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THE SEATTLE STAR | 1b. HL WELLS & CO, Publishers. Kvery ailernoan exeept Sunday 1 | BM. WELLS. Kw P CHASE. bbiron, | Business Mawagrn | A por Copy) MA Conte Per week Ave cents per month delivered rm, Notree copie Telephone Pike 160 — Mees Ne TOT = = Third Avenue Rnrtered at the postomMes at Seattle. Washing. | Ton, as wooondclase matter Strictly tndepe t in Politics. The terrors of greatness are al Teaily confronting General Funston, | of Kansas. Net only are political) honors Uterally thrown at hits feet, | Dut also business offers innumerable, | ‘The practical side of life dominates 1) things in Kaname, and thie fect Became quite apparent in Punaston’s 1 agty g i z : in the Mice of the enemy, proposition that if he ewim the river at Wiohita .ur- of the state fair, he be paid $1000 out of the gate pts, and no questions asked. } No sgoner was this proposition made than competition set in, and Vast ji i town and Bi Derado and the Philip- pines have been kept hot with offers of lucrative positions, One house ‘that sells metodeons with a Vox Sus- @nna attachment, on the installment Plan, offers the general $3000 to in- troduce the instryment into the dries of the farmers of the state, A creamery butter offers him $80 a month for the use of his por- ‘trait as a trade-mark for Its product. A clothing hotse proposes to give fim 1 per cent. commission, pet, on all eaire he may consummate be-| Levi Ankeny has offered $50 in|%—Bight miles from (his town, in| premiums for the best display of the quiet Jittle village of Prospect in a state of contusl spmar beets at the state fair this | Plains, tives Jane Ludwith, as pretty | was seen to leave the house and no Shige cata ana enieaneke ore ‘The well-earned popularity of Gen.|the hardest on sheep than for sev-| covered with a mass of hair of the loneliness of the surroundings and Fred does not stop here, for half the churches in the state are struggling to secure his attendance at bazaars, while the most reepectabie saloons 3 § : i }hua to the mines e A Tunnel in Mexic AUSTEN, ‘Tex. May TK Ker: jot, a wealthy mining manjof Aantd Bulalia, Mex, te here Me smayes a Foompany with a capital of $5,060,000 has been formed for, the jury of constructing a Cunpel three, mfew th lengtt through the mountad ng nedr Chihuahua, Mex. unter a group of mines. The company will alah bulld @ railroad from the city of Chihua- STATE NEWS. There in a beef famine at Walla Walla see A party of German cotentiets will ettle In Whatcom county eee A daily mali is to be established between Hwaco and Chindbk, ore ‘The ferry at Fort Spokane was re- wently swept away by high water, see Hops tn the valleys near Puget wound are backward, owing to . y 6 the Mildred Baldwin, of Whelton, fell out of a hammock and broke his col- lar bone. eee The pioneers of Jefferson county will hold a piemic, clam bake and re-union in June. ee ‘The Fairfield brickyard has resum- ed operations, It has a capacity of | nj, 45,000 per day. o* Four railr surveying parties are meattered along the upper Columbia and San Poll rivers. ee ‘The Cosmopolis Enterprine is to be gold out, Editor Pattison desiring to engage in other business. see ‘The veterans of Whitman county will hold @ reunion at Palouse, the latter pert of this week. “ee ‘The townsite of it Falls was sold urder the to Geo, Hea- selman, of Germany, for $45,000. eee George W. McCreedy, of Golden- dale, says the past winter has been eral years. eee While intoxicated one day last and pert, but also up to this time disturbances have caused many of week, Joe Shoesteps, an Indian, fet! into the river at South Bend and was 916,000 with which to construct a new ‘Twenty men are at work on the forty year limit for @ consolidated | gun emplacements at Admiralty Street caf franchise in Seattie.| Head, but it will be some weeks yet ‘There is much opposition to vng-|defore the guns are ready to be to mounted. fn a ed States of the present time, owing > © Che fam that cities which have] ed'the contract to build the Perry granted them find. In almost every | county court house at Republic for instance, that they have given 0/ $3974. The bullting is to be 30 x 66 very valdabie something for |‘ amd two stories high. trif_ing consideration. Experience in| paseo ‘teu chee auibind the older cities qhows that « twenty- eres . five year franchise is about the fair) A new G. A. R. poet has been or- =e ganized at Colville. ~ Rot Oppose the bet- ace erment the street tacit en se A ties. On the contrary, it would seem eee Deet that Rastern capital should be! George F. Kienstra has leased the Permitted to come in here and de- | Montesano creamery. velop the transportation fines, both cubic and electric. There ts no 4 A bieycte path has been bullt be- however, for falling down upon the| bua Rey i Nr 4 | | | for the favor and incidentally agree- teaches Montenaze by mule train sg a tg ae sagiege ‘The. Witson sawmill. ot Aberdeen pany cer oF beng. Tt fe the | nas raised the wages of its employes. easiest thing in the world for a city | oe | to grant a street reiiway franchise| Pilensburg has decided not to have under the plelisant assurance that ® Fourth of July celebration this ai things will be lovely, ami then | 7" yee afterwards find that the benefited ‘The Whatcom County Horticultur- corporation, resting secure under / 4) society will meet May 31 at New| long-term grant, is not disposed to) Whatcom. improve and devetop its transporta- eee tion facilities in a proper manner. Some of the potatoes planted in the best plan always is to grant) Gison G. Foster is United States sen- | from the State of Washington, Kittitas valley rotted tn the ground, and only half a crop ts expected eee During « thunderstorm at Arting ton Wednemlay, the lightning flashes were #0 close that the telephone bells rang at each electrical discharge. VICTIM IS NO BETTE Boy Forced to Eat Pepper i: Dangerously Sick. DENBY, Conn., May 26.—A consul- THE SEATTLE THEY WILL NOT BUILD Ponewawa Creek to be Aban- doned for the Present. AX, Wash, May 26.<'The © company will not build it proposed line up Renewawa creek and to Colfax via Spring Mat creck in the near future. This ip made evi |dent by the fact that nts of the Company are now tal to rent the dwelling houses on the propty along Spring Flat creek in South Colfax bought last fall and winter by the Snake River Vatley Railroad com pany, an O, Ra N poration, The property purchased consiate of a great many lots, and a few dwelling houses, When the property was pur chased the owners xi to Vacate on May tl, Tt wan @ ly supposed that wae the time work on tt w foad would begin, but the local agent of the eompany now offers to rent the houses to the ogcupants by the yy, The houses will er ae tor rent 3 All precludes all of on the construc: ton of the new road begining in the near future, and it is not believed work will begin this year. pA cena Broken Dam Causes Flood MARINETTE, Wis, May %—The Pike river dam hear Amberg, was carried away by the high water last and four other dams went out ater, the Mood reaching them thin morning. ‘The bridge below Davis’ fale was ewept away, the approach of the steel bridge near Amberg wae oarried out and the water is running over the structure. If the boom breaks the St, Paul railroad bridge will be carried out, JANE USED A ROLLING PIN NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, May a country Maid as ever milked a cow or plucked a violet. Bhe bh com- plexion of peaches and cream, a set of milk white teeth, and her head in warm hue that Titian loved to paint Mise Ledwith is not only pretty she has been regarded one of the tenderest and gentiest girie in the Last week #he was in the Middie- ox jail, charged with whacking her old father over the head with a roil- ing pin because he would not buy her & striped silk dress and « foulard shirt waist, with ribbons to match |The young woman had peen and en- | gowns of several of her and impertuned her fath- money #0 that she might not tehane. But old Patrick Lud ine pleaded and pleaded her soft brown eyes, he pleas finally failed she made argument with roiling pin. , The girl denies with considerable indignation that she is guilty of the offenge charged, but Justice of the | warranted his committing the girl to Jail. ALONG THE WHARVES ‘The steamer Empire, of the Empire ‘The targe Ajax left for Vancouver (thie morning loaded with 200 tons of miscetlaneous freight. eee ‘The steam iter Rapid Transit wit! leave in a day or so for Blaeki iatand to bring Gown the machinery, cables, anchors and other articles of j Yalue from the wreck of the steamer | Brigham, Schooner Annie hae arrived tn port from the Cape with a load of halt. but. | eee | The big collier Willamette, Captain | Hanson, arrived in port last even- jing from. San Francisco, having on | board @ cargo of dynamite of eum- |elent quantity to blew the City of | Seattle ipto atom s. For this reason the Willamette went out into the | harbor, where the work of diséharg | ing the dangerous #tuff on board the | steamer Santa Crus is being con | ducted. The powder wi! be distrib. | uted at Sitka, Mary f#land, and the ie own Hens about wo- | , and stubbornly refured 1 daughter's request. Peace Lucas thought the evidence Ot company, went out) TAT. Touched a Trolley Wire. Ja plumber, Waa Almont treew A pipewhleh he was handling came | lin comtget With @ trofley wire anc jaent the full current through hin Body and he hung suspended in mid ate urtll Charles Matt, who w “ disting alm, pulled him away by main fowe. Dover anda were terribly burned and the hock Was so severe that his recovery Is doubtful GHOSTS IN "A CHURCH. WANSAB CITY, May Wing te the vietity of T ad phey ave are now very muh wrought up) over the appearance of spooks in the neighborhood, and yesterday the po- lee were called upon to inquire into the cause of mysterious eounds and lights heard and seen at night in the Methodist church building in that} | vioknity, | Acconting to Berryman Miller, a | dairyman, living at Ninth streot and | Northrup avenue just a few blocks away, te has been awakened several nighta by strange unde coming from the meeting house, and upon getting up he would see the bulld- ing brightly tiluminated as if some) | femtivition were in progress. | Wednesday night, Miller says, he determined to probe into the matter! and, with other members of the fam- lily, and @ neighbor or two, kept a vigit until tate into the night, At the very same hour, 3 o'clock in the | morning, there war a rumbling noise as if a heavy table was being drawn |acrons a bare floor and simultaneous. \ly lights appeared at every window MINES AT REPUBLIC, WASH. 6.—People | sth #treet oe in this city, | Stock | Cent Per Share for a Few Days Only. ORGANIZATION This company is organized under the laws of the State of Washington, and has its offices in the City of Beattle. ‘The capital stock of the corporation t# $100,000 divided into 1,000,000 shares of the par value of 10 cents each, fully paid and non-assessable, 200,000 shares have been placed im the treasury for development purposes, to be sold at @ price to be fixed by the trustees from time to time, as develop- ment work progresses. Proceeds from sale of treasury stock go to development of the property, not one cent being paid in salaries to any of the officers. As the stock is nonassessable the purchasers assume no Hability, LOCATION OF PROPERTY ‘This company owns two full claims, the “Pirate” and the "Pieasant Dream,” situated in the famous Republic Camp, Ferry county, Washington. These properties are situated one mile southeast of the Re- public mine, in the same porphyry belt. DEVELOPMENT ‘The company has planned to continue extensive development of its properties under the most eMfictent management. The present development consiata of 20 feet of shaft work on the ledge showing from 6 to 10 feet in the width, with assay follows No, 1 Si 32 cen No. 2 Silver 40 cents No, 3 Sliver 16 cents No. 4 Silver none SALE OF STOCK The company wil offer treasury stock for sale through its duly authorized agents for the purpose of raising funds to continue the development work of these mines, but blocks of the stock will be offered In sixes only as may be necessary to realize funds with which to liquidate the running expenses, holding in reserve the balance of the unsold treasury #tock to benefit by the rise in the market AS AN INVESTMENT As an inveatment, East San Poll Gold Mining company stock offers the best future of anything in the Republic district, In all places where gold has been found on the surface in a well defined lead, it has invariably grown richer an the work im carried deeper, and the property presented by us is not an ‘exception to the rule, There are 49 acres of the best mineral iands in the district included in this prop- erty, and every foot of it will bear an investigation. EAST SAN POIL GOLD MINING CO. SLATER & SMITH, Official Brokers 14 JAMES STREET - - - SEATTLE, WASH. Telephone Main sO! in the baliding. The watchers rush-, to the scene determined to inves wate, but before they reached the building the sounds ceased, the \Vights vanished and all was still again. Upon entering the bullding @ men found the church furniture but no one one wae found in it The church ts located in a quiet part of the city, and very few houses are in the immediate vicinity. The |the peculiar antios of the mystert- ous individual responsible for the | the superstitious to hint at the pres- lence of goblins / AMUSEMENTS. Manager Rumeet has @ good attrac luton at the Third avenue theater this | week tm “The Three Guardamen.” | Aftgr three weeks of farce comedy the change to the romantic drama has proven profitable, and good trouses Tiave been the result ee ' At the Seattle theater last night }Clay Clement and his excelent / company, ty “A Southern Gentie- man.” were accorded a most enthuat- astic reception. The performmnce was admirably given, and there was) not one til the house disappotnted tn | }& single character Several of th | Members besiies Mr. Clement Seattle favorites, both Phosa MoAllister and Mr. DuMeld having been seen here many times | before, Tonight Mr. Clement will lative the wyllic comely, “The New | Dominion.” | ee } Next week at the Taint avenue theater the famous Helasco-Thall | company and George Osbourne will wo weeks’ engagement God te Total 4.0 Geld 418 Total “53 Gold 26 Total $542 Gold 476 Total 4.76 1 Left Behind Me.” duction of Sartou's plays, opened a | PROPAGANDA; BY TIMELY FIT) SON BURNED ances. Sunday night and Turetay | ee matinee Tuesday, The engagement! « new feature is being introduced | usual circumstances led to | tate coason. [Germany has taken the Initiative, | criminal court room here. | « co peed of the lead ‘eh tion ie composed of t ading must-| ey and naval attaches, Germany| The discovery of the plot and the/4 o'clock this morning the family of harmonic society will be ans 1 by| mente with the United States, and) of excitement at the time, It was | aroused by some one knocking at the a boon to music in Seattle, and will| main of the many protestations Of) gavanced by his attorneya at the/a bullet wound in his breast. He said ° The latest move is the establish-| see = = = - ‘The sale of seats for the Melbourne | scraren erica NEWSPAPER [HE WAS SAVED |MOTHER AND t in Fanny Davenport's pro- 1 the Seattle theater thie morning. | ‘The engagement ts for four perform. | night “La Tosea” will be presented, | , and “Fedora” Monday night and the) WASHINGTON, D. C, May %—| GREPNSBURG, Pa., May 26.—Un-| BELLEFONTAINE, ©., May 26.— - Ky on : the| This morning the charred remains one of the most important Man. ; rompt acquittal of a prisoner in the| of M: ager Howe hes had at bis thenter|'™ te way of | Gipjomatic agency. | Prompt aed sgt Of Mrk, Rachael Auitip end her sen, | William, were recovered from the eee jand it appears that before long the); Charles Dowden was being tried ruins of their burned home, and the ‘The Phitharmonic eoolety will give! journalist attache of an embassy will/ on a charge of arson, it being alleged | youngest son, Ernest, aged 24 years, ite first concert tomorrow evening ®t | be recognised as an essential part/that he attempted the destruction of|ia lying at the home of a neighbor the Seattle theater. The orraniza-| .¢ tne organization, as are the mili-/@ part of New Alexandria recently | with & bullet hole in his breast, At cal artista of the cl nd a 7 Sietecamsane is pro riod = he Phi. has had some commercial disagree-| arrest of Dowden created a good deal) Wesley Haines, a farmer, were P n prom 4 Tn" ‘nil the well known Rruno Stetndel con-\arrangementa are being made to|alleged that Dowden was not men-|door, Mr. Haines answered the call cert quartette. This « . will be |owercome any suspicion that may re- tally sound, and an argument was and found Ernest Austin, faint from ive assurance of great musical ac-| sincerity that have been made on ] ves ta ae rw Pralgg mu a ponent Se OF inpitation. | opening of the trial that the defend. | that about an hour before he had . nt was subject to epileptic fits Sunday the Good Roads club will|ment of a newspaper propaganda! The prosecution did not give much/and shot in the chest. Austin con- give an excursion to Olympia for the under the auspices of the embassy. | credence to the claim, and made out! tinued in broken sentences to say | been called to the door by a robber tation of physicians was held today | pringipal ports of southeastern At-| benefit of the Magr | jon the case of Johnny Tripp, the & aska The trip will be a tong one, | fund The present imiications are | year-old scholar who was given red| 8nd the Santa Crug will be gone | that the excursion will be one of the| | ' | about one month. Captain Herbert | @reeet ever run out of Seattic. The Pepper recently by his teacher, Miss | 5 ner wil go es pilot of the| train will leave the depot at 8:30) Goten p apo the knee and drew the bow | Mary Connery Santa Crus, and €he will be com.| o'clock In the morning, arriving at Queen Aliquippa in the days when) pr. Loomis, the attending physl-| manded by Captain Olsen. Olympia before noon monster industrial planta were not! cian, found the fever higher this! time will be given the bicyclers to le dreamed of, have been disinterred at! morning than it was last night, It LAMP UPSET BY A CAT enjoy the goed roads around the} . Workmen excavating for was at 108% and Dr. A. 8 ndall| capttol city, as the train will not the fou for the factory of the, was called in consultation. There | ke pe ber 9 return trip Until 6] as oct ie suCCOmA jorseshoe company, un-| was no change in thé boy's condition | eureten manele yo f Pe | the skeletons within the last tomight, the fever remaining about And Aged Miss Sutter Was - — Posies os omy early mpletion | Burned to Death. Ray ot . Gold in South Dakota. few days. In all 15 were found, to. the sam The swellides on the gether witti Indian arrow heads and tongue and face caused by the pep- | WEN hs E~ Seay 382 SUSTER, & D., May 24—The re Agnes Sutter, a wealthy spinster, 16) markable strike of free gold nine Wwathpum beads. per have disappeared, and the case years old, was burned to death un-| miles northwest of this city, last | resembles typhoid fever, so the doc- | der shocking circumstances in her) Friday, by Lee and Charles Carr, ——$—___——. LIBERTY BELL AT PARIS “” ~~ ” | rage | home, No. 197 Firet street, this city./two ranchers, is turning out to be Riot at a Cake Wa better than firet reported. The on | ENED, 0. T., May 26.—A negro cake| Ashi |The structure ts a large thr t Mayor Ashbridge is Opposed {wom at the opera house broke up In| prick building. yr. rol peta Se Gana ataes with |a riot between whites and blacks,| Miss Sutter was found tying on her wets as large a@ hickory nuts have! to Sending It. 4 started by the negroes shooting into | face on the floor of her sitting room | been taken out and larwe chunks of PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May %6.—\@ crowd of white men. Three white with a part of a marble mantel | rock almost solid with gold stringers nt over from Berlin as a part of the diplomatic machinery for the ac- wmplishment of the object for which the German government is now working. He Is not regularty accred- nalist attache of the emba such an office not yet baying been rece nined He ia none the leas a part of Germany's diplomatic representa tion &t Washington, performing @ istinet and what is evidently re- garded as an important, duty in pe- half of his embassy Surrounded by a eemi-official at aphere, and operating under the auspices of the embassy with a de- finite object, hia efforts are directed toward influencing public expression with respect to the relations be. tween Germany and this government and to o# affect public sentiment as to establish a more friendly feeling }among the American people gener- ally toward the German government. | a Bluff bieycle|A newspaper representative has been | @ strong case against the prisoner. |that the home was in flames and his Just af the prosecuting attorney f-| mother and broth 0 J brother were ne D isued his side of the case the prison-|Gead. With this NANIOA glint er was etricken with a spasm. He) away and was carried into the house fell to the floor and writhed with| yr. Haines then went to the Aus- great agony. The judge, the Jury and tin nome about half a mile dis. Plenty of|ited to this government as a jour-/the lawyers were greatly agitated. ! tant, and there found the burning Dowden finally revived and the case | timbers and debris of the once com- Jended. The lawyers for the de-/fortable home. The neighborhood fense considered that the unfortun < ; . Ate prisoner's affliction, aa witnessed | ‘uund tne charred tone afar by the judge and jury, was sufficient) Austin and her son, William. The widence that the man was not ac-| story of the youngest @on ie wiv e jon is given lit. ountable = oe criminal venatag tle credence by some. He ts not ex- were charged against him ey ke ny would, theretore, offer no further ev-| ere? te live through the night. idence, relying on the intelligence of the jurymen, and in view of the ex Chose a Peculiar Death isting terrible condition of the client) CHESTER, Pa, May 26.—Abner they considered that a veraict of ac-| Craig, aged 75 years, of Waterville, quittal would be the result of their| today stood on the Philadelphia, W. deliberations, The judge's charge|& B. R. track at Crum Lynne until was brief. The jury in @ few min-| the engine and two cars of @ train utes returned with a verdict of ac-| of 56 cars had gone by, when he quittal. walked into the train and was killed, Several statements have been made that the managers of the Paris ex- pobition had determined to ask that. the Liberty bell be sent to Paris) next year. Mayor Ashbridge said tortay: “I am opponed to sending the Lib- erty bell to the Paris exposition. To My Mind the bell is the most pric: Jess relic of our American instit dios, prockaiming, ae it did, liber- ty fo all the Jand. “It has already been carried over this continent with great honor, to the World's Fair at Chicago, where visitors from foreign countries had an opportunity of seeing it. While I should be delighted as an Ameri can to have the lesson of the Liberty bell taught in many of the countries of the world, I am unhesitatingly of the opinion that the risk of sending |sacres which took place 130 years|for needy applicants In the K t abfoad would be entirely too great’ a Homesokets’ parndise, Pratt's Orch. Add. men, Brady, Thrasher and an un- known man, were wounded when the whites returned the fire, fatally in- juring four negroes and slightly wounding several others. More than % shots were fired before the disturbance was quelied. MACKINAW CITY, Mich., May 26, Harry Lazell, mail clerk on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, and Hichard Neal, of this place, in digging for relics at the site of old Fort Mackinac, unearthed six com- plete skeltons. Four of them were lying with their heads toward the east, but the fifth was lying toward the west with the head resting on the feet of the others This is probably the burying place of some of the victims of the mas ago a Korn Drug Co., Fit! Prescription Specialists. and Pike. ‘Thone Pike 25 across her. Her head and body were burned to @ crisp, and her right Clone by the body Mise Sutter's pet cat, which had also been burned to death. | ‘There was a small stove in the lroom but there were no indications of @ fire being in it that had fallen through a hole burn- ed in the floor, It was known to be the custom of Miss Sutter to burn| thin lamp all night, and #he usually Jeft it standing on the table. It is believed that the lighted lamp was upset and knocked off the table by the cat, and the fire, which resulted in her death, was started in this manner | ‘The Hajvation Army has provided a wood yard and @ free labor bureau Maetrict | ——0———— | Every lovin fruit trees. Pratt's Orchard | Addition. On the parior | floor below was found a broken lamp | hav nm broken loore. amin cma me 9 See eet eacea by te{ = BUILDING PERMITS. | Royr Dollars outcroppings for half a mile, and the —— ground has been staked for two] Bullding permits were tesued today | miles in all directiona from the strike |to George W. Dilling to build a one| e ah and the Carr brothers and thelr fath-| story frame residence at 1408 Tenth ort @) atc Ing or have staked out eleven claima in| avenue to cost $400; Mrs. Sarah Hunt| ne croup. A New York party offer. |to build a two story frame residence mine but it was refu iWence at 209 Broad street “A Fly Pest. presence of a new species of fly that) DENVER, Colo, May Snow make horses an object of attack f ters are still at work with dyna- They have nev r and shovel on the mountain sys- t the ¢ rado and Southern | fr | to coat $ VERY mother is guilty of this who does not buy her be clothes here. Better take life easy. Better trade with a store that means to give as much for the money as it consistenly can with the class of goods it handles. It pays you two-fold, That's the experience of many mothers, been seen here b fore, They have small Jlarge wings, and a getting Into their ears. One animal | was found with two hundred in its| claimed the banks would not disap ears and was crazed with pain. The| pear before the Fourth of July. The Poorer oh li Ea tas "J, REDELSHEIMER & CO. ' 800-802 First Ave., Cor. Columbia, uilroad. Without the aid of dynamite it is horses by Best and Biggest Clothiers in the State only ve turpenti | Within wetking distance. Pratt's Orc hurd | erty offered is Pratt's Or | Aaaition jouer eee Oey. eee whe Holl the Mrs the into brow yet g T2URELF. ZETST. F 2 BE"22E92, 212, F8RR B

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