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CONDUCTOR ISJtiLLED Roy D. Gilbert, nephew of Assistant General Superintendent Gilbert of the Northern Pacific, died Saturday morning neat Kennewuk, Idhho, from wounda he received while switching at Badger, a station near Kennewick, last Friday night. Gilbert fell from the top of a box ear and was run over. Both legs were badly mangled, from which injury he died. He was a freight conductor on the Idaho divixion. A widow at EUensburg survives him. QflbOPt formerly lived m Tacoma and was well known here. INDIANS IE LID TROUBLES Suit has been brought in the United States district court by Kuther Jacobs and Lilly Jacobs, minors, through their guardi an, J£. O. Wilcox, against Indian Commis sioner C. A. Snowden, Oscar Jacobs, Frank Jacobs, Sam Johnny, Ida Johnny, John Meeker, Annie Meeker, Martin Kaelin, Xlary Kaelin. W. P. Sundberg and Ida K. Sundberg, to restrain the Indian commissioner from paying money to the defendants for land in which the claim ants are interested. The papers in the suit, which was filed with the clerk of the court yesterday, were presented to Judge Gilbert last Tuesday. The case involves a question of title growing out of the peculiar relationship of the Indians and the original method of allottment by the government. The trouble arises in the ease through the heirs of Charley Jacobs, who was m i ried twice and has two sets of children. The persons made defendants, but not In dians, are said to be those who have pur chased land on the reservation and still have unpaid balances. Judge Gilbert, after hearing the petition, issued a tem porary restraining order until January 6. CITY COUNCIL JEETING An objection to the repavemcnt of Pa cific avenue in front of block 1604, ex tending from Jefferson avenue to Seven teenth street, waa heard by the council last night. The opposition claimed mat the city had repaired the pavement fur ther down the street at its own expense and When the pavement was laid live yeaig ago the city accepted it under a ten years guarantee. A resolution introduced by Bellinghnm was adopted, instructing the commission er of public works to let the contract for local improvements in, sewer districts 141 aJid 142. A resolution was adopted pro viding for grading and laying plank cuib» on South O street from Eighth to Klev enth. The property is not valuable enough at present to permit an assessment for sidewalks. An ordinance was introduced vacating part of Lawrence street in Lookout Park addition, extending from the north side of AIX-LES-BAINS CASE The Criminals Are Now Under Arrest and the Truth At Last Revealed—Complete Details of the Crime PARIS, Dec. 24.—French crime has a flavor of intrigue and: finesse unknown to Anglo-Saxon brutality. The yellow-back novel is dull reading to the murder case of the professional beauty, Eugenic Fou gere, at her villa at Aix-les-Bains, in Sep tember last. Eugenic Fougere, a well-known figure in the so-called Paris half-world, famous for her fashionable dresses and her valuable jewels, as well aa for the connections which she had in high places, was found murdered at her villa in Aix-les-Baina on the morning of Sunday, September 20. Her companion, Rosalie Giriat, occupy ing another room on the same floor, was bound and gagged, and declared herself ignorant of U details save aa to her own Seizure and miraculous escape. ' On the floor below, on a level with the ground, tftr maid, Lucy Maire, was dead, stran the addition to South Pifty-fourth. An ordinance waa passed granting a franchise to the Northern Pacific Railway company to maintain a spur track acrom North Thirty eighth streets and Puget Sound avenue. The following petitions were granted: Petition of Y. H. C. A asking for a map of the city; G. E. Griffith, to use hie auctioneer license at 2317 Pacific ave nue, and Ella S. Wright and others, to lay a sidewalk on Sprague avenue between South Kighth and Ninth street*. Licenses were granted to the following gtntionary engineer applicants: Leslie Di.wson. \V. W. Griffith, E. Turner, J. L. Paulsonn, O. M. Cooper, 0. H. Lincoln, Alex Mclntosh, Parke G. Pearce and W. K. Cami>bell. The employment of a clerk in the office of the water and light department for 30 day* longer wag authorized. BROKEN BUNDLES Many packages are at the postoffice awaiting the close of the holiday rush, •> she reappeared on the boulevard in Paris, wearing the dresses and hats of her dead benefactress, and frequenting once again her old friends of the music hall* variety. The peculiarity of her behavior soon fur nished enough grounds for arrest, at least on suspicion, and her confidences to one of her friends furnished definite grounds. Arrested, an 3 first denying all knowledge of what had occurred save that men en- tered her room, catching and gagging her before she could c en scream, Giriat ended by confessing that she had a hand in it, and pointed out two men named Uindt-r --man and Bassot as the executors of a plot planned months Iwfore in Paris. L,an dennan, hearing that he was to be ar /rested, committed suicide in Lyons, blow ing his brains out an the detectives were coming up the stairs. Bassot. safely caught, denies all implication. But the THE TAOOMA TIMES that people niny come and claim them. 3wing to the manner in which many ol the packages wore wrapped and tied they lave been separated ami broken. \» hen the rush is over people will be MnniUcd ;o come and claim their carelessly tied jundlea. Today the big rush of local mail will >ass through the carriers' hands. REPORT OF FIRE CHIEF The report submitted to the city council by Fire Chef Poyns given tho aggregate fire loss of November at $49,910. During the month 21 alarms were sent in. Of the total loss by fire $5,256.50 was in build ings and $43,754 on contents. The total insurance on the various buildings amount ed to $99,800. The insurance paid amounted to $42,610.50. of which $4,746.50 j was on buildings and $37,864 on contents. gled in her bed, as Eugenic Fougere had been. The ghastly finds were made at 9 o'clock in the morning by neighbors hearing the groans of the survivor, Giriat. Robbery had evidently been the motive for the crime, as Eugenie's room was in a state of indescribable disorder. Dresses, hats, ball wraps, all of the latest style and from the most noted Paris dressmakers, had been torn from drawers and closets, caskets and boxes of all descriptions had been broken open; not a cent of ready money remained in the house, and all of Eugenie's jewels, valued at $60,000, had vanished. The only clue left by the robbers was the presence of three empty wine glasses on the dining-room table, from which it was presumed that the crime had been committed by a gang of three. At first suspicion wag so far from fall ing on the companion Giriat that charit able people opened a subscription in her favor, and soon presented her with $120 to console her for her grief in losing her mistress and her place. But the detectives began to watch the woman closely. When found she was indeed tightly bound and in a frightfully nervous state, but it peenied odd that she, in an adjoining room, should have been spared, whereas the maid on the floor below had been killed. Giriat explained this by saying that the murderers meant to kill her, too. "It was only my Roman nose that saved me," she declared. "They tied the gag tight to smother me as they had done with poor Eugenic And Lucie, the maid; they had no idea that I could survive." But prostrated as Frhe was supposed to be. Giriat, left alone, was within the space of three hours after her release from the ropes, able to write to her sister a long letter, in which her handwriting gave no sign of tremb ling. The police concealed their suspi cions and let Giriat go in supposed free dom, keeping the while a strict watch on her. which she was far from suspecting. First. Giriat besan paying off debts which had been standing for years; then declarations of Giriat, who throws the act ive performance on him, claiming to have been merely an accomplice and feigning ignorance that Eugenic was to be killed, leave him little hope of escape. From the fao*" brought together the crime seems to have been committed as follows: Eugenic Foupgere and Rosalie Giriat were to go to the theater on the evening of September 19, leaving only the maid, Lucie Marie, in the villa, which was Iso lated in a park on the outskirts of the town. From the autopsy of Lucie's body it was ascertained that she had been ■ smothered by means of pill(»iv« in her bed somewhere between 11 o'clock and mid night, so she must have been got out of the way before Eugenie's return with Gi riat at 1 o'clock. Eugenic at once went to her room, undressing with the help of Giriat, who withdrew afterwards. The murderers, evidently in hiding in an ad joining room, gave her time to get into hed; then they ran in upon her. "She fought hard and they had to call me in to help." Giriat confided to a friend the day before her arrest. "When she >>n\v they were going to kill her, Eugenic fell on her kneesl and implored them to snare her. Raying they should take every thing in the house. She did not recog nize me; the lamp had been put out. But she wax not heeded. She tied hard; it took a good quarter of an hour to smother The heaviest loss from any one fire was on November 14. when the Richmond Ta per company, the Stardiamond Candy com pug and the Taeoma* Stove works Mere pitted. The next lire of any consequence was * Houck i & . O'Neal's f carpet cleaning works tin ?. South aJ ' street;. This s low amounted to about (1,800.: The expenses for the department for the month amounted to $7,180. This amount includes $1,800 paid for 2,000 feet of ' fire hose:, purchased some • time : ago, but not accepted and paid for until < last month. GAVE ALL A CHANCE Police Justice Griffin suspended sen tence on Thomas Cftllely. Frank Arnold, Dolton Smith, Harry Willard, Victor An derson, George Rosso. l)an Labell, Thorn ns Forstcnson, John Pain, an Indian, Charles Olson, Antone Hanson and James McOhee tliis morning and warned thorn to itay sober at lrast until after Christ mas. All were anvstetl during last night on > harjtes of drunkenness and disnrdeily conduct. her. Then they bound me that I might be shielded from suspicion. I complained that they were pulling too hard, but they raid since we were in for a melodrama it had to be played properly." Henry Bassot, whom she declares to be the sole accomplice, now that Lander mnn is dead, energetically denies having been in Aix-les-Bains that night, but the alibi he presents is scarcely of a nature to be taken seriously. Despite researches made in every direc tion, the police have been unable to find any of Eugenie's jewels. One pearl neck lace is value dat $1,000, and one solitaire diamond ring at $1,000. STEVE D'IBIIEL A HARVARD PROF. CAMBRIDGE, Mas*., Dec-. 84.—The lat ent addition to the corps of instructors at Harvard University i« Steve O'Donnell, who has l>een appointed official instructor in hoxing to Harvard students. O'Donnell has coininenccd work with his pupils, and every day in to be seen at the Harvard gymnasium instructing large classes of students in uppeicuts and other tricks of the fighting game. The novelty of having a "mire enough" prize fighter teaching them lias caused scores of students .to take up boxing - with > their other work in the gymnasium. For fifteen years the man, who is the first pugilist to be selected by an Amer ican university to instruct its pupils in the manly art has been in the fighting game. O'Donnell is an Australian. After win ning , the heavyweight, championship of that country he came to the United States. His first fight was with "Kid" Gregannin, THE LUSCIOUS MARSH RAT IS A DISH FOR A KING MONROE, Mich, Kver eat a nitisk ntt Or, >~ ilu- ( ,ina«lian l-'rench trap por« say, "/<• tnooahrat." Mayl>e the name turns your stomach. II that's so, forget the name and think of it as "musk rabbit;" only muskrat is better than any rabbit that ever hopped. ; It is cleaner in its habits than any otherj game, hunters declare. : It lives on herbs! and -roots," and, moreover, it I washes j the herbs' and roOM before it eats them. It dips them in the water and rubs them till they're white and clean. The flesh of the rat has just enough wild me flavor to pease tin; epicure. It's delicious. &&&%B$B8B&WQflQ&B!$>& i Hunting the toothsome muskrat is great sport, I especially i for ( the ; beginner, ■ and even for the old-timer. The dog« like it, too, though it make* them stone-deaf,/ From December 1 until April 1 the little animal is hunted, trapped and even caught by hand. Many ;in speared? . lie ilived only in mrashy land, but the prices for his pelt and his carcass have gone up " '■*' in the past few seasons that hunters will stamp around the mucky marshes all day to catch as many as possible. Muskrat marshes are dotted with thou sands of homes, i They are. built of tall grass and there is usually a clearing about the domicile. I The houses are ingeniously constructed; generally * about four .! feet high and reached by four or. five channels or waterways under the ice.' .Through these the rat goes to > escape enemies or search for food. The sleeping apartment* are lined with soft vegetable fiber,ajjd are; very nice—for muskrats. <* The I method of catching rats is worth reading., The hunters surround the house, after stationing J their dogs at j the I run ways. Through each runway a hole has been ■ chopped |in ; the . ice. , One ! hunter kicks the house. The rats hasten to escape i then champion of the Pacific coast, whom he defeated.... Later he met such men as Peter Ma her, Dick Slavin and .Jake Kil rain. , . His work in the roped t arena' caused his services to be sought ,M | a sparring partner by Sharkey. It was OfDobneO who trained Sharkey for hit) tight with Gui Huhlin. ■'■.:■ / Before retiring from the business of training the younger prize fighters, O'Don nell; KM for two . years the trainer and sparring partner of ■ Corbett. It was he who trained the monologue chamjiion for his fight with McCoy. ' O'Donnell is enthusiastic over his i new work. -He realizes that none of his pupils will become prize fighters, and he is teach ing them simply how to defend themselves with the weapons nature has given them. A MODERN SCROOGE Christmas coming on, six .stockings to /ill, as many hungry mouths to feed until i lih. day, and a twist to prepare upon the day itselt—and no money! Such are the conditions ; with which many ' modern hou**!wivtk are brought faco to face. , Christinas coming, and bo money! And the hundred and.one little things to be done thai will i Matter the pennies as the wind scatters chaff. Think of the impossibility of preparing the till ing for nix long-legged stockings and pre paring dimities and delicacies lor a Christ-, mas dinner —and no money! ': "I. need a little money, 'suggests the wife .10 days before Christmas day. "What i ■''." growls the modern Scrooge, and the wife subsides, but not for i long; for it ill not for her own needs v thai she asked for money, and , the sight of six long, limp, unfilled stockings BO weighs upon her imagination that < she tries it again eight days before the Christmas day. ■i really shall need hurt a. little money; you see," she adds hastily and apologet ically, "there are the children's stockings; they must be filled and "•■ ;"' "What do you do with all the money I give you?" demands Scrooge gruffly, ".lust the other day I gave you THREE dol lars!" . "Yes, but we have to live, you know, and wo do eat such an awful lot!"?: "Well, I guess it don't all go to 'STUD.' I guess the missionary society could tell where some of it goes! And the stocking trick is about worn out. When 1 was a kid and we hung up our stockings, we was lucky if they wasn't filled with apple' parings and potato peel!" "But -re's the Christmas dinner, too!' "Well. here's a dollar. I ROMS you can manage on that if you try!" Oh, there modern fc'-roo'/en! Poor, blind, ignorant Scrooges! Because a woman ling (rimmed over her old hat and is wearing it for the third reason, because be lias nnonecd »nd pressed and turned her old lili,ci- • cashmere . and is "making it ■no „ for best ■ for the fourth winter, because ■he hai 'lirru'l and patched and' skimped, the modern 1 Khei»»»*r Scrooge thinks tha 1 ■tie run . work -nt ill greater miracles J and mm fill »ix (itoel-inc-' In tome wonderful turn of her tired wrists. , WASHINGTON TTUJCK CO.. ,T. C. He*. in. & Co. General freighting, household mmmls. unfea and pianos removed. Office 100 Tenth St. Office telephone, John 2341. Born telephone, .Tame* 2341. by means of their runways. .A* they, past the' holes i in, the" tee: they are gpeareid; by, the men, caught by-4lie dogs and .'bagged.'' hen s the t dogs • dip' through the -ice * for their prey their ' ears ara tilled ' with < icy j water..■ Two seasons of , this make a dog, stone deaf. Alter ; that .' he )m , guided \by waves of liis master's hand. _ :.VM4S9|9H^gn , Hut hunting ,is profitable. The ' tkiat now sell tit 22 cento each and the carcasses for 10 cents. A» many, as fifty rats ■ day air ' caught by. each hunter.: ; You. can fig ure his proiit. ; > .The rate are wonderfully prolific, "Every threo or four wocks a new, brood is left ill tin . nest.*; Generally.; from i six Xto \ twelve j, are j born at a time.,;" One; rat lin one sea son'will produce as many as 150 offspring.. The ;■ French-Canadian^ hunter! «ays:« '"Ac ;, rat ' she t have .;■' M> I great-great-great-greal" greut-great-gran-inotluurQ) all at once. I', :■ '■ Never corner a lmi.sUrat unions you are read) to put.up n. stiff j Bght, "Viet little:: fellow has sharp». under : teeth!'} an " inch *. long.'-.They will go through the sole of the" heaviest" shoe -as; af< knife '■;, goes i through!! cheese.?.' Many a time,; after a rat .is sup- 'i posed' to be: dead' and \ is' bagged,"' he! will I bite I through j the heavy; cloth of the bag, and . perhaps i nip I the ; hunter. V Then '; he's taken : out;; speared ' and ' made . "for sure •■ dead." ':■..? _.;..,.■;•■. ]},;'■ ■ i r.^. V;;-V.'y^.' P ;; it The law : gives the , munkrat a little pro-*, tection in prohibiting hunters from 5 Bpear ing. into a - rat ■ house;;. but; it doesn't ; pre vent them from Betting L the.' manh ;j on . lire to drive tUe gflmo out. A' marsh fire in a! beautiful and f even* a i terrifying , sight to ;' the •novice.'* The trouble with "firing the marsh is i that ' rats'. will ' never frequent 'it aftcriit-ha«iOnoe:.b6en.'.burnedJ.A* «•,;■' So you never ate an u»kraWi v Wellj*next. time you; get a c. bunco, try it. It's 'fine: meat. I How many 'homes are. today protecting • from public criticism stingy, clutching, cove (oils old sinners like Scrooge? j On' the other i hand,'; how J many ?bread winners, v reineihbering /the I gracious ' spirit of the yuletide, i the year patient; saving of • the '• housewife,)her sacrifices, -, turning!, rctrimmingg,;imendings,Vi patchings « and darning*; remembering;her joy in giving," her delight ■ in ; filling pocket* to i full:' ot' gifts,' gtomachs '. so; full; of puddings ; and hearts so full of cheer, that not an empty crook , nor- cranny;( remain*! V; how" many I breadwinners," remembering s all f thin J and ] more,, much . more, are < generous { enough, big-Fouled enough, : far-seeing enough to ho ; arrange ',that ? when • the ' glad day: draws near, the family. purse with untied string! may ;' lie ?! open within? the ■toil-hardened: palm of the faithful housewife the house-" wife ; who 'all the. year/ has •'• saved;',' and j planned arid labored for,the family's good, and whose heart is now opened-; to the • gentle, generous spirit of the merry Christ- < mas time? : May • the fairies ; visit these .■ modern ■ Scrooges, and with ', their' magic , wand* change them -into the Ibig-hearted/ kindly men whose very Rmile breathes of "Peace on ? earth, good will to men!" May the fairies'cut the, tightly-drawn pur*» "irimtH ■o that for once during the year, the/ en during housewife may give and be glad, A GIRLISH COIFFURE NORTHWESTERN , Detective "Agency, 426-7 Cal. Blk. See v.. Tel. Black 1O2j! R. E. 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