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FORESTER PINCHOT WRITES FOR STAR READERS TODAY—SEE PAGE 7 THE SEATTLE ATIC THE SEATTLE : ) HOME SrArF epTion © TAFE ewe wh i WHISKEY GETS ONE COLLEGE YES. THEN THERE was ue NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS MAN, THE OTHER A SUICIDE jae = a ee wl i a ® Once Brilliant Instructor Forced to Do Janitor Work, aN (If W ' St. new : —- @ ~ and While Thus Employed He Drinks Himself | pe \ THERE, to Death—Even of Late He Has Written Clever | ; e THERE, | d Playlets and Essays. YORK LAWYER | Baier, ; . , WILLIE ! ory and mem: ry [neglected his educational pursuits © common her’ | He gradually lost prestige, and final-| * Hence, t ly was discharged as instructor, | than the absent ghees He drifted to America 1 in the} 3 i any that heave the alcoholic tyrant. From ie in love and d man of education he » are fow, and gutter. Like the haman | Raymond Tioga, Whose undiacove derelict he was, Smi | was tossed! Father Was Taft's Part- went tot Lite at love Is as a win-jand buffeted from coast eoast,| 4 day. sunieas and gray.— : t His Life in S hy of Patrick som lal the time fighting « losing fight) ner, Ends His Life in Se- w rec by whiskey, | *salnat the verage attle. He came to 2 how many years ago. The Ta a little room there died last records are cluttered with Deer Son Raymond: 1 ho é im pe Meet Patrick Smith, linguist, schol-/of his arrest, and always opposite that the dart o will soon and Irish gentleman. The death|his name was the blunt word break for you, and Christmas Priificate reads, “Death caused by “drunk | day may bring pleasant thoughts eattle no one Washington, 0. C.. Dec. 19, 09, His, Occasionally when this for (Whiskey downed him linguist and scholar waa “broke “ eowhen P. J. McHugh, owner of and his soul shrieked for whiske Beacon Hill Apartments, 14th he would steat 8. and Judking st.. called on nith didn't st ith last night he found the d h ply stole like dead, and even in death Smith “Coke” fiend steais—t near to his conquerer—whiskey,'to buy what was more dea maliciously ophe i im his pockets were two bottles of! than life itself—whiskey stuff which men put in thelr i PmOuths to steal away their brains He Wrote Piaytets. ‘ And during these long stretches i Gave Great Promise. ot dru tupor and © It was back tm 1856 that Patrick Smith wre pla Smith was born in an obscure Irish they were village. Smith was a bright youth, b8* writte and hardly attained his majority bis t before he was reted as a scholar, & man His mind broadened and he at last Hant Bbecame an instructor in the Uni-| thoroughly rity of Cork. But then came the knowledge @hange. Whiskey engaged Smith seometery | hp a lifelong battle. and finally won, “04 the like. Set. Before he succumbed to his| About a year ago Sr | Lived a Lonely Life. ealy enemy, the Irish scholar was a elevator at the Frye ho ab i the decision of the lower court aban tei os dissolving the Standard Ot! com Wing a perfect mastery of Gaelic, mouths. But one day he ie at ire pany has arou President Taft to lish, German, French and Greek. | And the end came yesterday. Smith, (ont ts w tiem: Skaaweni sais ting message to congress jar and drunke He Lost His Place. pationopher, sche an an agent. He ) ADMITS STORY OF _ $1,000 BRIBE IS TRUE | ‘ a ih Holzheimer Made Proposition, Says Vanderveer’s | Agent, After Leavitt Had Won Big Race and Seemed “Flush.” truth in mer special The Star this ‘Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Frank Holzheimer and myself each took money from Leavitt, and afterwards, at the home of District Attorney Fredericks, of Los Angeles, signed confessions to that effect.” Peyton told f ‘I hi mnection with the atte He blame ¢ as the acceptance of the ney was concerned, ¢ Holzheimer, although it was Holzt who suggested that Leavitt be held up for Francisco,” said I had gone to bring ¢ two prisoners held Mary Johnson and one Johnson was in idition to that e the neces- vations on either boat or TAFT TO ASK | SHERMAN ACT and in ble to sec neisco I had met at the St. BY GILSON GARONER. Star's Washington Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 27 The possibility that the supr «© United § Le rt of t s will up E for a modification of the Sherman anti-tru was cut down by an enemy wh for ype erst 7 * “ th AW end It was not long after Smith start never yet loxt a battle ee ee ee orrow tn ay and the {put over a brand of European |... “th. « sensor's greeting o adminint equally solic Pea his fight against whiskey that he! Whiskey—that’s alt 1 "(Continued en Page Seven.) Majestic ts th Every |homor that ts altogether ne The | Thi pdtv whi h ac-,0U8 in behalf of “business,” but en. 4 i: carrier and branch he em Four Melanix are among the great : a of 4 jowed with a keener politic nse © take @st Italian singers now in vaude- a urging the president to wait un i |PITTSBURG LAD WHO PLAYED DETECTIVE nore ene. | ree Ocoee aturday @ more et ee eee IS FOUND MURDERED IN VACANT HOUSE , and It poes, the » on tiptoe ss . president mma between q ae ate ‘ ; ry « {shows a whole lot of dances th Mra. William J. Ehien, of ge.|the he the h ‘4 (By United Pree.) ticed or dragged into the house by |e" make good |Ho one in this part of country n tresses longer |Of poll nds : : PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec 1.—De-|trampe nm the ever saw before cand She | Withho : as bes at Wisk Hides titan |. Another thacns which the| It ts fun the circulation| The Majestic matinee begins at got ‘em now eine Livincae tk cas create . a }to dispel the mystery surrounding | Police are working is that young | 4 has arranged for it#/2:18 o'clock, so of The man who has beet iin cretiwotas pects te CLAUDE PEYTON. x tthe or . a i Friel was murdered by thiev« plo T sok's bill at the /earriers and branch boys around, overtook 1 ast’ nint : Friel as iéyearoid rf agit om whom he traced de while playing | Majest ali jaughter.(nemble at The Star offic y he way t from chareh ar 2 belly was found tresen tn a vacant | setective There are Al Reno and his. “Mises feleloek at ther latest, if they are to|'em all ; E sbronk He wns of a venturesome disposi. | Army.” a « i hysical get in on the fun, it fe all free to 4 oe yesterday by playmates - np loan , freaks who " f odd 'them—the to the how James Lafeuve, of Klickitat coun- | tion and to shadow per Uckets reciate the s of clash | Francis hotel Valentine Peyton, a cousin and a resident of ees Los Angeles. My cousin is sixty ure of Presi-!y portant 8 of a 1 had not seen him y PEE kins. Neighbors heard groans emanat-| sony “for the fun of it th find y Sallie house will be handed ont by the | ty, aged 57, never saw his little 4( t i nt is that it sons “for the fun o t 1 Sallie |b i a , aged 57 a 8 predi , at it in a long time, and he was anxio Se Former Supreme Court Justice ling from the house on the night of| For this reason several of the |Stembler, who {s always a riot. head of tho circulation department | yea brother, Alfred, till r more and more confirmation |that | visit him tn Los Aussie See Will today be sworn in as a| December $2, but no one took the | detectives working on the cose are | Billy Coleman has w plano mono.|before the “bunch” leaves for the| day, Jimmy tan away trom home|t the public's belief that he is a/told him that would be impossible, Mepaty prosecuting attorney, so ag | trouble to investigate. inelined to be! that he struck a| logue that {8 nothing less than a! theatre, so come along and ge (Binghamton, N. Y.) when he was |devout aid eve fanatical worshiper | but when I found that I could not We invest him with legal a thor-| The boy apparently was horribly |clew which finally led to the dis. Scream, and Paulinette and Piequo | the game t's our day to cele-| 16, and never saw his brother, They |at the shrine of business bus-/ get out of San Francisco for three Bae (0 Sct as special prosecutor be-| mutilated, after which his throat|covery of a gang of thugs, who|®re two ecentric Frenchmen who | brate had dinner together at the Butler|iness he has builded all his altars, r days I made up my mind to i ee srend jury. In accordance} was cut urdered him to prevent him from| © rat >| and a long talk about old times. and at the shrine of business he! take a run down to Los Angeles, A wi motives that prompted; It is supposed that he was en-| exposing them | | keeps all his executive lamps z Ronald and Gilliam to ap = HEAD AND TYRER | CHINESE-JAPANESE Mrs. Sarah Crawford, of St. Jo-| trimmed to brightness; before them Learne of Leavitt Gage PR PAR & special prosecutor, b N TODAY) FOOTB ph, Mo., was sweated by the po-|he makes his « nd to! “I arrived in Los Angeles on Au Pie G2tine bis attention exclus ey io JUST MENTAL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS ARRAIGNED | ALL CONTEST Hee, following the arrest of her hus-|them he otters up hi e et 18, ane went orolig to my EE 'Miferences between Sheriff ON THE “APPL o WINDS UP IN RIOT) bana. They didn’t get any tntorma-| The Sherman. anti-t w hurts | cous 10 where I stayed t and Prosecuting Attorney IED THINKERS TREE Charles E. Head, fe j tion from her that was worth any hurts business e business While I was there. Very much to Var rand to the Holzhetmer Justice J he BE. « ve |” SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 27-~The | thing, but they did work on herjof Jones, Smith or , but the |™y surprise, T discovered that Val- £ Wom-Leavitt $1,000 graft. | (By United Prews.) | Claes. branch of the tree be owe agg vax ent a yr’s of+ }AevAneRe and Chinese of San Fran feelings enough so that she killed business of the Sta Ol) ‘and Senda ie! bade ie L blo ye : °7 ; ; ne county 6 : reelf after they went away. No|kindred corporations that tomobile business with Leavitt, As ; Up to Yo | BOSTON, Mass. Dec. 27.~—Mental | held « From the top a! ¢ic¢ ad with thie ouabaie |élaco have caught the American v t en | nnd Dotbing wublayectte naan % mand that the antagonism | and spiritual Christmas presents, | #fteam of tinsel fell. Bright stars! of $3,400 from the receipts of Ju rr | geoses ot th goons “rPhis nursing [the Leavitt case, T did not let that he sheriff's a yrosecut e out here ere sade o| prought a squad of ’ ps e oi be poopie One SRE “ye Been the sheriff's and prosecut-| ang not concrete articles and ob. | # ne out here and there, made of | curs court, waived 5 att & sauad of] Whiskey is whiskey, la the offl-|has gone on. so long that even al Worry me any, and when my cousin finitely and amic-| tinge! and {Muminated from an ‘ F eis thall field yesterday ff vey r jects, is what members of the examination this morning in J cial announcement fr the na-|/man whom we have elected presi¢ offered me’ an automobile and a inated with Fore: | Je h electric cluster above. The usual| freq c. Br 7. Bact all fight between | lal annow cy dna Main lintee aioe cae Pie right. |ativer with which to see the oy T and fury, r f Appited Though _got on | bright ornaments were on the tr bour er perlor acme ye cinp f of W. H, Taft of that city, and is|The Sherman law is unexpectedly |Sladly accepted it. I had met Holz- ne foreman of the | their Christmas tree, The tree was | also bg Of £6,000 eral hundred specta- | Of W. I. Tat romp been Sriae tha\ ners for|helmer and Deputy Gherttt Mise lared In he grand sot aa ssoaginaty one, but wae theres : It was aren beautiful idea, nger M. Gray and Cyrenus Finch fer it lwhich it was enacted—to curb the|Merman at Sacramento and bad ecutor nder- | in 8 beau ut no material | the older folks said, but the chil-| pead father-in-law, appe an Pr at wae tt ntest between lneadatory tnatincts of suck ter-|learned that they were on their awl betw - you sitts wer thea on i ie ae n fal ; 1 to appreel te the mental | sead’s bond. R Marrinatontn - I ial cleven and th ee TRAIL pea ta ry natinota of no inter organ t t en t's up he Re ry avis gifts and set u loud clamoring | y, py and A leet and Will ® Fuji team, They played | " Having @ tomobile a tue F 7 1 yaar courts of the land, to the astonish aving an automobile at my ee of the sect, conducted the for real candy and toy i Kingsle r r en for A ve : “ptr Papa t ment of many, are upholding its|disposal, I looked up Holzheimer sded ini fo Tyrer, Georg attorney ' 4 sgpriaen saat) (By Cited Prov) per |coUstitutionallty, anit for ‘once in aj and Zimme rman and, after finding mony, aasertin tip. Mada aba rey der PARIS, Dec, 27,—By the number | generation there ie a chance that|them, took them on a trip about the tr ng to do wo FRISCO CLUB WOMAN |CAN’T LEAVE EARTH Tyrer ¢ Japs won, 10 to 0, but the lof “expeditions” undertaken today * say? pelt, be done ie pats city, The next day there was a big © foreman then! IN JAIL—REFUSES | VIA AUSTRIA MIUS Ghinese aq rted off the ball aw|by actentiste and journalists in|ine puole, aut ‘ace at Los Angeles be- 7 sew Ron-| 4 uce for th at oT Jar earch of Dr. Frederick A, Cook,| ana from t int alan tween a Loce mobl le, the ear han- to the J ALL OFFER OF BAIL) WIFE'S PERMISSIQN|MOB SHOOTS DOWN | Hacctarea tho ant was theirs, they |who han imysiertously disap ed, | most forgotton, past’ the. atrafaing died by Valentine Peyton's von and I requested | rears | tries: | OREGON MURDERER] levine wort a |his discovery bids fair to SS lear ct cromory. canis to catch a iTaevits SA8 auctor maka or gee ake the mat-| ited Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2 | Janaal and tk thailists 1 1. tgreat as the finding of the North . remulous eehe. & isper on s ald | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.~AL-], Minifivake: for. amine * ida (By United Press.) ve j in, and queues, | Pol It--fe: beveved: that Dr. |c'ative tremens ava Mahoney op Holzhelmer ts Covetous, j n with | thoi ends have visited her|...,. ;. TAD ea is ee he Dec ntat i A. grid-|/Cook is either at Nice or Monte |‘ oe haw Gat It was for a bet of $5,000, nest of nd yn 1; though friend ba wieites her rights is @ good thing,” said a mem ONvy Snvyd who late Friday } ire clothing brelias, kn *, | Carlo. ’ : Promise CONCernINg ine Cart so and attracted a great deal of atten- req id fur | vail vith sifts of flowers and | | of certain policies % Judge BR ‘ a] leati@™? we @ 4 “ ane \ber of the Austrian embassy to- ! nig hot and killed Arthur ¢ < t and ¢ ng aroun |. tt come from the days before the |on- Leavitt had given me three | the trouble 1 Judge Ron-| books, and are said repeatedly tol ai. onus our 1 {t of an inoffensive sheep herde afin a mob of 30 1 Three Jay PY’LL OVE T me recat haBapaane fa ckets for the race, and I took } ald. |have offered to furnish the $500|y../ soe, a man ¢ the | fore taken away from Deputy }were carted off to the tal, an THEY'LL MOVE THE befor he r ir the yore aati |Holzhetmer and Zimmerman with EENVOSY: Caught him at his| bell necessary to give her treedom,| °°” Pahl a Sheyff Joe Cassidy by a mob of |the Chine ba TOWN TO RAILROAD Pefore he ran fod me, At the track T introduced the Word and said: *< fend pay < earth without his v ''S \infuriated farmera and his bod ‘ ‘ two Seattle officials to vitt. or aid so ahead and do| Mrs. Elizaveth Newman, univer nfurl nn fi nied Bone: 1 , a 9 ity graudate, club woman . and ws se a ; sddieg eit Neal cording «te jLI TILE STEAMER LAMRG 8 Bae” o7— Tht TEACHERS SELL PEANUTS vind adios fare ene . @ landerveer Agrees author, remains today in the elty he diplomat received an ab- | ney bigest wn “ town, with a population of nearly shoo 2 _ ; hae Ronald inquired of | Jail awaiting her hearing on @/gtract of a new Austrian law which |@eputy sheritt, k | SINKS AT DOCK 1000, will be put on tollers waa |Now They Have a New Piano in| money won by Leavitt—the PrOKeCutor it would ot charge of defrauding an automobile | proyi According , er The | u ¢ Colum ad ake Fyn 6 Their Schoo! -ocomobile had won the race— the a east set sae pe fe Ths of ot vet 5 pee ut no man can go ballooning | blew off the top of Greene's h t ed by Capt Goode, of Port. | moved “9g He north tty and told me that he was aw- Ney's th + Faga 7 ' apeatedly |e hp i attempted to 1 Snyder from) yesterday afternoon off the § peso me ore + tea WEST ORANGE Dec. gested that | see Leavitt and Offic: tigate the |i Bessie Murphy, has repeatedly |nayigation unleas he has first ob business men have bought a half by ’ “ Killing a dog to Cha ard O11 wharf by the steam ac t . : ent «8 The humble peanut is the agency| tell him that if he would give Of the divers of interest declared that her husband {# in|tained permission in writing from | section of land for a new townsite. pMtweon th t fan Franciseo, but the police have | py oarest f le relative of the | Beymer ‘ jer Tiverton, The Tiverton wa They will me t house, the {{2rough which the teachers of St Holzheimer $1,000 he would not Vandervee, 1 to give bene |boww unalie 4a foomte bis, The fleet degree’ " | jtempting to dock at the wharf and | They will move the court house, (he | Mark's public school here have se-| press the extradition proceed- P teat i the | gee ee ora Gime came iaat the gk BURGLAR ROBS PILLOW was driven into the Sound steamer | Schoo! House, the business blocks cured a new plano, When their] ings. | can't figure out now that was not y wan ae td bill for which she i# held| A clgver but very eccentric man,| Awakened last night by someéne I the strong tide. The force of | #24 the large resi ; + |request for this was refused a few| why | did It, but | went. to A “ * 4 | who sihgs comic songs with « great |tugging at her pillow, Mrs, Av 1,/the collision punched a big hole Weeks ago by the board of educa.) Leavitt and told him what Be ae on. re S per] West ineurred im hie behalf a a | eal of notion, wae winging on¢ pecan, 314 John atee j awe tall [Just Dalnw ie water lide “ot the pate! Akh) 6 e Redladiligd tion they purchased a quantity of] Holzheimer wanted. 8 Or the other office She stead e | a concert given at a lunatic . jraw peanuts, roasted them in ap ¢ a 6 0 ». | Colum nd she # © fast |* The appointment of Judge White| plain the events leading to her ar-/ 4 0 concert | given at 0 tee |burglar standing by her bedatie lumbia, and she sank so fas’ replied Leavitt, ‘I'll give } ne 60 > , 0 ‘alr tonight and Tuesday; *|proved style and sold them at a Y , ; A apa d ps re sclaring hee inno-| a pone Ay . |@he screamed, and the man hastily |that the thréo members of +the|* Fair tonight and Tu ay; & hp 4 him a thousand foe bes | Spprova ot ae eats wi be | oid woman, exclatied, wie san | grabbed $30 from beneath the pil-|erew, who were aboard, barely es-|% moderate east winds %|Kood profit to the pupils and thelr ferscuieiontcsiale . nee a the 20 | cleared up ip due tine. |ria “ead low and fled through the window. |caped with their lives, FOI OOO IIIT friends, They now have the piano (Continued on Page Eight.)

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