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SEA TTLEITE DEMANDS $1,800 OF LOCAL BANK
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Food strip on page two today. 1
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GERMANY ASKS "ROUND-TABLE"
Will State
Tolerate am
Execution?
On Jan. 19, at some point in this state, a
noose will be placed about the neck of a man
—Edward Mayberry, half-breed Indian,
convicted at Spokane, of murdering his
sweetheart, on federal territory.
A trap will be sprung. There will be a
tautening of the rope—and a life will be
snuffed out—the life of a human being!
IT WILL BE DONE IN THIS STATE,
WHICH HAS DECIDED THAT CAPI
TAL PUNISHMENT IS ARCHAIC, AND
ABOLISH ED IT!
How about it? Shall Mayberry hang?
This isn't a question of the man's guilt or
innocence. A jury of seemingly competent
men decided lie was guilty. Let it go at
that!
But it IS a question of whether the people
of this state, once having decided that capi
tal punishment belonged to the dark ages
and having wiped it from the slate, will
countenance it again.
A widespread appeal is being sounded to
President Wilton for clemency. One of
those who has become interested in the case
is Qov. Lister.
Each of you can do your share by writing
a personal letter direct to the president, just
as the governor did.
If this is done throughout the state, as it
bids fair to be done, a mighty voice of pro
test will ring back to Washington —a pro
test which it will be difficult to ignore! Will
you write?
AUTO SALESMAN SAVES
MAGNATE FROM HOLDUP
Riding to the Bank of Cali
fornia Tuesday morning ln a
In aml new Hudson Huper-Hix
which lie had just promised
to buy, Harry J. Mullins, 2ft,
a Heattle house-moving con
tractor, approached Assistant
Manager U. 11. Kuleigh and
demanded «1,800 in cash.
Ten minute* later Mullins
was In a cell at police head
quarters, explaining that he
did not have any money In
tho Taeoma bank, but tliat he
simply had to have a car nnd
lie thought the bank would lie
good enough to let him have
the change.
Police say that Mullins Is tem
porarily unbalanced. Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Dickman, 1311 South
Bth street, with whom the contrac
tor has been spending the holi
days, say that he is simply nerv
ous.
"However, he didn't say any
thing about buying a car when he
left home this morning," said
GOOD
FOREVER
The business career
of the individual is
of short duration. The
life and activity of Hie
trust company go on
forever.
P^geti Sound flank
I s Trust Camay
Dickman at police headquarters.
"We thought he was on his way
to Seattle."
Mullins visited the Pacific Car
Co.'a offices early Tuesday, se
lected a Hudson, and asked Sales
man Howard Steer to drive him to
a bank.
"I'll have the money in a Jiffy,
and then I'll drive my new car to
Seattle," Mullins told the sales
man.
It happened that Charles Kirk
bride, salesman for the Little &
Kennedy Automobile company,
saw the prosjiectlve purchaser ln
Steer's car and decided to follow
along, in the hope that he might
have an opportunity to interest
Mullins In Studebakers.
At tho Bank of California Klrk
bride followed Mullins Inside.
"I want $1,800 in cash, and
I'm in a hurry," Kirkbride heard)
Mullins tell Asst. Mgr. Raleigh.
"I haven't any check, but 1 want
to buy that car out there, and I
need the inony right away."
Kirkbride turned and fled.
Jumping into his car ho speed
ed to police headquarters, where
he picked up two officers and re
turned to the bank in time to
catch Mullins as he was leaving.
Italeigh thought Mullins
was holding up the bank, and
turned pale as lie tried to
argue the man out of his Hl,
--80(1 Idea.
"Hay, I guess you're scared
of men," Mullins said, and he
made a threatening move to
wards his hip pocket.
At that moment Ihe police
men arrived.
Mullins had seven rents in
his pockets.
RERE IS MEANEST
REMARK YET MADE
ON BILLY SUNDAY
(United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK. Dec. 26.—Dr. Ap
pleton Morgan, Shakespearean
scholar and author, has weighed
the "movie" against Billy Sunday
and "the movies" win.
Dr. Morgan Is heartily in favor
of Sunday picture shows, but he
wants "such sacreleglous per
formances" as Billy Sunday's
confined to week days "that the
Sabbath may be kept holy."
The Tacoma Times
25c A MONTH.
TAtwTA. WARHTNOTON. TTTERDAY. DKCKMBFJR 26. 1916.
SMALL MAYBERRY DEE?
MUST DIE ON THE I
GALLOWS UNLESS
PRESIDENT ACTS!
KI'OKAXE, l>er. ao.—What are tho Christmas thought!, of a
until doomed lo die?
Xewspa|>ers have printed numerous letters from the trenches
written by soldier* faring certain death, and tliey were touching
missives. Hut they were written under the stress of keen evrite-
nieiit—with a roar nnd rush and IIIMAN COMPANIONSHIP all
.ill,mi to nerve the writers (o the routing awfulness.
But what of the man who sits alone, MM'KKI) IX A < 01.0,
DARK CELL OF HEEL, COUNTING THK DAYS, THK HOI ItS
AJfD MIXITKH—I.ooKIXO FORWARD To THK MOMENT WHEN
A THAI' WIMi BE SPRUNG AXl> UK WILL BK VANNED TO
ETERNITY?
I tnlked to one of Ihe latter, in his lonely cell here—Kdwiird
Maylierry, htilfhreed Indian, eonvieted by v federal jury recently of
murdering' his sweetheart, Alice Vivian, ou the Colville reservation,
lust August.
He has been sentenced to hung .Inn. 19, in Washington, A
ST.VTK WHOSE LAWS KOKKID HANGING 1
The killing was on government territory; hence tho federal
mode of punishment is to fall on Maylierry, unless the agitation
which bus started in nil parts of this state lo prevail on President
Wilson to commute his sentence to life imprisonment Is successful.
KHWAKU MAVBICHKV
Aged Couple
Die Together
f I niietl Press Leased Wire.)
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec. 20.
—Together, even in death, Mr.
and Mrs. John Lavelle, who cele
brated their golden wedding a few
years ago, will tomorrow go side
by side to their graves.
Thelr's was a happy Christmas,
for it was decreed that their oft
mentioned wish that both should
die together should be granted.
Both were taken sick the same
day at their ranch.
Wool 13 Inches long has been
shorn from a Merino sheep lost
for four years in the wilds of Aus
tralia.
Christmas Travelers
End Day in Talk Fest
By Mabel Abbott
The Seattle-Tacoma boat was
crowded Christmas night.
Holiday travel is different from
the travel of other days, say those
who handle it.
"No strangers," commented the
gray-haired little "Travelers' Aid"
woman at the municipal dock.
"Everybody knows where he's
going."
Like a great, lumbering firefly,
the boat churned and pounded
through the darkness.
The night was cold and quiet
and starry outside; but the long
cabin was warm with the heat of
many bodies, and noisy with the
rattle of the player-piano.
The hard brilliance of the elec
tric light shone on faces tired,
but with a different tiredness
from that of every-day.
Families had been spending
Christmas Day together, the home
less or those who were far from
home had been guests in the
homes of others; "children" al
ready gray-haired and with chil
dren of their own had stepped
back Into old memories for a day.
Just ahead the routine of lite
was calling them back; just be
hind lay Christmas. The trip
was a pause between.
Men and women sat crumpled
ln their chairs; children slept or
fretted or pulled new toys up and
down the aisles. Bodies were re
laxed, minds wandered whither
they would, and tongues were
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA.
BY L. D. ANGEVINE
Christmas chimes were pealing
over the city, and church choirs
were caroling the glad tidings of
Christmas when the jail door
clanked shut behind me, and I was
ushered through a dark corridor
to the solitary cell where Mayber
ry ls awaiting death.
Mayberry stood ttp and greeted
me in a voice well modulated, and
with the characteristic slowness
(Continued on Page Five.)
MEMORY
LOST BY
TACOMAN
Recovering consciousness at
the Tacoma General hospital at 11
o'clock Tuesday, Fred Burwell, a
collector for A. M. Anderson &
Co., who was found lying beside
his wrecked auto on the Taconia-
Seattle road early in the morning,
had no remembrance of anything
that happened before his acci
dent.
Burwell received a sharp blow
on the head when his car was
wrecked. Whether his aphasia!
will be permanent, or he will
later regain a memory of past
events, is a matter of conjecture.
Robert McCormick of Seattle
was on his way home from Taco-
ma when he found Burwell and
the wrecked car, in a ditch.
There was nothing to Indicate
whether Fhe machine had beenj
struck by another.
loosened.
And these are some of the
things they were talking of:
" —they gave him a turkey and
he had already bought one —"
" —Don't break my doll. Dad
dy!"
" —(the screw) "Throb, throb,
throb, throb, —"
" —right after the first of the
year we're going to install a new
system—"
" —Mother always used to have
sweet briar ln the front yard—"
"-—(the automatic piano) "Oh,
how she could Yackl hacki wifki
wacki woo!"
" —(tired baby) Wah, wah,
wah, wa-a-a-ah!"
" —and the oil stove smoked
and I've got to shovel three-quar
ters of an inch of soot off the
floor—"
" —we got a machine and took
out four dollars worth of Christ
mas to the kid— ■"
" —(the screw) Throb, throb,
throb, throb—" (
" —l'm sleepy—"
" —you can't only have Just so
much of the stuff ln your posses
sion now—"
" —(tired baby) Wah, wah,
wah!"
" —(automatic piano) "Just a
word of sympathy!"
" —(the screw.) Throb, throb,
throb, throb, —"
" —they Just launched a boat —"
" —Gee, this ls going to be some
■ town!"
Burbank Weds Secretary
Luther Burbank and his bride,"ho was liX secretary.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2C. —
Luther Burbank, famous plant
wizard of California. Is celebrat
ing the Christmas holidays with
his bride, alter a^ quiet wedding
here the other day when Miss
Elizabeth Waters, his secretary,
Talk o' the Times
Greetings, how's your ap
petite.
The only trouble with the com
munity singing at the municipal
tree last night wa^s that the com
munity didn't know the words.
In reply to the reader vtho
postcards in the question
how to take raindrops out of
—a plush coat, we would ad
vise: Strain it.
In the dim and distant past:
Lorenzo Dow was a stenogra
pher in a newspaper office.
Police Judge Evans was a
school teacher.
The Donnelly was the unoffi
cial state capltol.
WINDMILL MUST
HAVE ITS WATER
Attorney A. R. Titlow's argu
ment for the defense ln the famous
Pacific county "night rider" case
was punctured by several tripe to
the water-pitcher.
"Gentlemen, a windmill can't
run long without water," he ob
served frankly to the jury on one
of these occasions.
FIREMAN ACTUALLY
EATS WITH FAMILY
For the first Christmas in 11
years, Arthur Ludden, who drives
the big automobile fire engine at
South Tacoma station, sat down
to dinner with his family yester
day. **
It has happened that Ludden's
"off day" has never come on
Christmas before during all that
time.
"And believe me, It seemed
good to spend a holiday at home,"
said the veteran fireman.
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became Mrs. Burbank.
Two years ago Hurbankk and
Miss Waters met In New York,
Where she was employed by the
publisher* of the plant wizard's
kttoks, Mrs. Burbank is about It
years of age, while her husband
is 67.
George Chapman, Tacoma con
stable, was courthouse elevator
boy.
B. L. T.. Chicago Trib's humor
ist, records the "supplication of
the war brides" as being: "Peace,
be still!"
What has become of the
o. t. spug?
perfect comtbol
Within two hours till inflam
mable material within reach of
the flames had been consumed.
The blaze was then under con
trol of the fighters.
German press pronounces
the big French advance near
Verdun to be "hut a politi
cal demonstration." Hay, If
they run that war Into poli
tics, they'll simply ruin it.
Reparation, restitution and a
guarantee not to fight in the
future are enough to give the
German peace dove chilblains.
fiospetWcß-i ttivttAoVjpi
DO YOUR
CHRISTMAS
SWAPPING
EARLY!
yummHIGHT EDlTlONS*******
I WEATHER I
1 Tacoma: Fair tonight and *
f Wednesday, continued cold. *
$ Washington: Same. *
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SENDS REPLY
TG WILSON'S
PEACE NOTE!
(I'nited Ptass Leased Wire.)
BERLIN, via Wireless, Dec. 26.—Germany today
proposed a meeting of delegates of belligerents in her
answer to President Wilson's peace note.
Her formal reply to the American peace suggestion
was made in a note handed to U. S. Ambassador Ger
ard at Berlin and at the same time the American dip
lomatic representatives at the capitals of the other
central powers—Vienna, Sofia, Constantinople.
The note also hints that the "great work of the
prevention of future wars can be begun only after the
end of the present struggle of nations," and declares
"when this moment comes," Germany will be "ready
with pleasure to collaborate entirely with the U. S. at
this exalted task."
The German note holds the "Most appropriate
road to reach the desired result," is an immediate
meeting of delegates of belligerent states at a neutra
peace conference.
The text reads:
"The liigh-mimletl sugges
tions made by the president
of llul 1 . S. of America, in
order to create a basts for the
establishment of lasting
peace, lias liecn received ami
eoasidered by the Imperial
government in the friendly
spli it which wns expressed in
tlie president's communica
tion.
"The president |Hiints out
thai which he has al heart
ami leaves open the choice
of Ihe road.
"To the Imperial govern
ment Ihe immediate exchange
of viaWS seems Ihe most ap
propriate road in order to
reach the desired result. It
therefore begs, in the sense
The text as transmitted over Sayvllle wireless by the official
press bureuu in Berlin floes not contain any peace terms. Whether
this is the entire text of the note was not made clear.
Washington Optimistic
WASHINGTON, I). C, Dec 2t'>.
--Hasty examination of Ger
many's reply to President Wil-
son's peace suggestions, as con
tained in dispatches from Merlin,
led one of the foremost adminis
tration officials today to state his
belief that the entente allies will
not be satisfied to meet the Teu
tonic proposals.
He expressed the view that the
allies would not consent to a
peace meeting leased on any such
answer as was- given in Ihe brief
reply by Germany.
He held that Germany had di
rectly dodged the request of the
11. S. for something specific in
the way of peace terms.
Calls tiff la In net Meeting.
Tlie German answer squared
with Atnliassador Mernstorff's re
cent slatement that Germany is
willing to state her terms at a
round table session.
Preliminary examination indi
cated to administration offhials
that the entente allies will be tin
willing to join such a session un
less they can get something more
definite on what to operate.
Terms Given Secretly?
(VnilPd Prras l.rasrd Wire.)
ROME, Dec. 26. —Germany has
handed to the neutral nations
whoso services she asked in for
warding peace suggestions to her
enemies, a sealed packet contain
ing the specific terms upon which
she is willing to make peace, ac
cording to * report ln circulation
here today.
The report had it that this
packet was sent with instructions
that it was only to be read and
forwarded to Germany's enemies
of the entente in case those pow
ers, answering Germany's prof
fers, actually requested terms.
Pope Reads Demands.
Otherwise it was to be returned
unopened.
The same report declared ln
the case of the note submitted to
Pope Benedict, Germany permitted
the Holy Father to read the secret
list of concessions and demands.
No official comment was obtain
able here today either from the
Vatican or the court as to this re
port or as to the official view on
the peace suggestions contained ln
President Wilson's note.
of its declaration made on
llec. ll!, which offered it*
li.i■><l for BMn negotiation*
to propose immediate meeting
of delegates of the belliger
ent slates nt a netitrul place;.
"Also tbe imperial govern
ment is of the opinion that
the great work of prevention
of future wars can be begun
only utter the end of Ihe pres
ent struggle of nations.
"It Mill i ii,iin«l\ the t.er
in.hi government will) when
Ibis moment shall have untie,
be ready with pleasure to
. illaborate entirely with tha
I". S. at this exalted tank "
The answer finishes with
the usual terms of interna*
i■-•■>«tl politeness.
Cabinet members were Inform
ed of tlie Berlin reply by tele
phone and in person by United
Press representatives just before
tlie hour for the regular Tuesday
afternoon cabinet meeting.
Shortly thereafter President
Wilson instructed Secretary Tu
multy to call off the meeting.
Well Ite. lived.
In some official circles It was
pointed out that, while Germany
did not. make tlie frank "declara
tion of objectives" which Presi
dent Wilson sought from all bel
ligerents, neither, was there any
thing in the reply to indicate that
Germany Is committed unequivo
cally to withholding any terms
for a "round table conference."
At the White House there waa
no disposition on the part of th*
president's advisers to lie pessi
mistic.
Some officials in this connec
tion privately expressed the hop*
that perhaps the official text, on
Its way here through Ambassador
Gerard, may be supplemented
with confidential information that
might clear up these points.
It was apparent, however, that
Italian officialdom is puzzled hy
the American suggestion, consid
ering there is some diplomatic ■*-'
crct behind it.
Tho Italian press today eon-."
tinued Its speculation concerning'
President Wilson's step and tonnd
countless possible motives aa Im
pelling it. These range all th*
way from belief that It waa In
spired by "Secretary Lansing's
pro-Germanism" down to the pos
sibility of this being the first step
ln America entering th* war.
HE HEARS ALL THE *
CASES REHASHED
Roscoe Stowell, who has operat
ed the city hall elevator for throe
years, lias haled thousand* of
prisoners, witnesses, lawyer* tad.
spectators up lo the polio* eoaHI
room on the fifth floor.
"But I have never yet attendedt
a session of court," says Roaaoa.
"In fact, I don't have to. ll
hear all about the different caaa*
by listening to the con versatloaa.
in the cage.