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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
5000 NOT
ELIGIBLE
TO VOTE

About Is per cent of Tacoma
voters are ineligible to vote on
the army post bond issue Jan. 6,
because they failed to cast their
ballots at the last general cleo
ton, according to City Clerk Nick
Gus Friday.
The registration books at the
city hall will be open until the
night of Dec. 26-10 days before
the special election - however,
and any person whose name has
been stricken from the hooks may
re-register before that time.
Twenty-six thousand four hun
dren and fifty-three still are eligi-
BILE to vote without re-reGistering.
Failure of many persons to un-
derstand the details of the army
post idea, and the condemnation
of 10000 acres of land for the d.
vision grounds, is the only cause
of objection to the proposition
according to Mayor Fawcett. But
the number of DIRECTORS is so
small that the bond vote will be
almost unanimously in the affirm
alive, he predicts.
Mayor Fawcett Travelled through
the Puyallup valley Thursday. He
says he found the city of puyallup
unanimously in favor of the army
post coming to American lake.
Some of the residents of Aiderton
are unfamiliar with the details
and have not expressed emphatic
approval, but at Mcmillan the SEN
timent is overwhelmingly in ia
vor of the plan and of the bond
issue.
The Foster Kleiser Advertising
Co. notified Mayor Fawcett Fri
day that it would donate adver-
Using space on 100 billboards
throughout the city and county for
24-sheet posters urging citizens
to vote for the bonds Jan. 6.
Among the endorsements of the
army post idea Friday was one
from the e. M. Brown camp, Span
ish War Veterans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Food Board Favors
Wholesale Markets

After two weeks investigation
of food prices in Tacoma and the
probable causes of the present
high cost of living, Mayor Faw-
cett's food commission will make
its first formal report Saturday.
Among the recommendations
that the commission has decided
on are the following:
Municipal markets con-
Quoted on wholesale lines,
where fruit and vegetables
raised by farmers tributary
to Tacoma may be sold at
cost to the housewives.
Sale of fruit and vegetables
by farmers from their wag-
ons to housewives mt public
market.
Municipal laws prohibiting
commission men destroying
cheaper grades OF fOOdstuffs,
in order to force sales Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Hares for $6.25;
Canaries, $3.75;
Children Free

VIENNA, Dec. THE
Arbeiter Zeitung draws at
tention to the following adj
vertisements in the Hanno-
verische Tageblatt:
"1) For Sale-Large
Belgian rabbits, 10 to IL
weeks old, from s2.25 to
$3.50 each. Hares, 10 to
IL months old, SIS 10 1925
each. Bucks, 8 months old,
$3.50 each.
"(2) For Sale-Excellent
canary birds, $3.50 to 1915
each.
"(3) without payment of
any kind "a 3-month-old boy
will be given away to any
one who will treat him
we'll"
1t Is a beautiful world,
says the Arbeiter zeitung.
In which the children are
given away. while hares cost
1928 each.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

A few days ago we indulg-
ed in a little philosophy over
the case of Joseph LeGard, of
Roy, who had lived well past
the century mark. Our CONF
ment was called forth by the
request of the aged mans
daughter to be appointed his
guardian because, she said,
he had grown too feeble to
manage his own affairs.
Today Joseph LeGard,
probably the oldest man in
Pierce county, is dead.
And by dying he has clear
ed up some of the questions
concerning the usefulness of
living to a grand old age"
which were puzzling ns.
From the statements of his
friends and his physicians, it
appears now that Old Man
LeGard mnch preferred TO
live i'm Pierce county, United
States, than to go to heaven
and live among the angels.
He preferred it so much
that he was careful to keep
his body healthy, his habits
clean and his wits sharp. 1t
was his greatest honor to be
the best preserved man his
physician had ever seen.
1t appears also Old Man
LeGard decided early in ms
career that one of the CHER
reasons why the stork set him
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
BY Mabel Abbott.

A woman is never too old to
60 shopping.
Witness Mrs. Fanny E. Whit.
ney, who will be go years old the
10th of next month, aud who
came all the way In from 1926
South ] street Wednesday after
noon to do her buying.
~ She was pretty stiff this morn
Ing, and says she sroesn't want 70
try 1t again very soon, but she's
glad she did 1t.
Her daughter, Mrs. G. +. Whit
ney, went with her.
1--WE had to walk four blocks
to the jitney," said the elder Mrs
Whitney in relating her adven.
ture, "but the driver drove right
up to Mccormack store, so ]
wouldn't have to walk across the
street.
First Time i'm Year.
Il hadn't been downtown for
about a year, | guess forget
exactly. The streets made me
think of Saturday afternoons in
the town near our farm lack in
Kansas. There were so many
people. No, l didn't look ihto the
shop windows much; knew just
what wanted-some warn,
things for the winter"
Mrs. Whitney was born in Yer
mont, and was married when she
was IT. She has two sons living
In Seattle, G. f. Whitney, with
whom she makes her home, and J.
c. Stiles, 1417 South 5Sth.
How many grandchildren have
your" she was asked, as she lay
in bed Thursday morning, recov-
ering from her expedition.
Eleven and Twelve.
81 guess you'll have to count
Them" she laughed to her daugh-
ter. I'm getting awful forget
full"
A count totaled II srandchil-
dren and IL REORGANIZATION.
Although Mrs. Whitney finds
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Tacoma Asks
Food Embargo
Of Congress

In accordance with the wishes
of the city commission, Mayor
Fawcett Friday mailed memorial
to congress, asking for general
food embargo as means OF re-
ducing the high cost of living.
I'VE beg to submit that the city
of Tacoma is one of the largest
wheat exporting ports of the
world, but we realize that the
necessities of the people CT the
United States should be the first
concern of all citizens and we
therefore favor an embargo on
foodstuffs to prevent suffering at
home, with the possibility also
that 1t might serve as compell-
ing influence to shorten the terri
BILE catastrophy abroad" said the
memorial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Woman of 90 Goes On
Shopping Expedition

1t hard to keep track Of all her
descendants, she has her activity
and faculties to a degree that is
wonderful.
She is usually up at in the
morning in the winter, and by
daylight in summer, her daughter
says. She insists on doing her
own mending, likes to read the
papers or have them read 10 her,
and takes an interest in what is
going on. She follows the prog
ress of the European war closely.
viii Give No Rules.
"My great-grandmother lived
to be o." she says, little proud
ly, land l have a sister living in
Vermont who is IS; but | never
heard of anyone else in the family
who was particularly long-lived.
81 can stand in the back door
and see clear to Mt. Tacoma, and
/ can hear pretty we'll. l can
hear the clock tick at night when
everything's still. But cant
read very we'll any more-at least,
not fine print"
No amount of coaxing, however,
could get from her any ,ule for
living to a good old age.
1t isn't the old present )tion of
never worrying, because from her
daughter the information was
gained that Mothers an awful
worrier. If my boys don't get
home right on time she knows
something has surely happened.
She worries about everything
But There Is a Reason.
The old lady laughed apprecia-
lively. 81 wish l could quit it,"
she said.
And 1t isn't life of idleness,
because Mrs. Whitney lived on a
farm most of her life and raised
three sons and daughter.
Perhaps 1t is just because she
has never lost her interest IN
things-what's in the newspapers,
the time the young people ought
to get home, the daily mending-
that she is still able to laugh and
go shopping, at 90.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
ILAUNCHINGON
NEXT TUESDAY

The first of the boats under
construction by the Seaborn Ship
building Co. will be launched at
7:45 Tuesday morning, It was an
nounced Friday by C. N. Seaborn.
The vessel is a 240-foot wooden
four-mast schooner with auxiliary
power, designed for the lumber
trade.
A second boat is we'll toward
completion, and the keel for a
third is ready to lay.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
SUICIDE THEORY UNDER
FIRE IN MURDER TRIAL

Did Mrs. Stella Pierweza COM
NIT suicide at her home in Wilke-
son on the night of Oct. 20, or
was she brutality slain by her hus-
band?
At the outset of the trial OF
John Pierwsza for murder, the
state undertook Friday to dispose
once for all of the suicide theory,
on which, 1t is believed, the de-
Tense will base its case.
County Coroner F. J.. Stewart,
who directed the inquest the day
after the killing, for the state,
pointed out that 1t would have
been out of the question for her
to have shot herself through the
head and then to have walked be-
hind the kitchen stove were the
body was found.
Trouble With Wife.
That Pierwsza had had trouble
with his wife and wanted to get
rid of her was the testimony of
Deputy Sheriff jeff Hamilton OF
Wilkeson, and residents of the
mining community.
Quarrels between the couple
were frequent. said Hamilton. He
testified the husband had spoken
to him about getting a divorce,
saying his wife was mo good"
George CARL, another witness,
told Of having accompanied Pier
wsxa TO his home to find the body
Of Mrs.. Pierwsxa lying behind the
stove. i.
He told o. having seen stains
0f ul9oo n various parts Of the
room. Up1er ofor5 ox6nAfnation
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
MAY TRY CASE
I'M AHOSPITAL
WITNESS ISILI

and the girl was declared to have
taken place.
Many of the girls letters, in
which she told of her love for
the defendant, were written to
his sister.
Mary Orr has been in attend
ance at court ever since the trial
began. She was in the court
room all day Thursday, but last
evening was taken seriously i'll.
Orr resumed the witness stand
Friday to continue his side of the
love affair. He insisted that it
was the girl who made the ad-
vances of marriage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

hi2h-priced goods.
Direct purchase, through
parcel post, of meat, butter,
eggs and vegetables by houses
wives from the local farmers.
Use of substitute foods
which contain equal nutritive
value to the more expensive
commodities.
The commission met Thursday
evening.
Direct purchase of foods by
parcel post from the farmers was
strongly recommended. 1t was
suggested that a box of apples
could be bought from a Puyallur
valley rancher for so cents. The
parcel postage would amount to
II cents to Tacoma. Thus the
total cost to the housewife would
be less than 80 cents on a box OF
apples that the retailers ask 81
for.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
ALLIES
SPANK
Gre ECE

f'EF
LONDON, Dec. S.-Disciplininl
of Greeks by the allies begins to-
day.
A blockade of Greek ports was
to be formally announced by the
French government, which COM
bined with previous British and
French orders against movement
of Greek vessels from their har-
bors was expected absolutely to
cut the kingdom off from supplies.
Dispatches from Athens today
said the Italian colony was the
only colony OF ally citizens re-
naming in the Greek capital.
Greece has sufficient supplies
to last for possibly 20 days against
the sort of a blockade which Ad-
miral Du Fournet probably will
institute against the kingdom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

The $4,000 breach of promise
suit brought by Ethel Waldron
against Glen Orr of Steilacoom
was halted again Friday when 1t
was learned that Mary Orr, the
defendants sister, was in the hos
pital, having been suddenly taken
Ill In the court room Thursday.
Judge Card may have to ad-
journ court to the hospital to take
her testimony.
Miss Orr was one of the chief
witnesses for the defense, for 1t
was in the house where she and
her brother lived that the alleged
wrongful relations between Orr
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
JAP S. S. LINE
IS PAYING BIG

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. s.-The
prosperity which the war has
brought Japan has just been
strikingly exemplified In the an
|nouncement that she Nippon Yu-
|sen Kaisha, that country's larg-
est steamship company, cleared
la net profit of 17,248,s09 yen
(sS.617,404.90) during the first
half Of the present fiscal year.
A dividend Of rs per cent WAS
declared Nov. 28,
Members Of the Imperial Jap
s sIs he y g q & < cSn : large per
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
ASKS 100000

United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. G.. Dec. 8.
An amendment to the naval APP
preparations bill was offered by
Senator Jones today asking for
100000 for beginning construc-
ton Of drydock at the Puget
honk tn9fr horns Atf <nesas Ms.
4 should climb trees or telegraph
poles says Circuit Judge Rober'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
FLASHES

United Press Lenscd wire.)
NEW YORK--Co.ton this aft
ernoon broke three to four dollars.
MILWAUKEE,, Or. School
closed on account of infantile par
| alysis.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Senator
/ Lodge introduceds resolution con-
demning deportation of Belgian
non-combatants.
PARIS-France preparing TO
organize general army staff.
SAN FRANCISCO-This city's
four national tennis champions
will appear in indoor matches
here tonight.
PORTLAND-Oregon hens in
numbers will invade Washington
to seek prizes at Seattle chow.
CHICAGO-Meat prices expect
ed to toboggan following issuance
of subpoenaes for meat jobbers to
appear before federal grand jury.
Los ANGELES-Wra in q
white paper package, $1,000 In
checks, part of the loot from q
Wells-Fargo money wagon Thurs
day, was returned by mail to .
bank here today.
CHICAGO - National confer
ence on marketing and farm cred
its asked congress for thorough
investigation of the livestock and
meat packing industries.
WASHINGTON, ID. G. - Four
West Virginia coal mine strikers,
sent to prison in 1914, released by
order of President Wilson.
ToLEDo-The Willys-0verland
Automobile Co. gave voluntary
increase to all employees today,
covering $1,000 men and amount
ing to s1,925,000 year.
NEW YoRK-The Deutschland
is due at Bremen today. IL she
made safe passage.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.--The de-
partment of justice has hocn G1v-
en- free rein In probe to inveeti-
gate the high cost Of living
throughout the United STATE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
NOW CANNED SOUP
GOES TO JOIN DODO

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. S.-The
soupless age is upon us. Retail
ers Of canned chicken gumbo and
other brews announced today that
soup factories throughout the
U. s. had agreed not to sell any
more OF their product for 80 days,
on account Of scarcity of ingre-
dents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

The schooner Alpha stuck on
the ways at Portland when they
tried to launch her yesterday. A
reporter--we suspect he is wet
sends a dispatch blaming the
accident on the fact that logan
berry Juice was used for christen-
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Never throw away an oId
feather bed. Give the chill.
fren a pan of molasses and
let them play with the feath-
ers.
Always blow the water ont
of a piece of macaroni before
eating IL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
OFFICIAL REPORT
OF YANKEE KILLING

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. s.
The state department received Of
fetal reports today that Dr.. Fisch-
er, an American, had been killed
by bandits at Santa Rosalia.
The killing is said to nave &C.
Cured some days ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

Through error IL was stat
ed that Mrs. HEMP Weirather
entertained the Belmont Co.'S
mopolitan Physic club. IL
should have read belmont
Cosmopolitan Civic club
The Keokuk Qa.) Constitu-
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Greetings, have you a snow
shovel in your kit?

We wish to nominate as Taco
mas earliest bird the householder
at South 4th and M streets, who
had his walks scraped clean at
$40 this morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
FABLE

Once upon a tyne a woman
baked a cake and found no fault
with ye cake. There was nothing
wrong with We oven or ye FROST
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
Talk O the Times

direction the cows are SO thin they
aren't even lean.
When the cream from these
cows is churned 1t produces drawn
butter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
So far, neither candidate mt
RustOn has conceded.

A Sumner mechanic has per-
fected a machine for boring holes
in butter. 1t is thought By mas
ter mechanics this machine solves
the butter boring problem.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
$50 men
PROBABLY
ARE LOST

Omitted Press Lensed wire.)
PARIS, Dec. 4. The
French battIeship Suffren is
officially classified as lost i'm
a statement issued by the
minister of marine today.
Apparently all hands went
down. The vessel left Gibraltar
for Lorient on Nov. "a and has
not been heard of since.
Lorient is a fortified seaport
naval depot at the mouth of the
river Scorff. Brittany.
The Suffren was IN 1S-knot
battleship of 1880 tons and car
ried $50 men, according to best
available information.
The Suffren was authorized in
1899 and cost 100000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08
LINER CALEDONIA
rs REPORTED SUNK

LONDON, Dec. S.-The Anchor
liner Caledonia is believed sunk.
Lloyd's announced today.
TheCaledonia is a steel steamer
of 1929 tons, British registry.
She was built in 1904.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

WASHINGTON, ID. C.--The de-
partment Of justice has isocn Civ
en- free rein in a probe to lnvest1-
gate the high cost Of living
throughout the United Statc~ e
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

NEW YORK-The Deutschland
is due at Bremen today. il she
made a safe passage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-08

TOLEDO-The Willys-0verland
Automobile Co. gave voluntary
increase to all employees today,
covering $1,000 men and amount
ing to s1,925,000 a year.
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unusually tall figure. When it APP
peared nearer he was seen to be walk
ing with both arms raised, hands high.
He slowed his stride.
'Does Burt Jones live hereW he
asked, in a low, hurried voice.
81 reckon. I'm Burt. What can ]
do for you?" replied Jones.
The stranger peered around, stealth
lily came closer, still with his hands up.
ut is known that Buck Duane is
here. Captain MacNelly's camping on
the river just out of town. He sends
word to Duane to come out there after
dark"
The stranger wheeled and departed
as swiftly and strangely as he had
come.
"Bust me! Duane, whatever do you
make of that?" exclaimed Jones.
"a new one on me-" replied Duane,
thoughtfully.
"First fool thing I ever heard of
MacNelly doing. Can't make head nor
tails of it. I'd have said off-hand
that MacNelly wouldn't double-cross
anybody. He struck me q square man,
sand all through. But hell he must
mean treachery. can't see anything
else in that deal"
Maybe the Captain wants to give
me fair chance to surrender without
bloodshed," observed Duane. pretty
decent of him, if he meant that"
''He invites you to come to his camp
after dark. Something strange about
this, Duane. But MacNelly's a new
man out here. He does some queer
things. Perhaps he's getting a swelled
head. Well, whatever his intentions,
his presence around Mercer is enough
for US. Duane, you hit the road and
put some miles between you and the
amiable Captain before daylight. To-
morrow I'll go out there and ask him
what in the devil he meant"
"That messenger he Sent-he was
ranger" said Duane.
''Sure he was, and q nervy onei 1t
must have taken sand to come bracing
you that way. Duane, the fellow
didn't pack a gun. I'll swear to that.
Pretty odd, this trick. But you can't
trust it. Hit the road, Duane"
A little later a black horse with
muff1ed hoofs, bearing tall dark rider
who peered keenly into every shadow,
trotted down a pasture lane back Of
Jones' house, turned into the road,
and then, breaking into swifter gait,
rapidly left Mercer behind.
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CHAPTER XII.

Next morning Duane was Off again
working south. During the next few
| days he paid brief visits to several
villages that lay in his path. And in
| each some particular friend had g
piece of news to impart that made
Duane profoundly thoughtful. A
| ranger had made a quiet, unobtrusive
call upon these friends and left this
message, "Tell Buck Duane to ride
into Captain MacNelly's camp some
time after night"
Duane concluded, and his friends all
agreed with him, that the new rangers
main purpose in the Nueces country
was to capture or kill Buck Duane,
and that this message was simply an
original and striking ruse, the daring
of which might appeal to certain out
laws.
But it did not appeal to Duane. His
curiosity was aroused it did not, how
ever, tempt him to any foolhardy act.
He turned southwest and rode hun
bred miles until he again reached the
sparsely settled country. Here he
heard no more of rangers.
He got into rough country, rode for
three days without covering much
ground, but believed that he was get
ting on safer territory. Twice he came
to wide bottom-land green with will
low and cottonwood and thick as
chaparral, somewhere through the
middle of which ran q river he de-
cided must be the lower Nueces.
a covert where he had camped, he saw
the lights of a village. He tried to
pass it on the left, but as he mounted
a ridge he noted that the road made
sharp turn, and he could not see what
was beyond it. He slowed up and
was making the turn, which was down.
hill between high Eanks of yellow
clay, when his mettlesome horse heard
something to brighten him or SHE'D at
something and bolted.
The few bounds he took before
Duane's iron arm checked hin we're
enough to reach the curve. One
flashing glance showed Duane the open
once more, little valley below with a |
wide, shallow, rocky stream, a clump |
Of cottonwoods beyond, somber
group of men facing him. and two
lark, limp strangely grotesque figures
hanging from branches.
The sight was common enough in
southwest Texas, but Duane had never
,efore found himself so unpleasantly
lose.
A hoarse voice pealed out: 'By hell
here's another one !"
Stranger, ride down an account fer
'ourself!" yelled another,
"Hands-up
"Thet's right, Jack; don't take no
hances. Plug him p
These remarks were so swiftly ut
cred as almost to be continuous,
,uane was wheeling his horse when a
life cracked. The bullet struck his
1T forearm and he thought broke it,
3r he dropped the rein. The frighten-
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hours he did that, dreaming, dreaming
of life he had never tasted and now
never would taste. He thought of her
beauty and sweetness, of the few
things which had come to aeGn to
him that she must have loved him !;
and he trained himself to think of
these in preference to her life at
BANDS, the escape with him, and
then her recapture, because such men,
cries led to bitter, fruitless pain. He
had to fight suffering because 1t was
eating out his heart
Sitting there, eyes wide open, he
dreamed of the old homestead and his
white-haired mother. He saw the old
home-life, sweetened and filed by dear
new faces and added joys, go on be-
fore his eyes with him part of 1t.
Then In the inevitable reaction, in
the refiux of bitter reality. be would