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| ME ee ~ai THE SEATTLE STAR SHOULD WY STAR PUBLISHING CO. : BVERY AWTRARNOON WXCEPT BUNDAY TELEPHONES Tusiness Department=Sunset, Main 1000) Independent 1158 Badltortal Department—sunset, Main 1138 eM 1 Wells, Kuitor FB. F. Chase, Business Manager OFFICES Reatt and 1008 Her Avenue . y Temple ¢ Duiding « Chicago—307-318 | Paxpress Mutiding | One cont per copy; six conte per week, or ¢ y-fiv ents per month, delivered by mail or carriers t " | . rs chang ely Addreas Will please notity thi at | ° - take a live t TO MAIL BUNS date when your subscript nD laos haiken'e te on the addre he change of whieh to a sv a ee ¥. , ate becomes @ f N ' ipt in Py requested ' ' ' atgne I at w «et , es ' - ee | world arn Wh . ~~ ) The body blow | re ante ; ‘Ee 1 =} > . wn ntagwering = b 1 { THE ONE-MAN POW ER 3 igteon to the | 00 esl” staggering. blow ; IS ALWAYS A MENACE } some | ery. Jason Ft : y ghe recer Mo be blind and : i Se ne ve ie th ' e a of the United States otreut art of appeals, if upheld by the | lowards the. court, W euran k to t man power | (irs of the Northwest. I are Jan J, Mill has been | R ut hi t wien th aniaation of the N n 8 es company | , he “ the t * and politics o don of at aching trom Mir A tO |udequate defense rated ater > ve See addrems was eminently sate The proxpectowgs not an encour & one to thoughtful men of the |), The Bairene we eed ren the third 6f @ century in Whick that state was shadowed by the H ‘ tain Hobson was introd ae ton upas tree, The Southern Pacific Railroad company and ite H ® Goceasor, the val Pacific, under the domination of Huatingt => lithe forme? 1 to heed ercised propr ights over the Golden state from thy the latter 7. a a read bes with @ fadatots governm 1 an ox - | Subject of the addrese. was agant government land grant, Dur-ing that te febasement of | 1. Con tal te California politicos made the political machines of Kk and Poan- | impress his b tion ‘Tein sytvania appear reapectatte, and the progress of the state war handi- | capped with a welght of corporate greed Mke an old man of the sea SHAKE UP iN It fair to “Jim to say that he in bigger, broader and f er man than was C Muatingtom, Mr. Ht the proar TURKISTAN ity of great rota terprises ts dependent mn the healthy bi Growth of the territory which tt feeds, He knows that « common carrier, as & matter of policy, should not be a leech, Vet Mr. Milt ts Y not a phifanthropist, He ie merely too wise to kill @ goowe that lays | Fe & golden exe. Nodody knows better than “Jim” Hil how to keep the | 0 goone working overtime. 4 | not ne-man power is dangerous always, It is sometimes essential im, but the pe should be promptly subdtetded when the | crisis ts past. ‘The state of Washington hes © the Insidious growth | of Great Northerp political power tn the commonwealth, ur hat core | poration ts practionliy dictator of public affairs, It adsolutety domim= | 8 | meme ated the last legisiat named the United States senutor, killed the wry ~ y raflway commission bil and ran the whote to mutt Cantiiewés cedtahded: GoiQlle wer fteelf, Its amalgamation with tts former rival Pactt * . A green pone arriv tr we ool * . “ nlimited power over the bust- | ed i #uch large @ tithew r places In the control of It A t uniimited p ih te wart, lange auantitien yester, ness and polities of the Northw ) states unteas the peor thoxe | states assert an Independent tntelRgence which will & ruckis to the Inight of aggremated wealth The work begun by the vigorous legal fight against the sotidation of all the northwestern ratiroad lines should be continued ur he Rabobes whose @ictation has grown Inecient are made ¢ stand oot only that everybody knows more than anybody but that the interests of everybudy are paramount to tose of anybody, and t @ arit-conatt tuted guardian ts not always the best conservator of the property Inter- ' eats of other people peer titers Mame Urenk font barca, ‘The chatch of the Southern Pacific tightened around San Fra 4 Vegetables until tie bestness men scarcely dared to thetr souls their own @ Burbank p native, G10 city was in the torpor of impending death when a few Independent men |ton; Yakinmas cot pote headed! by Claus Apreckioe began to build the Valley road. At fret the oe Wa ie line started from Stocton, and freight had to be taken from the terminal ratoes Wu come: canine to Bax Francisco in boats. The same corrupt power which had for % per dos $2.90 per Years prevented any new read from gaining an entrance to the city wae wt mach, Tie fH ™ me brought to bear against the promoters of the Valley line, ‘Three years | MINrny Na, ole grein i 4 Ago the right to enter was cbtaleedand the Valley road, ana part of the | Dnigns AdcQ@El.O0 por cet Sane Fe ayrtem, now gives ratiroed competition te San Francie. Green Fruit, Ete In those three youre the has grown more than it grew in ten years $2:50.93.@) por box 4 t since the death tingto vi the " m of the anch; grape rate, and of the death of Huntington an4 th ne omb honey, the per Southern Pactée as the dominent factor in siate polities the putrid ¢ | ‘ the latter has been somewhat abet @ | Butter, Chense, Epge, Poultry Aa already conceded, James 3. Hit te &n abler and more decent Butter Washinete creamerten We Tan than wir “Unele Collis,” but he te Rot in business for hie health | Ta See; Sete S00; Sees eters alone and be will not Ive forever sto It te scarcely safe for the state of Washington to deliver the keys of ite prosperity Into hie keeping. Uret | Rgge—Freeh ranch, 18@196 per dow because Chey cannot safety beconfided .> any one man, though he be * 2 2 Dusdiing over With patriotiem; and second, while Mr. Hill might wee Keine the power wisely, it would pase in time to his successor who © cormorant Nke Huntington or a wrecker Jike Jay Gowtd. ‘The consolidated railroad system might not be gullty of crimination since that ts mow ander the ban of rigid law might be May, Grain and Feed a a $27.90 com os eng 00 Vom freight @te- but ratiread | service can be dixpensed with gros partiality In the palmy days of +A00 cakn, $30.00 ton, Puget the Southern Pacific only favored shippers contd get care when ft: waa | So" lumuuy ar te oo toni tet tmportant to reach the markets with sudden The same thing might one happen in the Northwest ff it had but one railroad, PRICES TO PRODUCERS Lat competition continu: ite per fect work (These gricen sre for Guede geltwered at | reas ine donk te thu city) A PLEA FOR THE BOY | ‘The lonesomest human creature in the world t# a bey. In the life @f todaw he & allowed, like Topsy, to “just grow.” True, he le atven the ewitch as often as he Qeserves It, and maybe offener, and he ls . rected” & good deal more than is good for him; but aside from these | Interferences, he is left pretty {ree to solve in his own way the mys- | tertes of the existence that whirls about him and of which he is so un- important a part, Everything is done for the entertainment and the embeliiehment of the girl. Her Gol) f inseparable from her hands and heart littie parties, real and make-believe. Elverything she does meets fond parental approval. Her whole childhood is a happy butterfly exist- ence In sunshine and amid flowers. And in her little paradise her simall brother te the Adam. He must submit to her caprices, enslave himself to her whims, yield to her wnticoments, get the forbidden apple for her and take the Heting Of course, im modern Ife, It fs not literally an apple thet he gets for her—it may be jam or cookies or gea-gaws for her adornment, but the licking is literal enough and little different from that which every | generation of boys have suffered since the time of the real Adam, re- minding them that the real paradise has passed from As long as the boy Ww the baby he i the whole thing. But when the Daby sister comes to usurp his place, he becomes nothing. He is then deemed to be able to take care of himself. Ho t# al lowed to sit alone, with Bis thumb in his mouth, pondering solemnly upon the favoritism displayed by fond but frail humanity. He settles grave questions of ethics in his own way. He perceives that right and wrong are very indefinitely marked out by a wavering, She hae her obscure Hine between a kiss and a switch au On one side of thin lime he knows ft is al! black, and on the other i side all white, but just where the Hne runs he cannot always tell j And by and by he makes the momentous discovery that this line can be shifted by excuses and evasions, and that excuses when not read He L $6 Co. fy at hand can be Invented. ‘ ewis And thus he learns to lle, because the channels of sympathy have N. E. cor. 1st ave. and become dammed up by fear and the sole outlet for the ly broodings " fs through cunning. Cherry street. The first lie that boy tells to a parent is regintered tn heaven —— 2 hideous crime, not against the child, h " . reine Isla ae but against the parent Hut it fe an epoch in the boy’s life. i Then when he becomes 12 or 14 years of age he ceases to be a boy without becoming a man. If he wan negiected before, he is utterly misunderstood mow. He is that worst of énigmas—an enigma to him Do Your pelt. It is now that his thoughts become the “lone, long thoughts” of Eyes which the post tals 1 which ¥ & pool's dreams may fathom These thoughts spurn the sterile present and span the far future. It in now that he ts better alone. He has come into his ejemerit. 1 ~ 4 Ache? one ings give him spirit and yearnings, give him strength for the contest When reading or that awaits him. harge noth We talk about certain sucees#ful men being “self-made.” But no ~ tell y he one who sympathetically observes the life that every man who amour of the average boy ean doubt fit gianson, b to anything Is self-made. grind them to order —_— Mrs. Jncob H. Vanderbilt has disgraced the family name by opening 3 @ smoking partor In New York for fashionable ladies. Other members G. BENINGHAUSEN 713-715 First Avenue, Block. of the family are said to be very indignant at tracy. They are not mad because Mrs. Ja Joint, but because whe hae associated the Vanderbilt thing akin to shopkeeping. It 4s true that old Cornelius sta Hy on the road to plutocracy by financtal measures ¢ this evidence of degen ‘ob is running a dissipation ly humbie, but Next to Mc, & 8 the later generations are pleading the gtatute of limitations to that OMfense. Everything but an unetion has been hurled at Mra, Jacob. but she has dodged all the projectiies so far and still holds the fort and her tobacco trade, __—_. Eix-Vice President Mtevenson had his hair and mustache singed off A New Under- whil putting out a fire In his house the other day. The days have been vo cold 7. Adiai the past few years that «@ little waryging-up et 1 og Son eersces wear Story aT The seventh wife of an actor ham@ Lionel Lawrence tw ne ° getting a 4 low differer ® ol fivorce from him. Mr. Lawrence is quite m young man yet and ynay a4 ee a ae a live eng enough to make a matrimonial record. Se EEREEEeel ® Since Mr, Yaw's garbage bid has been dixcounted tompetitor it will be Interesting to watch hin next mot 417 417 Snoqualmie Power Fiat Rates Per Annum for Continu: | ous Service. 50 per cent. by a $1.25 Per Copy Bee Window Dispiny Pike Streot Optical Go. Toklas, Singerman & (0. H. P. 10 Houre | 24 Heure Lumber Exchange Bldy. a Por H. P. | Por H. P. || devon , < Across from Ranke’s Hall, Betwee 1 $40.00 $0.00 Fourth and Fifth Avenues, " 2 44 bie 4 | meer A x ttl n Byes examined free with the jatest | 400 32.50 42.50 | “fer Co. And best instruments known to bed 30.00 40.00 folence. Lenses fitted at moderate |4_ 1 35.00 |! SEATTLE SZATARACT COMPANY, | Om pour . eand Works Tel, Main 41.46 ver ave it. A. L. Lindau Beata neem .| “eT | ¢ Dancing. Classes HAVE | MIGHTY NAVY = | Captain Hobson Declares That Armed Ships Would Be America’s Guaranty Against Assault \GREET MASCAGN/ “DEATH Is cal tht tenor me at an wiven srrived ho: LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD | | GLASGOW, April t rr " American port te the Clyde, hast at at & with all on beard arried a crew of #1, all Boan Schad TEN KILLED it Soe gaia’! BY TORNADO GEN. GREELY TALKS ON ALASKA CABLE All Important Points-in Territory Will be Connected With Seattle by Next Fall | The mission of General A. W./ eral Greely aata Greely, chief of the aignal corps of » process of ‘ tat and famous! he time of the 4 pit ite ee . the able laying «hip x r, who arrived im the ee for the este mm termiy telegraph ke and “the ate saye that sare cart Jed with Seattle, as within ont jor #ix weeks the land system | Almika wil! be completed | In an interview last sight, Gen WILL PULL THE ROYAL TEETH | Hurnside, will be here ready to b soed in the water, It w 1 1.200 miles im length end will ex end from Mitka to thir olty The Burnside will begin ia bie at Sitka Inetead of Seatt ver \ foot te the water here it will h the subway built from t 0 es in the city to the land sta | Greely, secompanied & mel James Allen, left this morn 4 tor Vancouver barracks, where they will be the Funston, | ——o— Hurenrd. Gratwate, han beet tens | DUSIAE Peal emeate, 8 Unton tips lered the posttion of offietal domtast | a » the court of Raxony te suceeed| Dr. Kibbe has rewumed practicn Dr, O'firten, the American G@ntist | enn “bh » bants after Crown | pp Lise eloped WO Giren ; STOLE FROM EMPLOYER | CHNCAGO, Ape 18.—C. Dd. Hird, a kom of Auditor Hird of the Chica «0, Murlington & Quincy, Wan ar rested here this morning an a charge of enibe ont. He shed a Ohech sent to hls employer by « customer Monday and Friday © ute lessons dally { ot | Ge to Spintng for Bieyet Hardware at Reduced Prices Be boo, te 100 62 we ae 10< Ce Ps Neat Saws Grane Shears Buck Saw T-inch Hand Saw Becond and Union HERE'S A SNAP | Sure Enough An elegant Cn kering grand piano, daome mahogany man nifleent in tone and a very superior instrument tm every way, Tt han been used lene than two years end | l@ practically a8 good ax new in ev ory way Regular Price New, $950.00 Now Only $650.00 This pte ‘enle by a Sonty whe bh | one for an inetrus < miat be nod nthly payments may & the ba Sim sex Plano Player hia most n expres Small Rested Instruments D. 5. JOHNSTON CO. : 903 Second ave Burke Bbilding Hl. §. Turner & Co. 232 Globe BIK. Ae ee Le eee ram io repairs | be worn with wl to match the «hir About town are sold at $1.00. 1 hursday and k from the lot pick Ea Shafer Bros Arcade Building King - Pins | — Ave | death, w wt GREAT FIRE IN BEAUMONT é | 2 lbs. for 55c § A Tea Hut 921 Be { } | seats of Geners! | And Hot Wat Heating. | Plane and Estimates furnished c. mM. Bouth wide of ten usual fine making, fine ay They are made with soft fronts, negligee styles and are intended to e colla such shirts as these A fortunate trade event enables us to offer exactly te fine shirts at the : making. Fine patterns, fi ¥ shirts in every w j Friday of one thousand. 65c ch for Overcoats CREAMERY It nr lather vert ee | xine YORK, April t he f t ith y let 1 be 1 t pastor of ‘Temp me | He ba 8 urted ¢ hen, 14 ’ , 4 th rott tok nt dered a the t “ tanks wae fe, buy her @ npaon Vurniture BUTTER Best Bulk Iowa Thursday DAM’S *, Coffees and Sploes ter, Kage and Cheese ond Ave, near Madison. PLUMBING | great We We allo chine befe ber Co.'s Prices rig hundred cost of brellas. rs, Cuffs you can versity. | The Tonle fs highly recommended as a preventive of Colds and Influenza remedy tor aml ana specit Typhoid and Malarial Fevers. E. FOUGERA & CO. 26-30 1, William St.,".Y. Thurston & tienrin Mining and Investment Brokers We har nt them. Thurston & Herrin W. S&S. Kirk, 1a09 rst Ave. High Top, 1 Wat U.S. CAVALRY ROOTS, en one SA Silver 1. ‘ tuie & | Crowns, 22k e|Crown per t )Our Pa not ¢ Ou P. | BIR neve | 9:00 un 1 bak: QUEEN ANNE FLOUR HAMMOND MILLING CO., Starne OPP'HOR MARCHE VING TEETH E oth, but we a tooth div the cavity ur system ie PRESERVA tistry. We remove the ay, MM the cavity x prices are reasonabl PRICES | Fiilings 325c | oM Filings £2.88 . 3.50 and Bridge Work, ooth $3.50 tent Pearl Plate, does over roof of mouth $5.00 ATENT VACUUM ¢ © falls to keep a plat Jy attendant always. 4: 3 5:00 dally; Su 00. 22 SECOND AVE HARVEY & ry EXPECTED: e the dint neer wa at pprowd « ® bef i RAINIER FUEL CO Corner Beoond and Vine. BON, Prop AND Care 1413 Second Avenue in Marche block. Tel. WE ARE NOT IN THE TRUST Both Phones Main 680. Home-made Bread Bverything we n machine,” { The Pl guaran a we We are headq Boston Woven 4c a loaf ake ts the very It's a Pleasure to Operate the Plaza said a use ' Prices Range From $4.50 to $5.50 trial of buying sarters for the! say this ma- DINNER SETS the ‘asking beauliten Dany’ way f Arcade Block, 1325 Second Avenup CLAKEMON | AUDITION Seventeen Minutes on the ington street car Hine 4 Downing & Leighto 259 Bailey Bulldiog BONNEY & &TEWART 3 Directors ang ere ——J AAK rl ui Oe) Moved to 1406 24 Ave TICK TO CREDITORS In the Superior Court in and forte) County of King, State of Wat Li on. matter of the tom te Hall f Hose and Rub-| Notice is hereby given Best Garden Hose. | ootenes ae C4 ra ht. ceaged. to the creditors of, ad of Won't Aa biG 854 Feather Pillows toking, now the feathers Don't mies thie bargain tomorrow Extra Linen Special Homstitched Damask Towela with knotted, ends each; Geo. HW Woodhouse | Company 1409 Second Avenue You will always find our prices 25 per cent. tess that others charge for any old make. They have no It Will Pay You to E amine Our Umbrellas superior. persons having cl doceared, to prenent necessary vouchers, after the first notice to the wala lace of business, reom Seattle, Wi > Dated this th § ome Co at As Executor of the Last Testament of James A. coaned. We sell the Hull Um SHAMEK’S 1307 Second Avenue Arcade CONS SECON AVE Pillow Sale OPPORTUNITY each pillow we on sale ly 53C sixe 21x46 Inches, on sale Saturday At Each 25 Cents A maving of 15 cents on each Towel. | _McCARTHY DRY GOODS CO. FORMERLY Thompso rs 1427-1429 First Ave. sak BPRS “O ta price actually below the cost Block | conven it jooks cooks weil, it bakes well lasts weil, and then it more than one of the kinds. Right in right in ornamentation, right] operation, symmetrical, Ba some and strong. It has Grates, balanced Oven heavily braced, nem Oven Bottom Patented; «8 Sheets, ot n Furniture ¢ MAD ALISON F FOR HOTEL AND LOD@ ith fine quaitty sate exactly 2 Ibs. 10 red t Each conte regularly worth NEWHALL'S pe