Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-02


clothing burning, and tore the clothing
on, the flesh coming of With it. Thew
we're taken TO the hospital. After the
nre was extinRuished, the body OF Jas
Gibbons Was found. burned TO crisp
Treasury statement.
WASHINGTON, Aup. 1.-The decrease
in the public debt during july was ~
9J3, 2sS. Cash in the Treasury. $4a5.-
9lo,OO4 gold certificates. $llsOl7. 80 :;
silver certificates. $l20. 4O4.34 certrfi
Gates Of deposit, Sl3.Z}0.OJO: refundin0
certificates, S2743jO: legal tenders,
$40.
Ont of Danger.
WAsHrSGroS, Aug. 1.-Representativ
CuIoertson Is considered out Of danger.
Advertising an Opera Troupe.
/ WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-The Surgeon
General OF the Marine Hospital Service
| yesterday received telegram from DIR.
Hatch, Secretary of the California
Board Of Health, dated Sacramento. as
| follows:
Reliable information is received
that Spanish opera troupe, With bag
gage and personal effects, we're allowed
| TO pass Nogales without inspection or
/ died few days previous of yellow
fever, which is assuming an euideo1ie
/ form III Sonora"
The Surgeon General immediately
telegraphed the Collector of Cas;oms At
/ III Paso, Texas, for information, and
/ directed the employment of another
Sanitary Inspector, il the present Off
Ger Is found at faslt in the case. To
day be received telegram from the
Collect II as follows:
ID. King Ross, Medical Inspector at
NoRaies, Arizona, reports that the Span
! lsh opera troupe were detained a hours
There was no yellow fever among them.
de eInphatioally states that no case Of
yellow fever has passed by rail through
Nogales this month. II street quarau-
tine IL deemed advisable there an
effective force will be necessary"
The Collectors advioes to this office
are reports which are made by alarm
lists.
Meeting or the Trunk Line Executive
Committee.
NEw YORK, Aug. There was meet
ing of the Trunk Line Executive Com
mittee At the office Of Assistant Commis-
sloler Plerson today. Only ordinary
| routine business was transacted.
Expiration of the Passenger Pool
Contract.
The passenger pool contract between
the trunk lines and their western con-
nections, which has been extended from
month to month since April last, ex-
| pired July 3lst by Limitation. Commits.
sioner Pierson stated today that as long
as such powerful roads "a the Grand
| u1 nal
awanna and Western refused to come
into the pool, the western roads had de-
cided by mutual agreement that it would
not be advisable to enter into any CON
tract which would comprehend so great
an extension Of power as that contem.
| plated in the proposed agreement which
was drawn up IN the June contract for
the division of passenger earnings, and
that the agreemet which has heretofore
| existed between the trunk lines was
still IN force and was in no way affected
by the passing of the joint contracts.
Hsw long the present state of affairs
| might continue he could not tell. He
| thought arrangements would in all
probability soon be effected by which
the Grand Trunk would consent to
come into the p )ol. In that case all the
Western roads would. without doubt,
Immediately execute the proposed CON
tract. Negotiations, he said, were now
pending with the Grand Trunk roads,
and a special agent of tie rrunk Line
Commission Was now in Montreal in
conference with the officers Of the road
with view to bring about this result.
| In regard 10 the effect OF lapsin0, Com
missioner Pierson said il would no
doubt result in more or less, probably
more, rate cutting in the West, as com
petition for business among the western
roads was very active and the roads
would no longer be bound by the rules
of the association. He did not, however,
anticipate anything like a general war
of rates, but thought the cutting would
be confined to only few roads.
Suspected Rags.
WASHINGTON, Aug. /. -- The Acting
Secretary OF the Treasury has issued in
structions 10 the Customs officers to de-
clare all rags coming from European
ports suspected of infection. and to pre-
vent the landing OF them unless proof
IN furnished that they are free from dis
ease aud come from non-infected ports.
MuiiBy and Murder nc Sea.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. The startling
story that the crew of the schooner Ju-
liza Baker. from New York for Point-a-
petrie. had mutinied aud killed Capt.
John Lewis, and then selling the cargo
in the West Indies, led the owners of
the vessel, Warner & Merritt, to send
the following dispatch by telegraph to-
day:
$40 TIE Collector II Customs at keg
| West: We have reason To believe that
Captain Lewis, of tho schooner Julia
| Baker, has been murdered, and that the
person calling himself Lewis is An i'm
| poster. Kindly ascertain what has been
going on. why the vessel deviated from
| her course, what has become OF her
cargo. and all particulars. Things APP
pear very mysterious and demand sharp
| investigation. Telegraph full psrticu.
lars quickly. WARREN Il MERRTrT."
KEY wEsr, Fla. August LIST.
"Wdrres & Merritt, Philadelphia: The
master assigns no reason for deviatinR
| from his coarse. He has noted pro
test, claiming that his f1remast sprung
and that his vessel is leaking. survey
held here today recommends the dis
charge of the cargo. The original man
| ifest is lost. Lumber was washed ever
board and portion of the fiour missing.
| The masters statement II rambling and
conflicting. Send description of the
original Captain Lewis. We have taken
possession OF the vessel, and are await
| ing your further instructions,
| (Sicnedl RAMON ALyEREz."
| IL is sad that the Julia Baker has
been cruising in West Indian waters
selling her cargo, principally Hour, at
rates much below the market price.
| Captain Lewis was about 40 years of
age, rather tall and stout, and the de
scription of the present commander Is
altogether different. Albert Merritt, OF
the firm of Warner 4 Merritt. expressed
the opinion that a mutiuy had occurred
on board the sea ooner. that hight took
place in which Captain Lewis was kill
ed, and that the crew seeing that they
we're ia for IL. determined 70 sell the
cargo and escape.
Warren A Merritt later received a
dispatch from the Collector at Key
West. stating that the captain and four
men OF the schooner Julia Baker had
been arrested.
The Danger frsm Texas Fever over.
CHICAGO, Aug. Health Commis
| .s..oaw n. Wolf dss,it.res that so far as