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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. Anderson # Co.
117 Eleventh St.,
TACOMA, - WASH.
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