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The Washington herald., 1917-11-18

The NameIess Man, by Natalie
Sumner Lincoln, author Of Il Spy"
&c. o. D." etc. New York: d. APP
rleton & Company. illustrated
Price, $1.iO net
An exciting mystery story involv-
ing high political and diplomatic Of
ficiaIs and prominent society peo-
pie here at Washing ton. Dwight
TiIghman is poisoned on an East
bound train, and a California Con-
grcssman is shot at a dinner party
in the National Capital These mys-
terious murders are committed as a
result of a wager of $4,000 offered
by Col. Calhoun TO a man, whose
name is not mentioned. to expose a
japanese plot which the Colonel is
sure exists in diplomatic CiTles. An
exciting hunt for the criminal is
the outcome in which climax follows
climax until the denouement upsets
all the readers preconceived the
orieS.
Miss Lincoln, who is a local girl,
knows well the political, diplomatic
and social life in the National Capt.
tai. The mysterious Japanese is
one Of the most interesting char
aCters she has yet created, and the
charming love story adds zest to the
situations.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-18

ExtrIcating ObndIah by Joseph c.
Lincoln, author of Mary
"Thankfurs Inheritance" etc. New
York: d. Appleton & Company. IL
lustrations. Price, $3.50 net
Cap'n Noah Newcomb, who has
roamed more seas than some folks
ever dreamed of. has retired from
active service and is touring Cape
Cod in an automobile when he meets
with an accident. The accident re-
suits in the Cap'n meeting his form
er cabin boy. Obadiah Burgess, who
has just fallen heir to a fortune. The
Cap'n knows that money in large
Jumps is great temptation. He
also knows his former cabin boy,
and before he leaves he tells Obadiah
that he will always be ready to help
The Washington herald., 1917-11-18

At the risk of being charged with monotonous re-
iteration we are again going declare that our great
est problem, upon solution of which depend human
liberty and true progress, is
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no change for days. IL seems all
SO sudden and so-terrible, Mr..
Eaton. You can hardly appreciate
how we feel about it without
knowing father. He was so good,
so strong, so brave, so independ-
ent! And at the same time so
so dependent upon those around
him, because of his blindness! 1t
is so unjust that there should
have been such an attack upon
him."
They have been investigating
the attack"
Yes; Donald-Mr. Avery, you
know-and the conductor have
been working on it all day"
What have they learned?"
Not much, l think; at least
not much that they have told me.
They have been questioning the
porter"
'The porter?"
1.-THE bell rang, you know. I
thought you knew. 1t rang some
time before father was found
some few minutes before"
Eaton looked away from her,
then back again rather strangely.
81 would not attach too much
Importance to the bell," he said.
Father could not have rung
it; DR.. Sinclair says that Is i'm
possible. So its being rung shows
that some one was at the berth,
some one must have seen father
lying there and-and rung the
bell, but did not tell any one
about father. That could hardly
have been an innocent person,
Mr.. Eaton"
"Or a guilty one, Miss Santoine,
or he would not have rung the
bell at all. Is that all they have
learned?"
mo; they have found the
weapon"
1.-THE weapon with which your
father was struck"
Eyes; the man who did 1t seems
not to have realized that the
train was stopped--or at least
that 1t would be stopped for so
long-and he threw it off the
train, thinking, l - suppose, we
should be miles away from there
by morning. But the train didn't
move, and the snow didn't cover
it up, and 1t was found lying
against the snow bank this after
noon, 1t corresponds. DR.. Sim
clair says, with fathers injuries.
CONTINUED In Our Next Issue.)
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AuXiliaries'.
to Red Cross

Auxiliaries to the Tacoma Red
Cross are being formed rapidly in
various towns of the county,
through the work of Mrs. e. G..
Griggs, chairman OF the auxiliary
committee.
Sumner formed an auxiliary
Tuesday, with Mrs. Nellie Matte
son chairman and Mrs. ]. r. King,
secretary. Another has been or
ganized at Dupont. with Mrs.
Mather. chairman, and Mrs. Walk
er, secretary and treasurer.
Next Monday Mrs. j. P. Weyer-
haeuser, president of the Tacoma
Red Cross, will speak at Fern Hill
Methodist church, where another
auxiliary is being started.
Eighty members have enrolled
for the home nursing classes in
Tacoma under the direction of
Mrs. A. r. Granz. The classes
will be brought up to 100 MEN,
hers. Those who want to join
call up Mrs. Harold S. Wheeler,
Main 1897.
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SEARCH FOR
FERTILE SOIL

A plan has been worked out by
the Tacoma-Piercs county war
food commission and is being put
into operation this week which
viii give a strong working organi-
cation in every school district in
the city. An executive commit
tee of three is being selected for
each school district, and each dis
trict is to be subdivided into small
districts, and a committeeman Sc
lected for each subdistrict. A sur
vey will be made of each sub
division and an attempt to en-
courage everyone in a maximum
garden production.
A minute search will be made
for every fertile spot and plans
made for its cultivation. Any
children or adult in the district
who needs financial assistance
will be helped.
The war food mission has
arranged for the following meet
ings Friday evening.
Sheridan school; Principal E. l..
Spencer of the Grant school,
speaker.
Bryant school. Principal II. A.
Wbiteneck of the Logan school.
speaker.
Franklin school, John o. Peter
son.
Hawthorne school, speaker to
be announced later.
Irving school, Principal Gould.
Lowell school; Asst. Supt. OF
Education w. o. Osborne, speaker.
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struments and so on"
Avery could not have replied as
he did, IL the strain this period
must impose upon Harriet San
tome had been much in his mind.
Eaton turned from him and asked
nothing more.
A long time passed-how long
Eaton could not have told. Final
ly the door opened again and
Harriet Santoine came out, paler
than before, and now not quite so
steady.
Eaton rose as she approached
them; and Avery leaped up, all
concern and sympathy. He met
her in the aisle and took her
hind.
was it successful. dear?" Az
cry asked.
She shut her eyes, gripped the
back of a seat; then opened her
eyes, saw Eaton, recognized him
and sat down in the seat where
Avery had been sitting.
Or. Sinclair says we will know
in four or five days" she replied
to Avery; she turned then direct
ly to Eaton. HE thought there
probably was a clot under the
skull, and he operated to find it
and relieve II. There was one,
and we have done all we can;
now we may only wait"
Thank you; ! did want to
know" Eaton acknowledged. He
moved away from them, sat
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19

Coming to Tacoma on forged
liquor permits, 800 quarts of ex-
pensive bonded whisky were seiz-
ed by Sergeant Falconer and the
police dry squad at the Union Pa
cific freight sheds Thursday after
noon. The shipment is valued at
$500, according to present re
tail" prices in dry territory.
Labels on the whisky cases an
nounced that the shipment was
being sent to "E. r. Moore 2O2
st. Helens avenue. The drug
store of j. J. Yuill is located at
this address. Yuill denied any
knowledge of the shipment. There
is 40 such person as Moore.
Sergeant Falconer announced
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CHAPTER VIII.
Suspicion Fastens on Eaton.

AS he entered his own car
Eaton felt a hand on his arm
turned and faced Connery.
"If you must say anything, say
lit was appendicitis" the conduc-
tor warned "Mr. Dorne was
suddenly seized. An operation
was required to save him."
Eaton nodded assent. He learn
ed by the conversation of the pas
'sengers that Connery's version had
been easily received.
Eaton watched the car and
outside the window for signs OF
what investigation Connery and
Avery were making. Whoever had
attacked Santoine must still be
upon the train; for no one could
have escaped through the snow;
no one could now escape. A num-
Der of times Eaton saw Connery
and the Pullman conductor with
papers in their hands questioning
a passenger. They evidently were
starting Systematically through
the cars. examining each person;
they were making the plea Of ne
cessity of a report to the railroad
offices of names and addresses OF
all held by the stoppage OF the
train. They halted Eaton.
"Your name, sir?" Connery
asked.
philip d. Eaton"
"Your address,"
"I-have no address,
"You mean you don't want tc
give it?"
mo, I have none. | was goins
to a hotel In Chicago-which one
I hadn't decided yet"
"Where are you coming from
From Asia"
THAT'S hardly an address, Mr.
Eaton"
"I can give you no address
abroad. had no fixed address
there. was travelling. 1 ar
rived in Seattle by the Asiatit
steamer and took this train"
"Ah! you came on the Tamba
Maru."
Connery made note of this.
you can tell us at least where
your family is, Mr.. Eaton" Con-
merry suggested.
81 have no family"
Friends, them"
| II have no friends"
"What?"
81 say that l can refer you to
no friends"
'Nowheref"
Nowhere"
Connery pondered for several
moments. 1.-THE Lawrence Hill
ward. to whom the telegram was
addressed which you claimed this
morning. your associate who was
to have taken this train with you
will you give me his address,"
"I don't know Hillward's ad-
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Ignorant of filtration, the natives
allow this water to be contamin-
ated by birds and insects.
| had pictured the West Indies
a place where fruit was free as
the air, and was astonished to find
that not only was this NOT the
case, but In the Danish isles
found no fruit growing at all.
The fruit trees have been sac
rificed to the more profitable cane.
The planters and shopkeepers
can afford to buy imported fruit.
but this luxury is denied to the
natives who are unable thus to
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dress"
Give me the address. then,
of the man who sent the tele-
gram"
II am unable to do that, eth
err"
Connery spoke to the Pullman
conductor, and they conversed in
audibly for minute. | "That is
all, then" Connery said finally.
What, he wondered. did the
conductor think. Eaton told him
self that there should be no dan
ger to himself from this inquiry,
directed against no one, but in
Guiding comprehensively every one
on the train. He went into the
mems compartment to smoke and
calm his nerves. His return to
America had passed the bounds
of recklessness; and what sit
uation he would now be in IL his
actions brought even serious sus-
picions against him!
He heard voices outside the
car, and, looking out, he saw
Connery and the brakeman strug-
Cling through the snow and max
ing, apparently, some search.
Presently Connery passed the
door Of the compartment carry
ing something loosely wrapped in
"a newspaper. Eaton finished his
cigar and went back to his seat
in the car.
AS he glanced at the seat
where he had left his locked trav-
cling bag, he saw that the bag
was no longer there. 1t stood
now between the two seats on the
floor. He found it unfastened
and with marks that it had been
forced.
He checked over its contents.
Nothing had been taken, so far
as he could tell. Suddenly he
noticed that one Of his socks was
missing.
The disappearance of a single
sock was so perlexing that-un-
less It was accidental-he could
not account for 1t at all.
Ever since the receipt of the
telegram of warning Eaton had
been trying covertly to determine
which, If any one, among the pas
sengers was the lone" who was
following" him. He had watch
ed particularly for a time the
man who had claimed the tele-
gram and given the name of Hill
ward; but the only conclusion he
had been able to reach was that
the mans name might be Hillward
and that coincidence-strange as
such a thing seemed--might have
put aboard the train a person by
this name. Now his suspicious
that one of "them" must be
aboard the train returned.
Eaton got up and went into the
observation car. The card room
was filled with players, but Hill
ward" was not among them, and
he saw no one whom he felt
could possibly be one of them
In the observation room, the case
was the same. CHANGING through
the glass door at the end Of the
car. he saw Harriet Santoine
standing alone on the observation
platform.
She looked white and tired.
IT am supposed to be resting.
she explained quietly, accepting
him as one who had the right to
ask.
How is your father?"
Just the same; there may be
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Dnotonous diet.

vary their monotonous diet.
Washing clothes here is simply
a matter of rinsing and then slap
ping them on the rocks. This pro-
cess Is called juking. Sometimes
soap Is used. Often a handful OF
pau-pau leaves. My clothes were
washed in the same way. AS far as
| have been able to discover there
isn't a single dashboard on the
island.
When she spied me. the young
ster on the bank ran screaming
for her only garment-an unusual
display OF modesty for either sex
in these islands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
Cars Collide;
No One Hurt

Splitting a switch at gath and
Paclflc avenue, an outbound
Woodland street car crashed head
on into northbound Falkland
car at $50 Thursday morning.
Neither car was travelling at a
high speed. Although the vesti-
bules were smashed, neither mo-
torman or any Of the passengers
were injured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
CHAPTER VII
"Isn't This Basil Santoine?"

Sinclair was still bending over
the naked torso. 1t had been a
strong. healthy body; Sinclair
guessed its age at so. AS a boy,
the man might have been an ath-
1ete. and he had kept in condition.
There was no mark or bruise, ex-
copt that on the right side there
showed a scar of crescent shape
evidently surgical scar, complete
" healed.
Sinclair scrutinized this, then
looked up to Avery. ''He was oper-
ated ON recently?"
ION the gall-bladder."
performed by Kuno Garrt?"
Avery hesitated. II believe &c."
He watched Sinclair more close
lyt the surgeon had seemed about
20 question Avery again; but IN
stead he drew mp the sheet and
blanket. Then he took matchbox
from his pocket, and handed II to
Nation. "will you help me. please?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
WANT TO JOIN?
HERE'S HOW TO

Recruitsl
If you want to fight for
Uncle Sam, here is a list of
places to go and talk it over
with the officers in charge:
NAVY
Room 200, second floor,
Bank of California building,
18th and Pacific.
ARMY
Second floor, Croft hotel,
1919 Pacific ave.
MARINE CORPS
Ground floor, 1917 Paci-
fic ave.
SECOND INFANTRY ,e,
Camp Maurice Thompson,
American Lake.
COAST ARTILLERY
Armory, 94S Pacific ave-,
els Pacific ave-, I'LL Pa
cific ave., Old Tacoma drug
store, North 30th ST., corner
of Union ave. and 54th ST.,
South Tacoma.
N. G. w. CAVALRY
Troop b headquarters,
Armory, South 18th and
Yakima ave.
WOMEN - gu "a
Registration offices of the
National League for Wom-
ems Service, ground floor,
913 Broadway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
BY MAURICE BECKER
Noted American Artist

ST. CROIX, Virgin Islands - l
saw this scene on the road from
Fredricksted to Christiansted.
There had been some rain the day
before and it was a great saving
Of water to be able to bathe and
wash in this puddle.
The only water Is rain water, of
which there is plenty during Au
gust and September, the wet sea-
son.
This is kept in barrels filled by
the drippings from the roofs.
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down awhile, got up and left the
car.
AS the door was closing be-
hind Eaton, a sound came to his
ears from the car he just had
left--a young girl suddenly cry
ing in abandon. Harriet San
tome, he understood, must have
broken down for the moment, af-
ter the strain of the operation;
and Eaton halted as though to
turn back. Then, recollecting
that he had no right to go to
her, he went on.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
Omitted Press Leased Wire.

SEATTLE, April 19.-Frank A.
Brown, barber and life insurance
agent of Everett, this morning in
Judge Ronald's court testified
that the first shot in the battle
between |. w. VS. aboard the
steamer Verona and citizen deputy
sheriffs on the Everett city dock,
Nov. s, was fired from the dock
by a man who stood near Sheriff
Donald McRae.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
POLICE SEIZE BIG
BOOZE SHIPMENT

that the permits attached to the
shipment were forged, not only in
the printing, but In the signature
of County Auditor Thomas Morris.
The booze will be thrown into
the sewer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
(From Last Nights Pink Edition.)
TIL e
KIND WORDS
CLUB

There's S John county
Twenty life insurance company
weghty Since
the five Just to tell them
he's still alive.
The taking chances the under sea
Henry the Foss family called
hardware and asked they had gun suit
deyfish and other marine
monsters.
o State bank. Is
all
the
a shpyard
fishing kind
two days. how the weather is tomorrow
Hndenbug ought be glad to get back home
thanh 1910
food gardener
variety
Of he'll tell how plant
o. him.
little tricks the trade Hardy knows
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
DEATHS

Marcelus McClintock, age 81,
died Wednesday night at a local
hospital. He was member of
the Mount Tacoma Rebekahs, No.
SO; Stuben lodge No. IS, l. o. o.
s.; Tacoma Encampment No. s.;
Chinook tribe No. 10, Red Men,
and the Pocohontas lodge. A sis
ter survives him. Body removed
to G. G. Mellinger's.
Verney Gene Lambert, five
months-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Lambert, died Thurs
day morning at the family resi-
dence. 500 South 21st street.
Body removed to 9. @. Mellin-
gers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19

All coast fish boats are ordered
to be painted white.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19

Weaherman has been fishing for kind words for the
two days Wen how the weather is tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19

Anyway, Won Hindenburg ought to be glad to ge
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-19
FUNERALS

Funeral of Samuel Ball Friday
at from Buckley-King's.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-29
80 @~~~~~

~HALK up another victory for
Texas over Georgia on the base
~ ball diamond. for Dave Danforth,
a Lone Star slater. wrested from Sher-
rod Smith. who. like Ty Cobb. is a
Georgian. the honor Of being the box
man who trapped the greatest number
OF men off the bases during 1915.
Smith had been the Matt Kilroy of
1915. catching Is FASTENERS Off the
hassocks.
The White SoN lefthander last year
saw TO il personally that II men who
reached first quickly forfeited their
rights as baserunners. His victims
for the most part. We're men who. on
the bases display skill as well as
speed.
Mamnux Leads Nationals.
Al Mamaux OF the Pirates led the
National league gunners in nabbing
athletes off the cushions. adding a
dozen assists to his record in this way.
Only one other pitcher-the be-spec-
tacled Henry Lee Meadows of the Car
dinals-reached double figures in trap
ping men off the bases just getting
into the twO-numersl class
In 1915 there were four pitchers who
caught ten or more men off the cush-
ions. Smith II Brooklyn. Hughes of
the Braves. Adams OF the Pirates and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-29

Fifty-eight thousand four hundred
and thirty-five muskrats were trapped
IN Wisconsin in 1916
Pennsylvania maintains IS game pre-
serves. which cover an area OF 100
square miles
Connecticut sportsmen are demand
ing = closed season for deer
Ten thousand deer were killed in
Maine during the past season Nine
thousand more were killed IN Caiifor-
MA and POI IN New Jersey. In the lat
ter state the season is only four days
Two hundred and fifty bear We're
killed in Pennsylvania during the sea
son just closed, which is a greater
number than were killed in many Of
the western states Eighteen bear
were killed in Maine
California paid out 100000 in boun-
ties for mountain lions at SO each
during 1916. Statistics show that
mountain lion viii kill 50 deers
year
Five game preserves and 81 bird res
ervations are maintained by the Bio
graphical survey of the United States
department OF agriculture.
Wyoming appropriated s6o.o00 in
1916 to be paid for the hides of coyotes
at $50 each. The sum was not
enough. Thousands OF coyotes were
killed which the trappers could not
collect for
United States and Great Britain have
signed a treaty for the mutual border
protection OF migratory birds. one OF
these days Uncle sam viii have like
treaty with Mexico
Forest fires have been costing Penn
sylvania S25,00O,00O a year Statistics
for Canada show that the provinces
nually because OF these fires. They are
very expensive
Il is claimed that the 1916 bag Of
rabbits in Pennsylvania will exceed
1000, 600.
Three hundred and twenty-one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-three
persons have visited the Canadian Ma
tional Park at Banff. It is a great
place for tourists.
There wasn't shooting accident
during the recent hunting season in
New Jersey
Four hundred elk were killed out
side of the north boundary OF Yellow
stone Park during the last two days
of the hunting season The heavy snow
drove the elk from the mountains re-
where the hunters awaited and killed
them
: = :.
The State Fish and Game association
Will recommend to the Pennsylvania
legislature the adoption of a fishing
license bill The receipts from such a
measure would go towards the propa-
cation Of fish.
The man whose eyesight is so poor
he cannot tell a deer from a man at
ordinary range should not be allowed
in the woods with a firearm. and the
man who shoots at every movement of
a leaf or branch OF a tree should be
debarred from even entering a woods.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-29
CURTAIN
DOWN AT
JUAREZ
Manager VIM Calls a Halt
to Race Meeting in Old
Mexico, Owing To
Quarantine Res
strictions.
SMALL CROWDS ALSO
HASTEN THE WIND UP
RY CHTCk sMAN.

~HE bang tails have come and
gone The getaway number has
Il been staged at the Juarez track,
ut it wasn't advertised or announced
El Paso fans Will have to wait an
ether year to see the runners speed
it up around the oval, for. the winter
meeting of the Juarez Jockey club came
to an abrupt end yesterday morning.
The meeting has not been a financial
success from the opening day Small
crowds, due partly 10 the feeling o:
unrest which holds Americans who
cross the river. has kept many fans
away. And. while the sport has been
good. the horsemen have not pros
Fered. There'N he lot of 'em looking
for getaway coin today
The quarantine restrictions. both on
the American side as well as the re-
taiiatOry measures on the Mexican side
Of the border. also kept the fans away
The small sized riot yesterday morn
ing was the straw which broke the
cam9's back. and manager NJ J. Winu
called off hostilities for the season
He had previously shortened the meet
ing somewhat
Col. VIM is already planning a big
ser and better meeting for 1sl1-i9lS
and hopes by that time that everything
Will be lovely, as far as the WAR"
IS concerned.