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__ wy a Ss. © petunding Bond ty commlasioners to handle the finan. county ts atrik etion with its amount of ndebted t spring per cent - pees of King county | drawing were sold by the ra to N. W, Har at par, are ' from Ii to 13 per) seni mae markets of the Sieg to advices received . W. Harris & Co. a failing short of | iy exceeds that fe Weaitimate an far as ouse Is concerned, but | oners been | business rete} woly ordinary jonst half of this to King county Bond Issue. of & money panic, Mwas in the greatest de tly dear, when Hover the se were retrenching instead of pecurities. donne. ae the county Beas of King county fs pressing necessity dae bond issue. The discount. | re de) and to do #0, 000 by selling Phen by waiting could have sold of Rot leas than om ‘thse Worst Possible Time. i of Maancial depression | - of money seek invest. | safest class of securt @emand pots such! But the coun were apparently ‘thie fact. as of many Which they ought to to be qualified for hold | county saw no W. Harris & Co. are} In advance of) that firm took up warrants at dis Sto 10 per cent, and) le time came to pay the) pier these bonds the warrants into the county instead N. W. Harris & Co. in Seattic banks to meet and took double prof- fe by buying the discounted and selling the bonds later market at a great te the Sufferers. to N. W. Harris & Co. warrants is estimated 000, making $225,000 in they secured administration of county . what it should be, fot have been approxt- “ of current Indebt- necessitating the county bills in long The accumulation wastefulness and [@ounty affairs, if the floating of 2 par. to refund Meh was 2 monument , capped the clt- ah Financing. issue at that | plece of said a well-known wand broker to The Star for bis opinion a wet saying that the county gotten any more for the ithat time. it wan the folly ting bonds then which showed Bek of financial sense. Noth- mthe most pressing necessity bhave excused 2 bond flotation | mi Was at so high a pre- - f understand that no such | I denounced the time as an outrage on Those same bonds | sold today.” Bev the county commissioners after tavuing the bonds, ithe debt of the county was instead of $1,500,000, and tounty did not go on a has been told previously The steamship Diri cl igo ie echeduled sail from this port tonight for Sewer. The ship will stop at BEA M0 take a cargo of lum Nanaimo B.C to take oa), Me Heamsbtp Yucatan wit! leave Bi for Nanaimo, #. C., where a Of coal will be taken aboard prt Alaska. After being! | Coal, the Yucatan will an 10 Seattle to complete her ae lt Cordova, Valder and Sew Teseinadip Mackinaw in being MOPler 10, and is due to Nome tomorrow steam. Towa Maru ¢ for the baseball team of the on Washington was on Jrernd Over for five games Tee Walversity of Japan oo he received that the ESM Northwestern an Au Ris toon Nome and » im this port enti Meanship (i, will a 13k Waorren tor ger, Fra Seamship 0} eater on Company's ta as BL, Drake, both ¢ om Se. Attived this mor: Mved yy nearing to advices re Merchants’ Exchange. Special Sale on Trunks weet Suit Cases. Ou tO SAVE MONEY Ku © the High Rent District RAND HARTZELL First Ave Sacrifice $75- Ty Hl iS Premature Issue of | TUPIDITY GOSTS COUNTY DEARLY LINCOLN, Neb. Aug 12.—The Minnesota Agrioultural society has presented Wm. J. Bryan with a triek mule as the mascot of the mpalgn, The mule has arrived at ‘alyview, Medical Profession Astonished by Wonderful Effect of Powerful Stimulant. (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-—Medical men are commenting today upon the remarkable experiment at the East ern District hospital by which Oscar Culver, a ward patient, apparently dead from long Uloess with rheuw matiem and tuberculosis, was brought back to life by an injection of strychnine The man's condition had been re garded as critical for some time and late last night be became visibly worse. A nurse attended him con stantly, taking his pulse at fre quent intervals, but the patient fait PITIFUL AGED WOMANIS © RAVING MANIAG “Let Me Die!”’ Sobs Old Man’ Who Hacked Son and Daugh- ter to Death, While Crazed (By United Press.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 18. Her mind hopelessly wrecked by the frightful experience through which she has passed, Mrs. Mary Dufty, whose husband, in a fit of epileptic insanity, chopped off the heads of his son and daughter re cently, ties in the detention ward here, a laughing, babbling maniac. At intervals the aged woman ap pears to be drifting back to sanity, only to sink back again into a pith ful state of Imbecility Los Angeles {s still shuddering at the ghastly murders of Fred Dutty 1 Mrs. Zada La Com, son and H. J. Dufty, a retired laugh committed tw wf the t ghastly crimes the history of the state Karly in the morning, While his son Fred was asleep, Dufty stole into his room, and without awaken in his victim, severed his on's head from hi body The murder was done without a sound Dufty’s home is but a short block | from th is daughter, Shortly aft yelock, after ber husband F and La vom, had gone to! MULE BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN | the iim SEQUELS OF GHASTLY MURDER -ENDEAVORERS PLAN Katee eee e tee ete << DEAD MAN BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE @d to rally to the ordinary restor-| atives and after several hours of un-| consciousness apparently died. His pulse ceased beating all tests for signe of life failed to bring the usual response Dr, Jaffer, the resident surgea was notified and after an examian tion pronounced the patient dead. As an experiment he injected ao teoth of a grain of atrychnine in Culver’s forearm. A moment later he was astounded to find that a faint heart action had begun which | was followed quickly by signa of} feeble ration. In a short time the patient seemed to be resting | easily, although he did not regain! consciousness, Very little hope for! is held out by the phy sicians, bat the wonderful effect of Stimulant bas astonished the miedtea! profession work, Dufty appeared at the house Opening the rear door stealthily, he saw his daughter busy sewing on garments for a babe that she ex pected within a few days. Her back was to him, and, with a fiend ish yell he struck her with the heavy ax on the back of the n She fell to the floor with a d shriek on her lps and he hacke head from her body with re ated blows, Then he rushed at hia wife, Mra. Mar Duft who had been living with her da hter With a shriek she fled past him As she dashed through the open door the maniac brought down the ax. Mrs. Dufty warded off the blow with her arm and ran scream. ing down the street ing to kill himself at his own home where he had goue, after washing | his hands and wiping the blood from | his weapon, which he carried through the streets | Nth and da ain| nin his wife a raving His mind has partially cleared I don't remember anything about hitting my boy,” he says. That part of it is a blank, I do remem-| ber hitting my daughter. I seemed to wake up then Why did you kill her? Were you} angry with her? | No; I loved her. Something seemed to overpower me and make me do it. 1 wish they would let me die. If they would unloose my hands {0 kill myself.” | ee ee ee BANK CLEARINGS. t - * Seattle. * Cloarings today 91,994,863.16 & Halane soe DILIIT OR & * Tacoma, os Clearings today 676,907.00 © * * * * * o Inatallation will hered to by works Apart tire morning given 30 days in which to Install this deseription of a fire es cape will order the hote fire escape is finished. }@ atl jreturn trip, | will be close to $6.0 THE SEATTLE STAR—-TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1908. OREM ER EMER MM MRK! The question of whether MUST INSTALL FIRE ESCAPES legal tn a @Foree ty owned by Columbia has b thé outcome of a r griited Mra. dna » brought up as Gulla ‘The city ordfance requiring the of stair fire escapes henceforth be religiously ad the board of public The owners of the Biggs its, a fourstory briek struc in North Seattle, were this If the k is not © ted | within the tine apgepanas che rand | Engineer Injured and Others losed until the Bruised When Engines Rush Together, GIRL'S SUIT OF BLUE. Joneph Thompson, » mall clerk bound passenger train No. 2 on the Northern Pacific collided headon with fretght No, 45 at Woodinville at 2:56 yesterday afternoon. Then Mysteriously Disappears. The Washington Children's Home | at Ravenna park is today caring for | the identity of whose parents is un | known, | The babe was left on the doorstep of the home at #:45 last evening by }@ young woman for whom the po Nee are now waking a diligent search. The history of the little ne is shrouded in mystery, and, ax he tx an attractive youngster and | well dressed, thoae to whose atten | tion the affair has greatly interested in him. Copenhagen blue panama is used| A woman, who appea to be to fashion a ertsp little suit for s| about 20 ra old, called at the young girl. The skirt is a very full| home about 8:30 o'clock last even cireular with tiny folde of blue vel-|ing and asked the matron if she vet set on at Intervals, The coat is| could leave the child there sharply cut away, long in front and/ short tn the back, with a bell sleeve,| be necessary for her to make ar the collar and edges being trimmed | rangements with the downtown of with the same bine velvet. The bat| fice of the institution in fe a bo med English walking | do so, as no children are received hat im dark bine, very much elon-| un the parents call at th gated at back, and trimmed with two white wings TENNESSEE MINERS AME Daye aug] RUBLE TO NEGROES The Seattic Christian Rade union is planning a grand exeursion for the afternooh of August 22 on the steamer Yosemite Brinnon Hood canal. The boat leaves Pier 45 p. m. and returns at 10:30 p.m. Boyd ©. Doty, state attorney } for the AntiSaloon league, will speak ting during the for bis subject Christian Endeavorera Can Do to Promote Good Citizenship. (By United Press.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 14 Ad~ @ result of the determination of the Kings Mountain Coal com pany © work negroes in the same mines with white men, a race war that threatens to assume ser proportions i# imminent in the min ing districts adjacent to Jellico, Tenn. Today seventy negroes, heavily armed, are barricaded tn a comminsary which ts threatened by between 300 and 400 white me R. EB Dunlap, superintendent of/ ana an attack is expected at any the good citizenship department of | moment the state Christian Eadeavor unton, | —_ and ot will speak along the same lines. A musical program|***** eee eee eee e will also be given, a feature of which will be furnished by the boys’ band of the Parental school on Mercer island. Everybody ts in vited. What WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on the low service main in the dis trict north of Lake Unton and the Government canal on Wed and Thurstay, from § am. to 6 p. m., due to the shutting off of the low service main acroas the Latona bridge ne low pipes on the kk ice will not noti fected VANCOUVER FORESTS | ARE STILL ABLAZE | | (By United Press.) | WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug., 18.—] Fierce forest fires are still barning| on Vancouver island, according to} KES Pacific railway, The timber loss] “| TWO SPEECHES neaday ably af + teeeeeeeeeteeeee ee eset eeeeeeeeee Pe ee Sett living in isolated parts have b driven into the fruit farming dis-| tricta, where the cleared land| —_—_—— affords safety. The mountain “ | Sree rey | Bob Hodge, candidate for the re |publican nomination sheriff, is STAFFORD 18 PUSHING |making a lively campaign and gain CANVASS OF THE COUNTY. | ing the support of the law-abiding | pe yple from all walke of life dally Prof. Rdward H. Stafford, who is} Last night Mr. Hodge m two a republican candidate for the office| speeches at the Labor tample : y school superintendent, {#| addreasing the electrical worker vigorous canvass of the/and later the plasterers, in thelr Within the last few | respective halls, He was received s visited most of the/in a manner which indicates. that and has lined up 4| Hodge will draw strong support from organized labor d is principal of the | | Pacific school in this elty and is} CRUEL TEAMSTERS FINED. well known as a capable educato: i pea aye “ | Alex Demoina and Leonard War } ere a ested by Humane HEADLINES AND COMMENTS, |ner, who W " “ 1 Officers Bilis and Vaupell, we Sick From Bite of Dow leach fined $15 and costs in Justi — meat Sa " ( 1 court terda or a Certain t kind bine hoe ae 7 ~ we h ries Bulctde In Pa Cheap Rates East Mere a 1 hearsal, as he on R, R. & N ton ! Ce v “ round tri x ” Harriman Gives His Views! tickets August 1 and 2%, good Again Ininety days. Full partloulars at Making a stereopticon show of| Union. Ticket office, 608 Firat av himself. |. B. Bilis, General Ag eee TRE FEM CAUSE |poxny i BLO Ke FROM Exvo- Doctor—What's your trouble? sad: Kulvalehe. mumhee. . haute Pationt--Writer’s cramp ew 'totn tn lawn iy $200, Doctor—Ah, I see; you have too od gE va ae much to write? Patient-—No; I don't have « to oat INTERNATIONAL BOND & REA 60. nough 1000 Amort pk Huttding tempting t decree granted in the local courts| this half | cane applies to proper-| through the British Columbia ¢ ither party in Tiritieh | and the ruling is with nt separftion | similar from [brought in the future, Thompson which was badly the trains eame together son resided with his wife and four Fair Divorcee Claims Half of |“*v' © 4 V Balances ++ 98,999,00 Hy the torma of the judgment in| British Columbla the local courts Mrs, Gullin, under Portiand. the community law, j¢ given a balf Cloarings today... $1,141,070.00 Property. interest in a house and lot at Wil| Ralances 197,119.00 Poe mm son and Mary ata,, in Victoria, B. C The divorced wife Is now at MAIL CLERK KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION ° fo} LOCAL DIVORCE INVOLVES [PEARY AS HE LooKs uP IN THE ARCTIC PROBLEM FOR COU — | of | RT jullin of thin elty obtain rest in possession of the property aint betng awatted great Interest as affecting actions which may be COMMANDER PEARY IN HIS ESKIMO SUIT, AND THE SLEDGE DOGS THAT WILL SOON BE PULLING HIM TOWARD WITHOUT THE LATTER HE COULD HAVE ——— | THE NORTH POLE. car,| NO SUCCESS. when = = = Thomp was in the mail shattered children at 529 10th av N was 39 years old, and had been cL ectacor Ear actin. vn working on the Northern Pacific SIDEWALK ot onthoer Efe atthe Sate for four years | nD Oo} id, A Both engines were badly smashed None of the passen the | wrecked tand sian a document Mother Leaves Little One and their right to them the office, and went away apparent lly satisfied. About 16 minutes later | PTomised to repair the damage and neighbors saw her BABE IS DESERTED ON <2 = la bright baby boy of three weeks, of the street m brought are great p boys returned to Seattle this i in ne ate boys returned to a mor collision the was killed, Atbert O. Wishard, an! ivsager train was going at the Sipanianinay ing. This the last of this sew engineer, was injured, and @ num: pate of about 26 miles an hour, an | While attempting to secure a cag pa camps conducted by the jbor of passengers were badly the freight was moving at the rate | onoice position at the auitomobile| shaken and bruised when south of 10 mtlow | EMPIRE NEGLIGEE. stand on Cherry at,, between First! and Second aves., at 10 o'clock last | night, F. Mestaur, driving an auto mobile owned by Charles Berryman, | Host control of the car and it leaped *lacross the sidewalk and crashed }into'an iron fence at the side « the Bailey building lett was r coache baggage car track, The A heavy iron fencepost was torn \tomobile fell into the areaway in that Masiaur was driving at a rapid rate and that it was impossible for him to stop the machine when it reached the curb. The accident was investigated by the police, but the auto driver nquishing | ‘he woman sald she would go to Veturn with the |}® Was not arrested j baby in her arms, With her Was Aigwaewhattahhhdkhee |young man, She crossed the atreet | » * to the home, while the young man! @ TODAY'S RACING RESULTS. * waited for her on the opposite aide |» — * Presently she returned, but she : Belle So vrtoarig 1 > did not have the baby with her @ &t. Francis—< to 1. * The matron of the home was no-| » ome—t to 1 * tified by telephone of the oceur-|» 1:13 16. * renee, and she found the baby lying | @ Second Race. * on the door step. He was taken in-|@ Achieve-—-1 to 4 * side and the police were notified |@ Fair Annie-—4 to 1. * The baby was well drowsed, it be | Coriel-—12 to 1 * ing evident that the woman who|@ Timo—1:05 4-5, * had made his clothes had taken|» * na with her work. He Was! , ee eae ee eee eses wrapped in a white comforter and ~” beside him lay a bundle of clothes! NO MEETING HELD. | An empire negii of blue spot- done up tn & newspaper | fed net is mounted on blue China Tho woman who left him there is! No meeting of the board of equal. | silk. Soft China crepe in blue drapes described as betng tall and slender She wore a short, light-colored jack be perfectly satisfied with his new are teameters and had be horses to be w She was informed that it would et and « have no deseription of the man T ¢ change houses in the United States. United States. Agencies’ report is the best reference that they can give—possibly stronger financially t tion price, but you pay just exactly what the stock costs us in Boston and New York. ization’ was held this afternoon, on account of the funeral of Mra. P. J Smith, wife of the former county commiasioner. EXCURSION TO HOODS CANAL Sunday, Aug. 23, 1908, on Steam. er Yosemite. Round trip S0c. the high bodice and is gathered at the back and front beneath a large motif in blue bratd. The sleeves and yoke are of handsome lace rk skirt. The officer he baby is ful healthy disposition and of « He seems to oundings. n driving that no condition rhed were in NATIONAL STOCK Should you wish to buy or sell National Stock (legal name der executed over our private wire in from 2% to 4 minutes or New York or Boston curb in that length of time Remember, we are not recommending this stock as an speculation. Should you wish to buy high class stock or bonds your order in the same length of time as above stated. We will be willing to advise with you as to the better issues, the ones that offer the greatest possibilities Should you ask us to recommend an investment, we will recommend only gilt-edge bonds and stocks, Some Loan Party Here Who Claims to Be a Broker is advising the people to buy the Lawson, of being friends of the Standard Ol! Company. We ar grounds. We friends of any legitimate business org: it is conducted on business prinefples and honoral terms people who claim to be honorable in business of something that hasn't the least particle element of an investment. This party claims that $60, a year for a wire is an exorbitant and, not being conversant with regular brokerage hods, he claims that it would be impossible to do business on the small commission of %& Bay State) you can have your or- We can reach any of the Exchanges investment. It is purely a wild we are in a position to execute and condemning the legitimate Brokers, and willing to answer this party on his own zation, regardless of its size, as long as thods, but we do condemn in the strongest methods, and then recommend the purchase uses them are 0 price The answer to this is volume of business that we get—the large number of cus- omers that we secure through honorable methods. The house that leases this wire not only pays $60,000 a year, but pays on an average of $150,000 a year. Logan & Bryan are our correspondents—one of the largest Stock Ex- It is the largest private wire house in the whole They have been in business for a great many years, Their Commercial han any bank in the State of Washington owner of thi tar ar office C. Osborn courts fee) the most Jealous of thorough Inve another's su do an arbitrage iness. For instance ing to was called up on telephone by Stock at $1.75, and wanted 25 cts. a that day, and of course tt 1 naturally unat to charge the OY iked to do is to and get the have no other except th fer anyone whether for Our charge is 124c a Share, and you pay no fictitious quota- igation as to O88 his and who want to last Saturday, August of our employes. these who 1 house that we They quoted Bay State Tr ck , at $1 when they we A these local broker We respectfully this Stock are refe National one commission such people feel bad shar bes 0 on wo! make en rice they customer bh regular quotations uld advise in fact, wa inter Bank they wo them to buy anything ex S. C. OSBORN & CO. Main 2723 Commission Brokers Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Cotton, Provisions, Mining Stock and Local Securities 627 First Avenue Independent 5558