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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
PLUCKY MISS COOPER
4 Girl PurSues a Burglar and
Makes Him Give Up.
HIS VAIN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
The West Seattle PoStmaster's Daugh-
ter Struggles With and Chases
Bold Burglar.

A burglar who broke into the residence
OF Charles y. Cooper. the postmaster Of
West Seattle. At , O'Clock on Christmas
morning. was the means Of developing the
heroic qualities Of Miss Nina Cooper, the
1o-year-o.d daughter Of the postmaster.
She struggled with the intruder, and,
when he freed himself, pursued him until
he gave Up his plumber.
Nr. Cooper retired on Christmas eve at
his home on Cascade avenue, West Seat
tie, with visions Of a happy Christmas IN
his mind, and had not the faintest idea Of
being visited By Santa Claus or any less
welcome person. lie took the precautlOn
to place his purse. which contained some
$40 or Sl5 in hard money. under his pillow.
About O'Clock IN the morning Mr.
Cooper was aroused by the presence Of a
person By the bedside, and who was n the
act Of removing his purse from beneath
the pillow. He no sooner realized the
presence Of q burglar than IN tones which
would have done credit 10 2 fogaorn he
yelled:
Burglars. Thieves! Helpi"
His daughter Nina. 4 young lady about
70 years Of age, who slept in al adjoining
room. heard MS cries. and, hastily arising.
rushed 70 his aid. As she came into the hail
she ran against the burglar. who, alarmed
at mis- victims cries for assistance, vas
making good his escape. An exciting
scene followed. The young lady, without
fear of consequences, rushed az the in
truder. He mad the purse in one hand,
and, avoiding her onslaught as well as pos
sibe, made Tor the head OF the stairs. Miss
Cooper, not TO be baked, grabbed him by
the coat tail and held on for dear life. 4
desperate struggle ensued, the burglar
making repeated efforts 20 reach the front
door and his fair captor maintaining her
hold on MS coat.
The continual shouts Of the Cooper
family made the thief desperate, and tear
ing himself away with final effort he shor
through the door, went down the front
steps at one jump and dashed down the
street. Miss Cooper, though but lightly
attired, was not 10 be outdone and followed
him. A hvelier race was never run.
Cries Of:
Give back that money, YOU can't es-
cape" came from the girls lips in shrlIl
tones. The neighhors were aroused, and
while some stuck their heads out of win
dows in w0nderment, others Joined in the
race. Miss Cooper was gaining foot by
foot and calling at short in
tervals for the burglar to halt. A.
most winded, and alarmed at the
increasing number of mis- pursuers he
stopped short, turned and threw the
heavy purse with great force at Miss Coop
er's head. II struck her IN the face and
knocked her down, and the burglar made
good MS escape.
Miss Cooper, picking mp the purse, re-
turned home. Not until she reached the
steps leading 70 the house did her strength
fail her, but then she sank down in
faint, overcome by her exertlons in the
chase.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
Nothing Doing on the Water Front.

Little was stirring on the water front
yesterday. Several ships and steamers At
the coal bunkers were inactive, and the
crews, being driven below decks by the in
clement weather, spent the day playing
cards or smoking and spinning yarns.
All the small Sound steamers were hud-
died together. as If for protection, at vari-
Gus North Seattle docks. The numerous
Greek and Italian fishermen who usually
form centers Of attraction, with their
homely boats and fishing parapherna!ia
and their unique attire, we're nowhere 70
be seen. The wind drove sheets Of chill
ing rain across the surface Of the mnrky-
co!ored whitecaps. and the fishermen, like
most other living things, had apparently
craWled into their holes.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

The burlesque play OF Hercules" will
be given tomorrow night at Ranke's hall
By Queen City Lodge, No, 70, knights of
Fythias, and viii be followed bva ball.
The entertainment is caused by the bur
lesque initiation Of candidate Tor de
gree. The candidate is first worked IN 10
a proper degree oi horror and terror and
then Is put through a series Of ordeais.
each OF which Is fUlI of humor. aud creates
intense merriment. Among the funny
scenes are the candidates riding the aerv
and untamcd steeb. He then has his le.
awputa.ed; he 3 forced 70 fight the tiger
with demoraliziug results, and must
then depart 10 obtain the golden apples
from the Garden Of Hesperides. lie re-
turns with three paHu5roker balls which
are accepted As sufficient After an ac-
qlaiutance with blankets in which he is
tossed 70 the ceiling, half-alive and bat
tered and burned he IS admitted into the
secrets Of the order. The costumes have
been imported from Europe, and the
actors all expect star engagements when
this event has passed. A. the dance the
managers VIII be II. X. Haskell, NJ ".
Frederick. O.. ". Crane and J. Gearin.
Iac reception committee consists OF
Mes~rs- poasan. Peters, Parker. Forrest,
". T. Chalk. vs.. H. Snyder. George ".
k.er,Sj and (. l. Cowden. The general
managers are Z. p. Edsen. ". hie-skI.
+. bowden and &. ". Crane The
members ot the lodge have been en-
gagged for some time in preparation Tor the
even; and q Eich and amusing perform
suCe may be expccted
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
WIND AND EAIS UNPRECEDENTED.
Storms Felt Most Down sound-The
Teaser Weather-BOund.

Storms Felt Most Down sound-The
Teaser Weather-Bound.
The storm Of Saturday was far more
severe down Sound than in this city.
Superintendent Neff, Of the Seattle & Non
tana road. says that the wind was 80
strong and the wind 50 heavy that it was
almost impossible 70 PIT his head out Of
the cab 81 the locomotive on the train
coming south. He says that much more
rain has fallen in the section from Mays
vile 10 the Fraser river than in The Upper
Sound country. and over in British Co.un-
bia the foods are SO high that numbers OF
sheep and hogs are drowning.
The Seattle & Montana road is kept
open By the constant employment OF 40
men IN clearing away slides and falling
trees. Two gangs Of men are going along
the road. one n0rthgard from the Fair
haven Il Southern junction, cutting down
ali the trees within 20 feet of the track
on each side Within the last few days
there has been little trouble with slides on
the shore line, the worst distractions oc-
curing in the Sehome cut and north Of
Whatc0m. Trains are running with toll
cradle pUnctuaiity, considering these diff
cuities.
The Port Angeles Tribune of December
p states that 5. Baxter Il Co.'S schooner
Teaser, Captain Quinn. arrived in Port
Angeles on the previous Sunday night,
after lying weather-bound al Neah bay
since the beginning of November. The
Teaser vas bound for QuilIayute with 65
tons Of merchandise for Baxter's store at
that point and household furniture for
recent settlers in the locality. For nearly
two months she lay at Neah bay, the
weather being always so rough that it was
impossible for her 70 90 around and make
landing at Qaillayute, which has
no harbor. On Saturday week it
was blowing gale, the anchor chain
parted, the anchor was lost and the vessel
went to Port Angeles for shelter, coming
up the Straits in company with the whale
back Wetmore The Teaser will remain
az Port Angeles until the weather moder-
ates. Captain Quinn says that in mis-
eleven years experience he never saw such
weather as prevailed OF Cape Flastery in
the last two months.
The people OF the Quillayute country viii
suffer some hardship from the failure OF
the Teaser 70 arrive. as they depend on
her for supplies. and many settlers who
went in during the fall were expecting
household goods and clothing or board
har
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
FEEsnNAL.

Thomas Hayward, o! sulnas, is in the city.
7. V Eddy, Of Olympia, is az the Dec dental.
George Hazard, Of Tacoma, IS az the North
ern.
J. c. Haines IS confined 10 his bed by slight
attack Of fever.
J. D. Ralaoy, ez-are chief OF Tacoma, was IN
the ely yesterday.
J. 4. Boyd, OF Duluth, was registered At the
Northern yesterday.
Dr. and Mrs c. B. Putnam, of san Fran cisco.
are 81 the Arlington.
A. P Saarpstein and wife, c. E. Bedding. J. ".
Platt an& G <. Bsauisoa. OF Anacortes, were a!
al the Arlington yesterday.
Manager John ?. Co-dray went 20 Portland
last night, where be is arranging 70 give &n
elaborate production Of ne spectacular melo-
drama, 'Nilaael >tccgo.E"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
"Boys and Girls" Tonight.

Boys and Girls" viii appear tonight at
the Seattle opera-house. The company
has more variety talent in it than any
similar organization in the United States.
Ii is long time since musical farce
comedy has been advertised TO come into
Seattle with the great and undoubted repu.
tation that precedes John J. McNally's
Boys and Girls. " in which Rich & Harris
comedy company Of stars will appear
The organization consists Of such artists
Of ability as May Irwin. Flora Irwin. Sadie
Kirby, Laura Russell. Blanche Harvard.
Nellie Parker, and George T. Marion. Otis
Harlan, James \. Sturgis Joseph Mitchell,
Ignacio Martinetti and Wood and Shep-
herd. Boys and Girls" is a comedy
which has taken san Francisco by actual
storm. The songs, the dances and the
Hstticisms are of The brightest.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
HARRY MCGEE Is STILL MISSING
His Mother Thinks He May Be at
Newcastle

Harry MCGEE, the 13-vear-old boy who
disappeared on Christmas morning. has
not returned 10 his home, neither has any
thing been heard from him. The theory
that he went 10 Newcastle to visit his
uncle, Michael Curtis, has not been con-
firmed or dispToyed. Mrs Kate McCfee,
mother Of the boy, was seen late last even
ing, but could give no positive information
concerning his whereabouts. She is of the
opinion that he is az Newcastle
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
ANUsEM ENTs.
At (nrdrav,s.

The audiences at Cordray's Saturday
and last night we're SO large that early in
the evening standing room only could be
sold 70 those who applied Around the
World IN Eighty Days" has opened well
for the week, and there is no doubt that
the cosy theater viii have It's seating
capacity taxed every night during the
week. The performance in the theater
Will begin ct O'Clock nightly.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

The funeral services over the remains OF
Mrs. Mary Collins were held yesterday
afternoon, at > O'Clock. at the Church Of
the Sacred Heart, in North Seattle. Many
friends OF the family were present. The
interment took place At Calvary cemetery,
a special train on the Lake shore road
carrying the remains and the funeral
party
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
No Electric Cars Down James street.

Owing TO the damage done 10 the cable
on the James street line on Saturday, the
electric cars from the other lines are not
running down town any more. A new
strand was put in the cable on Saturday
night, but it IS still not working well and
cannot be depended on TO carry the weight
Of the heavy electric cars. As it is in
tended 70 extend the cable tracks right up
10 the p0wer-house, the present cable viii
he made TO last untlI that work has been
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
Holmes, the shooter. Arrested.

William Holmes. the colored Franklin
miner who IS accused Of attempting TO
murder the night foreman, William c.
Briedwell. by shooting twice a. him, was
captured at daylight yesterday morning
near Franklin. Yesterday afternoon he
arrived IN the city in charge OF Constable
c. c. Todd. of Franklin, and was locked
mp in the county jail. He refused TO talk
ioout the affair. He viii be arraigned to-
day for hearing before Justice Won Tobel.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

The steamship Umatilla arrived IN port
from san Francisco at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning with a heavy consignment of gen.
eral merchandise and a good many passen-
gers. Her officers report having had a
very pleasant passage. They escaped the
storm center, anu 81 no time did the vessel
encounter heavy seas or violent winds.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

Detective Cave made a roundup last
evening OF all the suspicious characters in
the city. and jailed John Wilson. James
White, Frank Adams. James Munroe,
Frank Hart, Thomas Davis. Tom McCue
and Frank Friend on charges of vagrancv.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

Al associated banks members Of the Seattle
Gearing HOUSE Association Will be closed or
the SATURDAYS GO December II, lsgI. aud January
:, l,s-, Immediately following the holidays OF
Christmas anu Ngv Years
AHEsM BAYkER Secretary
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

All young ladies who viii take part in
the business mems jubilee are requested
TO be at kanke's hall at 2:30 O'Clock this
afternoon, at which time business houses
and other duties viii be assigned-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
The Weather In.Iar

Weather forecast for the twenty-f7rr
hours beginning al : o'clock last evening
from the san Francisco weather bureau .
For Oregon and Washington. scatterin,
rain and snow; clearing; stationary tenn
perature: fog"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

At Armevy rail-. Tuesday. December 18th, a.
80 g. N, Fraac.s Murphy sul Thomas r
-rqay Wiz iertare soae asslg oa.yl Tor the
benefit 81 the Ersuc!s Nl.pay GOSPEL Temper
ance Union. O.; seattle. Tickets, y cents. To
Be had ~ al stationery an1 dvug stores Or ~
the door
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
4 Hardened ONender Arrested-

Frank Wilson, a 2o-year-old youth, was
arrested oy Detective Cave yesterday upon
charge of stealing two coats from a see
ond-hand storekeeper on Railroad avenue
Wilson has been in jail several times. and
IS considered very hard cItizen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28
Joseph kentzler Arrested.

Joseph hentz.er, charged By his former
wife with assault and battery, was arrested
yesterday. He gave aai. for his appear
ance before Justice Neagie today for trial
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-28

WeSk msn restored % perfect manhood by the
Great Australian remedy, free. Address Dr.
Alien Lewis, 10 hc&raey street, san Francisco,
Ca
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14

| see in your columns of May 90 sub
stltute for the sub-treasury plan submitted
by Hon. Barnett Gibbs As to why pre-
sented, he says the sub-treasury plan pro-
poses to deal with too many individuals
and or basis of too many commodities
He also retains the bonded system Of per
cent.
As to too many individuals only can say
when money is not issued direct TO the
people they are compelled to pay rates of
interest not in keeping or compatible with
a government that is truly a republic The
bonded system cost the common people a
great quantity of money for a certain
class, hence is Objectionable Our govern
ment is not less despotic than the country
from which we rebelled in 1716 in bonds
and banking, viz, 10 tax the people TO raise
the issue, when the general government
can issue without interest. Mr. Gibbs lets
have government purely republic. You
are over an average-lay down all old party
prejudices and teaching on this question,
because it rises higher than party. Re-
specially, j. B. STRIBLING,
I1ano Tex
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14
CAPT. III. F. C'NESL.
4 New Banking System Must be Established
as Substitute for the National Bank.
IINnfN TFN I1rnn Z 1901

:.
Editor Gazette.
Your reporter called upon Capt H. f
O'Neal of Linden. at his Office this morn
ing. requesting of him the statement which
he had promised of the banking system
which he mad published in the Southern
Mercury last winter.
Yes, he said L will be pleased TO give it
TO you for publication in the Fort Worth
GAZETTE, as ! want it published in one Of
the great dailies of the state.
l will preface my statement of the plan
which 1 have suggested by two PROPOSE
tions:
/. That believe it is generally conceded
that the national banking system must go,
or, in other words, that il must be aboi-
ished.
.. That there should be no banks of issue,
but that the government should issue the
money.
These two propositions being without
controversy. / would state that ii naturally
follows that there must De some other
banking system established as substitute
for the national bank, through which the
government can throw her money into cir
culation. Now, here is my plan:
l would have the government create or
make all the money of the country with the
free and. unlimited coinage of silver. The
paper money should be treasury notes is
sued by the government receivable for all
government dues, and full legal tender
for the payment Of all debts. Congress
should enact a law authorizing the charter
ing OF banks as follows: The individual,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14

tated has boldly defed and spurned the will
Of the people as expressed by their repre-
sentatiyes coming direct from them to the
two houses OF congress. The power of
capital has thus far proved too strong for
the people, but 1 have an abiding faith that
in 1892 the will of the American people will
assert itself. The issue cannot be ignored
1t will not down. It is in the minds and
hearts of the people, and the Democratic
party which is as fully and conclusively
committed TO free coinage as it ever was to
any measure cannot and will not stultify
itself by attempting to evade or straddle it.
There are two great economic questions be-
fore the country-tariff reduction and cur
rency expansion. These questions are in
the minds Of the people, and the contest
viii be made on both in 1892, and if the
Democratic party is true to It's history and
traditions as party Of the people, and is
wisely frank and honest with them. it will
sweep the country. Very respectfully,
RICHARD COKE
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14

THE GREATEST WORK OF HIS LIFE.
How we prize the least reminder of these
royal fellows when they are gone. There
are those who would pay $1,000 each for two
of the tiny panes in that one sunny window.
On one Burns wrote with a diamond and
afterwards partially erased, Home he had
not-home is the resort on the other he
inscribed his fayorite maxim, AN honest
mans the MODEST work OF God" These in
Scriptions, the house and ouUbuildingS and
few sturdy trees the poet planted. are the
only visible relics OF the ba"d'S life at Ellis
land, for the spot is one of the few i'll Brit
ain, more grace to it, that is not a show
place, where the inSiSJent reminder of the
endlessneSS of fees mergeS reverence and
emotion into ridicule and contempt.
The almost exclusive haunt OF Burns at
Ellisland was within call of his bonnie
Jean just below the high bank or scaur.
upon the the edge of which the cottage
stands. Between this and the Nth for il
long distance to the north and south runs 4
lovely river road; Out OF the cottage en-
closure shaded path ard wagon way de-
scends to join the river road. Half way
down this almost sylvan way is cOpious
spring. The bank of the scaur side in the
shade is mass OF ferns and violets, and
in the sunshine q wondrOuS constellation Of
wee crimson-tippet flowers the daisies
OF Scotland for Burns felt something akin
10 dQOFdllOn- i u6n CAME inc SllVcrN SUdI-
lows Of the NTH. Beyond its stream, lead
ing to the meadowlands above, isia haugh, a
golden mass of waving broom. Along this
dreamful way, and up and down the river
road, Burns sauntered and dreamed 1t
was the scene of his most ecstatic achieve
ment, Tam O'Shanter,'' which the cele-
brated Alexander Smith thought, as it was
written in a day, the best single days work
done in Scotland, since Bruce fought at
Bannockburn.
Ellisland originally comprised 40 acres of
land. The lease to the poet was for four
terms of nineteen years. 1t was executed
in March, 11SS, and would have expired by
limitation in 1854. Burns was to pay ESQ
per year for the first three years and go
thereafter; and the owner allowed the poet
$500 toward the erection of the cottage and
outbuildings. find the present owner TO
be one DR.. J. NJ. Taylor OF Spiutlefield, Dun
keld The stealing has been reduced from
10 acres to 100 acres and it is now leased
for the usual nineteen years term, fifteen of
which have expired. to q family of hard
working and intelligent Scotch farmers
named Grierson, at q rental of e150 per
year. The old guidwife. dame Grierson
seems to live in a sort of halo OF reverential
grief for him who made her farmstead hal
lowed ground. '.Puir bodyl puir body,''
she is constantly moaning beside you;
'.Puir body! he was dwanged (harrassedJ
to his dede-ill mortal sickness -
EDGAR L. WAKENAN
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14

lation cannot be defended from any Geo.
nomic or moral standpoint as it is simply
the forestalling of human necessities and
the appropriation OF labor and natural adj
vantages without giving an adequate re-
turn for them. The single tax would rem
der monopoly powerless to Cypress labor by
giving labor free access to the opportunities
which nature designed it should have. Very
respectfully, a. II. MCCARTY.
Plano.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14

and patches OF sunshine, past deserted
clachans and now silent olden inns-of-call,
with the songs of streams and birds ever in
your ears, all the distance to Ellisland
Once past the outlying habitations of Max
wellton, you will see down there TO the
right the picturesque ruins of Lincluden
Abbey, but few moments walk from the
highway. Beneath the shadows of its
majestic walls lies Margaret, daughter of
Robert Ill, King of Scotland. II you willy
wander but little distance On that road
leading to the left, you will come TO ths'
ancient church of Irongray Here is the
grave Of Sir Walter SCOTS ..Jeanic Deans"
Helen Walllerl and the inscription on the
table tombstone was written by the author
of Waverly himself. This picturesque old
bridge at which you tarry-for there is
pretty scene of sheep-washing going on
beneath the giant willows, Just above
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14
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sYsys III. cues Vim collie, and the best
r<asds for dsarrheas. ~ ,ce9tsa bastsa
blaze at ElOYh.

correspondence OF The Gazette.
FLOYD, Hunt COUNTY, TEX, June IL
The grocery store of J. B. Junkins burned
to the ground this morning at , o'clock.
The bucket brigade did some noble work
in saving other buildings. The storehouse
of S. Z. Clements was on fire at one time,
but was put out with but little damage
to the house. The origin Of the fire is not
known.