davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Joe Cans seems to have regained
a great deal of his former clever
ness and fighting form. In his bat
tile with Mike Sullivan at Los An
geles he again demonstrated that
he was one of the greatest fighters
in the world. He fought in almost
perfect form and only once in the
10 rounds that the battle lasted was
he in the least bit Of danger.
Cans is probably the only man in
the world who would stand a good
chance OF defeating Battling Mel.
son. Of course, the Dane does not
feel like hooking up with the col
ored boy when such men as Her
man, Herrera and Britt are still in
the game looking for trouble.
But Cans is entitled to considera-
tion before any of the others, for
technically he holds the lightweight
championship of the world. In the
popular mind Nelson is the title
holder and will always be so until
a reverse is met with. Morally the
public Is right, but unfortunately
championship cannot be decided
upon moral claims. They are won
or lost in the squared circle. That s
why Cans is the real lightweight
champion of the world as far as
records go. He defeated Frank
Erne for the title and until he Is
defeated the honor will remain in
his possession.
There ought to be some way of
Kidding Cans of his responsibility.
Nelson gives as his reason for not
wanting to fight Cans the record of
the colored man for taking. Nelson
is nearly right at least, for Cans Is
either a cur or crook. On his own
confession the public bases this
opinion. He says that he fraudu-
lently entered into an agreement
with Britt to lay down, and Britt
denies the allegation, but the evil
dence is in favor of Cans state
ment, if you stop to recall the fight.
Well. at the present time 1t lNms
improbable for these two foremost
boys to get together and In the
meantime the public will wait in
hopes that the two will finally de-
eide to mix.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
The Property Called Health

Is the most valuable property we
have and should receive the most
attention. 1t helps in business.
helps good looks, helps make
friends, helps get situations and
helps hold them, and always makes
happiness. Property like this out
of repair should be looked after.
Bilious spells, Indigestion. dyspep-
STA, belching, dizziness. sick head
ache. sallow complexion with PIN
pies and liver spots, a drowsy feel
ing after meals, sour stomach, etc.
all show loss OF health. Druggists
will sell for "a cents a box, DR..
Gums Improved Liver Pills. One
for a dose. A cure for all these
diseases. Made by DR.. Bosanko Co..
Philadelphia, Pa. sss
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
q 's}g-----Sh
ll 4:

err, while Potts is hard hitting lac
who might tangle up with any OF
them and have a show to get the
money.
1t Is more than likely Joe Cans
and Joe Wolcott will tie up again
in San Francisco. OF course there
is not real good information on the
subject, owing to the way the fight
trust down there has of doing bust
ness. but in Boston it is being free
ly talked of. "Skidoo" for the two
of them. Two greater fakers( OF
greater fighters) never lived. It's
toss-up.
AL Kaufman and Fred Cooley
are matched for Billy Roche's club
at Colma, May II, the same day
Herrara and Nelson meet in Los
Angeles. Cooley is the recent one
! who succeeded in knocking Jack
O'Brien down. Wew-well-well--
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
SURE CURE FOR PILES.

Itching piles produce moisture
and cause itching. this form, as well
as the blind. bleeding and protrud.
ing piles are cured by DIR. Bo-san.
kos Pile Remedy. Stops itching
and bleeding. Absorbs tumors, soc
jar at druggists. or sent by mail.
Treatise free. Write me about your
case. DR.. Bosanko, Phlla., Pa. ..+
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
TOURIST SLEEPERS TO
CHICAGO,

The c. B. 4 G.. c. M. & st. p
and c. & n. w. Rys. are now run
ming tourist sleepers between St
Paul and Chicago. Take the North
ern Pacific Ry. to st. Paul, change
there at union depot into fresh
clean tourist sleeper for Chicago.
4. TIMING,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
TO REACH SEATTLE ON TIME

Take Northern Pacific train No.
is, which is made up at Spokane
and leaves at p. m. every day.
arriving at Seattle and Tacoma at
$40 p. m. Carries Pullman sleep
ers, one to Tacoma and one to Sc.
attic. and grill" or short order.
dining car. Service first class In
every respect. No waiting for de-.
layed trains.
A, TIMING,
''' General Agent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
BY JIM my.

Some fun-loving individual has
written on the sign which notifies
strangers that the old Oxford pool
room has been closed by the order
of the sheriff, the figures, "23." To
the uninitiated the number % sig.
mites nothing in the world but the
figure 2 and 3, however, to the fol-
lowers of the racing game it has
Significance all it's own. 1t Is a now
game. Here it is:
Take q number from one to nine
Add one. Multiply that by nine.
Drop the figure on the left hand
side, add fourteen and the first
number you took.
Did you get it? Well, try it
again.
1t amounts to the same as the re-
cipe for "Skidoo pudding"
This Is the one playing by the
fighters who fake, the pool-rooms
that get their bumps and any other
old game that is failure.
They all have the sign at the
finish the number, "23."
It was the writer's game in the
race horse business.
1t Is the inevitable sign of the
hoodoo.
Now, about that boy, Jack o.
Keefe. He has finally been man
enough to come through and tell
Matchmaker Eddie Quinn Of the s.
A. A. c., that he has other things in
sight( and cannot meet Maurice
Thompson. Nobody will blame him
for making a match where he has
bigger receipts in sight, but here Is
the proposition: When he left here
after his draw with Kid Parker, he
asked Eddie Quinn to promise him
the April date. So Eddie did. When
Thompson defeated Parker, Eddie
arranged for Thompson to meet o.
Keefe. He wired Jack to come at
once and wired him tickets. o.
Keefe stalled-then he stalled some
more. and kept on stalling until Ed
die (who Is as even tempered as
they make an Irishman) went into
the air and wired that unless o.
Keefe. ewould answer Immediately
there would be something doing.
Then, an then only, did Jack con-
descend to answer, or make any no.
tice that he was still among the
living. He finally opened up and
impaired the information that he
had a match at Milwaukee. This
was wrong of Jackie should have
kept Quinn posted as to his negotia-
lions and not kept the fight fans
guessing.
What about this man Jimmy
Potts? Is he there? VIII he make
q fight? These and many other
questions are being asked by the
fight fans. For the benefit of those
fans who do not have the benefit
of the dope it may be said that
Thompson and Potts met in St.
Louis. Feb. 10, 1905. At thit time
Thompson had not been in the
game very long, neither had Potts.
However, they were both good
enough to please the fight fans Of
st. Louis. They went 10 rounds to
a draw and created a great deal Of
enthusiasm. They both make the
same weight easily. Thompson Is
the more clever of the two to Judge
by his last performance with Park
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

For the week beginning tomor-
row afternoon strong list of at
fractions has been secured by Man.
ager Cordray of the Washington
theater. To Rapoli, king Of Jug
glers, has been given the honor of
headliner for the week, but every
number On the program is said to
be meritorious. The Lutz Brothers
instrumentalists, have an except
ionally attractive number. One of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
COAST LEAGUE

Aat San Francisco. Seattle turn
ed the hoodoo and won over the
home team by a score Of 5 to 4.
Portland did the same thing at
Fresno and won by a score Of 5
to 0.
At Los Angeles, Oakland met de-
feat by a score of 2 to /.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
THROUGH TOURIST sLEEpERs
TO CHICAGO

Via Great Northern railway leave
Spokane at 9:S0 a. m. daily, arriy.
ing at Chicago 9 o'clock third
morning. Rate for double berth.
$5.75. For reservations, tickets.
etc. apply at city Office. 70l River.
side. f. s. BLAIR.
go General Agent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

There never was time in the
history of the ring when there was
so much friction over a pound OF
flesh as there Is at the present
time, Joe Cans is probably the most
liberal one of the lot and the other
fellows have made him that way.
Cans, however. was never a 1873.
pound at ringside - fighter. He
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
NATIONAL LEAGUE

At Philadelphia, New York 4,
Philadelphia S.
At Cincinnati, Chicago 5, Cincin-
natl /.
At Brooklyn, Boston 7, Brook
Ign 4.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
Ccmlque Theater

Week Of April 2. The sensat ional
comedy-drama. "The Golden Giant"
High class specialties between acts
Continuous performance. See the
screamingly funny opening act,
Lynx Ferret. Detective" Best and
biggest show In town.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

a champion he should be the man
to make the figures at which the
fight should take place and name
the conditions for the fight.
But his taking has put him back
and the only person he will ever be
able to dictate to is himself.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
AMATEUR GAMES

The school principals were de-
feated by the Garfield school team
yesterday on the Garfield grounds
by a score Of to 2. The princi-
pals have announced their inten-
tfon of challenging the high school
faculty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

The first games In the grade
school league are being played to.
day as follows: Garflelds VS.
Holmes on Holmes grounds; Bry,
ant VS.. Logan on Logan grounds;
Irving VS.. Emerson on Washington
grounds: Hawthorne VS.. Bancroft
on Bancroft grounds; Fish VS.. Nc,
Kinley on Field grounds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
Az, Gah@ 1The@G0@us

Blanche Walsh opened at the
Spokane this afternoon an engage
ment of two performances, conclud-
ing tonight. "The Woman in the
Case" is one of Clyde Fitch's clev-
erts plays and as interpreted by the
talented actress is particularly
pleasing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

1.-THE Christian" was repeated last
night before "a large audience at
the Spokane. The production was
up to the standard set Thursday
evening and was greatly enjoyed
Miss Lillian Lawrence and John
Sainpolis have a place in the hearts
of all lovers of good theatrical pro-
auctions in Spokane.
''The Christian" will return to
the Spokane Sunday night. The
play Is Q stage version of the ia
nous novel of Hall Game, the au-
thor from the Isle of Man, which
created such sensation in the
east and in London. 1.-THE Chris
tan tells the story of John Storm.
a young man who relinquishes
wealth and position in the wish to
uplift the poor and afflicted. Few
stage plots have had more dramatic
scenes than THE Christian" and
the subject mat tier is such as ap-
peals to the better nature Of man
kind. An excellent company of
players has been engaged for this
production. headed by LILLIAN Law
renee and John Sainpolis.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
INDIANS
WINNERS

The University of Idaho again
went down to bitter defeat at the
hands of the Indians. The score
was to / and was as close to a
shut-out as possible and not make
it. Rush did the slab work for the
Indians and is showing up in re-
markable form. The university
players showed great improvement
over the previous game.
The score: r. H. e.
U. of l.. 20 90 0 o 10 OIL 6 4
Spokane. @ 2 2 0 0 1 O00-5 s 8
Batteries-Roovevelt and Num-
Der; Rush and Suess. Umpire-Set-
ley.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

WOrIdS GREATEST Juggler at the
Washington Theater next week.
the brothers is armless and per-
forms a number of wonderful feats.
What should prove welcome an
nouncement to patrons Is that of
the special return engagement of
Ralph E. Cummings and company,
who made such a great hit several
weeks ago with their screaming
one-act farce comedy. During the
coming week the company will pre-
sent "a Sealskin Sacque," a laugh
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

or 0PoKAN, WASH.

Capital .$7co. 900
Surplus and prodts. 900
A. Kuhn. vice president: Chaa q. n.
tinge. cashier: J. inner West assist
ant cashier.
Directors-M n. Cowlsy. PAtrich
Clark. James Monaghan, A. Kuhn. Al
fred Coolidge d u Drumhellse. J.
umAs West
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

The Seattle high school team
was defeated yesterday by the Spo-
kane high school by score of to
4 The local boys played a much
better game than the boys from the
Sound and excepting in the early
stages Of the game there was never
any doubt as to the result. Her
rlngton's pitching was the feature.
He was remarkably steady and held
Seattle at his mercy.
Score R. H. E.
Seattle O00030-4 4 5
Spokane ...0O0021 4O*-7 IL 3
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

RESTAURANT. $3.50; RESTAU.
rant, $4,000, cash; restaurant
worth $4,000, fine place, big trade,
can be had much less. Fine hotel
and lodgin house, $4,000. 100 acres,
$4,000; 160 acres, 1850, in wheat; sc
acres fruit farm. $4,000. The Lands
Co., 21-22 Marion block.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

The Blair college team will play
Lewiston. Idaho, next week, and
will start for there next Tuesday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

ONE FINE LOT IN LIBERTY
Park. One block from the park.
At sacrifice price II sold before
the 10th. R. H. Dodd, owner; room
4, Wolverton block. Il
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Good, modern, nine room house.
two large lots. two blocks from
first class car line, all kinds Of
fruits and berries. place we'll i'm.
proved. The value OF the lots h
increasing very fast. The property
will make good paying invest.
ment or an ideal home. Part cash
required. Address x. care of The
Press. zee
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14
HOMESEEKER3. ATTENTION!

HOMESEEKER3, ATTENTION!
The Flathead reservation Is soon
to be opened to settlers. Richest
soil in United States and a home
stead will be worth 5000 per acre.
Fine climate. We show how to Sc
cure "a home for you and for.
tune too" Join our club. Mem.
bership fee is only $40. For all
maps, charts and complete informa.
ton up to and even after the open
ing. If you are a poor man or wo.
man and want to better your con.
dition see us about this. Call or
write. Empire Realty Co.. stats
agents, 2O7-2OS Mohawk block. II
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

NEW PIANO, VALUABLE Ii.
brary and book case. cheap. or
will exchange for lots. 729 Mont
gomery avenue. III
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

For sale, a we'll improved 40 acre
with orchard, new house, six miles
northeast from Oakesdale and two
miles from car line. For further
particulars address J. H. Schlatter,
Oakesdale, P. o. box 81. "a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

II you want q loan. 60 to p. Hicn.
ford. ass Main avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

81 opens chscting account Tfa
Peoples Bank. lla lilL Long hours
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Nice corner lot and inside lot on
Eleventh avenue. Cannon Hill
$1O50 for both. or will sell seps-
rately. Onefourth cash. Gray 4
McCune Co.. First and Wall streets.
Phone 800. zee
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

A Few more lots left ON car line.
good soil. Good view. Near to
school; $3.50 and 5000 each-S1a
down and IS month. Northern
Investment company $50 Riverside
avenue. Phone 1899. sss
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

q Dlc COhlCuy VI ohC eLSl. AO ~
Rurke-Bennette trio are three dain-
ty dancers who will introduce some.
new and intricate steps. Their
turn Is claimed to- be good one.
and should be we'll received here.
A new singer will be heard in the
illustrated song for the week. The
biograph will this week show a
new set of life motion pictures, de-
plotting "a Victim of the Storm"
and "a Friend in Need is a Friend
Indeed"
Next Sunday evening the Shirley
ompany will present the beautiful
society comedy drama entitled
"The Wife," The wife is a con
panion play to the Charity Ball"
played by this company some time
ago, and was written by the same
authors. 1t is one of the few I'M
equivical, undisputed successes of
the American stage. ''The Wife"
has an unique record-produced in
New York in mid-winter it ran for
twelve months and then was trans
ferred to Chicago where it ran for
nearly ten months. After that the
company played in all the prinsi-
pal cities of America.
The play is an American play,
dealing with American society life
and political methods used by Of
fee seekers to defeat or elect their
man. The action of the play is
laid in Washington, D. G. The play
abounds in comedy situations; the
scene in the first act of an amateur
theatrical party being beyond dis
cription.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Cha.ies staisy. 2ls racifso avsnuA
South of N. p. depot loo-oo
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

CAST OFF CLOTHING.
positively highest prices paid for
cast off clothing. N22s StsvsnA II
I'LL.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Ladies' play billiaros and poea
very day and evening - Pnsees
billiard parlor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

Freight. furniture. baggage Ana
parcel delivery. Tel scr met
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-14

standard Fuel q Ice Co.. Elel
Front Tel esS. Carbondale. Roch
Springs and Summit coal Martin
Dolan. manager.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-06-16

blended into n about the time wnen
the tiger met. the man. was n
realist in the age of the romanticists.
| described ut some length, both verb
ally and ~pictorially, the untimelv end
of thai Wayfaring man. But when the
tiger had absorbed him, | found my
self slightly embarrassed as To how
my story was to go ON. 1T is very
easy 10 get people into scrapeS and
very hard to get them out again. was
my sage comment on the difficulty;
and have often had cause to repeat
this %precocious aphorism of my child
hood. Upon this occasion the situa-
tton was beyond me, and my book.
like my man, was engulfed in my
tiger"
At Stonyhurst, and also at Field
kirch. in Germany. Doyle'S literary
inclination was shown in the editor
ship of school magazines. In 1876 he
returned to Edinburgh and took up
the study of medicine at the univers-
ltN there. where he remained until he
obtained his diploma. five years later.
In 1880 DIR. Doyle left the university
To make a seYen-months' trip to the
Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on
board n Whaler. There was very little
demand for surgery aboard the Hope.
II he has described his chief occii-
patton during the voyage rs being ON.
ployed in keeping the captain in cut
tobacco, working in the boats after
fish, and teaching the crew to box.
lie utilized his experience later in his
story, The Captain of the polestcr."
Two years later. in 1882, after a
tour-months' voyage to the west coast
of Africa, he settled down as a med
zeal practitioner at Southsea. in Eng
land, where he remained until 1890.
Those We're arduous and trying years.
in which he came to regard the calls
of the profession he had adopted as
Interruptions in the real work of his
life, and found that the writing of
stories was a very slender prop upon
which to lean for a livelihood. FIFTY
little cylinders of manuscript" he
says, did | send out during eight
years, which described a regular orbit
among publishers, and usually came
back, like paper boomerangs. to the
place that they had started from"
All his time he was writing anony-
mously, and during the ten years of
his literary apprenticeship, he states
that, IN spite of unceaSing and untir-
ing literary effort, he never in any one
year earned fifty pounds by his pen.
Then, in 1887, appeared in Beeton's
Christmas Annual "A story from his pen
called "A Study in Scarlet" 1t is n
significant point in the authors career.
for in this story Sherlock Holmes
made his first appearance. 1t was
published later in Il book form, II
went forth rs his first novel. and Inn
mediately began to attract attention.
Under these ~faVoring circumstances
he undertook the writing of Micah
Clarke 1t was completed after n
years reading and five months writ
Ing, and represented the most am
bilious and hopeful work the author
had yet accomplished. But it came
back TO him from one publishing house
after another, until he began TO des-
pair of its acceptance. Il remember"
he says, smoking over my dog-eared
manuscript when it returned for a
Whit of country air, and wondering
Continued ON second page, column two.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-06-16

identity. Many of these were so
famous in their day that they were
Frequently purchased ut large prices
by the British Museum. John Doyle
had four sons, who also became
artists. His eldest son. Charles Doyle,
was the father of the novelist, and
another son was Richard Doyle. who
came by his nickname of "Dicky"
Doyle through his signature of a p
with a little bird perched upon it,,
which may yet be seen on the cover
design of Punch.
Conan Doyle's education began in
England, where already in his tenth
year he exhibited Il wonderful pre-,
cocity for telling stories. But ven ut
the early age of'siX the future novelist
and creator of Sherlock Holmes was
anticipated in Il story of terrible adj
venture, written in Il bold hand on
foolscap paper, four words 70 the line.
and accompanied with original pen
and-ink Illustrations.
''rhere WIS a man and Il tiger in
It," he says of this i%nfantile effort; Il
forget which was the hero; but il
didn't matter much, for they became
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-06-16

people to picnic and TO walk through
that part of the property lying along
the river. The American millionaire
threw them u and threatened them
with the utmost rigors of the law.
Now that he has settled the estate on
his son, the inhabitants of Cookham
and Maidenhead on the Thames
surrounding hamlets-are delighted.
for they believe that young Astor will
Mt one give orders for the cancel
latioh of the many strict orders against
trespassing made by his father-orders
which turned all the riverside folk in
to bitter enemies of the American
millionaire.
Great walls S~urmOunted with broken
glass to protect the AstOf vegetable
garden spoil lovely views from the
public road, and anybody daring to
picnic in the Cliveden woods. as in
the olden days. is at once threatened
by II keeper with Imprisonment.
1t is believed that young Mr.. Astor,
who is very popular with rowing men,
will abolish these feudal and dis
tasteful regulations.