The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-19

profound furry In soc,a, c,r,,.. =.
cause she Is the FIRST Turkish woman the
siasea b. sss Rs,m,sssd to visit ,hs Unted
siusion. denying herself to ali callers. She
- Attended by a woman physician and a
Tb sshe a. nurse from an American school.
and r1s 1T - reported large and healthy.
Tame Muchteba Ali Ferrouh. Dir. Franz
lung, the physician at the legation sneak
ing sr III n ~ IN, All. said:
lie Is Just like his father. He has hiark
eyes and black hair. He II active and
sspfikntiy. lie Is Of course suffering from
shhe neat but otherwise he is In fine
There will be no ceremonies IN marx
ne coming of this interesting child into
me world for some time. The baby viii
can fashion, at least until he T. s years
oln. About that time, unless he develops
an unusual capacity for religious educa-
bits OF the Koran. This viii he continl
ued untii he Is about 10, when he will be
.aken TO a mosque, and viii then be re-
es'eo INTO the faith Of his fathers
Col Aaron 8. Dagxett, who Will COM
m st IN China the Fourteenth infantry,
b + S sns 81 stat ts q,
popular officers in the regular army Re
served through the civil war having en-
Company f, OF the Fifth Maine ,nfantry
lie was honorably mustered out MAY 10
l@o. and In the next month was made a
hi II. service, o. shs sS,stssn,h infantry Fer
mock Station, Va. November I. 1883. he
s was nreyetted major. and for gallant
ana sh rmssrtorious service in the battle OF
tenant colonel. Al the close ~ the war
ne was brevetted a colonel and brigadIer
srnr,ali since then he has received rapid
ne. was transferred from the Sixteenth
,,nndraptry to the Second infantry. and In
, ,rsz ne was promoted 70 majority. and
II lsX he was made lieutenant Of the
Iwenty-ffth regiment. and in March isss
. W. promoted to colonel Of the Four
Should Col. Daggett reach Taku I'm adj
vance OF Gen. chaffee. he will take COM
mand OF the military forces In China until
Gen. chaffee's arrival
Chinese Minister WI Ting Fang at
his residence I'm this city, Is constantly
guarded ny four capital police in citizens
clothes The guard Is simple. though ef-
fective, and attracts not the slightest at
tention OF the many persons who visit
the Chinese legation, none are aware that
" they be not known their every act or
movement Is watched As matters now
stand, II would be almost impossible TO
gain access to Minister WI Ting Fang
until the nature of the business which re-
CURED an audience was fully and salts
event the visitor should be n stranger he
would not be lost sight OF for a moment
1t can be readily seen that a guard at n
legation must not only be efficac ious and
practical but at the same time diplomatic.
as serious complications might arise as a
sequence 20 the discovery by diplomat or
other prominent parsonage that he was
being watched and therefore evidently
distrusted.
The director OF the mint IN answering
an inquiry states that there are ti6 6ss.-
s23 OF five-cent pieces and 80, s52s92 OF one
cent pieces outstanding. This gives an
idea of tho enormous number OF these
little coins necessary to transact the bust
ness % the country. Since the coinage OF
these pieces began. the total number that
has been coined IL, OF hve-cent pieces,
81 sa1 ,?as: one-cent bronze. to,072n6.
While these coins are given as out
standing. IL In impossible for the mint
bureau to estimate the number lost, de-
stroyed not in circulation, etc.
The site Of the postofnce at Cinehar:
Lewis county, has been moved one mar
mile on route n. M, and William A.
Bayne has been commissioned postmaster
Fort Casey will now be supplied with
mail, az the postofnce department. has
decided 20 tensthen the route from Port
Townsend to Coapeviiie,
H. j Knowles, secretary OF the "a
ctac steam whaling Company. of San
Francisco, was granted contract Tor
carrying the mails from Seattle TO Tn
alaska and Nome. distance of about
SIPS miles. one trip one way by the
After July 81 the office at Afognak. Alas
ka. will be discontinued.
Lieut. Joseph Heron, Eighth cavalry,
racks 10 this city TO receive further or
ders from the adiutant general OF the
army.