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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20
RAsPIsG THE HEALTH OFFICER.
DIR. Palmer Makes Commissfoner Van
BrocsSiin Weary

DIR. Palmer Makes Commissfoner Van
Broc;<iin Weary.
The difficulty as to who should pay for
the keeping of patients at the hospital
again came up at the meeting of the board
of public works yesterday. A communi-
cation was received from DIR. F. s. Pal
mer, the health officer, asking an explana-
ton as to why three acquisitions for the
expense of patients had been returned
disapproved. This called forth the ire of
Commissioner Van Brocklin, who en-
phatically declared that he didn't see
why DIR. Palmer never could understand
anything, and thought he had better use
| a mallet and wedge to drive some sense
into his brain. He said he thought the
doctor ought to know by this time that
the rules prohibited the city from paving
the cost OF patients that had been in the
city over six months, as all of these had
been, and, in fact. thought the city should
have no patients except prisoners and
persons afflicted with contagious diseases.
The bid of r. Palmer for furnishing
cordwood at 81. IS per cord, 20 be delivered
at the Lake Washington pumping station.
was accepted, and the secretary instructed
TO prepare contract with him for 500
cords.
The Superintendent of buildings sent in
three recommendations relating to fire
escapes. asking that certain buildings be
required to have better fire protection. and
that the board investigate several other
cases. Action was deferred on all, pend
ing an investigation.
communication from Newman Kline.
on behalf of the Seattle. Lake Shore a.
Eastern railroad, asking that the city bear
portion of the expense of piiing and
planking the open space at the foot of
Seneca street, was read and the request re-
fused.
com plant as to the condition of West
Main street. between Front and West. was
received from Cooper & Levy, and referred
to the street commissioner.
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THE IVES FACTION VICTORIOUS.
IL Controls the Northern Pacific-Big
Deficit I'm Last Year,

NEW YeRK. Oct. l9. The annual report
of the Northern Pacific railroad, submit
ted to the stockholders at the meeting to-
dav. shows that the gross earnings includ-
ing receipts from the Wisconsin Central
and other leased and branch roads, for the
year ending June 80 were so sol. 303: oper-
ating expenses aud taxes SIS 1913. $40; net
earnings from operating, $40, 49,, 953; other
receipts, s., lt6. ~; total net income, $i2.-
924 600, against which have accrued the
following charges: Rentals. S3.4s9. 724 !:
interest on funded debt. $7.o92. 100: guar
antee TO branch road companies, 81 45s. 972:
interest on other than funded debt. $780,
ZIG: sinking funds accrued. 81. III. SIS; sun
dries. $780, 36; total, Si4 SIS .9i5; deficit for
the year. 81 $50 256 Daring the fiscal wear
the funded deb. was increased by the issue
of S6ooo.o0 of collateral trust notes
and decreased by redemption of the
following bonds by action of the
sinking fund: Missouri division. SS2. 900;
Pend d'oreille division. s2s. 90; general
first mortgage bonds. sass 900: general
second mortgage bonds. s2i2.o0o. From
the proceeds OF land sales these bonds have
been cancelled: Pend d'oreiile division.
s3S2,0o The total reduction of the
funded debt was 81 ,oS7 600. The land CON-
missioner's report shows the sales for the
year To be 81 sill acres. amounting to
Isl .3a7; number of acres remaining un-
sold s.. AZ SO.
The meeting adjourned at = O'Clock until
tomorrow, when the stockholders will have
al ad iiuonal two hours in which 10 vote.
Five hundred and eighty thousand shares
were voted today. 5000 less than the total
Ia a. II
faction voted 1920 and the Willard fac
ton 100. 90 shares All the ballots were
cast Tor she Ives and Belmont ticket. the
Willard faction having Withdrawn from
the field. aud Of course the Ives
ticket viii be elected. IL can lie
stated on undisputed authority that the
neS directors will choose Bravton Ives for
president and Robert Harris for vice pres
idenL The new board OF directors will be
as given in the Associated Press dispatches
yesterday.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20

Tug Pioneer came n for coal yesterday.
The new masts were put into the Henry Dem
mis- yesterday.
The revenue cutter Wolcott came into the
harbor yesterday afternoon.
Steamship Crown OF England LETT yesterday
for Naaaimo TO load coal for San Francisco.
The sloop Mayfiower. eight tons, has been
sold by the Gordon Hardware Company to
David Piper Tor 5000
Tug Sea Lion, watch has been cleaned and
painted on the Seattle dry dock, came of yes
teFday and was Inspected.
ship Elipse sailed for san Francisco yeste.-
day with 2,azo :ons of Black Diamond coal, be-
ing towed to sea By the tug wanGeTer.
Tug Edna Is AZ Port Orchard towing stone for
the dry dock, about ninety yards day being
taken iEom the quarrIei in that vicinity on
scows.
Commencing Tuesday next the steamer Henry
Bailey will make three trips per week on the
ekag3t river route under the management o. the
Pacific Navigation Company, leaving Yeslsr's
dock.
ship oweenee viii be tewed here from Ia
coma today To ks 400 tons OF wheat nj the
warehouse. IL wiz rsqu 70 about three DAYS 10
load the wheat. which viii form half the ships
cargo
steamer " ana was two hours late yesterday
from the SifAit>, and went on 20 Iacoma with
the grading OUTFIT which has been used al tie
Diamond poiut quarantine station. she re-
turned and left at / O'Clock Tor the long trip TO
The mouth Of the QH..layute river.
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THE CHARTER TASK.
COnover Elected TO Serve In
stead of Strive.
PARK BOARD SEEMS DOOMED.
The Committee Arranges the Preiimi-
nsries and VIII Begin Work In
Earnest on Saturday

The new charter revision committee met
last night. bat did no business except TO
elect c. I. Conover in place of ex-Judge
Strive, who declined to serve, and TO ap-
point committee on rules. The chair
was occupied by Mayor Ronald, and the
members attending were Thomas +. Drew,
w. G. Armstrong, Dr.. J. 5. Kloeber,
George Donworth, Aldermen Jordan,
Cram and Ingram. Alderman Carrie at
tended as a spectator and City Clerk Stone
man was requested TO keep minutes.
Immediately on converting, it was an
nounced that ex-Judge Struve was COM
PEELED to decline. as he had to go out of
town. DR.. J. s. Kioeber nominated George
II. Hebron. but it was intimated that he
could not serve. and T. +. Drew then placed
in nomination C. T. Conover. who was
elected. The chair appointed Kloeber,
Donworth and Conoyer as committee on
rules.
Mr.. Drew suggested that while they
could not formally organize until all the
members were in attendance. they might
informally talk over the method of pro-
cedurc.
Mr.. Armstrong asked IL there was any
means by which members could have a
copy OF the cnarter.
Mr.. Donworth thought that as the citi-
zens were giving their time gratuitously
they should be furnished with copy OF
the revised ordinances, which contained
not only the charter, but provisions of the
constitution and state laws relating to
cities OF the first class. On Mr.. Drew's
suggestion he added one cory each of the
charter separate. Ii will be necessary TO
have an ordinance TO that effect 1t was
agreed also TO ask the council to appropri
ate s25 for stationery
The conversation turning on the course
TO be pursued. DR.. Kioeber asked if it
would not be good plan to divide up the
work by articles of the charter.
Mr.. Drew said they could either take up
the entire charter or divide the work up
into subjects at once. He rather favored
settling that point without delay.
Mr.. Donworth considered ii the better
plan 20 divide up into subcommittee.
The articles on public works. on finance
and on the legislative body were the most
important As to the park board, the
only suggestion he had heard was that it
be wiped out of existence There we're
other propositions which would need prob
ably more deliberation.
After some further discussion Mr.. Stone
man outlined his plan for keeping the min
utes, which was approved and adjourn
ment taken until Saturday night.
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Dividend On pullman Cars.

CHICAGO. Oct. i9.-The annual meeting
OF the Pullman Palace Car Company was
held todar. Ali the directors were re-
elected and the usual quarterly dividend
OF 81 per share from net earnings declared.
The net revenue Of the company for the
year ending JAY 81 vas $ll, SOS; total
disbursements, 1888. AZ. leaving an ex-
cess of revenue carried TO the credit OF in
come account 81. COS. 40
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r.,,ro,a ana corporation Notes.

General Agent T. A. Saiesu. OF the Northern
Pacific road, will returu home from the Worlds
fair tomorrow
C. ID. Parker, agent at Minneapolis OF the
Traders Disp4teh line. which operates on the
Reading and Nickel Plate roSds, rs in the city.
The three Northern transcontineatal railroads
have made reduction in the less than car load
rates on boiler and plate steel and iron and sheet
and slab zinc from the East to North Pacific
coast terminals. The reduction on the former
commodity is abou, 80 per cent and on tho lat
ter about II per cent
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Jacob Furth joining with them to repre-
sent the Northern Pacific interest he
minority was represented By AnFus MACK
intosh. c. NJ. Sheafe and c. III. kittinger.
and the bonGholders by John Craig. The
old board of trustees vas reelected IS fol-
lows: James B. Williams. of New YORK;
jacob Firth. Of Seattle; George ). Baxter,
of New York; G. W Dickinson. of Tacoma.
aud |. A. Nadeau. of Seattle The minority
representatives took 10 part In the pro-
ceedings
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seattle and New we.,min.,er r.I.,h,n.

NEw WESTMINSTER. oct. 10 special. J.
The estmluster and BurraTd Inlet Tele-
phone company will apply TO the Domin-
ION parliament At the next session for per-
mission 20 extend its line 10 the boundary
a. bialhe, where Il is proposed 10 connect
win TIE sunset line, which will event
aaiiy gave telephone communication with
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland. Spokane and
san Francisco. In anticipation OF desired
PERMISSION, the 7mpany have ordered in
"eFmaHy caoie TO cross the Fraser river.
anu VII lay st as soon as il arrives. some
time next month. The scheme is in high
iavoE wan business men generallv.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20

Between disease and the many cheap
preparations which are palmed off under
the name Of blood purifiers. take your
chances with disease until you can pro-
cure Ayers Sarsapariila-the only reliable
blood purifier. Sold by ali druggists and
dealers in medicine
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20
Lake snore s,ocshoIder. Me-,

The annual meeting Of stockholders Of
the Ss1t'le. Lake SHORE & Eastern Rail-
way Company as held at fae deno, At tbe
ioot Oh Columbia stree. at Ioo'elock yester-
day moTolns. {. II. Prescott, c. u. Dick
insoA and y. q. Chapman, Vs. o acted As
secretary. were preSeas from Iaeoma.
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Price. reduced All Arenas.

4 general revision Of the prices on the 8
Ia carte e3l Of fare Of The Mason Richie.
t1e popular French restaurant, has been
mSie IN tie last ieN days. much 10 the adj
Fan'ase e the consumer. The bill Of fare
g ne regular French dinner, including q
t-''''e % cisref, : also changed daily, Civ
lnF tise public tAe beneat Of variety, aud
The pslcv ! ooly - cents.
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Good Place for Grneerx

The store 2i2 Commercial street. near
Main, now occupied by Winship Bros.
grocery, viii he vacant in a few weeks.
Rent reasonable. Inquire room iij, Squire
Latimer bailding.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20
Throw AWAY You, pnhn.r.

And bus a pair of Calm. Niekelsburg's
waterproof shoes. just the thing for law
yers. doctors, policemen, or any one who
has TO be out IN the wet. They keep the
feet dry and comfortable. For sale only
by Simison Bros, ia Front street
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20

Commencing October Is, the Northern Pacific
Railroad COMPANY Wiz sell nfss-elass round
trip ueket, II Cffczgo from seattle 81 taos
rate. same ticket TO 81 Louis and return 81 -
De not miss this last opportunity 81 taking =
trip ever tie grand seeaic route o. America 10
October 81
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-20

Strawberries ;wieo wssx al Louch. Angus
tine. slS Front
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Ladies 4li-Nool navy hgue u,ackintosh
with 81. k-,saea csEe. Tor sl4 Washington
A2eoSs Coz P2Hy, ia Front street
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kxcur.ion 5000.

chieago ard return via the Great Northern
railway. Tickets good 20 return uGts Noysa-
Der 10
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PARENTS

1t means for you who intend to buy Bows,
Oyercoat, ages 10 to IL years, saving such as i
rarely made.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03

eve have such Il delightful hour at
our club said Mrs. Brown. with en-
thusiaSn. I'VE are now looking into
thcosophy and our president makes it
So interestingly
Large club?' asked the somewhat
Indifferent listener.
Not very. You sec VIC are club
with a conscience. We do not admit
anyone who is not highminded and
anxious to improve. You never hear
word of gossip there orany SANDER"
Il suppose Your neighbor, Mrs. Lang
ley, belongs?"
oh no, no, indeed OF course we
know there is such a person. bnt she
hasn't brain enough to grasp thcoso-
ply. She dcvotcs every minute to those
children. She is very narrow"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
STUDIO ETCNINGS.

Rosa BoNuEuE, the great animal
painter. has just passed her seventy
first birthday. She still wiclds the
brush.
JOHN Rogers, the sculptor of the
Rogers groups, which nave had an
enormous sale. is still occupied with
his work in New York.
JOHN liowErI.s, the novclists son,
was the only American who passed the
examination for admission to the Paris
school of fine arts this year.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, the distin-
gushcd English surgeon, is painter
of no mean order, as his pictures have
figured in the Royal academy and the
salon. He has also written several
novels.
ARrISTJ. c. BEowN, who makes news
boy and bootblack studies for pictures.
is of medium height, white bearded
and ruddy. lie is upward of sixty
years old and is the father of nineteen
children.
AcCoHDING to experts who have re-
Gently been examining it. the Lion of
st. Marks 1t Venice dates back to the
twelfth century. NJ. Casati, the wcll-
known arcll;rologist. however. places
the date iuuch earlier. and still adj
here's To the popular notion that the
lion Is of Etruscan origin
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
ALL OVER EUROPE.

The use of torture in legal proceed
.ngN was permissible in Austria until
well within the present century
MoNACo is reported as planning to
hold Il universal exposition next year
Monaco has l. territory of eight square
miles and standing army of one hun
drcd and twcnty-siX men.
Ur to the end of last year the trus-
toes of the Peabody donation fund
have provided for the laboring poor of
London 1i.215 rooms, with wash
houses and laundries, occupied by 90
IA persons.
TIE tyranny of landlords in America
has not yet reached the stage dcvel-
oped at l'orthcawl Il Welsh watering
place, where a house owner only rents
on condition that his tenants shall
draw no water from the pumps on
Sunday
sNAI.S pace was recently careful
~ observed in Florence, Italy. Sever
al of the rnolluslls were placed between
two points ten feet apart and started.
1t was ascertaincd that the fastest
snail in the race Travelled at the rate of
n mile in fourteen days.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
FASHION AND FANCY.

THE French method of administering
castor oil to children is to pour it into
pan over Il moderate fire break an
egg in it. and stir When cooked.
flavor with salt or sugar or currant
jelly.
SOME years ago it was considered L
mark of good breeding for lady,
while using a knife, fork or spoon. TO
extend the little finger. Time has
caused a change, for it is considered
an evidence of extreme aifectation to
do it nowadays.
THE oldfashioncd lace bcrthcs now
in vogue are kind to the laccm:l:crs,
for they require the best of lace. and
they are kind, too, to plump shoulders
and pretty ncclls, which look never so
plump and so pretty as when rising
from one of them.
FEIIX. the celebrated Partisan dress
maker. has, ii is asserted, always con
dcmncd crinolinc in any shape. When
the so-callcd dress improvcrs were OK
tcnsivcly worn. both Felix and Worth
absolutely forbade the use of the steel
springs in the skirts which they sent
ont.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
AFRICAN PUFF AooERs
They Are Extremely venomous, But Not
Very Aggressive.

They Are Extremely Venomous, But NOT
Very Aggressive.
South Africa is what herpetolopists
call rich i'll snakes" and especially in
puff addcrs, which, on account of their
size, arc the most dangerous. During
the warm months scarcelya day passes
without q puff adder incident being re-
corded. And, in consequence of the
towns spreading sparsely over wild
districts, with detached residences and
extensive gardens, it is no uncommon
occurrence to sec puff adder mcander-
ing down the street"
Happily, in the majority of cases,
the people know how to avoid them or
deal with them; but, notwithstanding
presence of mind and good courage.
fatalities do occur. The, reptile even
gets into houses sometimes, as do the
cobras of India.
gentleman was walking across his
dining room, when he felt something
knock against him, and, looking down.
he found puff adder hanging on to
his trousers. 1t had struck at him.
but most providentially the fangs had
caught only the garment. The aston
ishcd wearcr. to shake off the reptile,
performed, as he afterward declared,
"the most vigorous hornpipc that ever
was danced" until he got free of the
snake, which was then quickly dis
patched.
Dogs become frequent victims
through their keen sense of smell and
their determination to investigate
One splendid large dog and two fox
terriers met with their death last sum
mcr near Port Elizabeth through the
bite of puff addcrs.
Though there are other highly ven
omous and equally abundant snakes ut
the cape. they are more of the active
cobra kind; while the puff addcrs are
extremely sluggish and inactive rep
tiles. which do not get out of the way.
but lie half hidden among the hcrbagc
or among roots and stones, with which
they assimilatc in color BY their
hiss they bctray themselves when dan
ger threatens. and that is all
Happily. these great deadly scrpcnts
are not aggressive, and do not attack
unless provoked.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
IN THE COURTROOM.

MAN in Evansv illc Ind, who is SUI
ing for IL divorce is the father of TWEEN
ty-seven daughters.
FIVE ministers of Macon, Mo, are
being tried upon the charge of libel for
publishing a circular denouncing n
school in which dancing is taught.
AN aching tooth caused so much pain
to Mrs Jane l.. Towle, of Dcudham,
Mass. that She went to a dentist He
removed sound tooth instead, she
sued him, and recovered $3.50.
y RAISED post Office order caused
the arrest of the forgcr in Buffalo, y.
y. At the time of the trial the pris-
oncr snatchcd the order from the
Judges desk, and hurricdly swallowed
it. This destroyed the proof of his
crime.
a ST. LOUIS man owed n dentist for
set OF false teeth. The latter brought
suit and tried to recover the mastica-
tors. ~ Judge of that city decided that
ns the defendant had used the teeth,
they could not be seized; they were q
part of the mans body
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
PERSONAL. PARTICULARS,

MGR. SAroLI.r has n salary of six
thousand dollars Il year, and, in the
matter of income, is far behind many
parish priests.
Thomas a. EDISON recently said that
he never owned watch in his life.
II never want to know what time II. ia ~
so he says.
THREE years ago WI Hun Penk was
cook in mining camp. To-day he
owns two important mines in Arizonn
and is reported to be worth about
three million dollars.
Miss FLORENCE DAsCoM, n Massachu
sets girl, will receive the title of
l'h. d. next term from Johns Hopkins
university the first of her sex to get
such an honor from that institution.
BRIGHAM IouSG, JR., advises his peo-
pie to regard politics as of Us much i'm
portancc as religion, and predicts the
Mormons will become powerful poll
ticians and saints"
PROF. ELISHA GRAY was once n black
smiths apprentice, and has rusty
wrought iron fire shovel kept in Il cor
ncr OF his library to prove it. He
pounded the shovel into shape on an
Ohio anvil early in the tifties.
MIR. PRYOR. the oldest clerk in the
pension office, has returned to work
after an absence of over year. He is
ninety years old, and has been in the
department forty years He is an au-
thority Oh the history of soldiers in the
revolutionary war.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
THE TREE OF LOVE.
1t Never For;cis To Show Its Own
Special HccnIinri,T.

1t Never For;:cis to Show Its Own
Special REGULARITY.
correspondent of St Nicholas. Mrs.
Mary Mcneil Scott. requests that paper
To tell of very curious tree, picture
of which she has drawn for YOU from
life. This tree, it seems. never for
gets its own special popularity. 1t
stands in the grounds of tho famous
Buddhist temples of Shiba, Toxic. la
pan. the lady says. and is. She believes,
the only one ever seen in the sunrise
kingdom.
The priests relate that many years
a:co Il pilgrim brought small cutting
from India, and, when, three months
later, it was planted in Japanese
ground sacred to the great Buddha, it
at once began its slow and steady
growth. 1t is now from twenty to
twenty-five feet high-not a very tall
tree, but surely very remarkable one,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03

a. you will see by examining the pie
tnrc; for every branch, every twig is
joined to another.
The bark is gray and smooth. and
the leaves are shaped like those of
the water maple
The Japanese call it "Ai-no-ki," or
tree of love, from its atfcctionatc habit
of joining hands
1t is of the genus Ficus and is re-
lated to the banana tree, the fig, which
grows in all of the southern states,
the india-rubhcr tree and the mulberry.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
Truthful. But Not Wise.

teacher III a Massachusetts school
was cndcavoring to make clear To the
young pupils minds the meaning Of
the word slowly SO he walked across
the platform in the manner the word
indicates. Now, children" said he,
tell me how l walked" There was n
moment of silence, and then one little
fellow, who sat near the front. almost
paralyzed the teacher by hurting out:
"BowlcgCed,"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-03
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
TO GO WEST.

Salem having been connected with
Roanoke by electric cars. which as
cures cheap and rapid transit to par
ties living in Salem and working in
Roanoke, and as Salem can give in her
different factories employment to a
large number Of young ladies; also
cheap homes either to renters or buyers
This in connection with her cheap
markets make it very desirable to the
majority Of us just now For further
information address box sc. Salem, Va
10 law limo