The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1907, Page 5

EF POSSIBLE FOR MONTHS—PESTILENCE, ; CIDE , REBELLION, MURDER, SLAVERY ~ AND CANNIBALISM IN THE TRAIN OF DISAS- TER. DING FACTS ABOUT area~—-about 40,000 squafe miles, dation affected, 15,000,000, million already helpless from famine eating roots, leaves, bark of trees to do; business stagnated; no real relic! in sight ithe dogs and sheep eaten; the chickens, too valuable to gent to Shanghai markets. py districts in rebellion, the desperate people prefer- dy the sword rather than by starvation, gearce, millet and sorghum atalks being covered by Coal mines flooded. Were built of mud, and melted int the flood, ts fill boats #0 thickly that all must stand during 9 room to eat or Ne down, abandoned, tied so that they could not follow their mts home orphasiage full to overflowing with famine waifs, ws breaking through the military cordon to get into a wn cities to beg for food. EPully s00,000 refugees at Tsing Kiangeu alone. mfeking parents throw their children into the flood, and it suicid ald goods, farm implements, cattle all sold, gold for $2 or $3 apiece, afloat of actual cannibalism. Chil- than eve CTIM A a t a? i Cera ehd Ae Lcorwenn ee has overtaken this ragged fugitive from the od Dearth At Woosung a great number of famine of a few rags around their loins, and the women equally naked children to their breasts in regu- DDS AND ENDS SALE ge. Steel Foot craper, Complete, LUNCH BASKETS. toe Japanese Straw Baskets. ... LAUNDRY SOAP. gc bar Fairbank’s Mascot © ion Laundry Soap, Mattock, io I ve) ~ 25¢ With Hickory Ls Handle, WATER PAILS. 69e¢. sc) galvanized Water Pails 1o-quart We WASH BENCHES. $1.75 Wast for t $3.00 Roll 150 Feet Poultry Netting, 3-Foot, $2.39. hardwood folding Mae. OOS tut tbs. . soc Black WASH BOARDS. Rubber Shoe Heels, poe Double Rea Pair sarc DOC STOVE POLISH 29¢. $1.00 1 1% an Wonderful Black Frar Satin Stove Steel Blade ‘ &c Double Braced SAUCE DISHES. pack, Sew, 69¢. . auce Dist ‘8c PRUIT SAUCERS + ' » Bros’ | Cold Meat * 4 Fork, oC) ape. EARTRENDING SONDITIONS Exclusive Service.) | through China, according to die Feb. 5.—-Pamine, | patches received by the Christiaa stalke | Herald from misstonaries. The cos | dying from famine and fever. Tho E GREATEST FAMINE * * * * * *. * * * ditions OF THE i ral Manager Pantages Presents stand, ag 207 Eitel Bide. | pictured, values Corner Second Av. and Pike St. | “LORD CHUMLEY.” ‘ | i = Ss finished AT 99e@—silkoline covered, plain lined, cotton ome Benes Oe 6 THEATRE Matinees daily, except Thursday weather filled, full size comforter, worth $1.50; extra m. Open evenings Tuesdays, | Pei and Friday. Doors open: Matinee oe Mane : rc 996 Thursdays and Saturdays from ' 1:30; evenings, 7:90. Performances - chol rom three 6 to § o'clock Sunset, Main 1904, Ind, 4394, begin, Matiness, 2:16; evenings, 8:16 gordon, grades from $ } grays and tans, Phone Main 6256. Seattle, Wash, j strong extra special, t $1. | lar Chinese fashion. They had the awful wolfish stare of starving people, which, once seen, is not easily forgotten. have arrived lately They were actually naked, with; Some of them ventured to snatch a few grains of burnt rice, which had been placed on a mat in the sunshine to dry. These refugees had tramped 20 miles. SEATTLE THEATER "m+! & Drew, Mare, Phones Matinees Thursday RUSSELL &@ DREW, Manegers. | Corner Occidental Ave and Washington St. Matinees Wednesday and | saturday, She and 166 «TONIGHT and All Week, “THANKSGIVING DAY.” (A Pretty Rural Pisy) fi rs THE SEATTLE STAR--TUESDAY, FFR. 5, 1907 a) 000,000-ARE“STARVING— JRL - eee eee eee ee ee ee eee * “FAMINE TEN TIMES WORSE THAN ANY KNOWN IN # THE LAST 40 YEARS."--VICEROY OF ONE OF THE AF. # FLICTED PROVINCES. * {A famine 10 years ago destroyed hundreda of thousands # of people ta China.) * * eR REE waters, which for stx weeks Tee eee errr eee described can hardly be cove THE PRESIDENT’S CHINESE FAMINE PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THI There is an appalling famine in China. district covering over 40,000 square m ‘AMINE IN CHINA UNITED STATES— Throughout a sand supporting a population of 15,000,000, the crops have been destroyed by floods. Millious of people are on the verge of starvation; thou- sands of dwellings have been destroyed, and the inmates are without homes. An urgent appeal has been made for assistance of the United States. Our people have often. in other countries, responded gene our abounding prosperity and in to man, assuredly and relieve the distressed wo have been allied for so many under stmllar conditions of distress Amid ft good will ously to such appeals is holiday sexson a the people of Ch we should do unforten r part to among “a to whom yours ta friendship and kind ness I shall ask congress for aut sels to carry flour and other ft ity to wae our transport ves vi to the the famine-strich purchase of food and Ame Red through the local Red wn region. t contributions for other appropriate relief bu # Such contributions may be made Cros treasurers, or through the department of nent directly to Chas. Hallem Keep, Red Cross Secretary States treasury department, Washington, D. C THEODORE ROOSEVELT. I recommend t tean Crone. tate, or may be United * * « * * * * * * * * * 7 * * * * * * * * * . * * ~ * * * * * * « * * * . . * 1 I i i ae ee ee te eee ee +e ~ our Credit easy to buy-easy is Good AMUSEMENTS. es ana Saturday. “HUMAN HEARTS” (You Know It) He and 10c; nights, Ihe to 660, Tonight—Al Week. will buy a go-cart he of the seasonable Matinee we mention these few articles ; of course, merely suggestic the season's purpose. Ks —bent wood um Phone 567. Two special day Mo, 400 and bo¢ Y STAR Pee MATINER® BACH DAY AT) 6 foattle’s Leading Vauderitle House. IT'S ALL LAUGHS THIS WEEK, ~in “The Craziest Act in Vaudeville;” Bert Westen, Moncieguiet; Tom Brant rd, Onetta, Harry Loraine; the St arascope brella and 148th Anniversary Robert Burns Grand concert, under the aueptees of the CALEDONIAN SOCINTY Hine., of Seattle, aad CLAN McKENZIE, No. 164, O. 8. ©., Wednesday special February 6, 1907, at 8 P.M, Grand Opera House. Admission, $1.00 Tbe, 0c; gallery 6c. Tickets exhangeable at theater box office oi for the or after February 6 for reserved seats woek mission ~ . each umbrella 81.45 and, fin i ished 23¢ hod special woathored, strongly PIANOS | Steinway «= Knabe FINEST LINE, ONE PRICE, HONEST METHODS, EVERYTHING MUSICAL. Sherman Clay & Co. 1406 Second Ave. Seattle, Wash. made and good, regu and Wednes gai day only, ja 1 coal heavy with hod, ight for . the week, 1.95 your credit is good— Batablisteed 1450. scripuon. ca First Ave, Senttle. } Ind. b0ts Main 2 SERRE RR E REE REE REESE TER EERE RRR RR let the Standard Walj help you $1 down, $1 a week —each department always has something of seasonable in - blankets and comf anytime, for anylhing | vers apecta) for Tuewtay ont Weds KOHLER & CHASE |} Msi ween upel 1906 to 1016 First Ave. TRIADS A-HUNGER, MAKE SACRIFICE OF 22222" =F BABES. CHINA’S TERRIBLE FAMINE | Relief Inadequate. The local #’ and Pilota’ It appears from some telegram! pociation will present Minnie pet j that the official relief by the Chi-|erson, heroine of the bark Col nose government it inadequate. One| wreck, with a wolid cold medal wit community of 10,000 people tried to ihe following inscription engraved emigrate to a better provided dis-'on one side: “Presented by the Pur triet, but wae foreed by*the author!-| yet Bound Marbor, 16, to Mra. }ttes ‘to return to the Mood ruined | Minnie Paterson ole Efforts | dintriet with a promise that suff-| in Sending Avalw the Bark Coloma December 7, Whereby the Lives of Ten Men Were Saved by the G, 8. Quadra’ On the other side of the medal }is am inscription in Latin, meaning |"Bhe Hastened That She Might }Bave Others,” and showing the | form of a woman fighting her way through the brush. The medal will be presented by the British vice conwul ee ee MANY HAVE DIED. * “Many bave died and thous ands will die from malnutri- tion, Leaves and coarse mill feed, ordinartly given only to hogs, now sell for ae much as oud food asually costs. Trade fy paralyzed and employes ure * dininiased. Furniture and *) clothes are sacrificed and the | poor parents hear the hungry # children ery in the night, #| while they themselves crouch #| INVOLVED on the mat in the corner.” | Kev. B. ©, Patterson, Buchien, *| pane Klangaw. *| ‘The superintendent of streets | controversy is rapidly coming to a climax, At a meeting of the — er yor \ing committee, for the approval clent food would soon me fo ing. “Sufficient food never came. aoe tnaay oee. 1, Ne ee eliet work is in the hands of > + id the Central China famine fund com.| Comptroller and president of the Mitiee at Shanghal, composed of Council, had c+ Bl ogpprrsrt te.” consuls, customs affictals, foreign |” phd mraensP is “9 poe gay merchants and Chinese gentry, and) rodited with a salary of $200, and the Missionary Helief association the other tm which Marphs Io @ at Chinklang. Ip the United States | (he otter In whieh Murphy te —_ the American National Red Crows) 0155 te” bogs with 958 06, ie treasarer, Chas. Hallam Keep, ’ rs J Washington, will take charge of ona pn Mn yg Dresent ay cash contributions, Some supplies rae home tore ‘oi alata have already been sent to China J», the auditing committee, Carroll jand Bowen, voting for it. Mayor ALASKA CAPTAIN iievee’icl 2Sus5 9 rocont Set =. A ee eee ee eo * Hah hhh | will refuse to approve the warrant for Walter's ry when it comes before him. Mandamus proceedings will then probably be brought by Walters, and thus the matte? realized in this favored land ered 4 Want platenn only a few fect UN gaar Special Gorvien) vot | brought to an tasue. Fifteen million people are doons|above the sea level, have subsided, TONBAT, Alasn, ee ve - aman ed to privation for months . Many 8. P. Abbott, of the litte gory oo McDonald Back to Jail, , already starved to death. Cannibal| *** *#& # eR Rw RR Eee eee ee ee ee ee eet iter | ®4 McDonald, charged with fam te rampant in some sections of | © ns *|Ghiness Children -who were sold by thelr parents to secure funds to | ivr Bowen noms t 0e tere ee) | fFKOFY and who on Friday last wag the 40,000 square miles devastated|® THE GRAND CANAL, *& i o Wie $2 It te |The hele ee ae men recovered, | taken to the county hospital to be by the Mood The appeal made up |® Built In the thirteenth con. & ward off starvation. Boys bring $3 Mexican, and g! The body has not been were joperated upon for “quinsy of the en the people of the United States| * tury to connect the Yangtse @ Slavery of a revolting kind into which they are se! com Abbott was « native of — thvost,” wan seturped to the eommae by the president was none too ur) kinng and Peibo. It is O60 @ibo _— Polat, N. B. He was qe Jail this morning. oom. # miles long and extends 4700 Wi, nave left a scene of hopoless! cessitios of life have risen 100 per > nt le Bored esp Pee aca gem ‘The famine ta due to the destruc:|* Hanchow to Tieotain, Kt le & | tion of the crops by foods in the) # largely composed of canalized w | desolation, The harvests were | cont-and the long sede is yet to|——______| Meat Prices That Please grand canal of China, the waters|® rivers, and ls five of alx fact | 7uind. In most of the territory it) be faced. oi a. Looking Backwards | 4‘ the city Holt market, 508 Third overapreading perhaps the most) # deep. There ace no locks, the in. 01. is 'ne food for the cattle and| People tn the country are eating av, near Yesler. Fine astern densely popelated and most closely) * boats being hauled from one Wiis” tocsis of burden. ‘There ie no! roots, loaves of trees and bark.|, vou Go (het yourself whenever 0) hams 16%¢. os cultivated portion of central China,|* level to another on inclined @/)00, curs 0) Oem tele Oe S| Bwost potato vines mixed with a| Wo! dressed man with striking ap- The large lakes that feed the cagal/* planes, The canal was built #| 20% Lee tee ts tie dhinh On th the | tie Pom form the ‘mainstay in| pearance peases. Every sult which overflowed and caused the flood, | # to get the products of the # try districts, ‘The city olecmse Ghetrista, Pestilence has Daniel Fubrman, the tailor, 1016 Long Siege Coming. & Yangtes and Hoangbe tvers @) 1765 puy all their food. The ne-| broken about these who have not | Second av. turns owt makes a well * to Peking by an Inland route. & — scl ; dressed men of the party fortunate In three proviness hundreds are) @ * enough to get the suit, Style, fit, SeeKAT HARA R eee AR STRAT KERA ERA ARERR Re eH [fing workmanship and quality are alieanenatinscension hale put into every sult made at Fuhr. ~~ The casiest Shoes on earth. They keep the cold and dampness from your feet SPECIAL Children's felt fur trimmed Slippers, sizes up to 2, values up to $1.00, at . Be Raymond & Hoyt 405 Pike St. “Experience teaches that it is the man and the woman whe pay attention to email sav. ings, who become wealthy, By saving nickels and dimes a thrifty person lays the foundation of a for tune. JAB, A. GARFIELD, Why not start a sav- Ings account here and put away a dollar or eo every now and then. S SRORROCK, Pre +P Mantis Pree Fan aati jnreRestr’ OSTEOPATHY to pay! terest for you. For instance, ms of what this store has for mys Star tNowand Save$12.50 That you may know what a onderfui science Osteopathy and give me @ chance to demon strate to you that I can cure you without the use of drugs, medi- cines or surgery, I will deduct $12.50 from my regular fee for « itmited time, I successfully treot every disease known to the ht man syetem. Consultation Free. Lady At tendant DR. C.F. LATHROP OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. values for Tuesday and Wednes- I Have the Cure for RUPTURE NO TRUSS, BUT A PERMAN ENT CURE Seattle's Leading Specialist. 40 Years’ Experience. door mats— thorough and tasting cures which [ am making every Dass . Jay, year after ¥ and the * 2 grateful reements of my GAELS red patien prove that my ~ ethod of tr tment all | aim for it, an e tly In- vite you to noon m write Hf for fur convineing proof of y ott a 8 rere my - 4 $2.25 Woot Moaters for, son CL AMOS Standard Furniture Coa. you tea $ 6 224 Heaters fe " ' a wi $8.26 244m. 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