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

a Cents a Month r By Mall or Carrier Petre SEAT 1, A NOVEL POINT 8 RAISED AGAINST N. P. Vacated Streets On Water Front Would Revert to the State. Representatives of the Northern Pacitte Railway will appear before the city counct! one week from tonight, This information Was given to the Star by a representative of the railroad com- pany. After the matter of the vacation of st * comes before the elty_counell, thirty days must elapse before it is finally ected on. The Northern Pacific people sar that the previous delay was caused by detatis to grades, ete, It is an open question whether oF not legal complications have helped to cause this delay. The examination of our statute books ehows that 8 Land Commissioner ridges holds the key to the attuation so far as the vacation of streets on tide lands ts concerned. The follow- ing Auotations from legal authorities explain themselves “Where the vacation of a street will cause special injury to an adjoining owner, he is entitied to compensation. ‘The abutters’ Property in a street cannot be taken without ue procers of law.” Bliiott on roads and streets, page 662 This would be applicable in case of the vacation of Marton street from Post street west. “The general rule is that upon the discontinuance or vacation es _ the land covered by it reverts to the original owner in “The owner tn fee of al! tide lands ts the state of Washing- ton, If the city vacates streets acros stide land, the title reats in the state lo instant!.—Elliott on roads and streets, page ¢70. mae the Northern Pacific ratiway buy these streets of ie Tt ts questionable whether we have any such sale. The onty section of the laws of 1897 which covers it (If any), fe section 47 on page 252. and this seems to apply only to lands Platted as lots and blocks and not applied for by upland owners and improvers. Thies wow! ot mean | subsequently vacated from streete under any fair construction of the law ‘The law of 1899 In reference to leasing of areas which are em- braced In vacated streets applies only to those previously va- Has the Northern Pacific railway found tteelf tn a bow and has It, therefore, so suddenly rented the lands above the state's inner harbor line, thus seeking to placate the land commissioner? SAAAAAHTAEKAAHARERAHAHAARAEAE Hee TO ADJUST ELECTRIC ROAD DIFFERENCES} TQ REPUBLIC Raliroads May Como to an|Prospect of s Lino Amicabie Agreement. Bullt From Spok Ratiroad men state a meeting wili| A few monthe later, and electric a between representatives of | care may eo whizting over the Kett! erthern Pacific, Great North-| Palle route to Republic. Passengers oon ©. R. & N. to settle all ex-| who leave Spokane in the morning Gifficulties between the differ-|can then get to Reputite in time to Toads. Meetings between the/ attend to business In the dayli«ht of Gifferent roads are expected to settle | the same day Freight will no leng- GiMculties within the | er be 10 days ont en route around sixty days. through Briti*h Colurnbla, and the predicted result ts attained, | rich ores of the camp can find their put an end to the war in| ¥ay to market through Spokane, in- the Claewader.acuntry between the uh eet le Pereterenter ge eee things may come each a oft tha aboot it's den wien te perio woot territory or coming fa tom track. #66 Agreement. The Snake river! country will not be fought over and the Union Pacific will probably re- eetve its coveted permission to use the Northern Pacific tracks Into Ta coma. | Between the Northern Pactfic and the law providing for SOS eee er eS SEEESE SESE SESE SEES SEES EES SD SPAS SSS EES SESE SESS EEE REESE | McNaught. of Beattie are to secure | the undevel water power at Ket. the Fails t bas been rumored for some time ber & deal wee pending whereby an electric line could reach Republic to connect with the #pe the Great Northern there are Mon-| kane Palle & Northern [ft is known tana 4ifferences which have been|that Jas J. Hill, president of the Practically settled by the decision of | Great Northern, has given assurance the Northern Pacific to abandon the | that favorable trafic arrangement Rikhorn valley road. The Republic | Will be made with such a line Mep trade will probably go to one or the capable of fudging the £ biny of other of the rivals and @ disposition | the project after going it the Ke of the Central Washington may fol-| tle Faille route, ay that there are low. In the Red River valley and | no serious obstacles tn the way through the Dakotas Hill and Mellen Will divide the territory. If this agreement reached there will probably be an end to Hill's Plans to reach Portiand, leaving this territory to the Northern Pacific and 0. R. & tiguous property from Col .1 .N. Pey- HOP PRICES = jie sip Rae REMAIN LOW Peyton says that he has promimed to hold the property open at that price until the New York men can have time to swing the deal. The proper ty has been « ed hop crop re been sold in Wash-| was taken East about « week ago. Ingion prices varying from & — cents to 9 cents. The former is the figure now ruling, the ictter the one that prevatied for a short time ear Mer in the season. Some contract hops heve sold at slightly better Prices, bat any hops now offered are going at 6 to 7 cents. There ie no immediate prospect of any change in the market. In fact} hope may go even lower than they res at present. During the season of 1896 hops sold on the Sound as low an 2 cents, and growers have no @surance that their crop will be ‘wanted worse than that this year In 1896 it required an effort to dis-/ pose of the crop at 2 cents Growers are selling hops at prow ent prices in some quantities, but the merket fs far from active and buyers are only making purchases | under orders. The growers do not expect bet things of the market! and are letting go of their crop rath roadbed can be secured In spite of eful efforts to keep Saturday that the New York syndi- cate, headed by ex-Senator Mille has secured @ verbal option on the Kettle Falls water power and con- FOSTER AT THE CAPITAL He Will Name the Next Judg: for Alaska. WASHINGTON, Senator Foster, D. C., Dee. t= of Washington, has talked to the president about affairs in Alaska Judge Johnson, the only federal re- presentative of the judiciary in Al anka, has resigned, his health hav- ing broken under the etrain of over- or than —. chanose My being Lom | work. He will serve until his muc- panes to close out at even lower) een: te nominated Senator Fost The only recent big kale which has meer’ Peer candidate a Ste Padene thats choc Senator Foster says congress will will present the k The bank held twenty tons of hov#,| Alaska’ among, which must. he one which have just been sold to Her providing for two judges, tw man Kiaber. The terms of the ¢ tricts and two different seta of court Gre privete and neither party officials. This is one of the recon Giacuse it. Tt fs not belteved much | mendations made by President M 4 above present quotations were offer. | yi.) fils big block €4 even tor this big This week Congressman Jones and) Genator Foster will introduce Pacific | cable bills, The former will ask for) Wagos Advanced. FLGIN, tl, Dec. 11.—The & location by a commission some- National Watch Company where on the Pacific coast by the} gurprined its 2,460 employes by giv-|Svernment, and that the cable be ing notice of A restoration of the| Operated as a government cable wage scale of 1892, the advance be-| Mill's bill appropriates 3600,000 to Start the work. ‘The total cost is unsoileited ing not to exceed $8,000,000, TACOMA, Dee 11.—Unitens there in| Senator Foster will favor a com- organized opposition to his release, | Mercial cable backed by the govern. ex-City Treasurer J. W. McCauley | ment, running from Puget sound via the Aleutian islands to 8 pan and the Philippines H. J. Schiveley, Steve O'Brien and Tom Payne here beria will be paroled and will be with his friends in time for the c ration of the Christras holidays Those who have been working ¢ ward this end believe there 1 be No such: opporition, and Gov, Rogers will give his official consent to erant- ing the parole. Petitions from old soltiers, his prosecutors, prominent men and women of Tacoma, hay been forwarded to the warden of the mitentiary, and copies sent to Gov. | sos. . are The Chamber of Commerce filed a set of resolutions with the council today, providing for the submission an extension of the Cedar river water system to Cedar lake, and the abandonment of that portion of the line from the intake to Swan Inke, to |the voters at the coming election. The grade is not severe, and a good | the matter quiet, the fact leaked out | — RnR TONE Se ES one TATTLE WASHIN ON, MONDAY NELLIE TT LE, “gal, iF CITY NEWS. MACHINE NUMBDR ONE John A. Clark, a mining broker, was arrested Saturday night by Bert | Taylor, of the Bancroft patrol, on a charge of obtaining money under 8. C. Smith, a clear for $6.80 for Clark, and that he had |no money in the bank to meet the check. A_N. Citheral, a laborer, who dind at Dr. De Soto's Wayride mission | Saturday, war buried in the Potter's) field Frank Schiller, a laborer, fol] down the ateps of the Fremont hotel early |yesterday morning and broke his right ankle, | The sailing wohooner Adventure ts girl if whe can help it Neti inine aspect upon her Seeee tees eteeeeeeeteee ee eeeteee the jo « girl and a few weeks orted . ‘ bee new young lady in the neighborhood who did'nt know that her | aed py Paget ae ee “beat fellow” was not all that appearances seemed to indicate. ltnere were three men O04 Che When ahe finally ascertained the truth the a acene on Sixth Iman aboard. All escaped. A emall avenue north and a hurried rush to tell mamma all about it steamer has been despatched from | Juneau to rescue them ‘The federal grand jury today re- Inst Chew Dun, alias Ju Hi, Chung Fung, Shum How end Bina Lee, These Chinamen are oll charged with forging certificates of residence in this country The Y. M. C. A., up to noon today, had collected $23,200, out of the 635,- One, The time for collections is up| heat Friday night, MACHINE TWO Harry T. Redick, Wijliam D. Par themer and Frederick W. Doyle have Just been appointed to the force om local mall carriers. The appointment dates from December 16. Philip Tillinghaee, rec Columbia National Bank, of Tacoma, | was awarded judgment today in | Judge Hanford’s court against LF. Pierson, for $460.%, on a promissory note. | O M. Moore, of the Pug went to inform the police all of the policemen in Seattle Bince this complaint w jar Import have followed @ girl, fact Biath night are preferred Round letter inquires as to the quality of | the oysters, and the condition of the) beds. | The capitalists are also negotiating for the purchase of sailing craft te tra®iec It they will recure rigute, Pastern oysters ™ able to back up their plane with a ree sum of money, and it is jfumed they contemplate contre the | weet. y are oyster fisheries of the North The Dewey club will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock In the Chamber of | Commerce coors in the Haller biock, | | Will H. Thompoon will give an ad-| | dress on expansion. | | A small fire occurred yesterday | morning at Carstens Bros, packing | house on Graat street bridge. The) ire “department extinguished the | blaze. the damage was only slight Johnp Martin, superintendent of police of Detroit, Mich,, bas written to Chief Reed requesting knowledge of the whereabouts of Jennie and Is- me Brennan. These girls, aged | and 17 years, were adopted by Mise Johanna Williams, ister of one of the Catholic institutions, She has since died and the ad@ress of the girls ts wanted THIS IS WHAT SEATTLE NEEDS One of the Important matters to before tonight's council meet- PARIS, Dec are wild with giee over the British Gisaster at Btormberg The offices of the yellow journals are decorated with Boer flags W YORK, Dec. 11—A priva Washington dispatch received by prominent Wall street firm this ing, states that Preaident Kru- to thie government if Witrator between the Boers anc Pegiand. High officials here held a conference with the Hritieh ambas- |eador about the matter. CAPE TOWN, Dee. 10.--1t now ap- pears that yesterday's battle at | Btarmberg wan a serious reverse to | BrSiah arms. The English lost over | 400 men tn killed, wounded and mise ing and were compelled to retreat before the victorious Boers The latter were well supplied with | heavy artillery and machine guna come |ing ts the final pasmage of the ordin ance creating the office of franchise Inspector. P each wide. The Boer lons ts unknown | This ordinance follows one recent is Sante ta he teem ly passed, by whose provisions any! Gen. Gatacre, the British com corporation making improvements | mander, reports to Gen. Forettior or repaire on the city’s atreets must SEMEL NEN ORER MORE EET EVENING, IN THE ROLE F A BOY GALLANT ‘Making Love to the Sweet Girls Out on Sixth Avenue North. Nellie Pickerti! seers determined to be a boy, She won be a Out on Bixth avenue north the good mothers are wrathy at and vow that something has got to be done to put the fem- She in living on that street and is now & masher of young girl's 7 Nelite i# aid to make @ fine appearing lad, considering that © kept steady company with 4 Then memma got mad as a hornet and put om her bonnet and At headquarters she was made with the fact that Nellie had been arrested reveral times jent Judge Cann, but that she was absolutely de & bolled shirt, pantaloons and a necktie, even if she had to defy fled a few daye ago othe rious mammas gay that playing with their boys, doing all sorts of wild things, such as filling the place of catcher in a baseball in football and anon playing leapfrog clothes on naturally that the young men do and if they do, they aro not so unkind as to mention the Miss Pickert!l's latest accuser ip Mra. A. C. Jones, of No, 204 nue north. She says that tranquility of the netghborhood and Charges of making a horrible nolse in the early hours of Beveral weeks ago Nellie was taken out of @ variety theater by a policeman and brought before Judge Cann in male apparel The stern man of the law admonished her to go forth into world wearing only the proper garb of her sex and never caught again tn masculine attire As the culprit went forth to freedom she made a face judge and calmly walked away down street Bince then she has never worn # dress It ten’t Known just what will be done with the perverse girl Bureau of Information, ped 6|2. eee communication thie morning from " several Connecticut capitalists, who|® She !# & thorn in the side of the police, are thinking of engaging in the oya- ter business on Puget sound, The HARARE ARARAAHARARE AAA 1.—The Paria papers} About 6,000 men were engaged on! DECEMBER 11, hearts tn her guise of « faacin- hoe ded by benevo mined to sport team, heading the rush STA 1809. fhe weare her boy's n't euspect that she in ‘ellie ia a disturber of the should be suppressed the be t the In her pantaloons SPSS SS SSS SESS SSS ESSE SES SSeS EES eR Se REESE ‘ FRENCH PAPERS REJOICE - OVER BRITISH DEFEAT ‘Ugly Spirit Manifested Which Augurs| lll for the Peace of Europe. Walker that he was treacherous guides. ‘This Boor victory is likely to have the effect of cauring great acessions to their ranks of the Dutch in Cape Colony, who for some time have been wavering tn their allegiance to England Gen. Metuen’s wound still pre venta him from riding on horseback Tt is weld that the native tribes in Bechuanaland have risen the Boers, but the story vouched for. against fa not LONON, Dec. 11.—The latest adv'c- es from the fight et Stormberg say that the Britieh 414 not falter under fire, though taken enti by sur- pr The Royal Irish Rifles and once Northumberland Fusileers at charged the kapje where the Boers were located, and cleared it. The found, however, that the Boers we on three sides of them, and were fin- ally forced down the hill, The Brit- ish artillery then monopolized the action until It was seen to be hope- when a retr was ordered misied by | } The British troops arrived at Mol- | ten completely exhausted, after 29/ hours of marching and fighting. apply to the board of public works THEY ELOPED ap-| will He will alan see for permiasion to do same. Under the new ordinance the chise inspector, who ts to be pointed by the city engineer, oversee such work that street car, lgehting and other) corporations live up to the provi. | sions of thetr franchises. The appointment of such an off has been advocated for some time pant by the Star in several articles showing up the deplorable street car service of the city An sloping couple passed through | Seattic Saturday night on their way to Colorado, Detective Wappenstein noticed on the street @ young man who appear- 4 to be Just out from the back coun. cor The creation of this office will do try. Wappenstein concluded to fol- more than compel corporations toliow him. The man was shadowed to! abide by thelr agreements with the). ¢ Northern Pacific ot ere re! leity. It will force them to be much | th* Northern Pacific dep: ore s0 met an elderly woman whom the de. ore caret t va hee ines areful than they hav m Ive took to be the youn@a man's in the past, when making tmpr ments and repairs, Such bite carelessness as the grounding electric wores by attaching them to of a pulled a large roll of bills from ket and handed the youth $10, fron water and gas pipes, will be| Tne latter then went to e clathing proventee | A few minutes after hia return to the 04 wees | depot, the elderly woman emerged with two railroad tickets. The P.-1. CHA Northern Pacific agent then told an | Wappenstein that the two were elop- @. Sawyer, private secretary to ling to Colorado. John 1. Wilson, in to take the place | "pny ola Indy saya she has money.” of Harvey 8. Jordan as cashier of | continued the agent, “and the young |the Post-Entelligencer. Mr. Sawyer |p 1, ne thet be 6 tekine ber Wo in In the city now. He will begin his | his former home. |new duties probably this week Wappenstein approached the wo- = |man and informed her that the| youn man was evitently trying a this charge, and finally eald thet she, been the Is IN TROUBLE“... young man had jum married. Wappenstein says youth waa about 20 years of ago, ‘ALONG THE | WHARVES The steam collier Mackinaw arriv- oA from San Francia¢o before nine | this morning without cargo, She went to the South bunkers The steam collier Willamette ar rived from San Francisco yesterday She came up in ballast and went di rect to the bunkers, She brought no freight as the Miami cleaned up all the surplus freight at So ran | NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—A London Aiapatch to the Journal says that Mayor Newton may resign, becaure of charges made against him that he acted first as a pro or, and th eold the pr rty to his own co after having subsidized many apers. In court the Lord Mayor de 1 know!Ing anything of pay nts de ear Truth, Lab re’s paper, Was named as one thowe which had received The hearing was continued plan of subsidizing the money. The press is the fame an that used by H cisoo on Its last voyage. The heavy traffic still continues, however, and CHEHALIS, De Anew bank|it Is likely the colliers will again will be started In Che S about the | have to be press a into service. first of the year by a1 peor and o_ — A. Clark, arrested @aturday night for obtaining money under false pretentes, war given until to- | morrow to enter his plea Eastern parties mrad John will be local men, ewart in to be the L. Holbrook, of al David president, and cashier, ler |M A THRO’ SEATTLE RAILROAD ) WAR TO RESUME: | The Northern Pacific and 0. R. & | N. seem to be preparing for a re | sumption of the railroad war in the | Clearwater country as soon as the truce between the two lines ends on February 5 of next year, The North jern Pacific im making heavy pur chases of new ties and the O. R. & N, has filed maps showing proposed extensions In three atates, which, if built, ratiroad construction In these atates than hae ever been constructed be tore, they mean that the two rivals are |preparing for the renewal of the strug@le after February, and that efforta at a settlement of the dim culties will evidently fall. At events the roade are not to be be compelind to lose any time in be- jainnig work tf that is to be done crows the adh land, the title res rests in ® ‘BOUND FOR CAPE NOME Steamer Cottage City, Capt, Jan- sen, salled this morning for Alaska She carried 212 tons of fregiht Among the passengers were 14 for Cape Nome. They are taking up several dog teama and will go to Dawnon, from whence they will go down the river over the toe to Nome. The Cottage City's passengers were as follows John Haley, Capt. G@. P. Arm strong, Mra. 8. Cox, Mra. C. G. John son, Mrs. M. L.. Ferguson, BE. W Smith, T. T. Prelow, T. M, Housh, Mra. L. 8. Keeton, Mra, L. A. Cox, M. G, Dashwood, Sam Allison, Misa Kate Duncan, F. H. Harnett, ©. V Murphy, Mra. Brooks, J. F. Murphy, J. M. Davidson, F. MoHugh, Mra. § Turner, Mrs, BE. Mitchell, George Mra. Schoenberg and 22 second-class passengers, If these strawa Indicate anything | caught In a position where they will | j if wou! drepresent more actual | | | | 70% First Avenue Tolephone News Ti Subsoriptio PIKE Ete., To ISO ALL PAPERS Estimates given on all classes of work Star Paint Co. 300 Pike St Toy Watches {rs small things, but onr prices are small, too, Wi aide P our business on email articles at smelt ° and today we show one of the a sagt of Topi oy pet the prices haven't changed, ere wtill 6) ALL. COON BROSG., i417 Second Ave. BRUNNER & CO. Groceries, Wines and Liquors 502 Pike Sireet, corner Fifth ‘Phone Green 704. On hand a fine line of whiskies in bulk and bottles as fol- lows: Monogram Rye, Canadian Club, Oscar Pepper, Burke’s Irish, Burke’s Scotch. McBrayer Bottled in 4, etc, etc. Hennessy and Martel Brandies, French Cordials and wa NN eee Gin. Ai Weleome Ghristmas ——— "A Weleome Ghristmes Gift Appreciated for years is a pair of Gold Rimmed Glasses or a fine ay opera glass. We have the larges it rr pe om _ We on pts for Fit hvente We have a nice — of perfume ull half ounce, in a nice box, all for 10c. See window. IF YOUR EYES TIRE Year Your 4 sees to 1 tradi Your eye You should have examine’ use only CHAS. Oo. HOLCOMB. Sptiot + ar. zie. ee hristmas ‘tani The assortment of GLASSWARE here suftable for Christmas kiving would require for detail 4escription, ® much larger space than this whole paper, Wine Bets, Water Sets, Tea and Coffee Seis, Tea Pots, ete, ete. Can't you and won't you come in and look around i CORONA JAVA COPTER is thoroughly satisfactory, Worth the #c per pound and more. The Commercial Importing Co. 1008 Second Ave. We Are Offering One - of the Finest Lines f= Gets’ and Ladies’ Watches And at the Very Lowest Prices. ALL KINDS OP ence.’ ‘Jewelry, Diamonds, Ladies’ and Gents’ Chains Ww. W. HOUGHTON, Jeweler People Who Don’t Care to Waste | Their Money Usually Trade at Frederick & Co,’s JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT Where the most liberal inducements FREDERICK & CO. to buyers for the coming holidays are offered saad A nt Petite . Se EERE RARER RRR ERNE A RRR \* HERE is no other house on the Pacific Coast + 4 carrying such a variety of articles sultable for ¥ s . . » ‘Christmas Gifts: * ) * * Our stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, ~ = Cut Glass and Silverware, is complete in : « every detail-~ * * 2 GOLD AND SILVER SMITH + :Albert Hansen %oMit'inae™ 3 SEMEN MERE MEE MEME MMERMEMEE NE EERER SEES Isn’t That Smooth? That's what they all say when their laundry wort {8 do: THE PALACE “yy If your bundle is ready, call up Matin 177, Sixth and Pike. We'll got it. PALACE STEAM LAUNDRY “They Looked So Neat And they dressed so sweet” that ev- eryone in Seattle knew that they must have had their linen and five ehirt walets laundered at the Queen City Laundry, for they were immac- ulate in their cleantiness. Shirts, collars, cuffs, shirt waist und wear and a 21 Tadeo” NEO oR Rn Sane Queen City Steam Lanny * 1406-98 Fourth Avene, Datwaeh Caton Wall Paper 3000 of the Twengets in Dentary to select from, We cat nad. want thelr homes beautifi PAAR TO 90000004 MUHL 219 Pike Street Botweon Bocond Third Aves, WOO ECUVHOR WUT tterms boon who and POLISHING FLOORS PRRQUETRT, VARNISHING The Highest Grade Work at Moderate Charge. ART FURNITURS ® GRILL COMPANY