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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-11
To Experiment in Oyster Culture.

Washington City, July 1o.Special.-The
war department. through Joseph h. Doe.
the acting secretary. has granted a lease
OF an unused and shallow bay and the
land adjoining situate in Clallfm county
on government reservation, to Or. +.
II. Stanley. OF Port Angeles. for the pur-
pose OF experimenting in oyster culture.
The locality the use Of which has been
secured by Or. Stanley. is said 10 be pecu-
Harry fitted for the purpose OF such an
experiment. and those interested IN u ex-
pect TO have great success in their I'M
derfa king
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-11
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-La,est T. Report
R3H!Aa!!! RRskiaes

an example Of Robert Owens. Frank " al
lace. Arthur Ferry and Ben Turner. TIE
boys who pleaded guilty 10 stealing mer-
chaniise from Alderman \ Andersen
store. when the attorneys for the BOYS
arose and claimed that the plea had been
entered under a rnisapprehension. TAezr
explanation was that they understood the
court would suspend sentence, and under
That belief had advised a plea OF gully
Deputy Prose- w;ing Attorney Morris sta
ted that he presumed he was in a measure
responsible for the misa pEyrehenS.on OF
the attorneys for the defense. After his
the court allowed the boys 10 Withdraw
their pleas and continued the cases TO
July II, when a regular trial w.n be neld.
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81 OF the mayor fncluted in the minutes
resulted in a tie vote kahajey ara sck
being In favor. Jones and The mayor oo-
pc~rd.
ksaaley denied the mayors right TO
cast tying vote.
The mayor simply replied tnst "nat ne
id he did with the best Interests OF tns
department In view Meek said ne vas
actBated BY tire same motives a--i
thought thai the mayor arrozated 100
much power 20 himself. kahaley ssl1
ne took some CREDIT for making an effl-
cieui fire department.
Mayor Paalps said the fire depar' meut
vas ali right, and that The men always
did their dirty. Then the comm lssicn
transacted routine business
can n q. Conner, OF The fire boat.
reported that ne tried 20 make drunken
rafnchsr named kaiz go away from the
front OF the engine house June H. The
rarcher chased Conner inside the house
ana struck him Then Conner klcksd
the raucner. who iimped away. swearing
ne would have Conner arrested. Tlis ex-
.,ianstsan 0f the tragic affair was ac-
cepted.
Conner also fled charges agains. En-
pfneer Kent and StoSer Connolly for be-
ing away from the house without lea s.a
OF absence. Meek, Jones and kanaiey
decided 10 Investigate as committee.
The Monthly Report.
Acting Chief Clark reported that there
naere ven alarms during Jun. insurance
and losses s,ei-sg as follows: Insurance
on buildings, s.. i0s. insurance on con-
tents. s20a1. loss on contents, 500. IN
sarance paid This does not include the
loss on the Seattle Consolidated power
house. which has no: been adjusted.
Applications from Henry ID. George
ana Charles Van Als.ine for positions IN
the depare,nent were placed on lie.
Kahaley was appointed a committee 10
confer with the corporation counsel and
hnance committee regarding the salary
OF men acting" as officers Of different
companies.
A petition from residents for a fire
box al Cushing and Aiyah stress was re-
ferrsd
resolution was adopted recommend
ing that rhe contract for repairing the
axle OF engine No. be let 10 the Wash
ington Iron Works at $1I5. she lowest
bidder. The next lowest was $3.50 by the
Vulcan Iron Works.
Harry Hale OF hook and ladder com
pany No. I. was granted thirty days
leave of sbseDce.
The aotfor of ting Chief Clark in ap-
pointing SIX extra men july and put
ting the Watrous truck in service was
approved.
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Young CRIMINALS CONFESS.
Petty Thieves Plead Guilty when Con
fronted bv an officer

Detective Sam Corhett has accompl shed
clever piece of work in running down
two Young criminals named Herbert Mar
tell and ROhert oyer. beth OF whom are
only Is years Old. Charges ~ burglary
were abo-It - he filed. but in cons!dera-
ton Of the ages az the boys the com
plants were made 70 read peti; larceny.
Detective Corhe;t obtained confes-
sion from each hoy. and when the cases
came up yesterday afternoon in the mu-
utc'pal court they pleaded guilty. Judge
Glasgow would nos accept the pleas hnt
continued the cases to July Is a 70 o'clo7k
IN me morning.
Over broke into y. =. RoSenheck'S
residence ar Ne. a. NIcCtaire street. ard
stole personal property valued at 3i5.
When arrested nv Correct he conf sSSed
and helped return .She goods.
Nar;ell went home with z l.. Gamble
and later returned. brcke into the house
ard stole $40. The same night n .sss,,
with e W Parks Daring the n.Sht he
got ~ ard stole his "fr3eni's' clothes.
hut returned them the next day wneS
Parks spoke Of getting a detective
Boy burglars Withdraw Confession.
IN ne municipal court yesterday AFTER
noon Judge Glasgow was about 10 make
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-11
HUMANITY'S ENEMY.

The last enemy to be overcome IS
death" and yet worlds are born and
brought TO their highest estate OF soul
life for the higher expression OF progress
sfve attainment. and yet death. the last
enemy. has not Yet been overcome and
will not till humanity realizes electricity
and its constituents is the spark Of
health and life. Find the truth of these
remarks II you have any bodily ailment
bv going 10 DR. Darrin at sieis Pacific
avenue. Tacoma, whose wonderful cures
as related below cannot fail TO convince
the most Skeptieal:
Mr.. II. j. Allen. 10 Hamilton avenue.
Portland. catarrh OF the stomach and
bowels. hsmorrhages. etc. belfast. cured.
l.. p. Smith. Freerori. Washington.
liver and kidney complaint, cured. lie
was reduced eiEh*een pounds in flesh
Mrs. r. Grtfflth. Boisford. Wash.-Ca-
tar-h. bronchitis. dyspepsia, kidney
trouble and female complaints. restored
TO health.
r. Z. sawtau Independence. Wash
Dvs9ep~ia AMI kidney complaints. pro-
noun ed Brigh.'s disease by some ply
sicians restored
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a CORPSE IN THE RIVER.
Ransom stokes Believed to Have Been
Mursiered AT sunnydale.


Murdered at >unnydaie.
The dead body OF a man was found in
the river near Sannydale yesterday after
noon dnder circumstances which indi-
cate that murder has been committed,
and that the murdered man was Ransom
Stokes, an old resident OF Sunnydale-
9ir. Stokes who was an old bachelor
OF % years, a native CT Vermont, had
been missing since the Fourth of July,
and his friends. W. :. Clark and John
Leggett, had noticed his absence for the
last day or two Yesterday on going to
.the pcstoffice for their mail. they
found that he had not called there.
as had been his custom. and they went
to his house to look for signs OF him.
They found the. door locked. but on
looking through the window saw no per-
son there, but noticed Stokes trousers
and boots on the floor. AS he had been
in the habit od going TO swim they went
to the river. and were guided TO the place
where a dead body lay by the smell 1t
emitted II was impossible TO identify
the body. as no pant of 1t was visible
except the breast, all the rest being COW
cred by logs and brush. They did not
move st. hut Immediately came 10 this
city and reported the facts 10 Coroner
lAskam.
The circumstances are ali believed TO
show the; the body Is that CT Stokes, and
that he had been murdered. He HAD
considerable property, and was supposed
to have kept a large sum OF money In
his house. He was a man Of solitary
habits. having lived alone at Sunnydale
for eighteen years.
Coroner Askam and Deputy Sheriff Nc
Cory went out last night to investigate
the matter. and are expected home some
time today.
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Product of a saloon Row.

Charles Dietz, who runs a saloon at
Front and Pike streets. was prisoner IN
the municipal court yesterday afternoon
on the charge of assault and battery, and
his bartender, Henry Knust, was also
there on the charge of interfering with
an officer. Officer Crawford, the arresting
officer. said that Dietz had trouble with
man named Bushman and struck him in
the face Dietz then went into his saloon
from the street and refused to come out
from behind the bar. While arr1iny
Dietz the officer claims that he was OBJ
structed by Knust. The prisoners pleaded
not guilty.
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,ss ont Re went 70 the depot. and whea
the royal tram came IN pooiittie ana ms
big faSpoIe were ;hs most conspicuous
objects in the 7agesntry. the silly nag
bearer enpha sizing his consna@iliy Win
a display OF antics which exasI,era'sU tle
.snsanes The Japaness. however. seemed
N regard it as a good joke. and u =
r,.norea the emperor win decorate MIN
Tor his silly Nerformance.
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And Make Money at II.

- VOL, only know II the trouble Is with
,-o,,- digestion. II that was good you
would sleen better. wake better, work
better. and make more money at a. how
80, er,,s get on when the whole system
i sluggish Bot people don't realize
what IS the trouble. A box CT kipans
Tabules makes asfe worth living. A drug
elsss
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Doolittie's Exploit in Yokohama.

CHICAGO Tribune.
Congressman Dooiittie. OF Washington.
who IS now in Japan. has been airing Ills
Amerieanism in a very silly fashion.
When the emperor recently passed
through Yokohama Doolittle procured a
long flagstaff, upon which he fixed the
Japanese and American flags. Thus fit-
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Ladies' or the Mnecahee. organic

\ branch 81 che order 81 Ladies' 81 the
Msccabces Was organized IN this city yes
tcsdsy go bc known as Seattle Hive. No
Fudocia : Monsf. who IS deputy Sd
prerle ruler 81 the order Tor tho world is
o. ihe city ard otjciatea az the Institution.
y WAS df1ded ~ leave The charter open
temporarily. The order Is composed en-
Jtreiy ~ women AMI Is similar 10 other
beneficial EXAMINATIONS With an insurance
department.
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For an Underwriters Association.

The efforts of Pacific Coast underwriters
to form an association are still progress
ing Frank Hanford. of this city. is now
in Portland with that object in view.
What will be the result of the movement
cannot now be told
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roo LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

V-ANTED-A rntddfe-aged Respectable
and heaathy woman at the European
rafh house. SIS Front Street, fremont
building, second door.
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DaNanai>a Ice cream. ga quart. Tels-
pAoae Is.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27
THE BICYCLE A MIRACLE.
Never Before Has So Light Structure
Sustained Such Weights.

1t seems absolutely impossible that q
wheel thirty inches in diameter, with a
wood rim and wire spokes, so light that
the whole structure weighs only twenty
ounces, should sustain without perma-
nent distortion the weight of four men
standing on its side, w ith supports at four
points only under the rim and no hub
support whatever, says the Engineering
Magazine.
1t also seems Incredible that cycle ca
pable of carrying a man of 100 or IT'S
pounds In weight can be made so light
that the whole structure weighs less that
nine pounds. Yet this has been done;
even at the roadster weight of twenty-five
or twenty -four pounds, the cycle carries
greater load with safety than has ever
been put on any other vehicle.
| The influence of the cycle on social life
| is already great and will probably con-
stantly extend as it provides an outdoor
sport and amusement for women which
did not previously exist in any form in
America. American women are not walk
ers, but the cycle is perhaps even better
suited to woman's use than mans and
seems destined to add an outdoor element
| to the life of woman the world over which
was not possible without the winged
Wheel
The miracle of the bicycle lies in its
birth, death and resurrection in it's in
credible load bearing power in proportion
to weight; in it's displacement of the
horse as means of pleasure, and in the
selection of it's mechanical details of com.
pressed air support, tubular framing and
chain driving.
All of these are details often before in
troduced in machines, but never before
permanently retained. That these cast
offs are undeniably power savers is con-
vincingly proved by their continued use
under human muscle-driving power.
Finally the one great achievement of
the bicycle is to increase the human pow
ers of 1ocomotion so that the slow-footed
man is made one Of the swiftest of all run
ming creatures.
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27

veloped new capabilities Gradually as a
final result of centuries of development,
the bones of the lower fins were modified
into rudimentary limbs while. the uorsal
fins disappeared. And thus the next
great step upward in the anstion from
the fish to the reptile. An object lesson in
this species of transition is given us even
today by Dame Nature in the metamor-
phosis of the tadpole into frog. This
shows, in a general way. and IN short
space of time how the wonderful change
from the fish to the reptile took place.
Frogs, toads and salamanders OF the
present day are indeed degenerate survl-
walls from the stegocephalus batrachlans,
or primitive salamanders, who form the
originals are now extinct They were
an intermediate class, between fish and
reptiles proper, and are known as am
phibians, because they lived both in
water and on land. They aourished
over q large part of the earth's surface.
from the time OF the coal forests to that
of the Triassic sandstones- Their fossil
remains have been found in the proper
formations in all the great continents
except South America. They were known
to Haeckel, who put them into his genoa
logical series.
Fourth in the list as we go up
ward toward man come the thero-
morpherous reptiles of the pernian OF
losing period of the carboniferous age
and paleoxic era. These begin to develop
some of the characteristics of mammals.
Fossil remains have been found in Eu-
rope, Africa and America. But these re-
mains were fragmentary and had been
overlooked by science, although Haeckel
had predicted that fossils with the charac-
teristics of this fourth link could be found.
at first associated the fragme nts to-
gether and discovered their mammalian
characteristics
Fifth in order come the protodonta,
closely allied to the carniverous reptiles,
who are found in the still older forlna
tions of the Triassic period. These were
first defined by Prof Osborn of Columbia
College. I was the first to put them into
the genealogical series Only few speci
mems have been found.
''The sixth link, the pantotheria, 6
group something similar to opossums,
like them being. marsupials-i. g., they
carried their immature young in pouches
They were first defined by Prof. Marsh o.
Yale 1 was the first to include them il
the genealogical table.
"The seventh group, the creodonta, car
niverous animals of the lower eocene
period was the first to define. Periods
had been found in Europe, but theil
structure had never been made out unit
l was able to define them from addi
| tional fragments found in my explora
tions and put them in the genealogical
series. They were mammals, with primi
tive claws and carniverous teeth.
"The eighth group, the condylarthra
I discovered and introduced into the gen
ealogy. No parts of them were known tt
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27
VARIETIES OF CHINESE.
The Women are Modest and Their Cloth
ing is Comfortable.

There are many Chinas. or many kinds
of China, but the only one expected to
ind was the one did not see 1t was an
ideal I had been forming all along the
years between my first geography and my
latest purchased book of country peopled
by men wearing broad brimmed hats, and
carrying boxes Of tea on each end of the
bamboo poles they balanced on one
shoulder That sort of man l saw once
or twice among the millions I met, but
the whole combination I missed alto
gether. My China has its gentry. it's
merchants. it's workmen sand it's farmers
not to speak of beggars, actors, priests,
conjurers and sailors We found it's mer-
chant class polite, patient, extremely
shrewd, we'll dressed, pattern shop keep
ers. We found its gentlemen graceful,
polished, generous and amiable. but the
peasantry constantly reminded us the of
country folk of continental Europe out
side of Russia.
Theirs was the same simplicity of Co.'S
tune, intelligence and manners. They
| live in very much the same little villages
of thatched cottages Theirs was the
same backwardness, shyness +, cunning In
trade. the same distrust of strangers and
strange things The sharpest features
of the comparison was seen in the
| Chinese farms; for, where we were, every
handful of earth was alomst literally
passed through the hands of its cultiva-
tors, every leaf was inspected, every inch
watered, manured. watched, and cared for
as a retired Englishman looks after his
back garden The result was a fertility
beyond compare, glory OF vegetation,
a universally of cultivation that per.
mitted no waste places. 1t was system
that always included the preparation of g
second growth to be when the trans
planted first reached it's harvest As com
pared with Japan, one feature of every
view was strikingly in favor of the largel
country. The dress and behavior Of thu
Chinese will not offend Europeans.
The women of Central China are no
merely most modest, they are completed,
dressed as any woman I have ever seen
They are covered from Seck to heels il
costume composed of a jacket ..ant
trousers. AS Mr.. Weldon says: "Thei
complete freedom of movement is calcu
lated to produce the most perfect nation
physically. 1t is Gods providence tina
this menace to the safety to the world il
offset by their innutritious food and thei
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27
COPE's BIG FISH STORY.
A Scientist Who Claims that we are q
Scaly Race.

He will Publish the First Genealogical
History of Man, in Which He VIII I'm
dertake to Show that Apes and Lemurs'
Extinct Monsters and Primeval Fish
Frame-why Should the Spirit of Nor
tai be Proud?
Prof. Edward Drinker Cope of the Uni
versity of PENNSYLVANIA is the man VINO
has started the theory that humans sprung
from the fish, instead, as Darwin clalms'
the ape. Prof. Cope is writing aibook IN
which he will undertake to prove that he
is right. This book has already been
named primary Factors in Evolution. "
The New York Herald says it will for the
first time give genealogical history OF
man brought up to the latest date.
The book deals only with large divi-
sions of animals "When you come down
to species, - said the professor, "much
finer distinctions must be drawn Here
and there hiatuses exist. There are what
are vulgarly known as missing links, not
only between man and the highest forms
of anthropoid apes, but between other
types. Nevertheless as broad generaliza-
tion the genealogical history here present.
ed may be assumed to be correct. 1t GER
tainly affords an excellent working n.y.
pothesis. F"
Man is the highest form of vertebrates,
and yertebrates are the highest form OF
animal life A vertebrate, it is almost
needless to explain, is an animal endowed
with spinal column. In tracing the
gensalogy of man Prof. Cope begins at
the period when his ancestors first acquir-
ed yertebra. Now, there is still extant
in the shallow waters of the Mediterra-
mean and other temperate seas fishlike
creature called an amphioxus, which is
evidently one of natures first rude expert
ments in the direction of a vertebrate anil
NAL. So rudimentary is its backbone that
it doesn OF contain any bone at all, but
only prophecy of it in cartilage Never
theless, the cartilaginous notocchord--a
mere cellular rod-of he taniphioxus is
the progenitor of all yertebral columns.
In the human embryo, for instance, the
yertebral column makes it's first appear.
ance exactly as it now exists in the amphi
oxus 1t was a primeyal amphioxus,
which eventually developed into the fish
that became the remote ancestor of the
human race.
"Exactly what that fish was science
itself cannot say. But it may be taker
for granted that it lived in lagoons wher'
the shallow water compelled it to breathe
air occasionally. Its gills developed ant
increased capacity for air and assumed
the similitude of lungs, thus enabling
the fish to crawl on Shore as, indeed
some fishes DO still. New exigeneies de
The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27

of the aIthropoid apes more closely rasem-
bles that of man in the most imnortant
respects than it does that of the monkeys.
This is especially true of the yertebral
column, where the anapophyses are want
ing in apes and man, while they are we'll
developed in monkeys and lemurs. But
I want to call your attention to a curi-
Gus discovery made about teeth in man
and and in his ancestors
ssThe lemurs, and indeed all nrimitiye
mammals, have triangular molar teeth,
The crowns have three tubercles. Now in
the higher type of hoofed animals as we'll
as in the apes and in the lower types of
the human race, the molar teeth NAV
be roughly described as square and their
crowns have four tubercles. In other
words, the higher type of man is RETRO
grading in his teeth and getting back to
the lemur stage, although he is pro-
crossing in brain power. The teeth of the
horse are almost as superior to mans as
mans brains are to horses. It is we'll
established fact that all retrogression
is in a line of advance already laid down
so that we may we'll hold that the teeth
of the most civilized man are getting
back to the lemur type. 1t is a case of
atayism or reyersion to some ancestral
defect.
" What do you suppose brought this
reversion?'' asked.
80, undoubtedly the fact that highly
civilized man eats soft food, prepared
and cooked with a view to eliminate the
necessity of much chewing "
"And now, " said I :" what are your
ideas about primitive man? Who was
Adam?'' " Well, taking Adam to mean
the primitive man, I have no doubt
number of simian or lumerian ances-
tors may have changed into the lower
form of primitive man.
9'And do we know what that lowest
form was?"
"The lowest type of which any fossils
have survived is the Neanderthal man, Sc
called from valley in Rhenish Prussia,
where skull of this type was first found.
The important discovery made in the
grotto of Spy, in Switzerland, of two
skeletons almost complete, whose skulls
betrayed similar characteristics. showed
conclusiyely that there dwelt id Europe
during the paleolithic times race of mar
which possessed a greater number of sim
ian, or monkeylike, traits than any
which has left a record elsewhere OF
which now exists These characteristic,
are the enormous superciliary ridges ant
glabella, the retreating frontal region
and glabella, the thickness of the crania
walls the rudimentary and retreatine
chin, and the large size of the back molars
''In these respects the Neandertha
man approximated pretty close to the
orangs, chimpanzees, and gorillas. II
short, yol might say that the Neander
thai man is the missing link, of whom
science has long been in search. The low
est types of existing man tend toward th'
ape. But perhaps some man of an ever