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The Tacoma Times -t THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TAOOMA. 1 wn 30c A JnLUJBJi MONTH XII. NO. 143. TACOMA.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. ENVOY OFF TO BERLIN LANHIXU 4 WASHINGTON, D. June 4. gravity of the situation between the 'mI States and Germany was emphasized today when I Counsellor Lansing of the state department attended a cabinet meeting at which President Wilson presented 4 his rejoinder to Berlin's lat- jest note regarding subnia- rine warfare. The president desired that 4 Lansing, an expert on inter- national law, make his an- 4 swer to Germany correct to the last detail.

He wishes to avoid any Blip or excuse for further delay in dealing with the as to the rights of Americans to travel at sea In safety and affecting the honor of the United tSates. WASHINGTON, D. June 4. -Meyer Gerhard, Red Cross commissioner from Germany, will act as Ambassador Yon Bernstorff's personal emissary in Berlin and will express the ambassador's views in connection with the kaiser's reply to the president's rejoinder which will be forwarded soon. That Gerhard will act for the iiiinr may be stated positively.

He sailed yesterday, and Yon BernHtorff desires that tlu personal emissary go direct to Jlerllu In order that the position of the mi. .1 States will be clearly and forcefully outlined to the kaiser and his ministers. Count yon Bernstorff has complained that he cannot get to the kaiser a full account of the situtv lion because of cable censorship. Today, however, he Bent a memorandum to his home office through Secretary Bryan, which he recounted his conversation with President Wilson, and urged the full force of the American sentiment. President Wilson's note, which he drafted yesterday, asks the kaiser just one question: What does he intend to do in the future abide by international rules in his submarine warfare or to conduct it in his own way, regardless of others? DKRNBI'IMJ GKTTTNG OUT WASHINGTON.

D. June 4. Bernhard Dernburg, unofficial spokesman for the kaiser, will sail for Germany via Norway June 12, it was definitely learn ed today. Mexicans Hear From W. Wilson WASHINGTON, D.

June president's warning to the factional leaders of Mexico was delivered today to Gen. Carranza the constitutional provisional president, Gen. Garcia, as Consul Silllman Informed the state department. He did not tell the manner in which it was received. It is not known if Gen.

Villa also has received the note. Fleet Not to Come to Coast WASHINGTON, June Admiral Benson today announced that the Atlantic fleet will be scattered all along the coast for 4th of July celebrations, and later be assembled for target practice at Narragansete bay. This removes the last hope of a cruise to the Pacific coast througn the Panama canal. WHEN A MAN'S MARRIED THE KAISER, BEFORE THE WAR AND NOW The latest picture of Emperor Will iam of Germany showing how the strain of the war and his recent illness has told on his face. At the left is the kaiser's favorite pose taken before the I BERNSTORFf SEES LIGHT It begins to look as if maybe one group of our hy phenated Americans had saved this country from war with Germany.

Count yon Bernstorff, the German ambassador, is sending a personal emissary to Berlin to inform the kaiser's government of the true state of public feeling in the United States. The ambassador apparently is using his utmost endeavor to prevent the breaking off of relations. A certain haughty air that used to emanate from the German embassy has disappeared. Frankly, it would look as if yon Bernstorff had seen a great light. During the first months of the war it was natural that the American of German descent should show his enthusiasm for the kaiser's cause, just as the Canadian or Frenchman or English-American should STEEL STOCK JUMPS NEW YORK, June shares of the United tSatea Steel corporation increased $20,000,00 over night, as a result of the court decision favorable to It Common stock advanced 4 6-( points, selling at 64.

Scenes rivaling the boom ol 1901 were witnessed. Wall st. It jubilant over the victory over the government. A number of othei stocks rose sharply. The government's suit to dissolve the steel trust, beaten in the Jerey district taken to the supreme court, the cabinet decided today.

TODAY'S OLKARINCJS Clearings 336,699.74 Balances 60,912.41 Transactions 1,266,779.98 PEOPLE VETO BAD BILLS The state referendum is a success beyond all reasonable doubt. Laboring men, professional men and farmers have signed the petitions in great numbers. In and surrounding territory alone, at least 3,000, and possibly 3,500, names have been been obtained. Over the state It is likely that 30,000 signatures will be obtained In the organized rebuke to the last reactionary legislature. These were the salient points in a review made today for The Times by Rea Last, local secretary S- JUNK STAKTH OFF 4 I.IKi: f10.0H0.000 $.

XX PORTING MONTH Begins to look as If June surely would be a 000 export month. More than $1,000,000 was shipped June 1, and vester- 4 day the Hazel Dollar and Tacoma Maru took out over more from this port, in addition to cargo loaded at San Francisco and other Puget Sound ports. t. war. In the center the most recent pic ture of the German ruler, caught while he was traveling between battle fronts At the right is an enlargement of the face shown in the center.

show loyalty to the allies. This seems to have given yon Bernstorff and the kaiser the opinion that the German American was a German first and an American afterwards. But following the torpedoing of the Lusitania and the sending of President Wilson's note, there was a change. The hyphen and what had preceded it were forgotten. The German American became an Amer ician, pure and simple, an American to the last.

It is that change, unmistakably plain, which no doubt Count yon Bernstorff has observed. He has been unable to make the kaiser, within his ring of steel, see it, because of imperfect means of communication. So that is why he is sending an envoy to describe the change in person. Hoch, say we, to the cestrv. of the Washington State Refereadum league.

He was most obtl-" mlstic. From the time the campaign started, he said, it was evident that the, people of the state had determined that tne record of the last legislature deserved a'popM Inr vote which would prevent a rrff currence of their reactionary ord, and stop the vicious lam they passed from going into feet. Where Taroraa district olitaiaed only 600 names for the Hevft) Sisters last fall, the campaign for Swoboda Innocent PARIS, June of espionage brought against Raymond Swoboda, an American who was areste dfollowlng the fircat-sea on the liner LnTouraint, have been disproved, and the French government will release him as soon as it Is found ally that he was innocent, the Journal says. the referendum has rolled up us many signatures. Reports from Spokane nnd Se attle IndicHte that similar succesi crownod the campaign.

Ir Seatfle alone, they claim enoug'r tiames assure a ref ercohin. lW iii-st of all is the surpris from the farm com nii'UtMes. These, says Last, niHttt even a better bowing that He wants all petitions in without full Saturday night. CAPTURE MAN QHARGED WITH TSIRL ATTACKS Charged with having- assaulted an girl at Old Town last evening, and said by the to be the same man who attafVed 1 Vernita Byrne nejir Kumoii recently, besides other iiKsauits committed on young S. Wilkinson, age 48, a laboring man, was arrested by Kwen and Huckaba and l'ollu'nmn Raymond.

mhjh MAYBE CLOSED Thioiiiu is inriiiK one of Hir iimsi NeriouH ipjil irisfs In its hlntory. UuriuK the lusi two weekn in h- Hani Iwis demanded a rearrangement of the local newage aytitem, to rout at leaxt and I- Louis Must Be Very Busy l.miK llfjin isn't miming liartlly anything In any of Tacoma papers vim he ills, i.lllillncil HO lllN helweeii his-w jitney-reciprocity ad. li.iliiv he L4ll Ills morning you know we i-arry public ln.nl hililii'ii for half jiidt an if we wouldn't know i hat. Thai's iluiio In every town. Louis must think we never traveled.

And then yesterday he ran an cilituiinl In one of his puperM urging that the T. It. A given, free of ilnti'ur. the right to umt WOMEN ASK AID, AND ARE FORCED TO AIR TROUBLES TO WORLD Forced to parade their flnanial and domestic in full detail before the world, VI women made application for relief today before Superior Judge Card under tlie mother's pension law. law is practiced, the mother who wishes to keep her children in her home instead of sending them to some institution, is entitled tv receive aid.

But instead of a secret hearing, an in juvenile cases, where the judge and other officials could be told the inner secrets of the family misfortunes, the mothers are forced to take the witness stand, and tell, so all the world may hear, the humiliating details of their domestic lives. More than one Woman sobbed on the stand today as she told of desertion by a husband or recited for the benefit of the BACKWOODS YOUTH GOES ON JAMBOREE Robert HrasNfleld, years old, of Palmer Junction, is in the county jail at Seattle after having terror, tzed the citizenry of his home town, it Is said, and the village of Kaynp, for several At the end of a long aeries of "Wild West" exploits. Inn one of the headn of the V. S. health hiireau to la coma next week to make.

Its demumk explicit, it was li'uriK-il today. I In- city liiih not one cent for the work have no money until next year. Hut the city sitio.iKio fill on Tv- I'oina avenue. Hut for Nome renwon lie must liuve wearied of eilitor- Ihl luhor rerently, for, except for these, two, he hafl heeu leltliiK nil three of his put in other In- Mteatl. I'rohuhly you've all noticed, for iiisiain that he hiisiii run iiiiylhlng in any of tin- three about the T.

It. A I', official who's charged with ixlii-; i ingled up in a si'iimltii iitheiil uress and have i.een too huNj- to write it up. court hangers-on -other leatures of how her home was wrecked and herself obliged to seek aid from the county. This too, despite the fact that all cases previously had been looked Into by charity and Juvenile officers, and the examination by Judge Card was something of a formality. All caHes were taken under consideration.

One woman said all last winter, she had averaged only a week from-washing, work was so unsteady: another told of desertion by her huxhanri when their baby was still a child In arms. How he i sgrown up. He was with his mother who proudly told the court lie'always got "excellent" in his marks at. school. She wanted to keep him there.

It is alleged, lie held up a party of young women lust Sunday in the strcts of. Huyne, and ut the point Kirn. held them at bay while he tore the clothing from Miss Bessie Whitehouse, the telephone operator. Brassfleld, it is said, had paid court to Miss Whitehouse, and was angered because she tried to avoid him. Deputy Sheriff Madden madt the arrest in Enumclaw, against the advice of the people of Hay no.

who told him Brassfield would shoot him. A few days ago. according to the report, Brassfieia drove his father off his farm with a gun. After, ths Sunday episode, Brassfleld said to have left Miss WhltehoiiM crouching In fear In the street, while he twirl ed gun and remarked that he would kill anybody who tried to arrest him or to cause his arrest. CUPID SLUFFING OFF Hey, CupM! back on the Jobf Don't you know It's June? All Oar yesterday, thero were just tour Ueeoua.

At noon today, was juat oae. the threat of Uncle Hum iiicmiim that tlilM port will put mi (in- United Htaten Illli-llCi "hill, lint" HN an mx I.nhii ImrlMir. If the government to prcsN demand, ix-nni traffic ran prevented from rouilng here. Thn trouble arlsea over tba i fact that a sower on 16th street close to the city clocks, sewage flouts about the tin- city channel continuously. To rearrange tho sewage sysi a new trunk Rewer must built from I fith street under the I city to thn trite of the old gravity coal bunkers, where tide currents could sweep If.

mi to sea. Tile council was informed toduy i.imi Surgeon General W. ('. Kuther of Washington, li. C.i coming to Taeoma MM Thursday to demand a change in tin' system.

('oinrnisHioner Woods told the council the necessary sewer tunnel would BOat half a million. Thn only apparent solution is a bond election, and immediate construction work. The city council, though excited over the situation, will wait to hear the verbal message of Dr. Rutuer before deciding what action to take. Wrntliy.

Although worried over the come of the government's action, Commissioner Woods, who charge of the city sewage system, was highly over the federal threats today. "la Tacotna going to let tho federal health department come In here and run our port for us, or are, we going to run It ourselves?" he demanded of the city council. "The government is hutting Into the affairs of every city lv the country, and now It wantit to put us to the expense of halt a million dollars on a mere health, technicality. We can get along temporarily with our present sewage system. Why should government come In and dictate to us like this? It's an injustice, hut we simply can't help ourselves.

We have to do what the United tells us to." At Inopportune. Time. This action comes Just as Tacomu is taking tho lead among nil American ports in export trade, due to Its handling of war orders for Vladivostok. Already nearly In exports have been sent out this month. Unless the Interference of the IT.

S. officialdom Is successful, June should be a $10,000,000 month. QUEEN WILL BE CROWNED THIS EVENING There will be a queen In Tacoma tonight. Queen Gladys of Mocsedom. She will receive the plaudits of the multitude at the carnival being held on Market street.

She will receive a royul diadem from the hands of Mayor Kuurott. Than she will be congratulated by another leading Tacoman whose identity Is not yet revealed. The second evening of the carnival last night drew another big crowd. It was fraternal night and all the lodgea of the city were represented by delegations. 500 CHXKENT BURNED ALIVE Five hundred chicks were burned alive at 3 o'clock this morning when an incubator in the chicken bouse of Host Johnson, 6236 Hood street.

South Tacotna, exploded'and set fire to the houae. By the time firemen from the South Taconia station arrived, place waa all afire. Bvery cnlcfc was killed and the house burned to the ground..