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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
BIC Chief OF
BLACKMAILERS
ADMITS Guilt

lily told his story of being lured
to New York by Buda Goldman,
supposedly member of the gang,
that Others might be warned and
the guilty punished.
Because of Vests confession,
the government will not prose-
cute him for violation of the
Mann act.
Hinton G. Clabaugh, federal in
vestigator, is reported today to
have offered immunity to anyone
else who would testify against the
alleged blackmailers.
West was trapped by Buda God
man, whom he met in cafe sew
eral months ago, he said today.
They saw each other frequently
for several weeks and she in
duced him to take her to New
York with him on business trip,
he states.
On their first night there, three
men knocked at the door of their
hotel room and said they were
government officers and that the
couple were under arrest for vio-
lating the Mann act.
The woman became frantic and
said exposure would ruin her So
cial position. Then the fake Off
GERS suggested the affair might be
hushed up.
West refused to yield to the
blackmail and the couple was
brought here. Negotiations con-
icon tinued on Page Eighth
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

always serious appearing, discov-
cred he had uncovered a great in
door sport.
His victims worked with him in
decoying others, and Murray be-
came master in the art of swing
ing the hose.
Takes Names of All.
Name, please" he asks, now.
Immediately after landing the one
swift blow.
Red faced, and twitching be-
tween agony and laughter, the
victims gave their names, and
were recorded in Murray's pocket
note book, which now contains
more than 1000 names.
One man came all the way
from Everett, walked into the
comptroller's office, went to Muir
ray. and asked confidentially IL 1t
could be fixed up so he could see
the pictures.
Murray arranged it.
And the man went back to
Everett and sent down more vic
times.
Many men from Tacoma and
some from as far as Portland,
have walked into the trap.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
1000 SEATTLEITES
Are SPANKED, YES,
SPANKED WITH HOSE

dozens of lawyers, and an assort-
ed crew of others, some of them
from Tacoma and other neighbor-
ing cities.
Because each victim wanted to
see his fpiend spanked, the news
has been kept quiet.
-, Setting the Trap.
Many of the names are now on
record in the comptroller's office,
and the list reads like a profess
sional directory, blue book and
city directory, all in one.
Have you seen the Seattle
blackmail pictures?" whispered
Murray to a fellow worker, one
day three weeks ago.
NO." was the reply.
We'll, they're going to be de-
stroyed tomorrow" he went on,
"if you want to see them l can fix
it up for you"
"Hot Ones" Promised.
This was the lure used on all
victims.
Conversation limiting that the
pictures were hot Ones" and
showed "some of the big boys of
the town" in compromising situa-
tions, usually followed.
Then Murray and his victim
went through dark Railways to
one of the long record vaults on
the first floor of the county-city
building.
"I'll keep watch" was the next
word; they're in the box in the
corner. Just pick 'em out"
Then He Got It.
When the victim leaned low,
the trusty rubber hose came into
play.
"Whami" resounded the rubber
hose, as IL hit the victim where
father used to apply the paddle.
"Wow!" walled the victim.
Murray, who is red-headed and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

Juicy Concords about six inches
deep.
The shipment was consigned
from California to George Morris,
a Wilkeson expressman, who de-
MES all knowledge of 1t. 1t is be-
lieved several persons formed a
pool and had the stuff consigned
to him.
When the car arrived in the
Tacoma yards yesterday, railway
officials Immediately became sus-
picious. A carload of grapes for
a mining town of 1000 inhabi-
tants didn't seem quite reason
able.
The value of the whisky is es-
timated at $4,000 for Bookkeeping
purposes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
TO
GO HIGHER

Omitted Press Leased Wire1
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-Special
brands of spring wheat flour were
quoted at $40, an advance of 90
cents barrel. on the market here
today.
This is the first time flour
has gone up to 50 and over in
many years. 4-s
Bakers declared today that in
the face of such prices an advance
in the price of bread is inevitable.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
RAID BANK BUILDING:
CHARGE BOOTLECClNC

Making a series of raids Mon
day night on resorts in Tacoma
where liquor has been sold lille
gally, police detectives swooped
down on the engine room of the
National Bank of Tacoma build
Ing, 18th and Pacific avenue, ar,
resting Richard Moore, age 3S,
the engineer.
Moore was booked on charge
of selling liquor. He was later
released on $500 cash bail.
Several bottles of whisky are
held by the police.
According to the detectives
making the raid, Moore has been
suspected for some time as hav-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
Snashes Fist
In Nightmare

TORRINGTON, Conn,
Sept. 26.-No teeth are be-
ing drilled, filled, drawn or
quartered in the office of
DR.. Arthur e. Guildford TO-
day, because his right hand
Is all out of shape.
DR.. Guildford dreamed
that he was horsewhipping
another man, but his blows
were so violent that he soon
wore out the whip.
His victim realized the pre-
dicament and sprang at the
dentist.
Doubling his right fist, he
struck out, and awakened TO
find he had smashed the
wall at the side of his bed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

toupees, but that's the first
one I've heard ask for a
mustache.
They care just as much
how they look as women do.
And, oh, but aren't they
fussy!
why, | remember a poor
woman who came in once in
a perfectly awful fix! Her
husband wore a toupee, and
she'd been after him to wash
it, and he wouldn't.
Gle worked at night and
slept in the day time; so that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
I.W.W.'S SEIZE YAKIMA JAIL


morning while he was asleep
she took the toupee and
washed 1t herself, and she
had got it into the worst,
ratty, snarled-up mess you
ever saw-absolutely ruined
it,. and she came rushing in
to get us to make another be-
fore he woke up and found
out about it.
"She said he'd be furious.
Yes, indeed they are!
Just as vain as women!
Will you have your hair
curled all the way round?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
HERE'S A FACT TO
POSTCARD TO YOUR
FRIENDS BACK EAST

That the Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad il
building additional ware
houses and other waterfront
facilities at Tacoma that will
more than double its present
capacity and will give II the
largest and most modern
terminal In the Northwest.
Siz ocean liners can be han
died at once In this new
plant.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

ing private supply to which his
friends had access. Monday night
city detectives watched the engi-
neer Of the bank building
through a window. They report
ed they saw him sell liquor to
several persons.
Francis Temple. age "a, pro-
prietor of a rooming house at
21st and Jefferson ave, was ar
rested at 1890 Monday night on
a charge of selling liquor.
Gertrude Thornell, colored,
was arrested In a house on Opera
court. for the same offense. Mrs.
Temple furnished 800 bail for
her release.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

it for masquerade, he wants
it to wear instead of a real
one!
She says the officer
had better come in himself,
so she can see him."
Negotiations in the shop
outside became inaudible,
and the little hairdresser re-
turned to the tangles in my
hair.
We'll, that's a new one!"
she philosophical. Lots OF
men come in for wigs and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
(SpeciaI to The Times.)

SEATTLE, Sept. 26.-More
than 1000 prominent Seattle men
have actually been spanked with a
rubber hose by Ed Murray, clerk
in the city comptroller's office,
during the last three weeks be-
cause of their curiosity to look at
naughty pictures.
The list includes superior court
judges. city councilmen, heads Of
city and county departments,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
BECAUSE THEY
Are OUR BOYS!
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys
are marching!"

Ms Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys
N are marching!"
II They will march through the
streets Of Tacoma tomorrow, in solid, olive
drab masses, to show in the Stadium what
they have learned since they stepped out of
the everyday routine of our own lives to
serve their country in another way for a
little while.
They are going to step back soon, since
the need for them seems to be over. And this
is our chance to honor them before they do
~ Moving pictures of tomorrow's
@ exhibition will be flashed on
KTS screens all over the United States,
since nowhere else can regiment the size of
the 2nd Washington be seen in setting like
that of the Stadium.
1t will be fine and deserved advertise
ment of the biggest regiment in the United
States. (And won't it be fine advertise
ment of Tacoma, too? Oh no, not at alp
But nowhere else will it mean as much as
to us of the state of Washington. Nowhere
else will the pride of possession be added to
the thrill of the spectacle.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching''
And the machine guns will rattle and the
bayonets will flash and the olive drab ranks
will wheel and charge, just as they might
have had to do in the battles that thank God,
did not take place, because the men were
ready.
@ And we who sit on the steps of
ES the Stadium will swallow the Jumps
IT& in our throats timber up our ossi-
fled emotions, exult in the shivers that chase
up and down our spines, and shout our heads
off.
For these boys that are marching are
OUR BOYS!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
POINDEXTER HERE
WITHIN THE WEEK

Senator Miles Poindexter will
spend a day or two In Tacoma the
latter part of this week or the
first of next. according to his
manager. Burns Poe. Poindexter
will reach Seattle Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 3d.
William Butler, alleged
"brains" of the milliOn-dol-
lar blackmail plot, pleaded
guilty to a charge of imper-
sOnating a federal officer
when arraigned before JUS
tice MantOn this afternoon
and was sentenced to IL
months In the federal peni-
Tertiary at Atlanta.
He is the first of the con-
spiratOrs to be arraigned
and his sentence marks the
first victory Of government
agents tracking the alleged
cORspiratOrs who have prey
eel upon wealthy men and
women.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
WEALTHY MERCHANT VICTIM

WEALTHY MERCHANT VICTIM
CHICAGO. Sept. 26.-Ed-
ward II. West, vice president
of the G. ID. Gregg Tea q
Coffee Co., with offices here
and I'm New York, is the "A.
X. Wesley" who was victim-
lied for $4,000 by the ma
tional syndicate of black
mailers, it was definitely
learned today.
Vests personal attorney, Eg-
bert Robertson, and Hinton G..
Clabaugh, federal investigator
here, both admitted West was the
person.
Robertson said West voluntar-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
BY Mabel Abbott

did you hear that? He
wants a stache!" giggled
my little hairdresser, pausing
with her brush in the air.
A masculine voice floated
through the white curtains of
my booth in Miss Kate
Browns hair shop, 753 st.
Helens ave-, Saturday after
noon.
We strained our ears.
Its for an officer, he
says. No, he doesn't want
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
Talk O the Times

French deputies had am &
other row, lately. What over?
Peace, of course. $
TACOMA SCHOOL TEACHERS
SHOULD REMEMBER THAT
WISE is THE INSTRUCTOR
WHO LEARNS MORE THAN HID
TEACHES.
Campaign speeches are like
official war reports. Com
flicting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
Greetings, have you a SIM
pie solution of the councils
budget-making troubles?

With large numbers Of inef-
ficient city employees being weed
ed out by new department heads
and the efficient ones being
threatened with ousting because
of said budget difficulties, the
hope of the anarchists may soon
be realized and we be without
government.
Let us give the movies
credit for one thing. No long,
err can a fellow sigh that he's
all dressed up and has no
place to go.
What has become of the old
fashioned joke about Hughes
whiskers.
By the way, the Whiskers'
club must get its dress suits
pressed. Jim Ham Lewis
coming 70 town.
HELPFUL SUGGESTION
Goldfish that refuse to swim
can be made to look as IL they're
swimming by placing the bowl on
a photograph and starting 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-26
A Willing
Worker

Money is always
ready to earn you
more money when
given the opportun-
ity.
We furnish the OPP
portunity.
Perhaps you had bet
ter ask us about it.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

a nightly crack at the same time, she will take the advice of the Wichita
Eagle and turn the Emerald Isle I'VE to Germany for a colony-Kansas
City Star.
Some OF the warning nations have put their clocks IN hour ahead
which doesn't count much against the century setback given to ciwiza-
tion-Phladephia North American.
There is something sadly significant in the official announcement
that the German armys demand upon the empire is nothing like as great
as it was a few months ago-New York Telegraph.
The day will come when a Ia who wastes Sc much early daylight
will be on a par with the one who leaves the a burning when he goes
away on a months observation-disclosures Herald.
Something of the nature ofC carrying Goals ito Newcastle attaches TO
the action OF the United States Government in conferrng American
citizenship O a band OF Sioux Indans-Nashvile Southern Lumberman.
Those American aviators who are fighting so gananty and brilliantly
for France should he ent marked copies OF our daily papers setting
forth the extreme need for army a>iatc rs III the Mexican border
Nashville Southern Iumberman.
Consruchvcly. Secretary Lansing vii be the actual and ttuIar presi
dent Of the United States on March 4h, 07, which falls on Sunday,
leaving y hiatus OF n day between the retiring and the incoming resi-
dents. and J. c. remarks that had Bill By IN but known this fact he
would have stayed o II the job at any cost Chi ago Daily News,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
CANNOT WIN WITH THREATS

The Republicans convention having practcan turned down the Fed
eral suffrage plank, the Womens Congressional Union is row IN ST.
ocraic convention. Failing in this and also in getting immediate Iegs-
laton through the present congress theS state they will turn their
batteries Loose n all national Democratic candidates this fall If their
demands are not granted, as will probably be the case they say they have
100000 votes which will be turned over to the opposition party, which
in this instance will be the Republican, but in that event what chance
do they have of accomplishing anything, except, perhaps, to show their
claws.
But those who live in suffrage states, like we in Nevada. know that
their threats cal never win. The Womens Congressional Union may be
but in the vest the movement is in sad distavor, especially this cam
pagn, when $50 many more important issues are at stake. y big major
ny Of the women of the yes are for Woodrow Wilson for president and
Democratic representatives and senator's and they are no going o be
cajoed into giving up their preferences by the hySTca demands ~of a
few thousand women OF the east and especially where it is believed
those women are an adjunct and in the pay OF Republican interests
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Go to the Tavern

The Tavern is situated at the foot
of Lakeview hill, three miles north
CT Carson City, and is one of the
o picturesque spots in Nevada.
You will make no mistake when stop
ping there. Everything is run in
hrst-class order. Free. music and
dancing; also free picnic grounds to
autoists who desire to rest.
r. T. BRIGHT.
moot Proprietor.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

The balance of our stock OF sum
mer coats and silk dresses are placed
on sale at greatly reduced prices. All
small hats, including turbans, your
choice for $3.50 cash. For $3.50 you
can have your choice OF our summer
suits.
ln25-tf SWEETLAND & DAVIS.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
TOPICS IN BRIEF

Some oDbtime American schoolboy must have advised the Aus
TRANS that over the Alps lies Itay.'-Seatte Times.
The new German food-dictator will have. we presume. absolute
control over the PrusGan Diet-Syracuse PostStandard.
We venture to predict that the Austrian Army will never march I'M
triumph through the streets OF Venice-Ph1adelphia North Americana
Now, if Bernstorf viii only issue orders to have teamsters keep off
the car-trarks, The win do another kindness 20 IL domestic convent
encc-CMcago Post
James Bryce wrtes very learnedly on americas Traditional Isola-.
ton" but what W e need is some actual isolation down along the border.
philadelphia North American. ..
Perhaps if Great Britain wishes to- punish Ireland and hit the Kaiser
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
VICTORY OF THE INTERESTS

The complete victory at Chicago of the stand-pat element in the
Republicans party a rejected promptly in Wall street where
prices advanced a point a a result OF the nominations of Hughes. says
the Sacramento Union.
That advance signded the satisfaction OF the interests" IN the
decisive victory OF the old guard, whose habitat is in the financial cer-
tiers OF the metropolis.
To these interests the disregard of the Progressive overtures and
the emphatic rejection of Roosevelt spelled the destruction OF the
Progressive party, born four years ago in protest OF certain elements
OF the Republican party against boss rule within that party.
While the founder OF the Progressive party during the recent COR
test sought 20 make the militant element dominant in the party
declarations and succeeded, it mmst OF be forgotten that the platform
o which the party took its start made the rights OF the individual the
supreme and paramount issue OF American politics.
Naturally the party aimed its hardest blows al the principles which
have animated the Republican party in latter days, 1t was a protest
against corporation Nominations OF politics in the interests of capital
and against the great masses OF the people.
The four million and odd voters who followed Roosevelt into the
Progressive party did o o n the theory that he had sounded a ley
note in politics and raised broad questions of principle.
Under the circumstances, now that the Republican party has been
the nation, it is difficult to see how lei who sincerely and honestly
believed that the Progressive party was founded o. a living principle
four years.
An alliance between Progressves and Republicans is far worse
than a mixture of oil and water.
No wonder the Progressves are having a hard time o adjust
themselves to the present situation. If they yer sincere in their
fight OF four years, how "a they accept that which they have II
demned % vigorously:
In their platform the Republicans "reiterate" their "objecton" to
discrimination against the Jew, and this in face of the fact that their
solid delegation OF the senate judiciary committee and all but W OF
their members in the United States senate opposed the nomination OF
Louis d. Brandeis as associate justice of the United States Supreme
Court.
In effort to serve their masters Republican papers are already open
anything. Wilson's record is clear and historians OF the future will
place it alongside that of Washington. Jefferson and Lincoln.
Experts may diagnose Roosevet's ailment a a strained lgament of
must also be affected.
-oo-
With their wellcared for hrsute appendages Hughes and Fairbanks
will pass into history and be known as the fmbriated twain. Sort of
a reversion to Populsm, as it we're.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

The Nevada resident who studies
Appeal advertisements is merely ap-
plying the real business knowledge
with both advertiser and reader alike
This is why the Appeal is popular
gained therein to the home problems.
IT HELPS #
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

For the first time I'M years, or yer sinc the organization OF the Re
publican party, the last Republican platform contained no reference to
national finance or financial matters. But that is explained by the fact
that the United States o has, thanks to the intelligence OF a Demo-
cratic president. a comprehensive financial system, and it is WORKING so
satisfactorily that the Republicans, nervy enough in los cases to
attack anything do not dare to cHtcise it, And it would have been the
same thing with the tariff had not the European a come along and
denied it the test. But time, despite every obstacle put in its way, will
ROY it another wise measu
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

Why borrow your neighbours Az
pe"l- Subscribe and read your own.
Wen you have rea it send it TO
Some one in the east and let them Sc,
how prospe Gus Western Nevada is
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
WANTED

BY woman, a position to do any
kind of homework, including nursing
Inquire at Appeal office. j6-1w
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Sacramento Saloon.

The place for enjoyment and rest,
eniov a fresh glass of Fredericksburg
beer and rest while drinking it. al7-tf
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
FOR RENT

Six-rOOm modern house, furnished.
Southeast corner Of capitol. Apply
214 Second street. Jl5-lw
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Wood. WOOD.

Block wood and slabs at Katie
mans wood yard. Phone 1911.
Prompt delivery. tt
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Candies and Fruits

Fresh made candies every day,
fruits and berries of all kinds, re
ceived daily by express. Free auto
delivery. Goodies. opposite post
office. i12-tf
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Special Sale

OF house dresses, priced as high
p s., to close out. Is cents each.
i6-tf SWEETLAND & DAVIS.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15
Summer Clearance Sale

Read the Carson City Daily Appea,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

Subscribe for me A roea)
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

In effort to serve their masters Republican papers are already open
ing their walls of abuse or President Wilson. But it won't get them
anything. Wilson's record is clear and historians OF the future will
place it alongside that of Washington. Jefferson and Lincoln.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-15

With their well-cared for hirsute appendages Hughe
will pass into history and be known as the fimbriated
reversion to Populism, as it were.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-08

Back in the days when Thomas B.
Reed was speaker of the house great
Juror was created when congress, in two
sessions, appropriated billion dollars.
Tom Reed remarked at that time that
this was a billion dollar country, but
the explanation did not satisfy the
Democrats, then out of power, who made
the next campaign against the RepubIi-
cans on the charge of extravaganza. If
the appropriations could be kept down
to a billion dollars at the present time
the pledges of economy would be re-
garded as fulfilled. As matter Of fact
the present session of congress-which
is only half congress, as there are two
sessions-has appropriated $l,50o,00O,-
000, and the end is not i'll sight.