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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

Anu tHt DuD1lC SUOulu TeU16Ul-
Der one thing in the years to
come.
IL Louis Bean or any of the
other radical opponent of NUM-
cipal ownership in Tacoma hobs
up with the remark that our light
plant is a failure because 1t is
showing a decrease in net earn
ings, just remember that 1t was
the light plant that rescued Taco
ma when finances were slim and
the future looked darR.
The light department shows a
net surplus of $256,000 this year
after paying off serial bonds and
other regular Indebtedness.
If the sum Is smaller next year,
1t will be only. because the light
plant sacrificed itself to help the
city finances out of hole.
Nisqually's ability to aid Taco
ma taxpayers developed yester-
day afternoon, when first discus
sion of the 1916 budget was TAX
en- up by the city council.
The idea is this:
According to a state law, each
department of municipality
must pay every other department
for service rendered.
Thus. the fire department is
scheduled in the 1916 budget to
pay S67,440 next year to the
water department for rental of
1905 city fire hydrants, at "a a
month each.
The street department is down
in the budget for $4,000 bills
for street lighting service.
Each department in the city
hall, each police station and fire
hall, is expected to pay regular
rates for light and water service,
Just as II they were private GUS
toners.
Now, the city commissioners
have already reduced the $780,
600 shortage of the budget to-
$50, 900, by making extensive
cuts In their anticipated appro-
priations for running the depart
ments next year.
That means, $4,000 must still
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
FEAR ERA
OF WILD
INITIATION
BY ellison Gardner.

. WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. g.
Members of the federal reserve
board today are afraid the sur
plus of morey In the United
States will lead to period of
over-speculation and dangerous
of business.
w. ID. Harding has expressed
this fear. He says:
Leading financiers are trou-
bled lest the sudden prosperity
that has developed in some sec
tions and along some lines o'
industry will be followed by a
period of wild speculation and in
flatiorl.
Hhe banking reserves of this
country are now very large, be-
ing considerably more than one
billion In excess of legal require
ments.
The gold holdings of the United
States, over two billion dollars,
are larger than those OF any other
two countries combined.
"Our trade balances are piling
MP ct an unprecedented rate aud
viii probably amount to q billion
dollars during the last six months
ofsf915.
Rates for the best commercial
pa}er are very low. 4 per cent or
less, and the financiers. should
they be able to collect within the
NEXT so days the amounts which
they have out directly or indi-
rectly, will be ct an absolute Ions
to find safe and profitable invest
ment for their funds"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
German War Films
Surpass Expectations

Regiments of infantry
men and cavalrymen
charging madly to their
death before the very
"eye" of the camera; the
m i 6 h ty 42-centimeter
guns in action, and their
crushing, demolishing re-
suits; the war lord him
self pinning the iron
crosses on the breasts of
Teutonic heroes; blazing
oil tanks in captured Ant
werp = these are among
the vivid features that
make the German war
movies, on exhibit at the
Tacoma theater until the
close of the week, the most
interesting films Tacoma
has seen in months.
Enterprising as have been news
paper and magazine photograph
ers, they have been far outdone
by these pictures.
The reason is that many of
these pictures were taken a great
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

An addition of $1,000 monthly
to the city's payroll and the in
surfing of working conditions that
homelife is possible, will begin
Sept. IL, when a new agreement
between the coast longshoremen's
union and the Employers Asso-
citation of the Pacific coast goes
into effect.
1t is the biggest victory which
organized labor has won on the
coast in years.
In Tacoma, ii affects 400 men;
and on the coast total of 5000
men. <
Absolute Closed Shop.
Many firms which for years
have fought with all their
strength any phase of organized
labor, by this agreement have
signed up to an. absolute closed
shop policy.
The scale in Tacoma will be
raised from As to 55 cents an
hour to SO and 60 cents, with
maximum on certain materials of
S2k cents.
In addition, a rule goes into
effect that men cannot be called.
to work after p. m. in the even
ing.
Under former conditions, IL a
vessel was due at 2 a. M. men
were ordered to be at the dock:
at that hour. Some got work.
Others went home voorhees,, and
payless! Under the new rule,
the dockmen must pick the men
they want at z p. m. and give
work to each one who reports at
the later hour.
Biggest Union in City.
On holidays, il man is order
ed to report, and there. is no
work, he is entitled to two hours
pay at so cents an hour.
"The humane rules make home
life possible and liveable for our
men," said August f. Seitz,. ex-
ecutive head of the union, today.
"As rs per cent of our men are
family men, these new working
rules are most important.
"The closed shop rule, too, in
sures man with a family from
the competition OF the dock
walloper.
The union has been I'm existence
since 1908, but we regard our
years Of labor as we'll rewarded.
1--WE have become the largest
union in Tacoma"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

Dc cut 10 keep Within a 15 mill
levy. Every department has al
ready cut to the bone. but each
one is willing to cut little
more. Yet none can see where a
total of $4,000 can be chopped
off the annual expenses.
Here's where the Nisqually
power plant and the water de-
partment come in.
According to agreement yes
terday afternoon, made binding
at today's council session, the
two departments will be willing
to cut their rates to the city for
juice and water, even at the sac
rifice of making it's annual divi-
dend to the taxpayers smaller.
BY cutting the. hydrant rental
in half, the fire department can
bring its appropriation for 1916
down by s29,49O.
BY chopping the street light
ing bills down one-fourth, $780,
600 can be cut from the street
department.
The council will incorporate all
municipal buildings under one
heading, and will pay for cleo
trio juice under the new one-cent
a kilowatt rate recently inaug-
urated by the light department
for big customers.
Although the exact amount of
saving by the light department
has not been figured out, 1t is ex-
pected that the budget can be cut
100000 through the fact that
Tacoma has money-making mu-
nicipally-owned light plant.
That leaves only $4,000 to be
cut. in order to keep within is
mills. From remarks dropped
by the city councilmen, 1t seems
almost certain that more than
$4,000 can be pruned from the
budget, and that our budget will
be lower than the limit allowed
by law.
All because the municipal light
plant is making big money and Is
willing to take the burden.
And the light department gets
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

now"
Grades uniOnism has
tended to create a dead level
of industry and skill. But
the worst of trades unions is
that they are seeking by Leg
islation to make of organized
labor a special privilege"
I'VE must grant increased
rates to railways, and grant them
quickly. Millions own their
stock. They employ millions of
men,"
Nothing is so timid as capital.
A spirit of hostility buttons up
the pockets of those who control
wealth.
1--WE should repeal the full
crew bills which imposes upon
railroads the burden of employ
ing unnecessary labor
When he arrived in Seattle, he
greeted successfully X. A. Balm
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

distance from the scene of action
by means of telescope lenses.
That is how It Is possible to
see German regiment dashing
double-time at the French line !;
and to see more than one brave
youngster fall dead--right in the
center Of the picture.
There is shown, too, the famous
U-9, the most effective submarine
which ever was navigated; prison
ers smiling, content to be taken
from the deadly trenches to de-
tention camps and three square
meals day; the harvesting of
French crops by German soldiers,
and the wonderfully intelligent
Red Cross dogs.
Dogs Highly Intelligent.
The latter search increasingly
over a vegetable field which has
been the scene of battle, and find
several men under the plant foli-
age which the men had over
looked. They are bright, quick
moving intelligent animals, SEEM
ingly pointers.
The reel closes with a scene
showing dead Russians after the
tremendous defeat of Tannen-
berg, and their burial.
'All were heroes; We honor
them one and ALL" says the lee
turer. But as to the United
States, let our mission be peace
and humanity-the building of a
new civilization by amalgamating
the races"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
ZEPS MAKE BL00DIEST Rail
TWO NATIONS CARRY WAR INTO HEAVENS
IF We MUST HAVE A BIC ARM Y
Shall We, the People, Belong to the
Army or Shall the Army Belong to Us?

Switzerland's army belongs to
the Swiss people.
Therefore there's no aristoc-
racy about 1t.
But ii is so efficient an army
that NOBODY HAS DARED VIC
late Switzerland's neutrality in
this world war.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his
speeches, suggests the Swiss army
plan for the United States.
Secretary of War Garrison is
investigating ii.
The Times has investigated the
system of the little Alpine repub-
Tic and proposes to tell its read
ers all about it right now when
everybody is discussing a GREAT
Err UNITED STATES ARMY.
Our first story is printed on page
3 of today's issue.
The editor bespeaks it a care
full reading.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
MARCONI's VIEW

LONDON, Sept. Eff I were
Count Zeppelin, l would voice my
protest before the whole world
against the kaiser's using my In
vention as l saw It used last
night" said Gugliemo Marconi,
wizard of the wireless, today, fol-
lowing last nights destructive
raid.
How sick at heart the count
must bel"
IF my invention were used to
kill harmless men, women and
children like that, I'd shout out
my protest to my own king before
the whole world.
Death and fire such as last
nights have no more effect ON
the war than SO much lightning.
The Germans might Just as well
have killed these women and chill
dren in Berlin so far as the res
suit Of the war is concerned
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
LIGHT PLANT
TO SAVE DAY
FOR BUDGET

Tacoma's immense new hydro electric plant at La
Grande is coming to the relief of the taxpayers.
1t is going to take great part of the burden Of
next years increased tax burden off the shoulders
of the people.
It is going to assist so materially in paying the
general expense of municipal government in 1916
that the city council, frightened few days ago at
the apparently impossible task of cutting $3.50 O0O
from the budget is sanguine over the possibility
of bringing the new tax levy below Is mills.
The water department will help, too but it is real
ly supported by it's sister department
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

IF an elective official is dis
honest, he can in effect be recall
ed by impeachment or criminal
trial. Under the system of re-
call, an honest official may be
ousted by an ambitious rival
through the hasty judgment of
the minority of the electorate
who 60 to the polls.
Under such system Lincoln
would have been recalled"
Parties are essential to gov
eminent, and there are many
flaws in primaries. If the candi-
dates name begins with A, he
will receive many more votes
than If it began with W."
The pure democracy of Athens
was failure, and government in
those days was SO much simpler
in those days than now that even
II democracy had been a temper
airy success then, it would justify
resort to the same method
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
BRUTAL
MURDER

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Nichols, age 60, widow
of a millionaire grocer of New
York, was strangled to death in
her palatial home last night by
two masked men, who tore off the
woman's rings and earrings, val
ued at $4,000.
The murderers failed to reach
a half million dollars worth of
Jewels In a strong box.
Onney Tails, servant in the
home, was arrested, sweated and
confessed, according to Inspector
Faurot. duplicating three other
men whose names he gave.
Detectives are now searching
for them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
RUSSIA !
WINS A
T BATTLE

I PETROGRAD, Sept. o.
In a great battle near Tar
nopOl, the Austrian-Gernan
forces attempting to Dust the
Russians from Galicia, were
defeated Tuesday and We'd
Hesday I'm decisive manner,
the war-Office announced to-
day.
The Slavs, following their
victory. have taken an ex-
stensive offensive.
The attacking forces of Teu-
tons consisted of two German d.
visions and one Austrian brigade,
With heavy artillery support. The
Tsutonic casualties are un-
Known, but 200 officers and 5000
men we're captured, in addition to
80 guns.
The Germans had intended a
night coup, but the Russians sur
prised them by counter-attack
along the Doljonka river.
The car has wired the COM
manders his personal fluctuations.
The official statement also
claimed that the advance of Won
nihdenburg before Riga had been
checked, and that east of Grodno
Won Mackensen had been unsuc-
cessful in his heavy attacks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
SON DRAGGED TO
DEATH; ASKS $4,000

Mrs. Edith Montgomery today
asked $4,000 for the death of her
12-year-old son in Judge Cliff
ford's court in a suit against the
T. r.. & p. Co. She alleges 1t was
defective tracks on 45th and Or
chard SITS. which caused a team of
horses that her son Claude was
driving to run away, throwing
him on the horses heels and
dragging him to his death.
The tracks at this intersection
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
n LOST
I'm MEX
DESERT

CALEXICO, Cal, Sept. 8. - A
party of 80 japanese, Hindus and
Chinese arrived here today after
having been lost for three weeks
in the desert.
The wanderers declare that 81
others died from thirst and ex-
posture in the wilderness.
The foreigners were landed on
Felipe island by a British mer-
chairman.
They attempted to make their
way overland after rowing
ashore.
The party was found and given
assistance by a small body Of
Mexican soldiers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
TACOMA NAVY
BOY HOME TO
VISIT PARENTS

Lieutenant Harold Smith of
the U. s. navy, son of City Detec-
tive and Mrs. ID. %. Smith of Ia
coma. arrived in Tacoma this
morning on a brief visit, after an
eight months absence.
Lieut.. Smith is taking a three
years special course of the navy
at Columbia university, with one
year more to serve. He must re-
port TO the comniandant of the
New York navy yard again Sept.
20.
He is doing remarkably well in
the navy work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
Well Well
Bankers Sure
OF Ride Now

l.. b. Mccoy, Civil war
veteran, called up w. III.
PringIe, Tacoma banker, this
morning.
"Say, I've got q little car
that I'll be glad to donate TO
the bankers sightseeing tour
tomorrow" he said. "It'n
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

are so close to the curbs, she said
that 1t is necessary to drive with
the wheels in the rail guards. AS
her son was driving July 8 the
scraping of the wheels caused the
horses to become frightened.
Claude was dragged several yards
and when picked up he was a
bleeding mass. Death soon fol-
lowed.
Mrs. Montgomery first asked
for $4,000, but later reduced Il.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
COMMISSIONER BRAKES
DAUGHTER Is ARRESTED

DR.. Elizabeth Drake, daughter
Of Commissioner ]. w. Drake.
was arrested by a mounted Off
Ger last night for driving her auto
without tail-light. She was re-
leased on her promise TO appear
In court today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
IS DIE in
AIR RAID

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9.-Sev-
enty-five persons. chiefly soldiers,
we're killed in French air raid
on SaarDruczen Monday. it was
learned today.
The military station was ex-
ploded by French bombs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
Just Put Reverse English On
All Bill Taft Said---and You
Will Have a Times Editorial

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. ct was the same old
Bill Taft today that addressed the national bankers
association.
Before an audience in full accord with the princi
Piles which he advocated, Taft was vigorous in his
excoriation of progressive methods of government
Among the points which aroused his hearers to en-
thusiasm were these remarks:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
TAFT PROGRAM HERE

% Arrives tomorrow at AIS q
e y. m. "
" Public reception at Com g
&. mercial club. :
{. Trip to Camp Cosgrove, Z:
{. and speech to citizen sol
3: diers. Dinner with his old .
g kollech chum, Hugh Wal o
{: lace. o
o Private engagements for .
&: evening. o
9 Then off for that dear ,
(. Portland and S. f. .
o o o o o o o o o 8 @ . o 8 .
resentatives, and S. A. rerkins Of
Tacoma, whom he called Sam
with marked affections
Speaking to the Young Men $
Republican club, he Said:
"Dissentient republicans of
1912 are welcome back, but as
republicans. They must cease to
promote the progressive platform
of 1912. The keystone to their
platform was the recall of judges,
which republicans Fundamentally
oppose, as well as many other
progressive doctrines equally gro
tesQue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09

climb hills, make speed, and
60 anywhere except into So
ciety. Want it?"
'sYou bet" replied Prin-
gle, laughing. I'VE want
every car we can get"
Many more auto donations
were made today. The coun-
Gil turned over all city autos
to the bankers committee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
PARIS ALSO RAIDED

PARIS, Sept. 9.-Paris was
bombarded by Zeppelin raid last
night. details of which are kept
secret, but French airmen retail
ated, flying hundreds of miles to
hurl bombs on Nesle and Challe-
range. i
The war office would give NO
further details on either raid. But
1t was claimed that the German
raid had struck only the Partisan
suburbs.
German infantry attacks in the
Argonne continued yesterday
without cessation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
Raids Location
Heart of London

CHICAGO. Sept. 9.--Indicat-
ing that the Zeppelin raid OF
Tuesday night struck near the
heart of London, the Daily News
today received this message from
Its London office: Staff aid
office safe. All welI.v
The News office Is in Trafal-
gar square. the heart of London.
Thesadmiralty has censored strict
ly the location of the raid Thfr-
teen were killed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-09
Attack
Paris.
London

NEW YORK, Sept. o.
While the censorship Is
strictly operating, the infor-
nation which came over the
cables today indicated thaN
the most destructive air raid
I'm history occurred last
night when a flotilla OF Yep
pelins dropped bombs I'm the
very heart of London.
Twenty persons were KILL
ed and SS were injured, all
civilians except four, SO the
admiralty press bureau an
nOunced.
This is apparently the second
destructive raid on London II
Two nights. for dispatch to the
Chicago Daily News today indi
Gated that Tuesday nights raid or
the east coast" also struck Lon
don.
The amount of last night'i
property damage is unknown be
cause of the censor's silence, al
though 1t is known that man,
fires occurred.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18
Great State Fair at Pueblo.

Pueblo-The biggest crowd, the
biggest fruit and vegetables, the big
gest hog, the biggest steer, the big
Gest race, the biggest opening day in
the sixteen years of the State fair,
The State fair is Pueblo's $4,000 con-
tribution to the progress of the state.
Thirty of the sixty-three counties OF
Colorado are represented. In the
agricultural and horticultural displays
the counties represented are Pueblo,
Otero, Prowers, Kiowa, Delta, Ere
mont, Custer, Crowley, Montrose,
Bent, Ell Paso, Montezuma, Alamosa,
Saguache, Gunnison and Pitkin. The
finest county display of agricultural
and horticultural products ever as
sembled in any country at any time
is conceded by experts to be the dis
play of Otero county. The entire dis
play will go to San Francisco and is
considered as being almost certain to
capture first prize in competition with
the world.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18
GORE, VROOMAN, MEAD
NOTED SPEAKERS ENGAGED FOR
DENVER FARM MEET.
Congress to Be Held in Same Audi,
torium in Which it Was Launched
in Denver Six Years Ago.

Denver-Coupled with the an
nouncement that three speakers OF
| note had been engaged for the Inter
national Farm Congress, it was an
nounced that the sessions would be
held in the auditorium of the First
Baptist church. The congress was
launched in this same room at a meet
ing in 1909.
The speakers added to the program
include United States Senator Thomas
p. Gore, Carl Vrooman, assistant sec
rotary of agriculture, and Elwood G.
Mead, the noted western engineer,
now chairman of the central board of
review for the government projects.
Dean w. NJ. Jardine of the Agricul-
tural College of Kansas stated that
the Farm Congress and the Soil Prod
ucts Exposition which met in Wichita,
Kan, last year, had been the means
of keeping more Kansas boys at home
than any one thing that has happened
in the history of the state.
Canada, and some of the states of
our country, do much advertising to
get the farm boys to bring their mon
ey and settle in the state advertised"
said Dean Jardine. 1T seems much
better to me to show them what the
resources of their own states are, and
thus keep them at home That is
what the meeting of the Farm Con-
gress did in Kansas last year and it
is what will be done for Colorado this
year"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18
Relatives Seek Estate; Make Charges


Denver.-Mrs. Edna R. Newman, the
26-year-old bride of the late Col Geo.
S. Newman, is accused of having plot
ted to marry the wealthy mining man
with a view of obtaining his money;
of having been party to the admins
tration of drugs to him, and with hav-
ing used fraudulent means and false
pretenses to accomplish the marriage,
in an amended complaint, filed in the
County Court at Littleton on behalf
of Mrs Lucelia A. Tasker, Newman G
Hall and Alice l.. Hall. The three who
filed the amended complaint are the
colonels sister and his nephew and
niece. Discussing the charges filed by
Col. Newman's relatives the young
widow said: "They may say what
they please, and make all the charges
their lawyers can think of, but they
cannot prove one. l do dislike to have
the public think l am crazy about the
money, but | did all l could for my
husband when he was i'll. ! decline
to discuss the charges and my attor-
neys are handling the case with care
and competent skill" Mrs. Newman
is living at beautiful "MacRose," the
Newman stock ranch near Littleton.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18
Habeas Corpus Granted to Coates

Denver.-R. w. Coates, secret serv-
ice agent of the United Mine Work
ern persons the State Military Court
of Inquiry made public two weeks
weeks ago, was arrested by the tri-
bunal upon refusal to appear before
it. A writ of habeas corpus was i'm
mediately issued in the West Side
Court in his behalf and was served
upon Governor Carlson and members
of the court.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18
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