THREATEN TO DETHRONE KING CONSTANTINE · 2017. 12. 20. · Its $700 actual value, leaving $400....
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FRENCH ARMY ATTACKS GREEKS THREATEN TO DETHRONE KING CONSTANTINE One of the rubber companies of Stockholm is renting automobile tires by the day to owners of cars. The Tacoma Times i r THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. I wm/r -. 30c a _—______——_____________________^________— I HUME | MONTH I VOL. XII. NO. 281. TACOMA, W ASll.._Tr KSDAY, XOYKMBKU 18, 1915. [ EDITION WEATHER Tacoma: Occasional rain. Washington: Occasional rain west, rain or snow east, colder east portion tonight. MAYOR DENOUNCES FRAUD ON PEOPLE Pending Suit May Make a Taxpayer of You, Mr. Man- Who's - Exempted By E. A. Peters There is soon to go to trial In the Pierce county courts a lawsuit of iiii|i<>i-«aii<i< to YOl' and to me and to every other owner of property iv the ni.mc. It's entitled "The KtHto Tax Commission of Washing- ton vs. James .1. Oimeron, **s< -,i>r of Pierce county, M ill." It'.s a suit to determine i lu-iiii-i we little fellows will Jig ill* alwut twice as nun h taxes m-. we now pay, for tiio benefit of tike big taxpayer. If our assessor loses, there ivill he thousands of n- not now |Mi)ii>}( taxes—heiaiisn of the $;»<><> exemption—o.i .icrvoiial possessions, who ivill I ><-iiin |«.i> ii>ii more than t cents on e\ery dollar' 4 north of pijinos and furni- ture and bicycles and • nipiis mid clothing and everything else tliat we own except real estate. Something that affecM every one of us vitally. Yet, ten to one, you never heard of It before, » • • For 1 ."> years the assesso's of counties in Washington have only taxed us on part of our wealth In Taconin, we have paid IMM on half of what we own. And the commonwealth has kindly al- lowed us an exemption of It 1)9 on personal property. That is, married men and heads of families have been al- lowed this exemption. Bachelors and other independent persons have paid on everything they own. Which Is as It should be. But that's another question. Our assesors have for years followed the custom of subtract- ing the $300 exemption from the hair valuation of our person;.] property, and taxing us on wb.it remained. For Instance, V. F. Adams, 1709 South Bth street (we pick3.l his name at random from th\u25a0\u25a0 as- sessor's hooks) figured his per- sonal property this year at $?' I >. Assessor Cameron took out the 60 per cent valuation, as has al- ways been done, and put Adapts down on his books as owning $350 worth. Then he took away the exemption, and found that Adams should be taxed for J r>o worth of personal property. Alia tax on it is $2. • • • nut a few weeks ago tho stale tax commission hail an outburst of originality and decided that Assessor Cam- eron and all the other as- sessors of \\ .ishiuton wera going at it wrong. The commission declare) that the exemption should be taken from the actual valua* tion and not the assessed val- uation. And It sent orders around demanding that every assessor change his methods. It overruled all precedent in taxation systems. Assessor Cameron refused point blank to obey. And the commission immediately jumped on him with a man- il.imiis suit. It in that suit which is to come frp for trial in a few days. • • • Now let's see what happens un- der this apparently trivial change of method. Take Adams' case, for instance. At present Adams pays $2 taxes on $K0 taxable valuation. Under the proposed system, the $300 exemption would be taken iroin Its $700 actual value, leaving $400. Then the 00 per cent val- uation would be cut off, leaving $200 on which taxes would have to be paid. Adams' taxes next year on the same amount of per sonai property would be $8. • • • Mere's another example, Hiioiv- inK how some of us who don't pay any taxes now because of the exemption, will be caught un- der the new ruling. Charlie Epp, a waiter at the Majestic cafe, has personal prop- erty worth $400, or $200 on a 60 per cent valuation. He doesn't pay any personal taxea, being married, because the $300 ex- emption covers him. But the state wants to deduct the exemp- tion from Epps' $400 worth, di- vide the $100 by two, and tax him for $50 worth of stuff. We said a while ago tint the new scheme would be to the ilia- advantage of us little fellows, aial the benefit of the big taxpayers. We'll prove it. Under the proposed new system there would be $r>o,ooo taxes pai:l by persons in Pierce county who do not pay a cent on personal property. The taxes of those al- ready paying small sums would be increased by fully $2.'),000. These are conservative figures by Assessor Cameron. This mean) $7ri,000 added to taxation rev- enue. The total taxation amounts to $3,600,000 at present. ¥7'>,o'iO is one-forty-eighth of $3,(!UU,OO*', meaning that we would reduce the total amount of taxation from other sources by 1-48 th. It would mean that the Stone- Webster syndicate, for example, now paying $200,000 taxes a year in Pierce county, would get a $:\u25a0,- --000 reduction, because tho littlo taxpayers would be digging i.p the money that the street car cor- poration had heretofore paid. Get it? '^^^^ \ WE fIRE! m /k—B^ \u25a0BTIT ALL, \u25a0s\J*_*_*^ Guess LEAGUE BEGINS INQUIRY And It doesn't work pro- portionately for all tuxuiM'- ers, either. While Mr. Adams of South Bth street would be paying lour times as mm h personal taxes, Mr. Chester I'lhh-iu-, whose residence at Thoruewood In the most pa- latial in the Northwest, would pay just 90 more taxes on personal property worth tf.tt.4MO. Mr. Thorn pays $657 taxes a year now on his personal prop- erty at Thornewood, and unuer the new system he would pay ex- actly $663. Figure it out for yourself. Edward Forserg, a cabinet maker, Ittl North 7th street, would pay $2.4 0 taxes on $':!0 worth of property, while he pays nothing today. A. A. Hinz, a florist, 618 South X street, would pay $19 taxea on $1,290 property, where he pays |1| today. The law says that a county as- sessor must obey all mandates of the state tax commission, but. As- sessor Cameron says that the commission is wrong, and h»* Is making au effort to prove it. The Tacoma Central lmorove- meiit league today began an active investigation of pending action by the city council, in which pow- er franchises, street car fran- chises and an auxiliary power con- tract are Involved. At a meeting called this after- noon in the offices of Dr. It. V. Hoyt, Provident building, presi- dent of the league, a large com mlttee of citizens will discuss Hie council's action. It Is probable that the mrtter will come up In definite for v !>e- fore the league, when it is to meet next Tuesday night in tne count.l chambers. "We have none of us received expert advice regarding the tech- nical Bide of the proposition, therefore we do not care to ex- press an opinion," said James A. Lytle, one of the leaaers of the committee, this noon. I "But there ia no doubt th*t members of the league are arous- ed, and want action taken. We are meeting today for the purpose of determining what action to take. It is a aelf-appolnted in- vestigating committee, and we will most certainly make a re- port to the improvement league on the result of our investiga- tions." linFissafe BORDEAUX, France, Nov. 16. —The liner Rochambeau, afire at sea a few days ago, arrived safety today. Captain Juham expressed himself as undecided over the cause of the blate. LABOR UNIONS ALERT Labor unions of Tacoma will protest the city council's acilo'i last week of handing over fran- chises and vuluale contracts to the T. K. & P. Co. At a meeting tomorrow night of the Central Laor Council the city council's action will comj up. Secretary Hea Last today de :'.ir- ed that the unions are exceeding- ly interested in the franchise business, and that probably won 11 adopt resolutions condemni>i£ the council. Last today attempted to obtain copies at the city hall of the aux- iliary power contract and the franchises, but was given ehuive directions at each office, an I fail- ed to obtain any documents that might throw light on the scho.no. 1 FLASHES! DETROlT—Prctically all of the northern states covered with two inches of snow today. NEW YORK—Cunard liner Saxonla docked from EngVuid with 123 Irishmen aboard, but no Englishmen, all being disal- lowed passage. A large shipment of English gold was aboard. CALUMET, Mich. — Steamer Alfred P. Wright, laden with wheat for Duluth, burned to the water today. AMSTERDAM—NearIy 40 Ger- mans were killed and wounded today In an allied air raid o.' I Llchtervelde near Ypres. POHTLAND—Marconi wlraless station at Astoria .learly d9»*.ro/- ed by lightning during terrific storm which raged all last night. PETROGRAD — Vigorously pressing their advantage, Rus- sians on Riga front swept (ier- mans back three or four miles north of Kanger. VIENNA—That Goritz has suf- fered heavily from bombardment. Is officially admitted today. Fifty soldiers wounded, 58 civilians killed so far. Three hundred buildings, churches and convent* badly damaged. ENLIST MILLION WOMEN IN U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 16. —The promise to enlist a mil'ion women in the campaign for na- tional preparedness was made at the first annual meeting of tiie women's section of the Na.y league here yesterday. A per- manent organisation was effect- ed. POINTS TO BAD JOKER! BY A. V. FAW<i:TT .Mayor of Tacoma. Again the Stone-Webster 1 owerj trust is seeking a strangle-hold On Tacoma. And as usual the subsidi -.«\l press is busy with half truths aii'l I niisstatements trying to trick tlioi people for the company's benefit. I When the subject of restoring j the cancelled franchise to Stone-1 Webster was broaclied I waa told it was a neighborly deal by which) they would furnish current at a; satisfactory price to the city in case of break down. 1 was fuvoruhle to that, but I was amazed when the proposition was brought into the council and Commissioner Mills said he and Atkins had been working wiih the company on it six months, to find that there was nothing neignbor- ly about it. II wan a cleverly concocttxl (leul to gi'xb a franchise worth |n-i'liiil>l> limli a mil- lion to lln- < <iiii|>'iiii, an<l then hog-tie the municipality for IS yearn for Stone-Web- ster benefit. This noise about "protecting the city power plant" is dust to j blind the people so they will not j see the dark gent in the woodpile, i The Tacoma plant ran about three yeßrs with one break of 40 min- utes and we had but one trahs- inlgsion line then. We have two, now. There is hardly onechance in ft; thousand of our plant's breaking, | and to guard this slim chance the four councilmen would nlve Stont- I Webßter a franchise worth half! a million, grant other valuable concessions besides, and then I make an agreement that wuiuld' put this city at the mercy of tli.i! corporation and enable ii to! gouge $150,000 a year from the city. The proposition is to furn- ish current to the city in <i-o of reakdown at :t-l cent a kilowatt, if tlie break is re- paired in 2 1-2 hours, if it taken more than 2 1-2 hours to fix the I.i.iii.. then the city must |wy the company $2.50 v kiliAviitt for the en- tire month. With 10,000 j" kilowatts needed this means 925.000 the firM month. This Is the joker in the scheme. I do not say it would happen, but it presents a fine chance und tremendous incentive for corpora- tion tampering with city power plant employes to see that sonm- thing does go wrong with tlu city plant. And the people should recoguize that Stone-Webster nre determine to control and domin- ate the power situation in the Northwest, and the Tacoma mu- nicipal plant Is In their way. The sinister motive is ahoy/a in this joker when It is reatit.-vi that it is Improbable that any serious break 20 miles from town could be fixed in 2 1-2 hours. If the company can furnish the city juice for 2 1-2 hours for 3-4 MM a kilowatt why should it ask $2.50 a kilowatt If the city takea the juice for two hours and thir- ty-one infinites? Any legitimate proposition would incline 'o re- duce the price witli the increase of the business. The whole deal is simply an en- tering wedge of Stone-Webster tp get a grip on the Tacoma pant The company by control of th,«j legislature last winter prevei.tei|- any- expansion of the city porrfer business. It is preparing n+w to marshal an army pf lobSyUtg and attorneys at Washington this winter to control congress anil get concessions that will enable it to grab all power sites. When this Is accomplished the city will be hedged in. Then it will know how to use this agreement to put the city plant out of commission and finally grab it if possible. Titroma rejected the nd- vice and refused to be trk-k- --ed and deceived by the mil»- -•tldlsed organa when they P BELIEVE THESE OR NOT— KAPOWUN, Nov. 16.—Bud Hatchette, a ranc I.er near here, has succeeded in utilizing the in- telligence of his pet piK. Roscoe. Hoscoe brings in tlio MWIUHr, helps round up the cattle and fol- lows Hatchotle to the TUOBI BMlfl station when UM Irnin Qtim in. LONDON, Nov. 16. — A Red Cross physician at Nisb, Serbia, writes that Nelit (iroulct, a widow of a Serbian infantryman and mother of nine children, lias received periiiiMxion fronr the Serbian Btaff to shoot with her own hands all German spies caught within Serbian lines. Thus will she takt- lier revenge. CKNTRALIA, Nov. 16. —Blondo, a trained vaudeville monkey, got away from the baggage car of a Union I'acific train here and finding himself in the rear of a saloon, proceeded to empty a bot- tle, as he does water on the stage. iHut this one contained whisky!) Then be proceeded to paint Ceutralia red. . . . Imili the |M>\ver plant. Tlu-v should not be bunkoed out of Ks advuntuKeti now by Hi \u25a0 sunn- K"»K Hint tried to pre- vent its runs!ruction. The proposition agreed to by Mil); . Atkins, Woode and Drake Is » fraud on the people ani not an honest move to protect the;!. It Is putting tills city at the ineroy of a soulless corporation thft we know by dear experience will stop at nothing to destroy il c city's light and power business. It is time for the people to t-rt busy if they do not want to l>e robbed. HEAX WON'T MSCUSB IT t,"uis Bean, manager for the T. K. & P. Co., wu invited yes- terday to prepare a statement i;iv- ingv lils side of the power mattor, for publication today, but th's morning lie declined to have any- thing further to say.—Editor. RATTLiT AGAINST BANDITS &HN JOSE, Cal.. Nov. 16. — Two unidentified men, who early today held up the bar of the Swiss- American hotel here, robbing four persons and the till, were over- taken by a sheriff's posse at Mountainview. In the ensuing battle. In which many shots were exchanged, one bandit was killed and another wounded. None of the officials was In- jured. '"The bandits entrenched them- selves in machinery on the flatcar of a freight train, on which they escaped from San Jose. Talk o' the Times W li.ii an auto looks like com- ing, and what It smells like going, are two different things. Hobson Is swinging nround the circle for peace, prepared- in--*, and prohibition. You can't hobble Hobson's hob- bles. It mußt nearly have choked cer- tain Tacoma editors to write those editorials "congratulating" the city on making "a wise contract" with the T. R. ft p. Co., etc. They didn't believe a word of it, and the fortunate part of it is their remarks aren't fooling anvUody.. CONGRESSTO INVESTIGATE P.O. SITE BUY WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 16. —Congress, at its coming session, Is going to look Into the purchase by the government of an under- water sub-postoffice site In Seat- tle for $169,5U0, which it bought on the recommendation of Con grrßKLimn Will Humphrey. When the matter of appropria- tion comes up, and it is expected this will be early In the session, the natter of the "duck pond" purchase will be given a thorough airing. It was declared today by a member of the house. Assistant Secretary Newton of the treasury today explained addi- tional objections which had been found in the Bite bought by the government from one of Hum- phrey's Seattle friends, after the congresman had given his ap- It In said the vtorlrt'ti sup- ply of coal will ta»t SOO years. That lx-ms ours. Let's give the T. R. A P. Co. all the <;ity aiiios to be used on tlie Pacific aye. Jitney line Bean is promising. A Dallas l>. D. mij-v "A man ran love more than one woman but only one at a time." What you meant was "should not," wasn't it, doc- tor? The heat face beautifier is a pleasant smile. proval of the deal. It 1b too hi null, 30 feet below street grads and entirely too far from the railway stations, he said. ,The statement adds that the Immediate purchase of the site was recommended by Congress- man Humphrey, who, in Seattle a few days ago, declared, "I never had anything to do with the pur- chase of the site." RULER FACES CRISIS UKRMN, Wot. u\ -<;,,-k anil IYen. h force* liny i . Imsluml al Salonika, the uolnt <*f (lelxirkation for the illi< I 11-lin|is .11 rollti. tO Nellli.l, H.<or«liiiK tv Vlmm mimes ttxlay. The Fro n.li tried t.i oc«u|if n <in-?>k jt iii it ton loner, Itilt WAN forillily pn-ieiil.-.1. lj>i<-i- the French authorl- (i«H h,|M)liikl/(mI, shy Itig I lie if- fnli «»-. ii "mistake." MAY I'NVROWN KINO PARIS, Nov. 16.- Ortteee has refused demands which the ulllaa liiHUt are essential to their viiely, diplomats today admitted. Moreover, the allies are pre- pnrcd to force com pi lance, while the central power* will help king Constantlne resist. mi*.in ni:\i> i'M:i:r If ne. i.. .n \u0084 the allies' fleet* will be tent to Ureece to In «'i-o non-interfcrenue with Balkan liliuin, and, It is hinted, Greece's klux may l>e uncrowned if that Blei> in taken. The allies' fleet In likely to meet strong resistance from Au»- tro-Uorman undemea boats known to be heading for the vi- cinity of Greece. WILL BRINU I'HKHNriu: The allied diplomats insist tliat inasmuch as Venlielos r >\in- tenanced and invltnd tbn landing of allied troops at Salonika, Greece has not the right to threaten thut the allies, if forcej to flee to Greece for safety after the Halkan reverses, b« Internal. In the nieuntlme the allies will bring presume to bear on the king to force him to alter his at- titude. He Ib being strongly re- minded of his ties to the entente powers and It Is the hope of tne allies' capitals that he will not dare to defy their warning*. BOY JUDGE WON'T "SQUEAL;" PINED URNVER. Nov. 16—Judge Ben Llndsey, of Denver's juvenile court, refused to disclose Infor- mation given him confidentially through the confession of Nenl Wright, a 12-year-old boy. Yes- terday he was fined $600 by Judge Perry in the district conrt. Llndgoy refused to gl»e the in- formation in the trial of Mrj. Herta Wright for murder. f What's Doing Today Sacred concert; Church of the Holy Communion; direction Mrs. H. R. Maybin; evening. St. Leo's bazaar; St. Leo's hall; evening. "Huskln' Bee;" Commercial club; 7:30 p. in. National Council of Women Voters, headquarters, 2 p. m. Ladles' Musical club concert; Commercial club; 2:30 p. in. Cake and candy sale; benefit Vocational home; 945 Broad way. "Twin Beds," Tacoma theitur, evening. Tomorrow Lecture; "World Bibles;" O. P. S. chapel; by Prof. Georgia Re- neau; 8 p. in. Annual inspection of troop B, by Adjt. Gen. Maurice Thompson; for two days, begins; armory; evening. St. Leo's bazaar; afternoon and evening; St. Leo's ball. The Merchants Who Advertise No one can afford to advert im in tliesa day* unlem they can hack as In tholr offerings the kind of goods that tatinfy The merchants who advertise are the ..new who give the has* iilbm \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666•* Turn to the Times' Happy Wednesday Page 1m (bfa Una * \u2666 * \u2666 \u2666 # Leather (toods, Glove*. Hata, Jewelry an* a Aomtm «ther good Heats will repay you for yonr trouble. \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666 It pays to read advertising cnrefnUy— \u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666• The Department Stores at* aUv* with mi wttmktg* aaate todar \u2666 \u2666 \u2666 \u2666 + • Read their Ads, too.
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FRENCH ARMYATTACKSGREEKS
THREATEN TO DETHRONE KING CONSTANTINEOne of the rubber companies of
Stockholm is renting automobiletires by the day to owners of cars. The Tacoma Times
i r THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. I wm/r-.30c a _—______——_____________________^________— I HUME
| MONTH I VOL. XII. NO. 281. TACOMA, WASll.._TrKSDAY, XOYKMBKU 18, 1915. [ EDITION
WEATHERTacoma: Occasional rain.Washington: Occasional rain
west, rain or snow east, colder eastportion tonight.
MAYOR DENOUNCESFRAUD ON PEOPLE
Pending Suit May Makea Taxpayer of You, Mr.Man- Who's - Exempted
By E. A. PetersThere is soon to go to trial
In the Pierce county courts alawsuit of iiii|i<>i-«aii<i< toYOl' and to me and to everyother owner of property ivthe ni.mc.
It's entitled "The KtHtoTax Commission of Washing-ton vs. James .1. Oimeron,**s< -,i>r of Pierce county,M ill."
It'.s a suit to determinei lu-iiii-i we littlefellows willJig ill* alwut twice as nun htaxes m-. we now pay, for tiiobenefit of tike big taxpayer.
Ifour assessor loses, thereivill he thousands of n- notnow |Mi)ii>}( taxes—heiaiisnof the $;»<><> exemption—o.i.icrvoiial possessions, whoivill I><-iiin |«.i> ii>ii more thant cents on e\ery dollar' 4north of pijinos and furni-ture and bicycles and • nipiismid clothing and everythingelse tliat we own except realestate.
Something that affecMevery one of us vitally. Yet,ten to one, you never heardof It before,
» • •For 1 ."> years the assesso's of
counties in Washington have onlytaxed us on part of our wealthIn Taconin, we have paid IMMon half of what we own. Andthe commonwealth has kindly al-lowed us an exemption of It1)9on personal property.
That is, married men andheads of families have been al-lowed this exemption. Bachelorsand other independent personshave paid on everything they own.Which Is as It should be. Butthat's another question.
Our assesors have for yearsfollowed the custom of subtract-ing the $300 exemption from thehair valuation of our person;.]property, and taxing us on wb.itremained.
For Instance, V. F. Adams,1709 South Bth street (we pick3.lhis name at random from th\u25a0\u25a0 as-sessor's hooks) figured his per-sonal property this year at $?'I >.
Assessor Cameron took out the60 per cent valuation, as has al-ways been done, and put Adaptsdown on his books as owning$350 worth. Then he took awaythe exemption, and found thatAdams should be taxed for J r>oworth of personal property. Aliatax on it is $2.
• • •nut a few weeks ago tho
stale tax commission hail anoutburst of originality anddecided that Assessor Cam-eron and all the other as-sessors of \\ .ishiuton weragoing at it wrong.
The commission declare)that the exemption should betaken from the actual valua*tion and not the assessed val-uation. And It sent ordersaround demanding that everyassessor change his methods.
It overruled all precedentin taxation systems.
Assessor Cameron refusedpoint blank to obey. And thecommission immediatelyjumped on him with a man-il.imiis suit. It in that suitwhich is to come frp for trialin a few days.
• • •Now let's see what happens un-
der this apparently trivial changeof method. Take Adams' case,for instance.
At present Adams pays $2 taxeson $K0 taxable valuation. Underthe proposed system, the $300exemption would be taken iroinIts $700 actual value, leaving$400. Then the 00 per cent val-uation would be cut off, leaving$200 on which taxes would haveto be paid. Adams' taxes nextyear on the same amount of personai property would be $8.
• • •Mere's another example, Hiioiv-inK how some of us who don'tpay any taxes now because ofthe exemption, willbe caught un-der the new ruling.
Charlie Epp, a waiter at theMajestic cafe, has personal prop-erty worth $400, or $200 on a60 per cent valuation. He doesn'tpay any personal taxea, beingmarried, because the $300 ex-emption covers him. But thestate wants to deduct the exemp-tion from Epps' $400 worth, di-vide the $100 by two, and tax
him for $50 worth of stuff.
We said a while ago tint thenew scheme would be to the ilia-advantage of us littlefellows, aialthe benefit of the big taxpayers.
We'll prove it.Under the proposed new system
there would be $r>o,ooo taxes pai:lby persons in Pierce county whodo not pay a cent on personalproperty. The taxes of those al-ready paying small sums wouldbe increased by fully $2.'),000.
These are conservative figuresby Assessor Cameron. This mean)
$7ri,000 added to taxation rev-enue.
The total taxation amounts to$3,600,000 at present. ¥7'>,o'iOis one-forty-eighth of $3,(!UU,OO*',meaning that we would reducethe total amount of taxation fromother sources by 1-48th.
It would mean that the Stone-Webster syndicate, for example,now paying $200,000 taxes a yearin Pierce county, would get a $:\u25a0,---000 reduction, because tho littlotaxpayers would be digging i.pthe money that the street car cor-poration had heretofore paid.
Get it?
'^^^^ \ WE fIRE!
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\u25a0s\J*_*_*^ Guess
LEAGUEBEGINSINQUIRY
And It doesn't work pro-portionately for all tuxuiM'-ers, either. While Mr. Adamsof South Bth street would bepaying lour times as mm hpersonal taxes, Mr. ChesterI'lhh-iu-, whose residence atThoruewood In the most pa-latial in the Northwest,would pay just 90 more taxes
on personal property worthtf.tt.4MO.Mr. Thorn pays $657 taxes a
year now on his personal prop-erty at Thornewood, and unuerthe new system he would pay ex-actly $663. Figure it out foryourself.
Edward Forserg, a cabinetmaker, Ittl North 7th street,would pay $2.4 0 taxes on $':!0worth of property, while he paysnothing today.
A. A. Hinz, a florist, 618 SouthX street, would pay $19 taxea on$1,290 property, where he pays|1| today.
The law says that a county as-sessor must obey all mandates ofthe state tax commission, but. As-sessor Cameron says that thecommission is wrong, and h»* Ismaking au effort to prove it.
The Tacoma Central lmorove-meiit league today began an activeinvestigation of pending actionby the city council, in which pow-er franchises, street car fran-chises and an auxiliary power con-tract are Involved.
At a meeting called this after-noon in the offices of Dr. It. V.Hoyt, Provident building, presi-dent of the league, a large commlttee of citizens will discuss Hiecouncil's action.
It Is probable that the mrtterwill come up In definite for v !>e-fore the league, when it is to meetnext Tuesday night in tne count.lchambers.
"We have none of us receivedexpert advice regarding the tech-nical Bide of the proposition,therefore we do not care to ex-press an opinion," said James A.Lytle, one of the leaaers of thecommittee, this noon.
I "But there ia no doubt th*tmembers of the league are arous-ed, and want action taken. Weare meeting today for the purposeof determining what action totake. It is a aelf-appolnted in-vestigating committee, and wewill most certainly make a re-port to the improvement leagueon the result of our investiga-tions."
linFissafeBORDEAUX, France, Nov. 16.
—The liner Rochambeau, afireat sea a few days ago, arrivedsafety today. Captain Juhamexpressed himself as undecidedover the cause of the blate.
LABORUNIONS
ALERTLabor unions of Tacoma will
protest the city council's acilo'ilast week of handing over fran-chises and vuluale contracts tothe T. K. & P. Co.
At a meeting tomorrow nightof the Central Laor Council thecity council's action will comj up.Secretary Hea Last today de :'.ir-ed that the unions are exceeding-ly interested in the franchisebusiness, and that probably won 11adopt resolutions condemni>i£ thecouncil.
Last today attempted to obtaincopies at the city hall of the aux-iliary power contract and thefranchises, but was given ehuivedirections at each office, an I fail-ed to obtain any documents thatmight throw light on the scho.no.
1 FLASHES!DETROlT—Prctically all of
the northern states covered withtwo inches of snow today.
NEW YORK—Cunard linerSaxonla docked from EngVuidwith 123 Irishmen aboard, butno Englishmen, all being disal-lowed passage. A large shipmentof English gold was aboard.
CALUMET, Mich. — SteamerAlfred P. Wright, laden withwheat for Duluth, burned to thewater today.
AMSTERDAM—NearIy 40 Ger-mans were killed and woundedtoday In an allied air raid o.'
ILlchtervelde near Ypres.POHTLAND—Marconi wlraless
station at Astoria .learly d9»*.ro/-ed by lightning during terrificstorm which raged all last night.
PETROGRAD — Vigorouslypressing their advantage, Rus-sians on Riga front swept (ier-mans back three or four milesnorth of Kanger.
VIENNA—That Goritz has suf-fered heavily from bombardment.Is officially admitted today. Fiftysoldiers wounded, 58 civilianskilled so far. Three hundredbuildings, churches and convent*badly damaged.
ENLIST MILLIONWOMEN IN U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 16.—The promise to enlist a mil'ionwomen in the campaign for na-tional preparedness was made atthe first annual meeting of tiiewomen's section of the Na.yleague here yesterday. A per-manent organisation was effect-ed.
POINTSTO BAD
JOKER!BY A. V. FAW<i:TT
.Mayor of Tacoma.Again the Stone-Webster 1 owerj
trust is seeking a strangle-holdOn Tacoma.
And as usual the subsidi -.«\lpress is busy with half truths aii'l
I niisstatements trying to trick tlioipeople for the company's benefit. I
When the subject of restoring jthe cancelled franchise to Stone-1Webster was broaclied I waa toldit was a neighborly deal by which)they would furnish current at a;satisfactory price to the city incase of break down.
1 was fuvoruhle to that, but Iwas amazed when the propositionwas brought into the council andCommissioner Mills said he andAtkins had been working wiih thecompany on it six months, to findthat there was nothing neignbor-ly about it.
II wan a cleverly concocttxl(leul to gi'xb a franchiseworth |n-i'liiil>l> limli a mil-lion to lln- <<iiii|>'iiii, an<lthen hog-tie the municipalityfor IS yearn for Stone-Web-ster benefit.This noise about "protecting
the city power plant" is dust toj blind the people so they will not jsee the dark gent in the woodpile, iThe Tacoma plant ran about threeyeßrs with one break of 40 min-utes and we had but one trahs-inlgsion line then. We have two,now.
There is hardly onechance in ft;thousand of our plant's breaking, |and to guard this slim chance thefour councilmen would nlve Stont- IWebßter a franchise worth half!a million, grant other valuableconcessions besides, and then Imake an agreement that wuiuld'put this city at the mercy of tli.i!corporation and enable ii to!gouge $150,000 a year from thecity.
The proposition is to furn-ish current to the city in <i-o
of reakdown at :t-l cent akilowatt, if tlie break is re-paired in 2 1-2 hours, if ittaken more than 2 1-2 hoursto fix the I.i.iii.. then thecity must |wy the company$2.50 v kiliAviittfor the en-tire month. With 10,000 j"kilowatts needed this means925.000 the firM month.This Is the joker in the scheme.I do not say it would happen,
but it presents a fine chance undtremendous incentive for corpora-tion tampering with city powerplant employes to see that sonm-thing does go wrong with tlu cityplant. And the people shouldrecoguize that Stone-Webster nredetermine to control and domin-ate the power situation in theNorthwest, and the Tacoma mu-nicipal plant Is In their way.
The sinister motive is ahoy/ain this joker when It is reatit.-vithat it is Improbable that anyserious break 20 miles from towncould be fixed in 2 1-2 hours. Ifthe company can furnish the cityjuice for 2 1-2 hours for 3-4 MMa kilowatt why should it ask$2.50 a kilowatt If the city takeathe juice for two hours and thir-ty-one infinites? Any legitimateproposition would incline 'o re-duce the price witli the increaseof the business.
The whole deal is simply an en-tering wedge of Stone-Webster tpget a grip on the Tacoma pantThe company by control of th,«jlegislature last winter prevei.tei|-any- expansion of the city porrferbusiness. It is preparing n+wto marshal an army pf lobSyUtgand attorneys at Washington thiswinter to control congress anilget concessions that will enableit to grab all power sites. Whenthis Is accomplished the city willbe hedged in. Then it willknowhow to use this agreement to putthe city plant out of commissionand finally grab it if possible.
Titroma rejected the nd-vice and refused to be trk-k---ed and deceived by the mil»-
-•tldlsed organa when they P
BELIEVE THESE OR NOT—
KAPOWUN, Nov. 16.—Bud Hatchette, a ranc I.er near here, has succeeded in utilizing the in-telligence of his pet piK. Roscoe. Hoscoe brings in tlio MWIUHr, helps round up the cattle and fol-
lows Hatchotle to the TUOBI BMlfl station when UM Irnin Qtim in.
LONDON, Nov. 16.—A Red Cross physician at Nisb, Serbia, writes that Nelit (iroulct, a widowof a Serbian infantryman and mother of nine children, lias received periiiiMxion fronr the SerbianBtaff to shoot with her own hands all German spies caught within Serbian lines. Thus will shetakt- lier revenge.
CKNTRALIA, Nov. 16. —Blondo, a trained vaudeville monkey, got away from the baggage carof a Union I'acific train here and finding himself in the rear of a saloon, proceeded to empty a bot-tle, as he does water on the stage. iHut this one contained whisky!) Then be proceeded to paintCeutralia red. . . .
Imili the |M>\ver plant. Tlu-vshould not be bunkoed out ofKs advuntuKeti now by Hi \u25a0
sunn- K"»K Hint tried to pre-vent its runs!ruction.The proposition agreed to by
Mil);. Atkins, Woode and DrakeIs » fraud on the people ani notan honest move to protect the;!.
It Is putting tills city at the ineroy
of a soulless corporation thft weknow by dear experience willstop at nothing to destroy ilccity's light and power business.
It is time for the people to t-rtbusy if they do not want to l>erobbed.
HEAX WON'T MSCUSB ITt,"uis Bean, manager for the
T. K. & P. Co., wu invited yes-terday to prepare a statement i;iv-ingv lils side of the power mattor,for publication today, but th'smorning lie declined to have any-thing further to say.—Editor.
RATTLiTAGAINST
BANDITS&HN JOSE, Cal.. Nov. 16.—Two unidentified men, who early
today held up the bar of the Swiss-American hotel here, robbing fourpersons and the till, were over-taken by a sheriff's posse atMountainview.
In the ensuing battle. In whichmany shots were exchanged, onebandit was killed and anotherwounded.
None of the officials was In-jured.
'"The bandits entrenched them-selves in machinery on the flatcarof a freight train, on which they
escaped from San Jose.
Talk o' the TimesW li.ii an auto looks like com-
ing, and what It smells like going,are two different things.
Hobson Is swinging nroundthe circle for peace, prepared-in--*, and prohibition. Youcan't hobble Hobson's hob-bles.
It mußt nearly have choked cer-tain Tacoma editors to write thoseeditorials "congratulating" thecity on making "a wise contract"with the T. R. ft p. Co., etc. Theydidn't believe a word of it, andthe fortunate part of it is theirremarks aren't fooling anvUody..
CONGRESSTOINVESTIGATE
P.O. SITE BUYWASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 16.
—Congress, at its coming session,Is going to look Into the purchaseby the government of an under-water sub-postoffice site In Seat-tle for $169,5U0, which it boughton the recommendation of CongrrßKLimn Will Humphrey.
When the matter of appropria-tion comes up, and it is expectedthis will be early In the session,the natter of the "duck pond"purchase will be given a thoroughairing. It was declared today bya member of the house.
Assistant Secretary Newton ofthe treasury today explained addi-tional objections which had beenfound in the Bite bought by thegovernment from one of Hum-phrey's Seattle friends, after thecongresman had given his ap-
It In said the vtorlrt'ti sup-ply of coal will ta»t SOOyears. That lx-ms ours.
Let's give the T. R. A P. Co.all the <;ity aiiios to be used ontlie Pacific aye. Jitney line Beanis promising.
A Dallas l>. D. mij-v "Aman ran love more than onewoman but only one at atime." What you meant was"should not," wasn't it, doc-tor?
The heat face beautifier is apleasant smile.
proval of the deal.It 1b too hinull, 30 feet below
street grads and entirely too farfrom the railway stations, he said.
,The statement adds that theImmediate purchase of the sitewas recommended by Congress-man Humphrey, who, in Seattle afew days ago, declared, "I neverhad anything to do with the pur-chase of the site."
RULERFACESCRISIS
UKRMN, Wot. u\ -<;,,-kanil IYen. h force* liny i. Imsluml al Salonika, the uolnt<*f (lelxirkation for the illi< I11-lin|is .11 rollti. tO Nellli.l,H.<or«liiiK tv Vlmm mimesttxlay.
The Fro n.li tried t.i oc«u|ifn <in-?>k jt iiiitton loner,Itilt WAN forillily pn-ieiil.-.1.
lj>i<-i- the French authorl-(i«H h,|M)liikl/(mI, shy Itig I lie if-fnli «»-. ii "mistake."
MAY I'NVROWN KINOPARIS, Nov. 16.- Ortteee has
refused demands which the ulllaaliiHUt are essential to their viiely,diplomats today admitted.
Moreover, the allies are pre-pnrcd to force com pi lance, whilethe central power* will help kingConstantlne resist.
mi*.in ni:\i> i'M:i:rIf ne. i.. .n \u0084 the allies' fleet*
will be tent to Ureece to In «'i-onon-interfcrenue with Balkanliliuin, and, It is hinted, Greece'sklux may l>e uncrowned if thatBlei> in taken.
The allies' fleet In likely tomeet strong resistance from Au»-tro-Uorman undemea boatsknown to be heading for the vi-cinity of Greece.
WILL BRINU I'HKHNriu:The allied diplomats insist
tliat inasmuch as Venlielos r >\in-tenanced and invltnd tbn landingof allied troops at Salonika,Greece has not the right tothreaten thut the allies, if forcejto flee to Greece for safety afterthe Halkan reverses, b« Internal.
In the nieuntlme the allies willbring presume to bear on theking to force him to alter his at-titude. He Ib being strongly re-minded of his ties to the ententepowers and It Is the hope of tneallies' capitals that he will notdare to defy their warning*.
BOY JUDGE WON'T"SQUEAL;" PINED
URNVER. Nov. 16—Judge BenLlndsey, of Denver's juvenilecourt, refused to disclose Infor-mation given him confidentiallythrough the confession of NenlWright, a 12-year-old boy. Yes-terday he was fined $600 byJudge Perry in the district conrt.Llndgoy refused to gl»e the in-formation in the trial of Mrj.Herta Wright for murder.
f What's DoingToday
Sacred concert; Church of theHoly Communion; direction Mrs.H. R. Maybin; evening.
St. Leo's bazaar; St. Leo'shall; evening.
"Huskln' Bee;" Commercialclub; 7:30 p. in.
National Council of WomenVoters, headquarters, 2 p. m.
Ladles' Musical club concert;Commercial club; 2:30 p. in.
Cake and candy sale; benefitVocational home; 945 Broad way.
"Twin Beds," Tacoma theitur,evening.
TomorrowLecture; "World Bibles;" O. P.
S. chapel; by Prof. Georgia Re-neau; 8 p. in.
Annual inspection of troop B,by Adjt. Gen. Maurice Thompson;for two days, begins; armory;evening.
St. Leo's bazaar; afternoon andevening; St. Leo's ball.
The Merchants WhoAdvertiseNo one can afford to advert im in tliesa day* unlem they can hack asIn tholr offerings the kind of goods that tatinfy
The merchants who advertise are the ..new who give the has* iilbm\u2666\u2666\u2666\u2666•*Turn to the Times' Happy Wednesday Page 1m (bfa Una
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