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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
PIECE OF GLASS
USED AS DAGGER

This was followed by the heavy
stopper to a decantef. 1t was
thrown with all Willis might and
struck the $1,000 French plate
glass on the back bar, cracking the
plate from end to end.
More glasses followed this, aimed
at the bewildered Schroeder, who
in desperation grabbed up long,
sword shaped piece of heavy glass,
and being unable OF reach Willis
from behind the bar went to the
end, where he was met by the en-.
gineer, and a frantic struggle took
place, during which Willis was lit
orally cut to pieces by the sword
shaped glass in the hands of
Schhroder.
Blood was scattered all over the
place before Willis finally sank to
the floor in an unconscious state.
Patrolman Hage was called and
arrested Schroeder, while the patrol
wagon carried the unconscious man
to the police station, wnere DR.. w.
H. Olds stopped the flow of blood
and sewed up the gashes in his
face and neck.
AS Willis is resting easily this
afternoon at the hospital, Justice
Hinkle accepted 500 bonds for
the appearance of Schroeder, and SET
July Fl as the day for the pre-
liminary hearing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
HORSE HIT BY
LOCOMOTIVE

A horse driven by small boy
named Allie Elder was struck by
a Northern Pacific switch engine
on the corner of Wall street and
Railroad avenue about 9 O'Clock
this afternoon and so badly IN
jured that Patrolman Snamiska re-
ceived orders from Sergeant Sulli-
van to shoot the suffering animal.
The horse was the property of
Lee II. Parks, proprietor of the
woodward at 33l Front avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
A CROP OF CANDIDATES

Seehorn and A. l.. Thorpe; county
commissioner, Third district, I. J.
Ballinger; sheriff, James H. Fife,
Thomas Joyce, ePter Mertz, w. R.
Parks and A. j. Reise; county
clerk, d. A. Clement; prosecuting
attorney, Bruce Blake and John A.
Pierce; county auditor, Fred
Dashiel; county treasurer, George
Murgett; county assessor, Jay B.
Garrett and James r. Low; county
superintendent, Milton Todd:
county coroner, DR.. e. l.. Ingersoll;
justice of the peace, Edgar G..
Riste and David J. Ryan; CON
stables, Alfred Dawson, C. H. Pugh
and II. p. Rogers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
BUMPED HER HEAD
ON THE FLOOR

Mabel r. Burdick hahs COM
menced action for divorce against
Ralph Burdick, whom she married
at Minneapolis in 1898. She says
that last May her husband became
cruel to her and had thhumped
her head against the floor of their
home until she became uncon.
scious. She asked for the custody
of the two children of the union,
as her husband Is not considered
by her to be fit person to have
charge of their training.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
FINDS BURGLAR
AT HIS BEDSIDE

still.
When the burglar left the bed.
room the railroad man arose and
took stock of his personal belong
ings and found that his visitor had
made complete clean up of his
wife's and his own jewelry. He
also carried off McNeil's trousers.
A search of the front yard show.
ed that the trousers had been
left on the lawn with the pockets
turned inside out.
They were minus two pocket
books, one containing 50 and the
other $50 in currency and a check
for $40.
From the bedroom the burglar
stole McNeills watch and two
watches belonging to Mrs. Mcneil.
and several pieces of small
jewelry.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
PAY $4,000
FOR THE SITE

There was filed with the equity
auditor this morning a deed from
the Holley Mason Hardware COM
pany to the Empire Electric COM
pany OF Toledo, Ohio, to the north
" feet Of lots II and ~, of block
20 of Railroad addition, the con-
sideratin being $4,000. This is the
site Of the coming home of the
Home Telephone company, and on
1t will be erected handsome build
Ing for the installation of the new
exchange.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
HIS BOND
INCREASED

J. Taylor, workman in the en-
ploy Of ePter Costello, the contrac-
tor, lies seriously injured at the
Washington hospital as the result
Of wounds said to have been in
flicted yesterday afternoon upon
his head with a hammer in the
hands Of Joseph Robey, foreman
of Costello's work. during some
trouble the men had.
Owing to his not knowing the
seriousness OF the case Justice Hin.
kle yesterday allowed Robey to be
turned loose on depopsiting a bond
Of $2b, but this morning he order
ed Robey brought into court to put
up $500 bonds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17

A democratic county central
committee this morning issued its
official primary ballot for use at
the primaries on July "a. In the
case of each office there Is a blank
for added names, but the ballot has
printed only the names OF such as
have qualified by filing petitions
with the necessary names to date.
These names are, aside from the
legislative candidates:
County commissioner, second dis
trict, John G, Helfrich, Charles w.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17

IN GRAVE

WASHINGTON. D. c., July IT.
Major George Ansel Bartlett, for
rs years disbursing officer Of the
treasury department and recently
deceased, is found to have been
short $4,000 in his accounts. Four.
teen thousand Of this is due to the
defalcation of James Boyd, now he
ing prosecuted. Bartlett's bond.
ing company will be held for Sl9,-
900.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
HALE HAS
TROUBLES

The preliminary hearing of w.
T. Hale, mining man said to have
operated in the Occur d'Alenes for
10 years, charged with uttering
four bad checks amounting to SITS,
and passing them on the owner Of
resort on Front avenue, has been
set for Friday. Bonds were fixed
at $500.
Hale Is said to have been under
the Influence Of liquor when the
worthless checks were passed,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
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CLEARS WAY
TO HIS CELL

WASHINGTON, d. c., July IT,
Louis A. Gourdain. who is seeking
to break into the Illinois peniten-
tiary through the aid of the SUI
preme court, telegraphed en- routs
to the secretary of the supreme
court clerk today to have the
best stenographer in Washington"
meet him at a hotel this evening.
The request is unusual. but it will
be granted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
CAUGHT LIKE
RAT IN TRAPS

G. w. Hellenbrand, administrator
OF the estate of his son, C. V. Hell
lenbrand, had an exciting expe-
rience about 8 o'clock last night
on the top floor Of the Traders
Bank building.
Mr.. Hellenbrand was c1eannr,,
the outside of the window glass to
his room facing on Riverside av-
enue, when the window fell down
and pinioned him in that position.
He lacked presece of mind
enough to break the glass to free
himself, but remaied there shout
ing Help until Gloomy Gus"
Henneberg went to his assistance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
AT
HIS GATE

A lone highwayman last night,
about 1920 o'clock, held up and
robbed S. M. Myers, of Fourth
avenue, almost in front Of his
home, and took SIS from him.
1t is exceptionally dark at that
point and the robber stepped off
the street in front of his victim
and showed the barrel of a revol-
yer against his breast, with the
command to dig up" Myers dug.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
CRUEL WAR
ALL over

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July IL
The state department is advised
that Guatemala. Honduras and Sal
vador have agreed upon an armis-
tic. All disputants are willing to
settle their differences by confer
ence
Officials of the respective gov
ernments are Fastening news of
the armistic to the armies in the
field.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17

money.
Clure is held, however, as wit
ness against E. w. Swanson, whose
hearing Is scheduled for July "a.
Some trouble was experienced In
fixing the date, because Swanson
has been certified to be suffering
from an acute stomach trouble. Re-
ceiver Kimball wanted an early
date set for the hearing because
certain newspapers had been dis
cussing the pros and cons and cons
and pros to such an extent that
the matter should be settled as
speedily as possible"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
u8is
ELKS FAVOR
new RITUAL

DENVER, Colo, July 1.-THE
grand lodge OF Elks held It's first
session today ito dispose Of i'm,
portant business. Reports read
will be printed and distributed. The
adoption Of new ritual is being
considered. The grand lodge APP
pears favorable to this change.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
make IT
DISCORCE
(scripps News Association.l

ST. LOUIS, July 17.-Circuit At
torney Sager today filed suits
against the Polar Wave and the
Merchants Ice & Fuel companies,
charging conspiracy in restraint Of
trade. He asks that Judgment for
81, 400 be assessed against each
company as accumulated fines
since the alleged combine was
formed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
TO FIGHT
ICE TRUST
(Scripps News Association.l

NEW YORK, July 17.-Mayor
Coyne, Of Yonkers, is planning to
supply his city with artificial Ice
at cost. The trust has raised the
price to 60 cents 100 pounds. The
charity department is preparing to
supply ice free to the poor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
FIRE AND BLOOD

ST. PETERSBURG, July IT,
The peasants are wantonly apply
ing the torch in many districts.
They ignited hall at Natshatkino
and destroyed an entire village of
500 houses.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
~ IALk AbUUI PEACE

WASHINGTON, y. ", July H.
Ihe cruiser Marplehsad, aboard
which is the Central American
peace commissioners, has sailed
from La Libertad for Acajutla Sal
yadOr
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
FIRED THE
REPORTERS

LONDON, July IA congress
OF socialists, composed of socialist
members Of various parliments, in.
GLIDING one member from the Rus
sian douma. began session here to-
day. They elected newspaper men,
fearing the respective governments
would dislike publicity of the dis
cussions.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
WRECK ON
SANTA FE

RIVERSIDE. CAL, July 1.-THE
westbound Santa Fe overland
freight was wrecked at Casablanca
this morning. Engineer Gus Fisher
suffered a broken leg and an uns
known tramp was decapitated. ~
dozen cars were demolished.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
WASN'T IT
IN SPOKANE

WASHINGTON, D. c.. July IT.
Officials of the department of jus.
tice believe an Ice trust exists In
New York, with branches in every
large city In the country. Jerome
has called the attention of Attor.
ney General Moody to the situa.
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
HANGS ON SHOE
STRING
(Scripps News Association.)

SANDWICH, Ontario, July IT.
Christopher Sandleman, incarcer-
ated for killing his wife, committed
suicide by hanging by his shoe
laces in prison today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
NOT GUILTY

BEATTYvILLE. Ky. July IT,
The jury In the trial Of James Har~
giss and Sheriff Ed Callahan
charged with the murder Of ATT
torney James b. Marcus three
years ago, returned verdict %
not guilty today and the prisoners
were discharged. -
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
HOTEL FIRE
TWO DEAD

PITTsBURG. July Thames
Conway, a board of health Official,
and Neal Connors. a hotel mana
ger, were killed and three injured
In fire this morning at the
Park hotel. The injured are two
policemen and one fireman, hurt
In rescuing guests.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
ONE IS DEAD
NOTHING SAID
(Scripps News AssoSiation.l

GENEVA, July 17.-Near Como
two deaf dumb duellists fought to-
day. Each fired three shots and
one fell dead in his tracks. Prin-
cipals and second wore black
masks. Not word was spoken by
any of the party during the whole
performance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
ANDY DENIES 1T

LONDON, July 17.-Andrew Car
negie today replied to Sir Cahrles
Upper denying that he, while in
Canada. advised union of Can.
ada aud the United States.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
DEATH ON HIS TRAIL.

. BERLIN, July 17.-Grand G
. Duke Vladimir, en- route to G
3 Paris, was aboard a train G
3 which was wrecked with the G
. evident intention of killing G
3 him. Tie duke escaped unin- G
. jured. G
y
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
TO QUIET TITLE.

The Washington Safe Deposit &
Trust company has filed complaint
against j. p. Allen to quiet tide to
lots 4, 5 and G.. of block 2 of For
est Park addition
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-17
MAKES MAYOR GLAD.

Mayor Floyd L. Daggett, who is
ct present travelling In the east.
this morning wired his private sec
rotary, Otis Anderson, congratula-
tions to the Spokane public upon
the completion OF the big resor-
voir at Pine street and Ninth av-
enue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

the managers and you will always find them
watching the public taste in the same manner
Occasionally an individual dramatst, and not
always the best from technical point of view, will
develop such strong personal bias as to write on
subjects suggested by his tastes without any
regard to the current of popular wishes If he is a
strong enough man he will become leader of the
public in his dramatic tastes. Sometimes in rare
instances he will influence the public so decidedly
that he compels the porary school of writers
to follow him. This has been the in all periods
l need not mention Shakespeare, everything said
about him is matter of course.
Take the vile dramatic of Charles II. Wy
cherey led the brutes but Congreve came up and
combatted with his brilliant comedies the vleness
of the Restoration school, and Hallam says of him
that he introduced decency to the stage that after
ward drove his comedies off it. little after
Congreve, the school, to speak, for we have
nothing but the school, was so stupid that it brought
forth great writers and produced weak senti-
mental plays Then came Goldsmith, who wrote tote
against the feeble sentimentality have referred to-
Richard Brinsey Sheridan was made possible by
Goldsmith We went after that with school
of old comedies When we speak of the "old
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tendency now, and far as l see it is only the
occasional man who discovers the tendency of the
times. Pinero undoubtedly that the public was
tired of the tea cup and Probably had he not
thought SO he would have gone in that school
Undoubtedly more plays written to order
than written the mere impulse of authors,
independently of popular demand. The order play
simply represents the popular demand under
stood by managers, and the meeting of that de-
mand in each age produces the great mass of any
nations drama. So far from lowering the standard
of dramatic writing, it is necessary impulse in the
development of any drama. 1t is only when the
school goes on blindly without seeing change in
the popular taste that the occasional man l have
spoken of comes on. When the work of the school
is 1egitimately in line with the public taste the
merely eccentric dramatist is like Lord Dundrearys
bird with a single feather that goes in corner
and focks all by itself. He may be strong enough
man to attract attention to his individuality, and
his plays may be really great in themselves, but
his work has little influence the development of
the art. In fact, there is no development of the
art except in the line of popular taste The specially
great men mentioned have simply discovered the
changes in the popular taste, and to certain *
tent perhaps guided it.
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Bombarding Jay Gould

once upon time Jay Gould's credit savagely
~ attacked, and in self-protection he opened his
vaults to the inspection of committee of bankers
and let them make appraisement of the contents
The committee reported it had found free" bonds
and stocks having market value of about seventy
million dollars at ruling quotations. Thinking to
make an overwhelming hit by this demonstration
of strength, Gould sent people out to give the glad
swiftest circulation in the right quarters.
Good g-gracious!" exclaimed Travers when the
thriller reached him. H has the old s-s-s-coundre
got that m-m-any stocks 1-eft to s-s-ell."
And, the story runs, he proceeded to pound
the Gouds harder than ever, the theory that the
Wizard" would be trying to get rid of some of
that seventy million dollars worth competitive
selling. The result proved the correctness of the
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TNHERE have been more gigantic figures in
Wall Street than w. R. Travers, but few
brighter minds and few who more pleas
antly remembered He in the Street twenty
years more and in that time built up large
fortune, besides living like king, entertaining
royalty, and enjoying the best of the world pleas
ures. He was neither Jay Gould in intrigue and
mastery campaigning, Commodore Vanderbilt
in construction large market leadership, ]. P.
Morgan in commanding financial ability, a
Jacob H. Schiff in international breadth sales
man of securities. Neither did he possess in super
H H. Rogers, H. c. Prick, John w. Gates, d. G.
Reid, c. M: Schwab, Daniel Guggenheim, great
captains of finance.
Yet he was in his own way remarkable and
engaging personality and moneymaker.. 1t is
for his popularity of speech and his flashing wit
that he is chiefly remembered now in Wall Street,
fill volume.
Lost Nothing by Shutters
LIE really didn't need that stutter to carry his
IL witticisms, but they lost nothing by their
hyphenated medium of transmission. The stutter
was Travers's own, and it has probably served as
scintillatons 1t is the lot of few men to be re-
mernbered in Wall Street twenty years after death,
and w. R. Travers went to his last resting place
just two decades ago. In the stock market
Travers chemically bear, though he had the
to take and keep profits, trait with the
bear, for that matter with the bull.
few years after his appearance in Wall Street
him in down town resort. They chatted few
minutes when the friend suddenly said:
Say, Travers, you stutter a great deal worse
than you did in Baltimore"
Got to-" replied Travers cts h-h-eap
b-b-bigger t-town.'
While still almost stranger in New York,
member of the Stock Exchange, wishing to do the
agreeable took Travers to yacht The
host had fine boat, knew everybody. and took
pleasure in pointing out the celebrities After hour
or two the guest turned to his friend and said:
"S-s-eems to NINE that m-m-ost everybody on
'C-C-hange has yacht"
IS ~ &c
'em mighty fine, too-regular floating palaces"
The b-b-rokers and b-b-bankers f-f-ixed all
fright; b-b-but d-d-don't rem-rn member
seeing any of the c-c-u-s-tom-mer's yachts VIII
where they?"
Bombarding Jay Gould
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Follows Popular Judgment

THIS proves in my judgment that the school
always starts by being shown what the popular
taste is, and follows that, until individual
discovery that the popular taste is changed. The
and fixed in its ideas-it is the individual who
points to the necessary changes. Schools and these
special individuals are interdependent.
AS to the present comedies in America in the
first place. it is impossible a rule to decide fully
what the tendencies of school when is living
in the midst of its activities. There is marked
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A Joke on the Joker

SIOPPlNG one day IN the store OF a bird and dog
~ fancier, Travers made number of inquiries of
the proprietor, who was crotchety chap with a
tongue as sharp his customers, and, pausing be-
fore the cage of large parrot, Travers looked ad-
mirlngly at the bird and remarked its fine points.
That's sp-p-plendid p-p-p-parrot Ocean he
t-t-ta1k?'
IF he couldn't talk any better than you, I'd cut
his blasted head off" snapped the storekeeper.
Travers sometimes took lively interest in poll
tics. Once he got tied up in the initial stages of
reform movement, and at meeting of self
appointed committee representing the better ele-
ment" the question of a candidate for Mayor came
up for discussion. The merits and running quail
ties of several men were debated for long time
but seemed just to fill the bill. They were
looking for an ideal man of lofty character, un-
blemished purity, public spirited, advanced views
on the live issues, administrative genius, and
commanding the respect of the community. Travers
said little, and listened to the talk with growing
impatience. Finally an especially long winded and
tiresome man. after reciting at length the qualities
their candidate should possess, turned to him with
the query, Do you know any such man, Travers
Il d-d-do. l have in m-my mmnind j-just
the m-rnan you w-w-want."
The assembled reforners hailed him as savior
and with voice begged him to name the man
Il d-don't think H-he w-w-would be av-v-vail-
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comedies am not talking about Beaumont and
Fletcher, nor Wycherley nor Vanbrugh
Congreve, but Of the comedy of Goldsmith in the
third quarter of the eighteenth century down to
Buwer Lyttons Money and Boucicault's Lon
don Assurance, bringing to about 1910. Then
there swung school of what call the palmy
days of old comedy, and in the 4os it dwindled to
nothing, and England and America waited until
the early COS Then came Tom Robertson with
his so called tea cup and saucer school, which con-
sisted of sententious dialogue simple situations,
until the Pinero and Jones put stop to the Robert
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Addison

surmse for prices went all to pieces. Addison
Cammack divides with Travers the credit of having
perpetrated this bon mot but the honor seems to
belong rightfully to the suffering humorist
The Travers wit not confined to Wall Street.
On one occasion he attended banquet which was
presided by A. T. Stewart, then the leading
dry goods merchant of America. Travers had no
use for Stewart, and lost no opportunity to cast
ridicule him. Stewart a perpetual target
for sharp tongues. At this banquet the merchant
prince especially irritating to the blue bloods.
Finally, when everything in readiness, the
presiding officer raped for order. There was not
quick response, and with some impotence Stewart
repeated the gavel performance, giving the table
a succession of hard raps. Then, the assemblage
quoted down and just as the man at the head of
the table was about to call for order, Travers in
thin, high keyed voice, p ped out, "C-cash!
Jim Fisk at the height of his career bought
himself splendid yacht and gave swell dinner
aboard to which he invited W. R. Travers At
that time Fisk and Jay Gould were fast friends.
AS Fisk was conducting Travers and detach-
ment of guests through the boat he stopped before
a freshly painted portrait of himself and Gould
which stood out from the wall at the top of the
main stairway, and exclaimed airiy:
We'll boys, what do you think of that pair of
masterpieces"
I've only cr-cr-itcism ito make" said
Travers, after everybody had rhapsodized to the
satisfaction of Fisk. You s-sh-oud h-have ttold
the artist ito p-p-pant you and J-Jay the arms
of c-c-cross with the SSavior in the middle. -