The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1899, Page 1

rr ayer eeere re | Twenty-five Cents « Month By Moll or Carrier IN BACK Senator Is Pleased * With Alaska. CORRECTS SOME WILD STORIES tavestigated the Fisheries of the Werthern Country — Will Ge East Soon, Senator Sereno B. Payne's party Peturned to the city this morning on the steamer Queen and put up at the Rainier-Grand hotel, The members Will remain in Seattle several daye @nd will then make a leisurely re- turn trip East. When Senator Payne Planned the present summer trip to Alaska, it stated in @ num- ber of papers that hie visit was di- fectly connected with the disputed Boundary question. His invertiga- tiona in the north, it was said, would | Probably result tn important dev-| elopments To a Star reporter Mr, Payne em- hatically denied the story. He sald| from the acene of the Portia wreck | canyon, he has « wecret rendervous if agination, and say that the steamer sunk during the 'P @ cave, \uxuriousiy furnis it was a piece of » the fact that he i# a member of the | Joint high commission no doubt gave color to the yarn { “My trip was planned nearly « year ago.” said the senator, “While I did not go north for the purpose of investigating the boundary ques- tion, I. of course, got what inform- ation I could about it while in Al- 1 have no opinion to exprens | im regard to the probable outeome of | the dispute, The people of Skag- Way and the Porcupine district are, their grain until the bags arrive. In all probability other sources will have to be resorted to for an ade- quate supply of bags. At present there are 850,000 bags on hand at the penitentiary and they h al been sold to the farmers in this lopality: Message of Condolence WASHINGTON, D. C., July Me | President MoKiniey t sent & message of condolence to Lightning's Fatal Bolt. ULY88E8, Neb. July 1.—During an electric storm tast night Victor and Ira Dobson, a son of John Amos and two unknown men were struck by Ughtning and killed. The bodies were not found until today, when eearching party which had been | Started out to look for them, came upon the bodies. | Immense Chicago Furnaces | CHICAGO, Mh. July tt ols Stem company ha: for two new blast furnaces to be lo- cated on Eeighty-sixth street. The contracts amount to $800,000, The new furnaces will have the largest capacity for pte iron prod- wets of any in the country, | ‘THE STEAMER WENT DOWN |The Portia Sank During the Wight—One Life Lost. HALIFAX, July 11.—Late reports might, and@ that one life was lost. The person who lost his life wae a Syrian lad. All passengers arrived here thie morning very (Cpan pun here early thie morning. Very few saved anything. ‘ng stories of the disaster, The steamer was abandoned 15 mi after it struck. The lifeboats had to be launched quickly, Women and ehiidren piled into them first and then the mon entered. Perfect dis- ctpline the crew, SEATTLE, WASH They @ave thritl- | prevailed among Of course, anxious to have the bound-| and it was due to their courage and Bry settied speedily, and they will undoubtedly make a hard fight for what they term their rights in the Matter of territory. The joint high commission does not sit, egain until August 3, when the question of the Alaskan boundary will no doubt come up again. I do not anticipate @ny serious trouble with Canada or regard to the dispute. to fight with our Can- says his Alaskan fully came up to bis expecta- The country. he said is mar- timber, the fishing In@ustry alone is almost suffctent to make it ereet has eon: Gressional ot New York in congress the Forty-eighth ses- He ts chairman of the com- Mittee on merchant marine and fish. eries, While in Alaska he looked into the fishery question, and some very important data Dearing on it The senatorial party is visiting of interest in the city thie THE ROPE CAME NEAR PARTING HARRISBURG, Pa. July 11—An ‘Qwful tragedy almost marked the hanging here thie morning of Henry Smith, a colored wife murderer When the trap was sprung. three Strands of the rope broke. The re- maining two stretched and appear- @4 to be parting. but luckily ft held together until e negro was cut FLEMING IN THIS CITY M. Fleming, the unfortunate Bd- : i Monton route victim, whose story was) telegraphed exclusively to the Star yesterday, arrived here on the Ronsa- Me jaat ing. He is terribly used- an 4 result of his trip, #0 much #0, in fact, that it was with difficwity that he could give a detailed account of his hardships. Fleming was one of the party to which Mr. Reifsuyder, ‘whose story was told in the Star, be- Jonged. After a most perilous trip, Fleming reached the Dease lake country, He had at this time eevere ettack of dropsy, and h limbs were useless. He says assed =6oman! § «unfortunate who ere in a sick or dying condition. Fieming will probably be placed tn GRAIN BAGS - ARE SCARC WALLA WALLA, Wash, July it Now that the erep condition of Bastern Washington has favorably met the expectations of farmers an- Other question of importance has arisen which « lore wheat raisers wil! have to con Ry a conservative estimate about 11,096,000 grain bags are used annu ally in this state, of which approxi+) mately one mth are manufae- tured at the state penitentiary, Lart year the institution turned out 1,40 000, being the largest output in ite history, while this on only about 1,006,000 will be made, on account of the depletion of the number of fonvicts About 15 of the 70 looma will re- main idie but with the small foree et work at present Warden Catron intends to turn out enough bags to eupriy the local denrand. For the remaining number of bags farmers by necessity depend upon those imported from Caleutta. Two ship loads are on the way from that Jace now, but it is reported that ney ave overdue thirty dave that event the majority of farmers) coolness that there wes no large loss | of ite. THE REPORT IS DENIED Troops Not to be Sent Against the Canadian Police. | The State department officially de- | nies the story to the effect that sme ‘ehe Bri ~ send | mounted police to Porcupine region in Alaska, ao4 that the administra- | ton will meet the situation by send. ing troops there. VICTORY FOR THE UNION MARION, In4.. July tl. — At laet, after four or five years of con- | tinued effort on the part of labor Swayree, this county, unionized. The plant was started with a full foree of about two hun- dred hands. The plant waa the big- gest non-union glass factory in the country and the fact that It has been “untaninzed Is considered @ bia achieve- ment by the union. —_———_ —_—_—— TRIAL THE STRIKER } — | The case of Chas. Fryett, one of the Wardner strikers, was continued \by Judge Hanford yesterday until Aug’ Fryett is now in jail at | Walla Walla, and the Marehali could not produce him in court on account of quarantine for small pox. GRADUATION OF A BLIND GENIUS COLUMBUS, 8. C., Juiy 11—John |R, Swearingen, who is absolutely blind, his sight having been destroy- led when he was @ entid. has gradu- ated with first honors from the | South Carolina college. The college je nearly one hundred years old, and its whole existence no man has made so high a record as young Mr. = mathematics, Ew the hospital for medical treatment. |tronomy, peychaloy he ts parti- course, in logic, ase cularty strona. | Swearingen is a nephew of Sena- |tor BR, Tilman. The faculty of the jealione all pronounce him the most | wonderful man they have evi ‘known in either Burope or Ameri- ie WILL FICHT THE BANANA TRUST NW ORLEANS, La. July i Louis Bier, United 8 Ceiba, Hondur here yesterday with the pow - torney for 188 of the leading fruit- growers of Honduras, and in their name signed & contract with the Bluefields company. which is fght- ercentage of) a | ° PRICE FOR A BANDIT Utah Offers $5000 for McCarthy WHO IS A WELL-KNOWN OUTLAW Well-Fortified Mountain Cavern. SALT LAKE, July l1.-Utah, by « special act of ite legislature, hae pet 4 price on the head of Tom MeCar- thy. dead or alive. Whoever kills McCarthy will receive a price of $5, 000 from the state treasury on th delivery of the prisoner or his head. Tom MeCarthy is a bandit and cat- tle thief who heads « band of out- jaws that for years has terrorized the people of Utah, Wyoming and | Colorado. He makes his headquear- tore in the Blue Range of the Rocky mountains, where, in a sequestered and lequipped with an cieetric light plant | fortified with artillery and supplied p with ate against the possibility of a # A little over a years ago three Rov ernors—Adame of Celorade, Wells o Utah and Richards of Wyoming er tered into an arrangement whereby the militia * were to be sent were made na the matter w funder way when the first signe o [nostility between the country and | Spain were heralded. The soldiers were needed against @ greater and Tt has now been decided by the administration more than local for of Utah that the sold are not the agency which can cern! nd over- come the MoCarihy brigands or make the attem; with the best chance of success. The people have come to the con- clusion that the only way to deal! mecting of representative members ‘The with the gang is through men os wary as they. The posses to be sent agtinet them will not besiege the rocks which hold the gang, but (hey ite minteral and) WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 11.<| Will depend more upon killing the members one by ome as they ven- ture out for supplies. They will try to invest the place and starve out the outlaws. ‘ALGER MUST NOW RESIGN His Combination With Gov. Pingree Was Too Much. PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-—-The Times, Washington. special says “Matters between Secretary Alger and the President have reached « crisis, If the secretary doesn’t vol- untarily resign he will be asked to |do so by the President himsett.” NEW YORK, July U.—The Wash- ington dispatches to the Bun and Herald indicate that Algor will soon retire from the cabinet. The ®un says the resignation and the appoint- ment of a successor will be announc- |ed within a few days. The alleged combination between Alger and Pin- gree, the Sun says, wae the straw that broke the camel Am- | bassador Choate ts | Mentioned as A WASHINGTON, D. C,, July IL ‘The story that Alger will resign from the cabinet comes from official sources for the first time today. It is positively asserted that he will give up the struggle, and, respecting the president, and give up folio. Alger still 4 WILL DISPENSE WITH BATTERIE * port. the story. SPRINGFIELD, 0., July 1.—A Coal experts who have examined the lector of U, &. strength thrown to any other cand)~ date would nominate him, But there are plenty of politicians who believe that McLean's candidacy ts @ nert+ ous one > A Republican of state prominence and who has held an elective state offices, said today: “If MoLean |e to be the nominee of the Democrats, publioans want t and pull off their o work, He ts the strong Democrats could nominate, When he Was twice practicality before the paor ple an @ candidate for United States senator the legisiature came near going Democratic. @herman had on one occasion only # seant margin, sin doubt hough it polls on the legisiative contest than had the Republicans. This shows how strong McLean is, If nominated it means a fight for us.” CONSTRUCTION WILL BE DELAYED SPOKANE, July 11.—The Great Northern may not balid its branch to Republic this year. ‘The construction }may be postponed until next year, ot from desire of the oMoctals of he road, but from necessity. It te | sald it will be impossible to secure the necessary laborers. Ratiroed contractors now In the olty say posl- tively that the eeary men cannot |be gathered together to complete the work this year. JESDAY EVENIN G, JULY 11, 1899. JUST HAL 4 MILLION Gold Comes Down on the Queen. ALSO 150 RUGGED KLONDIKERS A List{ef the Pessenger ofthe Richest Mm Board the Ship. Half a million dollars in shining gold! That is the estimate of the valve of the treasure brought down on the steamer Queen, which arrived this morning at 6:39 o'clock The parties who posnesned this dagsiing sum were 180 rugged and grizzled Klondikers. the crowd were Messrs. HH Calder, and Wilkinson. Heacock is said to have brought out 1000 pounds » of food and ammunition) The unusual demand for railroe4| of gold dust, amounting to about laborers Das practically cleaned out | 9986,000. The sums possessed by the the supply, and nearly all the linet) other two men could not be ascer: now under construction have callie! ¢ ‘The rest of the men kept out for more men. The harvest sea- 4 in their roome, a: talk. fon is coming on, and th "| The Kiondikers came down from ing crews, who find that it pays bet-| Dawson to Seattle in exactly 11 days ter to work in the grain fields. ‘This is record-breaking time. Leav- ‘The farmers of the surrounding @is-|ing Dawson June 30, they went to triet# are becoming even more anx-| Bennett by steamer, where they jous over the lack of labor than the | caught one of the trains of the White railroad contractors. Ratiroad con-|Pase & Yukon ratiway, operating struction In many Instances may bel ower the recently extended road, and delayed without material loss, but) came to Skagway, arriving there on grain must be harvested when ripe | July 4, making the trip from the There is reason to fear the farmers | Kiondike capital tn ft Leay- Ul experience const Pew. Skagway on the evening of the ty in securing sufcient harvest| Fourth on the Queen, they arrived at bande, Beattie seven days tater. Better | time than this will undoubtedly be the implied, if not expressed, with of & 'TO GRANT FREE SPEEC CHICAGO, MT. July Meat bo of the faculty, board of trustees and alumnl of the University of Chicago & resolution was adopted declaring | @nequivocably for no reetrietion is the public utterances of the profes- fore of other individuels officially gonnected with the tnatitution. At the same time, however, the the public expression of opinion by members tn ite faculty and that such ulterances represent alone the senti- ment of the Individual, not the uni- versity. TO INTERCEPT THE SUPPLIES British Warships on Guard at Delgoa Bay. LON DO! gE July U—- Two Britieh wa pe arrived at Del- | goa bay for the purpose of intercept~ ing Boer supplies in the event of hoe- tities. TO OPEN THE COAL FIELDS | Standard Oil Company to De-| | velop Alaska Properties. According to passengers who came down from the north on the steamer Queen today, the immense coa ide je buried in the unexplored re- ne of Alaska will soon begin to be opened up and developed | The Standard O1! company has ac- | quired the old Russian title ta Cook) inlet coal felds, and twenty-six ear- loads of machinery will soon be on the way to develop the property. S. Williams, the coal expert of | Pittsburg, pa rough Sitka on | his way to the coal AMelds just before | the Queen came south. The Stand- jard OF Co, It Je understood, will | work the mines the year around. The made after the trains begin to make regular trips over the new road. Besides the Kiondikers and others who boarded the steamer at the va- rious ports, the Queen had 8? excur- Sionists who went north from &e- atte. The reund trip was pleasant and uneventful. Queen's Possonger List. following te the Queen's pas- senger list: F. P. Blauvelt, Mra. Biauvelt, Mre. Mary E. 8. Radeger, Miss Anna Clayson, ©. P. Miller, Geo. BE. ‘Thos. Noles, P ler, R. H. Brownleee, 8. B. Wallace, T. Schmidt. Mre. Schmidt Henry F. Davis, J. J. Wilson, B. J Botta. rescigtion makes {t plain that the university cannot be responsible for’ Mawkings, Jessie Wyer, A. Durand, Goddard. Chas. Ghaffer, W. W. ©. W. Parker, Alex Ross, Mro. J.D. Goes, J.C. Murray, W. UL D. B. Storms, A. G. Alien, 8. ereten. Mra. L. C. Mowland, 0. ©. Knott, H. Batley, Jas. Bates, ©. B. Pickett, J. Brown, Hannah Thom- as, Anna Thomas. J. Hawkins, Mra Hawkins, H. A. Welas, Dr, Casse!- wran, C. B. Jack. H. A. Harrity, ©. Herman, N. Hecht, Ino. Wilkinson, BE. Sage, . B. Denton, F. H. B. Jonn- ston, F. W. Farnsworth. EA. Ham. |tIten, BE. Martin, Mrs. Martin, Dr. A B. Keabor, J. K. Levy. E. H. Jamon, 4. Currie, 3. F. Muilen, Chas. Jack. son, C. O. Tompkins, G. Abraham- son, M. Carlson, Mrs. Carison, M. Wenner, J. Stall, Mise J. Speirs, Jan Tarnes, jr, WH. Power Wilson, Mra, Austin Clarborne and choldren, Mra. Harper, G. A. Bigelow, W. G. Big- tow, W. G. Bigelow, D. N. MeDenald, A. D. McDonald, J. Anderson, Bra, Anderson, H. 3. Gun, Dr. A. Bite, J. W. Bkillington, Dan Laughlin, A Calder, F. J. Reicher, Wm. Houston, J, MeDonald, Jas. Dugan, Chas. Som- inkson, Thos. Sominkson, J. Mont- eith, F. EB. Skaylin, L. Anderson, 6. Manson, W. A. Clark, H. P. Hea- cock, C. F. Weonlcker, Miss Hii! T Daskill. C. J. HM. Hill, J. L. Skeirs, L. | 8. Emerson, C. Sorenson, C. J. Hick. ley, Kate E. Marins, Mrs. J. J. Me- kay, Mre, W. M. Cowley, Mra. F, Wil. ey. Mrs. W. D. Lowden, D. W. Bar- rett, L. H. Kaeser, J. Lusk, J. C Powell, Chas. Johnson, J. 0. Gill, R M. Biair, Pat Smith, D. J. Ellsworth, | Mrs. R. M. Barrett, Mrs. Mary King, | L. Mullin, Wm. Harwke, Nels John- ie Geo, Darrars, O. P. Ereckson, | H. & Bundey, C. J, Carr, Geo. Rud- strom, J. A. Morgan, J. W. Wilson, NM. OC. Wille, W. C. Gray, F. Potts, J. W. Nay, Chas. Malarky, Mrs. Ma- jlarky, A. L. Brightman, G. M. Forbes J. EB. Risden, R. B. Perkins, F. La | Roche, D. Lichtinsiadt, L. D. Cole, \C. lL. Thompson, Mra, Thompson, R. |W. Davey, F. P. Kent, 92 excursion- fete, andlO6 second ¢| | Charles A, Malarkey, deputy col- customs at Saldovic company formed herr controls an in- properties purchased by Mr Rocke-| Aaaka arrived in the city on the vention which does away with the feller, say that coal will, as the mines Queen today. use of batteries for telegraphing and, are developed more, compare very land, and after brief visit there he for other purposes. Instead a mag- net ubstituted It is claimed that it will * tele- graph companies in the United States $500,000 a year. DOES HE SEEK NOMINATION ? Different Opinions as to the Intentions of McLean COLUMBUS, ©., July IL—No few politicians believe that the announ- leed candidacy of John R. McLean for the Democratic nomination for favorably with Pennsylvania coal. | ‘ALMOST RIVALS THE TREADWELL | J.C, Roundtree, of Ketchikan, ar. rived im the city yesterday on the steamer Rosalie, and ta a guest at the Northern hotel. He is authority for the statement that the quarts | propositions of Prince of Wales’ ist- | and almost rival the famous Trai | well mines. We saya that there is considerable mining activity on the igland, and that both capitalists and prospectors are now looking over the district, | The ore in most of the mines, ling the frult trust, agreeing to deliv-| governor is merely @ trick of the | said Mr. Roundtree to a Star re- er their fruit, or 200,000 bunches of | wily gentieman, who makes miliions| porter last evening, “is low @rade, bananas a month, to the independent company at Puerta Cortes, Cel ‘and Truxilio, and including all of the Atlantic coast of Honduras. fruit growers of that country were very much alarmed when they heard | and took the means of having his! rule, ‘go-ahead’ fellows, and the va-| in Washington and votes in Cinein- nati, They figure out that John R as become ewhat alarmed over The | the remarkable development of the | very well indeed strength of Col, James Kilbourne, showing about % per cent. copper With the problem of cheaper trans-| | portation solved, however, it pay The men engaged nd are, an a on the in in minin His home is in Port~ j wilt return to the north. Mr. Mal- arkey says the wealth of the Klon-| | dike the Queen could not have been much under $700,000, HORRORS OF A TENEMENT FIRE | Twenty-Six ns Injured in | a New York Conflagration. | NEW YORK, July 10.—Twenty-nix persons, some of whom may die, | were injured in a fire in a crowded tenement house this morning. The | flames burned so flereely that the work of rescue wap carried on with t difficulty. The lives of thour- is in adjoining tenements were en- dangered, and only by superhuman | efforts were the firemen able to con. trol the flames, Twenty of the in- jJured were overcome by amoke and | were carried out of the building in an unconscious state, | the business had fallen | friends announce him @# a candidate! rious camps are prospering. Only oe ie Bags payal the Sonali have|to hold his people away from Kil-| July 5, fully 200 miners met to torm| Pols id at a Wedding. combined for their own protection | bourne These politicians take it|the mining district of Ketchikan,| PLYMOUTH, ©. July M,-—Last and offered thelr business to aninde-| that MeLean does not want the! Last year there were only about id | evening after a marriage the guests | pendent company, The Honduras | nomination for governor at all, but| miners in the dist There 10 bat down to & wedding broakfast trade wae formerly in the Wands of In|the Machaen and Oteri tines, which | dictating the nomination were recently bought out by the will be compedied to defer threshing | trust. lis simply playing to make gure of If this be n's candidacy, ertain that his | the purpose of Mel it is reasonably | quite an amount of Seattle capital on the t#land now, and, further, !m- portant investments will be made shortly.” After leaving the table all became | violently sick, and this morning the mother of the bride died in great agony, Others may die, OOO 99OOGS Telephone Subscriptions to Pike i560 CAMPING? * ) We can supply you with many of the (OF > needful things. 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CAMPING? OR EXPECTING To? We can fit you out in many things. Knives, forks, cooking pots, paper plates and napkins, hammocks, baskets, dishes, etc., at our well-known low prices. COON BROS. 1a17 Second Ave. Orders Taken for Wedding and Party Cake. ‘Special Rates to Restauramis, Hotels, & Sieamboats Union Bakery. Manulactarers of Hardtack and Toast 119 Pike St. All Kinds of Bread, Cake and Pies, - + - P. A. HALLBERG, Prop. $, E. BARRON, Pres, H, E, WEYMOUTH, Vioe-Pres. IT’S ALL rSsAuL WHAT? The Copper Vault Mining Co, Shares for a few days only at 2 cents, HE. WEYMOUTH, Seattle Mining Exchange, VIEWS! VIEWS! VIEWS! Mounted and Unmounted |THE DENNY-CORYELL COMPANY, 716 First Ave. » “ss @ , ak NO. ” ee F