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PERSHING INVITES BATTLE!
U. S. Forces Move South; Trevino Threatens Fight
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HENRY MATTHAEI ENLISTS
LANSING
AWAITING
A REPORT
GEN. 7ACINTOTREVINO
CHIHIAHI'A CITY, June
24.—Gen. Jacinto Trevino is
sneti avaam today to attack
American columns re|M>rtcil
to have been seen advancing
from the American field ha.se
In the direction of Sau An
tonio and Ojo ('Heme.
Trevino stated he is de
(ei'iiiinetl to carry out his or
tiers to the letter mil that,
the Americans would receive
the same treatment they got
at. larri/al.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., June 24.
— Following a conference with
the president, War Secretary
Baker Bald today that he would
be obliged to await further word
from Gen. Pershing before deter
mining his course of action.
"ITntil we get this report, we
absolutely will not consider a
change of policy," he said, "but
the public will not have to wait
five minutes for the report when
It is received.
"The only report thus far, ex
cepting Mexican statements, Is
that of a few stragglers. Ap
parently when the firing began.
the horses stampeded, and these
stragglers were not near where
the shooting began."
Ip to Moray.
Captain Moray may determine
whether war will be declared. He
was second in command at Oarri
ral, and It is rumored he escaped,
though wounded. Gen. Pershing
is awaiting his report of Boyd's
parley with Gomez before the bat
tle started.
Although unofficial, It Is Indi
cated that 84 officers and men
were either killed or captured en
route back to camp. It is feared
the American column was practi
cally annihilated.
Lem Splllsbury, a Mormon
guide with the Americans, said
he saw two officers and 12 troop
ers dead.
\n Invasion.
The resolution which the ad
ministration introduces in con-
Our banking house is
being thoroughly
overhauled.
The magnitude of its
business has compell
ed the Puget Sound
Bank to provide more
commodious quarters.
Bear with us in any
mc on v enienee this
may put you to.
It's just another sign
of solidity.
H. N. Tinker,
President.
ORPET WALL
TAKE STAND
WAVKEGAN, 111., June 24. —
it is likely Will Orpet will take
the stand in his own defense next
Tuesday. Judge Donnelly this
afternoon overuled a motion lo
dismiss llie Orpet jury, and or
dered the defense lo proceed with
it case when court resumes Monl
day.
"At first I giggled because I
thought life was nothing but a
joke and felt no responsibility.
But lately it has been because 1
really wasn't happy, so I tried to
dilgulaa my feeling that way."
Thes words of Marian Lambert,
i in a letter to her Sunday School
i teacher the day before her death,
j were presented to the jury at the
•windup of the prosecution's case
against Will H. Orpet, the young
university student charged with
murdering the girl.
Thanks Him Warmly.
Tho letter said:
"Your note came yesterday and
1 want to thank you more .sincere
ly than you can iinasine for it. I
am very glad that you think tlier'.
Is a possibility of my "amounting
to much' after all. I was very
much afraid that you thought that
I was silly on account of what Is
termed my giggles.
"You may think it queer for one
to laugh when they really want
to cry, but 1 am rather Queer any
way. But now 1 feel much better
and I sincerely want to be some
one that will do a little good any
way. 1 have tried that W. G. C.
(Westminster Guild Club) plan. I
feel that it is succeeding fairly
well. It helps me in many other
things too. * * * I thank you
once more for your good wishes.
With love —Marian."
"P. S. — 1 just learned about \V.
O. C. meeting next Saturday to
day. 1 will be there and try to
bring some of the ones that don't
come very often, If possible."
Mayor Testifies.
Other Important testimony was
that of Mayor Lewis of Lake For
est, the home of Orpet and Mar-
Kress will declare specifically
that under no conditions will the
United States seek territorial
profit by an Invasion of Mexico.
The resolution will probably
state that the only object of in
vasion is the restoration of peace
in .Mexico, and the elimination of
the menace resulting from the
present banditry.
It will also slate that upon the
restoration of peace the United
States will withdraw its forces,
and will not alter the present
boundary line.
This enunciation of Wilson's
purpose is certain to precipitate
a fight in congress. Republican
leaders are preparing to block any
resolution which might tie
Hughes' hands If he Is elected.
An attempt to pay the militia
men $H0 a month failed today,
after a bitter debate. It was
charged the increase in pay would
make the men mercenaries.
lteed and Gore Row.
Senator Reed presented the
resolution. Gore declared It was
a reflection on the militia and
was capitalizing their patriotism.
Reed bitterly assailed the Oltla
homan.
Government support for fami
lies of militiamen called to the
border was eliminated today from
the Hay resolution by a senate
committee.
A provision excusing married
men and others with dependents
from service was coustituted.
Send Demand
WASHINGTON, I>. C,
June 24.—The I!. S. govern
ment today demanded the re
l«'j«s«. of the negro troopers
captured in the Carrizal bat
tle and held at Chihuahua.
The demand was sent to Car
ranza.
The Wisconsin, Kansas and
Missouri militia probably will
move to the border tomorrow.
16 Survivors
SAN ANTONIO, June 24.—The
question of the Invasion of Mex
ico hangs on the nature of the re
port of the first commissioned of
ficer found who participated In
the Carrizal fight, if any are still
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ian. He declared Orpet had told'
him after his arrest that Marian
had threatened to commit suicide
because of the alleged condition in
which she found herself, and that
this was the reason for his visit
to Lake Forest.
Judge Donnelly was expected
today to deny the motion of the
defense to take the case from the
jury and dismiss Orpet. Orpet is
expected to take the stand in his
own defense.
The defense claimed the state
has failetl to show Orpet purchas
ed any poison, or that the stains
on Marian's coat were made by
liquid poison.
The best thing that has hap
pened for William Orpet since the
beginning of his trial was when
Judge Donnelly barred from the
eyes of the jurors the letters he
wrote to Marian Lambert, which
were found in her desk alter her
death.
Some of these letters, .showing
his pursuit of the girl, have
been printed.
Blow to Father.
But there were othor letters,
written after weak little Marian
had yielded to him, that were full
of a crude and brutal _.«'iisuality
that dishonored even more the
girl who received and treasured
them than it did the boy who
wrote them.
While these terrible letters
were being read poor Mr. Lam
bert bent over the table and cov
ered his face with his iiands. Ilia
shoulders shook with suppressepl
sobs as he mourned his 111110
daughter, who died twice to him,
for she died no less to iilm on
that dreadful day on which he
found false his fond Ideal of her
as a little Innocent, ignorant caild
than she did on the day ii which
her body perished la Helms
woods.
Without doubt the killing of
his belief in her was the crueler
blow of the two.
I FLASHES I
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Cus
toms officials have been ordered
to hold up freight shipments con
signed to Mexico.
LONDON—The British steamer
Brussels has ben captured and
taken into Zeebrugge by German
destroyers.
BUENOS AIRES—The Argen
tine government will .llspatch a
note to Chile today declining to
intervene with other South Amer
ican republics in an effort to pre
vent war between the 'J. S. and
Mexico.
SEATTLE—The Seattle port
commission is attempting to pre
vent the longshoremen's strike
from becoming serious while the
dock people are building barri
cades and are preparing to wai?o
war. -»
thorlzed to organize four regi
ments of infantry, two of caval
ry, two of artillery and two of en
gineers. The two companies of
engineers will be organized at
Vancouver, Washington.
POPE WILL ACT
LONDON, June 243 — Pope
Benedict will appeal to President
Wilson and Carranza to endeavor
to avoid war, said a Rome wire
less dispatch today.
alive.
Gen. Pershing reports the find
ing, west of Santa Maria, this
morning, of 16 troopers of the
Tenth cavalry who escaped. All
were included in the group de
tailed to watch horses while the
battle was fought.
Their stories are substantially
the same as those of the other
stragglers. They brought back
26 horses. They were found by
another troop of the Tenth cav
alry.
All hope of finding other sur
vivors is practically abandoned.
The negro troopers rescued
condemn the treachery ot the
Carranzistas. None of them saw
the termination of the unequal
battle, but they declare the am
bushed troops fought gamely.
Gen. Funston has been an- .
PLAN FOR
GREATER
TACOMA!
By the Editor
Greater Tacoma!
A Tacoma that should in
clude within its ample girth
Ptiyallup and Sumner, the
hills east and north of the
titlcflats. Brown mid Dash
Points, Dumas Hay and Pic
nic Cove and all the rich ter
ritory between those points
and the present city!
Such was the picture
sketched at a meeting of
beach, hill and valley folk
held last night at Fife school
house, on tli<- inn iin linn
line, and such was the K<*al
toward which a permanent
organization there formed
determined to devote Its en
ergies.
The gathering met at the call
of Fran., 0. Boss, who .time to
Tacoma ;i7 years ago and who
knows every gulch and knoll in
all this section.
Boss not only itnows the
ground, but he has devoted years
of thought and years of lireaming
to the potentialities. He has been
peering into the future.
Ills work as a seer he summed
vi) last night In a paper that re
quired li minutes for "he read
ing and in an immense wall map
of the country on which he had
traced out a network of blue
lines.
I*resents Comprehensive Plan.
These lines represented a com
prehensive plan of high ..ay de
velopment for the north „_ stern
side of the country.
IT WAS AN AMBITIOUS
PLAN, THAT WILL REQUIRE
YEARS FOB THK CONSUMMA
TION.
Boss did not present it with
the thought that the roads would
be built this week, or this year,
or next.
He reasoned that now much of
the country Is a wilderness.
But it is a wilderness that is
just on the eve of tremendous
development, due to the diking
and waterway projects that are
coming to completion.
Now the Crucial Time..
Tideflats that have been under
water soon are to bo ready for
the use of ti'.vir, manufacturer and
shipper.
Homes are going to be built to
care for the men in these new in
dustries.
This means there will be new
platting of lands.
While the country Is a partial
wilderness there is still a chance
to lay out the great trunk high
ways just exactly wh?re they
ought to run and to lay Miem out
broad and at the best of all pos
sible grades. A little lelay and
land promoters' greed bring a
repetiton of botched city plats.
The Immediate end of Mr. Ross
is to obtain the acceptance by the
county commissioners of his com
prehensive scheme or some modi
fication of it, so that all future
plats must conform. Thus the
Greater Tacoma of the future
shall be Insured of its heritage.
Actual ! construction of the
roads, of course, would follow
only as the demands of the com
munity warranted.
Plans Wide Arteries.
He declared that 100 and 140
--foot boulevards ought to be in
sisted on for the trunk arteries,
and that on the hillsides the
streets might well be cut to 40
feet and made to fit the contours
of the land.
Among the roads for which tits
plan called were a beach highway
from Stone's Landing to Hya.la
park, thence contoured around
the hill to Intersect -vlth 11th
street; an extension of PtiyAllup'a
Meridian street north across the
river to the bluff, and ontoured
along the hill to 11th street; a
widening and extension of W'illipa
avenue on the tideflats, so that
it should run from tidewater 140
feet wide to Fife and near thars
Join the Puyallup road; a widen-
OSLERIZED
AT AOE 27!
By Mabel Abbott
They are O.slcri/.ing the Jones block. And it's only
27 years old.
It's place at !Uli and Commerce will lie taken hy
Hie new I'antages Theater l.uilding, the latent word In
MAHKI. ABBOTT
Tenants moved from Its offices to those in the newer
buildings. It was converted into a hotel.
Now the location is desired for one of the Pantages
string of vaudeville houses — a replica, it is said, of the
magnificent structure in Seattle.
Tacoma has readied the point where good buildings
are being "scrapped" to make way for better ones.
Realty men say that is a definite and an advanced mile
stone in a city's development.
The building has had its part in the city's history.
It was in 1891 that President llunison stood In a
drenching rain on the little balcony on the Commerce
street side, and addressed a crowd that jammed the
street beyond the sound of bis voice,
j it was In the little room on Hie nth and Commerce
Vomer of the fourth floor that Abe Gross shot himself
after the crash.
The demolition is proceeding from the inside out and
from the top down. The partitions and floors are pour
ing out through long chutes, in the shape of dusty debris,
and the roof is gone. Part of Hie street has been fenced
off around the building, to prevent accident.
am.
There is significance in (he passing of the Jones
block.
It was still a comparatively young building. lis
brick walls were still sturdy under their facing of
weather-stained cement, and it bad a lot of service left
in it.
But it was getting old-fashioned and sel in its ways
—and more fatal yet. it was occupying a place that a
younger and bigger building wanted.
ing of 11th street and ;he con
struction of a viaduct at the
bluff; a road from Hummers'
gulch across the flats', and an ex
tension of Lincoln avenie acrosi
the Puyallup to the city side.
Tho Wllllpa avenue project,
Mr. Boss pointed out, vould give
the tideflats a diagonal highway
to the water from which all fu
ture streets should branch, exact
ly similar to San Francisco's .Mar
ket street.
The upshot of the meeting was
the formation of the Pierce Coun
ty Boulevard association.
Mr. Ross was made president,
Henry Sicatle vice president,
Richard Millie secretary and
Louis Johnson treasurer.
A resolution was adopted call-
Sledge:
A large, heavy hammer,
used chleflj by blacksmiths.
—«-Wehster.
Webster Is right.
Hut that la nut the kind
of Sledge we mean, nltho
the Sledge in question Is a
large, heavy hammerer.
Hut he is a human being.
Boss Sledge was created
by <_eorge Randolph Ches
ter, a past master of the
art of story telling.
I ins-. Sledge dominates
throughout "A Tale of Red
Hose*," next week's novel
a-week.
"A Tale of Red Hoses"
Is to begin In Monday's Times
and run for six consecutive
days, ending la Haturday's
Issue.
theatrical construc
tion, to cost $::nO,
--000.
And I lieu the
Jones block will be
forgotten.
* * *
In ISS9, when
it was erected by-
Gross Brothers, pio
neer diygoods mer
chants, it wps the.
finest building of
its kind in the city.
The panic of
tttl cHiigbt its
owners, like many
others, and the
building reverted to
a mortgage com
pany, from whom it
was later purchased
by William Jones.
Finer buildings
were erected as
time wenl on. and
presently people be
gan to speak of"the
oltl Jones block."
lag for ihe election of a commit
tee of 10, including the lour of
ficers, to confer with tbe Bounty
commissioners on tho following
program:
I. To ,>iit mi a considera
tion of Mr. Ron__* comprehen
sive r«iad plan.
-. To urse a survey of the
proposed roads so that steps
limy be taken toward the
dedication of rijthts-o-v'ay.
'{. In urfce the linuietliato
building of a three-quarters
of a mile of road Hi it will
gii«> Dumas bay people a
chance to i_«*i to Tacti.na. It
was declared that this road
has been promised at least
twice by tho commissioners,
but for some mysterious rea
son always blocked.
4. To work for an immedi
ate survey of a roart from
Lincoln avenue to Stone's
landing, by way of Brown's
JMlillt.
The six committeemen electe.l
to serve with the officers were:
Harry Johnston, James Menzies,
Ed Hube, J. R. O'Farrell, B. Ber
telson and 11. T. Engoe.
And, as Mr. Ross remarked In
Ihe auto on the way homa, "That
was a meeting that will be heard
from again."
TO ORDER HEAT
ON STREET CARS
OLYMPIA. June 24. —By an
order of the public service com
mission, all street cars on the
long runs In Seattle and Tacoma
shall be heated next winter. The
conimssion will not demand it
on other lines because of the al
leged loss of revenues.
|»«««.IfIGHT EDITION*****
I WEATHER I
I Tacoma: Showers tonight and 1
• Sunday. I
1 Washington: Same. 1
fiitiiiiiiititititititmiif>w_n»t>*i>»Wiirl
"NONE OF THAT
DAMNED HYPHEN
STUFF IN MET
BY D'LOSS SUTHERLAND
".Yd, air, there it none of that damned hyphen stuff in me."
And Henry Matthaei, 58, ami president of the Matthaei
Bread Co., dipped his pen in tlic ink well ami signed the blank
that may mean lie will never again return to Tacoma.
.Matthaei is llie lirst Pacoma businessman of the older gen
eration t«. respond to A«lji. Gen, Thompson's call for recruits.
It i^ believed his example will be followed by others, espe
cially members <<f ihe Businessmen's Preparedness league.
Matthaei's chief business for the last few years has been to
sit down at an expensive roll top desk and sign checks while
not conducting and building tip what is said to be the finest
bakery in the country.
TODAY THIS SAME MAX APPEARED AT THE RE
CRUITIKG STATION BECAUSE HE BELIEVED HIS
COUNTRY NEEDED HIM.
"I can go better than my sons," he said, "for they have
small babies. 'I"here it nothing lo keep me, but my wife — and
she tVOHtt me to go.
See in Matthaei's Action a Change in
the Way Older Business Men May Act
"Although I usu born in Germany, I le/'l there before I had
an opportunity to gel any military experience.
"this is an opportunity for all Americans lo aid their coun
try. I am an American to the last drop of blond in me. There
is no hyphen eon nee led frith my loyalty or allegiance.
"J am going to fight, and I don't care tvhot they do zcith
me or where thfy put me."
1 M'ficers have been somewhat pessimistic regarding the lack
«.f enthusiasm on the part of the older men, but they believe
now that this is changing.
The recruiting Nation was filled today.
Recruits lo the infantry department are being sent directly
to Seattle lieadquarters, Fourteen men left on the 11:^5 in
terurban, while detachments left at hourly inter*, all
Begin Administering New Oath of
Allegiance That Federalizes Militia
The latest advices from Seattle are to the effect that the
troops will be sent from American lake at the earliest possible
dale. Rumors were circulated at the station that a call for vol
unteers would be made shortly.
Lieut. Smith said thai many of the men who have inquired
concerning enlistment have been interested in the |>ay.
1 le is of the Opinion that the sooner a man enlists, the sooner
he will get a petty officer's commission ami an increase in pay.
A private starts at $lj a month.
.Ml of the recruits are being sworn in under the new oath
which was slatc*l to go into effect July i.
The new oath swears a soldier t<> service in the "national
guard of the United States and Washington."
This enables a company of militia to be sent to any part of
the country for federal service.
A fife and drum corps is tuned up for service in (he enthus
iasm corps.
I Talk o' the Times |
(■reelings, were you ever
Skngci'aked'.'
Lalsnre & Harking wore. It
looks like 11. F. Norrls «-.as. Bill
Hurley certainly was.
Bl'T WHY POBUHT
SOMKHODV MKAGKKAK Ij.
C. COVMI, OIK SPITZKX
BKHG WKATHKKKIt, AND
OI.I) WHISKKHS t'AHHAN
■AT
Still, as we run over tne quos
tion, we don't see how George
B. Barber, of the Webster apart
ments, can consistently support
lloghes and Fairbanks.
A cravat is not always even
because It's a tie.
If Wilson doesn't beat Hughes,
we'll bet he at least gives him a
close shave.
A CAKE OK SOAP 1 I.AC-
El> IX THK GLOBE WHKHK
ooi.i.Plsil \i:i- Xl it
WIM, PKKVKNT THK
I'IHH KKO.M SPLASHING.
And Brandels hasn't even yat
kicked any fellow justice In il.e
chest or thrown a bomb under
the bench.
A lawyer who lias a patent
leather farm south of the
• it v says most of the fruit on
his tree*, ran l>e picked by •
man standing on the ground.
He has nothing on .mother
lawyer we know, who haa a
farm on Ko\ island. A man
can pick the fruit off both
sides and the tops of Una
ir«'«-s while standing >n one
side.
A friend of ours wants us to
roast the police department good
and plenty for raiding the Lota*.
"It was the only place In tows
where you .mild get m drink thai
really tasted like 1916 and b»
fora," complained this citizen.