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1 GET THE PINK
The Times Pink conies oat at 4:80 every
afternoon. The Confessions of a Rounder"
are taking the town by storm. Every.
body's reading them. Join the band wagon
and be a Pink reader. You'll bar* some
fun and enjoy it all.
A tempest in a teapot. i
That is what the fulminations against the county commissioners by Engineer Raleigh and the
political organs appears to be on the White-Stuck river case.
Judge Stiles reported to the city council this morning that there was nothing doing on the part
of the city by way of injunction to stop the deal.
He even suggested that the deal the county commissioners had made was a mighty good one,
and that the awful train of horrors Raleigh predicts would never come to Commencement bay.
The judge with the rest of the people in this county thinks it was a dirty deal for those valley
people in King county to assist in switching the White river over onto us, and that it was a real "un
neighborly" act for the King county commissioners to wink at it and finally help.
But that was years ago. This early history and a few big floods about 1906 permanently put
White river into the Puyallup and the engineers who know say you will have a real man's job on hand
I ICKAH THAT they have a de
tective In St. Louis resembling
Sherlock Holmes.
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AND IT TTRNB ont that Uie de
tective Is a horse.
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THAT'S NOTHING.
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I KNOW A bunch of detective*
resembling a similar animal—
with longer ears.
I DON'T KNOW what ticklish
problem is bothering Henry
Landes.
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BIT I KNOW what I consider •
ti<-kli: li problem.
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A FINGER UNDER the left arm
pit.
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I OBSERVE WITH great pleasure
and sorrow that Mclntyre and
Heath are going to handle the
confeKSieons of the Rounder in
the Pink tonight.
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I'l.i: \si |{|<; RECAISE that ob
streperous Rounder will have
to keep his disordered imagina
tion in check.
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WITH sol mow because Mac and
Heath have had auch a job
wished upon them.
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AS WHITING for that disreput
able sheet.
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Till: ItfUMHiK Is a bum him
self.
•• • •
Hi: IS ALWAYS trying to steal
my cleverness.
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I AM si iil>ltisi:i> to think Mc-
Jniyre and Heath would con
sent to have anything to do
with uuch a publication.
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NOT THAT I want 'em to write
for me.
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MERCY, NO!
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I HAVE THE celebrated Ananias
Lemon to fall bark upon.
• • •
HE IS STILL In Puyallup with
that member of the Nutt fam
ily.
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LOOKING FOR Catherine.
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HE SENT ME a telegram this
morn with the cryptic words:
"NOT ON THE trail."
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OF A LADY'S gown or a tub of
suds, he falls to state.
A RI'NCH OF these candidates
for mayor have come in roast
ing me because I'm not boost
ing them for of/ice.
WELL, I'M SORB.
IN THE FIRST PLACE, Wayne
Keyes refused to run for me.
f\l» TIIKSI-:" OTHER guys don't
•how any pep, or stir up any ex
citement.
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LOOK AT HI GILL and Tren
holme over in Seattle!
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IF SOME OF or II fellahs would
only go and gat a reputation,
good or bad.
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II GOOD, WE ran boost them.
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II RAD, WE can defend them.
SPEAKING OF POLITICS, A. V.
Bouillon is not running for
mayor in Seattle this time.
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THE LAST TIME he ran he got
in the soup.
SAYSITWAS
KIDNAPED
TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 28. f~
Proko Huraka, a Slav miner, was
the star witness before the con
»r?!;isoal probe Friday. He said
he had been kidnaped by th«
Cnion miners and taken to their
imp and an attempt had been
ade to compel him to go "before
le committee and give false tes
timony. When union officials
■wers brought in ha was unable
to identify any of them as the
parties who bad held him.
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the most reliable authority on newspaper circulations. The very foremost advertisers of the United States control this association.
Every newspaper desiring a report must undergo a searching investigation. I
THE TACOMA TIMES
30c A
I MONTH
MYSTERIOUS
WOMAN TELLS
WHO SHE IS!
Succumbing to a fainting spell
and believing that she was about
to die, lin mini's "woman of mys
tery/* who has been held at the
city Ja<l for 10 days without a
clue to her Identity, emerged
from her sr.eir r mystery last
night and gave the police names
and addresses of her relatives.
She refused to tell anything about
herself, however, telling the po
lice tliat her name was "Maggie."
The woman of mysTery said
that she had been adopted early
in life, and left to make her own
living when a mere child. She has
a father, Joseph Black, in Spring
field, Mo., she said, a brother,
John Black in a logging camp
near Edmonds, Wash., and a sis
ter, Mrs. Esther Pointer, near
FLAMES
OUT
SPOKANE, Feb. 28.—Mrs.
Stella Maries, and her daugh
ters, aged 6 and 4 years, were
burned to death early this morn
ing at their home at Hillyard,
near here. Her two Bons escaped
by jumping from a second-story
window. J. \V. Decheme, a
COMMISSIONERS TO BE
HEARD MONDAY NIGHT
W. H. Reed, chairman of the
Pierce county commission, was
ready for an answer today to
the charges that the commission
ers had been bilked in the Stuck
river deal with King county over
the diversion of the waters of
the White river, but after a con
ference with George Milton Sav
age decided to withhold his reply
until Monday night, when a meet
ing will be held In the Commer
Tacoma To Have New
Sanitary Market Soon
Located in the heart of the
shopping district of Tacoma, one
of the most scientifically sanitary
markets in the norciiwest is being
rushed to completion this week,
and will be ready for its opening
late next week. The new market
is to be known as the Queen City
Market company, and has been in
stalled at 1115 C street, adjoining
the Horgan-Parker store. A. Bru
net, former proprietor of the big
DANKINP
DO YOU DO ANY?
IF NOT, WHY NOT?
Did It ever occur to you that
a bank account, even though
It may be a small one, is the
safest means of doing busi
ness? Your checks are the
best receipts for all bills
paid, and your funds will be
neither lost nor stolen from
our vaults. If you are not
accustomed to banking, Just
call and talk it over with
our cashier.
Puget Sound State
Bank
1118 Pacific Aienoe.
For Tacoma an4 vicinity: Bain tonigkt and Sunday.
VOL. XI. NO. 60
Walla Walla.
When asked today what her
name was, the "woman of mys-l
tery" replied: "Oh, Maggie!
Black is a good enough name."
She was asked if she had a hus
band, and said that one was not
married and never had been.
"My name Isn't Blaok," she
said, as she lay calmly on a cot |
in the women's ward of the city
jail, "but it doesn't make any dif
ference to anyone what It Is. I'
wish they would send for John
ny."
The police will try to com
municate with her relatives. They j
are still mystified about the pe
cullar case, now having rejected
the theory that the woman is in
sane.
WIPE
3 LIVES
neighbor, made fruitless efforts I
to rescue the vlrtlms, but was
driven bark by the rush of flameH
A lamp exploded when the moth
er rose to get hreakfaßt. She I
rushed to save her sleeping chil- i
dren and was overcome by smoke,!
perishing at their bedside.
cial club to discuss the proposi
tion.
The session will begin at 7:30,
and the city commissioners,
county commissioners and all
citizens Interested are invited to
attend.
Reed intimated today that aft
er the county commissioners have
been given a full hearing on the
matter the widely circulated
stories that Pierce county had
been robbed will cease to exist.
Winsor market in the Public mar
ket, is managing the new maket.
A complete refrigerator system
is being installed, with ammonia
pipes in all show cases, and a
beautiful ammonia-pipe display
sign In the window. The pipes
will be covered with several
inches of real frost rontinuau&ly,
and show cases and counters will
be maintained at a freezing tem
perature.
Aside from the meat and fish
department, the market will have
stalls for butter, eggs, fruit, pro
visions, vegetables, and staple
groceries. The Interior of the
shop is being fitted elaborately
with every possible scientific de
vice for the sanitary protection of
food stuffs. All meats will be
protected by curved glass cases
and will be handled in the most
approved sanitary methods.
HELD PRISONER
HASTINGS, Neb., Feb. 28.—
Letter from Roy E. Plummer to
his wife here says he was drugged
and is being held a prisoner in a
room in a Kansas City hotel by
two women.
JAILS HIMSELF
ALBANY, Ore.. Feb. 28.—Cala
van Neal, wanted for lnveatlga
t lon as to his sanity, has barricad
ed himself In hia cabin and
threaten* to snoot anyone who ap
proaches.
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POOR MAN! EVEN
HIS NAME IS NOW
CALLED USELESS
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—1f Fola
LaFollette, the wife of George
Middleton, and most radical lead
er of the feminist, has her way
the title "Mrs." as applied to
married women would be relegat
ed to the social rag-bag with oth
er time-honored social customs
rejected by the ferainiHts. "Why
should a married woman be
branded 'Mrs.,' " Miss LaFollette
;isks, "and why should a spinster
be branded 'Miss?' If society
brands the woman why not the
man?"
GRAY GOES ON
NEW POSITION
NEW YORK, Feb. 28. —Carl
Oray, president of the 'Great
Northern railway, has ' accepted
the presidency of the Western
Maryland railway and will retire
from the Oreat Northern as soon
as his successor is chosen. He
will make his new headquarters
at Baltimore.
HORSE GIVES
MASTER AWAY
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 28.—Govern
ment officials found a wagon
loaded with contraband oteamar
garine and turned the horse loose
and it went two miles and backed
up at the stall of Walter H. Mor
ris, who was forthwith arrested.
POLITICS MIGHT
ENTER THE SUIT
Arguing that polities would en
ter the case if it were tried at this
time, attorneys (or George P.
Wright, the Oreen river pipe Hue
contractor, obtained a continu
ance yesterday afternoon In
Wright's suit for $164,7»9
against the city of Tacoma. The
case will be tried la superior
court April 9.
TODAY'S GLEARINOB
Clearings '. taOß,2|i.sl
Balances . 477.2f¥."«S
Tranaactlona 862,274.26
if you ever try to put it back. In fact they think nature slipped a cog and that White river is a per
manent fixture for Commencement bay now.
So apparently when the Pierce county commissioners got Seattle to agree to help pay the bills for
taking care of this water to the tune of several hundred thousands, they put that much real money in
to the treasury here that might have been lost entirely.
Stiles says to the city council that he doubts whether the county ever could have won its lawsuit
against King county, but as a lawyer it would have made a pretty fight and he would liked to have
seen the fur fly.
Certainly we all like a good scrap, but not if we have to pay for it, and the judge admits we would
probably have had to settle the bills so, taking the thing by and large it looks as if this whole series
of condemnatory screeds against the county commissioners of Pierce is nothing but cheap political
claptrap.
REPORT PEPPER
WILL LI 10
SMTIL
OPERATION SI'WKSSFL'Ii—IN-
Vi l.M' TO Itl 111 ID 111.",
--1 MY—PRELIMINARY EXAM
INATION AT UEDSIDE OF
SLAYER LATER.
BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. —
Following an inquest to be held
Tuesday <m the death of Mrs. Dor
othy li.inliaiiscr Johnson of Tii
couiM, a bride of a week, who was
■hot down and killed by Abraham
Popper, a Tacoma lace *nli miihm.
the auihiiiiiics plan a preliminary
murder trial to be held at the bed
•ide of the murderer In the Cen
tral I i lv in y hospital. Pepper
«iiiis t imil Ins operation yeuterday
when pliysn-inns removed the bul
let and began treatment of the
fractured skull, with good forti
tude. He whs weakened by the
operation, but rallied before
evening and today whh reported
to Im> on the road to a si>eedy re
eo\ery.
The funeral of Mr*. Johnson
was held yesterday afternoon, but
Md&ey Lee Johntion of Tacoraa,
the unfortunate bridegroom, had
beiutne so ill from the effects of
tho mental strain following hia
brioe's murder that he was under
the care of physicians and could
ntl attend. Although no relative*
weijpr i>rent'nt at the funeral, the
unoertnktng company's chape)
w ■ filled with an idly curious
crovd, many of them elabornlely
gov net! women of the San I'Vau
cisi o society set.
H. A. Kaufman of Chehalis,
Wash., partner of the late Her
man Klaber, and step-father of
Mrs. Johnson, arrived yesterday
with his< (laughter, half-sister to
the murdered bride. It was while
Johnson was talking to Kaufman
oi the murder that he collapsed
in hysterics and was forced to
take to his bed under a physi-
cian i care.
ASK COUNTY
FOR ELECIION
The Commercial club boosters
for the port district this morning
told County Commissioner Reed
that they would be in next Thurs
day with their petition asking the
county to call a special election to
Tote on the port district.
The commissioners will call the
election on the same day as the
cit.v election so voters in the city
caji vote on both at once.
REVOLUTION
IN PORTUGAL
KADRID, Feb. 28.—Portugal's
it uprising is very serious,
according to censored informa
tion from the disturbed repub
lic. The censorship Is almost
alriiuht. although what leaked
a«ross the border indicated that
the authorities had abandoned the
attempt to keep peace with the
TO INDEMNIFY WIDOW
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 28.
—Anxious to dis|K>se of the Hen
ton incident at Juarez, it is Bald
that Carranza Is willing to Indem
nify the widow financially if
WHITNEY GIVES BONDS
gAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—
J. Parker Whitney, millionaire
ranchman, accused by Gehevieve
Hannan of transporting her for
i Immoral purposes to this city, in
violation of the Mann white slave
art. gare bonds of $10,000 to
Commissioner Krull today to an
gwer the indictment next Hatur
SOCIETY GIRL TO
DANCE BAREFOOT
AT 'GETTE SHOW
WASHINGTON, U. C, Feb. 28.
—Miss Effle Baker, daughter of
Dr. Frank Baker of Washington,
noted for her graceful dancing,
is to be a feature in the suffrage
play given by the Congressional
Union for Suffrage. She will give
her solo dance of "triumphant
Joy" as a curtain raiser before
the performance.
police, and had called In troops.
Fights have occurred between sol
diers and mobs in a number of
places. Revolutionists are said
to be using bombs and dynamite.
The number of killed is not learn
ed. The masses do not seem to
think they have gained by a
change from monarchy to the
present republic.
Washington will drop the affair.
It is stated here that unless Villa
could prove the story of court
martial showing that the case was
not plain murder no money propo
sition would be considered.
day. His sureties were James Mc-
Nalt and R. J. McKenzie, a Cana
dian millionaire.
BAN JOSE, Cal., Feb. 28.—
Ford, principal of Sunny Vale
grammar school, was held to court
for undue intimacy with /ella
McCart, a high school student.
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TETZLAFF IS
FORCED OUT
IN 17TH LAP
(M'M.HTIX.)
SANTA MONICA, Keti. 28. —In
the mi mi xpiiKitioiiitl auto rare
ever staged here, Ralph I>e Palma,
winner of Thursday's Vanderbllt
cup race, pushed his Mercedes to
the lead in the Ittfc lap, with Old
field second. Interest was in
teuse.
SANTA MONICA, Feb. liß.
— I'oiiimliiik throiiKh lap
lifter Imp at n spo«sl IMMai
iiiK N:< mile* i»i hour, N|>eii
cer \\ i-h.iii. ilrivliiK a M'-r
--rer, led the <iriind I'rU r«ce.
at the end of 'M of the 4O
lu|im of the Miiiniiiiiliili rlaKfiic
but he was overtaken by ■■ •!
--«lle I'iillen, whose Mercer
avernj4«^l «:< miles. Anilw
■M ill ii Slut/., vi.iii. lii hi a
NUMf, IH- I'nlmn in n M«'r
rvdcN, Mnrquln in a Nunheain
followed in the ortler h: il.
The two inoHt (lHiiKei'oiis
coiifNtMiits were Karl Coop
er and Terrible Teddy T«"tz
lnff. After HhowinK the
fi-a/.ieot HpK'U of the raw
111 \ l:lM< ll Until the U'lilll
nliiK of tile 17th Li|>. ll i»
<>*f'milt e<] that the «tt<'iii|.
ance In l'ihi.ihm)..
"Terrible Teddy" Tetzlaff. win-
THORN EXPLAINS
HIS WATER BILLS
A. L. Thorn says the Inference
that he has not been paying his.
light and water bills is incor
rect.
"I always paid my bills right
up, never allowed them to so
delinquent, and on this bill for
November and December 1 went
to Rudy Myhan, at the window in
the light and water office, and
told him I had a claim for $5
coming from the civil service de
purtment for holding an examlna-
WANTS HIM IMPEACHED
WASHINGTON, P. C Feb. 28.
—A vociferous appeal for the
impeachment of Wilson and the
arrest of the "hired assassins" of
the department of justice, was
contained in letters from H. W.
A. Page, a former Gotham linen
merchant, mailed at Seattle and
received at the White House to
day. He Is believed to have hur-
Anderson Rearrested
On Insanity Charge
Ed Anderson, real estate deal
er, who was the principal in a
sensational insanity trial In tae
superior court, recently, and was
acquitted of the insanity charge
after a lengthy trial before a
jury, wiis re-arrested on the same
charge this morning on complaint
of Mrs Kd J. Clock!. t. bis niece.
Anderson wan taken before
Judge Clifford, who set his bonds
at $r>,ooo. He was turned over
to Attorney Rlckabaugb, who ii
FAVOR FEDERAL
EMPLOYMENT
AGENCIES
NEW YORK. Feb. 28.—The
establishment of a bureau of the
department of labor with the
power to start employment
agencies thtoughout the country
to meet the unemployed situation
was urged today at the national
conferences of the unemployed.
The resolution urged free state
employment agencies.
hit or the Taroniii Mnntamara
tliim, and popular California
racer, was the first off at the
boom of the gun at to o'clock thla
ttoratng. He held the lead with
a terrific pace for two lapn ex
ceeding SO miles per hour. Early
in the third lap one of hi* tlrea
gave way undar the treraeodoua
strain, and Wishart swung Into
the lead, followed closely by Ed
die l'ullen, who had shot by Oil
Anderson early in the race. TeU
laff in,Min a quick tire chance and
resumed the race in fourth place.
Most of the riders who entered
In the Vanderbllt cup races are
running today. The Grand Prix
is the most strenuous race of the
year, the 4 03-mile grind being
more than ordinary short-distance
racers will dare attempt.
rtarney Oldfield moved ahead
of Anderson In the aixth lap,
while the others kept their posi
tions. Tetzlatt was compelled to
stop again In the seventh Up on
account of tire trouble. He re
suiiicd after a lots of to seconds.
Wißhurt maintained the lead at
a terrific pace In the tenth lap,
with I'ullon second and Aodttriton
third. Te.tzlaff, with new ttres,
resumed the grind quickly enough
to regalu fourth place and hold
It.
tlon for them, and that he should
just take my bills out of this. Ha
agreed, and I knew nothing more
of It until they came up and shut
off the water Thursday. I never
drew the civil service claim, and
did not. do so until I went down
yesterday afternoon and then
drew the claim and paid up the
bills, and they soaked me $2.80
"penalties" because they had not
taken the money out of the
money coming to me at I had
ordered."
rled to Vancouver, B. 0., after
mailing the letters. Page le »
fugitive from justice, having been
sentenced to prison for the alleg
ed libel of a congressman. The
sentence was suspended after
Page left the country. He wrote
the president and score* of dlp
lomuts and congressmen declar
ing that he was being persecuted.
representing him, and given bis
freedom while he searched foi
bonds.
Mrs. Glockler was responsible
for her uncle's former arrest,
charging that he had made love
to her and annoyed her until she
had been forced to drive him oft
with a flat iron. In her eom
plant today she said that Ander
son had again visited her at her
home and annoyed her. He per
sisted in his attentions until ah*
had to flee from him.
VILLA GETTING
SOME WORRIED
EL PASO, Fab. 28.—That Gen.
Villa is lets indifferent to Ameri
can opinion than wu supposed is
Intimated today in memget from
Chihuahua city. He Is anxious, it
Is stated, to clear up the interna
tional differences before opening
his attack at Ton-eon. It Is agreed
that if the Benton body be ex
amined, it should be soon, or it
would be Impossible, as it was
burled without being embalmed.
A trainload of rebel soldiers }eft
Chihuahua city for Torreon today.
