The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-11

died yesterday at E514 Pacific ave-
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Lily Isabel Rodgers, age II, died
last night at Sacred Heart hospital
of perityphitis.
The Knights of the Macabees will
meet d. P. Marley of Port Huron
next Friday and a committee -7ill
be appointed to entertain him.
Thieves yesterday stole the cook
stove belonging to r. c. Rima at IT
Sherman street. He had cleaned
it and had set it outside his house
to dry.
Mrs. J. ]. Stevenson and Mrs.
Kerns will entertain the Northside
chapter of the First Presbyterian
church Thursday afternoon at Mrs.
Kerns' home. E1S33 Fifth avenue.
Chairman w. S. McCrea of the
Y. M. c. A. building committee says
that the wealthy men of Spokane
are slow to respond to it's call for
donations to get the roof on.
The two kellogg boys, Perkins and
Frank, who ran away from their
home at 1924 Chandler street Mon
day, have returned home after their
wanderings. They were glad to get
back and are repentant.
Condemnation proceedings were
bgeun yesterday against several lot
owners by the Great Northern
against Frank Johnson, ]. c. Har-
cleroad, w. F. Johnson and L. C.
Westphal.
Mrs. George Manning will ad-
dress the missionary society of the
Central Christian church at it's reg
ular meeting tomorrow afternoon
at the home of Mrs. ]. M. Simpson,
03221 Madison street.
F. Lewis Clark, chairman of the
City Beautiful park committee, has
just returned from a trip east and
has decided to call a meeting for
the purpose of discussing the ad-
visibility of taking the city parks
out of politics.
Clarence Mclean, who with his
brother was a victim of a dyna-
mite explosion caused by thawing
it, died yesterday at his home on
Red Bluff Prairie His brother, Will
liam, lies in precarious condition
at Sacred Heart hospital.
According to Lake D. Wolford,
the pioneer wheat grower of the
Palouse, the late blizzard has hurt
the wheat quite extensively. He
has just returned from a trip over
the Palouse country.
| Celine Vanard, French woman,
was arrested by Officer Pearson last
night on a charge of robbing John
Madden of $55. This is the third
time the woman has been before
the police for theft. At the police
station she had a fit of Mysteries
and made an attack on Madden.
A. Timing, general agent of the
Northern Pacific, has finally decid-
ed to accept the new position offer
ed him as general agent with the
same company in Seattle. He has
made many friends in this city and
is 10th to leave. Geo. A. Mitchell
has been appointed to succeed him.
The sale of the Marion block,
which was advertised for April "a,
has been postponed to May 8. There
is much speculation as what the
value of the building is. Various
business men estimate it as worth
anywhere from $500 to $4,000 a
front foot and the total estimates
range from 100000 to 100000.
| Emmett Holmes, the cOlored poll
tician, who is in the pay of the city,
will be called down by the Carne-
gle library board for holding down
two jobs-one as janitor for the IL
brary and the other as janitor for
d. c. Corbin. People have objected
to his serving two masters and say
he is not devoting his best talents
to the library.
The chamber of commerce is con-
sidering a proposition of having a
stereoptlcon view entertainment
and lectures on the Inland Empire