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HOME EDITION
The Tiiroiiin Times lias com
pleted arrangements to cover the
world's series contests better than
any other paper in Taroma. Get
the Times And you'll know all
about the games.
VOL. IX. NO. 241.
TEXTILE
MAC FIGURES
ON BEATING
RED SOX
BELIEVES EXPERIENCE IN
ONE WORLD'S SERIES A BIG
ADVANTAGE OVER OPPO
NENTS.
•— ■ ——
PREDICTIONS. |
i
i
Jake Staid, manager of
the Boston Red Sox, Ameri
' can league champions: "The
same kind . of baseball that
won us the pennant in the
American league will give us
the world's series."
. Connie Mack of the Phila
delphia Athletics: "Unless
the unforeseen happens Bos
ton will beat the Giants."
. Johnny Kllng, manager of
the Boston Nationals: "There
are only two - men on the
Boston team that the Giants
have reason: to fear. - They
are Tris Speaker and Joe
Wood.* I do not think, how
ever, that any two men can
" beat the Giants."
• «
(By United Press Leaned Wire.)
p> NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Now
that the New Yprk Giants have
elected themselves to a second
term as champions of the Nation
ill i league by ■ defeating . Boston
twice yesterday, Gotham fans and
fanettes today predicted that Me-
Graw's men will walk away with
the world's championship. •■ New
York and Chicago each have nine
games to play before October 6,
when the National league season
officially ■ closes, 3 but i the Cubs
could win all of their games with
, out a displacement of the Giants
• from the head of the list .'■'.' "■"■ S
: - Although he is not boasting,'
Manager McGraw la" confident that
the Red Sox cannot repeat the
. dose handed his men last year by
Connie Mack's Philadelphia Ath
letics. ." • . . - -v
- "I am not making any predic
tions," McGraw said today, ■■ "but
. the boys are confident. We have
experience in one world's series,
and this time it won't look like
such a big event. , I expect ; the
Giants to win the series, but slip
ups, of course, are always possi-
We.7j--;v „■■■...\ Vv _ -\\:/. .--■;■.■ ,
ADMIT SENDING
ARMS TO MEXICO
(By United Press leased Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 27.
—Three Los Angeles hardware
dealers are on record today as ad
mitting to the senatorial sub
committee Investigating Mexican
revolutions u 8 having sent arms
to Mexican border towns, suppos
edly for use of the revolutionists.
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
News and Gossip From Rival
Camps ]
(Bjr United Press I>n«ed Wire.)
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 27.
—Colonel Roosevelt is In New
Orleans today. He was schedul
ed to deliver an address at the
winter garden today and will rest
tonight. An automobile parade
formed part of the welcome given
the colonel by the city.
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 27.—
Backing down from the recent
2Bu!ldingLots
Traf ton Street
near 6th. Aye
$400 Each
Front east. Located on South
Trafton between Bth and lOtb.
Non-resident owner, must sell.
Half cash.
Calvin Philips & Co.
California Bldg, Main 22
Are You Reading Hugh Jennings' Special Articles On the World's Series in the Pink Edition of the Times?
TheTacoma Times
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
Dfl YOU WANT THIS CITY
TO SPEND MORE MONEY
U IN 1913?
Three years ago with the light anil water departments ul
most as large as now, then- was no stenographer nt all in tho de
partment, but such statements as hud to be written up Ml got
ten up out at odd times by one of the clerks.
Today there is a stenographer for Ijawson, one for the engi
neers in Ills office, one for the city electrician, one for the chief
clerk—four in all.
Some tax payers wonder why so many.
Would a privute corporation have that many scattered all
over the city hall or would the offices be bunched so one could
do the work for all?
Taxpayers are getting Interested in tlie municipal govern
ment in view of the suggested boost in taxes, increase In salaries
of city employes and added expenses to the city.
The Times is getting some pointed letters on the subject.
One city employe writes he thinks salaries should be Ixiosted.
Some citizens think not, and want other expenditures cut.
What do you think?
Write your opinions in less than 150 words and send to the
Times at once.
■_
Editor Times: As to hav
ing our expenses in running
• our city . raised it depends
whether It Is for the benefit
of the city as a whole or the
benefit of a few. 'As for
raising salaries of some of
our employes at the city hall
or a few of their friends and
not to raise the , wages of
those who do the city work
at large, is out of the ques
tion. When we can see
where it Is necessary to have
He Wanted To Go To Larchmont;
He Didn't; Ex-County Chairman
And T. R. & P. Con Have It Out
The liarchmont Improvement >
club sent a long communication
to the council this morning ask
ing that an ordinance be passed to
prevent conductors insulting and
beating up passengers on the
street cars and relating the de
tails of a fight in which Joe T.
Mitchell, ex-republican county
chairman, and a Puyallup line
conductor had it to a finish Sat
urday night.
The conductor carried Mitchell
past his home at Larchmont.
Mitchell asked where he whs and
the conductor told him.
"I said I wanted to get off at
Larchmont," said Mitchell.
"You're a d— liar," retorted
the conductor.
Biff, Joe landed on the con
ductor and pelted him to the side
of the car. '
Just then the car made a turn
and Mitchell was flung off his
feet into a seat.
The conductor leaped on him
and began peeling the bark off
his head with his punch. This
lasted some time until Joe got
his arm around the conductor's
neck and began' hugging him,
meanwhile thumping him In the
jaw.
stand he took when he declared
he would support Governor Wil
son of New Jersey for president,
Governor McGovern of Wisconsin
changed front again today and
name out for Colonel Roosevelt,
the progressive candidate.
"Theodore Roosevelt," Gover
nor. McGovern declared In a for
mal statement today, "Is the na
tural choice of all republicans
and progressives."
RICH MAN DIES
VERY POO
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
JANESVILLE, Wls., Sept. 27.
—Edward L. Dwyer, who ' rose
from head of a street cleaning
gang in Chicago to a multi-mill
ionaire, ia dead here today from
a self-inflicted bullet wound in
his brain ,aft«r giving hU cent to
a tramp.
Dwyer's act 1b attributed to his
having lost an immense fortune
while trying to corner the wheat
market on the Chicago board or
trade.
ATTENDS PAIR.
& Superior Judge Easterday and
Sheriff | Robert J Longmlro are to
day attending : the opening ,:of; the
fair at Rpy. Wash.
WORKERS ON
• two or three for the same
office" where one good man
could do It all, and pay them
all high wages, I think it
time for the people who have
to pay these wages have
something to say in the mat
ter. I would suggest a mags
meeting to be held to protest
in a way to check this no
tion of boosting salaries
every few days.
Yours truly,
A. F. PRICE.
1518 Sou'.h G st.
This was proceeding merrily
until the conductor concluded the
festivities should be brought to a
close, so he yelled "enough" and
Joe gave him one final poke and
quit.
Mitchell came in, called up
Judge Shackelford and related the
occurrence, then went to the
Fannie Paddock hospital for the
night.
The company agreed to inves
tigate and then informed Mitchell
that it had decided to keep the
conductor on the job.
All of which the Larchmont
club thinks la a disgrace and it
wants the council to take action.
SAYS HE HAS BEEN MADE
"FALL GUY" IN SCANDAL
Saying he no longer wishes to
app«ar as the "fall guy" In the
sensational graft insinuations
that bave grown out of the auto
mobile races, W. M. Hendreau of
Portland, Oregon, has made a
declaration stating he was drag
ged into the somewhat unenvia
ble position he now holds through
a kindness he extended to a
stranger.
Covering five sheets of paper,
each nearly two feet long, Mr.
Hendreu has detailed what pur
ports to be a deposition describ
ing the manner In which he'un-
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
EIXENSBURG, Sept. 27.—Hilling here un horseback from
his home at Wapato, 50 miles from Kllenshurg, "Old John"
llainiily. 80-jrear-old Indian, paid T. W. Garrell, a merchant, $5
and today is free of a seven years' debt.
"Old John" had not come to EHensbnrg for seven years,
because he did not have the $5 with which to discharge his
obligation.
MRS. KVALSHAUG
DENIED TRIAL
Word has been received at the
prosecuting attqrney's office that
Mrs. Martina Kvalshaug, wife or
the man for whose murder Chas.
Newcombe is now under sentence
of death, and who was accused of
complicity in the crime, has been
denied the custody of her chil
dren by. the court in South Da
kota,, where sho is now living.
Depositions taken here were the
direct cause of this ruling, accord
ing to the message.
PRISONERS HERE
There Is fa* man 3ln | town, J. T.
Fnu lkner. by name. It j years of ago,
who loves the free air and th«" touch
of > nature. , Faulkner Just ( spent iSO
days In tho county jail on a charge
of i larceny. Whan !he > got ■ out ye«
terday , he : went around * to" talk It ,
over with the bartender*, he was
50 happy to vet Out. Patrolman
801 l carried him to tho patrol and
ho *>••♦ '.v .; u a 0 o'clock last night.
TACOMA, WASHINGTON,FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1912.
CAPTURED IN
A BOX GAR
Locked in a box car standing
on a side track at Centralla, a
mau thought to be one of a quar
tette of hoboca who held up and
robbed Joe Koenig, a laborer,
near Roy last evening, is await
ing the arrival of a deputy sher
iff from Taconia today, while two
others of the supposed holdup
party are lod — * in the county
jail here.
Koenlg was walking down the
railroad track a mile north of
Roy when the four men pounced
upon him, administering a severe
beating, and took what money he
had, amounting to $4.50. Two of
the men, J. West and George
Fisher, were captured by Deputy
Sheriff George Nixon. Fisher
had $55 in his possession.
The man locked In the box car
arrived with a freight train at
Centralla this morning. Word
had been sent ahead to hold him,
the number of the car which he
occupied being given. When the
train slowed down an agent seal
ed the door of the car before the
occupant could get out, ordered
the car sidetracked, and wired
Sheriff I-ongmire.
ATTORNEYS BEGIN
ARGUING CASE
Emphasizing strongly a plea
for the dismissal of Blshoy Ed
ward J. ODea from the charges,
brought against him as one of the
defendants in the suit in -which
Mrs. Magnuson of Valdez, Alaska,
desires a verdict of $40,000 from
the bishop and other prominent
Nisqually diocese Catholics, for
the alleged kidnaping of Mar
jories Rieman, her daughter, At
torney Gordon today opened his
statement to the jury.
"It is not what moral obliga
tion a man has unknowingly
omitted that is to mark him as
guilty of such a charge," said At
torney Gordon. "Bishop ODea
knew nothing of any kidnaping,
if there was any, and therefore
could not interfere."
Attorney Gordon took up the
entire morning with his address.
Attorney Kelly, counsel for
Mrs. Magnuson, will open his ar
guments this afternoon.
knowingly fell a victim to one of
the investigators.
He claims he was astounded by
He number of automobiles be
saw at the races, and that he
counted them as they passed over
a bridge, making notations in a
small memorandum book. Some
how an investigator became aware
of the existence of his count and
asked him for it. A few days
later the same man, he says,, ask
ed him If he. would make an affi
davit as to the correctness of "thW
count. Unthinking, he saw
"yes-"
TWO ASKED TO
BE SEPARATED
Accusing her husband with
having threatened to kill her and :
with having charged her with in
fidelity, Mrs. Lehora C. Peters has
today Sled suit for divorce agalugt
Fred S. Peters, an engineer.
They were married In PortlunAJ
in November, 1911.
SUSPECTS.
A man ; whose, name the' police
department" (ailed' to • get was sal
upon ? by . thugs : late » last night ion
the corner of i 14th ' and FaclSc
i van u e * and } relieved lof $1,40 in
cash. James Butler, a shoemak
er, «* and 3E. F. Wheeler *. were ar
rested this morning, by Officer An.
gus. Butler is charged, with the
robbery and Wheeler la held tas a
suspect. ,■.;,•-, ;...,. ',
It i« safe to aajr the Time* fa
th« women's ? favorite 3 paper, be
cause of Its dally Women*
feature*
First Woman To Run For State
Legislature From This County
Favors the Mother's Pension
""I^S^VV '" DB. NENA CROAKE?^^^s^*^
I l>r. Xi-m.-i Croake, the first woman to run for 1 the legislature In
tills county,"and likely to be Hie first to sit in the house at Olympia,
is going to work for the passage' of- a law pensioning mothers in this
stale.'- She in mnking lier campaign largely, on the mothers', pension,
which has been advocated by the Tucunip Times during the past week;
Mid expects to will. ;,,;.*■ ' '■;-■*! :: '. .'';*''J:-"<'■-' '■•. ,' '.-'■',*■•» '
"I believe people recognUe now
it is Important to take care of
the mothers and children," .cays
Dr. Croake. "It lg better to'pen
sion the mothers left with chil
dren »o they can fare for them
than compel her to go out and
work and let them run tne
streets to be later taken care of
in the criminal courts."
Dr. Croake is candidate in the
37th ili.illict. The only woman
candidate on either the progres
sive, republican -or ■ democratic
tickets and her campaign is an
DENIED DELAY
IN TRIAL
;* Objecting to everything in the
way of evidence that looks dam
aging to their client's the attor
. neys for John Bullock and" C. E.
■Houston, on trial In federal court
for coal frauds, this morning cap
: ped the climax by asking that the
(rial be postponed 30 days to al
■ low- them to | look i over » a wagon
■ load of records, of coal sales.
■ The request was denied..%
■ The government- had piled .up
several hundred pounds of daily
. reports on coal sales "by their
! companies at,, No.me. Those, re-
I ports when gone Into show that
J when the government was paying
i them $29 tons, under theit alleged
i collusive bid coal wag Belling at
Nome for an average -of about
' Attorney j McCafferty J first ob
jected ito the evidence " k on J the re
: parti going ■ In. When ; the ; court
i •aid jit , should ■ go, .* then McCaf
■ forty' bobbed \UP j with "#*ai request
\ that the case ibe .continued. co ihe
j could look over thg records. ;j.f'
'The court thought, since the
i records : are those y. made j- by the
• defendants "themselves that ; they
ware not [ being i taken by, surprise
at all and denied the request.
H $'!ir-«1 ~~— ''' "' *"**' rr •59%^
?jt*;«^?ASKS 1 DIVORCE.iI"A'2:
• Asking that she be granted the
feuttody of their minor child, V.
■ Wayne * Grant, 4 1 years old. J Mrs.
i Myrtle ;S. Grant has filed suit to
! 48^ for divorce - from her hus
baid. Richard A. Grant, charging
ndn-support. The other child,
Barton M. Grant, aged 12 years,t
who is .with tho father, she Is
willing :he shall ' ke.ej:^*^:«fe
H;it Tacoma manufacturers sue
' ceed j with '"<j their, present S plans
there will be 365 Made-in-Tacoma
d«yß.' iJti*^ver3rJyear.'^t*swg^g-w| :
The manner; In which the j peo
pie; attacked Tacoma-m&de goods
yesterday! has inspired ;he Home
Trade league Jto J follow the ex
ample 'of ? Philadelphia, which, city
has a perpetual manufacturers'
•ailiUit,
eye-opener to the politicians.
Every night she is the center of
a parlor meeting In the ■ district
with men and women present.
She is explaining her ideas on
mothers' pension, teachers' ser
vice pension, abolition of child la
bor, protection to men and "wom
en wage earners, laws that can be
enforced #.gainst the white slave
evil and to stop,, the use of tobac
co by school children, and against
the' billboard nuisance
And she is getting the votes.
Dr. Croake is no novice in pub
lic work. A member, of the W.
C. T- U.- state and local organi
zations in Califnrn'n before com
ing here .she is associated with
thfi Eastern Star, Business Wom
en's club, George Junior Repub
lic, on the board of the Day Nur
sery and vice president of the
Women Voter.?' Educational asso
ciation
She Is running on the progres
sive ticket and presided over the
Bob Hodge meeting yesterday.
Chivalry In the 37th will hardly
let her be defeated as was In
dicated in the primaries when she
ran ahead of the ticket.
LOOKS LIKE END
OF MINE STRIKE
(By United Press Lcaaed Wire.)
SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept. 27. —
That the key to a settlement of
differences between the miners
and the owners of the copper
mines at Ringham ig the recogni
tion of the Western Federation of
Miners Is the general belief here
today.
No announcement was made as
to the result of the conference
yesterday between Goveronr Spry
and A. L>. Wilde, business agent
of the Steam Shovelmen's' union,
but the governor Intimated today
that it might have a favorable ef
fect on the situation.
U.S. MINISTER'S
HOUSE ATTACKED
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
BERNE, Switzerland, Sept. 27.
—Screaming "Down with th«
United States," 500 .Ha.'lan work
men on strike here In sympathy
with Joseph Ettor and Arturo
Gloyannlttl held In Lawrence.
Mass., charged with murder as
an outgrowth of the recent textile
strike, today attacked the house
of the American minister here.
The police and soldiers soon
dispersed the mob and no serious
damage was done.
ml. B. Sinclair i 1. W. Welling
ton, j both' of whom - have numerous
aliases, are >in -> limbo :at I tho county
■ Jmll M under ,; federal » charge lor (!'tm->?
BaraonaUng army offloers oiul
IBS feosiw thrt-k*.
HOME EDITION
If jciu iliink the city oiiKlif to
upend mure money In 1018 ilimh
In 1912 l.i us know about it.
Write the Time* brlefl/ jrour
views on (In- subject.
STRI
LAWRENCE, MASS.
AGAIN SCENE OF
MUCH DISORDER
(Uy I nit..l IVest. i. i ->is.-i| Wire.)
IjAWRKNCH, Mhhh., Hept. 27 More than 10,000 workers in
rolved in Om !■«•«■< in strike In the t.viil.' mills hero went out u«iU/
and npiHouh ills.h.i.ts occured in several port* of the city.
lien BoMllllW, tiller fiiKiin•• ■•• nt Hi.- mills of Wllllhiii M. Wood,
Ik-ihl of the woolen trust, ihih lm<ll v beaten liy strikers when In- r«*
fus.-.i to Nluit off the mill machinery upon tlio < hllii. k of the walkout.
Two iiio.is.'imi «,|..-i:iriM■-, left tbeein »ui|<i.i,.i.) X|pm| 'euo|« >mvi »■
plant. «'lnsii,-s between the striken uiul tho workers sent to take
(heir plii. i-s are of hourly occurrence. Three persons are already in
|ail for participating In riots.
The Htrike WM called in opposition to the wishes of the Industrial
Workers of the World leaders here.
I !■«■•' CJenernl Ktrike.
Two thousand of the worker!
quit last night and 8.000 thli
morning. The strikers partici
pated in a long parade today urg
ing a general strike all along the
line of inarch by ghrill cries and
the display of banners.
leneral Organizer Yates of the
istrial Workers of the World
an-ii this morning that at a
-■ meeting this evening the
ters will be strongly urged to
m to work. It These meet
fail of their purpose, a mon
gatherlng will be held tonight
the question put to a vote,
alked in the endeavor to se-
Btrike-breakera in sufficient
ibers to continue ongratlont
the Wood mills closed down this
afternoon. Many signs of "clos
ed indefinitely" were placed about
the plant. Unless the situation
changes the Washington mill will
close tomorrow.
HEDGES NAMED
BY G. 0. P.'S
SARATOGA, N. V., Sept. 27.—
Job Hedges was this afternoon
nominated for goveruon on the
republican ticket after three bal
lots were taken.
When the third ballot was com
pleted a rush was made to change
votes. Chairman Brackett first
ruled that the changing was ille
gal and called for another ballot,
but on a point of order being
called, he reversed himself and
declared Hedges nominated.
Before the result was announc
d a motion to male the nomina
tion unanimous carried.
SARATOGA, N. T., Sept. 27.—
With JoU Hedges leading the first
ballot In the state convention here
for governor resulted In no
choice. The second ballot stood:
Hedges, 375; James Wads
worth, 268; William Bennett,
156.
The rest of the votes were scat
tering.
TRIES TO KILL
ENTIRE FAMILY
NtfW YORK, Sept. 27. —Be-
cause Mrs. Anthony Debs served
her husband, a policeman who ar
rested Harry K. Thaw after the
sensational murder of Stanford
White, with a summons from the
domestic relations court here,
Mrs. Debs and her two little
daughters are seriously wounded
today, while Debs is dead from a
self inflicted wound.
The Times Goes Home! t
Step into any one of the nine out of ten botnes in Taeoraa any
evening and you will find j some j member of the family ; reading * fIH
Times.
Because it is a HOMK newsjiaper that in delivered carried}
I directly into ,bo homes each 1 copy is read sby »n average Jo*. «hr»'*»«pi||
l sons, making; ; it% the moat i valuable advertising n>«dluni tla IWoiua.
World news, store news, want news is eas«r'r read
a^aWANT. rADS-in,rnie,Tim«ff &re\W&WE> J&D& la HOMSsSiwUlf
jthem'tor'prom^uSfl.tJiem'fo^reauns/VVC-^'* S URffi^S ■»&&&&&
30 CENTS A MONTH.
BANK ROBBER
IS NABBED IK
SI. 10UIS
< liy United Press Leased Wire.)
ST. LOUIS. Mo., Sept. 17. -Z
Walter Stacey, suspected of com
plicity In the $271,000 robbery;
of the branch bank of Montreal at
New Westminster, B. C, Is un
der arrest here today. The po
lice believe ha la one of the two
men who escaped from Lieut.
Burns of the Chicago police last
week. Btacey was arrested hero
several days ago and his Identity;
bidden behind a charge of mur
der. The police admitted today
they found a suit case filled with
money In Staoey's room, bat they,
will not state the amount,
A woman known as "Mrs.
Haene," who lived here as
Stacey's wife .disappeared- when
their room was searched. Pink
erton detectives followed her to
Edwardsvllle. Illinois, where aho
wag arrested In the company ot
another man, whom she had evi
dently met by appointment.
Canadian money passed be
tween the suspects furnished the
detectives with their first clew.
A good description of the trio
wag secured and .the arrest Of
Stacey followed. The name of
the second man .arrested at Kd
wardsvllle Is not known here. '
Stacey was Identified by the
Bertillon system as one of the
men who escaped from Chicago.
He fits the police description of
a yeggman named West with a
long record of bank robberies and)
safe cracking.
TOO BUSY SAYS
J. P. MORGAN
(liy United Press Leased Wire.)]
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Sept. 2T.
—Pleading Important business
engagements, J. Pierpont Morgan,
the world's greatest trust organis
er, summoned to appear before
the senate campaign contributions
committee Investigating eontribu
ticms next Monday, asked the
committee today to postpone the
date of hla appearance to n«jrt
Friday. As Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt Is to testify on this]
date Morgan's request ooold not
be granted. It la probable, how
ever, that the financier will be ex.
cussed until next Saturday.