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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25
Brief Bits Of News.

telegraph operators OF the Great
Northern will 10 into effect March /.
The minimum scale Is advanced IS n
month. Operators In Spokane will
now receive $50.
A decision has been rendered by
the land office In favor of the Re
public Mining & Improvement com
pany In the suit entered against II
by William c. Brown and others. II
was alleged the property was more
valuable for agricultural purposes
than mining. The protestants Of
fered no proof for their contention,
while the mining company showed
where the necessary $500 had been
expended
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25
PERSIAN Will WE'D
AN ENGLISH GIRL
Albert N. Hadi and His Bride Will Go to Live in
Shah's Country in the Near Future.

SEATTLE, Feb. 25.-Albert M.
Hadi, the son of a wealthy Persian
merchant, lieutenant in the imperial
army. and a descendant of the an
cient fire worshippers. yesterday an
nounced his coming marriage to Miss
Mary Temple. who crossed the ocean
two months ago from York, England,
to meet him.
Hadi is one of n number Of young
men who were encouraged by the
Persian government in 1896 to visit
the western countries as student. He
travelled over the Asiatic continent,
and while in India made the acquaint-
aztec of Miss Temples parents.
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A correspondence was opened be-
tween the young Persian and the
girl, who was at that time in Eng
land, and the engagement of the cou-
pie was a result. They intend going
to Persia within a year. and taking
up their residence in that country.
my family's home is in Yezd
Persia" said Hadi. and my father
is a raiser and exporter of silk in
that place. 1 received my education
for the most part in the Imperial
Military academy In Teheran. con-
tanning about 500 cadets. While in
the army l saw some service in quell-
ing riots in the city, and some two
years after 1 started on my travels"
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MUST BEAR
the UNION LABEL,

Tickets for balls and socials that
do not show the union label Will
hereafter be difficult to sell in Spo-
kane. From some source other thah
the typographical union the agitation
has been started, The following no.
tice has been sent throughout the
city:
REFUSE to buy tickets for balls
and socials that do not have the
union label"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25
TERRIFIC WIND
STORM IN LONDON.

LONDON. Feb. 25.-A terrific wind
last night caused much damage. trees
being uprooted. houses unroofed and
walls blown down. A telegram to
Lloyd's reports the loss of the steam
err Monandnoc. The crew was saved.
will be large.
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SANTA FE freight
HOUSE DESTROYED.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. Feb. 25.-The
immense Santa Fe freight house with
its contents and 90 cars of freight
were burned this morning.
An oil stove started blaze which
was beyond control when the firemen
reached the scene. The loss will
reach $250.000.
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IS SUSPECTED Thief.

Detective Burns arrested Chester
Shields as a suspect today. His de-
scription fits that OF man who is
said to have sold stolen saddle to
second hand dealers.
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AS. CrOWder0C Co.
1926 Jameson Block,
SPOKANE, WASH.

100 acres. No. /. soil. Is miles from
Spokane. some timber, some improve
ments. level and all black soil. must
be sold in so days; price. e22oo.
263 acres fine land, adjoins a town
of 1000, well improved. houses, barns,
orchards; price. $40 per acre.
Three sections In Big Bend. % per
acre.
Four quarter sections timber land.
$500 to $4,000.
20 acres, well improved, three miles
from North Yakima, running water.
all kinds of small fruits; price, $4,000.
Good lot, 70x132, near Monroe, S525.
120 acres in southern Oregon. to
trade for city property; snap for
some one.
IL lots on Sprague avenue. $500.
We want you to list property with
us. We charge S per cent commits
sion.
HERKELEATH b S1IILLIE,
31S Riverside. Phone Brown 246.
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The drouth In Australia has forced
the Australians to look to the Pa
cihc coast for their Hour and 1t means
thousands of dollars to the farmers
OF the Inland Empire. Bluestem in
Spokane Is now worth II cents. as
against 4s cents at the beginning Of
the last harvest season.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25
YOU'LL HAVE TO HURRY.

This IL the last week of the re-
moval sale OF sewing machines at the
New Home office. corner of First and
Mill. We have some bargains left.
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Crowder's Bulletin.

Three six-room houses In crowderfs
addition. just being completed. II
you want a home on easy terms, call
and see us about these.
If you want a cheap lot on which
to build home, let us show you one
in Corbin Park for 600.
A modern eight-room mousse on
North Howard street. close in. 1220os
If you want desirable lot for .
home on the hill, see us,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25

Well built eight-room house, full
basement, three lots. on corner. close
to car line. fruit trees and shrubbery.
three greenhouses; this property will
net owner $35 per month; price.
$4,000.
Four-room house on Gardner ave-.
exceptionally nice lot with lawn and
trees. also good barn; price. $1,000;
terms.
Four blocks in Minnehaha Park adj
dition. This lies high and dry with
splendid view of city and river: car
line runs through property and some
body Is going to get this snap.
PHIL. T. BECHER q CO.
Room I, EXCHANGE BANK BLDG.
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J. MONROE HEATON.
Real Es.Ate and Loans.
1892 Jameson Bldg. -

@2soo-7-room house. hall. bath. cleo
trio light, one block from car
line, nice shade trees, place is
on College avenue; $500 cash.
balance at 6 per cent.
$18o0-6-room cottage, one block to
car line. porch, cellar garnet.
cesspool. property is on NAL
Ion avenue; good buy.
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FOR SALE,

Special bargain II taken at once.
Ny residence property at 1908 Fifth
Phone Red 444l.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-25
sofa Riverside Ave.

Two choice residence lots situated
in Sanders addition to the city of
Spokane. very close In. Terms very
reasonable. Also property situated in
the business section of the city. as
well as business chances.
For full particulars call on or ad-
dress
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W. D. Martin 4 co.
Room 9 Falls City Block.
Phone Red 1851.

MICH COWS.
A carload of new mich cows for sale
by d. Il Rice or +. w. Hobbs, room /
basement Rookery.
The best and cheapest and 10
acre tracts ever offered. only miles
from center of city.
y. =. ROE, r. W. KoDBS.
GOOD INVESTMENT.
An excellent 100 acres of good,
black. rich. productive land. 100 acres
in cultivation. house. barn. two
springs. running water. some timber.
all fenced; price. $4,000.
=. W. Woolvsrton, owner,
ia Warrington 1t.
List your property with us. We
have u number of persons in the east
inquiring for farm aud city property.
n. w. cox,
Els Mohawk Blk. Phone East ASH.
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.. 49,. ,,,,, vour bua-
Ivy uon Deiomk 70 you "''' '0
oa .mru pays IN iuiI TOT theIn. A.
me woman taln enc h." ME-. s he declo ed
nau not been paiu lot ou. Ino IT,, az" ,ba
Una, !, was her ln,eh'rpI' " ~ ,o ~, i,no
Paynehts regularly, J. .''o Iior rnosnn
she wanted loan on .ne'n h uan,ed ~
lot buyihg them was tha' sne o n" raise
put unerl IN pawn 10 .i'ai o" s,,rpft,,re in
en9ugh money 10 Pay 'he
staIiulent man. Am. sbo Ind
me pawnbrQker toiu ne, J"a ie, the fur.
OH..er return the ehrtiise a,,' 'o' VIZ
n''uro , i.,un wal. ,U' m'S oat1d for a loan
announcer woman VINO hsno ,h.t sba had
on Dlack sklr, huil,. ',ati ,,, ,lan and
purchased II on the lns'allllieII. Pa" IT, ~,
had not mace an the ,Pasnn nr3ar she
broker told her 70 bring !. paen n, ai IL She
turned i to another an Woman nearby and said
her child was dying at home aiir IT, .lae S hnr
had no money for a DOCTOR, Inc o.me i,
woman obtained loan Oh o. on 80, e ~
gold watch and handed pxe . o. c T.; noe oi
~ 70 me woman whose c''i'' was 40
OF doctor, ,.,,h T.,
-, Another class OF customers m h T Mni III
this shop were the women OF tne tenoe
loin district. Ihey walked po'oE III
through. the main entrance ana taihe"
cheerfully with the paw W.T. huntor s;r,nv
paid over the money they asked LOT anu
wrote out the pawnticket' Now and then
he asked whether the patron had -touchea
a, guy for the article which was peing
pledged. Again he asked the VISITOR II
she knew OF some one VINO was reaay 10
buy two or three-carat diamond pm wh,ch
he said could he bought cheaply one
girl who was there told he broker that she
had to pledge her jewels to raise money TO
pay lawyer who was TO defend 1riena
arrested on a larceny charge. Another
declared that she was compelled to pledge
her jewels to get money for food. -,
While the broker was Ia liking with this
young woman one OF his clerks was dicker,
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increased through all the years. owing to
the Insignificant pay Of scarcely two pennies
a day and the excessive rate of interest
Ram Sal saw starvation staring him.
self and his family in the face. and so,
when a European. coming to the village.
told of a place across the BLACK water"
where a Hindoo could earn as much as
rs cents a day and after binding himself
to work for eight years on a plantation,
would be freed of both his contract and
his debt, Ram Sal straightway prepared
to follow the coolie contractor whittier he
led and the bunnia commanded.
The ship that Ram Sal and his family
were huddled on bore them in course Of
time to Trinidad, and there, by the terms
Of the contract, Ram Sal obtained quar-
tiers in a long, low coolie barrack, from
which he went out in the mornings to toll
until shutdown in the coffee and sugar
fields, the banana, orange and spice groves.
Thus he worked for six years, the planter
in the meantime feeding him on rice and
clothing him. and the agent. Of the bunnia
seeing to it that until every cent OF Rams
Indebtedness was paid not a cent OF his
hire reached his pocket. but that all was
turned over instead to the agent by Rams
employer.
At the end Of the sixth year Ram Sal
felt the jingle Of coin in his hands for the
first time. for the debt OF a few rupees
that his grandfather had contracted wnen
he took Rams grandmother TO wife was
wiped out. The ring Of the coins stirred
up a strange desire In the coolies heart
it awakened his ambition, and he vowed
then and there that he would he rich some
day and afplanter himself.
To that end, during the remaining two
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years of his indenture Ram Sal saved every
penny that he earned, and his children, by
their labor in the fields, helped to increase
the amount. At the end Of that time 1t
was something less than $500, but it was
more money than Ram Sal had ever owned
before. and, what was more important. 1t
was sufficient for the execution of his present
purpose, the establishment Of himself as a
silversmith in the Hndoo quarter OF Port
of-Spain.
Ram Sal had worked at the trade in India
and was skilled in it's ways, 80 before long
business was plentiful with him and he was
fashioning bracelets and anklets and neck
laces and toques of silver, and sometimes
whose custom Il is to use their women as
walking banks for their surplus. In short.
Ram prospered exceedingly, 30 much 80
that at the end of five years he was, able to
go into the interior and buy rundown
plantation adjoining the one on which he
had been bound for eight years.
In the interim Ram had not forgotten
how fields were made to yield their increase.
As planter he 80 directed the labors OF
the hundred or more coolies indenturad to
him that his plantation soon became noted
as one of the most productive in the valley.
Ram Sal was now fairly started on his
road TO fortune. and each succeeding step
that he took brought him nearer it. Year
by year he added to his posse ssions, some
times plantation, often real estate In Port
of-Spain. where he set himself up in q
mansion.
Thus Ram Sal prospered until two years
ago, when old In years. he died: and when
his heirs came to reckon up the estate.
they found 1t to be worth nearly a million
dollars.
1t is true that Ram Sails efforts ut money
getting were exceptional, but 1t is also
true that among the coolies in Trinidad
and Jamaica are many thrifty small plan
ters and shopkeepers whose individual
possessions are valued all the way from
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the merchants who would caeh the credit
checks
why said tho woman, my husband
never questions any bills which ontract'
He simply pays them at the end OF eaoh
month and never inquiries what they were
for III Y few articles at these stores
where I have credit. and this will throw my
husband of or course, | could use my
own bank account, but that would necessi-
tate too much explaining. and as my NUS
band would be shocked TO hear that l
played the races don't intend to tell him
While sun man was in this shop another
well-dressed woman came in and asked Tor
a loan Of 5000 on diamond-studded purse
She told the pawnbroker that she was
member Of charitable organization ana
needed the money to pay what she had
agreed to pay toward Its relief fund. inc
society was to meet that night, she said, and
her husband had refused to advance the
money she needed.
snow" she said, -I'll tell him that have
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relaxed did he dare crawl far from his hid
ing place. Even then he was in great
danger, and, realizing that he could not
hope to remain in his fathers realm, he
decided to get as far away ms possible.
This he did by Disgusting and presenting
himself to the nearest cooie contractor,
and a few weeks later he was on his way
to Jamaica.
He had worked as a common field laborer
Tor five years before his story accidentally
OF coolies another coolie il usually placed
as overseer.
One day the Rajah's son and his overseer
disagreed over piece of work. and the
latter was on the point of using a whip on
the former when the plantations superin-
tendent. young Scotchman, in,erfercd.
The gratitude OF the laborer was un-
bounded. For once he lost his Oriental
stoicism and tears came into his eyes. as
he said:
d,. Master you have saved me from great
The superintendent curiosity was
aroused, and although the Hindoo en-
deavored to stink away, he was pressed so
hard that he finally explained his remark
You have saved me from great dis
grace" he said. Il, Rajah's son, TO be
struck by Hindoo of low CASTE"
Then the whole story, which the Scots
man verified later on, came out. The hero
OF 1t is still employed on ali interior planta-
ton in Jamaica.
Another story OF the love Of man for
woman is typical OF the countless romances
that the coolies have brought with them
TO their new world homes.
!boran was the daughter of Chundar
Lal. an inhabitant of a plateau village of
India. In the same town Ram Singh lived,
and Ram was engaged to marry Iboran
when he could secure rupees enough to
make the wedding festivities. To that
end he went to work for an Englishman in
Q distant town.
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IS, 900 to sso,ooc on the Government tax

books.
And these Hindoos, II they had not fol-
lowed the. contractors westward at the
would still be shaving. away In the plateau
country OF their native land in hopeless
effort to clear OF the inherited debts hang
ing over their heads.
That ia why Mr.. Chamberlain, who knows
these things, spoke Of his King's West In
dian possessions as the coolies paradise
But the other man called them the field
Of romance. because OF the story OF Ra jah' g
son. and many more like unto it. Here Is
The eldest son and heir OF Rajah in
one of the smaller states OF Rajputana
fell 30 violently in love with a beautiful
maiden he had seen on the streets OF his
fathers capital that he laid aside all
equally low condition and proceeded to
WOO her.
Everything went we'll with the lovers
for weeks, until one Of the princes rctinue.
spying on him. found him keeping a tryst
with the girl. The Rajah was promptly
caste, determined to wipe out the dis
self and his family.
With the craftiness OF the Oriental the
affection Of devoted parent until he dis
place Of the lovers. Then. as they we're
seated in a secluded pagoda, band OF
the palace guards burst suddenly In upon
them. and without warning first slew the
maiden and then turned upon the prince.
But the latter was too quick for the sol
diers. SEEKING his sword, he managed to
cut his way clear and escape into the city.
where he hid.
During the weeks that energetic search
was made for him he kept himself under
cover, and not until the efforts Of his father
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Two years later he returned to his own
village with the money only to find that
Chundar Lal and his daughter had followed
coolie contractor across the "black water I"
Ram Singh was in despair, To his ques-
ton as TO where Iboran had gone no one
could definitely answer him, not even the
contractors, who had sent the girl along
with hundreds of others to the seacoast
to t,3, be shipped to any one Of half dozen
British Guiana, Montserrat.
Ram Singh vowed that great as was
the task before him he would find Iboran
and marry her. There was but one way
to do that. She had become coolie; he
must become coolie also.
Perhaps she has been sent to Fiji" the
contractors told him.
So Ram Singh indentured himself for a
term OF six years as a coolie on a Fiji
plantation.
:, Arrived there he set about hunting for
lboran when he was not required to be in
the fields. But his search was in vain
she was not in Fiji,
For six years Ram Singh worked and
waited. Then Maybe she is in Natal"
the plantation owner. who knew his story,
told him. And straghtway Ram Singh
bound himself for u term of six wears to a
Natal planter.
Again II was six years wasted. six wears
Of working and waiting. But on the day
that his contract was ended. Ram Singh
signed away his liberty for third term
of six years and was taken in a coolie ship
to Trinidad
Here he got his first ray OF hope. One
day as he was about his search, he ran
across a man who had been a neiphbor of
Chundar Lal. Iboran's father, and he told
Ram Singh that lboran, mourning for her
lover whom she never expected to see
again, had gone with her father from India
TO Jamaica
That was enough to cause the years
necessary 70 his release to pass swiftly for
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They make the best possible terms with
the pawnbroker, and on the following Mon
day morning usually return to redeem the
goods pledged. Along toward tho end
Of the week the same article is again brought
to the pawnshop.
In n Second avenue shop n woman who
called with a pair Of baby's shoes asked
for loap of 25 cents. Tho broker told her
10 get something else and bring 1t around
and he'd loan a quarter on the Two arr iolcs.
In f'w min,lt, = she returned with black
skirt which she had been wearing, having
put on mud -bodrngglod affair. which was
torn and ragged. Tho pawnbroker handed
over a quarter and when the woman had
gone he remarked that her poverty was
due to drink
She'll buy three flnslss Of whiskoy with
that quarter" he said, "and when, she
sobnrs up she II bring some neighbor around
here TO redeem the babys shoes. As a rule
we don't care to bother with them but If
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"No." said the woman. shut friend Of
mine who went to the racetrack with me
to-day told me that she had frequently bor-
rowed money here on her jewelry."
What was her name?" asked the pawn
broker.
4She gave the name Of Jones, replied the
woman.
well" said the loan Office man, Il have
several hundred persons of that name on
my books. What address did she give?"
"She gave a fictitious address," replied
the woman. But she told me you knew
who she was and that you would remember
if l said that she had pledged a diamond
necklace here"
The pawnbroker asked for description
Of the necklace, and when he received it
remembered the woman. H Immediately
advanced the money on the heart after re-
questing the woman to tell him her real
name, 50 that he would know that the heart
had not been stolen by some servant.
Il intend to redeem it the day after to-
morrow said the woman. 1T was given
TO m, by my husband. and don't want to
let him know that lost money on the race
track borrow money from friend
and want to pay it back tonight.
"To-m PROV could go to my bank and
get re amount, but my husband would
find it out and want to know what did
with it. have an fccount with depart
ment store and another at my jewellers.
l can purchase goods at these places, then
return them and get credit checks which the
firms will cash.
with the cash so raised will be able to
redeem this pin and I'll pay you a bonus for
the accommodation"
The pawnbroker explained that h could
not accept a bonus, but would make the
loan. Then he inquired how she intended
to square matters when the bill came from
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with In a pawhshop on Chambers s'roo.
owed their trouble TO lazincss SOM woro
big. fat and comclv One who called
TO get a loap Of 20 cents on her lnishard.
Sunday clothes ordered tb" broker lo hurry
up and make out the ticket ~ she oSr ~ cd
her husband home to dinner in hai an
hour She wanted the money TO bus Tho
dinner in n, ighboring restaurant.
v hen she had gone Il man who was ac-
ouainted with her said she was too law
to cook dinner for her husband and found
IL easier to raise money in the rawnshDn
and then buy a dinner cooked and ready
to serve. She had pawned the bod clothing.
the clock. the floor mats, table lamp, books.
clothing and even dishes which she Lad re-
ceived as a wedding present. Her husband
had made several Efforts to break her Of
the habit, but had failed
In this shop many OF the patrons were
elderly women who lived alone in -ir gle
rooms in the top Of tenements on Cherry
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TO FREEZE LIVE SALMON.
Ship Them 10 This at! From the Paclnc
Coast and Then Dring to LIE.

TACOMA, April GA local company
proposes to freeze live salmon in blocks y
ice. ship them to New York and then btina
them to life. II - sa:. ii.at experiments
have demonstrated that freezing of ,i'"
fish in this manner is possible, proNid hc
the temperature of the fish is not far ~" 20"
the freezing point and certain connllI'n'
are complied with in resu~citalon. Fur or
tests are to be made this summer on IN"
Alaskan coast and, If successful. shipm,a''
of fish in this manner to Eastern cues
will be begun next fall.
An expert who has been conducting "N-
periments in Oregon saws that salmon an
be frozen solid and thawed back 10 10
If not exposed TO the sun or allowed 10 I"l
more than fourteen degrees below ..'e
freezing point. Ii is well known that Ala-"a
rivers and lakes which freeze solid from
top to bottom in the winter are filled WIN
fish every summer. The fish they contain
are frozen and remain in the ice through
the long winter This fact forms the basis
Of the expsriments now bang conducted.
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Thus. betting on the races leads some
women to the sign Of the three balls. Up
on Sixth avenue in the hotel district there
Is pawnshop which is patronized almost
exclusively by this class of women. These
customers have become so numerous that
the pawnbroker has caused to be built in
the place special booths where they can
transact business without being seen.
Sometimes a woman of this class informs
the pawnbroker of her identity; but it is
only when she comes around to obtain a
large loan on some valuable piece of jewelry,
and even then she pleads with him not to
reveal the fact that she visited the place.