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Glen of Mystery In King Case What is the secret of Blackwelder Spring, where Mrs. Maude A. King, wealthy Chicago widow, fell dead with a bullet behind her ear? The man In the foreground Is Farmer Charles S. Dry, whose ■tory has caused a demand that the coroner's verdlc* of accidental death be reviewed in another inquest. The arrow shows his right hand resting In the fork of the tree where Gaston Means, Mrs. King's secre tary, says he placed the pistol Mrs. King afterward picked up. The man in the distance, J. H. Duck worth, The Timeß staff correspondent, is beinding ocr the spring where Means says he was standing when Mrs. King shot herself. WOOD SHIPYARDS ARE TIED UP TIGHT d'niifii Press i.rn.r.i Wlra.) PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15.— Work on 100 wodoen ships in 11 Willamette and Columbia river yards stopped at 10 o'clock this morning when 1,500 men walked out. The shipbuilding companies an nounced today they had applica tions for work from hundreds of men and would put them to work as soon as possible. Most of the ships on which con struction is stopped were being bnllt under government contract. The shipping hoard may take a hand In the situation. HKATTI.K 1 AKI»S <I.ONKI> SEATTLE, Sept. 15. - With practically every wooden ship building plant ob waterfront tied up and three of the largest steel shipbuilding plants operating in a Burglar's Had His Clothes. So He Couldn't Pursue 'Em A. H. Kirkman, Merkle hotel, might have caught a pair of bur (lars who awakened him just as 5-CENT LOAF IN FRANCE • t'nllrU Prcaa I r ..,d Wlrr.. PARIS, Sept. 10.—The house wife of war-ridden France today Is paying practically the same price for bread that she paid be fore the war. The only difference is that to day's bread is of whole wheat flour and Is darker than the loaf of the pre-war days. The French food ministry to day explained to the United Press for the benefit of Americans now facing increased prices for flour and bread how France dealt with the problem The ministry's statement was as follows: "During the first two years of the war there was no bread prob lem in France. We imported all necessary wheat, but even then, in view of transport difficulties, the government was obliged to regu late baking. Allow 1-Cent Itaine. "As the French are essentially a bread eating nation, it was nec essary to keep prices as low as possible. Therefore the only in crease permitted was the raise to b cents of the usual 4-cent loaf. "All French bread now in of a a standard type. It is made of whole wheat flour, which is less tasty, perhaps, but which in equal ly nutritious. "The government held it inad visable to tax wheat because the farmers might grow other cereals. Therefore it was decided to pay the farmers the prices they de manded for their wheat—altho the flour from the grain wan re sold" at former prices to the takers. Use Potato**, Too. "To cover the deficit a tax will soon be imposed on the agricul tural populations. This appears to fee the only solution. In Octo ber* bread -cards will be given out. This will allow minimum dally al lowance per capita of r. pound of bread with a minimum of pound and four-fifths The latter weight to for the working clase, who are greater bread eaters than our townspeople. Experiment* with potato bread have given excellent results if the percentage of potato flour does not exceed 80 per rent. The only difference to that the bakers are abort handed and are unwilling I to properly cook potatoes before t crippled condition, the second day of the sympathetic strike of car penters and joiners here opened with no sign of weakening on either side. - Three thousand ship carpenters and ll.otto house carpenters are on strike here. The men are refusing to use lumber cut in 10-hour mills in an effort to force the mill owners to grant the 8-hour demand* of 18, --000 striking lumber workers. While there are some talk among draft officials here of re certifying ship yard workers who have been discharged from mili tary service because of their oc cupation and who are now on strike, it is the opinion of the ma jority that the matter should he taken up directly with the provost marshal general. they were leaving his room at 4:30 Saturday morning, if they handn't taken his clothes with them. Kirkman jumped out of bed when he saw the men departing, dressed only in his night clothes, darted after the men and pursued them downstairs. The men ran along Pacific aye. and Kirkman followed for a half block. Then he began to get cold, and realized that he might get into trouble for parading the streets in his unseem ly attire. The burglars had his clothing under their arms, and Kirkman hadn't been able to clothe himself before taking the pursuit. Kirkman is a railroad man. The thieves took a railroad watch and $4 in money from under his pil low while he slept, besides gather ing all his clothing together, and carrying it off. Hubby and Wife Call For Help; Arrest Both City Detective P. D. McKay had a problem before him Saturday such as might have been placed before old King Solomon in bis' day. He was pent ou to the North End, where frank Speier, 3904 No. Cheyenne, and Mrs. Seiper, had both telephoned for police i help within five minutes of each other. When the detective arrived, he Jound Mrs. Speier holding tightly Ito her husband's shoes, coat and : hat, to prevent his leaving the house. And both were talking as fast as they could, trying to have the other arrested". Detective McKay did what all wise detectives do. Inßtead of trying to act as Judge and jury, he bundled both husband and wife into an auto and took them to jail. "Disorderly— family row," read the record on the police blotter a few minutes later. fixing them with the wheat flour. What We Could IV>. "In America, where machinery Is being more used in baking, po tato flour could easily be adopted. "If American municipalities supplies the baker* with potato I flour, the quality of the bread could be maintained and Its cost diminished. "The French government rec ommends a new formula for bak ing, which is In general use. This produces what is universally call ed pain francais' (French bread). "It is not baked In Frencfl homes, and therefore easier to con trol." (Continued From Page One.) a bullet wound at the b;ick of her left ear, and sat down by the spring, :iO feet away, where, G-as ton Means says he was drinking when the rich widow accidentally shot herßelf. while, twirling a .small automatic pistol around her head. Target Practire Coroner Sears says he believes an ijured ankle caused Mrs. King to lose her footing in the dark and when she threw up her arms to regain her balance the pistol was discharged. This sequestered dell, vaulted by the stout branches or massive trees, off an old lane that turns in from the mnin Oold Hill road, was visited by the Means-King party on the nifiht of the tragedy for the purpose of target practice, acrocnidg etaoin shrdlu unu nut according to Means. In the party, besides Mrs. King and Gaston Means, were the letter's brother, lAfton or 'Tony" Means, and Cap tain W. S. Bingham, a Concord 'man. The party rode over In an auto mobile driven by a colored chauf feur from Concord, the home of the Meanses, where the father is a lawyer and "Tony" the republi can boss of the county. County IMvictal Caston says thai for two years he was employed over here by the German government, and that he has been shadowed for a long time. The whole county is split into two r.i< ii..n- over the tNMjedj-, one wide in favor of a thoro reinvwt igat ion of the • himriiiK•••. and the other side to abide by the roiiilt of tJie coroner's inquest, which returned a verdict of acci dental death. Uaston Means makes the charge [that "Chicago interests" are re jsponsible for the theory tha* his late employer was murdered. P. S. MclJuffle. an Atlanta law yer, retained by Mrs. A. L. Robin son of Asheville, N. C. Mrs. King's mother, says that of the j million-dollar estate which Mrs. King obtained by breaking her lumberman husband's will in Chi cago in 190fi. only $490,000 re means. McDuffle is trying to dis cover what became of the other $510,000. Bitter Fend Started By the flickering dimmer of his lantern as we stood by the forked tree, Dry told me how from his porch he heard a shot anda voice call, several time, "Captain, come here quick!" He then caught the sound of men breaking thru the bushes between his farm and the spring, and making in the direction of the later. Next he saw the lights I of an auto come tearing down the jhish road from Concord and turn into the abandoned lane. The car stotpped near the spring. He hoard a door slam, jsaw thru the trees and underbrush the tail lights of the car backing up. The car then moved about 15 fee: forward, when he heard a sec ond shot and saw a flash. The auto crawled out into the main road, and made off toward Con cord at a terrific speed. Whatever the outcome of this North Carolina tragedy may be, THE FEIT) ALREADY STARTED BETWEEN THE MEANS AND ANTI-MEANS FACTIONS IS UKELV TO OWTMVE THE LE GAL /ecision. CIVIC BUREAU TO COMPLETE SURVEY The Commercial club civic bur eau will make a survey of the recreation facilities of the city. The Playgrounds' Association of America, which had been asked to do this, replied thru R. F. Carter, its representative, that Its 20 ex perts are all busy in war work. VOTES FOR STRIKE, CAN'T BE CITIZEN SEATTLE, Sept. 15. —Edward Conrad Strom, a Swede, was de nied citizenship by Superior Judge .turfy yesterday because he said he voted for the shipyard strike. Saturday, Sept. 15,1917. -THE TAOOMA TIMES-Page Eight RUSS WORKMEN WANT CONTROL (|-»lli-il l-r. .« I ra.r.l Wlr«.) PETROOKAD, Sept. 15.—"A democratic republic" at once, as the solution of Russia's in'ernal difficutlit'H, is demanded in reso lutions approved by the local council of workmen and soldiers. The vote was 279 to ll!i. A formal proclamation an nouncing this decision demanded immediate delivery of ail land proprietors' property Into the hands of the peasants' commit tees, introduction of employes' control of all Industrial produc tion and distribution, nationaliza tion of all important industries! and ruthless taxation of capital, with confiscation of war profits. The committee recommended creation of a government consist ing of representatives of the rev olutionary proletariat and peas ants. iiciMiuiil Koiniloff Die Korniloff misjudged Russia, therefore Russia is demanding that Korniloff die. The provisional government to day faced a spreading anger of the people against the former gen trallssimo. It was due less per hai>H to his actual attempt at a revolt than to events which pre ceded It. The public Is demanding his' FIVE BANDITS HOLD UP 100 REVELLERS il'nlfrd Prcu irmrd Wire.! SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 15. —The combined efforts of the sheriff's office were centered to day on the capture of the five daring bandits who held up 100 men and women revellers at the Breakers Cafe, a mile south of the city, late last night. They made a haul of $200 and valuable jewelry taken from the women. The holdup was staged in real days of '4 9 style. Two of the five JEWISH HOLIDAYS TO BE CELEBRATED The most solemn services since the inception of the Jewish "hol idays" are to be held in the s>na pogiies of America beginning to morrow and continuing thru Sept. 26. Monday 1b New Year's for the Jewish people, the orthodox cele brating Tuesday also. It begins the 10 days of atonement which end with the most important Jew ish fast day, Yom Klppur, the day of atonement. In Tacoma services will be held Sunday evening by the Clievra Talmud Torah Congrega tion at 1")29 Tacoma aye., at 6 p. m., with Rabbi M. Cohen of ficiating. Monday morning services com mence promptly at 8:30. Spec'al invitation is extended to the Jew ish men stationed at Camp Lewis. Since the beginning of the war these holidays have become even more sacred and solemn than ever! before. Rabbip. instead of preach ing usual 'holiday sermons, brought home to their congrega tions the cruelties of the war especially dwelling upon the un fortunate circumiftance« in w*iich the Jews found themselves—Jew fighting Jew, altho unwillingly, more severe hardships under Turkish rule In Pale»tine, and Evelyn Nesbit Enacts Film Play In Which Her Life Story Is Told A m-piic from Mlm KnMt'ii r emarfcabta film play, "Itedrtni Jon," at the Taconui tomorrow. "Redemption," with Evelyn Nesblt and her ton RunuHl Thaw, considered by many one of the most remarkable photo-plays ynt screened, and fresh from a highly successful career on Brcadway, New York, where It was aprofound xensation. comes to the Taroma theater Sunday for a full week. The excellent direction of Julius death. Isseamia, a people's organ, today expressed the popular sus picion that Riga was surrendered to the Germans in furtherance of Korniloff's schemes. "If Korniloff succeeded In out wtting the soldiers' committee," the newspaper asserted, "his treachery has not been punished. Our country was handed over to the enemy. Only the soldiers' committees saved Russia. "Is iL not true that the reported panicky retreats of the Russian army were exaggerated? With the investigation under way we can now discover whether or not thene panics were organized by Kornilorf's own adjutants." Kate Not IXMiiled Korniloff's fate had not yet been officially decided today. He has not yet formally surrendered. The cabinet was in the throes of a reorganization, due as much to differences on what punishment should be given the rebel leader as to internal conflict. Word from the "rebels" receiv ed late Friday said Korniloff had still not surrendered. He was at his headquarters. His rebel troops are melting away rapidly. But Petrograd is demanding one of only two courses for Korni loff —Buicide or surrender. bandits, all of whom were masked, stood guard outside the cafe while the other three entered the place. As the bandits stepped inside the door they began banging away at the ceiling with their revolvers to frighten the crowd into submis sion. The system worked like a charm and the robbers calmly made the rounds gathering in money and jewels from their victims and toss ing the loot into a pack which one of the three caried. poverty in the Jewish districts of Russia and Cdlicia. Committees were formed to preach good will and obtain finan cial aid froni the American Jews by making rounds of all syna gogues during the holidays. As a result millions of dollars have al ready been spent for the relief of Jews in Europe and Palestine. Big Program Entrance of the United States into the war has made the Jew's situation even more complex. Nearly every synagogue thruout the ronntry has men In khaki in i*s congregation. The Jewish soldiers have obtained leave of absence, thru the order of Brig. G«n. Crowder, for the 10 days covering the holidays. Henides offering its young men to Uncle Sam, American Jewry purposes to take off his hands al so the care of poverty stricken jJews in America and the rest of the world. The American Jew ish Relief Committee, of which I'Oiils Marshall of New York is chairman, has been conducting a campaign for $10,00^,000 for Jewish war relief. One-tenth of this fund will be raised during the Jewish holiday*, Marshall declared in a special dis patch to The Times today. Steger and Joseph A. Golden is erident thruout the film. No ex pense was spared, It Is said to make "Redemption" a noteworthy play, which will greatly Interest not only thru the star's name and the part that her life plays In the story, bat also in the production. There will be three performances daily at 2:20. 7 and 9 o'clock. LIKE NICHOLAS AND CONSTANTINE, SWEDEN'S KING HAS GERMAN WIFE King Gustos/ oF JWaden Queen Victoria, wife of King Gustav V. of Sweden, was Prin cess Victoria of Baden, when sho married the present ruler of Swe den in 1881. Altho Sweden was ostensibly neutral, there has been on doubt about where Queen Victoria stood In the present world war. She was true to her blood. She has spent much time in Ger many. She waa at Karlsruhe, Germany, during the British air raid on that place in the middle of 191. r >. It increased her inborn hatred of the British. 1000 Fine Dahlias Are On Display Prizes will be distributed Sat urday evening at the dahlia show. The exhibit opened Friday after noon at Rhodes' store, with more than 1,000 entries from Tacoma and neighboring towns. W.~J. Love, president of the Dahlia society, says the show is the best the society has yet held, considering weather conditions, and'the prizes are the best. The silver cup for most points has been awarded to Mrs. J. W. Lee. The display of the Tacoma school board has attracted much attention, and a bouquet of six "Bertha yon Suttner" dahlias shown by Mrs. E. F. Alexander has been pronounced by the judges the best they have ever seen. MAY CONTROL STEEL PLANTS (('■lted Tttm Lrnacd Wl!•«■.> SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15. — Possibility of the government taking over the steel shipbuilding plants on San Francisco bay as a result of the strike call issued by! the metal trades council to its 24,000 members, was widely dis-l cussed today. The threatened strike had been placed up to the government ship ping board and word from Wash ington was that action would be taken as soon as the Seattle strike could be settled. In the mean time, the shlping board has a rep resentative here making Investi gations. SHOTS FIRED AT SOLDIERS (i »ii .-«I l'rr«» I .cased Wire.) BTEUBKNVILLE, 0., Sept. 15. —'Police Chief Carter, of Steuben vllle, with a posse of citizens and detectives, was searching today for unidentified persons who fired a fusillade of shots at a troop train as it was passing thru Mlngo Junc tion, thre miles west of here. Four soldiers were wounded, one seriously. CITY CAN PAY FOR FERRY LANDING The Metropolitan park board, the city council and the county commissioners will meet Monday to consider a ferry landing at Point Defiance park. City Attor-j ney U. E. Harmon ruled Friday that the city could apend the money. GARFIELD TO SEE THAT NO HOMES FREEZE <lulled l're» I.eu»ed Wire.) WASHINGTON, U. C, Sept. 15. —Prompt action was taken by the fuel administration today to re lieve seriouß coal shortages and stimulate production. So-called 'luxury Industries" will be forced to wait for fuel un til households and necessary in dustries are amply supplied. Coal export to Canada has been |iut under license restriction. Ten tative increases over the presi dent's prices will !•<• granted next week to certain bituminous mines with high costs. An emergency bureau In Admin istrator (liirflrld's organization is arranging immediate relief tor acute cases. Serious tho the situation is, Oarfield is certain the country will pull thru the winter without any shutdown of munition plants or public utilities. Some "luxury industries" may be forced to clote temporarily. He alto announced his deter mination that no borne shall freeze. AXED SPEAKS FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF Rev. Charles Aked, noted pas tor, npoke Saturday noon at the ('ommwrclal club and will Bpeak Saturday evening at the Lincoln llii-li school In behalf of Armenian and Syrian relief. The public la invited EMBARGO CHOKING GERMANY <lT»ltrd l-rw Lined Wlra.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Bept. 15. The central powers' reported reply to the Vatican peace proposal aroused only curiosity here to- day. Inasmuch as vague forecasts of it gave no hope of fulfillment of President Wilson's demands for elimination of kalserism, authori ties here showed little interest. The single possibility it offers is that it will create new peace dis cussion interfering with America's" war work—and perhaps Inspire the pope to further proffers. That the United States will stand pat on its declarations to the pope Is certain and the allies will be with her. The United States government Is positive that the tide can be turned against Germany by both military and economic blows and hence Is not interested in any half way peace offers of Germany. Kairerlsm must go—that Is the sum and substance of American demands. Meantime Germany is being choked l>y the embargo. This will become even more ag gravated by the Swedisli-Germau- Arßentlne-'Mexlcan exposures. One of their purpose)) in to break ni> the alliance between Germany and Sweden. Between the embargo and the likelihood of a Kovernmental house cleaning in Sweden, there Is little chance that Germany will get further Ruppl'ea from her friend, the Swedish government. CENTRAL BUS STATION l.narb lloon la I oamrllAß Schedule Auto Rt.g« ft Krrljht ti rvli-n. llagftnir* Oitrk«A. IM §O. 10TH ST. TRI. MAIN Me « • rbniii l <ln— \Vllk?»»n — I noons !■<"»» Uo»l. a Inn) M'CKAOKKN, Prop. Thi-ee Trips I'aJly Leave Tacoma: li:vo a. m.f. --4 00, 6:15 p. in. Leave Carbonado-: 7:3 A, 1:15 ». m.; 2:00 p. m. ncKi.at —» « com « I.v. Ticomt 10 a. tn.; J so. la. m. Lv. liv, kley 8 a. m.. 13:10, « n, m. Baturdav and Sunday—l,v. Tacome 10 a. m.: 1:10. 11:10 p. m. lit! rO* -Z— T 4 COMA Lt. Taeoma—6:4o. 10:10 a. m: 111 4:30. 11:10 p. m. "" Lv. Dupont—B:oo. 1:00 a. m_ 1:09. 4:60. 6:15 p. m. Sunday Special—l.oo. 10.0» p. m.: and 12:00 m. •» •»• HORTBBMT TACOMA Hylchoa Crrrk and llacua Dam factory Lv. Tacoma6:3o. 730 0:30 a. m; 1, 4, 6. «. 10 10 p. m. Lv. N E. 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For Tacoma Leave Aberdeen (or Tacoma, S p. m., 4:45 p. m ; Montegano, 4 p. m., B:30 p. m.; Elma, 4:30 p. tn., 6p. m.; McCleary, 6p. m., 0:30 p m ; Olympia, 6 p. m., 7:30 p. m. Subject to Change IWthoat Notice KATO>VII I F_KAP(l««m_ TACOIIA AUTO •Til.a nth M.. Op. T>. o. i,,,,i caatral llin BlaWoa. * ' L' Fatonvllte A.f •■ H a. <n.; Ipm 1.10 p. m. Sunday. la.m. I and ? p. in. Lv Tii'inm dually • « m 1 p. nv. 4 pm. Sunday • a. m . 4 and 1:11 p. m. Batunlay Evening Special—Lear* Kritnnvl'le 1 i>. m ; leavu Tatoina. 1.11 p. m THIMP ;|IIMKII I.v. Taeortia—o:oo p. m. Lv. Tenlno—8:00 a. in Hftfllß AVTO BTAQB ((■■■l—Orafl Hotel, llllli iwirie «». ■■d Ceutral Bna Htalloa. Tacoma ano Telni. I^akevlew Hlll hurttTQreendale, Roy. McKenna, M. T. Mile*. Lv. Tacoma—lo:l4 a. m. and 4 tfc m.: Sunday I a. m. and 11:00 p. m. Lv- telm—f:l« a. fc. and 1 p. m.; Saturday night '.0:10 and Sunday Tim in i k i i\r «.m>ner, \nrlli Purallup, Flrirood. Ardrna, Vttr, inma. LEAVE BUHNER (Mranlck'a Rtsr».t «:00 A. 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