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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-11
Railroad and Corporation Notes.

II. c. Henry went to snohomish yesterday.
f. W. Ruff, general freight and passenger
agent of the Lake Shore road, went TO Whstcom
yesterday.
lie. Parkhurst, Of Portland, surveyor for the
re-rstings of property.
PF Smith, the railroad contractor. returned
Yesterday from a two weeks trip over the route
OF the Monte Cristo railroad.
H T. Kirkeudall, the Great Northern con-
tractor, has 400 men now at work on his con-
tract along the Columbia river. and Inside of a
week he will have LOCO.
The Point Defiance Electric Railway Com
many. of Tacoma, has contracted for five Edison
and Eve Thomson-Houstcn cars for the line to
the Edison car shops. 1t now has six cars on
the Point Defiance line.
The Port Townsend Leader SAYS that the Ore
gon Improvement Company is quietly prepar-
Ing 10 resume work on the Port Townsend
southern railroad; that the Henry Buck is to
take grading tools across from Anaeorses and
that surveyors have been on the line Tor some
time.
Dr. Becker, brother of the chief engineer OF
the Great Northern railroad, retoices In pretty
fat contract TO look after the health OF the
laborers on that road at the rate OF i
cent, per head per day. Some OF the
local physicians are bidding on
a snail slice OF IL He offers to sUb-let section
of eleven miles adjoining the city at the rate OF
. cents per head per day When this is fguTed
ont il leaves very little for the sub-consractor
and a nice thing for DR.. Becker for doing 10th
ing-Spoidne RtVieg.
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ana Hamilton streets, found four skele-
TONS TINS morning about 1000 feet west of
the Ross park track and about twenty-five
ieet in front of four cottages at the corner
Oh Hamilton street and Springfield avenue.
another skeleton was unearthed at 2
O'Clock this morning. The remains were
those OF an Indian woman, and the skull
was the only portion of the skeleton in
tact. All of the skeletons were about two
feet below the surface, and in close prox-
unity to several residences, which are evil
IDENTIFY on the site of an old Indian bury
ing ground. The blankets in the bottom
OF the pine boxes which enclosed the skel-
etons were in good state of preservation.
The Catholic fathers were notified of the
md, and will care for the remains.
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Charming Maude Granger.

Everyone appears to be talking Of
Maude Changers engagement at the Seat
tie opera-house next week. The ladies
are anxiously awaiting her coming to go
into ecstacies over her superb dresses, her
diamonds and her charming personality;
the sterner sex to be dazzled by her beauty
and genius. But it is an artistic, not a
professional beauty, that Maude Granger
will be seen. Her plays are of peculiar
intensity and demand the utmost of the
exceptional emotional abilities that Maude
Granger only has. The eccentric Sara
Bernhardt went into raptures over "In-
herited," and offered any sum the author
ess might demand, but Mrs. Hooper, with
true American patriotism, declared that
none but an American actress should pro-
duce her play and Maude Granger was the
only one she considered competent to do
so. Miss Changers engagement COM
mences Monday night and her opening
bill will be her own dramatized version OF
Belot's famous "L'Article A." entitled
'The Creole" Tuesday that weirdly
beautiful play, "Inherited," is the chosen
bill, and Wednesday she will close her
engagement in Alexandra Dumas master
work, "Camille."
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MATER Front NOTES.

Steamer l. J. Perry went to Langley with a
lot OF lumber for house.
Steamer Glide starts in today running on the
Vsshon island route again.
steam, collier Keweenaw will get AWAY today
wf;h a cargo of Black Diamond coal for san
Francisco.
shin Two Brothers will be ready for sea Mon
day with & cargo OF Cedar Mountain coal for
san Francisco.
CAPTAIN Prices new boat was taken to the
foot OF Spring street Yesterday, and the new
boiler put aboard OF her.
Fishing schooner Mystic was towed in by the
tug Mystic, ana VIII be placed on the beach to
have her bottom painted.
Tug Violet took a scow OF clay TO Sidney for
the pottery and brought back scow OF sewer
pipe to be shipped 10 Yakima
Captain lie Ballistsr, OF the steamer Henry
Bailey, reports rise Of seven feet IN the skagit
river within the past few days.
Tug Mayfover was bringing 9 scow OF wood
from Richmond beach yesterday and the seow
began to leak. A portion Of the wood had TO be
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-11
SHORT CUT RAILROAD
Probable Extension Of the
Washington Central.
EASY ROUTE TO ELLENseuRe,
Great Northern May Compile te Portland
q Puget Sound Line soon-The
Electric Combine.
The operations of the Northern Pacific

The operations Of the Northern Pacific
engineers in Eastern Washington cast
some doubt on the accuracy of President
Cakes statement that no extensions will
be built in this section this year. Two
large engineering parties are at work sur
veying an extension of the Washington
/ Central from Coulee City westward, and
railroad men draw the inference that the
/ Northern Pacific is preparing to shorten
It's line and cut into the territory which
the Great Northern has regarded as its
peculiar perquisite.
The route which has been figured ont by
railroad men sfor the extension of the
Washington Central is from Coulee CITY
south to the mouth of Grand Coulee, then
north and west down Foster creek to the
Columbia, down that river past the mouth
of the Wenatchee and then southeast to
Ellensburg. This route is said to have as
easy grades as can be found in that Sec
ton, and, though rather circuitous, is
not more SO than that by which the
Great Northern crosses the Big Bend
country to the mouth of the Wenatchee:
In fact, the Great Northern swings as far
south ont of the direct line as the Wash
ington Central would swing north by this
route. The great bow by which the North
ern Pacific swings down to Pasco would be
cut of, and route across the Eastern part
Of the state from Spokane to Ellensburg
would be secured, having as easy grades
and no more mileage than the Great
Northern.
This line would also carry the Northern
Pacific to the gates of the Okanogan min
ing country, so that branch up Concon-
ully creek or the Okanogan river would
tap the lucrative mineral business of Con-
conully Ruby and Loomiston. The Ca
madam Pacific is already building branch
from Osoyoos junction down Okanogan
lake to the boundary, about mile above
0kanogan Smiths ranch. and the North
ern Pacific is considering the construction
Of O line to meet and compete with it,
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St. Paul Railroad Dividends.

New YORK, March 10.-Tho st. Paul d.
rectors at their meeting today declared no
dividend on common stock. but declared a
semi-annual dividend of 80 per cent. on
preferred stock. When the meeting adj
journed statement was issued declaring
that the earnings of the first half of the
fiscal year had been exceptionally large.
1t says that at the close of June 80. next,
the accounts will be made up showing the
results of the years business, and the
board will then have information as to the
condition of the crop and the probable
earnings of the year to come, so that be-
fore resuming dividends an intelligent opin
ion may be formed as to what rate can be
safely paid.
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Astoria's Railroad.

PORTLAND, March 10.--A contract has
been signed, sealed and delivered for the
construction of railroad from Astoria,
Or, to transcontinental connection. The
signers of the contract are c. w. Schofeld
and George Goss, who are to construct the
road, and Messrs. Taylor Dement, and VIM
gate, of Astoria, trustees in the matter of a
subsidy. The work, according to Schofeld,
will commence within ten days. The
builders are to receive cash subsidy OF
$500. 900 when the road is completed. The
road is to run through Nehalen valley,
and it is supposed that it will connect with
the Southern Pacific at Hillsboro. 1t is
thought that New York capitalists are
backing Schofield.
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working for Amendment to Interstate
Law-Argumentsf for 1t.

Law-Argumentsf for 1t.
Ben c. Irwin, of Portland, president of
the Oregon and Washington division of
the Travellers Protective Association of
America, is at the Northern hotel. This
division was but recently organized, with
headquarters at Portland, but is rapidly
growing, Mr. Irwin said last night, in an
interview with a PosT-INTELLIGEscER re-
porter:
We are anxious to have Seattle form a post
to aid US in bringing TO the Pacific Northwest the
international convention OF 1898. Ths conven-
tion would be the best advertisement this Sec
ton could have, for no class of men Is in a
better position TO make known the merits of
the new states than the travellers. We have
divisions in all parts of the United States from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and every ono of
them would be represented.
We are now working hard to secure the pass-
age OF the O'Neill bill to amend the interstste
commerce law SO as TO allow railroads to grant
reduced rates and issue permits for excess bag
gage to commercial travellers. Ii is within the
letter and spirit of section Of the law, which
prohibits discrimination "under substantially
similar circumstances and conditions" The bill
simply amends this section so as to relieve the
railroads from the Interpretation OF the law
which forbids them to extend to travellers the
advantages they enjoy in most European
countries.
Commercial travellers are on the road 800 days
In the year, and IT s but just that they should
be granted lower rates than those who only use
the railroads occasionally; they travel by whole
sale, aud are entitled to wholesale yates. The
limit OF each passengers baggage to $50 pounds
Is also a hardship to manufacturer, iobber re-
taller and consumer, whom applied to travellers.
IL Is estimated that the commercial travellers
contribute yearly sl700O0o00 to the railroads in
fares and excess baggage and 100000 600 tons OF
freight The amendment would allow travellers
wider scope for the sale OF our employers
wares and would cheaper them to consumers.
The saving to the mercantile interests of the
country is estimated at $3.50 900 o day.
Our committss in Washington City has pre-
sented these arguments to the House committee
on interstate commerce and has secured a
favorable report on the bill. It is now at work
on the Senate committee, with good prospects of
auccesa
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Considerable pleasure and satisfaction
were manifested by large audience at
Cordray's last night. The ''Streets of New
York" is proving a popular attraction,
as it has always done wherever played. R.
E. French is adding to his fine record as a
manager by excellent work in the part of
Badger. Mr.. French has good concep-
ton of the character, and presents it with
power and fidelity. Miss Beatrice Lieb is
charming as Lucy, and Miss Margaret
Marshall gives very humorous rendition
of Mrs. Puffy. The general excellence of
the auditorium bill commends it to all
lovers of novel entertainment. Miss Nellie
Lambert, in her wonderful feats with the
rifle, wins loud applause every night. The
Leahey children receive many favors from
delighted auditors for clever rendition OF
several vocal selections.
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Overhead Crossings at Spokane.

Chief Engineer Becker, of the Great
Northern railroad, has gone East to con-
suit with Chief Engineer Kendrick, of the
Northern Pacific, relative TO a change in
the grade of the Seattle, Lake Shore &
Eastern tracks at Spokane. President
Hill, of the Great Northern, desires that
streets shall cross his road overhead, and,
as its line parallels the Lake Shore for
some distance and the latter is not on a
much higher grade. it is impossible for
streets to cross the Great Northern over
head and the Lake Shore at grade. Mr..
Becker will propose a lowering of the
Lake Shore tracks to the same grade as
tho Great Northern, in order that both
NAV be crossed overhead.
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TAToosH, March 10.-5 p. m.-Cloudy;
high southwest wind.
NEAH BAY, March 10.-5. p. m.-Partly
cloudy; brisk southeast wind.
CLALLAM BAY, March l0.-5p. m.-Cloud-
less; light southeast wind. Schooner
American Girl in bay.
PoRr CRESCENT, March 49, p. H.
Cloudy; light east wind.
PoRr ANGELES. March 10.-5 p. H.
Cloudless; light south wind.
PoRr GAMBLE. March 10.-Arrived-Bk
Cowlitz.
SAN FRANcIsco, March 10.-Arrived-
Hawaiian str San Mateo. from Comax
str Columbia. from Portland. Cleared
Str Umatilla. for Victoria. Sailed-Whal-
ing str Karluk, whaling; str oregon, for
Astoria; British sh Highlander, for VAL
psraiso. via Tacoma. Departed - Str
Emily, for Coos bay.
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NEW LINE TO PORTLAND.
Tho Great Northern May Take Hold and
Build 1t Alone

u alone.
The Portland & Puget Sound railroad,
the line from which the Union Pacific was
to reach the Sound and the Great North
ern was to reach Portland, Is not dead but
sieepeth. 1t is likely to be revived by
President Hill, of the Great Northern, and
completed by the time his main line
reaches salt water.
The stock of the company is owned one
half by the Union Pacific and the other
half by the Great Northern. The Union
Pacific had spent 81 SOC, 900 on construc-
ton when its financial difficulties forced a
suspension of work. The Great Northern
has given it time to recover itself and re-
tume work. but it is now understood to be
wearying of the delay. 1t is probable that
when 2. P. Shelby comes out here as gen.
Esral manager he will seek settlement one
way or another of the affairs of the Port
land & Puget Sound road. An amicable
arrangement may be concluded by which
Ethe joint ownership will be continued and
one company or the other will complete
the line. Failing in this, it is probable
that the Great Northern will take steps to
acquire sole ownership of the line and
then complete it. This end might be ac-
eompished by bringing about sale of the
franchise and the work already done on
the line and buying it in on behalf of a
new company.
1t is certain that by some means or other
the Great Northern will get hold of this
line and build it in order to complete the
rake by which Mr.. Hill says he is going to
gather in the business of the Northwest.
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~ STRUCK FOR BETTER FOOD.
Crew of the Tyce Secure Discharge OF
Obnoxious Chinese Cooks.


The fremen and coal-passers on the tug
Tyee struck at Port Townsend Wednesday
because they we're dissatisfied with the
food furnished them by the Chinese cook.
The boat was brought to Seattle with only
one fireman. The two Chinese cooks were
discharged and white cooks taken on in
their places; then another crew was Sc
cured from the union, and the tug left yes
terday for Tacoma to tow vessel to sea.
Secretary Tobin, of the Firemen's Union,
made the following statement regarding
the troubles:
For the past six or eight months the crew
on the Tyee has been complaining of
the food. They reported the matter to Captain
Cove about Christmas, but no change was made
Finally 1t became SO bad that they were buying
food at Port Townsend out of their own pockets.
On Monday, when the beat was out at the Cape,
they told Captain Cove something must be
done. He did not sesm to give them much sat
isfaetion, so when they reached Port Townsend
Wednesday they all went ashore. 1t was no
strike. The men simply quit and took their
pay. The tug was ordered to Tacoma to tow
out a vessel, and one man was sent to fire her
until she reached here, this being the unions
headquarters. Captain Cove then discharged
the Chinese cooks and secured white men in
their stead, and furnished him new crew of
six men.
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BURKE's oUARRYMEN QUIT.
Missing Contractors Work at Curling
ton Stopped-Great Northern to settle.

Missing Contractors Work at Buriing-
ton Stopped-Great Northern to settle.
The steamer Henry Bailey yesterday
brought down from Burlington gang
Of about forty men who had been en-
ployed in the quarry at that place by the
missing contractor, P. d. Burke, III get
ting out stone for the Great Northern
railroad. The men claimed TO have struck
because their pay had not been forthcom-
Ing. They asked for transportation to
Seattle over the company's line, but were
refused. They then-those that had any
money-made arrangements with the cap
tain Of the Henry Bailey to bring them
down. About ten or fifteen Others, who
had no cash, proceeded to walk down.
An official of the company SAID last
night that the men had not struck, but
that the quarry had been shut down,
throwing them all idle, and the company
did not feel that they were entitled to
Tree transportation to Seattle.
The company still holds money when
vas due Burke and proposes to settle
With the men out of it.
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thrown off on the beach and another scow
taken back after it,

thrown off on the beach and another scow
taken back after it.
Weather forecast for twen.y-four hours from
o'clock last evening: For Oregon and Washing.
ton, fair. followed by rain; cooler.
The steamer Hsssslo's shaft Is expected to ar
rive from Portland today, and by the first of the
coming week she will be ready to resume her
run
Captain John Irving. manager OF the Can
adam Pacific Navigation Company. was in the
city Wednesday, and returned to Vancouver
yesterday.
Steamer State of Washington went out with
90 tons of general freight for Lowell and way
points; the Mutnomah had tons in and %
tons out on the Olympia route; the Henry
Bailey came in with so tons OF hay from skagit
river, and the Wasco had II tons OF general
freight in on the Whatcom route.
Beginning Monday, the steamer Greyhound
will abandon her snohomish run owing to the
fact that during the summer months the high
tide is in the night and there will not be sufic-
ent water to enable her TO run to Snohomish in
the daytime. But she will make two trips daily
between Seattle and Everett, leaving here at s
o'clock In the morning and 1245 in the after
noon
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Want Lieutenant Finley Back.

The following dispatch yesterday morn
ing from Chief Kerkam. of the weather
bureau at San Francisco, probably ex-
plains how it happened that yesterday
was the most delightful day of the year: :
Hoist information signal; disturbance
approaching Washington coast and will
probably move southwark" A petition
has been gotten up in San Francisco and
forwarded to the head of the weather bu-
reau at Washington City, asking for the
return of Lieutenant Finley as chief of
the Pacific coast division. A similar
movement is on foot among those inter-
ested in this CITY,
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ADJUSTMENTS.
stuar. Robson in "rhe Henrietta"

Stuart Robson in 1.-THE Henrietta"
"rhe Henrietta," presented at the Seat
tie opera-house last night by Stuart Rob
son and his excellent company. gave un-
qualified satisfaction to large and intel
hgent audience. The complete interest of
every person was retained throughout the
four sparkling acts, and waves of mirth
and laughter rippled over the house con-
timually that were brought forth by the
most natural yet thoroughly artistic
methods. Unlike many of the modern
American productions the play has
genuinely good motive. The author,
Bronson Howard, has taken Wall street
as his scene and many of its brokers as
the characters through which he works
out his plot and tells his tale. He has
painted with the brush of a master the
evil to which this legitimatized gambling
leads men, at the same time picturing GER
tain classes of New York society as wor-
Shipping no god save Mammon and no re-
lIgion even in the church save sesterces.
As comedy should, all ends happily,
lovers are united, broken fortunes repaired
and right triumphs. The sentiment of the
entire story is elevating in tone, and the
lesson taught without teaching Is
powerful and good. Stuart Robson
plays BERTHE, the Lamb. While by
no means the most important
it is unquestionably the most unique char
acter of the play. Robson is nothing If
not unique, picturesque and original. HIS
voice is peculiar, and its rising and falling
infections have contrived to secure for
the owner fortune, and what is more in
dramatic art, reputation. The next
character, and one done ably and intelli-
gently, is that of Old Nick, the master of
Wall street. by George s. Woodward. His
makeup as Vanderbilt was excellent.
Mrs. Robson, as the Widow Opdyke, was
charming. The comedy work of Mr..
Woodward and Mrs. Robson was most at
tractive. Miss Olive May made
pretty and sweet Agnes, wolfe Miss
Ingersoll as Lady Mary was more
than acceptable. Carl Smith, as the VIII
lain, was capable in the earlier scenes, but
toward the latter part he might have been
improved upon. His death scene was not
the best part of his Characterization. The
Rev. DIR. Murray, by ]. B. Eversham, was
clever piece of work. The remainder of
the cast was fully up to the requirements
of their respective roles. The scenery was
better than usual, and the whole perform
ance very attractive. 1.-THE Henrietta" will
be repeated this and tomorrow night.
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Punished for Stealing Chick ems.

William Hamilton and John Dunn, two
representative specimens of the beach,
comber fraternity, were found guilty by
Justice Rivers yesterday of stealing eight
chickens from T. II. Heath, of West and
Lenora streets. The thieves were sem
fenced to pay fine of SOS and to suffer
thirty days imprisonment in the county
Jail. Mike Conley, companion, who very
much resembles the prizefghter of the
Same name, was allowed to go, there being
no evidence against him. The crime was
discovered by trail of blood and feathers
leading from the chicken-coop to the cabin
of the prisoners on the water front.