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THEY SAY: Th'’s beyond the comprehension of a woman how she can lose her complexion when she says her prayer faithfully. VOL NO OTORMAN DEALS DEADLY BLOW WITH CONTROLLER THIS 1S SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR se Crew Claims Victim You've got to be awfully careful today or the little narrow allt || K if D | of daylight will beb by you without being discovere This ta the ~ Drew nife During - {f shortest day tn the year and the thrifty housewife who complains tonight of the necessity the Fracas. of turning on the olectric Hghts or gas at an unusually early hour may take consolation in the fact that trom || : now on the days will lengthen, Old Sol will tarry a moment tong |] ynken man abused : | = a ge er each time he makes his appearance from now until June 21 — sath . + a It was just 7:59 this morning when the Big Lamp poked tts Bieetric vcr the bona | StSt FAY Over the hills, and, according to the weather bureau, It ® cary 2 will be 4:23 this afternoon when it ducks to the other side of fracturing | ged making a wound which} Hee ble physician, Dr, Charles A Siete slight hopes for 20, ' his re j ihe freceas occurred at the north of the University lne Jo'elock Sunday morning in blood and staggering | ed by the car men, The! an made his way home} et grew worse rapidly, and fi Mie morning wae taken to ewurel:beestied: where} “No Seat, No Fare!” Is the lap into unconscious FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER Arrest Assaliants. the motorman, and Albe the conductor, were arrest STUFFED GOOSE CHIPOLATA,. ~ SEATTL WASH, MONDAY, DEC 1908, BER 21, WEALTHY, WHITE GIRL WHO MARRIED A CHINAMAN KILLS HER FOUR CHILDREN THEN SUICIDES (By Unit od Preae.) 2i—-Driven deaperate over what she be Heved was her unnatural alilanee, Mra, Georgia 8. Ah Wong, ti PLANO, I! Dew: THE SEATTLE STAR DON’T FORGET: If you are a lonely bachelor, that you can bor+ row children for Christmas the same as you can for the circus. PRICE O THREE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD BOY’S LIFE FLICKERS OUT | American wife of a Chinaman, today poisoned her four eblidren : villas RiP nai. yingahng bia ba . ~~ with wood alcoho! and then committed suicide by throwin | } 2 Cady" itt Burngon sosergeream ss Yona treat Jf sanwcteanmos, 2) T WO Girls Near Death From Before she murdered her children ahe wrote a pathetic note, in ix Beattie. *) which she sald she had decided to kill herself and her tit! Clear oday 784,478.42 ‘ to prevent anyone making my daughter bear the same kind of life |* Tacoma. *| ae | have ted.” & Clearings today,..§ 937,623.00 | nt The cidest of the children is 12 years of age. All will prob- |® Balances 46,219.00 © at er Tells Story ably die. | Portland. . The woman le id to be the daughter of a wealthy Chicagoan. | * Clearing» today $1,278,462.00 & She wedded her Mongolian lover over 18 years ago and has been |# Pulances 181,267.00 | of Strus¢ ggle. practically ostracized ever since sam WHKRRERARRA REE! es. ae WEATHER FORECAST. Rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate east winds. ee AD T0 sees * * * - * * MINCED MEAT OMELET, AU By Robert Steiger, Chef, Break some eggs in a bow! & whip or fork, Bet Then pour the With a spoon and when the Ward th the pan; fill the cooked with rum, Clo handle the entirely sony et a some butter one cente the pan from the ne ome remov« M around the o' enbe with wood rum Cry of Hundreds Who Can't Get Strap. wh omelet some When through burning it i# ready to serve FOR CHRISTMAS omelet pan ene beg macaroons table and then set the rum on fire. 2 (By United Press.) DINNER PASADE Cal., Dec, 21.—One 1 is dead, ph an Pe. hting , ¢ life of a second, and a third i ritically here in the furnished ttage of \ Edwin RUM k ¢ e 5 I Courier Louis, Hotel Butler. ca 7 ee a ‘ is e of - " ry ¢ re and secre of the Season with salt and beat Brokaw admitted today that, while he and his wife obo hot tive tnd to ts have busied themselves writ ing books and treatises on tn Gimuitaseousiy,: otic the “Balanced Land Tenure,” the children went hungry. bring ‘the | Leonard, aged 8 years, the little fellow who died, had not We eieaed ‘ tasted food for three days before his life light flickered Lok atk ts etal an out, and for three eks shad been given little nourishment. fire and with a ae Brokaw’s tw a precarious idition, with a hot iron, place them today, and the condition between and pour over the Set the dish on the center of th av e the f Mowing | If the eliizens of Seattle will " ‘ * dhe . ting = n a By Robert Steiger, Chef, Hotel Butler | ganize a ‘No seat, no fare’ league, } = acaeeiinee i nt: , 7 attempt = ae | ANAS SUNDAY’S SHOO TINGS tek cil, woul be trouble, both were locked up disks tne ailaie Wik 9. tombiialten Of saneage ment, ben but a glad of the oppor 4 week our child would be ity fall. Last night they Stuff the ‘ " : tunity to show the car company} eave my wife alone with the chils Rempoved to the county jail apple, chopped celery, bread soaked tn ml s and the liver | that tte patrons must be consid pl nt s deaf, and cannot they are now held in default | and gibleta of the go« round through « chopper, The € neat ‘ SMES: WOMEN SHOT DOWN | be rihewit 4-3 ye gaa Baro Chiet eave past three years re te ould be previously fried In goose fat with O: s declaration was made Sai of Po: alter McClintock and KE i y aks whiny i tnd Walch, man pats yet pe a ‘ plague : mae [urday by J. 17, Nicol, who Rad just] INA PISTOL DUEL | A. Cresger were killed. MeCtintock a ut of that income te Sail thin meorting, re-jy *Y leaves, parsley, cloves, pepper, alia; 4 come into town on a Rallard-Fre- ahot Cregger to death after he bin Other expenses have cut our fun B to discass the affair. They ‘The garvieh “chipolata” consists of peeled chestnute braised mont car, No, 697 te how —_ (By United “Prese.) ws wag bre. seoreasy wound s t 125 a year that they made a report off in soup stock, braised small onlons, tittle link age fried, two | passengers were of the car Mr.) LUFKIN, Tex,, Dec. 21-——Refusing The two bodies fell near each other everal days ago we ate some figs w ‘Rawault to the general offices ches long, boned queen ollves and Parisian fried potatoes, Can | Nicol war unable to say, but he|¢o surrender a young woman board. | the thoroughfare. Chief McClin-| tree in the yard ™ hild « gs we picked from a Rie electric company, The fol-|P jaa : a oe wa counted 32 women standing Up, @8/ erat thelr hotel, whom officers 10ck #nd a deputy had a warrant Peerage e children were all taken ill, and my alow aside Gy A. te be mixed or kept separate. When serving the goose, place them Well oa eight OF ten Hite pirld. Alien andeavorian in arrest on 'a| for the Grrest of I. A. Cresger and wife also became sick, but I felt no ill effects. All had ter, superintendent of trans- |] Around in little bouquets woman with a y in her arms| minor charne, Mra. Joseph Fergu- %i# brother Dave, charging robbery intestinal trouble.” Hon: } Brown sauce made from the pan whe ose Was roast was taken on when there did not) edn end her daughter Bertha en. -_ | The Brokaw c ere reared it 1" 4 . eared in a 1 wort i Aiea: MR ok Mk Gigtt Genee, We've WAT WED tn on wortn to be rooms for another soul gagad te « pistol fight with men DESPERATE FIGHT IS | th r yard was enclos iat bourd thet aa ‘indies ‘ian @ nee aboard. Naturally, thie woman had} Sertiata poaso of citizens who camo lthe “pein a gh board fence, and rded the car down | to stand up the entire trip }to the ald of the officers, during WAGED IN TACOMA d to atte he y hools, their parente ith a companion. Both were a - eructereres eeripesee = . . dhe two wo prttohe aac giv r educatior ‘They persisted in smoking | Wet Gnaugh [fy eter aos Spee Sere teu 4 ; ear after the conductor re | Btrap hangers?” dee wok 2 gg Ramage ge Erle Oy fieaga blag PLAN FOR REARING CHILDREN them to desist. Jones’ | Ni Why, it wonldn't have | Maat ale on Sher ‘att and MA, Dec. 31-—-. F. Ha , vas . bas ai kd ear ot Lateen. oie bed had there bees straps | Mis Geputies went to the hotel of grove, a city fireman, te in the Brokaw declared today he had tried to raise hi eee « fo. Bet there were jest Hergusov. they were denied county jail, and J. C. Summers, a! children re.” } re ‘ bi Rong A et IM : to leave the car at jto hang to. a or = ving a held Sar: & + arte de Rens d pure le said he did believe childhood had sex: ‘ka from the end about « doren strape. I had thought ee and held at bay by the | street car conductor, fs in a aa pM ribs, : “we "par Sex; &,, two blocks the eni a ’ weden te tour bo lp co A. hat he dressed his children all alike, in boys’ clothes, and ts Nine. When the car reache: hefore that the stories of the con. al ours. fant Mes te ryt tnvd ma eae lest {them to use the neut nd ; lothes, and taught rmints Jones began to up } ditions on the Senttle street cars ~~ em aged aad ., : he neuter gender word “it” in conversation when Gece war nr=st! ~© WEALTH CAROLS xo Samer 1S FATALLY |e, Senmers, ci, be, Me Peerring to each other ing him past his street, and |that they cannot be exagmerated. | é sa as bs w by Brokaw was formerly Miss Fste Daisies " D fut he wad going to |There were many complaints WOUNDED Bee Hargrove 4 hard name. | of Women's Single Tax rel ganda jh a om “ps leader beck to bis destination with- among the passengers on thie car _ Pers . 4 Ra A aM r ae ying fare. Gwin came | py . f Sly & Co. Are!Tooted f Hi land the sentiment I found was that (By United Press.) | DRUNKEN MEN SHOOT) i B wa f the Emergency Pdi ete hich has taken charge the car with the controler | Hoardings of Sly oO. oot or ftis Country, | yorybody was anxious to wear | SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 21.—Jobn | UP THE TOWN of the Brokaw ¢ ie, reported toc hat there was little chance back to the city and Jones Sent Over Eggnog But Goes to Jail button of the proposed ‘No seat, no | P) Pennell, chief jailer at the county for the recovery of cither of the little Both are suffering fo abuse him. Jones drew and was about to assauit rman, and Gwin threw his striking the passenger . The wounded pas- then left the car, and Mo Gwin started for town.” Condition Doubtful. fs seriously Injured,” said 4. Warhanik, the attending yl today. “He is slightly , but te saffertug trom a se Feompound depressed fracture. way whether he will re- b & Pettijohn of 5202 14th N. E, apanted Jones from town, morning that Jones was or disorderly at all, that all the way out, in fact, tijohn wakened him to ask | B could get home ail right, to) Route. Just the Same. With larks in their hearts and a/ song on their ips, Ed Sly, a quar ryman, Fart Smith, a logger and John Wintsz, a laborer, blew Into Seattle a few weeks ago with exact- John Henry Benjamin Emery, who laaye he was one ef the sons of| Washington to go to the Philippines | when the doge of war were cut} loose in 1998, was-a portion of the jet ground out this morning in) the police court. Jobn Henry wae caught nour the King Street station Saturday night| pouing an a representative of sev- Christmas holidays in Seattie, but visions of the gladsome Yuletide turned their beads, and after com bating the festive exgnog and other |orai benevolent lodges delicacies of the season for several) John Henry wanted money and} days, the trio came out of It with! succeeded in getting It, but Patrot- | exactly $1.15. | man William Donlan happened along Sly was there with 40 cents, /at the wrong time, and John Henry| Smith had 25 and Wintz beat them | failed to explain hin actions to the fall with half a dollar. | wa iafaction of the office | Sly told Police Judge Gordon| "t was a first class musician dur ‘cell gaaeaay very Bright: | nat he wae idle because “he had ling the war in the Philippines, wth | is not cowardly,” said| enough to quit on.” ” the Washington volunteers,” said) feohn. “The last thing he| Smith informed “hizzon that |John Henry. Mi do would be to draw a knife. } ‘he was filthy” when he struck! “You were, eh?" sald the city at never known him to pick a (town, which meant that his wealth |torney. “Weill, we need a mustetas: | was ample, to play Christmas carols for the with anyone.’ Jones’ Own Version. } prisoners on the chain gang, and think you're it.” Wits said he was “doin’ nothin’” because there wi ‘nothin’ doin’, . y own story as told to his} “Anyway,” added Wirtz, “t had | “Ton days,” sald Judge Gordon. er, W. &. Jones, is that when|too much money to have to work.” ~ - @trived at the end of the | The trio was tried at 10: ait ee Was awakened and told to jock this morning, Smith and | * the car. This he did quietly who spent thelr share of the|* SALOONIST, HEART- When he discovered that he|$il5, were given 15 days each in| * BROKEN, ENDS LIFE. been carried past his street,|the city jail for not having more | * poten satarted to climb back into the | than $1.16. Wints sald it would not | * (By United Press.) Wegain. The motorman mean-|t him more than 15 minutek to|® LIMA, 0., Dec. 21—Heart bad come on from the other| leave town. He left # broken over the disgrace of fod told him that if he rode| - - - * having been convicted of vio he would have to pay his| Thaw Must Stay in New York. | isting the Sunday closing law Jones argued that this was| PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21—Har-|® for saloons, and having been for it, Julius Bluffton, O. to jail 55, sent Yanke, ry Thaw cannot be taken from New| # | York to Pittaburg to testify in his|* Tight, and says that he may Used abusive language, he of eee SER EEE ERR Ee Rot remember. The motorman | bankruptey proceedings, under an|# committed suicide tn his cell struck him over the héad with | opinion of the United States court|*® by taking poison. ontrolier handic and he fell'of appeals, which today affirmed|#® stunned the order of the district court Cee ee eee eee eee | liarge number of letters Prout nie | hundreds of others have suffered BOURN BABIES BORN 9}. fare’ jal and a former deputy coroner of thie city, was shot in the head and the seriously wounded yesterday by of | Pater Magee. a former pugtlist. Fen | tiolt ie resting easily, and it is be Heved he will recover. CHIEF OF POLICE IS SHOT DEAD (By United Press.) ROANOKE, Va, Dee. 21.—In league.” Dally Experience. Nicol'’s expertence is experience of thousands Others of Seatth citizens and these thousands are rapidly send- ing their names to Mise Hilda Berg- strom and enlisting in the cause of | “The Straphangers’ league” with | the “NO SHAT—NO FARE” @! roan | The mat! this morning broug! Mr daily } and women fn all parte of the city.) “If they'll just let me stand up! in pence,” writes one woman who clerks in a retail store. “It's hard to have to stand, but I wouldn't mind that so much If they wonldn't crowd us in Mike so many cattle. |} have suffered indignities of whicty }I dare not speak and | know th: A TALE F MARY BITS J with me, There surely must be some way of making the street car company provide more cars, If ‘The |Straphangers’ league’ will be the b ctl means of doing this, put me down “ on the Mat “Brace Up a Bit,” Says Miss Hilda Bergatrom t# the} name of the young wowan who Is| Judge to the Thief organizing The Straphangers' | jeague,” and she wants to hear of Bits. everyon Interested ip the ement. She may be reached in| care of The Star MAINE SAILS OW SEALED ORDERS | bondia, who was arrested by Patrol Biacker on the water front day afternoon, appeared tn the pelice court explain hie possession of a brace j and ‘eral bits, enya "Where did you get the bite?” By United Press.) queried Clty Attorney Ellis De HINGTON, Dec. 21— |Brajlen The battleship Maine sailed to | Found “em,” answered Beeman. day from Hampton Roads under “Walt a bit.” put in Patrolman led orders. Information re | Blacker, “This fellow was trying to peddie four bite for six bits, but ding the sudden departure of dock this morning te} ’ & of Leonard P. pletol fight on the main street of! fatally wounde Siesiieeeieeeneeninieamiitistasia i= ese a Ir | the veasel wae refused at the |8@ one bit. I think he deserves navy department, but it ie | ) gta qhaln gong aA, hought that the warship has Sowa 8 bit, sald Police peed ys 4 Jndge Gordon, “I think this man} one to Venezuelan waters, oe should be charged with cony. He ts accused of & brace and several bits |he should be able to brace petty stealing I think up a bit Entertainment for Schoo! the University Methodist tonight will be given a mu At burch lar. | (By United Press) |from ptomaine poi rendered more serious by the starve WAYCROSS, Ga., Dec. 21.—To| Condition of the patic wreak vengeance for the arrest of na > & companion on the charge of being | REFUSE TO TAKE FOOD. drunk, six y “ung men rode into the | pong gM otey ooh Mae} Be Members of the Salvation Army today said that on here, Saturday night and fired 500 Awana, ibe sd lay they took a basket of food to the Brokaws, shots, riddiing buildings and ter.| Whose destitute condition had been alled to their i called to att rorizing the towa, Four young wo-| Brokaw refused to accept the basket il all meat ore men who were walking on one of | eggs, milk and food of that character } a sts Bla je Lies iithote. ones Heal oi tes aan , milk and that cha er een eliminated, de- jclaring that it was aga such tood or. partak« | Brokaw today admitted his peculiarities in the matter of }food, and said that his children w accustomed to fasting from three to five days at various times, nst his principles to give his children wie Taylor, the 14-year-old daughter vf it himself Taylor, was probably od , EX-GOVERNOR FLEMING DEAD. ted Pr | placKsokvitta Fla. Doc 2 ee x; PROSP nels Philip Famine apron ge Tae asTon MURCERED Florida from 1889 to i898, died at|* WATER SHUT OFF. * y United Press.) | bis residence in this city today, He | * *| BI aT Stont. Deo. at Wm. T. served in the Confederate army{% Water will be shut off in #|Clurk, a pfoneer prospector and a through the Civil war. \* the district north of Green #/| familiar character of the Montana * Lake, between First ay. N. EB, #/ mining camps, was found murdere Addresses Y. M. C. A. & and Welinntord av. fucieniva: @ ita. the ineentiics douas beastie At the Y. M. C. A. yesterday In-/% tomorrow from 8 a. m. to 2 &/day. Clark recently discovered a ternational Peace Sunday was ob-|#& p. ™. *irich gold vein and it Is believed served. Dr. Sidney Strong made | & *|that this may furnish the motive | the address in the afternoon ie * wk eK a ew for bis death SS Com am! WAITING FOR BURGLARS TAX WRITER SCRIBBLES WHILE _HIS CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH sical and literary entertainment for | in gall.” | Ea the benefit of the Girls’ Parental! Mr, Beeman bit bis lips and mut: | e how The program t# called “A|tered something in bitterness, He Doctor Breaks Into Obstetrical Verse Drummond Bvening,” and will cou-| will leara bis fate tomorrow morn sist of recitations from Dram-|ing at 9:20 o'clock |mond's poems by Mrs, A. B. Coe, - - music by Master Ledpold Rosen, | ae Sine haa mame the boy vjolinist. and vocal oom OLD EMPLOYES TO h av, N. W., De |bers by Mise Ellen Frances Shel. ~eeo-e SANTA CLAUS WILL HOLD = TO BE PENSIONED h av. B Dec m~ MORE. % (By United Press.) coor suse FORTH AT LOIS THURSDAY [BB Yee. | sans HE , AYS BEFORE Janvary 1 Edward Morris, president | s the attending cmapenmemee Ce ee eusmeanens CHRISTMAS: it the firm of Morria & Co., pack to the prac ar sees the Lole erowéed at ee ore, will give $26,000 as the first practices at writing pootry.| Big Christmas Tree |and many a iittie soul in mado to Dee ee ret 18 Gaarete. 6 ite the ives, 06. tae eben P feel that Christmas is indeed al] . Ce ee cee ee Re coe Ss See ee for Poor Children. [season of joy, and that ‘hig tan | Benolons among, 10,000 omployos of fo hima « omething in the latter — such a cold, inconsiderate old World <i <a » and te the venute Santa Claus will be at the Lois |after all Stock Broker Threatened, Of Mii the Bourn babies that ever|theatre on Thursday afternoon rhe Lois promises a magnificent | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 21-< NO SECOND-STORY WORKERS EVER COME TO THE HOUSE WHERE THESE TWO DOGGIES PASS next - nmner ny yo wa oe |< hriatmas tree, and, in addition, a | Nathaniel Boas, a stock broker of ARE ALWAYS ON WATCH, al n Bourn bables that | year and a thousand or more Iittle| program in which some of the bost this city, today recelved an anon. de hearts are made gind by bis visit.|actora in Seattle will participate lymous letter threatening his life|, If You're a burglar, stay away )that the two dogs herewith aren't )Ireland—by telephone—that the me spect B ion that ever! And he comes by special invitation |The actor's Christmas ia generally \‘untess the price of the Rawhide |{tom the residence of Charles War-| thinking about anything of a pleas-|dogs really are not flerce and have et iad of Mrs. Alex Pantages, whose chief\a hard one; he has an extra mati 7 | Coalition be raised to its former |burton Ireland of West Seattle, |ant nature. never tasted of human flesh, r vi we | joy at Christmas time is M1 making | nee, or, if he te in vaudeville, he} level. The stock was smashed Jast| 1t'® & bad place for bad mon. | Just as they appear above they And Mr. Ireland ought to know presents to the poor ebfldren of|does continuous performances from | | week by a coterie of New York| If you don't believe it, take ajappeared when a Star reporter| because he raised them. ot ten daddies who | Meattle early in the afternoon until mid | "ghorte,” assisted by Jocal men good look at the bunch of caninin-|called at the home of Mr. Ireland a| However, the reporter has ideas a « rn Just how many little folks there|night. But Mrs. Pantages has} 2 |ity—-whatever that is—that should few days ago, The first thing the of his own ‘ Bourn daddies |are in Seattle whose Christmas| found dozens of these hard-working | Today's Treasury Statement. | he—if this page ts “made up” right reporter saw was the pair of dc The dog lying down Js known at PGES migta be a day of heartbreaking | people who have gladly volunteered | | WASHINGTON, “Deo. 21 10 |~—at the top of these column and that's the last thing he saw|the Ireland home as “Mlootchman,” VMs coy al 7! disappointment but fer kind-hearted |their services for the day-before treasury statement today shows Of course, you never can tell about the house because he didn't) Siwash for mothe The one stand- Anddien—the | Person: Mra, Pantages, is, of |Christmas treat for the poor chil Recelpts, $2,418,848; disbursements, / what a bulldog ts thinking about, | stop to ring the bell ing answers to the name of “Pap . | course, rtain. At any rate, eachidren of Seattle, | $2,850,200, [Dut Ws better than an even bet| But the reporter has it from Mr. | pose ' ° °