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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
Officials Knew,
But Didn't Act

The Times has the word of leading tailor Of Ia
coma that as much as six months ago he complained
to the prosecuting attorney of the operations Of
cloak house which now faces mass of litigation,
criminal and CIVIL for the alleged Fleeing of hun
dreds of Tacoma citizens.
Furthermore, second leading business man, as
sures that months ago he brought the operations
of this company to the notice of the city authorities
He succeeded in stopping it's agents from soliciting
business in his particular part of town. but nothing
more.
The prosecutors office denies it ever was in
formed of the deal until a few days ago, and we'll
have to take IT'S word for it, we suppose, but it GER
tany ought to have had wind of SO generally operat
ed scheme, that is certain.
The losses bid fair to aggregate thousands of dol
lars and to be distributed among hundreds of Tacoma
citizens who can little afford to pocket them.
We do not know how the victims feel about it, but
it seems to us that considerable share of the blame
should rest the shoulders of easy going offc
ials
Months ago, before the duping took place, the po-
lice, at least, knew as much about the way the
scheme was run as they do today.
They didn't act, and in not acting they became a
negative sort of partner of the now accused
of felony.
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Flashes

LONDON--Gen. Joffre, COM
mander-in-chief of the French
army, visited the war office here
today in company with Minister
of War Kitchener.
NvASHINGTON-White House
attaches declare less than so in
vitafions will be issued to the
presidents wedding.
NEW YORK;. P. Morgan
was operated on today for appen-
dicitis.
I.ONDON--English war office
obtained information today of
German plan to land expedition
airy forces in England within short
time. 49,
BERLIN - Imperial chancellor
takes advantage of federal coun-
cii's order empowering him to fix
food prices. designating the retail
price on potatoes as $109 a hum
dredweight.
PHILADELPHIA - Bethlehem
Steel Co. sued for 100000 by
Churchward International Steel
Co. for alleged infringement Of
eatents In making war munitions,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
TO GIVE
FIRM A
CHANCE

The state will give Jacob vo-
gelbaum, proprietor of the Home
Cloak & Suit House, an oppor-
tunity of settling with the hun
dreds of women who have pro-
tested against the alleged lottery
game conducted by the firm.
Deputy Prosecutor Selden said
today he is willing to let the case
drop If satisfaction is given, but
that so far as he can learn the
limited stock Is insufficient to
equal the hundreds of dollars col
lected on the lottery" scheme.
Crowds of women continue to
besiege the court house with
tales of having been duped,, their
losses varying from soc to $40.
In practically every case they de-
clare they will feel a severe loss
IL forced to accept merchandise,
as the goods, they declare, are OF
inferior quality.
Voglebaum is still out on bond;
Even IL he makes good to the
patrons, prosecutors declare, the
firm will not be permitted to con.
duct business in the future unl
der the same methods. 8
Friends of Irving Heilig, whf
furnished bail for vogelbaum
said today that Heilig is not di
rectly interested in the cloal
house.
Two months ago, they said, h,
had loaned vogelbaum none,
with which to buy stock, and hat
no knowledge Of the alleged lot
terry. He furnished bail for tn,
man as a protection for his loan
and for no other reason, 1t wal
Explained.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
WILL NOT Be
BORN IN JAIL
Child of Woman Muir
derer to Come Into
Free World.
JUDGE IS LENIENT

SEATTLE, Oct. 29,-Mary Il,
Lillian's child will not be born
in jail.
So declared Judge Smith yes
terday when the woman who
killed Howard Borders the man
alleged to have betrayed her when
she was a young girl and de-
serted her came up for sentence.
She had been convicted last
week of manslaughter.
Judge Smith imposed a sell
tence of one year in the county
Jail, but in the event she Is to
become a mother. her sentence
will be automatically concluded a
few days before the child is born.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
FOREIGN
EIREBUG
BLAMED

SEATTLE, Oct. 29.--FIre or
mysterious origin swept the sec
Ond floor of pier IA, at the foot
of Broad street, shortly before Z
o'clock last night, and In less
than an hour had caused damage
estimated at more than $1,000
600.
Confident that the conflagra-
tion was the work of incendiaries,
the police and Fire Marshal Har-
ry w. Sringhurst started an in
vestigation, which resulted in the
arrest of ID. Wilmann, who mas
been employed during the past
week as a longshoreman on the
wharf.
Third i'm Week.
She's going fine. Let her go.
Pier will be the next one to
CO." This is the statement at
tributed to Wilmann which led TO
his arrest.
The fire was the third incen-
diary attempt on the dock in a
week.
One theory is that Ger
man sympathizers started
the fire because quarter
million dollars worth of
merchandise destined for
Russian ports was stored on
the dock.
Another is that Japanese
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He LIVES IN
SILENT CITY
Tacoman Suddely Loses
Sense Of Hearing;
Still Can Talk
NEEDS WORK BADLY
By Edgar G. Wheeler

Suppose that one day You went
about your business like any 9TH
er ordinary being, with the ham
of street cars and autos and the
sound of your neighbors' voices
in your ears. Suppose you went
home from work at night to be
greeted by your wife's laughter
and the latest words Your baby
had learned to say.
Then suppose the next day all
these sounds you had lived With
every day-the music that had
made your heart sing-wcre shut
out as If a prison door had been
closed upon them.
Really Case of Faulkner.
How would you feel, and where
would you turn?
This is exactly what happened
to r. s. Faulkner, who came TO
Tacoma last summer intending to
rent small farm where he and
his little family might live hap
PLY.
AS Faulkner went down the
hill form the Tacoma General
hospital one day early in Septem-
Der he reeled like a drunken man.
He elung to posts and trees Tor
support. Passers-by stared and
staggered, and mistook him for
a common drunk.
He had undergone an opera.
tion sto save his life, and the OPP
Grafton had destroyed the delicate
mechanism of both ears.
Now he and his wife ana baby
have Just three dollars between
them and starvation.
Still Has His Voice.
The only way he can hold a
conversation with a friend is 10
read what his friend writes with
pencil and paper. Faulkne.', how
ever, can reply verbally. His
voice is as clear and as normal
as anybody's.
How is it when Tacoma is sill
emit?
1T is appalling" says Faulk-
ptiCCi tdip 81 sIShNls
along; autos refuse to honk at the
crossings; even the newsooys cry
their wares in pantomime."
Wonder changed to dismay.
Music, singing and many of the
old pleasures were gone. Wee
Elizabeth would come to say
Daddy and would creep away
puzzled.
Needs Work Badly.
But this was not all. There
came the question of how to sup
port the small family. With his
head swimming at the slightest
exertion and his legs refusing 10
follow straight path, Faulkner
has been unable to find any work
which he can handle. The OPP
Grafton had injured the mechan-
ism which is his body's balance
wheel.
With able-bodied men compet-
ing for every job, what chance
is there for a crippled invalid?
Faulkner is appealing for some
one in Tacoma to answer this
puzzle and find means of caring
for the family which depencs on
him.
The prominent Tacoma physi-
clan who performed the operation
says that he will not regain his
hearing, but that the trouble
which throws him from his bal
ance may gradually be righted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
SIGNALS CAR,
HIT BY AUTO

Mrs. Katherine Mattingly, age
~, 3703 So. 9TH street, was
struck and painfully hurt by an
automobile driven by s. A. Hor-
ton, manager of the Commercial
Truck Co., at 9Th and G streets,
last evening.
Mrs. Mattingly had stepped
back toward the curb into the
path of the machine after q
street car which she had signalled
had failed to stop.
Witnesses said Horton was
driving slowly and was not to
blame.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
FIElVD
STILL
FREE

Police detectives have
made an Intellectual search
of over IL hours for the
fiend who last night seized
Anthea Harrison, II pretty 10
year-old hign SCHOOL girl,
threw her down ON u North
End parking and attempted
to choke her.
At a late hour today no
arrests had been made and
the officers admitted that
they were baffled. A theory
of Mrs. Laura II. Harrison,
the mother, that the man
might be her husband, from
whom she il separated, Is
secuted 10y the officers.
Anthea had left home at Z
o'clock to visit a girl chum. She
had gone hardly block from
home, 1907 No. Anderson st.,
when tall man with Van Dyke
beard. stepped out from behind
an electric pole and seized her
wrist.
The girl, almost hysterical with
fright, started to scream. but her
cries were muffled by q hand
placed roughly over her mouth.
She struggled. kicking and biting.
The man had said nothing during
the assault, and the only sound of
scuffle had occurred with taa
girls first scream.
No one had been attracted to
the scene.
Finally Escapes.
As the struggle continued, the
girl seemed to be getting the
better of her assailant. Sudden
ly loosening his grasp OF her
wrist, the bearded man gripped
the girl by the throat, forced her
down to the grass of parking
beside the walk. and started
choking.
Miss Harrison has no idea how
long she remained there. or how
she released herself. All she re-
members Is a faintness, last
flash of strength in an effort to
get away, and then she was rum
ming down the street, the man
pursuing.
She rushed into her home, and
Mrs. Harrison telephoned police
headquarters. Detectives arriv-
ed in moment, and searched
the entire neighRorhood. but
found no trace of The man.
Believe Man Fiend.
Police officers had the opinion
today that a father, trying to kid
nap his daughter, never would
have taken such drastic measures,
and lay the assault to a fiend.
The Harrison home, 18th and
Anderson, north, Is In a well-to-
do residence section or the North
End. Several detectives are WORK
ing on the case today.
The girl has not yet recovered
from the shock and injuries to
her throat, caused by the assault.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
100000 FIRE AT SEATTLE PIE
SCHOOL
DANGER
OF FIRE

with all our talk of fireproof
school buildings in Tacoma, there
are few, schools left that would
prove as terrible crematories as
the one in Peabody, Mass, which
gobbled up the lives of so chill
dren yesterday when it caught
fire.
Although he expressed conf
dence in the majority of Taco
mas public schools, Fire Mar
shall Harry c. Chandler today de-
clared that some of the buildings
here are veritable fire-traps.
Il wouldn't give two cents for
the life of a child in one of them
If it caught fire, said Chantler
today.
Gives No Names.
The fire marshal did not name
the schools that he considered
dang erous. But he declared that
they were a few of the old, wood
en- structures, some of them with
out fire-escapes, that have been
allowed to remain in a dangerous
condition while thousands of dol
lars were spent on the larger
schools.
1.-The majority of our schools
are in good condition to with
stand fire. said the fire marshal.
"They have either adequate fire
escapes, fire-proof construction,
or plenty of wide halls and good
exits. OF course, a panic might
develop in the best school build
ing the world, and cause more
deaths than fire itself would ever
cause"
Should lie Rebuilt.
Chantler said that the private
schools of Tacoma are, compare
lively, as well protected from fire
as the public schools. They
either have fire escapes, or plen-
ty Of adequate means for quick
exits.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
might have caused 1t because
of their hatred for Chinese
crews OH Blue Funnel liners
p.yhiaL vrSn thu dnak

might have caused 1t because
of their hatred for Chinese
crews OH Blue Funnel liners
which use the dock.
The damage to the pier alone
is estimated at 100000.
Carried War Supplies.
Huge shipments of war sup
plies for the japanese and Rus
sian armies have been assembled
on pier IA.
The British steamer Ixion on
her last outward voyage took big
.consignments of steel rods which
were for use in the building of
Notifications by the Russians.
There were also shipments of
wire for use in the entanglements
in front of the Russian trenches.
The fire was discovered on the
north side of the second floor,
in the same place where blaze
was located Tuesday morning
about 2 O'Clock, and which, ac-
cording to Fire Marshal Bring
hurst, was of incendiary origin.
Immense Cargo Stored.
Merchandise, nearly one-third
of the $4,000,000 cargo discaarg-
ed by the Blue Funnel liner Ixion
early in the week, was resting on
the two floors of the dock when
the blaze was located, besides
nearly $250,000 In exports, main
ly canned salmon awaiting ship
ment to Liverpool.
The dock was leased by Dod-
we'll & Co., agents on this coast
for the Blue Funnel line, operat.
ing a great fleet of steamers be.
tween the Sound and the United
Kingdom and ports in the Orient
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
What's Doing
Today

Today
Lecture, Wesley L. Jones.
Washington, the Capital City,
First Swedish Lutheran church !;
So. 8th and l.; evening.
Halloween party, young peo-
Pies unions OF all churches and
Y. M. @. A. and Y. w. G. Al
evening.
Tomorrow
Formal opening, University
club; $3.50 to 10 p. N.
Football game; U. Of Washi4e 8
ton VS.. Whitman college: ct Uui-
versity grounds; Seattle.
Halloween dance by jifneY
drivers: Eagles hall; 3 p. M
Charity film show 1t Colonial:
proceeds go to Thanksgiving din
ner fund for the poor.
Realar skating tournnmoHf,
M. G. A.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
WILL GET SOME
LAWYER TO TALK

The eollege-professional club of
Stadium high school met yester-
day morning for the second time
this semester. 1t was decided to
obtain some Tacoma lawyer for
the principal speaker at the next
meeting, Nov. 2.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
SERBIA
IS NOW
DOOMED

PARIS, Oct. 29.-Serbia SEEM
ed doomed today.
Invasion OF the territory by the
Teutons and Bulgars proceeded
remorselessly.
The allies are preparing tre-
mendous attempt to stop the on
ward movement before the ad-
vancing forces reach Constantine
pie, but indications are that this
struggle will occur either on Bull
garian or Turkish soil after the
Teutons pass through Serbia.
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State Probes.

PEABODY, Mass, Oct. 20
Twenty-one of the children, VIC
tins of the parochial school fire
yesterday, are awaiting burial to-
day. Following a careful check
of the school register, 1t is
thought other bodies are still in
the debris.
Every door in Peabody was
decorated with black crepe, be-
speaking the worst child tragedy
in the history of Massachusetts,.
State investigators are trying to
discover the origin of the fire.
Local officials are blamed for
the tragedy because there were
no fire escapes in the school and
all the doors opened inward.
1t is not known yet what action
will be taken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
MISS DOROTHEA CLAYBERG

She'll travel half way round
the world to seek a career when
she is graduated in the spring
from the College of Engineering,
University of Illinois, at Cham
paign. Miss Clayberg has been
engaged as assistant to Walter
Burnley Griffin, royal architect in
Melbourne, Australia. She's %
and one of the few women archi-
tects in the country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29

LONDON, Oct. 20. King
George is suffering from severe
bruises caused by fall from his
horse, says an official announce
ment today.
The accident occurred yester-
day while the king was inspect
ing the army in a field in north
ern France. His mount, excited
by the cheers of the troops, rear
ed and fell, throwing the king.
The king was confined to his
bed but passed fair night, his
physician stated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
BULGARs ENTER PIRoT

BERLIN, Oct. 29.-"The Bull
garians victoriously entered the
fortress of Prot today" said a
Sofia official report. Prot Is on
the Nish-C onstantinople railway
between Nish and Sofia, and the
victory Is regarded as important.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
0. A. c. TEAM
IN MICHIGAN

EAST LANSING, Mich, Oct.
29.-The Oregon Agricultural
college football team arrived to-
day in special car for the game
tomorrow with the Michigan ag-
gies.
The westerners are somewhat
tired but expect to be In tip-top
shape tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
WOMEN IN BATTLE

BERLIN, Oct. 20.
''Fiercer than Belgium" was
the semi-Official description
today of the resistance to the
meeting of the Teuton In
vaders in Serbia.
Though it is said the central
allies are progressing more rap
idly than was expected, the diff
culties they have to face are tre-
nIendous.
They are now in the Serbian
Alps where the advance is par
ticularly arduous. The Serbians
are fighting madly, with women
and children participating. Snip
ing and bushwhacking are inces-
SAINT.
1t Is officially claimed that
Serbia's resistance is collapsing
however. The main drive is ad.
vancing west of Bapovo toward
Kragujevac. Heavy fighting is in
progress outheast of Svilajec.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
PLAN TREES IN
PARKING SPACES

Borrowing requests from sew
eral citizens, the park board is
preparing to make an estimate of
the cost OF Installing shade trees
on parkings throughout the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
sCHEDuLE GAME

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 29.-The
University of Southern California
and u. of Oregon football teams
were matched for game Nov. g..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
CZAR LEAVES FOR
SOUTHERN FRONT

PETROGRAD. Oct. 29.--The
emperor of Russia has gone to-
the southern front with Grown
Prince Alexis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29
Talk O. the Times :

The Central Heating Co. seems
to cause chill at the city hall.
When the wife boils some
onions for dinner, how saw
DRY the aroma---but when q
neighbor does the same stunt
how rotten 1t smells!
Now IL Chiefs Lang and Loomis
only could send each other to jail
simultaneously.
I,ondoncrs don't appre-
ciate having the German
Zeppelins making SO many
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29

PARIS-Aristide BRAND. who
will form the new French cabinet,
calls for meeting of candidates
for late this afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29

calls before even the first
one is returned.
An Indian has Just died at
Hart, Mich. at the ripe old age
of lis. He probably got good
start before germs were discov-
cred.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-29

A British private escaped three
bullets in an hours fighting in
France. One penetrated his pouch,
another the pack on his back, and
a third destroyed his rifle.
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INSANE, WANDERS FOR
DAYS NEARLY NAKED

C%enterville. s. D.-Found wander
ing in an apparently demented condi-
ton on the open prairie, with corn in
the snoW-covered fields as his only
food, the authorities of Turner coun-
ty have taken into custody a man
who has been identified from pap1r
found in his possession as Fred
Schwetfeger, whose home is at Pine
Bluff. Ariz. Until recently he had
been employed on the farm OF Chrie
Murphy, 9 Turner county farmer. He
disappeared mysteriously, nothing
q known of his Whereabouts until
he was found wandering over the
prairie. When taken into custody h
wore scarcely enough clothing to
cover his n~akedness. 1t was evident
he had been wandering owe the
prarie for several days, and how he
survived the exposure To frigld winds
of winter is a mystery. 1t is prob
able the authorities will send him to
his home in Arkansas. Although he
appears to be permanently demented,
he is not violent.
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HORSES WOODEN
LEG rs BURNED
ANIMAL STANDS roo CLOSE 70
BLAZE AND SOON Is DOING
TANGO OVER THE BARN
YARD.

Hammond, Ind.-Molly. Jake Alb
raham's reliable mare, trapped a foot
in a frog on Il railroad crossing three.
months ago and fell. tearing the hoof
Abraham, Il fruit %pcddler. persuad-
ed Il veterinary to outfit the animal
with a wooden leg. Molly was as
fraceful with it as most of the tango
dancers.
This morning Jake led Molly from
the stall into the yard to be waterel
and hitched. He found the faucet had
frozen. started 81 bonfire. and vent
into the house.
Molly liked the warmth Of the fire
and moved bearer. The horse got too
close, but, OF course couldn't feel the
heat in the wooden leg. Strands Of
straw that had become attached TO
the pine hoof during the night caught
abalaze. When Abraham came out of
the house he found the horse on a
wild rampage. the wooden leg on fire.
A neighbor sent for the fire depart
ment.
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COUPLE HELD ON
SERIOUS CHARGE
POLICE CHIEF MAKES RAID
SINGLE HANDLED AND Sc
CURES MAN MD NO
MAN.

George Koch and Mrs. Gladys
Greenfield We're bound over in NUM-
aipal court this morning to the next
term of circuit court under bonds
of $500 each, following their arrest
at the woman's home last night and
the preferment of charges of adultery
against the pair.
The arrests We're made by Chief
of Police Wood Smith last night after
he watched the house at 904 North
Rowley street, north of the Omaha
tracks, for several hours. The house
was rented by Mrs. Greenfield. 1t
was necessary for the chief to break
Gown the door before he could gain
admittance.
The evidence found was such that
it is said that the pair admitted their
guilt. They offered no defense in
the preliminary examination before
Judee w. NJ. Herbert this morning.
in default of bonds, both parties
were remanded to the county jail
to await trial.
The husband Of Mrs. Greenfield is
believed to be in Colorado. She has
y baby daughter. two years old, who
has been taken in charge by the au-
thorities and probably will be sen.
to the children's home in Sioux Falls.
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10 miles north of here, between -
and 1 O'Clock Monday morning. seven
buildings being completely DESTROY
ed five store buildings and two resi-
dences, causing a total loss of
$4,000. The hotel, two large gen
eral stores, the %Broadland state
bank and a hardware store were
among those burned. The fire start
ed from an overheated stove in the
G.. %. Smith general store.
The loss is placed as below. Mrs.
=. "A. Wilson, hotel. $4,000; C. E.
Smith, general store, $4,000; p. H.
Graham, general store, $4,000;
Broadland State bank, $4,000; Mrs.
Anna Goodman, $4,000; John R.
Johnson. hardware, $500; C. NJ. La
Rue hotel. $1,000. This makes a
total of $4,000, only partially COW
cred by insurance.
This fire destroys the greater
portion of the business section of
~Broadland. The Huron fire depart
ment assisted i'll extinguishing the
flames.