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a " ment of lawyers. 3 more days!—sale of diningroom furniture— savings from '/2 to 4 —floor samples and odd pieces, buffets, dining tables, china cabinets and serving tables, at one-half to one-fourth less than regular. —furniture prices advanced 35 to 50 per cent, as was shown at the furniture manufacturers’ exposition, held last month in Grand Rapids and Chicago. —the regular prices, in this sale, are the old prices (based on last year’s cost), and a purchase now, in this sale, will also save you the coming 1920 increase of furniture cost. —sale ends Saturday. : just a few of the underpricings in this remarkable sale: —$223.50 china cabinet... $113 — —$97— buffet —$61— china cabinet.... 42.75 —$77.50 buffet —$87.50 china cabinet.... 52.50 —$77.50 dining table. . —$62.50 china cabinet.... 40— —$85— dining table. —$117.50 china cabinet... 67.50 —S$15— dining table —$86— china cabinet.... 54.50 —S$iS— dining table. —$67.50 buffet 44.50 —$41.50 serving table. . —$165— buffet ..... u— —$37.50 serving table. . —$148.50 buffet .... 92.50 —$27.50 perving table... QUITE IMPORTANT! “Your Credit IsGood” on these sale prices! . $57.50 52.50 53.50 61— 30— 32.25 29.85 19.85 16.50 TACOMA L. SCHOENFELD & SONB 101-111 Sewth 11 Oa Credit ‘Dead Fiance’s _ Father Adopts | French Orphan with litigation over land || She’s Now on Her Way to titles. Not anxious to pay |} Missoula, Mont. for litigation over your own land title, are you? Then, when you buy, de- mand Title Insurance, for our title policy cov- ers not only indemnity QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS A QuKs. TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM How does the election suit you? Sinisa ANSWERED NEW YORK, Feb. 18.— Mile) MRS. ¢. Martha Bourirer, 23 years old, and hired ave pretty, of Chauvirea le Chatel France, ia on her way to Missoula,|ing to fool me? Nor NM ‘ . 0 foo NO! NO! N Mont.,.where she will be adopted bY | not watiatled with that renult her dead fiance's father, a wealthy) . | MRS. BE. K. MeQUARRIE, 2526 in case of actual loss of | ranchman. | First ave. W.—I didn't ait = 5 | ‘The girl is an orphan and was to title, but payment by us |have become the bride of Sergeant|Msht. What are the returns? of all costs of the law- I'd liked to have seen Mr 5 | Alcide Jette, 316th trench mortar NM suit, including employ- |} battery, in St. Nazaire, shortly atter|°°4 Mr. Caldwell nominated Better |siad Mr. Caldwell won out. of the armiatice. They be safe now rather than engaged for more than &) CAPT. ©. W. SPRAGUE, 916 sorry afterwards. Queen Anne a I haven't seen the since he had been billeted home of her aunt in @ little | papers yet. That eo? Well, my can didate lost. 1 voted for Fitzgerald. Washington Title Insurance Co. } French village. ©. BE. SMITH, 237 Olympic place “Under State Supervision” | Jette died of influenza and on his deathbed he exacted a promis Not at all Too much “red ir me | MES. J. A. DUNCAN, 906 N ASSETS MORE THAN $600,000.00 | TODAY'S QUESTION | well and Duncan ” Im Fitzgerald tm his father, Ulderic Jette of M ave——I'm for my namesake. 1 think to care for the girl. Shortly his death M jourirer was pla Duncan should have been first, althc |U'm not related to him | on board a French liner and » on her 5,000-mile journey to her new home. |Search Begins for Missing Engineer | Archie M. Major Dies of Influenza Archie M. Major, 28, son of Rey.| Police are searching for B. C. Mid lw. A. Major, pastor of the Mt,|“leton, 32, civil engineer who disap | Baker Presbyterian church, and one |Peared qn February 7, He was last lof the most popular young attor.|#¢eM on a Quene Anne car and had neys in Seattle, died at his home, | $500 in his posneasion 320 Summit ave. N., Wednesday | Zu morning of bronchial pneumonia, | following an attack of Spanish in | fuenza. Major was taken iil one week ago last Sunday. He ia sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Enid Gul liford Major, whom .he married September 22 last. We are able kind « our ro to give you & room you derire. ms ari Nahe and ‘air. ten $3.50 per week and up. Call now and get located Waldorf Hotel Seventh and Pike Main an Alt outside, with good LAUNDRY THIEVES cleaned Mra C. EB. Ledford’s clothes line at Nob Hill ave., during the night OLIVER MOROSCO pe THE EVERPOPULAR HAWAIIAN ROMANCE “US. Amy Goods NOW HERE THAT DELIGHTFUL 1,000 more U. &. olive drab PLAY FOR THE shirts. | “KID WORLD,” AS | WELL AS THE “GROWN. q * Pollyanna” WITH THAT CHARMING LITTLE PERSONAGE MARY THORNE AS Pollyanna WILKES THEATRE Hand towels, Ponchos, $1. All wool soc heavy, 65c and Coveralls, $2 Navy work jumpers, $1.25. New blue Army blankets, $7.50. New shipment double white blankets. 9x9 white $17.60, 10-07. navy, like new Mail orders will be filled a# rap- idly as possible. Sale conducted by | | Camp Lewis Wireless | 416 Hinckiy Bidg, Seattle, white or gray, tenta, canvas; 4tt. used wall, by MAIL ORDERS NOW Evenings: SNe to $2.00 a. Weil!} aad) THE EALY JURY KS, CORNE MES. SADIE I MES. RKER, 1106 Burke ave, DAVEY, 4 ANTONIA REINHOLD: PORCIER, 5196 Bth a JOUN G6. EN BERG, Kiverton. HARRY 4. KINGSBURY, 1811 46th ave CLARK M. GALLUP, 9 Bid ave. 8. AW, 6315 4¢d ave, 8. W N 124 12th ave, N. EB. OO14 B5th ave, 5. SWHZBA GEORGE F, FOSTER, Alternate: BERT LL. Alta Viste EALY CASE went to Bremerton on Monday, the noted that woman's t col ay the body was found, leaving |lar was stuffed into her mouth. He | about 10:20 and returning about $45/ felt ber body, he said, and found in the afternoon. } it somewhat warm under her heavy “That night geant Comstock, | cont of the Denamore station, went to t Howard Nemits home and found Baly in bed. /oner, sald he judg from t Mra, Nemits let him tn warmth of the body the “The sergeant had a 10minute! had been committed shortly talk with ¥. Quentioned on hie| midnight. He maid Captain movements of Sunday he said he nant had been summoned and, after had been at home till about 3)he had ma ® lengthy examina o'clock in the afternoon, then had] tion of the bedy and grounds, or- | fone downtown and seen three dered the corpse taken to the four picture shows, returning he 10:30 é Frank Koepfi, HAD added apparent. credence to the| N WEEKS state's theory that an automobtic | he knew Mra. Bryan, |" used by the slayers, when he he said he did, but hadn't heard a he had noted particularly Mrs. from her for about six weeks when| Bryan's shoes, jane salle hien Np. and cated him on” he. testified. “They had been longer, he ily dean,” since he had ween her BRYAN SOLS ON “In his dresser drawer was | WITNESS STAND found a heavy leather pouch A tremor in the voice of George In this pouch, wadded into a W. Liryan, that bfoke into a chok ball, was a bunch of bills—with | ing sob when he told of identifying one or two exceptions $10 bills his murdered wife the morcug about $150 in all stirred Judge Ronald's courtroom “Baly stated it was juat before noon, and provoked a he had. Hoe stated flutter of white handkerchiefs | among the woten seated in the sudience. Faly and his mother sat HERE'S MORE ABOUT STARTS ON PAGE ONE the MacDonald, deputy cor run r before morgue deputy coroner, nH HER Asked if even | | | 1 the money that never at any time had he gone out anywhere with Mre Nothing was jenid at that time as to why he aaked these questions, He was Bryan, | Inpaanive Hiryan's teatimony dealt with the} | marital relations between himself | and bis wife and how he had first | Ealy Puyallup home, | 2 | placed under -arrest that night “In conversations with detectives he had Mrs Bryan at the but bn He mid he at wan restioss and we agreed the safety Satur |to part,” he ald. “On October 10, day or Sunday any time, An|l gave her $4,600-100 ?todotiar| 4& matter he wan at the/|billx and 20 10dolar bMa 1 lant vaulte at 1:20 Bunday. He mid) saw her 2:10 the afternoon of it had been four weeks since he! Octiber had been there. wh he maid never Unsworth 1} ome Aucunt had pet been deposit vaults on at of fact. u en brought to the “He stated he had never written! niy your wife was found mur & letter to Mra. Hryan and never dered, where did you go from Cap recetved a letter from her. Me enid|tain Tennant’s office™ Patterson | he had never been Plaza ho | queried tel in hin life. . GETTING “FIERCE IN THIS TOWN” tated that on Saturday night at home the entire evening. most of the time alone. He stated that the first Gime he knew a wo | DKFENSE ASKS man bad been found murdered was CONCERNING DREIVER when he and his mother returned) That Baly and Mra, Bryan were in from Bremerton, bought ome news paper, and got on the street car He said bie mother called his atter tion to the story and he said to her “ “Mra. Nemita stated that the first) Mryan stayed when she was in Se. time she knew of any woman found | ttle. murtered wae on Tuesday morning| Walter 8. Fulton, attorney for the when she saw the papers. She said defense, repeatedly attempted to in she had had no such copvereation|teriect the name of A. J. Dreiver, eattle in the the morgue,” Bryan sald. His | votes grew husky. What @id you see there? “I mw the body of my wife Iiryan's voice broke and court was/| silent until he recovered. until Iate at night, wan the mony of & W. Uneworth, painting contractor, by whom Maly was em Ten. | CM! Kain of himecif and associates Jeral auune | Cormick shot him. the habit of going ovt and staying | tents: | tting flerce in this town.'| ployed, and at whose house Mrs.| EE ANOTHER SHIP AUCTION COMING: Will Try to Sell Ex-Hun Ves- sels Next Month WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—~The senate commerce eommittes today werutinied bide recetved by the ship: ping board for former German ship hairman John Baton Payne, of th | board, was called before the comm: PALMER ORDERS | HOUSER PROBE | TONIGHT — | 10 .« m—Coroner’s offices, Portland Man Oemands dounty-city ae > ee : : into tae Federal Investigation Killed five men at P. 8. T. Le « | & P. plant Saturday. «WASHINGTON, Feb, Ih | 4 PP. M—lLabor Temple— Attorney General Pal Weekly meeting of Central La ordered the district a! bor counell. | tee present figures and explain ‘act'wiis (THURSDAY } = investigation ‘of the charges against M. HM. Houser, an official Noon—Masonie — elub—Wom- | 886 told the committee that the en's Commercial club makes shipping board had already rejected of the United States grain cor- nae: saoullliy vapelh the bids and another auction will be poration. ‘The charges were made by the federal grand jury | beld ne nont h a t | PORTLAND, Feb. 1:—The netion] 4 Pp, M.—Chamber of Com |e [ext month. subject to the ap of Attor jeneral Palmer in or-| merce—Friends of starving chil- at Spokane, dering an ‘gation of the! dren of Armenia meet to plan charges which were made by a fed-| drive for funds. eral grand jury at Spokane Febru Ps ary 7, against Max H. Houser, of Flam ventas bogey land, had been requested by the dian abuteall meets, Everybody invited, Houser, who in second vice preat }dent of the United States grain cor poration, wis charged by the grand jury In ite report with manipulating | Western wheat prices to the finary to e estimated value of the vessels | and the amounts bid. i THIRD PARTY | IS PROMISED | Convention “of” Liberals to Hold Chicago Meeting Get Wilson Note, WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—(Unit Prese)-—Rallway union officials why talked with President Wilson Ia week will receive another commusl cation from the president concernin the railway wage controversy in few days, they stated after a ference today with Secretary Tu] multy In the grain and milling business, Houser recently ineued a statement denouncing the charges as a “dam- attempt to beamirch his inter 4 demanding that the fed ities “sift them to the bot rity,” Veterans Charge : Congress Neglect PALO ALTO, Cal, Feb. 18.—Fre- mont Post No, 62, of the American Legion, in a report today charged “congress has disgracefully neglected! American world war veterans inj lorder to make a show of economy.” In the Postoffice Department Uncle) The report was made after a m keeps 250 women at work day| mittee had investigated conditions at the government public health service hospit M'CORMICK SOON TO LEARN FATE On Trial Charged With Kill-| ing Chas. A. Brown MARYSVILLE, (United Prees.) mick used for ing Charles A. Brown and on trial for his life, may know his fate by Bat eee! PALACE HI fwh ite testimony by this evening.| | The defense will begin its testimony J Direction of Ackerman & Harris TOMONKOW, FRIDAY aad SATURDAY ac tomorrow and the case probably will lasey New Show of HIPPODROME VAUDEVILLE be In the hands of the jury LUTES NROTHERS Ais 1 Featuring ( ry ST, LOUIB, Mo, Feb. 18--A third political party will contest for the} presidency In the coming campaign, }as 4 result of a national convention of Uberals to be held in Chicago July the “committee of 48” announced here today. +| In Russia bricks made from | combined with molasses @ Cal, Feb. 18 Frank A. McC THEATRE ConTInuous ITtoll jate McCormick's tertimony at hie pre liminary examination was read tuto the record today by a court reporte showing tt ndant testified that Drown was walking away when Mo Friday “DAISY DEAN AND COMPANY SsHmLEY Saraphoniat a ; 17 Pairs of Girl . *. . j Twins at Dinner LONDON, Fog. Feb. 18-—Among 600 poor children entertained by thegtrical managers and artists were! 400 war orphans, including 17 pairs of girl twins under 6 years of age.' CHONG TOL DCO GYORGIA HALL ieee Exclusive Orfental Ni “hh LAttlo Divert Veaiure Pho ARTHUR ASHLEY 4nd Matinee Daily with her wen. She stated ahat on) “nother painter, Sunday she left home about o'clock | “Do you know Dretver? he asked and that he had left home some | Unsworth oer ge Cedi | “Yeo.” the witness replied. “he sald she went to Woodiand| “w here t# he now?” park and then toa show. She eaid| “1 don't know. He left here about pt tn't remember which show the time Mra. “gle ot tedint © many ” me tieket for Honolulu before ble to Bbe « a and ‘wns undp tniort ta, be « “4 “Didn't Dretver tell you, ‘Well, ck Gai her ten camne tn acy they'll hook the murder on the Paty o'clo boy, because Mrs. Bryan liked Ghe stated that on Saturday |! night her son was downtown—that | . he left the home. On the night of Baly‘s Robert Nemite, his step-father, came down to headquarters, and following him in « car belonging to Harry Fritechie Mra. Nemits came Di lyou arrest you tell your Dreiver murdered Mra. an, and that he was a bad man?” City Detective J. D. called to tell how he traced Mra. Tiryan's fur to Tacoma and thence 0 e710 to get bail to the deposit vaults get balllty Puyallup, and brought Bryan money for her son. here. Several snapshots of Mra. TELLS OF MONEY | Bryan were Introduced in evidence FOUND IN BOX by Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patter “Bhe waa in the son long that the man in charge - — had to call her out it was closing Will Not Reduce Railroad Rates tme She sald she took from the WASHINGTON, Fob. 18.—(United box about § from a card case be longing to her ease Preas)—No reduction tn rates can be Ealy told us he had about $200 at the country are return or $310 tn the vault in a card yperty nership, according to the the combined senate so railroad bill agreed to by the nferees knew vault some time which was hin ¢ r Later his mother said she waa in a great hurry when she went Into the vault jand had «imply reached in and taken what she wanted Asked what « In. the box what she expected roads private ov terma of he she said she saw to see. Asked whore money » ahe said it was her own had saved. Asked how J she thought between $1,800 and $2,600, uld not tell which “In that box were 262 $10 bills and nine $20 bills, In that box was $2,900, all in $10 bills and 20's “Whether this included the $200 sho had taken out for bail or not, she said she didn't know SAYS MRS NEMIT: | ADMITS SHE LIET “aly said that when he went to the vault a month before, there was nothing in the box except the $300 is card case. When that box was opened, the first thing that caught the eye of the persons who opened it on Tues day morning, was the money: thoae small bills. “Mra, Nemits admitted to Captar of Detectives Tennant that she had led, Asked why, she said to protect her son “The defendant Mra, Nemitz knew of the plan of Baly fon, and Mrs. Bryan, and did not disapprove Robert Nemitz, the stepfather, did y An elder brother was killed In France »prove, and warned Ex disapprove, and warned Kaly also on his 27th birthday "vy thy defendant bay | London “Bobbie” Leaves Fortune mey by the defendant Baly fad received from | of her murder was | about midnight.” LONDON, Eng., Feb. 18.—-Sixty- service on the police Cambridgeshire — enabled Charles* J. J. Stretten to Dan Ferri, the found Mrs. Bryan's leave an estate of $60,000 when he died last week. Report Income Tax Fraud of Millions CHICAGO, Feb, 18=—Federal offi here investigating alleged tn. come tax frauds believed today the government was swindled out of mil- lions ef dollars in the Chicago dis trict a e RaW, all that she muct he aa whe oc ore Women Educators Given Recognition LONDON, Eng., Feb. 18.—For the first time since the annual confer- ence of educational associations was established, a woman presided over it, She was Miss Jex Blake, mistress of Girton college. ®rothers Both Die on 27th Birthday! DON, Eng, Feb, 18, A ge coincidence In the fate of two brothers wan disclosed at an inquest on Charles Hack, a nayal petty of- ficer, killed by falling from a train Ho was killed on his 27th birthday in tre she dener who , was first He a} said he} and saw brush rnerare ) ttle's Meanest Man elub held test Tuesday night, which re in a tle for first place police were unable to pick a winner een the thief who robbed the Orthopedic hospital tea shop, 1614 Fourth ave. of a quantity of butter and cream, and the thief who | witness for the state |short, dark Itallan, 4 jwas crossing the ostat the body anging in the DICATE MOTOR CAR “Did you touch ked. he the body?” Pat said, “I called the J, Fuller, who mtoreycle police: daughter | Landis was) _ Bargain Prices | | Bryan was murdered. | | } | | } i | ix montha after the rail “I to! and} Just consider what these prices mean —they are real money savers—remind you of pre-war prices, don’t they? And what a relief it is in these days | of ever-increasing prices to find den- tistry HERE at real bargain prices. But ACT NOW! THE NATIONAL DENTISTS et nn Tc ] NATIONAL” DENTISTS THIRD & PIKE man, after was first on the discovery, — sald stole floral wreaths from the graves he in the Lake View cemetery, the i Northeast Corner Third and Pike \Railroad Men to a i A ators on the committee planned | 7

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