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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-09-23
Tents
Wagon Covers,
Camp Supplies
speciality.
Fruit Cans
and Sealing Wax
D. R. BARTON, 4.rs~ rss Man.
is South First Street.
An Exciting Chase.

At about noon last Saturday the vic
ious crack of a revolver startled the hab-
itues of the Hotel Bartholet and en-
virons, and crowd in the rear of the
hotel looked up in time to see the form
of a man come through a second story
window and leap from an adjoining roof
to the ground. The shot was from a pis-
toll in the hand of sheriff's officer Yeats
who had accommodatingly gone with
recently captured prisoner to a barber
shop and thence to room in the hotel,
into an adjoining toilet and escaped
through the window. The manner in
which the escape sprinted up the alley,
through fuckers livery stable and up
Front street until he made a sudden dis
appearance from the crowd chasing him,
would have broken the 200 yard record
if any one had been thoughtful enough
to hold stop watch on him.
Things were seriously doing among
lHe sueilll = OllceIS lOl dDOul SIN UOuIs
when the derelict was discovered COM
fortably ensconced under some hay in
Hulse's barn, on b and Front streets,
from whence he was relentlessly dragged
by the "hounds of the law"
The culprit was under arrest, at the
instance of Portland officials on a
charge of grand larceny committed in
that city. He is known as f. W. Ham
brook and Portland officer came up
Monday. and relieved the sheriff's office
o: further apprehension of Jail deliv
cry by taking the gentleman back to his
old haunts in the vale of the Villa
mette.
As a dramatic finale TO the above,
dispatch of the Dist inst from Port
land. states that when the train was
pulling into that city. Handbook elud-
ed the clutches of the officers in charge
of him and sprang through a ear win
dow In striking the ground outside,
he stumbled. fell under the moving train
and was crushed beyond recognition.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-09-23

the council, was authorized to appoint a
committee of three to have charge of
the entertainment of visitors. He re-
served his appointments to find who could
most conveniently serve in this most
onerous task.
A gentleman representing coast
magazine was allowed to address the
council, and while fowery proposition
to do $3.50 worth of advertising for the
city. His offer was graciously declined.
A dramatic climax to the evening was
here presented. Two patent medicine
men then inopportunely presented a re-
quest for a reduction in the license to
peddle their nostrums on the streets.
One of the men dug up some letters of
reference, which were counteracted by an
epstle offered by Marshal Null, received
from Spokane citizen, in which the
itinerant gentlemen were denounced as
"fakirs," etc. The council unceremon-
iously adjourned while the argument
was still going on.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-09-23

According to their usual custom when
Frederick Warde, the actor, visits North
Yakima, the local lodge of Elks will en-.
terrain him at their lodge room in
Masonic hall, after the performance Sat
urday night. Mr.. Warde has visited this
city several times, and on each occasion
most enjoyable smoker and luncheon
have been rendered him by the order
Louis James, who is starring with Mr.
Warde, will also be a guest of the even.
ing.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-09-23
Wants to Gust Fruit Inspector.

State Horticultural Inspector Won
Holderbeke has preferred charges against
ma Fruit Growers Union. charging that
official with not attending to his duties
and asking for his removal. 1t is al
legged that Mr. Beck refuses to quit his
own business and inspect the fruit ship
ped out. as provided by law. and that
some infected fruit has thus found its
way upon the markets. The State hor-
ticultural inspector will be here next
week to press his charges and see if he
cannot have Mr. Beck removed.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-09-23
Will Be Removed.

The dispatches announce that Super
intendent Jay Lynch of the Yakima In
dian reservation, will be removed from
that position. Nothing of a criminal
nature has been proved against Mr..
Lynch, but the allegations of Special
Agent Dickson, who has for several
weeks been investigating affairs on the
reservation, that the superintendent is
incompetent and unsystematic in the
discharge of his duties, is given as the
ground for the dismissal.
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Mrs. COnger, assisted by the ladies of the
American legation and missions, entertain
ed eleven princeSseS and ladies of the court.
This was an unprecedented departure from
the exclusiveness of the celestial court. In
deed. until year ago last January our
minister and the European ENJOYS were not
received as representatives of sovereigns
equal in rank to the Chinese emperor.
1t is a coincidence that China is building
a legation in Washington at the same time
that we are erecting one in her capital.
Our Seoul Legation.
Uncle Sam owns also his legation at
Seoul the capital of Corea. The purchase
of this property in 1887 was a good real
estate investment for our government We
paid only S4,400 for the entire premises,
and now the land alone is worth SO, 600, ac-
cording to a recent report received from
Minister Allen. The legation compound is
a beautiful site of over three acres. 1t ad-
joins the palace of the king and is the very
center of the legation quarter and foreign
colony. Within the compound are the min
isterial residence, office, secretary's house,
interpreters quarters, official attendants
quarters, constable's house and Jail. The
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kiIns of Pao-hsiang Yao, the greatest brick
works of China.
There will be five in all-the legation Of
flee, the ministerial residence, quarters for
the secretaries, attaches and legation
guards. Ar electric plant within the COM
pound will furnish them with light, and
all modern conveniences will be provided.
The plans for the buildings were drawn by
French architect, but the State Depart
ment recently had one of the treasury's big
architectural corps detailed to Pekin with
instructions to modify them according to
the desires of Minister Conger. 1t is antici-
pated that Uncle Sam will show the orr
entail world what he can do in the way of
construction. and 100000 will go much
further in Pekin than it does here, mas
much as the Chinese carpenter and brick
layer gets only 20 cents q day; laborers, II
cents.
We were the only one of the powers rep
resented in China, which rented it's lega-
ton quarters at the time of the Boxer
troubles. We have occupied the present le-
CATION for many years, and it is now rented
from Colonel DENLY. former minister to
China, who purchased 1t from the estate
of s. w. Williams author Of the Middle
Kingdom" who was, respectively, min
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dom put together, and as a result our citi-
zens lead in all of the large Corean COM
mercial and financial transactions. They
have the largest and best gold mining con-
cessions in the kingdom and they built it's
first steam railway. They have just COM
pleted for the city of Seoul the largest cleo
trio plant in Asia. Yankee conducts the
largest rice hulling business in the coun-
try.
Minister Aliens salary is $500 a year,
whereas Minister Conger at Pekin receives
$4,000 Seoul is not a health resort by
any means and our diplomats there are al
ways in danger of malaria, typhoid, typhus,
smallpox, relapsing fever and the dread
cholera, which last disease Is present nearly
every summer.
We Own Siamese Legation.
We own our legation in Siam, Also
1t is located on the river front, just out
side the old city walls of Bangkok, the
capital of Siam. Bangkok is a very large
city, its population being estimated up to
a million. Our legation is on the busiest
thoroughfare. But the building Is very old
and dilapidated. 1t has the appearance Of
a bungalow. having one principal story of
white exterior walls and slanting roof,
which extends far outward and shelters a
balcony above the front and sides.
The salary of Minister King. who has
been physician, lecturer, preacher. mis-
sionary. political speaker historian and
HtSCh SCIfo1dr, Is the same as tudt Oh Min
lister Allen. Bangkok is the most expensive
diplomatic post and prices have continued
lately to rise rapidly. Our minister has the
companionship of some eighty Americans,
who live In the Siamese capital, in spite of
its hot and humid climate. its epidemics of
fever and stomach difficulty and the ever
present Asiatic cholera. But there are in
the city four fiourishing social clubs
which. together with the court, nine lega-
lions and three consulates, offer constant
round Of social life. except during the very
sickly season.
Our legation at Tokyo, Japan, ID also
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legation, the duties of our consul general
being principally diplomatic. He is ac-
credited directly to the Sultan of Morocco,
as representative of the United States.
His quarters, although our property, as
stated, are very old and very much out of
repair. They were presented by the Moor
ish government and are situated in the
Jewish quarter of Tangier
Our property at Annoy on the Chinese
coast is an imposing stone structure, built
upon a commanding stone terrace and hav-
ing two wings, with open verandas Be
tween the wings and upon the floor of the
stone terrace is left a plaza with white
balustrade. The building stands upon the
water front of Kulangsu, a small island
facing Annoy, and where the foreign pop
ulation have their residences The Climate
is semi tropical and pleasant, but very hot
during the summer months. The Tahiti
consulate is white frame building with
one story and an attic. 1t has a slant1ng
roof which extends over a front piazza.
protected from the sun by screens. If
standing upon one of our country thor
oughfares this building would be mistaken
for the humble hut of a poor farm tenant.
Yet it represents the powerful and proud
sovereignty of the United States of Amer
lea. JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr.
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buildings are of native architecture and
all frail. one-story structures of mud and
tile. reinforced by thin brick walls. The
board floors are laid directly on the ground
and hence the rooms are very damp.
THE grounds of the legation are all that
could be desired; the buildings are a dis
grace" is what recent report of the
Secretary of State has to say about our
Corean diplomatic post. The secretary's
house is without any furniture whatever,
according to this document. Yet all of the
other legations and consulates of Seoul are
fine modern buildings In all probability
We would not have. bought property in
Corea as early as 1887 were it not for the
fact that the Coreans do not know what
it means to rent house. Because of the,
insanitary condition of his quarters one of
our secretaries at Seoul contracted an al
most fatal case of fever some ten years
ago.
Our Minister Once Kings Adviser.
The King of Corea has usually allowed
our minister to his court guard of native
soldiers. When the envoy goes abroad in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
OWNED BY UNCLE SAM
Free Abodes for His ENJOYS
in the Far East.
THE PEKIN LEGATION
OUR PAYING REAL ESTATE
SPECULATION IN CoREA.
Life in These Distant Capita1s-Some
Attractive Building@Our
Oriental Jails.
THE PEKIN LEGATION

Copyright 1908, by John Elfreth Watkins, jr.)
Written for The Evening Star.
Uncle Sam will soon own all of his orr
entail legations, although the prospect is
that his diplomats in the remainder of the
world must continue to house themselves
and in many cases expend two or three
times their salaries in maintaining their
social prestige.
We are Just breaking ground for a new
legation at Pekin. which Is to cost 500 900.
By a recent protocol the celestial empire
gave us a grant of land in the legation
quarter of its capital. This property We
will surround by a high stone wall, every
square inch of earth within which in
closure will be Yankee soil. The stars and
stripes, flying from tall staff within, will
proclaim to all China the inviolability of
our new diplomatic colony. Within their
shadow will rise several handsome struc-
lures of gray ting-ni brick, baked at the
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sionary and secretary of our legation at
Pekin. 1t is surrounded by high wall,
which incloses only about an acre and a
half, in which space is crowded the minis
terial residence, the offices and the several
buildings of the minister's staff. The min
isterial residence is bungalow surround
ed by tall trees and a flower garden. Whlle
only one story in height, it is widely spread
out, and our representative lives as though
he were occupying an American nat, but
with far less convehences. Every quart
of his drinking water has to be boiled and
distilled. and even then it is unwholesome.
Summer Legation a Temple.
Although provided with modern quarters,
our minister must continue to provide for
himself a summer legation. The summer
heat in Pekin is insufferably intense and
humid. In the hot season Minister Conger
removes to 1.-The Hills a dozen miles
above the city, where he occupies an an
cient Chinese temple presided over by a
wrinkled and puckered native priest The
refreshing climate of 1.-The Hills is sought
by nearly all diplomats left in Pekin over
summer, and the temple in question has
long been the summer house of American
ENJOYS.
Uncle Sam will, of course, see to it that
his new legation is well defended, and you
can wager that there will be hidden behind
it's walls all of the equipment of a verita-
Dle lorueSS. we iediiieu oui iessoii uuiiiS
the Boxer troubles, and especially now,
when the sparks of another revolution are
being famed into flame we will prepare for
the worst. Our future ministers will be
we'll defended by a guard of sharpshooters,
and Uncle Sam will keep his new quarters
stocked with sufficient subsistence to resist
siege. Long before the recent fmbroglio
the legations at Fekin deemed it wise to
keep a considerable force of armed men on
hand sufficient to make a show of ability
in case of a native uprising.
In 1894 the Chinese government notified
the powers that the presence of these
guards was obnoxious and that they must
be sent to Tientsin for the winter. So this
had to be done. Ten years ago there was
no intercourse between the native and for
eign officials and no Chinese functionary of
any standing would spontaneously associate
with a white man, regardless of the lat
ter's rank. But Minister Conger has broken
down many of these barriers. Last spring
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The Dervishes will give their last dance
of the season May 8
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Wimodaughsis classes in elocution and
physical culture will give an entertainment
May 4. The Shakespeare class has discon-
tinued, owing to the illness of the teacher
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our property. Lis a large mansion
with porte cochere, and surrounded
by a picturesque garden. Japan has
rapidly risen In, importance as diplo-
matte post. Our minister's salary Is 81, GOO.
Until recently we rated Japan san extra
territorial country. In other words. we ex-
ercised in our consular courts there exclu-
sive criminal and civil jurisdiction over
American citizens. but now Japan has
nearly the same status as European coun-
tries. and. having given us treaty guaran-
tees. Americans in her territory are SUBJ
ject to her own enlightened laws.
Our Oriental Jai1s.
: But Turkey, China, Corea, Siam, Mo-
rocco and a few other of the smaller semi
enlightened states are still extra-territoriai
countries, and were case like that of Mrs.
Maybrick to occur within their jurisdiction
we would try it in our own consular courts
and confine the prisoners In our own jails.
which we maintain in all extra-territorial
countries. Our jails in Corea and Siam are
within the walls of the legation and consul
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seized the king and nearly cut to pieces
Prince Min Yong TX, one of the royal
household. After a period of long and
tedious nursing DR.. Allen brought the
prince back to life, which act endeared him
to the king. He soon became official adj
wiser to the Corean court and the most
powerful foreigner in the kingdom.
In 1887 he was sent to Washington with
the first Corean legation accredited to our
capital and remained here two years. After
having served as secretary of our legation
at Seoul and deputy consul general, he was
appointed minister resident and consul gen
eral at the beginning of President McKn-
ley's term. Indeed, Minister Allen has done
more for American interests in Corea than
all of the other Yankees sent 10 that king
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Who is to BlameP

H. Walter Burr in the San Francisco News Letter.
You who swear by the eternal
'Gainst thing that's most infernal,''
And those who make it
This "home- blasting yellow journal'-
Do you take 1t?
Don't you know that while the fellow
Hears your everlasting below,
He doesn't heed It'll
Though you curse the journal yellow,
Still you read 1t.
So keep up your useless clatter;
Every day the sheet he'll scatter
He understands IT.;
In your brains the yellow matter
That demands It.
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THE WOMEN'S CLUBS

The White Lilac Club held its third meet
ing Monday night. when the club flower
formed the decoration Of the home of the
president. Miss Millie Simms. This club
was organized for pleasure and instruc-
ton combined. The first topic to engage
the attention of the members is the study
OF the lilac. purple and white. This will
be followed by studies of the flowers and
trees in and about Washington. The OFF,
GERS of the club are, in addition to Miss
Simms, Miss Rose Allen, treasurer; Miss
Caroline Drake, secretary, and Mr.. Charles
Nelson. guide. The first outing is planned
for the first Sunday afternoon in May.
K The New Era Club met Wednesday, when
wireless telegraphy was the subject dis
cussed. Mr.. John kilbur gave a simple and
entertaining talk Of Marconi's work and
ignition with those of Morse. Miss Marion
White then gave a laughable account of
her experiment in trying to make work
ing model Of airship that she had
dreamed about-and her surprise when she
found it wouldn't fly
The Literary Ten met Thursday evening,
when the members discussed generally the
works of Dante, which they have made
their study all winter. Gustave DOre's IL
lustration of the inferno and pictures of
Dante and his home were thrown on
SCREEN
The Woman's Home Circle will hold its
iiSe oiiiudl HeetiH& tonight, Wnen It's
president, Mrs. William F. Davidson. will
be the hostess. resume of the years
work will be given, and an outline of what
the members hope to accomplish in the
future. Afterward few friends will join
the party and the evening will be given
over to music and other social pastimes.
Mrs Harriet Johnson. secretary of the
circle, will leave next week for her old
home in Winchester. Va, and her duties
will be filled by Mrs. ]. Jennie r. Young.
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fatal wound was not long ago condemned
at Shanghai to die by the slicing process.
The King of Siam can arbitrarily order
anyone subject to his laws to suffer the
most barbarous tortures. Capital punish
ment is inflicted for petty offenses, and the
condemned must carry to the place or exc
cution the very sword which is to take his
own life. His ears are stuffed with clay
a mark is drawn on his neck and the
headsman, after making four sham at
tempts to hack off his head, finally does
so with one blow, amid the applause OF an
assembled crowd.
We own three of our consular posts
proper-those at Tangier, Morocco; Annoy
China and Tahiti. The consulate general
at Tangier is to all intents and purposes
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ate general compound. At our Shanghai
consulate general we maintain a jail for
which we pay $50 in annual rental. OF
course. it would be out of the question for
us to intrust our citizens to the barbarous
laws of these extra-territoria countries.
For example. under Chinese law, one who
causes the death of parent by either &C
cident or design must be sliced to death.
An eleven-year- boy who accidentally
hit his mother with a toy and inflicted a
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the city he is carried in sedan chair by
four orientals. Minister Allen is an Ohioan.
ferty-five years old. He is a physician by
profession, and twenty years ago went to
China as a medical missionary for the
rived in Corea, where he became official
medical officer to the king and his court
and to the British and Japanese legations.
Soon after his arrival band of conspira-
tors forced their way into the palace,
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following Is a list Of advertised letters
mainfng in the Washington %. c. post ONCE Satur-
day, April is. 1908.
To obtain any Of these letters the applicant
should call for Advertised letter.
Ii not called for within two O. weeks they viii
be sent to the dead letter odlce.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-10-17
The End of
a Dream "
BY H. S. cANFIELD.
tcopyrIshs. 1908. BY Daily story Pub. Co,

ZANE WARE; 30 years old; school
III teacher in the primary grade of Aid
Borough; spinster and orphan; had
dream. It-Xas dream of purple hues.
shot with CLEANS of gold and suffused
with the glow of roses. 1t abode with
her for many years in both waking and
sleeping hours. and she loved it dearly.
This dream was of Europe.
It seemed to her that If she could
stand within the shadow of the old
palaces OF the continent, watch the dust
rise from its older roads and listen to
the stranger speech about her, life would
have little else to offer. The dream
changed its pattern. Sometimes it held
the many spires OF Cologne against
blue sky; sometimes it was filled with
the jagged SUBMITS of Swiss mountains;
sometimes the Campagna rolled away
smooth and dark before her eyes; sonic
times she stood upon the Coliseum's
hoary walls mid the chief relics of all
mighty Rome, while the trees that grew
along the broken arches waved dark in
the blue midnight and the stars shone
through the rents of ruin. Jane Ware
knew her Manfred which is to say
that, faded and spinster, she had much
of romance lurking beneath her fat
bodice.
So, with the numerous, nameless
small economies which only decent
spinsters know how to practice, the
turning of gowns and denial of car
rides and scrimping of luncheons, she
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-10-17
NOTES ABOUT DRESS.
Pretty Features and Novelties That
VIII Figure In Fall
Costumes.

Girls panama hats have become very
popular for end of the season wear
They are not greatly different in shape
and general appearance from those OF
the men.
Deep collars of panue. ornamented
with embroidery or inset lace. are like.
ly to be much worn in the fall. replac-
ing the cape collars Of lace, embroid-
cred batiste. etc.
Laces come in all the fall colors, for
the dyed lace is, to be the thing. You
can get lace the color of an autumn
leaf. no matter what that color may
be, for lace runs ecru. tan, russet,
green, bronze, and every other known
hue identified with the autumn leaf.
While the princesse will not by any
means crowd out the other styles OF
dress. 1t will yet occupy very impor-
tant position upon the dress stage
A new trimming used on linen
colore6 crash and pongee gowns con-
sists of a double piping. one of q bright
color and the other of black. This Ia
well adapted for gowns trimmed with
bands of the same material, each band
being edged with the double piping.
In the great demand for novelties
plan and figured organdies have be-
come popular for summer coats as
well as dresses.