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e ° , : THE SEATTLE STAR. rs Seeteereg ieee ees ponent epee T work never before seen in Seattle T | the amount barat , ‘The plaintin “ay ay Ay rh) J 2 oe ake-watk, !n which the entire com-| { ) ] d i d away of lod sawing max ®» OF LIGHTS Will Gleam From the Arches GAILY PESTOONED WITH BUNTING Which Will Decorate the Streets of Our City Upon the fa tion's Holiday. The work of the Fourth of July committee is almost ended, and tt with be completed within two days. The decorations will, it is said, .ex-) ceed in magnificence anything im Seattle in previous years < arches will form the chief feature of the street decoration. The ape) “@¥ches made brilliant by many gets and electric lights, and sur mounted by aymbotic devices, will be located on each of the four cor- ners formed by the Intersection of the following streets: Main and First avenue south; Washington and @econd avenue south; Yesler and Second avenue; Madison and Secon @venue; Seneca and Second avenue Pike and Second avenue, and Pike and Fourth avenue. ‘Two large arches are now nearly completed. one being located at the intersection of First avenue and Col- umbia street, and the other spanning Second avenue at Cherry street. The first-named will consist of four large Pillars suporting a central platform upon which Wagner's band will dis- course music during the celebration. ‘The entire structure will be cov- ered with bunting and tiluminated by over 1000 Incandescent lamps. The jowing: “Welcome.” “Fourth of Duly," “1778,"" “1s99" will blaze on lights from the different sides. ‘The arch on Cherry street and Sec~ end avenue will be constructed en- tion. Appropriate devices will be/ @andescent lights wil create 4 beau Festoons of electric been strung along Firet Cherry to Marion street, ii iH tr ae will be similarly decor- ? been met enptire- i | have & g : committee has complet- ind have placed it : ‘a, Nanaimo, Vancouv- Reservation bands music during the cele- Wagner's band will occupy ast he li £ Columbia street for the evening. Monday will furnish mus- athietic sports in i fi i ® i ¥ i . The will be a band in at- 1 ae lacrosse game, the fireworks dispiay, and at. the Ar- mory. Im adition to the Instrumental music there will be the convention chorus of 50 voices at the e: on the University grounds. All the bands will take part in the parade. The lacrosse game will be a feature of the athletic sports, Chairman Ambrose left this morning for Van- couver to make final arrangements with the teame. A beautiful trophy ‘Twelve tons of fireworks arrived by the Walla Walla yesterday for ‘use during the celebration, and every HAMLET IN HEBREW CHICAGO, June 2.—Hamilet was Presented In Hebrew at the Metro- politan theater recently. The play was adapted by B. Tomashysky, a Jewish character of New York, who aiao took the title role. In piace of the King Tomashysky has tntro- duced a Rabbi. Hamlet Rimseif, in- stead of being a Prince te a highly educated Jewish orthodox scholar. ‘There was no ghost; the author does not believe in ghosts. Instead, the Jewish Hamlet, Ewegdor by ame, learned the treachery of the father’s stepbrother—another varia- tion due to religion—and his moth- er, by finding his father’s will which contained the same dread message the ghost delivered to Hamlet on the battiements of Elsinore. The Rabbi ultimately was sent off to prison as a Nihilist. Esther died on the stage of a broken heart. Ham- let, by a Jewish custom, permissible to affianced couples, wedded her af- ter death, and fell lifeless besid her at the conclusion of the service. AMUSEMENTS. Stuart's comic players, who open- 04 a week's engagement at the Third avenue theater last night. provided @ bright, sparkling vaudeville enter- tainment for a good-sized and very appreciative audience. Two of the epecialties in particular, Arneido's equiltbriet work, and the contor- tionist feats of Zeda, are without doubt equal to anything of the kind aver geen in Heattie. Arneldo does some really markable things in hia performance, his most daring feat being a dive from a pedestal 4 feet @ inches high and lighting on his hands. “Casey's Troubles,” a tin honored * under a new name, wae given &» a curtain raiser. was followed by some clever 4 aid singing by La Petite Idi fnson and Silver receiving w served recalis. Joba and Clar r- rift, in a creation of their own ¢ 1 “The Yellow Girl and the Coon,” 4 ® excellent work, both in sing- ing und dancing, and were recalled twice. Zede .w follows this team in dis contortionist feats, did some “rane | the business men on the streets | #ather their views, Nearly 600 swers have been received, and fewer than a dogen oppose the canteen, pany took p ae | One of the eminent New York aw thovities on dramatic affairs, in aking of the Kelcey-Shannon pro duction of “The Moth and the Mame,” which wil be seen at the Seattle theater tonight and tomor row and Saturday matinee, says |" "The Moth and the Flame’ is one of the strongest playa seen for many a day, Had the piece been written by some modern French dramatiat and presented at a Paris theater, tt would be hailed there as a manter- plece, and have been { ‘adapted’ for the American stage: | the first place Ht is logteatiy, if dar- lingiy, constructed; It plotures fash. fonable society in the most brilliant comedy colors, but a strain of trag- ledy underties the current of every human life, So tt breaks into the! |Heht of this play, throwing a shadow | as deep a fate upon the seene, ‘The! dialogue Is crisp and witty, often] and yet rining so true that] otator shivers at the revela-| tion, The atory whieh the ‘person jin the play’ depict for ua is new, and the author has carried it on to new} ground for the conventional seciéty drama.” = the Oberon concert hall this kK Irvin Baruch has provided an Iw xeellent entertainment, The apec jalty artiste are clever, and the ekits all, new, omen = | “The Passion Play” at the Jofter-| son theater ts one of the best enter- | tainments of its kind ever seen In Seattle, yet the patronage is very | poor, “The Passion Play” is an ex- cedingly Interesting production, doal- ing as K does with Dible time, It ts di by) mi young alike, and thoroughly | understood. As tonight and tomor- | row night will be the last opportun- ity for witmessing i, large houses | should be the order, THE CANTEEN - WILL STAY WASHINGTON, D. C., June %-— According to Adjutant General Cor- bin, the army canteen question has been settied once and for all, The canteen is to remain as a fixed and permanent feature, all op- position from the outside not serv- ing to shake the opinion of those who | have the matter in charge, Seeretary of War Alger took a vi- tal interest im the affair, Prohibt- oniets charged from the beginning of the agitation that he was againat them and that the canteen found fa- vor in his eyes, Strangely enough, -town portion of Sec- | the saloonkeepers endorsed the stand of the probibitionista, expense incidest in these] Secretary Alger addressed himeelf to the post and other commanders to STATE NEWS. Wheat looks fine around Walla im the arch at First) wana. Grays harbor sawmills are short of men. one reonthe morning of the) There are no cases of wmallpox at Wilbur as reported. see Fred Parker will judge the races at the state fair this year, ee Joseph H. Smith won the Chehalis rel#es | oratorical contest last week. eee The haying season will not com- | mence until the middie of July, being | three weeks later than usual. “*. A_ postofice has been cstablished at Weston, Chehalis county, to be supplied by special service from Oc- osta. “ee ‘The Western Basket manufactory at Hoquiam received an order 4 few days ago for 12,000,000 fruit baskets. eee EAttor Turner, of the Prosser Re- cord, says it is rumored that Levi Ankengq is to start a bank at Prosser this fall if the conditions warrant. ore The people in the Upper Wenas| find themse! seriously discommo ed by the fact that there ta now postoffice in the valley. They ar making an effort to have one estab- Hehed. see Much progress is being made on the great government jetty. Mr. Hale statese that some 5000 feet have been finished, and that everything goes well. Grays harbor will be ben- efited again by a change in the brush contract, and Mr. Hale says they will cut the brush on the harbor, This will bring some W or 40 men here.— Montesano Vid Leonard Miller, who Injured his right leg white at work on a pile driver in the Gulf of Georgia, is tn the city. He says that the Guif of Georgia is rapidly being transform- jed into a forest of piles. Twenty- Jone monstrous steam pile-drivers jand 15 fishing steamers are dally at work; about $500 per day ia paid to orkmen on the pile drivers, and jabout $400 per day to the men em ployed on the steamers, An army of men i# employed in webbing, tarring, capping, driving, ete. Everything ts as busy as a beehive along the Gulf. The first run of fish ts expected } about July 10.--Whatcom Blade, THE SAILORS BEATEN. Yesterday's ball game at Madison |park, between the boys from the | lowa and the Rainiers, was a victory |for the landamen, the score stand- jing 7to3. The proceeds of the game |went to the Seattle Red Cross so- ciety. ‘The Iowa's boys put up a good game, considering that they have but little chance to practice in diamond, a “Excursion to Olympia Sunday Attention, State of Wasi ler wharf at stopping at both going and returning ishing, can ride from Tacoma |to Olympia, or Olympia to Tacoma on their wheels. Good road, found |trip, 90 cents, ‘Tickets at Lee's Dnarmacy, ——————— ———— The Crigler Locks Window Every Half Inch, Steamer NIASHE Invented By £. D.. Betts Esq. THE GUN HAS AN AIR TRIGGER >: d Out With ‘The “eyelone annihilator D. Botte, an ar th CHICAGO, UL, June 2. in vontion of th In announced by (ist, of No. & Adame street device has been offer eral government by_ ERO eneey at Tt w clones in every Instance, leaving bed effect, He makes this offer the Kovernment with some condi. tions, but asks nothing in the way of pecuntary compensation. The inven tion was made In the interests of humanity, he says, and if the gov ernment Wishes to benefit the people by providing them with these annihi latore be will turn over to It his pa- tent rights. ‘The annithilator is a emall cannoe with @ weather vane and an air trig- ger, The weather vane le for the purpose of aiming the cannon, rem ing on a pivot. When a cyclone ap proaches the vane turns the cannog so it points directly at the funnel- shaped cloud, When the wind reachs os @ Veloolty of 65 miles an hour t« will spring the trigger and fire the cannon. The projectile fired into the revolving cloud will throw it off ht balance and it will seatter Into # harmiess sephyr. Mr, Bette says he got his Inepira- tion from a story of a hupter wh was overtaken on a prairie in lows by @ tornado, The storm was bear- ing down on him with such speed that he had no chance to get inte a cyclone ovllar. The only thing t¢ do was to take a shot at the gyrating column. He let go both barrels and then tried to get in a few short and quick prayers, The funnel quit twiet- ing, stopped stock stil! and slowly spread out on the sky ike the smoke from a river tug and floated grace- fully away. FATE OF A * POLITICIAN Who Was Bos Tweed’s Friend. Ny) HE WS SENT TO AN ALMSHOL The Sad Story of Michael Lynch, Formerly a Ta y Leader and Prominent NEW YORK, June %.—Today Mi- chael Lynch, “Bridge Commission er” Lynch, Bill Tweed's friend. tute, suffering from Ile of seniitty, will go to the almshouse in Biack- well's island, of which, years ago. he was the assistant warden. Ang with Lynch, to this poor harbor for wrecks of life, will go his old wife zabeth, his partner of many years ‘or whom he manifests (he most vuching devotion. Young politicians, proud of piace will do well to study the life story of Michael Lynch and to take warn: ing from it. Lynch is 8 years old, His wife is 9 years, for © years they have, lived on Cherry Hill, Their home wag at No. 14 Cherry street. Their pov: erty growing deeper they went te the home of their daughter, Mra. M: Bwun, who alone survives of thely eight children. Bat Mra. Bwun her self, poor, has many children, and she reluctantly consented that hey parents be taken to the almahouse But first their bodily aliments must be cured. So yesterday they were taken in an ambulance to Bellevue hospital. Lynch could walk; his poor wife was carried Into the hospitay on a stretcher. He showed the ten derest solicitude for her "Te gentile,” he beeged the bear- era of the strete and, walking be- side her, he kept saying: “Are you comfortable, and he wept. Yer,” she feebly answered don't let them part us, Mike.” They were put In adjoining wards ans close as id be to each other, and the doors of the wards were kept open. In his time, Lynch, the aged pau per of today, was the political leader of Cherry Hill, He was a member of “Big 6 hose, of which “Rill' Tweed was foreman, and was a very close friend of the then boss, whx Ligtie? “but made him assistant warden of the almshoure. Besides, Lynch had oth- er good places in the department of charities, In his heydey Tweed bullt a wooden bridge between Man hattan and Blackwell's isiand, ‘The bridge, the first to spring from Man hattan, stood but a few months, but while {t stretched its span Lyne’ was “Bridge Commissioner” by the favor of Tweed, and that his inti mates thereafter called h unfortunate whe today o city’s charity was prominent in the ‘Tammany delegation at many state and national conventions A decree was yestorday entered by Judge Hanford in the case of W. H Lord vs, the #teamer Protection, awarding the plaintiff damages to The steamer did not take the | machine but left it on the wharf, It | Was subsequently went to Ite destin« jation on & seow towed up by the |ehip Prussia, but in consequence of the delay there was no one to re lectve ft and MH became lost ‘The | plaintiff thereupon commenced a sult | with the above result Victims of Lightning. | BYRACUBB, N. Y., June 90.-Dur- jing @ severe electrical storm which passed over thin city yesterday, De jiow Mager and hia son, Orlee, while [hauling hay tn a field, | miles sout nitus, the loaded wagon to eacape from |the rain, A pitehfork was left stick jing tm the top of the load. The fork ttracted a Hehtning bolt, whieh passed through the hay, splintering the boards of the wagon and killing Mager, the son and a dog | JAPS NOT GUILTY. In the } court yesterday af- ternoon, Ira Yashima and Chi Pu- tam, the case of two Japanese pris- with importing four vers Into the United y to the allen labor trial took up norning and : pare at muilty law the greater part of the afternoon sexy - ered @ verdict of BOARD $6 ER WEEK With Fresh Eggs and Butter. rend- HOTELS OPEN AT PATCHOGUE And the Sea Serpent Is Once More Advertised a8 on Attraction To Boarders, PATCHOGUE, L. I, June %.-—The sea serpent is staked and tied at Pets chogue, alive, The creature was tak en yesterday In a net. Hundreds have already come to eve it, but hone can say whether it ie a reptile or & fish. Mr, Sea Serpent welghs half a ton he ts ten feet long, eight feet wide and three feet thick; he has a head and peck as large common bar- rel and fect and lege that look lke the claws of a dragon. ‘Mr. Bea Serpent is very ugly tn dis peattion, ena that approac! steam engine. When the huge monster became enmeshed In the net he is said to have made a nolee like that of o thousand bullfrogs croaking tn unk son. He ie anid to have leaped up againet the side of the boat with great ferocity, until it was feared that the craft wouM be sunk . Big dente and cracks are shown tn the boat where the monster is anid te have sunk ite teeth and used ity clawa. John A. Smith, of Watch Mul ts the owner of the boat, and with him were seven men. They were fishing for sturgeon four miles out. They started to haul up their neta, wher they found them apparently caught They pulled and worked for a tima when suddenly there arose above thr surface Sn apparition that froze their blood. A huge hi neck protruded from the w r | forked tongue, red and hideous, shot | out maligantly toward them. Eyer | red and green glared and biinked by turns, Mr. Smith was the first t: recover from the fright, and he or dered the men to throw a hawaner over the monster's head. Thin w done and the crew started to tow the monster ashore. Then the im- menaity of the creature was seen Half a dozen men could easily have ridden to shore on the creature's back, which, in @ way, resembled that of a turtle, Finally when land was reached, « team of horses was secured, an@ these, together with the ald of the entire fishing crew, dragked the seg monster up on the beach, where {1 was tied out LOST HIS CASE. The jury decided against Matthew Sloan, in Judge Benson's court, yes terday. Sloan was a brakeman on | the Seattle & International, and in | June 1897, while coupling cars for 1, his right handwas mash- st two fingers, He al }lewed in complaint that the de- fendant company agreed to give him permanent employment on the r as & passenger brakeman, but last Friday he was put back on a freight train. On account of his inability to draw the brakes hard enough he He then sued for It is the most innocent woman that puzzles a man as to what she does not mean when she says a thing and hissing like @ almost je was disminsed. $15,000 dan & ne girls marry want to be married, marry because they be single because they but most girls don't want to It takes & woman to say the same thing in more different ways than you can count, and then not mean what she says in any of them, see woman, the wife, Is so different from herself, the mother, |that her own maker, thinking of her uu the one, would not recognize her as the other. » same | we ea | Just when a bachelor, after sever- Jal y of study on the subject, t# | finally convinced that nobody should et married, along comes some wo |man to knock his ideas to bits, and is e E SEATTLE MININ WIANGE a legitimate enterprise, and backed by a sufficient amount of capital to guar. antee that no fake enterprises or wild. ca boards, ing at everything | he has to begin all over again, our market repor t stocks will be listed or sold on its If you see the stock quoted in s, or offered for sale on our Exchange, you can rest assured the prospective mine is one of merit, and while we do no! t guarantee every stock sold to make the purchaser a rich man, yet we do say that they are money pi all a good safe investment and the 1id for them will be spent in develop. ing the mines, thereby making your property . more val Western uable, Remember what we say, that Washington is on the eve of the great. est mining. bean: the world has ever known, and there will be more fortunes made from the Cascade Mountains than were ever taken out of the main range of the Rockies, Get in the procession and invest a few dol« larsin cheap good mining stocks and you will wake up some fine morning and find yourself a millionaire, Daily call and sale at 12:30 P, M, Seattle Mining Exchange / 609 First Avenue THE SYLVESTER CASE. The writ of habeas corpus on be- half of Galpest A. Bylvester, who is wanted in North Dakota for the em- bexatement of several hundred dol- lars from the Equitable Life Assur- ance company, was argued before Judge Hanford yesterday and taken under advisement by ¢he court un- Ul Monday. Nails in His Stomach. MADISON, Wis, June %.—Joshua Davies, a patient at the Mendota hompital, died yesterday aa the result of an operation upon his stomach. Davis told the hospital authorities he had eaten nails and other hard substances, and upon an operation to remove these a large quantity of the same were found, Where Flies Come From. You wonder and wonder where the flies come from, We will tell yout ‘The toper makes the whieky fly, ‘The cyciond makes the house fly. The carpenter makes the saw fin ‘The boarder makes the butter fly. The jockey makes the horse fy, The blacksmith makes the shoe ny. The housewife makes the old man ny. ‘The mob swooped down and swept away his stock of ples. He made a turk tery and was arrested. Hee here,” sald the judge severely, “wasn't you one of the fellows who kicked up all of that racket?” “No, chudge,” he earnestly pro- tested. “I vaan't, I vas Just an in- nocent pyatander.” a The Crigler Burgiar Proot. Safe Deposit Boxes For tho safe keeping of Valuable Articles and Papers For rent at 8 « yearn, You carry the key. Safe Deposit Veults * W. Columbia St SHORROCK, Manager AMUSEMENTS JEFFERSON THEATER Cor. Jefferson and Fourth Avenue Thrilling Impressive PASSION PLAY, (Under lieonss of Austrian Goyernmont.) As produced for 2” nights in New Yo Baldwin f ter, Ran Fr elaeo 5 weeks, Y. MC. A, Auditoriam, Ban Franciico, Accompanying Lecture by nder De Sota BRGINNING Monday Night, June 26, And continuing onc week, Admission and good seats, 250; Teserved sents (Oe OBERON Seattle's Favorite Concert House, IRVIN BARUCH, LESSER A! PROGRAMME Commencing Monday bye, June 26 Concert Begins at 8 P.M, MUSICAL DIRECTOR Horr Irvin Bar’ LADIES’ ORCHESTRA Including specialtios direct from Kastern Every Friday Amateur Night Admission Free. Telephone Main 27a uPhred Excursions., SUNDAY, JULY 24 Battleship lowa ro $ylvian Grove... Pleasant Beach. Three Elegant Steamers Alice. Gertrude, Fairhaven, Geo. E. Starr ereresees LEAVE. scomeees YESLER WHARE Every Hour, All Day, Starting at 9) A. Mf tate bt eres te cet 4) PY | Tickets §9 Cents Round Trip to Port Orchard Including Stop-over at Pleasant Beach and Sylvian Grove, Each Way. Grant's Military Band EIGHTEEN PIECES Concert at Grove 10 to 12, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 o’clocly $300 Display of Fireworks at 9 P.M Base Ball—Port Orchards vs. Port Blakelys at 9 a.m, and 1 p.m. Meals and Refreshments at City Prices, Only Steamers Operated by the Phred Excursion Come pany Allowed to Land at Pleasant Beach and Sylvian Grove, Platino Cabi When —- sotes: tettaon You Want oe | . A Bargain | La Roche Sivan In a New, Slightly Used or Second-hand PIANO or ORGAN Remember we have the Painting, Paperhanging, Kalsomining Jicture Frames Made to Order. Look: smith Repairing of All Kinds Residence, 107 6thava, 406 Pike Street Largest and Most Com- THE. plete Stock in the City. D. 8S. JOHNSTON 903 Second Ave, Burke Bulldiag "Phono Pike 1%, 1829 Seoond Avenn3 Wm. J. DEAN & CO. Seat at vu: salle ca scacsraadtiniuimaie eerie ei a aia he, .

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