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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
PROTEST GERMAN
ACTS IN BELGIUM
Deportation of Civilians for Labor in
the FatherIand Arouses American
Government.

Washington, Nov. 29.-New repre-
sensations are about to be made to
the German government by the United
States concerning the deportation of
Belgian civilians for labor in Germany.
What form they shall take has not
been determined, but it became known
that the administration is seriously
exercised over the matter and is pre-
pairing for it's next step with great
deliberation, hoping to make it effect
i've without straining the relations be-
tween the two countries.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
SPORTING ITEMS

~ YIN AAN0 A@AVAo /
: Spokane's new ice rink is proving
a very popular place to visitors in
the Falls City
The sixteenth annual meeting of
been called for Portland. Ore, De-
cember 81
''Never again-not for three times
$4,000" Gilmour Dobie thus put aside
all doubt regarding the possibility of
his coaching the University of Wash
ington football team next year.
Pacific coast hockey magnates are
going to try new wrinkle this sea-
son that is certain to excite lot of
interest not only with the players
but fandom. The plan announced by
a championship emblem to the player
who proves the most valuable man
in the league during the coming cam
paign. 1t will be run along lines
similar to those which governed the
major baseball league individual race
a few years ago, when chug chug
wagons were allocated to the most
valuable men in the National and
American leagues. Every hockey
player in the Coast league will have
chance for the prize, which will
be valuable one and which is be-.
ing offered by the Coast body.
With so many stars in the Coast
league clubs it is expected that there
will be keen competition for the prize.
Every team boasts one or more stars:
Vancouver had a sure starter and
contender in "Cyclone" Taylor; Port
land has a big star and general IA
vorite in "Moose" Johnson; Seattle's
big noise is Jack Walker, and Lester
Patrick is Spokane's best bet. ALI in
all the competition is expected to Gre
ate a lot of interest in the Coast cam
paign.
Saturdays Football Results.
Minnesota overwhelmed Chicago 40
to 0 in the final football bame of the
season
Yale triumphed over Harvard by a
score of to 3.
In field of mud the University of
Wisconsin team held the University
of Illinois to 0 to tie.
Army skill triumphed over navy
pluck when the football teams from
West Point and Annapolis clashed in
their annual battle. The cadets vic
torious score was Is to Z.
Two University of Oregon back
field men, "Shy' Huntington and
Captain Johnny" Beckett, scored 81
points for their team and registered
a shutout against the Oregon Agri-
cultural college.
Spectacular runs of so and 40 yards
both of them for touchdowns, by
Brown and Dick Hanley and the de-
termined defense of the light Coma
ga team were the outstanding feat
ures Of the hard-fought game be-
tween Washington State college and
Gonzaga, the Dietz crew winning, 10
to 0.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
$4,000 for Ancient Carving.

New York.-The 18th century carv-
ed and painted wood bust of "a
Girl" from the Devanzati palace at
Florence, Italy, was sold f r $4,000
this week at the sale in the Ameri-
can Art association galleries. The
bust is attributed to Bernardo Ros.
sellini, a pupil of Donatello. Five
sessions of the sale have brought
$500, sos.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
Would Define International Law

New York-An appeal to the bar of
the United States, a great neutral ma
ton, to aid in defining international
law and right in such terms that world
peace might be maintained, was made
by Sir Robert Laird Borden, premier
of Canada, in an address at luncheon
given in his honor at the Lawyers club
here Saturday.
The peace which the entente allies
seek Sir Robert added, departing from
his prepared speech, is an abiding one
and not an inconclusive one. The club
elected the premier as an honorary life
member.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
LUMBER AND WOODWORKING.

w. o. Weyen has bought the Eddy
Lumber Co.'s yard at Espanola,
Wash, for $1,4O0 and the invoice
price of the lumber and other goods
on hand.
Lumber and other commodities will
be handled by the Scott Smith Co.,
which was incorporated in Spokane
this week with a capitalization of
$4,000. Scott Smith Of Chicago will
be president and George r. Robe
vice president and general manager.
Robert Cook is the other incorpo-
rator.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
Bia Express Robbery.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Forty thous-
and nine hundred dollars was esti-
mated to have been stolen from a
Southern Pacific Express company
transfer wagon in the Western & At
lantic railroad yards here recently
by two men who held up the lone
driver. Fred Cornelius, who said the
bandits forced him to unlock box
containing approximately 100000 in
currency
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
Who Really Paws?

New York.-An increase of pay Of
from 35 to 40 per cent, to meet the
increased cost of living, will be given
the $4,000 employees of members of
the American Clothing Manufacturers
association, beginning December IS, it
was announced here recently. The
advance will represent an increase in
wages of $8,OOO,OOO a year.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
INTERURBAN AND MOTOR CRASH
IN DETROIT, KILLING FIVE AT
ONE SHOT.
RICH FRISCO MAN INCLUDED
Fatality at st. Louis-Four Die at
kokomo, Ind, When Train Hits
Buggy-Two Hurt at WaIIa
WaIIa and Lacrosse, Wn.

Detroit, Mich.-Five persons were
killed and three were seriously in
jured when an interurban car wreck
ed an automobile near the northern
city limits. Three of the victims
were instantly killed.
The Dead.
Mrs. Laura and Mr.. Joseph Wilke-
meyer, Roy Hayes, Russell Winter
stein, Elizabeth R. Marchese.
The accident occurred at the inter-
section of Woodward avenue and
Nine Mile road.
Four Die at kokomo.
Kokomo, Ind.-Four persons were
killed here, three instantly, when a
buggy in which they we're riding
was struck by passenger train at
a street crossing.
Fatality at st. Louis.
St. Louis.-Joseph Gugot was kill
ed, a girl and two other men we're
injured seriously, when a street car
and an automobile in which the four
were riding collided
Dennis SearIes, San Francisco.
Saratoga, Cal.-The body of Denis
Searles, San Francisco capitalist, was
found near here beneath his automo-
bile at the foot of a 75-foot precipice
over which the machine had toppled.
Searles was formerly associated with
F.. M. Smith, "the borax king" He
was a graduate of Stanford univer-
sity.
Aged Man Struck.
Walla Walla, Wash.-Gideon Cum
mings and his granddaughter, Mrs. Lee
la Pentacost, who were injured in an
auto accident, may die Due to his age,
", the shock was particularly hard on
Mr.. Cummings. Willis Hunt, a young
blacksmith, was arrested.
Sheepmen Hurt.
La Crosse, Wash.-Mr. Bruihl of
Hooper & Bruihl, while on his way
to Palouse, narrowly escaped death
in an automobile accident. His car
turned over on him on a steep hill
and rolled about 100 yards beyond
where Mr.. Bruihl was found uncon-
scious two hours later
= Motorcycle Breaks, One Dead.
Pittsburg.-Glen D. Glacken, age 10,
was killed, and Lawrence Keyes, age
81, was seriously injured near Bed
ford, Pa, when motorcycle and side
car on which they were riding down
hill at high speed separated.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30

New York Gives $13,902,629.
Financial assistance which the gov
eminent of the city of New York gives
to charitable, religious educational
and kindred private institutions totals
approximately to $13,9O2,629.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30

After two years of deliberation and
profound study we have reached the
conclusion that the lightning bug
wears it's headlight behind because it
knows that it is not going to run
over anybody and wants to give fair
warning SO that it may not be run
over.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
State Commercial News,

Johnson Bros. have discontinued
their South Gle Elum general store.
D. A. Campbell succeeded A. B. Mar
shall Son, North Yakima grocers.
j. l.. Mccarthy has purchased the
grocery store of c. A. Rawlings at
Tacoma.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
G. N. BUYS Equipment.

Louis w. Hill, president of the G..
pany had placed orders for boxcars,
automobile cars and refrigerator cars
to cost $2,75O,OOO.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
Germany Frees 10000 French.

Paris.-Twenty thousand French
civilians, mostly old men, women and
children from the occupied districts
of France, are about to be sent back
to France from Germany.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30

The annual production of clothing in
New York city amounts approximately
to 1892, 100000.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
AGAIN AND AGAIN THE BANDITS
CHARGE TREviNo's MEN AT
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.
HIS ARMY SUFFERS BIG LOSS
Dead and Wounded Lie on FieId-car-
mage in Narrow street-viIIa's
Auto Put Out Of Business
Bandits Scatter to Hills.

Chihuahua City, Mexico, by Courier
to Maria, Texas, Nov. 26.-Francisco
Villas automobile, which was being
used by him to direct his campaign
against the Carranza troops, was hit.
by shell fire Sunday and was aban-
doned near Fresno, southeast of the
city.
The shell holes and bullet marks
were plainly seen on the sides of the
big automobile when it was found on
the battlefield after Villa abandoned
it and rode away on horseback.
General Trevino is prepared for an
other general assault, although the in
dications were the enemy would not
attack again. At the time this mes
sage was dispatched by courier there
were no bandits to be seen west of
the city. General Carlos DUMAS cav
airy charges in this direction COM
pletely freed this sector of the Villa
forces, which have been driven off to
the southwest distance estimated at
five miles.
Villas Attacks Vigorous.
The Villa troops attacked repeated
ly and with great daring, but were
driven off by the de facto forces, and
the force of their blows was spent
against the first-line entertainments.
The losses on both sides are report
ed to be heavy, as the fighting during
the last "a hours has been much closer
in range.
Assault on Wide Front.
The battle Saturday started soon
after the Geographic communication
with Juarez was cut. The wire went
down at 10 o'clock a. NJ, and the bat
tie started shortly before II a. m. The
bandits attack covered the entire
southern front from east to west, with
thanking operations to the east and
west
Most desperate fighting occurred on
Zarco avenue within the city. The
bandits threw their best equipped
forces against the entertainments
which had been thrown up across this
street. The Villa forces made every
possible effort to take these entrench.
ments.
Fight in Narrow Street.
The de facto infantry met these
charges with counter charges, and the
battle ragged back and forth in this
narrow adobe-lined street until the
Villa bandits were driven out of the
mouth Of the avenue onto the plains,
where they were raked with machine
gun fire.
Bandit Forces Scattered.
Villa is expected to withdraw soon
to the hills, as his forces have been
scattered by the she'll and rifle fire of
the de facto forces and his efforts to
capture the city are growing less and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30
Fight in Narrow Street.
Bandit Forces Scattered.

Villa is expected to withdraw soon
to the hills, as his forces have been
scattered by the she'll and rifle fire of
the de facto forces and his efforts to
capture the city are growing less and
less forceful.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30

: Spokane's new ice rink is proving
a very popular place to visitors in
the Falls City.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-30

Pittsburg.-Glen D. Glacken, age 10,
was killed, and Lawrence Keyes, age
81, was seriously injured near Bed
ford, Pa, when a motorcycle and side
car on which they were riding down
hill at high speed separated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
BY LOUISE FAZENDA

My entrance into the moving
picture work was unusual mas
much as | had studied and intend
ed to be a school teacher. Had
it not been for the fact that STAN
ford university had a rule that
only 500 young women could be
admitted each year, | might now
be taking my first school some
where, instead of playing leads
with the only motion picture COM
pany that specializes In comedies.
Since ! have been in comedy
have learned that the most Sc
rious thing in the world is the
business of making people laugh.
And instead of being 4 rollick-
ing, jolly people with aches in
their sides from laughing, the
actors who are so screechingly
funny on the screen, are the most
serious-minded folks In the mo-
ton picture business. If ! could
take you through the Keystone
plant in Los Angeles, where the
great film comedies are made,
and where the great film come
dians learned how to be funny,
you would be surprised to see how
hard and seriously the players
work for eight hours each day to
make the patrons of the picture
houses laugh. When working on
a comedy film there is never a
laugh among the members of the
company-there is never even a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
With the
Amateurs

The teamsters of Tacoma are
after a game for the Fourth of
July, either morning or after
noon, but morning preferred.
They promise to take with
them several truck loads of en-
thusiastic fans for the game.
ANY team, either in )r out OF
the city, wanting a game for
that day please call IN Mana
ger w. II. Garden of The team
sters, Main 9577.
Because of the rain, only four
players in uniform appeared at
the Municipal dock Sunday
morning to take the ". o. W.
trip to Gig Harbor, SO The game
was called off.
9 9 @ o
Big preparations are being made
for the benefit ball game to be
given for Wilbert Maitland, a
former popular ball player,
who is now on the sick list. At
a meeting of fans last night.
committees were appointed to
take charge of arrangements,
with Homer King as general
chairman of all committees.
The game will be played at
Athletic park July 16 between
the two leading teams of the
City league the Steilacoom and
Tacoma Smelling company
clubs. Maitland has a large
number of friends in Tacoma
who will be glad of this oppor-
tunity to assist him. All funds
over bare expenses will go to
him.
q o o 9
The newly organized Shelton
baseball team was forced to
cancel it's first game Of the sea-
son Sunday, because If rain.
Shelton had been matched with
Elma.
@ @ o q
The South Tacoma Tigers of the
City league gave the Auburn
city team a hard battle Sunday
on the latter's grounds. The
game was called at the end OF
the 10th because of -ain, with
the score standing to 6. Both
Eley and Smith were in splen-
did condition, and tle game
was keenly contested one.
Score: r IL K
Tigers ........... 6 Z 8
Auburn ........... 6 8 @
Eley and Demarais; Smith
and Hemenway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
M RS. CURRAN
N EARLY WIN s

SPOKANE, juno 27.--Mrs. T.
b. Curran of Tacoma, lost the
first prize of the 10th annual golf
tournament here yesterday after
noon by one point. when Miss Ag-
mes Ford of Seattle defeated her
In the qualifying round for wom-
en- golfers. The tourney was
marred by rain. All previous en-
try records were broken, lie men
and as women playing In the
Qualifying round.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.-
Willie Richie, who IS back
among the home town boys is
quite proud of a new honor be.
slowed upon him by the New
York Athletic club. On the radia-
tor OF his touring car glistens a
large-sized winged foot" emblem
of the club, the latest token OF
esteem from the eastern athletes.
When Richie first made his
invasion of the east he won the
regard of fight fans and athletes
generally and was adopted by the
big athletic club. At that time
he was presented with wing
ed foot" set with diamonds and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
Nineteen Year Tacoma Boy With
One Arm Star SemI-Pro Pitcher

A few days ago an eastern city
boosted that II possessed one
legged Splinter who was smashing
all manner of track records.
And a good many readers ele-
waited their eyebrows and shrug-
ged their shoulders questioningly
when they saw the item. Indeed,
II did look strange.
But i'm Tacoma we have found
a phenomenon almost AS strange
In the person of Gene Davidson, IA
star baseball player with one arm.
And you don't need to elevate
your eyebrows over this report,
for Gene can he seen almost any
day shooting spit-balis and out
drops and other speedy curves
over the plate ON the Mckinley
Hill ball grounds.
Davidson has only one arm -
he lost his other years ago in an
accident-yet he is rated as one
of the best semi-professional
pitchers in Tacoma
lie is a Highlander with all
kinds of smoke" Possibly, like
other crippled persons, the
strength that he has lost from his
missing left arm has taken up its
abode in his right wing" and
helps him to burn the ball over
home plate so fast that the bat
ters cannot see Il.
At any rate, Gene is a remarka-
BILE twirler. lie is the leading
pitcher on the Hopkins Athletic
club team of the Valley league,
and his club stands second in the
league.
Perhaps you wonder how
n one-armed man can catch.
Very simple. He uses his
bare right hand. Gene can
handle the swiftest kind of n
throw In his bare hand, and
there have been numerous
occasions when has has caught
Texas leagucrs hot off the
bat. while standing i'm the
pitchers box.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
JOHNM EVERS
GETTING fat

Whisper, mates! Johnny Evers
is actually fat.
Once lightweight, the scrappy
captain of the Boston Braves has
hurdled the weller and middle
weight classes and landed kerr
PUNK among the heavies. Tho
Trojan now scales over 100
pounds, his face is fat, and it's
hard to realize it is Evers when
he stands at the plate.
81 never worried over anything
more than / do over this weight"
said Johnny. Il never weighed
more than 1876 pounds when
played for the Chicago CUPS. Yet
here l have gained so much that
l have had to add to my other
worries.
All my life I have been a
fellow who worries guess. That's
what makes me an older man
than Hans Wagner though I'm
nearly ten years younger"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
Blanche Sweet
al Colonial I'm
Comedy Drama

Willard Mack's exciting story,
A Gutter Magdalene,' will be
shown at the Colonial for the last
time today. Fannie Ward, her
husband and a strong cast are
seen to marked advantage in this
film of New York life.
Appearing in the role of a
Swedish girl of all work, Blanche
Sweet comes to the Colonial to-
morrow for the weekend in The
Thousand Dollar Husband" a
novel comedy-drama. 1t is her.
aided as the most unusual of the
many unique rolls Miss Sweet
has essayed for the camera. She
is supported by Theodore Roberts
and an excellent all-star cast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27
JUNIORS OF
TEN MS CLUB
BEGIN TODAY

Tennis matches In The junior
tournament of the Tacoma Lawn
Tennis club began at $3.50 o'clock
this morning and will continue
until Saturday. The awarding of
championship cups will take place
at the tea dance Saturday night,
which winds up the tourney.
II was announced at the tennis
club house today that the Misses
Anita Myers and Helen Baker of
San Francisco, two women stars,
will be here for the Northwest
tournament In July. Will Marcus,
Strachan and others. are coming
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

rubies. Willie wears this beauti-
full gift on his coat lapel. This
year when he started away from
the east, the New Yorh men gave
him the larger emblem for his
car.
"Since I am a Californian, it
makes me feel mighty fine to- win
these honors from the New York
club" said Willie. 81 certainly
appreciate their genial spirit back
east. They make a westerner feel
at home"
Richie is back In San Francis
co to look after his business in
terests, when are growing all the
time. &c
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

Olga Petrova's acting in 1.-THE
Scarlet Woman" which remains
of the Apollo until Tuesday night
is superb. The exertion she un-
derwent in the making of this
film is aid to have caused her to
suffer a breakdown which made
1t necessary for her to take a
sea voyage to Bermuda for recu-
peration. She has since recover
ed, however, and is now engaged
in making another Metro produc-
tion.
The Apollo has notable added
attractions, including an L-Ko
comedy, and short comedy
drama. Among the Universal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

i, school He Is 10 now. While he
was In the highest grade of the
grammar school he became pitch
er for the Rogers team, and he
| only lost one game that whole
season.
During the 1914 season he
pitched for the Lafayettes, "a fast
amateur team of the Mckinley
Hill district. Out of IL games
played that season, he pitched his
team to victory 10 times, and lost
only twice.
Last season Gene pitched for
the Hopkins Athletic club, win
ming six and losing one. The II.
A. &. team at that time bordered
ON semi-prOfessionaI class, and
played several very strong clubs.
During the present summer he
has shut out the heavy-hitting
Enumclaw team, allowing only
three hits, and allowed the fast
st. Martins college team at
Lacey only one hit in six innings.
In a recent game with the Moose
he allowed no hits in six innings,
and didn't let man get to first
in five innings. He is now a
regular semi-pro PLAYER, and will
be seen with the Hopkins A. c.
team in the Valley league all sea
son.
II like baseball and find ]
can handle the ball with one
hand just about as easily as
the average player can with
two" said Gene today, en-
planning his success with the
great American game.
sometimes ! stop a hot
liner with my bare hand and
II stings for IA minute, but
outside of that l don't have
any trouble. I seem to he
awfully strong i'm my right
arm, and I find il easy 20
shoot over curves that the
other fellows cant hit. No,
j don't seem to miss my left
| arm any more"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

smile.
A comedy rehearsal is as "fun-
ny as funeral" ] mean no dis
respect by this. / am merely try-
ing to draw a contrast that will
be readily understood.
Mack Sennett, director-general
of the Keystone company, the
man who has developed such fa-
nous comedians as Francis Ford
and Mabel Normand, is as serious
as man who has just lost his
fortune. And | am sure | would
be taken for anything but comes
dienne.
The same is true of every mems
Der of the company. The last re.
hearsal ! attended reminded me
of meeting of q board of direc-
tors of some company that was
about to fail-that's how funny
it was. 1t is a business with us
to make people Taught Ito send
them home from the theater hap
py. This Is much harder to do
than any emotional part have
ever played.
The comedy does not appear in
the lines of scenario, but in the
situations and the business" that
the actors create. The manuscript
is about as bald and uninteresting
as the dryest text book l ever
read. Studying to be a school
teacher was excrutiatingly funny
compared with becoming a CONS
edy star.
ITO BE COntinued.) {
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-27

Going Straight" which closes
at the Regent tonight, is one of
the best the Fine Arts studios mas
turned out, and is a real sensa-
ton. In it Norma Talmadge
shows conclusively that she is i'll
the first rank of the screen stars.
Her wonderfully dramatic work
is vastly superior to the ability
shown by the average picture act