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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
oaehec Feel. the Enrth,uaar

MONTREAL May @--There was an
earthquake shock here tonight at la.l5.
From the time the rumble was perceptiblA
iii the shock WAS over was sixty-6ve Sec
ends The shock Itself lasted ten seconds
Telegrsp1ic reports received here Indicate
that the quake was fel: all down the OF
tEwa valley and through Eastern Quebec.
In 8. Johns. Quebec. the inhabitants
rushed into the streets II was rartici-
larry severe at ST. Hisaire mountain.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
ROGERS QUARRELING AGAIN
This Tine with the Board Of Par
aons-Wanfs TO See the
Eyideu nee.

Special Dispatch to The observation-disclosures.
OLYMPIA, May Z.--The governor has
not we. announced decision In the mat
ter az the applies lions for pardon which
were fled with him by the board or par
dons seversi days ago. The governor re-
fuses TO act unit! the evidence In each
ease In filed with him. while the board re-
fuses to file the testimony or any other
documents except It's own recommended
tons Pending an agreement the appli-
cants must remain In the penitentiary.
whatever the merits OF their cases
may be.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28

NEW YORK. May T.-It is likely that
the persons indicted for participation In
the Seeley dinner last January will not be
tried. The district attorney has about
come to the conclusion that the best inter
ests OF the community demand that the
details OF the dinner be allowed to remain
buried.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
HOWLETr KEEPS OFFICE.
Arid LaAA Com mlssfoneR Declines to
Surrender TO Auditor
Letter.

Special Dispatch to the Post-InteiEceneer.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash. May IT,
travelling Auditor Ernest Lister visited
the Office of Arid Land Commissioners
Hewlett this afternoon and presented
letter from Gov. Rogers requesting that
the commissioner turn the Office over to
Lister. The commissioner politely de-
clined. giving as his reason that he had
been advised to the effect that the repeal
clause relied upon by the governor is not
valid. and that In justice TO himself and
his bondsmen he should continue In
charge as commissioner until the matter
had been decided by the courts.
The conference WAS very brief. but not
disagreeable.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28

Special Dispatch to the post-fntelIiEence-.
SOUTH BEND. Wash. May g--The
schooner Lady George. Capt. I'D Spencer
ieft here yesterday fer Cane Fiattary
where she viii be used as a pilot boat nv
Puget sound pilots during the rush at
tendant upon the arrival OF the wheat
feet.
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woman rirehuR Grow. Hx.terical.

SAN FRANCISCO. May N-Mrs Kate
Ma,colmson. who has been ON trial before
Superior Judge Cook and Jury on a
charge OF setting fire 10 her lodging house
a: 13l Taylor street. was found guilty to-
Gay Of arson In the second degree When
the verdict was announced Mrs. Malcolm
son was seized with Ivst RIGS and was
carried screaming from tie court room.
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rrremrsery writ to issue.

Special Dispatch TO the Post -fntaliigeneer.
OLYMPIA May s7.-The supreme court
has ordered a peremptory writ 60 issue
in the ease OF Niddleerook Stoner and CO.
rriators VIZ Frank r, Reid. Judge OF the
superior court OF kttsap county.
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SEEMING A COMPROMISE.
Caast House Contractor Claims a
Balance sf 1aas Thaususas

FAssaAA. Nav sf-Tssere Is s.e,Yss, kina
q nsWass;e eaAsslsiS nssAees she eounts
seusasssianess ard Contractor John 7
ISsEg. @ho Hasis ihe new esurl has.se. over
sfo settlement ~ sccoenta iNaR secured
TIRE easftfsses Eae the construction % she
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John Y. Norris Dead.

VICTORIA. II. g. May eI.--John r Nor
~. ore OF the best known newspaper
men cf the dominion. ased here shts morn
tng Previous To coming 20 British Col
urnSsA he worked on papers In Montreal
and Ottawa. and at one time was editor
and proprietor ~ the Ne~ York Age.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
NEXT ASSEMBLY Ar wIxoxA.
rreshyferfans settle tho Question In
peeuitnr Way.

EAGLE. LAKE. Ind. MAY s-.-At tha
Presbyterian general assembly iesay the
report OF the standing committee on
CasTcA executive Was presented by Or
George r. Shif~orsh. % Seattle ara
principles ana practices IL tire Snzrts's
WoFk aeEe explained ard It's needs urged
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Angel May 1T Once Go to Turkey.
ANN ARBoR. Mich. May 27-President
Angel has left for Washington in obedi-
ence to telegram received from the state
department. The summons was entirely
unexpected. and its nature is unknown
1t is rumored that DR.. Angel will be or
dered to depart for Turkey sooner than
he expected. probably within few days.
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SfAilaingg's Belttsea is the
tea for you; and this is the
proof: /,
Getofyour gro.eer a pack
age OF it. He pays you
your money batk if you
don't like 1t. WE pay him.
ASsAesies s campsas
Sad ss4ac.s>s Al
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prisoners 10 he Tried In seattle.

TACOMA. May N.-Judge HsnfoFd IS
sued an order yesterday transferring 20
King county all prisoners in custody
awaiting trial In the Federal court. This
dasislon will s,fyiate the necessity OF call
ind grand juries AT regular intervals
throughout the state.
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sire In an Olympia store.

Special Dispatch 10 tire post-Intelligencer.
OLYMPIA. May g.-Fire was diseov-
ersi in the clothing store OF Joseph cheim
- an early hour this morning. but was
checked with little difficulty Loss $500.
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4 Rasaf M~adsug.

CarE$f4A ssE$e May ss.--Tse Princess
lusetsovg EarsstlAnA ~ Denmark wAs uaag-
Fsesi tossssy ~ i'Flarc Easi, Duke af N ester
tfATglaDd third son az htnS Oscar IL OF
Norway Ard Sweden. TIE princess wzs
bern August ssS, ard Prince Casl on
FSs.u&rs -, IS..
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Ell PASO UNDER WATER.
Canal HeaAgate Sives Way t. the
F10od-Two Hundred Enmi-N
lie1 HODelees.


EL>PASo. Tex. May ss.-The headgate
OF the large canal running through the
southern part OF the city and the ievee sep
ara;ing the canal and thu river gave way at
$50 o'clock this afternoon and the water
came through in torrents. fnandating the
Santa Fe freight yards. and 8 half mile
south flowed in behind the main tempo
rary leyee erected in the pas, week TO hold
back the water, which had settled Itself 70
. height OF from six to ten feet on the
southern river front. A general alarm was
sent out by the FIRE department and all
the assistance possible was given 20 those
in the midst OF the food
Some seventy-five residences situated be-
tween the Santa Re freight yards and the
canal on the river front were inundated
within half an hour after the break. but
nearly everything movable WAS carried 10
high ground A new levee Is aow being
constructed for a distance of two miles
along Fourth street 10 hold the water back
and turn /; again into the river. A great
many houses are filed with refugees. but
there are yet fully DO families shelteriess.
These families are encamped along the
edge Of the mesa on the north side Of the
city.
The outlook tonight Is by no means re-
assuring and there is much anxiety that
the water may not be gotten under con-
troll.
At 1870 O'Clock the water broke through
the reserve leyee on Fourth street and
now covers one-haif o; the city. De-
struction to property will be immense.
Every available man and vehicle Is oc-
cupied in moving families and household
goods to high ground. The business por-
ton OF the city may be invaded before
morning.
Higher Water Sure to Come.
DENVER. Col. May 27.--A special 60 the
News from Santa Fe.. n. NJ. says: A rise
of eight inches In the Rio Grande Is report
Ell from the Colorado line today. and it has
been running continually over the Rio
Grande watershed north OF this city all
day. The prospects are that fresh flood,
carrying from one 70 two feet more water
than is now flowing has started toward FL
Paso tonight. TIE rainfall at Santa Fee
for the past month has been nearly four
inches or about three times the normal
supply. Dispatches tonight report f4esh
downpours all day along the Colorado1ine.
This VIII serve to increase the freshets al
ready flowing In the Rio Grande tributa-
ries. At Chamita the river has reached
the highest point known in ten years. and
in Espanola valley the current Is quar-
ter Of mile wide.
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OFFERED MooRE's PLACE.

Col. Ridpath offered an appointment
to the Hoard Of Control.
Special Dispatch 10 the Post-lntelllgencer.
OLYMPIA. May T.--Coi. Ridpath. Of
Spokane. will doubtless be member Of
the new board OF control. IL he desires TO
take the place refused by Miles c. Moore.
Ridpath has not yet notified the governor
rs to whether or not he wiii accept
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
The Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON. May z7--Today's state
ment Of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, 500. ST. 73T:
gold reserve. $its fo0. go.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
A Few
Special
Things

Mems Negligee OvcrshirtA - Z
where at &c, our price &c
Mems Straw Hats. sold eveEyu1e
Soc. our pr &c.
Mems Merm, scx. extra ssap.k y
for &c.
Three sc Washable IlO - 8
In fact our store Is full n SpeA
gains. All we ask OF you y u elu1
bs convinced that our prices ~ ]
than the lowest.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-28
DR.. Hanna Elected Moderator.

ROCK ISLAND. III. May Elm the
United Presbyterian general assembly to-
day Dr. 7. III. Hanna. OF Monmouth. H.,
WIS elected moderator.
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McCenl~y Must Increase III. Bonds.

Special Dispatch 30 the Post-Intcllgencer
OLYMPIA. May s7-The supreme court
today ordered the arrest OF J. W, Nc
t'auley. Tacon,as ex-clty treasurer. Upon
tie fling OF bonds sufficient to meet the
approval of the superior court Of Pierce
county McCau,ey will be released.
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Another large invoice Of fancy silk
r1bhOas, Metre, Tadeta, Loop
Edge, GrenaAinc and SILK and Linz
en- Grenadine, Nos 20, 30 and ~.
value Tor 8Oc and 7Sc.. ...........
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RUTLAND, VI. Mag @T.-~A slight earth
quake shock was felt throughout the
state tonight
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PEARY Is CONFIDENT
WITHIN 4HB NEXT FIVE YEARS uE
WILL REACH znE PolR

WIN watch Hls Chance, TAea
Hnstea NertAwara when All Coa-
AftSens Arc Observation-Disclosures
- wAa1e ssunA wlIling - Ne An
Posetble ter the Expedlt1o1-Ars.
Peary ana CAAla - Accompany
the Party This Year.
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A WHALE THEIR PREY


The ocean Near CaDe H1aeie1y The
oceno ~ . Prols0geA Cen4est-
waters LAsheA - Hoo0, Duf GAe
Huniefs Steer Their Canoes Clear
~ Donger-Tug nsAyoake TOSss the
Whale Ewes Captured IN tAs
IOethWesG
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an,eed. one. hours. : g = ~
and to s .. a.; SnndASs
only. ..ss No.
describing their troucisn XII r.
call. write 10 the weli-kn
specialist. yVvH
Tie First Avenue. Union
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

and it viii be employed in coast de-
tense.
The main building at 1Iidvale con-
tains three unfinished castings Of the
ten-ineh pattern. To one side of the
furnaces, upon temporary wooden
mountings, are two weapons apparently
ready for transportation.
While this work Of constructing guns
has been pushed so assiduously at the
RIidvaie works, equal activity has
been waged at the big works of the
Southwark Foundry & Machine com
pany. washington avenue and Fifth
street. where the war department has
contract for ten ten-inch disappearing
gun carriages and ten Pinch mortar
carriages. They are Of the 1895 model
The ten-inch carriages, according TO
the stipulations of the contract, must
weigh each $4,000 pounds, and the
pinch carriages Will aggregate nearly
100000 pounds. The Southwark company
has completed several Of the carriages
and delivered them to the government.
Six ordinary fiat cars were required to
transport each of these huge pieces of
machinery. They were shipped to the
Pacific coast.
one of the best experts in the navy,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

padded hands of strong and perspiring
mechanics, the heavy load slowly de-
sends. Not a word is spoken, and the
master mechanic never takes his eyes
from the burning hot metal, but by the
use of his fingers as signals regulates
the descent of the jacket.
The accuracy with which it must be
guided, its great weight and the rapid
ity with which the operation must be
performed, combine to make the shrink
ing on a 13-inch jacket a most deli
cate matter, and the strain on those in
charge is intense during the 10 or 20
minutes that the jacket moves slowly
into place. From the moment it is lift
ed from its position in the furnace it
begins to lose heat, and every minute
4-100th of an inch between the tube and
heavy as it is, must not be allowed to
come into contact with the tube at
any point, or, at any rate, any contact
must be extremely slight and momen-
tary. The slightest touch might form
! a burr that would cause the jacket to
stick, resulting in endless trouble and
expense, if not the loss of the value of
the jacket in material and labor. Hap
PLY this accident has happened only
once, so far as I am able to ascertain,
and then it was not very serious one.
In all other cases this operation has
been a decided success, and usually the
/ jacket is in place in Is minutes after it
is taken from the furnace.
The parts remain in the pit for As
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05
REMARKABLE PIPE LINES.
How Cold Storage, Oil, Steam, Compressed Air Gas,
Water and Electricity Are Distributed Broadcast,

One of the remarkable features of
modern urban development is the grow
ing tendency of doing away with indi-
vidual effort in providing many of the
material comforts of our nineteenth
century civilization. 1t is coming to be
more and more the case that the COM
mon necessities which every household
requires are not supplied by each fam
lily for itself, but are sent out from
great central establishments which
supply district of greater or less ex-
tent, according to the nature of the
commodity they handle. Once each
house drew all the water it REQUIRED
from its own we'll; now in all but the
smallest villages the whole water sup
ply of town is obtained from some
lake or stream and pumped out from
a single reservoir to all the inhabitants
Light and fuel have in most places been
added to the list of things supplied
from some central point, and in the
largest cities it has been expanded to
include a hundred other things that
our parents, or we, ourselves, a few
years ago, never dreamed of getting in
this way.
The result of this movement has been
to build up under every big modern city
a second city of pipes, conduits, vaults
and passages, where many of the OPP
erations essential to the health and
comfort of the pampered modern citi-
zen go on. Few persons realize what
progress has been made in this direc-
ton already; but from present indica-
tons it is likely that there will be a
still more rapid extension of such cen
tralized activities.
The most recent development in the
direction of centralized energy is put
forward by q, great freezing and ware
housing company in New York City.
This concern proposes, in connection
with its cold storage warehouses, to
pump refrigeration to its principal Gus
toners in different parts of the city,
| including the great markets and pro
duce houses. To the person unfamiliar
with the recent development in this
line of business it would seem a diff
cult matter to transmit cold over long
! distances in sufficient quantities to re-
duce the temperature of great vaults
and packing rooms to Is or 20 degrees
I below zero. AS a matter of fact, the
company anticipates but little diff
Guilty IN ptting it's system into opera
ton.
DISTRIBUTING COLD IN PIPES.
The ammonia system will be used
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-05

further gate of this town oasis may be
seen departing the trains of carts laden
with their heavy burden of telegraph
poles. The caravan route is not what,
perhaps, most persons still continue to be-
ieve such a roadway to be, namely, a
temporary soft sand road without bound
aries, and constantly obliterated in part
by the drifting over it of yielding sands.
For much of the way, on the contrary 1t
has q hard and cemented road bed We'll
adapted to the passage of vehicles and
hardly impeded on its surface by a cover
of sand. Furthermore, long and constant
use by an almost endless number of cara
vans with the tread OF thousands of
feet of men and animals, has so clearly
defined its boundaries that it presents all
the appearance of an artificial construc-
ton.
TRAVELLING MOUNTAINS OF SAND.
1t is true that here and there it buries
itself beneath the shifting soil OF the
desert, but even then it's obliteralon IS
in most places only temporary, JUST a,,o as
it is sometimes turned by great over
flows from Ordinarily small streams
which course close TO its margin. In
certain places, however, there is gen.
uine effaceInent, where mountains OF sand
are piled up in the path of winds blow
ing steadily from one quarter. The energy
and work accomplished by these winds
can hardly be conceived, but some notion
OF their relentless power may be gathered
from the fact that sand dunes ,Uuu teet
or more in height have been reared across
their path. On both sides OF the oasis
of Tuggurt, M. Foureau the eminent
French explorer of this section of the
Sahara, reports the sand dunes to be fully
1,400 feet in elevation, veritable noun
tain features in the landscape. Aside
from the wandering TonareggS, one of
whose main purposes of existence would
seem to be the humiliation of all mes
sengers of European civilization. the main
hindrance of penetration into the Sahara
is concentrated in these sand mountains.
Yet, it is not alone in the African desert
that we meet with features of this kind,
indeed with features which repeat them
selves on even a more gigantic scale.
Thus, as we are Informed by Major A. c..
Yate. of the Second Baluchis the sand
drifts of Imam Zaid and Helmand lying
toward Herat, in Afgranistan, are like
wise true mountains, in one or more
places rising to fully 1900 and even 1000
feet in elevation.
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accurate dimensions. At the same time
the jacket is turned down to rough di-
mansions and bored out to accurate
dimensions, the interior diameter of the
latter being a little less than the true
exterior diameter of the former. When
the interior of the jacket is finished the
tube is turned down to its exact exter-
Tor diameter. The reason for this is ap-
parent. If the interior of the jacket,
through any possible accident, should
be bored too large, the tube could be
turned to fit and the parts used with
out endangering the strength of the
gun, whereas, if the tube was turned
down too much, such would not be the
case. To appreciate the accuracy of
the machine work in gun construction
it is only necessary to know that all
the dimensions of the massive parts
must be true to the -thousandth
part of an inch.
The jacket is placed in a vertical po-
sition in the center of a cylindrical
friedrich furnace, where it is expand
ed. The brick furnace is inclosed in an
iron cylinder with a large air space be-
tween, and a heavy iron cover fits over
the top of both. a constant supply OF
air is forced into the bottom of the
outer cylinder, wher it comes into con-
tact with burning petroleum, and the
heated gases resulting from cOmbus-
ton circulate around the jacket, and
bring it gradually up to the proper
temperature, which does not exceed 800
degrees. So gradual and equal must
the expansion be, and so particular are
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those in charge to avoid any POSSIBLE
ity of particles Of grit or foreign mat
ter adhering to the metal that the pro-
ducts of combustion are not brought
into contact with the jacket at all 1t
remains in the furnace about 80 hours
before it reaches the proper degree of
expansion, during which time the cover
is occasionally lifted off, the cylinder
gagged along It's entire length and its
temperature tested at different points
by the application Of strips Of fusible
metal.
In the meantime the tube is placed in
vertical position, muZzle down, in the
shrinking pit, where it IS firmly
clamped. Above the clamps stand II
feet of its length, bright and true, over
which the jacket must be shrunk. while
a hollow brass cylinder projects from
the floor below through the center Of
the tube, through which there is a con-
slant flow of water at an ordinary
temperature. This, that the tube may
be kept at the same temperature
throughout and unaffected by the heat
Of the furnace, only few feet away. So
important is this that the slightest eX-
pansion of the tube, even the fraction
Of a thQusandth of an inch, might be a