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The Washington herald., 1917-07-06
SUSPECT CARRIED MAPS

Cleveland, Ohio, July 5.-Federal Of
ficials today arrested a man caught
taking pictures of railroad bridges
here. He had in his pockets city and
railroad maps. The man claimed to
be connected with the Interstate
Commerce Commission but had no
credentials to prove this.
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Leave
LAWS CUSTODY
Released on Personal Bond
to Appear in Court This
Morning.

Another page in suffrage Police
Court history was written late yester-
day afternoon when eleven prominent
suffragettes, members of the National
Woman's Party, fatigued from a
nights Imprisonment in the District
House of Detention, argued before
Judge Mullowny for nearly two hours
and a half in an effort to prove they
were within their rights as law-abid-
ing American citizens when they ap-
peared with their banners in the near
vicinity Of the White House shortly
after noon, July T.
Led by Mrs. Helena Hill Weed. of
Connecticut, daughter of Represent
atiye Hill, who acted as spokesman
for the group, the accused women free
ly exercised their privilege OF cross
examination of those officers who ap-
peared against them, with the result
that at 4:35 O'Clock, with one more wit
ness to be heard and final words to
be spoken by each Of the eleven suf-
fragettes in her own defense. Judge
Mullowny adjourned the cases for a
continuance in his court at IL o'clock
this morning.
Upon the suggestion OF the court,
the women's bonds were taken for
appearance in the Police Court this
morning, obviating the necessity OF
their returning to the District House
OF Detention.
Hart Draws First Blood.
Ringgold Hart, assistant corpora
tion counsel. who prosecuted the case
for the District, drew first blood
when he succeeded in having over
ruled the request of the women for
an out-and-out dismissal Of their
cases.
Mr.. Hart called the attention of
the court to the fact that the suf-
fragettes in again appearing in front
OF the White House on Independence
Day did so ''in defiance of the man.
date Of the court which on a pre-
yfous occasion found a similar group
OF the sufragettes guilty of violating
the peace and order act of Congress
regarding the obstruction of a public
thoroughfare.
On the other hand, the suffragettes
chose a line of argument purposed to
prove that inasmuch as they were
| carrying on their banners a sentiment
from the Declaration of independence
on the nations birthday. they were
in no detail violating the law,
Only once during the afternoon did
the women's testimony, or that OF
their friends, deal strictly with the
otfense with which they are charged
the oostructing of a public thorough
| fare.
Judge Mullowny was very lenient
with the women. and did not once
deny the suffragettes a point which
might be turned in their favor. At
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
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SAXONS DEMAND REFORMS.

The Hague, July 5.-During debate
in the Saxon diet on Wednesday
strong demands were made FOR poll
tical reforms, said a telegram from
Berlin today. Some of the speakers
declared that the Saxons were only
fighting for their own king and not
the German empire.
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MOTH INYADES NEW YORK.

Moth, a ruthless enemy of tree life,
has invaded New York. Not only
are the city parks, but trees every
where. along fine residence streets
and driveways undergoing the sever
est attack in local history.
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TROLLEYMEN MAY STRIKE.

New York, July 5.-The advisab bility
Of ordering strike on the Third
Avenue Railway lines and their af-
filiated companies was discussed at
length here today by representatives
Of the Amalgamated Electric and
Street Railways EMPLOYEES Association
Of America -
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CROOKS MAKE $3.50, 900.

Cattlesourg, KY. July 6.-N. K.
Bslone. who was charged with IS other
lnountaineers in a scheme to swindle
Tns all over the country, was found
ilty today. The clique is said to
e obtained quarter of a million
Rrs Forty Of the defendants have
ded guilty.
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SAXON CREDITORS MEET.

New York. July 6.-A creditors COM
mittee to work out the details Of =
readjustrnent Of the Affairs Of the
Saxon Motor Company has been form
ed and now is arranging a plan which
viii provide about ssse'eo fsr the com
pany.
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Man Jumps to His Death
When Razor Blade Fails

New York. July 5.-Failing to end
his life by cutting his wrist with a
safety razor blade, Richard Adam
Iimmerscheidt, naturalized German.
jumped to his death here today from
window Of his apartment on the
tenth noor Of batchelors' hatG.
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INJURED IN POLO MATCH.

Morristown, n. J., July 5.-Capt.
G. C. Henry, director Of the New
York State Census, 10 in serious
condition at the Memorial Hospital
today. He was badly injured yester-
day in . polo match
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GERMAN FLYER SHOT DOWN.

Paris, July ga German aviator
who was flying over the French lines
SO low that machine gun fire reached
his aeroplane was shot down yester-
day near MoronviIliers. the war ossce
snnounced, today ~
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DR.. LLOYD GOES TO lola.

Rochester, N. Y, July 5.-Announce-
ment was made here today of the ap-
pointment Of DIR. John Lloyd, SUPER
intendent of the Virginia State
Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Catawaba.
va, as SUPERINTENDENT Of lola Sani-
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Take 20, 900 Prisoners.

Petrograd. July 5.-Near 1900 Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian prisoners
are now in the hands of the Russians
as a result of the first three days
fighting in the new offensive.
Around Brzezany the battle still
RACES, the Germans and Austro-H Hun
garians fighting desperately TO retain
their high positions along the Tarno-
pol Rohatyn Railway, west of the
Zlota Lipa River.
Severe loss of life has been inflicted
upon the Austro-German troops, but
dispatches from the front today ad-
mitted that the Russian advances had
cost sacrifices"
German reserve troops-mostly Sax
ons-who were taken captive. said
that the Teutons were demoralized by
the severe artillery fire as they had
been led to believe that the Russians
had no ammunition.
In the Konirchy-Zboroff also In
Galic!a. heavy artillery activity was
followed by infantry thrusts. The Ger
mans undertook counter attacks but
these were repelled.
1t is realized here that the advance
on Lemberg must be slow as the Aus
trC-German forces have had time to
prepare elaborate defensive works.
But a thrill of energy and hope is
nation and the atmosphere in the capi-
tai has undergone a decided change
for the better.
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TWO GOVERNMENTS
RULING in China
Factional Forces Continue to Clash
in Bloody Revolt.

Pekin, July 5.-Liang Tun Yen, the
new foreign minister in the re-estab,
lished monarchy, assumed office to.
day. He is a graduate of Yale.
China has two government today
In Pekin the young Manchu Emperor
rules by the grace of a powerful army.
In South China the republicans have
established a provisional government
in Nanking with Baron Feng Kwc
Chang as president.
The military governor OF Chill
province is sending his army to Pekiu
to enforce an ultimatum which he hao
previously served upon Gen. ChanI
Hsun. 1t demanded the removal OF
Gen. Chang Hsun's army from Pekin.
Civil war looms nearer than ever
before.
Prince Pull Lun. Chinese envoy tc
the st. Louis exposition in 1904. has
treason. There have been a number
of other executions.
Messages which filtered through to
the Chinese Legation yesterday tend
ed to confirm cable reports of serious
uprisings which threaten the mon-
arcny set up by Sen. SnduSTf1Suu'
with the boy Emperor on the throne.
Chinese officials here do not believe
the monarchy will last many days
longer.
Because OF the censorship exercised
by the revolutionists. no messages
have been received direct from the
Republican government Those which
have arrived are mostly from Tien
Tsin. Many of the messages are SO
garbled or couched in such terms as
to be almost unintelligible.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-06
GALICIA BATTLE
IS DEADLOCKED
Renewed Activity on West,
ern Front Precedes New
British Offensive.
(By the international New. Service

London, July 5.-The great battle
in Northwestern Galicia has come 20
a deadlock. There were indications t.
day, howevr. that Gen. Brusiloff is
about to extend his offensive south
ward to the Carpathian and Rumanian
fronts. Today's Berlin bulletin re-
ported greater local activity on
these fronts. The statement discloses
that Field Marshal Won Mackensen Is
still commanding the central powers
right wing which is based on the
Black Sea.
The Russian war Office report today
announced the repulse Of Teuton
counter attacks in Galicia yesterday.
Berlin tells only of local fighting, in
which II is asserted the Russians were
elected from some crater lines.
In the west the British scored To-
cal success. They pushed forward
slightly on a 6cO-yard front southwest
Of HolIebecke in Belgium. below the
Messines Ridge.
The Paris communiQue reports only
artillery activity. Unofficial dis
patches from the French front say the
German offensive on the eleven-mile
front on and around the Cremin Des
Danes has been brought to definite
standstill, the French maintaining
every inch Of ground against all at
tacks. Berlin, on the other hand, as
serts that the French have so far
launched fifteen unsuccessful ant
costly attacks on this front
The British have not lost a single
gun on the west front since April
1915. Mai. Gen. F. B. Maurice, direc'
tor of the military operations. said to-
day. He said the total Of prisoners
taken by the British in the war was
17,176, while they have lost in pTis-
oners only 5l.0SS men, including In
dian and native troops. Altogether
759 guns have been captured by them
OF 1873 guns they lost. they recaptured
81. Eighty-four of the others were lost
on the west front early in the war.
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ORDERS
80 MORE
VESSELS
DATED Pres. Leased wire.,

WASHINGTON, June 60
Contracts for 10 more steel ships
aud four wooden cargo vessels
were let today by General George
w. Cocktails. manager of tho
emergency fleet corporation.
Twenty-four additional wooden
hulls were contracted for.
The first contract for marine
engines made by the corporation
was announced today, awarding
construction of IL vertical triple
expansion engines to the Ellicott
Marine corporation OF Baltimore,
Md.
The new contracts announced
today were as follows:
Moore & Scott Iron Works. San
Francisco, Cal. works at Oak
land, 10 complete steel cargo
carrying steamers.
Portland Ship Ceiling Co..
Portland. Me-. four wooden huls.
Universal Shipbuiding Co.,
New York city. works Houston
ship canal. Harris county. Texas) :,
| ; vessels.
Mcbride & Law, Beaumont,
Tex, four wooden bulls.
Newcomb Lifeboat Co., Hamp-
yton, Va, four complete wooden
cargo carrying steamers.
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LEGAL NOTICES

ment of plank, and constructing on
said parking spaces sidewalks OF
cement concrete in cuts, and side.
walks of wood on fills; six 60 feet
in width on Tacoma Avenue and
nine 90 feet in width on jefferson
Avenue and north side of South eth
Street, and ten G0) feet in width
on south side of South 9th Street;
also in constructing all necessary
concrete retaining walls, storm wa
ter drainage, relaying sanitary
sewers, taking up and relaying suf-
ficient pavement at the intersection
of "E' Street and jefferson and at
the intersection of "I' Street and
Center Street to make same conform
to lines and grades of new improve
ment.
Said improvement shall also con-
sist In constructing cement con-
crete sidewalks ten U0) feet in
width on both sides of Centes Street
from II" Street to Wilkeson Street.
Provided that where permanent
sidewalks, constructed by permits
sion of the Commissioners Of Public
Works, conform to lines and grades
and are already in place, they shall
not be included in this improvement.
And provided. that that part of
the paving, repaving and planking.
to be done by the Tacoma Railway
and Power Company, shall not be
Included in this Improvement.
Said installment may be paid on
or before July 18th, 1917, but
If not paid or or before said date.
added interest. penalty and costs
JAMES C. DRAKE,
City Treasurer.
LUNG 1871 Julv g. 1917
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WANT 10000
MEN in ARMY

tthtteu tfCSS beuseu "tEtsb
WASHINGTON, June 25.-
Seventy thousand recruits for the
regular fighting forces this week
and about $40, 100000 Red Cross
funds by tonight-those are ends
for which American war chiefs
strove today.
Every city and town through
out the land is aiding both gov
ernments.
This is "Pershing Day"--in the
Red Cross campaign for $780,
900, 000-and in their last hours
effort, Red Cross workers the
country over are desperately try
ing to drive the total to heavy
oversubscription by the time Red
Cross week formally ends tonight.
Meantime, street corner col
lections, mass meetings, newspa-
per advertising and boosting. are
aiding the gathering of the needed
seventy thousand men to fill ex-
listing gaps in the regular army.
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Theory That Girl Was Good Led
to Solution of Cruger Mystery
Especial to The Times.)

NEW YORK, June 25.-Why
did Mrs. Grace Humiston. Ameri-
can woman Sherlock Holmes.
solve the great Ruth Cruger
murder mystery when New York's
most famous sleuths failed2
Because she believed In the In
nate goodness of girl nature, as
opposed to the police theory that
most girls who leave home are
bad.
When little lS-year-old Ruth
Cruger disappeared early in Feb
ruary, after going to the motor
cycle repair shop of Alfredo Coo
chi in West l27-th st. to get her
skates sharpened. the New York
detective bureau made perfume
tory investigation, winked its
cynical eye and said. Another
girl gone wrong"
But whom the distracted parents
of Ruth Cruger called Mrs. Grace
Humiston into the case. she de-
cided almost at once the police
were wrong.
NUN W az boOu Bill, oooh
found out from her schoolgirl
friends" said Mrs. Humiston to-
day.
Mrs. Humiston looks anything
but the conventional woman law
yer type. OF medium build, with
dark hair. .tinged with gray, and
brown eyes, quietly dressed in a
dark purple gown. Mrs. Humiston
is just the kind of womanly WON,
an on whom a distracted mother
might call for help to find her
lost girl.
"In the first place." she
said, "there were just four
persons working on the case,
my secretary, two private de-
tectiyes and myself. We had
utmost confidence i'm one an
other.
I'VE eliminated every clue that
led outside New York city.
searched morgues, cemeteries aud
hospitals. | became convinced the
girl had been murdered and
Cocchi could solve the mystery
Eve investigated the cellar and
found the police search of the
place had been superficial.
When Coechi was discovered in
Italy, felt my murder theory was
right.
Back of this simple story is
Mrs, Humiston's genius for detec-
tive work She has, through her
law practice, an intimate ac-
quaintance with the psychology of
the criminal mind. She has a
womans intuition and insight
into the workings of the femi-
nine mind. Above all, she feels
she KNOWS 90 girls in every 100
are inherently good and pure.
In one year, 500 persons dis
appeared from the streets of the
big city and were never heard
from again. In three of It's five
boroughs, 244 murders occurred
and many remain unsolved.
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June 2O-21-22,23-25. 1917.

LOCAL Improvement District No.
264.--Notice is hereby given that
in pursuance of Ordinance No. 1884
of the City of Tacoma, a roll has
been placed in my hands for the
collection of the 9Th annual INSTALL
ment of the assessment levied for
Improving jefferson Avenue and its
extension Ito Center street,, from
q point 1872 feet north of the center
line of South 21th street to "I'
Street, and Center street from 'I'
Street to Wllkeson street; Tacoma
Avenue from South 27th Street to
jefferson Avenue, and South 9th
Street from Tacoma Avenue to JEFF
ferson Avenue, by grading Jeffer-
son Avenue between South 27th
street and South ~ Street, and re-
grading said portions of jefferson
Avenue. north of eth street, Taco
ma Avenue and South 27th Street.
to the newly established grade, with
roadways fifty-six $3.50 feet In
width and sidewalk and parking
spaces on each side thereof. twelve
U2) feet in width. except on Taco
ma Avenue where they shall be
twenty-five (22) feet in width. and
constructing on said roadways of
Jefferson Avenue and Tacoma Ave-
nue.. pavement of plank: and re-
laying on South 27th Street, pave
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-25
5 TOWNS
in PATH
OF FLOOD
United Press Leased Wire.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June
2b.--The dam of the Mammoth
reservoir. ~ miles from Fairview,
Utah. has given way under the
terrific strain of / 900 acre feet
of impounded flood water, which
is sweeping thru the valley below,
according to reports received by
officials of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway Co. here from
crews sent out to protect the
tracks from the flood.
Five small towns. as well as the
Price-Scofield branch of the Rio
Grande railway outlet of the Car
bon county coal fields, are men
aced by the flood. In addition.
thousands OF acres of valley farms,
irrigated by the Price river irri-
cation company, will be inundat-
ed, with incalculable damage to
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LEGAL NOTICES
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that the
assessment roll for Local Improve
ment District 979 was filed in my
office on June 20, 1917, showing
the amount assessed against each
lot and parcel of land in payment of
the cost and expense of laying ce-
feet in width on Hosmer Street from
South 18th Street to South gard
Street; with the necessary gutter re-
turns and crosswalks.. in pursuance
of Ordinance 65S5, and said roll is
open for inspection by all persons
Interested therein.
Notice is further given that the
Council has fixed Wednesday, July
IL, 1917, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, as
the date for hearing upon said roll.
ana that all persons who may desire
quired to make their objections
In writing and file the same in my
office at or prior to $3.50 a. IN. on
the date above mentioned, and that
on said date, or at such time as the
hearing may be continued to, the
Council will sit as a board of equal
izati0n for the purpose of consider
ing said roll and will consider all
objection made thereto or any part
thereof. and will correct. revise,
raise, lower, change or modify said
roll or any part thereof, or set
aside said roll and order said assess
ment to be made de nOvO as to 1t
shall appear just and equitable, and
then proceed to confirm the same by
ordinance.
- City Clerk
June 2O-21-22.2S-25. 1917.
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GALVESTON, Tex, June 25.-
A mob of more than 100 persons
early today Overpowered the
guard at the county Jail here,
took Henry Sawyer, mulatto
charged with attacking a white
woman, placed him in an auto
mobile, drove to the scene of the
alleged crime and hanged him to
a sign post.
The crime for which Sawyer
was lynched today was committed
two months ago, Mrs. Henry Carl
ton, wife Of a prominent dairy
man here Being the victim.
At the time the crime was COM
mitted Mrs. Carlton was in a deli
cate condition and lowered be-
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BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
UNITED Press Staff Correspond
ent.)


PETROGRAD, May by
mail.)-Every theory, every be-
lief. every schism OF sociology,
every Injustice, every problem of
poverty and of sffluence and of
labor-is being voted on in Russia
today.
Meetings by the thousands are
being held. The Russian people
are dividing themselves along the
lines of professions and occupa-
lions and In their meetings the
smallest problems are brought up.
In a meeting of wash women in
Petrograd the other day, for In
stance, the women went so far as
to discuss their social standing.
We want an eight hour day
declared one wash woman, Eve
want to have time every day to
visit our friends and enjoy life. F."
mo! MOI" declared the next
speaker. What we want is more
work. want to get all the work
! can do and work as long as |
please. have no friends to visit. :"
Vote On Everything.
That Voman is wrong" de-
olared a third. IF we haven't
got any friends to visit, it's be-
cause we've never had time to
make friends AS other people do
What we need is more friends and
more time to enjoy them"
People vote at the drop OF
the hat-on any subject. The
third impression I received as an
American, was sense of hewild-
erment at the problem of getting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-25
RUSSIANS Vote
ON EVERYTHING

all this voting translated into laws.
The voting is not vague and un-
systematic. spontaneously a sys-
TEN has grown up out of the old
organizations, whereby national or
CARNATIONS of all sorts are devel-
oping.
Systematic, Too.
A few Washerwomen, for in
stance, or few farmers. in some
extremely remote district hold a
meeting and elect a delegate to a
meeting of washerwomen or farm
ers in some nearby town. This
larger meeting, in turn, elects a
delegate to a convention in a still
larger center and finally, delegates
are chosen to represent still
larger district in the main organi-
cation which is being formed here
at the capitals There is a bewild-
ering number of such organizations
with an uncountable number of
repetitions.
A man, for instance. may be a
member of a soldiers organiza-
ton; he may also belong to an or
SANITATION of his craft and, in adj
dition, he may vote in an organiza-
ton OF Ukranlans, or Let's. or
Poles. There is no limit to the
number of places in which he may
EXPRESS his opinion and have his
votes counted
How the new government, out of
all the mass of public opinion
and there's fever been so much
public opinion anywhere in the
world as there is in Russia now
will be able to sift the preponder-
ating causes is bewilderine prob
lem. but it is one that the new
government is determined to solve.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-25
lST CHURCH HAS
1000 MEMBERSHIP

The First Presbyterian church
reached the 1000 mark in mem.
bership at the Sunday evening
service. 1t is the first church in
the Olympia presbytery to get that
many members. In his sermon
Sunday night, Rev. c. w. Weyer
impressed upon the church men,
bers the responsibility of having
the army post near Tacoma.
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VENIZELOS TO
HEAD GREECE?

ATHENS, June 25.-The en-
tire Zaimis ministry resigned to-
day.
1t was reported that BIutherios
Venizelos, former premier ana
president of the provisional Greek
government. now enroute here,
would probably be named by KIM
Alexander as head Of the new cab
met.
Venizelos is known to have de
parted from Salonika and to have
reached city in southern Greece
err ute to Athens.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-25
LUMBER SHIP
AFIRE AT SEA

ASTORIA, Ore, June 25.-The
new motor schooner Margaret
loaded with 100000 feet of
lumber for China, with fire in
her hold, was expected to arrive
in Astoria today in tow of the
tank steamer Atlas. The fire Is
of undetermined origin.
After battling with the fire
since Saturday morning, the ere
Of the Atlas sent up distress sig
nails last night. They were
caught by the Great Northern,
which notified Captain Boiling
of the Port OF Portland, at AS
toria. In the meantime, the At
las responded to the wireless and
is bringing her to port.
The Margaret is under CON-
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crops.

crops.
Loss of life is expected to be
minimized by telephone warnings
sent to all residents in the dan
ger zone. The dam has been in
dangerous condition for several
days as the result of impounded
flood waters, and experts declared
early yesterday that it would be
unable to Withstand the pressure.
Castle Gate, Price, Cotton, Help
er and Scofield. with an aggre-
gate population of 5000, face de-
struction.