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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

with attending to the wants of 1000
taxpayers issuing 40S water receipts,
handling 1920 in cash in small amounts,
paying out s26, 900 to 500 city employees and
receiving $5S,909 more, the city treasurer
and his clerks yesterday had the hardest
days work ever known in the financial
department of the city government. 1t
was a day long to be remembered.
Long before the opening of the doors
at o'clock in the morning people be-
gan to form in line, 1t being the last day
for the payment of water taxes to avoid
penalties, and all day long they chung
10 their places with unwavering persist
ency, each vacancy at the head of the
line being promptly filed by an addition
to the rear, all anxious to get their debts
off the city books. and willing TO stay
there until night If need be.
The line extended from the desk nearly
to the entrance door of the city hall, and
was not shortened until the closing hour
of o'clock, when all standing were called
up into the office, and the doors were
locked against newcomers.
The cause of the rush was principally
the expiration of the time for the pay
ment of water rents, 40S people calling
during the day to settle their accounts.
The aggregate of the payments was
Sc, 1900, mostly in small amounts. In
addition, there were issued thirty-three
dog licenses and eighty-seven bicycle H.
censes, making the total wheel tags Is
sued $50 and dog tags $50
Besides these taxpayers, enough others
called at the office on transaction Of ordi-
nary business 10 swell the total number
of visitors to 1000. All these were at
tended to in $50 minutes, making the
clerks wait on more than two "a minute.
The office has issued 2.747 water re-
ceipts during the $50 minutes of the eight
working days of this month. which is a
record unprecedented in former years.
one of the incidents OF the day was
the fainting of a woman who was stand
ing in line in the afternoon She had
been there for hours awaiting her turn
to pay water rent. The line was so
crowded that she sank to the floor I'M
conscious. She soon recovered, paid her
tax. those standing in line chivalrousy
letting her take her place at the head, and
departed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
WHITE PASS EXTENSION.
Nearly 5000 Men to He Employ cd
Puget sound Cities Are Asked to
Send North 1000 Laborers.

Skagway arrivals report that the White
Pass a. Yukon contractors are to begin
track laying on the Caribou extension of
that road. Contractor NJ. j. Heney when
in Skagway recently stated that he had
$50 men employed and that he had sent
agents to Seattle and other Puget Sound
cities to secure 1900 additional railroad
laborers. He announced that he hoped to
begin laying rails about April IL.
Concerning his plans for the extension
work Mr.. Heney said:
Il have 40 men employed on the ex-
tension at present and have sent to the
Sound for 1900 more. Every man. that
applies is being engaged. II is the in
tention to rush the work and we hope to
have the track completed so cars can go
through from Skagway to Closeleigh by
the latter part of July. Three hundred and
fifty men of my present force are work.
ing along lake Bennett.
Five thousand eight hundred tons OF
rails. nearly all that VIII be needed in
building the extension beyond Bennett,
are now on the ground at Bennett and at
Caribou, the greater part being at Ben
nett. More rails are on the way. In all
there will be 5000 tons. The rails are
from Chicago
I'm tracklaying beyond Caribou we shall
put down thirteen miles at first, and then
have seven more miles put down q little
later. | shall have everything in readi-
ness for the finishing of the tracklaying
beyond Caribou just as soon as navigation
opens on Lake Bennett. Twenty-four
hours after the lake is opened we shall
have the tracklaying finished to Close
ipiEh."
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
NEW DETECTIVE AGENCY.
II. A. Gardner, n weil-known Opera
tor, Opens Up Offices.

Il. A. Gardner, one OF the best KNOWN
ana most experienced detectives ON the
Coast has opened detective agency ard
in stating the objects Of it. and the class
of work which II desires to perform Mr..
Gardner yesterday said
The main object of this agency Is t0
render such service as may be required ~
banks, corporations and business houses
also propose TO render service TO attorneys
engaged I'm litigation which requires the
services of competent detectives The bu 81
ness will be run on strictly legitimate iines
/ will not take divorce cases or other ca Sos
involving family relations. Long expert
ence has taught me that that kind az hu-I1
ness Is Improbable. to say nothing cfse
about Il. | do propose, however. 20 render
service I'm all civil and criminal cases where
my assistance is desired"
Mr. Gardner has fitted mp an elegant suite
of offices In the Pioneer building.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

and looked the court straight in the face.
DO you ever tell stores that are not
exactly true?" asked the judge.
The child. still looking into the. judges
face, replied with the single word, mo.
why don't you?' Because"
DO you say your prayers?' Every
night"
HAS your mother talked to you about
this case?" yes"
What did she tell your" 'she told
me to be sure and tell the truth
DO you know what an oath means?'
mo. sir"
rs the state in position to proceed
with other witnesses?" asked the judge.
Yes, sir" replied Mr.. Hart.
Judge Benson then took the vexatious
point of the childs testimony under adj
Visement until this morning. and Robert
Williams was called TO the stand. He was
working in his yard about 200 feet from
Shomos house at the time Mohrbacher
was killed. The strong point in his testi-
mony was that he heard shot, and on
looking up saw man, bareheaded and
in his shirt sleeves, gun in hand. in Sho-
mos yard The man was In the act of
turning, and about six feet from him
there was smoke The man went TO the
house. There was no attempt to identify
this man as Shomo.
Court adjourned until $3.50 this morn
ing.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
MEETING OF sUPERyIsoRs.
Preparing for Session to he Held
Here April 10.

Prepai atons are being made for the
transaction Of important business at the
next meeting of the road supervisors OF
King county which viii be held at the
county court house at 10 o'clock the morn
ing Of April 10
II is urged by some of the leading SUP
erNisors that there he a fun attendance
as the business Is considered Of special
Importance 10 the road interests Of the
county II IS recommended that II any
OF the districts cannot he represented by
their supervisors they choose somebody
else 10 take charge Of their interests
II IS important that there be a full at
tendance at the meeting" saws Thomas
J. Hughes, secretary Of tho board 80
that afterward no district can say 1t did
not have "a voice In the proceedings. The
matters TO be brought 90 the attention %,
the meeting are ~ special Importance TO
all he road districts az the county That
thcr" may hc AN opportunity FOR All 10
know of the session. ! shall send postal
card notifications To as many as possible.
Tho cause % good roads is one that
should appeal tu an citizens, and / there
fore hope that none of the supervisors viii
remain away. IL each district will see
that somebody is sent 20 represent # tn
case the supervisor cannot attend IL will
result IN moro general satisfaction"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

CAPT. MARTIN c. JENSEN has been
" recommended for appointment as
harbormaster and port warden OF Sc
attic. to succeed Capt. ~ l.. Rogers.
The mayor announced Capt. Jensens
nomination yesterday and the matter will
be presented to the city council at its
next meeting for confirmation The term
OF office of harbormaster expires April Is
of each alternate year, and the end OF
Capt. Rogers incumbency is therefore
next Sunday.
II Capt Jensen's nomination Is con-
flrmed by the city council 1t will mark
his entrance upon the third term in that
position. He was first named harbormas-
ter in April, 1894 and served through that
term and as far along a second one until
July 1897 when he resigned and went to
the Klondike. He was succeeded by Capt.
Amos Brown, now cashier and chief dep
uty In the office OF the city treasurer
who served until the following April,
when Capt Rogers went into the place.
Capt. Jensen is seafar.ng man OF
many years experience. He went to sea
when n boy, Off the New England coast
and rose to the position of master He
was master and owner of the 3S0-ton
schooner Morning Star. which was sunk
In collision In Boston bay In 1887. and
then came to Seattle with his family.
after residence OF seventeen years al
Salem, Mass. He did not continue his
LIE on the sea after coming to this coast
but devoted himself to civil pursuits.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

Permits for the erection OF residences
with the cost as stated. were issued a,
the office of the city engineer yesterday
J. 8 Chase. 1900 and 1904 Fir steet east.
81 900: +, j. Boyle, University Heights
81 500: NJ. u. keeney, 1874 Twenty eighth
avenue, 81 500; John A. Hicks, 123 Belmont
avenue north, 81. 800; Mrs Jennie r
Hayes. 2309 John street cast, 5000: First
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. 152G
Fourteenth avenue. $500. NJ. Knisen.
BROOKLYN. $3.50, Lolita Hall. 907 Ycsler
way, $3.50.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
WEDDING rorn TO cars NOME.
Napoleon Dupras Here with his
Hride From Montreal.

Napoleon pupras, a well known k'o1dig-
,r. has arrived in Seattle on hlH N,ddl Z
tour with Cape nome as hts dcstipaL51
Two weeks sEo blpras lei "a pretty Ffru D
Canadian giyl GO the altar iu Montreal
Marc4 AWhamheutd was her name re
bride and groom are stopping at rae RAN
irr-dWnd and Will leave Tor Cape %oua
On orc ~ the first steamers sailing FOR The
new camp
Tho kl0ulikc treated papTas kindly Ha
~ ONE q TIE most successful men ~ the
camp ~ which hc ia pioneer Vie was
among the 0rst to rrzsh care Nome N1.e-e
Dc has large bgsiUg-s and mining iuterss.s
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

The Great Northern railway on April
% will inaugurate a double daily train
service between Seattle and New What
com Increase in local business Is given
as the cause for the change. A new
tlme-card is being prepared and win be
issued in a few days. There viii also be
changes in rates.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

" ~ Dearborn commenced AK efc-tgr.e..f
suits. ea.h Involving a claim Tor damages
yesterday afternoon len sac SUPERIOR ,-s..-.
Tho defendants arc james Ca'hnln. tehaa
Davis James Mullen. Mary Hart, RabsT
Nichols aut Martin JNhrrNu IRE .f.fro
tn Nd cases Is that the drseufants 50
possession ty stealth ~ portions ~ hl, Z
eI5 Seattle t3e Janis art have refused a.
Nagtte Tho damages tn each case a-s
estimated az 80
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
RUSH TO PAY WATER RATES.
CITY Treasurer's Office Crowded
With Householders.
HUNDREDS STAND IN THE LINE.

Over 1000 People Waited On In
Eight Hours, Making the Days
Work One of the Largest In the
History of the office-City Pay
Roll and Collection of Rents
Keeps Clerks BusiIy Employed.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

Schooner Ruby A. Cousins. Capt Wal
ton, arrived from Honolulu yesterday and
tied up at the Schwabacher dock. where
she began dischargnE several thousand
empty beer kegs which constituted her
cargo.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

Five eases 90 measles are rtrcrtag A.
the following addresses Two a. -5i
Twenty FRS. HNfvIr. ans ore rsth a 1871
luinu street. $3.50 Fourteenth avenue ard
sit columbia street Scarlet fever is -s-
ported Ak 81. ana SC Harvard avenue
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
OBJECT. TO CHILD WITNESS.
Charles W. Shomo's Lawyers Try
to Exclude Testimony.
NEW POINT IN MURDER TRIAL.

state Calls Five-Year-OId Ernest
Duncan, who Says He Saw shomo
Fire Toward Spot Where Mohr-
bnchcr's Body Was Found-De-
Tense Claims witness Incompe-
tent-Case Hangs on Decision.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11

MISS f. wILzINskI. the 0psielan, hAs
ectITned.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-11
PlmPLES
PREVENTED BY
(,Qticu>a
! SOAP

The most effectiveskin purifying and beau
tifying soap, as well as purest and sweetest,
for toilet, bath, and nursery. 1t strikes at
the cause of bad compilations, red, rough
hands, falling hair, and baby blemishes,
viz, the clogged, irritated, inaamed, over
worked, or sluggish PORES.
s,Ia .vsry~here. PsrTxR DEEe tsp caEE: COR.
Ii. p,o,, b,s,on n .. A. bnuth depot +. NEW
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
NEW INDUSTRIES PRoJEcIc.
Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing
Enterprises L:lanchcd.

Cotton Mills ana otUc: N1dnuidCluflil;
Enterprises Laanchcd.
BALTIMORE, May 12.-Among o;he.
industrial undertakings noted THIS Web
by The manufacturers Record are the
following:
a $4,000 canncry, $4,000 wheelbar-
row factory aud $4,000 brickworks III
Alabama; 100000 cigar factory ana
$50, 900 ice factory in Florida; $4,000
heating factory and 100000 fertilizer
factory in Georgia; $4,000 ice factory
and l50-barrei flour mill in Kentucky;
$4,000 cottonseed oil mill and $4,000
rice mill in Louisiana; $50, 900 creamery
and l00-ton ice plant in Maryland; 5375,
900 waterworks, electric light plant and
sewer system for municipality in Missis-
sippi; 1000 telephone company and 30
barrel flour mill in South Carolina; Sl0,-
900 saw mill in Tennessee; lotion ice
plant and $4,000 cotton gin in Texas;
100000 coal mining company, 100000
coal and coke company, $4,000 natural
gas company, $4,000 lumber company
and 100000 lumber company in West
Virginia
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
WELCOMED TO NASHVILLE.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey Warmly
Greeted In Tennessee Capital.


NASHVILLE. May 11.-Admiral and
Mrs. Dewey were entertained ina most
hospirable manner by the citizens OF
his city today. The weather was de
ightful, aud thousands of visitors We're
acre. Mrs. Dewey was entertained a.
breakfast by Mrs McMiliin, wife OF
Governor McMlllln, and the members
u the committee in charge OF the flower
parade given during the afternoon. AZ
nlral Dewey visited various points of
interest in and about the city, ac-lvlh@r
at noon at the state capitol. Tne ad-
miral was greeted with cheers all along
the route. >
The flower parade, which was one OF
the handsomesc ever given III the sooth'
was viewed by many thousands OF the
people as it proceeded through the prin-
cipal streets of the city. After the pro-
cession had completed the line OF marc3
in the city it continued Oh to Centenllai
park, where the review took place. Day
fireworks and a concert were among the
features Of the program at the park. A
reception to Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
given by those who took part III the
flower parade, was much enjoyed by the
distinguished visitors. There was a
fairy land Illumination at Centennial
park tonight, followed by "a concert ano.
fireworks. Coronation exercises were
held at the theater Vendome and was
followed by carnival ball at the same
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
VERY UNIQUE "BL!ND TIGER"
What Dispensary Constabies Found In
Charleston Grocery Store.

What Dispensary Constabies Found In
Charleston Grocery Store.
CHARLESTON, May II. = The most
unique plan yet devised by ''blnd
tiger" proprietor has just been revealed
here. The constables had made an ez-
Gaustive search of a grocery store and
were upon the point of retiring when
one of them noticed several strips OF
breakfast bacon hanging upon the wall.
They appeared to have been frequently
handled. An investigation revealed the
fact that they were filed with straw and
suspended from the wall by rubber tub
ing. One of the men went to the gar
ret and there, sitting on the joists, were
three 5-gallon kegs of whisky, connected
with three of the tubes leading through
the ceiling. Each tube had a wire run
ming through it to support the bogus ba,
cor and the liquid was kept in by small
pinch cocks on the ends of the tubes.
While the constables got only about
10 gallons of liquor, they were satisfied
for having hDoken up such slick game.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
cAsAvA GROWERS PROTEST.
Florida Starch Manufacturers Demand
Protection Against Competition.

Florida Starch Manufacturers Demand
Protection Against Competition.
WASHINGTON, May 1s.-Another ap-
peal from the south for protection from
unequal foreign competitor has reached
the ways and means committee. 1t
comes from the growers Of casava and
manufacturers of starch.
The United States court III California
has recently held that tapioca flour and
caava starch and manioca starch, all OF
which are made of casava root, are not
subject to duty under the Dingley law;
that there have lately been erected i'll
Florida factories for the manufacture OF
this kind of starch and plantations
started for the production and culture of
casaya root, representing large invest
ments of capital; that these enterprises,
which were started under protection,
must be abandoned il it is withdrawn.
The senators and members of congress
will be. asked to introduce a bill to pro-
vide for this product and make them du-
table, the same as starch made from po-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
FLoRlDA's BIG ORANGE CROP
Estimated That 200, 900 Boxes Will
Be Harvested Next Year.

Be Harvested Next Year.
TAMPA, Fla, May 1.-THE favorable
conditions which have attended the
orange groves of South Florida during
the past few months have caused the
trees to esset' their fruit, so that it is
now possible to make reliable and close
estimates Of the crop for the coming sea-
son of 1900-1901.
W. R. Fuller of this city, the recog-
nized authority on the crop of South
Florida, has prepared careful estimate
Of the product for the coming season
which, just at this time, will be of
special interest all over the country.
Mr.. Fuller's estimate will furnish an
agreeable surprise to those who have not
taken the trouble to note the wonderful
redevelopment of the industry. Replaces
the crop at 100000 boxes. He shows,
by his figures, that, with the benefit of
the improved conditions and better
prices, the enlarged demand and newly
opened markets, the crop of the state
will, By the season OF l901-1902, reach
the grand total of the year preceding the
disastrous freezer
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
TEXTILE WORKERS ADJOURN
Resolutions Are Passed Demanding a
1O-HOur Day.

1O.f1OuF LAY.
AUGUSTA, Ga, May IL. = The Ma
tional Union of Textile Workers passed
resolutions directing the secre cy-treas-
urer ottheir organization to request the
manufacturers of textile fabrics to adopt
a working day of not to exceed ten
hours and instructing all branches OF
the union to Immediately begin to agi-
tate and organize for the accomplish
ment of this object. The resolutions
also instructed the various branches OF
the union to set aside as large sum as
it is possible to procure for the enforce
ment of the request and urged them to
see to it that a bill is drafted and III
troduced in the legislatures of their re-
spective states prohibiting the employ
ment of women and children over ten
hours day IL, the factories OF the sew
eral states"
The convention has adjourned with
out naming the time and place for the
next convention.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS MEET
They Indorse President Mckinley and
Elect Delegates.


PEORIA, His, May 10. Chairman
Dawes called the Republican state con-
vention to order at 10 O'Clock this morn.
ing. The committee on credentials an
nounced that it had reached al agree
ment and reported in favor Of seating a
majority Of the contesting Oullom dele
gates. The report was adopted with c1c!t
opposition.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutions was then called for and the reso-
lutions reaffirming the principles of the
platform adopted by the Republican ma
tional convention in 1896, and points
with pride to the fact that '.every pledge
contained in that platform mas been
faithfully kept" recounts the renewed
industrial prosperity of the country;
congratulates the people of the country
on the enactment into law of the cur
rency bill, which provides the gold
standard as the monetary unit Of value.
The platform indorses the administra-
tions of President Mckinley and Gov
ernor Tanner and instruc5s the dele
gates at large to the Republican national
convention to vote for the denomination
Of President Mckinley.
After the platform had been adopted
Miles Kehoe of Chicago presented an
amendment Of sympathy for the repub-
lies of South Africa, which was not
oSo,to6
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
Ice Trust In Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, May 12.-The ice trust
has made its appearance in this city and
a loud howl is already being raised. The
manufacturers have established arbi-
trary rates and rules for the retailers Of
ice and have notified the latter that if
they sell ice to the consumer at less than
a certain figure the wholesale price will
be advanced to such dealer. Rates have
been increased from 10 to 20 per cent
and movement has begun for the or
ganization Of a cooperative company to
make ice the coming summer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Only japanese Can Own Property In
Japan settlements.

WASHINGTON, May l0.-United States
Consul General Horace n. Allen of Seol
has been seeking to obtain an iterpreta-
tion of the treaty regarding the right OF
uon-Japanese to own land in the exclu-
sive Japan settlements in Corea. The
question involved is one Of great inter,
est to Americans, as the land so situated
is very valuable for business purposes.
Upon the inquiry Mr.. Allen has found
that the holding of property in the ia
panese settlements is confined to Japan
sse alone and that though al American
or other foreigner could take mortgage
on such property in the event Of enforc-
ing the payment Of deb! the property
would be sold at auction and only a
Japanese could buy it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16
COLLISION NEAR SAVANNAH.
Southern and Plant System Trains
Crash at Hardevil1e.


SAVANNAH, May 10.-At 1:20 o'clock
this morning at Hardeville, about 80
miles from Savannah, southbound train
No. % of the Plant system and north
bound train No. sc of the Southern rail
way collided. JohD Jackson, negro fire.
man of the Southern, was killed and
five or six persons were injured. No
passengers were hurt. J. S. Browning,
fiagman on the Plant system, had his
head mashed. A. G. Stanley, mail clerk
on the Southern, was injured on the
head. CO. Linford of Jacksonville was
slightly injured and Mail Clerks hear-
ney, Waterman and Plane were hurt.
Some of those hurt were carried to
Charleston and others to Waycross and
placed in the Plant system hospital.
The Plant system train was pulling into
a siding when the collision occurred.