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DARDANELLES SOON TO FALL?

GERMANY now declares for free

dom of the Poles. This sounds a

little belated, with only the

splinters left.

Civic Bodies Join In Budget Fight

BEVERLY BAYNE TO

DESCRIBE $50,000

. WARDROBE OF HERS

Tacoma again is observing

style week, and by tomorrow

every store In the city will be

displaying the latest and best

Of the fall modes.

The Times, through Its South

ern California correspondent, has

arranged to supplement its usunl

fashion service with a novel and

timely feature tor the women

readers.

■/■This is a series of short arti

cles about the wardrobe of Bev

erly Bayne, a favorite movie

actress.

Miss Bayne Is reputed to have

spent JfiO.OOO for tha garments

our pictures will show her pos

ing in, but the styles all are

adaptable to goods and finishing

such as the average Tacoma

woman will cqre to use.

The first two of these pictures,

with accompanying explanation,

appear in today's Times, on page

5. Others will follow during the

week.

Through our lios Angeles cor

respondent and The Times, Miss

Payne sends this accompanying

message to the women of Ta

coma:

RY BEVERLY BATHS.

DRESS IS A HALLMARK OF

THE WOMAN!

As someone has well said,

character manifests itself in what

'ona wears. 

To the young girl, just start

ing out in life, seeking to carve

a niche in the world's hall of

usefulness—be it professional,

business, artistic, or what you

will —1 would like to offer this

suggestion:

Dress with minute care

before you set out upon

your quest for the Illusive

position.

Shun frill and furbelow.

. KEEP TOUR FACE CLEAR

OF ROUGE POT AMD LIP

STICK. Arrange your hair

neatly; not in the extreme

of fashion.

It is a great mistake to

affect a certain type of

dress or hat merely because

"they" ore wearing them

this season. For dressing

weU is the business of

adorning oneself in becom

ing apparel.

One of the first things a girl

should be taught with relation to

dress is the importance of study

ing herself and what suits her.

In a general way, I believe It Is

wise and altogether pleasant to

conform to the prevailing fash

ions with this one proviso

DON'T BE EXTREME!

)* On the stage, speaking or

screen, we expect to see ultra

styles and they can be worn with

good effect.

But the woman In private life,

If I may be allowed to offer an

opinion from the standpoint of

an onlooker, wins more favor,

gets more satisfaction and looks

better if she keeps somewhere

"near the "middle of the road."

There probably never has been

a season with more promises In

it for femininity than this.

Furs, so rich and so becoming,

are rapidly popular lv all sorts of

accessory trimmings.

Velvets and broadcloths lead

the many lovely textures used

In coats and gowns, offering both

softness and style.

With short skirts, full enough

to be comfortable; hats large and

small, and a big enough variety

"of coats and suits to accommo

date tall and short, fat and thin,

and old and young—what more

can we ask?

Western

Washington

Fair

Tacoma is mightily

Interested in the prod

ucts from the Valley, In ■

which Sumner and Puy

allup are located.

The Western Wash

ington Fair ahould be

liberally patronised; and

we hope that our friends

i will be loyal and do ev

erything they can to en

courage the people in

the Valley, and sur

rounding country.

PUGET SOUND

STATE BANK

H. N. TINKER,

President.

The Tacoma Times

C apture

Bandit

Suspect

After a sensational run

ning fight, In which a half

dozen -Imts were tired and

Day Officer Henry Htone of

Sumner was nearly killed,

tJeorge Anderson, a suspect

ed bandit, was captured at

4 o'clock this morning In a

berry field near Sunnier.

He was caught by George

Smuck, who had been depu

ti/«<l by Officer Stone, atxg

who had *******»**, In shoot

ing liim in the heel.

With a quantity of equipment

which would come in useful in

hold-ups and burglaries, Ander

son is held In the county jail,

charged with attempted man

slaughter. He was brought In

today by Deputy Sheriff Mohr

bacher, who was called to Sum

ner after the capture.

Anderson Is thought to be the

criminal who has been holding up

lumber camps in this district.

Officer Stone and Smuck were

sitting down in the shadow of a

building when Anderson ap

proached, carylng a big revolver

and a package under bis arm.

They -ordered him to halt.

Continues to Fire.

Instead, he leveled his gun and

opened fire. One of the bullets

caught Stone In the right chest,

passed completely through his

body and emerged above the kid

neys.

The bandit continued to fire

upon Smuck. as he stood above

his friend Stone, but without ef

fect. One of the hitter's bull-is

caught the bandit in the heel, and

he made his way, firing, into the

berry field. Smuck followed him

and captured him.

Anderson said today that he

thought the two officers were

hold-up men, and that he fired

because he suspected an attack.

He said he had been sleeping in a

shack in Sumner, but had tot

cold and was out to walk around

a little and warm up. He had no

home, he said, but had relatives

In Dakota.

Carries Quite a Kit

He had on him his gun, $45 in

cash, a razor, a tobacco sack full

of shells for his gun, numerous

keys of all shapes, and tennis

shoes.

He Is about 36 years of age.

Constable Stone was carried to

Dr. Whiting Mitchell's home, it

not being known whether he

would live or not.

Later it waa found he would

live .providing no complications

set in, and he was later moved

to St. Joseph's hospital. A late

report from there stated he was

resting easily.

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MONTH

VOL. XII. NO. 227TvroMA. WASH. T[ TK,M>AY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1915.

FOUR

WILL

PROBE

Tin imia's four leading

civic iHMlie*—the Commercial

club, the Rotary club, the

Central Improvement league

and the Central l.nlior Coun

cil—o9*o are pltMlged to

lixik inU» the city **oA*a*9*

009*0 niinoiinced s< lieino to

Nhift the burden of this

year's faxed from tb«> gener

al taxpayer to the light-user

pillll 000000*0.

WitJi a desire to search

out the truth, .and then to

aid the 900090009 1» arriv

ing at a conclusion fair alike

to general taammmr. and

light-user, It is likely that

each body will app»ilnt a

«■oimiiittec to bear both sides

of tlie question, and then *»•

Mi

In none of the bodies will p?r

sonal politics be allowed to creep

In.

Before the executive board of

the Commercial club today, '100.

li. Stone exploited the question,

and urged it as a question which

should be studied "with full

knowledge and helpful considera

tion."

"The club," he said, "has •

duty to the public to study this

question, and to hear fairly both

sides."

Last to Bring l'p Matter.

George Woodbridge, secretary

of the Rotary club, promised to

day that he would bring the mut

ter to the attention of the dub*

executive board tomorrow. It

will study the question in- the

same siiirlt as the Commercial

club. It is in an especially good

position to do so. because of p.n

invitation extended to it two

weeks ago by Commissioners Mills

and Atkins.

Secretary Rea Last will bring

the matter before the Central La

bor council tomorrow evening.

The Central Improvement

league will not meet Immediately,

but Dr. R. V. Hoyt, an active

member, has promised to see that

the question is put up for study

at the first session.

minnesotalkay

be a grain ship

The American steamer Minne

sota, now on her last voyage in

the trans-Pacific trade, may be

come a member of the Puget

Sound-United Kingdom grain fleet

of Balfour-Guthrie & Co.

Loomis Dumped

to Help Mills

Stick In Office

Although it was announced yes

terday at the city hall that the

discharge of Police Chief Loomis

had been brought about to effect

a saving to the city of $1,800 a

year, it developed today that

there was a deeper political sig

nificance to the council's action.

Loomis has been let out, follow

ing an agreement between him

self, Commissioner Mills, and cer

tain others of the city council, in

order that he will not be a mill

stone around the neck of Mills at

the coming municipal election.

Commissioner Mills Intends to

run again for city commiasloner

in the spring.

He long has realised that ■he

never could be re-elected so long

as he retained Loomis aa his po

lice chief.

Mills had delayed so long In

taking action, that he could not

Initiate such action now, without

the public's getting wlae.

Hence the Utile Coup.

Therefore yesterday's "frame

up."

Mills was not surprised when

Commissioner Atkina made the

motion abolishing Loomis' poal

THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.

Tacoma Wants

Honest Budget

and No Trickery

Gentlemen of the city commission, Tacoma wants

an honest tax budget this year.

You are engaged now, in making this levy, in at

tempting to shift the just burden of general taxation

from the shoulders of the big Ufid owner to the light

users—the little fellow, the business man and the

manufacturer.

You are not fulfilling your duty of making a real

cut in the cost of municipal operations, to the extent

yoii pretend. you are victimizing the light

funds, robbing the light users of Tacoma so that you

will not have the alternative of cutting down the po

litical machines in your own offices.

Furthermore, you are getting light plant affairs

into such shape that at the end of the year the depart

ment will not have shown the great record which it

really has made. Its profits will have been diverted,

subterraneously, and the enemies of municipal own

ership will have been given a set of figures by which

they can "prove" municipal ownership a failure, or

at least, less a success. In short,..you are falsifying

the record.

TACOMA DOESN'T WANff THIS KIND OF

DODGING, TRICKINESS, JttGGLING, gentle

men.

Some big taxpayers like Justice Linck and George

H. Stone, who might be benefitted, have consciences

that won't stand for such an outrage, despite per

sonal interests.

Small taxpayers, when they fully understand your

plan, as understand it they shall through Tacoma's

civic bodies, will make you answer to them in no un

certain way for your deceit.

Tacoma, gentlemen, is getting next to your scheme

and Tacoma shortly will show its disapproval.

Tacoma wants an honest tax levy, justly distrib

uted on the rich and poor alike.

Council Cut Own

Salaries? Never!

The city council today demon

strated its unwillingness to ef

fect any real economy In the

coming year's expense budget. U

turned down a proposition of

Mayor Fawcett to cut ttlAtkA ot

every employe of the city, during

1916.

Fawoett's salary cut proposal

tlon. Mills wasn't even greatly

interested.

Mayor Fawcett was not on the

'Inside." But he has persistently

tried to get rid of Chief Loomis

to he naturally voted wltb the

rest of the council to abolish the

)ffice.

Now, with Loomis out of the

way Jan. 1, Mills will announce

ilmself as a candidate to succeed

ilmself.

It was a cutte trick, all right.

Loomis Not Worrying.

Loomis, naturally, is .not wor

ding. When a Times reporter

old him yesterday noon of the

.ouncll's action in abolishing hla

oli, Loomis evinced no surprise.

Jnlike his usual self, he did not

(row excited, or lose his temper.

Loomis Is losing nothing but

'our months' pay. By the coun

■il's action, he quits office Jan 1,

1916. And his terra, under

Mills' regime, would end the first

cveek in May, 1916, anyway.

Loomis knows that Mills could

lever be re-elected If he stayed

n the police chair. Therefore he's

)erfe«tly willing to sacrifice four

nonths' pay ia order to help kfa

)OSS.

came nt\ a surprise to the coun

cil. Bui tlie members recov

ered thcfftiselves quickly enough

to offer hasty objections to the

Idea, and pass quickly on to oth

er business.

The mayor's plan was to make

* pro-rata cut In every salaried

stoiploye.

Those getting salaries of $200

or more a month, which would

Include the mayor, commission

ers and six other officials, would

be cut 10 per cent. Those get

ting between $100 and $200

would have a cut of 1M per cent,

mi! those getting less than $100

would b^, cut 5 per cent.

Mills offered as an objection

ills opinion that employes under

fIOO should not be cut at all.

Of the 11 employes who draw

aver $200 a saving of $3,520 an

•ually would be effected. These

'iiiployuH are Fawcett, Mills, At

«ins, Drake, Woods, Collins, Sav

idge, Raleigh, Stiles, White and

Meade. The mayor did not have

rigarea to show what the total

»aving would be.

KINO WILL HONOR

NAVAL SURGEON

ROME, Sept. 14.—The king

probably will decorate an Italian

naval surgeon who bound up the

stump of • sailor's severed arm

while both were In the water aft

er the torpedoeing of the cruiser

knxmlti.

GERMANS TRY TO PREVENT

PEACE ON WATER-FRONT

SAN FKAXCItMX), Hepi.

14.—That the Oerman gov

eminent money recently at*

tempted in Seattle and Ta

coma to prevent aa agree

ment between the longshore

men and dock-owners, which

later waa consummated, wan

the etatenient today of Vice

President John Kean ef the

HOME

edition

Loyal Dog Saves

Imperiled ninerSc

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1I —

Ruby, a Rlwash mongrel, Is one

of those self-madß heroes who

first Imperil life in order to save

It.

Two prospectors (Ruby's mas

ters), a herd of caribou and the

dog pack of which she was leader,

formed the combination that led

to a n9ar-tragedy on the frosted

top of the world recently.

"Shorty" Greegan and Jim

Kelly, veteran gold eeekers, had

trudged up to the head of the

Colvtlle river, far inside the Arctic

circle.

For 1 8 months they had seen no

other white man. They were 400

miles from dependable food sup

ply. Their six dogs carried a lit

tle flour, bacon, beans and rifle

ammunition in packs.

The two men had shot fish for

several days to feed the dogs. But

Ruby, a fastidious bitch, had

grown tired of fish diet. Her

restlessness infected the rest of

the pack.

Suddenly the prospectors Jump

ed a herd of caribou. One was

killed. The others bore away Into

the rolling barrens. And Ruby,

giving cry, led the pack in pursuit.

"Can you imagine," asked Jim

Kelly, telling the atory, "how

Shorty and 1 felt when we .saw

everything we had in the .world,

food and ammunitnon, bounding

away out of sight on the backs of

those frenzied dogs?

"It was a mighty solemn mo

ment—one In which we felt that

our lives were at stake.

"I fired the last shell in the

magazine at the caribou the dogs

were following, but it was at

1400-yard range and I was almost

certain I had missed.

The caribou and the dogs kept

International Longshore

men's union.

He said every obstacle had

ben put in the way of peace

in the shipping business.

President O'Connor of

Buffalo waa quoted by Keen

aa having said he had been

offered (Jertuan money to

call a longshoremen's strike.

WEATHER:

Tacoma: Partly cloudy and oc

casionally threatening.

Washington: Same.

m

"Ruby," who caused all the

trouble, and Jainea Kelly, her

master,

going.

"'Gravy's got the cartridges!'

yelled Shorty. "And Gravy's tall

was just going out of sight across

a bill!

"Cussing Ruby, Gravy and nil

the rest, we sat down to wait. It

was all we could do.

If I had wounded the second

caribou the dogs in time would

get him and probably return after

eating their fill.

"If not, the dogs might never

return. And there we were, 400

miles from a known human habi

tation, in an almost lifeless coun

try, with only a dead caribou as

food supply.

"Two days we waited, nibbling

raw meat; wondering If my last

shot had wounded the fleeing cari

bou.

"At evening Ruby came limp

ing in, alone, covered with blood.

Her pack had slipped under her

belly. And she was mightily

ashamed.

"After 14 hours of back-track

ing she took me to the spot where

they had pulled down the caribou,

which, fortunately, I had wounded

seriously. It was over 10 miles

away. Around the carcass sprawl

ed the other dogs, stupefied with

gluttony.

"One of them, caught under the

pack-straps by the caribou'a horns,

would have died there, for he

could not have released himself.

"Ruby had eaten her fill, slept,

and then, with her dog conscience

bothering her, had tracked back

to where we waited. We forgave

her, and let bygones be bygones.

"But I hate to think what might

have happened if my second shot

had missed."

What Do You Think I

of T. R's New Idea? I

GilcHon Gardner is so far i

and in his outlook on life to t

spomlciit that I,is writings alwi

Is aa proud of toe service be ft

In the paper.

He never wrote an article

news value and of Interest to

interview we printed, yesterday

Nor do we recall a proposal

ex-president, that bad in it n i

Roosevelt's suggestion, In

create an industrial army. Tin

ran to serve in its ranks for c

employed under trained leaden

tags.

He would have the indust

meat roads and bridges, in tin

iiients, on reclamation projects,

tions factories and the thouxa

Uncle Bam.

And thus. Col. Roosevelt »

accomplishing an Immense ami

male citizen would be taught

fit race would be certain to re

be Inevitable.

Tacoma people, what do j

Idea? Would you be williug t

Industrial army? Shall we ur

accessary legislation?

TURKS

BURN

FUCHA

liONDON, Hept. 14.—Con

vinced that a further de

fense of ilu- DartlanellPM la

hopeless, ti le Turks are re

treating, and burning "nil

devastating nil the towns

and crops In their pufli.

Thin In the tatHMH mllitnry

authorltlsa drew today from tha

report that Eorha. near Smyrna,

l»Jul been set ablaze by a special

torch squad of Turkish soldiers.

The dispatch came from Ath

ens, which recently has sent out

practically all ni'ws of the Dar

danelles, since the Turkish «en

•orahlp has tightened. Other dis

patches from Athens tell that

conditions in the Turkinh capi

i.ii are appalling, partly because

of the advance of the allien and

partly because of grafting high

up officials.

it haa been weeks since the

Turks have made claims to suc

cesses.

RIGA FALLING AT LAST?

HERLIN. Sept. 14.—The war

department iB satisfied that at

last the fall of Kiga la imminent.

Even Petrograd admits that the

fighting to the southsast of Riga

Is growing more furious, while

German reports from yon llin

denburg are that the Russian

line haa been completely shat

tered.

It is added that the Teutonic

armies are within 30 miles of the

great Halite grain port, almost

close enough for their giant

howitzers to begin the crumbling

of the outer fortifications.

In Uallcla, it is admitted that

the Russians are still victorious.

In this movement, there is a pos

sibility of saving the Russian

armies, as re-enforcements soon

must be sent the Austro-Oerman

corpa. Austrian* are reported to

have suffered severely.

Russians to

Lose Vilna?

PETROGRAD, Sept 14.—The

evacuation of Vilna is destined to

follow the Teutonic cutting on

the Vllna-Petrograd line, it waa

seml-offlclally stated today.

The German forces have reach

ed the railway midway between

Vilna and Dvlnsk and now one

German force Is sweeping east

ward to the north of Vilna, while

another is making an eastward

dash for Orany.

A Russian retirement probably

will be necessary within 10 day a.

mperior In mental equipment

he average Washington eorre

iys are of Interest. The Times

irnlshes as -of any other feature

of greater timeliness, genuine

every thinking citizen than the

with Theodore Itooeevelt.

, of the many advanced by the

■tore vital ring.

brief, ia that the United Statw

>t It compel every young Ameri

»»e year. That thia army be

i on the great public undcrtak

rlal army work on the govern*

. forests, on harbor improve

in arsenals, government muni

ad and one other Industries of

leclares, not only would we be

»unt of useful work, bat every

the dignity ot labor. A mote

»ult. Greater democracy nonlit

ou think of this iTTnletlnaary

j entrust your mm to ancb at*

to our lawmakers to eanct the