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OW THE OPPOSING FORCES ARE LINED UP FOR THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR Giver ss! an excellent base of supplies, clove at hand The siege guns are plant | ed, the warships are hovering off | the coast, throwing a few desultory | shells into the town, and day by day General Oki's forces before the invested stronghold are being rein forced. Slight skir shes near the | outer defenses almost constant | A strong force of Japanese is forti | fled at points further north in the peninsula to prevent relief for the city, which is apparently doomed to fall soon, Hverything removable n from the nner harbor blown up to ts said to have nt peninsula are) Russian ships in th «of Port Ar-| which will probably b Yow shoils from the siege uns sians on the lower 4 either under the wa bas begun tn its preliminary | proximately Practically all of the Rus- | occupation of De men, and their ny bas given them damage as Togo's fleet before being sunk quently erted, placing his hand over the wound In his breast Why should I suffer sot Why should I suffer so?” he entreated q of the nurses, as they turned him from side to side 4 Say, will I die, Doc? Must I | dite he queried aaxtously from | time to time Until the curtain fell om the tragedy, McComb manifested a strong f r of death, yet inalsted with his dying breath that Bush had shot him, although there was MORTEM ON THE BODY OF FRANK McCOMB REVEALS | not 4 shadow of doubt that he him | self had done the shooting. STARTLING FACT—SELF-INFLICTED WOUND BLED SLOW LY AND CAUSED INTENSE AGONY x Coroner Hoye says that, although cases of persons living for some me with wounds fn the heart are secord, they are very rare. Tt is supposed that in the case of | McComb the ragged edges of the ow | wound were closed by the pressure McComb, the locomotive; mystified the assembled doctors. ‘who shot and killed him-| ‘A fellow by the name of An morning, because an-| Bush shot me. He did it because| of the blood, forming = valve and man had alienated the affec-| he wanted my wife,” gasped the| stopping the flow of blood of bis wife, lived three hours| dying man, while his eyes roved| MeComb a strong, healthy the bullet from his revolver | from side to side, fearful and ap-| many, physically, The bullet passed Paseed through the right ven- prehensive. entirely through the heart and of his heart. At the Wayside} “1 burn! I burn here!” he fre-| lodged in the muscles of the t hospital, where be was/ ‘After the shooting. the sur-/ Temarked that his pulse wa: fmperceptible. and refrained probing the wound under circumstances. They expect- bat WAR SHIPS COMING to die at any moment, he battled with death and . summer months peclal to The 8 for Puget Sound navy yard. They ‘ Senasions $0 the lest. | SAN FRANCISCO YYune 18—The| will reach Bremerton the last of TINEVED, 1 CONNECTION WITH THE PREWITY GAKER Myas little bleeding from the | monitor Wyoming and the torpedo] this week or the first of next, and KIDNAPING CASE, TWENTY BLOCKS | OF | boat destroyers Paul Jones Temarkable truth was not ‘until a post mortem exam-| wus auder the direc- | = SCHOOL BOARD = 10 CO-OPERATE the abdominal cavity ‘almost total absence of pulse the tenacity with which the WILL ATTEMPT TO ABATE SMOKE NUISANCE SO FAR AS BUILDINGS UNDER ITS CONTROL ARE CONCERNED— PLANS UNDER CONSIDERATION Preble left this port at noon today' the Pacific squadron. wounded 1 man clung to life me rind sans ise. | The board of education taken eve. Phone, John isl. up the project to abate the smoke nuisance, so far as the city schools are concerned, at least, and Jam Stephens, architect for the board will make @ report on the subject at its next meeting. The board took | up the matter at the instigation of Austin B. Griffiths, E. A. Bates,! short time to take up the matter William Jones and Michael Donna-| The members bave already inapect bay, a committee from the Longfel-| ed the Diamond Ice & Storage n | low Improvement club, which called carefully that all burned.” The members of the board told the improvement club committee that they were in favor of inatalling smoke consumers, did not make it prohibitive A oa — Claret, per “¢ | upon the board at a recent meeting. | power house of the State University certs tenes -S0e FT| The committee urged immediate ac- | ae ol of per gallon. -75e 7) tion in the matter and asked the rt i, LL, per gallon. $1.00 Zinfandel, LLL, per ote If you know what good claret members of the board to inspect the Diamond Ice @ Storage company's smoke consuming plant. The data on the subject already FIGHTING eries for 10c the Jape have deen thrown over thur or inside the fortress, walting| prevent capture, in case Admiral © outer Gefenses of Port Arthur,| for the big assault to begin. For) Rajestvensky finds it impossible to siege of the crar’s strong- the attack the Japar have &p-) make a sortie and inflict as much} Admiral | and| will later be joined by the rest of| if the expense | The health board will meet in a pany’s plant and will also visit the THE SEATTLE orem. WEDNESDAY, JUNPE ts, 1904 | RR W00000000000000000000000000000004 Friday We Sell 25¢ Embrotd- Friday We Sell 15c Fancy Batistes & 1-3c A GREAT 22c DAY TOMORROW will be w attractions w bar of every kind added to morrow to the vast assortment now on sale. Come with the crowde and join tn the GREAT Twenty-two cents ts all you need for choice gathered from every department, BAP IN FR AST tomorrow Household Sale of Exclusive Dress Patterns Qoods counter You can ch se what you want, Just anything we Here goes for a terrific slaah in prices: You simply take your cholee of any one of the ive Dress $ have in thie ine for | Other Specials | Ey 3000 SILK MUBLINS, S0c values for tra | x 300 P Patterns tn the house, tneludt ng $14.00 Pattern Suita of imported ; Special : FANCY STRIPE PINBAPPLIS Y d f TISSUE, th n's ne aras 0 summer Bt value Se) WHITE BRILLIANTINES are Seotch mixtures, $15.00 Black Biamines, etc, ete Over » diffe ent styles to select from, All will be displayed on our Dress what most people are looking Here ie & DRESS GOODS, a large variety of patterns and ¢ did for skirts and wutts for just chance yard 42e Embroidery BLACK AND COLORED CASH T oO No such opportunity again, | "MEREA aplenaid value forase| AOmOrrow Only | 0 r price, yard 4Be\ AEhre i ia A regular 10c line, special hou NAVY BLUE CHEVIOT "A thai canisipgamanmmdonid cleaning sale price | inch, regular value $1 our White Briliiantine; sale prt . | price The * 506 bree 4-ineh $1.00 White Brilliantine; sale 26 value, for price Oe sc | PANCy GRAY MOHAIRG, 52. $1 White Brilliantine ale | h, for, yard Oe price BVe Choice for 2c Chotce for Sc Choice for 9c , eaded ‘Tacks, pe 100 Wood Potato Mashers.....@e| Brass Headed ‘Tacks, per PACK’) oo toes Potato 8 Rice Root Pot Scrubs @e| ae Se Can Openers ge | Steel Door Se : i) Apple Corer Mustard Spoons , Be) 4 4 Stove Cover 1 Heavy White Lateh Se ! and Parer Be omen Clo Ze} Soap Sh Tea Spoona} Silver flere Metal Nutmea Graters Porcelain Door 2 Knobe $ Pre-Inventory line in the Big Bargain Basement De « Whisk Bro« Ge Exte mu ¢ af Ve thes Pins Be Cuss De aclaer menda every Ae wut of enone oe Be Coffee Flasks Be | Wire Tea Tilee Se Tin Gem Pans De Be} tee! Kaives and Fork Se) i thaker Sifter We Wewewwnev | friends are invited HHE CHIEF PERRY GOES NORTH | The United States revenue cutter Pe sailed for the North this morning. The Perry will cruise in the vicinity of Duteh ha and during the HU” SAYS HEAD OF POLICE DEPARTMENT DENIES THAT HE HAS AR RESTED JOHN KING AND CLYDE BROWNFIELD, bor ne Aleutian TRAMP CONCRETE WAL Chief of Police Delaney positively} his latent talent for deduction since | refuses to allow his name to be con-| ha control of the police nected with the attempt of a hye t | | terion! evening newspaper to fasten| “Is it possible!” ejaculated the re |the kidnaping of little Prewitt Hak-| porter, in. astonishment, pro ler upon John King and Clydej ducing for the chiefs inepection a ee | Brownfield, two tramp burgiars ar-|newspaper story with a head in AD cag Ge sted by the police at Interbay a| poster type, gravety laying the re aBding. to tin | few daye ago. j*ponaibility for the sensational de nog ” 's Tt in all @ lot of rot.” declared|tective stunt upon the Beattle po 3 cy m4 Po et the chief inst night when « Star) lice ee fle tg: Brgy = man attempted to Yompliment hire! “I did not authorter the writir ae Wea peng adh upon the rapid elopment of bis|such « story declared the ot y pant abet Sait . = | imaginative powere and Increase of| making a victows bite at his mous tent line lei - —— = —— |tache and flushing hotly. “My men! 4 bs naineer Sumnes . ve beer on several ait-|Dresent at the meeting and ex ; plained the prope grade eleva Hot Weoattrer Once ier rns cont Sat Seen Peeialerenae eat | Harbor ebout the time avenue north. The club endersed| | ‘ pA yy = Pll Henry Fuhrman reported that he the, carbon is) raw a ep aelik & eae was about to 20 blocks of nat ie all there ie to the mat.) “oncrets Denay-Fuhr- Men, Boys, Youths, thie ts they were the Kidnapers, We mere your opportunity, Did you y Wanted to break up their p at j ever come face to face with a | Interbay. They are thie and we und the ofty you to that effect? Dela 4 away to find Jepartment had been nally conducted naper Jon't want them arc May I quo anked the reporter and be hang chance get an extra quality Straw Hat for a trifle? If not, we can help you sponded Mr A Good Straw Hat for § °::": 10¢ oe ut what hie ald a Yer, quote ey imp an he hast PROSECUTING ATTORNEY) SCOTT DISMISSES ANOTH- Ladies’ Sailor Hats Come in and see our assort t they are wanted for the Baker kidnap nd not for ‘cane [| PrStured by the investigating com ment. robbing a hen rm doube ER GRAN Eecene Bure wines will pleas mittee of the conference eummuntaae tatly relieve the minds of King > SURV Weer ta } of improvement clubs has been 50c, 15¢ and nd Brownfield, who are hobo MENT 7 . | placed in the hands of Architec thieves who have never aspired to see delivery. tnc luding Green see ele od Qualitie for ny crime higher in the seale than| ‘The indictment returned by the Babe and B ve It will be possible for the board ‘This is your gain and our HpMowing « in a ntry store/ late superior court grand jury os to install apparatus that will pre-| loss. The season has been back- who w : ndly ak ny | charging L Bach with obtair vent the emission of smoke from 1 ward and we have an immense mable term in the) ing money under false pretenses | practically ali ite schools,” he said| TOKIO, June 15.—Various reports |B stock, which we must move tlary for n @ chance of was dismissed by Judge Tallman this morning, “but the expense is @| 976 current ber _— ee heel ' Th se “a hat King 2 had alin eee dae sor ' A ngagement enear Port Arthur. One| ne story that King had any-| outing Attorney Scott. Bach was| pay Bee Rg Mat ara a | has it that the Russian fleet has es adles’ Paras: thing to do with the Baker case) accused of obtaining money from| coverat Chammseé éoflats early |CaPed from Viadivostok and has Your own price acceptable to" FRI so far found todement onty im) the Cecil Hotel Co. on a worthless | 1209 SECOND AVEN | all the schools having steam heat-|£!¥% battle-to the Japanese off | us—we are overstocked an@/ [ifthe troubled brain of @ journalistic! aheck for $150 on the First Nation-| THE LEADING RELIABLED) (oy plants have con ih ; . *| Teushima island |fJ must move the goods, & Hawkshaw who t few day*) al bank of Juneau, Alaska. STORE. rs s Gus bela yoy a The captain of a Japanese vessel chance for a real good one for ittempted to bolster up fake kid-| In « statement filed in support of Matonsp Be forere spa, © geerany . com, 90 | which arrived thie morning says h a mere song. heaping rumors with dime novel the- | the wotion for dismissal it is alleg lieve automatic stokers to be the | only contrivance that perfect satisfaction “They would make possible a sav. ing, it is said, of 15 per cent in fuel. | They do not consume the amoke literally, | was fired upon by @ Russian squad ron, and that heavy firing was later heard in the neighborhood of Tsu shima {sland A dimpatch received today states that the entrance to the Port Ar thur harbor is again open, and that Catalogue Free would give LBBADY'S, Rasement Dexter Horton cor, First ave. and Washing | LOST HER DIAMOND | Bu Meyer, | Midway crib house, in the restricted | district, was arrested yesterday af | ternoon by Detectives Byrnes, Cor bett and Adams, charged with steal ing @ valuable diamond ring from jan Inmate of that resort. Charles H. Meyer, a brother of the man ar rested, was held on suspicion, but afterwards released. He is a bar- tender at the same resort We have a LARGER AND CHOICER SELECTION of LADIES AND GENTS’ BUITS at present fn stock than we have r had before, and ALL. GOODS MAY BB BOUGHT on OUR EASY PAY MENT SYSTEM—$1.00 PER W DEK WE INVITE INSPECTION AND GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Eastern Outfitting Co. Fifth and Pike, Corne: > HER ), Stylish Tailor, 1 but the feeding is done so had been de ted ft 0 Se sd Gold seekers are still flocking to h deposited for him in the he Ruswian cruiser Novid walled Laundry Buttons the Tanana., On the steamship city | Juneau bank | Out and engaged the Japanese fleet Bach has been out on bonds since | Pest quality hardwood, per box pattie, which sailed for the! nis arrest Please Take Notice ae thls thoraing were 106 yee & porter in the| and each one has fallen to jed by Mr. Soott that weight would be impossible. & conviction WE ARE EA He claims that AGENTS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE RICHARD- pleces of its own j SON'S EMBROIDERY SILKS. sete e ~ k to b bene — 3 aria Crepe Paper, alt eotora, por | GOUND FOR TANAWA |34,'0 S82°k '2,be e204 when be se roll scoot jreason to believe that a large sum | « Finished Moving Last Night ) ieeeirearn sengers, the majority of whom were | ry bound for the new gold fields. A®| ‘The work of transferring the ble} & cargo the City of Seattle had a/ stock of Clothing, Furnishings 1} large consignment of fresh fruit| Shoes on which the ratiroad le for the interior and coast alties. | panies pald the Monarch Sh ‘lothing Co, $6,000 damages, was | finished ate last night, The goods @ found in much better 2213-2216 First Avenue SUNDAY SCHOOL OUTING The children of the First Baptist expected orce of| the and ® large Kigin, Waltham, Ham-| Sunday school are to enjoy a tree am tion, Hampden andj excursion to Point Defiance Park, | eumen ore hustling to get > Spring?! Watohes, a4] Tacoma, on Saturday, given by the| “(rk In Mhape for # monster sale, | very low prices. superintendent, officers 1 te ch It reaye . A of - ro “i | Houghton & Hunte: ora of the school, Th stear sold f at aeles S Wel Se Capital City leaves the City Doc i ‘ 704 First Avenue ATO me ned the steamy Uutinn.) wamiod Ir | TOURIST BUSINESS Backed bya Record Stone, Fisher & Lane Crowds Attend the Sale OF-—— Hohenchild’s Bankrupt Stock Fair dealing te the only open sesame to your confidence, Extravagant statements and exaggerated values may tempt the first time, but not decelved agein. That THE ANNEX has won your respect fs proven by the thousands attend this second mammoth sale. Each Day Something New At a Lower Price ndersell. We bought the stock at 600 ut 2be to 66e—that means & money, li who come We positive on the dollar, a Saving opportur A Few Examples 00 Men's ¢ 000 Garme 600 ¢ lara at Se each Us Men's Underwear at less than Cost. to 92.00, pair BBe sorth oe mly 17e yard ‘orsets, worth 000 yards Dress G » Spring r nly O8e « yard uslin Underwear at Big Reductions Bargains that bid for your choosing. $16.50, $17.50, $18.50 Tailored Suits... Che €nnex Second Avenue and University Street And hundreds of other $2.00 OF C. P. HEAVY Por Gallen fer J. Coyle, western traffic man- road at Vancouve is Im the city BLACKBERRY i the local ounces busi today in consultation with officials of the road. He that tourists and excursion ness is heavier this year than ever before in the history of the road The number of people going to St Louls is greater than was expected at this won and the general transcontinental business has in creased remarkably over that of previous years. | FRAUD ALLEGED The National Grocery company and other creditors of C. B. Bar- nard, a petitioner in bankruptey have filed a protest against bis dis. charge on the grounds of fraudu lently failing to enter certain debts him and property which should have been given in his peti- tion to the federal court cA STORIA For Infants and Children } liana You Have Always Bought Bears the _—— 6 304 First Ave. South Both Phones—Pink 1751. Free Delivery. due to Bargains We have several used Pianos of 51 Years of standard make that have been taken as part pay on the instruments we sell. Each has been thoroughly overhauled tn our workshops, and ts fully You guaranteed can save $100 to $150 buying one of these instru- ments, Terms of $10.00 cash and$6.00 @ month will swing one your Allen & Gilbert Ramaker Co. 1406 Second Avenue. Dabney & Woodhouse Complete f Opposite the Bon March ie pr