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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
AN UNLUCKY ROOM.
Fire Breaks Out in the Same Place
Twice in Three Months.


The European lodging house, over the Favor
tie saloon, 2l5 Washington street, took fire again
last night in the same room in which the fire
broke out about three months ago, but the
prompt arrival of chemical No. prevented any
serious damage.
The building is owned by Morrell & Mantle,
and David Schofowich occupies the second and
third floors as a lodging house. The fire started
in room 16, on the third floor, and the room was
considerably burned, the fire breaking out
through the roof; but before the flames
broke through the walls the chem
ical got to work, and in a few min
utes the fire was out schofowich could
give no explanation regarding the origin of the
FIRE He said the room was unoccupied and he
could not understand how it could take fire.
This is exactly the same explanation he offered
regarding the origin OF the previous fire in the
same room. schofowich said the furniture was
insured for 5000, but he did not know in what
company The furniture was damaged to the
extent of about 500 and the building to the
amount of about $3.50
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
NEGROES BLOCKING TO FRANKLIN.
Reports of Threats and Intimidation
Come From the Mines.

Reports OF threats ana Intimidation
Come From the Mines.
T. B. Corey, superintendent of the Oregon
Improvement Company's mines, was in the city
yesterday. He said that negroes wishing to
work at the Franklin mines were arriving every
day; and there were now at least fifty more
than when the first big crew was brought
""About sixty white men are working at New
sastle," he continued, "and everything is going
well. The negroes do better even than had
hoped"
number of reports have reached the city re-
gardng the threats and intimidation employed
by the union men against those who have gone
to work in the mines. One man who went to
work at Newcastle is said to have had the necks
of all his chickens rung. During the absence of
his wife from the house her sewing machine
was broken to pieces and her dresses cut to
pieces.
Another report is that committee waited on
the wife of an engineer who stayed with the
company at Franklin and threatened that I'M
less she induced her husband to stop work they
would paint her front door with his brains
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27

Eight OF the inmates of the Day Nursery have
been taken with the measles in q ,aild form,
The matrons report that they are getting along
very nicely. The boy whose feet were operated
on Is MAKING tue progress. The plaster al
paris oandsges have been removed and the iron
braces placed upon his feet. Its thought thst
in about q week be will be able 10 stand e,ac,
without the use Of erutchss.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27

The following percentages of each class are
married: 'Eighty-six. per cent; 81, 81 per
cent; SS, 80 40 per cent; 80, none; 80, none:
'9l. none
Miss Grace yrooman in her prophecy foretold
the fate of various members of the alumni
association, particularly those who had Just
joined from 81. She predicted that Miss Hattie
Bray would be prima donna; Miss Hattie
Proctor, an author; Mr.. Chester Morse United
States senator; Miss Nina V. Cooper, mission
airy; Mr.. Bert Z. Frink, professor of Greek and
Latin, and Mr.. Huber c. Spiger, doctor
At the close OF the literary exercises a short
recess was spent in social intercourse, and then
came the refreshments. The long tables had
been set In horseshoe form at the front of the
hall, and the floral decorations were unusually
tasteful. About fifty of the alumni and their
friends sat down. When due attention had
been given to the viands, Professor J. D. Akin
son rose and made few graceful remarks in
preface to the first toast. The list of toasts was
as follows:
"Class OF 9l"..............-. Mr.: Henry Jackson
"The Teachers" .......Mr. Enroll E. Cabanski
Response. Miss Florence Stowell
"Our Guests" ...........-... Mr.. Emmett Russell
Response ........ Professor George c. Mckee
Miss stowell in her speech said she thought
the teachers stood in need of sympathy. 1t was
very discouraging to work all the year and then
have pupil declare that the Arctic ocean rises
in the northwest corner OF Washington; or that
the sponge is wild animal which is hunted in
India.
The evening closed with dancing.
The following were present: Superintendent
and Mrs. Frank J. Barnard, Professor John w.
Heston, Professor ]. D. Atkinson, Professor
George c. Mckee, Miss Emma A. shumway,
Miss M. F. Shumway, Miss Ella ]. Caughey, Mr..
E. E. Cabanski, Miss Minnie C. Hughes, Miss
Grace E. Vrooman, Mr.. Fred B. Hitchings, Miss
Ida Foote, Mr.. James Fl. Ward, Mr.. Seth II. Nor
ford, Mr.. Madison NJ Moss, Mr.. Henry S. Jack
son, Mr.. E. Herring, Miss Nola B. Cow
den, Miss Florence NJ. Stowell, Miss
Estella Mundt, Miss Hardie Gasch,
Mr.. r. E. Russell, Mr.. Bert Frink, Miss Hattie
E. Bray, Miss Sophie Hansen, Miss Blanche
Treen, Miss Minnie Reeves, Miss Helena McRae,
Miss Grace L. Ball. Miss Nina Valentine Cooper,
Mr.. Chester Morse, Miss Hattie Proctor, Mr..
Huber c. Spiger. Miss +. Eta Alderman, Miss
Helen Gillette, Miss Helen Penfield, Miss Clara
Gillette, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Chilberg, Miss Lyly
/. Piper, Mr.. William w. Feas, Miss Carrie
Blanche Lake, Miss Alice Staemphi, Mr.. Oscar
Staempfii and Miss Tucker, of Tacoma.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
Carried His Credentials.

n. d. Hall, who claims to be Southern gen.
tleman. was arrested last night for threatening
to kill woman in q Jackson street theater
When searched at police headquarters Hall was
found to be in the possession of sl25 in money, a
villainous looking knife and an immense Smith
& Wesson 45-caliber revolver.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
To the Ladies.

The Spectator, seattle's new weekly paper, is
making great success The bright things it
has to say about everybody make 1t peculiarly at
tractive. great deal OF attention is paid to in
teresting reading for the ladies. An article each
week on local fashions is a feature. Ask your
husband to bring it home to you. Fot sale at
news Stands
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
Highest of all Leavenng POWELL Govt Report Arg II. 1889
&HtA!:,!:!!! B Bs%5sz
ABSOLUTELY PURE

600 population. The increase for Seattle over
last year was $4,000 against $1,000 for Scranton
Postmaster Griffith Davies said yesterday: "0ur
money order business is very large indeed;
equal to that of cities three or four times the
size Of this"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
A Bridge on Mercer Island.

Commissioner Fred Gasch returned yesterday
from trip to Mercer island, having viewed out
a place where a county bridge will be built
across deep gulch. The bridge will be about
ninety feet long, will cost something like $500,
and the commissioners will have it built imme-
diately.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
PORT TOWNSEND SOUTHERN.
VIII BE Put Into Operation About First
al the Month

C. j. Smith. general manager OF the Oregon
Improvement Company, said yesterday that the
Fort Townsend Southern road was completed IN
Quileeue, and would be put in operation about
the first of July. There IS sufficient car eouip-
ment to run the road for the present
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
A Guard ian of the City,s Interests

John Turner, who was arrested THURSDAY
charged with stealing some junk and sewe,
pipe from the city. was discharged from custody
yesterday by Judge Rivers He proved that he
was afraid the tide would wash the iron from
the beach, and he loaded it in his boat for safe
keeping for the city.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
THE WOUNDED woopCHOpprR
His Assai1ant Manages to Elude Can
fnra

Charles Bebeau. the woodchopper who was
stabbed in the left lung week ago while quar-
reling with Oscar Fl. Springer at Beacon hill
wood-cutting camp, Is getting along nicely at
Providence hospital, and if the favorable
weather continues the chances are good for his
ultimate recovery.
The police have not yet captured Young
Springer, and as far as known he has not tnrned
up at his home since the cutting ARRAY oc-
CURED Even should he return there are doubts
as to whether he would be prosecuted
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
RANKS FIFTY-FIRST.
seattie's Postoffice Among the Busiest
in the United States

According to recently published reports of the
postorlce department, Seattle ranks fifty first in
money order receipts among the rs hrst-class
pos'onices OF the country, and yet 1t is within
Two years that Seattle has been made a nrst-
class office. The annual receints were Sos sc
against s67.i7S for Scranton, a CITY of anon, So
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27

"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
Teething softens the gums, reduces intsmma-
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27

The poem was clever bit of verse, touching
upon the various classes which had graduated
and making witty illusions to their notices
The history by Miss Hughes was brightly
written account of the alumni and their achieve
ments. She had looked up the records of all
who had graduated since 1856. The result of
her research was shown in the following stat
istics
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI
Exercises at the Annual Meet
ing Last Night.
A LIVELY INTEREST SHOWN.
New Board of Oncers Chosen-A BAN
What Graduates are Doing.

The sixth annual commencement exercises Of
the High school closed last night with the
alumni meeting. The proceedings of the even
ing included literary exercises, the election of
officers aud banquet
There was q good attendance of the alumni
and their friends in the High school hall. After
piano solo, Godard's second mazourka, by
Miss Minnie Reeves, some time was devoted to
the routine business Then came the cleo
ton of officers, over which there was
no contest The following were chosen: Presi-
dent, Miss Florence Stowell; vice president
Miss H. Penfield: secretary, Miss L. Piper;
treasurer, Mr.. L. Morford; executive committee,
Mr. E. Russell, Mrs. J. E. Chilberg and Miss
Minnie Reeves.
Then came the following programme:
Poem. Miss Lottie Scott
History. Miss Minnie Hughes
Prophecy. Miss Grace Vrooman
Music-"If the Waters Could Speak as They
Flow. Miss Carrie TAI "a
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12

A householder who had been greatly
annoyed by rats in his cellar brought
home trap and set it where he thought
it would do the most good. Next day he
was made glad by finding that he had
caught very large rat. He was about
to put the captive to death when the rat
protested:
"This is by no means fair and just.
entered this trap to prove my confidence
in your integrity. No one could be more
surprised than was when found my
self a prisoner.
After due reflection the householder
liberated the rat, but only to find, two or
three days later, that the number had
greatly increased, and that his stores
were fast being carried away by whole
sale. Catching sight of his former pris-
oner, he said:
~You depended on my integrity, and I
restored your liberty"
Exactly"
Il depended on your integrity, and you
have wrought still further damage to my
property"
"Oh, but you must understand, my
dear sir, that rat in trap is heap diff
ferent from rat at liberty"
MORAL:
You'll see it whenevera judge suspends
sentence on a bad man who has promised
to reform.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12

Many of the first settlers of Illinois
We're rude in speech and rough in manner.
Money was scarce with them, and serv-
ice was paid for in produce. General
b. used TO illustrate these incidents of
frontier life by the following anecdote:
One day when he was justice of the
peace there came to his office a Young
man, accompanied by young woman.
BE you The squirrel" asked the manly
youth.
"Yes, sir.
@Can you tie the knot for us right
away?"
"Yes, sir
How much do you charger"
~One dollar is the legal fee, sir. :"
"Will you take your fee in beeswax1"
"Yes, if you can't pay cash.
@Well, go ahead and tie the knot, and
I'll fetch in the wax"
NO, " said the squire, thinking there
was good chance for little fun; bring
in the beeswax first, and then I'll marry
YOU"
Reluctantly the youth went out TO
where was hitched the horse upon which.
Atdlb1 duO Juan AdSAAAOh, tuS pan hah
ridden, and brought the wax ia a sack.
On being weighed its value was found to
be only about half dollar.
wall, said the anxious groom, tie
the knot, and I'll fetch more wax next
week"
No. sirl don't trust; that's against
the rules of this Office.
Slowly the disappointed youth turned
to go out, saying:
~Come, Sal; let's CO."
Il say, mister, answered Sal, with a
woman's wit, cant you marry us as far
as the wax will go2"
"Yes, can and will, replied the
squire, laughing, and he did.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12
SOME BICYCLE FACTS.
How the wheel Has Developed Since
the Year I76s.

How the wheel Has Developed Since
the Year I76s.
The love of locomotion is firmly inn
planted in the human breast, and in the
very earliest ages wheeled vehicles were
used for pleasure seeking as well as utili-
tartan purposes. 1t was not, however,
until the year 1851 that the first authen-
tic reference to vehicle propelled by the
human feet is found, and it was not un-
til 1903 that the prototype of the modern
bicycle came into use. This merely con-
sisted Of two wheels connected by back
bone, on which the rider sat and pro-
PEELED himself by striking his feet alter
nately on the ground. Some time about
the year 1S46 the first crank driven
bicycle made its appearance in Scotland,
and strange to say it closely resembled
the rear driviAa safety of the present
day.
driven bicycle having been ridden in
England was in January, 1869, when a
Mr. Turner brought what has since been
known as a "boneshaker" from Paris,
and rode it at Spencer's gymnasium in
London. Mr.. Turner was agent in Paris
for sewing machines made by Messrs.
Maycock, James Marriott and John Sut-
ton, in Much Park street, Coventry, and
his principals, seeing the French veloci-
pede, Immediately determined to enter
upon the the manufacture of similar
machines. At that time the ribbon trade
mad failed, and Coventry was rapidly
going to decay. Now it is a thriving
and wealthy town full Of factories,
some Of which employ close ON 1000
hands each, and all this prosperity
sprang from that small beginning on
Much Park street.
Other English towns also benefited, and
Birmingham. Wolverhampton, and Lon
don employ many thousands of hands at
this industry, and English made cycles
are in demand all the world over and are
admitted to be the best Not all at once,
however, did this new era open for the
quaint old town Of Coventry, which may
be looked upon as the birthplace of the
great industry. After the @boneshaker
era the earlier machines were all of the
"lofty" ordinary type, which none but
the young and fearless could attempt to
master, and bitter was the hostility shown
by the public toward the votaries of the
new sport. Nevertheless it continued to
grow, and, in 1880, at the end of the first
decade, thousands Of young men sought
health and pleasure on the wheel
Up to this time cycling had been looked
upon merely as an amusement or tenn
porary craze, which would die away
more quickly than it had arisen. The
tricycle., however, had now made its ap-
pearance in practical form, and middle
aged and elderly men began to use it not
only for health and recreation but also
for business purposes. During the next
decade the perfecting of the tricycle. and
the introduction of the rear driving
safety brought cycling within the reach
of all and increased its votaries hundred
(old, and now, at the beginning of an
other decade, the pneumatic tire seems
likely to effect another revolution and to
make cycling as general mode of pro-
gression as any her.-Fortnightly Re-
view.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12
PRICE ONE CENT


Senatorial Poker Parties ln Aiaska.
Ex-Governor Swineford says the rc.
sources Of Alaska have never thoroughly
been looked into by the Senatorial COM
mittees sent 20 visit the country.
And they never viii be-" said Mr..
Swineford, "when United States Sena-
tors are sent TO look over the ground.
Two committees We're sent 10 Alaska dur
ing my administration. but they did
nothing but play poker and view the
sights. They took no interest in the
country, and days when they were sup
posed TO be gathering material for good
report of the condition Of things to be
presented TO the Senate they We're en-
gagged in the pleasant pastime of playing
a $25 limit game. No committee was
sent TO Alaska this year, and it is just as
well as if dozen United States Senators
had been selected to go there. The only
way to secure a reasonable report OF the
mineral wealth, etc.. of the country IL
TO send some poor scientific man who
knows his business, will take an Interest,"
iu the work. and not play poker.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.

An electric flying machine is an.
nounced.
The fireworks of the future will be
electrical.
A bicycle is promised to do two miles
q minute.
Seaweed is now made into a tough pa
per, which takes the place of window
glass. When color ID the effectis is similar
to stained or painted glass.
A seamless steel boat made from one
piece of metal by hydraulic pressure
promises to be very desirable. II will
last great while and can not leak.
NJ. Marcy, by arranging his own APP
paratus, has succeeded in photographing
the flight of insects, the exposure of the
plate being necessarily not over Leo, ,0OOth
part of a second.
An electric car in Decatur, ILL.,, recent
ly earned $93. As on the occasion of a pub
lie celebration. At the rate of five cents
per head this would mean the car carried
1859 passengers.
The distance of the horizon is sgoverned
by the height of the eye above the earth
or sea. On the sea, with the eye at
height of five feet, the distance would be
three miles; at go feet in height, 10 miles.
The serious effects upon the eyes of
miners from the use of the modern safety
lamp has been a subject of investigation
in England, the result being that in
creased lighting power in such lamps
will cause such troubles to disappear.
BY means of an instrument called the
photochronograph invented at George
town College Observatory, a star is
caused to record with absolute accuracy
the time of its own transit across the me-
ridian, thus eliminating all personal
errors.
Recent experience in cold storage
shows that different articles of food re-
quire different degrees of temperature
for their preservation, varying from 33
degrees Fahrenheit for eggs to from 15
to 90 degrees for poultry and various
kinds of game.
In January last a surgeon transplanted
four cat ribs in the broken nose of Mrs.
Addie l.. Davis, of Decatur, Ill. The
bones of the nose had decayed, leaving
that member in a condition mortifying
to the otherwise handsome lady. The
bones were taken out by the surgeon and
the cats ribs inserted. The bridge of
Mrs. Davis's nose is now solid aud
straight, and she is the happiest woman
in Decatur.
Photographs are being made in Austria
by the aid of aluminium the powdered
metal being burnt in the flame of an
alcohol lamp in manner similar TO mag
nesium. 1t burns more slowly than
magnesium, and in combination with
elements that give off oxygen it ptoduced
an extremely actinic light without smoke.
Great interest is being manifested in the
results. and experiments are to be contin-
ued.
An interesting discovery has just been
made by a Frenchman in Vienna. He
has discovered means of joining to-
gether by melting other metals beside
platinum with glass. BY the process he
has discovered the metal and the glass
Become perfectly welded. In this way
electric lamps can be manufactured
without using platinum. The invention.
which is, perhaps, destined to have great
effect on the production Of electric light,
is already creating quite sensation
among scientific circles in Vienna
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12


She Is college graduate. Packed In her lit
Are All the living languages and many that are
dead
She thinks her thoughts In Latin and she
whistles in high Greek.
While with a Chinese washee-man she easily
can speak.
The whole array Of sciences are at her finger
tips.
And problems mathematical just bubble from
her lips;
when'er she talks her hearers try their hard
est TO look wise;
But. TO conceal their ignorance. they venture
no replies.
Not only is her learning far ahead of any
dream,
But she in college tennis was the captain Of
team;
And IN the college races on the lake and on
Was always crowned the victor. to the music
of the band.
A dainty pair Of glasses on her dainty little
nose.
Adds to her look OF culture and statue like re-
pose;
but when discussing subjects with Boston
maiden's might
Her eyes fash throul h her glasses like loco
motives light.
Oh, she Is Just daisy. Though the draw
back Of her sex
Keeps her from being President. her mind 10
doesn't vex;
For there are higher stations she is able to at
tain
BY having so much knowledge in her active
little brain.
And now the wonder cometh; this sweet coll
lege girl. who might
Reform the very universe which men have
ruined quite,
STAYS at home 10 help her mother in the
kitchen where she makes
The most delicious puddings, pies. and home
made bread and cakes
A man who thinks q woman's higher educa-
tlon tends
TO make her hate domestic work, on which
his bliss depends,
Should taste this maiden's cooking. for the
more that women know
The more OF sweet home happiness they're
able TO bestow.
H. @. Dodge in Inter-o Ocean.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-09-12
He Meant Well.

Speaking Of people who mean well re-
minds II. Price Weber, the Maine COM
edian, of the man down East who felt
very badly when his son left him to take
up his residence in Boston. The boy,
seeing the old gentleman's grief, said !:
@Never mind, father, you must promise
to come and see me at the first oppor-
tunity." The father looked at the SON
earnestly, and while tear trickled down
his face and his voice became husky from
emotion, replied: William, my boy, il
live till / die-and goodness knows
whether / will or not-Tn see Boston be.
fore / leave Bucksporti i"-Boston Pea