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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
TALSE LOVER DRIVES
SEATTLE oIRr INsAM1,

SEATTLE, Dec. 23.--Miss Dora
Gregory a young lady Of Los An
geles. Cal, has been taken to the
asylum at Steilacoom as the result Of
false pledges of q man who induced
her to come to Seattle, promising to
follow and. marry her. Sunday she
was found unconscious and in her
hand was a letter stating that her
lover had returned to Los Angeles
and married another girl.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
SHlPWRECKED.

BOSTON. Dec. 23.-The schooner
Manhasset has arrived with 10 men
who were picked up Sunday, As miles
off Highland light. The men were all
that survived from the crews of the
schooners Louise B. Crary and Frank
\. Palmer, which collidcd and sank
off Thatcher's island last Wednesday
evening.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
WHITE PASS ROAD SOLD.

The report Is again in circulation
that the Canadian Pacific has pur-
way. Recent transfer of officers from
Seattle to Vancouver and change OF
headquarters gives new color to the
latest rumor. The officers of the
White Pass line admit having heard
the rumors. but will give out nothing
definite. The White Pass 4 Yukon
road has been one OF tho best paying
ever built in the western country. II
is said to have been Il money maker
from the start.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

1t Is stated that on the first of
January the interests OF the Great
Northern ana Northern Pacific rail-
ways at Duluth, MINI. will be man
aged by single agent. Both roads
will use the Northern Pacific terminal
and the force of employees will be re-
duced onc-half.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

Much work Is planned for next
spring in Yellowstone National Park.
The government did not exhaust the
appropriation made a year ago and
this sum and other capital of private
individuals who are Interested In the
hotels Will be put into improvements.
Last year much money was spent in
hotel and road improvements and the
work will continue next season.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
NOT USE q. n. DEPOT.

There is no possibility that the
o. II. & N. will run their trains into
the Great Northern union depot" said
c. A. Mohler this morning. What
we intend to do is to rebuild. No
notification of the plans of the com
pany have been received as yet. but
in all probability the next depot will
be a great Improvement on the old
one.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
GOLD COIN FOUND IN
HOUSE OF MURDERED.

AI.MIRA. Wash. Dec. 23.-It Is
now believed that the murderers of
Judge Lewis and wife, whose dead
bodies were found Sunday morning,
secured a large sum of money. but
they overlooked 1895 in gold coin.
which was found yesterday. There
is much excitement and it is probable
the murderers will be lynched if cap
turcd
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
FLOUR MILL COMBINE
GETS TIME EXTENDED.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 23.--An ex-
tension Of from so to 90 days has
been granted to those at work on the
project of combining the interests Of
the principal Touring mills Of Ore
gon. The present options expire Jan
uary l, but it is now stated that the
above extensions have been secured
and that at the expiration Of the
time limit the combination will be
effected,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
FATAL PANIC.

CINCINNATI O., Dec. ga gas
explosion was followed by fire in an
a panic of the inmates onsued. Eight
were seriously burned, three of them
possibly fatally. The property loss is
small.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
POPE GREETED.

ROME. Dec. 23.-Thirty cardinals
presented their holiday greetings to
the pope this morning. Leo replied
with n firm voice and is apparently
in his usual health. He expressed
satisfaction with the loyalty of Cath
olics throughout the world.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

1t is stated that the Butte, Ana
conda & Pacific railroad runs 20
trains of cars per day. The line Ia
only 80 or 40 miles in length. These
trains are about equally divided be-
tween freight and passenger business.
In the freight business the usual
trains compose some 10 cars, carrying
in the neighborhood of $500 tons Of
ore
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

william f. and Rita Murray of Col
fax have brought suit for $40, 900
damages against the o. II. Il n. Co.
for alleged brutal conduct of Il purscr
on one OF the companys Snake river
steamers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

A meeting OF railroad mon inter
ested Is to be held In New York soon
for the purpose of closing the option
held by Senator Clark of Montana on
the 800 miles of the Oregon Short
Line extending from Salt Lake City
to California.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
|. \. MONFOlT
322 FERNWELL BLK.

Tel. Red 1856. Res. Tel. White 222.
$2o0-Fine corner and inside lot,
Union Park: abstract furnished.
5000 block of five lots, all
large lots. adjoining Corbin Park,
on water main. Will sell the whole
block or divide to suit you and give
very easy terms.
$1ooO-Good five-room house, cor
ner and inside lot on graded street,
at good terms.
| have some nice lots in Forest
Park addition In block joining Mon.
roe st. Fine location for a home.
Come and see them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

No, 3, Great Northern wcstbound,
was delayed east of Kalispell, Mont.
by the heavy SHOWS in the Rockies
and arrived three hours late.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

An advance of about 20 cents per
100 pounds from coast points to Spo-
kane in freight rates on canned corn
will so into effect January /. 1903.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

The building laborcrs are preparing
to give a grand ball in the near
future.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

Four-room house in Stafford's addi-
ton. nice lawn and trees. two acres
of ground. city water, good chicken
ranch; price, $1,000.
100 acres, 20 miles from city, good
land, some cultivated. house, barn
and orchard; price. $1,000, or trade for
lot and some cash.
Four lots in half-mile circle, sur
rounded by three streets, i'll splendid
location for business proposition;
bound to enhance i'll value; price.
$500; terms.
We have always got customers for
nice residence property, and are now
making a speciality of inside property.
List your property with us. If it is
good buy. we can sell it.
PHIL 7. BECHER 4 co.
Room l, EXCHANGE BANK BL DC.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
HeisER's DANCING ACADEMY.

Pupils receive private and class
instructions. Tel. Red 29il. Ar
mory, Madison st.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

The trades council. iron mouldcrs
and the plumbers will meet tonight at
Central Labor hall.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

Fred Phair makes a prediction that
given terminal freight rates Spo-
kane's population will be 100000 in
five years.
Business property in Decatur. Ill.
sells for $1,000 n front foot and the
population is $4,000, onc-third as
large as Spokane
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
TO unite LABOR.

One Of the most important subjects
that will be discussed when the State
Federation OF Labor meets at Seattle.
January s. will be elaborate plans
to unite all OF tho labor unions of the
Pacific coast under one central body.
The California State Federation
will meet in session at the same time.
while a delegation from Portland will
also be in attendance at Seattle.
though the Oregon state body does
not meet until May.
Present plans ar to bring the mat
ter before the Seattle meeting, send
ing kilograms to the Los Angeles
meeting for similar action, both fed
erations appointing delegates to tho
Oregon Federation, at which time tho
movement will crystalline in the or
ganization of a Pacific Coast Fedora
tion. BY this proposed organization,
which would embrace every craft
work, hours and wages could be regu-
lated n the three coast states, Cali
Qjnla.: Oregon and Washington.
The most striking feature of the
local labor movement for the past
year has been the conservative spirit
displayed by the men at it's head. who
are responsible In a marked degree
for the inauguration of new union
policies from time to time. Rarely
has there been any disposition shown
on the part of labor leaders to take
advantage OF employers whose views
on the subject of wages. hours of la
Dor. etc. are sometimes at variance
with the unions. Cancellation and
compromise between employer and
employe have been resortod to- with
good effect for all concerned.
At the present time nearly all the
unions are affiliated with the trades
council. and never in tho history OF
this splendid central body has 1t
welded so powerful an influence for
the good of Spokanes organized toll
ers rs during the past IL months.
Many knotty questions have been
submitted to the council for it's de-
cision and as many times has 1t been
fully equal to the occasion.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
HerkeIrath & Smile,
3lS Riverside Ave.
HOLZEL ACADEMY.
Select Day and Boarding School

Students Admitted at Any Time.
University trained faculty, Instruc-
tions thorough and personal. Char
acter building.
The academy prepares Thoroughly
for the best universities, scientific
and professional schools.
Special classical, scientific and bus
mess courses for those not intending
to enter college.
\ primary and grammar school adj
mits pupils at the age of 8, and pre-
pares them for the academy.
For information, address
{. c. HOLZEL
Red. 1896. 1901 Pacific Ave. Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
PULLMAN POULTRY.

PULLMAN, WASH, Dec. 23.-The
under the auspices of the Whitman
County Fanciers' association opened
today and will continue until next
Saturday. All the best birds of the
state are here gathered together.
They make a total Of over 1000 birds,
including every kind of fancy breed.
Especially notable are the displays
of chickens and turkeys. Judging
was commenced today under the di-
rection of F. w. Hitchcock of Denver.
London.--The death Of the Most
Rev. Frederick Temple, archbishop of
Canterbury and primate of England,
occurred at SIT this morning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23

Where there was one farm five
years ago there are now from five to
eight in the district surrounding Spo-
kane. If not in the entire state. And
now. when farm property of good
quality that can be purchased at any
thing near the reasonable figures of a
few years ago, are few and far be
tween, comes the rapid increase in
value of city real estate.
'"The city always follows the coun-
try. The ten or fifteen thousand farm
crs of few years ago have grown
to 10 times that population. Villages
and hamlets have sprung up in places
that hardly knew the plow 10 years
ago, and the demands on the city
are ton-fold.
Spokane drains the money of a
country at least 200 miles in radius
and the coming year promises to be
the greatest in our history for immi-
grafton. manufacture and mining.
"The farming country will be pack
ed, the mines. already past the point
of speculation. will be worked from a
business standpoint, and the water
power of our magnificent river will
be used to something near its ca
pacity.
Eyes. there will be boom-the
greatest Spokane has known. and it's
effects will be of a lasting kind, for
they will be founded on the people
and upon the peoples labor
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-23
SCULLY DRUG co.

Gas and electrical supplies, chan
deliers and shades. No. 3 North
Lincoln st, Phone Black 710.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

in l775 Lord Lovat raised a Fraser regi-
ment-the Seventy-first-which also fought
in America and was discharged in 1888.
.
1t is said that only once was Mr.. Marshall
Field known to lose his nerve. After the
great fire of 1871, relates the Saturday
Evening Post, a prominent Chicagoan en-
tered the room in which Mr.. Field and his
partners were taking stock of their misfor-
tunes. The latter were urging the FEAST
bility of continuing the business, but Mr.,
Field could not share their hopeful outlook,
whats the matter, MARSHALL" inquired
the kindly caller.
Il tell them it's no USE" responded the
young merchant. We've lost everything
and there's no such thing as going on with
the business. Why, we couldn't do it with
less than a million dollars!"
For a moment the caller was silent; then
he quietly remarked: well, Marshall,
you can have your milIion-and you'll come
out all right, too"
This man was the late Cyrus Mccormick,
and he kept his word, with the result that
Mr.. Field is today recognized as one Of the
foremost merchants of America.
British public opinion is strongly in favor
of keeping Lord Kitchener at home in
stead of sending hin to India. His lord
ship does not stand so well with the arls-
tocracy, to many members Of which he has
given offense by refusal to meet theil
wishes. For instance, there is one grea'
nobleman who desired that his favoritc
son be sent home from South Africa. s.
he telegraphed to Kitchener: "Please sem
my son home at once; urgent famil,
affairs Kitchener replied: your Sol
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

one had a new way for him to invest his
moneys. until the poor weaver he knew not
What to do. Every day he MA his money
in a new place. He could not eat nor
sleep, thinking some one would find 1t. lie
put it inside his shirt ami it burned him,
Every time he threw the shuttle his throat
parchCd for want of song. The money
and the song bursting to be out made him
SO sad he could no more eat nor drink nor
sleep. He was like a ghost, and the car
pets he wove lost their color. one day
he could stand it no more. lie took tn"
money and he went to the rich mans
house.
"I gives you your money said the
weaver to the rich man. I keep my
song"
"Hc, he, he" "huckled the frau, weighing
great balls Of rags sent in by an uptown
hospital. Money cannot buy a light
heart"
'But it send us customers, " said the
dean; 'rich customers, where once we had
only the very poor" Turning to the long
bin behind his seat at the loom, he tossed
up merrily the sorted colors Of the bob
bins waiting to be woven into a carpet TO
catch the footprints of children of wealth.
The mainstay of the surviving hand 10 ms
are the charitable institutions, To keep
inmates or cOnvalcsCcnt patients employed
cast off garments are given them to cut into
stripes and prepare for the weaver,
for rag carpet strips are always useful in
large institutions. Where formerly tcnc-
ment denizcns found it more profitable tC
buy machine-made carpets, since old Tal
brought prices Utmost equal to that asked
for the machine carpet, which suggestct
luxury, they find today it does not pay t.
save them for the rag man, so mightil!
has the price fallen, owing to the substitu
ton Of wood for rags in the manufacture o
paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

they withhold their work from the uuyer
until it realizes as near as possible their
ideal. Their own designer, executor, task
master, their salary is their profits. These
little shops nestle for the most part under
sky roofs, or are buried in cellar Easements.
SO rapidly have they increased in number,
and of such superior excellence is the work
they turn out, that in more than one large
city dcpots have been established for their
exhibition, with hope of commanding a
larger market than is possible in the Sc
cluded shop or studio.
In this refreshing revival looms a long
discarded art-the weaving of rag carpets.
AS the dean of CaIpet woavers swings his
gaily-flled shuttles these days he marvels
at the change in the clientele that finds its
way to his basement home, where his loom
Of nearly forty years service has long been
a curiosity to the passerby. In lieu Of an
occasional housewife or the matron of a
charitable institution comes now, to the
old mans perpleXity, my lady's maid with
balls of cut rags, or a monogramed per
fumed note asking him to call at No. 50
and So and collect material prepared for
the weaving of a carpet, rug or portiere.
It's the Americans-the rich Americans, "
chuckles he old weaver, who have set my
loom a singing in its old age"
When the dean came from Bavaria with
his good frau less than forty years ago he
found in New York more than 900 carpet
weavers, all doing a thriving business. u
owned four looms" sighed the old man with
a blink in his merry brown eye. "All the
big stores bought my carpets, and great
ladies living in fine houses in Bond street
and Lafayette place used to bring me their
fine gowns cut up INTO strips to weave into
carpets-not for the kitchen, l would have
you know, but for their own beautiful bed
rooms"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

With the coming of the machine made
carpets, among the first to desert the hand
weaver were the foreigners. Today the
dean knows of but three hand looms on the
East Side of New York and doubts if there
are a dozen weavers who make their bread
swinging the shuttle.
THE old weavers have nearly all died
off, and their children would not learn the
trade. 1t was too slow. They followed the
trend of the times and took to the machine
or sought work in other fields.
"Ach! It's. hard, hard work" said the
deans frau, threading the loom. "All is
so big and heavy and clumsy"
Come, come laughed the dean, you
would not give up threading this, old lady,
and sorting out the bobbins and weaving
romances around each pretty bit of silk or
velvet for the wealth of the Vanderbilts. ~
Wealth is all very coed" continued the
philosopher, light-hearted as a boy, despite
his seventy years, game eye and Avenue A
basement home, but it's not everything.
There was a weaver in my town in Bavaria
who made soap by day and spun carpet by
night. The Tilt of the shuttles always set
him a singing, and in song he forgot he was
poor or tired or lonely. There was a very
rich man lived near by who could not sleep
at night lOr the weaver Sung lie sChI
for him one day and asked why he sang all
night.
Because it makes me happy said the
weaver.
land it makes me unhappy said the
rich man, for it will not let me sleep. !
give you $500 if you do not sing at night
-Four hundred dollars, said the poor
weaver, who had scarcely owned as many
pennies at one time in his whole life. =
take your money and | sing no more
"When people heard the story they came
from all sides to see the weaver. Every
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

ON the other hand, reidy-madC garments
have been brought to such perfection in the
making and at so small a cost to the con
that once, where wealth found it
profitable to dispose of cast off garments
to second hand dealers, they now receive SO
little that, in lieu of poor relations or send
ing them to institutions. they are, in ON
pliance with fashions bchcst, cutting them
up into rag carpets.
Does life offer a more literal way Of
tramping its vanities under foot!
Much of the durability of a rag carpet de
Ponds upon the quality Of it's warp. Cotton
warp wears better and is much frmer than
wool or linen. The beauty of a rag carpet
lies largely in the quality of the material
used and the dizziness with which the
weaver throws the shuttle. Carpets con
fined to one material-cotton, wool or silk
are more effective and durable than those
Of varied stuffs. Silk Is the ~favorite fabric
for decorative rugs, always priced by the
lover of skilled handiCraft. One yard width
is the limit Of the carpet loom, which is not
designed to weave large portieTes. They
call for a separate apparatus. While the
old-faShioned hand loom does not admit Of
the weaving in of designs after the manner
of tapestry, the trained weaver-he of color
perception and artistic-can achieve won
ders in the blending of the bobbins. Two
pounds of rags are allowed to one yard OF
carpet. Thirty cents a yard is the price Of
weaving one yard.
From the time the rags, cut and sewed
into strips, generally of an inch width and
wound into great balls, are brought to the
weaver, until he finally rolls it into carpet
for delivery to the customer, it has six sep
arate landings. Consider this labor, and
that one yard an hour is the largest output
at 80 cents a yard, and well may it be said
that, for the hand loom weaver, Time was
made for slaves and Wealth is a himera.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

laid away under the shadows OF an ancient
elm, where once his fOTefatheTs sat in
solemn council-were carried out. Mr.. Ten
brock says that Kiankia informed him
some time before his death that he was 95
years old. 1T was generally supposed"
sad Mr.. Tenbroeck, in discussing the death
OF the last of the Delawares, chat old In
dian Anne, who died in Mount Holly in 1894,
was the last of the famous tribe, but ii was
not known then that her brother, Kiankia,
was still alive"
George S. Boutwell, tells in his recently
published book of "reminiscences that he
was present at an interview between Gen
eral Joe Hooker and Charles Sumner, to
whom Hooker applied to assist him in oh
tanning a Massachusetts regiment on the
plea that he was a native of that state. "In
the course of the conversation Hooker said
that if he could obtain a regiment he would
come to the command of the army and take
Richmond" This was in May, 1861; Hooker
had then recently arrived from California
and his appearance indicated poverty. His
dress was worn and his apparel was that of
a decayod man of the world"
At the time of King Edwards recent
operation the nurse who had been present
to assist left the room on his recovering
consciousness. but not before the king hat
caught sight Of her face. Directly after
r he asked one of his physicians who she
I was, for he had seen her somewhere, anC
( quite lately. The doctor admitted tina
e this was so, for but a short while befor
t his majesty had presented this same nurs
/ a medal for her work in South Africa
;" Tha gift has been rendered doubl
Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28

- HE first minister to the United
States from the republic of Cuba.
~ GOnzalo de Quesada, is of an old
II9GW revolutionary family of the island,
whose name has been prominent
in every effort made for the liberation of
Cuba from Spain, by rebellion or hlibuster
expeditions alike. Mr.. Quesada came to the
United States as agent of the Cuban repub
lie in 1897, but was of course unrecogniZed,
as his accrediting government had no ex-
istence. He is still in the 30s and earned
many friends in his previous ~sojourn in
Washington.
In some parts of Germany the inns in
small towns are accustomed to substitute
chicory for coffee-a practice not altogether
unknown to American landlords, 1t is bey
lieved. Bismarck arrived at such a place
one day and asked the landlord il he had
any chicory. The host answered afirma-
lively and the chancellor said: Bring 1t all
to me-" The landlord did so and Bismarck
said: as this all the chicory you have in
the house?" ut is, meinherr," was the re-
ply. "Then," said the man of blood and
iron, bring me a cup Of coffee"
Lord Lovat, whose scouts were so sue
cessful during the war in South Africa, is
to receive a Highland welcome on his re-
turn to Scotland from the Clan Fraser, OF
which he is chief. This is not the first
time that the head of the Fraser clan
has raised men for the British army. A
regiment called the Seventy-eighth Fraser
Highlanders was raised in 1857 by Simon
Lord Lovat as a mark of his gratitude a.
getting back to his native land after exile
This regiment served in America. Agar