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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Club Will Look
Before II Junps

The Twelfth Street Improve
ment club will wait before COM
mitting itself to any candidates
for the coming election. On the
report of the special committee
last night the. club decided to
simply hold off. 1t refused to sug-
gest any names to the committee
of IL to be endorsed or rejected.
The club will be Independent but
when all the candidates are up Il
will probably take a hand and
make things interesting. =
There were whispers of combin-
ations and deals going on in the
city which caused the club men,
bers to decide to go slow until the
combinations show their hands
and then there will be something
doing.
The club adopted the report de-
claring 1t will not support any
candidate representing factional
or corporate interests or having
any personal or business or polit-
ical relations that would embarass
them In working for the best In
|terests Of the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
PROFESSOR CATCHES
WORLD-FAMOUS MEDIUM FAKINC.
STARTLING EXPOSURE
Of NINE. PALLAD|NO

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 21.-
Nine. Palladino of Italy is uneov-
cred. Hugo Munsterberg, psychol-
Iogis. of Harvard university, makes
public in the February number Of
the Metropolitan Magazine the fact
that he caught Euspia Palladino,
the worlds most famous medium,
who puzzlei Lombroso and Euro
Ipean scientists, in the act of fax
ing.
This complete exposure of
fraud as he terms it, was accom-
plished over a month ago, in New
York. but has been kept secret up
to now.
Palladino has wonderful mus
cles in her feet, legs and toes, and
while a sitter believes that the
woman is keeping her foot on his,
she has really Withdrawn her foot
from her heavy shoe and is using
it in a remarkable manner.
Munsterberg says that John
Palladino's guardian spirit, was
coaxed to touch him on the arm
as he sat at table with Palla-
dino.
He touched me distinctly on
my hip and then on my arm, and
at last he pulled the sleeve at my
elbow" says Munsterberg, describ-
ing the expose. 81 plainly felt the
thumb and fingers. 1t was most
uncanny.
And finally John was to lift
the table in the cabinet (behind
the medium). We held both her
hands, we felt both her feet, and
yet the table began to scratch the
floor, and we expected it to be
lifted.
''But, instead, there suddenly
came wild, yelling scream. 1t
was such IA scream as I had never
before heard i'm my life, not even
in Bernhardt's most thrilling
scenes. 1t was scream as IL a
dagger had stabbed Eusapia right
through the heart.
What had happened? She had
no idea that detectives had Slip
ped into the room and that a con-
federate had succeeded in crawl
ing like snail into her dark cab
met. behind the curtains.
81 had told him that | expected
wires stretched out from her body
to the cabinet, and he looked for
them.
What surprise when he saw
CONTINUED on Page Eight.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
HEARD ABOUT THE COMMITTEE OF "12?'
ITS OUR LATEST BATTLING MYSTERY
The committee of twelve.


It's the latest great mystery.
Tacomans have ceased speculate
Joe Gawley and Doc Cook the number of wives claiming
George uncertainty
wondering marveling pondering possibilities
the mysterious committee Of twelve.
How it came into being knows, apparently What
1t is going to do Is still greater mystery. And
after does puzzler of
them.
personnel the committee known It has George
s. Long George Burke and c. s. Barlow Commercial
club; George H. Stone, F. L. Denman, A. A.
Chamber of Commerce; A. Hail. George Higgs Frank
Cameron of the labor unions, and A. Garreson H.
b. Hendley and R. Leonard of the improvement
the list.
Behind concave this committee is
doing things day. fxnga slate the coming
supposed represent Improvement clubs but one
by the clubs refusing to endorse scheme
club repudiated idea but held
Street club with
the mystery The South End club this
thing. Other Improvement clubs
sort of walking slspcouy knowing whether
to tackle the thing embrace for house.
The labor union too rather suspicious They
have in kind of put evidence
but it has string to 1t they the COM
mee OF twelve will do what the labor unions will
it 1t.
that candidates are being scrutinzed with a
maguiyng glass and by of
pirants are being relegated to political oblivion
just what part the personal pejudces of the
OF Twelve mas In this OF Will
part OF the mystery Just what evidence
candidate there Is also is matter for conjecture.
II the committee ticket organiza-
uons the members profess will
subject proposition ali
is mighty mysterious and apparently
fair 81
At the Twelfth Street night some members
limited that when the committee of report
s not unlikely that great meeting of
members will be called the
openly hnted will endorsement OF any
corporation fellows the
come out of this committee Of twelve or not
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Common Americans Not Fit
To Be Guests of Kaiser"
German Society Is Shocked

|attended by their husbands, wei e
presented to the kaiser by tie
American ambassador at the an
|nual levee at the palace. Twenty
eight Americans in all were pre-
sented, the largest number to be
greeted by the kaiser at one time.
In Handsome Gowns.
All the American women were
dressed In the handsomest gowns
that Worth of Paris, or Hertz CT
Berlin could produce.
The dresses were heavily cm-
broidered with jewels and In
som instances their wearers had
difficulty in lifting the trains, so
heavy were the masses of gems.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21

Picked Up BY Eagle.
The baby's mother had left his
bradle near an open door while
The went about her work. With
beating of wings am enormous
kagle almost Immediately swoop-
I'd at the cradle, seized the child
IN its claws, and tapped to tree
IN tn yard where another eagle
perched.
The woman's agonized cries
brought two farm hands. to the
house. One attempted to climb
the tree, where the baby lay
among the topmost branches, sus-
pended by its clothing. He was
driven back by one of the birds,
which attacked him savagely.
Exposed to Driving Rain.
For more than two hours tbe
child lay exposed to a driving rain
and bitter wind, while one of
the men hurried to the nearest
neighbours house for rifle. When
he returned the eagles were
killed.
The child was dead from the
cold and the wounds the birds
sharp talons had inflicted befol e
he could be taken from the
branches.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Catches Fire
and Dashes to Earth,
Driver Leaping Just in
Time to Save His Life.

(By United Press Leased wIre.)
OHAN, Algeria, Jan. 2f.-
Carried In a flaming aero
plane downward through
space at terrifying speed, Oh
lie Siagers, a French aviator,
today escaped death by a hair
raising jump from the ma
chine when il was within 30
feet from the ground. Slagers
sustained slight injuries.
The aeroplaRe smashed Il
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
SAYS PATRICK
IS INNOCENT
Foreman of Jury Which
Held Noted Lawyer for
Murder Now Declares
There Was No Murder.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-Colonel
William Conant Church, editor OF
the Army and Navy Journal, who
was foreman of the grand jury
which indicted Attorney Albert r.
Patrick for the murder of William
Marsh Rice, said today that he
believed Patrick was innocent.
This statement following the
announcement that Valet Jones,
the missing witness in the case,
has been found in Texas, leads to
the belief that the famous case
will be reopened.
Last month Patrick made what
seemed to be a final struggle TO
gain his release from Sing Sing,
where he is serving life term.
Colonel Church said today that
the evidsnce presented before the
grand jury compelled indictment,
but added:
II can say with most positive
assurance, not only that Patrick
was not guilty of murder but that
there was no murder"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Leaps From Burning Airship

earth with great force and was
completely wrecked. The leap
saved the plucky teronaut from
being crushed to death In the
wreckage.
Slagers' flight was being watch
ed by big crowd. He ascended
to a great height and appeared to
have perfect control of the mo-
tors. Suddenly one Of the planes
caught fire from the engine and.
to the horror of the spectators,
the machine began to drop.
AS 1t descended II gathered mo-
mentum and none believed the
ldriver could escape death.
In the flash of time, just be-
fore the blazing aeroplane struck
the earth, Slagers was seen to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
SHIP LOST
Barkentine Washtenaw
Missing Off Coast Near
Hoquiam.

(By United Press Leased Wire.
HOQUIAM, Wash, Jan. 21.--
Every available sea-going craft in
this harbor is today engaged in
search for the four-masted bark
entine Washtenaw, which is mys-
teriously missing. Seafaring men
fear that the vessel has met with
disaster.
Not since last Monday morning
when the barkentine went to the
assistance of the disabled ship
William H. Smith, has the Wash
tenaw been definitely sighted.
Late yesterday afternoon a ves-
sci. apparently In distress and par
TALLY answering the description
of the Washtenaw, was sighted
just outside the breakers of West
port. This morning., however, 1t
had vanished.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
FINED SlOO FOR
RESISTING DOC
CATCHER

t. e. Henneberg has bean
fined 500 by Police Judge Arnt-
son for resisting the dog catcher.
w. l.. Joiner, the pound man.
captured Henneberg's pet purp
Wednesday while the owner was
painting a wagon in front of his
own residence. After a heat ed
argument Henneberg and Joine.
got into a tussle in which the dog
was nearly choked to death.
Joiner pulled gun and placed
Henneberg under arrest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21

tBy United Press Leased Wire.)
BERLIN, Jan. 21.-Social lead
ers of the German capital are IN
revolt today because twenty-eight
Americans, among them Mrs. Ben
jamin Ide Wheeler, wife of the
president of the University of
California, and her niece, Miss
Sprague, were presented at court
last night.
The social elect declare that
few. Of. the Americans, mostly
women, were entitled to presenta-
ton.
A morning paper today In. COM
menting on the affair. says:
1.-THE dignity Of the court
is compromised by associa-
tion with ordinary Ameri-
cans who are not merely So
cially unfit but are actually
sworn republicans
Twenty women, some of them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
BILLBOARD WAR
WON BY CITY

The city won its fight this after
noon TO limit the height of bill
boards to six feet, when Judge
Shackieford handed down decIs-
ion holding the legislation against
biliboards to be legal. The ruling
was made I'm the mandamus case
of Foster q Kleiser against the
city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
STUDENTS RoAsTED.

ALBANY, Ore, Jan. 21.--Pres-
ident Crook in a vigorous address
to the student body today. laid
down the law" In an unmistakably
forceful manner to those students
who have beer doing ''stuntss not
exactly in harmony with the fae'r
ulty's idea Of good behavior.
Prof. Crook threatened immedi-
ate expulsion for haxing or ofhap
lnranks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
SELLING BOOZE
TO BOYS

Arrests may follow police inves-
tigation today of charges that To-
cal saloons keepers are selling
liquor to boys.
Last night 14-year-old lad was
found intoxicated and taken to
the police station. When he be-
came coherent this morning, he
said that another young boy had
gone to a saloon and secured a
pint of whisky through the state
ment that 1t was wanted for a
woman in a certain room in a
lodging house.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
LEWIS AGAIN

(By United Press Leased Wire.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 21.
l.. Lewis, of Bridgeport,
o., was declared reelected presi-
dent today of the United Mine
Wrokers of America.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
GIVES BIG RAILWAY
MERGER A CHANGE

(By Upifed Press Leased Wire. J
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. 81.
Attorney General Wickersham
today granted Robert s. Lovett,
chief of the Hartman Interests,
permission to file written men,
orandum supporting his request
that the government dismiss the
action which seeks to dissolve the
merger of the Union and Southern
Pacific railways.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
STEAMER AGROUND

CHATHAM, Mass, Jan. 21.-A
three-masted schooner is aground
today on Handkerchief shoal.
Heavy seas are running and the
vessel is in danger of going 90
pieces.
Life savers are attempting TO
board her but have been unable
to remain alongside.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
447 GIRLS WANT
HUSBANDS

DAYTON, o., Jan. 21.-
When All young women in a
town in Vermont, on the
other side of the continent.
who are anxious to marry.
sent their signatures in one
letter to the secretary of the
Blue Mountain Bachelors
club yesterday, it further en-
jhasized the belief among
the members of the club that
a national organization of
bachelors is needed. Steps
will be taken today looking
to such an organization with
headquarters in Dayton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
COURT HOLDS ANNEXATION ELECTION ILLEGAL
IS !.
KNOCKED OUT.
MINOR IRREGULARITIES DE-
LAYS THE GREATER TACO
MA MOVEMENT - SUBURBS
DESIRING ANNEXATION TO
HOLD ANOTHER ELECTION.

Because the notices of election
were not properly posted in the
various precincts, Judge Clifford
today held that the annexation
election of January 8 was irregu-
lar from legal standpoint and
of no effect.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
PINCHOT FOR.
PRESIDENT
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 21l
1t was learned authoritatively
today that Clifford Pinchot, for
mer chief forester, has been sel
lected to succeed DR.. Charles w.
Eliot as president of the National
Conservation association. It is
understood that Pinchot is hold
ing back, declaring that he should
not take the office until after the
congressional investigation into
the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
MEAT BOYCOTT
GAINS $4,000
LABORERS
WASHINGTON WORKERS JOIN
IN FIGHT AGAINST. HIGH
PRICES MAINTAINED BY
BEEF TRUST &C II L g A G o.
WOMEN IN CAMPAIGN.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan.
21.-It was announced today
at the department of justice
that proceedings soon will be
instituted against the beef
trust" at Chicago. The
trust" will be accused of
operating in restraint of
trade.
The announcement of gov
ernmental action was re-
ceived with intense interest
on account of the almost ma
tion-wide movement against
the high prices of meat, which
has developed into anti-meat
strikes in many. of the larger
cities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
GIANT EAGLE
STEALS BABY
Left in Cradle by an Open Window, Child
Is Snatched UP and Carried Into Big Tree
Where It Is Held Captive by Two Great Birds
Until It Dies of Exposure.

GIBSON, an. 21-His little body bruised and by
who kidnapped him from his Glib
of = twononthsOd
e ons Of giant eagles who kidnapped him from his crib
where
its
shrieks
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
NO EXCUSE FOR
HIGH PRICES

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-
That the price of meat is fully
l'40 per cent higher than it should
be is the statement today of a
leading retail butcher of this city.
Stock, he declared, was never
more plentiful than 1t is today.
Pointing out that the middleman
IDS really one of the greatest sus-
Iferers by reason of high prices,
he brought his books to show that
after the busy season with receipts
averaging $4,000 a month he had
but 5000 clear at the end of the
year to show for his work and
his Investment. Everything else
besides his operating expenses
went to the meat monopoly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21

leap from the comet-like mass. He
was unconscious when picked up.
but quickly revived and an exam
ination showed that no bones were
broken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21

The Marachelle de Noailles sail.
ed today, leaving the four mutt.
nous French sailors languishinf
in the county jail. The French
consul decided to keep them her,
land put them on another French
ship.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Reaches Boston,

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 21.-The
meat boycott reached this city to-
day, and leading labor men have
called a mass meeting to be held
at Fanueil hall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
Trust Defiant; Boosts Prices

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 21.-
In spite of the growth of the anti
meat societies, the price of sir
loin steaks advance 2 cents per
pound today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-21
BY United Press Leased Wire. J

Iby UHIttU FFcSS Leased Wire.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 21.
-Laboring men here began prep
arations today to join the meat
boycott. A resolution to become
vegetarians until the high prices
of meat are reduced is being cir
culated, and $4,000 signatures are
expected.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Align-
ing themselves with the wide
spread meat and egg boycott,
local members of the State FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs are plan
ming to have that organization
endorse the protest against high
prices.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-23
NORTH COAST By
JUNE |
WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE PART
OF THE PEACH CROP AND 9TH
Err EARLY FRUITS-NO CON-
NECTIONS ANNOUNCED.

North Yakima, Feb. 22.-Presi-
dent Robert E. Strahorn, of the North
Coast, believes that railroad will be
completed into North Yakima before
June /, 1910, and will handle some
of the early fruit crop of the valley,
according to a Spokane dispatch.
After his recent visit to North Yak
ina, he made a trip over the North
Coast line and found that the crews
were doing rapid construction work.
Travellers over the Northern Pacific
railroad report that track laying near
Kennewick has been completed and
that the grading crews are putting
the finishing touches on the line be-
tween Kiona and Granger. From
Granger to Union Gap, there are sew
eral crews at work. The following
is the dispatch from Spokane:
Trains will be running over the
North Coast railroad into North Yak
ina before June 1, 1870" said Rob
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-23
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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-23


ert e. Strahorn, president of the
North Coast railroad, yesterday, on
his return from a trip to Seattle ana
North Yakima. While in the Yaki-
ma valley for a couple of days Presi-
dent Strahorn made an inspection of
the construction work being done be-
tween North Yakima and Kennewick,
and returned to Spokane feeling that
everything is being pushed rapidly.
When asked as to the connection
of the North Coast for transportation
of produce out of the Yakima coun-
try President Strahorn said that his
road only will be operated this sum-
mer between North Yakima and the
Columbia river, that the Columbia
river bridge will be completed and
in use and that he can not discuss
traffic agreement subjects at the
present time.
The o. r. & N. railroad has tracks
on the east side of the Columbia
river where the North Coast crosses
that stream, and is considered the
only possible eastern outlet for the
new railroad.
1--WE will be able to handle part
of the Yakima peach crop this sum-
mer and take care of our share of
the apple and hay business during
the late summer and fall" said Pres
ident Strahorn. 81 have said this to
the Yakima ranchers and mean to
fulfill that promise"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-23

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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-07-02
Charlton Confesses Murder.


Porter Charlton. the husband OF Mrs.
Mary Scott Castle Charlton. whose
body was found stuffed in a trunk
which was taken from Lake Como.
Italy. recently. was arrested as he
stepped from the steamship Princess
Irene in Hoboken. y. J. Within a half
hour he had confessed 20 the murder
of his wife.
Charlton al frst denied his identity.
but after being given the third de-
gree" he admitted that he was the
husband OF Mrs. Charlton and made a
signed statement 20 the Hoboken pO-
lice
The following is the text Of Charl-
tons confession
My wife and lived happily to-
gether She was the best woman in
the world 10 me. but she had an IN
governable temper. So had l. We fire.
quently quarreled over the most tri-
vial matters. and her language % me
was frequently so foul that 1 know
she did nOJ know the meaning Of IT,
The night / struck her she had
been quar-. cling with me She was in
the worst temper / had ever seen her
in. / told her 10 she did not cease /
would leave her and put a stop 70 IL.
She stopped Tor a little while and
started aga.n
Il took a mallet which ] had used
TO do some household repairs and
struck her three times. / thought she
was dead I put the body in a trunk.
in which / also threw the mallet.
About y that night | moved the
trunk from the house dragged il 10 a
small pier near the house. and threw
IL overheard. | remained at Malpraiso
the next day. and left the following
night and went TO Como. and from
there TO Genoa where / took the
steamer Irene three days later.
The room where / killed her was
an outdoor sleeping apartment"
At the suggestion Of an attorney
whose services he secured shortly az
ter his arrival at the police station
Charlton added this postscript To hi:
statement.
Il have been Informed that G. X
Ispolatoff has been implicated, and
wish TO state that this gentleman 1;
absolutely gGiltness. have no defense
to make and don't wish to-"
Charlton will probably be takeI
| back 10 Italy for trial
The body Of Mrs. Mary Scott Cas-
tie Charlton was found packed in
trunk which was taken from Lax
Como near the village OF Moltraslo b.
fishermen on June 10. The woman
with her husband. Porter Charlton
had occupied a villa on the lake front
leased by them some time before. A
the time the woman's body was re
covered Porter Charlton could not b
| found.