The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1899, Page 2

THE SEATTLE ge STAR. THE SEATTLE STAR. BH. Weis & Co, PUBLISHERS, Every After Exoopt Sunday Te ophono Pike 150 be > WRU Fives. eres ica at k y CHAR Donen “ . month delivered by One cent per Fepy la cents por week, oF (went or carriers. Ne free copies. ALR ASA jal Roome and Business Offico Fn tered et the postofice, al Keatti, Washin region, secon d-< tte — Ove cents p Ne. ‘ier Taira Avenue | The toss of the cruiser Charleston off the northern coast of Luson faland removes from the Federal naval ist an exceedingly valuable war- ping a ship—swift, seaworthy, powerful in offense and of extensive st riment for dius, Such vessels are urgently required by the Navy dep constant duty tn foreign waters, and under existing conditions the wreck of an armored battleship would have caused for less embarrassment to the department, Whatever responsibility for this disaster may be p rly lodged upon the Charleston's navigating officers will be fixed hereafter by a It is not lik however, that the blame will ‘The coast where naval court of inquiry rest with the officers and crew of the unlucky vessel the Charleston came to grief is practically unknown, and no chart on the ship indicated the hidden coral mm which the veasel unexpectedly struck All that can be urged against the navigators of the vease! is that in waters teeming with volcanic islands, where soundings Change from year to year with confusing rapidity, it is not well to take chances of fast steaming without heaving the lead at frequent intervals, and without leaving the coast line far in the distance. Even with such pr 1 reef is always pr cautions the chance of strikimg some unchar It will not do, obviously, to send crulsers worth $2,500,000 to the tppines to lay their ateel ribs on the submerged coral reefs in those mon- soon swept waters os Admiral Farquhar's report to the Bureau of Equipment in the Navy department on the recent test of the Marcon! system of wireless tele- graphy is another testimonial to the excellence of that invention. The experience of our naval officers with the aystem coincides with that of their French and British colleagues. A method of signaling which makes it possible for two ships to exchanglegible messages at a distance of 3% Rautical miles is too valuable to be disregarded by our naval author! ties if they desire to maintain the fleet under their care in the highest | possibile state of efficiency The report of Admiral Farquhar affirming the practicability of the system should be followed by the addition of Marconi Instraments to the equipment of our war ships without any un- necessary delay _-_oOoo Mr. Carnegie will remain at the head of the Carnegie Steel company, | and allied interests, the promoters of the proposed Billion Dollar Steet | Trust having found !t impracticable to buy out the chief stockholder at the price ($125,000,000) demanded by him for his share of the properties. | The promoters of the trust have forfeited to Mr. Carnegie the money put | up by them to secure an option on his Interests, and that gentieman has | another $1,000,000 (the amount of the forfeit) to the good. Not a bad stroke of business for Mr. Carnegie, surely! If the reports on the sub- | Jeot be true, the sojourn of Mr. Carnegie in the Scotch highlands has evidently not dulled the edge of his keen and business-like Intellect STEEL PALACE F ImcORPoRATI RB. Vrooman,. John D. Black, x Norris, H. M. G pod, Frederick FOR JAPAN Sess atte: the Chicago-Hoota orporators of qua Gold «@ eae Platinum Dredging Co, with a cay italigation of $1,000,000. American Material, Men and © 1 Cesseimann, T & Canse! mann, J. B. Hill, filed articles of in- Designs to Be Used. corporation for the Castle Hill Min ing Co., naming $200,000 as the ca Chicago engineers are destaning an jis) stock 7 eh nee earthquake proof steel palace for Richard Hambridae, J.D Theurer the crown prince of Japan. It will and C. A. Zear have in corpérated mark the advent of American steci the Canyon Lumber company, with construction in the Mikado's land, & capitalisation of $15,000. and the imperial government has ap- aie ok —~ Propriated $2,000,900 for it# erection GEN F N T N Foundations are being laid with a e view to rearing the framework in February. Around the skeleton of | beams and bars will be built a house | of granite and marble expected to eclipse in beauty of design anything the Orient has ever known. The pal- t—. o ace will adjoin the foyal home of AN FRANCISCO, Nov. %—Gen the Mikado in Tokyo, and [t will Funston, before leaving yesterday, spread to extreme dimensions of 279 &8¥e out another statement con- by #0 feet, rising to @ height of @ cerning the controversy at present on, 2 eee en Par- waging between himeelf and Col ake 0! renc: mance * Dr. T. Katyhama, chief architect | Metcalfe on one side, and a number of the imperial household depart- of line officers of the Twentieth Kan- ment of Japan, visited America jr ®# 0M the other hand. He deciares the fall to let contracts for the new that he would have the charges thor- palace. BE. C and KR. M. Shankianl, oughly investigated and proven false of Chicago, who designed the con- and malicious. | struction of the manufactures bulld- He recounted the part taken ing at the World's Fair, were com- by himself in the advance on the ™Misstoned to prepare framework Porth line, and asserts that he never Plans, and the Carnegie Company, !5 any ¥ influenced any newepa- of Pittsburg, received a $200,000 or- per correspondents to advertiae him- | der for steel. self or the regiment. | Richard D. Gottlieb, a young Chi- py eames sham rtp.te rome c=" ASSAULTED THE SCHOOL CHILDREN tion for the Carnegie company stin| -_- | | | another Chicago engineer, Charies M. Wilkes, of D. H. Burnham & Co. was called upon to map out an el. orate heating and ventilating pl In addition to these American) SPARTANSRURG, 8 C., Nov. ™ brains will also contribute an ice|—P. B. Lockwood, a school teacher | manufacturing and electric light }0f Laurens, has been arrested and! system. |Jalled on eight charges of criminal |assault. The charges are made by | s many pupils of his school, rang- AND N W jing from 7 to 11 years of age. Lock- wood came from one of the beat fam- files in South Carolina, while his al-} jlemed victims are all children of peo. |! LIGHT | ple of prominence and affluence. The people of Laurens are greatly exer- cined over the affair, and efforts to lynch Lockwood were made at the time of his arres Next year's street lighting will cost the city about $25,000. The fire and water committee met yesterday af- ternoon and decided to report next Monday night to the city council. It) Will recommend the award to go to} the Union Electric Co., the Consum- ers’ Electric Co., and the Seattle Gas| & Electric Co. Seven hundred 2- candle Incandescents, 109 enclosed arcs, and 140 Weisbach’s will, in 1900 dispel the gloom that now hangs| over the city LOSE THEIR LIFE IN AN ICE JAM Three men and two women were caught In an ice-jJam on the Yukon and drowned November 11. Two of the men were brothers, named Mc | Namara The others were a man named Kelley, Mra. Rundell, and Mre Drumbotton. Nothing is known about them. ‘This informa tion wan brought down by the City of THE TEST TOMORROW The new fire engine will be tested tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Seattle the Western mill, Mr. Lynch, whom ——— the American Fire Engine company | has employed as enginecr on the MAY BE A BIG tent, in one of the older members of| Seattie’s fire department. At a priv- ate test of the engine Tuesday it| worked like a charm and threw a stream that could have been thrown | over the Bailey block. WAUKEGAN, Ill, Nov. 24.—Re- garding the purchase of 2,000 acres of jand on the lake shore north of Life Lost in a Hotel Fir here, a report im current that the MUBCOGIE, I. T., Nov. %4.—The| Carnegie Iron Company will erect | ®t. Charles hotel and six buildings | @reat iron works there and build a at Wagoner were destroyed by fire new town. Nothing definite can be last night. The house was filled @scertained as to the truth of this with guests, one, a Mr. Whiteside, |Teport, but there is evidence that @ traveling man from Fort Smith, | there is some big project on foot ‘was burned to death. Two others UP there. The 2,000 acres have now are missing. Loss to property, $20,- @b0ut all heen placed under option 000; partially insured juntil February 1 next at $5 an acre land If purchased they will cost near- WANTS LAW ENFORCED) #00 Fruit Inspector Brown is making a DIRIGO GOES NOR’ NORTH. Vigorous crusade against the nure- | oe erymen of the state who are con-| Steamer Dirigo, Capt. Roberts, tantly shipping in and well fruit |*alled laxt night for Lynn canal trees infected with various pests, He Ports. She had a heavy cargo of Will go to Olympia and place a com-| Merchandise and the following pas Plaint before the governor and ask | #enKers: H. Moran, W. P. Kendrick, that the law may be atrictly en-|H. Swearingen, James Turtle, C. H forced and the gullty parties brought! Uurquard, Mrs. P. Ronwick, Misa C, | to justice. lL. Ray, Mark Hamilton, &. Elling eal -_ Sth heen, John Zibman, J. A. MeConigle, Wood $2.26 a loa Fuel Co. Tel. Seattle |. Powers, John Smith and H. L. | Rosebury, Serre ttt Tt ttt TTL cropa and for general busine . ® < | theae ought not to be . t inflow of gold into cire n ha r xed every industrial and financial interest. ‘Tris ts exitimate a | Physk |) did at the beginning of the sea- PUGET SOUND FISHING INDUSTRY IS IMMENSE ‘The Season, Although Disappointing, Shows That 900,0000 Cases of Salmon Were Packed. The saimon fishing season on the Bound hax closed and the ¥ Will show, as near as can be estimated now, a total pack from Puget’ sound canneries of nearly 900,000 cases of salmon, It porte from all the canneries have not yet been + ! fish commissioner and his statiatios are as yet incomplete, Oth ere are estimates. The fall Nahing season has not been an ent muccens ’ Sound. The run was much lighter than was ext 1, expectally in view of the fact that the apring oat 1, The traps and seinere all had even more euceesa than they anticipated during the spring and a big run of fall salmon was exy i thie the fishermen were disapy 1 The cannery output has ber are ' ant Men anticipated. The offerings of fant and good evalled during the season wre has been @ with @ pronounced upward t vey whieh Und prices for salmon next year The big Beaborg cannery at Whateot “ bh burned a fe { the largest on the coa The season had when it went up in emoke, and tt stput of the Sound was not affected much y announced that he will rebuild the plant and will have it in of eration in time for next season's busines At all the hate the number of «pawn obtained shows the output of salmon fry will be up t xy ation f th fish commissioner, At the Samish hatchery h has not yet been completed, 2,500,000 spawn have Been obtained and the hatch ery has only @ capacity for 3,000,000 The Nookwack cannery js pected & and now has half a milllc have 10,000,000 spawn umber. The Wenat chee hatchery has obtained 7,000,008 and. wil get 2,000,000 more At the Chehalis hatchery there are 2,500,000 spawn in the hatch ery, All,the other stations have made good showings and som of them have been filed to their capacity The collection of licensem this year has fully met the expecta tions of the fisheries department. Up to the present the amount collected from all sources in about $38,000 This will probably be the total for the year, ae few iicensea are renewed in Novem ber and December The estimated revenue under the new fisheries la an $40,000 and the collection of $38,000 this year indicaten (hin estimate be correct ‘The new jaw did not ¢ nto effect unti those whp renewed their licensee in January caped the higher fees, February is one of the months in the year and had the new law been amount of revenue derived from fees, It le belleve been $4,000 greater See eee ee eee ee eee tee te eee eee eee ee ee testes eee eee eee e RalielicMiaticticiiMehatct Melietcts Rete Rstatalaietetelelel etre ee Roberts Discusses Calls for Money and Currency of Small Denominations WASHINGTON, Nov. In hie annual report & treasurer of the United States, will discuss in an at nd wting manner the urgent calle for more imoney and rency of amall denow nations that have been addressed t ever during the last year “These demands could not be aune of statutory tim ons. The f ® has striven to the utmost to 1 yt ne the manent contr Beyond such increa tion to tration of opinion in favor of any ts has not been of euch force as 1 aie pressing with @ growing force and tnv sports and AthIiectics week Prot. Crane's classes at the &. A C. are increasing rapidly with the oncoming of winter, The professor Australian Billy Smith ie ha turned out some excelient field an! work over at West Seattle ay ‘s| r Walker Smith track material last season. It in| Working with Arth more than likely that next epring %** ® reputation and agKrensive t os He takes hie will see some more “comers” to add | gicine and comes for more. Bure laurels to the club. ley in working {n the city. Louis Weisenbacher and Dan McAusian Whipple, Berkeley's captain, wi! are wit U Welsenbacher got him not be able to play in the Berkeley into shape fight. Me- Stanford game Thanksgiving, on ac-| Austar | count of low standard in studies. and ur i wchly Ba Rozing * well patroniged nowa- ting into fin days in Beattie. Good clean match. | confidently of the The Hawt < no pains The t 8, well comtucted, have brought this about. Only auch will keep it up. It ie to be hoped, for the sake of th sport, which, when properly handle je ae clean af any sport change will come. “One thing is n censary to insure this: medical ex amination of the fighters before they enter the ring. No two big men car me together for ten or fifteen that rounds without undergoing a severe 1 strain man with any weakness In his phys In such a cane, a cal makeup, rune large risks when oming winter o 7 |he goes inside the ropes. He has no al sport in this line | bust ness there A severe injury or one of those deplorable = accidents r la atill look for a which do occasionally oceur in fight ngee any one of vast to Aeht at has an excellent very well acienced ing and football, would do trrepar able injury to the sport In Seattle A strict medical examination of any man men who are booked to box for more At the rvard banquet n honor than elght rounds, before they enter! oe nig arn ew and the ring, would obviate thin risk, In § at the Amerie | many other cities athletic clubs in “ at Friday sist on this. Seattle clubs would night, President Eliot expressed him self in favor of taking and ect themaelves and the boxin [oret tt sd eC mbia into the athlet union |game by following their example The Univer tion of Prir ed an exhibition meer nity Gymnastic asso Pullman and Whitman are still | disputing over their last game of | ton college has arrs th th Yale |tootball. Representatives from both Gymnastic association ing the |inatitutiona telephoned to Manager| iast week of March 1900. Barlow of the University of Wash ington that they would bein the city! astern foothall has come to this, today. They will submit their cases| “the reign of the many” Ie approach to Scott Calhoun for arbitration. Theling. Eastern supremacy ix doomed adjudged champion will play the! Alexander Moffatt, of Princeton, Ale University of Washington next | bert H. Barclay, of Yale, John Crane Thursday for the state inter-collegi-|ton, G Murchie, Everett J. Wendell ate champtonship Jand Wm, H. Lewis, of Harvard, dis Jcuased the matter tn last Sunday's Harris Martin, the original “Hiack| New York Herald, and practically Pearl,” has challenged the winner of! agree on thi point. Wren Yale at the Inckson-Walker go, to fieht hIM Princeton went under to Columbia before the Hawthorne club on De-|and Cornell, the eyes of the big ‘var |cember 20. Both men have agreed |aity men opened to the fact that pood |to thie proposition and promised to | coaches from the original “Rig Four give him a meeting have Giusaminated the anowledss of Lee, of Montana, who claims a vic. | {he game throughout the entire tory over all Nehtwelghts in hia | COUntrY W nsin is another ca atate, and Scurry, who haw cut aj '? "he polr wide swath in Vancouver, meet Inan| ‘There were 61 extra inning ball eight-round preliminary on the/games in the national league last seventh before the Hawthorne Club. | se: ‘The University of Washington foot Yale-Princeton ¢ tomor ball team is Improving wonderfuly | Tow should be ‘another under Jeffs and Nichols. Tt wiil put Tie have improved up an entirely different game than| fully of lat FRED R. BECHDOL. of great endurance | THE BON MARCHE B SOR! of preliminary notice tonight—the second of this eason. This is our very hearty invitation for you to visit this Christmas Store. What fun it is for the little ones, and there are so many things that bring delight. Step down the stairs, under the double arch of electric lights that crown the stairway. You find— what? <A dreary place just filled with nothing t ut pots, pans and , and things from the work- world? Not a bit of it! Cali nnnyt nn blll BU UBE aye Here's the music; at this min- ute we can hear the distant strains of that wonderful lullaby, “Ken- tucky Babe,” with its dreamy re- frain; how the melody does haunt one! And there are toys, that “go,” and they shall go, too; thesé one day, these another. some H tes 5s A Wagon Load of Dolls Blonde Dolls, Brunette Dolls, fair and dark, pearly teeth, golden hair. Dolls that speak and dolls that sleep. We shall not have enough of these: At 75 Cents But then more are coming, though it’s not wise to wait, and lots of pru- dent folk are choosing now. THERE ARE BOOKS ——— sus nightmare st at all the charming tales of t mother told us y 1 years ago, and that live in the yokes you read ‘The Christian,” and “David already and more coming. blue eyes, What a host! A nineteen-inch doll, with a pretty bisque head, golden hair and eyes that open and shut. By the thousand, Children’s books, not the b fairies and genli. The “good night” memory today; what a wonderf siection, and. the Hartum,” and all the rest of them. Thousands her YOU CAN HAVE LOTS OF FUN (Maybe we shall be criticised for using such undignified lan- When you visit this Christmas store guage) We're criticised fe a-many thing we do—but it's a w lerful relief to come to a store and feet at home—to go around hout bein ared at or feeling as if one “ought to buy something,” Just to apologise for one's presence Nobody r feels that way here. Tomorrow these sales are continued: Muslin Underwear at Manufacturer's Cost. son's samples; no two garments alike.) Millinery at About Half Its Worth. Kitchen Ware and Laundry Needs at Half. (This to make room for holiday goods.) Capes, Coats and Costumes at a Third Less. y of the sofled Handkerchiefs at A flying chance from the men's section offers a lot of Derby Ribbed s than regular prices, to wit: Seventy-five cents @ suit; and, but then this jong. We'll conclude for tonight with a repetition of bur very hearty in- (These are this sea- The sale of Mus at lhe a copy is continued and there are still plen 12%e. which ts half their worth Underwear at 26 per cent. le hapter grows altogether to vitation of viet TOY LAND. BonMAR Cc ANOrthof & > 1419 to 1429 SECOND AVE., and 115-117 PIKE ST. ie AMUSEMENTS SEATTLE THEATER I~ Manager, Three nights and ~ecyge matines Commencing Nov. The Dainty Parisian demons Mu FIFI From Paris. Cast including Miss Maud Granger, | Mr. Edward Abeles and a great com> ledy company |Onpaere THEATER. ae O08 hecond Avenue | . Kunkler, Manager. pe ae “ NEW PROCESS FOR SILVER poke Eo IST. LEON S| Other Specialties ad the Dreyfus Trial DEADWOOD, & D., Nov. 4—A} arioad of ore is betng collected at mines in this district and will be sent to Cripple Creek for a test run by anew process, It ts that this process will treat wr $1.50 per ton, which i low- er than any other process now In use the Black Hille In the event of the tests being successful the Detroit & dwood Mining Company will erect a plant near this place to treat the ore from *s own mine as well as other mines several CRESCENT CREAM COFF Is the only kind of coffee you should drink in the morning for > » and $1.00 mat~ Lead ia to the effect THEATER SEATTLE hat the Hidden Fortune is turning breakfast. It HOWE, Manager, dog yd egg 7 gag is rich, fra-}\ Two Nights, Beginning millionaire several times over. | grant, deli-f) Sunday, Not, 26 cious, healthful and refresh- HOYT'S ing. It is equal to two A Peamysicat cugs of any other + coffee STRANGER 25 ARTISTS | NEW YORK bes Funniest of all Hoyt “Wis Gameqy Oa? Pays | Presented here with all the scenery; mechanical effects and costume pr sely the same as given at Ho: theater, New York, and Duke of Yorks theater, London. For Sale by All Grocers. Boerrcorconwe~§ Ale and Porter use be: §) , On draught in first-class saloons ry Prices @ delivered to houses in bottles or fam. HY lly kegs. ‘Phone Bay 96. HIRD AVENUE THEATER. Phone Main woe Russell Lee eoand Manager. —Wwo BE Scenit Productions night, y ROMANCE OF COON HOLLOW | Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the ever-popular comedy-drama “Fogg's ferry.” Both plays produced with elaborate scenic and electric effects | A competent cast | The “Coon Hollow Serenaders™ | Band the prices are } tute littie Middy and Bt et Sults in ages 3 to 8. anging from $2, $2.50, $3 to $5 Double-Breasted Knee Pants ee ae Want to Buy a Watch? 8 to 16, In Serges, Tweeds, Wore: Don’t do it until you have teda and fancy mixtures at $2.50, seen the ‘‘Louis Klodt” $3.60, $6 to $7.50, Special. High mate for long Pants Suits little money Kl odt This store makes a spec Louis | s alty of Long Pants Suit We want the boy's patronage SWISS WATCHMAKER 824 Second Ave,, cor. Marion ong Pants Suits, in the same @ AN EPIDEMIC Armory Hall OF DIPHTHERIA] —. ont mw | _ GRAND MASQUERADE BALL America's foremost Colored Plan« | tation Singers, Dancers, Cake Walk- era and comedians. |__ Prices—10e. *, B0c, 40¢ and 60c. | Box seats, $1.00, |FRIDAY, NOV, 24, 1899 35, $6, $7.50, $10 up to $15 TOP COATS Made of up-to-date shades in Soverts, Kerseys and Che- ere ‘ 7 COLFAX, Nov. %4—The diphth: ots at To be given by Seattle Tent No. & ra scare in Colfax is getting serious | K yieh - \ $5, $6, $7.50 to $10. and ‘Tuesday night the city couns| SMshts of the Maccabees of the World ~al oll d a special meeting, at which $350.00 IN PRESENTS Strongest Top Coat House In the It was decided to close the Main|To be given away. For display of pres é Street school for two weeks and fu-|ents see show windows of Frederick migate and disinfect the building, 1¢] Nelson & Munro $10 cash w given ji | being the opinion that all cases of | #1Y Maccabee selling tt teat nuiae " . " diphtheria originated or were spread | ber of ticket Muste by Wagner's Fi 600-802 FIRST AVE., COR, COLUMBIA, 8! from this school, as all the patienta|™MOUs First Regiment Orchestra, Ve [Dave been attending the school her | Grand March at 9:00 P.M. Sh Seems: ; ; ; we.