The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-09
BY Jacob Waldeck and R. W. Satterfield


trusts and bribegvers when the stars, last summer,
spelled out legislative for Hon. Ananias Baker
"Be good, there's trouble ahead" the message
sent out to the wicked by the seepless twnkg sentnes
in the sky Night after night the warning written in
the heavens
The wicked needed not, and one of them is fugi
tive from justice while others live in deadly fear of the
clanking chains of felon's fate
Hon. Ananias Chap tx, Acts) Baker is onto and after
them
He is the representative in the Indiana house from Full
ton and Cass counties He is of wealth and of
conscience Without guile and without fear he stands
for the public veal against VICE. for honesty and in
tegrity. He is the dealer of the square deal.
Last his neighbors kind Of settled him for
the legislature. Mr. Baker hestated He is guided more
less by astroogy and he wanted to know what the stars
had to say He ordered astrooger to consult the
chves of eternity The of science scanned these writ
ings in the vast regions of space.
Iake it, is the substance of the message he sent to
Mr.. Baker The latter nominated and elected.
Recently he electrified the assembly and startled the
state by exposing attempt to bride him. In voting for
an ntcgaree bill he passed to the speaker envelope
containing five 500 bills Baker said it had been given to
hi mby lobbyist for the cigarette trust. The lobbyist
fed the city. 1t intimated that other members
ceved similar envelopes and the grand jury may reach for
them
MEANWHILE Baker is the idol of Indiana.
Mr.. Baker is tall and angular. He has long, thin
beard He has the wide-open eyes of an enthusiast.
Asked as to astrology Mr. Baker not only with frank
ness but with enthusiasm, expressed his belief in it.
'True? OF course it s true, he said. lit don't stand
to that God placed all these people the earth
without giving them some means of guidance Their
is written in the stars If had time could prove
to YOU Astroogy is not like sprtualism and fortune
telling. 1t is science.
''Theres plenty of proof of that fact Probably you
know that the day of Queen Vctoras death foreold
10 years before it
In the horoscope got last everything it con-
tanned verified. | nominated and elected There
also things about the presidential election that
came true.
Il got letter while back that foretold spell of
sickness 1t verified There another thing in the
letter about happening February 6 that wasn't quite
clear, but has since been made plain
'What t?'' asked.
"Why that the day when began this thing,
said Mr. Baker referring to the exposure of the attempted
bribery 81 didn't understand it at the time but it was
all clear aferward."
According to explanation made by him horoscoper
must know the hour of ones birth in order to make good
job Having that information the horoscop maker takes
into consideration the positions of the at the time of
the subject birth and the time when information is de
sired.
Had the man who tried to bride Mr. Baker possessed
the foresight to consult good astrologer he would have
learned that February 1905, would be unpropitious
time in which to attempt to corrupt members of the Ind
ana Legislature wearing long boards. But he hadn't hf
to do that, and result he became citizen at
large
Mr.. Baker smiled benignly when mention was made
of his first
eyes, I've heard good bit about that" he said
"When elected the newspapers took it up. Bible
names quite popular in Virginia when I born.
In neighborhood had IIezekahs and Ebenezers
and all the rest.
''Some people don't know there was more than one
Ananias The fellow who careless with the truth is
mentioned in the fifth chapter of Acts Well he's not the
one was named after
II named in honor of Ananias, the good disciple
mentioned in the ninth chapter of Acts In order that in
the final accounting may not be identified with the wrong
Ananias | have lived upright, Straightforward life.
tell the truth and never break promise.''
He follows the command given to the ninth chapter
Ananias: Arise and go into the street which is called
straight
Mr.. Baker born at a. m, January g. 1S4S at
Stlausburg Va In 1869 he made his way west settling
final in Indiana, where he made fortune in the lumber
business.