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| Colored Women Thieves Laugh At the Law FEMININE READERS HIS NEWSPAPER, TURES OF INTEREST TO SPECIAL FE EVERY issue or ARE TO BE FOUND IN EVERY WOMAN IN SEATTLE SHOULD READ YNTHIA GREY'S HUMAN INTEREST A The Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest = 2 NIGHT EDITION. =— eattle Star SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1 VOL 995. THE STAR 16 NOT REPUBLICAN, NOT DEMOCRATIC, IT 18 JUST INDEPENDENT 7. NO. 176. What “Seattle’s Offering” Would Do If Spent At Home Instead of Abroad | TO FIGHT RUSSIA TO THE THE SALVATION ARMY AND THE VOLUNTEERS OF America| TELL IN GRAPHIC MANNER OF THE GREAT GOOD THE §21,- | 800 COLLECTED FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS WOULD ACCOM PLISH WITHIN OUR OWN GATES—DAN DEAN SUMS UP THE “FOREIGN MISSION” SITUATION AAA AAR AAR RAR RRR REAR RR ERR DEATH; BACKBONE OF 21,500, to “ The sum of be known as a was raised last evening in fifteen minutes at to apply to the emergency eign missions.—-News Item, * * eattic offering,” Plymouth church *® fund of the American board of for # pt. 18, 1905, 7 « * ead eee ey (BY DAN DEAN.) vationists | (Special to The Star.) ! - | And when the services in the! yew i FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITION WHICH CAME TO GRIEF IN FIN- White hundreds of their own/ fashionable church had ended and|, NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Signific- | towns-people were walking the|tho missionaires repaired to their|gi.,ls,the statement made In the! LAND PROBABLY SAILED FROM NEW YORK OR VICINITY— Streets in the chill of night with, handsome, commodious rooms tn eh from Helsingtors, Fintand. aE test to thither them. © olgualine awe bette ana the Goncte that o bumber of American flagy’ | ARMS ON BOARD SURELY PURCHASED IN THIS COUNTRY— Of Seattle's religiously-aroused citi-} took their carriages to their own ‘ound on board the stranded Dens subscribed nearly, $25,000 for| comfortable hearthetones, the Mttle steamer on which the Russian cus REVOLUTIONARY HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK ANDO THE the conversion of the foreign hea-| band of street revivall weartly | hand byte discovered several LEADERS IN CHARGE OF IT—MONEY POURING IN FROM then—-the Chinaman, the South Af-| marched back to the bare barracks red rifles and a large quantity of ammunition THE INSIDE STORY OF THAT riean negro, the Japancee, the Bast} ALL OVER THE COUNTRY with a couple or more hungry, rag Indian ged verts in tow. While hundreds of Seattle's men| These seated at the long areata FILIBUSTERING EX- and women were wondering where! table and fed first. They were then TOLD. F BE their next meal was coming from! given beds in which to rest their and trying to forget that awful! aching bodies between clean sheets gnawing at their stomachs, a| Then, when the hands of the old PeBionable cher s tm this clty was) fashioned clock in the assembly packed with local rich, all falling) room pointed to the hour of mid ‘ ; 4 . Over themselves to give funds with| night, the captain and hia helpers| wing ARGO. WAS BOUGHT which to affect a possible metamor-| gathered together to lay plans for y4 sun it Oran ee phosis in the religion of long-quer-| the salvation of the tired converts: |OF THE UNITED onanea. Ted = Colestiaix and wooly-headed | how to secure honest work for them,| ‘The headquarters of my Finnt Ethiopians. how to keep their stomachs filled | revolutionary a ane to ag While patient-faced, tired young| and their hearts clean. the peers tige the y' role - Women penped wistfully out from| In the meantime, away off im the | piace where the money te de thinne their old-fashioned poke-bonnets, | pagoda-rooted empire of China, pre-|comes from-—-is the United State: and asked the passerby to buy 4! parations were being made to spend, “ we a ked In New York, Jersey City, Hob War Cry” for a nickel el] “Seattle's offering” to the mission sad paenack cia nae Sana take ie oo creerd . ; Fg = | ken, Brooklyn and Newark are fully There were orders for | 15, gees Hef of some poor devil's sufferings; | the printing of thousands of tracts, | oo a woe Dl Pes While the comrades of these same) the printing of thousands of pretty }their condition In the land of the young women knelt on the dirty) picture cards and the enlargement| free In the United States there are, Cobble pavement and prayed and) of schools in which the well-fed] in all, 200,000 Finns. : Bang to the sidewalk loungere— and contented “Chink” was to bask! EVERY ONE OF THESE I8 A The grand organ in the big) beneath the smiles of a sealous|PATRIOT — FROM THE PLAIN. church thundered out its loud hos-| Christian. HhY GIRLS, WHO WORK AS DO- ‘Snnas in commemoration of the} Thousands of dollars thie will|/ MESTICS IN AMERICAN HOMES. *Manificient offering from the pock-|cost—and Seattle gave nearly a|TO THE ONCE DISTINGUISHED = Seattle folk— quarter of a hundred thousand to-| LITTRRATEURS AND STATES- ‘ silver-tongued haders poured | ward it! MEN, FORCED TO OUR SHORES ‘Out their thanks in their most pol-| “But,” says the missionary, as| BY MUSCOVITE TYRANNY. Ashed rhetoric— he tucks his bunety of tracts under! Ther treasured thought has ever And— one arm and Seattle's offering in | been to restore freedom to their un- The donors thrust out their chests! his inside pocket, “they're our | happy land. and drank in the eulogies on their! prothers, you know.” With Russia pounded by the Jap »philantrophy. So they are, Mr. Missionary; so] in the east, hounded to lta very ‘The booming of the organ; the! they are Ital by inaurgents at home, the Finn Praises of the speakers drowned the) But— in America sees his opportunity. Sweet pleadings of the young wo-} Before you throw another slide] In a large room on the ground mea in the poke bonnets and made) inte your stereopti 1 show us/fleor of a Battery park building, as & faint whisper the eager, eee mavens —-|New York. ix a room fitted with | Steam Navigation Co. and the head- cere prayers of the curb-stone sa’ (Continued op Page Seven.) OBABILITIES ARE THAT TH SEL SAILED FROM NEW YORK OR SOME ARBY PORT, AND THER s LITTL DOUBT AT LEADERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY OFFICE IN NEW YORK AXEL HORNBORG, ERRO ERKKO, COUNT CARL MANNERHEIM and are tearfully welcomed. These | land's principal newspaper, sup- ere late arrivals form the native | premeed by the Russian government and. Three others of the refugees em THIS BATTERY PARK ROOM; Ployed as clerks in New York held MAY SOME DAY LIVE IN HIS. | positions in the Northern Bank of TORY. IT 18 Tite REAL HOME) but with the expulsion ow THE FINNISH REVOLT. ‘TO of Count Ma came to America to escape further tion. Regual Wolff, a man of many bus inean enterprives. and regarded as the most distinguished of Finnish patriof«, wan served with an order of expulsion from the empire while meet- LARGE AND SMALL, OF THE, FINNS I AMERICA—AND Atasl HE FINNS IN AMERICA AR “VRIPTY. The room in the office of Axel Hornbors, agent for the Fin'and wooden desks and settees, At the|quartere of the “Finnieh Extles ‘he was attending « director desks are busied day and night biue- Daily one may see there the | ttm. eyed, museular young men, typteal he Ban- of the Vikings of old. Women and | ished Brofelts.” They were acknowl- other men shift sbout in groups. | edged the foremost Finnish writers ‘They talk low-toned volees, At The leader of the extles and refu- times travel ined others enter’ gees is Erro Erkko, editor of Fin- it ff who has eb of the expendi- ture of the large sums which the Fings.of America are pouring into this New York office. _-— THE REGISTRATION IN THE UNIVERSITY INDICATES THAT THIS WILL BE A BANNER Y EAR--THE CHRISTIAN ASSOVIA- TIONS ARE BIG HELP TO NEW STUDENTS SOMETHING “ROTTEN IN DENMARK” WHEN NOTORIOUS “DIPS” PLY PROFITABLE THIEVING WITHOUT FEAR OF PUNIS) MENT _————— HIGHER EVERY DAY and Tom Law- Registration at the University of ;course at Chicag Washington tw fulfilling all expec-|son, the debater tations of Registrar Condon and the| 7Th° Christian associations of the | professors, and students are lined | university are a great help to new up 20 deep before the registration |students. They have issued a neat focy Green and Daisy Morgas Dave been released from jail by the Hee as they could not be held but Statement made by one of her own kind, nearly $2,000. This parasite ‘was run oat of Chicago and a num- ber of other cities where she fleeced CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—Foltowing Sepp po mat 7 Bae “among fe begerage mg dy og Pn committee during the busy hours|**>*sook giving information con-! the announcement of the advance of fims, Ben Seter and Frank Hender-| and has been han OF MOTS of the day. Up to noon Tuesday 642 | cerning the school, and help the| from half a cent to one cent in the ’ many times | iad registered, and almost 400 of |students in finding rooms. This is| price of refined oll from the head gon, have given up all hope of get ting the two parasites prosecuted @nd are losers in the sum of $530 Because they did not know that the Snmates of the Old and New Paris house brothels were pickpockets. The channels of Justice were hope- Tesuly clogged and it has been inti- amated that the thieves had to “come In spite of the evidence against her she always has escaped and has pro- fited by the experience, iraparting it to the pickpockets working under her. Across the street is the New Paris house conducted by Lizette Smith who has clever a gang of “dips” working under her could gleaned from the slums of any city. All of these pickpockets are li- censed by the city at $10 per bh The monthly revenue to the city is about $500. The loss to the individuals who quarters of the Standard Ot) ce are| pany at Cleveland yesterday, comes find | the announcement from Pittsburg that the price of crude of! has gone up anether cent I€ war also Kiven out today that the price of the refined product in these had completed the rounds of |of peculiar advantage thin year, as the committee and become full-|both the college dormitories fledged studenta. The balance com- | packed full, and students mu pleted registration during | boarding places with families in the afternoon. This is more than ajvicinity. Tuesday night the Y. M 16 per cent increase over the rec-|C. A. will give a stag social In the ords for the first day and a half!association rooms, where the fel- of iast year, and means that the|lows can meet each other, and on | thie oity was advan two cents college will have at least 825 stu-|Friday the joint reception by both | this qorning, making a total jump dents this year. Christian associations will be giv@f| of atx cents sittce September 12. Old students have been arriving jin Denny hall The ecrease in the price of re- all day Monday and Tuesd-y, and| “Clase scrapping” will probably | fing@jand crude oll means at least greeting last year’s friends. Many |begin Tuesday night, as it is on teolsdaae in clear dividends tn the of the old “grads.” have appeared to | thie night that the Sophomores are! pocligts of the Standard Oil mag- shake hands. Among these were |expected to get up their poster®| patem ‘The market is still feverish, Wi'liam Speldell foot ridiculing the freshmen, and trouble| anticipating further advances. man, who is w piveys anges: ROBSO TOOK THE DARE Reso Domani charged with nss@ult with intent to commit mur- rif. through” with a share of the i!i- gotten gains for protection. Both of the “dips” have returned to their dives and are reaching out for more “suckers.” Daisy Morgan. white, chatted a few moments with her attorney and) are unfortunately drawn into these then trotted back to the Tenderloin | dives figures five times that amount with the assurance that nothing | Every laborer who comes to Seattle would come of the escapade. 1. must of course, see “the sights,” Green is at the old stand working | but he must also pay tribute to the under the tutelage of “Diamond”|“Diamond Flosaie-Lizette Smith” Flossie, the cleverest pickpocket in|combine before he leaves, and it the United States, whose criminal| matters not if it is his last cent. Fecord reaches across the continent.| Somewhere there is a defect in the “Diamond Flossie” conducts af-|laws that protect such parasites in- fairs on the second floor of the Old | stead of punishing them. Some day Paris house and her past week'’s|that defect must be learned and work netted her, according to a|there will be an exposure. BARBER IN ~ nese peace party now in the city will sail on the Dakota Wednesday. | 8. Ishuiuji. assistant secretary, and | der, t#on trial before Judge several others will go bak to Ports-| fin. Demanico is the little It mouth before returning to the Land | Wh@ retently, in a drunken revel of the Rising Sun. Ravénddale, was dared by The work at Portsmouth is un-| Mofine, » big Italian, to att completed, routine details remaining | wit @ razor. Domanie unfinished. dar® and went after M Consul Hisamideu received a tel-| razor, washing him twi egram Monday afternoon — stating | face that the condition of Baron Komura | newly-heale Regular Clams Are ‘Envoys Fight members of the Japanese peace envoy party arrived in this city from Washington, D. C., Mon- day, and put up at the Washington hotel. The party, consisting of some of took the Registration costs $5 for the first year and 50 cents aditional for re-|the moat noted of Japan's diplo-| ¥** much improved, and that he ex-| Attorney T. D, plo- nerals, The result of the case will Yamaza. pected to start for Japan soon the jury to “let little Rosso down mete, 10.50 sHows: _E. SAmaie, oe Pommpuace aes easy.” Deputy Sheriff Mutt Star- probably be more costly for Sum- mers. Adacti, Colonel Tachibana K BAD SCRAPE rene Ochiai, S$. Ishiciji, R. Hirate, H. W Because “John Doo” Summers re- | 4 #4 444 8 HH eH we ¥ y | Deuinon, Matsubare * None of the party would discuss fused to take out his registration |, BEARINGS. & | the peace negotiations nor the sit- j wich of Ravensdale, who rounded up WATER SHUT OFF is: sie inser ors is @ Withers in the cas Water will be shut off Wednesday |4 49 5 # HERE EH ee rs as a barber and was doing|% gont 221.780. uation at home, their excuse being * ; * seth yc an flee gilding Rdg A % Sept. 19; 1908. party Teed ler lr gl gage Api phd eet Third’ arcane wort 0 Fourth |* | RIVER STILL RISING, *& ote 9 ade the de ws ¢ party said that for the past few _|% 81. CHARLES, Mo, Sept. *® fendant in a complaint charging |* increase over same 4) days be has not had time to sleep|svenue, north, and on Pouch @y-| 5 19—the Minsourl ‘iver’ resis. % him with wielding a razor without!» date last year....$ 288,081.18 &| for more than three or four hours —— ® ters 26 feet this afternoon, a & & license. out of the 24. A message was re- B. Newton, originally charged! ® foot over the danger line. The * Oe ee eel — colved pi edtalB ad Satins Tuesday morning stating KANSAS CITY, Sept. 19.—The| that K omura’s condition was very The state authorities are after an: gell ea the hateere wal with assault with intent to commit \* entire bottom across the river ® him ‘« union murder, was on Monday morning al- | # jg @ooded; farms are abandon- * According to the complaint, he| American Pomological association! much improved and it was thought | lowed to plead guilty to assault ond @ ed. The river is rising an inch ®& shaved F. G. Meyers, September 18,| convened in this city today. Fruit/ that he could be taken home before | #attery and was fined $200 by Judge & an hour. .- and Meyers jotted the fact down af-| growers from all over the country | long. Griffin, the fine to be nerved out I ¥ ter looking around for bis license.) ar present. Not all the members of the Japa- the county jail. HARRAH THE REVOLT IN THE UNITED STATES BANQUET annual convention of The the fons of Hermann came to order in Non Monday Reports stine business trans Germania h morning wad The a were acted ned at 1 ng was at 2 big nia tal ad ternoon sension dresves Sept. 19 BAN DIF ‘ day the pr * of every printing establishment in San Di signed an agreement with repr tatives of the International Typ graphical union providing for eight-hour day after Jonuary 1 Han Diego ie the first city in South orn € snimously granting eight-hour day to printers. alifornia Récaune of bis business ability he | MPS THE PRICE OF OIL 18 CLIMBING | ik him | (BY NAN BXYBEE.) « not story of Mre. should be—but According to the | Chriatina Swanson, who t# suing J C. Swanson for divoree in Judge Frater’s court, it all came about in this way Everything was love’'y, The big red incubator had been kept for # at just the right Mra, Swanson herself seeing to the trimming of the little lamps that burned brightly withi warming the three dozen fat roun cream-colored eggs, the sh whieh were soon to break op the entrance into the world of three doren dainty, downy little leghorns interested was Mra. Swanson as the day of the hatching drew near that she could not resist a preliminary peep, and when she | “4 in whe saw that one or two of the eggs, each inbabited by a is little particularly pre leg jhorn, had alr n “pipp and as she listened she heard a @mothered yet determined The Sad Story of Three Dozen Chicks That Might Have Been But Never Were little | ep” from inside the sheil. the | Judge Frater. THAT'S ALL The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News a5 CENTS PER MONTH _ | tiny fractures in which represented Out in the spacious backyard of |the best efforts of a sharp little Swanson's grocery store, at Green| beak belonging to a plucky Nitle Lake, there should now be run- | creature just struggling into life. ning about and digging for fat Mrs, Swanson shut down the lid angleworms some three dorenj|and with a satisfied amile on her downy, slender-legced brown-and jm therly fac carefully tip-toed white chickens. away, #0 as not to shake the In- But, a'as, there are not, and the | cubator by even a footfall. | fat little angleworms go burrowing But that night, she says, her hus- land wriggling through the undis-| band came home drunk and turbed earth unmolested by the in-| smashed up the incubator, Inel- dustrious little toes and unthreat entally, she says, he smashed up jen by the sharp Ii beaks and | about a!) the furniture in the house, the hungry little stomachs of the|and only by an unusual overnight [three deven litt chickens that | neglected to smash up his wife. | Several vlue bruises, she said, bore mute testimony, however, of previ- ous attentions paid ber by her hus- band and he was not taken to taske for the oversight But it was the smashing of the ineubator that burt Mra. Swanson most—the one drunken blow of a great human fist that sent the three dozen little feathered babies rudely on the floor, shocking tender budding Ittle hicken lives that might hialve been. And on aecount of this Mrs. Christina Swanson wants a divorce. The big, splendid looking spect- men of the genus homo, masculine gender, who did the smashing, is contesting the divorcee. When he is sober—and he c’alms that he only occasionally falls from grace—he Joes not break furniture nor smash neubators, and he thinl this should spare him from having to fivide up his earthly possessions with his wife and pay her alimony. The case is being heard before POT-POURRI OF POLICE “PINCHES” PUZZLES PERPLEXED PEACEMAKER tried 24 cane rd Police Judge on Monday h one hour afternoon, nerheim, the managing | the majority being saloon idiers whe} IT COME THE CONTRIBUTION, | director, they lost their p'aces and | » 1 to toe the mark accoring to # of intoxication established on nington street by Patrolmen Demm and King. | Thirteen pleaded not guilty, al- though many of them have faced | the court on a charge of drunken- | neas before. Five acknowledged their guilt cases were set over until another i date and two culprits feared the lcourt’s judgment and stayed away, allowtr | fetted, | Kate Simmich, charged with loit- lering around saloons on South First | by Patrotman Carleton, had her case |aet over, but Mra, Albina Lombard, i her rurming-mate, was fined $50, the | court exac & promise that she would refrain from selling 1 | lodging house. We'll admit that liquor war sold, \your honor, but the woman hi many friends who have recently ar- | rived from the morth, and we ask you to be a# lenient as possible, ned her attorney. len Walther saved a check- by explaining the court into he wandered around y, and did not ving that nights to save m } Another #keleton is to come forth in Seattle and rattle its bones It will be the skeleton that for seven years has dwelt secretly In the closet of August Hawkinson, well-known saloon man at present & partner in the Hawkinson & Crab tree saloon, on Washington street For six years or thereabout, Haw- | kinson has heard only an occasional | rattle of bones from the skeleton in the closet, and until papers were ‘served on him a few weeks ago he | did not anticipate the bold stalking forth of the osseous tenant, nor the dry unwelcome rattle of its verte- | brae and other components. A little more than seven years ag Hawkinson met a pretty and inne cent young girl. He was 41 and she 18. There was a story such as has been many times told before—the story of a man's brutish lusts and an unsophisticated girl’s misplaced confidence. When Hawkinson, tiring of the girl, sought to relegate the (to him) incident of the past, he met with | difficulty, for the girl had written jher mother, Mrs. Emily Christian- son. Mra. Christianson came to | Seattle from San Francisco, and saw that Hawkinson married her daugh- ter. The two were married on Au- gust 31, 1898, Shortly afterward Hawkinson attempted to have the marriage annulled, claiming that he had been forced into it. His girl- wife put in a cross-complaint, ask ing for maintenance money and the jcourt allowed her $20 per month from Hawkinson until further or- der from the court. Broken-heart- two} ther bail money to be for-| without 4 Heense at the Palrbanks| BONES OF FAMILY ARE RATTLING AGAIN { highwaymen uppermost in met. * | hin b Revert Heum on a railroad trac into a stupor by the “snorting ewitch engines at the foot of Pike man Mason discovered him on which he lay, three days in Pat Donovan certainty had a night of it, but his recoflection was de- eldedly vague. He attempted up dead drunk at the wrong door and suspected of burgls “Ten dollars and cost court. Joe Siverson, seaman, never returned,” SKELETON ed, the girl went with her mother to San Francisco and shortly after- ward gaye birth to a son Meanwhile Hawkinson, the matter ended tal bent. He did not trouble him- self to pay the money ordered paid by the court, but took a trip to Honolulu, accompanied by a divore- ed woman from Oakland. This wo- man wa: street accident, and later Hawkin- son returned to Seattle, has gone into the saloon business. The child born of the enforced marriage is now nearly seven years of age, and its mother, needing fands for the chtld’s support, has engaged Attorney Oscar G. Heaton to take the matter into court, bring suit for $1,900 judgment accrued from the unpaid $20 per month al- lowance, and also secure for her a divorce and alimony for herself and permanent support for the child. Papers for the collection of the judgment have already been filed and as soon as this case is seitied Attorney Heaton says the divo proceedings will be begun. thinking De ie Midian din tinted * * * * * EPIDEMIC CHECKED. * * * *% RERLIN, Sept. 19.—Seven & ® new cases and no deaths from *® *® cholera were reported lay, * & The government declares the * * epidenite is checked * * * Se ee ee | follow drunks for the purpose of rolling” them, a8 x! ined by Pa- }trolman Cameron, who “doged” bis | footsteps on Sunday night with vis- | | © an engine used the side track | and he will sped) patrolman Mayou. “He skipped out evidently “waiting for the ship that| Charge of as the police ran|though Mra Altham claims that she him in before she dropped anchor | @id not use the revolver until Gray sow it Will be ten | hd hacked away at her with @ case Siverson pilots another | knife and attempted to er the bars on Washing.| The affray occurred in the Union pursued his natu-| killed in Honolulu in a} where he} TY-SEVEN VARIETIES KEEP JUDGE GORDON BUSY Dis. PENSING WARES OF BLIND GODDESS ——— “Get out!” rapped the judge at Robert Anderson, who laid his noc- turnal habits to a bartender with whom he roomed at Green Lake— and Anderson got Fred Anderson did not fare so | well. “Thirty days and $190!” snap- eferred to sleeP| ned the court, after listening to the and wee lulled | tales of a coterie of police officers | who made him out a thief, “a drunk roller,” a grafter, ete. “That man collected a large sum of money to efend a murderer once,” tentified | with it and I bave not since until now.” Mre. L. M, Altham was discharged to | from custody, as she gave a sensible find his way home, but'erawled up| explanation about the firing of five two flights of stairs onl to be pick-| shots at John Gray, a cripple, who | tarentoned her Mfe unless she se- cured a divorce and married him, * said the|Gray ran away, but the police will arrest him if he can be located, and was |™ay prosecute the woman yet on @ attempted murder, al~ tab her, cafe on Saturday night, ‘SAILORS FIGHT FIRE AND STORM BELLINGHAM, Sept. 19.—The steam schooner Rainier, San Fran- cisco to Bellingham, with lumber, was threatened with destruction by fire at sea. The men formed shifts to fight the flames in the bunkers two days. They kept the fire am- der control, arriving at port this morning. The Rainier was not badly damaged. NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—After pounding 122 days on the rocks of the Straits of Magellan the steam- ship Cumbul, strained from keel to bridge, made port today, the sailora telling of experiences seldom re- corded on any log. The Cumbul cleared here for the west coast of South America, De- cember 4. and ran on the rocks of Smythe channel, Straits of Magel- lan. The wreckers were unable to budge her, the raging seas pounding her badly. A fal on, and 127 di she was hauled into deep water and went to Buenos Ayres to be dry- docked. A third of the cargo was saved, PARIS, Sept. 19.—M. De Witte says that President Roosevelt warn- ed th) Japanese that they would lose favor with the Americans if they did not yield. “The American press,” said Witte, tronger than any other Institution, ‘The press drove the force of Roosevelt's warn- ing home to Raron Komura.” The envey says his health was badly shaken and that he wil go to Italy, to recuperate, ‘et National Bank MINOT, N. D., Sept. 19.-—The Min- osed its doors the comptroller — teday by order of eney.