-WATCH US GROW—THE TIMES BUSINESS SHOWS A GREATER INCREASE FOR THE YEAR THAN ANY OTHER TACOMA PAPER The Times carries the cream of the United Press leased wire serv ice daily. The owners of the Times own the service. LEPER EARLY GOES MAD ON LEARNING THAT WIFE IS DIVORCED AND REMARRIED AN AIRSHIP TO CARRY 200 ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦♦♦ * «■ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦♦« ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ *>«>«> •>♦♦ «> <$■ WOULD CROSS THEJ ATLANTIC IN FIFTY HOURS Aviator Louis Bleriot, who first flew across English Channel, tells Shepherd how trans-ocean air travel can be accomplished— But he is not especially interested in doing it himself. BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. PARIS, July P> —Louis Blcriot, the first air man ever to fly across the English channel, has just told me some astonishing things about the possibil ity of trans-Atlantic flight. One of the most aston ishing is that he thinks it impractical. Bleriot is as great an expert in the mathematics of aviation as he is in the art of actu ally handling a machine. He is a scientist, who has not flown for two years, but who spends all liis time operating his factory and experimenting. Louis blekiot. "Do you think it is pos sible to fly across the Atlantic?" I asked him. "Perhaps, but I would not wish to try it with the aeroplanes we have today. Only the very best of luck —miraculous luck —could get a flyer across. An attempt would be full of danger, with many odds iv favor of failure and death." Why would it be dangerous?" "Because, on the wastes of the Atlantic, the flyer would have to alight beside shies several times to secure fuel, and how could he be sure that he would find the ships. Even if there were a string of ships 200 miles apart—and that is not a long distance for a non-stop flight in these days—how could he find his way from RIVAL LOVERS MURDER " OF GIRL AUTOPSY SHOWED THAT UIRK'K BODY WAS ISHIISKT) HIV AI, SUITORS BOTH I> KN V KNOWLEDGE OF ORIMF—W lli L COMPARE TEETH OF ONE WITH MARKS ON DEAD BODY AS - I'OSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION." WILKBSRARRE, Pa., July 9. —As the result of an autopsy on the body of Miss Alice Criswell, age 18, who drowned in Harvey's lake on the night of July 4, Her bert Johns, age 28, her sweet heart, is today held on a charge of murder. Coroner Marloy said the autopsy showed bruiaes on the body, but that no motive had been discovered for the crime. Johns denies all responsibility. Harrison Cann, suspected as a rival suitor for the hand of Miss Criswell, haa also denied all con nection with the affair. Imprints of John's teeth were made today to be compared with marks found on the girl's body. CITY DADS OFF ON TRIP TO MOUNTAINS The city commission Is going to the mountains tomorrow. The morning train will be tak en to the hills and then horses will be used to push up to the divide on the watershed. The commission will camp out all night and be gone two days, the purpose being to look over the land with a view to getting the •government to give to the city some 40,000 acres drained by Green river so it can forever kepe It free from contamination. In purchasing a watch, dia mond or a set of silverware, It is necessary to know the exact facts about any one of them. We encourage in quisttlveness In our cus tomers, and delight In tell- w . ing them the p.'aln truth about all our goods. That, with courteous treatment, have won solid, lasting friends for us. And we propose to keep It up. ONE OF THE FAVORITES AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Pretty, Young, Admired— Miss O'Gorman. There are few, if any, prettier girls in Washing ton's official and exclusive social life thai this New York girl—Miss Alice O'Gorman, daughter of Senator and Mrs. James A. 0 'Gorman. She has re cently gone to the national capital to live. HARRIMAN LINES READY TO BUILD TERMINALS HERE President Farrell of the Har riinan lines in Washington, an nounced at Portland Tuesday the early beginning of building oper ations by the line in Tacoma. Plans were made a year ago looking to the expenditure ir this city of nearly 92,000,000, and Farrell sayg the work is about to commence. Besides development of ocean terminals on> the flats the com pany will put In the big bridge; TACOMA BOY SCOUTS CALL ON GOVERNOR \, OLYMPIA, July 9.—Accompan ied by P. J. Soule, scoiut commis sioner," ten boy scouts from Taco ina arrived in Olympta this morn- Ing and called:, on Governor. Lis ter. They had walked ,to ; Steila coom and j rowed from the pioneer town to the capital. • Later in the day. the boys. made. a formal call on • Mrs/| ListerS at | the executive maylon.. ;. .'-../ GIVES REBATE ■ Because the city water was dirty and caused' th# laundry,' trouble, the city iCommlßsioatthts morning ; rebated % the . Stand a ' Steam laundry |311 on Its bHlaiforUbi'yeap/aBMiWa :/' TheTacoma Times VOL. X. NO. 171 30c A MONTH. one ship to the next? There is no known way by which an aviator can follow a trail across the Atlantic; his compass might show that his machine is headed for America and the west, but, in reality, the moving air might be carrying; the flyer southward, without his knowledge, away from the next ship that he is seeking. It would be much the same as being lost in a desert!" "But would it be possible to build an aeroplane that coould carry enough fuel for a non-stop flight across the Atlantic?" "Now you're tatking," Miiil Hlciiot. "If I had the money and there was a commercial demand for it I could build an aeroplane within two years (Jiat would cross the Atlantic ocean in 50 hours! 1 Imve figured i( all out and iiiude all my calculations." "How many persons would such an aeroplane carry?" "It would easily carry two hundred persons, in addition to the fuel!" The great airman drew a pencil from his pocket and made some hurried calculations. "My plan would be," he said, "to have an aeroplane of 10,000 horse |K)wer. You see," he explained, "we figure that every horse power carries 'J2 pottßdk, so our big trans-Atlantic aeroplane mJu'tt weigh 080,000 pounds or 110 tons. The engine and the fuel, to gether with the necessary lubricating oil, would weigh about 2."> tons. 1 could build a very safe aeroplane that would weigh 10 tons, aside' tram the engine, and this would leave un 40 tons for the passenger*. This would mean about 200 passengers, unless it was desired to use some of this passenger-tonnage in supplying luxurious ■arroundhm lor the passengers." "How soon, do you suppose, will such aeroplanes carry passen gers across the Atlantic?" "Just as soon as thero is a demand for such transportation It is a problem of commercial demand; not of aeroplane buildiiiK But T do nor think that aeroplanes Will ever take the place of shins' for 1 doubt their commercial OMfUlneu in crossing oceans Airships Will always be dependent on the weather. "It's a simple problem in mathematics. Suppose an aeroplane, no matter how gigantic it is, lias a spoed of 100 mile* nn hour md suppose it encounters n triad of 120 mile* an hour The result would be that the airship would travel backwards 20 n,||,. an | 10111 . You see the difference between a water ship ami an «ir.shii> is that the ocean in which the water ship sails always remains stationary" "Within a very lew years," he concluded, "a rans-Atlaiitie aeroplane that is safe in ordinary weather may be built but the man who crosses the Atlantic in the ordinary aeroplane of today must be an exceptionally brave and a miraculously lucky flyer too much so across the city waterway at 15th street, erect a great freight ware hoiiße just across the city water way and make other extensive Im provements. There are rumors that still other steps will be taken of great er importance even than these projects, but word concerning them has not been given out. A representative of the Har riman interests was here last week making preliminary ar 'angements for starting work. WANTS A CHANGE The city council this morning authorized the changing of the name of the city dock to the "Fifteenth Street Dock" to avoid confusing it with the Municipal dock at 11th street. LIKE A-CHANDAUER AJSTD GET LIT UP EVERY NIGHT. THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA TACOMA. WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9,1913. 35,000 DEAD ON FIELD OF BIG BATTLE AWFIX SFi.VrGHTRR OP nr,,. KARIANM ANI> AKRVIANS AT BATTI.K OF KOCHAKA ARMIKK STIIiL IN DKADIA' CONFLICT. BELGRADE, July 9.— (By United Press.)—lt is estimated today that 35,000 Bulgarian and Servian soldiers were killed in the recent battle of Kochana and Istip. The war office claims a great Servian victory, asserting that the troops occupy, both towns. Over 200,000 troops are participating in the struggle. Tlie fighting about Istip will go down in history as one of the bloodiest battles of modern times. Reports indicate that fighting wili continue for several days. CONVICTED POLICE ARE SENTENCED SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.—De tective-Sergeant Arthur McPhee and Patrolman Charles Taylor, convicted of conspiring with Ital ian buncolsta to obstruct justice, were sentenced to one year In jail today by Judge L»awler. Mo tions for new trials were denied. For Tacoma and vi cinity: Showers to night and Thursday. For Washington: Showf^s^west ; tonight and tffursday; fair east portion *} tonight RECORDS SHOW THAT MRS. EARLY MARRIED The leper received his first news of the second marriage of his wife, it Is said, in a letter his brother, a sergeant in the United States army, stationed at Vafe couver, Wash. The letter" told;, It is reported, that Mrs. Early had married George N. Tauson of! Tacoma, a prominent member of the Spanish war veterans, almo^ Immediately after she. had obf •talned her divorce from the leper. WOMEN GET 'EM NOW «♦ ♦ » -, » ♦• « '■ *« ♦«« *♦ * And With Suspenders, Too NEW YORK, July 9.—New York was first astonished and then ttiimsed today' when the suffragette trouaer sldrt ar from Paris by Mrs. Nat Spi who ts known u> Madame Frauds. The Leper in His Home The leper a» the temporary Colony lit Diamond I'olnt listen ing' to I>r. K. O. Sawyer, liealtli of Acer <>f L(M .Inu'eles <-<>un(.v, ex plaining! his plans for a nalioiuil leprosarium. The arrow point* (o .folia l{. I'itil.v, who contracted (lie (lUcase in ill,- l'liili|i|)iiu-s and went Insane yosterilay upon learning (hut his wife hart mar ried one of the Spanish war veterans. LEPER TRAGEDY SHOWS NEED OF FEDERAL AID Dr. E. O. Sawyer of Los Angeles, who was visiting ihe leper rolony at Diamond Point yesterday when John R. Early went insane, de clares that the new tragedy is a further evidence that Uncle Sam should establish a na tional leprosarium. The es cape of the lei>er-companion of Early, according to Dr. Sawyer, clinches the state ment that the United States lannot protect its citizens against the dreaded disease. • The Los Angeles physician came north for the sole pur pose of interviewing Early (fh~. the subject of placing a national leprosarium on an island in the Pacific. He will send a petition to con gress, together with the facts of Early's case, as substanti tion of his arguments. telegraph Operator Murdered SPOKANE, July 9.—Edwin B. Irwin, -a telegraph operator em ployed by the International rail road, web held up and brutally murdered at Grand Junction, 20 miles from Spokane, early this morning. The robbers fired three shots into Irwin's body and then ransacked the office. No clues have been found. Posses are working on the case. CLEARINGS. Clearings ....,..$ 391,376.59 Balances- • 44,904.55 Transactions ..... 1,415,233.19 anil that the marriage ceremony hafc been performed recently a second time In order to make it Utcal. JAccording to the records at the KijHK county courthouse, Seattle, Gtforge N. Tauson and Lottie I>a n»#ur were married June 21. Mfb. Early, when divorced, was gtVen her maiden name of La m6ur. v T " ■ ■.■■■■■ ■ ■'■.■ ■•■■.• ■:.■.■. i* feThe skirt Is equipped >iib.two P«ketß. while reftl eusponder bnt i(g§B rouge around the .waistband.'' arhaiit the mo-jt «t;irtlinger iS>^* 'irOl'iire^ !i? the s!rov«>Jesa HOME EDITION A famous specialist, while not diagnosing Early's trouble as leprosy, ad vised him to "disappear," which he did. Through a representative he bought a small ranch near Summit station on the Puyallup electric line. There was now a third baby. The neighbors learned his identity, and the feeling against him amounted to a scandal. -*» t George N. Tauson, himself a Spanish war veteran, was asked to adjudicate the matter, and it was thus he became acquainted with Early and his family. Through the good offices of Tauson, Early was employed at the Port Townsend leper colony which occupies part of the grounds of the quarantine station, though isolated. Early, himself a leper, was given charge of Petorio Dominik, and the two became fast friends. Early receives $65 a month salary and a pension of $30 a month. The au thorities at Port Townsend, when seen by a staff man from The Times, said that Early had been making regular remittances to his wife in Tacoma. The lepers—there-were five before Dominick decamped—are not permit ted to write letters, though they may receive them from the outside. Early complained that his wife seldom wrote. According to the story given out at the quarantine station, Early last week received a telegram from his brother telling him to send no more money to his wife and that he was writing to explain. The letter, it is stated, gave Early the first information that his wife had .divorced him, and further stated that Mrs. Early had married his former friend and benefactor, Tauson. Early's reason tottered and fell under the blow. He cursed horribly ar who approached him and loudly demanded gin and brandy, though he nev had the reputation of a drinking man. On Saturday he hatched a plot, it is said, with the cook to smuggle in liquor, but it was frustrated. Dominick escaped Saturday. The station is on a point of land jutting out into the Straits. It is not fenced in or guarded, as the lepers realize that, if they ran away, they would run the risk of rough treatment at the hands of any one they chanced to meet. Escape is made difficult, however, by an almost ixnpenetratable jungle. Into this Dominick disappeared. \ "Dominick has gone to 'get' Tauson," Early said over and over again in a demoniacal rage, but he would not admit that he connived at the escape. The authorities attach significance to the fact that, while Early's face is so prominently marred by the disease that he could not long roam at large and es cape notice, Dominick shows few leprosy signs. There are a few "nodules" on his face, but that is all. The "nodules" would be mistaken for warts by the ordinary observer. Dominick is strong and' active, and devotedly attached to Early. That is the story as it comes from The Times staff man at Port Townsend. The Tacoma end of the narrative has loose ends. Neither Tauson nor the former wife of Early could be located today. Though members of the John R. Thompson camp, Spanish war veterans, to which! Tauson belongs, will not talk for publication, a num ber admit the camp is divided in its opinion of Tau soiTS reported marriage to Mrs. Early, who, at the time when the Earlys lived at Summit station, stated emphatically and repeatedly that she would never forsake her husband whom she loved. Tauson is no longer employed at the county treasurer's office. "Tauson has resigned," says Treasurer Carr. Following his resignation, he was taken sick and for two weeks was ? patient at St. Joseph's hos pital. Inquiry among Tauson's friends today did not disclose his whereabouts nor the whereabouts of Mrs. Early and her children. TAKES GOOD JOB The Newspaper Enterprise Asso ciation has writers and photogra phers everywhere. Tacomans re ceive its every feature in the Times. Quarantine Authorities Think Dominick, Early's Friend, On Way To Tacoma On Errand Of Vengeance For The Leper John B. Early, the leper, is a raving maniac, fol lowing the discovery that his wife and the mother of his children has divorced him, and the report that she has married again. Petorio Dominick, another member of the leper colony at Port Townsend, has escaped, and the mad Early is charged with helping him make his get away. Early in his ravings says Dominick has gone to "get" George N. Tauson, until recently head cashier under Treasurer Carr of Pierce county, and promin ent in Spanish-American war veteran circles in Ta coma. The authorities of the quarantine station at Port Townsend have warned the police at Victoria, Seat i tie, Port Angeles, Tacoma and other Puget Sound ports to be on the lookout for the escaped leper. Early, the world's best advertised leper, originally of Virginia, served in the Philippines. Returning to his Virginia home, he married a pretty Salvation Army lassie. A year after his return a strange rash appeared on his face. Experts diagnosed the malady j as leprosy and the government gave Early a large home on the Potomac river, opposite the national capital, and a soldier guard. A brick wall divided the house in half, and Early and his wife, and later a baby, occupied one side. Another expert said Early did not have leprosy, and he was turned loose and disappeared. He turn ed up at Lcs Angeles. He and his wife had another baby. 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