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‘Pat Cust Steamship Company WAS BRAKEMAN i Seeapulia COOK SLUGGED? uncisco | E: yes : :) 10. | | he company's ele BS Cad i want steamships = i Queen, Walla Wall E =. i na. Umatiita ler, Sellef That His Head Struck - s Beattle 8 a, m TAS Port To nd and Victoria, Mare a Bridge. 1, 15, D, » April 4, 0, 14, 19, 24, TEKOA Vash April ‘The th Ma and eve fth day there . i fhe BAY fend every Meth day there-| ory in advanced: here and ning ground that Brakeman Cook o Wee injunid at Ha San Francisco ,, at the ha For Beattle 10 a, m., via Victoria and! not receive hin iniu ant, but that ¢ | Port Townsead, Mare 28, 2%, 82,1 of an nt ' April 1, 6 4. 1¢ , May 1, and{ which cracked ‘his sku! ' FOR ALASKA his head etriking the top , | The elegant nah « Cottage Which the train was . ear City ¢ Taneka and " vo Riparia, In suppert of t pellet j Seattic f am. March f, 6 26, | it ts maid that the | 10, 15, 20, 20, May 6, Carried at the tt ipposed fifth day thereafter aceident was found at the b obtain | and several other portir f folder. elted which would lead or to think The company rewerves the right to that the conoluston that he was not change, without previoy stioe, atincked by a hobo ts well founded steamers, ailing Gate, and hours of It Is claimed by those who are at sailing wainted with Mr, Cook that if he 4. au. 4 7 had t t at th tiene TROWNERIDG n standing ore Puget Sd, Supt ean Dk, Seattle, the train arrived at th Dptown ticket » cor ce, 618 FY v, | head vy Seattle York with the ¢ Agents, Ban. ¥ vame point arther information rm ancisco. Star Washington & Alaskal?%!""-2%s sami: STEAMSHIP COMPANY, | "?uir"weruldn'S ane mayer Alaska Lightning Express Mr. Cook's stat now Bias ‘STEAMSHIP CMY OF SRAPELB == st | Sails trom ¥. Whart | ve pertect cog ent hey ce vt : Mena, Ap a 0 Pek Po ce Sake ee oR » KH. & N. have offered re 00 vs ward for the « hetond mae TO sna ad Da = = Containing all of the | t Salll ne WASHINGTON, April &—Cons. Hy | Sabangnent Sailings, April 12d, $24, and Way Mf. | y,,, h, at taagdon reports ‘e ; ° | GF. THORNDYKE, Agent, |2.,0'cr"u"gresr"ans evarsncros | Xevs~ World Phoge Main 470,116 YESLER WAY |e yt er wine demand ; WEW SUITS FIL rlgree pris: Ben epg a egren have rican manufacturers m wtunity for an Am ow multe Med e 0 line if they will make a ¢ ough, | Anthony Alvels ve. Mary Ann Al- systematic and business-like effort Cris vet, foreclomure. In hia judgment the most effectiv P, Alfred Cribben va, Orra Gormley | Way to sell American shoes and lin an . a so. Dlements and wagons and machinery carga Gormley, et al, foreclor or ai kinds in Germany wouldd © to exhibit them there in public and to M. C. Hubbard brought two auit® have their uses practically demon- in Judge Henson's department of strated by live agents. seca sc™* TQ REGULATE VISITS |M. E. Downs, one to recover on @ [contract and the other for dam fin the firet sult Hubbard wa: Form, averted @ verdict of 65 but the Forms to be Cbaersed in Na- val and Military Circle \jury decided against him in the WASHINGTON, April 5.—The war |department and the navy depart on property | ment officials have agreed upon th owned by him and located in s 12, | procedure In interchanging visits be- 4 domage suit. Q Charles B. Adapted to the needs of busy people. The average man woman always likes to swiftly Niblock brought sult in the superior court to test the as- scan the moving panorama of the tp 2, r 7, # & tp 23, r 7, and sec 18, |tween naval officers and officials globe during the leisure half hour tp 23. r & Judge Jacobs held that |connected with the administration , and ‘he assessment was unjust and ex- of the islands or group intande that follows the evening mea! then turn attention to other mat- ters. The publishers of the THE Star modeled the paper so that : ceasively high, as compared with similar and adjacent property and signed a decree orderinfx a reduc- ite this factand have tion from #18 to $4.50 per acre. W. P. Westfall secured a judgment in the superior court yesterday for $255 against Charles E. Marvin on a Directness of Statement“ “ “Much Ado now occupied by the United States force This le a formality which haa per- plexed the naval and military of- floers converned, and three to lead to misunderstanding and unfor- mean an administration officer jwovernor are acting, and the sa Interesting, breezy style of para- graphing fin'ts increasing favor in these days, as opposed to the old \ time fashion of ponderous ‘‘write- pg and editorial utterances. Tian ice bout Nothing” | > a All of the Local Might be quoted most appropriately cy | in regard to the usual As well as the Telegraphic News Don’tdoubtitforone minute. The per will not claim to be the best $ on earth with the “largest circula- 4 tion’’—that is, not yet awhile, but j the effort will be made to steadily a improve it. In the meanwhile : please remember that news *‘tips”” telephoned to the office ( Pike 150) will be much appreciated; also subscribers. It only costs FIRE SALE SCARE Ours was a little blaze, but the smoke went through everything, and for that reason we are selling a | _ meen — CLOTHING To secure The Star for Barwick’ ngs and Shoes Ata Big Discouut from Regular prices. ONE MONTH By refraining from the custom- ary “Brag,” “Boast” and “Blow” that usu: ‘lly characterizes “Fire Sale” advertisments, we intend that you should find here better hargi ins than you expected, and you're respectfully told that in this instance you are NOT at liberty to “Believe half we say; vou may expect great things, but youll get more than you 1431-1433 Second Ave., near Pike. THE SEATTYLE ha hall t ! officers in command nor Ker whatever th t i Army oft wake t ret Lar qual or wi ule ity « and 1-chlet th ¢ ting Uh ordinal 1 thoref not jing t mil command n both upon ror tthe a loer In command of t i ! 1 aide if r is of equal or au perior grad Vhen either army or naval off t y to att to the fur ns he may dh an aid The rv 2 1 1 1 latent r 14 hulgated b headqua f th (E FOR 16 YEARS Louis Fajardo Can Now Re- turn to Porto Rico. NEW YORK, April sin Fra , a your ! »F an, pr ay has b nan ox hie h for near year ay h was ade extremely happy by the rece!pt 4 cablegram from his be Ma whieh said You oan ! 4 a i father was bruta Gt. Excutero 4 wf the panieh ar The son, in a fit of rev h and killed Ke utero, Mo then took the first steam err the United @tates, and has never been old home ines, REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real estate transfers mi ' nm th wud t county Rex $500, quit claim, $1 Anderson to Pennelia Me #1, quit claim, lot & bik 4, ton plac 14 Anna and hus Raker, $1600, lot @ bik i A. A. Denny's Tro 1 J. & Taker and husband to L. Roy $1760, tot € bik 109, A. Denny's Broadway add Cumm Mary lhand to J. 8. Reliance Loan and Trust to Mary Tovtey, $1, lote 14, 1 17 H, 3h, 2 bik 3, River park McCraw and husband to Edoa Irma McGraw, $1, lots § and % bik €, McCalister's add. Alexander Balilie and wite to the Western Fata r, 910, ™ tp won rt te W. M., being donation claim No, 42 of John M. and Nancy Thomas, containing 12-5 acres Mary A, Denny to Christian Han sen, $1000, lot 3 Ik 199, A. A. Denny Proadw add Lows sierman an? wife to G Ward Kemp, $209, lot 4 bik St, Yester add. ‘ company to Mar jot 5 bik 29, A ar a to FB. H. James, n's firet add 1 wife t and husband to lot 1 Dik 4, Dean Ed, H. James. tr PD, Planks Alfred Abra r ‘ and wife t \itiam Sid n, 3 % D ltpwnrée W.M ff Vand nter to Sarah M : 400, w % of % wee 15 ty | Fred ¥ ' 1 to Chas | Akerland, $490, | 2h Gilman | 1M. Wa é A f of $4,006 s 4 and & bik A. A, Dent aad : ft Vanter 1M Chase 4 Kk 4 Den COTTON YARN TRUST An Effort Made to Secure English Capital. | NEW REDFORD, Maes. April er ret le by r k ndicate to arn mille in t ' 1 sald that nancial troubles he Maw 1 inilis het thet y f let rest Ene The capital t leclared t 1 of all the mill j hey aid n lertal forma t vat th usurers of t th Aford and Pall tor h th 1 atock holier Saal mnie sted apt abe aie mbination < Preven 104 W : Dexter Horton Hank Ruiid PAVE MONEY ly giving them an oppor | tunity to figure. TAR, aang # o- netenennnenmnnnenars: ~ POWERFUL | TELENCOPES =: “Limit of Size Has Been Reached. Question of Location Found to be Most Important A Quist noe the time of Bir William Her ct has more constant d the attention of astron re than the makin of great tel pes It Is, however, only with fn the last twenty ra that the ta. f tlelans have practical perfection, and ¢ the last five nly within years that astronomers ve discovered how to utilize their truments to the best adva ¥y Placing them in climate where atmoaph jew them to perfor ther fu al effect Th atin directly affects th Jefinition telescopes, ptial to 4 perfection itself h have been very recent- i; and, as a conse nly now beginn he optical discoveries which this century has been so pro- Largely on aceo Hersehels, the has always be ly Engtieh t of the work of reflecting tel n & distinetive- instrument; and today aod Roberts maintain ent tradition by the manuf ture and use of large telescopic mir re, with which they have obtaine1 1 resulte in work on nebulae ar r vague objects not requirin very sharp definition, Neither th Miver-on-glass mirror, constructed and used at Paris, nor the !nngo tleetor at Melbourne, has been very productive of new revelations, quently, in fecent years astron- ra have practicatly ceased to le cons eh of aclence is due mainly to the velopment of the refractor by Fraunhofer about the middle of the first half of this century, and more ently the famous Americon of Alvan Clark & Bona, who are arknowledged to be the foremost telescope makers. The history of the making of great refractora by thie frm is well known and so t rated by large imetru ments scattered over the country-~ Veritable monuments to their genius that I shall not recount even their moat memorable triumphs. It Is admitted by men of sclence that In the hands of the Clarks, the refracting telescope has come as near to perfection ae it is possible to appr h with the optical glass now available. Indeed, the mar velous Instruments produced by American genius leave little to b Jesired, either as to sige of glass or rfection of workmanship. Nor ta cos production any longec So fully are these facts uropean countries that te. very great realized in BE there n contention abre garding the superiority of the Clark riunately, American observers shown themselves equally thelr country; and now ion of the existence or non- of dificult celestial ob longer debated by the sa vants of Rurope, but is referred at moe to Americans tor decision. . is now conced that the th powerful in the 1 are in Americ ting of ! Lack, the Yerkes and the Low 1). Each of these Clark glasses \s admirable in workmanship; but it is wn that the maker held the Lo- which was his last er to be the best p ever worked. If three = an the Lowell, the Yerkes were located side vy wide, and, from an optical point f view, were equally perfect it night be assumed that thelr power would inerease with the size of thetr * Such, however, t*# not the in the one feature of col- ting Mght; for tt is found that relatively the mosphere handicaps telescope more than It does and the 4 arn Our re vely that it re st studies prove concla- is only by fmt « the locations of gr pservatorios a gain can be made In telercop r—the more quiercent the at the better being the per- of our great telescopes. rospher formance Hence It follows that, with a suffi tly good atmosphere, alarm but not abnormal sige telescop an accomplish more work and re veal more dificult objects than the largest instrument in the world if badly placed. « Tt in sheer nonsense to infer that a bie lens im- plies the most important discoveries, Forum MARRIAGE LICENSES. Licenses to wed were issued yes- rday to H. B. Fisher, 90, and Alice Tibbets, 18, both of ttle; Herbert meron Ostrom, and Ella Lou isn Walthew, 2; Howard Penfield, and Rernice Levold, 32% both « attle Frederick West, %, and N tle Amile Smith, 19, b of Seattle Lawrence Kaye Hodges, 41, of Ma Idaho, and Luetle Alexandrina . of Seattle A TIMELY MOTION. Marion It Cured an Actor of an Exceed- ingly Evil Habit. replied the Washington h to accept No,” actor, An enga th your Megatherlan arean interpretation ag@regation to do the provinces of the far West Why not exclaimed — the tonished manager. “It will be the chanee of your life, The pee out that way pent-up ye Jactor with impr ee veh artivte as Tam ent ur great aggregation Let them und adamantine | 40 n any combin h » to Interpr rviaat not? You must ha won I have, Listen, and te | thee About ton yeara ago I a company d t for th edification of un wenstern t villages and har and t ural conmequence the mhost had alysis and quit walking, It wa ing to be our turn next un relief t was a 1 hve epeares roomea of th Wild Cat Gy y and Mental Improvement the gat colpts, after expe to go f i road tickets, I was only too gh my fe sufferers and at t I read up (on Bill the Bard in the evening appeared to give number of selections including H let's juy, It was to be my pret rt and in my m pressive manner L began: "T) not to be: that ts the questi when a rough old miner, with t guns und his middie, ke Colum bua, rose In the mnt meat Well, stranger,’ he said, ‘ef that iw the question, | move that you 4 with a whoop hadn't been a back In't.” Lt wan peconde 1 if there rt window handy 1 don't know wha would have happened, Bince ther my kind friend, 1h «worn never nakespearcan of the prov ny enlightenmen Went to attempt for the inces of the far GERMANS AND CHINESE FIGHT Former in Trouble With Na tives of Shantung. PEKIN the provinee April 6.—The unrest in of Shantung through- out the winter has developed into serious trouble between the Ger- mans and the natives. A German naval patrol which was accompanying Engineer Vorschult an officer named Hanneman and Dragoman Moots, recently left Trin- tu fort, Kiao Chau for Iehau In the hood of the latter place a party of Chinese troops fired on the Germans, The latter rep! killing verai of the Chinese and wounding a number of others. The G fort, where they arrived safely. The German admiral has now sent a stronger force to Ichau The Chinese in that Jocality ar alarmed, fearing a general invasion, Another cause of alarm is the im- prisonment and maltreatment of a German priest at Tsimo. The ad- |miral sent achment of marines jwhat Senator Hoar re simply exploding with| New York, ns to hear the words attended to by of the master dramatist interpreted) tists, Room 10, Sullivan Block, to that place and they rescued the prisoners and punished the offend- ern. There tn an outburst of anti —is- tlan fanaticiam in South Shantung, and the German missionaries and engineers there are believed to be in a dangerous position. A German military expedition has sailed from Kiao Chau for that part of the provinee aboard the warship Jefion, to protect German subjects. HOAR IS OFF THE TRACK WASHINGTON, Apri! 5.—Senator Hoar's fervent philippic, which was printed In the press dispatches this morning, i* based upon the presump tion that Aguinalido represents the people of the Philippine islands, ani that they sympathize with him in is his strug gle for liberty. This is denied by all the army and navy officers who hava returned from Manila and by Prof Knapp. the agent of the agricultural nent, who Je a thorough tion of the public sentiment ands. Their statements are depart corroborated fr every quarter They represent that the property ders, the busine mand t ponaible population have ni Aguinaldo nd abhor dangerous venturer y by tary support ntations inten- blackmall and his mi by the vilest of misrep as to the purnones and the th tions April 5. 1 at the ay co James Met HOHOCK BN skey, en Long 1 Iron Works part ed alive today. He fell backward into a vat of hot water. His head struck on the aide of the vat, and he was rendered unconscious, H was fast cooking to death when fellow workman found him and dragged him out. Every inch of his body below the neck was fearfully scalded and blistered, the skin fall- ink off in strips, When he revived he suffered terrible pain and was swathed In cotton and oil. His con- dition is critic THREE BIDS FOR P.O. SITE Sent to the Postal Authori- ties at Washington. week the About the last of this public will undoubtedly know where the new postoffice will be located Five offers of a site were received several weeks ago by Inspector Wayland, and he has sent them, to gether with hix recommendations, to the department at Washington City Mr. Wayland would not have any thing to say as to who the bidd were, or where the sites were locat ed From other sources it is learned that the nt for the building where the present postoffice ts sit- uated submitted a bid. Another bid was from the agent representing the owners of the large lot at the south ust corner 0! ond avenue and Union street, There is a foundation on this lot, and if the bid Is accepted 1 building can be erected, The agent the uncompleted block, in the of which Cort's Palm Gar- submitted a bid ement den Is located, also While Dr, Albert J his dental pri Albin & rest is in tlee will be Smith, den i rmans finally had to return | to Tuinta les and a stouch hat, — OP perenne HOW TO RULE PORTO RICO People Profer Territorial Gov- ernment. NF You? Dr Carrol, ¥ Junt MeKin cor in ner ho viaited I nditior 1 drat , f ’ r vet hich he will lay before President MeKine y in the course of a few ecks. He found the ny f local gov- nt to be radically different m anyth n this country, Une t Spanish rule the island i] nto municipal districts. Bome th v small and others ve. In each of thene ae or small, This has Kovernor snd a counctl, nd the country ict lying about * governed © city He found the possibilities of abuse of power and taxation under the sys- tem very great. He tra 1 all ov the da examint then His plan was to ne snking the mayor chan tho: manufactur the f yerr i are, and to meet him He found the pe to have the era ¢ ple very desirous military rule as although they better than the condi- under 8 sh 4 no fault to find government as it was which existed officials, They b with the military now adminiatered, 1h very anxious to ad American insti- tutions and to be on @ similar stand- ing with at of the country. The meneral idea scemed to be in favor of a territorial form of gov- ernment with American officials, Leading Porio Ricans were tive that after a few years there would be no longer any need of ap- pointed officials, and after the peo- ple had been taught they would fo low thelr instractiona. There was also a pretty general desire for the adoption of the English language, and also to have tt taught in the ohn wt plan, Dr. Carroll thinks ch both languages. Eventually the matter will work its own solution HELD UPA FARO BANK LEWISTON, Idah April 5.—A few minutes before midnight the faro game located in the rear of the O, RB. & N. saloon was held up by a masked man, who took the entire proceeds of the ull and made his escape. The Ran avent: and near business center. In the room with the fare layout Is a “21” game, but in a far corner. There were half a dozen men in the room, play having been light. The proprietors of the faro game, Cash Cole, Doug Holton and Al Grant, had just closed for the evening and had counted their money and placed it In a sack.’ The amount, they stated, was, $403. They were dumbfounded when a small man, wearing 4 sult of brown cloth- with his face concealed by a handkerchief, ap- proached the table and seized the money bag. He had come in by a satoon Is on Main the heart of the hrear door at the alley entrance, and had made his way to the table before anyone had surmised his intentions, Hold on,” sald one of the proprie- tors, but he failed to desist, and, drawing a ‘44-caliber _ revolver, ted for the rear door. There was position to detain him, e men in the room had and he vanished out of the door and made his way to the rall- road track, The town marshal and a posse are in pursuit, but there Is little chance of their catching the bold footpad He made no effort to rob the “21" game, which had considerable money nm ths table, nena it was too far from the ¢ “CORPSE” LISTENED. Presumably De. , He Heard Plans for Burial. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Aprtt 5.—Thomas Manning, after an fliness of two weeks, apparently died last ight. For 23 hours his Heved him dead. He heard 1 comments of the undertaker, and only regained the use of his faculties when that per- son was about to prepare him for burial Monday family t the profession Mr. Manning made a movement and he was handed a pencil and paper. “All T want is my voice,” he wrote. have heard everything that has been said.” Mr. Manning is stil! weak and his condition ts dangerous Mrs. Grow Gets a Divorce HILLSBORO, O., April 5—Sequel of a romance of May and December has just developed in Hills boro, by the granting of a divorce to Mra, Josephine Grow and restoration of her maiden name, Billings. Mrs, Grow was married about two years to Harry yw, who deserted her for the zephyrs of Skagway and White Horse Rapids. He sent no money for her support, neither dl@ he write letters, Early this winter Alaska contributed a third party te the come Isaac Gibson, a retirea unts his wealth in came to Hillsboro to Klondiker, who © the thousands, find relatives whom he had not seen for years, During his sojourn here he met Mrs. Grow, became smitten, a divorce and hae as a bride to bie To avoid complica. tlons they will take passage on @ vessel so they may be married on the high seas. Mr Jibson is over (0 and Mrs. Grow is but a little past 0. Mrs. w was granted a divorea on Friday helped her to carried her aw Canadian how Two women, sent to the island for the same period today, bearing the same surname, became insane at the same hour, were taken to Bellevue for observation and examination on the same boat, wore the same kind of dresses, have their hair combed the same way, and have the same vagaries and illusions, ‘This is what might be called an insane coincl- dence,—New York Letter. serail”