The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1902, Page 1

4. 80.173, << WILKESBARKE, F Bept. 14. morning and the strikers have be BEFORE THEM Fiend Grows Bolder Today and Fierce Flames’ SEATTLE, WA weep Mighty Forests and Cause Incalculable _ Loss~-Hamlets and Towns in Danger of - Annihilation ! Or.. Sept. 12—1 p.m—The forest firee south and weet dity have reached terrible proportions, Hamlets and logging gre at this time reported as swept away. Frenaied people are p from the woods towards the Willamette and Columbia rivers by me Papert was just received here from Oregon City, 11 miles f thie place, stating that the conflagration, 12 miles in width, ie ough the forests west of that town. = ef Viola is now saidte be totally destreyed. If any lose no details to such an affect have been received. be known for many days the number of human beings who ished in the awful fire; but it is certain that the number must bce leggers, hunters and prospesters, overtaken by the fire- sald have no chance te eeeape, because of the rapidity with Gs of the Columbia river between here and Kalama, na, penniless and homeless are making their way safety. of Oregon has such » devastation of forest lect, to say nothing of that of life, is inestim- % R. G. Kramp, « timber erviser, whe is well acquaint- ith every foot of the forests south of the Columbia river, cams inte " hhie\camp, six miles southwest of the mouth of Willamette, forests, covering thousende and thousands of acres, te destruction, and that the loggers, cruisers, prospectors, ‘and hermits who inhabit the wilderness, have little chance to land line, particularly in the region of Bucoda, Centratia and Chehalis, the fires have been almost as sweep- ing, and the losses there are very heavy. Farther down, in the vicin- ity of Castle Rock and Kalama, co siderable damage is reporte ell as up the Columbia river, Vancouver. Grays Harbor In the Grays Harbor country the damage ts principally to mills and | standing timber, Immense quan- tities of lumber have gone with the mili, The total damage cannot as Yet be estimated, but there is no doubt that the final figures will be appalling. Heavy losses of standing timber have also suffered along the Nesqualty and Cowlita rivers. The logging camps of the White River Lumber Co. at Buckiey were all destroyed, and the town itself was threatened for @ time. Enum- claw had @ narrow escape, and the people of the town were ale most constantly for more than 24 hours in fighting the flames. ‘The losses to ranchers in various localities have been very large, es- | Poctally,_tm tne regien of the Colum- ia river. Many of them are home- 190) 2. STRIKE TROUBLES Several Men Hurt in Clashes Betweon Work- man in theAnthracite Regoin 0 the seen th ” “ see oteat. Pitter union vvi| SAY “THANK YOU ayers en route to work at Parsons, “cess ‘ were mulataken for non-unionists and| ‘The Sisters of the Good Shepherd attacked by @ mob of 15 men, mostly Ce re thanks t foreigners, The brteklayers stood ny kind friends who aided 9 their ground and @ fight ensued yk ome & striker was sert nd several other injured, ‘The arrival of Goputios prevented @ poratble tons of life Freviow. to this ooourence the | strikers had divabled @ trolley li | stoned ti re and driven the | sengers aw At midnight the t phone wir ¢ Henry colitery were cut. Fearing an attack, a big SOCIALISTS MEET meet in Carpenters Moore will ‘Spigot or The Soctaite hali ot § p.m UG speak on the muliject, Which of poll he COULD NOT SEE THE POINT--- THEN---BUT HE FEELS IT NO with THESE BUTCHERS , Chas. Frye. lope. having jont everything of a por- Die nature, tneluding bultdings. crop@ and machinery. and in some cases even livestock. Started by Ranchers ‘The unprecedented feature of the Situation ia that such tremendous fires should spring up at practically the same time over so vast an ox- tent of teritory, without previous warning. The blame is very gen- erally upon ranchers for burn- ing dry stashing after so, long a period of dry weather. It is suppos- ed that they were anxiou® to do their bu: before the brush became watul with the fall rains, and the revit has been the most devast- ating fire the Northwest has ever known. From everywhere come re- ports that the mun Ix totally obscur- ed by the smoke, and almost darknese of night prevails. In ti ‘@ been burning con Western Centra! Labor Union: He eanmot see the good point of the thing, but he may feel the bad one. Frye: Well, | guess not. I'll not arbitrate, for the workmen's good oF the public's good. BUTCHERS GREATLY ENCOURAGED Assurances of sympathy and co-) Brubn baa ered and will stand with no men have accepted offers of emp operation from Portland, and even|the union butchers of Portiand injpioyment from the Frye-Brubn from far off Kansas City, were re- | aiding thelr comrades in Bettie. agents. ceived by the striking butchers and ‘The committee which went from Buy @ lot or own your own heme, Bastiake avenue, close on atrect car line, Good lot on to Lake Unton sa28, Splendid lot on Twenty-fourth ave. magnificent w high, no grading Corner ‘Thirtyefirnt and Mercer, lot #80x110 and two-room house, $476. Lot 90x1i8 and nice four-room house on brick plers, chicken house on lot and all in gardeo, partly feno~ ed with wire, $700, ‘These are bargains both in prices and er Herbert S. Upper 12 and 13 Scheuerman block, Firet Avenue and Cherry Street an tindanccelncre LION CLOTHING HOUSE Collars 10c ‘Three for thc; all sizes; every olze. EXPORT and CHILDS CIG- ARB, 8 for Me. gLILLIAN RUSSELA, 10 tor FLORODOROS, 12 for 2e. R. T. SHANNO GROCERY CO, Ineorporateg. 1920-1222 Iné ave. Phene Mais 1081. Best Patent Flour, per sack, 000 Fancy Japan Rice, wor We per pound, will sell 5 pounds Pearl Barley, Tapioe Split Peas, per pound. be These prices for Monday and Tuesday. HE Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News # # 25CENTs a montT? Adams & Blanchard W EAT HER FORECAST. For Seattle and Vicinity—Todeg, and tomorrow smoky. The New Things in Men’s Suits are showing all the popular color combinations that are being worn by emast dresvers this fell, the styles © most popular, Suits are lined with best of Italtan serges, hand- collars: and button ir lined fronts that ir shape; goods that will give you a good winter's wear, ‘These Suite tallor-mades charging. $10, $12.50, $15 $17.50, $20 $22.50, $25 We'll dress you right an@ save you money. Come in and see this line, Adams & Blanchard 719 SECOND AVENUE Hinckley Block, PREPARE PRESCRIPTIONS And would like te prepare youre. We work ai lay and all night. Deliveries made an; the city. Phone, Main 35. bes equal to are only we Sample Skirts, Jackets. Just arrived and wilibeon sale Monday at haif the They include ai texture commends them to lovers of luxury in dress. Who'd care wait a week and pay twice the sum for identical myles? Sort of a coat you intend buying © Gay at a great saving. We Have Just Received a Great Many of Our New Fall city Mabte ha: Stop Sending Them R. T. Shannon Grocery Co, siaughter house employes of Srattic Beattle to carry the boycott against £ A ‘one mites from his place, a family named Bower, con- j of father, mother and four children, had occupied a email clear- ; months past. Three days ago they determined to journey jh the forests te the Coes Bay country. “Mr. Kramp said that by they were probably in the heart of the burning, seething for- he ettimated that there were many other families that would |the fate that probably has evertaken the unfortunate Bower fe teday » scene of great expectancy. Darkness prevails in business is practically suspended, and every one is awaiting of seme great loss of life. superstitious are terrified, and no explanation seems sufficient to “_— religious sects held noon-day meetings and all over the city the rivers bells and whistle s make a continual din. @ of the forest fires in this region. Several suburbs of this city and tein the interior are still threatened. Fire companies have been re Sut 16 Irvington, where the inhabitants have been fighting fire for Bhours. The town of Viola is burning. At Pleasant Home one thas been consumed and the entire town is in danger, At in Clackamas county, many people have been driven their homes, and the fire is still raging in the timber. The town Palmer has been totally destroyed. The mills of the Bridal Veil Lum- He Co, and & number of houses have been burned in that village. The town of Gresham is in a dangerous plight, though hard work MAY save it. At Coburg, Wilhoit Springs, Lents and Wendling, several | Mille with large quantities of lumber and vast areas of standing tim- Mr have gone up in smoke, ~The flames have approached closely to South Portland, and several Misses in the outskirts have been burned. Geveral bridges in that di- tition have been destroyed, and others are threaten Carge forces 4 Mem are stationed at ail suburbs of this city, and are kept busy _ fettending with the flames. © Wis impossitoie at this time to make any computation of the aggre- abe! but the total will undoubtedly run up into the mi _ Several ives have already been lost, and quite a number of persons are _MPried missing. Reports of losses are coming in rapidly, some of ‘Sm from regions not before known te have been attacked by the fs, ome Sept. 1%:-—There ap-|been greatest, because all wires are WW ot the Wittie, if any, cessation |down in that direction. The fires ary aitastrous forest fires |have compelied a temporary sus- Overrun large areas of| pension of a part of the raflway Washington and Oregon tines in that region and there has Peat few days. ‘There is|been no communication since yes Bewe from the Grays har-|terday morning. hwhere the damage has § uth of this city om the Port~o) stantly #inee yesterday morning. OLYMPIA, Sept. 14.—The latent news from Elma te that half the town has been burned, and that the fires are still in progress. All in- formation comes from couriers, an thte wires are down and no definite information can be obtained from the Bhelton tx completely sur- roun fires, though the town It- self is believed to be Many mills and loxging camps have been consumed, and little progress has parently been made so far to- wards controlling the amen. Sev- eral supposed casualties have been reported, and several people have had narrow efcapes. Numbers of ranchers have been burned out of their homes. This city has been en- veloped in utter darkness for two days. VANCOUVER, Wash. Sept. 12.- ‘The wife of August Meyer. 1» rancher at Proebatel, was burned to death with their house yesterday. All the rest of the family were away fighting fire, and whon they return- od the house had burned and they found the charred remains of th woman, who was old and crippled. in the ruins. The situation around Proebatel in considered desperate. ‘There js no abatement In the fires yet. A lnrge portion of Clarke coun ty is burning, and the heat Is almont intolerable. PORTLAND, Sept. 12.—The fol- lowing persons are reported miasing within 20 miles of this elty: Mrs. Hendrickson and two children, at ifth Plain, Clarke county, Wash L. C. Palmer, Bridal Vell, Or. ‘Trickey, Brower, Or. They are sur posed to have lost their lives in the fires, Reports from all directions indicate that the fires a ati | spreading. ‘The tosses to mill and] jrani ‘operty, and standing tim-| her, f been enorn The fia wept region extends many miles into the Interior south | of this city and westward to the| |coast. Nearly all wires are down Jand there is practically no com |munteation with the stricken locali EVERETT, Sept. 12.--Heavy fo lest fires are reported in al! dire: |ttons, and many wires are down. So far the fires seem to be confined |to standing timber. WHATCOM, Sept. 16-—Firen are raging al! along the boundary. The heaviest losses were at Blaine, where | a number of milis and logging camps were burned. WIN OUT CHICAGO, Sept. 12. e teamnters at th The atrike of Swift Packing | pany ¢ yesterday, Swift | conceding all of the strikers’ de-} mands except the reinstatement of | three men discharged for insubordin jation. The plant ¥ practically tied ur the past two days, but re opened this afternoon at full blast. today | _L. Reinhard, business agent of the There is no change in the local/Kaw Valley Beef Butchers’ union, Fry¢-Bruhn packing house products to Bremerton returned last evening, Wholesale and Retail Outfitters, Ja gigantic parasc reporting good results, Most of the ‘ants, If is claimed. ndle the boycotted strike situation, apparently, although | local No. 208, of Kanans City. writes addition of two retail meat mar- | that his union promptly stopped the | Bremerton re to the fair list reported by | sending of cattle and sheep butchers | will refuse to strike committee, The markets |{o Beatle to work in the Frey- Bruhn . 3 | ing house. Agents of the Seat- and F. . | tle company, he says, represented to the few men who did go west, that from Portland is most |there was no: trouble. In Seattle aging to the strikers. James | Mince leering the true fants he onze. wh, - J, Web isiness nt and se —_ retary of the Journeymen butchers’ MAY LOSE eet . {n the event of a heavy wind coming up, there would probably be some union, local No. 143, of that city, writes saying that while some meat has ‘been shipped by the packing TACOMA, Sept. 18—The Weyer-|iown of life. It in stated that the hauser Timber Co. will probably be | fires are beyond ail possible control la heavy loser from the fires which |S"¢ they may yet extend Into the mea ‘The strikers cre well provided with money and are more confident than ever to day of winning their fight for the untoniajng of the Frey-Brubn plant and the fires are raging in several localities where the company has large holdings, The company re- celved a messnge from Eatonville, near the foot of Mount Rainier, stat- ing that there eral fires near Eatonvii id Elbe, and that pany and will take summary action to stop such xbtpi if attempted Secretary Welsh says that the union butchers enployed at the houses of Portland to the Frey- Rainier reserve lands. ‘The com- Bruhn company at Seattle, no mo! will be sent If the local union can are now devastating the forests in| pany also owns considegable timber Sroutdale slaughter pene have taken jparts of the state. ‘The Weyer-liand in Mason and Chehalis coun prevent it. The union, he says, has voted not similar action to guard against the na fully a mil-|ties, part of which is practically \ f meats to the Frey. |! In of destruction to handle any meats destined for shipment to the Frye-Bruhn com SMOKE NUISANCE IS INTOLERABLE ee The few vessels which came Into the Sound had thelr way ith the dark The novelty has worn experience 8 the off the attle past 96 ing a cold, clammy, dinagreeable y concoetion ‘almost thick carve into souvenir spe wag pute it The old-iimers are, as usual, ¢ hand with stories of « aimila of darkness back in the early But they have to go way back to the days before the railroads came| There in order to connect the yarn It was in the year of grace 1868, 04 years ago, say the old-timers, that there was ® forest five of tremen- dous propartions, How It Start at mid-day” passed through during hours. A little of it ffered a subject ve the weather a much need and even made politics take k wont at t parties, In street street corners But enough is enough of anything and Seagtle people today are heartily | in favor of @ breath of fresh air The Ore, they.eay, wan. started by’ peep at the blue sky and a modest|the Ind B out the under. | Beat of stunlight.. While the gloom brush, afd thus facilitate travel nese no deeper srr “i yesterday, (through the jungles of Western| The glissy surface of the Sound smoke ie Infaitely more unnox: | Washington while on thetr hunting|@D4 of the lakes about Sgattie be ing. Yesterday the smell of burning | ¢*Peditions. po My elie Fe A wood was hardly mure than notice. | The noble red men certainly suc.| ASating Ashes, and cinders felt night able, but today one can fairly taste |ceeded. ‘The fires they started, the/ S00 fay for weet, making the it old-timers. say, swept the Cascade gt ar srey, as if with dirty snow. Bore throats, inflamed ¢ and|range end Dilla For wollen "aids, bi vee wavzine the mal) to Fort headaches are the results of the |tiles north and south of Rainier, de-| 1 e@lgon and other mill towns about smoke plague. it is a careless, in. |stroying many thousands of acres of | {M4 Bound at that time,’ said Mr different person who escapes them. | «rowing timb Hilion veon today. I was using a little *\aloop. That was before we had Nor dees the weather man offer |of charred atm umpn, | Sy, % much hope of relief. He says that| which may b teamers here, For six solid weeks to this day ft may rain tomorrow, but he won't| among the spindley young firs and| {ay pertter and I sailed exclusively stake is reputation as a prophet | spruces that bave grown up in the| "%aumecampann oi. " upon it; and until it does rain the | burned red foll since then. of NST S6y we avert up aaheo anc erable for Seat ota hec oes OF the plomeins whe 0: Fortunately it. wa The |memnbere the rent Are. well, a amote| MONE Onally lifted and we were able wnoke shades the chith and acts ne | pall enveloped the Whole of Western] te, cee eur compan we found” tr Fat ee cts ae | Penlahington Lighin hed 40 be paras] me cokten of the box an inch of sunshine. ‘The smcke |ed at mid-Oay, and at, times helen” a Grit ® prevents radiation and awa con- |amoke grew #0 ablok that work on| "Sy, x braee cover. quence in considerable quanti. |the farms and in the logging camp ise ties ia mixed with the sinoke, mak- |Was almost Impossible, buna * tinue with us for « was well enough of conversation ed to carry ¢ Not a Breath of Air Was scarce “w breath wind, and no rain for ore t nthe, Each ening the smok cloud would d northward, and when the sun it would be ‘a it jtle less dense, but before noon it would come rolling back before a gentle sephyr from the north, and Seattle would again be plunged into clubs, cafes, tea of cars and on the would prefer : would ke long: an two]! | DEATH OF ] M’KINLEY ¢ Tomorrow will be the first nniversary of the death of Wil- iam McKinley, twenty-fourth president of the United States, who was shot down by an as- sasein at the Pan-American exposition September @ and died ght days later at the Milburn house in Buftalo. N. ¥. mourned by the whose civilized world. The time since elapsed is no short that In every memory those gloomy days of suapense that ended with the death of the nation’s loved and honored chief executive are still freeh, and the tears of a great le, et hardly quenched, will flow afresh when tomorrow in the churches throughout the Jend § sulories of the country’s hon- ored dead are pronounced. The local United tles, assisted by I Wappenstein, of the caused the arrest of f Seattle Jewelers this ges of tective C. W. local ur well known morning counterfeiting. —War- Markus Mayer, and were issued by U. 8 © Kiefer, and served by arshal he rought befor ach furnished bail The arrests to- f those made several days ago by the police and by Capt. Beli of the U. & secret se vice. While the specific. char gainst the men is counterfeiting, they are accused of gold-plating sil- ver dollars and nickels in such a ws that they may be passed as $20 and $5 pieces, “The information was procured last night, and the arrests were made this morning. | How Detected Last Wednesday night Charles Woods was arrested in the Bismarck | cafe by @ policeman for attempting | to pass one of the coins that had been gold plated. The fraud was immediately detected and the ar reat made, ‘The matter, was turned | over to thé United Stated authoriti and the next day Howard ¥ Was arrested by Capt. Bell also on he c of passing the gilded money, Both men now stand charg- ed with fraudulently passing coun- terfeit coins. Since that time both Capt of the necre vice and De Wappenstein of the local have been hard at work on the und have received the information d to the arrests this morning. Whother or not there will be mc Bell prosecutions in the case cannot be | DEEP MYSTERY ates authori-; Stated as yet, a3 the police and wec- police, | giving out the details, that the information that lead to the on| detection of the men arrested morning, came dire # for the arrest of Joseph, Al-| Who were caught ‘Will 880. the they have let slip a few neoused {ave the officers a clue to work up- the com- {9 was, cannot be learned That the Mr, Tarrant ¥. is a manufacturing jeweler, but it was learned thet he HARRISBURG Pa, conferenc Governor the repubi dow r Mitehell District Pres te and Dufty inthracite’ strike tired Mitchell and Dufty train for Wilkesbar it Is belle leaders terms on which M: Walking Skirts No skirts can be found with better style or make tn Seattle, and we would be pleased to have the ladies of Seattle inspect them, Leopold’s 817 Second Avenue. ly plate the coins with gold. Ace cording to the information received, that part of the work was done by Mayer Bros. the well known manu- facturing jewelers -whose plant is near the corner of Second at and Cherry street It was stated by one of the men who was instru« mental in making the arrest, that Tarrant took the coins to the es- tablishment of Mayer Brog. and |them plated. It ts denied by | Jewelers that. they kne' that the | coins were to be used for illegal pure | poses. There promises to be some inter= ing developments when the case mes up for trial before Commise sioner Klefer enrly next week. AL OPERATORS WILLING TO SETTLE Arrest of Jow- elers Figuring service men are reticent about It is stated this tly from the men © couple of di They have been confined in county jail, and it is said that tips that Just how full the information Where They Got Them the men arrested procured that they passed’ from is now the they He coins Ald not actnal Sept. 18.—A would agree to settle between | What the terms were remains a sub- ‘enator Flynn, | ject of conjecture, but that some. of- an boss of Pittsburg. W.|fer has been made on behalf of the fullin of the American Win-|operators seems certain. company, President Whe ing broke up the Mine Workers confer a word, Thoy gave the waiting reporters the following writt Messrs. Mitchell, Fahey, Duffy, Senator Flynn, Col. Richardaon and 3 ave been in confer- a have been dive it of feeling,’ lasting all the strike, Mc was held to dis ‘The governor re- o'clock this | morning nee took t The gov gave Mitchell an uss the at 6 e All diftere theoussed with the b an