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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
JEERS
AT HEADLEE

NOuhtru Ercbu LchScu "Tc.b
SEATTLE, March 27.-"You
are prejudiced against the l. w.
W., aren't your"
well, who wouldn't be pre-
JUDGED, with a bullet in him?"
At the climax of a fierce cross
examination, former Mayor Thorn
as Headlee of Everett, thus frank
ly expressed himself in Judge
Ronald's department of the SUI
perior court yesterday afternoon.
He was a witness for the state
in the trial Of Thomas H. Tracy,
who with 70 others is charged
with numbering Jefferson Beard,
one of the large crowd of citizen
deputy sheriffs who met the
steamer Verona when II touched
at the Everett city dock Nov. 8
last year with load of I. w. w.
from Seattle.
Headlee was citizen deputy
and was wounded in the fight at
the dock.
The court halted proceedings at
one point to threaten to remove
persons in the audience who were
ieering at Headlee's testimony.
Others who testified yesterday
afternoon were Lewis c. Connor,
Edwin Stuchell, university stu
dents. and Raymond Brown, all of
whom we're citizen deputies and
all wounded.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
Great SLIDES IN
NISQUALLY CANYON
May RUIN STATION

length of 600 feet between the
plant and the new poles.
The endangering mountain OF
earth is on the right side of the
huge pipes leading down hill from
the reservoir to power house. II
was left there after contractors
had dug out of the hillside a
right-of-way for the tram railway,
and another deep cut for an over
flow pipe from the reservoir.
Great Cracks Open.
Cracks four inches wide have
developed in this high wedge OF
loose earth. Only the slightest
influence would be necessary, ac-
cording to Gronen, to send the
remainder of the hillside down
into the canyon.
"If this avalanche ever starts,
Il means that the power plant will
probably be crumpled up like an
eggshell," said the commissioner
Tuesday.
According to Gronen, electri-
clans and operators at the plant
are continuing stolidly with their
work, showing little fear of the
shaking mountain above that
threatens to wipe them out of ex-
istence.
They're good loyal men, and
they are sticking even when they
know that their lives are in dan
GER" said Gronen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
U. S. May SEIZE
MILLIONS OWNED
HERE BY KAISER
Especial 10 The Times)

WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March 27.-Ten million
dollars worth of United
States stocks are owned by
the kaiser and members of
his family and may be con-
fiscated by the United
States government in case
of war.
Facts just made public indi-
cate Wilhelm's concern over re.
affirmation of treaties guaran.
teeing Germans personal prop.
erty against seizure may have
been caused by personal rather
than national reasons.
The kaiser is one of the great
est of American property owners.
He had a fancy for railway securi-
ties. When the war began he is
said to have possessed $4,000, 900
in stocks and bonds of the Santa
Fe, Union and Southern Pacific,
and other western lines.
These shares were held in the
name of dummies or German bro
kerage houses in New York.
The kaiserin herself holds
half million In American securi-
ties. Prince Henry while in this
country is said to have made in
vestments for himself totaling
several millions.
There is evidence that
agents of the kaiser have
made stock market cleanups
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

Humbly, as BETTING mere
cabinet member, he went to the
inner circle of British finance. He
asked the great money experts
how it should be done. They
fixed up a plan. Law decided on
only one change. He made the
interest five per cent instead of
six.
Cant be DONE" protested the
inner circle of finance.
well, We'll try it," modestly
observed the chancellor.
All the world, including Ger
many, now knows we'll it was
done. The change of one per
cent saved Britain $50,000,00O a
year interest.
Bonar Law told me why he was
SO confident he could raise a
great loan at five per cent.
Read this newspaper tomorrow.
May Be Premier.
But first America ought to
know more about the man, for
two reasons.
one is That In case the next
shuttle in English politics should
give the old conservative party
control, Bonar Law would be the
logical choice for prime minis
ter.
The other is that there is a big
protective tariff fight coming in
Great Britain, one that will neces-
sarily affect America. And Law
Is the unquestioned leader Of the
tariff reform forces.
On a platform Of "Bonar Law
and order" he was elected to par
lament from Glasgow. Nobody
paid any attention to him until
one day the debate involved some
tariff questions. UP he rose and
began to offer facts, figures and
deductions. The effect was ire
mendous.
His career was mapped out from
that time on. Inevitably he later
became leader Of the conservatives
and as such he had many a lively
clash with Lloyd-George.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

PETROGRAD, March 81. -
The new Russia may break the
grip of the central empires in the
Balkans-may even bring about
withdrawal of Bulgaria and Tur-
key from the war, according to de-
velopments today.
Two moves by the new govern
ment leaders we're cited as likely
to have far reaching effects to this
end.
First is the plan of Minister OF
Justice Kerensky for "interna-
tionalization of Constantinople."
Kerensky agrees emphatisally
with President Wilson's dictum as
to free outlets to the sea and with
his plan for naturalization of such
outlets. His friends, however,
said Kerensky's plans went far
Their than this and contemplated
retention of the Dardanelles and
Constantinople by the Turks.
Second of the moves was a
series of possible negotiations
with the Bulgars reported in pros
pect today. Bulgaria's people are
closer than any others to Russia I;
more sympathetic with their aims
and, it is believed they will be
more sympathetic now that the
reign of the Romanoffs is ended.
When Professor Milukoff, now
foreign minister, was exiled sew
eral years ago to Sofia, he won
Bulgarian friendship. Later
when he was permitted to return,
he declared in a speech in the
duma that Bulgaria had been I'M
fairly treated in the Balkan war
settlement.
Milukoff's selection as foreign
minister may open the way tC
definite negotiations along the
lines indicated, with both Bulgaria
and Turkey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

SOftened by heavy rains
of the past two weeks,
miniature mountain of earth
and rock overhanging the
city's power plant on the MIS-
qually river is mOmentarily
threatening to slide down
the steep incline and crush
the @2,OOO,OOO plant.
Already several tons of shale
and earth have started down hill,
burying the tramway which car
ries operators and supplies down
to the bottom of the canyon
where the dynamo station Is 10
Gated.
Huge steel towers used as poles
for carrying the transmission lines
out OF the station and starting
them towards the city have been
swept out Of position by the slide.
A steel guy-wire three-eights Of
an inch thick, holding one of the
towers In place, has snapped off.
Should these transmission towers
collapse, Tacoma would be entire
ly cut off from the municipal
power plant.
Similar Slide Last Year.
A similar sliding of earth on
the banks of the canyon caused
damage last year, but part of the
hillside was sluiced away and
fear Of future slides was dimin-
ished.
The winters rains, however,
have loosened the top soil, which
rests on a sloping foundation of
soapstone.
More than 100000 cubic yards
of earth and rock are balanced on
top of the hill directly overlook
ing the plant. A sudden freeze
and thaw, or another heavy rain,
might send the entire mass pitch
ing down upon the power plant.
1.-THE danger is ACUTE said
Commissioner Gronen Tuesday.
Il am hoping for the best, but the
power plant might he wiped out
at a moments notice"
Crews at Work.
Crews of workmen have been
rushed to the plant, and they will
begin cautiously removing the
dangerous hillside. Another crew
Is erecting some new transmission
poles of an IL mense type on solid
ground beyond the sliding shale
If this can be accomplished be-
fore another slide occurs, the sets
of four transmission towers now
in the path of the impending ava
lanche will be discontinued, and
the wires will be suspended for a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
CHIEF DENIES
TAKING CASH
Especial to The Times.)

SEATTLE, March 27.-Follow-
ing the ross-examination of Chief
of Police Charles Rockingham,
Mayor Hiram G. Gill was sched-
uled to take the witness stand this
morning in the booze-graft case,
in which the officials and four city
detectives are charged with con-
spiracy to violate federal laws reg
ulating interstate shipments of
liquor.
The case is expected to go to the
jury late Friday or Saturday.
Chief Rockingham, on the wit
ness stand, denied that he lever
took a five cent piece" from a
bootlegger or anybody else since
he has headed the police depart
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
PATRIOTISM

Not the least of Tacoma volunteers service
Sans army is neither
IL is 16-cent copper.
The big war has demonstrated that army be a
all effective must be backed by almost inexhausble
supply of metal for armament quite equal
supply Of men OF mettle to handle il.
The Tacoma Smelling Co. has volunteered services,
and the services Of the it's employ standing ready
to supply OF this metal Uncle practically
production cost.
With the market price OF copper higher than
before3fK to 85 cents-the Tacoma plant has agreed
to supply the government with copper
quires for armament, at 10 cents.
The cost has been chopped n half.
The smelling companys action just goes show
there are than of helping Uncle Sam get
ready Also that big corporations may
patriotism.
There's chance for everybody be ctaIkeS up with
assist.
An there's for the drag the holdup-not
in Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
RUSSIAN
WOMEN
TO VOTE
Especial to The Times.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. 81.
will in all probability
be the first world power among
the western nations to provide in
it's constitution for woman suf-
frage," said j. G. Ohsol, former
member of the Russian duma rep
resenting the city of Riga, today.
IF constitutional convention
is elected by universal suffrage,
as provided in the provisional gov
ernment's manifesto, there will al
most certainly be a dozen women
among the delegates, and the con-
vention will grant votes to wom-
en- almost without a dissenting
voice.
And delegates who would OPP
pose woman suffrage would be
laughed at.
No Sex Prejudice.
ut will probably surprise
Americans to be told that in Rus
STA, which in many ways has been
the most reactionary of western
nations, there is no such sex pre-
JUDGE as exists in England,
France, Germany and the United
States.
Russia opened the learned pro-
LESSONS to women earlier than did
any other European nation. For
more than two generations there
have been women teachers and
physicians. One of the most bril-
liant mathematician the world
have ever known was a Russian
woman, who received full recogni-
tion from the universities.
1--WE now have in Russia wom-
an architects, lawyers and engi-
neers. Even the reactionary min
istry, which has been in full con-
troll, permitted women to practice
in the courts ON the same footing
with men.
I'm Russian local government
the vote belongs not to the indi-
vidual, as in this country, but to
the household. 1t always has been
the custom that when the male
head of the household died or was
absent, the housewife cast the vote
for the household.
Women also have taken mems
places in Industries in large num-
bers since the beginning of war,
and have thereby achieved eocn-
omio independence they never will
surrender"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
GRAND DUKES PETITION
Omitted Press Leased Xfre.l

PETROGRAD, March 27.-The
Grand Dukes Nicholas, Michael,
Alexander, Boris, George and Di-
mitri and the Princesses Gabriel,
Igor and Alexander, today Joined
in a formal telegraphic notice to
the new government, declaring
their desire to associate them
selves with Russia under her new
regime.
All declared they supported the
view expressed by the Grand Duke
Michael in abdicating the throne
and expressed the belief that their
rights and privileges under the
old regime should now be exereis-
ed by the new government.
A steady improvement in condi-
lions was visible today. The new
municipal militia is maintaining
excellent order throughout the
city.
Provisions are now coming reg
ularly into the city and the volume
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
CALIFORNIA SAYS
ITS GOODBYES TO
GOV. HI JOHNSON

SAN FRANCISCO, March o.
Goodbye, God bless you, Hiram
Johnson" was the banner strung
across the front of the ferry build
ing here when U. S. Senator-elect
Johnson left here on the overland
limited for Washington to par
ticipate In the deliberations of the
extra session of congress due to
meet Monday.
81 am going into new world
to do the best I know how" was
Johnson's parting word to his
friends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
on strength of advance in
formation from Berlin.


The kaiser is said to have large
land holdings in America.
He Is part owner of the North
German Lloyd and Hamburg
American lines, which have $780,
100000 in ships tied up In
American ports.
The kaiser is the majority own
er of a silk mill in Paterson, N
j., which, by the way, was
shown by the commission ON in
dustrial relations to pay tn,
lowest wages and compel tn,
worst working conditions i'm tha
district.
As a stakeholder I'm a Chi
cago packing company, the
kaiser is reputed to have
piled up wealth at the en-
pense of the allies and the
American public.
1t Is rumored the federal gov
eminent is investigating the ex.
tent of Wilhelm's holdings, with
the idea that If the government
should not confiscate property of
individual German citizens, ex-
ception should be made in the
kaiser's case, on the ground that
his autocratic relations to the
government make his holding, in
effect, the property of the German
state.
This property, If confiscated
would be converted into the Unit
ed States federal treasury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
Greetings, have you hung
out Old Glory?

Such a disturbance! Hank to
the complaint of the Medical Lake
(Wn.) Mirror:
Someone carried away the let
ter e which belongs in the head
ing OF the Mirror. It was the only
one We had so IL whoever took II
will bring, send or mail II to us we
will appreciate it as it will cost us
several dollars to replace 1t. being
obliged to buy the entire font OF
type to get the one letter."
And this is the way the STAN
wood Tidings comes back at emit
Cant you grow tail on .
cap r. Jack? You're always
Dragging about the superior soil
at Medical Lake."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
RUSSIA likely
TO Make TERMS
WITH 2 POWE RS
Prices are slightly

is increasing. Prices are slightly
reduced.
All the new ministers work day
and night, mapping out govern
mental plans.
One striking thing is the pic
ture of the Chapmars and other
squares in the city filled with re-
cruits training for service at the
front.
The efficiency of the new re-
gime is exemplified in hundreds
of arrests of spies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
He's BashfuI, But He
Can Borrow Billions

Editors Note: Chancellor OF
the Exchequer Andrew Bonar Law
has granted his first interview
with an American newspaperman
to Lowell Mellett of the United
Press London staff. Mellett was
formerly Tacoma newspaper
man, and is the husband of Berthe
Knatvold Mellett, authoress, who
is The Times special correspond
ent in London.
The interview will be received
here, he cables, tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
STRAIGHT TREACHERY
,,n,,ed Press leased Wire,


PETROGRAD, March GA Sc
cret wireless station at Tsarskoe-
Selo which is suspected OF having
furnished communication in the
past between pro-German Russian
ministers and Berlin was discov-
cred today.
Evidence which the new gov
ernment's agents has collected
showed, 1t was said, that this sta
tion was established by the form
er minister of the interior. Proto-
popoff, without the cars knowl-
edge.
The government, It was declar-
ed, had other evidence culmina-
tive in forcing the conclusion that
the old regime did not scruple to
plot Russias destruction.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
BY HENRY WOOD
United Press Staff Correspondent.

hS5S
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
ADVANCING FROM SCISSORS,
March 27.-French soldiers don't
pull down the carcasses of rabbits,
crows, hawks, squirrels and the
like which they find occasionally
strung on wires dangling from
ruins of houses destroyed by the
Germans in their retreat.
Here is the reason why:
In several places north of Sois-
sons the advancing French forces
have found that when attempt was
made to yank down these dead
bodies, the pull on the wires to
which they were attached set off
mines ingeniously laid by the Ger
mans. -
But not everywhere have the
Germans had sufficient time in
which to plan such ingenious
traps. The French pursuit has been
80 speedy that the enemy has been
frequently forced to leave before
completing its work of destruc-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

Flowers and shrubs and vines, the association
reminds us, have beauty; peas and beans and rad
ishes and tomato plants have usefulness-and
both beauty and usefulness spell wealth.
Some persons have house and lot, others a
home and garden. 1t is the latter class who make
Tacoma desirable city
Here is common ground on which we all can
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
Nicholas Roananoff

Nicholas Roananoff has
gone back to the farm. He
probably would be glad to
join the Puyallup a Sumner
Fruit Growers association, IL
Paulhamus would write him
about il.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
STEEB TO TEACH
COMMERCE CLASS

j. T. Steeb is the newly elect
ed instructor of the class in for
eign commerce that meets every
Monday night at the Commercial
club.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

Republics end with luxury;
monarchies with poverty
MOntesquieu.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

The Russians have taken Van
but Won is yet to fall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27
SEARCH Us

SEARCH US
Sir: Why do shaving soap ads
show a neat young man without
the sign of a whisker smilingly
about to use the wonderful paste
or powder that makes shaving q
joy? @. T.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

Some musical shark like Com
poser Cadman, who recently visit
ed Tacoma, ought to make pho
nograph record of whisky voice
before they are all extinct.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

The purpose of congress-
gathering next Monday no
doubt is to ratify the exist
ing state OF war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

Add war-born SMILES: Al
out-of-date as q last years
atlas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

The Tacoma-Pierce County Betterment associ-
alton has designated next Saturday as Clean
Up Day
Its officers ask that buildings be painted, barns
be whitewashed, flower beds be cultivated, gar
dens be spaded and especially that vacant lots be
cleared Of brush and litter
general war is declared on billboards, weeds,
tin cans and broken bottles
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

gather. We may differ about war on Germany,
but we all agree that clean, beautiful city is the
sort we want. So everybody heed the Betterment
associations call for special session of Taco
mans for next Saturday War on rubbish and dirt
is to be declared
There will be no fiibusters. Fire at sight on
rubbish
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-27

The Times Tabloid
History Of Russia be-
gins today on page two.
Be sure to read chapter
one.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-02-16
SOUTHERN UTAH'S
SPLENDID SCENERY
Salt Lake Route to Cooperate to
Open Up Productive and Senic
Southern Utah.

One Of the most far-reaching en-
terprises ever undertaken in southern
Utah will be Launched in a few
weeks, according to report made
by DR.. Ernest Green Of Cedar City,
Utah. This is the opening up of one
of the greatest coal deposits in the
west.
DR.. Green is the owner of 100
acres of coal lands which he claims is
the key to all the coal lands in Iron
county. The land is situated three
miles from Cedar City and thirty
miles from Lund on the Los Angeles
and Salt Lake Railroad. It is To-
Gated $50 miles nearer the Pacific
coast than the great coal deposits Of
Carbon county.
A company is already in process
Of formation which, it is said, will
take over the property of DR.. Green.
1t will be incorporated for "a million
shares, and work will begin on the
property just as soon as Prof. Peter
son, of the Agricultural College,
makes a report on the cost of the pro-
posed tramway and equipment. The
tramway Is to run from the mine to
Cedar City.
The stock of the corporation. has
practically all been taken by Salt
Lake capitalists.
II is said that the opening of these
extensive coal mines, ultimately
means the development of the great
iron deposits of Iron and Washington
counties, which are the largest unde-
veloped iron deposits in the world.
These are the only great coal and
iron deposits lying along the route
of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake
railroad. The railroad company has
already had surveys made of the line
from Lund to Cedar City, and it is
said that If that company does not
construct the road, other parties
stand ready to take hold of the enter
prise.
1t is claimed by DR.. Green that tins
construction of such a road would
eventually result in the extension to
the Grand Canyon at Bright Angel
Point, where one of the best views of
the canyon is obtainable, and that it
would open up the Kaibab forest.
where the government is now offer
ing for sale three billion feet Of stand
ing timber 1t would also open uRde-
veloped fields of gold, silver, lead,
copper and antimony.--Beaver County
News.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-02-16
THE WEEKS OFFERINGS
AT THORLEY THEATRE

Following is the program of moving
picture plays to be shown at the
Thorley Electric Theatre during the
week beginning Monday, Feb. 10:
Monday-Alice Brady in "Then I'll
Come Back to You" World Corp.
Tuesday--Five reel Western pro-
gram by the Universal Film Co.
Wednesday-Five reel Western pro-
gram by the Mutual Film company.
Thursday-Fifth episode from "a
Lass of the Lumberlands."
Friday-House Peters in "The Rail
Rider" World Corporation.
Corporation.
Saturday-Six reel program by the
Mutual Film Company.