The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1899, Page 3

‘Pacific Coast Steamship Company for San Francisco The company's ele- | want stoamahips Queen, Watla Walla, "4 and Umatilla leave | Beattlc & a, pn. via Port Townsend and Victoria, March 5, 10, 16, 20, 90, April 4, 8 14, 19, 24, a May 4, and every Aftth day there. after Leave San Francisco For Seattle 10 a. m., via Victoria and Port Townsend, March 3, 7, 12, 17, Apri! 1, 6 11, 16, 2 , May 1, and every fifth day thereafter, FOR ALASKA elegant steamships Cottage id Al-Ki leave The City, City of Topeka a Beattie # a. m. Ma 31, April 5, 10, 15, 2, & and every fifth day thereafter, | Por folder. The company reserves the right to hange, | . | without previous notice, ‘= steamers, sailing date, and hours of satling. | J. F. TROWBRIDGR, | Puget 84. Supt.. Ocean Dk. Seattle, | Uptown Ucket office, G18 First av, Seattio; Goodall, Perkins & Co, Gen, | Agents, San Francisco. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. j Star Real estate transfers jcounty auditor's office further information obtain fied tn the yeaterday | were Cc. T. Conover to Henry Dickens, lots t and 2 bik M, G. N. add. to 1, replat of M. P. cemetery. Chas, F. Whittlesey, county treas- ° lurer, to W. Et. Taylor, lot 3 bik 58, D, T. Denny's park addition | ©. FL Whittlesey, county treasur- jer, to H. C. Taylor, beginning 450 feet w and 296 feet n of center of aoc M4, thence nm IKI feet, thence & 181% feet, thence # 181% feet, thence | w 241% feet to beginning: part of |ecc 36 tp th r 3 e; tax deed | C. F. Whittlesey, county treasur- er, to H.C. Taylor, 1,23, 4 and ‘Containing all of the Greenfield to Aaron A. Taubeneck | 2, | 5 bik #: tote 1, 2, 3 and 4 bik 4 and or }lote 1, 2, 3 5 and 6 bik 5, Wash-/ Tne Jington Piace add.; tax deed | Charlies Greenfield and Alida A.| na jand Herman Taubeneck. lots 1, / 2. 4, 5 4, 7, & 9, 10 bik 26 in Abert dy estate add.; $250. | Ole Nelson to W. L. Forrester, nw j of lot 17 bik in Gilman park; Cris ra ’ | San Francisco Bridge Co. toAtian- tic Guif & Pacific Co., lots 2 and bik 28 also beginning #e cor of lot | 2 bik 368, thence n 11 feet w 92 fee to inner harbor line, thence # along last named 12 feet to ew cor of lot 2, thence ¢ 907.22 feet to the place of beginning. being 6.1832 of lot 2 bik 368; also beginning ne cor } lot 5 bik 388, thence 2 feet, thence Form, Cue AA [ne along ast named line 32-19 fect to nw cor lot & bik 368; all of lots | 2 and 4 bik 829; also beginning at ne Adapted cor of lot 5 bik 229, thence # 160 feet, ee needs of a thence w [34.918 feet, thence n 160 people. average man feet, thence ¢ 228.91 feet to place of woman likes to swiftly | newinning. same being all of lotr of the |5 and 6 and 2-3 of lot 7 bik 329; also Eas hour | Sesinning sw cor of lot 2 bik 279, _ "| thence 11.027 feet, thence @ 238.9 that follows the evening meal, and then furh attention to other iat |S is et one een bate The publishers of the THE | same being asses of lot 2 bik 329; TAR this fact and have | $16,400.86; quit claim. Charles A. Gallagher and Mary L. the paper 30 that Gallagher . Frederick ‘Gehwen, let |e bik 12, Biden add. No. 2 $1600. | Charles H. Raker, as receiver of the Directness of Statement sre. Serna tank. ‘wo De: | Witt C. Eiltis, lots 17, 18, 19 ana 20 | bik §, Francia R. Day's La Grande An) add., quit claim, $575. Ward T. Smith and Helen 1. breezy style of para-| smith to . E. Lundberg, lot 4 bi increasing favor in | 16 In Latona add., $100. these days, as opposed to the old | George F. Aush and Elsie J. Aush time fashion of penmertnas twits. | 2° Soman S Regers, let fin bie ,, 3, Union 5 s oul and editorial utterances. |“ soore Investment and Morteage HE STAR will have leompany to M. Victor Staley, lot & bik 15. and lot 2 bik 24, Brooklyn All of the Local. HE LOVED AND kaart SHOT HER TOO infatuated School Boy Kills His Teacher. SALISBURY, N. M., March 28.— Frank Bailey, aged 17, shot and f. tally wounded Miss Harriet P cott, his school teacher, thie after- noon. Bailey has been paying muc attention to bis teacher, who had told him that he must stop calling on her. Telegraphic News Don’tdoubtit forone minute. The 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 it. In the meanwhile) 2m ye eee tend wnat please remember thatnews “‘tips’’| t) the door and asked to sen her telephoned to the office (Pike 150) | Both times he was told that she w will be much appreciated; alsojnot in. This made Bailey angry subscribers, It only costs | and he told her that he would see |her or know the reason why. Bits | After school this afternoon Bailey To secure The Star for went up and spoke to her. She made him an answer that he did not like. | Taking @ pistol from his he |fired one shot into her cheat 1 the heart. She was taken into h home, where she died shortly after- ward. Bailey made his escape and has not been found. THE ROBBER SHED TEARS When He Thought of What a Foc! He Had Been. CHICAGO, March 28.—James Me- Gourney, the young man who held up a clerk in Yates’ drug store, at ONE MONTH aeatins 'Forty-fourth and Halstead street, ' land secured $2 last Friday night, shed many tears while describing his experiences as an amateur high- wayman. MeGourney, in his con sion to Capt. Lavin of the sto | yards district, claimed that he b TRY IT Hlonged to a family of « standin in Keokuk, lowa, He nid that he leame to Chicago with a pocketful of money, which he spent in secing the sights. When he found himself penniless he studied the newspaper of street robberies and burglaries and concluded to try his Juck as a holdup. MeGourney's con- | feasion includes Reltz'’s saloon hold- | up at No. 460 f pesevene Sa = Fass 5 | drug store, Thirtieth stre | he secured $25, and two attempts at ates’ drug store, the second of the | attempts resulting in the termina | tion of the young man's career as a Chicago robber. The prisoner denies having 4 confederate, RATIONS FOR THE SEATTLE STAK. exeltedly am they entered, and as the get inside the woman in louder | tones began to upbraid her com panion, Suddonty he drew back and THE CUBANS |Will No Longer Be Paid For By the Unitod States. WASHINGTON, March 28—Con. | Hrooke has caused to be printed and promulgated an tmportant order in | Cuba, Which sets forth that after | Apri 1 no rations will be tmued to | destitute Cubans by the United States, ‘Thereafter the rations must | be paid for out of the revenu island, By direction of th retary of war Gen, Bro: transmitted this order to the com mandera of the various departments [of the tHland and is trying to give the order, which i of great import- ance, the widest publicity The ration to be supptied will eon- Aint of the following components to each 100 rati Forty pounds of rice or 50 pounds of beans, 25 pounds of dried beef, fish or bacon and four pounds of soap. Ratlons for me than four persons shall not be in sued to any one family, The rul Will be followed of issuing one ra tion only to each two children under 4 years of age, The necenaary sup plies of food will be purchased by the commissary from clvil funds led for the purpose and will be 1 on written requisition from the civil governor of the province, who will sign receipts therefor, TO AID THE POO The Charity P collection of funds for the Organization in Beattie ts peressing in an encouraging man- ner, Miss M. L. Poster, who ts sol- felting, wtates that about #500 has been given so far by citizens, It is entimated that $1000 at least will be required to properly conduct the work of the society. The office is at Sullivan block, RECTOR NOT 10 BE CAUGHT Rev. Dr. Campbell Fair, dean of the cathedral at Omaha, Neb. when rector of the largest church at Grand Rapida, Mich., was requested to baptise a child in the private home of one of the wealthiest mem bers of the congregation, notwith janding the law of the Episcopal lehureh, which prohibits baptiam tn @ private house, save where the per- fon to be baptized i# in a state bor dering on death. |. When Dr. Fair arrived at the home, supposing he was to baptize a sick child, he was more than as- tonished to find a moat elaborate | order of arrangement laid out. The spacious rooms were filled with rela- | atives and friends. and « splendid | | repast at the hands of a caterer! | awaiting the conclusion of the cere- mony : { When the infant was introduced | Drimming over with vitality, Dr. | | Fair took in the situation at a siance and decidedly instantly upon | his course. He announced to the assemblage that he was abont to bave an entire evening servi at was hie custom when « large con- xregation was present, and he mt through the whole service of minutes, including the reading the two lessons. After this he cour: teously and ipildly informed the as- tonished audience that it was like | wise his custom to take up a cot lection. Then the bouncing baby was produced and baptiam was duly administered. It was the only child that Dr. Fair baptised in that fam- ily. THE DIRT FLIES. |Two Kitchen Explosions in the City. i “Ooch! Jinnie O'Flaherty, out to the fince “Arrah, now ther?” “Mather enough! Shure, an old pelican of a thramp was interviewin’ The Star last Friday, an’ givin’ yer kitchin’ eacrets away to the public!” “Ugh! the baste! Show me the paper! OVll go down an’ shlander suit the thramp fer damage “Jist see thot’ Rade what the spaipeen says about ye! Here, lis ton, I'll rade it: ‘On Queen Anne hill I found aiveral foine lookin’ houses foine on the outside, but, oh my! Ot looked through the winder of one kaitchin at 6 a. m., an’ saw the fo male prinident there take her black paws out of the schrub bucket an’ plunge thim, without washin’, Into the biseult dough.’ ” “Shure, its me thot he manes, but where is me name? You did not come what's the ma- I'd fergotten to luk fer yer it's not here! But, thin, all en Anne hill will know thot It manes you, Gail in wit yer shlander suit at woonce, or the misthr will be firin’ ye wid name of the maids on Qu ‘n notice en’ no riccominda- “OV do it. Ugh! How ol'd loike to git me hands on thot thramp. Yo'd nee me shake the deceft an’ the divilment out through the holes in his clothes, until he'd not weigh 50 pounds!” Keene %-Place on Queen Anne Hill. Enter Mistress with a Star in her hand “Bridget, here's an awful kitchen scandal in the Star. Queen Anne hill girl accused by a tramp” “Ooch, murther, Ma'am! Whot is it?” “silence not a word! Queen Anne Hill girl aceused by a tramp of chasing two family cate and « fresh beef roast down the alley!” “Rut It wasn't me, ma'am!" “Who sald it was you? I'm begin ning to suspect! Wasn't there ash enon that beef you cooked last ‘riday?” “Ugh, no ma'am; I washed ‘em all oft!" “Ah! You dia? Then you did chase those two cata of mine with the meat?” I mane—no—yie—murther! = 11" feather thot thramp! Good day, ma'am I wouldn't wurruk fer the lotkes of any longer, eve ft ss a day. Niver! I'm off at once he idea! Belavin’ such stories about an honest, respectable girrul!" How She Disciplined Him. A man and a woman, bot well dressed, entered the postoffice from the Park Row side just before mid | night last night, They were talking | | which he | forty tons of coal eve hit her in the face, with hin fat, The force of the blow Knocked her down, 9 man started to run, but she caught him, He tried to get away but #he clung to him, seratehing and clawing his face, Firat his neckties and then hia collar gave way, Th his walsteoat buttons flew all ove avery time the man put out bia hand to ward off a hlow ne w the woman hit him Bhe was about to put the finishing touches on her undoubted victory when the watchman at the south end of the building, attr the wouffle, started for the ¢ the run, The man heard hi ing, and grabbing the woman he dragged her out of the butlding y walked quiekly through Mail et to Park place, peace appar- ently restored, the man doing his beat to repair the damage he had sustained York Tribu: Smoked While She Died CANTON, ©., March 28,—Tecause her lover would not marry her, Misa Gustie Tuck, this city, who had wealthy relatives, rmitted wui- cide in @ moat dramatic manner, She swallowed a deadly done of carbonte acd, told a friend what she had done and then eat down and amc & cigarette while the poison killed her WILL THERE BE A BIKE TRUST? Dental ef the Report That Has Been Formed. CHICAGO, March %.~The rumors which ¢ fr New York of the bieyele trust by Chicago Spalding left ome days ago w formation o persiatently a dented are manufacturera A. G for the Eastern city and it was said he the combination. panies which b their plants wer amount of the given options on published and the wd capitaitsa- ton, $100,000, 000 was annouficed. Dispatehes from New York yeater day tated that the only thing standing tn the way of the plan was the fact that one of the largeat cerns has a motor carriage de ment and that the terms for its ab- worption could net be agreed upc IT have read several ¢tories of a bleyele trust,” sald Thomas B. Jef- fery. secretary of the Gormully & Jeffery ¢ any, yesterday, “but to far as I know there ts no chance for such a combination. No option, cer- tainly, has been given on this plant.” GRANTED A WEW TRIAL In the Federal court yesterday Judge Hanford granted a new trial in the case of Nels. Thompson Against the Northern Pacifie Rail- road company. Thompson is suing the company for $2400 for injurte: received by being struck by an en gine at Tace in August 1994. SECRETS OF A LARGE HOTEL There are many things about the management of a large hotel which the patron takes for granted with- out inquiry or investigation. He can form no idea of the methods em- plyed from what he seer in the office dining roome and} wr the corridors, the other parts of the building to not many o who wish ¢ eve pry into the secrets. For those who take an interest in such matters the arrangements for receiving and disp ine the ¢ Jar not the least interesting. The Wal- dorf-sstoria uses one hundred and ¥ % hours in the winter months. The coal ts all delivered on the Thirty-fourth street side of the building, but one rarely sees a coal cart in front of the hotel It in all of the pea and buckwheat nizes, and is dumped from the carts an opening in the ground in the of the Aster oc or urt roadway which holds nds, and Is ndless chain # to a vast coal acity of 700 hea thin blinking ‘on! reach- fails about ¢ then carried with bueke into n th hop and an on vided which has a ca tons, Daylight never bin, which, with ita few Hiehts and great piles of arly to the vaulted roof, looks ike a corner in a conl mine and Iit- tle like an annex to @ palatial hotel By an arrangement of levera the coal may be dumped from the buck- ets at various points, so that with f a shoveller It may be dis- in the bin mn is situated lower und, and the coal boxes without be- the botler at- for ‘is fire he which opens 4 trap, ugh this half a ton of coal foeder which looks lke pr bin. in 4 evenly boiler 1 n in the reaches th ar fire When ing tendant pulls a and t ft Is Into a monster funnel. When the feeder has been filled it if pushed forward on an overhead track, and when it has reached the nt a trap In the narrow funnel is drawn aside and the coal drops into x trough in front of the firebox, and then it « into the fire From the time it leaves the coal wagon until it enters the fire the coal takes care of Itself, and with the exception of the straightening out in the bin, which Is done by o} man during the day and one man at night, and the distribution over the fire surface by the boiler attendant the 140 tons of coal which are used every day are handled by machin- MAY SUCCEED DR. JOHN HALL NPW YORK, March The Dr. Alex, Connell, of London, ts being considered as the succes to the late Dr. John Hall as pas of the Fifth Avenue Presbyter jan chureh, On Sunday morning the sension of the church met a commit tee m the congregation, nd of the conference it Dr, Connell's name before a congregational meet- ing to be held some time within the next three weeks One, RAPHIC NTORY TOLD ‘Of the Fighting Near. | Manilla, | ge MURPSHOOTER CLAY'S LETTER | | joy Dasoribes the Incl: | That Befoll Him on the | Battio-fi Seanad | An Interesting descriptive | ter has just been received in city from W. A, Clay, who sharpshooter attached to Company | B, of the Firat Washington resi- ment now serving at Mantla, The let- this is a letter was addressed to his broth- er, Chas, M. Clay, of 419 Marion street, and is, in “Manila, “Although I have been through one of the greatest batties thet has been fought since the Civil W am sound a8 « dollar and in excel- lent health. Saturday nigh! Fat +. ate T had been asleep about half an hoyr, I heard heavy | firing on the extreme left of our line where the Nebraska regiment was stationed, and it was not many seconds until I was in line with the company of our way to the firing line. We marched to our regimental headquarters, where our company was divided into three details, one under First Lieutenant Gormiey, one under Second Lieutenant Mors, and) the third, of which I was a member, joined our Captain Fortson at what | is called Pandocken bridge. Here | we arrived about 11 o'clock and/ found there three companies, G,) and I, All were placed under com~- mand of Captain Fortson, and we waited until about 2:20 o'clock Sun- day morning for orders from Gen- eral King. Our detail, consisting of our feet sergeant and seventy priv-| ates, were placed at the head of | Company EB, whieh was the leading company. Sunday morning we were ordered to @ bend in the Puaic riv- | er, where we remained in sight of the insurgents without Gring « mhot | until 4:39 o° clock, when we receiv-| - Se ER NTE TT The lows on the insurgent side, kill ed, wounded and captured, i# ett dat about 8000 © American #8 in 48 killed, about 200 wounded and no prisoners taken American troops have tured all t ground they have| troops protect it with and « now iting for reinforcement from States, As soon am they ee will march across the t#l- and and completely annihilate the insurgent army. TO AVERT AN ACCIDENT DREAD OF MGHTHARE ‘Spurred Mr. James On to Action. w the » we Neal Boyle, representing the mem- bers of Bacred Heart church, which wan recently destroyed by tire, has petitioned the board of public works for permission to erect a six foot nee around the ruins, the obje h te veldent te Piasutrm byt while the, wails arene. PRESENTS PROJECT TO COUNCIL down, ODD, BUT TRUE. | Looking to Purchase of Prop- The mere thought of eating an oc- erty Near Cedar River topus i# enough to make an average Vilized being shudder, yet in the Hawaiian island these devil fish, they are commonly called, are a de- y much prized among the na-| while the imported Japs have also acquired the} rm Same Time Charges That Ing taken TO PRESERVE PURITY OF WATER and taste, Mani a is euffering from a “girl famine.” — Servants, os 5 ety Papers Were Asked ean not be hired. The young woman) who acts general servant tn a) private family can easily command | TO ASSIST OWNERS IN A SCHEME | _ 416 a month in Winnipeg, the partor maid $18, the cook $25 and the laund~- $15 to $20, A number of Scotch on were brought to the province { pilom RMT aiready over 00 per cent. of them are married, st Wm. T. Baker's Snoqual- The newsboys of Boston are re- mie Falls Power quired to take out Heenses to sell Compony. papers, the documents costing 26 cents ch. “We expect to loense 200 of them this year,” sald the clerk who issues the certificates the other day, “Last year we had 1800, | 1 shall have a superintendent and two men on the street and any boy found selling papers improperly will be reported to the committee on li- conse, ‘The residents of Blackchapel diss trict will have further time allowed them before eviction proceedings are commenced. At the meeting of the city councit jast night there was no definite ac- | tlom taken towards building the pro- | Poned box sewer for the purification of the district. The ordinance came | Up for consideration with Attorney | Welstling present to state the ob- Sections offered to the sewer by certain property owners, who claims ed that they would recetve no suit- able benefit in return for their money | paid out on the assessments, A Waldoboro, Me., bachelor, while Councilman Navin stated his be- watching beside the couch of his | lef that some definite action regard- ing the building of the sewer should According to the inventory of the property of Reuben J. Smith, of Amesbury, Miss, the eccentric per- son whore body was placed in @ tomb in a reclining chair, his per- sonal property was valued at $6100 and his real estate at $600. By the will the only bequests made are one of $500 for the care of his lot, and & cents to C. W. Sawyer, @ local mer- chant. The Kogagemen: ed the quick order, “Load. Ready. Aim. Fire.” The order was obeyed | with a will, and we continued firing The sparrow exterminators in the | sick father this winter, has made_ three of as fine quilts as were ever) be taken. There is considerable produced at an old fashioned quilt- ing bee, business in the Blackchapel! district, and something should be done to \improve its sanitary condition. A delegation of property-owners has access, and there are| In this position gntil daylight, when | we moved to a position directly in| front of the theurgents’ fort, which | waa their strongest position, We! | remained firing on the fort for some | time with little effect, when a ser- | want came Up and asked for twelve | sharpehooters. They were given to} him, and I was one of the number. We crept around to the left qank of | the fort where we lay behind a | picket fenéé and fired into. the | | j enemy. The man on my right, | vhite aiming his rife to fire, was) shot. While was trying to re- turn the fire on the man who had) hot him, a bullet from the epemy | struck the hammer of his rifte, | breaking off a plece, and the bullet | then entered his eye. passing through his head and killing him | instantly: 1 helped carry him off the field, and we were then ordered to return to the rest of the com- mand. We remained at the post for a Chasing Insurgents. | hort time, when about seventy-five insurgents left the fort and start- ed across the rice flelds towards the river. Out we went after them, un- der a heavy fire from the fort, but we succeeded in killing every one of them Some jumped into the river, but we killed them all be- fore they reached the opposite shore | e then returned to our first posi- n, where we remained for a few | nutes, when Captain Fortson said, “Boys, we must charge that fort and drive them out,” and as soon as he had said that up went a cheer for the captain, | We then moved around to the left | flank, where I mentioned of the) boys was killed, and got behind a| stone wall, then broke through a picket fence, and with a yell and a whoop we started across the rice fields firing as we went. We jump- ed into a creek which was between us and the fort, and although the | wate wars up to our waists w didn't mind that, We went across! another rice fletd on the other side | Capture of Fort. and up the slide of the fort under a perfect hail of Mauser bullets, never stopping until we reached the further end of the fort. Here the insur- gents were all in a deep entrench- ment, where we captured or kill- ed those who tried to escape, | In this charge, with only five of cers and men, we captured the insurgents’ strongest fortifica- tion, k thirty-one prisoners, and killed thirty-five, Our loss was only two killed and three wounded. We | | | j | 75 also ¢ tured 125 Mauser rifles, I have which I took from a pris- oner, and whieh I prige, All along the line the insurgents were driven back, and we are now in possession of the town of Santa Ana, which was captured within twelve hours, and which the Spaniards have been trying to capture for the last twenty day after the battle we re- celved the thanks of Gen, Anderson und Gen. King for our good behavior on the field and for the splendid work did, It-ls admitted by all Washington Troops Thanked. the generals that the Washington regiment deserves the credit for the grand victory. We hope to be in porsession of all the strongholds be- fore the first of March, and then we can talk about going home, but I assure you 1 do not want to leave the isiands until all of the inswr- gents have their stomachs full of American lead or have been brought to the 1am In charge of the commissary Jepartment of the regiment where 1 have been ever since two weeks after we arrived. That does not keep me by any means from should. ering my rifle and fighting the insur, gents with the balance of the boys. Since the fight commenced our regiment has captured two Krupp guns, three and a half inch bore, and about $00 prisoners, with a lous) jof 9 Killed and about 40 wounded, | Present protested against the sewer as planned, claiming that it would not be a lasting improvement. City Engineer Thompson stated that the sewer would last from five to ten A German tailor who died in Bres- | years. lau in 1837 had such keen sight that On a final vote the ordinance as he was able to see two of Jupiter's presented was killed, Gill voting four moons with the naked eye. | against ft in order to move a re- city of Boston have destroyed 1100 nests on the Common in two days. The public garden and small parks are next to be attacked. | pusoeeithaisheatnanssnesennnsinen | consideration at the next meeting. | The question of the Cedar river water supply came up for consider- ation. Councilman James present- . resolution which read as fol- Ww PERSONAL TAX 3: secured Cedar river as the source Assessor Bailey is in a quandry | the permanent water supply, and ‘ over @ question of much Interest fo | at this time calling for contracts in- personal tax payers, He wants to volving the expenditure of about know whether the personal tax ex- $1,000,000, for the initial development emption law passed by the last leg- Of the Cedar river water supply; iniature will affect the tax levy this | ®™ Cine tre bE tain Ga year. ‘The law was intended to give | no pb nk sa hy tadeatetin, ar eee immediate relief to the poor man | tiements located on Cedar river, or from taxation upon his few belong-| any of its tributary streams, above ings. It w passed on the last | the point sclected as an intake and day of the legislature, and signed | eeeites eukne aateconen or oak on March 10 by the Governor. AS | Tver lakes, and Ne maces od — it had an emergency clause attach- | said point being practically in ite ed, it should go into effect at once, natural state, and free from all ar- but whether it went Into effect soon tificial sources of contamination; enough is what is agitating the ap ad bne'ety asaensor. coun- Attorneys do not agree on this | ott of bee ua need as pence 2 question. The prosecuting attorney | end is ~* ond ee ae an ong of Pierce county says that the act, | 0d policy of the city of Seattle to although signed nine days after the | take any and all steps which may aaseasment was commenced, went | D¢ necessary to perpetually protect into effect at once and operates on | !t* Cedar river water supply from this year's assessment. But other| Contamination, and to secure the lawyers hold that although the as-| flow of a constant and adequate sup- serament is not finished, nor the| DIY of pure water in said river to rolls made up for months after it is| the head works of the municipal commenced, it is by a fiction of law, | W8ter system, suMficient to serve all begun and finished on March 1, and | Present and future needs of the city, the new law cannot be retroactive, | Of Seattle. Assessor Bailey does not intend to take any chances, and has sub-/ mitted the question to the state aud- | itor and attorney general. In the meantime the work will go on just | as formerly. HOW TO CURB TRUSTS Attorney-General Griggs Says State Courts Have Power. PHILADPLPHIA, March 28.—At- torney General Griggs has sent an interesting reply in answer to a let- ter from J. C. Bowadaile, of this (elty, on the subject of trusts and monopolies. In his communication the attorney general says that the Sherman trust law is not a curb on monopolies, and that they can only be controlled by the state courts, He | saya: j “The Sherman trust act does not give to the Federal courts Jurisdic- tion over any combination constitut- | ing © restraint and monopoly of trade, unless such trade is what is known as interstate or interna- tional trade and commerce, A com- bination or trust, for the purpose of maintaining @ monopoly in the man- ufacture of a necessary of life, ts not within the scope of the Sherman act and cannot be suppressed by the Federal courts. This was decided in 1804 In the case of the United States the combination of sugar com- If trusts can be made sub- ny regulations, {t must be under the state courts. | In regard to the large combina. | tions of capital which are now form- ing, the attorney general says: “My judgment is that the danger so much to the community at as it is to the people wh ed to put their money into the own purchase of stock, ont it it is, we will gly ONT of all jobs of WREN TENG | to our_office prior to April 1 GOTT & FRENCH CO, 106 West W ter Horton Bank Building, hington, Dex- | i “That the city engineer be and he is hereby authorized and directed forthwith to make such examination of the situation as is necessary, and to report to the city council ag speedily as practicabie, the location, character, and probable cost of any Cost of the Purchase. and all lakes, streams, lands, rights, and privileges which it may be neces essary to acquire in pursuance of the provisions of the preceding para+ graph.” In explanation, Mr. James said that his object in offering the resolution was to still the acrimon- jous criticism which was being made by certain newspapers of this city, which, for a monetary consideration, were harping on the necessity for the purchase of lands lying around Cedar river in order to prevent the future contamination of the water supply of the city. Mr. James could see In this newspaper agitation an intention to assist Baker’s Snoqual- mie Power company, and to throttle the new Washington Power com- pany, which threatens to become a formidable rival. Nevertheless, he favored the resolution, as some peo- ple would never rest easy at night in thelr beds for fear that the water would some day be contaiminated if the surrounding district was not bought up. The resolution was adopted with but one opposing vote—that of Gil, An ordinance was passed regulat- ing the sale of calelum carbide, which is used for manufacturing aceteylne gas. It provides that the carbide must be stored in iron tanks and kept dry, The saloon re-districting matter was broached, and a clash followed, Crichton moved that more time be given the committee in which to prepare the suitable ordinance, Gill objected, and the question was set- tled at once. McArdle moved that more time be granted, and his mo- tion prevailed. ‘The committee 1s expected to report at next meeting. An invitation was extended to the city counell by the Seattle Traction company, to take the initial trip in thelr new trolley cars today, iii AM li Sci si i Ba ai siti ee at i ng sc i Sic pin alti Naha aan tt Paar