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. OUR SATURDAY SHORT STORY, "A HARLEM TRAGEDY" WRITTEN BY O. HENRY—TOMORROW
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ciation has writers and photogra
phers everywhere. Tacomans re
ceive its every feature in the Times.
AUTO BEARING PRES, WILSON WRECKED
TRACTION CO.
MUST QUIT
BUSINESS
TOMORROW IS THU I/AST DAY
FOX THK NTOXK-WKHSTKR
VWOFUB TO SKl,li LIGHT
WITHIN THK LIMITS OF THK
CITY OF TAOOMA,
Stone-Webster now manifest as
much eagerntsa to set out of the
light business in Taconia as was
shown to stay in it a few weeks
aeo.
The court decree revoking the
T. R. & P. power franchise has
made a lilg difference. The tlnir,
expires under the council resolu
tion tomorrow in which the com
pany was to stop furnishing light
in the city under the Seatt!p-Ta
conia power company franchise.
Friday morning Manager Bonn
and John T. IMbb of the Tacoma
(irain company and J. D. Arm-
Btroiig of thfi Sporry mills appear
ed bt'ON the council wanting z
compromise. Hoth mills have
been getting light from the Stone-
Webster interests. They have
agreed to take light from the city
but wanted an emergency switch
that would switch the light to
the Stone-Webster wire in case
anything happened to put out the
city light line.
The council agreed to thia.
So the c'ty will he.sin furnish
ing light to hoth mills tomorrow
and the Stone-Webster people will
be out of the light business in
Tacoma. excepting for the N. P.
shops whore thsy »*e furnishing
the light yet hut buying the cur
rent to do It from the city.
CHAMP CLARK
MAKES DENIAL
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 11.
—Speaker Okrk interrupted the,
Jnsidious lobby investigation to
day to place o" record an em
phatic denial of every statement
■\oicod by Laniar and Lauterbach,
connecting him with the Morsan
company. "I never met Morgan,
nor any members of his firm. T
saw Morgan only once in my life,
and that was when T sat across
the table from him In a banquet
hall."
WOMEN TRY TO
SEE THE KING
J,IVERPOOL., July 11. — (By
United Press.) — King George
was passing through the streets
today a delegation of suffragettes
attempted to break through the
lines and hand the king a peti
tion. The attempt failed. Later
the women armt . with pokers in
augurated a window smashing
campaign.
COLONEL WRITES TO JAPS.
Theodore Roosevelt has writ
ten a letter to Japan saying the
United Statea would not natural
ize Japanese because Chinese
would also want citl-;nshlp then.
BOYS MAY NOT SEIX.
Commissioner of Labor Olson
may stop all boys ,'inder 12 from
selling newspapers if the attorney
general says that Is the new law.
- RENT TO ASYLUM.
Mrs. Laura Hartman of Sher
lock who drowned her baby and
tried to drown herself, wan sent
to the Insane asylum.
DUNN RE-ELECTED.
: Carnival association has elected
George Dunn permanent secretary
and he will keep office open the
year round.
NOW STATE INSPECTOR, ■
George W.'Wallis of the state
: bureau of inspection has been ap
pointed state inspector' of build-
Ing and loan associations.
: BIG CROP EXPECTED.
Inland Empire wheap crop this
year will be 130,000,000 bushels,
20 per cent more than last year.
COMPLETE ORGANIZATION."
.' Public Advancement *": league
will complete its organization to
; night by electing officers. • .;
- Ia week ago ant burnt MY|
I OOH,TH|S water!
: COLO. 1 HOPE I CATCHJ
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■IJPH9 PERILOUS POSITION
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The Tacoma Times
PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER
AS SHE WILL LOOK IN
BRIDAL ARRAY WHEN SHE
IS LED TO THE ALTAR
MISS JESSIE If. WILSON.
AVHITK HOCSK ItHIDK.S.
1. Lucy Payne Washington,
youngest sister of Mrs. Madl.son,
March, 1811.
2. Anna Todd. cousin of Presi
dent Madison's wife, 1812.
3. Marie Monroe, the first pres
ident's daughter to be married in
the White House, 1820.
4. Mary Hellen; niece of John
Quincy Adams, married to Adams
son, IS2S.
5. Emily Martin, relative of the
president, married to Lewis Ran
dolph.
6. Mary Easton, niece of Mrs.
Jackson, to Lucien B. Polk.
7. Delia Lewgis of Nashville,
married to a member of the
French legation.
(Fifth, sixth and seventh brides
married during President Jack
son's administration.)
8. Elizabeth Tyler, married to
William Waller of Williamsburg
Pa., 1842.
IT WAS NOT DIVORCE
THAT SENT EARLY MAD
It was not the fact that Mrs.
John Ruskin Early obtained a di
vorce from her husband, but her
immediate remarriage, that caus
ed the leper husband to go In
sane, according to the belief of
Lieut. Benjamin Early and his
wife, brother and sister-in-law
of the man held at Diamond point
leper colony.
"My brother'was deeply Infat
uated with his wife, and I think
it is wrong for her to come out
with the statements that she ngw
makes," said Lieut. Early today.
TROOP BIS Hi
ANNIHILATED
IN A BATTLE
. Troop B was utterly annihilat
ed and every man killed In a bat
tle yesterday out on the prairie—
in imagination. They .made a
gallant change but all were shot
down. All sorts 41 slaughter,
without •' a drop :- of blood being
shed, took place in the militin
maneuvers. • • '-,:'■ -~:- -
I*ET WADSWORTII DO IT.
• Because the *r county ' commis
sioners wanr to run the county
' economically and refuse to pay, a
fat salary for a -county • sealer of
weights > and; * measures. ; County
Auditor worth refuses to ap
point a man and will make a trip
' around \ himself .. to see how : the
scales-Bhow- up. ,• :; < .?" s*»% v
" DECLINES THE JOB.It-f'i
; J A.'.W,: Perley, . who ; was < bounc
ed by Hay for "political activity."
has declined to accept his old Job
of state track Inspector under the
public service commmisaion. 1, /. /;
; v-";: :' AiNKw;siTK.;i:&^.
tejTheJf new^Waahington %. Box itt
Lumber company has secured
(■lte'i and s opened »business making
boxes and shook«*!ln'the old'iHa'y
( den building, East C and Puy
allup.
VOL. X. NO. 173
SOc A MONTH.
9. Ellen Wrensliall Orant,
knows aa "Nellip," who became
Mrs. Algernon C. F. Sartoris in
1N74.
10. Emily Platt in IS7B, a
niece of President Hayes, who be
came the wife of Gen. Russell
Hast in kb.
11. Frances Folsom, who mar
ried President Cleveland June.
1 BS6.
12. Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, February
190fi.
13. Jessie Wilson, second
daughter of President Woodrow
Wilson, will be the thirteenth
White House bride and the fifth
president's dau.gh.ter to be mar
ried in the White House. The
bridegroom will be Francis Howes
Sayre, assistant to District At
torney Whitman- of New York.
The date, though not ynt an
nounced, will probably be set for
some time in the early fall.
"He could have resisted the di
vorce, but he knew that it was
for the best. He wanted the
children to grow up In purity, and
he was perfectly willing for Mrs.
Early to get the separation.
"But he never suspected that
she would remarry at once. He
had been sending her practically
all of hirt pension and salary as
attendant, amounting to $95 per
month. It was her quick remar
riage that drove him mad. I have
seen him and done everything
possible to pacify blm, ,but it is
no use.
AIRSHIP ON
LONG JOURNEY
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July
11.— (By United Press.)— Avi
ator Glenn Martin arrived at 9
a. m. today in his hydro-aero
plane on the first leg of nig Chi
cago-Detroit Journey. He crow
ed Lake Michigan from Chicago
at the rate of a mile a minute.
HIT HIGH COST OP LIVING.
Glrlg in the summer school of
domestic science at Puyallup yes
terday showed how to smite the
high cost of living, getting up a
big dinner for 16 persons at a
total expense of 12.35.
WOMAN SUES RAILROAD FOR KISS
A ;SHE SAYS ENGINEER IMPRINTED
E-VBRR'Y 'ulyJ M. —To what
sxtent la a railroad responsible for
Its employes- actions, ig the ques
tion involved in a suit filed today
against the Great Northern by
Mrs. Charles Nelson, of ToU, who
asks $1,990 damages for a kias
alleged to have been imprinted
upon her cheek by Locomotive
Engineer George Thome at Mon
roe.
Mrs. Nelson alleges In her com
plaint that she bought a ticket
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TACOMA. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, JULY 11,1918.
HUMAN TIGER
MEETS DEATH
ON GALLOWS
OPPKNHKIMKII KXF.tTTKI) IN
FOLHOM IMUHON FOX AS-
S.\l I/T ON FHIJiOW CON
VICT —KIKHT CASK OF ITS
KIND IN HIBTOKY.
<?> SAN QUENTIN, Cal., ,7uly <*
<$• 11. —Frank Bauwaerts was <$>
<$> hanged in the prison yard at •$•
<$> 10 o'clock today for the 4
<s> murder of Mrs. Harriet Gu- <§>
<5> yot and Mlbs Julia Francois <j>
•■•'■ on a mining claim in Klver- ♦
<$> Bide county In March, 1912. <$>
<3> <8>
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FOI/SOM PRISON, Ca!., July
11. (lly Vniletl Press.) —Jacob
Oppenheiiiier, the "huinnn tlKer"
of California, was limini-d at
lO:3:t <his m-'iiiiiiu. The murder'
er showed no si^iis <>f menial nn
iTuisli. Ilefore tlio hniiK'iiK '""
addressed several newspnpormen
invited to attend the execution in
a K|K'«"ch moralising upon rapital
piiiiisliinent. saying that it wax a
ii-lii- of bnrliai'lc days.
Oppenlieinier was a life termer
and aSNiinhcd another prisoner,
causinK his death Inter, lie mis
tried under the law pioviiliiiK for
death for a life termer who as
saults iinother prisoner. All le
gal machinery was set in motion
to snve him and the courts have
l>een on his MM for years, hut
his lawyer (jave up last night.
"I am ready," said Oppenhelm.
er when he read n note from his
lawyer saying It was all ovn-.
For 18 years ho has been in
prison. A .phonograph was
brought to his door last night to |
serenade him.
"I want free life, I want fresh
air," rattled the machine, reciting
the story of "Lasea."
"Give us that again," snid Op
penheimer to the guard as it fin
ished and over and over the ma
chine talked "Lasca." i
"Play lively tunes," requested
the condemned man and he had
the machine repeat several times
the Bon«: "Somebody Else la
Getting It Where the Chicken Got
the Ax."
He refused to be seen l>v min
ister, priest or rabbi but asked
for book s and was much interest
ed in Charles Reade's "It Is Nev
er Too Late to Mend." .
POLICE FJUL
TO F ND ANY
TRACE OF Mill
POLICE FAIL TO FIND ANY
CUTS THAT MAY LKAD TO
CAPTURE OF FaSCAIMOJ) P.\.
TIKNT FROM DIAMOND PT.
QUARANTINE STATION.
C. H. Cruver, 743 1-2 South Ta
conia avenue, telephoned the po
lice department Thursday even-
Ing that he had just seen Domin
ick Pittorl, the escaped Italian
leper from Diamond Point quar
antine station, on North Warner
street in the vicinity of the home
of the former Mrs. John Early
The police hastened men to
that patr of town but found no
trace of any one answering the
description of Pittorl. Cruver
says he knows the man and it was
the leper.
No trace of him has been found
In diligent search today and the
police are satisfied Cruver was
mistaken and that the leper has
not come to this city at all.
TODAY'S CLEARINGS. A -
Clearings ... .....* 427,143.24
Balances .... .V.;". ~- w 73,32<>;03;
Transactions .'..... 1,578,576.8$
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♦ .„ .. ; , ; ; '„*-" —
I For Tacoma;and vi-
-; cinity: | Fair c ; tonight ;| •
' Saturday ...; generally t *
fair and warmer. j
For - Washington: ;
i Fair tonight; Gener- !. ■
( I ally fair and > warmer ; f
j except near coast. ';
A_ A
from Everett to Tolt from the
Great Northern Railway company.
Arriving at Monroe, she says she
wan - informed she could not con
tinue lier Journey to Tolt for sev
eral hours, whereupon she walk
ed to a nearby store to telephone
her home and explain her delay,
Mrs. Nelson returned to to*
passenger station, she alleges,
only to find the building locked.
It was then that Engineer Thome]
entered from the wings. He saw]
CHILDREN'S WORD MAY
SEND FATHER, FORMER
TACOMA MAN TO DEATH
FOR MURDER OF MOTHER
iMNt I/eft—L. A. PaMMO, m nn charged with killing his wife,
mill liis two children, Lucllh, IT, and Cyrus, 12, whose evidence
may help send him to the p.nlliiiv «,
The son and daughter of a former Tacoma man
may put the hangman's noose around their father's
neck for the murder of their mother. They are Lu
ella, 17-year-old daughter 8 and Cyrus, 12-year-old
son of A. L. Larson, a barber who lived in this city,
accused of murdering his wife in the hills near Casa
Verdugo, a suburb of Los Angeles.
"Bood-bye, 'Lu'ella.'." If "I am
ever murdeted, rememiuv it >\ ill
your father • who ■killed- iih;.
Don't let him escape.",.
These'\were; the ~' % last j words,
spoken by Mrs. Larson to her
.'.ii_ilit.i Just before she went in
to the Glendale Jiiijs vlfti her lius-.
hand' where he l)ody whs found a
few days later by ranchers. ....
"When my .mother- said.this- it..
frightened me," said Luella. "I
asked her why she • said such a
thing J. and she replied-that • my
father had asked her not to tell,
us children where they were go-
Ing, i *"■ '■■' '"• • ■
'ip ' "Uli'n I came home from
*, work ~ about 10 o'clock that
E niKht. my fitther had retiirii-' "
j, ed but mother wasn't there. -
i. When I asked, him where she^
.'. was he said ' that she had *
4 gone to San, Francisco. - I
I told him that I didn't JbeUeve
% him. ;V; '. . ' '
5 " 'We didn't tell you kids,' he
■explained, 'because . .we, . didn'.t.
want you bawling around to go
with her.'
" 'But why would she go »to>
•p MAYOR'S GUESTS HERE.
Rev. A. J. McKelway of Atlan
ta,. Ga., and W. P. Cates of New
York, prominent'delegates ' to' the"
national Charitieg and Correction
con vent ion at I Seattle, as guests
or Mayor Seymour spoke to the
business men at the : Commercial
club today. :_. . . .V. »•.K .
■"$-»* Ki*i^ ■'»■'■' T —p—^— —■ ■ ..in* , — £*?. -\
■&» RIG MKN CO>nNG HERK. J
i Gen. Leonard Wooct jiijd .Gen.
.'Aleahtre will accompany Secretary
iof War Garrison to Tacoma next
imonth. ;? V-;'. 7..>i"i'.,^;r ■'■^- •
tj AFFIRMS COUNTY: COURT. -
j?Supreme, court affirmed, Pierce
«ounty court denying a divorce to
Lena Griffith from Daniel Grif
fith -, ■ ;..-.--v!v :' r ;:-. -'- }■
the lady In apparent distress and
courteously .offered to let her sit
In* a coach \of "c the - waiting Tolt
train. -r.. „": V/;%.l^>t' Z&%
t*S Mrs. Nelson accepted the Prof
fered « seat. Almost directly, al
leges ■ i NeUon, Thome ' placed
bis arm' abo it her^walst f : hugging
her aud itnprtntiDg warm kiss
upon herTcbwßii^TliejlTolt S ladyj
avers J B he f broke \ looa<i\f rdm.|b«r!
captor .^her^wrftplbelnicltoralin
.th«'dMth!(oßHb«rty;'^^^*-]p^
HOME EDITION
San Francisco without changing
her clothes and taking other gar
ments and money?' I asked.
'""'Oh,' I gave her plenty of
money, and she will buy clothes
when she gets there,' he an
swered.
"Then he said that we would
all go to San Farncisco In a cou
ple of weeks and meet mother."
Mrs. Larson was beaten to
■ death with a beer bottle. The
crime is one of the most bru
tal ever perpetrated in Los
Angeles.
Near the body was found a re
ceipt bearing Larson's signature
and" h6 has been identified by a
number of people in that neigh
borhood as the man they saw go
ing fnlo 'the hills with a woman.
In his looker at the barbershop,
where he worked was found the
watch which his wife wore the
day she wbb <cllled.
.. 'I I■<■ !■•'►. Angeles police innln
(itin that Larson kiled his wife
because he was in love with an
other . .woman. A woman fre
quently called him on the tele
phone at the shop and once called
fur him in person.
JOHNSON WILL
"COME BACK"
CHICAGO, July 11.—Govern
ment authorities were told by the
mother of Jack Johnson today
that her son would return to Chi
cago in October when the deci
sion on' We' appeal from a year's
sentence in Jail for white slavery
Is expected.
WIIiSON GETS IiOST.
President Wilson, while wan
dering In the New Hampshire
woods Thursday got lost and was
'ari hour late for dinner.
Like a silk stocking
and i xpoeed on a
I :
The Times carries the cream of
the United Press leased wire serv
ice daily. The owners of the Times
own the service.
PRESIDENT HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
IN AUTO WRECK
WINDSOR, N. H., July 11.—President Wilson
narrowly escaped death or serious injury thia morn
ing in an automobile wreck near here. His chauf
feur was forced to drive off the road and over an
embankment, dashing into a yard and bumping
i against a house in order to escape a collision with
another car speeding in the opposite direction.
An automobile in which secret service officers
guarding the president were riding, was forced down
the embankment in the same manner. The president
was severely bumped and scratched, but laughed
about his injuries afterwards and pretended to show
no pain. He was returning to his vacation home
after a golf game with friends at Hanover.
The car was seen approaching from the opposite
direction on a narrow bridge. All three cars were
going at a good speed and there was no chance for
the approaching car to swerve to one side. The
president's chauffeur, taking in the situation, drove
over the embankment at full speed, just missing the
approaching car. His machine was running so fast
that he could not stop, and it crashed through fences,
a garden and into the side of a farm house.
SAYS LOVER
KILLED GIRL
SWKKTII i:\KT LAST PBRSON
si:i:\ with vicTui ok
PENNSYIiVANIA Ml UDKJt.
WILKKSBARIUC, Pa., .July 11.
—A now mMkUod developed to
day In tho murder case of 41lM
Criswell. age 10, whose body was
found floating on Harvey'g la.ie
July "), when thn district attor
ney condemned the coroner's jury
tli.'H handled the case. The jury,
found that the giil bad been mur
dered but refused to fix responsi
bility for the crime.
The prosomitor said today that
lie had sufficient evidence on
which to hold. Herbert .lohnß, ago
2ft, who wan arrested a few diiys
ago. .ioling was the girl's lover.
He was with her until after mid
night on July 4 ; aiid the gJr] was
never seen alive again. Johns !k
in prison and stoutly maintains
his innocence.
TACOMA CHAUTAUQUA
OPENS HERE SATURDAY
The big Tacoma Chautauqu'a
opens at the corner of I and 12th
streets Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock when the Wlnona ladies'
quartet, known as "The Sunshine
Girls," will give the first enter
tainment In the big seven-day
course. Franc's Gable will also
give his famous lecture on
"L.aughilosophy." ' '
Saturday evening the Sunshine
Girls and Harrell, the magician,
FRANCHISE
ASKED FOR
MONORAIL
. Fred H. Pentecost« and A. H.
Exley, officers of the Albion Land
company, Thursday filed formal
application' for a general fran
chiße over the city for the con
struction of a monorail electric
street railway, system.., .-:. .';.
:• If the city grants them a fran
chise they declare they intend to
finance the proposition.and. build
a system with a belt line around
the city. I The cars are suspended
in the air and run on one rail.on
trestles..-. , . t f'--v. if i v ,;:;-v ; v%x>.
WIDOW TO GET
MILLION IF SHE
STAYS A WIDOW
, NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 11.
—The will of Nick Hubinger, for
mer turfman and starch-manufac
turer, today disposed 1 of an estate
of $1,400,000. The estate is left
to hi widow on con d Itlon - »he re
maing a widow. Hubinger was a
patient»"of ' Dr. V Friedmann, t who
Injected ' the turtle serum several•
times. ■■■■--' ~ >■•'."' • '"
WILL HONOR
AMBASSADOR
3, SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. —
Plans iwereT|completca today for
the banquet to be given in honor
of George ? s W*jg Gutbrie, former
mayor of Pittaburg, when he ar
rives here £ tomorrow on way
to \ take up his new 3 post of ara
bagsador to Japan. . ■ ':
RAILROAD ; AUABKA.
S^fn»tor|lPpl!»<it>!ttnr ■; ■ liag'^pfftf
«*atfd>a!,*B9l S foiej thaicp vernment;
ing coal hi Aljisk*, . •
ARMY STARTS
AN INVASION
ROUMANIA BEGINS KNTKRINO
TKIIRITORY OF MIU.VIt-
IA.VS TOO AY.
LONDON, July 11.— (By Unit
ed i Preas.) — Greece and ' ? Servla
are expected ■to agree-, to an
armistice today ; ; following Bui*
garia'» action In placing her nf
faira >in the | hands of Russia.
Latest report* i tell tof additional
Bulgarian' reverses \ with Porvii>
and Greek forces attacking Guev
gheli.
mJCHAUBST. July 11.—In\a
sion of Hulgarla by lioupianln's
main army began at 11:30 this
morniiiK. The first detachment
crossed the Danu<bo and landed
on Hie liulK.'irian shoro at the
•same hour that the Roumanian
minister left Sofia early today,
turning over the archives to the
Italian minister.
'will be on the program and the
evening will be Children's night
with 800 children admitted free.
Sunday the Artists trio will ap
pear afternoon and evening in
sacred concerts with Miss Belle
Kearney lecturing" in the after
noon on "Old Dayg In Dixie'
Land" and Senator Burkett of
Nebraska speaking tn the evening
on "The New Woman and the
Young Man."
STEALING RIDE
ON TRAIN IS
LAWFUL
DENVER, July ii. — United
States District Attorney Harry
Kelly today gave an opinion la
response to a request from rail
road officials and from the sheriff
of Weld county, Colo., to the ef
fect that it is not a violation of
the interestate commerce law for
a person to steal a ride upon a
railroad train.
POSTMASTER* CONFIRMED.
Editor "Bob Montgomery of
Puyallup and Jacob P. Pylee of
Sumner were among the Wash
ington postmasters confirmed by
ihe senate yesterday.
A
ON ALL
SUMMER I
SUITS
\. Excepting Black and |
Blues.
■ Menzies ' ■'•• &gi
Stev^*