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. at Port Simpson , Railroad. buying Mf that dream of the promoter told of the English the puild the line, ask Tween the bor.'s will be “Before sper’, fellow is go: r Hudson Bay Pacific rat ak, Seller's dream of rare i? DB May eattle, the ee of the H n Bay-Pa Port Simpton | ot, claims ory He Bothing of the Col. lems element in the project at Cathet unnamed Piritish finan | len bare contracted (o furnish all 7 tbe $100,000,000 capitalleation eery to make the dream a gad that other unnamed fimanciers are green with fhe while they are onde % divorce the company from | financiers and take the Of the railroad then Mia Blocks of $50,000,000. ees slip from the lisping lips ted colonel with an beamed y makes the Wealthy beyond the Mf bie wildest dreams, The pgerth melts into « land of honey in the warmth 8 eloquence. to Be Ruined. of spending millions to deginaing nowhere Bowhere loses its ab tlothed in the col jon, for no sooner pelo build his conver h than he imme the Oriental trade be Francisco and Seattle and across the cont! Bis line at a speed of dou: ir Pacific, the Great the Southern Pacific. Pacific and the Grand i will become mere when Col. May's road p its nebulous state Inuous creation of steel enough, Seattle does be alive to the import Rreat railway develop north which is des her of her Oriental Mivert it to the Canad known fn the ad one a6 Port Simp ve seen the colonel are in the fashion an evoning have sus foncealed beneath bis & plot to corner the trade of a large B World. Hut the colonel @ man of the cafes; he the hardshipa, of the aribou; he has gazed | * of the White Bear| Blaye lakes, and has We ipapiration from that from the bubbling of the cafe Discovery. wed that a railroad on to Hudson bay railway haul in of freight from @ast to London and some 2,600 miles. ly necessary to build @stablish a monopoly the Orient. By % cutoff, Oriental be landed in London as ft ts now landed in New bi ee So ees a #3 | | Sstiv | Fase |indulged in |using her face for a punching bag THE SEATTLE STAR - by Building of Hudson ots in the Port Simpson town site, sat Hudson Bay-Pacific railway is not millions of capital which is for a glance at the contract bought, your money, satisfy yourself that the to spend his. York, From Port Simpson to Hud son bay Is but 1,400 miles, says the | colonel, From the Hudson bay ter minus freight can be steamers which would proceed dl rect to England and Rurope. New York Will net longer be on the commercial map when this road is | built, and Port Simpson will super cede San Francisco and Seattle as the gateway of the Oriental trade. Port Simpson, ever Port Simp son. The colonel’s conversational railroad ever begins and ends with Port Simpson. Will it not begin and end there in reality?” is the question which Presents itself foreibly to the man who is asked to invest ia Port Simpson town lots Application for Charter. Por the railroad has not been built yet. The preliminary survey was made last summer, according to the colonel, and application for ® charter from the Canadian gov ernment has also been made, but at present the railroad is being | buflt only in the glowing adver tisements, which set forth the chances for the investor to make |a quick and colossal fortune out of Port Simpson town lots. The col onel's road is the most rapid road to fortune yet promised to the peo ple The headquarters of the $100,600 000 railway company te @ modest office in the Pioneer building. med! Port Simpson Improvement com pauy, whieh is exploiting the Port Simpeon town lots. Although occupying the front of fies, the Port Simpson Improvement | the divines declined to dh company is an asset of the Hudson Ray-Pacific Railroad company; tn/ fact, the principal asset, exceptini the $160,060,000 of unsigned bonds |to enter protest are now to say anything about the subject and common stock which, the col onel says he has locked up in a safety depostt box The railroad company is backing loaded tnto | WASHING TE When the Hire ingaton, a clerk in exSenator | fied that the defendant alwaye act Brown's office In Salt Lake city, /¢d rationally in his presence. Was again called to the stand to} Soren Christengon, the next wit give testimony in retuttal, MMe) ne told of hie attempts to per identified & rallroad ticket which | #uade Mra, Bradley to leave Brown. had been turned in by the defend Christenson declared that Mré. ant after she had changed her | Brown selred the defendant by the mind about going to Los Angeles, | throat in the Pacific hotel at Poca going to Washington instead, The |tello, Idaho, but they were sepa witness said that at the time Mra./rated. Later, in his reom, Brown | Bradley had asked him ff he | admitted that he was the father of thought Brown intended to marry | the defendant's two children, but hor that he was not the father of Max 1 told her,” sald Livingston, | Brown. | that I did not upon she exctal (By, United Press.) jaumed this morning Archibald Liv SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1907, DREAM OF GOL. MAY A COL. SELLERS’ DREAM? Sree fn Telks of the Milios That. Are to Be DRAMATIC FEATURE IN THE BRADLEY CASE jquery of Attorney Hoover, the wit {hess declared that telling antruths wan not & part of hin business Perley Christenson, a former dis triet attorney of Salt Lake city, test! IN, DO adley Noy, 27 trtal was re think he did, where jmed, ‘He will have Mrs. Thornburg, the police mat ron, who had charge of the defend the dofe’ nidant | nied his parent presence of himuelt, and Mrs, Brown, di age of Max Brown, his eldest son whe jestified _ youterday Upon hearth this, the witness sald Mra. Brown called the senator a “vile, low, nivan, moral d At avonference at the Witnoas teptified, Mra, Bradley ‘én | tered the room while the senator arid hin wife were talking, Mra. | HvowD rubhed et the defendant, ex: | jclatuatnay YLet mo kill ber! RESCUED (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Nov; 27.—-Forty-two men Were reseued today from the | av ¥ sloop Hiiea Rhodes after ante helplessly for 24 hours and ft lodging on a wandbar off Rockaway inlet » men started | ‘early Tuesday morning on a fishing | trip, but Jost control of their boat TRACING POISONERS. Information is now held by the poliee which it js believed will lead to the early arrest of the persone guilty of spreading the poleon that has Caused the high mortality | among caning pets on Queen Anne ONE CENT THE WEATHER—RAIN AND TONIGHT; THURSDAY. RAIN, ORDERS THEATERS _ CLOSED SUNDAY or ca annette | Mayor Will Officially Notify Managers to Shut.Up WARMER BANK CLEARINGS, ‘| t d ls *| — Playh Next Sunday---I May Be Re- ; oo. : ayhouses Next Sunday---Injunction May e # Clearings today, ..$1,987,968.15 | sorted to by Theatrical Men, & Haltnoes 201,169,04 &| * *| cnecemsnion * Tacoma. * SER EEENRS EHH ee [Dut © ¢ informed that the . * "9 Of * *® | cuting att has no me core today, ,.0. 1% vate a In spite of the edict of & | securl ation. The , A » * Mayor Moore, all Geattie the * | wae t made of Mayor Moore \Z - * aters will open as usual next * The t ted this mornis \* Portiand. * | Sunday. This wae determined & |that he ha led to clone an * Clearings today,..$ 596,349.00 *#)% upon by the theater managers * | Sunda ers, although, per » * Balances ‘ 64,507.00 ®)& thie afternoon. it is under @ |ly, he t see any har * * | ® stood that the managers have * fay th ng kh eae aa ea te agreed to submit to arrest, * iw * anticipating fines, which will # f the & be paid. tn this way all the # | Moore this morni FEARS HE WILL BE & sterner teu ne eine or pias * ruption, & lhe met with EXPELLED AGAIN + |i fh | tt tt te te te te eoting in | ane are { served on pollee de ment to a this aft- | Of the law and tur to Mackintost that ? will Official notice will be all theaters tn Beattle John Cloora, by a decision tn the Browne superior court last week ordered reinstated in the Marzini soc late the cases over ning Ww prosecution. |ernoon or tomorrow mor to, or I will blow his head off! ant the night of the shooting, test! | hill, ‘The Humane society Ras had | from whieh he claimed to have by <P" , ; scala 4 A » In one of the Mra. Bradley smiled during Liv-| fied that the defendant said "{ | the matter agder investigation and jexpelied by fraud, today brought) Sunday shows are in violation of | blur we that has not been en- | ingeton'’s testimony am not crazy. | am far from be- | has Metermined the nature of the |# second action against the society, the state law and the proprietors | forced this state since 1881, all | Livingston admitted that he told ing insane.” | deadly #tuff that has been used by | with John Corgiat and John Obert, of any playhouses that allow thelr | of the ¢ eate will be served with untruths to the defendant concern-| There was a dramatic and unex: chemie@l Qnalysis of the contents |!ts officers, to prevent his being) 1, be open next Sunday will be | 20t is afternoon or to ing Brown tn order to make their | pected de nt when Christen: (of stomaehs of neverul doge that |expelled & second tim: salient ob Genaitian dailies inlae | aCe aus s relations agreeable, Replying to a son declared that Brown, in the |have died violent deaths recently, | Cleora alleges that he has been it 1 do not be e the ple of enaumiagucecigiaan jsummoned to appear before the/instructions from Mayor Moore. | Seattle want the theaters closed | |board of directors of - be te 3, While the managers of most of the - 8 nd but if they do _ ihe | pnt BP ang iyo wy) theaters this morning declined to|(S™ ould De aa a before, and asks a temporary re-| ake any statement, Manager Win-| jaw by the next islature.” | straining order to prevent such ex-| stock, of the Pantages theater, was| Both Manager Cort of the Grand pulsion until after a meeting of | open in the declaration that .the | Opera house, and Manager Russell the soclety on December 8, for the} show houses would not close, He|Of the Seattle theater declined to election of officers. Cicora claims | declared that {f necessary an in-|make any statements wot! served that at this time a new board of} junction would be asked to prevent] With an official notice, fie no directors will be chosen and the|the arrest of theater proprietors|0De in authority would a —~|{alleged persecution against bim|untii a motion under preparatio tome ve ; the meray z | dropped for a rehearing on the Pierce county | #4thered at the theaters that they | " ‘Not as Free in Discussing Cue Cee Games at Y. MLC. A}. *P tuth sunomes — cane Is determined by the supreme| would be open Sunday } waee at #3, S14 and #16 court Coliseum to Be Open. | Since Decided Announcement That No Attention yames..o..omvet wy Jaco Te File Motion. Manager Inverarity of the Colt hart be burned by the health Mr. Winstock stated that under|seum theater stated positively that | Will Be Givi Protest. because of their un-| the law 20 days Is allowed to file|his vaudeville house would be open en tan condition. Nearly 60 a motion for a rehearing on @ case|B8unday unless he received a wire on the watertroat ae > decided by the supreme court. He | from John Considine, of Sullivan & mF u rt of the city will) ould | Couald 4 Following the first deus all,” sald Rev, W. 1H, Rees, paw gg i the Poon, hag Ml Youthful crime bas been nipped | snap Pg nage Puget wh eee ee ee ee ee ment of billiards and pool for tor of the First Methodist church. | te the bed through the strest Gnd/ ci before Sunday, end| Manager Winstock, of Pantages? the Y. MC A, @ great many “The assoctations of these games nfeasion of Clyde McKnight, a 16 |? aaeey, om ad - « of the ministers of the city im: | suddenly grown silent on the rub ely back of the office of the | ject, and since the ann the ¥. M.-C. A | that the pool would be instal | tes | subject Some of the p denominations and it is appar | ction of the ¥. M. ©. A in announcing that the plans w have have been bad, and | do not think | the head of the Y. M. C and wise, to oppose them,” sald Rev. J. M. Wilson, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church Points Out Dan “The games may be a good thing. pastors of the church that were the first declining t that the decided offictals { bot [ am afraid there may still up the improvement company gen-| be carried out as orixinally intend 1. some dance: of secularising the erously, paring with lote in the ed has practically put an end © y woo a it was founded as e town site which would be worth |the discussion that for @ Um ucious institution, and @ good barrels of money to the company if/ threatened to disrupt the pleasant riany people look upon it and re toe railway dream materializes relations that have existed In the Joe i as queh. Pool and billiards Upon page six of this edition of| past between the ¥. M. ©. A. and) oa. cong to place it In the class The Star is an adyertisement of the | the churches of the city with the private and social tidbe.” Port Simpson Townsite Co. The} Out of & large number of min company has been notified that so further advertisemedts will be ac cepted by The Star until this paper has been assured that the Hudson | Bay-Pacific railroad is a bona fide enterprise, and that the lots offered for sale at Port Simpson are realiy worth the prices asked. ATHLETIC HUSBAND !I8 SUED FOR DIVORCE. Because her husband broke 4 broomstick over her back and then Nght gymnastics by and exercising the muscles of his rms by throwing kitchen utensils at her head. Mabel EB. Lee today filed suit for divorcee from Robert B. Lee Besides alleging extreme cruelty | and the unique pastimes above re ferred to, Mrs. Lee recites in the complaint that her husband left her penniless and that while she was sick in house and removed the family or. gan and other household articles. bed he proceeiied to the) isters on the subject jed with them ‘association, and in them there. | matter.” | young French | while working | recovered and ALABAMA H4S GONE DRY aan oeneee asked to that I never made a study ; “ft am not in favor of them at ee se BODY RECOVERED. The body of Gilbert drowned yesterday near North Bend The ministers of the Episcopal eburebes leave the question of amusements to the individual, “We give expressions only four would af low themesives to be quoted do not draw any strict line,” said Untamitiar With Games. Rev. Herbert Gowen, of the Trin ‘Being unfamiliar with the ity Parish church. games, | am not competent to pass his own responsibility as to his ljodgment upon them and say amusements, We, as a church, ether the course of the Y. M. ©. baven't any objections to billtards | A. management fe right 0° wrong, A pool. aaid Rey. L. A. Chapman, pastor Mayor William Hickman Moore of the First Christian chureh endorses the action of the ¥. M “However, as I understand the!¢. A, and-commends the position games, there is uo chance coanect taken by Dr. Matthews. “I belleve in the rooms of the @ 1 can see no harm I must say, though, of the the use of billiard aud pool tables would be of advantage to the YMCA id the mayor, “and I bope this means of attracting the young men to that tnetitation will be used.” oe ee where it Ponney W now lies at ison morgie He was an employe of the North Maitrie, a Canadian, who was | Bend Lumber company, and leaves relatives {a Northern Michigan WEDDED (By United P. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov Ove of the prettiest weddings of th ason was celebrated this aft on 4 log boom, was brought to this city ) City Treasurer Ge Russell issues a warning to South Park property owners who are affected by the old assessment rolls made by the town council of that place to come in and pay up. When the town was annexed the city of Seattle umed the collec tion of the assessments amounting { paid at once the property AMENDMENT REFERRED. The quest of a mendment “ ‘ \ to the charter providing for a f i last night t the re : ” comn n to Mayor Mo ? Counciiman Cricht representing the « council, and Dr. Grant Ca NOMINATIONS FILED. { | ive nominations by party petition for the t the Knowle years, G. M jams; counc c Mitchell For nyor, F counciimen ‘or Elliot and T. H. Will Iman for one year, D. follawing (tt us filed ee eeeepereeeoored A. are able) and I am not disposed | LEFT! $ 20,000,000 left to hin two grandsons, Wiman and Dwight Wiman, to the will, which bas been Med for probate (By United Press.) ST_ PETERSHURG, Nov. 27 Bandits today looted the govern frow pawnshop and $10,000) from the station. They bound the sontries and blew the safes AGED MAN MISSING. Jopeph P. Kelly has been missing from hip home, at 422 47th av N for tome days. He is deseribed as Ti years of age, 6 feet 6 Inches in = ‘with the index finger of his Mra. gone. has reported bis dis fo the police. y United Press.) HOMME, Ida, Nov. 27.—The exam. |ination of the talesmen in the trial hed Geo, Pettibone, charged with lcomplicity in the murder of ex Governor Stonnenbers, began in ithe diatriet court here at ten this imorning. Ja MH. Hawley, chief counsel for the state, arrived dur ing the aight, but Darrow is not present as yet. C. C. Cavanaugh t © law partner of Senator Rorab Was entered as an associate coun }eei for the state. Early in the ex jamination of the saad it be ing the affair has a tinge of tery and grim that has parallels in the crim Calffornia Despite the of the prisoner inal apnal persistent but one & heating on the death of haw been wrung from him, and that is that she took her own life b swallgwing strychnine, He doc not offer to explain how or why a towel was tied around the wom an's mouth, or why her corpse wa vurted in quicklim Neither 4 the pian, whom the police lool 1 arch-fiend, explain wh 1 to dig the b which the woman's grave ! od ColdBlooded Crime Im the performance of thie task the authoritle “ay that Wilkin displayed unprecedented cold-blood edness. That he should have plot ted the woman's death and pre pared for the covering up of his crime as he did was fiendish, but to compel his prospective tim t feriet him in digs her own grave is considered beye belief The motive for the murder if murder was done, is another baffling j feature Wilkins could not have ea aE BONE’S JURY WILL BE HARD TO SECURE that an thea to clowe the the er, said 1 think it is safe attempt year-old boy taken to headquarters : aters in Seattle next Sunday would (to say that the theaters will all that the Christian churches should | this morning by Detective Adame. probably be met with an injunction|be open Sunday, in spite of any neoment of sanction them. ere are so many | The boy admitted the taking of | © oi rsining Mayor Moore and Chief|notice which we may receive to officials last night other Innocent pleasures that It ts] (By United Prose. » | $43 from the purse of Miss Sophy | Treo noe ere stele from mak-|close, Before Sunder, howe and billiard tables not necessary to go outeide for) ROOK LAND. IM Nov. 27 Reber Seen Oleh eel cere will, 1 ath eurtcia, te Gen ag ga ie ge bag — 8 gg a Bmage $s0-006.008 0 gh ggg ht Ee | he ording to Mr. Winstock, at with the supreme rt a motion of the ministers, & number of; “While I believe tt is quite a| $20,000,000 of the late Charles| Young McKnight, who lives with | ,, on age ' rs . er St coe eo hak of the aie aes ass the serious matter. | think the men at| Ded¥e, tie implement manufactur: | nis father at 2600 Florentra st. olty ‘and the theaters of that city \elded last week, und {f an attempt | Fremont, became possessed of fn |formation that Miss Hurbert had $200 {0 her purse and concealed \in her room. The money was taken }taet Wednesday, but Mies Hurbert) did not discover the joss until Fri-} is made to close the theaters pend- jing a hearing and decision on that motion, the city authorities: will certainly be liable to injunction, Until the filing of such motion, how. have been running on Sundays f several months pending the fir hearing of the restraining order Ministers Cause Action. The or issued by Mayor no injunction would be legal.” day, and as the boy was away from) score are the outcome of a move Managers Cort and Russell were home that day, she did not #U% | ment wtarted by the ministers of in conference this morning, and | pect him. ‘The officers becam hort | the city asking that the theaters a general conference of local the | picious of the Ind, and « short! +0 ciosed on Sunday. The ministers | atrical men will undoubtedly be | brought out his Com / first requested Prosecuting Attor.jheid immediately to determine fession wushop at Tula and the) tralpChaglen railway station at) |ney Mackintosh to enforce the law ted action. TURKEY FOR PRISONERS AT THE CITY JAIL upon concer | (By United Press.) CHICAGD, "Nov, 21--At the | Walsh trial today the government | sought to show that Walsh's news | paper, the defunct Chronicle, lost $1,000,000 In 1903 and 1904, but con-| tinued to be published. H. 1. Bar-| low, an officer of the Chicago Axso- | ciation of Commerce, testified that| Back in the rickety old building he and Walsh bought the Evans-| behind the city hall, which, like its ville & Richmond railroad for $600, | counterpart, is falling into senile 000, which was borrowed ketch em. em turkey—sleepers no get ou come around any time to- tomorrow 9 o'clock see ‘em decay, was found the little Japanese cook who bolls the soup and dishes out the beans for the human wrecks yey) Back in piled, the corner they were big, fat turkeys, that were to go forth, brown and luscious, a that live in the damp futh holes of | Fr oohta sy cheer in the prosate bit |the city Jatt terness of jail life, great in the an- p.” he said, grinning, “we | ticipation and fondly sweet in the get ‘em turkey Thanksgivin’. | memory Baked potato. Clanbury sauce. Big They get them once a year, these jeame ) ~~ SC_ncame evideut that great difficulty |feed.” He scratched his head when |thieves and vagrants, either at would be experienced in obtaining |@8ked how many there were in the |Thanksgiving or Christmas, but the jury. The first three examined, | Celle waiting for that feed. He said | never twice. Justice ts justice, they R. & Lamb, George W. Mitchel, | he never knew figure at the city jail, and can't and F. M. Blair, all farmers, were| ““Mebbe—let me see. Twenty-/be handed out with the drumstick excused because of their scruples |t¥o, semty-tree, ninety-two get ‘em | of the national bird, or fed in mix- against the infliction of capital |Cpffee dis morning. Tomorrow all tures of rich, brown sravy punishment. J. 8. D. Manville said | co that he had attended the Haywood trial and formed an unqualified opinion, He was chaile ne d by the state and excused. state passed Wm. H. Gebberd Pad cause He ts « farmer and said that he had read very little of the case. ie THANKSGIVING WITH FAMILY ernoon at 4 o'clock when Mise | =3e"e ’ Thanksgiving will bring William | Best ann 's wife and elght children Sy fh yeh atin oe OAKLAND’S MURDER » ie ee saa is be aa mai tary of state, wae married to} : but the brave woman : . sa that typifies the one day o 2s) he third. Namerous f] N RO ws mens thal Be che aay. of ed, and has not only x ay \ wedding s were recetved at the year in whieh the nation fot the famlly on’ heat SN » Root mansion early this fore |ales its for health nd time to re so ee Among gifts was a ail “ . strength and prosperity a Buy mand and ind breakfast erviee which be (By United Press.) gained financially by the woman's | pijcation for the future, for it wl ch delicacies as x wd to the groom's grandmother,| OAKLAND, Cal., Nov. 27.—As = a i hi wee ree oft hy her) see him a free man family purse permit U. & Grant. The present | the police probe deeper into the sup "a Be 5 he a er y shi he Under sentence on the charge of | ted » the groom's father was a dla 2 tle peoun tite * shows attempt to have | embezzlement, Beslow was released 1 everyone for this re- mond tiara and a ten set, Presi. |°0ee murder of his 5 *| Mra. 1, M. Anderson, a neighbor, | from the county jail this morning tes ow told his r, in dont Roosevelt sent a painting of | Whése tdentity is stil! a mystery, pose as his wife be & notary | by virtue of a commutation of his a broken with emotion, as the south portico of the White | oY M. 4. Wilkins, io their little public for the purpose of having 4) sentence, which he had partially |he hire Houne, where the young couple met, {cottage in Elmhurst, the grewsome power of attorney recorded in or-|gerved, granted by Gov. Mead. To- | this tragedy develops features that not der that he might sell the cottage | morrow he wil nd the day with | the le - TREASURER ISSUES WARNING, even & Gaboriean could b in which he and the dead woman |his wife and « o it lttie|t will dreamed of. very event surround. lived uth Seat home . Searching Premises. One plausible theory was tired of the woman ar ed to get rid of her be “START FALSE REPORT OF would be called upon to assume an added burden {n the support of t child that would have come the woman lived. That Wilkins a tian with a record, the police no ionger doubt, the discovery of a kit of burglar’s tools in the cottage pe NAG ia having fully convinced them that sa individual has, a qu the foolish st he is an old criminal. His pleture| vite whic seahind tq will be sent to the police th h me me ‘ te har Hscredit , mit the country, in hope of identi. | the ject that. Ia cat , i i fying him ft d clearing ho tifiea The i that f eareh of the Wilkins premises | are in « " t i was resumed te 1 it would | that the Bon Marche ha ‘ A cause no surprise to the police if ed to: the exteat. of overs ‘ A other bodies are found. A search . ' ation hey would has also been instit Ka y 7 " the be Kimmons, the former an ¥ ad W cisco street car man and f 1 he w Mrs who dropped num - ight after the woman € . ' ar death i Further attempts to foree Wil i " but he steadfastly refused to | cates, he sa are being receive tell who she wa Phe no-|daily by the Bon Marche, and v y mentarily expect addition tvices |one bogus one has been discov I para from Sheffield, Kan, the supposed | ered f ma he of the prisone wite This explicit statement will put fu ature a en Rte : 5 ‘

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