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| ¥ ae. a@ . g orl a et dered — th * Twenty-five Cente a Month By Mai oF Carrier TOTO LOO OD I OSH OHOOOSOD: THE SEATTLE, JUMPED TO KER DEATH VOL. 1. TO SWINDLE UNCLE SAM A Gigantic Counterfeiter’s Conspiracy Discovered by Secret Service Officers in Washington. Workhouse. EVD OF A CHECKERED CAREPR Sho Had Made a Failure of Life and Was Uisgreced and a Conviet. INDIANAPOLIS, April 22.—Olad INVOLVES A U. S. SUB-TREASURY ©2300 whe was ne happtly Plan to Replace Ten Million Dollars With 22055 devoted to her. Sh with her ned a Pente- Bogus Silver Certificates Through the = s.o% sume as Connivance of a Government Of- re ees ficial in Treasury Department. [rected th cr of io Teeted to the Mission Deor of Hope. noes 6lm | 6familes were her, but ehe knew little isekeeping and soon he Door of made vevera fo. Finally she ¢ matron and he wok her home ‘ t WASHINGTON, April 23.—An astounding revelation 3 made here today by officials closely connected with re-appeared * B . at the Door of Tope. Phe asked the he Secret Service Bureau, to the effect that a gigantic matron to accompany her to a p : : im the city, where she had o » conspiracy exists to defraud the government out of ten “ 1 atron million dollars by the substitution of counterfeit $100 When the girl caught sight ae . of the matron ahe drew evolver, silver certificates in one of the sub-treasuries of the peut it st the matrone head and teat. for her to walk along the streets United States. with her, Mise Walters was sen ene oO q he orkhou Last Wednesday several arrests were made of ‘When her tine “empired.abe wes at counterfeiters in Lancaster and Philadelphia, which have en the soatton rand het, fa 2 r wee dent for. Putite efforts were made to} ation from upatairs toward her cell od after several amputations. TO BE BURNED AT THE STAKE led up to the present exposures, The counterfeiters |ovtain premier of © were caught working upon plates for new $100 certifi-|ner ant she wa» nonin sentence’ to cates, which were Riost perfect. They had finished | Serine ta baaith tame wne'ée Geet one plate and had already circulated some of the spuri-/ ii ins fa art peorny ciated aha ane ous notes. deeds. This morning the girl did Now it develops that these men were members of test, tavine ane was nick. "An the | an organized gang which had been boldly attempting to od and went upstairs aware her eofl corrupt one of the trusted officials of the United States er tr heart & snout. “Lave out sub-treasury in an eastern city and to induce him to unurtunste rit struck at their feet work off the ten million of counterfeits upon the gov- Gut Her Toen ernment by depositing the same in the vaults and taking | eee i tn oan Me out ten millions of good money, the government then |Dot polmmninn. A few weeks ano issuing the spurious notes to the public through the Me™ ris arvslopad ini une ero same official. would never be detected, coming directly from the sub- treasury and being almost faultless in execution. Chief Wilkie says that he has full details of the, conspiracy and that it will be nipped in the bud, but he) to designate the sub-treasury at which the scheme was in Georgia. to be carried out. Wholesale arrests are expected to) PAUMETTOS Ga. April i — A occur and one of the most sensational criminal cases in : ee eee raday night assassin branford at his home the history of the United States will then be fully mae who, ated Alfred sed. near here 1 then aasanited the exposed pee aa dead man's Gife: ‘There now seems no chanc bie esc = “3 When Hos aug will either Lawton Meets With Little Opposition. be | lynchedf.and his body MANILA, April 22—General Lawton marched into Novalisches today |¥!'® ' herd din fic Bian the stake here in & pre Le and found the town deserted. He encountered little opposition on the pi. peing b march. One small force of Filipinos met en route, was repulsed easily execute at the expense of only a few shots, One man in the North Dakota regi- Cranford. 4 e and presence of Mre. of his vietims, and ment was slightly wounded. This lack of opposition to Lawton’s men ‘ es m apogee mae, i. {a in striking contrast with that met by MacArthur, who traversed prac- | Mau a Grantor “Fae one tleally the same country not long ago. MacArthur's advance was ture is y expectea, stubbornly contested, and he had tofight nearly every foot of the way. | Lawton will probably Join MacArthur, but he Is making a wide detour en route, with the idea of rounding up the rebels further In the interior GIRLS TAUGHT int pita a stop to night guerrilla attacks on the forces along the rail- HIGH KICKING The troops with Lawton are two battalions of the Third infantry, the ‘Twenty-secon. infantry and Fourth cavairy, Lawton also has two light field guns. | Newark School Has a New ' Branch of Study. NEWARK, N. the other cities, provinct Aprt -Let all J and met Montejo Not Yet Made a Scapegoat. MADRID, April 22~It is denied here that Admiral Montejo, whore | ropciitan, henectorth hang. their tquadron was destroyed by Admiral Dewey, has been sentenced to death | heads. Neward now leads the way by « courtmartial. The staternent is made that the Inquiry into the | It high kicking for giris” in its high school ase ha ot yet been concluded. ne ON Sie: OF pee een | ‘Thirty young girls In a class of oe [high kicking! h ix the latest thing in the modern idea of advan Abundant Proof of Dreyfus’ Innocence. cod womanhood, Hereafter ne youns PARIS, April 22.—The Figaro continues to give the inside history of | Woman need consider herself ‘fn, shed” until she can knock a “dicer the Dreyfus case. Today it prints the testimony of handwriting ex- |i a gas jet with the tip of her perts before the Court of Cassation, The majority of witnesses paid | French boot that Ewterhazy, and not Dreyfus, wrote the Borderau. hey have a gymnasium tn the isliinniiiath tastes high school her In tt the young women's class meets daily. The girls Jury Refused to Find esters Guilty. |are supposed to learn many things . physical here, but now their whole CHARLESTON, S. C., April 22—The jury in the cases of the Lake {attention is given to the latest fad City men indicted for recent tynchings, reported this morning that it aie are ~ a7 ge ral an was unable to agree on the majority of the defendants, but was convinc. | ‘NY Call then) teenie mers. three of them were innocent, This ended the trial, and the jury | 4 sliding gauge is attached to a was discharged. It If not known whether any steps will be taken for | roy ling from the ceiling. On a new trial, but It ecems hardly probable that another will be ordered, | the # an adjustable leather tat ich a tempting bait . fo oe ends of the debutan eo ee . v 4 h ballet girl A novice at Sensational Suicide of a Racing Judge. h in Kick only four feet MEMPHIS, ‘Yonn., April 22—This city war the scene of a sensational | Fr tho leather plate swings “ lagily in jhe alr at that helght suicide today. Col. M. Lewis Clarke, the famous racing Judge, shot him 1 rroceed In profielency the self in the head with a revolver and expired soon afterwards, The cause | plate is raised until at last, after a of the deed remains a tnystery, certain number of lessons, accord ramen ee Tegra a Be Bie rrecnaem a re mete ABN a alii ali sre wom one SHAT TLE WASHINGTON, Girl Suicides in a and Died It was expected that the counterfeits amputated, and finally death resuit- | SATURDAY EVE " the Nexibility of the member snd the aptitude of the pupll, mont snaking renult# are aeeompliahe The record now atands at 6 f though the women have en practicing a few dayr This is from a standing eta With snd #ure tart will be onfidently expect that the women's high kicking for the United States will ome to this Jersey city A Fire Bug in Dang r. RUSHVILLE, Ind. April In condiartes burned a barn belonging to John Eiddemire, on Cracker Ridge. A porse of 100 farmers wet of the firebug, deter Ined on lynehing if he tt caught ght Wrecks Tombstones out io purauit LOUISVILLE, Ky April rr & wreck tn the Htine Central freight yards here this fore noon in which five eara were demolished, ‘The acc wan caused by carclensness in lee tnx @ witch open and a freight train erashed inte @ lat of ea pletely a siding One of the wrecked ca was loaded with pig tron an er with ¢ Th #tones into @ damage pre ably will ploces h roach $10,000, FRANCHISE FOR 8. & T. RAILWAY Is Considered by the Council Corporation Committee. ‘The corporation committee of the city counetl met in the clty hall last night to consider the applications of the Seattle & Tacoma Raflway com- pany and the Seattle Railway and Navigation company for railroad No definite action was and it was agreed to refer taken, applications back to the com- fleations. allway & Navigation ked for a franchine to build & standard gauge ratiroad to | ite coal mines at Mack Diamond. The Seattle & Tacoma Ratiway | pany, who propose to erect an railway tne between Bealthe was represented by J. IN A TUB = ‘These People Pro- pose to Travel. BUT IP THE WAVELETS DO WAVE |Where Will These Venteresome Moriners Bring Up--A Ques- | tion for the Fishes. ! | | A party of ten people will leave shortly for Ketchikan, Alaske, on the little steamer Carrie 8. Davis, They intend to do development work on some mining claims. The steam- jer on which they propose going to |their destination, is the little erate which was constructed last spring on the flats south of the city. Khe ut ten tons, and twenty- five tin length. The project of syage to the Alaskan coast in el of that description at th season of the year would seem de- idedly hazardous. ‘The boat wae tied up all winter with the bill "For Sale,” nailed to her mast Among the people who will go north the Davis are Mra. L. W. Davis, wife of L. W. Davis, the prin- cipal r. The othe e: Capt. obbi Binctair Billott, Capt. W. i. Bruce, George L. O'Conner, J. W. Montgomery, L. Delaney, Silas Livengood, and George Clift. DRIVING CLUB IS ORGANIZED At the meeting last night of the | Seattic horsemen, the Seattle Driv- | ing club was organized, and Dr. RB, |F. Smith was elected president, M. IM. Te ter, treasurer; and H. G. Morse, secretary, Plans were form- ed for the betterment of the high-/| ways and for the construction of new driveways, ‘The following com- i \tlee Wan appointed to eonfer with organized bodies of the city in the interest of good driveways: Capt. E. iH, Caine, B, J. Powers, A, N. Hol comb, H. 8 Upper, A. T. Van de Vanter, J. M. B. Atkinson, Mr. Jones and Jules Redelsheimer. The club will meet again next Pri- day evening in the city hall. CAPT. PRATT’S NEW COMMAND :: | Capt. J. F. Pratt, of the coast and geodetic survey @, left last night for San Franciseo, where he goos to take command of the government steamer Patterson, whieh sails for north next urveying up th Western Alaska line of summer will be {n and around the mouth of the Yukon river, paying particular attention to the bar which extends into the sea for miles The channels in Golofin bay will alao be located, and buoys will be plac ed to mark the deep water of the \' hannels, nth to continue | ture and carpets was k thie | Senne Seca NY IE pe ei em ‘THEI, EYES «BULGE OL Londoners Aghast) « Over Disclosures OF SHOCKING MEDICRL TESTS Continental Doctors @ ulate Babies for Scientific Purposes, LONDON, April 2% aghast over the diselonures m practionn resorted to be doctors « Hinent in experimenting. The stat are made oo ity Sandon's best known ph; an article over his signature in the & bew anti-viviacction publication, and says in part The Deutsche Medical Wochen- leorift, describing how Professor 8. Bohreiber effects Dr, Koch’ of injections oy f drea at the Koenln, hospital, in which the injections are about 00 times as much as Dr. Koch said wae the maximum dose for « child of 3 tod years, The experi ments were designed to ascertain the effects of insevlations of various virulent bactert women and were conducted on vem “Dr. A. Deederlein relates how he inoculated a young yomarr wo- man with a microbe of virus, Dr. Mage, aevistant University Hospital for Women in | Letpaic, made similar tnoculations on & woman Who Was In a helpless condition, He also inoculated Inte the body of a new-born infant a luber culla, tell new born ehil- large number of sta) mipesoey) in the | | Royal University ompital | “Dr, Schimmelsbuch inoculated liwo boys with @ virus taken from « boil on a aiei'e ear, Both boys died from postules, Dr. Janson, “of Slockhoim, tried the effecta of Inoculation of small- = virue on ae need ettpeane ehildren of eniia- Bpetein, professor ion, in Prague, tn children WTR round worms for thé sake of experiment.” Again and again unsuspecting men and women haye been inccutated with the mont Ibathsime diseases by these ministers of healing WANTS WIS INSURANCE ‘The elght theurance companies learrying policies on the {ill-fated |steamer Brixham, are slow in pay- jing, and tt t* said that unless the money i# soon fortheoming, Capt James Carrell, receiver of the Boston & Alaska Bteamship: company, will j bring oult ageinet them, Captain | Geseas Will leave shortly for San TO CRUISE IN BERING SEA’: The schooner Tizsie Sorenson, i which has been fitting out for a cod- fishing cruise in the Bering sen, ts | all ready for sailing, and will un- doubtediy get away during the after- | noon, The trim schooner was in readiness for departure yesterday ‘The water tanks were fall of fresh water, the supplits Wete all on board, the ropes were neatly colled, # the deck clean and white, but stilt the schooner 414 not sail. Why wae ir ‘The reason was simple. Linsins, of the Sorenson, perienced sailof. © He hi many fierce gales on the Alaskan coast, laughed at the fury of the storm, and brought his vessel safe into port, Hut, lke the euajority of the men tn his calling, he ix a firm believer that it is an ii! thing to begin a voyage’on Friday, and, therefore, the schooner remained in | port. | An inoldent, plainly iMustrating the | wniversal faith in the above super. stition, oceurred @ year ago when | the rush to Cook iglet and Kotaber |sound was at its height. On the 13th day of a certain month, three steamers and a schooner were sched- uled to depart for the north. They were all loaded and in readiness for departure, but, by a singular eoln- eldence, |The significance of the fact was very | plain to the skippers, and as A con- | nequenoa, notwithstanding the pro- | testations of the passengers, the four | vessels did not pail on their noth- ward yoyage until after midnight. ARMY RECRUITS Captain in an ex- STILL WANTED | A rumor has been put in cireula- |tlon to the effect that the army has been recruited up to the required number, and that recruiting stations ntly opened, including the local under charge of Capt. all to be closed was denied this morning at we local office. No orders have been | recetved to that effect, and it is be ved that the enlistment of re- poate so far, has not been large enough to bring the army up to the | required number. Soldiers are continually being dis- charged, and new recruits are neces sary. A requisition list for furni cently sent in |by Capt, O'Netl, and the articles ted daily, ‘This does not h the office would be closed ted and sent away by the local office num jbers sixty-two. ‘There are at present fifteen applicants for examination. Only twenty men have been reject ed, and one-half of those because of intemperan: as the So far, the recruits ac STAR. £ APRIL 22, 1809. ally Inoe- ! London ie all of Koningeberg, tried the) | verg midwifery | physician in the | faced | the day fell on a Friday. | O'Nell, 99OOC% 990 0909GOFO90 Telephone es ig to Pike IS 1000600000 PECLAL = Crockery Department. Cottage Dinner Sets $3.50 Semi-Porcelain, §4 piece 3.50 Decorated, Gold-Lined, $9 _ piece agar Semi-Porcelain, Cups and Saucers, per set j ‘ 40 | Semi-Porcelain, SPELGER & HURL BUT ] 1215-1217 Second Avenue | Dinner Plate LOOK AT OUR SELECTION OF Wall Papers BEFORE BUYING 300 Pike Street. BI An SAINT Co. Moran Brothers Company ENGI RS AND SHIP BUILDE oad lates and al ranches of the Aw aud “ Kobart” wate? tubs bullers and the Uuited sta "Crockery and House Furnishings AT LOWEST PRICES. GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR CO. 906-908 Firet Avenue 1 4 x ¥ e WATER POWER Delivered Electrically for facturing and Industrial Uses |\Snoquaimie Falls Power Co. Disiribeting Stetions at GILMAN, RENTON, SEATTLE. Seoond Ave. and Male &, eeee ooo oe ° HOPKINS & CO, ttt its BROKERS, = jooms D and €, Bailey Buliding, Seattle, Wash. Continnous market quotations at principal eentors of trade received over our wires ‘anconver end Victoria. DANGEROUS NEGLECT OF THE EYE 9 ougen af sense tn the body, te v8, for the roliel of effectiv « the execution of your orders is nywhe M. CLAY EV ERSOLE, Opticlan, 72) Pret Ave. ‘Tor ¢ Sane Invest Buy ot {3 te Budale Leet! Pender Derelopment Company 5 Mine. ftatance sa teat (rom the Mig Yaftato milla v uty im the world, and nd Hon dollars has been paid for claims in Suis o company owns ihe Lg agi or Diggers and ach ti Laws! Tondee te On ite bs mom Afosrict im thee beet wbx molten. OID The Loge) Temter be new ——4 developed rapidly, The company has ten prospec: tore out hunting other propert ry ht iene have been sold im Aesttle ip the last fow days. Mave omly @ tient imver of shares left at § cents, them the price will be raised to 10 conte Gaal FR oiee ts Dexter Horton Btock, aud get portect map aad report with full ex 4 handle all stendard stocks. We want to make money for ouy customers. You make money by see! us before buying A DANGEROUS WILL MARRY FARM HAND) HIS TYPEWRITER Charged With a Serious Of-| New York Millionaire to Wed fense at Oakfield. an Alameda Girl. BATAVIA, April 22.—Henry Bem-| ALAMEDA, Cal, April 22—The 4 German farm hand, iD the jculmination of a romantic love af- county jail, having been arrested in |faip will be reached next Wednes- | kfeld yesterday by Deputy Sher-\ day when Miss Ciara Usinger, of if Howland, charged with the crime |inie city, will become the bride of of assault in the third degree. 8. B. Hutchinson, a young million- The complaint was entered by An-/aire of New York. drew Gray, of Oakfield, who states! Two years ago Mr. that Bemus came to his home a few | ¢ alifornie to take Charee of nights ago and asked to see his ithe firm's San Francisco branch. | daughter, aged 20. On being | About a year ago Miss Usinger en- |refused. he made an attempt to Wex tered his employ as typewriter. Mr. Ithe door down. His examination 18 Hutchinson was smitten with her to take place on Monday charms and soon wooed and won hir The prisoner is likely to be held pretty clerk to answer to @ more serious charge," The bride is a bright, talented | that of arson, as the following morn~ | young lady, with a wide circle of ad- ling Mr. Gray found a bunch of straw jpirers and friends partly burned, piled up against his nec VE ER |house. Bemus, it is thought, was cendia Pe RS SS Hutchinson Albert Swanson has brought sult in the superior court againsr Ed Van der Ven, the avi Blake, 4 THE EXPLOSION the lesse, of the but Plosion eceurred. Swanson he his ft ankle sprained, and was injur- ei in the right leg. He ts suing for #1900 damages. And Secured Timely Tc CORE Assistance. ARE KIDNAPPED ps Another Case Resembling the ASSAULT ATTEMPTED BY CABMAN ,.,, naPiner APSuction. | CHICAGO, April 22—A_ kidnap- Ding case like the Lapiner abduction | case is causing the public of this city much concern, “Ruth and Hagel Out Near the End of the Lake Stonehouse, aged 5 and 6 reapect- ively, disappeared from their home, Union Car Line.—The jS016 Calumet avenite,a week ago, Police Notified, ENTER COMBINE Lake Union car line were startled by | the screams of a young woman at a} INDIANAPOLIS, April 22.—The Efforts that have been making to jate hour last night. An investiga organize a trust of the buggy and n was made, and the disturb, to a hack which was stand- light wagon manufacturing inter- ests of the United States have fail- the bushes. hackdriyer had a young girl ing 1 Th by the neck, and she was making ea pecause the Parry company, of violent efforts to free herself from | this city, the largest In the countr: his grasp. A passerby asked the | declined to become a ty to man what he was doing, and the | “Last month,” Mr. Pa said, in driver re that the young lady | discussing the reasons for his deelin- was drunk and be was taking her |ation, “we had the largest business he in our history, and this month we girl claimed that she had been | shall do even better, We did not drugged, and the man was trying to | think we could better our condition assault her Hefore help could be | by going into a combination.” The summoned the driver put the girl in |company has increased ite force of the hack and drove rapidly away. |employes to about 2500 hands, in« The police were notified, but no |cluding about 700 at the Connersville arrests have yet been made, works, ii ince tt tc tn 8

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