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TH EH SEATTLE STAR-—SATURDAY, JUNE 1 190. B. C. LACROSSE LEAGUE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE, WITHDRAWAL OF WESTMINST A BAD CONDITION VANCOUVER, B. ¢ i As stated in a ¢ te Star June § the British Columbia La ane league is out done for ason. At a meeting of rep resentatives from Westminster, Vic torfa and Vancouver the rosigna tion of the firat-named club was acepted. This leaves the last tw amed towns only in the league and will necessitate the arranging of @ new schedule. For years the three teams have heen playing in this league and orosse of the finest Kind he en Witnessed. In fact, it ts well known that the Shamrocks of Montreal champions of the ways id, were al axious each season to come to British Columbia and meet any of these three teams, and on each occasion the game would t tended by thousands of all over the country, Westminste without a doubt, has bad the b team during the past five years Westminster claims that her team has not been setting falr treatment from Vancouver, a mateh last season being diaputed This match was to have been played last May, but Vancouver backed elatming that the refe had given Vancouver official notice. The fact of the matter is that Vancouver was afraid of being de not ER CLUB PLACES MATTERS IN jfeated. Therefore Westminster re-| signed from the league Neither the Vancouver nor Vie torla team . wv strong aa leat year and acroswe they will put] Mp Will not receive the patronage f the past, It ts the Intention to] ry and arrange exhibition games with Seattle and other teams in the Northwest league Sandy Cowan and Willy O'Brien, two of Victoria's best men, have gone to Winn Bd Kennedy, manager ¢ attle team, when ken to r garding exhibition games the Seattle and British © teams, stated that he od that the Victoria and Vancouver teams anxtous to have pattie and Tacoma join the British Columbia! league, but that thie would not be t the Northwest lolumbia believ ae league however, that dct finan ter-| disband He did not the Northwest band, as all four clubs were jally well fixed and we mined to make the game a sue oan thia side of the line, Mr pnedy al state that if any ition games were played with Canadian teams they would be the end of the m of the exh the at Northwest league's schedule. | wens LOVE DROVE HIM MAD AUGUST KELLIO’'S INSANITY DATES FROM THE RECENT SOME HITS AT NEWS AND ss HINGS BETTER BURY THE THESE BOYS. THAN AFTE 18 A HE BATTLE TRIFLE CONFI rik NEWS 3ING. PRICE PROPLE ARE PAY THEM UP BRCAUSE THE BAER THE DAY OF THE STRAW HAT ARKIVE nerusnr or wie sweerneant ro manny Him—senr to MEW CLOCK WILL KEEP TAB ON CITY HALL ME STEILACOOM THIS MORNIN a 1 | say | woman's few friends, who all pro test strongly against her death be ing aseribed to oplum. Several physicians attended | anion at different times, and U the “y that she suffered from ¢ Disappointment in love, nothing) young woman a short time ago,/ of the @omach. She was unable to ch mane 5 Au-| having every reason to believe that! retain any nourishment, and slow Saee, Mayeicians say, has caused Aw) ould be accepted. He was ly wasted away until death came to gust Kellio of this city to become) soomed to disappointment, how one ‘ end her misery Hopelessly insane. He was com-| ever as she refuecd hit on the) COMPTROLLER’S MEN, AT LEAST, ARE TO HAVE SOME |" Ton years ago Lucy Billings, later gd Btellacoom this morning pot and abruptly left the city. MEANS OF REGULATING THEIR GOINGS AND comINGs ure Hane. was a young country jor Judge ¢ > ellio had a severe attack of “the nk » her parents Heation of his relatives blues,” which about a week ago| Foster, in Lynn county, Ore. She » | Kellto proposed marriage to a! merged into Insanity y from home and went to a Yesterday afternoon was the most) it te sald that the system was not where she met and wa Mw. RRIAGE LICENSES | 23. both f Seattle, Willard FE. Jon important day in Seattle since the/ rely sfactory ie and won by a Coast, Soaee M4. of Fremont and Christabella , | The book took on a startling ap-| ly they were married with the con | Reeder ¢ Towa; John — Levi| Mt Republican convention, so far} | 1 ace one, it is said, that would| sent Of ber parents, Last June the 4 Rangs, nd Daixy Herndon, 20,|% the employes of the city hall are/ have amazed a smelling committes humane officer's attention was ‘Thomas Howard, 27, and Mra! pon of Seattle concerned. The occasion was the/of the Civic union had It been in-| called to the woman's sad plight oe Cuteen, wae 06 Sees | installation of a large clock in the|spected. The chief trouble with te/and the neglected condition of the John Wesley Sharp, 26, and Bertha | comptrotler’s office. In the absence| system was that its success de-| three children born to the strange eae Wagtiem, 30, Seth ef Seattle; ! ¢¢ of City Comptrolier Riptinger, E.| pended entirely upon the trust-| couple Smite =i, Brows, 28, and trend W. Melse, chief deputy, acted as| worthiness of the men whom it} The half-caste children were Michell, 18, both of Beattie; Odim} | master of ceremonies while the| was supposed to keep In line. It|taken to the Washington Children’s Olson, 24, and Kristina Hobnberg, / anxious city hall workers watched| is said that none of the employes) Home for adoption, and afterwards pe talents ; 3 | the timepiece go into place ever really prevartcated in black| good homes were found for them 5 J9| According to a wild rumor that! and white when putting down thelr / Up to her death, the mother vis | |'* being whispered about city hall| names, but that It often seemed as | {ted these children at intervals and | | ele les the tnstallation of the clock! though thelr memortes were defect: | seemed to show a greal deal of af CENTS for 2-Ib. bricks (full weight) Creamery ADAM Tea and Coffee Co. 021 Second Ave., Near Madison UPERB UMMER ITS If you would how to dress well at &@ small price, come in « at your op portunity and let us show you our spien- 414 collection of sum- mer style Prices are from. J. Redelsheimer & Co. Etrongest Topeoat House in the cor | COURT ORDERS B. 0. WEDGE ARRESTED FOR ADULTERY | ON WIFE'S TESTIMONY After hearing the sensational tes- |timony given by Mra. Gertrude Wedge in the trial of ber as it against her husband 0. Wedge, Superior Judg Tallman | this morning requested the prose- euting attorney to investigate the | | | | Jie the result & commendable|ive and ther watches lamentably purpose to do away completely with| poor timepieces the “soldering” that has prevailed) The new clock will make such among certain of the city employes.| embarrassing breaks impossible It The comptr « office, with a Iit-| will be the sole standard. One tle more progresstveness than other| heed only take a glance at ft to | departments, several months ago)» « the exact time at which every is | maine of the dead wom | began the use of a registering book| man comes in. The big clock can for ita employes. In this book the| never be called down, for it employes were supposed to #ign| marked as follows their names each day, together with| “United States observatory time the exact time they entered and) Hourly by Western Union tele |charges of adultery made against | the mdant and issue « warrant for his arrest. | Bert Wedge, until a few weeks) ago, was @ train dispatcher for the Northern Pacific Rallroad company According to his young wife's story | he became infatuated with another | woman visit other woman ever since ducing her an his wife. Wedge and his alleged mistress, th wife claims, lived at a private boarding house in the city, under the name of Mr. and Mra Wilson Mrs. Wedge was granted a eree of divorce and $ EARL PERCY WILL GET IT (By Bortpps } LONDON, June 11 nounced that Earl Percy tenant of Northumberland. ceed the E general of Canada GOES ScoT FREE of the State against John reed with by Superior this morning on th “ attorney. Fre ned h Ea. E ing into the Arc DEH NIE D PE 7/ TION Superior Judge Bell refused ing to grant the petition Anderson tor from her hust a intro de Asn It ie an lord Hea will #uc burglary, was Judge Hell motion of the ergernor this f Mrs separate 1 nd Anne tenance ain Thomas Anderson. Anderson was ordered by the court to contribute $20 « month toward the support of their boy Frank Maloney, charged with bu ry for entering a hotel at C wn and stealing a v wed to plead guilty to p morning. Super gave him o suspend of 80 days. Ine Talimar during her absence on a} has been living with the| | | of Minto as governor | | | | deserted their field of labor. But graph.” GIVES UP TEACHING TO GO ON THE STAGE PRINCIPAL OF GEORGETOWN SCHOOL WILL LEAVE FOR SAN FRANCISCO TO ENTER DRA MATIC SCHOOL | grown out of her life. | | (Specie! to The Star) 1 Mr. and Mra Nell! have taken a/ GEORGETOWN, June 11—The) personal interest in her, and it was Georgetown friends of Mise Ray through their persuasions that! Shields, principal of the South|she was induced to try for laurels school here, were much surp on the boards, When Mr, Neill and yeaterday by the news that she is his wife, who is known om the} to embark for San Francisco on stage as Miss Edyth Chapman. the Umatilla from Seattle tomorraw passed through Olympia last sea-| morning. with th purpose of son they saw Mise Shields in an) studying for the stage. While Miss amateur production and both were! Shields’ dramatic talent is a mat-|eo struck with the strong individ ter of common knowledge here, it| uality of her acting that they called has always been understood that upon her and urged her to take « she intended to it hersey dramat) ree and go upon the amateur productions only. Those|stage at once. She has been quietly who have seen characteriza-| planning ever since and will go to noe fina | PARDONED tions in amateur theatricals here| the Neill dramatic school as a ape-| and in Olympia, her home town al protege of Mr. Nelll and Bilas have repeatedly tried to prevall|Chapman, who expect to have h upon her to go upon the stage, with them as a m of th feeling that she could not fall to|company in their win n unusual share of success tour fore the footlights. But not until| Miss Shields ts of the tall, bru now has she given any intimation|nette type and of charming person-| jof her Intention to take up dra-jality. She will work her way matic art seriously through the dramatic school and Miss Shields goes direct to the|enter upon her career with the new dramatic school which has|epirit of earnestness which always just been established In San Fran-|carries talent to success Miss cisco by Mr. and Mra. James Neill| Shields stage name will be Rachel and will begin stndving at once aby | hit OF THE DEAD WOMAN, CLAIM THAT MRS. JIM HONG WAS NOT AN OPIUM FIEND—SHE WAS AN OREGON GIRL AND HAS WELL-TO-DO PARENTS THERE Lucy Hong, Jim Hong's white though a Chin wite, who died yesterday afternoon | her husband, w in a squalid room in the tenderloin, the use of the district, was not an opium fiend,! starvation, really is claimed. According to Hu-| obscure disease mane Officer Clark, the woman, al-) This ts also the hop bead ns not addicted drug, but died as a result of of the stoma claim of the was to of an ad | Martin fection for them. This was not re elprocated by the children, who ha ave homes in this city and a third ie in good hands at Tacoma. Coroner Hoye will hold « post | mortem examination upon the re nm this aft ernoon, then the true cause of her death will be revealed. The cor |@ner stated to « Star man this morning that the condition of the| quart weupled by the couple was the fMithiest he bas had to enter during his term of office The body was removed to the Bonney-Watson morgue. The Bil- lings family, who still live in Ore gon, Were notified by wire of the woman's death. It is maid they are wealthy and that Mra Hong could have ob tained help from them at any time. bot Was prevented by pride from doing so. Jim Hong is tn the last stages #umption, as a result of pro mged opium smoking, and allowed his white wife to die unattended and alone ASSASSINS Two of them | ‘MUNYON'S WITCH HAZEL JEFFRIES LAID UP. (hy Boripps News Assn) Contir nM f peanonn f nen prices below are f ana 4 Carpet Pat hea wlit Piain Whit 1 1 Patterr Heavy A ar ar | Hemnant 16 00 and M h Malle 1 || Laclede Rang all f guar We offer $30 1 matter } long ‘ (i. L. Holmes OF SPLEN The Special Price Matting Sale 1101-1103-1105 Second Ave. or " 221 q a ul, 20¢ a i al lfe pecia le A ! 100 teed—$30 $5 nand $5 Sidaasch Send by us—ne Furniture Co. BRAVE JAP TELLS TALE DID HEROISM HARBIN SPRINGS, Cal, June 11 Ali training off until Monday”) THE STORY OF SINKING THE FIRESHIPS AT PORT ARTHUR IN # the positive announcement sent pe pond the Jeffries camp after THE GRAPHIC WORDS OF LIEUTENANT SAGA, WHO COM- jthe physician who has Me MANDED THE FOREMOST SHIP | tending the champion since the in jury to the latter's knee had vir ited his patient this morning. Jef ~ can pt i nog 4 By Will H. Brill, Special Commis- enemy's booms and had broken bad grace and insisted upon getting! sioner of the Newspaper Enter. |r up and going to work today, but Fa Repay search- the medical man was obdurate and| prise Association in the Far East. eht heast Hill and the big fellow finally succumbed to ee ee yore se his mandate TOKIO, May 23.—Y Thad) on — ppt ln After the examination the physt-4 b wer Our ship's po- jan reported that Jeffries spent aa long talk with Lieut, Saga, the *!* wa: ‘ se of the passage, good night and that the injury en the explosives showed great improvement young officer who was in command ft. They exploded so = Jeffries’ general condition ts ex , x that the ship sank quickly from aft, etre ene tlAmmation in the| tthe Mikawa Maru when Port Ar-| showing only a small portion of ber knee has almost entirely >I thur was finally blocked. head. Two of our boats were com- peared, but « «mall quantity of} | pletely dau d by the enemy's fire water is gathered in a sack around) The Mikawa Maru was the ship and we took to the smallest boat |the knee cap. The physician says| tha: reached the farthest place in As we were rowing away we this can be dispelled by absorption| the harbor before it was sunk. | we with no discomfort or inconvent-| Lieut, Saga wrote the story for me ence to the patient and bere it is, exactly as it was| EXPOSED TO DEADLY FIRE. translated from his original manu-| BAN FRANCISCO. Cal., June 11.| script, 1 bave not changed a word | While we were on board our ship The report received by the man-| of it, for to do so would rob it of | ¥¢ thought of nothing else but siak- agement of the Yosemite club t its charm of modesty and pictur- |'"S wed in good position, but whea morning Indicates that there wiil| esqueness we left her and took to the boat, be no p ity postponing t The twelve steamers employed | ¥* besan, for the first time, to Jotfries- Manroe fight great-| for the purpose were ordered to ad- | ‘tink of our safety. Our boat was jest difficulty now confronting the| vance in single line of formation ‘covered by one of the enemy's lub is the selection of @ referee. and my ship, Mikawa Maru, was the | Pt ships, but the shells that While 20 serious hitch ts antici-|fourth in line. The warships were | Yer? rained on us and exploded fore pated the ref { Munroe’s man-| placed to our right. Owing to the “24 aft prevented her close ap- ager to accept Graney is the cause) high seas it became impossible to PTO bh, and meantime the current f much worry. Manager Pollock | yeep in line,and by 9 o'clock my ship | ST@@ually drove us out to sea, The reiterated today that he would not! was left alone. Steering a north-|%!#h seas played on our boat, occa- accept Graney under any circum-| westerly course as arranged before- “nally going up tens of feet, svom stances. Harry Corbett and Eddie pang we continued until 2 o'clock, “@™é down, and wé managed to Smith have been suggested by out-\ when, taking bearings by the en. | away unharmed through the siders, but they are not considered) Cuy's lights, we found ourselves "#nfall of the enemy's shells by the club or the fighters’ man-| \/\ and a half miles south of Goiden| ‘“!®* Out im the open sea we sang agers hill. Hearing our song, which was responded to The betting today is $100 to $40. by loud ‘bansais’ from Torpedo But few wagers are being made A HEAVY CANNONADE Boat 41 and we soon were taken om and the le of seats is « board. vera j we concluded the o ships had) “As I relate this tale one thing | gone into the entrap’ Taking 4/ never leaves my memory. It is the course due north, we ran at full | jogs of Engineer Hanatani, who al- speed, when we one of our|ways stood by me as orderly and jtorpedo be h signaled: |who was shot and killed by my You are fi goin. & © | side. As we were about to lower yee |the anchors, I felt my left thumb ing Chengtaoshan light and| shot, when my orderly said, ‘I am steering north-northwest we were | wounded,’ and fell down dead. He discovered by the enemy. Their] was EXPLOSION OF GAS IN Sewers! AT CHICAGO CAUSES DEATH OF FOUR MEN AN DINJURY TO MANY OTHERS ene 1L—An ex plosion ¢ intersection of the sewers on Halsted and Thirty | ninth streets thig morning caused | the death of Guy Miltimore, John Wrenn, Matthew Miller and George Cunningham and the possible in jury of many others. Fifty men were at work in th esewers thirty feet below the surface of the street Miltimore’s body aws recovered (hy Bertone News Ans'n.) | this afternoon. He was an ansist PARIS, June 1.—A_ dispatch | ®t engineer. No more fatalities from Fez, Morocco, asye Kaid ( j are reported Elyouss!, governor of the provine kt tienda of Sefrou, has bee = WANT HIM Assassinated | HOLD REQUIEM MASS (By Beripps News Ass'n) BELGRADE, June 11.—A requiem sfhows to the governor for the par of H. Danhaver, a 19-year old Mighway robber, has been drawn wp UF the latter's attorney and will be @gned by all the jurymen who configted him D@@hauer was entenced by Supe rior udge Tallman yesterday to one Gear in the penitentiary, which in ul lightest sentence he could have Smposed under the law It is the bellef of many that his conviction was a miscarriage of jas tee, because of the boy's refusal to turn state's evidence against W. H his alleged partner in the crime of which he was convicted, }anniversary mass for the repose of the souls of King Alexander and Queen Draga was celebrated at St Mary's today. Contrary to expec tion th were no disturbances The newspapers appeared with black borders and ptained ar ticles praising the reginens MONUMENT — UNVEILED PITTSBURG, Pa., June 11 witn | impressive ceremonies Pittsburg this afternoon unveiled a handsome Charles Benjamin is the prosecut-| bronze and granite monument in ing witness against the two men.| memory of Colonel Alexander Le He claims that they held him up| Roy Hawkins and the soldiers of on Railroad avenue last February. |the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment | — who died in the Philippine can ALUMNI MEETING paign. There was a big parade of The annual meeting of the Alum the ctvie and military ‘ganization ni Association of the University of| of Pittsburg and the Grand Army Washington will be held at 1p. m.|and Spanish war veterans of West Wednesday, June 15. The meeting|ern Pennsylvania. The monument will low the banquet which will] occupies a commanding eminence eld after the commencement! in Schenley park. It was erected at exercises. a cout of $20,000, | searchlights dazzied us. Their shells and bullets rained on us. Our ship aught fire on her foredeck, but it was quenched by the gusts of water splashed into our ship by the en: emy’s shells failing in front of us As we p 4 we found our- selves caught by something towards aft. We feared our rudder had been damaged, but soon after we found our ship going full speed again. Again our ship was caught by something, but soon regained her freedom. It was afterward found that our ship had struck against the oceed SHOT IN HIS THROAT. Just then my attention was con- centrated on my duty, and after the anchors were lowered I tried to use my whistle held between thumb and forefinger, when I found it useless for its tip was closed. Something bad struck it and closed it. 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