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VST w si i omn> Ex-Chief of Police of Seattle Is Killed In a Fight. ARMED WITH A "SAWED-OFF ‘ SHOTGUN He Made a Deliberate Attempt to Murder, and Was Finally Shot to Death By His Intended Victim. Seattle, June 26.—At 5:25 o’clock yesterday afternoon John W. Con sidine, one of the proprietors of the Standard gambling house and Peo ple’s theater, in this city, shot and killed ex-Chief of Police W. L. Mere dith. The shooting occurred in Guy’s drug store, on the corner of Second avenue and Yesler way, in the heart of the city. Considine was also wounded slightly in the hand by a ball from a double barrelled shotgun in Meredith’s hands. The men had threatened to shoot one another on sight, and were both prepared for trouble. The drug store at the time of the shooting, was •crowded with people, and one by stander was shot through the arm by a stray bullet. Meredith was killed while struggling with John Consi dine and Tom Considine, who had •come to his brother’s aid. Three bullets from Considine’s revolver, fired at short range, pierced Mere dith’s body, one in the head, another in the chest and another in the abdo men. No event of recent years has created more excitement here. For hours after the shooting the streets in the neighborhood of ‘■he drug store, where the tragedy occurred, were filled with thousands of men, women and children, jostling one another for an opportunity to inspect the prem ises and excitedly discussing the bloody affray. Although a short time after the shooting some street talk of lynching was heard, this soon subsided. It is alleged Meredith was the ag gressor, and made a deliberate at tempt to kill his personal enemy of years’ standing. He is said to have spent the afternoon in walking about the streets armed with a ‘‘sawed-off” double barrelled shotgun loaded with buck shot, in search of his man. In, order to avert suspicion, he had wrapped the weapon in a large sheet of butcher’s paper and tied it with a cord, so that it bore little resem blance to an instrument of death. Meredith found Considine in front of the drug store talking with a friend. He discharged the weapon at Consi dine’s face, but the paper wrapping prevented him from taking accurate aim, and the charge went wild. Con sidine ran into the drug store, and Meredith followed, firing the second barrel just as he entered the door. Then Meredith-dropped the gun, and drawing his heavy revolver continued the pursuit. Considine found himself cornered on rea :hing the rear of the store, and turning, grappled with his enemy. Tom Considine, the gamblers’ brother, who had been standing with him in front of the store, had fol lowed Meredith, and he also grappled with him. Tom Considine finally wrenched the revolver from Mere dith’s grasp and repeatedly beat the latter over the head with it. John Considine then drew his own revolver and fired three shots in quick succes sion at his antagonist at a distance of eight feet. Meredith reeled and fell dead. Considine cooly handed his revol ver to the sheriff, who had arrived on the scene, and gave himself up. Invitation to Participate in Deputy United States Marshals Had to Pan- American Exposition. New York, June 27.—A Washing ton dispatch to the Herald says : Brazil, one of the countries which it was believed would not participate in the Pan-American congress on ac count of the restriction imposed upon the principle of arbitration, has ¿has formally announced its acceptance of the invitation to participate. Peru is still of the opinion that it will not be deserted by Bolivia and Argentina. Since the recent ex changes between the various Pan- American governments neither of these governments has given any in timation of the course it intends to pursue. The administration is ap parently confident that Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay will follow the Brazil, leaving ” Peru and course of ~ Bolivia the only two countries declin ing to take part in the congress. As the interests of Peru and Bolivia are practically identical, the action of one will bind the other. The authorities are hopeful that future consideration will show Peru its in terests are such as to require its par ticipation in the congress rather than to stand subject to Chile’s will. Huntington, W. Va., June 27.— Yesterday a posse of deputy United States marshals were firid on by the strikers, and forced to flee from the coal fields at Mateawan. On their journey to Bluefields the officers were forced to travel 25 miles on foot, owing to the destruction of the rail road by floods. Immediately upon | their reaching Mateawan they began serving notices of the injunction, which had been issued by Judge Jackson, of the Federal court, A mob of strikers followed, armed to , the teeth with firearms. On all sides could be heard the cry : ‘down with government by injunction.' Women called the vengeance of heaven upon the marshals, and children hurled stones at them. When nightfall came, notice had been served on the strikers of all the coal companies but one, and they were to be served at Thacker. Fearing an ambush, the officers waited until morning, and early yesterday set out for Thacker. Some time before noon they attempted to serve an injunction. A mob fol lowed, enraged to desperation at the sweeping characetr of the injunction. One reckless fellow fired the first shot, and almost instantly the moun tain sides echoed the reports of 20 or 30 rifles. The deputies fled, barely escaping with their lives. The strike situation is assuming a most serious stage. Sheriff Hatfield has withdrawn all his deputies, be cause, it is said, he does not believe in that policy being used to put down the strike. The'United States , marshals have been alone, and after I being chased out of the field yester day it is believed they will be strong- | ly reinforced and return to the fight when they appear to enforce the in junction. A band of striekrs, almost 1,000 strong, have crossed over into Ken tucky and are occupying the moun tain passes. Here they are out of reach of the deputy marshals, and command the entrances to the col lieries. It is said that at a mass meeting at Thacker the miners de cided to ignore the injunction. THROUGH A TRESTLE. Passenger Train on Wabash Railroad Wrecked — Many Reported Killed. Indianapolis, June 27.—A special from Peru this morning says: West bound passenger train No. 3, on the Wabash Railroad, ran into a washout at Cass, 15 miles west of here, wrecking the engine and five cars. It is rumored that 15 persons were killed. The train is due at Peru at 10:55, but left here one hour late. The train was running at a high speed to make up lost time, and when near Cass, five miles east of Logansport, plunged through a trestle that had been swept away by a washout. The engine was totally deTnolished and the three passenger coaches and two baggage cars were derailed and overturned. Every surgeon in Peru was summoned, and the relief party left for the scene. Details are meager, but it is ru mored that the engineer and fireman and at least a dozen passengers were killed and many more injured. TO EXPLORE ALASKA. Traverese Wide Un- Seattle, June 27.—A United States exploration party arrived in Dawson early in June on the way to Northern Alaska to explore one of the widest unknown areas in the vast territory. The party was to leave Dawson about June 10, going down the Yukon to Fort Hamlin by steamer, thence over land by the Dahl river trail to the middle fork of the Koyokuk to Berg man, where supplies were shipped to the party last year. Thence they will go up one of the southward flowing tributaries of the Koyokuk, probably the Alashuk, thence over the divide to the Kowak and down the Kowak to Kotzebue sound, opening into the Arctic ocean a short distance north of Behring strait. This is the first government party ever detailed to this field, which has been visited by few white men. They will gather geological informa tion and mabke maps of the country traversed. Messages of Condolsnce. Washington, June 26.—Telegrams of condolence from all parts of the world are coming to the state depart ment today addressed to Secretary Hay. Cards are also being received at the Hay home expressing regret. Pump Plant Burned. Protection From Mo! Ns. Cairo, Ill., June 26—Fire today White cloves are said to be as effect destroyed the plant of the National Pump Co. and the Big Four station ual in banishing moths as either cam at Mound City, Ill. Loss, $100,000. phor, cedar or tobacco. Another Bi< Gusher. Denison, Tex., June 27.— What is said to be the largest oil gusher yet struck in the southwestern field was blown in today at Redford, Creek nation, north of Denison, on the St. Louis 4 San Francisco Railroad ex tension, by the Pennsylvania Oil Company. The oil spouted 400 feet in the air. It is still gushing and is wasting in great quantities. How Courtesy Is taught the Chinese Youngxters in Their Native Land. Fiet —Attempted to Serve Injunction. Government Party Will <- í¿ POLITENESS AS A SCIENCE. BY STRIKERS. known Area. BRAZIL WILL TAKE PART. Accepti FIRED ON sT*1 The Pope Growing Weaker. Rome, June 27.—Owing to hie in creasing feebleness the pope s physi cian has forbidden him to follow his usual custom of passing the hot weather in a pavilion in the Vatican garden. Notwithstanding this fact, no alarm concerning the pope is felt. It is reported that at the recent audi ence between the pope and Cardinal Gibbons, the pope bid the latter a touching farewell, saying he would probably never see him again. Not Allowed to Wave Above the Stars and Stripes. AN OREGON MAN REMOVED THE COLORS Then Htnded His Cird to the Canadian Cut- toms Officer, Who Had Raised the Flag Under Instructions. Vancover, B., C., July 1.—The steamer Islander, from Sakgway to day, brings news of an exciting flag episode at Skagway. E. S. Busby, Canadian customs agent there, acting on instretions from Ottawa, hoisted the British flag on a pole above his office. Several incendiary remarks followed the hoisting of the ensign, and on the following morning a tall, athletic-looking man glanced up at the flag, and stopping at the foot of the staff, took out his pocket knife, and cutting the halyards, pulled down the flag and run the halyards through the block, rolled 'up the colors and tossed them into a recess of the build ing. It did not take Customs Agent Busby long to come to the defense of the flag of his country. When he reached the flag-furler the latter calmly pulled a card from his pocket, and, after handing it to the astonished Canadian official, turned on his heel and walked away. On the card was: ‘‘George Miller, attorney-at-law, Eugene, Oregon.” Miller is a brother of Joaquin Miller, the California poet, and is visiting friends in Skagway. GUAM TERRORIZED. United States Forces Brought Into Disrepute Commander Schroeder's Orders. Washington, July 1.—The atten tion of the navy department has been formally called to what appears to be an unsatisfactory condition of affairs in Guam. The incoming mails brought a copy of an order issued by the naval commander of the island, Commander Seaton Schroeder, de nouncing “hoodlumism and lawless ness,” which he says are rampant at the station. The order refers to ter rorism at the fort, gambling and drunkenness, which have brought the United States’ force into disrepute.” The order closes with the imposi tion of restrictions on the liberty of the marines. It is believed the navy department will be obliged to look into the de nunciation of the marines. General Heywood, commandant of marines, already has been called upon to fur nish such information as he has, and it may be that a court of inquiry will be appointed. STORM IN THE NORTHWEST. Damage Done in the Twin Cities—Several Persons K lied. ' Minneapolis, Minn., July 1.—A terrible storm swept over Minneapolis, St. Paul and vicinity this afternoon. The storm broke out about 4 o’clock, being proceeded by almost total dark ness. Many people went into the street, and, when the storm of wind and rain broke, there were many in jured. Several persons were killed. The wind also blew down several buildings. Heavy storms are reported all over this section, and the property loss will run into the thousands, and many head of livestock killed, The worst storm was that which passed through the district south of New Richmond, Wis. It was a tornado and did much damage to farm prop erty, although no lives were lost, A rainfall of nearly four inches is re- ported there. Coronation of King Edward. London, July 1.—The royal proc- lamation announcing that the coron ation of King Edward is to take place in June next, the exact date date not yet being determined upon, was read this morning at St. James’s palace, Temple Bar and the Roayl Excahnge. with all the quaint, medieval scenes which marked the occasion of the proclamation of the accession of the king. Today's ceremonial was un heralded, but crowds qtickly gath ered. $15,000 Fire at Rosalia. Rosalia, Wash., July 1. — Fire which started at 3 o’clock yesterday morning in a hardware store destroyed i the building. Loss on the building, j $2,000; on the stock, $13,000; insur ance, $8,500. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Oregonian's Miihap. When a Chinaman takes his little boy to school to introduce him to his teacher, it is done as follows, according to one missionary writer in »he Ep worth Herald. When the Chinaman ar rives at the school be is escorted to the reception room, and both he and the teacher shake their own hands and bow profoundly. Then the teacher asks: "What is your honorable name?” "My mean, insignificant name is Wong.” Tea and pipe are sent for, and the teacher says: "Please use tea.” The Chinaman sips and puffs for a quarter of an hour before he says to the teach er: “What is your houorable name?” “My mean, insignificant name Is Pott.” “What is your houorable kingdom?" “The small, petty district from which I come is the United States of America.” This comes hard but eti quette requires the teacher to say it. "Is the honorable and great man of the household living?” He Is asking after tile teaciscr’s fath er. “The old man is well.” “How many precious little oucs have you?” “I have two little dogs.” These are the teacher's own children. “How' many children have you in your illustrious institution?” “I have a hundred little brothers.” Then the Chinaman comes to busi ness. “Venerable master,” he says, “I have brought my little dog here, and wor- shipfully Intrust him to your charge.” The little fellow who has been stand ing in the corner of the room, comes forward at this, kneels before the teacher, puts his hands on the floor and knocks his head against it. The teach er raises him up and sends him off to school, while arrangements are l*elng made for his sleeping room and so forth. At last the Chinese gentleman rises to take his leave, saying: "I have tormented you exceedingly to-day," To which the teacher responds: “O, no; I have dishonored you.” As he goes to ward the door he keeps saying: “I am gone; I a.n gone.” Etiquette requires the teacher to repeat as long as he is in hearing: "Go slowly; go slowly.” RECENT INVENTIONS. Stumps can be burned out of the ground by a new machine, which has an adjustable burning glass to throw rays of sunlight on the stump at a fo cus, causing the stump to take tire even in a strong wind or if the wood is wet. A Canadian woman has secured a patent on a keylxiard for pianos and organs, having the scale printed on the face of the keys, together with the staff and sharps and flats, to show the note coiresponding to each key on the instrument. Vessels can be easily removed from sandbars by a new apparatus consist ing of an endless chain of buckets to be attached to the sides of the vessel and driven by engines to excavate the sand from around the hull until the ship floats free. A light which will enable the driver to see the roadway ahead of his team is a new device which seems to fill all the requirements for the purpose. The intention is to utilize an ordinary lan tern, and provision is made to clamp It firmly In the spring base. The sides of the holder serve as a reflector to throw the light rays ahead, and a shield to prevent the lamp shining In tin eyes of the driver, as In the latter case he would be blind to the road ahead of his team. The support Is well braced by means of the rods projecting at the rear, and when the device Is not in use it can ie slipped from the wagon tongue and suspended from the dash board or other convenient place. The need of a convenient heater for warming the water for the bath is ap parent in houses where the tub is not piped with hot water, and even where the connections are made It is some times convenient to use an auxiliary heater In case the water is not of the proper temperature. A Boston man lias invented an apparatus for heating the bath water, and for It he claims economy In the amount of gas consum ed and rapidity In bringing the water to the required temperature The heat er is of vey small size and can tie suspended from the faucet. The In terior construction comprises a flat- bottomed tank, into which the water flows, with a perforated pipe under neath to supply the (lame by connec tion with the gas jet. Where a sup ply of gas Is not at hand for this pur pose the Inventor provides a naphtha vapor heater, which accomplishes the same results. By Igniting the gas a short time previous to taking the bath and regulating the flow of the water to allow It to remain a moment or two in the heater before It passes to the tub the temperature can tie rnimd to the profier degree, the heater continu ing its work just as long as the water and gas are allowed to flow Insrentou* Hav Stacker. was wnst we were taught to do when young, and we thought it tlie proper way until we saw the results of a trial made by the late l»r. E. Lewis Sturte vant, while Director of the New York Experiment Station at Geneva. He planted several rows of corn, placing the kernels in the drills just as they grew in order on the cob. also strips in which one had seed from eight butt ker nels In each row. another from eight tip kernels In the rows, and the tliird eight kernels from each row as near tbe mid dle of the ear as possible. We think In every test the kernels from the tip gave earliest ripening corn, and in more than half also produced a larger yield than those nearer the middle of the ear. In every case the yield was at the rate of several bushels 'ess per acre from those kernels near the middle of the ear.— American Cultivator. A patent has recently been Issued to a Montana irtau which provides a holst- iug device to be used as a hay stacker, derrick and the like. The device con sists of a base constructed In adjust able sections locked together by a key which is inserted in one of three re cesses formed in the sections. In sock ets at the ends of tile base sections side sections having ball ends are received. Thus universal joints are produced. The side sections are composed of slid ing members, the upper of which are raised by a ratchet drum ami rope. Forked guy ropes support the side sec tions. corresponding members of the forked ixirtions of the guy ropes being Dairying in Iown. connected at the same side of the side The report of Dairy and Food Com members and adjacent to each other. missioner Norton, of Iowa, contains a A pulley is suspended between the up- number of statistical facts which are of general Interest. The total number of cows in Iowa is 1,295,960, or an average of 23 to the square mile In the less populous portions of the State to 55 in the more [lopulous. The value of these cows is $38,358.503, or nearly $30 per cow. The number of cows to each 1,000 population Is 570 The average price of butter has decreased over seven years ago, but lias increased over last year. The average price in 1893 was 27 cents; in 1894, 24 cents; in 1895, 21 cents; in 181*0, 20 cents, and in 1900, 22 cents. During the year ending July 1, 1900, there were but three licenses Issued for the sale of oleomargarine In the State. All of these have since ex pired, and no renewals have beeu taken out. Of the 1*30 creameries in the State DKKHICK WITH HAT FOHK. per members ot the side sections, and 842 are operated on the separator plan. over tile pulley a hoist rope is carried. 71 on the gathered cream plan and 50 The end of the hoist rope, If it be so de on a combination of the two plans. sired, may be connected with a sling, Five hundred and one creameries are a platform or with any device neces owned by Individuals, 349 are operated sary in hoisting material of different on the co-operative [»lan. 110 on tfie kinds. The device is described in the stock company plan. There has been Scientific American, from which the il a notable Increase in the past year of the number of farm separators in use lustration is reproduced. in the State, in 1900 there being 3,332 as against 1,702 of the previous year Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat. There are many insects which feed on and 904 of 1898. and injure growing wheat, but the Het Top Hay an I Pasture. greater proportion of the losses to It used to be a custom to sow red wheat fields chargeable to Insects Is due to the attacks of less than half a top along with clover for meadows or dozen species. Tlv> most destructive pasture land. It did not reach Its best of these pests Is the chinch bug. The condition until the clover had been cut great damage to farm crops by this In for two years, and even until timothy* sect is due to its wide distribution, its had passed Its greatest yield, but as it prevalence more or less every year, the was fit to cut for hay about the same enormous multiplication In favorable time as the timothy they were often seasons, and to the fact that it attacks sown together. It would grow on low, all the cereals and most forage plants. moist lands where the clover or timo The next in importance Is the Hessian thy were likely to winter kill, It mad» fly. It Is estimated that the damage a strong, smooth turf, and tile fine hay, to the wheat crop by this pest is about when cut early was relished by all th» ten per cent of tile product in the chief animals. Seedsmen tell us that the wheat-growing sections of this country, sales of red-top seed are growing less, which Indicates cn annual los of forty and we are very sorry If It is so. As a million bushels and over. Next of Im pasture grass a mixture of June grnss portance are the wheat midge and grain or Kentucky blue grass ipoa pretensls) plant lice. Insects of second-rate Im and red top (agrostls vulgaris), leaves portance are the wheat-straw worms, but little to be desired, the first being the wheat-bulb worm, army worm, cut early and the red top enduring until worms and various sawflies.—Massa the late fall. One bushel of each seed per acr* gives good results for pasture chusetts Ploughman. land, though some of the clovers may be added to Improve the field the first To Aid in Dehorntn-r. A correspondent of Hoard’s Dairy year or two.—Exchange. man describes a tie he uses for holding Goose Farming In Kngtnni. a cow's head at the stanchion while de Goose farming and goose fattening horning. The accompanying cut shows how it is made. When the cow’s head have fallen off greatly in England. Is fast in the stanchion, the rope is From old accounts we rend that It waa dropped over the neck, the loop is not uncommon tor a man to keep a flock of one thousand, each of which might be expected to rear on nn aver age seven goslings. The flocks wera regularly taken to graze and water the same as sheep, and the man who herd ed them was called a gooseherd or goz- zard. The birds were plucked five time« In the year, and In the autumn flocks were driven to London or other mar kets. They traveled at the rate of al>out a mile an hour, and would get over nearly ten miles a day. When geese are to be traveled a distance in Europe they are driven through warm tar and then through Rand, which “boots" them for the Journey. TIK FOR IIBHORMINO. caught on the under side and the rope, doubled. Is put through the loop and placed around the nose far enough up not to shut off her breathing. The rope is then pulled back to a post at the side of the stanchion, and one turn is made around the post. A man holds the end. and by placing his weight on the rope can hold the cow's bead quite secure while her horns are being removed. The rope is quickly removed by slip ping It off the nose and pulling It out from the loop. New York, July 1.—A dispatch to the Herald from Montevideo, says: The American steamer Oregonian, bound for San Francisco with coal Whole Corn Hilare. The corn for siloing whole should 1>e for the Pacific squadron has arrived off Buceo, a short distance from this one of the small flint varieties, planted port, and anchored there. The at the rate of not over twelve quarts of American authorities sent a tug to seed per acre, says Hoard’s Dairyman. inquire why the steamer's captain Put the corn in the silo whep the seed has chosen such a peculiar anchorage. is in milk and take extra precautions The captain of the Oregonian declined that It is well and solidly [lacked, with Foor Hundred Thousand Cats. that the vessel was damaged. He There are said to tie tOO.OOt* aits in out holes or empty corners. Cover with said that he did not wish the steamer Ixvndon. of which half are “unattach hay as suggested. If the work Is well towed into the harbor. ed.” and live largely on refuse. In one done, there should result n fair quality district near a very large and famous of silage, but as It takes more work Sheepmen and Cattle-Raisers Mix. brewery in London, the sporting cats to handle it and less corn of the flint Cheyenne, Wyo., July 1.—A report go regularly as soon ax the brewery varieties can tie grown per acre than of a clash lietween sheepmen and cat gates are open to bunt rats in the brew the large ensilage corns whole com tle raisers in the Sweet Water country ! silage costs more per ton than the cut has reached here, but nothing definite ery “store«.'’ I silage. Good ensilage will not Injure can be ascertained. The Sweet Wat< r We are frequently told that man In • the milk in any way. country is where a dead line was re the early ages lived a life of simplicity Hutt and Tip Kernels for Aeed. ported established by cattle men a few arwl innocence—yet the first man born Professor Shamel, Instructor in farm weeks ago. The ranges there a In the world killed the second. crops at the Illinois College of Agricul greatly overstocked with sheep, Many a man who knows his own ture, says that it la a good plan to shell the flocks have been threatening invade territory heretofore held e l mind has a somewhat limited acquaint off and discard both the tips and butts of the corn ears selected for seed. That clusively for cattle. ance. Horae for the Farmer. Draft horses of good form sell almost according to weight, except that as weights increase prices rise at a much greater ratio, so that extreme weight« bring enormous prices if only the l>ono is satisfactory. Prices range from $125 to $300. with an occasional one higher and with an increase of about 10 per cent when matched in teams. These prices are sometimes exceeded, and dealers insist that prices were-never so low that a span of draft horses would not bring $000 if only they were good enough. Farm Brevities. A simple way of keeping trace of the age of a fowl is to put a ring made of wire on one of her legs for each year of her life. The output of the 175 canneries in Maine is $5,000,(MM) nnuually. In ordi nary years $350,000 Is paid to farmers for sweet corn alone. The disappearance of the "old-fash ioned apple” is a frequent lament. Tbs modern fruit is fair to look upon, but genuine flavor is too often absent. Raspberry and biacktierry plants are benefited by continuous cultivation during the time of fruiting, and to ac complish this they should be tied to wires. Sugar beet factories are now in suc cessful operation In Callforn'a. New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska. New York, Oregon, Minnesota. Illinois, Washing ton, Colorado and Michigan.