The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1899, Page 1

. Seattle Merchants Jubilant Over the Prospects W ASILING TC BATTLE, THE RATES! War Inaugurated Between the Trans- continental Lines. he sald he saw her money an¢ money. ho atote the ' with tin the safe uid not reslet the temptation of | taking it, with thy et of having & good time and ng a litte of | the world, Me ix a nice looking boy and is dressed in the hetght of fashion. NEW TROLLEY CARS. Three new electric street raitway cars for the Seattle Traction com- } pany have arrived from the at rthern, ‘The cars j over the Great } and th Beattie line Cubans Are Starving. | NEW YORK, March ~The con- dition of Cuba is a reproach to the | American people,” sald William Wil lard Howard, general manager of —poneneiieh ihe Cuban Industrial Retief fund, who arrived from Cuba this morning to purchase agricultural implements. “The government is doing for the poor ef Cuba, and e for the poor of the country districts except to distribute army rations They have neither oxen, agricultural implements nor seeds | NEW ALASKA BOAT. Ganadian Pacific Sells $12.50 Tickets From St. Paul to Seattle. It was stated at the office of the Alaska Steamship company this | morning that the company will p Jably put steamer an the Se attle-Aloska route, to operate in the | Dirigo’s place. The repairs of that | vonnel wilt probably take three i | four months The gigantic rate war between | war. They recogriiee the fact that | a OLD RESIDENT DEAD. thousands of eastern people wiit | a new and Expect Great Prosperity. or the transcontinental railroads, ana their wap te the ecast, and as | which has been predicted for 41! reads lead to Seattle, this will be | itis P he city moat benefited. If the oP. .K Baxter, an old resident of! Weeks past, has at last begun in pomeseekers go to other parte of the peng ‘pe sage site ~ earnest. The clash came last state, Seattle will ati! remain theit| vergay afternoon. Mr. Waxter hna night, and today it promises to business center. If some return! noon a sufferer from dropay for over east, they will carry back moat fav.) , ; 46 born Henec assume, proportions never before orable imoreasions af the city and | 5 “go gg Mtn Mage Rage | realized, For several weeks past | ate. #84 Will be walking advertie | fornia gold excitement broke out Mr. Haxter wan one of the first to Following are the expressions 0f | seek « fortune there. In 186th the Great Northern and North- ern Pacific have been selling) Yanee g Got ar | came to Seattic, which was then but 7 r james demith: “The cut) 4 hamiet, and, liking the natural ad second-class tickets to the Pacific cone will bring many people 294) vantages offered by Puget sound, Northwest for $25 to homeseek- eek meeennrs: t AUat WhAL) settiod here. The native troops will become gen- armeric at @ fixed rate of wages with special rations and bar Isaac r: “It the homeseeckers | Katherine Baxter, and five brothers dian Pacific. and. Soo tine will come and show a desire to en) Wiitiam, John, Samuel, Jacob, ang nounced a west-bound second- be 4 great beneft. In a movement —eecemenannane <eaeemgeemne iet"that"son coseatse seen THE FILIPINOS coast of $12.50, just one-half of will undoubtedly come.” i & good thing for the state, and « T VE can tines. (great many who come from the east Dispatches received this morn) tivoreble. As Beattie is the west- the Great ern terminus, she will be the city | committee, with Col. Smith presid- Northern will not only meet this and the setthere will start er ing, @ drafting « ynetitution on cut, but will go Delow it, per-| doors, keeping her as thet center! in the hands of the natives, except. a it + “Ht wem-eetenetate | 22 the customs, postal and toler: Northern Pacific will next have | immigration, and that te just what! matters and external polities The dmcoltte Wak ba tae poo we ‘Telegrams from other portions of war will then begin in carnest, no matter where the newoomers set- |) mont toward the Americans, I Is m lahetmer: “Tam afratd thet | HM*y that there will be a peaceful Pacific will temporarily reduce there will come to the state a class! enor Lacaon, the president of the the rate to the nominal figure hens foot oan pick ep and stam- native ernment, ifes to retire §0 cents to the coast. pede to new felds. With high rates) arancta, a prominent native plant ate Uehes tae oes Jer. will become president a serious problem. The tide to] hope I am a pessimist, and that) 4 the Pacific Northwest has set in, we want.” | leave: . ° vhs: Laas fast nla the Cane: He loaves a wife and daventer. AN- gage in legitimate business, it will) Andrew Maxtor class fate from St. Paul to the ph ag oy thherggorn oa Ho the rate charged by the Ameri-|. 20nm Schram: “The rate war is will stay, and the result will be most ing indicate that NEGRO ISLAND, March 22.—A that wil! give the beat tmpresston, simple lines, placing the government haps making a rate of $10. The ber b - i phic services. military and police to follow in the reduction. 5 oe ig bana 4 the isiand betoken friendly senti- for rumors say that the Canadian | ba | resumption of all business not wanted. With low rates, every to private life, in whieh event Juan Where the slashi.«g will end is| 0s? Whe come, must have « pur: everything will be for the best.” le E. F. Bogardus: “If people come SHAT TLE J are fitted with the latest electrical }appliances, It is wnderstoood that they will run en the Second avenus | THURSDAY EVEN TE BEHELD ) » MARCH omas Hurke, John i, Allen, and ©, Graves was appointetl to take |charge of the matter, and work on the new dry dock will probably be commenced without delay. Secretary Prosch read several \ lettora regarding Alaskan affairs, among them being one from the ni TY] state executive department segard- |ing the elaims for damages by Am miners in the Atlin country. letter asked for information land promised protection to such of ‘ : | SPAIN'S MALICE the let of mem of the cham) MR, WEBSTER'S THRILLING STORY Jof commerce, they being Olcott Is Helping the Filipinos in Diplomacy. LONDON, March 2.-Convincing | levidence that the diplomatic secret |nervices of pain are placed at the | disposal of the Filipinos, was obtain- | Lonada and Lopes, two Of Kitchener's Attack onthe Der. wishes and the Rosultings Slaughter. | P jed today. Iso, qh onerRem penne ere ener een TAR. PRICE ONE CENT —PIVE CENTS ON ALL TRAINS arden Jools We Hoes... Rakes ... Soter oye Shovels and Spades Garden Trowels SPELGER 1216-1217 Se —:—-EVERYBODY the United States army. One mpecial thing he will require will be a team of five trained Mahlamute dogs, be used in traveling over glac! and tee fletds. had a long secret 1 ad- | After ponference they said they would | to Parts to meet Agonciilo. } j | Filipina envoys, | conference with the official ley | PORTLAND, March 2.—R. Vaten- | viner of the Spanish embasry. the tine Webst the Co-og managing partner ¢ rative Tea Gardens com- pany Colombe, Ceylon, bhe ar- ee eee } rived in this city He was with eneral Kitchener's recent Lon- More Trouble Ahead | expedition ae a spectator and LONDON, March 23.—The refugecs | the terrible battle with | from the northern part of Luson ar mat Athara. Speak- {rived here today, They report that ing of the battle, he sald: the Filipinos in perth Manila are in- “We left a pi called Muttras sympathy with the insurgents, nnd) at 5 p> m and went marching o are cultivating the crops with a view ot furnishing the rebela with their jinte the desert. Perfect alle had | to be maintained, and no lights were | supplies. allowed, not even a pipe. At 4a. m. | ON CUBA of the riting sun began to appear on [They Can Be Obtained in 7 gan to dawn the desert hortson, and we could just discern a countioas number of the enemy running to and fro on the top of their stockade, evidently great ex ment. Our British br; jade numbered 2060 men, under G erat Gattacre, and the Egyptian div- inion. unddr General Hunter, abour Thie City. | 7000. We afterwards found that the! An important notification was re- lenemy numbered 14,000. At SS ceived at the local posteffice today | we advanced to within 8 yards of | from the department at Washington the sareba. It was a beautifully |to the effect that hereafter money |clear morning, the blue sky over- | orders may be drawn on certain post | head betng without a cloud, At 61! ofices in Cuba, The fee charged we approached to within 660 yards, | will be the same as in the United | when the order was given for the | States, Cuba being the first foreign Egyptian artillery to open fire, and | country to whieh domestic fees have then, indeed, we began to realize | applied. i | that the long-eapected battle w A notice was also received that, be- | [imminent ‘The first shell exploded | ginning April 1, ey orders will | within the gareba. It was wonder-| be tnaued on the leony of Britten | ful wight. At the same instant the | Honduras, Central America, Dervishes disappeared from view tn- to their dug-out trenches. For an |hour and twenty minutes the Ery | than artillery kept up a tremend | roar of cannon, discharging in that time 14000 rounde. At 7.25 the gen- eral advance ‘was sounded, the hugiers begs’ | to skreel, and the kettie-drume ‘The inquest over the victims of| beat, and the enemy was approach. | Tuesday night's explosion ix beins | | ed in a most imposing order. | within 40 yards, our infantry open-|oner Sparting at Bonney & Stew: | od fire. Up to this fow shots weee/art’s, Up to the time of going to/ fired by the enemy, and none took | press three witnesses had been ex- | effect, bal the moment our tefantry amined. James Lee, a tteam fitter Sopened fire, we were met with @ hail | was the third witness. He teatifed | of bullets, which at first were dis-|that he moved the botler from the charged too high, but In a few min- | basement to a place under the side- utes began to find their marks, tell- | walk on authority given by plumber | ing heavily in our ranks we ad- | Conckliny Conckling got his per-| vanced. The first man to fall al-| mission from the city to move the ways produces @ thrilling effect in | botler. THE INQUEST. j | ye ove ” and the roads offering the lowest |here to settle, the aplendid climate | Stauners and Nemingtons andre. : Wantages of the place will!” rates will get the travel. ee pamoed + ceive Springfield rifles for arme # Sev-| apeedity be recognized, and they will | Gor smith Is popular, and. ie dis eral conventions are slated for the Pacific Coast, and there will be an exciting time in the railroad world for the next tow months to come. Local Opinions. The Star presents this afternoon the views of several prominent bus- Iness men of the city on the benefits to be derived from the railroad rate start right In to grow up with the stat All classes of people know- ing all sorte of trades wil come, and what we want In the je now are people who will :ork.” W. J. Begas: “The cheap rater will help the state, but how much I would not be able to estima’ Messrs. Spelger & Huriburt: “ The influx of people will advertise Wash- ington, and Seattle in particular, « nothing else could do. Our ind tries will improve in all branche The benefit will be immense.” GOLD HUNTERS WANTED TO FROM ’FRISCO They Go to Alexa Backed by, $10,000,090. BAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-—TNe | fteamer Dora left San Franctact¥or $10,000,000. The diree-| tors ration Are Bernard, J. Stahl of w York, president; M Blask viee-president; Louls| Levison, treasurer; O. H. Savage, Beer ry; Dr. Oscar J. Mayer, direc- tor, the last four named being all| ta of city. Of the first f 106,000 shares, all but 7000 n taken up. A number of offers have been received from par-| ties desiring buy the proporty outrigh. An English syndicate of-! to purchase 51 per cent of the wanted an option for stock and nety days, but the company finally | Jed to refuse all offers and de-| velop the property on ite own r ponsibility | The rewn!t was the fitting out of the exnedition on the Dora, which | was chartered from the Alaska Com- | mercial company Five thousand | dollars’ wort of groceries ‘alone purchased, besides a large| tity of other necessaries suff r six months, Thirty men n the party under contract to} work or ompany’s mining prop erties, the superintendent being J Adams. The steamer also took a lot nining machinery, which was made in this city. She is expected L t the today 7 Hatuya bay property in prob- ably the largest in Alaska, being miles in xtent ght out high and tting in of so large Stan, th the ¢ "i Mr president, | and « + vekhol in the conce will wo to Alaska in| Tune or Ju n a visit of inspece tion A farmer near Noblesville fitty-t years of itn had teeth, and ali fo fen are toothiess., Ind, wo has of hie | money he spent SEE THE WORLD Se He Stole $1250 From His Employer. BAN FRANCISCO, March 2% John T. Moran, aged sixteen, could in the Interest of the Satuya | Ot resiet the temptation to steal | 4 Placer Mining company, | 912% from the safe of his employer, | ing meetings will be held as lately incorporated with| and is on his way back to New York | Atmory State to stand trial for grand lar- cony, A week last Friday Chiet eon received a dispatch from the Sheriff of Herkimer county, N. Y., asking him to arrest the boy, who w heading for this city, The chief detailed Detectives Dinan and Reynolds on the case, and they as- certained that he was a guest at the Palace hotel, They kept watch on the hotel, and early the following Sunday morning the boy was arre: ed as he was going to his room. Lu up in the tanks. The sheriff was promptly notified of the arrest, and he sent @ reply that Deputy Sheriff James Conkling had left to take the boy back. When Moran war searched, #795 was found in his pockets, Me had purchased a bicyet for $40, a satchel for $10, and « pair of shoes for $5 The articles had not been delivered, and the detectives got the store. keepers to refund the money, making & total of $840, Moran accounted for the lows of the other money by saying that while he was asleep in the rallroad depot in Chicago, waiting for the train, some thief stole $190 from hin pocket, and in Denver he purchased a wateh for $40. The rest of the for raliroad fare and personal expenses. Deputy Sheriff Conklin arrived here Satur- day, and on calling upon Moran in the City Prison he said he was will- ing to go back without any fuss. He was attending school in Tion, N. ¥., and in spare yroments hely- ed John A, Giblin, a coal déaler there, to keep his books and run mes mersages. When asked why He} | was taken to the City Prison and playing much tact in his conduct of affairs | factory AT THE ARMORY Evangelist Crittenton Will Hold Sunday Meetings. The Crittenton meetings at the First M. B. Church continue to grow im interest, and hereafter will be held in the main auditorium instead | of the lecture room, in order to ac- commodate th wd At the meeting last Moffatt sang the “# camp- fre” with thrilling effect. Rev, J. M. Dennison read the Seripture les son, and Rew W. HH. Selleck offered prayer. Mr. Crittenton delivered a | gospel sermon | On Friday night there will be a | | night ere special service for young people, and on Saturday afternoon one for the ehildren. ‘The Bunday afternoon and even in the Mr. Crittenton wil! | his labora on next Tuesday night. THE DEATH ROLL Forty-five Guests of Windsor Hotel Perished, y YORK, March 29 forty-five persons lost th the Windsor hotel fire, accordir the figures issued by the police to —At least day. It i believed that all who ea caped have been reported, and that none of the thirty-five missing, which include unidentified bodies, encaped. The workmen expect to ach the elevator shaft today It iw expected that many bodies will be found there. Fragments of other vody were found this mornin It was impossible to determine the sex VICTIM OF THE EXPLOSION | Louis Molla, one of the th men seriously Injured in Tuesday night's explosion, will have his leg ampu tated this afternoon. Tt is thought that owing to his low vondition he will be unable to live through the operation eized the Filibusters. MANILA March 24. ont Rennington arrived thie morning towing two amall steamers and a brig, which were seized on suspicion of being Millbusters. At Horsogon List of Casualties. | WASHINGTON, PD. C., March w. General Otle this orning wired a | ist of the wounded and killed since | March 16. * ‘ Everything there is satia- | Mrs. | an engagement, and so K did here. It raised the heat of our British blood, and the advance was dashing- ly made to the edge of the sareba. which consisted of a thick, thorny er For moment we were hecked In making way through It but as soon thie was effected, | |there wae a tremendous dash made | lfor the stockade, and @ shocking hand-to-hand fight ensued. The} jearnage was awful, Several oMfcers, | as well as men, fell; but In Afteen | minutes the enemy was in full fight jacross the Atbara river, and at 8:30 a. m. the cease firing was rounded | “Three thousand fallen Dervishes were counted within the reba, ant 4000 more were wounded or taken prisoners The Angio - Payption | forces lost 700 in killed = and/ wounded. Mr. Webster carried a camera and took a large ramber of snap shota, many of thom while the engagement wa nder way, and others later on, showing the dead Dervishes lying tn the trenches by hundreds, He also took a anap shot at Mahmoud, the khalifa's general, who captured by a Soudanese regiment THOROUGHBRED # HORSE KILLED. CINGTON, Ky., March 22.—Han- | the great thoroughbred stal- at one time valued at $100,000 this morning by | Hon, was chloroformed order of his owner, The horse had gangrene in his foot, and it was de- cided to put him to death and end his sufferings. Sherman Improv BANTIAGO, March 23.—Jobn Sher. | man passed « K¢ night. He shows! steady improvement and is better today than y time during his Niners. He sleep omfortably and has little or no pain A complet+ recovery is now undoubtedly assur ed. PORT ORCHARD | DRY DOCK At the meeting of the chamber of commerce yesterday the matter of urging. the immediate use of the money appropriated for a dry i ot Port Orchard was discussed President Graves made a few re marks in whieh he ste t there ae ne re withholding the appropriation of $169,000 recently put up for the work of construction One of the officials, It seems, is op- to the building of the dry and has heretofore prevented the expenditure of the money in that direction; but engineers and other in. fluential parties, are not Inclined to agree with him that Port Qrohard 48 .not a.good. phice, «+ | «4 committee consisting of Judge nao for however, | remains | pull off the fight between Fitssim- ltake place on May 25, and the go | ture | Staten fo four hours. Tomorrow it will be! warmer, with south to southweet | | winds, Brings Spotts Remains. VALPARAISO, Chill, March 23. ~— The United States cruiser, with the of Admiral Spotts, who died in Falkland isiand in 1892, has) arrived here. The Badger is on her way to Ban Franciseo, For the Big NEW YORK, Maroh 23. — Julian and Brady met this afternoon and finally decided to accept the offer of the Coney Island Athletic club, to mons and Jeffries The fight will will be twenty-five rounds, Biler ty» act as referee. The puree will be for $20,000, and one-third of the pic- privilege will go to each fighter. THE ENGLISH MAY ACT LONDON, March 2%, —In_ the} House of Commons today the Par- Namentary Foreign Seeretary sald | the government were considering | the proposal made by the United) modus vivendi tn the matter of the Alaskan boundary. WEATHER FORECAST. Observer Salisbury still predicts occasional rains for the next twenty- { MANY SNUBBED One-Fourth of the 400 Invited to the Fair-Vanderbilt Wedding. NEW YORK, March 23, — [nvita- tions to the Fair-Vanderbilt wed- ding, which takes place April 14, ha n inaued be than 100 SEATTLE INKLINGS. The Alaska Geographical assoc! tion will hold a meeting next Tu day evening at the Plymouth Co aregational chureh, Gov. Brady will be one of the speakers, W, Pratt will the recent lest the next meeting chamber of commerce, “It w have been tead yesterday, but matters prevented, ° his re- ative’ sex- of, John port sion at Capt. W. W. Robinson Jr. f ing preparations for Atting Alaska exploration party w’ be sent out by the War de under command of Capt. G of * | Mr. and Mri sheriff of Mara- arrived in the Me came after Malone, Wis. city this defauiter Berg, ex-treasurer of the county, whe is charged with em- herrling $100,000, Berg wax found in Shelton where he has been since last October. Sherif! Malone will return east tomorrow with bis pris- oner Johnnie Smith, a fourteen year | old school boy, has been arrested by Officer G. A. Tripp for burglary. Smith and several of his companions are accused of having entered an old building near the Grant street ratlway and stealing some copper wire, Smith is supposed to be the leader of the gang, and will have a preliminary hearing before Judge Cann this afternoon. ‘The remains of D. W. Jacobs and Alfred Saltiel, the two victims of Tuesday night's explosion, will be shipped east today. Jacob's body will be sent to his house at Quin- cey, It, and the remains of Saltier ‘pawned 30 'AonvG “IED Jo sorgFAWp PIO wad Moana ous ‘AoTwEL OL9NT “wrudiep <wUa ae eMOy HTY OF THes ea TIA je ta be released from the insane asylum She was committed on March 10 by Judge Jacobs in the su- pertor court, but Is now sald to have fully recovered her reason, and will be returned to her mother’s care. John O'firien is in the county jail on & guest of Uncle Sam. He is charged with having a bogus gov- ernment bond on his person, The authorities claim to have a strong cane Viold McFall, the well known pick- pocket, was arrested by OMfcer Sam Hamilton, for disorderly conduct last night. She was before the When | conducted this afternoon by Cor-| courts about two weeks ago on the) charge of pick- pocketing Her case was brought up for tri jury disagreed, and she was set free. ‘The erly ansistant-postmaster at Well- ington, King county, who is = ac- cused of appropriating postage stamps amounting to $225.20, will oc- cupy the attention of the Federal court thie afternoon. The offense in sald to have been committed cn July 5, 1898, when Sisco absconded from the state. ‘He was arrested and brought here for trial, Conway Thompson has been ap- pointed special policeman by Chiet Reed for the term of one month, Sadie Wallace will appear before Judge Cann this afternoon on the charge of robbing J. A. Prairie of $170 tm the tenderloin district Inst night. The case of John O'Rrien, charged with intent to defraud the govern- ment, having in his possession @ bogus government bond, will come up for hearing before United States Commissioner Kiefer this afternoon. O’Brien is said by the police to be a sure-thing man. Willie Plum, a schoolboy, was ar- ted this afternoon as being prob- ably connected with the theft of some copper wire belonging to the Grant Street Railway company, and which was stolen yesterday. The bank clearances today were $170,089.72, and the balances were $54,490.21, Cc. P. Babcock brought suit in the superior court this morning against w. alleged to be due him on a contract to connect water-popes in a house with the street main, The jury rendered a verdict for de- fendants. collect wag Wdward Roberts and wife, Mary Roberts, an elderly couple who own the mouth of a large ranch near Duwamish river, preared this morning before Judge Reid In the sup r court, and asked permission to adopt a little boy named Edwin Osburn Blake, aged seven, who was his mother being tn Jail a Mr. Roberts picked the boy up on the street A ite to wed was issued today for Francis J. Green, age M4, of Ta- coma, and Lillian Lillan, aged twen- ty-six, of St, Paul, Minn C. J. Bddy, meneral agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and 8t, Paul, is in the elty from Portland, Miss Rosalie de Wolf, of Thir- teenth avenue, who was reported in the Star to have fallen on Third av- everal days ago in an eplleptte not subject to that diseare, fit, is Her trouble was merely a temporary fainting spell. ‘The Star gladly makes the correction, The steam freighter Santa Crus, of the Pacific Coast Steamship com- pany, arrived in port today from kagway and way ports, She brought no passengers and no late news, having left Skagway last Fri- BH day Steamer City of Seattle will sail at 10 o’qock tonight for Skagway. She will take out a big crowd, of pas- sengers, and a hinge —— Have Everything for the Garden. & He A. Harrinton, to! hone Subscriptions to Pike 150 -2e, Be 25e, 50e 5Oc . Be URLBUT cond Avonue KNOWS THAT—:— ike Street «:Bargain Street emai aim STAR PAINT CO. WHO PAYS DAMAGES ‘Suits Will Follow the Explosion WHICH OCCURRED OX SECOND AVE. City May Be Liable, as Th Boiler inspector in This City. The boiler explosion of Tuesday night is creating quite a stir among the different city officers. Most of them fear a big eult for damages. ‘The city charter provides for 4 city botler inspector, but does nof provide for his remuneration. i speaking of the explosion today, De- teotive Powers sald: “This is not the first sidewalk explosion that has happened im Seattle. The botler | underneath the sidewalk in front jof the Coleman building blew up about seven years ago, and it the accident had not happened et an early morning hour, several lives would have been lost.” | The boiter used in heating the po- lice station is very dangerous ac- cording to an officer's statement thie |morning. He said: “We have a janfor to wateh it In the daytime, but at night the jailer is supposed to take care of it. If he has a | hospital call, the botler ts left alone | for two or three hours. It is situ- (ated near the sidewalk, and woulr | deal death on all sides if it should explode.” A SEASON OF PROSPERITY TACOMA, March 23.—Judge J. W. Robinson, of Olympia, is over from the capital city today on legal busi- ness connected with the closing ur of the affairs of the Tacoma Land | Company. | His clients, who already are large- ly interested in this part of the country, propose to bid on the Ta- coma Land company property if it comes up for sale in such a manner as to give a fair opportunity for the outside bidders. Judge Robinson was formerly at- torney in this state for the Union Pacific Railroad company, and has recently returned fro mthe East, where he has been for several years. “Olympia, in common with the en- tire state of Washington,” said he, “js about to enter upon a season of solid prosperity. The ralroad from Port Townsend and Port Angeles will surely be bid down by Hood's canal and to Olympia, and thence on |to Portland, giving Olympta two railroads. Unilke Tacoma, our town hae outgrown the notion that it is the favorite child of the Northern Pacific railway, and does not longer care to remain bottled up, with only one road. “With the railroad completed @ fast steamer service will be put on down the Gound, giving through passengers from the east, north and south a choice of routes between the city of Porttand and down Sound cities and British Columbia, either upon the raiiroad at the foot of the Olympics or by Bound steamer, from Olympia. Trade With Ladrones. ‘WASHINGTON, March 23.—Some indioations of the actual trade of the Ladrone islands, whose commer- cial status has been lost sight of in | published statistics about the Bast, is given in figures included in a re- cont report of Chief Frank H. Hitch- cock, of the foreign market section of the agricultural department, on the trade of the Philippines. The | figures, fragmentary at best, are | mostly combined with other islands. It shows that the Imports Into the United States from the Ladrones: and the Caroline islants combined in 1897 had # value of $5047; in 1887, ten years previously, of $8838. The only available figures as to exports from the United States into the Ladrones and the Carolines footed up $8885, What trade the Ladrones have t# naturally mostly with the other Pa cifie Islands, . More Going to Australia. LONDON, March 23.-—Emigration from the British Isles to Austratia ts increasing, but to the United States is decreasing. Official returns for February show that 2928 persons emigrated to the United States, as against 3477 for the same month of last year, Emigration to Canada show no morked change. It is ad- mitted, however, that a considerable part of the emigrants to Canada {1 the end bring A} - 2 he be some 0