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e' CENTS A WEEK Phone Main (050 eve (a VOL, 2 NO, 303. THE SOLID SEVEN IN A GRAND Called “Protecting the With a Prologue Enti Act”--Dr. Crichton in the Difficult The Solid Seven: BLAKE. BYERS J. B CRICHTON, Fr. M. MULDOO THOMAS NAVIN, K.P. RUDE, W. H. VINCENT, eee ‘These are the counciimen whe dinary seal for the inter the McGroarty company to form a &: led combine and to ote all of their energies inside Outside the council, to prevent Hy @ rival company from competing with the Sunset Telephone Co. The “Solid Seven” have had since Saturday to think over the revela- tions made by the Star and to de- eide upon some course of action to explain their conduct. noth: F ‘At the councll meeting last night net a word was said by the “Solid —— could De construed as i] bad enough to let silence rued as an admission, but that ft would be much air the subject. “Bolid Seven” were not so an- they forgot their prudence. net anxious for an invest!- it ms 8 if gation that would into the whole secret of the te “deal ‘What the “Solid Seven” want is to 3 4 i i ‘They did not expect that ¢ ‘would have so much trouble | publicity. i i z if iy unsuspec will require something statements to con- G if Ft i if ha Aes romaerane se the other five. | “The Lily White Act.” BS NEE ol hale ne aD NS ; Other topics were more to the “Bolid Seven's” itk at the counctl «meeting last night. eral of them in their favorite lily-white of defending the ‘9 inter- ests when there was nothing at stake. They uttered lofty sen Pretty game. pA saw a aplendia chance regulation grand when the question of ticensing a sa- at Smith's cove came up. He im part: WILL ADJUST FREIGHT RATES ‘Very Important Move in Regard to i Alaska Charges. J. Francia Lee, traffic manager of | the White Pass & Yukon road. loft last night for San Francisco. While \ there he will hald « conference with the steamboat men of the coast who pS Seg | im the Alaska trade. ‘This year there will be a graded rate per ton on all goods, the same 2s is now in effect on all rati- itrouble. The new method of adjust- jing the freight tariff cannot be dis- puted, The passenger rates will probably remain the same ae last ‘RODE A WHEEL OUT OF DAWSON F. P. Freeman, who rode & wheel from Dawson City to White Horse, fs in Seattle today. On the trip he was accompanied by Geo. Hout, of Tacoma. Mr, Free- man said this morning: “My part- ner, Mr. Hout, and myself, started from Dawson Jan 2 at noon, The trafl was excellent for the first half| of the way, and we made good time. At the northern end of Lake LaBarge We met a number of cyclists who re- ported heavy snows and hard riding @n the southern part of the trail, Most of them were tired of bieycle riding in the #now and abandoned their wheelx and proceeded on foot. We went south from Lake Le Barge, we found the trali well worn down by the northbound cyclists, no we got along all right, About 69 They have | stand play | : STUD POKER THE SHKATTLE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1901. ~ celta Mutuo Soocorse. The funeral procession was headed by Wagner's First Regiment band, At the church selections were rendered by 4 quar totte » vocalist wae more widely wn both im American and the Muropean capitola than was Mme she Was ®& pupfl of such artolomew Pratt, M “and Mine. Luisa Cappiant. me, Crivellt came te Seattle tn Rights of the People,” | 82x 'Sarinantty’*denanea witn musical affairs of the Northwest daughter of Dr, Cart who died in this city leaves a widower, FE tled, “The Lily White Hingchung | Grivelli, tres daughters, a sister and and Alpheus Byers | $:-'icinmasers were: Lovie Data _ |B. C. Levey, W. MH. Graham, A. Lue Leading Roles. ben, P. C. Jager and ©. A, @peneer ft Crime. SLULU, Ja M.-An wf murder and suicide malttee has reported tavorabty for a! demic |license I believe the RIGHTS OF to be prevailing here at pi | | TH IZENS should first be tak- (he past week there have been six | en into consideration. WE AR murders. This | HIRED, GENTLEMEN, RY THE own the size of | | PEOPLE TO PROTECT THEIR IN | TERESTS, and we have a petition sion, especially as the po- | | signed by many. ot the prominent unable to find any clues to residents of the Bighth against petrate | the establishment of this saloon, and |" P*res\=st eae 1 delieve it ia our duty, as custodi lu is causing deal IN SEATTLE Hear! Hear! Hear! This is Lincoln day, & legal boll- | | “If @ saloon is located at Smith's | aay in the state of Washington. In | cove under the law ft will be almost Seattic the holiday ie generally st impossible to ever get rid of tt by | nalised by the closing ot rabite of | legistation here in the council. Only | fece and Banks and the shortening jonce do I remember a saloon having of pusiness houre in other institu- been abolished in a locality when tions. once established.” 7 . The court house and city hall are The lobby was full during the gimost as quiet as Sunday. The of counciiman’s eloquent defense of the Aces are closed, and the courts are people's rights—and one citizen re- pee 4 Tarked sotto voce: “Protect the peo- | nets aemmen. tne eeerel eer ple's rights, indeed! How about giv- fees were open fora few houre. ing to an unknown epeculator a most valuable 3-year franchise for | Linnaie ace nan helms o nations & telephone sysiem, so worded that | holiday, Postmaster Stewart would | the city can never have the least have to obtain permission from control ever tt Washington to close. Thia he did Neither could Alpheus Hyers re-| not do because Washington's birth- |siat the opportuslty te speak and | day comes next Week, and the post. | tell how he was also employed as a | omice te very busy. | guardian of the people's rights, It) In the public schools, appropriate | was easy for the gentleman to argue | exercises are being held. In the jon saloons, but he did not see At to | higher grades recitations and essays. explain the solfcitude and unusual | @rawing teachings from the life af energy displayed by the “Solid Sev- | Lincein, are deing offered. In the pov Fm ere pienso ee ee claanes simpler exercises, in- arty nechise re jean of t! in- and herent rights of the citizens GaOAa At SRE pentings, are the | No great demonstration has been o ce 4 | planned, but there prevails a quiat } ’ lreverence for the memory of the ! |martyred president. Listen Just a Bit! — + | Funeral of Capt. Crawtord. i i | ‘The funeral for Capt. Thomas The public is not to be fooled Piswery pentireses cams 1 “wamd| Seales Triton, was Rae ok voor thie morning from Butterworth's chapel. tiger” up at Smith's cove are not a LAUNCH OWNERS ‘The owners of launches and other mre craft on Lake Washington over the reeent ac- at Smith's cove. pl are much pi i ion of Assistant Prosecuting Attor 6 0 | ney Vince Fabin, toward making the | Washington | [slough between Lake | land Lake Hammamish navigabie. } | |For = long time past lumbermen oe ———__- —- ——- | have disregarded the law, which pro- 1 | | [vides a heavy penalty for obstruct- | jing any water way, and have con ake wer |e Sen pig.” and it is not located up } } | The next chapter im the telephone | gested the slough with logs, making fight will be the contest in the jt impassable for the smallest craft. equity division of the superior court |The practice, however, is soon to be tomorrow. The city will he called | stopped. upon by Judge Tallman to show | The Mitchell, L why the temporary injunction on the | have the agency f board of public works not to refuse Manufacturing Co. permits to the Automatic Telephone ja: company should not be made per- | jarge, manent. To do this It will be neces-|on the way to this city. sary to prove that the Automatic| Mr. Harry A. Chadwick, of Telephone Company's franchise is | Argus, has recently purchased a void. |bemutiful electro-vaper launch, 2 ‘The city, however, is not really alfeet long with three and a-haif rty tn the case. The “Bolld Bev. | narse-powe Mr. Chadwick is in the council are the only city | highly enthusiastic and contemplates officials who are trying to show that | goo. the franchise ta dead. Consequently 7* Wes Spe Peene tees. y's company’s « tornaye | will take it upon themselves to rep- resent the city. They will try to} stop the work of the automatic Tel- | ephone company or wis & Staver Co. he Racine B The number WASHINGTON. |_ WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.-~ be goat to walk in. | ceived @ digpatch today announcing My partner, however, proceeded on | nor arrival there. Some alarm was wheel and covered the distance in| tet in Boston over her long absence. seven and a-half days. I arrived i2) gh» has 200 boys aboard. meert ds | Senator Aldrich says the prospects are good for the aecaptance of the senate war revenue by the house Blown to Atoms. | practically as passed by the senate. LONDON, Feb. 12.--fitx men were | killed in an explosion of gunpowder works at Guildford today. ‘STAR LING / Rev. Gowen’s Lecture. | Rev. H. H. Gowen will deliver the | third of hie present series of lectures | in the erypt of the Trininity Parisn church tonight. The subject will be “The Literature of tire,” MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 12.-- | ¥rank Hamilton was in fine spirite thie morning, He thinks that the state has failed to make a strong case. Bennett was recalled and denied |cused Hamilton of murdering Day Patrolman Rooney, who took Ham- A Star reporter found last night |!iton $e jail, ood the jetter remark- e “Lat the law take ite course, tat se ee that the Clancy |i anide by the consequences. I and Pincus Bros. operate stud poker | uijied him, but It was in self-de- games in their resorts. Since Chief | fence.” | of Police Meredith has been in office, A dead silenee prevatied while this | not a stud poker game has been in festimpony was being given, Ham- c ir |ilton was Vielbly affecte operation in either the Clancy or | "ton Was Viiowed with another Pincus club rooms. All stud poker | statement alleged to have been made games were ordered out of the larg-| py familtoh to him, in which Ham er houses last week. The Pinews and | iiton acknowledged that both he and Clancy Bros. operate blackjack | Day bad been intimate with the sume |girl; that he had heard @ bad report lof Day and had told it to the girl land whe repeated it to Oay. Roon- ey's story, plainly told, caused a sen- sation. He mipced no words, re- | peating what Hamilton said regard- ing his and Day's relations with the «irl mentioned, LAID AT REST. MACHINISTS UNION. Dy achiniate’ unfon in this city mpmarey Bervioes tay 26m ES | ts Mae took work in organiaing. It | Crivell! were held from the First} now has # per cent of the machin- Methodist church, corner of Third | ists in town now enrolled, and will Javenue and Marion street at 11:30/ make a demand for a shor o'clock this morning. Rev, J. P. D.| day on the frat of May. f | Liwyd officiated. Interment was in| ¢hinistn Lakeview cemetery. The casket was | jtiating covered with beautiful floral offer-| every we ings of various designs. join The obsequies were under t .|on the first of May in the effort for |Mme. Berta Crivelli Was Buried | | With Fitting Ceremony. k, and will be in shape to hands with Seattle machinists } A 20th CENTURY KA crc SAYS NOME 1S A WIMMER, P. H. MoGrath Talks Intelligontly of Its Prospects—Not a Poor Man's Camp. P. MH. McGrath, who owns «@ large! “astern cepitaiiete ore buying number of claims at Nome. ls now up iarge fur of cinime tn the im Beattie on his way north. Mr. Nome district. The bench claims may prove as good as those around Dawson. I know of several tundra @igxings that took out more gold than creck clatins immediately below MoGrath hae spent seven years in Aisaka and last year located at Nowe. When seen by « Star re porter at the Hotel Beattie he said D ‘While — 22 at be nom & | them. num me to! this year as inst, those who PY Quartz Property. @o will be of a better class. Nome is| “The quarts proposition te always! & poor man's country. and &/ the most important in a —, cr € m going should either have ope jirie: There have been « few cla-mma | Ear Rere” & enoesh money (0 of this kind discovered in the Nome ay it. district, some assaying as high an $156 & ton. ‘This year Jarge compan- jen will prospect for Quarta and I think they will find good ledges of ne ore. I will start in a few days for Nome and will go by way of = 2 2 = 3 at Nome this year, where there was only one last. This is no exaggera tion, but an actual fact. Last year | Dawson and dows the Yukon over almost every one was staking the ice The Cook's inlet route is) claims. This year they wil! much short but there te no doe On the Daw road | prove up on them and consequently | feed along the route. & large amount of gold will be tak- fon route there are many en ow how | admission to West Poin 4 Ann apolia from this territory are soon [to take piace. | Del v ihe | oxpresaed himeeif ing for examination any ih Should natives suc | the preliminary every vere! police The examination of por nts for an wenger on steam or salling closajy werutinized by the = r probable admission the academies ts causing a great of apectiation 6 firet Deer ever made on the Mrs Nation Los P rt | nde te betas brewed now. Should attern) ove succesful, It w' if es Fal greatly cheapen the csst. Draught beer i sold in maloons at 25 cents a of Her Bodyguard-- «= Lectures Tonight. | Cooked DECATUR, Til, Feb, 12. — The! | wholesale grocery of Mueller, Piatt and Wheeland was destroyed by fire! MUSCATINE, lowa, Feb, 12-—Mra.| this morning, ‘Loew $100,000. Carrie Nation wae deserted by Man- 2 @ger Rankin and four of ber women |. 12.—-Col. cohorts this mornt At 10:45 a. m.| she left for Chicago, where she lec- | tures tonight at Willard hall. Be- fore leaving, she visited seven sa-| TOPEKA, Kan, Feb, 12—All the| joints of Topeka closed last night in| that §f they did not close an army of| body of Boers in the great Riet val- & thousand men would wreck their! i. of northwestern Cape Colony. A loons, accompanied by the chief o police and a aquad of officers. Sty met with the usual Jeers, but no vio-| lence. | toed to th itiraat) i 4 P aches obedience to the witirnatum iasue: : . by the eftisens’ meeting, Chiet of| CAPE TOWN, De Pollce Stahl made the rounds 4nd) Linie is in close pursult of a large served notice on the joint-keepers | laces. Some of the drug stores are still welling Mquors. | Dia battle t# imminent, petitive drill of the initlation com The Modern Woodmen of America panies is being held, The drill is al- are today holding thelr bi-annual senvention in Seatile. ‘The 190| most the no we the reguiar army oon a 4 ya manual, only the Woodmen une axes | camps in this state are each repre- sented by one or more members, Tha} | hyn oft ‘i ee aa of Spokane, Ta-|b@ siven at the Armory, followed by Sanentios company of om kane, Ta-| . panquet at the LAncoin apartment |eoma, Everett and Seattle, in unl-| house at 11 pi tm. |form, are also present. At? oe The regular executive session wil! afternoon Rev. W. D. Simends | be held tn the hall in the Col the opening address to the| man bullding tomorrow morning at At 2:30 a com-/10 a.m DEWET IN | WATERFRONT NOTES. The quartermaster’s depart nt in thin elty has not been of instead of guns At 8:20 tonight a grand ball will PRETORIA, Feb. 12.—1t is report-|° y notified to that effect as y ef that Gen. Dewet has croase the The Dolphin and Dirigo are adve Orange river into Cape Colony north | tieed to sal foe Skagway tonight, Norvalspont. but It is posible that the latter wi hema ye |not get away before morning. Ship | pers have been y slow today in | Oh, Come Off! | HONOLULU, H. 1, Feb, 2.-Word has been received: here that Pat Crowe is supposed to be here, and wending down freight The Infand Myer, which is lyin at the Galbraith dock, is being furn ished preparatory to taking the Por Orchard run, She t® @ prpellor an¢ | pices of the Society of G. Magzini Bo- | shorter hours, | terred soon. xl LONE. devel @ speed of 181-10 knots on her trial trip. The travel to Beattie on the local Sound boats has greatly increase’ during the recent pleasant weather. ‘This morning hundreds came in, and ail of the cron streets leading up- town were at times crowded with visitors. = ° ‘The former tranaport Port Stevens wtill les at Arlington dock, and her owners have not as yet accepted charter, although several offers have been made. A SAD CASE. ‘The case of little f win Enkiidsen against the Northern Pacific to recover $50,000 damages for the lose of « leg, wae terminated at #15 yesterday evening, when Jury returned « verdict in favor of the rafirond. it was held by the jury Chet Ube plaintiff, a four year - old boy, had no business on the rail. | eka when switching was in| progress. The low of the leg was Aue to the carelessness of the boy’ father, LASS IS. MELTED ROCHESTER Feb. 12.~ From ® quarter to a half miilian dollare are the estimated lonses by mason of the destruction of the National Glass company's plant this morning. Bight hundred were thrown Out of employment IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN Special Services Held at j Springfreld. SPRINGFIELD, ™ Feb, 12 Abraham Lincoln's natal day was well observed, special services being held at the monument by the Grand Army. All of the schools had mem- rials, A new monument is obout fintshed and the body will be rein- The Lincoin home dur- 15,000 fing the received visitors. past year IMBUS, ©., Feb. the auspices of the Jeffer fon and Lincoln leagues, Democratic leaders of attended gathering bh slebrate eoln's birth Lents, McLean and T the principal epeakers at the ban- quet th ening. THE BALLARD FIGHT. renown A foul in the fifth round terminat- | #4 what was to have been a 20-round | glove contest between Billy Cooper | t Ballard last The frat four rounds furn fifth round, ho Jaton of fouls. and entirely jlatter part of t ift upper-c tw fhe ire | ec the Rh ‘UP AND DOWN FIRST AVENUE | [PSSST OOOSOOSSTIOOOOD | year old Ed- people | the 4 the men to their purse to Laj| FOROOTHRODOCOOOS OO * In ®@ a The only Paper Seottio that deres Nowe. 2 ovevon to print the COOOODODODOe ONE CENT A COPY. hand a « selection of California Sweet Wines ranging in price from Me purity 1 wholes We guarantee th Brunner Tel. Main nd Liquors 1901-Spring Styles~1901 YOU'LL APPRECIATE THE NEW SPRING STYLES IN MEN’S SUI 1060. 2 Pike es of 1900, both In cut and matert- re last season. A YEAR AGO ‘They als. Prices OUR $10.00 SUITS WERE $12.50 ADAMS & BLANCHARD 71® Becend Avenue, Hinckley Biook Cash Buyers and Makers of Low Prices $600 Cas Balance Yearly Payments 004 water; only three differ from th and up proportionately lower. ‘Ten lots, fine gard barn and poultry houses blocks from car line HERBERT S. UPPER * - wegoxy Grippe | | | nd, Hous and of four rooms small fruits; You Either Have It or Will Have It That's Sure Removes No cure Watson’s Influenza Tablets. all pain. Price 25 cents. no pay. Stewart & Holmes Drug Co, 627 First avenue, foot of Cherry St. PIKES THE LEADER ts" TIO Second Ave ette BARGAIN TABLES Cost ia no object on CENTER You can save money all along the line. } goods we are determined to close out. See] 1 lot Children’s Jacketa were $4.00 and $4.60. To clown $2.96 1 lot Mercer derskirts. W $3.00. To close $1.69. 1 lot Ladies’ White Flannel- ette Night Robes, Were §2.2% To clone, $1.19. 1 tet Shirt Waiste. them, Were Thc and $1.00. To cloee, bc. 1 lot Wrappers. 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