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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

A Fine Little Plan to Pay Discredited
Politician $500 a Month

Being fairly well balanced and sane organiza-
tons, they naturally turned the proposition down
Jointly and severally and with considerable eclat
And, Of course, that ended it, because Hum
phrey's crew could think of nobody else to ask
for the $500 per.
There is group of men in Tacoma who looked
with approval on the Humphrey idea, for what
reason they best know. AS / do not happen to
have exact, frst-hand information as to just who
they all are, will leave their identity for you to
guess. 1t ought to be fairly easy. If you recall the
newspaper and political clique that backed his
senatorial campaign here last fall the personnel Of
the select circle should not be difficult to sulmise
also will leave it for you to figure out whether
this clever pork-hunt project has any relation to
schemes No. and No. 3, especially No. 3, after you
have read what L will have to say tomorrow and
Monday.
There is great deal of unattended hmor and
very little of real menace in the Humphrey episode
1t is funny because it purported to be serious and
yet never succeeded in getting within the pale Of
common sense or probability.
1T HAS, JUST THE SANE, ONE SOLDERING
IMPLICATION-the fact that there should be in
Tacoma and elsewhere an organized and supposed
ly influential group who would try to use the
American lake army camp means of milking
the government.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
CAR BURNED
BY ENEMIES

After two attempts to wreck
the touring car of Patsy Mattison,
a public chauffeur, enemies of
Patsy were successful Friday
morning when they stole the car
from the Exeter apartments,
South 9th and j streets, drove it
to South 10th and Adams, and
set fire to 1t.
A bonfire was built under the
tonneau. The entire machine, a
new Oldsmobile used only two
days, was burned to the ground.
1t cost $500, .........
About month ago thieves stole
Mattison's other car, of, the same
make, drove it out to the Sixth
ave. boulevard and ruined it by
slashing open all the tires and
part of the woodwork with a
sharp knife.
Another time they set fire to
his garage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

Now the fact is the American lake camp is going
to develop rapidly into the immense government
establishment we all have hoped to see arise there
1t is going to do so through sheer merit. Every
army officer every department official is for it
doors.
The only danger that confronts it is that some
body's haste, or somebody's greed, or somebody's
bone-headedness is going to replace this friendly
spirit at headquarters with antagonism. The pro-
ject will develop and expand the best and fastest
If we let Uncle Sam do it in his own way A Hum
phrey or similar meddler might muddy the waters
at Washington so that the project would suffer ir-
reparable harm.
The nation is at war. The war department is
the busiest organization in all likelihood at present
in this whole world. 1t is bending every energy to
create and outfit and train mighty army The
American lake site, we have been repeatedly as
sured, is to play leading part in this program.
pork-visioned lobbyist fussing and meddling
and impOrtunng and whining around the capitol
would be about as unpatriotic as unwelcome and
as useless piece of furniture as the mind of mortal
man could conceive.
But that is enough scheme No. l. No. 2 is
more serious. 1t is plan to gouge Pierce county
for $4,000 that l, as member of the army post
committee and as editor of paper which always has
backed the project do not think the county legally
rightfully should pay. 1 will discuss it to-
morrow, and on Monday the third and largest and
most serious graft menace in this muti-miion-dol-
lar enterprise.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
TWO STRIKES
ARE SETTLED

A strike of sheet metal work.
ers and a threatened strike of
carpenters in Tacoma were avert
ed Friday when the employees
granted increases of wages as
outlined in the union mems de-
mands, according to Secretary
Parsons of the Building Trades
council.
Metal workers were given q
raise from $3.50 day to $3.50.
Carpenters we're raised from 81
to IS. There was no compro-
mise.
Since there are no non-union
sheet metal workers in the coun-
try, Tacoma employers had been
unable to fill the vacancies caused
by the strike.
Both unions demanded the in
creases because of the high cost
of living. There are about so
members of the sheet metal work.
ers' union, all of whom have been
o nstrike since May /.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
CAR
VETERAN i'll

Charles Purdy, conductor No.
of the T. r. & P. company, who
has served continuously on the
rear end of Tacoma street cars
for more than 25 years, is i'll at
the Tacoma General hospital, and
his life is despaired Of.
Purdy has suffered from a can
Ger for several years. His all
ment has reached a critical stage.
The veteran conductor worked
on the old Steilacoom line for rs
years, and was recently trans
ferred to the Regents park line
when the Steilacoom track was
torn up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
HOME LOOTED

Frying open a window in the
home of Hugh Wallace, promi-
nent Tacoma politician, now re-
siding in Washington, d. c., some
time during the past week thieves
ransacked the house, according to
a report made to the police by
Forbes Haskell, who looks after
Mr.. Wallace's affairs here. The
residence is located at 400 North
j street. So far as can be de-
termined, nothing was stolen. All
of the valuable household effects
are In storage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
T.. R. P.
SEEKS
RELIEF

An early reduction of the
service on certain car lines OF
the city, the Withdrawal Of
city Communication tickets,
and other measures to cut
down the expense OF opera
ton were announced Friday
by the Tacoma Railway a.
Power Co., through Louis
Bean, manager.
Manager Bean was not ready
Friday to announce the date on
which the reduction in service will
become effective.
No statement of which lines
would be affected could be OBJ
tanned, although 1t is believed the
long hauls were the ones referred
to, including PIT. Defiance, South
Tacoma, Spanaway, Bismark lines
and Regent Park.
The reason given is the dismiss
al by the public service commits
sion of the company's petition
asking to be relieved of the pay
ment of a gross earnings tax to
the city, the paving OF streets and
other franchise obligations.
This relief having been at
least temporarily deferred" said
Manager Bean In a statement Fri
day." we are forced to take the
only means within our power to
defer complete financial collapse
of the companies, by reductions
in service on lines where service
has been maintained entirely for
the benefit of the public at a Sc
rious financial loss to us.
THE nature of these reductions
In service will be given publicity
before being placed in effect.
Bean announced that the COM
pany is filing a withdrawal of the
city Communication tickets both of
the T. r. & p. and the Pacific
Continued on Page Fiye.l
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
Divorced, Woman Attorney
and Frank Riley Re-marry

After a sensational divorce and
a year of separation, Frank Riley
and Miss Media Jaeger again are
man and wife. The wedding
Thursday afternoon came as a
surprise to their friends. Both
are we'll known attorneys Of Ts-
coma.
The couple were married June
|2. 1918, ar. were divorced In
January. 1915, by Judge Card
At that time Mrs. Riley charged
|incompetihility and non-support.
Al the request OF Riley Thurs
day. Deputy Pr6eeentinf rAttorney
Phelps steppsd downstairs to the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

auditors office, where he appear
cd as a witness for Riley in OBJ
tanning the marriage license.
The couple were married
Thursday afternoon by Rev. d. O.
Foster. They we're attended by
Mrs. Glenn 8. Bandy and Senator
Walter s. Davis The ceremony
took place at their home, sis
North Traitor avenue.
Riley has beer recommended
By Capt Hyde for 4 commission
IN the officers reeer4e corps
training c4mp at Fresjdfo, aud he
+ expected 70 Leave 1exi week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
BY the EDITOR

Three raids, l charged yesterday, have been or
gained on public funds i'll connection with the
army post project.
great public enterprise that has been free from
all faint of pork and graft is in danger of being
shot through with both.
Scheme No. smells of the hog barrel.
1t was simple, absurdly So
This was it: Make the American lake project
the rallying center for big, old fashioned drive
against Uncle Sammy at this time when he is spend
ing billions for military purposes AND
AS generalissimo in this patriotic undertaking
appoint, guess who!
No other than w. E. Humphrey Seattle congress
man, whose term just expiredl
Yes that was it. Get Will Humphrey to serve
Tacoma as lobbyist at Washington, at $500 month
This is the Will Humphrey who, at state
convention once held in Tacoma, earned the sobri-
quet "God- Hates-a Coward" Humphrey.
The Humphrey of mileage grabbing fame.
The Humphrey who helped pawn off on the gov
eminent postoffice site Seattle duck pond
under several feet of water, owned by business
and political friend, at price running well into
six figures
The Humphrey who, while running last fall
against Miles Poindexter for u S. senator, race
in which he Overwhelmingly defeated said in
speech at Seattle:
"All that have or that I expect to be is inter-
with the future of Seattle. The old Seattle
spirit still lves.''
The Humphrey who, thanks to Poindexter's i'm
mense majority is now Lame Duck" Humphrey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
It Was Fine, Ambitious Scheme

I confess do not know just where the happy
idea originated but suspect Will E. himself is its
author. Anyhow the men he got to sponsor it for
him were (get this it is edifying) Senator Wesley
L. JONES' late aide to the Kaisers Dozen and Albert
johnson, congressman from this district.
Knowing the latter pretty well and realizing that
he has normal sense of humor imagine perhaps
Johnson backed the idea with one eye closed but
anyhow he was for it,
The scheme in it's original form was ambitious
indeed. Humphrey was to be the pork barrel ennis
sary BOTH FOR TACOMA AND SEATTLE. HE
WAS TO LOBBY IN THE NAVY DEPART
MENT FOR PORK FOR BREMERTON AND IN
THE WAR DEPARTMENT FOR PORK FOR
AMERICAN LAKE.
When this fell through he sought to represent
Tacoma exclusively.
If his sponsors had combed all of the United
States, they could not possibly have found more
striking mis-ft for such role.
In Seattle, people know Humphrey as former
congressman who consistently, while member
fought in an underhand way the development of
the Bremerton navy yard fought it because of
strange friendship of some sort for certain ship
building corporations.
And everybody in the United States knows him
as up to the time he retired from office noisy ill
hammered, narrowly-partisan, always-carping
critic of the Wilson administration He was the
pet G. O. p. batter of Wilson, Wilson's policies,
Wilson's appointees and Wilson's acts, in congress
and out. 1t became with him mania.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
NICKEUS
TO LOSE OUT

Possibility that City Clerk
Nickeus might be asked to re-
sign next Wednesday when an
amended ordinance is given Its
final reading, reinstating Chief
Deputy Clerk Donovan In HIS
former position, was limited by
members of the council Wednes-
day.
ION two recent occasions ordi-
nances have been secretly changed
without the councils knowledge.
while they we're IN the hands Of
the CITY clerk said one COM
missioner.
III we can,k <xzGf Il :
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
ARMY
QUIT
WORK!
BY WILLIAM g. SHEPHERD.

BY WILLIAM Il. SHtfHEHD.
tUnited Press Leased WireI
PETROGItAD, May "A
dramatic speech, appealing
10 the patriotism of the
workmen and soldiers, deliv-
cred by Premier Muliukoff
from the balcony Of the gov
eminent building, had today
apparently STAYED off the
crisis that appears imminent
in new Russia.
From u hooting, ierring
mob that demanded his rcsig-
nation the premier turned
the throngs of soldiers and
workmen which had paratied
the streets throughout yes
terday, into u crowd which
chcered his utterancee,
plcdging unrelenting war ON
Germany.
The situation was not entirely
cleared up today, however.
A Joint meeting OF the repre-
sentatives of the provisional gov
eminent and the workmen and
soldiers committees scheduled
for tonight has been cancelled.
II Is assumed this action was TAX
EN- to permit further conferences
with leaders of the workmen and
soldiers demanding a greater par
ticipation In the affairs OF the
government.
Warfare Ceases.
A virtual armistice exists along
almost the entire Russian front
otday.
Not a shot has been fired on the
Austro-Russian front in more
than month.
There has been no real activity
on the German-Russian sector.
At many places Russian and
German soldiers are fraternizing,
meeting unarmed In No Mans
Land.
So general has become the habit
of fraternizing and so completely
has the fighting spirit been SUBJ
dued that Gen. Gourka, command
err of the Russian forces on the
Minsk front, today issued a form
al statement warning his forces
to beware of a German ruse.
All-Night Session.
Soldiers arriving for the duma
meeting are authority for the
statement there has been abso-
lutely no fighting on the Austrian
front.
In this connection, Petrograd
newspapers today publish IL un-
censored letters from soldiers at
the front telling of soldiers fra
ternizing.
How seriously the situation
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
CA TCH
A PAIR
OF EN-

Pursued by dry squad Of
ficers i'm u police machine to
u point ON the Sixth avenue
boulevard half way to Tit
lows beach Thursday night,
Ray Gamble, proprietor Of
the Olympia Oyster Il Fish
Co., and Kenneth ID. Burn
ham, chief clerk of the
Northern Pacific railway I'm
Tacoma, were arrested and
taken To police headquarters
on charges of having liquor
i'm their possession for evil
dent purpose of sale.
Four cases of Sunnybrook
whisky, containing As quarts,
were found concealed under lap
robes in the tonneau of CANDLES
car.
A Pacific avenue druggist,
whom the police say had driven
out to the boulevard In a hired
ear, to receive the liquor from
Gamble and Burnham, escaped
while officers were making the
arrest. Dry squad members were
searching for him Friday.
Chief of Police Smith declared
Friday that his men had beer
watching Gamble and Burnham
for three months, in the belief
that they were handling liquor.
Turn Off Lights.
Police officers learned Thurs
day evening that shipment OF
liquor was to be disposed of by
the Pacific avenue druggist, they
say. In a police car, Officers
|Whitmore. Sears, Archer and Dy-
ment followed the car hired by
the druggist.
When the druggists car reached
1.-THE Sixth ave. boulevard, he turn
ed Off all lights.
The pursuers did likewise.
About mile beyond the end
of the Sixth ave. car line, the
druggists car approached a sec
ond machine which had just driv-
en- to the side of the paved road.
The police car passed, and i'm
mediately swung about.
Coming back to the spot where
the two cars we're lined up to-
gether, the officers made a rush
for the machine beside the road
AS they did SO, the druggist or
dered his driver to speed away
and he had disappeared down the
boulevard at a mile-a-minute gait
before the police could give chase.
Gamble and Burnham were In
CANDLES car. The whisky was
hidden in the tonneau.
At police headquarters the two
men were booked on double
charge, the first alleging viola
ton of city ordinances regarding
the possession of liquor for sale
and the second alleging violation
of the state prohibition law.
They were released on bail OF
$500 each.
Claim Frame-Up.
Gamble and Burnham told The
Times Friday that they were the
victims of a "frame-up.'
They told Chief Smith that
they had gone out on the boule-
ward to purchase the whisky for
their own private use.
Members of the raiding squad
declared emphatically that the
whisky was in CANDLES car all
the time, as there was no oppor-
tunity to have transferred 1t from
the druggists machine before the
arrest occurred.
Both men are married and we'll
known in Tacoma. Gamble is 80
years of age and lives at 1915
North 30th. Burnham Is 81 and
resides at 2027 South 9TH street.
The men appeared at police
headquarters Friday and pleaded
with Police Chief Smith for a dis
missal of the charges. Both the
chief and Commissioner Petit re-
fused to interfere with the opera
ton of the dry squad.
Because men are prominent in
the community gives them nc
more right to clemency than II
they were insignificant" declared
Chief Smith.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
GUARDS ORGANIZE
RIFLE CLUB HERE

A rifle club was organized
Thursday night among the men,
bers Of the Tacoma Home Guards
to meeting of the guards at kne
Y. M. G. A. More than 10 MEM
bers we're present, and they put
in a half-hour drill under the
direction of B. w. Coiner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
There Is a Soldering Side, Too

Think of our going into the business, as COM
munity, of log rolling and pork grabbing Unnec-
essary in the first place; stark foolishness In the
second.
Then, moreover, Of picking man of the
Humphrey type despised by all official Washing
ton as our emissary, If we dbl
2 With "a brilliant plan formulated, it then was
-uecessaf find someone to furnish the $500
Ne schemers went to the Seattle Com
Chamberpf Commerce and to our
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
ssPROTECTION''

Appealing to the council for
police protection in the Center
street factory district, John Hart
man, secretary of the Atlas Foun-
dry & Machine Co., today was adj
vised by Mayor Fawcett to hire
his own guards.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

II is noted that the match
less'' news-gathering forces Of
n certain Tacoma newspaper
have not yet found out any
thing about the peculiar GO
ings-on In the army post pro-
ject. Cat least for publica-
toni
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

This vacant lot garden situa-
ton is becoming serious. Soon so
many of the properties will be
cultivated that there will be no
place for our neighbors to dump
their garbage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04

Greetings, are you going
to give up your dog as a war
time sacrifice?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
HoIIsEHoLn HINr

Never throw away an old wash
boiler. If II leaks. have 1t mend
ed and use It to hold hairpins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-04
NEW RUSSIA NOW FACES OVERTHROW
Battle RACES
Hotter Than
Ever Before
lily United Press.

Thy hisu iNNssp
WITH THE BRITISH
ARMIES IN THE FIELD,
May 4.-Germany is fight
ing as she never fought be-
fore to stop the British
drive.
Fighting for the most
part hand-to-hand and bay
onet-to-bayonet over miles
of front, the Tommies them
selves were authority for
this statement.
To-day the German artil-
lery fire was vastly In
creased.
More war news on page
five.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29
SUGAR ONLY IN FIVE AND TEN
-P0UNDPACKAGES; FLOUR IN NO
MORE THAN EIGHTH BARREL LOT

Fargo, n. D., Dec. 29.-Instead OF
relaxing rules and regulations govern
ing the distribution of flour and su
gar, these rules are to become more
stringent according to information
just received by e. F. Ladd federal
food administrator for North Dakota
Sugar, which may now be sold In 81
allOtments to the ordinary household
in towns and cities and up to 25 pound
allotments to farmers who live long
distances from stores, is to be still
further curtailed. The new recon-
mendations are as follows:
SUGAR.
Sugar should be sold in towns and
cities to consumers in two to five
pound quantities; to farm and rural
customers in five to ten pound guam
titles"
Flour.
"Flour in towns and cities should be
sold in 0nc-eight to one quarter barrel
quantities; in rural and farm commun
tiles in quarter to half barrel quaint
The United States food admins
tration says advertisements tending
to induce customers to increase their
purchases Of flour and sugar, during
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29

the present national crises, are decid-
eddy against public policy. 1t is sug'
gested that the press sensOr their ad-
vertising
"Wholcsale grocers," says the food
administration, "should not sell sugar
in quantities in excess of 1000 pounds
at time to the retailer
Railway Diners Help.
The railway dining car service Of
the country reported to the United
States food administration that during
The months of October and November
they effected the following savings in
meath, wheat flour and sugar:
Meats-4G9, 503 lbs, or over 234 tons.
Wheat flour-23S, 09S lbs, or over
1914 bbls.
Sugar. 500 lbs, or over - -
tons. .,..,
These savings are the more remark
able for the reason that they were
made despite an increase of twenty
per cent in the number of persons fed
in dining cars in October and No,
vcmber, 1917, as compared with the
corresponding two months of the prev.
iOus year.
Ladies and gents pressing and clean
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29

Towner, N. D., Dec. 29-But two
years short of the century mark, Sam
uel Jones, McHenry county pioneer,
passed away in the Rugby hospital
deceased was member of Rusk post,
Grand Army Of the Republic, which
conducted the last rites in his honor,
with the assistance Of the Women's
Relief corps. Mr.. Jones was born in
Pennsylvania, November 20, 1919, set
Ting in territorial days in Minnesota,
and later residing in Red Wing. Dur
ing the civil war he commanded Co.
+. of the Sixth Minnesota, under Sib.
ley. In the early seventies he came to
Dakota territory, residing respective
ly in Richland, Cass and Benson coun
ties. He located in McHenry county
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29
Indian Summer.

The term "Indian suInlncr" Is mp
piled to a period Of mild, open weather
that comes in the fall, embracing the
most of October and sometimes ex'
tending into November, and character.
tied by sort of dry mist or haziness
that differentiates it from other sea-
sons of the year. What causes the dis
tinctive features Of the season, espe-
cially the hazy atmosphere, is un-
known, and the origin of the term
equally so. Different explanations
have been given of both, but they seem
to be largely fanctful.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29
"Ronds for Seed GRAIN"
NOTICE FOR BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that the
board of county commissioners of
Ward county, North Dakota, will re-
ceive sealed proposals at the office of
the county auditor, of Ward county,
North Dakota, up to until o'clock a.
m. January 9, 1918. for the purchase
of s25O,O8O seed grain bonds, in de-
nominations of $4,000 each, due in
five years, bearing interest at the rate
of Sc per cent per annum; payable
semiannually.
The board of county commissioners
reserve the right to reject any or
all bids
Dated at Minot, n. OAK, this 22nd
day Of December, 1917
r. w. KENNARD,
County Auditor.
70 p 10t
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29
If YOU HAVE SOME THIN YOU DON'T NEED
Sell! !T THRoGH THE B!sMAGRk IRB}NES CLASSIFIED COLUMNS
BUT TWO YEARS SHORT OF 100;
PIONEER OF THREE STATES AND
INDIAN FIGHTER is SUMMONED

in 1885, when this was frontier coun-
try. He was thrice married and the
father Of three children, none of whom
survive him. Mrs. Frank ROsecrans
and Mrs. Hobart Rosecrans Of Den
bigh are granddaughter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-29

LOST-On Monday between Bismarck
Bank and Salvation Army Hall, two
s. bills. Finder return to 356 care
Tribune or call 80 So. 9Th street.