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Washington f taniarfl lll.ini'l t, u AMI. m\\ fcYEMVi, i\\ 2. 1902, A Oood Precedent. 1 lie Koebliiigs, Contractors for plac :ug tl ie < abb - on Mast Ki\i-r bridge, Niw York, in t< ii months time, and ago ting t • for ft i t $ I,'kHi a day fur all tin time (-unsullied over the date agreed upon fur their completion, are now in hot Water. Tin- ten months time expirt<l, and they wire given an extension by the complaisant bridge commissioner, until April 20th of this year. Tiie work was not hur ried, the contractors doubtless relying upon securing another, or still other, extensions for the mere a«king. A new bridge commissioner has been ap pointed, however, and now the con tractors are appalled by the notifica tion that they must have the work completed on time, or pay the penalty. It is estimated that it will take at least thirty days more than the new limit to complete the work, which might have been completed under that of the original terms of the contract had a disposition to do so been ob served trom the beginning of their work. The Koebliugs think that they have a gricvauce, as does Contractor Goss, in construction o[ our capitol annex, but they will find if the executors of the law do their part, that a contract made for public works is something more than a leverage to extract money from the public coffers. While the capitol contract may not specifically provide for a daily forfei ture for failure to complete the edifice in time for the Legislature to convene in the building, the obligation to com plete it in time is assured by a bond, which the commission may call into requisition for expedition of the work if it is clearly shown that the contractor, by his leisurely methods, will defeat one of the principal obligations of the contract. The Commission should bear in mind that it is the public in terest they are sworn to subserve and that 110 concession may be made to the contractor which is not sustained by some unavoidable contingency aris ing which makes the time limit abso lutely impossible. This is not the case with Contractor Goss. He has bad ample time to have secured all necessary material notwithstanding unusual trade conditions—had he not, like the Roeblings, expected to obtain concessions from the overseers of the work. THE crisis in the co-education of the sexes, which has been the subject of former comment in these columns, is rapidly developing into limitations of the number of women who may avail themselves of the benefits of highered ucation. Wesleyan University has limited the number of women to 20 per cent, of the total attendance; Stan ford to 500, no matter how large the college grows, and the students at Co lumbia are at open war over the mat ter. The number of women at college is increasing relatively more rapidly than the number of men, and at the end of the decade, at the present rate, women will be in a majority at about all the educational institutions prima rily intended only for men. This is a tribute to the laudable ambition of wo men, and should cause the blush of shame to mantle the cheek of her bro ther who invokes protection of the " baby act" in the contest for mental endowment to meet the exacting du ties of life. No TAX-PAY, No VOTE. Jacob Stampfler, if he does do his thinking in French, writes a splendid, sensible and logical letter, in English, from his standpoint, on the duties of citizen ship regarding a cheerful acceptance of the burdens it imposes. He fa vors disfranchising at the polls those who do not pay their proportion of taxes as levied by the Assessor. That is rather a radical procedure, however, and offers a premium to hoarding of means for that purpose, however exor bitant may be the levy, instead of pro testing against an unjust valuation, made for the sole purpose of raising a certain amount of money. He sug gests a " strike" on the part of tax payers until all are either made to pay or lose the highest prerogative of citi zenship—his vote. If the plan is adopted, however, would it not be the money instead of the man that does the voting? IT was to have been expected that his political associates should dispute the truthfulness of the charge that Clarence Hyde tried to bribe legislat ors in 1895 to vote for John L. Wilson. That is the easiest way to dispose of the matter, and the rank and file of the gang immediately join in a chorus of denial, although the offering of a bribe is not considered dishonorable from their standpoint. It has not yet passed from memory that the effort of Representative Metcalfe, a few years ago, to expose bribery in a Senatorial contest, only led to his own party pro scription, and the sentiment aroused by the outcry against him resulted in social ostracism. It seems that it was then regarded as a crime to expose a crime, not to commit it. THE State Board of Health claim that the State institutions have been operated on an economic basis, show ing careful and conservative methods, which is quite a concession to the board which has just been superseded. THE Attorney General has decided that it is a violation of law to allow dancing parties to be held in the pub lic school-houses. IT seems that the Scobeyites are scoring about all the points on the local political board just now. A Pleasant Historical Sketch. j " Mary bad a little lamb, It's fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go." The heroine of these well-known lines was not a mere myth as many have supposed, hut a real tlesh-and bl ood little girl and her little lamb was all wool. Her name was Marx K. Saw yer, and she was born in the toral dis trict adjacent to the town of Worces ter, Mas-. Here she grew to young womanhood and became in the course of human events, Mis. Columbus Ty ler. According to the folk-lore records of old people still living in the vicinity of Worcester, it was about the year ISO 2, when Mary was eight or ten years old, that she found one morning, a little new-born lamb in the sheep pen, nearly dead from cold and expo sure. Mary carried the lamb into the house and adopted it as her own property. So frail was the young foundling that its young mistress sat up all night, on one occasion, to nurse her beloved charge. She daily combed its flocce and decorated its head with bright colored ribbons. As a natural conse quence, the lamb became a great pet and favorite in the family, following its young preserver all about the old home. The little girl's pleasure in taking care of the lamb and enjoying its company, was shared by her broth er Xat, who proposed taking " lammy" to school, one fine morning. Mary agreed to this, and the docile animal accomponied the children to the old district school house, n few furlongs trom the farm house. Mary placed lammy behind tho old fashioned desk she occupied and cov ered him with her shawl to prevent him from disturbing the school. The little girl was presently called to join her class in recitation, but no sooner had she left her seat than young Mr. Lammy followed, creating a great rack et as he tripped across the lloor. Then came the episode cited in the little poem: " It made the children laush and play, To see a lamb at school." And the good-natured teacher joined with her pupils in a hearty laugh at the turn of events. Mary quietly led the lamb out of door 3 and shut him up in the woodshed, where he remained till his mistress went home at noon. The teacher, on this historical occa sion, was Miss Polly Kimball, who af terwards married a Mr. Loring. Her son, a well-known citizen, still lives in Boston. A young man named John Raul ston, a son of Mary's dancing teacher, was a visitor at the school on the morning of the lammy affair, and was so greatly amused that he wrote the the first three stanzas of the now cele brated little poem and handed them to the young lady. Two more stanzas were added by a neighbor, Mrs. Town send. Before her marriage, Mary Sawyer taught a school at Fitcliburg, Mass., and became a general favorite among the young people of her acquaintance During the latter part of her life, she held the position of matron in the in sane asylum of Somerville for a number of years. While yet a little girl, she knitted two pairs of stockings from yarn spun from a fleece of her pet lamb, and kept one pair till she was nearly eighty years old. The stock ings she gave to a fund which was be ing raised at the time for repairing the Old South Church, Boston. The yarn of these stockings was unraveled, cut into strips and attached to cards bear ing the venerable donors' autograph. Having been placed on sale, the cards brought the sum of SIOO, which was turned over to the Old South Church Reservation Fund. The old lady, " Little Mary," died a years ago and her memory is enshained in the hearts of tbousanda of old ac quaintances who still survive her. Thus it was that a good little girl became renowned for doing a duty of Mercy. OVER three thousand people have signed the petition requesting Harold Preston to become an active candidate for United States Senator.— White River Journal. Isn't that adopting a populistic method of securing recognition? Can the g. o. p. afford to accept the " Ini tiative," in all its length and breadth? Now won't the whiskered brigade cach innate? HERKIMER, KS., a town of 600 in habitants on the St. Joseph and Grand Island railroad, was almost entirely destroyed by fire during a 50-mile gale, Saturday night. At Joplin, Mo., three persons were killed and 20 build ings destroyed by the same storm. Thirty persons were injurod, some probably fatally. JOHN H. McGraw is not making much noise, but he is sawing wood just the same.— Seattle Republican. That statement creates no surprise over here. We heard a rasping sound, as of someone filing his saw in that direction some time ago. CLARENCE W. Ide probably now re grets the animosity he aroused in his efforts to down Olympia as the capital in the legislative lobby, while he should have been performing duties as U. S. Marshal for which service he was receiving pay. A TORNADO passed over Glenrose, a small town in Somerville county, Texas, Monday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, besides de stroying a number of buildings. DECKEBAUGH doubtless considers Stocking a " snicklefritz" for elbowing him away from the pie-countei. THE Recorder, from all appearances, is not making a very satisfactory re cord in politics. The Meat Trust "Called." A Chicago dispatch of the "Oth ult., ult. says thst since tlie great advance in price of meats, owing to trust ma nipulation, that the use of that form of food has decreased fully one third, and this has led to a very general re duction of the labor force employed in handling that product. The dispatch states that the promi nent packers are alarmed over the re sult of their effort to squeeze the blood out (if the poor man's soup hone, and the business is in a state of uneasiness that has not hem experienced for years. It is hut an inevitable result of imposition of additional burdens upon the shoulders of the consumer, but in this instance etlect came more quickly from the fact that a nerve leading to both stomach and pocket was touched. Tliis produced a unity of action on the part of the people that no exhortion could have effected; and that it will be effective is best assured by that very selfishness which led to forming a combine, an assurance that, as a money-maker it will prove ineffective and that a loss is almost surely to re sult from the high prices. That the conflict will continue is best shown by tlie fact that the ma jority of people who arc abstaining from ilesh food nre people whose in comes will not admit of its use, which is the most powerful stimulant for persistent action. This is at least one instance in which the trust has overshot the mark. It had not made an accurate estimate of tho endurance and patience of the people and has simply ran up against a barrier as impregnable as the rock of Gibraltar. This is a " straw" which Piesident Teddy can see very clearly and he im mediately ordered Attorney Gen. Knox to suppress the combine, and District Attorney Betbea has been authorized to begin proceedings forthwith against the meat-trust extortion. The same as when nature effects a cure and some nostrum gets the credit, the President expects that while vox populi will cause an immediate concession bis speedy action will be accredited with being the " stitch in time." That " the early bird catches the worm" will doubtless be the moral taught by this rapid move from cause to effect. GAMIILIXG, in Seattle, which has been closed a month to compel the boss gamblers to allow a " rake-ofl" of 20 per cent, to the Clanceys, who are the financiers of the Republican ma chine, is again running without re straint and in utter contempt of the State law. It is said that the infamous agreement has been reduced to writ ing and signed by all the parties con cerned. Don't it seem a little strange that the prevailing party should be allowed thus to ride rough-shod over a State law and violate all sense of com mon decency? THE naval appropriation bill car ries an item of $748,500 for the Brem erton navy-yard, the largest made for any navy yard in the United States. The amounts appropriated for all purposes at the yard, aggregates sl,- 065,107, with authority for the ulti mate expenditure of $200,000 more. Representative Dayton says the com mittee is thoroughly convinced that one of the finest navy yards in the world can be built on Fuget Sound, hence the appropriation for it is larger than all others. SOL SMITH RUSSELL, the eminent actor, died in Washington, Monday, of perpetual hiccough. He bad been ill for some time, from that distressing nervous malady. His wife and children were present-at the fall of the curtain on the final act of a bril liant dramatic life. Mr. Russell was 54 years of age. Interment was made in Rock Creek Cemetery, near the na tional capitol. He played " Peaceful Valley" iu Olympia Theater, about eight years ago. THAT Pandora's box the piano, when put up in a " contest"—has cre ated more trouble; this time at Ever ett, where over a million dollars' worth of tickets were apparently sold to fix the award of a S2OO instrument. Now that Olympia, Walla Walla, Van couver and Snohomish have had an inning, they can sit in the judge's stand and smile over still another veri fication of Puck's adage " Good Lord, what fools we mortals be." "TOLD YOU SO." — Oly condemns Representative Cusbman's tirade against the Speaker and the House rules as undignified, when it and his party well knew that he was utterly wanting in common decency. He made a speech in the theater, just be fore be ran for Congress, which was filled with ribald jests bordering on dowright obscenity. DIE ZEIT, a prominent Vienna pa per, is predicting a financial and indus trial crisis for the United States. It says the conditions are outwardly flour ishing, but so they were in Germany during her period of trade expansion just before the era of depression. THE Recorder places an air-cushion for Mr. Deckebaugh to fall upon. It says Mr. D. didn't want the office any longer, anyhow, and that he had en tertained serious thoughts of resigning, which recalls to mind the fable of The Fox and the Grapes. THE present fad in the East is for making collections of old pewter-ware. As a result, old garrets and junk-shops are ransacked for treasures, and bat tered tankards of the baser metal are bringing better prices than new ones of sterling silver. IT can hardly be said that Mr. Deck baugh has been " booted" out of office when his " Jift" was from a Stocking foot, IN TRIBULATION. DEMORALIZATION OF THE RE PUBLICAN LEADERS. The house Action on Cuban Reciprocity Cre ates Consternation in the Senate Demo crats in the House Favor AntiSuqar Trust Amendment-—The President Has Yielded to the Demand for a More Pacificatinq Policy in the Philippines—lien. Smith to Be Court- Martialed. (Km in correspondent ) WASHINGTON, April 24, I'JO2. "Never before, and I have been iu Congress seventeen years, have I seen such utter demoralization on the Re publican side of the chamber as that which followed the overthrow of the Reed rules mid the defeat of the Re publican leaders on last Friday," said a prominent Democrat yesterday. " They have not recovered from it yet," he continued, "and there is ground to hope that the next session will witness an organization less ty runnical and less stultifying to the aims and ambitions of individual mem bers, as a result. Incidentally there are two important lessons to be learned from that overthrow; one, the power of the Democratic minority when they act in absolute harmony, for there is no doubt that the determi nation of the Democrats to vote solidly braced up the beet sugar men and so accomplished the overthrow of the ring; and the other, the value and purpose of the Crumpacker and simi lar resolutions. It was understood all along, by the Democrats, that the adoption of that resolution was merely with the purpose of providing a basis on which to trade with the Democrats and the proposals of the Republican leaders confirmed that understanding. Judge Crumpacker, himself was, per haps, in earnest but, if he was, he was merely made a tool of by those he has helped to make his superiors." The proposition of the Republican leaders to trade their support of the resolution of Judge Crumpacker, pro viding for • congressional investigation of sufirage in the Southern States, for the assistance of the Democrats in de feating the beet sugar faction is likely to prove a boomerang. The Demo crats refused to accept the trade and now the Judge is circulating a petition calling for a Republican caucus to take steps to destroy the autocratic power of the Speaker by taking from him the privilege of naming the Com mittee on Rules and making the com mittee elective by the whole House. Whether Mr. Crumpacker will succeed in accomplishing this reform at this session or not, it is deemed probable that it will be accomplished at the be ginning of the next. To say that the action of the House on Cuban reciprocity produced con sternation among the administration Senators but half expresses the situa tion. After the prolonged and tedious tight in the lower chamber the Sena tors found themselves in precisely the same position as were the Republican leaders in the House when the reci procity movement was begun. If the bill was permitted to die in committee the wishes of the President and their own views would not be carried into effect. If the committee on Relations with Cuba reported the bill as passed by the House there was every reason to suppose that it would pass the Sen ate and that would strike a blow at the Sugar Trust which would seriously deplete the Republican campaign fund for many years. If the bill be reported without the House amendment, pro vided that could be accomplished, there was serious question of its pass ing the Senate and even if it did there seemed little hope that it would be ac cepted by the House. On Tuesday there was held a Republican confer ence at which it was determined to draft a straight reciprocity measure be fore any formal meeting of the com mittee was held and then rush that through the committee if possible. What the outcome will be no nuui can tell, although the success of the bill looks most doubtful at this writing. One Democratic Senator predicted yes terday that the bill would be amended precisely as it has been in the House by the Democrats and the beet sugar Senators. He would not venture a prediction as to the fate of the bill so amended, but he said it would proba bly mean that the session would be prolonged far into the summer. The harmony with which the Dem ocrats in the House voted for the anti- Sugar Trust amendment was a source of surprise and disappointment to the Republicans but still another evidence of the unanimity with which the Dem ocrats are prearing to act was set forth by a conference held one day this week when tbe Democrats in the House de termined to appoint a committee to decide upon a policy of dealing with the Philippine Islands which could be adopted by the Democrats of both chambers. The hearings of the Sen ate Committee on Philippines have been more extended than those of the House committee and have given the Senators a far better grasp of the situ ation than their colleagues at the other end of the capitol have had, add, as a consequence, they are prepared to present an arraigument of the admin istration which will prove startling to the country. Senator Rawlins opened the debate for the Democrats and al most immediately the Republicans, with one or two exceptions, vacated the chamber, but Senator Money moved an adjournment bringing the absentees back and gave notice that he was prepared to insist on the pres ence of a quorum throughout tbe de bate. The reply of Senator Scott of West Virginia, who asked if the Sena tor from Mississippi imagined that one vote would be changed by Demo cratic argument, was answered bv Mr. Rawlins who said that he fully appre ciated that the Republicans were not " open to conviction or to reason." The conduct of American campaigns in the Philippines, as brought out by the persistent inquiry of the Demo cratic members of the Senate Philip pine committee, has at leaet pene trated to the Pii aident and he has de termined to attempt to remedy the existing state of affairs so far as lies in his power. He has instructed that the campaign into Mindanao be dis continued for the present and hopes to accomplish the exploration of the province by more pacific means than by force of arms. His action is seri ously opposed by General Chaffee but the President will not yield to pres sure until he is convinced that no al ternative can be arrived at. Mr. Roosevelt has also taken steps to have the court-martial of General Bmith, who is charged by Major Waller with haviug ordered the killing of all Fili pino prisoners over ten years of age, so conducted that the findings of the court will come to him to be reviewed instead of going to General Chaffee. It is not to be construed that this indi-! cates lack of conlidence in Chaffee but ; rather that the President desires to place himself in closer touch with the : actual condition of affairs than he has been in heretofore. DKM. STATE NEWS. A Briel Summary of News Lathered Iruin All Parts of the State. 1 A new foundry is being erected at . Iloqmani. Tbe Odd Fellows of Hoquiant are planning to build a new ball. The Horseshoers of the State met in convention at Everett last Saturday. The Alaska Packers' Association will operate a fleet of 4o vessels tins season. There is six feet of snow at Mineral City, in the foothills of the Cascades, 111 Snohomish county. The estimated output of the Peni- j tentiary brickyard at Walla Walla, with 75 convicts engaged, is 2,500,000. Mrs. Buckley, wife of Patrick Buck- ; ley, an old pioueer of Vancouver, died at her home in that city last Saturday. Thomas Robinson, charged with the murder of John Hand on Orcas ; Island, is on trial for his life at Friday Harbor. Theresa Knapp, a laundress at Aberdeen, is heir to a comfortable legacy left by an aunt iu Stockholm, Sweden. The Washington Shingle Manufac turing Association held a meeting at Tacoma, Tuesday. No business of im portance was done, but the general sentiment expressed was that busiueas was improving. Appraisement of tbe Rogers estate, lately filed in tbe Probate Court of Pierce county, shows that the ex-Gov ernor was possessed of realty and per sonal estate aggregating in value $7,- 053.75, all commuuity property. Three weeks from to-day Alfred Hawkins, or Hamilton, as be is gen erally called, will be hanged at What com, if nothing should happen iu the meantime to prevent the carrying out of the sentence pronounced by Judge Neterer. Alien White, the well-known shingle mill owner, Drs. Jos. Kent and 11. Black and W. G. Coombs, with eev eral prominent Chebalis county peo ple, have incorporated the Elnia Co operative Mining Co., to work a group of claims over in tbe Okaoogan coun try. Women arc the prosecutors of two saloon men at Orting for keeping open on Sunday. A woman tried, at Cen tralia, a short time ago, to restrain a merry-go-round from "plying its oc cupation" on Sunday and tbe in human justice charged up the costs agaiust ber. Jealousy existing between two col ored porters employed at the Pioneer barber shop, at Seattle, resulted in a shooting scrape at the Queen City Club, in Washington alley, Sunday afternoon in which a disinterested person was hit by a bullet and serious ly but not dangerously injured. Miss Mabel Burlingame, last Satur day, proudly exhibited a hand full of ripe strawberries, says tbe Yakima Herald, which were plucked from California settings now growing in the yard at the Burlingham residence. It is safe to say these were a long way Ihe earliest berries of the season. Nominations were sent to the U. S. Senate, Tuesday, of the following land offices for this State: Fred W. Stock ing, Register, Qlympia; Matthew B. Malley, Register, Waterville; Lyman B. Andrews, Receiver, and J. Henry Smith, Register, Seattle; Miles Can non, Receiver, Yakima, and Alex. J. Cook, Receiver, Vancouver. Hiram Gragg, of Garfield, has a cow that is a record-breaker. During tbe past three years this cow has raised six calves, having twins cacli year, and these six calves are now val ued at S2UO. Mr. Gragg estimates the value of the milk and butter produced by the cow during three years at $216, making a total of $416 the cow lias produced in three years. At a " hyas muckamuck" or big feast held at the home of Mrs. Baltese on Saturday an informal vote was taken by the Ctieur d'Alene Indians for a successor to the late Chief Saltese. Peter Mocktillmay received 24, Peter Scharper 21, Peter Witdshoc 7. The formal vote was postponed to a later date, when an effort will be made to secure a larger attendance of the tribe. Miss Mabel Waring, a charming young lady of Aberdeen, was to be married to Mr. W. D. Simons, Monday evening. All of the preparations for the joyous event had been made. A case of smallpox developed in the family of Miss Waring and the house was put under a strict quarantine, with the soon-to-be bride inside the ropes and the stalwart bridegroom on tbe outside. After wrenching a revolver from the hand of an angry wife, who had con fronted him with tbe proof of his faithlessness, Ost McAllister, the Post master at South Park, a suburb of Se attle, ran away from his home the other day, and has not returned. His whereabouts has not been discovered. The name of a young girl who has not yet attained legal age figures in the affair. Miss Rose Grath, 19 years of age, was instantly killed Monday night by a falling tree, near Vancouver. The young womau's mother was also se verely injured. The two women were driving in a covered buggy when a large dead tree standing by the road way was overturned by the wind and fell directly across the buggy, striking tbs younger woman on the head and breaking her neck. There are 12 candidates for the United States district attorneyship. A list of them is interesting. They are Jesse A. Frye and Clinton R. Howard of Whatcom, Walter Christian, H. S. Hudson and Charles Bedford of Ta coma, John P. Hoyt, Livingston B. Stedman, £. Heister Guie, Joseph Snippen and Austin £. Griffiths of Se attle and Samuel R. Stern and Mark F. Mendenhall of Spokane. William Young, a pioneer of Pierce county, died at Tacoma Tuesday, aged 72 years. He was a native of Scot land and came to Pierce county in the service of the Hudson Bay company in 1847. He remained in the com pany's employ until it retired from business in this country, when he took up a ranch in the vicinity of Fort Nisqually. He has lately made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Benston, at Lakeview. Will Price and Bernard Sutter were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Issaquah Sunday afternoon. Sutter's body was blown all to pieces. There was not enough of him left upon which to hold an inquest. All that remained of the once robust miner were a few shreds of flesh and clothing, which were picked oil' the surrounding trees and Hushes. Price lived about an hour after the accident, but died without regaining consciousness. M. J. (iriflin, alias J. H. Griffiths, was killed at 8:30 o'clock Monday evening 011 Pacific avenue, Tacoma, by Michael Burke. The homicide was I the result of a quarrel. No weapons | were used and eye-witnesses of the . struggle between the two men say I Burke struck Griffin only two blows, both on the right side of the chin. The patrol wagon was called and Gritlin was taken to the police station. He was dead when he reached the city hall. Burke escaped, but was placed under arrest Tuesday morning at Kalama. Bo:h parties are railroad ! men. Another suicide by the razor route was attempted Friday, at Waitsburg, when Fred Wilkinson cut bis throat with a dull razor at the home of his mother. He was discovered soon after the attempt. Medical aid was sum moned and his wounds sewed up. It is thought he will not recover. Wil kinson was a member of Company K, and served with his company in the Philippines. It is thought the sensa tional suicide of Hooker, the Whiskey Creek rancher, preyed on his mind to such an extent that he decided to go by the same route. He is a popular young man, and bis attempt to com mit suicide created no little excite ment among his friends. His mother is prostrated. Of such violence was the portion of a storm that passed over Seattle Mon day afternoon that a smokestack on the bottling plant of George T. Mc- Ginnis & Co. was severed by a bolt of lightning. A strange feature of the stroke is that the upper section of the stack was but slightly disturbed, and remains in its normal position. When it was severed from tlio lower part of the stack in the unusual way, the upper cylinder shook violently for a moment and then settled down upon the jagged edges of the under section. The gsle was one of the most severe that has swept over I'uget Sound dur ing the present year. A terrific ve locity was attained by the wind. Doubtless vessels sailing ofT the west ern coast of Vancouver Island were seriously endangered. F. P. Hunt, proprietor of a barber shop at Vancouver, against which a boycott has been declared by tbe barbers of tbe town, has filed a peti tion in tbe Superior Court asking for an order of injunction against the members of the Vancouver Barbers' Union. The plaintiff alleges dam ages in the sum of SSO, which he de clares he has sustained in loss of busi ness by reason of the boycott last Sun day. The members of the union, lie alleges, collected in front of his place, used abusive and boisterous language, and circulated handbills, the purport of which were to prevent persons from patronizing his shop, all of which, it is alleged, contributed to the damages claimed. The court is asked to issue an order restraining the members of tlffe union or others from further cir culating handbills referring to liirn or his business, or from further inter ference in any maimer with his busi ness. Each member of the Barbers' Union was yesterday served with a copy of the proceedings. Fired Conrad, aged 22, shot Joseph Black to death at Deming, in What com county, at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. Conrad was cook at a shinglemill, at which Black was also employed. Black was drinking the day before and drove his wife from home. She went to Irar Langlnnd's house, where shortly afterwards Black saw Conrad engaged in conversation with her and Mrs. Langland. He told Conrad then that he would kill him, and made him leave. Eater in the afternoon Black borrowed a rifle from a neighbor and at night went to tbe houae in which Conrad was sleeping. He tired three shots, one of which passed through the roof. Next morn ing as Conrad was getting breakfast he spied Black some hundred yards from the house, trying to draw a bead 011 liim with his rifle. He stepped inside and secured a rifle. He fired at Black, and shot him in tbe right lung. Death was instantaneous. Only man slaughter is charged in the informa tion on which Conrad is held. He will in all probability be released on preliminary examination. Ho gave $20,000 bonds and was released. THE S. F. Examiner suggests John D. Rockefeller for President of the United States and proposes to run him on the platform : '• I will do for the People what I Have Done for Myself." It is doubtles what Artemus Ward called " bitin' sarkastn," but such a re sult will, on reflection, be recognized as a very natural trend of trust domi nation. IT is claimed that Senator Foster will now allow Ide to be confirmed as Collector of Customs, in consideration of the appointment and confirmation of bis nominations for the Land Of fices. THE worry of the Recorder over the Olympian '» new linotype machine, gieat as it is, is nought in comparison with its tribulations over its own Tborno type setter. THE power of the ship-subsidy bill as a vote-repeller is so generally recog nized that the Republicans are not anxious for its passage until alter the Fall elections. OLYMPIA THEATER JOHN MILLER MURPHY, Manager. ONE NIGHT, Tuesday, May 6th HOLDEN BROS.' Big Scenic Sensation.... THE DENVEREXPREBS The Acme of Stage Realism! The most powerful melodrama of the century. A company of unuslial merit. A carload of special scenery and me chanical effects. Seats on sale at O'Connor's Monday morning. Prices, 75c, 50c, 25c. "NOTHING SO RARE AS RESTING ON AIR." THE CHINAMAN SLEETS UPON A MAT. THE ESQUIMAUX TIED UP IN A BAG, THE RUSSIAN ON TOP OF HIS OVEN. 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