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VOL. 11, NO. 270 WINGER DODGES PERTINENT QUESTIONS Gardner, Star's Washington Man, Tells How " Secretary of Interior Gives Account of His Ac- = % BY GILSON GARDNER, 48 WASHINGTON. D « an 1 called at the office of Sevretary . and afte he gaunt of the doorkeepers and ee asked th ary two questions questions ewrttten, They were as follows as “Please cite tho aw or authority under which whidrawals . y jmay be made retroactive with respect to entries.” i & 90H the law forbidding employes of the land cffice trom : fhg im land cases within two years after leaving the pubiic i et your appearance as attorney for the Cunningham Refere Garficid at Mentor two months after you left the The newspapers Ywo questions pe Bal linss 1 at his desk and carefully read the ques mot jook ap. Finally he said:, take my own time to answer them,” fou like & memorandum of my telephone and office ad. that I may hear when sou are ready?” | asked. later f asked Carr about the answer to the que Secretary has done nothing about that matter Ow after that date | wrote a letter tp the secretary of the Teminding him of the two questions which I wished hivh to tl, “would Hke an answer from you to fons said Carr ne ry will att that,” he replied. Py Carr took the me da os ‘Carr to bring tt to the attention of Seeretary Ballinger geld that he would ed & note saying that if 1 would eall at a Mr. Pinney, would “furnish full in Finney says, The two quest Seere! X > to the integrity (1) of hin official nd (2) of his personal conduct Baftinger might say personally feed With interest by al! people the socalled ing coutroversy a month fcr the anawer, | think it ie fair to say has dodged these questions. ENS JURY A.V, BOUILLON, ROE THIS FILES. NOTICE in answer would, | am who are interested in the | ine legal pons! at Jobe Leo, an Join Brorins, « Coroner a Inquest ut 10! moraios. ; arrested tm | aheoting. main He Is Also One of the First Books Open Today. in self m : A. V. Bouillon filed with the etty Ree ia bis “Ayer comptroller this morning bis notice of candidacy for the republican nomination fer mayor, With Bouil lon’s filing, the lst of avowed can the twe tne jug of wine Claimed. rox had Z ae eat a swe ditates for mayor bave al) filed the . oa, “Sym rT .| fgal notice required by law Ms revelver o Three republicans, A. V. Boul) jon, Hi Gill and Austin KE. Griffiths, have filed notices of candidacy Charles H. Miller tw the onl# demo erat who has yet given the city $56 for the privilege of running for mayor at the primary » mouth Only four days remain for ffiing OF CANDIDACY THE SEATTLE. ‘TAF YOUTH STEALS 7 GENTS FOR XMAS PRESENT Will Probably Go to Prison for Theft of 75 Cents From Room Mate at Y. M.C. A. | WIth the good cheer of Cbrietmas jail sround him, and himself penn lems, Ed Randall, 18 yeers old, a roome at the ¥. M. ¢ A. dorm tory, rifled the pockets of his room | mate's « ers on the ulght before j Christmas, and today he wa brought before Police Judge John H. Gordou Beeause once before young Ran dali had fallen a victim to hin de | aire for money which did not be } long to him, his cane was coatinued juntil # state charge could be brought axatmet htm The boy told the court that bis parente never had cared for him He even stated that he did not know where they were. He has been tn the city several months, by aimed to have been unsuccessful m his attempts to « cure work. When arrested he had heen employed by the Underwood! | Typewriter for three days as mee { Songer SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910 An Expert Mechanical En-| gineer and Successful In-| ventor Who Is Not Given to Practical Jokes—The| Marvelous “Feelers” on| It was than I could stand, your hon: he #ald, a2 he stood in the prisoner's dock, his boyish face | prominent amid the hardened looks! of the regulars, “and | had no} money with which to enjoy myself [itke everybody else was dotng ore 1 waited until my roommate gone to sleep, and th | through bis pants You'll end in the penitentiary stern 4 your ways answered, and | young man sald the ‘court }ly, “if you do not mer | “T know he hung his head The amount Randall secured wan joaly 7% cents “PRIVATE CAR” LURTON IS IN (By United Pree) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Hornee Harmen Lurt@ of Tennessee, per. | sonal friend of President Taft, was | sworn in a6 associate jostice of the Vinited Statew supreme court to , © succeed the ‘ate Justice} Rufus W. Peckham. Lurton ix now |e member of the reme court }untit death or his own personal de sire retires him He in 66 years old Larton has antilabor cord as « / and his corporation favorit jiam has earned him the dte of Private Car” Larton. Much oppo sition outalde the senate house developed against him, bu in| those bodies. Senator LaPollette| led o small number who voted! No. RUSSIA SEIZES the notices. That another demo trat will file is cousidered certain | FINNISH ARMS by the politicians of the minority | / part | ty od Pree f tration for the primaries | * HELSINGPORS, Finland, Jan. 2 this morning in the re The Russian authorities today sine buliding, at Third and |seized 2,000 rifles and a million | ye) : Yeulor way, in charge of Win H. | cartridges which were being smug Samer, Suarovere Hanna. Under the law it is neces! gled into Pin by revolutioninta. | BESO Which the raitros ry for the elector who wishes; The contraband munitions, la papnice t of $209-| +4 vote this year to register once beled “furniture passed = the Samay tor sever ars.’ Goring tite year. A. V. Boulllon, boundary line, and tn a few hours trope Great Fs Havre. republican candidate for mayor.’ Would have been enfe in the store Pace. 8 was among the first to register this houses of the revolutioniate. The b Wash. we morning ne vigilance of the Russian the reeords of f "ie ‘ ers, urged on them lately by eke an yeeesing of TO THE RESCUE OF St. Petersburg officials, directed ey mare Pat suepicion against the shipment of Mes President Jas. 3 11 1 DEPOSITS GUARANTY “piroiccre favestigntion di. - - The rifles and cartridges, care Be ah the officiain «a M (By United Press. fully concealed tn a few plecer of Rapdits are implicate ‘ GUTHRIE, Okla., Jan. 3-It W88 furniture, were disclosed and were They may not oday by & man close to the seized The authorities then 7 things, o 1 state administration that a special turned their attention toward run. thee in any we session of the “legisiature will be ning down t on calle 18 to revamp the S RECOMPENSE * state law, which OR BABE’S PLUNGE °"*" gaghgar Twenty-five hun rated Priee anked for wy | tose geen a Mead. 2 Which little “ eons mad De he-old da 5 ; t eeniity of com LL Feeelved a a Beg ge : “en Wrhoon of 4 Mebreakh been rendered Was today 1 Po a aagpnie ds i % eoert aga: William Plumb was bleeding to fom par: a and didn't know it. He got ing wun alleges tha a Was faut was ha “ x; ieee . stepped et him thrown ih ebraska n't think b irinking until if he had ich longer he stting fray 54-40 Oo CHAR . 1 never eg MAKERS OF ms NOPe Is scarce) an y WN A Women i noe ensues (now the ber some Way foment < nat, th F “Then vou doctor The gray Ward waved pM be wate an ‘ », for the “Mot the vo, A momen: ta;. Vet ashamed eyntea! mY ete Ws lips, the Mefering wisi} 1. Be PR feats: f Cv aK he old lik Taw he we, persons to whom the shjpment had been consigned KNOCKS OUT 6 FOR QUARTER TICKETS His Secret Machine. (By United Press) WORCESTER, Manx The claimg made for his new’ airahip by Inventor Walmew Jo Tillinghast are, 80 more startiing than the atr ship's design. There fen't an airship jan. 3 HE SEATTLE TILLINGHAST, THE MAN WHO FLIES THE AIR OR. COOK? NEW ENGLAND BELIEVES HIN ce] Pa e eee eee ee anywhere like it 7 } can fly as no one has ever|® LIMITED TRAING FOR SLOWEST flown before.” he sald to The Star FREIGHT WHEN WE START TO FLY. correspondent here. My sir#hip|® ’ _—_ wilt make 120 miles an hour, ft'® Wf Inventor Tillinghast’: claims are trae we will soon be ean be stopped in midair, and in an|® able fo My from safe even safer-tham an aute & New York to Ch Adve we neduns voce THD hours When | get good and ready 1 wii @® New York to San Francisco in 27 hours stow it to the world” ® New York to London in - 37 houre The fact that not once, but sev.) Arend the World In . 9 dayc oral times, people in a dozen cities ® (Counting pecevsary stops.) (Continued on Page Ten.) \eeemeeenuvbow RHR DERERE REE BEES DID TAFT TURN MAGNATES DOWN? (ity United Pres) dae Untind Siew | CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jaa. 4.—The WASHINGTON, Jan, 3—As the! reply of ©. ©. Barber, president result of a conference today be jof the American Match company, tween Prom Taft and the heads |i, genator Charles Dick of Oio, of some of the greatest railways of the United States, the president's message on proposed amendments to the Interstate commerce act will who declared in an open letter that Harber swore away his citizenship 20 youre ago to excape paying back not go to congress Wednesday a» | ses. if awalted with much inter planned oat here The reason for the postponement The senator was auditor of Sum and qu nates ationing * fatled to) To was not given out the railroad =m SOUTH POLE eliett any information President Love of the Harrt-| Philadelphia & Reading, President Finley, of yuthern, President — Brown, ¢ President » & Hartford of the Pennaylvar New York Central en, of the New Haven 4 President McCrea » railroad, at (By United Prem) 8T, PETERSAURG, Jan Tro Russian army officers will attempt j ; 4 to salt to the South Pple in a tended the hs vg Me aw Oe swe dirigible balloon, starting nce ident Brown. refused 10 eee ee eee nding tae comment mit county th | HEAD OF MATCH TRUST SWORE AWAY CITIZENSHIP TO ESCAPE PAYING TAXES D, and he eued Bar. | | / WALLACE E. TILLINGHAST AND HIS AIRSHIP, THE LAT. | TER DRAWN FROM THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SAW 17 IN FULL FLIGHT IN THE DUSK WITNESSES WHO 1 eee ee ber for $112,000, which he leged was due the state He i the head of the so-called mateh trust does not know now what state he ie a from ©} New The t resident of, for he moved hio to Mlinois, and finally York | ‘ou started when Barber entéred the campaign against Dick and dared him to debate political! ; . ene | ment bY aumember of the Russian It is generally believed that the | nova: Geographical society. The bag hewn Mi a Gres —s ~y names of the officer were not) J. Plerpont Morgan's visit ree bed : dent Taft-Thuraday. The ratiroad | ™#¢* bublte . magnates didn't appear particularly ; happy when they left the White | BURGLARS LOOT House today, and it ts bolleved here|: RESIDENCE WHEN that their mission failed FAMILY LEAVES WASHINGTON Jan The #*# eee eee eee By breaking window in the federal supreme urt today af-|* ® | front door of the ne of Harry P. firmed the judgment of the cireuit|*# PROBE ELECTION FRAUDS. #/ Pantin, 404 Warren while all court, holding unconstitutional the|* Twenty jents of Bothell, # | of the family were away, burglars ordinance passed by M * ded by George Bott * entered: last night and ransacked 1907 a * d be ti gra # the house mn ix * afternoon and told «, Upon r ing discovering for a . 1 election fraud & his lows, Mr iin immediately re- The aimed that the! t election held * ported the burglary to the police ordina impaired its contract | ¢ whether Bot # |but, becanse his wife is out of the with the city and this was upheld|® or should not be { * | olty, he was unable to give a by the lower court. Minneapolis | # porated town # |seription @f the articles taker appealed, the cane ng decided|® &%| About €600 worth of valuable lagainat the elty toda HERE E EE ® Bre KONE R FIGHT 1 shall not go ito th 1! dough; clean limbs; strong fingers nt of ti o way t od art leg neck; wide t is chest 7 ‘ Se cies dee *rhen you ¢ me ht Cal nS . , houn Mashed a smile at him then—" Calho ' hin hand Vhy nt oF No, si ul do your duty I ha 1 at I e there | » hope for you to live failed. Ar you, ™ a d, Uf you t do your duty, there om 1 ough ndemn is not for you to die, John Dr amuel P ou five year x e thr A 4 pallor NDICT FORMER i } U. $. TREASURER TAF ONE CENT RONALD ROASTS PROSECUTOR AND POLICE OFFICIALS Accuses Former of Com- pounding Felonies and the Latter With Protecting Vice. Judge J. T. Ronald, who today as ed charge of the criminal department of the superior court of King county, sum- moned the gr try before him ¢ nanded that the jurors go to the ver of graft and malfeasance in office in the county The « plain and explicit in his arraignment of the He prosecuting attorney's office handed the foreman of the jury a number of letters which had come to hit during the last few days, stating that these showed conclusively a carnival of crime, gambling and prostitutiog which coul t exist if it weve not protected. JUDGE CITES SPECIFIC CASE. On last Frid. Judge Ronald told the jury, a police set~ gweant had orn to a complaint charging a hasband with in- anity, when as a mat f fact a er had stolen the wife of that hu to get the husband out of the way. The man wa not t isane and proved that when ca t ce s police sergeant had offered hin ie he 1 leave town, The man refuse whereupon the insar complaint was sworn to, showing that the lover must have been back of the case and Judge Ronald did not mention the name of the sergeant, that of Clinton that Sergeant Al Ryan swore to the complaint, REFERS TO THIRD DEGREE. Judge Ronald then took up the third degree. He said if third ot as it was a cri arned the case he referred to but it wa Willard, and vas made this county the court wanted to b about it And following th the judge told the degree methods were use against the public, denunciation of the abuse of prisoners hat it should look into the actions of the prosecuting attorney and if the jury found that the prosecutor was acting as a police er, he was acting outside of his authority 1 ‘ He de ed that it was a netorious fact that gambling cuting a A ffice, and he demanded of the jury that it look into this matt Fol g ul the dge ins ted the jury to go into the Holzheimer-Peyton blackmailing case and also to sift to the bottom the Hodge-Vanderveer controversy MRS, JANSON IS AGAIN FREE COUNCILMAN TO BE BURIED TOMORROW | (Ry United Preen> The funeral of ¢ ree is finally treed WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—James|¥. Pa wt George, seeker of Huston, former treasurer of the | ing of stoma ouble nvict United States, was tidicted ton a porge appeared be- lice A. W. Frater t the federal grand ry, charged | from the € “a al ties which with conspiracy and fraudulent use} The intert will t ra athecuae of the mat Hustor tment | cemeter " he rt the at- was caused by his connection with tc torney for Mrs m-Goorge said | that George is now in New York | the National Trost company. Other M Parker had be ty with Mary EB. Ritter-George, |persons indicted were Sam on trouble psa whe. Giika. oahu ae ham a wealthy Monte ) h came very a ; ; pony broker, Everett Dufour of Washing 1 was n 54 years age ent { the charger pree mn and Henry M. Lewis, all of! in 1 and o the West in nr aniee compan |WRIGHTS ENJOIN MORSE REACHES PEPPER THROWER IN COURT.| AVIATOR CURTIS PENITENTIARY Richard D. Hard the ung tal who threw a handful of pey (Hy Catt — per int he es af Re BUFFALO, N (By United Press. Fuhrman and robbed he " eral Judge Haxe Na ATLANTA, ( ; a than $4 ral days ago, was|injunction against Glenn Curtiss,|W. \ t okies rraign@d before Judge R it the aviator, whic sked by . to da He was given unti! Saturday | Wright brothe The W t he to enter ay © & charge of re ged in certa f an of be their pe f ght—y ian. H r the cal plication ary of beer D ( be a treaty of annexatl A NOVEL OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT, BY EMERSON HOUGH, AUTHOR OF “THE MISSISSIPPI! BUBBLE” (Copyright, 1909, The Bobbs-Merrill Company