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Washington .f'fandatd <II.I.MP! A. WAMI. mm EVENING. HVtCII 11, 1902. Villard s Aviator. This paper lias always contended ; that, when the matter of :erial navign- j tion was finally determined, it would j c line in such a simple form as to ere-1 ate universal surprise that the princi ple involved had not been discovered or adapted long before. It has seemed a wonder that such difficult tasks as instantaneous transmission of intelli gence over continents and under oceans ; the bottling up of speech to be reproduced centuries afterwards; of enabling eyesight to penetrate solid bodies; electric lighting and propul sion, and many other astounding in ventions and discoveries, should be made, and a seemingly comparative insignificant device for passing through the air by simply overcoming gravity, discovery of means of suspen sion—propulsion being assured by the laws influencing an elcmeut only dif fering in density, water—should so long baflle the efforts of man. The aviator, which is the subject of illustration in the last Dumber of the Scientific American, will at onco in spire confidence in its success from the simplest and well known mechan iv»» principles involved in its opera tion. The incans of suspension is merely a screw, somewhat like a pro peller wheel only operating horizon tally and a much wider circumfer ence. It has a steel rim and wire spokes. The one under construction is 22 feet iu diameter, and is covered with stout cotton balloon canvas, which offers a resistance of 1,400 pounds to a square yard. The aviator depends upon arrangement of the covering so as to give the surface the form of a very flat screw, and it is claimed that the steel rim will add to the sustaining power by the gyroscope principle of suspension through rapid revolution of peripheric weight. This wheel will likewise serve as a para chute, in descent, from any cause, thus reducing the danger from acci dent to the minimum. The inventor has only experimented, so far, on a small machine, but it seems safe to premise that the princi ple may be applied to any capacity. The apparatus under construction will not weigh over 750 pounds, and will have a light moter developing from 12 to 14 horse power. The aeronaut will sit on a small movable seat near where the shaft of the parachute-screw, as well as the motor screw, engage with the power wheel, and all appliances for operation will be within easy reach and under immediate control. "STANDARD TIME." —Another in quirer, and their name is legion, wants to know the initial points of standard time, as adopted by the railways of the United States. The eastern in itial point is the 75th degree of west longitude, which makes Atlantic Standard time, and this extends westerly to the meridian correspond ing to 90 degrees. Then begins the Central time belt which reaches to the 105 th degree meridian. Thence starts the Mountain time belt reach ing to the 120 th degree meridian. Lastly comes the Pacific belt extend ing from the western boundary of the Mountain belt to the Pacific ocean. The reader will see that each of these four belts comprises fifteen degrees of longitude, corresponding to one hour of time. In railroad parlance, these four divisions are known as the "East ern Stand," the " Central Standard," the " Mountain Stand," and the " Pa cific Standard," and all railway sched ules are now based upon the local time as it exists within the limits of these divisions. IT is interesting to note bow history in small, as well as in large affairs, is sometimes repeated. Take the his tory of the Washington State Journal, Chas. £. Cline's paper, and it started out under precisely the claims for pat ronage of the court-organ: That" no pent-npUtica controlled its powers," and that it would find a field all over the State from its own intrinsic merit. Then note its rapid decline, until it is sued an evening edition, a grasp at a straw as it were to keep it afloat, and ran that less than a month, until its single carrier-boy struck for his twenty five cents a week for services! That heavy draft upon its finances literally broke the camel's back. Part of this history has already been paralleled, and the remainder seems to be plainly outlined in the near future. BICHARD Winsor, the middle-of-the road Popnlist candidate for Mayor of Seattle, received only 98 voles out of a total of 13,000. His enthusiastic ad vocates predicted that he would re ceive a larger vote than Goddard, the Democratic nominee, who received six thousand votes. Three hundred votes changed from Hume to Goddard would have elected him. But then, it is safe to assume that bad if not been for Populistic agitation the Republi can vote wonld be less, and the Demo cratic vote larger, and order and de cency would have had a chance lo win in the Seattle municipal election. THE STANDARD acknowledges with considerable pride the " bouquets" that little Oly has at various times thrown to him, and will, without we hope in curring tbe carping criticism of 44 mu tual admiration," endeavor occasion ally to pin a bontonaire on the lappel of Oly't coat, though it may cause his enemies to turn green with envy. PRINCE Henry sailed for home, Mon day, from New York, by the Deutach land, amid the farewell plaudits of many thousands of people who thronged the piers to get the last glimpse of departing royalty. Said to Be a Test Suit. The Attorney General of the United States directed, Monday, that a bill be filed at St. Paul, in the U. S. Cur cuit Court for the district of Minne sota, making the gem ml government plaintiffagainst the Northern Securi ties Co, the Northern Pacific, Great Northern Railways, and others, de fendants, to test the legality of the combine whereby the two roads, it is | alleged, passed substantially un«br one | control. The action is brought under : the Sherman anti-trust law of 1890. The allegation is made that the com bination is a conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation ot both letter and spirit of the law; that the Northern Securities Company was not organized in good faith to purchase and pay for the stock of either company, but to promote the |>ooling of stocks and to carry into effect the unlawful combi nation or conspiracy alleged. The action prays that the Securities company be perpetually enjoined from employing any shares of the railroads to monopolize trade, or restrain com petition between them. There are some people who believe that the trusts have that confidence in the highest tribunal of the land, under the present trend towards cor porate power, to willingly submit the question now rather than to wait, un til popular feeling demands a recogni tion ot the rights of citizenship and vigorous metns of curbing the greed of those who seem absolutely blinded by avarice. Growth of Towns. A late bulletin from the census bu reau calls attention to the striking growth in population of the smaller cities, both east and west of the Mis sissippi valley, particularly of those of more than 4,000 population. In some areas this implies a lessening popula tion on the farms. The tendency a few years ago was towards the larger cities. It was so general that the decay of smaller cities suffering from the same cause was scarcely noted. But official figures now make plain that tbey are holding their own with the larger ones. The cause of this is probably, to a large degree, the improved school facilities in the larger towns. The par ents want advantages which can only be obtained by organization. These towns have gloriously risen to the de mands, and however short they may fall in other respects, their educational facational facilities are of the best and far beyond what could ordinarily be expected of tbem. Besides the older generation was us usually content to dwell throughout their lives on the ranch or farms. It is not so with the new generation, even when they follow the same occu pations. Once they get into fair cir cumstances they are ready to move into the towns and there take their places among the very best and most enterprising citizens. THE U. S. Supreme Court, Monday, decided that the Illinois anti-trust law is invalid, because of the exemption of agricultural products and live stock from its provisions. The decision was rendered by Justice Harlin, in the case of Thomas Connolly vs. the Union Sewer Pipe Co. It affects the constitutionality of anti-trust laws in Georgia, Indiana, Alabama, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, South Da kota, Tennessee, Texas and Wiscon sin. FUEL seems to be an expensive ne cessity, even in a country noted for its magnificent forests and rich coal de posits. At a late award of contract for 700 cords to be supplied the School for Defective Youth at Vancouver, $2.75 per cord was the minimum and successful bid. The bids for 600 cords, to be supplied the Reform School at Chehalis, all ran over $3 per coid, and were very properly rejected by the board. TUB Democracy occupies the vant age ground before the country on the issues most vital to the American peo ple. Tariff reform, which has come to be necessary on account of the ini quitous extortions now practiced, and the maintenance of the constitutional principles of the government to off-set the unconstitutional tendencies exem plified in the Philippines, are irresisti bly appealing to the party. TWENTY thousand men have been idle this week from a strike, in Boston, of the railroad freight handlers, 600 in number. Several manufacturers have been compelled to shut down op erations from inability to handle their products. The act has caused much disturbance to business and the State Board of Arbitration has tried in vain to reconcile the points of con tention. JULIETTE Lanlieu, a French girl 28 years of age, has entered the field against Santos-Dumont, to solve the problem of aerial navigation. She has made frequent ascensions, and during the Paris Exposition took a party of five from Paris to Lyons daring a hur ricane, the trip lasting seven hours, owing to the circuitous course of the gale. THE Populist and Prohibition vote added to Goddard's strength for Mayor of Beattle would have resulted in a triumph for order and decency, but these model reform factions would doubtless rather see the city "wide open" than to waive an opportunity for having matters of public policy filtered through anything but their own private quill. _ BETWEEN Senator Frye'A running afoul of tbe constitution and Speaker Henderson's faux pat through his vil ification of the newspapers, it looks as if the two Bepublicau leaders of the national legislature were also striving after the bauble of" strenuousity." A Hotly Contested Case. One of the most interesting cases iried this time in the Superior Court was that of The Tacoma Mill Com pany vs. A. P. Perry. The trial lasted four days and was contested incli-by inch on either side, the plain till being represented by G. C. Israel, and the defendant by \V. I. Agnew. As these two gentlemen enjoy the distinction of being the two best trial lawyers at the Olympia bar, the case at no lime lacked interest for tl e spectators. After thirteen hours continued dis cussion, the jury announced to the court that they could not agree, and were discharged, thus making a re trial nece?sarv. The facts under contention, briefly stated, were these: Perry went upon Tacoma Mill Co.'s land and cut tim ber that it claimed to be worth S4BO. It claimed that Perry trespassed when he did it, and sued him for three times the value or $1,440, and attached all of his property including his mill, to cover payment. The court dis solved the attachment and Perry filed a cross complaint for damages by reason of the attachment, claiming $2,000 actual damages, and $5,000 exemplary damages, because he al leged the Mill Co.'s action in suing out the writ was malicious. Perry further justified the cutting of the limbc under an alleged verbal con tract, made in 1897, by him with Wm. Hason, the then manager of the mill. These pleadings made it necessary for the jury to literally try two cases in one, and when the court came to finally submit the ease to the jury it gave them some further questions to answer as advisatory to the court as to just what they decided in their gen eral verdict. This proved too much for the jury. As was subsequently developed after the discharge of the jury they " hung" on the first question, " Did Perry cut the timber honestly believing he had a right so to do?" The nearest the jury ever got to an swering was 9 negative and 3 affirma tive votes on the question. Further in the solution of the case they never got. Both sides arc confident of a favor able outcome on the next trial and who will win remains to be seen. LEONORA JACKSON, as a violinist is certainly a very fair performer, but she made the mistake of most profession als in playing far above the heads of her audience. Much of her fingering and bowing might be regarded as very creditable in the line of legerdemain, and had she deigned to give her audi tors a few strains from melodies that have captivated the human heart, sbe might thereby have shown quite as marked exhibition of exquisite touch and delicate coloring, with the advan tage of a concession that the owner of the "uneducated" ear has as much right to the worth of his money as those who profess to appreciste the so called classical music. Miss Jackson was specially clear on the harmonic notes, which would have given her a great advantage in rendition of melo dies that have stood the test of time and commanded the respect of all ages and nations. THE BOERS AGAIN TWIST THE BULL'S TAIL. —The British sustained another severe defeat in South Africa. The troops were under Gen. Metliueu. The flight of 500 British soldiers from a like number of Boers, is acoounted for in England by the claim that Gen. Melliuen's men were drawn from the raw yeomanry, his division being a re cruiting or training school for new men. This does not account, how- ever, for the succession of misfortunes it is impossible to attribute solely to ill luck. Tire London Newi says of the calamity," The event has scarcely a parallel since the dark disastrous days when the North American colo nies cut loose from British Control." If it is capable of no greater results, it will surely give the Boers a fresh lease of life. THE Olympia Chronicle, in com menting upon the Recorder'! proposi tion to issue a daily edition of its pa per, uses exceedingly expressive lan guage in filing a protest. It says that it can " see no good reason why the affairs of Olympia should be handed over to a lot of political swell-heads and boosters." and admonishes the tax-payers and business men to " take a hand in affairs, and these fellows, who start newspapers to 'get even' will walk out of town." THK Senate committee baa decided to report the Hepburn bill, providing for constructing an isthmian canal via the Nicaragua route. This will proba bly settle the contention as to the route employed as well as the matter of construction, soon as the conces sions promised by the Central Ameri can powers are placed in legal form. A WAR between Japan and Bussia seems imminent. Occupation of Man churia by Bussia is cause of the ill feeling. It is thought that England will be drawn in as an aid to Japan and the war may finally involve all Europe. THE State University building at Missoula, Montana, was burning at an early hour this morning, and tbe dis patch announcing the disaster states that the flames were beyond control. AND now Tacoma wants to know badly, and right away, what Senator Foster was about, when be allowed the U. S. Marshal's office to be moved from that city to Seattle. EX-GOVERNOR John P. Altgeld, of Illinois, died suddenly Wednesday. He was a man of positive nature and left his imprint upon tbe history of bis State. IT is reported that the winter has been unusually mild at Cape Nome. TARIFF REVISION. IT MUST COME IN SOME FORM OR OTHER. The President Insists that Something Must Be Done for Cuba by Way of Reciprocity—The Permanent Census Bureau Bill Held Up by the President The Ship Subsidy Bill—A Proposition Reported to Make Rural Delivery Service Subject to Contract. (From our regular eorrvt*|*ondeiil.) WASHINGTON, March G, 1902. " If tec don't revise the tariff the Democrats will; and I am afraid that a good many of the members now in Congress will not be here to supervise the job," remarked a Republican member of the House, one day recent ly in my hearing, and to the conster nation of the Republican leaders that sentiment is growing daily. It is a well-known fact that Representative Babcock of Wisconsin made a vigorous effort to organize an effective opposi sition to the rule which prevented any amendment of the bill abolishing the war revenue taxes. At the last mo ment the Michigan delegation, on which Mr. Babcock had counted as an ally, declined to vote with him and consequently he determined to aban don bis project for the time and has since devoted himself to the organiza tion of those Republicans who desire a revision of the tariff at this session. Whether the autocracy of the Read rules and the vigor of the party whip will be sufficient to suppress the " schism," as it is called by gentlemen of the Henderson-Dalzell school, re mains to be seen, but unless the sub ject of reciprocity with Cuba is soon disposed of, it is safe to say that tbey will not. Cuba ia another " thorn in the llesh" of the leaders. The third cau cus on the subject, held Monday even ing, was productive of no results and another will be held this evening. The President refuses to recede from his original position, that something must be done for Cuba, and General Grosveuor of Ohio has become a warm advocate of the Ways and Means Committee bill which grants 20 per cent, reciprocal reduction on Cuban imports. Mr. Roosevelt is threaten ing to send a special message to Con gress on the subject, although if he does it will be against the advice of his friends who fear that it would have a tendency to make the opposition even more obstinate and might even injure his chances for a renomination. Senator Rawlins of Utah told me the other day that while he had not in vestigated the subject as he intended to before the matter came up in the Senate, he was certainly suspicious of the vigorous advocacy of Cuban reci procity which is being displayed by newspapers which have always hereto fore been the friends of the trusts, and he was at a loss to understand how the Cubans themselves could have produced the widespread sentiment which there seems to be in favor of 1 concessions to the island. The Senate has sent to the Presi dent the bill providing for a perma nent Census Bureau, but Mr. Roose velt has expressed disapproval of the section which includes in the civil ser vice all of the clerks now employed by the bureau, not more than one-third of which will be retained in the per manent organization. He has so far refused to sign tbe measure and has even stated that be felt inclined to veto it, although it is not believed that he will yieid to the inclination. On Monday Senator Frye com menced his argument in favor of the ship subsidy bill and the measure is still under consideration. Several Democratic Senators will present the views that lead them to oppose the measure, but they will not adopt ob structive tactics and there is little doubt that it will pass the upper chamber. The Senate has also passed the irrigation bill and has sent it over to the House where it may not re ceive as favorable consideration. The House Committee oo Postof fices and Post Roads has reported a bill providing that hereafter the routes of the free delivery service shall be let by contract instead of being covered by sslarisd carriers and although this was voted for by a large majority of the Committee, the minority report, prepared by Mr. Swanson of Virginia has received considerable support in the House. Mr. Swanson told me yesterday that he considered the pas sage of the bill would be a grave mis take. "Great responsibility," said Mr. Swanson, " rests upon tbe carriers of rural routes and their personality is a matter of great importance to the residents of the districts. In the first place, the contract system would re sult in securing the cheapest class of men and equipment, The prices bid would be too low to secure men of high grade. By the provisions of the bill there would be no permanent ten ure, as either the government or the carrier could cancel the contract on thirty days' notice. This would, of it self, militate against the efficiency of tbe service. Again, it is unreasonable to expect that the men who have con tracted to do certain work for the least possible money will be as accom modating and as ready to issue money orders, register mail and in other ways increase their work as men who are paid a salary and who appreciate that their positions are permanent so long as they perform their duties to the satisfaction of their patrons and of the Department. These are but a few of tbe many objections to tbe measure, but I feel confident that, could the residents along the free delivery routes have an opportuuity of express ing themselves, they would be unani mous in their opposition to tbe change." From what I have been able to learn from the Senate and of the Capitol it seems hardly likely that the bill will receive favorable vote in that body, particularly as its oppon ents predict that before the Senate takes it up for consideration the Sena tors will be overwhelmed with protests from the residents of their several States. Dem. A MEETING of the property owners of Fourth street was held Monday evening to consider the matter of pro posed iinpiorement of the street by the city. A general discussion of plans ensued, but no definite course of action was adopted, and the meeting finally appointed a committee, con sisting of C. B. Mann, N. H. Owipgs, John Byrne, Henry Ott and C. H. Pridham to consider all the facts and report some recommendation for united action. The committee made a report Wednesday night, recom mending planking the street. They figure the cost at SSO per lot. CONGRESSMAN W. H. Moody, of MM- McbusetU, has been selected to succeed Secretary Long M head of the Navy Department. CONGRESS proposes to give Indian Territory a Territorial form of govero ment under the name of - Jefferson." STATE NEWS. A Brief Summary of News Gathered from All Parts of the State. Capt. Julius Flint, a Port Townsend 1 pioneer, is dead. It is said that a new Democratic ■ paper is to be started at Shelton. E. O. Roberts, of Walla Walla, a pioneer hi the marble business there, is dead at the age of GG. A dangerous derelict is Boating off On|>e Flattery, in the form of a a schooner about 90 feet long. Mr. and Mrs. James Thimble cele brated the GOth anniversary of their wedding at Walla Walla, last Wednes day. A $250,000 irrigation company has been incorporated at Ellensburg to reclaim and lands with water from the Yakima river. The Washington State Sugar Co., is making improvements that will cost $40,000 to their plant at Waverly. Most of it goes for machinery. A farmer named Olof Pearson, who lived near Ethel, Lewis county, was killed Saturday afternoon by a tree falling on him. He leaves a wife and five children. The Central Hotel and saloon at Shelton, closed its doors last week, Joppick, one of the firm having left the town with the firm's assets a short time previously, says the Journal. The dredger Anaconda, which did a season's dredging in Olyrapia harbor, a few years ago, took fire at Seattle, while at work this week, and was dam aged between $30,000 and $40,000. John Glensesky, Postmaster at Clipper, in this State, was arraigned on a charge of unlawfully opening letters, in the Federal court this week. He pleaded guilty. The punishment is SSOO and imprisonment for one year. Frank Church, H. G. Jacobs and John Coatello were capsized in a sail boat at Everett Sunday. They clung to the gunwale for a time but at length Jacobs and Church released their hold and drowned. Costello was rescued. Aberdeen has a prodigy in the per son of Master Verne Larson, a 12-year old boy who exhibits artistic talent of a high order. Master Verno is de voted to drawing and has the ability to transfer the faces of his friends to paper in a remarkable manner. Robert Patterson, a colored piano player, was shot in the neck and in stantly killed by Joe Hughes, colored, in a bagnio at Tacoma, Monday. The shooting was the result of a quarrel the night before, but is generally regarded as a cold-blooded murder. Hughes is in jail at Roslyn. Actor James Neill, whose action in refusing to submit to what he regard ed as personal indignities at the hands of the degree team of the Spokane lodge of Elks, creating a widespread sensation in Elkdom a few weeks ago, has acknowledged his error and has asked for the supreme clemency of the Grand Exalted Ruler of the order. Joel and Catherine Dixon, for 27 years residents of Willamette Valley, celebrated their golden wedding at Farmington last Sunday. Mr. Dixon is aged 69, while his wife is four years his senior. They were married in Illinois, March 9,1852, and the same year tbey crossed the plains with ox teams, locating in the Willamette Valley. U. 8. Marshal Hopkins has been in structed by the Department at Wash ington to make his headquarters at Seattle. He takes possession on the 251b, and will retain Frank L. Crosby the present chief deputy, and in fact virtually announces that there will be no change in the personnel of his aids. Now hear the wail from the back seats at the pie-counter. Alexander P. Vance, who is under sentence of death, at Tacoma, for the murder of Charles F. Franklin, has ap plied to the Superior Court for an or der requiring the county clerk to ad vance funds for making a transcript of the evidence in his case to be for warded to the Supreme Court for the hearing of his appeal. Vance avers that he is without funds. Charles Eisenbeis, a pioneer of Puget Bound, died at Port Townsend, Monday, in his 70th year. At almost the same hour F. E. Eisenbeis, a mer chant at Steilacoom, his brother, died. When a member of the family of Charles Eisenbeis was in the telegraph office, sending news of the death of Charles, lie received a message an nouncing the death of F. E. Eisen beis. An attempt is being made to con solidate the remaining independent salmon canneries on Puget Sound, and Deming & Gould, of Chicago, who assisted in organizing the first com bine, three years ago, are said to be behind this attempt. At present there are 12 of these independent canneries, and they are said to hold options on four of them. Mr. Deming is expected to arrive from Chicago at once to close up the deal. The largest crowd dispatched to Alaskan regions since snow fell last fall and the Yukon surrendered to the ice king, left the Sound oo the steamer City of Seattle, which sailed Wednes day night. Two hundred and seventy five people took passage on the liner. Of these, fully 200 are bound for in terior points. The larger number goes, of course, to the Klondike, but in the crowd were people for Rampart and far-away Koyukuk. The latter con tingent included several women. It is rumored that Attorney General Strattou will soon begin a suit to dis solve tbe merger of business and politi cal interests (ormed by B. S. Grosscup, the Northern Pacific attorney, George Stevens the lobbyist, guardian angel of Temple flat, and Levi Ankeny, the Walla Walla millionaire Senatorial candidate. No doubt the triumvirate will put up a hard fight to protect their combine, and with unlimited capital as their command, they may be able to get a decision in their favor. The 9-year-old son of Mr. Sliger, a farmer, was nearly burned to death Monday, near Albion. A strawstack bad been set on fire, and burned at the bottom of one side, leaving tbe top whole and nice. The lad climbed to the top of the stack and fell down into supposed ashes, but what was really living fire. His body to the waist is burned nearly to tbe bone, several toes of the feet being burned off. But for his woolen shirt, he would have been burned to death be fore his sad plight was discovered. He wandered away from tbe stack by himself, and was trying to get to the house, some distance from the place of the accident, when found. He was nearly strangled with smoke and ashes, and the blisters on his feet and limbs were broken and his suffer ing was terrible. He is in a serious condition. A. J. Alley, a man about GO years of age, was arraigned before Judge lianford in the Federal court at Ta coma, this week, on an indictment charging him with operating an illicit still. Alley is a southerner. lie was indicted last week and a bench war rant was issued for his arrest. He is alleged to have been carrying on liis manufacture of '• moonshine" liquor near Vancouver, making the stuff, it is alleged, from fruit juices. Alley was arrested near Vancouver by Dep uty U. S. Marshal Davisson, who arrived in Tacoma Sunday with the prisoner. Alley pleaded not guilty. If convicted the minimum tine will be ifsoo and six months' imprison ment. Miss Roxy White, a 19-year-old telephone girl, and H. D. Tapper, a young draughtsman, have completely disappeared from Seattle, and their relatives believe they were drowned in a squall on Luke Washington Sunday morning. Their boat was found bot tom up, floating near the beach. Close by was a boa which Miss White had worn. The pair started out Sun day morning for a short row. At the time the weather was pleasant and the lake smooth. A little later a sud den squall swept over the waters, fol lowed by a storm. It is believed that the boat capsized. No hope is enter tained for their safely. Both were well-known young people aud of good reputation. A burglar entered the residence of W. H. Miller, at Tacoma, Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Miller left early in the evening to make calls. Half an hour after they had departed, Miss Anderson, who was upstairs, heard a crash in the kitchen below, and, think ing that some of the family was enter ing from the rear, started to see who it was. She turned on the lights in the hall and the noises below instantly ceased. Still suspecting nothing out of the way, she walked into the dining room, which was dark. The burglar suddenly pounced upon her, and for a moment the girl was so panic stricken as to be iucapable of making any out cry. But when he caught tier around the neck aud began choking her, a liercc struggle began, the girl using her best endeavors to free herself and shouting for Mr. Miller. The man linally released her and rushed out of the house by the kitchen door. The boll of this door had been pried off in order to gain an entrance. Miss An derson telephoned the news to Mr. and Mrs. Miller and they shortly returned and found her in a hysterical condi tion. Herman Conklin was arrested Sat urday at Whatcom for forging his father's name, George Conklin, to #5lO worth of checks. The checks were all passed during the past week in sums ranging from #lO to #SO in favor of various saloon-keepers of tbe city. The checks were presented to the Graves & Purdy bank, on which they were drawn, and paid. The bank became suspicious of the checks com ing in so frequently and telephoned to Mrs. Conklin who requested that pay ment on checks be slopped. This caused an investigation, with the re sult that young Conklin is now in the city jail. Conklin claims that he did not know what he was doing when he signed bis father's name to the checks. He had been on a spree for about ten days. He says the checks will all be honored by his father and the matter settled. He admitted that it was forgery, that he had signed his father's name without permission. When asked if there was enough money in the bank to cover all the checks Conklin said: " Father had #7UO in the bank." Mrs. Conklin states that the checks will be honored. Seme Decisions of the Higher Court. The Supreme Court, Monday, af firmed the judgment of tbe lower court in the case of L. T. Young, re spondent, vs. Porter and wife, appel lants, in an action to compel them to execute a deed to the Auburn pottery plant, at Auburn, King county. The judgment in the case of Swan Sampson, respondent, vs. Margaret, R. C. and Joseph Beale, appellants, has been reversed and a non-suit granted. The case came up from Pierce county and is for #1,200 dam ages, for alleged misrepresentation in sale of the Cleveland house, in Ta coma, the foundation being faulty. A judgment of the lower court whereby Ella Q. Stanley had secured a judgment for #B,OOO against William Stanley and wife for the alienation of her husband's affections, has been reversed. The Supreme Court directs the lower court that a non suit le granted William Stanley and a new trial be granted the other appellant, Mrs. William Stanley. There was nothing to show, in the judgment of the court that the elder Mr. Stanley ever tried to alienate his son's affec tion for his wife. J. S. DOBBINS. J. H. WRIGHT, SR. DOBBINS * WRIGHT, UNDERTAKERS COISEK or rOOKTB AND NUMUS STB. GIVE US A CAUU Telephone 391. Residence 486. THR POPULAR I TONY FAUST | RESTAURANT. C. HOLTHUSEN, - - PROPRIETOR. » 0 . - ► The tabic will be served with all the - ► delleacie* of the season. Open day - ► and night. -. A/MSVU "street. OljllipU, Wash. Executor's Notice to Creditors. Estate of AO.lint- C. Prescott, tit-ceased. Notice is hereby given, that letter, testa mentary ou tbe estate of Adeline C. Present!, deceased, were granted to the undersigned, on the lStlt day of February, 1902, by tbe Superior Court of State of Washington, for Tburatou County. All persona having claims against said estate, are required to exhibit tbem to me with neces sary proof and vouchers for allowance, at 330 Main street in tbe city of Olympia, Thurston County. Blale of Washington, the same being the place of business designated for such purpose by me, within one year after the date of this notice, or tbey shall be forever barred. Dated this Slstdsv of February, I'M! FRANK DICKINSON, Executor of the last will and testament of Ada line C. Preacott, deceased. Date of Brat publicaUon, Feb. 31,1902 "NOTHING SO RARE AS RESTING ON AIR." THE CHINAMAN SLEEPS UPON A MAT, THE ESQUIMAUX TIED UP IN A BAG, THE RUSSIAN ON TOP OF HIS OVEN. Some sleep on straw, some on shavings, some on excelsior, some on cotton, some on hair; but all are crude, unhealthy, unsanitary and uncomfortable con pared to the incomparable PNEUMATIC MATTRESS which is never dusty, never musty, cannot wear down, always keeps its shape. At home, no Prince ever slept on a more luxur ious couch. When you travel, take your bed with you. It only weighs ten pounds and can be tied up in a shawl strap. If you have springs on your bed take them off and sell them. Put on some good wide slats. These give the Mattress a good solid foundation, and you have a bed more comfortable than King Henry IV, who said "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'' 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