The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1899, Page 3

ee I ONT ERENT 7 re SO ENA RATE IP OREN SEAN ro THE BMATTLE or five years, but the demand b in from seed grown on abnormal planta. | ereased from the start, and ix still | Mr. Hugo de Vries of France has N increasing been cultivating these anomalies for The go-cart In propelled from be- twelve years past and hin notes have b hind like the ordinary baby carriage, recently been published in the STAR, 8 €e¢¢ ¢ WAS EARLY % }but it fe a vehie f much lone \¢ uso} one e- | | r) T | bulk and more ike « chair: on h \ Be endagel gps a art Hg nat | wheels, Originally it wae used only with the exception of plants that for old rhildren, that is for ehild- | were turned abnormally greeen by , |ren old enoweh to wit up, but it in| Parasites, every plant developing un- ry, | now made with a movable back that natural growth with which he ex-| i — can be tipped at any angle and held | -_ perimented was repre from ita! Fi am i : in place by net serewn, no made | need, proved the ieeah tals 0 pe Ree Ban Bae ie Ohare ate | & reclining 48 well an a ait-up vehl- heredity of monstrous "types. ‘Lake Chelan Cov- haracteristio that Ie sup- Went via the Ash- »"< Walla Walla Boy's ' isolated all the planta he raised mod to commend the go-cart en- ‘69 proportion of their descend~ | cr ft R t et = iy ne, pel ede en ‘ ants were of normal type, but the Tecan be tr aaily taken abnormal individuais were suMl- B Oft Route, rei, "screaMameraeitecce| FEO With Ice, |strarnet, inaiitinie were mu-| © Bad Temper. | igen le. | | that heredity a» well as dincane in| q caieeicmiinai by arent’ weasen foe the retall |@ potent cause of the multiplication a baby carriagé trade is apring, The |of monatroattien. babies have beon more or lens coop: ‘IN ADVANCE OF THE BIG RUSH! 02 up in the noure through tne win- ter, and every mother wants them to j have the benetit of the air. ARs | many baby cafriages are wold here | }in the #pring season aa in all the | An Englishman Who Thinks Well rest of the your put together.—N. Y. j& Tite, Coot TEMPERATURE WAS In several varieties of plants Mr. REST | De Vries has reproduced the eabnor- OT OH oe ictus ferret Ssenerations, |MESULT OF A STREET In some of them the reproduction of unusual growthe is more frequent | of tee Formed | than in others. On an average one- | | third to two thirds of the plants, Abe Sehni kOwW Asseults Johnny Ki see Sree FererwnwnvrsER SE Oe & Oma e Fe rS ees err are se Ne & Show your neighbor a copy of The Seattle Star. FEE aaiegeasr 3 FREES dk Don’tdoubtit forongminuts, The. te to the office (Pike 150) will be much appreciated; also subscribers. In the meanwhile It only costs AeIS SI20eES SUL JO AdOO e s0oqUusieu ANOKA MOUS ONE MONTH paper will not claim to be the best on earth with the ‘largest circula- tion’’—that is, not yet awhile, but the effort will be made to steadily improve please remember that news “‘tips’” ; as. we ght at @ #ereee #44 & | ef tha New Count: of Gold, | Sun, Adds Anot | Among the men who went to the | north last year by way of the Ash- | crott trail was James Edward Lang- | ford, of Romily, Cheshire, England. With @ careful bringing up in the | old country and a college education at Oxford, the young man was hard- ly prepared for roughing it all the | way in the north, nevertheless he | fot along fairty well, and was one | of the first to go into Atlin district, as he was just passing there when | the first news of the excttement was | Tn a letter to # Vancouver \frtend, Mr. Langtord says: ' “I have only been in the country | i trom & creek on Atlin lake, as saw one of them passing «old Skagway. He was very re-| it as to where he had heard this, | but the word Atlin was) mentioned and my informant passed | ihe to me, belleving it to) : himself. 1 w Fe it aa) BR i e g i £ : ii tbe i if i i left my stuff, country to the about 20) Pi g i i i iif al Hi q was left to! up the | the small lake for it, have learned since that the In right, for he piloted me to the lesser, and the other lake is pro- perty calied Taku. I arrived at Pine creek just a tew hours before the | first. rush of about 2¢ men came in | from the coast. I was lucky enough to locate clone to discovery on Pine a |Information from the discoverer | himself, so I thereupon started for the creek and staked out No. 4 be- low discovery. 1 have a little inter- | on some of the other creeks, but | |f think that my latest location on McGee creek will be the richest, an | I have seen more gold taken out of | the next claim than I have on any |elaim in the district as yet. 1 think |the Atlin country wil certainly | boom tn the eprin: nd I have ev- lery faith in the district, I never | did any mining before although 1 | was for several years on the went coast-of Africa. The cold bothers | me very little now, although I suf- fered a good Geal from it when I first came here.” Concerning Baby Carriages. The predecessor of the present pre- vailing style of baby carriage, thirty | or forty years ago, war built like a | chair; it had but two wheels, and the | body, which had a folding carriage | Howard, clerk; A. Drancher, escort; | wae weil and favorably known here, COLFAX, Wash., fax camp, No, 6194, Modern Wood- America, in the latest eddl- on to the fraternal orders of Col- fax, Thin lodge was instituted last night by J. 1, Brown, of Asotin, who is deputy head consul of the order, ‘The lodge starts with a charter membership of 69, being one of the largest charter memberships ever obtained by any secret order here, Mr, Hrown was assisted in the work of organising the camp by William Yohuka, C. W. Dowell, Willtam Stone, BH. Atkinson and Charlies Me- | Millan of Garfield, who are members of the order there. The officers mlected for the frat term are BE. W, Weinborg, venerable consul; RK. GO. Hargrave, worthy ad- viser; Hill, banker; George | March 14- KR. Gaston, watehman: H. W. Me~ ‘Tier, sentry; J. L. Irvin, chief for ter; J. D. Elite, A. B. Stubt and N. B. Yelle, trustees, and Dr, A. FE. Stuht, examining physician. After the work tn the lodge room, which-oceupled the time until } a.m. all members and visttors repaired to Kitchen restaurant, where a ban- quet was served. . renames War and Matrimony. “There t# a close connection be- | tween marriage and the price of | wheat, beef, pork, beans, corn and other things whieh go to make up the main portion of human food.” writes Prof. Dy R. McAnally of “The American Girl's Chance of Mar- riage,” in Mareh Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. “As the prices of these com- modities go up the mumber of mar- riages goes down. Prom 1851 to 1854 times were good, food was cheap, and the marriage rate in Masaachu- setts went up to %@ per 1000, Be- tween 1855 and 1859 there wan great depression of trade’ and tn 1858 the marriage rate went down to 17 per 1008, The years frm 1873 to 1979 form another period of depression. Factories were clowed and manufac- turers of every kind suffered severe- ly. In one year at t, crope were short and the prices of food were high. The result was immedi- ately seen in matrimony. for tn 18T4 the number of marriages went down from 11 per 1000 of the population to 18, and in 1876, and the following two years, declined to 15 per 1000-a tre~ mendous failing off from 2 fer 1000, the figure attained in 1854, which was that of “Almost unfavorable as hard times t# the Influence of war upon matrimony. Whenever Mare is in the ascendant Cupid's atock ts down. During the ¢ivil war the number of marriages in this country fell off from 20 per 1000 of population to 17 per 1000, and fmmediately after the civil war was ended, in 1865, the humber rose to 22 per 1600, declining in 1869 to 21. The woman who ts | looking for @ husband has o better | chance of getting one just before or | just after a war than at any other | time.” . Well Known in Tekoa. TRKOA, Wash., March 14.—James Gonong, who died at Manila about the first of the month frr mall pox, having resided at Tekon several years, holding a position as brakes- man on the O. KR. & N. About « year aro he went to Idaho, where he enlisted at the first call for vol- unteers, uit Over Wa Rights. NORTHPORT, Wash., March 14.— The first tigation over water rights arising in thin section of Stevens county, comes on to be heard March | 1b. This is an action between the} Northport Brewing company and T. | Perrot over the waters running in| Five Mile creek, which supplies the brewery plant. A Punctual Man. A certain Mr. Seott, of Exeter, \ top, was supported on straps attach- ed to a wooden frame. was drawn by means of a tongue In front, attached to the under side | of the tongue, near the body of the carriage, was an iron foot or rest, upon, which the carriage was sup- | ported when the tongue was not held. ‘The immediate successor of the old style chaise was the peram- bulator, a baby carriage with three wheels, two at the back and one at the front, the perambulator being pushed instead of drawn, The per- ambulator was succeeded by the! four-wheeled carriages now in com- mon use. In the course of time baby carriage brakes appeared, to prevent aeccl- dents when the carriage wan left un- guarded, One of the first was a alid- ing bar attached to the running part | of the carriage, and having a fork-| ed end which fitted a spoke, thus locking the wheel. There are now a number of styles of brakes, and they jare In common use, being aplied to low-prices catriages as well as to the more expensive ones. \° The modern baby carriage !s made ‘Ina great variety of styles, cheap and costly, some of them being » at prices remarkably low. It im ¢ vehicle admirably adapted to the uses to which it Is put, and it seem- ed, excepting as to details, as though in {ts present shape It had reached the final stage of its evolution; but now’ the go-cart, a baby carriage of a very different model, is pushing it ‘hard. It t# estimated that of the total stock of vehicles used for baby carriages this season, go-carte will occupy 4 third, or perhaps more, The go-cart ie produced this year in a greater variety of styles than in any previous season; and the cheap- |to be ready for hin whose business required him to trav- ‘This carriage |¢! constantly, was one of the most | famous characters for punctuality | in the kingdom. By his methodi- | cal habits, combined with unwearted | inductry, he accumulated a large | fortune. For a great many years | the landlord of every inn in Cornwall | ¢ Devon that he visited knew the act day and hour that he would} arrive. A short time before he died, | at the advanced age of $0, a gentle- | man who was making a Journey | through Cornwall put up at a small inn. at Port Isaac for his dinner, He | looked over the bill of fare and saw nothing to his liking, He had, how- | ever, seen a fine duck roasting on| the fl “rll have that,” said he. | “You ¢ t, sir,” replied the land- t is for Mr. Seott, of Exetor.” | w Mr. Seott very well re-/ ne traveler. “He isnot in your “Very sorry,” said the land but six months ago when he | he ordered the duck | this day, exact- | ly at ‘clock And, to the names} | ment of the traveler, wh look from the window, tleman was at that moment enter- ing the Inn yard, about fi minutes before the appointed time.—Marper's | Round Table plied how lord, wan last here, Lost in the Snow. | Va RICHMOND, March 14.—W.| B. Bisho| sa widely known hotel man In’ Ftichmond, has | been lost in the storm in the neigh borhood of Mineral City, Loutaa| county, Some time alyzed and was in Yesterday morning ome of bie son and has on since, Searching par- tle n looking for him: o he was par-| ost of them costs cgnslderably less [than the cheapest baby carriage. hi atl a si apg probably had another atroke of apo- | plexy, and the meiting of the snow |The go-cart has been in use but four | will reveal his body, <A ads taioton cls | from the couleor adjacent caused the | printed In very small While the Mercury Rogis- tered 45 Above Zero, rained were of the normal type, ¢x- Ott. top of the plant, or in the lateral branches, Occasionally = certain CHELAN, Wash., March 14,—Cap- tata C. J. Trow, of the steamer Ste- | ma: hekin, reports an ring on the up-lake trip on Mon. day morning that bordera on the | phenomenal, and would not main) credence but for the fact that the captain's word is beyond question. | It Is well known that Lake Chelan rarely freezes over, even in the cold- | ext winter weather, For the past | ten days it has been very warm in| thie section, the snow being about all gone, with little or no frost at! night, cury registered 45 degrees above sero yet the steamer encountered a thin ekim of in a strip perhaps fourth of a mile wide, frozen | r acroms the lake between John- | son's point and Judge L. A, Navy-| arre’s place, . and another about the | same width from above Sunnybank across to Wapito point. It was re- marked at the time, when the boat was plowing through the window- pane toe, that should the fact be re- Inted nobody would believe it. The freene is accounted for only on the wupponition that the night being ab- solutely still the cold cross-rurrents «iassy eurfaces of the already gla- onday _ |itles, ‘Their deviations from the no = sparting, ‘the me | mal type are most numerous.—N. Y._ plants seemed to be absolutely nor- but their seed had not lost the incident occur- | faculty of reproducing monstromity. A species of chrysanthemumu pro- duced in 1898 194 Individuals of ab- normal growth among 200 plants used in the experiment. In the case of another plant, only 4 per cent. of plants returned to the normal type. Another pliant, which has its highest leaf single in the normal type, has three leaflets in the majority of ab- normal individuals. Bienntal plants, or those requiring two years to pro- duce their seed, are the most inter- esting group in respect of monstre Sun, Petition in Bankruptcy. COLFAX, Wash, March 14.—7l- mer KE. Huntley, of Colfax, is the first resident of Whitman county to take advantage of the new bank~- ruptey law. John Pattison, an at- torney of Colfax, returned yenterday evening from Walla Walla, where he filed a petition in bankruptey for Huntiey in the United States court. ‘The liabilities of the petitioned are placed at $22,000, with no assets be- yond the exemptions allowed by law, Elmer ©. Huntley was at one time one of the mont extensive and pros- cial waters to congeal, Breeds Blooded Stock. PULLMAN, Wash, March 14.— Metaker and K farmers and stock growers, living south of Pull- man, have bought a bred Shorthorn bull in Iowa and expect him here tomorrow, This firm breeds Shorthorn cattle and Poland China swine and carried off all the prises In these Hiner at the Whit- man county fair lant October, How Horses Catch Cold. Hornen are very subject to nanal catarrh, and {t is a widely prevalent belief among coachmen that if « horse goes into @ fresh stable, and enpecially if a horse which has been out at gress goes into K stable with other hornes it will be most likely to develop a cold. Bo, too, It Is noticed wild horses bousht at a fair, and this t* popularly attributed to the draughts to whiet they have been exposed. As it is admitted, however, that any other horses whieh may have been tm thé stable, generally catch thiw soit from the newcomer, surely It is more reasonable to sup- pose that the latter has in like man- ner received the infection from some of its neighbors while on sale. A medical friend of the writer's lately made an interesting experi- ment. He has two horses and has been In the habit of turning out one for the summer months. When he brought it in again for the winter tt used Invariably to develop a severe cold, Coachmen will tell you that thie is due to the unaccustomed th of the stable, which makes the animal “nesh.” Last year, how- ever, before bringing in his horse, the doctor had his stable thoroughly disinfected and iimewashed, and put no other horse into it, The one which came in from the grass then remained perfectly free from any symptoms of catarrh.—Spectator. Prisoner Was a Worker. COLFAX, Wash., March 14,—Fred Miller was released from the county jail today after serving a sentence of % days for petit larceny commit- ted at Tekoa. Miller Is a big German | and Jailer Curry says he dislikes to jose him for he was the best worker he had on the chain gang. . Miller worked as hard as though he was receiving $2 a day in cash. Abraham Lincoln. In a life of Abraham Lincoln we are told that the first books he read perous farmers in Whitman county. He owned and farmed large tracts of land near Sunset, and was con- nidered solid financially, being rated at from $30,000 to $40,000. He had an immense crop of wheat In 1892 which wan destroyed by the wet weather, and a poor crop and low price the next year completed his ruin. Mort- gagors took his land and much of his. live stock, and to cap the climax of misfortune he was kicked by a horse and one arm permanently crippled. With the execptions allowed him by jaw he will endeavor to get a new etart, Bill Lang Will Marry. BAN PRANCISCO, March 14.—Big “Bil” Lange (Little Eva), the fa- mous center fielder of last year’s Chicago baseball team, will play no more. “Little Eva” is engaged. He gave up bis position with a book- maker at Oakland some time ago, disappeared from hie usual haunts and his companions wondered if Lange had quietly slipped away to the East or had an attack of the rip. Now tt is all out and Lange ac- knowledges it. His prospective bride is Mise Grace Gisrelman, the pretty daughter of a well-to-do citi- zen, Henry Gteselman, residing at 1720 Golden Gate avenue, San cisco. Miss Gisselman’ Jects to, Bill's profession and wants his future son-in-law to take up some more dignified calling. “Little Eva” is on the best of terms with his future papa. He much of his Judgement and inden the ball field. Lange known on the coast. He was formerly a Port Townsend, Wash., boy, and his appearance on the ball field as a profensional was at Seattle when he played in the Northwest league. An Eye to Business. A slight mishap to an elderly lady, who for some reason had visited an unattractive quarter of Chicago, gave two young men an opportunity to be helpful. The Record tells how each acted out his nature. The opposite pavement was wet, and when the woman reached it she hesitated, made a false step and fell A young man was at her side in an instant and bent over her as she lay unconscious. The crowd gathered quickly, but when he shouted “Stand back!" it realized his earnestness and obeyed were the Bible, Aesop's Fables and | He carried her into a neighboring Pilgrim's Progress. On there three books his literary taste was formed. He might have fared worse. He be- lNeved himeelf the most fortunate boy In the country In having them, | and such good use did he make of these standard works that he could | repeat from’ memory whole chap- ters of the Dble, many of the most striking passages of Bunyan’s tm- mortal story and every one of the fables of Aenop. Another book, borrowed from one of their few and distant neighbors, was Furns’ poems, a thick and hunky volume, as he afterwards de- scribed it, bound In leather and type. book he kept long enough to commit to memory much of Its contents, and | ever after, to the day of his death, some of the fami lines of Scotch poet were ax ready on his lips as those of Shakespeare, who was, In hia opinion, the only poet greater than Robert Burne.J. P. MeCaskey in the Pennsylvanta School Journal. | A New Light Plant. THKOA, Wash. March 14.—On the 20th of March the old electric light plant will be supplanted by a new one, which will be one of the moat | complete of ite kind tn the state, | old wires are being removed saratory to the stringing of new | ones, and all other work is being done #o that when the machinery ar- rives there will be no unnecessary delay in getting ft in operation, Vegetable Monstrosities. | These abnormal growths yet very well understood, ithe not are but of them are the result of disease. It has been believed, however, that ted | horace a few of them may be reproduced ‘This | the | drug store and called for water. “Quick!” he said, ‘The clerk stood behind the counter excttediy twirling his fingers. “Bring the water!" the young man demanded again. ‘The clerk gasped, soda vater?” ‘Vat you vant— Water Rate Dispute. NORTHPORT, Wash., March 14.— The city council, acting under the advice of the city attorney, has or- dered the clerk to draw warrants on the treasury for $50 for each water | hydrant per year, commencing from the time the alleged contract was made or the company was ready to supply the water until the present time, and tender them to the com- pany. The matter, however, stands |in status quo until the arrival of the parties having authority to accept ject the warrants, The differ- ences arising between the water company and the city is over the am company and the city is over the | amount originally contracted for to | be paid by the city for each hydrant, It is believed that the parties having the matter tn charge will come to an equitable understanding, Peculiar Dis 4 WILBUR, Wash, March 14. Hatch, living 12 miles wegt of Wil- | bur, lost 12 head of his beat work horses a few days ago from a pe- | cullar disease, A neighhor also lost several head. A Spokane veterinary surgeon was called but was unable to prescribe, The state veterinary Considerable study has been given | was also asked to attend the horses consider | to the subject of vegetable monstros- but was too busy in the central part of the state, The local surgeon be- Neves he has the disease under con- He it seems to be established that many | trol, but the farmers of the section | hav are afraid that it is some contagious that horses In the country. cept that they often retained some | | characteristics of monstronity en the anomaly was repeated in the | eronsly Hurt. | p Mtl | | WALLA WALLA, Wash., March M4.—Abe Schiffner, a youth of 14, be~ came involved in an altercation with Johnny Kohl, whom he stabbed near | the heart. Young Kohl was passing down Main street, in company with several other boys, when they were accosted by Sehiffner, who address- ed them in strong language. The boys took offense and immediately pounced upon the common — enemy. Schniffer, it is stated, drew a knife from his coat sleeve and began to flourish it with deadly intent. Af- ter cutting one boy in the bask of | the neck he began to direct his biows |on young Kohl. Several wounds were Inflected upon the body of his | vietim before he attempted to es- cape, : Schniffner was captured soon after the incifient, and placed in jail. H | was placed under $100 bonds to | Pear for trial. | At last report young Kohl was out | of danger of any complication from the wound, | Gets the Coyote Scaips. COLFAX, Wash., March 14.—A. L. Drascher, who delivered 2 coyote scalps to the county commissioners | this week, combines business with | Pleasure in t] » destruction of these pests. Mr. Drascher lives west of Bt. John, tn “the rocks,” where the coyotes are numerous and destruct- ive to chickens and small live stock. So bold had the coyotes become that they would chase the dog into his kennel in daylight and then, steal- ing a chicken, would escape. Last fa)! Mr. Drascher secured a | pack of 14 hounds and since Decem- (eral store at about | Klickitat Valley Stirred. GOLDENDALE. Wash., March 14, —The quiet of Klickitat has again been disturbed by the visit of an- other railway man or projector in the person of Capt. J. 8. Coch who is sald to be one of the m efficient steamboat captains of the West, It is presumed the visitor came to look over the recently sure veyed line for a railway from Col- umbus to Goldendale, and a satis- factory examination of the lay of the ground was made by him for the | present in his ride across from |Grant’s by stage. Capt. Cochran | made an examination of the county | records, for what purpose he did not | say. He seemed to be well impress- ed with Klickitat valley and the | town of Goldendale. He was partic- ularly impressed with the broad wheat fields about Goldendale. | ‘Bill Arp’s Golden Wedding CARTERSVILLE, Ga. March 14, BU Arp and his wife, who are Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Smith, cele. brated their jen wedding here to- |night at the “Shadows,” the sub- urban home of the well-known Southern humorist. The occasion brought about a general family re- union, Congratulatory letters were recelved from many well-known per- sons. W. J. Bryan wrote on behalf of himself and his wife that, as the 25th anniversary is the silver and that the ratio of 16 to ishrdlufwyp that at the ratio of 16 to 1, the |golden wedding would develop after 360 years of wedded life, they hoped 'that Mr. and Mrs. Arp would spend the three and a half centuries to | come as pleasantly as thggfirst 50 years, é Frank L. Stanton, the Mouthern poet, also sent hie congraulations, Dr. James Hedley, the lecturer, also sent good wishes. | A Banana Comb | NEW ORLPANS, March 14.—The six leading fruit importing firms of New Orleans and Mobile organized a trust today under the title of the Southern Banana Exchange. They include all of the tmporters except two on the Gulf coast. The members of the exchange say that it is organ- ized for the purpose of reducing ex- | penses , doing away with brokers jand middlemen and arranging for the better distribution of the fruit, ‘They further say that the trust was organized because, under existing | conditions, there was little or no pros fit in the business. raiders A Knit Goods Trust. AMSTPRDAM, N. Y., March 14. * The knit goods manufacturers of Amsterdam and its vicinity have re- ceived invitations to attend a meet- | ing to be held on March 15 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York to the formation of a knit goods trust. It is understood that Philadelphia men are baack of the | movement, and that 56 concerns signified their intention of be- Tt will kill off all the | is stated that the trust will be capt. | tatizea at $50,000,000,