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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-08

coins into his upturned hat.
Larry had never been able to
walk or use his limbs. He had al
ways hobbled on crutches. His
knees were double-jointed ant
would hardly support his weight
between crutch-steps.
The Times took up Larry's
case, through pity for the unfor-
tunate boy. DR.. 4. A. Rich Of
fered to perform an operation
that would stiffen the boys joints
and enable him to stand erect
even to walk, in time.
Larry was placed in the county
hospital, and the operation was
perform ed--successfully. In the
meantime, a fund was started by
The Times. Mayor Fawcett and
several others gave $40 bills
while contributions of pennies,
quarters and dollars came in with
rapid succession. BY the time
the boy was able to leave the hos
pital, fund of $100.74 had been
subscribed.
Mayor Fawcett's committee
through contributions of show
cases, painters labor, carpentry
work. and everything else neces-
sary to put the cigar stand In
shape, installed Larry in his new
establishment two weeks ago. His
first days sales were over $40
and they continued at a high fig.
ure each day.
When Larry disappeared Thurs.
day, he took with him all the
money that he had taken in dur
ing the last week. besides Heath e
diamond, and all the cigarets and
cigars he could stuff in his
pockets.
Friends confidently believed
that the wanderlust of the brake.
beams had come over him again
and that he never would return
Tomorrow Larry will re-
turn.
His friends, forgetting his
shortcomings, will bow at his
bier in. last token Of re-
spect.
II will be the passing Of a
boy at whom the fates jeered
from birth to manhood; who
seemed about to overpower
them all, and who, on the
threshold Of this achieve
ment, lost his grip and fell
their fatal victim.
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Larry was very human. He was
one of those unfortunate persons
who could not stand prosperity.
From the outset, his business
flourished, and his books each
night showed a nice balance of
profit. But during the middle
of the second week of his new
found prosperity, the boy became
reckless. ,.,.
He paid his debts, to be sure.
But his encouragement over his
new independence led him into
bad habits.
On Wednesday Larry borrowed
a diamond ring from George
Heath, barber in the Majestic
shop. The ring was worth SIS,
and Larry proposed that he could
sell 1t. His customer, he was
frank to say, was a woman Of the
underworld.
On Friday morning Larry
turned his keys over to a friend,
V. s.. Smith, and announced that
he was going to Seattle. That
was the last seen Of. him by his
Tacoma friends. He had prom
ised to return the same afternoon.
He>took the ring with him.
When he did not return Friday
or Saturday, or Sunday, friends
became doubtful, and wagged
their heads.
At 2 o'clock Saturday morning,
the cripple's body was found in
Seattle harbor.
The diamond ring was missing.
His money-it was known that
he carried at least $50 on him
when he left--had disappeared.
A pocket of his trousers was
turned out.
His body lay in the King coun-
ty morgue until this morning,
when two Tacoma men identified
it.. Coroner Mason of Seattle i'm
mediately notified Mayor Fawcett.
Sullivan was 81 years OF age,
and had been helpless since in
fancy. His father had been To-
connective engineer on the Mexican
Southern railway. His mother
died while her crippled son was
still a baby. Six years ago the
father died. According to Larry,
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Editor On
Trial For
Assault

M. e. Cue, proprietor of the
Centralia Hub. is said to have
hurled a slug of linotype metal
at the head of Joe Lucas, former
pugilist and proprietor Of a Gen.
tralia grill.
This alleged act led to the fill
ing of an information charging
him with first degree assault with
intent to kill, although the metal
did not hit the intended victim.
1t also led to a change OF venue
to Tacoma and the importation Of
80 witnesses, who appeared In
Judge Cards court at the OPEN
Ing of today's session.
The case originated, II ID said,
over the Hubs publication OF
charges against Prosecuting At
torney G. d. Cunningham Of Lew
is county for failure to bring
charges against Lucas for selling
liquor to q 17-year-old boy.
Victor Jackson, q Hub reporter,
claims he received q beating by
Lucas for articles he wrote con-
corning the affair.
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LARRY SULLIVAN FOUND DEAD;
BELIEVED HE WAS MURDERED
STRIKE
AGAINST
ABUSES

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 8.
The historic report with teeth"
of the industrial relations COM
mission is going to be made to
BITE,
A committee of famous Ameri-
can sociological students and la
Dor leaders has Just been formed
with the purpose of hammering
out into the form of actual legis-
lation and material social accom-
plishment, the vast mass of rec
concentrations and statistics ac-
cumulated by the commission.
Thousands of citizens in every
town in the country have felt that
the industrial relations report
would go down in history as a
true magma charta of the toilers
of the nation, If only it's findings
could be enforced, If only those
celebrated sharp-toothed Jaws
could be made to snap shut upon
the injustices and abuses from
which, the report shows, Ameri-
can labor suffers.
Through this new agency,
called the industrial rela-
y tons committees" every citi-
zen will now have the chance
of really helping I'm the en-
forcement of the findings.
Even IL congress pigeon
holes the report, its findings
will be kept constantly be-
fore the nation; a peoples
lobby will he persistently ut
work to enact legislation corr
receive of industrial abuses.
Frank p. Walsh is to be chair
nan of the new commission, and
other leading members
are: Frederick c. Howe, United
States commissioner of immigra-
ton; Amos Pinchot, progressive
New York lawyer; Bishop C. D..
Williams OF Detroit, Austin Gar
retson, John B. Lennon and James
O'Connell. the three labor man,
bers of the former commission on
industrial relations; John P.
White, president of the United
Mine Workers of America; john
Fitzpatrick, president of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor; Agnes
Nestor, a Chicago woman, one of
the most active workers In the
trade union movement.
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ENGLAND
.RESENTS
PROTEST.

LONDON, Nov. S.--England is
resentful today over the presi-
dents tone in the note of protest
against the British blockade and
interference with neutral trade.
The man on the street, how
ever, is more outspoken than the
newspapers. The latter in de-
Tending the blockade, deplored
what was termed the harsh
wording of the message, though
they carefully explained that no
serious trouble is expected.
They appeared to be hurt, rath-
er than angry. individuals, how
ever, are extremely bitter.
The popular view is that the
president had hyphenated
American note" in mind when he
sent the protest.
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u. =. LIKES NOTE

B. WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. g..
General approval was express
ed throughout the country today
of the strong 15,00-word u. S.
note to Great Britain protesting
against the British blockade and
interference with American trade
since the beginning of the war.
The note was made public yester-
day.
That the so-called blockade is
ineffective, illegal and indefen-
sive,' and that the U. S. cannot
submit to the curtailment of it's
neutral rights Is the substance
of the message.
Ambassador Page Is instructed
by Secretary Lansing to inform
the London foreign office that the
U. s. must insist that its relations
with Great Britain shall be gov
erned not by policy of expedi-
ency but by the established rules
of international conduct.
The Washington Post says that
this note, signed by Robert Ian
sing, is destined to become a
classic in the literature of inter-
national relations"
Officials were interested today
to know how Great Britain and
Germany received the note. They
contended 1t demonstrates the ma
tion's neutrality as 1t deals with
England as vigorously as previous
notes dealt with Germany on the
question of freedom OF the seas.
Failure to protest against seiz-
ures of cotton shipments and
England's designation of cotton
as contraband is expected to draw
criticism from the south.
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BY Gibson Gardner

WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
The biggest INSTRUMENTATION
fight in the history of the eff
fort to protect and preserve
the nations public resources
is predicted for the coming
session Of congress. e
The great water power In
Observation-Disclosures, GEN.
eral Electric, Pacific Gas g.
Electric, and al their allied
interests - have started
''big drive" to get past con-
gress legislation that will
permit them to complete the
acquisition and eventual mo-
nopOlization of the nations
valuable water power sites.
This fight possesses a vast
significance for Tacoma and
all the Puget Sound country,
the future of which hinges
largely on the development
of Its immense potential wa.
ter power.
8 The water power lobby last ses-
sion was successful in preventing
the passage of the Ferris water
power bill, backed by Secretary
of the Interior Lane, and this leg
islation must come UP again this
winter.
Now the water power lobby Is
gathering for the battle. An i'm
posing array of legal talent will
confront congress. Among the
more notable representatives OF
power interests will be Rome G.
Brown, Minneapolis attorney. He
writes long briefs for the benefit
of congressional committees and
suggests amendments to power
bills, always in favor of his
clients. He represents officially
the St. Anthony Falls, Power Co,
SeattIeite to BE There.
Another power attorney who
will represent j. power interests
this winter is Josiah Turney New.
comb, sometime of New York, at.
torney-at-law, who has represent.
ed the Stone-Webster interests
He has been special lobbyist be-
fore state legislatures Throughout,
the country where Stone-Web
were Interested.
Harry j. Pierce, now OF Seattle.
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his parent had spent sum upon
sum to obtain surgical aid that
would repair the lads paralyzed
limbs, but to no avail.
Went ON Clutches.
For five years Larry has trav-
eled the country--a hobo, a beg
gar. He rode brake-rods, drop
ping off in likely cities and towns
to sell his stock of lead pencils.
Three years ago he was in Ia
coma. He spent week, and then
passed on. This spring the lad
drifted back. He took up a stand
In front of the Feist & Bachrach
store.
And Tacomans, always charit-
able, gave one glance at his shiv-
eled, helpless limbs, and dropped
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StOne-WebSter I'm
Combine 10 Grab
u. s. Power Sites

formerly connected with the Gen.
eral Electric interests of New
York. Is, another power lobbyist
who is expected to be active. He
was a prime mover in the Port
land water power conference, re-
Gently held at Portland, Ore, to
organize opposition to conserva-
ton legislation.
S. z. Mitchell, president of the
Electric Bond & Share Co., the
holding company of the General
Electric, who has appeared before
senate and house committees in
the past is expected to be active.
So is Frank H. Short, an attor-
ney of Fresno, Cal. He has rep
resented the Pacific Gas & Elec-
trio, and the San Joaquin Light
&Power Co. before congress.
These gentlemen will be rein
forced If necessary by numerous
presidents, vice presidents and
general managers of various pow
er companies expanding from the
AtiautiS w tuc Il dtiilC.
OF Vast Importance.
Men in the conservation move
ment who should know, say the
water power fight which will take
place this winter is to be the most
far-reaching, carefully-organized
and determinedly fought of any
similar fight before congress.
White COAL as water power ID
|'called, is going to be the con-
trolling factor in the nations de-
velopment for centuries to come,
say the conservation people. The
country with the most power, and
the power which is put to the
best uses, is to be the economic
and political master of the world
Herein lies Tacoma's opportunity.
Coal is being superseded by
power at an enormous rate. Elec-
tricity is the key to the industry
Of the future.
I Monopolized In private hands
the owners of the nations power
will be the economic masters OF
the whole population.
If the title to the nations re-
naming power sites can be held
by the government cheap power
may mean many blessings for the
people. but II the title Is parted
with, monopoly prices paralleling
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What's Doing


4VO6y f
Tacoma business men take spe-
cial train to Raymond, for cele-
bration of new Milwaukee road
to Willapa Harbor.
Tacoma branch Of State Wom-
ems Educational league; banquet;
Tacoma hotel; 8 p. m.
Tomorrow
Tacoma Pet Stock association
annual show. Bentz building: 18th
and Pacific; opens for week.
Girls, under auspicea Tacoma
Women's Clubhouse association.
opens two-night engagement; ~
coma theater.
Body takcnont ~ OoRiftn rivoP
State Historical pocioty. Com
mercial club; 5 o'clock; Horbert
Hunt, The BeginninGs o. ~
coma"
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FLASHES

NEW YORK-Four arrests ON
charges of criminal negligence
follow death of IL girls in Brook
lyn loft building.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-villa's
army reported trapped at Naco
and probably will be over
whelmed.
BERLIN-"Too late and too
mild" is way Germans feel today
about U. s. note of protest to
England.
SEATTLE believe any en-
ployer who discriminates against
man who is giving voluntary
service to his country, should be
put In JAIL" says Maj. Brecken-
ridge, assistant superintendent of
war.
SEATTLE-Dr. Walter Cell
horn, foremost baby specialist and
founder of mothers training
school, gives up big practice to
join Red Cross in Germany.
BERLIN German cruiser I'm
dine sunk by submarine off Swed-
ish coast.
ST. LOUIS--More than 400
depositors swarm around the
doors Of the Broadway bank to-
day when the state bank commits
sioners take over the bank with
deposits of 100000 and CAPT
tai of 100000.
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the experience with the oaal trust,
will be the result.
Unless the administration turns
In and fights vigorously beside the
National Conservation association,
II is feared that much bad power
Legislation will go through con-
gress while the attention of the
country is occupied with national
defense and other questions.
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pawn Of UNk|ND FATES, BOY
MEETS EARTH'S LAST REBUFF
BY E. A. PETERS.
Larry Sullivan is dead.

Iary iva
Saturday
IN less two
in the
of No
w hm
sfounde
Pacific
wew
in
fo in
askofes
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That for the hearted labor cdifnr I'm
dnnh thcnmeo
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VILLA GARRISON
STARTS REVOLT

DOUGLAS, Arfz., Nov. 8.--The
villa garrison at Nogales. Sonora,
threaten revolt and are turning
over to Carranza today, say re-
ports.
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FIREMAN KILLED
IN $50. 600 BLAZE

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. s. =
Fire which destroyed the old
Auditorium here and did $50. 00n
damage yesterday, caused the
death OF one fireman and injury
of four others.
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MINNESOTA DRY
BATTLE BEGINS

ST. PAUL. Nov. S.--With an
address by Richmond P. Hobson,
ex-congressman, here tonight, the
drys will fire their first shot in
the battle to make Minnesota q
prohibition state.
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DECLARE GERMANS
SHOOT PRISONERS

: ,PETROGRAD, Nov. 8. Ter
man soldiers are shooting Rus
sian prisoners and using them
for bullet shields, according TO
letters alleged to have been found
on dead Germans on the field of
battle.
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Talk o. the Times

The office cynic remarks:
"1hat St. Paul man who re-
ceafly married Miss Helen
Dfhah Mite is to be congrat-
ulAtcd. Comparatively few
men get their wives properly
labeled.
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ANYBODY WANT TO
BUY A GOOD JAIL?

Ell PASO, Tex, Nov. 8.---Want
to buy a nice, 40-room steamboat
ed county jail? Everything goes
with 1t but the tenants. The COM
missioners open bids today.
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PLAN ANOTHER DANCE

Members OF the Tacoma Auto
Bus association are planning
second dance to be held at Eagles
hall next Saturday night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-08

In University club draw poker
parlance Zaimis, the Greek pre-
mier, crawled out on limb tnat
wouldn't bear his weight. In
palmer English. he bluffed at the
wrong time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-08

We have q good piece Of
news for our readers. New
York customs officials con-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-08

Near Santa Monica, California.
a collie dog, riding in an automo-
bile, turned rabid and chewed up
the driver. We remember times
we would have done the same
thing, II we had possessed the
nerve of that collie.
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fidently declare that there
will be no shortage of dia-
monds because of the war.
How cheering!
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Last boundary monument be-
tween the United States and Can
ada has been set. The work has
been going on for 100 years.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-07
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE
TO BEAR WHEAT OPERATORS
believed More New Grain VIII Come
Out Than Can he Taken Cnre or
at Prenent Prices.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch1

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
CHICAGO. July 6.-Conditions sur
rounding the foreign exchange mar
ket continue a bearish help in wheat
With this against liberal transactions
on foreign account, the takings of
new crop to-day were 100000 bushels
to go out via the Gulf. There were
net losses in the wheat market of l.
"a cents TO l-2 cents, with the July
the weakest future on heavy liquida-
ton by longs. There were also lib
eral hedging sales against tho new
crop.
Some grain men still claim that Of
ferings of new wheat will continue
small. out of crop of 100000 900
bushels of winter wheat. il is certain
more grain will come out than can be
taken care Of readily around present
prices.
No sales Of cash wheat were re-
ported at Chicago. although IL was
said there were some transactions. The
bushels and the visible supply only
7,94S,o00 bushels. both about the small
est ever known There vas pro-
nounced weakness in the North west
ern markets, Duluth at one time acor-
Ing decline Of sl-4 cents The sea
board reported little demand from
France and Italy, with fair galHa. but
this was Offset by England and France
selling futures At Chicago L!verpoo!
spot wheat wag quoted 10 ! I'D
lower than Saturday.
The trade in wheat figures IL viii
be some little time before the pro-
ducers can offer that grain freely.
With favorable weather. hnwever. new
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wheat will come forward In surpris-
ing quantities. With financial condi-
IONS untarorable for foreign trade
and with receipts heavy, much lower
prices are certain
Corn was unsettled and irregular,
nearby months declining is to IA.
while the deferred were up to Ia
The market was narrow, fluctuations
being confined to 1-2 to SIS cent Sales,
$4,000 bushels cash.
oats were Irregular, with July 2l-S
lower and the moro deferred months
only IL to SIS cent lower. The SELL
ing was quite general and mostly in
the way OF liquidation. Cash sales
were 10000 bushels
Provisions were stronger and ir-
regular In sympathy with the early
hog market. and the Improvement
brought out free selling of lard from
ticle caused decline in the whole
list. There was some bear pressure on
September pork, but most of the sell
ing was by holders. Packers bought
ribs.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-07
MORGAN's IMPROVEMENT
HAS BENEFICIAL EFFECT
With Exception of ST. Paul, Stock
Market Displays Strong
tndcrtonc.
READING MAKES LARGEST GAL,
BY Late Forenoon Demand Is En-
hausted and There Is Recession.
Which. at Close. Secs Prices
Around Lowest OF Session.
Ky RRnAnNN WALL.

\rw YORK tu,y s-wi:h ,hc exception
o: :: pas, watch broke 20 another new
low e,,l the stcsS. ,"stSe, dtsp'syed a
s;rons uads,tros tr-toy. ewing % NE Re.
!. Merska me 'n'rSst scwcEsr. 90
rot -e0syt 3" R-S NY tHs SSSts ~ fn'',I
9; rhe inonels-s r-ic- - announcement -
NJ N'rStn s"0fiL'cr , $50,
A. W. 7Fe1i-s >t-erSth ~ >aewn ~
iN-sss sl- 81 -ae 'ots forenoon NJ Sc
g,,asse. r-..sts ~aS ~N-r -nNu ht-c Tire
" T5War. ,e. gesr~t7s d. N, a., Ao4s
;hc-c wts :seg'e recovery. 1lt :hs SaH-v
brcaS in st Fau uu>et:.st ;ss H., ana
,SGs causing : recession which a; the Close
saw prices around ,he loves, Q: ire session.
,,ownwarG movement starting trcra y >oe.
being accomplished IN less ihan hAit Al
hour Brokers s..is the pronounced wSNh-
market Tine weakness rejected q general
hcii,: that the dividend Will be rsdugsd.
BROKERS OF, the floor OF the S;cek E.N-
change reported better demand 10Y hcnds.
Baldwin Locomotive was tho STRONGEST
and most active OF the war stocks. touch
tnitoG states Rubber common Vas a trac-
ZION higher, ana the carnaaisn started Tor
tho publication OF quarterly reports OF he
COMPANY resulted in much unfarorahle
comment.
NEW roRKs July smNorn3sl ,ogdt 40;
!nes to-day there beirs no trace of the
,eScrishness Witch marked last Saturdays
trading J. r. Morgans steady progress
towards recovery enccura sing fHctor
and the decision OF the Fedora! Court
generating the Reading Company from any
violation OF tho laws governing its reia-
tions with its coal subsidiary helped to
create cheerful tone.
Reading the most active Of tho
speculative iavorites soon advancing Two
points with gains o: ono 10 three points in
numerous railways and industrials. War
speciaities soon came forward. bethlehem
Steel, Baldwin Locomotive and a few others
rising from two TO four points United
States Steel opened at .ubstantial rise
soon increasing lite gain AT one and three
e!chths.
Foreign exchange became strong as the
day progressed. largely result OF ar
inquiry for bills London.
Several favorable railroad statements for
May were reported including 81. Louis and
san Francisco. which made "a net increase
OF $4,000. Norfolk and Western $4,000
and Great Northern $1,000,
Future foreign selling amounting APP
p-oS!rlatcly 20 seQo.ooo was the feature OF
the bond market. United states bonds un-
changed on call
NEW YORK. July s.-Closing: Mercantile
paper 3d3h. sterling, sixty day bills. Si,2;
Tor demand, Si..60: cables. S,77S. Ba-
silver, As. Mexican dollars, 81. Government
bonds. steady: railroad bonds, irregular
Time loans. steady; sixty days. -i,"nis
ninety days, 2i-Ias. six months. 3u3h
Call money. steady; ruling rate ~.
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tone was shown, however. Influenced
to some extent by tho carly strength
Zine was one OF the features OF the
days trading and sold up to Il new
high price level and scored an ad-
vance Of more than n point from tho
previous close. Electric Boat shares
were In better demand and also roach
ed now high price levels. Cramps
Shipbuilding was stronger, advancing
about points over the close Of last
week.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-07
MISCELI.AS EOUS MARKETS.


steady to-day with more business in print
cloths for late delivery. Mems wear prices
for spring will be substantially higher,
selling agents said. \ meeting of protest is
TO be held in New York this week against
the adoption OF rules for the sale OF wool
yarns and tops to England through the tex
tile alliance. New England wool manufac-
turers being the promoters OF II.