The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1899, Page 3

€£¢¢4 ¢ & & & @@ee# &€ &$& & &#eeee%¢ & Between the ages of 12 ané 20 eeeeee TO seseee (107 Third Ave : ; Corner Spring Opposite New Telephone Building e Seattle star Every Evening Except Sunday L 0 v 9) o rs) ne) ; c ke Qe ° a 0 i) | = 0 OQ Bs ob 1) Cc u 2) 0 > 3 0 Rs 19) *Phone Pike 150 WANTED— NEW BLACKS ———- Store Buildings Are Scarce. A GOOD CHANCE FOR INVESTORS Rents Are How Higher Then Ever Locations Are Very Fow ‘When # city reaches the point where, in Its business center, there reno available stores for rent, it | would seem that the time for more buildings had come. Yet that is just what Seattle i# experiencing at present, The man who has been jiueky ough to secure @ place on | the ground floor ip the business por- wen of the city, may well be thank- Every avallible place of business on First, Second and Third aven. is occupled, and has been for some | time, and all are bringing high rent |. A well known man, who has been | tn the real estate and butiding busi ness for many years, said today: jusiness Is so much better now that I can't complain, There is ono thing that I am especially pleased to note, and that is the healthy ad- | Yance in rents over what they have seen any previous year in the his- tory of the city, Since the Kic dike excitement began, and pe commenced to flock to the city 2 permanent place of residence, | rents have been gradually coming lup, wntll these who own bul ings ore now realising what it is to be prosperous. “The buildings in the business dix tricts have not been bringing their owners the money they are worth in past years, and the present rate is no higher than te fair.” Another business man who has a = tea store on Second avenue, “When T made up my mind locate here, of course. jlook for a location. I found that a diMicult task, as all available store rooma were oceupted, and I simply to which was being built, was ready fu occupancy, and then the rent w: very high; but It was high rent or no room, #0 I took ft up.” “And how do you find business? was asked. “Since I have been In business I have found no room for complaint.” he replied. As an evidence of the searcity of storerooms, it may be said that not & few of the smaller have been entirely crowded Firet and @econd avenues. Third and even Fourth enue. Pike street also shows signe of the ateady growth of the city, every buliding being occupied. “Rents are higher by 16 per cent than during any previous year in the city’s history, except imme- @iately following the fire. and then the conditions were not normal, said a real estate man this morning If I had money 1 could not want o better proposition than to put up » few good business blocks along Bec- fond and Third avenues. 1 would be sure to rent them. The lowering of the grade on First avenue above Pike street has placed upper First avenue on the latof avaliable streets | for business locations, and 1 would | not be at all surprised to know that & few first clans business blocks are soon to be bullt.” “Do you know that anyone is con- templating bullding blocks along upper First enue?’ was asked “No, 1 don't know anything about off of up to it: but I would not be surprised to) hear of it being contemplated imme- diately.” —— Came From California. “The slang tension ‘rubberneck’ was born In Vallejo, Cal., and It was used all over the slope for a number of years before it finally worked its way East,” said the Baltimore drummer. “I met the man from whom the expression was derived— or, rather, to who mit was first ap- plied—on a recent business trip to Vallejo, which ts a little town acrore the Napa river from the Mare Island navy yard, thirty miles from San Francisco, This man is a constable in Vallejo. In former years he trav- eled with 4 one-night-cireus as a man with a rubber skin. His loone- ness of pelt is still remarkabie When the snow with which he trav- eled smashed up in Vallejo, this man, after hanging around for a while, got a job as town constable He possessed a very inquisitive na- ture, and, armed with his new au- did a lot of nosing A drunken ma- who knew of the constable’s man-with-a-rubber- skin history, firet applied the title rubberneek’ to the constable, and, although the marine got pinched for it, the constable’s new title stuck, and he has to stand for it down to the present date, The word worked |its wey down to San Francieco tn | time, and thence al! over the coast, and people of my ilk brought it East two or three years ago, Washington Post. IN PLACE OF ICE, “To those housekeepers who fre- quently make ice cream and frozen custards, now t# the time for th to prepare to put up snow for futur use,’ remarked a lady to a Washing- ton Star reporter. “For the past three weeys I have made all the creams and custards I have used | with snow, and I have packed away enough tolast me a month or #0, even if we do not have any more snows. Snow is much easier to v in freezerathan ice and freezes much more rapidly, not grequiring one- | fourth the quantity of salt. My plan |of putting up snow is to pack it tn rrels. There in no expense about 1 began to} had to walt until a new butiding, | Merchants lara have enough barrels to furnish the facilition for seeuring all the snow that can be used, Of course there has be sion to une barrels this week, for the plenty enough, Tho indi ware also that there will be more snow but to be on the safe side, 1 hi haifa rels ready, If well pack snow will keep mix w " during the weather wo usually have in February and March, and. if there are to be no more snows and it only lasted a month, that much would be gained or waved In the way of being able to avoid the expense of tee, ‘The rels containing the snow should be | placed In the yard, not in the cellar, and if possible onthe shady side of the yard and a® near the fence possible, wo as to out off wind drafts that rarry with them the hot air There should be tops on them, and a couple of days after the frat filling, | when they have settled down, they jwhould be repacked and nded | dow nh. In time the snow becomes al- mont folid and losts almost as long a8 a piece of tee of the same alae. The advan in ite favor in that it practically ie nothing, gives the children some fun in packing It away, cleans up the yard to t }tent of getting rid of that more snow and frees or than tee, besides saving the Is it a Yankee trick? Oh, you I learned it up in Vermont, but a lot things are learned up bar ed Highly Paid Choir Singers. Two New York women are the hie paid choir singere in the werld they fr ive respectively $4500 and $9000 a year. The men In the choir of Westminster Abbey re- wtve salavies ranging from $400 to $00, HELLO! HELLO! Proposal to Fight the Bell Telephone. ST, LOUIS, March 6 A meoret ex tween Gen. the Kinloch Telephone thiscity, Patrick Kean, rep ating an independent New York Tele phone Exchange, and Charles Ald rich, counsel fe Ilincla Tele graph and Telephone Company They considered negotiations look ing to the formation of a giant rival jto the Hell Telephone Company throughout the country. Th is to make cheaper rates in the jin the new system, namely Mt, I Detroit, Indianapotia and Ch and it ls intimated that Boston will also be invaded (8.-M. Ld war held be- Manford, of ‘company, of nference Manager \Cost of Living in Venezuela. To thone w puld ike to try th Jexperiment « ming abliah | themselves in Caracas, or to thone jrent here by forvign administrations | to reoresent them, that is to may, t thome who are not ymon immi- leranta, poor things who have never [ween of known anything but minery jin Spain or Italy, living on @ mint- jum wage, and who may therefore be satisfied with a change of clime ¥, We do not hewitate may t fear of contradiction, that at of ving in Carneas te ex- ely high, and it costs a good i to maintain any sort of a so clal position, and, therefore, to come to live in Veneguela on a nal) ry in to partake of the life of an immigrant “A little to « house for two. Bmall lelean and comfortable houses are very rare and rent at from #40 t $55 per month. AlQeck costs $19 per month, and }a Mkt who does not know how to eew on « button, #5. and it requires | three maida to perform badly the service of an = untra’ a) etrt Provisions vary with flour, which ly at 10 cents per pound loaf of 12 ounces sella at 10 nto; ordinary nts, filet at 20 and 25 cents. Mutton property so-called does not lextst; vegetables are three times as [dear as in the United States, and there i very little variety of them; fowls nell at from 4 to 80 conta ac Jing to the size; vin ordinaire at 2 centw the bottle; off bottle; eeen, % to 40 cents per fresh fish, 20 cents per pound, To pass clothing: a sult to meas- ure—ready made clothing does not exist—costa from $25 to $35, and that of a very bad material but tolerably well made; shoes from 4 to $5; washing: shirt. 15 cents each; col- lars, 4 cents each; cal te per hour and 20 cents per trip: cars, & conta; stabling of a horse, from $20 to $25 per month: gas, 20 bolivars per 1000 feet; hotel charge, per day; and when we ¢ price of a wretchedly ma¢ namely, 15 cents, our rm have an idea of the cost of living in Veneruela. e Foreigner’s Mistatce. ‘The foreigner—What happy people Americans must be! I can tell as | much by their epringy, buoyant ntep. ‘The Citizen—That ain't any sign They've contracted the cake-walk Een, nal, Scrap With a Possum. Mra. A. Doolittle, an aged Street- bor township lady, who lives alone, heard a fearful uproar in her chick mire late last night. She arone, len | grabbed a poker and started for the | scene, She was convinced that some wild animal was among the chick- ena, Judging from the noise, but was unable to distingyish it in the dark. She struck the animal when it | sprang at her, A flerce battle en- | sued, lasting fully half an hour, dur- ing which the aged lady was fear- fully lacerated about the hands and body, and part of her clothing was torn off. She found her way to her house, where neighbors discov- Jered her in the morning. Near the |chicken house was found a huge possum lying dead in the mud and snow. Mra. Doolittle is 80 yours of age and her condition is serious, Give the Jury a Chance. Mudge Wheaton A. Gray elevated to the supreme court mission, was hearing a eriminal ¢ in Fresno, and on a warm day, at the end of a long harrangue by the prosecuting counsel, Ke noticed one of the jurymen asleep, As soon as the argument was complete the judge addressed the jury in hin pe eullar "Gentlemen of the jury, the prosecuting: attorney has completed ehis argument; wake up and listen to the instructions of the court."—San Francisco Argonaut your foods Limerick | beet at $ and 15) 49 conte the | habit; that’s all.—[ndianapolis Jour- | IS KNOWN IY SEATTLE Tacoma Embezzler - Once Lived Here | | WAS TRACED TO ATV DISTRIC He Is Wanted for Getting Away ith $2,000.18 Now in Georgen ‘Amen, well known In & attle for ht nconnection with the Ta- na-Beattie Ieyele © Railroad weheme, is now suppored to be in Metco, He was followed to Alaska by « deputy sheriff. ‘The story of hin peslement of $2,000 at Tacoma, and his subsequent actions, is told » follows in the Tacoma Fening Ne “Deputy Sherlf! Thoman Ma is on bios way home trom Alask where he went to tech George | Am who left Tacoma and the Minneapolis Tontine Life Insurance jcoms of which he was local manager, in which he was paid to be $2000 behind in his accounts, | “Ames was seen by a number of * on the steamer going from Tacoma to Juneau and it was re- ported that he had into the | Atlin country, At the requent of the jcompany Sheriff Mills dispatched Mr, Maloney with @ warrant to find Mr. Ames and bring him bask te Taroma After seeral weeks in during which time he has | with many who has seen the in- |surance man, Maloney has turned his way homeward without his man. | Ames has been In Juneau and in Skagway and has been seen by for- |ty Tacoma people who knew him, in- |cluding Byron Young, elty marshal lof Skagway, who was formerly sher- | uf of thi county. Ames gave out |that he was going to Sitka, Wran- | | eel, Copper river, the Atlin country | and other places, as well as to Daw- non, Minook creek and the Koyukuk, dently with the Intention of throw- jing the officers off the track. | “Following these cives Maloney | has been at all teh Alaska towns, up the Pass to Bennett and down to/ Alaska, talked janakes fit It Would be considered an of fenne if the guest inquired about the health of the hy or wtill “ . exprenmen a desire to be pre sented to her, A Chinese taken of fense if told that he looks younger than bt in, ‘The the man the more he in respected, independently of hin quatition, 1, therefore, a [Chinese wishes to appear older than he really is, Me willingly fe many offences, but should any onr happen to tread on his foot he will |refuxe to accept the most bumble Hogics, When a son | Chinese family the bereaved considers it proper to show strange ers a smiling countenance, no mat ter what hin sufferings may be. The Russian newspapers |that there is a mininter of etiquette in China known as Li Pu. Ancient books on manners are 1 by him as authority. T Jude | 200 volumes: rulen are onian in th A Chi cannot une Mx nding to his taste. ) matter how rich he is, it ts oper for him to bulld @ finer or a higher than that of his neighbor if » latter happens to be of superior nk noclally, In Chinone etiquette are eight vartetion of the bow, rance of Chinese ideas pro priety with regard to the bow often caused embarransment A Chinese, displeased with hin rit uation, will not tell his employer the real reason for resigning, but will ive pu ith or the death of relative as # pretext for leaving Such things have led many persons to regard the Chinese as insincere, but this does them an injustice, They are also unjustly considered to be cold, unemotional and indifferent to the sufferings of others, As o ma of fact this appearance of stolidity & nly a specimen of the wonderful self control and the tron for of character with which the race is endowed. dies in a father apnert butld ah ver FIELD FOR SPORT Huntsmen Will Finfl os Good One in Cuba. Hunting in Cuba will be a fashion- Able sport some ofthese days, be- ause Ciba is a great game coun- try, and the kind of game found there gives the best of sport. Ther are deer which come to the edges of the openings and clearings at dusk and dawn to feed. Counties flocks of pigeons and doves bend the branches of the trees by their weight. There are long, thick to try @ sporteman’s skill with a gun or rifle—snakes that furnish beautifully mottled skin for trophies. Wild boars live fn the dense wooden brush and it taker hardy man to face a wounded one There are wild dogs, too, and many birds of the most beautiful plumage. Wid fowls are found on all the streama, in the thickets live large har | WANT THE MINER'S GOLD Mob Raids a Dead _ Man’s House, WHAT DID HE LEAVE BEHIND? . Belief Theat a Poor Fellow in » | Rickety Log Cabin Had All Kinds of Money. CHILLICOTHE, 0,, March 6—One of the most remarkable sights eer seen in thin part of the state was 4 a few days ago at C almost on the be Kore and Highland when fully two hundre@ n invaded the premises of a dea man, tore down his house and dug up hin yard tn the search for buried treasure. For many years Richard H. Butle ler lived near Carmel in a rickety log cabin, its single room having scarcely any furniture. He lived in the greatest squalor and seeming poerty, but gradually bought up the land adjoining until he had acquired ja farm of 1000 acres. The farm | brought him @ large income, and It | finally got nolsed about that he wa in the habit of burying large sums of money about the place. Year after year passed and Butler | became a confirmed recluse and mi- wer. A few days ago he was found | dead in his hut. Almost before the body was out of the house the place | was overrun by @ crowd searching feverishly for buried treasures, They ore down the old-faghioned stick and mortar chimney, knocked the chinking from between the logs of | the hut, took up the hearthstone, |dug up the clay floor and tore the root in pieces, but all without re- sult. No trace of hidden treasure | was found. Although nearly a weels has passed the search for the treas- ure has not relaxed, and every one s confident that it will finally be found. Where Butier came from of whether he has any relations living [no one seems to know. He never | said a word that would throw any * tight on his past and he repelled every effort made by curious neigh- Wrangel, oer to Sitka and to @ num | iirag chiefly guinea hens. Incident- | bors to discover anything about him, j ber of campe where it was rumored | | Ames had been, “Amen ts a locomotive engineer engineer ond has run an engine on [the Northern Pacific for severat | | years. © wan & good engineer, but | preferred other work and frequently | | branched out In other ways. Among | | these was the Tacoma-Seattle Bicy- | Houlevard Company, of which | was manger, and proposed to lbulld a bike way between the twel cities, As manager he carried mat-) tors with o high hand even like a count odition of Vanderbilt, untii | | the corporation went Inte the hands | of @ recetver, & wreck. | phat Re i In Mexico Is believed | by those whe claim to know ‘most of | hie probablé movements, He form- ly ran an engine on a Mexican ratirosd and during the last politi- cal campaign here gaye several ar- ticles to the press on the workings ativer money in a silver country | “From San Francisco, while the | officers were looking for him fn Al-| jaska, he could easily go on to Mex-| ico, where he could be assured of a liob on teh raltroad, while in Alask: |he must surely be recognised and | caught. “It seems altogether probable none of the misaing $2000 will be recovered even if Amen had been caught wh: he arrived in Alaska, since he had been flying high and had more than Ukely spent the money. - “Sheriff Mills declined to talk of the matter, only to say that Mr Maloney in on the way home and that he reached Alaska too late to capture his man. What action the insurance company will take has not been armounced, but It is certain lthat Ames will keep shy of the country until the incident Is forgot- ten.” —— PORT ANGELES ROAD Another Line Projected for the Straits Town. TACOMA, March 6.—C, W, Cush- ing, president, and J. C, Atkinson, vice president, of the second Port Angeles railway project, announces that the road wik be built from: Port Angeles to Olympia, or some other point of connection with the Northern Pacific system, at once. The road already under construc- tion, the Port Angeles Eastern, is sald to be a Great Northern line to connect with the main line by ferry at Everett. Whether the new line will go down | the edge of Hood's canal under the | toot of the Olympica or across the ountry to Gig harbor, ts not an- nounced. The line surveyed from ig barbor to Port Hadlock and Port Angeles, passes through @ rich farming country, and ts a direct line | with no grades or curves, and con- |nidered the most direct line to the ally hordes of stray outlaws may add to the excitement of a hunt dur- ing the next few years. STOWAWAY ON THE TEXAS. Was in the Battie of Santiago, Now a Naval Apprentice. At the training station at New- port ts a boy who is 4 naval appren- tlee in one of the lowest divisions an@ yet a veteran of the Spanish war, Me ts 14 years of age, and yet wan io the battle of Bantiago. He heard Commodore Philip of the Tex- an when he sald to his ero ‘Don't cheer boye; the poor devils are dy- ing.” The lad, while not on the de- partment rolls, was « member of the Texas's crew at the time of the fight, and in fact all through the war. The boy is Thomas Watson. He had « brother Im the crew and when the ship was about to sail to the front he emuggted himself on board. He was cared for in concealment for some days, until, stowaway like, he made his appearance on deck when it wa s#too late to set him ashore. Once at the front he might as well be kept on the Texas as any other ship of the fighting line, so the offi- cers accepted the situation. ‘The boy soon became proficient tn such duties as his strength would permit his performing, and, being a bright fellow, it was early seen that he would not prove a hindrance in case of action. In fact, there is evidence that he conducted himscif in a praiseworthy manner. He ad- mits that he was scared at times during the action. Upon the return of the ship to New York he was tak- en for enlistment in the navy in regular order, and had it been ne- cessary the entire ship's company would have vouched for him, To- day he is probably far better fitted for filling a number In the ship crew than any other boy at the training station. He may be expected to se- cure rapid promotion from class to class. Sided With Ingersoll. An uptown cigar store for several years had boomed a particularly fine cigar of the Brevas shape, for which a large demand had been cre- ated. Recently the store has dis- played a tendency to change hands every month or so, and the cigars have suffered. The latest man to as- sume the management spoke to one of the regular customers the other night as he handed an_ inferior brand and announced that hereafter they would be 10 cents straight th- stead of two for a quarter, ‘The customer puffed on one for # moment, and, turning to the tobac- “I guess Ingersoll is right after ‘ys “How is that? “There isn't going to be any here- strait cities, | | CHINESE ETIOVETTE, Oriental Peculiarities, | ‘The Russians have been making something of & stu@y of Chinese |rannors and etiquette, and their jodicals axe reporting what has | been learned. The latest number of | Russkil Viestnik says tt Is not sur. | prising that the Celestiais consider Europeans barbarians when they | continually what they consider | manners and breaches of eti- on the part of white me: thing, according to th © notion, Is diametrically op- posed to the European idea. For instance, when @ Chinese weleomes a visitor to his house he does not re- | move his hat, if he happens to have it on, He puts his hat on if he is (caught without it, Thegseat of hon- jor at the table is at the left of the fe bad quett The Chi | short after.” And then he was swallowed up in the cold black night—New York Telegram. How To Brew Tea. Lovers of tea will tell you, with a wine shake of the head, that tea should never be allowed to steep for any length of time and should never De used a second time, The latter rule ia particflarly insisted upon, yet the Chinese, who must certain- ly be looked upow as good authort- ties on the tea question, say to the countrary. The Chinese put tea Into their It- | tea bowls, let it time, pe drink {t, and then add more water to the leaves, The tea from this nd brewing is the better, they has not the roughness of taste of the firgt brew, Good tea, taken in moderation*and prop prepared, is pronounced bj doctors to be a stimulant to the ner. vous item, tle steep a very off the liquid and | The authorities will make an effort to find if the man has kinamen, for the farm is a valuable property. | If no heirs are found——which seem@ probable—the farm will become property of the stat J Six Papers for a Cent. The latest of newsboy schemers fa “Tot.” He visits the restaurants In the neighborhood of Houston street and the Bowery every night, picks out some prosperous looking diner and says: ‘Boss, six pepers for @ cent! The man usually takes only one of the papers and. gives 6 cents or something more for It. “That lit- tle fellow comes here night after night.” says the proprietor, “and of- fers six papers for a cent to incite sympathy. Of course he knows that no one wants to read six of the same paper, and he never loses any- thing by his offer. In fact, It is one of the latest and best paying of the many schemes of the newsies.”-+ New York Sun, Mouse Caught by Frost. ‘On the morning that the mercarg was playing around the 30 mark be- low zero Mr. Allen Armstrong went into his granary, on the ground floor of which lay an ordinary fron wedge used for splitting rail timber. Ha noticed a mouse close to the and upon investigating more fully he found that the diminutive fel+ low's nose had come in contact with the wedge. The warm moisture on the one side and the cold steel on the other, had formed an inseparable union, which held the mouse a life- lesa captive as completely as in @ trap.—Washington Post, The Critics Appetite, If you are fond of @ real olds fashioned turkey dinner, you enjoy seeing James A. Herne's des lightful home play, “Shore Acses."* ‘They serve a turkey dinner in tha secon’ act of this piece that will do your heart good to see, and if you are sentimental, you may laugh on ery over it, just as you please. If your appetite is bad it will make you genuinely hungry.—Minneapokg Times, © . Custom in Detroit. ‘There is a Detroit family that ape ranged to spend the cold seasan tn the Bermudas, and due announces ment of the fact wae made tn the usual way, An unforeseen event de- ferred the proposed trip, and the pride of the good wife did not permit of her acknowledging @ change in the plan of campaign as proclaimed to the world through the newspa< pers, They would go late and meantime they would have it believ< ed that they had already departed. All the servants but one had been dismissed. The front of the house was made to look as though the place was closed, and temporary re« sidence was taken up in the rear apartments. A friend of the family, who had just returned to the eity, called, and was bent upon lettin, the folks know that she was bas! Her persistent manipulation of t bell led the servant to show her beaming countenance through a crack In the door. “Is your mistress af home? : “She sid to till yes they air in the Barmudt “Oh, aay from home?" “They air at home in the Bar« mudiz.’ “But they must have gone from home in order to be so far away." “It yer!) wait I'll ask the mi thress. Shure, I can't be ramimbers lin’ how ft Is, at all, ag all The friend waited patiently; | ayly. “It was rolght aw w even T was all the toime,”” announced the faithful handmaid. “The misthress is here in the Barmudiz. Wuld yez be lave in’ a carrud?"—Detroit Free Press, ,