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“Dent Worry, Wateh Us Gre The Now Store Cash_ One Dollar or Two Each Week Will Do puY PARLOR FURNITURE &.AT THEse NEW THREE PIECE PARLOR SET Made of hand polish mahogany . shows Divan of Arm Chair tion Chair and Divan « ered with Silk Da several patter mes Price $35.00. Re Thureday, our f COR. SECOND erg @ UNION STREET As snon ts the present reorganiza- every contractor would be violating of the Western Central Labor | it if it were left to the city officials fs affected, which will be Im &/ to see that it is observed. Not con- ortwo, the new body will (tent in their servility to the contrac take up the question of es- | tors, to fail to themselves bring the labor union party im /|tranagressors of the law to justice. city. Failure of city officials to|the officials make it difficult for the hour law is the im-jothersto do so. They insist on oth cause for such action. ers gathering the evidence of viola feolation providing for the for-| tions of the law, and then assume to @f such a party to put &/ pass judgment on whether the evi into the field in the municipal |dence brought to them—evidence Qext spring was introduced | they should gather—is sufficient to Fowler, of the Federal| warrant an arrest or trial of the union, at the last meeting of | violator, When the board of works The proposition | is appealed to by representatives of ‘Bot discussed on {ts merits, as it | labor they are referred to the mayor poy advisable to wait for|or the city engineer, and when the Teorganized body to act on it.jcity engineer or the mayor is ap the Union Record, the official| pealed to the complainants are re ge of the Western Central, com-| ferred to the board of works or the oe os the subject as follows: corporation counsel — anything to Gradually but surely the unions permit the contractors to continue eity are being driven into tak-jin their violation of the law. Work independent political action. /ingmen have had so much of this Officials in Seattle have al-|treatment that their patience is been notoriously subservient to | about exhausted and they are ripe tx opposed to the working |apply the proper remedy—turn There has never been a/their enemies out of office and put in the history of the city that a| themselves in. Nobody doubts that could not get almost | they can do It if they once get to it asked for at the hands|«ether in a municipal campaign. ity council, and never a time| That they are seriously thinking of en could get even|doing so there are many evidences iewfol rights—unless on the| Perhaps the most pronounced evi @an eléction—and the present and officials are the f oe ty was given at the last meeting of the ert bunch this respect that | Western Central Labor union. As a Seattle's public of-|is well known, political topics are most recent, and the|tabooed by the laws and customs of ae “ay evidence of the dom of the city officials by men Money or “political influence” a by the maner in which responsible for the ob of the 8-hour law are per its violation. The public have heard that the Being violated were it not for of the labor unions, and that body. Yet was offered fn it last Wedneaday night asking that the union take the of this city toxether for the forma tion of a political party to put a jticket up in the next municipal elec- tion, there was no protest, except as to the advisability of taking such action while the central body was jn the process of reorganization broader and stronger lines. The subject will not down; the working men of this city are getting exasper- ated, and with their exasperation is 8 NS ARITA HOLDS THE PRIZE Tomorrow, Thursday, 5 Ib. pails best pure Lard. DoYou Probably the smallest tion set forth In t a mining company Penn. Mining corm capitaliaa- incorporation o Was that of the . the Incorpo- | nection with the Monte Cristo min Ing properties, TREE a » YERETT, Wash, April 26. A. Loop, of Tonopah, is here and says the recent ept demic of “black pneumonia” caused §,000 to leave, reducing the population to 2,000. The scourge is now practically stamped out and says the water famine is very nearly solved with @ 30 mile pipe line * —G eeete tee ee ee AN COFFEE Co. SECOND AVENYU vy Fs Madison aa" eeeeeeeeee ee ee eed The body of Joseph Tata, the Ital jan laborer who was smothered to death Tuesday in a manhole at La tona, was unearthed late in the aft ernoon. dence of this undercurrent of feeling | when a resolution | initiative in getting the union men / on} coming a little political sense. The politicians have been sowing the| wind; they are booked to reap the| whirlwind. ration papers of which were filed 2” can get the Bil tuesday. The capital xtock t for | ¢ coffee j Yo $100 and the incorporati for 60 ams’ Tea Weeks, Ira Bronson, W. W. Reed atin ‘and Coffee Co. Try it. fand Dana W. Brown are the incor- | isf | porators: or action guaranteed Judge Taliman stated Tuesday Money refunded. afternoon that the incorporation was & mere formality, bh x some con | from CANNOT UNITE TWO BUILDINGS USED IN BUILDING CITY + | LEADING ATTORNEYS SAY BOND VOTED FOR JAIL CANNOT BE 4ALL A city hall will probably never be; to use the bon@s for any purpose tt built In accordance with the plan| desired or it would not have taken Which the city hall commission, af-| the trouble to ask the people to vote tor many star chamber sessions, has|on the sition, To bulld a sin mapped out, While the mayor and] mle but ontaining a jail, hoa the business men who camprive the! pital unicipal court Iso commission have been secretly end] thing bulld a bkyseraper to laboriously working up @ plan which| which these will be unimportant ad they can spring on the public they|junets is quote another have been apparently oblivious of And to make the matter worse the fact that their whole scheme in| it appears to be the intention of the contrary to law and = that should] commiasion to use only a small por they attempt to really go ahead] tion of the $175,000 jall and hos with the bullding planned a single} 1 quarters, the major p« be taxpayer coulé block the whole pro-|ing used to build quarters for elty ject by securing an Injunctior fficlals, A pr ion of the On That the comminsion’s plans are| borne will is that the city must con practically valucieen in already | tribute an amount equal to that pro- known by many mémbere of the! vided by the ¢ ne entate if the council and it is probable that the| Osborne donation is used. That city legislature will turn down the| means that the city must provide whole project when it is submitted | $65,000 out of the $178,000 bond is to that body | #ue toward city hall purposes in or The commission to obtain the benefit of the Ox One was the issuance f the $176,000) the proceeds of the $1 borne donation, I believe that any sue voted for the specific purpose of | taxpayer could stop the procedure constructing @ combined city jail, | if desired emergency hospital and municipal] I do not believe,” said Mr. Gill ourtroom for erecting m large bulld-| “that the money voted to build the ing to which these quarters will be/ jai! and hospital, can be used with mere adjuncts, In the opinion of H.| other money to build a city hall Gil, president of the council; | building to contain a jail and how Vince MH. Faben and other attor-| pital. The charter provides th neys who have been asked about the| bonds shall be voted for a specifi matter, such @ consummation would! purpose, and shall be used only f be s ect violation of the city|that purpose. The people voted to j charter and the common law, as well] spend the money on what was pr fe an indirect perversion of the will| sumed to ® single building con of the people expressed at the polls| taining a jail, hospital and court, | Jat the time the bond issues were 1 do not want to be understood ¥oted upon. Jan opposing the present pian ex At the special election three spe-| cept in eo far aa I fear the whole cific propositions were voted upon.| project will be indefinitely delay if it tm not ceded with in a le NEW MINISTER 18 NOT BRILLIANT, GOULDS TO EXTEND of the [ees G:-L-HolmesFurnitureCo- W01-1103-1105 SECOND AVE. The Alaska Refrigerator Confirmation ropert that 460,000,000 of have been Placed in New York for the comple tlon of the Western railroad between Balt Lake « San Francis | co, was received by J. B. Andrewa | | Assistant to Vice President C. H | Schlacks, of the yonve lo ¥ that the placing of the bonds fur 3 ‘ leah aamiies 148 balbdied in ve onan Only Sanitary Filling pleted af soon an pons he as'de ‘ sa promoters of the Western Pacifle < Gabsindtelal dee arene road have announced that George J Gould and his overland , failroad | system are behind the road, which | will be constructed without delay | DR. VON BETHMAN-HOLLW between Salt Lake and ‘Frisco. | BERLIN.—The new Prusian min dampness and varying tem- ister of the interior, Dr, Von Beth perature, causing the exp mann Hollweg, owes his rapid ad BRIEF CITY NEWS and o¢ tion of th vancement in his official career to which de the fact that he was the contempo hence a dry atmosphere | rary Of the German emperor at the] ‘The steamer Jeanie, which has uniform temperature conduce | Univers of Vonn, Young Prince! been chartered by Captain Omar J to thelr preservatiors William and Young Bethmann-Holl-| Hamphrey to carry coal between Thene results can be ob wee were members of the same! Ladyamith nga, arrived in tained only by a perfect cir students’ club and formed a friend-|attle Wednesday morning. From culation of air tr ship which has lasted until the | this the el will sail for erator, and its | Present day Ladyn as 8000 an she has dis In the lee chambe Pr, Von Hethmann-Hollweg 18! charged her carge The Alaska onstructed not a brilliant man, but the quality! ©. B. Hopkins filed his bonds on upon strictly scientific prin of brilliance is not required im] Tuesday as marshal for the West ciples, by which low temper- Prose ministers, The ern Washington district. This is ature and dryness of air are to have men of moderate|the last step in the formal organ naturally and ine btained. s who are thus better tool n of tw ra} courts for the The Alaska possesses a provision chamber free from odor. erial guard than m s of Washington The Alaska produces better results with less ice than any us and strong conviction we H Hutson, whom Mis other refrigera Harriet Loule Cherry charged with — jhaving beaten her because sh _ Thi R fr (S “ae ) |T0 FLASH SIGNAL | would not marry hie, baa departed Is INE g-srgie ee Cut | for Calsfornia. The doctor will prob Width. Devth late 5 | bly not return and leaves a cash : ’ } tae ahage yt Price AROUND WORLD deposit of which will help some 2 2 iM% a i / G. Tapia, a Chilean, one of the 16 in, 10% in $1 | 50 crew of the German Kosmos Iner 1 Cham.18% in. 11% fn . mortris, died Tuesday morning of NAVAL OBSERVATORY WILL | heart disease. He will be buried to this city, the body b 1g been seat ATTEMPT THE FEAT—ELEC- | ashore before the sailing of the ves- | TRIC BUS IN LONDON—TOYS FROM GEAMANY | Replogle to conduct a camp meeting The Friends the Evangelists Chureh Chas has secured | and May in the gospel tent Twenty Fourth and Fir, corner following the Wil Pianos‘: Rent of bends for the construction of a| gal manner ermonally I would like PY GILSON GARDNER : HILSON GARDNER bur J. ¢ eotings, to com m > combined city Jail, emergency hos-|to see a sky-scraper city hall, such} ber Bee soe “age nea Mgt Rent Allowed on Purchase Price pital and municipal court, the idea|as that now planned by the commis- | Mtaft Correspondence to The Star. | Hatin \ Me mencey @eninn Bue Meee +> being at the time that it be built on| ston, built on the present city hall] WABHINGTON, D.C. — How | (AUK Ou Noell ne nes KOHLER & CHASE, 1305 2d Ave. the triangular tract owned by the! site. In fact, I have advocated such | long will it take an electric spark a ?5 C (Established 1850.) ety at Fifth avenue and Vester | a scheme, though unsuccessfully, f t® t@fvel around the w 4? This ~ * te 1 George Clark and (> Clar Way, known as the Keeser block.| years, It has always been my idea | i# the Interesting experiment to be) |” ceretani hookey” at baer: ere tedlpwe seman clare The second was for the issuance of| that the foundation of the city hal! | triad §n midnight of May 3-4. Rear) (0 Sou m | able | tim $150,000 for the purchase of a city| to which stories could be added until | Admit ©. M. Chester, in charge of |night by Truant Officer Tureman hall site, and the third was for the|it became @ sky-scraper should be | th Nbval Observatory in Washing- | 18) hum, were Tuesday morning|also repair the leak in the cable/olutionists, were arrested on the Issuance of $500,000 for the con-| built on the present site, temporary | (ih yyill originate thy spark, and nt, by order Of Judge which is situated at some point be- | Servian frontier, The men carried struction of the city hall. The last/ quarters being provided during the | @ferMi observatory and telegraphic). / 4 fai echool to tween Cape Flattery Sitka.| bombs and arms and hed a list of two propositions were turned down, | period of construction. | in the world im asked to be | (he industrial school to Major Giassford, who is in charge |Bervians whom they intended to which was undoubted proof that the! The rustic idea that a city hall | of lookout for it, and to make eae is ae tiene 6 ¢ the local office of the signal |assassinate, including all the Ser- voters did not want a city hall, at/ should be built on @ hill where|4 Rote Of the time of its arrival | yo sy ea lcorps, stated this morning that the|vian and Macedonian committee at least on plans contemplated by the | everybody can see it, with a squirrel | These special time signals are to be Julia Hoyt o Peenbey mérut Burnside will return to Seattle | Belgrade city officials. park around it is worn out. ‘The| sent out in honor of assembling at) ee nee eee ieee and about June 16 = - The jail iseue was carried, but not| jail should not be connected with | the natto pital of the Interna San , ee ag the > t ttorney f aint Nordhot ¢ Chamber of Commerce at ite with the idea that the money should|the city hall in any manner. Al Railway congress, which | *lorney pony ‘ao ea genoa le. oe Wednesday afternoon, will WILL BU/LD be used to help build a city hall. The| temporary jail could be butlt cheap- | meets May ¢ humiliation and general damages. | probably endorse a plan to construct Voters considered the construction|!y on some of the city’s property nning at 11:66 p. m. the se he plaintiff sued for $3,000 on all jai streets within the city limits S Jail and hospital @ necessity. |on the tide flats, as it will be uitt- | i be Lege varlogy bone | gations that she had been held and|to connect with new county roads| Word was recelved here Wednes- opting willing to wait to build «| mately removed to the county farm wire eo . + the Tinitea searched by the management of the | which the commissioners are to con- | day that the Great Northern is pre- we: ~~ AES: : or other outside point Sev sp om sae ‘telegraph | BOP Marche without reason, on sus-|astruct. One of the streets to be| paring to build from Midway, B. C, Pe, oe people bad wanted . city The vlan ot the building, ax now bie company is asked to co- | Picion of shoplifti Jopened is at Georgetown 1 the|through to the coast making Lega a " ave voted for it,” | sketched Dy Rullding Inspector . ; Sauk ty bi The United States cableship Burn-|other in the vicinity of Ravenna|couver thelr terminal. Midway is sald mr ruben. There te ve en | Plece Brovides very poor jail quar pe Ser he inc ride sails for Valder, Monday. While | park fos seg = to agg nie ah he ¢ a can see for using the/ ters, and the rreney hospital » metal < in the north the will survey —- a= will be easier to run a brane! bonds authorized for a city jail for | much a into | the com The — ba = "ithe route ever which the Valdes- VIENNA, April 26.—Four Bulgar-) from there into Spokane than any earn perpen am be Th » tate i ts : leh pow may Seward cable is to be laid. She will tans, alleged to be Macedonian rev- other point. clearly on wha ey war on a | thence to ONO UY jence te | _ sarees —_ ~ council did not have the authority storeroom. and the Midway isan ther »| Manila, thence to Hongkong, t . WILL EXHIB “FRUIT |snisren oannert MAY LOSE HIS JOB. | erccutive from this county, conferred with the King County Horticultural society | at a meeting Wednesday morning at the Chamber of Commerce and made arrangements for making af suite abibit of the fruite and other agricultural and horticultural products of this county at the « position Lewis and Clark fair _- The county commissioners have promised to furnish the required funds. It is probeble that a man will be employed for the purpose 1 1 of circulating adverti« literature, of which there is always & wurfelt at an exposition, the agent wit! hand out choice berries, plume and prunes to all persons coming ant of the mountains who « interested in horticultural up tions. oe PROMOIED w. R. Sheldon. contract freight agent of the Wisconsin ( tral, with headquarters at St. Pa bas been appointed general agent the company at Helena, Mont Sheldon suceeds F. J. Erfert w was formerly assistant freight agent of the Wisconsin Milwaukee. Mr. Sheldon is a w known railroad man in there parts be good and his promotion will stolen money was buried. Mr general re a JOHN BARRETT. Minister Jobn Barrett is sald to have displeased the administration in his handling of Panama diplo macy, | and is Ubely to be recalled. SPECIAL RAVES me n- wal ot ho Advance notice was received by the Canadian Pacific Wednesday morning for the special rates of the large conventions to be held in the ing $9,960. 4 Calcutta, and » to Singapore | via the Suez to Europe, arriving at| | London, whence it will erons the At-| lantic cable to New York and back | to Washington. From this route It] will also be communicated over a great network Of branching tele- &raph lines These «ignals will aid in deter- mining exact longitude of static where they are received, will | help to resulate the Jocal time in | | parts of the world The most notable triumph of the vehicle for a long time to substitute | mination motor buses” for historic and | \d-farnous London “bus. Our consul Bt Hull reparts that the Lon- | don General Omnibus pany hae decided to gradually avert ite lnorse lines into motor lines, A few | are already running, and the rest of | | the 2,000 vehicles wili be altered rapidly as the new motor equipment can be secure The United States spent las year $4,000,000 on toys—moatly dolls from | Sonnebers, Germany, alone, Little Bonneberg sent out $13,000,000 worth | of toys last year. Great Britain used | to buy mont of them, but John Bull} has been very hard up this past| year, and the United States has| taken moet of Mngland’s share. The ih ho make these toys earn by 10 BBire’ labor a day between 54 and | 60 atw a day, while the women earn, of an average, 40 cents. The thousands of boys and girls em |qmgEd carn an average of 30 cents a east during the summer, For all | 44? news to his friends, He will leave) points as far ax Missouri river | _— St. Paul for Helena at once. W. D.| sointe the round trip will be one | arte & ROR TR tt Hoff has been appointed to succeed |fare plus $10. For every place oi x| Mr. Sheldon. | yond that point will be one fare|® CHICAGO, April 26.—The po- *| pes ae pe - jfor the round trip. It will be un-|W lite today received a letter *| RAILROAD NOTES derstood that these tickets will bel'® from Carl Loeffler, of Dur- * |made out in fail by the Canadian | bath, Germany, saying that he *| Pacific, The following are the con-|# recognized a picture of Johann * | Harry Brandt, city passenger and| ventions these fares apply to. Na- | Hoch as the man who married #| ticket agent of the Great Northern |tional Education association, at As-|¥# the writer's niece, Justine *| at Spokane, arrived in this city on|bury Park, July 3 to 7; Christian |#'Eéeffier, in Chicago in 1896. * | Wednesday Endeavor, at Baltimore, Md., July|%# The woman mysteriously died &} H. #. Rowe, general agent of the |5 to 10; Elks, at Buffalo, N. Y., July|@f New York, and he thinks *| Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at|11 to 15; Presbyterian assembly, at|# Hoch must have murdered her. # | Portland, arrived in this city on|Winona Lake. la a»! | Wednesday ‘ | or eee : i i tt diedindindindnaadtndn dada aed | F. W. Parker, general agent of wiLt HAVE NEW MACHINERY | gvpnieTT, April 2— Miss Ro-| the Chicago Northwestern lines in| FS ag eh ig htt a a this elty, left for Tacoma Wednes At ite next meeting the board of | PCC Me ke" Sear Darrington, was day morning. | works will probably award contracts f lfor furnishing $25,000 of electrioas | @trested yesterday on suspicion o WANTS THE REWARD | machinery for the municipal lighting insanity The phy hcg Pend BUTTE, Montana, April M.| plant. Superintendent J. D. Ronn, | *°tlon® ng nt ong yg worries, She became rational in her J. Burns, a detective of Spokane Wednesday morning, made a report talk yesterday afternoon and was on the trail of R. G. Pritchard to/to the board in which he stated that |e Tue et tn home ] recover the reward of $2,000 offer-|the Westinghouse Electric company | "Owed te | led by the Northern Pacific Railway | had made the lowest bid for a six ST. PRTERSBURG, April company for the arrest of the men|besrtng three-unit transformer, the | ‘The annual May day para of the who robbed the North Const limited | price being $11,600, while the Stan-|Impertal Guards regiments will be at Bearthmouth last June, detailed |iey Electric company had made the|abandoned, as the soldiers ure how Hammond, the robber, showed | lowest price on the four bearing | needed in various parts of the him the place where a part of the|three-unit transformer, the bid be apital to suppress possible d ders, NG oA prenemehZprrmreersl prone IZ, RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. FINE WASH GOODS Extra Display of All the Newest Patterns This Week in all the new desirable weaves can now be seen on our coun- r command choosing a summer dress that meets every re- Here are some of the special attractions— SICILIAN VOILES—Handsome new cotton suitings in all the season's fashionable col- ors; on special sale this week at....$2 TUFTED CUT SPOT ZEPHYRS, among the most popular summer fabrics we have seen this season; ——. priced at, a yard fe seseee16 2-Se Linen Sale Now On Hundreds of patterns ters. With such variety at yc quirement of style and good taste is easy. A new assortment of the famous PUNJAB P RCALES has just arrived and is being arranged forsale. They come in very pret- patterns in light and dark colors, and are d priced at, @ yard ........... «++.-18 1-Be IMPORTED FRENCH ORGANDIES, in all colors and many new designs, very hand- some; priced at, a yard . tines WASHABLE CREPE, in white, gray, cream, tan, champagne and pink; on sale while it lasts, a yard . 12 1-20 IRISH POPLIN LINE now very popular for shirt waist suit ing colors; priced at . 250, 33c, 49e and 6Se KNICKERBOCKER VOILES, very sheer and pretty, in all the leading shades; a 7 comes in all the lead- ABERFOIL VOILES, in stripes, ring effects and raised whipcord stripes, at.a yard 12 Pe 4 WASHABL MADRASES--A new assortment just in, including all the popular colors; a yard . 12 1-2¢ AUTOMOBILE SHIRT WAIST LINEN, the very latest fad among linen fabrics for summer wear; comes in natural linen colors, priced at, a yard . .25e ennnrnnnnnnnne On our bargain counter tomorrow we will place a pretty assortment of trimmings, in chiding Cream Escurial Bands and Galoons, Ecru Venise Bands and Galoons and White Normandy Val. Lace Edges and Insertions, as pretty a lot of goods of this sort as you ever laid eyes on at 26c to Tie a yard. Your choice tomorrow and while t last TISEECSTTOeTTORTTeeTrererewererrrrriiitr Tir t tie trier rT) sees 150 Those beutiful fabrics for which you have been asking fo long have arrived and we have now a very nice assortment to show you. In plain colors, white, two shades of tan and two of blue, and also in fancy stripes, most desirable combi ions, priced at, a yard 19¢ McCarthy Dry Goods Co. Second Ave. and Madison St. ACS wWhporoern ah grommnrael gnmrmsnr DI,