The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1899, Page 1

ORM Frere ar reer memmnamnnennrrimtarmm mentee 990900 0000000000 Tweaty-five Cents a Month Uy Moll oF Carrter SLOVO SPH OSVO OOOO OOOE: i. VOL. I. SEATTLE, WASHING banks, and a large number of whole sale houses at Atlin. A water com pany is making arrangements for bringing water from the mountains eight miles away by means of flumes, the water in Atlin lake being bad for use At Dincovery, on Pine creek, the | men are hard work on thelr Jelaime, ‘The gold commissioner tn |mald to be freindly toward the Amer- foan miners, and make no dixcrim- |tnation between them end Cana Deae ‘STATE PRESS ASSOCIOTION committee of the Presa association Filipinos Could Not Run Away Fast Enough From Advancing Ameri- cans Near Santa Tomas. The executive le ashington Sti met y afternoon in the chamber ommerce, and decided jto hold their annual convention In |Heattle July next, commencing one {day prior to the visit of the National Jeditortal association. A neral | held regarding ar- |rangements for the Jand the matter of discussion war annual meeting, tr securing ortation in railroads and at eg memt ot ines for the Stpffen, manager Park pavil tendered the ot the pavil and grounds, which| ABANDON QUANTITIES OF STORES 5°." | The led to |State F view re the Madison on, | use a following delegates were elect. |’ f present the an ane Washington | jation at the meet. | ing of the National Editorial asso. elation at Portland in July M . mutts, Orno trong, J. A.C. Brant 1 Frank B ¢ Murphy, J. Hannum Jones A. Steel. Several Towns Burned to the Ground—Gene- ral Otis Wires Casualities to the Twen- tieth Kansas—-General Luna Wounded in Battle. {ai and W UNIVERSITY | LAW COURSE Mt wctation ot The board of regents of the Uni- versity will meet with the Bar as- } of Seattle this after- MANILA, May 5.—General Luna, commanding the ty Gingean: cin Meare ot See eastabliah of a law @epariment Filipinos, was wounded in the fighting which occurred |in the University. | Premident Groves yesterday around Santa Tomas. The route of the en~|trom mesne scsitine’s law educse emy at Santa Tomas was complete, the Filipinos fleeing | fo" acetate ene tat teciatee on special trains toward San Fernando. They left the | ‘ure yi atiow of the payment of « town of Santa Tomas in complete ruin, nearly every |'= nothing of the kind in the Stat: house in the place having been destroyed by fire. The |Sponine tor wuch x wehocl aa now advance on San Fernando was resumed this morning. (j73287),0ch MS SS AS ae — den which he tau; o atet, Li [be ts am wutwanagtie supporter af the New York, May 5. —The Evening Journal’s Hong~ |meve for establishing 4 law depart ment at the Univers 1dge kong cablegram says a dispatch from San Fernando in- | tenson nas also given the move bis dicates that Aguinaldo’s stronghold has been captured “*\**" st *sepert by the Americans. Wesley Miller, 4. rs Heffner and EF. Quinn, three employes of the 4 Northern, at Smith's Cove, injured by failing timbers thin morning. They were working ender “Following |* scaffolding when it fol, striking the rab WASHINGTON, May §.—The following dispatch | ** came from General Otis this morning: ym were the casualties at Santa Tomas: Taggart, Twen- teaming them about the limbs. ‘They tieth Kansas, and four enlisted men killed, three officers | Moret te Shen to Prove and twenty-two enlisted men injured. Among the in- |" >orits! jured was General Funston, hand, slight. Lawton re=| JE Smatt one ot the vee Ne} ports having captured 1§0 bushels of rice, and 250 tons |accitent yesterday afternooy in h by a badly cut wits of sugar at Balinag. Value of subsistence captured at|an na as. He was eplitting: kil om, and in » st Malalos was one million and a quarter of dollars. Large and captures of rice and of cars belonging to the enemy | Te, wvund, yes who put effected at other points. Insurgents destroyed by fire five stitches In the eu today were yesterday the town of Santa Tomas, and last evening) she fired San Fernando.” : WASHINGTOD May 5.—The Navy department has succeeded in eiphering the dispatch from Admiral K # The full text is an follows “All quiet at Apia, Mataafa and his chief agreed to keep outside lines Prescribed by British senior officer and myself, and to observe pe: watll arrival of commission. Think there will not be more fighting. LONDON, May 5.—A Capetown telegram says: “Chamberlain's dis- | patch to President Kruger of the Transvaal, protesting against the dynamite monopoly, amounts to an ultimatum that the Boer government must recognize the suzerainty of the Queen. The Boers think that | Great Britain's demand attacks their independence, for which they are willing to fight. 5.—~The rebels south of Mantia, MANILA, May who have been indulg- ing in petty attacks on the Americans recently, became bolder laat night and made an attempt to break through the lines. They were easily repulsed, but they maintained a desuitory fire on the American posi- tions for some hours afterwards. The navy cc forces tn punishing the rebels who made the atta At daybreak the Monadnock drew in close to Paranaque and began shelling the place. ‘The bombardment has continued all day, and a tremendous amount of Gamage has been doae. erated with the land MANILA, May 6.—General MacArthur occupies San Fernando to- Gay. The place was evacuated by the rebels, who retreated north on the trains. A small detachment of rebels were left to cover the retreat of the Filipino army, but they were quickly routed by the Americans without loss, Our soldiers went to work to extinguish the fires started in the town by the rebels Chosen From the Later—Hale’s brigade was the first to go into San Ferns i i * ndo. With two battalions of the Iowa volunteers and a Hotchkiss gun, he tion In onor first advanced to the right of town, and, flanking the enemy, drove them ward Atkinson and other anti-expansionista were discussed at today’ meeting of the cabin Postmaster General Smith announced that if t Mayor Tumes today announced the names of ten membere of the order prohibiting the sending of the same through the mails was disobey. | committ which will have charge of th ebration In honor of the ed, the offender would be vigorously prosecuted. home-coming of the Washington volunteers. The persons selected are: iaacoeiaiaaiias Cyrus Walker, John A. Campbell, B. B. Piper, BE. H. Wells, J. Redel- WASHINGTON, May 5.—Chas, Winston and Rdward Strather, nogro | *heimer, Daniel Jones, 1. A. Nadau, A. J. Blethen jr, H. A. Chadwick, murderers, were hanged here this afternoon. Winston killed his mia- | 2nd N. H. Latimer, These committeemen will act in conjunction with tress, and Strather murdered his wife | ten others, to be appointed this week by President Graves, of the cham- ber of commerce i | slowing is a copy of the letter sent out this afternoon by the Pan Utopia, wh ails | According to passengers from At- o to of the committeemen whom he has selected mga ree ka, will take north jin who arrived here yesterday| “Dear Sir: On M Council of the t fe the United ay fom ‘lon the steamer Humboldt, that | lution No. 169, reque nto appoint a oe of ten citizens to en ; : i survey. | a1, sah Mdeaee ce ving | formulate 5 7 @ sentiments of the people of the State Mm purpose of obtaining outhts. The |Much activity going on in boat build. | Teturn from the Philippine Islands . unter eadership of '0® At the present time there are I take it for granted that every patriotic citizen will be glad to | W. Peters, and it con. |fVe large boats in course of con- ist in providing @ great celebration to welcome home the troops i whom struction. Several large buildings | whose valorous deeds have shed new luster upon the State of Washing. wing: Bd Brown, @.|F@ also going up, and real estate js ton. 1 have, theref ¢ nated you as one of the committee of ten. ©. Cabilt and T. Hunt. ‘®pldly Increasing in value. There | Due notice will be given of the first meeting of the committee king 1 them fifteen |!" sald to be a large amount of “T, J. HUMES, Mayor.” xr sto re- releht stored at Bennett awaiting President Graves, of the chamber of commerce, stated today that 1 . the opening of navigation before It| he would probably have his lat of ten committeemen ready by Satur- hs can be sent to either Atlin or Daw-| day. He wished to personally see each one of the men selected, to make lent schooin | #0n sure that none would decline. 1 1 address Atlin ts said to be a busy town, _ —— tents of 11a whi. And much dullding is also ena the hla re Rapp Ahab. fig dy ‘The railroad companies have, through their representatives in Se- those of carpenters being $7.50 per j attle, all sign fled a willingness to contribute toward the success of a day and jaborera $5, but there nee | Dis demonstration by making @ round trip excursion rate on all lines, ‘The F o . qua of idle men There are | This will be an a Jded inducement to out of town people to come and turers wil t tt n|two sawmills running at Atlin, which | Participate and make the day one long to be remembered to perfect an f and elec: (are said to be turning out from #000 ‘The different companies operating steamers from Seattle to Sound Officers. It In ex 1 that to 10,000 feet of lumber a day. ‘Tho | ports also state that for the celebration they will have excursion rat sentative m twenty «| town ry orderly, and no gamb-| for the benefit of people in other towns, All of the agents declare shingle mills in this county will be Jing is allowed, ‘There ten or twolve| that the plan ja an excell#nt one, and that everybody should be given present. ‘saloons, two drug stores, three | an opportunity to welcome the returning troops. Nae SEATTLE HTON, FRIDAY VE SHERMAN NAY WIN Leads the Speaker- ship Contest. VOTE HE WILL MAVE EAS WASHINGTON, May SRepre- |dentative James 8 Sherman, of New York. be in the city/for the past two days, Mr. Shermag in con- Adent that he will be choseR as the Apeaker of the ffty-sixth gongress, and the confidence ts shared by most | ot those who have canvassed the ituation. It is conceded @hat Mr. Sherman will have practically the solid vote of the Republican stat east of the Alleghanies, While Ke resentative Moody of Mass@ehusctts has |t# spoken of as a factor im the race, his candidacy is only one to secure prominence and favorable commit- ignments, The attempt to consoldiate the West upon any one candidate will not succeed. Repre- sentative Cannon, Hopkine and Hen- Gerson are in the Meld, but there are already indte ern representatives, feeling assur- ed of the muccess of Mr. Bherman, will vote for the winning @andidate tee ore PITTSBURG, Pa, May 5.—The a otee 9 ee ee chances | vnited Traction company, of this or places on committees many. of this With Mr. Sberman the leading |“HtY. has advanced the wages < candidate for the speakership and ported by the entire New York lelegation, the doorkeeper of the house, who is from New York, will, of course, be obliged to yield to a candidate from another state, Rep- resentative Sherman expects to se- cure the votes of the Pennsylvania delegation in return for votes in the part of bie friends for Mr, MeDowell as clerk of the house, The office of doorkeeper and that of sergeant arms, the batter now held by B. Russell, of Misrourt, will be filed by candidates from other states. Poss- idly both will go to the West in re- turo for aveh Western votes as Mry Shetman may be able to secure, It ie maid that the alate has not yet been made up, and that the two of- flees referred to will be held open unti! a combination is made in the Interests of Mr. Sherman, While the *jedministration ta taking no part tm lam, are the speakership fight it te known that it is, to aay the least, friendly to Mr. Sherman's candidacy, @ one close in touch with it believe that he will sucoeed Mr, Reed as the pre- | siding officer of the house, Brick ayers’ Strike. TORONTO, Ont, May 5.—About 200 bricklayers, representing 3 firme, will go out on rike Monday morn- ing. The buliders offered 3 ce n hour. The bricklayers dema at firet 87% cents and then 40 cents, The employers refused MAYOR HUMES SELECTS TEN COMMITTEEMEN To Co-operate With Ten Others to be Chamber of Com- merce to Direct the Celebra- of the Wash- from the place. Hale's men had to wade through two rivers under i brisk fi fro a r t | t a r Bow rom @ small garrison the Filipinos had left behind to defend Ing on 0 un eers. WASHINGTON, May 6.—The seditious pamphlets sent out by Ba- tions that many west- | NING, MAY 5, rland Must Pay. DEA MOINES, Ia, May 5.—-Wil Ham A. MoFariand, formeriy secre ary of state, has been found guilty of extorting money from clerks tn the state census bureau while It was under his direction in 1896, The Jury at the trial brought in « verdict that) MeFarland should return $1420, the amount which was paid to him by the ka to defray the expenses of his canvass for governor, in return for which they wore to hold their places. The state sued to recover $20,000, the difference between what the census would have cort if the law had been followed in compiling the returns and what it did coat un der the pian adopted, The court held that the executive council and not McFarland was responsible for this |McFarland will probably pay up the |Sudgement, so there will be no ap A BULL RUNS AMUGK Ran own ‘Thre 2 People in Streets of Birmingham. While a drove of cattle were being driven through here this afternoon by their owner, William Duff, a bull) vr jeuddenly became vicious, ke laway from the other cattle and PAINT YOUR HOUSE :: OOD ODM OOD DSO DOEOOD Telephone Subscriptions to Pike iSO 09 FFP OL OOIOTOOOVOED 1809, NO. 60. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE We ask you to look over these counters. IT WILL PAY te SPELGER & HURLBUT 1215-1217 Beoond A KITCHEN FURNISGHERS ntit WELL, It re w done and are wiil to pay a fair price, let us figure with you Third and Pike. STAR PAINT CO. Moran Brothers Company ENGINEERS AND SHIP BUILDERS. Our plant includes steu and wood construction ad covery all, Uraniehes of the bus Mining and wil lasses of Agents for “Worthington” end “Roberts water (ube botlers and the Unite e Aa SNAP errr lly charge on the people on th |The first one that the en overtook wae Uttle Roy Robison, |T-year-old son of Wiillam Robine w of this village. The Httle fell knocked down aod bruised b not seriously. The animal then charwed down the street and In its mad rush knocked down Mrs. J |Logan and Mise Mary A. Logan, wh [had just alighted from an electric ar, The former was bruised and] Jammed up quite badly and the lat ter had her collar bone broken and! otherwise injured. The animal, at? otherwise Injured. The animal, « quite # chase, was caught by Mr. Duft and subsequently killed. The | [reason given for the bull's action is) jthat he became overheated by driv-| ing. Car Men Get | lore Pay. lemployes 10 per cent. and following |thia, the West End Traction com-| pany today announced an Increase of [7% per cent. to 20 men. Kounts | Bros. have given thelr brickyard em- |ployes at Harmaraville advance | of 1% per cent. | RAILROAD PERSONALS. A. B, Calder, traveling passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific rat way at Vancouver, B. C, arrived tn the city this morning see J. EB. Holton, of the Southern Pa- cle office is in Tacoma today. Fire at Sturgis, Mich. STURGIS, Mich., May §—This city Was visited by a disastrous fire th Morning which threatened the exist- ence of the entire business portio arted from a lamp in the] | Hotel Thornton and soon the entire structure was doomed. Munger's shoe store, Packard's rug store, grocery and Jewelry store and Lot's meat market were totally |destroyed. All business houses suf jfered partial lonses, Mpectal tra |from surrounding towne brought fire departments and by a desperate ef fort the fire wai t under control Lone, $75,000, j ‘WILLFUL L LAWBREAKER torney General to WASHINGTON, May 5.—The fact that law-making bodies do not al- ways know ft all has just been de- monatrated in a rather forcible man- ner, The last congres# passed a bill authorizing the expenditure of one million dollars for a new building for the department of justice. But the |law makers provided that the attor- hey general should continue to occu- py the old butiding until the new one | shall be ready for occupancy. There is a provision in the law that no butlding shall be rented for |governmental purpones except by express permission of congre Ir | Attorney General Griggs were to live up to this behest bis department would be homeless for a few years. But he has concluded to become a wilful law breaker and has rented ry home. The next congress » to make provision for the ent. | tempo? will ha payment of the Killed by the Train. LANSDALE, P Koehler, 22; his , May 5.—Herman ster, Mollie, &, and brother, Robert, 5, were killed in a grade crossing dent near here last night. Robert was found on the pilot of the engine still alive, but died in a few minutes. ‘Divorce for Cissie le Loftu NEW YORK, May re. Justin | Huntley McCarty, better known by her stage name of Cisste Loftus, has been granted a decree of absolute | divorce from her husband, | The decree was issued by Justice | Stover in the sup |roport of Charles Donohue, who was lappointed referee, and who decided that Mr. McCarty had been unduly | intimate with @ woman whore name |was not disclosed tn the published | | lrecord of the case. Mr, McCarty martiedMis #Loftus in 1804 before she was seventeen years old Got His D erts. NEW ORLEANS, May 5.—William FP. Herrington, who has been in jail at Leesville for a month on the oh of assaulting Miss Mary La cone, was probably fatally shot by a girl today. She called at the jail, ying that she desired to make final arrangements for a compromise of the case, as #he Intended to marry the young man. She was searched, | but no weapons Were found, and she was allowed to o'to the cell, “Tam going to kill you,” said the girl as soon as she got in view of Herring- ton, and with that she drew a revol ver from her bosom, shot him W |the old Corcoran Art building as a} me court on the | Framed Pictures on Glass From 26 Cents Up. GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR CO. 906-908 First Avenue ° WATER POWER strial Uses Delivered Electrically for Manufacturing and | Snoquaimie Falis Power Co. Distribating Stations at GILMAN, REWTON, SEATTLE Second Ave. api Ma! pow * BROKERS... 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Third Ave. and Spring St. ‘Phone Buff MAY DAY SNOWSTORM Palouse Has Quite a Peculiar mhber Condition. © will PPNDLETON, Or,, May 5.—Shear-| GAR ©, Wash, May 5.—The jing operations in this region are | inhabitants of the Palouse country from two weeks to a month 1ate.| were startled to awake on Monday Searcely any shearing has been done ‘ las vet. and the cold weather remains |™oring and find the ground white |to prevent the sheep men from tak-| With snow, A strange “May Day,” Ing wool from the sheep's back 1, and many were the jokes Some have got along well with the an early winter, a short sum- }work, but nearly all who have done | c, Snow began falling here their shearing report quite heavy | at 4:30 that morning, and in an hour losses tn addition to those sustained | the ground. was covered to a depth from the winter's severity of an inch, About 8 o'clock the snow » & spring has never been! turned to rain and by 9 o'clock the ext need in this part of the world. snow was gone and mud had taken The thermometer ranges from 10 to its place, No damage was done, and |15 degrees lower than the average/the weather was not disagreeably of normal years, with corresponding Aiscgmfort and diMfieulty to the she mountain re. During the day the sun shone brightly at intervals between show- men, All through the Jers. It was a novel sight for early gions the snow remains remarkable] risers to Sehold the entire country |for thie time of year, and in the Co-| wrapped in @ mantle of snow. The |iumbia valley in all the towns there Se Wale TE. ‘ebbeatence’ ct are entertained fears ¢ a flood r which will be a repetition of that of ee cal 1894, when the # reached stage higher than even the traditions Killed by ‘Trolley. of the Indians told about tn the past} HORNELLSVILLE, N. ¥., May and railroad managers express their}—-Mrs, Isnne Hall, a farmer's wife, fears of trouble more than usual,|residing at Canisteo, was struck by nd are making extensive prepara. |an electric car in this city this fore« n and so severely tions for the coming of the high through the lungs and surrendered, ili ini Sd ict Aliana atti lati is aed leh <i Rb india injured that waters, she died this afternoon, I iJ ’ aC taok” pet