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The federals have been more than courteous
 'Longorio has a had reputation. strongly advise against your going. You'd better send some man.
 ''Whom can I send? asked Alaire. s'YOu know my situation"
 The judge considered moment be- fore replying. .I can't go, for I'm busy in court. You could probably accomplish more than anybody else, if LongoriO will listen to reason, and. after all, yot are person of such ,m- portance that dare say you'd be safe. But 1t will be hard trip, anu you won't know whether you are in rebel or in federal territory"
 Well, people here are asking wheth- CT Texas Is in the United States or Mexico" Alaire said, lightly. Some times l hardly know" After a mo- ment she continued: .Since you know everything and everybody, i wonder if you ever met David i.aw?"
 Ellsworth nodded.
 "Tell me something about him."
 'He asked me the same thing about you. We'll, I haven't seen much of Dave since he grew up, he's such roamer.'
 He said his parents were murdered by the Guadalupes."
 "Yes. It happened a good many years ago, and certainly they both met violent end. I was instrumental in saving what property Frank Law left, but it didn't last Dave very long. He's right careless in money matters. Dave's fine fellow in some ways-nost ways. l believe, but" The judge lost him. self in frowning meditation.
 "I have never known you to damn a friend or client with such faint praise" said Alaire.
 "Oh, I don't mean 1t that way. I'm almost like one of Dave's kin, and I've been keenly interested in watching his traits develop. I'm interested in he redity. I've watched it in Eds case, for instance. If you know the parents it's easy to read their children" Again he lapsed into silence, nodding to him self. "Yes, nature mixes her prescrip- tions like any druggist. I'm glad you and Ed-have no babies"
 Alaire murmured something unintef- ligible.
 (Continued Next Week)
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found his wife's eyes fixed upon him, and dropped his own. 'I knew you were short-hnnded at La Feria. There was an interval of silence. then Ed exclaimed, testify, What are you took ing at?'
 T wondered what you'd say"
 .Eh? Cant l fire Il man without a long-winded explanation? Just because I've let you run things to suit your- Self-'
 Wait We had our understanding" Alaire's voice was low and vibrant. Tt was my payment for living with you, and you know it. You gave me the reins to Las Palmas so that I'd have something to do. something to live for and think about. except-your actions. The ranch has dou,led in "alue, every penny is accounted for,
 nd SQa have more money to spend
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Continued Next Week.)
Why shiverino Warns Us.

Some might doubt that shivering on cold day would make anyone warm.
 but 1t is true that the spasmodic quiy- ering of the muscles. called shivering. causes flow of blood and thereby gea-. crates warmth. No one ever shivers; until his body Is extremely cold. It, IS nervous protest on the part of the, flesh, due to acute discomfort that has, reached the brain and been reacted. But the moment shivering begins the
 muscles work inyoluntarily and the, body begins to produce heat. x
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latest ranch improvements. Not until dinner was over did he inquire the rea- son for his summons.
 Its about La Feria. General Lon. gorio has confiscated my stock" Alaire told him. T was afraid of this very thing, and so I was preparing to bring the stock over. Still never thought they'd actually confiseate it.
 Hasn't Ed done enough to provoke confiscation?" asked the judge. q have it pretty straight that he's glv- ing money to the rebel Junta and lend ing every assistance he can to their cause"
 ''I didn't know he'd actually done anything. How mad!"
 "Yes-for man with interests in federal territory. But Ed always does the wrong thing, you know"
 "Then l presume this confiscation Is In the nature of reprisal. But the stock is mine. not Eds. I want your help in taking up the matter with Washington"
 Ellsworth was pessimistic. Tt won't do any good, my dear" he said. You won't be paid for your cattle."
 Then I shall go to La Feria."
 "No!" The judge shook his head decidedly.
 i've been there a hundred times.
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like men. I'd like to have look at this David Law, this gunman, this Hand some Harry who waits at water holes for ladies in distress Ed ignored his wife's ontflung hand, and continued, mocllingly: "Ill bet he's all that's manly and splendid, everything that Pm not"
 'You'd-better stop" gasped the woman, 'l can't stand everything"
 '.So? Well. neither can I.
 "After-this, think you'd better go-to San Antonio. Maybe I'll forget before you come back"
 To this "Young Ed" agreed quickly enough Good - said he That suits me. I'll at least get q little peace al my eluhn He glowered after his wife as she left the room. Then, still seowl- ing, he lurehed out to the gallery where the breeze was blowing. and flung himself into chair
 Ed's marriage to Alaire had been in- evitable. They had been playmates, and their parents had considered the union n consummation of their own lifelong friendship. Upon her mothers death Alaire had been sent abroad. and there she remained while Young Ed, attended an eastern college. For any child the experience would have been
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When Men Fought Hand to Hsnd..

The most fearsome of all the anciebt Russian weapons was the great battle. ax. There were many different types ot these, but all were alike in having queerly shaped, broad blades. often of huge proportions and mounted on loiig poles. The upper portion of the blade usually projected in fantastic curve above the haft while the lower end bent toward the pole, to which it was attached by . flashing of wire.
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on yourself than ever before. You have no reason to complain"
 Austin crushed his napkin into ball and flung ii from him; with seowl he showed himself back from the table. Tt was an idiotie arrangement, just the same. I agreed because 1 was sick. Dad thought 1 was all shot to pieces. But I'm all right now and able to run my own business.'
 Nevertheless, it was a bargain, and it will stand. If your father were alive he'd make you live up to it."
 You talk as if l were child" shouted her husband; and his plump face was apoplectic with rage. "rhe title is in my name. How could he make me do anything?"
 Nobody could force you" his wife said, quietly. You are still enough of man to keep your word, I believe so long as I observe my part of our bar gain?"
 Ed, slightly modified, agreed. "of course l am; l never welched But l won't be treated as an incompetent,
 
 and jangles.'
 You have welched"
 "Eh?' Austin drowned belligerently. You agreed to go away when you felt your appetite coming on. and you promised to live clean, at least around home.n
 .Wen?"
 
 Alaire went on in lifeless tone that covered the seething emotions within her. T never inquire into your actions at San Antonio or other large cities, although Of course 1 have ears and these border towns are home to us, and people know me I won't be humil- lated more than l am public pity is hard enough to bear Eve about reached the breaking point"
 'Indeed?' Austin leaned forward, his eyes inflamed. His tone was raised, needless of possible eavesdreppers. Then why don't you end it? Why don't You divorce mef 1 never see anything of you. You have your part of the house and l have mine; all we share in common is meal hours, and and a mail address,"
 Alaire turned upon him eyes dark with misery You know why 1 don't divorce you. No, Ed, we're going to live out our agreement, and these Brownsville episodes are going to cease" Her lips whitened. So are your visits to the pumping station" ''What do you mean by that?"
 .You transferred Pantilo because he was growing jealous of you and Rosa. !" Ed burst into sudden laughter. There's no harm in little Irritation. Rosa's Il pretty girl"
 His wife uttered breathless. Smothered exclamation her hands, as they lay on the table cloth, were tight ly elenehed. "Shes your tenant-al- most your servant What kind of d man are you? Haven't you any de- cency left?'
 Say Go easy I guess I'm no diff ferent to most men," Austin's unpleas ant laughter had been succeeded by q still more unpleasant scowi. q have to do something. It's dead enough around here.
 You must stop going there."
 "Humph! 1 notice you go where you pleas,s Rosa and l never spent a night together in the chaparral-'
 Ed i' Alaire's exclamation was Ike the snap of a whip. She rose and faced her husband, quivering as if the lash had stung her flesh.
 '"That went home, eh? Well, I'm no fool i've seen something of the world. ana I've found that women are about
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SYNOPSIS.
sHJFlfh 9 HsTtst c brzAss

CHAPTER I-Set afoot and alone by an accident in the desert near the Rio Grande Mrs. Alaire Austin, mistress of Las Pal mas and La Feria ranches, meets Dave Law, Texas Ranger, at a water hole and is compelled to spend the night there with him, as he is in ambush for a murderer and cannot leave his post
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CHAPTER II-Next day at evening the murderer appears with a companion.
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Complete isolation, of course, Alaire had found to be impossible, even though her ranch lay far from the trav- eled roads and her Mexican guards were not encouraging to visitors. Busi- ness inevitably brought her into con tact with a considerable number of people, and of these the one she saw most frequently was Judge Ellsworth of Brownsville, her attorney.
 It was perhaps week after Ed had left for San Antonio that Alaire felt the need of Ellsworth's counsel and sent for him. Ellsworth was d kindly man of fifty-five, with a forceful chin and q dropping, heavy-lidded eye that could either blaze or twinkle. Judge Ellsworth knew more than any four men in that part of Texas; information had way of seeking him out. He was Il good lawyer. foo. and yet his knowl- edge of human nature he considered far more important than law. His mind was like full granaty. and every grain lay where he could put his hand upon it.
 He motored out from Brownsville, and after ridding himself of dust, in- sisted upon spending the interval be fore dinner m an lnsnection Qf Alaire,s
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-29
MAYOR HEADS LIST
OF THOSE INDICTED

head OF the bootlegging syndicate
Fred Bellingsley, Logan's brother
and chief lieutenant.
William H. Pielow. transfer man.
William Frazier. OF the Frazier
Transfer and Delivery Go.
The above were named on one In
dictment. and charged on three
counts OF conspiring TO violate the
federal code
Another bill OF indictment named !:
+ D. Baker. OF the Jesse Moore
Hunt Co.
Edward J. Margett. alias Jack
Hamilton. former police patroiman
The Jesse MooreHunt liquor deal
ing corporation OF San Franciso.
They. too. were charged with con
spring to violate interstate com
merce laws relative to the shipment
OF liquor.
Patrolman Charles J. Mullen was
named In a single Indictment. which
charges him with trying TO intimi-
date government witnesses.
Three minor indictments. charg.
ing Paul Err. Edward Crewes and
Guy Coble with selling liquor with
out having paid the government rev.
enue tax, at Port Angeles. were also
returned
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short time. lie said he ate a piece
of pie and came home.
lie went into the room whore
the children we're sleeping. he said.
aud. after covering them up. walk.
ed around the block for half
hour. Upon his return. he claims
he laid down on his bed with his
clothes on.
Hewitt saws he was awakened
once when one OF them got sick II
was then he took light with him
and placed II on a chair beside the
bed. Hewitt told one neighbor that
the light must have exploded. but
7 doubt this. for the chair. on which
the lamp was sitting. shows that
there was no explosion. There is a
round. unhurned spot on the chair.
showing where the lamp remained
uudisturbed thru the flames"
Find Hammer
The children's names were Stew.
art. 10. Arthur s.. Myrtle. :. and
Clarence. 3. Stewards head was
crushed the most. The other chill.
dren's skulls were crushed. also.
but they were evidently hit only a
couple OF times.
A small hammer. with a charred
handle. was found beneath the bed.
Authorities believe this is the In.
strument OF death. The size and
shape OF the hammers head fits
the wounds.
II was learned at late hour
sunday that Hewitt had insured all
of his children last April in the
Metropolitan Life Insurance co.
NeiEhbora say that the llewitts
had considerable trouble. Mrs.
Hewitt when told OF the fire. faint.
ed She had another child with
her. She said that her husband,
who. until recently. has been a
brakeman on the y. p. railway. had
been cruel 10 her.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-29
MAYOR PLEADS mot GUILTY.
THE CASE OF Hi Gill

Mayor Gill and Chief Rockingham should be given a
speedy trial. They asking for it, and they entitled
to it, Moreover only fair the city to have this affair
with $ possible
Out of bad this to be the best
And it is bad mess. Whether Mayor Gill is guilty in
nocent of the criminal charges the results the
The Star hopes he is sincerely hopes But
the time it hold him blameess for the stua
ton which made federal probe necessary.
The mayors compromise with the Billinssleys have
been due to criminal conspiracy, charged, pure
folly
Whatever the reason, it could have worked only harm
and it did, 1t appeared peculiar The Star that time,
and The Star said
1t is moral certainty that police graft a
greater less degree during the operations of the bootleg
gers syndicate and the little bootleggers Gill the
individual, may have been innocent Gill; the official how
ever, cannot escape punishment
Police grating deserves mercy sympathy of
kind Nor does situation which makes possible de-
extenuation sympathy.
Everyone knows The Star does say this of i'll will
toward Gill; has taken every opportunity praise him
when he deserved it.
1t helped him to "come back" in 1914 s mayor. He
wanted another chance and promised to again. He
should have stuck that promise Gill the type of
mayor Seattle needed when the dry law into effect
just The Star pointed the 1916 election The city
and its problems have outgrown him.
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Hammered TO
Death, Charge
of Officials.

All Auburn is stirred up as never before
in its history over the murder of the four
young Hewitt children here early Sunday
morning for which their father, S. A. Hewitt,
Northern Pacific brakeman, is being held
in the King county Jail on an open charge.
Outside of few short intervals of grief,
the father, who is being held in the county
jail under suspicion Of numbering his chill
dren, remains stoically calm. He denies hav-
ing had anything to do with the FIRE or that
he killed his children, yet the authorities say
they have learned Of at least four conflicting
stories told by him.
Mrs. Hewitt, the mother, is staying with
friends in Everett, where she went last Mon
day following a quarrel with her husband.
The crowd of curious spectators, eager
to get glimpse Of the charred murder room
where the four tots had their skulls crushed
by hammer, grew SO large that the local
police authorities were forced to station
Gordon Of officers about the home
Deputy Prosecutor Helsell, Sheriff
Stringer and Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich
spent the entire morning in the house and
in the homes of adjoining neighbors, in a
joint investigation Monday.
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MAYOR GIL did not take off his
long raincoat. He frowned sternly,
and held his hand 10 his ear when
Judge Neterer asked II he would
waive the reading of the indict-
ment
Pleads In Low Tone
"Yes. your honor" the mayor re
piled.
lie then pleaded not guilty.
His voice was hardly heard by
those in the court room who were
straininc their faculties TO drink In
every move of the dramatic action.
The mayor turned once. and
looked sauarely at the crowd in the
seats. then turned again toward
FRYE.
There was a second OF whispered
conversation.
Ask Separate Trials
We ask for separate uials ior
Hiram c. GIN and Charles J.. Beck
ingham." said Frye.
THAT will be attended 10 later, y
replied Judge Neterer
After Chief Buckingham pleaded.
the Judge announced to Assistant
District Attorney Noodle, who was
representing the government dur
ing the arraiEnments. that the de-
PENDANTS ought 10 he notified TO
plead as quickly as possible.
Judge Urges Speed
II want these cases to come TO
trial before the latter part OF Feb
ruary." be said.
This announcement was noted
by the flock Of attorneys who were
present
Mayor Gill has announced that
he would appeal for an early trial.
Judge Neterer has evidently made
up his mind that there shall be no
unnecessary delays.
Attorney John f. Dore, associat-
ed In the defense of ex-Sheriff
Hodge. said his client would prob
ably delay pleading until the in
dictment had been studied.
No Others Appear
No other defendants had signi.
fled To the district attorneys office
that they we're anxious TO plead
Monday, Because the bonds were
not fixed up until late Saturday.
those indicted had not been mott
fled that they might plead Monday.
Monday mornings court action
marked the first procedure result
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After more than q month OF
probing. the federal Grand Jury
reported indictments, at $40
Saturday afternoon, which nam
ed high officials ard a score OF
others as alleged conspirstors
to bring liquor Illegally into the
state. A Star extra carried the
first news Of the Iury's action
to the city.
Those indicted we're:
Mayor Hiram G. Gill.
Chief OF Police Charles l.. Beck
inghsm.
Ex.sheriff Robert 7. Hodge.
Edward D. Baker. manager OF the
Jesse Moore-Hunt Liquor Co, o
San Francisco.
City Detectives J. Doom. DAME
HcLennan, Meyer ". Peyser anc
- Poolman
z. p. Weidman. a freight clerk o.
the Washington railway 4
Navigation Co.
Logan Billingsley. alias Joe Bush
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Judge Bausman Will
Defend Mayor Gill
Voluntarily; Is Dem.

Judge Frederick Bausmsn.
former member OF the state su-
prene court. went TO Mayor
Gill Monday and offered TO de-
fend hi mssainst the govern
rnent conspiracy charges.
The mayor. after brief delib-
GRAFTON, announced at noon that
he had accepted the offer.
Judge Bausmsn is a democrat
and does not ordinarily practice
criminal law. He told the may
or he believed he had been un-
Justly victimized.
His entry into the case, cou-
pied with the fact that Clarence
L. Reanes will cooperate with
District Attorney Allen in the
prosecution. assured a keen lc-
gal battle, attorneys who heard
the news predicted.
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an Investigation OF a hammer
head. found beneath the bed. failed
10 reveal any blood or hair. orr
GERS believe the murdered wiped
the blood from the hammer after
dealing his death blows
Officers viii bring q bloody sheet.
found under pillow OF one OF the
bheda. TO Seattle. with a view TO.
wards Identifying some OF the blood
stains as finger prints
George ". Scott. Auburn under.
taker. who has charge OF the bodies
and who telcphoued Mrs Hewitt
at Everett Sunday. said that he was
expecting the mother at any mo-
ment Monday.
Tho mother. Scott said. collapsed
when he told her OF the discovery
OF her four dead children when the
flames had been extingliished by
firemen
Police scout the story told by
Hewitt that a burning lamp eIplod.
ed. causing the fire.
They were at loss. however. TO
explain the exact manner in which
the fire started.
Hewitt, In the meantime. remains
calm and undisturbed at the coun-
~ Jail. lie denies that he struck
his children with a hammer. and
continues to lapse into periods OF
melancholy.
Prosecutor Lundin announced to-
day he would probably not file a
charge against Hewitt until Tues
day. or at least until after he had
consulted with his deputies. who
are investigating the case
Hewitts story
Hewitt told me coming in from
Auburn Sunday after his arrest
said Sheriff Stringer Monday.
that he put his children to bed
about O'Clock aud went down TO
a pool room. where he played for n
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No attorney stood with him at the bar.

ing from the sensational indict-
ments, returned Saturday. charging
the mayor. his police chief, Hodge
and a score OF others with plotting
to illegally ship liquor 10 Seattle.
Ready in Two Weeks
Attorneys who were in the cOu1
rooms Monday morning predicted
that the request OF the mayor AND
chief TO be granted a separate trial
might not be granted. II IN option
al. in federal courts. whether or not
tall defendants in conspiracy
charge be tried at the same time or
not.
After the other defendants have
pleaded. the date OF trial will prob
ably be set.
II has not been definitely deter
mined whether or not attorneys for
Hodge and the detectives named in
the case will attack the indictments.
This was being determined Nom
day.
United States District Attorney
Allen announced he would ready to
try the cases any time after two
weeks.
Attacks Grand Jurors
While waiting TO arrange bond,
GIN denied his guilt, denounced the
Billingsleys and attacked the per-
sonnel of the grand jury which in
dicted him.
ITS all frame.up by the
| Billingsleys." said the mayor.
There's nothing to it. I'm not
worrying.
I've known for a month that
was TO be indicted | know how
District Attorney Allen asked GER
tain men, politically unfriendly to
me TO serve on the jury. | know
how Jim Davis. proprietor of the
Washington Annex. said. after the
police raided him, that il had been
fixed to get me.
"The secretary of the grand Jury
Is member of the Employers as
sociation, another juror had prop
erty destroyed by me and the fore
man isn't the sort of a man who
should be allowed to serve on u
grand jury.
THE Billingsleys are trying to
save their necks at my expense"
Monday l.. Colman and J. w.
Efaw, dry committee leaders, said
they intended to see the mayor
thru his trouble. That they might
even help raise funds to defray the
expenses of his defense was inti-
mated.
Plans for defense had not been
arranged by the defendants.
Allen denied Monday that he had
asked any member of the grand
jury to serve on that body, or that
he had conferred with any men,
ber of the jury before ii convened.
Such charge is in keeping
with the manner in which the
mayor has endeavored to obscure
the real issue involved In the gov
ernment's case. said Allen. II
never talked TO any member of the
Jury before the Jury convened and
didn't ask any of the members TO
serve
"ln attacking three members OF
the grand jury as being unfriendly
TO him, Mayor Gil overlooks the
fact that ii only took ~ of the II
members of the jury to vote the
Indictment