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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-01-14

It is better to have lived one day
than to have breathed and blinked
century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-01-14
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-01-14
TOTAL THURsToN COUNTY TAX Is $525, 1889.
SchOos-ROad Districts Raise $53,O18
Schools 81 IL, 43s While $1O5s7O to

all bodies Thurston county, the
city, schools road Districts county and state Will amount to
5253S933 this compared with $52Os44 raised last
$258O89 according given this
These figures the amounts
colectionthe
actual collections running about 25 less
OF this total the will receive $1O537O4O, the county
$173OS4 the districts 3O1S27 the schools
SOS 1879, Tumwaer $345966 Tenno $466569
Bucoda $1121 The outside the incorporated
valued 1922 O46 the Improvements $538138
$1476288 $277540; personal
$1735,483
$138SS, $14594,237 Olym-
pias valuation is $3,326,731
blanket mills district
The figures different
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-22

torn up IN advance of paving and
track laying. 20
Following the reference OF Huber's
letter to committee Arnold said that
evidently the writer did not know that
Beach Walk was part Of special
lighting district" and that as soon rs
the necessary material was here q
permanent light would be installed
but that he thought there was no
reason why a temporary light should
not be meantime Installed. a.af
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-22
DARK CORNER. LIKELY
TO SOON BE LIGHTED

Complaining of danger resulting
from darkness at Kalakaua avenue
and Beach Walk, S. c. Huber sent
letter to the board of supervisors
which was read at the Tuesday night
meeting of that body and referred to
the lighting committee. Huber called
attention to the greater need OF light
at this time when the street Is being
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-22
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TAI 5 OK HONOLULU

TAI ON HONOEtIU
SAN ARANCIScO-Mi Helen
Kimball. past president Of the Mills
Club, who has recently returned from
honolulu. addressed the members OF
the Navy League at their last meet
ing held at the Fairmont hotel. Miss
! kinball took for her subject the Pre-
+ paredness for Peace" and said in
part:
Preparedness for i peace is the
/ slogan that marks the history OF the
United States today. Only in
questions which arise for us to solve.
Words without strength substantial
! ing them are only words.
When William Seward urged the
purchase of ALASKA he made this
statement, Buy al 1.-The land you can
along the Pacific, for>0pon these wa
tiers the greatest events in all history
will be enacted, the greatest drama
Will be played in that theater when
the 0ccident and the Orient meet.
IF you go TO Hawaii you will hear
no fear expressed in country where
the subject can be studied The key
TO this situation is found in Hawaii.
Its situation proelaims this fact. 1t
commands the Pacific From east
and west the lines of travel converge
and into this melting pot is being
poured the thoughts of both civiliza-
tions issuing a broader and finer rec
ognition of brotherhood of man.
Let the worlds greatest drama be
acted upon the Pacific" said Miss
Kimball, but let it not be a tragedy.
but the play of friendship. and let
the Hawaiian Islands be the scene
where the hands of the Occident and
Orient meet in friendships clasp"
col. AND MRS. R4FFERTY IN NEW
YORK
Col. and Mrs. w. c. Rafferty,, we'll
known en- Oahu, are now in New York.
The social columns of the New York
World recently carried the following:
Col. William Carroll Rafferty,, U. S.
A.. and Mrs. Rafferty, gave a dinner
last night in the state department of
the Waldorf-Astoria for Mr.. and Mrs
Henry II. Morgan. Mr. Morgan is
the American consul general at
Hamburg, Germany, and Mrs. Nor
gan is sister of Mrs. Rafferty, The
guests included the Countess of Linn
erick, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Scott Ger
, IRISH, Count and Countess Festetics,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bracket Bar
clay, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lombard,
George Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Britt, Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland H. Pell,
Miss Atwater, Miss Duncan Marshall,
Miss Juliet Atwater, Miss Mercedes
Rafferty,, Roger Deering, Charles
Park Requa, Holmes Nichol, Laurence
Mortimer and d. Van Rensselaer,
Willis"
MARRIAGE OF INTEREST HERE
Announcement in the Big Stone Gap
i CVa,1 Post tells of a marriage of in.
terest here as follows:
"A quiet wedding took place at
Middlesboro, KY, Tuesday, October
"a, when Mr. Harry Taylor, son of
Capt. and Mrs. Henry Taylor, and
Miss Hannah Kibler were united in
the bonds of matrimony. The cere-
mcny was performed by Rev. James
Williams in Middlesboro Episcopal
church at 10 a. m. Misses Corinne
and Miriam Taylor. sisters of the
/ groom, went with the party to Mid
dlesboro and with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Wells, cousins of the bride, were the
only attendants. The ceremony was
/ followed by wedding dinner at the
| Cumberland Hotel, after which the
happy couple left on a short honey
noon, whence they will proceed to
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-22
NEWPORT DINNER

Lieut-Comdr. and Mrs. Kirby Crit
tenden, who are such universal favor
ties wherever they go, have been in a
round of gaiety since their arrival in
Newport. Lieut. -Comdr. Crittenden
has/been at his new station for sew
eral months, and during that time he
and his wife have been dispensing
their hospitality at different social
functions. They gave dinner recent
ly and the decorations Of American
Beauty roses were especially beautiful.
The guests included Rear-Admiral and
Mrs. Augustus Fechteler, Comdr. and
Mrs. John K. Robinson, Lieut.. -Comdr.
and Mrs. Walter ~ Vernon, Chaplain
c. H. Gleason of the e.. S. navy.-San
Francisco Chronicle =>=
= e J. :.-..~.
REESMAN-BUCKLAND n.1
Last evening occurred the wedding
of Dr. Walter Lee Reesman, Fort
Kanehameha, and Miss Frances Hazel
Buckland at ST. Andrews cathedral.
with Rev. Canon William Ault officiat-
ing. A reception was held later at
the John Guild home at Kahalawai, to
which intimate friends were hidden
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-22

Mrs. L'Orange, Miss NJ. l.. L'orange
and Olaf L'Orange have left for
Kauai to make long visit with Mrs
Eric Knudsen, Who is a daughter OF
Mrs. L'Orange. The L'Orange family
is very well known here socially. Many
affairs will be held in their honor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
Tacoma to Celebrate Good Fortune With Feast Candles

1 read that prophecy. Then came '03
and the cataclysm; starvation, suicide,
ruin.
There We're many good people whose
only real meal for months came from
your bounty, A. v. The spirit of Tacoma
was broken, that brave forward-looxing
confidence, shattered, crushed. 1t never
revived until now; now 1t lives again.
We dreamed dreams I'm those days, saw
roseate visions; they faded into impalpa-
BILE haze.
Today the visions are real. The army
post il real. 1t means, in practical re-
suit, the doubling of our population, the
doubling of the best market i'm the world,
the home market, for our producers and
tradesmen.
The Todd shipyard is real, a great in
dustry, to employ several thousand men,
dream of the long age come true. So
are some of the other ship building
plants real. They launched ship Tues
day.
The development Of our greatest as
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

set, The Mountain, under the direction
of federal official with vision and
genius, with the cooperation of men of
means among our own citizens, that is
real and means millions to our city.
Best of all, fractional feuds and jeal-
Ousies are ended. This much OF that old
prophecy of mine is already realized, we
are together, "clOse knit, shoulder to
shoulder, brothers all, sincere" I'm 10y
atty to our city, newborn. All this is
real. And it is the beginning. And we
should rejoice.
You are going to have community
Christmas tree In Wright park. That is
as IL should be. Let us make this the &C.
casiOn for universal community, reioic-
ing for the new day that has dawned.
Let us borrow from Providence that
beautiful custom they have borrowed
from the old world.
On Christmas eve, let the windows of
Tacoma homes blaze with candles, and il
the Christ-Child come not in bodily form
to see 1t, It will at least warm in every
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is rebuked, the feeling Of universal
brotherhood is fostered. A wholesome
and joyous current of religious feeling
flows through the entire season to tenn
per its extravaganza and :, regulate its
mirth. 90
When I came to Tacoma "a years ago,
nothing so impressed me as the spirit Of
optimism; 1t inspired everybody.
Here on the finest harbor ON the coast,
where the rails first meet the sails,
manifest destiny was building a city
that should be the metropolis of the
Pacific.
We were all fOrward-loOking, SUI
premely confident.
In that spirit, writing Of "TacOma FL
teen Years Hence" 1 penned and pub
lished these lines:
g. A mighty city has been builded
here,
And half million people, close knit,
stand,
Shoulder to shoulder, brothers all, sim
cere,
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Allies Name
Their Terms
Omitted Press Leased WWc.)


13-Ter1ns
which the willing
aceaned this United
One the would be full devasta
ton to the nations which she has invaded
although unofficial believed
which Germany must make to obtain They follows:
The all including Belgium
Northern France Poland Serbia and full the
devastation which enailed
Restoration of Asace Lorraine to France
Cesson of the to
Indemnity ship destroyed shipping
Adequate punishment those committed by
German
It emphasized in all quarters that the only questions of possible
goable the disposition OF
certain captured German colonies and the character and limitation Of Ger
S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

the terms announced by a Ger
man embassy official.
In these circumstances Ameri-
cas- course must be cautious, Of
ficials hold.
On the question of a world
guaranty of peace, officials think
that Germany's terms as revealed
by a German embassy official are
such that only an international
agreement could make them
Stick"
The reason for desiring a world
guaranty are these:
Germany would be we'll pleased
to return to the status she had
territorially before the war. But
In addition, she wants a way into
Asia Minor. Her terms impose
hardship upon Russia because
she wants buffer between that
great nation and her eastern
boundary. But such terms could
not be attained, probably.
No Restitution.
Belgium would be restored, but
at terrible sacrifice. There
would be no restitution for the
ravages of war. unless, perhaps,
Germany should buy at an enorm-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

A stalwart, faithful ever growing
band.
The story Of whose progress rings
throughout the land.
And this city, proud queen Of the vest
ering wave,
In her safest of harbors, what hold
she? .-s
Ships whose hulIs all the oceans lave,
Bearing their cargoes from uttermost
sea;
Japan and Russia and Britain's flags
free
Float in the breeze as the anchors
weigh;
Germany, France and far Italy;
And China, for whom dawns a glori-
Gus day;
For the trade of the world seeks the
land of the free,
And the worlds entrepot is Com
mencement Bay"
Perhaps you will remember the ban.
quet of the Chamber of Commerce when
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on. A. v. Fawcett, Mayor:

Hon. A. v. Fawcett, Mayor:
Last Christmastide, in my native city,
Providence, 1 found windows in the
homes ablaze with rows of candles.
Roger Williams descendants had revert
ed to the custom of three centuries ago.
This they told me:
''There is legend that on every
Christmas eve the little Christ-Child wan
ders all over the world, bearing on His
shoulders bundle of evergreens.
Through city streets and country lanes,
up and down hill, to prOudest castle and
lowliest howell, through cold and storm
and sleet and ice, this Holy Child
travels to be welcomed or rejected at
the doors at which He pleads for succor.
Those who would invite Him and long
for His coming set lighted candle in
the window to guide Him on the way
hither."
And so candles shone i'm the windows
and greeted the Christmas choristers
passing from house to house with their
carols.
1t is a beautiful custom. Selfishness
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
I AM BETTER OFF Dead

"John said to me, You're
raising chickens, but you're
raising me no children II
/ can't raise any children for
John / am better off dead
than alive!"
Judge Clifford's courtroom,
crowded with spectators who had
expected to hear John Pierwsza
testify in his own defense in the
case in which he is charged with
having killed his wife, Stella
Pierwsza, at Wilkeson, Oct. 80,
was deathly silent as Joseph Nc
Caskey, former mayor Of Wilke-
son, repeated this cry of Mrs.
Pierwsza Wednesday morning.
The woman, he said, had come
to him about two years and a
half ago, thinking, as most of
these foreigners do, that the
mayor can do everything" and
had asked him to arrest her hus-
band for striking her. She had
exhibited a red mark on her
shoulder where she said he had
struck her.
Her story was that she had
allowed hen and 16 chickens to
come into her kitchen because
there was no suitable henhouse
for them, and John, coming
home and finding the kitchen
dirty, had struck her and re-
preached her for her childless-
ness.
Contradicts Doctors.
Aside from his family troubles,
however, McCaskey said, he had
never heard any harm of Pier
VISA. ~
McCaskey was the undertaken
who cared for the woman's body
after her death and he testified
that powder marks were distinct
ly visible around the bullet-hole
in her. head.
This Is contrary to the testi-
mony Of physicians earlier In the
case.
r. L. Sheriff., an attorney, told
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Iof having taken a revolver from
Mrs. Pierwsza's hands in Sep
TENDER, 1918, as she stood with
1t pressed against her breast.
Takes Gun Away.
John told me-" he said, that
he was going to leave his wife,
as he could not get along with
her, and get a divorce. He had
tried to take away his clothes
and she wouldn't let him, l went
there and found her crying. John
had a suitcase on a chair. but
when he tried to put his clothes
in 1t she would take them away.
He told me on the way to the
house that she was kind of
crazy and he didn't want to fight
with her. / told her she had bet
ter let him have his clothes and
have no trouble. She seemed to
quiet down for a moment, and
then she went into another room
and came out with the revolver
pressed against her breast.
"John cried out, She's
going to shoot! She's going
to shoOt!' ;.
''She said, Il can't stand
this; I'm going to kill my
self!' / took the revolver
and told her not to act that
way, and she grew quiet
again."
Pierwsza wiped his eyes quietly
several. times during this and
other parts Of the testimony. He
will take the stand Wednesday
afternoon, 1t is understood.
Many Exhibits.
Many OF. the surroundings of
the tragedy have been transferred
to the courtroom.
Besides. the model OF the kitch-
en- range and the corner of the
room, the range itself now
stands inside the railing, and to-
day q portion of the kitchen
wainscoting, which had been re-
moved bodily, was brought in
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together with a strip of carpet
from the kitchen floor.
These unwieldy exhibits crowd
the attorneys and witnesses, and
add a touch OF grotesqueness to
the formality of the proceedings.
Several witnesses testified
Wednesday morning to Pierwsza's
good reputation in Wilkeson.
Peter Peet, a miner, who had
stayed in the Pierwsza house
the night after Mrs. .Pierwsza's
death, at the request of the
sheriff, told of having heard the
alarm clock 60 off at five min
utes of four.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
BY THE EDITOR

Filled with enthusiasm over the heaped-
up prosperity that is coming to Tacoma,
The Times few days ago suggested an old
time town celebration Of some sort.
Well, Tacoma is going to have an Old-time
celebration.
It is going to be little different from
what had in mind at the time. l had
thought of torchlight parade-if there are
still any torches i'll the world-Of a great
booster mass meeting such as Louis Pratt
used to organize here, or of some other more
or less noisy and vociferous form of jubila"
ton.
1t remained for Ralph Metcalf, state sem
ator, yesterday to propose more seasonable
kind of celebration. Perhaps we can have
the other one later.
Senator Metcalf's idea is embodied in the
above letter and is there too well expressed
to need repeating or summarizing.
This form of celebration, he urged, is high
ly fitting and might well be made part of the
Community Christmas Tree observance.
Would l, he asked, present the letter to
the mayer? Of course, would. s.b
Mayor Fawcett was pleased with the sug-
gestion and agreed at once to proclaim the
Feast of Candles. This he probably will do
tomorrow.
So Tacoma, "better, bigger, Drawer, once
more united and confident, forward looking
Tacoma" is going to celebrate this wonder
full Christmas of the Year of Promise in q
beautiful old-world fashion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
BY Fred L. Boalt.'

Perhaps you know the story of
the Fitzroy family.
A king of England, long ago,
had an affair with a lady who
wasn't any better than she ought
to be, and she bore him a son out
of wedlock.
Because the child was the son
of a king, albeit illegitimate, the
king named him "Fitzroy"-son
OF the king-and made him no
ble."
And the Fitzroys have been big
guns in England from that day
to this. They are stupid. useless
lot.
Finderne Mutual Fayne VAL
dessa is an awful name to hang
on to a bull.
am going to call him Roy, be-
cause it's short and means king.
For Roy is a king among bulls.
Roy sold, at auction, at the
sixth Pacific International Live
stock show at Portland, for $21,-
500, the highest price ever paid
on the coast for beef.
He had belonged to Bernhard
Meyer of Finderne, N. j. Now he
is the property of John Won Her
berg, owner Of a valley stock
farm.
In the Old World men are made
"noble" for variety of reasons.
Sometimes, as in the case of
the son of the lady Of question:
able morals, a noble line springs
from the illegitimate offspring of
royalty.
More often men buy their titles
by contributing to campaign
funds. Sometimes they are en-
nobled because they have been
useful courtiers snobs.
Sometimes q man is given a
title because he is great gen.
eral.
Sometimes-but rarely-he is
given q handle to his name be-
cause he has performed some
great and useful work.
The trouble is that, when you
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
is A VERY GOOD
REASON WHY WE CALL
THIS VALLEY BULL ROY

meet Lord So-and-So, you don't
know whether he Is descended
from the son of a wanton, or from
grating politician, or from q
great general, or from a man Of
science.
A king may be clever, or a
Ounce. A lord may be a sinner or
saint. There isn't any rule to
60 by.
Cattle manage these things bet
ter.
Take Roy, this $21,500 bull
that Won -erberg bought.
Won Herberg owns 80 head of
aristocratic Holsteins which he
supports in luxury on a ranch at
Kent, Wash.
The thing that Won Herberg's
herd lacks is king. 1t has mobiles
aplenty, and fine ladies.
Now, why Is Roy king among
bulls?
Is it because maternal ances-
tor of his had an affair with a
king? Is it because a paternal
ancestor contributed to CAM
paign fund or grated his way to
wealth and power?
1t is because of none of these
things that Roy is king.
Roy is king because his grand
sire, Spring Farm PoHtias Cornu-
copia, known as the $4,000
BULL" had daughters that gave
more and better milk than other
cows.
He is king because his royal
mother, Finderne Mutual Fayne,
at the age of years, produced
1850 pounds of butter in IL
months.
He is king because all of his
ancestors have been record-break-
ing PRODUCERS!
That is why Roy Is q king
among bulls.
I feel sure the Won Herberg
herd will be inspired to greater
usefulness and productiveness by
his kingly presence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
The average optimist Is .
man who sleeps while his
alarm clock Is ringing.
Rapidly Getting
So That Nobody
Loves A Lawyer

More and more folks are
getting wise 20 the lawycrs.
Mayor Fawcctt calls The
Tacoma attorneys organi-
zation q trust. and asks the
government to bust Il.
The Lewis County w. O.
r. u. in resolutions coz
dennis lawyers who defond
bootleggers ~ wosrc than
the bootleggcrs themselves.
This Is the Year Of Prou-
Use.
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Where u. s. Stands

Gus rate, the Belgian Congo 40
restitution measure.
Belgium's fate in the present
war, officials think, makes the
idea of world guaranty of peace
even more essential than perhaps
do the questions of a possible
threat of Russia overrunning the
German empire.
Germany has aspirations in
Asia Minor. That is why she
leaves the settlement of Balkan
problems to the peace conference.
All her terms suggest the need
of a world guaranty, said the
United Press's informant, and he
doubted that this will be possible
at this time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
FLASHES

{United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK-The stock mar
ket is still uncertain as the result
Of peace proposals.
OTTAWA-The Canadian scout
boat and submarine chaser Grilse,
which sent out s. o. s. calls last
night, is believed to have sunk.
No trace of the distressed vessel
could be found today.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ranks sec
ond In the Pacific Coast Hockey
league today, having defeated
Portland in z to s battle.
HOUSTON, Tex. - Following
seizure of 100000 rounds Of rifle
ammunition In Galveston late yes
terday, r. Mier, Mexican, son of
Gen. Mier, former Diaz minister,
was arrested here for violation of
neutrality.