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ONE-MAN STRIKE COMES TO END LONDON, Dee, 25.-—The North eastern railway strike came to an end today with a victory for the striking railroad men The com pany has agreed to reinstate Knox as a driver, and take back all ab-|) sentees in their former positions, and the greatest one-man strike in || the history of England is thus over HGRE |S CHRISTMAS, I BOUGM ADOLF : 1 HOPE Yo VICH T The Birth and Life of CHRIST NO RECORD OF BIRTH; CHILD CHATTANOOGA, Tenn,, Dec, 25.) thon if it could be shown that sal The following pathetic story ap-|child was the legitimate offapri: pears in the bulletin of the Alabama /|of the former owner. The date « Health I riment, just issued the death of the man was Ow dy A man recently died in Jefferson |The date of the birth of the chil Jeounty, leaving his widow property |had to be proven, A search of th lwhich was not considered valuable. | records of the county health office |Some months after the husband’s|showed that the doctor was deac death a child was born. After a mother could find no one b while the property was sold for m to prove the date }taxes. Some years after a corpora: | chiki’s birth tion desired to purchase the prop-| The child loses the fortune ¢ erty, which {s now worth a fortune. | $50,000, all because thé docte The investigation of title showed | failed to do his duty in registerin j the child had the right of r the child's birth. Depicted in the CASE AGAINST IF SHE SMOKES “CTAR QF |) WORKERS Is ON | 60 CIGARET BETHLEHEM” TRIAL XMAS} A DAY—WELL- x SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25. Starting INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 25.—Dis- | you had a little pet doggie that yc trict Attorney Charles W. Miller at the Melbourne Theatre gally transporting dynamite. The prosecution of this case to it Is Greater Than the PASSION PLAY and a steamship steward told yc that you would have to leave it o on the cold deck at night, we you comply with his wishes? |day,” sald Miller, “is not out of keeping with the spirit of Christ }mas, It is my Christian, as well as my official dut to rush this , that Justice | assistant to Attorney General Wie ersham and a passenger on the FP cific Mall steamer Persia, asked th ation of some of her fellow pa ngers. There ts trule of the cor pany against a ing doge in stat rooms, but thie did not deter Mr Thompson from carrying out plans. A missionary asked Mra, Thom) son to stop smoking. She had boas will conclude his this afternoon. RS. PANTAGES IS HOSTESS TO KIDS Pantages theatre was crowded Tuesday morning with about $00 Se attle children, invited to the an nual Christmas tree celebration given by Mrs. Alex Pantages to thé poor children of the city While they applauded the performers on the stage and watched old Santa as fie distributed gifts among them. the kiddies munc candies ar Je eomse general. A big Christmas tree bril Hantly lighted added to the fun. argu a day and the missionary though this was too many “Why I smoke and how i@ my Own business,” Some Orly: 95 aver 100,000 alleged to have replied Seattieltes are planning an afternoon or evening to wit- ness the visualized version of the BIRTH and LIFE of JESUS CHRIST. No Advance—10c—No Advance the farm of Gilbert Brown found under the icehouse thi morning. There were 72 eggs ther also. The hen, realizing the valu of cold storage, has been layin. ‘there since last summer. IF YOU Want a Cook Want a Clerk Want a Partner Want a Situation Want a Servant Girl Want to Sell a Piano Want to Sell a Carriage Want to Sell Town Property Want to Sell Your Groceries Want to Sell Off Your Hardware Want Customers for Almost Anything Advertise Daily in This Paper Advertising Is the Way to Success Advertising Brings Customers Advertising Keeps Customers Advertising Insures Success Advertising Shows Energy Advertising Shows Pluck Advertising Is ‘‘Biz’’ Advertise or Bust Advertise Long Advertise Well ADVERTISE At Once IN THIS PAPER Mt DER S$ LOSES CLAIM TO FORTUNE of her carried about with you everywhere | the Mra. J. Q@ Thompson, wife of an ber | wher ed to friends she smoked 60 cigarets TARRYTOWN, N. ¥Y—A hen on was THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1912. e Price Tag Is Rem 3A TRIPLE YT YOU MiT ALL MY SAVINGS, OSGAR, UV RECEIVE IT SPIRIT IN TEAR MYSELF Loose FRON (Tt. -|STEAMER ASHORE; | PASSENGERS ALL :| TAKEN . Y 26 | NEW ; 4 {transfer of the Turrialba’s 67 sengers has been completed |should arrive in New York at 1 |o'clock this afternoon on the rev enue cutter Seneca. Thin was the mossage received here early today from Captain Lind ¢| Say of the steamer Turrialba, blown sy |Ashore by @ terrific gale early yeu ¢ |wrday four miles north of Atle atic |City, The work of transferring the passengers Was started at 7 o'clock this morning and completed at # o'clock. All mail aud hand bag gaxo was sent on to New York on |the Seneca, | The Turrialba shoals, but the awd there Is no danger of the vee | pounding to piece Several If} wrecking and seagoing tugs are ou| standing by and an attempt to pull vessel from the shoals will be ade later in the day y + atill tw on the | | . TACOMA ELKS CELEGRATE | “TACOMA, Deo, 26.—Members of Tacoma lodge of Elks today repeat ed the angual custom of giving 4 Christmas tree reception for needy children of the city. Four hundred boys and girls were on hand and two giant trees, groan ing h the weight of clothing. ca, and toys, awaited them they stormed the Elks’ tem k ‘a ta! * m ® ple > “ t AN AUTO driven by J. H, Beard was bit by a Q Anne car on rm av, N. Tuesday night, just as Beard, *ho had stopped to pick John Olsen, driver of a deli wagon he had struck, was stepping i Beard was thrown to. the street and severely cut. The auto was wrecked t! Piret THE Bartenders’ Union is holding a convention in Chicago. Ali the members have been called on to sign the pledge. FORMER CIT THOMSON AS x - Bt ACTION AGAINST BLETHEN it be 8. for $80,000 damagrelns} gun by Reginald } 4 ttle’s famous forme ty engineer, against Alden J biefhen and the Times Publishing Co. | Thomson alleges Blethen vewom-) ously attacked him without cause and with malicious intent to injure his reputation as an honest man and as a civil engineer Specifically, Thomeon bases his sult for Mbel on a publication ap pearing August 15, 1911. Thomson is charged tn that article with en tering into @ conspiracy with one of his asetstants, by which the lat- ter resigned and obtained the con: tract for the Denny Hill regrade. The article then subletting the cont ened ASKS FOR SUPPER— STABBED IN SIDE Albert Boyle, lying in the city hospital today, doesn’t believe the coming of Christmas always makes people charitable. te as 6 die- charmed as messboy on the steam er Bellingham Tuesday, but feeling the need of a litte Christmas cheer, | went back and asked the cook, O. K. Naroshima, for a supper. | Naroshima is said to have turn ed on hiny with the remark, “Yes, lll give you your suppe and |ntuck a large knife in his side, | | He told the pdiie®, when brought into headquarters, that Boyle bad attacked him first. Boyle is not/ dangerously wounded, | | |MEN’S DEATH | | RATE IS HIGHER LONDON, Dee. 26.—According to) statistics made public by Dr. News-| holme, medical health officer for the local government board of Lon don, the death rate is increasing among men between the ages of 45 and 65. | Dr. Newsholme shows this in- creased mortality is confined to men | and not shared by women. He at- tributes it to the strain and anxiety of modern business life. WOMAN LEAVES 77 GRANDCHILDREN POLO, Mo., Dec. 25.—-Mra. Martha J, Jackson of Caldwell county was She died at Polo and was 82 years old, @he leaves 77 grandchildren, She had 16 children of her own OLD PICTURES IN AN ATTIC LONDON, Dec. 25.--Queen Mary has just discove and replaced in the light of day some fineseld masters which had been lying in. dusty neglect for years in the attics at Windsor and Buckingham i aces. At the palace two Gainshor. oughs which the Queen seached qut have been restored to honorable po- sitions, pa has moder. | the} 2 Y ENG |the mother of a remarkable family.J. oved UND TO DINK DOT From SOMETIMES CT NAF WOUNDED DIS3 SIMPLE, GENGROVS Sout! Acn, I Fee UNWORTHY. “TANK ‘You, ADOF! TANK You! TANK You! SHOCKS WHOLE STATE TO MAKE IT SEE : Christmas Gifts Words by Music by STRAIGHT BRICKLAYER-GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS TELLS WHY HE PARDONED 360 CONVICTS By E. C. Rodgers LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 25.—"Ft was z to the PEOPLE of Arkansas the of 30 de George W aghey “For four PLEADING of state my mess convicts Don freeing lared Gov to me today. begging, with legislatures this to years I have been abolish the convict leasing sys-| tem “Ll have sent message after mes sage, only to see a powerful lobby stifle every measure against the welling of flesh and blood to slave driving contractors for the rail roads. Now I have gone over the heads of the lawmakers, and THEY'VE GOT TO ACT. 1 have reduced the number of convicts so that the warden oan not lease any out to contractors 1 did ft at this Ume of the year because I knew that it would strike home harder to have 160 convicts turned loose at the beginning of winter.” The convict » has been of the state were too lease system of Ar blot on the good or years, When ny convicts to on the at farm the rest have been sold, or leased, to con tractors, who in turn sold them to the Rock Island and the Iron Moun tain railroads These leased convicte have built new railway bed« and jald ever under the guns of the « and the club of the contractor y day, rain or ehine, sick or w » driven to work. Many a died along the railroad There was po physician, no medi bed for th i wick INEER | KS $80,000 IN | | $192,800 profit a hand | ponspiracy netted without turning ove Thomson has become known as | the “greatest hill wr” in the country, He superintended the re-| grades and street improvements in Seattle for about 20 years, during | which the big Denny and Jackson st. hills were wiped off the map. | He resigned as city engineer last year to become port engineer, but | again resigned to take a position at} $15,000 a year for the government of British Columbla, which he ts| still holding Thomason brands the articles in Blethen's paper as false and scan dalous. He claims $50,000 for the eut t by |injury to his feelings, and $30,000 {nia that he has introduced a bill for injury to his reputation. COUNTERFEITER IS ARRESTED ON SANDWICH CLUE Dy United Press Leased Wire READING, Pa, Dec. 25.—-Alvin Hornberger is in jail here, suspect- ed of being a member of a counter- felting gang which has been flood- ing Eastern Pennsylvania with bo- gus ten-dollar bills, just because he wears false teeth A score of the bills were passed in Philadelphia saloons, in one of which the man who passed them put too much mustard on a cheese sandwich, leaving the hot morsel on the bar as he left because tt burned his mouth. An Instant later the barkeeper discovered the note was a counterfeit and notified the po- lee, Secret service men called into the case seized the sandwich as evi dence, found in it prints of teeth that had been manufactured by a dentist and made a plaster cast of the tooth marks, A search for suspects with false teeth ensued, and when arrested Hornberger was asked for his false teeth. Readily handling them out, a plaster cast of them was made and compared with the cast of the marks in the cheese sandwich. REWARD INDIAN FOR KILLING MAN NEEDLES, Dec. 25.—Joe ishop, a Mojave Indian, has been offered a position as deputy con stable here following his killing of ‘Aniceto Londero, for which a cor Oner's jury congratulated him. Lon dero, it fs alleged, was an outlaw, and was shot by Bishop while at Aempting a robbery, The coroner's ury started a subscription to buy ishop a vew revolver, the one oe which, he shot his man being ost GOV. GEORGE W. DONAGHEY OF ARKANSAS ROOM OF STATEHOUSE ~ MORGAN SAYS THERE’S NO 2." MONEY TRUST; | ASK STILWELL, WHO KNOWS WASHINGTON, hin testimony Pujc J. P ared was no rust © Was, nor could be, any control of money Dec In the committed that there and nelt oppressive credit Arthur Edward Stilwell tells a different story, He has just pub lisaed a book that ts a startling ar raignment of the financial « ica. He calls it “Cannibal et It ts the history of rs contest with the “money whose existence Morgan de stem ot F 16 trust, nies. Stilwell’s charges have so im pressed Senator Works of Califor. in the United States senate making it a felony punishable with at least one year's imprisonment to pre ARTHUR EB. STILWE vent any person, association or cor- | poration from obtaining loans or credit in carrying on legitimate business. MAKES REASONABLE RATES; MONOPOLY WRATHFUL Stilwell tells how he first in. curred the il) will of the railroad kings and masters of finance by building the Kansas City Southern | railroad, designed ach the Gulf of Mexico over a route 100] miles shorter than any other line. | When this line was started, the railroad monopoly was forcing the people of the West to ship grain 1,400 miles to the Bast. Rate dis crimination was ruining Kansas and other states further west. The Kansas City Southern railroad was projected to compete with this rail- road monopoly by furnishing an | outlet at tide water only 1,000 miles to the south of Kansas City. The road was built and reason able rates were put into effect, Then broke the storm. Railroad ¢ contractor, the galli he Al thet b ball an@ heir ankles. ring a you ' was shot do k in the hot aan raing fever. The} m to the railway! ng on the n and warned! wanted to de the flow! 1 next day, ing other bays conviet led for. Keling tm © he bad & fever, eater ee eae 4 with the state t the county ts imprisoned Bp sent to farms rs, who paid a day for theal wants the state vitentiary tuihd; je not be worked on be put upon the supervision te of good s a hod carrtert ghey dosen't give and frock coats litics, He used d mortar to the as how he learm yer himself. Thea e contracting busk ses and stores, # hig y the « roads The g Gee Ww a hoot for t and diplo to carry | | bricklayer ed he 6 Ae IN RECEPTION bu he and pr He secured the eon nt Diaz and support. Thea started the ctions Wherever he went to secure fe nancial backing for the enterprise, he declares, his enemies p him, ng bankers and finan clers against him, discrediting hie enterprise, and causing endless expense in getting the bond issues sold RB IS HE RIGHT? meetings were called in New York, Chicago and other places; ail Western roads boycotted the Southern for 90 days; their cars would not be received by any rail road. 000,000 bond sale n negotiated in Paris financial interests Orient read was ceivership. continued forced down, and the road rates were new route to Kansas City kings decided to “x f He finally was forced out of the Southern road, and resigned president of the Guardian Trust Co., which he had built up. Stilwell jaunched another ven ture, a raflroad through Mexico to compete with the Harriman lines and bring the Coast 400 miles nearer, the Kansas City, Mexico & THE HOUSE OF COATS To All the People opera-|forced into a Stilwell was blacklisted, he says and the order went forth from Wall st. that any banker who let him have credit would himself be tule ed. No banker has since dared t© advance him a dollar. s devoting his life t% ethods of the “finan He concludes: , y is Make coh uin business enterprises nsafe as to ruin by as exposing cial canni spire by dollars dynamite. as A Merry Christmas And A Happy and Prosperous New Year OVE Tae Second Ave. 614 Second Ave. Meat Prices Cut Again for Thursday The Middlemen Eliminated at FRYE & CO.’S MARKETS Tomorrow, Thursday, the following big will be offered at our markets: Plymouth April Storage Eggs Good Cooking Bggs...+.-20€¢ " ze Rack and Neck Bones, 10 Ibs Rib and Loin Mutton Chops... | t 25¢ + Wve Pork Liver Be | Choice Round Steak. ....15@ The above prices will prevail at the following markets? OLYMPIC MARKET, Second and Pike. SEATTLE MARKET, Occidental and Yesler Way: WESTLAKE MEAT CO., Westlake and Pine. AMERICAN MEAT CO., Third and Jefferson. PEOPLE'S MARKET, Western Av. and Madison. WESTERN MEAT CO., Western Av. and Spring. BALLARD MARKET, 5443 Ballard Av. * OUR MOTTO: “From packing house to consumer. GOVERNMENT-INSPEC MEAT. Look for the U. S. purple stamp. It signifies purity and quality: Shops open until 6:20 p, m. specials