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aa Sc cas aie asdlicicste alee acai tienda ea ade ia la ne ee | Saitou. aden B & i 2 THE SEATTLE STAR ER WHI, Faia very afternoon ex pt Sunday B. F. CHASE Desiree Manacnn BM. WEL pron, | ‘One cent per copy er twentenye © by mail or carrie Feiephone Pike 180. week tverei free copies COMMERCIAL EXPANSION. Mr. ©. A. Conant, who writes “Commercial Empire in the June Forum, sees in the ooeupation of Cubs and the Philippines by the United @ates, the entrance of this country into the worldwide contest for fnan- clal and commercial supremacy Gome of his statements are quite in- teresting. He catis attention to the fact that ‘when modern manufactures and ecommerce were assuming their frat reat proportions at the beginning of this century, France was almost the only competitor of Great Britain Germany remained poor until united and enriched by the French indemn- My of @ billion in gold. In 1895 the estimated wealth of that country in Negotiable securities was cighteen times that indemnity. By the close on @ capital of $20,000,000, With such large capita! in hand, German in- dustry since the war with France has reached out in al! directions at home and abroad. ‘Russia, still later than Germany in entering the domain of commercial empire, has 4 still more astonishing reeord. As late as the beginning of 18% Russia was reported as having Only $5,000,000,000 in negotiable secur- Dut the issue of shares of com- ‘m that country during that was almost $40,000.00. This Rearty doubled the next year, A89T amounted to $120, 000,000. deposita have increased as One of the great bank- of the present time t# the bank. Although, like United States, Russia is a great nation, it is making id tn carrying out a policy which te making it @ powerful rival of the industrial powers. ‘The great incentive in the arduous tnternational strugste for commer- lal empire is the enormous profits of Great Britain, the richest nation of aT l | if lft il z i | ‘ ! i | of the as H0,- : i i ' | : an annual rev- of British shipping carrying i a i ilf iy $f 8% ii i i i i aiff if | arranged, seg pd of the martyr of Devil'e i@ considered well- To President Loubet, of the French Republic, to Emile Zola and to that Jarge and sturdier element of France| ‘which forms the public sentiment of the nation outside of Paris, thie Mnal righteous disposition of the case will be due, Paria iteeif has never cons. | @4 to cry for the continued persecu- tion of Dreyfus. —_—————— Kentucky has not recovered from when the covered that fifteen-year-old whisky could be, and very frequentiy is, made in fifteen minutes. Hearty Married His Sister CINCINATTI, ©0., June 9—Albert Myers came here from New York to Gertrude Myers, of Covington, marry Ky., whom he had met In New York| with an excursion party three years ago. Upon meeting her they made investigations, which revealed the fact that they were brother and #is- ter. The brother and sister were taken from an orphan asylum in) ington. COLLAPSE OF TOWING TRUST CHICAGO, Til, June 9.—It is the opinion of Capt. J. 8. Dunham, the iient of the Dunham Towing & ‘king company, and Miles Barry of the Independent Tug line, the pr * | been greatly disturbed by the com- l the trust was to absorb the valua tiona were aaid to be satisfactory with the exception of th the | Mand & John and the Maytham tug lines of uffalo. | The price at which these compan | tes offered to sell etagwered the trust |promoters, although It t# said that they had many militons behind them, | | Wfforte have been made to secure lower figures from the Buffalo firma} without aval, and it Is said without) those concerns the labors of the pro. | | moters have come to naught } | To Burn Slot Machines. | | CHICAGO, I, June 9.—Some time | during the next week Potice Inspec tor Max Heitelmeler wil act as the jerand master of ceremonies at the burning of $2000 worth of { ma- lehines. The machines are those sela- ed at different time in saloons, res | taurants, cigar stores, ete, and they |have been in storage tn the city hall The burning will take place as the result of the opinion of Corporation Counsel thi Walker, who decided that machines, of which there were wt one hundred, can be destroyed by the police department, AMUSEMENTS. ‘The Belasco. Thal! company will to. | |night present at the Third avenue! |theater “A Man with a Past.” To-| | morrow night and Sunday night “The | Girl I Left Behind Me” will be given, jand for the matinee tomorrow after. | noon “Marguerite” will be the bill * | The engagement closes Sunday night see The sale of tickets commenced this} morning at the Seattle theater for| the engagement of the Wakefield. | Andrews opera season. The com pany ie said to be & strong agerenn-| tion of operatic stars and a musical | week of rare exceliency is promised. | “ee Norris Brothers’ show arrived in Beattie early this morning, and at It | o'clock made one of the neatest street | | parades ever given here by a trav [eling show, ‘The line was headed by | good band. There were 5 shet- land ponies and over 100 dogs, sever-| al cages of monkeys, @ baby elephant | nd an African ra in the proces. | sion. All the little anim are hand- some and well groomed, and the abundance of rich trapping» gave the | parade an air of neatness through- out There are @ number of very *ty Uttle chariots and other email vehicles, including a complete eet o police patrol and fire apparatus. | “Pargo,” the diminutive elephant, | was perhaps the most attractive fea- ture for the children, while older people were most Interested in t aebra, as it te the first ever seen in| harness here. There was a large crowd on the streets to see the par- ade. The aggregation shows much improvement since ite visit here last | and Battery street. Performances will be given at 2:30 and § p. m. DID NOT WANT A RAILROAD | | } St. Genevieve, the oldest town in Missouri, founded in 1735, hi jest got fts firet railroad. For nearly two centuries, “distant, sectuded, still,” the little French! town of St. Genevieve | Without « ratiroad, without a tele-/ |graph, without « telephone. It has! jonly one church, @ great cathedral, | ballt above and around the walle of the old Catholic church of gray stone put up by one of the cavalry officers of Naporon the Great. Like the viliage of Grand Pre, ft waa the bome of Men whowe lives gikied on a rivers that water the woodlands. In the year 1800 8t. Genevieve had & population of 1300. Today it has 2000, a gain of 700 in a century | Old settlers at St. Genevieve, de-| seendants of exiled Acadians, have) ing of the locomotive into their quiet | retreat. It will bring new people with new | ways, who will not reverence the old things and the old customs, who will amirk at the quiet mattens tn their quaint Norman hoods, who will be| new-fashioned; and the people of St. Genevieve are happy to be old-fash- toned. When the raiiroad was within five miles of the town there was a path | worn across the fields to it by the | young men and women, and the boys land girls, There were a thousand | people in St. Genevieve who had never seen a locomotive, The track | now within a half mile of the town |square. 6t. Genevieve is five mies |above the site of Old Kaskaskia, lonce the capital of Ilinots, and now swept away by the noods of the Mississippi. WEATHER FORECAS Beattie and Vicinity.—Tonight and Saturday, fair weather; wind west to south, The pressure is still high over Washington, although {t has dimin- | from the | placed tn Jail. NHEKING WEALTH In the Washington Gold Mines. NEWS PROM THE REPUBLIC FIELD ones J Excellent Progress ing M Dri Shafts in Many Pla in That Camp. The Kettle raining REPUBLIC, Wash, June 9 residents of Republic and Falis have recently been money to complete the wagon rood acrons the summit from Kettie Falls ‘This is the shortest and most direct route by whieh the camp can b reached from the Spokane Falls and Northern raiire It is estimated that between $8000 and #4000 will b& required to complete it, and already over $2000 has been pubscribed. Work ie progressing as rapidly as possible on the San P: State Wagon road and it is expected to be completed this fall, The Black Tai! mine t# showing fine ore in the cross vein, ae well ar on the Surprise ledge, which te be ing opened up where it crosmes the Black Tail Every foot of brings some new surprise. Within &@ week the ore has increased from an average value of $25 per ton t over 0 per ton. The shaft of the Morning Glory Ir going down rapidly, and it is the opinion of the general public that the shaft Is in rich ore, but how rich no outelder is allowed to discover On the Republic stoping and 4 velopment work is being pushed with vigor. The large tutinel wae driver over 400 ft. during the month of May 4 record that would be hard to equa On the Lone Pine the crosseut tur net is being driven rapidly, and tt i+} announced that & mill will De insca ed thie season. Good progress ie being made both shafte and in the south drifi of the great Mountain Lion, Thy je no change in the value of ore, and all that In taken out of the on | south drift ts of milling quality. ‘The amount of quarts that is ready for Mipping ts something immense. tt jis now generally conceded that the The show Is located at the| Mountain Lion will rival the Re pubiie, The width of the pay ore between the walle at the 525 {1. lewe) te 43 {t., With values running from $39 to $90 per ton in gold. Another of the big mines of the camp that le making @ most wonder- ful showing is the Tom Thumb. The Tom Thumb company owns @ group of four claime—the Tom Thumb, Plug Mat, M and Hannah Simp- son. In @haft No. 1 on the Tom Thumb, the was cromcut at the bottom of 7% ft. shaft, and an enormous ledge, % ft. between the walls, gave values of $109 In gol On the same ledge on the Plug Hat the present shaft is nearing the ledge at a depth of over 1 ft. The com- »| pany te now arranging to run 4 tun ne! i that will be 2900 ft. in length and tap the ledge at a depth of Ifo ft Two, claims ttt are at present at- tracting quite an amount of atten- tion in the camp are the Pirate and Pleasant Dream, situated about a mile southeast of the Republic mill They Wave a strong ledge cropping from 6 to 10 ft. on the surface, with values running from $2 to #8 per ton in gold. They have recently passed into the hands of the East San Poil Gold Mining company, organized in Seattle Resides the Seattic gcen- tlemen interested In the company, several capitalists of Jacksonvitt Florida, hold large interests. 100,000 shares of the stock were sub scribed in Republic, The superin- tendent of the East @an Poll is FE. M Hodgson, who has had charge of the started on that property full face of ore in the cro ut which was run from the bottom of the 100 ft. shaft. The quarts so closely resembles the Repubite ore that it is doubtful if there is a man in the camp who could tell the one AWFUL DEED OF A FATHER CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., June 9. “Albert Wells, who threw his four boys into a well on his farm fear | Thornton yesterday, and killed two of them, Was brought to this city and He walks the jail cell and complains that his head is hurt~ ing him, and says he has conctuded to kill himseM; and, as he did not want to leave his sons In the tain ished somewhat wince Thursday. Over California there still prevatis the usual summer low. In the Rocky mountain region there is developing jan area of high pressure which | gives indications of becoming the | dominating one. The temperature has risen in East- ern Washington, Montana and the Great Basin There has been no precipitation at any station within | the whole region covered by the re-~ porta. | | | , |Wage Earners’ Homes| | | | It is the desire of the owners of the | | Pratt's Orchard Addition to encour- | age the buliding of homes, therefore the investor and especially the ladies of Seattle who are interested tn own- ling homes in the near future, are |requested to see this property. It |im beautifully situated on the enat| slope of Queen Anne hill, command-| ing a good view of the Inke, city and Sound, accessible by Cedar street car | line. ‘There are from 7 to 14 large) | world, he concluded to kill them be- fore he committed suletde. Wells and bis four Httle sons had been picking strawberries and were returning to the farmhouse, When they approached an abandoned «hal low well the father suddenly grabbed the boys, one after the other, and, lcrushing their heads with a brick, threw them into the well. Before work | Jubdiiee mine since work was first, The Gold Ledge, which lier east of © the East San Pot! properties, has a ~ THE SEATTLE any of them could exeape they had all be the Httl ed outright, were b mother in the house ne When Mra, Weil her husband wae climbing well had got in on th th n thrown in, 1 ny f fellows, who were not k where hi boys to « Ore PEReU ran to xh about to drown The people lowa to account for the terrible act of Wells r and queerty has b been consid hie and plu 11 The ne ' thim ash . Thornton are a who has alwa abiding, 1 f late ar ome ingane, H AW he ed dangerous, alth n the cau the tragedy jonas have bee me remark before i - county and Well Monte ust acr line tn mery | Shot at the Pri YORK nich att J.C, Boe Cathol unk Mir nate Res Patrick church in this elty, and Mary Fag the priest's h keeper, te Minnt minded young man and h that the priest was persecutin He fired at the hoursekeey an open window, but min He then 1 the fired at a pr whe ng Low Maas, Minnich though priest was Father Mo was Rev, Frank Kain St, Mary's, Md. Minnich’s alr am bad. After firing he walked down the street. He is now in jail Pa. mpt June 0.7 i to as 1, pastor ¢ f at tay » in a weak imagined ugh enter hureh and at was celebra this van, but it | . | Grief-Stricken Girl ignited Her Oil Soaked Clothe TRENTON, NJ t she was by fed of ch iding her acy last with Mhe a Stew she was not ath of t om pan ight waturat racne 1 in th resid f mother, and b * guodby, Julia T her afire of Mar she had apart ee and © Pp © art ne mente In an Instant the gir ar of fire, Frantic with p an into the street and fell from ex saustion When she found by Mficer Hutchinson every ebred of thing had been ned from her dy and her flesh hung in at In spite of the agony that she sof ered the woman tained her senses 4 SHASED BY A WOMAN Wife of oy iaihbeiie Professor Wounds Thieves. KOKOMO, Ind. June 9.—Burgiars | entered the residence of Professor G. G. Bruer, principal of the Russiaville jbigh school night Mre Bruer was alone in the house, She not only stood off the burglars but sent them away bootiess and wound ed. As the thieves pried open the door and went in Mra. Bruer took a loaded revolver from a bureau drawer and went after them, There was a fusiliade of bullets, Mra, Bruer following the burglars and firing a» the ran. This morning one of the Daliets was picked out of a tree in the yard, out of which was taken a fragment of the clothing worn by the robbers, Traces of blood were also found. lant when The following deeds were Med with the county © yesterday Sol G. Simpson et ux. to N son, lot Band 8% lot 11, bik 2, jad, June 2, $70 Harry M. Adams to J. Ft | North Seattle, May 27, $400. Thomas and Ellen J. Gowen, man and Catherine Bf Wm. Woodhou ert Southern a4, Auguet 2 Wim. Woodhouse et ux. to ¢ Russell, sume property 960. W. A. Hardy et ux. to Gillespie, lot 22. bik 4, W Co.'s Ist plat, Went Seattle on IN a © ft. Nel MeCle Tre Bartlett to “M bik & 1490, $60 sree J 17, 1894, line ©. Lat June 2, Caroline ©. Hardy et ux. to dot 21, bik 4, eame June RK. B. Holbrook to J I pie, lot 12, bik 34, Wert L, Co.'s 24 plat, April 24, $ | Same lot 11, bik ad, April 28, $112.50. | Receiver Washington | Bank to May L. Sullivan, w to ft } &, bik 1, Cable Line ad, Nov, 12, 1897, " Patrick Galiagher to Mary M. Gal lagher, lot 6, bik 75, D. T. Denny's Home ad, bik 1, Wood's 8 Div., Green Lake ad, June 6, 4. ¢., $1 Wm. Baker et ux. to @ & L Ry. Co., tract in 0, twp M, r 8, Mar m, $1 Clarence B HM. Lene, lot twp M4. r 5, Dec o wame uM, same Savings fee Tagley et ux. t 5 and wt lot 4 12, 18095, $1 hin Lindh, tet June 7, $1150. we 2, bik rth Seattle, Sheriff to John Stier, pif, 11, twp 22, r 2, case 19,500 | T. Johnson et al., June & | United State (patent) to © | Bill, sw%, sec 28, twp 2%, 7, April 1 | Katharina M. Brand and husband, | Adolph L., tod hton jot 9, blk 22, Bigiow’s a 6, $850 Mary T. nd to Ella son, und % sw, sec 1, twp May | 26, $800, Adimr of estate of Jamen 8. Moore Inv. Co., Cc. D. Boren'’s ad, June Lewin, lots 6 | deceased and 7, bik 20, | 8, $18,000. Many a mother does $4 wo A Cheap Suit Is Known By Its Rips and Tears. rth of patching on a $3 suit March Your Boy Here And get a serviceable ironclad and solidly-built garment. Some- thing that retains its looks and shape, and both mother and Union | part see] John ees sagen peer ee + Ca % ONLY clase mining pr stock at 1 i every share of th to allow no one OCCASIONALLY nat gr fr share stock and shares, each were refused The large investor of the Bast San fF ok he at bien. ™ it« This is simply We are trying to build up tze that if we make money their investment in the hands of many Pp who buy thie stock will ¢ r and the “Pieasant I but a que O'clock P. M. Orders by m ment will not ap for les than 600, | | | ) | AAAAARAARAAAAAARAAAA AY Mutnal Life Building, Ww ing to have the most realistic missionary sermon at our burch next Sunday.” | Indeed “Yea, The church is to be yrated with ri and Gatlings.” Indianapolis Journal are indeed ao AMUSEMENTS. NORRIS BROS.’ BIC Tae SHOW ANIMAL Fifty New Features THIS YEAR Exhibit under their Waterproof Tents, corner Second Ave. and Battery St., Seven Days, Beginning Friday, June 9 -200-PERFORMING ANIMALS-200 Trained Doms, Pretty Performing Pontes, Mirthful Mon key Mimles, Ludicrous Act Funny Animal Clowns | PARGO, Hest performing ele | phant in America AJAX, only educated zebra in ex stenes The coatly coll Wonderful ing Goats, am largest, handsomest and most tion of performing ani mals on Perforr and & p.m hildren, 5c. t parade I « daily Prices m | EAST Gold Mining Co. MINES AT REPUBLIC, WASH. t Immediately became a popular inve tw person to buy more than 5000 sha could soon #ell It out to the A Business a can make money for a hundred people It does more lozen « they wilt some in emall blocks, rather than In the hands « THs is Positively Your Last 0, ty Share, The Sale of This Block of Stock Will Close ar after today nor for more than 0000 shares. SLATER & SMITH, OME to the Seattle Mining Exchange at 8 o’clock tonight and takea flyer ona few shares of stock. along in the hand-to-mouth style you are, but do like thousands of rich men toda make a fortune on a few dollars invested in cheap but good mining stocks. Come out tonight. Seattle Mining Exchange - 609 FIRST AVENUE ream,” OF time whea they will rank with the richest mines in this famous gold camp. ‘Latest SAN Taw? of Republ goo’ Three Days of Grace June 8th, Sth and on a me od fh n get an opportunity to see For that reason w prices had we filled « several ¢ as much mo st sees it, and w 2 good thing when he tely recognized the fac PERMANENT BROK AGE Bt rtwo. If all the people who buy thi time invest again, and for that r tainly make a fine profit. The ne mile southeast of the unity to Secure Any of {i} must bear post mark dated not later than June 10, 1899. ‘Th The next block will be put on at Remit money order or draft’ 114 James St., phone Main soi. Don't always plod did, and Our store is closed on account of Monday morn- ing’s fire. We shall be open in a few days, The Seattle Grocery Second and Marion Wo, 512 Second Avenue, between Yesier and James. PIGOT & FRENCH CO, 104 Washington St,, have tho only | Linotype Job Printing Machine In the Northwest. Catalogues, Pamph- Jets, ete,, at specially low prices. BAVE | MONEY’ by giving them an opportunity to figure. | | | tyles | Ladies, have your Tailor-made Suits | made by | HUMES & CO. Rooms 25-25 Safe Deposit Building PPOOGOD OOO OO OOO O09 SOOO Popular Songs tment ” that if he co pall investor in lots of one and two thousand at double what few in ATURDAY, JUNE 10, ‘99, at 8 BITISIIIFI III 9IIIH FES POIL——~** 4 ) $s @ % 1Oth. stock in offered Kast we could an we 10 10,000 to a strictly first San Potl have sold ure hen we and lers, but op blocks had arra 1 hen he investigated the merits uid secure a ba block of the Propositon With Us. SINESS tn this city, and real- fe ur business than if we is stock of us make a profit on n we prefer to place the stock arge Wocks. " peo- “aime, the t is only a Tiiv “Stuck at-i Cont Per N Write or wire us, n advance. Seattle, Wash. = => 3 z £ Z 2 Direct from the factory; Just arrived, and more coming. ° Ramaker Music Co. 1415 Second Ave bet. Pike and Onion Safe Deposit Boxes For the sate keeping of Valuable Articles and Papers Yor rent at # 8 year the key Safe Deposit Vauits E. SHORROCK. Manager You carry % W. Columbia St REAL ESTAT Fone Red Go Batley & Platino Cabinet Photos reduced to Yor 30 Days. La Roche Cor, 24 ave, and Union 8$ Our grocer says There are not any SAN DIEGO FRUIT co Has Plenty. Fine as Silk 415 Pike Street. Between 4th and Sth LichtRunning DOMESTIC. Telephone Bay 1s 504), Pike St between 5th and 6th Ensy Payments,.”* MICKELSON, Act 9O90DOD 6 DOVOGOH WH ODO HOOOG Meals at All Hours, OUR CAFE ? Mrs, Con. A. Rideout, - Proprictor & Cor, Third Avo, and James St. QOD IOSD FOODGHOOH OOOH OOO FOOD 2 OOO 2 OOSE —-* boy will be happy. Varying in price from $1.50 to $7.50. posed tug trust, to control towing | bearing fruit trees on each lot, and) properties on the lakes, has collap-| we do not hesitate to say that the| ned, although in Cleveland its pro-| Pratt's Orchard Addition offers the moters agsert matters are progress-| best value for the least money of | PAR | "Phone Piko 12%, 1329 Second Avenue | Wr. J. DEAN & CO.) Popular Prices ¢ Call and hear the new ones played on the “SEATTLE TRANSFER CO. ing favorably. any property offered during our 12) B e nd B t Cloth ‘ h 4 It s said that the reef upon which | years’ experience. Kasy terms to) ae bs peisidinrs eee | Piano, the trust was wrecked was the price|those who wish to build. Price $250| ~~ Fretght, Passenger and Baggage, BONNEY & STEWART | Funeral Directors and Kmbalmors Parlors, Third Aye. and Columbia st | seattle, Wash, fa placed on their business by the two) per lot You can secure a plat of fen es ery etn teen tet, REDELSHEIMER & CO. the towing business of the Buffalo | and Robinson at 112 Columbia street. . * . arbor. Of the 17 tug lines which | MOORE INVESTMENT CO. | 800-802 First Ave., Cor. Columbia, WINTER & HARPER STORAGE 903 Second Ave. Seattio, Wash. r4 "Phone Main 41-46, Of 623 First Aver” a ————~— @ Telephone Main 13. | e