The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1901, Page 1

7 Price of Electricity to Be Reduced in This City !---See Announcement Below---A Light War-- THE SHATTLE im Only Paper in Seattle That Dares nt the News : : T HOISTS A WHITE FLAG ys Company Capitulates---Offers Cheaper Gas---Other Cuts Must - follow---What the Star Has Already Accomplished, [AFTER MONTHS OF HARD FIGHTING THE STAR HAS SE- CHEAPER GAS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, THE * GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY HOISTED THE WHITE MG YESTERDAY AND OFFERED GAS, BOTH FUEL AND IL- TING, AT A FLAT RATE OF $1.60. price fixed is yet too high by 35 towards a fair price has been pr Stl $1.25 or lower, has boon reached he apnouncement by the Gas Company was made through tts Whe Seattle Times. At noon yesterday a messenger w from the office of the Gas Company to the Times’ offic @ envelop containing the nows. A carbon duplicate cop Mier the Star was held back until nearly 6 o'clock, and was then wa special messenger to this office and delivered at exactly ™. to the bookkeeper, long after the paper had gone to press. THE LITTLE GAME AS PLAYE LITTLE TRICK WAS TRANSPARENT ON ITS SURFACE. COMPANY WANTED ITS CAPITULATION TO BE MADE TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE MOST FAVORABLE through ft» friend, the Times, and at the same time it if to administer a vindicative kick to its victorious opponent, the has caused {t all of its troubles. the Gas Company was let down carefully and tenderly by and thus saved {ts own lacerated feelings from further until today. The Star does not feel badly, however, over set of hostility. It ts willthe that the Gas Company should al subsequent reductions in price t mgh the columns of ‘as long as the people get the benefit of cheaper rates. OW CRISIS WAS PRECIPITATED. STAR SEVERAL DAYS AGO PRECIPITATED THE CRISIS GAS COMPANY, by announcing, in big types, the advent company, which proposed to compete with the old company, could be secured, on a cut rate basis of $1.50 for fllum ‘end $1.25 for fuel gas. The Star did not espouse the cause of company unconditionally. It helped it along by letting every: Beow what it proposed to do in the way of furnishing cheaper | dat stated explicitly that it must offer such inducements as to farther agitation of the project for a municipal plant unneces. The Star haz {ts doubts as to whether such inducements would and was prepared, in event that the new company failed =p to the mark, to continue its efforts to secure cheaper gas THE ERECTION OF A MUNICIPAL PLANT. KEPT STILL AS A MOUSE. Times ignored the existence of the new company and its to obtain a franchise, evidently still clinging to its anctent that {t could keep the people from knowing what was go!ng fetusing to print the news. ‘The “P.1.” mentioned the matter. yf made the welkin ring with news of the proposed opposition eid $2 gas trust. The result was just what was anticipated. ly caught on. The managers of the Seattle Gas & Electric quickly saw that the Star would work up an overwhelming im favor of an opposition plant, either under private or mu- @wnership, and that no time was to be lost in attempting to the scheme. SO A PLAN WAS HURRIEDLY DECIDED TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF GAS JUST ENOUGH TO OB. THE OPPOSITION at the outset, and still not enough to lessen the enormous profits of the company. This pla! ‘Was officially published by the Times last evening, is herewith eed in the Star, for the benefit of many thousands of people Wl be interested GAS REDUCED TO $1.60, PESOSFSOSSSOFOS OOO OOOH OO OOSOOO OOD but the downward ipitated, and it will not 4 conts, im ats , with pre er Ff On and after July ist, this company will reduce the price of Pe #88 to $1.60 per thousand; and no distinction will be made in the MP Of gas for fuel and tiluminat ing purpores. ‘The rate wil be $1.80 per thousand, wth a dscount of 200 per n all bills paid on or before the tenth day of the next Meeeeding month for which the bills are rendered. Bilis are due on the first day of the month and faflure to re- Sve bill will not entitle consumer to rebate unless bill ts actu- Pally paid on or before the 10th inst, Bills paid by check through Be mails, must be in this office on the 10th inst. ‘The discount of 2c per thousand is offered to consumers in PMsideration of their paying the bills at the office soon as Whe, thus maving the expense of sending out collectors. Parties desiring to avoid the annoyance of looking after their Wills can have a prepaid meter put in and pay for thelr gas as © wed, at the rate of $1.60 per thousan ‘The minimum charge will be per meter per month on plain Meters and Wc per meter per month on prepaid meters. : SHSSSESESSSSESE SOOO OD 999006 se ee esr e enero Sos seo eseoe aes Ap analysis of this reduction in rates reveals some interesting First, THE GAS COMPANY GETS MORE FOR FUEL GAS, Met where combination meters are used, than it did under the old Of prices, the increase amounting to ten cents, where bills are iy paid, or 20 cents, where payment is delayed. Just how fuel gas is used outside of that supplied by combination meters fe not Tevealed by the company, but it is not a large quantity, com- WME With the whole. As an offset to the increased receipts from | Beal gas supplied through independent fuel gas meters, the company UD 15 cents per thousand on fuel and illum inating gas supplied combination meters, two th and of which are in fn WBS city, speaking in round numbers. On straight illuminating gas, Mpplied through independent {lluminating meters, the company sur. 40 cents per thousand feet, always supposing that bills are Pomptly paid. As the exact data regarding gas consumption under Me Various forms of meters used 19 difficult to aucertain, the company { Meeping the facts ir. its possession to itself, tt 1# only possible to form conclusions regarding the true extent of the cut in prices, PM the Bitar figures {t out as about 15 cents per thousand feet on all Beonsumes THE IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF THE REDUCTION IN THE SE OF GAS 1S FOUND IN THE STATEMENT MADE BY MR. FURTH TO THE STAR TODAY THAT RATES FOR ELEC- WILL BE CUT within @ short time, to meet the new gas use SEATTLE, WASHINGTO? rates, There has been a strong feeling for some 8 Nights and power were too high and the Electri time past that rate for el Company cannot do a wiser thing than to re It may not be ch the Star bt v of last y ognize this public sentiment at this time to briefly the fight heaper gas back Star began to show the people that they wero out of place review # made for « in ttle. Away in ar the its statements, secured late iB excessive prices for gas, and to prove the 1 stributing gas in various cities corresponding THE AVERAGE COST WAS eat expense from all over ted States the t data on cost of making and ¢ Jin size and importance to Seattle SHOWN TO BE LESS THAN $1.25. PEOPLE TOOK UP THE FIGHT. ttle took th: and The p boat merchants, of matter up. Organized ns of op! tr feamen mechanics passed resolutions endorsing the Star's fight for cheaper gas and promising A petition to the city counetl, prepared the Star and SIGNED BY NEARLY | EVERY BUSINESS MAN IN THE CITY, was presented About the same solutios sistance by asking that | body to take action to secure cheaper gas time the Star secured the passage by the cwunell of ar direct ing the city engineer to Inquire thoroughly into the cost of gas-making in this city? with a view to,the probable est gas plant. Tho engineer is now working on the data and will # ready to make his report. Then the corporation counsel filed an opinion that the Gas Com pany had no f As the fight grew hotter the Gas Company began to take alarm. It saw what the probable end of the agitation would be, and took steps to defend itself neo prepared by the atttor neys pf the Gas Company was introduced in council and put through without close inspection. ring the gas ¢ it of the Next the Gas Company rushed into the federal court and attacked this ordinance, which made things appear in the worst posalt fo the city, and Judge Hanford determined that the city had no right to proceed as it had done under this ordinance. PROCEEDINGS IN QUO WARRANTO. In the m atime a rising y Mg attorney of this city E. Palmer, whoo t had been aroused in the to get the state to step in with quo warranto proceedin » brought under conditions favorable to the city’s contention that the gas company had no f and therefore no right to do business. Ho sueceeded in having the sult brow heard, but the adriot | maneuver of the Gas Company in getting into the Federal Court first | and scoring a decision on certain points had an adverse effect the quo warranito case, owing to legal technicalities, and that case 0 was decidediy adversely, NOT, HOWEVER, UPON THE GEN. ERAL MERITS OF THE QUESTIONS INVOLVED. ranto proceedings, which will be taken to the Supreme Court | danger for the Gas Company, which that concern bas evidently re nized. The state contends that the company is Illegally exercising | a franchise to distribute fuel gas in Seattle, having n had any | franchise except for iMuminating gas, The company now seoks to abol | ish the fuel gas classification, by selling all gas in this city price, thus removing any recognition of the fact that it is s« | in addition to light. The Star has no personal hostility to the individuals who com- | pose the Seattle Gas & Electric Company. It would bo perfectly will | ing to see them continue to do business in this city and at a profit | 1* they would come down to a reasonable basis of rates. What the Star has objected to, and will always object to, is the saddling of the inter | est of $1,060,000 worth of Gas Company's bonds upon the people of this community, when the acknowledged value of the plant, according to the Gas Company's own statement, is leas than $250,000. In order mpenses, the Gas Company biishment of a municipal p be anchise, Suddenly an ordin or mpany streets. Victor intere was fight, undertook «8, which would chise | and upon In the quo war Nes one for one ng fuel |to pay this interest charge and other exacts excessive prices from the people 10 VERDICT! | Judge Griffi ns’ Charge in the Cay- ton Case---Questions of Law Alone Are Discussed. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the jury) published with In the famous trial had not return-| 5 fable ends. Jed with @ verdict, despite the gen-|" “I charge you, that in 4 thie morning that 4 de-| Whether the alleged jon would bs reached within two din the informatt ours at most the words alleged to be | A Thin Crowd. | © taken in the sense that ix most natural and obvious, and in was almost empty | ihat sense in which those persons to |when Judge Griffin called Jury| whom the publication would come tefore him this morning. A few| would be most likely to understand | lawyers eat listlessly about the en-| them | Foye eels tally 2. gag argh oe Things Not Necessary. | tators’ benches. | “Tt ts not ne ry th | Chief of Police Meredith came in| published should charge tlone shortly after 9 o'clock. A few | |moments later Cayton entered, ao-| th jcompanied by Mr, Root. ¥ | | ‘The Judge's charge was very brief.| rose him to public hatred, contempt | lend entirely impartial. He stated|or ridicule, or deprive him the} | the law of libel tn this state, explain- | benefitof public confidence and social Jed to the jury the exact nature of| Intercourse, the publication was libel, and then said that if they | libellous. found that the said article had been| “The intention with which a pu | published by Cayton with an intent| lication &# meade may be inferred to injure him in any way, that un-|from the natore of the publication }iess the publication was made witn| and all the facts surrounding It. The a desire to promote th: lic wel-| law presumes that one intends the fare, a verdict must be found againa: | necem y and p t consequen the defendant. Continuing, Judge | of his acts. Griffin sa Then It Was Mot Libel If you find that the defendant in- a find from | tended that the City of Seattle would the| perhaps be rid of Meredith, in that | he would lowe hia position in case hy the time and in the manner and|ran out grafting policemen, then I form as charged in the information, | tstruct you that the article ts not and that the publication as set forth | Hbellour, and that your verdict must in the information ts true, and thet|bo for the defendant the same was published with good; ‘‘Hefore you crn find the defenda motives and justifiable ends, you|gullty, you must find that the arti should find the defendant not guilty. |cle charges Meredith with being “{ charge you that under the laws| «rafting polleeman, and if you do f thin state the truth of a publica-| rot find beyond @ reasonable dou! is not a defense to what oth-|tnat it does make this charge, then erwise would be a criminal Mbellous | your verdict mustebe for the defend publication, unless the same was | ant.” good The courtroo tthe word ny 8p | t of dishonesty. But 'f drawn from them would | Meredith to wrath, or ex The Charge. “I charge you that if y the evidence in this case, that Jefendant published the article a FRIDAY EVENING 1 may state that t be quite matertal, and wi pany’s new plant fo: dui cannot now state Just what the ne The or made that the prices of that pr r task of furnish Mr, Jacob Furth, 5 the foregoing tmp Star who asked him prop this mornige mpeti with Incand The ere Post and © Progres tion of the new p! umbta atree ore n thr PT eee eee eee eee eee eee FRI RTROTO T TORT RO FOR TTT TITS TOTO tt te tek STAR. MAY 1901 - CHEAPER ELECTRICITY! DENTISTS. 4° |The State Society Will Con-| clude Work Tomorrow. os will | ty convened ning in Col Wright read a entistry br. G and Mille paper Allowing Cavity Preparation Black, of Chicago, plantation,” by Portland, Or., ing seasior This aftern gram Ww bthies, Its y r of n the f carried M i pr Dental Dr ted kane paper, Dr go; clinic, “Hyp E, Otis Whit “Continuous man, Taconm R. Cox, Port ted. Dr tint Koah De ORE E EERE EERE RRR EEE EE HIS WIE SAME OLD = ACCUSED American May Call Her! Accusers to Task | For Slander. | | AY question kin dispat ot loot band of the ecoused lady mand complete retraction. 5,000 ON A STRIKE t Reserves Ordered Ou to Prevent Rioting By Tunnelmen. NEW YORK, May 24.—Five thous. and men employed on the Rapid ‘Transit tunnel are on strike today for increased wages. Work is prac- tically suspended, Non-union men are being substituted, and the ree- erves have been called out to prevent noting IN MEMORIAM LONDON, May 24.—Today the niversary of Queen Victoria's birth day is being observed in London and n as @ memorial day for the CONTINUE TO SCORE Machinists are Gaining Every Point--At Portland. | WASHINGTON, D. C, May 24—| President O'Connell, of the National Machinists’ union, ‘announced this morning that the strikers continue to gain every point. It is expected that conference be tween the machinists and the Union Iron works’ officlala will be held at Ban Francisco some time today PORTLAND, Or, May %.—Tho atrikin iniste at the Wolff & Zwicker Iron works, in this elty, are victorious. ate yesterday after |noon Wolff & Zwicker acceded to the | | men’s demande for @ nine-hour day without reduction tn pay, and ali of| the employes returned to work this | morning SAN FRANCISCO, Mp Twenty small shops he Ww HOMEWARD BOUND, ace hotel given Daughters of th Loyal Legion: At 2:30 the president went to Oak land to review the school children. The president breakfasted with his| Mrs, McKinley t# doing well. niece, Miss Barber, this morning. H It ia believed that the trip to received the consular corps at noon,| Washington will be made on slow apd attended a reception at the Pal-| time, for Mrs, McKinley's comfort. pus and n and ths by the I CISCO, May 2%4.~Th tial party {9 slated to leave morning at 10 SAN | rresiden this elty tomorrow o'clock BURGH, N. May 24 with 400 beached skville, Ont oGDE ‘The tear excursionints | this morni ]to prevent her #inkin ‘Sob ania Shedd, fos | omploying union men. It in believ-! Jed that the strike in the Kast will finally determine the Issue here, BASE BALL AT BALLARD New uniforms for the Ballard Baseball club have been received by Manager Reid, and the players will don the r the first time on Sun e occasion being game emont. | r th 400 ESCAPE IN SAFETY! A heavy sen had washed through | her portholes, extinguishing the fires ond almost flooding her hold All the passengers escaped in safe ¥, Will Be Fined $1. last night of the Building — Laborers’ association, 300 strong, | were passed that any und patronizing a butch n after 6 o'clock would day with At a meeting International Protective resolutions d $1 | be fi on sorrow night need for t tiate Root itallzation n Roth Healthy * Pulpe,” Dr, A. J. Gar torla, B.C ected paper Dorfner, as annd TRAGEDY wre Lover Slays Sweetheart “v= and Then Takes His |.’ Own Life. KEY WEST, M. uch, an act le ed himec y 4.—Edear Bue tand killed Mis CHILLY, UTHAMPTON, ir Alf 1 Orang er ¢ ot the \ Transvaal, arrive ay from| . tion, | Ines na. fay 24.— f the! Eng. M.—BSir Alfred Mil- d here by the mayor ation of the king. His greeting here was unusually eool, showing that the war, feeling is not lstrong with the people PILE CREOSOTING PLANT, A new industry, which w ereatly to the advantage of Beattie and the state in general, in » be established at Routh Seatt P. F. Dundon, owner of the ®& Francisco Iron Works, y ternoon completed with the Moore Investment Co. land at South Seattle. The p rty is located on the banks of the Du- wamish river, south of the county hospital. In‘a very few weeks Mr. Dundon will commence the erection of an tmmense plant fc aoting piles. The plant wh leted, ‘Will comt In the neighborhood of $08, and will give’ employment Had Meny Offers Mr. Dundon has heen in the city about three weeks. During his stay here he haw reeetved offers of f tracts of land in the suburbs of T: coma and Everett. if he woul cate in either locality Mr. Moore, realizing that the ¢ Qustry would in time th elty greatly, made arrangements with Mr. Dundon whereby the latter came into possession of t land at Will Be Surveyed |_ LONDON, Ma ner was recely and a repr 2 TOWN, May 24.—The High prised a Boer a t Boers w captured. ® be used from local dealers, “The creosote to be used in the Preparation of piles will be pur- chased in London, England. Creo- soto 8 @ residue of coal after the most component parts have been extracted. We will consume about 400tons of creorote each month. ‘The piles to be treated are placed in large retorts and submerged in creosote. In the bottom of the re- torts are steam pipes. The creosote is heated to about 225 degrees. It does not vaporize at that tempera ture, but the water extracted from the Umber does. It passes off in the form of vapor and {# again con- densed to water and what off re- mains in the water is separated from it. From six to eight pounds of water is taken from each cubic foot of timber. With the map a moisture removed the qualities that form rot are removed and the po of the timber are stopped with the creosote. Wii! Use 10 Pounds O11. “Tt estimated that it takes about ten pounds of ofl for each cu bie foot of timber. We will use 12 The state board of harbor commis. sioners of California have recom. mended 10 poun The govern- ment has often used 20 pounds of creosote to the cubic foot. The retorts will weigh about 40 tons each, There will be two, Each will hold at 40 piles, We will be able to receive piles 120 feet in length. The retorts will probably be manufactured at my plant at Sar Fra ing to patents of my own ‘The tndustr Puget Sound Mr. Dundon Dur Bri fan Fran serving Co. of San to in to k the we w the and k n Seen In the lob- jer-Grand hotel by a of the Star said tthe plant In »pern gest on yment ‘The t to to te mt e known as the Preserving Co. manager of the tracting ( Timber Pr Francisco. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MINERS ENTOMBED! A Wales, says that joned by an ex en to ads tt exy nery LONDON, May from Songhsmith, 150 men were impr plost day. Great excitement the relatives of thi er. 24 |The ptan of the five dismissed West Point cadets to appeal for clemency to Secretary of War Root has been the Seattle Newsboys’ union will be|@bandoned. Gen. Francis Gre held at Pleasant Reach June 2. The | ¢ f the hign officials of the boys are preparing for a grand time, | Phalt trust, has secured for each of Sports of all kinds—tug of war,|them a lucrative position with the races and baseball will be the order | New York & Barmudese Asphalt Co of the day. Dancing will be indulg-| ihe disgraced cadets are Bowlby ed in during the afternoon and ev Cleveland, Keller, Linton and M ing. haffey, TWICE 'ROUND. DISTRESSING. time are invited to attend May 24.—The gov dispatch] ‘Three dead bodies have covered. | A great throng of weeping, wa |ing relatives and friends is gathe ed at the mouth of the main shat ‘The most pathetic scenes are being | witnessed Detatls of the exp! deen re n in a colliery at that place to- prevatis nbed mong Dn. ion are meag The first annual basket ptenic of 6 600, and a pleasant LEAVENWORTH, Wash,, May A probably fatal burning ocourr here yesterday. ‘The_nine-year-old Nero in undergoing | Gaughter of Michael Moran, a seo- eparatory to a voey-| tion foreman, had, in company with nearly twice the| several other children, built a bon the earth. Hor] in the yard to the rear of her rfolk to Pinch home. Her clothing took wer California , and she was fearfully burned. Honoluly neighbor woman's hands re ng, And bacit| painfully blistered while she was Suez canal, vying to rescue the little girl 6aa NORFOLK, Va ernment collier repairs here y age of 45,000 miles, ciroumference of course will be from ba thence t nk Guam, Manila, H to Norfolk, via the irst Gas Cut Made PAY ONLY ONE CENT A COPY—That’s the Price F 25 HN ALEXANDER DOWIE HELD FOR THE DEATH OF EMMA L. JUDD, DOWIEITE ILLINOIS HAS ATLAST SUCCEEDED IM CALLING THE FAMOUS HEALER TO ACCOUNT—HE IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE FIGURES OF RECERT TIMES. CHICAGO, M John Alexander D: oner's Jury to the grand jury, together and Mrs. Pratech, for criminal r r Lucy Judd, wife of H Judd days, i tomtier it ts th 4, heart Later. Dr head night to « the cor Judd and the under $10,000 inh bor Th ed on $5,000 eu “ALEXANDER, THE GREA rs John D nurses were rele " Alex In some part man of the prese termed an “Ale er of the Zion colony ir ed between $ Chica 0,000 and $ All of this gr ir to ot WHE Hes In three his (alleged) 5 jew by 1 >wer of pr shrewdness in b , on Michig “ght or 10 y ' He con t own to his in RE HIS STRENGTH LIES. ers app personal s and bodily third, his I magnet deformt vast edifice, and In- that s upon pler ac- sal announced r ed to the step has been br alls of th he ir lame d byl Dow scor is to preach z of painful 4 ® outly claime “upright, like ughly HUNTED BY THE LAW. men have so bitterly heart of Chi ‘The great dailies of th ally denounced ago’s public @ y have striven ¢ him as a sham, a Few stirred th John Alexander Dow the utmost to crush him cheat, @ misery-worker. For a long time, now, the law of th ing & way to bring Dowle to the bar. Attorney Dineen recently declared "If the flaw can reach Dowle, J will a punish John Alexander Dowie, I wll find THE CASE OF MRS. JUDD. The Mrs. Judd case, for whose denth Dowie is now held by the core cner’s jury, was an inmate of the Zion home, higan avenue. She was enciente. Dowie, the woman's husband e two women held by the coroner's jury, preven ¢ calling © ian. ‘Dowle, it is said, tried his famous “cure.” Tbe woman ow John Alex- ander Dowie must answer to the people for her d SHOCKING SCENE AT A FIRE. Recently there occurred a shocking incident growing out of Dowle- fym. There was an apartment-house fire, in which seven persons lost their lives, One woman and her little girl were badly burned. In the atreet, in front of the still-blaging building, officers tried.to. take. the mother and the little girl away, for medical attendance. The mother was @ Dowlelte, She struggled, saying Dowie and Dowie alone should cure them. In the struggle the charred flesh was torn in strips from the little girl's arms. ‘Then the great city of Chicago uttered a mighty roar of indignation, and the work of exterminating Dowielsm was taken up afresh, PRESBYTERIANS ARE IN WARM DEBATE ON THE REVISION OF THE CREED At last it has su s has been seeck- coded. States y it If there is any law to Jscure the WORDING of the Cone feasion, which was written in a time when the English language as them Jused was not interpretable exactly as it ts now. By s isters who have ene tered the Presbyterian chureh fronp other forms of faith, it is, apparent~ desired to modify in some degree actual teachings of Calvinisms It is stated that these ministersare rot supported by the Presbyterian church at At this time it would be premat to advance w# suggestion as to what final action om this matter will be taken by the generai at Philadelphia, | One point in the Westminster Cons |fession which has puzzled those nct ‘The Westminster Confession, he| fully posted in the Presbyteriag irgued, was a scientific document, | doctrine is the tenet of predesting= and never made for popular purposes jained that while Cal to be understood. ed assumes explicitly — f lect of God” shall be AN EXPLANATION |ed, he does not go farther and aple explanation of what is| tend that those outside the elect ught to accomplished in th=|/be damned, or that the infant-off™ roposed revision of the Westmin-|epring of the un-elect shall not enter ter Confession of Faith, now caus-| into eternal life he doctrine of f such éarnest discussion in the! predestination, then, proceeds fromm Presbyterian general assembly at| Christ's words to His disciples: “Ye: Philadelphia, is—as gathered from| have not chosen me, but I HAVE n interview with the Rey. Mr. Don-! CHOSEN YOU dained you, id Ross, of Calvary church—in sub-| that ye ehould and bring forthe tance as follows fruit and that your fruit SHOULD By those ministers brought up REMAIN.” But it is not stipulated, he Presbyterian church it la not 1 human knows ired to change in any way ledge who has been chosen @ EACHINGS of the Calvint : en; ne tate PHILADELPHIA, May 2%4.- the eagerness with which the com Presbyterian g enewed the consid eration ¢ d-revial AY, it appears doubtful whether a vote n be reached before tomorrow on. Even then, the vote will sim- ply be upon the question as to wheth- er or not the entire subject shall ye dismissed. idge Humphrey opened the de- bate this morning, He stated that he was in favor of the revision, but pposed to a new creed Dr. Kenne followed with long speech tn which he upheld Di Baker's motion to dismiss the wh ubject. n a As | that it shall be with |has not been chosen; but the indie reed, but merely to render less ob-| vidual himself shall know. BALLARD NOTES. |FOR UTILIZING moe ‘ FACTORY SITES Five youthful offenders are book-| ed for @ hearing before Judge Lucas} on a charge of malicious mischief, +: preferred by Miss June Burr, who| At & meeting of the Manufactum conducts a Kindergarten in the resid.| CTS" @ssoctation last night, Jt wag ence on the corner of Wilbert street | decided to ask council to lay” out end Becond avent Despt | streets that will lead to the o sected wapainen’ tua bare Baws | tide lands in the southern part sisted In annoying the pedagogue, | the ot Some of these lanag with the result that she had dectd-| 600d sites for factory purposes, ed to teach them a Insting Manufacturers are anxious to ag ee thereon when they can get access’ streets to the lands. Chairman G James of the locations committ uid that several members of cou | cll had promised to bring the m | ter up at the earllest opportunity, ‘The association has taken steps have printed 19,000 coptes of a a tory of the manufacturers of city, giving their names, locatt jana products. The bad condition of First ave |south since the building of the | attle Central Street railway, will | brought to the attention of the D | of public work |. The association tock in the lowing new members last if Bryant Lumber & Shingle Ca, @ City Cigar Co. Gorham Rubber yed Centennial Mill Co, Trade Ri . and Cc. B, Smith, ean. employed at ated a finger of ay Henry Patt Stimson'’s mill, his right hand yes Dr. G. 8. tertaining C, r, of Olympia Emery and family is en Heifner and daugh Louis Anderson has returned from| #. trip to his old home-town, Christ ana, Norway. He surprised his friends by bringing home a bride, , Postponed Game, The postponed game of Dasedall between Seattle and Tacoma, which was to have been played at Tacoma the morning of July 4, will be pl in that city tomorrow afternoo: CTS A MONTH He q