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orca, fiiiaaaaiiiansia Tonight and Wednesday—Cloudy with Showers; Brisk South to West Winds NIGHAT EDITION ITY TONG OF SPOILED MEAT FOR The Tainted and Watersoaked Cargo of _ the Sunken Topeka Was Bought By a Dawson Man and Is Being Recured for the Alleged Purpose of Being Sent Into the Tanana and Other Northern Mining Camps Nearly 1 00 pe nis of decayed jhouses in Seattle put the matter hesltatingly condemn the whole | yesterday transaction, Any man who would | . THE DEFENSELESS MIN- | offer that stuff for sale to a human ERS IN THE TANANA AND DAW- | being would, in my opinion, « SON CREEKS THIS WINTER MAY /mit any kind of « crime. sunken steamship Tc be |BE DECEIVED INTO BEATIN Local business men ing prepared at the packing house | THIS STUFF, WHICH NO MAN of the transactic Of the Armour company in this city |WOULD DARE TO PLACE ON beyond words to exp: 5 to mining camps in |THE LOCAL MARKET. The rea the as likely to give! the Yukon te son for this is the fact that the wholesale eat was purchased at the w ham a bacon sides bear the ters’ sale by J. A. Skagerl stamp of the original re, in ler with offices in this city | this case the Armour co y and onstantly in compet! Dawson. Skagerlind fs not well | the Cudahy company. Both thes cities, both in Brit Keown to Seattic business men. but | concerns ¢ ate branch estat ish Columbia and in the United from what can be learned of him, it | ments in this city. In fact, it Is at States, for the trade of the mining appears that he is a broker and | the Armour's plant, in the southern ska and the Yukon Keneral dealer who is always on the | part of the city, that this “meat” ts the head of one of lookout for alleged “bargains now being smoked the second time king houses of the | Packers, meat s and bust-/in a desperate en eav to get it ty gets the name of | ess men generally of this city de-jinto something like presentable is or such stuff] Clare that it is little short of an shipment ave been saved | outrage for any one to think of re It appears from tnvestigations from the hold of the Topeka, tt will ipping this meat to the mining | The Star has made that there ts no give trade a black eye from h. Packers estab w providing for the Inspection of | which we will not soon recover f cured meats shipped either into kht to be = law against Would not touch the sty Ala or the Yuk ‘ory. It the ring of ‘Was sold by Insurance juster | is we known that in the Tenana © meat lke that saved from Lowe, acting for the underwriters, | country this winter there is reason f the Topeka is stated by practical packing |to believe that the Representatives of the Armour house men that it is absolutely im-| FOOD SUPPLY WILL BE SHORT. | company state that they disctaim possible to cure a piece of ham or | At any rate, it Is known that prices all responsibility for the transac bacon the second time. Once the | for all commodities, expecially hams | tion. state at Skageriind curative agencies in the meat are | and bacon, will be very bigh water-soaked hams and | taken out by the action of water t consulting them and ed them to re-smoke the for whieh he ts to ams and bacon, rescued by divers from the water-logged hold of the rROUS BLOW usiness here tly, an wnecrupulous lwith a chance such as this undervell the lar ompar that looke » itis IMPOSSIBLE TO RE-CURE THEM. 80 as to make them fit to eat. Ip cial ula fee. Skagerti fact, decay immediately starts tn I right on the stated, pald 4 cents a pownd for the As & matter of fact. the 104,099 | surface, but which were absolutely | meat if it wae Mt 6 at. pe pounds of spoiled bh and bacon | unfit for consumption by a human | state, it could easily have brought lay for several days op the bott ng 15 cents per ind of the bay, where tides carying sew 1 was asked to bid on the lot of} As the matter now stands there lr age from the city’s sewers ebbed | sonked hams and bacon which were | no way to protect the miners of the and flowed through the hold of the taken omt of the hold of the steam-| northern gold fields from being Topeka. No biame can be attached ship Topeka,” sald a well known) forced to eat this rotten meat, un to the officials of the steamship | Seattle packer last night. “I looked |leaw it Is watched and the lot so company, which had nothing to do| at the stuff and it was absolutely | marked and traced that the dealers with the sale of the rotten mess, | rotten. 1 offered the underwriter® |in Fairbanks and the Tanana coun Packing house people here declare | representative 2 cents a pound for|try can avoid purchasing it. It is poset that this meat is abso-| it to put it Into the tank and reduce | probable that the wholesale dealers tely unfit for human consumption. | it to soap grease an b stuff. It/and packers will advise their pat “1 WOULD NUT EVEN FEED IT| was almost putrid and had that dis-|rons among the mining camps of the man-| gusting odor so often encountered | the north to be on the watch for ager of one of the large packing on the tide flats at low tide. I un-' this shipment. of Parker Ott For New York | | | | ‘CITY DADS HAVE ONE TO ELECTRON ‘All but two or three of the city (The board of works has been trying | eouncilmen left this morning for | purchase the right to use the Blectron, the guests of President | Poles. but the companies ask exor Purt “lectrie com. | Ditant prices. am hag A nwr ged poems Ro In an attempt to get over the dif. nally | ficulty the board has refused to fendered the council at its meeting | pant permits for the erection of fast night. Besides the counciimen ~e ss | Amisent Engineers Scott and Jef. |¢™ Poles unless the companies con frey went along. The party will not | Sented Co let the city use two crose- mnie tsar setearrens jarms. ‘The companies have in such The city dads believe they wit] ates Tefused to tak the permits, Gerive much benefit from the trip,| ich bas resulted in @ deadlock. EXTENDED securing information that will be of value to them. Mr. Furth is evi dently of the opinion that the tn- Parcel post service between the ation they receive will also be United States and Norway will go benefit to the Seattle Electric into effect October 1. A notifica ny. When,the councilmen see tion to this effect was .r-celved yee he big plant at Blectron they willl cmt PENiTRM Bow, Sept. 27.— |terday bY Postmaster Stewart. "No eg eit eeehe the Beattie} Bounces that the British torpedo | ‘eed in weight 4 pounds 6 ounces lancirle company too hard in the| boat destroyer Chamois has been lor ¢ kilograms. The dimensions are ine | lost. Her entire crew was saved tind “ “+ eeatact of the municipal lighting ey er iit cycr wan conduct joe t t 6 inches in It should not be more than two| '™& *peed triais off Cape Papas.) Postal rates in the United States 3 ny t,| when her propetter blade broke and |for guch packages will be charmed months before the city is ready to! iierced her bottom. She sank al-|for at the rate My Sertpps News Ass'n ESOPUS, N. Y., Sept. 27.—Judge Parker left upon his third visit to New York on the 7:06 train on the West Shore railroad today. W YORK, Sept. 7 Judge | Parker arrived at 9:30 o'clock and | was driven to the Seville, where he will remain during bis stay in the city, (By Seripne News Anq'n’ enter the light and power business. | 2 cents per pound The big question as to what extent| ™O*t instantly. Many of the crew/and in Norway the charges will the city will compete with the elec- | Were. !njured. |amount to ore” for each one kilogram (18 ounces) or for | tion of one-half kilogram. A very charge of & cents in the » “ore” in Nor-| tric company in furnishing private alt light and power will then have to be decided. Some of the council men will be in favor of distributing * sf } the municipal wires all over the| §T. PETERSBURG, ¢ The | Way may 1 from the per city, while others will oppose such| government police, working on the jege to whom the parcel 1s address. | a move. A warm fight will prob-| plot which culminated in the as-| a sieht ably be the result | sassination of M. Von Plehve, claim | Incidentally it might be remarked | to t 1 indisputable proof (My erippa Ne hill, where the feed wires enter the| tors, they say they cannot take any] yogcow. hept ve secured that the city has thus far made| that the plot was hatched in Geneva | practically ho city on thelr way to the transform-|action, because of the protection | proken out at er station at 1 Yesler. | granted political refugees by the | x, I LONDON, Sept. 27.—The admir | alty confirms the loss of the Cha | mois. local distribution. It has not put) Jews. Wh the e claim to up a pole in the city limits, with| have the names, « wes and all the exception of those on Beacon| the evidence inst the conspire we Ane’n.? Cholera bas aratoff and Nijni itions are being arrangements for) by a half dozen Russians, mostly ‘The city has the right to use some| laws of Switzerland of the cross-arma on th of — a the Snoqualmie F & White Riv-| MADRID, Sept. 27.—It ts rep . i er Power company, but the other} panish ambas- | ,, gn neo = companies, notably the Seattle m, and Marquis | torr wt eg “ Electrie company, which controls| De Vilauerita, ambassador at Vien-| They attacked J ange posts in the near ' dered reason for the nine-tenths of the poles in the city,| na, will ex are not compelled in their fran-| future. chises to make this gift to the achange other points in Russia at he RE ere error gieenr - ‘Phe Seattle Star Fairbanks’ “Little Journey to Many States No. 2--= North Dakota ‘ i sie ale i yA — Lee — -—~e rat Ne eae i | Divorce — LAwverRy ' | maa ©. 5.7 . ot Divorce “VTE | Lay ae “DIVORCE MILLS MUST NOT BE IDLE AND INFANT INDUSTRIES MUST BE PROTECTED | Governor Asks Court s SALOON © LICENSE to Make an Apology. =~ N m Heense Is to be granted SECRETARY OF BRITISH EMBASSY FINED FOR AUTO SCORCH. — street. Rev. T. P, Reveille = b tet tentar ING GiV ADMINISTRATION NO END OF TROUBLE wite nd + et ene thee ay | tert against the f the Heense, but Chair- nounced that he} etition would be The matter wes then| k and Mr. Re w moments be ® {By Bertpns News Ass'n? flcer, to be beld in custody until the! BOSTON, Sept. 27.--Acting upon | tines were paid. Gerney paid the the request of the state department | tines and notified his embassy im the Gerney case, Acting Governor which ig turn notified the state Guild has requested Special Justice | ment Phelps, at Lee, to remit the fine and |" oer: of the state department against the make apology to Gerney, also 0) recogning the justice of Gerney's| granting of the nee with the forward evidence of any breach of claim that he w immeane under | councit clerk, withdrew it the Massachusetts laws on the part) constitutional and statutory laws.| Incidental to the di of Gerney. They have requested the govérnor| dent Gi ASHINOTON. Bept. 11 Tae of Masequbusetts to investigate the Hecuasion Presi ed that he was tn « the saloon limits fining of Hugh Gerney, third secre: | : j nd dows ake tary of the Britieh embassy here, | WASTHINGTON Spt The de i Seca a toe . at Pittsfield, Mass, yesterday for! partment of justice this morning, | the other members of the council auto scorching and for contempt of! upon request of the state depart | showed plainly that they would not court ts causing the officials of the! ment, instructed the district attor state department some anxiety. | ney for Maseachu: nce any such ve " tts to take prop » of K H. James for Gerney was arrested for scorching | or stepe to set aside the judgment | the revocation of the licenses of the on the pub! highways Sunday. | of Justion Phelps, at Lee, whereby | Seattle Bar and Monte « | When hauled up before Special Jus-| Third Segretary Gerney, of the Brit-| on the grounds th t« tice Phelps he refused to plead to! ish embaesy, wat fined $25 for con-| toler asi mc the charge, denying the right of the | tempt of court and the same amount | by the t night to court to pase upon his case, he be-| tor over-speeding his auto mittee. The latter decided ing in the diplomatic service of a a license to W foreign country. | BOSTON, Sept. 27.—The state Justice Phelps did not see it that | partment has asked Gov. Ba’ to committee. way and not only fined Gerney $26! secure prom; ress and ample| pract out discussion. If for scorching, but added another! reparation and an apology to Ger-| the licen: tor was able to fine of $25 for contempt of court] ney for the section of Justice Phelps | inform the committee that the re and turned Gerney over to an of-lat Lee festerday. } sort had been running a full week | night Senator Fairbanks discussing the reclamatoin act ete am the benefits that 1 been derived from national aid in <a construttion of irrigation ditches in| | weetern states | the coun hing the li A discussion of irrigation, what b © of $1,000 he did lo 90. been done and what the repubil ah tae he ae party expected to do were the prin with ely, at least, ts cipal features of all his spe In bi® spedeh at Billi forming th of what had been going on in th sort The Hoense will now be taken up again | committec | (By Beripps News Aas'n.) LIVINGSTON, Mont., Sept. The greatest ovation of his tour CHALLENGES FAIRBANKS SPOKAN United Ret | the west was given Senator Fair-| issued a formal challer | banks here. He made n 20-minute|tor Fairbanks, the vice-p: The wettind between thd wlbore speech to a large crowd, which sur- |» nee of the republican party, to! the citizen committe and the rounded the special and delayed the | declare himself and put his party on| agents of the Seattle Electric com departure of the train until thelrecord on Mormonien } at Renton last night, for the agnator could shake hands with ev tor D has written an Riri ser tienen eryone. open letter ator Fairbanks ting labor troubles, wa: citing the f in the state demo. Th 1 . MMB ere t failure, The railroad officlals re BIG TIMBER, M r cratic plat emanding the ex-| gused to take back all the strikers Sentor Fairbanks arrived at 8:30|termination of polygamy and the : saying that there were some they o'clock this morning. It was a| separation of church and state. Sen- | Youd not b th thelr GEeMnae rainy day, but there was a big dem- | at demands that the corres ee — Age pa the future. onstration, He spoke to sheep rain- | vice minee make bh Tt a ahaa ers mainly, telling them of the lew known tn hi ag a ands that 1 another bre of Idaho. terment of their condit mn under Ape I republican protective policy te spoke in @ big wool house. Meet The steamer Humboldt sails for | tlement program ha ed, The ings will be held today at Livings- | the northethis evening with 35 pa nmitter 1 State La ton, Bozeman, Whiteball and Ana-| ®Ngers and a full cargo of freight missioner Blackman have cot The steamer Jeanie, of the Alaska rking hard to bring about Senator Fairbanks spent yeater- | Pacifi mpany, sailed for an} an agreement whereby the terday in a trip over half the state | Mranetseo this afternoon with could go to work. It ts un of Montana, veginning at Glend ip gers and 1,200 tons of that relations have been br and closing at Billings last night for the present “THE MINERS apartm |he knew he had not signed any or- | sinc The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL. 6, NO,1 Will Try to Escape From Port Arthur WARGHIPS AT PORT ARTHUR ARE BEING PREPARED FOR A DASH FROM THE PORT—WOULD RATHER FACE ADMIRAL TOGO THAN BE CAUGHT BY JAPS IN HARBOR ABOUT TO MAKE ANOTHER DASH FOR LIBERTY T. PETERSBURG, Sept. 27.—(1:45 & m The naval organ Kotlin today publishes an article predicting that Rear Admiral Wi renius will attempt to break o t Arthur with his ships and return to Europe paper ad mits that the task of escaping from Adin eo ap be hope f one takes for comparison A al Cerve tor way from San adds that Wire tm ani ards, have had ty of experience ST TERSRURG, Sept. 27.—A dispatch from Gen. Sakharoff, ur ny's date, stated th enemys vanguard, consleting of one on and two squadrons of cavalry, had assumed the flet This was 1 bly for a reconnoissance in the district between the Manderia road and the heights of the Villa Toumptsa. 9 ener ance was stopped by our troops &nd the enemy re ted atong the whole line, pu rsuedby our cavairy. The Japanese have n et advanced north of D on the left bank of the Liso river, but they have eased th e in the neighborhood of achan, The Japane has appeared in the v of the Liao, NEWS OF BIG BATTLE EXPECTED ST. PETERSBURG, Sept News of a battle near Mukden fe 4 the Taitse river at the fay. Apparently a large force is marching in Tie Ling pass. It is reported their efforts are be- te Japanese a re success of the Japanese netrated this defile. for the comp *# men have not yet JAPANESE LOST 1,300 MEN T. PETERSBURG, Sept & report that the Japanese lost 1.300 k on Port Arthur valuable aid in repulsing t he LOVE FOR WOMAN DROVE HIM MAD —— An official news agency has re- n the night warships ren- Japanese attack j shortly after midnight, with @ re- NEW YORK, Sept. 2 Becau volver. He left a note and will in he failed to win the love of a New which he left his jewelry to the York woman, Carlos Fredriques | woman who drove him to the act. Von Banditz, scion of one of the| Bandits’s father is a general in most prominent and wealthy fam- (t Venezuelan army. His mother iNies of South America and heir to|comes from a wealthy Trinidad millions, committed suicide in his | family, where she owns asphalt nts at the Hotel Endicott | mines worth many millions, (My Scripps News Ass'n |and the council had approved the | report. Uniess there was some im- ARCADE cense back to the committee, it | would not have been done. Yet it went back there and everything was kept so quiet there it was approved night that the Arcade the in ot the | the restricted district and one most notorious b concert and | | dance b in the northwest, had | lic e been running a whole week without | & license, and he promptly ordered | caaeraiainninapniee it closed. “Scotty proprietor of the place CHEMAWA, Ore., Sept. 27.—Mys- that the Arcade had been going full |tery still surrounds the strange dis- blast for seven or eight ¢ seems jappearance of three pretty Indian have been entirely overlooked by | girls, who have been missing from mayor spite of the fact that the government Indian school here Saturday night. Whether dinan: oped or were abducted is still opening of the place. The petition | in bt and though every effort was granted by the council a week | possible has been made, no trace of ago, but the ordinance was not fin- the girls had been found since they were seen at Salem, closely guarded by three white men. The girls are all quite pretty. Two, Lena Yount and Cora Will- jams, are full bloods, while the third, Lucinda Davis, from Circle City, is a half blood Three girls, believed to be the missing young squaws, were detain- i at Junction City, but later it was yund that they were not the girls wanted t » granting a license for the | they ¢ ally passed and sent to the mayor for his approval The fact that Andrew Ozroff, a Roche harbor laborer, reported to the police yesterday that he had bed and beaten in the re ng $200, caused the mayor to make an investigation. The mat ter was apparently kept quiet until | ’ after the meeting of the license and | /, committee yesterday after heen sort revenue noon, although some members of| ‘Phe government officers now be- the committee unquestionably knew | jjeve the girls are either in Port- fom’ about the matter when it |jand or & If in the latter came up. No mention of the fact | piace it i d they are trying that the theater was running and /to make their way north that a robbery had taken place was | made, however license Inspector Marsh reported | MAY BE DEPORTED at he was practically certain | Chiet Delaney had no objections to | gS res the reopening of the resort. It] Fuku hashi Maru and ems, though, that Daulton and | Hamano Chika, the three Japanese Johnston “got wise” to the thing | Wormer € ed by Im- prior to the meeting of the council | me Inspectors —-_ Geftney, last night and demanded that the | Lyne nd Ing Inspector application be referred back to the Bunday night, on 6 SNARgS pear of & « pr stitutes, w eiven a And one of the most pecutlar feat. |{ ; y, ane findings of ures of the whole proceeding ts that | 1}, | were terwandad 46 aan the license should have come up a tment headquarters at Wash- second time before the committee | ington, which. will ae yesterday afternoon. The latter had . allowed week before favorably passed t we te toe upon the application for the license tod k to J CENTS PER MONTH UF ALAGKA portant reason for referring the I- . { j | |