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(EO, OLSON STRONERATED CHARGES Two Attempts “at Disbar- ment Fizzle Out Before Law Examiners George Olson, attorney and club with offices tn the Central is completely exonerated all charges on which he - ce tried here recently in dis x m it proceedings ‘The acctisations were found to be/ utterly groundless that the state of law examiners, after care iy reviewing the testimony given | both trials, refused even to pre the case to the supreme court such proceedings are ad \E af COMMENDS THAT H IES BE DISMISSED Emstead the board filed with the/ court yesterday their writ: findings and recommendations, The boart of law examiners has ly considered and weighed the and documentary evidence sub- relative to all the charges set in said complaints and is of the | that the evidence does not} any of said charges, and, recommends that said| should be disminsed.” ‘The written findings are signed by three members of the board of ex Dix H. Rowland of Taco oward M. Findley of Seattle} Thomas EB. Grady pf Yak findings vindicating Olson Atee the dixmissal of the entire Qs a matter of form, as it is the of the supreme court to fol Tecommendations of the law ex- tn such matters, CUSED OF MISUSING NOTE D SWINDLING WOMAN waa first accused of having @ a note given by Henry J for stock in the pow defunct State bank. In the second he was accuned of having) 4 &@ woman client out of an| left her by her deceased father. 4 Phile the dismissal of the charges my reputation,” anid Olson to- “it dora not, by any means, re) the damage [ have suffered thru of business. After the charges Made public, cient after client to me and said he was thru ime because where there was s0 0 smoke there must be some fre. "It aid me no good to protest my They merely laughed at and took their affairs out of my threats roused my fizhting blood I told him to go to the devil and his charges. He did, and this result.’ NOTE WAS GLED IN BANK first charge was answered by "5 witnesses who testified that Gorin note had been juggied in Broadway State bank, which was going on the rocks, to cover up tain shortages in the bank with-| Olson's knowledye. [Answer to the second charqe, told the board that not Olson kept the woman from going to the poorhouse grranging for her to live on the . ty her father left her after it! iad been lost thru debt, but had act- faa) iPM her, out of his own sums of money, that) eedana her children might not want | food and clothing. D TO ‘DISBAR ROMA FT ORNEY COMA, Dec. 29.—Chairman Dix Rowland of the state board of | @xaminers announced today the | had recommended disbarment Atforney Rufus L. Sherrill of Ta- ro for unprofessional conduct. ‘Bherill had knowledge of and aided abetted Julia Smith in criminal tions, the beard found. Julia shot Prosecuting Attorney last spring, following her| non a charge of performing | operatiops on women, and is| in the state penitentiary. Midnight Dance | for High School FGirls Is Banned INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 29.—~ Whe fight to force high school girls yf the Hoosier capital to wear cor- Sets to dances took a new turn with issuance of a police} pre preventing dancing after mid. might. Clara K. Burnsides, supervisor Woman police, tesued the order! the request of mothers of high girls, who said their giris| gulgect to unpopularity when were not permitted to remain| et the, dances after midnight. M Women police took charge of the igh school dances during the war} ‘@ver wearing of corneta. Girls re- ed to wear corsets, saying they re termed “‘cld ironsides” by the! and were unable to accomplish | movements necessary in the are donating their services for five | } It required several hours of tum | ging for Speaker to rele him SHORT CUT T0 jself. He notified the sheriffs of fice. Speaker's auto, in which the robbers made their escape, was found yeat®rday morsing near Bun ‘SM where it had been left. SDNESDAY, DECENT by, t990, THEY’RE BRIDE AND GROOM 7 FEET wi 7 2 INCHES ; ‘ | Bride and groom—Colonel Mack Willard, Topeka, Kas., giant, and his French bride, are spending their winter honey- moon at Hermosa Beach, Cal. He's seven feet, two inches tall, and she is four feet, nine inched. He weighs |pounds and wears an 18 collar and a No, 12 shoe. She weighs 125 pounds. She was formerly Mile. Eva Labarre, of Deauville, France. MILL EMPLOYES 'STAGG LEAVES DONATE LABOR HERE FOR PEN Vote to Rebuild h Mill Without | Spends Night in Wages County Jail Here's once where capital and ta-| With a party of seven other prison- bor are getting together. lors, one of them a negro murderer, It's at Nagrom, Wash, on the! George T. Stage, former Seattle and Northern Pacific, a milling town be | Tacoma newspaper man, left the low Hot Springs. | King county jail shortly after 8 a. One hundred and ten laboring men | m. on Wednesday for the state peni- tantinry at Walla Walla, where he is weeks to rebulld E. G. Morgan's mill, eantenced to serve 10 to 15 years for whieh was recently destroyed by fire. /kidnaping his two-yearold son, Bobby. | Stare returned from an unknown hiding place to Tacoma recently and gave himself tip to the authorities, held & mass meeting in the tows hall | who had agreed, If he did so, to free without suggestion from {he mil?/ Betty Brainerd, a Seattic young #o- company and voluntarily pledged | ciety woman, who was accused of be King NTEER TO REBUILD MILL FREE They were employes of the mill Before the ashes had cooled they themselves to contribute 30 working | ing his accomplice in the kidnapin days each, which means five weeks He brought to Seattle labt of labor, toward rebuilding. The/ night from Tacoma by traveling worth of this later is estimated at | guards from the penitentiary and $15,000 }lodged in the local jail overnight Not only did they promise, but/ After a light breakfast the party they are coming thru, 100 per cent p= = 'ARMED THUGS Practicaly none of them ts a per manent, old-time employe of the mill — of them are of the drifting| ORG AN IS OLD-TIME SAWMILL MAN Morgan has been tn the tumber bysiness for 30 years or more. When a young man, he was a tele graph operator for the rallway com. Tie Man Near Centralia to pany at Hot Springs, where he/ j erected a mill. Later ho was at Les Bed, Rob Him ter. Hoth these@lants were destroy mi ed by fire. Then he erected « mill at| CENTRALIA, Dec. 29.—Bearch Nagrom. This plant was destroyed | 94 being made today for three by fire about 18 months ago, but was |™*2, who, masked and armed with rebuilt. ‘The new outfit, lumber and|Shoteuns, held up William Speaker shingle mill, was new equipment|*t his home in Doty, near here ruout and was valued in excess of | Monday night, gagged him and $160,000. About three weeks ago it|bound him to his bed, and robbed was swept and the owner had| him of a $1,200 diamond ring, his }leas than a half insurance. It was|wateh, $150 in currency, $50 in then the workers got busy andj silver, took all of his clothes and pledged their labor free. vanished, HOLD MAN FOR SHOPLIFTING: Attempted Appropriation ~ Provides a Road to Rainier The proposed read which would cut off 70 miles on the round trip shoplifting of a box | declared | Murphy had perpetrated an act of almost 300| -|TROCK FOLLOWS BIND VICTIM THE GANGSTER GETS 1 TO 50 YEARS Judge Recommends Murphy Serve Full Sentence | SAN FRANCISCO, Dee, 29.—I0d (Spud) Murphy, the first of the so called Howard at. gangsters to be wan awaiting transfer to Quentin penitentiary today if the recommendation of Ward is carried out, hin one ntence will be served in ite full term of a half century convicted, San Murphy wass entenced last night after his attorney had abandoned his attempt to introduces additional wit nesses in support of the alibi defense When the proceedings were in prog ress the grand jury was starting an investigation of the surrounding the appearance circumstances of the | witnesses In passing sentence, Judge Ward }| that evidence indicated degeneracy upon Miss Joaste Mont govery, in addition to the crime charged aguinst him, and that be cause there ls no compulsory sterl lization law in California he believed || Murphy should serve a full term of 60 years for the protection of #0: | clety. | Under the California indeterminate sentence law the judge had no al | ternative from a sentence of one to 60 years, which he imposed upon Murphy | Murphy was sentenced after yes |terday’s wemmion of the trial of his companion, James Carey, waa ad journed the witness stand in his own fense today, Tis attorney tndic he wil) attempt to establich an o FIUME TRUCE IS NOW IN EFFECT} Italian Regulars Hold Half the City { Carey is expected to take de BY CAMILLO CIANFARRA ROME, Dec. 29.—With the Italian |}} | regular army in control of over half |}} the city, a truce was In effect to \f) day, while Flume anthorities, pre |]/ |wumably with the fall knowledge that . | | Gabriel d’Annunzio considered yield ing to the government's demand for ie treaty a | peace. | Fecognition of the Adri & basis for a permane Coanation of hostilities was greeted with great joy all thry Itary, where | Hationaliste had begun to arrange demonstrations to protest agninst |f} the shooting of the Fiume legion aires, men of their own blood. | Casualties in the two days of fight Ing, a8 reported here, were not high. considering the big advance made by | the regulars A total of 60 dead on both sides, |]) with possibly 200 wounded, com prised the camunitios, Reports that 400 had been bitled were not credited here, where official statements held the list down | CONFERENCE | ‘Today's trace remulted from a con | ference between Mayor Gigante and Col. Ferrari, chief of staff of Gen. Cavigia. Jigunte first made the de mand that regular forces be with drawn to their original positions. He |]! then agreed practically to the gov-| ernment's original demands that Dy matinn islands, seized by d'Annunz jbe returned to the government, to- | gether with shipping seized by the Finme legionnaires. Gen. Caviglia promised hin men at tractive rewards for the capture of a’'Annunaio alive, There was no hint | that punishment waa intended for the | poet commander, but Cavigiia ap-|f) peared Interested In taking him and holding him uninjured. Regular troops were tn rtrong po sitions today for another advance | should it were flung be ordered. The troops | in a wide semi-circle about the o Artillery had been brought up and a strong naval sup port waited call to action. HIGHWAYMAN CHASES BOY Armed Six- Footer Pursues Youngster After hol tine up “Nets Latersted, ‘The robber flourished a amall dark gun in Latersted’s face, but Later- sted ran, and the robber did not shoot at bim. Motoreycle men searched the dis. trict after two reports came in, but failed to find the big robber. Another highwayman waa more ccessful when he tackled T.. Tan ana, 1325 Seventh ave. near that ad. dress at 9:30 p. m. Tanana sur| rendered between $45 and $50, as between here and the Rainier na-| ontaining four paire of silk hone tional park probably will be built.) ye ine ncous ae = ae aml This was the announcement to | Charies 8. Wilson, 20, rancher, Wed |day from the Chamber of Com-|needay by C. I Chin and Wah| |merce following receipt of a tele-|Chong, proprietors of a Chinese gram from its Washington cor-| store at 1021 Third ave. | respondent that the sundry civil! Wrxon is held on an open charge bill, to be reported to the houselin city jail. Patrolmen A. Notting today, includes an appropriation} ham and N. P. Moors arrested him |of $150,000 for the park. on complaint of the Chinamen, who A total of $214,000 had been| say they caught him trying to. walk asked, $100,000 of this to be usel|out of their store with the box of for the proposed road silk hose. | The reduction in the approprin-| Col aeeeiiaeemaainnaniaenien } tion asked is in proportion to re Autos Crash, Woman ductions made appropriations, on all national park according to the Severely Bruised dances while wearing corsets, | telegram. | Mr. W. A Ww. Prigsipal George Buck, of Short- iy agp Alaska st. and California ave. re dgé high school, issued instruc $8, 000 t 00 ceived a severe bump on the head| na that girls should wear their ‘o P dle; Inst | & sets, The girls followed instruc Tuesday night when throw pi $5 to Halfbrother |: windshicld of her huss ma tut they took them off at the) CHICAGO, Dec. 29—Rex in only n| auto when It collided with one i) before going on the dance|poodie, seven years old, but for the| driven by J. EB. Castleberry, 19 W floor Principal Buck then ap-|rest of his life he will take his meals | Thomas st., at Railroad ave. 8, and Bealed to the police women for’ sitting at the table in a high chair, | Weller st. The two autos locked and &i4 to enforce the order and the|will sleep in a regular bed and will |*kidded into a third auto, driver un Women have attended all dances have a Christmas tree, lighted with | known to police, nee to see that the girls are prop-| candies, each year. This is assured | niformed |him by the terms of the wil! of Mra | Pumpkin Big Enough Arrangements for the senior Rose E. Porter, who left $8,000 to! “prom” were canceled today by be used in caring for the dog. Mrs. | to Make 50 Pies Buck because of the doffing of cor. Porter cuts off her half-brother, R.| SEA CLIFF, L. 1, Dec, 29—Mias and because of “improper J. Jobling, of Cascade Locks, Ore.,| Mollie Canning is in a class by her Modern dances. with $5. | self when it comes to raising mam i otetieieitmnnianieaninentetink —_—_—_———OOOO |moth pumpkins. Her latest weighs WILMINGTON, Del—¥ire dam-| In the first nine months of 1920) 75 nough to make Ages Wilmington Leather company's|the adverse trade balance of France| over 50 pics of the grandmother va-| Plant to extent of $2 "00,00 had decreased 36 per cent | riety. he kept bis eyeo on the end of the bandit’s gun barrel Pet Hen Lives With Family; Rides in State PASSA J., Dec, 20.—A welf-possexsed Plymouth Rock hen rolled down Main ave. here, ensconced in stately dignity on a cushion in the automobile of Mor ris Gold. He explained that the hen had been his for years, living in the house and spending much time with the family. Bandits Steal Safe | Containing $7,000 TICHITA, Kan., Dec. 29.—Taking antage of the fact that the ex loading packages on. to a train, two automobile bandits entered the express of at Arkan was City, stole the safe containing $7,000, and carried it away in their car, According to word received by the sheriff's office here, the bandits made n getaway preeamen were HAVE you are quoted on SHEIM'S, RALST seen the prices that Shoes like FLOR N's, CROS | $18.00 Shoes at $9.40. $12.50 Shoes at $7.40. At CURRIDR'S, 103 Yesler (under naval recruiting orrice).—Ady, 1 SEATTLE STAR Wonder How Many MAIDEN ROCK, Wis, Dec Louls Nelson owns a freak kitten. It han three eyes in a horizontal row | Presidente of the United States, 18), ,own farmers in Scotland, has just | 418 W. Barrett st, at Third ave. W and Ray st, at 9:40. m, Tuesday, a six-foot highwayfhan chased A! ang «mall boy into the transfer office of George W. Spencer, 2422 Fourth ave. W gr NEW YEAR’S EVE MIDNITE FOOLERIES Take our advice and Apia stock up your wardrobe now <a | Our Entire Stock of Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats (except Full Dress and Blue Serge Suits) Now on Sale at Exactly . HALF- PRICE $40 Suits and Overcoats now $20.00 $45 Suits and Overcoats now $22.50 $50 Suits and Overcoats now $25.00 $55 Suits and Overcoats now $27.50° $60 Suits and Overcoats now $30.00 $65 Suits and Overcoats now $32.50 $70 Suits and Overcoats now $35.00 $75 Suits and Overcoats now $37.50 $80 Suits and Overcoats now $40.00 $85 Suits and Overcoats now $42.50 $90 Suits and Overcoats now $45.00 $95 Suits and Overcoats now $47.50 $100 Suits and Overcoats now $50.00 Full Dress Clothes, One-Fourth Off Blue Serge Suits, One-Third Off Never before have we taken losses like the one we're taking now. The point we want to bring out is not our “hard luck” but your good luck. You save exactly half on the best clothes made, and we refund your money any time you're not satisfied. a Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Shop Corner Second Avenue and Seneca Street “ Father and Son Both Die as Centenarians GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 29. | Wiliam Hardy, one of the best j mouths are in a vertical position, the jtwo extra being one above and the other below the regular mouth, Lives Kitten Has? | 29- | ALBEE HIP. 41P An Extra Fine show of YAUDE or the 27 27 men who have been also has three mouths. died, aged 101. His father died in hi 100th year, The | attended college. A JOYCK in “Dollars aa the Woman” THIS WEEK Matinees Today and S: iintes Toaay « resent The Comedy That Started ork on a Pajama Jag. pee: ves., 0c to 52. Mat. Today ar 50 Orchestra JOHN SPARGUR, Conductor FIFTH SYMPHONY CONCERT Friday Eve., Dec. 31 Alice Gentle Assisting Artist Reserve Early or You Will Not Hear This Wonderful Mezzo- Soprano MOR RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW WE'RE PUTTING ON A BIG SHOW FOR YOU Ben, We to 8 ‘TING A M ANGLED MAL NOISE—TOYS—JOYS—BOYS HURLS—WHIRLS—CURLS—GIRLS LOTS OF FUN FOR LITTLE “MON” FIRST SHOWING OF “THE COUNTY FAIR” THE BIGGEST PLAY SINCE “IN OLD KENTUCKY" OTHER ELABORATE FEATURES INGS—SINGERS ANGE Mats. 27¢ to SOc. Levy's Musical Comedy Co. SWRHRETIB MINKE’ Sundays). Mats. Ladies’ Mi Daily, Sundays), 1 sept Monday and Thursday. Mats. 2:30. Nights 7:15 and PANTAGES Mats. 2:30. Nights, 7 amd © SOUVENIRS—SURPRISES Seat Sale at ele ea snow SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. "i Ot . vars =~OAAT 11515 Prices: 500, 750, $1, $1.50, $2 ‘Waco ‘Bligh a Mocers NO ADVANCE IN PRICES—BETTER BE EARLY MAIN 414

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