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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
SAY HOWARD
IS PEACESUL

An attempt to show that John
N. Howard, was peaceful. law
abiding citizen" of North River
country, and that Mrs. Margaret
Ross and her two sons we're the
trouble-makers, was made by the
defense Monday when the trial of
the IS alleged might riders" was
continued in the federal court.
Several witnesses were called
to testify that Howard, who is al
legged to have made threats against
the ROSES and their friends, was
always a peaceful member of the
community.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18

Endorsements of the army post
bond issue were received Monday
by Mayor Fawcett from Mrs. May
Drummer. recorder OF May camp
No. 7472, Royal Neighbors of
America, and H. Mau. secretary
of the Tacoma branch of the Ger
man American National Alliance.
There is only week remaining
for registration before the bond
election Jan, 8. There are still
nearly 1000 voters ineligible to
vote because Of failure TO re-ree-
lister since the last election.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
FIRST WILSON
tANNI' TODAY

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. IS.
President and Mrs. Wilson cele-
brated their first wedding ami
versary today.
They went out for an early
round OF golf in spite of below
freezing temperature. The bal
ance of the day was spent as
usual, the president comforting
during the afternoon with sena-
tors and representatives
There will be family dinner
at the White House tonight, after
which the president and Mrs.
Wilson will entertain at the thea
ter.
On Dec. 2S, the president will
celebrate his Goth birthday ami
versary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
TELL OF ARMY
POST BENEFIT

Mayor Fawcett and Stephen APP
pleby addressed a large audience
of Puyallup citizens at the Puyal-
lup Commercial club Monday aft
ernoon, explaining the process of
bringing the proposed army divis-
ion post to the American lake
prairies. The meeting was pub
lie, and was attended by a great
crowd of Puyallup citizens.
j. w. Slayden, chairman OF the
board of county commissioners,
will tell the Spanaway folk Mon
day night just how the army post
is going to benefit all the prairie
country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
DOES
GREAT WORK

Oh, lookee, Sheriff Longmire
and his trustee deputies are really
getting bold, and are beginning to
conduct booze raids all on their
own hook!
Sunday they went to South
Prairie and searched the house
and barn of A. Lajoie in the hope
of finding some illegal liquor.
They found none.
Meanwhile one Harry Gail stood
outside laughing at them, and
calling them pet names. 1t is re-
ported, SO they arrested him in-
stead on q charge of being
drunk and disorderly," and haul
ed him to the county jail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
CLIP KIDS HAIR
FOR CHRISTMAS

Tacoma BARRIERS visited The
children's home of the city and
clipped the youngsters hair as a
Christmas gift. The inmates of
the county hospital were similarly
remembered. One hundred and
fifty tonsorial operations were
performed during the day. e.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
KEEP TROOPS
AT CALEXIO
UNITED Press Leased Wire.)

Omitted Press Leased Wiro.)
SALEM. Ore, Dec. 1S.-Ore-
gon troops remaining on the
Mexican border at Calexico, Cal,
cannot be returned home at pres
ent, according to a letter Cover
nor Withycomb received today
from william Ingraham, acting
secretary Of war.
The war department believes
return Of Battery A and Troop A
"highly inadyisable" as to troops
to replace them are available.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
TACOMA CARMEN
GET MORE WAGES

T. r. & p. motormen and con-
ductors have received a Christmas
present in the form Of q 2-cent-an-
hour increase in wages. About
500 men are affected. Local en-
ployes of the American Telephone
q Telegraph company have not
been notified of their participa-
ton in the 100000 to be divid-
ed by the company. but 1t is as
sumed here that they will come
In for their share.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
VILLA AGAIN
ON RAMPAGE

(Un1te0 Press Leased Wire.
Ell PASO, Tex, Dec. 1S.-Ad-
vices to mining men here today
state that force of villistas has
reoccupied Parral, following the
recapture of Jiminez and Santa
Rosalia, putting the entire south
ern part of chihuahua state
again under control of Villa.
All the bridges between Ortiz
and Santa Rosalia on the Mexi-
can railway line have been
burned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
SHOT TO DEATH

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
OREGON CITY, Ore, Dec. 1S.
With bullet wound in his
heart, J. v. strack. IS, was found
by his brother today IN Z shack
between the Sandy river and Bull
Run. A rife Was lying across
tho MANS head The coroner b.
iIcVee 6tr1ek conanIttod suicI6o.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18
FORMER TACOMA
GRAIN SHIP LOST

The British ship Holt Hill,
formerly one Of Tacoma's grain
fleet, is reported in a cable mes
sage to have been wrecked. and
tne crew rescued by the Italian
steamer iberia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18

w, III.
w. H. Snell retired fro inactive law practice,
born in Mechanicsburg, Pa. in 1852
He educated in the public Pleasant
a Wesleyan university the University
uating from the latter institution 1873 he
practice in Lincoln Neb.
He to Tacoma in March, 1888 opened office
The elected city
made prosecuting attorney
In 1900 he elected judge of the
elected four later u S.
He was married in 1895 to Mrs. Catherine A,
Judge Smell is a member of the
cugs, and of the Pythan, Odd Fellow and Elks
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18

The prosecution charges Edith
rehearsed her part in the crime
several times to be sure 1t would
not go wrong.
Police charge Katzenmuller shot
Mahr when Miss Ward went to a
dance hall. induced Mahr to step
outside with her and led him to
the street by, certain door near
which Katzenmuller was sta
toned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-18

tNewspaper Entcrprise Associati,n)
NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-Wit-
nesses at the trial of Edith Ward,
charged with murder In the
Brooklyn supreme court, are ex-
pected to tell of detailed prepar-
ations, 1t is alleged, the girl made
to lure Edmund Mahr to his death
at the hands of Silent Louis"
Katzenmuller.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29

luxury among German smokers. A sort
of tobacco is grown in Germany, a
pale, insipid. unfragrant lesf, which
bears little resent lance TO the rich
tobacco of America, Turkey and the
East Indies. Great quantities of ha-
eel nuts are among the exports of this
area, and cotton, another staple which
the Germans are said to be greatly in
need of, is grown in the districts Of
kacsaba and Adm in the west, and on
the Cilician plain in the southeast.
"All through Turkey Asia, there
has been but little accomplished tow
ard building up a manufacturing in
dustry. Olive oil soap is extensively
manufact ured at Smyrna; carpets are
woven in various places, mostly prod
ucts of home industry; leather is pro-
duced; and cigarettes are made In
large numbers. In Syria, there are i'm
portant weaving, dyeing and tanning
industries at Aleppo and Aintab and
there Is some small manufacture In
Mesopotamia.
THE principal exports of Asia Mi
nor are raisins, tobacco, figs, barley.
liquorice, wool, hides, cotton and
skins. Owing to the backward organ
ization of the country it is difficult to
assign any values to the annual ex-
ports Of these articles which would be
worth considering. The leading ex-
ports Of Syria include lemons, oranges,
sesame, soap, silk, barley, and liquor
ice, while Mesopotamia exports large
shipments of dates wool, barley, wheat
and opium. Yemen, in Arabia, the
land which is mostly desert, exports
the famed Mokha coffee. Coffee Is
said to be very scarce In Germany
now Dates are about the only other
export from Arabia of any Importance.
THE climate of Syria is of the ex-
IRENE Mediterranean type, and most
of the soil is fertile. In great part,
however. it remains unworked. Silk
worms are raised in many parts of the
land, and before the wars outbreak,
most Of the silk was sent for manufac-
ture to Lyon, France. Some silk Is
spun In Syria. Cotton is an important
crop around Idlib, and q surplus grain
crop is raised. Much of once fertile
Mesopotamia is now desert. The old
irrigation systems have fallen to de-
cay, and, where forty. centuries ago
the land was fruitful, today is mere
ly wastage. In some areas wheat,
barley and beans are grown for ex-
port. The date palm and the sheep
herd, however, are the main elements
in present day Mesopotamia agricul-
ture.'
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
Courage, Girls. Set Busy:
Waterbury Republican. J

This is leap year but the records fail
to disclose that there are many young
woman-ell unmarried girls are
young-taking advantage of the fact.
The girls shudder to think of the hu-
initiation of being refused just as the
mon themselves do and with the best
resolutions in the world they go on
through the deap years just as
through the other years with their
lips sealed and their hearts heavy,
even though they suliie much.
Buck up girls! There are plenty
of men who are just as anxious to
hear the question popped as any eir1
ever was and who are secretly hop
ing and praying this year that til ~
Will e fortunate enough to have the
netrinl onial problem solved for them
by some brave girl. They are of the
sam" I I'D as the girl in the sto,y
vn!ch the Brooklyn E,s'e has Just
Ii ought to light, as follows
A man had recently met an elderly
maiden lady in a nearby town. On
his return home he wrote, asking her
to marry him and requesting an an
sWer by telegraph. On receiving the
letter the lady rushed to the teic-
graph ONCE. How much does it cost
to send D telegram 2" she demanded.
''Twenty- FIVE cents FOR ten words,'
answered the OPERATOR; and this was
the telegram her sutton received:
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes Yes,
Yes, Yes Yes"
There never was a more favorable
leap re3r than this, hereabouts, for
wages ale right and other conditions
Very favorable for d natrim onial start
or cash-paid basis and with pros
Poets favorable for continued pros
Lerity of the sort that makes young
families happy and courageous. 60 to
It, girls and don't wait till the sum-
mer f1irts steal the inside track!
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
199-201-2
MAIN STREET

sawdust which is a product Of this.
country as well as of England.
/ Sphagnum moss is found in the
English lake district, in Wales, and
in Ireland. 1t is considered more ABB
sorbent than cotton wood and less.
likely to become sodden and uncom-
forta BILE. For these reasons it il
found admirable for dressing wounds
before the patient starts on the
journey to the hospital. Pine wood
saWdust is said to be antiscptic and,
when put up in gauze bags, is par
ticularly efficacious for the first dress
ing of head wounds.
The Liverpool War Dressing orgaw-
ization has undertaken the work of
making up these new materials
ready for use, and, in connection with
the Women's War Service bureau, is
sending large consignments to the
places where they are most needed
In this country no time should bs
lost in spreading the information
about pine wood sawdust and deviz-
ing means for conserving the supply.
1t is probable that, If the conclusions
of those who have sent back this in
formation from just behind the firing
line in Europe can be verified by
scientific experiment in this country,
that a, profitable and very humanitar-
ian industry, designed to conserve
the supply of Sawdust and to inn
prove it for surgical uses, may spring
into being. The necessity of a mo-
ment when men were losing blood
faster than the doctors could at4,nd
to them has brought Il new value to
moss and saEdugt~ . ..
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
Tu1key-in-Asi1 Rich
In Mineral Wealth

! Washington, D. c., March 29.-With
connecting link in the Orient railway
! between Belgrade and Sofia by the
! Teutonic and Bulgarian allies, a vast
! storehouse rich in much-needed raw
| materials was made accessible for the
! supply of the hard pressed Central
! Powers. Probably, the most important
! feature of this accomplishment is the
bringing of the Austro- Hungarian and
German nations into communication
with lands where are found minerals
and products of agriculture in album
dance; though the control of the ORR
ent railway, also, enables the remuni-
tioning OF Turkey and the transporta-
ton Of German troops to territories
threateningly near the Suez Canal, A
sketch of the stores Of Asia Minor, or
Anatolia, upon which the Germans
will now be able to draw, Is contained
in a bulletin just issued by the Ma
tional Geographic society The bulle-
tin reads:
1.-THE mineral and AGRICULTURAL
wealth of rkey-in-Asia is very great.
This wealth, however, is largely Of the
potential kind, for, except in limited
areas. agriculture is carried on accord
ing to primitive methods, while, for
the most part, the mineral stores have
been left untouched. Among the
minerals known to exist in consider
able quantities are iron, copper, nickle,
lead, manganese, silver, sulphur, coal,
antimony, arsenic, emery, fullers earth
gold kaolin zinz, alum, asbestos, rock
salt, boracide, chrome, and mercury.
OF these resources the copper stores
will likely, be the m ost priced by the
Germans, though little has been done
under Turkish administration toward
exploiting the copper. The reserves of
Anatolian copper are said to be large.
wheat, corn and barley are grown
in large quantities in Asia Minor, and,
in normal times. much of the surplus
barley has been exported to Great
Britain, where it has been used for
brewing. There is a considerable sur
plus of wheat, which should relieve
the reported meal scarcely in the mills
Of the Central Powers. The west
coast of Asia Minor is noted for the
fruits that ripen in it's Mediterranean
climate Here are grown an important
part of the worlds raisin crop. Olives
and figs, ALSO thrive along the Aegean
coast Where hot summers swelter over
the northern Anatolia coasts some Of
the finest Turkish tobacco is raised,
which, in all likelihood, is now rare
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
Moss and SaWduSt.
Waterbury Republican. }


Every child has heard that neces-
sity is the mother of invention and
not a few children have proved it
to themselves, at least. War has
it's horrors, but it also plows up the
human field and in the blowing is re-
vealed many a truth and many a new
discovery that men have sometimes
suspected but never felt the need of
investi eating. So it happens that q
new and very valuable substitute fer
some of the expensive surgical dress
ings so long considered essential rs
war equipment, has been discovered
in England. 1t is a moss-sphagnum
moss, which grows wild in the Brit
ish isles. Another substitute for sur
gical dressings, and this is of peculiar
interest In this country, is pine wood
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
INTERESTING TO WATCH.

VI the present moment there is go
Mon in Paris a conference of the
Mite allies which may have ex-
&ely Important results in. connec-
with the great world war. This
#erence began Monday and among
a nremters present are those of
Britain, France, Italy, Belgium
81 Serbia. Some of the other par
Wants are Sir Edward Grey, for
II ssecretary; Field Marshal Earl
#hener, secretary for war; Gen. Sir
kgaas Haig, commander of the con-
@1tal forces, all representing Great
sbin; General Joffre, the French
Nlnander-in chief; General Cador-
z,f Italy; M. Iswolsky, the foreign
Aster, and General Gilinsky, aid
camp to the Emperor, of Russia,
the Japanese Ambassador at
U.s.. The mere mention of these
les means that som ething of great
Sortance is going on when such
gather. AS all hints at terms
peace have been strenuously de-
u, this gathering may have the
Il consideration Of the huge spring
Re we have been hearing so much
lately. There are statesmen and
Tiers in this group and it would
well from a point of information to
Ich the outcome of their delibera-
is. Tt has been rightly termed a
Etary, political and economic coun-
These men have gotten together
bre, but not under such suspicious
|ditions. Wiseacres see in their
herring at this time the formula
b of plans for a renewal Of the
lat offensive projected a year ago
which was never carried to com
ton because the allies were not
pared properly for the work. 1t
argued that the Germans foresaw
S council and thus perpetrated the
ack on Verdun for the ostensible
rpose of forestaIling the great Of
sive which may be now in the
irse of study. Looking back upon
, last few DAYS when from the cap
] of each and every member of the
.ente allies, there came denials OF
ace proposals, it might readily he
IN that this council in Paris has
netting big UP its sleeves. 1t will
&c watching.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
~ BRITAIN HELPS.

tain being pfimar iiy a man
city has aided largely in
Hae United States the largest
arer of goods Sin the world.
figures compiled and Just
be OF. great. interest here.
& to this data America not
HI the world in this endeavor,
sutput of manufactured goods
country is twice as great
Of any other nation. Com
ne volume of business done
"A country in 1900, in manufac-
is seen the record has been
doubled, the figures for the
- being $24,QO0,000,OO0. Com
&sglres from abroad are not vet
e, but it may be presumed
49, the United States did al
much manufacturing as Ger
and England put together.
were the two nearest COM
as but natural that in 1915 our
IS of manufactures exceeded
of all other nations. The war
y made it necessary for all the
to knock on our doors for re-
nee Germany and England were
the market This is the prime
/ for the records of the United
Jumping so rapidly to the fore.
we arrived at one bound from
to first place in the interna-
trade market as exporters Of
factured. goods. Nor is the posi-
My a temporary one, for at the
we are turning out goods now
Is figure we will be very diff
to overtake. The United States
ne lead and intends to hold it.
1so encouraging to note, in pass
hat this doubling of our volume
was done with a
alton that increased only one
This means that our surplus
cts are competing favorably
the goods made in other coun-
by cheaper labor. That, how
is something for the politicians
ut over. What we are really
rned with is the fact that the
/ States leads the world in man
Tres, and. that little old New
n has given a helping hand to
lie grand est nation on the earth
it belongs, at the top of them
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
CONTRABAND?

Just what is contra band in the eyes
of the British is a question that will
give students food for thought in the
years to come and furnish much ma
terial to the funsters in the days at
hand Seemingly, everything is con-
traband that might eventually reach
any of the central powers. BY the
way things are being added to the
English contraband list one wonders
why the Atlantic ocean has been
neglected. 1t was only last week that
our poor old typewriter and it's pro-
totypes were honored by addition to
the list. There might have been
some excuse in that instance because
even a, typewriter can become a dan
gerous weapon if placed in the proper,
or improper, hands. But the most
novel of all articles added to the Brit
ish list are the American bonds.
Dutch steamships have been held up
and stripped of their possession Of
American bonds on the grounds that
these financial papers had been
shipped by Germans to America to
strengthen Germany's credit in the
United States. 1t has been suggested
by financial experts that this action
| on the part of the British is the
height of folly, for this reason: the
American corporations interested can
cancel the bonds seized and issue new
ones in place of them Because bonds
are merely certificates of indebted
ness. or paper evidence of wealth. and
not wealth itself their places can be
easily taken by substitutes. Now if
| the British were holding up Dutch
ships and Selling shipments of gold
| there would be some method to the
! Madness for aside from being real
| contraband gold is so much more
| valuable than bonds, even American
! bonds. Class in economics, stand ur!
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
D. Mcmillan

remark that there has been a great
increase in the consumption. of rum,
q circumstance attributed to the use
of this beverage in the army.
Though this result must be dis
couraging to those who desire to pro-
mote real temperance, it would be
unfair to assume that the measures
taken to restrict drinking have failed.
These were introduced only last sum-
mer, and the results cannot as yet be
correctly estimated. AS to the figures
summarized above, they only tend to
justify the extraordinary methods
adopted to meet what was undoub-
tedly q growing evil.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
Attempts to Promote temperance.

(NSW / OGh 1 unS1
1t is no longer pretended by those
concerned In promoting alcoholic
temperance in the several countries
at war that the restrictions originally
designed to meet an emergency will
be withdrawn when the war is over.
Every one is we'll aware that efforts
will certainly be made to establish
them permanently, and the distillers
and brewers are not in the least de-
ceived by plausible talk of "tempor-
airy measures
AS far as England is concern ed
Mr.. Frank Lloyd George has spoken
quite frankly, saying he will be
very much surprised if, before the
end of the war. experim ents will not
have been carried out with the gen
eral sense of the community which
will have placed the consumption of
alcohol under such control as it
never has been under before-at any
rate. in this country
In spite of all the restrictions it
is observed that there is no reduc-
ton in the nations drink bill It is
estimated, indeed that last years
expenditure exceeded that of the
year before by about 10 IL per cent.
that is, actually more than $S7,O0O,-
900. The increase is to be accounted
for mainly by the rise in price but
there seems to be little doubt in
spite of Mr.. Lloyd Georges assur-
ance, that there is more spirit drink
ing today than formerly. Thus the
per capita consumption amounted in
1915 to 10 proof gallons. as COM
pared with IS in 1914. Much less
beer was drunk last year. and wine
has fallen off pretty steadily since
the war began. But spirit drinking Is
still popular, and IT. Is curious to.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-29
The Safety Valve.
Saturday Evening Post

Saturday Evening PostD
At luncheon a conspicuous placard
hung in the dining car. AS 1t had
not been there at breakfast, some
passengers were curious enough to
read it. They found it contained
solemn notice that. the unfortunate
state through which the train was
then passing had been visited by in
scruta BILE Providence with a leglsla-
ture that passed a law making 1t a
misdemeanor to give a tip within the
borders of the commonwealth.
You would suppose Legislature
which had done as asinlne thlng as
that would be anxious to conceal L,
but this one advertised 1t.
Some other states have a like law,
and almost, if not quite. every state
has had a legislature that gravely
debated an multiplying law. In the
Xty-thousand- and-o laws that are
enacted in the United States in five
years a great many are of tbs silly
and futile sort.
We get vexed about them some
times: but we should really give
thanks for them. They are the safety
valve that saves our lives. When q
legislature is SO ignorant of public
questions and of the limitations OF
law that it will put in its time pass
ing an act to forbid giving a waiter
a tip, that is the least harmful thin &
we can expect from it. If it did not
let off it's steam in some such COM
paratively harmless way as that the
damage it might do is almost meal
culabe.
If you should look over the five
year grist of sixty thousand laws
YOU would find that what saves the
country is precisely the high proper
ton of Stiffness and futility in thent.
When Nero fiddled while Rome burn
cd he was occupied in COMPARE
lively admirable manner. Given that
disposition, he might easily have
been doing som ething infinitely
worse. SO a silly anti-tipping law
which really harms no one. for no
one pays any attention to it-should
be gratefully accepted as an escape
from some positive injury. -