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There's Still Time
If you failed to start "The Red I meiaid,"
the great norel that l»t»n yesterday in The
rinicM, you can make up for lost lime today
by reading the synopsis and going on with
the second Installment. .Page 2.-
ARREST SCHOOL BOY AS BURGLAR
Heavy Tax Laid On Tacoma Auto's
Rise In Gas and Tires
Costs Pierce County
Thousands of Dollars
a Day-Fine for John
By E. A. Peters
Ever stop to figure up }<\et
what "war tax" Tacoma autonio-
Im.lmk are pay lag?
Xot to I'licle Sam, of course,
but to .lohn Dm who handles the
gasoline output, and the RoUis
■ Mills, bosses of the rubber tire
business.
Get ready for a shock.
• • •
Every time John 1). shoots
up the price of gas one cent
ii gallon, Tacoma alius up
$-!ou aildltional perfectly
good dollars each day.
And Pierce county is pay
ing *:S,7K<i more every day
for gasoline for Us automo
biles than it did a year ago.
• « •
According to the figures of
County Auditor Morris, there are
2,500 automobiles registered
from Tacoma, and 3,800 from
Pierce county outside of the
city, a total of 6.300.
A year ago the price of gas
**as 11 cents. Today you pay
18 1-2 at the service stations, a
flat increase of 7 1-2 cents a
gallon in a year.
The average dally consumption
of gasoline a car, including auto
trucks, is eight gallons, accord
ing to automobile men.
If that seven and a half cent
Increase holds, Tacoma will spend
01, 379,700 aditional for gaso
llne this year, over the previous
normal price.
The Coyotes 3 Deadliest Enemy
Atto p: Borizla, Rush wolf
hound, t«n months old. Hhe has
already ad oxen coyote kills to her
credit. At right: Ivan, chain
plonohip winner at Wetitnilnster
■how at New York. Holding him
ifcMV. O. Matthewi, his owner and
director of the tortliooining coy
ote hunt. .
i 100
? Years
Ago
Did you know that 100
v years ago the first savings
batik was given a charter to
do business In the V. S.?
This is the year to cele
brate this centennial by
practicing thrift.
We welcome your savings
account at any time, any
amount.
I
. PTOET SOUND
BANK
1115 Pacific At*.
Auto owners of this city are
dropping $9,324 into the Roelto
feller coffers every day for gaso
line, or $3,303,26. In a year.
It isn't "the high cost of liv
ing" any more. Now it's "the!
high cost of autoiuobiling." A'l- j
tomobile salesmen figure that
i in- increased coat of gas is going
lO create havoc in the sales of
new cars.
• • •
As for tires —my goodness!
When you think that the In
crease In gas is staggering, just j
gape a moment at the leap taken
iv- cut li in the pneumatics on
which all autos roll.
Rubber tires took a flat le.i).
skywards of 10 per cent. Over- 1
size tires, which are becoming |
more popular . every day, in J I
which are now being used on |
probably one-tenth of the cars in I
Tacoma, Jumped ll per cent. I
Some of the large overside liresi
doubled in price.
On those 6,300 cars in Pierce
county, the average cost of a tire '
is $25. A new set of lour is!
necessary about once a HUM,
'I'hiti means $630,000 spent for
new tires each year in Tacoma
and Pierce county. Ten per cent
Increase is only about $63,000.
Of course, the Roths
childs, who control the rub
ber, limit need ihe money.
But »p know one thing—
They've discouraged us
from buying that little ruu
iiboiii tills season.
FARMERS
PLOTTING
REVENGE
By Jack Jumrmeyer
kphhATA, mTsli., Feb.
a».—The pig and sheep
J* tev» o'th ___f"_.° n _S ■_
ln* to •»• k,u^> _ "»»»•*
m°r?* M •008 •» *** ,now"
molt.
Irate ranchers, long har
aseed, hay* isued the edict.
But th" "tleves know noth
ing of tie murderoua plans.
They are coyotes.
the wolf breed developed
**** k,",«r« «• °n «»* Wg
ranches around Hoap Uke.
Their toll of lambs, calve*
Mid pig, haa ran np Into
thousands annually. Hhrewd
oM aioaarrtu lead the pack*
The Tacoma Times
"~7Tn 1 THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. I __ ,_ 1
25c a Nidht
Month VOL. XJII. NO. 61. TACOMA. WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29,1916. Edition
WHY WILSON IS
SO "STUBBORN"
The papers for days have been full of a new controversy
over the torpedoing of merchant vessels.
Germany's latest policy, under which she will assume an
attitude of greater "frightfulness" than ever, is to go into
force at midnight tonight.
You want to know about it. It is a complicated subject,
but we have done our best to state It ln the simplest possible
terms.
First, it must be divided into two parts:
"Hhi.ll the I'nited Ntates submit to the torpedoing
without warning and without the safe removal of passen
ger* of unarmed merchant ships of belligerent nations?
Shall the I'nited Htaies submit to ihe torpedoing,
without warning and without tlie safe removal of passen
gers, of MiMl 11 merchant ships of tlie lielllgerents?
No, says President Wilson, and bis cabinet, because such
action —in either case—by Germany is against international
law.
The international law on both Questions is written in the
custom of nations for hundreds of years. All civilized nations
have respected lite custom for so long that none of them—not
even Germany—denies that such is the law of nations. Tlie
proof of this, and the binding nature of it is shown by the fart
(lint the rules of every navy in the world, including Germany's
uavy. Instruct officers in accordance with the law that mer
chantmen shall not be sunk without due warning, und that
merchant men huve a right to go armed-
President Wilson's contention is that America must uphold
every international law as it was made by civilized nations be
fore the war. Inasmuch as these laws were made by all
nations, all nations must first consent to change tliein. A cer
tain rule of international law may be olisolete, but one nation
cannot change it of its own volition, any more than a defend
ant or a plaintiff in a civil rase can change Ihe law when he
conies Into court because he believes the law Is obsolete.
President Wilson's whole policy can be summed up briefly
as follows:
I iilcss the 1 mini siiites upholds international law during
ibis war, no other nation will. As law breaks down, interna
tional anarchy will build up, aud Amerlru itself, und Its citi
zens, will be victims of such unarchy sooner or later.
International law—the custom of all clvllzed nations—pro
vides that a war vessel shall order an enemy merchant ship
to lie to. Then an officer shall visit her, take possession and
provide for the safety of crew and passengers, after which the
merchant ship can be disposed of as the officer pleases.
An indication of how international law has been on this
subject is shown by instructions issued by the various govern
ments to their officers at sea. The Hritish admiralty manual
of 1888 stales in article 304, which covers the destruction of
an enemy vessel. "The commander to remove her crew and
pupal-, and, if possible, her cargo, and THEN destroy th>'
vessel."
The French instructions of Lee. 19, 1912, provide In arti
cle 154: "lie-ore destruction you will {dure in safety tlie per
sons, whocier they may lie, who are found on board."
The Russian prize regulations of 1895 authorize com
manders of cruisers ."to burn or sink Ihe detained vessel. After
having first taken all the people off It."
It Is immensely interesting to note the Germany prize
regulations adopted the first month of this presnt war, August.
1914. In the German regulations, article 116, says:
"Ilel'ore proceeding to the destruction of the vessel, the
safety of all iiersons on board, and, aa far as |iosslble, their
effects, is to lie provided for."
The naval code of the United States even goes farther,
recognizing the right of an armed merchantman to resist cap
ture by an American man-of-war.
There are many citations In the works on international
law on the subject of the right of a neutral merchant to arm
for defense. It has been the custom for hundreds of years.
Our own great Chief Justice Marshall settled its status as in
ternational law by deciding that merchant ships may go
armed.
This decision in the United States supreme court nearly
a century ago was accepted by all nations.
Therefore an American citizen is absolutely within his
rights to travel 011 an arulfcd merchant ship, the business of
which is to carry merchandise and passengers. It is not a
warship under any law, rule, or custom.
on daring forages, -or slay
singly, ravenously.
But their doom has been
sealed.
Russian wolfhounds have been
brought ln to police the rauges—
fearless dogs that can outrun the
fleetest prairie wolf and lay his
flank or throat open with a single
sla.,h of the long, deadly muzzle.
The first big hunt Is to btf
i-.ta; i'd as soon as the snows have
gone from the marshes where tho
outlaw packs roam. Race horses
will be used by ranchers in fol
lowing the chase
The kennel of prize wolfhounds
owned by W. O. Matthews here
will guide the less experienced
dogs in the coyote round-up.
More than 30 will be in the
avenging pack—most of them
practiced killers who have been
trained to the deadly work from
puppyhood.
George Drumheller and P. D.
Donaldson, the former a 45,000
--acre rancher, will direct the hunt.
Automobiles as well as fleet
horses are to be used in the big
drive, the first of an extermina
tion campaign.
"PICTURE BRIDES"
ON THE INCREASE
BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 29.—
George D. Leslie director of the
health bureau of statistics, said
today that the Japanese custom
of "picture brides" la gradually
increasing Up denies the recent
rumor from the east that these i
Japanese seldom marry.
FLASHES
LONDON—Military reports is
sued today say that hoth Turk-jy
and Bulgaria are seeking an un
derstanding with the allies to
ward peace.
ROME—Swiss d*Apntche3 de
clare the terific Herman batter-
Ing north of Verdun Is only a
feint and that the" Teutons are
concentrating at Noyon and St.
Quentin for an attack on Paris.
BAN FRANCISCO — Quests
who became ill at the banquet
yesterday of the Methodist min
isters believe their Illness Is due
to ptomaine rather than poison.
CHICAGO —Members of Re
ligious Educational association
are in an uproar today. Part of
the body favors religious study
in public schools while the re
maining portion opposes it.
SAN FRANCISCO—Messages
received here today claim that
three passengers of the wrecked
steamer Kifleld, together with
Capt. Back man, are fighting for
their lives on the bar of the Co
quille river In southern Oregon.
TODAY'S < I.KAIUNGH
Clearings I 319,011.51
Balances 41,-20.1U
Transactions 1,121,152 11
\ls Charged With Blackmailing
ISAIIKI, CI-AYIU'IUiH.
Mrs. Clayburgh recently was arrested in I,os Angeles on tele
graphic request from Sheriff Boh Hodge of Seattle. She is accused
jof being a member of a daring blackmail ring (hat mulcted wealth)
j men from one end of tlie roasl to the other of large sums of money,
!after photographing them in compromising positions. Gov. Lister
ivestenlav forwarded an application for her requisition. She has de-
Jnled stoutly all knowledge of the operations of the gang.
Indian School Pupils
Figure In Elopement
__»___- — _ _ _ _
ClM|lnating a romance at Ihe
I Cushman I'rades school that be
gan two years ago, Martin Reavy,
age 17, and Margaret Yukton,
I age 1"). Indian pupils at I'ncle
I Sam's big educational colony on
the K.isi Side, eloped Saturday
afternoon and have not been seen
since
Details of the elopement be
came public today, when Supt.
IT. B. Wilson of the Cushman
j school asked Police Chief Smith
|:to assist in searching for tlie cou-
Bo||
The Cushman school is a co
educational institution, with sep
arate dormitories. The se\es
'mingle freely outside of school
hours, and during the past two
years Reavy and Miss Yukton
have been together frequently.
Reavy came from a Montana
Indian reservation, and the gir! s
home was at Nlsqually agency.
Saturday the girl came to Ta
coma with her father, who wish
ed to make some purchase Late
in the afternoon the father put
Margaret on a Portland aye. car,
bound for the Trades school.
At. mooa Saturday young Reavy
had obtained special permission
to go to Tacoma.
["What's Doing
Today
Last day to take out 1916 auto
licensee.
Leap year day.
Tomorrow
Severnj five deputy assessors
begin checking personal property
Members' Council, Commercial
Club; 12:15 p. m.; to discuss Sta
.dliim high gymnasium.
TAKE PERSONAL
TAX ASSESSMENT
Seventy-five special deputle.
will begin taking personal tax
asaesments tomorrow. Aaaessoi
Cameron said that the work
would be completed within st>
weak*. He urges that all clalmi
for r exemptions be and* to thl
deputies.
Neither has returned to the
school, the girl having alighted
from the car a lew blocks away
from the corner where her fath
er put her on.
"Neither the girl or hoy had
any money, and they couldn't
have gone fur," said-Supt. Wilson
today.
They have not obtained a mar
riage license in any Sound city,
so far as has been learned.
I. _ rI. —___._
H I CUPID IS.
1 ASLEEP N f
kfina should be hardest at s,s\
MM '"'' (OUMt-v auditor's
mT office and the auto- H
Am mobile department 93r
WM ,n<l the rushing Ik
jF business Instead. U
iJjA The young people — m
Kny of the city who con- /I
templated taking Pfw
m—93 advantage of Leap XJf
mEJ Year evidently post- JV
JT poned their step- MgEk
EX- ping off, for not a 93m
EEW single marriage 11- TT
tT cense had been Is-
AfewS sued at a late hour. I ■
Auto licenses, ntW
jr however, are goin_ mm.
ak like hot butler. Hep- 3—93
m uty Doten said that *m
8.260 already had _fl^
been written. M
*m About SI6O motor- Igm
IT cycllsU out of 870 JL
QjAm last year have taken ef&mh
\om out new licenses. \&J
WEATHER
Tacoma: Rain tonight and
Wednesday.
Washington: Rain west, rain or
snow east portion.
Finger Prints On
Window of Shop
Only Clue to the
Thief's Identity
Finger prints left on a pane (•!" glass that was
removed by to intruder bom i window in the meat
market of George Johnson, :;.><>:» Sixth avenue, re
sulted today in the anvst of Marcus Peterson, aga
17, a West End schoolboy.
Although Peterson denies any knowledge of tin.
crime, and his parents arc equally positive thai he
was not tlir wrongdoer, Deputy Prosecutor George
Thompson has filed a forma] charge of first degree
burglary against tin- youth.
The crime OCCUrrad Kat'iinlav —-
_aa. i inn. i i , - , .-, a I ll I 11,1 \
night. A glass-cutter was need
to remove a large section of win
dow.
Although the lliief broke op»n
a casli register, and ransacked
the store, nothing ni stolen.
Detectives brought the pieces of
glass lo police headquarters. Ber
tlllon Operator Harry M. Smith
applied an Intensifying powder
to the surface and Immediately
there appeared on one edge Ihe]
imprints of thumb and fingers of
two hands.
Smith traced the finger-prints '
nnd compared them to lists Mad
iv his office.
The finger records of Marcus
Peterson, who had been sent to
the Chehalis reform school tVO
#EXT WEEK'S NOVEL in The
Times will be "The Ranch at tin;
Wolverine/ 1 by li. M. Bower.
It is a typical western story, with
the scene in Idaho, and is filled with
the tang of advent inc.
Bill Louis is a plucky girl but
you must read it to understand.
It will start on Monday and and on Saturday,
And by the way, arc yon reading "The Bed I.iii.t
aid" this week. If nut, turn to gage 2 quick.
GRONEN GOES OUT
FOR DRAKE'S JOB
Throwing a flurry into the
ranks of office-seekers who have I
announced themselves as candi
dates at the coming primaries,
Hamilton F. Gronen, engineer in
charge of construclion of the
Xlsqually power plant, today de
clared himself I candidate for the
office of commissioner of light
and water.
Gronen declared his belief *hat
the new council, which meets In
May, will re-arranpe Ihe lommis
sionershlps. He said he was con
vinced Commissioner Hrake, pres
ent head of the light and water
department, would be switched
to some other department.
"I feel that 1 am more quali
fied as chief of the light and
water department than of any
other commissionershlp at the
city hall," said Gronen today.
"And I feel confident that .he
entire city council will be re-ar
ranged this spring.
■rT alk o' the TimesTl
aMaiMaaaan-aa_Baaa__aßaMa_MM
Greetings, have you partl
cipated ln any proposals to
day?
The lady next door says the
collecting link between the ani
mal and vegetable kingdoms is—
hash.
Jean fronee, the miup
poisoner, hasn't shown much
In the way of style In Kim
llsh In his letter* regarding
the police, but you'll have to
admit he has the Ideas.
U. of W. professor says college
students don't know how to
think. How much at Jiome he
prof, would feel in our city hall.
"Don't punish a child for
exaggerating," pleads a wom
an's club torturer. Certain
ly not. Cultivate the liablt
and some day lie may he a
movie manager, er candidate
or rental agent.
Or the editor of Talk .'
The Times. ,
years ago, compared with those
on the window. Microscopic In
vestigation showed them to >.c
prim s from the same finger, ac
cording to Officer Smith.
"No two persons In the world
I have the same sets of tiagor*
I prints," said Smith today. "I will
1 go on the stand and swear to the
| jury that the prints on this pie«'o
I of glass are from Marcus I'eter-
I son's fingers Klnger-prlu-s
I never lie."
This is the first time In Taeo
- ma ihal a person has been ar
rested purely on finger-print
lili'iiiiflciition.
There are no other clues M
i connect Peterson with the crinn ,
it is said.
"I am not making any chanwt
at Ibis time against Mr. Drake,
but I believe tli.it I could opera tit
the department efficiently md
.aye the City I great d.al M
money by It."
(ironeu was for four .ears -11
charge of Ihe construction ol l.a
Grande, lie declares the record!
will show that he Hived Ihe 'Hv
g L'u 1.077 on this work alum. ' c
was appointed commissioner of
light and water in I !»!_>. wlim
Commissioner 11. J. Weeks re
signed, but lost out. at the nest
election to Nick I .aw son.
BAKE ARMENIAN
BABIES TO DEATH
CHICAGO. F<l>. 29. —Rev. ...
jA. Yarrow, American mission 1(7
from Turkey, claims the Turk*
I are filling large ovens with Ar
menian baiiie; and baking then
to death. Rev. Yarrow recently
returned from Turkey.
TODAYS WOHST KIIHM.I.
When is money damp?
Answer: When It Is due in
the morning and mist at night!
(Subtle stuff, boys—subtle
stuff!
Our heart goes oat to our
little comlc-Miip friend, Tom
Duff, who's trying to do
something for m fenuiie with
an antl-fat bug.
FLOSSIE KI.IM FLAM'S
ANSWERS
RALPPH. H SHAFFKR- No,
that was an accident In the court
room scene of "The Mysterious
Hash." It seems that Adolf
Kelly, the lawyer, played his part
with ouch realism that he gut
overheated and his rubber collar
caught on fire. You're welcome.
GBOROE M HAl.Lßß—lierfl
Is Vernon Tailgate* recipe for
making pugudeon: Two buckets
of water, one onion. Yet, hi
.mokes (if anyone ha* the _oefe>
ins.)