The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1899, Page 2

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OMe: No 11eT « ~ Third Avenue Entered at the post at Soattlo, Washing: ton, a second-class matter THE STAR WAS Riuier, The Star has been the only pape fn Seattle to give to the pub a statement of the true inwardness of the fight over the location of the in- take for the Cedar river water sup- ply syatem, On Wednesday, March 2, the fol- lowing editorial appeared in the Star: POWER COMPANIES’ FIGHT. “There is a sharp fight between Raker's Snoqualmie Falls’ Power company and the Washington Power company, which should be clearty understood. Baker's company has Spent a half million dollars inv tun- neling and preparing for the instal, lation of an electric plant. One of the Baker boys ts reported to be In New York at the present time, Jing & resolution citing said company | [has why ite franchise should not} be forfeited.” | The Star wishes to emphasize the | statement that it made tn the frat} Jeditorial on thin subject, that the | CONVICT Jauestion of the posable pollution of | i, the water supply should be consid. | } Jered on its merits, independently of the Interests of any power company, lelther at Snoqualmie Falls or on Cedar river, City Engineer Thompson should be | required to present all known facts bearing upon the possible pollution jof the water, and, if negessary, other men who have technical knowledge jand Impartial judgement might be authoriaed to investigate the matter and report, If the shows that such dangers do serious. ly threaten, then it may become nec jeasary for the city to take Ite medi- jelne and bay up the property along |Cedar river, thereby lncldentaliy making a monopoly out of the Sno- quaimie Falls Power company, by preventing the establishment of a rival company on Cedar river, Among presidential possibilities, | Dewey ts still mentioned, despite his recent explicit declination; Teddy Roosevelt hears his name whispered about, and has not, as yet, dectined | jwith thanks. McKinley and Bryan are both certainly in the fleld, but secking to raise money for the en-|"p to the present time mo one has terprise. In the meantime an eagte eye is being kept by the Bakers up- on the promoters of the Washing- | ton Power company, which I» seck- ing to establish itself up near the head of the Cedar river, and whieh | threatens, if it docs obtain a foot. | hold, to become a dangeroun rival for the power business of Se. | attle and Tacoma. The Bakers are) determined to throttle the Cedar | river enterprise at any cost. Now) let it be understood that the Wash-| ington Power company claims to be! the successor, by purchase, to the rights, titles, and interests, what- ever those may be, of the man who raised such a ruction in this com- ara ago—the noted fer of interests from Ammidown to the Washington Power company is said to have been made, And the new owners state that they have RO connections whatever with the thrifty gentieman who wanted to eell water to the city in days gone by. It may be that pollution of the ‘water supply would follow the biuld- ing of the electric plant at the head carefully considered. welgh- the case, let there be an under- of all the conditions under the present fight is being and then justice can be done LF Hf i i ; jualmie Falls Power com-) ‘itl fa | 2 H abutting property along the | river is not promptly con-_ and purchased by the meer Tt has been pointed out water supply wil! be pol- years to come unless the | of the mountain tract lake down to the valley. references have been made “refuse from towns and hamlets, sawmills and other sources,” the city has been urged to buy) up the property along Cedar river im order to prevent such unsavory pollution. Not one word was said, however, about the division of busi- either Power company on The effort was to company’s chestnuts out of the fire by buying up the land along Cedar river, so as to cut off for ali time the possibility of competition by a rival power company. In carrying out this plan the promoters found it necessary to attack City Engineer Thompson for saying that the pro- posed condemnation and purchase ‘was unnecessary, and would entail an unjustifiable expense upon the city. Thompson's motives could not very well be impugned, as he was seeking to save money and not to spend it, but his professional judg- ment was held up to criticiam. Oth- er engineers were said to differ from him. The campaign was carried on so vigorously and cleverly as to make some people believe that a great dan- ger threatened the city. Finally, however, the hidden hand of the Sno- q@ualmie corporation was discerned, @nd the Star brought the matter to public attention. While members of the city council were inveatigat- ing tor themselves, a resident of Se- attle, Tracy H. Robertson, brought | an Injunction proceeding yesterday | to prevent the award of the con- tracts for the Cedar river water sup- ply system, presumably in the In- | terest of the power company. As a result, the council last night | unanimously passed the following | resolution: “Whereas, It is our opinion that the Snoqualmie Falls Power com-| pany, by its agents and employe has instituted proceedings in the courts for the purpose and with the intent to delay or prevent the city from entering into a contract for | | ha announced a ticket composed of the two admirals who won the Battle of Santiago, probably because no one wants to take the responsibility of determining whether it shall be Sampson and Schley, or Schley and Sampson. os ‘The French editors as a class, are suffering from “that tired feeling.” Is tt any wonder, with the Figaro publishing daily the inside history of the Dreyfus case, and playing a fone hand at the gam HE LOVED AND WAS ACCEPTED A Chinaman Wins an Indian Maid for a Wife. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.—A Chinese man and Indian maiden are the latest novelty in the field of matrimony, They visited Cupid Danforth at the city hall yesterday and procured a license permitting them to wed. Miss Neevia Paderas is the happy bride to be, and she ts as comely a young woman as one could meet in a day's journey. She ts just 18 years olf and very much in love with Lee Moy, her intended husband. Lee Moy is a young Chi- nese, sleek, prosperous and extreme- ly prowd of his ability to speak En- glieh like @ native, Long ago he decided to make America his per: manent home, so he cut off hi queue, doffed the costume of his own country, foveswore lottery, fan tan and the opium pipe and became as food an American citizen as it te poagible for him to be. Feeling that it was not good for man to be all alone, he looked about him for a wife, and found his affinity In the comely Neevis Paderas. To her he paid court. escorted her to and from church in the Mission district, confessed his love and waa accept- ed. Both Mr. Moy and Miss Paderas have a good common school educa- tion and both are members of the | Methodiat church. They applied to Clerk Danforth last week for a li- cense, but that official was not sure that he was permitted by law to is- su¢ a license in such a case, so they were told to come again yesterday In the meantime it was found that the law which prohibits the inter- marriage of individuals of the Cau- casian race with Chinese, negroes or Indians was silent to marri- ages between Chinese and Indians. So It was that when the young cou- ple arrived at the city hall they were given a Heense. They declared their intention of being marfied by a Methodist minister. ein Cheney's Big Creamery Sold CHENEY, Wash, April 18—The most important transfer of Cheney property which has occurred this year was the sale of the Mart! Hubbard creamery to the H wood Dalry company of Spokane. The figures which the property re- alized were not stated, but that it ts no inconsiderable sum may be in- ferrea when it is known that the Cheney creamery was listed last year at the head of all the creameries in the state. Its capacity in 2000 pounds of milk per hour and the product of the tnstitution is famous throughout the Inland Empire. Elizabeth of Austria. The biography of Elizabeth, cently published under the titi Martyrdom of An Empresa,” con- tains many interesting incidents and adventures of which the empress was | the heroine eventfil life. Elizabeth and her con- stant companion, the author, used to disguise themselves and visit the siums of the efties, nursing the sick and comforting the aM™icted. One night they were riding through the stekirts of Pesth when they heard woman's screams from a rickety hovel. “On the impulse of the moment,” | says the author, “we both leaped from our horses, and, rushing to the door and pushing it open, we found ourselves in a villlanously dirty the construction of the Cedar river | room, where a huge rufflan of a man water system, and has thereby at-| tempted to put upon the city the burden of driving out a rival com- pany; and, | “Where The most vital interests of the city and of all the people of the city have thereby been wantonly and unnecessarily attacked in a manner and at a time when they was dragging &® woman about the floor by her luxuriant, unbound hair, kicking her vigorously as he did so. Before I realized what was happen ing, the empress had laid her heavy hunting crop about the fellow’s face, and so surprised was he our un expected appearance, and at this vig- orous onslaught that he dropped his | water in the North Palouse has sub- | are in no mood to brook such delay, | victim and stared at us in blank nor to submit to the dictation of any amazement. His astonishment was, corporation, great or small, holding | however, a# nothing to ours when franchise under the city; now, there- fore, be it “Resolved, That a ‘special com- mittee of the council, of which the | and president shail be chairman, shall be appointed by the president, and it is hereby instructed to make due in quiry into the matter, including the animus prompting @uch action on the part of the pald Snoqualmie Falls Power company, and if, in its jude- jclaiming, ‘Beat her, my friend; beat ment, the facts shall warrant it, prepare and report at our next meot- the {ll-used dame sprang to her fect, and, putting her arms akimbo, manded, In her shrillest Hungarian, with a torrent of inveetiven, |what ‘we husstes’ meant by Inter. fering with her husband, The em- press burst into a peal of laughter, and, taking from her habit a couple of gold ten guiden pieces, she hand- ed them to this model bonedict, ex- She deserves it her all she wants. for being #0 loyal to you.’ Investigation | during her long and | Easily Slips Off the Ball and Chain. COLUMBUS, ©, April 18.—Minn | Daisy Sprague, bookkeeper for the Halleck Glove Manufacturing com- | pany, has at last concluded that thy penitentiary is no place for youns |women who have incurred the en mity of convicts, and she has given |up her place at the prison, Her last jsad experience was met jurt as she |was leaving the prison from her | work one evening | For an imagined slight, Otis Mur- |ley, @ deaperate convict, stabbed }and almost killed Miss Sprague last |September! For thie Hurley | tried in the courts of Franklin ex | ty and given an additional » ne lof 12 years, Since that time Hurley |has been In the fourth grade and haw worn @ ball and chain. A week ago he was sent from his | work to be punished in the jconfinement celle) but he managed | to escape from that place by sawing | the rivets tn the door and then saw- jing Off the ball and chain. Ht t jonce went to the office of the Halleck company and lay in wait directly over the deak of Miss Sprague, with & murderous looking knife concealed on his person. He was found and recaptured just before Miss Sprague came to her work. Hurley at that time was taken to lane blackemith shop, where the ball and chain were riveted to hie ankle Me waa, thon returned to the moll tary confinement celland what w: supposed to be a atriet guard pu over him. Despite the vigilance of the prison officials, Huriey so shaped the band which fastened the chain to his ankle that he could easily draw his foot through the band and | States, but they will either Dave neaq. The watchman thus relieve himscif of the burden. |to *ell out or go into court and Mant |, Once rid of that handicap awaited his chance to get y from the hospital cellar, It came Wed- negday evening at supper. Guard Prittner had taken him from the coll in which he sleeps and spent» the time during the day to another cel for him to eat his supper and to vacate the cell while it was being cleaned. ‘The instant Hurtey found himeeif away from the confines of the cell he broke and ran. The chain had been merely fastened to hin toe so jee to mislead the guard. and the moment he started to run the ball and chain merely dropped off. Hur- ley dashed through the hoapit basement to the staircase, and 4 scending the steps, ran through the hospital corridor and out into the prison yard. Guard Prittner at his heels, calling as loudly ao» could to the guards to stop the man Supt. Marry Ogle and several other of- cers were in the office of the deputy warden and these at once joined tn the chase. Hurley was soon over- taken and taken back to the soll- tary cell without « struggic. As an explanation of the escapade Murtey said that he only wanted to see the warden and to tell him that he did not mean to do any harm at all to Mise Sprague, but it seems he so timed his trip through thé yard as to meet Miss Sprague 40 she pase ed out of the prison. Two minutes after he reached the front of the prison inclosure Mise Sprague left the office of her employer and had | Harley not been captured at the mo- iment he waa, the young woman un- |doubtedly would have lost her life, lalthough no weapons were found on the man, Hurley endeavored to explain his offense but could not and was se- verely paddied. He was then taken to the blacksmith shop, when an- other attempt was made to fasten the ball and chain so he cannot met it off. Murley will, until the new cells are made, occupy a cell tn the onpital basement, handcuffed to the | wall of the cell. NUMBER THREE SIGNIFICANT Three Times Wed and Senten- ced to Three Year: in Jail. KPYTESVILLE, Mo. April 18.— Joseph E. Young and Mise Mary | Marnett, of Sumner, were married dt this place last November, and |ahortly after they went to Arkansas to reside with the groom's parents. In @ short time It wae rumored that he had another wife living at Mt. | Sterling. 1°. An investigation fol- lowed, which resulted in his arrest lodged in Jail. He waa indicted at the present term of court on a charge of bigamy and the case was tried yesterday ‘The jury has returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at |three years in the penitentiary. The evidence showed that the match with Miss Barnett was the defend ant's third venture in the matrimon- jal Mine, having married In Kans some years ago, his wife dying af- terwards. In 1891 he married Miss \Mary Coppage at Mt. Sterling, Ml, land they haa separated for some | time. Wives Nos. 2 and 3 were here at the trial and both presented a good appearance and demonstrated that they were on the best of terms, as they chatted with each other quite freely during recess of court during the day. The defendant I* about %0 | years of age, and, like both his wives ix good looking. His plea was insan- ity, but the jury evidently took ¥ jslight stock in the defense. bee: COLFAX, Wash. River Fall Apri ing. i8.—The fallen eighteen inches since yesterday. It in believed the | worst of the flood Is over, The sub- siding water haa left many of Codd's \logs stranded on the river banks be- [tween here and Elberton, and teams | will be required to drag them back |to the river, The water is still too |high to permit log-driving to be re- | wumed. sided, havin, and he was brought back and was | THE SEATTLE & warrant based on an indictment | I by the grand jury, charg ing him with embossing $2814 of ritortal funds and ap jAatne to hin own Une. gave a $1600 bond and was The indictment of ‘Thompson is |the result of a fight between Gov C. M. Barnes and the legislative as jwembly, ‘The grand jury took the matter up and the indtetment was the rewult Heprosentative J.C | Walle was also indicted on the loharge of bribery | Young Ministers Warned NEWARK, N. J, April 1h--In ad- dressing five young ministers who were yesterday admitted to the Methodiat conference here, Bishop Fowler said “It you not married, you ought to be, Hut don't marry a = man because she is pt with ood blood and common sens religious, If nd no com fand she she has wit only become religion STAR » 4 BY LIGHT OF 4 LANTERN A Duel Was Fought at Godfrey, Ill. j | | | @P, LOUIS, April 1.—A duel was fought by the light of a dark lantern at Godfrey, IL, last night, resulting jin the death of a desperate tramp and the wounding of Night Watch- lman Battgart Godfrey t« a small station on the mon sense she may t 1 | The bishop warned [Chicago & Alton road, Sattgart is jisters that they would ¢ mployed by the ratiroad and Mon tact with mean men, and cello seminary to guard thelr pre perty, fect that the religious mean man ‘ was the meanest thing on earth, | A® 4 Chicago & Alton freight train ] ‘ passed Mitchell it was boarded by @ tramp, who refused to get off on CONTROL ALL RUBBER TIRES ‘leary Important Purchase Consum- oficer to find hin hat fe mated in New York. | SPRINGFIELD, 0., Aprtt 18.—The sale of the eliey Rubber Tire Wheel company to the Whitney- Croker Auto-Truck syndicate, for $1,280,000 was consumm y Pree ident Ed. 8. Kelley, dui to New York several days ago. Th plant will remain here for some thr but it im the inten of the new npany to build a large factory near New York. The purchase of |the Kelley plant here means that the New York ayndicate practically controls the rubber tire business of the world, This was demonstra ia the sult against the Ameri Tire company. There are several jamal concerns throughout the Unit- | run. | ‘The Vietor Rubber Tire company, also of this city, is another large rubber concern, There are several sults for infringement, and it will eventually have to into a d with the new company, although the entire fight will no doubt be made by Preaident J. 8 Harshman, who ia worth more than a million dol- lars. IT TOUCHED — HIS HEART To Break the Nows of Death to the Convict. SING SING, N. Y¥., April 18.—War- den Sage was in hie office In Sing Sing prison yesterday morning when a telegraph messenger handed him & dispatch addressed to John Law- rence, a convict. The warden open- 1 this dispatch and read “John Lawrence, Sing Sing prison. —Dear papa: Mama is dead. I will do my beat.-Wiillle and asked him whether he expect- led bad news | “Well, warden,” said the convict, my wife has not been well for som jtime, and my daughter is sickly. What te 7" “Have you a son?” asked the war- jon “You, replied the man in stripes. “Hie name in Willie. He ts a good boy.” | ‘The warden has just broken the news of the death of the convict’s wife to the man when another mes- senger entered the office. He hand- ed Col. Sage a telegram, which read: | “Lassie ts dead,— Willie.” | | “Poor Lizate! sighed the convict. | |#he was my only daughter. I wish | But I am only I could bury them. ou irWrerden @ase promised that the | man's relatives should be accorded fa decent burtal. | | Coach for Cornell. i ITHACA, N. ¥., April 18—It was learned today that Joe Beacham, who has been mentioned as the suc- loessor of Warner as coach of the thall team, has been appointed to a second 1 nancy In the regu lar army, and this will make ft ne- censary for Cornell to look elsewhere for the coach for next season. No lother alumnus of Cornell ts promin- ently mentioned, and it seems likely that a coach from outside will be | selected New Cabinet for Greece. ATHENS, April 18—King George |has summoned M. Theotokis to form a new cabinet in succession to the ministry which resigned on April 3, owing to the election of M. Zaimia, the mier, having been declared invalid on account of bribery and in- | timidation M. Theokotis was minister of tho interior in the cabinet presided over by M. Ralli, which was Instituted | April 20, 1897, resigned September 90 jof the |by the ame year and was succeed sd imia cat MARCONI TO _ BE DISCOUNTED |Signal Corps Officers Are | Making Experiments. | WASHINGTON, April 18,—Nu- merous wireless telegraph expert- ments have been made at the war department Indoors, such as send- ing the waves through the partition walls for the purpose of getting the instruments in a perfected condi- tion The Tesla coll was given a thor- | ‘ough test today, and It was dem- lonstrated to be more powerful than \the ordinary induction coil used by |Marconl, and consequently of more |value. It will be used altogether in Jeonnectton with the work It 1s promised that whatever Mar- Warden Sage rent for Lawrence, | belng ordered. At Godfrey Conduc- |tor Gillett called on Sattgart to ar- |rest the man, | The night watchman saw the |tramp climbing down from the top of & box ear and seized him. The |man was bareheaded. He asked the him, Satt- |wart turned the rays of bis dark lantern on the ground and made a *oareh for the hat. A flash from the lantern showed something glitter In the tramp’s hand as he drew it from his rear pocket “What's that you've got?" asked ithe watchman, “Throw up your hands?" waid the tramp, showing the pistol. | Gattgart drew his revolver, The tramp fired first. ‘The bullet lodged jin SBattgart’s thigh. | ‘The plucky watehman didn't drop, | He held the “eye” of his dark lan- |tera on his antagontet with hie right hand and ured hia revolver in his) left. He fired two shots and tramp fell, One of Gattgart's bullets struck the tramp in the leg and one tn the own wound painful but not dangerous, The the uriey |the syndicate and lose in the 10n# jtramp died at 9 o'clock this morn- Here's a Nice Mess. HILLSBORO, Tex., April 14 —Sev- eral well known young people have been indicted for interrupting the preacher at the Methodist church on Sunday night. They disturbed the congregation, it is charged, by the writing of notes, giggling and laugh- ing. The miniater spoke to them without effect, it ie said. A mem- ber of the congregation filed the complaint. Those indicted are: Mies Marie Mickeiborough, Miss Mamie Jamison, Robert Mascom and John H. Margan. Birds on Hats Illegal. CHICAGO, April 18.—The legista- ture passed a game law that will subject to a fine & woman weartng a stuffed bird on her hat. It provid- en that “any person who shall have in possession or who shall sell or ex- pose for sale any feathers or skins or parts of birds for use in millinery or simitar purposes, or shall kill for such purposes any birds in thie state hall be deemed guilty of a minte- meaner, and upon conviction shall be fined not leas than $25 nor more than $80 for each bird skin or part lof skin or parcel of feathers so sold or offered for sale or killed for that purpose.” Moral Wave at Baker City BAKDR CITY, Ore., April 1.— Raker City ts feeling the good effect of the moral wave which has been jon since April 1. Thirty gambling mes have been closed and 100 mbiers have left town. There has also been a general exodus of the wrafters, sure-thing men and dis- orderly women. Chief Porter ts eo well pleased with the new order of things that he announces that there will be no more gambling here while he is at the head of the police de- partment, f = tn sitipes and must stand {t TRAIN WRECK IN MICHIGAN | One Man Killed—-The Property Loss Very Large. FLINT, Mich., April 18.—One of the most disastrous railroad wrecks that has occurred here in years took place a mile north of this city on the Flint & Pere Marquette ratiroad track at an early hour this morning. Freight train No, 48, southbound, had about reached the foot of the long grade when a@ terrific crash oc- curred and freight cars rolled down the embankment on either side of the main track. The train was com- posed of 26 cara, all loaded with val- uable merchandise and provisto: |The contents of nine cars were all jstrewn about the track promiscu- lously and intermingled with the de- \bris of as many cars. Harry Boyle, |head brakeman, was found among |the wreck in a terribly mutilated |conditjon, with life extinct. He liv- lod at Saginaw. It was at first sup- posed that the train broke in two and caused the wreck, but on in- veatigation it shows that the accl- |dent was due to the breaking down lof a box car, It was the most ex- |pensive wreck that has occurred in |thia vicinity for years, To Educate Indians. ARKANSAS CITY, Ark., April 18. Charles E. Dagenett, the present disciplinarian of the Chillicco Indian ltraining echools, six miles south of here, has submitted a plan for an lentire change in the system of In- |dian education. He proposes to or- ganize school districts throughout the Indian territory, build school houses, employ teachers aod com- |pel attendance by @ rigid education- |al law. His idea ts to bring the in- fluence of school houses to the In- \dian rather than to send the Indian away to get within thelr influence. Swamped by Pennies. | HAVANA, April 18.—An order has been ported at the Havana postofice |to the effect that henceforth Cuban lcopper and bronge coins will be re- lcetved there only at the rate of $1 | —_--—_- | coni accomplished will not only be |Spanish to 60 cents United States (Oklahoma Official Arrosted Oi ei hy the signal corps offi. |curreney. Heretofore the same GUTHRIM, Q T., April 18.—Frank | cers, but eclipsed, but at that, no |stamps, which are worth 2° cents M. Thompson, treasurer of Oklaho- |assertion# a8 to the practicability of each In the United States, were ma territory, Was arrested today on the system are made, [worth only 11-5 cents in United tates currency In Cuba, and me stamp clerks in the postoffice we kept busy issuing stamps and recelr ing the ugly coppers. The postoffice authorities were) soon swamped with pennies and storing room had to be rented in the | elt The President was finally appealed to, and he sent instructions to post the order, which revoked his ordin- ance, stopping the wholesale “do- ing” of the government and reliev~ ing the postal clerks of a nuisance EVANSVILLE, Ind,, April 14 Phineas Ewing, 4 substantial farmer of Armstrong township, firmly be leven that a shower of exe mhell® descended upon him in an open feild, straight from heaven, although he could see high in the azure blue what seemed to him to be a fying machine or @ balloon, His state- ment was questioned, and he escort- ed a number of witnesses to the spot where the shelis were lying ATLIN QUARTZ CLAIMS. According to BE. C. Hawkins, gen- eral manager of the White Pans @ Yukon railroad, who recently re- turned from Skagway, some import- ant quarts discoveries have been made in the Atlin district. Some of these, he says, have reached high values. One of the most important mines is the Buckhorn, which has been purchased by a mining syn- dicate for $30,000. The mine w located jast October. Recent a says of ore taken from the face of the ledge, give values from $80 to $268, Joke Ends in Death. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 18.— R. Begers, a barber, died this after- noon from @ shot inflicted by his friend and fellow barber, B. H. Bell, night before last. Begers, who room- ed at Bell's house, went there late at night to frighten him. He made & nolse in the yard and Bell thought la burglar was trying to enter the |house and fired his pistol. The ball went through Seger’s left lung. The men were the beat of friends, THE NEXT A WATCH TRUST Case and Movement Factories to be Combined. NDW YORK, April 18—A new trust, which will embrace nearly all the big watch case and watch move- ment manufacturers in this coun- try, will soon be organized. Plans for bringing these industries under one common board of management have been under way for some time, Elliott Burris is the promoter of the proposed trust. Mr. Burris h: little to say about the plans of form ation of the trust further than that the proposed organization would be capitalized at not lesa than $20,000,- 000, and that it might reach the sum of $30,000,000, Stock will be issued to each company in the combination in proportion to the value of its as- sets. It ts said that each company is to recetve the full marketable value of its plant and business in stock. None of the stock will be listed for specu- lative purposes. It ts said that @ central company will be organized, with headquar- ters in New York, and a large dis- tributing house will be established in Chicago and probably in San Francisco. “What do you expect to gain by consolidation?” Mr, Burris was ask- od. He replied that the methods of competition in the watch case and the watch movement industries were costly and the methods of consoll- dated capital economical. He further said that nearly all the big watch case and watch movement manufacturers would enter the new organization if they had not Joined already, and that those who have be- come identified with the movement were not told when asked to join what companies were in the scheme. There are nine different styles of watch cases, continued the speaker, in explaining the advantages to be derived from consolidation, and to make them requires as many differ- ent sets of lathes and other tools. Under consolidation each of the big factories will have one kind of work and in this way the business will be simplified, a lot of machinery used at present will not be needed, and it is also expected that there will be a saving in manual labor. Preferred stock, bearing 7 per cent. interest, it ie said, will be tesued. The firms mentioned in connection with the possible consolidation are the Elgin National Watch company, The American Waltham Watch company and the Hampden Watch company, all manufacturers of the well known movements, and the fol- Jowing makers of cases: The Due- ber Watch Case Manufacturing company, the Crescent Watch Case company, The Joseph Fahy & Co.'s and the Keystone Watch Case com- AMUSEMENTS. The Third avenue theater was crowded last night to witness the double attraction of “Cyrano de Ber- gerac” and Pianka and her Nons, This week Manager Kussell has the strongest drawing card he has had this season, Tomorrow evening at the Seattle theater, Col. Douglas White will lec- ture on the Washington boys at Man- fla, under the auspices of the Eagles, Beginning Friday night, Stuart Robson and his company opens for three performances. jouse Wheat. » April 18.—From present indications this year's acre- age of wheat in the Palouse country will exceed 800,000 acres, A large area is being seeded to barley, the impression prevailing that the fal) demand for this grain for feed will road building. ———_—___. Street cars propelled by Nquid air have been satisfactortly tested in Zurich, _—o——_. PIGOTT & FRENCH Co, -04 West Washington street, Dexter Horton Bank butlding, have the only Linotype Job printing machine in the entire Northwest, Catalogues, pamphlets, ete, at specially low prices, SAVE MONEY by giving {tem an opportunity to figure, be large owing to extensive rail- | J, F. ADAMS Wholesale and Retéll Cash Grocer, No. BIZ Second Avenue, hetweon ¥ Jam | | Public and Parochial School 4 Pupils Helped ~ To Make = £ Advanced , 4 Grades. : . We eS Ask no S se © Greater ° = Favor of & Prospective wn Patrons — Than That They Visit Our School, Dey and Evening Sessions Collins Block, “Phone Main 416 All Work Guaranteed Klondike Sleds « Specialty PETER EGGE Painting, Paperanging, Kalsomining Picture Frames Made to Order, Lock- smith Kepairing of All Kinds. nenemnen, sow einore, 408 Pike Str MADAME BROWN Formerly at 995 Pike Street, has moved to 133144 Second Ave. Cor. Union, up stairs. GRAY HAIR RESTORED. at All Hours. OUR CAFE Mrs, Con. A. Rideout, - Proprietor Cor. Third Ave. and James &t. DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE Our Delegates Will Not Take a Conspicuous Part. WASHINGTON, April 18—The delegates from the United States to the disarmament conference will not be expected to take a conspicuous part in the proceedings, for the pur« pose of the gathering does not di« rectly concern our government. They will be directed to preeion | their sympathy with and approv: of any measure that may be adopt- ea by the European powers to pree serve peace, but otherwise they will not participate tn the discussion, unless the subject of the settlement of international difficulties by arbi- tration should be proposed. In that event they will be instructed to use their influence to secure the adop- tion of some definite plan by which hostilities may be avoided, and the public sentiment tn the United States on this subject is so well known that no special directions will be neces- sary. Dr. White, our ambassador to Germany, and Seth Low, of New York, who ts another of the dele- gates, are particularly interested tn that subject, and are familar with historical precedents, both in the United States and among other na- tions, Very little in the way of practical results, however, Is ex- pected from the gathering, becausq as ex-President Harrison says, “the devil ts still unchained,”" ne FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Buy Clipper Bicycles. For exerciag buy others, F. M. Spinning, agent, 1022 Second avenue. We're not afraid to tell you that there’s a great deal of foolish sentiment about “exclusive agen= cy” hats. We knowa little of the inside of this matter—it’s so much for the name and so much for the hat. Any well equip- ped hat factory will put the quality in if you pay for it. Thosg “Knix” and “Dunflops" bring $5.00. We wilt give you the same quality, the same style, $4.00 You come and we'll prove it J. REDELSHEIMER & Co. i First Avo,, oor, Columbia St