The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1901, Page 1

RTS A WEEK cents Main 1050 Meecsoes NO, 268. ~ — Senuel Hill. ‘edeen lost. WN Oy PPPSOOS99 90609001 ut PUBLIC Of Books Is a 4 fifemen thin morning, they are of the | Special editions of ¢ "| opinion that the fire first originated “| the scene they discovered that th vered rk Eassou, | © to the station le ey Peadquarters by tele- rat later en alarm ® box at the cor- i and Terrace iB time i,t. department od a tthe of nt, but were oke. One man, and taken to ie comrades east re- floor He struck upon Pka. and had not he would have The firemen mes far 29 min- K Kelloggs ordered ly to the library room. At 10 two lines of pom the intertor eave taemeends| together by the is completely standing, bu Ubrary wil! im Seattic, @hen a personal an nearty will now be ntil another | od. It was tions on the 25,000 voi- at | $29,090 yearectae| ding in the outatandin, Fully thia morn- ease con- cards patrons him ¢ Setvine the number of bool circulation’ ‘ps Hold ight. ing at the int; sensor | Whitting ie Cooney ceremonies A lunch to iier row, Keep these facts in mind, “qndig indebtedness of $1,100,000 representing this plant and $850,000 “lost through mistakes,” according! The people of Seattle are asked to continue paying $2 for gas in order that interest may be| rlypaid on the actual capital invested in the plant and also on the much larger amount of capital alleged on $250,000, the proper capitalization. AS TOTALLY DESTROYED isaster Occurred Before 1 O'Clock ‘This Morning—Valuable Collection . | tons is not large, some of the photo- - | comnet! Perry, James, Crichton, Vincent and nails, TH SEATTLE, The Seattle ROBERTS 1S GREETED BY _ MULTITUDE bnposing 0 Demonstration by People Welcoming Him Home to England. LIBRARY COWES, Lele of Wight, Jan | Roberts arrived here from Africa to- | day. He came ashore in the ateam yacht. There was a tremend ous demonstration On the from le and the pliers were black th pec ple as the transport Canada stean: ed toward the anchorage. Guns were fred and ff waved, whistles blew And the people yelled.” Roberts land. ed fret at Cowes at the queen's com- ane eae. sas coe] mand, as she wished to be the first ine tasccution ‘wae being | %,reca!ve, the raturaing hero, | The ESRCTAL will dine and sleep at Os Origin of the Fire. orne house tonight. ‘The origin of the fire ie a m: From investigations made ed to the ventory tery. the) per to- Gay Tomorrow Jrill_be | Roberts < y in London, and preparations for aes Pelee O@ * reception are well under war, orations being elaborate along the ‘ {line of march, Roberts and his staff eek Goare were wakoeteed. Tiere OFS) wir be inet at Paadington station by m thous troops wll escort him to Buckingham pelace, wher luncheon will be In readiness. All stores will be closed and the city given up to rejoicing, — INSANE FROM SSC MENS ABUSE or Humes said that the brary | VoungGirlLoses Her Reason hould be re-esi forthwith. | 1 will state,” said the mayor, “tha Because of Betrayal. on a very emati pian tn 191. It imroediately received strong eup- Vattl two tn the Riaito butiding on Second nue. On the first day of January. | 189% the books were moved to the Yesler building, and since that ume traveling © cotiections had been {n cir- |i am confident the city wtit | rebuild the Whrary, and [ favor the cite of the old Yesler mansion for mgt _Parpose,” | Chicago, Jan. 1—Another story of police are today investigating the dark side of city life, eame to the fire. This morning Detective | light yesterday, when Nettle Wath Powers was detailed by Chief Mere- jen, « girl of 22, was adjudged inaane @ith, and after ape ames over an hour /and sent to Danning. She has only ruins, Pow-|« short time to live, and unless she was convinced that the fire was recovers her reason, © Me al soe not of incendiary His opin-/ ten be. that the @ the furnace. ga ttor, informed gy te. that he left the buliding at 9 o'clock, and every- thing seemed to be in order. White the police are confident that the dullding was not set on fire, detec~ tives have cluse which are being quietly investigated. Early this! morning Feliee Officer Roberts ar- rested J. father of Mra. Tester, 606: ob se of Alsorderty conduct. He was intoxicated at the time of the arrest Librarian @mmith (# confident that no employe of the library would be guilty of seting fire to the building, And no discharges have occurred. |“Librarian ‘Senith also stated this lafternoon that about 6,000 books | Were outstanding. The following clubs and societios used the clubroom tm the public Ith- ary for their meetings: Red Crow Soelety, Advance Club. Alpha, Clao- wis Culture, Clionian, Kindergarten, Nineteenth Century, Orptec, P. FE. Federation of ‘Women's hington Federation of jabs, and Woman's Cen tary Cha Century Club los fome china and pictur: Beve other clubs lost pictures and minor decorations. ile the pecuniary escape came to years ago from E enavitin & tn. the raving of her trouble In ® downtown restaurant. She hed stitution that morning, and in her demperation, wanted to die, The girl was taken to the Buptist hospital, where she became so violent and tried so often to Kill herself, that she had to be removed to an asylum. physician at the hospital ts) 4 that her trouble is due to She has papers invoiv. | ing the men ehe accuses, but uniess before her death she has a lucid in- terval to make an affidavit, the mer who are responsible for her plight may not be brought to justice. PAT ROWE CAPTURED A Report From Omaha That Suspected Kidnapper Has Been Landed, graphs cannot be replaced. ‘The fur- iture belonged to the library. The library committee of the city il, Consisting of Counctimen Byers, is meeting in the Ct this afternoon. They wilt invest! gate the cause of the fire, the Ines to the city, and the number of books ‘The committee will take the firet steps towards establishing |& new library. Their report will be Tead at the council meeting Monday don having seen three wrecks in Bristol channel. toh teeona prewiienal prattation is 0 be organ’ at the Presidio, San Francisco. There are nearly enough | © y kidnapping, Is reported to reerulte fer a egmman. have been captured near Oeirichs, 8, owe |D. His brother, J, 3. Crowe, was Boston men are to send an agent | rested at Council Bluffs, Iowa, yes- to North Yakima to investignte the | terday afternoon and brought to proposition of an electric raflway to | Omaha several suburban districts, | The story of Pat Crowe's capture jcomes from Chadron, Neb. John Del- +The New York Prone Club and Sir | felder, @ cattleman, came in and an- Thomas Lipton exchanged New | nounced that three detectives, fol- Year's greeting by cable and jestea |lowing Crowe's tratl, overtook the over the coming yacht race. fugitive on the Pine Ridge reserva- tion, near Oclrichs, 8. D. Crowe | Tung Chow, # Chinese, loxt $600 at | Whipped up and tried to escape by faro in Spokane, and attempted | Might, but halted when his pursuers suicide by swallowing oplum, but |Degan to shoot. Delfelder maid that ; | as saved by the city physician, | Re had learned these particulars at | |@ ranch, where the party stopped for An insane heeder ereated much | dinner, exeltement In the streets of Sedro-| The arrest of J. J. Crowe, at Coun- Woolley, We had nothing in hin | cll Blufte, is bolleved here to be the pockets but several pounds of rusty | first ari lt was made | ives, but the prisons to accompany them across the river into Nebraska with- out a requisition, The police had! eon led to expect to find Pat Crowe, | and they came prepared to appre-| hend him. ‘They caught J. J. Crowe| asleep in a rear room near hia a- Thomas Walker, a criminal, was |ioon, Two big bulldog revolvers lay killed at St. Louis, Harry F. Kret-|on a chair. Crowe made no realnt- zer, while in the aot of breaking into |ance. When sweated by the Omaha & warehouse. which has heen robbed | police, the prisoner stendily denied 14 times in the Inst two yearn. that he knew anything of the kid. 79 2 naping or of his brother's where- John V. Hofsteter will get a deci- | abouts. sion proclaiming hie title to Innd | claimed by the elty of Colville for a | street under the law of usame. | OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 2-Pat Crowe, complicity in the cue ‘The minsionarten bi revs to ratify immediately the trent gress to ratify immediately the treaty to protect the natives of Af- rice against intoxicants, asked con- Carl Stevens, of New York, ts reg- [istered at the Rainter-rend. eame from Nome and intermed points Gown the river, and ih wer Aiepatehed for these points, SHAT TLE WASHING TON Gas & Electric Company SEREEEERERE RSE EEC C CE GVOOOORCCOCRERETNESESS THEY LET THE BOY GO HOME The Kidnappers Fi They Wad Made ao Big Mistake. BETHLEHEM, Penn. Charlee Kerchuer, kidnaped Monda sight, has been retui ho . was chloroformed and tak sort for tramps near Ritterville. His tore, after Gtecevering that the lad wan pet the gon of one.of the officers of the Bethlehem Steel Co., sent him home. ACCIDENT On J JAMES ST. Death was darely averted, morning when car No. 64 the J 8 wtreet lint, crashed sto the vy eeraee wagon driven by rres. The wagon had emerged from the alley between Second and Third nues, One of the horses the tracks, rendering it ti for the driver to escape from thy o pad of the car. Pasco Torres was thrown from his wagon; his left ear was torn off, and ncend| rife. The Dubtie brary cuey started | A members of the royal family. | he received cuts about the body. Hej rich all that had @ narrow escape from death, The man was taken to Providence hospital, where he resetved medical | attention. Owing to the steer of the grade, the motorman was able to stop the car, and the wagon | t oe tee and imotorman’s name ts Ji > Conner and the conductor was R Locke. TRAGEDIAN BARQUETED. Mr. Trodevicls “Warde wae enter: tained evening by the local Rike in ti tm the Cotman vending. | Cel. Hamilton Lewis was in ?, which he later to Warde, who presided eur- gg the feast of resen 9Rbe of the evening was gre if was gtven mEee horn gavel by Mr. Schoen- the lodge itae! = ‘= his sons, Berman, Ralf and jerbert Schoenfeld. =| GAME LAWS Foreign Sold Out of Season. A local merchant some da recet ment of game from Japan, ‘The birds came ine box. packed on ice, one of the Emprees steamers. They were In. excell condition until Vancouver was reac e ed several days at that point and eaten upon reaching here. accordingly turned over to « taxid- ermist and stuffed, The birds em- braced beautiful variety of Japan- All were WEDNESDAY & fine bouquet of rones | ARE STRICT 2 oP ser 8°! $800, Sehw, | See bs fatal EVENING, ‘J AN The consumers of Seattle are willing to pay enough for gas to give the company money to pay inter- They are willing to pay enough to leave a fair margin of profit. Wey ge not willing to be bled, however, in order that “lost capital” shall continue to draw interest. ct dicidedly to gold brick propositions. —A List of Sub the tee of the toon! buliding of « battie- agg dere vce ve 4 samme in ler at i of etti- ° ae at bike i eine, Colman with © follows Wiliam Pi and Andrew Hem- one and manufac- turing district lying south of King | street. i idamith and George = of north, Firth Sao ce the ons ‘ater Stout on the west i Forre ‘W. Godwin and tat Purwe:! B. MacDou- i iat avon, between Colum- A,B. Pore. Yewer Co- and "C.F smith Beeond avenue ham! Moore and a Berman Chapin, ory ood avenue from Columbia to ohn Schram and W. Fm. Boone,| ; Bust avenue from Madison to} ; t eS th Davies and Howard Lewis, Third avenue Yeuler to Pike street W. P, Trimble, F. HH. Capee one c¢. L. Denny, all the city orth of Pike street, The The follows additional Yo % N. J. Mr. James 8. Goldamith handed in as coflectiona the additional sub- scriptions: Crescent Manufacturing Co., $100; Schwabacher incorporated, Hardware Co. $2600; New York Notion Co., $100; RB, Folsom, $100: M. sietelgn, $100; ° W. R. Dall: ichmond Paper isi. +e HMivester ler & Co., ‘on MoBorley & Ander- B. Rogers, $10; Closgon, 3160; W. Wiloox, $100 S23 Hardware Co., $100, Bros Kell and : & to rem: ment. ene pheasants, Mongolian pheasants, qapenees woodecck and Englien om Whether or not the importation of foreign game during the clone season is permissible in this state ts an in- teresting question raised by this peek rthur reporter this afternoon, and sal eu brought in from the Ortent any foreign country cannot be leoatly old in Washington during the cloned season. For violations of the law a dealer would incur Itbilit to @ fine of $10 for every bird sold. The federal law makes the state law applicable to foreign and interstate commerce, #0 that shipment from the Orient is not perminsible, The hotel and restaurant keepers of Se- attle have agreed to make no efforts to evade the prohibition of the sale of game at this season. In Cine’ natl last week & man was fined nearly $4,000 under the game law, and our statutes are quite as strict. 1 do not anticipate any effort to evade the laws by teporvations from foreign countries Certainly such attempts would fail BIG BUSINESS OF DAWSON BKAGWAY, Dec. 6.—A statement made by Postmaster Hartman, of Dawson, shows that money sent from Dawson by money order in the last 12 months amounted to about $1,000,000, two-thirds of which went to the United States, and the re minder to Canada and foreign countries. The money order busi- ness of that office, done at a single window and without suboffices in | town, Is one of the largest, if not the largest, says Mr. Hartman, transacted at one window in North America. Mall recetved at that place from outside by hg of Skagw: 12 month: agway, in the prior to the opening of the Hotel Corridors. Geo. E, Bryant, of Stanwood, ia a guest of the Beeetie, TUARY 2, has a $250, 000 plant. POPS COC eC S Coss eceesoeecoonoe THE BATTLESHIP MONEY STILL POURING IN FAST The Fund Grows Under the Energetic Work of the Special Committee, Each subscriber was ny, 8 corporation, shall bid ed States government a con one of the atruction of which is now un- der consideration of the gov- ernment, I promise, for value received. bank ing _ whieh sit battleship shall be aoe in the waters of Pu- + pet Bow sum of cent. per annut t shall be commented for the 1} reoovery of any upon thie note, I agree to pay handed in by John Schram and W. ne, Fisher & Hurlbut $100; rted the following: K. Gottstein, $590; Z. C. Grimith Davie and H.” H. reparted as follows: Dexter Harton. $100; A. C. Anderson, $100; The Eieo- Robeson Bros., $50 Sowaeee & Co, During the last session of STAR. ONE CENT A COPY. IPOl. gt nae It has an) | etme Siart in the New Year emt ‘ee By Dealing With nate BRUNNER & CO. Telephone Main 1060. 402 Pike Street, Their stock of SWHET AND DRY WINES, IMPORTED LIQUORS AND CORDIALS, in complete PURP GO AT M ERATE PRICKS, MEN’S AND BOY’S OVERCOATS At Actual Marked Cost ADAMS & BLANCHARD 119 Second Avenue, Hinckley Block CLOTHIERS and FURNISHERS "presoniPTi — ion - Accuracy - Cleanliness If you tntrust your to us you can eee them prepared, if you #0 desire, and we hg your criti¢iwm in every particular, OPEN in roe Deliveries made anywhere in the city. Stewart & Holmes Drug Com’y. 627 First Avenue, Foot of Chemy St« They ob- scriptions. nted he following form for his sig- vee Z. ©. MILES & PIPER CO. The Ohio Steel ‘Ranges LEAD ALL OTHERS and obtain from the Unit- for the construction of battleships con- to pay to the order sai4 corporation, at the house of Dexter ” + Go, in the city of the day mpon Soin ‘ot the ‘United 8 t i coin of the Unit tates of ; : the present Senders ti No Bother or Worry With ' baht jeness, with in t terest. thereon in. ike. gold your Range if you buy : cotn after maturity unti) paid the Ohio, bs t if ( ' ‘ cay i C=) tia <= : — mount due the bie amount of fuel. Z. C. MILES & PIPER CO. 78-84 Yesler Way, The Largest Stove Housein the Northwest — following subscriptions were Lane, $250; Spet- Ramaker Music Forrest and M. J. Gottstein Lats, $100; Frank Jobst, $100; Miles Co., $200; The Chlopeck Fish ; The German Investment Sa’ & 0. Winship. $250, 250 inship From., “Lewis git. THE LEADER ‘OUR SECOND Annual January Clearance Sale $800; Frank Paul, tric Laundry com . ; Third 3 Avenue theater, $1 utterworth & > fous, #100; Charies Spears, $50; @r—' Is Now On ; WE HAVE ALMOST AN ENTIRELY NEW BTOCK oF § STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, SWEEPING REDUC- TIONS HAVE BEEN MADE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, Ex~ CEPTING THREAD AND A FEW STAPLES, VISIT THE nox Grocery Co., $0. and was taken under advise- the grand Jury, indictmonts were return. : $4 against Samuel Riadel, “James LEADER FOR BARGAINS, siballt Barney, Edgar Pareell and 1 5 Fotibante of huesaeon, charting tha - AAS AARAA RAR AAR RAR RS Ot O05 = arraigned before ge Banton t . T. M. Ward, of Snohomish, fs|Morning. James ton Lew! ~ a gout ot Si orgs p. 2 tee Ceeunneay a =| “In the HANDS of all men he putteta q mark that, ey« Dr. W. E, Bruce, of ane, 18| the jurore Were not tmpaneted fram «ry, man'may, Know his own work./Job Sexi} ® | jt registered at the Rainier-Grand, the whole district, but only from the northern counties, The ruled + Lester W. David, merchant of Blaine, fo © guce of the Butler. Hugh Bellas, a tourist of London, EF te stopping a the Butler. H. 8, Putney, a‘merchant of Spo- kane, is & quem of the Northern. W, 6. Durant, a nystctan of Mver- ett, is vepietered a the Occidental. out on B. W. Bundy, an "everett mining man, is registered at the Northern. . Michael Bax @ cannery owner of Fairhaven, is registered at the Beattle. Rox office. cee P. J. Smith, county commisstoner- elect of Issaquah, 1# a guest of the Diller. wm. sas A. E, Roe, & tumberman of What- com, fs making his headquarters at the Butler. that the indictments were true, and the motions to quash them were overruled ‘The University of Washington op- ened the winter session today, The next Oriental mall closes Sun- day night. petit larceny in Judge Can today and fined $20 and cost WANTED IN SPOKA ‘The prisoners were let bail pending trial, VON STALL Scientific Palmist EPORTERS’ NOTES, eral @ — " Hotel Rainier-Grand January ist te 10th rent i due at the local post- Oflee Hours, 1 to 6 P.M. mop Eppinanca Brown was convic' ot court | i $009900669000000000006006 ereyyryriy MORAN BROS. $ Engine and Ship Builders : W. BR. Cofferma: prominent city] Arthur L. Spencer, who for a time Stee! and Wood official of Chehalis, 1s registered at] posed in. this clty as a Chinese Ine COMPANY the Butler, eo charge Kn. EB. Friary, & mining man of Bv-| he erett, jx among the recent arrivals fn thin at the Btevens. | Meredi Dr. Marguerite Johnson, a prom- inent physician of Spokane, is a muent of the Diller, FE L COURT. In the United States cireuit court this morning a motion to remand wan offered in the ease of John B. Nicholson vs. The Pacific Coast Co. Friday Presby' will be ‘viee, amounted to 1,860 ing in 106 ehipments, Owt- mounted to 1,096 bags in te. Twenty-three mall 3 shipm: nana ieee ‘The motion was denied by Judge Hanford, with permission to renew it In 10 days, In the cage of Samuel C. Calder- head ve. B. 1, Downing, the motion * whe (ERA tor, is wanted In Spokane on a secured several hundred dollars only recently released from a pent tentiary 1 W SCHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. The executive committer of Leal Christian Endeavor will meet which a \ pleasant social wil social will be held BANK CLEARANCES. Wednesday, Ja cei! 3 3 LUMBER MILL LOLLPPPSPL CP OCOCLO0 C099 990909096966 PreTriirrriiiiiirri iii itt | STOVES, RANGES #scein'towatstsay § of swindling. ooo The police sny > city from the Chinese. Chief | th haw proof that Spencer was Calif Place in Town to buy Range, either hee or second hand. WHERE? -OGDEN'S, 507 PIKE Ldadhesh oO the evening, Jan, 4, at the United terlan church, when a lunch served at 6:15 o'clock, after- Are not so bad, as a Medicine th pu E WINES are cheap. Beware of compat: MIGLIAVACCA WINE S90, Phone Main 687 109 Main clearing hou houre report for 2, is as follows: $426,410.44 72,886, HE it that news size— \R ratherit expos nas be andals »per sty pots men a it mod