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THE PRICE OF BEING UP TO DATE.

The world, in all it's cycles, has paid such
price for civilization pay Never before has it paid
so much in moneys never has it paid much in brans
has it paid much in human lives for what it got
The lore of the Chadeans only conjecture; but
The Chaldeans had automobiles to them The
citizens of Tyre dyed stus purple that cannot dup
cate; but the yrans went mad in ceaseess strug
gle to keep ahead The golden age of Greece produced
its perfect marbles but Greece had trusts like to
prey upon the poor Oen painters knew the secrets Of
marvellous coors; Stradvari and Amati made vions
which priceless today because cannot make any
like them; but Raphael and Amat knew silk
mills where whitefaced children toed, breakers
where grimy little boys spent long black hours The
Egyptians understood eas of engineering which be-
yond the currcua of great technical schools else
they could never have raised the pyramids the obek
of Cleopatra but the Egyptians had railroads to exact
almost inconcevable toll of human life.
The interstate commerce commission has just made
public figures terribly suggestive of how much it costs
to operate and patronize American railroads.
During the year of 1906 it cost casualties to 108324
persons, of whom 1868 killed. Grade crossings
their only for existence being that they less
expensive in money-cos 929 lives and 1892 INJURIES Out
of every 124 trainmen land there 2855S6 in a
killed, and out of every eight injured. Only
329 passengers killed outright and but 10,764 in
cured
And this year showed ''gratfying improvements
Turly modern civilization is wonderful thing. Per
haps that is the it costs so much
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-10
ORCHARD INJECTED
IN OREGON CASE

The Brown murder at Baker City
has given Harry Orchard another
(nning. A Portland paper has the
Following from Boise:
'In the opinion of Harry Orch
ard the Western Federation of
Miners is responsible for the death
of ex-Sheriff Harvey Brown at
Baker City He says he believes
the murder was committed to re-
venge work done by Brown in as
sisting the state to get evidence
against those accused of the as
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-10
BRAIN-WRECKED
WANDERER
ADRIFT
Special Correspondents to The Press.

PTTTSBURG, Oct. 10.--His mind
unbalanced by feats of memory,
Percy G. Digby, librarian of the
worlds largest law library. is a
wanderer. He walked from his Of
fee Sept. 81 and has not been seen
since by an acquaintance.
Digby was mental wonder. He
knew the title of every volume I'M
der his care. He could pick up and
one and turn to the proper page
and paragraph instantly when re-
quested to do so.
Frequently an attorney did not
know the volume needed. He had
only to tell Digby of tn preference
sought, and before he was seated
the book, opened at the page and
syllabus of a decision or the Sec
ton Of the act he wanted, would
stare him in the face.
Such feats unbalanced Digby's
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-10
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS

GEN K.fOr oru.. Inf o.. o.. o..
Anthony Noltner, one of the
veteran newspapermen of the Pa
cific coast, died in East Portland.
He went to California in 1S49.
John Arnold, miner, reported to
have committed suicide at Bethel
Mission, on Kuskokwim river, AL
aska Efforts are being made to
find a sister.
Five thousand people will leave
Nome in the next two weeks to
spend the winter outside. Even
with this exodus there will be more
people there this winter than ever
before.
William st. George. an aged man,
is missing from Everett and his
friends are worried, fearing foul
play.
Morris Wingfield, the missing
Warner valley, Ore, stOckman, who
was probably either murdered or
lost in the sloughs in that valley,
was on his way to Lakeview to
visit his sick wife and his new
born babe when he disappeared.
William A. Allen, while handling
wheat in a warehouse at Stanton
station, near Pendleton, fell from
pile of wheat and was instantly
killed.
w. A. Dell, convicted of killing
Addie Roper, sentenced to prison
for life from Bellingham.
Canadian Pacific has granted
telegraph operators 1914 per cent
increase of wages.
Robert c. Curtin last night kill
ed John A. Titus in Oakland, Cal.
Another unwritten law case.
Milwaukee road has begun con
struction work on Tacoma end of
the line.
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Ladies' $3.50 Shoes for $2.15

Ladies patent colt. button or lace, medium
Grecian toe, Cuban heels, welted soes slight
extension; of the best Rochester, N. Y,
makes; very attractive shoe and certainly an
exceptional bargain
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sassination of ex-Gov. Steunen-
berg.
when first informed of the
Baker City tragedy Orchard pre-
dicted that very shortly the papers
would be printing interviews with
those connected with the fedora
ton in which it would be claimed
that Brown was a friend of the
federation"
Orchard apparently has retained
a wholesome regard for the day
when he must stand trial for his
crimes. He serves as willingly in
the Brown case as in the Haywood
trial.
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mind, his friends say. He began
brooding when a catalogue was
suggested for the library, believing
his value was unappreciated.
His disappearance has caused a
chaotic condition at the courthouse,
for he alone knew where the books
were and without him the lawyers
are like lost sheep. The search ex-
tends over the country, but not a
trace of Digby has been discovered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-10
Upt0Date Olympia
Pressing Club

Main Office, AZ Riverside, Corner
Browne.
New Phone 6414. Old Phone 1884.
Branch office Oso5 Monroe ST.
Phone 1868
Special prices: Tues, Thurs. ana
Saturday, / coat and vest, pr.
pants, buttons and seams sewed,
soc. Overcoats steam cleaned and
pressed s150 and $l75, with a lit
tie repairing if necessary. Single
suits pressed 40c. We 90 your
pressing and repairing while you
sleep. Ladies' skirts pressed soc
and up.
A. M. WAIVER,
Proprietors of Both Places
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hARBOR IMPROVEMENT.

VALPARAISO, Chill, Oct. 10
Plans that will convert Valparaiso
into the largest and best port on
the west coast have been accepted
by a committee appointed by the
president. French engineers sub
mitted their proposal. The work
will take nine years.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-10

H. d. McGarrah, N. p. agent at
Kamiah, Idaho, has confessed to
robbing safe of $575. First told
holdup story. Company recovered
part of money.
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terpreted as and called a criminal destruc-
ton of property. We have moral and
legal right to smash this gentlemans safe.
But in that safe lies a stone to which he
has neither moral nor legal right, and it's
the stone, and only the stone that we
want"
Then what are we to DOR
Use these thick heads of ours. as we
ought We must think, and not pound our
way into that vault. l mean, Frank, that
we have got to get at that stone as Often
heimer himself would"
They looked at each other for minute
of unbroken silence the one trying to follow
the others wider line of thought.
We'll, there is where our test comes in
/ suppose said Frances valiantly, feeling
for the first time little qualm of doubt
Durkin, who had been plunged in thought,
turned to her with sudden change of man.
ner.
You're a bad lot, Frankv' he said, warm
ly, catching her frail-looking hands in his
own.
81 know it," she answered, wistfully
leaning passively On her elbows But
some day am going to change-we're both
going to change!' And she stroked his STU
diously bent head with her hand, In mis-
erably .solicitous, maternal sort of way, and
sighed heavily once or twice, trying in vain
to console herself with the question as to
why a good game should be spoiled by
doubtful philosophy,
<To be Confihued Tomorrow
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show room and store; and work rooms. and
shipping department, and all that on the
second story. Above them is a lace i'm
porter. On the top floor there rs a chemical
hre-apparatus agency. In the south half of
the building, with the hall and stairway be-
tween, is antique furniture store. and
above them a surgical supply company. The
third and top floors taken UP by two
women photographers-their reception room
on the third floor. their operating room. and
less than two skylights and transom
opening directly on the roof. ] arranged
for a sitting with them. That is the floor
we ought to have. but the building Is full.
Three doors below, though, there was a
top, back studio to let. and I've taken ii for
ing on the roof. l looked through. merely
to see If i could hang my washing out
sometimes. But barring our roof off from
Ottenheimer's is an ugly iron fencing
did you get a chance to notice their wir-
ing?"
'SThe first thing. We can cut in and loop
their telephone from our back room, with
thirty feet of number twelve wire.
Then we have got to get in on that line,
first thing.''
He ruminated in silence for minute or
two
''Of course you didn't get glimpse Of
the basement, under ottenheimer's?'
Hardly, Jim. We shall have to leave
that to the gas mani"
And they both laughed little over the
memory of certain gas man who short
circuited private line in the basement of
the stock exchange building and through
doing So upset one of the heaviest cotton
brokerage businesses in Wall street.
Did you notice any of the other wires
power circuits and that kind of thing?'
Yes. did: but there were too many of
them / know. though. that Ottenheimers
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|tAMONG Tnk
lAFRATERNlTlES

Twenty OF the men who were masters of
the several Masonic lodges in this city in
1905 had a reunion banquet at the Raleigh
Hotel Tuesday night. Lurtin r. CHM, the
grand master of that year, was the guest of
honor. 1t was decided, by a unanimous
vote. to have these banquets annually here
after. Those in attendance were Ralph w.
Lee. Federal Lodge, No. L. W. B. Harrison.
Columbia Lodge. No. 3; A. ]. White, Naval
Lodge, No. 4: Charles T. Lindsey, Potomac
Lodge, No. 3; D. w. Beach, jr., Lebanon
Lodge, No. Z; e. s. Hubbard Hiram Lodge,
No. 10; A. B. Hooe, st. Johns, No. l.; j.
A. Mcdaniel. National Lodge, No. IL; T.
A. Mckee, B. B. French Lodge, No. Is; w.
F. Lannan, Dawson Lodge, No. 16; c. A.
Weaver, Harmony Lodge, No. II; Charles
E. Stevens. Acacia Lodge, No. IS; ]. H.
Won Herman. Hope Lodge, No. 20; Warren
Jermane,. Pentalpha Lodge, No. %; H. F..
Ivers, Stansbury Lodge, No "a; Harry
Rothschild, Arminius Lodge, No. %; T. H.
Unsworth, Osiris Lodge, No. %: William
Mehn, Tacoma Lodge, No. %. Mr.. Jer-
name, who was the president of the Mas
his right sat Mr.. CHM, and on Lis left DR..
Lindsey, vice president of the association.
The table was spread in one of the large
private dining rooms on the parlor floor,
and was beautifully decorated with mowers.
During the dinner there was music by an
orchestra. The speeches were made by
every person present, and the dinner did
not close until midnight The men compos-
ing the Masters Association of 1905 were a
busy lot, in their association work. Their
monthly meetings were of unfailing interest
throughout the year. and never fewer than
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CHAPTER TX.

Four hours later. in that shabby little
oyster house often spoken of as The Cafe
Of Failures" lying less than a stones throw
from the shabbiest corner of Washington
Square Frances Gambler met by appoint
ment a stopped and somewhat sic<ly looking
workman carrying a small bag of tools.
This strange couple sought out a little table
in one OF the odorous alcoves OF the oyster
house and. over an Unexpectedly generous
dinner. talked at great length and in low
tones. screened from the rest of the room.
You say it's Brandon * Stark eight-ton
vault; but can't you give me something
more definite than that to work on?" the
man was asking of the girl.
Only what I've told you about fts posi-
ton; l had TO watch out for Ottenheimer
every moment was in that store
Il see. But while think of it, providing
We do find the stone there, do we turn it
over again, Org?
II gave my word of honor. Jmi"
The shadow of a smile on his face died
away before her unyielding solemnity.
"Oh. of counsel There's two hundred
pounds on it, anyway, ism there" She
nodded her head in assent.
But think we've got our trouble before
US. and plenty OF II, before we see that two
hundred pounds he said. with shrug.
THE times so short-that Is the danger.
AS i was on the point of telling you, Often
heimer has an expert diamond cutter in his
shops"
And that means he'll have the apex off
our Pear at the first chance. and. accord
ingiy IL means hurry for US. But tell me
the rest"
''Ottenheimer himself owns, 1 discovered,
the double building his store is in. He has
his basement, of course. his ground floor
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Of that dreadful disease. But fate proved
kind to the lad. He was the only one Of
the household to survive the scourge. He
next lived with another Norwegian family,
where he earned his board by washing
While here he earned his first money run
ming errands and carrying newspapers.
When he was seven he was made very
happy by the news that he was to rejoin
his mother They resumed life together
on a sandy little farm in Wisconsin. Three
months out of each year the lad here at
tended log school house presided over
by a cultivated Irish woman, who took an
interest in him and volunteered to teach
him extra lessons on Saturdays through
out the remaining nine months of each
term.
A Study in Homespun.
He studied thus until he was sixteen,
when hearing of a Seventh Day Baptist
seminary where he 0could receive an edu-
cation without charge, he walked sixteen
miles to verify the rumor. He closed with
the principal a bargain by which he was
to pay his room rent by working outside
of school hours He arrived at this in
stitution clad In homespun and driving a
homemade oX-cart, with wheels hewn
from solid sections of great logs. In the
cart he carried wood to keep his room
warm and an advance supply OF food. He
did not have, all told, $40 in spare money
during the two years now spent at this
school. At the end of this time the war
broke out, and with twenty or his 1elloW
students he volunteered. After four years
of fighting and suffering from wounds he
completed his seminary course, read law
and went to the legislature when but
twenty-four Then came bank failure
in which he lost his all, save a young wife
and baby Now twenty eight, he went to
Minnesota to recruit his fortune. That
state conferred upon this one-time penni-
less immigrant boy about all that she had
to give for he became successfully county
attorney, state senator, governor and United
States senator.
From Canada and England.
The journey to the United States was
not so long and arduous in the case Of
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire He
was born on a farm in Cornwall, Ont,
whittier his grandfather, the son of a
Dutch immigrant of our colonial times,
had moved from New York. The senator's
mother of American stock, reared a fam
lily of twelve children, and there was little
to go around among many. Young Gal
linger after spending some years in school
learned the printing trade and while set
ting type saved enough money to study
medicine He commenced practice in Con-
cord, N H. in 1853, went to the legislature
fourteen years later, became president of
the state senate in six years more and
next came to the national House of Rep
resentatives, from which he was advanced
to the Senate in 1891.
England is the birthplace of Senator
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Chinese Coats for Opera Wraps.

From the London Express.
There is an extraordinary demand at pres
ent for oriental garments, especially the ma
tional costumes of China and Japan. 1.-THE
Chinese coats which were the popular opera
wraps Of last season have been replaced
this winter by real mandarin coats. import
ed direct from China, which vary in price
from five to hundred guiheas," said a
west end costumier.
"A few years ago Chinese coats and jan
anese kimonos were used as dressing Jack
cts and gowns. Now they take the place
of the theater or ball wrap and the tea
gown. The most elaborate wraps are heay-
ily ornamented in gold and silver We re-
recently imported one lovely model In sum
flower yellow. with touches OF bronze and
gllttering with gold and gems.
"One OF the prettiest designs which lady
brought back from Japan herself Is of Nam
kin blue, embroidered In silver thistledown
and trails of mauve wistaria. The kimono
liz lined with scarlet and opens over a scar
let petticoat, while shoes and stockings re-
Feat the same vivid coloring."
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Straus, was born in Otterburg, Rhenish
Bavaria. His father had there been a pros
porous Jewish farmer and grain owner, but
after taking part in the revolution Of 1S4S
had lost his ALL So to recruit his fortunes
he emigrated to America, where he ar
rived poor that he was glad to accept
the aid of some of his former tenants and
laborers, who had emigrated ahead of him.
With their help he set up little country
store in Georgia. AS soon as he could af-
ford it he sent for his wife and three sons,
including the present cabinet officer. Sec
rotary Straus made this trip across the
Atlantic two years after Secretary Will
sons emigration, but Mr.. Straus was only
four years old when he got his first glimpse
of our shores. How the father made good
his losses so far as to become one of the
merchant princes of the land of his adop-
ton and how this son became great civic
reformer, diplomat and statesman, while
his brothers became multimill1onaire mer-
chants and philanthropists, has recently
been told. Indeed, there are no more
striking examples Of hard-earned CONNER
cial success than those two poor Jewish
shopkeeper, whose son has just entered the
cabinet, and Meyer Guggenheim, the Swiss
peddler whose son has just been elected
to the Senate.
Borrowed $40 to Leave Norway.
The struggle of poverty-stricken foreign
ers to reach the new world was never
more bitter than in the case of Senator
Knute Nelson of Minnesota. His father
was a farmer and owned a small hold
ing in the parish of Voss, near Bergen,
| Norway. Here the present senator was
born, and when he was an infant Of three
the father got the American fever" But
when he counted his ready cash he found
that he could not pay the passage of his
| family to the new world. But he was
man who knew no obstacle and he decided
to lead the way alone and send to his wife
for her passage and the boys his first
earning made in the promised land. The
lonely wife left behind counted the days
when she should once more be at her hus-
bands side but several months after his
departure, just as her hopes were bright
est she was Frustrated by letter
telling of her husbands lonely death in the
far country beyond the seas. Her son
Knute was then but three, and the pros
poets which confronted her were dreadful
to contemplate.
She remembered her husbands bright
hopes of the land across the waters, and
she had heard good news from her brother,
who had also ventured across. So she de-
termined to follow for the sake of her son.
But regardless of how hard she had work
ed she had been able TO lay by barely
enough to keep the wolf from the door. Be-
coming desperate at last, she borrowed $40
from a friend bid farewell to the chill air
and the cloudy skies of Norway, and sailed
for New York, taking with her her little
lad, now six years old. Her peasant neigh
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wires go south along our roof"
Then the sooner we give quiet ear to
that gentleman's conversations, the better
for US. Have you had any furniture moved
IMP
1T goes this evening. BY the way,
though. what am I just at PRESENT.
Durkin thought for moment and then
suddenly remembered her incongruous love
for needlework.
you had better be Woodworking maker
of cotilIon favors, don't you think? You
might have a little showcase put up out
side
She pondered the matter drumming on the
table with her impatient fingers. But how
is all this geing to put us inside that eight
ton safe?"
That's the trouble we've got to face! he
laughed back at her.
But haven't you thought of anything,
candidly%
brains until 1 feel light headed. Now,
nitroglycerin I object to, It's SO abom-
inably crude, and so disgustingly noisy
And so odiously criminal she interpo-
lated.
Precisely. We're not exactly yeggmen
yet And it's brain we've got to- cudgel
and not safe doorsi l mean. now that we
really are mixed up in this sort of thing,
it's better to do it with as clean fingers as
possible. Now. once more, speaking as an
expert by lighting a small piece of sulphur
and using 1t as sort of match to start and
maintain combustion, 1 could turn on a
stream of liquid oxygen and burn through
that safe-steel about the same as a
carpenter bores through pine board
But the trouble is in getting the oxygen.
Then, again, il 1t was mere campaign OF
armor against the intruder, could win out
in quite a different way. could take pow
dered aluminium, mixed with some metallic
superoxide, such as iron-rust, and get what
you'd cali thermit. Then / could take this
therrnit, and ignite it by means of a mag
nesium wire. so that it would burn down
through three inches Of steel like handful
of live Goals through three inches of ice.
That is, II we wanted to be scientific and
up-to-date. Or. even a. couple of gallons OF
liquid air, say. poured on the top OF the
safe. ought to chill the steel so that one
good blow from sledge would crack II"
but that, again, is only what cracksmen
do. in slightly different wayr'
But Of course. by tapping an .excep-
tionally strong power circuit somewhere In
the neighborhood. I could fuse portions OF
the steel with electricity, and then cut II
away like putty. Yet all that, you see, Is
not only mechanical and coarse, and full OF
drawbacks. but it's doing what we don't
want to do. It's absolutely running valua-
BILE deposit vault, and might very well be In.
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bors bid her farewell with many misgivings,
for only two years before 5000 European
immigrants. dying Of ship fever had been
buried at. Montreal. But the mother and
son landed safe and well upon. the docks OF
New York-for this was even before the
day OF Castle Garden. It was the Fourth
Of July, 1S49, and Knute Nelson's initiation
into the new world was one Of gunpowder.
The widow and her son set out at once for
Chicago, and here she left the little one
with her brothers family while she took a
position as housekeeper. Her next shock.
was the news Of the cholera epidemic In
Chicago, and that her brothers entire
household. including her boy, had fallen i'll
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Sutherland Of Utah. He was born In Buck
inghamshire and, when lad, was brought
to Utah by his parents. He got his early
education In the Mormon state, took law
course in the University Of Michigan and
was elected to the first legislature chosen
after that state was admitted to the Union.
Another stepping stone to the Senate was
his election to Congress in 1901.
Two senators-Millard Of Nebraska and
wetmore Of Rhode Island-were born
abroad of American parents temporarily
absent from the United States. Senator
billiards birthplace was Hamilton. Can,
while Senator Wetmore's was London.
The United States Supreme Court has