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THE SEATTLE = abe 268. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1909 ONE CENT RISTMAS BRINGS BOTH JOY AND SORROW ACROSS COUNTRY LORS’ XMAS. FUND >> Bis ©F| | DEATH FOLLOWS IN THE MADE MANY KIDDIES :c2eesrees STEPS OF SANTA CLAUS YET, HE SAYS): Shirin walked into a house of sorrow to TYoL 11. NO | Sa rs crane cn Judge ‘ia Big Autos, Star Men Canty Clothes and Presents |, Robert Cravens, 17-yearold hus for Those Whose Lot Touched Seattle Bachelors’ | (000)... yn strays “has | Hearts. ad to get a habeas corpus writ! | to get ber away from home j d | Corner Cop Sam Brafford wanted | Santa’s men, in a big red auto tonneau filled with shoes} to wear his new diamond medal on Stockings, clothing and toys, skidded over slippery pave-| "!* walstcoat yesterday, but Chief bounced over rut-ribbed roads, laughed at speed regula-| oyery tx apt peg pub ica | barely missed the death sometimes meted out to burglars Seems some of the Chamber ot] night prowlers, and stopped—well, between 7 and 1:30) Commerce think th ck last night, at some 20 homes where Santa was hoped | much to pay for @ stable | jor by little kidlets, but barely expected by loving and hard wil seo ee nA tor tae ™ mothers. | ve-year-old son, Rolla |iWerbert, lay dead in the room “ , Fred Isn't Setent where he was fatally burned yes Enough to Suit Blue Rolla, with hie two little sisters Stockings,” Declares |and a brother, standing in |front of a fireplace in hie nights Brother. |gown, “watching for Santa C¥us,” = | when his mother entered the room, (Ry United Pree.) lThe draught from the open doo¥ NEW YORK, Dec It was|blew Rolla’s gown into the fire D. S&S. Baum and E. C. Morse de- jstated a ooklyn ot ta efore his ty 1 col ” The Bacheic Christmas presents were being red to the |e d that got barber's itch ry , at oe L ’ fo tha e Before his m ther ¢ sae ga P Mitle boys and ¢ who wouldn't have bad a Christmag had it /in the shop by Emma Minnis;! \\ as been re from his was enve lope b} Bot been for the ity of these readers of The at it 1 and tneon- | rederiek Cook declaring he | flam He died late in the afte If ove or a at inthe FY. Lawton district they $99 worth aptece.| will not accept final the rejec-|n: would have witnessed a play of real life that never has ustice Brown, dis aac = — = 2 the Cop | Fred Hunter the ather, was out | ever will be « { again, as it was shoftly after 11 o’¢lock | cane agen consistory e is said presents, when the Bight. said Justice Brown, dismiae- | have written that he {x now and returned to- OVER RUTTY ROADS. cases paring to return to Etah for his in to find Rolla dead and his wife " i struments and further records |in a serious condi a A big red auto chugged and puffed as it picked its way over r : . see aS | Cook's brother, William, said to-| sow covered rutty road to the door of a little house at 3001 24th | THE SWAGGER THING day: (By United Press.) ey. W. A dim light streamed from a hk window, Two spectre FOR US HUNT GIRLS| One of The Star Autos Reaty to Start With Presents From Seattle Bachelors; Stewart Campbell at the The trouble is that isn't} LOS Dec. (ike figures, burdened with bundles, made their Way from the standing auto to the door of the cottage. A knock rho’s there’ The door wi Wheel. scientific enough to sul blue | cause she would not allow her chile n to approach and extinguish hee PAAR —— *| stockings who would bask in the|d , reflected glory of a great scientist. | flaming clothes, for fear that thelr } he Is the first man to reach the jalso, Mrs. Polly Bolotin of 235 North A N Pole Anderson st. is at the receiving hose D XMAS SOUSES GO FREE y | New York is surprised today at | pital today, probably fatally burned, the desertion of the men who w Physicians declare that it will be & | Ce 1 | miracle if the woman survives. ened a few inches by an anxious woman, bun y shoved within, and a tiny little voice, muffled bed clothing, was heard *Oh, mamma! it’s Santa! I knew he'd come “Yes, dear,” the mother repited, and then, pulling the door shut her, she stepped out into the snow to grasp the hands of k's staunchest ends agents. Fiala declared t that after ex She was lighting a kerosene lamp MOTHER TELLS HER STORY. | Twenty-five Christmas jage. were] © No.8 tfied to make love to a mail| No. 16 tearfully promised “Never | amining Cook's MeKin. rec-| when the lamp broke and the burn: it took her just a minute to tell her story The children had turned loose at the city jail this) box at 2 a m. again le he is ed that the ex-|ing ofl ignited her garments. A in The Star about the Bachelors’ Christmas. They had w | morning, and each had a different} No $ smiled wanly and said he No. 17 said he tried to put the| Plorer del deceive his|moment later she was a living letters. They just knew Santa would come. All day long they | excuse jet his watching those funny e breweries on the blink because | Closest frie torch. Her children, three small deen talking about tt, and..«0-the evening wore away, they wait | No. } told the desk sergeant that) ttc ‘igns some one dared him to try | \giris, rushed - her - d pegtiie ¥ E e nd hoping for the approac the good © got ap! < ‘i " jend from Om: | woman screame¢ hem Nick "Suatis’ yo uae ar te a Oy we a Po kee , he got spiffiicated because « Was) “No. 10 insisted on talking to the, No. 18 met a friend fr maha. | DEAD AND DYING away, then rushed from the house the merry Yuletide season bartender No. 19 waid he just got married ro, 2 cald be wots Gung PU Ke mind be wanted s'gooe one | No-%0-aald be was Yast potas te.) ON BATTLEFIED | to eecape trom ‘o. 21 piped up use it had| Shrieking in agony as the fire ate Snohomish and it was all off |befere swearing off No. 21 piped up beca it had ON CHRISMAS DAY Bn ¥e eg Pn = Boar Boe reneitia le eyes open longer, and about 10 o'clock the brood had been hed into bed. each and every one confident that the Bachelors’ Banta Claus would not forget them j been his custom for years ir “And he didn't,” concluded Mra Mary Slowinski, as she No. 3 accumulated his for the real) Ny. 12 playfully tried to mop up| No. 22 dittord for the same rea 9 to allow neighbors to aid her until Teached out agaim and grasped the hands of the two men who had on that he didn't have # hon» Second ay. with a fellow passenger. yon | gov, WILLIAM A. DEVERALL. | certain that her children were un- acted as his agents No. 4 went Into pickle because he} No. 13 was going to Alaska, and No, 23 met a long lost brother (Staff Correspondent of the United inju Silky det CouLowT TALK Aid and didn’t Hke tt | Wanted a real one before starting | No. 24 was the long lost brother.) py uper ey Sy Nicarag . peter the court house reporter, stammered out something, | | aittea ales toot Wiebe can te Pn | ate. 14 bit into the grape be don baa the ‘Glorious Fourth. | | 28 (By Wire to Colon.)—To-}_ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25—« the printer man who sometimes runs an auto, blushed | | od te teemet 10. iske uke told hie be baa Geo. A dosen othera who tnduleed in| C87 18 Christ in Bluefields in The authorities are searching to- bind the big fur collar turned up about his neck and face | No. 6 pounded: on. hh bar babi eien- en the bie, looholic acrobatica will be halea |2&™¢_ only 4, where 2,000 day for the relatives of R. @. And just at the moment when they didn't know what to say to | “aa . Mo. 18 said che was peeved be-|berore Police Judee John B. Gor {captured government soldiers are | 8 who have delayed thelr mother’s benedictions, there was heard from within’ a wild | No. 7 stood up near the cigar|chube hubby went down town with.|don Monday morning to. explain |Wartered, is a scene of desolation. | Chr nner while waiting for che yell, a horn was tooted and then there was uproar, the kid- | counter kad tanateviah def har cite ae w The men are sick, hungry and suf-| the body, nearly cut in were hunting out from the bundles of shoes and stockings a . " . fering from their wounds, despite two, lies on a slab in the morgue, hing and toys each his own. | American aid. faci are Sharp was run down and killed by @ score of families in all we Two Angels, He Says. j nade ate and the food and med Ilmore st. car last night, whil by Barney and “Stew” in the! “If the Lord God Almighty ever ONE WEEK AND THEN BROKAW NSANTA CLAUS THESE teal upplice short Scores of ts a ee > evade a g of holiday Bred aute. Starting at Pike and | sent two angels to earth, he sent death, owing to the absence of an who was a laborer, was over the hill they went, wkid~"| you two fellers,” said he, as Barney . HONEYMOON FADED AND DIED NEWARK. NJ” Dec Four |tiseptics and competent surgeons the street when a car k into the little boys wat In the New ark office |,, Captain Shibley i on slippery pavements and and “Stew” ‘actically at own upon him. Onlookers death on the long hills,| car and started for the next place. éd the Seales der the head of the relief work. He es nty of time to ea 1 up kitehens here and peared dazed and to Fremont, then back to One-fourth of the packages were | MISS KITTY SMITH IN HER | - ms tablished 8 Cruelty to Children to get onto the road for | delivered after the people of the} HUNT CLOTHES Honeymoon, honeymoon Hlop her abuse of me, we will have poating the name « at Rama, but they will have to be! stood staring at the car until it Almost to the fort! house had retired, and in moat | vas : ag Oh, what makes ite wo soon? 1a Merry Christmas and a Happy [Up to noon yesterday they did not ®¥@ndoned soon unless relief ar-| struck him and threw him under went on roads that were never | cass they first asked the meaning| Listen, good people. and you) jy are be when you 80] New Year Scale thate Was Gbck & berets, and ire the wheels for automobiles, and through of their rude awakening shall hear of the daylight ride of honeymoor The Brokaws, with all thelr if you had mentioned cee int | General Extra t a as dark as tunnels in a de-| he machine belonged to Je Kite ~— of Sager ag money, were as unhappy as would wave undebetsed no | Memaeen. willinc (My United Presa) and forgotten mine. Romano, and it had an engine ae wore "i neice (Wy United Prev Bast Side sweatshop family more than If you had said that soap | W8Y wntil next week was an-| CHICAGO, Dee. Wearing a On to Ballard Naxt. worth traveling behind. roms => - Benined - pens a NEW YORK, Dec One week} Rot enough to eat Like oe {jana water were g i ne ut a today hy trada i X i - . ling ring hg Ich tot — . Fort Lawton district| And that was just the beginning. | rriy ix a pleture of Mian Smith, | % Houcymoon—seven days of hapkjdren, they allowed petty things to jowy faces gaked in freshening up his army,/ bought her food and shelter, Mrs. che i > = While Barney and “Stew” were / piness—and then the Brokawa| break up a home They lead ee burying the dead and recruiting zimme was found 3 A gs farthest ont playing Santa, old St. Nick’s|(*Men the other day when they bad) vit, hing in the wide world, — Like two children they went Gk tan Geeks: amine mas eve under the awakening the NoFkshop In The Star office con-| oq town. Mer costume ix the vory |‘, make them bi Hot A ee eas nts S04, sired. iMéle Haat Caldwell, N. J... Thel LET JURORS DRINK , Uy cick seine dispensing the cloth-| jo Stinable, Late in the evening | stem thing for society women i a ek was the length of our} New York laughed—and now that Arelle Johnson, works for WHISKY AND BEER on » cover her naked- provided by The iunerieta unk (diated Worked. ai ride o ae nek and at a re Be said Brokaw today, they have quarre to thelr heart's camp spread eetien a a ne ing to baskets, filling others and = rege 8 nt cnt yerbockers | “but Lam willing to take my wife | Content, they both would fiy to each | pup, Rreud Under the s srry wy ty nite’, Brean « ring, two » as they placed the arranging all for the big distribu: |PUT fom. juat like the chant. | Dack other's arms Sha: maitinne dikes aa Wikia od (ep MULWAUKEE, | V c ‘ ton her fine with se things In tion this morning | En ela densa hes If she will promise to be good/| And that's what New York Ht cengiey Siew gain = neta The 3 re ho a po her ears. girl came running vs oe will take n my arms joking for them to do, and end, : , , Shack.) Hedger, a ‘ wurde kitchen and said Busy Again Today. Her hat is the latest thing, too. A coro it ; ; will just aia NS most childish divorc ut fe Tha be — ii hen and dining | may each have kita lk’ aa: elhaions ine mor ae you got something for And at 7 o'clock this morning the |It has the broad brim effect that Gceael bar talon ‘Sealoul New York society in ye room were the same room, and (his |/in the morning, if they want it, and| SACRANENTO, Cal, Dec colt the buneh was down at the office at it/Is common on Fifth av., in New wae dirty, a, Bg he “ahh wade Goapoadent -teteuse ane r to The again York and other places where th Pr yp we Ear gee om anciv Awig need nd the desertion of his “affinity Here and there, where the family best men’s clothes are worn. The ERVANT ized form of existence was eitected | jerdy t eturned to her home and fam- scrows the street | was isolated, and it was impossible |over gartvent on Miss Smith ts 7 yesterday by J. W t local | the 4 , ; # MT Hill, « & house with bright tq make the distribution by auto-| something else that’s peculiar. It's wcerendant af the euciety, Teale gh the Christmas | young t ted his own Mining through the win-| mobile, messenger boys e hus (the only article of feminine wear tands in the center of : Samm lithe Ge on throat. aaa and instantly they tled out with the packages Miss Smith when she go¢ SIXTY 0 which form this camp, s . f to hir a bath tub at Mere was nothing for her Then the Winton garage sent riding. Paul Revere did some rid Kimball passed among — these y : ‘ go|tt sla suse, Chriat- ‘oped get enough without the 4 oy big car and filled the ton-|ing once on a time, but a anfe Melee: A was attracted tothe four littl : The body.was tousé tale Phe bachelors of Seattle neau with packages. Later another | guess that he 4 cause half as} oo yong p il Ee wacko who were playing in front ‘ ; ing by RM Buchatt & &t another house, the pack mut, and by ah of! much excitement as Miss th} Dr titel aee LAEeine or mas hut, without shoos oF stockings, |n : - foie had be t, and @ nei timas packages prepared |would cause If she rode down | ne gow se aed oma Mcbtes of toe ee ber | nd Weariné patched sarmen: ihe lidly poste A Prosper: than the woma od Chestnut st. in Philadelphia with)!" % plents sent hie or hep {#8, 3849. Since th r vireo know that Charl tive sdiecak the, Mela: who had been provid there is still more to|her saddle uniform on . rentals te oF apa es g bnce Aerie Me pigeon iene’ » pesca en window minute, and it was abso “MINARY CAT } ya dasens a L SOENE Yeats biases Nene hi JACK THE DOOR Saauiae iota He ve r e six month: 4 boys in their! I impossible to fit them out FT ee COLLEGE TIES ie nauk i % GP pene ig sete ay Aiaincs lle DAUBER” NEW ONE x. Sorry, my deat but 1 was afratd they had good things for—|the good things were coming next i ] Request t vated nee eye S Ne unions | CINCINNATI, Dec John | More t ' | Slope Half Holiday Sralsed his window and watched week, and though some of the (My United Press.) she was sick, notwithatanding the| Warren is held at police headquar it wond the giving and| Christmas celebrations may be a| WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec A| On: Bavcemay, Sventng repeated entreaties her master | ters on suspicion while the police Mg of the Christmas pack-| little bit they will be had be-| state of war.exists between Wash a Ht hog fone eu and mistress that they be allowed | WhO have dubbed him “Jack the |fore the New Yea ington and Jefferson college and Mt Gites henivereney of” to 4 that she | Door-Dauber,” are gating hi the Washington Female seminary Miss Barbara Spanagel's strange antics which have worried AND CAPT. B over the theft of a cat for scientific Services as Mald in Their Home nursed four of the Hauer ehit- | and alarmed re side nis of Carl UTT MARCH THROUGH. purposes | |dren, all of whom have now grown | @¥enue for many block WASHINGTON ON A CHRISTMAS FORAGE apres. niors out on 8 forage }to. manhood and womant und | Householders on rising | each For a Christmas gift, Robert 'T, Hodge, one of the for vivisection victims encountered} sfieg Barbara Spanagel, better |she wil yield even to their |Morning have found their dootk officials King coun r ud, received through t _- the seminary feline near the latter! ynown to the members and friends | mother tr interest in them smeared with a coating ¢ of t republican organ of this city vere criticism of g ed i. nited 3% : lugging « Russian leather traveling | institution ~y We an exe ates x sitet sticky el Some iy are ted i it 96 1 duct in connection with the effor g made by the pr ; 5. ITON, Dex retin per Bice rode chase captured b he pe 1 | warning of some kind and appeale¢ uttorney and board of county commissioners to discredit i ag alonx | 4 My ; ablaze in light! ‘The swinging doors of a 16th at ane setico! ma triumpha FORGIVENESS FOR STRIKE MAY GO to the police, This morning Wa The Star knows Sheriff Hodge thoroughly. It knows him to . , and packed with Christ re her to the laboratory ar swung open as the president at a doorknot be absolutely above suspicion and it knows that this much can ear ey Mga eet oesoon n hysterical bevy. of female) WILLIAM BRADBURY ON IN SEATTLE) with's pot of tar 1 a brush. On not be said of the men who are opposing him. It i ad, indeed. ef aid Merry Chrishmus, Misher Preah-|teachers appeared at the college se } The proffers of peace made by |his trail was a string of doorknobs that any newspaper should lend itself to the game being played ae te fig- ident—Merry Crishmus,” cried a| building SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Dec, 26. the railroads to the striking switch-| a mile long. against Hodge by these discredited politicians. A newspaper that f Howard Taft and | quartette, who had emptied a large| The college boys had locked the{James McCue, Ifelong enemy of jmen at St, Paul, in which they offer ‘ |f would do this lays itself open to the suspicion that it is a party | aptain Archibald | bowl of Tom and Jerry lagoratory door, and proceeded to| Wm. B. Bradbury, sent » Chslaane lto inved the ae ne me ae CHRISTMAS TREE | ie the well organized plan to punish Hodge for “spoiling” the s a the direction of| The president doffed his hat,| administer an anesthetic greeting to the millionaire prisoner | positions can be found, will prob |] best office in King county am) H need te | wait g eee ae ree Me OOe eT eke etka of the semnibary ia: lar bon Quentin today ably not be considered unless all STARTS A FIRE ka tila nadivlomatin’ Fe aa i wi Hadas Moa ae t ‘Thank you, gentlemen—let me | structors to force an entrance were I forgive Bradbury,” the prose * are promised instant re : |— more, during his term of offic » put top to graft in thi ( hop Butt piloted | wish you the same,” he replied futile, but the screaming women |ecutor is reported to have said pment Christmas eve Jollification came to ]i county than those who criticise him have done in 4 their hig ' ae drew the attention of President Jas. |But I’m not wasting any sympathy! Théra, was a meeting today at 1}an end in the home of W. B/E tory | TRAIN OVER MILE LONG D. Moffat on him. And I won't advocate his o'clock of the Seattle switchmen in| Michacls last night at 9:30 when a} The Star wants Sheriff Hodge to know that it believe: i Butted His Pilot (By United Press.) The president, after severe |pardon, Let him prove that he has |the Labor Temple to discuss the | Christmas tree, heavy wigh gifts and | him just as thoroughly a id the flay he waa tole The ; Taft kno what the inside ROANOKE, Va., Dee. 2 What | threats, succeeded in securing en-|reformed first, and then let him latest tele reports from St, | resplendent with lights, top, ed over | would help him in his effort become sheriff For its a geilimen ooks like—in 18 said to be the bongest ralirc trance and rescuing the already un-|pay his bills, After that I won't | Paul starting a fire that did $20 damage | ers, Phe St Wwanie-t0 gay to riff that they believe in he has traveled some in his| train ever drawn by a single en-|consclous feline from the operating enter an objection to his release.| Loeal switchmen back up the at-| before the fire department con | ae The 8 ts to say that just so long and when he an elaborate | gine left Roanoke today for Nor ltable before @ surgical knife had/He sald he'd send me to the poor|titude of President Hawley, who | pletely extinguish It as Sheriff Hodge conducts his office as he b conducted it in i bag of Russian leather,| folk over the Virginian railway, | touched her house, Well, I've sent him to pris-|stood unconditionally for simulta-| The chtef damage tn the Michaels {FP the past, just so long may he depend upon Star and upon all Was & halt in the presidential | the H. H. Rogers road | Tabby was borne in triumph to jon instead.” neous reinstatement of the strikers, | home at 1811 KB. Madison st, was|f honest men for support Hon. “Ha, that's just the| The train consisted of 120 steel|the seminary and resuscitated, and| MeCue's condition is not thought} The conference at Chicago will|to the furniture in the room with | To Sheriff Hodge, to the mother of his four stalwart boys and E Bald the bors of the U.8. A. coal hoppers, @ych 44 feet long|now Washington and Jefferson stu-|to be dangerous. He was thrown | determine the rate of pay, and it Is} the tree. The furniture was dam to the boys themselves, The Star sends Rearty Christmas greet ie wae @ digging in the!and cach loaded with 50 tons of|dents bave been cut from the seml-|from a buggy recently, landing on| expected that the demands of the | aged to the extent of $260 and the ings and the wish that the New Year will be good to them. Mtial jeans and Butt was | coal inary reception Het his head in a pile of lumber | union will be granted. | building In the sum of $50.