VOL. XLVI. SO. 14,414.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SEATTLE CLOSED
TIGHT US II
Mayor and Chief Slam
Down the Lid.
SALOONMEN FUME AND RAGE
Threaten Drastic Retaliation
Against Officials.
FRAME RIGID SUNDAY LAW
Vor the Tlrst Time In Its History,
I' ii set Sound Metropolis Becomes
I'll rim n PIcHMireseekcrs Flee
to the Suburbs for Relief.'
SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 17. (Special.)
Mayor Moore and Chief of Police Wap
penstein were served with notice, tonight,
by the saloon-keepers of the city that
they had Information which they submit
ted against theaters, cigar stands, cafes,
floral -shops and stores of various descrip
tions, showing that the proprietors were
violating the statute known as the "Sun
day closing law,'' and that if the two of
licials diJ not immediately proceed
against the latter, the petitioners would
prosecute for malfeasance in office.
The information against the various
dealers was procured shortly after a
meeting of more- than 100 of the saloon
keepers whose saloons were closed today
by an order of Mayor Moore, acting
through the Police Department. A com
mittee of which YV. G. King, proprietor
of the Butler Hotel, was chairman, had
waited on the Mayor In the meantime and
he had said:
"I am merely keeping the promises I
made before election, to enforce every
law on the city and the state statute
books."
The Mayor assured the committee that
he would act in the case of any viola
tion of the law that they presented to
him, and they immediately went to work
to secure the evidence, which was sub
mitted tonight . . --
Saloons to Retaliate.
Back of the whole movement, as it is
quietly expressed, is the desire of the
saloon-keepers to so thoroughly deprive
the public of pleasures and even neces
sities on Sunday, that a universal demand
will go up for a repeal of the state laws
prohibiting the conduct of business or
amusement places on Sunday. To this
end bill Is being framed today seeking
a repeal of the law. It will be taken to
Olympla tomorrow or the day after.
The first close Sunday for saloons in
the history of Seattle has been observed
to the letter. There has not been a
single violation of the law. The order
of closing came at S o'clock last night,
so that there were many who knew
nothing of it until they came down town
today.
The city streets of a Sunday are not
usually well filled, but today they were
overcrowded. The closing of the saloons
was almost the sole subject of conversa
tion. Mayor Moore's attitude by the
street crowds was condemned bitterly,
while in the churches remarks were at
tached to the sermons, the clergymen
learning of It just before entering their
pulpits, in the majority of cases. Song
and prayer service of special character
followed, and prayers went up for a
strengthening of- the chief executive's
hands.
Mayor Moore Is "Reacted."
Below Tesler Way in the district where
the flotsam and Jetsam of human life is
found, the saloon Is the only home, Sun
day and secular days, that many of them
know. Today they were forced to stand
on the streets and the picture, in a
tense, was pathetic. Here only curses
against "the high-hatted Mayor, who
could spend his day at the club," were
heard. Georgetown and Youngstown, su
burban towns, where there are a number
of saloons, far out of proportion to their
. population, in comparison witli this city,
were the spots toward which thousands
went today. The Seattle Electric Com
pany was obliged to place special cars
In service in order to meet this demand,
and almost every fellow who returned
had a bottle of whisky or several bottles
of beer.
Reports from these suburban towns are
that patrons had to be served on side
walks, the barrooms being overcrowded.
The result of the out-of-town pilgrimage
for the usual Sunday drink was best
shown at police headquarters, where up
to 10 o'clock tonight 21 had been booked
for drunkenness, while 10 had been taken
In for disorderly conduct, growing out of
drink. Iast Sunday there were but eight
arrests for drunkenness In the city.
There are 277 saloons in the city, all
confined to the business section and the
majority below Yesler Way. The propri
etors and the cigar-dealers and others
who are charged before the Mayor, are
practically a unit on the demand for a
general closing on Sunday, hoping that
a deprivation of the pleasure will arouse
a storm of protest that will give an abso
lutely liberal law and the blotting out of
the blue laws from the statute books.
Itcsent Criticism With Swords.
BELGRADE. Servla, Feb. 17. Three
army officers, who were members of the
conspiracy that resulted in the murder of
Wing Alexander, In 1!K6. yesterday at
tacked two nationalist deputies, Giorge
vich and Marinkovlcs, because of their
DRUM
criticisms of the regicides and the poli
tical cuurt. The assault took plaee on
the street and the deputies retaliated.
Glorgevich received a. dangerous sword
wound.
PASSENGERS ARE ALL SAFE
lighters Reach Stranded Portland
and Will I'nload Cargo.
XANAIMO. B. G, Feb. 17. Lighters
have gone to the stranded steamer
Portland which struck Entrance Is
land rock, last night and will take off
50 tons of cargo in an effort to raise
the bow of the vessel, so that the dam
age may be found out and possibly re
paired. A strong northwest wind is now
blowing1, but the steamer is safe from
such, owing to the shelter of the head
land, .-mould the wind change to the
southeast the vessel will be piled upon
the beach and be a total loss. The 15
passengers on board the . Portland are
Jivor VV. II. Moor, of Brattle. Who
Is Sitting on the I. id at Seattle.
all well, and will be taken to Van
couver Monday, thence to Seattle.
-Following is a list of the passengers:
Mrs. E. Billlngsley, Archie MrUren, Dan
T. Kennedy, William Ru.wp.M, I.ouls Perro.
Louis Dubers, Maria Dubers, F. H. Allen. J.
E. Barrak. Mrs. Frank Leroy. Florence Nash,
H. Dillman, J. w. Brown, V. Donovan, M.
B. Anthony.
Salvor Readies Stranded Ship.
VICTORIA. B. C, Feb. 17. The
steamer Salvor and tug Lome reached
the steamer Portland this morning, and
this afternoon salvage work was com
menced. The steamer's bow and fore
peak are badly damaged, and after
temporary repairs have been effected
she will be floated and towed to Es
quimau or Seattle for permanent re
pairs. .
SCORES WARRIOR WORSHIP
Chicago Rabbi Declares It Ha Bad
Influence on the Home.
CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Rabbi "Emil M.
Hersch, addressing an audience at a mass
meeting under the auspices of the Na
tional American Women's Suffrage As
sociation today, scored the tendency which
he declared prevails both in this country
and abroad to make a fetish of the sol
diers and glorify agents designed for the
destruction of human beings.
"The military idea." he asserted, "which
among the earliest civilized nations caused
war gods and warriors to be so absorb
ingly worshiped that female children, be
cause of the unfitness of the sex for war
service, were destroyed at birth, is the
reason why today man has not granted
and refuses to grant to woman the right
to vote on matters of public policy."
His conception of the ideal government,
he said, was one founded on the home,
in which the mother and other women
were endowed with the right to vote at
the ballot boxes on all questions pertain
ing to the government of that home and
its children as well as on the larger
questions.
MEXICAN GOES GUNNING
Kills One and Fatally Mound An
other Man; Gives Himself Up.
ri'EBU). Colo., Feb. 17.-A special to
the Chieftain from T-!r.!dad says a double
tragedy was enacted this evening when
J. Tafeya, a Mexican, shot and mortallv
wounded Juan Griege at . Segundo. 16
miles from here, and then rode ten miles
to wreak vengeance on another at Sopris
six miles west of this city, where he shot
and killed an American named Grlvery.
The alleged murderer at once gave him
self up and was taken" to Trinidad to
night, where he was lodged in the Countv
Jail. The prisoner refuses to talk further
than to say that he was justified In both
cases.
MUTE EVIDENCE OF CRIME
Rody of Unknown Man Discovered
With Bullet-Hole in Head.
SAN JOSE. Cal.. Feb. 17. Great
mystery surrounds the death of a man.
whose badly decomposed body was found
near here today. There Is every indica
tion that a murder has been committed.
The skull was crushed, and there is a
bullet hole in the top of the head. The
clothing was missing and there was no
possible mark of identification to be
found. There are signs that a terrific
struggle took place. The body is that of
a man, about 30 years old.
SEND GEN. GREELY WEST
Commander of Lakes to Be Returned
to Vancouver Barracks.
OREGONIAN NEWS BURBA t?. Wash
ington, Feb. 71. Brigadier-General A. W.
Greely. formerly Chief Signal Officer, and
now commander of the Department of the
Lakes, has requested transfer to Van
couver Barracks, and has been assured
he will be placed In command of the
Department of Columbia In June or July
next. It was rumored last Summer that
General Greely would be assigned to this
command.
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TRAGEDY FOLLOWS
DIVORCE DECREE
Ex-Wife Shot By Van
couver Man.
BLOWS OUT HIS OWN BRAINS
Jealousy Drives Louis Mazo
retsky to Awful Crime.
WOMAN'S WOUNDS FATAL
last Qoaiw-I Results From Her Re
fusal to Continue Longer Under
Roof of Former Spouse.
Leaves Large Family.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 17. (Spe
cial.) After shooting his divorced wife
four times, inflicting fatal wounds,
Louis Mazoretsky, a well-to-do second-hand
dealer of Vancouver, this
morning at 2 o'clock at the ramily home
sent a bullet through his brain, killing
himself instantly. The fact that his fami
ly had been disrupted, and information
he received last night that He had been
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
Tacoma for having purchased stolen Gov
ernment goods from soldiers at Van
couver Barracks, combined to inspire
Mazoretsky's act. The couple had four
children, the eldest being a daughter, Ida.
IS years of age, who until recently at
tended the Behnke-Walker Business Col
lege in Portland. A divorce was granted
Mrs. Mazoretsky last week by Judge Mc
Credle, of the Superior Court at Van
couver. "
For several years there had been strife
in the Mazoretsky family, Mr. Mazoretsky
charging that his wife had been . unduly
Intimate with other men. They had re
peated quarrels and on more than one
occasion the authorities were compelled
to Interfere. Not until recently did . they
agree upon a divorce, and It was granted
to the wife upon the grounds of non
support. . An eons-l .division of 'the1 prop
erty, which Includes a business block in
the heart of the city and valuable lots,"
was agreed upon.
Mazoretsky had declared that his wife
was not faithful to him and they would
have separated long ago had it not been
for the children. He was a lover of his
home and when he learned that by the
terms of the divorce decree his wife would
have the custody of the three younger
children Eddie, Harry and Marcus, 12, 3
and & years of age respectively he became
despondent. Although they had obtained a
legal separation they continued to live
together at the family home, but today
they had Intended to divide the household
effects.
Hears of His Indictment.
Yesterday Mazoretsky received word
that he had been indicted by the grand
jury and, realizing that conviction meant
a term In the penitentiary, his despond
ency gave away to despair. Last night
he seemed in better spirits and in com
pany with his ex-wife, his daughter Ida, a
soldier by the name of Jim Wallace and
Joseph Freisleben he came to Portland.
The party attended the theater and later
went to a dance at -Merrill's Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Mazoretsky and their
daughter reached home this morning at
about 1:45 o'clock. Ida wpnt upstairs to
go to bed, but the elder Mazoretskys, who
had been drinking, according to Freisle
ben, renewed their quarreling. Mazorets
ky pleaded with his wife to remain at
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EVENTS OF COMING WEEK
House and Senate Busy.
Appropriation bills are expected to
occupy the attention of the House
the "coming week, "and on Wednesday
the Senate .will vote on the Smoot
. resolution. It is expected that there
will be night sessions of the House
and Senate- this week.
.President Roosevelt, will leavs -Washington
late in the week 'for a
brief visit to his "sons, who are study
ing, at ; Harvard University and the '
Groton School in Massachusetts.
Kvel.vn Thaw to Take Stand.
It Is expected the trial of Harry
. Thaw for the murder of Stanford
White will be resume this (Mon
day) morning. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw
probably will go on the witness stand
i during the early part of the week to
continue the recital of her life story. -
James Bryce, the new British Am
bassador to America, and Mrs. Bryce
are passengers on board the steamer
Oceanic, which Is due to reach New
York AVednesday or Thursday.
Chess experts of Great Britain and
the United States will play a series
of games by cable on Friday and
. Saturday.
The annual convention of American
Newspaper Publishers' . Association
will open in New York City Monday
and continue throughout the week.
Crisis In French Cabinet.
The phase of the French separation
taw controversy dealing with the
terms of leasing churches, w hich was
in fair progress of being solved, has
brought about a breach in the French
Cabinet and it appears doubtful
whether the Ciemenceau Ministry can
. survive the coming week.
The first elections to Parliament
under the new Transvaal elections
will be held February 20, and the
Boers have great prospects of ob-
taining a working majority in the
House of Representatives.
The new German Reichstag will
meet February 19.
the home to care for trie cnlldren, but
she 'declared that she Intended to leave
him in the afternoon and take the chil
dren. Without warning Mazoretsky drew a
3S-caliber revolver from his pocket and
began shooting at his former wife. 'Four
times he fired and four bullets struck Mrs.
Mazoretsky, who fell on a sofa In the
sitting-room. Then he deliberately placed
the revolver behind his right ear and
fired, and the last bullet In the pistol
passed through his head and lodged In the
ceiling.
At the first shot Ida ran downstairs.
From the stairway she could see her
father shooting with the revolver, but
her mother was hidden from her sight.
Clad only in her night clothes, Ida ran
out into the street screaming for help.
Stumbles Over a Corpse. '
Policeman I.'C. Cresap was Dut a block
distant ana was attracted to the scene
of the tragedy by the shots and the
screaming of the daughter. He entered
the house and stumbled over the dead
body of Mazoretsky. At first he thought
tlie woman was dead, but he discovered
signs of life and had her removed to
St. Joseph's Hospital. One bullet, enter
ing the back of her neck, had lodged In,
her head, another had passed through
her cheek, a third had pierced her right
arm and the fourth had entered her back
and Imbedded itself near the kidneys. At
the hospital tonight it was reported that
the woman could not live.
This afternoon Coroner J. R, Smith
held an Inquest and the decision of the
Jury was that Mazoretsky came to his
death at this own hands. Officer" Cre
sap and Ida Mazoretsky were the only
witnesses to testify.
Four brothers of Mazoretsky were
present at the Inquest. They intimated
that perhaps Frelsland, who is a bar
tender, and who rooms at the Mazo
retsky home, despite the protests of
the head of the house, so It Is alleged,
had a hand In the affair, but the au
thorities say that this suspicion is en
tirely unfounded. Frelsland had been
In the house a short time previous to
the quarrel, but when ' the shooting
occurred was outside, though within
earshot of the scene.
The four brothers all live In Port-
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A PASSEC,tR TRAIN I.VIXti OS ITS SIDE
PASSENGER
UN
HITS BROKEN RAIL
Five. Injured By Wreck
Near Houlton.
THREE CARS LEAVE THE TRACK
Smoker Turns on Side and
Throws Occupants in Heap.
NOBODY IS FATALLY HURT
Morning Train J-'rom Astoria in
Sinii.-li-Vp on the Northern Pa
cific Line About Thirty Miles
'North of Portland.
TICE IXJIRED.
J. E. G. Povey, president Povey
Bros'. Glass Company, 504 Tillamook
street; cut over eye end bruisei
about hip.
E. C. Webber. SIJi, Williams ave
nue: bruised back and sroin.
Fred Angle, news agent, rooms New
Grand Central Hotel, Portland; gash
in scalp behind ear and bruised back.
H. Hasklne. Oregon City; nose and
ankle cut. bruised hip.
Ben Sullivan, porter, lives 1 0 Elev
enth street north; cut on ankle.
t Train No. 21, of the Astoria & Columbia
River Railroad, was derailed near Houl
ton on its way to Portland at 11:13 yes
terday morning. The smoker, chair car
and parlor car left the rails and plunged
into the ditch. Five persons were Injured,
none of them fatally.
The passengers were brought on to
Portland in the baggage car and were met
at Linnton by the wrecker, which had
started for the scene under the charge
of Superintendent Mt-Guire of the A. & C.
as soon . as the news of the accident
reached Portland. I. L. H. Hamilton,
with stretchers, surgical instruct ,.uts and
first-aid remedies, was on , tlw relief
train and attenaed to the injured at I.Inn
ton. He took the wounded passengers to
St. Vincent's' Hospital, with the exception
of Mr. Povey, who went to his home.
Late last night all were resting easily and
Dr. Hamilton expects no serious conse
quences. The derailment occurred a mile and a
half west of Houlton, In a cut. The track
curves at this point and the broken rail
was on the inside of the curve. The train
was in charge of Conductor Bircher and
Engineer Stoner The latter felt the shock
of the three rear cars leaving the rails
and immediately applied the emergency
air brakes. This brought the whole train
to a stop within its own length.
Smoker Turns on Side.
The smoker left the track and bowled
along the edge of-the cut, shaving off the
edge of the embankment. It then turned
squarely on its side and brought up with
a crash of splintered glass. All those
who were injured were in this car. Those
sitting on the right side of the car found
themselves thrown heavily against the
windows, which were underneath, while
passengers ana baggage rained down from
the other row of seats upon them.
The day coach plowed along close be
hind the smoker for 15 yards and then
broke loose. It did not turn over, but
buried Its , nose in the bank.
The parlor car was the least injured
but it suffered partial defacement.
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BY THE TRACK.
Passengers in this car were only fright
tened and none was hurt.
It is considered fortunate that the
wreck occurred where It did, as had
there been a fill at that point the three
cars would have toppled over the em
bankment. M. P. Marius, stenographer In the
Northern Pacific passenger offices, was
In the smoker when the crash came.
He said the car was well filled and ex
pressed surprise afterward that many
were not killed.
Story of Passenger.
"The train was not winning very fast
at the time of the derailment," said lie.
"Ail at once we began jolting over the
ties and we all realized we were off
the track. Suddenly the car began to
scrape along the bank at the edge of
the cut. I then took a firm hold of a
seat and began to look out for flying
glass. Soon the car turned over on its
side and passengers from the other -row
of seats dropped on top of us. The
car slid a short distance with its win-
It.
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General A. TV. Greely. Who Will Be.
Transferred to Command of Van
couver Bnrrark.
dows in the mud and the trucks still
whirling uselessly In the air. We
brought up with a nasty jolt and we
began digging ourselves out of the
wreckage and ' congratulating each
other on our narrow escape.
"It wa3 a luiky accident, if there Is
any such thing, for had the derailment
occurred almost anywhere else on the
line, tnere would certainly have been a
loss of life. The cut prevented the cars
from falling down a grade or into the
river, which might have been the case
had the rail broken at aJiy one of a
thousand other points on the line."
Woman Saves Her Goldfish.
A woman in the chair car was carry
ing a glass globe of goldfish when the
crash came. . little water slopped
over the edge of the bowl, carrying
with It one of the goldfish, which wrig
gled' helplessly on his back for a mo
ment on the floor of the car, but was
soon rescued by Its owner. The glass
jar and the fish were none the less for
the wreck.
Trainmen say the accident was one of
those things which cannot be success
fully guarded against. The train was
only five minutes behind Its schedule
at the time and was In the hands of an
engineer who Is known by the ope
rating officials as a very careful loco
motive driver. The Hpeed being made
was not reckless or unusual. The A.
& C. trains make 40 and SO miles an
hour on the Northern Pacific track be
tween Portland and Goble. The train
derailed is said to be the fastest train
that runs over that track.
No I.uik Ii for Hungry Passengers.
A number of passengers on the
wrecked train did not catch the bag
gage car when it came on to Portland
with the passengers and were com
pelled to wait at Houlton until 6
and the Northern Pacific train No. 7
came along. During their stay in
Houlton, they could not buy even a
piece of chewing gum, a condition due
to the stringent Sunday law now In
force in Columbia County. Hungry
(Concluded on Page 12.)
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Th Wrnthrr.
YESTKRDA Y'K Maximum temperature, 31
dfiRrpes. minimum, :t'J.
TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds.
Foreign.
Gigantic nntl-clorlcal demonstration In
Kome.. Page 2.
tiultan renders satisfaction to German gov-
. ernment. Pare 3.
Japan considers compromise on pchool ques
tion too high a price to pay. Page .'!.
National.
rnoot. of T'tah. will be sustained by Senate
vote. Page 2.
Utah Methodist, minister snores Senator
K nox for his stand on Smoot question.
Page 2.
Schmitz party to remain In Washington un
til passage of immigration bill. Page 3.
Iometlc.
Stories of cats of high and low degree, by
Has kin. Page 1.
No light yet on cause of frightful wreck
on Nw York electric railway. Page. 2.
Anarchists. Socialists and union labor hold
Mover - Hey wood - Pettlbone demonstra
tions. Page 5.
Figures show Americans are drinking less
champagne than usual, page 3.
Quarrel among Thaw's attorneys settled and
lelmas will continue as chief counsel.
Page 3.
Pacific Coant.
Laws Washington peopl xprrt'pd the 1Vg:s
lature to pass are fitting enags at Olym
pia. Page 4.
Oregon Legislature has a busy week ahead.
Page 4.
LouIk Mazoretsky fatally wounds wife and
commits suicide at Vancouver, Wash.,
Page 1.
For the first time in history Seattle is a
closed town. Page 1.
Italian murdered on O. R. N. train,
thought to be Mafia victim. Page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Passenger train bound from Astoria for
Portland wrecked near Houlton and five
injured. Page 1.
Co-operative .City Club plans to organize
with 1000 members. Page S.
Dr. Brougher preaches on heredity at White
Temple. Page 8.
roll Meal pot simmering in Portland. Paga
FANGY CUTS ID
COMMON
TABBIES
Felines andTheir Place
in World's History.
BIG PROFITS IN CAT FARMS
Aristocratic Persians Sell for
More Than Good Horses.
TABBY A GODDESS IN EGYPT
I.O.-I Ilor Precise During the Middle
Aeps and Whs Burned Willi
Witches Her Place In Marl
time Law of England. .
BV FREDERIC J. HASKIS.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. (Special Cnr-respondPnce.)-A
few -week's ago I hap
pened to drop In at the Madison-Square
Garden In New York while a cat show
was in proRress. As I approached a sroup
of ladies who were inspecting a good
Ionking. Rood-natured feline. I heard one
of them remark: "All rlfrht, I will give
J150 for him." The business-like . young
lady made a notation in her note book,
and I noticed that this was not the first
sale she had made. It seemed to me
that if cats were selling for as much as
good horses nowadays, it was a subject
that would bear looking1 Into.
The business-like young lady tnU me
lots of things about cats that I had not
heard before. She said that while cnt
raising In America for profit was a com
paratively new industry, there are now
catteries in New York. Massachusetts.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Connecticut,
Maine, Illinois, District of Columbia.
Michigan. .Ohio. Indiana, am California.
There Is one establishment in Los An
geles which nets its owner fnuflO a year.
Cat shows are held annually In New
York. Boston. Rochester, Cleveland.
Chicago. Detroit and Toronto, with from
2(ij to 3f0 entries otv fine ypecljhns n:
each exhibition. k-
Kcfuse Offer or SI 000 for Cat.
The rarest kinds of cats raised in the
United States are the Manx, the Persian,
the Siamese, and the Mexican, though
plain, everyday tommies and tabbies are
raised and shipped by the carload to
California and New Guinea, where rats
are plentiful and cats few. The price of
the best specimens rangcx from $l to
$1.10, while kittens of off-color for house
pets can be had for loss. Tho owner of
one One American rat called King Hum
bert refused $1X)0 for him, and a record
offer of ten times as much lias been
made for a prize winner in Kngland.
The aristocrats of the cat world are
the Persians, which come from tho cold
table-lands of Central Asia, and from tho
mountain regions of Turkey. In Turkey
they are called Angoras, and in Persia,
Persians. The first were brought to the
Atlantic seaboard of America by sailors
who had touched! at Kastern ports, 'but
as a breed they have degenerated on this
side of the water. In the center of
Turkey one can buy a cat for M cents or
$1. which would sell in the United States
for from $.10 to $1X). A six-months old
kitten from Kngland costs from $S to
$;W, and the cost of ita passage is $5
extra.
One Cat's Tx-gaoy $40,00-0.
The cat fancy in this country was
started 30 years ago when Mrs. Locke,
of Chfcago, began to Import, breed and
sell long-haired cats, using the income
for private charities. I.ong-halred cats
are divided into classes according to their
color, tho most popular of these seeming
to be the light silvers and tho blue-eyed
whites. The original color of the cat
Is aid to have been brown, marked with
black and showing a white nose, chin and
breast. This seems quite probable, as it
is difficult to breed cats without a
brownish touch appearing in their color.
One of the best cats ever shown at the
New York show was a solid orange. The
Department of Agriculture recognizes
two kinds of cats, long-haired and short
haired, the former being the ones im
ported from Turkey and Persia, and their
descendants, and the latter, or short
haired 'ariety. being the domestic, Manx,
Siamese, Russian, etc.
The richest cat in the world is
"Blackie," who lives in Wilkesbarre. Pa.,
In a tw-o-story. 12-room house all his own.
The late Benjamin F. Dilley left his bouFe.
and 140.000 to his "two best friends, the
cats Blackie and Pinkie." Shortly after
wards Pinkie died, and then Blackie cam
Into the whole fortune. He has a woman
attendant to wait on him all the time,
has a fur-lined basket to sleep In, soft
couches and chairs scattered about to
meet his lazy demands for more rest, and
a diet of shrimps. Italian chestnuts,
cream and anything else that the taste
of a pampered cat might require. He is
old now, quite IS, but despite this his dally
mail is still large. There are scores of
people who write letters giving advice
about new foods, new amusements and
new recreations for his catship. There
are two fortunate eats In Los Angeles
who live In a hotel with their mistress
and have a special maid to wait upon
them.
Have Saved Ships to Owner.
Cats have not been without distinction
in the affairs of nations. More than once
Pussy has saved a vessel for Ha owner
because, under the marine laws of Eng
land, no vessel that has been abandoned
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