The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1899, Page 3

ts namaye OI a cyan nscncahsdetiigeeunm Seinen . nora a . Show your neighbor a copy of The Seattle Star. eee & & & & €#¢e¢#e 4 ¢ ¢ & BOYS sue WE WANT...... Between the ages of 12 and 20 wees TO reece eee hee & & AeIS eWVeSESG SUL JO Adoo e 4OqQUZIEN ANOKA MOUS | BY A NURSE Letter Telling About )A PORTLAND GIRLS EXPEREENCE One of the professions! nurses who went from Oregon Mania | some months ago to as@iet in car ing for the wick and wounded soldier boys In the hospitals has written to 4 friend in Portland, giving her tm- pressions of Manila and affaires there: | “We had a most delightful voy- | age.” she writes, “pleasant all the way. We pent almost four days in Honolulu. It is certainiy one of the garden spots of the earth We | were nicely treated by ail, and saw jcountry, visited the boys in camp and took dinner with them. The Oregon engineer corps im there. It did them geod to have us with therm, and all wished they might go on pwith va. “When we left Ban Francisco there were 82 nurses in the party, Fifteea wore for Honolulu, where | they were very much needed, more so than we are here, as the epidem- le of typhoid was great. Seventeen iy came on here. ‘¢ were eight days from San | Francisoo to Honolulu, and 2 days from there to Manila, We reached here in time for Christmas. As our _ boat wee the one which brought the [Christmas presents to the soldiers, TONS OF CHMINTMAS. | we had 20,000 tons of Christinas on board, and also © soldiers, and « few pateengers, We spent our Christmas on board the boat, as they had not scoured & house for us. Then | they Crought it as well for us to re- main or board until we were a lit | tle acclimated, no we did mot go to | work entil January 1. “We Rave been divided and rent sion being the largent. Bight of us are thore, Ite capacity In 1000, but it is not near full at present. The sick rate is very low, very few who | are ‘real’ sick. There is quite a num-~- | ber of emalipox cases, but all re- lcover nicely. I have a large ward lin charge, containing 70 patients af- | rheumati«m. I do not have to work |nard at all. They will not let us | That is not what they want of w | They want us to myatematize the | wards and teach the boys. oversee the work and see that no one is Regiected. I go on duty at 7:90 4, m lunch from 1 to 2 o'clock and mr ic until 4; work from ¢ to 6, until din- ner, from 6,20 to 7. hours are not long, plentiful hospitals for, and the greater part of thin sickness has been brought on from negiect and carelessness. Now the boys have learned better, and the sickness Is much less. Lam going to like my work very much. Indeed. wear very few clothes; women wear more, but of thin texture; many of the children none at all. They look healthy, are industrious, but very siow; good at Imitating, but not much originality about them. They are quite patient, too, DONS ARE IX HIDING. “T have not seen many Spaniards, so many have left the city, and the of their homes are beautiful. The follage here ie more luxuriant than at Honolulu, bst nae got had the cultivation. Ther ‘so, at present l everything is badly demolished and the — were broken #o as to see re very Tell little |W I have seen beautiful butter- files and always think of him. | have not caught any yet, as 1 will have to get used to the sun before atternpt going out in it, but I will see that he geta some of the butter- | Mies. | “There seem to be few curlos here lof native work. Most of them are Chinese or Japanese, The weather has been cool, for Manila, but It | seems like a July day in Portland The nights are lovely. One can sleep junder @ blanket. It is gradually tting warm March and April lare the hottest months. | “Many of the Oregon boys have lealled on us. All are glad to see us, |The Oregon regimens is one of the | chosen onen of the islands. You al | ways hear them well spoken of by | everybody. “Time goes very fast more than two months Portland. We expect a boat In a few days, | News is what we long for the mont | Something to read, for all the liter- lature in the bookstores here is tn the Spanish. So, if you wish to roe member me with anything, let it be @ 00d magazine,” Tt te now ince we left ‘MR OCETS THE WE HORSE Faey Pee. OHICAGO, March 4.—Lovera of thoroughbred racing stock gathered in Dexter park pavilion yeaterday to attend the sale of what is said to be the finest doub' America, The horses were the two brown geldings Werg and B. ¢ owned by John Donovan of St. J seph, Mo:, and they were to be sold |at public auction by Splan & nape t Philippines. most of the city and surrounding | | to different hospitals, the first divt-— Bo, you see, my | - land in Rochester, same as Chinatown. The native men | others keep In close quarters. Some! on penanang Pay 7 harness team in| | ass. bod Long before 2 o'clock, the | set for the nate vwde of | men began mathering in the ble Jarena, A team of horses, The team of hortes were bid®in by A. Van | Voorhees, It was learned later that the latter was acting for Andrew Carnegio, the tron king, and that he would have gon® to $11,000 If ne conmary Wert and ft. ¢ and ar | matene were considered to @ the » best mannered and Jtrained racing team in Aw They already have a record of Hey will be shippe today by exprens, We export oysters to Burop Spain contains 461 coal mines, Grenoble, restaurant France, has a munietpal | otussia exports more than 1400,- 000,000 eee every year, Phe Winconain Iekisiature has an pyer’s lability bill under vinement iron furnaces with a capacity of 4,000,000 tons « year are idle because they are out of date, Samuel Gompera will lecture fore the Trades Council of Hudson Clunty, N. J, Mareh 12. pmittees have n appointed by the Knights of Labor to puah the | Matters’ Union label “Australian Democracy” subject debated at the the Social Reform Club, New York, Feb. 22 Walker, of Australia, was the principal speaker, war the eeting of ‘The referendum vote of the tron- molders as to whether a natio ecunvention should be held this year has resulted In favor of the propo- sition by 1000 majority and the con- vention wii be held July 10 at In- dianapotia, The United Garmen*-workers of America have presented to (he legin- lature of New York o bill mating the manufacturer responsible for the and women employe m®, and for any viol law in regard to the of the hours of labor. | thon A bill has been tntroduced tn the New York State legislature limiting the hours of labor road em- When, tn case of emergency, more than elaht hours’ work in required, the Factory Inepector is to be notified and he | is to Investigate. | The Joint Labor Day committer of the Central Labor Federation and Socialist Labor Party, of Hudson County, N. J. has organized by electing Joseph Gililar Secretary. |The committee has decided not to latve any prizes this year. A jour- | nal will be published for Labor Day. | Mieted with typhoid, dysegtery and | The Journeymen Tailors of Amer- lea have allowed Local Union 4, of | Kansas City, Mo. #2 a month for | two months and $25 a month extra | for four months for organising pur- poses. The same allowances have also been made to Unions 5 and 11 and 7 of Chicago and St. Louis reapectively. | ‘The bott and shoe makers of Chip- |pewa Falls, Win, went out on a strike against the reduction of wag- es They were organized into a union by Organizer Comerford, and he, acting as the representative of | the strikers, entered into negotia- | tons with the firm, secured « signed wage scale by which the reduction was withdrawn and an increase of 25 per cent. obtained. Two Valid Excuses. Last week, late tn the afternoon, @ cane was called by Judge Suther- N.Y. ask, your Honor, ver until to-mor- “I would lke te lthat thie case go row,” said one of the attorneys. “On what grounds?’ said the Je “Too tired T | “Yea, your Honor, I have been ar- guing a case all day in Part Il, and jl am really too fatigued to go on | with this trial.” “Very well, let the case co over Call the next case.” The next case was caled and an- other attorney arose “May it please your Honor, 1) would like to ask that this case go over,” “For what reason?” “1 am too tired.” “You What tired T” “IT have been listening to my learn- ed friend in Part It.” A TESTING MACHINE Apparatus Received by an Idaho University. makea you MOBCOW, Idaho, March 4.—The civil engineering department of the university has just received a test ing machine of 40,000 pounds capa- city. to This valuable piece of apparatus will be used In determining the strength of engineering matertais, including wood, mortar, brick, stone, fron and ste By this means the builder may obtin an accurate knowledge which will render unne. cessary any gu work or wasteful designing. The recent placing upon the mar- Ket of portable testing machinery marks a ne ‘a in construction, as the testing plants previously exint- ing Were monopolized by a few wealthy compan It ts diMeult to realize that this one, occupying leas | space than an offi Kk, is capable of tearing apart an iron bar as thic as a broomstick, and recording # curately this enormous pressure, while one man furnishes all neces ary power. Prof. Frink Intends that the pub- Ho shall share In the benefits of this acquisition, and tests of. materials | will be performed by the department Yor firms and individuals. The first series of teste will be upon native | woods, for which purpose specimens | will be classified by the forestry class in the department of botany. Ri strength of each species, as re shear, tension cross-brenking, will be deter- a comparison with east- ern woods in awaited with interest. Quay ® congressama asked Tommy gards compression and | “Ts Mr. large, pape dels n-ate Tad- Mr. Tad ® Tommy,” repite dels, “Mr. Quay is not a congress. |man-at-large. He ts a senator on | @il."—Harper’s Bazar, ted in 180%, | to Pittsburg rance boasts women letter ear-q be- | ‘| ing at § o'elock im the morning. WN BURIAL ‘A Washington Boy Dead at Manila, — MIS ONLY ENEMY WAS DEATH. | ° Private Allen Carlyle, of Company 1, Washington Voluntegr to His Last Sleep, ° | ved Collins of Walla Walla writes » the Wallk Walla Union an follows moerning & burial in far-o% Ma ta vate Allen Carlyle, of Company 1, Washington volunteers, who had not an enemy but death, les in that silent city, to which we must all jfome time bend our final steps, laia » rest by his loving comrades, That lant jarring volley o'er the grave failed to awaken him from his slum- | bers deep, and the sleep rong of the | bugle ape’--soothed the spirits of | the weeptny soldiers, though the! gentle soul of the departed ne | before found @ place far more com- | forting in that bright city which we | nee only in our prayers, Although greatly handicapped by jack of time and material, arrange- ments were at onee made for as fine a funeral as can be given in Man- | Ha, With wild flowers, some bam- boo strips and a spool of thread, three comrades labored half ¢ night, and the floral pleces which re- sulted were the most beautiful I have ever seen, With the sum of | ' lected in the Company, a me-| tallic casket was purchased and a vault in the eatacomb-like cemetery secured. A firing squad under com- mand of Corporal Alien Smith fired ‘he requisite three volleys, and Trav eter Buffum sounded “taps” an a fitting (ois to Ro Bad & Boene. As the remains er. lowered to their final resting place a quastette com- posed of Sergeant Roche, Guy 4 Turner, Hen F. Shuck and Andrew T. Amos sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee” with most touching pathos. ‘The funeral services were cqnducted | by Private Albert Knudson “ Com- | pany 1. It weems hard to us, hie cdgeraten, | wha were with him almost to the | |tast, and it must be doubly hard for theme, his relatives and friend: #o far away. They have our most sincere sympathy in this their great aMiction, and, perchance, they may | find some comfort in the knowledge | that nothing that could be done w lected or forgotten. What he has Lescaped none but his Maker know hand when he In his divine mercy has seen fit to take from us a I far be ft from the thoughta of us poor mor- tals to question the wisdom of his cholce, ‘CAPT. JOHN MURPHY. What He Did at the Battle of Colocan. The New York Herald of recent date has the follewing account of | the part Captain John Murphy. of | the Fourteenth Infantry, took in the | Meht at the battle of Calocan. Cap- tain Murphy was stationed at Van- | couver barracks for many years and | for nome years at Port Townsend. | He is well known in Seattle, where | | his eccentricities are a matter of lo- | ‘al history: | apt. Murphy, in command of the | urteenth battalion, began fight- 80 stubborn was the resistance that he rg sya in taking blockhouse No. | 14, 4 yards distance, only at 2 lock in the afternoon, This place is called "Bloody Lane” by the Spaniards. | Lieut. Michael fell, erying, ver mind me. Go on!" j Lieut. Miles then took the lead. | One hundred yards from the block- | house the fire was 80 hot he called | for volunteers, and, with eight men, he took it, the Insurgents going out as his men went fn. Gen. Ovenshine was ordered to dislodge the enemy in Murphy's |front. He formed a bri Fourteenth Infantry on the right of Murphy's position, with volunteers on the right of the Fourteenth In- | fantry and troops E, C and L, of | the Fourth cavalry, diemounted, on | | the left of Murphy's men. All of the men to the right of | Murphy's position wheeled to the |left across an open field till a thick- jet was reached. Then they opened | fire and the enemy finally was din- | |lodged. The engagement was hot, but the fire of our men was irresist- thle, Gen Ovenshine, with his bri- |eade, then proceeded to Pasay, | which he entered without resistance, | — ge | Hens on a Strike. ‘There is a labor strike of alarming portent in New York state. The hens have revolted. against the, job |of supplying the metropolis and sur- | rounding hamlets with fresh eges. because, while the thermometer | is | way down below zero, The proper ‘observance of the Lenten season | seems to require an extra supply of | ‘ewes and the hens seem to, have chosen @ most unfortunate time for their demonstration. The New York Sun states that the retdil price of exes, has, In consequence, risen to the dizzy figure of 35 cents a dozen, the highest price ever known except jon one connmieny in the Empire state. AMERICAN BBY FUND) Want a Cruiser and Not a) Battleship Built. | . SPOKANE, March 4.—Slowly but | surely the Amertean Boy fund whereby the school children ef the country are raising money to build a warship to replace the Maine, ts | attracting wider attention and new seotions of the country are being or- ganized to prosecute the work. So far about $25,000 has been raised by the children of the nation but this ia far short of what they want to do, Under the direction of the local committee of school childr subseriptions are being taken tn the Spokane schools, Already, with half the schools unworked, there is a | fund of close on $90 on hand, about | jeetved the f | you get the news y eal bi j awake represen | terest in the movement.” — " | | dle of disease within the first men had a way of calling @ man a | sources. haif of which waw' derived from the | entertainment given by the boys and | |wiris having the fund in hand Roy ¥, Britton, who is the head of | the movernent in Spokane, has re lowing letter from the American Boy headquarters of the Association “CINCINNATI, Feb, 21.—Dear Sir My son, W, Rankin Ge and #ev- 1 of the members of the American | Hoy Arsoct January tal tion left for Washington Sand ure still at the capl ‘They have ap to have the contract given | remove all do ng built desir@of the boys and girls to have a cruiser instead of a battieship, as a battleship is always stationed at some foreign port dur elty nereMM te out the veanel Tt im thi > an ing ygace, whereas a cruiser in al ways going from port to port and popping up where least expected mischief, just lke ‘This seems to be naval committee and doting som an American Koy view of the that a cruiser would be more sult- ble for the children of our land You will probably hear of the suc- en you An ® 1 can use your the best course own Judgment as to pure Push ¢h direction and let the p know that ‘there if an American Boy in your section of the country. It will be the first time in the history of uy nation when the youth have un dertaken such # patriotic project, and the American Boy will be a monument on the high #eas to com- memorate the sailors who perished in Hav harbor. As soon as my, won arrives fromm Washington I will! tention to your letter, I congratula: you on your splendid beginning and feel mire the nation al committee has obtained a wide ive in you. Your paper, envelopes and stampa shuld be paid out of the fund. You will nee by reference to the head on this | letter your name has been placed as & member of the national commit- tee. Yours truly, “FRED A. GOOD." Roy F. Britton and May Henning, the latter of Ventura, Cal. are the only members of the executive com- mittee frof the Pacific stat “We are going to push the work in the northwest,” said Mr, Britt last evening. “It is proponed to send out circulars to all teachers in the wtate and endeavor to enlist their in- project in every } Wot a Good ; Risk. | ‘The manager of a life insuhance | company had the floor. {fe insurance companies,” he saying, “are as particular about the people they already have on! their lists as they are about getting them on in the beginning. They # rich, of course, but they are no mor anxious to take in a man who wil ror two than they are to take in @ per-| fectly healthy man and have him hazard his life by taking reonal risks in dangerous pursuifs or by travel in unhealthy countries. | “I remember a funny instance that oceurred once while I was living in New England. One of our $10,000 Mar in the most careless and indis- criminate manner, and with only the merest or no provocation. One day he waa in our office and causal- ly mentioned the fact that he was) |golng to make a trip to Kentucky. “When? inquired the manager alertly. .s “ ‘Next week” “On buairiess or pleasure? ‘Going to buy a pair of horses." ‘Um-er-er,’ heattated the mana- ger, “before you start I wish you = stop In and see me. ‘What for? Want me to buy a horse for you?’ ‘No, I want to arrange about) your -policy. What do you want arrange about it? Isn't it gil right?" “Yes, as long as*you stay in this country. But tw you go down to Kentucky we'll have to advance the rate until you come bac “Well, pol what in —,’ began the cy holder hotly, when the mana- interrupted him. ‘Don't fly the track, my dear fel- low,’ he said gently. ‘It's all right here, and the rate is satisfactory to us, but, by Jove, we can’t give you | the same rate and let you go to Ken- tucky and call men lars like you do in this section. Not much. We haven't got $10,000 policies to give away like that, and you oughtn’t to | expect it." Growth Following the Flag. SAN FRANCISCO, March 4-—A)} rapid increase of the white popula- tion of Honolulu ts clearly indicated by the unprecedented multiplication of new dwellings in those sections of the city occupied by the whites. It seeme safe to y that such houses have at least doubled during the last two years. The larger number are modest cottages, but a good propor- tion are fine residences. In Septem- ber, 1894, the city population was 29,000, It now probably reaches 40,- 000. A large nuinber of fine business structures have been erected since that date and many moree such are now in progress. Builders and con tractors are finding it difficult to meet the demands upon their re- ‘The lumber supply not long since was nearly exhausted, U. S. COMMERCE We Wave Always Been a World Power. NEW YORK, March 4.—Commer- ctally, the United States has from earliest colonial times’ showed its importance to the world, and at present our combined imports and exports count up to $1,800,000,000 a year, according to an article in Har- per's Magazine. Our productions have always been sought by other countries, and the United States lies on a new world-highway from Bur- © westward to Asia, and com- mands another great international trade route to the West Indies and South America, In the movement of people to and fro across the o#ean, the United States has een the focus of the most tremendous pegira of civilized people which the world has ever seen; from 1821 to 1898 more than 18,000,000 persons came to our shores to make their homes here; in the last ten years m people ave em- igrated to America than the whole population of Switzerland. There are now he mo@ Germans ahd NEW COUNTY May Be Called Wenatchee: LEAVENWORTH, Wash., March 4—The question agitating the peoplg of this town at present is the pros posed formation of a new county out of a part of Okanogan and Kite titas Counties, to be known as Wene atchee county, with a temporary county seat at Wenatchee, The boundary line, in the rough, are the Columbia river on th it, thence to @ point north of Chelan, thenes went to the summit of the Cascade range, thence south along that range to # point where the mountain range that bounds the Wenatchee valley. on the south intersects with thaé range, and thence east to the Cole um This would include within tte boundaries about sixty miles of the jreat Northern railroad, the valu- able mineral deposits of the Red mountain, Icicle and Nigger creek districts; also some of the richest tillable lands in the state. Here are grown the celebrated fruits of th | Wenatchee valley, peaches, pea apricots, aples, plums and small fruits of all descriptions. It would make one of the Ithiest counties in the state. While the majority of the people favor the scheme, there are a fow who oppose the proponl« tion. At present the county reat is 19 miles distant, and 125 miles of that is by wagon road, Consequently the cost ineurred in making a trip to Coneully is no inconsiderable sum, to say nothing of the inconvenience and time lost. Leavenworth is the jend of a division on the Great Northern, and it is «a dumping ground for all the criminals of the surrounding country, The great dis- tance to the county seat guarantees | for this class almost immunity from arrest and prosecution, and they ply their trade without interruption. FIGHT BY DAYLICHT Fitz, Jeffries and the Kinetoe scope to Take Part. PW YORK, March %—If the Winchester Athletic Club ts success: ful in securing the Fit2simmons- Jeffries match it is more than like- lythat the bout will be brought off in the day time, The officials of the club, it is maid, are anxious to have the miil decided by daylight because they believe it would then attract @ larger crowd. Such an arrangement would algo afford the club an opportunity ta take pictures of the contest, which would mean @ financial item of na small importance to the organiza- tion. A club capable of pulling off such an important fight before tha kinetoscope could well afford to of- fer a handsome purse, as the rev« enue derived from the pictures of tentimes surpasses the gate receipts, The sheriff of Westchester county, who ts in favor of all athletic exer< cives, it is said. also favors the cons test taking place in the day time. A sporting man, who Is « personal friend of the sheriff of Westchesten county and connected with the club, said yesterday that !t was pretty sure the fight, if it went to the Westchester Club, would come off before nightfall. He said that the authorities were also in favor of having such a big event decided in the afternoon or morning because better police arrangements could be made and it would eliminate the swearing in of a score of deputies which would be necessary under othe er conditions. The articles of agreement signed by Fitzsimmons and Jeffries hava no mention of the time of day the contest is to take place, but it is @ certainty that if the picture ma chine gets in its fine work the prin cipais will have a say in the matter, They appreciate what a good thing the pictures are and will no doub@ demand a percentage of the profits, It ts understood that a New Yorte sporting man has an option on the privilege to reproduce the fight, if the necessary arrangements are all made, and as he is in favor with the club management he will doubt be looked after, The $15,000 offered by the We chester Club Is said to be the club’ limit and that it will not raise the bid under any circumstances, It may be that the Horton law will prevent the taking of pictures of boxing matches in this state, The law requires that the building in which boxing bouts, are decided must be a closed one, To make a success of the kinetoscope reproduces tion it would be necessary to take the roof off the club house, and, ac- cording to a strict interpretation of the Torton law, this would be a di- rect violation. However, there {s one way to overcome this obstacle, by, placing a glass roof over the arena, which would permit the sun to shine on the men white in action. This scheme the club has under considere ation, ‘The certificate of {Incorporation of the Westchester Club was filed tn the county clerk's ofiee at White Plains. The club's object is stated to be to encourage gymnastic and athletic exercises and all athletic sports, such as are authorized by law, The club has its principal headquarters at White Plains, a ereneenletaennae Arrival ~ "Cen I put up at thia house na k—"I suppose so, Got dny bags Clerk How much do you want te Detroit Free Press, put up? First Populist—We've expelled Jint | Wheaton from the organtzation, children of Germans than in Bav nd Populist—What for? aria, ‘ad the tide of travel east- t Populist—Fwp admittin’ that he ward—chietly visitors-—also numbers le money on his crops this season— hundreds of thousands every year, | Puck. ve ’ | ‘ @ e @ e@ i rr)