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4 "CRAZY" IS THEIR PLEA ( HICAGO, Dec. 28.--The car barn ban diU were arrftigned this morning. The four prisoners, neatly druftoed and well grOOBMQ 1, but ininuH the air ot bravado that marked their conduct immediately I heir arrent, were placed in. a row before the judges bench. VanlJme and Niedemier wore a Wril)M look, but Marx and Koeaki seemed unable to realize their plight. ■■-. '■ ■■ a Marx smiled coni.nually, while Roeski looked bored when the indictments were road charging Van Dine Marx and Nei demier with the murder of Johnson and Stewart in the car barn and Uocski with the murder of Bauer in the italoon hold up. Marx's attorney asked for a continuance for two months, on the ground that pres ent public opinion | Would prevent a fair trial. An affidavit was presented showing Man to be the victim of parental influ ences. His father was ■ man of low and vicious iiiKtiiicl.H and is now serving a term in the penitentiary at Juliet for a»sault on a 14-year-old girl. The affidavit also claimed that Marx wan further irrespon sible by reason of an injury to his head which ■ wag inflicted by his father, who ■truck him with .i broomstick in infancy,. A similar plea for continuance and heredi tary insanity wan hi up for \anl)ine. . Ncidcmier and lloeitki asked for contin uances and presented affidavits pleading mental irresponsibility. The court passed the cases until tomorrow. OPERA HOUSE (hi New fear 1! day the •eeretari oi tlit \. M. t l. A. ii plaaaing i" hare an open All the young mea oi the tity will be welcome <lurm>c the day to enjoy t )■■- vartoot enteitainineiitH planned. The junion will probably give an entertain- Iliellt . CITY ITEMS Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock the public library committee will meet to formulate plane for the ■ next year. • Shortly after New Year's another consignment of books will bo ordered by the librarian. The library will close this year with 23,010 booke on the shrives. Herman Dickman. an engineer in the employ of the St. I'aul mill camp No. 'r>. was brought, to Tacoma from Orting to day. Wickman is ill with typhoid fever and i, in a serious condition. He was re moved to a local hospital. CHILDREN HELP William Hover, manager of the Associ ated Charities, receives ■ large amount of useful; articles every month from the dif ferent Sunday schools of the city. JS early every, school in the city, donates to the cause and help* out the charitable insti tution a great deal. LATE TELEGRAPH PEORIA, 111., Dee. 28. Harry < Imp in.in aged 18, colored, Hhot and lulled his lather bat night bemuse the latter struck t lie boj '■ mother. ODESSA, Dec. 28.—An ice floe in So rots bay. broke away today, carrying 40 horses and 150 men, who were hearing fish ing, out to sea. All of the horses and live of the men were drowned. The others were saved alter desperate efforts. THEATERS TACOMA THBATER. The ohiiii'i.i opera oompany opens an engagement at the T»co*n« theater to nii'ht. "(Hivette" is the first piece tliut will be lmt on. LYCEUM THEATER. "The Head Waiters" played an engage ment at the Lyceum yesterday. !>ll>N'T t'AY FOR POLIO'S The ease of Lowell against MeKeevex was tried before Judge Griffin tins morn ing. Attorneys Sledge and Aldrieh ap peared tor defendant and \V. 11. Harris for tin' plaintiff. McKeever, of EktonviUe. took out an insurance policy for $1,000 with the Northern Life & Savings com pany in June, IMS, giving a note lor $120, which he was to paj within a year in till) installments. Mckcever made four payments, then stopped. It was to re cover the balance that suit was brought. Tin jury found for the plaintiff m the sum of $HO, the amount asked. The case will probably be appealed. TO RECEIVE BIDS Bids will be received Tuesday by the commissioner of public works for the Im provement of South Seventh street, in local improvement district No. 77. The street is to .*- graded and sidewalks built. MUSICAL SERVICE The ip*K*ial features of the lervieas given at the Fust I ongregational church last niglit were the vocal music by Professor \Y. B, Qibboaa and the instrumental se lections rendered by Professor (Hot Bull. Tile muaiaal program last evening was one of the best that has been gnen. POLICE COURT. Kd IComtl and Charles Bob, an Indian, wan committed to jail for tiro d i Judge Griffin for drunkenness. This is their «e*ijnd apparent*, in jail in a Week. STRUCK DOWN BY POLICEMAN S|;\nl,r I lames Williams, k by Patrolman Bannfek Saturday night, is still alive, although Dr. Hnjrder, who is attending him, s:iys his skull is fractured. While Williams may live, it in doubtful if he will ever recover the full use of his faculties. Public sentiment i- in favor of the of ficer. Williams was struck while attempt ing to release a prisoner in the custody of the officer. Williams it an engineer and prior to hi* encounter was employed at Carbonado. GOLF TOURNAMENT NEW YEARS DAY A special series of gameg will be played on the links of the Taoonta Qoll eiub New Vi'.n'f <]:i\ . The prim ipal event will l>o the competition for the Balfour medal. Another interorting evrnt will l». the con tent for the modal donated by Phillip Til linghant, formerly a Tacoma attorney. Contests will also be held for (he longest PANAMA REPUBLIC MILITARY CHIEF PAN \.M.\ ClTx, uec. i' 7. *me accom panying photographi are of three of the men who played active and prominent parti in the late uprising ai Panama. Oen eral Huerta* wae in command of the "Bat. i.iliom Colombia" a( the time of the uprie tng, and w*e the one to nive the order of arrest tor Generalg Tbvar and Castro, which trai executed by Captain Balacar, (•I'lioal Reuben «rai in comtnand i of the minboal "21 of November," (Padfl l,i) ai tlio time, and was lying close to the j guaboai "Bogota" whet sinl ihelled the i i rily of Panama. Owing to a failure to I HEN YORK HAS HEARD TONER'S "PARSIFAL" PARSIFAL BEARING THE "HOLY GRAIL." NEW \OKK. Dee. 28.—Parsifal has been given and New York breathes free again. Nothing has ever so torn up this town as this exploitation of Parsifal. No break fast food was ever half so well advertised. Its flaunting to the public eye brought the blush of envy to the cheek of the most hardened publicity promoters. Sunny Jim was faded on the dead walls in its rival glare. The 57 varieties were forgotten. Manager Conried got more spate in the papers than Mr. Morgan's snip scandal. Mr. Conried'l press agents did their work well, as the box office can testify. And for their signal service this gallant band doesn't even require a "thank you." That's because they happen to be the com poser's outraged widow, a bishop, a half do/ell ministers and a few hundred gos sips—all still more or less outraged. The axiom that "a knock is a boost" solved the problem for the Paaifal uromot art From the moment that Mr. Conned ■lipped away from Wagnerland with his Parsifal manuscript in Ins coat tail pocket he gave a standing order for reporters and bared his undipped bead for knocks. He saw to it that the acoustics were fitted so that each hammer stroke was made to re verberate to tile ends of the metropolis. The boiler factory anvil chorus that re sulted tilled the New Yorker's ears. It had the subway beaten a block. One after another the shrewd Mr. Oonried led the classes of New York within the radius of his box office web. With his name abbre viated and a gold brick he couldn't have performed a more artistic bit. First Frau Wagner filled the papers with her lamentations. A question of Business vs. Ethics was raised, and that's always interesting in New York. While the hand organ division of the musical THE TACOMA TIMES and the best drive. A reception will be held on the grounds. MEETING OF MINISTERS The Methodist Ministers' association met at 10:30 o'clock this morning at the University of I'u^et Sound. The organi zation agreed to ro operate with the Min ivtiTi.il Alli.inie dt this city in holding cot tage prayer meetings throughout the city. During January ,md I'elnu.ny these prayer meetings will be held in homes during the afternoon, once a week. Dr K. If. Handall, president of the Uni . of l'uget Sound, delivered an ad- M "Tlie Kind ol l'reaehing Hiat Brina Conviction." The discourse of Dr. Rand&ll was afterward discussed by Rev. ReV. A. P. Kirkpatriek, Rev. A. 1,. Hutch ison and Rev. Monroe of Portland, Ore. send Genera] Yaron orders from shore he did not try to intercept the Bogota. ( leneral Huertaa has an excellent mili tary record, having fought in 20 land and l.i -en battles). His tirsl promotion was in January, ISBjS, when he was given the place of drummer. From this he gradually moved upward, step by step, until in Feb ruary. 19(12, he was appointed a general in the < '"li'inbian army. General Vsron has held many import* ant positions in the military and civil of lici s of the Columbian government, and has been very prominent in the politics of thai government. Captain Salazar hat been in the military sci \ ice of Colombia a number of years, and lias a very fine military record. I be above three men not only played a very important part in the recent inde pendence movement, but had any one of them failed to carry out his part of the agreement, the independence movement mi^ht have been frustrated. DIRECTOR ALFRED HERTZ. wore learning bow to pronounce Beirut the ■core pushera were already in the toils oi the ticket man. But that meant only gaiter; and standing room. Then Conned played nil trump card. Little by little the religious symbolism of his l'arsifal was allowed to filter out. The impresario folded his hands anil waited. He didn't j have to wait long. The pulpit wu beard from. Flock* were advised to avoid the shoals of tln- Metropolitan opera house on Parsifal night. It \\a< sacreligioUß. pro claimed hah' a dozen clergymen. "We'll see whether it is or not." promptly cried hall a dOMB (locks. In the ensuing on slaught upon the box office the gentleman ly ticket sUiniHT almost forgot to look bored, By lliis time the women had taken up thr Parsifal question, All bets were de clared off. You couldn't escape Parsifal talk. It whistled through the grove of hang-straps in the caw, it came with VOW "draw one" and "ham-and" at the lunch factories, it overshadowed the gab bling stretch of the Christmas shop coun ters. You got it with the coffee, over the bootUack stand; you were still get ting it with dinner and the theater. They told you it was a mean shame to treat a widow so. Hut they aim told you to be present or accounted for at the box of- Bee. li must be determined just how mean the shame was. S,, Conned sold his house and turned an army away. Hut one more problem Confronted him. He must steel the back bone of society to sit up and he counted throughout his six-hour Parsifal perform- Phe people who had the bonds and boxes were weakening as Christmas eve approached. Hut the impresario rose to the emergency. He served up to society two questions nearest its heart. Dress and dinner must he arranged, he caused it to be heralded abroad. Low necks and waistcoats at 5 o'clock in the afternoon? Dinner at 7. at home, in a restaurant, or in the foyer? High necks and waistcoats at 0 in the evening, with a dinner, or a to low things without dinner? So eietx bit at the dangling worm. On the eventful night there wasn't an absentee. Everyone had to be on band to Drove his or her particular theory on the high and low right. LARKIN Q. MEAD. 'Banquet *Rangej Ha-Ve a Well Earned "Reputation for "Being , Economical of Fuel An intending purchaser will see .gw ■ > _^_ T ' na. The operation of reversing cuts at a glance that if the top oven cj * „,'„, r *-J" ,■-- jj "* off the clinkers and ashes and plate is cast iron, lined with fire- I ijjjJ3s|? | """W leaves a clean fire, clay, and the back and bottom oven !'pSs? f - _. H When coal is burned and it is is rolled plate steel, the heat within \"',lf I'M] desirable to keep a slow tire at the oven is equalized, and that bilk- ,-f = Si'""'-'S --f lEir-~r.■»!<■■ 'i .T I""^*^1""^*^ night, or when the stove is not in ing or roasting may be done with |B jj^^lW^j^jlf 1 j active use. the grate, in a. reversed remarkable rapidity and uniformity. 0 J^J^JpE^J-ar I position, will be found of great as "Banquets" are provided with HWWBwW> 1 J^jtJafrT- TpJ Dl sistance. Thus the "Banquet Combination Duplex Crates, which, O^'EsK iff m&mMg&^'A Ranges" possess not only the best . i ... , lffj J™~sjf'Jj_r^^^^riLi features of modern steel ranges, in their normal position, are for ftW»Ff3£JP? fKfelieSt&i X #'^*i luit in addition a convenient Pouch Jay ?4jMßl(iSrafißiS/yn/ .-"^s . but in addition a convenient Pouch burning coal, but may be quickly jOgP^^ M|j| Feed, a Large Door, affording access reversed, and with the solid side up tfiiiff't a^™"*l*^t3^**" f^ .F^^f^ to grate, a Broad, Smooth Hearth, make excellent wood burners. - s-j - and an ample Lift-out Ash Pan. Ifyott \yire JLooKjngfor a Facinge Call and LooK. Them O*Oer H. W. Myers *3l Co. Dealers in Hardware and Furniture. Thone James 2576 1021 and 1023 So. 11th ~ftreet AVIGTI BOSTON, Dec. 28.—Fire today de stroyed a rooming house on Court street. Professor Marshall, tlie aeronaut, a well known character, was suffocated. He 11;i<l been in lioston several months, working on another airship model. ills SEQUEL WINTER QUARTERS..Utah, Dec. 28. married coal mine strikers this morning —A deputy sheriff who attempted to evict married coal mine strikers precipitated a riot. Armed guards of the Utah Fuel company withdrew and returned with a company of militia. The strikers then submitted peaceably. EAGLE SOCIAL Preparations are on foot among the YE GODS AND LITTLE FISHES! IS THIS A DREAM OR NOT? WHAT THE WOMEN AUK FRAMING UP. CHICAGO. Dee. J7.—Not satisfied with the trouble caused by deciding on their own garments, the members of the trying I'ark Women's club have decided to edit the men's pants. The garment is called pants in Chicago, but in living Pork it is called trousers. The crusade against the present "meal sacks tied with a string." worn by the college boj and his imitators, was started m jest and now assumes the dignity of earnestness and hat* reached proportions that cause the men to sit up and take notice. Morning, noon and night the masculine resident of the park has reform talked to members of Tacoma aerie No. 3, Fraternal Order of Eagles, to hold a social next Sunday in connection with the installation of officers. A large class of new members was taken into the order yesterday,, __———— —, .il IST M DARING NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—A general alarm was sent in to police headquarters today for the son of Mrs. Charles Hend ricks, the wife of the physician who fig ured a year ago in the Laura liigger suit against the Bennett estate. The missing boy was kidnaped this morning by a man, who drove up front of the residence in a cab, seized the child and escaped. MAUKIAUH CERTIFICATE A marriage license was issued to John C. White and Miss Clara E. Murphy at the auditor's office this afternoon. BUFFALO, Dec. 38.—James Abbott, who whs arrested at Niagara Falls charged with impersonating J. Ogden (ioelet, the millionaire, and making love to a New York restaurant keepers daughter, will fight extradition. He was arraigned this morning and charged with forging (ioclct's name to his letter of introduction. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28.—The cruis er New York sailed for Panama this aft ernoon. It will be Admiral (ilass' flag ship when it reaches the isthmus. PORTLAND. Or., Dee. 28.—David Van ' Houghten. who shot and killed Albert Young last night, was captured in his barn at Montavilla this morning. He made no resistance and claims Young despoiled his home. him. at him and about him. One woman wants her husband to have nifties placed at the bottom of his trouser legs. An other wants hers to wear knickerbockers with insertion, and velvet bows with sil FOR NEW YEARS! New Year Cards and Calendars GEORGE H. BERRY, Stationer, 919 Pacific Aye. ver buckles at the knee. Another wants dress trousers cut off at the knee and trimmed with real lace. In addition to the discussion on pants, the crusaders have invaded the collar field and declare against the stiff linen collar and in favor of a rolling effect in lace that would make the stalwart six footers look like Little Lord Fauntleroya after a 20-year sleep. THREATENS WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 28.-It wag learned from an authoritative source to da'- that three alternatives were presented to the United States in the note regarding Panama which General Reyes submitted to the state department. First, that the status existing prior to the revolution on the is^.nnus be restored. Second, that American keep hands off while Colombia tries to whip Panama into submission. Third, if the United States will accept neither of the preceding propositions, then it should pay Colombia damages for in jury inflicted through the loss of territory, the amount to V>e fixed through submission of the case to The Hague. No publication of the text of Reyes' note is expected until it is sent to con dress, with other documents bearing on the Panama case. It is a lengthy commu nication, and based entirely on the Colom bian interpretation of 1 lie treaty of 1846. The note carries a threat that failure »>n the part of the United States to heed Colombia's protests or accept the propo sitions submitted will result in a sever ance <>i diplomatic relations between the two countries. DESERTER Charles Ellison, a deserter from the United States army at Fort Keogh, Mon- . tana, gave himself u]> at the police sta tion last night. He told Sergeant Mc- Kay that he would face trial for desertion rather than be a hunted man. STATE EXAMINATION The state board of education oommeneed a teachers' examination in the Central school building this morning for appli cants for state certificate*. A large num ber of teachers arc taking the examina tion. It is probable that they will last three days. "Oh! Get away from my window!" cried the Tacoma weather man to Jack Frost this morning while stooping over his aching corns. Jack will go. The weather man has ordered partly cloudy weather for to night and Tuesday, with light north to east winds, and things will warm up a very little btf.