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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07

EI.LENsnuRG. Dee. IA lone
rohher, unmarked. attempted this
morning 20 hold up the assistant
cashier Of the EllcnahurE National
hank soon after the opening hour
Meeting resistance tbs rohher shot
The cashier In the arm. then cs
capped aud ia atil at large
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07

OLYMPIA. Dee THE haF come
mittse 20 Investigate the Root
mofulnE 10 ghr rgsasuH adjoining the
supreme ralrt Members - the
committee are holalng personal in-
tsrflews with members - the 81
prems court and interviewing the
court stsu0Ffa Pliers aao write al
decisions from dirfatiun.
Tbs state lass librarian end hiH
assistant are alea being examined.
Tbs saprrmr court cinbSa tndags
session AZ an rAsiY hour and ad-
ieuFned until tomorrow Judge
Chadwick did not arrive to-day. a.
had hcen cxrctted hili has sent
word that be- niii BE- here tomprrow'.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07

ReV. sidney strong eNnfeh "a
Anne Congrogat iona .able. hare y
r,rnlns preached WV snns i hss
rermon 10 fathers "" nrcaeh aaes.
heen ma custom " .hris rreFlosai
sermons 90 hoys ahp eser,nQn, sees
as me usual eNenilnnS mis- BY az
last oNeuinE ne NAtA2e
49, al Gathers ana s'l,r
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FLEGr PASSES SINGAPORE


SINGAPORE. Dss. THE Al
lAnsic flcct. unaer Rear Admiral
SRFry. passed here yesterday
The hstslcahlps ksp, on their
iouruey. but flashed signals chat
the trip from Manila vas ansveut.
ful
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FARMS AND ACREAGE.
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Bankrupt Stock

Retiring stocks and lS0'S'ss lss.'
manufacturers VA o. s
mission, Mems s'o os.,s esnllt T.
ine goods. nat ana sss'
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State ~ Washington. County ~ kinf 80
81 MntEumuta. cashier ~ The ahnNe
nameh hsnN le eeHsmnlf swear that the
fore E1inU statement be- true 10 tho best
81 iuF knowledge and belief
~, MATsrMoTo
Cashier
Huhpotibri and swan g. before me this
th dng ~ December fqH
kIuEftr y MARTIN
Notary Public
Correct AtffHtt " kFENE
" \. oATEAM
Directors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07

FARM nkWGNfNasa acrss. WsH imufaF-
a. handy tn seattle market y af8fH in
cultivation. talNura PASTURE an faHfnn
and CffsHs ffaefH larx~ orchard tn fssaffnni
hN klnda 81 small frnffe GsfHafn dwell,
inH IHFRe frame NaHn. several autNniifa
iaFa Iwrsf desires 4uifk sale ~ taken
within fsr days Hlli eri faf b %.
which price includes team hafHerH. two
wagons milk cows fhuTuushhfaa hHni
yong Stock h1ar Ihfrtfua and good aut.
nf ~ farming implements
HnNGuT MAtTHf.
ai1-f1hyl ALASKA IuilanF af-f
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MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN.
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ptepsf4 a ass amgpni.
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FARMS AND LANDS.
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- aHFsa f,ratHf NearinE affHafi nuail
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80 81 AiHssa EHilHlaK "a
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s**t*ss%**tt


a DC net trust prln,ea time
4 tables IN newspapers, for
= time Of departure ard arrival
4 o. trains telephone King street
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4 ent 80.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07
cIrY ReAL esTATE.
Five-Room Cottage

on EASY TERMS
ON WnilinRfard hin. ono half block
from car line 90 Graded street five MS.
ihR rooms reception hall. hath. pantry,
tWu clothes closets electric uFhi aud
fNiurc9, lot "a hkfH03 about 3 fcsi above
gfade. lies level. and nicely Improved.
concrete steps ana walk east front
Terms t3op cash and $40 per month.
Price ls.o
=. DIXON co.
itfe Fremont Av.
North aaa Green 49,
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A Snap

t0sfes feet % ground. two hlorts
irq,n gaf. aii cleared aud level. Tor see.
with tta aa down halaufa $40 % month
- ORR CO.. INC
4es 50 VA Alaska nidH
ron sALr ny owNras
seven. faam modern house close in
Dos fpHzeo. fef 81 tee. caah a Gee
1--WE room eeitaEs. corner los tasfea.
CORNER 30 sssi5a. cioss ln' Ter 81 $50.
cash $3.50
Good business le,. close 60 ballard AZ.
Tor see. gssh 81 iqe Call ard Sc q.
scanai Wen American Bank nidk
ballard Phone ballard SIS ~
a SMALL AMOUNT or cARH
After psfinE rent you have left. WHAT
pAf THE RENT TO YOURSELF
$50 90 cash. balance monthly. four.
room cottage. l9t apHtoo. excellent con
nitiuhi three BLOCKS ~ car Rainier val
Icy 20 fainatss q pioneer square.
fle0 % ranh. fouf.foum house new.
never been lived in bath room pautrYl
eioaa car 20 minutes ~ town. hal
an ,;s ~ ge 1m eh, l., ,o 80.
nHAtNAHD. JAcKsoN a CO
N eaf a ste
VERY CLOSE IN
ONLY aNff4
Lot seHfea with modern l.room house
only five minutes ride from depot sur
/ rounded 81 nice improvements rcutaa
| Tor f2h month fine rent iarafha.
as q IL ,niy one mile from depot ffies
b - THOMPSON.
800 Oriental hlk Main or Ind esh }
New modern cottage rooms. bath. pan.
| Try, electric ftrnurne in int Fpxt0g. ihFh
/ 6nd slightly two blocks from aahaal
/ " 800 $50 cash balance 70 suit pur.
| chaser Phone Black lst W. A Huw
/ kina owner 4-ru
For aaia-Oae Of the finest View tota
/ in the city. on queen Anne hin Terms.
I 81 900 down balance easy payments
| Phone a ffi8 r=bsrnr
SACRIFICE room cottage. cioao in
/ ~ 300. t5ue cash, 90 month. Queen
| Anne 1871 a.hx
we HAVE THIS EXCLUSIVE
/ but will pay full commission 20 broker
! Two houses on iot toKioo, soathaast
I corner " 7tth and Dearhern. brings
| rental Of taa win soil for ia ioo terms
/ Chance to make quick turn ever ~
APPLETON iNNEsTMENr CORPORA.
ie7 American bank nids III
NORRIS REALTY co
/ 9W eos AMERICAN TANK uuiialnH
/ 500 one acts tract Richmond HcHeh.
nalance $40 pef month Fine soil. fine
Nifw
uwNEHa HAcNiFicU
/ Uniyenlis iAfKaln Elmo t.room house
! IA sxiF Weflh gfhoN f3uan equity fqf
] u.s. iHU hHfHnef Easy Zoo % Hilsf, rHfr
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YOUNGSTOWN
YOUNGSTOWN

tft dneh. f1e aFf u0nfh. fnaf ruam
rlasiefra fattaEf lssrl tol two hiafss
- tt HinatF affsics 10 minuies from
ltunssf Sidewalk and atstfarf fsfidf.
81 500
a , WtbKfN a 80
Adams asa Phones tss West re
office 10 ths heart % fouuasteen
Tsif
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Do 1t Now

rafars the boom afarfs Nneis sam Will
inaAa fna rich
Large ieiss Glove w. faa ana up
Large tracts. close 10, $50 aHa ~
Close iu acre tracts SO
Waterfront acreage, tt0a
fasATTtE u0MEaEKNnnH CO.
MaiH offices -att.13t Empire uiar
ufaush office oregon uiia Hfsmefton.
See the uafr yard sights IN cur free
aHtea
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Rates for Classified
Advertisements

The star cannot guarantee
accuracy er assume rosronHi.
bility for errors % any Mn"
occurring in telephoned auNs''
usvments.
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Madame Zira

The foremost Psychic palmiat and
CtaiffnFanf permanently located af her
pariafs. NAulFM HOTEL. corner
faarfh Hnd Prise
Ezra daily receives feafiniHniaia from
Seattle best citizens - the many hap.
nfHlnFs tH1l have already tfansulrad
from her readings sfa this nfarVelou
aaman iigurs. 10 M ,. m Read.
iaaa 81 30
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For TRADE

20 atfus So I laHd or = r. "a a.
Near EIfaa VIII trade faf elfN prep
egfY. Improved of vacant For lnflrma-
uea seO
WtNHHfr HHoH,
ace NNiuaH Hiss
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nllrln WANrEn'

AND ALI GlNS0i'
one cent word MinlmiW,u'
,berre fsr when charger "
sn,,ewnt actual number 81 hnea
~ ,,,il ~ counted Seven
Insertions made tot wy AZ
% ak whom cash is ps'.o.
cap. lines. or fraction Wv
viii be counted ns two lih'"
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TuE CHICAGO mtxFfT FAnt.ons
f40a FIRST AVE

wonderful values ~ Mems
Tnliur. Made Uncaiied for suits
oVarruata. EFaVeuHttes and
Gents Furnishings Hate. Caps
ana Suit Cases Also Fuil Dress
-uita FOR rent
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Water Front

w AIIA A. OilJ
one acre water front, close IN; Hes
fine, ana an ideal Fuot fof "a home.
Price only $3.50 Phone Main $50 o.
Esft aT7i, evenings.
FINE LAND
we have n flFe-Hcro tract Just suit "a
for gardening ana strawberry RAISING
Soil ia rich nnG deep and ground easily
cleared Price $500 and only $50 down.
balance monthly 40 SUIT
WEiT n WHEELER,
500 Colmnn Block
~ YOU WANT o. good piece ~ land a.
"a fofT Httn money. DONE fan % eco THIS
Ten aptea few mlnuies walk from rft
uaui close 90 pnHi1fhef, stores good
school and several mills ptlee $40 Trfmt
5fi0 cash. balance iu suit purchaser
ROBERT MAITuF.
giQ.91l9li Alaska Huildiua f.a
nidfWEEN HEAFyfB AND TACOMA
Nfat survey of new Short fine lniefuihan
Forty uefeH facing beautiful lakti iHnl
il Al Heaflg iaNfl pHfi rich haflan hnI
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FoR sALE-MIscrLLANEous.

See gtrhanFs~g sast lats ~ snt4 heavy
- teain. WaEon aHi halHsas Phone
Ballard fes4 ~ti
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40 Acres for $500

We have % acres six miles south Of
Port Orchard that we will cell f1r the
above figure Qau1 Noli and lots Of neigh.
u1fa! 911 cash, balance easy
>. 0OODFEtLOW 4 SOM.
bll Bailey Bldg
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classtfteatlon cannot be given
after n o'clock daily
BALLARD AGENCN--f' -
Mullen SAGE Ballard Nv az "
city Hall. Phone helmfv 'V
MAIN OFftCE~ SeNvntn 49,
between Union and UnlN.' '''''
Phones. Main 1880; Ind, tsA
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FREE TRIP
to California

Why not spend your holiday vacation
10 looking over ouf no and 20 acre ifri.
gated tracts. and convince yourselves
fruit. alfalfa and dalryina lands ln the
world See or write
FRESNO fuRfgATEp FARMS co.
gll Globe hidE
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t'xfee feet % rround. two blocks
RON ear All cleared and level Tor see.
Hith fte aa down, halAufs $40 % month
% ORR co.. INr
les So VA Alaska uidr
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"Slufatlonu Wanted a9Nets
tisemcnts sac for As WORDS.
times Additional space DC Po'
line
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Is as follows
Steps to Suppress Game.

Steps have been taken in number
of the colleges and high schools of
the United States to suppress football
owing to the great number of fatali-
ties which have resulted from the
game in recent years.
William Elwell, Jr., halfback on the
second team of Shurtleff college, is
the fastest victim of the debrutalized
pastime. Gangrene developing in the
arm a week after game between
Shurtleff and the Jerseyville (Ill)
high school caused the death last Fri
day of Elwell.
In the Illinois Northwestern game at
Urbana, Railsback of Illinois sustain
ed broken ankle. Walter Lawrence,
a fifteen-year-old player of Cedar
Falls, Iowa. had his life collarbone
broken in a scrimmage. Numerous
injuries were reported from the vari-
GUS battlefields.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
FOOTBALLS FEARFUL TOLL.
Eleven Deaths and 3o4 Injuries Is Rec
ord for the Season of 1908.

Eleven Deaths and 3o4 Injuries Is Rec
ord for the Season Of 1903.
Chicago, Nov. 24.-Gridiron warfare,
after exacting a fearful toll during a
season of approximately sixty-seven
days, reached its finale yesterday, the
record Of deaths and injuries showing
surprising increase. Up to last week
the statistics showed ten deaths and
290 injuries to be directly due to foot
ball.
During the last week another player
succumbed to injuries, while fourteen
athletes were borne to the side lines
and later to hospitals. suffering with
broken legs, fractured collar bones.
splintered ribs and other wounds com
monty resulting from the game. The
record of eleven deaths and 304 in
juries scarcely tells the story of the
season of 1908, for other contests re-
main on the schedules for this season.
The record for the past eight years
IA as follows.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Casualties.

Fire destroyed the ice factory and
cold storage plant of Winter Bros. and
the Nelson Morris packing plant at
Cairo, Ill. The loss is 100000.
Two trainmen are dead and two in.
jured as the result of the explosion of
a Frisco freight engine at Hayti, Mo.
Sixteen loaded freight cars in the
train were demolished by the explo.
sion.
Six persons were injured, two of
them dangerously, when A. A. Busey
an Oakland furniture dealer, turned
his automobile over an eighteen-foot
embankment at San Jose, Cal, ia es-
cape crashing into a passenger train
ct crossing.
Homer Hemm, a young man who
was injured in a corn husking ma.
chine at Hampton, Iowa, died from
lockjaw. His hand was badly lacer.
ated by being caught in the ma,
chinery, but it was not thought that
death would result.
Fireman Quick was killed when an
extra and regular freight collided
On the Burlington road at Sutton, Neb
4 brakeman was seriously injured.
Twsnty-three cars loaded with mer.
chaadise were completely destroyed
~ 6ro. TA0 track was torn up di,
la10o 6 Q quarter Of . mile.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Personal.

Nine. Arvede Barine, the authoress
Is dead In Paris.
The death is announced of Achille
Luclaire, the French historian and
member Of the Academy. He was
born in 1916.
At meeting of the Yale corpora.
ton William Campbell of the Lick
observatory was appointed Silliman
lecturer for the year 1909.
Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge was
reelected president of the Society Of
the Army of the Tennessee at the an.
uual session In st. Louis.
Jackson L. Smith, seventy-one
years old, for sixteen years a judge of
the Missouri court of appeals, died at
his home in Kansas City, following an
illness of one week.
The appointment of Col. George H,
Torney as surgeon general of the
army, to succeed Surgeon General r.
NJ. O'Reilly, has been announced by
the secretary of war.
George Tod, one Of the wealthiest
men of the Mahoning valley, died at
Youngstown, Ohio, after an illness of
ST six weeks from heart trouble. He
was a son Of David Tod, Ohio's war
governor.
]. H. Ahrens, owner of $4,000
stock of merchandise at Sterling, Ill.,.
says he received a wireless message
from heaven to sell his stock and be.
come an evangelist, and he obeyed the
command.
Edward D. Hayden, vice president
and secretary of the Boston & Albany
railroad and a member Of the Forty
ninth and Fiftieth congresses, died Of
apoplexy in his pew at the Woburn
Unitarian church at Wo5urn, Mass.
Commander J. P. Parker has been
detached from duty at the naval sta
ton at Cavite, P. l., and will command
the cruiser Denver, relieving Com
mander J. NJ Orchard, who is ordered
on duty as captain of the yard at
Cavite.
Miss Lorraine Dreux, one leading
woman for the famous English actor.
Beerbohm Tree, died of pneumonia in
q private room at Bellevue hospital,
New York. She was saved from a
charity cot and probably a pauper's
grave by chance meeting on the
street with theatrical manager.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
500 PASSENGERS IN PERIL.
Steamers Collide and Catastrophe Ia
Averted by Action of Captain.

Steamers Collide and Catastrophe Ia
Averted by Action of Captain.
New York, Nov. "a. - The lives Of
more than 500 persons were tmperiled
yesterday when the fruit steamer Adj
miral Dewey, inward bound from Ja1
maica, crashed into the steamer
Mount Desert, outward bound, from
Bay Ridge, for the fishing banks. The.
Admiral Dewey, coming suddenly out
OF fog bank, struck the Mount Des-
ert almost amidships, opening cash
in the fishing vessel that extended
from the upper deck to the waters
edge. There were $50 passengers, in@
Guiding twenty women and six chill
dren, on the Mount Desert, and the
Admiral Dewey carried forty-five pas
sengers.
Panic Immediately followed the col,
lision, and it was due to the prompt
action of Capt. Davidson of the Dewey
that a catastrophe was averted, for
the passengers on the fishing steamer
began climbing over the guard rails
of that vessel and leaped for the deck
Of the Admiral Dewey. Had he back
ed his steamer away many would;
have fallen into the water Capt. Da-
wilson kept the steamer moving Slow
ly ahead, and this held the PROV Of
| the fruit steamer into the rent that
had been made and afforded a board.
ing place for the frightened passen.
gers of the Mount Desert. All were
saved.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
FoReER KING IS NOW CONVICT
Peter Van vlissingen Is Hurried OF
to Prison to Prevent Suicide,

to Prison to Prevent Suicide.
Joliet, ILL.,, Nov. 21.-Peter Van Wis.
singer, self-confessed forger to the ex.
tent Of 100000, yesterday became
Convict No. 603.
1t was just four days ago that the
Chicago real estate man and philan-
thropist startled a public which knew
him only as a successful business
man and exponent of civic and public
righteousness by his confession. The
indictment and conviction followed
within few hours.
Van Vlissingen was accompanied to
the penitentiary by Sheriff Strass-
helm and Deputy Sheriff Morrison Of
Chicago and Charles Andrews, chair
man Of the Republican central com.
mittee of Cook county, who is per
sonal friend. Van Vlissingen babe
farewell to his companions in the war.
denis Office, after which he went
through the routine requirements of a
bath and the Bertillon system of iden-
tification. His photograph also was
taken.
The new prisoner was shaved and
his hair cut by an Italian serving a
life sentence for wife murder. Van
Vlissingen will be put to work in the
broom factory.
Fear that the disgraced financier
might attempt suicide was given as
the reason for his removal from the
Chicago jail at an earlier date than
had been expected.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Packet on Lower Mississippi
River Wrecked by Explosion
of Boilers.
FIRE ADDS TO The HORROR
Steamer Burns to. Waters Edge With
Valuable experimentation
to Be Held.

New Orleans, Nov. "a. - Eight per-
sons are dead and twice as many in.
jured. some of them fatally, as re-
suit Of an explosion on the Mississippi
river steamer H. M. Carter, near
Bayou Goula, north of New Orleans.
The boiler of the Carter exploded
while the steamer was on it's way
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge
with cargo of general merchandise
and fifty or more passengers. To add
to the horror of the disaster fire sue
ceeded the explosion and the boat was
burned to the waters edge.
Captain Has Close Call.
Among the seriously injured is Capt.
H. M. Carter, owner of the boat, who
with his wife and child had'a remark
able escape from death. He was
blown fifty feet into the water by the
explosion, but managed to swim to the
shore. though he has a serious injury
to his side. Capt. Carter's wife and
child were picked up in the water un-
harmed.
The tugboat McDougal of the Texas
Oil company heard the explosion and
fastened to the rescue. She stood by
and picked up a dozen people who
were struggling in the water. Physi-
clans from nearby towns rushed to
the scene and as soon as bedding and
bandages had been secured, the Nc
Douglas removed the injured to New
Orleans.
Many Caught by Flames.
AS soon as the explosion occurred
the boat was wrapped in flames and
thus prevented some of the injured
deckhands from making their escape.
Half an hour later the boat had been
burned to the waters edge. She is a
total loss, with her valuable cargo of
sugar.
An Investigation of the causes lead
ing up to the explosion Of the Carter's
boilers will be made by the United
States inspectors.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-27
Otherwise.

Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $4,000 toward the establish.
ment Of a college for colored youths
In Kentucky, to be branch of Berea
college.
Alfred Aufnet, pioneer hotel mar
OF saltwater and Minneapolis, MINI.
and proprietor of one of San Jose's
first hotels. died at sanitarium at
San Jose, Cal.
"A Program for the South" will be
the general subject of the addresses
at the annual dinner of the North
Carolina Society of New York at the
Hotel Astor Dec. z, at which William
H. Taft will be the principal speaker.
Action has been filed at Winnipeg
for $4,000 damages and resultant
costs by the Vulcan Iron works Of
Winnipeg against the union which or.
dered strike in the plant in March,
1906, and a perpetual injunction was
applied for against picketing the vul-
can plant land in the interim an in.
junction was granted.
A committee of negroes of Oklaho
ma have filed with the corporation
commission suit against every rail-
road In the state demanding dining
and sleeping cars for colored as we'll
as white travellers. The petition also
asks that white passengers be pro-
hibited from passing through the "Jim
Crow" coaches. 4
Echo river, in Mammoth cave. III
Kentucky. is almost dry as a result Of
the drouth. AS a result of the oppor-
tunity afforded many parts of the
cave that have never been reached
have been explored. The river has
never been known to be so low.
That an immense quantity of YER,
rich gold ore has been discovered in
the Smoky mountains Of North Caro-.
tina BY local prospectors was announc.
ID By J. N. Brown, mining engineer.
0rs.brsarinS rock that By an sxpert
lnalys1s oontains from So @ 4olo
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