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PLAINTIFF'S DEATH
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Alex Dunsmuir. The bride-groom on
his wedding day made a will leaving
everything to James Dunsmuir. lie
soon died and James took the prop
erty, disregarding the alleged agree
ment with the mother. His brother's
widow was provided for by James
Dunsmuir, who gave her an income
and a farm in California.
Soon after Alex Dunsmuir's death,
his mother began suit against James
for the dead son's share. Before his
ease came to trial, Edna Wallace
Hopper began suit for her mother's
one-third legal interest in Alex Duns
muir's estate. Mrs. Joan Dunsmuir,
angry at James, joined forces with
the famous actress, acting as an in
tervener. They lost. The mother
still had her original suit pending but
it was finally dropped on technical
grounds.
The middle, of September Mrs.
Joan Dunsmuir again brought suit
against the Lieutenant-Governor for
an accounting and for her share as
per her agreement- 20 years before.
This is pending in the British Co
lombia courts.
will enliven things to a great extent
and if the lowest bidders are award
the contract, to which they are en
titled and the bulk of money spent
here a rushing coming year may be
expected.
The contract will no doubt be
awarded tonight. ,
ASTORIACONTRACTORS
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KERN RAPS REPUBLICANS.
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 2-Thev pub
lication and use of the Republican
campaign manager as a campaign
document the letter attributed to the
authorship of the late Grover Cleve
land which contained a strong en
dorsement for the Republican candi
date for president was the subject
of a speech of Kern before a large
audience here today. He declared
the use of the document was an at
tempt to place a vile stigma on the
name of the great departed states-
fman and likened its use to the Gar
'field campaign and the famous
'"Morey letter" forgery. He condemn
ed the action of Secretary Strauss re
'ferring in a speech to the letter as
authentic, and said that District
Attorney Jerome is investigating the
authorship of the "Base criminal fa
brication." He said the Republican
newspapers printed the fabricated
letters with great headlines and had
refused to print the exposure
of the cne of have so placed
publication in exposure of forgery as
to attract no attention.
utside the city are entitled to, and
will receive, equally just treatment it
would be very gratifying to know
that the local "contractors would se
cure this large piece of work and it
is expected it will so eventuate in
which event it means a great deal to
the skilled and unskilled labor of our
city and will guarantee the retention
of a large portion of the contract
price within the borders of our home
city.
No injustice need be done in
awarding the contract to Messrs.
Palmberg, Goodin & Mattson, as
they are responsible men in their
Tine and are clearly the -lowest bid
der The lowest bidders ask until
August, 1910, to finish the contract,
if awarded to them, so that by the
opening of the following dry season
everything would be settled down in
good shape and the reservoir be
ready for filling.
The reservoir on which bids were
asked is to have a capacity of 20,
000,000 gallons and is to be located
one mile east of Reservoir No. 2 and
will Be connected by the conduit line
with Bear Creek. The excevation will
approximate 165,000 cubic yards and
the reinforced concrete work 3000
yards.-. Other items in the contract
sre 1194 feet of 24-inch, 312 feet 18-'
inch, 648 feet 12-inch and 154 feet of
cast iron pipe.
The labor on the work, both skill
ed and unskilled, figures largely in
the calculations of the bidders and
the outlay of the amount to be ex
pended for wages, right in our midst,
MOTOR RACING.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Fourteen
cars have been entered for the sec
ond 24 hours' race of the Motor Rac
ing Association, which starts to
night at 8 o'clock at Brighton Beach.
All the cars that completed in the
association's first night and day race
will start tonight with the exception
of one low powered car, while there
are additional entries. This after
noon there are to be a number of
short distance events run as a cur
tain raser for the big race tonight.
The short races will include a num
ber of trials for the one mile record
of 51 seconds held by De Palma, in
which De Palma, in which De Palma,
Louis Strang, Louis Robertson and
Barney Oldfield will be seen.
WOMAN SUICIDES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.-The
waters of the bay will be watched at
tentively today for the body of an
unknown young woman who jumped
into one of the Santa Fe slips at the
Ferry building last night. Beyond the
knowledge that the suicide was
rattier well dressed and gave no in
dication of being excited, the bridge
tender was unable to give any de
scription of the woman.
STEEL CARS ORDERED.
A Big Sensation in Hats
Is being created at present in our
Show-rooms, where models of the
most modern Millinery for Fall wear
are now being displayed. You are
invited to call and inspect these new
styles, which are certainly most im
pressive in the novelty of the ideas.
The choicest creations in artistic
trimming are here for your approval
and the moderate prices marked on
the Hats will tempt you to buy.
JALOFF'S
"The Style Store."
Suits, Cloaks and Millinery
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-Thc Marri-
man lines, it was announced here yes
terday, have decided to adopt steel
constructed passenger cars over their
entire system and have given the
Pullamn Company an order for 220
teel cars of miscellaneous types.
The cars are to be steel shells and
are to have as little wood in the con
struction as possible. It is said they
will be almost indestructible. The
Pullman Company is to begin deliv-
erying within sixty days.
TO CONSIDER CASE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.
Judges Gilbert, Ross and Morrow of
the United States circuit court today
took under advisement the applica
tion of the Southern Pacific for an
injunction restraining the Interstate
Commerce Commission from fixing
rates on lumber from the northwest
to San Francisco Bay. The case,
which in another form was decided
in favor of the government two
days ago, will probably be decided
tomorrow.
INTERVIEW DENIED.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Charles
Frohman has received a telegram
from Mjss. Ethel . Barrymore, denying
the interview credited to her in a St.
Loujs paper. ' ,
CRUISER DEPARTS.
COLON, Oct. 2. The auxiliary
cruiser Prajric left here yesterday
.morning for Hampton Roads. She
has on board ISO men from the
auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which is
stationed on the Pacific side of the
Isthmus.
TAFT TELLS WHY.
DENVER, Oct. 2.In the same
building where Bryan was nominat
ed for the presidency last July Taft
tonight addressed a tremendous
throng setting forth reasons and ar
guments why the Ncbraskan should
not be elected.
Game was TIE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Prcsident
Pnlliniii rf te V.1tioii:it T.p.lmu' tu-
night announced the decision of the
New York-Chicago game, Septem
ber 24, declaring it a tie and that
Chicago is not entitled to claim a
forfeited game on the following day.
JAPAN IS NEXT.
MANILA, Oct. 2.-The fleet lias
begun to coal preparatory to its
cruise to Japan. The squadron will
depart October 4.
SEATTLE SENDS $3000.
SEATTLE, Oct. 2.-A draft of
$3000 being part of the $20,000 fund
being raised by Republicans in j
Washington for the. use in the cam- i
paign of outside the state has been i
sent Hitchcock, chairman of the Na- j
tional Republican Committee today. !
BARRY DEFEATS JOHNSON.
tOS ANGELES, Oct. 2.-Jim
Barry, of Chicago, defeated Battling j
Johnson, of Los Angeles. The lat
ter's seconds threw up the sponge in
the seventh round.
"SMUG." KELLY DIES.
SEATTLE, Oct. 2.-The Post In
telligencer in a special from Port
Townsend reports the death near
that city of James Kclley, one of the
most noted smugglers north of the
Pacific Coast.
AN EPISODE OF WAR.
The Only Coward Evan Evr 8w In
the Navel Service.
After Admiral Evan bad been so
grievously wounded hi the attack oti
Fort Fisher durlug the civil war be
was picked up by ti marine named
Waamoutb and carried Into compara
tive shelter. Wasmoutb was killed a
few minutes later. Evans' own ac
couut continues: "After Wusiuoutb
was killed 1 soon fell asleep, aud when
I awoke It was some time before 1
could recall . my surroundings. Tbe
tide bad come in, nnd the bole lu
wbleb 1 was lying was nearly full ot
water, which had about covered me
and was trickling Into my ears I
could see a monitor firing and appar
ently very near, and the thought mine
to me that 1 could swim off to ber If I
only bad a bit of plank or driftwood,
but this I could not get It wns plnln
enough that 1 should soou be drowned
like a rat in a' hole unless I managed
to get out somehow Dead nnd wound
ed men were lying about in ghnstly
piles, but no one to lend me a helping
band. By this time I could not use
my legs In any way, uud when 1 dug
my hands Into the sides of my prlsoD
and tried to pull myself out the sand
gave way nnd left me still lying In thp
water. Finally I made n strong effort
and rolled myself sideways out of tbe
bole.
"When I got out 1 saw a marine a
short distance away nicely covered by
a pile of sand and firing away deliber
ately at the fort. I called to him to
pull me In behind his bar of sand, but
be declined on the ground that the fire
was too sharp for blm to expose him
self. I persuaded him with my re
volver to change bis mind, and In two
seconds he bad me in a place of safe
tythat is to say, safe by a small mar
gin, for when he fired the Confederate
bullets would snip tho sand within a
few Inches of our heads. If the ma
rine bad known that my revolver was
soaking wet and could not possibly be
fired I suppose I would have been
buried the next morning, as many oth
er poor fellows were. As soon as I
could reach some cartridges from a
dead rnllor lying near me I loaded my
revolver, thinking It might be useful
before the Job was finished.
"When I was Jerked In behind this
pile of sand I landed across the body
of the only coward I ever saw in the
naval service. At first I was not con
scious that there was a man under me,
so completely bad he worked himself
Into the saud. lie was actually below
the surface of the ground. The moni
tors were firing over us, and as a shell
came roaring by be pulled his knees up
to his chin, which hurt me, as It jostled
my broken legs. I said: 'Hello! Are
you wounded?' 'No, sir,' he replied; 'I
am afraid to move.' 'All right, then,'
I said, 'keep quiet and don't hurt my
legs again.' The next shell that came
over be did tbe same thing and tbe
next notwithstanding my repeated cau
tions. So I tapped blm between tbe
eyes with tbe butt of my revolver, and
he was quiet after that"
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of the North American ' Company, ,
capitalized for $30,000,000, a concern
known as the 'Mystery of Wall
Street.' But a fetv years back he "-
was prominently identified with the , WASHINGTON, Oct, , 2.-The
'Wriskcy Trust.' At a glance his j monthly coinage statement Issued by
COINAGE STATEMENT.
the director of the mint yesterday
shows that during September, 1908,
the total coinage executed at the
mints was $2,419,200, of which $1,
700,000 was gold, $634,000. silver and
Soa.JlHJ minor roin Tliia id ...1
vc oi ,vu,uuu peso pieces coined
for the Philippine Islands.
ihtbierike to the Morning Astorian.