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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-02
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Mystic Lodge, Knights of Pythias
meets tonight in Pythian Hall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
BY Mabel Abbott

1.-The Inter-County River I'm
provement of the White, Stuck
and Puyallup," is the formal and
official title of an undertaking
which is attracting the attention
of engineers all over the United
States.
1t will have cost $1,500,000
when 1t is finished.
Technical articles concerning it
have appeared recently in the En-
cheering Record and Engineering
News, and one of its features has
been practically adopted by en-
gineers in charge of the flood con-
troll fights in Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania.
But to the counties Of King and
Pierce, in the state Of Washing
ton, its interest is human and in
innate.
Twenty Miles of It.
1t is the healing of an old feud
that for years kept armed men on
guard in the valleys of the White
and Stuck; the ending of a long
fear that has haunted the days
and made restless the nights of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
BY Edgar G. Wheeler

Any day the st. Paul Methodist
church establishes dancing as a
regular Sunday evening feature
well, there won't be any st. Paul
church standing on the corner of
South 43rd and L.
Sunday evening dancing was
the drawing card included in the
invitation to attend services at the
st. Paul church, sent to me over
the phone last week by woman
whom / understood to be a men,
Der of the congregation.
1t looked good to me.
Dancing in a Methodist church!
or course it was too good to be
true, and I ought to have known
IL.
learned this-to my disap-
pointment, / must confess-after
chasing a wild goose all the way
from my home in the north end.
To the kind sister who invited
me to 60 to the st. Paul church,
holding out the dance as an in
ducement, l wish to say that
bear no i'll will.
While there were plenty of fair
ones there who looked to me as il
they might know how to dance in
fine style, there was no dancing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

the farmers along those rivers.
The inter-county river improve
ment project is nearly 20 miles
long, measured from the Indian
school bridge on the Puyallup riv-
er, along the Strengthened chan
nels of the Puyallup, Stuck and
White to the drift barrier between
Auburn and Buckley.
On the map, the new channel
is represented by lines as straight
as a ruler can make them, drawn
from one controlling point" to
the next, the controlling points"
being in most cases bridges over
the old channel which it would
have been expensive and unneces-
sary to move.
TIE old channel is indicated by
what-,looks like a giant snake,
writhing in convulsive loops and
oxbows and letter SIS on both sides
of the new one; and the channel
as it was meandered in 1872, is in
terwoven with both the later ones
like a tangled cord.
Rivers Always Moving.
These rivers have always chang
ed their channels as readily as a
snake changes it's skin.
A drifting log, hesitating on
and throwing the current
Continued on Page Eight
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

His forehead corrugated with
the effort to understand, his fling
ers writhing restlessly together,
loosening his collar, or tracing
nervous circles around his mouth,
John Pierwsza sat leaning forward
in his chair in Judge Clifford's
courtroom Monday morning while
physicians who on Sunday had
held an autopsy on his wife's body
described it's appearance and state
of preservation when taken from
the grave, and with the aid of a
model of a skull, illustrated the
course taken by the bullet which
killed her at Wilkeson Oct. 20,
and the SCATTERING of bone and
nerve and tissue.
Only when the attorneys went
into long hypothetical questions
full of medical terms, did he re-
lax, as If hopeless of comprehen-
sion.
During one of these moments,
a ghost of a smile touched his
face for second, as his eyes fol-
lowed the efforts of the bailiff to
eject couple of pigeons who had
flown into the court room through
an open transom and were cooling
noisily.
Then Alert Again.
Next instant he was alert again,
strained and watchful.
The prosecutor brought out tes-
timony to show that It was almost
impossible that with a wound
such as the doctors described,
Mrs. Pierwsza should have walk
ed In behind the stove, as the de-
Tense claims, or that she should
even have remained on her feet,
or retained sight or consciousness
after the shot was fired.
The cross-examination was di.
rected almost entirely at getting
the physicians to admit that while
highly improbable. these things
were not impossible.
DR.. Charles James testified thai
the bullet had passed below and
in front of instead of through the
middle lobe of the brain, and had
shattered the entire structure o.
the left eye, and so injured the
right eye that instant blindness
and loss of consciousness prob.
ably ensued.
II do not think" he said, "she
would have regained conscious
ness"
Marks on Throat.
He also said he did not think II
possible that IL she had been
standing looking out on the back
porch, when shot, she could have
passed around behind the stove
from either direction.
He mentioned finding some
marks on the throat that looked
like scratches, and In answer to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
CRUELLINC DAY
FOR PIERWSZA

a question as to whether the ma
ture of the wound indicated that
the gun had been held close to
her head when fired, said he
thought it must have been held at
some distance.
A portion of the skin from
around the wound which had been
dissected by the physicians was
brought into court by the prose-
cutor.
DR.. James testified that he
doubted If much blood had squirt
ed from the wound, but admitted
there might have been a hemor-
rhage from the nose. He also said
that II the woman committed SUI
eide, she would probably have
closed her eyes just before firing
the shot, in which case there
would have been laceration of
the eyelid; but that no such lacer-
alton was found.
The testimony of DR.. f. ]. Stew
art, county coroner, was along
similar lines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
Wheeler Finds Church Where
Young People Are Plentif I'll

Yet I'm glad I went, II only to
gather in some of the tips about
living, shot straight from the
stout shoulder of the hammer
jawed Rev. Mr.. Randolph.
One thing I'm very glad of is
that l didn't do many full dress
evening clothes or dancing pumps
for the occasion. Mr.. Randolph,
l fear, might have shot something
besides tips from his shoulder.
The st. Paul Methodist church
doesn't need dancing, take It,
to be red blooded. And Rev.
Randolph hasn't one foot in the
grave either.
Young Folks Everywhere.
What makes me think so? Just
because the church, even though
1t was an evening service, was
full of young men and young
women. They sang in the choir;
they played in the orchestra; they
were the ushers, in fact they were
the whole show.
Even the gray hairs in the con-
gregation acted as IL they expected
to live several more years in Ia
coma.
The pastor was young live
wire with streaks of gray IN his
hair. Youngsters scarcely out of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

Miss Chalmers stood ON the
wharf at Clayton, poised upon one
foot. Even the half-grown boy
who volunteered to find her q
boatman knew that she was an
cry.
1t was somewhat after nine
o'clock of an August night upon
the st. Lawrence.
The boy came back.
II got man who'll take you.
He's got a power-boat. and his
names SAM" said the boy.
SHOW me the man."
The boy made off in haste, with
Miss Chalmers at his heels. On
the wharf sat man, smoking q
pipe. He looked up at Miss Chal-
mers casually.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
FOR
BREACH OF |
PROMISE! |
Miss Valdron Wins Case
Against Rich Man She
Says Ruined Her Life.

Orr was present when the sealed'
verdict was opened and read.
Principals Absent.
1t was learned that after the
case closed late Saturday the Jury
deliberated nearly seven hours
before an agreement was reached.
There were four women and
eight men on the jury. The d.
vision among them, 1t was learn
ed, was not over the question
whether the Waldron girl was en-
titled to damages, but the amount
of damages which should be
awarded.
Together Six Years.
The evidence given by the girl
on the witness stand was that she
had given six of the best years Of
her life to Orr, trusting in his
promises to marry her, only to be
deserted in Denver when she was
about to become a mother.
She declared again and again
that she had loved him sincerely,
even after he had taken advantage
of her.
Many of her love letters to him
were read to the jury, during the
trial, showing that she had trusted
in his promises to her.
The Waldron girl lived in the
country about a mile from the
home of Orr and his sister In
Steilacoom. The testimony show
ed that they first met at a re-
ligious meeting at the Waldron
home.
Orr insisted he went to-the
Waldron home for religious in
struction, not to make love to the
girl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
recommends that PIG cent
piece be coined. How'll we
ever get change for it?
OUR OWN TRAVELOGUES
BY NJ. L. Uranium,

While travelling through Walla
Walla, l came across a peculiar
tree shaped different than any
tree I've ever witnessed.
The inside of it was covered by
the outside, and the branches
grew sideways and extended out
to the end of themselves, stopping
abruptly.
The roots grew in instead of
down and the tree supports itself
by growing two crutches at each
side. These crutches are harvest
ed by the natives each fall who
varnish and sell them to the allies
and their opponents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

Miss Chalmers temper was ris-
ing rapidly.
How dared you bring me out
here II you didn't Oh. lists
perfectly outrageous! It's"
She left the sentence unfinished,
siezed the lantern. brushed past
the boatman, and dropped to her
knee in the bottom of the cockpit.
The floor was oily and dirty, but
Miss Chalmers paid no attention to
that. Item by item, she inventor
led the one-cylinder pest.
Now, where's your socket
wrench" she demanded.
"Socket-wrench?" repeated the
boatman. That's new one on
ne. ! don't remember"
Continued on Page Two.l
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

stern-light Of the last regular boat
that would stop at Witherbee is
land that night.
An hour passed. Then the rhyth-
mical wheeze of the engine was
supplanted by series of irregular
choking gasps, and then-silence
The boatman sat up Iazily,
reached for the lantern, and held
1t close to the machinery.
Well, what IL the matter
now?"' demanded a cutting voice.
Engine stopped" said the boat
man.
Thank you for the informa-
tion." said Miss Chalmers, icily.
DO you know anything about en-
gines?"
Not much that's good"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

make stab," he said cheerfully,
shouldering the nearest trunk.
The boat took them, but not
without loss of freeboard. Miss
Chalmers stepped swiftly aboard.
There was an interval Of sew
eral minutes, during which the
boatman painted and heaved at the
flywheel. Five times the engine
started, and five times 1t stopped
with a sob.
Miss Chalmers turned abruptly
from her survey Of the river.
For Heavens sake, prime i'll"
she snapped.
The boatman twisted his head
and regarded her with undisguised
astonishment. He not only looked
at Miss Chalmers, but he studied
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

her hat, her gown, and her twen-
ty-dollar shoes.
That's a good tip" he OBJ
served, after satisfying his eyes.
Whereupon he primed the en-
CINE, and the boat buzzed away
from the wharf.
Miss Chalmers was but partially
relieved in mind when she found
herself being borne out upon the
st. Lawrence.
The day on the railroad had
been hot and cindery. and the train
was hours late at Clayton. To cap
that misfortune, she had arrived at
the wharf In time to get an excel
lent view OF the disappearing
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

Looking for me?" he asked.
II must go to Mr.. Stephen With
erbee's island--tonight," she said.
Can you take me there at once?"
Well" said the man, lit all de-
ponds on what you call at once.
I can take you there, but I'm no
speaking"
Take me, then!" exclaimed
Miss Chalmers. And get my
trunks"
The man shook his head doubt
fully.
SWIM" he asked.
why, err Oh, how ridicu-
lous! Will you or will not take
those trunks?"
"Oh, I'll take them--only may
be the boat won't. Anyhow wen
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
FABLE

Once upon a tyne woman
went into a butcher shoppe and
asked we butcher for rs cents
worth of round steak and he cut
off We exact amount of We steak
that she asked for instead of We
usual 2S cents worth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

AS soon as Sherlock Heinrich
solves the mystery of the Wilkeson
woman's death, we want him to
find out why AL Sommers Hisap-
peared so abruptly from the Com
mercial club secretaryship, what
has become of Col. Joab, why good
apples cost five cents each on the
fruit stands and a few other real
puzzlers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

A verdict OF $4,000 dam
ages was awarded by a jury
in Judge Cards court Monday
morning to Ethel Waldron
for breach of promise on the
part of Glenn Orr, wealthy
resident of SteilacOom. The
girl brought suit for 500, 900.
The verdict was reached Satur-
day night, and was returned seal
ed to the judge.
1t came at the conclusion of a
trial lasting all week
In which the plaintiff tainted four
times while on the witness stand
attempting to tell the story of
having been seduced, led on by
rosy promises of marriage and a
fine home, and finally deserted
in Denver by Orr.
VIII File Motion.
Orr, who is said to be wealthy
property owner of Steilacoom, de-
MED that he ever had been en-
gagged to the girl or that he had
promised to marry her, though
he admitted wrongful relations
between them. He said the girl
was always the aggressor in the
love affair.
Attorney B. w. Coiner, repre-
senting Orr, Immediately an
nounced he would file motion
for a judgment in Orr's favor not
withstanding the verdict.
Judge Card allowed him As
hours to file the motion. II 1t is
denied the case probably will be
Neither the Waldron girl nor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
WANT
Ml)NY
STORE,

Elimination of the commits
sion houses by means Of
community buying system, q
real public market where
farmers can sell directly to
the housewives, and use of
greater discretion by house.
wives In the purchase of table
supplies, are the three most
important recommendations
of Mayor Fawcett's food COM
mission, appointed two weeks
ago to investigate the high
cost of living.
The commission made q long
report Monday to the mayor. and
indicated that 1t had completed
an exhaustive study Of the Taco
ma food markets. 1t did not at
tempt to give the reason for re-
cent tremendous increases In food
prices, but suggested that a fed
eral food commission Of perma-
nent character could do much to-
wards maintaining an equilibrium
in the market prices.
The report Is signed by DR.. L.
"A. Rich, Erma Leach, Mrs. M. e.
Mighall, George Gum, Margaret
McConihe and Charles E. Madsen.
Recommendations.
Among the findings of the Ia
coma food commission are the
following:
Meat from ranches in the vicin-
ity of Tacoma is better and selling
at lower prices than foreign meat.
Prices are from to cents be-
low those in Seattle.
Housewives will find as much
nutriment in the cheaper grades
of meat as in the better cuts.
The Puget Sound fishing indus
try is meeting with an override
creasing' supply of fish, and the
better grades are all sent east,
thus causing a high price In Ia
coma. Instead of demanding the
more popular kinds of fish, house
wives may save money by buying
cod, soles, founders, herring and
skate.
Buy Fish Direct.
Purchase of fish direct from the
fishermen, II this could be ar
ranged, would cut the consumers
cost more than half.
Retail grocers are exonerated
from blame for the high cost of
foods.
Wholesale buying is urged as be-
ing one positive means OF cutting
down the cost of living. Apart
ment jewellers are handicapped
by a lack of storage space.
Substitute foods are urged.
Rice can be substituted for pota-
toes. Carrots and other roots
can be substituted for brussels
sprouts, artichokes and cauliflow-
er. Cabbage might take the place
Of celery, and squash Of sweet
potatoes. Cheese and nuts might
occasionally be used instead of
meat. Cheaper flour, such as the
hard flour of Montana, is Just as
nourishing and palatable as the
patent process white flour.
Propose City Store.
COI community DuyluS. LHe
commission suggests the estab-
lishment of q downtown store
where potatoes, apples, cabbages,
oranges and other produce might
be handled economically for the
consumer. This would be in the
nature of municipal grocery
store.
A real public market, where
vegetables, eggs, butter, cheese,
fruits and all ranch products
could be sold direct from the
ranchers' wagons to the house
wives, would be a boon to the
city.
Parcel post purchase of farm
commodities is recommended.
Local canning of fruits is caus-
ing high price during the fruit
season in the Tacoma market, be-
cause the canneries are now u.s.
ing nearly the entire local output.
Destruction of fruits by commits
sion men at times when the mar
ket is bottomless is condemned.
Legislation preventing this is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
FIR E N Oh
CABIN ct
FALL 6
(United Press Leased wire.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. II.
Premier BRAND has begun for
nation Of new French cabinet,
Ambassador Sharpe cabled the
state department this afternoon.
An earlier cablegram from AM
bassador Sharpe had said Premier
BRAND had rendered his resigna-
ton to President Poincare and
that 1t had been refused.
The later message said in eff
feet:
Premier BRAND is reorganiz-
ing his cabinet. / was misin-
formed regarding his resignation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

The Cudahy Packing Co.
earned 40 per cent on Its COM
mon stock in the year ending
in October, 1915. The size
of the profit shows the high
prices of meat are due to the
war and not to any desire on
the part of the packers to pay
large dividends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
CAPTURE REFUGEE

PENDLETON, Ore, Dec. IL
Tracked all night through the
snow, Harvey Bensene, alleged
bandit and escaped county jail
prisoner, was captured today as
he lay in bed at the Henry Hend-
rickson ranch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
HEADLIGHT Law o. X.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. II.
The supreme court today at
firmed a state court which declar-
ed Indiana's electric headlight law
for locomotives constitutional.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
LAND SHARK MAD!

Hal We have discovered influential citizen who opposed to
bringing the army post to Pierce county!
He very much against the ideal
It E. F. Gregory, land shark
Gregory remember the individual who made great
TODD about the possibilities of ngatng the gravel
prairies.
He actually did irrgate small tract after gobbng large
at low price, and the strength Of his showing raising
garden truck managed resell at greatly advanced small
investors part of his holdings Much of what he sold has back
to him.
He obtained his fine results manurng the experimental
den heavily real friend Gregory could
have made equally convincing showing had he cultivated patch
cement sidewalk for the the fertilization watering
and not in the richness of the soil
Gregory more recently made himself famous by advertising in the
the foolish prophecy that Tacoma
slump fearfuy in Wilson reelected Wilson the
land shark had to acknowledge publicly his bad judgment
Now he violently opposed the coming the army post
he the two million dollars that he could bring
settlers onto the land than the post will bring soldiers
He terribly afraid that the condemnation his holding going
to shut off profitable Good Thing He knows he can't sell
his So land for 5000, as he likes 20 do.
He is dead against the project
Verify this is the Year of Promise With F.
fighting it, the enterprise is o win.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

THEY ARE STRENGTHENING THE PUYALLUP. THIS
is MURPHY CUTOFF ONE SMALL SECTION OF THE 20
MILE INTER-C COUNTY RIVER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
pierce county years 100000
pledged spend like amount in
rebuilding very troublesome Puyaup river And
agreed chip in $4,000
year keep Yet this project
than vaguely
Abbott entirely
enterprise engineers, series of
country detailing the already made
Editor0
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

their teens called him brother"
Also, when Rev. Randolph land
CONTINUED on Page Eighth
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
Talk O the Times
Greetings, have you patron
lied a church sale yet?

Ice is one commodity that does
not appear to be going up right
now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

A Washington paper says Will
son himself did the carving at the
Thanksgiving dinner in the White
House. AS many men have said
before, the greatest president
since Lincoln.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11
LEST WE FORGET

LEoI W u FOItUEI
The kaiser, king and car
are first cousins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

The director of the mint
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-12-11

The first woman in the Un1to1
States TO be an assistant attoFuGo +
general Is Miss Clara Ruth l1u1um
Of Denver, appointed By LorcfjL
Hubbard, I'm appreciation Of 49,
ans part In Colorado politics.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-12

Rev. Alex w. Bealer wrote an arti7
Gle for an Atlanta paper Sunday in
which he deplores the decrease in
South Georgia weddings. The said Rev.
Alex w. does not know all about
South Georgia. He could find lots of
competitors in Cordele and Crisp coun-
ty, or at least he might find warm
competitor in the person of Judge w.
P. Fleming, one of whose various Of
fetal duties is to perform the wedding
ceremony. Cordele and Crisp county
are not guilty
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-12

Reverend DR.. Small is coming to
Cordele under the auspices of the Geor
gia Anti Saloon League. DR.. G. w.
Eichleberger, ct al. to save the COM
munity from the demon rum. Sam
Small is a mighty good speaker. but
deliver us from all that prohi argy-
ment Mrs Mary Harris Armour was
to have delivered a lecture here a
week ago on the same subject, but
she became too i'll for the task. The
Reverend Sam ought to take warning.
local pastors are out of town con-
Quoting revivals.)
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-12

If you do not believe in the sale OF
the state road, read what Bill Burwell
had to say about it in a statement two
weeks ago. Get it and go through the
figures. 1t is easy. This appears to
be an honest statement by a man who
knows. He did not seem to be after
office when he made this statement.
Most of the people of the state who
are capable of reasoning things out
will agree that the sale of the state
road is not a bad idea. Like it is, it
IS a fine thing for the politicians and
4 rather poor investment for the peo-
pie of the state
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-12

Sentiment after May l is going to
have more to do with observance of
the prohibition laws than anything
else Those who believe they have
performed the last act in making the
state dry when the new law goes into
effect, will find yet work to do. PePr-
sonal self-respect is the thing that is
going to weigh most now with the man
who has heretofore wasted his life
and his earnings in drink. The law
as to liquor traffic has been made large
ly what we think it ought TO be. Now
let our prohibitionfsts direct their eff
forts to mstilIing in the topper" a
deeper respect for himself, his home,
and the laws OF his country. In the
new field there is much work to be