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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-22
Whatcom Tide Lands Hearing.

OLYMPIA. July 2l.-ISpeciaL. The tide
land commission, which has been in ses-
sion here for several days, today decided
to go to Whatcom on July IS to hear the
Whatcom county contest eases, the ex-
ira expense of holding the meeting there
having been guaranteed by parties inter.
ested in the conflicting applications. 1t
is expected that the Whatcom hearings
will consume about two weeks.
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Pacific County News.

South BEND. July 2L-[Special. THE
Pacific County Teachers Institute began
its sessions in OysteIville Monday. The
institute will last five days and is largely
attended.
The schooner General Banning sailed
Tuesday morning with 100000 feet of
spruce lumber. Another vessel is due here
for another load. The Brislot & Leonard
sawmill is running night and day.
The barkentine Chehalis will sail with
100000 feet OF lumber from the South
Bend mill next Thursday.
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HIGH RATES on coRPsEs.
PecuIiarities Of Northern Pacific Steam
cr Line Tariff to Asia.

The freight tariff of the Northern Pacific
Steamship Company is out and contains
some rates which indicate some of the
peeuliarities of trans Pacific commerce.
The rates quoted are from Seattle. Tacoma,
Portland and Victoria to Yokohama, Kobe,
Nagasaki, Shanghai and Hongkong, and
apply TO all classes of freight in which
there is likely TO be business. Human re-
mains come within this category. for
among the articles on which rates payable
in gold are quoted to Yokohama and
Hongkong are the following:
Corpses Qreshl Asistic, $50 each.
Corpses tone year old Asa:ic. $50 each
Corpses bones in boxes Asatic, 20 cents per
foot
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So from Chicago TO Denver and return on
account of the trienniai conciaye of
Knights Templar, giving as reason that
they are compelled 20 protect themselves
against the deuloralizing conduct of other
roads. The rate fixed by the association
was SIS b. but the Atchison asserts that
the Alton. Rock Island and Burlington
have been offering all sorts of induce
ments to commanderies without making
direct cuts, but amounting TO the same
thing. 4 serious rate war is threatened.
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A. u. 4. Messenger Rates,

From our office, ll6 Cherry street. II blocks or
less. ceDts; Il blocks. II Ceats. IL blocks, Is
cents; ~ blocks or over, ~ cents; answer, cents
extra. by the hour, ~ cents; circulars and al
veEtsing matter Distributed az 81 50 per csv;
cards, Invitations, etc, delivered at s. ~ r,er
day Ring the \. II. T. cal. box only Ter seattle
Transfer Company hacks, GuTpeys and express
wagons Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Com,
pany's kilograms. Telephone ga
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Another excursion trim to Cape Flatterv
will be made from Seattle and Tacoma BY
the steamer City of Seattle next Sunday.
The boat will leave Yesler's wharf at s 80
O'Clock in the morning. and the fare for
the round trip is only s.. \ better oppor-
tunity Of seeing the fine scenery of the
Straits could not ne obtained
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Presideat Clark WIN No. Nice, nm.

TACOMA, July 2l.-[SpeciaL IS. II. II.
Clark, president of the Union Pacific,
passed through the city today en- route for
Portland. He said ne would not be able
90 meet President Hill. CT the Great
Northern, rs he had urgent business at
Portland To attend 10. No extensions. he
said. are under consideration st present by
the Union Pacific. Mrs. Clark and party
Left Mr.. Clark here. snd Will vis;: Alaska
b. the steamer Queen.
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Carrying Freight to Cmur d.Al.n..

circular issued by 5. l.. Moore general
freight sgent OF the Northern Pacific rail-
road, on July II, was received bv local
Freight Agent Allen yesterday, announc-
Ing that the labor troubles in the Cpur
d'Alene district We're ended and that the
road is now in position to handle freight
10 points in that district.
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A REDUCTION ONLY IN NAME.
The Northern Pacific's New Rate &c
rasco Not Satisfactory.

TACOMA, July p. - Especial. - Some
merchants claim the pa cent reduction
per 100 pounds announced by the North
ern Pacific from Seattle and Tacoma TO
points as far as Pasco is no reduction, ex-
cent on carload lots, while there is an
sciual increase on other classes of freight
equal 10 cents per hundred. 1t is shown
that the Portland rate To Pasco points is
only about 10 per cent. higher than the
Tacoma rate
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uuI rnsp.e,iuc raj. Road.

President Hill, Of the Great Northern
railroad. IS now understood 10 be on his
way 10 this city by way OF the line Of his
road over the mountains. He left Ellens-
burg intending 10 take the stage 10
Wenatchee snd thence ride over, the line
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Notice tn Republicans.

BY order OF the executive committee e meet
ing OF the Ming County Republican Club will he
held on Saturday evening, July 3, il Judge
Rivers courtroom, city hall, al O'Clock =. m,
for the purpose OF taking action on the res gns-
ton 81 President Frank Il. HaddoCk and elect
ing his successor H. ". CARROLL,
Recording Secretary
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Pirate to Be Launched Next Tuesda,

PHILADELPHIA, July 2i.-The swiftest.
most destructive and most formidable
naval vessel in the world. the much talked
Of Pirate, or cruiser No. II, will be
launched at Cramps ship yard next Tues
day afternoon. 1t is believed that she
will come up to the requirements of
tgenty-one knots an hour.
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Fire at Olympia.

OLYMPIA, July 2.-[Special. Fire broke
ont in the mill of the olympia Door and
Lumber Company this afternoon. but was
extinguished by the active work of the
fire department before much damage was
done. Loss about $500; no insurance.
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umberracn Guilty of underweirh,nr

ST. IouIs. July 2l.-The cases against
p. +. and Il. ", Howell and J. Roberts
their former clerk, charged win conspir-
acy To defraud railroad companies by I'm
eighiug shipments Of lumher, ended
today with verdict Of guilty. Defendants
VIII he sentenced tomorrow
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The Chiearo.s Cap,ain Censured.

LIVERPOOL, July 21.-The Board of Trade,
in the case of Captain BEDFORD. of the In
man line steamer City OF Chicago, censures
the captain for running the ship ashore
near the old head of kinsale and suspends
his certificate for nine months.
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No More Passes ON Yesler axenu.

- No More Passes on Yesler Avenue.
AL the passes out on the Yesler avenue
cable road have been called in by the new
management. Hereafter no persons will
be allowed to ride free except policemen,
fremen and letter-carriers in uniform.
Other persons, including officers of the
road themselves, will be required to pay
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G.zxam Insurance Company Recognized

Gazzam Insurance Company Reorganixed
Howard II. Lewis has sold some of his
stock in the W. L. Gazzam company 10 w.
ID. Perkins, II. s. Martin and A. X Fisken,
but still retains an interest. The officers
of the company now are: President, W.
D. Perkins; vice president. p. W. Baker;
secretary, H. A. Raser; treasurer. AK.
riskar
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Excursfan.

FGe steamer T. W. Purdy viii make round
trips u io,t Orchard, leaving 81 10 o'clock s.
N and returning 81 6 7. ~, fFoTr Aims y orth (
banns wharf and viii continue on The run
til further nosios. There viii e target pgae-
tee eye.y day by the Chas.ssien crew.
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Excursions to snouuAlmie Falls.

s. for round trip On sundays, !in.tet 10 date
OF sale $50 for round trip, iAgce-aay ticAcis
81 Se sold Saturdays. Spec3ag rates for mar
ties made on application 70 ne Fine troat ash
ing; delightful resort; good hotel l. A Ma
Geau. General Agent
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Rave xour Address Cerreet

The cry Directory for the current year is now
in press. Any enc having made a change IN
their business location or place al residence can
hsve the correction made by notifying by mail
az Otherwise. Folks seattle Directory Com
pa2y. - kaxva.l building city
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An Oregon Counterfesser Convicted.

PORTLAND. July 2l.-In the United States dis
t1lct court NITgi. Howard was today found
guilty OF passing counterfeit coin Howard is
also Jointly indicted with George Jones for
robbjpg a stage last October near Lskeyiew, Or
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The A,chison Road Cuts Rates.

CHICAGO. Jalv 2i--A sensation was
caused today by the announcement of the
AtcAlson read that il viii make rate Of
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Mo VISTA, Cal. July 2l-rhe business
PORTION u this town Vas DESTROYED by IRE
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ChicsGo's Population I.4es,31s.
CHICAGO. July 2i.-The school censn.
shows the population of the CITY IN ha
42S Bis
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itself has grown under the hands OF the
builders. Low places have been filled
in, the half-score acres of available
ground have become thirteen, and in
place Of the sandy beach, Of which the
winter storms claimed their share year
by year, has come strong sea wall
against which the breakers rage in vain.
The frame buildings are the fever wards.
Scarlet fever aud measles claim most
OF the pavilions in times of comparative
peace. This year typhus fever in 7aded
them. In the sudden rush their capacity
was quite exhausted, and camp OF
tents was pitched on the lawn to shelter
the overflow. 1t was while the weather
was yet cold, and cry went up against
the supposed outrage. AS matter OF
fact these tents Eave board floors and
stove that make them very comfortable
abodes and much preferable in the eyes
of the physicians to the wooden houses,
partly because the ventilation in them is
perfect, partly because not much IS lost
in destroying them when the scouree has
had its day. Even the pavllions are built
on the modern hospital plan with this
end III view. 1t is the easiest way to get
rid of malignant contagion. Flame IS
a great purifier. Still, one hesitates to
burn up ahouse, while tent is touched
off without paDg.
All travel to and from North Brother
Island is restricted to two routes, that
by the department steamer from the re-
ception hospita! at Sixteenth ftreet,
which is empted for the sick, and the
other via the 13Sth Street Ferry. This lat
ter ''line" is represented by single yawl
propelled by sphinx like boatman,
who answers calls on the drum telephone
at the shore end of the ferry. On visit
ing days-twice a week-a few scat
tered callers come sometimes to see
friends in the hospital. With the e1cep-
ton of an occasional Inspector of the
Health Department, these are the only
new faces ever seen on the isiand-llt-
orally faces only, for no visitor is per-
mitted to 90 far beyond the ferry dock
without having enveloped him or herself
in the ugly Mother Hubbard gown and
BIG rubber overshoes that are the uni.
form CT the island, worn always in the
sick wards.
Though the island is connected with
the city by cable and telephone, the lit
tie hospital of nurses spend their lives
there in virtual banishment from the
world. 1t has happened that whole
winter has passed without any one OF
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see ner, ana may become interested III

see ner, anu may pecome AteFesteu IA
her."
Aye" exclaimed Slyme, with a per-
picked look, there's the rub.
You had thought Of that2"
Il have thought Of little else of late. I"
We'll, we must endeavor to concert
some plan to head him off-to turn him
from his purpose-if he. develops such
purpose.
Unfortunately, shall not be here to
aid You in carrying out plan, even if We
can mature one.
But there must be some way out Of
the difficulty. Do think, my good Slyme,
and come to me here Tomorrow.
II will do my best. as ever, to serve
you," and with q low bow he withdrew,
softly closing the door behind him.
For some time Cora remained seated
as he had left her. but her head was bent
forward, her hands were tightly clasped
in her lap, and her whole attitude de-
noted deep and earnest meditation.
Presently the heavy portiere was drawn
aside, and Eugene Cleveland entered.
In an instant the cloud fed from her
brow, and a radiant smile appeared upon
her face.
He hastily crossed the room, knelt by
the divan, raised her shapely head, and
mpriptad bnrnino kiss anon ber lips.
AT last you nave come! sne murmured,
returning the kiss and clasping her
beautiful arms about his neck.
Again the curtain in the doorway was
drawn aside, and the eager eyes of the
private secretary were fixed upon the pair.
and there was malignant, mortal hatred
in the glance.
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CHAPTER XVI.
SHAPING DESTINY.


Oscar Slyme, the private secretary, had
told Cora Elliston no more than the ex-
act and dreadful truth.
ANY Brownell, the wife of the civil
engineer, was dead, and her husband was
q wanderer.
Warren Leland was indeed changed;
but perhaps not wholly for the better.
The shock had been sudden and ter
rible one for him, and he had not re.
covered from it.
He had not again visited the attractive
home at Bedford Park, thinking, for the
lady's sake, he would not do 50 until he
was sure the master of the house haa re-
II was three weeks arter browneIi nur-
ried and unfortunate departure; Leland
had had another might of it" with Char
lev RAYMOND and friends of that ilk,
and awoke with splitting headache and
q remorseful heart, when his valet noise
lessly entered the room with several
notes and letters on salver.
@Set it down here, and draw back the
curtain" ordered the master.
The valet obeyed, placing the salver on
q stand by the side Of the bed.
One note instantly attracted Lelands
attention.
The handwriting he we'll knew. and the
envelope was bordered with black.
He snatched it up, and opened it with
trembling hands. And this is what he
read:
my wife is dead. I am in no fit con-
dition to see you now. / have disposed
of everything and am going away-no
matter where.
you will hear from me later.
HOBART BRowNELL.
'Great God!" exclaim ed Leland, letting
the note fall from his hands, and turn
ing ghsstly pale.
Aud it is but Just to say that it was the
knowledge of her death, and that alone,
that affected him; he did not even think
of :he seeming threat in the note.
Great God! Dead! Can it De possi-
ble?"
The valet turned, and regarded him
with look of astonishment.
Get out!" he cried. But say! bring
me some brandy and O bottle Of soda"
The valet disappeared.
Then, in spite of his aching head,
he gave himself up to serious reflection.
Il wish knew more about it, he NUT
tered, at last.
And later in the day he set himself the
task of finding out something.
His efforts were rewarded with some
degree of success. He found the dead
woman's mother, and was received gra-
ciously by her.
Her daughter. she said, had not been
herself since his visit and her husband g
departure that evening. She had dropped;
she was dispiritei; she was crying all the
time.
The morning of her husbands return,
he was with her alone for some time.
Directly after that she was seized with
congestion-
-Congestion!" repeated Leland, in.
quiringly.
Yes, of the lungs of the brain.
Really I don't know but she is dead! and
Hobart is gone. and I, alas! am alone in
the worldl"
"But-e1cuse the question-not unpro-
vided for, hope?"
oh! no, no! Hobart was very kind
and thoughtful. My future is secure.
Leland questioned her further. hut
could learn nothing more.
She was as ignorant as himself with re-
gard to the widower's movements. lie
was gone, that was all she knew. Where
be had gone, she had no idea.
ITO sE Continued
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them CROSSING over to the mainland. The

them crossing over to the mainland. The
doctor mag travel on the steamer, aud
does when be has time, but the nurses
not. Their duty is on the Island, ano
there is always enough for them to do;
for whether there be two or twenty pa.
tients in pavilion they must have their
own nurse. No other will do lest the
pests get mixed up and the end become
worse than the beginning. There are
six women nurses, young girls all OF
them, who with rare devotion and cour-
age have put away from them all that
makes life sweet, and taken upon them
this dangerous duty. Their chief Is the
matron, Miss Kate Holden. who for ten
long years has led this life of solitude and
sacrifice. She is Southern girl whose
people lost their all in defense of the lost
cause-so the tradition of the depart
ment runs. 1t was little less than lost
cause she espoused when, having finished
her course in the Charity Hospital Train
ing School, she offered herself to the
Board of Health. A typhus outbreak
had then decimated the staff OF the old
Riverside Hospital on Blackwell's Island,
and the authorities were at their wits
ends where to get other nurses. They
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are barren wastes OF bay weed and sand.
The third juts into the channel with
grass grown bluff. Great bowlders
washed by every tide lie at its base. Up
on its brow stands a lighthouse with q
big fog bell in its white tower against a
background of green trees. The fishing
boats that dot the channel keep to the
windward of the island. Passengers on
the deck of the big outgoing Sound
steamers watch the sunset glow in the
myriad windows of group of red brick
buildings on its shore, wondering what
they may be, while the city's spires fade
away in the distance. Presently several
shrill blasts SQUAD from a steamers
whistle and at the signal, as the boats
shoot behind the point, knot of men,
carrying a stretcher between them, are
seen making their way down to the
landing. The men are orderlies from
or of the hospitals. The blasts were
sounded by the New York Health De-
partment's steamer coming up from the
city to tell what it had on board. 1t is
the official language of North Brother
Island varied to suit the particular pesti-
lence of the trip. For this is New Yorks
pesthouse, better known in this day as
the Riverside Hospital.
Whatever may be the shortcomings OF
New York in other respects, it is par
ticularly gratifying just now to recall the
statement made by Jacob A. Rus, in
recent number of the Cosmopolitan, that
it is far in the lead of the municipalities
of the world in the management of pesti-
lent diseases.
In recent years marvellous change has
come over North Brother Island. To-
day, where once was waste of sand. are
broad and shaded lawns; winding, we'll
kept walks, trees, shrubs and flowers;
handsome, substantial buildings and hos
pital pavilions or wards, arranged on a
plan securing perfect and absolute isola-
ton with maximum of comfort to the
patients. One result is seen in u very
low death-rate, considering the character
of the institution. Last year before the
importation Of typhus fever in the ship.
load of Russian exiles, it was sixteen per
cent. of about 900 cases.
The old -pesthouse is still there, but
even that has lost its terror. Become a
harmless measles pavilion, it stands up
on the northeast shore of the island at
one end of half circle of one-story
frame buildings, seven in number now,
but so planned as to be capable OF in
definite extension as the needs OF the
growing city may demand. The island
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of the Nation against an enemy that u
forever knocking.

Hoffman Island, where the cholera
patients 20, is about two miles south OF
the Narrows, and, says Frank Leslie's IL
lustrated, gets its name from Governor
Hoffman. tits built on sand-bar known
to pilots as West Bank, and rises abrupt
ly out of the water on pile Of rocks.
The island itself, covering few acres, Ia
composed of sand inclosed in crib.
work, which in turn is protected by the
rip.rap. About nine hundred patients
can be handled there at one time. On
it are the germ-proof dormitories for:
disinfecting, and in every direction the
assertion is borne out, so often made by
sea captains, that the New York quaran-
tine is the safest in the world. ~
The floors of the building are made
of asphalt, while the ceilings are con-
structed of galvanized and corrugated
iron. The partitions are also built OF
iron, while in some portions the smaller
walls are built of enameled brick. There
are no mattresses in the dormitories,
and the cots are the simplest kind OF
hammocks suspended over iron frames.
Steam does everything, from disinfect-
ing to cooking. Bath tubs to the NUM-
Der of sixty.elght, made Of metal, are
utilized for bathing the immigrants, and,5
if necessary, the infected water can be
disinfected before it is discharged into
the bay. Z.
The disinfecting chamber of the DOR
mitory is on the upper floor, and is built
entirely of iron. It is room filed with
frames which rest on sliding tracks. On
each frame rests a. wire basket for the
clothes of each immigrant. All are kept
separate from each other. When the
clothes are put in these baskets the first
thing done is to exhaust the air in the
chamber. Superhested steam, which
may rise to 250 degrees, is sent under
high pressure through 5000 feet OF coiled
piping in the rooms, and gauges indie
cate the pressure in the chamber. Inthe
engine rooms the degree of heat in the
disinfecting room is indicated by the
ringing of electric bells. So thorough IS
the work of disinfection that it is in-f
possible for the attendants to re.enterl
the chamber for several hours after the
windows have been reopened. rs