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st Trusts’ dom. CY OF MEXICO, Mexico, Jan g—The moat sper oll war fa the history of « ‘ ‘en fh Mexico fox t nev grab months aco fa the Mexican K Bagie is the between the eagle and Both concerns hay: methods of at of the common p gountry to their olls. TD a? tt has president Guillermo Landa y 4 federal le alte made up coterie of multiiltion wil of whom are Mexicans, g@toeption of Sir Weetman of London, England. company governor of the whic He Tt i thelr patronage on the it concern aggressor over re atarted in prices of gone a few price fixed by ttn has established retail every city and town of Mexico i! j ie ‘Ratives of the low “the ones who use the fefined olls in this country of these people cannot read tn onder them Baglo Petrote Co. © emal army of emoo'd congued who doliver addresses upon : has CTHNDARD OIL WEARING CAP AND BELLS WW MENIGO TOWN FIGHT FOR POWER Most Picturesque of the Many | Battles Is That Which Is Waged in Diaz’ King- The Standard OU ¢ h its B gahaidiary concert Ww Plerce Ol Co. | one F dle, while on the of “ Com de Petroleo e) A te Mex fon, Which, transtated English m ¢ | each day and finally atop at the moat public corners or upon the plaza le appealing to the| '@4" should be proud. We are de- ines the fact that the THE STAR 'M JUST A “VICTIM OF A CRUDE, GAME —HOLZHEIMER, Accused Man Tries to Ex- plain Away Former Ad- mission of Guilt in Graft Case, That he leh child confidence was the Innocent vietim of a crude game, was the defense that Frank H. Holsheimer offered to the Be attle Bar assoctation yesterday to |the charge of blackmatling Ralph Leavitt of $1,000 tn m Angeles under threat of dition to Se the. Members of the committer who are deciding whether Holz heimer should be disbarred, spent the afternoon Matening to Holz heimer'’s answer to the charges | againet him showing bright colored pictures of the | Holsheimer admitted that can eagle, the spielers of the concern ride through the streets | had siqned the confession admitting | that he had taken $500 of Leavitt's money to discontinue any further jattempt to have him extradited to ————=s | Seattle to stand trial for man } “With flaming banm | Mex! and hand out a line of talk to the crowd that quickly collecte.”—From @ photograph taken at Tampico, Mexico, rowds with concerts between | $2,000,000 refinery at Minatitian, on slaughter ce that talks are not being the tathmus of Te! wantepee, It bas Gives His Exow made. many millions of acres of off land and many produc vil wells. | that District Attorn Fredericks, The Standard Ol! Co. is fighting | of Los Angeles, prom back with all its tremendous power ail publicity of the m and almost unlimited finan: Hoizhetmer and Peyton played the backing. It is issuing @ series of |joading parts. Holzhelmer also In Proctamations or pronunciamontoes, hia defense accounts for signing Printed in Spanish and English, in| the confession by saying that Pred which it tells its side of the oll/ericks told him that they wer story, and gives ite competitor some | brother Masons and everything tetti hits. These Pronunciamen:| would be all right toes are circulated by the hundreds) In explanation of how $600 ov | of thousands of copies among the! marked money came to be taken Natives. In them the Standard tells out of bia pocket by Los Angeles His exeuse for signing it was “My friends, | am here today to give you a little entertainment— all absolutely free, | assure you,” the orator begins. “I represent the great Mexican Eagle Petroleum Co. concern of which every true M ing a great work for the develop- ment and upbuliding of Mexico. The offs which we manufacture should be in every home,” and so on and so on. The crowd is entertained with Ps hee atiag el an wns ges aes Sse Mise Ga se | Mf all Getting Ready for th che aii sat Sta, The band| seating tne development "of "te|tantany heats. getson tor We |} MA tting Ready for the Carpenters orator and his retinue go to another| "It le claimed by the Btandard Ott| tntiavned 't hayley or Leavitt | 3 at THhk=— . part of the town }interests that ite Mexico compet did tt } The Mexican Eagie Petroleum Co. itor haa lost more than $5,000,000 | is making much to do over the fact since it inaugurated the fight for that the Waters-Pieree Of! Co. Is a) the contro! of the market in thie foretsn That it {* country, ‘The Mexican concern waging a tolling campaign for con says that the losses of the Waters Alleges a Conspiracy. For a reason bot explained, Hols corperat) hetmer asserts that District Attor nt Claude B. Peyton, of ONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910 he! teks, of Los Angeles, and| ow Z | jcock, does a piece of work that has }gained him fame, Hb }the nerve shatiered |makes men shudder Master of Stagecraft in whe City” Makes Wo- and 2 | women shriek; many of them desert men Shriek and Strong |the boxe ; desing the elithur OF tua Men Tremble at Posthu-| act mous Play of Life in New York. JOHN D., JR.,ON A WHITE SLAVE JURY (By United Pree.) NEW YOR' Jan. 3.—Clyde | NEW YORK, Jan, %-—Jobn D. [Pitch tn Gee H but his hand has come ler, Jr, 6on of the oll king, pack ax fre ne ve to pluck the ainat his will tods heartstrings of New York with bis wp Ee |porthumous play, “The City.” ae foreman © grand jury callep | So full of horror ts one space of $0, Saveutiante (80 WHS! See |15 minutes In the second act that traffic jhuman nerves almost break; strong Rockefeller wa embarrassed jmen go Into the lobby after th |to smoke and try vainly, with weak lartificial amile ak the spell pear in court been able to |when ordered t avoid jury duty. Whe ap, by talking allly ommon places, lim court he aid to Ju The play is @ discussion of wheth | van 1 wish you would excuse jer the elty or a country town ts best me from this jury duty It is dis for men and their families, The |tasteful to me and besides I have anewer ta cyclonic it ts “the coun ny business aire to attend to try m not well | George Rand, banker, lives with wige O'Sullivan was not af- [his family at Middleburg, N. ¥,, but fected by this plea, The judge his grown children plead to move declared that Rockefeller’s wide ex- ito New York Hancock, the Drug Fiend, Learns His Gride ts Also His Half |perience in business and affairs im | Banker Rand has not been clean | 77~ ane ae —_—— - general fitted him for the foreman jin this country town, for he is the/the son, in a self holy way, has|telis Rand, ‘The horror of the situa *bip of the jury. He refused to father of George Frederick Han-| worked himself into prominence, tion that seizes Rand also seizes the @xcuse the son and heir of the cock, son of the village milliner. through crooked methods of busl- audience. Rand rushes to Hancock. | Standard O11 king. aaa by Boe pe Fecal ness. Thrill No. 3. “You must not mar. jbanker is giving money @ his moth.|,, During the act the audience sees) ry i bag one tnt Psond-apd SOLD LIQUORS; let, and being « half crased drug | Hancock. who is now Rand's secre-/and Clealy Is your own s IS PUNISHED fiend, enters Rand's oftsce to black. |‘#tY, take his drug Thea come five) Hancock is half crazed. His oaths fas act | rmmatl totes thrilts are real and terrible, as he calls, por the unlawful sale of Hquor When Hancock departs Rand telis| Thrill No, 1. “You can't fire me,”| Rand a Mar, Rand, hoping bis sister | without a license, and on Sunday as jhis son the truth about Hancock, *4y Hancock to Ra Your sie | will believe him, calls her. well, Barbara Harrison, an Indian |Then the old banker falls dead ter fs in love with no Thrili No. 4. “This man is your| woman, was fined $160 and costs | Im the second act the family bas; Thrill No. 2, “I love him and we! brother,” shouts Rand to her, Han-|this morning {n police court by jmoved to the city, and George Rand, were married an hour ago,” the girllcock draws his revolver to shoot | Judge J. B. Gordon Ne National Outfitting Co. rest corners co the merits of | ‘To! of the « Pn trade ie evidenced by | Pigree O11 Co. are much more than apired together to in-|} f “the eompeny’s producta rep a Ks sues of re-| ite own lows Bag ite business has his reputation, Why Peyton. it © ~ flaming banners, showing agin ena ate sincere, Pa party 50 per cent ainee | to injure Holeheimer, should do acte|t tetall business of the the vigorous competition was tn-|,). " t i} HUAI colored pletures of the Mex Waters Pierce Ol Go Th os : that caused bim more harm than fram eagle sitting upon » thorny Files a Sore | Serene ithey did Holuheimer was sot)| pany has issued a series of cartoons| The WatersPieree or Standard t ft h the apivlers of the concern i , brought out in the defenne. } throag) atreet { »| im which the “rooster” is pictured Ot! company established three all fe | The conmittee that tried Hols AeA wae each day and fi-| Seine driven to the henhouse| fneries in Mexico many yeare 680.|peimer will not make & report until | OF after betag “cock the walk” in| One is located at Tampico, another { pally at the most public cor-! r - after the grand jury completes ite/ i : the d begin | Mexico for so many years. The| at Vera Cruz and the third in this| investigation. All the punishment e of nyon — = a eagie” sits triumphantly upon the| city. The Tampico refinery te the| ina: the committee can mete out t ? > Lal wend P may 9 Mie \ berhouss where the “rooster” ts|only one to operation at this time ‘ig to recommend ‘that the Seattle! ’ Geetly cvile | supposed to have taken refuge It represents an Investment of | ne, pciation tnetitute proceed Od patent medicine If tt ts not Eagie tt is not Na-! $2,000,000 gold, it is sald ings towards Holsheimer's disbar a tt ts a tional,” read the billboard and! it is a fight of mifilons against meat | ha 4 : Sed ie proving wonder: | street car advertisements of the/ millions and the people of Mexico ~ Th M M All M d Some of these | company are receiving the benefit of cheaper # eee ee ke eee eee ee at ust ove erc naise farry bands of music) This vigorous opponent of the! refined olle than can be bought in| # * " . : \ f ee Sed entertain the| Standard Oi! Co. is operating a| any other country at this time BANK CLEARINGS, % The first Clearance Sale ever held by the National Outfitting Co. is now in progre — " = x Beattie. * Waist and Petticoat Weill, nurse, and how is our pa Follower of Kvente—A Harvard Chearings today. $2.708.70822 & this immense stock is sold tient this morning ?* | Balances ‘i We have already let contracts for the complete refitting of our store room, the work to ed earth shocks Wight Sat . Jamaica . t Two earth! Sef slight intensity wore ¢ WASMINGTON — Congress wit! re Tuesday to begin business rmest. The prevident’s special we the anti-trust law and Mepartrnent investigation Pome up Wednesday (848 FRANCISCO Dr. wh Se A Motish, formerty a prominent At Ga. physician, kilicd himself 5 chloroform in tote His Wite ‘commftteds wulc! ant a i troped % of the t nes te Motiend, Va. including theatre and tort : Hideo, td few hurt VALDEZ Alaska —1 BUTCHER WEYLER’S KNIFE IS READY iW United p i MADRID, Jar eyler, who ga be during — bans to py 2 i im, reached | Boa a (8 wi) tax - / £ Heyent anotier , Conditions Ba to be in an he lh was at : eves wil A ; “ ABO AL on, streogthen (sn MILLER ASKS FOR CHANGE OF VEN That 4 ster fought tone sits Venue {, ». TE Meted bur ciny GS Moneetion wy»), i hon, forming “He appears to be much improved | PTtessor favors # revision of the| . . eee eee ee this morning, doctor Ten Commandments irc rt “altve!” . | A Washington theatre for colored "Yes, sir; that medicine you said | Ultimate Consumer—Gee whit) Louie has been named after For. you were going to send out waan't| Upward or downward?-#t. Louls' ayer is this a forerunner to delivered.” —Houston Post Star dramatization of Brownsville? Your Choice of the Finest Stock of Japanese Art Goods in the City at . One-Half Price The bank wants our location by February 1 and we are forced to Sacrifice Our Entire Stock at Less Than Cost The guarantee of ABSOLUTE RELIABILITY that goes with ev- ery purchase should be worth something to you M. FURUYACO’S REPUTATION, earned after 15 years of straightforward dealing Seattle stands back of this guarantee. in It would be well to make your purchases at once before the best is taken, M. FURUYA CO. 806 Second Avenue commence about February 1, and to make room for the carpenters and decorators our entire stock must be closed out—this is the whole story. Tailored Suits and Coats, Raincoats, Waists, Skirts, Petticoats and Furs at About One-Half Price The following prices are being made during this Great Clearance Sale, and early shop. pers will surely benefit by the immense selec tion ‘ ! } and will continue until every Suit, Coat and Raincoat, every Dress, | i | Tailored Suits $26.00 Suits will go $12.58 ® at the one price of Tailored Suits Ladies’ Tailored Suits $35.00 splend at January sale Tallored Suits price $18.75 $24.75 « $32.50 $66.00 highly taflored atterns exclu ffered now ’ Tailored Coats Raincoats } Princess Dresses Ladies’ Waists $21.00 Prip Dresses in English and $2.00—La 1 Wa while i $26.00-- Prince pb ao iy $1 ndcloth ; 50c | $30,00-——Impo ad Br aio th Pri a8 $7.50--Silk Watsts tr 5 Skirts Petticoats l| Military Capes sir $7.50 {| $3.75 | ‘Petticoats. ..92020 AL. CREDp,