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IMPORTANT
BILLS TO Be
CONSIDERED
By Congress During TIE
Coming Week.
HOUSE fAvORS CANAL Bill
svt the ssssts Leaders VIII Force
~ Asjesrnmsst. Thss XIII.
lag the Measure.
HOUSE fAvORS CANAL Bill

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Aprfi IS.
The most important matter of Iegir-
lation to come up in the house next
week will be Hepburn's bin for the
construction of the NlcaraKuan
canal, allowing an appropriation Of
10 million dollars TO begin work The
Democratic majority report has been
presented providing for the fortlr-
cation OF the canal by the United
states. There In a strong minority
on the Republican side opposed 20
committing congress TO any speci-
fed route until the report of the
commission. headed by Admiral
Walker has been submitted The
prospects are that there will be a
lively fight on this subject next Tues
day and Wednesday. The chances.
however, are that n bill will be pass
ed by a fair majority wednesday
night. on Thursday the free home
stead bill. providing that on Indian
In nds thrown open TO settlement the
settlers shall be given patents un-
der existing lava will be considered
The Philippines bill Is stlll unfn-
ished In the senate. but IL has not
yet been determined whether Lodge
VIII press II NEXT week. on Wed
nesday Chandler will call up the
Clark case. which will be disposed
Of. Otherwise the program OF the
senate ie unsettled. Republican
leaders are divided as TO important
bills to be considered. They are
trying their utmost To bring about an
adjournment early In June. This
means that the ship subsidy. army.
reorganization and Nicaraguan bills
must be sacrificed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1900-04-28

district court. returned from spo-
kane this morning.
Mrs. J, A. Darby. widely known In
the society circles OF Port Angeles.
Ia guest at the ttainler-Grand.
George A. Brooks. very prominent
" concerned la lHHaauHh, viii he at
the ttainier-0rand over Sunday.
Edmond cossrove. Of the Cos
grove Liquor Company, returned
this morning from "A trip 10 Anaeor.
ties and Vancouver.
pr. w. I. williams, 4. \. A., viii
be at the Stevens over Sunday.
Dr. Heherden. NJ. u. V. T., OF New
Whateom, Is registered MT the Dii-
Ter.
Miss Gilmore and Miss Grace u.
gilmore, ~ Port Townsend, aud
nieers of Capt David Gilmore Of
THIS ciiy, arc enjoying IA brief stay
at the Diiler.
j. NJ HaEEsfty. OF okAnaFan, q
wen known mining man and for a
number Of years popular uswHpa
per man I'm this state. In at the Ito
t.l Seattle accompanied by hia fam
". II. Rem and John {. Hogan.
prominent merchants of Aberdeen,
are registered az the Stevens
W. II Halo. capitalist 81 Wash.
inEton, u. G.. IL staying at the Rain
Ter Grand
quite an exclusive naval party
met last night at the Rainiet-Gransi
they were pr. G, l.. kendlebeTEer
surgeon Of the io~a. DR.. j. r. shep.
herd, w NJ Atkinson, Frank
Meanes and ". l.. Brown. officers Of
the Pathfinder.
Amons the Nome Parties register.
ed In the city the following are he
Ing taken care Of at the Hotel
brunswick A. V. Harrington. Miss
Jane vanwhirt and 4. II. Brown. Of
MI Vernon. III. George T.. Ryan. n
y, Ryan and ". W. HAYES. 81
Meadsilie. Pa. -. J. Spencer and
%. Martin. 81 Salt Lake city, Utah
These parties viii NO 10 Nome about
May 10.
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Third Cumberland Presbyterian
church at the home of the former. on
Thirty NTH avenue.
The frst concert Of the University
OF Washington alre and Mandolin
clubs viii be given at Ranke hall IN
Tuesday. May 4 The patronesses
are Mrs David Kellogg. Mrs. Geo.
II. kittingrr. Mrs. Montgomery Rus
sell. Mrs A. n Stewart and Mrs. II.
6, Henry.
The guitar and mandoiln class OF
Miss Rose Charlotte Mitchell gave
an enjoyable recital At the FRS,
Presbyterian church last evening
the friends and relatives 81 the pu-
pits. whose work was remarkably
smooth and even.
Thursday evening the ball given
by the Daughters Of Reb~ksh. an or
der allied TO the Odd Fellows a.
tracted q large crowd 60 Hanke halt
i.ct in view. that ~ raising funds 20
entertain the Ersnd lodge Of Re.
b~kah's in this city merit June.
on Tuesday last. at The home Of
Comptroller Frank ". Paul Mr.. Geo.
n Gardner and Miss Maggie Paul
we're Joined IN marriage by Rev. A.
l. Huseheon. OF tn. FIRST rrsebyter.
tan church. They will continue "a
reside IN sunnydaie. The bride IL
a niece Of the eity comptroller
The university students gave the
annual junior promenade at Ranke
hall on wednesday evening last The
attendance was very large The hall
vas deliberately decorated with thu
college and national colors. and from
tn. ceiling we're suspended japanese
lanterns. The music was furnished
by WaEneris full orchestra. Dane.
ing continued until midnight.
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Points About People.

Capt. Weaver entertained friends
on the Roanoke last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". G. Rollins. OF
coma Tuesday.
Mrs. Francis Guy Frink gave a
luncheon yesterday 70 a few friends
at her residence.
Tho Young Mems Institute gives
its annual May ball in Ranke hall on
next Tuesday evening.
Miss Weistling. who has been Wis
iting Miss Jessie Seymour, OF Ia
coma, has returned home.
Mrs. John II. Allen gave a largely
attended AT home yesterday at her
residence. fi05 Cherry street.
The wednesday Card Club met this
week at the residence Of Mrs. ~. c.
Henry. 1904 Boylston avenue.
Tn. wednesday Night Card Club
met at tho home OF Mr.. and Mrs. q
w. Dickinson, 500 Ninth avenue.
Rev. W. d. Simonds will leave next
week TO attend the meeting OF TIM
tartan churches at Berkeley, Cal.
Mrs. Francis Guy Frink gave an
Informal dance last Tuesday even
sbB ~ hotf3t VI AAAbH l<iila lbfHUfs
Aiss May Pratt, OF 1909 Thirty
NTH avenue. entertained on wedneA-
DAY last in honor OF Miss Lalla
Drane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas - Shep-
ard were guests at the Paddock
Hutchison wedding In Tacoma last
Tuesday.
Miss Jesse De Haven, Mrs. Horace
Byron and Miss Edna Byron, OF
Fairhaven, were In the city this
week visiting.
Last night the Chou Club gave it's
FIRST dance since Lent In the Queen
Anne Clubhouse. A large number
OF Invitations were issued The Chru
Club Will give one more party this
season.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. n. T.
Powell and Mrs. A. T. Friend enter.
tainsd the Ladies' Aid Society OF the
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A SkULKING
MURDERER
Evidences Of The Terrible
Northern Crime.

The Relfe-clayaon mystery seems
solved The rays 81 the sun have
crcpt between the thick branches =
the dark spruees along the river near
Mimic. melted the snow ana uncov-
cred the story OF the awful crime
Tho smallest details have been an
travelled. The traces u a desperate
struggle are plain, II seems that
the murderer had crouched "a the
thick brush. shot two of the three
as they came along the narrow trail
Que behind the other The third n
the party made desperate strugEis.
Tfampled brush. displaced logs.
broken branches and splashss ~
blood on the tree-trunkH. tell the
story 10 the mlnutest detail.
Ills crime completed. the murderer
loaded the bodies On n sled. hauief
them 20 water-hoie on the river
nearby and dumped item in
The story 10 complete. The evil
denee against O'Brlen IL conclusive.
except the andinE Of the bodies
The search for these l. belnE klgurs
uueiy prosecuted. Tho ice IL now
wei cut away. the river bed all be
blasted with powder 90 shake the
cuFfaen from their resting place In
tha bottom u some whirlpool.
The aboVe details have been
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Hotel Corridors.

II. -. Thomas, OF Anaoortes, Ia at
the Hotel Seattle.
G. II. Goddard. ~ Dayton, Will en-
JOY Sunday at the Rainier Grand.
Alonzo Client, a travelling man
from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, In at the
Butler.
ID. hcKilier. the popular cigar
man OF New Whatcom, Ia Mt the
Stevens.
V. Bartlett Webster, OF FaIrhaven.
n canneryman, is registered at the
Seattle.
$. NJ. Jones and wife, prominent
In Edmonds, Will spend Sunday at
the Stevens.
Or. w. l.. Williamson, assistant
surgeon United States army, IL at
the Stevens.
Victor II. Beckmhn, secretary Of
the Shinglemen's Association, il In
Tacoma today.
Robert Hopkins, clerk OF the U. q.
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Whenever England worlds merchant
will be beginning the end the
she 10 sin determined hold the lead.
But difficult hold a. other
built bE for
building continental
decadence begun.
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PRIEST GETS A
JOB AS CONSUL

wAsHNGToS. ID. C.. April zs.-
Vafhse 6srimoudi. a secular Catholic
priest. recently appointed consul to
Santos. Brasil. arrived today to ss-
eeive final Instructions He has
been living In Ireiand's diocese in the
Northwest. No Catholic priest was
before ever appointed TO diplomatic
position. Several senators now say
they dtdn't know Girimoffs occupa-
ton when they voted to confirm him.
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0steopathlc Treatment at Home

The Washington Institute Of on.
teopsthy viii take a limited mum
Der ~ chronic cases OF patients who
desire treatment at their home,
Arrangements can be made with the
secretary at the institute In the
safe Deposit building. or by tsie.
phone. Main COZ.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1900-04-28

brought 10 HkagNhy by Lieut.. Adair
from the scene Of the search.
The lieutenant states that a re-
ceipt bearing the name Of Liuemu n
olnHon. issued by the keeper ~ the
Mimic roadheuse, has been found IN
tbs woods ~ the scene 81 the mur-
der. Fred clayran's bicycle tweezerH
we're also found.
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Detectives furnished railroads.
corporations and private parties.
All business transacted strictly
confidential. Lucas Detective AEen-
IS. &c Union Block.
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The overnhadown the troubles
Philippines that
the annoying man dan
Nevertheless OF late Of
quite the and
fellows killed
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PATENTED and unpatented inven.
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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14

Modern science has brought to light
nothing more curiously interesting
than the fact that worry will kill
More remarkable still, it has been able
to determine. from recent discoveries.
Just how worry does kill It Is be-
lieved by many scientists who have
followed most carefully the growth O,
the science of brain diseases that
scores OF the deaths set down to other
causes are due to worry. and that
alone, says the Journal of Health. The
theory is a simple one-s0 simple that
any one can readily understand it.
Briefly put, 1t amounts to this Worry
injuries beyond repair certain cells OF
the brain, and the brain being the
nutritiye center of the body, the other
organs become gradually injured, and
when some diseases of these organs. or
q combination of them, arises, death
finally ensues.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14

aallsFs thr7shsd ont the seed which
was sown The next year whsrs ~
sffa was soNn the ground remaiss3
care. Scarcely sprig ~ clover eams
up, The farmers we're as.a7lshs4 ana
scientists were called upon for a al.
a#aosis of the case Thsy soon Is.
Gated the trouble there wers ma b.e,
or other insects which could carry n.
pollen from one clover blossom 10 an.
other This mixture must take ptasa
else the seed witl b. inert ana absa.
lately Incapable Of reproduction lice,
were imported to the country aad thsrs
was never any more dialeaitv about
tae growing 81 clover in Australia
! ne bees tn seeking honey from IN.
ci'Fer blossoms get the pollen os
their legs and wings and thus carry q
from one blossom 10 another I, s,ns'
n take long FOR a few hundred lee,
20 20 make the necessary mixture In !
big field Of clover"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14
ASSAILS CAPT. MAHAN
COL. Al0olNSoN FLAWS THE
NOVEL WRITER.
lie Has Heen q Political Figure for
More Than Hair Century--tGn-
nsnded IA South Carolina Regin,snt
Dusiag the War.

Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
in his address before the Twentieth
Century club. in Boston, recently, de-
iiyered bitter attack on Capt Alfred
I. Mahan, the celebrated American
writer upon naval affairs Col Hlg-
ginson's address was entitled. Free
dom" and some OF his remarks about
Capt. Mahan were of rather personal
character Among other things he
said that "a rawhide In the hands OF a
Boer farmer might teach him tMahani
a lesson in the right OF self-govsrn-
ment."
In crlticising Capt Mahans late
article In the Indepandent.C Col. Hlggiu-
son said; Capt, Mahan's idea Is the
naval board OF prize money theory II
disposes OF every mans right 10 his
own child. Not farm In New Eng.
land, not a set OF carpenter tools. not a
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14
wao Ang ~ VITO 5 WHO
= aasa rhisr - ~ nesa - -
ft.sF

= tlssa rhIse - re nese IS 81
t'sst
Nearly thirty ys& aga ~ gHa
sn bis Hereditary Gsalss ps
0gt baw tatrlY = man 81. iaia &c
tianarlrs uf cunsemH wfy slesr
letoFe the age ~ ard S. state
Is true. even 81 tAs pFesFas CT
tba F0fsulEbilY Rsvjaw DE nsis
OF the persons meati16s5 IL y
Who Is no lesa shaH S. sven 70
several names are .aeiudad q P
vim have bat greatness tefas
them Ia the hsat decade q tAdi y
II is better "a BE- born lassT
rich. says the prarerb. b'li. .
distinguished humurist Il Y1s g
BE- either. thr next best thins t 2
horn 4 British peer. end this stsl'
any fats justified by he Large aa
% attention paid 70 The hsrsili
house and the baroneteY y VI
who no less thsp u PER cent 9
entries being devoted 70 merely usal
distinctions. II these had been II
ted. the mean age 81 distinction =
probably rise even higher than 2.
nj any rate. Dr. Cations thFssR
llmi, Of so for entry lnio the hiaEia
tcat dictionaries IA thoroughly ssl' !
titled. Nos there are only about ~
600 Englishmen over 50 ID the III
empire and the proportion q thoas
reach emineuce In the various 81
tiaua have mentioned would ~
quently. be 2.s6t per million toF -,
Who" 1900 for the Dictionary y =. !
tlonsi Biography. and l,sss 'o'
Men Of the Time This latter ~
cation seems to have lowered its ~
dard in the last thirty years, =
Cation. in 1869. reckoued that -
every million EnRlishmen over y
tanned sufficient reputation 70 ear"
place in that receptacle. Il mus,
aides. be remembered that We ~
taken colonies into orr calellaa,
and. rs the colonial contingent = =. :,
uralry small. this world tend :, ~. ~
nifty the seeming increase Of ais''AS
in "Men of the Time"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14
AUSTRALIANS HAD TO GET BEES
why Their rirst Crop of Glover Was Il
FailaFe.

Eyes, sir, some mighty queer things
occur in the horticultural world" sail
the florist, who had just been telling
how chrysanthemums were bred very
much like animals and how II was pos
sible 10 put stripes on them or make
them almost any shade desired you
probably wouldn't think that the pres
ence or absence OF bees would guaran-
tee the continued existence or the dts
appearance OF an agricultural staple
like clover. would you? or course. yoa
wouldn't. and II you tell that fact AMI
the circumstances OF an actual case
TO the average layman he will think
you are telling him hand raised, hy-
brid horticultural joke. II Isn't joke
An experiment down Ia Australia
years ago proved thar nothing was
farther removed from nction. Origin
ally there was no clover la Australia
and not a bee was 10 be found In the
whole country. The people found that
clover would BE- a most desirable addl-
ton to their agricultural products.
Glover seed was brought and sOwed
The climate aud soil were everything
that could BE- desired and a beautiful
crop OF clover was the result. Clover
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14

The need of attending closely to de-
tails. even to the smallest, was en-
forced b. Sir James Paget, the great
physician who recently died, in an IN.
eident of his career. After operating
upon patients heart-a most delicate
operation-he gave orders that he
should be kept perfectly quiet, and sub
Jeeted to not the slightest disturbance,
since his recovery depended upon per-
feet rest of the body A few hours
later nurse, disregarding the order,
complied with the patients request for
biscuit. The patient ate it. and in
doing so scattered a few crumbs in the
bed. One of the crumbs presently tick
eled his back. He moved his body to
escape it, the movement caused nga-
ture to slip, and the man died. "Tha.
crumo killed him." said the physician;
and his judgment is not to be disputed,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14

Astronomers are now busy with
their preparations for observing the
eclipse OF the sun, which will occur
on the morning of Monday, May %.
and will be total along a track vary
ing from forty to fifty miles in width.
and extending from New Orleans to
Norfolk From there the shadow will
cross the ocean. will traverse the
Spanish peninsula, leap over the
Mediterranean to Algiers, and finally
leave the earth not far from ancient
Thebes. Before reaching the United
States 1T will have come across Mex
leo and the gulf. it's entire path being
over 1000 miles in length. 1t is now
more than thirty years since a total
eclipse of the sun last visited the At
lantic coast Of America. in 1859: nor
will the thing occur again until 1925.
AT any given point, therefore. such
events are extremely rare, and for
this reason, IL no other, are OF great
interest.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14

that the United States senate is an odd
place to read Washington's farewell
address. We know by report that it is
read there every year, and they say the
senators usually listen to it, Senator
Foraker read it this year, and the eff
fort is spoken of as "a fine bit of elo-
cution. Probably the senators. or
certain of them, have fallen into the
habit OF regarding the reading only as
a matter of eloeution. At any rate it
seems that the effect upon themselves
would be much the same If a member
were delegated to read the Charge OF
the Light Brigade or "The Boy Stoes
on the Burning Deck
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-04-14
UNIQUE HANDWRITING.
koamsnisn's Nervous Msiady CompA,s
Him to Write Backward.

Roamsnisn's Nervous Msiady CompAis
Him to write Backward.
An almost unique case OF nervous
disease was Investigated at the last
sitting of the French Academy OF Med
fcine. The patient is young RON
manian. whose malady has been OBJ
served by DIR. Marinesco OF Bucharest.
The most curious manifestation of his
disease takes the shape OF what is
known among scientists as mirror
writing, which means that the char
acters are written backward so that
when reflected in mirror they are 10
be read in the ordinary way. Dr. Ma
rinesco had observed that the hands OF
his patient, when unoccupied, were az
fected with a nervous trembling, which
ceased to a great extent when they
We're used for debate purpose. Wish
ms TO see what effect this symptom OF
the malady had on the handwriting
DIR. Marinesco asked the patient to
write few lines from dictation; 10
his establishment he found that the en-
tire passage had been written back
ward with absolute accuracy. The ex-
pertinent was repeated several times
with exactly the same result. and ID Is,
IN fact. Impossible for the patient to
write otherwise. When asked to trace
word with his foot on the ground II,
too, was found to be written backward.
Inc patient being a Jew. final ex-
pertinent was made with Hebrew. This
language, as is well known, Is al
ways written backward. but the pa
uent, reversing. as usual. the normal
process, can only write it from left to
right. Partial cases OF mirror writ
ing have been observed before. but
none in which the tendency was so ir-
resistible.-Pall Mall Gazette,