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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-23
Centennial Company Negotiating
for a Purchase.
SALE TO BE MADE TO-DAY.
Yokohama Agent Completes Ar
Freighter TO Ply Between seattle
and the oriens-Phenomena In
crease in shipments of Breadatuns
From Puget sound the Cause.

Special Dispatch to the t-rntelligencer.
SPOKANE. Wash, Jan. 2c-The Cenfen-
NAL Transportation Company. through its
Yokohama agent. is today negotiating for
the purchase Of another steamer of about
2.oe9 tons capacity
Cablegrams received here today indicate
that the purchase viii probably be COM
pieied tomorrow.
The steamer will be placed on the run
between Seattle and Hongkong and yoko-
hama.
The Centennial Mills in the past. owing
10 the phenomenal growth in trans-Pacsfic
business has been unable to secure suf-
ficient transportation on the present steam
ship lines for It's rapidly growing ship
nlents of -four and breadstuffs to the
Orient.
II has therefore been deemed advisable
to purchase the freight steamer. which
Will be used primarily 10 handle the Cen
tennial Mill cargoes. but will also engage
in general freighting between its terminal
ports.
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LOST IN THE MYMPiCS.
j. w. WORKMAN. A HUNTER, MISS
ING SINCE FRIDAY.
When Last Seen He Was Tracking n
Wounded Miidcat-Comrades Fear
He Has Been kiiied-Reward Of
fered Those Aiding i'm the Search.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Inteilgencer
TACOMA. Jan. RI. w Workman,
one Of "a party Of three in camp At Lake
cushmaB, has been missing since early
Friday. and mouniaineers from the neigh
borhcod are in search of him. with a
heavy reward in sight should they find
him.
Workman and his two companions are
prominent and wealthy young men of Ra-
cine. Wis, and have been camping and
hunting in the olympics for pleasure dur
ing several weeks.
One of the party, who is in Tacoma to-
night 10 push the search with new men.
says Workman left his friend Nelson to
follow wildcat, which had been shot at
and wounded.
Nothing has since been seen Of Work
man, and his companions are much
alarmed. They offer every possible in
ducement TO induce those acquainted with
the district TO join in the search, and arc
certain Workman has been either in
iured or killed. probably by fall down
cliff.
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George Fleming Confesses to a
Long Career Of Crime.
HE WAS ONLY BOGUS MASON.
Hut by Clever Work He Acquired All
the fraternity's >rerets-taptared
In This Western Country. After lie
Had Operated Among the Great
est Snsons OF the WorI,l--Hi~ We
Tins include the Prince of Wales.

George Fleming. who has Just been cen
victsd and sent to the state psn!sentiarv at
Walla Walia 10 serve twe aud oae-hals
years for obtaining money under false pro
lenses from Attorney Richardson. OF Port
Angeles, has made confession. whleh. If
u We're not corroboratea by mere than lea
letters from different Masonic lodges in the
United States and other countries. would
he received with incre,iulity
Fleming Is n bogus Mason. Vet so skill
fully has he applied himself that he has
been compllmented hy pasl grand masters
On his knowledge of Masonry. By his own
admissions ne has lived for siSht years on
money borrowed. under false preteaseS.
from Masons amounts varying frem sic 10
several hundred, or as he told eN Sheriff of
King County \. T. Van .le vanSer. sac
cording 10 the circumstances and The
times. The total amount of money thus
obtained will probably reach s-a,Cpo. nat ne
has borrowed so much that he does not
pretend TO reclie all the instances.
He has travelled all over the world and
never spent cent for railroad OF steamer
transportation. He has had SO many
aliases that he cannot name them all. lie
was known in Mississippi ss Prof Wiley
IN Kentucky as Alexander Craig In Pesn-
sylyania as William Ball in Cincinnati and
Chicago as Charles Wilson. in st. Louis as
William Mays. in Washington as Martin
Mallory, In Oregon as Charles Brown ana
Charles Floyd. In foreign countries he
passed himself Oft as Mallory. Fleming.
Wiley or Ball. Once in a while he weat
as John H. Kimberly.
In Paris he claims to have met and d.ned
with the Prince of Wales and Sir Dudley
Ward. For dessert he borrowed $3.50 from
the prince on the strength of Masonry. In
Madrid he worked Hannis Taylor for free
transportation to the rock OF Gibraltar by
the way OF Cadiz. Things came his way in
every city in every country He wanted for
nothing because he had snap on the Ma
sonic fraternity.
Joined CinndcstInc Iudgc.
1t is admitted that this man, notwith-
standing that he fs not d Mason. knows
more about Masonry than thousands Of
ordained Masons. In this respect he rsroba-
bly, stands without a peer in the civilized
world.
At first IL seems almost impossible that
Fleming could have trleked the fraternity
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nis cheeks and eyes. He descended the
steps In the slowest manner. leaning on
2 stick. and was lff;ed into the carriage.
Then he was wrapped IN furs.
The alarming ramors concerning Glad
stones health We're further confirmed to-
day lie Is extremely weak. ara - de-
NJ nas expressed . desire sh2t as were
ever.
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Y han.
France q course. rescnts tha proposal
20 open Nanking. wgsch would CLASH with
her exclusive interests ia ToEkinS. while
both Austria ard France are t1seply coa-
cernca IN Great Bvitains CsaETa 20 ex-
fssd the Burmese Railroad into She Chi
.eSe province 80 NDunan- France has
secured pT}xileGes in YuunAn waich
vogla ea SERIOUSLY dssconwoded by tbs
british Tatlrosa aiverttnx 20 IRE uoyth
she cansmsrce of suea a rich province.
y Bile q raisread srCra Rangoaon 10 SnauE-
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today. Snow Is general throughout Kan
sas and Western Missouri ard is of much
beneHt 70 farmers.
OMAHA. Jan 1.-THE storm that has
ragged all day at omaha has been CON-
psratlvelv raila The snow was Hight. nst
exceeding two irehes failing. Meager fe-
ports THAI reached TIE city tonight from
the surrounding couafTy Indicate Z severe
storm IA Neavssisa. Missouri ard Iowa.
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eiaTed martial Iaw IN the camp.
1hss roufse was made nacessary by III
fact that the mob % men had threafeue,
70 seize the warehouses of the Norf!
American Trana napeFtativn aad Trsain,
Company and fhe Alaska commescfx
Company. at the fort.
Particulars Of the affair were broazf|
from Fsvt Yuksa 10 Daws1a by Frel
Csawch. CT seasfIe. @ho travelled for day1
over the see, st fase ssissrtsen and unA
the crters Of Capt. Ray. Eaxci1 pscS
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50 easily. but after reading bis confession
tns matter appsars in anothsr Hight. The
secret CT his success lay - the fact tfaai be
knew All about Masonry and applied BIS
A-owledxs 30 the hess ad9an's.e csrsi'i-
ca4es indicating that the dues q The person
hs represantsa hiaself to be weTs absain.
q. arsf - vas.osis way. tat howard fhe last
he bad 81 Improved eyssegs. Prem rnAFs
nanssa Hegy in saB Franessgy lse oeIAinsd
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GLADSTONE LONGS FOR THE END.


CANNES, Jan. 22-Mr. afid Mrs. Glad
stone drove out at noon today. MIR.
Gladstone was helped down the steps 10
the carriage by nurse and valet. Glad
stone wore a thick overcoat the collar
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Worst af the Season Prevails
ThreuRh0aa tlsss Middle Wext. :

PEORIA, H.. Jan. 2s-The heaviest
snowstorm of the season has prevailed
here since early morning. There Is no
sign OF the storm abatng.
KANSAS CITY, Jan 22-The heaviest
snoNstorm of the season Is in progress
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HOSTS THE FLAG
OVER FOOD STORES.
Capt. Ray Declares Martial
Law in Fort Yukon,
OEFiES AN UNRUlY MOB.
Attempt to Seize Supplies in the
Company Warehouses.

Steamer City of seattle nriuRn Start-
ling News of the Fuosa situation at
Fort Yukon Farty-ave klOn.
dikcrs With $500. 400 - s.NtggeF
Jim" Danghtray and His Partncr,
Fred stevens. Come Out-A CALI
fornia nnrber Freezes nm the
summit of White Pnxs-FaielaG
Lantern Kills Returning A1askans
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Martial law has been declared IN Fort
Yukon. on the Yukon river. Capt. Phil
Ray. u. >. A.. has hoissed the national
tlsg over the warehouses of the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company and the Alaska Commercial
Company and the stores Of food. more.
precious than gold dust. will he main-s
tanned snviolate from the attacks OF an.
unrniy hoFie. This Is the latest phase
of the food situation IN Nerih Alaska. u
Was made known here by the arrival yes-
terday Of the steamer City of sseattie.s
90 in gold dust and nuggets and as mleh
moro in drafts and certificates, Among
those just from the klondike we're Mig
GER Jim noughtray aud his partner.
Fred Stevens. two Of the richest claim
owners in Alaska
News was brought down OF the death
on the Skayuay trail of Daniel Lopex,
formerly of San Luis ubispo, Cal A war;.
rant has been issued for the arrest Of
United states Commissioner John u
Smith. OF skaguay. on a charge of felony.
and having solicited aud received brihA.
The Joy OF the passengers by the steamer
III once more reaching civilization was:
changed 10 sadness by the accidental
e.ath of Victorian named Genge. HlsI
shuif was crushed last Friday on the
steamer by a falling lantern
Capt. Ray stands on the Mob.
Single handed and alone. Capt. Phif
Ray, OF the Eighth infantry. u. g. A.
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Copyrighted 1sSs by the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. 22.-WhiIe events are
moving VITA somewhat dramatic rapidity
In the far East another complication may
any day develop a situation fraught with
momentous dangers. When the known
facts and the condition of affairs are
anaiyzed. there is really not much rea-
son at present to suppose that a solution
of the crisis Will be found in a resort TO
war
There Is no reason TO believe, and dipio-
matte circles do not fear that it viii be
necessary 10 appeal TO arms unless Japan
breaks from her moorings. So far As the
European powers are concerned. the dip
lomats throughout are satisfied that the
Chinese viii not break the peace CT the
world. but they have always feared that
Japan viii prove a firebrand. Unless she
can he restrained from impetGous action,
the departure OF her fleet from Yoko-
hama today for Chinese waters may
prove to be the striking OF the match
which may lead 10 a decided eonhagra-
tion.
Salisbury Oufpiays the Bear.
Leaving out the possibility of war, the
diplomatic game is most interesting. The
Marquis of Salisbury Is slow in playing
his trumps. but unless Russia and France
have something up their sleeves IL would
appear that he has decided advantages,
for the British premier has f0rced Rus
sia to show her hand. She longer
conceals the fact that she regards the
whole of Manchuria and the I.eaotong
peninsula as being her exclusive prop
erty, but by insisting that Talieuwhan
bay bs made a treaty port the Marquis
of Salisbury has counted on the Musco-
vite designs on Port Arthur. The latter
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JAPAN A F|R[BRAND
IN THE FAR EAST.
Fleet Has Left Yokohama for
Chinese Coast.
MAY PREClPITATE WAR.
Russia and Germany Fear Her
More Than All Others.
MAY PRECIPITATE WAR.

Salisbury Has Matched the Car in
DipiOmacy-sreat Brituin viii
Not Bulge From Her Position
All England Applauds the Utter
Covert Suggestion That the
thur-Japanese Cruiser Launched
Successfully at San Francisco.
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M'COMAS IN THE LEAD.
Supporters Claim They VIII Secure
His Election Next Monday or
Tuesday.

lot for United States senator resulted as
follows.
McComas %. 49,. 4S Findlay 49,. $500. 8
German 80. ..... ssShyrock 49,. ....-. 2
Shaw ...... ....... 49,
Total -. 49,. -. LIS
The effect OF this ballot was TO inspire
the most hopeful feeling in the minds OF
the followers of Judge Mccomas. They
claim to have seven more votes well in
hand, which will be cast on Tuesday, If
not on Monday. When these votes come
over it is believed by McComas' friends
that 1t will be sufficient TO stampede the
votes and elect him.
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Buy Remington ard aavs ;As ses,.
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THE Remington typewriter leads all.
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Cant. Ray stands on the wob,

Single handed and alone. Capt. Phit
Ray, Of the Eighth infantry. y. 8. A.
Etocd on mob OF lao men az Fort Yu.
koa. Alaska. late IN October. and d.
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coat.nae4 en- PAGE 6.
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cOailzued oa fs-s u
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-28

on 1.-THE House PRACTICAL to the Janu-
ary Ladies Home Journal. In these
articles Mr.. Johnson will explain how
the various rooms, Railways, etc., of a
house may be artistically furnished and
decorated at comparatively small cost.
The explanation is 30 clearly detailed
that, with the aid of the accompanying
drawings, almost any one with taste
may follow the instructions given. The
articles will show how the interior of a
house may be transformed from the
commonplace into thing of artistic
beauty and coziness. There is no sub
lect of such vital interest to Americans
as the improvement of the home, and.
Mr.. Johnson's articles will doubtless
prove as popular and useful as his "In-
side of Hundred Homes"
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Tells His Thoughts.

A new kind of a disease las made it's
appearance in Baker City which is more
to be dreaded than having around one
a person who is a mind reader. A Pen.
dleton man says:
L ran across most remarkable thing
IN Baker City the other day, something
OF which have never heard and which
L think is not equalled or paralleled by
any case on record heretofore. 1 don't
know just how to name it by a single
phrase, and think the medical experts
and psychical people will have difficulty
in classifying the malady.
1t is best described by telling my ex-
perience. l was walking the streets one
day recently in Baker City, and cav a
man standing on the pavement looking
at woman who was also passing along.
Pretty, pretty said the man, as he
looked at her, 'I'd like to kiss you.'
"She was startled very much at this
remark and hastened her steps. The
man disappeared in the hotel.
II made some inquiries, and found
the fellow has become the victim of
most remarkable disease. He has no
control over his vocal organs; but invo.-
UNFAIRLY he speaks out whatever he
thinks. learned that he has been ar
rested for using obscene language before
ladies, and that it has been discovered
that he has the disease SO bad that there
Is but little hopes of curing him.
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BOY KILLED AT WESTON.
Edwin Baker Accidentally Shot By a
Companion.

A most deplorable accident occurred at
Weston Saturday evening, resulting in
the death of Edwin Baker. son of NJ. A.
Baker, the postmaster at that place.
Sometime ago, the oldest Marsh boy
had loaded an old cap and ball Colts
pistol, which was left about the house,
The younger Marsh boy, ~ years old,
was forbidden to take it. His mother
had on Saturday afternoon gone to visit
at Mrs. Beeler's house and while she was
absent, the 12-vear-old Marsh boy took
it out and was playing at Wild West
show with the Baker boy, Edwin.
Marsh was sitting on a hummock of dirt
near the house, trying to take the cap
off the prime holes of the pistol, when
the Baker boy came running out from
the woodshed toward him. In some
manner the pistol was discharged, one
report saying it was merely by reason of
the hammer falling accidentally, and
another report saying the Marsh boy
pointed the pistol toward the
Baker boy and snapped 1t in fun.
At any rate, the Baker boy fell in
stantly. and apparently died the instant
the bullet struck him. The bullet
passed through the heart.
OF course, the parents of the Baker
boy were prostrated with grief over the
awful tragedy, and the parents of the
Marsh boy are, perhaps. equally grief
stricken. It was purely an accident,
and yet the results are fully as deplor-
able as though it had been otherwise.
The body of the little Baker boy was
buried Sunday at Weston.--E. o.
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"Kuth Ashmore" Dead.


Dispatches tell us that Mrs Isabel
Mallon, who wrote under the nom de
plumes of "Ruth Ashmore" and "Bab'',
died at her home in New York yester-
day.
For several years readers of the Ladies'
Bome Journal have been wont to read
Ruth Ashmore's articles in that popular
magazine; particularly her ''Side Talks
With Girls" which were at times very
amusing to many who are not accus-
toned to living up to the very letter of
"800'' society etiquette. Therefore when
she informed US that young lady might
with propriety take short drive with
her affianced husband unaccom panied
by a chaperone, we smiled at the
thought of such leniency; and later,
when to their dismay the society young
men read in her columns that they were
expected to pay the street car fare when
eecorting young lady to a place Of
amusement, the laugh was on the other
side. However, in spite of the fact that
we derived much amusement from her
writings, we more often appreciated the
common sense contained in the pages
devoted to articles on practical subjects,
and viii miss them as we look for them
in their accustomed place. Already
have they been missed, and those who
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-28
BuokIen.s Arn,oa sa,ve.

The best salve in the word for CUT i,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, feve,
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cules piles, or no pay required
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton. or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Blakeley and
Houghton, druggists.
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THE MODERN MOTHER

Has found that her little ones are i'm
proved more by the pleasant Syrup of
Figs, when in need of the laxative effect
OF a gentle remedy, than by any other.
Children enjoy it and it benefits them.
The true remedy, Syrup of Figs, is
manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co. only.
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were not aware that she was i'll, won
dered why she had ceased to contribute
to the paper.
She also wrote as ssBab," and was
perhaps better known by that nom de
plume.
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Capture and Escape,
Re-Capture and Parole
-INCLUDING-t
SEVEN MONTHS IN s.LIBBY.''
Or Pleasant o he imprisonment.
BY CAPTAIN JOHN w. LEWIS

Chicanauga YeI;" Capued Gentleman; General
Wheeler Friend Need
e Militia Petersburg Richmond
Libby
sklrmshing Belle e Loaf of Bread;
nooga; Christmas Fitzpatrick; Escapes
the Libby; Noted Vsio
Guard Pes Charge
and Paroled; Captain Hatch, G. A.
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wAYsI0E oLEANINGs.
Captain Lewis on

Captain Lewis on
"Life in Libby Prison.
Tonight at the Congregational church.
Freas Saunders has purchased the
wood business of j. T. Reynolds in this
city. Those desiring good wood will find
him by ringing up phone number II.
Grippe has made Its appearance in
Portland, and reports from the East say
there is just such an epidemic of the dis
ease as occurred about nine years ago,
many fatalities following in its wake.
This evening at their hall the
Smith Bros. will give another of their
most enjoyable parties. The announce
ment that the music will be furnished
py Prof. Birgfeld is sufficient to insure
them good crowd.
Those who have heard Capt, Lewis in
conversation speak of his experiences in
Libby prison are anxious to hear his
lecture Tor talk as Captain calls it) to-
night. 1t you wish to hear it be at the
Congregational church at O'Clock.
Our old friend, the Chinook, made it's
appearance last night and got on tear,
sending the rain before him. In the
country near here it showed slightly,
and this morning the Klickitats were
white. The weather report for tomor-
row says COLDER
Last night about o'clock when Jesse
sBlakeney's team was standing in front
OF Ruch's store the bride of one horse
off nd or, frir
started to run. By circling them around
and running them into the telephone
pole at the Commission corner, Mr..
Blakeney succeeded in stopping them
though in doing so the top of his wagon
was badly broken up.
A land slide is reported al Oneonta
Gorge, below the Cascades, this morn
ing. No particulars could be obtained
regarding it, but it is said to be 100 feet
long and about IL feet deep, and to have
compelled the o. R. & N. to transfer
their passengers on No. 8. No doubt to.
nights east-bound trains will fail to get
through, as the slide is a bad one. How!
ever, large force of men are at work
and will clear the track or build new
- :, 81 y -
Deputy Sheriff F. G. Sexton arrived
( home last night from Warm Springs
agency. whittier he went on business.
Spending Christmas day there he at
tended tree given by the employees and
: Eeachers for the Indians. He says it
was almost impossible for the large
crowd that attended to get into the
school house, but that the best OF order
prevailed. The program would have
done credit to any school, and the pupils
were delighted with the Christmas gifts
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William Martin Johnson, author of
"Inside of Hundred Homes" con-
tributes the first art:c.e of his new series
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One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That IS what IL was niede for