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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08
$40, 4O7 IOWA SCHOOL CHILDREN

There are 679,407 persons of
school age in Iowa, according to
report issued Friday by w. H. Will
liams, revenue clerk in the auditor
Of states Offices. The report shows
the permanent state school fund now
lis S4,S04,445.
The sum of s10S,259 will be APP
portioned, March 1, among the nine
ty-nine counties in accordance with
the number of pupils, at the rate of
1882 cents per pupil. This is the
semi-annual apportionment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08
Permanent Afliction.

"Oh, papa!" exclaimed the joyous
girl, as she tapped her boot with a
whip, what do you think of my new
riding habit?"
Daughter" replied Mr.. Growcher
after a solemn survey, that doesn't
look to me like habit 1t looks more
like permanent affliction."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08

was we'll known and had many
friends, who will be sorry to hear Of
his death.
The funeral services will be ErTi
this Wednesday afternoon from the
n. E. L. church, Rev. Carlo A. Sper-
att, officiating, with interment in the
Norwegian cemetery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08
Infant Baby Boy Dies.

Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. jayne are
mourning the death of their infant
son, born to them last Wednesday
morning. The child passed away the
following day. The sympathy OF
many friends is extended to them In
their loss.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08
Ask for the
New EDISON

Forgetthe various trade ohe various talking
All talking machines like last years fashions Edison
has developed music be heard only in his
invention the New Edison Diamond Disc Photograph
claims to have talking machine that equals the
New Edison, ask them it has publicly in
comparison with living artists. and
them let what the had about the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08

l New York there are two phrases always used in
L conjunction in describing Anna Case! "A wonderful
voice and raving beauty" She is of surprising ply
steal charm and she has voicesuch voice, fresh
and slvery soft caress and yet youths vreness in
every note ss.ssM2
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-03-08
Come to Us and Hear

Come to and hear EdSonS actual Re Creation of the
work the worlds vocaists nsumentalsts
kind of music. No beyond Ed.
SOn'S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

deprived her of property worth
$4,000 through fraud and false
promises.
Testimony in Menominee dis
trict court is to cover the wan
behring's of May Dugas since she
left Menominee, and will include,
it is said, stories of badger
games" worked in the underworld
of American cities, in which her
brother Jean posed as her hus-
band, after the baron had paid her
$4,000 to get divorce.
High society, in which the
baroness moved alternately
with alleged operations in
the neither life, also will be
brought in.
IT'S charged the baroness in
1901 helped daughter-in-law of
Mark Hanna evade writs and flee
to Europe with her children.
Her adventurous past came to
light only in 1914, when she was
sued in London on $4,000
fraud charge by DR.. e. I. Apple
by, ex-professor Of chemistry in
the University of Minnesota.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
MAY GUST
MONTAGUE

Health Officer Montague will
lose his job at the city hail, and
Bacteriologist Henry will handle
both positions, according to ten
tative plan suggested to the coun-
ell by Mayor Fawcett during Mon
days budget elaboration.
The city is paying DIR. Montague
$1,000 a year and DR.. Henry
$3.50.
II don't like to interfere with
the efficiency of the health de-
partment," declared the mayor.
but If it Is necessary to make any
further cuts, Will sacrifice DR..
Montague.
There Is no reason why the
bacteriologist cannot handle the
health department as well as his
own work. He Is a physician, as
well as graduate bacteriologist,
and is highly recommended"
The council agreed with Faw-
cett, and advised him to make ar
rangements to release DR.. Mon
tague January /. DIR. Henry has
not yet been consulted on the
matter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Tacoma's bad Man" Who
Would Not Be Saved Does
All Convicts Grave injury

Seattle. A mounted policeman
tried to arrest him. Shots were
exchanged, and one of the Off
GERS bullets found Judgment
among the nerve centers of the
bandits spine.
Hildebrandt would not Re
saved, and as punishment he must
spend the rest of his life with a
pair of lifeless limbs.
Met Him i'm Prison.
During the five days that
served last spring as voluntary
convict in Walla Walla in order to
obtain a true picture of prison life
l met John Hildebrandt.
Never having heard his his
tory, I found nothing about the
one-armed convict to set him
apart from the 700 others IN blue
gray suits. He was q mild. af-
fable prisoner, with "trusty" no
sition In the prison library. He
spoke little, but was not morase.
After the prison authorities
had learned my identity and re-
leased me, Warden Drum showed
me the proof" of an article that
had been printed for the prison
magazine, Our View Point"
The article had been written by
Hildebrandt. It was a MASTER
piece of its kind, and was later
published verbatim by the convict
editors.
Hildebrant told of his early ex-
perience in Walla Walla. He spoke
of the horrible tortures OF former
administrations. or the dungeon
sentences, and the torture Of the
stream of cold water turned upon
the convicts' naked bodies, and
the whippinss that were a regular
course Of prison discipline.
Hildebrandt was then one OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
SIX SHIPS AT ONE TIME

The railroad yards were increased two
months ago by the addition of 25 new
tracks.
When all the engagements at the ter
minals have been completed, it will be pos
sible for six ships to load or discharge at
the same time.
At the special request of Tacoma citi-
zens, both old and new buildings will be
painted bright yellow, the color of the Mil
waukee trains. 1t will be quite impossible
for even the most casual Tacoma visitor
to fail to see them.
This suggestion is responsible, said Mr..
Ingersoll yesterday, for the Frightening of
the landscape all along the $500 miles Of
Milwaukee road, as the company was SO
pleased with the idea that 1t is painting
pretty nearly everything it owns yellow.
While Mr. Ingersoll was giving me the
facts and figures for the foregoing news
story, he furnished me, all unconsciously,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

Representative ]. II. Davis, OF
the s37th district, long one OF the
leaders in the legislature, has vol
unteered to introduce a memorial
in thb lower house, urging wash
ington, D. c., authorities to re-
store the original name OF the
mouptain.
This, taken with the announce
merit of Senator Walter S. Davis.
of tie 9th district, that he will
Introduce the memorial In the
senate. starts the movement off
with a hearty push.
j. III. Davis says:
YBeplying to your favor OF TINS
date. regarding the name OF our
nountain, will say that it will be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

the pioneers among the prisoners.
but other convicts told me that
every word of his story was true.
Murder and suicide were COM
mon in those days." wrote the
convict.
THE impressions are still SO
vivid in my memory that even
now sometimes awake in a cold
sweat. The dying, unearthly
shieks of some unfortunate as he
leaped to kind death from the top
tier of the cell house, are still
ringing in my ears"
Records show that tortues
caused many to commit suiside..
II spent five years in soli-
tary confinement in Five
Wing for refusal to work
longer in the jute mill after
having lost my arm in the
machinery, and finally had to
give in, as got SO weak from
lack Of proper food and ex-
ercise that ! was carried over
to the hospital to die"
Hildebrandt had served IA
years in Walla Walla, after start
ing his prison life as boy of IL
when he was sent from Tacoma to
Continued on Page Eighty
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Claim Prosecutor Laid Plans For Murder OF Wifi
DENOTED:
SMITH SAYS MORE
CHANGES ARE DUE

More transfers in the Tacoma
police department were announc-
ed by Chief Harry M. Smith Mon
day.
Police Sergt. c. b. Lindsay was
promoted to night captain of de-
tectives, a position third i'm i'm
portance in the department. lie
takes the place of Night Capt.
Frank Geary, who was denoted
to the rank of detective.
Reduces Veteran.
Jack Ellison, who has been a
detective nearly 20 years, and
Detective Fred Thompson, were
reduced to the rank of patrolmen.
Plain Clothes Patrolman Peter
Modahl was promoted to the rank
of detective.
Sergeant Lindsay has been an
officer of the police department
for eight years. During the last
three years he has acted as SER
geant, and has proved a highly
efficient officer, according to
Chief Smith.
Big job for Lindsay.
This promotion is made both
because Sergt. Lindsay deserves
credit for his past efforts, and
because | feel that he will be a
credit to the department in his
new position" said the police
chief,
Lindsay will be in complete
charge of the department from 4
o'clock each afternoon until the
following morning.
Because he is the only police
captain on duty during the night
hours. his position is virtually
that of night chief of police.
The Importance of the promo
ton is indicated by the fact that
10 per cent of crimes occur at
night.
Chief Harry Smith announced
Monday that today's changes in
the police department were a
forerunner of ageneral shake-up.
There are a great number of
necessary changes to be made, =
said the chief, but ! cannot ac-
complish everything at once. The
entire department will be reor-
ganized during the next few
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

(Newspaper Enterprise Assoeiation)
MENOMlNEE, Mich, Sept. 20,
Dangerous Girl was not writ
ten about May Dugas of Menomi-
nee, either before or after she
met and married Baron de Pal
landt Won Erdeherdt. master OF
hounds for the princess of Wales
when Victoria was queen.
il was VIM. Pinkerton,
detective. who called her
"tlte most dangerous woman
j ever met"-pOlice of three
continents having by then
taken note of her comings
and goings.
Now the baroness Is being sued
in her old home town by girl
hood friend, Franc Gray Shaver.
woman attorney of Highland
Park, ILL.,, and Menominee.
Miss Shaver charges the bar
oness, under guise of friendship,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Jimmy DAVIS WILL
co TO BAT, TOO, FOR
ABOlISHINC RAINIER

a great pleasure to me to father a
Joint memorial to congress, in the
house at the next legislature,
changing the name Rainier to a
good, patriotic, American name,
and in using the word American,
| mean all that the word conveys,
and it is best defined by naming
it the original name of the noun
tain"
Judging from the letters thus
far received from members of the
Pierce county delegation in an
swer to The Times inquiry, the
delegation will be solid for the
change, and it will be well sup
ported by members from other
parts of the state.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
BY E. A. Peters
John Hildcbrandt, the man

John Hildcbrandt, the man
who would not be saved!
He lives in the Emergency
hospital at Seattle, paraIyzed
from the hips to his toes, the
victim of a pOliceman's bull
let. His right hand was torn
away years ago when his
sleeve became tangled in one
of the huge grinding ma
chimes of the Walla Walla
prison jute mill.
He is a MANNED and pitiful OBJ
iect, this man who would not be
saved.
Yet no one seems to pity John.
Unless possibly the mother who
gave him birth is still alive.
John Hildebrandt is an cx-con-
Wit. a Tacoma boy who has spcnt
II years. more than half his life,
behind prison bars. For I 5 years
of the II he was an active enemy
of society. During the last two
years OF his prison life he has pro-
claimed to his fellow convicts that
his soul had undergone a regen-
GRAFTON. He had changed from a
brute-man into human with q
love for humanity.
Sent Up for Murder.
At least, the prison authorities
so believed him.
Warden Drum determined to
bring q climax to his experimental
transformation OF John Hide
brandt, and he induced Gov. Lis
ter to give the convict a condi-
fional pardon. John was q "lif-
err" sent up for murder
And the convict had only been
out of prison a month when he
held up an unprotected yesaan IN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
BELIEVE
ALIBI IS
FRAMED
Omitted Press Leased wire)

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. rs. -
'Premeditated murder" is the
theory upon which the state will
base its prosecution of Oscar
McDaniels, county prosecutor, 1t
developed today.
The state will attempt to show
that the murder of Mrs. McDan-
iels was planned weeks in advance
and that the alleged quarrel on
the night of the killing served
merely to bring the plan to a
climax.
Working on this theory, Spe-
cial Prosecutor Bart Lockwood
will try to show that the threats
upon McDaniel's life and the
anonymous letters received before
the killing were inventions of Nc
Daniels as part of an alibi..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
We Don't Want
to Get In Bad

We don't want to appear insistent about this, but
We do know that if you fail to start the Novel-a-
Week beginning today page that you are going
to regret it. And we don't want you to blame us.
At the bookstore it would cost you $3.50 or there
abouts. And we give it to you in your regular Times
in six big instalens for the regular price of the six
papers-SIX CENTS.
Page2.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
HERE'S A FACT 10
POSTCARD TO YOUR
FRIENDS BACK EAST

That this wild and wool
ly" frontier town of ours
has one OF the most modern
and expensive hydro-electric
plants owned by any munich
paiitl and that We are selling
ourselves electric current for
lighting, heating and cook
ing cheaper than Any city =
America.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Married In
a Drugstore

Anxious to marry before
their friends could find 10
out, II. l.. Mccain, of Auro-
ra, ILL.,, and Miss Hazel Ad-
ans, of Savanna, found
Judge A. j. Gray in a drug
store and the marriage csre-
mony was performed there.
An obliging clerk played
the wedding march on 4
photograph.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
DEFINITIONS

Humility-An unpopular, old
fashioned pastime engaged in by
few.
Ambition-The greatest slave
driver OF all ages, whose victims
slowly drown in the Quagmire of
unhappiness.
Money! miser's and; hap
by mans means to an end.
Dead Ones"--A term applied
to those we really respect for
their dignity and decency; in 9TH
err words. the "old-fashioned."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Second Trial for
Wealthy Merchant

OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. 25.-
The second trial of Adolph Uhl,
wealthy merchant, on charge of
manslaughter as a result of kill
ing Miss Bess Smith with his au-
tomobile. began this morning in
the superior court. The jury in
the former trial disagreed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
TRAINING CAMP
AGAIN NEXT YEAR

The business mems military
training camp Will be held at
American Lake again next year,
and the attendance will be much
larger. according to Stephen APP
pleby, vice president of the North
west Business Mems Prepared
ness League.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

weeks, and more than half the
men will be affected"
All changes made now are SUBJ
Iect to approval of the civil serv-
ice board. All men promoted
must take examinations later for
their new jobs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

Chicago merchants and
manufacturers declare that
this winter will see the cost
of living ut an unprecedented
high scale. This can be met
by raising wages proportion
ately.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
DODGERS
BEATEN
BY CUBS

United Press Leased wIre.)
EBBETTS FIELD, Brooklyn,
n. Y, Sept. 25.-Fighting the an
cry Cubs in their efforts to hold
the lead in the National league
pennant race, Manager Robinson
of the Dodgers, sent Larry
Cheney, former team-mate of Joe
Tinker'ss men, against Chicago
this afternoon in the first game
of the double header. Lavender
was sent to the mound by Tinker.
With the aid of tenth inning
rally in which Workman got
homer over center field, Chicago
took the game, to 4.
Final score:
n Fl r.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Talk o the Times
q Now turn to the new novel on page 2.

Greetings, are you getting
ready to kiss 1.-THE curse"
goodbye?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
3 WAREHOUSES; TANNED

Two warehouses I'm Seattle and six in
Tacoma were jammed, and 700 carloads
stood on the tracks at one time, unable to
unload. That was last April.
The Milwaukee's 1500-mile extention to
Tacoma has been justified. There are 156
new cities on the line now. Six or seven
steamers month come from the Orient,
instead of two.
1t may be necessary, Mr.. Ingersoll saws,
to build fine new passenger depot before
long.
That is the story behind the big structure
that CLEANS with the shine of new lumber,
through the blue haze on the bay, and
sends the snare-drum rattle of hammers
floating over the water to the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
FLASHES

UNITED Press Leased wire.,
PARlS-Allied troops have
won victories on practically every
sector of the Macedonian front.
the war office announced Mon
day.
BERLIN-A German Zeppelin
has again bombarded the forti-
fled city of Bucharest, capital OF
Rumania.
FORT BLISS, Tex.-At the
bugle call to "fall in" today, 49,
900 national guardsmen, COM
prising the Pennsylvania division,
started on one of the longest
hikes ever attempted by a militia
unit. The line of march mapped
out covers 100 miles over the
mountainous regions of New Mex
leo. Four days have been al
lowed for completion Of the trip.
NEW YORK-Theodore Roose-
welt is "monstrous survival OF
a pre-neocene age OF human
thought" according to DR.. John
Holmes.
GREENWICH, Conn.-Trixie,
pet squirrel of Greenwich,
couldn't eat nuts after she shat
tered tooth, SO the inhabitants
clipped in and bought her a gold
one.
CHICAGO = Seven million
persons of manageable age res
main single because of the ex-
travagance of women's wear
said the Rev. F. w. Swift, to the
women in his church Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

One of our evening contem
poraries again is tearing immens,
holes in the circulation" figurei
our other g. c. Even yet, as II
the days of old, will the pot cal
the kettle black.
Have You ridden ON Louis
4 Beans new Old Town rail-
f1iyvers?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

Still another argument for the
short ballot these days is the soar
ing price Of paper.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
Chick Evans Will Tell
Tacomans Golf Secrets
Golf bugs!

Here's something you cannot
AFFORD to overlook.
s'Chfck" Evans, the only golfer
who EVER won two titles In one
yearAis going to tell Times read
ere IN three meaty. illustrated
ARTICLES, some of the secrets that
help&d him to his present golf
eminence.
How the champion drives, how
he approaches and how he puts.
are described so that any reader
can see and understand.
The first article appears today
on The Times highly entertain
Ing sports and amusements page.
TODAY'S CLEARINGs
ClsArings ........$ 391,971.94
Balances ........ 66,467.b4
transactions 49,. 1.017,411.61
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

Anyway, Rev. James s. West
waited until big Jess was safely
out of the city before springing
that sermon about persons with
Jess willard bodies and Tom
Thumb souls"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25
YES, THIS El THE
YEAR OF PROMISE
BY MABEL ABBOTT

Construction work and dredging, begun
in June costing $425,00O.0O, which will
more than double the export and import
freight capacity of the Tacoma terminals
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Ry.
and make them the largest and most mod
ern of their kind in the Northwest, are
progressing so rapidly that part of the new
freight warehouse probably will be in use
by the latter part of October, according to
j. l.. Ingersoll, assistant to the vice pres
ident, and the whole is expected to be fin
shed by the first of the year.
The great structure which is beginning
to loom up in something like its real pro-
portions, a quarter of a mile south OF the
old warehouse, on the west side of the
Milwaukee slip at the end of the bay, is the
new freight warehouse, 1000 feet long, $50
feet broad and rs feet high.
1t will be used for export freight, and
the present warehouse will be used entire
ly for imports.
Four hundred and eighty thousand cubic
yards of earth are being dredged out of the
channel, to deepen it SO that the largest
boats of the Oriental fleet can be unloaded
at the extreme inner end of the slip More
dredging is being done now than when the
channel was first constructed
Electric trucks will be used throughout
both warehouses to handle the freight, the
company maintaining its own charging sta
ton for the batteries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-25

BERLIN-A German Zeppelin
has again bombarded the forti-
fled city of Bucharest, capital OF
Rumania.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
BOMB SUSPECT Is ARRESTED Az
TER AUTOMOBILE PURSUIT

Pittsburg, Pa. December thames
Reed, 26, years Of age, believed TO be
German, was arrested today in
connection the explosion at the Fort
Pitt works of the Aetna Chemical
Company which cost three lives. The
explosion occurred last night. Of
ficials declared after brief investiga-
ton that they believed the plant was
blown up and search was begun for
Reed, an employee OF the eompany's
oakdale plant when that was partially
wrecked by bomb only a few months
ago
Reed was arrested several miles
from the plant by officers who pursued
him In an automobile, Federal officers
took a hand In the investigation today
and are known TO be searching fol
three men suspected OF completely II
alleged bomb plots to blow up NUM-
tons plants.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-12-14
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
iDflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when IL Is entirely closed, Deafness Is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition OF
the mucous surfaces.
We give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.