The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1904, Page 1

The Star Is Only One Cent Everywhere oie The Seagee Star ssa Chudy; light to fresh south to west winds. NIGHT EDITION WASHINGTON, WEDN RUSSIA THREATENED My MEM HOE OF AMER PLANS FOR NEW CARNEGIE os LIBRARY MAY HAVE TO BE The new and yet unoccupied home (INTERIOR OF NEW AND YET UNOCCUPIED $80,000 BUILDING MODIFIED poh, gp: anette .a¢ the corner of} ON FOURTH AVENUE RAVAGED BY FLAMES—LOSS $30,000, ' wan gutted by fire early this morn: | FULLY INSURED—OUTER WALLS NOT INJURED a ing. The ground floor wa splete ly destroyed and the heat and smoke} me ‘The plans for the Carnegie brary ;damaged the three upper floors of age to be modified by Architect P.| the building considerably. The entire Je Weber of Chicago, so that the | main stairway was burned SDAY, MARCH a2, 1904. | VOL, 6. NO. 9 25 CENTS PER MONTH eral hours the flames must have, ir Jing when the fire started uldered there In order to have | this ” x. The contractors, in ed through the three-inch hard hone ploy he was, say that he . . . are being placed on a war Yooting. The vernment is aald to have | iit of gost will fall under $200,-/the interior will have to be a addene easants Rio ing an artia placed latge orders for guns até esupplies aboard. @@.. Whgn bide for the. construc- | entirely rebuilt #0 far as the ground| ¥°! floor. They could have done }was at dinner al the time tibn of the buliding we opened concerned ~ . . | : F rye Nay ace age \f ie concerned. At first Fire Chief Cook, who was| turned over to the club within 10 ee yesterday by the library board it| The low ewtimated at from : gg guuanne ™ | investigating the fire this morning, | days believed that the blage 8 of ir Praise is showered upon the fire- Law Has Been Declared in Fifty: ue fod that Casey Sarney'| zh. to ¥8440."A conaervatve Te y RUSSIAN CRUISERS SAIL T0 THE EAST | Sieaiinents astaiet be Sco: to Wettig fey SstEn eh a atten sae oF cendiary origtt He came to the| men who fought the flames, thie the wont down by using cheay on n, however ; three Provinces ey tarial new bide will be called for on ab continétecs, Dekane from the electric wires. Electricians | the building. Chief Cook says he . = " Duhamel @ putting in the Nght fixture a “ny too much in commenda- By Scripps News Ass'n) tip medified plans to be made by| grath, will at once tear out the] We" _ : f : the. architect Cocoa. tinea ane rut the) Yenterday’ and were testing the| tion of their work. He reached the PORT SAID, Mareb The Russian crulser Aurora salled today ther thee Beode 4 | PUrned interior of the bullding and | 7esterdey | Oe er ve that the ta- | esene acme thne after the aire manny ol . 3 : R ta t war Candia ne ruiner Yimi tri Dona ry oon per ed to - ~y we mggpoore aoe ‘eplace it ‘Th re will neces#itate -_ - BERLIN, March 2.—The Taegliche Rundschau reports that Rus- te ! 1 Th I I ki has been permitted to re se ef Ganttin, $256,500; Hen-| sonny ce — ee ae a i might have burned off and| ed, but took no hand in the’ fight. cee Pic Age A meget: ‘ ‘ : ar rt circuit | He allowed his assistants to conduct ny of Bt pidie of Chi- | our hman Stringer was A most dangerous condition. James Park of Beat The brick outer walls of the club Ih were not injured. The build oe mong su a passe oe cnewereretweee™’ | YELLOW PERIL THREATENS RUSSIA aT fen farine ow MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN = y nesay Construction Cc fia is on the verge of revolution and that Minister if the Intertor farinnienitilbiaisitliini Poul, $266,200; A. D. turning the building over to the] santry as | Pleve is regarding t # are maddened by ‘The starving + law exists in 53 of the 71 provinces of Eurepean Russia, tly deepening apprehe The fire wan discovered by people combined power of the y inning neutrality proclama- There are living near the new building at 3:20 serious traces of despondency among r of Thussians, and tom Chis. moenia a Sateghons aifed and badly needed as a - eons nohequery of China and I The government, knowing this fact ined to be circulated a ré- Me , port of a Russian suece rt Arthur, In which a Japanese war- | Biitths Exceeded Deaths Two} Week and from engine house {Special to The Star) ship was said to have been « ut the news was recelved with ; > on Pine street, responded. VICTORIA, B.C. March 2—The Shanghat ary, which was | Open skeptictem in the absence ef direct offices! confirmation to One Last Month—Vital | W>« ~ firemen re on phy u - a ffioally stat t the 2 . ing the flamés appeared to f ne received on the steamship Empress of India, arrived lagt It is semi-offically stated that the Japanese and Russian outposts A he . night from the Orient, puts an entirely diffe spect on the batth are sight of each « and news of the first land battle is awalt- Statistics ir terior The first story wa of Chemulpo, proving that the Russians and not the Japanese were ed with a degree of ‘ activity of the Chi- fo. —— urnace oe i = paso} ne ercury says: nese troops in the province of Ch 1 from offical sources, @ fire was flerces he large ale oo yay 5 Fin . ‘ There were nearly twice as many | billiard room on the first floor and] & acrons from hall and up mire me ae — Mrthe as desthe leat 4 ac- tappeared to be swee nd about seven cording to the repe ¢ Health Officer that room te the ma : x Lniios, The deaths numbered and ithe huge fireplace move: | FRANCE HOPES FOR INTERVENTION | sts.t0r oi..cGc° 8 8 ree) me repre the tor- male and «i fema Ho year as foes wah ‘made | the n “The Japanese fleet in command of Adi Japanese transports, approached the entrar on the evening of February 8. Ax it neared an miles from Chemulpo it met the Ruscian gunboat Koriet ter at.once assumed a defensive attitude and then pedo boats of the Japanese fleet. A reply t without effect. The Russian vessel at once ginal | ees. there J at nix fe nees anchorage in Cheinulpe harbor and 1 to | (By Beripns News Ass'n? Tuias ie esetiet fee were sucked 1 : re that port. On the morning of Febru the i >see lp nult were carried clea ae or ath anhand a the poner Fe ayes he Russian ; ap ey trae y The er minister of foreign affairs, Hona- Wilk Inapector Woodeock first floor ‘ ; senior naval officer im port to retire lay, stating | {8% bas started an agitation in favor of intervention by the powers | 1%) gallons of milk, and arr and| From the first floor the far t would attack, The | ' #top the war, French officals count much on the new movement, | conyleted one dairyman for «| went up the statrcase, burning milk of poor quality | hardwood structure clear to the top that in case of non-compliance the Jape Fapanese feet then left, followed by t about 11:30 the Meet met the two Russian ships near islands and the engagement took plac with results know d | wtory. of which were for men avd) On the third and fourth floors the the pest for women. rooms not directly about the at RG ce Sacaaame cane were not burned, but the be that the intert wan #0 inten : Walle were warped and the woo RUSSIA Ss LAND FORCES (By Scripps News Ass'n work wan blackened by the smoke: CONS OP Mareh ¢ Turkish governmer o | NSTANTINOPLE, March The Turkish @ tw ters worked from the upper side of ed to forcibly prevent the sn Binck Sea fleet from passing j q | the building and the other apparatus ¢ De The we of the straits hat been strengthened, laos the ween Cal pie maya VIENNA, March 1—Reliable information indicates that by March . Sngiand’s threat to make a demonstration, | the first floor an put out croust 20 the Russian army in the far east will consist of 175,000 men in streams from eight nozzles were @ivded as follows among the various branches of the a” ured Into the buliding. Nama dipeaes Poa ens ghee t lng anaes — vicT Ri us J P N WwW ULD MEDIATE Ole Dean, 2 sailor, narrowly excaped|~ The fire on the first floor under $000; railway guard (mostly mou ntet), 25,000 death by drowning shortly after 69) control, the firemen leaped up the These figures are based on the assumption that there will be no OMick last evening. He was rescued |purned stairs while the steps were hiteh in the operation of transport arrafigements during the next three . by the crew of the steamer Port Or-| crumbling under their feet, and put ‘weeks, seit Uensiay dh chard. Dean in some manner fell from | out the fire in the upper part of the (By Scripps News Asn) the wharf at Pier 2. Capt. Mitchell building. | The fire started In the northeast wrner of the billiard hall. For sev : the Port Orchard, which yas nea ONDON, Mareh was learned this evening on the highes LONI larch 2.—It 4 this « the highest tres tn her inoe ere t dipiomatic authority that no overtures have been made to Japan or SILENCE AT PORT ARTHUR antes authority that no etares have rem saat to Japan ot [tbe 'mas fa and Stance understood that Japa e¢ them careful attention and possibly | to their poste. : | Salida agre assured that her vital Interests will be suffictently protected. Ais thee veanel bore down on the | g Newspaper Ente "in nt Ene | OQUL DN’ T me i the swellest wedding: of society. The bride LONDON, March 2—No confitmation of the repor Sreerceeilipmaionen the steamer, threw the Japanese had bombarded Port Arthur hax been r and, without a moment's hesitation, is Lady Marjor the earl and countess of point. ‘The wires trot the scene of war have bee VLADIVOSTOK MAY BE CUT OFF jumped in after it when I PROVE IT Warwick, one < families in England, past 24 hours, and in some quarters this «iter ter reached him the latter's | Th tegro 1 heir of the earl of Fe- ‘%, great attack on Port Arthur is actually in progress and —_ arm peg that it by | | r 7 de Er a Aksar wetias tae bates ‘Gindentions ie for him to «wim, and ft was viscountess te & . . quently the use of the wires has been discontinued. ~— ge tg a, ‘ der is bu c and i onte te be se most (By Scripps News A: ad @hip's boat, manned by Mate Malor Chat @ double tragedy wae prevents ben |. The boat, which landed the two men| FRANK JOHNSON FAILED TO Ter, | im Aatety, was in the. water just one | rt land a halt mi sounding| ESTABLISH INTEREST IN ave ‘of the m held b i , TENDERLOIN SALOON | ST. PETERSBURG, March CHINA’S QUIET PREPARATIONS = | "=o" es received from VI a at Chung-Ct rth enxan, Korea. The ob- | Page on board : Tee eat Moree benny aha Je expeditt be the threatening of Hunchun, @ | eng Port ' : g will shortly involve China. The cipal Chin iatance southwer tok err Thos a EEE N W , Superior Judge Bel) this | }that Charley Williams, propric { SEVEN THS : _ onl | THE PRESIDENT CAN FORK OVER THE FIFTY MILLION DOL- ; of a ha a LARS FOR THE PANAMA C ANAL | He atte ™ [haa inane his Williama, lites ting the nature of a do soy Seton 1. Also that he is authory id 1111) Minte to- ent WASHING TC y to new canal com< the 1 Mf had trumped ap i Pari aur . f . obtain pomseasion of $10,000 the pre t benk, which he laimed he h ’ ¥ at tio » onnection with the aafm port of the money he should | the te Pa ‘ & t al company prop= have received from the sale sta | Stpulated rms ¢ y ty st more than ing property Dawson, | The 7 triniewns an i ved affai " @n trial before Huperior Jt vgn fat odd thines ; nearly two Mx-nevenths of th mule, ! Sldimed he more than ¢ =" MORE DELAY : | HIS HOUSE FLOODED | | | On ace " f t |) Jobn Staut a or be tre | pan & Malting upplications for + alt gated tment of a receiver for the pos Maglite ‘emple association and for an in the alt the proposed labor ition not argued last evening, | Mardin The 6 night before Judge George [pect street and OF Chalets, “eoustty : Jensen, a Danish sailor about ra} 20 ye age, Was committed to} t Bonney-Watson ¢ the i asylum by Super ing from Spokane, | Judge Bell yesterday afte n. He} Tt , held from the} just er long cruise, Jensen has | rs Senkass ‘ Mis ware fi j r M ‘ n at} be insane only few weeks and] or ~—— fternoon. Rev. } {t is Chought that his dementia is of | ° TH . y HERS ADVANCING ON RUSSIAN POSITION UNDER FIRE 1, % 1 a temporaty natire te ‘ « army