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E SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1906, Washed away east of the summit) houses and tearing away fences . RY JOE SMITH many monthe the supreme and between that point and North | 6 store and warehouse at 5 Ht Correspondent of T ta of the state decided for the | © **!™4 | Thomas were flooded, The tracks c : rn" and the embankment int | of the Northern Paoific throughout Wa, nterurban Damage: QuRURN ‘ oted eee. the valley are above the flood love * aa actof BION © then the natural wash of ‘ The interurban Gus suffered #e-| and suffered only where the f . whi © water at the potnt of diversion | Yerely and may not be able to re-| waters drove through the pobre “a opened the stream {nto the 2Mme traffic fas many days, The) Here | passed a construction train ‘ Vhite river until tie waters have | ° near Maywood went out| where the crew was making a dew ui ; oon about equally divited ‘Thig| Tuesday night 1 culverts and) perate effort to save the track by aw the condition When the flood /8@alt bridges in many places are] filling in the gaps with sacks of egan Tuesday night damaged. The new grade the} sand. They were beginning to get The waters rose #0 rapidly thar | **cead track — between Duwamish | the best of the water aa I passed « th tirere broke frou, thet beat) and Renton Junction is seriously i“ . nd overflowed the valley sur. (#@@AKed, amounting In some placer Damage at Christopher. | inding. Karly Wednesday morn-| {0 Seine completely washed away At Christopher, four miles from a One train yesterday reached Kent ; " oe form in the ent, the damage has been Hehter ew he yards 4 elug confined chiefly to the de “ othe. bias oP tives When memotion of tr affic even a# far 48) struction of fences and to the In s ‘ had grown to sufficient pro.|“"M Point today ary of aueh crops as wero still in ~ he ne tt caused the water to aA addition to the country bridge | jhe fields. One farmer near here ¥ ving |DFeak from the White river across | et! posed y dhe Drea t WhIt-| jot half a donen hogs by drowning ver {the lowlands into the Stuck, rapld-| Head away, alno the apnemach to che | it bia flelk “ y cutting @ channel h broad and | Ped Away, alno the Aw P eid ae wae coming on and “ ‘ bridge at Buckley © bridge Vales 10 ml eon and diverting nearly all of pe aly Rig Lt bridge) the driving rain still falling, 1 turn mie having “ Ta flood waters down the Stuck | ‘ ed aside here and stopped at the cao iver No Casu ot Auburn home of James Hart, a pioneer of n Water Subsides, the White river valley, to make The question . mere m nore there have| quiries of him us to flood history ehite volume of , hould| As a result of this obstruction nities trom. the flood.| fig Mr Hart very aractoualy ta the Wh i what}and the changing of the direction ed yesterday that the aes Very greene how . sisted upon my re intng for the ct w the water in the White| Watchman at the Stuck railroad night At that t o'clock, aw 1 with astonishing ra-| bridge had been carried away, but! ing to the phenomer the by 6 o'clock last night |he haa since turned up at Derrin:| enters had completely wubsided. at Ly 3 eee te ‘ ad col nubsided mfined t it banks | & that place, though many fleids were Auburn. Meanwhile the addt The damage to farms, fences,| covered with standing water onal flood went tearing down the | CTop#* and live stock is consider Master tn the Gay. hat a home . Stuck valley, sweeping everything Ut Widely distributed ‘ea the ie Stuck, ws F belt kes te T cerns sksharens | Whe been th ned, but the water Today conditions In the White | *fernoon, shortly after the wate > ago bs ep? ; phe wore " vA Seale ‘and at Auburn | Deenn to subside at that saratively little nae Se gig ra « 1 to the normal high | The news that the waters were sub ‘ or state, and no further damage ding had been ved from! 1 tett ut Harve ome 8 o'clock ia being done. The Stuck ¥ Auburn earlier in the day, but the|inis morning and proceeded to res on U ber hand, ts still asteetad condition was so remarkable {| porn ‘oghe Sy were still cov . » view of flood history that it was . ith at lroad traffic on the Northern | Bot credited. I walked southward | Water an ta Se tk ae cor tc is suspended owtng to wash. | ome the Northern Paetfic tracks! road gra: “it one place a gortous sts and may not be resumed be |feWards Auburn, The watere hav-| washout had t are ented een Seattle and Tacoma for four | !n& begun to subside, the fears of | worikme 1 “p aye, and between Auburn and Ta-|the imbabltante abated and scores | yo nea i bth wits - - " y of the . lo © obse e : nee 2 ie Ao each other for {coma for 10 days of them turned out to observe the | “Ar Auburn normal conditions prs Stee! Bridges Go Out. | . _ | vail, and the water is confined to Out in the Rain, the banks of the stream, While the Between Auburn and Seattle but little damage was sustained, and| Despite the driving rainstorm |'0¥8 was flooded for a few hours jthat ts already restored. The two | fully 100 peop ' eentee yesterday morning, the damage has stee! bridges at Buckley and Stuck | along th ween there | Ueen incoasiderable, One branch have been carried away, the latter and t ol trestle one mile south, | Of the Northern Pacific “¥" at this rT | taking with tt the county bridge at More than a score of women wear place le washed out he that place. Several minor bridges ing waterproofs and bt v valley between Auburn and Green River | boots were among these ourtosity| CHINESE STRIKE. © lan maged to seekers Surrounding the trestie| STER, Nov. 1 between extent that repaire will be nee-| le the big hop ranch of J, H. Shina,|_yn.” oat leneiee waite i © PTO lessary before traffie can be re comprising 100 acres. Over a por | out for higher pay, and ae a result cs ome €M | sumed. tion of this the water was above|tne bosses propose putting us to keep the streams sep Telegraphic communication has the top of 10foot hop poles. On| washing rates in order to my [heen out off enst of Palmer June |the higher elevation it was from | gen of their employes, The “Wanted Work Stopped. }tion, and there ts no infe jtwo to four feet deep. | movement Gppties to all the Chinesa pBtuck river farmers woot into/ bere regarding conditions | Proceeding southward the coun-‘jsundries in the city, and the em et wought enjoin this/ that point, further than a rumor | try around T * had been flood. ployers have agreed to the modest her litigation extending ‘ that a number of bridges have been ed, the water covering the floors of demands of the men. r'Y CARS TO UN REGULARLY ———, ietorm has played bavoe with, “Up until noon no delay tn the! fear service of the Seattle Elee-/ service h been reported to me. Clambering to th tories y and the old Renton| If there was any delay, it must and roots ot that Bethe komen. oat! have been for a short time and due begging for datance, is the scene @ lafery to the plant at Elec-| toa special cause, such as the burn-| that is being enacted at Fife the | effort would be m to serve the the lighting} SEATTLE fuel cut down tp order that the tray eling public be acommodated. Mr The question of forming a Seat tle Stock Exchange was Informal!) Furth sald that the company te not discussed at a meeting in room 964 entirely dependent upon coal as Amertean Bank building, last even fuel as it te supplied with of) bure ore May be Loss of Life at (By Long Distance Telephone) deprived the company ef) tng out of a fuse, ete.” first interurban station out of Taco-| ing. The following committes part of its power, and —— Mr. Purth further ssid that the ms where it is sald nine faimiies| appointed to consider the matter {he service dependent only damage to the plant at Elec-|are absolutely at the mercy of the/4n¢ feport at a future meeting Chairman, C. L. Hibbard, manager & Which enables it to cooler! tron was the damage to one of the t half of the service. | fumes, which would be remedied In 4 long Interruption in| two or three days. Asked if the on the Green Lake, Bal-| service would be in any way tm Pert Lawton lines caused! paired by reason of either the storm failing, with the re-| or the shortage of coal, Mr. Furth) any & Weary subdurbanite| aald that It would not, that unless his way into town to) the roads could not bring any coal | work. The lines in the) into the city for a considerable p ‘are rendering about half| riod, even then every concel Service, and in the sab) rushing waters. Last night the die trict surrounding Fife com pletely Nooded along both banka of the Stuck river, the force of the} fmod deing such as to wash away) the embankments and carry & house down the stream | An effort has bee nmdae with | out success however, to rescue the nettiors, and unless help reaches them this afternoon, it ts feared! of the Seattle Woolen Mill com pany; Thomas B. Minahan, secre tary of the American Savings Bank & Trust company; Jacob Furth, president of the Puget Sound Ne tlemal bank; John G. Price, presi dent and manager of the Northern Securities company; EB. lL. Cran ahi, president of the State Bank of Beattie; M. Cameron, secretary of the German-American Kaitting _ & case of catch-as-cateh- A Big Flood that the entire community will eaf-| °F {he © } fer loss of Iife. At 2 o'clock this| this condition of affairs, afternoon nothing fh "i ag further had been iatemsent was inwued | Of Fochers at Tne wraw at ges, (beard of the victims, but the spe | Recular $000 Tmehoaany of golden (Ci#l launch of the Times ts now en ae by the|oak rockers, with saddle or cobbler | fOute with a rescue party, and It ts Co, 221| seats. Just the thing tore Chriat believed that « rescue may yet be _*ee! mas present. ottected Portiand Shut Off. Traffic between this city and Couch Covers TWO BIG SPECIALS We place on ale tomor Tow two spec fals in new and up to date couch covers which are of suff cient bargain merit to make an extra trip to town for, though tt rains, Rea! $4.75 Couch Covers ‘Meal $2.00 Couch Covers $2.25 $1.2. | There are 61 of these These couch covers are | and there is choice of 1 inches wide, 2 yin | two patterns only. Hong, are fringed on They are 60 inches fe § distinct Turkish The quality of the designs Tapestry is very good. ”"* Screen Specials Tn order to have you know our sereen department Better and have your visit made worth while to you We place on sale tomorrow two spectals of great merit. ¥4.00 Screens at $2.85. The frames of sereen are ie three panel of weathered Oak, measure 1% (n. by 5 feet are filled with either red or Geen burlap. Regularly al Ways $4.00, toworrow only, Besos. 82.85 9.5 Screen Frames 85e. These three po reen frames are made of golden oak, each | dane! mens inches in width by 6 inches in length. iii Portland has been completely shut off, owing to numerous land slides) along the route, and a huge washout at Olequa, six miles south of Win lock, on the Northern Pacific. Teh! exraphic communication is closed. | Previous to thie trains were Drought over the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roade to Paw co, where a transfer was made to ithe tracks of the OR @ N. to |Portiand. Transcontinental jeengers for the north coast were then transferred at Portland for Be attle and Tacoma. With the clow ing of communication with Portland land all means of transcontinental traffic has been absolutely sbut off, | j leaving the Sound cities completely | shut off from the Bast . The only means by which the East can be teached is by boat to Vancouver, B. C., and east over the © PR) main line or by boat to Portland,| and east from there over the 0 Ran MAS. M, L. CROSS DEAD. Loulse Ross, 1813 Sev enth av, who has been living with Mra. C. H. Fair at that address, died at her home this morning | Mra, Ross is said to have wealthy ors In Santa Rosa, Caj,- who | will be notified by Deputy Coroner Arnold Haif price for drip pane and roasters at Spinning’s, 1210 Second avenue. ove Mra. M The Right Road BETWEEN--- Saint Paul, Cuicaco GREAT WESTERN Raiway Unequaled Equipment On All Trains. | For full Information, apply to W.H. OLIN, Gen. Agt., | 210 Mutual Life Bida., | Seattle, Washington. ed also) Chief Enjoined. Chief of Police Wappenstein and hie officers ere enjoined this | morning by Superior Judge Griffin from Interfering with the Goldetetn Jewelry company, The plaintiff concern has been carrying on auc tion sales which the chief objected to MeLeod Charged With Theft. | Lareeny by embezsiement is charged inet George D. McLeod in a complaint fled in the office of | Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh |late this forenoon. Mcleod, It ts leged, made with shirt nists belonging to the Stewart | Piper Supply company. Mcleod }ean not be found R. A. Grimes Back. R. A. Grimes, of Nome, to Beattle yesterday. Mr. Grimet has been in Alaska since 1898. He |beara the distinction of being the first man to carry the mall to At lin in 1894. Shingle Men on Tour, The officials of the Shingle Mill« b 4 are to make a tour of the state In order to personally induce all the manufacturers in the Indus try to shat down their plants tn ac jeordance with the recent resolution | adopted by the organisation. They [will leave for Ballard November 17 and will vistt Sedro Wooly, and its neighboring towns, on the following day, and Anacortes November 19 They will return to Seattle about December 1 Chamber Committee Acts. In order to hurry the relinquish ment of the lands necessary to the right of way of the Lake Washing ton canal, the committee on cana! fo the Chamber of Commerce met ‘this morning to arrange for the en largement of the force of men em ployed in obtaining the relinquish ments. returned Purcell Not Insane. “Not insane the verdict of Judge Taliman’s insanity commis sion this morning after the exam! nation of Joseph Purcell, an Aus trian railroader, who was recently arrested and taken to the county jail, because, it was said, he at tempted to stop trolley cars with his bare hands and was laboring under th delusion that he was going to he robbed. FATAL MISTAKE ppe Telegraph Gervics.) TREAL, Nov. 16.—-Owtng to fn mistake in compounding a pre- scription, the %-montha-old child of Mrs, Max Wener, 92 Clarke at, Mile End, is dead, The drug clerk gave morphine instead of calomel, as pre- scribed by # doctor, and the Ititle one fell into a atu m which she did not reco’ coroner wit hold an Inquest 4 | Improve Stander Buffet. | Work on the Stander hotel buffet was begun this morning. Boxer are to be erected and ofl paintings will SEATTLE | “Settite i entirely shut off from jcayanyinication by rail with the | jouthide world The break in the} Northern Pacific line north of Port nid joday means that the onl omtiunication por with the Kant is by me f the Canadian Paaific to Vancouver and thence east on the ©. P. Ro whose li Ane us yet in tact. Officials of the |Northern Pacific ratirond stated to day that it might be three, four, or possibly five days © their com munication with the South could be reestablished and that it tn im possible to estin the time that it will ta put the lines east and north in order. The Great Northern i practically the same con nitle passengers who were lueky as to get to Portland bef communtes between n Olympia and Portland was shut off have oon transferred to the O. KR. & N Pasco whence they are agalp LOG JAM SAVES THE FARMERS OF THE WHITE RIVER VALLEY SHUT MURDERER AND JAIL BREAK ER, FOUND AT LAST IN THIS ciry. After a chase of nearly a year, ox tending through a number of states |ing advances to bis wife weaped from the Harlan county a circuitous route the Seattle police thie morning, at First av. and University at., arrest od 8 M. Sawyer, an escaped mur | derer from the Harlan county jail Kentucky, Sergeant Tennant and Detective Phillips made the arrest upon a deseription furnished by the Kentucky police. Sawyer station, admit being the man wanted. A search of his clothes r Yealed « S#-caliber revolver, wh he carried loaded, in a holster, His 5S. M. GAWYER, A Kentucky | | Ja Wiichtisciniminiansitdiaalen cune for ¢ tng that he wanted to money, $1.80, and a wateh Sawyer was convict OFF FROM EAST transferred to the transcontinental lines It is Imponatble to learn the truth to the story of the Northern Pa toel bridge acroas the Col a at Paseo, going out as a re of the high water although the story is dimeredited by local offi clals The destruction of thin bridge would mean a considerable delay in establishing eon ton after the (Ais have « will be out of commission leant six, and possibly, eight days On account of the washout on the Northern Pacific between Setatle and Vancouver the Canadian Pacif ie are carrying thelr passengers to Britieh Columbia by water, The main line of We ©. P. R. is open to the Kast from the Yast will arrive t e city on board the steamer Ramona at 9 o'clock tomorrow mornir The steamer Winatleale leaves for Victoria and | Vancouver tonight at § o'clock MURDERER CAUGHT the gun was protect his cheap sliver od over a year amo for killing a man by the name of Dave Blair in Poorfolk, Ky. and was sentenced to life imprisonment His justification for the murder was the fact that Blair had been mak Last May nd by to his way Seattle jago the sheriff of the viifled Berge Ten fugitive had For almost two wee tective has when taken to the pollee| Sawyer was locked up in jail and will be held from the Kentucky pe farmer by occupation old. made A few days Kentucky jail mant that the n traced to this city ks « local de been on Sawyer's track the city pending wi slice. He is and 87 years Conditions at Kent. KENT, Nov. 16.—The flood has Aimost entirety subsided here people are beginning to move wack inte tyelr by Theg most serious result of the foot ¢: he destruction of the water | tain With which this town ts # Ged @rith water, The mat Wash@d out last night and thorning alt the available ten: #agons are at work drawing water| to the residents. A man hamed Veary was drowned Here «0 ning, but at this by your spondent is unable earn anything of him or any of the parti4tlars in regard to the accident What the damage will amoung ¢ not be ancertained until the | has entirely subsided. Rush for Upland. MONROE, Nov, 18—As @ result Mf the high water in the Tunloo val ey. farmere are leaving thelr be omes | 4nd moving to the upland. The/ @ater is now higher than it been for years and in wti rin tommunieat! fs entirely cut off from Cherry valley. On the Clearwater. a -MURDERERS CAUGE VANCOUVER, B. ce aught while burying got, whom dered, ley and Damm, gina, Saskatchewan. | quarreled over the MacGregor's crop MARRIED Ol HT Cc, New s—| their partner, they had mur-/ three men, Waltman, Blake jailed at Re The men threshing of AND FREE Fort. Flagler | LEWISTON, Idaho, Nov Claude Smith, the Floods are sweeping down the |*0ldier who has been in jail a week Clearwater river, carrying logs,|on the complaint of Miss Elsie idmber and shingle bolts, The jose) Erickson,’ of Ballard, was rried te the rolll men is very heavy, The | youre FLOOD STALLS | PALMER PARTY ae Owing to the Mood tn the white | iver valley Mra. Potter Palmer and ver quests are stalled tm the city} spent the day viewtng the city This| morning the men tn the party were visitors at the Rainier club and this| afternoon the party took carriages | and drove around the city Potter ner, jr, and Prince antacus inspected the federal budding, which {# tn court of con-| struction. The party will have to walt until the traffic between Seat- le and Portland is resumed before | they can get thelr private car out of hg city for California, KNOWN FARMER DEAD. WELL ME. N. Y., Nov, 15.—Haston | T 60 years old, prestdent and) bal owner of the Canastota ‘ne company, died at his home snastota after a long tlinenss one of the best known nd livestock speculators in in county. ‘WUNTER KILLED yeh of Constable, while hunting in thd woods at Kushawa yesterday, jstaken for a deer and shot iw immediately. Buell was 34 years 0! “CTC. DOLLY ARRESTED. L, C, Dolly, timber broker In the Pioneer building, was arrested to dF on a charge of having misrep- résented certain Iands sold by him to Mra. A. Marsh, of Aberdeen. He was placed under §600 ball, which he could not furnish, and he was ac cordingly locked up. HEAR D'URBANO’S BAND And Madame Louise Clary, vooalist, acred concerts at the Coliseum Sunday “- $6.00 any Reckers $3.65 at Century Fur- niture 0 Just the thing for Christmas, Ile | gent mahogany or golden oak rock- ema, in five different patterns, with cobbler or waddle seata On sale to Mies Erickson In | Hilt this afternoon cordingly released fro the sheriffs risen over six feet in the | cffice by Justice of the Peace Fred | Smith was ac mm Sail VERVONE GOING TO THe | RINK TONIGHT. Get your roller skates at A. L Malls, 1111 First ave fore going. paly with steel rollers at $1.50) . > Price MEN'S SUITS > Price At the Vacate Sale HUNDREDS GET ‘ Men’s Suits EE = PRICE In Spite of the Awful Rains OMORROW (FRIDAY) THE LAST THE GREAT SPECIAL OFFER $10 Suits for $5 $12 Suits for $6 you choice of New Fall and es, all sizes and a big assort- DAY OF The above gives lines. All styl ment of materials 1 inter Pressed and fitted without extra charge. eee Cravenette Special Genuine Priestley Rainproof Coats, plain blacks and mixtures; new line; worth up to $20.00— FRIDAY SPECIAL $12.75 Boys’ and Children’s Sults Two special lots, nice Nobby Suits, worth regu- larly $4.00 and $5.06— FRIDAY AND SATURDAY $1.50 AND $2.50 Union Store, Union Goods and Union Salespeople, A. BRIDGE & CO. 1416-1417 Second Avenue Next Door to the Bon Marche Patent Excellent Flour = — gether disastro price. $5. peter ligeerse Gancer Sxconp Avenve & Spraine Street mene This Range Is Not Made of Ordinary Iron !t is made of malle- us 0 iron. why the man on the oven door can pound the lids to- with all might without having results. That’s why it heats faster, cools quicker, uses less fuel than any other range and doesn’t warp or dent. sidered by the manufacturers of this range HOW LOW THE COST OF MAKING HOW GOOD a range they can make regardless of cost. With this end in view they have achieved PERFEC- TION. We sell them at a remarkably low figure, for they sell so fast we can afford to be moderate in our O down and $5.00 a month is all we ask. Your old stove or range taken as part payment. (eas That’s his The question that is con- is NOT can go, BUT

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