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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
CUT CITY WITH
HUGE WALL

Further information regarding
the grade separation of the North
ern Pacific tracks indicate that
through the southern portion of the
city the tracks will set up more
than Ia feet on grade which will
be a fill enclosed in concrete walls
At each street crossing a space
will be left for the passage of traf
&c. At these places steel girders
will be used.
The use of concrete will be more
expensive than steel, but en- &C.
count of the small cost of main
tenance the company has decided
that in the end concrete will be the
cheaper.
The board of works as yet has NO
information regarding the proposed
grade separation but have been ex
pecting it. 1t is proposed by Of
ficials to submit the plans early
in November. Just why they de-
lay this is not known, but pre-
sumably it is for further changes
by the engineers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
c. P. To EXTEND
To SOUND

SUMAS, Wash, Sept. 13.-1t is
admitted by surveyors who for the
past two months have been work
ing southwark from this city that
the Canadian Pacific will, before
the end of the year, begin work
on a line to invade the Sound
country.
The plan is to parallel the line
of the Northern Pacific from here
to Sedro Woolley, in Skagit county
but the route from there to Everett
has not been determined. The in
tention is to get right into the ter
ritory of the Hill roads and re
taliate promptly for the Invasion
bv Hill of Canadian territory.
In this connection there is some
significance in the company's i'm
portation of Asiatic laborers. The
Japanese from Honolulu have beer
brought over on contract with the
Canadian Pacific, and since the rio
in Vancouver the railroad compan!
has offered to employ all the sur
plus Hindus. If the Canadian Pa
cific desires TO begin construction
of the Washington extension in thu
near future it could gather quit
an army for work on grading.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
TRAGIC MYSTERY OF GIRLS LIFE

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-More
mysterious even than her death,
now regarded as certain by her
friends, were the strange life and
the still stranger thoughts of Alice
Bennett, heiress and student, at %
the pathetic victim of disappoint-
ment, desolation and despair.
Five weary weeks have her
friends waited for word from her
since the time she disappeared
from her Aston library. Chinatown
and every other quarter where she
was wont to pursue her sociologi-
cal studies have been ransacked by
the police and her friends, but the
voice of Alice Bennett answers not.
Only in the pages of the famous
diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, the
brilliant young Russian, can be
found parallel to the weird
thoughts set down in her diary by
Alice Bennett before she set about
the task-as her friends believe
of ending her own life.
A few days before she disappear
ed Miss Bennett fell heir to several
thousand dollars. She left a will
deviding this sum in certain
amounts to her friends. In her re-
markable diary she says:
Il was an adopted child. All my
life | lived with the doctor and his
wife, who were my foster parents.
was the burden of two wrecked
lives. | have been left alone
1nna IN hn1r tho oh ma ~
The early life of Alice Bennett
was spent in Springfield, Mo. There
she was graduated with honors
from Drury college, winning a
| Helen Gould scholarship, which en-
| titled her to a course at New York
| university. Here she plunged into
her studies, won all honors her
alma mater could bestow, and was
pursuing her studies in sociology,
passing days and nights in the
slums and at the Libraries, burning
the midnight lamp at her home,
when Oblivion suddenly encom-
passed her.
Here is her farewell to life:
"Goodby, Old World, am going
home! What is home? Where is
home? Home is a thing | have
never known, thing shall never
know. What's the use of II all?
Other girls make themselves a
home; other girls can stand it to
live continually Earring, never hav-
ing things they want. continually
giving up their way to someone
else's.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
UNIONS ENJO|N
DIRECTORY

DESMOINES, Sept. 13.-Names
of 1900 union men may be kept
out of the new city directory by
court proceedings.
Through injunction proceedings
to be brought by the Trades as
sembly upon the r. |. Polk Direc.
tory Co, the names of all union
men of the city will be excluded.
Men who belong to unions have
consulted lawyers. The lawyers
tell them that the courts will re-
strain the use of any mans name
upon the demand Of the name in
question.
The trouble originated in the
contract for printing the new city
directory being let to a non-union
shop. Business men were appeal
ed to to boycott the directory and
give no advertising for its pages
In many cases this is agreed to.
The union men now claim in re-
taliation to the action of the com
pany by restraining the use OF
their names. They claim that they
have the right to their individual
names and it cannot be given out
for advertising purposes. They say
the compilers are paid according
to the length of the census list and
that the lack of union mems names
will decrease the receipts ma
terially.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
LIBRARY BUSINESS

At the meeting of the library
commission yesterday the matter
OF salaries of employees was re.
ferred to the building committee
and an investigation will be made
Some women doing the same work
work are better paid than others. A
movement TO retire Miss Arnold as
cataloguer was brought up by Rab
bi Levine. who said that on exam
ination of her he found she was
not expert. This matter was
merely discussed.
Fifty dollars was appropriated
for putting before school children
a list of things to read. The re-
signation of G. E. Denham as JAM
tor was accepted and Elmer Wiley
appointed. Ten thousand dollars
worth of insurance was allowed to
lapse, the fire-proofing of the build
ing being considered safe. The
lighting fixtures were ordered
changed so as to allow installation
of gas. New rules for government
of employees were adopted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
SALOON ROBBED
BY BURGLAR

Sixty dollars in bills, two checks
for $51 apiece and some small
change was stolen from the Ackley
bar. 233 Main av., last night by
burglars who gained entrance by
prying open rear window. The
cash register was smashed
Report of the affair was made
to the police this morning by Nick
Zangari, proprietor. He said that
sometime in the night he admitted
a stranger, who wrapped on the
door of the room next the saloon,
where he and several countrymen
sleep. Believing it to be belated
roomer, he opened the door and
went back to bed. He saw the
man look at him and then go to a
side room and survey the other
sleepers. Then he left. 1t is this
stranger whom Zangar believes to
have committed the burglary after
getting his bearings inside the
building.
The bills which were stolen were
saved from the fire in the shack
behind the Olympia hotel, and the
corners Of the bills are burned.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
LOOKS LIKE BIG
WAGE SLASH

The closing down of a number
Of mines in Butte and orders from
New York to close down the rest
Il necessary to brace up the price
of copper may result in general
reduction in wages in the big min
ing camp. The mere mention of
the fact that the mines may close
is sure to knock the botto out of
the real estate market.
Ii has been predicted for many
years that the mining companies
would at some time reduce wages.
The question that naturally arises
now is whether this time has come
and will the mines refuse to re-
sumo unless the wages are re-
duced. There seems to be no dis
position to permit reduction OF
the price Of copper, however.
This was the policy adopted by
the mining companies in delaying
settlement with members of the
printing trades employed on the
newspapers operated by them. The
companies own many large board
ing houses. which will refuse to
feed and house the men when the
mines close, with the result that all
unmarried men. as well as those
with families, will be compelled to
seek other employment or accept a
reduced wages in the mines.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

application. The last stormy days
of the Georgia legislature brought
an army of people to the capitol,
and the bill was finally passed on
August II, after a heated debate
lasting until o'clock a. m. Then
occurred a scene in striking con-
trast to that of the Atlanta riots,
for thousands of people swept into
the street, singing and shouting,
making their way finally to the big
statue of Henry Grady, on Mariet-
ia St, and there pledging their
honor to the redemption of Geor-
gia's name.
In Atlanta, as IN other southern
cities, the negroes as well as the
uneducated whites are segregated.
Narrow, dirty streets spring up for
their accommodation, and filthy sa-
looms rise like mushrooms over
night, where in many of them the
quality of the drink dispensed
might almost cause cancer if pour
ed on the raw flesh. 1nflamed with
such drink. animated by class feel
ing, reeking with idleness, the ne
gro and the poor white alike go out
into the fields of crime. Every ne
gro saloon had it's negro club, the
greatest enemy to public safety and
satisfactory labor in the south.
1t is not a new way to fight crime,
but Georgia is setting an example
which other southern common
wealths are sure to follow.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

ument:
THE lovers Of old used to tell
their ladies fair of undying devo-
ton, and sometimes they died to
prove 1t. To die for a person
that is simple. TO live for one
that Is hard"
"A woman is unnecessarily an
evil. Lucky is the man who gets
as woman that is good"
"As I started to cross a street
a white hearse emerged from the
trucks and cars and passed before
me. the wee white coffin and its
forlorn little offering of flowers
almost lost within 1t. Behind II
came two carriages with sad, sym
pathetic faces peering from be-
hind the windows. Its brief length
passed the open space, the waves
Of traffic closed behind 1.-THE
balm of spring descended-pool
little lonesome funeral!"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

Here is a wall of loneliness pa
thetic in its desolation-a note
like that of John the Baptist "cry-
ing in the wilderness" with none
to hear:
Have you ever been alone?
Good God, have you ever been
alone? To know that there is not
a soul in the world who cares
whether you fail or succeed, live
or die; no ones heart that will be
wrung by your failure land for
that, after all, thank Cod; no
ones eyes that would tighten at
your successful know that there
is no one to know, no one to care,
whether you go out or come in
it seems sometimes must shrek
aloud on the streets with the
thinking Of it. No one-no one
no one!"
Here are still other excerpts
from this remarkable human doc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
SPINAL INJURY PROVES FATAL

Injuries sustained by Robert l.
Campbell while employed on the
Portland & Seattle railroad more
than a year ago. proved fatal at
$40 this morning at the late home
Of the deceased in Hillyard A
father and mother. Mr., and Mrs
James Campbell, and a brother
survive him. The injury was in
flicted by a limb falling upon Mr.
Campbell, fractures Of the spine re
sulting He had suffered con
tinuously since the accident.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

pany ofllcers for their excellent
manner in handling the late
strike.
Gompers has issued statement
to the striking telegraphers not to
give in one inch, that arbitration
will soon be forced upon the tele-
graph companies. Various reports
have been received here and the
companies show that messages are
being delayed nearly to the same
extent as in the. first days Of the
strike.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
7heQterS
SPOKANE

Little Johnny Jones'" which is
not heavy tragedy by thousand
miles or so, is the attraction for
tonight. 1t is described as fun SET
20 music and was one of Cohan S
hits in the east. A big company
is carried and special feature
made of the accompanying scenery
Johnny will be in town tonight, to
morrow matinee and night.
A dramatization of "Thorns and
Orange Blossoms is announced fol
the Spokane Sunday evening. II
is claimed TO be meritorious melo
drama.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
JAPS IN SEATTLE !,
PREPARE FOR WAR

SEATTLE, Sept. 13.-In view of
the announcement that big orien-
tai eXclusionist demonstration
would be held in Seattle within the
next few weeks, Japanese employed
in the residence districts began
leaving their places of employ
ment and seeking refuge in the
quarters of their countrymen, be-
low Yesler way.
In Japanese quarters the brown
men are punching together for safe
ty, evidently fearing riotous out
break similar to that exhibited in
Vancouver.
An immense mass meeting of Sc.
attic Japanese was held last even.
ing and it is known that plans
for self defense in case of race
agitation were discussed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Manager Torelle, of the Princess
Rink, announces that he has pur-
chased the latest improved Ma
tional floor surfacing machine for
use on the rink floor.
William Larkins reported to the
police this morning that last night
a stranger took him to some Front
st. resort, which he cannot recall,
and there robbed him of $45.
H. d. Lee, brakeman, charged
with the theft of six small dia-
monds, was discharged by the
court at the night session in JUS
tice Hyde's court. Lee was at
tempting to sell diamonds when ar
rested The complaint against him
was grand larceny, but no name of
an owner was given nor actual act
of theft alleged.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Based on
a partial report made on the physi-
cal status of the school children of
America to board of educators in
New York, there must be at least
100000 school children having
physical defects.
1t is figured there are 2,440, 900
ill-nourished children, 5,615,000
with enlarged glands and 6,925 900
sufferers from improper breathing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
STORKS OVERTAkE LINER

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Though
the Red Star liner Kroonland is a
speedy ship, flock of seven storks
caught her on the trip just com
pleted across the Atlantic. One
baby was born in the cabin and six
in the Steerage.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
eoMPERs SAYS STICK

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Samuel
Gompers, as well as the many
other labor leaders. is not in the
least cast down by congratulations
extended by the directors of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
INDICTED LAWYER ON TRIAL

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 49,
TREY L. Ford, counsel for the
United railroads, and former attor.
ney general Of California, was
placed on trial this morning on 9
charge of bribing Supervisor Loner.
gan, through Abe Ruef.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
COLUM Blh.

"A Gambler of the West" has
killed off the Curtiss Co. half a
dozen times over, but constant re-
surrections will keep it going for
the rest of the week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

Harvey Phipps, who asked $685.
900 damages of the o. r.. & N. for
injuries received while walking
along the company tracks two years
ago. was awarded $4,000 by a jury
in Judge Edward Wilson's court,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
WASHINGTON,

The weeks bill in vaudeville has
been satisfactory one and another
equally as good is promised for
next week
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
PALousE ELECTRIC TRAINS

Spokane & Inland electric trains
leave Spokane Terminal daily for
Rosalia, Thornton, Colfax, Z a: m,
1880 and 8 p. m. For Oakesdale,
Garfield, Palouse, 1920 a. m, 1850,
5:35 D. m. For Waverly and way
stations, $40 a. m, 1:05, 5:15 p. m.
1890 p. m. Palouse train makes
direct connection with w. l. & M.
train for Potlatch, Idaho. Ia 49,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
AUDITORIUM.

Knobs OF Tennessee" by
Shirley Co., closes this week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
A Home and an Investment
on Which You Can't
Possibly Lose.

That ought to appeal to you.
Nothing is so good these days as a
little tract of irrigated land. OF
course you know that you can make
more money and do it easier on
one acre of irrigated land than you
can on five acres of dry land.
HERE'S OUR PROPOSITION
We will sell you an acre tract
at Jameson Park, 21a miles from
the city limits, on the Medical Lake
line, for $500.00 of which $1,000 Is
to be paid down and the balance
in 40 monthly payments. This land
is of the best and Is irrigated un-
der pressure.
ONE ACRE WILL MAKE YOU
INDEPENDENT
We will set your tract out to
fruit trees and develop 1t into a
bearing orchard without cent of
expense to you.
Now note this: no matter how
much you may have paid in, If at
any time you want to give up your
contract, for no matter what rea-
son, we will cheerfully refund ev-
cry cent you have paid in. Could
anything be fairer than this? That's
better than having your money in
bank for the reason that by the
time you have paid in your $4,000
you will have piece of property
worth at the very least 100000,
We embody every one of these fea-
lures in our contract.
AS TO OUR RELIABILITY
We have been here a good many
years and believe that are fairly
we'll known, but If you are in doubt
just ask your banker or any re-
sponsible business man.
Call at our Office and let us show
you more about Jameson Park and
arrange to take you out, or If you
are interested, phone us.
RobcocL q, Moee
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13
AS TO OUR RELIABILITY
Babcock & Moss

Tel. 1865. 829 Riverside
P. S.-Incidentally you can enjoy
all the conveniences of the city at
Jameson Park. Electric lights,
electric street cars, telephones,
schools, etc, are at your door.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-13

Spokane Press. % cents a month.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26
Inquiry or Invitation.

Representative John Sharp VII.
Hams was compelled to struggle with
the question of prohibition during
his recent campaign for the United
States Senate. One oithe candidates
for the governorship was the Hon.
Jeff Truly, who, according to Mr..
Williams, found prohibition also a
difficult corner to turn. Mr.. Truly
was speaking to a gathering In a
small town. At the end OF q flowery
period Methodist minister rose and
asked permission to PROFOUND a
question. Brother Truly" said the
minister, 81 want to ask you, do you
ever take a drink of whisky" "Be.
fore answer that" replied the wary
Brother Truly, 81 want to know
whether 1t Is an inquiry or al invita-
ton
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26

Mr.. j. Gasaway sens nine OF his
fine Partridge Cochins to she Sedalia
show last week, and captured niue
premiums as follows: lst, Dad, 3rd,
4th and 9Th on pulless, Bird and Ish
on cockerels, End on cock and Bird on
hen. Two of his birds scored %, two
81, and tha whole nine averaged %
points, by L. f. McGrew OF Wash
ingson, b. {. That is pretty good
record, ami MIR. Gasaway is natural
ly proud OF HIS success. Mr.. A. f.
Ellis, also OF this community, took
she first ribbon on White Rock cock
against spirited competition, ISIS
hurd To beat "a Hume man ora Hume
chicken Hume T lephone.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26
Indicted as Common ScoIds.

New York, Dec. 23.-John Pieiffer
and his daughter, Margaret, were
arrested in Jersey City charging
them with the somewhat unusual
offense OF being common scolds. "
Pieifer is SO years old and his
daughter Is 30. The statute under
which they are indicted provides for
penalty OF not more than three
years imprisonment or a fine OF not
more than $1,000 for any person
convicted OF being a common scold"
commonly scolding and disturbing
the peace of the neighborhood and
Of all good and quiet people. to the
common nuisance OF all the.people
there inhabiting, residing or passing.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26
The Old testament Idea.

The Old Testament idea was much
more what may BE- called the common.
sense idea. that strength is strength,
that cunning is cunning, that worldly
success Is worldly success, and that
Jehovah uses these things for his own
ultimate purpose, just as he used ma.
ural forces or physical elements,
says q, X, Chesterton in Putnam's.
He uses the strength of hero as he
uses thar of a mammoth-without any
particular respect for the mammoth.
cannot comprehend how 1t is that so
many supplemented skeptics have
read such stories as the fraud OF Jacob
and supposed that the man who wrote
ii (whoeyer he was) did not know
that Jacob was a sneak Just as we'll as
we do, The primeval human sense Of
honor does not change so much as
that, But these supplemented skep.
tics are, like the majority of modern
skeptics, Christians.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26

topple into Winter before | get my
garden sass" all dug.
Christmas always follows soon
after Little Willie washes his neck
without being told; says Yes, moth
Ell" and NO, thank you, father" has
plenty of kindling wood ready for
Mary and doesn't have to be called
for breakfast more than three times
each morning.
According to a Texas editor. a de
tective imbibed too freely of the in.
ebriating cup and shot up the new
hotel at Dallas. The editor claims
that the ceilings of the hostelry were
damaged, but the rates were 30 high
they escaped injury
Some men are never satisfied. Yes.
terday was standing in the drug
store out where l live, waiting for the
druggist to deliver a postage stamp,
when the town crouch came In and
after telling me how much he hated
the town, said he wished he was out
OF It, Just to be polite, told him |
wished so, too-and the fellow got
mad. Now what do you think Of
such "unappreciationness"?
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-12-26
Healthfulress 81 Fruit.

If people ate more fruit they would
need less medicine and have better
health There is an old saying that
fruit is golden in the morning and
leaden at night As a matter of fact,
il may be gold at both times. but then
il should be eaten on an empty stom-
ach and not as a dessert. when the
appetite is satisfied and digestion is
already sufficiently taxed. Fruit taken
in the morning before the fast OF the
night has hcen broken is very refresh
ing. and il serves as a stimulus To the
digestive organs. says New York
Weekly. \ ripe apple or an orange
may be taken at this time with good
effect. Fruit. to be really valuable as
an article of diet. should be ripe, sound
and in every way of good quality, aud,
II possible. it should he eaten raw.
Instead Of eating plate OF ham or
eggs and bacon for breakfast, most
people would do lar better II they took
some grapes, pears or apples-fresh
fruit as long as II is TO be had. and
after that they can fall back on
stewod pruneS. fss. etc. II only fruit
NJ some sort formed an important
item in their breakfast, women would
generally feel brighter aud stronger,
ana would have far better compilations
than is the rule at present.