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EVERy DAy Another town votes "dry" somewhere, and If it just on some time the world will all sober every day. VOL. NO. 21 a. BURGLARS ATTEMPT TO CREMATE VICTIM YOUMG MMM BUMCOEP OF SAVINGS Mrs.

Besant Wouldn't Kill a Snake If It Bit tier; She's a Theosophist SGHIVELY TRIAL ENDS Closing Arguments Made Reach Verdict Tomorrow OLYMPIA, Aug. 25. senate today is listening to arguments in the impeachment proceedings against John H. Schively, insurance commissioner. It is expected that both sides will have completed their arguments by evening and tomorrow morning the senators will begin voting upon the guilt or Innocence of the accused official.

Votes will be taken on each of the Impeachment articles -as they are read. Voting will be rather slow as each senator will be asked separately whether or not he thinks Schlvely guilty. The senator may then enter Into an explanation of his vote should he see fit to do so. The argument for the state was opened this morning by L. P.

Edge and will be closed this afternoon by Assistant Attorney General Lee. The taking of testimony In tha trial closed yesterday with the Introduction of evidence that was looked upon as extremely favorable to Sehively's contentions. Harriman May Quit (By United Press Leased Wire.) NB WYORK, Aug. belief Is becoming prevalent on Wall street that E. H.

Harriman will retire permanently as the active head of the Harriman railroad systems, and that it will be announced soon that Kruttschnlt will be placed in charge of the allied railroad interests, while the stock exchange business will be turned over to William Rockefeller and Henry Frlck. BULLETIN. RHBIMS, Aug. state that the injuries sustained by Henri Fournler, the aeronaut, when his machine fell from a great height with him this afternoon, probably will prove fatal. A corps of physicians are attending him.

Being the Adventures of a Little Western Girl Who Went to New York to Go on the Stage and Become a "Great Actress." (Illustrated with actual photographs made In New York by HOWARD DONCOURT, with special pictures posed for by a New York chorus girl.) By Agnes Ijiura Pollock. CHAPTER 11. A roaring train ended Its flight from the west In the Pennsylvania railroad station In Jersey City, and half a thousand passengers out to the ferry slips and the tunnel entrance. In the throng I noticed a young first sight I thought her no more than 14, who was plainly alone and a stranger. She tugged a pitiful little brown bag, and, though following the crowd with considerable she became confused at the ferries.

I bad been waiting In the station, hoping to meet one of the hundreds of girls who were flocking to New York to get stage work, and In the little girl In white before me I recognized the type and my opportunity. "Will you please tell me how to get to Broadway," she asked. "It's a very long and in places a vary broad street," said and volunteered to escort her. We entered the new tunnel, and in three minutes had been hurtled nearly a mile under the bed of the great Hudson river and into the city maelstrom. But before we reached Broadway my little friend bad confided that she had come, "to go on the stage," that she had never been in the city before, that And She Is in Tacoma to Tell About "Life Here and Life Hereafter" MRS.

ANNA BESANT. Mrs. Anna Besant, one of the most talked about women in the world, opened up what looked like a rattan suit case In her room in the Tacoma hotel this morning, and as it unfolded the cutest little cooking outfit you ever saw was exposed to view. With it she can brew a pot of tea or prepare a sumptuous Theosophical feast. Beef steak, ham and eggs, roast veal, fried no.

Mrs. Besant would as soon think of carving up her best friend and I eating him as to use as food to nouMsh body the carcass of some other living thing had been slaughtered that she might eat. "Not since 1889 have I eaten meat. I gave it up then," said Mrs. Besant to a Times representative today.

Mm- Is a Theosophlst. Mrs. Besant Is a Theosophlst, head of the sect, which has its great center In India, with ramifications into every nation on earth where psychic phyloeophy has its devotees. And She Is a Vegetarian. She is eminently able to buy the most sumptuous feast that the Tacoma commissary could yield, but Mrs.

Bosunt eats to live, she does not live to eat, and her food is simple and not calculated to develop the animal propensities by the heating or stimulating qualities of a flesh diet. She is a tarian, for the reason not only that she regards life aa sacred, but that she would not hamper the flights of her soul in its highest aspirations by sordid thoughts that spring from a meat diet. Avoid meat, eschew tobacco, drink no cardinal tenets in the philosophy of Theosophy, and until one Is ready to do this no great spiritual growth can take place. "Theosophy I regard as the highest thought In the world because It presents a synthesis which gathers together all the other religions and phases of philosophy and phenomena and harmonizes and systematizes them Into one," said Mrs. Besant.

She has been all her life a student of religion and philosophy. She was prominent in England as the wife of Walter Besant. SHe has girdled the globe repeatedly in conquests for truth, and has she knew no one, and that she didn't know just what she would do. Would she come with me and might I assist Indeed she would and I might, and, believe me, what had been rank curiosity upon my part now became genuine Interest It was in the forenoon, and we proceeded to a certain rather famous cheap theatrical boarding house in 39th sometimes called "Soubret Safe Harbor." My friend gave me her name as Edythe Ralatone (assumed, of The Tacoma Times. witnessed marvelous phenomena in the domain of psychology from the spiritualist seance to the exalted experiences of the adepts of India.

She Won't Discuss Charges. She refused to answer a pamphlet by an opposing branch of who yesterday flooded he city with documents seeking 10 discredit her organization. "I saw the pamphlet and observed it started with misrepresentation, but I pay no attention to such things and never enter into controversy," said Mrs. Besant. Wouldn't Kill Hnake.

She is a non-resistant. "No, I would not think It right for me to kill a snake that might bite me. If I were a householder, had someone depending on me, or if it were someone else who had, it would be different. But I have given up my life already to other things and I would not kill. Often lin India I have had cobras in my home, but I did not hurtj.hem.

We would rattle a stick floor and they would go out. Once I did give permission that a snake might be killed when it was in the garden at the school where many children were playing, but it was to protect others." (Continued on Page Three.) TAFT AND BOSS ALDRICH WILL MAKE MEDICINE BEVERLY, Aug. The most important conference of the summer season will be on tomorrow when President Taft, Secretary MacVeagh and Senator Aldrich will discuss the latter's plan for a new government financial system. President Taft has announced that he will not sanction anything likely to cause a business Tacoma Gets All federal Prisoners (llj I Preaa l.ramrd Wire.) SEATTLE, Aug. Hanford, of the United States district court, handed down a scathing decision today In which he rebuked the King county commissioners (or announcing their Inability to care for federal prisoners, saying In part: "If this county care for United States prisoners then this Is not a fit place for the United States court to try the cases.

The marshal will make arrangements to have the prisoners transferred to some other county and the court will hear the cases where the prisoners are for. "These officials by this petition proclaim to the world their Court Cornea Here. The federal criminal court will bo moved from Seattle to Tacoma and all criminal trials will hereafter be held In this city. This was the edict of Judge Hanford at Seattle today. It will bring all the attorneys, Jurors, witnesses and prisoners to this city and will add materially to the prestige of Tacoma as the seat of activity in the Northwest.

course, and she did not reveal her true name), and I learned that she possessed Just She said that she had full permission from her father and stepmother, living in St. Louis, to come to New York to go on the stage. She was 17 (this, I believe, stretched at least a year), and she had been taught to dance by "my chum, who is with a vaudeville troup." and she had "acted a little" for a I man who booked for moving picture shows. As we entered the boarding house we mrit a little chorus girl who lived there, and had an engagement with a company rehearsing. She said she share her room with Edythe, $2 (Continued on Page Three.) TAOOMA, KVKNIMJ, AUGUST JSS, 1909.

Bellevue, Refuge of White Wives and Yellow Husbands AN AMERICAN VILLAGE WITHOUT AN AMERICAN SOUL SQUALID SETTLEMENT ON SHORES OF LAKK WASHING-5 TON A DREARY," PURPOSELESS ii him i vi IN MIXING BLOOD OF OCCIDENT AND old I I. Bjr U. S. Costello. y-.

BELLE Aug. what of the children, and the children's children? Looking down from lofty banks upon the waters of Lake Washington, hidden away by clustering firs from the eyes of a world that looks with disfavor and suspicion on the mingling of yellow blood and white, is Bellevue, a little settlement, half yellow, half white; a community of white wives and yellow husbands, of children neither yellow nor white. "Assimilation can never be," has been the verdict of the theorists who have undertaken solve the race problem In white and yellow rising out of the peaceful invasion of a country of the white man, by the Oriental. At Bellevue the theories of the learned men are being tested, not purposely, perhaps, but none the less surely. A few squalid little shacks straggling along a clearing back from the shore of the lake, a few little vegetable gardens from which dirty, almond-eyed, yellowskinned men eke out a miserable existence for themselves, a few weary-eyed, over-burdened white women and a few dirty, ragged, frowsy children in whose veins pulses at once the blood of Occident and Orient Is Bellevue.

I spent two hours In Bellevut, talking with the women. I did not talk with the men, because the men would not talk. It was clear that to them a visit of a per 'reporter was a circumstance. Knowing full well, perhaps, the bitter feeling in the Northwest against them and their race, they were, with one exception, surly, when pressed to talk, an Ignorance of Kngltah. To the women, the visit was clearly a pleasant diversion.

They talked freely, and during the two hours, there was not one of those women who could be led to say that she was not satisfied with her life and surroundings. Yet two or three Instances was there a face illumined by a smile, In all that they said, these white helpmeets of the yellow men. most of them care-worn and clearly in poor health, gave an Impression of forced cheerfulness, a vague hint that they were not quite up to the task of living the life they had chosen. Mrs. C.

Matsura, wife of the settlement's tailor I and laundryman, was one of the most cheer(Continued on Page Eight.) Refuse $500 Per Week for Rooms Mighty Howl Goes Up Against orbitant Prices Charged at i RhelmsAmericans: Held (By United Press Leased Wire.) i RHEIMS, Aug. howl, mighty enough to be heard all the way across the ocean, is ascending from this acropolis today, Aviation week has not only brought thousands of visitors, but has caused. an unwonted raise In prices for everything from five to a hundred times normal. Americans are being charged exorbitant prices. It is' because every Yankee Is looked upon as millionaire.

Hotels are 'refusing $200 and even $6 00; a week for rooms with a bath, because Americana prefer them and will submit to paying the price to secure them. Butchers have doubled their a eat prices and "cabbies," wSo used; to ten francs for an will not now I budge for less than tv Receives 400 Square Inches of New Skin SALEM, Aug. Miw Irene Martin, 18 years of age; of this city," has Just undergone an operation which 00 square Inches of skin have been grafted on her body. She was recently seriously burned. Three people offered skin for the operation.

slclans declare this 7 the greatest skin grafting operation ever per; formed, v- Daughter of "Papa" Haraguchi uii'd his white wife, who deserted hlimi- huaband for the. yellow one. SERIES OF QUAKES (My I'nited Press Leased Wire.) SIENA, Aug. 2 series of earthquake shocks occurred here between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning and a number of persons are reported to have been injured by falling chimneys and walls. It is feared that more complete details will include fatalities.

Siena province is '150 miles square and is inhabited by 300,000 people. San Lorenzo is reported to have been badly damaged by the shocks, although they were light. The greatest damage was done to outlying towns. Siena is the capital of the Siena province and has a population of approximately 38,000 people. Thief Sleeps In Spare Bed; Then Cooks Breakfast SEATTLE, Aug.

nerviest burglar I ever heard of," is the way Mrs. Rose O'Neill, of Sunnydale, yesterday described the actions of a man -who, she fyad just discovered, broke into her house a few nights ago. "After forcing the front door in the most skilled manner," she Isaid, "he ransacked the bouse. of that, he picked out my jbfst spare bed and enjoyed a comfortable sleep. He arose the next morning, went to my kitches and proceeded to get bis breakfast.

He took a big slice of ham and four eggs and after making some coffee sat down at my kitchen table, and, I believe, enjoyed the meal. He did not even clear the dishes away, and after his meal he continued his Work of robbery." Mrs. Neill told this story to Prosecuting Attorney Vanderveer and asked If there was any way to have the man arrested. Come Back With Blistered Feet Bat Think of Those Rainbow Trout Broakaw, Dr. Wilbur, William Gechtor and Charles Hopkins cot back last night from a hike In the foothills in which the? covered 135 miles, accumulated an aggregate of 17 Vi square inches of foot blisters and ate 277 pounds of rainbow trout.

Broakaw says he caught 16 trout a foot long In SO minutes oat of Bcbo lake and that every Mrs. "Jlmmle" Tanaaakl, formerly Miss Dora Potter, a pretty daughter of a Washington rancher, snapped while at work on her yellow husband's vegetable patch at liellevne. THRILLING FALL AIRSH MACHINK TURXH si nil us 1.1 AT A GRKAT HMIGHT ANO imivKH to be- FOItK HORROR STRICKEN CROWD AKRONAUT FATALLY HURT. (By United Press Leased Wire.) RHEIMB, Aug. the immense crowd at Bethany plains Kazed horrorstrlcken, the aeroplane being driven by Henri Fournier suddenly "buckled" this afternoon, turned a complete somersault in the air and drove down a great heLght directly to tby ground, where it was shattered, and Fournier seriously injured.

No sooner had the aeropla struck the earth than a hunch oJ willing hands tore away the steel and splintered wood and fxiiicated the unfortunate from the smashed machine He was Immediately placed under the care of physicians who on the grounds. The extent of injuries are unknown as yet and but meager are given out by the doctors. Women Faint. When the machine bearing Fournier crashed to earth, a number of women fainted, and the police had much trouble with the people present to restrain them from pouring out into the field. Fournler was dazed when taken from the wreckage.

He stated that a wire supporting one of the wings parted which caused the machine to buckle and throw the biplane beyond control. This is the first accident that has thus far marked the progress o' the avitatlon contests. Yesterday Ppurnier offered to take Nat Goodwin, the actor, for an aerial trip but Goodwin refused to accompany him. At 3:30 this afternoon Paulham had been In the air two hours and thirty minutes, and there was no indication that he Intended stop- Ing. He has smashed Summers' world's record for the longest sustained flight which was two hours, twenty-Reven minutes and fifteen seconds.

Paulham is flying with a Voisin bi-plane which is of the same make as the o.ne used by Sommers when he made his world's record. He Is trying for the champagne priie. fellow ate from seven to 16 flsli at each The party tramped from Buckley back over the hills Echo lake and out again, about 35 pounds of luggage. They saw a number of deer and Bom bear tracks on he way home a bob cat spat their faces but they had to run to catch a train Iso I could! not to argue with him. You pay trlbuUi' the tariff-made trusts, you 2 helped to send men to 'congress" who ser ve trusts every day.

Rob Man; Then Fire His Home Joseph Caretty, Well-to-Do Italian Has Narrow Escape From Death in Fire Started By Fiend to Cover Crime of Robbery Daring burglars who last robbed Joseph Caretty, a wellto-do Italian, while ih- Mlept, and hen net fire to his homo, lOOCI Twenty-sixth street, in an i-f fort their first crime nearly mi, .1, in their fiendish I terribly burned, barely escaped' with his life, while his home "and all clothing were destroyed. With head, fare and hands bandaged Garctty appeared at police stAtion at noon today and told the police the tale of and attempted murder, and he gnve.the officers a good of a man whom he of having taken part In the crime. Caretty, who owns a farm on Anderson island and several cottages In Tacoma, came to the city yesterday, bringing in a quantity of vegetables and fruits which he sold to customers. Just before 3 o'clock he went to a local bank and drew $290 that he wanted to use. He says that he noticed a man In the bank at the time who seemed to be watching him closely and he furnished the police with a description of this man today.

After Caretty had transacted hla business In town he took supper with some acquaintances and went to his home, retiring shortly after dark. He says that he was tired and slept soundly. When he awoke the room was filled with flames and smoke and it was with difficulty that he could breathe. His first thought was for his money and he reached to the place that he had left It in his vest, but vest, money, watch and a gold nugget chain had all disappeared. Caretty had difficulty In getting out of the place.

All his clothing was burned, his hair was nearly burned off, his face was one great blister, the left arm was burned to the shoulder and both hands were in a deplorable condition. came to his aid and his injuries were dressed, but he is in a dangerous condition from the terrible scorching he received. Caretty Is positive In his belief that he was robbed and that the house was set on fire by the men who committed the first crime, with the object of covering their tracks. The work of the robbers Is not such as would be done by professionals, according to the police. VIOLENT STORM GRAND FORKS, N.

Aug. 25. violent wind and rain storm, assuming cyclone proportions in some, sections, is today visiting southeastern North Dakota and noithwestern Minnesota. The storm has been raging since early last night. Hundreds of houses and barns already have been wrecked and the property loss will run Into the thousands.

Peter Sohe was fatally Injured and his wife and three daughters were seriously wounded whan their home toppled over on them early today. The family lived near Caledonia, N. D. The storm Is causing great damage In Minnesota. Reports from FeTtite, Beltrami, Barnesvllle, Olindon and Mentor say that tha property loss will be heavy, while crops are practically destroyed.

Reports from the storm districts are slow in coming in as all telegraphic communication is cut off. Many box ears have been blown from the tracks, and alt traffic Is at a standstill. INVESTIGATE STEAMSHIP COLLISION BUENOS AYRES, The Argentine government today ordered an investigation into the sinking yesterday of the steamer Colombia at the entrance to Montevideo harbor, where scores of excursionists lost their lives when the vessel collided with the North Lloyd liner Schlesin. Today a number of vessels are searching the harbor for bodies at the request of relatives of the victims. FINED FOR KIIJJNG NATIVE I PHEASANTS L.

A. Hunter, principal the Wllkeson school, and W. A. Jones a liveryman of the i same place, have been fined 60 each for killing two. native Jon Friday last.

Game Warden Thompson bwort to the complaint against thi men and; they ere i tried- before Thomas Edwards, justice of the peace at Wllkeson. 80 CENTS A MONNTH BUNCOED OUT OF 1600 Young Man Robbed of His Savings by Confidence Workers William Denning, 24 years old, for several years an employe at the Tacoma smelter, has lout faith in alluring advertisements, attractive and plausible It cost him $600 la cold cash to get the experience and he does not think It worth the price. Denning Is a hard working youth. He saved hla money. He had visions of some day throwing aside the garb of a laborer and entering the field as a captain of Industry.

He read the papers, but Instead of paying close attention to the police news It was the classified ads that he scanned, while he waited for opportunity to knock at his door. Seemed to Hear Knock. Denning seemed to hear the knocking last Sunday when be read that a young man with from 1500 to $1,000 in money would be given the opportunity of all life to get rich quick. He answered the "ad" and met the advertiser. The man was a capitalist, Just a notch or two below John D.

Rockerfeller and Morgan, but unfortunately nearly all his ready cash was tied up In gigantic undertakings. He wanted to enlist young blood with him, but he wanted someone whom he could trust. He offered Denning $6 a day and expenses as a starter. But that was nothing to what he could make In a month or so. A second meeting waa arranged and at that another young man was present.

The capitalist could use both of them, but It would necessary for them to put up a bond until he could look into the matter of form. The other young man was willing, and handed over his money. Denning did not like to part with the money for which he had worked bo hard. Capitalist Indignant. "It is not necessary," said the capitalist.

"I cannot deal with men of your stamp. There are a number of other young men who will be glad to Jump at the opportunity." This frightened Denning and lie paciflced the "moneyed" man by telling him that he would go to the bank at once and get his $600, The next meeting took place at the corner of South Twenty-fifth street and Pacific avenue at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Disappeared With Money. Denning turned over his money to the "capitalist." He was sent to a grocery store a block, away to get some cigars. When he returned the men were missing.

Then a great fear came over Denning. He rushed to the Bismarck saloon on Pacific avenue and told his story. He was referred to the patrolman on the beat, who made every effort 4o set track of the bunco men. But they had made their getaway and save not been apprehended. CLEAN UP! 1,..,,,,.,, Commissioner McGregor sending notices i cltiseng jto clean up their yards.

Everybody a 3 expected to keep vacant lots and yards clean arid! free and It is that the people generally will unite in the 1 meat to keep city feMuitis'.