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VOL. 6. NO. 87
ANTI-TRACK GAMBLING BILL TAKEN FROM ITS GRAVES
CREEPS 7
MILES IN
STORM
Crawls On Hands and
Knees to Save Life-
Legs and Feet
Frozen
(By United Press lieased Wire.)
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 2. —Gus
Johnson of Roslyn, Wash., is in
* critical condition at the county
hospital here as result of a shock-
Ing experience he had in the bliz
«ard which swept over Nebraska
Thursday.
Johnson was picked up in the
street at Valley last Sunday, with
his hands, feet and legs frozen. He
•et out from the little Nebraska
town of Mercer late Thursday aft
ernoon to walk to Omaha. The
blizzard coon overtook him. He
took refuge from the storm In a
haystack. There he fell asleep
and did not awake until Saturday
morning. He discovered on awak
ening that his hands, feet and legs
were all frozen and that be could
aot walk.
He was seven miles from Val
ley, the nearest town, and he set
out on his hands and knees to
make his way there.
Inch by inch he covered the sev
en miles of frozen ground on his
hands and knees, reaching his des
tination about thirty hours after
he started on his painful journey.
He had had nothing to eat
for nearly three days, and life was
near'y extinct when he was picked
up at Valley. His hands and legs
■will have to be amputated and the
chances are against his recover
ing.
BURGLAR SENTENCED
Roy Duncan, who pleaded guilty
to a burglary charge recently, was
given a sentence of from 1 to 5
years by Judge Easterday of the
superior court late yesterday aft
ernoon.
WHITE BREAD IS ABOLISHED
TODAY IN THE U. S. .
BY ORDER OF JAMES WILSON,
SECRETARY OF mAGRICUL
TURE.
Tlie Millers Can't Bleach the Flour
With Sodium Nitrate After To
day, So Your Bread Will Look
Like Golden Cake hi the Fu
ture—Away With Wife's White
Loaves imtl Back to Mother's
Bread!
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2. —By a
ruling of Secretary Jas. Wilson of
the department of agriculture,
which goes into effect today, white
bread is abolished In the United
States of America.
The golden bread —the kind our
mothers used to make—will be
the result of this ruling—ln place
of the white bread our wives and
Bisters make.
Beginning today the millers all
over the country must stop bleach-
Ing flour. But the bleached flour
still In stock may lawfully be dis
posed of until June 9, as there
will be some white bread until the
present supply of bleached flour
is exhausted.
There will be as much differ
ence between bread made from un
bleached flour and the present
bleached flour bread as there If
between angel cake and spongt
cake. The flour will be of creamj
color instead of clear white, am'
the bread will be light golden In
color. But there will be no dif
ference in flavor.
Miller* think they have thr
laugh on Chemist Wiley of the ag
rlcultural department, who is re
sponsible for the ruling against
bleaching materials. They have
figured it out that sodium nitrate,
the chemical most commonly used,
Is so little harmful and te used In
such small quantities, that the
consumption of 10,000 loaves of
bread baked from the bleached
flour would not kill a man—that
t», the sodium nitrate wouldn't.
Figuring further, they say that
If one began to eat bread' on the
day he was born, at the rate of
half a loaf a day, and if he could
retain in his system all the sodium
nitrate, he would be 65 yean of
age by the time he had consumed
hia harmful share of nitrate.
OPPOSING
8-HOUR
BILL
Big Interests Lobbying
Against Shorter Day
for the Women
Who Work
(Times Special Service.)
OLYMPrA, Feb. 2. —Great pres
sure is being brought to bear on
legislators from all sides to pre
vent the passage of the bill pro
viding eight hours stall be the
legal day for women employed in
factories, mercantile establish
ments, laundries, etc.
Members who spent Sunday in
Tacoma and Beattle returned with
the report that they were waited
upon on all sides, telephoned to
and written to asking them to
kill this measure.
The measure meets with fhe op
poaition of all large stores where
girls are employed, aa well ats in
laundries. The merchants con
tend that such a law will curtail
the work-day to such an extent
as to be a great inconvenience to
the public. Those who favor the
bill assert that the public can eas
ily be trained to do its shopping
within the proper hours and that
the late shopner is only such as a
matter of habit.
There will be a much harder
fight on the measure when it
comes back to the house a second
time from the committee on la
bor.
SCHOONER IS SOLD
J (Hy United Press Teased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Negotia
tions were completed yesterday
whereby the steam schooner Pal
con was sold by the estate of Capt.
E. E. Calne to the Charles Nelson
company of San Francisco. W. C.
Dawson, representing the Came In
terests, and James Tyson, acting
for the purchasers, handled the
deal. The consideration is about
$225,000.
But Chemist Wiley gets back
the laugh with the admission that
the bleached materials are not in
themselves very harmful, but that
the object of the ruling is to make
the flour look natural.
The millers will continue
bleaching flour intended for the
export trade. Foreigners are ac
customed to the nice white ap
pearance of the bleached flour
and will demand it.
SENSATION
IN COURT
(Hy United iv<-s> Leased Wire.)
GALESVILLE, Tex., Feb. 2.—
\ tragic ending of today's proceed
ings of the trial of John Hanes,
•vbo is accused of committing an
' issault upon Verna Ware, threw
the court room Into a scene of
ivild confusion when the pretty
oinplniiiaiit shot Hanes and three
.vitnessea for the defense.
Miss Ware then made a desper
ate attempt to take her own lif»,
'nit the revolver was knocked from
tier hand by her attorneys. As
:he result of her determination to
•onunU murder David Koss and A.
P. WHejr, two of the witnesses, are
Itought to be dying and James
tailtti, the other defense witness,
a dangerously wounded. All of
iit victims were shot in the head.
I LISl 1 OF OFFICERS.
A list of officers of the Dana
her Lumber company was filed
with the county auditor today as
follows: C. D. Danaher, presi
dent; F. 8. Blttner, vice president;
Lewis Frederick, secretary; E. E.
Hamilton, assistant secretary and
treasurer.
"!' INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. v2l
—-The i convention ( i ofi the United
Mine Workers 1 was! in an uprear
this afternoon when fifty; members
received. anonymous * communica
tions, taalnaatlng p dishonesty on
the \ part' of' some Ohio; officers' of
the union. . v ;
The Tacoma Times.
Cartoonist Itenfro, Josh Wise, and Old
Everett True Are At Olympia: JLooK Out!
Arthur Renfro, the cartoonist, Josh Wise, Everett True and It entro's dog hare gone to Olympla, where they will s|«.iui a couple
of weeks among the legislators. During that period Mr. Itenf ro wUI dally send to the Times plctur c stories of the experiences of him
self and his old time friends and a ssocintes, Messrs. True, Wise an d the dog. Inasmuch as Mr. True is constantly getting into some
sort of trouble, there is a great likelihood that Mr. Renfro will tin d himself very busily engaged 1 n looking after his fat friend.
Josh "ill imiliiniii< ill> have some very interesting things to say of the legislative body. Also, there is the dog.
WOMAN IS
HELD AS
SLAVE
MAKES COMPLAINT AGAINST
STRANGE MAN WHO HAS
BEEN KEEPING HER IN
BONDAGE.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 2.—The
first case of white slavery ever
called to the attention of the au
thorities of Butte has been reveal
ed here In the complaint of Anna
Duboise, who says a man giving
the name of John Belgium exercis
ed such hypnotic Influence over
her that she gave him all her earn
ings.
The girl told the court that Bel
gium, who, she declared, lured her
to America from France, threaten
ed to gouge out her eyes if she
refused to give him all her money.
Miss Duboise told Judge Alexan
der McGowan that for seven years
she has been under the man's hyp
notic power. The couple was held
for action by the federal authori
ties. Belgium is said to be
wealthy.
CUTS OWN
THROAT
-. Entering the porter's room of
the Maple Leaf saloon on lower C
street: this ' afternoon, J. ■" Lind, a
laborer, aged .; 60, ; attempted to
commit ' suicide *. by slashing ' his
throat several times with a jack-,
knife. ■ ;. " , '■'■:;■::.,"-- t?
He was discovered, however, In
time to : prevent ' the • carrying out
of - hfs * desperate plan ':. and was
hurried." to c the • county hospital
where it Is believed his, life ;. will
be saved. r;s:: i i:'i::.v.--v'.
■•'•. Little i' is ■■ known . . concerning
Lind * except * that :-: he .' has : 'been
.working, as ■ a ; construction ' hand
for the N. P. railway. :- He was a
frequent visitor of the Maple Leaf
saloon and had a room in a lodg
ing house in. that section. £JSt.-?-/:-£
—: —"—^rfri •* Wi
- V- SURVEY SHIT HERE. '
£',s;]*'. .:-'■». - -~ ■... . • - >•--•*;:
wCaptain;. Derlckson ':'] with ;f the
United.' States- survey • ship'• God
ney arrived in the Tacoma harbor
this ! morning and 'he will be here
for several weeks for j the purpose
of : making a complete ' coskt; and
harbor survey ■of Commencement
bay i and the other • harbors lln i this
secUon^^^fiji^^g^aWHp
#i Captain I Dertckson ■, is j connected
with I the \ Qoedetlc ' survey of I the
government - and has been jin ' Alas
kan \ waters « for i tour ,- years, i.; He
liv a crew ot 88 men and officer*,
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TACOMA, WASH., TUKSUAY KVKXINU, FKHHUARY 2, 1900
SOME QUESTIONS ON
EIGHT-HOUR ISSUE
Editor Tacoma Times,"
Dear Sir: —
An eight hour day for women. "Why not?
Shall we have a dual labor law as well as a dual
criminal code?
Shall we make it legal for the employer to work
our daughters and our sisters ten hours every day
while our sons and our husbands who belong to the
unions, work only eight?
Shall we admit that eight hours is enough for
an abled bodied carpenter to work in one day and in
the same breath insist upon v working our factory
girls ten hours?
Shall we admit that seven and a half hours is all
that a printer should sit over his linotype daily, but
insist that a telephone girl can just as well sit ten
hours with a buzzer at her ear, answering a thous
and and one hurry calls?
What do the free minded people of this city
think about it? Will they swallow the argument
put forth in the petition signed by the big employ
ers of women and girls, .which is to be sent to the
legislature in an effort to defeat the eight-hour bill?
I have asked only questions, Mr. Editor. You
and your readers may answer them. Yours,
MISS S. T. NOGGK
(What do Times readers think about it? What
answer have you to MissStenopgapher's pointed
questions? Write your opinion briefly and address it
to the Times. The eight hour law is of vital import
ance and the Times' columns are open to a fair dis
cussion of the subject?— Editor Times.)
MAN IN NIGHT CLOTHES,
REVOLVER IN HAND,
PURSUES THIEF
FIRES TWO SHOTS AND COM
PELS PROWLER TO DROP
DOG WHICH UK HAD AT
TEMPTED TO STEAL.
A yard-prowler wan thwarted in
his operations early this morning
us he was In the act of lifting a
valuable dog from the kennels of
A. H. Nelson, 9 28 South E, by the
yelping of Che unfortunate canine.
Before the thief could reach
the gate with his prize, Mr. Nel
son, In his night clothes, and with
a big revolver In hand, had opened
the door and commenced pursuit.
The prowler would not liberate
the yelping animal until Nelson
fired two ahota at him. Then
he dropped the dog and disappear
ed down a dark alley. The police
were put on the own but could aot
find the UU«t>
KSPP WHELPS
WEDDING IS
TON|GHT
}' The wedding Xp of TitiM^'miia
Phelps to Mr. C. T. ; Kipp of j Spo
kane will :be solemnized at 8
o'clock ' thisi evening,' at - the : home
of { the bride's;-; parents;; Mr. and
Mrs. ■ Dwtght Phelps, 1 90 2 ; North X
street. Miss Phelps has for eight
years : been connected „■ with the
county auditor's office I and | has •■ a
wide circle of friends <In j the city.
After the ceremony ' Mr. and • Mrs.
Kipp will leave on a brief wedding
Journey., They will i make J their
future home lin ; Spokane, where
Mr." Kipp It conducting a drafting
OfffcMk y w
AWARDS
TWO BIG
SO)BS
COMMISSIONER M'GREGOR
liKTH CONTRACTS FOB $100,
-000 WORTH OF PAVING.
Street paving contracts to cost
nearly $100,000 were let by Com
missioner McGregor today, the In
dependent Asphalt company of
this city getting both the Alder
street and Center street Jobs.
The estimate on the Alder street
Job was cut $4,000 and the Center
street Job over $11,000. The cut
in the Center street Job will make
It necessary for the county to put
up Its $5,000 and for the automo
bile men to contribute another
$6,000 as the whole coat will be
borne by the property, the ' im
provement coming in for less than
half the assessed valuation. This
will leave the county money to be
used on other roads.
The bids were as follows: ' ;
■ Center street — Independent
Asphalt company, $64,618; Bar
ber Asphalt ■■:■ company, . $66,650;
Joe ; Wells. $66,441; W. J. Mur
phy, $75,500; Lister Construction
company, $7350. '. : > i • :;.
Alder Independent As
phalt company, $24,498; Barber
Asphalt company, $25,092; M. J.
Hlckey, $24,683; Keasal Construc
tion company, $25,240. .„■■;. V
U. P. RUSHING
WORKHERE
Three hundred men are. laying
rails ' and . making the dirt fly on
the "i: Union ,; Pacific ', right-of-way
from Center .' street 'to ■ South Ta
coma today. The contractors are
rushing the Job |to completion ) to
be ready. for the starting of work
on the tunnel.-•-.>"-;■ .■:i-*-C-&;;:>%'* iS
5,^J. C. Farrell, Harriman repre
sentative of ■ the '. Northwest, and
Engineer Baldwin came . over yes
terday and looked j over the | work
and Assistant I Engineer,: Chltten
den, who has direct charge of all
the terminal work ; In Tacoma, ar
rived today.. ,r ■'Se-'*'<i'::X:--*:--Z~'-"M
•i, It is expected > to finish, the* new
line to South Tacoma by the end
of this week and by the beginning
of next week It is believed things
will be ready to start in on the
tunnel.; ..;
COLLINS GETS
LONG TERM
, -r-«-K •^;-.f~}< ».;h*^^^- ■*».!Jft'.i-:Jv^^tiSp*!*
; ; Judge Easterday. yesterday aft
; ernoon ; gave V ; John v;, Collins, the
! "suit case man," an indeterminate
' sentence of from i* 1; to 14 years,
i Collins (a the man 'who has been
; arrested p numerous *f s * times jS on I
I- charges of f petty Uttering.
LAST EDITION!
WKATHKII KOBKCANT: Rain tonight and
needay. Modeiate southerly winds. J
BIG LINERS
COLLIDE
INEOG
Steamers Mobile and
Dunkeld Meet Off the
English Coast-Both
Badly Damaged
(Ity United Press Teased Wire.)
DOVKR, Eng., Feb. 2.—An
other tragedy of the sea was nar
rowly averted today, when tho
Atlantic Transport line steamer
Mobile, bound for Baltimore, wb?
in collision with the British steam
er Duukeld, off Beachy Head.
Both vessels were badly damaged
and the Moble has returned to
Gravesend, with her bow Btove In
Although intense excltemen'
prevailed on board both the Mo
bile and Dunkeld following th<
collision, none of the passenger:
or crews of either steamer w.r
injured.
The Mobile was cautiously
feeling her way through a ilfn.
fog that enveloped the Engli?'
coast this morning, when sudden
ly out of the mist loomed tl:
British steamer, directly In the
path of the out-bound vessel.
The Mobile's engines were Im
mediately reversed and her siren
shrieked a warning to the Dun
keld, but the momentum of the
huge Atlantic liner was too great
and she crashed into the Dunkeld's
starboard bow, opening up a gap
ing wound.
The Britisher reeled drunkenly
from the impact of the collision
and then disappeared from view
In the gray blanket of fog. Her
captain refused tho proffered aid
of the Mobile and it is believed she
is now painfully limping toward
the nearest port. I
TO DISSOLVE
11. P. MERGER
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 2.
—The service of fifty Bub
poenas on representative
Cleveland shippers today was
the first notice that the gov
ernment would make a stren
uous effort to •dissolve the
merger of the Union Pacific,
when the hearing of the case
is begun here February 13.
Attorney Frank Kellogg will
be In charge of the govern
ment's case.
SHOOTS TACOMA
GIRL; THEN DIES
BY HIS OWN HAND
Ernest Grant, Rejected Suitor, Fires Three Shots at
Miss Mable Thorp, One Taking Effect in Shoul
der —Then Ends His Life With Carbolic Acid—•
Young Woman's Wound Not Serious.
DESTITUTE WIFE
LOOKS FOR
HUSBAND
The police hare been asked to
locate Gordon Decker, 46 years
old, who left his home in Enum
claw December 26, 1908, and has
never been heard from since.
When Decker left home he had
over $400 and a valuable revolver
on his person. He Is described
as being 5 feet 8 Inches tall,
weighs 185 pounds, blue gray
eyes, dark browp hair, sandy
whiskers and a goatee. His wife,
who lives at En ume law, is alone
and destitute. The description
was forwarded by Charles Schom
'burg.
DIVORCE GRANTED.
Blanche O. Cllne was granted
a divorce from Carl A. Cllne this
morning by Judge Shackleford of
the superior court ou the grounds
of Incompatibility of temperament.
The case was allowed to go by
default, Cline failing to appear in
the oomrt room.
.J-i CENTS A MONTH.
SENATE TO
RANSEN'S
RESCUE
flsasure Is Taken From
Judiciary Committee
Where It Was to
Be Smothered
OIiVMPIA, Feb. 2.— a rot«
of 25 to 15 Ole Hanson's r*ee»'
.ruck bill was this morning taken
from (ho senate Judiciary commit*
tec, where It was to be effectively
smothered,- and the probabilities
ire that tlUs committee will als»
ewe control of the local option Ull
tils afternoon. .' ':■- .-'•" Of^fc*
Intended to Kill It. fr, ?' »,
The racetrack bill was referred
'o the judiciary committee last
Thursday on the suggestion J of,.
Chairman Graves, who, after hai»»>
!tig the bill In his possession, an
\ounced that It would not 1 com*
ip until after the senate had tak
•n up the new criminal code. fc/^Q
Graves Very Angry. t^4Si&
Senator Graves all but threaten*
-1 to take his rag dolls and ■ go
ome If the senate acted on Paul
, a rims' suggestion, v The senate,
however, appeared to be determin- 1
ed to Impress upon the Judiciary,
committee that the committee was
a part of the senate and that th»
senate was not a part of the com
mittee. There was a rather bit
ter exchange of personalities , all ;
through.the debate which did not j
end even after the roll was called.
■ When Senator Ruth was called
upon to vote jhe announced £ that
although the motion j had j carried
he would never be a party to cast-
Ing an insult upon ■ / Chairman
Graves of the Judiciary commit
tee. ■.-/■.,?:.-, .Y..--:-;.>^ggjg|
Paulhitmuß Scores Rath.
Senator Paulhamus -took Rut>
to task at once to the Intense da
light of a large gallery. The «p
--plans* was particularly irritating
to Senator Graves, who complain- .
ed of it and threatened: to bav*|
the gallery cleared . - : .".- ''t'Msm'
It.mis.- Does Little.
The house this morning spent \
an hour deciding not to pay F. If.
Fortune of Seattle $5,000 for th«
loss of an eye, sustained while, In
the employ of the state.t^^iS^i
The! house judiciary committee
reported favorably, on jan ' amend*-!
ment to the damage suit - law)
which will provide that defend
ants' parents, brothers and sisters
may ' sue for the • death gof I their
supporter. Senator Palmer of
King made' a hard light} against
this bill but the house turned him
down. -%.'.v"-; •■•■'.:.■', "■• :i.:^'fffmfr
; Miss Mabel Thorp,r well k«wt{
young woman of this I city, Me* la *
, St. Joseph's hospital , today | suffer*
ing from a bullet wound Inflicted
! last night by Ernest Grant, who.
because his suit for her hand >«•'
spurned, attempted to murder he*
and then ended his own life
swallowing the contents of a four*
ounce vial of carbolic ' acld.lffi^fßfe
tf* A v quarrel * between % the I yoni |
' woman and her ": rejected ? suitor |
came Ito I sensational « climax whea
• Grant fired £ three shots at »l»ttf|
1 Thorp as she stood near her home,
- at-1964I8outh;M:at.Ta^«eS«*p9iai
I Only one >f.i bullet took effect
• however, i lodging j InJg the fleah
I 1 part of | the l young woman's right t
•(Shoulder. Tne : bullet iwas r«no
I last night and the hospital authoi
, itles say today i that Miss Thoi
• will I recover 4 rapldlr/SfflE^fSllpflp
- %i Miss Thorp, who is 18 : years at *
, age, is: the * daughter sof Mr. an<
i Mrs.tJ.lM.' fc Thorp.-iJsiil#WM^S
i ii»K4l Propose* Dual Death. N&i
. I - Young Grant, last 1 evening g^Pfe
i companted ■, her on the;streetscajr;
as ' she • returned from work. H«
■ alighted % from | the i car s nrH»?|B|n|
and .walked the two block* to *J#l:
: home beside her, tin sslag Mi Ml£
-1 and! begging j her tv (mt*»t ; bi* ;«
[ tentlons. -^Aa- she j ooutaatlr
• fused ;he became Infurla* M&
--i when j they were within a■■ MjK
doom of the K«rl's hon»« be sets*
' her by the wrist, ex«lMml*« 1
i "Welt, it we caa't live tajjel