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We Z, 4 on dwell upor the price of coal, o: rents, or of these tions of you can page 4 what the fice boy what's New Y a and j v Ue life,” xcessive irrita when to read ot of in turn nior writes on 8 14, VOL. NO, 244 ——— The Seattle Star THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER § IN SEATTLE fo mtatt de WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER Ns NE - HOME 10, ON THAT NWS STA AND > 1912. ONE CENT when all to do to er (to is to to Oth and are made Do you read letters, on worry, you've got prob write a ynth { nsv m letter la Grey ew EDITION oe ILD STORAGE FISH DUMPED ON SEATTLE MARKETS WHILE — _ NORTHWEST FISHERMEN HOLD OUT FOR LIVING WAGE RATE iE CONDEMNED DEATH UP LEM GALL s Arrangements for Hanging; Spends Weeks in Preparing swell Speech. E. 0. SAWYER, JR. iD, Dec. 10 “An eye for an-eye HERE’S CHAP WHO GOT EVIDENCE AGAINST JUDGE and a tooth] men died a bloody death down in Oregon, so five to be trussed up Tate hole to dangle the prison morgue, like partridges and dropped for a while at the end of a the quick-lime pit, and .they to join their victims p dust returneth.” Jaw of man and God will have been fulfilled. staged in Salem Friday, the 12th. : aod will ve but ei in their |8nd also killed my best friend, so “ay to explain T determined Condemned to permit from Gov set a single date of these five men of Oregon mix ht lesson” of what when hey refused. | three sons died on the gallows.” the abolishinent | it, T went into} to the cells of the | down in of them. a afraid to die?” not rather "gaind made up.” he/ guard and ali the prisoners. are op- Dy-|posed to his execution. mind it much. |did not shoot until his first blow fell. The bullet went through him you « this.” | When the governor asked Taylor | jwhat he wanted, Taylor replied Guess about ¢ only thing you) can do for me jo see to it that the mother doesn't died. You see she is nearly ready to go, too, and it wouldn't be nice for her to hear that one of her e lam paying pretty well for Hie Mother Won't Know The governor promised, and so |dear old Mother Taylor, who lives California, will be told that John “had a bad accident.” | While waiting for the people to vote og the antihanging Dill, which was défeated two to one, Taylor worked In the prison machine shop. | No death cell for him. Every There is| op soepins a life-|no danger of his trying to escape ‘were trying - “Cell three” up by him. e beck, a derartty i with fear and seare This, his maiden and final OUF export trade, and too little of |come a barrier between the people | appeals for the enactment of a law fie pans bis it effort, is to be made from the iowa platform. The warden pon. | Sromized to let Prank talk 10 min.| fot awakened to the real value of | loc He probably would | his friends spirited > Frank Garrison, wi way occupies paring to make the speech of his| Frank never epoke in public | I ae utes. For weeks he has been pre-| paring for this event. He has writ- ten and rewritten his oration. | Consider now the price of dogs. | Noble Paulder, working in a grad- ing camp out at Klamath Falls, owned adog. So did his friend. These two dogs made the life of the camp cook miserable, by steal- ing eatables every time his back was turned. Returning t6 camp one night, Faulder’s friend found his dog dead. He blamed the cook. Faulder ven- tured to remark he would let day- light through any cook that killed | his dog. Next night Faulder's dog was found dead. It took him just 10 seconds to fulfill his threat against }the cook. Faulder faces the gal- ee silently, refusing to see any- onsite Morgan killed his partner s for he came at}down on the Rogue river and was nati threatening to | caught i warned him to touch me, and running away with the horse. He confeaséd and ia wait- ing death without hope. “CHIMNEY KIDS ARE 5T0 HAVEHAPPY XMAS; HIMNEY FOLKS GIVE | Claus and The Star | ‘8 6,000 little the Christmas lives, of they real-| & Job on their bands. | of the co-opera-| mney folks, espe himney folks who Chimney kide and ten how it fee Is at Christmas Of confidence w there are a lot n care of. tree that ev be loaded a groan, its enough to yh enough yet & dandy start to the contributio dare lan Pacific if the as of We land to the er until ite re go ne 00 | them.” 8838883 8 8 American Express Co.).... “Don't publish” . Mr. Allis (Chambers & Allis). {Seattle hotel (Mr. Dicken- Simons’ Mfg. Co. “Don't publish” ... Hanson & Co. “Don't publish” . Standard Fur. Co... McRae & Branigan Co y Augustine & Kyer ....10 Ibs. candy Imperial Candy Co....30 Ibs. candy | Leslie-Power Grocery.1 box oranges | | J. W. Godwin Co...2 bxe. Jap orang: “Don't publish’ . 100 Ibs. nuts J, B. Powles Co... M. Seller Co.. “I have no money to help the lit- jtlechimney children,” writes a | Woman reader of The Star, “but I would be glad to dress 10 or more. dolls, if some’ store wilh-furnish The Star suggests that sewing circles and similar organizations of women gather up as many dolls as) possible and devote their next |meeting to making clothes for them. | This would at least vary monotony of making nighties the heathen, PRESENTS OR MONEY CAN BE LEFT AT THE STAR'S CHRISTMAS STORE ROOM, 521 UNION 8T. the for WRISLEY BROWN, 35, | Specialist assistant to the United | States attorney general, who dug up facts leading to Archbald's im beachment and is now helping to Dresent the WILL JAPS GET ALL THE GOOD FROM CANAL? By United Prees Leased Wire ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 10—That Japan and other nations will derive walk back if| more benefit from the opeving of | jud: | the canal than the, United States it {self, was the startling decta on the Panaman canal conference import trade,” sald Barrett. “Amer-| }iean ship owners apparently have the canal.” Barrett scored the high tolls fix ed by congress, urging the reduc tion of the present charge per ton to 75 cents. CANAL WILL BRING IMMIGRANTS HERE CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Tha’ 56,000 immigrants from Southern Europe will be landed upon the Pacific coast within two years after the opening of the Panama canal is the prediction here today of Graham Taylor, chairman of the national conference of charities and correc tons. edad detente dade ee ee * Generally fair fonight and » * Wednesday; Night easterly w * winds. Temperature at noon, * ® 42. RERRGRABARERRERERE SANE ANSWERS TO FOOLISH QUESTIONS can T get rid of freckios?. od Pete Leave your face in a basin of| water overnight and run over the| freckles with a lawn mower in the morning. If the lawn mower doesn't work, try a razor. What fs the Hon of the library on th for?--Inquiaitive Ag It’s there to seare away the book worms. ead in front purth av. eide What book shall I get in order to} acquire wisdom ?—Kager Ethel. Fakineki’s dissertation on Tranalucence of Astronomical osophy. the Phil What can I do for a red none? ‘| Tipsy Timothy. Wear a mask ROOSEVELT TO GIVE UP LEADERSHIP Roosevelt “Tells Con- ference New Party Is Here to Stay. By United Pree Leastd Wire Dec. 10—Speaking Moose conference 0. Roosevelt, by Inference only, eliminated him- self the real leader of the new ive party. He inelsted that the party had come to etay and jpleaded for its re ntatives in Y progressive ley: | rograms into effect, espe clally legisiation which provides for federal Roosevelt sald in pert: We have fought a great fight. } We accomplished more in 90 day than ever any other party tn hie | tory accomplished tn mueb time. | We forced all the other parties and | candidates to at least give lip sery fee to progressive principles.” Favors Contributions “Il am willing that the party should take larg tributions if honestly offered without condition | or reservation and on exactly the! same terms and exactly the same epirit as small contributions. The real test for such gifte la the mo tive, and not the size He said the tmmediate work of the party ‘ts (to establish party {principles outlined in its platform of leatslation. He urged direct pri jose before the 1 senale.| maries everywhere and a campaign | Ct of $109,000 tn stocks and | of education to inform the people on the merits of prokressive, social and economle problems “Divine Right ot Jud “No party which denies to the | people the right to secure justice, |euch as we progressives propose, | has the right to claim credit for sin jeerity in any effort or work for adi clal and industria! justice. The doctrine of @ divine right of to rule the people is every | wi a ignoble doctrine of the diving right of kings. The con- } kable par " th row, Is pre-made by John Barrett here today at|etitution was created to secure jus | Sarah Harris, the remar a te , | thee, and we progressives refuse to lalytic patient in the Audubon san “We are thinking too much of | allow it to be so perverted as to be-|itarium, who has made two public is ab land justi “In the itter of leadership, both | and national, we may trust to events of the next year or two to dev our ablest and moat re- poacam men and for every posl- ten a@ leader must be chosen, not with reference to his own desires, but solely with regard to the needs of the people. No man should come Into the party with the idea that he can establish a claim. He must be leontent with the opportunity it of- \fers for service and sacrifice.” UNION PACIFIC TO TAKE OVER OREGON LINES? PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 10.—To preserve the continulty of ite lines lfrom Kansas City and Omaba to Portland by complete absorption of ithe Oregon-Washington Rallroad &) Navigation Co. and the Oregon} Short Line, is today reported to be} the plan of the Union Pacific i | Tho roads, it is stated, will be} placed under one distinct manage-| | ment, in conformity with the recent | merger decision, the smaller lines completely losing their identity However, the Union Pacific owns }less than 50 per cent of the O.-W, R. & N. stock, and it Is believed | the majority holders are in « mood} to contest the merger. PREACHES AGAINST WOMEN’S CLOTHES COLUMBUB, Ind4., Dec, 10 Rev | Dimitt, a Methodist preacher, cre- jated a sensation in this city by a| sermon directed against the mode| of street dress now popular with| | women. A special portion of the} | sermon was the quotation from the | pulpit of aegpotloging lines ‘u look so #mall, Little girl, } Don't » clothes at ali? or shirt? olty skirt? your hose? Are thene all your underclothes? MR. STEW PUTS ONE | prolonged misery THE $100,000 BRIDE ‘Strikers Brave supervision of trusts. | MRS. LEWIS A. JEFFS | ‘This in Mra. Lewis A. Jeffs, formerly Mies Selma Ward, known a8 the $100,000 bride Mrs. Jeffs tas been honeymooning in the Orient. She has just tétaraed to take up her residence in Salt Lake City, where her fathet, Col. BK. A. Wall, millionaire, who gave her a we hax provided a axe & few thousand dollars the oduple. sald cottage cos exert ee - mot jres WIFE OF EX-PRESIDENT TO HELP WOMAN SUFFERER GET LAW TO PUT HER TO DEATH DY Ainjrod Frome Leased Wire Mre NEW YORK, Dec. Harris was end wir to me idiom that time nly the mat 10.—Mre. with pa has ff muscles of he able 8h the head and Her 40 years o! mother of two children band is a salesman itting her physician to end hers suffering by death, wrote a) ra. Cleveland is the most gfe lthat wilt give her relief, Physi and unaffected woman with | Clans have told her that she is the whan I have ever spoken,” said | Victim of spinal trouble which bas Mra Harris. “She will bring to|"esulted in paralysis although my help the counsels of wise peo-|they have been unable to escer ple. | am as much in need of re tain the exact nature of the mal-/ Het jas when I made the first ap-|8d¥. She belleves the le exialature | The law does not scruple to should make it possible for doc-| Ky life for life. Why may not|tor# to end her life and the lives| the flaw become an instrument of /Of All such wretched sufferers, | merpy, a8 well as vengeance? Mra. Harris was first stricken} si early in 1909 while out walking, | Appeale to Public. and the next day she was com-| Mrs. Harris made a grim appeal| pletely paralyzed. The physicians | people of New York last/at the Audubon hospital say no| mber to have a law enacted | change has been discernible in the | whieh would enable a practicing; woman's condition for the phypician to ond her Mra. Harrie suffers constantiy,! el Inst | life and her |; and that she may live 10 or| 5 years more ee i PORTLAND, Or.—JOHN RAMM, JUROR, COULDN'T DECIDE | against 4 cafe alleged to have sold liquor illicitly because the chill | tarne sold there was his favorite dish. “Would starve to death| if they closed that place up,” he remarked. Hung jury PORTLAND, OR.—"“GUESH WOODROW'LL HAVE TAKE ‘CAN’ outa Kanaas, for ‘e will make it prohibish,” declared Sam Long, habit- | wal“souse” to an officer. Sam's harangue tipped off his real condi tion. Sam is today describing circles with a sledge hammer SAN FRANCISCO.—TEETOTALING WITH THE NAME OF Louis Licker is a hard proposition, according to that individual, who is in jal because he tried to absorb too much “licker” and then lick everybody in sight SAN FRANCISCO.—AN EXCITING “SILENT” DRAMA WAS EN actdd in “Cupid” Munson's office when Ralph Mier and Grace Clogr, mutes, applied for a marriage license while Mier's father pro tested vigorously in the sign language. Munson failed to compre hend. LOS ANGELES.—J. C. COLLINS HAD $3,500 it beneath a shade in Elysian park. testified she ferreted {t out and dug month until the court locates the poke AND HE BURIED In his wife's suit for divorce he if up. He must $10 OVER ON FRIEND WIFE PLL GO UP THE FR STAIRS = Mic U EASILY So MY Fresh Catches From Few Independ- ent Boats Sent to Eastern Buy- ers; 11 Vessels Tied Up Here. Death 16 or 18 Hours a Day, Officer of Union Declares, for Meager Pay. halibut are being the result of the fish fishert ince th umped the cr trust, whict The market W Vancouver Northw a of the against been on upply for the east- on the catch ted to reach the teamboat in the and all lying 3c “Flumingo” will soon as aed touch port. erm } xcept this been tle, Tac The remaining Price Advances The fishermen are demand increase of one-half cent a pound on their catch, They have been ng OBe cent a pound The fish trust, which the five biggest comy Northwest, the Chlope ish the San Juan Fish Co. the Inde ent Fish Co. Ir fiona! Fish Co ma, and the New Eingland Fish of Vancouver, B. C., are now getting thelr fresh halibut supply by ct purchase from owners of 1 inde fent fishermen op Sting sch gasoline launches ith the ¢ port est has trike are useless in Seat Vancouver awn inte radi »rs that come from weather in winter, In especially, when the catch men have gone out for three weeks, and have able to earn only $10 alto- They deserve and fully a little increase.” of the fishing is now being off Vancouver Island, B. C, Northwest companies, and off Ketchikan, Alaska. The strike affects only steam- boats engaged in fishing. On the cruisers and gasoline boats, the ar- rangement between the fishermen and owners is such that the former get a share of the profits from the e of the fish, instead of depend- 1g on an out-and-out rate-schedule includes Co. The price of halibut, as a result has jumped during the past week from 6 to The fish trust is buying it cam get, and ship ping it astern market for every pound caught. come at d'or Sa"everone “© DREADNAUGHT ” RAMS STEAMER; MA ven pie CREW IS LOST to the 8 ¢, Tacoma, 1 the of the rkets, | steamboats are by the strike. In Seattle, the fol-| By United Press Leased Wire lowing & idle The “Chi PLYMOUTH, Eng., Dec. 10.—The og - 2 tod “ery ©o.. new British dreadnaught Centurion, pendent,” of the Inde; on her trial cruise off Davenport ub Jan Juan Star this afternoon, collided with and Jua Co. In T sank an unidentified steamer. No por *uritan escued seamen ate on board the wealth ‘ of the national Co.| warship, and it is belies ne en- are tied up, and in Vancouver, t e crew of the sunken el per- Emma H.." “Celestial Empire” | ished a New England,” of the New| Immediately after the collision "the Foss the Centurion wirelessed that her The “Comet a bows were damaged. Several craft an Juan Co. in Seattle, and the/ were at once rushed to the scene, Prospector,” of the New England | put there was no trace of the lost Co., are in Alaska now, and will | yessel Later the Centurion returned not be back this winter. All these companies are said to|pere with her anchors driven through her bows. be controlled by the Booth Fish ries Co., which has its grip on the 2 Mit EE fish industry of the whole world “We are asking for the raise said Fred Swauson, secretary the Fishermen's union, “be the fishermen have been unable te earn 4 living wage on the former ge weale, The half-cent incre means to th verage fisherman an increase of $300 per year. His earnings have been only about $600 per year before. Halibut caught by Hne and pole, and it is hard, trying, work. The men often jhave to stand in their little ries for 16 and 18 hours and more day ) cents all all to Northwestern r are { n 7 Comm belonging to the of = WHEW! 10 CARLOADS OF ONIONS FOR CHRISTMAS POOR STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 10.—Ten carloads of San Joaquin on- ions will be shipped by the Stockton Chamber of Commerce to Chicago as Stockton’s Christmas gift to the poor. The statement that 50,000 sacks of onions were to be dumped into the river on account of the stagnation in the market, inspired the thought. The Santa Fe, Southern Pacific & Western Pacific railroads have been asked to transport the shipment free. GOOD THINGS TO EAT This is something which is always of interest, especially so will be found the ad of the Menne Grocery on page 6 of today’s Star, because it tells of good things to eat at money saving prices—an ideal combination, More than 40,000 people buy The Star every day. This means a vast army of readers. They read the Want columns thoroughly. 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