POV OOO: Twenty-five Cents a Month Gy Mall er Cai 099990000000 RATE WAR ON THE YUKON A Fare of Only $5 Is Now Asked From Lake Bennett to Dawson City. ILL FEELING BETWEEN COMPANIES Has Led to the First Arctic Transportatio Fight-Now Cheaper to Go to Dawson Than to Stay at Home. ‘The steamship Humboldt, which arrived from Skagway thts morning, Brought the intervsting news that a flerce rate war had broken ovt at Lake Bennett between rival Yukon traneportation companies competing for passenger trac to Dawson, and that the rate charged after June 4 Would be $5 for first class pessage from Lake Bonnett to the Kiondike Metropolis, meals not included. ‘The first agxressive move in the direction of rate war was made on May 2 by the Bennett & Atlin Lake company, operating Steamer Hailey. The company then announced that the rate to Dawson, Beginning with the opening of navigation, would be $10 per passenger, canvas cots in cabin included. Meals would also be served at an extra charge of $1 each. ‘The unexpecte! announcement created quite a etir in Bennett City ami Skagway, as there had been no premonition of a cut. The rival transportation line, known as the Canadian Development company, fol- lowed the next day with a flaming adverthement in the Skagway papers, that the company's beats Australian, Columbian, Canadmn and Angetican, running between Bennett and Daweon, wouk! also carry passengers to the Klondike for $10, meals not included. ‘This was only the beginning of the flurry, however, On the day when the Humboldt left Skagway, both transportation companies ai nownced a further cut to $1, the Bennett & Atlin Lake company taking the lead. It was prophesied that a cut to $2.00 would follow, Tt Is stated that the rate war le a direct reault of the bitter enmity Detween the rival companies, and that each is seeking to run the other out of businers. The travel by way of the lakes and upper river fell off Materintly last fall, owing to the competition of the boeata from St. Mi- chaei. and {{ appears as though the strugwle for buamess engendered the Ul-feeting. The prospects for a keen competition this summer between the Bt. Michael boats and the upper river boate may also have proved an inducement for the announcement of a cut that would tend to draw travel to Dawson by way of the lakes and the upper river. * No arnouncement ts made as to the length of time that the cut rates ‘wilt remain inferee. [t © ponsible that the mate war will be of long duration, but the chances seem to be decidedly against this condition expense of operating the steamboats on a $5 fare basis would soon up the spare capital of the competing companies, It ie consideret ble that « fare of $19, with increased freight recetpts, would unerative. owing to the decline in the prices paid for labor on but fact has not yet been demonstrated. It te regarded the ultimate established passenger fare from Hennett t exoned $35. amd that thiv figure may be the final rate will be permanently adjusted this summer. $5 rate continues tn foree for awhile, the cost of a trip from Dawson will be as follows: ebeyeag a af i : g Jet clase nd clase From Seattle to #hagway.. «oe «6085 $16 Skagway to Bennett ....,.. . 10 10 Bennett to Dawson .. eseveees 6 o 3% days—1l meals on Yukon at $1 " " 51 2 The Yukon river boats expect to begin reeular trips between Bennett end Dawson on or about June 4, as the ice has nearly disappeared. UNION PACIFIC EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP AND DY- NAMITED BY ROBBERS --EXPRESS SAFE RIFLED LARAMIE, Wyo. June 2—The! from his car and then exploded a THE SEATTLE the Yukon SHATTLE, WASHI wedding will be a royal one in ite | appointments, Hia mother, who, it Is underste will Come here with the prince TON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, attend the wedding, visited Mi Grant and Mra. Palmer at Canne Al soon after the first rumor of the en wagement and seemed attached to the young American girl. After the wedding the prince and the princes will return Russia, Part of the | year their home will be in St. Peters burg and the remeinder of the time Baking Powder Trust. TRENTON, N. J., June LA cortl floate has been filed with the secre tary of state Chat the authorized leapital of $20,000,000 of the recent |ly incorporated Royal Baking Powd company has all been paid in, | Of the amount, $19,999,000 represents property aequired, and the remain. ing $1000 is cash. to Death 4 LS. s | WHI'TRY, Ont, June 2—Howard The Iron Fam é ip ea cteacrnon agg | Blliett, a M-year-old boy, wae sen- |tenced by Judge Maomahon at the un bd @ Farmer Kills Another Grows Apace “4° GALVRBTON, Tex., Jun A ain . assinet today to hanged on Aug s received here from Arcadia If, for the murder of William Murray pa of Beaverton, The vietim, who was says that about five miles south of 80 years old, lived alone and was that place, on Hall's Bayou, in Bro. | beaten to death with a club The porta ¢ aty, A. Hanshaw was killed) j@bject was robbery. this morning by Frank Chapman. | When sentence was pronounced on ‘The men were farmers and neigh the prisoner he showed the same in- is RAPIDLY APPECTING MARKETS bors | difference whieh has characterised The report to what caused the his acth since his arrest, - ae tragedy are confiicting. After shoot.) one scala! oe ing Hanshaw Chapinan departed, in- | Sho Feared Insanity. All Stee! and tron Products Ad-| forming the witnesses that he wan) * ie oO wont, CUBVELAND, O., June 2-—Mre, ae Ble orig me ahoreeind j Emma L. French, wife of Alfred French, one of the best known chitecta of Cleveland, committed aul. Tobacco Destr oyed. elde early thie morning. @he had TYRONE, Pa, June 2.—-Last even. | been ti and feared that ahe was be-/ ing & rear end collision oecurred be- | coming inmane. Bhe requested her} CHCAGO, June 2.—Recause of the! tween two eantbound freight trains | husband to arise and get her a glass | Unprecedented famine in iron, the|on the Pennesytvania railroad, weet of water this morning and while he | prices of all manufactured goods tm-| of this place, wrecking 15 care and | j | CHICAGO, June 2.—-George Silver, who will referee the Fitaeimmons- | Jeffries fight, does not view with | favor the suggestion that he shall | Judge the battle from a position out- aide of the ring. He belloves this | plan prevents the referee from wit-/ | pessing fouls en’ ; was away from her room shot herself to which the grea staple enters, arelone engine, The wreck took fire, and | x to the householder who invest in a eee NOW OFFERE | but the quotations will probably «o Sports Have Money. led with orders. The supply of pig Wave prints @ rumor to the effect to provide for a Week's consumption, | to commit suicide immediately after | ure. This fuctuation te due to the) perce te ay gram to the Texas & Pacific railway je more which he would place at/ ing from the Brazos to the Colorace tle, Fite bas won the toms for corm unsuccessful attempt last March to| the water. The loss to the Texas @ | Ada Bothner |s Dead. company. | SOUTH AMERICA: | the beat. im the temple, dying at once, A note| Soaring very high. The increases|two care joaded with leaf tobacco llawn-mower. The comiitions a! ATY DU CLAM [Richer still, as the consumption iron on had at present ts not enough | thet Lieut. Paty du Clam attempted | | NEW YORK, June 2-—The betting am. improvement in trade conditions, | his arrest last evening, abutefance of Jeffries money, which has been appearing In large quan- ‘AN INVASION headquarters announces the sweep- tities during the last few days A) he same figure, The ety ™ full of fiver. The storm that #wept the ers, and has chosen the one nearest overthrow President Oxiesian, of | Pacific is estimated at $1,000. Much | ELGIN, If, June 2.-—Ada Bothner, | Misa Rothner and her company ap- | peared in “A Bunch of Keys” at the Third avenue theater several) “9 The Glorious Fourth | PANAMA, Col, Jume 2--Viscarre| é orious ourt Misses Leiter Leave India lexplained the cause, She leaves | Penge from 16 to 100 per cent. Every) were destroyed, It required three) jtmrve emall children. | clase of consumers js affected, from/ wrecking crews ali night to clear praeeinesanleese eee the retiread that buys locomotives) the track, ‘EVEN MONEY | j@aid to be ripe, not only for a con- SSP aS ces) ATTEMPTS SUICIDE PT | . lshows no steps of diminution. | Steel and roiling mitia, biaet furn- On Fitzsimmons and Joffries aces and iron foundries, are ewamp-| PARIS, June £—The Pett Repub on the Prtasimmons Jeffries hent haa | “ qth the accompanying activity inal Cram wean e wed finally swung around to even money, 4 le tho-onie oe Saat ual Wrecked by » Waterspout | several bets being made at that fig authorities advance for the b DALLAS, Tex, June 2A tele-| ine away of the big storage dam) #ranger left $1000 with Jim Corbett! near Baird, with approximately all | | to be placed on the Californian even) F TA | A of the water stored for use on the | money. He remarked that he had) central division of the road, extend- \eperta, many of wheot have large NEW ORLEANS, June 2—Advices| dam away closely approached a wa- |amounts of coln which they are @o-/ from Nicaragua say that Gen. Velar-|terepout in point of violence. Much | ing to wager on’ the night of the bat- do, who fed into Nicaragua after an| general property wae destroyed by | te the ocean, which is generally con- | Costa Rica, is reported to have ob- inconvenience wil result from the) #idered the winners’ post. ‘tained arma, men and money in Nic-| lose of these storage facilities. | \aragua and has invaded Costa Rica. RPI OT actress, died here today, after an itt- | news of eleven weeks, Ghe wan the) loading lady in the “Bunch of Keys” | AN UPRISING IN monthe ago. She played the part ot “Teddy” and was considered quite good although her support was not je at the head of an uprising which | CALCUTTA, June 2.--Missos Dairy | | ocx urred this morning in Amazanee;} and Nannie Letter, sisters of Lady |e province of Pirasil. Visearra pro- . ron, wife of the viceroy of India, 0 U ca fe of th f Indl | claimed himecif president of the Re- will eat! from Ceylon in August to Public of Amahanas. } onineninoent fejoin their parents in Paris In the meantime, in July, they will | Thought She Was Divorced make @ brief tour in upper India Hebrew . A MEETING OF CITIZENS TOMGHT | Garcsscta "society te rently tine | OB edie Ti, June 2.—Mra. 0, lappointed at the departure of the | ths -_——————— | her married her husband twice, | m4 young tadies before the beginning of | As Mrs. Poema Galfre she obtained @ ud | divorce from her husband, Louls Gal- j tre She was refured @ divorce from Plans for a Big Celebration and Galfre in 8. but, understanding the Various Committees from her attorney that the | was granted, she ma Will be Discussed. | This did not p' Iher arrested for | the winter season, Art Collection So CHICAGO, Hi, June 2—A collec- tion of paintings and Chinese and Japanese curios, owned by the late Edouard Remenyi, the famous vio lintet, was sold at public auction in | University ball of the Fine Arts) Tonight a meeting of the citizens! pullding today of Seattle will be held at the cham-| The collection, which has been on ber of commerce to take preliminary | exniation is come art inetitute for a) z yo oo ' je time, wee & rare one. bee Fo eer Ot Oey Oe heumert was @ great lover of art ton. At the preliminary meeting) ang nis judgment of work was high jcamy, She fied a -——- _ second div * walt agatnet Galfre. | State Atto Wilson says that the charge of bigamy will not be presse againat her EPSOM RAGES rangements for tonight and to e-| of $10,000 in favor of Henry H. Get cure the presence of as many of the| ty. 7 eee | OM omce 15-16-17 He Thien Pacific Transcontinental west Sound mail train was hel up, dyna- mited and robbed at 1 o'clock this morning near Wilcox, a lonely sta- tion on the Wyoming division. The holdup was accomplished by waving @ danger signal a short dietance rast of Wileox bridge. Engineer Grind- stone Jones resisted, when one of the robbers climbed on his engine, and he was struck on the head, receiving @& severe sealp wound and was then made to cut his engine loose from the train at the point of a gun. The fobbers drove the express messenger | charge of dynamite under it, The car was wrecked and the mail cer next to it was badly damaged. The robbers then exploded a charge of dynamite under the bridge, cutting off communication between the train and engine, and tleing up all trains. After the bridge was biown up the holdups disappeared and Engineer Jones ran to Medicine Bow and re- ported. It is not known at this time what amount was secured from the express car safe. The holdup oc- curred In a district where escape to the mountains is comparatively easy. RECORD BROKEN ‘BY HUMBOLDT Makes Her Quickest Round Trip---7 Days 6 Hours. The steamer Humboldt, Capt. Ron- niflekl, arrived in port early this morning trip. a cord breaking tle on May 26, and six hours ° On tp north th dit not go to Skagway direct, but touched at Vancouver, Ketchikan, Mary Isiand, y and Dyen. She left Skag om May and on the urn stopped at Juneau and Ket ja the quickest trip the has made since she has been on the Lynn Her agents did net look for her ar- ral route rival until tommorrow morning ‘The passenger at reads as follows Beret. Chas. Clarkson, U, 8. A., EB. J. Rathbone, C. B. Attwoou, W. J Bt ns, 1. F. Glaw Dv ' Ben M. Litt, L. HW. Hudinger, Mrs. Blondel, & Rounds, Miss Norcross, G. W. Hellman, D. D. Sones, Charles en, Dr. Charles Piont, A. B. Buck American Plant in Japan ALBANY, Y., June 2.- rectors of the Ar can T company at the Inst meeting of the board decided to build factories im Japan at once and to vigorously ex- pand ite business in that country.| THEY WERE INSULTED Five Members of a Debating Society Resign. MONMOUTH, Ill, June 2.—An im- portant question Is being agitated among the members of the Eceritean Soclety of Monmouth college, caused by five young men appearaing in full dress sults and white gloves at a la- diew May Day party. The innova- tion caused severe ertticiam. At a late meeting of the society the question was debated, resulting in grievously offending the young men. They demanded an apoloxy from the lety, but, receiving none, with drew their names from the roll of membership. The young men are F. FB. Dorris, Clyde Young, Robert Me- Gaughery, 8. K. Irvine and Hugh Hanna. Ae Dorrie was to have been the debater at the coming Philo-Beeri- tean contest, the loss will be a draw- back to the society. SEDALIA, Mo, June 2.—An un- known man abducted Walter Hroiles from the yard of the South Sedalia school today. He was forced to ac- company his captor ten miles into the country. The boy was forced to walk along the railroad track with the man for a part of the way, and a ride was begged from a farmer, to whom the strange man represented the boy’ as his son. Broilen watched his chance and at the firet opportun- ity escaped. usa Wins One of the Biggest. Purses-- Talent Loses. EPSOM, July 2-—The Queen of Song Sloan up. won the Walton plate of 200 sovereigns today. ‘The race for the Oaks stakes of 4600 sover- iene, one of the biggest events of the season, was won by Mr. Douglas Baird's Mura, ridden by Madden. Pierre Loriliard’s Bibola, Sloan, see- ond, and Lor! Rowebery's Corposant, third. The talent lost heavily on Bibola. Accident to an Automobile FAIRPONT, N. Y., June 2.—The Winton automobile, making @ trip from Cleveland to New York to es tablish a record, made a successful run to Fairport, ten miles east of Rochester Just before reach! the corporation limits at 5 p. m., the motor climbed a long, eteep, hill, and, on reaching the top, @tarted off ag a terrific speed, The machine ha@ not gone a quarter of a mile wh the right front wheel broke from the axle, and the wagon landed «et the bottom of a 4 ft. ditch, throwing Mr. Winton and a newsyaper man who accompanied him, a considerable dis- tance, 1 Rail Record Broken The South Mille of the Mlinote ftecl company has just broken t world’s record of steel rail maki in a 12-hours’ run, The new recoré is 1910 tons of rails. The former record wan 1901 tons was also held by the South Chicago plant. The company officials claim both records sre far in excess of thoae held by| any other steel mille in the world, ‘The men engaged in this record breaking run were not selected for the occasion but composed of the or. dinary night shift An Inhuman Shoemaker MIDDLESRONO, Ky. June 2— Mra. D. M. Sampson, wife of a shoe-| maker, was discovered today dying in her home, where on Saturday Inst her husband, it is said, knocked her down with his hammer, and tortured her by jabbing awls into her face. citizens as pomaible | The meeting will be held at &) o'clock, and a general committee) and sub-committecs will then be ap- pointed. Preparations for the cele- bration will begin at once, a# there only remains a month in which to work At the informal meeting yestentay, H. A .Chadwick, secretary of the cei- ebration committee of last Fourth of July, reported that $341 left over would serve as 4 nucleus for this year’s fund. It was immediately moved and carried that a celebration be arranged for this year that would put in the shade all former attempts. The following citizens were present at the meeting: Mayor T. J, Humes, 1. A. Nadeau, J. Bornstein, L. Kohn, L. #. Hart, M. L. Grunbaum, G. U. Piper, Col. EB, P. Basen, H. A. Chad- wick, C P. Stone, A. T. Ambrose, Wil A. Steel and J. Redeisheimer, GOMEZ’S CONDITION NOW CRITICAL HAVANA, July 2.—-Gomes has had another severe attack of asthma, His condition is again @erious, A con- sultation of doctors was held today and ft was decided to remove he old hero from Quinta to the sea shore. THE WEDDING OF MISS GRANT EWPORT, KR. 1, June 2.—Mies Julia Dent Grant, who ts to be wedd- ed here early in the fall Prince Cantacuzene, is expected to come to Newport a few days after her arrival in New York next Wednesday. ‘The prince will be here about the middie of August and the wedding will take place a few weeks later and will undoubtedly be a society feature of the Newport season, Klaborate preparations are being made at Beaulieu, the Wiliam Wal. dorf Astor villa, leased by Mr, and Mrs, Potter Pa’ for the coming n He then fed, leaving the woman to|of Mrs. Palmer, with whom Miss de. | Grant and her mother will stop, The ° i held yesterday afternoon, a commit: |iy respected by art connoisseurs. The | NEAR LOND N. ‘tee was appotnted to make the ar-/eale was made to satiaty a Judgment | - | | i PROSPECT OF A STRIKE James Wilkes Says the Miners | Will Not Accept Cut. BANDON, B. C., June 1.—"'T have) no hesitation in saying the Nelson and Stocan miners’ untons will not accept the reduced scale of waxes, of $2 for the new eight hour shift offer- ed by the mine owners.” ‘Thus caid James Wilkes, traveling organizer of the Western Fed the State of Washington. result will be a lockout or strike, as you have a mind to call tt.” | Buch was hie terse reply to a cor- respondent's inquiry for me de- finite statement of what the miners’ | unions were going to do, It was) given just previous to the organizer leaving on the noon train today for Whitewater, where he went to form another union. He will have good material to work with, a# that camp has nearly 200 miners, who tonight will meet Mr Wilkes and discuss the eight hour law, and incidentally the benefits of forming a unton. “Miners Strike. N, Ga., June 2.--As a result! of ting of miners, held at Be-, vier fast night, nearly 800 men In the} employ of the Kansas and Texas) mines at Ardmore and Bevier, will lay down thelr picks on Saturday when the whistle signals the noon/ hour. The trowble commenced in the In-} @ian Nation, over the alleged refusal of the Kansas and Texas to recog- nige the union, but In this county the) greater number of men in the com-| pany’s mines belong to the union, | Scourge. ROMBAY, June 2.—Cholera is rag- | ing in Kgracht, the principal seaport town of Sinde, on an inlet of the Indian ocean. Two hundred and thirty-two new cases were officially | reported yesterday, and 208 deaths for the day, out of a population of| 100,000. The official returns show a total of 1197 cases and of 1009 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak, ‘ “ a celal ii” ‘einai aaa 99D 99DGOOSOOD FOS Telephone Subscriptions te ; Pike 160 ° * e GOOOD 909 904 008 1s9D, NO. #64. 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Miver Fillings, cup * Hop A five years’ guarantee with all work. ~ ge $100 Reward to anyone finding anyt! but Firet-ctass gy jaterial in the above work. afiding ‘Tolephoue Main so ~F —_=—====_==£_=<=<=<<_<_—<—<_<_[_=—<¥£_=<_=_=_<_$_—¥—<¥—F—_—_—X—K—K—§€_<_———___—_—_—_—_[_—[—_—[—[—[—[== FREE On Thursday, June 2d, we will A Bicycle Lesson to F REE = ‘FREE show you how we teach. 7oa Guaranteed Aepecialty of Auditorium Bicycle Riding Academy DIAMONDS“ Ee Sfyenges te yetere trom © 1 per cont Our prices are still Firet Avenue. JEWELER DANGEROUS NEGLECT OF THE EYE inexcusable in these Our equipment for the It. CLAY EVERSOL, Optician, 72 First Ave. W. 1, B, NICHOLS & CO, vester'ersem wiag. Special Mining Loans. Examining and Reporting on Miniag Prope The Boom Is Now On in the Buffalo Hu 250 mark very shortly. our ndtise and buy while tt yoo ne? Wd Legal Tender Crystal Butte O74e) Lone Pine . . Yrige Insurgent Rie) Morning Glory Litge Gurprise Third Ave. and Madison St. W. W. HOUGHTON ‘bat can be found en: reer sad Mines, Mining, Stocks and Bonds Real Estate end 3 rea reRathies changing hands daily ot cures. LEGAL 7 S30 Caliph . Wye Mountain Lion.. Gitzo jim Bisine The Red Metal Is a Winner. “Copper production in the United States. aa shown by the reports of the compantes to their statistician, Mr. John Stanton, shows a drop in April, the total reported for that month having been 19.954 long tone, which {s 1964 tone less than in March, and 2956 tons jess than in April 1898. As com- pared with last year, there was a decrease of 3855 tons in the reporting mines, but an increase of 900 tons in the copper from outside sources—that is, produced by emelters from ores which are not specially rated as copper ores, and by the smaller non-reporting mines. That consumption ts on the increase in this country i shown by the falling off in our exports, which for the four monthe were 6160 tons, or 15.3 per cent."--N York Engineering Journal. Nothing wrong about this, if you own copper stocks, ch? Twelve cents a share will find Lost Creek stock one of the most promising on the market. JCHN E. McMANUS & SON, 918 Second Avenue Stoneware Needs... Chorns, 2 gallons, Se Preserving Pots, | gallon, 2c. | Bean Pots, 2 quarts, 200. Milk Crock s, 100 Glass Needs. A Small Leak Will Sink a Ship in time,and a smal leak in your drain pipe in the cellar will contaminate your entire house with disease germs. Only the best sanitary plumbing can save your home from fevers, diph- theria and germ diseases, As eanit- ary plumbers, we are experts, and we make a specialty of the complete fit- ting up of buildings and houses in the most skillful manner, Estimates are given to architects and builders. RAUTMAN PLUMBING CO. Cor. Third Ave. and Spring St. Moran Brothers Company ENGINEERS AND SHIP BUILDERS. Our plant includes steel and wool construction and covers All branches of th» business. Mining and all other clas { machinery built and repairod. Agents for “Worthin, pumping machinery, the “Mosher” and “ Roberts" water tubo Lotiers and the United staves Metallic Packing Company, Just Opened _a- SEATTLE HAT FACTORY WILLIAM TAYLOR, PROF. Lato of Christy Hat Factory, London, England The only place in the vity to have your hat made to order and repatred by Practte Uniou Hatters, Corner First avenue and Union street, . é ne $40, $30, $25, $20 Cash or Installments. FRED , MERRILL CYCLE co 1108-1110 Second Ave., Seattic

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