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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-20
Children's Hose
1Oc Pair

HILDREN's Black
~ Cotton Ribbed Stock
ings in sizes 5 to ojl, low
priced 1Oc pair.
basement salesrcom
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-20

DLAIDS. Checks
i Floral effects and
Stripes to choose from in
these new, wide Rib
bons. as well as many
staple and novelty plain
shades. Unusually good
value at zoe yard.
Ras.fsaeut Salesroom.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

A banquet was gwen last Saturday
evening to The member of the cas-
cf tho recon, play, Cupid at Nassar.'
The occasion was enjoyed by about -
hiph school students Mis- Eva Len
wa mistress Of ceremonies and the
different subjects for talk were based
ON psasagea from the play. Miss Wat
llini, who directed he play, and Ms
Cairns and Mis- Horne, who directed
the music and dancing, deserve ape-
cial credit for the way the play and
banquet went eff.
The High School students, cspeci-
ally lie football men, are watching
with pleasure and some anticipation
the return Of the Alumni. Every train
brings in some of our old friends and
.choo, mates Every train brings in
some more men who will make ap tao
Alumni football team Christmas d..
The Alumni. have challenged tie Gss
team OF tae Hieh School 10 a foot
ball game that day. \ goodly number
Of last years champion football team
plays against the school team thia
year.
The High School team has not a lii
tie work cut out for them in the com
ing contest. They have TO hue
against such men as Les Til.on. La
ban Brewer. Ira d. Aten, Lawrence
Richards, Hersche Williams, D.
Perry, Fred Berry and many more
who have either been to college or
in the hard school of life.
The game will be called at $50
Christmas day at the High School. II
order to pay expenses it is found
necessary to charge small admission
fee, The game really promises to be
a fine one, as anyone will tell yol
who has seen the past performances
Of these fellows.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21

10 You want an automobile?
SO does everybody else.
Which means that the automobile
business is becoming one of the big
gest things in the world.
Last year Guly. 1914, TO June,
1879 we made 703.527 automobiles
i'm America.
This year we'll make over mil
lion.
And tie industry is only seventeen
years old.
Unlike the bicycle craze, it isn't
diving out. The automobile is no Ion
ger the plaything Of the rich man.
Folks on small pay are buying more
than the well-to-do, for thc price Is
getting down within the reach Of all.
OF the 100000 cars sold in the Unit
cd States last year, the average price
was SSH Eight years ago the aver
age price was &2I23. But thai year
only 1900 ears were marketed.
The automobile today is Inlt;n~
The country together a. the railroad
united tho remote settlements "a or
ia yen, .ra HI, grou n of The mo
tor car industry is cen more anaz-
ing. when you slap 10 enD lder it,
than Was the spread Of tie iron raii.
Eighteen o. twenty year ago, when
the pioneers were experimenting with
the first "hor,ecss carriage" people
laughed at them. They polzcd fuu a,
Haynes of Indiana and Wlntou Of
Ohio, and Olds was known in central
Michigan as "Olds Fool"
It WAS 1899 before automobiles be
gan - he produced in commercially
important quantities. That year 200
were made, worth $l,2Sl apiece on
the average. The cars for , or 4 year.
made comparatively little headway. In
1903 only 1000 cars were made and
the price was little bit lower than
i'm 1S99-S1, $50.
But from that time on the price
went steadily upward and the auto
makers wed with one another for the
trade of Il Wealthy. Luxury aftc9
luxury was placed in the cars, tn,
richest styles were invented, and the
auto craze swept over the rich and
the near-rich Of the nation
Homes were morgagcd in order
thai families might have cars rs cN.
ponsivc as those Of their wcalthics
neighbors across The street. Exuaya
gancc was the order Of the day-boti
in buying cars and making them.
For every auto company had :
method of its own. There wasn't ;
rar. in any make chat would fit III,
component part of another Automo
billing meant having high-pricee
chauffour, really a mechanician, AN,
d anything went wrong or broke i
took day. and weeks to get auothc
par from the factory.
Then somebody took tumble t,
what WAS going on. Whether it wa
Ford or O'ds or somebody else mat
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21

ters little. Several makers saw that
cheaper cars would have to he pre-
duccd and that all makes would nave
to he standardized. The year 1907
saw the birth OF automobile sanity.
Prices started coming down. People
no longer thought it necessary to pay
$1,000 or $4,000 for car de luxe.
Almost anybody could have an auto
mobilc-so why pay enormous price
for snobbsh social distinction thai
no longer existed?
The average price paid for a car
in 1907 was las. In 1908 it was
$l.G2l. Tins is what the average buy
er paid-uot what the average make
cost.
The large quantity idea Of produc-
ton had its birth. The number OF
autos made nearly doubled in a
tWc'vcmonth.
Some firms tried to make cats d.
low a. $25o. Tins seemed 10 he car-
ryire the thing to- far These make.
aeyst were popular
Standardization wa hosn. Automo-
bile engineers designated standard
SEQ papts. % lhm a moto'isf was moi
Obliged 10 seek the nearest branch ol
his particular factory TO get his ca
repaired.
Luzmies thal were only in the
hirhesl priced car# IN 1906 began
creeping into the cars Of moderate
cost This was made possible b!
grolp-prodlc,ion-turningo out man5
cars at time, instead of only ono.
The good roads movement received
lis first great impetLS. "Nationa
road" laid cut across the Alleghenies
by the carly American government be
rorc the railroads were built were re.
vivcd and extended across the con
tincnt. Today there are scores upof
scores Of organized roads connecting
distant sections Of the country. inelud
ing thc famous Lincoln highway, Mid
land trail, and Santa Fe trail, acros:
the Rockies.
Brick and cement roads have beel
cNtcndcd from the city limits far int
,he country, in many cases CONNECTING
large ci,es with pavemcnts such a
even the cities did not have ID year
ago.
Values of farms have doubled am
tre1led in counties with improves
highways, and the cost of hauling
produce from the farm to the marke
has been pared to Il minimum. Load
Of 5000 pounds have been hauled i
concrete roads. whereas 500 pound
was the limit Of the dirt roads the
suppIanted
Women now drive the largest an
heaviest cars with more ease tha
their sisters six or eight years ag
operated their little runabouts an
couPes.
We're right in the midst of the cen
tlry's greatest domestic development
What of the futme2
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21

Later well tell what the future
holds in store, as viewed by some ot
the experts in the industry-and few
who fear its growth.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21

James +. Lukens, Practical Watch
maker; 30 years experience; all work
guaranteed. kirsch Bookstore ADV.
Pianos moved with best of care any
where in valley Ed Royce.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-21
Tractor Demonstration

at the corner Of Mulberry lame and
Imperial avenue, FL Centro, Wednes-
day, December -, 1913.
We have arranged with the factory
representative to demonstrate the
Bates Steel Mule, 1880
See this wonderful tractor AT the
work of eight good horses, We have
selected a spot where The bermuda
grass is thick and the ground hard
Remember the place and date.
IMPERIAL VALLEY HARDWARE
COMPANY. Adv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
YOUTH FACING Pen Term.
SCORNS FINE CHANCE TO
ESCAPE I'M BIG JAIL CAR

wroLe at the Jail, at midnight.
The jailer telephoned the sheriff
Hodge ordered a machine sent
out for him In hurry to reEch
him to the Jail.
q The ont. srard who codld
Drive car nal just left.
! Send Driscoll! said Hodge.
81 s4 80 stsafar
=. :. Now get this: Put yourself
.JD DriscoIl's place, II you can.
" r,vas past midnight. He was
alone in q fast and powerful car
which he knew how to drive. The
tank was full of gasoline.
by daylight he could he In Brit
ish Columbia. Or he could IOsc
himself In the Cascades. He
could ditch the car where Il
would never be found and hit
fast east-bound freight for lib
erty.
Or, on the other hand, he
could go straight to sheriff
Hodges home and fetch him to
the jail.
He had to take the choice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

freight train No. 256, which left
Baker at noon, but had not been
opened at Baker. Trainmen
found the seal on the car had
been broken while the railroad
men were passing over the train
at Unity. just before reaching
Durkee, and investigating, found
the dead men.
The bodies were not molested
but were left in the position In
which they were found until the
train reached Huntington.
Coroner West and James III.
Nichols, attorney for the COM
pany, left on a later freight to
hold an inquest there. The bodies
were not touched at Huntington
but they are believed to be men
named John and Murphy, from
Caldwell, and the 17-year-old son
of the former, from Caldwell,
Idaho. The men were lying in
the bunker which, in hot weather
is used for ice.
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Continued from Page One.)

tSOntinueu from rage One.D
to 20 years. He has been in jail
year, and Is now %.
He has appealed.
Now, III DriscOIl serves the
minimum, he will be 35 when lie
gets out. II he serves the maxi.
mum he will be SO. MINIMUM
OR MAXIMUM, HIS YOUTH
WILL BE GONE. |
When Sheriff Hodge took Of
flee last month, he found Dris-
coll In a cell. He learned that
Driscoll knew something about
automobiles.
He brought Driscoll and two
others before him and said: I'm
going TO make you boys odtsIde
TRUSTEES. You're on your honor,
and ] want you to promise me
you'll not make a getaway"
They promised.
They work in the courthouse
garage. No one guards them.
They are trusted.
Recently something went
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

with 10 to % years I'm the pen IL
he chose the honorable course.
What would you have done
you who are not thieves and ex-
cons, but honorable men?
~ knew what DriscOlI would
do" says Hodge. 81 knew! For
DriscoIl il an honorable man. I
knew he would keep his proise."
AND THAT Is WHAT DRIS-
COLL DID.
asked Driscoll what his
thoughts were that night. but he
could not or would not tell me.
But surely the thought must
have occurred to him. II must
have come to him as he threw
the clutch. 1t must have whis-
pered to him as the powerful ma
chine swung round the corner and
rolled along the dark and silent
streets. 1t must have woven it.
self into the song Of the smooth
running engine as 1t purred and
throbbed and hummed.
Getaway! Getaway!
Fifty miles an hour? Easy!
Better than that.
And all the points of the COM
pass to choose from.
Get away! Getaway!
Youth and life and all out
doors. A cell, stripes and the
jute mill. %** Getaway!
"OH, SURE!" SAID DRIS-
COLL, WITH A TWISTED,
WISTFUL GRIN. AZ THOUGHT
OF 1T. OH, SURE!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

Fellow Men and Women, You
Don't Have to BE Cut Up, and
You Don't Have to Be Tortured
by Trusses."
Captain Ceilings made a study
of himself, of his condition-and
at last he was rewarded by the
finding of the method that so
quickly made him a we'll, strong,
vigorous and happy man.
Anyone can use the same meth
cd; it's simple, easy. safe and in
expensive. Every ruptured per-
son in the world should have the
Captain Ceilings book, telling all
about how he cured himself, and
how anyone may follow the same
treatment in their own home
without any trouble. Tho book
and medicine are FREE. They
will be sent prepaid to any rup-
ture sufferer who will fill out the
below coupon. But send It right
away-now-before you put down
this paper.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
ORR|NE FOR DRINK " .....,
TRY 1T AT OUR EXPENSE

TRY 1T AT OUR EXPENSE
We are in earnest when we ask
you to give ORRINE a trial. You
have nothing to risk and every
thing to gain, for your money will
be returned IL after a trial you
fail to get results from ORRINE.
This offer gives the wives and
mothers of those who drink to ex-
cess an opportunity to try the Or
RINE treatment. 1t is very sim
pie treatment, can be given in the
home without publicity or loss Of
time from business, and at a
small price.
ORRINE is prepared in two
forms: No. /, secret treatment,
a powder; ORRINE No. 2, in pill
form, for those who desire to take
voluntary treatment. Costs only
800 a box. Come in and talk
over the matter with us. Ask for
booklet.
Owl Drug Co., 904 c ST.; French
Drug Co., 1156 Pacific av. \
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
KIND OF NICK

PETROGRAD. fvia London) =,
Feb. = VLADIMIR Bourtzeff, the
Russian revolutionist, was sem
fenced today to deportation to
Siberia. Bourtzeff, who had been
living out of the country and OPP
posed the cause of the Russian
government at the outbreak of
the war, came to Petrograd to en-
list In the army. He was arrest
ed on September 30.
The charge ON which he was
convicted was les majestic. The
accusation was based ON articles
which Bourtzeff contributed to a
Paris periodical.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
"Cure Your
Rupture Like
| Cured Nine
Old Sea Captain Cured his Own
Rupture After Doctors Said
Operate or DEATH"

His Remedy and Book Sent Free.
Captain Ceilings sailed the seas
for many years; then he sustained
q bad double rupture that soon
forced him to not only remain
ashore. but kept him bedridden
for years. He tried doctor after
doctor and truss after truss. No
results! Finally. he was assured
that he must either submit to q
dangerous and abhorrent opera
ton or die. He did neither! He
cured himself Instead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
WILSON PREDICTS
FOOD SHORT AGE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Pres-
ident Wilson urges the co-opera-
tion of business men and the gov
eminent in framing laws to allie
viate IL possible the suffering of
the world from what he predicts
will be a shortage of food.
He predicted that while there
is shortage of food at the pres
ent time 1t will be much greater
before the end of the European
and Mexican wars.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
GER MANS RENEW
Fierce ASSAULT

PARIS, Feb. 4. - The German
armies have been reinforced and
are making violent attempts to
assume the offensive and force
back the allies lines from the
coast to Arras. Heavy cannonad-
ing Is reported In official dis
patches to be In progress around
Newport. German gunners are
again dropping shells across the
allied lines into Furnes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

Manager w. c. Baldwin, Ia
coma agent for the Ford car.
prides himself on having Just
moved into the most convenient
garage in Tacoma. After re-
naming in the old location at
Third and X streets for years,
the Ford agency has moved to the
large brick garage formerly &C.
cupied by the Gramm-Bernstein
company, Seventh and G streets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
GERMANS SCORN
AMERICAN GlF Is

AMSTERDAM. Feb. 4. - On
the ground that Americas neu-
trality is merely hypocritical, the
war committee of the German city
of Zwickau, near Dresden. has an
nounced that il will refuse to ac-
cept gifts from the United States,
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger as
serted. The war committee COM
planned bitterly because America
supplies arms and ammunition to
Germany's enemies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

MACPHERSON district several years
In competition with the Hudson
Bay company.
Jacquot was a close friend to
Hubert Darral, the English ex-
plorer, who was lost two years
ago east of the mouth of the Mac
kenzie while exploring the land
of the white Eskimos. Jacquot
was on this trip with Darral, but
returned earlier in the season,
while Darral pushed on alone,
facing severe storms.
The. only traces ever brought
in since of Darral were marks On
trees located by Eskimos.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

The new garage is ideal, The
stock room and machine shop
are located on the top floor. In
the stock room are $4,000 worth
OF Ford parts. reaGy at mo-
ment's notice to replace broken
pieces. The machine shop.
which turns out an average Of 20
Jobs a day. is equipped with the
latest modern machinery.
On the lower floor, In the rear.
Is the service department. where
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
This pic

Ford owners can have their cars
examined by skilled mechanics,
and can learn Just what ails the
machine when 1t isn't working
right. The front of the lower
floor is the sales room-all nicely
tinted in blue and white.
Manager Baldwin says that he
has contracted for 700 cars for
the 1916 season, and he has no
hesitancy In predicting that he
will sell every one of them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
ALASKAN GUIDE DIES IN BATTLE
WITH WILDERNESS OF THE NORTH

DAWSON, Y. T., Feb. 4.-Let-
ters brought here today by the
Northwest mounted police and
Indian carriers from Macpherson,
at the mouth of the Mackenzie
river, tell of the finding Of the
body on October 1 Of Joseph Jac-
quot, noted halfbreed trader and
guide. His canoe and other be-
longings were found near Point
Separation.
Apparently he was on his way
from Arctic Red river to Fort
MACPHERSON when drowned. JAG
quot had been buying furs in the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
3 men DEAD IN BOX CAR

BAKER, Ore, Feb. Bodies
of three men we're found in a Pa
cific Fruit Express company re-
frigerator car at Durkee yester-
day. They had been asphyxiated
with coke gas from a coke heater
in the car. me car was on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
HONOR CONVICTS
PROVED WORTHY

OLYMPIA, Feb. Out of
total of 200 convicts employed in
honor camps during the last two
years, but seven have escaped,
and FIVE of these were recaptured,
though the men worked without
guard.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

TO Cure q Gold In One Day
fake LAXATIVE fsromo Quinips TabIsts Drug
Eists refund money 4 falls 10 cure. = ".
GROVES Signature q on each bon 70,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-01-28
Scientific Lecture is Popular

Marshall, Mimi, Dec. Is. l9l4.~
Prof. Patty has just closed his lee
ture on wireless telegraphy, radium
and liquid air. BOYS and girls and
me and women of widely separated
interests were present and thor
oughly enjoyed every word and
every experiment. The lecture is
not freakish, but w~holesomelv slim
ula.ing and instructive. Boys and
girls should have oppcrtuni ty to
hear such efforts oftener.
M. p. Fobes, Sup't Schools.
Mountain Lake. Mimi. Dec H.
Prof. w. B. Patty's lecture was a
decided success in every way, The
house was packed to the doors and
all listened with close attention for
nearly two hours, even the children
of the intermediate grades. Prof.
Patty's clean-cut demonstrations to
gether with his personal magnetism
cannot but please and instruct.
H. 4. Griebenow. Sup't Schools.
At the opera house. Miller, Jan
80. under the auspices of the High
School Athletic Association.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-01-28
Miller Teams Meet Defeat

The Miller basket ball teams re-
turned home SUNDAY from a trip to
fiighmOre and Pierre, having met
defeat in all four of the games play
ed. The boys stopped at Highmore,
and in a game with Highmore high,
FRIDAY evening. they got the small
end # a 81 to i score. The same
evening the girls team played the
Pierre girls in an interesting game
which resulted in a score of Is to 10
in favor of the capital city girls.
On SATURDAY. evenil & tie girls
played the Indian girls at their
school East Of Pierre and were again
defeated, the score being "a to Is
The boys game with E'ierre high on
Saturday evening enied ia favor of
the home team So to Is. The Pierre
Journal has the following to say of
the Plerre-Miller girls game which
was the closest game played on the
trip:
The girls basket ball team of
Miller played the Pierre high school
girls last night at the gymnasium
and the game vas a most interest.
ing n from start to finish. The
first half looked rather discouraging
for the Pierre girls as the score was
then in favor of Miller but the Sec
ond told the real story and the
Pierre girls played with all the vim
they had and it kept them busy too,
as the Miller girls are exceptionally
strong players and both teams were
evenly matched, which was the true
cause of last nights game being such
a good me-. At the end of the sec
ond half the score stood l3 to 10 in
favor of our girls. The Miller girl:
are a jGllv crowd and have made
many friends during their short
stay here. The lineup of the g amt
for Miller was:
Forwards.
Erdlne Berry
Hazel Schmeiter
Guards.
Marie Coqulllette
Clara Erp
Center,
Oma Wyiand
Jene Garrett
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-01-28
SUPPLY
RUNNING SHORT
Germany and England Take Steps
to Conserve Food Supply

London, Jan. 26.-The sweeping
regulations for the conservation of
the food supply of Germany, includ-
ing the confiscation Of the entire
grain crop, is regarded in London as
the most significant item tf tn" news
recorded today from the countries
at war.
Berlin announces officially that
this step cuts deeper into the econo.
mic life of the German people than
any other measure adopted since the
outbreak of the war and the gov.
eminent defends the regulation on
the ground that in order to upset
the plans of Germanv's enemies to
starye the empire it Is necessary to
make certain Of a regular supply of
food stuff until next harvest.
In the war arenas the reported
Russian invasion of Hungary by
way Of Bukowina is attracting inter
eSted attention in Londen.
A special news dispatch from Bu-
dapest sets fC~th that after a tenn
porary check of the Muscovites act
ually hove pcsetrated Hungary
where they hold the key to Josefal-
"a. an important strategic position.
Russian relnforcements are reported
as constant" al irving in Bukowina.
a fact which clearly indicates, in the
opinion of British observers, the in
tentiOn of Russia 10 invade Tran
sylvania in fO rec.
PetrOgrad asserts that as a count
er to Russia's move against Tran
Sylvania the German army, which
was sent Ostensin!y to operate
against Servia. is now being direct
ed to the defense of the Carpathian
passes in conjunction with the forces
Of Hungary. ~
In Poland heavy fighting is under
way once more and a degree Of suc,
cess for the Germans is admitted in
Pctrograd. Berlin hears that the
Tcutonic allies have occupied KieIce
In the war with Turkey also Rus,
STA is eDcOuntering "A severe ODpnSI.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-01-28
OF CORN
Is PROPOSED
South DskotaaS at San Diego
Would Erect Building at
Exposition

The following is taken from the
San Diego Evening Tribune and deals
with a subject that has been widely
discussed throughout the state,
namely that of a state exhibit at
one OF the eXpositions on the Paci-
fc coast:
The members Of the South Da-
kota society in San Diego are very
much interested and pleased over
the quiet promising prospects of
having a fine reproduction of one
of the famous corn palaces of that
state as a home on the Panama-Cal-
Hernia exposition grounds for re-
ceptlon purposes and for the exhibit
ton of specimins Of the splendid
agricultural and other resources of
that state.
The corn palace shows which have
been annual events in South Dakota
For some years and attracted as
much attention through illustrations
ana puoIlcaLons all over the world
as the ice palaces of Canada. and it
Is declared to be certain that "A
structure Of that kind would be a
unique and most interesting addition
TO the state buildings III the San
Diego exposition and at the same