Mace of Tacoma has gone home
from visiting his daughter in Puy-
alfup. He sprained his ankle last
week lodging cowbell, thinking
It was an electric runabout.
An Atlanta, Ca, shoe company
has made shoe, size SO, which is
rs inches long.
1--WE heard that Steve Murphy
had ordered pair of shoes re-
cently.)
NEWS NOTE
An apple tree owned by s. W.
Alexander of Los Angeles has
produced two crops within year,
giving each time different va
riety of apple. (Which reminds
us of story we heard once about
fish,
Women have been blamed many
times for the high cost of liy-
ing, but we have the goods on 'ein4
now. There's no denying the sex
of May Wheat.
The baseball game is in the
courts. but It would be a safe
wager to bet the lawyers won't
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
TURKS REPORT
 WARSHIPS SUNK
UNCONFIRMED DISPATCH SAYS ALLIES SUFFER IN
 DARDANELLES.

LONDON, March 15.-Unconfmed dispatches from Constantinople this afternoon say that several of the al- lied ships of the bombarding fleet have been sunk or disabled. Accord ing to this Turkish account two Brit ish destroyers and two mine sweepers were sunk and some of the warships have been disabled No word of this has come direct from the admirals commanding the fleets but it is known that in the place where the fleet is ad- vancing the sea is strewn with mines. The Turks have also brought up land guns to supplement the fire of the forts and it is quite possible that some ships may have been lost. The people here are resigned to the ex- pectation that the Dardanelles can not be forced without some losses but such losses will not affect the final result.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
JAPANESE ARE MARCHING ON INVASION OF MANCHURIA WILL SOON TAKE
 PLACE.
CHINESE REFUSE TERMS
WAR WILL PROBABLY COME OVER THE DEMANDS
 OF MIkADO.

PEKIN, Mmoh l5.-T,at Chiocse territory is about to be invaded cnce again is now believed to be certain as China apparently refuses to grant the demands of the Japanese government. The deadlock chiefly exists on the question of railroad and mining con- sessions which Japan has demanded. The governments are evidently unable to come to terms and there seems to be no hope to escape another war un- less China gets ready to make another humiGating surrender. It is now learned officially that the first cOnting- ent of Japanese troops is on the way to Manchuria. The feeling here is very bitter as the action of Japan only too clearly shows that she was waiting for the time the great powers would become embroiled in war before rob- ping this country.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
ELEVEN TO HANG IN
 THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
Arkansas Legislature Fails to Stop the Execution of Men
 Awaiting Death.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 15.- Eleven men will be hanged here with in the next two weeks. The legisla- ture failed to pass the anti-hanging bill which caused delay in the ex- ecuting of the condemned prisoners and caused an accumulation of the doomed wretches in the jail. The first execution will be of two men and then four will be launched into etern- ity. The supporters of the anti-hang- ing bill did everything in their power to stop the executions even after the bill failed of passage but there seems to be no hope.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
RUSSIANS TAKE
 MOUNTAIN PASS
AUSTRIANS REPORTED REPULS- ED IN SEVERAL
 BATTLES.

PETRoGRAD, March 15.-Minoi engagements have taken place be- tween the Niemen and Vistula rivers The attempts of the Germans were everywhere repulsed. The country where these engagements took place contains the cities of AugustOwa and Grodno which will for some time prob ably be the scene of bitter fighting The Russians have captured the Sanok pass in the Carpathians once more from the Austrians. In the meantime the Austrians have made savage at Jacks along the Dniester river m Galicia but they have been repulsed The enemy advanced to the Dniester after the Russian evacuation of Bulk owina. The river divides Bukowina from Russian territory, or, rather runs into Russian territory frOE, Galicia at the border.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
THE GAY CROWD OF
 NICE Is NO MORE.
Next Carnival Will Have Kaiser
 Burned in Efigy.

NICE, March Notwithstanding the absence this winter of the custom ary throng of Germans and Austrians who come to Nice for the season, as well as hunderds of Americans, there seldom have been more people here than at present. But it is a different throng.
 The big hotels are closed, as are the smart shops that used to attract the seasons visitors and their money, and almost all of the gay places. The well dressed, fashionable patrons of the re- sort, are gone; in their place have come ragged refugees from all over Europe.
 The Nice known to Americans has all but vanished, and the dingy, ugly commerciah eastern side of the city has become congestcd with thousands of soldiers recuperating from wounds and illness, and with other thousands of civilians who have been driven from their home in Belgium and the Fran Belgian frontier.
 The soldiers in their uniforms of chasseurs, dragons and TurcOs lend the only splOtch of color in the other wise dull and drab city, and Nice's ordinary occupation of making merry has become that of watching for war bulletins. Inside the newspapre of fees are posted photographs of many of the citizens who have fallen in bat tie. decorated with wreaths and flowers.
 Nice will have its usual carnival, but 1t will be Subdued. with httle money wasted. Already people are at work on the wicker frame of an- other King Carnival, who will wear a German helmet with upturned nous taches and who will be burned with the usual cermony at the beginning of the Carnival
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
BELIEVE JOHN OLESON
 HAS LOST HIS LIFE.
Good Reason to Fear that he Went Through Ice of Lake as He
 Has Disappeared.

What looks only too much like an- other tragedy was related by William Austin who brought the full story of the death of King Thurman to town last night. John c. Oleson has been missing from his camp near Lake SEdlak since last November and it is feared that he fell through the rotten ice of that or some other lake and is drowned. The camp is situated about two miles from the lower outlet of SEilak lake. Mir. Oleson apparently left it with the intention of returning quickly. He had started to build a cache and make other preparations for a long stay and had left several articles in the camp in a manner which shows that he did not intend to be absent long. He was well known as "Blaek olesOn."
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
ADAM BLOCK PASSES
 AWAY AT SELDOYIA.
Man Who Helped to Raise U. .. Flag in Alaska in 1867 Is
 Dead.

SELDOVIA, March l1.-PoStmaster Adam Block. one of Alaska's earliest pioneers and last of the group of agents placed in charge of the Alaska Commercial Company's trading posts when that corporation commenced business in this territory in the 7O's, died at his home here on March g.. The funeral took place today under the direction of the OddfellowS. His death was caused by asthma and a complication of diseases incident to old age Mir. Block had been resi- dent of Alaska for 4S years, and of Seldovia for 21 years. He came to Alaska as first sergeant of the United States troops under General Woods which were stationed at Sitka when the territory was purchased from Rus sia, and he participated in the cere- monies attending the lowering of the Russian flag and the raising of the Stars and Stripes on October IS, 1867. He was the A. c. COmpany's first agent at Unga and later was for nine years in charge of the company's post at Attu island, and the most westerly of the Aleutiau group. Mir. Block was a native of Virginia, a veteran of the Civil war and is survived by his second wife, twelve children and eight grandchildren. His youngest child is a year old. AS a mark of respect for his memory the school re- mained closed and the Flags of the town were at half mast during the period between his death and funeral.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
HOW THE VOTERS OF
 SEWARD ARE MADE UP.
Of Those Registered up to the Present 61 are Native and 4S For ..
 eign Born. '

Of the people registered in Seward for the city election up to the present time 61 are native born and 4S are foreign born citizens. Illinois has the largest number of native born of all the states. The number is 19. Minnesota comes next with 8, The foreign countries are represented on the voting list up to date as follows:
 Norway, 8; Wales, 1; Ireland, 8; Sweden, 12; Canada, 8; Denmark, 4; Hawaiian Islands, |; England, 8; Ger many, 5; Australia, 1; France, 2; Scotland, 1; Italy, 1; Russia, 1.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
BRITISH
 SHIPS ARE HIT
IN FOUR DAYS GERMANS TORPEDO SEVEN AND
 SINK FOUR.

LONDON, March 14-Seven Brit ish merchant ships have been torpedo ed by the Germans since the fourth of the month, which means really three days. Four of the ships were sunk but the other three managed to reach port in a disabled condition. All the vessels were hit while they were in British waters. No life was lost and this is due chiefly to the fact that the Germans, giving way to public pro- test, gave the crews plenty of time to get into small boats. The number of ships torpedoed in the past few days rather indicates an increasing activity on the part of the enemy.
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
HOMESTEADERS NEAR
 HOMER TURNED DOWN
Filings not to be Accepted Because They Located on Coal
 Fields.

Several settlers who located home steads near Homer, within the limits of the Chugak forest reserve, have been notified by the Interior Depart ment that their filings can not be ac- cepted for the reason that the records show the areas claimed are coal land. These records refer to coal entries covering several thousand acres and made in 1899 and later by the Cook Inlet Coal Fields company, which ex- pended large sums in driving tunnels, sinking shafts and building about six miles of narrow guage railroad from the workings to the dock at Homer. These workings were abandoned sev- eral years ago when the governments conservation policy as to coal was in- augurated.
 The Gateway's informant learned definitely of the acceptance of only one application-that of J. A. Wood ard, mail carrier on the winter route between Homer and Kenai, whose claim is located below the old coal mine and between it and the base of the sandspit on which Homer is built.
 Homesteaders who have located further north on Kachemak bay, be- yond the known outcrops of coal veins, do not anticipate any trouble in securing their claims. Those whose filings have been rejected may take concerted action and endeavor to prove that the land is more valuable for agricultural or grazing for horses than for coal as the veins, they claim, are small and the quality of coal poor even for domestic purposes
The Seward gateway., 1915-03-15
GERMANS RUSH
 TO THE WEST
ALLIED OFFENSIVE GETS so STRONG THAT ENEMY
 IS ALARMED.

PARIS, March 15.-The Germans noa apparently recognize the strength and determination of the latest allied offensive in France and Flanders and are rushing achievements as fast as possible to the western front. Sever al gains for the allies have been made within the past two days and the con ditions look favorable. The French attack in Champagne has brought good results although the main object has not yet been gained. British air men attacked Westende yesterday and inflicted much damage by throwing bombs.