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_ ONE CENT Tonight and Sunday—Fair; Warmer Sunday, Except Near Coast; Light to Fresh Northeast Winds. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER NIGHT EDITION APO PLAN AND THIER FINAL ASOAULT ON PORT ARTHUR ALL 1S QUIET AT MUKDEN, THOUGH RUSSIANS ARE REPORTED, mountain road by which they cou Id make an attack and ady the city, The rain has ceased and the roads are rapidly dry © on TO BE MOVING NORTHWARD FROM THE CITY— ARMIES | TOKIO, Sept will be appointed 10.—It is generally expected here that Gen, Hasgawa RESTING AND ANOTHER B ATTLE MAY NOT BE FOUGHT Badiyn yao Men geesendh wate BEFORE NEXT SPRING 10,—Lleutenant General Sakharoff re- that all is quiet at Mukden, Rains pre 8T. Pet ports under vent the enemy's advance, yester Gy Scripps News Asn) ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 10.—It ts reported that Kuropatkin is at Tia pass and that the Russian army ts moving northward from LONDON, Sept. 10.—The Chefoo correspondent of Reuters re Mukden. The evacuation of Muk den, however, is not officially ad ports that the Japanese losses around Port Arthur during the past mitted. few will exc 15,000 killed and wounded. ST. PETERSEURG, Sept. 10..-Workmen who returned from Port discovery of a Chinese store and artillery 13 miles from the fortress The find consisted of 300 Krupp Kuna of large caliber with from 300 | | Water wil! be shut off from 9 « |m. unttl 6 p.m, Monday on Meriusan avenue between > to see tien. rounds of ammunition, Bach piece was in perfect condie SUICIDE rth Firty-eighth and North Forty-fifth streets, on CHEFOO, Sept. 10.—According to Japanese Information from North Forty-fifth street between 4 asmault on Port Arthur was postponed until Tuesday Meridian avenue and Keystone next, and & still further postponement ts possible, Chinamen who | piace, on Keystone place between left Port Arthur September 6 say the Russians are preparing to vic- | WER HUSBAND SAYS 16 | Nort yf i No: crously resist the next assault, for which their spies bave sald the — a A od Japanese are making elaborate preparations MADLY IN LOVE WITH AN> | fourth street between Meridian ave OTHER MAN | nue and Wallingford avenue. Sept. 10—A Prominent J assertion that Field Marshal Oyama has planned one more general engagement with Kuropatkin before winter sets in. The Japanese, he says, recognize that at least @ year’s fighting is ahead of them against ccuvaen ‘PLAYING WITH heavier odds than they ‘encountered in the present campaign, | SPOKANE, Sept. 10.--Mra. H but they consider the fall of Port Arthur and the occupation letrecter, who le eaid by her bus whole ef Keres and Southern Manchuria a sufficient trophy for the | band to be madly in love with “| first year of the war, local street car conductor, made @ innate Jeensational attempt at suicide yee —_—— }terday, jumping from the south bank of the river into the pool at| (Special to The Star) the foot of Post street. Her kap| ROCKFORD, Sept. 16. through the air was fully 20 feet.| year-old daughter of James Lae, ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 10.—Advices from the front indicate that there will be a long lull in the fighting while the Japanese re pleniah men, stores and ammunition. A new Buropean brigade has ; just reached Kuropatkin | but when she struck the water she| living on a ranch near town, was Experts do not expect the Japanese to make any real progres# | went down but once, her clothiug| burned to death Thursday The before the cold weather sets in, which ts lable to stop everything until | Keeping her on the surface | little one was playing with matches spring, when the Russians will be ready to begin offensive opera- | she was fished out by a number of in an old building and set fire to tions. The talk of London and Berlin papers of peace excites only | people who witnemsed the affair and some loose straw, She succeeded in derision here. }taken to the police station, where {extinguishing the fire, but not until —_—-- lahe bad fit after fit of hysterics. | ber clothing was ablaze. She can - oR ‘ Her bugband is 66 years old. | screaming towards the house, but ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 16 —Ordinary camp life has set tm at ane, bw Mukden. Quiet prevails today along the whole immense front. The | woman is 03. The husband says she | before assistance could be given she Mukd has been partly deranged by her in-| was so badly burned that death Japanese advance from the soutn east has been stopped. Russian t-g- gage trains have proceede! uninterruptedly along the rail tince Wednesday. Thousands of woum ed have been sent northw tt at | the Red Cross is stil! working night and day at Mukden to relieve the | most seriously injured The inactivity of th Protected Cruiser Milwaukee Is Launched at San Francisco NEW WARSHIP SLIDES FROM THE WAYS AND MAKES HER INITIAL PLUNGE AS SENATOR MITCHELL'S DAUGHTER BREAKS BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ON HER PROW fatuation over the street car mon, | came to her rel! Mr. Streeter talks of having the} woman examined as to her sanity. She bas one son by a former hue band {in a few hours, COURT OF _ APPEALS ‘The United States cireuit court of Appeals will convene in Judge Han- | ford’s court at 10 oclock Monday morning. Judge Morrow, of San Fran Judge Gilbert, of Port land, and Judge Ross, of Los Ange |les, comprising the court. They | Will probably be In session @ week jor ten days, The following cases will be on the anes @ Is ascribed to the absence of a docket | Martha H. Shields versus the Mo Empire State-Idaho Mining @ R Empire State-Idaho Mining & De velopment Co. versus K. J, Haley Di t of Idaho. Jense Thomas versus Provident Life & Trust Co., District of Wash ington. YT. & Hall versus rn Pacific, District of W ree De vere Coal pany t a) [ike t entir ~* t - “ : STABBEDWITH PITCHFORK (Special to The Star) i 2 a BA i 2 ————we | WILBUR t Two tines o fightir was built, cut the cord; beam and 2 t 6 inches 1 a pite ¢ driven into Da at pe ted it to slip down the |4raft. Her s to be 22 knot orw during @ qua aye and into the water | For a battery che Milwaukee will| with Her Adame thi 9 aukee taree |eatry 14 6-inch, 18 38-inch and &| The t are harve st wh largest onder rapid-fire gum 1 4 rele “ mat * nit em{-autor ‘ r\when Ada abt \ th gue |® tle and 1 hine gur f nd as Ad 1 Ch y are |4 fleld pieces w will con-| the fork ha tf r ed er sist of 631 men and about 40 offi-|the tir hich < i" pro- | pulled the tir tand t th her 1 /N MEMORY OF handle to belabor | ponent ruct the Milwau Adams was arrested iv ——— - _ |STOLE HORSES The p f WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 1¢ | gdh The one hundred and twenty-sev- | dee itiees Renn devas + 100 t Ahm a Baca. enth anniversary of the Suniiiron. ¢ é full loud b | Brandywine was celet George Elliot ms ry 1 t on the battlefield where, on Ser r here toda ' ny| ber 11, 197, for the first time the stealing thr ree a st (i ‘Continental army carried the Stars |man in John Day county. The boy , 5 feet and Stripes into battles had the animals with bim The Seattle Star 10, 1904, he +1 gellon Exploration company, from | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 10. San Francisco this week for their lithe District of Alaska —The protected cruiser Milwaukee | trienmial conclave. United States versus Wishkah ‘was launched today in the presence! Miss Janet Mitchell, the 19-year Boom company, District of Wash of thousands of spectators, includ-|old daughter of the late Senator tuptes, ing a distinguished delegation from Mitchell, of Wisconsin, christened . Pas on . the city in whose honor the vessel the vessel and Miss Lily Jeffre Fe | Te es ‘was named and a large number of daughter of the vice-president of the Washington Knights Templars from wisconsin ter of the vice-presicent of the orge H ie and other states, who have been in Union Iron Works, where the new Merrill veew Die. trict of War Hans B. Strand versus Joseph M Griffith, District of Washington ee as - (Cperrnr eres cscrerencees venceeenmnes sae see ts cenatt eae TWE OWLY PAPER IN SEATTLE ; THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : 25 CENTS PER MONTH vol NO OPPOSITION TO CITY HALL PLAN GROWING ¥ (HEAVY TAXPAYERS DO NOT FAVOR VOTING ON PURCHASE O re should be conservative about get- ting up to the limit of ber bonded If the proposition to build a elty hall le placed before the vot jin the form of the ordinance now JIM HILL'S GROUND ONLY—BELIEVE, AL8O, THAT A PRICE | iMdebtednens. The construction of a | before the finance committee, it is new jail and a new hospital, par~ |not unlikely that It will be killed ticularly the latter, | am heartily im SHOULD BE FIXED—GILL'S SCHEME HAS ADVOCATE PREPARED | FOR DEATH Business men and heavy taxpayers interviewed yesterday by The Star | were #8 @ rule in favor of building but many of them were | re- | ‘ hall a city hall Joppowed to the purchase |mainder of the present block as a site. th elty t the city more to put in a foun m for the »pulation of the eity is y way and that in why there ntiment in fi north of is ite hall on this ground | ch a atrong se land is worth. | A large nomber of them thought ou ell maid he had not | getting the eclty hall farther north. ithe location was good, but — given the subject h considera The idea is not right, though. Pio ered the present site large enough | tion, but had always been in favor | Neer square im still the converging . for the purpose. Others suggested |of the plan for the building of « all street car lines, It te (Special to The Star) that the Great Northern give the | joint structure by the « and 1 always will be close to| VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 10.— leity the fest of the block in return | city ¢ raliway center After having secured a coffin and for some of the valuable streets va Not only for With the regrade of Third av-| made other arrangements for trans- jeated by the city on the tide flate « 1 better access to it from ing his body to the “happy | foralepot purposes. All agreed that @ leading mer union depot the present city ing” ground, and old Indian te blindly vote $656,000 in bonds for ber of Commerce It site will become still more val-| chief at bella Balla yesterday blew }butiding the ball and purchasing in favor of President Gill's bi A city hal is for the trans-| himself into eternity, A short time the reat of the block, without " to erect @ city hall of the jon of busine it in une »Y | ago the chief purchased a coffin for kewwing how much of the 96 raper type on the ait now oc: | 1 whould be clone | $100 and from another firm bought was to be spent on the site, was ssa Bee yp Mong sees, aac seated ve —— itaorg | 2 X28 Of Runpowder, The coffin and he ground now oceupled by the e problem really resolves itne! omptl ridiculoys. ity hall and Jail,” maid the Chamber | into the question am to whether the promplly shipped to kim @ | Every one of them, however, WW8 | G¢ Commerce member "cp aan cae DAs cadet Bella Bella. lin favar of expending $150,000 in the | tains 2000 mquare fect mee Gane |e Ea tee the te tion | Yesterday the natives of that Jconstymction of « jail and hospital | the site of the New York Dock se | not believe that it can afford to| Dince, Were startled by a terrific ex- Fe cn eiiter Venice, ox sain Other | ox” tne Ace Sede ee Ol eee n eecaeinnt ak tan to|ploston. They found the old chiefs io pon Foe e no " ‘ hut demolished and pieces of bis property. on securing ¢ ground, if, 't do that it must buy a large n 1 b The oppeaition of the heavier tax-| the other half of the block is to be | Piece of ground pen arty er ie the Selvin. te on payersito building a new city hall of | nined, T think tt woute ao. 5 A. bos a eee outhouse they found the coffin, laid “ } | out all ready to receive his remains, any Mind et this time; the opposi *# to gO ahead and vote for tts | that he had not given the ordina The old chief evidently had | tion te voting for the proposition in | pur before the city knew what |"OW before the cour much | pered the coffin f a Be yo ite peesont vague form, togethor |!t was going to cost, 1 think it, thought and could not speak of it! tp - Se i would bo @ mae ? ~er hen, with suicidal intent, place® lwith = general sentiment of the | 4 good plan for the coun. | in detail dhs tea it aenaaedir cuber aap tek peopl in favor of erecting the |°il to get an option on the property 1 am in favor of building a oak coma it ott structmre tm the vicinity of the old | {fm the Great Northern. city hat on @ good location ii ee ae university grounds or on Ptke | . withstanding the adverse |Stely, though,” he said, “I believe) |Nortéere Block purchase @ black |‘he Property Is worth all the Great | fore the |p ae ee aoe | | ' 4 for it—$140,000 per-| Would carry it. The present city jeye hap hall i# little less than a disgrace te The Queen Anne Hill Improve Dr Ae aC inate ; ore rf | ment club ts going to take Up the | corn ot think ft éould be} Another heavy taxpayer eaid te- | matter at its next meeting. The | », $580,000 a modern of. | 4 at he was opposed to build omeenaaeennemoems members of the club will probabl? | ee buiiding « be erected on the | ing & new city hall at this t (By Seripps News Ass'n) jhe divided on the matter, John W./ present site which would do for 1 do not believe that we can af-| " . % | Roberts, president of the club, in| many n ther rd to,” he waid. “Seattle - | gSANTA CRUZ, C Sept. 16. y And if another » h Beattie is pay-| wy Gincusaing the matter this morning, | we f ed later the bulid ing too much for her street im-| Word was received this morning said 1 be 1 and at little expe pr ents. It is a scattered city! thet Semper Virene park ené they | 1 pave not talked much about | converted into an ordinary office | as we new and such necessary ; Governors Camp, at Big Basin, wenn; lthe matter to other members of the | tutiding. But I do kab rovements are costly. 1 know it| S#¥ed, but every bridge on the read lelub yet, but I know that if I were | ter location could be ey ia unpleasant to getting along with; ¥&% burned in the forest fires, \Spiiged to vote on the matter to-|claime to the contrary notwith- | th ent city hall, but I believe), From Big Creek comes word that, | morrow, I would be in the dark stan ding he ct ford to walt 0 cou- | (ne Silas See enter cousins. | Saee. son fi roR0: Third avenue ts mot the center | ple of Taxesa are about so Ueally all the structures to line Jebjection raised against thé prop I sition by those whom I have talked | % Por jon by a long way, but it! per © than they were the fire were destroyed. | : ay ne the business on and where you h pyro ‘ to is that the people will not be|'* Very clos L are voting for, They will simply | x dis icine installa tees | theme teaen ote Meth pm Be nel ee vote as to whether or not they are 1g guing to be.a beam | O50 eet ape ete Be Police investigation into the bure Willing to innue $600,000 in bouts 1 avenue and Pike st “1 believe t ought to go at) glary of Snow Bros.’ grocery store, for the construction of a city bal ent ¥ large retall| this city ha’ er very careful- | at Fremont, Thursday night, reveals on the east half of the block now pres will be built in that vleint ly.” said Charles Black, of the Se- | the fact that the entire loss di. not occupied by the city hall and the | put the heavy business will continue |attle Hardware company I have exceed $50. Staple groceries valued purchase or condemnation of the |to be done south of Madison street not given the matter much connid-| at nearly $1,000 were left behind by. other halt of the block. They Will |and on the tidefiats, About half the eration, but I feel that the city | the thieves [not be given a chance to decide) ¢ ~ — — ——— ———— japon any other locat or upon a vow much they vant wow tr | Emblem of Sweet Erin Will Have an Added Leaf liceation proposed They will not even know bow much is going to be expen on the building itself, or what will be the style of its archi tecture. 1 They must know these things be- | tore thay ean vote. intelligentiy. | There is, moreover, a strong sentl | ia favor of building the elty where near Pike street eity | hall impmediately I want, however, | Ite see's fine building put up on a good Weation and such @ structure low will be in keeping with the size wth of = BY BURR M'INTOSH. hall What 1 want to see is a new and prospective rapid gr the efty J. A. James, former councilman from the Fourth ward, unbes ingly pot himself on record as op posed to the present plan of the council | I believe it will be beaten, as it if it is placed before the should be people,” he said. “If the propos tion were submitted in {ta present form the voters would hardly know what they were voting f do not think myself that 1 ‘ 1 for the erection of a t wits is be ger site is t should be a ¢ it up pea the Ca id like to xtended over t by the Plyt k now 0« late Dexte ty hall j negie li ¢ the federa converted into a But this idea 5 ‘ should be unded t an fous ® is in f A cit 1 hould be fa nta not much m ‘ , ine iding. The present sit is large enough to ac city hall large enough to + 4 as Gan a} f y man, ir do the work that ; And, now, Sir Thomas, here's your So te ia be pla ‘ heaith and may the best one Se in wae sender ee m 3 And may the strongest breezes blow, 4 buftait nv hiw At first he said I luck He 1 bor he said to help them when they spin, “The } sition to construct a and then “I'll dot re | Exc me if 1 tr If our det r does the trick, we all ail and howpital on the Keezer |And then he said: “I'm in the ruck, | Or seem to wish to lift the mug, th will bless the day, block I consider a good one but wateh how I'll endure | pple of your eye.” But if it vamrock No. 4, we al | | 5 tainly opp ito th ’ will shou t J want f the rest of the clty ha cHoRUS ay CHORUS J shies ei 4 | i. fre Great ' It CHORUS. A | pur. | Did Mister Lifton, Mister Lifton Irn Mister Lifton, Mister Lifton, | mags | nel 5 He's done the best that any rt j He smiled at first he on, Mister Lifton, a Tt bi man's could miled again ull will we i The mug he's leavin’ His smile ereasin eee ' T und \ But grievin’, It knows no cea ] i had to build | For To: a boy, you're to the | It emoothes the water on the ragin 0 beg ander its tun main 1 i i bel it would