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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
BY Mabel Abbott

The ancient feud between Pierce
and King counties over the shift
ing of White river and the conse-
quent flooding of sometimes the
Duwamish and sometimes the
Stuck and Puyallup valleys, was
practically ended by the formation
of the Inter-County River I'M
provement commission and the
provision of money by both coun-
ties for flood-control.
The actual work of straighten-
ing and protecting the channels
of the White, and the Stuck and
Puyallup through which 1t was
thereafter to flow, taking care OF
the constantly accumulating drift
which was one of the most serious
causes of damage, and making i'm
possible the return of White river
to the north channel, is now half
done.
Think Of 30, 900 Cords!
The drift has been cleared from
much of the channel, piled in
heaps and burned. One such pile
alone contained 1000 cords Of
wood. Over $4,000 cords have
been cleared out thus far.
A large part of the river has
been disciplined to geometrical
straightneas, its banks bulkheaded,
or sloped and lined with huge
blocks of cement fastened together
with steel cable and laid on a
brush mattress SO the action of the
water will only settle them more
firmly into place.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

Continuing their campaign to
shut off the booze supply which
steamers have been bringing into
Tacoma from British Columbia,
Tacoma police and county officers
swooped down on the steamer
Northwestern at midnight, just
after 1t had arrived at the Smelter
with q cargo Of ore from Alaska.
AFTER a search Of the vessel
from stem to stern, the officers
unearthed 80 quarts of bonded
wfiisky; and two gallons of port
wine. hidden in the forecastle.
Cecil Augusta Rodriguez, the
cabin boy, was arrested on a state
warrant charging him with un-
lawfully selling booze.
The raid en- the Northwestern
was the result of a tip received
by the police that the cabin boy
had been selling in Tacoma whis-
ky that he had purchased in Van
couver, b. c., and had struggled
here.
The police have been convinced
that crews of steamers entering
Tacoma have been engaged in a
systematic booze traffic between
the British Columbia ports and
Tacoma. 1t is understood they
buy whisky in Vancouver at $40
a case and sell 1t here at 80 a
bottle.
Every vessel that arrives in this
port is being watched closely.
Monday night the steamer Grace
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

Its course has been attended by
much Encouragement of fields, Or
chards and dooryards.
Makes Many Changes.
John Batchie's land, at the end
of the Schoenbachler road, Is a
mile nearer Tacoma than It used
to be. because the road now runs
straight along the levee instead of
winding with the river.
The Bryan school cutoff runs
exactly where the school building
formerly stood.
]. Killers frog-pond is gone.
This frog-pond presented a prob
lem to the right of way agent, as
Hitler declared 1t to be the most
valuable portion of his property.
81 got my hens trained SO they
catch the polywogs," he explained,
land they get most of their feed
that way
The Bryan school cutoff is 1000
feet long, takes the place of loop
5000 feet long, and lowers the
river four feet.
Big Dredge Does 1t.
A $4,000 electric dredge, de-
signed by Mr.. Walter, is eating
steadily into the soft silt of the
Murphy cutoff.
Three million cubic yards of
earth will have been moved be-
fore the work is done.
The new channel, however, radi-
cal as It is, will not consume in its
entire length as much valuable
land as did the old ones often in
a single flood. Not far from where
the dredge is now working, the
contractors have their lumber
stored on half an acre which is all
that is left of H. Nyman's 13-acre
farm, which went into the river In
the flood of 1906. Hardly a loop
or an oxbow in-the whole tangled
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
MEXICAN
REVOLT
SPREADS

JUAREZ, Mex, Dec. 13.-Im-
portant movements Of revolution
lists under Jose Robes, south of
Mexico City, are in progress today,
according to reports brought to
the border by foreigners, who de-
clare that the city of Puebla, an
important city about 100 miles
south of Mexico City, Is in pos
session of the revolutionists.
Anticipating another attack up
on chihuahua City, nearly all the
remaining Americans and foreign
ers are planning to leave the city
and come to the American border.
A party of foreigners about to
take the train here for Chihuahua
City early today received tele-
graphic advice from Gallego,
which said that a body of troops,
believed to be bandits, were dis
cerned in the vicinity of Gallego,
and the trip was abandoned.
Chinese from every part OF the
state of Chihuahua are streaming
to the border on every train, ter
rorized over the fate of their
countrymen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
THE WRONG KIND!

various Northwest cities In
bringing tourists here. FAR
FROM IT!
However, II the tourists
were to follow the slides
shown by Secretary Cuth-
bert as a guide, he'd proba-
bly, come to the Northwest
over the Canadian Pacific,
spend most of the summer In
Vancouver and Victoria, and
make a side trip to Portland,
catching q glimpse Of Taco
ma and Mt. Tacoma from the
car window ON the way.
Certainly It is mp to the
Pierce county delegation to
the legislature to be dead
sure just how the $4,000 a
year is going to be spent be-
fore 1t Is appropriated by the
state of Washington. We
want publicity, but publicity
that will count-for WASH
ingtOn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

is TACOMA WILLING
FOR THE STATE OF WASH
INGTON TO PAY OUT
$4,000 TO ADVERTISE
BRITISH COLUMBIA IN
THE EAST?
IL the illustrated lecture
given by Herbert Cuthbert in
the Commercial club Tues
day afternoon, is a fair ex-
ample of the sort of publicity
the North Pacific Coast Tour.
list association intends to put
out to attract eastern tour
lists, then this city better had
look to itself before 1t wastes
it's money.
Cuthbert is secretary of the
association which has receive
ed the backing of the com.
merclal organizations In
Washington, Oregon and Brit
ish Columbia. 1t has the
backing Of the Tacoma COM
mercial and Rotary clubs.
Cuthbert lives I'm Victoria.
Every other executive officer
of the association lives either
in Victoria or Vancouver, b.
c., with q few local vice pres.
idents sprinkled about.
The association is directed
and managed from British
Columbia and has its head
quarters there. 1t was Or
ganized last fall.
1t is asking $4,000 q year
for the next two years from
the legislatures of Washing
ton and Oregon to carry on
the publicity campaign. And
Secretary of State Howell
has recommended the appro-
priation by the Washington
legislature. e
1t Is asking only $12,50
from the British Columbia
parliament.
Fine business, just SO long
as the campaign benefits the
entire Northwest! The Times
not only has favored, but has
strongly urged the spending
Of money, and plenty Of It,
in WISELY advertising the
unsurpassed attractions of
Tacoma and the Northwest
among eastern tourists.
But Tuesdays lecture,
which was given as an Illus
tration of the character Of
the proposed publicity CAM
paign, pictured In glowing
color the wonders of British
Columbia chiefly, Of Portland
q good deal, Of eastern WASH
ington home, and Of Tacoma
hardly ut all.
The lecturer called Taco
mas mountain mt. Rainier"
When he Saw he was In bad
with his audience, he said
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

he'd compromise and call it
"The Mountain" A little
later his tongue slipped back
into mt. Rainier" again.
The lecturer, in picturing
the wonders of Willamette
valley, placed 1t ON the map
near Spokane!
HE SHOWED MANY PIC
TURES OF BEAUTIFUL
PARKS IN VICTORIA AND
VANCOUVER, AS WELL AS
MT. BAKER PARK IN Sc
ATTLE. BUT HE SHOWED
NOT ONE SLIDE AND SAID
NOT ONE WORD ABOUT
PIT. DEFIANCE PARK IN
TACOMA!
The whole show filtered
the impression that British
Columbia and the Canadian
Pacific railway were slipping
q good one over on us.
1t Is not our purpose to
discourage cooperation of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
LOVE rs SPURNED;
ATTEMPTS TO DIE

Gus Raskey, age 81, shingle-
weaver at McKenna, cut the arter-
les in his left arm with q razor
Tuesday, hoping to die. Friends
say he was respondent because
the girl he loved was cold to him.
He was brought to the county
hospital at Tacoma by Deputy
Sheriff w. E. Humphrey and DR..
Hall of McKenna, and will get
we'll
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
Colgate's Gift
Packages

Our Drug Section shows Che
most complete stocks of these
popular and high grade American
toilet preparations in Tacoma.
The gift packages are very at
tractive and contain perfume,
toilet water, face powder and
sachet, in the following doors:
-Florient. Radiant Rose, Splen-
dor. Violette, de Mai.
All large sized items beautifully
DOXeu lot $o.OO
Another combination includes
Perfume, Toilet Water, Soap and
Talcum In the following doors:
-Monad Violet, Eclat and La
France Rose, in attractive gift
boxes, at $3.50
Also weekend and comfort
packages in attractive gift de-
signs at ........ BIC and 5Oc
--Colgate's Perfumes and Toilet
Waters in every popular odor,
In beautiful gift bottles, each in
gift box, from ..25c to $500
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

Telephone Stand, with
chair of solid mahogany,
dull finish ....... $1,000
Sewing Stand, quarter
sawed oak, waxed golden
finish, Mission style $500
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

ches diameter, at .$25.OO
Writing Desk, in mahog-
any finish, large writing
table and drawer, at $500
smokers Stand, of quar-
ter-sawed oak, with large
drawer and ash tray $2.25
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
RAID STEAMER.
SEIZE LIQUORS!

Dollar was raided and two of her
officers were arrested on govern
ment warrants.
Tuesday nights raid was led by
Police Capt. Cornish. Others who
Joined in the search were Deputy
Prosecutor George Thompson, Po-
lice Officers Modahl and Shafer
and two of the prosecuting attor-
ney's special detectives.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
TRYING TO SMASH
$4,000 VERDICT

A motion to set aside the &c.,
900 verdict given Ethel Waldron
In her breach of promise suit
against Glenn Orr was filed in
court Tuesday by Orr's attorneys.
They also asked that suit be dis
missed and that defendant re-
cover costs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
COUNTIES BUILD
~ $4,000 BRIDGE

A $4,000 double-arch concrete
bridge, 10 feet long will be built
across the Nisqually near McKen-
ma by Pierce and Thurston count
les jointly, It was announced
Tuesday by Chairman j. w. Stay
den of the board Of county COM
missioners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
TACOMA MAN DIES
IN LOS ANGELES

DR.. B. F. Eshelman, formerly a
resident Of Tacoma, died Sunday
in Los Angeles, friends here re-
ceived word Tuesday. He was q
member OF Lebanon lodge f. &
A. M. of this city, knight Temp
lar and o Shriner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13
MACY BOOKCASES
Possess Beauty-Highest Utility

"A gift that will permanently
beautify the home. Our dis
play of these well known Sec
tional Bookcases Includes
-Chippendale, Old English,
Art Craft and Standard designs.
In mahogany or oak, in
golden and fumed finishes, g.
section cases, with top and
base, vary from 5000 to 500
Tilt Top Table, solid mahog-
any, with pie crust edge, 2s
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-13

This Is the third and final
article of n series descriptive
of the 81 100000 flood pre-
vention project.-EditOr. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairtar

Dear Miss Fairfax; l am engaged to
marry very steady. hardworking young
man, Recently thinking might hear Of It
from some other source, my fisnce told me
of q very disagrceable affair he had with
a girl In his home town four or five years
ago. ] am sorry he told me, because on
thinking Of It feel considerable contempt
for him. Now do you think I should let
this interfere with my happiness. or should
try to forget the incident RUTH q.
Intolerance causes large amount
of the unhappiness in this world.
Since your fiance has been honest
with you and the affair is matter OF
years ago, is il not possible to for
give and forget? | do not approve OF
the laxity OF this worlds standards in
regard to masculine morals-but one
has to accept the conditions of life
as they are. After all, none Of us has
a right to judge anyone else, II his
misdeed did not spoil another girls
life | think you ought to meet his
frankness with complete forgivness,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
In Praise of Forming

necessary in every occupation and
that never fail to insure the acquire
ment of independence, and who now
is one of the wisest men of my &C
quaintance.
He is abreat of the times. If he has
not read novels, he has read news
papers and solid books. He has not
neglected his winters, when farming
is play. Last summer | got from
him in few vernacular sentences
sounder judgments on the European
war and on our own political affairs
than | have heard from anybody else
He has never had any vocation but
that of farmer, yet he is as truly
in touch with all the world as the
best-informed city man that know
If he had gone to the city when
young he would have become rich
merchant or a successful lawyer, and
would probably have died and been
forgotten years ago, But on the
farms people live longer and are re-
membered longer.
He. at least, bids fair for ten years
yet to enjoy the aroma of the same
dewy hayfields that he moved when
a boy, and to listen to the tinkling
music of the same bob-o-links that
then entranced his ears at sunrise.
Has he lost anything by staying in
the country among the green hills
within sound of the romantic Scho-
harie roaring down its rapids and
scooping out cool deep pools for fish
in the lee of its huge boulders?
And now, a more modern instance.
In that same land, which the red
lroquois loved for its beauty and its
gifts, | know young farmer, de-
scended from a line of farmers, a
university graduate, instilled with the
knowledge of scientific agriculture,
armed with the best and most in
genious implements and accessories
that invention, aided by steam and
electricity, can furnish, whose farm
is as instructive and interesting as
any shop or factory~or store in exist
ence, and where the visitor feels that,
far from having left the world behind
him and plunged into side current of
existence, he has rather found a CEN
ter of life, society, and intelligence of
the most refreshing and inspiring
kind.
His wife is also a college graduate
woman of beauty, cultivation, re-
fined tastes, wide reading. They have
their automobiles, their telephones,
their instrumental music, their news
papers, books and social relations. To
converse with them is a privilege and
a pleasure. Their children live in the
free, fresh air, and are sent to schools
where the advantages" l suspect, are
greater than in the great city schools.
They would not exchange farming for
any vocation that you could offer
them. Farming is working with ma
ture. 1t came in with Adam and it
keeps Adams descendants as close to
paradise as man can get,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

If you are one of those foolish
souls who look for trouble, make
up your mind at once to right about
face and look in the opposite direction
from now on.
1t is a good thing to remember
that almost everything reaches its
greatest value in anticipation
pleasure and trouble alike, pain and
delight as we'll
Worrying about things doesn't
make them one bit easier to bear
but instead weakens ones powers
of endurance and means that a GER
tain amount of energy which ought
to be expended in the actual meet
ing of situation has been wasted
in planning how to meet it.
The troubles for which one looks
very often fail to arrive-but in their
stead come others which it takes all
of ones strength to bear at the mo-
ment of their coming. Isn't it
tragically foolish then that one bit
of strength and force should have
been wasted in imagining how one
would endure an unpleasant set Of
situations which one never had to
endure?
The girl who is doomed to spend
her summer in the city is very
likely to wonder with self pity how
she is going to get through the
long, hot, lonely days and the sultry
uneventful evenings. Then perhaps
cold, rainy summer arrives where
she has to endure all entirely differ
ent set of conditions from the one
about which she was worrying.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
SIOUX CITY WOMEN
GUESTS IN OMAHA
Haye Breakfast at Field Club,
Play Golf and Go Home
Tired.
RETURN OF A VISIT THERE
Rx MELLIFICIA-Aug. Is.

When Mrs. C. H. Ashton and Mrs.
III. L. Arnold of the Field club were
in Sioux City a short time ago they
had most enjoyable time on the golf
links of the Sioux City Country Club
with number of their friends: In
deed, such an enjoyable time did they
have that arrangements were made
for a repetition of the pleasure at the
Omaha Field club in the near tu-
ture. Accordingly last evening"
company of Siouxans invaded Oma-
ha and This morning have made the
Field club their headquarters. This
afternoon they expect to return to
their own land, tired but happy.
In honor OF her house guests and
the house guests of Mrs. Arnold, Mrs
Ashton entertained at breakfast at
the Field club this morning. The
same guests and others of the party
took luncheon at the club as the
guests of Mrs. Arnold. The party
consisted of the following from Sioux
City:
Mesdames- J. NJ. Lyons.
Thomas Dealtry, Fred Morgan,
| L. 7. Knepper. Green, Sr-
Fred Toy. Groen,
And the following:
Mesdames--- Mesdames--
blaine Young, w. @. Silver.
II. u. Arnold, w. w. Richardson
C, H. Ashton. OF Lincoln.
Leila Werner,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.

If, like many young men whose
requests for advice l read, | stood
in the morning of life, but possessed
of the experience that, in its even
ing, Eliminates, like sunset, the
road behind, | think that | should
choose agriculture for my vocation. l
was born among farmers, and farm
ers who have never left their fields
are among my most faithful and
most admired friends. So l can
speak with knowledge of farm life,
There never has been time in the
history of our country when such
speaking was more needed.
One Of the gravest errors that can
enter the minds of young people is
the widespread belief that farm life
and farm work are incompatible with
the best development OF the social
and intellectual qualities of men and
women. If | did not know that that
is untrue | should not have made
such statement as the one with
which ! began this writing. I would
shrink with horror from any occu-
patton that shut me off from mental
exercise, books, study of nature and
of man, converse with intelligent
fellow creatures and social enjoy
ment. Life on the farm does not
/ shut off any of these things, while
to some Of them it gives double
value.
Many of the most successful
young farmers now are college
men," Their preliminary intellectual
training equals that of lawyers, doc
tors, bankers, and merchants in the
cities, and no more than these are
they prevented by their work from
pursuing the intellectual avocations
which every well-endowed mind
should have in addition to the voca-
ton which is the main stem of life.
1t is through these avocations,
these side issues" that half, and
sometimes much more than half, of
mans influence over his fellows,
and upon his times, is exercised. The
vocation is the trunk of the tree,
which establishes it in its place and
gives it individuality and stability;
the avocations are the branches and
the leaves. the flowers and fruits,
which are useful and pleasant to
others as we'll to itself. ,.....
Now, for some concrete examples
among farmers. know man,
eighty-five years of age, whose formal
education was obtained within the
walls of district school," who had
never been off the farm. except for
occasional visits to towns and cities,
who, in his active years, exercised
! the industry and frugality that are
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
Looking for Trouble

1t is a good idea to remember
that nothing is very serious--and
that we give things value and i'm
portance hopelessly beyond their &C.
tual gravity.
In looking back over the events of
last month who does not smile at
something which then seemed very
agonizing? Perspective changes the
appearance of things greatly. An
emotional nature exaggerates things
frightfully at the actual time of their
happening. The poised and balanced
nature doesn't make the blunder of
taking its own pleasures or its own
sorrows too seriously. 1t knows that
nothing lasts-but life is change and
fux and alterations.
Since this is so, why agonize over
something today which doesn't seem
very important tomorrow, specially
so since you only wear yourself out
and leave yourself unable to contend
with tomorrow's situation?
None of us has any more than just
certain amount of vital energy at
given moment. What's the use Of
borrowing tomorrow's store in order
to meet today's events? What is the
use of running to meet trouble half
way when trouble would probably ar
rive soon enough without invitation
or encouragement?
Mercifully we all have it within
US to forget. Wounds heal. Men,
ory shrouds pain with kindly mist
of time. The sane person does not
anticipate too much of joy or too
much of sorrow. But he remebers
both with a wise and tolerant smile
rather than with feelings either of
ecstacy or agony.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
Reducing
Weight By
Fasting

Here is an actual diet for FIVE days
with which ~ pounds of weight was
subtracted from 1870 pounds. The
woman was ten pound over weight
for her height. She began to reduce
by taking only cup Of coffee, sugar
and cream in it, for breakfast. Having
hardly any appetite for breakfast, this
was no hardship:
March s1--wcight at II a. m., ts0. pounds
Lunchcon--Oue cup clear beef soup, one
apple. one slice graham bread, one cup Of
tea.
Dinnsr--small portion of fish. peas. pine
apple. tea,
April weight. 1fs pounds.
Breakfast-Coffee and one egg.
Luncheon--Two tablespoonfuls creamed
Ash, one apple. tea,
Dinner--Tenderloin Of beef, tea.
April 2---same weight as yesterday. Quite
disappointed. Hungry after two days alb
| stinence
Breakfast-smali portion OF escalloped
| oysters. pleasant to chew on.)
Luncheon (had to eAt)--Small slice rare
beef, stewed apples, celery, salad, tea.
Dinner-veal outlet. Ice cream. tea.
April s-Weight 127M pounds. ..,a.
After coffee for breakfast took nothing
but milk--a glass whenever l was too hun
try to stand It. About three pints Of milk
April 4--weight 1876 pounds.
Breakfost--Grapefruit. one egg. one piece
of bran toast, coffee
Luncheon--some chicken left over from
the family's dinner. carrots, stewed Rpricots.
Dinner--Rare beef. spinach .stewed fruit,
April 5--weight, 12Sh pounds
The advice given some 1000 years
ago about fasting--not to disfgure
your face when you fast, but to
anoint it, is still good advice.
II will avail you little to make your
figure slim and your face flabby. That
is one OF the reasons your doctor
will advise you against exercising on
your days of greatest abstinence. You
must not let fatigue lines get into
, your face. Watch it, massage it, use
plenty of cold cream, freshen it with
bit of ice and refresh yourself with
long slcsp.-Margaretta Tuttle in
Saturday Evening Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
Luncheon for Mrs. Lehmer.

Mrs. Irving Allison entertained at
luncheon at her home in Florence to-
day for her daughter, Mrs. Charles
B. Lehmer of Charlton, Ia, who is
making a months stay here. Garden
flowers were used on the table. Those
present were:
MesdAmes-- Mesdames-
Maloy, Charles b. Lehmer.
Frank Lehmer,
Misses Misses
Madge Maloy, Mildred Allison.
Mayme Maloy.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
Eastern Star Picnic.

The Fontenelle Chapter, Q. E. 3,
will hold its annual picnic at Elm
wood park Saturday afternoon from
2 o'clock to $50. At $50 the picnic
supper will be served.