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THE BEST FEATURES,
THE BEST PICTURES,
THAT'S THE TIMES.
CITY TO BUILD MUNICIPAL CAR LINE
IT HAS NOT rained yet.
BUT WHILE THERE is life there
is Boap.
A SOAP SALESMAN bribed us to
put that in, and we think it is
clever.
' AT ANY RATE it is nice, clean
stuff.
IT IS NOW haughty Huerta.
ONE MIGHT SAY naughty,
haughty Huerta.
WE ARE AFRAID that Huerta is
going to get Into trouble. Not
that we care, but Jack Led
widge would not like it.
THAT OREGON BLUE sky law
' ia a funny proposition.
IT HAS NOTHING to do with any
kind of sky.
IN PACT, IT DEALS with Btocks.
OP COURSE THEY sometimes
soar as high as the sky, but
they generally fall like a
rocket.
YOU DON'T HAVE to take any
stock in this if you don't want
to.
THAT INTERNATIONAL Purity
congress ha.? finished purifying
Minneapolis.
BET A DOLLAR Minneapolis is
tickled to death.
THERE IS A MOVEMENT on foot
to have every school child give
Anthony Comstock a dime.
TALK ABOUT your sinful waste
of money!
HE IS THE GUY who said Sep
tember Morn was no lad}.
HE IS AN AWFUL, lowbrowed
cuss, anyway.
THIS FELLOW who received 20
invitations to one dinner has
nothing to brag about.
IP HE HAD been given one invi
tation to 20 dinners, he could
come around and talk to ua.
MARGARET ILLINGTON used to
be a "Thief," but she was only
"Kindling" a dealre to be
"Within the Law."
THAT OUGHT to make Charlie
McKee loosen up with a bottle
of champagne.
WE DID NOT BEB our name In
the list of society people who
attended last night.
WE WEREN'T there of course,
hut it would have been nice to
have had our name in the list.
AL SOMMERS has promised to
write us a letter that will make
our hair curl.
WE'LL BE MUCH obliged to Al
if he does. We can't get any
results with a curling Iron.
TODAY'S CLEARINOB
Clearings $ 434,045.07
Balance* • 54,244.26
Transactions .. 1,100,919.12
A Willing Worker
Money Is always ready
S£ to earn you mare money ,i -J
when given the oppor
tunity. We , furnish the
:! opportunity. 4 per cent
on savings. . • ;
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:.".."..:, Checking a«6«unts so* : -f:
■;*Melted; Try paying your '*:m
t*? bills with checks and see
how It seems to be able
'..;f to tell Ji, vriMW#^t your;
; money goes.
-. ••'•-■■.-• ■y :
Pnget. Sound State
Bank
Ills Pacific Avenue,
TAOOMA, WASH.
For Tacoma and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday. For Washington: Fair tonight and Friday.
The Tacoma Times
30c A
MONTH
LIVES
LOST;
150
STORMS DASH MANY VESBELB
TO THE ROCKS—I2S BOATS
DKHTKOYKU — CLBVKIiANf)
IN THROES OF ANOTHER
STORM.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—E«ti-|
mates of the number of sailors ]
drowned in the storm on thej
Great Lakes reached 150 today. I
At least 2 5 big steamers have'
been lost. The violence of the
storm was such mat the staunch-{
est vessels were dashed to the I
rocks. Next to the Huron storm,!
the worst was on Lake Superior, j
The seas are rapidly subsiding. A
systemtaic search on the shores
of all hikes was begun for wrecks
this morning. The steamship H.
M. Hanna was added to the list;
of wrecks today. The waves piled \
the steamer on the beach at!
Point Aux Barques and broke in !
two.
With the washing ashore of IS]
members of its crew, it became
certain that the steamer Charles.
Price was lost, presumably with
a full complement of 2 8 men. |
Two bodies wearing life belts i
with a stencil of the steel freight
er John McGean, one of the fin
est boats on the Lakes, which if
lost, as it evidently was, accounU
for 28 more men. Besides these,
four steel steamers with crews of
20 each are 80 hours overdue, and
grave fears are entertained for
them. A score of corpses were
washed up on Lake Huron and
Lake Superior today.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 13.—An
other storm began today with a
warm rain. Torrents fell, the
snow melted so fast that the
streets became rivers and the
sewers are in danger of failing
to carry off the water before a
threatened serious flood. Drink
ing water is like thin mud. An
epidemic is gravely feared unless
residents boil their water, which
they may refuse to do.
HUSBAND FREE,
REOPENS FIGHT
FOR DAUGHTER
SENSATIONAL BODINE CASE
TO BE REOPENED IN TA
OOMA FOLLOWING HIS RE
LEABE FROM PRISON ON A
REVERSED DECISION.
With the reversal this week of
the 10-year sentence of John Bo
dine of -Tacoma, the sensational
Bodine suit, and its startling fight
over the cmtody of Rosy Bodine,
the 10-year-old daughter, will be
reopened, according to Attorney
Wesley Lloyd, representing Bo
dine.
The husband was sent to the
penitentiary on charges made by
his divorced wife. Incriminating
the daughter. After he became
convict, Mrs. Bodlne secured the
custody of the child, despite Bo
dine's vigorous resistance. With
Bodlne's release this week, on or
der of the state supreme court,
the battle for custody of the child
has been reopened, and will be
brought into open court immedi
ately. Mrs. Bodlne has remarried
and is now Mrs. P. G. Haciett of
New Westminster, B. C.
GOSSIPS CAUSE
WOMAN'S SUICIDE
BXCELSIOJR SPRINGS, Mo.,
Nov. 13.—Incessant gossiping by
neighbors caused Mrs. Martha C.
Simmons, widow of a millionaire
medicine manufacturer, to com
mit suicide this week by using
slow poison, it became known to
day.
BIDS GALLED OFF.
Dancer of freezing weather
caused Commissioner Woods to
call off the bids for the laying of
Bldewalk on Asotln, 62nd and
58rd streets until next spring.
PENNANT COUPON NO. 82
Nlnjfc a.4 Cmmcmm, with U «iv. will .■{ill. r «a t. . tellMlftS
S7-I^./' ■&2""»» »••••»«• tar aMfl will *••« B* »««ii«ia
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
VOL. X. NO. 280 TACOMA, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1913.
Smile, Durn You, Smile!
FRANCIS B. SA YltK.
ALL ABOUT THE BRIDE'S
TROUSSEAU — PRESIDENT
HELPS TO BUY IT, TOO
BY LAURA I.IXKN VKHRAN.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 13.—Selecting a small silver gray
tarn o'shanter hat, Miss Jessie Wilson, the White House bride-to-be,
was the center of the curious eyes of many Washington shoppers on
F street today.
She wore a simple one-piece dress of blue, with a low collar and
a black velvet hat, wreathed with a mixed green and black plume.
Her light hair was drawn Into a low knot, without wave, at th« nape
of the neck. She wae accompanied by her mother, and both were
apparently oblivious of the glances of the curious shoppers.
When adjusted to the head of her daughter, Mrs. Wilson said
the hat was very pretty and becoming. The brim of silver lace,
somewhat extended in the back. The crown is of velvet and tiny
French flowers, blended In several shades are grouped at Intervals
about it. Only her mother accompanied Miss Wilson upon this trip.
Bat the president himself left the cares of the nation
for a few moments to go with them on another occasion!
He inspected some evening gowns at a small Connecticut
avenue shop, opened this Reason for the first time. With
four evening dresses an afternoon gown was selected at this
time.
Some of the creations are draped In the front or on the sides
and are in the brighter hues which mark this season's evening ap
parel. Some of the afternoon and evening gowns of the trousseau
were bought outright at Washington establishments. Such altera
tions as are required are being made by the elated fitters' to suit
the individual wearer.
Though In texture the silk and chiffon draperies are of excel
lent quality, elaborate trimmings do not mark them. Rather is the
distinction attained by graceful draperies, with occasional contrast
at the bodice or sleeves. A season reveling in rainbow hues is neces
sarily modifying the well known quiet tastes of Mrs. Wilson and her
daughters.
GAS KILLS COUPLE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. IS. —
Daniel Sullivan, a retired painter,
and hia wife, age 64, were found
dead.in bed today of gas asphyx
iation. It is believed that. In
turning off the electric light's, a
sleeve of Mrs. Sullivan's night
dress caught the ga s Jet and part
ly turned it on.
POISON KILLS
NOGAUES. Ariz., Nov. 18.—A.
A. Hudgin, age 66, the rancher
who was made totally blind a
month ago when blades of corn 1
slit both eyeballs as he walked
through his field, died today of
blood poisoning resulting from
the wounds. t
ON MAMMON TUP.
The British steamer Las Blanca
Is here On her maiden trip to loa<
lumbar.
OUBIST ART ADMITTED.
Tacoma art league decided to
allow the cubist art to be display,
od at the coming art show.
PROGRESSIVES
OPEN CAMPAIGN
OF EDUCATION
X The ~/i new progressive service
league > opened %i Its * organization
campaign' in the county last night
with I a meeting • and! banquet M
Puyallup."£fi-*y*?\i &$*l ?£%** '• 9 -*j
The big speaker of the evening
was Congressman :J. A. Falconer
who discussed - the new tariff I and
currency , bills. if J. A. Sorley, Mm,'
John f Mills, '. Govnor Teats. J. 8.
worth,• Burns ) Poe 1 and ■ Oil
Rowland were on the list of toast
ers.
|B The j attendance - was Rood and
the speeches all along educational
lines of i progressive ; policies.
CONFIRM FIELD
&. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 13.
—The B nomination '"of" Dudley
Field Malone a 8 collector of.the
port of New York to succeed John
Purroy Mitohell, was confirmed
without opposition by : the senati
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BOOTS TO CEUBmVk'm. )
;■■ J Scots ■iX will t celebrate fit. An
*t*w*b day with a banflnet her*
November 28 and a»oth«r Novem
ber •••
csnp HE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE," to begin in The Times next Monday, appear in the form
■"■ of a diary, full of human experience—a diary in which a woman tells the high and low, the
Utter and sweet of life after marriage. "The Confessions of a Wife" are REAL. We feel sure that
women will instantly recognise this. "Margaret Hastings" confides to her diary the thoughts that
most women think, but do not dare to speak out. She has written them courageously, systematic
ally and sanely. She does not extol herself nor does she blame others for her heartaches. The
writer of this diary has set down each day the different episodes that go to make up married life.
She tells what she thinks of them and of the man she married. The every day life of a wife is pic
tured—the joys, the sorrows, the humor and the texrs, the big sicrifices and the little sins.
COMMISSIONERS DECIDE ON
SPECIAL BOND ELECTION IN
DECEMBER TO RAISE FUNDS
COMPLETE VICTORY FOR
ADHERENTS OF MUNICIPAL
OWNERSHIP OF CAR LINE
Judge Stiles to Draw Ordinance for Special Bond
Election —City Attorney Becomes Convert of
Municipal Ownership—Tideflat Line Company
Promises to Aid in Financing Election Should
City Be Short of Funds.
The municipal carline is a go.
And the efforts of the adherents of municipal
ownership and the Tacoma Times, the only news-*
paper in Tacoma that has, throughout the wrangling
with the Stone-Webster people, insisted that the
traction company could not be given a franchise over
the High bridge, and has been the only newspaper in
Taooma that has championed the municipal owner
skip of the tideflat line idea, will soon bear fruit.
v The council informally but unanimously voted
this morning to call a special election to be held
about the middle of December for the people to
authorise bonds for the construction of the enter
prise.
A bond issue of $100,000 was voted this morning,
but when the ordinance is brought in next week it
is likely this will be cut down to the estimate of the
engineers of $87,000.
The meeting this morning was
a joint session with , citizens • and
tldeflat workmen. _ It was agreed
that t all. negotiations with Btone-
Webster, were off, although Carl
Jacobs still ; Insisted that the com
pany- should be brought to time
And he ( even wanted to give .up
the percentage, on ; gross receipts
to get rhem-.to: do It. No one
took " any stock In his argument,
even '< Jirtlge Stiles* ' pointing >; out
that to do this would'be giving
tbe-c'ompany about: $600,000 for
a little $87,000 railway and ; the
company would even then own the
railway. ;. „ . V .. *, .
Stiles, himself, generally, op
posed to municipal ownership,
came out for the city line on the
flats. V . ".>"'.■.. /" »V..: ■-■■''
"I will vote for the bonds now
myself," he told the council, urg
ing that the money be raised that
way. "I will do it because I be
lieve we must develop the flats
and I am ( confident I .if j the | line
{goes- to the Milwaukee shops it
will' go lon over to the' bluff and
build. up that whole section as a
feeder to Tacoma." r ; - -, ,
! Dow 4 wanted to know why not
take the light plant profits . and
build the line. ■; ■ -M'ty^iii- -f
TJ» commissioners g. opposed
this,, as did Stiles, and preferred
bonds'. >-'?',;-;ith!>C--V;«"V-'; jiS
f : " Carl Jacobs thought it wculd be
a. burden to ask the tldeflat work-,
men ' to i pay an i additional , fare.
"Some people - are ?$ worrying
more than we are about the fare,"
said R. E. Green of the . Milwau
kee-shops. s ? "We ;; want * the S mu
nicipal '■- line. v We don't want the
Company 'to build; \Jr~e j want : the
city to 5 build .and j later ', take I over
other line* until \we have a mu
nicipal I system. We 1' are willing
even to pay straight five cent face
fur awhile if ; necessary." p? ■:*^\ iji.
H Green's remarks were seconded
by Frank .Wilson: and \J. Hughes,
other; Milwaukee \ shop jmeh.^l^
1 1 When the council seemed to fa
tot the j bond ] plan over the ] light
plant profits to get the money, the
tldeflat club consented. 5 But they
wanted tho election goon. Free
land objected putting it off un
til the spring election to .have the
Issue made a I political • football.
"If yon will call the election we
will I furnish! the f election ■ Judges
and clerks ! or /every j precinct ila
town free of cost." said Dow.
': ;:;"Yes, we will t raise j the ' money
to | pay for the whole election ion
the t)deflatß," said ! Hughes: from
the Milwaukee shops.
Wit* thl a offer the commission
.votedj to } call an election at the
earliest possible date. This will
be decided by, Judge Stiles between
now, and f Monday, when S th« ordi
nance will be brought <inX*» ■ j
i HOME
EDITION
PI HIGH TO
SECURE HIS
tIBEfITY ■)
EARL SWENGSTROM GIVES UP
WIVE, BAIIi MONEY, . HOME
'AND VALUABLE FURNITURE
TO ESCAPE BEING SENT TO
JAIL. V :: -:.^-. -v-i^f
' Earl Swengstrom, 82nd and
Piißet Sound avenue, 1 paid a high
price ' for ; his liberty In '■. police
court ;.- yesterday . afternoon. He
gave up his wife, his home, $400
worth of furniture and $250 in
cash. It is, said to he the high
est price ever paid in local police
court for freedom. - - --^-''^ji
" Snengatrom had. been arrested
for having | driven I his j wife from
home late one night in her night
clothes.:; She was forced to Jump
through! a j window .to j the I ground
to escape a beating from her hus
band. . ';?%>■:. : -■..,■ i* •■ vj.' - ; "^,«.- ■■■V
g While Mrs. Swengstrom sought
a warrant for his arrest,* the hus
band went to Ia! local i bank, drew
out all the family savings and was
about Ito I leave | town when i Con
stable a Shaw g caught him. He
pleaded- guilty yesterday, *. signed
over all s hlB rf property ».< to £ • his
wife, i gave 'j her the $250 ;~ that
they - had - saved, and i- announced
that i he would offer no. resistance
to htr |divorce.l^ Mrs. Bwengstroin
filed suit « for : divorce within' an
hour after the police , court j hear
ing. ... . - - - ■ : • i
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MAD DOG BITE
GETS HIM $3,500
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 13.—Bitten
by a mad * dog In j the , hands of J a
policeman while riding on a Unit
ed \ Railways electric I car some
time f ago, ' and ? Infected with J ra
bies, Albert XJA Geod \ was 1 yester
day awarded 13,500 damages.
HUSBAND STILL
'LEGALLY ALIVE'
NEW YORK, Not. 18.—After a
bitter legal ® battle, Mrs. Mary
Oargan, a Brooklyn school teach
er who applied for a: marriage li
cense on the ground ttuit her hus
band, serving ; a murder : sentence
at Sin* Slng,awft»l"lec»llr dead,"
THE WORLD'S NEWS
IN CONDENSED FORM,
THAT'S THE TIMES.
.'.Margaret Illington.".
Tacoma Favorite Whom
Mere Reporter Did Not
Interview — She Slept
BY THE MERE REPORTER.
- I will frankly confess that my
late i attempt'to interview Madam
Schumann-Heink was a miserable
failure.;' ?. y v, ;' *:,'- f, '< ViMi
..., Therefore, I did not tumble all
over myself with £ eagerness {S to
dash out of the office this morn.
ing : when' the editor suggested I
drop in on Margaret Olington. I
demurred much, and at length. I
related :my [ disastrous experience
with the grand ; opera 7- singer. 3 I
think I remarked great stars were
uncertain, and careless ,of inter,
viewers*. feelings.':;*^...i»:.;;"; ..i xyi,X?
1 The editor did not seem visibly
Impressed. ;■; "%, ,V.-*c;"^;^-j?i? i
"Miss illington la '3* different,"
said 1 he. .;. "She i is ; more :,: local
wife of a Tacoma man, you know.
Ask her about the minimum wage
for girls, j suffragette principles,
mother's . pensions, sex g equality,
and all those things."7 - "?.'ir
MOf course, I • don't know fe any
thing about them, but Miss Illing
ton does. The editor told me so.'
. ■; So* I , went j over to the Tacoma
hotel' In a very cheerless ; mood. ; I
was , trying to 1 remember all those
things , the ; editor mentioned, and
It j gave jme a | headache. When ; I
entered the lobby I found myself
face-to-face £ with f all *£ kinds M of
roses, flowers, < and I fragrant blos
soms. They had \ been ? given Miss
Illington . the night before. 1 I < was
going 1 to . swipe i a i •; cream-colored
rose, but \ the i clerk i was watching
me.
g& In reply ito my query, the tele
phone operator . told ': me that! Miss
Illington's i maid i would * talk 1 with
me. My conversation * with ? the
maid was brief.
m Mrs. Edward J. Bowes, nee Il
lington, was asleep. Would I call
a ! little. later? Qood-brMmmA»
"Ha!" I said to myself," ,he is
here. ; I will wait until she awak
ens."
I went oat on the steps ami sat I
down, when 1I » beheld Bill Grat.
tan, of the News, and Jack Qnin
lan, of the Tribune, approaching.
They had come for the same par*
pose as I, 1 and gently \I j broke the
news to them that Miss Illington
slumbered.
"We'll wait," uttered Jack,
seating himself on the step* be- j
sid«'me.^s«S^%^^^i^iM:
BIH Grattan frowned, I saw he
was trying to think of sonu uiians
of getting rid of m*, but I knew
taMiw?oa!i;K)AV MMM
,-a. We' Hat ■ «sd mt^Tneß: v« got
n»vfta^itntelu^:iifief^ruyyM^
again sat. And all the time i Miss
Illington ] slept, 'fit," become & too
much for Jack. -^SiilJitiw*^
"My soul i cr|ei out for noarUtw:
orient,'"he said. ''Let's sneak >«v'
for a minute."
g. Accordingly, we . went oat and §
procured some nourishment, In ■
place with swinging door*. V An We £
harried back, an automobile shot I
around the corner. In it were Mr.
and j Mrs. E. J. |Bowes,T>* and >-'/MS
looked ?as| If they were going to
be gone some time. l f I S'«^H^§
Jack t swore. Bill wept, and ft j|
thought 'of Madam £ Schumann* I
Heiuk.
*. But they came back, after «
bit,- and * Miss \ Illtngton, did J grant
us an >< Interview -Just before iho. |
ate ' lunch. Z :mK<~^.'^?i><>#ti&/gyi
■;^*l; think I Mary Turner In the'
best role I ever bad, and I son
very glad ito i get back Ito t T«o», .
1114%. v <Jo«d-day." uSil^^^*"*- U^&^iSSELj&SyMK
That was all.
I'll never try and talk to an*
other j star. -If '. the j ratlins ; dans i
ask me I'll resign.
They ■ are ■ all j alike, and then
Jack Quintan might rnntn aJfij
and want to bo/ torn* "n«ini Isl -
B BETROTHAL JV
RINGS 'P
One could not wish to sa<» tt."
* finer assortment at ea- I
sagernent rings tfcta we arc
now showing. I
In one assortment we #
•how the diamond Ik tm>M'
nation with th« —«- r — rtr
aid, sapphire, opal, etc 1|