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ONE CE Tonight and Saturday—Showe to Fresh South Winds NIGHT EDITION OLUURE NT Light atl rs SEATTI Th WASHINGTON I AND FRI Seattle Star DAY, JUNE 17, 19¢ MAKE THEIR ESCAPE Qe enews etvetadcees seerves senessssssessneeneertamne +o THE OWLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ar VOL, ¢ STEAMSHIP OHIO BADLY SCORCHED NO. 101 as Ch —a The big steamer Ohio, formerly) TOOK FIRE AT MIDNIGHT WHILE TIED UP AT k the firemen t one of the host known of the Seattle headw n | Nome fleet, was damaged to the ex-| MORANS DOCK, AND NARROWLY ESCAPED TO had the f ex tent at between $40,000 and $50,000 arly this morning, while] TAL DESTRUCTION SAVED BY FIREBOAT'S the property of th@ tea = at the Me bn roe, dock VERED BY IN Compar which core yer dec a asl —LOSS y § 20, + VE L ht the os about GOLD AND BANK NOTES SCATTERED ABOUT PROMISCUOUS. | were piled in heaps, according to out, The messenger jumped through | er ates: be ho Ro a en weal WORK—LOSS ABOUT $50,000, CO | abt the 5 a « . the storles of Kngincar Wade and the wreckage and eocaped, in the | ee tebe chee ogedeer ' SURANCE me © Fireman Bt and two hoboes, {timber Itning the track, ngineer 4 comple ebull § 2 ome r nd LY BY MEN WHO HELD UP NORTH COAST LIMITED—MAN who saw the robbers coolly fill two | Wade was then compelled to place| The fire te supposed to have start _ we ‘ of acks full ( the precious articles, | forty sticks of dynamite on the wop | ¢4 near the linen room in the after! ole The a HUNT 18 ON—$10,000 REWAR D OFFERED besides cramming a few handfuls of of the big safe carrying the wealth | pert of the vessel, and spread to the! men who were removing the linen; Th 1 water into the | insurance bat yten and coins into their |of the North Coast limited berth deck before the fire depart-| from the closet, and they ha aft 8 oucceeded It , to ty pockets. After the fuse had been touched | ment ould reach the scone. The! at work there only a short time an ‘ ' tn this time,” sald William Mos ; —eeeee After securing their booty the| off by Wade's cigar the robbers re- | gallant work of the crew of the fire| Shortly before midnight, the night| flames back #o that they could work | ran th 7 tt wld . bandits fired two shots over the | treated several hundred yarde with | beat Bmoqualmie saved the ship) watehman smelled smoke about the| below the deck oug ost te it at between $40,¢ aginesr and f |their prisoners, when @ terrific ex-| from tetal destruction. For a time; steamer. He began searching t in the deck | 000 $ Io the fire BUTTE, Mont., June 17.—It ap- Dan O'Neill shot and killed. and disappeared in a nortl plosion occurred, which shook the| it looled as though the fire would the fire and n diecovered a t and ama of wate , " p ms om that the ban-; The scene of the robbery is one! rection toward the Blackfoot jearth like an rthquake. reach the hold of the vessel, ar blase on the berth deck m | were caring f dane nse The watches rescape, Prison |of the wildest spots traversed by the|try, one of the most rugm After the explosion one robber be-| had it gained this much headway, was turned in, but by t no the| ace of f a worked | 614 not discover the fire until i row | p fogs followed the scent a number of] Northern Pacific, and with several|in Montana and a secth gan firing his six shooter into the /the big ship would have been burned Snoqualmie reac the sce thels t ning gained a good headway ana we wer } miles south into the Rock Creek| hours’ start the desperadocs have|an excellent place for the air to create the impression among} to the water's edxe parecer dectaregaye Me rad cage Ay 4 eeu wl : sn od pocorn yt Bases ago Biar hae an canyon, where the robbers mounted | every chance of making good their|to elude the ere the pa were that @ great number! Just how the blaze started cannot jooked as though she was doomed thet it unbearable. how it started horses, and the dogs were unable| escape. Dense timber covers pre-| The two outlaws boarded the| Of robbers in the | be ascertained, William Moran, who to follow further. Posses are at-|cipitous sides of the mountains |train at Bearmouth, and hiding be- | hold-up. was ® success | plant, In the absence of Robert Mo tempting to reach the head of the/ along the right of way, and good/hind the tender, rode two miles,|@ scene of nium reigned|iy in charge of the big ship building | canyon, but the country ts so rug: | guides are needed at places to find | when they crawled over the tender ors on th®| ran, sald this morning that the fire ged that they stand little cha | the blind trail through the mou and covered the engine crew with is seldom equaled. | srobatily starte im spontaneous of capturing the outlaws. tain passes, The ace be hold-| six shooters. Two hoboes beating eer wos en and aren aout combuntic Ne one had been > in an t 1 for the work of | the ~ were encountered by the! Under the seats in their frantic « f - excep BEARMOUTH, Mont., June 17 the bandite es rere Se y ompelied to throw up| forts to save themselves from posst jsboard the vessel to work, except) ‘The eastbound North Coast kimited,) FORTY STICKS OF DYNAMITE | their hands, but not before the bie harm. Valuables were secreted eae smgpoany the big overland passenger and fin ere placed on top of the tramps were able to get a good view | everywhere. est train on the Northern Pacific) Mi” Ritch was careving ¢ of the vanaita Sheriff Thompeon, of Missoula, | System, was held up at 11:05 o'clock) shinments from the coast to New| With the muzzies of two ugly | is on the scene with posse of sixty Jast night two miles east of this) york Chicago and the Twin Cities. | suns pointing into thelr f in| meu. One posse of twelve men a: place by two masked mon, belleved! These were touched off and they |«ineer Jack Wade and bie fireman | mounted and are following the rob- | to be the notorious “Kid" Curry) wrecked » safe, t ng the big | Were forced to alight from the en-| bers’ trail with five bloodhounde | and a member of his gang. Plun-| steel hulk a distance of fifty feet|sine and proceed to the expresh| rom the penitentiary, The dogs | @er, variously estimated at from) tom the track and tearing the ex- | er, Wh one of the robbers | have scented the robbers and from | $40,000 to $60,000, was secured. Some! press car to splinters LIGHTED A CIOAR thelr baying it ls believed by Guard figures place the amount taken by So great e the force of the ex ae tes pone trainer of prison dogs, | | the robbers at $50,000. plosion that the door of the safe|And@ coolly commander Wade to} f ; re are not far dis ; robbery was the most daring | was thrown about sixty feet and for | smoke. ant, an and successful of any train holdup) within a radius of forty feet gold| The bandit next placed a stick of} BATTLE WILI. 800N OCCUR @T. PETERSHURG, June 17.— tm the history of the United States.| and silver colm, bank 10 to | dynamite jor the lateh of the car] Another force of possemen, o@ the | Genera) Bovrikotf, who was shet in ‘The goene of last night's robbery is| packages and loose bills of all de-| door, ordering the engineer (o/ fastest horses to be found, are en-| the entrance to the Pinni senate sae samé tecality where the North| nominations, together with other|touch the cigar to the fuse, This|deavoriug to cut off the deapera-|chatmber, yeuterday, died inst night. | Coast Limited was held up @ year! valuables, were scattered promis-| Wade did, and the explosion tore| does, Additional posses composed ago by a lone robber and Engineer nously. Im places the Bank notes | the whole side of the express car|of cowboys were sent out from| STOCKHOLM, June 1 IN THE UPPER PICTURE | WHO WAS KILLED BY RIOTER ER RIOT VICTIM. THE REMAIN IMPOSSIBLE IN MOST CASES. DREW HS REVOLVER When County Fire Warden Riet returned last evening from F mond, where he went yesterday to muperintend the fight against a timber fire raging near that town he brought with him arrest E. W, Jamison, a farmer on whone land the fire burned Jamison ie accused ing the t o rault upon Hoge book keeper for @ m mmpany at Red mond. The fire dew « larg amount of valuable timber 1 ing some owned by the pany. trot Hogmore accused Jamis f allowing it to # 1. In the qua rel which follo Howt a Jamison a ilar, and Jamison drew & revolver Rief, who happened to be present, interfered and arrested Jamdson, Hogmore swore out a warrant b fore the prosecuting attorney today STEAMER ARROW “STARTS ON VOYAGE TO SAN ales pycieat od SHOWN TE 8 THE LOW 8 WERE 60 MAN( THAT I { trip trom Portland to this cit ja year ago, at which time « fortunate in experiencing weather. Some anxiety is now felt| on the part of the frien f Capt Hatch, who will take her to San Francisco in person, owing to the fact that she would hardly be able to weather a gale of any great vio IN, THE SF FUNERAL OF DENTIFICATION WAS WILL CLAIM ANOTH NEARLY DAMAGES *; | Ovando to participate in the man. hunt The men are all armed with Win. ohesters and Marlin rifles, and have |} on sight A reward of $10,000 Ix offered for the capture of the men, dead or [alive. This has resulted in » of cowboys and ran t the region arming themselves and joining im the chase for the bandits ACTION DISMISSED An order was signed this morn ing by Judge Bell disminsing the a tion of John ell and wife |against the Norris & Rowe Show company. The action was brought m™ account of Injuries sustained by Mra Nordell while attending the circus. The case was settled out of court and the plaintiff asked for an order « anesing | it MRS. ROBB ON BAIL Mra. Gertrude Robb, who recent |iy shot George Joye, the betrayer of her daughter, was relen 91.000 ball by Justice | morning, her suret | Johns Mra. Kate Johnaor | Sullivan and Mrs. Isabella Sullivan. | Mre. Robb waived preliminary es ination. @he is charged with | murderous assault | Joyee, the victin the | shooting, is resting comfortably at Providence hospital. Although ty | wae restless last night and wae r }quite so well this morning, he le | believed to be on a fair road to very PUEBLA IN PORT The steamer City of Puebia ar tved port this morn from an ¥ inco ® 0 panee nd « full cargo of freight. Ca Jepson reported foggy weather and |a caim sea siong the coast. He |ther reported that he had |nighted the schooner Maid of Or |ieans, w ratore wome f Japon a yet | that sc HOLS CLOSED ence The Arrow is a vessel of 318 gross) DENVER, Colo., June 17--It wae| The auditing committee of the tons, 147 feet in length by beam |board of education in busy thin af and hase Gepth of hold of 9. announced last night that Jamee| ("on auditing the pay roll of the She carries a crew of 18 men {Burns, president of the Portland |*ehool teachers in order that those She was built for the Columbia wh fesire to ave tonight for the river trade at Portland in 1903. Her | mine, will bring suit in the federal | world’s fair at St. Louis may get nm the Sound was fli-starred. | | career | JURY DISAGREED | Yanigida, the Japanese who lhad the doubtful hon { being the gambler tried ’ he free. The J ina “" h the facts, Yanigida claimed jth Jen raid ARRIVES TONIGHT Loule Long, who will fight Harry | Krantz, on June 80, will arrive in the eclty tonight. Billy Lavigne, Long's manager, received a tele- gram from Long thin morning which atated that be would be present at the boxing tournament at Germania hali tonight. aa #. Takeshita, M. Tanisawa, Izo Teaka and B. Yodo, tour contraband , Were captured by the ti ge tae A officials in the hotel run by H. Hashimoto, nituated at 1497 ‘Western avenue, this morning, The aliens bad surreptitiously entered ‘ancouver, where wore refused entrance some the country from or the inter port] court In a few days against Gov Peabody, Gen, Rell and the state Colorado for $10 ta closing the Portland mine If the United § ts a elde that Gen. Bell and the rnor did not have the legal right to act as they have it will mean that the state of Colorado wi awampe with damage sult by mer thrown into bull i « Attorneys Richardson and Haw king are paring papers f a $60,000 damage suit to be filed by President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners, He will plead unlawful detention in the bull pen in San Miguel county Moyer is still in custody civil authorities been | with being implicated in the explo: sion in the Vindicator mine, in which several men wore killed, CHICAGO, Tune i? man Hemenway, of Indian ternoon made the follow ment in regard to the Republi n vice presidential nomination: “Benator Fairbanks will accept the nomination, provided tt t# ten- dered him. He will not anything galeulated to indicate that he is Seoking It It is believed to be aemt-offic' Steamer Ba nr Banta Ayan onl na ealled for Hirata eat ia GS of the has A warrant Congre Bard af. i for Moyer charging him | | thelr money re their pay between 6 and 6 o'clock this eveneing. The othere will be paid temorrow. All the city schools were closed for the simmer with a brief session th morning CELEBRATED TOO MUCH The case of the state against M Omoto, a Japanese, tg being heard on Judge Tallman’s court today Omoto became enthusiastic over the auceeas of the navy of his country in the war with Russia, oF some other i, and pumped a bullet into one of his countrymen. Now he is trying to tell the jury how he did not mean anything. The charge| against him is assault with intent to commit murder. The contested diy Nora Youngreen against Youngregp i* occupyin on of Judge Bell today. oungreen asks for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and non-euppor' The jury in Judge Griffin's court returned a verdict for the defendant in the ease of Andrew J, Qollier inst the Great Northern rallroad morning: The action wae brought for damages and personal injuries, a9 a result of a collision of an ong! the plaintiff's with team, The sult wae sor 910,000, gh Newberger today denied the oation 0 i yi reo sult of David G. the atten- Mro, | Inetructions to shoot down the men | Those dosiring It can| here th cslony of Jubilant over | Rovrttott lens tyr Finns the stole ple's Hberty t» FOBT. MORAN RECOVERING - The steamehip Ob iron vessel and was built in Pt 1873, Her gross tonnage is $488, and net tonnag She ts 343 feet long, 43 feet beam and th of hold. For many A Wetter received last night from | years the Ohio ran of New York and at one time was one of the greyhounds of the Auantic She | Robert Moran, who is now in Ger-| was formerly owned by the Empire Transportation Company, which sold her to the Morans for $100,000. mang, States that he is rapidly re-| She was being refitted ' covering his health and ts begin-| " rs ning to “fee! cs though he had be come home.” While he is away tor | from the tone of tters that he does not forget bie big ehipya in Beattie Mg. Maran will rete urn nome time OF MOURNING — tn August and be present at the jauneting of the battleship Ne-| bragka, which if now about 55 per cent completed at the Moran Bros | Company shipyards | - See NEW YORK, June 11~Another) DISTRICT SURROUNDING ST. MARK’S GERMAN of the company. says she will step toward the grave was made in tomter launching early in Sep-/ the General Slocum teage ty today.| LUTHERAN CHURCH, NEW YORK, SWATHED IN _ | Five hundred dead le in their late] f thelr relatives | A CREPE — ESTIMATES NOW PLACE DEAD AT 80@ | bom new and thowe shrouded and encased f few funeral tay —OVER s00 BODIES IDENTIFIED ' but the € ad will go to their last ee tomor | row and § } | |The t is near the! 1 {s still extremely difficult to es-)gled in the port paddle box. Mark's timate the number of missing. | bodies now being recovered in th | ie wwatche Some city officials stick to yester-| Kast river are miles from the sce | | Crope in on the 4 day's figures that over a thousand | of the accident ; of houses. Great erished, which would show the 2 ce nn Paglia } | distri t. and many ¢ perder « to be at least four hx 4.; FOUR ae INVES- : stop at the houses It Is believed, however, that thie ts a » Gr Gates Weve sere? | dead to pay their last respect an exaggeration and that when the | to the causes of the disaster an PARIS, June 17.—-According to a] At the morgue this morning the| story is all told the dead will be|t determine the blame are und St. Petersbura Mepaten val} coroner's list showed 599 bodies had | found to number about 800 way ‘ battle ie in progres Tsu is-| been received. A major The men to whom w | , Seeretary Cortelyou is here wit} and in the straits ca | dead recovered have t the grucsome task of re Supervising Inspector Unler. Digg | wonct0, June ‘ jand nearly five hundred t bodies from the wreck and the wa- | ict Attorney Jerome is making @ leit dese’ neeckns ousns | been removed from the ters of the sound, were at work early | Figia investigation, and Fire Marg |eammounde ie 1 YY | friends and relatives this morning. They were finding | Sha! Seory is making an <a iaifiniiemene mane ant a hundred bodies remain orpwes more slowly, but will stick | While coroner's inquest beg » Hanes Ae this morning, but scores of pe The wreck thereaghty lecaine nite at noon reported mane feat whe dighted off Oki iota are again on hand looking for today ere belleve om in the submerged paddle jesliet iieeaves, 10 erebubhe ees K be found entan . ect SE tae aeein saved the Ruostian eq ron, though it is not believed that ft returned to Viadtvostok Another port this evening says miral Kamurt caught up w ‘| and sank f the Russian * ff Bhimaneke r Jap sap Ma fi: NEW YORK, June 17.—Mise Ha i ob wale a <m | M&M, one of the victims of the Get Jaunce © th me set for the re pro-| Slocum disaster, was yesterd: t bith. t Madisor or.| Picked up on the beach near Nortl lend Be y and Whotieke nks| Brothers Island. She was tow an etree x be some | “hrough the water by an overload: t of ke has not y nsei| tus bearing bodies to the oli P e. F is| Morgue, was fished out of the wat K rd " id out among the dead : b thelr tin the varity pier, and after lyt hat they are ready of} there for more than an hour, it w @. M. Emory, attorney f . tian the { as soor aid | discovered that she was still alive. C. Haines. panatty mite oP nn | Board of ork gets busy } A woman passing between th the revenue cutter Manning | roth ~e . the | grewsome rows of bodies noticed filed & motion. for the diamine | waiting fo ry ant] faint indication of life in the a he action gainet M1 a} Genes the ora . vo ant} parently lifelese body, She haati by Pe the grounds of| « " ’ , called an attending hospital @ failure to nd the ploye. He worked over the body fi appens ( the more than an hour and finaliy » f for costs vA) ceeded in reviving Mies Hartmag The a at ted onside 1 slightly He rushed her off to in attention a few monthe hospital, where the work of resusgl& mt of the promir P tation was continued, until Mie@ fondant and the vigor with whic Hartman had revived sufficlently tq matter was forced before | warrant attending physicl maleg jenee im the t to dismiss Lieu. | ing the statement that the lieved he young wom sh t i iitcmwes tied Ge coecten t ng woman, though terribl unin Tae eotten, wan ahaa burned and in a serious conditiol for alleged breach of promise. cba a6 & result of exposure, would 7” The complaint formerly contained cover. ral times the board of Jt. » w When Miss Hartn a Gharge of betrayal, but this was 4 ie avtan waa found, [dropped by the plaintiff, and the Al the suggestion of Chairman i Bev fe was apparently extinct and the case tontinued on the grounds of| Mullen, the street committee of the | >8* threatened to do #0, but the men aboard the tug boat tied a ropa counoll has turned down the board.! about her body and in thie - ores of applications frofh con- breach of promise, Attorney Rosen-| council, yesterday afternoon took peli baum, who appears for Mrs. Fobs.) steps to bring at least one delin- @ he will contest the motion to/ quent street contractor to time. digmlen the case William Stanley, who has been per- baps the worst procrastinator, was notified that he would not. b given his money for one of his oom- pleted contracts until he had fin- {shed some of the half dozen he now has under way. The contractor's remuneration was withheld by hold- ing up the approval of one of the assessment rolls. Staniey, like all of the other street contractors, has uncomplet- ed contracts alt over the city, The contractors without exception have layed the completion of the imi of time three GRANTED DELAUNAY B. Sayre, attorney for Scott y, who was chiet Clallam, has Fi De! ot tl been tractors for extensions of time are granted every month. The county comm: made a written demand upon the Norris Safe and Lock Compan; Seattle, agents, m the ley Jail 8 Company, to replace the ones a, James B, All! Lint tit Hic’ towed it from the scene of the dial aster to bard foot of Bast ath str the cere with @

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