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C. E. RUSSELL TELLS HOW RASPUTIN WAS SLAIN IT WAS TOUGH TASK TO KILL RUSSIAN FAKER By Charles £. Russell XCopyright, 1917, by Out Newspa per Kntarprtae \—••"Jailoii.) The youug mmi that undertook to rid the earth of Kasputln, the Carman spy and agent, I will call I «_ 14.*. the duke, altho be wasn't that, when he made up liiß mind to do the Rasputin job he consulted with an intimate friend of his, a The doctor advised poison as a mm t, effi cacious way of dealing with persons of the Rasputin sort, and suggested O..r.T?USSFLI. cyanide of pot aah. That there should be no blunder nor sllp-up, » he experi bnented with a dos« of this rem ledy on a large dog. The dog died [Instantly, and the doctor made an I estimate of a somewhat larger •mount necessary to overcome 'Rasputin's great vitality. The duke meantime sought the acqualn'anre of the faking monk «*nd got his confidence, which was 'not easily had. IT WAS THE .DUKE'S ACCOUNT OF THE LA DIES THAT WERE ALLEGED TO BE DYING FOR THE LOVE OF THE FAKER THAT DID THE BOBINICSS. The duke owned a large and handsome house, and what he was maneuvering for was to get Ras-^ üßuttn at night and alone into that • house. He was not readily sep arated from his body guard; but he finally agreed to come at ten O'clock on a certain night and meet these ladies that so much desired his acquaintance but shied at the body guard. The doctor fixed up the poison dose, putting it into some cukes. At ten o'clock Rasputin appear* ed and was received at the door by the duke. The houses of the well-to-do in Russia usually have a large re ception room on the ground flo^r, and the.parlors on the floor above. The duke's house was so arranged. It was a bitter cold night, even ((or Petrograd in the middle of •winter. There was a blazing fire 1 In the fireplace of the reception room. Rasputin was divested of fcls magnificent fur overcoat and t fur cap and led before the fire. "Before we go up stairs to see ' the ladies," said the duke, "we {"Will sit here a moment and have a glass of wine." So the wine and the pplsoned 1 cakes were brought in. But at first Rasputin would , take no refreshment and sat be- P-fore th« fire, looking rather sus piciously about him. The duke Is a good talker. He apnn a web of flattery around the false monk, continually arousing Ills curiosity about the fair ladies •hove. Finally, Rasputin, appar ently convinced that all was well, accepted a glass of wine and ate two of the cakes. The duke stood by expecting to see him fall dead. He didn't fall dead. In a few minutes he complained of feeling ill and bent forward in front of j the fh-e, his hands upon his stom ach. Then he looked up with an expression of fiendish hatred on his face and began to curse the duke. He understood that he had been poisoned. StUl he continued to live. The duke became frightened and ran up t4ip stairs to the doc tor, who was waiting in a room on the floor above. "He is the devil," be cried. "That poison did not kill him and he knows that I gave it to him. The next minute he will go out and give the alarm!" "Take your revolver," said the doctor, "and go down and finish him." The duke took the revolver and slipped down the stairs. Rasputin eat In the same position, bent over the firp. The duke came behind and shot him thru the head. Ras putin fell prone upon the floor. The duke ran up stairs to tell the doctor. "That man is evidently of the most extraordinary vitality," said the doctor. "You had better go down again and make sure that he Is dead." The duke returned. Ras pulin lay Apparently lifeless, stretched one before the fire. Tile dnke beat over him to see if lie still hreathrd and the terrible creature xudrienly gripped him around il><- an kle* and hung there, frothing ARMY POST BUS STATION # A Large and Commodious Waiting Boom, 10-MIM TIC BKKVIOK—DAT ANIJ NKJIIT. Oars For Special Service. Taxis. Phone Main 2033. 9th and Commerce. at the muuMi and coming. The duke NtruftKted to win free, bat KaHputin Iran* "•»■ At laat Hi" duke mini, a »ml den and desperate l<-n|>, nmodinl hiniHClf from Uie madman's grasp and bolted npHtali-H, almoHt hysterical. "He is certainly the devil." he walled to the doctor. "He Is still alive, after all that." "Take the revolver again," said the doctor, "and we will go down together and finish him." They went down stairs and with stricken dumb and shafting with amazement and terror. THEX PLACE WAS EMPTY. THE FUR OVERCOAT AND FUJI CAP WERE MISSINC, FROM THE RACK AT THK DOOR. THE MAN HAD VANISHED. Absolute ruin stared them In the face. Rasputin had gone forth knowing of the double at tempt on his life. Within an hour the two of them would be in pris on cells and as good as dead. While they stood thpro quaking and staring, suddenly there rame a loud rapping on the front door. The doctor, half mad with fright at the supernatural fate that seemed to have overwhelmed them pulled himself together enough to ! stagger to the door and get It open. A perfect Btranger stood thero. I He said: "A man has fallen In the s*re»t before your hoofie. Do you know anything about him?" They ran into the middle of the mini and It was Rasputin, dead at last. With all that poison in him ami a bullet In his head, he had I arisen, put on his overcoat and I rap, opened the street door and crossed the sidewalk to the middle of the road before he dropped. They carried the body into the house, got it out the back way in to an automobile and took It down the Neva to a lonesome spot, where they thrust it thru a hole In the ice. There Is a strong current in the Neva. By daylight the body should have been carried out to sea and lost. At daylight a carter driving along the shore saw something black projecting from the Ice, i went out to investigate and found the body of Rasputin. THE CZARINA WAS WILD WITH GKIKF. SHE ERECTED A BEAUTIFUL MAUSOLEUM ON THK PALACE GROUNDS AND EVERY DAY SHE WENT TO WKEP OVER THE COFFIN. The people did not weep. And on the second day of t ho revolution a party of w»«l«.irt men in MwJc top boots went out to the palace and broke open the mAUKolenm and took Hi-' body out to the mid dle of the street and burned it there. Many versions of Rasputin's pnd have been printed in America. This Is the version that was told ! among the best informed in Petrograd when I was -the,re. I have fairly good reason to believe It is substantially correct. HURLEY MAY COME WEST (Halted Ptrmm l.raac* Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 17.—Chairman Hurley of the shipping hoard may person ally \l-ii the roast In an ef fort to a i l.i ii m Hie strikes etiatlng or threatened among 35,«00 Hhip builders at Han l-'ranrix ii, Seattle and Port land. Hurley's counte will depend on the outcome of conference* Thursday between Seattle shipbuilders and labor • dele gates. Twelve per cent of the government's shipbuilding program is now held i> by strikes. w^j JB Tp* 111 i II ] Steamers Tacoma and Indianapolis for Seattle L*ava Municipal Dock. Taeo. ma, 7.16, i 00. ii.oo a. m.; l;**, I ««. I 90, 7:«», •:•• p. a. L«av* Caiman Dock. He»m« T.»O. CM. H:0» a. m.; 1 Vt:H I »0. 7so. 11l p. m. F»»t»«t and Flneat bteamara Single Fare 40e, Round Trip 78c. a. a. ion ten, «mi. fflrat Municipal Dork kt tut. THE TIMES DAILY LAUGH-MAKERS Doings of the Duffs CHESTNUT CHARLIE Squirrel Food ADOPT SPUD STANDARD A meeting of great importance to the potato growers of Wash ington will be held Friday at North Yakima to discuss the advisa bility of adopting for the slate of Washington the proposed potato grades and standards recommended by the bureau of markets of the U. S. department of agriculture. If Washington potatoes are to increase their reputation on other markets it is declared to be highly desirable that recognized grades and standards be adopted. V Tats need is recognized by the office of farm markets and the state department of agriculture, and these two offices hare co-oper atively called this meeting of growers, dealers and others interested in the marketing of potatoes at 9:30 a. m. in the assembly hall In the grandstand building at the Btate fair grounds. All who are in terested in potato grading are urged to attend and contribute their experience to the discussion or to write to either Mr. Asher Hobson, director of the office of farm markets or to M. 1,. Dean, chief, divi sion of horticulture, state department of agriculture, at the Com mercial hotel. North Yakima, before Sept. 21. MAYOS GIVE FORTUNE (Special to The Times.) MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 18. —The board of regents of the Univer sity of Mlnn'e-ota has ratified by unanimous vote a permanent agree ment making the Mayo foundation at Rochester the al>solute prop erty of the university, to be used perpetually for higher medical oducation, research, and investigation. Securities totaling $i,u,n, 044, representing the fortunes of Ors. Will J. and Charles H. Mayo, were turned over to the university. "We turn over to the regents the bulk of our savings of a gen eration as an outright gift," said \)r. Will J. Mayo, who is a member of the hoard of regents, but who did not vote on the proposal. "The money came from the people and we feel it should return to the people—a continuing fund tbJit shall serve this state for generations to come." Expenses of the foundation will be paid by the Drs. Mayo until a fund of $2,000,000 has accumulated. Thereafter the income from the fund will maintain it, regents explained. SECOND DROP IN FLOUR The government food oentrol bill, to stop wheat gambling and fix the price of wheat has resulted indirectly in a second drop In the price of wheat has resulted indirectly in a second drop in the price of flour in Tacoma. The price was lowered 60 cents a i.arnl Monday and 40 cents last week, making a total drop of 33' per cent from the top prfce last spring. CAMP Y. M. DEDICATED "X have found from many years of army experience that the Christian men are alwayi among the finest soldiers." Maj. Gen. Greene told the men at Camp Lewis Monday at the dedication of Y. M C. A. building No. 1. The new building was crowded to the doors! <;>•'!. Greene told the men sot to be shy of their Christian affiliations! The building will t>e maintained by the heirs of Frederick WeyerhaMiser. BIG SPAR ORDER HERE ~ An order for masts .and booms for all wooden ship* to be built on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts has been placed by the federal shipping board with the fir emergency lumber committee of Taroma It Includes 2,400 spam for 356 vessels. following a conference of spar and boom makers with George 8. long, member of the lumber committee of the National Council of Defense, Mds on the order were sent to Washington recently. tnertay, flap*. 18,1J17..-THE TAOOMA TIMES-Page Two. Tom and Wilbur Ought to Be Back in Shape Tonorrow Don't Worry, Benny, He'll Be With You! f i ! Here and Elsewhere Kvelyu Clorau, isfr-yvar-ohl Va der girl, burned to death when ■ !!•■ starts to build fire in her home and her dress catches fire. Hearing of appeal of Fred and Logan Uilliogsley, Seattle liquor sellers, set for Oct. 9 in San Fran- CifiCO. Hchool enrollment in state bf 5,733 larger than last year. It is 310,333. s. ii<l i Ik- boy a fmit cako. Duenwalds, 1112 Broadway, adv. Kiclini'il HaNlwin arrmted In Tacoma with stealing $14 worth of meal tickets from Pacific com missary department. Warrant issued in Tacoma for Chief of Police Beckingbam of Seattle, charged with wading in the water of Green river. Ren-en Doors with hlngea— $1.50 and up. Palace Hardware Co., 1511 Pacific aye. adv. .i-wi-l! Now Year serrlcwt, whit-b began Sunday, are largely attended. Astoria chamber of eonimerre trying to settle strike in wood shipbuilding yards. Big shiprneata of ranned nal mon have begun to move from Alaska canneries. Shipment of 40,000 cases expected to arrive on Sound Wednesday. Taooma powtofflco has more general delivery than ever before. Prof. Boot* Nearing, wbooe home recently was raided, is elected chairman of executive oomnrlttee of People's Council. Dr. Ooraea, dentist, 203 Pro»l --dent. adr. i Western Toy company in new Tacoma concern with $5,000 capi tal. Frank O. RJtey, attorney, an nounces that he is still at 61ft. ,Bankers Trust Bldg. He was not sent to the Presidio as reported. B*r, Stflamar QuaOra la at Taooma smeltev with 57 6tons of ore from Britannia Beach, B. C. After loadlag ooakl In ftaattle, Nelson steamer Mukilteo will re- turn to Tai <iin;i for lumber deck load. Now York district appeal l«>ar<l will auk legislation which will prevent all sons of one family from being drafted into army. AYe now have a good lino of leather puttees and Vox wrap leggings, also do all kinds of leather repairing. Hofatetter's, 13th and Pacific. adv. Y. M. C. A. war mmm il Heporta 75 movie machines are now in' France for [J. S. soldiers or will soon be sent. .Mrs. PlmaM May Roe, 38, oon vi< led in Shawnee, Okla., of mur dering her husband two days after they were married. BlrtiM. - The following birth certificates were filed in the office of the de-1 partment of health Monday: To Mr. and Mrs. Klisha ilopkins, .121 E. 29th St., Sept. 8, son; Mr. and ;Mrs. Ralph Briaier, 659 I.ucile St., .Seattle, Sept. 11. son; Mr. and !M'-; Hndkon Nprg, 4210 No. 38th at., Sept. 11, son; Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson, 3624 So. Thompson avc, S^pt. 14, son; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar T. Harvtad, Portland, Ore., Sept. 9» daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Kdwin Carlson, 828 No. Fife St., Sept. 12, daughter; Mr. and Mrs.. Roy Alonzo Funk, 1216 So. Verde St., Sept. 15, eon; Mr. and Mrs. I Stephen Wilson Bell, 4106V4 So. Tacoma a^e., Sept. 13, son; Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Naufoert, 4311 So. Yaktma aye., Aug. 20, son; Mr. and Mrs. John J. Honvlez, 812 X 44th st.. Sept. 11, daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd N. Builnell, (919 So. 11th, Sept. 4, daughter; j Mr. and Mrs. Lou Tenny, Cle Kluin. Wash., Sept. 7, son. COMMERCIAL IKMIKIIY A PRINTING CO. Main 417. ad». Death*. Frank Meridian, 57, a laborer, Monday at army post. Body re moved to I* M. Oaffney's. , Frank Hughes, 66, laborer, Sunday at local hospital. Body removed to L. M. Oaffney's. Esther Bowen, 37, Sunday at local hospital. Body shipped to North Yaklma for burial by C. C. Mellinger Co. Homer I. Thornton, Tt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rdward Thornton, 6210 So. Lnwrence St., Sunday morning. Funeral from O. W. Plp«r Co.'s at 3:30 p. m. Wednes day, Rev. Dunlap officiating. In terment, Taooma cemetery. - ' BOOTH TELLS OF WORK "We believe in putting up the fence at the edge of the cliff, not in supplying the ambulance at the foot, for those who have gone over," was the way (Jen. Halllngton Booth spoke of the work of th« Volunteers of America at a meeting In the First Presbyterian church Monday night. "The work began in a little w^ay," he said. Last year we tooK care of 9,000 children in our open-air farms; 21)0,000 mothers were taken to the country from the sweltering heat of the big cities, and 12,000 prisoners whom we have befriended are making good. Booth said the world is nearer Christianity than ever before. HIRES MAN; LOSES WIFE Spade your own garden If you want to%be sure of your wife. Is the advice of Judge Easterday, after granting a divorce to Linna B. Capps from his wife Bertha. Capps told the judge that wheiuhe decided to have a war gar ; den last spring he hired a man to spadg it for him. Several months later, he said, he found his wife had tallen in love with the spader. "Then nh« left me for him," complained the husband. 10 TIMES THE TRAFFIC Between 6 a. in. and 8 p. m .Sunday, 4,490 vehicles ps^sed along the army post road at the Speedway, according to a trallir census made by Coonty Engineer White. The traffip was nearly 10 tirneß as heavy as it was a year ago in July, when a census showed 580 vehicles passed in a day. Three years ago horse-drawn vehicles ■formed 5 per cent of the i total. Now it is only 1 % per cent. ' COUNCILS CO-OPERATE" Greater co-operation between the state council of defense and county and community organizatio us will he sought at a two-day convention of all organizations in >ft>rth Yakima Monday, Oct. 1. The meeting was decided on at the close of the meting of the .State council ia the Commercial club rooms Monday afternoon. Chairman Henry Suzzallo anno nnced that becaur.e of hix work as arbitrator in the street car strike, his education duties, and the neces- Blty of going east in October, he would cither havekto resign or have a vice-chairman named in his place. The council voted to have Suz zalo name a vice-chairman. 18D0WNEDBY~GERMANS (United IVe«n t <-.-.^.-,1 Wire.) BERLIN, via London, Sept. 17.—Eighteen enemy plwnes were downed by German forces yesterday, two in attacks on Colniar, to day's offielal statement asserted. THIRD TRY^BRTDGE~ (I nlted Pr«s« I/Ctt/w-d Wire.) QUEBEC, Que., Sept. 17.—The initial step in the third attempt to place the central spun of the Quebec bridge was completed today when the great steel structure, weighing more than 5,000 tons, wa» suspended on the hoisting links. RECRUITINGTNDUSTRY~ (United Prm Leaded Wire.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 17.—Call for the recruiting of American "shock troops" of Industry, to speed up in equipping America's army for democracy, was issued In a ringing appeal by John 11. Fahey of Boston this afternoon. He spoke at a preliminary meeting of the war convention of the United States Chamber of dniy. rcerce, which opens formal Bc*sions tomorrow. By Allman ■• Blos&er* By Ahem