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. i 4 CITY DADS WANTED ALL SORTS COMPANY GRANTED THEM—GAS TRUST WILL INNING AT NEXT MEETING The corporations committee of the ety councll, consisting of Councilmen Bowen, Rude, Benjamin and Zbinden tore the American Improvement com, pany"s {1 gas franchise to pieces yes terday afternoon and picked out al the flaws they could find. The re of the mest asked, and finally Bowen a effort to think of » sion that might be inserted 1 franchise for the benefit of th sumers. nounced the vee satle fied. Counelimen Crichton and and City Eng n were pres ent at the meeting. The gas trust, as veual, had a ographer present t take down everything that was said HM. R. Citse and other of its offictals will be orv mN AN INNING ting of the committee Topcoat ts the 33 Inche model. It's short and fitting. Made in cloths, in shade tan and otive, also in black. This is the favorite coat for spring and is being worn by the best dreseed men in town. J. Redelsheimer & Co. Strongest Topcoat House In the State. 800-804 First ave., cor. Columbia THOSE WHO LIKE A large stock to select from will find (not in our mind nor on paper), but on our wareroom floors, where they can be seen, one hundred and twelve (112) Pianos, Organs and| Stmplex Plano Players. This has reference to our retall floors only, 4 does not include the reserve ‘ock in our wholesale warehouse in the new Eagle building, corner Sev- enth avenue and Pine street. j ‘We have in stock a large variety of designs, sizes and colors—the fa- mous old Chickering & Sons, the artistic Hobart M. Cable, the cele others, Our large facilities enable! us to quote very attractive prices on the entire line, and we on very Nberal terma. THESE ARE SNAPS We accumulated a great many second-hand pianos and organs re- cently, which were taken in ex- change on new instruments during our big sale, some practically as good a6 new, yet all will be sold at extremely low prices. It will pay you to investigate these great bar- gains. | A CARE FUL HEARING Wt eastly and quickly convince you of the superiority of the “Simplex! Piano Pinyer” over all others. A| large assortment to select from. | Price, $260, sold on easy paymenta. A LITTLE WINNER The Columbia Talking, Laughing,| Singing or Band-Piaying Machine (whichever you are a mind to call it.) A half hour spent in this de- partment will-tnterest and amusa ou. Machines from $7.50 to $100 cords from 5c to $2. Aino a large stock of Violins, Banjos, Man- dolins, Guitars, Music Boxes, etc., ete. ).S. JOHNSTON (0, 903 Second Ave. Burke Bidg. Phone it Now SEE PAGE 6 ; ann r pm! that will pay you to / palring of Complicated Watch. Louis Klodt Jewelry Co, Mew Location Beocond Avenue OLLAR GAS FRANCHISE IS APPROVED BY The COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCESSIONS * humiliated and in her ot endorse It husband's endorsement, which agent selling the ticket had] tw agreed to, than @ million pe WRECKED SCHOONER LEFT mu cous ask.” (Special to The Star.) VICTORIA, B. C, April 7.—The reported from Clayoquet yesterday | as being upside down off the west ot | lished by the return to this port of amer Tee hise already t operated tr It makes it tnew rekeeper to the WITHIN NINE after the work wae the master of 653 tons burden| nd @ new ship, Indians but there is no such name in| ten’ bee James Dollar, Cap- the shipping Mete and the Kailua ts/ only latitud STRIP MEDICINE OF IT’S MYS clent distri provided that the company must have simultaneously with the La- Within ninety had & cargo of 1,000,000 feet of lum- © within half « mile doctors will diag She was commanded by Captain The fore part of her deck ts Grassy isiand, near Kyoquot, petan and winch attached. bull, containing the lumber, 1 up on Bajo pol |of her crew has Barkley sound ts full of wrecka, | trom the Lamorna, including twenty} he Cinds a! hatches, deckhouse work tn hard- . *\ wood, wheat and chaff, clearly en- b stimulates | tabliahing the fact that she found- the application mn Bowen suggested that tee be shown financial backing. re and import in practice can provement company this matter He will experiment and know them to be honorable men, capable of carrying on the enterprise in which ‘They can easily @ sider that they did wing me to nego they propose fm bound to} me « favor tate the sale. “A New York company has already ship of the bonds. * way of eradi- accepted the other day 1 rec & bonding company in New York #' } ing that the bonds would be placed as soon ae the FPRANCHIS: J telegram from _ FOR SEATTLE who am writing ¢ WAS GRANTED. , © of the mort powerful pulpit orators In the church, has resigned from the pastorate and go to fll @ call to the First church Seattle. He expresses his regret icovine nore. but mare 0" Trial Package Sent Free to All Who Write, by Mall, Post- health of his wife demands it a son and daughter. He has paid, In Plain Wrapper—Write Today. en in the pastorate he ts resigning five years “Gas bonds in a growing Western | brated Kimball, the beautiful Had-| city like Seattle are gilt od dorff, the reliable Pease, the popular| street. They a new D. 8. Johnston & Co. and many 4re_siways valuable. “The consum ‘The company wants t 2-inch mains 90 as to insure Then they can be eni where any of the q be " Methodist church, here, was id, we uned whe pout the matter this after “But the best fea na as far as the sale « ture of the ma appointment of Dr. Wharton to this pastorate. He said: “Perhaps Bishop Ham- offered him the call and he had written his accepta | an Bishop Hamilton t# now] ling, he may not have ye 1 the acceptance, so that offt- Action may not yet The people want 81 gas. we atrengthe usted with the tacti “etre the gas for five years, and that ni’ ber will soon be incr “The average He would not sig less he Intended to abide company does any same cut will city, not only where ther That is a pr sage could hardly have orig: with a numt | cece oair Hh WILL HOLD A suburbs will be able ney is ready practical ex gas trust is now it to lull the sion that his pains are ROBBING THE Ho lt the gus burner in and with two measu showed what the disappearing A mans meeting of the property| of Madison str “One of theve burners,” he explained. {il consume five | in one hour under a academy, at 1 street, to protest against the spectal I wilf place it on & month's trial anseaninent that st the property in the district for the opening of F through Squire F and southward. At a meeting held a w sure becomes higher tha pear the whole there {s waste. 4 Restorative muc- doen in 29 ont of 40 cases, the patient fore th t in but 95.00, of poor qual- | committee aght to be 2. f between % to 6 cand) large part of | hat in because tude in regard to the matter, It wil report tonight | one. aitew, ‘nerve and brain. tinny ene fat, and quickly reduces | your weight Co normal, It takes off that Name is bive. alr is forced into the pipes, too small to © | The meter spine around just as fast} when air is going through it as when 95 goes through It roperty owners have already ight the case into court and the| the big stomach and relte hearing will begin Monday. romned The objection to the am that the pi prising 1 You pay for the ‘The pressure should be regulated but ft ts we the bilie go up and consumers do not understand why.” | at the moter, Ap @ result, tra nich are soon to| Will feel a hundred tim mul. Senate, aren See . day you try this wonderful home each provision of the franchise, ia by ali druggists, placed on the market 4 THE SEATTLE STAR HURT HER CENSUS BUREAU'S ESTIMATE | EELINGS OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES The sult of Louls Bromseau sgutnst Northern Pacific Railway Com pany is on trial before Judge Mor (By Beripps News Aan'n.) Mra. Hromsoau demands $1,999) wagnINGTON, April ~The census on the ground that #h¢] bureau made public today ite estt wventenced mates of the population of the United being unjustly ejected from one! states for M01, 192 and 1%, based on defendant's passenger traina| the figures of 160. The pfesent popu- 1 route from Denver'to Seat~| lation, exclusive Alaska and insular The conductor refused to ac-| possoastons, is placed at 19,000,389, ticket, claiming that It had] ‘The population of Ban Francisco, hased from a acalper 266,019; New York, 3710189; Chicago, complaint Mrs, Brosseau | 1473400; Philadelphia, 1,907,716; Bt that the conducted refused m0; Cleveland, 414,980; Cis ai. Vy wtates, New York, Pennsylvania, 6,000,000 Tinos, Texas, 8,000,00 Texas has Missourl, ar ly y-two states now that have less pulation, rely because she c a refused to ac THE CAPTAIN OF THE ois * = IT'S THE CRUIGER nossia es KAILUA LUDLOW A MONTH laden schooner which was CAPT, CONSTANTINE ARNAN- Vancouver taland proves TOer to be the schooner Katlua, about al The bie Rursian cruiser the first-class, Rossia, now of the month out from Port Ludlow. best Yemels in the Viadivostok fly- ing squadron, commanded tity has just m eatab-| ¢ sytan of the nrat ¥ nk Ca a = tine Arnaritort which had gone de of the tsland to} went for signs of wreckage | talk with the storekeeper at Nootka, had personally visited the} ne of the may that her Kailua, that she was Both of the xtremely rough voyage * and Seward the Pacific Navigation Com- @ her nw ain arrived in port at @ late hour last night. Two days aft jeaving Valdex the veasel ran into ¢ of the worst storms on those waters wines last fall, A strong t. Bho] *Utheast gale awept across the Gulf of Aluske. against which the Dollar was bie to make headway and was forced to lay to for twenty- four hours. During the gale a huge sea board- od the veasel and smashed in a num- ber of the cabin windows, flooding the Interior of the main saloon, On the trip north the Dollar had fine weather. At Valdes the cold ip Mkely to be In the s the derelict was| The Kaffua put to which was also No elgn m found, nied now and then by snow and prompectors who have for the win+ ter months been camping In the vi- cinity of Valder are now well on thetr way into the mountains, Rev, George Gable of the stated that no notification been received here of the! ce. In that re-| © been I presume it must be true Wharton ts coming here, an dation. 1 onl Whar request | ! under consideration | r of others.” MASS MEETING ———— | in the district lying and east of Bi Twentieth avenue will be ath tonight In Ridgeway's riding | The Above‘ilustration Shows the Remarkable Effects of This Wonderful Obgpity Food—What it Has Done for Others it Will Do for You. Mr. Arthur K. W; who tried this tr fifect of your ¢ East Columt as been lévied |, Mxchde fat In a disease. It te caused by Imperf: assimilation of food. Nu- triment which should go into muacie, rteqnth av-| sinew, bone, brain and nerve does 1 Dut piles up in. the form ue fat, which cle the hy machinery, and compresses t | organs of the body th and ite Ww Obesity Food, taken at compels perfect agsimilation “i and sends the food nutri- ok Ago a onsiating of Charles Lin J. Ca and W. W. E ted to Interview all prop. ra and find out thelr Jon proc You can t. ft makes muscle, | dieting of stary t all you wa ut of the com- pperty owners of a dintrict | liver to 9 blocks are ansenned| ™ ment that wilt blocks In the § ural manner. > dieting, exercine or ex Only! necessary, My — natural, uire| Oberity Food does all th improv a fe fir A FARCE EXAMINATION MASSACRE WAS A MOCKERY RERLIN, April 7 today reports that preliminary elal examination into the of Jews at Home magistrates * bullied with | | the remuit that nor implicated wiil un IT'S UP TO CORTELYOU EIGHT-HOUR LABOR LAW REFERRED TO HIM (By Beripps News Aas'n.) 6 committee by a vote of 6 to 3 the eight-hour to inventigate Thin delays next session. house until th ARGUMENT THE BOTKIN CASE IS NEARING ITS FINISH (By Gorippe News Ass'n.) FRANCISCO, April 7.—Dis- Byington began the closing argument ase this morning. day, so the case ma) not go to the jury until tomorrow The prisoner listened » arguments with bowed bi | closed cyen and shaking like a leaf. The prosecutor clatmed that a com- plete nnd conclusive chain of cir- cumstances had been woven about |the prisoner and demanded her life ¢ forfeited for the murder of Mra. will speak a! COSS IS GUILTY —— Willie Cons, charged with crimi- wave has broken and rain, sccompa-| nally assaulting Mra, Mary Finnell, | a widow, at Maple Valley last De- convicted by a jury In the superior court Ist night. jurors deliberated but evidence showed that Cons, who is & mere boy, was in- toxicated at the time he committed The Dollar brought @ small lat eee rants, “wee, My New Obesity Food Quickly Reduces Weight to Normal Without Dieting, Exercise, Exertion or Any Effort he will Whatever on Your Part, and Is Absolutely Sate. hall, has set in The miners and) cember, w } the crime. 0 of Abingdon, flight of atalrs without blow . Was miserable from might have drop: were | morn ull nix dead any minute. food iligently for seven days and was thunderstruck breath naturally; ped the ponies Att. | Ment where It belongs, It requires no 287; nt weeks was pounds, which Dr. Jones, my physician, said was normal. eet two high and of large fra et down nearly 100 pounds is Jones says you are & genius; I'say you are the wonder of endorse your s the best life-saving de vice ever Invent and will try condition and enables the heart to act freely and the lungs to xpand naturally and the kidneys and m thelr functions in a to be of as much service to you as you have to me. | work. You today to Prof. F. J. Kellogs, Rattle Creek, Mich and recelve the trial packs wrapper free by return m ———— POSTPONED WOULD BE DELEGATE | wae ! F.C, Harper business man, a te for Jel » from thin mt to the na we tional Republican conventi | fo in June, few tn t . shes Third precinct of tt 1 a | . QUIET AT PANAMA | h cloth Hi PANAMA, Aj Freight traf-| gecond avenue has been suspended t ~ g of the atrike, A julet and th authoritte prepared to mair ‘ ne Corsets Hosie ry and and Under- Under- muslins RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. wear WASH GOODS BARGAINS Washable Batistes im seventy Gifferent patterns, com- prising this season's chol atyles and the very lat ent rings, in stripes, polka dots, pretty sprays and figures—just the sort of m for an idea) summer tea gown, wray kimona or ¢ Jreng, 21 inches wide and priced for Friday, one only, at, @ yard 1l‘e In Our Suit Dep't. Splendid Garments, Suits, Skirts and Jackets, for Spring Wear--Special Friday LADIES SUITS of fan- cy seeded French Votle h tallored Emy oune Jackets, silk lined with large puffed sleever the ne correct shi 4 tastefully trimmed n green an braid and « straps of taffet fancy skirt with pleats and trim and ed with self - colored bands of feta; come in champagne, blue and black, the loveliest suit shown this season, at the price $25.00 LADIES SKIRTS in walking length, of fancy gray mixtures, very handsomely tat lored and = finished with tailor buttons and self-strappings— very neat-fitting and up-to-date garments— good value at 33.004 each; on sale tomor- row, Friday, at, each $4.50 : Spring Millinery A delightful hibit of new suggestions in Spring Mil- linery can be seen in our window, Expert milliners pro- nounce them works of art, d tasty dressers are pro- fuse in their pfaise and admirat Be sure you see these pretty hats and THE ELEGANT PATTERNS— THY CHOICE IDEAS IN DRESS HATS—THE w STYLES IN STREET HATS AND SAILORS AND THE NEW SCHOOL AND DRESS HATS FOR CHIL- DR IN OUR MILLINERY DEPARTM Stationery Dep't. Very Special Friday and Saturday 5,000 NEW MATTED PICTURES—a grand display of new and pretty decorations for the home—colored and black and white photogravures, mount on round, oval and oblong cards, sizes 15x20 to 18x27 Inches, reg- ular value 16e, 19¢ and 5c each; special price.....12%e NEW BOOKS—the Modern Authors’ Library—a splen- id collection of 420 titles In popular fiction—large at- tractive books, paper bounf; on sale at, each.. 10¢ JUST IN—1,000 boxes of Eaton Hurlbut's Fine Box Sta- tionery, blue, gray and white: on sale at, a box....250 To Know the Fashion Get the May Designer--lOc a Copy McCarthy Dry Goods Second Ave. and Company finest Cash TEALE-HILLS Credit FURNITURE & CARPET CO. The New Store’s Credit System As Applied to You One look at the building will convince you that this store is entitled to the name of “the daylight store”—we wish it were just as easy to convince you that it is THE CREDIT STORE. Come in and investigate the credit system—that’s the only way we can conyince you. New additions to the already satisfactory showing of carpets, draperies and furniture of all kinds are arriving every day—so you'll find what you want and can buy it as you want—cash or credit. Teale-Hills Furniture and Carpet Company Second Ave. and Unien St “The Liberal Credit System Will Interest Yeu”