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J i-**l can have uo» real success
L- «&pt that whlcfc I will make
I lo*j myself hb honorable
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RESIDENT
liinTrTP
GREETS
I MANY
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Holds Open House and
*3- Shakes Hands of
llkh Thousands.
jSshsl *j- ';• ''-■'' '' »
miDS HIS GROUND
'WOTCI THREE HOURS
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ffcr' tTnited Press Leased Wire.)
If ABHINGTON, D. C, Jan. I. —
.President Roosevelt, surrounded
by. fats family and a few invited
'mtiti.« kept open house today,
and there wasn't one of the thous
tOSM.Who paid their respects anil
Wl*M4 '. the host a "Happy New
"tmnt/i who didn't say It was the
mat* Successful "at home" given
by "a* Roosevelts since they mov
•ad *810 the White . House with
their belonging seven years last
Blihftber.
Many distinguished folks, in
eladlag what is recognized as the
"Wrnmrt Hundred"—the diplomatic
HUM' were among the specially
IsqpM « v guests, as were also all
: fortunate enough to move in
th»»elect social and oiclal circles
of- tire, manly host and charming
mmuXmnt. The townspeople were
th«f» In overwhelming numbers.
*,««i»»Hsat Physical Strain. .,
TIM .genial host, enured to great
I mttftdmkl strain, firmly stood his
if mm throughout the trying or
deal M over three hours, and gen
| »WtM|lM shook the hand of each
I (vwflrithout fear or favor. Th
t ■padded much to the succi- j
of :9zL event —music 'by the m '
tttnd, floral decorations ana
I mnlwmvt tropical luriance.
%-yf^jl«»smopolltan Throng.
•pi^ffiHa a cosmopolitan gathering
ItNmSrst to last. They hurried
I Abe embodiment of Shakes
liniiFi Seven Ages, with all '. m
i tmEß*t» ' grades « that he could
jM «ifcnc4,lved of. and - others not
tltmMtlKto of In his philosophy.
Tfclßßj" H stood Neighbor Roose-
WJJwPth -no cider or apples 'to
»JU9«Me,- but having a cheery sai
•fcifloaj fo» all, a pat on the shoul
der toil an acquaintance here and
UWjrl.» the line and with nobody
IWlijtli'l ' a hearty grasp of that
.tMp|aloved ■ hand, showing evl
d«M mat ; soil, but '.no , Indication
:! of»JW»io r of weakness In the en
i-tJipBI came to a close the last
Spar's reception of a seven
Soma will
JID STRICKEN
J^ : ■BMaa will take a prominent
mfmif.Wre\ of work for the strlck
'mn\i Bile of » Sicily. This after-
I nWrwkM.o I allan societies are hold
' tStiee trig to plan - for aid ' to
, tpi • -jlstr »ssed nation and Mayor
'- Khai • called - a meeting of
«.l iwle for the Taooma theater
Eo'cJock § Sunday , afternoon.
iS ykalian societies of the city
i 9*3 lked ■to co-operate in th
•tySfSHslief, fund . was started with
f 4lMpHayor" yesterday by Mr. and
* **W*3&' Mottet, who sent a check
§f ■JRESI-GNH I POSITION.
ImLWm Ellen Phelps, who has been
'<fIHKn the . recording department
i M county' auditor's '. office for
!mB3 time, , has ••signed her posi
«'. :-''-' . \«ffarA«'e.i'iii'^.'"»«ie^«w^»>i».
VOL. 6. NO. 11
PIERCE CO.
MAN IS
OUT
ames H. Davis Retires
from State Board
of Control.
Jam«s H. Davis, ex-oounty
treasurer, who has served on the
state board of control under Gov
ernor Mead, will retire when the
new administration comes In a
week from next Monday.
: Davis has been notified by Gov
ernor Mead that Eugene I/orton,
will take hia place. Lorton Is a
prominent Walla Walla politician
and was a strong booster for Coe
grove. Davis was a radical Mead
supporter, and he announced as
soon as Oosgrove was elected that
he would retire.
Governor Mead has announced
that it Is Cosgrove's desire that
he should at the beginning of the
new term.
Davis will go into business In
Tacoma and it is understood will
unite with Captain Howell, county
auditor, in a brokerage business.
Governor Mead has also official
ly notified E. L. Boardman of Puy
allup of his appointment ac state
printer in place of C. W. Gorham
of Snohomlsh. Boardman was at
Olympia yesterday trying to buy
the plant Gorham has established
there.
HIS' ATTORNEYS
WILLMQVE TO
| DISMISS ;
MOTION WILL BE BASED ON
RESUME OF CASE SHOWING
CAPTAI N ' WAS INSANE
- WHEN HE KILLED ANNIS.
'Tty United Press Leased Wire.)
/ FLUSHING, L. 1., Jan. 1. —The
' torneys for Thornton Jenkins
ilalns, on trial for participation in
the Shooting of William B. Annls
by Captain Peter C. Halns, are
said today to be preparing a mo
tion to dismiss the charge of mur
der I pending against their client.
i v Their motion will be based upon
a i resume of the evidence of the
case showing that Peter C. Halns
was insane at the time !of the
shooting and thai his shooting of
Annis was unpremeditated by the
defendant,' Jenkins Hams. ■.'
Halns' attorneys are preparing
a 10,000 word hypothetical ques
tion containing all the evidence so
far submitted.
ISLANDS ARE
SAFE
' (BULLETIN.) " ■>'- ," ?'"••>
(By . United Pres» Leased Wire.)
g* ROME, Jan.; I.—The mm- „.
v ister of marine ; was advised
I late this afternoon that the
•;.; Lapaxl Islands are safe. '■,' The ■
message came from the com-" '
m mander of , the | torpedo boat
g. sent to investigate the report ■..
*# that they had sunk Into tine i
f- sea. '-.;-:- .;.',a:,:jv. : . ■./. ;..■ :.- „.:;;
• He wired that there* Is no "•
damage there except that the •
buildings are ft cracked. *' No M
one was killed.
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OLD SOLDIER
ROBBED
* "John'iNelson;-an" old soldier of
Ortlng, was robbed In ( that' town
last night of a valuable gold watch
and " about $21 sin ; coin. Pit Nelson
had I made « t friends • with two
strangers, who were quite affable,
but after, he left them and felt In
his pockets he knew the cause of
their ' good ? humor. r^ r . Taooma t po
lice [have been given a description
of the; men. ■■■•■■• ■* -..'■*'r^i. ■•♦ _} v\
NEW WIRE SERVI<"
*TAl^ew7comblnationirtel«graph
and telephone service will be oon
structed m between Tacoma al and
iLongmire Springs, Paradise Val
iey and other mountain polnte, a«
oording ito ia : statement > m«do by
John X. Bell of ta* Postal Teky-
Krapb company. Tfc* county «om
ralßSl °n«rt J^MrjMMßj; tab com
rany th« «fffct to «r« > »ol«« *],„.,,
the Mm o! tip earoMMat ro*v
The Tacoma Times.
TACOMA, WAKH., FRIDAY EVENING, JAXIAKY I,l*
McMix HERE
THIS IS THE PICTURE OF A. D . MCMIX, OR TUB NEW YEAR,
A. D., 1909.
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• -•
• THE MCMIX MYSTERY EXPLAINED. i •
• _•
• ' The McMlx mystery was good fun, wasn't it? '.' . •
• ■ Here is the explanation: The new year, A. D. 1909, when •
• written In the old Roman style, Is MCMIX. M means 1,000 In •
• the Roman. C means 100, and CM means 900. X means 10, •
• and I means one, so that IX me ans 9 So it Is that M-CM-IX, •
•or MCMIX, is the classical way to write the date 1909. "A. •
• D." of course means "Anno D omlnl, or "the year of our •
• Lord." •
• McMlx then 1b the new y*a r 19o», which comes to each of •
• us today with 365 days In which we each ln his way will live •
•or die, grow or dwindle, profit or lose. The year will bring •>
• pain and pleasure, succee3 and failure, health and illness. But •
• be it good or evil, let us meet i t with courage and salute "Mr. •
• A. D. McMlx" with the cherry cry: "A Happy New Year. Wei- •>
• come, 1909." •
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BY A. D. MCM IX (Himself.)
Written Exclusively for the Daily Times.
Hello, folks—a Happy New Year to you all!
Yes, my full name is Anno Domlnio MCMIX. That gives you
my number—l9o9. And, let me say, I am more than pleased at the
welcome you've given, Yours Truly.
' i Now, here are a few of the things I am bringing you—Just a
few. I bring you 365 days fresh from the storehouse of Time. They
are divided into 52 weeks, hut, oddly enough, there will be 53 Fri
days. The extra one of these so-called days of ill omen is thrown in
for luck, and you will find that takes off the curse. I bring you a
Sunday Decoration day for a change, and a saner Fourth, for it falls
on Sunday, too. '' '•■■■;:-\-.'.-" * - - 4 -„ ■ :".
I will bring you a great High school stadium and a new pas
senger depot.
I bring you a new set of county officials, a new prosecuting at
torney and an election next spring at which you can get rid of some
of your present councilmeti.
I promise with your help tomorrow a great municipal power
plant wfoich will speed the day of a greater Tacoma.
I bring you events, such as, on February 12, the centenary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth, with its atendant observance on a grand
scale. I bring the Alaska-Yukon exhibition, beginning June 1. I
bring the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York to signalize the
great reign of steamboats in America.
I bring back the battleship fleet from Its wonderful cruise
around the world. I bring you yet another G. A. R. reunion, where
the diminished hosts will march once more in Salt Lake, Utah.
I bring you a now congress and the dying throes of the old. I
bring the final days of Roosevelt's reign, which will be th*. more
sizzling the more they dwindle. I bring you a new president, and
a golf cabinet Instead of a tennis cabinet. I bring the Ananias
club up to Its full quota, and then, perhaps, I will bring Ito dissolu
tion. I bring you Roosevelt's hunt in Africa. I bring yo« tariff
legislation, but I fancy Its friends will not see it altered out of
recognition. I offer you copyright legislation. I promise you an
investigation of Wall street and the New York stock market.
I will bring you prosperity and wonderful crops. A 2-ceut let
ter postage to Germany begins with me, to supplement the S-cent
rate already in effect to Great Britain. There will be more dirt
flying on the Panama canal. Other great engineering feats wllL rush
toward completion. There will bo gaudier fashions for Easter.
Leap year gone, the swains will resume their obligation to propose,
and boom the marriage market.
Cuba will see Uncle Sam's troops withdrawn, and will try to
stand alone. Turkey will test Its belated revival of parliament.
The census people will prepare in earnest for their decennial stunt.
I bring you eclipses—of the moon on June 3 and November 27,
and of the sun on June 18 and December 12. I will show you a rush
of office-seekers to Washington, a growth of population, triumphs of
science, more emigrants, and I way find the north pole. I certainly
shall furnish you some Improvements In flying machines. Also, I
will give you the biggest »atloual deficit you ever saw—it's up to
> you to reduce It. To make you forget that trouble, I'll let you have
I a rattling good baseball season, with a pennant hope—at the begln
, ning—tor every club. I will Impose a taste of war, but will try to
, confine it. to other lands so you can have the fun of looking on.
, And to wind up with, I'll give youa Christmas on Saturday, so that
you can^all expect to get paid off on Friday night.
Now, friends, another word. 1 know I cannot please you all;
i some evil must trespass upon the good of 1909, but yours Is the
. power to make the best of it by the twelvemonth's finish. So once
more I, In my capacity of A. D. MCMIX, wiah you all a Happy New
Year!
ARRESTED
ASSAULT
— Aid a*
■ ■>A. \R. Leach was arrested this
morning on a warrant: worn out
by R. O. Lewis, charging him
with assault. J Loach was allowed
to laara the tali on bail this morn-
SIX HIT BY BULLETS
OF MERRYIIKERS
.-t* !i .\., •.-.-.■*■<■-*; 31\4 .£;,
(By! United < Press f Leased Wire.)
£> >fBW^ YORK, Jan. I.—Six per
sons; were - struck by" stray | bullets
from . revolvers ;■>■' of' merrymakw*
last'.nlght: and are In the'hospl
talafof the city today/;It Is fear
ed , that one;»{flUm!willfdl%^E»
New r, York f, cvlobrattoiil sid|
5«411toi im«^on»'f^g^?g;| ';.-■:■--;,'
REFUGEES NOW DYING
BY THEIR OWN HANDS
UHE TOWER
TLAJSIT FACTS
FOR
In favor of the proposition
as set forth and detailed in
Section 2 or Ordinance No.
of said cHy, that the
city of Tacoma make certain
additions to the existing light
and power system owned and
controlled by said city, at a
total estimated cost, as set
forth In said Section 2 of said
ordinance, of Two Million
Dollars.
These two propositions will appear at the top of
the ballot for the power plant election tomorrow.
Those in favor of the project should make a cross
in the square that will be at the right of each prop
osition.
The election will be held at the regular polling
places and the polls will be open from 9 o'clock in
the morning until 7 o'clock at night.
Every man in Tacoma in favor of freeing the city
from the extortion of the power trust should get
out and vote.
The power trust will probably tonight and tomor
row make a final desperate attempt to mislead the
voters and confuse them, with false statements.
Voters should keep in mind the following facts
which cover the whole case:
Tacoma now owns a monopoly of the electric
lighting business with a plant that cleared $130,000
j profit last year.
The city now has to buy its current from the
power trust.. The trust raised the price to the limit
allowed by its franchise a year ago and is now free
to raise the price to any figure it pleases.
The trust and other private companies own the
lighting plants in most of the other cities of the
Northwest and their rates to the people are nearly
or quite twice as high as those charged by Tacoma.
This fact indicates that the trust when it can will
force Tacoma to raise its prices by charging the city
more for current. It will be able to do this the
coming year, for Tacoma even now is exceeding the
amount of current it has contracted for. The reason
it has not already been done is probably solely be
cayse the trust was afraid to do it before this vote
! was taken, as it would have made it certain that the
people would vote to build their own plant.
The trust sells power in Tacoma to factories and
therefore will not sell current to Tacoma so the city
can make cheap rates to manufacturers to attract
new industries here. THE ONLY WAY TACOMA
CAN COMPETE WITH SEATTLE, WHICH
CITY HAS A MUNICIPAL PLANT, IS TO
BUILD ITS OWN PLANT AND THUS BE ABLE
TO ATTRACT NEW FACTORIES.
All competent engineers and every citizen who
has seen the Nisqually plant proposed for the city
say it is the best left in this section. It will deliver
to this city 20,000 horsepower. It will furnish the
current at one-third the price the city now pays the
trust. It will enable the city in time to reduce rates
for light and power, attract new industries, pay for
the plant itself out of the profits and to make the
city independent forever of the power trust.
And for all time the city with this plant will be
able to dictate the price of power in Tacoma, no
master who sells it, for the trust will no longer have
a monopoly. This fact alone will be worth millions
of dollars to the people.
The proposition is clean-cut, straightforward and
definite. It is endorsed by ever / improvement club
in town, by the chamber of commerce and the com
mercial club.
It is up to the people to vote for it now.
SECOND VICTIM OF
INSANE MAN DEAD
George A. Brown Dies in
Seattle— Slayer Is
Captured.
SEATTLE,! Jan. I.—George A.
Brown, who was shot down on the
street fat ; Port r-. Blakeiey tby Joe
Nicolos, Guam islander, Tuesday
night, at i the i name 1 time \ Nlcolos
killed the 4-year-old ohlld !of Joae
Blied at 6 o'clock yesterday
a at the Providence hoapl
s, was > shot In ! : the ; back by
without I reason,: after fbe
blia'tai time of dajr.'on
80 CENTS A MONTH.
FOR
In favor of the proposition
as eet forth in Ordinance No.
of the city of Tacoma.
that said city become indebt
ed in the sum of three hun
dred thousand dollars for the
payment of part of the cost
and expense of making cer
tain additions to the electric
light and power system of
said city.
Tuesday. So] far as he knew :be
never saw the man before in his
life.
•The lahootlng occurred ion | the
day Mrs. Brownfarrived; from Ta
ooma to 1 live at ■ her new home ;at
Port Blakeley, where I her husband
had I obtained '^: employment < as ;r a
blacksmith. She & had £ met 4 her
husband at the mill and, wag mak
ing her ; first trip with him =to ; her
new home when, ho wa» jihot dowp.
n Half dead from exposure and
hunger. Nicoioe, tke* murderer,
gave tiimceK up to'ih* muthoriUe*
at Port Orchard ; this : morning. W.
CANNOT ENDURE
' STRAIN OF
- DISASTER
People Who Survived Big
Earthquake Putting
End to Misery.
BREIO DISTRIBUTED
AT BAYONETS POINTS
HOME, Jan. I.—Unable to on
, dare the strain of added horrors,
, many of the refugees from the
Sicilian and Calabrian towns .!«■
--' vaHtated l>y earthquake and tidal
' wave, have committed suicide.
Numerous cases of suicide
among the crazed and grief-Btriclc
en inhabitants of the cities during
, the days since the disaster, were
1 reported to day from the military
1 headquarters In the stricken town.
Clamor for Ilread.
Relief measures at Menslna and
' Regg-io have proven pitifully in
. adequate and throngs of hupger
' crazed men, women and children
surround the distributing stations
clamoring for bread.
At one of the stations in Reggio,
) a mob of famiaiied wretches armed
with stones, bricks, pieces of wood
' and iron bars taken from the
I wreckage of buildings, attacked a
detachment of soldiers guarding a
scanty supply of food and, in the
! fight, two of the soldiers were
I killed.
Many of the mob were bayonet
ed.
At Bayonet Points.
At Messina similar scenes are
occurring although no deaths from
clashes between troops and the
homeless have resulted so far.
Soldiers, augmented by marines
and sailors from the score or more
battleship* of various countries in
the harbor, distributed bread at
bayonet points.
The American embassy here wa=*
notified early today that the gun
boat Scorpion left Constantinople
today for Messina to participate
in the relief work.
INCREASED RATES
IN EFFECT
(By United Press Leaned Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. I.—The
Increased westbound ocean rates,
proposed some time ago by the
American-Hawaii Steamship com
pany, are scheduled to go into ef
fect tomorrow.
Until today it had been thought
by many that the steamship line
had abandoned its idea of rais
ing rates. The change v-as an
nounced this morning.
QUAKE SURVIVORS
LIKE WILD BEASfff
liOOT '. HOUSES )■ AND ROB THE
: DEAD — HUNDRKDS - STILL,
AIJVK IN RUINS AT RECKJIO
CAN'T BK RESCUED. £ /ti! f}£
(By United ' Press Leased '• Wire.)
Ml MESSINA, Jan. I.—King ; Vletor
Eruman uel < went to Re&glo! today
but Queen j Helena ; remained j here,
the horrors of the city across i tbe
strait' being ; too great I for her -to
»Und;vyVvV'-;L; i,>--;-:' '•.'■Hi I.'"--'^
The f qireen °; la weak i from the
great \ strain ■ under which . she has
labored f^ for I several - days '.*.' and
though she protested, was induced
to allow .the - king, to .go : alone.'":.
-; The survivors remejning in Reg
glo | are j like *rlld. beasts. .. They
have looted all the houses thai re
mained standing and j have robbed
the bodies of the dead-^ifSfSs
. The utter inability of the small
forces .' at ■ hand : : to - cope ; with ; the
situation in r Reggio : is i ptthetic.
With probably 1 0.0 00 people dead
la, the ruins, the : little work 1 that
has i been, done ' amounts ', to noth
ing.
S?t Soldiers i who g returned m today
i after a tour of exploration ' lit, Rag
t glo say they believe ih-undreds may
be I still» alive Jin f the f ruins S but
i that it f: Is impossible Ito M rescue
- them.
1 TAORMINA NOT» DAMAGED.
i WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 1. —
r L.loyd!C.:Griscoin,,anibaßaador to
- lUly,^ sent the % following cable
r message Ito the state * department
. today:
I "Italian foreign f'oaicesMwires
', be";: that 1 Taormin^ waa ■ not dam
» aged^by.«earith4Uuke, s t.l'erioß»
there Mtto." \
x *■«"■• JmWJryJ&^BkmmnmualtmitmT^ . "«
•»_ —___«in
I This year I will guard my *
mind against evil thoughts, ty
knowing that no evil Is done
I until it has first been thought or-
HI
IN CLASH'
OF |MS;
Many Reported Slain Ik
Fights Between Serv- |
ians and Austrians. *j
NEWS OF SERIOUS
EN6IOEMENT RECEIVED
(By United Press Leased Wir*) I
BEL-GRADE, Jan. I.—Wqunf3f|
AustrlwwWlMl. l,rw^ST^lfi
Mostef in Herse K^?l^s,ntJ*l
to advices received l»»,«2Vi,Jrtl
today. Although tn«t%W«^ett-T
no details of flftitlns; t»o*,,.\ it 1.!.'!
Is said that a serious* cl«ik^ Ml >»k
curred , between the; rma^ I
I troops and Serrlana in teh WMarl
tain fa»tnesaes of Montenegro,,.^
ReinforcemenU are being; hiM
ried ft>rw«rd t« the MmOmr +**
AustrtM • gwmftj<iV^^^^p
There h*y« bam *Urn*9 4
<>f b»»11 «Ur*t**a uli
of sbjoia HMI Om Bu< *M
the Drlnd • ritcra. ' Um^mLjSiiL
Austrian *. bands ;'• are ! constantly
mak In g incursions ;■ and It ts I e«
timated ', that,: all told, 300 men
have been killed on each side. ,
While . Bervia • has * protested • in
vain against teh raids of Austrian'
outposts-she is not faillns; to pre
pare for a decisive conflict. The
wcr,! according to the Serb*, will
itart with Servia and Montenegro
as allies in ) the field agalaat I the
forces of-rnu« Jo*»t|«!r^^^s^
*' ■'. Russia to Take. HmmL '~~ ■
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan.-y I.—
While awaiting more definite ad
vices from Belgrade regarding tt.e
reports of a serious cla* between
Austrians -^ and Serviaaa; ; ta i tie
Montenegrin mountains, no of&cial
action by Russia will. be taken.
," At the right moment, Russia Is'
counted upon to Jon in the strug
gle. ; ■;•■'■'.- ■■:■:■:,'^^^^SSSm
'*; MONITOR CHANGES VljM
(By United Prese ' Leased IM
BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. l|
United States •; monitor Wyfsji
lying in be hay here,' chanpsl
name last night to CbeyemKigKJ
as the new • year was ' tomtaHflßß
the oia^^rsagfe^Mißalsg^iS
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¥*i, It 1 was ? hinted; today*O«t?»?
; the, powerv,; trust r tomorrow •
wpuldll attempt "to frtgiten • ■
voters away from the poll* by • -
circulating the fatoettood •
that no one can vote without
' re-r egtoteri"ng;f lmo%&®&Sm
This Jis 8 not true. Bvwry •
; voter in Taeoma Is entitled :• S
to vote tomorrow. j The res- 41
■ lstrutlon | law f provides th*t i• 3
1 registration in any year holds •
; good 'i until, the first ; Monday •
in tih* January of the follow- •
i ing i year.^The. first Monday • ,
in this year.will be next week 4M
so :everybody.' ie j eilgiWaf to ;4R
. vote ; now; "-] without further,; m \
registering.
Go to the" polls; your name
Is on the books all right.
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