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POEM NO.
Snow is melting
Lass and lad
Miss their coasting;
They feel sad.
VOL. X. NO. lb\
NOONDAY SUICIDE
MR. FARMER! HERE'S HOW TO GIVE US CITY FOLKS FRESH FOOD BY POST
This editorial announcement is addressed especially to the
farmers in this section. City men may profit by it, too. Its aim
Is to help in the quick, effective use of the new parcel post.
There must be CO-OPERATION to achieve the greatest possi
ble results. And so, Mr. Farmer, here goes:
You've Rot to UKT TtXiKHKK with others if you want to
get all there is out of your farm.
FACT MO. I—he parcel post law provides that butter,
eggs, etc.. must be packed one way for local or first zone ship
ment, and another way for carriage beyond the first zone.
FACT NO, 2 -To do business successfully with city custom
ers you must be able to fill orders PROMPTLY, with KRESH
GOODS, so that when a man orders six dozen eggs or five pounds
of butter he will receive them QUICKLY and be sure the eggs
are FRESH, the butter NEWLY CHURNED.
NOW, many farmers do not have, right at hand, the ma
terlalß for packing.
YOUNG WIFE
TAKES DRUG
IN A HOTEL
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♦ J. P. Stephens, M, found In Ills room in the Imperial ♦
$> hotel, his throat cut with a razor, at noon today. <$>
4i> Mrs. Fred Ilrnttner, 25, rushed to the county hospital after <$>
<•> MM had swallowed the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid in •«
■$> a room at the Under hotel, ten minutes before noon. «■
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Within ten minutes of the time Mrs. Fred Brattner, pretty
young wife of a Tacoma bartender, had attempted to kill herself
by drinking carbolic acid, the dead body of J. P. Stephens was
found lying in a pool of blood in room 23 of the Imperial hotel,
tlllw Pacific avenue.
The police patrol had not yet returned from the county hospi
tal where Mrs. Brattner had been taken, when the second call was
sent in to the central station.
Mrs. Br-.ttner was heard moaning by one of the chambermaids
at the Butler hotel, 9th and A streets, in time, it Is believed, to save
her life.
She appeared at the hotel today and asked for a room. It was
barely an hour after that the door of her apartment was forced and
the woman discovered lying on the bed, a bottle bearing a poison
label near her.
When asked why she had taken the acid, she was able only to
an.swer the one word, "Trouble."
On the dressing table were found two notes, one to her
husband, which has not been opened, and one to the hotel proprietor
In which she apologized for her act.
"Please do not think badly of me for this," the letter
read. "I am very sorry, hut it had to be."
Brattner was notified at once of his wife's condition, and hurried
to the hospital.
Two small daughters of the Brattners are attending school here
hotel yesterday Of ste ''henß- He registered at the Imperial
When he had not appeared this morning Janitor H. B Boeue
pushed the key from the lock of Stephens' room, which was Number
2.1, and found the man dead.
ner oi his°death g tW° fe<H f'°m tbC man * h6ad explaiQed the man-
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♦ HE SAID, BUT HE WAS KIDDING <«>
♦ Complaining that he had been robbed of his $63 gold t
<S> watch by two companions with whom he had been drinking •>
«> last night, Chris Anderson and the two men under (suspicion <S>
1 were taken to the police station last night by Patrolmen Guy •>
v and Kincaid. .
<S> Anderson watched the other two closely while they were <$•
«> being searched, but no watch was found on either of them <S>
<S> and they were released. Anderson, however, was held as a <$>
♦ drunk. When the policemen went through his clothing, the v*
<S> missing watch was discovered in his own shirt pocket. <$>
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For Tacoma and vi
cinity: Rain or snow
tonight or Thursday.
»vor Washington:
Rain or snow tonight
or Thursday; colder
tonight extreme east
portion.
Mere Man, what do you
know about millinery?
Nothing, absolutely noth
ing!
If your wife has recently
purchase*! a Pleo Ilandean or
a Bernhardt Turban or a
Coif, you probably know that
your income doesn't seem to
X" such a long way as it did
once, but that's the limit of
your feeble knowledge of real
big things, Mere Man.
Heal Hats.
Tacoma women, In the
pioneer days, were satisfied
to protect their tresses from
the ravages of the elements
by real hats—things that
covered up the hair.
In those days the fashions
were set by the ladies or
Gay Paree or that Dear
Broadway.
Bait the fashions for Ta
coma gre set in Tacoma now
TheTacoma Times
JUMPS FROM 9TH
STORY TO ST.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. B.—
Well known before the big disas
ter of 1906 as one of the best
commercial photographers in the
city, John Patrick Donovan 1b
dead here today after jumping
from the ninth story of the Pa
cific building while his mind was
temporarily unbalanced.
NOW CAN YOU SAY TACOMA WOMEN ARE NOT SWAGGER STYLE SETTERS?
The Cleo Bandeau.
by Tacoma women, and the
style in millinery in Gay
Paree (which Is not really
gay) and on that Dear Broad-
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
Many are unable, also, to supply a regular fixed demand.
Cows go dry, hens forget to lay.
What's the answer?
OKT TOGKTHKK!
Make it absolutely certain that when a man orders eggs
or butter from you (he order will be filled QUICKLY and with
SATISFACTION to the consumer.
This can only be done by farmers in earn community co
operating with each other, either informally or through an ex
change in a convenient, centrally located village, from which
shipment is usually mado to the city. This will cost little when
the exi>cnse :.-! spread out over an entire neighborhood. It Is
not necessary to have a manager of the exchange. An intelli
gent boy can do the work. The exchange need be only a back
room somewhere near the postoffice. The produce is brought
into town by the farmer or sent in by the R. K. I), carrier. The
boys attends to the packing. Ho also telephones each farmer
ELECTRIC MEN
ARE OUT ON
STRIKE
300 MKN WALK OUT IN FOUR
ORUM — MANY XOX-UXIOX
MKN KXPKCTKU TO JOIN
THK STIUKK.
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♦ Manager L. H. Bean of <J>
<S> the local Stone-Webster in- <$>
♦ terests said at noon today <$>
'i- that four men had quit <$>
♦ the company service here <»>
♦ this morning as a result of <$>
♦ the strike. <$>
<«> "We have been operating <£>
<3> on the open shop basis, hir- <$>
0 ing both union and non- <«>
♦ union men," said Bean. "We ♦
♦ had two union linemen and <$>
<•> they quit and two others ♦
<•> with them. We still have -$>
♦ half a dozen or more left •$>
♦ and the service is not crip- •$>
<t> pled at all." <j>
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(By I tod Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Jan. 8. —A general
strike of all electrical workers
employed by the Stone & Web
ster interests in the Northwest,
including Seattle, Tacoma, Ever
ett and Bellinsham, was called
today. All union men numbering
300 have already walked out ana
many non-union men are expect
ed to join in the strike.
The right of the men to organ
ize is the chief issue between the
strikers and the company. >a
uniform wage scale to apply in
all these cities Is another demand.
"The strike was called as a
last resort," said John Morgah
thaler, vice president of the Pa
cific district council of the Broth
erhood of Eelectrical Workers,
"rather than submit to the re
linquishment of labor's inalien
able, right to organize."
With fifty union linemen out
on strike today, the Stone &
Websters in Seattle, Tacoma, Bell
inghani and Everett are without
a single union laboror of any
kind."
<t> SANE ANSWEnS TO <?>
«> FOOLISH QUBmOXI •>
Plenso tell me what Is pood for a
gray beard.—T. O, L.
A razor.
My hands chap badly every time
I put tin in In cold water. Plena
tell me how to prevent them from
doing so.—L. J.
Put 'em in hot water.
What kind of an automobile
would you suggest for a Kill of 14?
—M. S. W. 7.
A tin one that winds up.
Is exerelse good for the hair?—
Lon Moore.
That depends altogether on the
exercise. In what kind of exer
cln> does your hair engage?
way (which is dear in price
only) matters not a piffle!
What Mine. Chambers Says.
Listen to what Mme.
Chambers, who is caterer to
the tastes of Tacoma's fash
ionables, has to say about
It—and it's all gospel, she
vows:
"The Cleo Bandeau Is for
evening wear only, for the
theater or a dinner party or
a reception. It sets low on
the forehead and completely
encircles the head. It is made
of rich golds and silk
braids."
The Cleo Bandeau is such
a little thing we thought
we'd take one home to
Grandma—it's only 20 inches
long by two inches wide.
The Price.
Price? Just $14 for one
of 'em.
Grandma must worry along
TACOMA. WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913.
INVENTS MACHINE OF
DEATH TO KILL SELF
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LOS ANUELES, Cal., Jan. B.—
Combining humor with a marvel
ous ingenuity in a desire to kill
himself, O. D. Comber construcr
ed a box fashioned to fit over
liis head and closely about his
shoulders, printed neatly on the
cover "Patent Applied For," at
tached the arrangement by means
of a rubber tube to a gas jet, the
cock of which was controlled by
ORANGES WILL BE LUXURIES;
FROST LOSS TWENTY MILLIONS
l-OS ANGELKS, Cal., Jan. B.—
The cold wave that has engulfed
southern California for four days
receding, estimators are trying
today to place a figure ou the lose
to this section of the country
through the unusual visitation.
Forty to 60 per cont of the citrus
crop is a total loss.
It is believed that the damage*
will exceed $20,000,000.
Not only citrus crops suffered.
FAMILY
TRAGEDY
(United Pnm i.i M-.-.i Wire.)
IA)S AXGBLBH, Cal., Jan.
H.—After v <iiinriel that luid
its origin in the temporary
separation of himself niul hi
wife, Georße Itiiimlielil, 5.1,
today cut the throat of his
son, Sherman liriiinftehl, 122,
and then killed himself by
cutting his own throat.
The younger Bruinfleld was
taken to a hospital where it was
stated he had a chance to recov
er.
According to the police George
Brumfield and his wife quarreled
several days ago and the woman
The Bernhardt Turban.
somehow without one.
The Bernhardt Turban has
more substance to it. It 1b
of black fur sometimes, or
WAVE HITS TACOMA
the day's quotations on produce.
Orders for goods from Taconia should be centered in such
an exchange. When a man wants eggs he sends his order to the
farmer, in care of the exchange, and the order is made up THE
SAME DAY from the produce brought to the exchange, he being
credited with what he has contributed to the day's sales.
This is one pi. m the Times proposes to enable farmers anil
city people to reap the greatest possible benefit from the part-el
post. The plan can he operated successfully in some of the sur
rounding suburbs, while at the same time it would not liar in
dividual farmer* from dealing directly with city customers.
AM), IIV THE WAV, Tin: FIRST SUBURB THAT TAKES
ADVANTAGE OK THIS SCHEME WILL GET A UHi ADVAN
TAGE IN DEALUra WITH CITY PEOPLE UNDER THK NEW
POST LAW.
For instance, if the chicken farmers at Spanaway let city
people know that by phoning an exchange near the Spanaway
pOßtofflce they can obtain fresh poultry and eggs at reasonable
FATHER'S LOVE OF COLD WEATHER GETS A SHOCK
fin alarm flock arrangement set
to fro -off at midnight, and lay
down to die.
The clock's alarm, which jan
gled simultaneously with the
turning on of the gas, aroused
other lodgers In the house, many
of whom rushed to Comber's
room. They found the man dead
with the box on his shoulders.
There .was no gas in the room,
although there, was sufficient in
the box to kill several men
Small vegetables are practically
willed out. Beans, peas, tOßMtoti
and other vegetables are soaring
in price.
■vary attempt in beaing made
in every citrus section to thaw
citrus fruit in such a manner that
it will not be an entire loss. If
proper temperatures, gradually
reduced, can be maintained in
groves, some of the frosted fruit
can be saved.
left her home. The son is al
logpd to have called his father to
task lor the separation.
At day light today sounds of
scuffling and falling furniture
in thn Brumfleld apartment arous
ed neighbors, and police were
called.
••' The Union Pacific has giv- ♦
t en notice to the Nlckerson- •?<
■,;■ McKarlane rompany, Union ♦
<t- Meat company and Hoslyn ■•
••■ Fuel company to vacate -V
• property owned by the com- «>
•> pany in SO days as they wish #
•• to begin work on construe- ?
>• tion of their city waterway ♦
«■ bridge and inaugurate the •
<S> great era of tideland devel- <?>
'•> opment for terminals here. <S>
$> The company will spend <•>
<•> $325,000. «
it may lie In gray fox or
, mink skin. It Is low over
the head, completely hides
Milady's neck and ears and
fits snug.
It costs from $20 to $75
without trimming.
In Tacoma Now.
Mme. Chambers says that
t •evera] Tacoma women have
them already.
The Coif Is a neat little
contraption for young girls
—girls who wear their hair
done into "bun"' style ana
pinned to their ears; or they
look as though they were
pinned thereto.
The Coif Is even more
ethereal than the Cleo Ban
deau, but it costs from $10
to $30.
What need, Mere Man, to
send to Gay Paree for millin
ery styles when our Tacoma
women can think up Just as
$10,000 BEAUTY, THE
SWEETEST GIRL IN THE
MOVIES, BEL ASCO STAR
Mary IMckford, from a photograph posed especially for the
Times.
BY CUUtnttllM M. I'KICK.
IIBW YORK, Jan. 8. — Murj
l'iekforil of the "movies" has be
come n Itrlavi'ii Mar!
The Oolf.
good right here at home?
N. B.—Grandma Is getting;
along pretty well with her
little old gray bonnet.
prices, those Spanaway farmers will soon find a market for all
of their surplus products.
And In the meantime here are some farmers who are ready
to do business with city folks. Try them
The Times will print free of charge the names of all farm
er« who wish (<> trade with Tot i people through the lwriel
post, this paper believing that hy M > «l«in It will render a last
lug service to the people by riittiiiK the cost of hi in::
V. R. Coffin, boa -1, Sumii.r; eating and cookin apples,
poulti'T' J;' °—"— ' IK>X 12, F. 1). 1, Lake view; i- XX « and
11. T. Birch, l'nrklaml; clii<ken and eccs.
Olin Hojrt, Milton; dressed squabs
butter^;, i;z ltk? n '; aril1 'l)ox **• "•K-n- »• i-t— '
P. Nyholni, Kd^.-wood, Wii.; sultry, butter, e KK s.
....ult'rv ' P< "' "<>V "'• '"ke Ilay: *~« »»•««'
A few months ago she was a
$10,000 "movie" actress, the
best i>ni<l girl in her profession.
The jump to the speaking stage
was made over night. Ami now
the little girl whose gulden hair
is a real "crown of glory" ran
smile down from her magnificent
five feet anil no inches upon hun
dreds of fame-fanned actresses.
.With hlg wonderful sixth sense
for types, David Belasco "discov
ered" Mary Pickford and set her,
with all her charming trimmings,
into the center of the scenes of
'.'The Good Little Devil," a fairy
tale play after bis own heart.
Mary's role is the blind sweet
heart, who finds happiness and
sight through the good fairies.
Mary Pickford became the
"daddy" of the family at the age
of 5, when her own father died.
Her sister, Lottie Plckrord,
used to be in the "movies," but
married and retired. She has a
brother whom she put into the
business, too.
The originator of "Gold
Locks" went into the moving pic
ture to make money, and she left
them to make more money.
Belasco thinks so much of the
beautiful "movie" favorite that
lie i s writing a play JUST for
. P A tUH »TTTRE^^^^
POEM NO. 2
Snow is melting,
Saves the coal.
Dad is happy—
Stingy soul!
30 CI-JNTS A MONTH.
BRIDGES
HADFULL
CHARGE
The trial of Sam Bridges, ex
federal court clerk, charged with
embezzlement, was the occasion
for a real reunion of ousted
court officials this morning, ap
pearing on the witness stand
for the government Judge C. H.
Hiiii'ord, who recommended
Hrldces' appointment, and A.
Reeves Ayers, who was court
clerk when Bridges was deputy.
Hnnford testified that for
veins while Bridges was deputy
clerk ho had practically full
charge of everything. In fact.
yearH ago he said he had talked
to Bridges, discussed with him
tin "bad condition" of Clerk
Ayers and wanted to know If
Bridge* could get along with
Ayers around and be responsible
for everything. According to
the judge, Bridges said he could,
and so was in practical control.
Uliln't Want to Fire Ayei*.
Hanford admitted that the
situation practically was that : lie
judges disliked to fire Ayers and
wanted to let him stay on and
draw the salary while Bridges
was doing the work and assum
ing the responsibility.
He said finally in 1910 It got
89 bad Bridges came to him and
said things could not go on that
way, and then Ayers resigned!
and Bridges was appointed on
his recommendation, by Judge
Gilbert.
Ayers on Stand '. .
Clerk Ayers himself took the
stand. He too said that Bridges
practically had charge of affaire,
although if he happened to be
about, he sometimes signed hla
name to papers.
Judge Reid was on the stand
to Identify checks the N. P. has
issued to pay $250,000 in th«
Point Defiance condemnation.
The government charges Bridges
deposited these to his own account
and thus got the benefit of the
Interest. J. M. Henner also iden
tified a check for $463 In a
bankruptcy proceedings which th«
government contends Bridges had
the use of six months.
Government Agents Present.
The court room is filled with
government and bank records
and two special government
afenta are on hand to assist the
attorneys.
Judge Robert S. Bean of Port
land iH presiding over the case,
.Judge Cushman expressing a dis
inclination to nerve on account ot
long friendship with Bridges.
The government claims that
ISrirlKOH is still back in his ac
counts over $1,600.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. B.—A
man giving the name of Thomas
Hogue. hanged himself early to
day In his cell in the city Jail. He
contrived a noose from his neck
tie, suspending his body from a
coll bar.
SPECIAL
35 Suits
Odd Suits
Worth up to $30.00
$10
Two Other Lots
in up-to-datft styles
$15.00
and
$20.00
Menzies &
Stevens Co.
913-816 Pacific ay.
Tacoina, Wash.