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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
CITY TO PAY
FOR DEFICIT

If the library board will show
an economical disposition during
the coming year, and cut expenses
in all departments, the city coun-
Gil will make up whatever deficit
occurs at the end of 1917.
This, In substance, was the
proposition put up to the board
Friday by Commissioners Petit
and Gronen, representing the
council.
The library officials must prove
to the conucil's satisfaction at the
end of the year that they have
been economical.
In the meanwhile, the South
Tacoma and Mckinley Hill branch
libraries will remain open.
Librarian Kaiser presented his
resignation at Fridays meeting,
but it was not accepted. Part of
his formal resignation follows:
Approaching the unusual cir
cumstantes in which the library
board finds itself. and wishing
the board to feel perfectly free to
solve the present problem in what
ever way will best meet the needs
of the city without being en-
barrassing to any existing con-
tract for personal services so far
as | am directly concerned, l here
by tender my resignation as IL
brarian to be accepted at the
pleasure of the board.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
BRITISH MORE
WRATHY THAN
EVER AT i. S.

mented, but we have grave
doubts of his physical wellbeing.
Public comment was much
stronger than the press. Some
expressions heard on the streets
and in the subways were imprint
able. The public was generally
indignant at the notes implied
query what are you fighting
about anyhow" Britons think
they have made that sufficiently
clear long ago.
Also there was unified popular
resentment at placing of England
on the same level with Germany
regarding its attitude toward
small nations.
Much speculation was aroused
over the meaning of that para
graph asserting that maybe peace
is nearer tina nthe belligerents
know.
From the British standpoint the
most charitable explanation of the
note is that Wilson has been Sc
cretly advised that Germany is
ready to accede to the allies de-
mands for restoration, reparation
and guarantee.
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Discuss 1t With Allies

LONDON, Dec. 22.-The atti-
tude of the British government on
President wilson's peace note can
not be defined until after England
has consulted with her allies,
Chancellor of the EXchequer Bo-
mar Law announced in the house
of commons today.
He spoke in reply to a question
seeking exact definition of Eng
lands position on the note.
The governments wisdom in al
lowing President Wilson's note TO
soak "a hours, was apparent to-
day. 1t saved torrent of violent
denunciation of America.
Put on "Soft Pedal"
Today, although the British
press was practically unanimous
in deploring President Wilson
intervention, the comments
ranging from panied surprise TO
bitter resentment, there WASH {
such sweepingly violent denuncia-
tion as there would have been if
the first impressions had been al
lowed full play.
For instance, editors in discuss
ing the note Just after the con-
tents had been made known, but
before it was released for publica-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
ORGY
RUNS RIOT
IN GOTHAM
Newspaper Enterprise As.ociatIonl

Newspaper Enterprise AssOciatlOnD
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Uncle
Sam, take off your hat to Christ
mas, 1916! 1t will go down in
history as the worlds most ex-
travagant Christmas!
New York, as money center of
the world, is pouring out dollars
in the widest shopping orgy ever
heard of.
New Workers are on a prosper
ity spree, and travellers from every
state in the union are arriving
here with millions more to spend.
A thousand hotels in New York
and everyone filled with Christ
mas shoppers!
Fifty legitimate theaters-and
most of them sold out for the holt
days at 50 or more seat!
The pick of the worlds
most extraordinary and ex-
pensive presents are now for
sale and being bought along
Fifth ave-, which has be-
come the Luxury Lane of the
universe.
Here you can purchase a real
Tudor house, brought bodily from
England; or a pink diamond as
big as a hazel nut, from South
Africa; a 500-year-old prayer rug
from Persia, or a single fur over
coat that President Wilson could
just about buy with one whole
years salary!
For $1,000 you can buy hand
painted transparency, 140 feet
long, made for the French court
in the time of Louis XVI, with
lenes of Versailles and Fontaine-
bleau.
Among the $S,O0O,00O worth of
Christmas merchandise in one
store are a $4,000 crystal, per-
fectly round and without flaw;
a piece of jade from China, sea-
green in color, that probably came
from an incense burner from a
Chinese temple, and priced at
5000; and an antique Persian
rug that will make a useful pres
ent for anybody who wants to
spent $14,500!
Fabulous sums are being spent
on furs. Trappers and hunters
have secured the widest Arctic
regions for valuable pelts for New
York millionaires.
Gunther's have i'm stock
$50, 900 Russian cable coat
and are prepared to make
up one worth 100000!
In one hosiery store on
Fifth ave. you can buy your
sweetheart n pair of Christ.
mas stOckings-silk inset to
the knee with lace--for $225!
At a nearby candy shop
five-pOund box of Christmas
CaDdy-the box is of gold
costs $3.50!
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government is anxious to do. In
this case, however, the govern
ment is using it's weapon against
the wrong set OF defendants" s.
Mrs. Ross Present.
The audience, in which were
many of the witnesses whose
truthfulness Allen attacked sar-
castically, sat tensely listening.
Mrs. Ross and one of her sons
were also among the hearers. In
side the rail, the defendants
stared expressionlessly at the
prosecutor. Mike Hanrahan, one
of the defendants, donned an ear
trumpet, in order to hear better.
1t now appears certain the case
will go to the jury Friday after
noon or evening.
rs Witnesses
Seventy-five witnesses have
been examined during the trial.
The defense rested it's case Thurs
day afternoon, without calling all
the defendants to the stand. Lit
tie testimony was introduced in
rebuttal.
~. N. Howard and his wife
have seven daughters and three
sons" Allen said. land the North
River valley is network of in
termarriages and relationships.
Witnesses who have testified
in this case have had to be care
full. They would be in danger If
they incurred the enmity of the
large and powerful Howard fam
ily."
Howard cultivated the good
graces of county officials. The
valley was a remote little barony
of his, far removed from any court
Of justice.
Mrs. Ross came as a disturbing
factor into this situation, and
when she arrived, Howard, whose
daughter was constant visitor at
the Vanderpool house and after
ward married Claude Vanderpool,
and the whole Howard family, de-
cided to adjudicate the matter in
their own very primitive way.
Messenger of Grief
Claude Vanderpool was the
messenger of grief in the valley.
From the time of Mrs. Ross arriv-
al he was trotting down to the
Howard house, trickling poison
and whipping up fury in the
neighborhood."
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Night Rider Case
In Final Stages

81 say to you that If these peo-
pie can get away with their law
lessness as they have been doing,
the day will come shortly when
there will be blood along the
roads of Pacific county"
This was the summing up of
the scathing argument of U. s.
Attorney Clay Allen in the ia
nous Pacific county might rid
er" case in federal court Friday
morning.
Attorney Welsh of South Bend
came to his feet two or three
times during the speech with pro-
tests to the court. The court in
structed the jury to disregard AL
lens comment on the fact that
Judge George D. Abel, brother of
w. II. Abel, who had been friend
vi with the defendants, sat beside
Ernest Burke in the courtroom
for two days.
TitlOw in Action.
Another statement that got a
rise out of Welsh was that the
defense did" not call some OF
the defendants to the stand"
you have no right to say that
to the jury, and you know it,"
cried Welsh. The court sustain
ed the objection.
Argument for the defense was
begun by AR. Titlow just before
the noon recess.
This is the first time" said
he, that | have ever known an
attorney for the government to
exactly reverse the parties in a
case of this kind. The section
of the criminal code under which
this trial is brought was passed
for the purpose of protecting set
Tiers in their rights. which the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

He offered to take all RESPONSE
bility for the boy, and put him
on his feet again, and wanted the
youngster sent to him.
A Stevens county deputy sheriff
is coming to take Miller back to
Colville.
Just a criminal is the atti-
tude of Longmire. He apparent
ly is not lifting a hand to try to
get that chance" for the boy.
II have nothing to do with it,"
the sheriff said Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
CONDEMNS
ATTACK On
MERIT IDEA
BY Fred Shoemaker
CITY CONTROLLER

In reply to a number of in
quiries regarding the inten-
ton of the proposed salary
ordinance with reference to
civil service l wish to make
II perfectly clear that the Or
dinance is deliberate at
tempt to kill the merit sys-
tenn in the city hall.
There is no question of economy
involved. At present the civil
service board is allowed a secre-
tary at 500 a month and a stenog-
rapher at $15 month.
The proposed ordinance in
creases the salary of the stenogra-
pher to $45 and decreases the sal
AIRY of the clerk to $45 a net de-
crease of $25 month, or $500 a
year.
Not another salary in the city
hall Is decreased, and other sal
aries are actually raised more
than the amount of the decrease
in the civil service office.
OF Vital Interest
AS a matter of fat the civil
service board has saved the city
thousands of dollars by making
impossible the appointment of in
competent political favorites.
There is a constant pressure on
the part of the council to break
down civil service, on the plea of
efficiency, or economy, or some
thing equally false.
These attempts are simply the
expression of a desire to reward
personal friends or political
cliques at the expense of the tax
payers.
This is a matter of vital interest
to the entire city.
At the last election the people
voted three to one to strengthen
the civil service provisions of the
charter.
Now. eight months after that
vote, the council is trying to block
the will of the people by making
It impossible for the civil service
board to operate effectively.
Two Can Block Scheme
This city government Is owned
by the people of the whole city,
and the commissioners are simply
agents of the people employed to
run the city as the people wish it
run. The people have emphatical-
ly instructed their commissioners
to follow the principles of modern
civil service. The commissioners
are proving false to their instruc-
tions, and the people should awak-
en- to that fact.
There IL nothing more con-
temptibie in public life than
to see a candidate get up and
pledge the voters to support
the merit system, and then
when he IL i'm office, either
knife civil service, or refuse
to lift a finger to protect 1t
from its enemies.
Four votes are necessary
to pass q salary ordinance,
therefore, two members Of
the council can block this
scheme II they wish to do so.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
BLASPH r VA Y!

]. Mockus, Lithuanian preach
er OF the Unitarian faith, question
ed the Jonah and the whale story
and also certain features of the
story about Adam and the apple at
lecture.
He wanted to know why Adam
did not die Immediately after eat
ing the apple, since that punish
ment seemed to be promised to
him in the scriptural text.
His arrest followed upon COM
plant of orthodox clergymen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
UP!

bore holes in a plank, place the
plank on the window sill and se,
the candles in the sockets thus
made.
Another way is to drive foul
long nails through the plank for
every candle, in such a way as to
form a holder.
Attempting to drive nails into
the candles won't work success
fully.
The best kind of candle to gel
is a hard tallow candle. 1t won'i
drip.
When you light the candles
be careful of the curtains.
Don't spoil Christmas for the
firemcn.
Now with these few I'm
structioIls, everybody stock
mp with candles. md lets
1nnke Taconnn kFi1l1t lor
Cnr1~tnnoe IS .s < & {. &.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

Put at least one candle in
every window Of your house,
from the basement to the
garnet, on Christmas eve and
Christmas night, TO celebrate
the Feast of Candles" pro-
claimed for Tacoma by Mayor
Fawcett.
There has been some question
as to Just how the ancient custom
should be followed. Some persons
have had the idea that only sim
gle candle should be lit in house
TO proclaim the Yuletide.
Senator Ralph Metcalf, who
suggested the idea for Tacoma,
explained today how the custom is
followed In some of the eastern
cities. Here's tho way to do IT.:
Set the candles about foot
apart 10 every window In the
~ simplest w - "a ii y -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

WATERBURY, Conn, Dec. 21.
For the first time within the
present century a trial is TO oc-
cur in which the defendant stands
accused under one of the most an
cient of Connecticut's blue laws.
The law is that against bias
phemy, passed by the Connecticut
colony in 1912.
1t provides that anyone shall
be guilty of blasphemy who calls
into question amy portion of holy
writ"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
TACOMAGRAMS


Thirty lockers in Longshore-
mems hall, 722 Pacific ave-,
were broken open with crowbars
Friday night and the contents,
mostly clothing, stolen.
M. G. WATSON, 1904 South M,
was crushed seriously Friday
when a st. Paul & Tacoma Lum-
Der Co. truck skidded against
him.
H. Cohan was arrested Friday,
charged with stealing metal and
machinery from the ruins of the
Carstens Packing plant, recently
burned.
Police officers believe that
Detective John Strickland, who
captured Oscar Lowe, Bothel
bank robber. Thursday night. will
get a big slice of the reward of
fered by bankers for such crfmi-
nails.
Registration books at the city
hall are open, Saturday and Tues
day until 10 p. m.
Doctors should be admitted 70
the medical society without RI
Ga<d q their school 81 ul11lolne
"a 4oeI1Q r~J4 Pr 4 HlQh,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
SHIPPING BOARD NAMED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Pres-
ident Wilson today announced the
personnel of the U. S. shipping
board, to include the following:
William Denman, San Francis
CO, democrat, to serve six years.
Bernard \. Baker, Baltimore,
democrat, to serve five years.
John A. Donald, New York,
democrat, to serve four years.
John Barber White, Kansas
City. Mo-, republican, to serve
three years.
Theodore Brent. New Orleans.
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republican, to serve two years.
The shipping board. authorized
by the last session of congress has
powers of investigation, regulation
and rate fixing over U. S. marine
business.
1t is empowered to issue bonds
not to exceed $50,000,000 to build,
purchase or lease vessels for Q
merchant marine.
1t is to constitute the head of a
corporation which will endure for
a period not to exceed five years
after the war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

Sheriff Longmire has great
opportunity Friday to do some
real constructive sheriffing for
once. So far he has ignored it.
Last Monday night a 19-year-
old boy named George Miller APP
peared at the county Jail. confess
ed to having committed three for
geries at Colville, Wash, and ask
ed to be locked up.
He said he had felt bad about
it ever since the day he had pass
ed the worthless checks on his en-
ployer at a Colville restaurant.
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BOY MAY LOSE CHANCE!

He wanted to take his punish
ment, then start out with a clean
slate.
When Miller's story appeared
in print, it appealed to w. J..
Dempsey, a farmer who has lived
in Chehalis 25 years.
The sheriff received word from
Dempsey Friday. The farmer
said he believed the boy wasn't
half bad, that he wasn't a Grimm
al, and that he would make good
if given a chance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

LONDON, Dec. %. - The
more England digests Prcsi-
dent Wilson's peace note, the
more bitter il feels. That
was the conclusion to he
drawn from newspaper edi-
tOrials i'm the afternoon
papers which went even fur
ther than those of the morn
ing editions i'm dcnunciatiOn
of the American executives
move.
The afternoon press was a unit
in its resentfulness. This bitter
ness was particularly manifested
against Wilson's assertion that
the objects for which all belliger-
ents were striving were virtually
the same.
Public Resentful.
1T is singular indeed" the Ev-
ening Standard declared, that a
statement of Wilson perspicacity
cna labor under the delusion that
any move of his toward peace
would be welcomed by the allies.
I'VE sincerely hope President
Wilson is not ill.," the Globe COM
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
JUST ONE NIX IN
TACOMA, HE SAYS

Besides having one of the
oldest names names in this part
OF the country, l have the only
one of its kind in Tacoma" says
Policeman e. ]. Nix of the dry
squad.
81 understand there is a family
In Puyallup by the same name.
In other parts of the country,
they pronounce the name similar
ly but spell 1t differently"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
GOV. LISTER ASKS
MERCY FOR INDIAN

OLYMPIA, Dec. 22.-Gov. Lis
ter has attached his signature to
the petition asking the federal
government to commute to life
Imprisonment the death sentence
pronounced on Ed Mayberry, an
Indian, who was convicted OF MUIR
dering Alice Vivian, Of Spokane.
Mayberry has been sentenced to
hang on Jan. 10.
Il cant see why an Indian
should hang while q white man
would set life imprisonment, Wes
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CONGRESS TO
LET WILSON
co IT ALONE
Omitted Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. %.
Congress will let the president
have free hand in his attempt to
find common ground upon which
European belligerents can meet to
formulate plans for a lasting
peace.
Both houses today refused TO
the presidents action.
Representative Bailey, Pennsyl-
vania, introduced a resolution
calling on congress to endorse
and approve" the notes to bellig-
erent nations.
Senator Hitchcock failed in his
second attempt to have the senate
endorse the action of President
Wilson.
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Linking Oregon
to Washington
UNITED Press Leased wire.)

VANCOUVER, WASH, Dec. %.
With only light breeze to
make the operation difficult, the
last span of the interstate bridge
between Oregon and Washington
was towed into the Columbia
river today to be floated into place.
The work will probably take all
dav
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
ANOTHER TAX
united Press Leased Wire.)

tOultcu ITess Ledscu Wife,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. - A
joint resolution proposing a spe-
cial horizontal ad valorem tariff
of 10 per cent on all imports, ex-
cept salt, including those already
taxed and those on the free list,
will be introduced by Rep. Gar
ner, Texas, democrat, Immediately
after the holidays, he announced
TODAY.
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SUGAR Sc CTS.
A POUND, EGGS
9 CTS. A GROSS

SEATTLE, Dec. 22. -
Sugar at SO cents a pound,
eggs at 8 cents a gross and
salt at 2 cents a pound are
some of the items included
I'm "A Fourteenth Century
Account Book" that is being
prepared by Assistant Pro-
fessor r. M. Garrett, of the
English department of the
University of Washington,
for presentation before the
18th annual meeting of the
Washington State Philologi-
cal society on the campus
Friday evening and Satur-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
PETIT TO FIGHT
SALARY SLASHING

Members of the Municipal Civil
Service league, composed of 800
city employees, will meet in the
council chambers Friday evening
to discuss the proposed ousting
from city work Of j. S. Ellsworth,
secretary of the civil service
board. The council is contemplate
ing a reduction of Ellsworth's sal
airy to $45, in order to force him
to resign.
Commissioner Petit declared
Friday that he would not stand
for the cut.
81 have always upheld civil
service he said. "And the peo-
pie have indicated that they want
1t improved rather than injured"
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CELEBRATIONS AT
ST. LEO'S SCHOOL,

st. LeO's school gave two
Christmas programs Thursday.
Among those taking part were Miss
Hauser, Maurice Hickey, James
Kenney, John McDonough, Joseph
Pitzen, Bonnie Harkins, Fred
Gauthier, Paul Drake, Stephen
O'Brien, Rocco Mama, Irwin La
Plante, Matt McDonough, John
Pinto and Lee McGavick.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
FORCE BULGARIAN
TROOPS INTO LAKE

United Press Leased Mire.t
PETROGRAD, Dec. 22.-The
greater part of a Bulgarian de-
tachment advancing eastward TO
Lake Babdag from Enisal Gin
Dobrudja) was forced into Lake
Ibolota and many were drowned,
today's official statement declar-
ed.
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president of the Pierce County
Medical society, in his annual ,'e-
port.
Only 200 Of the 3,615 who
were stricken from the books
after the November election
have re-registered for the bond
election.
A trunk containing two gal
Ions of gin, two gallons Of orange
gin and three gallons Of whisky,
addressed to Milo Mitosh, Bur-
nett, Wash, was seized by the
police last night at the Union
station.
Mayor Fawcett received en-
dorsements of the army post bond
idea Friday from the Robert EN-
NETT Literary society, G. 4. Burs,
secretary; Ancient Order of HI
bernians, A. M. Flynn, div. pres. !;
Catholic Order of Foresters, st.
Benedict Court No. 1908, Henry
q. Burke, pres; and the Swiss So
ciety Of 2505 members, v. r. In
derbitzen, sec.
WASHINGTON. p. O., Dec. %.
nc0mn's population u placed ct
1112.740 ~ the 1916 population
o. k4<1 nede public yestor1ay>
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22

PARIS, Dec. 22.-France coin
cides with England in its view of
President Wilson's peace note.
The Temps typified the public
view today in the following COM
ment:
THE L. S. must not forget that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
EATS SMEARCASE
ON CRANBERRY PIE

Frank ID. Nash, W. X. attorney
was discovered in Joe's Place eat
ing cranberry pie, each forkful of
which he first was a-la-modine
with cottage cheese.
well, it's mixed after l eat it
anyway, so why not before if
like it that way?" he asked when
chided for the combination.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
TELL CONDUCTORS.
KEEP THE CHANGE

Saturday, when you hand the
conductor dime or two bits or
four bits or dollar, and he
reaches for his chicken feed box,
the thing you're supposed to do is
to say:
Keep the change. Merry
Christmas"
Saturday will be Keep the
Change day on all Tacoma street
cars.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
100000 Fire
In Mason Home;
Five Missing

WICHITA, Dec. 22.-Shortly
before noon today it developed
that four inmates and a waitress
of the Kansas Masonic home which
burned here this morning with a
loss of 100000 were missing.
Two bodies, one of man burn
ed beyond recognition, and the
other believed to be woman,
were taken from the ruins at noon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-22
THROWING THE HEAVY
a ARPEGGIO

(From the Columbia City, Ind,
Commercial-Maii.)
Mr.. Lhevinne displayed his
wonderful executive skill and
technique. His fingers we're every
where at home on the piano keys.
and his contrast and shading of
musical tones was wonderful.
with his fingers running up and
down the keys In heavy nrpe8gio
work, be would end his cadcnxns
With = beautiful. mellow, baeIc