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TheTacoma TimesTHE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA

30c A MONTH.' TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1913. HOME EDITION

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BATTLE STILL RAGES IN MEXICO CITYi MADERO PLANS TO USE

DYNAMITE IN EFFORTS! TO REGAIN LOST GROUND

(By United Press Leased Wire.)!• MKGICO CITY', Feo. 14.— was reported here at noon that

the Madero troops plan to dynamite three blocks of the city's mosi

crowded and costly buildings to gain v more strategical positionlor heavy 'which they wIsH to direct at the arsenal. Ttie

»- - report has not been confirmed.vT" . ...

MKXICO CITY, Feb. 14.— of the first shells fired by the4** Diaz rebels today entered the cliapel of a convent five blocks fromf the national palace and exploded amid tho nuns and women andy s

children refugees who were knerling in prayer. Seven nuns andI five other women are reported killed.

t MKXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—At 0 o'clock the battle censedr while the combatant! ate breakfast. During the lull Madero sent

a message to General Diaz notifying tho ivbel leader that he andhis followers would lie shown no no mercy unless they ceased I'ir-

** Ing in such a way as to endunger non-combatants. Many persons

' were killed in today's battle, half the number being non-combat-ants.

MKXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—Iturstlng shells this afternoonrlp|»ed to i ililit'ii.-. the I'nion Jack over the British legation. Othershells damaged the walls.

MKXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—1t was reported this afternoonthat President Madero had been wounded in the thigh by a frag-ment of a bursting rebel shell. Xo confirmation of the report

, was obtainable.

MKXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—Flac-iiiK Ills heavy guns directly In

front of the American consulate,

apparently to invite destruction orthe buildings, Francisco Muderoresumed the battle with General

-• Felix l»iaz for control of the Mex-iran capital at 0:50 this morning.

The casualties in yesterdaysclash are estimated at 1,000 kill-ed and 2,000 wounded. Thesefigures are lielieved to be conser-vative.

Beaten at every turn in yester-day's clash, Madero, the foreigndiplomats here believe, now geeksto compel intervention by forcinf;Diaz to make American property

the target of his fire.The federal troops, evidently

expecting to surprise the n-lx-:-.charged down the street towardI»m/.' arsenal stronghold, shortlyafter daylight, firing us they ran.The rebel battery replied with nwithering lire, Madero's men re-treating In disorder.

Despite optimistic statementstoday by Madero and GeneralHuerta, his right hand man, tliegovernment is now on the defen-sive, and unless reinforcemeutsarrive soon, it is generally believ-ed the government troops will t»edriven from the city.

"We have 6,000 men," saidGeneral Huerta, "but wo don'twish to sacrifice any lives by or-dering a full charge down a nar-row street, approaching the cita-del, In the face of a rebel ttrc.Hiii/. is near the end of bis re-sources anil may surrender or fleeat any time."

All newspaper correspondentshere, however, believe the dimin-ishing federal cannonading Is dueto a shortage of ammunition.General Diaz appears to have anunlimited supply.

Throughout all yesterday therebel batteries of heavy gunspoured a fierce fire of shrapnel

around the national palace andmany of these shells, droppinginto the Zocala which fronts tnebuilding, forced the federal troops

to move to cover.Residents of the capital hare

lost confidence in Madero tie-cause of his inability to fulfillpromises. Yesterday he declaredthe subjugation of Diaz wouldbe swift and terrible because tliegovernment had planned to sur-round him completely and thenpound his position with theirheaviest guns. This was in noway fulfilled.

PARIS, Feb. 14.—Porfirio Diaz,former president of Mexico, willhurry to his native country totake the Held ngainst the fulledStates in the event of Interven-tion, according to friends of Diazhere today,

LEAYKNWORTH, Kan., Fel>.14.—Orders were issued at Fortheaven worth this afternoon di-recting all government troops to

draw khaki uniforms immediate-ly. It is understood the order Ispreliminary to a movement oftroops toward the Mexican fron-tier.

EL PASO, Feb. t4.—PresidentMadevo and family left MexicoCity secretly last night, accom-panied by a personal guard andiIOO federal soldiers, according toclaims made here today by Diazsympathizers. The report has notbeen confirmed.

DATE IS MARCH 14NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Luther

McCarty and Bombardier Wellsare to box 10 rounds at MadisonSquare Harden on the night ofMarch 14, according to announce-ment today.

MAN AND WIFE ON JURYPETER MILLER OBJECTS

•.. ' The trial of Peter Miller, whosesensational legal fight to keep out

£ of jail on several charges of bur-glary in King county, and who 1bnow facing a charge of being ahabitual criminal in the Piercecounty court,-was resumed thismorning before Judge Clifford.. . With the statement that tliepresence of Mr. and Mrs. R. 8.Gillesple, husband and wife, asjurors, was \u25a0 prejudicial to hiscase, J. M. Glassgow, attorney forPeter Miller, asked Judge Clifford

.-* tills morning thnt the entire Jurybe dismissed. He declared thatlie was Ignorant of this relation-ship when the' Jury was sworn Inyesterday.

Judge Clifford denied his mo--.\u25a0 tlon. . ............ . .

The most Important witness ofthe morning was N. M. Burdic'x,official photographer of Clintonpenitentiary, New York. EverettC. Ellis, counsel for the state,tried to show by his testimonythat Peter Miller, under the nameof Frederick Miller, had been con-fined in the Clinton prison fromJanuary 18, 1895, to June 20,1901. Burdick stated that tiehad seen Miller at the peniten-tiary, that he had known himquite well, and that he had beena "trustie," employed .in the cor-respondence department of theprison. An alleged photograpnof Miller, said to have been takenat Clinton, was Introduced as evi-dence.

Attorney Glasgow, for the de-fense, tried to disprove the storyrelated by Burdick. The latteradmitted he had not been employ-ed when Millerwhs taken in; butho saw him later. He also ad-mitted he was a boy of 14 orthereabouts when he first knewMiller.

INVESTNOW

For Present Income andFuture Increment

Buy Tacoma PropertyWe have many pieces of welllocated property tfiat willmake money for the wise in-vestor.'

Calvin Philips & Co.211 California Building

Money to Loan.

CITY TOMAKEBIG

RATECUTCOMMISSION ORDKRS mcjht

AND watkr dkpautmbntto cut RATKS AM) com-PKTK against STONK-WKIi-TKIICORPORATION — thkvlaunch campaign toseliipowuit to FACTOHIKS.

The city ronimlssion took thelight department Into its ownhands yesterday afternoon amivoted to go after (lie business in

Taconia.With at least 1.~,000 horsepow- '

er available to sell which ought tolirinn in nearly half h million dol- !lars to the city. Commissioner jNick Luwson admitted that the jcity has not signed up a new pow-er contract for weeks.

The Stone-Webster people have 'been getting the business.I.mhsiiu told the '•ommission he

had been waiting trying to getthe Stone-Webster people to agreeto a reciprocal switch to bo usedin case of emergency. So he hasdone nothing to get the business.Now he declared he was ready for

war.Commissioner Freeland several

days ago got hold of a new cardof rates being given out by theStom:-\\'ebst,er company. It madea mighty cut in rates. The com-missioners agreed the city wouldhave to get in and go arter tilebusiness. A straight cut wasmade in rates, reducing themabout one-half for large consum-ers and it will be possible rormanufacturers now to get currentfor less than half a cent a kilo-watt. This is the lowest rate any-where In the United States.

Lawson was ordered to get outa new card of ratea witn the re-ductions noted.

Judge Stiles was called in andhe aaid the power contracts beingsigned up by business men withthe T. R. & P. are not worth thepaper they were written on. Thecity can take the business and thebusiness men need have no fear oflawsuits.

The attorney also called atten-tion to the fact that the Stone-Webster company must make thesame rate in Seattle as Tacomaand the public service commissionwill be brought into the fight tolino up the company which Is try-ing to kill municipal ownershipin this city.

FERRY BOATSINKS IN A

FOG(United Press leased Wire.)

SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. Struck amidssliips by tliosteamer Hugh J. Corcoranoff Angel island in a densefog today, the Southern Pa-cific passenger steamer Seni- ""mole went to the bottom ofthe bay off Alcatraz Islanda few minutes after the col-lision.

The crew and passengerswere saved.

When last seen t!ie Cor-coran was making for themud flats on the Oaklandside in a sinking condition:

\u25a0 . Forty-one members of tilecrew of the Corcoran are re-ported rescued by lie steam-er Angel Island.

RUXS AGROUND IX FOG

(Ry Tnlted Press Teased Wire)WHEELER, Ore., Feb. 14. —Running ashore in a denEe fog,

the German four masted barkMimi la today on tne sands hair amile south of the entrance to theNehalem bar'and—will probablybe a total loes. The crew la re-maining on board In a frantic er-fort to work the vessel out of Itsdangerous position but this is be-lieved impossible as the ship wasturned completely around by tneimpact, and burrowed Into thesanda to a considerable depth. :

I ETHEL LOSES$20,000 OEMS;

1 MAYBE, MAYBE! |TWO MEN

BURNEDIN FIRE

MAN TRIKS TO COMMIT SUI-CIDE WITH <J.\S— TKRHIFIUKXPLOSION FOLLOWS OXKVICTIM MAY HAVK RBCEIV<Kl> FATAL INJIRIKS.

Andrew llieler, H4 years old,tried to commit suicide by gasasphyxiation today at the Rhelnhotel, 21st and Pacific, and whenEdward Havel lit a match to lookfor the "leak" an explosion fol-lowed in which the would-be sui-cide and Havel were terriblyburned and the hotel wrecked.

liicler works for the Washing-ton U Icuuai \u25a0<\u25a0 i pant andhus Ih-cii living at the Kliei'n hotelonli it few days.

Last night the man seemed toact queerly, it is said, and retiredto his room early.

This morning an odor of gascaused Kdward Havel, one of tlieown, is of the hotel, to start ona hunt for the cause of the odor.

He traced the smell to Bieler'sroom and lighting a match open-ed the door and peered in.

A terrific explosion followed.The interior of Bieler's room wasshattered and Bieler and the ho-tel man were knocked uncon-scious and terribly burned.

Every window in the buildingwan blown out and the woodwormcaught fire.

The explosion was heard forseveral blocks and the fire appar-atus was quickly on tne sceneajid extinguished the blaze. Thafire loss is only a few hundreddollars.

llieler and Havel are in the St.Joseph's hospital and ft In saidthat. Bieler will die. Havel hasa chance to recover.

MOTHER JONESIS ARRESTED

(»y Vnitcd Press Leased Wire.)CHARLK.STON, W. Ya., Feb.

1-I.—•"Mother" Jones, who march-ed here at the head of TOO strik-ing coal miners in an effort to see(loveinor (ilasscock, vtns arrestedwith ull her followers today. Theywere charged with conspiracyagainst the state.

liefore starting the march yes-terday. Mother Jones Is alleged tohave declared in a liery speech toher followers:

"Buy guns- -good ones. I willtell you when to use them. Wewill take possession of the capi-tal."

The governor refused to see tliestrikers upon their arrival, de-claring that his life was threat-ened. Both the state house anilthe governor's mansion are underheavy guard.

Two additional companies ormilitia were sent to the PaintCreek district today.

KTHKL HAKRYMORE.

(Tly United Press Leased Wire.)WASHINGTON', D. C, Feb. 14.

-^Search is being made today Inall parts of the city for $20,000worth of jewels stolen from tirehotel apartments of Ethel Barry-more, the actress.

.Many cf the missing gems weregifts from her husband, RutfsellColt.

Numbered among the jewelswere Miss Barrymore's engage-ment ring and a gold and dia-mond pendant containing twopoison cells.

GAMBLERMURDERSDAUGHTER

NKW YORK, Feb. 11. —James Purccll, n gambler,who recently made startlingdisclosures liefore an alder-manic committee in connec-tion mill the New York |K>-lice graft scandal, today at-tempted to kill his wife.Purcell ihiiic .I n revolver onMrs. Purcell when she at-tempted to prevent him frontshooting their daughter.

Purcell tired three bulletsinto his daughter's body,death resulting instantly. Hethen iired one shot at hiswife, missing her by a nar-row margin.

Piirci'll fled but was ar-rested later. He refused togive any explanation for hisact.

HIST! WILLTHE FIREMEN ALLOWTHE "BUNNY" AT TONIGHT'S BALL?

Do you Just love to dance, He-lene?

Ifyou do, let us go to the flre-men's dance tonight.

It is going to be the merries*affair held in the big armory ballroom in many moons There willbe a mighty big crowd there; themusic will be nifty and plentifuland there will be special cars toall parts of the city as late -at 2a. m. ,- ...v .

Chairman O. G. Mason -'of. tnecommittee of arrangements Isquite excited about tonight'sevent. -

"Will you allow the bunny?"enquired an anxious ticket pur-chaser.

And Mason slid up the big brasspole to safety.

Well, Helene, let's go and see!

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.CHAIRMAN O. «. MASON.

<;h\h:m, wopi»'OßD in \hNEW YORK, Vetf 14.—General

Sie«art L. Woodford, formerminißter to Spain, died at hisUonn- here toddy, at the age of78. ' \u25a0

WELL, LET BILLIE BURKE DO IT«>«><S> <fx»<S> <S><B><> «\u25a0<s\u25a0\u25a0» <B>>£<B> «••$*

HER JOB IS WAITING FOR HER

= WE'RE A BAft LOT ——-—. , Ipi'rs, and plncate Hi.- people, whom lie exploits, with a tithe inthe shape of charity. He is very much disturbed by tlie m< .i.-iiitype who believe in giving the weak their rightb IVTHKSll \PK 'OK ItIUHTH.

"We have never seen Mr, Kcrlpps, hut we are very fnnillim'with his H..rks, in the sli H|>.- of some 8O or 40 newspaper*throughout tin- Middle Wont and tin- Pacific Coast, eneh of tin inan <>ut|M>st of progress. We know few men who make such In-irllitt.nior effective u*c of large iih-hiis for the common k<mml.With the profits* from one paper Mr. Kcrlpps f «X another in-cubator of insurgency. It hax long l>een an ambition of ours toinduce him to extend Iris newspapers into New York Mild NowKiiglunil, where they are niucu needed.''

KICKSOVER

CARSCITIZRNB TEI/L COMMIHSIOX-

KKS .It'HT WHAT THK TIUMT--ISI.K IS WITH THK SKICVH'B.

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* «<*> Alex. Fulton klcki on corn \u2666

I\u25a0•> tr.'ailiiiK cable conductors. \u2666, •\u25a0 John Batch! wants the cars -P\u2666 back on 2 7th street hill. <$><i' P. .B. Egbert says Point De- \u2666\u2666 fiance oars are ovorcrowdPcl. \u2666

\u2666 Herman Martin wants Com- <9\u25a0•> mipsioncr Mills to play Ev- <t»\u2666 erett True and force people <l<s> to "move forward. George <S\u2666 Higgs says 20 minute service \u2666•$> would look good to Uls- *•> marck, H. O. Jones kicks <S<f> for more service on Portland $i

I \u2666 avenue. H. J. McClreßor «>'*> says a cross town line from <J(

\u2666 Sixth avenue to Point De- <(•\u25a0•> nance is the thing. \u2666'<S> <Si»• $> \u25a0* <f> <J><J. -® <!> <s> «> \u2666 <t> «> <?> <» •The foregoing was the Kristwhich properly embellished andreinforced with argument and ex-planation constituted th© net re-bult of the first official street cap

kick day in th council chambeflthis morning.

Manager Bean and Superln*lendont Kownds of the street rail-,way company were on hand. Andthey were deliglited.

"We like the "Kicks," Bald)

Bean. So the council decided togive him more of It and every,Friday now at 10 oYlocK ettiMMlare invited to come In and klc%Oil street c;ir service. •

Alex Fulton started the ballthis morning. Ho could see noreason why transfers could not tia ;given cable passengers when they;fnter the car. Now conductorsJiggle hack and forth distributingtransfers and opening tho gatescrushing the feet of paoscnureraand making themselves a nuls-ance generally. No one could seeany reason for it. Manager Beansaid lie would try to remedy It.

P. B. Egbert had d.-it^s and fig-ures showing overcrowding onI'oint Defiance.

ft was admitted more cars areneeded. Manager Bean said tnanew ones will coma In March.

IT J. McGregor said more carsoven would not solve tne parKjam on Sundays. The only thingwill bo a cross town lino rromSixth avenue or extending Xstreet to haul the West Endersto the park. ,

H. ('.. Jones said he had to wattas long as an hour and 12 min-utes for a Portland avenue car.More cars, Manager Bean said,was the solution to his troubles.

John Ratchi represented 300on the hill who kicked at takingthe Jefferson line off 27th street.They now want Tacoma avennaline extended to Taklma. Man-ager Hean said it cost the cora-pany $11,000 to make the chance)which was done to please the cttyand they were now connecting;the Tacoma avenue line with tlieJqlferson line at Center, etreer.Tho mayor thought the peoplesiiad no kick as It was better fortho majority.

Frank Ko«s objected to liteconstant' excuse that there arenot enough cars. He wanted toknow why the I'ompany did notbuild the cars riKht here.

Ilean retorted by asking whylie dl<i not et a job a« presidentof a railway.

Menzies &§Stevens Co. ;. V T. J. FLKETWOOO, Mgr.

813-915 Pacific aV."ft|§ifTacouia, Wash.

"THE STORE WITHt. A CONSCIENCE" lSS£»ing 1913 Clothes |&. /ing 1913 Hats ;:f-:: ;"$ Aing 1913 Shirts

** ARE HERE \?Exclusive Agents forDobbs, and "Kopp-.Fclt",lTats v ISli

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Collier's Weekly In a recent Issue printed <he following ed-itorial

"Mr. Chas. P. Taft's Cincinnati Times-Star is very muchexcited about Collier's assertion that there 'is not much left ofthe doctrine that a man can do what he will with his own.'Collier's is 'unaffectedly, childishly glad of it,' exclaims Mr.Tafts paper. Wo 'ulay upon class prejudices;' we 'speakMieeringly of the rights of property;' we are 'against old freeinstitutions'—so mns tho catalogue of our crimes. And thenthe Times-Star turns to a fellow-criminal:

0 " 'Kight ln»re in,Cincinnati we have another newspaper ofthis type. The Tost, is owned by an exceedingly rich roan, who

miss hii,in: iiniKK, who iiiinw fin ilwTl«»

UY ROBKRT MAXSI'IIXD.When Miss Hillie Burke, Uie

pretty littleFrohnian star, whosewritings are a delight to womenreaders of the Times, comes to

Taconia soon, she is going to Justsimply run this shop —meaning

the Times office—for a day.The Times editor received

a letter from the fair Itiliietoday and we are already be-ginning to map our thing!*that she must do fur Us tomake the Times a real star-studded .journal on that aus-picious date.For instance, the fair Billie Is

going to write an editorial aboutgirls who like to read nove's anawho refuse to help mother wipethe dishes.

And that will be a real helpfulaffair— what?

Then ."he is going to let oureditor go to the ball game —forthe ball season will be on then —and she is going to hand out tneassignments.

Ah, what a nice time thePolice Reporter will havetelling her of the fancydreams he can't put over onthe editor.

And what a beautiful vn-cashc the Court Honsc Ke-porter will have, stirringIlillie all up with his yarnsabout marriage licenses,damage suits and the gossipof the big stone building.I am figuring on going to Puy-

allup or Seattle or some otherquiet urban spot and communewith nature; to list to the lowingkine and pick butter-cups.

Cynthia Grey will have a dayjff,.too, and Billie must answerall the throbbing, palpitating let-ters that come to the letter box.

It will be a mighty nice thingfor all of vs—when pretty BilileBurke runs the Times—for oneday only. •\u25a0

Just how Miss Billie will liketo climb out of the eiderdown at6 a. m. and creep down to tneoffice to set the forms for thefirst edition, we wot not.

Just how she will like to goout and sass our leonine yet lusty

foreman, curse the art depart-ment for its tardiness and howlat the sleepy telegraph operator,w(> cannot guess.

But—You can safely bank on

this much: Miss ItillioIturke. One Day Editor ofthe Times, will have an awfullot of visitors on her bigday, and we nre going tohave a lot of big ]Killcemcnon hand to keep the Johnsaway from the Times ofllce.

HOTEL MANCAPTURES

BURGLARWilliam Prio.\ a logger, aged

27 years, is in the county Jailtoday charged with the attemptedburglary of the Fairfax hotel utFairfax, on the night of Lin-coln's birthday.

According to information giventhe Times today by Deputy Sher-iff E. Kublcock of Wilkeuon, wnobrought the prisoner here, PrtMbroke Into the hotel and was Inthe act of annexing several val-uable pieces of furniture whenthe owner of the hotel, a Mr. But-ler, appeared on the scene wltua revolver, and made the allegedburglar a prisoner.

Price declares be was In an in-toxicated condition and did notknow what he was doing.

——zzmzzzziiii ; •For Tacoma and vi- Icinity: Rain tonightand Saturday.

»or Washington:Rain west; rain or |snow east portion to-

. night and Saturday;wanner central por-

j tion tonight.•— •WHAT OF MILLS AS AN

"EVERETT" TRUE" NOW?At the city council's kick day session this morning Commis-

sions. A. I. Mills got a new title—"Kverett True Mills."Mills has the shape all right, and tlie bald head and some oth-

er of Kverett's chnracterlMlcH no Herman Martin suggested thatone thing to remendy street car service was for sonic TacomaKverett True to get in the cars and cont|i«l the people to "moveforward." He suggested Commissioner Mills would tit the part.

"Well, if the city council orders it I will do It," said Mills andrhe council right there showed a spirit of.acquiescence.

spends his life under the pleasant) shade' of the orange treesout in California. He causes his piper* to preach a half-bakedsort of So. iulisiu, because that Is the t-nNieftt why ff>r papers ofthat sort to make money. Mr. Sci-ipps HAS M.\ lit. HO I'M:AS WE KNOW, GIVEN A PKNNY TO ANY ni Vlil I Mil IOU PHILANTHROPIC (>lt(.\M/.ATIoN in Cincinnati—oranywhere else, for that matter.'

"We have sunimond black-faced raps l<> our aid inbringinK out the exact quality of Mr. Chas. P. Taft's soul. Hisconception of the relation of th« pown-ful to the weak expressesitself in medieval terms: largesse, donations, itifts—the feiuinllord to his peasantry. His scheme of life is to make largeprofits out of distilleries, hotels, bauks and prostitute new-spa-