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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
FEAR PIONEER
WAS MURDERED

d. w. Rutherford, who has been
driving piles for the city street
car line. William Smith, 2534
So. G street. chauffeur, report
ed to the police that he was call
ed to 21st and Jefferson Sunday
afternoon, and that he took
Smith to his home on the water
way. This was within two hours
of the time when Smiths body
was found. He had not been
drinking. the chauffeur said.
No motive for murder has been
found by the police. Smiths
watch and money were in his
pockets. His house had not
been ransacked.
The Waterman was so years
old, and Is survived by a sister,
Mrs. c. s. Little of Orting.
Coroner Stewart will perform
a post norton late Monday. Po-
lice detectives in the meantime
are making a rigid investigation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

future.
l also notice one paper takes
serious objection to the advance
as proposed by the gas company.
Now why any paper or any per-
son should object to this, advance
I fail to understand.
Surely the "gas" company
should be allowed the same privi-
lege as all others and not be ques-
toned on this very common yet
fashionable move they make.
Its terrible "crime" to try and
stop the "gas" company's action
when the coal dealers" in face
of definite statement made by
the authorities said coal would
not be more than $3.50 or So a
ton agreed to advance coal to $40
a ton, did anybody complain? Did
any of our authorities start any
action to stop the combine? II
SO please say when and where?
When the combine of milk
dealers" decided to advance on a
second advance of milk, did any,
body (outside your valiant paper,
who saved the day. get after the
milk dealers? If they did it was
on dark night and they were not
seen, or 1t was in some paper
printed with invisible ink.
When prices of meat kept going
up, UP and UP we were told that
! is was caused by eastern packers
and Tacoma packers could not
help 1t. But when good old Uncle
Sam stopped the Chicago packers
from exploiting the "pooro" peo-
pie in the east what happened In
Tacoma? Why our local ackers
rushed in the press and told us
the action taken by the U. S. gov
eminent in Chicago did not effect
Tacoma, and we are paying today
the highest prices in the country
for meats.
| Everybody is satisfied and per-
fectly content to feel that what
a local packer said is all that is
necessary.
Again when flour was up and
down we read of our good, kind,
philanthropic friends, the bakers,
meeting and about them being
forced to raise the price of bread
to 15c a loaf. Now flour is
cheaper and we still pay lie for a
loaf, Just like they did In c,t~
in California until "Mr. Law"
stepped in and arrested them,
then they made the same loaf for
cents.
Now Tacoma is paying the high
est price for the poorest broad
made in the U. s., q wonder why
the pure food inspector doesn {
analyze some fthe bread made
in Tacoma), yet everybody is sat
isfied; nobody is kicking.
Now enter the moving picture
shows. U. s. most justly taxed
this industry. The government
imposed a tax of / cent for every
10 cent seat so they offer eyecy
apology and are sincerely sorry
THAT they have to raise the price
that was unjustly advanced only a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
CARLINE
RUNNING
AT LAST

Bright and early Monday morn
ing two of the big orange-colored
interurban cars of the municipal
car line began making regular
trips between the Puyallup river
bridge and the Todd shipbuilding
plant.
Service all the way to 18th AMI
Pacific will begin this week as
soon as Manager Bean signs con-
tract with the city for operation
of the line. In the meantime
passengers must ride on T. r. & p.
cars to the Puyallup bridge, and
transfer there.
Between 1000 and 5000 Ia
comans took advantage Of the free
rides Sunday and jOurneyed
across the new line to the Hyle-
hos waterway. The crowds were
SO large that four city cars were
damned to capacity all afternoon.
The city is printing commute
toin books, by which workmen
will gain 6-cent fares across the
flats. These books will contain
a large number of one-cent tick
cts, SO that conductors will not
have to bother making penny
change.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
Wake Up!
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Noticing a piece in your Ed
tors MAIL" would like to point
out to the people of Tacoma a
real, 1877" patriot in Mrs. E. H.
Bowie the writer.
Do you think our enemy, the
kaiser, would spend that amount
of money on a flag, simply to
have the honor of having the
largest in the world? No, in
deed! His motto is Economy"
and it has been ever since the
war started. Even tho he be our
enemy, let us take lesson from
him.
Should we buy this flag, what
would we have? 1t would not
protect us from our enemy. 1t
would not keep our boys from
freezing in the trenches this win
ter, neither would it feed them II
they were starving.
The kaiser would not respect
it, and isn't that what we are
bending our supreme effort to
make him do? Why not take
the money to buy bullets to
force his respect, or clothes to
keep our boys warm, and food
to feed them?
Suppose they should fail thru
lack of these essentials, what
good would our flag be to us
then? What good was the flag
of Belgium to the people who
loved it when these grim neces-
stiles failed?
Does our flag stand for a bunch
of silly fools, who would raise
enormous funds, in spite of our
country's urgent need, to make II
a Golden Calf? Or does II
stand for a sensible, sacrificing
people who realize, thru the ex-
periences of their unfortunate
neighbors, that they face an en-
envy whose arch-plotting and
deviltry knows no bounds?
should call such extrava-
gance an unpatriotic, pro-German
act. Our expensive flag would
have been an appropriate gift
! had the terms been peace, but
this is War! War, in its most
1 horrible of forms.
| People of Tacoma, you are
having peaceful dream in these
| perilous times.
Wake up the sooner you dc
the better it will be for you, and
the worse for the kaiser.
Yours as a War eMasure,"
M. A. RUSSELL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

her expatriated husband.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 20.
-Filibustering expeditions and
full-fledged Mexican revolutions
can't stop love.
For instance, Miss Maria de al
Luz Zubieta, 20 years old, called
Mexico's most beautiful girl and
daughter of the late Chief Justice
Zubieta of the supreme court Of
Mexico, came thousands of miles
and risked bandit capture to wed
Victor Jose Velasquez, 26. Be-
sides, she gave up her courty to
wed an exile. Yea, out of the
west rode young Lochinvar's
bride.
Velasquez is no piker himself
when tit comes to ancestry, even
tho he is an exile. How was he
to know Caranza was going to
win out?
He might be holding a fat dip
lomatic job, such as he had in the
days of old Porfirio Diaz, the
dictator, had he picked the right
fellow for his leader in one of
those 22-caliber motion-picture
revolutions.
The bridegroom father, Gen.
eral VelasqueZ, was minister OF
war under Porfirio Diaz, vice
president Of the republican party
and director of military construc-
tion for the Mexican government
Young Valesquez was secretary OF
the Mexican legation in Paris and
in Toxic, and Is a graduate Of the
University of Paris.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

Evidence in the hands of Coro-
ner Stewart and the police indi-
Gated Monday that q. G. Smith,
a pioneer piledriving man, whose
body was found in the middle
waterway Sunday afternoon, had
been a victim Of foul play.
Commissions on the face and
head bore every appearance OF
having been caused by blows with
a dull instrument. The fact that
body was floating on the surface
of the water within an hour after
death is also given as a reason
for the murder theory.
Had the old man drowned, his
lungs would have filled with wa
ter and his body would have dis
appeared. So far as has been
learned without a post norton,
his lungs had not taken any
water.
Smith lived alone In scow-
house, and acted as Waterman for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
In the
E dit0r's
Mail
With Pleasure
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Please give bunch Of lone
some soldiers little space In
the columns of your newspaper.
We are from California, and
would like to get acquainted with
some of the Tacoma girls, thru
correspondence.
With the best of intentions,
we remain lonesome,
PAUL THAANUM,
NED FRAME,
ROBERT THOMPSON,
GEORGE STAHL,
WILLIAM INQUIRE,
JESSE ATKINS,
JAMES WATERS,
GEORGE ROCHE.
Address 316th Engineers, Com
pany A, Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
Must u. S. Money or
Private Capital Build
the Needed Houses?
Especial to The Times.)

Especial to The Times.)
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-The gov
eernment CAN solve America $
housing problem by building all
necessary houses itself.
Who says SO?
The man who built 1e canton
ments in 80 days.
He's Maj. w. A. Starrett, chair
man of the emergency construc-
tion committee of the national
war industrial board.
Federal Aid Necessary.
Shortage of houses in many
manufacturing cities, including
Tacoma, has convinced many
housing experts, who attended the
national housing conference here,
that federal finacial and construc-
tion aid is necessary.
When Uncle Sam ordered 16
cantonment cities, safe and SAM
tary, and 16 scattered sections of
the country, in three months -
Starrett built 'em.
The nations engineering organ
izations, contractors and builders
were called upon and under
supervision of Starrett and his as
sociates, huge armies of workmen
erected the environments in world
record breaking fashion.
Time Big Eelement.
1.-THE war must be won right
here in America as we'll as in
France" Starrett told a Times
correspondent today.
1--WE cannot afford to have la
Dor shortage. Labor goes where
it is best paid and most comfort
able.
Time is abig element in win
ming the war. Lack of housing
must not be allowed to continue
to slow up our industries. Solu-
tion of teh housing problem, prob
ably by federal financing, is neces-
sary to effect the best co-ordina-
ton.
ION the present economic set
up Of the country it is plain little,
IL any, private capital is available
for building dwellings to house
munitions and other workers.
Guided by Council.
Experts at the housing confer
ence to whom l have talked, say
there are not one-half dozen in
dustrial housing developments,
privately financed, undertaken on
a really comprehensive scale.
They are gratified to see the
Council of National Defense study
ing the matter with a view of hav-
ing the government do the financ-
ing.
THE federal plan, If adopted
will be worked out wisely by the
commission Secretary of Wal
Baker recently appointed to in.
vestigate and recommend what
ever government action. IL any
seems necessary.
No Great Task.
II the government does step IN
Starrett said, the building O
.. 800 four or six-room houses II
any locality would prove no big
; ger job than the building of a sin
gle cantonment city. Sufficier
construction of permanent dwell
ings to relieve the entire conges
tion Of population could be effect
ed in from three to four months
he said.
"A special government bond Is
J sue Of $100,,000,000, to run TO
SO years, might prove justifiabl,
because OF the immediate econ
omics effected in MANUFACTURER,
munitions and in improved econ
: omic conditions" he said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
TALKS PEACE
UNITED Press Leased Wire.

UNITED Press Leased Wfre.)
ZURICH, Oct. 29.-"The CEN
trail powers continue to declare
their readiness for peace; II the
enemy persists, war we will show
the power and force of peace"
declared the Austrian premier,
DR.. Won Seidler, in an address to
the reichsrat today.
Czech members of the Austrian
reichrat sat silent in that body
while others vociferously cheered
news of Italy's defeat, according
to Vienna reports today. The
president of the reichsrat an
nounced that the Italians had
been defeated "and all anxiety as
to Trieste had been raised"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

An interview with Frederick
Heath, leading Tacoma architect,
will be published tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
An Injustice
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
May I, thru your valuable pa
per, ask a few questions from
some of your readers.
My excuse for so doing Is that
being only working man and not
having the opportunities OF at
tending the Commercial or Rotary
clubs where these questions have
been no doubt fully and satisfac-
torily answered, am compelled
to see an answer thru your valu-
able columns.
l notice that a very nice read
ing paid "ad" informs the kind
hearted public that the price OF
1gas" will be advanced In the neal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
THREE REPORTS OF
PURSE SNATCHING

Three reports OF purse-snatch-
ing on downtown streets have
been received by the Tacoma po-
lice In two days. The latest re-
port came Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
j. l.. Smith, 1902 North Prospect,
was standing in the entrance to a
department store. at 18th and
Broadway when man grabbed
her pocketbook and sped away.
The purse contained So in money
and some jewelry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

The Food Administration
has requested the people to
use only as much sugar as is
strictly necessary and not to
purchase supplies at this
time for future use. They
have licensed the refiners
and required them to sell at
a fixed price, eliminating
all speculation.
We desire to do our part
and from now on, as long as
the sugar situation remains
the same, provided the Food
Administration does not
make any other rules, we
will sell sugar ut the one
fixed price Of 3 cents per
pound, regardless of guam
tity. We put up the follow
ing size packages, which sell
ut prices named:
3 pounds ..... .24c
pounds .48c
~ pounds -. Dec
80 pounds $500
100 pounds $500
DO not buy more than is
necessary.
NORTHWEST lROCERv
COMPANY
18th ana Commerce SITS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29
ST. 10 HAS A
NEW MURDER
MYSTERY NOW
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct. 20. -
Sensational developments, rival
ling those of the famous Mcdaniel
murder case, were expected here
this afternoon when IL became
known that Mrs. William G.
Goold had been arrested In coll
nection with the murder OF her
husband, wealthy automobile deal
er and church and civic worker,
who was shot to death near his
home last week.
Police declare they believe Mrs.
Goold knows who committed the
crime.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-29

In BrlStOl, conn.,, the GeHerdi
Motors Co., thru subsidiary
company, has bought land and
built houses for the industrial
population which its plant added
to the town.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, formed a
$1,000,000 housing company by
the aid of its Chamber of Com
merce, to take care of $4,000
workIlen and their families who
suddenly descended on the town.
The province of Ontario, Can
ada, allows its cities to place
their credit behind cooperative
housing companies when neces-
sary, and Toronto has done SO on
q large scale.
The state of Massachusetts, is
undertaking the building of
homes at Lowell, Mass.
Great Britain is building
houses by the mile for its NUM-
tons and other Industrial work
ers.
These various solutions of the
problem that war conditions
have brought in many places, de-
scribed to Times readers by f.
w. Kerby, our New York CORE
spondent, in series of authori-
tative articles, have aroused
much interest in Tacoma, where
an industrial housing problem
also exists and is becoming more
urgent each day.
OF quite as much value are the
views of Tacoma men who are in
touch with local conditions. Sew
eral men who are in position to
speak with authority on differ
ent angles of the question have
given interviews to The Times on
the subject.
Some of their ideas are in line
with those tried out elsewhere,
and some are entirely original
and may mark a new departure
in the final solution of this world
wide problem.
They are all worth reading.
A. E. Grafton, secretary-treas-
urer of the Tacoma Real Estate
association, has studied the stu
alton from the angle of the prac-
tical real estate man.
II think" he said Saturday
that in Tacoma private capital
will hav eto unbelt and do the
building.
II don't believe there is the
slightest use of thinking about
federal aid except in cases where
the housing accommodations be
come inadequate purely because
of industries working on govern
ment orders.
I State aid might be appropriat,
! in some cases; but / think tn,
only practical and immediate so
: luton is for private capital to ge
l busy.
Tacoma undoubtedly lost
good deal of population to Seat
$ tie and Vancouver, B. c., between
l 1906 and 1910. as the result o
I insufficient housing. Peopl
camo heic, tTicu " Ecl pldc
: to stay, went away because the
Y couldn't, and stayed away. Their
is no question that we hurt our
selves then by not meeting tn
demand.
Whatever the sudden turns @
the war may bring forth, 1t seem
certain that Tacoma will have
) larger Industrial population tina
: she has had, and that many NOR
, houses are needed. don't Sc
? anything for it but for the indus
, tries themselves to consider shell
tering the employees as to Ger
tain extent part of their ex
penses, and for Tacoma people {,
| do some building themselves"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-28

the police department have been ham
died speedily and effectively. In many
cases we do not meet with success, but
this is on account of the nature of the
business itself. The bootlegger is elu-
sive. Only by constant attention can
his activities be kept down. In a town
of $4,000 people, much of course that
goes on cannot be known. We do the
best we can. There is so much mis-
apprehension 4; nd possibly to some ex-
tent misrepi esentation about these
matters connected with the police that
1 Lave concluded to adopt this course.
INVITATION TO PUBLIC.
II invite everybody interested in this
subject and everybody who wishes to
get correct information about it TO
come to the mayors office at any time
between the hours of 1880 and $3.50
o'clock in the evening and there obtain
accurate information about these cases
and about whl has been done in each
instance. While we do not. publish
these matters in detail in the news
papers, we will be very glad at any
and all times to give detailed informa-
ton to citizens who may be Interested
il the subject and I therefore invite
people to ell and find out what the
facts are
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-28
OLD SNAKE RIVER
STEAMER IS SOLD

Weiser, March 2S.-The old steamer
Norma, around which hinges many his
torical incidents in connection with
early mining in the Seven Devils coun-
try, has been sold, and will be disman-
tied, according to information from
Portland. r. II. Kleinschmidt and his
brother, Albert, of Weiser, were insti-
gators in the construction of the
steamer, which was built with the idea
of handling passengers and freight On
the Snake river.
The Norma was built and delivered
in Huntington in 1891. She was turned
out by the late Jacob Kamm, pioneer
steamboat man, and ]. d. Miller, and
it is said she never earned a dollar in
the business for which she was built.
In May, 1895, she was navigated to
Lewiston by Captain w. T. Gray, and
there operated successfully. In that
trip she equaled the one made by the
Shoshone a quarter OF a century ear
lier, passing through the treacherous
canyons of the Snake river safely.
With the construction of the North
Bank railroad the Norma was sold TO
the Grand Trunk line. Last year she
was sold as a speculation. The boiler
has been sold now to one company.
and the hull will be taken to the sal
mn fishing grounds.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-28
SENTENCED TO SERVE
SIX MONTHS IN JAIL

Six months in the county Jail and a
fine of $500 was the sentence impos-
ed by Judge Davis this morning on T.
c. Hail. found guilty of violation of
the liquor laws. Notice of an appeal
was given and Hall was released on
bail pending the appeal. A jury Mon
day night found Hall guilty of Violat-
ing the state liquor laws on three
counts, that of having in his possess
sion Intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes, transporting intoxicating
liquors in and through Ada county and
having in his possession intoxicating
liquor.
Hall was arrested in company with a
woman giving the name of Jennie
Smith, on the night of Nov. Z, 1916. In
his car was found 127 quarts of whis-
ky, which was taken by the sheriff
and formed an exhibit in the case in
the district court.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-28
PERSONAL

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Norwood are visitors
in Boise from Jameson. Ore.
c. w. Rose is up from Ontario on
short business visit.
Mrs. J. j. Sherlock, who has been
visiting relatives in Boise, has returned
to Portland.
Mrs. H. !. Cobb is home from a visit
at San Francisco.
William Friedman left this morning
for Camas Prairie to look after his
ranch interests.
Mrs. ]. w. Aldrich of Oakland, Cal,
is in the city.
Asa Williams of Nyssa is at the
Idanha.
NJ. d. Bradfield is spending a few
days in the city from st. Anthony.
]. w. Coots is in the city from Po-
catello to spend a few days.
Mrs. r. A. Kimball of Weiser is Wis
iting in the city.
]. P. York is over from Blackfoot, a
guest at the Owyhee hotel.
w. A. Sullivan of Twin Falls is
transacting business in the city
w. T. Harbert. formerly of Boise,
now in the insurance business at Twin
Falls, is here looking after property
interests.
Joe Herbert came in from Idaho Falls
Tuesday night. He is stopping at the
| Grand.
| James w. Briggs is at the Grand
He came in Tuesday night from the
| Gilmore county metropolis.
Charles Davis is here from Dubois
to spend a few days on business
| Fred Edwards is spending a day OIL
two in the city front Oreana. He is al
the Bristol.
Thomas f. Kicks came in from st
Anthony Tuesday night and will spent
a few days here on business and visit.
ing friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Belden of Kuna
who were called to Iowa the first o
March by the dangerous illness of Mr.
Belden's father, returned from thei
brief visit Monday.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-28
CATTLE SUFFERING AS
RESULT OF THE SNOW

message from Garden Valley to
the office of Hawley & Hawley Tues
day evening, gave the information
there was two and one-half feet of
snow there that hay was getting
scarce and unless the winter broke
soon cattle would suffer severely. ].
A. Blomquist received a long distant
call from Mr.. Black, whose ranch is
near Bellevue, stating there was more
than 80 inches of snow there and very
cold. A rancher from E'ack's creek
gives the information that March 27
is the latest date on which ploughing
has started there for seven years
while now there is more than foot of
snow in that section.