St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 June 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

KATE Ib the sweet familiar num > That has the p >wer my imn?st s ml to thrill. To kindle all my face with sudden flame. And all my hear. with seer, t raptu.-c fill. But now, alas! the shadow o' r> r t Comes up to mar my paa o wit i secret doubt; I would not live tho past a ain nor yet Be quite co tent to have it blotted out. Danvh.lk, 111., B. 1 GREAT TREASURE. ——————• The Stowe Mystery SrnnMii Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. — ♦ BY FRANK BARRETT. CHAPTER XVI.

identify them. Swinging along at a good four miles an hour, and dragging the Kid along by the Wrist, or letting her trot on behind. I should have recognized the Judge immediately at a quarter ot a mile off. But walking at an old man's pace, with his daughter leaning on his arm, he was not easily recognizable. But in Lol i the change was still greater. She was no longer a barefooted, ragged little savage, but a young lady with some pretension to elegance in her dress: ami. thus altered, she looked a woman rather than a child. Her head was b mt. she leaned for support on her father's mm. Sho walked slowly, and with an a r of fatigue: and, remembering the buoyant elasticity of her gait, the rebellious independence of her spirit, I asked myself with doubt if this could indeed bo Lola. I fcllow'ed them into the hotel; from the vestibule J saw them enter a room upon the first floor. I ran up, and stopped at the open door. Lola had settled herself on a couch: her face rested on the pillow, her eyes were closed. It was^he pretty It tie face I knew so well, 1 utob. so changed! Her cheek was no longer round; the russet bloom had gone from her complexion: there was a pu pie tint about her clo<ed lids, and the vermilion of her lips was unnaturally bright. I was struck by the delicate beauty of her face, but it was a beauty that filled one’s heart with sorrow, like the fading away of a divine melody. I encred the room noiseles ly, and seated myself in a chair by her side. I heard Brace moving about in the adjoining room. Site was unco >scious of my p esence. and as I sat with my eyes dwelling upon her beauti ul face my thoughts wandered back to the old days at the Cap ■, when I left my work tom time to time to see how "the little ’un” was getting on. as she lav exhaußed with sickness. The gleam of the white teeth between the parted lips, ths curl of the lo g lashes that swept her cheek, the crisp little lock above her ear—these were all the same, yet, wi h the umlelin ib'e trait of womannoo I. so different. The bud had opened—only to di?? I had asked myself before if she would live! It was doubtful then, but th‘hope was fainter now. She opened her eyes, and, seeing me, sprung up with a cry of joy, and threw her arms roun I mv neck and kissed me, for she was, iadee I. t till a child at heart. “Oh, it is true!” she cried, between her k sses; “I was asleep, and I saw you come to me, and ” She stopped abruptly, and. drawing back, said in wonder, as she looked in my face, “Why. you are crying!" Heai ing her voice. Brace came in from the next loom. . " ay. now. what did I t4l you?” he exclaimed. “The Kid’s took it into her silly lit le head as she wouldn’t see you no mote, sir.” “She will see a good deal of me if I have my way,” I said, holding out my hand to Brace. His countenance changed: lie dragged bis chin tu't thought ully for a minute, then turning to his daughter, he said: “Loli, my gel. we must have it out now straight off. Here’s Gentleman Thorn? holdin’ out his hand to me, and I ain't no right to take it till you let on what’s com • of the big diamond." "Not now—not now,” she said, beseechingly; “a little while—a week—no more.” “No. my gel; 'tain’t to be put off like it was a dose of phvsic. See here—see here. When we parted Gentleman Thorne refused to give me his hand—for whv, he knew we wasn’t playin’ square;” and turning to me he said: “You knew we’d got the stone, d du't you, sir?” “I saw you hide the case,” I replied. “Consequently you knew we'd got the thing among us somewhere. Come, my gel. think how Gentleman Thorne missed you out there in the hot sun; 'member how he stood Ly you and pulled you through. Don’t 1 ?t the best friend yon over iiad think you ain’t got nothin’ but greaser bloo 1 in yer; don’t let him think you ain't got no kinder gratitude or 'fection in yer.” “Oh. you shall not think that.” she cried, starting to her Icet. "I'll take you there—not to day, it is too fa but to-morrow I’ll show you where it is. an 1 you shall take it to her, an 1 never see me again ” “I will take you with me if I go, Lola," I said. ^he shook her head, and covered her face With her hands. “No, no, you will never see me again,” sho said, and then a violent fit of coughing attacked her, and she left the room, closing the door a ter he' - . Brace looked at me significantly, and in a low voice, that faltered a Ettl ■. sai I: . “It ain’t nat’ral for her to give in like that: it ain't like the Kid. not a bit. Her contrarinog^ and obstinacy used to maks me wiM, but it didn't make mv heart ache like this." Lola came back in a little while, weak an 1 exhamtid, but with a smile upon her poor *ac *. Sue sat close t > me, slipp ng her hand under my arm and resting her cheek against niy shoulder. Her love was too innocent, or she was too ignorant of social usages, to know restraint. “I d ui’t want to talk; it hurts mo," she said. “I just want to sit here qub t.” And she closed her eyes, nestling still < loser. "You’ve come to a mine I and an onhal•owed country, str." said the .Judge; "durned A I skercely knowed it again—nothing but ntuchinery and Chinese—not a decent white Placer in all Nevada—them yailcr varmint ain’t left anythin’ worth lookin' for. not in the or’nary way. It's got to lie looked for th, or’nary places, and fetched out in Or’niry ways, as I've said more'n once before to you; and my meanin' is that I could do the same if i had the means, and if so be the Kid keeps her promise—as I do b< lieve slm will.” Lola nodded, i Without taking her he d from my shoulder or open ng her eyes, and a little sigh "uttered up from her heart. “As I know I she'.-ill—I'll do it: not lor the sake 4 the Sold, ’cause that won't be needed when We’ve got the diamon I. but ju-t to prove Um p-enceple of the thing. Il's down an almighty hole un tin- H irra. neatly up to the snow-line, and I've been there prospectin'it dav after d iv. and studyin' the thirgout, an' I didn't leave it till Ine snow forced ns to come down, and now the holo’s I blocked up for months."

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Suddenly rai-ing hor head, and turning to “‘T.,? 11 ! ' r "„ ith eyes. Lola exclaimed: Blooke ! Ah, blocked lor full three months by the snow', and for another by the swelled' fall; it 11 be pretty well Juno afore I kin got down it. Lola burst into a lit of hysterical laughter, and. clapping hor hands with jov, eriod: It is down there—tho diamond! You must wait—months—almost till June.” Then S owing sudd nly grave, she looked wistuily at me, as if to see if I were angry with her. CHAPTER XVII. Na'u ally they were astonished when they heard I had been in the State a couple of months. When I told them 1 had come there to se k my fortune, and was farm’ng I in tho south, where I hoped they would come and stay with me during tho winter, Brace said: । "Woll, I hoar there’s a livin’ to be made 1 ranchin', but it's a plaguy long row, they do say. Howsoever, it won't be none too long for me to hoe long of you, and so be you're agreablo to havin’ our company, it ain't likely I’ll hold off." i Lola's eyes dilated with eager delight. I fancy hor imagination pictured a return of ' tho Transvaal times, the happiest she had known, when rude necessity kn t us together in close companionship. I did not think it necessary to undeceive them then, and the next day I took them with mo to San Diogo. The sun was shining when we got there, and the air was soft and warm; it was like an early day of English summer. The effect on Lola was miraculous: sho seemed inspired with new life. I had never seen her so animated and gay. Her countenance fell as we passed through the beautiful plantations and entered tho richly furnished house. It was an unhappy disillusion for her. Brace, who never let anything in the world surprise him, stroked his chin reflectively as he looked round him, and said: “This is your lot, is it. Gentleman Thorne?” "I shall bo better able to call it mine when I have paid up the capital invested in it. As you know, I had no money of my own. I have borrowed heavily, and until tho loan is paid " । 1 shrugged my shoulders. “Until it's paid.” sttid Brace, continuing my sentence, “you’ve got to go to bed late. | and get up airly, and b i thankful hes you kin si ep sound’ in betwixt. 1 reckon it 'll take you a pretty considerable long time aft re you feel you don’t know what to do with yoursel'.” “A long while!” I said, gravely. “How long?” asked Lola, quickly, under her breath. "Oh. many, many years, perhaps,” I rcp iod. Sho did not attempt to conceal her satisfaction. «»**** I gave the giil a wiry little horse. She sat it for the first time with the grace and mastery of a train d horsewoman. Every mo ning I rode round the plantation; sometim'S business took mo to the city. She never failed to be by my side on tuese occasions. But wh n I bad work to do it was another thing, t-he hat d wo. k amt dreaded tranquillity; she found an cscane from both in a wild gallon among the foot-hills. Sho became coquettish with regard to her appearance. Wh n she could coax a dol.ar out ... her father, who would gallop to San Diego to buy some trifle for the a ornment of her p city little person. If by my manner she fancied 1 approved the new addition, sho wore it t.ll she could repine: it with something else. But if I failed to notice it. or she thought it was not Io my taste, she would fling it away before .t was a day old. She abandoned heis'df to tho enjoyment of the new life that came to । iier. and for some time she so med neither to remember the past northinkof the future. Un ter these conditions all tra m of illness disappeared, and with health returned something of hor old mutinous independence; paternal authority once more sunk in o insignificance. Brace quickly found occupation, and after a time rendered me invaluable assistance in the man igemant of tho business. One day. as we were returning from the packing sheds, he said: “I've looked around this consarn pretty caretui, mid I see, sir. that you’re goin’ to do a great big thing here. You’ve found ou’ jest where the real grit o’ this country lays, and you're goin’ to work it up into an almighty pile. That’s what you'ic goin' to do, and I'm eve lastin' glad of it formoro reasons than one. And one reason is this: I’m gettin' more (tuberous every day whether we shall ever get the Great Hosper. For, fustly. when the fro t breaksup. tho great hole where the gel lies hid the stone may be swep' out as clean as a gun-bar.l by the tot r-nt of melted snow, or it may be blocked up for everlastin' by the mast of rock that comes rollin' down from the mountain sides every spring; and, secondly, the Kid may change her mind. She may back out of the promise site gave us when she, was sick. Rec'lect her mother were a greaser, and con iquently it's nat’ral to her to tell lies when they'll serve her purpose; and bear in mind it woul 1 serve her purpose to make out tho diamond ain't no longer where she put it. Bear in mind, also, sir, as she warn't herself when she made the promise, and that she’s been gettin’ . more herself since. Her obs’naey and dev- . iitry’s cornin’ back more and more every , day, and she’s now almost the obs’nate, | contrairy little cuss she was. Keep on bearin' in mind that she stole the diamond j purposely to separate you from Miss Las- | ci Ues, and to bring you down to a or’nary workin’man again. I seo her game the day we lost the diamond; I see it clearer inf ever when we got up to Petersville—she was that angry when I told her there was nogoodJo be done minin’ in tho or’nary way—so eng ?r for me towiiteand tell you there was a going for the stuff down the big hole. Now, fortune to be made soon as I hit on the idea of what’s she’s goin’ to git by givin’ up the diamond—a little wu s than nothin’. Which is why I rejioe in the pros- i pect of your making a big thing of this ere j orange-growin’. Still, sir, we ain't goin' to I lose that diamond, if we can help it, and we’re got two things to do. We’re got to keep our eye on the snow, and get down tho great hole afore the wus r t of the slush and the rock comes tumblin' down, and we’re got to make the Kid believe as things down here is so jolly flourishin' as we don’t kore two straws whether we find the thing or not. You'll leave that to me. I'll pitch it in ; strong to her!” And he kept his word. Every day he ex- | hausted his ock of ad octives in glorifying the estate, and dilating upon the ma - ! velous results to be obtained from fruit > culture, and occasionally he referred to the ; Great Hesper with such contempt that one would have thought it was hardly worth stretching out one’s band to take. This had tile effect that Brace desired. Sho listened in moody silence, and alter I ; had turned the subject, she would sit with her chin in her hands, her elbows on her knees, and her great sa l eyes fixed upon some distant object, wrapped in dreamy , meditation. But Brace was not content with this. One day I overheard him speaking to Lola i when t iey were alone. “I reckon wc shall have to show off our good pints, my gel, before the Squire and his daughter come here, or wc shall look nretty mean by comparison, and Gentleman Thorne will sorter feel sick, seein’ us hangin’ around. He'll say to hissel , nat’ral like, well, here’s this Squire and his daughter, as I’ve never done nothin’ ir partickler for, has set me up i.i a business as is goin’to make me the most otem d all-flrcd millionaire that ever lived; and, on tho other hand, here’s this derned old Judge, as skcrccly earns his salt, and the Kid, as I’ve missed and saved twice from dying light out, and all they've evm done for me is tor rob me of all I hod, and do their level best to clean me out and inin me.” He might have continued, being of a persevering sort, but that Lola ran away to her room, slammed th ■ door, and burst into a fit of crying that could be heard where I sat on the, terrace. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Cryolite, for making candles, is brought from Greenland, where important and little known mining operations are carried on.

WAS told at the Sacramento depot that the Golden State Hotel was on the third block up tho grade. I n ascending the steep hill, I caught sight of Braee ami Lola walking in advance a hundred yards or .so, yet so changed that it took mo some m inutes to

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA,SATURDAY, JUNE 15,1889.

A VERDICT ANNOUNCED. THE END REACHED IN THE ( KOMA INQUEST. Alexander Sullivan, Detective Coughlin, Iceman O'Sullivan, and Frank Woodrutl Hold lor the Murder- The Conspiracy Denounced Arrest of l.awycr Sullivan. A t hicago dispatch of the 12th inst. says: The labors of the coroner's jury in tho | Cronin inquest are over and a verdict has ' been rendered. The only । ersons named in I 1 the verdict as being responsible are: Alex ; andor Sullivan, Daniel Coughlin, I*. O’S il- | । livan, and Frank Woodruff. I A\ hile the jury believe other persons ' had a hand in the crime, their identity has I not been sutliciently disclosed in the evi- j dence presented to justify them in being i named for arrest. The following is the verdict of the jury: | I “State of Illinois, Cook county, ss.: An | inquisition was taken for the people of tho I State of Illinois at the ecunty building in [ the city of Chicago, in said county of I Cook, on tho 2:ld, 2bth. and 29th days of ! May, and tho 3d, 4th, fith, I th. 7th, Btb, 10th, and 11th days of June, A. I). 1880, I efore me, Henry L Hertz, coroner in and | for said county, upon v e.v of the body of Patrick H. Cronin, then and there lyingdead, upon the oaths of six good and lawI lul men of said county, who, lieing duly sworn to inquire on the part of tho people of the State of Illinois into all the eacumstances attending ti e death of the said I'atiick 11. Cronin, and by whom the same was produced, and in what manner an I | when and where th ■ said I'atri<-k 11. Cronin came to his death, do say, upon their oaths, as aforesaid, that the said Patrick H. Cronin, now lying dead in said county of Ccok, State of Illinois, came to his death on the 4th day of May, A. I). I^B9. We find: “L That the body is that 'f Patr'ck 11. Cronin, known as D . Cronin ‘ 2. That his d ath was not from natural

causes, l> t from violent ni ans. “1 1 . T. nt tho said Patri k H. Cronin was decoyed from | his home on No th ' t?la k str et on the .•ven ng of May 4, I 1889, by seme [>erson ! or [ ersons, to the ■ cottage known as tho j ‘(’a I। n cottage, ‘ situated at 18.2 North Ashland avenue, in I ake A’iew.

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vax. Cook county, HL “4. That nt said cottage the said Cronin | was murdered by' being beaten on the l:ea I with some blunt instrument or in strunwnts in the hand, of some person or persons to us unknown, on tli« night of I said May 4, or Letween May I and Mnv 5, 188 I. ”5. That th “ body after sai i murder was lommitted was placed in a trunk und

carried to Ed;ewate • on a wagon by several persons and by them pla'ed in n catch-basin at the । corner of Evanston avenue and I iftynintli street in Lake A’iew, where it wn* discovered May 2?, * ISS I. That the evidence shows < ouclu-

sively to our minds that a plot or conspiracy ! Mas formed by a nuniLer of persons for i the purpose of murderin; the said Cronin and concealing h s body, and that said plot or conspiracy Mas deliberately contrived and du'y execut ‘d. "i. We have carefully inquired into | the relations sustained by stil Cronin to

other persons, while a ive, to ascertain if I he had any quarrels : or emnities with any persons s ifficient to cause his murder. It is our jud; nient that n > other i person or ] ersons, ex- i cept some of those who are or had been membe s of a certain secret society known ns the United Brotherhood or

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‘Clan na-Gael,’ had any cause to Le the instigator or executors of such plot or conspiracy to murder the said Cronin. •‘We further state that this plot or consp'racy in its conception and execution is । one of the most foul and Irutal that has 1 ever come to our knowledge, and we ; ! recommend that the proper authorities | o ler a large reward for the discovery and j conviction of all of those engaged in it in any way. “We further state that in our judgment all secret societies whose objects are such as the evidence shows that of the 'Clan-na-Gael’ or United Brotherhood to ba are not in harmony with and are injurious to American institutions. “We hope that future vigor and vigilance by the police force will be more than I compensate for past neglect by a portion ( of the force. “9. Many of the witnesses testifying in the case have done so with much evident unwillingness, and, as we believe, with much mental reservation. We find from the evidence that a number of persons were parties to this plot or conspiracy to murder the said Cronin, and that Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O’Sullivan, Alexander Srllivan and one Woodruff, alias Black, were either principals, accessories, or had i guilty knowledge of said plot or con- ! spiracy to murder said Cronin and conceal I his body, and should be held to answer to . the grand jury. “We also believe that other persons were engaged in this plot or had guilty knowledge of it and should be approhend- . ed and held to the grand jury. “In testimony whereof the said coroner ' and the jury of this inquest have hereunto set their hands the day and year afore--1 said. j “R. 8. Critcheli, Victor U. Sutter. “Foreman, J. H. Van Hausen. ■ “Rudolph Seifert. Justus Kilian. j “H. A. Haugan. “Henry A. Hertz, Coroner.” I The jury went out at 4:‘1O o’clock and : gave its verdict at 10 :30. The members ; of the jury declined to say what kept them i so long, or why a nun her of persons who were compromised by the testimony were not held to the grand jury. The preparation of their verdict took m st of their time, no doubt, and some discussion of the culpability of the lesser persons in the conspiracy took the remainder of the six hours they were in session. M bile waiting for the verdict three or four depu'y < oroners were busy writing I mittimuses and at least a dozen were pre- | pared. This created the suspicion that a largo number of arrests would be made, and the appearance of two or three deputy sheriffs and seven detectives seemed to I warrant the presumption. Coroner Hertz । and State’s Attorney 1 ongenecker sat in the outer office during the long session and Sheriff Matson c ame in a short time. I Shortly after 10 o’clock a platoon of detectives api eared, and it was evident that , the jury was about to conclude its labors. Lieut. Schuttler was at the head of the file

of officers, in which were Detectives Anistein, Palmer, Miller, Hedrick, Williams, , Brode iek, and McDonald. The mittimus for the arrest of Alexander Sullivan was handed to Detective Harry U § THE CORONER’S JURY. Palmer, and the other officers followed him opt of the building. Corone - Hertz read the verdict Tho jury waited in the room, but no one had a woid io say. State's Attorney Longeneeker and Lieut. Schlittler remained and listened to the rea ling of the document. Mr. Longenei ker said that no one except Alexander Si Uivan would be arrested, but it was supposed that a number of persons would be recommended as worthy of the attention of the grand jury. When tho coroner reached that portion of tho verdict which ought to have named tho < onspirators some expressions of disanI ointment wore heard. The recommendations of the document created no surprise, as the arrest i f Alexander Sullivan has been one of the foregone conclusions in tho ! case for several da vs. Alexander Sullivan was locked up in Hie Cook county jail at 10:30 o'clock Tue day night. He stood tno ordeal of arrest with wonderful calmness and an a mirable exhibit of nerve. On e before in his life he had gone behind the samo Lars on the charge of murder. The detectives who had b'en given th t mittimus took a carriage to Mr. Sullivan’s reside nce on ' ak stre t. Th > house was in total darkness, bat on the stoo] s ail artt nd it and across the way were gatherings of familie s out to enjoy the plensa it night's air. Tho detectives having rung the bell, a light glimm-red from th > insilo and the front door was partially opened "Well!’ asked a voice fr< m the inside. “Is Mr. Sullivan at Lome'" “Ho is. but he is in Iced,” said the owner of the voice, who p- oved to b<> Sullivan s confidential clerk. “Tell him I won d like to see him,” taid Detective Palmer The* officers wore admitted and Mr S illi- ; van soon made hi- appeiraii e in his own parlors, who e he t ado a ho nty good evening to his visitors. Mr. Sullivan was neatly dre sod in a business suit. He wns as covi ns an iceberg vv hen Palmer stated that he had come to arie-t him in connection with the* Cronin murder The detective read the mittimus intrusted to h.m by the coroner an I then told Mr Sullivan to make ready to follow him Sullivan m ido an c irn‘st request that he be permitted to lemain over night a captive in hi- own home, but this was reI. "I give yon credit, Mr. Sullivan, for being n ve y co I min,” said the detect i ve "Well,” said Mr Sullivan, ‘ a man with n clear cons -ienc • need never worry, and I know of no wrong 1 have doue. Then h< nue I his ova rco it and hat and led his capcors from the ho -c. Just as he was ready to leave a woumu appeared nt the Lead of the stairs leadin; to the Imsement. It wis his old h msekeepe-, who was in a state of great trepidation. Mr. Sullivan hastened over to h r. and after saying a few w । ds kis cd her ..ooil by A short drive Irouvht he party to tbj jail an I soon Alexander Suilivan, ex-pre-ident of the Laud League, wa an occupant of cell 25, murderers mw of the Co >k county jail. The most damaging evi lencc against Alexander Sullivan given before tho coroner’s jufy was that of J. D. Haggirty. He was asked: “Do vou know Alexander Sullivan ” “I do ” “What did he say to you, if anything, about Dr. Cronin'” “It was on t' e night of the trial of I r. Cronin for treason at camp '.Hi. I was walking home with Alexander Sullivan o i the east of LaSalle str -et, an I Mr. Sullivan, speaking ot Dr. Cronin said he was a scoundrel ami was a menace to the Ir sh cause, and it would I o well for the Irish cause if it were rid of him. From all h ‘ said I agreed with I im, and 1 gathered the impression that Cronin should lie removed.” “What inipre sion did the talk make on I you?” “I thought that Mr. Sullivan knew that Cionin was not fit to as ociate with us.” ‘ What else was said?” “Well, just about that time a circular was sent out to members of the order, saying that several hundred Scotland yard detectives had been sent over here to investigate the doings of the Irish revolutionists in this country, and the members were on the qui vivo for traitors or for those who might be willing to sell the sec rets of those who were to elevate our race and were engaged in a noble c use. The feelin; was very bitter among us and the life of any man suspected of being a spy would be in great danger. I must say I agreed in these sentimmts. I thought that any man who could be base enough to betray the secrets of the order was vile. I coincided with Mr. Sullivan that these people should be exterminated.” “Was this sentiment expressed to others?” “I j resume it was. Tim Crain, the district officer who was scattering this information from man to n an, could have tld hundreds. Crain also spoke the same as Sullivan. The name of traitor iousjs before an Irishman’s mental vision a very' vengeful idea, 1 can assure you. The Irish know what it is to sulfer from inf< rmers, and they have but I tt e mercy on them. ” “Give Sullivan’s exact words.’’ “I would like to, but my memory fails me as to tho exact words. The substance of it was that Cronin was dangerous to the Irish cause and should be removed from our ranks, one way or another.” Why He Didn’t Hear It. They are laughing over a blunder of a United States examining surgeon up in Caribou. He was examining for deafness an applicant for a pension, and to test the man’s left ear held a Match at some distance and asked him if he could hear it tick. The answer was “No,” and the same reply was given to ropea'ed questions as the watch was brought nearer. “Put him down totally deaf i i left ear,” the surgeon said, and holding the watch away from the man’s light ear, the same question was asked. To his surprise, the answer was the same. It then occurred to the surgeon to examine his watch, and he found that it had stopped. The examination was begun all over again.— Levistoii Journal. A parting word—divorce.

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WESTERN CITY BURNED , SEATTLE, WASHINDTON TEKICITDRY, IN ASHES. An Uncontrollable Conflagration Wipe* Out the Business I’oi-tioa of the I’lace, Causing a Coss of Some Fifteen Million Dollars. | Seattle (W. T.) dispatch.] The fire which wiped the entire business portion of Seattle out of existence Thursday afternoon begun in a paint shop. An overturned glim pot was the beginning of the difficulty. In a very few seconds the entire building in which tho accident occurred was in llame-. The building was of woo l and, like most of the others destroyed,stood upon long piles driven into the tide flats along the bay, mid ; was filled around with sawdust. '1 ho | wind was blowing almost a gnle from the | north, and blew under as well as over mid j around the buildings. The fire spread nip dly to the south along the west side of Front street, and, in spite of tho efforts of the firemen, gradually worked | its way toward the north side. It soon ■ gained such headway as to draw im- | mense crowds to the spot, and many ; onlookers became wildly excited anil ! madly anxious to help the tiromeu. In an hour from the time tho fire first ' broke out half a dozen squares, s-omo of ; them covered with tho finest buildings in i the city, many of brick and stone, four I mid fne stories high, were in flames. I Then the stmtling discovery was made i ’ that the fire had taken its way along - among tho piling and through the saw- | | dust under the street, and that the water - pipes had burst. Fiom that moment not |

\ i j A' ASEATTLE VIEW FROM THE HARBOR.

. drop of water could be hud to put upon the tiro, and the cilizens lesigned I hemselves to see the city blotted < Ut. The tire leaped across Front street ut Madison end caught in the new Opeia House, and in half an 1 our laid an entire squn e across Front s.ioot in r.shcs. It was th n apparent th it the Occidental Hotel must go, as well as the most substa dial buildings ii its re ghborhoo I. By I fill o'clock the tire hid swept ov< r the Lest dry-goods stores, and all the bunks, telegraph of- j tins aid newspaper offices in the city, mid had gone south of Veslor ; avenue. south of which lay an I imm use area covered wiih tenei meats, lodging homes, < heap I otels. r lilrend and steam w.iteboas s. whanes, saw and pinning m Ils and the whole- i sale district of the town, all built upon piles an 1 sawdust. Here the ptogress of th lire was tenibh lapid. By s o'clock tie whole area of sixteen squares long b) fiom three to six wide, not c ounting I the long pie s on which many of the large st warehon-es and mills were built, was invol el n flames, which now lit up the heavens for many miles. From being madly Iran ie the ] opulaco ba I become apparently resigned to the I situat on. and nearly every! ody saw that he could do nothit g to quench the fire, I and coolly turned his att< ntion to s iving [ as much as po sibleof portable property. The three companies of militia be'onging to the < ity weto called out and put on i guard around the limits of the lire. Two j or three hundred special policemen were j Sworn in to help them maintain order, ! i which they found li tie difficulty in doing. । Tim burnt-out lesidents of the tenement ’ house district managed to save a good ; many of tJreir goods, and with them they ■ camped down in the streets on vacant I lots, or in the door-yards of more fortu- ; nate people and made themselves as i comfortable a? possible for the night. ; Dispatches which had been sent to TaI coma, Olympia, and Port Townse d brought in some fire apparatus, and many willing hands to he'p tight the flames, but when they arrived they found that nothing could be done except patrol the streets and protect the thousands of dollars’ worth of property that was exposed. This they did, finding little to do, however, except to keep in order the crowds of sight-seers which all night long surged through the burned region. All estimates of the loss, of course, vary widely. Nobody puts it at less than i?lO,030,C0J, and some rate it ns high as $20,000,000. Among the institutions anil firms burned out were five banks, three theaters, eight agricultural implement warehouses, eight iron and machine shops, four newspapers, four large job printing offices and binderies, seven commission firms, five drug stores, two of them wholesale, nineteen dry goods, boot and shoe stores, six wholesale dealers in cigars and confectionery, tweh furniture dealers, three dealers in general merchandise, twenty-one groceries, the b st hotel in the city, and at least ten other hotels and lodging "houses, one hundred and sixty saloons, four livery stables, forty meat markels, sixteen clothing and furnishing houses, three 1 undries, four p-aint and oil dealers, five dealers in musical instruments, the Western Union and Postal Telegraph office, the American District Telegraph office, and the telephone office, all the warehouses of the Columbia and Puget Sound Steamship Company, three of ihe O. R. & N. Company, the Seattle, j Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company, the Canadian Pacific Dock, and all the I warehouses of the Northern Pacific Com- < pany except one, a large, new one that is I hardlv yet completed. The streets of tie burnt section this j morning were filled with fallen walls, columns, and charred telegraph poles, twisted and tangled wires, and bent streetrailway rails. There was also a vast amount of furniture, trunks, and hundreds of safes rescued from the burning offices, all of which stood in the open street all night long, with nobody offering lo molest them. The b.mk vaults have been examined, and found to be all right. None of them have been opened yet, but there is every indication that they have carried their contents through the burning trial in safety. The people of Se dtle are bearing their great j loss philosophically, and more than one man who has suffered said to-day that he was glad the fire had swept out of existence a lot of worthless buildings which were bringing enormous rents, and which never would be torn down so long as they I could be rented. Now that they had been 1 destroyed, new brick or stone buildings would be built, and Seattle would go to the front faster than it has ever hoped to do heretofore. There is als'o another 1 cause of satisfaction—the Chinese quarter 1 was utterly blotted out.

A careful survey of the burned nrea slows that sixty-tive b oiks, each 300 feet square, have been swept cle in, in all 200 acres. Iu most cases, even where tho best class of buildings stood, there is scarcely enough debris left to be in the way of those who come to rebuild. It will cost probably $5,000 an ; ere to put in the piling and fill around it again as this ; work should be done to lay n foundation I for the new city. But it will bo done as I soon ns the ground is cool enough for | workmen to begin operations. Many hold- । ers of property will undonbtedly.be corn- [ polled to sell h If or more of what, they hold in order I hat they may be able to got I upon their feet again. About fifty petty thieves were nr ested and taken to the lo 'kup, where they were well taken care of n d will be properly ] punished. The co d bunkers, extending I far out into tho bay, : nd two or three big । i saw-mills in d planing-mills on tho I wharves made magnificent spectacles nil I night. Already workmen have begun in many ■ places to grade and clean up the lots pre- | paratory to rebuilding. Many merchants j nave secured quartets in the re idence I portion of the city, and wore open this ! morning with remnants of stock from tho । tire. The people have decided to reI build the city with brick and stone. This ' decision was reached quickly and almost unanimously at a meeting held this | morning. Tho m eting was largesly attended. Various commissioners were appo nted. Not a single despondent face was seen. m;d no one not aware of the facts would h ive im giued that the ' assembly was held in the midst of a calamity. The air of cbee.fal earnest* ness was surpris ng. The meeting was ; addressed by Governor E. P. Ferry,

Jacob Furth, Angus Mackintosh, Judge C. IL Hanford, and ex-Governor Wat v on C. Squire. Each spioke in terms of encouragement and praise for Seattle's business lommunity an I was loudly applauded. A committee of five was appointed to confer with the city aut hoi it ios concerning th r subject of widening the streets. Another commission of five was appointed to receive donations and extend relief where found necessary. All companies of the First Regiment are out guaiding damaged property and preventing the pilfering of merchandise or house furnishings. The city is quiet and everybody is hopeful. Governor Miks C. Moorp has just issued a proclaim! io i in which be says: “The city of Seattle is in ashes. A hurricane of the swept over the queenly city and sin? is in ruins. Thousands of her citizens are w thout food or shelter, but nothing ca i subdue the spirit of her peo- > le. She will rhe aga’n. In her desolation she is not a supplicant, but there are homeless people to Le sheltered and hungry ones to be fed. I > ppeal to the greathearted people of our Territory, who have recently so generously ies| ended to the cry of distress from Johnstown, to heed this appeal for rid for their own suffering fellow-citizens.” IX SAMOA. The Rival Chiefs Their Forces and Things Look Serious. Sydney, New South Wales, June 9.— The German steamer Lub ck has arrived hero from the Samoan Islands. She sailed from Apia bay May 2S. She brings news that owing to the exI ected arrival of the Sophie and the coming of the other German cruisers the war spirit was manife.-ting itself again among the natives. Mataafa bad gathered together 3,000 of his men near Apia and Tamasese was encamped at Atna with 2,000. There was no war ship in the harbor of Apia and the natives were consequently under no restraint. Moreover, nothing had been heard there of the progress of the negotiations at Berlin and the foreign residents were uneasy. wovriiE o.\ks7 I.ord Randolph Cliurcliill’s Horse Vnexpecteilly Carries Off the Honors. Epsom Downs, June 9.—The Oaks was won by Lord Randolph Churchill’s black filly, L’Abbesse de Jouarre, Mr. Vyner’s Mint he second, and Seclusion third. The Oaks had a fine field of twelve starters and was a very exciting race. The result was a genuine surprise, L’Abbesse de Jouarre was most heartily cheered, as much for her owner’s sake .s for herself. Minthe, who came in second, was the favorite in the Letting, and Seclusion (third) had hardly been heard of. Wool-Growers Pass a Rrsolutlnn. Galveston, Texas, June 9.—The Texas Wool association has passed the following resolution: “Resolved, That we commend the action of the Secretary of the Treasury in his recent rulings on waste, and do most emphatically urge upon him the importance of a caeful discrimination of all such as may be imported for wool manufacturers’ uses. We i desire to see the wool product of America j exce d the wants of our manufacturers, but as long as these fraudulent importa- ; Lions of wool are permitted, cr clothing wool is allowed to come in under tlfb classification of carpet wool, it will be almost ■ a matter of impossibility for the grower in ; this country to command such a price for I his product as will justify the speedy de- ' velopment of the xvool industry in the i United Stites.” The > ursery men Adjourn. Chicago, June 9.—The national convention of nurserymen has adjourned. Officers were selected for the ensuing year as follows: President, George A Sweet of Dansville, N. Y.; first vice-president, G. J. Carpenter, Fair! ury, Neb.; secretary Chrr’.es A. Green, Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill.; executive committee, Leo Weitz, Wilmington, Ohio, S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., and S. M. Emery, Lake City, Minn. After the reading of a number of papers on various topics the convention adjourned to meet next year in New York city. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overaw ed. Sick ducks never go to a quack-

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THE NATIONAL GAME. "AKKY rA,.M EB> WEEKLY BASE* bale letter. -— The ( biengo Club Fl aylnir h , HaM , , - Boston Leaning All R lvaU ln t]lo Ka< w o> ‘‘ ,o rh a nipi„ Mshlp _ clerol | tho .Surprise of the Y 0 i [CHICAGO COHBESPOXnENCE.] , Despite the continued rainy weather 1 1 ^ as P rovnil ed throughout the connduring tho past fortnight, tho pennant j race between the teams of the National । lurngue has gone merrily along and enthusiasm over the national game was never at higher tide than at present in | Bostoa, Cleveland and Philadelphia tho homes of the three loading Leagme team* i Boston is s ill going ahead in the race | and without doubt that team is pkving a 5-15 lucky Rnnic lh e men fiom the regions of culture, however, will soon boon wHUm t’T i gOes wen .‘hey Mill bo tested. I won't be surnrised if < arkson and Radbourne get a drubbing «tm’VJ beV C r me '- 81 ’ B^i’adelphia still keeps in line and is plav ng a good and steady game. Tho Giants are sadly out ot foim, but they are no worse than they were last year at this time Cleveland 18 proving the surprise of the baseball Near andut it should continue its present rate of speed lovers of the game will be very apt to witness the s[ ecta^e iu • i !< eng v e b ?? y ” givin « Boston, Ph addphia, New York and Chicago a battle for the pennant during the closing games of the season. As for the Chicago team, it continues to play a clean, determined g me of ball but for some reason fits not yet struck ii winning gait. Talking with a member of the team tho other day I said: “What is the matter with Chicago any way. Are we really missing any of the playe s we sold to Boston and Pittsburgh? If we had them back would the team have won any more games this season than it has thus far?” "No, hardly. We should do better if we had Clarkson back, I have no doubt, ami maybe Kelly would help us some, but I don t see wbero. Chicago has men that can catch and field all around and can bat better than Kelly has this season.’’ “Where is the trouble, then?" “I don’t know. The team has played fewer bad games this year than Boston, yet Boston wins right along, while Ci icago loses. Luck has a good deal to do with it, and Chicago is just now' pl ying in hard luck. She got a long w r ny the worst of the umpiring down East, and since its return the team has lost games that it had every right to win. Take that first game with Cleveland last Wednesday. Duffy appeared to win it by a single home run hit in the first half of the tenth, and then Clevelrnd won it by duplicating Duffy’s work with a man on first in the last half. Some people may call that ballplaying. I call it luck. Then, again, look at Frank Dwyer's record in the box this season. Every game he has lost, with one exception, has been lost by just one run. The exception was the 9to 7 game at New York, and that was lost simply because Jimmy Ryan lost his footing on that tough board outfield of the St. George grounds and failed to get under Ward’s fly. Ward would have been the third man out, butO’Koarke’s two-bagger to left field with the bases full sent in three runs. I say it's tough luck more than poor playing that has kept Chicago down in the race thus far, and I’m looking *or the luck to change just about the time Boston and New York get here, as er the Chicagos return from Cleveland. Boston is playing above its speed and when she commences to tumble she’ll drop just as she did last year. Keep your eye on her and see if I am not right.” I met Clarence Duval the other day, the little Ethiopian whom the Spalding tourists carried with them around the world. He deserted the team soon after its return to Chicago, and has been seen but once or twice by any of the boys. He still wears the cap, blue suit and brass buttons that denoted his connection with the Spalding party abroad, but the buttons are tarnished, the rim of the cap broken, and altogether his appearance is in strong contrast to that which he presented in the banquet hall the night of the party’s arrival. “Well, Clarence,” I said, "what do you think of the Chicago team this season?” “Dey’s no good.” “No? Why not?” “.list ’cause I’se hoodooed ’em. Jist dat, an’nnftin else. I tole ’em,” he continued. “I tole ’em afore ever we got half way home dat I’d queer ’em when dey got back.” "Told who?” “Dat ole Baldwin, and Daly, and Be‘tit. and de jest ob dem aih fellahs wot trim me down de steps and held me undali de hydrant on de ship. I tole ’em I’d get even wid ’em, an’ now I m doin’ it. You know wot I went and done afore dem fellahs got to New Yorak? M ell, I jist put de rabbit, fut on ’em, and ebeiy on > ob’em got de bounce Men dey got back.” “But these men are not with the team now. Why are you continuing to ‘hoodo the club?” , “AVell. I’ll tell yo’, sah. AV en we done got back lieah I ask C ip’o Anson to let me take de team on de field und he wouldn’t hab it at all. Dat made me mad an’ I jes’ sock de rabbit fut to de hud croM’d. De newsnapers keep on a askin. every day, ‘Hom- come it Chicago’s pinyin sich poah ball?’ AVell, (ley’s ‘hoodooed, and dey’s gwine ter stay ‘hoodooed till 1 gets ready ter take de cnawm off. Clorene' is noM' posing ami swinging his baton among his acquaintances in the vicin tv of Third avenue and Harrison slreet/ He never fails to expies Ins contempt for a team “that would let demselves get done ‘foah straight by sich a ‘no count’ team as Boston. But it is very probable that he will come around again when Chicago strikes its gait and boston begins to lose its feet-two things which Anson declares will happen between now and Julv. It is said that Capt. Arthur Irwin of the Philadelphia ball team, will hereafter play with the Washington club, probably ns shortstop. . It is said that Manager Hart has gnen the Boston players to understand that winning the League pennant means at least SI,OOO each to the men iu the games for the world’s championship aw d othei money that thev are sure to get: out ot it. Besides this, Hart has ottered a good round sum to go wi h him to California next winter, should they pull off the coveted piece of bunting. There is no getting away fiom the fact that New York is playing a game of ball, and is sadly disMT” 1 -J its friends and admirers. The I the team has been weak whe _ A fielding well, and vh n they hare bee, strong at the bat Ihey have been weak m the field. The pitchers also hai e bo. n disappointing. Crane has been under the weather and Keefe has been me e • - ive. Welch is doing the best work, but even he has been pounded hard at times. A* to Keefe, the question of the hour at present among the friends of the New I York team is: "Can it Le that Jim Keefe ; is u back numbei?” 1 Harry Palmer.