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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07

EF.M Mckay. ex-deputy sheriff and manager for the
Dexter Horton property at Port Madison who
report Trscys hodup the Johnson house the
sers Office yesterday morning has just report to the
sheria's Office. in which he says
Il have Just received definite information of Outlaw
Tays whereabouts az Indian of the Port sladi
sa Indian reservation.
she told me that several yesterday she had
Tracy company with another the reservation she
described the accurately telling about his corduroy
pants blue sack and hard features of face.
There can be no mistake the eonvets identity.
the woman OF the Tracy episode Port
Madison and knew very itti< of his daring exploits
The Indian woman nightfall yesterday she
accompanied by boy coming from the reservation
Cape Horn, miles Of Port Madison Two
sitting fallen log and of them asked her II she had
men with guns the reservation. She
recognized the speaker whom she had
three times before that day This
undoubtedly Tracy by accurate description of him
AT O'Clock this morning the Indiap woman told
that heard many rifle shots her house Cape Horn
situated two miles west of Pert Madison.
4 believe that Tracy and Anderson sunk the and
then country Indian
Of the opinion at Tracy pursued yesterday by per
and this fact accountable for his having asked the In
dian whether she had any with guns.
Twenty men, fully d. just left Port Madison
for Paubo from where they w6 search the country lying be
tween that town and the Indian reservation.
Deputy Sheriff Hd Of skagt county has just reported at
the herifs Office that the about Deception
pass yesterday has been by tug and found to
have no connection whatever with aeys Por Madison es
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07

PORT MADISON, July z--ro ;so-Ausheniie reports
just brought this place that convict Tra and Anderson
al Cape May with Johnon boat yesterday after
beach and the convict and his companion seated in the
bushes eating. There be mistake the outlaws
idensiy the indians described him accurately without
wing any CT the circumstances connected with desperate
man
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
WEATHER FORECAST

Seattle and Viclnity-Falr tonight
and Tuesday. light TO fresh west to
north winds.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
40 ACRE :S::

About ~ miles from end Of Renton
car line, about four acres IN mead
ow. balance IN timber, which VIII
eneily bring fili cost Of property
two saw mills ia the Immediate
neighborhood. good land, price and
terms eaay
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
liEIRESS TO MARRY

A marriage license was taken out
today by Wesley Lion 1.umsden 10
NAVY Miss Alfredo Healey.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07

Sheriff Cuditcc. Deputy Sheriff Mcclellan of Thurston
county City Detective Barbee and several deputies will leave
this afternoon O'Clock for Clifton where they will out
upon Trasys trail Atug has been chartered carry the
party.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
Herbert S. Upper

" and 10 soheurermsn block.
First Avenue and Cherry Street
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07

cape The boat belonged a named Koek who lives
near Deception pass.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
FUNERAL or
E, {. BREESE

II. II. Breese. the policeman shot
and Instantly killed by Convict
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07
Too Late to Classify

WANTED-a0 to i00-ton steam on
gasoline launch. or schooner. which
can be fitted with engine. Call OF
address g. +. Unison, 4oS Lane.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-07-07

OF good alder bottom land. on East
eide Of Lake washington. good soil
and can easily be cleared. price
reasonable.
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
A Study of Race Problems.

THE Blood Of the Nation" by David
Starr Jordan. president of Leland Stan
ford University. is little book contain
ing two essays on race heredity as af-
fected by peace and war. These es-
says appeared in a leading periodical.
and rightly attracted much attention,
for the subject has rarely been so intel
ligently or so wisely treated. Its i'm
portance is SO great as to make one
wonder how II has escaped discussion
before; but we Americans have a way
of neglecting great matters for the
small and ephemeral when 1t comes to
serious thought
Two propositions are set forth at the
beginning Of this book: one, that the
blood Of q nation determines it's his
tory: the other. that the history of a
nation determines its blood. These ap-
parently contradictory statements are
true of nation just as they are OF an
individual. No one can deny that a
mans life is largely influenced by his
physical equipment: nor can 1t be denied
that he can do a great deal to improve
or to damage his physique. 1t is case
Of action and reaction.
President Jordan's main contention is
that every nation should strive to es-
.ablish and to strengthen these habits
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

plot to the story, and not much indi-
viduality to the characters. but they
are such as one meets in any such
American environment. They are Irish
Americans. some themselves of Irish
birth, others whose fathers and mothers
came from Ireland in the great exodus
Of the forties There is the quaint
simplicity OF the old-time life on the
green isle across the sea, with the
quick-witted progressiveness of Amer
ican democracy superimposed. The
girls are gentle and good, the boys sud-
den tempered, good natured, generous,
full of fun; the old people often eccen-
trio and quaint, and never of neutral
characteristics.
The defect of the book is lack of a
central idea. 1t is clever, and it is read
able, but 1t arrives nowhere. The reader
is not led to watch the unfolding of a
plot or notion or a character study.
1t is not enough for a novel to be true
to life: 1t ought to have some sort of
intention besides that of photography.
Plot is to a novel what composition is
to a picture; It makes all the difference
between the work of the amateur and
that of the true artist Mr.. McIntyre's
methods are these of the snapshot pho
tographer. New York: Mcclure. Phil
lbs & Co..
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
Child-verse by Riley.

If it be true. as a cynical newspaper
man once said, that you cannot print
too much about three subjects. women
Riley's latest collection Of verses should
be sure of popularity on one count at
least 1t is called 1.-The Book of Joy
GUS Children" and is full of rhymes Of
for and about children. in the authors
characteristic style. Some OF them are
in dialect, and some not; and the illus.
trations are delightful. There are chill
dren laughing. playing, fooling, quarrel
ing. and here and there pathetic bit
of humanity which is unchildlike in its
patience and philosophical acceptance of
fate. But they are all natural as the
babble of brook. Here is one which
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
DAYS OF OLD CALIFORNIA.

In .'Tbe Splendid Idle Forties," Ger
trude Atherton has returned to her own
particular ground, a region which she
knows better than any other, pnd in
which she is at her best-California
The book is a collection Of short stories
of California life in the days before the
discovery of the gold mines, which Mrs.
Atherton POLITICALLY terms the golden
skeleton underlying the beauty of that
land of sunshine. Some Of them deal
with the life of the Spanish-American
Inhabitants, and some with the relations
between the Spaniards and the first
American invaders; but all are equally
good, and very good at that.
Mrs. Atherton is one of The few writ
ers who have distinctive and strongly
marked style, amounting almost to man.
rerism, but not mannerism. The pc
culiarities OF this style are more promi-
rent in this book than in most of her
previous work. and it's odd brilliancy is
sc striking as to set one to wondering
what is the secret of the effect. 1t may
be her trick of using short words at
the end of sentence. Instead of max
ing sentence cumulative arrange
inert of polysyllables in a descriptive
passage, she is apt to finish 1t with a
monosyllatle lie like the crack of a rifle.
add to this remarkable felicity in the
use of adjcctives and verbs for color ef-
fects, and we have perhaps the secret
of this brilliant writer's style. For the
rest, her charm lies In temperament.
magnetic, restless, assertive, vivid-the
temperament of a woman who might
have been either an actress or the mis-
tress Of a political salon-a woman
with brains, feeling, and intuition. and
10 cold-bloodsd logic.
This is style and nature emf
nently fitted for the portrayal of the
luxurious. passionate life of early Cali
fornia. The material is abundant, and
exceedingly well handled. Each story is
the sketch of a single character or the
narrative Of single incident; they are
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
d
A Clever Parody.

One Of the unique specimens of book
binding of the present season is THE
New Hamlet" version Of the tragedy
which Shakespeare would not recognize.
1t is the work of The Smith Family -
headed by William Hawley Smith. whose
portrait appears as tailpiece. 1t is. as
a note on the back informs us. bound in
boards (No. fencing), by hand. at the
barn. on the farm, by farmers" The
publishers have even been careful to
scrawl on the board cover the cross
which, in lumber yards. signifies mo.
e. inside is a farrago of nonsense and
wit which will amuse almost any au-
dience. II delivered in the right circum-
stances by a company of amateur
actors. Chicago: Rand. McNally &
Coz
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
THE BISHOP OF MINNESOTA.

The article is in part as follows:
THE late fearful massacre has
brought sorrow to all our hearts. To
see our beautiful State desolated, our
homes broken up and our entire border
stained with blood is calamity which
may we'll appall US. No wonder that
deep indignation has been aroused and
that vengeance is to be more than a
savage thirst for blood we must exam
inc the causes which have brought this
bloodshed that our condemnation may
fall on the guilty. No outbursts OF pas
sion. no temporary expediency. no deed
of revenge can excuse us from the stern
duties which such days of sorrow thrust
upon us.
I'm all our relations with the Indians
we have persistently carried out the
idea that they were sovereign people.
II it is true that nation cannot exist
within a nation, that these heather
were to send no ambassadors to US. and
we none to them, that they had no power
to compel us to observe a treaty, and
that we did not look to them for inher-
ent power to observe 1t for themselves,
then our first step was a fatal step.
They did not possess a single element
of sovereignty; and had they possessed
1t we could not, in justice to ourselves,
have permitted them to exercise 1t in
the duties necessary to nations self
existence
THE second most fatal error was q
natural inference from the first. Be-
cause we had treated with them as an
Independent nation, we left them with
out government. Their own rude patri-
archal government was always weak
ened and often destroyed by the new
treaty relations. The. chiefs lost all
independence of action, and sooner or
later became the plant tools of traders
and agents. powerful for mischief, but
powerless for good. Nothing was given
to supply the place of this effective tri-
bal government. The only being in
America who has no law to punish the
guilty or protect the innocent, Is the
treaty Indian.
=
''The system of trade was ruinous to
honest traders and pernicious to the In
dian. 1t prevented all efforts for per-
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
: !. ~CHILDREN OF THE FROST BY JACK LONDON.

Children of the Frost" Jack Lon
don's latest collection Of tales, should
add materially to his reputation. 1t is
by all odds the best work he has yet
done, and that is saying something.
What is more, nobody is likely to do
better work than there is in two or three
of these Alaskan pieces. They have
risen above the faults Of their prede-
cessors, and command attention not only
from their peculiar and striking mate
rial but from the way in which it is
handled.
"The Son Of the Wolf" the first book
of this clever writer, contained stories
of region new to romance, told in a
daring, forceful, almost brutal way. The
style was even more direct and uncere-
monious than Kipling's; it had some
thing of the realism of France and
something OF the hard fatalism of Rus
sia. On the whole. Mr.. London seemed
to have more of tinge Of Turgueniev
than of anybody else except himself.
The fault of his earlier work was its
crudeness. He seemed to have so much
to say as to be careless of the manner
of saying it. and one felt that he missed
artistic effects which he might have Sc
cured. In "The God Of His Fathers"
the second book he was less acceptable.
But this, the third of his collections of
short stories, is as nearly perfect as it
is humanity possible to come. 1t proves
that Mr.. London has not exhausted his
material or dulled his sense of it's value:
the marvel and the primitive humanity
are there. with a deeper insight and a
more subtle touch in the treatment.
They have also a quality missing in the
earlier tales-humor.
In at least three of these stories there
is purely aboriginal sense of fun, grim
but irresistible. One is "Nam-box the |
Unveracious," in which returned ma
tive tells of the wonders which he
has seen In the white mans country, |
and is accounted most shameless liar |
for his pains. Another is THE Master
OF Mystery" the story Of feud be-
tween two rival mediterranean; and the |
third is THE Sickness of Lone Chief" /
"Keesh the Son of Keesh," is savage !
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
A Boy of the Middle Ages.

THE Boy and the Baron" by Adeline
Knapp. is a story for boys. made up Of
fighting, adventure, little plotting and
a good deal of history. The hero, Wulf.
is foundling brought up by an old
blacksmith in the domain of one Of the
feudal lords OF Germany. Arriving at
years of discretion he takes service in
the baron's castle, and there makes both
friends and enemies. He befriends an
orphan girl. of the household and helps
her to escape distasteful marriage by
taking her to a neighboring convent; he
meets with Rudolf. first of the great
Hapsburg line, and does him good serv-
ice. and conducts himself generally like
a manly, alert and warm hearted young
fellow.
The atmosphere Of the story is full of
the light of medieval days, and no
child who reads it can fail to gain a
clearer view of the life and customs of
the time. The human interest is strong,
and the character drawing exceedingly
good. New York: The Century Com
panY.)
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

events of his experience, realizing that
the end has come. yet grasping at every
straw of hope, only te recognize and
submit TO 'the law Of life.
In LII Wan. the Fair" there Is
touch of both pathos and tragedy, Ii
Wan being white woman. brought up
from babyhood by Indians and married
tc a warrior. But the best of all,
perfect Of its kind, tale which de-
serves place among the best Of the
short stories in our language, is THE
League of the Old Men" There is not
false touch or a weak point in 1t.
It is full Of poetic suggestion, grim
philosophy, and keen insight. 1t is
one Of those tales which are told once,
and only once. and by one only. Nobody
is likely to have better chance than
Mr.. London has had, Of vantage
point from which to watch the initial
contact Of vanishing with conquer
ing race, and, assuredly, nobody could
have handled his unique material bst-
ter.
+ The central figure is an old Indian. the,
last Of his tribe. who. after long life
spent in the vain attempt to stem the
onrushing tide Of civiltzation-from his
point Of view a patriotic attempt, but In
the eyes Of the white man, simply mur-
derous-gives UP the fight and Yields
himself to Justice. It Is not only 81
marvellous study Of the workings Of an
aboriginal mind, but It is human and
pathetic. 1t lays hold on the heart a.!
well as the Imagination. II It were n0i
more than this. 1t would be worth any
ones reading. but this Is not all. II has
an indescribable imaginative touch which
lifts it into class apart. above the
other work in the book. clever az this IL
and makes It one Of the tales. which,
once read, are not to be forgotten. There
are not many Of these In the world, ana
man who has done even one Of them
may reasonably lay claim to the pos.
session of genius. If the author can CON.
tinue to work on the high level which
he has attained in this book of stories,
he will win fame both wide and per.
manent. (New York: The Macmillan
Company
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

| the North. the South. the East and the
West, and when he saw me he said:
There is an honest man; I will send
him to my red children My red
brothers. the winds OF lfty-fve years
have blown over my head and have sill
vered 1t with gray. In all that time
| have never done wrong to a single hui
man being. AS the representative Of
the Great Father and as your friend.
advise you to sign this treaty at oncc.'
"As quickly as flash Of lightning.
old -boshkung, the head chief Of
the Mile Laos band. sDrang to his feet
and said:
my father. look at me. The winds
of ffty-five winters have blown over
my head and have silvered it with gray,
But-they haven't blown my brains
awayl'
He sat down. and all the Indians
shouted. 'Ho! no! ho!' That ended the
council"
Another bit of Indian repartee 10 By
Red Cloud, Of the Sioux. whom Bishop
whipple characterizes as "a born leader
of men, He wcs asked for farewell
toast at public dinner. and gave this
one:
when men part they look forward 70,
meeting again. hope that one day ~Gl
may meet In a land where white men
are not liars
These extracts will show the general I
character of the book. but they do not
give an adequate idea Of the vivid and
intense earnestness Of every page Of Il
The missionary Bishop Is the Kind Of
man who is too keen on getting the
work done to be particular about the
tools. so long as they At the purpose.
He has made places in his episcopate for
Indian converts, women, and men with
heterodox views. He has striven to Inn
press on all his subordinates the me-
cessity of attending to business instead
OF squabbling over precedence or points
of doctrine. He has put justice above
expediency, duty above popularity, and
the Gospel of Christ above creeds. A
good churchman, with profound rever-
ence for all the ordinances OF the
church; a genial man, with strong
friendships and affections; strong
man, with a strong mans liking for
power, he has never let any Of these
things interfere with his duty as he
saw it. For the sake of his work he has
disregarded formalities, alienated
friends, and foregone preferment that
might have been his. The country
needs that sort Of churchman. New
York: The Macmillan Company
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

the beautiful Russian exile. There are
stories of crossed love and of success
ful love; of iron willed mothers and ro-
mantle, passionate daughters; Of cool
headed Americans and hot-blooded Mexi-
cans, Indians and Spanish -Californians;
of the old missions and the old ranchos;
and through it all runs. like a thread
Of melody, the liquid Spanish language,
in names, in phrases, and in the sero-
nades sung by desperate lovers. In Mrs.
Ather toms novel, THE Californians."
which is in some respects her best. many
readers found the daughter Of old Cali
fornia, Magdalena Yorba, the most in
teresting of the three heroines. There
was, however. a. tantalizing insufficiency
about her story; one wished for more
glimpses into the life which produced
her. In this book of tales are many
Magdalena Yorbas, and Mrs. Atherton
has opened wide the door which, In her
earlier book, was set ajar. (New York:
The Macmillan Company
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

went the rounds Of the papers some
time ago.

went the rounds Of the papers some
time ago:
Me and Bert and Minnie Belle
Knows joke, an we won't tell!
No, we don't-'cause we don't know
Why we got to laughin' so,
But got to laughin' so
We ist KEEP a-laughin'.
Wind wuz blowin' in the tree
And wuz only ist us three
Playin' there; an ever one
Ketched each other, like We done,
Squintin' up there at the sun
Like We wuz a-laughin'.
Nothin' funny anyway;
But Laughed. an SO did they
An we all three laughed. an men
Squint our eyes an laugh again;
Ner we didn't ist p'ten'-
We wuz shore enough laughin'.
And here is a scrap Of another:
Smooth roads or rough roads. warm or winter
weather.
On go the children, tow-head and brown,
Brave boys and brave girls, rank and file to-
gether,
Marching out of MorningLand over dale and
down;
Some go a-gypsying out in country places
Out through the orchards, with blossoms on
the boughs
Wild. sweet, and pink and white as their own
glad faces:
And some go, Mt evening, calling home the
COWS.
Where 20 the children? Travelling! Travelling.
Where go ths children, travelling ahead?
Some go to foreign wars, and camps by the fire.
light
Some go to glory so; and some go to bed!
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
An Abridged Life of Lincoln.

"a Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, :"
by John G. Nicolay, is an abridged edi-
tion of the voluminous Abraham Lin
coin: A History" by Nicolay and Hay.
which appeared some years ago. The
work has been we'll and thoroughly done.
and the book will be particularly valu-
able to people who have not time or
money for the original biography. 1t
contains one portrait of Lincoln. the
familiar picture in which he appears
with his little son. Tad" (New
York: The Century Company
The Washington times., 1902-10-26

Lights and Shadows of Long Epls-
copate.' is the title of collection Oh
the "reminiscences of the Right Rever-
end Henry Benjamin Whipple. Bishop OF
Minnesota, sometimes called the indian
Bishop'' from his stanch championship
of the Indians of his diocese. The
Sioux and other Northwestern tribes
have never had better or stronger
friend than Bishop Whipple. and his
impressive and picturesque person
ality is we'll worth larger book than
this. He is not one of the men who
find their chief delight in writing auto
biographical sketches, and this volume
was prepared only after earnest solici-
tation from various friends. 1t might
advantageously have contained char
acter-sketch by some one who appreci-
ates the author mere than he appreci-
ates himself. and-would have given the
reader an idea Of him as he appears to
friends and acQuaintances.
However. there are glimpses of the
Bishop himself, as we'll as of his work.
in this collection of memories, letters
and documents, and the earliest is to
be found in an anecdote of his child
hood. Having fought, and vanquished,
a big boy who WAS bullying a little
one. he went home in triumph, but
also in q sad condition of rags and
bruises. To his mothers Mortified
questions he replied 'Yes. mother.
know it's bad, but you ought to see the
other fellcw!" After hearing the whole
story his mother told him that it was
always right to defend, the weak, and
this incident he considers to have been
in some sort a foreshadowing of the
battles which he was TO fight for the
Indians.
Bishop Whipple is now nearly eighty
years old He began his work as pio-
neer bishop when in the prime Of life.
and encountered the bitterest hostility.
as any Indian sympathizer was likely
to do IN a border population in period
of Indian wars. He includes In this
autobiography an article which he wrote
in 1862. and says Of it:
1.-The following article wrote di-
rectly after the outbreak calling things
by their right names; and. while the
truth of my statements was not denied,
l was bitterly abused
The Washington times., 1902-10-26
The Muse Let Loose.

The unrestrained genius of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox has again been mani
tested in book Of poems entitled "Po-
ems of Power" and apparently intended
to indicate that the Muse of the author
has matured and taken on advanced
views. The verses are on all conceiv-
able subjects. from Queen Victoria to
the are brigade, and are entirely char
acteristic of the author. than which no