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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
A CONVICT WHO MATHEMATIC-
ALLY FIGURED OUT HIS
ESCAPE.

The escape of Charles Clark,
alias Charles Stetson, alias Red
Charlie, and alias several other IT,
ties, from the Ohio state prison
some years ago, was fair sample
of the genius and desperation OF
a desperate crook who had been
Settled" for seven or eight years
for robbery. From the moment
Clark entered the prison he began
making mental notes for future use.
The number of doors, the location
of the guards, the defenses of vari-
Gus windows, the law of the sewers,
the thickness of the walls-every
pointd was noted and stored up in
his memory. He was assigned to
a cell on the ground tier. In three
days he had estimated the distance
of the outside wall to fraction Of
an inch. His idea was to remove
one of the flagstones from the door
of his cell, and tunnel out, and
within 60 hours after being receiv-
ed in the prison he was at work.
With an old chisel which he man
aged to secrete and bring in from
his shop, he scraped out the cement
from around the stone. One Of the
corridor sentinels passed his door
every half hour before the night,
and it was two weeks before Clark
had the stone ready to lift out.
He found a foot of concrete under
this stone, and he went through
that and hid the dirt in his bed.
He calculated the sewer for that
wing ran within four feet of his
cell, and he was right. He wanted
| to make use of it simply to carry
off the dirt from his tunnel. For
many weeks he dug away at night,
uHSuS ptCtGu NY tllc oCHllHCio, bu'
as he carried the dirt out in his
pockets, he made but poor progress.
1t was nine weeks before he struck
| the sewer; it was of hard brick.
When he had made an opening the
sewer gas poured out in such guam
titles as to almost suffocate him.
Indeed it poured through the tun-
mel and filled the corridor until the
prison officials we're alarmed and
began to search for the cause.
Clark had to go down and stop up
the hole and he was made i'll for a
week. At the end of that time he
tried it again, but the gas was
worse than before, and he found
himself obliged to give up the I'M
dertaking. He could easily have
run the tunnel. but there was no
| other way to dispose Of dirt. He
replaced the fagstone, cemented it
with dough, and his efforts were
| unsupported.
Clark had been in prison about
five months, when he concocted an
! other plan. From some local con-
victs he got the name of minister
of the gospel in the country who
somewhat resembled him in gener-
al appearance. He also ascertain
ed that the man was very timid and
kind hearted. Pretty soon Clark
was seized with an 'indisposition, "
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

Cook and his attorneys hold that
the city was in possession of the
property during the time for which
the assessments were levied and
that the amounts should not be en-
tered up against Cook. They feel
that the city is practically levying
an assessment on property it was
itself using and then turns around
and asks Cook to pay the freight.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
LEGhORN WANTS
HIS COMMISSION

J. F. Leghorn has brought suit
and attachment against Adolph Pin
Gus and wife for $3.50 commissions
for finding a purchaser for the Pin
Gus lot, % feet wide, across from
the city hall, between Howard and
Wall streets.
The complaint sets up that Leg
horn found a purchaser in DR.. Ali
son in January, 1904, and that the
only reason why the deal has not
been consummated is that Pincus
declines to pass title to DR.. ALI
son.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

The international Olympic games
will be held in Athens from April
16 to 26 next year, and the king
Of Greece will preside. A special
committee appointed by the gov
eminent is arranging for the
events. The committee was consti-
tuted by virtue of a law of 1899,
passed as a result of the success
of the games which were held for
the first time in 1896. The cham
Der of deputies has secured this
periodical celebration every four
years in Athens by voting special
funds.
The athletic games will take
place in the Panathenian Stadium.
The stadium is that of Herodus
Atticus, reconstructed in its entire
ty in Pendelic marble, on the an
cient plan, in 1904 and 1905, at
an expense of 100000 francs, do
mated by a rich Epirote, the late
Geo. Averoff. Sixty thousand
spectators can see the games.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
THE ORIENTAL LIMITED.

ever the Great Northern railway,
for all points east at $50 a. m.
daily. Compartment observation
cars and very best equipment
throughout. A first class train for
first class travel. Tickets, berth
reservations, ETC., at city office, 7O1
Riverside avenue.
E. L. Blair,
s"' General Agent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
REGULAR DENTISTS
after IRREGULAR

DR.. F. R. Fisk, a member of the
state dental association examin.
ing board asked Judge Hinkle yes
terday for a warrant for the arrest
of one woman and four men who
he claims are practicing dentistry
in Spokane without a license.
The woman who will be prose
cuted is Mrs. Minor who operates
in a car at Boone avenue and Mon
roe streets.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
ARE YOU GOING TO CALIFOR.
MIA THIS WINTER?

If so, why not try the ocean
route via Seattle. First class
rates from Spokane, including berth
and meals on boat, to San Fran
cisco, 5000; to Los Angeles,
1855; to San Diego, $41.2O. Sail
ing every five days. Lower rates
for second class tickets. For full
particulars call at Great Northern
city ticket office, TOT Riverside ave-
nue..
E. s. Blair,
zee General Agent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
NOTICE TO
SUBSCRIBERS

Should your copy of The Press fail
ming. please do us the favor to call
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should miss 1t more than once, please
telephone US every time you miss It
In this way we can be certain Of
giving our subscribers q perfect serv.
!ce--and II Is the only way.
THE SPOKANE PRESa
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

You can 60 out in the mountains
of Kentucky and pluck it, made-up
or four-in-hand, where it is plenti-
full.
You can send it to Covington for
IS cents.
But if you bill it to Cincinnati it
will cost 81.
Just 80 cents across the bridge
This is all the more pleasant
when you realize that railroads
which don't run into Kentucky are
just crazy to get cross-ties, but are
thus frozen out.
They dassen't say a word, be-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

There must be a good many I'M
fortunates In a big city like this"
said the man from southern Illinis
who was making his first visit to
Chicago.
YES" replied the honest citizen
of Chicago, "a great many, a great
many. We have a population Of
100000"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08
Conique Theater

PACKED EVERY NIGHT.
The screaming farce "Who's
Boss Of the House?" The sensa.
tional four act society drama "The
Stain of Guilt" Ten UP to date
vaudeville acts beside the great
Comique Stock company.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

cause its own rates won't hear III.
spection.
1t all goes to show what the rail-
roads will do when they know the
other fellow can't squeal.
It's a good thing for Mr.. G.. Peo-
pie that President Roosevelt is
stampeding them some strenuous.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-08

A woman worries until she gets
wrinkles, then worries because she
has them. If she takes HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea she would
have neither. Bright. smiling face
follows it's use.
35 cents, Tea or 74zE1E7zf,<.,yC,
Tablets. "
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

voted to pieces almost entirely humorous
in their nature. Indeed, Miss Anglin
announces that she is looking for vehi-
Gle which shall contain not more than
FIVE minutes of real dramatic action.
w. H. Thompson is to conclude his
tour in Money Talks" for the present
season on May 18th. Mr.. Thompson
will appear in the piece again next
September.
Louis Mann and David Wariield are
about the only two comedians who ever
entirely recovered after they had con-
tracted the dread disease of German
comedy. Even Mr.. Mann and Mr. War
field cling 10 dialect parts. although they
vary the manner by giving us French
men, Jews and Italians. Joe Weber,
Lew Fields, Sam Bernard and the
Rogers Brothers stick to thir last how
ever. Mr.. Mann's French rialect in
"Julie Bonbon" is said to be as accurate
and enjoyable as was his German dia-
lect in ''The Telephone Girl
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY
Between vincent F. wasiIewski and Agnes
WMasyllewski, y his wife, complainants, and Mary
A. Wasilewskf, ct al, defendants.
on Bill for Partition and Decree for Sale.
Notice Of Sale.
William C. Cudlipp. Solicitor
BY virtue of a decree of the Court Of Chan
cery made in the above-stated cause, on the
tWenty-fourth day of April A. D.. nineteen
hundred and six directing sale Of ali and
singular the premises mentioned and described
In the bill Of complainant in said cause and
IN m said decree for sale. /, William B. Gilmore
yendue, to the highest bidder. the two lots
or tracts of land and premises hereinafter de-
scrleed, at the times and places following,
The first lot or tract: On Tuesday. May 2sth,
nineteen hundred and six, at two o'clock p NJ.
on said premises.
The second lot or tract: On Tuesday, May
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, at
two-thirty p NJ, on said premises
me said lots Of land and premises are bound
ed and described as follows:--
First Tract-All that certain lot of land,
situate in Jersey City. County Of Hudson,
state of New Jersey, described as follows:
beginning at point in the northerly line Of
Firth street, distant hundred and seventy
nye ll75) feet westerly from the ncrthwesteriy
corner Of said street and Coles street; thence
northerly parallel with Coles street ninety-fve
sso) feet to a certain aliey-way Of ten CO)
parallel with and equi-distant from Fifth and
sixth streets; thence westerly parallel with
r4tNl street twenty y-nVe (Z3) feet; thence
southerly parallel with Coles street ninety-hye
$50 feet to Fifth street; thence easterly along
the northerly line Of Fifth street twenty-five
t22l feet to the point Of beginning.
Being the same premises conveyed to John
Wasilewsk and Mary Wasiiewski his wife,
Dy Patrick Hopkins and Margaret his wife.
by deed dated October 1st, 1889 and recorded
in the Hudson County Registers office in
Book 4s7 Of Deeds. at page 377.
Second Tract: Beginning at the northeasterly
corner of Fifth and Monmouth streets. in
Jersey City aforesaid; thence northeriy
along the easterly side of Monmouth
street fifty (5W feet, thence easterly parallel
with Fifth street twelve CID feet and six (6)
inches; thence .southerly parallel with Mon
mouth street to. through and beyond party
wall, standing partly on the premises hereby
described and partly on the premises adjoining
easterly thereto fifty (50) feet to Fifth street:
thence westerly along the northerly side of
Fifth street twelve (121 feet and six {6) inches
to the point of beginning
Being the same premises conveyed to John
Wasiewsk by John Felix and Alma, his wife,
by deed dated October 4th, 1892, and recorded
N the Hudson County Registers office. in
Book 5o9 of Deeds at page 645.
including the estate in dover of the defend
ant, Annie Wasilewski, in the premises sec
ondly described in the bill of compliant; and
including also the inchoate right of dover of
the complainant, Agnes Wasilewski, in said
two lots of land.
Dated April 26. 1906
VIM. B. GILMORE.
Special Master in chancery of New Jersey.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
Liberty Theatre

Florence Roberts, the emotional act
ress from California, who made her New
York debut in 1.-The Strength Of the
Weak at the Liberty Theatre last Tues
day night, scored metropolitan success
which should place her among the lead
Ing stars Of the country. In The
Strength of the Weak the new play
by Alice NJ. Smith and Charlotte Thomp-
son, she has many admirable opportuni-
ties to display ability .as an emotional
actress of exceptional merit. Miss Rob
erts will continue indefinitely at the Lib
erty Theatre in "The Strength of the
Weak" although a special matinee of
DsAnnunzio's s'Giaeonda" is announced
for preparation during the coming two
weeks. In connection with Miss Rob
erts' production of ''Giaeonda" it should
be stated that she is the only actress
who has ever played the DAnnunzio
tragedy in English. Duse is the only
other actress who has ever played it in
this country.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,--
Take notice. that c. NJ Handy is en-
gagged in the business or occupation of bot
Ting milk and cream, under the name OF
c NJ Handy, at No. i04 Erie street, Jersey
City N. r., and by virtue of the provisions OF
an act entitled, "An act to protect the own
ers of bottles, boxes siphons, tins, kegs or
other articles used in the sale of soda water
mineral or aerated waters, porter, ale, beer,
lager beer weiss beer. white baer or other
beverages or medicines, medical preparations,
perfumery. oils, compounds or mixture,' APP
proved April s, A. D., 1885, and the several
supplements thereto. does hereby give notice
that she uses in her said business or occupation
bottles bearing marks, mprints, devices or
brands stamped. engraved. etched blown i'm
pressed or otherwise produced upon said bot
ties as follows. to witt.
Diamond shape Milk. 104 Erie St; r. H.
Handy, Jersey City, N, j.. cream.
Around the neck Of the bottle the word
Metropolitan.
On the botsle:-Metropolitan Mix Cream Co.,
jefferson Market, New York
On back of bottle-Branch, 343 Columbus Av.
On bottom of bottle--A large M.
And that due notice is hereby given that a
description of the name or names, marks or
devices so used by her has been duly fled
with the Clerk of the County of Eudson. New
Jersey, by virtue of the provisions Of the said
act
1906.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
Princess Theatre

Realizing that the success of the lively
college play. Brown of Harvard" in
which Henry Woodruff is starring at the
Princess Theatre, New York, is due not
little TO the splendid all around work
of the company. Henry Miller has re-
engaged every member of the organize
tion to support Mr.. Woodruff another
season. Each of the twenty parts in
Brown of Harvard is acted by col
lege graduate, most of them young men
and women whose school days are but a
few years past, and they enter into the
performance with all the spirit and en-
thusiasm which memory of their UNDER
graduate days reviyes.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

AN ORDINANCE FOR THE RELIEF OF
Of Jesse Skstchily in the construction. of
bay windows
The Mayor and Aldermen Of Jersey City, by
the Board Of Street and Water Commissioners
acting for and on behalf Of the municipality
of said city do ordain as follows.-
Section l. That Jesse SketchlIy be and is
hereby granted permission to construct and
maintain bay windows on building to be erect
ed by him at the southwest corner Of Booraem
avenue ard Nesbitt street. which Bay win
dows may reach from the foundation to the
roof Of said building and may extend beyond
the building line OF Nesbitt strest not more
than eighteen inches t1s) any ordinance to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The work to be done under the supervision
OF the Inspector of Buildings
Section 2. The ordinance granting these priv
leges 10 be Of full force and effect fer a period
Of twenty {9a} years, and thereafter until such
time as this Board or its legally authorized
successors may order the same removed
Section g. That all costs and expenses Incl
dent to the Introduction, passage and rubliea-
ton Of tfss ordinance shall be paid by the
applicant for the same. and such amount
therefor as is estimated by the Clerk of this
Board to be necessary shall be deposited with
that officer ON demand
Passed Aptil sS. isvc.
ANTHONY HAUCK, President
n u. PAGAN. Mayor.
aEc. T. BouToS. Clerk
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
Stage Notes

Margaret Anglin affords what prob
ably is the only example on records Of an
emotional actress who wants to be a
coincidence. Cases the other way about
are not in the least unusual, We have
instances of Nat. Goodwin playing
Shyloek. Thomas @. Seaboroke appear
ing in ',The speeulator" and Cissy
Lotus ilnpersonating Ophedia, but the
reverse ambition is extremely rare.
There seems to a general idea among
actors that bringing tears reauiresgreat-
er art than provoking laughter. Miss
Anglip, however. il an exception to the
rule, and, now that she has firmly estab-
lished herself as an tragedienne Of great
power, she intends deyoting her atten-
ton almost entirely to PLAYS Of q lighter
character. szira" and Mrs. Danes
Defence viii have place on her bill
asxt season, but mere time viii be der
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

TO MARTIN ECKERT, AND THE HEIRS,
devisees or personal representatives of Mar
Take notice, that William Koelsch, of Jersey
application with the Clerk Of the Court Of Com
orable John A. Blair, Law Judge Of the County
Of Hudson, in and by which it appears that
mad made, ea executed and delivered unto Martin
Eckert certain mortgage bearing date Janu-
a h @ 70 dosrs With Which
said mortgage was registered In the office Of
the Register of Deeds of the said County Of
MORTGAGES, page 80 &C., that the mortgaged
premises described therein is lot twenty -nins
side Of Walker avenue, between Essex street
and Bergen Road, the same Is laid down on
aMap ap Of e properly , IT q D. Gould and 4. Morrs
a. Woodlawn, Greenvilie Hud. Co.. N. j.,
made BY q. |. Van Horne, G. 2. & Town Sur
yeyor;.' that said mortgage has been paid and
fully satisfied, but has not been cancelled Of
record; tnat after due ane diligent inquiry for
Eckert and tie names and residences Of heirs.
devisees or personal representatives of said
a,H nnabse to aseer.ain eisiler Of the same. and
that said petitioner. after careful and dill
gent a Ms,n ns Enker s dsad os aaa
that in and by said petition said Martin Eckert
prayg that an oroer may be made directing IN
State OF New Jersey, to cancel of record the
said mortgage above referred to.
iIlal Oh Inc SlAtii usAI VI <At,s4i, Ia taiS gar
nineteen hundred and six, at the Court House
in Jersey City, at the hour OF ten O'clock in
the forenoon Of that day, application win be
made to the Honorable John A. Blair, Law Judge
of the County of Hudson aforesaid, being Pre-
siding Judge OF the Court Of Common Pleas Of
Hudson Comfy aforesaid, for an order to ean-
eel Of record the said mortgage made by Will
liam Koelsch and rife TO Martin Eckert and
fer such other and further relief in the prem
ises as may be agreeable to the said Law
Judge and ssrseably 70 the statutes in such
case made and provided.
The above notice being given pursuant to an
order OF the IIoIcrable .rohn \. Blair, Law
Judge of TIE County Of Hudson aforesaid.
dated March 5th, 1905.
Dated March 5th. 1906.
WILLIAM KoELscH.
RaTNEERHoFF & FIELDER.
Is Exchange Place.
Jersey City, N j..
Attorneys of William Koelsch.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
TROUT TIME.

I'm tired of the dinging and dorging
I'm tired of the traffic and din,
The crowding and examining and
The crowding and cramming and
thronging,
The struggle and folly and sin;
The belt and the bell and the hustle,
The buzz and the clang and the roar
'Tis vain and "a heart-racking tussle
That makes me disheartened and sore.
| want to get back to tn mountains,
want to get back to thewild,
To the brook and the fresh-aowing
fountains
Where never a thought is defled;
want to live closer to Nature;
My soul of its struggles is sick;
There's voice in the cataract calling
| want to go fshin'-aiuck!
IT Shelley Sutton. in Recreation.
Nell-'I really believe she married
him for his money" Belle Well,
eliminate his money, and what else
would there be of him ?s-Ph Philadelphia
Record.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

fected. The State Department should
be called ON to respond why the notori-
Gus persons who have so long discredit-
ed the national name have been per-
mftted to enjoy the emoluments of Of
fee. in many cases stated to be fraudu-
lent and illegal. in the most Grass and
sordid ways. Mistakes of judgment and
diplomacy in adjusting their duties to
the rights of the government to which
they are accredited are bad enough, but
may be condoned. Personal rascalities
such as are charged with much detSil
against McWade ana Williams. extend
ing over a considerable period, belong
TO a different category. There is no
part of Inc world where our consulates
need to be administered on a higher
plane of uprightness and ability than IN
the Pacific Orient. 1t seems that no.
where have they been administered with
sue recklessness and corruption, personal
and official.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
JESTS

First tramp-.Says in this ere paper
as 'ow some of them millionairesI works
eight and ten hours day, Bill.' The
Fhilosopher-"Ah.i it's a ard world for
some poor blokes!'-Punch.
The Wife-"He told me that if mar
ried him my every wish would be graft
fed The Mother-'.Well, is it not
so?" The Wife-"No, l wish | hadn't
married him Cleveland Leader.
Are you ready to live on my in
Gomez" he asked softly. She locked up
into his face, trustingly. Certainly,
dearest" she answered, s.if-if' ''If
what?'' IF you can get another one
for yourself Judge.
Pupil --"Do you believe in spelling
reformg' Teacher--''In your case | do.
About every other one of your words is
spelled wrong" Detroit Free Press.
0idboy-.sI was run down BIZ an au-
tomobile the other day.. De Young
ssWere you hurt?' Aldboy--"N,,t until
fool bystander remarked that it WAS
shame to see an old man bowled over
like that Chicago Daily News
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05
Lyric Theatre

Although he now appears under di-
rection of the Shuberts, Arnold Dairy
now appearing at the Lyric Theatre in
Alarms and the Man has by no means
relinquished the managerial details con-
neeted with his company. Mr.. DAILY. in
fact, is the busiest as he was the pioneer
of aetor-managers at the present time
in America James x. Hacket, Richard
Mansfield and Henry Miller are about
the only other examples in America of a
class that completely dominates theatri-
Gals in England.
The Jersey City news., 1906-05-05

TO HENRY c. KLEINHAUS, HIS UN.
known heirs or devisees.
Take notice, that The HUDSON County ParI
Commission has deemed it proper to acquir.
for public park certain lands and rights il
lands described as follows AN those certaiL
lots tracts or parcels of land stuated in Jer.
sey City, Hudson County, New Jersey knowr
and designated as lots Nos 49, 34 36 40 Al
AZ, 43 and "A. in block No, 1710, as laid out OF
map OF property belonging to Charles A. Grant
1900, fronting
FREEMAN AND BENTLEY AVENUES
more particularly described in the petition
hereinafter referred to.
And because said The Hudson. County Pal
Commission or its agents duly authorized il
unable to agree with you, the owner or owners
and persons interested in said lands and right.
in lands, as to the price ana terms Of tht
purchase thereof. it has made application b5
petition to His Honor, Jonathan Dixon one o.
the Justices Of the Supreme Cart OF the state
of New Jersey, for the appointment Of thres
d;sinterested freelolders to fix the cornpensa
tion to be paid and to examine and appraiss
the said lands property and to assess the
damages, provided in an act entitled ''Az
act to regulate the ascertainment and payment
taken for public use,'' fRevsion of 1900; that
said Justice has by ordsr assigned snA
SATURDAY the Fifth day of May 1906
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon of that day, al
the Court House. in Jersey City, before him
self, the time and place 70 tearing said
petition and making said appein. A5t and d.
rected notice thereof to be given 9a by ths
publication of this notice in the ls.zey City
News once week for two weeks
THE HUDSON COUNTY PARK COMMISSION
BY FRANK H. HALL, Attorney