The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1907, Page 3

CIDE ON BOND .ISSUE yeast the ners have author aes of $1,600,000 in bonds bat of retiring out te and to place the ‘cash bas! Adver for bids will be h, Hately and bide will wed danvary 7 oe vil comprise bonds years, carrying 5 per and of the par value commissioners have that the entire taken by an eastern - at & premium, and that the county de be runn!r a caah ogee than the first of froudle in cashing sal Wil then end of ret ‘our House nt pro Furnace — guaran ‘I a G. H. Wood Et vn aity at throughout. bac or den ; special .. Weathered oak ® brace; filled m, In ted, blue or green. Price $4.50; special Price $5.59; payroll those Sunday at the Third Avenue, The | Taylor company's bill for next posed by the commiastonora, 62) Wk Wit be “Camitte wnty employes will be dropped from wervioe, reducing the monthly| ,,.. . At the Lole. e | Approximately $8,000. Of], “The Kusign” runs all week at a slated to go are in| ‘he Lots theater, (By United Press.) the count gine tfioe, a 1 the. senseecde department, end 's| ‘At the Coliseum, en tee ee tm the treasarer’s offies | The Onetti sisters in a gymna:|Sldney A. Root, member of Jatum act, and La Belle Katellita | Wealthy family of high soctal stand AMUSEMENTS At the tomime, “Married Life” orately staged attraction on road, comes to tho theater, Third Avenue. will be seen until jand Senor Gareta tn a tragic pan are features of the bil at the Coliseum theater thle week, Jonsen, and Jonnie Mathews, soubrette, are headiiners Lyric theater's present bill ing, and himeelf p: . A jaeandal clreles, la tnvelved tn sald to have nent in ¥. M been un the clalty, the contortion act of Mina! the | of the] a THE SEATTLE STAR—-WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 1907. ‘MOST’REMARKABLE MYSTERY OF THE AGE IS THE DRUCE CASE; 1)* DJCAL TITLE AND INCOME OF $2,500,000 A YEAR ARE AT STAKE (Seattle Star's Exclusive Gervice.) LONDON, Dee, de-A rent roll in Lonflon netting $2,500,000 a y and other property Hed at 000,000 are at stake in the sense tional case now before the British courts, brought to decide whether ar} | athe fi uke of Portland had a} aonb raonality and posed as t mer. | London. | n the | Portland | Driice, owner of a & dmtile house in Baker et | If the duke rightfal claimant to was Druce, th the At Pantages. earthed by officials of the society | Ute and estates Ih Druce's present pereaes "Plgman o Mile. Lueretia’s leopards furnish |for the prevention of cruelty ee ove Ped yt j Max Fftman in “The Man on the) & novel act at the Pantages thoa-|children, He ix accused of paying fitth: duke's cousin, Is pate in| Box" finished out the week at the | terdhis week, Another novelty on Attentions to Mary Gara, @ 15] ine portland manaton, | Grand @ house. Another of | the bill ts the trlo of Itaian “aireet | Yearold Mexican girt The cave ts the most astontshing | John Cort's attractions, Maude | #ngers. |, toot Was arrested, but soon ob: oe ait claims to Knglish peerages Fealy, who ts this year starring 194 |tained his release on $6,000 bail, |‘ @ Druce |s.4 poor man, and,4 The Stronger Bex.” comes to the At the Star, |The accused man hav & wife and) viiiie to pre # % to th Grand Sunday night for a week's| The Star theater this week offers |'¥° Children, Among members of} nia claim, he formed & com ongagement | “California in ‘49,” a musical bur |'8* ¥. M,C. A. he is best known | nany to which he Was made over Hieaque, and vartous vaudeville num. | 88 expert handball player, The Ai hin rights, retaining himself a| “93.79 is an opportunity to secure a Christmas gift for some Mhiome—a gift that would be appreciated. favy Arm Chair, in Mission Frame is of oak, finished weathered. re upholstered in leather ther-covered nails. ) chair, with broad, restful arms. Suitable for living room, Thursday only, and one to a Display of Mission Furniture Is Now Particularly ENS AT $3.75—Three Panel frame, with burlap or $3.75 MEENS AT $4.00—Three-Panel in weathered oak frames French sateen, in red or green “The Rollicking Girt” offering at the Sea Ww Nod,” advertised as the most elab THE GROTE- RANKIN CO. Complete Furnishers of Homes, Steamboats and Hotels At the Seattle, | bers, will be the| le theater un “The Land of Sunday, when or natural finish strong and will not warp. are in old and other metal part held rigidly in plac whether table is open or closed, inside the frame. This table is 30 inches square, weight 91% neat in rooms For card playing and other games 1% inch thick when folded. The finish make table suitable for use nishings. besides the and the illustrated song. At the Lyric. Ada Gautier's Coney Island spe epscrnet tht Folding The frame and legs of this Table are of birch, Che fibroid top is thin and light, is Top is covered heavy green felt, or with green leatherette brass with metal brac When closed, s moth Table in mahogany very with fine quality The corners, braces finish. The legs ‘are that are self-locking, legs fold flush pounds, and is but n and handsome with refined fur , the sewing room des and study; also for luncheons, teas and receptions, For Thursday's selling, special This is a design, of square con- with leather gimp high-backed, A deep, comfort- customer; regular price $6.95 Good. = A Two-Day Sale of Screens Tomorrow and Friday Our entire line of Screens will be placed on sale at reduced prices. There are many different styles in- cluded in this sale, and while it is not practicable to mention all of them, the proportionate re duction is on Note these reductions: same shown each screen | $10.00 SCREENS, $7.85—Three Panel Mission Screens, in frames made of solid oak, finished weathered and filled with wood panels. This ts che of the most desirable screens manufactured being all wood, with no fabric to clean or renew. Regular price $7.85 $10.00; special $16.00 MISSION SCHEENS, with fill | Three-Panel Screens, made $4. 00 material obtainable. Frame js of oak ” finished weathe and ts filled with Puritan tapestry Rageler INS AT $5.65—Three-Panel price $16.00; specta $12, 50 fm extra envy oak frames, | $25.00" SCREENS Ay $19.50—Three aaa iP a | Panel Screens, front decorated with peath f frame has leather. Opal glass lattice grill at top. ties panel. Removable inner and reverse side covered with green Mnd filled with best grade of burlap; Zinch oak frame eguiar price 60¢; special ar price 70c; special price 80c, special price $1.00; special ay of the above screens may be had in four panels, ime proportionate reduction in price. llow Clothes Baskets Reduced regular weathered. Regular price special sss... 1 G00 if desired, ALL pal CREDIT WANT CORNER SECOND AVE. AND i ) BuY NOW PAY LATER . $3.75 r of Mary Garcla i» also in Pillows and Bed Covering s Reduced For Thursday and Friday A sale at epecial prices which should appeal to the housewife who wishes to secure serviceable bed clothing at about half the regular cost. Thureday and Friday our Bedding Department will have on sale every article needed to dress a bed at very low prices. Fotlowing are some of the reductions: $3.85 PILLOWS AT $2.20 PAIR--Standard Size Pi) lows, tn floral tlek, blue or pink, filed with extra quality mixed feathers. Regular price $3.46 pair; special, a pair 80c PILLOW CASES, 44 PAIR Hest quality Pil low Cases, 4hx3¢inch size. Regular 44 price 60c pair; special, a palr c 70c PILLOW CASES, 52c PAIR—H ched Pil | low Cases, of best quality, 45x364nch nize. 52 Regular price T0c a pair; special, » palr c | BSc SHEETS AT 63c EACH—Six90-Inch Sheets, well finished and of medium weight 63 Regular price Sic; spectal, each c tra Heavy Regular price and Large 97c $1.12'4 SHEETS AT 97c Sheets, §1 Inches. $2.20 | $1.12%; ‘pecial, each $6.60 BLANKETS AT $4.10 PAIR—White Mixed | Wool Blankets, with fancy border in biue or | pink; are of extra size, 72x84 inches, and weigh 6 poun to the pair have silk-bound orl Regular price $6.60 pair; special, a 4. 10 CHOICE OF SATIN-FINISHED SPREADS, $2.15 AND $2.65—A Satin Fintshed Spread, with or without fringe and cut corners Full Size Spread, plain; regular price 2 15 $3.50; special ' Full Size Spread, with fringe and cut cor 2.65 fiers; regular price $4 $3.25 COMFORTS AT $2.15 Filled Comfort, 72x81L-ineh twilled sateen, with one » in a large asso price $3.25 special An all size, covered with plain. We have this Chinaware at Cut Prices For tomorrow and Friday the Crockery Depart ment, on the main floor, offers the following spe clally priced articles hi com Regular 5 special 50c CUSPIDORS AT 300—These Cuspidors are in German china, with floral decorations 30c | Regular price 50e; special c $7.50 DINNER SET, $5.45—This is « 50-piece Din ner Set, in English porcelain, with blue deoora tions In floral design, Regular price 5,45 2be CUP AND SAUCER AT and Saucers, with two 4 Regular 2 price 26¢ special 1eo—Japanese C rations to chc per cup and e be tween saucer ALL THE CREDIT YOU, WANT [ CORNER SECOND AVE AND | UNION ST Cotton | ipa | 15¢ | moving pletures large holding of shares, + | | yolv 1 in the poandal ‘| There are 10,000 ordinary | }” The Washingtop Fire Insurance |*bares of $5 each, and 20,000 de | Company has been licensed in the! ferred shares of 26 cents each Btate of California one company has been Hated on [the stock change, and shares are now quote ERBERT DRUCE, The Defendant. jcase and if Judgment should go tn their favor each $5 will be | $500. If the fifth Duke T. © Druce were stead one, they present an as tonishing similarity of character Bath Was arbitrary, auste wnbewding in mar & heredit nunwal k ed appearance Was @bwtemious, disliked me had @ partiality for fish and chick worth of Port two pe in the the 26cent one $1.26. None are obtain these prices, for the | rs believe they have a good right upper corner is the monument over the coffin of T. C. Druce, which coffin is alleged to contain only lead. Beside it ie @ picture of the aead Duke of Portland, while beneath in T. C. Druce. In the other picture just the upper halv of the faces of the Duke and Druce are given, showing the marvelous likeness which lends color to the claim of the plaintiffs that they were one and the same man, IRONDALE CLOSES. (By United Press.) TOWNSEND, Dec. el and ready cash “" POF lack of f the ‘4 AKO y 0 would wood to be used in the manufac- ture of the @oke used to smelt the tron. Fuel has become scarce commodity about the plant since | the shutting down of the Hadlock sawmill, but within a week enough wood will be on the smelter tocre: hand to ¢ ume BE PROBED (By United Press.) Francisco for the inquiries in both Oriental ‘mmigration San making regarding TO BREAK BROWN WILL. | (By United Prose.) | SALT LAKE CITY, Dee. 4 are empl | American liners. ayor of Boattic | and os & private ome to it returns of the day. As he is entitied to this Citizen he wt! be dovbly wee neseseiiimens — “MRCHANICAL MUSICK looking tng Generations Of singers and players of musical instruments There ars epproximately seventy-five aifferent of mechantes! plane ~ WRITER who has been look! } the mechanical plano player te "tS afraid thet the future enerations vt Ame: will be superficial only in eae | theirs musical education rather than be- ponerd = gieg plano which hee the mechaniem en. Common to both were secrec and Neerve, subterranean od Within ite Own cane ings, Wearing @ variety of wigs Comparatively the American people of pecutfar* style of closed carriage, | « today Are not musical They can neither injanetiogs of secrecy to coach sing for play, It hae been estimated manjompeterions journeys, unex "ye of 4 | that €0 per cent of the German races, 20 plained absences for long period wn per cent of the French, end 18 per cont and partiality for women OF ele I Lot the Rnglish know and vndersisod Druce is said to have died in| see Mere te | music; but that the American 1864, while it is known that the @ Sem. | 004 ino much lower percentage, even fifth Duke of Portland did not di | mmemmemem: | when the knowledge of music brought to until 1879. it in the person of immigrants be de If it can be proven that Druce |@ 241.560 ducted. Opposed to thie te the fect that! really died in 1864, the caso of S====s" |, are a music-loving people, end are the present claimant falls to the | rea4y to pay for it ground, The Druce company de We like musto ne matter whether we, cla that Druce did not die, but that bis name was used in a mock burial. Many people declare they saw the man known as Druce later than 1864, while it is a fact that wan insued and « mado of the jownership of the vault in High wate | cemetery, where the inter no death certifica no declaration GEO. H. ORUCE, The Plaintiff. ment took place. The Druce pany declares there was only in the coffin In the present Druce, son of T. C wife Herbert his and present owner of the store which Druce charged by George H. Druce of Druce by sult Druce by second kept, in grand. his first wife, with j in ng sworn that he w the body his father in the The object of the sult is to get the coffin « If this in 4 apd it is be filled with lead, as G Druce al leges, then the furthdr and try land estates, on orge the dead duke will elalm the ry & COYRIN pe will go the Port und that Meat Eaters Get meat at the rhet 04 Second av They handlé fothing but the best in m and fowl . 5% PREMIUM Allowed on Certificates | FOR DIAMONDS AND WATCHES =| American Watch & Jewelry Co., 908 FIRST AV. your Palace bear It produced by capable performer on the plano, of made by © high-grade mechanical playing mach or through the megaphone of Intricate talting machine or from a good band tre Te know machine je sete the bolder after euch @ machine Once © man of women becomes ao- Qvein'ed with the wes of a mechanion) play whether he haw er hae not knowletge of muste—or cam or eannct Pead notes, he will find himesif every ow and then turning to the machine for amusement. Gredueliy he wilh become sequainted with & range Of songs and great compo fitiona which be never could have heard but once OF twlee In @ decade without \NIOuT attending @ thousand concerts te. larie CabMi to | voting his life to learning to play the | yal Chet.” Piano for bimesit. 1 te from thiavappetite te hear that l= —- | the investigator referred to above fears thar we are to become lovers of ma chine made moesio rather than @ pation of musicians. That thie point of view le unfounded needs but & moment's thought for demonstration Lat ue say that some great lecturer tr Germany had met the invention of print ing by declaring that there would be ne © enye be will ” feet on ape will wel # to be able much trow “chunk” op @or $200,000 | further use for euthors now that the printing prese sae to place booke within rtation of | the reach of everyone through the newly ed, and te ‘enti! Warn Gtacoverea process of mechanical rep’ duction $30,000,000, ‘The priating preee hae done for the we tt 19 1D | eye Syst whet the mechanica) piano player and talking machine Ie now doing © 2 dreppea | fF te eer, making possible the poe was joat | easton of literature, in“ one care the bportiend ure Of words, In the other tne tane | literature of sounds, by the multitudes dent | 2” the old days & student seeking for 7 c0m| Knowledge was obliged to go to the leo hope. | turer and learn from bim tm person, or eet admitted to the few iibrariee of the world and there copy for himeelf thet, f tmeatron’ | waiod om the serolia or table owed ve | Until the Invention ef the mechanics) sm dor mosics) Instrument modern man had ‘Yan war | either to go to @ musical performance Pdeocks- | to gratify bis desire for music, or learn ha Lia be © singer oF player for bimecit, There are many “so-called” by ovr rns” counties houre spent young people in discovering whether they are or pot fitted to play ih plane or sing & eong may 044 to the total of musical knowledge in the world, bul never e040 & eymptom of mustea! love ot tm these ceases where ftne for muste existe In thoee cases practice brings out, the nt and the real musician te éiscov- ered. But will not the mechanical player ewekeg the talent a6 Quickly ae the Crudgety of the musto tench The mechanics) musical tnstrument will not Gestroy musical ability in the e present or future than the printing prese hab destroyed Literary abtiity promoted rather than discov! growth of printed literat te Mt note fi talent Authorship bas been eg by the deduction that musteal for composition, the 1 volce or of rare in- eat musical wil} be encouraged by such je consumption of musical sounds as te now going on in the United States by means of machines? In addition to all thia, the constant hearing of muste tn the horse by m of these machines will sequi bere of the household with the classics and the standard composition and i that sense a4@ to the «um total of the knowledge of music tn Yhe land even if i Getracts from the number of dave tere who spend ten years practicing fiom, one to three houre a day to acapire enough skit) to play indifferently the music they hear at the theatre, Looking at the question from all sides we are inclined to think thet the me chanical piano player and the talking machine stand in the same 6 musle as the printing prese and camera to fotion The edvent ef the machine In music marke @ big step In the gratification of the people the talent 4 Tue FABLE oF THE ) Fw Frogs. J's at this time wheo « sbriv? in the volume of evailabh rency has caused @ sh~ Aqpand for labor o* : en te piano players on the market, but the point to remember is that there is but one genuine Pianola—made by the Aeolian Co., of New York, and so marked. The Pianola is the only piano-player used by tl 1e leading colleges and fore- most educational institutions, and the Pianola is the only instrument having re- ceived the serious attention and hearty Bauer and other eminent artists. You owe it to yourself to investigate the Pianola. attachment style device, also the new Themodist indorsement of Paderewski, Rosenthal, Learn about the Metro- Visit our beautiful new Pianola quarters any time and hear your favorite selections or play them yourself. The genuine Metrostyle Themodist only by Pianolas and Pianola Pianos sold The House of Highest Quality New Johnston Co. Bldg. JOHNSTON Third and University a | p, Irondale clone aownh @ All the smelter ems atay were put to work In the woods cutting eord- able operations, IMMIGRATION TO VANCOUVER, B. C,, Dee, 44 Oriental Immigration Commigsion- er King wishes to m further investigation of the question be- fore returning to the east, He will go to Beattle and perhaps to purpose of places It ts tated that Mra. Bradley, yesterday equitted of the murder of former Senator Brown, will at once begin jaction to break the senator's will in behalf of her two children. | One hundred and fifty firemen on some of the great