The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 3, 1899, Page 3

- : 7h oy a HIS REASON Wanted Germans to The looal newspapers trace of der. pringey Toney roe of Crom’ vinite there ra. Crom had recovered from thdlines# that brought her to death's gor, She read an account the lat of the ship on whteb her | hhabandstatied “with all'on board,” | and hy urned him as dead In I89$ahe secured a position dressmapr in thin elty, and been ling here ever ainoe, dreaming that her husband was gail. ho Nttle |The Chalotte papers were frequent DEWEYS SHOW OF STRENGTH Vos Now Under Dewey's Com. mand—Olympia Is tho Moaviest Excepting the Monitors, WASHINGTON, Masch 3.—¥ r since Dewey asked for the Oregon the people generally have on Won. dering What he wante? with the battleship. It has since been given out that Dewey, learning that the fitirst-class German cruiser Kalsertn Augusta was due at Manila. ired the Oregon to offset t ot strength. While the ie closed, owing to the withdrawal of German ships from Manila bay, stilt the matter stil! possesses post mor- tem Interest The Kalserin Augusta is much the superior of any of the vessels now swith the Asfatic squadron. Of course in the event of hostilities with the Germans the monitors Monterey and Monadnock would be th? most ef- fective Aghting ships the quiet waters of Manila bay. Officers of the navy are comment- ing upon the ambiguity of Admiral ‘* recent dispatches. It ts believed that he is not writing them himself. All his metmages during the war were cited as models to subord inate officers because of thétr clear- Resa, ] Gen. Otte dispatch announcing that the situation was improving | was most gratifying to administr tive officlals, The troops stationed in the Philippine talands have been compelled to be on duty continuous. | ly since the fighting of the 4th uit., | and they will derive much) benefit from the rest. Troops will bé massed on the Atlantic and Pact- | fic coasts to be in readiness to sail | ily at @ her by a friend, and in one lof themahe read of Cross’ retutn FA little elegraphing nn nettled | any doubs of Identity, and the over. \Joyed hgband and wife arranged f ja reuni@ at Charlotte, where they |had paged nineteen years b | They vere cordially weleor many @t fends, and | life an@ In the town where they | \erew upas children Mai King and Music. | MUNPH, March 3.—8ome hither to unppiished letters, which were! writte » the composer Wagner by Louls, he mad king of Ravaria, who o@mitted suicide tn his ro mantioi@lace retreat, have just ap peared, They excite the greatest In terest Bnong the Wagnerite for they dflose the fervor of the wor ship ofthe king before the genius of the PMposer In hf letters Louts calla Wagner his “bet below his “unique one,” his “h@ friend,” and says with qpectation since “Tr Isolde"Was born and the 'N “T burn jadnished. T await the birth of ‘arsifi.’ showing how love has the power mplish everything, You are tf #tar that Hehte my lite. Your #mard miraculously strength- ASET BACK WestPoint Athletics fave Received. | ' DUR TO LOSS OP GRADUATES for the Philippines should it become | necessary to give Gen, Otis addt- the United States. The following is a tomplete Mat of the warships under Admiral Gil Witness Many Changes tn Players i WIBT BOINT, N. ¥., Maren 2—| Foothll prospects for next season at tt United States military acad- jemy,| ved a serious set back In the @aduation with the class of ‘99 of @V. Heidt, BE. Humphreys, L. | All-American eleven. It will be many a long day before | w Potnt wil find another such “back ax little Kromer and | such kicker and Ine-breaker | ‘yn. Waldron waa one of the beat | in the country, At ong blow point Ia robbed of her entire | With” jt goes | it Af not | t eley> en las ever had. Heidt has deen ws th an a guard and as a tac- | kle, and his work has always been = | of t value to the team. This 98 | wh graduation of football 32 | Stagifoto 18 jot it, the crack end, who, with | nm Sm made things decidedly un- confrtable for the extreme flanks powe tg ing teams. ‘Totals.« we wo se «3,059 ae th remains at the academy. ‘There are no battleships on army *- ‘ed cruisers among Dewpy's venne: ‘The Olympia is the most powerful in the “fleet. She ts of the class called protected, that ia, there in a Ught wall of steel inclosing her most vital parts. Her heaviest guns are eight-inch. Dewey has no ships like the famous Brooklyn and New York, not to mention euch aa the Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Texas and) vaceveny aaa NEW YORK ROMANEE A Dressmaker and a Skippe and Their Story. ‘A Nek York dressmaker and 9 Skipper, who for ten years had been salling between New York and Liv- erpool, are the central figures in a strange romance that ended this ‘week ot Charlotte, N. C., which was their original home. In 1889 Frank Andrews, of Char- lotte, decided to remove to Texas, as his physician had recommended a change of climate. His friend, Will- jam Cross, decided to go with him in searevh of fortune. ‘was in delicate health and could not and last year’s substitute ends were | Foothll Season This Coming Veer © Cnn @ IS Bandit IN DING Story of A Chief. WHO OUTWIPTED. GEN. MARCH 2 000 Price Offered for the Bandit's Head ‘This is not really my own atory—1i ia my grandfather'a: AtiN, it is all in the family, I may as weil tell | and, Weridop, it has specia’ interest how, when fo many peop'e in thin land are looking and lodging across the Pacific to where our Mag floats over Manila Nay In the year 162 my grandfather & young man of 20, shipped a men sutlor an the three-mant Polly Ann, of New Hed from New York to the with @ cargo of flour vivane Ths wae uneventful, and 1384 daye after passing Bandy Hook the ly Ann dropped anchor in Pasig river, Man ita. During stay there, wrandfath of an invent wating disposition, looked the city over pretty well, there were chane & wide awake Yankee to make a rtune in the believing that y will begin | And Secured From Mim the $40,- O.@® sia 6. @6 0 @ “fn ShaATrLe STAR. wolf? | |his face, “Who am 1? See for your The canain meneral # a start] of terror, and his face blanehed. It | Was Hercoo, the insurgent chief, whe stood before hin. | Lintenoto 1 and Wi tell you what I want mu have 1 440,000 for my head, — See brought It myself and claim the money Herceo etepped nearer and drew | from under hie cloak a long nativ knife | I can't very well carry Mexican dollars, 1 will take Spanteh bank notes Hurry!" | General Marcia ground hia teeth | in rf but dared do nothing but Jobey. He knew well the eharacter of the man be was dealing with From a desk near by he counted out the yivalent of $40,000 in Bank @& Spain totes and handed them, to the rebel leader, who began to back to | ward the door, “0a day, senor he sald politely, and aprang out, A guard at the end of the hall tried te restrain him, but Bereeo cut him down with his knife if then throwing off his monk's garb, bi street and made good That same night grandfather mat smoking on hia wide ver ja, which to out upon the bay, One or two acquaintances from the neighboring compounds had dr a in for ehat, but by 10 o'clock he waa alo again, Aw he sat dreamily gazing out at the twinkling lights on t ships at ancl he heard a step on the stairway behind him « thought tt was hia Chinese servant Boon. however, « famillar Volce spoke* ‘Sener, excuse the Intruston.” He turned around and there stood his former clerk, Juan Aguado, Why. Juan, what pleasure! But how you startled 9 Come, sit down and tell me all about your wolf » amiled “Are you quite iniands, he quit the ship and took servieo with a trading frm on the haror front. In ten years he was manager of a business of his own and a man of influente among the foretga traders. The Spaniards, too, looked up to him end respected him. Ans his business grew he wan un- able to manage all the detatie of the increaring trade, and ao called to his help & young Filipino named Juan Aguado! « bright young man, half Spanieh, half Malay who hed rly beer an assintacd In the packing house. Aguado possessed polished courtly manners and a good & He had recetved his rehooting ata monastery, and grandfather trusted him implicitly, fer in the cours’ of time he made him chief rk and adviser. Aguado was absolutely feartens that was where his Malay blood showed out, gtandfather would re- mark, when he himgelf heft ocea- ston to refer to the story, They were out hunting one day in a Junge tract some ten or fifteen miles away from the eity, when they were charged by a maddened buffalo that dashed out of a watet hole upoy them. They both ran for cover, by grandfather by some miastep tripped gun—they were armed with nothing but light fowllng pleces for pigeon me think When grandfather fell, | shoot! Aguado, who waa @ little behind him, made a leap to one side to pane him, but he was not thinkirg of sav ing himself. eceene, which was ‘the Malay in him, he back upon the buffalo and stabbed through the neck again and again with ajl the dexterity of a veteran matador, The buffalo fell dead in r, C. A. Romeyn and A. EB. over a vine and fell, and before he done ir your All were first-class foot could regain his feet the an'mal was grandfather slowly, and two were substitutes upon him. I twas ne time to use a man to see you handed over to Gen. Quickly drawing his beard hi anpther mark of | it) hia tragke, and grandfather crawled | away with « broken arm. From that time on the two men were like brothers, Juan seemel to show his regard for hie employer | and benefactor, and grandfathe. was toe much of & man to be any-| My grandfather he asked, jmlancing fo; the servants have gone Weill, th you want to know all about myrelf, I can tell you in a word—I am Bereeo.” My erandfather was a cool man. o Inside. It's damp here,” sald be and i the way to a room bark of the Veran Diriefly Agu taken place 4 re told him what b th t two ye in The man that had called upon him the day he left brouweht evil ¥ Hin home village had be troyed, and bin father, a elal up country, had been Imprisore 4 mh some trumped up charge. and his awo brothers had been killed In a fight with their Spanish guards. He had tong known what Spanteh rule was in the opt provinces; but, ales his revolution did not succeed Next he told how he had just braved the captaim general in bis very palace and wrung from him thr price net upon his own head “Hy the grace of God I encaped, but it will not be for long unless, senor. you help me.” Not knowing what Ishould have place, Juan.” said “I'm not the Den Xavi Marcela anyway. After @ while grandfather maid: “1! think T have it. A eaptain friend of | mine rails for Hongke on the| morning breeze, If T can get you on ship, you are safe. Come, put on a suit of my clothes, I don't think the authorities: will be look* for you here. They don’t know that Luis Dercee te much a dear friend of mine, and I think we can get out to the ship all right.” } ‘Talking lish, they made their way quietly to the harbor front and | led a sampan. They looked Ike | two belated English captains going wn closely on the departure | giad that he had had an opportunity | out to their ships A half mile owt in the bay lay the John Dorset, ready to weigh anchor. hatied, and when 9 BG FOR May Meet inN. Y. LARGE PURSE WILL Neither of the Pri Idea as to Wh the Battlo. ground Will Be. NEW YORK, Marca 2-—There in mucbh apecuhivion among the aport- ing men aa to where the Jeffric Fitzsimmons fight will be decided. Local sporting men hope that the battlewround will be in Greater York, because they are all anxious Fits hos never paratively few nh the » the content here and com Yorkers have ever © amplon, in a contest far ap Wide are concerned, the a! erganiaations ought to be in a better ponition to offer a big purse because they canfigure on larger® thom than any place in the cc try. All clube desiring to ma bid for the contest have six more days in which to make thelr offer Dave Holland, with whom the bide for ths big heavyweleht battle clone on February %4th, has only received one bid up to date. The bid in ques t wan made by the Westchester Athletic Club, which offers $15,000. Jeffries, who is in town, is an much at sea ax anybody, so far as the battleground ia concerned, He hopes that one of the local clubs will fecu the match but he ts willing to goany place In the country to meet the Auptratian. ‘The Wentcheater club han secured property outside the elty limite and whl not rent grounds, an reported The club has bought the property outright, and wit! erect a building on it immediately, The other two clubs, the Coney island and = the AY, ate expected to figure in ting later on, Both organtza tions would Hike to get the bout and an toon am something definite is done regarding their application for a boxing Heense they may be heard from HOUSEKEEPER HINTS Cuts of Beef Known as Prime and Otherwise. - ‘The prime steer used for beef pur- | poses welghs about 700 pounds drei ed. Of thin amount there are in the | carcass two sete of freq quality ribe, In each wet ing ebout forty pounds per There are also two loins weigh. wet, ing about forty pounds each. There ' is, on On averege, 175 pounds choice beet In each well-rerulated steer, but some butchers b: been known to seal porterhouse from a carcass after everything was cone beef, after the chologst’ ham tween tut away, in ecalted from the fact that It seligat & lower price. A large percentage of the most nutritious meat is found in the coarser cuts, nearly every one de- mands a part of the 175 pounds which i « false idea of domestic economy as as judgment Practical «@ rience has shown that the utiligation of the chuck», the best part of the round, the thing bat generous to one who hat | the captain appeared he climbed on | chump, flank, the plate, and brisket in the saved his life, Tut it bout the énd of their | boat board, leaving Aguado below Grandfather drew the agaupte. The dificult problem of | comradeship. One day a native from below and told him who the man | andes & wultable back field for next | the country called at the warehoure | was in the sampan and what he | seaion’s eleven now presents iteetf. for Aguado. They retired to a dis- | wanted. | line next fall ought to rank | tant part of the building and talked | Capt. Higgins of the John Dorset with the forwards of promin- enf colleges, but the places occu- pid by Kromer, Romeyn, Hum-| phitys and Waldron will be hard to ol | | B Weat Potnt’s plans for the com. | jing@plasisin reason remain unaltered thécoaching QIll be done by gradu- | ate who are stationed close at hand. | Tit eystern worked splendidly last y@r, though it Is unlikely a short | Sen's coaching can produce such | jalatk fleld as wore the gray and) pilex In the fall of ‘98. Fortunately lf Went Point's strictly and whole- e@ely ama’ r standing, none of tl® graduated stars can return to Prue a P. G. course tn football Another game on the graduating N@ is that of James Justi ‘Te ag While Justice was not a grid-| irm warrior, he will be remembered | lap leader of the effective and ord- |efly cheering that was such a pleas- ait feature of all games held on the “finins” at the point. West Point hie her work cut out for her next fall, an efforts will doubtless be ry céme off their high horse and per- liong and quietly together. Then the strancer went away and the clerk | returned to his dewk. | That night, when it came time for closing Aguado sald: “Senor, I munt leave you. Tam wanted at home, and It will be useless to try to detain me.” Grandfather was surprised beyo relief almont, but he did not try tr dissuade him. -He paid hie arrea: of salary, added a handsome bon and said good by @ the only m in the East of whom he was truly fond ‘Two years passed and not « word came from Ai do, but that was wan an old sea dog of the gentine Yankee type. He liked a man who had what he called “sand for bal 1.” aw Lule Berceo evidently had. Shiver my mainmast, but I'll take him!” said Captain Higgins He can have my cabin til) we ere and out to nea.” ror two afterward, just before Krandfather wold vut his business and started home, he recetved a package from a Chinese port, It contained a beautifully Jeweled Ma lay kris with name “Juan Agua do” upon th de.—Detroit Free | not very strange, for the province Press where he lived had been In open re- volt for some time, and ap the fiht- ing on both. sides wae constant and Cross’ wife need to get the army authorities to| able generalship and resources, for ENEWNES IN CERMONY: relentless communication with Man- {la wae practically cut off. | _ However, as time went on the re bellion was crushed and the insur , Anti American Petiey ef the | gents were scattered or cm red.) The leader of the revolution, one | Agrarian, Party Luis Berceo, was a man of consider-| WeRLIN, March 3.—The fate of | |Raron von Hammerntein-Loxten | without munitions or money he had | etitt han, accompany him. Croms spent sever- rat a meeting on the gridiron be-| held his ground against the Span- al years in Texas, keeping in con- stant correspondence with hia wife. Finally he decided tovtry his luck on the Pacific coast. He went to San Francivco and adopted a sea- faring life. He joined the crew of a tramp steamer, carrying freight to various ports in the Pacife ocean. When he left San Francisco, new came from him wife that she was #0 il that he could hardly hope to reach her bedside before she died. When his vessel passed out of Ggden Gate he thought he would mi tie that bound him to his North Carolina home was oroken. The ship was bound on a voyage halt way around the world. In the China fea the vessel was caught in a typhoon and wrecked. Only a few of the crew were saved. For twé Gays they floated in a little open boat, unti! a Russian steamer, bound for a Siberian port, rescued them. ‘The Russian ship put in at Viadivos- tock, and the shipwregked, nailora were left there. } Finally Cross came to New York and secured employment in the transatlantic service, He had not written to his North Carolina friends, nor had he heard from them wince he left San Francisco twelve years before A @w weeks Ago Cross wae sein with 2 longing to visit his old 1} ‘Andrews, his companion in 7 had returned to Charlotte, and Crous wrote to him and learned to his astomtenent that hin wife was #tilt alive, bet could not ascertain where she wee thos Hving. Cross went to Chimi time wt ence an@dtried ty Pea serene © the | tween the cadets and Annapolis. ae sien this West Point has a long, hard schedule in the collegiate arena | telive up te TWE ‘JERSEY $ CUARD VGwk te Cemnrence Very Saan at Reerganizetto TRENTON, March 3—The most Absorbing state theme at the present | Guard. | Gen. W. A. Sewell wan notified that he was nominated and confirm- ead an division commander, but he fan not yet formally accepted the honor. Everything In military mat tera hinges on that acceptance. Gen Sewell is expected at the state hou Monday afternoon, It in understood here that he will be on hand to con- fer with the governor on his future plans for the National Guard Gov. Voorhees most emphatically | dopies the stories that the National Gillard {s demoralized and reduced to a squad unfitted for any public ser- vice. ‘The adjutant general's department reports that the ranles are not de- pleting, that so far there has been leas than 200 men discharged from service of those who volunteered the ent war The Guard ts in somewhat crippled becauge 1g has no equipmen® for its men. Yt is fgur- ing om buying new,tents and uni- forms as soon as Uncle Bam settles with the sate for equipping the vol- unteets, | % e @ ° o 1 ae aus Rea |e, t | general and himaelt were = jards for a tong time and had tn- trigued successfully among the na- tive troops sent to oppose him Hut he could not held out forever, and was a fugitive. Then it w resorted to an expedient often tried in Spanish countries for catehin. those who will not surrender—« price was set on Luiz Rerceo’s head Placards were posted in Manila and throughout the Islands wherever | Spanish authority was recognized, prociaiming @ reward of 40,000 Mexi can dadlars tothe one who would er ree his wife again, and the las® time ts the changes in the National | bring the head of the insurgent lead- er to the authorities. My grandfather had frequently seen these announcements and won 4 what sort of a man it was caused the captain general so much annoyance, Roth the captain m to know. One efternoon the captain general sat alone In hin office. Hw was ina complacent mood, for certain docu- ments before him related to the din- position of the surrendered insur- gent bands who had been harassing Ya chosen province for the last two ears. Suddenly, without any warn- ing, the door @pened behind him and a man stepped quickly Into the room at the same atime slipping the bolt again into its place. He was dressed like a priest, In a long black gown and had a hood over his head. “Peace upon you,” he said coldly, and Don Xavier Marcia t@#ned in his chatr “Who are yougnd want? what do you “Do not tall too loud,” sald the visitor, pushing back the cow! from | | @or's mind in many respects being that the government | inscrutable, The very violence of the onslaughts upon the antl-Amer- jean apokesman of the Agrarians may determine the Kaiser to retain hin miniater of agriculture. The Afrarian party, strange to nay, in more troublesome and more dangerous to the government today than the Soctalista, Th Agrarian party, as such, does not exist In par Hament, though it ean reckon on a hundred votes in the reichstag. It »mposed of various parties aMll ated with or in sympathy with the Emperor's league, called Bund der Landwirthe, ‘This organization tn cludes 188,000 members, of whom 168,000 are small andowners. In spite of the small prop latter, anybody acquainte German affaira can easily stand the tance of the ence they w The leagu co-operative business in agricultural machines, ete. ducta an active agrarian propagan da in and olut of pariiament, Thus, during the reichstag electoral cam- paign it cireulated 4,000,000 pam- phiets, Its official weekly organ has @ circulation of 180,000, divided into a Berlin edition and seven provincial editions. rtion of the with under influ- does a The fitrie and War’ at last crowed the Atlan the The Landon Jevotes some to an appreciation of his pecell: phy, and concludes by pro cing the whole volume “a splendid, ted vindication of the Chicagoan who is cre@ited with the famous re- mark |, wir; there's a darned sight more culture in Chicago than you | for, Mr, Arnold,’ In Peace kives the best results and te condu- cive of better health than the high~ er-priced meats. Such parts need more attention while cooking, how~ ever; yet the many tempting dishes that may be made from them more than repay for all extra troygblie. The average housewife may not know ft, but, nevertheless, it te a fact tha butchers who are daily and hourly handling all kinds of cuts of beef, almoxt invariably choore for their own consumption flank steak. They say it is more savory and just as tender as tenderiain, which cut the butcher seldom eats, The flank steak in situated between the inside and outside layers of creamy-colored fat in the flank, and when taken from well-fed stock Is excellent. It costs at the market but half as much as porterhouse or sirloin An old buteher once told me that the best plece of meat in the bullock for making a dish of botled beef ts the clone-grained t®p piece over the shoulder blade. Meat Adhering to the ribs make k than litte. ‘This plece may be larded and served as is filet de boeuf. 1 ts Mignon steak. few Track Team. also ac vy Al. Copeland has now in training for the track team 208 men—a figure never before r@iched by Yale. Much time in being devoted to the short distance runners, who will compete In the coming %ames at Easton and Philadelphia, Yale will be weaker in this respect than lat year, and Capt. Fisher is looking for some fast, | quarter-mile men, Capt. Fisher Lue Buckingham, Ordway anf Richardson are the men who wil possibly enter the mile relay ra¢®. Yale has a large squad of men /TY- ing for the long distance eventy but there are only two good men # the mil, Spitzer and Speer. Thursday 4 hammer an! shot- putters and pole vaulters Rean to train. 8 Chinaman Fighter. - PHILADELPHIA, Meh 3.—The latest candidate for ri honors is La Hung Foy, a @H¥naman from San Franciaco, who M8 4 white wife and a desire to wilp any fighter of her color. Hia manager, Marty Martin, yesterds matched him agwinat Tom Coorey for & out before the Trenton Atyetic Club on Maro’ 18th. The condtions c for twepty rounds at 1% pounds, and sh fuld the Chinamas pull through he ex pects to be put on againat Peter Maher at tle Lenox thletio Club phy fn aj its branches lor Alaska Vows vero? La Froche Up-to-Date Grama Floor Studio Cor. Second Ave. and Union St,, Seattle Aalistic Pirgos at Geagonable Priced | Migh-qra the “emiasemer,”," in the balance, the kal-| NEW HAVEN, March 3.—Trainer * but the horns. Thy remainder of the IF | ‘Fitz and Jefferies | |& @ @ & | | | Show your neighbor a Sarr w &€& & & &€#eee & & & &€ & & & Faas WE WANT Bright ~— -Rengetc BOYS Between the ages of 12 and 20 CARRY OUR .,. NEWSPAPER ROUTES. APPLY AT —- [107 Third Ave Corner Spring Opposite New , Telephone Building The Seattle | | Star Every Kvening Except Sanday py of The Seattle Star. Co *Phone Pike 150 €¢e#e¢ © @ © ee¢e+ee ees &e€eeee th @