The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1905, Page 4

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New Vork Mepresen tative. been opened leave want The Deve number haa recent! venient place WO, 1006 Hartford Building Tribune Building ‘This ie te certify that the MALLY AVERAGE BONA MDB CIRCULATION of (he SBATTIO STAR for the YBAR 1904 1X CBEDED 16.0@@ COPINS DAILY, and for the FIRST QUARTER OF 1006 (January, Fel@uary and March) Exawndod 18,000 Capies: Bieuity & PF. CHASE. Geuveral Manage En Subscribed Mm my presence and sworn to before me this Ini day of April, A. D. 1905. } CHAPTER Hope of what XX1—Continued in all consetence? I wondered, as | undressed and pre pared for a night of wakeful un rest, Hope that, guiltless thowgh | was of prev ertme, | should ful fill the dreadful mission for whieh | had a re iY rather th n hanged’ If he would be griey oualy Or could he mean that he hoped to save himself from the aaoquences of ansocta tion with me during that fateful week? I could not telt, but ax f flung myself on the bed I growned in spirit at the thought that what ever hog might be for h there was not # «ingle ray for me Tt had begun te rain heavily du ing the evening, and now the wind rose, raising a swell on the beach that broke with a rhythmical « dence which would have hulled me A. L. TENNANT to sleep at any other time, | had : Se left my window open, ana so gained Notary Public in and for State of Washington, residing at Seattle. the full effect of the storm. Lytn wide awa mn the bed, I wa | watehing the ragged clouds chase each other across the angry sky RRR RRR RRR RRR RR ich | SaUn ietemenee dae lever mnit of te 4 THE STAR'S PLATFORM. & [open window was darkened by the * The best news first. & | shape of a human head, | remained * fit to print. | Darfectly til, staring at ¢ mo * out fear or favor. #® | tiomiess head and wondering grimly * te | if after all this was the kind of dan * | ownership ef public utilities © | ser Herzog had prophesied for me * ness district for reputable business enterprises. fw | If ea, it was a welcome change from * A gross earnings tax upon ai! public service franchises, ® | the anticipated knock at the front z An up to-date public schee! system. ® | dour by a posse of emen Equal rights for allt apecial privileges for none. * For upwards of two minutos the * Rigid enforcement of just, and repeal of unjust laws. & | head remained as still as I did, and x @ | then it began to shift a Mttle to the SERRE RRR RRA a ee [right and left | knew quite well what was going on. The owner of . = }the head, having satisfied bimeelf THE COST OF GAS that | was alseep, was endeavoring to locate my reon on the bed. I ‘That the Seattle Lighting company is making an tmmense Profit by selling gus in this city at the rate of $f per 1.000 cuble feet is the deduction to be obtained from a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal. The Seattle Lighting company must not only pay big dividends on its tremendously watered stock from the op eration of its plant, but the American Improvement company, fn as ing for the privilege of selling gas at 85 cents per 1,000 cubic f is mot, by any means, offering a charity gift to the people of this city, The Journal, of course, deseribes the gas situation as it is ia New York, a great city where the cost of constructing distributing mains is not so great as im this city, which is scattered and rapidly growing. When the corporations committee attempted prevail upam the American Improvement company to accept In tts franchise & provision for a maximum price of less than 85 cents, the pro- moters of the gas concern refused to accept the suggestion They admitted that gas was sold for cents fn Cleveland and a few other cities, but they did not think it could be sold as cheaply in this city owing to its youth. 1 If gas could be sold cheaper than at the rate of 85 cents, they argued, competition would bring it lower, but they could not see their way clear to offer it at a lower rate at the present time. Ht will be remembered that the American Improvement com- pany originally asKed for a franchise to sel! Wluminating gas at $1 Der 1,000 cuble feet and fuel gas at 85 cents. Then the Lighting company reduced its rate from $1.25 to $1, after which the former offered the straight $5-cent rate. Commenting on the situation im New York, where all the gas companies have united after a strenuous gas war, the Journal says: Sea! “The inquiry into local gas matters by the commission of the State legislature will endeavor to establish the fact that at $0 cents or less per 1,000 cubic for illuminating gas, the Consolidated Gas company could make substantial profits and pay dividends on ite stock, notwithstanding the tremendous amount of water this coa- tales “It will be remembered that in 1900 the Consolidated Gas com- pany, when at war with the other gas companies, which it later ab- sorbed, cut the price at which it suppiied gas to consumers to 65 cents per 1.009 feet. At one time the Standard Gas Light company made a price as lpw as 40 cents, but did not maintain this rate very long as its continuance probably meant loss to the company. At 65 centa per 1,000 the Consolidated Gas company certainly did not suf- fer any logs on sales of gas. It was stated at the time on very high Official authority that while the Standard company could not con- tinue to exist with gas at #0 cents por 1,000, the Consolidated com. pany made enowgh money from 65-cont gas to pay all operating ex- peuses and charges and matfntain its property in the highest state of efficiency. If such were conditions five years ago, it enn hardly be argued that « price of 75 cents per 1.000, or upwards of 15 per cent Righer than the rate the company charged then, would not be suffi etent for all expenses today, including substantial returns on invested capital” ‘ In support of the statements of the Wall Street Journal is the @videnre already browght out in the New York investigation where the officials of the gas producing company admitted that the actual ost of producing gas was 32.5 cents per 1.000 feet, that it was sold to 2 distributing company—the gas trust-—for 32.88 cents, and to the Business. could not discern bis features, be canmee they w » towards the dark ness of the room, and such faint | light as came from the storm | wracked sky was behind him. He | kept his full face inwards, prevent ing me from getting so much as the effet of an void-faahioned silbourt which hie prifile would i yielded. | This was not the arm of the law forMenor Women Spring Suits ONE DOLLAR PER WEEK Prices Right---Cash or Credit Eastern Outfitting Co.(Inc.) 422-424 PIKE STREET, COR. FIFTH THE CLEAN CUT LAWN MO In one of the best constructed Machines on the OWER Mower has our yielding dead knife ani is self-sharpening while in operation. It runs as easily as any ball-bearing Mower. Guaran- teed to give the samme satisfaction or money refunded, 12-ineh eee 1-ineh peat 16-inch... ERNST BRO Both Phones 1158. 606 PIKE STREET bet someone who intext to murder | me, and whom | should be justified im throttling, I told myself with a suppressed joy that glowed through my veins I knew then how flereely | had wanted to strangle someone—Hermg for chaice—all the evening, and ft was with savage | antfefpation that f watcher the head denist from its focussing movements and rise higher with the « tention of creeping through window. The splash of the rain and the howling of the wind any sound the iatruder might have made, giving the (mprenssic something simcous and snakelike creeping in on me as one | : leg was lifted over the: sill } - waited eat ty spring, and then the door of my }raom opened with a jerk, asd a shaft of ht from a bullseye lan | tern, held by Herzog, fell full on the | face of my nocturnal visitant. It was the face of Roger Marake. j | CHAPTER XXII | A STRANGE ALLIANCE | Tt wae but a Meeting viston that | we had of Marske. for no sooner did the ray from Hersog’s lantern fh!! upon him than he dueked down and disappeared. Tt lawted long enough however, to explain the purpose of his midnight visit, for in his mouth jearried there doubtless to free his (hands for the climb, was « long | bowie knife 1 joined Her: an he strode to | the window, and peered down int the gloom, but of the intruder there was no sign. He had completely vanished ling bis way back to the and was presumabiy mak through the shrubs } grounds of “Ardmore | “Haomph! Clambered up by that }virgina creeper, satit = Herzo« fshutting the window and proceed | img to light the an on the dres jing table. “i think you owe | thanks, my friend.” I hated to be beholden to him, so I answered surllly enowgh that | should not have been taken by sur | prise, as | bad been wide awake and ready to give a goed account of myself Herzog chuckled, and I noticed }now that he seemed in high good humor. Well, well,” he said, “at any r a u that you would be in danger, and you profited by my vice to be vigilant. I was in two minds wh your peril would take this form or that of an ineur sion by police officers. I am de lighted that it came in the shape of Mr. Roger Marake, for now | can play the game with a knowledge of my opponent s cards. Just cast your eye over this telegram that I re cefved this evening I saw that it had been han in at the Charing Cross postoffice at 6 o'clock, and, besides the address, contained only the two words Business off.” | “That,” proceeded Herzog, aa he carefully restored the message to | his pocketbook, “refers to your lit tle affair, or rather to what would have been your ir ff you had | been the trueulent ruffian you were supposed to be, It 6 a prearranged signal informing me that the seheme has been abandoned. Lord Alphington’s life is no longer | threatened and Jol for | am | bloodthirsty mran |to be perfeetly | Rivingtor you to equal f | gram wa r Oideou personally, 1 re not by nature a Yow | am going frank with you in the hope of tempting unkness. That tele sent or on Marske, the cBancelior Millions Mischief @orrwUaiur 1906, BY TH News EDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 190% —— BY HEADON aS ILA APR ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION 1 of the exchequer, and one of my su-(his Intention to kill you tonight pertora, in the unpleasantr has given himself away as deeply have been engaged in implicated in your affair. Am I Roger Marvke’s fathor?’ 1 ox-|right that you and your plucky it aimed, more concerned with the) tle awertie: tedede (hal Be ought intimate bearing of his revelation) fo ated ie yore? bomen” a my own fate than with the tre-| Ceaid 1 toga Gia oo anson of HendoUs fact Chat cabliet mln letete | ekmemmry coat sermlomeye lls me eure should have conspired agatr Che | me wine lement ot Cage | Winall aggre: life of a colleague | wtaah Juegent deh gam tte. ppwotege? | Ah, you begin Co see the comimse- | Bp meuil whte stent ite meyy epaiyy ocr tion of things,” Herzog sa om| lew haworrwgh we old if Roger Marske “1 Ginde I mom youl cmliy deanien dull wits could agt grasp on Ue spur of the moigut where Sit Gideon came in But Heraog’s could, “You forget the telegram | had from Sir Gideon thi ning, cancelling the plot againat the prime minister,” he | sabe That ie evident to me thet | Sir Gideon has become iddealy aware of these private complica tions, He can only have learned of them from our friend of window sealing proclivith and whatever his information ay be, it “By certainly includes the fact of 5 nnoee Does it also include é ty { the gu know lode mod and leoked at me, but, ! no sign an yet ilersog lweut on, still more impressively | my word for it, Rivington, | that whate vox is wrong with Mina ia tn it on ap ou ny callmark, tsa? old ma to the hilt, That attempt ‘mt shows that y hi hard hit by the girl, and t wont to silence you without ture if possible, though, havin od with the knife they will probably Mm back on the hangman's rop if wy éea't look wippy. And if they | was te treat you like that, what | mn of earroy is te girl to hope for ' (te got te whom F faeuratively nat they recap " Jone har Which YOU} rpdengnon ant yootnaiiy Mo Cu | gape caf my ht ae mo fat bd torrbor will, perhaps mae punt | nares, toe. MT lente Wy Hl | adits cho toe a mmmast lathe forret ly, T sRoult have at fre VOY) ante be Lauedton | miata toe nde 00! tect kvme odd Che mat from bl , at attitude toward yeu Mell i you, and hee, tow, pow mirl, Bi gor Cidece aad Boge are my rots, what | do at this mim Sie CRéven Marate hav aitwwed her! Rivington, acd they are om the And depositing hiv heavy Mwmalio uve we lone” ig spre rege Prete ia one of Mrs Kranee unreUlehiDl die cision? Teper, pou mean,” | don't hgh ga | chairs, while I aat on the bed, he , . ne te eeateelh) | told me the secret history of his |*alé 1 fu my blundering way. My iisaton tO release me in Order CO | epegepmmne engin TS TD | axsaminate Lord Alphington, How with the comnivance of the home secretary, he had worked the buab hess at the prison; how he had moet from the first interview with ya . me at Southampton; and how he had begun te seent an entirely un foreseea combinat of peivwate in fluences the moment he pe P ady Muriel’s Interest in the om the boat on the ¢ of our arriv Also, as Mr. Hyde knows, those, thought his horse was not pretty) at at Totland, It had not taken him| who look at the dance sometimes) enough and he got all of the ribb long to apeeify Janet Chflmark as| have to pay the fiddler, jhe could find and tied up th friend” mentioned by Lady | horse's tall and mane. Don't we Muriel, and thenceonward§ bis aim A WORD FROM 2084 WI8R jj all know the bows = w pretty, had been, not, as | had befieved, to} | when he tied them. turn me loose a savage Pourderer } Waring Walker, an enterprising | on Lord Alphington, butito trace | young man and talkatfve drummer) t the Intricacies of, Roger You can't never | Lord, was in ovr town Saturday Marake’s hostility to meg) aa evi | Come again, Waring, your smiling) deneed by his pitit tal on the } fee always cheers us up. | poat lose all your troe- |) Gu what two younk He told me, with a fat Gheeze of }oame to town Tw driv enjoyment, that he bad fkrranged bles, but it’s easy ¢' | swell team—Mont the excursion to Bo wd for : | — the expreas purpose vik to S | himeeif his suspicion ¢ Roger | trade “em fer others. Marske had not only gu@med my identity, bat had private riasms of his own for desiring os my death of recapture. | 1 had hard work to _ ee ee i quit. Gave te es ee amt lor five eastern cities has settied «| only did it by telling uth $100,000 anit brought by one original “Florodora” sextet whose arrest he had caused. al? have our troubles that your eseape had been com trived at the instance of his father, Sir Gideon,” sald sersog. “I did not tell him that from that moment girts the poor ha! ‘ e 0 my allegiance to that sinful old vlog Ay rich have the “Fior stateaman Was broken, and that aa b wit as T pomows was to be 40°) «tussia's hopes in fleet,” says Jo paying Off an OFF SOF8! neadtine of « New York paper. | ee ee Sure. And the fleeter, the more But what about the + oes business, at which ! » you the other night?’ Basked.) 4 ntversity of Chicago profes- That didin’t look like sparimc Lord]... i. bringing dead cats back to | \ipbington < life. There's nothing those U. of | Ses Checkmated mé!" Hersag sp°°™! © professors woe't do to get their | °C ite amiably, “That Wer Ql 8) names in the papers }> leas dev for settling th question, upon which even then I had no certainty, whether you were | A WEALTH OF HAIR really meaning to kill his lordsbip| sot. When I gave you the sup-} posed fatal squirt there was noth ing {n it but rose water. 1 was com pelled to use a scent, so that when I examined lore going in I could readily ascertain ther you bad. as | expected you would washed {t out and refilled the thing with water. So much f ur ckmating, my friend I positively began to admire his inating on that occasion, sinee it had no baser object than to give the/ le to the murderous protestations with which I had sought to de him To return to Roger Marske,” he clve | went on In more serious tog “My own position toward the Marakes father and son, fa this: Years ag wh T wae tm the istand revenue into an errer,, of| Hideon took advantage | t nd me to bim body and sowl ax! the doer of amy dirty work he re-| quired. I had po option. 1 gither had to become Bid bond-slave ar go for THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND. NEWS OF THE SOUTH Guess what young lady while out driving Sunday afternoon per 1 to bh an alternative her love-sick awuin to get out of th wh my habits or my f€-| buggy and left him there to bemoan 0 pted Now, . Re bis fate. but as he had @ rather ry his conduct toward you following your friend. Mine tender heart she took pity on his lonetiness and waited for him Look One Chilmark, to Lomdon, still mere by out boys young man iit «) ‘WEALTH AND BEAUTY »with improper food. Bad food---poor Good food---gox Begin with Cof Nothing in the world 1 more invigorating than a cup of 99 Coffee; it’s a guaranteed coffee, it’s always the same--- careful'y roasted, care- fully selected and pack- f the! We ¢ | army b | rieh-quick sch 2 No Beauty without health---no health ed always in sealed cartons; ASK THE GROCERYMAN } Milftary experta are calling at- tention to the fact that there are no white horses In the Japanese No red-headed giria, either. | After all, it's strange that a get-| me should succeed in Philadelphia such bad cigars | jas Puffer smokes? I don't know what kind he lamokes. but | never saw any so bad as those he gives away.” | “You know makes t the man who of grass grow | where one grew before’ "—— ‘Ob, yes | know He had to ander a fortune in grass seed two on | squ $100,000 fn try Rockefeller? } } Why pot spe at ing to convert John D. George Vanderbilt has leased his New York home to H. C. Frick, and declares he will never live tm that city again. T will surprise the many of New Yorkers who did there was any lother city man could live. thousand not know in which a health. 1d health. fee. more beneficial, 25 cts. pound. Anether Advance Step of the kas, bi thle MOTHINE most) COMBINATIS SCARETS nve and ’ UNTA 7 gulag 2% 7 comical, regu-| BYRINGE—2 -qt| ))) SOM Memes lar price ~ 160: for size, good quality FF Bours sae one beur Ge guaranteed tw _ A _| years, regular price| TH EAT RI $1.50; for L hour,6@e|) (., ht i & J. RED CROSS a> ¢ KIDNEY PLA# = very best, tut TERS wolar) ROCK CANDY—the! box, reguiay price 2 for one pureet made, regu oc: for S00; for 1 howe hour lar pri Ib. ; _ — for 1 hour 106 = ED PINAIRDS BOCKMAN'S | pe oun CHLORIDE OF CUTICURA 8OAP— LIME—ree. price Reg. price thc; for regular Ste lee; for 1 hour. 6e 3 hour . Be for 1 bowr..es, BATH CABINETS—#1.00 Rath | WATER POTTLES—whne ty last—regular $1.60 sine; for 1 Cabte for 1 hour $2.50 | hour eo” oe oose Tlie TheQuaker Drug Co, Columbia is Headquarters. may be our own boss and make $3,0007 Pianos‘: Rent Opposite the Lumber Exchange. \PHOTO SUPPLY Co. SRARRRRRRSE ar employen, we This works » f the Nosthwen Ite better fap ». the Quaker decided to give each a holida radiest with the in keeping Noon Hour Sale Thursday ER .S38 VEYSRSSS SSese*ee ‘The Settee . vm 12 3, ent We have engaged, extra mies ¢ will be no waiting. opte to handle the crowdogs 1013-1015 First Avenue IRRIGATION IS KING And the Two Rivers District where the Snake joins the mighty” Irrigated Lands in Walla Walla County---5 and 10-Acre Tracts DEEP VOLCANIC ASH SOIL. INEXHAUSTIBLE WATER SUPPLY. GUARANTEED WATER RIGHTS, LAND EASILY IMPROVED. EARLIEST MATURING IN NORTHWEST. TRANSPORTATION IN ALL DIRECTIONS. EXCELLENT SCHOOL FACILITIES. OPENING PRICES VERY LOW. 5 Acres Properly Cultivated Will Net $3000 Per Year Why will we be bossed by another man on $500 a year, when a $220 down. EXCURSION EACH FRIDAY FROM SEATTLE 10:30 P. M.—ROUND TRIP $10.70. W. W. BECK 205 PACIFIC BLOCK, SEATTL BOTH PHONES 605 OR CAL K. U. 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