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MYSTERY IN THE LIFE OF A TACOMA WOMAN NOVELIST

B. M. Bower, author of

"The Ranch at the Wolver.

Lite," which is to be pub

lished next week in The

TiMee, ie n woman.

She la still more; she ie a

woman of uijrstery. She Is

known to the literary world

■as a Tacoma woman.

Yet no one, so far as It

Impregnable forts seem to be a

good deal like fire-proof buildings

—all hunkidori until the right sort

of fire starts.

Ministers Daughter Victim of White Slavers

GERMAN

RAIDER

CAUGHT

BUENOS AYRES, March 2.—

The German raider and auxil

iary cruiser Moewe, terror toj

English commerce, has be?n cap

tured by British cruisers, accord-1

ing to a wireless melange report-1

ed to have been Intercepted by

a steamer near the coast of I

Brasil.

The report said the raider is'

lieing taken to the island of

Trinidad.

There remains some doubt as

to the identity of the German

vessel said to have been captur

ed. *

A French cruiser from the I

west coast of Africa recently en-j

countered a German raider and

opened fire on her, but the Ger

man ship got sway under cover

of darkness.

That the captured raider is the

German cruiser Hoon is one ver-i

sion of the account.

The arrival of the British!

steamer Appam in charge of a I

German prize crew at Hampton

Roads several weeks ago, first

brought the Moewe Into promi

nence.

Daughters of

Millionaires

Do Washing

Rub-a-dub-dub, rub-a-dub-dub;

Rah for the West Hi washing

club!

Tub and washboard, soap and

suds.

We'll show 'em how to wash

our duds!

AKRON, 0., March 2.—Daugh

ters of prominent Akron business

men, mlltouaire rubber manufac

turers and professional men today

are learning by actual experience

at West high school how Washer

woman Bridget O'Rourke earns

$1.50 and two car tickets daily.

After a yell somewhat like the

above, the fluffy ruffles of the

school turn on the hot water spig

ots, slosh linen and lingerie into

the tub, grab bars of soap and sail

in.

Catch 23 Rats

Federal Inspectors Pryor and"

Tlncker today colletced 23 rats!

from traps placed along the wa

terfront this week.

The animals are being given a

laboratory test, for purposes .if

determining whether bubonic

plague germs have been brought

here by rats traveling on trans

pacific liners.

SNOWor

RAIN

WORK or

PLAY

You must have a

Bank account or be

c in bar r assed some

time.

Be sure you are right

and choose

PUGET SOUND

STATE BANK

Own Ilullding, 1115 Pac. ay.

ha* been poeaiMe to learn, Is

able to tell a great deal

about her.

Some 19 years ago, it is said,

she lived on a ranch near Puyal

lup with her father and two baby

sisters. She was an adventure

some girl, full of life-

She had a longing for the open

and dreamed continuously of the

PEANUTS

The peanuts are ready for the roasting!

We refer to the peanuts in congress —the little

men who are plotting against the president and

America's sea policy in the hour of national

danger and suspense —the exceedingly cheap

little peanut men who make up the hulk of our

national legislature.

Peanut men for example like our own Wesley

Lorimer Jones. A special dispatch from Wash

ington to The Times today quotes him as saving

that he will prevent the immediate consideration

by the senate of a resolution supporting tbe

president by invoking the ancient "unanimous

consent" technicality.

By so doing Jones hopes to embarrass Wilson,

much, of course, to the glory of the G. O. P.

The times are too dangerous for the people <>f

this country to put any further confidence, any

trust whatsoever in the blundering, politicking,

plotting "statesmen" such as he who have en

tered into a gigantic conspiracy in Washington

to sell their country's honor for the mean ad

vantage of ward politics.

Head and front of this conspiracy are many

democratic members from the south, best known

as cotton statesmen.

The south today is full of speculators and

money sharks who have bought up large quanti

ties of the last cotton crop at low price and hope

to sell their holdings to Germany at 300 to 400

per cent profit.

They want Wilson to end the quarrel with

Germany and begin a quarrel with the allies,

which shall be serious enough to compel the lift

ing of-the blockade just a little —just enough to

let in cotton at triple the price they paid for it.

For the sake of the fortunes of such as these, the cotton

congressmen have dragged the democratic party in Washing

ton into conspiracy to fling the fortunes and the honor of their

country into the garbage can.

THERE'S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN IT!

Into this conspiracy have been joined the piffling, blunder

ing, provincial fellows like Jones and Humphrey who play to

little groups at home, and grafting congressmen, congressmen

who have political and personal grudges against the president

—all the base elements which always work for self interest

ami to the wnids with the country's advantage.

CONGRESS DUE

FOR SHOWDOWN

WASHINGTON, D. C, March 2.

—After debating an hour and 40

minutes, the senate failed to re

port on the armed merchantmen

issue today.

The conflict between President

Wilson and congress broke when

Senator Stone interrupted the dis

cussion of the Shields water pow

er bill and made a statement

about the Gore resolution warn

ing Americans from taking pass

age on armed vessels.

Senator Lodge, republican,

agreed that the question should

come to a vote immediately. He

declared President Wilson sorely

needed the aid of all the senators

regardless of party.

Stone admitted that he and the

president did not agree on the

question.

"The president Is disposed to

support the contention that mer

chantmen have a right to arm for

defensive purposes," said Stone.

"He doesn't say what his defense

is, and I don't know, if merchant

men are submarined and Ameri

cans suffer, I will hold tbe gov

ernment to a strict acountabllity.

"If Uaruiaiu should persist. I

cow country, east somewhere In

the mountains.

Her father wanted her to be

a home girl.

But something had ruled that

Miss Bower was to be otherwise.

The call of the cow country

drew her away from her home.

Tacoma and the whole country

side wondered at ber sudden dls-

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would call the matter to the at

tention of congress and the war

making body. My viewpoint is

that if merchantmen are armed

and are transporting munitions,

contraband or troops, it is a war

ship."

It is declared that it is essen

tial for the president to know that

congress is behind blm in order

for him to reach a satisfactory so

lution of the problem with Ger

many and England.

Senator Stone favored a vote

on the Gore resolution late today,

but requested that congress ad

journ tonight and meet early to

morrow.

The administration Is trying to

force a record vote, holding that

such a "showdown" Is essential,

that Germany may know the pres

ident's bends are upheld in his

stand for American rights.

DR. IN TOII_H OF

NEW LIOCOR IiAW

SEATTLE, March 2.—Dr. J. W.

Whetson is accused here today

with wrongfully issuing a liquor

prescription—the first such pros

ecution undsr the new dry law.

appearance. Newspapers sought life Is known to Tacomans, save

her, and she waa finally dlscov- her books.

ered In Idaho, so the story goes, Her father, so far as It Is

in her wild range lands, gather- known, lives somewhere near Ta

in* local color for stories which coma yet. Acquaintances say they

were later to stamp her as one of have seen him on the street only

the best portrayera of western recently.

life. Old friends who knew of his

Still later she went east and ambitions for his daughter and

was married. Little of her later who knew of his disappointment

But the soul of the American people has been aroused.

Woodrow Wilson has touched it and it has throbbed out to him

in response." If ihe democratic party shall be saved the infamy

its congress at Washington would thrust upon it, tin; party has

Woodrow Wilson to thank. ,

The American people are for peace. They know that the

}>resident is for peace and that having gone the limit for it, he

s ready and glad to go farther. But, with him, they are ONLY

FOR PEACE THAT CARRIES WITH IT NATIONAL

HONOR.

Airman Asks Divorce

from Girl With Whom

He Eloped In Biplane

SAN FRANCISCO, March

2.—A romance literally

bullded In the clouds threat

ened to founder on the rocks

of the divorce court today.

An attorney announced that

Art Smith, daredevil aviator, had

Instructed him to file a suit for

divorce against his wife, Aimee.

Meanwhile Smith is aboard the

What's PoinTl

Today

Registration bocks open to

night and every night until March

14; city clerk's office, 3rd floor,

city hall.

All-star boxing card, given by

Tacoma School of Boxing; Glide

rink; 8 p. m.

Wrestling tournament; Cush

man Indians vs. Lincoln Park

high; Lincoln gym; 8 p. m.

Concert by Y. M. C. A. orches

tra of 36 pieces; "V" auditor

ium; 8 p. in.

THE TACOMA TIME*

liner chi>o Maru, on his way to

give exhibition flights before the

emperor of Japan.

The elopement of Smith and

his bride three years ago was first

by the seroplane route. When

the parents objected to the mar

riage. Smith took Aimee on an

aeroplane tour at Fort Wayne,

lnd. They flew to Hillsdale.

Mich. There the aeroplane fell.

Tbe young couple awoke In the

same hospital. Before the par

ents arrived they were married

there.

Smith claims Aimee recently

'became Indifferent and returned

'to Indiana.

17 DELEGATES

FOR FAIRBANKS

LOUISVILLE, Kay., March 2.

—The Q. O. P. state convention

here found a lot of fault with the

Wilson administration and chose

26 delegates to the national con

vention, 17 of whom are for Fair

banks.

say that his eyes still show that

disappointment.

"The Ranch at the Wolverine"

is a story of homesteadlng in

Idaho. The heroine, Hilly Louise,

who received her name as the re

sult of a compromise between her

mother and her father, shows

trails characteristic of both

names. The father dies in the

RUSSIAN

VESSEL

IS SUNK

LONDON. March 2.--Wlth the

sinking of the 2800-ton Russian

steamer Wentzel yesterday, the

Hermans perhaps claimed their

first victim in the new submarine

campaign against armed mer

chantmen.

Eighteen of the crew were lost,

and 11 were rescued.

The French mine sweeper Aure

volr was submarined Tuesday. The

crew was saved.

Four fishing smacks were sunk.

Their crews were Tanned.

FORD CALLS IT

PRACTICAL JOKE

DETROIT, March 2.—Henry

Ford today said that the filing of

his name as a candidate for presi

dent was the work of some prac

tical joker.

story and Billy runs the ranch.

She takes care of her mother, be

sides the arduous duties of brand

ing calves and herding cattle.

She meets and becomes a "pal"

to Ward Warren, a neighbor

rancher. Cattle rustling and gun

play add excitement to the story,

which is refreshingly full of true

western life.

WEATHER

Tacoma: Rain tonight and Fri

day.

Washington: Rain west, general

ly fair east portion.

Investigators Learn

Startling Vice Ring

Conditions Existing

In Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Mar-h

-■ —A co-operative committee

representing seven of the largest

women' organizations in Minne

•apolis in a statement today an-

I nounced tit (_ after montlis of

| Investigation they .Hn say that

j recent startling revelations of

jvice conditons In this city "only

, skim Hie surface of actual condi

tions."

That young girls are unsa.e

! alone on Hie streets at night;

'that many hotels are being op-

I crated wholly on the profits gain

led from vice, and that ttixlc.ip

| drivers are co-operating wltn

: keepers of resorts In luring young

'f.irls from their homes, were

'among the findings of the com

-1 milt cc.

Minister's Girt a Victim.

Another vice investigation was

begun by county authorities this

week after the 16-year-old daugh

ter of a mlnrster who had been

missing from her home for sever

al days told of being forced in'o

a life of shame.

The report of the committee

says in part:

"Owners of apartment houses

'are renting apartments Indiscrim

inately to young men and young

I women who are inducing others

to visit I hem for purposes of Im

morality,

Hotels Itlitiiuthle.

Choi) suey houses are open un

til early morning hours and serve

as places of refuge for intoxicat

*ed young men and women.

"Cafes are not observing the

i closing hours and young girls are

j permitted to frequent these

places.

"Many hotels are permitting

| young girls and escorts to regis

ter as raarrleiT couples.

CoiM'heil By Elder*.

"In nearly every case of ju

venile delinquency reported we

find the girl has been coached

iby the older girl, thoroughly

j trained In vice and backed by the

[man in tbe case. They ply their

tarde unmolested.'•

Concluding, the report recom

mends that "some permanent or

ganization be formed to combat

the evil forces which are preying

I --Talko'the Times « I

1 ■' II

«.reeling*, have you heard

of the great Taroina scandal?

We certainly have the laugh

on Seattle at last. It's been brag

ging about its naughty clubmen

and millionaires. But Tacoma's

got it faded now.

.

Did you know thai W. B.

Coffee, Kelly Derrickson,

Frank Leslie, Col. Caput,

Woodhuni MrlHtnald and

"Pop" Sawyer were carrying

around key* to the Y. W. C.

A. quarters? Well, they are.

And so are a whole lot of oth

er prominent Tacomans we could

mention.

As a matter of fart every

solitary one of 1.100 Klks

in lugging one of Uiose keys,

admittlug tln-iii night or day

at will into EITHER THE

FRONT DOOK OK TBE

BACK IMM>K OP THE Y. W.

And that's only the beginning

of the sensation. For we have it

on good authority that Miss

Blanch Elliott, Miss Ruth May

Wheeler, Mrs. 8. C. Armstrong

and Mrs. Wilt ALL HAVE KEYS

TO THE NEW ELKB* TEMPLE.

Gosh, soon we'll expect to

hear that those good ladles

carry matches or chew gxtml

There is a great pull for the

reader to stick to the end and

find what becomes of Billy Louise

and the lonely "neater." Does she

marry him, or just remain a good

friend until the end?

Wait until Monday and begin

to find out. The novel will lie

completed in six large Install

ments.

lon the young lives of our city."

Four girls uniier 15 will leslify

; before the grand jury next week

regarding vice conditions.

| FLASHES |

LONDON- A German Heaplane

bombarded a small town on the

; southeast coast of England, de

, moliaklng several houses and

, killing a baby.

NEW ORLEANS- Gen. Fell*

Diaz won his first skirmish

against OurratuiKnts, according

to reports received here today.

EL PASO Zapata raiders are

threatening the lives of 20 Amer

ican citizens, seven being wom

en, in El Ora stale. Carranzista

troops have been ordered to the

scene.

OLYMPI A—Political Invaders

said today that E. A. Bryan, form

er president of Washington State

college, would be a candidate for

the senate against Polndex er

and Jones.

SIOIX CITY, la—About 2,.,-m)

meat workers will go back to

work today at increased wages ml

a result of the settlement of a

strike in the Sioux City packing

house.

NEW YORK Roosevelt's rec

retary announced today that Hie

big chief had absolutely refuned

to have his name placed on the

primaries as a presidential candi

date.

MADRID—The whole of Spain

is gradually being overrun by food

strikes as the result of the In

crease in prices.

NORTH YAKIMA—Mrs. Lil

lian Simon was killed today an

she sat rocking in her home. The

assailant fired through a window.

Police suspect David Simon, a

brother-in-law.

■ I ■

Anyhow, after this expose we'll

bet that some locksmith gets a

job pretty soon from one or the

other or both of these religious,

fraternal, patriotic organization*.

We notice that €. B.

Itlethen, editor of tbe state's

wettest |i«|„.| in the recent

prohi i* a 111| >» j Kit. I in* come

ont bh an ardent dry.

Now we look to see Perkins

fighting for Brandeis and Joab

making campaign speeches for

Debs.

Why not Spring-Rice oa

the war brides?

It seems to as that several

persons are worrying consider

ably about what one W. H. Paul-*

baiuus is going to decide.

The lady next door says

all houses shown In the mo

vie* are palares or slums,

that there's never one fas

which she'd feel at home.

MEMORY OEM

• Gleaned From Directory.

Charles XT\

George H. LONG

Frederick W LANE

Emma WITTKOWBKI

Emma CROOK.