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fact that large staff of newspaper correspond
enfs accompanied the president, and would send
full dispatches 10 the Eastern newspapers.
Mr.. W. 4 Bentley offered the following reso-
luton:
ssWHEREAs. 1t is the sense of this meeting that
it is inexpedient to have reception to President
Harrison on May 6, and q celebration on June 8;
therefore be it
Resolved, That this meeting convey TO his
honor the mayor and his associates our ear
nest desire to cooperate in a general reception
on May to the president OF the United States
and tender our services in any capacity deemed
wise to further this object"
The motion prevailed and the committee adj
journed, awaiting call of the chair.
Mr.. Ale Spring said informally that it was the
intention of the Western Central Labor Union
to erect handsome triumphal arch, with the
union as the keystone and the various trades
forming stones in the arch
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well Known Business Man PASSES
Away-HIs Interesting Career.
News reached the city yesterday of the death
q San Francisco, on Wednesday, of LAzarus
Kline. the senior member OF the clothing house
Of Kline Rosenberg, Of this city. Mr.. Kline
vas about IS years OF age, and for some time
past has been in feeble health, his death being
the result Of general breaking down of the
system, although primarily due TO nalarial
fever. Mr.. Rosenberg was telegraphed for on
wednesday morning and left Immediately for
ean Francisco on learning OF his partners dan
gerous condition.
Mr.. Kline was well known In the business cir
cles Of Seattle, having about ten years ago estab
lished the first store in this city where clothing
was exclusively sold. He was the owner OF con-
siderable real estate, both in Seattle and San
Francisco. his wealth being estimated at over
10000. His family consists only of his wife,
who 10 Mr. Rosenberg's aunt. The deceased
was Mason, being member of the lodge At
Albany, Or. The remains viii be buried in San
Francisco, probably tomorrow.
Lazarus Kline was native Of Bohemia, but
emigrated to America when mere boy, landing
In New York without dollar in his pocket and
unable to speak word of the English language.
He started to work in clothing store, getting
in payment but little more than his board and
clothes. In the SOS he came to the Coast, and
went to work for the house of Allen n. Sachs, at
San Francisco. After time he started in bust
ness for himself at stockton, Cal, on small
scale. Shortly afterwards he sold out, and put
ali he had into shipload OF goods bound for
Japan. The ship foundered and he lost every
thing.
He then returned to San Francisco, and later
opened store at Albany, Oregon, where he
carried on q successful business for years. He
came to Seattle in 1851 and established cloth
ing store.
For the past six years Mr.. Kline has been in
poor health, and has not been actively engaged
In business, spending most of his time travelling
in this country and Europe Mr.. Kline was
known as q man of Q most generous nature.
His works of charity were wide spread, yet he
never made any display Of them He was also
OF most sociable nature, and had CHEEKY
word for everyone.
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Gray's Harbor Trains.

HoorrAN, April is. Especial 1.-The Northern
hacifc time table for the Gray's harbor and
Miliapa harhor route has been changed SO that
Hoquiam II again the center from which the
snr0ugh and short lines Of travel radiate- The
amc of the early morning train from the Sound
has been changed so that il now reaches the
Nontesano wharf a. p m, aud the mex. ira. n
1t p. m Returning, leave the wharf at s 80
q m. and p. m. Passengers bound for shoal.
water bay will have the pleasure of stopping
over night az the Hoquiam. Grsy's harbor's popu-
Lar hotel. The return trip to Seattle can be
made in one day. The only through steamers
Aoufesano and Typhoon-lay over at Hoquiam
every night. The new arrangement seems TO
Neet with general satisfaction among the travel.
ing public
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Proposed Line From blaine to Nook
saek. and Ultimately to Spokane.
G. 4. Moore, OF Blaine. was in the city yester-
DAY On business connected with proposed rail-
road to rnn from his city TO connect with the
Lake Shore road ut Nooksaek City. To Posi-
1NrELLI6EScEk reporter no said; ''The con-
Dtruction Of this road il under consideration by
capitalists in this city, and the people Of Blaine
have raised subsidy of 1000 acres OF land.
worth about 800 nm acre, for It. The proposed
mute Of the road to Nooksack City is thirty
MILES long, through rich, level country, and it
can be constructed very chcapiy. II would run
ahout foua miles south of the boundary. Tho
1oad would be built under the charter OF the
pssyton Harbor & Spokane Pals Railway Com
pnny, which was incorporated about year ago
20 build = road to Spokane YaIls.
eve propose first TO build to Nooksack, where
- should have direct connection with tho
Canadian Pacific and Northern Pacific roads,
but our engineer has discovered two passes for
q rood across the mountains which are much
lower than the Stampede pass They are only
a1eut 100 feet above the sea, and both cross to
the north Of Mount Baker, one Of them on the
American and the other on the Canadian side OF
1he boundary. They have q very easy grade,
but there h one point where tunnel would be
NECESSARY"
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PROGRESS OF THE STEEL WORKS.
Railroad Grading Finished-ATachinery

Railroad Grading Finished-Machinery
Coming and Moro Being Ordered.
The grading for the main line and sidings Of
the Belt Line railroad at Kirkland has been
completed and the erection of the depot is to be-
gin ut once.
carload OF machinery for the machine shops
at the Kirkland steel works is on the way from
Cincinnati including lathes, drills, planers etc.
H. A. Noble, managing director of the Great
Western Iron and Steel Company, left for the
East on the noon train yesterday, to place
orders for pumping and other machinery for the
iron and steel plant.
Three new store buildings are low nearly fin
ished on Piccadilly street
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School section Is. townshsp q. range S, was
sold ct public auction yesterday from the court
house door. II brought 35os66, which is quite
q much a. the county commissioners expected.
The land is situated south CT the mouth Of Mer-
Ger slough on the east bank of Lake Washington.
II b through this section of land thaf Coal
creek, from the Oregon Improvement Corapany's
coal mines at Newcastle, runs and much Of the
land Is covered with slack, or refuse coal
which b washed down from the mines by Coal
creek It was alleged that the slack rendered
worthless the land which IL covers, but the
spirited bidding of the buyers yesterday effect
uaily disposed Of that theory. Bidding COM
menced AT 1880 o'clock and by noon the section
had been sold
$1,000, rs follows Northeast quarter of the
northeast quarter. forty acres, at SO an acre,
$2,7eo; southeast quarter of the northeast quar-
ter, forty acres. az $s,50 acre, 81 800; north
east quarter OF the southeast quarter forty acres
at 20 an acre, $50: southwest quarter OF the
southeast quarter, forty acres, at $3.50 an acre,
$500
Isl. Hunt bought land TO the amount of
&8Sn, as follows: South half OF the southwest
quarter OF the northwest quarter. twenty acres,
at $l07 an acre. ss,140; north half of the north
west quarter of the southwest quarter, twenty
acres at 81 an acre. N,74o; southeast quarter of
the southwest quarter, forty acres, at $50 an
acre, 3s.00o: southwest quarter of the southwest
quarter, forty acres, at SIS m acre. 5000.
Crawford 4 Conover bid in land as follows,
paying total OF $3.50: south half of the north
west quarter, forty acres at SOL an acre, 1900:
northeast quarter OF the southwest quarter,
forty acres, st SO an acre, $500.
F. s. Wilkes, ~ shannon, T. Murphy and C.
A. Bogart bid in forty acres in the northwest
quarter OF the northeast quarter Of the section,
at sc an acre, for 5000.
P.S. Wilkes paid s., 10 for forty acres in the
southeast quarter of the southeast quarter Of the
section.
W. B. Robertson got forty acres in the north
east quarter Of the northwest quarter at $50, for
$s,4AO
". Ryan and James Pinkus bid in lot of the
section, containing thirty-fve and one-half
acres, At $l27.j0 an acre, for 81 ,5o62
L II. Wheeler and w. B. Spencer bid in
twenty acres in the north half OF the southwest
quarter of the northwest quarter, at $l26 acre,
for $3.50
l. Z. Wolfe paid $500 for forty acres in the
northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, at
the rate OF $50 an acre.
j. Hall got twenty acres in the south half OF
the northwest quarter, at 3ls7 acre, for s. 40
Today's school section, No. Sc, which lies to
the north Of Ballard, will be sold at public auc-
ton from the courthouse steps.
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The Result afMeri,

The unparalleled success of Columbia has
been called boom by many who would
rather see il fail than prosper. Boom or no
boom, its success is due 10 the appreciation BY
the public of the cooperative plan of building
homes.
No fairer proposition has ever been submitted.
and by no other plan is man sure OF getting
home that will be IN the midst of valuable i'm.
proyements. Each buyer knows that his money
is being put into wha; win make his home val.
liable, ana tina; so other buyers are doing the
same. Your money is always in sight Eyery-
body Is pulling together NJ Columbia
Fay 81 q week and help 10 pull
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Cordray's New Company.

companies between Cordray's Seattle and Port
land theaters will take place, the Portland COM
pany coming here and opening in the great
play "Article AZ" with Laura Alberta as Cora
the Creole and Mr.. Willard Lee as George
Duhamel. The entire strength of the new com
pany will appear in the cast and the play win
be staged with all the careful attention to de-
tails for which the management is noted. The
company will appear from week to week in
their choice repertoire of the latest New York
successes. They have won unqualified praise
from the press and public Of Portland and will
be sure to reneaf their triumnhs here
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Spring.
spring.
Call me early mnfhar 6ariinn

Call me early, mother darling,
Call me early. mamma dear.
Don't let me sleep too long today,
For this is the spring OF the year.
It's the spring time, gentle mother,
When the Golden Eagle shrieks,
The opening of their spring sale.
Which runs on Tor several weeks.
Oh, want TO get there early, dear.
Quite early, by the way:
For trade begins with n rush. nv love.
On the Eagles Opening day.
OH there's such lot of novelties,
They'rc going 10 show this spring,
For this is their quadri-semi-
Annual Spring Opening.
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Electric Lights At Columhy.

The company's Office and the waiting. room at
Coiumbia are now lighted by electricity. and ar
rsngements are being made to supply electric
light TO every home in Columbia
For a city ten days old the new suburb has
certainly made rapid strides. The people who
are interested there are enthusiastic over its
prospects and cheerfully co operate with the
company in its efforts to make their future home
the gem OF all Sesttle's suburbs
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hut Cheap Rate. Benefs the reop,..

WASHINGTON CITY, April is.-fspecial. 1.-THE
06 this evening speaks editorially as follows
On subject that Is becoming much agitated by
the friends OF transcontinentai railway lines:
"Ihis country Is beginning TO see that reciproc-
ity ideas that benefit Canadian railways alone
ana Canadian products alone. are not such re-
0procsfy ideas as the United States or any
0ner sensible nation could afford TO accept
Why should special bonded privileges be given
20 the Canadian Pacific, under our treasury
regulations, 20 the detriment of our own trans
continental lines, and at time when the
Canadian government has pinehed us in the
nnheries matter at every turn and is haggiipg
over trade relations and endeavoring 70 drive
hard bargain with usss'
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xnE ROAD TO SOUTH AMERICA.


~ VIII he Ss1bO Miles Long and VIII
He Completed in Three Years.
EEw YoRK. April 1e-Wiliiam Davis, general
superintendent Of the Corpus Christi & South
American Railroad Company, which Is building
tho line Of railroad from the United states to
eouth America. gives . summary Of the work as
far Is II has gone. He says, though little has
been said about il to the public. the road is one
q the greatest railroad building enterprises
ever undertaken. The line which the company
has begun Is to be 2,i50 miles in length Three
years are TO be taken In building From 5000
% 10000 men win be employed Contracts have
becn made which cali for completion from Cor
pus Christi to the Rio Grande by September l.
The line will cross the Rio Grande at Browns
Vile, Tex. and run thence 10 Tuxpau, from
which point branch line will run to the city
81 Mexico. the main line continuing from Tux
pan to Manttatiand and Tehuantepcc in Mexico,
thence to Guatemala. Salvador. Nicaragua and
Panama Concessions have been made by the
governments of each country through which it
viii pass, and subsidies will be granted.
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j II. Talcott, chief engineer and vice nresI.
cent OF the Seattle g. Eastern Construction
COMPANY, II. r. Talcets, chief engineer OF the
seattle, Lake shore & Eastern railroad, and
:. II. McHcnry, principal assistant engineer of
we Northern Pacific railroad. yesterday went on
Especial train along the newly completed exten.
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II Speaks For Itself.

We do not need TO laud Columbia. and you do
not need To form impressions from what we saw
for IL, or what Others interested elsewhere may
say OF their property. see IL for yourself We
give free passes 10 all who apply. No other al.
vcrtsing is so eifcctgsl. see il often. see VIVA,
has been ccompiished in ten days and what is
being done every iay
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Fear Of Diphtheri. at Ballard

Some fears are entertained that an epidemic of
diphthcria will spread among the people Of
Ballard during the hot weather of summer on
account of so much grading on the streets and
railroads. Ethel Srrague, infant daughter of /.
H. Sprague, died on Sunday morning and Eddie
Brygger, years old, son of Mrs. J. Bigger.
died on Wednesday morning of that disease.
Two more children are reported ill from the
same cause
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New Cable win he In On sunday.

The cable viii be stretched On the east end of
ne Madison street line on SATURDAY. night. alter
Ne ears stop running. One of the reels viii he
nkea ont 10 the lake end OF the road and will
sakc up the Cable and then pay il out into the
conduit The stretching of the cable win only
sake about three hours and on sunday morning
The cars can run rs usual.
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The grounds al the lake WASHINGTON en-, 40
Ne fesler avenue cable read have been rurh
mproyed during the winter Cartons have
been laid out in the space between the power.
house and the casino, and also To the ives, Of
she casino, with walks winding among them
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the Extension OF tho Rainier Avenue
Line to Be Completed at Once.

A telegram has been received from Mr. Huhi-
man. engineer OF the Rainier Avenue Electric
Railway Company, stating that plans for de-
scending the hill on Washington street have
oeen iuiiy perfected, and that material has been
ordered for the same. Mr.. kaufman will imme-
diafely leave for home To superintena the con.
eernction OF the railway from Eleventh street TO
The center of the city
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Railroad Notes.

~ >. smith, general manager. Colonel J. C.
uaincs, general counsel, and r. + Rnsh sen-
sssl superintendent, al the oreran In,nrnx..
ment Company. went 10 For: Townsend ses,er.
day. NS's'-
heeers hernier, 81 Portland travelling rsssen.
9er agent OF the Rock Island read, ives in the
city yesterday. - ''-~
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SEATTLE'S FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Papers From All Parts Of the Country
Want News Ab0ut 1t,


"This is the sort of letters / am constantly get
ting, said Chief Kellogg, of the fire department,
yesterday. The letter in question was from the
publisher OF journal at San Francisco devoted
in part to fire department news. The publisher
wanted a sketch of Seattle's department and an
account of her equipment for lighting fire.
take the whole country over" continued the
chief, land you win find an enormous number
of papers, including those devoted to insurance
news. which publish matter about fires and fire
departments.
'pnder any circumstances people are more or
less interested in these Northwestern Cities but
Seattle's big fire has made news OF her depart
ment particularly sought for. OF course, l al
ways answer these letters in order TO do what
can to advertise the city, but am spending
quite block OF my salary in postage stamps on
the manuscript
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BREvIrIEs.

Policeman c. W. Dunton. one of the Youngest
as well as the handsomest officers on the force,
celebrated the event OF his marriage to Miss NJ
J. Breckenridge yesterday by sending a box of
fragrant cigars to his brother policemen at head
quarters.
Articles incorporating the Imperial Tailoring
Company were filed with the auditor yesterday.
The ineorporators are T. N. Rasin and Charles
+. MeWilliams. The capital stock Is 5000, d.
vided into seventy shares of 500 each.
Justice Neagle performed two marriage cere-
monies yesterday, uniting in bonds of wedloek
J. W. Watson and II, NJ. Allen, of Seattle, and j.
NJ. Riordan and Grace Rawlings, OF Seattle.
plat of Mcclure & Holden addition 10 La
tona was filed with the auditor YESTERDAY nv
Lizzie Holden, D. y. Holden and P. Z. Thoun-
son.
license to wed WAS issued BY the auditor
Yesterday for Jesse +. Galbraith. of Vancouver.
b. C., and Barbara NJ. Walter. of Latona
There VIII be an auction sale today nj n. m.
oil choice shrubs, plants. etc. Bickerton d Bell.
auetloneers, 1,5l2 Front street.
Three homesteads. three cash entries and one
hnal homestead were filed in the United States
land office yesterday.
]. Basher, OF Snohomish. entered Providence
hospital yesterday with badly burned arm
The board of fire commissioners failed to meet
last night, quorum not being present
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President MN On the wax n.r.

fresiden, I'M and Chief Engineer Becker. OF
sne oress Northern railyea, are expected In this
ely N two or threa days. They lcf. Helena for
snc West carly this week, and may arrive tenor.
row evening.
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The special committee of the Chamber of
Commerce on the dry dock went over the ma
rine railway and the shops here yesterday, in or
der to see Whist might be done with them. An
other meeting of the committee will be held at
the call of the chairman, E. F. Whittier.
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Hoyt's "a Texas steer"

'sThe Texas Steer" Hoyts latest and most
successful farce comedy will be the attraction at
Seattle opera-house next Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. Tim Murphy and Miss Flora
Walsh, two of Hoyt's best performers, will head
the organization. They are supported by q
large comedy company. Reserved seats now on
col,
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Merwin Has Time to M.ke . Plea

p. NJ Merwin, the rancher who stabbed and
dangerously wounded Eugene Bergean At Hot
Springs week ago, was arraigned before Jus
tice Won Tobel yesterday on a charge OF assault
with intent to kill. He was given until Tues
day to plead, and in default of $50 bail was
committed to the county iail
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The Columbia Manufacturing comnsnv will
have their new saw and planning mill in oper.
alton by next Monday. There are now nine men
at work at its erection
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ADMINISTRATORS Skrr

Al IL o'clock a n. next Saturday. in front Of
ne courthouse. there win he an auction sale of
tsiu&ble Ballard real estate
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DR.. George II. T. Sparkling, city physician, re-
ceived letter from Rev. w. T. Smallwood, of
Stourmouth rectory, Dover, England, yesterday
in which the writer inquired after his eldest son,
who IL described as a handsome young man, s
feet inches high, very fair, aged % years The
writer said he last heard from his son in October.
at which time be was in Seattle and complained
OF being in poor health. DR.. Sparkling wrote the
anxious father that no person answering the
description furnished had come under his notice.
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Ladies day at colusnhla next sa,uriar.

sFast black hall-hose. = cents T. NJ. Easin
Clothing Company, 90e Front street
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Latest styles and shades in hats T. ". Hasin
Clothing Company. es2 Front street
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Marian Raymond.s Lover Ere.

John C. Fuller. the man who was CHARGED nv
Marian Raymond with stealing $50 worth of
iewelry from her about March !. was released
from the county Jail last evening on the deposit
of $50 cash bail The Raymond woman would
not prosecute him, and few days ago the court
reduced the bail from 1900 to $50, which is
about enough 70 cover the costs in the case.
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SENATOR ALLEN COMING.

He VIII Visit Seattle Today-Now in
Tacoma.
Senator John B. Allen is expected in the city
today. Yesterday he was in Tacoma, and he
told State Senator W. C. Rutter, who was there,
that his plan was to visit Seattle on Friday.