davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29

sets out to do them with the proper
determination. For proof positive we
refer again to Georges Guynemer, de-
ceased.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29
.Jin-DOg.


He wasn't, we'll. a fancy kind O. dog
Not jim!
But, oh, I sorter couldn't seem ter
help
A-lovin' him.
He always seemed ter understand,
He'd rub his nose against my hand
If 1 was feelin' blue or sad.
Or If my thoughts was pretty bad;
An how he'd bark an frisk an play
When I was gay!
I wonder why my Jim-dog had ter
die?
He was a friend ter folks; he didn't
He never snapped at no one In tn
night;
He didn't hate a soul; an he was
game!
An yet a spark O. light, a OAR
tim flame,
Across tn dark, a sneaky bit O. lead,
An he was dead!
They say there amt no heaven-land
for him,
Cause dogs is dogs an haven't any
right;
But let me tell yer this: Without my
Jim
Th' very shinis' streets would seem
less bright!
An somehow I'm q thinkin' that IT he
Gould come at that last stirrin' bugle
call
Up to the gate o. gold aside OF me,
where God stands smilin' welcome to
us ALL
An I said Father, here's my dog
here's Jim,'
| They'd find some corner, touched
| with love, for him!
MARGARET e. SANGSTER,
| in the Christian Herald.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29

Surely no good American will OBJ
ject to the request to abstain some
what from candy in order that
France may have the sugar required
for food needs.-Hartford Post.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29

To save coal Berlin barber shops
are to be closed on certain days of
the week which will be known as
"shaveless days." Thus does war
increase the number of barbarians
rambling the streets.-Waterbury Re-
publican.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29

A New York woman has been fined
$22 for stealing eleven ears of corn.
There's a suggestion-if you can't af-
ford the market price, steal the corn
and paw the f1ne.-New Haven Union.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-29

If in one week the British U-boat
sinking have been "cut to $4,000
tons,' the German chance Of VIC
tory has been postponed by at least
$4,000 years.-New London Day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
in PEN
FOR PERJURY

Fred Cor E. Ed Carpenter,
who created a sensation in the
McCabe-Lindberg trial last Janu-
airy when he was arrested for per-
jury, was sentenced Thursday to
serve from l to years in the PEN
itentiary at Walla Walla by Judge
yesterday.
Attorney Teats made an elo-
quent appeal for clemency based
on Carpenters i'll health, and on
the fact that the perjured state
ments he made had no direct
bearing on the case before the
court.
In the previous case, Carpenter
said he had never been in jail,
but Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
Thompson told the court that he
had been In jail in Tacoma, had
served two terms in the Colorado
penitentiary and had served a Jail
term in San Diego.
Carpenter also claimed that he
had only two wives, but Thompson
claimed before the court that he
has had six wives.
AS he was led away, Carpenter,
who is go years old, broke down
and sobbed bitterly.
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he was telling the truth, he had
a barbed wire ENHANCEMENT of
lies to conquer; If he was telling
a lie, he had to tell one that
would hold together against the
terrible force of truth.
Recess interrupted the mayors
Testimony. The long-suffering
jury and the Unsuitable audience
took breath.
And then Judge Bausman call
|ed-"Mrs. GILL" And the may
or's wife followed the marshal
through the craning crowd.
II was the first time most of
them had ever seen her, prob
ably.
Mrs. Gill is as little known as
her husband Is we'll known.
She faced them quietly, a
pleasant picture in her pretty hat
of the new mustard-yellow, and
her brown furs that fell apart to
show modest trinket dangling
at her throat.
1t was simple, though import
ant thing that she was to testify
to-merely whether her husband
had had any telephone call at
their home on Christmas eve.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
S. A. R. ACCUSES JONES'

have warned it's citizens to keep
off the high seas.
Your speech, as taken from
the Congressional Record, is as
partisan a pro-German argument
as any that has been advanced
by Zimmerman or Won Bethman-
Hollweg, and your remarks in
regard to the sinking of the
Lusitania are so like those Of
the German chancellor that the
public press of this country has
accused you openly of appropri-
ating his language.
Your speech has been quoted
with approval by all pro-German
organs, and German spies have
referred to you as a messenger
sent from the Almighty to
plead the cause of Germany
Your attitude has been as Of
one who was in favor of aban-
doning every right now possessed
by American citizens to a war
mad nation, which seeks by a
! campaign of frightfulness, to
drive neutral nations from the
sea"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
ARREST BOY
FOR JOYRIDE

A five-day 1oyride in a stolen
automobile, driven by B. +. Mel
son, an express agent who was
yesterday sentenced to years
Imprisonment at Walla Walla for
theft of express packages, was re-
vealed to the police Thursday by
the arrest of Jimmy Dixon, alias
Sheldon, age 20.
Dixon wrote a siX-page confess
sion. He said that Nelson was
spending money freely, and was
anxious to make a favorable i'm
preston on two girls they took
along. Dixon refused to give the
names of the girls, but said they
lived in Tacoma.
Nelson stole the auto, with Dix
on's help, it is said. 1t was the
machine of C. w. Reed of Tacoma.
They rode to Seattle, Everett,
Bellingham, and finally to Falls
City, eluding police officers.
At Falls City they stopped at
the home of a deputy sheriff, in
duced the man to do some repair
work on the car, and spent the
night at his house.
Later they returned to Seattle,
"ditched" the stolen car, jumped
into a Ford owned by the Seattle
park board, and drove to Tacoma.
The Seattle car was found on a
downtown street by the police next
day.
Two days after Nelson was ar
rested on charges of having pill
fered packages from the-American
Express Co.'s office in Tacoma,
where he was employed as night
agent, and confessed that he had
stolen a large quantity of women 4
wearing apparel.
He will be formally charged In
police court Friday with larceny
of the Reed auto, according to
Deputy Prosecutor Cramer.
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Logan Billingsley has claimed
he called the mayor at his house
that night; and in telling OF the
call, he said the telephone was
answered by a woman's voice.
Judge Bausman questioned Mrs
Gill. Had there been any such
call? Was there any other wom-
an in the house but herself? At
what time had the mayor gone to
bed? How did she know these
things?
She answered simply = little
lnervously, her furs rising and
falling with quick breaths be-
tween her words-but clearly.
"There was no such call. There
was no other woman In the
house; / had let the maid GO
home because it was Christmas
eve.
I'VE have three telephones In
the house. The one in our room
is on my side of the bed, and
always answer 1t, because Mr.
Gill's hearing is very defective,
and he cannot hear it. He could
not hear it more than 30 or rs
feet away, even If 1t rang loudly,
and 1t is muffled, 80 he could
not hear it at all. / am q light
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defense.
The letter was in reply to one
received by the chapter from
Jones March 10, enclosing copy
of a letter sent by him to w. w.
Blain of Everett, explaining his
actions in the armed neutrality
bill.
After citing acts of German
ruthlessness and plotting against
Americans, the letter says:
Your speech and that of Sem
ator Stone have been quoted at
large in the pro-German papers,
and-have conveyed to the ruthless
German general staff the idea
that America was divided and un-
der no condition would she go to
war. So Germany's acts have be-
come more atrocious and she has
thrown off all restraint.
"You plead not guilty, but for
tunately we have the congress
sional record Of March 8, in
which are contained your re-
marks on the sinking of the
Lusitania, in which you carry
out the idea that the U. S. should
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
PEACE
OFFER
LIkEL


LONDON, March 29.-German
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
may strive to stave off a growing
sentiment for democratizing of
Germany today by new peace
proffer.
At the very least he is expected
to announce sweeping reforms in
Germany's governmental struc-
ture permitting more active par
ticipation by the people, accord
ing to rumors here.
German socialists have united
in formidable demands which the
government apparently realizes
have the backing of a large part
of the people.
Herr Scheidemann, socialist,
who has heretofore supported the
governments war policy, was UNI
dertsood to have warned Won
Bethmann-Hollweg that the dem
ocratizing of Germany must start
at once.
Dispatches from Berlin even
limited that the socialists are de-
handing immediate institution of
a constitutional monarchy like
England, claiming that Germany is
the only autocratlc government
now left alive and in order to
maintain the friendship in future
years of the rest Of the worlds
democracies, she must change.
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The first district will have
headquarters in Portland and will
comprise Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana, with Col.
John L. Hayden, coast artillery
corps, in command.
Col. Richmond p. Davis, coast
artillery corps, will command the
second district comprising all of
Utah and California and Nevada
north of the 37th degree. Head
quarters will be in San Francisco.
The third district with head
quarters in Los Angeles will be
commanded by Col. w. f. Wilder,
Fifth cavalry, and will include all
of California and Nevada not in
the second district.
Assigns Officers.
The orders recognizing the de-
partment direct the commanding
officers of each district to organ
ize their own stats and they will
be permitted to draw on national
guard officers il they so desire.
Another announcement from
the headquarters of General Bell
Is the assignment of mastering Of
ficers for the national guard. They
include:
Lieut.-Col. Ulysses G. Alexan-
der, Third Oregon infantry; Capt.
Rex Van Den Corrupt, camp quar-
termaster for Washington nation
al guard; Capt. H. ID. Coburn,
Second Washington infantry; Cap
tain John j. Mudgett, Second Mon
tana infantry: Lieut.. G.. e. b..
Flagg, medical examiner Second
Washington infantry.
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MOBILIZATION
OF MILITIA SET
FORSATURDAY

Mai Gen. j. Franklin Bell has ordered the mObili-
cation of the Washington National Guard at Ameri-
Lake Saturday, according to word received from
San Francisco Thursday.
The order, it is understood applies only to the I'd
infantry regiment, now modified in Seattle, which
will be transferred to the American Lake camp.
Everything is in readiness at Cosgrove for the
troops when they arrive Saturday to establish the
mobilization camp, it was announced.
Neither Troop B nor Tacoma's four companies of
coast artillery had received mobilization orders
Thursday morning.
The Oregon National Guard has been ordered to
mobilize at Vancouver Barracks Friday, thus placing
two army camps in this state.
Gen. Bell has also issued orders dividing the west
ern department of the army into three districts for
administrative nnrpOses it was announced
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
CHIEF WILL
POUR $4,000
BOOZE AWAY

Police Chief Harry NJ. Smith is
preparing to pour nearly $4,000
of bonded whisky into the city's
sewers. The liquor was seized
by policemen last week when it
came to Tacoma for two local
druggists.
1.-THE druggists have 10 days
in which to claim their liquor, if
they think they have legal
claim" said Chief Smith Thurs
day. THE time is nearly up, and
neither one has even uttered a
complaint because we seized the
booze.
"As soon as the 10 days are up,
the stuff goes to the fishes"
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VVEHHEREaABOUTS OF CAPT. JEBSEN WORRIES u. S
BELL ORDERS N. w. TO LAKE
Gill Knew for Certain the Time
He Went to Bed December "a

sleeper, and it wakens me.
"The telephone did not ring al
all that night.
"Mr. Gill retired about II
o'clock"
That was practically all. She
was not cross-examined.
As she slipped down from the
stand, her husbanw stepped up
only few eyes saw him pat hel
arm as she passed him.
The stern business of the day
went on.
The mayor was questioned con
cerning drug stores" and raids
disputed conversations; the pa
pers" on which the whole tangled
plot turns, in proper melodramatit
style; and all the hard and dan
gerous and doubtful sides of the
problem that has torn the city,
government to pieces.
He answered steadily and keen
lly. 1t was a two-sided fight.
There seemed no room in the
harsh work that was going for
ward, for gentleness.
They came to the question Of
the Christmas eve telephone call
do you remember last Christ
mas eve?" asked the attorney.
Yes" said the mayor, swing
ing his dangling leg.
Where were your"
"At home"
did anybody at all call you
on the telephone that night?"
only the chief of police, about
6 or 8 o'clock. l went to bed Just
a little bit before IL O'clock"
How do you remember that|
asked the lawyer.
The mayor paused, and his face
changed. The sardonic humor thai
is the JOY of his cartoonists soft
ened to something different, as he
glanced toward the woman in the
pretty new mustard-yellow ha
and the brown furs, sitting grave
and shy in the crowded court
rom, listening.
II remember" he said slowly
because / had dozed off while
Mrs. Gill was around getting her
self ready to come to bed; ant
when she came, she poked me ant
walked me up, and wished me g
| Merry Christmas.
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Accusing U. s. Senator
Wesley l.. Jones of "giving
aid, assistance and encour-
agcment to an enemy of the
U. ST." the Alexander Hamil-
ton chapter Of the Sons of
American Revolution sent a
burning letter to the WASH
ingtOn senator Thursday, de
recting him to cut out debate
and hair-splitting and to
stand with President Wilson
in a firm policy for national
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=
coming occasionally to Tacoma.
Captain he was then of the little
German steamer Erna, owned by
an uncle. He was barely past his
majority, as | recall, and the
youngest master in the German
merchant marine.
Tall, blond, handsome, impuls-
i've, of the good fellow type, he
was an interesting and pleasant
man to meet. ] recall dining
with him in his honey cabin
aboard ship and later in the little
back room of the old Peerless
cafe, where he consumed quanti-
ties of steamed clans and thick
steak.
Not long after, he was gradu-
ated from the station OF master TO
a position as shore manager for
the Erna and sister ship or two.
Still later he was a member of
the firm OF Jebsen & Ostrander.
While those duties of late years
have taken him to many ports, he
occasionally has returned to Ia
coma.
Often Reported Dead.
Since the war started he has
been the kaiser's most fearless aid
and adroit free lance in the West
ern sea.
Reports Of his death rival the
mortality record of Villa, and
have probably been Just as much
inspired and exaggerated. They
are not credited in official quar-
tiers.
Recent rumor locates him
vaguely in the South Seas, keep
ing under cover, awaiting word to
strike where his sharpened judg-
ment dictates. in case of actual
hostilities between this country
and Germany.
Highly Resourceful.
Hints that Capt. Jebsen has
established q German submarine
base in the far Pacific have fire.
quently come out of the Orient
lately. Their ready credence
along the waterfront is a tribute
to his uncanny resourcefulness.
Heretofore Jebsen's clashes with
u. s. authorities have been over
violations of neutrality regula-
tons. Time after time he has
been detained and the ban placed
upon his ships and cargoes. He
always turned up with others.
When the German cruisers Leip.
zig and Scharnhorst. prior to their
destruction by the British rowing
fleet. menaced allied shipping in
the Pacific, Jebsen managed to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
MIC GOOD DOG

United Press Leased wfre.D
PETROGRAD, Mar. 29.-Nich-
olas Romanoff is a model prisoner.
He seems entirely contented
with his lot.
Reports from Tsarskoe-Selo pal
ace today declared he was con-
tinuing the regime OF early rising
and plenty Of exercise by walking
that he adopted when he was auto
crat of all the Russians, and that
he has uttered no word of COM
plant at his treatment
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one lank leg
hooked over the
other, he lean
ed forward in
the witness
chair, a serio-
comic but dead
ly earnest fig
ure, telling his
version of the
often and vari-
ously told story
that has re-
duced Seattle
to helpless be-
wilderment.
He had a
mans size job
m
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
ATTORNEY FINISHES
HIS PLEA FOR MAYOR
(By United Press.)

10y SulUCu ATSS'p
SEATTLE, March 30. =
"There are two people who
await your verdict most an
iously. One is little Mrs.
Gill, with her two boys. The
other is Logan Billingsley,
emissary of hell"
With these words, Attorney
Frederick Bausman this
morning closed his dramatic
plea for Mayor Hiram G. Gill
before tn ejury that will de-
eide the fate of the city's
chief executive, his chief OF
police and four city detec-
tives on trial for conspiracy to
aid the Billingsley bootleg
ging syndicate.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
80 NAVAL MILITIA
MEMBERS CALLED

orders from the navy depart
ment Thursday have called into
service seven officers and 1903
men of the Washington naval mil
itia for an instruction cruise" of
two weeks. beginning March 81
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
JAPANESE INJURED

N. Yamheuchi, a Japanese lum-
Der handler employed at the
North End mill, was probably
fatally injured Thursday morn
ing when large stack of lumber
fell on him. He was removed to
st. Joseph's hospital.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
Talk O the Times
PAGE BERNICE NEWELL
From the FIT. Lauderdale, Fla.
Ca,,ttnn1

(From the FIT. Lauderdale, Fla,
Sentinel.)
In Mrs. Marshall and Nine. Hall,
Fit. Lauderdale has two of the
greatest artists in the republic.
The singing by Mrs. Marshall was
the best we have ever heard, and
we have heard all the grand
operas by singers who received a
thousand dollars night, and not
one of them that we have heard
could equal the matchless voice Of
Mrs. Marshall. If she would sing
in the grand opera her fame and
fortune is assured, and she would
rank with the best singers in his
tory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
START DRIVE
FOR SUFFRAGE

WASHINGTON, d. c., March
29.-Miss Jeanette Rankin, the
lady from Montana" will REIN
troduce in congress the Susan b.
Anthony constitutional amend
ment for universal suffrage as her
first official act after being sworn
In on Monday.
While Miss Rankin is introduc-
ing and pushing her woman suf-
frage resolution in the house,
Senator Jones (Wash.) will start
the battle for ballots In the SEM
ate. according to plans completed
today.
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supply them with coal and proyi.
sions out of San Francisco.
Several times thereafter, under
elaborate intrigue, he managed to
eVade clearance restrictions, keep
ing in touch with the German ves-
sells along the Mexican and Bra
| lillian coasts.
Like ghost he slipped through
the British, Australian and Jap
anese patrols. will o. the Wisp"
they dubbed him.
He ran arms and Mexican sol
diers from port to port for pre-
isumably pro-German Mexican fac
tons and otherwise actively inter-
ested himself in military affairs
there.
Jebsen had close mouth. an ir.
ritating smile and suave demeanor,
an alertness that never relaxed
and the courage of a bulldog. His
mysterious disappearance baffled
even his losest confidantes. And
his Temperatures we're just az
startling.
Knows the Coast.
The master adventures
knows the west coast like a book.
its defenses, its sea retreats, the
ships that come and go. and the
peculiarities of the men who man
them.
At any moment this knowledge
may become highly dangerous in
the maritime genius who IL
sworn to serve his kaiser. That
is why Uncle Sans intelligence
department is today so anxious
to locate and keep tab on Jeb-
sen, the elusive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
CHOP "PARK" FROM
HIGH SCHOOL NAME

Beginning Wednesday, it's no
longer Lincoln Park high school.
The park" part of the name has
been chopped out by the school
board on petition of south end
residents.
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department..
Alive, he must at this
time be reckoned as q
grim potential menace to
the United States, and es-
pecially to this part of it.
Lieutenant in the Ger
man naval reserve and
doughty skipper, Jebsen's
exploits since the out
break of the war rival the.
widest fiction. From the
equator to the Sound, his
escapades in behalf of the
Teuton cause have shown
him a genius at intrigue.
Whether they be sympa-
thizers with the kaiser's
cause OF with the allies
and they re fairly evenly
divided - the men along
Tacoma waterfront have
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Greetings, have you count
ed the angleworms on your
front walk?
a. on Ours.)

Greetings, have you count
ed the anglewOrms on your
front walk?
(4s on ours.)
If you want something done, just
bryantschool, and you'll get it.
Henry Ford may be the
greater auto expert, but IL
took Won Hin to get the boys
out Of the trenches.
A New York papers church col
umn discloses the fact that the
Fifth avenue Presbyterian used
last Sunday as an offertory, 20
Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me-"
HIRUM IN PAREE
There once was farmer from
Maine
Who walked through Paree In the
rain.
In crossing a river
He was hit by flivver,
Which tended to drive him In
Seine.
Harvard Lampoon.
Motto Of the Prussian adj
miralty: ''lf at first you don't
overt. try, try again."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29

An invest
ors' +" associa=
ton in New
York has started
a crusade for a
10 per cent in
crease in freight
rates to nav the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29

Do you remember when old.
Gen. Kuropatltin was fighting
the Japs how he used to elure
them on?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
BY Mabel Abbott.

SEATTLE, March 29.-Mayor
Gill testified in his own behalf
Wednesday in the liquor-graft
case.
Lean, cartoonable, lisping with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-29
Former Tacoman,F Free
Lance of Kaiser, Is
Thought to Be Alive;
Often ReportedDea
IS THIS JEBSEN'S WORK?
Omitted Press Leased Wire

VANCOUVER, b. c.. March 29.-The sinking OF Japan
warshp the South Pacific by submarine
reported today by the Canadian News
published here The declared the report
based cablegram from Toxic.
The fact that German raider of some type has been
operating in the South Pacific and Indian has been
known for time
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By a Times Reporter

The uncertain fate of Capt. Frederick Jebsen,
"master adventurer' of the Pacific is today mat
ter of grave concern for Uncle Sans intelligence
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wage increase caused by the Adj
amson law.