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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-17
A Seattle Man Killed By ! Train
in Tacoma.
BODY sTREWN ALoNo THeTRAcle
Drunkard Drowned From Carstsed
Boat in Lake Whateon6.
Farmers Of Palouse Country Unable e
Get Grain to Market-ProlAbss Com-
bine Between buyers, Rsflroeds and
Eievators to Cut Down ~ Prios.

TAcoNA, Nov. is Especial. The lead
ers in the Sunday closing saloon move
ment now say they have a clinching argu.
ment in their favor. Last right petition
praying for the closing OF saloons on Sum
days, signed by 1000 citissns was pre-
sented to the city council. This evening
George Meyer. of Seattle, brick
layer employed at the car shops
at the ssuth end at the city,
while returning from . Sunday debauch
staggered from q Jefferson 1treet electric
car at Huntington's brick yard. He waa
cautioned about danger of heing run down
BY the Portland train, then due. He was
too drunk to comprehend
Twenty minutes later hie mangied 70.
mains were found strewn aloug the North
ern Pacific track for distsA6 of ten rods.
Although the accident occbsred within
fifteen rods of the point whe4e Meyer left
the street car, no one saw him fall on the
track or fail under the wheels q the train
passed. Neither did the engineer Of the
passenger train which ground his body into
mlncemeat see him on the track. Coroner
Mccoy decided an inquest unneeessary
Meyer was aged IS and unmarried.
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CAN'T GET GRAIN TO MARKER.


Farmers in the Great Paiouse Country
Unable to Sell Their whsat
CoLrAx. Nov. 16. Especial. The wheat
blockade in Palouse county ID assuming
appalling proportions. The few cars pro-
vided by the railroad companies have
almost no effect in relieving the situation,
and it looks as If the farmers had no re.
course whatever. Wheat sold for IS cents
in Whitman county early IN the season,
but the last sales made wero at the rate of
45 Cents, sacked. and now no one Il buy
ing. The elevator companies refuse to buy
any more at present, and the warehouses
Of private companies ara Ill full to over
flowing, preventing the possibility Of pur-
chase. Besides. the elevator companies re-
fuse to buy any more Of the
wheat stored with them. and the
owners find great difhculty In borrowing
money on their warehouse receipts. All
the wheat stored in this vicinity with the
Pacific Coast and Northern Pacific Eleva-
tor companies is in bulk, and Blue Stem,
Little Club and other No. varieties are al;
mixed in the bins. This works an addi-
tional hardship, as the storef Is often pre-
vented from making sals because Of the
demand for . partjcular varsity for special
milling purposes.
With her granaries I'll over1oving, Whit
man county awaits the ap1eoach of vintsr
VIII nttl6 Destet FScts J6as : year ago.
Collections are now no better than at the
same time year ago, when farmers had
short crops. Buyers and sellers are alike
all tied up and utterly handicapped through
lack of transportation facilities. Northern
Pacific officials say there is enough wheat
along their line to keep all their avail
able cars constantly employed until Janu-
ary, 1892. 1t is, however, apparent that
the elevator companies and the railroads
have taken advantage of the situation and
combined for the purpose of mutual profit
and it seems absolutely safe to predict that
when prices are sufficiently depressed
there will be more lively transportation
movement Any such combination will
result in the end to the disadvantage Of the
corporations, for the farmers of Palouse
will find some means of thwarting such
oppressive measures. and protect them
selves. At present, however. .he situation
is very gloomy.
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Confidence of Financial World
Not Yet Restored.
AL THE BANKS PRoFFER AID
How the Great Money Kings We're
Enticed Into the Argentine Boom.
A New York Broker. Church Pillar and
Club Man Forgss Paper for IN Inn.
snse sum- seattls's Clearing House
II Well Up in the List

AosA. ros. io.-topeciaL = Wnen
sne news OF the barlngs troubles reached
New York yesterday Wall street was
struck dumb with amazement
"If Barring Bros had failed outright" said Z
prominent Wall street broker, '1t would have
pslalysed the stock exchanges OF the world
:. .nu ~ sapplee sne comme.ce o. every port Tnere
ana fsr.,esoetns co,. sucn rs va.
corn mercisl world wa -. anns,isd vnsn i hs.r :
the news from England. The Bank Of England
itssif was not Z stronger financial bulwark than
this great old house. and If the news had
nasned over the csDe that the bank Itself had
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WANTED TO SHOOT HARRISON.



Detectives Thwsrt Murderous Design Of
m insane virginian.
CIHcINuATI, Noy. 16, Especial. IA local
paper prints story 70 the effect that but
but for the vigilance Of the United States
secret service officers President Harrison
would have been undoubtedly shot down
by . crank last May. This would-be assas-
sin was Southern man whose name will
not be revealed. He was first heard of in
March, when Senator Hoar received very
savage letter which demanded that he push
his resolution to investigate the Southern
courts to the bitter end. The letter was
full of vile accusations against prominent
and famous Democrats and Republicans
alike of Virginia. The letter was dated
at Petersburg, and was written by an al
legged "Old Republican Soldier" He de-
clared that unless some abuses were recti-
fed he would kill the president.
Senator Hoar paid little attention to the
matter, but when two weeks later he re-
ceived another letter of the same tenor, he
became alarmed and placed it in the hands
of Chief Bell, of the secret service. Two
secret service men finally succeeded in To-
eating the writer. He was small store
keeper in Petersburg, Va. The fellow went
to Washington City May q, being shad-
owed all the way by detectives.
He stationed himself on Pennsylvania
avenue early in the morning, and about
9:o0. when the president passed for hi
morning drive, the fellow. when the exec
utive carriage was within twenty feet, at
tempted to draw revolver. The two de-
tectives were upon him in an instant, and
he was hustled to the headquarters, where
. 38-caliber revolver was found in his
pocket.
He boldly confessed that be intended to
kill the president Later he was quietly
adjudged insane, and he is now confined
in an insane asylum near Richmond.
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HENRY WILLARD IN GERMAsY.


Tried TO Save His Brokers.
BERLIN, Nov. 16.-(Special. Willard left
Berlin for Freiberg yesterday, where his
daughter Helen, young lady Of 10, is lying
dangerously i'll. Willard. accompanied by
Kriesman, formerly United States consul
general and . well-known Berlin fnancier,
sails in . few days for New York, but is
far from being insoivent- The Deutsche
bank is . heavy loser. Last Sunday night
Willard received the first intimaiion from
his brokers', Decker, Howell Il Co., that
they were insolvent. They cahled that they
must have $625 600 or go to the wall. He
spent Monday morning telegraphing and
raising money. and before o'clock trans
ferred the amount asked for TO the brokers,
bnt the money arrived half an hour too
late. Willard, however, IL credited here
with having made generous attempt to
save them.
Wizards real name, - is well known, Is
Hilgard. He il the son Of chief justice in
Bavaria. He changed mis- name and wens
to America on account of some pranka
when student At Heidelberg.
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eating S35o.000. Smith acknowledges his
guilt and has turned over all his property
for the benefit of creditors. The discovery
OF the forgeries, which cover q period of
six years, was accidentally made Saturday
morning BY a clerk in the employ of the
firm. In conversation Smith says he used
the money to reimburse customers who
had lost money on his suggestions. The
loss resulting from Smiths misdoings will
fall upon the firm, which has been in
existence since 1872. and which has been
held in the highest repute.
Smiths plan was simple. He would buy
eight or nine shares of first-class stock, and
by adding cipher or the letter ~, !" raise
the order to eighty or ninety shares. These
he deposited with the firm Is private ac-
count, and this made the partners respon.
sible. The discovery was accidentally made
by . stock clerk, and Smith then confessed
everything to his partners.
Smith is prominent church man and
. member of several clubs. He is As years
old and . childless widower. All the for
geries are not total loss to the firm, a.
about one-fourth can be recovered. The
firm made an assignment to w. A. Watson,
to whom Smith yesterday made personal
assignment
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seattics Puget Sound and washinston
Arc Wonderful, DIR. Presbrey Says.
WAsHINeroH CITY, Nov. 16 Especial T.
Dr.. Otis T. Presbrey, editor of Public
Opinion. has just returned here from five
months trip 70 the Pacific coast, including
Alaska. Speaking of the future OF that
section of the country he says:
Every train that passes over the Northern Pa
cthc road Is loaded with immigrants WHO are
looking for homes In these new statea Spokane
Falls - surprise to any one who visited it as
did, At time Of the entire destruction Of the
business portion of the place. This city in
Eastern Washington has the promise OF . very
remarkable future. Paced a. it is in the CEN
ter Of circle OF 900 miles, 1t seems to have no
possible competitor.
OF course. Puget sound has developed very
rapidly. Its harbors are full OF commercial
vesseIs, and in the harbors of 6eattle Tacoma,
Port Townsend and 1Airhaven there are steam
err and sailing vessels from all parts Of the
world The state of Washington, in ms judg-
Went. = destined TO occupy very important
position in comparison to her sister states.
The trip 70 Alaska d one being made BY tour.
fsts more extensively every year. It Is . most
enjoyable and romantic country, ard II real
American Switzerland. The study Of the char
acter Of the natives II most interesting, and
their general appearance in al the towns and
villages visited satisfies any one that they are
not in any sense connected with the aborigines.
but aro descendants of Japan, who came in by
way Of the Aleutian islandA The products Of
Alaaka are surprising to those who have had no
occasion to look into the subject The gov
eminent report places their value ct e. 900. COO
They INCLUDE Dish ON. whalebone, furs and gold
OF course the principal industry is found In the
canning OF salmon, there being forty-seven e.
tablishments for this purpose. It 10 estimated
that their product will make million cases Of
canned salmon. There are ash to sufice for
centuries. If protected BY Law. The immediate
wants Of that country today are land laws and
protection 70 the fish industry. If the
present method Of slaughtering salmon
il kept mp. In two or three years
this great industry will be destroyed, and the
loss viii be deeply felt by the country. Con.
gress should act for the better protection Of the
fsh- Az to the future of Alaska. the country 10
not lifted to become densey populated, but
gold and other minerals. hsh products. timber
and other sources Of wealth are to become inn
mensely valuable to this country. It IL . won.
derland for this country and magnet for tour
lists. The natives are docile and teachable, and
ore beginning to b eivilxsd.
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Search for = Lost child.

HILLsBoRouGH. Tenn, Nov. 16.-[Spec-
ial. IA remarkable search tor lost child
has been exciting the natives of this and
adjoining counties during the past few
days. Last sunday morning about 8
O'Clock Budd Futts and wife. living on the
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Fruit and Lime-Rsflroad survey-II
lux Of Settlers.

Fruit and Lime Railroad survey-In.
aux Of Settlers.
WEEArcHEE. Nov. 16.-[Special. = Many
strangers have been looking over this val
ley seeking land and other investments.
Two parties are now looking over the
ground with a view of starting q sawmill.
e. StahI & Co. recently purchased forty
acres Of land. within half mile of town.
from l. 5. Burrell, for 5000, and several
smaller tracts have lately been sold.
Shotwell q Miller started their distillery
the first of the month to work up the fruit
that could not be sold.
]. A. Shotwell is making arrangements
to start nursery in the spring about six
miles up the Wenatchee river.
George Parish has just burned q small
kiln of lime, and is now building q larger
and permanent kiln. The lime is pure
white, slacks readily, and 10 first-class in
every respect.
Last week 5000 pounds of supplies were
taken up the Wenatchee for the Great
Northern surveyors, and teams are nov on
the road from Eliensburg with more sun
plies and tents for the winter.
Larsen d Ouimette, the contractors for
the new schoolhouse, have the building
Wcu uAuc1 Woy. ~ - ZOX4o ieet, TWO stories
high. Only the lower story will be finished
at present.
The weather has been fine this fall. the
days are clear and bright and only occasion
ally windy. Ice quarter of an inch thic
has been formed on few nights. Snow has
fallen on the mountains six TO twelve miles
back, but none in the valley.
Six miles west of Wenatchee is q noun.
tain about 5000 feet high, with a good
trail leading To the top. From the summit
can be see Mount Rainier to the southwest
and Mount Baker in the northwest. and
much of the Cascade mountains between.
To the northeast lie the plains of the Co
iumbia. or big Bend" country: the
blue Columbia winds along for twenty
miles in plain. view, and here and there be-
tween the bills one may catch glimpse of
the Wenatchee, and the little village seems
only q ten minutes walk down the hill.
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MEETING OF FINANCIAL KINGS.

Gould, Pullman and Other Leaders In
Conference.-The Situation Hepeful.
New YORK, Nov. 16.-Jay Gould was q
the Windsor house for an hour tonight
So were Addison Cammack, George n.
Pullman and w. L. Connor. This is prin.
cipaliy remarkable from the fact that moth
ing short of financial crisis could
have brought these men there at such q
time. They were surrounded by crowd,
which included such men as John Blood
good, Harvey Durant. w. e. Young, w.
Issidor Wormser, and . dozen others ~
known on the stock exchange. The
situation in Wall street was freely dis.
cussed, and all agreed that it was grave be-
yond recent precedent. The prevailing
feeling, however, was hopeful, not conf
dent. All agreed that more liquidation
was to come, and the question was how
much more? Gould did not talk. Neither
did Pullman. They listened attentively,
however and went home early.
Pretty soon it became noised around that
there had been a meeting of band presi-
dents, and that the Clearinghouse associa-
ton would issue SIC, ,000 ,00O in certificates OF
credit, pro rata among the banks. This
was partially confirmed by President Cur
rant, of the Chase National, who said that
there bad been an informal meeting of sew.
erai bank presidents during the afternoon at
which it was decided that the machinery
of the clearinghouse was ample for any
emergency that might grow out of the
present crisis. The clearinghouse certifi-
Gates would be issued to any bank actually
needing such assistance
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TO DIsFRANcHIsE THE MoRMoNs.
# oolish Report OF = scheme to Gain
Republican Senator's.

# oolish Report OF Scheme TO Gain
Republican Senator's.
WAsHIsGTos CIry. Nov. 16.--lSpecial. T.
The latest bit OF political gossip is q story
started in Democratic circles to the effect
that the Republicans propose to disfran-
chise the Mormons in Utah and then ad-
NIT that territory to the Uniop. Just how
the scheme is 10 be worked the Democratic
oracies do not pretend to know, but they
concede that without the Mormon vote
Utah would be Republican. The Demo-
Gratis themselves do not pretend to have
superabundaaee OF belief in President
Woodruff's protestations in behalf OF his
people, and they reason that the solution
of the poIygamy problem may be found in
some scheme sucn as the disfranchisement
OF Mormon voters, and they think the
Republicans may adopt it to strengthen
themselves in the United States Senate,
now that the Democrats have made un-
expected inroads into their strength in that
body. Republicans. however. give no
credence TO the story. and only laugh
when the subject is mentioned
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Illinois bank Cashier Abseondss

CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-A dispatch from
Mount Carmel. ILL.,, says: 1.-THE banking
house of CowIing. Gowenlock & Co. was
closed November on account of the
death of President Cowling. 1t did not re-
open, and Cashier Gowenlock disappeared.
Yesterday a receiver was appointed and
the safe found to contain less than 500.
The supposition is that the cashier got
away with $4,000 or more.
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4 NEW YORK BRoKER's FoRoERIKs.

Prominent Church Member and Club
Mana Gigantic Crime.
New YoRK, Nov. 16.-Albert II. Smith,
junior partner OF the brokerage firm Of
Mills, Robeson 4 6nifh, 10 . prisoner,
charged with over seventy feEesriss. -agere-
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Bank of England Buvinr Gold.

BERLIN, Nov. 16.-A st. Petersburg dis
patch to the Borsen Zeitung says the Bank
of England is negotiating with the imper.
ial bank for f1, 500, 900 gold.
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WHATcoN. NOV. Is = Especial. - Jack
WhippIe was drowned in Whatcom lake
Saturday night He was intoxicated, and
upset small boat while fastened under the
seat, where he was found dead Sunday
morning
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samoa's Chief Justice in New York.
NEW York, Nov. I6.--Among the pss-
sengers on the Normandie to-day was Hon.
G. dc Cedercransz. chief justice as Somoa,
He Was Formerly grand saanbeasin " ~
king Of Sweden.
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Lost the Diamonds in Her Pocket.

NEW YoRK, Nov. is. = Two diamond
bracelets. valued At $4,000, which were
supposed to have been stolen from Mrs.
Commodore Bateman by French maid,
were found in the very room from which
they were thought to have been stolen.
Tho maid viii probably be released to-
morrow.
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HEIR TO A MILLION.
Pennsy1vanian Grows Suddenly Rich
through Death OF Relative.

CARBoNDALE. Pa, Nov. 16-tSpecial. r.
Gossip has been caused throughout Wayne
county recently by the sudden acquire
ment of wealth by Major E. p. Str ong,
which makes him the richest man in that
county. Through the death of l.. A..
Robinson. wealthy leather merchant and
tanner, Major Strong comes into possess
sion of something like 81 ,000, 900. Mr..
Robinson was found dead in the Brooklyn
hoted about five weeks ago. Just how
much he was worth is not known to
even his heirs. one of whom is
Major Strong. but it is somewhere between
S. 900 900 and $1,000, 900. good part of
which he made in this vicinity, where he
owned and conducted near Honesdale for
many years what was then the largest
tannery in the world, Mr.. Robinson was
bachelor, and his millions, which happen
to be nearly all personal. only $500. 900 be-
ing invested in realty, will go TO two living
sour aunts.
Fell Unconscious in . Burning House.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Nov. l6.-Mrs. Elms
Glover, secretary Of the Board of Trade,
while sick in bed this afternoon, was
awakened by the cracking of the flames.
and found the sitting-room, adjoining her
apartments, q sheet of fire. She fought
her way through 20 the kitchen, but there
fell unconscious, and would have perished
but for the opportune arrival of neighbors.
Her loss on household goods Is 81 500, and
damage TO the house. $500. The cause was
Q bad fiue.
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CITIES


The total of the leading cities Of the
United States and Canada is 81, 800. .SS4, ,479,
an increase of 23.2 per cent
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uoueenu hams and bacon ars
|<s5 xSlv for those who can appxe-
- Srticle. They cost . little more
~ ordinary goods. They have
- 1ayor. Try them. Reject inn
6e sale everywhere.
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Clcaring-Ho Returns.
BosToE. Nov. 16.-F Following is summary
of the clearing house statement for the past
week:
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HAMLINE NOTES.

The Ladies' Aid society gave its
monthly entertainment at the residence
of Mrs. Prof. Bachelor on Smelling
avenue, Wednesday evening. The even
ing was fine and the attendance cOnse-
auently very good. The principal feat
ure of the evenings programme was
description given by DR.. Bridgman of
his last visit to Venice. 1t was exceed
ingly interesting, as indeed are all of
DR.. Bridgman's accounts of his travels
in Europe. There was music, of course,
and the usual games and refreshments,
and altogether it was one OF the most
successful of the series of entertain
ments given by the aid society. The
next social Is to be in charge of the
"C's," that is,all the ladies whose names
begin with the letter G, and it is rumored
that an effort is on foot to render it
trifie out of the ordinary line of such
entertainments in some of its features,
though what it is to be exactly, is still
profound secret.
Wednesday evening, after the social.
there was special meeting of the trus-
tees of the church. at which the subject
of the church lot was fully discussed.
It seems that the lot is already half paid
for, and the meeting was held TO dis
cuss the ways and means of completing
the payment 1t was finally decided to
appoint committee to solicit subscrip-
tions for that purpose. r. K. Evans was
appointed chairman. 1t is hoped that
the necessary amount will soon be
taken. and the lot cleared of debt, then
the question of building the church will
be taken up. Hamline needs church
badly and the sooner one Is built the
better every one will be satisfied.
Mrs. Bridgeman, with her little son
Donald. left Thursday evening for an
extended visit with relatives and
friends in Canada and the East. DR..
Bridgeman accompanied them as far as
Chicago. He will return Monday
morning.
Z The Choral club met on Monday
evening with the Misses Wood, of Ham
line avenue. special meeting was
also held on T ~ evening at the res
idence of J. +. warren, corner Simpson
and Hewitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Harrison, of
Hastings, MIMI. have been. for the past
week. the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. FL.
Tandy. Mrs. Harrison is sister of Mr..
Tandy.
Miss Maggie Nelson, who has been
the guest of Mrs. Clyde Warner for
few weeks, returned Wednesday morn
ing to her home in Brainerd, Mimi.
Rev. and Mrs. c. n. Showers, OF Min
neapoIis, we're the guests on Monday of
MIR. Showers daughter, Mrs. A. z.
Drew. of Hewitt avenue.
The friends of Dir. and Mrs W. /.