The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1899, Page 2

ata | THE SEATTLE STAR, . j e. BH. WELLS & CO,, Publishers. Every afternoon except Sunday FM, WRELA & P. CHLAS Horton. | BUSINES MaNaane | ‘One cent por copy) Hix conte per we oper ty iw copies, Telephone Pike OMees Noo bot + 1GO. Third Aveow Entered at the postoitive nt Seattio, W mst! ton, as seconde la | Do we own the Klondike? This queation forms the headline of “news” item in an esteemed con temporary which prides fteelf upon the accuracy of tts Info’ cy item in question recounts the alles- ed discovery by “five Fintandera” of “the real Russian boundary, marked by aw structed of loose stones, appeared a number of regularly en graved characters.” One might | ignore tommyrot of this character but for the mischief caused by t at Jes of mounds con upon which GEVERAL OTIS. ADVANCES Upon the _ Moving to the Grand Final Onslaught {2 ines Filipinos. MANIA, March 34.-—The forward movement has begun. Gen, HM. G, Otis’ brigade struck-thelr tents this morning, and a general advance ts expected at any time now The bels are hoavily ches opposite our lines on the north. This ts probably the result massed in the] Jot a belief on the part of Aguin- aldo that the biew will be struck at Malolos, Prisoners brought tn say the rebels will make the most des- perate stand, ‘The advance of our troops can lonly be step by step, with resistence [to be expected at every trench HE CHEATED THE GRAVE CRACKSMEN SURPRISED be used for thin purpose I almost { Inexhaustible Hutton hooks, glove fantene al horna, bonnet brush em—in fact, any amall piece of sil for elt toilet table or de }may be use | One of the newent articles tn asilve = for the tollet table ts a box of Mig nilver from three to four inches in enough to hold one f hairpins or two bundles Cuteglane puff boxes with the new cut, which runs diagonally Instead of horizontally, ae heretofore, are quite a charming feature this season Small chariots of bisque, desiened hoof Vio! forget or other short-stemim | ower, are among the novel Charming cases of Dreaden china, jin which a toothbrush fita snugly, are useful as well as ornanental, Jand will doubttess find their way to the toilet tables of many of our de | butantes. | Plates of Hngli#h ware, with well designed ornamentation, and in the enter of each the portrait of one ur naval heroes, are finding many purchasers, Rookwood vases and flower bowls j are attractive, while Jardinieres for | the Easter tily are beautifully de jated and of whape totally diffe | from thone of last year instillation Into the public mind of Be ‘ie White leather oe vrandum misinformation concerning an tm. | i. Perro Pesaran rou Se a ae portant question of tnternationay Farmer Awoke When Placed |While Busily Engaged Blow: (iy. Jasncms gener are quite new politics, We certainiy do own | ina Coffin. jand very quaint the Klontike. The boundary » tween Alaska and the N Territory of Canada from Moun Elias to the Arctic Ocean with the Hist meridian, which has | been surveyed and exactly located by the United States Geodetic and found to intersect the Y¥ river at least forty miles west of Dawson. . | es There will be some temporary dis. | appointment in Seattle if the prom: | ised railroad rate war fal >» ma- | tertaliae, But even if it does not. | the indications now are that many thousands of mining proepectors ant homeseekers will viait the Sound) within the next sixty days. Despite the fact that the so-called Alaska boom haa subsided, northbound travel will continue to be an im portant factor. There will be} Steady development of mining prop: | erties in Alaska with proporticn- ately developing traffic and travel. | ‘The Eastern contingent of home- | Seekers seems to be unusually lari and the Puget Sound country will doubtiess receive many of these peo- ple as permanent residents. ee Although the armor-plate com- Dination was victorious tn the Fitty- Afth Congress, tt was otherwise with | the amokeless powder magnates, | whose bright vista of fat contracts | st runs Surve TEXARKANA, Ark, March Mo James Forbush, a farmer, living 10 miles from Texarkana, was resie eltated after physicians had given him up for dead. He had deen euf- tering from an ute attack of the p. when, on Friday morning, evi of tite passed away. ‘bush was laid out as dead and all preparations were begun for his funeral. The coffin was purchased of Undertaker Gehutt at Texarkana, and last evening when the bedy was raised to be put in the coffin there was © lifelike movement of the face, stowed quickly by the opening and | twltohing of the eyes. Immediately efforte were made to restore life, and Forbush has recov- ed sufficiently to eat a@ little, Al- though he is very weak, he may re- cover. A GOAT WITH A PAST. After Many Trials is Allowed to Land in England. A goat with a history—and a very strange one, too—has just reached Portemouth, where London visitors will, during the summmer, be able to see it browsing upon the gun- wharf la The animal was picked up in South Africa by the Seventh Hussars, and it took kindly to a military life and the men soon made 4 great pet of was rudely closed by a single line |it. The goat accompanied the regi- im the Naval Appropriation law:/ “Purchase and manufacture of | smokeless powder, $1,000,000." with | @ portion of this sum a huge Gev- ernment factory will be erected at) the current year, and by January 1 next the needs of the army and navy for smokeless powder may be supplied | without having to rely upon the re-| -_-_eOoO wu paper gravely asserts English keep little boxes | very fine sand along with their | salt and pepper boxes, and «prinkie| the contents over their food, hav- ing found that the sand makes solids | more digestible by preventing them from compacting in the stomach. | Probably the French have invented | this theory to account for the fact that John Bull ts full of grit. ‘The Ice Trust is meeting with ‘GiMculties. It is Hable to melt away | as spring advances in the East. —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—— Necessity of Ventilation. | The young should be trained in! the importance of ventilation, for | this is one of the most neglected re- quisites of good health. It te esti mated that 2400 cuble feet of pure ir per hour is the need of each tn dividual. In the best hospitals | 00 cubic feet in not considered too! much. By weight one-fifth of this) fe oxygen, the life-giving element. | ‘The same air rebreathed four times will no longer sustain life. The} oxygen has been mostiy absorbed, | while waste matter and carbonic acia gas, 4 deadly poison, have ta ken its place, Were our reome air- | tight we couldn't survive. The at- mosphere penetrates every crevice around doors and windows, the to the law of equilibrium, and w saved from death. But whenev we find members of a family #atlo mevertheless, hollow eyed, liable to take cold easily, and readily, subject! to various disorders, we may be cer- tain of one or two things; either the dict ts faulty, or they do not prop erty ventilate their dwellings A celebrated French physician, Grding himself much depleted by hard work, @id a strange thing—for a Frenchman. He dressed in flannel | from head to foot. put om a ear-| @igan jacket, opened both bis win dows tn winter time, placed @ screen before neh, and slept there, un Giamayet Wy the evolmesm of the at mraaphere By habituating one's self to sleeping with o windows and having the head prote df Gravghts, the tendency to take cold will be eventually overcome, that is, with a proper amount and kind of fowl. Ome must mot thiak that this sub feet of fresh air is too much insint ed upom. It cannot be. Nothing among cattivated people is con tinuowsly disregarded To enter samme chegant puriors is to breathe tie alar of a charnel house. Thea tera and places of public resort in thts respect, filthy beyond desc them. After sitting for two hours In & room moderately well fil Pp one in nerveless, di subject to headache, and lable to @akee cold. The department of p heath whould strictly w 1 Places in which audiences assemble, @s often they become places of con tagion Lightoing Hills a Boy SMRMVEPORT, La. March 24 Yesterday during an electrical storm Hoghtning etruck a” Ys house, killed a boy, and knocked to the floor and stunned several others The lightning also struck a Texas avenwe electrical street car, knock ing the motorman to the platform, where he remained until arsistance arrived. The car was wrecked, | | to be landed wi ment through the whole of the Ma- tabele campaign. Several times it waa under fire, but came out unin- jured, a# also it did from various other adventures. So attached were the hussars to their pet, that they brought It with them when they returned to Eng- land, taking great care to Insure its | safety. But when the transport Sim- la, in which the Hussars were broveht home, reached Southamp- ton, the regiment, much to thetr dis- . found that they and their pet must be parted. The board of ag- riculture would not permit the goat to be landed alive and the Hussars were not willing to have it killed. ‘They tried all their arte to induce the board to relent, but without suc- coms, Things began to look very bad for the goat when Lieut. Col. Stack pole, D. A. A. G., the officer who has charge of the embarkation arrange- | ments, Interested himself in the ani- | mal. The result of this w that instead of the goat's being killed it Was sent out to Bombay and back in the Stmia, trooping voyage to that port. When the Simia again Southampton the animal was still under the board of agriculture ban, and it was Just on the eve of leav- ing for andther tong sea trip when a telegram giving permission for it received from the department. Lieut. Col. Stackpole had it at once removed from the | Simla to another transport, where, much against ite will, the goat was housed for a few nights. ‘The fitting conclusion to this story would, of course, have been that the animal was allowed to rejoin ite re- giment. But the board of agricul- ture decreed against this, The goat had to be taken from Southampton to Portsmouth in a war department steamahip Col. O'Callaghan, the chief ord- nance officer of the southern district |had heard of the animal's advent- ures and at once offered ft an asy- jum jn the gun wharf, But for this it Is doubtful whether the Hussars’ goat would not have ended its ad- venturous history In the unromantic surroundings of a slaughter house But the goat new quarters for several days, and e& promine that it will long oc- y them.—London Mail BRUTAL NEGRO BOY. Kilts a Woman and Fatally Injures Another. UPPPR MARLBORO, Md, March U—Mary A. Clarke, aged 62, was brutally beaten to death, and her sister, Annie Clarke, aged 45, was fatally burt last night at Bowie, Md., village near this place, by John Berry, a 15-year-old negro, who is in jail The deed was a ferocious one, the aged and defi less woman being surprined by the boy and Mterally beaten into a Jelly with a club, Miss Annie Clarke saved herself from in- stant death by promising to give the boy $100 and pledging herself not to vetray him if he spared her life. Inte indignation prevails here and a lynching ts not Improbable. An Absent-Minded General, A ood siory is told of the absent mindedness of the Swedish minister of war, Gen, Rappe. A few days » he put on his uniform to attend a cabinet meeting at the pa but forgot to put on bin chapeau. In- stead he grabbed a stovepipe hat and started off. People stared, but he was unconscious of anything wrong When he efitered the coun- cll room his colleagues stared too, und then they laughed and laughed oven the royal features twitched in- Nuntarily But Gen. Rappe got days of arrest for hin forget . all the same three fuln reached | has now been fn its) ing Open a Safe. ST. LOUIS, March 4.—Somewhere in St tevere bullet wound in his vide. He jis one of @ pair of safe blowers. In Cotumby the south of By Sehmidt, the night marshal, ts the hero of the hour, He surprived the | cracksmen while they were doing a job. and saved the Celumbia r mill, which also does a banking business, and {te depositors, the lows of about $25,000, the contents of the wate. Marshal Schmidt was walking on | Main street about 2 o'clock yester- day when he heard the dull report about 100 yards distant, Marsha’ | Schmidt hurried to the mill. Look- | ine through the window into the of flee he saw two men on their knees, dritting a hole tn the safe. Marshal Schmidt thought fast. He decided ta shoot both safe blowers. Taking aim, hia revolver. A ball crashed through the window. Another and another followed sult, and when the smoke cleared away neither saenaane | could be seen. Intense excitement was caused by the shooting and in a few minuter Marsha! Schmidt waa reinforced by half « hundred excited citizens of Columbia. The mill doors were opened and the search for the crackemen revealed only an open window on the side of the house by | whieh they had A trail of blood led from the room outside the office through the win- dow and for several hundred yards in the direction of the river, The crackamen were traced to the river, where it was found they had stolen @ skiff, Later, they were seen row- ing to Carondelet. | Am examination of the work done by the crackemen proves that they are not amateurs. They had used nitro-glycerine and had blown off| the outer door of the vault and two of the seven plates of the door of the safe inside when they were din- covered. Three of the safe deposit boxes had been forced out and de- molished and several more had been tampered with. The safe inside the vault contatned about $25,000. ‘The safe deposit boxes which the cracksmen opened contained noth- ing of much value. POSTAL CLERK | IN TROUBLE which was making a/ PITTSBURG, March M—W. J. Fitzgerald, a clerk In the distribut Ing department of the Pittsburg post office since 1895,, was arrested by PostofMfice Inapector W. W. Dickson, charged with stealing moneyed tet- ters. He was caught in the act, and, it ts understood, made a full con foasion, though he could not say how much he hae purloined. This makes the fourth arrest in the same department within a year and the fifteenth in the Pittsbure postoffice singe 1891. Fitzgerald has been under suspicion for three or four montha. ——E The Caroline Islansers. As « rule the Caroline telander tn fairly honest. Once lay his suspl- ciona to rest and win his confidence, and he will prove himself a faith- ful friend and an excelient host, court@ous and just In all his dealings as T have good cause to know. On the other hand, when dealing with he calle into play a tal- lent for intrigue, lying and ehicanery | that would delight @ Machtavelll. In | his private Ife he Ia unselfish, tru ie nd economical—a man of ca ful, small habits. Like all folks of Melanesicg admixture, he t* lable to fits of daxgerous sullennens when he conniders his-eeii alighted in any way. He in inelined to be revenge- ful, and will bide his time patiently | until hia opportunity comes. Yet he is not imp! |econeiliation @ noble and y | thing. There is a form of etiquett | to be observed on these occasions— |@ present is made, fered, © plece of ugar cane accept- ed by the aggreived party, honor in satisfied and the matter ends. The | Ponapenn ts a stout warrior, a hardy and skillful navigator, fisherman, a [carpenter and boatbuilder, somewhat jof an astronomer and herbalist, but a very second-hand planter an | dener. | Their manner of life ts simple jand hardy. ‘They go about in all | weathers, rain sunshine. The | men's dress consiste of a long native | kilt or girdle of split cocoanut Ma- | ments (kol), the upper part of the | body generally bare. The women used to wear a sort of deep petticoat (ikau), woven of the fibers of the tree called nim. Nowadays, greatly to the peril of thelr health, they have adopted European clothes, Th | they keep on thelr basks, whether | wet or dry, which induces all man- [ner of pulmonary allments. | omatigpaipeesbsiionsiayacesinrens | The Easter Offering. ‘The favorite Easter offering for this season, instead of the regula- tion card of last year, 18 some tiny bit of silver fastened with white or lavender ribbon to a lerg oblong card, bearing some pretty wish or verse suitable for the season The list of silverware which may Louls there is a man with a/ about ten miles to! t St, Louis, Jonn 1! of an explosion from the Btar mill, | pulled the trigger of | Fall vases of op ent glass are most appropriate for the long stemmed, graceful Easter lily, while an be no gift quite se appro a highty ated by every one as the royal Easter lly taelf, pprec AMUSEMENTS. “Spider and Fly” |gagement at the ‘Third ay | morrow evening. The usual matine will be given tomorrow | Janet Waldorf engagement at the theater Bunday night 1 i | | the en nve to ne a Week's Third avenue QUEER HAPPENINGS. An Indianapotia woman wants a divorce wet aside on the ground that there was no cround, as her hus |band, a drummer, Kissed her 509 | times on the day he wa home. A Pennsylvania coal miner was [up in a snowdritt pall in his hand. The pride of the life of the late Mre. Elizabeth Skeats, of London, wan that she was the mother of #ix policemen. A Chicago magistrate recently fined a man 825 for being a liar, He wae probably from St. Louta. The authorities of Welling Kan., proposed to give the name of | jail to that Inatitution, and it was jealled Horton jail, because Mra. Horton was the fret She proved Bhe proved to be innocent, and now | she is suing the county for damages lon account of the jJail'e name | An ol clock given to a Warren, Him, academy to be used before the | elass in physica to demonstrate the jaws of the pendulum, refused tu run, and when the teacher got Into its works he found a roll of bi amounting to $242. clogging chinery. | A Vineland, N. J. girl was fright- | fully burned last week by the ex | plosion of a coffee pot boiling on the ove A pet fox tn a West Chester, Pa., | bird store, upset a gue stove and jasphyziated @ number of the birds | A tot of Bourbon county, Ky., cat- | tle went Into a tobaceo barn for |wheltor during the last snow, and |twenty of them died from eating the tobacco. A Pineville, Ky., barber has this an displayed: “It you don’t come | in and let me sha you, lam going to close my shop and go to hocing corn.” | iets | A Massachusetts farmer in being sued for sneezing so loud on the |public highway as to cause the | plaintiff's horse to run away. Three young women in various |parts of the country had all the | hair burned off the heads last week lby the accidental ignition of the celluloid comba they wore An Indiana man, cighty - two years old, hanged himeelf last we with a clothesline. A Michigan legislator proposes to make liquor drinkers pay a license of $5 per year for the privilege of drinking | A New York man advertinen that he hes the addresses of 20,000 red- headed women. | ‘Twelve thousand dozens of ees are shipped every week, It naid, from Siloam Springs, Ark, It would mean ruin to close the hatehwayn of that town. A St. Louls man committed sul- elde last week by putting a rubber tube into a barre! of whisky and filling himself beyond the limit | Aa Kentucky farmer noticing a tree on his place filled with some- thing that looked like black fruit inspected it more closely and dis vered that hundreds of blackbirds limbs. he | were frozen to th | Mr. Daggett, member of the Wis consin legislature from Bear ek has introduced a joint resolution to {appoint a commiasion to draft laws preventing women from tight lacing Charles Kraus of Cincinnati ts su ing for divoree on the ground that his wife never let him know she had a ¢ eye until after they were married. | A mouse threw a woman's prayer meeting at Chester, Pa., Into wild disorder one evening last week by running down the aisle In Cumberland county, N, ¥., the farmers are catching crowa and | wellings them to trap shooters, Iola, Kan., gave a big dance re- cently to ral funds with which to buy a cork leg for one of her indig- jent citizens who was shy a leg. ib De A @ knots, and If we ean believe the | | which i# sald to have recently mad at} frozen to death last week standing | with his dinner | the first prisoner confined In the new | the ma- | nr f | jthe vensel—only 44.6 tons) Turbinia of 1 knots; and with them have 16 the destroyers, with #1 4 knote. | The war | cloarly evident for 4 cruisers, wh } »Inereane of speed is battieshins and (Object to Removal of Small- | armo: re pox Patients. |now reached the point of knots LAREDO, Tex., March 24.—The for the Jean d'Are and the new ‘ erfuls, and 21 knots for the projecte work of removing #malipox patients A aie 109 to the t houwe under direction | "Tp we « Se eaaeae taist (ineun ahene jof Btate Health Officer Blunt w ar b M* | records It must be very evident that gun this morning the te ney in toward stil higher After ten had been removed the | oe etn ah in undoubtedly th: jofficers encountered at Hast Mata. | *Ppecas &n moras street a mob of South ind ' Mexicans, who menaced them In eee: See eee ae coped: trae: such a manner that the chicf of po | ty Seen ago the #7 whieh at Hee was telephoned for Marshal Joe Barthetow and Assist Mt Marshal Nye Idar hurried to the common would t been deem incredible, and while it does not pountble that there should ly 15 16 ra an ggg My oe zd increase in the future, no | ds has been ma mmaible by fired on. Idar was knocked down! the improved economy of the ma Ons wacevelly Deawen about he Ness | csesey and reduction of weight j Bod Fenian ae nets. DRhs ice UP being an important element in the his friends, managed to eacape. ie SOR HOP About twenty shots were fred. a | '®*teF doxen arrests were made and the re So aeoeret MARRIED IN ‘The health officers resumed thetr | work, but were soon met by another | | mob of 500 or 600 Mexicans, many of | them armed, As they could not con- tend with this force the health om- ors desinted and Dr, Blunt opened — telegraphic communication wit WICHITA, Kan, March %4.—Miss Gov, Sayers, Asa result he was in-| Minnie May Wil and Thomas ntructed to ail on the United States | Greenman were married at the junc- military authorities at Fort MelIn-| ture of the Oklahoma and nsas jtowh in the name of the governor |jines near Caldwell yesterday. Mies for such assistance ax was needed, | Wiison ix an Oklahoma girl and she and later he was informed that the war department telegraphed author f her territory an and he re- refused to marry ow Greenman is a Kan ity to use troops. ‘The Mexicans are | fused to marry out of his state, Th much excited and express contempt | compromise was arranged by DMisa | for the negro United States soldiers. | Wiison standing In Oklahoma nnd Green man in Kansas when they Miss Fair's $40,000 Ring yo: uni the officiating clergy- The Chicago Journal says of Mine |" standing on the line, The cou- Virginia Fair's engagement ring: |! Will reside in Kanaas. | Tt comt $40,000, This ring was pur- | a on mee chased in Paris, where it had beer PLEASANT held some time unsold, on account lof ite value, Tt was bought by W. | K. Vanderbilt, er. An emp firm that sold {t came }as his apectal charge. It | | the great solitaire di 1 fon six goid prongs, rising from a) perfectly plain gold band of medium | | width, A feature of the setting is a | Wiil Fall. row of little diamonds just ur six prongs. The diamond is It is not likely to happen just yet) that when Miss Fair wears it # jawhile, but many astronomers are to have a hole cut in her glove. It | prepared for the fall of the moon at | t# mo valuable that she never wears | a distant date. it om the street, but only when he It is probable that eventually the contains dfives im ber carriage. It im about | moon will be drawn well within the ype tnch in diameter. She keeps it in | «phere of attraction of the earth. At a powder box. This method of keep- | present she is just far enough. | tainly be a terrife bump, and the) break up. The entire [that in this way the diamond ts | whirl round and round us as well | | parts dah arlene | T0 SPLINTERS rives, and she is drawn far into the) } earth, for her attraction is, < | than another, and the danger Is in- RUSHVILLE, of Jesee Menley's home at Carth- badly jolted. at 4 pm. The crib was knocked | ty consideration and her consequent listurbed. The little one was found | i) entirely wipe Russia and Ger- the bolt | wor . and England | aecious tor two pours. With al rid will be altered, and England ing it is a new idea. It ts thought | be kept In tow, so to speak, and to kept whiter and in better condition. spin herself. —— But when the inevitable time ar- attraction radius, she is likely to be | pulled right down and fall onto the | |The Child's Cradle was Torn “rss. much weaker than ours. he | | jim in more danger of thie at one thne | By Lightning. } jereasing gradually but surely, It} | Ind., March 24.— | may be 10,009 or 15,000 years yet, but | The peculiarities of a thunderbolt were shown today in the destruction ane. A little babe wi lecping: mde It im caleulated that, taking the jeradie when the house wan struck | ost dangerous epoch of the year in- into a hundred splinters, but not a} n position, she ia likely to fall on the hair of the litte infant's head was | PO Oe ee part of Europe, and | sleeping calmly on tte bed on the man | y from the map. Th |floor, where it fell when struck bY | ung ail sorte of horrors will occur, | Mr. and Mrs. Henley were badly shocked, and Mra. Henley was un ‘ | will probably be more or less im- a complete wreck, and was cut in twain by the bolt. It seems almost a miracle that any of the occupants | , escaped with their lives CHINESE JUSTICE. | In Canton, China, every two weeks | there is a public execution of erim- inals in one of the market places. Alex Kenasen, in a recent lecture livered at Krefeld, referring to a horrible scene he once witnessed— | ithe cutting to pleces of a poor girl whose crime consisted of playing - with a ball which accidentatiy hit | cavalry man; “a her mother on the temple and killed | UP your men In or her. The foreign consuls tried to | *iry I'll prove it fave the innocent girl told| ‘The challenge was accepted, and that they had no busines« to meddic | the cavalrymen charged down upon with Chinese justice. | the citizen soldiers, who awaited on them in the usual way. | . regular cavalry cavalry can HUMAN EYES. | a large two-story frame building, ta| | A battalion of volunteer infantry dritiing in a field when a regi-/ | ment of regular | ‘Phe colonel of ca Iry halted his | etting into conversation with the | olone lof the latter, he criticized the drill unfavorably, especially their want of steadiness, ‘The volunteer colonel was a flerce fellow and he cried hotly: “My men are as steady as any regiment of regulars.” 4 if you'll draw der to receive cav~ inches, jand then, at the word of command, pull up short. The. volunteers, however, lost their saw the huge ‘erfectly Preserved Made In- nerve when they to a Heokiee horses thundering down upon them Mrs. William E. Curtis, the wife|and showing no sign of stopping of a Chicago journalist, probably | when a few yards off. They fed, all but one man, who remained on hia knee, bayonet leveled. His colonel, enraged at the oth- ers’ fight, approached the hero, and, aid most unique necklace which was exhibited at » World's fair. The neck sed of three rows of porsesses In existen the Chic: in a perfect sta of | tapping kim on the back, preservation, polished and mounted “You are the only brave man in in ge ‘The eyes were procured | the regiment. You scorned to run from Peru, where the are bur “Yes, sir,” ga “4 the hero, “I had fut stuck in a hole, or J should have waited. and the hot, | my tively than | not preserving ied In a witting posture acts more effec ing fluid in miner A New England o them. A mummy can there be ob tained for about $5, and the trowbled with a pain in his b alone are much cheaper. Poll and one day last week he went to a doctor about it. The doctor look- and mounted as they are in this necklace, they make a very striking |ed him over and took four inches < ornament. Mrs. Curtis wore the|kaife blade out of him. He had necklace once only, and It was much| deen stabbed in the back | ol before and the blade had br admired until her friends were in formed that they were petrified hu- |e” of. man eyes and not gems that were ee Mine pe were burned and set In, when the admiration turned eve! oO o death in Kentucky to revulsion. ven frozen to death Kentuck | during the recent biizaard. TWO STATES » | PROSPECT who sold, and every one cise seemed ver | anxious to get In on the deal, (Dur- give oe ling the last month pile drivers hav. Astronomers Say the MoO point joberis | tions | stoner’s office. | when she does fall there will cer- | and the fallen moon will probably | name begins with an Mt imate of the | With another, | Trust in America. alry rode by. | Bradley-Martins (" | charge to within a few feet and even | ed to the peerage was Baring. of infantry at full gal lop | could the Khalifa without an “rr” to ALASKA |S RICH IN FISH Commissioner's ReportShows a Remarkable Output. The fishing interest aska te ing in importance ¢ year, cording to the rep f the United |beon ianued. ‘The output of the an waters has eased trom | Alaw j tr ns inlet salmon atively Heht, aka, in }than a In the reg fishing ut ir salmon pach Aw the there jand from one locality | bein rked to their fu | ee thone Ww , above F William sound and | importa Chignik and Kadine | proved by far : rich fizhe ing grounds in Alaska. ‘The output lof the former amounts to over 8,000,« 009 casex ‘The er total for all the posts | taken durin wenty years a vunts | to 7,608,858 canes, cach containing $$ s. ‘This, with the 145,« almon salted in the represents 600,000,009 wen from the waters tone-pound ¢ 000 barrels 9: period, pounds of fish ¢ ot Alaska market value of the canned and salted products has been cwtimated at a litth er $32,- 000,000. The action of the Pacific American Fish company in buying forty-six trap locations on the lower Sound seomingly acted on the fishermen as the discovery of a remarkably rich Klondike mite. All the locations bought by the company cost an en- ormous price, but all turned out well, It was a bonanza for the lucky men, pounded piles in all along the shores ound from Anacortes to Many of the loca- re in places which can never be remunerative, and the locater ts simply out about $200, the minimum cost of a trap location. The man- ager of one of the large companies estimates the probable loss on trap Jocations this year at over $200,000, The new fish law passed by the legislature bas effectually stopped the buying of trap licenses, and only one application has come in during the past week to the fish commis- The former license comt wan $25, but it is now $50, which bas proved somewhat of a damper to wildeat fish locations. LETTER “Rf.” if You Have It In Your Name You are Lucky. If you want a recipe to be rich, to be remarkable, to play a role that will bring you prominently before public notice, have a name with an “rin It. If more than one, all the better, and if it comes at the begin- ning or end of your name, better still. If it isn't your surname have of thes sit in your Christian name, but at all lecosts have an “r, waves| The richest man in the world ts |Mr. John D. Rockefeller, whose ‘ and ends ‘This fortunate indi- Standard Ot He is a shining light in the world of wealth, to whom ordinary millionaires compare vidual controls the —_————$$—————— Hero of the Regiment. | as rushlights to a petroleum light. The United States are, of course, the happy home of millionaires, the est known being the Astors, the * linked to “rr’*) The name of and the anderbilts |men to watch the volunteers, and | Rothschild is a synonym of wealth the porld over, and the late Baron Hirsch runs a good second. Mr. Hooley made up for the absence of “r” in his surname by one In each of his Christian names, Ernest Terah; while at the time of the South Af- riean boom the chief millionaires were Messrs. Rhodes, Robinson, | “I do not think #0,” retorted the | Wernher and Barnato. But let us leave weath for fame. The first name that occurs is that of Lord Herbert Kitchener, whose appointment as sirad brought him | both fame and fortune. Much of the credit of the great English victories | in the Soudan belong to Lord Crom- er, whose name before he was rais- How with, withstand two with the } Diess himself men so richly endowed lucky letter? If the names of prominent poll- ticlans in England are examined the reign of the “r” is even more pro- nounced, The premler is Robert Ce- cll Lord Salisbury; the leader of the house of commons, Mr. Arthur Bal- four; secretary for Scotland, Lord four of Burleigh; for Ireland, Mr. ald Balfour; home secretary, Sir Hey; colonial secretary, M hamberlain; first lord of the admir- alty, Mr. Geo! chen; the r secretary of war and pr eroy of Indi a4 Curzon; present war under secretary Rrodrich; lord president of the coun- cil, the Duke of Devonshire (form- erly Lord Hartington); lord privy seal, Viscount Cross; president of the board of Mr. Ritchie. prime ster of this coun- try from Mr. Spencer Pereiv to | Lord Salisbury has lacked an ‘ To brighten the inside of a coffee or teapot fill it with water, add a small! plece of soap, and let it boll about 45 minutes. Growing Speed of Steamships | : After the wonderful record Wampanoag in 1868, when ast d over 17 knots for six hours, the | od of war vesacis fell off for a In this store you always find a selection and assortment of values time, and did not again become of | for much note until the performance o the Kameralda, built by the Arm-| 0 #4 OY ~~ strongs in 1882. That ve made over 18 knota and inaugurated the | We can unhesitatingly boast that the biggest values in present era of high speeds, giving us| the triple serew flyers maar LONG PANTS SUITS Minneapolis of the Unit tater | navy , each of which held the record | Are to be found in this store, Mothers in particular know. this for a time at 22,08 and 7 knots, | from experience We can point to our large patronage tn this until another Armstrong vessel, th urtment with some pride. 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