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Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 3

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Vednesclty, Kay 2, 1906 THB WORLD LY CLEARING Rghi ami lifefe RSctaey in Grand View We offer only the best, it's our specialty. 52 CimiGE LOTS on the tram, 33x122; lovely homesites and a grand chance to put in a little money and get rich this Fall. Prices $250 each. Terms $50 cash and $5 per month. UP THE WRECKAGE Oor New Goods Are Arriving if! if; Conditions of Life Are a Bow, Fra iffloTawish Normal in San Francisco Will Take All Foreign Aid From New York HEAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, NOTARY P'JBLIO Gradually Becoming at work.

No damage was done to the three new warships being built at these works for the government the cruiser California and Milwaukee and the battleship South Itnkrxn. The first definite proposition fur furnishing motley on a large scale to Sun Francisco, to rebuild some of the burned sections, was made public ye terday. when it was announced 1 1 1 a syndicate of New York capitnliis hail agreed to advHuce The news came in a telegram revived bv Mr. W. F.

Herrin, chief counsel of the Southern Pacific, from I States Senator Newlunds of Nevada, who had a large interest ill the burned Palace hotel. Senator New lands stated that he hail submitted the plan lo New York financiers, and that iln bad virtually consented to supply the money on a bond and mortgage b.ifis. The offer is under consideration. It was decided yesterday that the citizens' committee would accept all offers of aid from foreign countries. The local money stringency was somewhat relieved yesterday by the banks resuming business in a small measure through the branch 1'nited States mint.

Well known deposit, were given certified cheques for small sums by the bunks, and business clients of commercial banks were accommodated if they so desired, with sums not exceeding $o(V each. We have the Latest and Newest in Fancy Flannel fiats. Just suitable for the Summer, and something every man wants. We are still Selling our Clothing Off At Cost and are offering Large Bargains. Come and give us a call.

San Kranpispo, May 2. Conditions of lifp are gradually becoming more uormal in this city and the work of Hearing up the wreck in preparation for rebuilding in the down town section i.s (toing on more rapidly. Business is he inc resumed retail traders of every (kwriptiou throughout the destroyed section of the city. Tin eomniission firms located nlotii the wnterfront are doing a thriving business. Mayor Si'hmitT.

lias announced that all time restrictions as to the lighting of dwellings will bp removed tdy with the suggestion that candles be used until electric lights can be resumed. Petroleum for liutitini? purposes is, however, prohibited until thp wa(pr supply is fully restored. The t'nitpd Railroads has nlrpndy operated M'Ven lines of street ears and today will cover nearly all sections of the unhurned district. The work of inspecting chimneys is proceeding rapidlv. The inspectors are all architects or builders, and are giving their service free.

Kvcry chimney in the city will be thoroughly inspecled before any permits are issued to make fires Indoors. Many of the largest factories left unharmed are starting up work with all the rapidity possible under the circum siances. At the I'nion Iron Works o'Hl men are nnw employed and the management expects within a fortnight to have the full compliment of 411, 'fK Successors to Stanley White Co. 406 and 408 WES MINSTER AVENUE ANSHE PHONE 1815 'Fhono A 2163 Opera House, May 17th ALSO MI.I.K. EVA fJOrTIUKIl, contralto.

AMIKItT AIJt'lIUKAi'UX, baritone. APKI.A VEISXK, pianist. JIAIiY.V WOOn, violinist. Pit A Mi WAI.KKS. accompanist.

rrii f' si.r.n. jj.iki. Vancouver Roller Skating Rink Pender Street, Near Abbott Will re.npon FrNay. MVy with nrw maple floor and full supply of li.ill U'iirliis: Ie. equipped rink on I'arif ic Cmst.

Adii'il Hi, In ln1 1 iii; skatrs AdniNs'nn to balcony lOr litldtvn adnittletl afternoon Vv Iristriiftt.in! to ladles free. I'KOTKCTS rUKSS. Toronto, Mav L'. Jlr, McKay liin amend the not retspcoting nations fr 1 1 and slander, passed the lcpnl committee of tho legislature Tuesday ivns sent on to tin1 house. See tion of the old not is repealed, tinil clause substituted whereby accounts nicotines of duly nrnuifeil 1 1 1 i i bodies shall lie 7u unlesc it he proved that, such reports are malicious.

protects newspapers acainst actions libel for publication of uoveru nipnt bulletins or reports. Tlip act widened so as to takp ill niontlily pill. lira I ions, and tho tpnn "public nipptinci shall bp intprpn'tpd undi'r Ontario instead of tin Kuclish net. "TO IN I) IHAO." Hamilton, May 2. Tho impiri on dpiitli of an unknown woman, found in tho bush on Hip mountain on October 10.

closed last Crown Attorney S. K. Wnshincton st iteil that there was noihint; iipw to brinp bpfop' jury, and that all it had to do was brint: in a verdirt on sin rvidpnpp it had hpforp if. vhb was donp. It is impossible to make a soap any better, purer, or more pleasant to use than MILL IONS ill RIC Moosojnw.

mail sack whs stolen off the local on Monday evening, as the train was pulling out for Cidary. A man was seen to jump from the mail car with the mail ba at the west end of (he yards. It is not known if he any valuable letters or not. Merlin. Out.

ill. a patent Olterville, w.i: May 2. ii.V. icine William Hurt traveler, from Tuesday nik'ht is killed on clock, bv a about liuhl engine on ihc Ahearu street Trunk. iTossinj; of the (irnnd Romantic Story Comes From Winnipeg Concerning Claimants to Fortune of Man Murdered by Patrick.

N. aid iiley. Ill years ille, blew out bis br uittht. beimt unable, he i May 2. How old, of Marys aiu on Monday aid.

to live wilh out his sweet liea rt Marearet Canieroii. to whom he was betrothed, and who died on Saturday. Hamilton. May At noon ester.lay Mr. William llendrie was sliirntly weaker than Monday niitht and partly unconscious '2 hinnl.

AImo inli) lKks nil G. r''prnriitf'(l hy TI. pmom: izt: Special A Column Books i 4 4. I 3. ix 307 CORDOVA 1117 Park Drlvo, Grand View SINGLE STOWE DIAMOND RINGS to It fashionable fop nipn as well women to wear rintf.

All kinds of rlnps are fjislrinriHliIe, littl a diamond rlnjr Is iilerst. Ilurru't you often envied a man won ring a nir dlnnvn'l rins? Why not get one? nra not as expensive as you would think. It depends where you buy them as to how juueh you pay for them. If yon buy them here you dn't B2I pay for men rents aim lots of nth heavy expenses. We guarantee our diamonds are full cut Ptoues iiinl ff.ii frntu fliini' rat cen nine value.

i 'onie and I' let sdimv yon a few. thk jnwin.nrt, 440 nrsitfviiile St. THE DICKENS SIGN WORKS CO. 408 Cordova St. Tlionc A 1 008 5 I I ELECTRIC BOARD METAL BULLETIN GLASS COTTON SHOW CARD our fiances on window lettering In Gud vv Colors.

In up to date styles. Get The Vancouver Portland Cement Ltd. Manufacturers of "Tanccaver" Brand of Portlaol CEMENT Guaranteed to eiss the specification of the I'auadiau and American lety of Civil Kmlnccrs: used entirely I iy the corporations of Vancouver. Victoria and Nel ioo. the West Koctennv Power Light Company.

Clow's Nest I'ass Cna! Western fuel I. Nanaiiuo. Ilrltannla Pinching Crolton, Armstrong A Morrison. Itrltlsh Colainiiia to'iioral Contract and hy ail the l.ir:e contracting firms nnd consumers In Itrltlsh Columbia. For fall particulars and price apply to Evans, Coleman Evans AUKXTS FOIt Vancouver.

B. me LifhograDhic 13 OUU Bi'ltCJ ALTT. Bale Presses, Stock Certificates, Brass Signs. VIiHIdk earns and Invitations enfrartal U4 frlutcd from rlote. J.

B. GRANT LITHOGRAPHER fl5 to 323 Cambie Street PlitNE 524. UocouvertI.C NOTICE I HKItKItY CIVK Xdl'K that I Intend ti apply the a "it met tins of the License Commissioners for an hotel license for the fircmiiies situated on the southwest corner of Homer and Cordova street heliifr the iiortherlv 70 feet of Lots and 10. Itlock 12, Subdivision district lot Ml. ftroup 1.

iew Westuilustcr Mstrict. JACKSOV I. ABRAX i IV. to I i nnd II of It for is tlip I I i tlip I i tlip to as "The And BABY'S OWN VljS "ld the I WANTED 9 Good, big boys, 13 to 15 years old, to make good money by delivering The World in all parts of the city. Apply at World office.

UP MBOILBING Strike in Chicago Which Affects Several Thousand Workmen. Chioaxo, May Just as the wreckers slatted liic demolition of the old structure yesterday to make room fur of new buihlincs in the Loop district, a strike was culled which promises to lie up the building industry of Chicago. thousand structural iron workcis win drop work Monday and their idleness will precipitate the lirsi labor disturbance iir the building trade sin. the lockoul. The strike promises to strip nearly all construction work of a hnec character.

It was de cide.l on a vote last niphl. Arbitration made at the hist moment laded to avert it. The iron workers insist on a wa'e of a day for hours' work. The coniractois of ft I'M for four montl.s and if I Mi fur the rest of the etir was rejected. The strike will throw of employment several thousand other building workmen, sue, as carpenter I.i ieklayers.

kod cai nets and slollc cutters. OF BHiTiSI ARMY Curious Analogy As To a Descent By Canadians on U. S. London. May J.

A despatch from Merlin quotes an article by P'of. Mans Delhurch in the Journal there, which ays that Kt.dand i.s a iionpT military power than Ibe I'nileil Stales, for lluIand can di. palrh nien from Canada before ue uited Slates lone even assembled their lield army. To th's the Post that Kn.dan.l's land force is con lderably over estitna I id. I'ln'lind mit dit easily, and she oidd probably, lire wo'e than she did years ao.

and with the loss of Canada she would be driven nut nf the American continent. "The uited Stales need be as little concerned about lino.om n.eu from Canada s.rre as wo are ahoul llin nill.h discus ed II. Kit) which it is a iirse 1 Kn jbt'i'l could land in hlesn ilolst.in." HKSIMTK KOI! Mi'flUAW. IJuel.i Mnv An appeal i I COLLARS Th linen ud in Toot Iron Frame Bran it made specially for these Collar. There is no malte of linen in any other 20c Collar equal to it.

Proved by actual laundry tests TfcOKE BROTHERS, Montreal. Limited, born i'l tiif rut and tin to Imvc I in Tniif ic'JsK fc Ii 4 STO li a. inn. i illi'l riiluiuu cohiiiui wliirh ft mil' ffooils. SS jilmi.vs nu tin he put qiii.Ilt ii ii SA ISI AC pt'ii cs I H' A.

PMDM, The Practical Bockbinder VMI JIK'JS iRDS SI MrMl H'rM Shown 1 flic P'i skirt with i.trtj l.ious" rows of til' Ve.l itft I'll. iii'l i viitli Blll'h. stsoo .1 polka 'f. suits )i7 SO plan. whi dai's; Westpoit.

Out. After a few years Anne. Sparks moved lo Texas. ml 'uheu SparliK to Arkansas, leaving their mother on the farm where their fallicr had died 1 in hut later she joined her son licubcn. and it is believed that she has since died.

Four years a to Marsh ill Uice. whose name was identical with the one already mentioned, was murdered in New York city by his underwriters. Jonis ainl Albert T. Patrick, of whom the latter is now in Sing Sine, nw lilint fie death penalty, the former having been allowed to go free upon turniin; state's evidence. Mar idiall Uice is said to have been ck'ht times a millionaire when assassinated.

In he made his will, copy of which is now in the possession of A. I.ee, Hijrh liluff, Manitoba, nnd in I it the name of his missinir siister l.mi etta appears. The fact that one of Iliee's sisters hail come to Canada many years and the fact of his ftiends be i inu unknown, led to the connection the names of Anms Sparks, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. John A.

of I Mich liluff, with the story, but the carelessness of t' eople of nearly a century a so has Made ii very difficult for the lawyers who are investitraliim to establish the claim of the Manito bans to a portion o' Millionaire wealth. than two hours nflcr the lion had bi'i'ii received I ver. that the suspect had Canity. The trail, which first infornia Sheriff Cul been ii" I) had been cold past four ble rapidity, and investicate.l the anil dormant for the developed with remark: the more the officers hotter it became, until the great climax was reached and bathe. 1 in blood eealed behind a fallen his less than 'Si feet in a straight line from the railroad track, Smith was brouuht to hay, and there crouched until his pursuers eanie upon him.

The officer tumbled upon hiin and were within three feet of him when he was espied. The dugs had followed a lot scent, and ut terinc loud criis, stopp.d at the nn am! sniffed the air. IcWim: their heads aloft. Draper had the beasts in leash and was ursine them in, Suddenly Draper clum ed down and there, concealed partly by a c. 'va ti.e murderer and fugitive.

Su itli saw that he was cornered and made no outcry. lie was industriously pul'ii'i: razors. es and jewelry from hi oat and hiding them under the when Draper saw him. "Are you Smith." demanded Draper. "Yes." was the bii'f ans.wer.

As Smith made th teply. he pulled a revolver fr in insi of hi.s cat and twinklii of an eye I ti apcr whipped out revolver, and sent a bullet through Smith's temple. his ow crushing 1 tl NT I i KilK. Nrw York. 1 It "tiin; today so mIImI tt'Is 111 fltV Wf'it Ollt of iiH' loons iiliout tai ii il le rooii.

Tlii? as tin r': i tU I'trtili' lau. hit a ax tuls tl.t Knnj(s jaw. wl.ini many vov ed hut' TKN VKAUS KOU ItUKJI.AIE. Spokan. May iorgp Vi' p.pjiih'd guilty ypstHnliiy tt roliijcry tin Uuk it ItfH'kfoifl.

W'dislii iik' on. V.HCt. He was sei.tPtv.; tf ii years in prison. STKIU.INc; Toronto. May 2.

The" the latest orffanize.l evilh tittn in t'aunda, openei'iP snI on 1 uesil.iy. It has an'' the urovince. Haiik, ''I Winnipeg May 2. I Special! of High liluff, has ers to prove her rights to a Amos Sparks, engaged la ei portion of Mai' was murdered hall Kice's millions Ui''p in New York by Albert T. Patrick, who is now under sentence of death for the crime.

The stnrv told by Mrs. Sptirhs is, in part, as follows: In font' yoiiin; people, dames and Martha tiibson. came from County Down. Ireland, and settled in I.eedn County. Ontario, where they all married.

whose death occurred recently, was married to Ira Sparks, to whom six children were born, namely, Mrs. Stafford, of Tiohhoruc, Iiavid. a livery man, of ltebiiie t'ity, Itichard. of Prince Albert. Saskatchewan: and Mrs.

J. A. I. pp. Mrs.

Joseph Thompson and Amos Sparks, of Bluff, Man, Amos Sparks married I.u'ietta Kice, an American born woman, who came to ('ana In from near the honh'r of Connecticut, leu all her iemls behind her. She hud a brother Marshall, unmarried, who bad been in business in Texas. Amos owned nearly all Bvtown. upon the city of Ottawa now stands. the name is still preserved in that of Sparks street.

I.ucietta had three sons. Amos. Iteuben and Ira Sparks, all of whim moved up near ESPERADO KILLED IN OH WGOOS Frank Smith Murderer of Three Officers, Mercilessly Shot Down. Orejon City, May 2. (Special! Iiesperado I 'rauk Smith, murderer of three officers of the law, was killed yesterday forenoi.u in the woods south of New Km.

Clackamas county, by a bullet in his head from the revolver of Harry Orapor of Spokane. The outlaw was trapped at nine o'clock and at 11:111 he was writhing in the underbrush, wounded death. Prior to his destruction. Smith had I made a sensational escape into the tim I ber and had been surrounded and penned in by at least 1(1!) officers and i volunteers. Iiynamite had been used 'o dish.du'e him.

and the woods hail been fusilnded with bullets, nil of which he escaped unharmed. Smith was tracked to his lair through the sagacious intel ligence of Oraper's bloodhounds. 1., tl. 7 "le coiini not laiM' occii more spectacular i nor more dramatic. His end came less Samaria Stopped liis Drinking A London Lady cures her husband permanently of the drink habit and without his knowledge "IIotv glid I am that lover came lay hesitation alxmt wrioitg you lor a Frte Sample of Samaria.

I'kM At that time husband was drink ih very hard, anrf Mi I was in despair. The effect of our treat ment was iimnrdiatp and uowoiir hcm ii i(. felv free from the nrinir Curse. I mv the tabletn in hix tea. mod he never knew.

As taue tt liquor left him hi pnerai health improved itnd is now unlendid maiiT, runny thanks. I will be glatl ii you will tell others of my xiehcnr. Tree Package particulars, testimonials and price sent in plain sealed envelope. Cor rrpon. cnee sicr idly confidential.

Adre: Tlllt SAMARIA RKMKDY 7 Jurdaa Joru.a Toroolo, Lanatia. Mrfct Wit I i iSfj Ideal for toilet, nursery Y. and bath. ALBERT SOAPS, LIMITED Montreal. io6 First It Was Ordained" (Who wnto "When It Thome Was "SUas Si (Who wrota 1 Ftachclle Khen fianililer" Katlierlne Thurston (Who wrote "The half a dozen more just In.

mm caple co. (Opposite Hudson's Hay Stores). GRANVILLE STRtEI Try Engineering; Classes OK THE Sprott Shaw BUSINESS INSTITUTE XoS Hastings Street. Conducted by J. POItTEU, B.

E. 1. SI'ltOTT, B. Principal. I'hone 1S10.

Montreal, i o6 od Hw Books at Caple's i jj Dainty styles in scores of pretty eilecta. for the first time Thursday. NKW CKKAM I.IMIN linen, torrholi lare tinil buck JiU'l front Ium rtlou WASH SI t'TS Of II ba. fc i.aihi: C.l UlehS. hlue aiel s' ('oT'iftN' vuii.

w.li'l wit 1 1 tiiehs ski'. Sj.eelal value at loir lii finhe. and only I V. Willi IIS: wash skikis: come inwi.it lite l.n.'li: many l.eautiful styles ae.l pie. Ill I ill k.

I'r! linen ere v. l(l Ii nud V. SO WANTEB Exuerieiiced waist and skirt hands, also improvers. 'V ii.

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