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IS PUBLIC MARKET A BENEFIT TO TACOMA OR A MENACE?
Should Tacoma retain the Public Market? Or
should it be killed? What do the people think?
Commissioner Mills and Market Master All
strum believe that the market should be forced back
off the street and into the building. The men who
know the situation say this would virtually kill the
market.
The Public Market makes an annual profit to the
city of some $300 a month. That, however, is only
an incident in comparison to the real question of
whether it is an advantage or disadvantage to the
HOME EDITiON
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$23 prize.
VOL. IX. NO. 124.
MOTHER PRAYS FOR
DEATH CHAIR FOR
C. V. T. RICHESON
(By United Press Teased Wire.)
HYANMB, Maws., May 14.—"Let Kicheaon escape electrocu
tion and the world would not set-in right. I have prayed, nnd I
know that I am right when I say that Hicheson should pay the
penalty."
With these words Mrs Llnnell, mother of Avis Llnnell, Riche
gon's 19-year-old vlcnm, denounced him today.
The Rev. E. A. Hoyt, pasior of the Universalist church here,
expressed himself as follows: j
"Richesou is a cold-blooded, deliberate murderer. He pur
sued Avlb to her downfall and then to her grave. He did all cool
beadedly, deliberately and sanely."
BOSTON, May 14. —Rev. C. V.
T. Richeson, once pastor of a fash
ionable church in Cambridge,
must die for the murder of his
] 9-year-old discarded sweetheart,
Avis Llnnell.
All hope for the minister was
virtually abandoned today, when
the last two alienists who have
been examining Richeson reported
Are You After The $25?
How's the article on Tacoma - . • •
and \he Montamara Kesto com- -»-»«»_ _^
The Times to date has re- I •i£ tir*'£
celved about. 100 letters. There -V- *'**^O^a \
are some mighty fine ones •
''among them. We'll start print- /^"""^r^T"""""""^
ing them tomorrow. We want V—■f'jffr'l
to get in as many as possible, jJy^r^^.X^
so that the judges will have a^^£/Hi£»> jL "7
': lot to choose from. ■ . » " /'"
■■' Remember, the article Is to :^ "y -^r I '
:be about Tacoma and the Fes 10 j l»*lltf£ "^ /
.and why people should see it. j / _Jy'-^% /
• Make it loyal, interesting, sin- ' m JffL I
' cere, pretty, attractive. Keep v\ fft tfjf
It short. The best letter win T\|F jt v\r A
get the Times »25 prize. lr"vP>«Wa
There's a chance for tts all to '«• 'jJttt^
help In this. ; And It'll help Ta- d^^^\2*^
t coma. For the winning letters > • .' ' •V^^'^
will be. printed all over tne ;
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D. Vorce and D. Cupid In
Drawn Battle Yesterday
Mr. D. Vorce, a very active resi
dent of our fair city, had another
argument with his old rival D.
Cupid yesterday at the court
house. Mr. Cupid was lightly
dressed, as usual, and didn't mind
the weather like his opponent, but
was unable to score anything bet
ter than a draw.
The score:
D. Vorce 4
D. Cupia 4
William H. Cameron, who is
serving a five-year term in the
penitentiary for bigamy, has been
sued for divorce by Janet Cam
eron, who alleges that she did not
learn'that he wag married to an
other till they had been wedded
nearly a year. She married Cam
eron in 1911.
Judge Card granted Oorgena
Cowell a divorce from Theodore
Cowell on grounds of cruelty.
They were married in 1907.
Wanted
To Buy
' Property on following street*: '
*.'. A street. :".'*,'-■ - '." ; -■' V.-'.
? Pacific avenue. -.', , .--.
i'C street. '- ■ ,:"--.. '. ' "tfi'iSiW*: ><
D ■ treat «?-.;-•'-■-.»<-■'■. ''/:; ■■::"'•
J.B street, north of 18th, '^-Iv: ,;.
<■« Tacoma aye. north of 15th. -'f
•■fO street north of lltli.
Yaklma ay. north of 11th. .
■K»tr«et.'north of.lßth. w'
;.' St. Helena avenue. . „.■ ■ ■ .
,• Puyalliip avenue. lA\ Vt-V- f
' V JefferifoTi avenue. % >,■.' ;■ - .-•, .' v
ti DlvUlon' avenue. •*••'"''■-' ', *
;jj And ; other close-in district*. U.
During the p«it*•'> JO day* we,
have purchased 125,000 worth and
have that much more to buy with.
Will t pay; cash. . .r Prices . must ;■ be
low. .what have yon to offer •
Calvin Philips & Co.
til California Bldg.
to Gov. Fobs.
Only one of all the specialists
expressed any doubt that the pas
tor was "accountable." Gov. Fobs
indicated that unless final reports
declared strongly that the con
demned man was insane he would
not interfere with the execution.
lUctu'son will not be moved to
the death chamber until tonight,
to avoid the curious crowds.
Marie Lundquist filed suit for
divorce against C. O. Lundquist
on grounds of drunkenness and
non-support. They were married
In Norway in 1901.
Charging that she Is neglectful
and indifferent, William Malloch
has started divorce proceedings
against Polly Malloch. Malloch ia
a British seaman and married
Polly in 190 6.
Christine North thla morning
filed action for divorce against
her husband Tin.mas. They were
married in 1894 and she alleges
he deserted her in 1897. She
wants the custody of her 15-year
old daughter and her maiden
name, McClellan, restored.
Marriage licenses were Issued
to Duncan L. Stuart and Verna D.
Hardman, Tacoma; Clifford Man
ning and Laura King, Batonville;
Walter Christensen and Mabel
Goldsberg, Seattle, and Sam Sroxi
man and Goldle Woodcock, Seat
tle.
Notice To Girls
In Graduation
Dress Contest
The Contest Editor wants to
hear from the girls who are mak
ing their own dresses for gradua
tion.
He'd like to know bow they
are coming on and would appre
ciate some interesting letters.
The judges also want to know
well In advance who are the con
testants.
Remember the Times is giving
$10 in gold to the high school or
college girl who makes the pret
tiest and simplest graduation
dross herself, $5 second prize;
also $5 prizes each to the two
girls in the grammar grados
whose dresses are the ' pretti«st
and least expansive.
Our idea of nothing to do is to
try to abow off your furniture in
'front of the tax assessor.
city. The city can do without that $300 a month if
the source of it is harmful. However, if the market
is a benefit to the people, it should be given every
encouragement in the power of Taeonia's elected and
appointed officials.
Perhaps Commissioner Mills and Miss Allstrura
have not been able to learn the views of the people
at large on the matter. Undoubtedly they would' be
glad to learn what the people think. They owe noth
ing to amr class of dealers in the city in comparison
to what they owe to the people who pay their salaries.
The Tacoma Times
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
CONDEMNED MAN'S
YOUNG VICTIM
Conscience .
Hurt Him
"For a light I broke." -
Written with a lead pencil
In boyish scrawl on a strip of
yellow paper, those five word*
reached the Tacoma light de
partment today in an envel
ope containing 32 cents.
The message was brief, to
the point,,and - expressed a
volume in ' boyish honesty
! that made clerks around the
city hall look thoughtful.
There was a • quarter, a
nickel and two pennies with
the brief message.
Nothing more.
It told a whole youthful
tragedy. A boy in a moment
of carelessness with a stone
and ; a broken street t lamp.
Then the accusing conscience,
the determination ,to make
good to the city, the rustling
for those 82 pennies and the ,
final restitution. ", -
"I wish I knew that boy.
Such honesty deserves recog
nition," said Chief Clerk
Cliff Davis as he exhibited
the. crumpled envelope with
the stamp upside down,. the
address running up - toward
the corner, and the other cvi
' dnecea that showed that it
- was the work of the boy him
self and that no grown-ups
had a hand in it. " .. „
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Batteries Today
Blalne Gordon pitching," win
Dick Crittenden receiving, is tni
scheduled battery for Tacoma li
today's game , against the . Spo
kane Indiana at Seattle. 4>.'";..■■
WELL KNOWN TACOMA MEN, THEIR BUSINESS AND THEIR HOBBIES
Back in Wisconsin just after
the Civil war, a little tow-headed
chap was growing up on a farm.
He never saw his father, who died
in the war, but the mother kept
the family together, and as the
children grew they struck out for
themselves.
At 14 the little tow-headed lad
had grown to be a tall stripling,
and A. Christ of fersen went to St.
Paul and lived with a Bister,' work
ing for his board and going to
school.
The farmer boy thought he
would like storekeeping, and
when 16 he went to work for a
merchant for a week on trial. At
the end of the week the merchant
called the tall youth in and said:
At $25 a Month.
"Look here, if you will promise
to stay with me a year, I will teach
you the business and give you f25
a month."
A. Chlstoffersen right then and
there became a storekeeper. He
never got away from it For six
years he stuck at It in St. Paul,
then started a store of his own at
Grand Forks, Dakota. Twenty
three years ago he came to Taco
ma, went to work in the Thomas
& Sprague establishment on Pa
cific ay., later went to Stone-Fish
er, or what afterward became
Stone-Fisher, and about 10 years
ago established the C street dry
good store that has borne his
name alaee.
SMr.\<&ria*tfercen doesn't own
TACOMA, WASHINGTON. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912.
THINK VICTIM
was new;
WOMAN i
(By United pre Leased Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, May 14. —Th«
young woman found murdered
last week in a vacant house was
last night Identified by Mrs.
Frank Suess, whose husband play
ed with th« Tacoma baseball team
in 1909, as Miss Katherlne Cun
ningham,' a school teacher of Ta
coma, whom Mrs. Suess met when
living there. /.,•*■*
Much credence 1b given the
ftnrv of Mrs. 6uess by the polloe
and extra efforts are being made
by the police to learn the history
of Miss Cunningham.
Miss Cunningham taught in the
Chehalls training school and at
Elbe and spent her vacations In
Tacoma, living at the home of
Mrs. John O'Dell, 935 South E.
Identify Clothing.
Martin O'Hara, a clerk, Is posi
tive that the woman Is cne to
whom he Bold a pair of ghoeß sev
eral weeks ago. Another clerk
Identified the corset found on ttie
body. No record of the Bale, be
yond a cash slip, wets made.
A coroner's Jury late yesterday
returned a verdict that the wom
an had come to her death by a
fracture of the- skull caused by
blows on the head delivered with
homicidal intent by an unknown
person.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow. The Knights of Co
lumbus and Young Men's Insti
tute will act as pall-bearers.
"I hope it is not Miss Cunning
ham," said Mrs. O'Dell here to
day! commenting on the Los An
geles dispatch. "I don't know
what she could be doing in Lob
Angeles. She left here three
years ago to go home to Aber
deen, South Dakota. I heard
'later that she was to be married
there.
"Miss Cunningham was afiout
38 when she was here. She wem
out very little, was pleasant and
cheerful, but quiet and retiring.
Didn't Love Peggy
(ny Vnlted Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, May 14. —An-
nouncement that his daughter,
Miss Mary L. Duke, niece of the
tobacco king, James B. Duke, it
not going to marry Prince Plgnia
telli, as reported, was made nere
today by Benjamin D. Duke.
The principal reason why hit
daughter was not going to marry
Prince "Pigge," Duke explained,
was that she cared nothing for
him.
ARTICLE NO. 4-4*A.fCHMBTOFFKItSKN.
an automobile, never steps Into a
motor boat, would not know what
to do with, a golf stick If he ha,d
fine, and. In lact, U not given to
diversions.
Undoubtedly they want to carry out the wishes of
their bosses, the people. It's often hard to know
what 100,000 people want.
An independent newspaper which will print the
whole truth is in the best position to find out. The
Times is the forum of the people. Let's all get to
gether and learn what the other fellow thinks about
it.
Does the best interest of the people lie in the
direction of more co-operative institutions, which
will lower the cost of living? Or does this entail a
hardship on the business intrests of the city, such
MAN WHO WAS DISFRANCHISED
BY RULING OF JUDGE HANFORD
LEONARD OLBBOV. Photo by Ihrig.
Leonard Olsson, the Tacoma so
cialist who was disfranchised by
order of Hanford on the federal
bench, has lived In the United
States about seven years. Physi
cally he is a fine type of tne
jßturdy Scandinavian race. He is
a hard worker, but has not
enough money to prosecute his
cake in the higher courts. How
ever, it is likely that the social
ist, party will appeal the case on
befralf of Olsson.
"I never had many luxuries, so
T do not miss them," la his way o(
looking at it.
Home His Hobby.
; When the store la locked in the
Will Disolve
Powder Trust
PHILADELPHIA, May 14. —In
federal court here yesterday a de
cree was'agreed to by atttorneys
for the government and the pow
der trust by which the powder
trust of 27 companies is to be dls-
Bolved and reorganized into three
companies which the government
thinks will compete.
evening Christoffersen goes home.
It Is his joy to be with his family
In the evenings, his wife, daugh
ter, now a young lady and three
toys. The oldest boy, however, is
now at Washington university
starting the foundation for a
medical course.
Just once Mr. Chrlstoffersen
got out of the beaten path. He
was appointed to the council to
serve an unexplred term. Then
he was elected one term.
"But politics and the dry goods
business do not mix," is his view.
However, he believes that politics
urul religion do and should mix.
and he aims to cut his politics out
of the same cloth as his religion.
When he was in the council he
was known as one of the "clean
town" councilman. In his three
years he never voted for a saloon
license.
Not In Politics.
But he does not want to serve
again. He confines his political
efforts now to getting out to vote,
"and getting his family and
neighbors out too," as he puta l£
for at the ballot box Christoffer
son believes is where the voter
ought to put his religion and in
telligence into action. '
Sereim, unostentatious; A. Chris
tofferson attends stiktly to busi
ness six days and strictly to hi*
church and family on the other
(!ay and is a type of bifsinesa man
tiiat makes any city more solid and
substantial.
that it hurts, rather than helps the city's growtht
Are there still other factors in the caset
The Times will he glad to print letters on the
subject. Keep out any malice, or personalities, and
make them as short as possible. Make it an honest,
temperate, thorough-going discussion. Sign your
letters as evidence of good faith. Your name will not
be published if you do not wish it.
It may help to clear the air. It may give Mills
and Miss Allstnim just the information they need.
Let's settle the thing. If it's a good thing, let's push
it along as never before. If a bad thing, let's kill it.
WILL COMMITTEE
DARE TO THROW
OUT DELEGATION
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• FACTS ABOUT THE ABUHDKEN CONVENTION. •
9 (Hi United Tress Leased Wire.) •
9 Convention opens Wednesday, in a. m. ' •
• State central committee moots today. •
• Total number delegate!, 608, . 9
9 Necessary to control, 334 1-2. 9
9 Uncontested Roosevelt-LaFollette delegate!, 178 1-2. 9
9 tlncontested Taft delegates, 137 1-2. . . - .. > 9
9 Contested delegate, 247 (Including Lewis county). 9
9 LaFollette-Taft delegates, 5. 9
• •#••••••••••• 90 99 >9999999999#9 i
(By Time* Staff Special.) ; * '
ABERDEEN, May 14. — Bodily force may be bore of a fac
tor than voting strength when the republican state convention
meets here tomorrow, depending on the action of the state central
committee today. }?*•& » - • • •£,'.
With loss than 2 4 hours before the opening of the conven
tion, both the Rooßevelt~L>aFollette forces at th© Fairmont hotel
and the Taft contingent at the Washington are strained to' the
highest pitch, and "it is generally asserted that two convention*
will undoubtedly be'held.rj ;,.;,. , .■■'•,■-.■'-"•.,• ■..-.. ;•;:'•. v'^/:
5 The progressives had been given notice several days ago that
In spite of their undisputed majority they would bo shut out toy
the state central committee from participation In the ; temporary
organization of the convention. ■''?' '"' ."-; v' „'■' T-T-i- ■'■■^-^'^»A
ti $ /Through"' the * Intercession of , Got. M. K. Hay, who la anxious'
to avoid a party split, which would mean his Inevitable defeat for
' le-electlon, overtures have been made to, the Insurgents to divide
the 14 delegates to the national convention equally with the stand
patters. ':•■'-'•" ■':.- :'> :_.'■ .■..:"'...; ','■-<'■/■*'" '-„ '.C 1 ! *;;.
: INSURGENTS WON'T COMPROMISE.", 1 L."
i Former Mayor Dllllng of Seattle, Chairman Thos. F. Mur
phlne of the state progressive league, Lorenzo Dow and other pro
gressives refused to consider such a compromise. --:--^--^,,--A»^s^i
The sliimlpiiii.is did not claim that there wan any juat reason.
Tln-_v merely hwuiir the big stick of the pro-Taft state central com
mittee and pointed out that they had it in their power to prcpar*
the temporary roll of the convention delegates; that the state com
mitttee could disregard all contests; scat all Taft delegates, and
that since the state committee rented the convention hall, they
could refuse admission to any or all Kooaerelt-r^Follette dele
gates. In a word, the iiismnints were told that the pro-Taft com
mittee could put :•«"> Taft delegates on the temporary roll and thua
ran the convention with tricky little movements all their own.
There was no attempt at secrecy during the last two or ttire*
days that this wag to be the Taft program. The Bcheme proposed
to compel the anti-Tuft, delegate!, although outnumbering th*
standpatters by more than two to one, to be the "bolters."
MAY USK PHYSICAL FOItCE.
But the progressives are In no mood to permit this brazen
convention steal without a fight, and they propose to use physical
force if necessary to gain admission Into the convention hall and
take over Its control by force of superior numbers. If they suc
ceed, they will compel the Taft delegates to "bolt" or accept a pro
gressive delegation to Chicago.
If they fail, they are prepared to hold a separate convention.
The uncontested Roosevelt-LaFollette delegates are: Adams,
8; Benton, 8; Clallam, 8; Clarke, IS; Columbia, 7; Douglas, 7;
Ferry, 6; Oarfleld, 6; Island. 6; Jefferson, 3V4 ; Klttltas, 12; Lin
coln, 14; Mason, 1; Okanogan, 6; San Juaa, 6; Snohomish, 88; Spo
kane, 61; Stevens, 14; Pend d'Orellle, 5; Wahklakum, 8; Walla
Walla, 16; Whatcom, 14; Whitman, 9.
The Taft uncontested delegates are: Chehalls, 20; CowHtss, 11;
Douglas, 2; Jefferson, 3V4; Kllckltat, 10; Mason, 5; Okanogan, 6;
Pacific, 10; Skamanla, 5; Skagit, 19; Thurston, 13; Whatcom, 1;
Whitman, 8; Yakima 23.
The contested delegates are: King, 121; Pierce, 81; Wliatcom,
15; Kltsap, 13; Chelan, 12; Asotln, 6; Lewis, 19.
The Roosevelt men carried the fight yesterday Into Lewis
county, the last one to elect delegates, organised the convention,
were beaten in a close vote and then held a separate convention,
naming delegates of their own. This contest will be added to ttn*
others.
Lorenzo Dow, Tacoma, and Senator Dan London, Seattle, led
the progressive fight. t
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Sha'l We Sell?
When you've decided to sell, phone The Tlm«. „ . v
;.: < The' Times' ' real estate ads are I really "First Ald»" In that th«y
bring buyers with money quickly. -:-H•: -Vl
, -;- Every, day over 1 50,000 1 people, read .TheVThn^t^*&y»SHfl9H
Belling property through a Times "Want" Ad In a mere matt*!
of reaching the eye of some of the thousands of Times r*aders.
■'*•» Call The Times 'Want" Ad r phones, Main 12 and M«4n 13. -
MOST EVERYBODY READS THE TOTES,
HOME EDITION
\V X ATM Kit I < • KI <A A ST.
Knlr and cooler tonight. W«d
-n«Bday fair.
30 CUNTS A MONTH.