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° STlArFr VOL.'11. NO. 1 THE SEATTLE ) VAN POMP WILL MARK iit FINANCE es to Attend of Harriman as is Laid to Rest on Afternoon. iy United Peo) | TURNER, N.Y. Sept ‘a suggestion 9! geremony that us of & mo Bing of no ter monarch of fo rest at 3 « With: | and country the on who made at Ar. esterday at J. Hote St. John's wilt was ateat The Rev rector oo the Ara the ser Pal! Bearers. r & short se Bt the residence. Gfterward the cortege eye down the hil! to the tittle ‘af St John. Only the mem frilly and a few friends A brief ceremony wil! in eburch amd then take n vice will and tm place. j i learers will be vt gona their chief of various depart the Arden estate. as fol Ford, superintendent; bead carpenter: E. master mason; Wm Superintendent: W und sor of stores . farm super Bearers. rors are ex of Harri-) : allies and | Iroads which he | country | bal of their; im here to pay| memory of} It is probable! of the vast ft) ‘Will be coming and | and Sunday, mak- railroad station & interest in the fi- f Not Hold Autopsy. of the death of EH. likely to remain the members of the| The firing grew less and it was | studied and worked hard, and be- decline |¢Vident their ammunition was fai}.|cause of this Judge Frater dismiss Pastuke: tatorinaticn jing. The regiment charged, and as/ed them with just a mild reproof to add anything |'t Started the remaining refugees | and a little sermon on good citizen-| S Statement that, by “heart exhaus- by other physi-/ suggested to him @atemest would be -@eath, he refused to . Harriman’s son- | ted his state | iy would not per-| that it was im m Page Three.) wn for City Awarded to the w and Independent | ) —_——____ } vigorously for sev secure the lowest pos- W be paid by the city supply of electric Bouillon, supertntend Utilities, w a com y, when the board @ granted to the Cam comp: of Seattle, for ishing the Same concern’s bid was the eet the new onex opened at | ling of the board | Mt Boul as in the time t) at bide litied that the contract ven to the est bid ted the city the best The stand he this ‘on fu fir hay m and bids i feeling i finally Routllon Cam b 16 Buperintender contra trie, compa t for the O by the Pik one year Wrangle bet Meard start ® member d that tt one of awarded were appare Intendent 1 demanded a contrus he company, arid Wilders draw 01 he ai ter Cor of at vulllon oMtract itly the exp ld go to iggested for th Fobes Wis BO | na tows LON BURIAL OF HOUNDED DAY AND NIGHT HE ENDS IT ALL Alex Kampofski, Rus Refugee, Paid Dearly for Resistance to Imperial Czar's Troops. Driven from pillar to post pursued by human hounds never rested, Alex. Kampofeki, a Russian potitical extie, grew weary of living day and night im terror of the assassin’s knife and hung him self to the mb of a tree in the woods near Hanford st. and 14th ay 8. The body was found y day afternoon. In Seattle always the man was known Russian colony his real name and life history, as thrilling as a saga of Odin, wat known. Kampofsk!: paid déatly for his re sistance to the imperial caar. Nine years ago he led a refugees against an entire regiment of a thousand, and when the batt was over Kampofski and two others} were the only survivors of the fifty and the 4 a mat tts colonel, three minor officers and a hundred me Yesterday Russia was avenged for her colonel and his men and the Victim wished a thousand times he had died with the others tn battle. Several in the Russian colony here know the story of the battle and here ts the way they tell it: The fifty refugees were making thefr way to the Turkish border when they were surprised in early morning by the regiment. Th band whirled their horses ike magic into a circle and so heavy was their fire that the division of the regiment which overtook them was driven beck with heavy losses. Died Shouting “Liberty.” When the remaining divisions of the regiment, attracted by the fire, came up, the horses of the rebeis ; Were mowed down in a minute They dropped behind the antmals and used them as bre works. stood wp, doffed their hats and shouted, “Death tn liberty is sweet.” They fought like devils with their {few remaining cartridges but were! carried down by the rush of the eavairy, shouting “Death in liberty is sweet” until the last. How Kam- potekt and the two others escaped none ever knew. The soldiers searched for his body and failed to find it. “Trail him dow? to the ends of the earth” was the order that went out from the regimental office. WINS | insistent that he finally succeeded in having all the bids, including the one submitted by the Fobes Supply company, rejected and new ones advertised for. These were presented board at its meeting today. With the exception of the Cam- eron bid, all of them were identie: as to price. This indicated, accord- ing to the opinion of Bouillon, that they represented the lamp trust, while the one accepted was submit ted by an independent firm. WANTS ITY BONDS TO BE REGISTERED ow. # banking } to the angler, manager of the Dexter Horton #& Co, tod ed before the elty finance comn with the request that ol) Seattle's last $1,000,000 twa f bonds be registered in order pen up & bigger market for then He argued that many peop would not purchase the bonds from the brokers now holding them sim= ply t they were not register- but that if they were registered ady pu would be found ttee chasers of wits mbers 1 no stem, because of the Hd entail an ex T t the change be » the city further etinng, E WANTS ALIMONY Bruce has not to his former wife rding to morning © exper WIF ques at a me paid all- for over complaint Mrs. Bruce wf this Judge Mitchell Gil- rdered him to appear and cause why he should not be in contempt. The order is returnable Friday, Septer cited made ber 17, band of fifty! SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDA ANOTHER BOUQUET FOR MEN OF Wiy SoULMATe I ur eT | ben (4%) | r | som AWAY FROM IME | ADI ANCE. OF YOUR DIVINE | LUMOID EYE> AND MEET ! vis %& | »\ U GQUnT Giny ve CanTuLAge, ] TT)!" YA Vo ARG BUSINESS u &= | TAL. TO “TAL Ovirra. AMeOUs 0 DEAD KING, MOW A TITLED HUSBAND WOULD LEAVE HIS AMERUAN Wire For, NOW THERE'S No Use WORKING YOUR SELF INTO HYSTERICS For 1AM Go- who} ie HOM, -EDITION-~ ITI Y, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909. U.S. A. YES THAT t> COUNT De JENERETIE . Quite A) CUT UP FOR A BENEUCT! Mra. Emily Post, of New York, society woman novelist, discussing the question of American girls as Archie Cameron, but among the} marrying foreign noblemen, dectares that such alliances might be successful if the girt | Man who will smooth out the path of lif | whe has charm of elusive things. | frit anner and an amazing understanding of the art of } |Eighteen Lads Lined Up | in His Court Given a Les- son in Good Citizenship, Today. Elabteen boys, with tearstained jfaces and red, downeast eyes, | were brought before Juvenile Judge jA. W. Frater this morning by a deputy game warden for spearing }fish im the creeks around Green Lake and Lake Union They were not of the class that finds {ts way | Juventle court, but they boys who went to school IS COMING HERE TO MAKE. INVESTIGATION OLYMPIA, Sept. 10. ate Labor Commissioner Charies F. Hubbard left Olympia thie after. noon for Seattie to Investigate the charges of viciation of the ten hour labor law in the laun- Gries of that city, When leavw ing he stated that he would probe the matter to the bottom. ‘GREAT PROTECTION iS OFFERED TAFT (hy United Pres.) | | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10.—Chiet of Police Dishman today announced tentative plans for guarding Prest- | dent Taft from the moment he ar- rives in Low Angeles, October 11, (until he leaves for interior southern California towns. A special guard of 20 Pinkerton detectives, accord: ordinary into the were all and who | ship. " “It is the boy who obeys the | law who makes the best man,” he said, “and it is the boy who } obeys the law who always has | | the best reputation. But repu- tation isn't everything in this world, for character is far bet- | ter, A man may have an ex celient reputation yet be @ rogue at heart. But a man who has a clean character always beare a good reputation in the long run.” The difference tn the appearance executive when he arrives and wili lot the boys afte the judge had accompany him every minute of |talked to them a few moments and the time he is in the city. |when they wore brought in was| “No one will be permitted to! noticeable. They hardly knew What |shake the president's hand or lay | |to expect when arrested, but, after hands on him ta any manner,” said! |aeeing the kindly face of the n Dishman today. who held their fate in his hands, The school children of the city |they picked up courage right away.| will be given the first opportunity | He Caught No Fish. he greet the president. | | Please, judge.” sald one little ke eae RR ER RR ee fellow, about 12 years old, “I didn't | # \know I was breakin’ no law, an’ If) ® i'd & know’d it I wouldn't have done | it. An’, besides, I didn't get no fish |» Beattie. anyway.” | ® Clearings today . .$2,110,218.91 Then, with a twinkle in his oye,|# Bala +s 245,005.37 the judge explained that an unsuc- | * Tacoma. coastal ending of a crime didn't) #® Clearings today ..% necessarily excuse the culprit from|# Balances ..,.... Hability of -punishment lh Portland. | “And now, boys,” he continued $1,239 ‘you all know the law, and I want 6873 jyou to go home and tell all of the lother boys in your neighborhood labout the Jaw so that they will linow, too. | | BANK CLEARINGS. j 922,479.00 65,097.00 | ® Clearings today * Balances ... * . DEER 2.00 00 ee eeeeeeteee Promises a Square Deal. “The law wants to give the fish a fighting chance to save their llives, and if you boys were per mitted to catch the shiny little fellows in the easiest way, we would not have any fish at all after a while It's just the same as a great ‘big bully pteking on one of you} boys. The law wants to give the fish @ square deal the same as it} does you boys. Now, that’s all tell the other boys told you. Will you?” You bet we will spontaneous answer. AT THE Automobiles Will Be Start-' ed in a Twenty-Four) Hour Contest on Local, Track. Go home and} what I have} Due to the rain this morning, @ the } slight change was made in the pro-| gram for the big automobile races | at The Meadows, which were sched uled to begin at 2 o'clock this after noon. Instead of beginning this afternoon, the races will start at 8) o'clock tonight, with the 24-hour | came ‘FINALLY FIND THAT MARRIAGE A FAILURE, —— After 30 years of married life Bandy and Harriet A. Bandy de ra c.| This afternoon's card is post | poned until tomorrew afternoon and ‘aed that thelr marriage had been| Saturday afternoon's program will «failure, and the husband this) be run off Sunday afternoon. is applied for a divorce The 24-hour race will be held up morning @PMiren were born to the| for four hours tomorrow afternoon Pett ee ail, bat. the youngest, | while the afternoon's card of speed Porno who te 17, are mgrried and| tests for automobiles and motor cy eee sacanion of their oWn. \cles is being run. This will make Ne Turner also applied for a|the finish of the 24-hour race at divorce from Edith N, Turner, midnight instead of 8 o'clock p. m. ¢ ncompatibility of temper- | tomorrow Seen es: if Both the start and the a finish of who will always be alert to please; te serve in the if she prefers the man with the stalwart, reliant, almost brutal force of love; with no understanding of what might be termed the art of life—rather one who has a contempt for it—then she is happier as the wife of her own American man.” —News item. JUDGE FRATER IN REPROOF _ PREACHES SERMON TO BOYS SE SPECTACULAR RACE TO START TONIGHT er things; making women comfortable in the with no | velt BOES HUNGRY WITH MONEY IN THE BANK Ames Tuscany, Prospector, Finds Himself in Unique Position Upon Return From Klondike. Although he has $3,000 deposited fu & bank, Ames Tuscany, Alaska prospector, is “broke” in Seattle, without even enough money to bay a meal. Arriving Im thie city y from his claime near Dawson, Tus cany, who has bat one leg, set out to find some friend who would advance him enough money to pur. chase a rallroad ticket to Minne. apolla, Falling fn this he called at ing to Dishman, will meet the chiet | M&yOr Miller's office today and ap- | for assistance. He spread out im front of Secretary Slattery (ma handful of receipts for express | money orders, explaining that they represented the $3,000 he had earn. ed while proapecting In Alaska “I sent every cent of that to the | Swedieh American Savings bank, In| iM 1 inneapolis,” he said, “and am ‘broke.’ show that I possess that amount of money, I can find no one who will advance me sufficient funds to take @ to Minneapolis. 1 find myself im the position of a man who has money and at the same time is penniless, You see, as soon as I now made any money | sent it to my! bank in Minneapolis, 1 gu have to go hungry until I find Dawsonite who can identify me. The mayor's private secretary promised Tuscany that the police department Would take the matter up and help him in every way pos sible. rm eo MEADOWS the 24-hour contest promises to be| the most apectacular speed contest ever seen in Seattle, The track will be brilliantly Nghted, and if the fin ish is close there will ve some very ¢xelting bursts of speed wit- nessed in the glare of electric Nghts. PPP LANNE EY © eee * THE WEATHER * & Probably Showers Tonight *.or Saturday; Moderate South. * west Winds. * + OOOO e BoveRNMENT FAILURE. (By United Press.) HONGKONG, Sept. 10,.—The gov- ernment has failed in tts effort to put down the sale and use of opium, acéOrding to a report forwarded to London today Chinese duplicit has vendered ineffective a v amount of legislation, an} the Polar Goal. (By Unit YORK Robert & for th of ¢ that NEW Sept mander ful dast rewult 10. Com rth Pole was the planning d as methodical With Peary it of sufficient pro y distance, He condition as ractor erecting # er any ful execution was as & game us simply a within uring this nt at Bec calmly as a cont building, and there ne chance but that he would barring death by accident Peary's actual dash for was taken from th point slightly “farthe hin vious ‘ord reach this point | party {nto four | bring up food Ready for Final Dash. Peary himself did not go with the stayed in energies or the deg nort in Peary torm pole ©, & than ree | trail breaking party, but the rear, conserving hi | for the final dash. The supporting | parties deposited food along the | ine of march, so that Peary’s dogs were loaded light, and were well fed every night when thelr day's march was concluded. In this manner he established a lr tween Cape Columbia and the 88th line, so that travel to this was comparatively simple one the supporting sledges dropp ont and returned to Columb leaving Capt. Bartlett, of a day's march ahead of Peary Instructeo to Wait. | Peary’s Instructions Bartlett | were for him to wait at the $sth Bartlett reluctantly obeyed, al | though his dogs were in fit condi tion to make the final dash with Peary a woint, ry, however, insisted that the al campaign mapped 1 be followed to the smallest and took no chances of fall jure by sudden changes | Bartlett's supplies here | transferred to Peary's sledges and Peary made up a dog team of the best dogs in both parties. With plenty of food, dogs in good condi tion, and his return route almost as & country road, as far as ion was concerned, it was nothing more than « quick sledging trip to reach the pole. Water Caused Delay. The only delay was caused by Jopen reaches of water in the ice, | and these either froze over quickly enough to impede progress too much, or Peary rafted himself | across on floating ice. | Peary's remarkably quick retreat | from the pole in 16 days shows how | well he planned everything. Know ing well that he would find food at the end of every day’s march, the were \Instead of Dropping, the Market Shows Quota- tions Are Upward De- spite Financier’s Death. | NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—After cc |ferences that lasted all night which the master financiers devised While these orders | ways and means of meeting the sit- | goods? ‘uation caused by the death of E. H. Harriman, millions of dollars were thrown into the stock market at the opening today, and the tre mendous support not only prevented sh but the market rose. The Harriman interests, under the powerful support that seemed to come from all quarters, so well had |plans been laid, rose in some In. |stances as high as two and a half |points. The successful turning of the expected crisis was a final band of finance, for on his |death bed Harriman had ordered | that his death be kept a secret yes. |terday until after the market closed and he had even advised his lieu Itenants as to the best method of meeting the situation over night Hand of Dead Feit. even after his death, Wall st. today felt the hand of Harri man and, with Standard Oil, Mor gan and other big interests behind the bolstering movement, advance ment was recorded where a serious lorash was feared. | The market opened active strong, with prices generally hig' \gouthern Pacific was up 2%, Uni |Pactfic 1%, Reading 1% The opening was strong and or derly, with interest centered around the posts where Union Pacific and |Southern Pacific are dealt tn. Quotations Open High. | On transactions of 8,000 shares, Union Pacific opened at quotations lof 197 and 196%, as compared with 194% at the close yesterday Southern Pacific, on transactions of 6,000 shares, gained from 2 to 2% points Union Pacific preferred showed an advance of 2% over last | night Other stocks in which Harriman had large interests, notably Baltimore & Ohio, Atchison Jand New York Central showed gains ranging from large fractions to 1%. United States Steel was strong on a moderate volume trading. Thus, and TOCK PANI mark of the genius of the master | r of | | Wrong in Final Racg: fo} Peary's success: | of food depots be- | point | One by | | | John R. Bradley, backer of the Cook expedition, cabin of the sturdy little steamer which landed Dr. Cook at the point in Eligmere Land from which he started h PEARY’S DASH TO THE POLE WAS CAREFULLY PLANNED oc Geese Sure THE MAN BEHIND THE POLE-HUNT seen in the dash for the pole. This photograph was taken far up in Baffin's bay, inside the Arctic circie. dog sledges carried little other thar bedding, and came south on the run. Campaign Well Planned. The whole campatgn to reach the was planned with the hard 4 cooiness of a Grant. Wise in the ways of the treacherous North, after bis 23 years of trying experience, Peary reduced the ele ment of chance to a minimum. Noth ing was taken for granted and every ‘possible contingency was provided for. The human equation was the only doubt. Otherwise, everything was as certain as @ mathematical demonstration h Publishing Story. Peary is now publishing the story of his trip in detail, in reality a geo graphical record of each day's march, which {s intelligible only to those who have an intimate know! edge of the geography of the North Polar regions. It ts the diary of a scientific explorer, who cares little | C FAILS TO OCCUR ON WALL STRE or ational and is all the who are exactness, for the spectac features of his t more convincing in a position to judge it Waiting for Peary. SYDNEY d 3 Though een in awaiting Command of visitors have for several days, to greet Peary upon ssful dash not known hur or Robert -£. his return from the succ to the North Pole. it { exactly when the Roose bearing the great explorer, will arrive. It is not believed, however, that the vessel will arrive here before Sunday, and it .s probable that it may not » this port before Mon- day Mrs. Peary and her children are now en route here to welcome her husband, Following the reception which is to be tendered here to the explorer, he will hurry to Washing- Continued on Page Three. : = ET ay SOME OF THE TUNES HEARD IN THE COLD GREY DAWN AT THE GROGGERY D'ye ever go in to get your morn-} ing’s morning about 7 or 7:30 at | your favorite house of call | Ever notice the manner in which the delivery men bring in their | It's rather funny if you only keep your eyes and ears open. The first to come rule, is the ice man, and his appearance is usually rather _ left-over-from-the- night-beforeish. He is always sing }ing or huming an alleged tune | They all do it | And if you listen very closely you |can generally make out what it is |intended for. They are mostly |hymns they sing | The fce man’s favorite tune is an imitation of “From Greenlar Icy Mountains to India’s Coral Strand, but he occasionally switches off to “Nearer My God to c as Then the beer man comes in and asks for the orders for the day You'd think that at least he'd be | | BURNED | oeeeemtnenmen FLAMES CUT THEM OFF AND | THEY PERISH IN THE ROARING FIRE. | — (By United Press.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., 10. Three small children, whose total Sept ages aggregate only nine years and nine months, were burned to death here early today when the summer home of Richard A. Walsh, a wealthy attorney St. Paul, was burned to the ground at Birchwood jon White Bear lake The origin of the fire is not known, The smaller children were jaisleep when the father noticed that his room was filled with smoke. Rushing to the rooms of youngsters he awakened each of them and then went to don h cigthes,, Hardly had he’ reached his room than the flames were upon him. His irs the 17-year-old daughter, at the f sign of the flames, rushed to THREE CHILDREN cheerful and would probably something like “Beer, Beer. Beer.” But a bit Darling, I am Growing Silver Threads Among the chosen ditty, and don't you forget that he looks as if he'd got a pessimistical, deep, dark dream of the curse of the morning after Next is the man with the milk, He, of course, is the most cheerful of the lot—and no wonder, though his tune is not much more so than those of the others. Here it ts—“By the Banks of Allan Water”—and he whistles it because It {s supposed that whis- tling is the nearest he can get to an imitation of a noise like the family pump. It's rather dr sing Glor- of it. Older, Gold” fous ary to listen to the mournful procession, however, and if it were not for the remark of the bar keep that you might as well have another, you would not stay to hear it. Oh, no. 2 TO DEATH the children’s room and snatching her brother Willie in her arms rush ed from the house. Both were dread- fully burned and it is feared that Willie cannot recover When Walsh learned that three of his children were stil! confined in the burning buildtr frantic father attempted to 1 back into the house for them and had to be foreibly restrained by the The ground the firemen. building was burned and later the mains of the three ch found in the ruins. Before Walsh could ge building he was fea and had to be tak for treatment to the Rak RE & * » * * = ALYoP, ATTENDANCE, * Yesterday 21,695 & * =Total 25,068 ®& - * * ee eee ee ee ee