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OP COUKSE, it's cold. But every day brings us nearer to the baseball season. By the way, the sport page is mighty interesting today. VOL. X. NO. 14. STEAMER MISSING WITH 1200N BOARD "PANTHER" IN FIERCE STORM (By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, I). C, j •Jan. —With ISO persons on hoard, the V. S. Panther, j a rattle repair ship, is miss- . Ing and grave fears that the steamer is lost in the ■ terrific hurricane now rag- '. Ing off Cape HalU'i'HN are : entertained today in the navy • department. ■ . • .... •. The Panther Railed on Thurs day for Guam from the' Brook lyn navy yard. The steamer was sighted of, Cape .Hatteras, the most dangerous . point' on the whole Atlantic coast, on . Fri day and has not been seen nor heard from since that time.. The full force of the terrible gale Is centered in the very lo cality in which the Panther is sailing, and since no wireless re ports from the steamer have been received since the storm broke it is feared .*>vnt disaster may have overt*''.,ll vessel. Q><s/s><s<s>s/<s><i><ss>G> <$><§<$><§>$> <» PAYDAY 'Jl DAY. ■?> $> Pierce county is ' today -P <?> spending $12,000 in paying v* <§> off its employes at the court <$> 3> house. This Is a nominal # <?> payday.the highest monthly ♦ <$> expenditure on salaries last ■?> <§> year having reached $15,- <?> €> 000. <!> ♦ ♦<$>«>« ♦«>♦*» ♦«*♦«> « Are We Glad We MetNataie? Well, Rather! NATALIE ALT. It wag rattier a drab, dull morning at the secretary's office of the Chamber of Commerce to day but the men who get wages to make Tacoma famous were fn 1 blithe spirits; for our town is In the 100,000 class, they have de rided. After a bit a ray of sunshine filtered in; not the kind that the weather forecaster brings, but a delicious, fra.grant morsel of sun shine In a tailored walking suit and gray fox furs, and the demur est of demure smiles. 'Twas she —Natalie Alt. And what do you suppose the fair Natalie, who is "The Quaker Girl" at the Tacoma theater, was seeking In such a money mill as the Chamber of Commerce? She was athlrst for information —yes'm. "My brother, who lives In New York, 1b thinking of coming to some lively city here on the coast," goth Natalie, "and I won der if you have any literature I might send back to him." Did they have any literature? Well, rather. Miss Alt received the honorary degree of Minlsteress Plenipoten tiary right on the spot and she's got a big red seal that says "TA COMA" on it pasted right on tier trunk. TheTacoma Times MAYBE GIVES PLAN TO GUARD THE TRUSTS SENATOR BUI STOW INTRO DUCES MEASURE TO AP POIXT IXIU'STKIAI, COM MISSION OF SEVEN MKM- IiKItK TO HKGILATK COll- POHATIOXS (By United Press Loosed Wire.) WASHINGTON, 1). C, Dec-. O. —The first and most sweeping of the series of bills prepared by the national executive committee of the progressive party was em bodying the doctrine of its faith, is a measure introduced today by Senator lirlstow for regulation of i "big business" by an industrial commission of seven member*. This industrial commission would be empowered to deal so drastically with large corporations doing, any ' interstate business as is the ; : Interstate commerce com mission with railroads and other transportation service. It would have authority over all persons or corporations doing an interstate or foreign business of $5,000,000 annually to investi- I gate their financial condition, business operation's and manage ment, and require all to bring their capital stock and Indebted-' ness down to not more than 10 per cent of the- "fair and reason able value of property on hand." Ne features in this bill are proposals that-'the government take over the operation of indus tries where the executive heads are being prosecuted and the plan of having members of the com mission removable by congress. VHBUHia TIED UP (By United Press Leased Wire.) ABERDEEN, Jan. 6.—With no sign of • let-up today, the storm weather which has ben raging here for the past weeks, has ef fectively put an embargo on 20 vessels in Grays Harbor. POOR, POOR HENRY! NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburg steel king, today plans to erect a man sion which will cost, including the ground, $r),500.0'00. BY MANSFIELD Q Goldsmith, somewhere In his classics, said that the godg delight to laugh at good deeds and turn man's hap piness to wormwood. Well, let us see. • • • Jerry was a horse, and an almighty good horse, it the word of Tom McCarthy, the teamster who owned him, Is to be taken. Jerry was a Tacoma horse, too, and had he been of a genealogical turn of mind, might have traced his ances try back a couple of genera tions to his grandmother who was sent across the plains from a stock farm in Kentucky; you all know what fine horseflesh they raise in the blue grass country. Ajs a colt, Jerry was about the same as any other colt. His destiny was all mapped out for him, of course; and about the only thought th.at dwelled in the mind of his THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA YOU Parcels Post Advertisements Are you buying your produce—fresh egg«, for instance—right from the farm these tlayo? If you are not, why not begin today and get real fresh pro duce at a minimum of cost? The Parcel Post will do it for you. "'■ Here are some of the producers who will be glad to sell to you if you will write and make the arrangements: V, K. Coffins, box 4, Simmer; anting and cooking apples. Mrs. J. K. O— IMB, box 12, It. F. ]>. I, Lakeview; eggs and poultry. li. T. Birch, Parkland; chickens and eggs. Olin lloyt, Milton; dressed squabs. Acme Poultry Farm, box S3, K. F. D. 1, Ijakeriew; eggs, butter and chickens. - , . . ; They Are AH "Helping" To Fill The Jobs (Hy United Press leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Jan. 6. —With William McCombs, chairman of Ihe democratic national commit tee, en route to Arkansas for a rest, the brigade of "rocking chair" politicians who have al ready fixed the cabinet for Presi dent-elect Woodrow Wilson got busy and distributed the ambassa dorships. While many names were suggested it was asserted that the strongest pressure was brought to bear for certain candidates. Some of the names suggested were for the "good" they had done the party in a financial way or any olher way, despite the flat asser tion of Governor Wilson that no man could have any mortgage on any job. For Tftcoma and vi~ cinity: Rain or snow tonight and Tuesday, warmer. For Washington : Rain or snow west, snow east portion to night and Tuesday, not so cold. JERRY--WHO DIDN'T WAIT FOR HIS VACATION ON THE FARM owner wa speculative of how much Jerry would bring at the sjilt'B stable. Jerry was sold off at last, when he was a year old. Maybe he rubbed his mouse-colored, velvety nose against his mother's shoul der in farewell when they haltered him and led him oft; maybe not —for he was only a horse. So began Jerry's servitude to Man. Jerry was a good worker. He didn't shirk at the heavy loads, and he didn't nip nor kick; he did his blue-grass ancestry proud, so Tom Mc- Carthy says. "But It's hearsay with me, you might Bay," says Tom McCarthy, "because I only had h)m, goin' on nine years." 80 the history of Jerry, bumble pawn of the gods, during the first half of his life, must be skimmed lightly over. For nine years, Tom Mc- TACOMa, WASHINGTON, MONDAY. JANUARY 6, 1018. BUY HUSBAND HAD IRONCLAD RULES Mrs. Ixjuise Webster began an action for divorce today In Judge Card's department of superior court. Mr. Webster is a wealthy North End apartment house .owner, while Mrs. Webster owns hotels and property in both Prosser and Walla Walla. Jointly they are worth somewhere in the neigh borhood of $50,000. "He beat me," -swore--;Mrs. Webster. "Once when I objected to his opening my mail and an other time when he insisted, that I do his washing and I refused. "I never wanted a divorce. If he had been nice to me j>nd kept all his promises, I would have never asked for a divorce."- Mr. Webster said the only 'time he had refused her anything was after be had become buried in debt and she wanted a diamond ring and a pair of diamond ear rings. KARRIAGB IJCEXSKB. Marriage licenses were issued today to W. Timothy Doyle and Mary Myers, both of Tacoma, and to Herbert S. Robb of Kirtey, Wash, and Kathleen O'Brien of St. Paul. Carthy, the teamster, owned Jerry and they were friends —almost pals. "When Tom came out to the little barn on X street to feed Jerry and Blackie, the team that hauled Tom's van, it was always Jerry that got the lion's share of the oats, and it was Jerry who had an extra fork-full of straw for his bed, perhaps. Not that Tom was thought less of Blackie, but he'd had Jerry a long time, and they were friends. At that, we all play favor ites in life. 80 Jerry and Tom McCar thy worked together for nigh unto a decade, which is a broad span in the life of a horse. This wlnteV it seemed to Tom that Jerry was begin ning to show signs of ap proaching age, or rather, those infirmities of age which attack horses as they do men -HAIR GIRL SPURNED HER ADMIRER OF 35, SO HE SHOT HER DOWN Dispatches over the press wires today say that Luella Roberts, the 17-year-old girl who was shot by Prank Carlisle in Santa Rosa, C;ii . is dying and Carlisle is trembling in the corner of a dark cfell fearful that the enraged townspeople will form a lynching party to avenge the awful punish ment that Carlisle visited upon "the belle of Santa Rosa." Luella told the district attor ney today that Carlisle nad threatened to kill her when he saw her walking on the street with a boy—one of her young schoolmates. "You were iiieunt for me," he cried pashlomitely, "nncl before I let miyluKly else have you, I'll kill you." The frightened girl ran to her home and did not venture out again until a few nights later. Then, as she was going to a theater with her mother. Carlisle credit up behind her and fired three shots into her back. The man is If years old and was recently divorced from his wife. HJB infatuation for the singularly beautiful Roberts girl was the talk of the city. Car lisle refuses to talk. $120,000 IS RAISED FOR ; UNION MEN san francisco UNION MEN COMiKCT for WO LEASE OF CLANCY AM) TVKITMOB — KBUCAMB OK I'RISrtXKKS WILL PROBA BLY FOLLOW SOON. SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. C. — One hundred and twenty thou sand dollars in gold coin was rais ed early today for the release on bail, pending argument for a new trial, of Olaf A. Tveitmoe ana Eugene E. Clancy, San Francisco Onee —a long time ago— Tom had read in a newspaper of how rich folk retire their faithful horses when the au tumn of life creeps on; put them out to pasture where they end their days in work free contentment and plenty. "Jerry has been a good old horse for us," Tom told his wife at Christmas time, "and I'm going to give him a darned good New Year pres ent." "A feed-bag?" asked Mrs. Tom—who has no imagina tion, bless her. "No .sirree," replied Tom grandly. "I'm going to bend Jerry out to Jake Ander son's ranch to run wild; he ain't got to do any more work for anybody. He's earn ed a vacation —for life." Mrs. Tom agreed tliit it would be "Just lovely" and the next day Tom McCarthy bought another horse, a fine bay, for $110 to step into old Jerry's place; or to occupy his stall, at least. TONIC LI'KMiA ROIIKIITS. labor leaders now serving six year sentences in the federal prison ai Fort Leavenworth for consplrac... to illegally transport explosives, according to former Mayor P. H, McCarthy, president of the state bunding trades council. And on New. Year's day, old Jerry was to go out to the Spanaway ranch for his long, long vacation. "No more work for ye, old sport," said Tom McCarthy, as he heaped in an extra measure of warm bran mash on New Year's eve, and mauled the faithful beast's ears affectionately. "Ye're goin' on a vacation; It's re tirin' ye are. Ain't ye glad, ye old divll? Why don't ye laugh?" Tom was always talking to Jerry in that fashion; It wan a way he had, and Jerry seemed to understand. So Tom went back to the house, calling out a "Happy New Year" to old Jerry, and chuckling whimsically to himself. "What a swell time that old feller will have out there on the ranch," thought Tom McCarthy, "Jest klckin' up his heels and eatin' his head ofj." ■» • • WEATHER man says it was "only" 22 degrees cold this morning. Don't forget to turn off the water tonight, father —the worst is vet to come. HOME EDITION 30 CUNTS A MONTH. TOO Preparations were then made, McCarthy said, to take the mat ter up with a local bonding com pany so that the surety concern might proceed through its eastern representatives to secure the re leaves of the prisoners. The next morning—New •Year's day—Tom went out to harness old Jerry in style for the drive to Spanaway. Mrs. Tom was going along, too, to see that Jerry was comfortably established where he wa« to end his days in poace and quiet and plenty. "My, my," cried Tom briskly, as he slammed open the stable door. "Get up there, ye lazy old thief —ain't ye comin' on your vacation?" But there was no answer ing whlnnle from the stall where Jerry lay in a nest of straw— For Jerry had gone on to Horse Heaven without stop ping over for the vacation on the ranch. ' Sheer coincidence, you •ay? Very likely, very likely. But Goldsmith said that the gods delight to laugh at good deeds, and turn Man's happi ness to wormwood.. ZERO WAVE HITS THE LAND *«>«•* <S><S> «■**♦«■♦<?'♦♦ ■•> o ■*> Temperature Sunday morn- <► ■•- ing, 18.5 degrees. <£ ••> Monday morning, 22 de- # ♦ grees. ♦ •• Water pipes freezing up ♦ •■ and plumbers happy. <S> ■•> Potatoes and apples frozen. ■?> ■■$> Good skating at Franklin ♦ ■•> and Wapato lakes. * • Snow today, look* like <?■ ♦ sleighing tonight. <> <«> ♦ i> <$■ 4> 4> 4 <t> <?>«>♦♦«>«>• Tacomans who have been chuckling at the plight of eastern ers who shivered from the win try Masts tot their enthusiasm quieted Sunday when the mercury dropped to 18.5 and froze things ur solid. Yesterday morning water pipe^ all over town in ex posed places were frozen up and there was a great scramble for hot water, plumbers and other means of thawing out. Citixens who had apples and potatoes stored In their wood sheds today are viewing a lot of fruit and vegetables frozen solid. The weather began to get very cold Saturday evening. Hy 6 o'clock it wag freezing hard and everything was solid by morning. In the morning the sun Rhone but it was a cold giMUjr stare Old So] Rave (he world. • He never even melted the snow in the most ex posed (places. Not one all day did the mercury get up above freezing. Last night (here wag another stiiiKiriK freeze. This morning it was 22 degrees but snow started to fall which Reenied to east up a little on the temperature. No on is likely to get overheated today, however. The first skating of the year was enjoyed on Franklin and Wapato lakes yesterday. Today they are frozen good and solid. DENVER, Col.. Jan. 6.—At 3 a. m. here today the street ther mometers In gomp sections of the city registered 31 decrees below zero and 2 6 above at 7 o'clock. HORSES ARE HARDEST HIT Horses attached to heavy deliv ery wagons suffered most from the storm today. The hills of lower 9th, Uth and 13th street brought many of the piitifiit beasts to the ground, and some suffered sprained legs in a brave effort to stick to their Jobs. The pavement on 9th street between Pacific avenue and O street was recently corrugated and helped give the horses a foothold today. 6<* 3> *♦ 4 e.*******^ ♦ Little (Jill Gets Pension. <» • The little two-year-old ♦ ♦ daughter of Guy McClure ♦ ♦ will be the best paid child In -> «■> Tacoma after the firemen's « ■v pension board finishes its -J> ■$> meeting this afternoon. .^♦j ) ; She will get a pension 1 ♦ ♦ from the city of $2 a day <» '•> until she Is 16 years of age. , <» 1> «< <J> 3> 3> <$ <g> <$> S> <$> <j> 3> .$ <§> <$ 35 Odd Suits * Worth Up to $30.00 reduced to $10 While They Last. Sizes 33 38 Menzies & j Stevens Co. 913-915 Pacific *▼. Tacotna, Waah.