The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1909, Page 5

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= | \ to the startling mau! eet, perbaps qention, for ® aeeny © ering, ste fs sa gaectulietio ane! be defeated “ hirtwind oa: S York govern: “aru of god « a eee yestenis = phe game af fram hist make of | reward wh nee ent development ud nities, anit wCIALISM Goverwt of New York Preaches Uplift Creed of Good Government to} » Thousands at Fair, et thea Seatth hat t# due to a the opportun tied en hie at adiminta- | about} etl®-) Photographs by Warrington Dawso f law paper Enterpr 3 which ma i or Bhs statutes which © prove bene TOP PICTURE—A TYPICAL ‘As 1 Wook ot Wt. th ne great) ROB, WITH KIKUYU GARDENE of the mation ona, in sia and down to the and ‘Mate Bullding at — an 4. bie assessment on the Alaska, Aug into Nite therly in the Bach of the igri it eel street is to } i lights trom 1 fl mosting ———. and return and 12th b $60; Chicago, . 4 n 0; } Mmit ¢ Rout and Denver if Perervations , with tahout in al sand In mune a, straight the Auditerhiy, Today the governor Mr, Josiah Collins atthe Golf club This WH dine with the Cor-/ alumni at the New tre de® saying, and tater wilt Guest of Mr. Samuel Hill at H gathering at the Perry. To overnor Hughes leaves for via Vancouver and the ASSESSMENT (5 $208,004.54 d and eight million, and four thousand, ahd fifty-four dollars = asecssment, real and tal, exclusive of public sery- for 1909, aceord: report of County Asses Parish to the board of municipal rock jon pass will prob | be built, an the finance introduced a bill at the ting last night repealing ordinance authorizing | The reason given is PMtate is now building tts the same district, and Purchase all rock from ‘Bs cheap as if quarried by quarry proposition 6 at the last bond elec ‘Wee successfully paased. Benater arrived jate yew i 4 & large party of| Who ame North to par Me the inttiation of 60 local temple world ‘Was met by a large num. Masons and prominent With a key made , and a large k & pound of gold to the organvation CLUSTER LicHTs. lighted by | road av south, if a bill introduced iman James Conway last night In Date Changed th, instead of 14t!, w York, $108.50, Yeotober 31 Oregon R fonnections (via Sal desir at Union 608 First ay PRIVATE ROB! HOTEL. BY WARRINGTON DAWSON, NAIROMI, British Kast Africa, lowent administration of} 208@ 25.—There are many pecu War things about this little city, y specch was] SMirobl, which Col. Roc t Ward be Behe could crowd inte makes his hunting headquarters and to which place he will return the end of Joiy for a rest and to prepare for another expedition The climate is the most Nar, Look at the map and will find Nairobi about three grees from the equator Yoo might expect, therefore, to broil 24 hours at a time, be exposed to ai! the terrible tropical diseases pecu you fair de all kinds of Africa's savagest ant m Nothing much doing When you get here you find yourself at an altitude of some five thousand feet in a pleasant Httle village which might be an American outpost town, with a & delightful breexe at olaht, with no ferocious beasts and few nox lous insects vietble, and in no par tieular danger from disease. MA, BOUILON AGAIN WARNS THE COUNGIL Pearing that the memory of cer tain of the council members might fall them when considering the ifranchise of the Northern Paetfic for tracks around Lake Union, Superintendest of Public Utilities A, W. Boaltion again wrote the council catiioning the members against granting the franchise with out first securing some concessions. | The same points which Mr. Boull |ton wrote to the corporation com mittee at thelr meeting Friday aft which cansed so much read, were ernoon, mirth when brought out, The bill iw ati] being considered by the committee DROPS DEAD IN NORTH. (ity United Press) ei SKAGWAY, Alas, Aug. 3—E. and mining investor, of St. Paul, dropped dead of heart fatlure Sat’ urday eveniog at Cabon Creek mine, near Haines, Alaska. SHAVE THIRD OFF 2 The the The The city council } night pansed touncilman Zbinden's water bill, which makes a reduction of 33 13 per cent in the meter rate for water consumers, The feature which Mayor Miller had introduced after his veto of the first ordinance, which did nat require the bolding of the bose in the hand, was elim Inated by the committee before it reached the connct! It is fully expected that the mayor will veto the bill when it comes be fore him for signing, but the coun ci) members claim to have a suf. ficient number of votes to pasa it over the velo BRAGGED TO DEATH. a wan) wa on | at Augus Mixsourt (fy Dated Press.) $72.50;| SAM, “FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 | GQutebiuk two comrades in bis dy jin grip, John MeClusky drowned | net Ban Quentin prison, in of 20 convicts. wth him William Darling and Laula C, Raver, who tried to rescue F bi with R. & Horseman Fails Dead, OXKLAND, Cal, Aug, %—A. - || Movehouse, a prominent horse NS man, dropped dead at Warm tT) Sprites, following a hemorrhage He We 58 yours old and had saced horseson various tracks. Cunman’s Body Cremated. TACUMA, Ang, 3.—-The remalna of Pog udhman have been cre mate? MOnkland crematory, ‘This action Wa understood to be in oAm: pliance Mth the wish of the Jate congresstin aa expressed in his will and insects, and be surrounded by! THE WATER BATES and carried to deatti | mn. Capyrighted, 1909, by the News lee Association, WHITE MAN'S HOME AT NAI R AT WORK, BELOW—A NAI-. Then conclude you are rather apt to that you are nearer the temperate sone than the tropical but this jast idea is a distinetly | dangerous one to get into your head. Venture out between sur tise and #unset without « cork helmet and the vertical aun raya will give you a stroke and fever as sure o@ fate, though the” weather may appear ooo! and the sky may be covered, Dress too warmly at hoon #0 as to get overheated, or too lightly at duak so aa to get chilled, and you will scarcely os cape being tH) As for beasta and insects, re |Jolee at their not being conaploe jous, but do not wander too far lout of town at night without a light, for there are leopards stil! prying about after amall doga, which they love, and there are awful insects called jiggers, which | burrow into your feet and lay [the flesh you will have serious trouble, which, in some cases, has resulted in the loss of a foot However, taken all in all, there (iy Usiveed Pres) OLYMPIA, Aug, S--Augnat 35, the state railroad commission @iil annofice ita findings on the peti tion of W. Ro Cunningham, of Rite ville, and hundreda of other east side grain growers that the North- erm Pacific be compelled to reduce its rates on wheat from Adame and other countion to the sound. ARTIST COMMENDS THE BEAUX ARTS SOCIETY Many people took advantage of } the opportanity to view Prof, John | Ivey's pictures and ilaten to his leo- WHEAT RATE CASE. | lage yesterday afternoon. Frequent | boats from Leech! park enabled the visitors to get ieck and forth jenally, After finishing bis lecture, Prof. livey waa taken over the village latte by A. B. Renfro, secretary of Def Harnett, a well known dentist | ine Heaux Arts society, and warmly | commended the plan of blieh ling an entire village of people who desire to live in artistic surround ings and enjoy the fellowship of | people of like tastes, with common use of the waterfront \and the }1Gacre park in the center of the tract | CROWDS COMING HERE, (iy Untied Pres) WINNIPEG, Aug. 3.-Bar! G ithe governor general, h ma elaborate preparations here to visit the Alaska Yukon-Vacific exposition in state The government granted 4 large sum \o wend crowdns to the Seattle show next month POST OFFICE REPORT | SHOWS BIG INCREASE | Postmaster George Ruseell re ports that as compared with July, 1908, the receipts of the pontoftice |have increased in July thin year 41.74 per cent, the actual figures being for 1908, $61,507.32 and for 1909, $87,186.23. This phenomenal increase i# no doubt in & great measure due to the effect of the falr, 7T ¢ are now 18 new clerka em. ployed at the delivery windows, one being allotted to each window G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT, (By United Press.) ANACORTES, Aug: 3.--The first day of the six-day encampment of the G. A. ft. witnessed the arrival of the United States gunboat York town from Bremerton, the erew of which will take part In the cele bration, Several hundred visitors have already arrived from Seattle, Tacoma and Bellingham Watch The Star's Business Chance Columns for Good Things at a Bargain, haa} THE STAR—T DA + Jaro alight risk from animals Insects, and as for health, it ponds entirely on two or t cautions which are 0 simple that & man must needs be a element fool to neglect them, The cons quence la that Nalrobl mab one of the most delightful yearround resorta one could good for both heart and lung nd general | bodily « itlon, Noverthelons, if an American or European staya more than two o three years at a stretch, he becomes depressed to the verge of melan cholia and #o violent In tomper and Unrens in ideas that hie beat friend Id not know bin. This ie an of the aun on the head in spite matologtots tomporate of cork helmets, but a few months in a tone suffices to get every: | ways olf thing right vin, aod a man may return to Natrobl and feel good for yeveral Years more The houses in alrobl are de signed to reniet he 1 molwture rather than for d and beauty +fictals the government office road station are Kven the we in tin bungal and the ral aleo of tin They toried, with peaked roofs} of corrugated tin, All the tand in expansive grounde to ak jow gardens « trees, generally bine gums, to be planted. This prev | lence of tin wae due partly to dif ficulties in transportation and part ly Wo the of uncertainty at the duration of the town Itself live } houre wonne is only some six years since the | project moving the entire town some miles further up the line to better site waa seriounly discus and came very ear bolng « Now that the old site has w buildings are begtonie [Rrow up on all sides, and th ernment is putting up a stone troas ury und a stone postoffice in the | middle of the plain atone | hotels are one d like the | houses, but are bull stone, as are the leading stores, especial the headquarters of the various safart outfitters. But the person who comes to Nalrobi to see a new phase of life, will probably prefer the native stores round the bareas, where Indian vendors keep shop be hind gratings or curtains and put their cord beds oat on the verandgs yw room inside for & client of Nairobt's | streets present masy pletureaque Natives are everywhere, and you do not forget that this ta «till the black man’s Walk any day down the called Goverp country malin thoroughfare, ment road, which marks the very center of the town®and leads past, the government offices to the shap ping district and the railroad ste tion, and at what should be the busiest part you will find a rude cart surrounded by a swarm of Kl kuyus blocking the entire road. What may seom almost stranger than their presence, is the fact that) they are in nobody's way, since there are fow people who require to pees; and you may have only a few hundred yards to walk before your progress ls blocked by a herd of young ostriches being driven along eeeehe ee eee eee sun which is certainly leaden at/ sacks of eggs there, and if you al jas if the town belonged to them. Midday, but which sets to allow low the sald eags to batch out in, Although the usual means of transport are Ox Wagons, sometines & camel cart enters town with a shipment of furniture or provisions, }and on rarer occasions two are seen MAN FROM SEATTLE. (TEMPTS SCE (ty Galted Pres) | COALINGA, Cal, Aug Be-A well) | dressed stranger, who came here! | from Seattle, attempted suicide Inet | | night by cutting bie throat with a! | pocket knife He gave the name of | H. Mitebell, had a card showing} membership in th Aberdeen, | Wash.. aerie of Bagh and left @ note notifying the lodge that he jhad an account in the Firwt Na-! | tional bank of Aberdeen. Mitchell | le expected to recover, He attrib-| tutes his act to domestic trouble, again | ture on art at the Beaux Arts Vil-| / NO POOLROOMS NEAR THE SCHOOL see Right in line with their general | palicy of forbidding the operation of | pool rooma near school houses, the} | counctl last night dented the petition | of BR. Le Hutchinson for a license to} operate a pool room in West Seattle acrous from the high achool. Coun jiman Max Wardall was the only mem be f the nell to vote In f vor of the bill, which would pla pool room in hb i, And it Wardall wh« anted the i retarn to the committee for reconaldera on in was hotly opposed by Arnold Zbinden. | CONGRESSMAN ROBBED. (hy Vetted Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Repre} sentative W. A. Reeder, of Kansas reported to the police Inat night! |that he bad been robbed of $100] by a pickpocket while movittx through the crowds at the Unfon station, where he was waiting fo lhoard a train for Seattle, whence | he will sail for Honoluta and Chinw ’ SEATTLE MAN IS | MARRIED IN EAST) (By United Press) FREEPORT, Ul, Aug. 3--Mise mma Mary Rudersdorf, daughter of Mra. trude Rudersdorf, land lady of t w York house, and Daniel Wont of Seattle, Wash, wore | united in marriage today, They will be at home Beptember 15 at) Seattle |AUTOING TO SEATTLE (iy United Press.) CHICAGO, TL, Aug. $.—Trane continental automobtling is becom: | ing quite common, H. ©, Osterman, | president of the Osterman Manufac lturing company, accompanied by) Mrs. Osterman, John G. Drennan! and Mra, Drennan, left Thursday in a 60 horsepower Knox auto for Seattle, Wash, Y, AUGUST 43, 1909 TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S HUNT HEADQUARTERS AT NAIROBI DURING HIS EAST AFRICAN TRIP Photographs by Warrington Dawson, Copyrighted, 1909, by the News: paper Enterprise Association. TOP PICTURE—CAMEL CARAVAN TRAVELING TO NAIROBI, MIDDLE PICTURE—GRATED NATIVE SHOPS. BOTTOM—THE GOVERNMENT ROAD TO NAIROBI, SARA WHERE THE LADIES SHUN THE CAMERA. If you walk often down to t station at Nairobi, probably will, sin the triweekly up trains and trt jownh trains furnish the sole excitement of the resident popu jation year in and yoar out, you will see native belles strolling in couples, generally mated so that one goes entirely in her native garb, and the other bas made an important concession to civilization by adding an umbrella to her outfit. These ladies have the most terrible objections to betng photographed, and run like hares, sheltering themselves behind their draperies or their umbrellas, as the case may be, as soon an they see a camera turned towards them. see eeee te eee eee Mai bhe hee ee eee ee eee ee e 2) toxether, so that one would think since only Somaite have oneself somewhere in Kaypt “ Hut trace of the Egyptian in thelr fea the purely African natives standing tures, and there are few of these | round about soon dispel that tiv in Natrob! A A A An i i tin, i | a || inthe Every Prominent Building at the A.-Y.-P. Ex- position, Except One, Equipped With Pianos from Eilers. A A a ag | 0 SS Pe a RUZ a 7 Or —— King County Commission Selected the Celebrated Lester Every prominent building, with one exception, at the Exposition, is equipped with pianos from House of Eilers. Sixteen d omumit mposed of the brainiest men and women the West decided in of What What does it mean? nae, ee the ferent ¢ SSS in unanimously favor Rilers does this prove House largest assortment t means that at Eilers Music you not choose from of the world’s best pianos, but that prices are indisput- ably lower than elsewhere It means that this is a different kind of piano establishment, and because of this fact that the attitude of the piano buying public toward it is of a different kind -. a It means that the “Kilers Way” of “Small Profits and Quick Sales” and strictly One Price is the only right method wt EAT MR ng To sum up, it means in dealing with the House of Filers you have that assurance and satisfaction which goes with the knowledge of having secured the ‘greatest intrinsic value for every dollar in vested cy Successor to D. §. Johnston Co, Eilers Music Building Third and University “| CS 1: \ XN a A er as |'\_ tg a a clearance sale of refrigerators and ice chests— keenly under the xtraordinary, aving op “ to pur erator or {oe ators; m ade $7.95 6 lee cap Standard 2@m urniture Co SEATTLE SECOND AVENUE AT PINE Our Entire Stock of Misses’ and Ladies’ Summer Wearing Apparel at COST! consisting of wash suits, wash skirts, lingerie dresses, silk dresses, white serge suits, pongee coats and linen coats. We must dispose of this merchandise to make room for our fall suits which are arriving daily, You may take advantage of this sale by selecting any of these reduced garments and paying a little down and a little at a time. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 Second Ao. 209 Union St. “Seattle’s Reliable Credit House” NOTICE JUST ARRIVED “My Wife’s Gone to the Country, Hurrah! 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