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TRUCK RUNS DOWN BOY; THEN SPEEDS ON
WE DON'T LIKE TO
"PESTER" YOU, BUT•-
It certainly will be a crime If any of your
friende or neighbors, who aren't regular
rend era of Tlie Timea don't get their names
on our circulation Hate hy Monday, when we
begin publishinic a BOOK-HIZK, I'OPl I.AX
NOVEL EVERY WEEK.
BURGLAR SENDS CTfll CM -fTA/ie
CYNTHIA GREY OIULLII XjLmO
PERK UP, CLEAN UP, PAINT UP!
Spring Is Here—Now Get Bmisy!
Time, Tacoma, to get out that spring boil- mMjn The time to start is right now, with the
\Y< have dug ourselves out of the snow HUmI^H Shrubs and plants, the hardier ones, can
drifts. The slush is off the streets. And II be set out or pruned today. February and
iinw the sun is getting on the job, wanning I Rsrl March are the months for pruning rose
chilly spines aiul urging everything thai I HfTaH I misbes, and foi-jilanting the ones whose eon
grows to poke its nose upward! Kill I s,illl(i,m (';|" withstand a possible cold snap.
The air is full of pep. IuMITiImS There w ill he tune enough later, when all
This is the exact minute to get out, Mr. ■jU-Ll-||£ljß threats of winter arc gone, to get after the
Man, wear callouses on your hands, cricks in **************************** plants which have feelings more tender.
your back, and help make the city a winner for Wight now is the chance for school gardeners
looks. t° u,.v plans to heat even their fine showing of last
Mr. Business Man, your office window looks year,
bare and wintry. Put a box of flowers in it. Let Right now is the ehanee to turn bare looking
your stenographer sprinkle it. streets into flowerly lanes.
Dad, put on your old shoes and get out into that After the garden digging, then clean up, paint
garden of yours. If you haven't any, buy a spade up. wash up. The meanest alley in the city can be
and make one. made one of the seven wonders.
Tacoma roses need but small encouragement It's cleaning time in Tacoma.
from you to make themselves alluring. LET'S MAKE TACOMA SHINE!
LONGS FOR LUXURY;
WEDS RICH INVALID
A tired girl with honey-colored
hair worked In a public library
"telling stories to youngsters.
One day she realized that she
wouldn't be young so very much
longer. She wanted to have a
Rose Garden and kiddies, and a
husband.
But the opportunity never
came—until Mr. Ouenthera, the
gray haired corporation lawyer,
and his meek little wife, catne to
her with a bargain. She was to
have her Rose Garden —and a
maimed, Invalid son of a rich
woman for a husband. The law
yer had looked her over. She waa
satisfactory.
She was weary, and longed for
the luxuries of life. And to, one
day, kneeling before a minister,
beatde her half conscious bride
groom, she guided his hand as It
•lipped the wedding ring over
her finger.
Then tho terror of what she
had done, and the swift impulse
to go back to her library! Site
kaelt on the threshold of a new
life, already bitter-sweet with Ite
weird mixture of misery and lux
ury.
But the tale of "The Rose
Garden Husband," Margaret
Widdemer's enthralling book, la
only half finished when Miss
Braithwalte marries. This novel,
one of the moat widely-read
worka that has come off the press
In recent months, will appear
next week In The Times. It will
begin Monday, and will be euded
Saturday.
It is only the first of a long
RUSSIA DRY FOREVER
AS RESULT OF YEAR
WITHOUT VODKA!
PETROGRAD, Russia, Feb. 18
— Russia has takon along breath,
raised her solemn right hand,
and sworn:
"Never again!"
A year without vodka has con
vinced Hie officials, from the csar
4-frm. (hat prohibition will al
etfii 14 the rule In Russia. Here
are tome results of the first
twelvemonth without liquor, as
reported officially and semi of
ficially from all over the coun
try:
Crime (all kinds) has decreas
ed til per cent.
Absenteeism In factories has
fallen 60 per cent.
Suicide rate has dropped en
ormously.
Hospitals formerly overcrowd
ed are not filled.
Efficiency In factories increas
ed 10 to 15 per cant.
The Tacoma Times
Ist of book-sized, popular novels
;hat are to be published every
week in The Times. The editors
)f The Times overlook no oppor
tunity to give their readere the
jest they can get for the money.
Publication rights to these copy
righted books have been purchas
•il, at no little expense, from 'lie
Higliial publishers. It is a new
dea in Tacoma —a complete nov
il In a newspaper every week.
Be sure to start the first one, "A
lose Garden Husband," Monday.
Practically every inhabitant is
at work.
Savings deposits have Increas
ed 8 per cent.
Fire damage has fallen off 38
per cent.
Wages In some districts raised
500 per cent. (This applies to
peasants working aa day labor
ers.)
People are -eating better food.
Better clothing is worn by the
poorer classes.
Agricultural Implement sales
•0 per cent larger.
Imprisonment decreased 71
per cent.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Marlnue Laursen and A. Y. O.
Nielsoa, both of Tacoma; Ray _*.
Melton of Buofcley and Nona
Wolfar of Portland; Wm. Crow
den Naylor and Florence L.
Shummen, both of Beattle.
25c a
Month
VOL. XIII. NO. 52. TACOMA, WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1!)1H.
Swanze
Pest of
Teutons
By Mary Boyle O'Reilly
LONDON' Feb. 18.—There Is
a certain kind of joking In Bel
gium called SWANZE.
It Is neither humor nor wit but
a kind of mockery which is in
tended to rankle.
Since the occupation of Bel
gium by the Germans, swanae
has become almost entirely con
fined to the children, but they
have not fallen short of the ;ie
<•iili.ii' national standard which
was established ages ago.
I'rchliis Lenin How.
When motor car tooting was
limited by special decree to Ger
man military machines, with pre
scribed modulations of toots,
every street arab in Brussels in
atantly commandeered a horn,
whistle or trumpet.
This instrument of torture he
carried at considerable risk in
der a torn shirt or within his
woeful trousers. And the In
stant a German officer ventured
into the street regulation "toots"
followed him in taunting itera
tion.
Can't Pennlige It.
Probably the most irritating
awanze was Invented by. little
boys who, making a hole in the
middle of their caps and sticking
carrots "plcklehaub" - wise
through the crowns, would se
riously execute the goose step
until a leader ordered "Quick
march to Paris" when the ras
cals would walk backwards!
That performance was hard to
atop for the German military
governor could fix no penalty
upon children for putting carrots
on their heads.
TO SHIFT
HOUSTON
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 18.
—President Wilson is seeking a
successor to Secretary of Agri
culture Houston, with the Inten
tion of shifting the latter to the
portfolio of war, It is believed to
day.
Houston's assistant, Vrooman,
is looked on as a probable suc
cessor.
W. J. HKYAN WILL HEAD
NEBRASKA'S DELEGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 18.
—W. J. Bryan will head the Ne
braska delegation to the demo
cratic national convention In St.
Louis, Representative Shellen
berger of Nebraska declared to
day. He does not believe Bryan
will oppose Wilson's nomination,
but will fight preparedness.
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.
Ignores
Child's
Scream
With his leg badly crushed by
the heavy wheels of a lumbsr
truck, which ran over him, Ern
est Alvera, three years old, lay
screaming in the street while the
driver of the truck stepped on
the accelerator and speeded down
the street at 10 o'clock this
morning.
R. E. Bailey, a roomer at 1001
South J street, heard the little
boy's screams and dashed out of
the house in time to see the huge ;
machine speeding down J strest.
Mrs. Agnes Alvera, the boy's
mother, picked up the little body
while Bailey summoned a physi
cian. At a late hour today phy
sicians thought they would be
able to save the boy's leg.
Had Gone to Play.
The child had just run out of
the house to play, according to
Bailey.
"No one except some small
children saw the accident," he
said, "but it ia impossible the
driver did not know he had run
over the youngster, because his
screams could be heard in the.
house."
The truck was one of the large,
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Cb.'s
wood trucks. The name of the
driver and the number are un
known. Police officers are mak
ing every effort to locate the
man.
LITTLE SAMMY
TRIES TO KEEP
E. A. BRYAN OUT
SPOKANE, Feb. 18.—8. A.
Perkins of Tacoma, would-be Q.
O. P. boss, is here scouting
around.
He la mortally afraid that'
there are going to be too many
republican candidates for the big
jobs, and he Is using hla talent*
to persuade receptive individuals
to step aside.
Yesterday he had a long talk
with E. A. Bryan, former W. B,
C. president. The latter is think-;
Ing of shying his lid into the ring
for U. S. senator, to succed Poln
dexter.
If he did, he would be oppos
sing Congressman Humphrey,
and Perkins is seeking to prevent
this.
Following the conference Bry
an said he wouldn't know for 10
days or two weeks whether 'ie'd
, run or not.
GLOBE TROTTERS MARRIED]
NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 17.
—A globe-trotting romance of
Latin-America has resulted here
in the wedding of Miss Eliza Mar
cal, 1 .-.-year-old beauty of Guate
mala, to Virgilio R. Beteta, dis
tinguished Guatemala attorney,
trade delegate and editor.
At the I'an-Aiiierlcan financial
congre* lieleta was chosen a
member of tlie international high
com mission, and at the San Fran
cisco exposition he was elected
president of the International
Press a-pngress.
PRIEST GOES TO
ELECTRIC CHAIR
OgSIXIXO. Feb. 18. —
II an *• Nil i mil 11 calmly walk
ed to the electric chair early
this in..ruing nnd watt elec
trocuted.
Schthidt was the unfrocked
priest convicted of murdering his
sweeilicin i. Anna Aumueller; and
-throwfoty her body In the Hudson
after dismembering it.
He told his attorney he wanted
to die tv the electric chair in the
hope that his Innocence would
afterward be established and
capital punishment thereby
would be stopped.
Body of Servant.
It iwas on Sept. 5, 1913, that
the upper part of Anna Aumuel
ler'* dismembered body was
found In the river off Woodcl'.ff,
N.M. .
The body was identified aa
that of a former servant In the
rectory ef St. Boniface's church,
and Schmidt who for three years
had been performing the func
tions of a priest In New York,
waa arrested.
On tlie day of his arrest the
prleft made a full confession, in
whl_.li he admitted that he killed
the girl and cut her body Into
nine pieces.
His statements on that ivch
slon were as startling that his
sanity . was questioned, and >>x
pefts were < ailed. A month later
they pronounced him aane and
shamming Insanity.
Is Convicted.
At fhe first trial two of the
Jurors held that he was insane
and a disagreement resulted. At
both of them the state baaed its
oaae largely on his own story at
the time of his arrest. At hie
second tHfci. although lie Inter
posed the emine defense, he was
convicted.
He was sentenced on Feb.
12. Three days afterward he
Night
Edition
Mis bride Is the daughter of a
wealthy cotton planter.
They were engaged to w-ed six
months from now, but when He
teta, In New York, learned ho was
to represent his country at the
foreign trade conference In N'w
Orleans, he sent a cable to Miss
Ma real.
While he came here on a train,
she traveled on tlie steamer.
They arrived the same day, and
the wedding was one of tlie fea
tures of the important trade con
ference.
sent for Assistant District Attor
ney Delehanty and confessed that
he had been shamming insanity
up to and during his trials.
He then proceeded to tell Mr.
Delehanty that Anna Aumueller
had died as the result of a crim
inal operation. The papere In
opposition to Schmidt's motion
for a new trial reveal that be
sides the statement made to his
own attorney, which was subse
quently told in affidavit form,
that he made two other contra
dictory statements, four different
stories in all.
HUH Another Version.
Schmidt's contradictions final
ly resolved themselves into «in
affidavit which he made on Oct
30, i in., and which was used as
the basis for a motion for a new
trial.
This was to the effect that a
friend had performed an opera
tion on Anna Aumueller, as a re
sult of which she died, and that
another woman had been present
In the rapacity of nurse. A Dr.
I.eo. he swears, was called 'n
after her death and asked to 13
--sue a death certificate, but re
fused.
Then he asserted that hla
friend cut up the body. He swears
that his previous statements were
made In an effort to shield these
people.
MURDERER OF
JAP IS HUNG
FOLSOM, Feb. 18.—Ung Sing
was hanged at 10 o'clock this
morning for murdering a Japa
nese at Stockton Nov. 14. He
mounted the gallows without nnv
show of emotion and died In 12
minutes.
WEATHER
Tacoma: Fair tonight, Saturday
increasing cloudiness, followed by
rain.
Washington: Same, except no
cloudiness east >>ortion.
Robber, Displeased at
Paper Exaggeration
of Loot's Value, Mails
It to Times' Writer
With Quaint Note
<\ in bin (Urey receives
many novel letters every day.
Hut she c.p.i n op ni n new
and K<*»>'ine thrill •>! evcite-
MH-nt today when mlie opened.
lier morning's mull.
As she silt the envelope of a
particularly fat letter one that
was addressed In cryptic capital
letters, rather grotesquely smear
ed over the entire face of the
package—a piece of fragile gold
chain slid out.
And after it came an assort
ment of rings and lavaliers and j
ear-rings. There were diamonds
and rubies in the assortment.
Cynthia's excitement knew no
hounds.
But the greatest thrill of all
came when Cynthia opened the
letter that accompanied the bril
liants. t
From a Heal llurglar
It was from a burglar! A real,
genuine second-story man!
The dramatic effect of receiv
ing a note from n professional
burglar overcame, for the mo
ment, Miss drey's possible hopes i
that the jewels were not gifts!
from an admirer.
"DEAR CYNTHIA GREY"
wrote the burglar.
His words were all spelled out
in capital letters half an Inch
high. II was a capita! disguise,
even If Cynthia should be so
mean ap to turn over the note to
the police.
"IT'S L-lUOHABLI BKOUOH
TO MAKE GOD LACOH. THE
LIES SOME PEOPLE TELL.
BOTH THE LEDGER AND THE
NEWS COME OCT WITH A
STORY OF A $200 ROBBERY. I
SEND YOC THE JINK EN
CLOSED FOR RETURN TO
OWNER. IT'S WORTH ABOI'T
SIX HITS TO ME. HOPE TOO
WILL FEAST ON THE BRIL
LIANCY OF THE BRILLIANTS
AND THE RICH COLOR OF THE
OEMS.—B. S. T."
From lllliiii nun Home
Tho jewelry, It devoleped later,
all came from the home of Will
iam Hiltbrunn, 2101 No. Fife St.,
1 What's Doing |
Today
Hydro-electric exhibit of de
partment of commerce; Commer
cial club.
Lecture on laws of Washing-J
ton governing sale of personal
property, Attorney Louis J. Mm*
cek, Stadium high school, 8:16
p. m.
Tomorrow
New Elks' temple opened for
dedication; reception to Elks and
families; I p. m. to 11 p. m.
r^Talko'the Times t-
Greetings, have you begun
eating sulphur yet?
Any day the Noozenledger
rant dig up a terrible crime
that l.ouls llraiMleis com
mitted, mil, there Isn't
much doing (bm day.
Who called the interurban
train "limited"? Wrong! It's
the limit.
H-ossn: i lim FLAM'S
ANBWEHB
LIBRARIAN KAISER —
I'm running a movie ques
tion counter, not a sporting
column, and I don't know
how long It took "Kid Brag"
to knock out "One Round
Fogarty."—The Idea!
CHARLES F. LEWIS —
.lust because you run a hat
store and have a 10-months
old baby that weighs 14
pounds, you don't need to
on the night of Keb. 15. A bur*,
lar had entered tlie home by prop,
ping a snow shovel against th«
Hide of the house and clamberinl
up lo a bedroom window. The
family waa awa> at the time. Hilt
brunn is proprietor of the Crt-a
iclit Healty To.
In (lie envelope sent Cynthia to
day were ■ lavaller with pcsrle,
ear-rings with Jewel drops, baby'i
signet ring with initial "A", two
ruhy rlngH, a ladle*' agate ring,
and ■ locket on heavy gold chain.
The ioi ket had heen forced open
with a knife, apparently, as it
was h.idly haltered.
Taconin newspapers valued the
lout ut $:.iiO.
1 FLASHES|
PA It IS —- German agents have
financed a native plot to over
throw ihe government of Mad.v
gascar, it was declared today.
BERLIN—U an attempt to _•-..
taka tlie position near Ypres, H< I
glum, recently captured by the
Oermans, the Kngiish have been
boateu back with heavy losses.
SEATTLE— Thomas Blair, 73,
and Thomas Edwards, 40, were)
seriously injured this morning
w ben their auto crashed Into a
street cur ia a heavy fog.
BERLIN— A mutiny of Hindu
troops in Egypt Is reported today
by a news agency, ft Is said an
entire regiment mutinied, killing
1_! officers.
NEW YORK The police to
day took extraordinary precau
tions to safeguard guests at a
hall to be given in Madison
Square Garden tonight by tlie
Knights of Columbus. Governor
Whitman and CathoK" digni
taries are expected to be p. est ■„,
The police fear the work of pois
on plotters.
WASHINGTON, D. O—Hear
ing of the qualifications of Louis
D. Brandeis was postponed for a
week because of a shortage la
witnesses.
EL PASO, Tex.—Men and
women at Sierra I'rleta have io
clothing as the result of * raid
by Villa bandits. The bandits
took It all. Adam and Eve fash
ions are in vogue.
The progressive party -state
convention will be held In -Se
attle May 4, State Chairman Roy
Slater announced today.
get the idea you know ev
erything about the movies
also. Wallace Reld doc-.
NOT wear Burnsldes.
• X •
The little Brooklyn girl who ia
collecting dimes to build a bat
tleship Is making great progress.
She now has to collect only «»,-'
!>99,980 more dimes.
And who Is the other mil
that starts things like
"beautiful snow' and re
liable service"? He meant
"liable" service.
MODERNIZED PROVEHBB
(From the Tacoma Directory.)
Joseph Etc
Louis Drinkwiae
aad be
Adrian Merry
before you
Margaret M. Croake.
John Lien Is a day laborer.