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Gov. Hay let his “secret” out yesterday, He won't call that extra session to give the people an opportunity to name their candidates for president. ‘The stand pat bosses will now kindly do that job for the people, Hay, in explaining why he won't call the ‘session, reviews the various alleged “arguments” which the standpat papers have been harping about Hay says he has “given the matter careful and thorough consideration,” but the people know what that means There will be no special session, and no presidential primary in this state, because the Taft standpatters who happen to control the party machinery are afraid of the people. They are afraid to give the people an opportunity to say whether they want Taft or La Follette. hy | HAY, THE PUTTY MAN, ECHOES THE DECISION OF HIS BOSSES and delivered to the standpat gang in the nominating convention. A beautiful spectacle meow ’ Of course, the people who voted overwhelmingly for Insurgent Poindexter, who refused to cheer for Taft, the presi« dent, during his recent visit here, having been thus tricked and cheated into helping to nominate a man whom they do not? want, will march right up in squads and vote for that man Yes, of course they will—not. » The bosses in this state still have enough power left to lead the people to the standpat trough, but they can’t make ‘em swallow Taft. Incidentally, Hay didn't decide this special session que trayed the people, but he didn't fool them putty man in the hands of political manipulators. And so insurgent Washington, the home of Poindexter, the state where Taft was all but snubbed, will be bound, labeled i If mothers ruled this country, every if male person would be a president. VOL. 13. NO. 249 1B KILL ED 7 THE STORY OF THE M’NAMARA TRAIL How Sam Browne, Detective, “Got the Goods” on Dynamiters BY W. G. SHEPHERD ARTICLE NO. 2 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18—After lablishing the fact that three named Brice, Caplan and jdt had purchased dynamite which the Times building was up, and that they had caused the next duty of | mue! L. Browne | WOUNDED N DUEL (By United Press Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or., Deo, 18—Slight hopes for the recovery of “Mye terious Billy” Smith, twice weiter weight champion puyilist, and one of the best known sporting men on the Pacific coast, who was shot and severely wounded in a pistol duel last night by Captain Albert Loomis of the river boat We Own, were held out by his physicians today. Cause of Shooting. Pour of the five shots fired by Loomis took effect, two of whieh entered the abdomen, Loomis is held without bail. He is suffering from a slight wound under the right arm, which be asserts he sustained before he opened fire on Smith. ‘The shooting was the result of ant mositios engendered between the two men when Loomis married Smith's divorced wife three months ago. Mra. Loomis secured a divorce from Smith, a short time before her marriage with Loomis, after a sep- aration of several months. Loomis said today that Smith had often threatened to kill him on sight, and had sent him word to that effect by Mrs. Loomis a month ago. Loomis’ Story. “For that reason,” said Loomis, armed myself recently, as 1 knew Smith was a dangeroas man, and would kill mo if he were given the opportunity, Smith waa the ag &@ressor throughout. He followed me and my wife last night, and 1 tried to get away from him. “My wife and | had been talking of him when she glanced back and saw him a block away, apparently foliowing ux. I started to walk Detective Samuel! Browne standing before map in which vari-colored Pins illustrate the chase for Mc Namarae across the continent. it ts possible to see where the men separated, where they met again, how far the detectives were bebind them at various times, and where and when the fugitives held their conferences. Even that part of the 4 map which covers the Wisconsin woods where McManigal and Jim McNamara went hunting, is dotted with pins. (Mr. Shepherd's next article will show how Detective W. J. Burne entered the McNamara case after f x this we were tracing Brice, Cap , | lan and Schmidt from city to city, | by means of hotel registers. | “E put up a map in my office and used pins with different colored | heads to represent the fugitives and my detectives. A blue-headed pin | represented Hrice. A pin with « red top stood for Caplan and a black pin was Schmidt. A pin with a white head stood for me.” At this point Browne disclosed his big wall map, punctured with Angeles was to discover who |pins. It was a graphic description | Detective Browne had gained all the Caplan and Schmidt really | of the marvelous chase of the de-\evidence in the Times explosion and where they could be} tectives; for, by looking at the pins case.) it y description of the men was TL a] ee : faster, ‘and ‘she sald: ‘Are you pecce's m8. ANOTHER BLUE EYES WONDERING IF |=” 20° up my mind it was time to the country with circulars of- @ reward for their arrest. 1 it Gut 100,000 circulars to lodging satoons, restaurants, barber Mahone, railroad depots, boarding and even some retail stores York, Philadelphia, Chicago, polls, Boston, Baltimore, San SANTA WILL COME TO HER HOME “rics saw onset coma not got Seaitie, Wa. tet. 18, 1812 jaway and I backed up against the Dear Editor: 1 was reading in your paper the other evening of ol Gnee & building at Third and ‘Vittle blue eyes that says she never had a happy Christmas T am also} a blue eyes and 12 years old and I have three sisters and a brother, and | my mama is all alone to feed and clothe us all and she is sick lots of | the time and can't work. and a dozen other large I asked mama one day what 1 would get for Christmas. She said, | It was-a big piece of work | “You can be mighty glad, my little girl, if you get enough to eat,” but | it required a large office force | we have to eat every day and Christmas comes but once # year and I do it, with the aid of city direc | think that it wonld be nice to get something besifes what we eat. Do | | In this elreular the county | you really think that Santa Claus a few should have | a reward of $10,000 for in-| too much and the rest of us nothing? tion which would simply lead ithe arrest of the three men sce amen t't|WHAT COUPLE WANTS LITTLE JACKIE “yi” tenon whe] IN THEIR CHRISTMAS STOCKING? uch a long list of persons who} Jackie is waiting. jasking for the little boy as a Yule and my wife called out, ‘Billy, don't shoot; don't get too near; he has # gun,’ ‘Smith then drew a revolver and fired, the Phen f returned his fire. fell after I had emptied my re. fr. “Smith is in love with my wife, and ever since | married her he hi been trying to her to return to him. He hates me because | mar. ried her. ae aa BROWNE ILL (By United Press Leased Wire) ‘@ould identify the trio that I wasn't Worried about the conviction. I had Pall the convicting evidence that was Jackie is a very little boy, and |tide gift. They're coming on ev | te —o Po - oe = a a ted was evi ‘ ery mail, » the iliness of Detective Samuel Beeded. What | wan py 5. {he doesn't understand just how he But this particular Santa hasn't|/- Browne, head of the county bu te ue meng peat * | gets his milk and crackers three | decided yet what chimney he's go-|Te4" of investigatiod, proceedings D erhe circulars acted just s# I in-|times a day, or how he’s provided |ing to descend, with Jackle in his ee Bert E. Franklin, former E they should. I wanted to|with a little bed to be tucked into|arma. He's going to be mighty | Ge riety aaceek bribing’ or Miighten the three men and drive|when the shadows of evening|carcful—finicky, If you please-| Sulu nian jabout the future father and mother Bain, was postponed n to the shelter of their friends. | until 10 o'clock tomorrow. Frank was easier to search for them | ‘T HE KNOWS THAT SOME-jof Jackie. ‘They must have an hon |e a ane teeter rimation un {ter % Banker Andrews in order to|island and fined $100, Frank Net ¢ their friends than in the/THING BIG AND DELIGHTFUL Jest, happy, cheerful home, with it eee eee an net en ann’ {extort $2,000, pleaded guilty when |tleton 1 4 guilty to smuggling Hd at large. .,_ | 18_APPROACHING. Jenough of the “needful” to keep | “ rene: arraigned in the federal court this opium and was sentenced to .two “While we were sending out tlils! The motherly, sympathetic wom-|the pot boiling merrily for the) “Lady,” Sheriff Hodge's Cuban/ morning, and was given a sentence years at MeNeil’s and fined $100 lar 1 bad men combing 300}an, who bas Jackie wnder her wing | whole family. bloodhound, is the proud mother of | of five years at McNeil's island and and costs. R. 8. McIntyre, who was | of the Pacific beach in search |now, has told him so, Other! So Jackie is still waiting. But) several little bloodbounds today. | fined:$1,000 and costa, Breezer had | charged with passing spurious bank the sign Peerless which had been | strange but .kindly people haye The Star, in that same role of jolly |ghe gave birth to the litter this previously asserted that he never notes, was given five years in th on the Pastime. After search- | said so. old Santa, ts getting on his long | morning in the county jail intended to carry the blackmail) penitentiary and fined $100 and over the driftwood for several] And Jackie, with a tranquil smile | boots and putting on bis red-tas- | it ————--— | threat into execution so far as in-|costs, Rodney Collins, who con is we gave that up and went tolon his face, believes them. seled cap, preparing to deliver this fe ~~“ | tending to harm Andrews but he |fessed to stealing a ring from the} Francisco to try to find out! This youngster with hair of byr-|roly-poly, bouncing young present » had sold the letters that had | nished gold, and hazel brown eyes, \to some Seattle fireside. So hurry used in the eign. At the very| which twinkle so merrily at you, is;up with your names and informa store we went to we found 4| going to be the biggest Christmas tion about yourselves, you who! named H. M. Nutter who had | present in Seattle for one couple. | would like to have little Jackie for the « From him we g0t|The Star is acting as a sort of your very own, The Star just| ithe origina! order slip. Santa Claus for Jackie and for the |KNOWS he's worth having. | “By this time the cireulars were |juckiest of all lucky couples. | Christmas {# coming, and so is| ing their work. Ortie MeManigal) Many letters have been received, ' Jackie—to someone! the first of the McNamara - _ uh bi aac i sh He A d to see one of the posters. He SS =e =S5 =a E. A. CLANCY IN | Today’s Bond Issues | If you can put up a certified Los ANGELES check for $65,000 you can bid on teed one hanging on the wall of lAsaloon in Chicago. He has told me ee that my description of Brice. O really was Jim McNamara, was Perfect that it frightened him.| LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18—Ac-|0M® Of seven bond issues that are | Copied the circular in handwrit-|eording to Olaf Tyeltmoe, secretary |Offered today, The bonds include | and that night he jumped onto} of the Building Trades Council of $1,000,000 for the light department, San Francisco, who 1s here to tes-| $900,000 for water extension work tity before the federal grand jury | #24 $600,000 for park work, $150,000 now probing into the alleged na-\f0F &eneral improvements, mu tion-wide. dynamiting conspiracy, | Mcipal buildings, fire houses, ote., Invest Your Savings in Northend Acres. Now is the time to place your vings in land close to Seattle, The city is growing northwards by leaps and bounds, The next car line extension will probably be north and east of the university. Better come in at once and take a trip out to see Northend in for Indianapolis and the next May he went to J. J. MeNamara's And told him about the cireu It was then that J. J. Med er a Acres, Your choice of over 300 said: ‘Browne has got a pen|®, A. Clancy, the San Francisco la-|#94 three refunding issues. Th wo of my kid brother, You must | bor leader, who Is also to testify be- total bonds offered are for acres at $400 per aere, Ke him hunting up in the Wiscon-| fore the inquisitors, is in Los An- | 289,000. Torms $10 cash, balance $7.50 ‘woods.’ geles, having arrived here yester-| BAN a a LR Oe a em a err monthly, “Alter this the MeNamaras and igal and Schmidt and Caplan ‘afraid to walk, smoke or drink 78 public. They had rushed togeth day | ek tk Job Harriman, recent candidate| * * on the socialist ticket for mayor," WEATHER FORECAST * also admitted that Clancy was here,|* Rain tonight and Tuesday; * tr to the shelter of their friends, although he had been reportef se-|* moderate southeasterly winds, & ‘Wanted them to do. rously ill, but neither would say|* Temperature at noon, 47. * "While the McNamaras were do-| where he was stopping. RAKED OLE HANSON & CoO, Third Floor New York Block cry EDITION e Seatt ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH,, MONDAY, DECEMBER’ 18, 1911. Is Believed To Be Insane Smith approached rapidiy, |GO°. iso if it continued business much IN SEATTLE s ONE CENT. M. R. PATTERSON Indanity or self-defense, or both, that he had been a newspaper man will probably be the defense of Mal-| both in Memphis and in Denver. He cour R. Patterson, son of Former denied that any quarrels with bis Patterson of Tennessee, for young wife led to his coming to the shooting FT. Seal, a Port Orchard | West. He bought a fiveacre ranch Hveryman, about two weeks ago. near Port Orchard, but later sold it lHis father made a hurried tripjand bought some lots in Port Or Across the continent to prepare bis |chard, on which he started building lgon's defense. George T. O'Haver, a house former chief of police of Memphis,| Young Patterson has who accompanied Gov. Patterson e of constantly here, snid that young Patterson h been the victim of hallucinations for some time, and that bis father | He had been advised to place him inj and m a sanitariam. ly. He absolutely refused to “That would surely make him in-jcuss the shooting, beyond sane,” the old governor is reported |that it was in selfdefense. Ir 6 have exclaimed, And he there |rich Southern brogue, he said upon sent the boy west. Fr “1 hope you all will not publish months later the shooting occurred. any wore about the case To a Star reporter, young Patter According to O'Haver son, who {8 in the county jail, said | Patterson drank heavily BREEZER GETS 5 YEARS T. ¥. officer in the keeper who sent a threatening let- was given three months at McNell's the ap- being in than the subject under discussion. would seem to gaze far away ke his answers automaticn young Breezer, the young book Vancouver barracks, offered no extenuating plea this| wife of an officer at Fort Worde morning. was sentenced to two years in the J. D. Hamilton, who pleaded guil-|penitentiary and fined $100 and ty to striking a non-commissioned | costs. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—At- tempting to have Ethel Williams, the pretty 17-year-old candy shop girl, Dlacken her own character, by admitting that she knew Dr, Otto G. Josien, whom she charges with betraying her, wae married, Attor ney Samuel Shortridge today re- sumed his cross-examination, The girl, however, denied all (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.— ing street car, which burst into flame as a result of a “short cir. queries | cuit, sons are suffering ve that might have injured her case.| with severe injuri today. The 7} cue : most seriously injured is Anita Had- ler, 18, The accident occurred when the motorman threw on too much pow. er and a flash of electricity set fire to the woodwork of the car. Days BEFORE (HRISTMAS PORTLAND BANK FAILS PORTLAND, Or,, Dec. 18.--The American Bank & Trust company, Portiand’s smallest bank, was Closed today on orders of State Bank Examiner Wright. Cessation of business was ordered because Wright was convinced that the bank could not keep away from financial longer. He wasn’t clever enough for that. le Star | WRE ight about something else | WILD LEAP, estion He showed eA 1. It was decided for Hay by his bosses. Here's a new cure: Hay bee 1 himself for just what he is—# Ohio man, hurt } CK TWO SEATTLE “a PERSONS HURT Collision Between All-Steel Train and Freight on Milwaukee Line Has Fatal Results. ee ee The Dear The identified dead in the Idessa wreck at noon today wer Mrs. C. W. Barber, Terry Mont. | Pullman Conductor McKin Dr. R.H. Wetmore, Min- nea polis Meyers, New- nd. Richards and daughter, SSPE SE SEES EEE EEE Hy * * * * * * * + ney, Minneapolis * * * * * * * * * RERHKRHHKHhhh (By United Press Leased Wire) ODESSA, Minn., Dec. 18.—Thir- teen persons were killed and a score injured here at 5 o'clock this morn ing when a fast silk train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul r, road crashed into the rear of the Columbian limited. Two of the dead were identified as the wife and daughter of J. F. Richards, superin- tendent of the trans-Missouri di- vision of the St. Paul road, sta- tioned at Mobridge, S. D. Bleven corpses have already been removed from the debris, and it te believed that others are still in the wreckage. The dining car condue tor is among the killed. No telegraph operator was on and it is not known who or what was responsible for the dis- aster. The rear sleepers of the Colum. bian train were telescoped. Only four cars were left on the track Train Catches Fire The passengers, engineer and trainmen in the forward part of the train escaped with bruises. Fire broke out in the overturned cars, and the flames were subdued by the townspeople. The corpses were brought to this city and laid out in rows. Several women pas. sengers were among the number. | It is not known why the Colum. jblan limited train stopped . shortly jafter passing the station here. It jwas being backed down when the silk train cras! into it, Oceu- nts of the two rear jWere caught in their berths and several were killed instantly, Oth. died while being rushed to as: ance within the town, Several the Injured may die. Junction Point | Odessa is seven miles east of Or |tor a junction point on the Can a policeman sing? Well, I a duck swim, ete., ete, and if still | you are a doubt- | er, just ask the unknown woman from Capitol ‘Hill. She com- plained to the mayor and the |police department about it today Why, there's noth- ing to it—but the policeman and the scenery. This tenor robusto who lies back and forth at the be- hest of one Mr. Bannick, quiet researches of the Capitol Hill district, has those Italian and Span- ish tenors, who were at the Moore last week, backed off the map. Our junknown lady admits it. And what better scenery than the beautiful Olympics in the background, or the majestic waters of the Sound, as our warbler chants the voluminous wonder, Can Grand opera? Leaping panic-stricken from a burn-| Torredor or sings the beautiful role lof Manrico? Oh, you policeman! Can't sing ragtime, you say, That's where you're wrong, Elea- jnor, Ragtime is just where this |singer shines, Last night he war- bled, “Come On and Kiss Your | Baby,” which is rather out of date, but a very pretty negro ditty, And then he encored with “Alexander's Ragtime Band.” And it was great, Then he sang, some more, and then sang, and sang and sang, until— “Our unknown lady of Capitol Hill got real peeved—for she could not sleep, Not that she is not musically inclined, but she does ob- Ject to the ungodly hours of this musical concoctions. At 3 in the Pullmans | ‘mi the | a ll ll ln al a le in i la le »* * & Beattie People Injured in Mil- * waukee Wreck E. Lediand, Seattle, * wrenched. * Moraldus Pierce, Seattle, *® back injured, feet crushed. * * * * * * back EERE EEK Pierce is a mechanical en- gineer. His home is at 1800 # 37th ay. * Ledland’s name does not ap- # pear in the directory. *® KeKKKKKKh heh St. Paul road. A relief train front this point arrived half an hour a& ter the collision. When the rescue party arrived they found the rear part of the Cop lumbian train telescoped, with silk train and the cars piled hi upon each other and wreckag@ \strewn on beth sides of the track, | That anyone escaped is considered miraculous, Pinned Down by Seats | Digging through the wreckage, jthe rescuers found many of the ine |jured pinned down by the car seat, {still alive, but unable to extricate \themselves. Work was fi jly started to release them. lemergency wreck train arrived cranes were used to take off some of the cars, This facilitated the work of reaching the victims. 7 Killed Trying to Jump Two persons were found between |the crushed sashes of windows in the sleeper attached to the train at j Aberdeen bound for St. Paul. They, | Were killed trying to jump. Anoth- jer body was found crushed ander }a wedge of seats that had been \toppied into. the aisle. Not two |feet from it a woman was found in almost the same position. When extricated she did not bear a mark, and the only injury she suffered was from fright. She nad fainted and was at first believed to be dead. The injured in the wreck besides the Seattle people, named above, follow Mrs, F. J. Mather, Reeder, N. Jy Ralph Anny, Aberdeen, Mrs. Addie Dutsch, Butte. Mrs. V."A. Williams, Lemmon. | Mrs, Elisa Clement, Boston, Mass, | W. H. Perry, Vancouver. I, ules Leola Kennedy, New Castle, j Ind L. Rivier, Three Forks. J. B. Alexander, porter of sleeper, Ralph D. Brown and Dr. Shere man, Levi, Mont. 'HERE’S SOMETHING ACTUALLY | NEW—A SINGING “COP” , morning she has listened to the | beautiful tenor air from the Rigo- letto quartette, and then to “Kisa | Me, My Honey Miss Ivy Cole of Denver astone ished the sales manager of a sto | by counting out 1,000 dimes an j calling for a certain fur coat. | PRACTICAL GIFTS ‘OR THE MEN FOLKS |} Beginning today until Chystmas, th }} main “open — ev }$ o'clock it Men's Pajamas, $1.80, President Suspenders in Holl- i See 01 and continuing store will re- nes until & day Box Arm Bands, 950. Bradley Mufflers, 500. n’s Monarch Shirts, $1.00, 18 gagutt Links, in Christmas Box, Night Shirts, $1.00, Lounging Robes, $15.00. $10.00 to Men's Imperial Hats, $3.00, Men's St 8, $4.00, sik $8.00. Countless other equally deair- able gifts for men Do your Christmas shoppiag at the store that xvarantees satis. faction, Goods exchanged and. money cheerfully refunded. ny | Shafer Bros Rats, Arcade and Arcade Annex Manne nthincigntl

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