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YV ARE PREPARING FOR ST.
PATRICK'S DAY. ON THE
WOMAN'S PAOE TODAY CAR
OI.IM; COX GIVEN YOIT
VAM'AMiK INFORMATION
AIlOl'T DECORATING THK
DINNER TABLE FOR THK
OCCAHION.
THE WORK OF THE RECENT LEGISLATURE IS FINISHED
The legislature Is dead. Peace
be to its iishc-i.
It cost up directly 982,640. It
appropriated enough to keep the
noses of Washington taxpayers
to tin- grindstone in good shape
for the next two years.
. Going into Olympia with the
hopes of the people raised to great
heights it goes out with an atmos
phere of deep disgust prevailing
wherever the evergreen grows.
Tlio common expression con
t renting the legislature is that it is
the "worst ever."
It probably isn't, but the people
TAKE CHILDREN
TO SCHOOL ON
THEIR RACKS
CITIZENS FROM GIG HARIIOR
BECOME "BEASTS OP BUR
DEN" BECAUSE OK LACK OF
GOOD ROADS IN THEIR DIS
TRICT — COUNTY COMMIS
SIONERS UXABIiK TO REM
EDY CONDITIONS AT PRES
ENT.
Declaring they have to carry
their children to school on their
backs much of the time and pack
lumber and ull sorts of supplies
to their farms in the same man
ner iKH'ause they have no roads, a
big delegation from (jig Harbor
country came before the county
commissioners this morning de
manding that they get Nome roads,
"■'hey especially wanted what lias
been laid out as the Dana-Warren
road.
"We cannot do anything," said
President Reed of the board. "We
have so many wharves to keep up
for that country that it takes all
the money raised by taxation to
care for them. There are 27
wharves to keep up."
"The trouble is the money
raised in our section is spent
somewhere else," said A. E.
Eaunnes, one of the farmers. "We
have built our own wharves and
we want some roads. We have to
carry our children on our backs
to school with a lantern, and I say
It is not right. Here the state ar
rests us and fines us If we do not
send our children to school, and
then you will not give us a road
bo we can get them there."
The commissioners insisted they
could do nothing—that there was
no money.
"Well, maybe there will be a
change in the commissioners' of
fice In four years, und then we
may get something," said one of
the farmers as they filed out.
WOMEN OPPOSE
MEMORIAL ARCH
The Tacoma Business Women's
club at the Tacoma hotel last
night refused to endorse Ezra
Meeker's scheme for a pioneer
arch in Tacoma. They thought
the money could be better -used if
turned into a memorial that
could be used for some humani-
tarian purpose.
.i As the women are about to be
gin organizing a plan for the
raising of a fund for the erection
of a woman's clubhouse they
would proba'uly be willing to put
memorial tablets in it for the
pioneers if the fund is turned over
to them.
COUNTY GROWS
VERY RICH
Up to this morning $926,000
had been paid in to the county
Veaßurer for taxes in this county
against $664,000 at the same
time last year.
With the money coming today
there will be over $1,000,000 paid
in before the office closes this
evening. Tomorrow is the last
day for paying and getting tbe
discount of three per cent.
PACIFIC AYE.
CLOSE IN
Reasonable Price
$15,000 Will Handle It.
Good income is now de-
rived from old building.
Calvin Philips& Co.
211 California Bldg.
MONEY TO LOAN
Improve Your Vacant
Property
The Tacoma Times
30c A MONTH.
VOL. Q. NO. 71.
are «<■(( ing mure educated to their
own need* and the truth that is
being borne in on them hard now
is that legislatures ar« all a farce
The governor of Kansas has
struck out boldly and declares
legislatures cannot be made effec
tive and he Is openly for the com
mission plan of government for
states.
The idea has been presented to
over BO prominent citizens of Ta
coma in the last two weeks and
they unanimously endorse it.
As a matter of fact representa
tive government through slate
ANNIE RUSSELL
LOSES A LOT
OF JEWELRY
ANNIE RUSSEIiIj.
(By United Tress Leased Wire.)
BALTIMORE, Md., March 14.
—Thirty-five hundred dollars
worth of jewelry was stolen from
the hotel apartments of Annie
Russell, the actress, while she
was giving a performance here.
For Tacoma and vi
cinity: • Fair tonight
and Saturday, heavy
frost tonight'
.; For. -Washington:
Fair tonight with
heavy frost west por-
I tion; Saturday fair.
JILTED, STARTS TO WALK
3,500 MILES TO FORGET
It might seem like a big under
taking for a man who is paralyzed
him! declared out of the game by
the doctors to walk from Portland
to New York but T. W. O'Brien
says he can make it. He started
from Portland nine days ago and
dragged his left side along gain-
Ing every mile. He reached 'la
coma yesterday.
"I am getting stronger all the
time, feel tip-top now and I will
show them I am not done for
yet," said O'Brien today at the
Times office. "I believe by the
time I get to New York I will be
cured."
O'Brien was a prosperous young
man six years ago working In a
planing mill back in Wisconsin.
Every day he worked and saved
every cent. "You see I was get
ting ready to get married," said
he. "I had $4 00 saved up when
I had the stroke. Some of the
doctors said it came from being
In the army In the Philippines.
One said it was overwork. All
of them said it was all off with
me.".
They sent him to the soldiers'
home helplesb. He got able to
get around a little and last Octo
ber came to the coast. In the
meantime the girl decided it was
no use waiting for Tom and he
told her to go ahead and look up
somebody else, which she did and
Is now married and lives in Port
land.
O'Brien didn't say bo but that
Is probably what caused him to
go down that way.
And now he la going back, go-
Ing to walk across the country
3,500 miles to show that he is not
all in yet by a long ways.
iie has a brother, W J.
O'Brien, who as the name Im
plies is a policeman back In
Rhinelander, Wis.
"I started from Portland with
out a cent. I stop and work some
places to earn something to buy
food. At night I sleep wherever I
happen to be," said O'Brien.
He carries a heavy pack of
blankets and clothes and says he
can make 25 miles a day now,
which is going some for a paraly
tiac who has had five strokes Iml
who the doctors say ; s helpless.
T, W. O'Brlec Is certainly game
legislatures does seem to have
made a dismal failure.
The present retiring legislature
in Washington put in its time
largely threshing out petty jeal
ousies and swapping votes against
the Interests of the people. Ques
tions were not considered on their
—they seldom are in legis
latures. They aro considered
with reference to their political
possl bill ties.
This legislature passed about
100 bills. Most of them were
legislation on some minor detail
generally of local application.
THREE COUPLES
GIVEN THEIR
DIVORCE
■JUDGES UNTIE CUIMD'H KNOT
TIIKKK TIMES IN SUPERIOR
COURT TODAY.
Three unhappy young wives
who picked the wrong man were
released from marital bondage
tills morning by the superior court
Judge*.
Nellie Conlin, after a short
three months' wooing by Mike, a
hack driver, became hi- wife a
little over a year ago. Mike soon
knocked off working and began
chumming with John Itarleycorn,
according to (he complaint.
-. Nellie, who is 23, told Judge
Chapman she knew he drank
when she married him, but did
not suppose he was going to be
intoxicated all the time. She said
she didn't even mind it when he
came home and cuffed her about
the head, but when he struck her
in the side that was too much.
The court granted the divorce
and restored her to her maiden
name of Nellie Van Ilouten.
Sophie Nokos got a divorce
from Roy S. Nokes in Card's
court. She declared Roy had been
drinking for three years. She
started divorce proceedings last
year, but he begged off and said
lie would be good. She withdrew
the ease and he started again.
The mother got the custody of
the one child and what little prop
erty there was.
Maley Nerbonne appeared be
fore Judge Chapman asking for
freedom from Tom.
She alleged cruelty and non
support. It was her second ven
ture into matrimony, her first
husband having died. The court
hesitated to grant the divorce, but
finally did.
and he Is going to show that girl
in Portland and the rest of the
skeptics that he can paddle his.
own canoe with the best of them
up the stream of life.
"I want to get out of Tacoma
tonight," said O'Brien.
WIFE'S DYING
STATEMENT IS
SPURNED
(United Press I.pmm.i Wire.)
SAN FRANCIStX), March
14.—Despite the fact that she
exonerated him in an ante
mortem Htntement, Captain
Fred Mnthleson of Ross, Cal.,
is charged here today with
the murder of his wife, Mrs.
Gertrude Mathieson. Mrs.
Mathieson, before her death
in a hospital here, declared
her wound ««s caused by the
accidental discharge of a pis
tol which her husband was
cleaning. Evidence was
brought before the coroner's
jury however, to show that
Mathieson appeared to be in
toxicated when the shooting
occurred and that the couple
quarreled frequently.
CASHIER SHORT
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.—
Charged with being $100,000
short In hts accounts as assistant
cashier of the Crocker National
bank here, Charles P. Baker, one
of the most trusted employes of
the institution, a self-made man
find a pillar of an Oakland church,
Is reported near death today at
his handsome home in Piedmont.
St. Monica's guild is properlng
"The Reel Thing" to be present
ed March 25-26 a.t their annual
Cafe ChauUst at Tacotna hotel
and interest indicates that there
"rill be a big demand for aeatu at
the table. A cast of about 50
entertainers hag been secured for
the occasion.
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1918
These are necessary of course. A
thousand more hills of tho same
kind should be passed today. They
are needed by the people. But on
the face of it what a farce to
try to have • legislature of 100
or more attempt to pass on all the
things the people need in OO days.
A city like Tacoma has a city
council ait every day to consider
the passage and administration
of laws. And the field of the
city is extremely limited. The
city can only do the few things
the state has specifically said it
may do.
Hut the state has sovereign
power. It can do anything on
When Jury Failed to Convict Darrow
Crowd congratulating Clarence
Harrow following disagreement of
jury which tried hi'" on charge of
oi'ibing juroro in McNamara case.
One of the spectators has his hand
on Pin-row's shoulder. Other pi«s
ture shows Mis. Darrow cheering
up lier husband during part of bis
3<i-hour wait, during which the
jury discussed his guilt or inuo<
cence.
TACOMA .THE - MONT ! ArCKS-
Mlii.l. BY LAND AMI m: y
' ?' ~T" ■ - i'o »■"*>■«
Taeoma Information League 3
CHAPTER XI.
A glance at a map of the
Northwest will show you Tado
ma Is the chief port of the Pa
cific Coast. All the rivers of
the Northwest flow to the Co
lumbia river and reach the I*a
rifie ocean through the Colum
bia river gap, the only wuter
tirade pass to the Pacific.
In the last six years the rail
roads have spmt $7ti.ooo;ot»o to
reach salt water by river grade
through the Columbia rlv«r
gap. This is the only water
grade In the United States
j through the western moun
tains. The C. M. & St.- P. Ily,
has reduced the cost of haul-
Ing to Tacoma by the construc
tion of their short line from
the east to the west. Their
cost of operation will be fur
ther reduced by electrifying
their line. Through their add
ed traffic Tacoma today doea
more shipping than any other
port on Puget Sound.
For a port to be a world port
the largest vessels must be
able to enter It any hour in
the day, any day of the year,
It must be the most accessi
ble of all neighboring ports,
both by land and sea to con
trol the business offered. Ta
coma has every feature of a
world port. Both the railroads
and steamship lines have rec
ognized this fact for many
years, and are today preparing
for a population of 1,000,000
people in Tacoma.
For a long haul It costs nine
times as much to haul freight
on land as on water. Nature
helping, and all o\her points
being equal, the railway com
panies will ail encourage the
harbor farthest inland, because
here the land freight costs
are less. Tacoma Is the one
most practical port to meet the
I steamships in the Northwest
—the nearest city with the ear
mark* of a world port to the
Columbia gap.
The railroads of the North
west are building to rtver
grades. All river traffic grades
in the-Northwest end at Taco
ma over the Point Defiance
line.
Every port north of Tacoma
Is at a disadvantage. All
freight arriving on least cost
haul must reach Tacoma first
over the water grade line, or
the shortest line over the
mountains, via the C, M. *. St.
P. Ry. Their terminals are at
Tacoma.
All outgoing freight moat
economically routed w.ill be .Put
aboard ship at Tacoma wittiln
twelve months. "It costs less."
AH Incoming freight most
economically routed for Interi
or and transcontinental ship
ment will be put aboard cars
at Tacoma within twelve
months. "It costs less."
Cost is the one factor that
controls all traffic and manu
facturing. On the Pacific coast
after the Panama Canal and
the Point Defiance line are
completed this fall
"It coats less" at Tacoma.
earth, practically.
It has jurisdiction over a thou
sand things to the city's ono.
Yet a legislature is expected to
meet and In 60 days do all the
people need done In the state.
It is the biggest Kind of a Joke.
And a mighty serious one too.
Tacoma for instance needed a
law to allow her to sell water nnd
light outside the city. Its pass
age would injure no one. It
would havo lienentted the 100,000
In Tacoma and another 100,000
outside. But Tacoma did not get
it. Politics, private Interest, lack
of time to consider it, doomed the
bill
SEA BREEZE HER CLOTHES
BATHED ON OCEAN BEACH
tiUTTHE COPS BOOKED HER
(By United Press leased Wire.)
SAN FItANCISCO, March 14.—
Garbed in nothing but the salt
•fta breezes 'and her beauty, Mrs.
Clara Schmidt, just 49, was ar
rested on thie ocean beach here
today and charged at police head
quarters with indecent'exposure.
When the police found Mrs.
Solmildt bathing a la Eve she told
them she was "a pupil of McFad
den," who holds that the pores
of the skin should be exposed to
insure life and perfect health.
Trench women
may vote, too
PARIS. March 14.—Miss Chris
: tobel Faiiklntrst, daughter of Eng
land's most militant ' suffragette,
declares .that' France| is ' soon .to
see; women battling; for suffrage.'
She is of the opinion that the
French*" women will ;■' obtain the
ballot with much lees trouble than
their British sisters are experienc
ing.
WHITMAN FORJOB
(Uy lnWp<l : Press, Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, March 14. —An-
nownoeiuent that he , will , accept
thei nomination for mayor :in ap
position 3to 3 the Tammany ? ticket
is imade here today by District At
torney Charles S. Whitman. -. -
fipß. PRINTER.
GET THIS * RIGHT
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♦l» SAN I FRANCISCO, j March •
♦ 14.—Adam Stanislaus Choi- ■
•s>; \ya- Kwaselbogki, ; 21,' ■ a Rub- ■
<S> man, 1: applied % for first na- <
•■ turall«ation papers"here; to- j
m&iy!f§ He was politely told <
<?>■■'*• go out and have his name <
<?> treated for its surplus bumps.'<
<$>' before he could do ' any busi- <
# ness with Uncle Sam •■ <
HOME EDITION
Every community in Washing
ton has similar bills on other sub
jects they need. They did not get
tliem. They never will get them
through a legislature Unit sits (IO
days. They never will get them
with a delegate* Ixidy representing
all the counties, for community
jeulousy is too strong.
A small commission that wan
in session the year around might
in time thresh them all out and
enact them but no large legisla
tive body ever will.
As long as sovereign power Is
conferred solely on the state the
necessity for a small legislative
body in continuous session will
Officer Harvey at once wanted to
know what McFadden was "in
for" and the other arresting cop
asked "when did he get out?"
At headquarters Mrs. Schmidt
told Sergeant Rainsbury hers wag
the only existence of perfect
health. That jarred Rainsbury.
"Why," said he, "8 am 70, and
still hale and hearty. '
"You're sick and don't know
it," was the bathing girl's reply.
nut for all that she was "book
ed."
CAT SAVES LIVES
OF 2 CHILDREN
(By I nitfd Preas Leased Wire.)
SAN JOSE, CAL., MARCH 14.
—AROUSED BY THE! MEWING
OF A PET CAT, WHICH RAN TO
THKIK BEDROOM WHEN IT DE
TECTED THE M.lMls. < .1 s BO
LAND AND HIS TWO YOUNG
SONS ESCAPED FROM THEIR
BURNING HOUSE. MRS. BO
LAND WAS ABSENT. THE
HOUSE WAS COMPLETELY DE
STROYED.
REPLY IS MADE
5 (By United Press | Leased Wire.) :
. SOFIA, March 14.—Formal re
ply to the powers' offer to mediate
in the Balkan-Turkish V war '- was
made -' by the • allies | here - today.
; The Balkan states Insist that :. th«
Turks surrender Adrianople and
Scutari,. cede the Aegean islands
and pay a war indemnity of $300,
--: i rf:V^-~% ■ !;';'; : ,:>'; •;■
2Ir'MODIFIES' INJUNCTION.
Judge Chapman thlg morning
modifled the Injunction granted
to restrain the collection of taxes
from Roy property owners so that
any who desire to pay before to
morrow night to take advantage
of the three per cent discount may
do bo with the understanding that
if the assessment is later proven
Illegal tbe taxes will be returned.
Ji noijc DUD sees a very, vkrt
W ▼ FAT MAX : DOWN AT TUB
■ I i CANAL WHO HKEMS TO
■ I KNOW A WHOM] I <>r ABOUT
urn h digging —OX tiik
EDITORIAL I»A«E TOIMY
YOtT'lilj FIND HOMKTHINO
interesting ahoi t . this
MAN.
be apparent. Every lawyer rec
ognizes it now for no day passes
but what some glaring fault is re
vealed In mere legal procedure.
And every profession and every
business la hampered just ns the
legal profession Is hmapered.
The legislators who are coming
home today will tell you they did
the best they could.
It la evident that a different
system Is required.
The state found the legislature:
lnndequate to legislate for tho
management of public service
utilities and conferred the power
on a commission of three. It nils
all the time and haß its hanriH
TERRIFIC
BLIZZARD
HITS EAST
WHIRS DOWN — SKVKRATi
TRAINS WRECKED, ACXXMtD
-INO to MBAQER in i-ou rs—
MANY IJVKS I/OHT—HTUKKT
OAR SVSTKM PARAIiZKI) IN
sk\ i:k.\i, CITIES— liOriM
NATIONAL liKAGUK HALL
I'IiAYKHN IN.IUK.KI> WHKN
IIOTKIi IS WRECKED lIV
CYCIX)NE.
(My United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW OBUDAIM, March II. —
At least OH persons were killed 111
tlio tornado which swept several
districts of the South today, ac
cording to meager reports receiv
ed hero tills afternoon. . Wire* (ire
down to most points mid It is be
lieved this list will be increased
when communication is restored.
CHICAGO, March 14.—With
terrific blizzards and zero tem
peratures in the north and
cyclones and torrential rains in
tlie south, the whole middle west
today is In the grip of the worst
storm of the winter.
In all directions from Chicago
wires are down or working bo
badly that only the barest bulle
tins are being received of the
devastation wrought. From Ne
braska have come reports of two
ratal train wrecks on the Union
Pacific railroad; Montana and
Wyoming are swept by a howling
blizzard and all the country along
the northern border is suffering
from the Groat Lakes to the
Rockies.
LEGISLATURE
CLOSES ITS
DOORS
(By United I'k-ss Leased Wire.)
OLYMPIA, March 14. — The
thirteenth legislature which end
ed its sessions early today, passed
in addition to a mass of local leg
islation, nine important measures,
including:
Minimum wage law for women.
Mothers' pension art.
Logged off land bill.
l-aiv abolishing hanging.
Congressional reapportlonmcnt
act.
Red light Injunction act.
Foundation for a state highway
plan.
Initiative, referendum and n-
call laws to make the constitution
al amendments on these points ef
fective.
Important bills which were
blocked Include:
Presidential primary, non-parti
san election, direct election of
senators, initiation of constitu
tional amendments, recall of
judges, statewide prohibition, an
ti-treatlng law.
WOMAN EXPERT
PLEADS FOR A
BETTER WAGE |
<X CHICAGO, March 14.—An im
passioned plea to state legislators
not to let cries, of "It will i ruin
Illinois" block -. legislation $ for «
minimum wane ■ law ' for women
and I girls was ( voiced . here jj today
by I Ml.kh • Mary ] McDowell, j head' of
the " University of Chicago \ settle
ment 5 house | and I a 7 co-worker "of
, Jane "Addaius.'jji^f-^::,-,.'»■.'■.-■:.■,;.,.:': "■ „\
"The fight for a minimum wage
I law.'; f said ', Miss McDowell, "must
go on. Public sentiment <g too
strong . to| permit .: business . inter
ests to blockUt.^ r4V^\, - . ~~,~^%
«?} "A state I minimum wage ' law
may not be an ideal piece of legis
lation; perhaps a federal law
would be better, but anything that
will ■ improve the ' chances of girls
toi earu enough to live : i on : will
help."
SHEBOYGAN, Wia., March 14.
—Hundreds of lives were endan
gered and much property damage
done, as the result of a cyclone
which swept Sheboygan today. A
70-mile wind blew lor aever&l
hours.
full with tills one branch of work
in the state. How much more ea
.'■■iiii.i! that a routlnuoug senalon
of the K pneral I<-Rinlatnr(> be held
when all other pliuuea of life la
the stnte must be covered.
It Mill probably I><> mi;"' that
it commission would bankrupt til*
I«-i>|iIk by continuous appropria
tions. The reverse Is true. | The
HO day fellow (loos not May long
enough to learn the actual ihh«v
sitli-H of (Ik 1 case no takes the.
word of Ronio chap with an nx to
grind nml away pel the people's
money. -
It looks as If the governor of
Kansas Is right. : '
In Chicago street car and ele
vated traffic Is greatly hampered
by the storm and In tho poorer
sections of the city tbo suffering
is Intense.
Later advices received from
Wyoming state that the Btorm
there Is the worat In years. In
addition to tbo wrecks at Cozad
and llarndon, Nebraska, Union
Pacific train No. 7 is stalled at
Klniball, Nob., and No. 17 IB
Btormbound at Lodgepole.
COU'MIIUS, 0., March 14.—
Several persons are reported to
hnvc been killed In a cyclone hera
today which destroyed several city;
blocks. Many persons were in
jured. A terrific ruinstorm fol
lowed the cyclone.
Thp Racine hotel here, at which
the St. Louis National league
baseliall team is stopping, wm
daniaged.' Several of the ball
players were struck by plastering;
but all escaped serious Injury
TIMES NEWSIES
TOSEEJOHNL
AT THE PAN
JOHN T;.
If your Times carrier tonight
should have his face scrubbed,
and his hair neatly brushed, and
Just seems trembling with exiite
ment, don't wonder. For he !•
one of the kids who will be a
guest of Manager Timmons thl»
evening at the Pantages theater.
Yep, a hundred "newsies" ar»
going to see the great John L».
Sullivan. They can hardly await
until the appointed hour rollf
around.
And John is not going to disap
point the Times kids tonight. He
Is going to tell his funniest
stories, and he is going to enjoy]
himself as much as they.
So a hundred happy youngsters
await the time when the doors
will open for the first show to
night with eager longing.
The only way a a mod
ern man can > overlook
our .5 clothes <i} is to &go
blind. Priced ' jj "m
$15 to $40
Ready tailored or made
to measure.
Menzies &
Stevens Co.
T. 3. PI.KKTUOOD, Mgr.
Clothiers, Men's Furnishers
■ad Hatters
91S-Sls Pacific ay.
Tacoma, Wash.