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« » « Te a a ee a. an ae PRN NTT RUT a —— . > 2 THE SEATTLE STAT. j TH = ‘SEATTLE STAR. Congress of Mexico. FOSTER BOUND A Valuable Husband. ~ CITY OF MEXICO, sept. 18<Prem. | CHICAGO, Bept, 1h—Mra. Marte WELLS & Co,., PUBLISHERS ident Diag formaliy opened congre | Somers, wife t De Geor °C ' a Saturday night Hia menage Was | er hes inetituted a sult ageinet M Every Afterngan Exoopt Sunday Telephone Pike 180 long one, comprehending foreign re FOR HOME \ Minerva: Mivere Mann t 0,000 for KP. CHAS Nees Maxagen | lations, exportations and mar alienating her husband's affection o r ty-Ave cents per Whe | tures, telegraph and revonu Mre, Mann is a wealthy wido W WERK, OP IWERtE Ave eetith pe vices, and the conversion (hy | The Senator Has ea poesia . | Mince the death of her husband whe te we foreign gold debt th id to ha vont much of her time Hacer OMe No. 1107 Third Avenue) yao: outbreak, tho preaident th nk ed Much While Away. n trave pe i a baa of thene és pe Entered at ihe postaiieo, ai Aeattlo, Washington, av recond class matter t amall fore # will be t is declared, the incidents of witch ‘The moet important question of the day in Seattle le that concerning termina! facilities for ch rallroads centering here President Hill, of the Great Northern, has forced the tseu as to whether the South Seattle tide fats or the pr ings of the Northern Patific are to be selected for depot purposes, He claims, and with apparent rearon, that a bia dep wn the Northern Pa cific property would, In future years, greatly int Sound steamboat traffic, and would prove a ¢ iment to the growth of the city’s commerce, In fact, he woos so far ae to say that in case the Northern Pacific is allowed to construct terminal buildings on the wharves opposite the city, he will uproot the Gr Northern and depart bag and baggage, to @ more congen al locality, Mr. Hill's evowed reas on for such an extreme procedure t* that Seattle would be irretrievably @amaged, and would not be worth much as a terminal for his road Now, tt le doubtless true that Mr. Hil is disgusted with the recent Quiet purchases of water front property by the Northern Pacific, which has succeeded in practically cutting in two his own holdings at Smith's Cove and at South Seattle; but that fact need not be taken Into con sideration in debating over his arguments, On general principles may be safely asserted that Seattle would be greatly be ted in the long run by retaining a clear waterfront between Yesler way and Spring street It would seem to be the best policy for the trans-continental reads to erect their depot on the tide Mats to the south, where there is certainly plenty of room, and where no interference with steamboat traffe is possibile. os Seattle needs a town clock that will be recogniaed as the offictal rep resentative of Father Time. For years past the minutes and the hours have been embrotied in this community. Down on Second avenue at one fewelry store the noon hour announces Its advent, while on Firet avenue 11.67 a, m. still claims to be on earth. Somewhere down in the bottoms an erratic clock set» the € a. m. whistle biowing at 5.57 a. m. while another irresponsible timepiece at the railroad depot starts a train out seven minutes ahead Of Peter Smith's official time, as announced by the watch in his vest pocket. So very erratic are the clocks of the city that there le even Ro telling the time when the fish wil! bite in Lake Washington. ‘These things ought not so to be. Way up in the heavens, where the courthouse is located, a clock might be set in position, the hands of which would accurately indicate to all citizens the moments as they tly. ‘With a central standard authority on time recogniaed by the mayor, city council and chief of police, there would henceforth be no excuse for mix- Ing up the minutes and transposing the seconds. By all means let us have @ city clock. nd demands an early de at water front hold fere with th oo Admiral Dewey is now on the bounding billows heading towards ceie- Brations, banquets and red fire. Being a modest man and averse to epec tacular displays of himself, the chances are that the admiral will wel- come the finish. TAGALS HAVE FOUGHT FOR A HUNDRED YEARS And Are Now Making All the Trouble ONLY ONE TRIBE AMONG SIXTY Lights on the Philippine Situation by J. 6. Schurman, President of the | Special Commission. NDBW YORK, Sept. 1$.—"! regard our work in the Philippine archi- pelago as educational, humanitarian and philanthropic. We are there to train and uplift these people. We are mot there a* oppressors and tyrants Dut as friends and hurmanttarians.~ ‘These are the words of Prof. Jacob Gould Schurman, president of the Philippine peace commission. as given to your correspondent at his home on the Cornel) college grounds. “To begin with,” said Mr. Schurman, “there is no Filipino nation. ‘There is no Filipino nationality. It +, I find, generally understood In America that we are at war with the Filipinos. That is not @ fact. We are at war with one tribe, the Tagalos, or T monly cailed, out of 6 tribes which people the One tribe, mark you—now get this point clearly—one tribe out of 60 in the Philippine tsiands “Rhis band, with Aguinaldo at its head, has been In rebellion against the sovereignty of Spain for more than a century. When other tribes have been enjoying the bies#ing of peace it he en in revolt “The Tagalos, numbering about a million and a half, are by no means the Filipinos as they are spoken of © America. They are merely a tribe of Fiiipinos—the only tribe, as I asserted, in rebellion against the gov- guard will hold a battalion drill grand ball at the Armory ton the purn the hospital fund of the Washington ball in b the Fort NEW MOVE OF BEEF TRUST: NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The Peet Trust, not satisfied with tts monopoly in dressed beef, mutton, pork and ers in the Re that the Beef Trust and poultry, delive houses of the tru: Louls and Kansas City ‘PRESIDENT MAY NOT LAY CORNER STONE on the occa a succe may consider it expedient t in Washington next Octobe The controversy which has arisen over the labor employed in preparin, the corner participating tn a celebrat for Uncle Sam. | participating in a celehrat If the agitation is continued} | the prendent may rwoait hin accepts |fteretary of the Treanvty cae to —S@f@ Deposit Boxes vail able to subdue the rebellion FOR THE SOLDIERS. Ps mpany’s Tha one of ra ng mon ne Armory is being rated for th ‘ sion, and Wagner's band haw beet engaged to furnish the music, fh m held to ald th work of Reliet corps has branched out into butter ege® and poultry and Swift are leading to | the movement, and they are cutting prices on these new commodities, The who hattan did not know what and Swift were up plaints began to come in from the sinall jobbers all through N land and expecially in Ce A jobber in Hartford was ask ote by produce dealers in unt Petals Bon ge re et why he had stoppe 4 , uy ing exes. “I get them from Armour 2 cents a dozen cheaper,” wan the re py Inquiry today among the sirvet distr ad already t en at least 10 per cent, of the wh sale butter, eees and poultry ness away from ew York transferred it to Chicago. The Beef Trust has sent ite ager through every part of Ohio, Indiana, Hiinois, Towa and the prairie states fering spot cash butter, ese d at the stor In Chicago, St WASHINOTON, D. C., Sept. 18 It te learned from Hlinols friends of the president who have been inter- ested ip making his trip to ¢ m of the laying of the corner stone of the federal that the chief ome ie president, and he f® hb ance, although he has not reached | day issued an order to anticipate the Dot the sete keepin: » the point where he is prepared to say| October payment of $5,000.09 of in positively that he will not vialt Chi-| terest on bonds which the govern. Valuable Articles and Papers cago. | ment will pay two weeks before the doe yews ot Be Vou carey tee FOR LOVE AND NOT FOR MONEY. NEWPORT, R. f, Sept. 14 —De-) spite many reports to the contrary,! Mrs. Potter Palmer wil) not give to} Miss Julia Dent Grant a dowry of} $500,000 or any other amount on her! carriage to Prince Catacuaene. Fur- thermore, this is a love match pure y in the buted by the prince, The story about the half a million was @ pretty one, and society gon. sips. aided by the news; it wide cireula thing was not discussed by Mra. mer and Mra. ¢ that Pad It be would ha has no girls, and for the Mrs. Palo ars has look ed upon Miss Grant as a daughter and this accounts for the unusual in- terest she has take ding and the handsor seau she has presented to her niece, orn IRON BOOMING “The Pangasines, 2 tribe of 209,000 people, to the north; the Hicasos, another tribe of half a million people, further to the north: the Pampangoes, numbering 569,000 people, still further to the north: the Viasas, a tribe of 2,590,000 to the south, the Vicols, numbering 500,000, sti further to the south; the Sulus and other tribes are not in revolt. They are at peace with themse! and have not attempted to overthrow the authority of the United Sta “It will ever be necessary for the United States to exerciae general and understood by the other 59 tribes. If we were to set up the government for the other 89 tribes, it would not be unedstood by the Tagals, or, indeed, by any one of the @ tribes—thin cleariy presents itself, “I believe, however, that the time will come, under proper tutelage, when many of these muitifart tribes will be able to govern them- elven, “* will ever be necessary for the United States to exercise general and supreme jurisdiction over the entire archipelago. There are many high ly educated peopie in the Philippine siands, but the masses are ignorant Nevertheless, I firmly believe the ignorant are susceptible to enil@hten ment, and with the proper guardian, with a Christian nation like the United States to guide them, I believe they could be brought up to a high degree of intelligence.” DUC OUT $10,000 | WOULD RATHER BE IN FOUR DAYS! A CHORUS GIRL. DEADWOOD, &. D., Sept. 18.—Te n| rBURG, N. Y¥., Sept. 18 thousand doliars in four days taken) Wealthy Brewer George Newcomer from a hole four feet square. Such of Loutsville, Ky., was unsuccessfiul is the record of the Grantz strike of in his mis G014 ore in the North Lead mining istrict, about three miles southwest ge as Gretta Millard, to of thin city. return to her luxurious home in Phil ‘The Biack Hills has seen a great many rich strikes. Specimen rock| 4, of free milling ore has been exhibit- Bon the streets of Deadwood for 24, °°CUPI¢d @ box at Prattic academy years and many a stampede to new 4nd saw his sister appear in the first localities has been the result. Rut the! act of “All Aboard,” clad in Uehte nm to this city to induce his pretty 17-year-old sister, known n the at Iphia, from which she recently to become a chorus girl. He find that was made by Otto P Tr. An anary interview followed. L and omer saya the girl, who re Grants, of Deadwood, on his I > Claim, southwest of thie city, pro ably surpasses any strike ever made in the bili On ACA ig Great Slugs of Gold. A weil Preserved Roman camp ha been discovered on the right bank of Ar ing extracted from the bowels the Narenta, in Herzegovina. A sec-| of Mother Marth by the Pacific Const thon 229 feet long by 270 feet wide, has Gold Mining Co. ‘orty-one mines in Been traced. Part of the walls,| active operation. wis the tim ten and towers are still standing, to buy this stock at the Seattle & nd many utensils and weapons have| Northwestern Mining exchange been dug up. It is bel i that the camp was erecied in the time of| Ppectal # Fine note paper, tn Nero. | boxe 8. Denny-Coryell Co., 716 Ist ave. Mr. Ne fused to go home, was soon after- ward apirited away | South, because c jand it is freely pred | will be a reality wit | Care, WN THE SOUTH CHATTAN The iron situ 4A, Tenn., Sept. 18 m through t the un demand, in serio in the Tennersec triets are sold #o far a impossible fo and Alabama dis 1 that it ling as high as $18 and $18.50 per t days. ‘DIED OF THIRST ON THE DESERT PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 18 Rateman, a proepector, has found dead on the Harguehata ert, three miles from water at Cu en's wells, Death plainty had been of thirst, He had started from Wick enburg on foot, ill provided, for waterless trip of 66 mil 55 years of age and a veteran of t civil war, Hie brother lives at De trott, Mich. APHORISMS. Think wrongly, If you please in all cases think for yourself,—Leas- ing Labor rides us of three great evil irkaomeness, vice and poverty.—V taire Justice ix the constant desire and ecort to render to every man his due Justinian Our great busine soe what lies di but gh do what ies clearly at hand of the National probably at and for nr f., Sept. 18—With the Wis, where he has extenniv r ¥ gi {8 purpe ing 1140 men work and n North Dakota, wher bane ie pte| x out 60 more tons of pig iron ° wna w large tra daily, the Am n Steel and and 1 in Montana, where] ( mpany has purchased the Crown mining interests . ; ae teak ‘yeahs Point Tron Company's big pant and Hortee man in Washington the mining, shipping and furnace in at s accomplished a q Juetry at Port Hen teal for hin state, He haw se re out! W, LeCrone and Capt. J. W.] ry regiments, has wecured an ex sestetant in the Walla Walla] Saturday pontoffice; got a pledge from n that contemplat m the Columbia r pushed; made it pla nt and secretary received practical “1 places on senate com-jadd, Aug. 5, $1 bowides sowing good seed in| Northern Pacific Railway company ver directions, which will produce] to Herbert #. Upper, net mec 26, 22, 6, ruit later June &, $640 senator's work in securing a] N. HM. Latimer et ux. to J, FY of transports for the Sound) part lots 5 and 6, block 6, Nagle's 24 y mom important pleces| add, Feb. 9, q 400 while here Harvey G. Clark to B. BE. North GREAT DEMAND mand for labor # approach, and there will be! Dunbs rk for the next twelve| Des Moines, Aug #10. ‘ REGINAS~ From $7 00 to $300 seem to have affected the labor| | Hertha and Peter Jarvis to ve C Sherman. Clay & Co. “STEINWAY" DEALERS ty of v nak not yet gotten ready to mo to | 2, $400. ork again, although ¢ te are after them at the harvest is lar rere are few in O: vider which have been compelled Sept §, $400 main in the unpleked becaune cannot be procured in the right time.| Rufus P. Lincoin et ux. to Charles Beaider the gre of the farmers, new rajiroad projects | tracts, Be are absorbing all the available men, | and are con “hicage pot pre-e} amount falle due. The order was is- in, but it now de- m that there was never the slightest foundation for it. Such a but chances are mer boys the cedented *. Many furnaces foundry men and the smaller consumers to obtain iron from them at any figure. Most of and Eirmingham 4 stricts is rel- A that $20 Iron n the next 30 «in life is not to ly in the distance, left for his fay. He tn Mh oral 5 cet i n| Iron Plants to Start. Paul, at Cum ppetntment of Piret Lieut, | _ - officers in the voluntecr in| REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS f the grazing period in the| The f ing deeds were fled for omar ey procured an-|t rd in the aunty auditor's offic ‘| Anna I. Allen to N, B. Keck 7, 24, 2, block 1, May ada, | er would! 4%, Cumbermnd add, Bept. 1 to the| Treasurer King count state that] Peterson, lote 1 to #, 14 to 2B block thweat would + tolerat 13, Bast Beart) pt. 12 in the Alaska boundary] Nellie Hazlewood to Mila H ito B, & to 16, bi add, Green lake, July 22, 1897, park div. Green lake add Sept. 11, $50. Harry Kruta, et ux t LAND, Or. Sept. 18—De.|erett, e& lots & and seems to increase) Burke's 24 add, Get at am the winter M to Matte M 6, block 2, MeCay’s add North» according to present indi-| Angus McAulay et ux. to N. P. : rk on! Ryeburm, eM ewe ne nex 5 Joes | Bept. 15, $800. aspen ver valley in Portland, although t Behall, lots 6 een 1,000 and 2.00 men were thus ler's 24 add, Bept. 16, $960. ndered idle, A large proportion of Lewis Match et wx. to Mra. V. BL! 36 Second Avenue 17, 22, 3, June now in Portiand, but they mpbell, tract Inmec nyera and Herman Chapin et ux. to Annie ' hinger, lot 5, block 12. h ton 1, Bept. 15. & Sheriff to 8 und & dlock he time and the » this year by the threshing ma- Bros, & Northern add, { Thomas Emerson et ux. to Moore ve Inv. Co., 5 acres in ack nec 8, 25, 4 the pickern | Sept. 16, demand on the part Rausch, tract 16, Moore's 5-acre t. 16, $625. cute oe rote for more. AMUSE ME te tt> he Phoenia.” Pp | eATTL & THEATER (Tonight)— The Japanese company THE LAST CHANCE To Invest Your Money in the = .O§SEA BREEZE MIN The Richest Free Milling Gold Discover in Southeastern Alaska The first assays near the surface run $112 and $ in lead. The group, consisting of ‘eight claims, runs to ths water's edge, and is therefore located for development at the minimum of expense. feet of tunnel, the ore body thus far showing richer and larger with increased depths. time to secure shares. An investment will bring you large returns. progress. Call at the Office of Or at Seattle Hotel. Call at hotel from to to 12 a. m., 2 to § f Hotel Office for Jos. Hamblet, manager of Sea Breeze Mining Co, y boy but three weet is > improvement more $100 TO BE GIVEN AWAY Vvery ill oaks from little a were small and A $50 Bedroom 4 judgment weak and feeble A $45 Star Estate Range Or a $5.00 Rocker. Nothing to Do Nothing to Collect | good business . DEARBORN Thes Feten P Hi ; N Faratar Co oe pep be analy Everything From Aitic to Basement 109-11-13 Second Ave, tablished eighteen sixty-five. AMUSEMENTS. EATTLE THEATRE de HOWE, ILMAN BEB - coat Boston Lyric Opera Co. 40-PEOPLE-4O REPERTOIRE, * GRAMOPHONE. ‘Whe Finest Talking Machias Mads ter Friday morning at 16 HIRD AVENUE THEATER ieveee aod Manager This week we in fun only.” ory Evening This Week, Saturday Matinee. “THE GIRL FROM CHILI” FARCICAL Interpreted by our Alie f Funmakera. Our regular prices. A SOAP vegetable ofts, Sulphur Cream Soap for the scalp Manufactured by WM. STAFFORD & CO. 1734 First Avenue laurhiest of all COMEDIES THE MOST DELICATE Pestry will not fall when POWDER It has more leavening power and is more uniform or complexion Agents Wanted Important Change. ‘The Ramaker Music Co. exclusive agency for the Estey orgona. oid and retlable ties desiring the best organ in the nm account of the alleeed #trine Safe Deposit Veulte The men of Chicago spend $3,500,900 market will find them at 1415 Second | sency of the money market W. Columbia “& E. SHORKOCK, Manage & Year for shaves 0000400000008 142 perton. The latest assay just made by Bogardus showed $456.80 per ton, $428 of this amount being gold, $7.74 in silver and $ favorably The development at present represents 1 Yow is the Development work still in 0000900400900 Fifteen Thousand Shares Offered at 14c FOR ONE WEEK ONLY BEGINNING SEPT. 16.., 0000000000008 i < GREEN & GRIFFITHS Washington Building, ist Ave., Bet. Cherry and Columbia p.m. and 7 to & Inquire at + | ternoon sultatto the city AC of the T the appo tor at Ar town hay and say ence to | that good be entere cial Mr. Spa as he con to the por agent of | the matte be done. port of ti some step Marlatt First M. South G years, pre: last evenin sic, condu doth the 1 vices. ‘Th sermon wa the Earth.’ Pastor M Tred to the will have a He leaves | FRYE-BE rn morning, w 000, as given @stimate of $165,000 by M Joss $87,000. suicip F. Anders Suicide in b Point Lowel throat, bi Minutes. for Andersor

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