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LOVE AND THE
WICKED CITY
WORLD' NEWS
ALL CONDENSED
IN THE TIMES
.".' |5 ■ ■ ' ' ■
* , WELL, NOW THAT Christmas Is
: over,
AND EATING seems to have lost
m its charm,
- ANl> YOU ARE TRYING to choke
yourself on one. of the weeds
wifle bought, '■ ,
. '. . ■
AND DOLEFULLY considering
the cost of the windows Tommy
has broken since he received
his new airgun,
»
I.ET US TURN to other things in
the way of dull routine.
HUERTA, VILLA, riots, snow
'"* storms and the like.
AS A MATTER of fact, Senor*
Hnerta and Villa were real
amicable yeßteray.
THEY EXKN exchanged a pleas
■ - ant "Alegre Navidad."
THAT'S WHAT those guys chirp
when they mean "Merry Chrißt
mas." .
- ; SPEAKING OP IIVKKTA, dis
patches inform us that he
"raises army."
KO, ANXIOVS READER, thnt
does not mean that his rurales
get more money.
OIR POSTMASTER would have
us believe that he never hung
. up bis Stocking yesterday.
.. WE HAVE lIEEN studying this
| stuff about piano music serv
"<; -" ing as an anaesthetic.
IT APPEARS a doctor wanted to
-'.*"* - keep a patient quiet while he
'■' performed an operation, so he
: had a girl play the "Highland
Fling."
LOOKS AS IF a nice soothing
'- tune like that ought to keep a
' person quiet—does It not?
WE WERE RATHER surprised
to hear of the mayor chopping
„ wood.
■-: '. '. . \
WE ALWAYS THOUGHT he
cooked with gas.
. -..'-.". .'..;■ " ■'--"■ ■ ; Ml IMB 111 I. ||— " '
. A WHOLE LOT 'OF people don't
- care about how they spent
Christmas.
WHAT THEY I>O care about is
all that money they spent for
Christmas. ;-\'v ', ..-.
- WERE YOU,GIVEN a shake by
'■-' the quake? ■/■ '•*"";
; WE ARE HEARING a whole lot
v.. of things about that tremblor.
J ONE MAN SAYS the jar threw
'.;.' him out of bed into his clothes.
SO WHEN HE woke up he was
• ■'yV fully dressed. ■.-.. '
HE MUST RE exaggerating a wee
• bit. .', -/;-•• V:. - .;'■..■■
6. CLAUB OVERLOOKED Charles
"t • Roediger, the eminent photog
rapher, yester-eve. _-.
HUT NOT SO little Danny Cnpid.
\ ■ CHARLES BOUGHT a box of
. .■- cigars and passed 'em around.
PERCY HILL SAID so, and he
■ '■■■_•■ had . one, sso, it must be true. „
THOSE ' KINEMACOLOR movies
' :_; ■ are valuable ■riots; of color.V
• THEY EVEN HAVE "Scarlet Let
,,-V.r '■..;:ters." 1. " /- . r" :
NEW * YORK i HAS a new dance
' ■' ;"-.;-;.now,- called ;, the "Porn-Porn." ;.
SOUNDS LIKE : it originated on
,'• • • ■'■.-'; the £% Comanche <:>'■• reservation
-..', "'-i/r somewhere, but they' say i Lon
; don Is guilty. :>r/?
" BANDIT MAY
BE DEAD
! BINOHAM, Utah. Dec. • 26. —
Sheriff Smith today said he would
- . open the Utah-Ai>ex mine on Jan
' vary 1 to look again for the body
V, 'r.i Of »■ Ralph I Loi)cz, v murderer, who
- 'I*:' refused : to surrender and who has
, , been j sealed up In ; the *. work
**£&§ for nearly fa^. month. g? He said'! he
i^s^wa*: confident \ Lopez • had not "os
■""•?'? caped ; and felt ' sure -he was starv
-'j*Z\;ing to death. 'S^'i*"^-...,t" ■ V-•
Snow in East
>M 0 BTVt? LOUIS, Dec. 26. —Heavy
i^X snowstorm?sweiitss Missouri and ■
I .■> Illinois Christmas day.
STORM DOES DAMAGE
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—A se
;ore storm which caused ; damage
estimated at more than a minion
Cellars rVndwed g homeless >» at
"Kiddo," said the tempter after a month of this, less"—but you have to get the Times tomorrow to f^TP
V\ "I'm getting tired of this bein' a good fellow for read the complete story—a complete love story of
I nothin'. All my roll has gone on you, and what do I the city by Berton Bra Cay known to you as one of the
I get out of it? A few kisses and a hug or two and most prolific and clever verse writers in the coun
I the chance to stick around with you for a few hours try today. It's a great story and you ought to read
hh now and then. It ain't enough. I'm through, un- it In the Times tomorrow. m m
For Tacoma and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Saturday.
The Tacoma Times
30c A I THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IK TACOMA I HOME I
, MONTH VOL. XI. NO. 5 TACOMA. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26. WVX EDITION I
FATHER'S CHRISTMAS GIFT TO MOTHER—A DAVENPORT
MBS. HAZZARD
OFF TO PRISON
SEATTLE, Dec. 26— Dr. Llnd i l
Burfield Hez/.ard, the fasting
specialist, is leaving Seattle for
the Walla Waiia penitentiary
without a guard at 3:30 o'clock
this afternoon to commence hei
sentence of from two to 20 years.
She will be accompanied to the
gates of the prison by her friends,
Miss Marion Dunbar and Mrs.
TRAGEOIES OF
CHRISTMAS DAY
HAVANA—Negro voodoo doc
tors killed 6-year-old Eugenia
Hermandez, a white girl trying to
draw blood from her to heal a
sick patient.
BUFFALO—Wabas^ railway
engine blew up, killing John
Thorpe and Gustave Spang.
NEW YORK —Attorney George
F. Parker, connected with Alton
B. Parker's law office, but not re
lated, asphyxiated himself.
INDIANAPOLIS—With a 12
--year-old daughter looking on
James T. Karney shot and killed
his wife and himself.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S LOAFING PLACE
DURING THE HOLIDAYS
DAILY. VACATION 't PROGRAM I
-LAID OUT FOR PRES.'WILSON
!;■•,Will get up at 17j o'clock, 1 slip
Into a ' bathing ; suit fand i ran 1 out
to t the ' 200-foot - pier—Splank! ■>■?
Z? THE • WATER'S] FINE! 3v-^^o
A After *a '■ rubdown, will' dress
lor breakfast.::at;B:Bo. apS !^l'J.'SS^
Ten o'clock, golf ,on the ■ 'oun
[ try . club; links, two squares away.
*5%4 it**!-?-?.? •^*KiS-K I«*v-i»yr.?*:^*a;.*f1 «*v-i»yr.?*:^*a;.*f
least 11 801 families along ( the i Jer
sey coast last \ night. , The storm
struck SNe wj.York I today, menac
ing i shipping and «S causing j great
damage.
Mary Edwards. "I will be the
first woman In the world, so I am
told,' said Mrs. Hazzard today,
"to go to prison unguarded."
TODAY'S CLEARINGS.
Clearings $487,279.1 G
Balances 49,326.97
Transactions 982,130.40
BOONVILLE, Mo. — Fireman
Dan Johnson was killed and sev
eral passengers injured when a
Missouri Pacific passenger bump
ed into a freight
IDABEL, Okia. —Because Of
ficer George W. Bratcher did not
arrest Christmas celebraters who
were making a noise near the
home of a negro the negro shot
him and then ran.
MEMPHIS—Mrs. Fisher Har
well, wife of a prominent busi
ness man, took her three daugh
ters to visit a cousin, then went
home and shot herself.
A view of the "Winter Whit
! below, the sailboat "Gypsy" and t
which President Wilson will fish
One o'clock, a luncheon.
Two to four-thirty—/.-/,-Z-Z-Z!
Six o'clock, dinner — candied
yams, Creole gumbo, chicken—
and black coffee.
Seven-thirty to 9, reading be
fore a big log fire.
Hat her strenuous day!
FACTS ABOUT THK "WINTER
WIIITi: HOUSE"
The Herndon residence faces
the Gulf of Mexico and is swept
by refreshing, Invigorating
FEARS REBEL ATTACK
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 26. —
News of a massacre by Zapatistas
south of here created almost a
nanlc In Mexico. City today. The
Zapatistas are hourly Atpected to
attack the capital. Their mer
clleseness elsewhere is taken as
an illustration of how they may
soon be behaving here. Fight
ing is reported in the atat«« of
JEFF DAVIS, KING
OF THE "HOBOES"
HERE IN TACOMA
O. Jeff Davis, tlie "Hobo King."
is here.
Itcfore he gets away he expects
to linve t'"' hoboes of Tacoma or
ganized will, a i common interest
and a program to better their con*
dition. . ■
Jeff Davis is president of the
international hobo union. He hah
"lilt the road" from Atlantic to
Pacific and around the world.
He works when he can and isn't
busy organizing other hoboes. Me
carries a union laundrymen's
card. He will speak tonight ,T«j
Tucoma.
"We are trying to educate the
people to the fact that the hobo
Is simiily a man out of a job.
He lost Ills job and started' out
to find another. We are trying
to get the liobo to stay in the city.
The custom of shifting him on
forever: from city to city gives
him no chance and is what finally
produces tramps. The hobo ie
not a tramp. He wants work.
The bum is not a hobo, he wants
booze. All the hobo wants is a
job and a chance to make good.'
Davis has been in Seattle sev
eral days. They have a hobo
union of 1,000 members there to-
c House" at Pass Christian, and,
he motorboat "Sterling," from.
In the Gulf of Mexico.
breezes from the warm Mediter
ranean of America day and night.
The Herndon place hag 24 rooms,
5 baths, old-fashioned log fire
places, colonial stairways, real
old-time furniture—ln short. It's
a typical plantation house of
"befo' the war."
The place is owned by Mrs. J*
M. Ayres of Chicago and New
Jersey; was once the home »f
General Harney, and was- bulb
before the war by George Jouii
a wealthy New Orleans banker,
long ago dead.
Vera Cru«;l San t Louis s.?i P.otosl, .
Slnaloa, Coahuila and Jalisoo. I;N ,
GIVES HUGE GIFT j
vyS HELENA;'!'; Mont.f|p«o7f« •/T^. .
Thomas Cruse.lncrcste4.nl* 930,
--000 gift to the new Cathoite ctith-S
edral here to $180,00*) jref»tef6*y.
j f*^ r JEFF DAVIS.
■• V*..^- i „■-'■- -\ * . • ■•• ■'■■ i
day. t The union is . co-operating
with the city authorities and em
ployers. . Work is ' given the men
as wist as possible and they are
befng fed while jobless. ". v
{/■ "We want to stop the hobo
; from t traveling. . We have sent
home-i>oo boys ■ that run away
sir.i,' the first of the year. We
got '20-0 men who had been dis
charged for trivial things back to
their employers. We have taken .
■1,00.0- iii.n out of jail who had '
done nothing but been jobless,' '
said Davis.. _ ■' '
■ The" big propaganda of the i
hobo .';'ls"v to wipe out — vagrancy
ja^V~V-*-';^ ---■-"•-.■„..:-•, i
. *'There are 70,000 men in jails
<n this country just because they i
l.aid, no . job," Bald Davis, "and <
VHen we wipe out ' the last vag ■
taws' we arc going to have a big
celebration over the. new emanci
pation '- 'proclamation for . white
GIRL BUN DOWN,
MITOIST Mil
J..SAN ? FRANCISCO, Dec. ? 26.—
Chlef» Engineer Jl. G. Casaelli fol
the Viavi company was arrested
toflay charged with | running I ovei
ear-old | Carniela ] Sara with lar
automobile "1 as t;; •. evening. %* Th«
little • girl was. crossing , the Btreel
wUli Virginia and Albert Bottag
liqi, aged •, 7}. and 4, her playmates,
at the time or , the accident. All
.were struck ■ by the ' machine, , but
Carmela was the only one serious
lyi hurt. She will probably die.
$URF DOES
BIG DAMAGE
VENJCK, Cal., Dec. 26. — A
k ainous: surf * washed M awaj
p •cticallythe, entire "old bulk
: h »a' ;^ on 4 the 1 front fig today, am
tii xnaged f a * portion f of | the ig new
bf Uchead M under ,g| construction
yen summer homes on ' the front
aije j being undermined \by tides
It|«eotned ■ : oertain , they ?-: were
doomed. Fire department with a
ladder •, apparatus sls laboring |tr
reinforce the bulkhead*. Scores
of citizens S were f:i pressed \ lntc
work.': Old \ residents ,i] estimated
the. f damage already done at mor«
than fl 50.000.
"MAC" HAS GIFT.
:. A i beautiful upholstered i letith
•r ana; chair i delivered to tb«
I home iof County i Clerk >R. E. Me
Farliind Chri»tm«* vm, ttte S glf
of efliplojo. In Ml of Ho*.
WHO KILLED
THIS BOY?
Albert Fedder.son, Who Was Struck Down
By Auto Christmas Eve, Died in St.
Joseph's Hospital Thursday Afternoon
Police Investigate The Mystery
Who is the automobile driver who
ran down and killed little Albert
Fedderson, aged 12, while he was
hauling a Christmas tree home on
Christmas eve?
Theodore Eggers, jr., 3740 Tacoma
avenue, was driving up South C street
Christmas eve with his brother-in
law, after delivering some Christmas
presents, when his automobile crash
ed into a small coaster wagon. There
was a large Christmas tree on the
wagon. Eggers stopped and found
the body of a child, unconscious, in
bhe gutter 40 feet away.
The child was hurriedly bundled
into the automobile and taken to St.
Joseph's hospital. Young Eggers
bold the nurse that he had run down
bhe boy. He gave Dr. Edwin Janes
the same statement. Then the child
regained consciousness for a mo
ment and gave his name, and
when the father arrived, Eggers
told him, also, that be was re
sponsible for the accident.
The child, In his brief moment
|of consciousness, declared .' that
an automobile had driven toward
him from behind ' and run him
down. '-■ '„,"•■'.* '■;■".".'' ' "■'■ '\
' Boven little' boys and girls,
children of, Mr. and Mm. K. A.
Fedderson,- 4184 South I street,
waited C'lii-intmas eve for their
brother, Alliei-t, to ■ bring :: home
the. Christinas tree. .. — ■ ,'
. % Albert had' gone to ■ Ms father's
bakery, in the. public market and
was bringing home the Christ
tree ou his big coaster wagon.
'-' Time passed,' and Albert * did
not appear. • At last the telephone
raiiK- It was the voice of a
grief-stricken, crying > man that
spoke a few hesitating words over
the phone. And the happy scene
instiuifly • changed to one of sor-
WHITE WAY IS
A SURE THING
The city council this morning
finally passed the ordinance for
the "White Way" lighting dis
trict on A, C and Commerce
streets and Pacific avenue. Cal
vin Phillips, Ed Watklns, Cap
tain Kirby and one or two others
were up to make a last stand
against the district but the coun
cil turned them down. City Elec-1
HE HAS NOT
EXPLAINED YET
Lawson has not yet brought in
he ordinance asked for by the
ouncii to put a stop to his plan
f putting in street lights just
/here it suits his convenience
. lthout regard to the necessities
a the case or the Justice of the
letltion.
The mayor asked Electrician
tolling this morning if he could
lot get an ordinance in and Col-
JAPAN IS PRO-MEXICAN
, TOKIO. Dec. 26. —Whether or
not It was with a view to a Mex
ican-Japanese alliance that Senoii
De La Barra, Mexican Minister to
France, came to Tonio, there ie
no question of the pro-Mexican
72 BODIES CLAIMED
CALUMET, Dec. 26—Relative?
today claimed the bodies of 72
victims of the Christmas ere
panic. - Most of the corpses were
those of children. Three uniden-
GIVE BREAD TO POOR
v- MEXICO ; CJTY, Dec. B«.—By
President Huerts's order free
bread was d Ist rlbiited ~[ amoßg , tta'e
l>oor today. An j* < resMlt *of busi
, aass j disorganization 1 the i aumbai
IN SATURDAY'S! 11
TIMES-READ IT 111
WE HAVE THE
BEST FEATURES
BEST PICTURES
.WJIKKT KKIH'KHfON.
■ . m •
row.
- Albert had been Rtrurk clown
by a big, powerful automobile
•nd was dying al the St. Joseph's
hospital. ► . .
■ Eggers hurried - home and
broutcht hif) iiihllkt and father to
the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. K«
gen» wept and showed real sym
pathy - for tl>e child and the- sor
rowing father. ■ '. :'/■■'.: :. '■' ~:,~>-*~J'- '•'
- Today young Eggers declared
that.'he had not run down the
boy. He said ' that 'he had run
Into a wagon, left in the middle
of the street, and that lie found
the: • boy, . covered .V with . dried
blood, lying •in the gutter.'. ::■ ■
'.- Dr. Janes, who attended to the
lad within ten 'minutes after he
waß • picked up by ; Kggers, said
positively today that the boy had
been' hurt immediately before
he was brought to the hospital—
within five or . ten minutes. '"■
' The boy had been struck" a ter
rible blow, hurled nearly. 60 feet
triclan Collins, however, cut Law
son's estimate of last week from
M 7.000 to $35,123.66, which is
the limit above which the city
cannot go in putting in the work.
A petition from property own
ers on Jefferson wanted Jefferson
from Pacific to C also included.
The council voted to make a new
district and put Jefferson in from
'acific to Yakima.
line said he could by Wednesday.
Despite the* denial of Law son
that he had put In lights where
not ordered by the council other
instances besides those already
mentioned in the Times are show-
Ing up.
To investigate where lights are
needed the' council will take a
right junket New Year's night to
look the city over.
sentiment of the rank and file ot
the Japanese nation. A crowc
constantly surrounds the Mexican
■legation where the envoy Is stay
ing, and greets him with enthus
iastic "banzala" whenever be
shows himself.
tifled bodies remained at the
morgue. The funerals will be
hold Sunday under direction of
the Western Federation of Min
ers.
of unemployed runs high Into the
thoueaads. » Many have but .no
work for months. The working
people are literally starring. A
■X£l3£&li!
"z.'Sm^./S'Ssb:
• ■ '■'"■.. ' -■■ .:.'■ '',,:' '<;■-'..: '—■;■■ "■- •-.>*»<
across the street, and suffered ' A
severe fracture of the base of the
skull, from which recovery waa
impoßSlble. ■: r> • ,<V *.' „';
"i' Coroner A»hton investigating
tin- case lii<lay. Captain of Oete'c*
tlve« '■'■ Jolin'. Kitzgcnild O •lotalltMf'
hki'hl 1 iim'ii 5. to the*i came, am)
«very rlue in lM<ing run down vig>
oroiwly.
WILSOOrHIS
IIIIRIH
TODM 1
PASS CHRISTIAN, Dec 26. H
President. Wilson J planned r today,
and ? tomorrow for a ' complete! re- *
luxation or official 'i;{ care*. No
business except that of j the noit:
pressing nature will, be attended
to. n rAfter a late . break : a fewi
urgent telegrams from Washing-;
,toQ"jifejej > °anßTered.r^Thea')^ltli«l
prasident rushed to the golf links
at East Oulf Port for a game with'
l>r. Orayson. If Qrayson < han his
way - the ■■ president will • Bleep 11
hours | a day here " add ; devote: as
much time as possible to outdoor
recreation.:-----'---~-^^-i-«*^^
hol¥s
iiNOiii
did the deed
3i; CALUMET, Mich., Dec 2«. -•
Though denied here It la said
that a member of the Citlxeu's
Alliance gave the Mtatail"alan^
which resulted in a panic end
•lng^thelllvesfeofi§f7«|p«r»on|| ;
Christmas * eve. r;- President 1 Moyer
of the Western ? Federation w of '
Miners did assert > today i tbat fiv«;
witnesses were prepared,to swear
. that •■■■ the man wore | an" Alliance'
badge Final '£ preparations f, irmi)
being made ; today to bury the 72
dead. The supply of coffins 11»'
exhausted *; and j more S haVe\h*Ki|
ordered £ from S| Milwaukee. De
spite the fact that outside aid has
been % declined * con trlbutlons - ant
pouring in. Moyer: received $3d.«;
000 '; up to ■. today.B-Thf police tMm
mitted a today | that, theyj?. bad no>,
hope of finding tlie moa i M|mO)
ble for the tragedy. i^.^*j^
MONTICEL.U), N. T., Doc.
Miss 'Adelaide Brasch,' fmramoa*
of District Attorser .ftUMvte Csncfc
In whom 4effects- wu f»e|fe«
picture, raceiTMt j Ttii pho.tD<prst
f roai hl«, wife reetoriw.
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TS^rot^o^^i^ffl^^
-Vaneinent tor « place t*sW\i