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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

Automobile club, the war depart
ment, the state department and the
attorney general, have tried in vain
to put the boy mayor and Collins
out of business.
They are still holding up automo-
biles and requiring them to contrib
ute to the town fund for street and
other repairs. They squeal and
they complain, but they have to pay
the fines. r
Attorney General Bonaparte has
declared in an official opinion that
Marshal Collins has no right to in
terfere with anybody going at any
speed along the famous Conduit
road. He says this road was built
by the government and is under the
special jurisdiction OF the war de-
partment. Mayor Garrett says:
Judging from the tenor of Mr..
Bonapartes erudite dissertation |
am forced to believe that he ell
cited the services of the Washing
ton Automobile club in preparing
his opinion
The attorney general says that
the road is net a Glen Echo road.
The boy mayor of Glen Echo says
the read gees through Glen Echo
and that Glen Echo Pre- poses TO
regulate the speed CT automobiles
going along the road To the Glel
Echo people 1t means safety OF life
and limb. 1t Is also question CT
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01
COLORADO MYSTERY
A DOUBLE SUICIDE

COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. l.
In the opinion of the coroner, the
inquest has indicated that Laura
Matthews committed suicide be-
cause of her love for c. A. Coey,
millionaire of Chicago, and Amos
Rumbaugh killed himself in in
fatuation for Miss Matthews. The
investigation disclosed the fact that
Rumbaugh was married man with
a family at Mount Pleasant, Pa.
A number of letters and tele-
grams from Coey to Miss Matthews
were examined but nothing incrim-
mating reported. They were writ
ten in an affectionate tone, how
ever, and l mentioned the en-
closure of $50. He had also tele-
graphed to Tillie Green, the girls
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

prisoners have, In many cases, fall
ed Of delivery. Keepers are charged
with having acted as messengers to
get money for favored convicts and
receiving Is per cent Of the amount
collected for their services. They
are said to carry on the business of
selling supplies to the prisoners at
exorbitant prices, and Of requiring
pay from convicts for small SER
vices that are really in the line Of
duty. The clothing given discharged
prisoners is said to cost less than
one-third of the amount appropriate
ed by the state for that purpose.
Charges are made. too. Of the
brutal treatment of prisoners.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01
BRIEF CITY NEWS

M. Schultz, of Milan, notified the
police yesterday That bay mare,
weighing 1900 pounds, was stolen
from his pasture. The mare has a
white spot over the right eye,
brand "AC" on the right hig and a
wire cut on the right foreleg.
Detective McDermott this morn
ing arrested G. e. Roberts, driver
for the Barr woodward, on COM
plant of w. A. Barr, who accuses
him of embezzling SIS.
On Sept. l the Fort Wright gar
rison will start on a march to
Occur d'Alene, where they will
camp. The soldiers will be absent
most of the month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

down. Gang-urle has been abol-
ished Bossism has been buried SO
deep that it will apparently never
enjoy a resurrection. The political
life of the municipality has been
purified. 1t is no longer reproach
that a man should act his part in
the political management of his
own city. The thugs and crooks
of the city hall have been routed.
The warrant system has given way
to the cash system. The perquisites
belong to the people.
And Galveston has this year re-
elected her board Of the past 6
wears by an almost unanimous vote
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

ly responsible for the administra-
ton of the city, and they name the
executive officers under them, such
as police Judge, city clerk, city at
torney, city treasurer and city as
SCISSOR and auditor.
Salaries are paid commensurate
with the amount of time given.
Houston pays her mayor $4,000
and her commissioners $2,40O each.
The results of the new plan have
been uniformly satisfactory. Des
Moines is advancing, Houston is
prospecting and saving money. Gal
weston is a greater and more pros
porous city than she was before the
great storm. Taxes have gone
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

LONDON, Aug. Ito return to
her native town, Minneapolis,
Mimi, or to accept one of the many
theatrical offers by which she has
been showered since her divorce
last week from the count of Roslyn
this is the question which the
beautiful countess of Roslyn. for
merly Anna Robinson, is now call
ed upon to decide; and so vexing
is the problem that she has not yet
been able TO solve il
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

UNDER COMMISSION SYSTEM
RESURREcTED CITY Is GOV.
ERNED SANS BOSSES, FEE
G r A 3 B NC, GRAFT OR
CROOKED POLITICS..

1
Special Correspondent to The Press.
! GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. l.
Have you ever heard of an Ameri.
can city without graft, without fee.
grabbing, without crooked politics
and politicians, without a boss sys-
tenn; a city where the tax rate goes
steadily down while the town it.
self goes forward; a city where
there are no leaks in the strong
| box; city well policed, sys-
tematically administered after gen.
uine business methods, and hon.
estly governed; city where the
voice of the individual voter is par
amount, without the wire-pulling of
conventions, red tape and dema-
gogism?
Have you ever heard of a city
where such a state of affairs has
existed not only for one year, but
for 6 years, and where honest
municipal government is practical
ly guaranteed for all time?
Galveston is the place, in the big,
vigorous Lone Star state.
They go right to the root of
things in Texas. When they re-
form, they reform in fact, not in
platforms and public speeches.
When they find crooked gangs in
| power and a city decides in favor
of new regime, they not only turn
the rascals out but they make it i'm
| possible for them ever to get in
again.
This is what Galveston has done
Not long ago people read of what
Des Moines was doing to secure
municipal purity, but Galveston
was the pioneer, and with her must
remain the credit of having been
the first American municipality tC
experiment with and prove the
soundness of the commission plan
Six years ago came the great gull
storm. After it had passed, Gal
weston was PROSTATE, her wharves
destroyed, her buildings dis
mantled, her streets wilderness
her credit tottering, her govern
ment knocked down and out.
1t was a moment for great things
and out of that moment came the
commission plan. Galveston's gov
eminent had been neither much
better nor much worse than that OF
other American cities of her class
But if ever a city demanded hon
est, wise, economical administra
ton, Galveston needed it then.
| And she got it.
The commission plan is practical
ly the same as that recently
adopted by Des Moines, and earlier
followed by a number of Texas
cities.
So unique and remarkable is this
plan that American municipalities
the country over cannot escape g
very deep interest in following ur
in detail the methods by which
Galveston has shaken off the great
est menace of every city, the men
ace of extravagant or inefficient OF
crooked government.
| Scarcely a city but has it's boss
or its political cabinet. Scarcely a
city where the treasury does not
leak little. Scarcely city where
there is not waste and extrava
gance, and at least 1 public Official
fattening at the expense of the tav
payers. Scarcely a city, too, where
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

LATEST AND MOST STUNNING
PHOTOGRAPH Or ANNA ROBIN
SON, EX-COUNTESS OF ROSLYN
The countess is still the same
remarkable beauty that she was
when she posed as an artists
model in New York and later play
ed with Richard Mansfield, is
shown by this, her latest photo
graph. 1t was while in Mansfield's
company that she met the count
who, having been forced to make a
living for himself, after having
gone through 10000, was play
ing in one of Frohman's companies
under the name of James Erskine.
They were secretly married in Lon
don in April, 1905.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

nurse, to meet him at the train
and to keep her own counsel. The
nurse told her story yesterday at
the inquest, but added nothing to
clear up the mystery. Rumbaugh
had engaged a Pullman section for
himself and Miss Matthews, and
had told here they were to be mar
ried and would leave for New York
Monday for a trip aboard.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

THEY PUT VILLAGE LAW ON
AUTO SPEEDING GRAND
ONES FROM CAPITAL AND
ALL THE POWER OF FEEDER.
AL GOVERNMENT FAILS TO
MAKE THEM TAKE A BACK
SEAT,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01
FORESTS BLAZING
IN The MOUNTAINS

EVERETT, Aug. FOREST fires
are raging in the mountains along
the Great Northern east of here.
The Index Lumber Co. has lost its
logging camps and several settlers
have been burned out. Other mills
and camps are in danger.
In the same part OF the county
years ago a small town was burned
clean and several residents almost
lost their lives.
Timber fires are again spreading
in Skagit and Whatcom counties
and the prospects are that the loss
to numbering interests will be
greater this year than for many
seasons past.
The Spokane Press delivered tc
any part Of the city for rs cents
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01
BLOODY RIOT At LODI.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. LIN
quelling riots troops at LODI today
opened fire, killing and wounding
90
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

MAfOh JOhN a "An0E
Echo and Its famous Marshal Col.
Inns, who hold up automobiles 60
ing in excess of the speed limit
through that Washington suburb.
Members of the diplomatic corps,
the richest and highest of the
smart set" In Washington, the
most expensive automobiles, and
people with the srandest political
pulls, all backed by the Washington
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01
BY gibson GARDNER

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. l.
All the power of the general gov
eminent has not yet been able to
suppress the boy mayor of Glen
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-01

MARSHAL COLLINS AFTER SPYING ON A DIPLOMATS
SPEEDING AUTO FROM BEHIND A ROCK GETS READY TO
ARREST BREAKER
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
About The Limit.

A newly married couple came In a
hotel where we We're resting and asked
how much it would cost to get two
bowls Of boiled rice and milk and
were Informed that the price was 10
cents per portion. The groom pulled a
small package wrapped in bit of
newspaper from his pocket and, open
ing it. displayed about a double hand
full of rice, which he said they had
gathered from their clothing after the
shower which followed the early morn
ing wedding. He inquired how much
would be deducted if they furnished
their own rice and upon being inform
ed that no allowance could be made be-
came indignant and remarked that
they would wait until they reached
home for their dinner rather than sub
nit to such unfair dealing and left the
place. The proprietor said that the
young man owned one of the best
farms in the town and had established
quite famous reputation locally for
economy, although that is not exactly
the way he expressed it.-Forest and
Stream
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
How Dolls Are Made.

Many big things are needed to make
small doll She has her beginning
in great trough, where workmen
knead up into a dingy paste old card
board, even old gloves, old rags and
gum tragacanth. They are great
Urawny fellows, these men, naked to
the waist, wearing leathern aprons.
In an adjoining room the paste is pour.
ed into molds for the busts the arms.
the legs of dolls innumerable. There
is Il special machine for stamping out
the hands. l should not like to con-
fess how long l stood in front of 1t.
fascinated by the steady stream of
queer little hands that fell ceaselessly
from the iron monster. 1t was aw-
full, uncannS, hypnotizing. Indeed, the
whole sight was grim and monstrous.
The low factory rooms We're misty With
steam and lit by strange. red glowing
fires. Always The great steel machines
pulsed and changed. and through the
mist sweaty giants of men went to and
fro with heaps of little greenish arms
and legs until you began to think that
some new Herod had killed all the lit.
tie people in the world.-Everybody's.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Lowell Got His whaeks

In his volume on the practice of Ill
plomacy John w. Foster relates an II
Eliminating anecdote concerning James
Russell Lowell when he was our min.
lister at Madrid. AT a royal reception
Minister Lowell, in plain evening dress.
was preceded up the palace stairway
by minister from Central America
gorgeously appareled, wearing jew
eled sword, who was saluted Mt each
landing by the magnificent halberdier
with heavy whack of the battle AK on
the marble pavement. AS Mr.. Lowell
wore no insignia of Office, he received
no attention At last, his patriotic
blood boiling, he addressed the halber-
der In excellent Spanish. do you
know who am?" II don't" "Well,"
said Mr.. Lowell, 81 am the minister
plenipotentiary of the United States of
America, the greatest nation on earth,
and If you don't whacll the next time
pass you will forget you at Christ
masw And the halberdier whacked
thereafter os directed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Napoleon Trusted His omens.

Napoleon always had an unlimited
trust in his presentiments. When the
news came to him that one of the Nile
river boats, the name of which. was
LItalie. had been wrecked and the
crew put to death he gave up all hope
of ever completing his conquest OF
Italy by annexation. Napoleon believ-
cd that the stars exercised an occult
influence over human destinies. When
General Rapp, at one time his aid-de-
camp. returned from the siege of Dant-
sic he found the emperor gazing with
concentrated attention ut the heavens.
Look there!' shouted the emperor.
at is my star! The fiery red one. al
most as large as the moon! 1t is be-
fore you now, and, all. how brilliant!
1t has never abandoned me for a sin
gle instant. l see it on all great oc-
casions. 1t commands me to go for
ward; it is my sign of good fortune,
and where it leads l will follow"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Child cynics.

A London writer eXclaims at think
ing there is really nothing to ac-
count for the extraordinary critical
mood which the modern child has de
veloped in regard to toylnnd." The
modern child will simply not make be-
lieve. Little boys and girls alike be-
come sticklers for the correct thing"
and if the build of steamship or a
motor car, the cut of dolls frock or
the mysteries the eye does not usually
see are not lust like the real thing
there is trouble. 1t is said that toy
makers have even now to employ sci
entific experts and French milliners if
they hope to pass the critical eyes of
the "new child" The fact is the mod
ern child is born a cynic and stated
little darling. 1t has no emotions, no
desires save to destroy and be lived
and breathed for by necessary parents.
Boston Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Paint and Ocean Travel.

"The worst feature OF ocean travel
is never mentioned in steamship conf
pany prospectuses or in books of tray
ell" said returned tourist ut is not
seasickness, for only few are taken
that way in the ocean greyhounds that
neither rock nor pitch. 1t is not the
narrow quarters or the inferior cook
ing or the tipping habit 1t is paint.
There is always wet paint on an ocean
steamer, and there is never a sign on
it to warn passengers. The modern
sailor is painter, constantly welding
the brush, always painting some part
of the ship or other. There is hardly
passenger on an ocean liner that does
not land from voyage with some ar
tice of apparel damaged by paint. y
sailor told me once that every ship is
entirely repainted inside and out at
least three times Il year. The work
goes on constantly in port and on the
sea, and the passenger never can es-
cape."- Philadelphi Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
. : - -
The Potato.

The common potato was at the time
of the discovery of America in cult
walton from Chile to which it is in.
digenous, along the greater part of the
Andes as far north as to New Grana.
da. 1t was introduced from Quito into
Spain about 1880 under the name Of
papa" which in Spanish it still bears.
From Spain 1t found its way to Italy,
where 1t became known as "tartuffa-
To-" and thence was carried to Mons, III
Belgium, by one of the attendants of
the popes legate to that country. In
1888 it was sent by Philippe de Sivry,
governor of Mons, to the botanist, De
L'Ecluse, professor at the University
of Leyden, who in 1901 published the
first good description Of it under the
name of "Papas peruanorum," and
stated that 1t had then spread through
out Germany. Recommended in France
by Caspar Bauhin, the culture of the
tuber rapidly extended in 1892 through
out Franche Comte, the Vosges and
Burgundy. But the belief becoming
prevalent that it caused leprosy and fe
ver 1t underwent an ordeal Of persecu.
ton from which it did not recover un.
til three-quarters of century after
wei
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Lightning Flashes.

Lightning flashes in Il storm are
found by an English observer to be
much less irregular in period than
they appear. Such storms have usually
two foci, sometimes three, from which
the flashes radiate, and the discharges
from each come at regular intervals.
The apparent irregularity is due 10 the
varying rates of the different centers.
In one storm noticed the two foci We're
about mile and a half apart, and in
an hour the northern center emitted
thirty flashes at intervals of fifteen,
thirty, forty-five, sixty and ninety sec
onds, and the southern center gave
sixteen flashes at intervals of seven
teen, thirty-four and fifty-one seconds.
Another unexplained observation is
that just before each great flash there
is Il monetary faint lighting up of the
sky in the stormy region.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
The Old caIfskin Shoe Lace.

The modern boot lace is anything but
luxury. 1t is nearly always Just too
long or n little too short, and, although
made fiat, it soon becomes curled with
little wear. In the old days laces
were made OF calfskin, and nearly ev-
cry farmer was an expert. He would
cut disk of leather three or four
inches in diameter, stick the point of
sharp knife blade in board, place
the thumb nail the thickness of match
from it aud quickly draw the string
through the opening, the perimeter be-
ing reduced the thickness of match
at every measure of the clrcumfer-
ence. Then the square string was
rolled between the sole of the shoe
and the floor till perfectly round, after
which it was creased with tallow
Such lace would last for months
Round laces are now made Of fiber
but their shine soon wears off, giving
them much worn appearance.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Romance of a Necklace.

Some years ago an old Frenchwoman
died in a poor part Of Dublin, and her
little effects We're put UP for auction.
Among other odds and ends was a
necklace of dirty looking green stones.
which did not attract much attention.
However, n shrewd pair of dealers
thought there might be money in tt
and decided on purchasing, clubbing
together 60 for the purpose. On taking
1t to well known jeweler he prompt
ly offered f1,5O0, which sum they re-
fused and sold the necklace of purest
emeralds for $1,000 in London, where
Lord Rosebery OF his marriage pur-
chased it for something lie 100000.
The old Frenchwoman's mother had
been attached to the court OF France,
and the emeralds had once formed part
of the crown jewels.-London Answers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
sailor., side l;na.

Every sailor has side line" he
said. MANY an old shellback makes
more out of his side line than out of
punching sails and chewing ropes.
Watch 'em come aboard for long voy.
age. Here's one with n camera, plates
and developer He'll snapshot spouting
whales, icebergs, porpoises, wrecks,
anything of interest that turns up, for
such pictures sell to magazines and
newspapers, and he'll photograph his
mates at so much a head. Here's a
man with So worth of fine wool. He'll
knit it all up into ladies' shawls during
the voyage. With his skillful work
he'll change it into $50 worth of wool.
The tattooed chap has chunk of
ivory He'll carve it into little ships.
He's very handy that way. The bow
legged Teller darns stockings and patch
es clothes. The cross. eyed one shaves
and hair cuts. As for me, ] run a lot.
tery."-New Orleans Times-Democrat
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
TcoxT,Nunn.l
THE ROYAL BOX.

Queen Victoria Eugene is winning
golden opinions by her charitable dis
position, says a Madrid correspondent.
She has made round of the shops in
Madrid and bought quantities of toys
for poor children.
The German emperor rarely prepares
Il speech and never uses notes when
delivering an address In public. This
has been his practice for years, no
matter what the subject has been on
which he has had to express his views.
Queen Alexandra is very fond of
fritters prepared in American style
and until few months ago employed
an old Nirginian cook to make corn
fritters, peach fritters and eggplant as
it should be prepared with batter and
butter sauce.
King Leopold of Belgium should be
M expert judge of hotels, for he is n
prominent shareholder in some of the
largest in his country. At one time he
used to display extraordinary ability
as a diplomat, but for some years past
he has been engaged in proving that
he has genius for finance.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
1t Made a Difference.

An excited man rushed into a law
yers office and without any prelimi-
nary burst out, Has husband 4 right
to open his wifes letters?' Certainly,
sir. certainly" was the reply. "Open
all you please" "Well. here is letter
my wife has written TO your wife and
asked me to deliver. think there's
something unpleasant in it about me.
wish you'd open it and if there is just
burn it, "Hunlph! Does my wife
know your wife is going to write to
her?' YES" "And if my wife doesn't
get this letter she'll soon find it out,
won't she?' "Of course" "On second
thoughts" said the lawyer thought
fully, Il believe there is a legal finding
to the effect that it is criminal Of
Tense to open IL wife's letters.
couldn't take the risk, sir; indeed, ]
couldn't"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-03-06
Rossini's Watch.

In 1894 Charles X. presented Rossini.
the composer. with repeating watch,
studded with diamonds, and playing
two of Rossin's melodies. Nobody in
Bologna could clean the watch, so 1t
was sent in the care of the tenor. Fa-
biano. to Paris, where it was destroyed
in a fire Plivee, the matchmaker,
thereupon made a second watch, the
exact counterpart of the first, except
that the diamonds We're false, and Ros-
sini, who never discovered this pious
fraud. wore the trinket all his life. On
his death it passed to relative. whose
son sold 1t to an Englishman. 1t Is
said to contain an excellent portrait in
enamel of Rossini as he was in 1924.