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te tavestionte (he gnent city an Deen “erarting ef the Beattie underworld was the ‘panouncement made by Jud Pell ot the wuper ier county effictals have court (his mern- To a reporter for the Star Judge Pell talked freety of the judges con~ | erence which be attended yeuterday Miernoon, as tolt in the Star, AM that it woe (ruc Judge Griffin, Qadge Morrie aud himself had talked “ever the matter of calling a grand y While closeted in Judge Griffin's Nebambera. The u pion was that Judge hot of the discue- Griffin asked Awe days to consider the matter, F would prefer Griffin call the Winwed Judge Dell ff the criminal department of to have Judge wrand jury,’ “He t» the head @ourt and the matter property comer ‘wader hie jurisdiction. If he does not shall do #0, either by Sigting the order myself or by hav eg either Judge Morris or Judge allman ixswe Une call ; she me jer baw reached « stage Where i cannot recede. 1 have asked ee bnvestigation of all the snony- BOW ebarges that have been made end intend to have one @epeed upon i. it ls o matter of but ® few days until a grand jury ie qaltes together. ~ ‘There seems to be & difference of 2 een between Judge bet however, and} Jery matter eetaing Genied that the question/inat Chief Sulltvan'’s head would! | have fallen an the penanty of his ermmertty, but for the fact that upon pater lithe eve of the calling of a grand jury + id! Mayor Humes did not 4: the . the laxe. and appoint Detective Charles wuting attorney's office amply | Priitipa chief erating the matter now stands, alt de pends 5 Bad been more than ee and intimated again canwally dis- Judge Griffin's attitude it is that he is wt, at igrand jury investigation will ed to enlt for) out doabt, begin. though Judge} Bas requested it. Gaye co by it becomes than a mere gkinbler’ Quarre) whiek led to the clos- of the ground-floor dene tn the! tenderiom was the 2 atiack upen the gambling but that quarrel ie not the of the entire town remuining Hints of mysterious influences at the gamblers come t quarters. Translated in Engtish the oracie Good Govern- John H, Mo- formerly governor ts behind the pres- War against gambling. Bome of ‘ate, ie leader Meet prominent business meg in eity are behind the members of FATAL RESULTS FROM Seat aserrats = BAN FRANCISCO, Ben were Kilied and eighteen bad! Wounded or burned by the explosi “a | @ the steamship Progresso, long, recently changed into burner, thin morning at the Fuller- Yon Iron works, where the changes Nad just been « Modeled veenel was te Be for New York the first egor and three rhe Were thrown down The report of|ly, but many of ‘he-explosion was deafening and| blown into the water, Srred the ground os it by an earth. tuake for @ considerable distance, & huge volume of smoke went up tin- Mediately and the woodwork burst mto flames. The Iatter, howe + WATE HON extinguished, A great Wal of aimoutty was experienced in _ aetling some of the The scone around the ehipyard was We of great excitement, pell-mel! to the vi- het the Glisanter, while crowds came rushing from all die ard massed agalvr! the en- money in spent in Graw an nty will, ne doubt, be fight. Governor Me- is friends 4 t pers soalp and the Ng Of PAMbIINg Ie Merely a step hat direction. Even before the last municipal election Govern MeQraw arned Piper to keep his fingers out of the But PY out and Mumes accredited ry ory Piper set himself up as a candidate for state senator from the Thirty-fourth district, which in cludes the First and Fourth wards of the © Again Governor M came out openly « declared war Ww the knife iper. The Piper men “mave od Piper was Aly Nominated in apite af the fact that Governor McGraw pub ely Uneatened that if the Clancys and other members of Pipers po tical machine went to the fr Kim wot a wheel would be turned in Seattle after the fall election. Warning Was Unheeded But the Clancys and every member front for the machine's bees, Mor was spent Hike wa Gev. Metir also spent money. The Pacific Const Ce, the Northern Pacific Ralroad | en the Queen & Crescent ht, Tenn. A fest passenger erashed inte the rear of « frei Co and other lar corporatio: which it fw sald had him in the legisiature, came forward with funds, and as @ remult Pipes went down to defeat McGraw to stepty mak nie-election threat. He eobbing uid not Fun after election, and persons whe are famitiar with the plane of the Fourth Ward Good Government cut, say | that there le ne doubt that the gar femain closed until of the polities! machine iper | bas bullt Gp With gambling “bite” “rake-offe” and assessments as tte] ftally main support. Aa one of Gow, MeGraw's closest political supporters afd last night “There will be ne © of the mat. to the Clancy® business tn § attic, ‘The games will either run without paying tribute to anyone ex- than this free Chief and Mayor At Outs ‘The knowing ones sey that a quar- 1 between Mayor Hu af Police Sullivan cause of the close teking affront at the overruling his order to close all dow nataire} Quitge Gristin im regard te the grand | cumbling during hie temporary @ ‘ eity and retaliating this | by closing al the houses. noe frog the ‘Thete fe no doubt it t# anid. but upon the anti-Piper Repuly icane. Whenever they are ready, a the games reopen: BALLARD ELECTION some surprise, Mayor T. C. Reed republican candidate for re-election, | | was defeated by A. W. Mackie, dem \Saret. by about t00 votes “Ww. J | Murdock, republican, was re-elected lclerk by @ majority of 422 over BF. {= ens. W. F. Grill, republican, | ver Aleck Me~ of 2%, John W. Whitam, republican, was elected elected treasurer Donald by a majority olty attorney over H. EB, Peek by votes. Dr. J. B. Mactbregor, re’ ican, was elected health officer o republican, defeated M. A ward G. H. Fitageraid, democrat, wa STEAMSHIP EXPLOSION four Men Killed and Many Injured by Blowing Up of Huge Vessel in Shipyard--Oil Tank the Cause tank burners had just been inape trance to the yards. It required the utmost efforts of employes and firemen were ¢ in the work of rescue and of sub- duing t flames It will be impossible for several re-|hours to tell the exact number of lives which have been lost, Fifty |wormen were in the hold of the jwteamer at the time of the accident, tome of the men were on deck. The joll tank which exploded contained FP ete 2 total tose Atl window | 00 barr Fase Withiy naif a mile was b Bnd several Hustdtngs tr m, |the decks and broke the ship in two, jCaptain Harding escaped miracuious A boy named Harry Conamare was blown to the dock, a plece of steel taking one of his arma oft. Following are dead or unaccounted for: C. KR. SPANKS, assistant engineer, JOH CASBSETTI, riveter, BEN JOUNBON, riveter, © ED RELGON, sailor TACK # AND, fireman JACK GOSHEN, fireman. ~JAMES M'GUIRE, riveter. DENNY GALLAGHER, riveter, Reveral of thy inured will ai Cant arcing Saye that he nm THE GRAND JURY WILL URELY BECALLED SAYS JUDGE BELL Order May Be Made This Week- “Republican Revolt Against George U. Piper Closed Gambling That & Krand Jury Will Be catted Pafore the end of the present week charge that prom- and it will be to install a new one STRUCK UNKNOWN ~ OBSTAGLE © : p Collins block Hecond avenue, Hut slight de 5 which peated owheend a few days ago, Whe Been | sion, anid that he deeply regrett p and reveals (fur plates | the misunderste outly main. | parties which prevented the ac ol did Rok attike | piinhime cord. | Agree AMON pratin now advatioed that some subme: possibly the Matteawan ja reck, bets » the theory hulk, | & Hudson, submitted a tile Con- | to wages, Mac Veagh elected by 80 ° after) tone of dynamite was re-elected by O4 Voter. pak the Third Edward Rowan. > leak even. » for the olty to bor- lewuc $20,000 The propoatth newer system by a vote of | FATAL TRAIN WRECK a above | for Three Ki led and Many Injured in Collision of the Piper machine did go to the Hen out with Piper several yours ago and feared railway men are reported to have | been killed. Every av. here has been carried to the scene on @ special train, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. m 1 Ras been established between here and Sunbright | fevert from there says that the Gr Man. ¢ipressman and one other man ber of paswen= Bere Were seriounly Injured. but arome miraculoun (hat Pearly al! escaped as 200 passenger® Were shoard the trat running at the r hou: which was cept Uke city treasurer, of they will Temain closed until a place warmer STOLEN MONEY WAS RETURNED has been confined | jail for woveral daye of grand te this morning ecuting Attomey Fultor The woman w Joho Landers of him «& purse ‘The alleged crime was c ted at Harton, KIPLING: “GLAD TO MEET YOU AGAIN, OLO CHAP, ROLLING PIN, EXPLAINING THAT IT MUST ME SUITABLE FOR MAKING AMERICAN CRUSHED UNDER | TONS OF GOLD ORE Victor Krokk and Charles Wierula Meet a Horrible Death at Treadwell, Alaska--Mexican Mine Bunkers Collapse Ry the caffeapre of the ore Bunkers Mextoan mine night ef November ©Y | Krokk and Chartes Wieruia, the lat-| two men named. Four other miners ony, Was release: n metion of Pros accused by where both par doorstep of house the missing and $400 enclosed His good fortune in recovering the greater part of his money © acetmed w *\\*- |S uuuapeneneussesssussss | “= STORM IS PREDICTED Gales from the southwest, shifting | In the meantime Chlef Bultivan is] jthe autocrat of the attuation. sir pty | MOF? because Mayor Humes does not cormethhing | toy to the seuthennt [ed by the local weather bureau ut Dec. 1—The municipal | , Saying that the present close- BALLARD, yesterday od: ip the result of a the Republican party, and the! tion te state that the more nor less than | SNti-Piper fight. which resulted wthe election of to the state senate * of an overwheim- mor Reputiican majority. A Difference of Opinion ‘The Fourth Wa m in coming up the coast from at Treadwen, ot | The storm warn Director Salisbury. MARINE NEWS The British ah this morning from Ta were killed. | were terribly bruised by the fabin | When the @rash came tons @f #ul-| rock and narrowly ¢ phurites were ipitated upon the | Wierula was a brakeman on o Largo Law arrived ma lo necure beth with $0. ‘The steamer Plirades hele of wheat of the Boston Dr. M.L. Adame by four votes. For | councttman-at-large, 8. P. Rattieson, | Steamship Tacoma last Sypher by about ten votes, In the First ernment at Manila. : stood up the « who happened to be in tite y revolvers, amd other bandh stood at the door with « revall interference As soon as the m A be E Es IS FOUND way | which stood waiting; and r at full speed available h werk] DAWSON. ¥ Gs |oones of John Mode, who two years shortly afterward ¢ It is thought that ty will | Rankin, around ¢ the- | a four | we the police to keep the outsiders from » men’ were later } overrunning the premises, while the Gleen Dow another ered |near Dawse | painting over th gaged but the quarry TERRIBLE BLIZZAR |fle Dilazard ta ragin, It has been learke STATEHOOD. STRUGG The explosion tore up ' Prt ay 4 Ford has been acting asaie one cocluMom that | eral manager, He was led Beveridge and |r yigont of | t | phone “comm the inquiry Ser his fellow commitieemen (rot senate committee on terrtt |ington & Northwestern trains will be| stopped. Fears are expressed for the | numerous children scat- tered among the district achools danger that in trying to the seamen were New.Moxieo and Arizone of them may be reach thelr homes, BATTELLE GOES FREE was acquitted mes up in the senate 1 and Arigona to statehood an of a single Oklahoma and efforts of Mr. Fly sure of ite the house, with the intention ol firet senators of embersling ‘Transportation Battelle was accused rs agit Which of excursion tickets * Port whioh he ie alle; uont fox dhe pronco and are workit their cause iawaees, |object to the Joint statehgod TON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER A KITCHEN FIRE 190 _ HEARING Anthracite Commission at Work Again #ORANTON 1.—'The anthra miewion resumed ite hearings ning, C. 8. Darrow, coun iw ir wiver and childre jee Gray, In opening | Ju a vi Hiatory ve been of Ho whieh would b apprey pent as f counsel f vt he *, maid 40 4 the opera been constantly employe and | past ten days’ recess in going over | ar-| the books of the Pennsylvania ratl put the work wa wing the miners, but when they @ Mietor | were reached life was extinct in the workmen Below, who were IMerally | the ore care that by the fail of the | ‘BIG BANK | ROBB BILLINGS, Mont sked men held up the & [bridge were plunged scores of feet | |gition on the ground that the Indian Hterriory In far behind their territory jis progrens, deve it es while « the j tndion territory are of the inion that Oklahoma would have all the best of it in the combina tion ‘deal ‘The single statehood ady | the two territories have come together for the prom their plans, To this @ #ingle statehood co: tion composed of | nearly 600 delegates, from each of the two territories assembled here today. The purpose of the conven tion t# to frame a bill that will be Introduced as a substitute for the jomnivus bill, and which will pro vide for the making of a single state of the territory of Oklahoma and the Indian territory SKELETON ates of Nov, 18—The the ago, on a trip with @ man n rman creek, dt and was never seen neain lately found by an Indian in the wilds back of German creek peare nd} Mode was 65 years old and hailed | hots | from Ontario. Near his bones were ped, | found @ gold watch and other har | valuables, showing that the old man | thet }had not been murdered for his mon hichley He probably wandered from the | trail and Was lost in a heavy # storm that yall bout th RAILROAD MEN ARE PROMOTED " time. tion of vice president and general manager of the Pacific ( at Com- pany were issued yesterday, Mr nt gen- view ident of the company at a meet of the directors in New York ¥ ing have) November 26. Hiv appointment an mu general manager followed WHR pre- |" The promotion of Mr. Ford carries free-for-all flight of the} with it the promotion of W. KE when the Dil) bearoe, former weneral superintend- i 2 own ent, to the ponition of assistant gen- The bill before the senate Wy KROwn | {Tui inanager. “S WANTS AN ton, to be- BAN om npegiia of Cineln ief of police here to investigate CI8CO, Deo, §.—Mre, Oklahoma and Indian ter-| the alleged suicide of her daughter, is @ Marge | the mistress of Robert b is #trenuouml: tingle atatéhood | cating her intention to ning way. The mother olaims that the «irl was one| murdered, The girl left letters indi mit sul —_ cide, It fe claimed, however, that he waa urged to the deed by Jem ingways coll of fact Workers, | | WASHING At the cabinet mgeting yeuterday th ween the| aware | @ enuela, d to pave The collapse | fall of wet # | The combi the whit Jarrived from Lyne ton of | been requested t« ed to § sistant taken. BLACK FOR GEN. SIGLIN PORT TOWNSEND, Dee. overdy on City pas - Official circulars announcing the | Oklahoma and Indian Ter-| promotion of J. ©. Ford to the post ritory at War CLAREMORE, 1. T., Dec ember 22 inte @ storm The forward dec carried away and one the pilot hou until the quartermaster Walet-deep in water, worst Captain Tuttle has experi- in fourteen years Only. one veasel from the North, the ateam schooner Homer, Captain Donneleon chaftered by the government to car- lighthouse construc- ry supplies for U Wires the | northe STAR. One Cent BUEG HER LAWYER ing ued for 91 F. Haye in b which he in said t Mrs, Lillie C, Wert which, it In #o alleged. mm tO pay hi fled yesterday state that Mrs received her equit TON, tople of dt proposition of 1 jew York banker, wants 16 per cent, interest fra Hay told the during the | hoped that under the b the Venesuelan ¥ negotiations can be « he way for the con of the Panama « (KIPLING HAS SENT TO NEW YORK FOR Men were at once put te work res-1 down inte the valley, |areat weight of ore |for the frail wooden atruct | News of the tragedy w FREMONT LIBRARY **" CITY BOARD ESTABLISHES al BRANCH IN THE SUBURB neh Hbrary is ed at F man of the ifbrary ay that he had sec e of a ne avenue, hear Blewe nthty rental of $10 Lbranch library w without defy main public Hbr t years at « rental month en r trustees, in the meeting, discussed plans of the structure, but nothing fu theran Ivice from P. dumbia univ er of the be slary of the Versels, ( storm encor cutter Rear northern seas yesterday Tuttle, of the Arctic he has amalt The I and She will probably not get away the very late COLORADO BLIZZARD INVER, Dec truck this st ight a tre was blowing, The mn part of the state has been heavy and Lowes of st6ck on the ran leved to have been consi he has paid her $1 more the was entitled to, SELIGMAN MUST GO IT ALONE United Stat binet that he fran regime Sailor Suits Like Cut, for Boys, age 3 to 9, aud green, Some quite plain, others handsomely trimmed in braid. Best of manship. » + + or Prices Range From 95¢ to $4.10 Were $1.60 to $609 in blue; gray, brown, t naterials and work Rogular Price Remember we are closing out all our Boys’ and Children’s Clothing. - ee ae AT ACTUAL COST Adams & Blaachasé 719 24 Ave., Hinok’ liiat goods of all kinds Father Christmas Will pecked tree of of on. ready for delivery by mherwise, Goods select Soon Be Here HN Xmas, if desired. on three weeks will regale t little friends t and he faithf REMEMBER SATURDAY AT 9 A. M. ‘Look This was due to a heavy} w combined with the 4 weight wan to of five rooms, fiyer De at $1 | Herbert TH Upper V1 and 12 Scheverman Block, enue and Cherry street. act AS profession 00 per n 1. Higher re connidere Ntered by vo which khouses wer comber brok The storm was 21-2 Acres, Water Front, Engle Harbor, $600 peters Clothing remains to W. H. THOMPSON &CO. | 900 First Ave.; Cor, Marion St. WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY ANDO SILVERWARE Albert Hanse largest jewelry house in tne | ndous bligeard Invalid Tables The most venient place for ds and a v serving meals to invalids an uable addition to the oMfce. Library and sewing room, Take one trial Stewart & Holme 627 First Avenue. J ————————— Toye ond Dolls Whole- ale and Retail. «ein now will be Inid aside new wil be tale as Saturday morning the monarch of all good times will come to The Leader, and for tly reception of his juvenile subjects and with gifts from his bountiful store. He wants his write to him, o that he may know what they wan ly promises to give each writer exactly what the vill hold a ¢ : 4 , otning Mor ae * . ; For Christmas ¥ ; ”, ‘ ay Than Silverware} Le he We have an assortment Which kad embraces every atyle and at prices ie which sre easily within the reach vee of all. We request @ compartaon of } I our prices with those of any other 7 ; ~ dealers in the city Come in and ; see our Holiday Offerings in this 1 f and other deartments. 7 xs th) , ta iY 4 Spring Street. if Main Store, First Avenys.and Spring Str: at Northwest Fixture Annex. 213 First Avenue South. aR ‘ ; 1333 i.) The LION CLOTHING HOUSE , ————__—_—_ 220-222 ist Ave. So. cor. Main } At Up KM a this o's Sait /BLANKETS $1.50 each SE LE IIE BO at ae * PF ”, 7 A special purchase of 500 pair, worth $3.00. r outdoor and household use. Manu tieury Hensel “Sewciee*""* 28 Hinckley Block, Third Fleon RT. SHANNON | GROCERY CO. Incorporated. 1220-1222 2d ave. Phone, Main 1051. Fine grade S0c English Break fast Tea; special price per Ib. > having @ great many ° vs B0e coming in every day % W.B. Hutchinson Co. | Corner Seoond and Union —|® _aneenenanen 4 Pacific Coast Clothing Comp’ ve nit 1408 Second ave, | — aan n= ne we < PLUMBING And Hot Water Heating. 600 PAIR Plans and Estimates furnished + . M, SHAW & © U. 8. CAVALRY BOOTS Bouth ede Colman dock, foot of cal High Top, Mand Sewed and | umbia. street, 4 Waterproof. | Phone. Black 831 W. S. Kirk, 1209 rst Ave. ff| For Sale in Blutt Park Addition To Seattle. Lots 6 to 10 inclusive, ia | Block 26. An offer wanted, | C.B. KITTREDGE Unts oreity Station, Independent ‘Mhone A 143, Nortaweat —