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last edition The Tacoma Times last edition VOL. VIII. NO. 234. LOVE OF WIFE WORTH $8,000 i .7 TAFT DEFENDS THE SUPREME COURT ' (By United Tress leased Wire.) DETROIT, Sept. 18. —Speaking to an immense crowd at the state fair here this afternoon. President Taft delivered, on the subject of trusts, one of the most moment ous speeches ever made since he has occupied the white house. The president lauded the recent .decision of the United States su preme court on the Sherman anti trust law and asserted that when the "reasonable" phase of that de i cision was understood the trusts ■would of their own accord dis solve. COURTS MAKE ANARCHISTS says Any. (By United Press Leased Wire.) SEATTLE, Sept. 18. —"The de feat of Justice through legal quib bling. Injunctions and delay Is making more anarchists in this country than all other causes com bined," declared Attorney Thomas R. Homer at a mass meeting of Duwamish valley citizens Saturday night, held to celebrat* their vic tory over the street car company ■which sought to advance rates. Homer waa one of the nine men arrested as a result ol the recent protest meeting. PRYCE'S LAST HOPE GONE (Ily United Press leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Bopt. 18.— U. S. Commissioner Van t)yke to day denied the motion of General Cap Ithys Pryce, that charges of robbery made against him by the Mexican government be quashed. This ruling Is a bitter blow to the defense, and Pryce's attorneys now admit that they have little hope of preventing his extradition to Mexico on charge of murder, arson and robbery. Why Should I Do It? Pay rent when I can buy a home like this for $1600, with assessments -all paid, street grade, sewer, wator mains, all in; gas, electrlo lights, -with chandeliers? This is cua ideal home of s rooms, nice shade and fruit trees. The lawn has been well cared for, In fact It is a home that anyone would take pleas ure in owning. There are 2 full lots on a corner, only 1 block from 6th aye. car, 1 block to paved street. Tills Is the best buy we have had In this loca tion in many motiths. I Tire $1600; 9200 cash, bal ance to suit. Surety Bonds. Fire Insurance. B. «\ GREGORY CO., Ino. S,. R. Webb E. P. Gregory 2d Plodf Katl. Realty Dldg. 1117' Pacific aye. rk» Only l».l»pr»de»t ' N»v<«pnp«r la Taeoma. EXTRACTSFROM TAFT'S SPEECH The two great decisions by the supreme court against Standard OH and the Tobacco trust are epoch-making. Some persons try to lead the public to believe that court has emnsculated the statute (the Sherman act). Nothing is further from the truth. It has required 20 years of litigation to make the statute clear. But it is now clear. The court finds that any contract in restraint of trade, made to exclude competition, controll prices or maintain a monopoly Is contrary to the statute. • ' It Is said that th,e supreme court has read something into the stntute was not there before; that it has inserted the words "rea sonable." This is not fair to tbe court. Did the court not condemn the Standard Oil Co., the father of all trusts, in the history of which every form of criminal illegality was practiced? Did it not condemn the Tobacco trust? Until the decision many business men who believed It impos sible to conduct business on a competitive basis and that a monopoly ■ was necessary hoped that the statute could be construed so as to make it apply only to unreasonable monopolies. The court rejused to do this. You can send men to the penitentiary for creating these com binations which have cheapened the cost of production and given you most of your foreign trade and your prosperity, but what are you going to do with the capital invested? You can confiscate and ruin yuor country by a panic, but you can't divide such combinations. The court has met the issue and vindicated the majesty of the law and has at the same time manifested a due regard for the welfare of th« Innocent business men and the community at large. The court has exhibited a courage that ought to make every Ameri can proud of it. We can get along without competition; we can get along with out nionoiK)ly, and the business men of this oWßtr* must square themselves to that necessity. Either that, or we must proceed to state socialism and vest the government with power to run every business. The decision will be a signal for the voluntary breaking up of all combinations, and will, I hope, lead to a complete revulsiou of feeling among business men of this country. FRANCHISE BARS BELL COMPANY '^Section 14 —That except as hereinafter provided, said grantee, his successors and assigns, shall not without consent of the city evidenced by ordinance passed by two-thirds vote of the members of the city council, sell or transfer I the conduits, wires, poles, or ap pliances of any kind or descrip tion, or sell, lease, transfer or as sign any rights or privileges here in authorized or - granted to any person, company, trust or corpora tion now or hereafter engaged in the telephone or conduit business in said city of Tncoina." • • The foregoing Is a section from the Home telephone franchise giv en to E. K. Webatar and trans ferred by authority of the city council to the Home Telephone company. It was Inserted to pre vent the plant ever being gobbled by the Bell company arid would appear to close the door against the Bell company bidding .for the Home plant when It la sold in the next few weeks. But while the Horn* oompany may not bo purchased by the Bell company openly (there Is little doubt that the Bell trust will at tempt to do so Indirectly by hav in stool pigeons bid In the plant for It. The city is awal« to this possi bility and will fight it. whoever buys the Home plant will have to have th« sanction of the council. Another section In the franchise PAPA JOY GETS A SEVERE SHOCK makes it possible for the city to take over the plant at any time. It Is expressly provided that the franchise shall not be regarded of any value. The people now are getting thoroughly aroused to the situa tion and are apparently going to demand that the city secure the plant. 200 HURT IN RIOT (By United Press Leased Wire.) VIENNA, Sept. 18. —Troops are patrolling the city today, and the government is preparing to place Vienna under martial law In or der to prevent the recurrence of yesterday's rioting, In which six persons were killed and 200 in jured, resulting from a protest on the high cost of living. The police have forbidden so cialist meetings, as they consider yesterday's outside th« city to be responsible for the rioting. Fifty thousand people marched to the parliament building, where the troops opened fire. Unless parliament enacts laws Immediately regarding the de mands of the people, mor« serious riots are feared. - TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1«)11. DESERTED ill GETS HEAVY DAMAGES . One of the strangest cases erer heard in Pierce county courts came to an end tlila morning when a jury in Judge Card's court decided that the love of Weuden Moebius' wife, taken from him after 28 years by William CoUuch, his landlord, was worth just $8,000. Coligch didn't appear to defend the damage suit of $211,000 brought against him, and the statement was made in court that he and Mrs. Moebius have gone to Germany. The next step will be to get the money. Before leaving, it is said, Colisch disposed of all his proper ty. A sale of his farm for $5,500 may be overturned in Moebius' favor. The Old Story. It was the story of the rich man and the poor woman, according to the testimony a few months ago when Collseh"asked for a divorce. Moebius was renting Gollech's farm near Harts lake. He and his wife had worked hard together, the woman sharing the hardest manuel labor, with the man. Then Collsch came along. Moe l)ius' own son and daughter tes tified, with tears in their eyes, at the divorce hearing thftit the rich er man stole into the house fre quontly when Moblus was away. Moebius was Riven a decree, and the alienation suit followed. DEMAND USE OF SCHOOLS North End residents will, take definite action at the Proctor fire house tonight toward bringing the school board to open the school houses for civic centers so the people can use their own prop erty. The steam roller of public con demnation is likely to hit any school board member who stands in the way of this new move ment for progress. Several of the board members have expressed themselves in fa vor of letting the people us*' the school houses, and even George Williamson is weakening in his stand against It. The meeting tonight, which may bring the matter to a focus, will gather in the members of three different North End Im provement clubs. Saloon Robbed The Hillside saloon, 512-518 South Ninth street was entered yesterday afternoon or last night and $130 removed from the safe. The thief entered by an unused side door which had no lock and was nailed on the lnelde. Frank Hughes, one of the proprietors, discovered the robbery lost night about 11 o'olock." NliWB ITEMS FROM TltE HICKTOWN DEB The lights kept coming- on at the moving: picture show last night ana seriously -Minorca . several young; folKs In the audtenoe, Grandma Wiggins earns down to Tubb'a grfloery store today without her red paid shawl for the first time In 11 years. Shawl* alnEt so stylish as they used .to be, Mrs. Wiggins say*. - • - will Blttercat can rat 24' apples In succession and think nothing of it. He may go onto the stage with this art yet. - •■- - The »on of the feller that ain't quite right In his head will 3robab< Iv turn out to be a genius, > Laf* Wateftower say*. -..-.. _■; Pictures of Ramona Wreck , ) • Steam schooner Grunt, bringing the thirty-two refugees from the lost steamer Itamcna 10 the Btoamor Nortl)wcßtern. * The cross kliown approximately where tho Itaniona'went down, off the shore of Spanish island. ' '-"•■ • ■ •■■ •• .-,,.•... • - ■ V Picture at top is little Dick Derirkson, yon of Capt, Dcrickson, of the count geoiirtic survey, lit tle Dirk and his mother were pasnengcrs aboard the ltninonn. lie became the pet of the crew and pa«.s<-iin<-i-s. :■■'.■ ■■■ ■, .■■' . .' - • ".■■■., •.»•• »« '; Marjorie Reimann Case To Be Settled in Court ' With a general air of mystery surrounding the case and all. the . principals keeping out of Bight, Judge Clifford set the hearing for ' this afternoon In the matter of whether Marjory Rleman should ' return with her motlier, Mrs. Liz zie Magnussen, to . Valdez," or go ! back to the convent In San Fran , Olsco.wTiere her mother found her , ft week ago. i k Part of the hearing will be put> iHo and part private, the court said. .. ii : ■,... • -.. " , i f The girl -was reclaimed by her , mother last summer .from a paro chial school In Tacbma. In Seattle ' she wan allowed to go to a theater with an elderly friend of the ram lly.; She excused herself after the first; act and disappeared. ,'• Todd Asks Court To Take Hillman (By I'nited Press liensed \Vlr«».> J?«ORTL.AiND, Sept. 18.— U. S. District Attorney Todd today ap peared before the United States court of appeals and asked that Clarence D. Hlllman, millionaire real estate man of Seattle, be re manded to the custody of the United States marshal. HUlniah U at liberty on $200, --000 'bends pending an appeal from his sentence °' two illul one 'lall years in the penlteutlary for uslug the mails to defraud. C. N. GUI of Tacoma, one of Hlllman's bondsmen, has asked to be released from the $25,000 bonds he furnished. Todd explained that Hlllmanj Her mother after looking for her for two weeks went back to Valdez, returning recently to find that the girl had gone to a Port land convent, then to one in Sen Francisco. Gaining possession of the girl there over- the protest of Attorney Louis Lefebvre, who said the girl wished him to be her guardian, the girl was brought to Seattle. Late Saturday afternoon Proba tion Officer Read took the girl from whsre the mother was stay ing in Georgetown, near Seattle. Attempts to see the girl over Sunday were refused, and the fight will be made in open court now. The mother claims that the girl has become reconciled to going back with her. was worth several million dollars and that all he has to do to avoid serving sentence Is to take a boat and go to Victoria, as there Is no extradition law covering Hillmap's offense. Frank Burke, Hillman's attor ney, asked that R. R. Spencer, vice president of the National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, lie allowed to replace Gill on the bond. The court will decide on the motion this afternoon.' BOSTON—A newly discovert tl "bug" which resembles a mono plane both In structure and fiiyht (has been named the aeroplane bug j by William Meader, its discoverer. Til* o.ilr Imlf p< mlrnl REP. MADISON, INSURGENT DIES REP. K. »1. MAIHSOX (llj United Pn-Ks Leased Wire.) TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 18. —Con-' gresmsan E. H. Madison, a mem ber ~>t thb BaUlnger-Pinchot in vestigating committee and a lead- Ing progressive, died of apoplexy at his home here today. Czar's Daughter Will Wed Prince I (By Unltrcl Press Leased Wire.) SOFIA, Sept. 18.—It Is afficlal ly announced here today that the Duchess Olga, aged 16, daughter of the czar of Russia, is engaged to Prince Boris, the heir apparent to the throne of Bulgaria. 30 CUNTS A MONTR STOLYPIN DIES OF WOUND (By United Press Leased Wire.)' Kiarr, Sept. 1 18." — shot through the lung* by Bogrof, an alleged anarchist, a* he sat In the opera : house here,: Premier Htoly pin of i Russia succumbed to » his wounds today. — ; •-■ . -■■'.- '■> .«? , The dying prim* minister gave a fine display of courage as the end drew on. He made light of his own sufferings. His last hours were occupied in giving his official aids final I advice as: to- how V, to make real Russians of the people' In the outlying provinces of the empire. His only comment on hfs own condition * was, "I feel! death Is coming and I 'am . content.", ■,'.' KIEFF, UiiMHla. Sept. —The condition of Premier . Stolypln, who was shot by an assassin ln'ai% theater here, Is considered alarm- :|; Ing . today. , His temperature ;« li ; below normal and his pulse la 140, A bulletin Issued today stated that his ■ condition Is precarious,' and the "physicians : are battling with ' an attack of peritonitis which de veloped last night. ■ :, ■". .''■'-', ■■_■; | The czar jj is ' displaying . great concern. over the ■ condition .of | his M premier.", Hourly bulUUns :\ ar«?| sent' from - the bedside to ■ th« palace. " * ■ . " - ■, .":.:: , .. — , %, TACOMA MAN AND 'AFFINITY' ARE ARRESTED (ity Vnii.d Press leased Wire.) SAN BERNAHDINO, B«pt. 18. —B. O. Kilmer, formerly an auto driver 14 Tacoma, is under arrest here today for alleged wU« deser tion. The arrest was made on telegraphic instructions from the Tacoma police. Kilmer was found at a garage with an aleged affin ity. The woman quickly dlsap paered - but was found an hour later, Kilmer haying asked the po lice to locate her as she had all his ready money. Recovering from the first fright, the woman quickly came forward with the money and. insisted on Kilmer taking it all. . "You will need every cent of it, George," Bhe said. "I'll go to work and get money and I'll be back to help ymi fight this charge." The parting between the two was a tearful one, each avowing fealty. An officer.waa sent for Kilmer today. Kilmer left ills wife and three small children in destitute circumstances, according to tn* woman. * City Wins $5,000 Suit Guy XV.' Chrls'tllaw, lineman, lost his $5,000 suit against the city today. Chrlatllaw lost his balanc* while on top of a pole and grab bed a high' tension wire to hold himself. The Jury held he wu negligent. WEATHER FORECAST 'z.i Fair tonight and Tuesday. Light northerly winds. '; • ,'