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[ MONTH I VOL. XL NO. t> TACOMA. WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27. I<n.T EDITION I I —-
MINE WORKERS' PRESIDENT IS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS
jf b(TTLJ¥7*B'
lIKETHREN. LET US get ready
for New Year.
NOT GETTING MUCH snow are
. we?
t»NO, WE are not.
W. F. HALFPENNY informs us
that he had a happy Christ
[■":_■ mas.
111. DAY BEFORE he ate a
duck.
. CHRISTMAS HE had a large fat
goose. . . . ■
AT NIGHT HE went to bed and
.. went to sleep.
I SUDDENLY HE WOKE up and
heard a queer noise.
VKKY BRAVELY, he sneaked
down stairs and opened the
door, - -
A MG MASKED MAN Jumped in
and stuck a heavy gun in his
. face.
HANG! WENT the firearm.
AND THEN HE woke up.
IT WAS 'WORSE than a dream
; of the rarebit fiend.
WE ARE INFORMED that a
Christmas tree was lighted by
■ . wireless last night.
THIS MATTER IS referred to
;. our wireless expert.
. JOHNNY MEADS says after he
gets through being city con
troller he is going to take up
< another important position.
HE THINKS HE'LL be the man
-to put "sense" in census.
WE HAVE JUST READ the ar
count of an industrious burg
lar who bored through foul
brick walls only to get five
bottles of champagne.
EVEN SO, THAT is cheaper than
buying It.
JAKE STOVER, who is a subur
banite, considers himself some
. thing of an amateur plumber.
THE OTHER DAY he decided to
connect a tank on the roof with
• a bathtub.
SO HE PUT in pipe and wiped
joints, and covered himself
with lard oil, and had a gen
:l ■-.-■ eral good time.
FINALLY HE finished the Job
and decided to take a bath.
SO HE WENT IN and turned on
■-.. the water. \ J,- -
BUT THE BATHTUB remained
. as. dry as a modern society
i- . novel. , ' ■.■■■■-. \>
WHILE AN OLD chandelier in
• the parlor began spraying like
a: fountain. ,
THE ALIENISTS SAY: He Is
--■-■crazy.;,: ;':--..■;•;.■"-'*, .'V^,'. l
I MOST - PEOPLE SAY: If any
body is crazy it is the alienists.
' A PROMINENT TAOOMA society
': woman was much shocked -the
. .;;■ other day. .' .; '
I HER LITTLE DAUGHTER came
:S in , with her face covered with
4)-» small strips of court plaster,
even to her ears. - -
•^ "I SAW YOU only wore a couple
$U&«f little black pieces, mamma,'!
1 ass she explained, "so 1 I thought I
\.;-; would , show -; the • neighbors we
were not stingy." - j-;./.
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;j. r NEW YORK, ,* Dec. 'y% 27.—Pour
B lllenlita say > Hang Schmidt in Just
'/ l■' good actor ' and : Is shamming In
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BRIGHTER
; .'■ grows the out- • '-,
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I' woman or,child #
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t woman or child
who knows the
value of a Sav
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TACOMA. WASH.
JURY PROBING
BOY'S DEATH
A coroner's jury of six men is
today investigating every detail of
the brutal killing of Albert Fed
derson, 12-year-old boy who was
run down by an automobile
Christmas eve at 33rd and G
streets. Coroner Ashton, acting
on hit? own authority, without as
sistance from the prosecuting at
torney's office, took the investi
gation In hand this morning, pil
oting the Jury to the scene of the
accident aud then to the morgue
where the tiny victim of the mur
derous automobile lies awaiting
funeral arrangements. The Jury
Is composed of A. B. Stevens, A.
M. Charters, W. C. Gunn, A. Q.
Owens. Charles Sherman and
Oscar B. Ely.
Through the neglect of Coroner
Ashton to advise anyone concern
ing his plans, witnesses in the in
quest wandered about the court
house all morning, waiting to tes
tify, and it was not until noon
DARING THEFT
IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. —With
four alleged members of one of
the boldest roitDer gangs with
which the police have ever had
to deal, In Jail, the New York po
lice were today on trail of the
leader of the gang who engineer
ed about the strangest, most dar
ing robbery in criminal annals.
The loot was nothing less than a
big river tug and a barge with
ten loaded freight cars aboard,
COLOR HAIR FOR SUITS
PARIS, Dec. 27.—The new
fashion adopted by certain wom
en of wearing colored wigs to
match theii complexions and
gowns new Is imitated by a few
Parisian beaux, who plaster their
own hair with colored pastes.
DIDN'T STAND UP: YEAR
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27.—
A Russian newspaper man named
Brushkovsky, who is an amateur
detective and who worked up the
case against Mendel Belllss, wm
STORK EXPECTED SOON
BERLIN, Dec. 27. —The j Dnch
ees of | Brunswick, the M kalcer's j
•uly daughter, who was .. married
last May, expects a happy event
KILLED DAD
PORTLAND, M*. Bee »7. —
Tw*lve-y % £*oa g Row*> »hot
-«m'-klll«« i hit father when |ha at
tempttd*to chok« his mother to ,
Italia.
OH, YES; PA KNOWS!
that it became known that the
jury was already acting on the
case.
Evidence was to be introduced
this afternoon. Dr. Janes was
prepared to testify that the boy
had been run down within ten
minutes before the time he wan
taken to the hospital. Dr. Plynn,
who also attended the boy, was
ready to testify that he had driv
en his machine twice past the
scene of the accident, within fif
teen minutes of the time that the
boy wan taken by Eggers to the
hospital. There was no evidence
of an accident when he first pass
ed, he said today, but when he
returned he ran into the Christ
mas tree that Albert was hauling
home when struck by the ma
chine. Dr. Plynn got out of his
machine and found the abandon
ed tree and little coaster wagon.
He pulled them to the side of the
street, out of the way of traffic.
stolen from the East river.
The robbery was discovered
yesterday when the barge, with
its ten cars were found adrift.
The cars had been looted of val
uable merchandise. At the same
time the tug "James Bradley"
was found awash with her sea
cocks open. Watchmen saw five
men board the tug in Hoboken
Cbrlßtmas eve. The four men ar
rested were overheard discussing
the robbery.
notably blue and violet. The
stuff is applied with a brash, the
color being chosen according to
the suit worn or the hour of day.
Dark blue for evening and lighter
colors for the morninß promen
ade or for an afternoon on the
bulevards are in fashion.
sentenced today to imprisonment
of one year In the fortress for
keeping his seat when the nation
al anthem waa being played re
cently.
in the spring. The kaiserin is
going to Brunswick at the end
of February to be with her
daughter.
WEUi KNOWN FINAHCIAIAY
NEW TORK, Dee. 27.—Chas.
E. Appleby, 00, is dead. He waa
Unknown to New Yorkers, but
own»d 125,000,000 in Manhattan
realty.
WOULD STEAL
GIRLS FROM
RESCUE HOME
LOB ANGELES, Dec. —Said
to have feigned repentance to
gain admittance to the Hillcrest
Kescne Home to prey upon fallen
girls who were determined, to
lead honest lives, Edith VlckiTj,
age ' Hi, an alleged ; procuress,
former.: mbtress of dlsrnptable
housi'M, occupied a cell in the
county. Jail today pending the
filing of formal charges against
her. The woman appeared three
days ago at the mission, main
tained-by the Nazarene church.,
• Following a meeting which wea
attended by . girls in the rescue
home, she sobbed out her repent
ance and begged admission to the
home |to begin life anew. : L>ate
yesterday Matron Hillbech of the
home demanded the police arrest
the woman. The matron assert
ed that three girls told her that
Mrs. Vickery ."• was , using every
means at her command to per
suade them to return to the evil
life. ;■;-,-: ;-.-,r. y^::-'
Gl ESCAPES
FROM HOSPITAL
liiii
,5" Having run away from the city
contagious | hospital, v after being
confined ; there * for : three i weeks,
Ethel ', Hamlin, " age q 2 o,'" a pretty
shop girl, was taken into t police
court today *on a charge |of j hav
ing exposed the public ■to a con
tagious i' disease. The • case ■) was
continued.' -S,;-'V.:" ~*Z"./-i" r;": -r.»V
.',:■• Miss » Hamlin ,Is said ■ \ to •■ hay*
had ■ scarlet SS fever, but I declared
today that doctors ' had | failed { to
diagnose - her aliment.. t She J ran.
away' from j the hospital, returned
to 1 her ', home •at 111 East f 6 4t%
street, i was, rearrested > and taken
back to : the ' hospital, where she
was X released 5 as : cured f two | dajrs
later. The girl says that Bhe did
not expose herself and did not go
to . a dance on the night of • her
escape, as has been declared. She
was i arrested on a:. warrant ! sworn
out %by City Quarantine * Officer
Joseph Gorman.
THIEVES STEAL
COUNTY TUBKE*I
Thieves stole 75 1 fat chicken*
from the county poor, farm Chrlst«
mas, eve, carried "them aafely , off
to a hiding place, and then went
back for the j turkeys. They w»«»
dlf covered »by j Supt. Perry I Sum
mer fiel ; \ who gave \ ch»ae. 1;f .Th«
thieves dropped the turkeys aa#
escaped.
STONE-WEBSTER OWNERSHIP
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OR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
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CHOOSE!^
Municipal ownership vs. Stone-Webster. next year than will be added by the tideflat car
Service for the people vs. profits for Boston. line.
Development for Tacoma vs. a policy of "no The whole fabric of argument against the
piii?if eri ng\.' . municipal car line is woven out of suggestions
The street railway situation is up to the voters furnished from the office of Stone-Webster,
of Tacoma next Tuesday. it was Manager Bean who first shouted that
A vote for the $87,000 bonds for the tideflat the line would not pay.
car line will mean a municipal line. It will mean It was Stone-Webster's trump card to play to
service that will develop the tideflats. It will scare the people away from municipal owner
give the city an entering wedge for municipal ship.
ownership. It will furnish a club for the city tc It was Manager Bean who suggested that the
compel Stone-Webster to give service on the company would not give transfers,
rest of the city lines. It will be a standing men- But the company said it would not give five
ace to the Boston syndicate that will compel cent fare to Fern Hill. The city with the proper
*« m &?°5 men at the city hall can have Stone Webster
Stone-Webster refuses persistently to help begging to be allowed to exchange transfers with
develop Tacoma. They refuse to build the tide- the municipal line in 60 days' time,
flat line to develop industrial life in Tacoma. THE THING STONE-WEBSTER FEARS
Refuse to build the Sixth avenue line to bring IS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The Boston
in the island trade, and shorten the boat trip an syndicate doesn't want the people to have an ob
hour to Olympia. Refuse to extend on Pacific ject lesson of real street railway service in Ta
avenue to give workingmen a chance for good coma. It did not want the city to build a munic
homes close in. Refuse to do any "pioneering" ipal power plant The private dock owners did
in Tacoma to help the city or her people. The not want the city to have a municipal dock and
company is managed by Jacob Furth influence they brought up loads of figures to prove it
,at Seattle, and Tacoma will have to work out her would bankrupt the city.
own street railway salvation. INSTEAD IT IS MAKING NEARLY $1006
the company did build on the flat* it would A MONTH PROFIT FOR THE CITY.
be the same old story of poor servioe. They have The power plant is earning over $100,000 a
a line there now that would serve a large portion year profits for the city and rates for light, heat
of the flats if operated for service, but it is not and power have been reduced to the lowest in
and the men walk. the country.
It is simply up to Tacoma to do business for San Francisco cleared over $80,000 the first
herself as she did on the Nisqually power plant year on her municipal street railway line. Cleve
and the municipal dock. land has three cent fare. Seattle is showing the
The same forces that fought the power plant Stone-Webster company it can make big profits
and municipal dock are fighting against the there at four cent fare. A MUNICIPAL UNE
bonds next Tuesday. They want to prevent the IN TACOMA MIGHT DEMONSTRATE THAT
, people doing anything for themselves that the A THREE OR FOUR CENT FARE MIGHT
special interests can do and make a profit out of BE POSSIBLE HERE.
X by giving poor service. NO ONE SHOULD BE BLINDED BY THE
They say the tideflat line will not pay, that JUGGLING OF FIGURES BY THE OPPON
the workingmen cannot get transfers, that the ENTS OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. WITH
bonded debt is getting big. VERY MEDIOCRE MANAGEMENT THIS
THE FACT IS THE CITY WILL BE ABLE CITY IS MAKING GOOD ON EVERY ONE
TO FORCE TRANSFERS. I OF ITS PUBLIC UTILITIES AND GIVING
AND WITH TRANSFERS THE LINE THE PEOPLE FINE SERVICE.
WILL PAY A PROFIT RATHER THAN A IT WILL MAKE GOOD ON MUNICIPAL
k r£OSS. STREET RAILWAYS.
t And the city is not within a million dollars of REMEMBER THE BOND ELECTION
.its debt limit and more bonds will be paid off TUESDAY. COME OUT AND VOTE!
CITIZENS USE GUNS TO
OUST WILLIAM MOVER
FROM STRIKE DISTRICT
/MriiWArKEE," J Wis., Dec/: 27.
-^-Suffering from two ballet hole*
in hla shoulders, ' and I one in * the
tiend, - President Moyer ■ of the
\ fentern Federation of Miners, ar
i rved here today. He.came di
mctly from the ' copper country,
it here he said he was expelled last
c ight ■ after being W shot,", frights
Itilly: beaten ift and |* subjected * to
[ rpss Indignities, at the hands,' lie
i RHerted,' of members of the 'iti
i£^';A]Uiaiiee^^^R^j:;v;£/^'
3 "Hell's about to pop in the cop
er, country," x Moyer si announced
pen his % arrival. - "The '' miners
ise>' thirsting; for revenge, but ,£, I
upe to , return In j time to prevent
lent from * doing', anything g that
ilglu injure the cause."
I Asked ' concerning J ■ the h attack
nd! his v expulsion, Moyer _< con
|jbm*d: "OrgauUer Tanner I and
1 were in our room at | the Scott
otel In Hancock. Sheriff Cmae
dnlled. He demanded that we ao
pept funds that-Uio Citizens' Alli
ance had collected for fanilllea- of
the Ohriatmas eve fire horror, vic
ttnu."
Moyer ' saM She refused, and
Cruze A9tU^m%to^mm<i§^
"Five S minutes f l»teir,"|i Moyer
continued, "the mine whistles . be
gan blow as if it waa a pre
arranged signal. Aa they. blew I a
hundred and fifty members of the
Alliance invaded our room. > We
ware ise Ued '.»n<i, tseld -^ by % Borne,
trhil» other m«i danced , in . front
«f?M,lrtrUto«iM!f«(iuentiy'sla
Finally someone stepped behind
me and shot me. I fainted when
the first bullet entered my back
and don't remember the second or
third. When 1 recovered we were
being passed from one to another
down the hotel stairs. As they
passed us along each member
struck us. Between the lines were
dancing and shouting members of
the Alliance. We passed along
this way to the railroad station.
Two deputies bought ticketti and
accompanied us on board. There
I received first aid, and my
wounds were dressed. They were
dressed again when we reached
Charming."
Moyer is on his way to a Chi
cago hospital. Tanner is badly
bruised.
Tanner asserted that the attack
on himself and Moyer waa part
of the effort by the Citizens' Alli
ance members to use the Christ
mas eve tragedy as a means to
end the strike. Their theory, he
believed, was that if Moyer and
himself were eliminated, the
HE LOST $400 WALLET
Si Martin Sverko, 4921 North
Bennett 1 street,?; Ruston, *£> lost • a
w*Uet I containiug $;. nearly;;: |400
yesterday,? either In Taeoma or
Seattle, and today, Mked the po
lice to March for It. Sverko want'
to Seattle during the day, aud bad
the wallet : la i hi* alp ; pocket. i.Th> 1
strikers would accept outside aid
and return to work.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—National
Organizer Rellly of the Western
Federation of Miners received the
following telegram from Presi
dent Moyer, dated Iron Mountain,
Michigan, last night: "Charles
H. Tanner (organizer for the
Federation) and myself were bru
tally assaulted In my room at the
Scott hotel, Hancock, tonight. I
wag shot in the back and dragged
for more than one and one-half
miles through the streets of Han
cock by the mob.
Waddell and Mabon, thugs and
members of the Citizens' Alli
ance, put us on board a Milwau
kee train and threatened death if
we dared return. , But have the
press say for me that the cause. I
represent is well worth the suf
fering I have undergone. The
cause of striking miners is Just
and they will win the strike."
Rellly expected Moyer to re
turn to Calumet today. : -'
purae contained *22 in cash, '$SBS
la poet*l «rritt«jß haul certifi
cates, and ft pay, check on th« Ta
coma smelter.
Central<depotlwsa,aMW&»4 ?,fcr
WOUNDS 13,
CORNERED, i
I7i STUTTGART. Germany. Dec. :
27."=— After i wounding 18 pmMi^B|.
ai laborer j named Kutnmerlin s\\ ' •■' -
elded today when cornered by the :f;
police, i"; Kumnierltn, whose&wlf«Jm§llri
deserted • him some \ time ago b#SS 1
cause» he drank «JiheaTlly,-safiiie«^ ',- '
himself j with ; a , knife, • and jpl»t«^^S
and lln*an r. Intoxicated \ condition j£ ,;' *
went , to ; Oberstenfeldt, ; where • Mi;WS '■':■'
wife was living. i Ha attempted to
exterminate g both S his own #W4^S . '
Mrs. Kumtnerlln'a families. Bight ?-^ '. '
of the wounded are in a serloua
condition.
AUTO KILLS ONE S
AUI 11:- siv iff^ «"'pfFff JMTOMIii
f| NEW YORK, I>«e. 27.—Mr* '- f- •
Gertrude i Lb* [.ni: killed i and t o«HSISS|
husband ! Richard B. L«e,- Jr.;- ba<«''A* •,? . \
ly Injurmi.ln an auto collision. -v,-:
IN COUBT TODAY M
L. B. MosUy, the negro who IC -i
;a*ld?tolb*Tf«i sUbbwd Wii«4% v"':l^
8. ; Okada. Janan«M Utter. la*t v
week; was arraigned la erjn . ,; ■. :
court today on » a«eos4 d««ni '/vi''-t
murder charge and <{!•> watUt '-*^^b
Tuesday to pteftd. He w«» r*w*
smted lv Alton** Ja*#JLy^
O'Brien.
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