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The Indian appropriation bill waa taken up in the house this morning end before the discussion regarding it was at an enda ment was read by a discussion of alleged immorality Before the committee on Indian af faire some time ago a report was placed regarding the conduct of the young men and women of the Mt Pleasant, Mich, Indian school, which is said to be @ shining mark ee an illustration of native disregard for formalities of marriage rites Indian Ins tor O'Connell waa asked to render a special report an| the subject and it was read to the house during the consideration of the Dill thie morning. In he corrober- ated all charges made against the the school and even went so far as to say that there was no attempt | made Behoot Superintendent Nardin or the teachers of the schoo! to stop the free and unlinitted inter mingting of the wexes at the Neational doou indian tion. Several passages of his were not given to the publie. 4 house this afternoon passed the Indian opted a res an investigs Priation bt) ar 8 which provid into Nardin’s ad- FIRE ON DREDGER on Anaconda Nearly Destroyed | by Flames A Gisastrous fire occurred aboard the steam dredger Anaconda of the | Seattle Dredging Co., this afternoon, and but for the timely arrival of the fireboat Snoquaimie, the total Ines of the dredger would have to be rec- ended Shortly before 2 o'clock fire was Gwcovered In the boiler roam of the dredger, and it waa soon found that the flames were beyond control. The fought desperately to ex- tinguish the fire, bat thetr efforts futtie and a hands had to take to the boats for safety. When the fireboat Snoqualmie ar- rived it was only a short time before the fire was under control. The drodger was valued at $100,900. The lows is great, ae only the bull! a some of the larger machinery ed. Insurance covers the tors. Tt cannot be ascertained how the fire started. crew were Expert to Trace Nora’ Fuller’s Murderer 8AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.~-The| oy og are now taking What appears be the last remaining step toward the securing of some clew to the Mentity of the man who murdered Nora Fuller. Expert Kytka, who is thought by many to be the grea eat hand-writing expert that ev has been employed to go thr« h the hanges of address” given to the postoffice partment fo several Months past in the hepe that Ben Neit's real name may be 4 vered, or that his address may be learned There i# no question but that he has been a resident of the city for et least ten yours, the proprietor of the Popular restaurant having known him by sight that long, as have aiso lifferent waiters who have alien * wants. During the 6 rtion of that time he e intervals vist ra e the hea restaurant strange to aay no one narme or had knowled compere w que works ver halts being made when he comes t @ algnature in lead penel! which muat e compared agains ink. He panred 16 of these is under bis hands yesterday. police he absolutely not hing new In the cas ond adr maelves at a lows MUTILATED NEW YORK, F body ef an unknown mar ashed was found in North rh The face has been crush 1 stab wounds were in » thront cut and the top of the skull cut off and missin, The features were unrecognizable DIX WILL RECEIVE The United States army transport Dix will be open to the public day tomorrow Repairs have finished, being loaded Philippin 6 all been for the army in She will sail on the granted Carroll w @ divorce from her husband, A. J Carroll. She ta also allowed to re sume her maiden name—liva J. Gar- ener. Judge Bell ta t age sult of ©. & y hearing a dam terlain against O 8. Berg Berg is alleged to have shot and seriously wounded a cow belonging to Setteriain, At the time of the alleged offense Ferg was a rested by the hurnane officer, It waa brought out} March | ongress Leads to Sen- of the Mt. ministration Pleasant achoel ‘Three New States The houte committee on territories | |by a unanimous vote, today decided to report favorably on billa for tha! admission to statehood of Oklahoma, ew Arizona and Mexte Talt Wi Exci | Gov, Taft has gone record aa being in favor of Chinese exciuston, and today appeared before the how mmittee on foreign affairs to dis curs the question Taft said the Filipinos aid not ob- ject to Chinese laborers, as they came in conflict with a class which cared but little for labor and were |ready to ebandop the field on slight | provoe ation “But,” he said, “the! great middie cla pbjects to them, and particularly ie there a strong |feeling against Chinese merchants jI am perfectly willing to way that 1) believe the general interests of the sianda will be best conserved by Ye passage of a general exciuston taw. Amerioan laborers will have a greater inducement to come to the Philippines when they know th Chinese are excluded and that is to be the most important factor in the] future building up of the civi taa-| tion of the Islands.” LATEST FROM CONVENTION’ | Fred H. Peterson ved the ap-| Poin at of a committee to escort Judge Humes to the platform i was carried, and Mr erson and| KB. H. Guile were appointe They went out to hunt up the mayor. | Several delegates wanted to go ahead with the nominations, but the convention refused to do any other business until the mayor appeared. | Beveral attempts were made to start jthe nominations for comptrolier, but appeared ¢ Fred Peterson was to minate Riplinger, and the con- | ¥ention finally took « recess At 2:35 it was called to order again. John Riplinger and Samuel F. Rath. |¢™phatioally denies the story pub- | pear for permanent chairman, among bun were put in nomination for jeomptroiier. In the midet of the! ballot the committee appeared with Mayor Humes, and he was presented as the hext mayor He said The Unanitnous demonstration has near- ly taken all the sand out of me. 1} thought I had something to say, but} I have forgotten it | He then spoke briefly of hia record as may and said he had no apole-| gies to make, and promiwed that if elected he would endeavor for the) next two years to be mayor of the! jetty | The mayor was enthuse ally applauded, and when he three | cheers and « tiger were for him. The ballot for comptrotier waa then continued, and resulted 293 for} Kiplinger and 61 for Rathbun The} |Romination was made unanimous. Mitchel) Gilliam was unanimously | Mominated fer corporation counsel. | Mr. Pasi Speaks Frank Paul was then called upen by the chairman to address the con- vention. Mr, Paul said: “My friends | {Came to me and told me the people | Wanted a change, but I have found | that they ¢ { want one, and I am going to take off my hat and work f wr every Kepubiican cominated here | today.” | | | | IN MEMORY OF WASHINGTON : Tomorrow the Nation Will Honor| the Father of His Country | | | j Tomorrow is the 1 of the birthday of n A over th ness will be « possible, in hom The day calls wader story of ¢ and his li 1 har dramatic even father of his ¢ Washington's life was @ sorles of exciting situations, From the tim when young Washington at the age of 16 years it out inte the forests @ eury at pioneer thi his ath he lived a life ar activity that yvuld mak the average man of t« y & phywtenl wreck Throughout Woshington's pubtic career he was bitterly assailed by his enemies, but t his e 4 the wile ity of th wtitutt nding the real date of th difforer in dates is ge in the calendar, Losing Time he Julian and a cargo of forage ta! fiscal days yea when the natural year did allow for #0 much time. This made the civil year fall behind the solar year and resulted in auch con- fusion Pope Gregory, the Eighth, figured t our present system, which was 1é, It not tll 1 that the parliament adopted the Gregorian system, and then tt was }necessary to add 11,days to the eal jendar in order to have a uniform system, This accounts for observing Wash ington’s birthday | on February 22 netead of February 11 NEW YORK, Feb, 21,—Jack O'Brien, the American pugitlist, ar |rived this morning from a year's campaign in England. He returns with the tithe of middle and heavy |welght champion of Bingland, He| | wants to fight Tommy Ryan for the | middle-weight champlonahip of the world BANK | CLEARANCES The clearances of the Seattle banks |! today were $512,646.77 and balances of $191,801.40, | tclem [committed suicide, ANOTHER OLD PIONEER GONE: Gottlieb Hurtan, aged 66 years, died | at 1080 Spring place at 8 o'clock this morning of a complication dineases resulting from an accident On @ street car, received @ year He has lived in Beattie for 29 ye and Was « well known German real dent of the eity. He was a Beatle Turnverein, « member of the Ancient Order | honorary member Hermann, of Druida, of the Sons usploes of the Bons of Hermann Hie j# survived by a widow «@ Funeral services will be held 8un- day afternoon at 2 o'clock. FROST IS CALLED IN Must Now Go to Jail for Being Fresh BAN FRANCISCO, F court of appeals today unexpired portion of the @0 days’ re- rieve granted Bpecial Agent of the | Department of Justice Frost and or- b |dered his committment on a year's! sey |#entence for contempt of court in conn m with the Nome eogurt ecan¢ Frost was given @ reprieve for the purpose of returaing North to obtain further evidence bearing on his case, but instead of going to Nome he went to Washington, where he has been very busy wire pulling in his own Interests. Vrowt has been particularly active nm the Noyes investigations and has ne all in bis power to bring crit against the cireult court of | appeal@ which pasted the scathing decision ia the Botortous Nome cance. GOVERNOR KNEW IT. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 21.--Ernest Lister of the state board of control, Mehed in certain Seattle papers to the effect that Gov. McHride waa! in Wailea Walla when Convict Shea| but received | notice, On the contrary, the gov ernor Was notified of the case on} the morning of ita discovery and per-| @onally knew all the attendant facts It t# etated here that Superintend- ent Watson, superintendent of the School for Defective Youth at Van- ouver, Will be retained in his posi- tion A delegation consisting of Rer sentation Stevenson, BS. Hunting? sheriff of Cowlitz county, and the mayor of Kalama, are closeted this afternoon with Gov, Mcfiride, urg ing the claims of L. H. Jacobs for a iment aa deputy fish commis- HATCHERIES REPORT ASTORIA,: Feb, 21.—The report of ba state fish warden today shows 66,000,000 young salmon we | turned into the Columbia river and jtributaries this season or remaining | breed nx ponds, output : stcheri + of the Oregon reported being » federal hatcheries 24,- the Washington hatch- eries is, 560,000. TOLSTOI LONDON, Feb. 21 letol's Lon- don agent reports that a crisis in the aged author's condition has arrived Much apprehension ts felt by those who a his diseas NEW SEAWALL wtate E TRETT, Feb. 21.—Stakes have! been driven for the double tracking f the Great Northern for most of the distance between here and Seat and for oving the present tracks furth from the embank- ments by the construction of a new awall furt into the bay. The work will « many thousands jollars. CORTEGE !S IMPRESSIVE Tho funeral of Geo. ¢ levioh, who died at Fifth avenue and Spring street last Tuesday, was held this afternoon, and was one of the largest of its kind solemnized in Se- attie for ome time. At the Masonic temple, corner Second avenue and Pike street, the Austrian Amertoan Benevolent association paid the last respects to their departed brother a 1:20 o'clock this afternoon Then the funeral procession, head ed by Wagner's band playing a tun eral dirge, moved down Becond ave nue to Yesler way, to the church of Our Lady of Good Help, corner of Third avenue south and Washington atreet There Father Prefontaine held servic over the body The re mains were borne to Calvary ceme tery, where the burial was made The funeral waa under the direction of Bonney and Stewart NO QUORUM The board of public works was to have met this morning, as there was not a quorum present, nothing spec ial done, Blds# were opened for the improvement of Twenty-first ave nue douth, Warren avenue, Twenty first avenue, Twenty-elghth avenue, Second avenue west. The bids will be considered at 4 board late this afternoon, ot] crip 'mamee ve the GODWIN CONFIDENT. and an ot) He will be buried Sunday | | afternoon trom Germania hall, under | $.$, Bailey Still in the Race-—Cor- i two grown ehildren, Frank PF. and Hmma re familiar with the course of| . ot * t meeting of the| THE SEATTLE STAR. DEMOCRATS Held Tomorrow \* poration Counsel an Issue The Demooratic convention will be | held to morrow at the Armory. Al-| though it ls admitted that J. will will bi BUILDING NOTES Ww. HM. a to loc | | | vatiadt Iren \ * < | from McGraw & Kittinger two jon the tide lands ‘ | property. HM. Green, Works, has purchase and the intentic ate « foundry upon the proprietor of the | LAST DAY OF Harry H. Kent has purchased a lot | | i i jon hb avenue For City Convention to Be) cnyine hove. te. nd « dwelling on the prop ore: rty. J. A. for stor adjoining Me will erect twe | three stories high WATERFRONT IS AGAIN MUSICAL w.| The fog was dense on the bay this the! 3 DAY Hyde has changed his plans) concerning the building he will erect | jon Hecond avenue south. | construc ted for a combination fax | a tory and business block, and wii) be} The first floor od in front. It will be and some offices Le morning. As usual the waterfront . | Godwin will be the choice of the) jnghony orchestra was in full Seattle women are quick | delegates, yet Mr. Malley, his opp ft ! hony for jment for the office of mayor, states Pik MS: was ~¥ y symp r v f h that he will be in the fight until af-| te befowmed craft that made theif {¢ take advantage of suc |ter the convention. There is very *% -! . eid Witte probability “that a "dark ad ee ee Cag Shen opportunities as these af- horse will be sprung aa the delegates e, pe oem to be fuly under control. Mr n'Pucite docks that 'mase | ford at this Three Day Godwin, in view of the results of m Faciie doc thet ma ; | the primaries, ts, of course, confident jot winning eut | Corporation Counsel in One of the liveliest fight on & Candid 4 for corporation counsel | At present Wilmon Tucker and Bo Gweeney are the favorit for first place, although J. M. Gephart and L. Frank Brown will make a strong contest for the place. jin difficult to #tat the dele; jaeom to be divided upon the tion, nd named as the Democratic cand) 4 for city treasurer with no pone wition, It ig presumed that his in- fluence on the Ucket will bring many Populist votes to Godwin. Mr Winship was at one time regarded ured of the Populist choice for yor It ia #tated that he with- drew, howeter, to accept the nom thon of city treasurer under God- | win's banner, | City Comptroller | HM. T. Steel stands practically without opposition for the city) comptrolersh) he seema to have the support of factions, Swan ulies and William Pie t are out for councilmen at large. Ali three have #trong sup- port. Their strength is about evenly divided and the success of any two depends ypon the ult of combin-/| fag Th the wards the same thing | fs the case. Tommy Navin will] probably go from the First ward, William furphy te a eure thin from the Ninth ward, an ie HM. Calligan from the Fourth As | to the others tt is hard to state. The loonvention will be called to order at }10 o'clock by R. C. Strudwick, chair. |man of the Democratic central com- mittee, Several candidates will ap- them Mr. Strudwick W. H. Moore and TERRY READY CINCINNATI, Feb, 21.—-Terry Me- | Govern today put on the finishing touches to his training for tomorrow night's fight with Sullivan. He went through the usual routine, down hik time of boxing. His trainers and admirera are = en- thusiastic over his condition, Terry expects to recover some of his lost| laurela aod makes strong assertions that he will be ready to meet Young Corbett as soon as the latter can be prevatied upon upon te > sign | articles. L. C, Gilman, Oe jeorge F. . Cotterill, Bh w | | DENIAL | WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb. 21~ Comiiderable comment has taken place here over the statements sent broadcast from New York city, that Attorney General Knox was to resign ’ containing $20 tn gold, a little silver from the cabinet Although Mr.jand a $436 due bill. The purse was jKnox has made no answer to in-ljogt of taken somewhere on First uirien, It is stated by other mem-| avenue. bers of the cabinet that the report ie without foundation CARRIERS MEET TACOMA, Feb. 21.—The National | stati Carriers’ Association, Wash- ington branch, meets in this city to- morrow and from all indications a large representation will be had, | Davia A. Roberts, president of the | Washington branch, will open the lconvention with an address of wel- come. Sues for Her Child Josie Celestine, formerly Mrs. J. |George, has sued in the federal court for a writ of habeas corpus to Ket pogsesion of her child, Annie Geor whom she alleges is unlaw- fully detained by Mary George. The cage will be heard March 3. The parties are Indians and Chas. W Buchanan, superintendent of the Tu- lalip Indian. agency, joins Mra, Cel- estine in petitioning he writ. Rosalie Libeled Alexander §. MoDonald, a the Rosaile, has libeled her he federal court for damages on ac- count of personal injuries, He says he wae precipitated through a hatch. way by the tipping of a beam. LION CLOTHING HOUSE Our Big Alteration Sale Spring goods arriving dally, all marked down Men's Nicely ind Spring regular $7.50 Alteration Sal Tallored Suit Overcoats, and $10.00 price 84.50 regular $1.50 Alteration Sale we Men's Hats, and $2.00, price Men's W ular price Sale ide See Show Windows for Lion Clothing House 220-222 First Ave. South CORNER MAIN the | where, | ticket will be for the nomination of | tie could be Oleson, last night. A carriage lamp wes sneaked from the porch of Dr. Raymond's rest-/ dence, The bell tolled ita story far o the bay and soon the delayed couver steamer caught her bearing and came puffing in all out of breath just the same as if she hed been on The outcome | the run across all the way. Severa) other Sound steamers were late, but no accldents to shipping Joseph Winship will prob by have been Seported. SEVERAL ROBBERIES Durin, ber of the rob! Hovey, at Wabhington addition. iin this case worked systematically, but did not secure The house le believed to have been entered between 2:30 and 3 o'clock this morning, The rear olen. the melody. The steamer Mainiander, from Vic- | tora, was considerably late in arriv- ug. She was out tn the fog some- The gruff tones of her whis- lainly heard Last Night Burglars Were Unusually Festive last night a goodly num- urgiare were out, as shown by the reports made to quarters this morning. are generally of the petty sneak thief variety, but a few good burglars ares believed to be among the lot. A pick- pocket i@ also believed to be afloat, aa one report of « lost pocketbook is rater. Probably the largeat “tear off" was of the home of William 3 Corliss avenue, in the The burglars much of value, they went, Ten plated sii- More Howers Ransacked While the family of W. G. Woods, de out indow. at reet, SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Isaac Dally was hanged this morn- ing for the murder of Lemuel Matta, in Lemoore, Kinge county, on July 10, 1900. ft cent bill for Fepairing a wheel, Dally secured a shotgun, and after return- ing shot Matts in the back while the latter waa at work. a light overcoat. The burglar who broke into the residence of W. A. Davis, University street early this morning, | v7 ‘ gained entrance by prying open al f n! made up in lacquered bri best of wrought iron. style and price that at 112 Spring street, was at supper last evening a Ublef sneaked into the front door nd turned @ dresser in- The only thing he secured at S324) He evidently intended to come back as he stole a key to an) outside door which he found in: | a & razor are missing. stole an entire outfit of carpenter's utensils from Gilbert at 04 Bixth avenue south Fleventh avenue and Pike night. In some way &. FL Aléxander, of | 1204 First avenue, loet a pocketbook | SMOKED TO SCAFFOLD Feb. 21.— r @ quarrel! over a %- Daily went to the scaffold with a wipeto acen eas ws. NINTH WARD smoked « cigarette as jed the stairs leading to the DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES Democratio delegates of the Ninth ward will meet tonight at Holman and Creevey’s plum seaman | Fremont avenue in | delegate of the be present, ng store, 3415 Every Democratic ward is requested to Schooner Sophia Johnson cleared from Port Hac for Port Ang The steamer Santa Ana sails from this port tomorrow for San Fran- cisco, A ready scheduled Furniture Carpets and Household Goods We intended to ture and Carpet Store in 8 att but being unable to # cure a. suitable location, we concluded to sell at Public Auction our entire stock of Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums, Stoves, Ranges, Bedroom Sets, ning ‘Tables, Chairs, Rock Tet Springs and Mattresses, Pollet Bets, etc. The stock in Volces $27,600 and is well se- lecte Sale’ February 1603 FY street, tinue entire stock te vold EMPIRE FURNI 1603 First Ave., ‘ylang & @ leek today coal laden es large passenger Mat is al- AUCTION Wels Sale of “'* ypen a Furni- Will commence Tuesday 18th, 10:80 a, m., at irat avenue, corner Pine Seattle, and will con- from day to aay until the Cor. Pine Blokerton, Auctioneer on an- Tene was unlocked by a skeleton key and then the thieves started through the house, ransack- ing it knives and @ dozen forks were Lace Curtain Sale—the Drapery Room was crowded both yesterday and today. There's little to cause wonder in this fact, for new real Arabian, Rennais- sance, Brussels and Nov- elty Laces are on sale at One-Half Their Actual Value | FREDERICK & NELSON —Fine Furniture COME IN TOMORRO } Inaddition to the twenty-three one pair lots (some have ready been sold) our last season’s sto was included — makin | ‘the greatest ¢ ‘portunity of ‘kind that has ey /er occurred These laces are { obtainable anywhe are thoroughly desi Sale ends Saturday lice head- he thieves | j e FREDERICK & NELSON COMPLETE HOUSEFURNISHERS Second Ave., Madison and Spring Sts. idea carried out. The choicest patterns of fal, Old Dutch and O14 veryone having their 258-218 Burke Building, THE KING TO VISIT BRUSSELS, Feb. 21.—It is author- itatively announced that King Leo- pold will make a short tour of Amer- iea in the coming summer, visiting various manufacturing centers, He is intensely interested in the manufacturing conditions prevalent in the United States, and desires to learn from personal observation those different branches which he believes may be successfully intro- duced among his own subjects. The length of his visit has not been an- about a month's duration. IN MEMORIAM At 3:30 p. m., Sunddy, the Votun- teers of America will hold memorial services at their armory, 118 Second avenue south, for the late Captain H. H. Hensington, whose death oc- APeep Into the MusicRoom Of many of the most talented pian. ists wil show a-PEASE P Oo in the place of honor, And it is an in strument of the most worthy con sideration, It Mls a place in the homes and hearts of the people. This plano is built on the most approved principles. ‘The design is very beau, tiful and the tone is rich, clear and sweet, Many other standard make? to select from. All orders for tuning promptly at- tended to, D. S. Johnston Co, 903 Second Avenu? Burke Building THE LARGEST STOVE HOUSE IN THE NORTHWEST. a im, Chas. G. Hoicomt qT a OPTICIAN air nounced, but it will probably be of Yipe ra ( cer. Secend and jeurred February 12. Ca |sington was widely kn leader in rescue mission | SCIATICA, NEUR BLOOD AND SKIN. EASES, including Erythema, etc. that I for treatment, after a pugh FREE EXAMINA CAN BE CURED By my treatment you are sured that you will quire any “DRUG Always Free My standing in my sion should be sw vouched for by my 1% residence and practi¢e. iciue in this city, ALL MEDICINES FuRnen able to write me ank. if y are offic 3, my m B TREATMENT RY PONDENCE I8 SUCCESSFUL. Call@ dress— Dr. H.E. M §04-5 Mutual Lite Build 2 Secitie, Wash, HOURS—-9& 7-8 Pp. mM tolpm OFFICE m; 1 10 a. m,