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' ? Be BF e eae . e 4 S SIXTY-EIGHT WORKINGMEN GURSE SEWARD IN CHO A Square Extension Table MECHANICS AND LABORERS WHO RETURNED they do work, it Is only for tow TANANA We worked for several days and then ¥ © laid off i as in ere CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IS DEVOTING MORE |for about tw: ‘and did have single day's wor a my THAN TO |trade ase mechanic, I'was told by RAILROAD BUILDING plenty of it, but got left when 1 reached Beward There | was given to take It in order to live. ‘Talk about the food! That was days at a tine FROM ALASKA ON THE BERTHA SA Y¥ for about two months and did not TIME TO BOOMING THE COUNTRY the officials here that thore was — work as a common laborer, and had limit; but we had to eat it, or Sixty-eight mechanics and labor- keep many of the poor fellows at | ¢) EE eis "cee von, Sak ine Seward who atarve. » man could work on that In golden oak, with quartered oak mounce the Tanana Construction food, and that is probably why they finished top, #x-foot extension, 3% Company as the builder of a “fake WOULD GLADLY COME BACK kept laying us off every little while inch round carved legs. Thin table The whole bunch of us were laid fx heavily and strongly built and Failroad intended only to bewuile! here if they Workingmen into the wilds of Alaska for its own purposes, ar rived from the north on the steamer Bertha last evening. They went from Seattle two months ago to work on the Alaska Central rativoad and are now per fectly content to 4m elty and run their chances of carn the design js neat and tasteful Price, $11.50 Monarch Malleable Iron and Steel Ranges—Acorn Ranges—La clede Ranges—-all full guaranteed—$30 up. Any range we have, $5 down and $5 per month. We offer $30 cash for any Monarch had a chance. off time and again, and no reason About fifty mon were working| was given us The company’s men for a few days before we left. We) tried to sell us prospecting tfite Were laid off in order to let them/and also wanted to get us to take #0 to work contract work, a0 we would buy our G W. Vance, of Seattle, is an-| tools from them. other who came down on the Bertha We are not the only ones wh and has a tale of woe to tell | came and there are many more There is no language that ean) who would gladly get out if they ing & living. They all speak as one "YY describe the way we were) could save enough m MAN Tegarding conditions at Sew-| treated at Seward and the schemes | their expenses down ard and the treatment they claim the company is working to keep | great deal better off in Seattle than to have received from the Tanana ™en there In order to develop the | up there. He can earn as much and Construction Company country,” said he, “The company's/ save a great deal more, and have “It is a long story, but every man Officials give more thought to get-| something to eat once in a while who went up there with me will tell ting men to go out prospecting and| ‘The other members in the party you that it is true,” sald bh. H./ take up claims, than to bullding the | were ‘True, a carpenter, who seemed to road. They ant to « be acti as spokesman for the ing outfits to the men a party. “There ts absolutely j ey to pay A man in a Range sold by us, no matter how long used. (. L. Holmes Furniture Co. 1101-1103-1105 Second Ave. for any man unless he is willing to work for $2.50 per day and give all that back to the construction com pany. The officers of the company here represented that there was | wey, | (Continued from Page One.) PEOPLE AND THE CORPORA si . | TONS This may seem like the In a very fow words Mullen an-|*t&tement of a demagogue, but it! by the opponents of the measure| Protected. I don't mee how the city work for skilled mechanies, such| @s carpenters, but there is not ‘ joan jose, but it has much to gain. 1 segree with Mr. Cole, qually emphatic in their de pect: | nunctations of the construction com when | pany and its alleged mothods when he | “Every safeguard that 4 a franchine 1 thin one erican Improvement of thie franchise) “i+ THE COMPANY WANTS were written in detail it would is some sort of hine that it on put on the market and sell 1 want inform Mr. Cole,” re It would be amusing if the mat-| Marked ¢ that h vital im- | Pressure has been brought to be tance. I realize that tremendous 9% ™me in thie matter, except that amure has been brought to bear ™*"y Of my constituents have tx asking me ab the efty in pretty well p: has @ chan er were not one of m @ay's work at Seward for anybody which to work \ Chairman Bowen of the corpora-| “They tell us that there are not . » placed ar tools snough there with which to. CAESAR YOUNG'S COMPANION NOT ADMITTED TO | or ine are whether the be are f 4] MOk® armusing than the constant at so long as the city is pro-| (dance of Mr. Cole, who was not! eo badly that they generally throw HER ed. the tools away and the company | If the city can make $3,600 in ! have steady work at good wages. Young was buried today at the Ken- Patterson on ball, and demand IN THIS FRANCHISE THAN) but we always| “When I got to Seward ory. Mra. Nan Patterson that she be held without bail, pend ANY FRANCHISE EVER | fated. 4 this prop-| " Clark of the supreme court and ap-| davit of William Luce, a brother-in Seaabie wegee ba uy there they plied for a writ of habeas corpus, law of Young, in which Luce de sleep or get his outfit. | Mra. Patterson was brought into tle woman has some letters which I “There were many men like my- court garbed entirely in black and must get from her. I'm 0. of] Sete She mianBove of he eoucel 0) Ne he que on for wa to decide TOusht on eh Dee ro laborers, and then only long enough) about to leave her, and in the strug- Patterson and the three remained to ae See aeons Steen te Sines | Le aud Geneon t to pay their board, and, once in a gle for possession of the pistol, he gether until 3 o'clock Sat xcept common iaborers. The com mittee with a tingle of| work, but it's not true There are bas them to sell over again | — | fold coin within 69 days, If the com we considered was the one of finan THERE WAS NO WORK still languishes in jail, the coroner! ing the investigation Into Young's PASSED BY TH COUNCIL | omitia on the! give & man just enough to keep him ut On the representation of L clares that on Friday evening | wake INTERESTING READING self, who went to Seward upon the! wearing a heavy voll. She had re- her, and I do not know but what re the defeat of the ordinance or for, "The elty is amply protected while, enough to get back to Seat-\ was killed. morning. Mra. Patterson did < vies te ations. If we believe tn the people at la pany is hiring some men as com- mon laborers, but the officials pre fer to let out jobs by contract, so they can sell the men tools with ompany being unable to se n his voles, “that « good! we 2 " its bonds is rot. I don’t know any able things transpired in| plenty of tools if a man will take BAIL—NEW THEORY THAT SHE ATTEMPTED | iying about ga bonds, but I ittee during the discussion | i job on contract and bu: ~ » sure the je of this city do not| Of Wie franchise, but nothing w fob on cmtract and pey| SUICIDE AND HE WAS KILLED IN DISARMING :S) the men buy tools they are treated jor drt that the first question went up there as a carpenter and . any does not make 4, T want|l! reepensibility, At every meet ‘was given to understand by the (By Beripps News Ass'n) the coroner that he was not war-| the city to get the money. | THINK | !°€ We tried to learn what financial! company before I left that I would) NEW YORK, June 7.—Caesar/ ranted by law in the release of Mra. THE CITY IS BETTER PROTECT backing A having refused to release her on death Counctiman Cole, who has cham-| Part © t oun and for| 000, which he had previously! It transpired that this action by|vioned the franchise from the be-| that reason I opposed it. It ts od sey + goer ag AS ay ha MY! fixed. Mra. Patterson's counsel this Mr. Jerome wan due to the fact that |!=ning, made a strong mpeech in tte| to me that See caboree ee setutaing te Seat. morning appeared before Justice |he has in his possession an affi- Alive, and if he is dissatisfied they trict Attorney Jerome that he had Young told him that he was going offer to sell him an outfit so that) 20t had sufficient time to prepare out to see Mra. Patterson he can go prospecting. But he has for the case, adjournment taken| “He asked me to go with him, to have money before he can eat, until this afternoon. the affidavit says, “saying, ‘The lit | representation of the company that gained her composure. she might kill me. I'm through nae et dan tens Otnjany dove oot abe | they would be able to get work at| A new theory of Young’s death is with her. I intend to break It off| \), (°8" Sn me mud ot why mini. | their respective trades, but they that the woman attempted to com-| tonight ma |. eee Oe greene tet bee bese! were given work only as common mit suicide because Young was uce went with him and met Mre. oe cal ty faver the m Following the coroner's announce-| have the letters with her, be Seem, thes ie wo sanata wier| 2 6 Gt Wont & Geo this ordi “The food furnished us Ws ment yesterday afternoon of the and, according to Luce, it was fof new eectric and «as sanien|MANCe Go back into the hands of the| Seareely fit for hogs, and we were continuance of the Caesar Young in-| this reason that Young telephoned should not be allowed to enter the °TPOrations committee aga obliged to pay Fs week for itr! quest and his willingness to release her to meet him on Saturday, ask-|ficid under the same conditions as Col after Gill had made « im: They took out # month for srg Nan Patterson on $5,000 ball,|ing her to bring the letters with | those now here that it be referred back. “The fees no matter whether a The mittee has already fritters worked two days or thirty | District Attorney Jerome notified her Th y frittered away all ‘ompany ae ad of the present term of the counc Qne man there was given two days’ ite gas, it haw got the compas fy snsent 7 werk to keep him from starving! | bmersion with a crew aboard, | takes the trout about 26 amendme and now it} and the comapany took out the a ame to the surface at 11 o'clock 10th of each month comes along with « n ity report | ae Bal too just the same Fs morning. Th: test was de-|duced 10 cents. This is being done ***!¥ing the whole thing. The! Concannon, a Seattle seoahiistel elared satinfactory In view of the fact that the ¢ minority re © upheld who came back on the Bertha, has The chief proviat mpany, when «iven of the fran 4 lawt night, are the * similar story to in equally} Hine plain language. He says he was ¥ ~ oad following PROMISED STEADY WORK - ty fore he left Seattle, but was disap-| pointed, and upon his arrival at| PAY FOR THE AIR RIGHT TO PURCHASE ard found that there was abso-| FOUN ¢ plant Sutaly nothing for © mechanic to do,| M/8S!NG RINGS WERE FOU ° | “I do not see what harm it ts go- | th plant at an appraised value, but "I never got left so badly in my| IN A QUEER HIDING PLACE do the peng f this city to). ~ hell be placed upon the life,” said Concannon yesterday.| hance to buy gas at $1 for “1 expected, from the promises i sminating purposes and at made by the company here, to get jcents for tuel steady work at my trade When i| Mrs. Emma Cade of 321 N mos The gument has been mad for a 90 years At any time the city has the nstruction must be done un der the mupe m of the board of| works, Only one block of street and « th | CITIZENS” ALLIANCE arrived at Seward there was noth- avenue south, missed several valu that there is m f another | * blocks of unpaved fmg for me to do but shouider s|able rings and a nugset stickpin a} MOUND TO EARTH EVERY gas company few of the large | street can be torn up at one time to pick and shovel and go to work at few days ago. Suspecting a woman) MAN KNOWN TO CARRY A) Uo UD! Of clectricity that wilt n\* ae he an $2.60 a day. I was given to under- named Mrs. Fortney and the lat be thrown upon the city, This ia| Within 10 days from the passage stand that mechanics were wagted ter's daughter, “Bee,” of the theft,| UNION CARD IN COLORADO 2! (rue, because gan experta Know 0 Apergy ed 0 company must | om bridge work and the like at Mrs, Cade had a search warrant is-| that the great future of ene n| furnish cash bonds, This will be something like $4.50 per day, but Isued for an examination of the) ™!NING DISTRICT te use for fuel. I am frank to say forfeited if the company ao net got left. two rooms which the Fortneys) | that the present leers of the w | noone 4 o tres hine hin 60 days. “The whole scheme is a fake from|rent from her. Yesterday after-| jcompany have not sow the money | | in 10 days after accepting it] |to build their plant, But they know | 'h* company must furnish a surety start to finish. They give a man noon Deputy Sheriff Mike Kelly) yicrroR, Colo., June 7 about enough work to keep him made a thorough search of the) ox 15 : there, and if he becomes dissatis- piace and was about to give up in fied they want to sell him an outfit despair when his attention was at with which to go prospecting. A tracted to a large doll's head rest At noon) of capitaliats in the east w re had been imprisoned in| take their bonds if they cas the armory here and t number | reasonable franchise Will be increased three fold by night ‘Cas bonds of western ¢ are | of this nt w#hall be returned few men there took small stretches Ing innocently on a shelf in a Hundreds of men on horseback | in great mand on Whit street, 1| This bond is forfeitable if the com o Stes Gaui te commest |Gaek: guard the places of egress from the | don't that it makes any differ. | 5 fis to carry out any ‘of the The company likes to have men do| A brilliant thought struck Kelly,|°4™P to prevent the escape of the) ence to this council whether thes te Sranchiae or te sen that because it can sell them iools,|He searched the doll’s head. It| UAloniste. WB cae Ee nar nes | anes ae eee ee end Wal the mon later get dia.| was stuffed with @ lot of old rags| No distinction is being made by | Wn money or borrowed cash. James ne ys wil bond of $ 9 and depomit $25,000 in got «| Fold OF tts equivalent with the city treawugér, After 1916 all but $25,000 | r these nto the olty Susted and throw the tools away, and in these th missing jewelry, the mob, who have the names of the A Mo recently turned from th ehtion fund The company can then sell the| Was found concealed. Mrs. Fort-\men wanted. T Het incinaen | C08? Senouncing that he had alt, ae Deve a enbeehty tools over again ney and her daughter were ordered|¢very man known to carry a union| P0*4 of $300,000 of bonds in con. | Bulliclent to furnish 1 0 cubi “The company ts employing only to appear in Justice Gordon's court/card. Over 1,000 armed men, under | 2*O"0" > i a gh a eel oe > get andle power every enough men to make a showing, to explain matters. the newly appointed sheriff, are Rog Moog had ad grt He: “ Z 9 pleted b and the work is not going on as| When questioned by the prose- searching the towns and hills in the| Oy \1, the wads ne 7 oo hat oe bead though a railroad is to be built, [ CUting attorney this morning both/ district for members of the West Pale an aUibE aieke dames ee @o not believe the road will ever mother and daughter disclaimed|ern Federation of Miners be built by the all knowledge of how the jewelry y men who are doing . members of t porations com- | the la f distributing mains th the work now, for in a short time | managed to get into such a place ] jm at first, Buta company munt be at wT the construction company will not; 1%? Sir! i# but 13 years old and) ah we Bi. was dismissed with a fatherly lec A CPERTAIN ATTORNEY WORK IN EVERY WARD | ig Pyne nditb *8Y ture from Prosecuting Attorney | | showing. The men are coming out | grott | who sald he repr ted J. A. Moore! in the et The case of the mother will be] PULSED nnd the Denny-Bilaine Land Con : n 90 days after beginnt mains are laid 10 or} within 40 acres of the | of contiguous territory, upc 8 fast as they can get money to pay their fares, but thix is almost . fuapossible. The company will not | Yo entedt_further i work @ man long enough for that |e ’ t ad- | tract uke gas for a year, shall if It can prevent it SUBMARINE (Special to The Star) mit tt {ttee have it furnished them upon making "A man is given work for a tew Reuter's Strnia | “Sein hange| written demand upon the company. | LONDON, June 7 od. of feelir in the) Th mpany shall be subject to B AT A correspondent reports a fierce bat Piece u ‘ - ’ tle between British troops and the! “some of the committeemen were|spector, If one Ia appointed, | in appointed days and then laid off. He eats up! all he earned and then has to work at anything in order to k » alive. iar aE Tee aataunny soothe Tibetans. The latter attacked the/ then able to discover f The whole plant ia to be forfeited} pit } |post at Khan Gema and were re-|franchine that they had n to the elty if it or any of It im idl SMART CLOTHES, Heraid, 129 2na. NEWPORT, June 7.—A Holland pulsed, losing 164 killed, The Brit-|of before. 1 THLL YO f x consecutive months ' ve Sub-marine boat, after twelve hours’ wh lost one Killed and fave wounded. A PLAIN I8S8UB BE'TWREN The price for gu» shall be as fol | structed. FS The July Designer Vl Dar a “Cats, £08 VECOMD AVE» MA WGOM RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. : vig Anniversary Sale Just Look At This Now on ale cattle never has known more pronounced bar- gains nor greater e-giving. Although immense reductions are made th I ntire stock we Bargains in uits and SKirts d browns and fancy guaranteed for perfect fit and satis faction; with nflate their value, we can say that they are just the same kind of garments that have sold all the season at $17.50, $19 and $20; take your choice now of a lars woth 50 ment, at, each seeeeecee LADIES’ WALKING SKIRTS, of choice ol materials, in plain black, brown, blue, gr d champagne, as well array of fancy mtix- tures in shades of brown, green, gray and black and white, showing many handsome effects in golf plaids and invisible stripes; made with habit backs and inverted pleats; tastefully finished with self-colored strappings and tai- lored buttons; value Sf $7.00 and $9.00; take your choice rt ent on on Pees miner a 5.00 LADIES’ WALKING SKIRTS, of fancy Scotch mixtures and plain blue and black cheviots and serges; made with habit backs and inverted plea very swell and dressy garments for the street; regular values $10 to $12.50; now priced at, each .........0cceeeenee “$ » 5 (@) LADIES DRESS AND WALKING SKIRTS, of voiles, etamines, sharkskins, venetians and broadcloths, in blue, black, brown, champagne and white; made up in the new fitted yokes with full flare, trimmed with silk piping and bands of taffeta, and valued all the way from $12.50 to bende of at gd vale a he wy fom $01 $10.00 Wool Dress Goods We are noted for having the most reliable line of Dress Goods in Seattle. There is satisfaction in every thread of this class of goods when purchased here. Why ?—b« sell the best and we are always ready to make right anything which looks wrong to you. Here's the way we are pricing these goods no FINE WOOL MIXTURES—The best collection so-cent dress materials we have ever shown, comprising plain and fancy effects in shades of brown, tan, green, red, blue, gray and black and white. These goods measure from 36 to 38 inches in width and the variety and wealth of patterns is surprising, to say the least. Sale price, while they last, per yard se eeeewererees ee eeeeeevece O seesveecesercees BLACK ALPACA, 36 inches BLACK ETAMINE, 45 inches wide, and worth 49c a yard; 3Ic wide, and worth $1.10 a yard; 8ic sale price ....... sale price ..... om | BLACK NUN’S VEILING, 38 | BLACK WOOL POPLIN, 45 inches wide, and worth 75¢ a 5dc | inches wide, worth $1.25 “05¢ yard; sale price ‘Satbubeen yard; sale price........... ‘ BLACK VOILE, 54 inches BLACK GRANITE, 4s inches wide, and worth $1.25 a yard 5c wide, worth $1.25 a yard; 05¢ @ Price ....000 sale price BLACK MELROSE, 45 inches BLACK GRANITE, 45 inches wide, worth $1.25 a yard; 5c wide, worth $1.00 a vat: 18 Sale price ...ccsceeeeeeer ens Gale price ...0.ccccncscses CREAM ETAMINE, 45 |} CREAM ALBATROSS, 38 inches wide, worth 75¢ a 50c inches wide, worth Goc * 45¢ yard; sale price.......+++ . yard; sale price........... GRAY HENRIETTA, COLORED VOILE, inches 38 inches wide, oak, 7sc a Ac wide, navy and champagne, 5c yard; sale price.......... worth $1.25 a yard; sale price Thousands of Other Bargains All Over the Store McCarthy Dry Goods Co. Second Ave. and Madison St. OF nee raenasreetnreresntinnsnntntin setts rithmic, ee the bow. The concert will be un- wernt, Sanminesng Se Sues; COFTAGE CITT IN \ec0 ten’ wamticn at Oe toe purposes, $0 cents, until 1916. After | - Musical Club. 1916 until 1926 the price shall be 90} 75 cents and 70 cents, and th remainder of the fran it shall be 80 cents, 65 cents and 60 cents, direct your attentio) toc Handsomely tailored spring mixed least t ut attempt a handsor ause we buy the best, we lows; Tluminating gas, $1; fuel The steamer Cottage City arrived) . — jin port this morning from South-| OTHER AMUSEMENTS. | ern Alaska with sixty passen-| “The Buffalo Myste a strong gers. Gus Thompson, in charge of] melodrama by Lawrence Ruasell, § |United Stetes Marshal James M.|drawing splendidly at the Third iD, arrived on the vessel. TELEGRAPH BRIEFS | Saomieen is being taken to Mc-| “Prince Romiro,” a revival of Neil's island, where he will serve! which {s being given at the Alca- |two years for attempting to murder|zar, is as popular as when firet 15 tallen ‘weenen tn faa Loctre the given. A souvenir matinee will be PUEBLO, Colo, June 7—~The |#ter at Juneau two months ago.| given tomorrow a afternoon. state Democratic convention to se- rehal Shoup also hes in charge lect ten delegates to the national |tW Insane patients for the asylum) convention at St. Louts, met today, |“* Mount Tabor, Ore. The delegates will probably go in-| (By_ Scripps News A WENZEL KOPTA pees A293.) epee A troop of! Wenzel Kopta, that most bril SAN FRANCISCO, June 7.—The ed by « for Mant of all young Bohemian violin-| Pacific Mail freighter Algoe struck of Japanese near Takushan iste, will give a recital at Christen-| 4 lege of rock off Point Bonita this re " a on’s hall tonight. In hie wn) morning, tearing a great hole in MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 7.—~| country he earned the title of “wiz-| her side, She got off without assist- Gerlach’s malt house was burned | ard,” and his concerts on this stde| and reached the wharf with thirteen this morning, entailing a loss of | ha been nothing less than ova-! feet of water in her forward peak. $90,000, itions for the youthful master of Her cargo was badly damaged. MUKDEN, June 7.—-War cc spondents have been granted mission to proceed south