The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1899, Page 2

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Washing tom, as tecond class matter Although on tts face the Anglo- Russian understanding with refer ence to China concerns Iteelf main ly with the delimitation of a sphere in which Russia shall have para mount rights to build railways and work mines, it practically Manchuria and Liaotung Peninsula from the purview of the open-door policy of Great Britain, Those na tone which have interests werve in the aforesaid regions can no longer depend upon British lead ership in the Aight for equality of commercial privileges in that part of the Chinese Empire lying beyond the Great Wall Th happens that Nivehwang, which is situated in the phere tacitly abandoned to Russia. ie the most important entrepot for American trade with China, To be sure, Russia has promised to make & free port of Talienwan, the future terminus of fer Transasian rail- way, and that Niuchwang shall re main nominally a Chinese treaty port open to us in accordance with our commercial conventions with China; nevertheless, the temptation to Russia will be strong to exclude the competition of sea borne com- Merce with her overland trade in the Manchurian tnterland. The bur- den of the struggle to keep this re-~ gion free of access to maritime na- tions will hereafter fall upon the American Minister at Pekin as the Tepreeentative of the Power most interested in keeping ft open. excludes to con In the days when the trusts were leas than a dozen in number, there ‘was reason to believe that only a few avaricious persons were con- nected with them. At the present time, however, the enormous devel- opment of these combinations, both es regards thelr numbers and th capital invested, suggests the belief thetr promoters and stockhold- ere are too numerous to mention. It will not do to assume in these days that when ten men meet together Of @ street corner and denounce the that half of them have trust STATE NEWS. | | train the natives aong moe we ore retaining old employ are making removals only for cause We are now equipping the with distinctive uniforms, and al carriers at al delivery postefficers will w them. } Assailant in Skirts. CHESTER, Pa May % — Two young women, returning from a ball in this city to bomes in Rid ley township, an adventure which has stirred up the cttiaens Letpervil! While crossing the bridge at a man dressed in women's clothes suddenly aprang sut at them girls fed, scream ing, with the strang in full pur sult, Watchman Pendieton heard the screams, and ran to thelr amulet anee, when the assal) ‘ Residents of 1 ed themacives and hunted for the Jinguised man, but failed to find |< him, } AMUSEMENTS. Nobby Gaylor and “Borley Twins” are drawing good houses at the Third avenue theater this week The speciaities are good, and the company It composed of a clever lot of funmakers. | Morits Rosenthal, the great music ian, wili appear at the Seattle th ter tomorrow night PUSHING ITSELF ALONG NICELY i's the Project for a Volun- | teers’ Return Celebration. Another step was taken towa: Insuring the success of the celebr tion In honor of the coming of the Washington volunteers from Manila when the board of education at its meeting last evening favorably dis- cussed the project. One of the first topies brought up for consideration | was the resolution providing for a celebration recently passed by the jetty council, It was read by Becre- tary Banks, and then C. J. Smith ward | “Iam fully in favor of the provis- |tons contained tn the resolution. [should by all meansgive the Wash- ington boys 4 hearty welcome upon | their return. Dr. G. V. Calhoun expressed him- self as heartily in favor of the cele- bration. John Lamb endorsed the | project. “Give the boys a rousing | reception,” re remarked. C. EB. Pat- |terson, Lyman Banks and Superin- |tendent 8. J. Barnard, expressed | themaelves in a similar train. AILWAY NOTES. | The Burlington road is now ru ning the heaviest engine ever con- structed for passenger service. It weights, together with the tender, |aeven feet in diameter, see ‘The western ratiroads have not yet agreed upon rates for the National Educational association meeting to be held at Los Angetes In July, and consequently the eastern roads have been unable to issue any rates. The to be charged in the even | delegates returning via Portland. } see The Canadian Pacific will put on & record breaking Ayer some time ‘The town of Stevens needs a public | this month, which is intended to beat King & Wiley are starting a pot- tery at Palouse. eee A $4090 hotel ts being built at Ki- na, in the Yakima valley. see Cattie round-ups have commenc- ed in Eastern Washington. one New Whatcom is arranging for a big Fourth of July celebration. “+ A parior of Native Daughters has been organized at Port Gamble. eee Several new business houses have | recently opened up in Bima. oe Mrs. M. A. Woods is a candidate for school clerk in New Whatcom. cee Farmers are drilling wells near ‘Willa Walla, and striking good flows of water. see C. 8. Kale has soid his shingle mill at Noosack, to Butters & McLeod, of Déming. one The Port Townsend city counctl has levied @ poll tax of $2 per head on male inhabitant . Forest fires porth of Blaine last weks destroyed three orchards, one containing 599 frult trees. ‘fe A piece of land seven miles south- west of Dryad, Pacific county, which has been filed on by Emil Meyer as a@ timber claim, is said by Eb Rus- sell to be agricultural land, and shiwid be homesteaded, and he is having it contested. oe J. M. Clapp, United States engin- eer at the jetty, was up from West- port Saturday. Mr. Clapp said that aebout seventy men are now employ- 4 on the jetty and the work will be pushed vigorously the coming seas on. The men will be put on shifts #0 as to work fifteen hours a day.— Aberdeen Herald. . o- A warrant call of unusual mag- nitude has been made by Stat Ttéasurer Young. A general fund call. is made for $57,503.85, for war-| rénts Nos. 32,811 to 33,415 inclusive. | On the military fund a call is made for $87,592.85, for warrants Nos. 22,- S11 to 33,615 inclusive. On the mil- Stary fund is made for the sum of $6661.04, for warranta Nos 2541 to 2654 inclusive. In terest ceas- es on these warrants on May 15. Cuban Postal Service. WASHINGTON, May 9.—Director Genéral of Posts BE. G. Rathbone, of Cuba, had a long conference with Postmaster General Smith today ‘Mr. Rathbone reported a substantial improvement in every channel. Lat- er, Mr. Rathbone, in an interview aid: “From the crude, disrupted old attonomist Spanish postal schem bullt up a we have completely equipped American system, with the game domestic service enjoyed in tie country, While we have 150 Atrericaim a8 acting postmasters to the time made by the fast trains of \the Great Northern and Northern Pacifie. The Great Northern being im direct competition with the Can. jadian Pacific wil undoubtedly flyer. see A new station has been establish- ed on the Great Northern at Trint- {aad, Wash. Chas. O'Laughlin has been appointed agent and operator Newly equipped sleeping cars, both first and second class, are now run- ning on the Union Pacific through to Chicago, from Portland, without [change eee The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul is preparing to expend, out of ithe earnings, about $2,500,000 in im- provements, repairs and construc- tion of new lines, double tracks, new cars, and locomotives, ete company is adding to its rolling |stock at the present time about fif- |teen freight cars daily COUNCIL TRIP OF INSPECTION | At the suggestion of City Engineer R. H. Thompson last night, a trip of observation to Cedar Lake was ar- ranged for by the members of the city council, Mayor Humes, Comp- |trolier Parry and Supeintendent Youngs, will also accompany the councilmen. Mr. Thomson will have charge of the party, which will leave tomorow on the Seattle & Interna- tional railroad, and go to North Rend From there they will take a stage to Cedar Lake and spend per- haps three days inspecting the sur- vey Incidentally to the proposed trip, Navin Introduced a resolution direct- ing the city engineer and corpor tlon counsel to prepare an ordinance submitting to the voters the quea- thon of building a power plant on Cedar river and furnishing to the city electric power. This motion was tab! but will undoubtedly be taken up later. Robert Moran sent in an applica tion for @ franchise to build a spur of track from Rallroad avenue to Alaska street to the property of the « referred company. The matter w to a special committe naisting of Councilmen Crichton, Muldoon and McArdle e@ cw A resolution was introduced by Chairman Castleman, of the fire and water committee, directing the board of public works to purchase two new fire engines, The resolution was adopted, and the committee will meet representatives of the various manu facturers at the City hall, May 17 Mayor Humes’ veto of the saloon istributing ordinance was sus tained by the council by a vote of 7 to 6 The appointment of F. B. Clev land as sanitary inspector, was con- [firmed unanimously. We! | 127 tone, and has driving wheels | trouble all lies In the aditional rate) of the | that Russia im-| prove upon the time made by tts | will finally overcome the longetand ‘The | [WOMAN NAMES THE PRESIDENT Cuban Politicians Bow to the Wisdom of Mme. Cospedes. MAVANA, May %—The future of Cuba will probably be largely in fuenced by a woman, Mme. Cespe jdes, Whose saloon is vinited by the j known men, not only of Ha but of the ntire isiand, Gen. Maximo Gomes i a constant visitor and a weleome guest of thin lady and dines with her from three to five times a week, Mme, Coepesdes la a widow of the frat president of Cuba in the ten years’ war 1 din her salon are far than any decree pars by the re atly defunet Cuban ably. Men of standing, who ar fevoted to the principles of Cuban national independence are welcom d to the salon asniet in ite unetia, It is believed by persons who are ina ition to ke w that a full understanding has been reach ed by Mme, Ceapesdes and General Gomer regarding Cuba's future ar the first real president of the p posed republic, for all of the form with or presidents have had office it power. At one tim jeneral Gomes wan reriourly maidered for the presidency, but after the action f the ambly in arsaiting hie ‘ it was considered that his andMacy would probably meet with strong opposition. The result of the conversations at Madame Ceepeder' paton, it ts ax serted, is that the Brat president of Cuba will be Carlos Cespedes, son of the war president The party of General Gomes be |teve that it is none too early to be gin a movement In behalf of Car low Cespedes, as they expect American occupation of the will end before the next summer probably by April, 1900. It is r resented that Carlos Cespedes p sommes every quality that Is likely to lmake him popular with the manses |throughout the entire island. He ts He Is Back From Service in the Philippines. KOKOMO, Ind, May 8 —Milo A Hardin, the youngest of the notor! lous Harlin brothers of Sharpevitic, and the only one left outside of prin on, turned up here today with the uniform of a soldier Just home from the Philippines. Two years ago @ the time when Sherif! McCreary, of Tipton county, ratded the Heriin home he found @ counterfeiting out- Mt, killed Charles and captured his brother “Huck.” Milo escaped and joined the | Pourth United States regulars un der the name of J. G. Helden. He went to the Philippines and was twice wounded fp battle, once In the capture of Manila and once by the Filipintos, He was discharged for Aisabitity and came home with the stripes of first wergeant. Hix aged mother met him here and they got on @ train for the far west, where Hardin sald he tad @ job on the raliroad. To Control Jerusalem. CONSTANTINOPLE, May %-—-Tt is becoming more evident every day extending the influ ence of the state church more and more in Palestine, with the object of controlling Jerusalem ‘The election is announced of Mer Malateos as patriarch of Antioch by lthe Antioch synod The clection ts directly contrary to the Guitan’s lirade and met with strong oppe from the Greeks. Ruesian infivence, it ts redicted ing contro! of the Cretes tn the Holy Land HE IS IN A BAD MIX Charies Cannon Should Have Married Hor. HELENA, Mont., May 9.—Charle Connon, once an owner of the fam as Stray Horse mine, which was sold to the Ajax Mining company for $75,000, and now « large cattle own er of Northern Montana. was today for breach of promise and ar. | rested on a charge of grand larceny. The breach of promise sult was brought because of his allewed fall ure to marry Nelite Ullum, of Har. lem, Mont. The other charge grew out of the breach of promise case Mies Ulam saya Connon confided to her some time ago that he h $10,000 from a safe deposit in the Merchants tional of this city. She says that during the winter Connon went to Hot Springs, Ark., and there met Miss Connie Baird, whom he mar- ried. Miss Ullum wants $10,000, SHE USED © ‘A COWHIDE stolen vault bank A St. Louis Cigar Maker Ha His Troubles. ST. LOUIS, May 9A plump, fatr woman, about thirty years old, whose features were almoat conc jed by a sun bonset, stood on Ewing avenue, west of Chouteau, for half an hour Saturday evening. She dently waiting for somebody. At 6 o'clock Robert F. Leiner, a cigarmaker, who, with his brother, runs a factory at 2907 Choutean av enue, came on the scene. He wan going to 2768 Rutgér street, whe he lives with his wife The an in the @un bonnet r Jed the approach of Leiner. When he |got within striking distance she drew 1 cowhide from the folds of | dress and with a “you lit wre struck Leiner with it Leiner ia a short, stout man and doesn’t look like a sprinter, but he very quickly developed notable abit ity in that line. He ran south on wing avenue, followed by the wo who showered back and shoulders as and as hard as whe could Aa Lainer drew away woman with the whip crowd boys who were playing ball tn the street concluded that he was a thief and they pelted him with bats and stones. None fant from the of the blowa he received about 40 years old and Is unmarried, | HARLAN IS A SOLDIER wan evi-| blows on hin| top him and vag thy of his Ul pursued by the hoya an who opened the P u ha Leiner said, “1 have this to say I have nothing to aay till the pr er time comes, then I will say what Me who tive in the ¥ f Loiner’s factory may that sallant was Mes, John Cam formerly lived out on Compton av enue, but Whose present address they do not know They say that M neron and herband claimed that Leiner wrote her an insulting letter and that Cam “ was with difieulty prevented » 7 ner a week ago le TO SELL BRIG-A-BRAG Accumulation at Navy Yard to be Disposed of. NEW YORK, May %&—For y all kinds of articles have been a mutating in the navy yard at Bro lyn, ‘The stuff will be ton June 5, and « 4 a for it will received, In the schedule of con Jemned terials appears an item sf one million pounds of old shells The #hella have been used for forty fifty years ¢ oament the yard re are Also some old grating from Ke a surf boat from the | launches, x old on rerap iron, ten thous and pour of prismatic powd ship and office furniture, 1 gun car riages, 129 smooth bore Yinch guns 190,000 ball cartridges of 45 eallb rasors, 41 razor strops and quan tity of shaving soap. The rasors, strops and soap were sent to Man Ha, but when they arrived at that place ft was found they had n damaged by water and retura Preacher Mot Bluffe ATLANTA, Ga Rev, L. H. Broughton, who church was 1 lant Sunday night by van wumably of the ero at burned Same Hose. is constan receiving montages from friends ing their su A lame night that all lyn May & members hing advocates aid }not frighten him. ts onducting an investigation the the de. Jisruption of his church to names of the guilty parties nounce them from the pulpit. In that event further trouble is ex- pected. Big Railroad St ke. PHILADELPHIA, May 9—A bie strike to tie up the big coal rail- de of the country Is being orman- ised by the engineers, firemen, con Juctors and brakemen. Hach set of jemployes have a different grievance | The roads involved are the Pennayt vania, Philadelphia and Reading, Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Central am DL a Ww MANY BICYCLES _ USED IN KANSAS WICHITA, Kan, May %—The tadiew of Kansas wear sunbonnets and calico dresses when they go out on their wheels, They in that sort of a costume, bat it in |the moat appropriate comfort- jable that could be devised for this | kind oF There is a bi- leyele in early every tarn ro sok comical and a couptry house, and |the women use them more than the men. When they want to do a little hopping in town or go to the port Mice or attend a meeeting of the sewing circle, ft In no longer neces sary to take a team out of the feild. The feminine portion of the popula |tion of Kansas has thus far been ancipated from the shackles of farm life. Except for a few weeks in the spring when the frost is com ing out of the ground, and r | intolerable, and even when the mud jis deepest a Kansas girl town and back be h f get half way there with a ads are ther can team and | wagon. The calico costume and the sunbonnet obviate the only other great diMicuity, which ts dust ASTORIA, Or, May %&—The In- dicat hat Astoria will have ie ar transportation connection with the | Nehalem country even more quick ly than has been expected, and if the plan now being worke: carried to @ successful issue a ral¥. road line will b constructed from Young’s bay to the upper Nehalem valley be the end of this sum mer. A company has been forme cone ing of several } 1 and east ern lumbermen, nearly all of whom lare holders of Clatsop county tim ber lands, for the purpose of opening ‘gy rich timber and coal belt | Tears Up Its Pipe Line. CLEVELAND, May 9.—There was day by the report that the Stand ard O11 company had put a forve of 50 men at work tearing up its pipe Ine into Cl and. A large party of laborers is at work digging up the | |pipes of ntua, where the rela pumping station js located. any refum plain, | Aictaln of ¢t talk when asked to action Is believed to th of the war made on the company by Attorney General Monnet utcome Builder’s Trial Trip. PORTLAND, May 9.—The O. T. & N. company's new steamer Hassalo was out for a builder's trial trip Saturday afternoon, and made a satisfactory showing ‘or a short time a speed of over 21 miles per hour was attained. Ae usual with ' botlers there was alight trouble mf unt of foam and the fire men being customed to using coal for fuel, His Aim Was Bad. LANCASTER, FP May %— John | Sweeny was arrested last night by the police on the charges of attempt ing t his housekeeper, Miss | Minnie De ‘ vish woman, of whom he yas extremely Jealous He followed her to the house of a | triend on whom she was calling, and but mb 1 his m ran back Into th and Sweeney was he fired at her, The woman arrested. Korn t Prescription Specialists, ‘Phome Pike 2 an go to} JOE WILL WED MRS, CHILDS - | The Redoubtable Fighter Dares Matrimony. WASHING of the engag Wheeler to Mre is revived, The story al Joneph George W. Childe and it is now anser ed that the marriage will take D thin etty during the pr month. at the home of Mrs. Childs n K atreet The report first gained ut th months ago, al Wheeler refused ramMem it, He maid it bject that he d >» dincuss it He intimated jany denial coming fi be improper, and if Mra, Childs de laired a denial sh 1d be currency at and Gen was such 1 not care fe that Mee. Childa was also ex | careful not to make adent 7 report. Neither could she duced to affirm the engag Bocial circles here credit the re ported engagement, although no de- finite confirmation ean be secured Gen. Wheeler is now In Detroit in attendanc of the Revolution Philadelphia During the life of the late George W. Childs General Joe Wheeler was an intimate friend and was a fre quent visitor at his home. During the past three years Mra. Childs has been an Intermittent resident of this etty. She is about 60 years old and very much adverse to display It is expected that after the wed ding the future home will be on K eral Wheeler is by no means a wealthy man, He ts about at & meeting of the Bons Mre. Childs in in incendiaries at Work. | | LEBANON, Pa, May 9—Farmers South Mountain, south of Fon- | tana, have been engaged since Bat- urday Mihting an ugly forest fire |which had already destroyed acres of timber, The fire was ap- parently of incenfiary origin, as the flames were discovered burning mer- rily In three places simultaneousty, | REV. DAVIS ARRESTED ssing Bad |Taken Up for | Checks at Washington. | WASHINGTON, May %—The ar- |remt at the Metropolitan club yester-| | day afternoon of the Rev. Dr. Wea- ley Davis, of New York and Wash- ington, on a charge of issuing and passing worthless checks, has caus- ed great surprise, Dr. Davis is eo | well known here that at first it w thought his name had been wrongly used and that the checks were not jeiven by him. There was no mii |take as far as this goes, however, and Dr. Davis admits having given the checks, but has « seemingly rea- onable explanation of how he hap- pened to draw inst a bank ac-/ count which was exhausted. He ar- | sures his friends that he will not) have the slightest trouble in extri- cating himeelf from the diMeulty tn which he now ts. ———— Payment Hot Made. CORVALLIS, Or, May %—It te learned on what ts considered good authority that the promoters of the Monroe colony did not mecet the firat payment in the purchase of | land, stores and mills in the vicin-| ity of Monroe, has been reported. | The amount of the payment w $10,000 and was due May 1. A. Wil-) helm, of Monroe, who has by far| eat interests involved in the jon, said yesterday to a Cor-| man that the payment had | not been made, and that an exten-| sion of one week had been granted the colony. Whether the payment would be forthcoming-in a week w | a problem, The amount had not heen paid up to yesterday after- noon. HE MAY BE ‘LYNCHED Citizens Enraged at theCrime of John Shar, CARLINVILLE, IU, May 9.—John Sharp, of Palmyra, a blacksmith, ts in jail here charged with an a tempt to assault Eunice, the 6-year- old daughter of Daniel 8. Macknet, formerly managet of the B. P. And- rews company of this city. Public} sentiment is #0 aroused that rumors | of lynching are being made by the citizens, and the sheriff of Macoupin county had been notified that Sharp was in the city yesterday, and last night when the child told her story | hundreds of citizens started in pur- |wult of him. After a 20-mile chase Sharp was arrested as he was reach- ling his home, He was brought back here and placed in jail. This morning |the child was taken into Sharp presence and declared hew as the man, The accused stoutly protest. | ed his Innocence. TO CONSTRUCT © A LARGE LAKE | Kansas People Building What Nature Deprived Them Of. WICHITA, Kan, May %—One of |the most attractive — irrigation schemes is just now being completed in Central Kansas, near the town of Dig Bend. From the looks of the ndscape people belie that there was plenty of water all over this | region at one time and that for some | reason or another it dried up and ran away. There are frequent evi Jences of large lakes that have gone dry in past centur One of them, known a# the Oheyenne Bottoms, ts found near the town of Hosington, | vbout 14 miles long, 6 miles wide and | about 40 feet below the level of the | | surrounding country. The soil is too heavy for cultivation, but by a cu rious Incident the Idea was suggest- | ed of utilizing it as a reservoir for | irrigation purposes. Some years ago the American) coursing association would hold an- nual meetings at this place and chase hounds up and down the bot tom of this antediluvian lake. A handsome clubhouse was built on the edge and all the appurtenances jot pl ure and comfort were intro duced One day dark masses of | clouds came rolling up from the | northwest, and when they burst) they left a body of water several 499008 000 O00OO miles long and five or nix feet deep on the coursing grounds. It remain ed for nearly three years until it * ‘ finally evaporated, It was perfect , ly apparent that the bottom war peg nenanert is lbs agar, 1.1 watertight, and that all the wante We. 812 Second Av hes would be in the sucking up of the Yesier and Jam moisture by the dry air, Then it was proposed to make a permanent lake by digging a canal and bringing we ter from the Arkansas river, thir teen miles away, The work has by no far be turned in in a few days smpleted that the water will i . + PRICE nish a source of supply for fe wing Muchioes te wold 000 acres of adjoining h - . A rer v ? vice {yp Im now practically worthless, but will Fike tt MICKELSON then have a value of $1,000,000 or iE ye KNEW THE MAN tn hum would And Died Rather Than to See His Sister in His Pow HERKIMER, N.Y Ay 9.—Bhe cause his sister was to marry a man Rosser, of he did not this village, this morning b ike William drowned himself early Jumping into @ can- the doctor who saved his life from his house with curses cursed all who had anything to do again. with bringing him back to life Last week he was heard to say that Id let his sister marry the man to whom she was engaged he would shoot him if he had to be hung the next minute jew Fruit Pest. SALEM, May 9.—A new fruit pest has made ite appearance in several orchards in the vicint Salem, It is a small bug, similar to what t* known as the pea weevil, and works on the buds of new graft Kimball, of Polk county, orchard- ist, says the insect seems to be the same as one that made its appear ance several years ago, and after appearing several years ago, and after alarming frultgrowers disap- peared without doing any damage. Suicide by Hanging TILLAMOOK, Ore, May 9—Eric Peterson, who has been missing from his farm on the Miam!l, war |found hanging to a tree about 400) yards from his house on Tureday morning. He bad shown signs of in- sanity, having threntened his fam- fly, who had left him for fear of harm. He was @ years Burgiars at Grant's Pass GRANTS PASS, Or, May %-— While Mr. and Mra. D. A. Cords were in Ban Francisco burglars entered their house and carried away wear- ing apparel and jewelry valued at 9600. The robbery was not noticed by the man who looked after the house, so that the robbers had sev~- eral days’ start. SKIPPED WITH THE MONEY ROSSLAND, B. C., May 9—W. 8. Jones, internal revenue collector for the Dominion of Canada tn the Row land district, has skipped the coun- try with the government cash, the amount of which has not yet been leearned. He had collected about a thousand dollars from Messrs. Thomas & Greiger, which has not been accounted to the author! for. Inspectors Miller and Gill are here from Vancouver investigating the matter, and Jones is no one knows where. The officers have received two dix patches, one saying he had passed through Spokane in company with Carrie Freeman, and another stat- ing he w in Boston, Mass. It t# a mistake about the woman, for she ia in Rossland, and no credence ts put In the Boston story. The investigation so far shows that Jones commenced his defalca- tions about the 17th of March | land ft is thought they will amount to at least $3000 and poesitiy a great deal more. Thomas & Greiger received the last check they gave Jones for $960.54 from Spokane on the first of this month, which had been cashed by Col. I. N. Peyton. It is thought he will be able to escape arrest The people who were acquainted with Mr. Jones’ dissipated habits of jate will not be greatly surprised at this news about him His was a caae of too much wine, women and canis. Advised Mot to Lecture. CANTON, ©., May %—The an- nouncement that Mra Anna EF George will go on the lecture plat- form has resulted in a strong pro- test from the women’s clubs. The protests have been sent her by the leaders in women's reforms, ashing that she keep off the platform. James Sterling, who was one of Mrs. George's lawyers, and who ts now assisting her in the preparation of her lecture, has also received let- ters urging him to dissuade Mra. A George from lecturing on “Women's Rights.” The writers say that Mrs. George should settle down tn a quiet place and be good and not S 1 ed WORK STETSON BROS. 1127 YESLER WAY Sell Imperial, Patent E lent, Centennial Best, Olympic and Pure White FLOUR al used furnish water power for | manuf Towne For 85 Cents Per Sack who was pany Ree Telephone Main # ond New York volunteer infantry in the war with Spain, tried to end hy “or PEN life last Friday night by taking pie OT «& FRENCH CO. morphine, and y rday he drove 104 Washington #., have tne only Linotype Joh Printing Machine In the Northwest. Catalog lots, ete, at ape low prices. BAVE MONKY by giv mm ah opportunity to figure THE PARLOR GROCERY ‘Phone Pike 15. 1329 Second Avenas Wr. J. DEAN & CO. SALE OF BROOM CORN it | Largest Transfer Ever Made | in This Cro | CHARLESTON, Ht May §— | pably the largest single ship- ment of broom corn ever n de in the history of the crop was made from this point yesterday. A whole traintoad of 206 tons were put on jthe vars and sem direct t New York city. This was a portion of |last year's crop held in storage by the Charleston Warehouse and Ele- vator company for an Indianapolis {firm, which, finding the pressure to be great from manufacturers and the price @ fancy one, let go of the jstuff. Buyers have been numerous here the past wevk, but local brok- ers, who hold over ome thousand ton¥, could not be Induced to let go, though one manufacturing firm wanted 300 tons and offered a top price for it. The holders of brush, jess than a dozen men, in the Ilinols Central belt, will meet at Tuscola today with brokers, dealers and the manufacturers throughout the coun- try. It 1 expected that the price | Will be put to $200 « ton. (Grape Crop Threatened. | ST. JOSEPH, Mich. There has been scarcely a single v riety of fruit or berry that has not been declared a failure in a great- er or leas degree this spring be- cause of the severe winter. Now the report comes from Lawton, which is the largest grape district in the centrat states, that the entire grape crop is ruined by the cutworms. A large number of the leading grow- ers fear the crop, which last yeat reached over 200,000 baskets, will be reduced to one-quarter that amount unless the present warm weather continues, which will in @ few days force the buds out of reach of the worma. Asbestos Mine Sold. ATLANTA, Ga., May 9—The fa- mous asbestos mine in Salil moun- |tain in White county, has been sold for $200,000 to Bancroft & Kenrick, mining engineers, of London. The sale on the basis of $200,000 is the greatest amount ever paid for a mine in the state of Georgia, not excepting that of some of the gold mines in the northern part of the state. ST. LOUIS, May 9.—A fiehbone he jaccidentally swallowed two weeks ago may cause the death of Du- valdo Jean Pierre, of 7728 South | Sixth street. He is now at the city | hospital. The bone penetrated the intestines and blood poisoning is threatened. e abscesses have formed on tha body. Might Have Averted Murder May 9.—Claims |}for damages to the amount of $25,- 0 have been fled against t w. U. Telegraph company for the non- delivery a gram of warning, which, ft is claimed, would have averted murder. | The message was sent by Small, of Richmond, to her sister, Mamie Small, employed in a Gard iner shoeshop, on the day that Ma- mie was shot and killed by Bradford Knights, The message was a warn- ling to the effect that Liazie had met Liszie Knights on the train bound for Gardiner, It ts said that Knights had threatened Mamie on several tently 3 WONDERS HERE. If you're a prospective suit buyer let us interest ) offered before. you in a THEY value never JUST AR- RIVED—BUSINESS SUITS. Worth every penny of $20.00. figures will sce them dispersed at. S Our value- 00 ener nn Ll: J. REDELSHEIMER & CO. Strongest Top Coat House in the State. 800-802 First Ave., Cor. Columbia. . 4 SSO ga ie io otc tLe sai abd i tui ail in ei iii ia ia i ie i iis ci ii i atta i aah heh i Aa cts