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FIVE ON THE HANGMAN’S SCAFFOLD!—A THRILLING STORY BY AN EYEWITNE the shuffle of feet and again the looked like choir boy priest and the deities in blue) “Grant me to live brought two poorly dressed men | Forgive me my sins.” onto the seaffold. | While he said these words “Well, the other two got across looking upward, William Sch in time for lunch,” said one deputy |the jailer, put the noose over bis | fine 100," ale lin # seat near me, looking at his| head and tightened the knot under | grabbed his head wate, the boy's ear jand it snapped mg “These fellows'll eat with them, Another deputy was fonged Gnewered awother guard, “But 1) same to Bommerling. enty of guess they'll all get there too soon! “Forgive me my sins! Forgive and 10 antes to please them.” |me my sins!” rang out the voice of attemptog aan * The two men in poor clothes|the boy, His volee was growing | monpla among Fy! stood on the trap where the depu-|louder; there was @ tone of wild j and reporters ties placed them, One of them | ness tn it | Why did we smile wasn't a man, but a boy, Thomas| “Holy Mary!"—“crash.” It was |of everyday things Behult: 1 J he oe) Becay FRANK SHIBLAWSKI; EWALD SHIBLAWSKI; THOMAS SCHULTZ; PHILIP SOMMERLING witietla. whe re old, son of im-jan awful thing to hear in the same! Because hanging sags 4 Borin or ie As one reporter |moment those words from the /s man who withemagg gt Tho brothers kissed the croaa)1 caught these bite of news as they)ined. I wanted to know whether | sald, “hadn't don anything but get | moutn of that boy, and that sound aainit to Menelt ho “ : | "And now we |But they came toge nthe He knows, in hig 1 s. But/ murdered man left a penn which the priest held to them. |talked: “Just as the writhing body | they believed in capital punishment. |into bad company. . ei tend we, heart ee es StmaR at en shod and baby. Why ‘don't they put| While this was going on their logs of the boy stopped swaying,” | Not a one of them did. ; | knew what the prayer was for John smd yEngemgy hye jd a “em hye cold, T What you HBAT at vaomne to itself (these four men in jail somewhere, |and arms were being strapped, We |"Strangled and gurgled,” “Twitched| “Capital punishment doesn’t keep | raised hin head and looked up, he |cement floor a tan by bs fellowma you what soc the life of & human |for tife, and make them work to tried to hear what they were saying |Mke cats in a bag.” “Oh, te that! peopie from committing murder un- fixed his biue eyes on the hi oe ee y Te—and that when Wy qenee Uy |support the two penniless women as the deputies put a white shroud |you taking my suff, Bill} Great |les» you hang men on « high gal-\ing: he repeated the words whic b Mee going to put down what Iland their babies? Ain't it damn | about their bodies, but we stopped |whow, Groat show, Three more to tly, fn banging! Ie, clv ization doctor back Inte p hanged. Press! Press!” a deputy called, | That nt that the dozen newspa: or a father) permen were to go Into the death | it was a dep.) chamber. A doctor tried to squeeze in with BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD CHICAGO, Feb, 23.—"How dic my boy die?” it wagn't a mother asking the question. uty sheriff, who stood Roa Le Loa : wn at the ew , lon wane 18 ar-old boy about} "No! Not You. can’t go with whose neck he had fastened a rope these fellows, Sit down with the five minutes before. doctors. You can examine the ‘asn’t hie neck broken?” In: | corpses with them. eisted the deputy, talking to one} The doctors all eat In chairs, at Sf the dozon doctors who were ex-|the foot of the high scaffold, Qmining the boy's body. When the! [ heard one doctor with whiskers doctor answered in the affirmative | talking to anot the deputy stepped back from the| “Hanging Is trap-hole, satisfied. j hee he said, What you see at a hanging ts|good strong me fone thing; it shows you what so-/a penniless wife and baby. with Thee ¢ in stilt 1 saw @ Davies tz’ neck doing the I 0 two hours plenty of the damn = footish- ‘Now here are four One of them has The w |—Junt_ ns ) Fl - j- sus “Urely af ft enae e lows, in a big space, where all the the priest murmured. Now, if this nigger! only con-|life Perhaps the b fol “Oh, Christ! Have mercy on my|fess before he's hanged, you fel-|more harm than a nal of men—at the seoie. 3 Pap Sommerling, 34 years; Thomas Schultz, 18 years; Ewald Shiblawski, 24; Ewald’s brother, Frank, 21, Thomas Jen », 35. ee two boura and 10 minutes there were gathered In the vast, high-ceilinged room 42 physicians, $5 guards and 20 newspapermen. They were the representatives of society, and T want to show by the things I heard them say, what bang ing does to the men who are not — Old Is Your etter and Complexion? Your hair need not be iio old. It adds years to your orem if it dul, lifeless and Justeriess. Washing the head gives that effect. It Is better to use & dry shampoo, like an original pack age of therox mixed with « cupfu! of cornmeal. Therox makes hair grow when everything else fails. Sprinkle a teaspoonful of the mix ture on your bead once a week and brush out wef It makes the halt light, Muffy and clean—full of life and luster. What woman would not look ‘young if she had a clear, soft com mn? Throw away powders and | cosmetics if you would look young and fair. Make a simple lotion by dissolving an original package of mayatone in a baif-pint of witch hazel, and rub gently over the face, neck and arms every morning. Your complexion soon will be smooth. clear and satintike, with the dainty natural color of a girl tn her ‘teens Mother's Salve is better than any ~-«lminent or oll to reduce swelline allay inflammation or relieve pain im any part of the body. Rub it In well—and these beauty killers dis- appear. Mother's Salve is also 4 wonderful healer of sores, cuts | —Advt. ‘burns and scatds. ported Holland Gin—Jobn de ‘uyper Geneva. Special, e hese goods per Brecial, per gation Laie prices oad are ar 28. This Bank’s Hospitality EADERS of this advertise- ment need feet no misgiv- ings about the reception they will meet with inside the doors of this bank. We find more and more that people come to us because they feel that they are well trested when they do come here. Rest assured you will be welcome here and we will give you prompt, intelligent and re- Mable service In every matter of banking. THE First National Bank Ovganized 1882 Pioneer Square, Seattie Interest Paid on Time and a | Gendiock TS $3.00 $3.00 40 Up 40 Up 1.00 Up 300 Up n Gr id Fittings WE ALL WORK £0 15 TEARS ig People’ Dentists DENTAL PARLORS Maret |footiahness to kill them?” There was the shuffle of feet on the iron floor and the procession walked onto the gallows from an upper tier, There was a priest tn | white, officers in blue and two men, roughly dressed—the Shiblawski brothers, All you could hear was the mur. jmur of the priest's prayer, and the murmur of the men, who repeated his words tn low tones. jthey saying? What kind of a prayer do men make on a gallows? No one could hear their words What were | WANDERBILT IN LONDON, Feb. 23. Sharing | various tastes and tendencies in }common, Lord Howard de Walden, | the wealthy English bachelor whose lengagement was recently an- n ed, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt | were until a week or two ago the | best of friends. Now there ts a breach. | Friction arose over a Wttle card play at one of the West End clubs, Vanderbilt sat quietly surveying }the surroundings when Walden ap- | proached him and made a sporting proposition. “rll wager you $5,000 to row you ‘a mile, run you a mile, swim a mile, then box you three rounds Queens berry rules, and finish up with |swords under any conditions you | ike.” | The American accey enge, and now the friends of both are waiting for the result and hop ing that no pacifieator will “spell the sport” meanwhile. KIDNAPED GIRL : smlS AN HEIRESS VER, Feb, 23.—-That her real jname is Inez Axelbetmer, and that she ia the ughter of a millionaire in Rochester, N. Y., is the claim | made here today by Miss Ensie May | Foster, who says she will be aided | by her father to obtain the $100,000 4 the chal | |trying when the white caps wer ‘tied over their heads, Everybody seemed to be working slowly on pi : the gallows, One brother turned| “I don't know, Tell your office \hia muffled head toward another, to look it up in the prayer book We heard the murmur of his volee.|They can copy it from that.” | | “Crash!"—that was the next| Two men were fixing up two oth- lwound. Then came the seuffling of |er ropes, They carried out the two the feet of 14 doctors, an they | bodiex on a wheeled table, covered walked to the two bags, their con-| with a white cloth tents twitching, which hung frout; “Both of their necks were the swaying ropes. |broken,” said a doctor, coming to The reporters rushed to a back | the reporters’ Me. réom, where their telephones and| During the lull I talked to seven ‘telegraph wires had been placed.'of the 1 Doing it in Christmas wi sald one reporter, ‘Hi s Du Jestate of the late Mrs. Hannah Fos: | |ter, with whom the girl lived nearly all her life, and whom she thought until recently was her real mothe Miss Foster says she was kid | naped when only a few months’ old | and taken from her father's home| in Rochester. CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—"Wanted— work for 10u0 down and out men.” This is the advertisement lnserted }in local papers by Rev | Thompson, pastor of the 47th st, Methodist church in bis uplift cam- | palga. |COL. H. P. M’CAIN | IS SUCCESSOR | OF AINSWORTH Onvuenis GENE Col. H. P. McCain, who has been Ordered to succeed Adjt. Gen. Ainsworth, who retired after charges had been filed against him. RUEF CREATES DEADLOCK SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.—The in the trial of former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, charged with bribery, caused by the flat re- fusal of Abraham Ruef to testify in the case unless all indictments pending against him are dismissed, is Hable to continue longer than next Monday, when the case comes |up before Superior Judge Lawlor. A Busy He: When Lord Charles Beresford wad in New York he told of one of his tenants who conducted @ small undertaker’s establishment in Wat- erford. One day he met her and lasked how business was getting along. | “Grand, me lord!” she exclaimed. | “L now have the luckiest hearse you ever saw. Glory be to goodness, it 2 naver a day idle since I got it.” ~—New York Evening Sun. | FINALLY INVITE HIM COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 23.—After tabling a resolution inviting Gover. jnor Hiram Johnson of California to |address the Ohio constitutional con vention, that body reconsidered this ‘action and voted to’ Invite the Call- fornia executive to address the con- vention, BILLINGS, Mont., Feb. jtana republicans, representing 14 | counties, today have adopted reso- lutions endorsing the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the presi- dency and Joseph M. Dixon for sen- [ator from Montana, | Montana Endorses Roo: Erwine | 20 KILLED INA Si MINE EXPLOSION (By United Press Leased Wire) , recovered, would bring the death M’ALESTER, Okla, Feb. —| hist up to 22. Others believe that 26 | More than 20 persons met death, it "Te still entombed, but the pas \s feared today, in the explosion at?! has ot been checked, it is tm-| pousible to get definite figures. the Lehigh coal mine yesterday| "The tire started in No. & mine of | when 50 miners were entrapped. | the Wichita Mining Co, at noon yer Up to an early hour today seven|terday. Many lives were saved by corpses had been recovered, while) Chester Caldwell and a young Mex- more than a score of others escaped | ican running through the workings death. and sounding an alarm, The fire Resevers predict that not less! ic still burning today in the inner than 15 other miners perished, and| workings, and the loss will be this, with the seven bodies already! heavy. THRE E LIVES DESTROYED — IN A FAMILY TRAGEDY A tragedy in which three lives were snuffed out—a double murdi enacted at tesa. the result of a family estrangement, with a threat. ened divorce as the climax. Mon: roe J. Palmer, a mill hand, 40, shot first, his wife, then Wirs, Mazie J. Carr, as she attempted to leave the room, before training the gun on himself for self-execution. Three children are made prac tically homeless by Palmer's deed, two of his own, Myrtle, 11, and Glenn, 10, and ‘one belonging to |Mra. Carr. Coroner Snyder ts to-| day seeking the husband of Mre Carr, to have this child provided | for. The Carrs had been separated | for some time. In 4 letter found} in Palmer's pocket, he asked City Marshal Case of Issaquah to send one of his children to Snohomish, which indicated that premediita He known to have purchased a revolver in Se attle the day before the shooting. | The Palmers were separated and Mrs. Palmer had threatened divoree, Palmer {s sald to have accused Mrs. Carr of influencing her In this respect. GOV. WILSON’S DAUGHTER |, HELD CAPTIVE BY REBEL 4 Presse Leased Wire) jat Madera Th a | " 6 | Mexico, Feb. 23—| ee to permit the railroad compa: from Made: Woodrow Wilson’s} to run a train daughter, Miss Nellie. Wilson,| until the situation improves. 20 years old, is reported to be| A detachment of rebel troops held a prisoner by the Mexican) S4rround Hutchins’ home, It is reported that a telegra has been received from Govi Wilson, urging that his daugh- ter be taken El quickly as possible Oklahoma Wrangle Ends in Split Democratic Delegation QBy United Press Leased Wire) = | Champ Clark of Missouri, the O1 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Feb,|/homa state democratic con. nae After wrangling all night in a| early today finally adopted a report less effort to send a solid dele-|alviding the state's delegation be- gation to the national convention at| tween the two candidates named, Baltimore, pledged either to the| All yesterday afternoon and du candidacy of Governor Woodrow |ing the night repeated efforts for Wilson of New Jersey or Speaker}compromise failed, and believing Governor rebels at Madera, Chihuahua.| The young woman has been a guest of P. A. Hutchins, man to Paso ager of a large lumber company | as { Dr, A. C. Koethe, “This le my first hang! and my lant,” said Dr. 1. E. Hoffman. “After this I don't believe in capital pun- ishment, I can see a patient die, | but to see sane men kill a well mau, |straps about his arms and leks. in cold blood—excuse me.” All of this ik was sort of “be- tween the acts. “Hate off! No smoking!" calied a man in overalls, from the gallows. The next sound was that of the prison Inmates, who were watching doctore who had exam-|the death watch, Then we heard|boy, In the white covering ty! rom the New York World. aoe = met = further attempts to amicably adjust their differences were futile, Gov- ernor Lee Cruce of Oklahoma urged the convention to endorse Governor Thos. R. Marshall of Indians for the presidency. This resolution was overwhelmingly defeated, Governor Cruce being about the only delegate in the hall who voted for tt. Then, as a last resort, a resolution was in- troduced at daybreak intended to send the delegation to Baltimore | pledged to Clark, but the Wilson supporters stood pat and the reso- lution was lost by a vote of 314 to 289. Caller—What’s ail ing in the back room? Office Boy—Dunpo! boss say he'd got that pound I heard the to frame a || speech, and I guess he's doing it fow can mountain climbers be believed?” why not? How can such a thing as moun- tain climbing be on the level?”— $3.00 POCKET V Baltimore American ry AMMETER $2. Tests from 0 to 10 Yolt from 0 to 36 am; struments are used flectriciang, stationary and he engine men, and are - larly adapted to poe th automobiliet. Tt is ) sary for the autom launeh rien, is, The y two in- Th t r voltage, In used for testing of your dry batter- Each cell or dry batteries ampere sid: t 't forget t working of bickeled, ina cha Welght, 6 ox, Spinning’s Barg in the city can see it,” said! soul!” His words rang out, clear as a bell ljoly Mary, intercede for me! Pray for me! Bring me to everlasting life!” The deputien the | were tying Another of them tied the white | he boy's neck. me! Forgive me shroud about “Savio save my eine ‘Listen to that pray,” sald a reporter. ‘Christ, | love thee!” young fellow eaid the he (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Following the deaths under peculiar circum wtances of three babies today and four others since Sunday, the au- thorities today disinterred the) bodies and are investigating a# Brooklyn infants’ nursery. The autopsy on the three babies which died today showed their deaths were caused by polsoning Dr. Allen, who conducts the in stitution, admitted today that sev eral persons were under suspicion. It te bell d by the police that the milk given the infants was poisoned. Bi . . ig Immigration | Co Organized) ngress Organized | (By United Press Lenses Wire) = | TACOMA, Feb. 23.—Permanent organization of the Pacific North-| weat Immigration congress was ef fected yesterday afternoon at the| closing seenion with Dana Bartlett, |Los Angeles, president; W. M./ Mitchell, Victoria, B.C, and D. O.| |Lavely, Portland, vice presidents} and C, W. Blanpied, Tacoma, secre tary. | Fifty cities were represented at) the big banquet given the dele ates by the Commercial Club b jnight. Governor Hay, Hon, H. W |Sprunger, San Francisco: John P.| Irish, president of the Delta asso- ciation of California; Charles ry Taylor, secretary of th eration of labor, and ©. ¢ representing Governor West Oregon, were among the speakers. oe nia nels Dada aig SLEEVE OVER THE FINGERS LONDON, Feb. -A wo man's mode which was highly popular in medieval days i® shortly to be revived. It is that of wearing the sleeve well down over the band, so that only the fingers are left re- vealed At the wedding of Mise Dag- mar Wiche, the pretty actress, to Major Edward Finch-H. ton, the bride wore no gloves, but the sleever of her dress came down well over the hande—ending in @ point Seteeeteteseeeeaeee Seeeeseseeeeeeeeeeeee ee ee ee . f Novel Divorce Plea | (By United Press Leased Wire) CROWN POINT, Ind, Feb. 23. —Novel is the divorcee cross com- | plaint on file here today by Mrs Ethel V. Bryan of Chicago against Louis A. Bryan, millionaire, of Gary, Ind. One of the allegations made by the complainant is that Bryan forced her to sit around ho- tel lobbies In the daytime in even ing dress wearing $10,000 worth of diamonds, “just to show off.’ 14,978,082 Growing Fruits TACOMA, Feb. -F. A. Hunt- ley of this city, state commissioner of horticulture in bis annual report shows the total number growing fruits in Washington to be 14,978, 082, The average annual valuation of the crop is estimated at $8,500,- 000 and the land is valued at $350 an acre with an earning value of 10 per cent. The total area planted to trees in 229,886 Southwest Washington Setters’ Agpney, Representing 10 Coun- ties, Through 42 Commercial Clubs DAVID P. EASTMAN 505 Lowman Building, First and Local Rep | AeD OFF ANDSs, @ Pron §) ACRE UP | | herry ontative, Terms easy. high Dag, With intere lie Homesceker to Ket In cheap an home, A location in Southwest Wa: om, close to RAILROADS and fi} markets, Good soli and water. SPECIAL No, 7 ms to sult buyer at 6 pe by $4,000. un pb is acres pom house orchard. good bar | “4 wo With the place, $5 PER ACRE and uy da, logged oft draw'6 per cent; Washington, David P. Eastman 505 Lowman Bldg. Pn ments hwest lows'll get a fine top-off for your | ~ day's story,” anid a deputy sheriff to the reporters. “We've got a good early start in the day's work,” said a reporte “Are you going out for lunch? Why | don't you sheriffs go out now and! then come back for the afternoon's work? You can finish a lot of men his rate.” | “Gee,” #aid a young doctor, com-| ing up to Jatler Davies, “I thought you'd left your handcuffs on that young fellow, 1 lifted up his band and I didn't see that another doc- tor was holding it by the elbow. I thought his hands were locked to- gether, because I couldn't move his rm They don't suffer,” another doc. wen telling the reporters. “But inn't there some easier way to kill a man?” asked a reporter. “I should say #0,” ssid the doc- tor. “They could put a tiny drop of hydro ¢; jc acid in bis soup some day and in an instant he would be stone dead, without a twitch or a pain. Or they could kill) 4 man with morphine and he would | } | A Small Investment For « Pair of New Trousers Will help that old coat and vest c. dunt what as little es 92.00 or will accomplish. a come up and see $3.00 Of course my UPSTAIRS helps as me light you as much expense Take Elevator, Save Money. 233-34 Liberty Bide Office. Open Sat Opp. P Upstairs Cut itOut Cut out this advertixement and bring It to my office BEFORE MARCH 34, And it will be good for cent discount on any glasses bought of me. H. U, ROGERS OPTICIAN. 905 Third Av. Night 1912, 25 per pair of Fixtures Woea Steet Marble PURCELL SAFE CO. Exclusive Agent for the GENUINE MALL'S SAFER Pretentaine Bidg. Beattie AMUSEMENTS MOORE THEATRE Tonight and All Week. Special Priced Matinee Tomorrow THE BOHEMIAN GIRLe , Seattlé Theatre Both Phones 43. TONIGHT Tomorrow Matinee and Night THE ROSARY Nights—250, 50c, 7 ___Batuflay’ Mat TEXAS TOMMY CA) 14-—DANCERS—14 = “A NIGHT IN FRE Other Big Acta, on 10¢ and 20c. the The Pachani Mining © employed an expensive advertising space te what its propeaition ie. every case inquirers has sent to our agreed the clalme made project and the for careful ter than this represented. Once repeat some of the ures: This company to @ quarter Interest ed) in a concession of than 20,000,000 acres, eg mineral tands of known gi value in Southern and Set eastern Peru, | : The richness of the has been : five centuries of mining done by the today they are takim much as $80,000 in alone, In wasteful . historical mines of the It have been left yards of tallings fi they fafled to remove’ gold. Values of fs Later mountains of these are on the concession: be mined. Your eve safeguarded as a ably could be desired 7 Peruvian gov in a sense, will be yout ner. The government gam concession upon &n agrems to share in faa net and because the company must make #4 accounting a public The company i Swiftwater Bill" Gals the chief owners tm cession. He is known America as one of a most successful of a He has sacrificed & other splendid offers to sass) his all in this project, betes ing it the best chance Be PM) ever had, The concession is one of i most favorable ever & ¥ a rich gold field, as tion of its terms will you. A transeript of the nal grant was it yesterday other copies are Of office. Ev proposition 4s in black white and a tor closest examination. The limited quantity of offered to the mains at the and will be a days longer, ‘The Teese 10 selling this is t acquire with which development now waiting may D@ 4 am Huari-Hwari Mining ( Tem 556 EMPIRE SEATTLE

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