The Tacoma times. [volume], January 26, 1916, Image 1

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MR. T- H- MARTIN, PLAIN ZOB
Mr. T. H. Martin is coming back to Tacoma in a
few days.
Let's have out the band, a string of autos mid
the reception committee.
Let's show him how we appreciate his work.
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Mr. T. H. Martin, for the benefit of those who
have forgotten, is the former secretary of the Com
mercial club.
He has been in Washington for several weeks
lobbying in the interest of Rainier National park,
or, at least, of the syndicate which expects to run
all the concessions there hereafter.
It is supposed he is to be general manager for
the concern.
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He took back with him the "tWmr-Hours-to-the
(Jlaciers" film.
This he showed, among others, to the National
Press club, of Washington.
Never tickle Mother Nature;
you may throw the old lady into
hysterics. If you don't believe it,
read first editorial, page 4.
TACOMA MAN AMONG DEAD IN SEATTLE
Lost, $1,000,000
THREE
DIE IN
WRECK
SP.OKANK, Jan. 26.-- Engineer
George Bait nnd two unidenti
fied hoboes were killed today in
a liead-on collision between Mil
waukee trains No. 17 and 18 near
Servla, 37 miles east of Othello,
. Wash.
William Scliultz, engineer on
18, I). P. Armstrong, fireman on
17, and John Woodward, express
messenger, were seriously injur
ed.
Both engines, the express and
baggage cars were smashed to
splinters. The real cause of the
. accident Is undetermined.
AH REPORTED I.OCAMA'
As the result of mistaken or
ders, two Chicago-Milwaukee
steel passenger trains crashed
head on at Servla, ln eastern
| Washington, at ". o'clock this
morning. The engineer of one of
the trains was killed, but the pas
sengers all escaped without se
' rlous Injury.
The trains were the two Colum
bians, one leaving Tacoma at 6
o'clock last night, nnd one due to
arrive here at 9:4;"". this morn
ing.
The accident occurred on the
Milwaukee matn line about eight
miles from the Northern Pacific
crossing at I.lnd. When the crash
came the forwaru cars of each
train were hurled from the track.
Narrow Escape.
The locomotives were com
pletely demolished. Rescuers
found the dead body of one of
the engineers pinned ln the
' wreckage. His name has not been
learned by local officials.
Had It not been that both of
• Ihe tarlns were made up of all
tteel cars, It in believed the acci
dent would have resulted ln the
loss of many lives.
Blame "I-apped Orders."
The collision is declared by of
ficials of the road to have been
due to "lapped orders," a mis
take having been made by one of
the operators In dispatches sent
over the wires.
Block signals have not vet
been installed on this part of the
line.
Further details of the wreck
hare not been received at the Ta
coma offices. The line was tied
up for several hours while the
wreckage was cleared away.
THIS WIFE WON'T
TAKE HUB'S CASH
Earl W. rjcttel, la a suit tar
-m divorce filed yetterday against
Ethel Oetlel, asked the court to
order his wlf^ to accept aid from
him for the support of their four
year-old child. Oettle said that
his wife had refused to accept a
*ent from lilm.
The Tacoma Times
25c a
I Month
Phone Company Can't
Imagine Where Sum
Went, But Experts
Are Sure It's Gone
l.o**i! One million dollars
worth" of the property of the
Pacific Telephone A Tele
graph Co.!
Or, to be exact, 151,05J>.
--74«.
It's gone, mysteriously miss
ing. Whether it's copper wire, a
runaway electric spark, a sizzling
lovey-dovey telephone conversa
tion or what, the company is un
lable to say.
Gone; Don't Know Where.
All the company knows is that
they have It somewhere within
the limits of the state of Wash
ington, but they can't just find
It.
Or, as J. C. I.acrone, one of the
company engineers, put it: "If 1
I'd have known where it was 1
would have located It.
And so the telephone company,
In the Federal building this
morning, asked the public service
commission to allow these mys
terious mi.*-••ion million dollar be
longings to he included in the ap
praisal and estimated cost, ot re
production of the company's prop
erty.
And on the estimated val-
TACOMA
SUICIDE
GHASTLY
One of the most uncanny sui
cides in Tacoma for many years
came to light this morning when
the body of Jens Peterson, a mill
worker, was found hanging from
a rope in the drying room on the
fourth floor of the St. Paul * Ta
coma Lumber Co.'s boarding
house.
Peterson, 65 years of age, re
cently had sustained Injuries to
his arm which had prevented him
from working.
For several days he has spent a
good deal of time In the drying
room.
Consequently it occasioned no
surprise to the other boarders
this morning to see him apparent
ly standing with his back to the
pipes.
When he made no move, after
many minutes, and gave no reply
t/ .iiiesilons, an investigation
was titarted.
He was seen to be dead, and a
rope was found about bis neck.
Its presence waa cleverly conceal
ed by bis coat collar.
He lectured about Rainier National park and
Mt. Rainier to this club, consisting of newspaper
correspondents representing papers the country
over and the world over.
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Yes, we know we said Mt. Rainier; that is what
we meant to say. For, you see, we are quoting Mr.
i T. H. Martin, and that is what he said.
He told the club all about the dispute over the
name, the silly dispute which arose when Taco
i mans insisted on using the old Indian name.
, Mr. T. H. Martin told the club that "the time
i honored feud" had been laid; that "Seattleites and
Tacomans have agreed together to speak of the
• mountain always hereafter aa Rainier;" that ev
eryone, in fact, does it now a days; that such pro
vincials localisms as "Mt. Tacoma" no longer are
■ done by our best people!
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I At least two of the papers of Washington, 1). <\,
carried news stories the next day telling of Mr. T.
VOL. Mil. NO. :r_ TACOMA, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY -JO, Uttfl
nation of property are lo be
Imsed the rules which you,
Mr. and Mrs. Citizen of Ta
coma, are to -hell out for
your telephone service.
The million dollar runaway
electric sparks the company calls
"omissions."
That's what the BteßjMUly told
the public service commission
this morning. They got away
from the company's engineers
when they were making their
$200,000 Inventory of the prop
erty.
Now Chairman Reynolds and
the other two members of the
commission are up a tree. For
Sheriff I .on in i I*o has refused
them the use of the pet county
bloodhound "Torger."
Call Ii "Omissions."
The runaway was discovered
this morning when the atate and
company engineers, who have
been preparing the apraisals of
the company and the public serv
ice commission, turned ln their
report.
The company's estimate of its
property was shown to be $26,
--892,700, or $10,127,300 more
than the commission's estimate.
And i" per cent of this amount
(he company charged "up to
•'omissions."
t nn't Imagine What.
When H. B. Noble, of Seattle,
and J. C. Lachone, telephone en
gineers of the company, took the
stand to tell about the getaway.
Assistant Attorney General Scott
Henderson , tried to pin them
down to name just what property
it was that could not lie located.
They couldn't say. Both de
clared no matter how carefully
they might make an inventory
certain small pieces of property
were bound to be overlooked.
"Well, can you give us any one
thing you would have been like
ly to omit?" asked Attorney Hen
derson of Engineer Lacrone.
tine lioop of Wire.
"I remember one instance
where 1 omitted a loop of power
wire from position to position,'"
tbe engineer answered. "I did it.
on purpose. 1 knew it was there,
but I couldn't get at it and I
didn't know how long It was."
"Well then.l f you knew It was
there, you didn't overlook it, did
you?" asked Henderson.
I.acrone thought perhaps not.
"Can you think of anything
else?"
"If I could think of anything
I might have omitted 1 probably
would not have omitted it."
No Duplications.
Everybody in tbe court room
scratched their heads.
"Do you know of any way the
the commission could determine
the value of these lost omls-'
nions?" the atate attorney con-
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.
First PictMre of Big" Fare
WHERE MAIN LEAPED TO DEATH
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Scene mt he Walker building fire la Seattle today. The dotted line shows where Letda Vlslinec
sky, one of the victim* of the rmtmmUmfOto, jumped from a fifth-story window. He struck a lamp
poxt In his fall and was instantly killed.
eluded.
The company's engineer said
he could not. Just then the com
mission sent in a hurry call for
the bloodhound.
What the company's engineers
did testify emphatically to was
that there had been no duplica
tions tn the Inventory and ap
praisal of the property.
ELLENSBITRG, Jan. 26.—Klt
jtltas county is dryer than the pro
i verblal bone and the people have
little Inclinations to make It oth
erwise. Only three liquor per
-1 mits ware Issued during the first
If days of prohibition.
it. Martin's magnanimous speech.
'Various correspondents sent home to their pa-
Mlt stories of Tacoma's back-down, and made
mental notes hereafter always to use the eminently
correct "Rainier" rather than the vulgar localism
"Tacoma."
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We feel certain we will hit a responsive chord
in our suggestion for a band, auto parade and re
ception committee.
Because such work as this of Martin's oiigli to
be recognized.
It require! an unusual combination of talents.
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In the first place it require! a man of sonic cali
bre to overrule the mistaken sentiment of all the
people of a city of 100,000 and of sonic of the people
of another city of 'J00,()()0.
And it must have taken a good deal of courage
also, in view of the recent renewal of interesl in
SWEDEN
CAUTIONS
ENGLAND
LONDON, Jan. 26.6—Newspa
pers today displayed prominently
warlike utterances of the Swedish
premier, eautiontng this govern
ment not to Involve neutral na
tion* in a blockade controversy.
It Is believed the government
has decided to cling to the pres-
Home
Edition
ent trade regulations Instead of
announcing an actual blockade
of Germany.
SEA UPHEAVAL
TOSSES LINER
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.-—
Violent undersea disturbances a
short distance from Sydney, N.
8. W.. played havoc with the liner
Sierra, which arrived here yester
day. The waves which dashed
over the vessel deposited tons of
pumice stone on the decks, many
of tbe places being as large nt
dinner pails.
the subject.
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In the next place, Mr, T. 11. Martin, like many
another great man, had to defy the bugaboo, Con
sistency.
As a member of the Inter-City committee he has
been entrusted for several years with the task of
educating the Seattle members to the idea of
changing the mountain's name back to Tacoma.
As recently as two or three, months ago he had
repotted progress in that direction and had been
recognized as tpiito a champion of our poor local
ism.
But back in Washington, among statesmen and
world figures, he was great enough to see how pet
ty and provincial he had been, temporarily, when
mixing with Tacomans, so he cast off the shackles
of Consistency and issued forth as the broad
minded Mr. T. H. Martin that he waa.
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POOR ZOB!
WEATHER I
Tacoma: Unsettled tonight and I
Thursday, probably snow. I
Washington: Same, colder east I
portion. I
j
R. WinklemanOne
of Six to Lose
Lives In Walker
Building Fire-
Three Jump
IBATTLI. Jan. 26.—Cut off
from every means of escape by
flames which started in dry hemp
stored in the floor below them,
six men perished in a fire which
swept the Walker building, Plrst
avenue south and Jackson street,
early today.
The dead are:
Raphael Winkelnmn, pro
prietor of the \\ inki liuiiii
iiimi l!.in t_ Burlap Co., Ta
coma.
T. Buckley, Janitor of the
liiillilinir.
li. YiMhneysky, __. Fried
man, 11. Beresozky and Si
mon Vroshton, Kussian labor
ers employed by \\ Inkelman.
The Tacoma man, the janitor
and one of the workmen were
burned to death in the flames.
The other three men jumped
from the fifth story, where all
were working, and were killed
immediately when the bodies
crashed down upon the pavement
below. Other men who were at
work on the lower floors escaped
from the building.
Winkelman had a contract to
dry a large quantity of hemp re
cently saved from the fire which
destroyed pier 14. The fire start
ed In the hemp at 8:15 this morn
ing and had completely trapped
the men who were on the floor
above before anyone outside of
the building knew of the blaze
and before the alarm was sound
ed.
Firemen found the three bod
ies on the fifth floor when they
at last succeeded In fighting
their way through the flames.
The hemp burned furiously and
those on the fifth floor who did
not jump are believed to have
been burned to death before the
fire department arrived.
Of the workmen who leaped,
•TTalko'the Times r |
Greetings, have you clean
ed yonr walk* again or yet?
If you think it'a cold on the
street its. cheer up! We notice,
thai some place near Dawson re
ports 80 below.
A hint to bashful lovers:'
A woman la seldom aa cold
as she looks.
Women often enjoy annoying
their husbands—but not when
they are growing fat.
When a women tells yon
something for your own
good R la generally for bee
one struck a lamp post and wrfs
Instantly killed. The others
struck the pavement and died
shortly afterward.
The fire was finally under con
trol at 11 o'clock.
The dead workmen came here
recently as refugees from Russia,
WKI.I, KNOWN FAMILY
fluphael Winkelman was a
member of a well known Tacoma
family.
His mother, Mrs. 11. W* Winkel
man, who lives at the Lewis apart
ments, collapsed today when told
her son had been burned to
death.
He Is survived by two brothers,
Isidore and Meyer, and three sit
ters, Julia, Minnie and Rose. All
are graduates of Tacoma high
schools.
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Dems lo Take
Up Tax Topic
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—Tha
democrats have called a meeting
of the ways and means committee
for next week to consider the re
vision of the income and inherit
ance taxes and to discuss the sub
ject of taxing munitions manu
facture.
PLANS OIL FUEL
FOR COAST FLEET
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. Z*.
—Rear Admiral McGowan sug
gested to the house naval com
mittee, yesterday that oil be used
as fuel for the Pacific, fleet and
that coal be used on the Atlan
tic.
own.
Remarks What's Doing—week*
ly made famous by Sam Wall, nel
our colyiim of local happen isgi
—"It would seem that there h
been altogether too much Seattle
spirit since Jan. 1." Very clem
we can't understand why we
didn't think that oae up out- -
selves.
The hoUhMiee ehiw may -
beoosue * w*»e ma», .fast
hell be * mighty poor eat*
**a*l-
Whoever started eaUUMafl
"beautiful" anyhow? ~Jga