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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
Letters Are
Refused Stars
Omitted Press Leased WireJ

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 20.
Walter Hess, quarterback, and
Archie Erichart, star halfback on
the Indiana football eleven, were
refused "I's' by the faculty here
today for alleged professionalism
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
FOUR CARIBOU OUT OF FOUR
SHOTS is SURE SOME RECORD

Second of a series of articles
by Jack Jungmeyer, Of The Times
staff, on the hunting sport of
Alaska.-Sporting Editor.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
TIDE AND WIND

The following information
il compiled by federal ex-
perts for the benefit of Taco
ma sportsmen:
Wednesdays Sun.
Rises, 1853 a. m.
Sets, 1923 p. m.
Thursdays Sun.
Rises, 1853 q. m.
Sets. 1929 p. m.
Wednesdays Tides.
Time. Height Time. Height
2:19 ALA Gas .. 81
1916 p..18.7 1850 p. AZ
Thursdays Tides.
ago a..12.l 1851 q. .9.8
1884 p. .13.7 8:32 p. 10
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
DETER'S csGkU,
L IFFLE *

Mr.. Miller Higgins
st. Louis, U. s. A.
Dear Hug
o o o
BY the papers
That you want
o o o
To trade your
Whole alleged
Ball club
o o o
For a bike racer
o o o
Or . chess player
o O o
Or anything.
Now Hug we know
You're q lsquare guy
And don't want to
o o o
Horn anybody
o o o
So let us tell
o o o
A story about
O o o
friend who had
o o o
An old cat that
Used to bring home
o O o
A new mess of kittens
Every now and then
o o O
And he took the
O o o
Kittens down to
o o o
The river and
o o o
Chucked 'en In.
Now Hug, why DON.
You take your
Alleged bali club
Down to the river
And hsav. EN- ovsr
o o o
Then you wouldn'S
o o o
Have to have 'esn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

Mrs. Georgia A. Robinson, re-
Gently appointed policewoman In
Los Angeles, is the first colored
woman In the United States to hold
such a position. She speaks French
fluently and is studying Spanish.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

Arnold. This was one OF the most
successful of the Kids matrimon-
ial exploits. II lasted five years,
Mrs. Ellis getting q divorce in
1910.
A year later Mccoy married
Mrs. Edna Valentine Helm, a rich
divorce, now seeking divorce.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

Tonight will be the last oppor-
tunity to see the absorbing and ad-
mirably acted photoplay 1.-THE
Fires of Conscience" with William
Farnum and Nell Shipman, at the
Apollo.
Tomorrow Mary Miles Minter,
the young star who has establish
ed herself as a prime favorite
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

Iho nations toll to the fire de-
1 n approximately s 200 deaths
~ and : property loss Of $500
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

One of the tensely interesting
scenes of the big birth control
drama, 1.-THE Unborn"
Endorsed by press, pulpit, So
cial workers and the general
public, 1.-THE Unborn" a new
birth control film, will come to
the Hippodrome Saturday for
short engagement. Such au-
thorities as Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
the noted authoress, Rev. Hamil-
ton Wright of New York and
Prof. Dean Wells, sociologist,
have placed their stamp of APP
proval on 1.-THE Unborn" and
join in asking that mothers
everywhere allow their children
over 16 years of age to witness
the moral lesson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
Racer In Six Day Bike Contest
Worries Not of Broken Bones

ers Of the bike game. declare he
will be in at the finish II both legs
are cut off.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
BY Jack Jungmeyer

Four caribou in four minutesl
That was the toll falling to Paul
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20
CORRECTION

3 In Tuesdays paper we an
3 nounced that Cal Sullivan I
Q had won boxing match !
9 from Jack Shaughnessy at :
o Steele's gymnasium on the :
. previous evening. This was I
o an unintentional error. I
D Shaughnessy was given the I
o decision. Our treat, Jack!
8
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-20

Hanging around
o o o
Or cheat anyone
o 0 O
Or anything.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
LINING UP EoR HUGHES.

The executive committee of the Wo-
MANS NatHenfd Committee Of the
Hughes Alliance. at a meeting at the
Hotel Aston, July 10, formally started
the campaign to unite the women
throughout the country of u parties
in both suffrage and nottsuffrage
states in support of Mr.. Hughes.
The committee has started to secure
in the shortest possible time a cen
trail committee of one thousand, an en-
rollment of one hundred thousand and
a preliminary budget of 100000.
The constitution of the WOmen's
National Committee declears the sole
object of the Alliance to be to aid the
election Of Charles E. Hughes to the
presidency. Any woman in the cOun
try may become a member upon the
approval of her signed enrolment
blank by the executive committee.
There are to be no dues or member
ship fees required for enrolment. but
all members are invited to contribute
An interesting provision of the con-
stitution is that no local branch or
auxiliary organization of the Alliance
shall be known or designated as rep
resenting citizens of any particular
foreign extraction. This is in line
with the policy of Americanism, which
is TO be direct and. dominant issue OF
the campaign. .......a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
IT RusIMess Ioagfidook.

"vorv I;t,iso" 4dR8Soi !, 2 sanrgs 1924 10 lda
tected in the financial situation, for
better or for worse. The war drift
lis peacewards, the increased intens,
ity of hostilities Fastening the end
York letter. Mexican affairs have
settled down into state of quietude
which may be permanent if the con
ciliatory spirit on both sides proves
sincere and stable. The domestic pc,
litical campaign has not yet started
and the real drive will not begin un
til both candidates have formally an
nounced their acceptances and poll
cies. General business is fairly act
i've but summer quiet is spreading
Some improvement is reported in the
crop situation as a result of the warm
spell. The corn crop was estimated
by the government report at 1885,
100000 bushels before the recent rise
in temperature, or only 1S0,000,000 be.
low last year; and teh wheat crop at
100000, 900, or 252,000,000 bushels less
than last year. But $4,000, 900 bush.
els of wheat are left in farmers hands
from last year, and it must not be
overlooked that last years crop OF
wheat was phenomenal and corn eX.
ceeded the record. Bank clearings
and railroad earnings prove by their
large gains the sustained increase OF
business activity. Such figures are
of course affected by high prices
though the upward tendency in many
commodities has been stopped, and
not few articles have declined with
indications of further weakness com.
ing. There is confident spirit
among business men in general based
upon a sound development of he
country's resources, and no longer up
on the war which seems to have
spent, its extreme influence upon
American business affairs. In future
the war will be factor chiefly in the
approach of peace, which in some
cases will naturally require radical
adjustment of output and prices to the
new basis. This process has already
begun, Transactions on the Stock
Exchange were moderate in proper.
lions. Liquidation in the industrials
continued, especially in munition. Dep,
per and auto shares which have had
an exaggerated rise and subsequent
fall. Railroad shares held their own
we'll" .-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
WHY SYRIA sIARuEs.

That Syria has been unable to feed
its own Christian population and al
the same time satisfy the military au
thorities' extraordinary demands for
supplies is not surprising to those ia,
miliar with the primitive agricultural
methods of the Holy Land Concern.
ing the mapperi in which crops are
raised in this section OF 8he Near East
where 5Q00qUpeQpler aEe,Treported to
have persisted already and whefe the
entire Christian population seems
doomed unless Aemrica's representa-
tons to the Turkish government are
needed, John ID. Whiting presents a
graphic picture in a communication
to the National Geographic Society.
Mr., Whiting says:
In the mountain districts the farm
land is usually owned by peasant pro-
prietors, each mans property being
composed of various small pieces
scattered about near the village In
whichs he lives The raising OF oil.
ives. grapes and many other gruits
IS the leading occupation. but almost
every farmer grows some grain.
Down on the plains larger fields ex-
ST and ce.'eals are largely planted.
The land d given village Is IRE
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
LINCOLN AND DAVIS.

Des Moines Register: The Register
has received a letter from Robert
Kissick, a civil war veteran of Oska-
loosa, protesting against the linking
of the names of Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis in an address deliver
ed in the national house of representa-
tiyes on the birthday of Davis, by
Representative Aswell of Louisiana
I M. JAsweli -saif. 1880. r--, !
/ in the early sixties the one
was loved by the north, the other
by the south. Today the north
and the south join hands in hon
oring the memory of both, rejOic-
ing together that America pro
duced Abraham Lincoln and JEFF
fersOn Davis-he one great in vic
tory, the other no less great in
defeat"
There is less to criticise in what
Mr.. AsweIl said-for it is becoming
pretty well recognized that Jefferson
Davis was a man of high principles
although Of mistaken policies-than
in the conduct Of the house of repre-
sentatives as a whole.
The house failed to adjourn on
Memorial day until o'clock in the
afternoon. but plodded along in the
regular routine of business, and Their
passed a motion to adjourn out OF
respect to the day, when the day was
over so far as any. public exercises
were concerned. That might have
| been merely due to the stress of pub
| lie business, but the house found
occasion to devote practically the
7 NH 40 ~ oh TnF
| ferson Davis anniversary.
1t looks very much as if a DELHI
crate slap at Memorial day was in
TENDED.
Nothing that is said in these ami
versary addresses counts for much
The south fought an honest fight, and
although the leaders of the confed
eracy are. eulogized without stint, ma
one in the southern states ever says
the outcome was to be regretted Mr..
AsweIl is a loyal American, and one
who has made a great contribution
to the calse of industrial education in
the south That he should think
Davis as great in defeat as Lincoln
was in victory is not to his discredit.
IT depends upon a mans own nature
whether he is as deeply moved by
Davis cry in the last moments of the
confederacy that he represented "a
people too proud to eat the Ieek or
bow the head to mortal man." as by
the generous efforts of Lincoln to
reconcile the north and south.
Whatever spirit of disloyalty there
may be in the south is purely histor-
zeal. 1t does not relate to the pres
ent or the future.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
DO YOU EAT YOUR a BUSHELS?

O. F. Cook in the National Geograph
ic Magazine: The instructive prejudice
against new food plants prevented any
general utilization of the potato in
Europe Cor two centuries after it was
brought from Peru by the Spaniards
and it did not begin to be grown as a
Icrop until the period of the French
| Revolution. Even then it had to be
forced Oh the public by the persistent
offots of the Fench philanthopist, Par.
mentier, who demonstrated its food
possibilities by establishing a large
number Of soup kitchens for the poor
iofiParis. Potato soup still bears the
name Parmentier-a homely memorial
but one that might not be ungrateful
TO q; philanthropist.
Historically speaking, the general
utilization of the potato is still rela,
lively recent. Less than century ago
it was still considered as something OF
a novelty among the farmers of the
United States. Contrast with this the
fact that about 4OO,00O0OO bushels of
potatoes are now produced annually
in this country. and the worlds crop
must be more than 6,000,000,000 bush
els.
The world total of six billion bush
els means that if the potato crop of
the world were divided equally, there
would be enough to give each inhabi,
tant OF the earth about a bushels OF
potat99s, The value of single po
tato crop probably much exceeds that
of alHthe gold that the Spanish con.
IGuerors took from the Incas.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
COAL OUTPUT lN COLORADO.

Coal mining in Colorado quickly re.
covered from the effects OF the strike
in 1913 and 1914, and, according to
G. r. Lasher, of the United States
Geological Survey, the production in
1915, was S,624,9S0 short tons, values
at S13,599,264, an increase of 454,421
tons or 51a per cent, in quantity as
compared with 1914, although the to.
tai value in the two years was practi.
cally the same. The increase is due
largely to the resumption of the op,
GRAFTON Of mines (notably those in Ere
mont county, that were shut down in
1914 by reason of the strike. The
greatest increase was in Fremont coun
ty, but the output of El Paso, Garfield
lGunnison, Las Animas, and Routt coun
ties also increased.
There were no labor disturbances in
the Colorado coal field in 1915, and the
car supply was plentiful.
The number of men employed in
creased from 1O09S in 1914, to 1892
in 1915, but the average number of
days of work decreased from 244 to
1874. The average daily output per man
was 3.5S tons and the average yearly
output was SOS tons, as compared with
3.32 and 500 tons, respectively, in
1914
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
WIDE TIRES SAVE ROADS,

Iowa is unfortunate from the stand
point of good roads in that the use o.
the narrow tired wagon is almost uni
versal, There is no greater destructive
force in Iowa today than the narrow
tired wagon. Oklahoma, after AN eX
tensive study of the question, in hel
new road legislation forbids the sale
of any draft wagon of two tons ca
pacity, or greater and having iron OF
steel tires with a tire width of less
than three inches. The law applies to
the dealer and the penalty is a fine
of not less than five dollars nor more
than twenty-five dollars for each We.
hicle sold in violation of the act. Iowa
instead of forbidding the sale of the
narrow tired vehicle, offers a bonus
for the farmer who voluntarily makes
use of the wide tire.
Long continued tests by the United
States office of public roads have show
conclusiyely that for the average farm
wagon used for general purposes and
over any type of road, the three-inch
tire is the most economical width. Il
has the additional advantage, with the
average farm loads, that IL is road
builder instead OF road destroyer.
Ii would be hard to figure Just. what
mart of the cost of road maintaining
the Iowa narrow tire actually, costs
each year. but men who have made
study of the matter place it at many
thousands of dollars. If the Iowa farm
er will adopt, the sYideo tire, says the
state highway combustion. he will
perform a great SERVICE, to the com
n urity III ,heipibs to obtain better
roads.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20

the village into the vineyard, The
grape season is looked forward to as
the best part of the year, and at this
time the natives live for the most part
on fruits and bread. Jokingly the
fellaheen say that they get so fat from
eating grapes that their fezzes burst.
Olives are harvested in the fall,
but by method so Injurious to the
trees that they yield a full crop but
once in two years. Instead of pick
ing them by hand, for time is not
money with these .easy-going people,
they beat the, Eees ,WitE Estickg TO
KNOCK off the frTfiG Mhichf& &he bame
time results in destroying the tender
shoots which should bear the next
years fruit. The olives when sailed
or picked in brine are valued food,
flor a peasant can make a meal of only
bread and olives, with perhaps the ad-
dition of a raw onion.
sheep as well as goats are MIXED
by the women, and the milk turned
into chees and butter. Butter is
made in goat skin like those used
for carrying water. This is only half
filled with milk which has previously
been allowed to sour. The skin is
blown full of air, the opening tied up,
and it is hung on a tripod of stocks
and shaken back and forth by one or
two women until the butter is
formed"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
NOTE FROM Mr.. RAMsEYER.

In a letter to the Herald from Hon
c. w. Ramseyer, congressman from
this district. he gives a little insight
into affairs at Washington in the fol
lowing cheerful words: Congress is
still In session with no immediate pros
pect of adjournment The House now
has before il the Revenue Bill. That
will pass the House next Monday. At
ter that the House will be engaged in
less important matters and marking
time until the Senate catches up. There
Is no prospect of adjournment before
the first of August. II tie shipping bill
is passed In the Senate. IL will likely
mean a filibuster which will hold Con-
gress in session till the latter part OF
August or maybe later. or course. IL
war should break out with Mexico.
which at this time does not seem like
~, or other foreign complications arise
Congress may not adjourn before elect
ion. I intend TO be at home and take
mp the campaign just as soon as Con-
gress adi0urns The reports coming In
here from all over the country on
Hughes nomination are all highly sat
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
GIVE TIE BABY A CHANCE.

!, Bad air, bad milk, over-crowding
poverty, dirt, ignorance, heat--these
combine in summer to kill the city
baby. 1t seems as though the brunt OF
the cities sanitary sins were focused
on the baby. The baby didn't ask to
come, to live in hot, dark, alright
tenement, to be fed on dirty, halt
spoiled milk, to be pestered with f1iss
and mosquitoes. He is not responsible
for any Oh these conditions and it is
his right that he have fresh air, clean
surroundings and decent food. The
United States Public Health Service
issues free of charge to all applicants
bulletin on "The Summer Care OF
Infants" 1t should be in the hands OF
eVeryimother. e. .,..,e
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
THE "MoosE" WENT HUNGRY.

Under the caption of Hard Luck
West Publishing Co.'s Docket, in re
viewing recent court cases says
Judge Preston, of the Iowa Supreme
Court, was called upon in the case oil
Mueller v. Western Union Telegraph
Co., 1856 Northwestern Reporter, S27
to pass on the correctness of a Judge
ment awarding $3.50 for physical pain
resulting from kicking a Moose" a
considerable time without food and
Idepriving him of certain other privil
eyes. Plaintiff, Moose delegate, being
in need of funds while in attendance
at convention at Detroit, Mich, di
ERECTED money to be wired him through
the agency, of defendant, but, due to
its alleged negligence, he did not re
tceiye it, which facts are, the, basis oil
his claim for damages. 1t was held that
the plaintiff was entitled to damages
for loss of time at the convention, he
being paid for his attendance by the
lodge, and for the expense incurred in
sending the message for the money
which the defendant failed to deliver
The court says it thinks plaintiff shoul
have made other efforts to obtain a
small sum of money for food, but
makes no suggestion as to whether
this should have been by house to
house canvass la Weary Willie style
.or otherwise AS to the item of dam
ages alleged from plaintiffs inability
to take a sleeper on his return trip, no
damages could be allowed in the alb.
sence of proof that he would have. tax
en- a berth if he had received the mon.
ey. The court did not directly decide
whether the damages were excessive,
but reversed the case"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
MORE GROUND ADDED
City Purchases Additional Acre For
- Dumping Purposes.


Oskaloosa has added another acre
to its dumping grounds at the south
west corner of town. City council
men in regular session Monday even
ing voted to purchase of Mrs. Annie
Mullen Babbet an acre OF ground ad-
joining the present city holdings or
dumping grounds, lying west of M
street and north of the Rock Island
right-of-way. Councilman Albert
Mendenhall was authorized to close
tho deal for $500.
Would Fill Street.
Charles Phelps of the Ideal Manu-
featuring company asked the city
council at the Monday evening ses-
sion for permission to dump the re-
fuse Stag from the melting furnace at
the old Harrington foundry into Sec
ond avenue, south of the property,
the material serving as material
Tor the filing and proper grading OF
the street between the Burlington and
M. & st. l.. tracks.
The matter was referred to the
street and alley committee and tho
city engineer for investigation and re-
port ezsf naf
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS.

The sum of $S5,000,000 of federal
funds is made available for the con
struction of rural roads by the pas
sage of the Federal Aid Road Bill
which became a law on July IL, 1916
OF this sum. $4,000, 900 is to be eX
pended for the construction of rural
post roads under cooperative arrange
ments with the highway departments
of the various states, and S10,000,00G
is to be expended for roads and trails
within or partly within the National
forests. The act limits the federal
governments share in road work in
cooperation with the states to so per
cent of the estimated cost of con
struction. Federal aid may be ex-
tended to the construction of any rural
post road, excluding all streets or
roads in towns having a population of
$500 or more except the portions of
such streets or roads on which the
houses are, on an average, more than
200 feet apart
Five million dollars is made avail
able for expenditure during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1917. and there
after the appropriation is increased
at the rate of five millions year until
1921. when the sum provided is twenty
five millions, making total of seven
ty-fiye millions. In addition, an ap,
OF one million dollars a
year for ten years. total of ten mil
ion dollars, is made available for the
developer snt of roads and trails
wholly or partly within the national
lorests.
The class of roads to be built and
he method of construction are to be
mutually agreed upon by the secretary
# agriculture and state Highway de-
,artments.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20

Where winter feeding is practiced
it Is believed that yearling steer will
cost approximately $50 and a long
two-year old $45. In the range sections
Of the Southwest on the other hand,
the costs may be estimated at from
SIS to SIG for yearling and from $40
to SIS for two year old. With sheep
there is a similar variation. In Califor-
mia the cost OF producing lamb is
placed at s1.55, in the Southeast at
$l71 and In the Northwest at $1.82.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-20
BUILD THE LOOP

Oskaloosa Times: With the pros
poets for the greatest crowd in Oska-
loosa the. city has ever seen during
the Mahaska county Fair this fall.
comes the problem OF handling the
people We understand some sort
OF mass meeting Is now in coptem-
piation with View to devising ways
and means for looking after the
crowd The long talked OF loop IN
the street car line. Ii seems TO lIsS
should be built now II Is job