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VOl.. VII. NO. 48
EDITORS WOULD TURN TACT OUT NOW
REPUBLICAN SCRIBES
ARE FOR ROOSEVELT
Straw Vote Shows That Teddy Is
Ilig Favorite Over Fat Presi
dent—Washington In the Pro
gressive Column Gives Roosn
velt a Majority.
(Ity 1 i.ii. <l Press Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—The Tri
bune today announces the result
of a canvass, which it states lias
been made, of the republican edi
tors of newspapers west of the Al
legheny mountains, rcminlinu
their present choice for president,
with the following total results:
. Roosevelt, 1,360.
Tftft, 1,09 3.
L* Follette, 197.
Hughes, 122.
Cummins, C 5.
Pinchot, 30.
Cannon, 14.
Bryan, 40.
Scattering, 114.
The following question was lub
jnltted, the Tribune state*, to
•very republican editor west of
tin' Alleghenles:
"If you could vote for president
loday, for whom would you cast
four ballot?"
T. ft. Leads Taft Here.
The paper prints the following
is the results from the Pacific
coast:
Washington: Roosevelt, 51;
Taft, 81; I* Follette, 1; Hughes,
S; dimming, 1; Pinchot, 1; Dolli
ver, 2; Cannon, 1; Bryan, 1.
Oregon: Roosevelt, 32; Taft,
14; La Follette, 3; Hughes, 5;
Pinchot, 1; Cannon, 1; Bryan, 2.
California: Rooßevelt, 81; Taft,
45; La Follette, 4; Hughes. 4;
'Pinchot, 2; Dolliver, 1; Bryan, 1.
In summing up the result of the
canvass, the paper says:
"Roosevelt has not only a ma
jority of the votes, but ais
strength runs so uniformly that
he is endorsed by a majority of
the states. He is strongly in the
lead in the lake group, where he
has 486 votes to Taft s 427. He
leads in the prairie states by 617
to 475, and on the Pacific coast by
164 to 90.
"In the only group where Taft
leads the president's margin is
narrow, it being 66 to G4 in the
mountniti states. The South is
evenly divided, 35" to 36.
"Roosevelt leads In IB of the 22
states: Michigan, Indiana, Illln
(Continued on Page Eight.)
DEDICATE MCA BUILDING
With a great gospel meeting
and a concert in the lobby, both
of which were attended by over
1000 men, the new Y. M. C. A. in
Tacoma opened a week's dedica
tory services yesterday.
At the meeting A. V. Love, Rev.
B. A. Abbott, Rev. Murdock Mc-
Leod and Am S. Allen, secretary
of the Seattle Y. M. C. A. were the
speakers, the principal speech be
ing delivered by Mr. Allen.
Tonight beginning at 8 o'clock
a program will be given openfng
■with a concert by Nason's orches
This Man Never Sleeps-Not a Wink in Fourteen Years;
Tells Writer All About It During Night Spent With Him
Alonzo Wire, the Wonder of Helen-'
I fists, Is Not Sick, Hut Ho Ijon^s
for Sleep, and Has Tried Every
thing — Sits-Up All Nil-lit-111111
Is Conscious' of .' Everything—
Whisky Gags Him ami Laud
. annul Fails.
' - liy W. G. Shepherd
Behold I show you a mystery;
we shall not all sleep.—l Corin
thians, xv, 51. .. . ,_/ ,
• • •
"'.VHACKETTSTOWN, N. Feb.
, 11.—Alonzo Wire, famous because
■he cannot Jl sleep, ;an 3 \ object "t* of
curiosity ] and wonder Ito scientists
| everywhere, invited; to 5 spend p a
» night . with | him V after j I i had " ex
* pressed deep interest' in his cake.,
j;; "We | can • play ■"■ checkers until
;• you get sleepy," he said, with a
; laugh; "But I'll be glad to haVe
| you sit up with me all night. * I'll
give you $10 if : you-see me sleepy
tonight. ;' I'd be glad to pay it."
ii- Mother Wire, -■ wrinkled, :[ bent
and old, was" sitting with her hus
band by the stove > when I ■ arrived
'at 10 in th«", evening.;;'..;:' - r 7 '
■''- "I'm not sleepy," she said. "I
get so used to sitting up with Lon
until} late-, that 5 I don't miss my
' sleep like I used "?to. %i I often wish
I could give Lon some of my share
Tof sleep.": : :~??x£-a}?. "■•'^■V-^^.
" ''Missing sleep [ doesn't seem ■to
hurt ;me any, „ mother; j5 ip r' there's
■no need of your worrying." ;.!f5
7; After "i we » had \ played \:\ a >. few
• games of checkers t£ and 'C% Mother
Wire had put away her, sewing and
Bald "Good I night," Alonzo Wire,
the man who cannot sleep, told me
i all I about • it. •:■■'•■ ;;';• ■» ■"■■■: .>■; --v- v'^ '•'*"
"I'm 65 years old now," he said.
"I was born on a farm near here,
"Slate" Laid
On the Shelf
Report of "Committee of Twelve" Is Not Endorsed
By Improvement League—lnstead It Is Put on
Table and May Never Even Be Submitted to Vari
ous Clubs.
Smothered by the Central Im
provement league by the tabling
of the report of its committee, the
ticket of the "committee of
twelve" will not even be referred
to the various improvement clubs
in the city, and the summary <ic
tion of the league Saturday night
chok-ed off some spicy discussion
which promised to let some light
through the methods by which »Qo
ticket was framed.
When the Central Improvement
league met Saturday, night 12
clubs of the 18 in the city were
represented. The representatlTi
was not large, however, from each
club. There was a general 'in
pression that Peter Leonard an'l
A. H. Garretson Intended to tell
some things about the committee
of twelve, but some members of
the league decided that the best
thing to be done was to smother
the whole project, and turn down
the ticket by refusing to even
consider It.
Before the meeting there were
little caucuses in the hall. Mem
bers were outspoken against the
ticket foisted on the public by the
committee of twelve. The "mass
meeting" at the Tacoma hotel was
considered a joke and there was
some lively comment on the activ
ity manifested by directors and of
ficers of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company, makers of sewer pipe, in
getting the nomination for Ualk
will. the vice president of the
company, for mayor.
It was decided that discussion.
however, might hurt the improve
men clubs and when the meeting
convened Nick Klovberg jumped
(Continued on Page Five.)
tra and closing with a dedicatory
address by Governor Hay.
Among the orators will be A. V.
Love, Henry Hewitt, H. W. Stone,
Portland, and Mayor John W.
Linck.
Mary Louise Dunn will enter
tain with a vo<nl solo.
The lobby of the building is the
finest in the city by a long ways,
and the entire building is con
structed with a view to meeting
the needs of young men in Tacoma
as a place to study, to exercise and
to meet in such social surround
ings as will develop true manhood.
and I worked on a farm until I
iwas middle-aged. I used to weigh
280 pounds, and in my time was
the strongest and biggest man in
all the country hereabouts. I've
never been sick a day in my lite.
"When mother and I moved to
town with our children who ,had.
partly grown up, I was appointed
chief of police of Hackettstown.
Before then I began to notice that
it was hard to get to sleep atj
night, but I didn't think anything
of it; I felt just as well the next
day, whether I Blept two hours or
ten.
"But by and by ther.e used to be
nights when I'd be awake all,
night. If I sat up I'd feel tired 1
the next day, but if I'd lay down
I'd feel fresh for work in the
morning. I seemed to get my rest,
whether I slept or not.
"But at last I go so I didn't
sleep at all. And after that I got
used to sitting in my rocktng chair
all night. That was about four
teen years ago, as near as mother
and I can make it out.
"I haven't had a wink of sleep
in fourteen years.
"There hasn't been a minute
during all that lime, that I didn't
know what was going on around
me. At night every time one of
the boys turned over in bed or
mother moved in her bed, I knew
it. I was always laying there,
thinking. Whenever I moved I
knew it and did it deliberately; it
wasn't the unconscious movements i
of a sleeping man.
"It's true I don't suffer. I don't '
seem to need sleep. But It's pretty t
hard to keep thinking and think
ing, all the time. I've lived over t
my life, every minute of It, hue-1
HERMANN IS
SAVED 8Y
I JUROR
CONGRESSMAN ACCUSED OF
LAND FRAUDS MUST STAND
TRIAL AGAIN—JURY DIS
CHARGED AFTKR FAILING
TO REACH VERDICTSTOOD
11 TO 1 FOR CONVICTION.
(Ry United Press I/eased Wire.)
'PORTLAND, Oi-e., Feb. 14.—
The guilt or innocence of ex-Con
gressman Ringer Hermann, charg
ed with conspiracy to defraud l'i<*
government of. public lands in the
creation of the lilue mountain for
est reserve, while Hermann was
commissioner of the general laud
office, is still undecided. The Jury,
which stood 11 for conviction and
1 for acquittal, was discharged
by .Inline Wolverton at 9:40
o'clock this morning after wrest
ling with the evidence in the BMW
for nearly 48 hours.
George Selkirk, who stood out
for acquittal, held that he eoulJ
convict the defendant under the
law, but not under the evldencv.
and that his conscience wouH
not permit of his disregarding the
one phase of the case for the suu
port of teh other.
After the discharge of the jury.
Prosecutor Heney immediately
moved that a new trial be com
menced ion Monday ne»t, and
meeting with the objection of the
court that the jury panel had
been excused until a week from
Monday substituted that date.
Here he met with the objection
of John M. Gearin, who state"!
that Colonel Worthingto'n hid
been compelled to return to W«i'i
ington and could not return for
some time, whereupon the date of
the next trial was allowed to stand
open, subject to the agreement of
the counsel on both sides.
(Continued on Pago Eight.)
A.LONIO WIRE IN HIS ROCKING CHAIR BESIDE THE KITCHEN
STOVE. HERE HE SPENDS HIS SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
lreds of times.
"Iv tried all kinds of doctors
>ut they can't make me sleep, and
hey all finish up by wondering
TAOXNMA, WASH., MONDAY, VK Din \H\ 14, 1910
■ TACOMA'S VALENTINE
ONLY ONE MAN-ROOSEVELT-COULD SAVEG.D.P.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 14.—The Kansas City Star, the first paper in
the middle west to urge the nomination oi' William IT. Tai't for the presi
dency, and whose editoi\ W. li. Nelson, is a personal friend of the chief exec
utive, says today:
"In his speech in New York President Taft admitted a loss of popular
ity for his administration that might cause the republican party to lose the
house of representatives.
"He might have gone even farther.
"So great has the defection been that if a presidential election were to be
held next November, there is probably but one republican, Roosevelt, who
would stand a chance of carrying the country against a ticket headed, for ex
ample, by (raynor or Folk.
"In all this transformation of public sentiment there has been little bit
terness. Instead there has been general sorrow over a loss of confidence in a
president of charming personality and right intentions, who partly from tem
perament, partly from lack of sagacity, and partly from a deficiency in ag
gressive militant earnestness, has alienated the people who believed they had
found in him a man to carry out the work of Roosevelt.
how I keep alive and happy. But I
do."
"Did you ever try counting
(Continued on Page Bight.)
It's Great Day
y. For Love-Sick
Boys and Girls
',Now is the time ■
•'When youths In rhyme . . .
Portray their sweetest feeling
« "J"or maidens fair -. v
'Whose ears they dare
/ Not greet with their appealing.
ATd 'tin the day
I When pupils gay
i Quit wrestling with atomics -^—'5
And try to Job 5 , --*r,AV
f The pedagogue
-With gaudy colored "comics:"
For a good many centuries hom
age has been paid to St. Valentine
on this date. He was supposed
to be the ' special . patron i saint. of
lovesick 'swains and - maidens, and
bo today every damsel whose heart
is warming .up to some youth is
watching the malls for indication
of: interest on the part 'X of;" the
young man, and every gallant who
is ' afraid to I say. what Ihe | thinks
to iher face takes this means of
broking the ice. .-'■ '.'.,*;;w' -.";:'4,
Valentine day also Is ' observed
by those who wish to bring to the
attention of 1 some erring s mortal
the foibles of the individual. Here
Is . where the "comic" finds *' em
ployment. •'• Every schoolboy i has
use for them, and there are plenty
of ; other - people I who do j not j miss
the chance' to "get "." even". ■':<-. with
some friend for some good-natued
jollying ,in the past.«• *^i r-'
. " Tacoma dealers report a big sale
t at' all 1 sorts I of, high-colored * val
leritines this year, and hundreds of
I dollars have (been I spent *In 1 cele-
Jbrating the day. In Tacoma.
AND THIS WOMAN
HLKI'T SI IIMiS
Leonora Romaldo, a pretty |
young married woman of Vil
lain icnsii, Spain, returned
from a long walk one sum*
mer day in 1874, and fell
asleep, ■utterly exhausted.
She slept all that evening
and all that night, all the |
next day and the next night, |
and on and on, until one |
bright morning In 1905 when |
she awoke from her 31 years |
of slumber.
Anxiously ghe inquired for |
her husband, exclaiming, "I |
must have slept a long time |
—since yesterday afternoon." |
She would not believe that |
the old gray-haired man be- |
side her was the husband of '
her "yesterday," and not un- ]
til she saw in a mirror her |
own haggard, faded, aged fea- |
tures was she convinced that |
her sleep had indeed been a
long one.
"Pearysville" Is Name of Town
Formerly Named Cook
DUBLIN, Ind., Feb. 14.—The
little village of Cook, near Owens
ville, located In the "pocket" of
southern Indiana, has decided to
change Its name from Cook to
Pearysvllle. Following the al
leged discovery of the north pole!
BALKWILL BRINGS
SEWER P PE ISSUE
INTOJiIPWGN
Joshua Pelrce, Director of flay SScwcr Pipe Company, Called Ta
< I'iiiii Hotel Convention; llayward. Another Director, Moved for
lialkwill's I'.niliii'si'iiifiii; McConuick, Another Director, Helped
to Basal the (iHine Along; Hewitt, Another Director, Did Like-*
wise: Then Two Directors of the Sewer Company Notified
ltalkwill of His Nomination, and The« Italkuill, Vice Presi
dent of the Sewer V\\w Comiwny, Agreed l<> Ituu for Mayor:
THKRBFORE SOMK CITIZKN'S AHK DOING A 1.1 II IK
Til f.\ KING.
The nomination of S. L. Balk
wlll by the Committee of Twelve
and Tacoraa hotel convention has
injected the sewer pipe issue into
the coming election, and campaign
slogans may be expected bearing
on clay pipe, cement pipe and
other kinds of sewer material.
Ilnlkwill Vice President.
Balkwill is vice president and a
director of the Little Falls Fire
Clay company, which for years
| had a monopoly on sewer pipe in
this city. Then local inventive
genius evolved a machine to make
cement pipe and glaze it on the
inside so it is waterproof, and aft
er exhaustive tests and much con
sideration by city engineers, the
coinmisisoncr and the council, the
city included cement pipe in its
specifications.
Cement pipe then came Into
I general use, and with it came a
mighty howl from the Little Falls
Fire Clay comnany.
.li.-liiiii I'eirce, One Director.
Joshua Peirce, Halkwill, K. L.
McCormick, another director, all
bombarded the city officials to
try to knock out cement pipe. City
officials were 1 threatened anil
argued with and nil sorts of
schemes evolved, but the cement
pipe still was used. Now the
launching of Halkwill as a candi
date has caused citizens to do a lot
of figuring on what it all means.
IViicc Issm (I Invitations.
It is reported that Halkwill's
name was suggested to the Com
mittee of Twelve by Joshua I'eirce.
a director In the Little Falls Fire
Clay company. At any rate, before
the committee met and "suggest
ed" H.ilk «ill. i'eirce got out invi
tations for a "mass meeting" at
the Tacoma hotel. He sent them
to Henry Hewitt and other direc
tors of the Little Falls Fire Clay
[company with such other men as
were wanted.
Here Is Another Director.
In the Tacotna hotel conven
tion the meeting was called to or
der by Peirce, a director of the
Little Falls Fire Clay company.
The first man to make a motion
to organize the convention was
Stephen Appleby, banker from the
bank of McCormiok, another di
rector of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company.
Then George Burke was called
on without giving the meeting a
chance to suggest any candidates,
and Burke promptly named Balk
will for mayor, vice president of
the Little Falis Fire Clay com
pany.
More Is Another Question.
Before any objection could be
made or any other candidates put
, up, A. J. Hayward, another direr
tor of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company., moved that Balkwill be
endorsed us the candidate. It
wan done with no chance for dis
cussion, and then Henry Hewitt,
another little Fails Fire Clay
man. and others made their
speeches.
Here Are Some More Directors
When the committee met to go
get the answer of Balkwill, Joshua
Peirce, of the Little Falls Fire
Clay company, and Stephen Apple
by, of the bank of McCormlck, an
other director of the Little Falls
Fire Clay company, formed two of
. the committee of four.
This apparent activity of the
Little Falls Fire Clay company In
getting its vice president nominat
ed for mayor, in view of the deter
mined contest waged by the com
pany unsuccessfully In the last:
year to get its pipe used in Taco-J
ma, instead of the pipe made here,'
has caused a lot of people to do
some tall thinking and some vig
orous talking, and Balkwill is be
ing dubbed the clay-pipe candidate
on the streets today.
BANK CLEARINGS
Clearings $1,105,241.65
'Balances 66,472.23
by Dr. Cook, the settlement took
on the same of Cook, but when
hi* evidence failed to prove his
claim the residents of the place
decided to change the name of the
hamlet in keeping with, the recog
nized discoverer.
SO CENTS A MPNTH.
EXPLOSION
ON WARSHIP
SEVEN MXX IXJVItKD ON U. 8.
TORPEDO BOAT HOPKINS IN
SAX DIEGO HARBOR.
sax DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 14.—As
the result of a (toiler explosion un
board the torpedo boat destroyer
Hopkins at 8:15 (his morning,
seven men were seriously scalded
anil*taken to the Agnewa sanitar
ium today.
The Hopkins was getting up
steam preparatory to leaving the
port with the remaining vessels
of the fleet for the regular prac
tice cruise in northern waters.
In the fireroom of the Hopkins
were the regular crew. The steam
gauge of the boiler registered 200
pounds pressure shortly before
the accident, and this is 50 pounds
under the capacity.
Without warning a water tube
suddenly gave way, letting out
quantities of the deadly steam.
Seven of the men were caught in
the room and did not escape until
they were badly burned.
The doctors were hastily sum
moned and the ambulance called,
to bring the injured sailors to
this city. •
After the accident on the Hop
kins the boiler was repaired, and
the little boat went out in the
channel to wait for orders with
the rest of the fleet. At 11:30
the boats slowly steamed out of
the harbor, with the repairs made
on the disabled boat, and with a
new crew in the fire room of the
Hopkins.
The Hopkins is commanded by
Lieutenant 10. Friedrlck. Her en
sign* is R. How en. Both officers
said that they had the situation
well in hand after the accident,
and that the men were cared for
In the shortest possible time.
■ The accident today is the most
serious of the kind since the ex
plosion here on July 21, 1905, oa
the gunboat llcnnington.
SIX THROWN
INTO BAY;
1 DROWNS
COLLISION IIKTWKKN STEAM-
Kit - ANI> LAUNCH AT MID
NIGHT RKSILTK IN DEATH
TO ONE OF PLEASURE
PARTY.
The. body of Arthur N. Furh. a
local contractor, is probably at the
bottom of Conrencement bay as
the result of a collision between
the pleasure launch Arrow and
the fishing steamer Celtic about
midnight last night. Five com
panions of Furh's after having
been thrown ■ into the Icy waters
• we.re rescued by the crew, of the
| steamer. ; ;.;. 'V
The collision occurred near the
middle of the bay, and according;
to reports,*' both vessels carried (j
lights. a The larger boat practical
ly j cut the launch In two but ow-
Ing to airtight compartments,. th*
latter; did not sink. /■ '.-.
; The occupants of the launch'
consisted of . the : missing 'man; i
Clayton Harris, - the . operator of ■•
the launch; Miss Loretta Brown,
daughter of. S. F. Brown, the cigar
dealer; Miss Ollle Kellar, and Miss
Gertrude Walker. ? The "J* launch
was - owned ,By '■ Captain I Kirby * of |
the Klrby boathonse, and: Its loss'
will amount .to about! $2,500.
y Parties i having charge of ft- th*
search ' for Furh's body have. been
unsuccessful and waterfront me»|
believe * it i sank k and ', became i en
tangled J In J snags if at | the £ bottom
where - it; may ; stay .' forever, i.- ■ *■■ '■>
:~---y±-:i«r~r' •' ■",;■,. i-v^'^^
■■■■■ '".. Fair ; tonight' and .
HyVl jjaH .Tuesday.-• Moderate
mßSsaSEß northwest winds.