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BODIES BLOWN TO FRAGHENTS HARRISBURG, Pa, July Bight men were blown to plee two others were Injured by the & _- of a big blast of rock pow ler on the Pennsylvania raflroad improvements near Now Cumber land at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morn ing. The bodies of the mon were Iridescent Mr. Doyle — ee Is Volatilized By Webster Versatile Mr. Doyle, who hands out the press dope for the Natt Reles shows, blew into The Star's editorial sanctum Monday morning with blood in his eye. “Bay, now, look here,” satd Mr Deyla | “Ain't you fellows gotng tt pretty strong?” “What's the trouble? asked the @ramatic man, as he reached under the desk for a plece of lead pipe. “Well, it's this way,” said Mr Doyle. “The firet day I visited you, your paper came out next day and called me vorsatilen, All right! I'll stand for that. “Then I was irrepressible, tm pressible, and the Lord knows what CASTORIA Infants and Children. Buy Your Clothing at the OLD RELIABLE BPOT KLINE @ ROSENBERG, 625 First Aven BLOWN | 6 from th o| of th The Arthur Fran on James Witon Robert Tho: . three Malta: next But Saturday you broke the pro verbial straw in the camet's hatr brush when yol called me ‘volatile! Now, what in the name of the good ship Potemkine, ts ‘volatile? 1 left my handy dictionary in Los Angeles.” At this stage the loquactous Mr Doyle wiped the sweat from bis] brow and glared interrogation points. As the dramatic man reached for the big, fat dictionary on the man aging editor's desk, there was a gon eral air of expectancy in the office. The click of the typewriters was silenced and even the foreman of the composing room, scenting dan ger, stuck his face through the copy hole in the wall. “Um-um—tlet mo see,” sald the dramatic man as he turned the a. “Vo-vol-a-tile. Here it is. The diffusable Mr. Doyle snatched Webster to his arms and slowly read: “Volatile—a winged animal; also wild fowl.” The garrulous Mr. Doyle's features assumed a hue reminescent of a Chicago-Amertcan war extra. He read on: “Volatility--the state or quality lot being volatile; disposition to levaporate that quality of a sub- |stance which disposes it to diffuse itself more or less rapidly in the atmosphere; capability of diffusing, evaporating or being dissipated at ordinary atmospheric tempera- The JULY REMNANT SALE Gives You Genuine £98 for 4-quart Blizzard loo Sp26 Preeser; always $2.75. for Best Red Cross Wash a; always 45¢. for Wire Covered Meat ®; always $1.50. for Fancy Engraved Thin lown Tumbiers; always 85¢ for 8-inch Polished Glass Bowl, cut glass effect; always 20c. Soe for Pint Mason Fruit jars with porcelain lined caps; always 75e. Bargains-- |: ‘Bargains ame 1 for 10-inch White Sem!- ‘orcolain Platter; always 860. §) 27e¢ tor Royal Granite Presery- J) ing Kettle, 8-quart; always 45c. BBe fr 14-quart Royal Granite 7) ‘ing Pans; always 58c. Ie for Henls Best Fruit eas; always 300. The for 4-foot Steel Braced oD Spe for Crescent Hardwood ose Reel; always $1.25. | Ze tor B-arm Revolving Brass [| wn Sprinkler; always $1.25. TBed for Painted Screen Door, mortised any size; always $1.28. Spelger & Hurlbut Second and Union S25 How Many Postal ion U. & Postal Card. if you third you'll get $5. Anyone who hats all Yo test ends July SHLL GOOD PIANOS 711 SHCOND AV. You Write It on a $12 | $8 | $5 Just a simple sentenco—SHERMAN, , you'll get $12; if you are second you'll get $8; if you are enter this contest—that is (he only restriction. wn eatisfaction~-SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. SBLL GOOD PIANOS ‘ag send in as many cards as you like. Sheemaa, Clay & Co. Cash to Winner Times Can Card? | CLAY & ©O., GOOD PIANOS—#ee how many times you can write it on a regu- SELL write it more times than anybody hasn't a piano in their home can ‘Try it for your The con- | STBINWAY INOLUDED. ENUB, SBATTLB, | came to his home ee | woven around | Star Monday night promises to be | first class. The Zara and Zara com- \pany will tures.” ‘he effervescent Mr. Doyle stea- but recovered himself and 4 further The quality or state of Being volatile, Mighty, giddy or fickle. The quality of being abie ¥o ¢iy With a wild ery of anguish the indiatinguishable Mr. Doyte dropped ta,the floor with a dull, thickening wud Ho had been volatilized! BUT RARRY WEVER (CANE HOW A PAULSBO RANCHER WOULD HAVE ENDE® THE FAMOUS OUTLAW'S CAREER The present tman-hunt has brought out the latest story on the hunt for Desperado Harry Tracy It comes from a ranch not far from} Paulabo, near ort Gamble. A rancher had been reading of the de ations of the outlaw, how he| eu 1 farm houses and or Inhabitants to give him mes point of a rifla, and ho re the capture of the man in « His firat job w © wp in the attic of the how d cut a big hole on the celiin otly over the table, The hole was square and as large as the kitchen table and chairs about tt. To each corner of the piece of ceiling cut out, he attached | heavy ropes to hold tt in p! and! each rope was brought to a point in the center at the roof and at- tached to a larger rope, This larger rope was run through & pulley at the roof and down to a place behind the stove, where it was securely ted, On the ploce of cet!-| ing cut out he piled several hundred | pounds of rock and then papered| the cracks, #0 no one would notice it He announced to his neighbors} that If Tracy came to his house and demanded food, he would courte- | ously Invite him to take a seat at the table and supply him with all the delicacies of the ranch. Then when the outlaw was interested In eating, he would quietly #lip behind | the stove and cut the rope The ceiling, rocks and ali would fall upon the unsuspecting head of the outlaw and, biff! that would be the end. Tracy never came near bis ranch | and, consequently, the rancher ni had an opportunity to try his periment. ATTHETHEATERS Feeerseeraregneee 3 AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT, * THIRD AVE.- “Held tor Ran. “The Honolulu lew Vaudeville Bill AL — Third avenues!’ and Jamos street. etee eee tees ‘The same company that present- jod “The Hottest Coon in Dixie” at the Seattio last week ts presenting “A Honolulu Coon” this week. | ‘The play is very similar to Inat weeks’ production. It presents no thrilling scenes, and has no start | ling features, bot for a light masteal | j comedy it fills the bill very well ‘The last week of the Taylor com- pany’s present engagement at the! Third Avenue theater ends next Saturday night. They are present- ing “Held for Ransom,” a play the abduction and subsequent ransom of Miaa Ellen | Stone. Mr, Taylor, however. has| taken Hberties with history, and| has made the play far more melo- dramatic than the facts warrant In some respects It Is the best of the | season, aa it Is spectacular, and {n- tensely exciting The new bill to be put on at the| prevent the World's Greatest Conquerors,” to be the great feature of the entertainment. In addition the Lafaye Lamont nerobats have heen secured the DeLong sisters will musical travesty, NEWS OF THE STATE PORT TOWNSEND—A branch | line of the city’s new water sys-| tem is being laid under the water in Seow bay. | MOUNT VERNON—A plan {s un- der foot to unite all rural tele- | phones in this valley. ] TACOMA—~The top story of the Tacoma Carriage & Baggage Trans- | fer company’s barn was burned about nday. The damage was $5,000. SUNNYSIDE here that the new Sunnyside branch of the Northern Pacific will be used asa cut-off. It will have about 23 miles from Connell to the const. WAITSBURG—The new theater has been opened here. KAMLOOPS—The first 45 miles of me Nocola Valley railway will be completed by June 1, 1906. It will “coat more than $1,500,000 to| ulld this distance. | PULLMAN—This city is plan ning to secure more city water from } artesian wolls. i CASHMERE — The It 1s understood | f International eity of Columbia will so Your Credit 15.344 ‘Good “the Staudard way’ moans “ easy (a hwy, easy te pay’’ our July midseason sale— ---ig our most people. ---for several y important trade event---the greatest trade movement of the year for Seattle ° . ears past this store has held its midseason sale in July until now it has de- veloped into the most important trade event given to Seattle during the year. ---our sale this year has been planned on much broader lines than heretofore---its aims are greater and the results to you and us must be greater because of greater effort on our part and experience of past successful July sales to guide us. Monday morning starts this sale--- it will continue for two weeks only-- ---we will have enly two weeks of our sale this July and are determined to make these the busiest two many cases ---we promise weeks in this store’s history. We urge you to arrange for early buying as in thie articles in the different store departments represent but one of a kind. exceptional value-giving such as you have learned to expect and get from this store and only*such as a store of this size can give you. ---there are always practical reasons when this store has a why this store has a midseason sale--- “‘sale’’---always sensiblé, plain bus- iness reasons for the offering of such unusual saving chances. ---we hold a yearly midseason sale because--- July is a between-seasons month in which trade is not usually as active as during the other eleven months of the year; to create a demand for housefurnishings and bring this month above the average months, prompts us to inaugurate this sale each year. because--- we are now arranging for our half-yearly stock taking and the several store departments are determined to clear the way for this work in the easiest, alone is a quickest time. This fact sufficient reason for such a sale by a store of this size---there is no question but what it forces the unusual price reducing on a great part of the stocks. because--- it is the best time of the year to adjust department stocks---to prepare the store for the new season’s arrivals. Our buyer is now in the Eastern markets and space for his pur- chases must be provided for. ---for these reasons, and these alone, is our yearly midseason sale extensively prepared for and advertised every July, and the buying chances become the greatest for Seattle house- furnishers during this sale. | —all sale prices are for cash only. } —everything is reduced with the exception of BUCK Steel Ranges and GUNN & sectional cases. =no exchanges can be made. | any purchase made now will be held for future delivery if desired. Standard Furniture Co. this store am the longest and most liberal credit— company, ©! the contract to The price t PAID FOR LIBER?Y OF |. COWS AND SELF COLUMBIA, Wash., J on be able L. Schoenfeld & Sons” 1006 to 1016 First Avenue BELLINGHAM this store extends the longest and most liberal credit— SEATTLE -~TACOMA CHILDWIFE’S HUBBY ON RAMPAGE | that time It Is athagea¢ that there has been trouble in the family. The family alleged that Ditore not only threatened them, but also fired two shots in an effort to scare them. NEW YORK, July 10.—Arthur Neely, of Cleveland, O., was killed by jumping from the fourth story |during a fire which destroyed @ nd ch a ed with threaten-| fashionable boarding house on East lives of his wifo and rela-| Forty-fourth street this morning ight, but | Uves. Many occupants narrowly ascapod " ‘ans and} I re married a 16-year-old girl|death. Neely's wife was recently soon had the fir e under contro). ja few months ago and ever since] killed In a railroad wreck. the tax rate, luce the next tax levy rymen cot and then try to break uo the wandering bo- perhaps abol ntinue careless of thet jail to rene vines, The Columbia fire boys had a of the real thing Saturday when they went to save Brighton ‘om @ threatening forest fire taste ay R. Breede jon paid $ Emili Ditore, an employe of the Satu street department, was arrested | » run on foot. p dry fir brush were ‘or J. Whitworth ng the Sunday