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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
LARGE CHUNK OF "SMALL GRAFT"
LOOMS UP IN DEFICIENCY BILL

"To pay H. c. Adams for expert
work done for the committee on
interstate commerce of the senate
in compiling digest of the hear
ings on the regulation of railway
rates and for compiling certain APP
pendices to the hearings under the
direction of said committee, $25OO."
But the best is yet to come. An
investigation costs something for
railway fares, etc, for the wit
nesses who come long distances to
testify as they are wanted to. Per-
haps the reason for their coming
may be found in this line, which is
contiguous to the other amend
ments:
"For miscellaneous items, excIu.
sive of labor, $5o,ooO."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

proposed by the water company to
lay mains in Hillyard Third addi-
ton, and also east of the Great
Northern tracks to Hillyard orch
ard.
Articles of incorporation were
filed yesterday in the county aud
itor's Office by the Prager-Schles-
niger company to do wholesale
merchandise business. The CAPT
tai stock is $4,000, the par value
of a share being 500. The life OF
the company is for so years. Lewis
Prayer, William B. Dornberg and
L. A. Schlesinger are named as in
corporators.
Are you stronger on making
money than on investing it?
Takes some time to decide how
you will place your funds, doesn
| it?
Why not deposit your none.
j.. with us on a certificate of deposi
while you are looking around?
| Liberal interest.
Open Saturday evenings between
6 and p. m. 49,
| Spokane e. Eastern Trust ca.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

our Philippine possessions or the
Pacific frontier.
If the truth be told, then, the
United States is entirely unpre-
pared for serious trouble in the far
east. The lack of a suitable naval
base, either on the Pacific coast or
in the Philippines, is now being im-
pressed upon the members of the
naval committee in congress, as it
has been very apparent already to
members of the general board and
to the president The big floating
drydock Dewey is still months
away from its destination, and the
Pacific coast has but one drydock.
namely, at Bremerton, near Seat
tie, with sufficient capacity to dock
our battleships.
But the most striking feature Of
the situation as developed in the
discussions in cabinet m lettings
and elsewhere in the very conep.cu-
Gus absence of any preparation for
defending the naval base with its
drydocks and other facilities at
Olongapo in the Philippine islands,
or at Cavite, near Manila. With
mere handful of ships on our OTTER
line of defense, it is becoming evil
dent that any money spent for dry
docks or shipyards in the Philip
pines would so much temptation FOR
a hostile nation to grab them when
the opportunity came.
In any case, it is becoming plain
that a secondary naval base must
be established on the Pacific coast
to which our forces might fall back
when overpowered or outnumbered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
GROWERS LATEST

yer, would himself howl should it
he required that lawyers furnish
written opinions in every case of
consultation, for the litigants could
file away such opinions for refer
ence and for economy's sake, and
lawyers would do less business.
Verify, Mr.. Cleveland's sugges-
ton, If adopted, would be the Civ
ing away of the profitable tricks
of the trade" and the New York
Medical society's patients will
have to keep right on in ignorance
OF knowing chow it is DONE"
whether the result is death or a
cure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

possessions and the entire western
coast of the United States are prac-
tically defenseless against naval at
tack. If war should break out to-
morrow, San Francisco, Los An
geles, Seattle and Tacoma would be
obliged to depend upon land forti-
fications and the services Of the
regular and volunteer army for de-
tense. Weeks and even months
would go by before the meager
feet on the Pacific could be rein
forced by other warships now I'M
der construction or cruising in the
remote waters of the Atlantic.
Orders to strengthen the naval
representation in Asiatic waters
have been issued by President
Roosevelt. In addition to the or
ders detaching the Chattanooga
and Charleston from Admiral Sigs-
ee's fleet in the Mediterranean,
plans have been made to send the
Brooklyn and the Tacoma by way
of the Suez to join the fleet under
Admiral Train. The Oregon has
been ordered to stay in the far
east, although in need or repairs.
Whether other vessels can be
spared from the Atlantic squadron
has not yet been determined. Con-
siderable depends upon the atti-
tude of Great Britain. Should that
nation stand behind Japan in any
trouble with the United States, it
would become impossible to con-
centrate any large part of the Am
erican fleet in Asiatic waters. From
strategic point of view, the Allan
tic coast Is quite as important as
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH:

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, City
Temple, Corner Lincoln street and
Second avenue. Recently at one
Of the theaters, a play was given
in which Mary Magdalene AMI
Mary the Sister of Martha were
represented. So many persons
have asked DR.. Van Osdel about
the truthfulness of these represen-
tations that he has decided to
speak Sunday morning on MARY
Magdalene and the Amounting of
Jesus at Bethany" at 10: 30 o'clock
and he cordially invites all who at
tended the play to attend a pleas
ant service at his church at the
above hour. At 1880 Sunday even
ing the subject is: Under the
Shadow Of Another's Crime" This
is the sixth story, and will be Of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

Right on the heels of the crusade
to purify the sale of patent medi-
cines, comes Grover Cleveland with
a suggestion to purify the practice
of medicine. In an address to the
New York Medical society, the ex-
president urges that physicians tell
their patients what the treatment
is to be, what Is to be done to
them.
1t is but a step further to require
doctors to write their prescriptions
In plain English, instead of the La
tin or duck tracks which they now
employ and which can only be I'M
derstood, when not misunderstood,
by the druggist.
What a lovely professional howl
would go up if this were required!
1t would put an end to the prescrib-
ing of bread dough and aqua pura
and to the practitioners commits
sions paid by druggists on prescrip-
tons. Moreover, it would result in
poor people paying for fewer doc
tors visits and pres criptions, some
thing that no profession would
stand for without a howl even more
vigorous than that set up by the
patent medicine men over the eff
forts to make them label their bot
| ties with their formulas.
| Maybe Grover Cleveland, law
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

to get them fixed"
For the benefit of people like
this there Is shown a turnover"
with buttonhole in the back, to be
fastened over a small button on the
collar band Of the waist; and in
the front Is soft ribbon bow Sc.
curely fastened to the turnover"
No. 4 shows one of the "arm
garters" for holding in place the
long gloves of silk or kid. This
arm garter" is essentially sum-
mer one. being made with dainty
lace frills on either side of the silk
covered elastic band which holds
the glove.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
Staff Special.

Staff Special.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. "a
The alarming conditions in China
have awakened the government Of
ficials. at a rather late date, to the
totally inadequate preparation for
trouble in the far east.
In case the difficulty is confined
TO our dispute with China, the navy
and army will have little difficulty
in dealing with it. But that COM
plications Of more serious char
acter are threatened is amply prov
ed by the urgent steps which are
| being taken to strengthen the fleet
on the Asiatic station. The Chin
/. csc navy is so weak and so inef-
fectually manned that it would not
take the two battleships Ohio and
Wisconsin with the aid of the two
cruisers, Baltimore and Cincinnati,
and the gunboats Concord. Raleigh
and Rainbow, to quickly dispose Of
it.
But what if Japan interferes?
1t must be admitted frankly that,
with the small part of the Ameri-
can navy now in Chinese waters, .
clash with Japan could not result
in anything ubt overwhelming de-
feat for the United States. The
japanese naval forces in the orient
outnumber ours eight to one. Jap
an has practically all of its naval
strength concentrated in those wa
tiers. AS against our two first class
battleships. Japan has nine first
class battleships; as against our
two small cruisers, Japan has %
cruisers, half of which are more
than 5000 tons displacement. The
proportion against us is even more
in gunboats, torpedo boats and de-
stroyers.
1t is fact that today our Pacific
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
FOR THE
CITY BEAUTIFUL

The city eautiful committee will
meet in the auditorium of the Spo
kane high school Monday night and
talk over plans for beautifying the
city. Efforts will also be made tc
arouse interest in arbor and clean
ing up day, March 81.
Thomas Bonner, professor of bot
any at the Spokane high school
will speak on washington Trees
and How to Grow Them"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

Staff Correspondence of The
Press.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. "a
An interesting example of small
graft" has Just come to light in
Senator Elkins' committee on in
terstate commerce. 1t shows how
that benevolent statesman loves to
be generous with the peoples mon
ey, and illustrates how a calamity
like rate legislation may prove to
be blessing to doOrkeepers, jani-
tors and even committee clerks.
Last spring the Elkins commit
tee On interstate commerce sat for
six weeks to inquire into" rates
and rate making.
All who worked are on the gov
eminent pay rolls at ANNUAL sal
aries.
But they are not in the habit of
doing ANNUAL work. They haw
been in the habit of drawing pay
for II months and working six
months. So, in the urgent deficien-
cy bill, when it was reported this
week in the senate, an amendment
was inserted at the suggestion of
Senator Elkins:
ITO pay for extra services
as follows:
ITO Collin H. Livingstone, $500;
E. H. McDermot, $3.50; John w
Fenton Jr., $500; VIM. H. Gaskin,
$3.50; w. A. Smith, $500; Peter
Riley. 5000; John r. Williams,
5000; Bevery Hudnell, $500"
The above compensation for six
weeks work are bonus over and
above the regular pay of the en-
ployes who are named. Mr. Liv-
ingstone is clerk of the committee
and Is on the government rolls at
$3.50 per annum; McDermot and
Fenton are stenographers at $1400
year. Gaskin and Smith are as
sistants also On the rolls and Bev.
erly Hudnell is the man who
sweeps out.
But that is not all. When it came
down to doing any real work, as
sitants were hired. So, for the
man who made an index of the
hearings is this:
ITO pay e. c. Goodwin for ex
penses incurred and for services il
preparing an analytical index t,
the testimony taken before sait
committee, $500"
Then to relieve the clerks an,
the senators of the arduous tasl
of making a report, two experts
were employed for that purpose
The name of H. T. Newcomb is no
mentioned in this bill, but H.
Adams is taken care of in this:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
MAKE BRICK
AND SEVERAL
OTHER THINGS

Articles of incorporation of the
j. T. Davie Brick company were
filed with the county auditor today.
1t can make brick, deal in building
materials, run boarding houses,
hold real estate, operate a railway
and develop electricity 1t Is CAPT
tailed at 100000. incorporation
are j. T. Davie, Peter Erickson and
John A. Hurd. The principal place
OF business is to be at Mead, this
county.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
Pirating FoIey's Honey and Tar

Pirating FoIey's Honey and Tar.
Foley & Co., Chicago, originated
Honey and Tar as throat and lung
remedy, and on account of the great
merit and popularity Of Foley's
Honey and Tar many limitations
are offered for the genuine. These
worthless limitations have similar
sounding names. Beware of them.
The genuine Foley's Honey and
Tar Is In yellow package. Ask
for it and refuse any substitute.
1t is the best remedy for coughs
and colds. Chas. McNab, 402 River
side ."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
EYES OPEN NOW To
NATIONAL MENACE

THE TROUBLE IN CHINA ROUS-
ES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
TO THIS SITUATIONS: WE ARE
WEAK IN FAR EAST AND OUR
ENTIRE WEST COAST is
HELPLESS AGAINST A NAVAL
ATTACK - JAPAN, IF SHE
PLEASED, COULD EAT US UP
SHOWS PLAINLY NEED OF
MORE WARSHiPS AND NAVAL
BASE.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
SALVATION ARMY

Salvation Army Sunday services,
Prayer meeting at Z a. M; Junior
Companies and Bible classes at
$50 a. M; Holiness meeting at
II a. M; Free and Easy at p. m;
Y. P. L. at $50 p. M; Farewell
meeting of Adjt and Mrs. Scott
and Lieut.. E. Nelson at p. m.
These meetings will be preceded
by open airs on the corner Of Stew
ems and Main. Hall 709 Front av.
Adjt. and Mrs. Sloate Commanding
officers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
CLAIMS MILLIONS
OF MARSHALL FIELD
(Scripps News Association.l

GENEVA, Feb. "a. - A Swiss
boot maker named Marshall, de-
claring the late Marshall Field was
his uncle, has laid claim to the
estate. The government has re-
ferred the claim to the Swiss min
lister In Washington.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
Brevities

E. ]. Taylor has gone to Butte
and will return Monday.
John M. Bum, attorney, has re-
turned after AN extended eastern
trip.
Ladies' play billiards and pool
every day and evening at Phster
billiard parlor.
J.J. Browne has returned from a
few weeks trip to Chicago and
New York.
Daniel Robertson left for Los An
geles, Cal, last night to pass sew
eral months for his health. He Is
accompanied by Mrs. Robertson.
The hearing by the county COM
missioners on the application for
$4,000 appropriation for the ar
mory was postponed until next Fri
day.
Mrs. o. Jeldness and Miss Hen
dricson entertained with 500 par
ty yesterday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Jeldness, 1929 Second ave-
nue.. Thirty guests attended.
Miss Margery Collins Of Spokane
and Edward Ring of Wilbur, Wash,
were married Thursday morning at
$3.50 o'clock at the Church of Our
Lady of Lourdes by Rev. Father
Theoph Pypers.
"Panics and Industrial Depres-
sions" will be the subject of the dis
cussion at the regular Sunday
meeting of the Economic club at
5 p. m, $40 IL Riverside, in Apollo
hall.
Red Cross lodge, No. %, X. p,
at it's meeting last night in Pacific
hall voted to take in the lodge al
| Cheney, Wash. The consolidated
organization will have a member
ship OF more than 600.
The names of the officers of the
Spokane Concrete company filed
| yesterday in the Office of the cOun
ty auditor are: President, w. S
Rogers; vice president and man
ager, D. F. Strobeck; secretary and
treasurer, w. B. Parker.
Excelsior Camp M. w. A. will
hold their regular monthly socia
session next Tuesday evening in
|. o. o. F. hall A drill by the
team, whist and refreshments will
be features of the program. AL
visitors and friends of the order
invited.
VIM. F. Kyle and associates filet
bond with the city clerk yester
day for $4,000 to protect the cit.
against any damages that may re
suit through installing the plant t
be built under the new dollar gas
, franchise. The bond actual re
quired was only $4,000.
Frank Bruno notified the cit
council yesterday that he desires t
withdraw his application for sa
loon license for the Paris hallway
Front avenue, between Hoawr
street and Wall street. Mr.. Brun
said this is because of the objet
tions made against the enterprise
The hearing upon the application
of the Hillyard Water company 70
, franchise to extend its waite
mains has been set by the count
!. commissioners for March 20. 1t
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
WOOD DELAYS
TRIP ACCOUNT
CHINA TROUBLE
(Ecripps News Association,)

MANILA, Feb. 24.-Active prep
arations for an emergency in China
resulted in Wood postponing his
proposed trip to Mindanao. A list
has been circulated among packers
and teamsters in this city request
ing the names of all willing to en-
list for service in China.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
CHURCHES

tractive to all who are trying to be
patient under difficulties and hope
for victories. Young Peoples meet
ing at $50 p. m. Bible School at
noon and midweek meeting We'd
nesday night.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

And now a scientist declares NIL
sic enlarges the brain. OF course
it does. If it didn't what would
the musicians do with their hair?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
Weak Kidneys

1t is Of but little use to try to doc.
tor the kidneys themselves. Such
treatment is wrong. For the kid
neys are not usually to blame for
their weakness or irregularities.
They have no power-no self-con-
troll. They are operated and actu-
eted by tiny shred of nerve
which is largely responsible for
their condition. If the kidney
nerve is strong and healthy, the
kidneys are strong and healthy. If
che kidney nerve goes wrong, you
know 1t by the inevitable result
kidney trouble. I
This tender nerve is only one Of
great system of nerves. This sys-.
TEN controls not only the kidneys,
but the heart, and the liver, and
the stomach. For simplicity's sake
DR.. Shoop has called this great
nerve system the Inside Nerves"
They are not the nerves of feeling
not the nerves that enable you to
walk, to talk, to act, to think. They
are the master nerves and every
vital organ is their slave. The com
mon name for these nerves is the
''sympathetic nerves" - because
each set is in such close sympathy
with the others, that weakness any
where usually results in weakness
everywhere.
The one remedy which aims to
treat not the Kidneys themselves,
but the nerves which are to blame.
is known by physicians and drug
gists everywhere as DR.. Shops Re-
storative Tablets or Liquid. This
remedy is not symptom remedy
1t is strictly cause remedy. While
1t usually brings speedy relief, its
effects are also lasting.
Ii you would like to read an inter
esting book on inside nerve disease,
write DR.. Shoop. With the book he
will also send the Health Token"
AN intended passport to good
health. Both the book and the
"Health Token are free.
For the free book and the
Health Token" you must address
DR.. Shoop, Box 1922. Racine
Box 1922. Racine, Wis. State which
book you want. r..
Book ] on Dyspepsia.
Book 2 on the Heart.
Book on the Kidneys. -
Book 4 for Women,
Book for Men.
4. Book on Rheumatism.
DIR. Shops Restorative Tablet
give full three weeks theatment
Each form-liquid or tablet-hav'
equal merit. Druggists every
where.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

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 its use.
Tablets. w
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24

Press wants bring quick results.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-02-24
ELklNS COMMITTEE ON INTER-
STATE COMMERCE WATCHED
SOMEBODY WORK AND UN-
Gle SAM is ASKED TO FOOT
THE BILL.

Staff Correspondence of The
Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-01
LuxrRY 1N A RANcH HOUSE.

LUXURY IN A RANCH HOUSE. A little one story, six room log ranch house in Lander, Wyo., with sage brush land stretching away from it in all direction and with only a lumber ing mountain stage coach, drawn by four horses, connecting 1t with the out side world, has in 1t more than any other house, public or private, in the state.
 Arapahoe boasts not near fifty souls all told. But the traveller going by stage from Lander to Shoeshone Will find it's ranch an uncommonly good one at which to stay over night, for Mrs. Becker, it's gracious hostess does not spend all her money on ornaments for her table. She always makes enough to pay the salaries of two first class Chinese cooks and to supply her table With delicacies.
 Many ranch houses look neither more nor less inviting from the outside than does this one Dirt poor food, cracked dishes. Mretched service and insulfera- bly, bad beds compose the accommoda- tions. The traveller is agreeably sur nriscd, then when he finds the wreath of cut glass, china and sllVerWare which gracos Mrs. Becker's table, eX- cellent service, every dellcacy that a city market affords, cleanliness every where, easy chairs and couches' beds fresh and comfortable and an atmos- phere of refinement.
 Mrs. Becker's cut glass, china and silverware are the pride and delight oi Arapahoe and of all the countryside round about it. Even the Indians who have got a glimpse of them regard with a sort of proprietary interest. Not long ago Mrs. Becker sent an order to New York for a thousand dollans' worth of cut glass and that thousand dollars worth is not all she has, Besides her valuable collection of cut glass, china and silverware Mrs. Becker has many hundred dollars worth of Navajo blank cts and Indian curios. She made an army officers wife present of $500 or $500 worth of blankets and curios re- gently and thought nothing of it. She is a Western woman and does things in a Western way.
 Not long ago Mrs. Becker gave a party at her ranch house to which she invited some of the best known folk in Lander and army officers and their wives from Fort Washable. It was a unique society function. Each of the numerous guests went home with q costly gift from the hostess, One young woman was given a saddle, an other beautiful and costly souvenir spoon with an elks tooth set in the handle, and others received gifts equally as vauable.-G Galveston News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-01
COP FOUND IT.

School Teachers Diamond Ring.
 The keen eyes of supernumerary Po- liceman F. S. Kendall saved Miss Jen- nie Crocklan of Syracuse, N. r., dele gate to the W. c. T. U. convention, the loss of a diamond ring valued at $l25, Saturday.
 Miss Crocklan was present at the af- ternoon session of the convention in Parsons Theater and it was not until she left and arrived at her hotel that she missed the ring which had slipped from her finger. She reported the mat ter to the police station and Officer Kendall, after learning the location of the seat which she had occupied, got busy in the theater with policeman's search light.
 It was like looking for needle in a haystack but after two hours of pa tient search the sleuth discovered the ring on the floor. Two of the stones were missing and the ring had evident ly been stepped on. Perseverance con- quers all things, said the policeman when asked about the matter-Hart- ford Post.