The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1899, Page 3

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Army Officers in Kansas, HAVE NOW (GONE 10 MANILA | NEW YORK, March 11, —| | Seven offeers who left here fe Manila about ten days ago were held up and robbed a few day they left Fort Riley, Kan. for this city, The stery was told to friends in this elty by a Nashville, Ten | man, who, at the outbreak of th war with Spain, got 4 quarterman- ter's appointment in the regular my through the influence of Con-| sreseman Grosvenor, of Ohio. | “It was one niant during the cold spell in Kansas,” said the quarter master, “that six other officers and myself decided to go to town, mix milk way, to see a show we had heard a good deal about. The w | | was very dety and more was falling, | | so we decided to ship four mulen to) an ambulance and go in that. We | had gone about half way to town) | When the driver stopped the mules | and told there was a men lying out in the road ahead of us. We thought, of | soldier—a picket or a straggier from | j the fort, overcome by the cold. and) | We albgot out to go to the reacur | We had scarcely stepped out of the) lambulance before a pistol war) before ‘hands, The order was obeyed. A Hior in command fired a pistol so | clone to the eolone!'s om reach by standing on tiptoe. While we were guarded In this way two men went through our pockets and took our pocketbooks and ev-| erything of value we had. I had} $1200 government’ money in my begged them to let me keep It, for I would have to make it good some- | how, and even then it might cane me t ‘They said they did not give a cuss for the government; money Wan what they nied an they would Just as soon have the | government's money an mine. After aperet l orient, the “Pearl of the Ortent | Jump of rook in the sea | troplos ean produce coat pocket and they took that. 1 | sonians of the ad SLAP ELA srAR, Mor ong wae Just a bar While Man fla produces everything th the Hongkong ean grow practically nothing but a wiry wrasse, Manila bay ix easy of ap proach; Hongkong harbor it the con trary, a® Bhown by the number of shipwreeks tn (he vicinity, and b the number of navigators who re fuse to take a ahip near the in the night, though well Hehted ‘he land in the immediate vicinity Manila provider food enough to ntribute considerable to feed the brown kong arows only a crop of granite bouldern for im! nd miles along neighboring hills on the main et Manila depends on Hong Hongkong There Ix coal in various parta of the Philippines; yet steamers in Manila fill thelr bunkers with coal brought from Mongkong, though Tiongkong has no ¢ t hundreds of miles, There ia kero sene in the Philippine islands, we yet Mantla buys from Hongkong, which has an oll-spread near ft, Cotton grows wild all over the Philippines, but the Inhabitants buy cotton bar- ments from Hongkong, which does not grow a pound of cotton 1, the Philippines 4 grow sugar, and It is re- fined in Hongkong. Hongkong has several great prosperous sugar re ries, making millions of dollara out of Philippine sugar, while the refineries in the Philippines are etru Ine concerns t to be pared with them. Manila hemp-—and it is the F works that supply the world And when tion between Man- fla and a in cut in course of war, it is the fertile lux- urtatnly productive Manila that starves, ‘natead of the barren bit of brown rock.—Manila Times, Firemens’ Ann Meet. WALLA WALLA, March 10. The next convention and tourns ment of the Eastern Oregon and Washington Firemen's Association will be held at Walla Walla, June 13, 14 and 15. This was decided by ree, the man was aj|the board of directors, which met | at La Grande, Ore., yeaterday, Representatives of fremen from many towns were present at the meeting, and much interest and en thusiaem were displayed. The di. | thrust In the face of each oMcer and | rectors decided that the number of we Were ordered to throw up our | competing teams xhould not be lean) than three to hold a tournament. | cavalry colonel, distinguinhed for his| They will make an effort to add/ | bravery, lowered one hand to rub his, many new teams to the Het, w! le eye which had got full of smoke from } will create a new spirit of rivalry | his cigar, and his temporary euper-| in the annnal mote. | ich Local firemen will begin prepara- that his | tions for the tournament soon, One| hands went up as high as he could | of the most Interesting rograms ever given by them in Walla Walla ia promised. Democratic Banquet. TACOMA, March 11—The Jeffer- te will have a ban- quet in Tacoma on the evening of April 13th, to commemorate the life and works of their patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, The programme includes such noted after dinner W. C. Jones, Hon. Charles 8. Voor- |hees, Hon, F A. MeDonald, Senator | Beans, Ready for Use,* ng, Manila i# almost a suburb of | “ALL. KINDS OF CARS and Beans. MAGNITUDE OF RAIL TRAFFIC da within | w York Sun's Philosophe: Many Interesting Points on the Subject. It gives one an iden of a great city’s yarled wants and of the en- ;ormous amounts of produce and manufactured goods requifed to sup- ply them, to watch the incoming freight trains on a great railroad, jong trains of forty or fifty cars each, and many of them, and to note the | varied character of the caps ® view to more economical and satis- factory transportation there are ured nowadays many kinds of rall- | road cart especially designed for particular uses. There might be sol | id trains of a single commodity or n factured product, and trains | that were mixed, made up of cars of | Miteetlaneous freight, and then there Might be trains made up half of With care of ane article of produce, may | «rain for export, and the other half of various care. Among the ¢ of the various in- | coming trains will be seen furniture | cars, designed for the transportation of furniture, whieh’ have long been used; these are larger than the ordi- | nary freight cart, for furniture, though bulby, t# comparatively light. | There are Mkewtne Care built for the transportation ef carriages as freight, from the places of their manu ure to market. | Stor care are nowadays of common une, and may be seen In great num bers; perhaps in solid trains. rs, of course, are old: there may be sotid trains of cattle cars. | There are now used many improved care for thé tranrportation of horses | and cattle, specially equipped for the | secure and comfortable transporta- tlon of vatuable stock. There are (care bullt for the transportation of | live poultry, much of which i# | brought here from great distances, nome of It from went of the Minate- \stpp) river, There are many care de- | voted to the transportation of spec- fal food products of one sort and | another, these bearing the name of | the predacer using them as weil as the name of the product carried in | apenkers as Hon, W. MH. White, Hon.| them. Among such care wan one marked “Bo - and - fos Pork and Tt may be robbing us, the highway-| High, J. J. Anderson, Stephen Jud- | that this car contained some other men, all of whom, were masked. marched us back up the road toward the fort and ordered us to run. em-~- phaat: the order by firing several shote. ‘all, of course, we obeyed, and the bullets that sung over our heads as we ran prevented ws from | we got bask to the fort nearly frozen | | we went into the club house and! | were telling of the hold-up to an ex- | | cited crowd of men before | that the colonel of artillery, who had | will preside, son, Thomas M. Vance and others. Hon, MH. T. Jones, chairman of the Democratic ntral committee, liton Lewis will act as toastmaster. No speriaitiavitations wift be issudd) om ie extended but arbotdiab-invit pausing too,long In the snowdrifts, | to alt whee Jeffersonians in be- | where we might have frozen. When | lief to attend. More 0. R. & N. Surveyors. COLPAX, March 16.—A_ large noticed | party of O. R. & N. surveyors got off the train at Riparia today and be | been with us, was missing. We were | pay work on the Snake River Val | just starting out with an armed! | party to reseue him and pursue the | outlaws when the | masks in their hands. Then I knew why the colonel of artillery had in- at the fort when we started to town. | “Yea, I got the government money sisted op all of us leaving our arms | 1. tne Riparia-Lewiaton route, 1 ley road The new steamer Spokane made bulance drove | |her trip out of Riparia this after.) | up and the colonel stepped out, fol-| noon and tomorrow will take four | lowed by ten other officers with | carioads of railroad qtect to Lewis ton fer the O. R. & N." The Spokane and the Lewiston are to alternate ing Riparta.at 2:30 a. m. on the ar rival of the train from Portland, ar , products of the house using it; but it wns an-tikely @ solid car of pork and beans, There are many articies | of amal) bulk or put up in Yee leven If at the tp of an inaccessible con. Sana scparathigremall, of which « ‘sorgelantiin the ageregdte ts Jared ahateto gréat centers of popu- lation, either for use there or for distrtbutionthence by export or otherw ine, they are shipped common- ly i carload lots. There are hay cars, and care for dairy products, | and cars for fruit and care for va- | rious other uses ‘The fruit cars seen in @ train rolling into the city may) have come from acrosa the contin- ent.New York Sun. SPOKANE, Mareh 1 the course of a month the Northern Pa- cific will add a number of new — passenger and baggage care an freight cars, flat cars and cabooses and engines to its equipment, says the St. Paul Globe. The company ete eeeiiadGiia aaa Some With Pork’ | | population; the land around Hong: | Refriger- | | ary are Dr, James Withyeombe, Cor vallia, Or, president; Charles 1 | Ladd, Portiand, treaswer; T 1 Pendleton, oa rotary; A, McAlliw A. # | LeGrow for Waahington, John Me- Millen for Idaho, John ©, Husey | for Montana, vice presidents; W | Furnish for Oregon, Nat Webb | Washington, L. L. Ormeby for Ida- | ho, A. Spencer for Montana, execu tive committee The banin of representation in the onvention ts delegate for cach nty in the four #tates, and one | delegate for each 1,000 #heep or | fraction over an reported by the #ev eral Countion; and one delegate each | from each steammhip or raliroad company within the terrtitory cov | , mereiat club, each agriculture, each ag~ ricultural college, each agricultural journal published in the territory cove Boom in Building. NEW YORK, Mareh 11 plans for new buildings were sub- | miTied at the Buliding Department | yesterday than on any day, with one exception, since the department was entablished. Applications were pre- sented for thirty-two new buildings The onty oceanton on which this number was exceeded wax on May | 28, 1895, Just before the Tenement House law of that year went into effect. ‘The plans submittel yester- day revresent an investment of near- ly $1,600,000. Proud Monarch in Captivity. jome interesting details in regard | td the present condition of Samory, | the dethroned African monarch, has | just been received by the French | ministry of the colonies. Samory is |now at Kayes, where he occuples a gamp, which is guarded by a co! pany of soldiers, He has fifteen wives with him, and sixteen of his children and several servants. Me | spends his time in reading theKoran [and amoking cigarettes. To outward seeming Samory ts j calm and contented, but at heart he is quite the reverse, He cannot rid | himself of the idea that he will be murdered some day, and whenever lone of his «u pens to fre a |ahot ho Is confident that his tai hour has come, He brooded so much over his coming doom that he quite |Host his senses recently, and made a determined but fullle effort to com- mit suicide. Samory stil! retains with him a | few pieces of his barbaric furniture, | but all his gold and ellver treasure, which mainly consints of gold rini and silver plates, has been confisca: ed by the French government and | | to be sold. His altver cuirass, how- More art, will be placed In the war mu- has grieved much over the lox of these treasures, and it is considered doubtful whether his captors, no matter how kindly they may treat him, will ever be able to reconcile him to his lot. |The Government of Crete. LONDON, March I-~The Sultan has just made another effort to raise the question of his sovereignty in Crete, which 4# too shadowy for his ent by one fag in one little niegh~ boring island. He has now suggest- | ed that he might be allowed to raise Just one little fag in Crete itself, jmauntaln. His Majesty has also protested against the arrangqement just made, whereby Prince George will commun- feate his powers, not through the Government of the Sultan, as it is maintained with unanswerable logic should be the case, but through a committee composed of the ambas- sadors of England, Russia, and France sitting in Rome under the presidency of the Italian Minister lof Foreign Affairs, The arrange- | ment is certainly a queer one, and the Sultan is entitled to some amount of sympathy in the matter, but that all that he is likely to get in the Dr. Schott, of Nauheim, Germany, | who has devoted considerable time i Se ~~ cepa RENEE TRY: eT ever, & massive and unique work of | seum at Parts, Barmory, it is said, — feelings. It i# represented at pres- | back, but we were then held uy for | | riving at Lewiston at 1 p. m. the | champagne for the crowd. and tha; {same day, leaving Lewiston at 12 | COs Ste ene ag eat torn. | noon the following day, arriving at ee re ae Riparia at 7 p. m., connecting with is preparing for a big businers in| to the study of bicycling from a hy- all departments thig year and docs | gente point of view, gives these not intend to be caught in the mid-| facts as a resutt of his studies: die of the season with an inade-| “Bicycling, like mountain etimb- | tma."* the train from Spokane. The trips of the Bpokane from Riparia will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Satur and from Lewiston on Monday, Wednesday and rFiday. oe For Stealing Horses. COLFAX, Wash, Mareh i1—An important arrest has been made by Deputy Sheriff Steward and Con- stable Potter, of Colton, at the farm of Jack Dobson, near Winona. John Weston, and a man named Steele on a charge of stealing two from George Baskett. The men are beliewed to be leaders of an organ ized band of horse and cattle thieves, having sold more than @ carload of horses, believed to have been stolen, during the past year. ‘The officers had been tracking the men for several days, and located them last night. They raided the house at daylight and caught both men in bed, with gun under their | pillows. They were taken cormplete- ly by surprise and surrendered with~ out resistance. They were brought to Colfax and lodged In the county jail, and will be taken to Colton to- | night for preliminary hearing. Ch Weston, a brother of John, was ar- rested at Colton yesterday | The Colfax Schools. COLFAX, March 10.-—-Several radical changes were made today in the city schools. The overflow of the fifth and sixth grades, which have been in charge of Mrs. Latta in tae Main street school building, has been suspended and the pupile returned to their respective grades. The sixth grade, with Mies Laura) Barbee in charge, was moved bodily | to the Main street building and now occupies the room formerly oceu- pled by Mrs. Latta’s classes. Mrs. Masonic Banquet. GARFIED, March 11--Anchor » A. F. a A. M.. of ad an Interesting meeting when the third deg upon Jesse Jones in the pr the entire membership of t lodge and visitors from nearly every lodge in Whitman county. R. £ Daniels, worshipful master, con ferred the degree. There were vist tors present from Srokane, ¢ dale, Farmington, Tekoa, Pullman and Palouse, and the lodge hall was packed almost to suffocation: After the work in the lodge room a banquet was served in the banquet hall adjoining. A number of large tobles were apread. Toasts were re- sponded to by members of visiting delexa The affair wis one of the moat delightful in the history of Garfield secret cirel There wer the hotels The Ferguson Group. CHELAN, March 10.—Capt. M. Buchanan, legal agent of the Markle Mining Company, owners of the Ferguson group of mines in Horse Inst week, having left a crew of supplies preparatory to active work on the group, and departed for the Latta has been employed tempor- arily as teacher of the third grade in place of Miss Cora Crow, who is on the sick Het. The seventh gra with Miss Fritz as teacher, will oc- | cupy the room in the high school | building, formerly occupied by the | seventh | Manila and Hongkong. | There is much food for reflection | in the fact that the sunken Spanish | |eruisers Isla de Cuba and Isla de | Luzon, after being floated by Hong- kong engineers, had to be sent over to Hongkong for repairs. It is | atrange how completely Manila ts de pendent upon Hongkong. It i# an omalous, also, for the two pla ought to oceupy exactly opposite sitions relatively, if natural advant- | ages counted for anything. When | Manila was the greatest port in the | =~ rade, jafter which he const. He went to the west side, intending to reach the company’s claim that lap over from Horseshoe Basin into the Cascade mining dis trict in Skagit county, via Hamilton and Marble Mount, to post the ne cessary notices for patenting, etc., expecta to return here and personally direct the work in the basin. Fire in a University. MORGANTOWN, W. Va, March 11.Early this morning the Depart ment of Mechanical Engtneering of the West V nity was crippled by the n of Me- chanical hall by fire. The cost of | tho property to the university wes about $45,000, but It is thought it cannot be replaced for less than $60,000, as much of the best ma- chinery was donated, - | for their delivery, shoe Basin, returned from Stehekin | men under Dan Devore packing tn! quate supply of cars and locomo-| tives. ‘The company has ordered a num- ber of very handsome passenger shea, etght new mall cars, eight class P tenwheel passenger = en- gines, eight class Y consolidated en- gines and 14 8 10-wheel freight en- gines, all from Schenectady, N. Y. The company has also ordered 600 flat cars, each of 70,000 pounds capacity, from Barney & Smith, of | Dayton, Ohio; 100 40-ton coal cara | from Detroit, and 200 Rogers ballast cars from Wells & French. | These orders were given some time ago, but the time Is nearing ) Okanogan Min LOOMIS, March 11.—Alfred Fdge- combe, manager of the Okanogan Free Gold Mines, Hmited, came up | from Brewster, and continued on to Oro yesterday, Joe Linton ts getting an outfit for doing some work on the Washoe. He is no wdown 70 feet on the ledge, which Is showing weil. This proper- ty Hes north and just across the | | All these things should be taken In| Similkameen river from the King Solomon group and west of the Miack Warrior, on which there is an unusually good showing. In that vicinity high grade silver ore is found carrying a good percentage of copper, , Or March l= tion of the Pacific Northwest Wool Growers’ as- sociation, im session at Pendleton, Ore., comprises the sheep breeders of the yur states, Oregon, Washing- Idaho and Montana, Officers re elected from all of these ata 5 and the territory covered by the na. sociation has in ft a total of 7,666,015 sheep, distributed as follows: Ore- gon, 2,603,049; Idaho, 1,011,852; Mon- | tana, 9,146,868; Washington, 756,346, | In the association are men repre- senting all the Interests of the woot growers, The subjects discussed are not ohly the most improved methods of sheep breeding and the manner in which the most salable # sof wool are treated, but transportation questions are handled and there is something on every concelvable top- ie that in any manner contributes to the store of knowledge of the men | who control the sheep and wool in- terests of the Pacige northwest. | The men who comprise the officl- On both sides of the Similkameen | ing, accelerates the action of the heart, and thus quickens the pulse. ‘This naturally tends to enlarging the heart during action, a process which during rest takes a backward turn, and the vital organ resumes its nor- mal state. By violent, or, say, excessive exer- cise on the wheel, when the pulse beats at 140 per minute, the con- ditions change. The expansion of the heart does not fall bask to the as is best proved by the sed up" look of cycle racers after a tournament. Should the strained exercise continue the enlargement of the heart continues with It, and fatal results are inevitable, ‘The older the wheelman the easier do the muscles of the heart assume undue proportions, and, the arteries becoming leas elastic with age, the life of such a man is greatly endan- |gered. There is a certain note In breathing which is an infallible warning with turners and climbers, which, however, very often faila its purpose with the cycler, for in his case the great draft caused by his run supplies him with more oxygen than Is necessary. | | due consideration by ardent wheel- men, Bicycling as an exercise, | should be taken only by persons whose heart and lungs are in the best natural condition. Its Millions Now. NEW YORK, March 11.—A certt- fileate to increase the capital st lof the New York Gas and Electric Light, Heat and Power company from $25,000,000 to $36, 000 was filed in the office of the Clerk of Queens country at Jamaica yesterday, It | ia stated In the certificate that the capital actually paid in amounts to $50,600 and that the debt and liabil- of the company are $36,150,- n May Send ito. LONDON, March 10.—London dip- send Marquis Ito to England and the | United States on @ special miasion The Japanese government strongly desires an agreement with the Un- various questions in the Far East. Tt has not been finally settled, how- ever, whether the n tiations will be intrusted to a special commission- er or conducted through the Japan- | ese Ministers at London and W: , wae. lomats are informed that Japan may | | ited States and Great Britain upon | a lose agg a2 Faia aa ‘4 CGI! ONE BIG KMIFE Interesting Souvenir | at Colfax. AN UGLY INSURGENT WEAPON | With Otis. | COLFAX, Wash., March 11.—Hon, Lindell Smith, of Moscow, a member of the legislature for Latah county, spent several hours in Colfax ye day, en route home f Boise. Mr. | Smith had with hir several souven- | irs from Manta, sent him by his two | sone, Who are with Co. D, Idaho volunteers. His son, Edward, is captain of the company and another son, Leo, was a private in the same company, but has been transferred to the hospital department. The lat~ | ter is only 19 years old. | Mr, Smith showed the reporter an Insurgent’# cavalry sword, which is | an ugly looking knife, with a blade | about 30 inches in length, and ran- | ning toa sharp point. The sabre | was made at Manila, and ts excep- | tionally heavy, being made from a | heavy plece of steel, fully ones fourth of an inch thick at the bask. | The handle is guarded and is made of a hard, black wood. and studded on all sides with bright-headed tacks jon all siden with bright headed eke, driven full length into the | wood. ‘He also had in bis grip four | Machetes and other souvenirs of in- terest. A Testamentary Clause. Now that there in such an agitas tion in America against premature burial, the will of an eccentric Frenchman, lately deceased in Paria, becomes of intense momentary ine terest. It seems that the old gentiee _ man had always had @ great horror | of being buried alive. He had taik- | and planned to prevent it for so many years that his refatives and friends were fearful that he was low. Ing his mind on the subject, but it never entered their heads that the dread of it has taken such pontess- | sion of him that he would be at ail lkely to mention the matter In hie | wit, Strange requests have been left by the dying—that a limb should be amputated or a cut made—but this old Frenchman left it stipulated in his last will and testament that an autopsy of his body should be held after his death, and left30,000 | france to each of his executors on | condition that they insisted upon this being done, “such is my horror of being buried alive.” Stole Paris Green. NEW YORK, March 1, — James Sheehan, twenty-four years old, of Washington and Chariton streets was arraigned before Magistrate Meade in the Jefferson rket Po- Hee court yesterday, ch witht taking an overdose of paris green— three whole cases, valued at $550, besides a truck and two horses. The truck, the team, and the poison were in charge of James McYaughlin, a driver for Middleton Bros., of 29 Spruce street. While on his way to freight station he made a shor® stop at Varick and Downing streets. When he returned, after an absence of only a few minutes, the whole out~ fit had vanished. The driver went to Captain Halpin of the Charles street station, who sent out a gens eral alarm for the stolen property. Detective Sheehan caught sight of the missing team about 10 o'clock yesterday at West Tenth and Hud- son streets. James Sheehan was drivin, The paris green cases were not in sight. (Sheehan, the driver, when arrested. toid a story about a stranger who had handed the team over to him. Magistrate Meade held him tn $2000 bail for trial. The paris green has not been found. Are Pennies Unlucky? A New Orleans paper the othes day gave an account of a conductor on one of the street cars who refused to aceept five coppers as fare for a passenger. Conductors in New York city have not quite reached that point, but if looks could kill many & poor woman who laboriously hunté |up the stray pennies in her purse and calmly tenders them to tha waiting conductor she would hava been dead long ago. Why are conductors so averse td receiving pennies? The principal reason is that pennies will not be taken from the men at the auditor's office Conductors cannot turn them in as part of thelr receipts. Many colored persons consider pennies unlucky. I saw an old Southern mammy remonstrate with a conductor because he gave her five pennies in change, and when he refused to take them back she threw them on the seat and left them bee hind her when she left the car, Many actors and actresses alsd look upon pennines as bringing them bad luck and often throw them away. A Girl Bandit. INDEPENDENCE, Va., March tf —Thomas Feldrich, a notion drum | mer, while riding along a lonely mountain road, near Newsome Gap, says he was held up by a girl bandit, who faced him with two pistols. Pel< drich says her eyes were covered by a mask, but that she smiled at him when making him stand and deliver, He tried to joke her out of the notion of robbing him, and once attempted to draw his revolver, but the nervous fingering of her two pis- tols told him that it was no joke. Ha gave her $65, a gold watch, a dias mond stud and a pair of diamond sleeve buttons, He hoped to get the |drop on her as he drove away, but | she rode her horse beside him for | a few paces, warning him that If he looked back It would cost him his life. The woman escaped.