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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
The People Want Information

What are the points of difference between Attorney
General Moody and Messrs. Harmon and Judson in the
Santa Fe case?
The public wants to know. The public has a moral
right to the information
Here the facts:
The government had gotten order from the United
States court at Kansas City enonng the Santa Fe road
from giving rebates Subsequently the Santa Fe gave
bates to the Colorado Fuel Co. Paul Morton now secre-
tary of the navy, then chief traffic manager of the
Santa te road The injunction against not only the
Santa Fee road, but against its officers and agents.
WHY HAS NOT THE GOVERNMENT BEGUN
PROCEEDINGS FOR CONTEMPT AGAINST THE
PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE SANTA FE ROAD?
The government takes such when it goes after
the labor unions
Does not the government propose to protect of
wealth and position and become brave and rigorous only
when it attacks the humble and lowy?
The people Of this country will tolerate mighty little of
that kind of work
Did Harmon and Judson recommend the usual con-
tempt proceedings against the prncpa Santa Fe officers
Why should not such proceeding have been begun any
way unless the attorney general desired to shield his fell
low cabinet officer, Paul Morton?
There is evidently nigger in the pile and the pub
lie are bound to uncover him.
THE LETTER OF HARMON AND JUDSON TO
THE ATTORNEY GEGNERAL. GIVING THEIR REC
COMBINATIONS AND REASONS, THE PUBLIC IS
ENTITLED TO SEE. 1t must be produced.
GIVE US LIGHT
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
Commercial Uncle Sam
NO. g.
BYR. F. PAINE.

Evidence is accommodating to the effect that Japan S
progress will not with the arrival Of peace with
Russia but that the mikado will engage as his
dogs are kenneled great commercial conflict with the
United States and perhaps other nations, for possession
of the trade in the Orient Already Japans statesmen
preparing for this just years ago they began preparing
for the present war with the
commercial nation must be an armed nation. Times
have changed since the day Of the great Napoleon who
tried to little Kingdoms into alliance with himself
the ground that the English ga nation of traders
and the Japs hungry for Manchuria not much
mere territory but territory for trade extension and the
protection thereof.
to the Philippines Hawaii and there is little difference
between the ability Of the Japs and nation in the
matter Of protecting commerce in the Pacific.
1t would that the most important and urgent issue
before the American people today should be to the ex
tension of their foreign trade in the far east the aban
donment Of the comparatively unmportant positions al
ready taken in the direction of such extension
In martial conflict with such nation Japan has
proved herself to be and with such commercial rival
she preparing to be and fitted to be by geographical and
other natural advantages, the establishment OF control IN
Philippines by the United States and all the appropria
lions for warshps since the with Spain would be but
puerile.
The Panama canal and its defenses should be built
quickly and with exceptional strength.
We should make ten times the present expenditure for
warships.
We SHOULD be in closer alliance with England and her
American provinces.
There should be radical change in attitude toward
Mexico the Central American states and other nations far
her south whose only for national existence that
they are in pawn other nations stronger in naves and
whose natural fate, that there pause in the
Evolution of the human ANIMAL will be assimilation by the
stronger progressive more vrle nation north or the
Rio Grande
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
The Ambition for Bigness

One of the accusations made in the Frck report
against the AlexanderHyde management Of the Equitable
Assurance society that these officers in disregard of
sound business principles wanted to make the society
"bg" They moved by the characteristic American
-ambton-the ambition for bigness.
small society ably managed, profitable, sound and
strong was not sufficient for these officers They wanted
to have the biggest insurance society in the country
1t not worth, but bulk that appealed to them.
How typcay American this is. Evidences of this
spirit every hand All classes of people a
fected by it. Every community has its houses that big
and cheap Every city and town has its display of wealth
that is based upon size and show and not upon taste
Everywhere boast of the amount they accomplish
without regard to the in which they do it, The
farmer brags of the number of he pows though
he NAV lose much because Of the faulty IN which
his work is done. The business lauds himself upon
the fortune he has piled up though and hun
dreds of innocent men and have suffered through
his acts Universities grow juban over being bigger
than the colleges though their work may not be any
better or good.
It is the ambition for bigness that constitutes the u
ing motive.
m AS people we are seemingly still in the childhood
stage when quantity is more-attraetive than quality
We have not yet learned that bgness is not to be meas
ured in terms Of square feet of dollars and cents
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
PRICNE EDWARDS
BIRTHDAY

LONDON, June 23.--Prince Ed
ward, eldest son of the prince and
princess of Wales and heir presump-
tive to the throne, received numer-
Gus presents today on the occasion of
his eleventh birthday. The little
princes birthday was also celebrated
by the ringing of bells In the Cur
few Tower of Windsor castle and
the firing of salutes
Those who enjoy the personal ac-
quaintance of the little prince report
that he is more than usually bright
and intelligent. He is being carefully
educated under the personal super
vision of his grandfather, King Ed
ward, He and his younger brother,
Prince Albert, are being trained for
the navy, following the example of
their father, the prince of Wales,
who went through all grades of the
service.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

A New York man proposes to sue
Grover Cleveland and President
Roosevelt for rot paying him for vot-
ing for them. He's not crazy. lie 5
just q New Yorker.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL
HOSTS AT TORONTO

TORONTO, Ont, June 23,---Every-
thing is III readiness for the formal
opening this afternoon of the elev-
enth triennial convention Of the In
ternational Sunday School associa-
ton. The gathering will be opened
in the Metropolitan Square NJ. f.
church with devotional service to
be conducted by the Rev. Floyd w.
Tomkins.
Over two thousand delegates are il.
the city, together with a large num-
Der of other visitors. They represent
81 states, provinces and territories
of North America, with Cuba, Mexico
and Central America.
From all Indications this is des.
tined 10 be the most notable gather
ing Of Sunday school workers ever
held on this continent. Many mat
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
SUNDAY EXCURSION, ST. JOE

The Northern Pacific will continue
the Sunday excursions to st. Maries,
FerreIls and st. Joe during the sum-
mer. Train will leave Spokane n.
m. for Occur d'Alene Steamer Cakes
leaving there on arrival OF train for
a delightful ride across the lake and
up the St Joe river arriving at Fer
rell's about p. m, where stop OF
80 minutes will be made for dinner,
Those prcrerring to do so can take
lunch baskets and eat lunch on the
boat. Returning train Will arrive
Spokane about 9 p. m. Fare for the
round trip so.
]. w. HILL, Gen. Agt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

ters, including advanced lessons
teacher training, adult classes and eX-
pansion of the International work
will be considered. The list of speak
ers includes Bishop John II. Vincent
founder of the Chautauqua move
ment; Bishop W. j. Mcdowell of Chi
cago, president of the Religious Edu-
cation association; John Wanamakei
of Philadelphia, superintendent of the
largest Sunday school in America;
Robert h. Spear of New York, associ
ate secretary of the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions, ana the
Rev. DR.. Jesse l.. Hurlbut of South
Orange, y, j.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
e. SR 6 q

McInnis, If ...... 0 3 0
klinkhammer, p :. 0 4 0
Totals ....... 8 81 IL
Score by Innings.
Boise ..........0 0 1 0 Q 0 0 0-3
Spokane ......3 1 90 0 0 0 %
Summary.
Earned runs--Spokane 3, Boise /.
Struck out-By Steltz IA, by Klnk-
hammer 2.
Bases on balls-Off Steltz 3, off
Klinkhammer /.
Two base hit--McIntyre.
Sacrifice nits--Schils. Ferris.
Stolen bases--Baxter, Ferris, Egan,
Steltz, Riggs.
Double plays--Smith to Kellackey.
Left on bases-Boise 6, Spokane 6.
Wild pitch-Steltz.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
ao=ENJoY YOURSELF

You may travel, attend church. or
places of amusement without fear of
headache, dizziness, sick-stomach
nervousness or other distressing
symptoms If you will take one OF
two DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills. They
never fail to remove every disagree
able symptom, due to nervousness OF
excitement. 25 doses, 25 cents. Never
sold in bulk.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

$50 Riverside Avenue, Ground Floor.
$11oo-New six-room house. stons
foundation. attic, city water, on Trac-
tion company's new car line in north
west part of city. This is a good buy
and will be worth more as soon as the
cars commence to run. Terms. 5000
cash. SIS per month, s per cent.
$1500-A fve-room house, stone
foundation and cellar, city water.
lawn and trees. small barn. chicken
house and yard: lot 75x12o. Terms.
$500 cash. balance $40 per month. 8
per cent. or will trade equity as first
payment on or II acre tract close
to city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

Presiden Clyde H Williams of the Indians is off for
Boise today still hunt to discover if there be signs of
ressctatng the T. N L. generating another organl
cation Williams says that if any organization is effected
will have to look good all along the line Spokane will
ont be in it.
Spokane is going to have charge of all athletic
matters at the State University and the board of control
has asked Loren d. Grnsead to run the whole outfit add
have his salary raised Grinstead is well known in So
kane athletics and for the past year has made envabe
showing manager Of the varsity football team Grin
stead is in Spokane today where he is taking preliminary
steps looking to hold the Washington Idaho varsity foot
ball match next fall in this city,
i
Indian Joe Gregg and Young Mccarthy mixed up for
rounds before the Wenachee sports and Gregg got the
decision on points Early in the bout Mccarthy aimed
blow at Greggs neck but connected with the head and
gave his wrist bad wrench.
Harvard and Yale had hard luck on Soldiers field in
not being able to bring their first game of the to
satisfactory finish But one can guess that the crowd of
rooers had chance to yell themselves hoarse during the
Ieeven innings of that to l game After the game
called off, the captains agreed to call next Tuesdays game
lat New Haven the first of the series and fix date for the
second game at some other time.
Press dispatches say that Holcombe Ward and Beals
Wright, the American tennis experts, completely dazed
their opponents with n-play and brilliant Those
English tennis men may better understand how Ro
Wlel logo was SelllIS
straits of Korea
Another Of those early evening ball games took
place at Boise last night between the two remaining fin
gers of the disionted p N l.. Chris Steltz and Kink
iTackhammer faced each other the slab, and the
Mesotan had one hit the best of it. Stez had the
srikeouts to his credit but he also walked
Sundays game at Natatorium park between Chick
Roanight and the Rtzvile bunchgrassers promises
n of
coming up special train and have got together hard
aggregation of ball ossers They will present this lineup
averson, catcher; Georvay, pitchers Nehring first base
Sebume, second; lrby third Maloney short Stop Meyer
left feld Thorpe cener Montgomery, right field, and
Pennington substitute. The game will open at $3.50 with
Dodd at the Indicator The Ritzvians expect to have
Spokane's famous police dog 'Ritz for a mascot and
Chief Waller will send along with the pup.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
RATES LEWIS AND CLARK FAIR.

The Northern Pacific announces
rate of $14.95, Spokane to Portland
and return. On sale May 20 to Octo-
Der Is daily: return limit. 80 days
Party rate, 10 or more. s11.20; limit,
10 days. Also low rates .or large
parties. Call at city office. Zlegler
block, for full particulars.
J. w. HILL, i. A.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

Fifty Clevelanders gathered at the
railroad station to see their baseball
team, now leading the America IL
league, start on its eastern trip. That
town must be baseball mad.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
Exchange National Bank
OF SPOKANE, WASH

Capital ................. $250,000.0O
Surplus and undivided
profits ...............$1 79.53S.92
e. J. Dyer. president; Charles
Sweeny, vice president; c. f. Mo-
Broom, cashier; w. NJ. Shaw. assist
ant cashier.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23

Presiden Clyde H. Williams of the Indians is off for
Boise today still hunt to discover if there be signs of
resscitatng the p N L. og generating another organ
zaon Williams that if any organization is effected
it will have to look good all along the line Spokane will
ont be in it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-23
FoR SALE.

Blacksmith shop. complete, close
H. rent 80 per month, owner leaving
city, $3.50. Phone 800. James B.
Gray, 702 First avenue.
Lots In Heath's and Cannon Hill
additions; small cash payments; bal
ance small monthly payments.
JAMES b. GRAY,
Phone M. 800. 702 First Ave.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

T; lard is 13 cents a pound instead cA 9. And when it comes to fish the ris6 is proportionate. Goa steak for inc stance, has climbed from IS to 1a cents a pound. Bread, luckily still remains at cents a pound loaf in most places.
 Mrs. Benedick's marketing accouns only the other day, showed that pota~ toes cost her 25 cents a peck. whereas the price five or six years ago was only IS cents. But, of course. one cannoa get along without potatoes. Rice is an economical vegetable. put 1t has gone up a cent and a half pound incident- ally to the general rise in the neces- saries of life. She buys good deal Of pork, because 1t Is cheaper than other kinds of meat; but the fact is that It ia pretty nearly as dear as beef used to be, chops having gone up from II 10 16 cents and roast pork in nearly as great a proportion. Hams that were formerly 12 cents a pound are now 10 cents. Most kinds of groceries, hap. ply do not seem to have increased much in price. but it is certainly true that the quality of tea which brought 40 cents pound in the ntneties fetchea 50 cents today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

There are only a few Illustrative items.
 Poor Mrs. Benedick when she goes to market, finds that her housekeeping money does not go very far. She does her best. pricing various articles from stall to stall and buying each thing where 1t is cheapest-or, one should ra ather say, least dear-but the result is very discouraging. Less beef than is really wanted. and inferior cuts of that, must be made to do. As for fresh vegetables, they are likely to De so high as to be impossible. Eggs have climbed nearly 30 per cent, and the best ones, which are the only kind worth buying, come at 2S cents 0 dozen in summer, whereas half q dozen years ago they could have been purchased for 21 or 22 cents. Sometimes, indeed they went lower, but we are speaking here of average prices.
 In those happy days choice "chuck" roast could be had for cents 2 pound; now 1t costs cents. Prime rib roast of beef was i5 1-2 cents; now 1t is 1T 1-2 Soup meat came at 1-2 cents, now 1t is II cents. Porterhouse steak was 21 cents, now it is 25. Sirloin steak was 1T cents, now 1t Is 20. Round steak was 16 cents now 1t is 18 Mean. while chickens have gone up enor- cents a pound are now IS cents, while roasting chickens have ascended from 20 cents to 25. Turkeys are no longer for poor folks. even at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
 No wonder that Mrs. Benedick finds that her market money runs short. If she would have a decent quality of butter on her table she must pay 30 cents a pound for 1t. whereas only four or five years ago it could be had for 24 cents. The cheese that used to cost IS cents now comes at IS. Mo- Iasses is SO cents a gallon instead of 4s; milk is IS cents a -0uart instead ee
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

earlier poems: "Po' lrr lamb." and his very strong song of "aThe Gagged Bird"
 The reader turns naturally to the cabin songs with desire to know what this singer has done for his people, how he has put their lives. their hopes. their fears, their loves and sorrows to measure. Some of these are very grati- flying. Though some of them lack tho joyousness, lack something also of the pathos that white poets have put Into their verses of the negro. But surely the negro should be able to depict his race better than an alien. or does 1t need the perspective of one aloof to make the clearest picture of the race!
 Anyhow, there are some jolly poems which 1t does the reader good to pour over and over: Scamp" Is fine; also "wadin' in de Crick." Curiosity" Is as far-reaching and rich as the swell or those same apple dumplinge." Very touching are the lines Putin the Baby Away" The Christmas Folk-Song embodies we'll the old superstition Of a green Christmas for fat graveyard. there runs through the verse that awe that besets the negro when his super stitions begin to prey on him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
THE THINGS WE EAT.
Prices Have Gone Up in Ten Years
 From 10 to 25 Cents on the Dollar.

Prices Have Gone Up in Ten Years
 From 10 to 25 Cents on the Dollar. Pearsou's Magazine.
 When 1t is considered that the aver age American family whose income does not exceed s1,200 spends Gas has been ascertained by Government in vestigators) nearly 45 per cent of its entire income on food, 1t is easily seen how great difference is made by a rise in prices of 10 to 25 cents on ev- cry dollars worth of edible supplies, covering meats. vegetables and prac- tically all other eatables.
 As compared with the average prices governing during the period from 1890 to 1900 1t Is reckoned by the United States bureau of labor that hams and salt beef have gone up 12 per cent. salt pork and bacon S2 per cent. lard sS per cent, fresh vegetables IS per cent. corn meal 16 per cent. crackers 10 ner cent. New Orleans molasses 2( Der cent. beans 2l per cent, pepper 72 Der cent and currants 121 per cent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
An April Day With Nellie.

An April Day WIth NeIIIe' breath of ApriTs in the afr. on deep
 cerulean wing A bIuebird fits, now here now there
 blithe herald of the spring. Front yards are being spaded deep and
 raked with much of care You know that's quite the thing to
 do when Aprirs in the air! For oh. the loam. responsive to Dame
 Natures urgent needs,
 Has grown so warm it's reckoned fii
 receptacle for seeds. And Nelly's longed for day like this
 by balmy zephyrs kissed, For she's to make her flower-beds
 and Pm-pm to assist
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
Defending sSrhs coasp in Cuba.

A duel was fought yesterday between A Congressman and a private cittEens This duel was an unfair one. because all the advantage was on the slde oS killed his antagonist during the duel he would have been immune from arr rest, unless the House decided to give him over to the judges. On che other hand. if the private citizen had kille9 the Congressman, he would haya had 10 suffer immediate trial on tho charge .0f murder These duels are coneid~ cred affairs of honor. but where one man fs at such a great oisadvantages we fail to see where there t9 much honaas
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

tlvity, and "Coddling Theological Stu dents," by Everett Tomlinson Is an ex- pose of amazing conditions In bidding for students. The second installment of the confessions of a Business Sem ator" show how political control of Rovs." by Dr.-w. T. Talbot, tells of a beneficent work. Frank W. Nixon explains 'The Fight for Trade Schools" in Massachusetts. A superbly illus trated article is "A Money Test of Art Appreciation," by Charles M Calm. which shows, with the aid of remark- able photographs, how New York has come to be a great world market TOT natnting. The Department of the March of Events is a fresh and virile interpretation of significant activities. The whole number is of exceptional inc terest, maintaining the high standard of the magazine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow. By Paul Laurence Dunbar.
 The negro poet, Paul Laurence Dun bar, the son of slave parents, has made . name for himself in the world of let ters. He has exquisite poesies through this volume. There are truly poetic fancies and lofty thoughts. There is' however, nothing quite so fine as his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

The Spirit of American History.
 William Garrott Brown, in the May
 Atlantic.
 colored with few purple lights; too lit- file related to our tender sentiments and deeper passions. When older peo- nIes have paused as we did then, they have looked upon far different scenes. Fairer companies have stood aoout more stately figures of triumph or or tragedy than that America and the world now gazed upon. The common cbarnber. the gaunt, pale President, the strong. bearded counselors at his bed- side-this was unlike the scenes which T,uropean peoples have fixed in their memories. Charles the First and Ma rv stuart on their scaffolds, the bar ons and the king at Runnymede, Maria Theresa appealing to the nooles or Hungary to take up their swords TOT her child, Marie Antoinette and Mira beau. and many other pageant of hu- man love and sacrifice, are treasured hv other peoples as we have treasured mn this crude, unlackeyed martyrdom' Even the great personality of Lincoln ,,o,U notent in so many individual lives, intimate and familiar of so many or our hidden moods, was not yet fuily revealed to his fellows. 1t was the ernancipator only that had fallen; the leader and shepherd of men. Outward lv. at least his experience was limited as theirs was. Dying in the midst of Tnultitudes, master of armies and of navies he was still of the frontier; as, indead all our American life was still, In a sense. only the frontier and west ern fringe of European life. True, IincoIn aiso leads our thoughts back to the princes whose peer he, was; but we can pass from his deathbed with no irreverence, no sense of shock or change. to look out, In the plain lighs work ana strife and progress which was always in his thought, and glimpse tbe attitude and state of the republic when his summons passed, like an an /. celus. across the continent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
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 The first number of Tales" which Is to appear on May 20, will contain sew enteen stories, representing eight lan- guages. Besides one American story there will be translations from the French, German. Russian, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Hungarian. The authors of this issue are "Gyp," Mau- rice Donnay, Anatole France, Jean Rei- brach, Alfred Capus, Max Fischer, Georges Maurevert (French0 Arthur schnitzler, Rudolf Stratz, Ernst von Wolzogen, Baroness won Heyktng Ger man:) Maxim Gorky. (Russian) Emilia Pardo Bazan (Spanish;) Mathilde Serao (Italian;) Daniel Fallstrom (Swedish;) stephen Tomorkeny (Hungarian) and James Huneker (American.) Probably no other single issue of magazine has ever contained so many world famous names. Of these seventeen au- thors at least eleven-"Gyp," Donnay, France, Capus, Reibrach, Wolzogen, Baroness von Heyking, Gorky. Ba1an. serao and Huneker-may fairly be said to enjoy an international reputation.