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T ACOMAHS QUIT HMD DKMKMC m.. a-— d^. ,o. „„. _,„■ rI * WT% f\ r I >"* f\ Alf| d*% I "| Tin £\C3 WEATHER her hn.band me h n-» in in mom*., fire Q ■ I fl-JI ■ \>fl fl vfl ■■ T>l ■ ■ ■ ■ I •"" Tacom*: Occasional rain tonight STJC-dS fu,r iasj- js: ws: 111 Cv I tJII. vl 11 KjL 1 I 11 XJ^ and Saturday lurtyiuastid. hMithjr i»jr». Aurt tJ.u tt e i.*»- JL JLIiX/ JL %^%/ \# Jk»A V^» -*■- "^ ■ ■ Washington: Occasional rain tagton, IC». M. y e.eh on. become . colonel. THE INDE p ENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TAOOMA. PwOMF I WWt ' r^ll Or BnOW •"* Po^o"' ——^i———— J MONTH 1 VOL. XII. NO. i>B4. TACOMA, WABU.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19.1916. { "BMi I "^— —— EXECUTE HLLSTROM POWER DEAL A GAMBLE The four city commission ers who are lined up to grant the T. K. & I. Co. »» auxiliary power oontrtu't liy which the city will ;mj .in I'Mii liliiHH rate for current, arc gambling with the ihm | li's illK 1.-si-, >i«cor<llli^ to Mayor Fawcett. "By that proi)osed deal, the city would be betting at three to one odds that the municipal pow er plant would never break down or be short of power in 15 yea.'a," naiil the mayor. * "We would get the benefit of protectoin from shortage, beca<iue the power company would dtaud ready to furnish us 10,000 kilo watts of Juice. But if we ev^r did need current, we would pay more than three times the ordin ary retail rate for it. "As a sporting proposition, it might be a good bet. But >:n a I'HKiiH-MK deal, it 1b the rankest place of work 1 ever heard of." Not Against Reasonable I »«■«!. Mayor Fawcett declared today that he was not opposed to mak ing an agreement whereby the f. R. & P. Co. could furnish the uty current during; a breakdown or shortage of power at our Nik qually plant. "And I would even expect to pay a little more than the usaal rate for the jufee," said the mayor. "Because we could not expect to have this emergency service at our command all the time without paying something for it. But I think we shoild pay for what we use. I think a fixed rate should be named, uid let the city pay for just what cur rent we consume. "I will never agree to this proposition, which makes the rate jump up to $2.50 a kilowatt from 3-4 cent, the minute that we use more than two hours and one half of service." Heady Wednesday. Commissioner Atkins today de clared that the franchise and auxiliary power propositions would be laid before the council Wednesday in the form of an or dinance. "There will be four proposi tions in the single ordinance —vie return of the T. R. & P. Oo.'s power franchise, a franchise for street cars on Pacific avenue to 64th street, a franchise across the Tacoma avenue fill, and a con tract by which the city will buy auxiliary power from the T. R. & P. Co., and will sell to the T. It A P. Co. when that concern neeis it. "I don't expect there will be any trouble passing the ordi nance." Could Force Good Deal. Mayor Fawcett declared todt\y that ttie city council had the T. K. ft P. Co. In a position where It could ge.'. almost anything that It demanded. "The Times was absolutely right last night when it said that T. R. & P. officials were in dun gar of losing their jobs," said Fawcett today. "If this council had any backbone, it could force the T. R. tt P. Co. to come across with any kind of an agreement that It wanted. We don't have to eat out of the power trust's hand. We have them where we want them, and the council is bo weak-kneed as to take pity and hand them a lot of fat franchises and contracts on a silver platter." GAVEL MADE OF OLD STREET CAR In the future the president of the Tacoma Rotary club >vtll wield a gavel with a wooden nead made out of Tacoma's first street car and a handle from the spoke of an old prairie schooner. The gavel was presented yesterday by John Hartrnan. TRAIN DERAILED; 11 CARS DITCHED An N. P. train was derailed one mile west of Kanasket U 3 o'clock yesterday morning, dltch ing 11 freight cars. No one was Hurt ROBERTS REPORTS ON RIVER WORK ; PUYJUXVP. Not. 19.—T0 sH- DRUNKENESS FALLS OFF 30 PERCENT IN TACOMA DURING 1914 By E. A. Peters Tliere lias been :IO i«t cent leas intoxication in I»■ lonia during the first eight mouths of IWIS than there was during tlie .similar per iod of lust y«*ar. At this mic, the theorist* iiiiKui iiiK-'-f, there would be no intoxication In Taroinu within ilnci' yeari* and four montliti, even if the saloons were to remain in existence. NtiitiHttcß compiled toduy from record* of the Timumi police records show Uiat there wn« 37 per cent le«H arrests from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31 of 1915 for drunkenness than then- were in 1014, and that there were 88 per cent less arrests on the cfiarge of "drunk and disorderly" dur ing the same comparative periods. The combined figures show an actual decrease in drunkenness of 32 per cent. The charge of "drunk and disorderly" Is mere ly a slightly more severe charge than that of "common drunk" and is preferred in cases where tht prisoner was unruly either be fore or after his arrest. Police officials have no ex planation to make for the re markable decrease except to say that there is a great difference in the amount of liquor consum ed this year than last. The fact of impending prohibition un doubtedly has had its effect. It is not considered likely that the discontinuance of a few Tacoma saloons would have caused this great decrease. Mayor's Ordinance Helped. The only recent legislation of the city council which might finve had an effect is Mayor Fawcett's ordinance prohibiting_the cash ing of pay checks in saloons. Tl<is has prevented many men from starting on an unpremeditated carouse, Mayor Fawcett declares, and has been a direct benefit to the families of hundreds of working men. A graphic chart detailing the number of arrests for intoxication would produce a straight line starting last year at the upper left hand side of the sheet and tracing rapidly downward to the opposite corner. During last month, October, there were only 115 arrests on this charge, the smallest number for any month (excepting in May, when the number was 114) in years.- The arrests for intoxication, according to police records, show the following figures: De -1914. 1915. crease. March ....211 155 .26 April 280 163 .41 May 170 114 32 June 129 127 01 July .193 154 .20 August ....177 116 35 September .256 149 .42 October ...151 115 .23 The arrests for later months of 1914 were: November, 143; De cember, 220; January, 1915, 143; February, 118. Poice officers offer as one rea son for the decrease in arrests for Intoxication the attitude of Police Captain Abel S. Read. Read Oives lieeture. Every morning Captain Raad causes the jailers to bring out of the cells all men and women ar rested during the night for in toxication. Usually the prisoners are penitent, remorseful and beg ging for liberty. Some of them are surly and defiant. Capt. Read has adopted a Golden Rule policy with thorn. In his capacity as police officer for 15 years he has become a good judge of human nature, and he is uslug it these days to excellent ad vantage. Each prisoner has a private interview with the captain. If the | WELL .WELL - ffUf^ *jfl ACRE'S AH iro^gH OTHERS lllLjeL. jM story. mrZ^^m WHAT C*H W^f^'W ooHHfs aw. l mean o mwJ v r>l . 4 I W. jl jt Man—or woman—is indeed peni tent. In the captain's eyes. Read releases him. But ho always gives him a fatherly talk, and a hit of advice that is said by those who have heard it to be one of the greatest prohibition lectures ever repeated. And at the end of his fatherly talk, the captain asks the prisoner to promise that he will leave liquor alone, and that he will at least never cause himself to be arrested again for intoxication. It Is seldom that the recipient BILLION EGGS IN STORAGE NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The "egg kings" who planned to gar ner a financial harvest by selling their goods to the allies at war time prices are wig-wagging to the public for help. Tho allies did not buy as had been expected. Hence the "egg kings" have been caught with a surplus, com plicated by prospects of a mild winter, which promises to make the hens lay more than usual. In 24 cold storage plants there urn over a billion eggs, or ten apiece for everybody In the United States. Unless the housewives come to their rescue and buy storage goods, several of the egg brokers will face financial ruin HOTEL A GAMING JOINT? An Information may possibly be (lied against Sam Cassmir, proprietor of the old Oxford ho tel, charging him with running a gambling house, as a result of the gun bluff used last night by John Goodman, Alaska hotel pro prietor, to recover several hun dred dollars of which he claimed he was fleeced. Both Cassmir and Goodman will appear before Prosecutor Remann today. Remann said to day he did not believe Goodman should be dealt too severely with if his atory is true. SEATTLE ELOPERS CAUGHT Trailed to Tacoma by a private detective hired by the girl's par ents, Miss Mayette Carson, 17, .and K. (V Robinson, Jr., both of Seattle, were arrested by the Ta coroa police at 2 o'clock this morning is a room of the West hotel, 1401% Pacific avenue. The couple oloped several 'lays ago, it is charged. Because or the girl's age, they feared ref 'ual pf a marriage license after they had come to Taooma, and vere waiting here to get up 'courage ; enough to apply for a permit to wed, according to the polio*. schooTgirls' morals o.k/d CHICAGO, Nor. 19.—An. inves tigation into morals in the M*h ichobli here, which followed pub lished ttat«menu of laxity among of one of Capt. Read's talks Is re arrettted. Frequently men walk into police headquarters md thank the captain for advice giv en them in this manner months before. Whether Captain Read's efforts have lowered the number of ar rests, and made the percentage of decrease in drunkenness larger each month is not capable of demonstration But it Ih, at least, becoming un fashionable in Tnconi a to get drunk any more. T. R. TO ENLIST IN WAR? OTTAVa, Nov. 19. —Asked concerning the report that Ok. Roosevelt had offered to join the Canadian regiments in KMaiidera, Minlßter-of-the-Militla Hugheo said today: "He would make a bonnle fighter. I've heard rumors of «uch an offer, but It nan not been made to me. I'd be delighted to give him command of .1 fUvislim." "NO COMMENT" NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—"The colonel lips no comment," Roob* velt's a-32retary announced today concernlnß the Ottawa report that he had offered to Join the Canadian forces in Flanders. I flashes! BERLIN —-Central powers cap tured 5,000 Serbs Thursday. BERLIN —British monitor Bunk in Tigris river with entire crew aboard. ROME —Austro-German cardi nals will be given paMporta through Italian lines to att.vid conßlstory at the Vatican in De cember. WASHINGTON, D. C.—State department is delaying acUon against Austrian Consul Nuber and other alleged plotters, it !• claimed. NEW YORK—New York wit nessed the worst storm in years last night when it was rooked by a 70-mile gale. CHlCAGO—Terrific bliziards are blowing off Lake Michigan, endangering traffic. BERLIN —German war afflce announced Serbian Invasion suc cessfully completed. CONSTANTINOPLE — Allies bombarded Turkish left #lng near Anafarta, with 8,000 t-holls Sunday. ROME—Rumania's position in war will be decided by cabinet now in session. LONDON—English and Fraach cabinet officers pledged them selves today to save Serbia at any cost. LONDON—Big naval battle expecti><i with Germans near const of Sweden. OLYMPIA—Mrs. Ltnd* Has zard, starvation expert, may be pardoned this Chrlstimas by par don board. fighting" j TO FINISH VIENNA, Nov. 19.—The shat tered and torn flanks of the Serbs, surrounded by mountain* bordering Kovlbazar near the Montenegrin bordar, are prepar ing to roak« their Utt stacd. th* C«ti*l powers *r* r* tnorselesiiy cluUßt In on tttjN^^H Shall Tacoma Be a Dump Ground ? Is Tacoina to he n ilnni:» liik ground for ntM-off mcr chjiudiKe of Seattle un<] I'ortlund. Are nilrii snleNinen 1.1 >>c |H>rtnltlml to dis|'otte of ynst Ktnrks of Inferior i;ood>> un der the kiilho of NelliiiK nt ii r<Waclinii die Ntockn of ilri or I li:i| I HCOuui iik-ii liiiut ? The ipiery i« |>roiii|ite<l to* •lay by wliat 1h going on .it IXjUe's. Jsot that Mr. Dege has .liiy tMi.j; to do « itli It, for, H|M>:ir<':it hag no voice In the matter. Oarret Fibber Is acting an re ceiverx for the ihou'h furnitiliiug h< v i Hlb partner, Oeorge FYanr.'H Howe, la conducting one of luh typical "aalei." Mony romplalntß have pome to The Times of the class of mer chandise lie is handling and of the prices he is getting. They are prices which would be reasonable, buyerß Bay, for the class of quods Now What Would YOU Have Done? JI'HT WHAT WAS DONE, BAVH A TACOMA MOTH Eli Bdltof The Times: After all, the vital question is Dot yhether science has a right to alley nature to talte her course in fines such as that of the Bol linfcr'beby, but rather what wofnjtiave been the desire of the tlnr'nllte itself. *• none of us ask to come heiEslb(l it 1b hardly fair to i'r>n deifiTa hiinißii being to a life maK' unendurable by an inu.ir moTOtabls . handicap. We are kinder to dumb beasts. Haffng" taught defective and subnormal children, I have wlt n<«eed the dumb suffering and pitiful, helpless ang«r that they were not as their more fortunate companions. T have seen a boy* of 12 turn upon a-taunting playmate with a hatred that was terrible to see. AnM he was only slightly defect itef 'How much more keenly talk o' the Times - Uminent antronomer sayn he people of Mar* are dying 4 tlilrst. Certain Tncoma rinu'fi of oum soon will be Me 10 appreciate the Mar ians' plight. They've got Villa "nearly s«r jro nded" again in So.iora. They've done that as they have "t und" Ethel Oliver. Why not vote a bond issue bf two or three million- for I the T. it. * P. wliile we are triplets—and Father Has $5 a Week Job jßEATTLE, Nov. It.—ln a ram shackle home on the side of a bit ff overlooking the tideflats nelr Oeorgtetown considerable [)n|s*tlle h« been ElTen the Ita lian population of Beatue. To afamily of eight, presided ON THE sun \\ \i.k TODAY IN KKONT OK DKUK'H. they had been accustomed to buy at Dege's, but exorbitant for the kind they actually are rucelving. The IMM In tJi<> good* m-e n>.iihi:' in from Portlu.iil mill powMy from oilit-r point*. Itowe hiiiiN»lf In at l'ortlnnd i-oiklih in.n iiMh-i --"halam," and In <<\|um(«-iI hero toiiniiii.w to boom ulong the |W«sent Dege "sale." Tliii picture hli"\ik one •ample of the ]<>m\ H of good* which have Iteen set down *t Dege & Co.'h clothing Htore, 11th and Hiohil«hj, •In re 'I iiomlmj- when Gnrrnt Phdrt-, partner of (jeorwo Fr*iue» Rowe, in the "ltd vciii»lmt"' hiuinemt, Ih-k.mi to poll off a "receiver* •ale." One of the boxes there beam the label of Llpman Wolfe & Co., Portland, Ore. The goods began to arrive fit the Dege receiver sale Monday must the actual monstrosity suf fer? How much more eagerly must be seek to "get even" with the world where he has no fight iug chance? From every viewpoint, such a child might better die. In moicy to itself. In protection to society. in betterment of posterity. True, we all have an equal right to Ufa, but who of us would want to live an object of pity to those who love us, a horror to the passer by, a wretched malcontent to ourselves? It seems absurd to make snch a furor over this particular case. It was merely an accident of time that the babe died after, instead of before birth. Nature intended that it should not live. On the other hand, had there heen no actual cause for death,j(|fc,'* kjl/1 have been tar better tot tne physician to have silenced the- lit tle unfortunate. A MOTHBR>« in the charity basinets, ;utd do the job up brown? It now appears that London Globe was suppressed beoauie it said the government was, lying. Carry out that policy In America and there would't be neu< ti >f a free preaa left save The War Ciy. In tlieae iinfurranatv hhhl ern Umea, the coll«g« »h>.t wlio can't make the football ■quad haa to content himself witli merely getting an edu cation. The babies weigh six, tevon and eight pounds respectively. A neighbor .who is caring for the mother laid that the father, who is employed la a nearbg brick ysrd, U earning little more than |6 a Votk. afternoon when a whole express van of loosel)' wrapped bundles pulled up at tlio Dege store and unloaded. Today these boxen you gee in the picture were unloaded at the same place. And the nelllnK-out-at-"loweBt priceg" continues. Fisher refused today either to deny or affirm that ho la hauling in goods from outnlde' citieg for tue mile. "It's nobody's business where we get the goods offered for sale," lie said. "The court nn powers the receiver to conduct a Bale for the benefit of the credi tors and we an- follow him out the Instruction;* of the court." "Nice thought, isn't It, that Tacoiim siiniiUl be the refuse dump of Hie North west? ThlHi-s in fin.- with our Ituy-at-Honie movement anil all ilmt. REACH 6 MORE MINERS Six more bodle« of the 31 vlc- Uinß of the explosion In Ravous lale mine Tuesday were recov ered !>>■ rescuers last, night from the third level, where they ilart been entombed by a ninsg of fallen lork and debrli. They were tarrib!/ mangled, nnd vii ntii'ic-iit<un so fur ha* been imporaibi*, officials of the N'or'.hw eatera JUnpj»v«raent Co. lieru Hnid. ■ t Of (he 25 vi«fli«fsi M ,ri. ,| In the pill* level t6/*il%cmalii ;nr« ri'Vered. In at), the bo.lieu Of 10 of the 31 victims have been fouud. At t,a|«.Fooriev<4 .The l«'.>fht"Where the exiiioslon o^eurred, J.^CM) feet below the surface, was reached at midnight by the rescuers who have been digging and searching many ho v re Officials expect that all the bodies will have been recovered by tonight. The miners on the third lmel were working in pairs in the vuri >it« rooms at the time of the exiitoalon. so t'm considerably l'uie work In clearing uway the debris nerds tp be dorm beXore t'ley can bj roiched. «H>:a>oo Holier. «. To pay the large sum of relief money to which the families of toe victims are entitled by law, the stato industrial insurance cooimlMion Is planning to levy an assessment on the coal mines of the state. This sum Is estimated mt be tween $75,000 and $100,000. Of ttn> 31 victims, 20 were married and only 11 were single. As far as can be learned, 39 children were made fatherless by the disaster- CATCH A SUB FIGHTS UP TO DEATH sxi/i i \hi:, i vii, Nov. 19.—Fighting In an Inmne frenzy, Joe HilUtrom, I.W, W. member, went to hit deatl^ before the Utah state firing squad In the yard of the penitentiary at 7:49 o'clock Hi's morning. Iv Home unknown way lie had concenled it bruoni Imn dle In Ids cell. When the door oiiened he leaped at the fcMju.N, > wliikliik the ihili otn their heads fiercely, se verely ciittiiiK one of Minn on tlio Noalp iind face. The guardM quickly overpowtr* ed him and then the death inarch commenced. Warden Pratt and a deputy led. Two phyfllclans followed. rii.in came HUlßtrom between the (w<> deputlei. iiiiihii-oiu'h eyea wcra no% bllndfuldnd until he reached th# prinoD yard. He wished to 'nci tlie hc|ii:xl with open eyes, but ■ thick band of cloth was placed around Ills eyea and bead. Yelln "Fire" Hlmeelf. With a. swinging, stride, bf walked to the death chair. Whin he had been buckled In he fac9d the door of the blacksmith shoft 2n paces away from which Die glittering muziElea of the rirui penetratod. A white target was placed above Iil« heart. "Aim," shouted Sheriff Oorlejft, Five NflM were steadied at the portholes. "Fire—let 'er go," shrieked Hillstrom mooklngljr. He was plainly grlnlng—a horrible death grin. No Disturbances. "Fire!" commanded Corli»f« Five rifles spoke. Hlllstrom's body sank down' into the chair. In one minute in* physicians pronounced him 1«a<!. Despite threats of the IniWs trial Workers, they created no disturbance. Hillstrom was executed for the murder of J. O. Morrison, a Kro ner, and his son Arllng. An eleventh hour attempt to save him failed. A Seattle :'UU» named Bushby is reported to iiave signed an affidavit furnishing an alibi, claiming he was in Hill- Strom's company elsewhere than the scene of the murders. lllH strom himself swept even this small hope of life aside. Repudiates Him. "I don't know Busby," he sold. Ed Rowan, secretary of the Salt Lake Industrial Worker*, applied for admission as a witless, because he was a friead of Hill- Strom, but was not allowed with* in the prison walla. Probably 150 prisoners. Includ ing a score of women and a ntr.n ber of Industrial Workers, re mained outside the prison wills in the public street They heird, the five rifles oraek. The marksmen's aim was perfect. Four ballets enter ed over HllUtrom'a heart ivlthin a apace which could liave been covered by a alive* dollar. Rumania Trying to Make Up Mini ROME, Nor. It.—Human! course in relation to the WSjf hanga on a decision of the c Inet now meeting At Boohs re The king unexpectedly called a extraordinary session after i ticians, diplomat* and soldi had agreed neutrality ao )ott| was possible. 1 Wfaafs Dolai j Today "Stunt night" of Young Me#i Commercial club; 7:3e p. m , «4 Commercial club. ■ .: > St. Leo's bazaar; afternoon a evening; Bt. Leo's hell. H l&uonlo reunion ends