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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
UNITED STATES DODGE
WAR WITH THE JAPANESE.
PRESIDENT AND FRISCO BOARD
AGREE TO END SCHOOL
PROBLEM.

Washington, Feb. 11.-President
Roosevelt and tho authorities or
san Francisco reached the mutual
understanding that the California
Japanese school question can be ad-
justed without danger of any serious
difhcuity with Japan The details
OF an adjustment are not agreed
upon Other conferences are to he
ne'd' the next to take place today.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
NEWSBOY Eo -
AT WILLIAMSON

Lee Mays, news boy on No 4.
was robbed of all the money he had
while sleeping I'm passenger coach
at Williamson last night While he
may have less money. he will have
more experience about sleeping
around loose on passenger cars.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
TILLMAN COMING
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR AT
MARSHALL COLLEGE MARCH
BOTH.
BOTH.

Huntington, Feb Those in
charge of the Marshall College lee
turo course are now able to make
the positive announcement that Sen
ator Benjamin Ryan Tillman. Of
South Carolina, will appear at tho
new auditorium on the evening of
March goth
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11

etter written by tho dead man to
3ando's wife just before the killing
Then the prisoner wGs asked: "Dil
YOU kill Stacey because of his re-
laHons with your wlfe?" Pando
. lswercd T did"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
BIG FIRE AT
LOGAN FRIDAY.
LARGE PORTION OF THE TOWN
DESTROYED.

DESTROYED.
DIR. II. C. Jones, formerly of this
city, now largely interested at I.o-
gan, this State, is in the city.
in his usual good spirits He
informs us that Logan had quite a
conflagration on last Friday, burn
ing a large portion OF the town.
Logan is a town with a future and
is now prospering wonderfully and
we are sorry to hear OF this Inis-
fortune, but nothing like small
fire can retard the progress Of
Logan to any great extent.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11

"Artemus Ward" was born at
Waterford, Me, under the names of
Charles F. Browne, and it appears
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
BIG MONEY
HAS TO 1915 PAID FOR THE RENO
VAL OF SNOW IN NEW
YORK.

Now York, Ian. 1O.-Strect
Cleaning Commissioner Craven got
an appropriation from the Board Of
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11

20 PER CENT DISCOUNT
Balance Of This Week
OFF TRUNKS HAND BAGS, COMFORTS AND
BLANKETS.
ALL COPYRIGHTED BOOKS AT PUBLISHERS or
JOBBERS PRICES.
This lower prices these lines than on ever
saw in Bluefled The only store in the city that does
not have to add per cent for bad debts collectors
salary
Do you what this means to you7 Then visit
THE SURPRISE STORE AND
THE AND TEN CENT STORE
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11
Il LUEFIELD VsTArIoNERMl
ooK - OK eo"PAHI
OFFICE SUPPLIES.

OFFICE SUPPLIES
We have outdono all previous efforts the selection
LABOR SAVING DEVICES
tho Ming cabinets and a loose
f LEDGE ard other appliances
Of statesmen you through
line, order telephone.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-11

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
DEATH TRAP ON
RIVER BANK

A guard rail shot,. be built along
the river bank from the rear of the
police station to the other side of
Ondawa Inn to prevent drunken
men who get bewildered in the
darkness from walking off the en-
bankment into the river and drown
ing. So many floaters have been
pulled out of the river near this
point that it is now generally adj
mitted that instead of being rob-
bed and thrown into the river as
it has been supposed heretofore, in
ebrates when they leave the sa-
looms along Front av. sometimes
stagger off the bank. In broad day
light drunken men on several oc-
casiOns have been seen to fall into
the water and in most cases have
been rescued. Men have also been
found asleep on the very brink of
the water and forced to move on.
1t was in this manner it is be-
lieved that the man who was pull
ed out of the river near the CEN
trail fire station met his death
There were no marks which would
indicate that he had suffered foul
play.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
B0ILERMAkERS
ARE STILL OUT

The press committee of the
boilermakers' union takes issue
with Supt Putnam's statement
that the strike is ended at the Hill
yard shops and elsewhere. If the
strikers are whipped to a finish and
all have left town, as the superin-
tendent states, the bOilermakers
want to know why it is necessary
for him to make frequent and regu-
lar reports to that effect. They say
that they are all here, and confid-
dent and deny the report that the
| men have gone back to work in the
Tacoma shops. Even if this were
true, they claim it would not affect
the strike on the Great Northern.
The boilermakers say they have
had but one desertion, man
named Carl Wicks, and they were
surprised that he came out on
| strike at all, as he was regarded as
certain strike breaker.
AS to the manner in which the
strike breakers are doing their
| work, the boilermakers refer to the
recent explosion of an N. p. loco
motive at Wallace in which three
men were killed. The coroner's in
quest established the fact that the
bad condition of the boiler was re-
sponsible for the disaster. It's flues
had been plugged with cast iron
and compound had been used in
order to plug up the leaks that the
bOilermakers ordinarily would have
| repaired. These facts were brought
out by railroad employees called as
| witnesses. The jury's verdict laid
the blame for the explosion on the
poor condition of the boiler, due to
lack of proper repair.
Local boilermakers claim that an
investigation would show most OF
the boilers now used by the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific in
similar condition because the com
panies are not able to have them
repaired by the men they have en-
plOyed in an effort to break the
strike.
The union will give benefit bail
at Carabin's hall, Hillyard. Dec. 20.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
COMPLAINING WIFE
SAYS Minister IS
ONLY HUGE BLUFF

PORTLAND, Dec. "a special
from st. Louis says:
Rev. John G. NJ Luttenberger,
minister in PendletOn, Ore, and a
we'll known lecturer on happy
household life and economical liv-
ing, was made defendant in suit
for divorce filed here yesterday by
Mrs. Henrietta Luttenberger, who
declares that Luttenberger could
not practice the precepts he
preached.
In an interview Mrs. Gutenberg
er is quoted as saying that Lutten-
berger had no idea of the cost of
maintaining their home or of liv-
ing expenses. His wife also stated
that she paid his expenses in col
lese and for trip through Europe.
PENDLETON, Dec. 9.-Rev.
John G. NJ. LuttenOerger. whose
wife, now in st. Louis, filed divorce
proceedings against him, denies
the truth of her statement that she
paid his way through college and
through Europe. He states that
the real cause of divorce is ar
other man, who came into his
home during his absence in
Europe.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09

that any effort to prevent such I'M
migration will be at the peril OF
the white races.
Jihei Hashiguchi, brainy Jap,
who denies any cooperation with
the home government, is pushing
this campaign of education through
the medium of a publication called
THE Japan Current" published at
Seattle.
He boldly asserts the Creator
provided the Japanese current to
propel ships with their burdens of
immigrants from Japan to the
American coast.
Such being the case" argues
Hashiguchi, what human dares at
tempt to check the immigration
We do not like to recognize the
fact of such attempt ever being
made. A temporary check upon
the Japanese immigration will onsy
contribute toward defeat great
Ell even than if that semblance of
success had not been attained.
You can check temporarily the
flow of a stream by laying dam
across it. But. 10! the water swells
and, behold, it flows over the dam.
1T can be said with certainty
that the two civilizations are
bound, sooner or later, to engage
in a struggle. Is not this struggle
worth having? Would we not be
doing our duties and fulfilling our
missions if we engage in I. e strug-
gle?-duties toward our descen-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09

dants, missions intrusted to us by q
prenatal or post-natal ordination
The Japanese immigration must
have it's own way in this country
There are $4,000 souls living in the
island empire, 300 to square
mile. Here there are only two to
the square mile. The population of
Japan is increasing yearly by at
least 100000, the yearly birthrate
being 100000 and the death rate
1,50O, 900.
This surplus population must be
accommodated somewhere. Nay, it
will accommodate itself some
where, somehow. The question is
where, how and when?
Suppose the Pacific coast is
overrun with 100000 Japanese
whom Japan can well afford to
spare? What then? Either the
Japanese will control the affairs OF
the Pacific coast regions or they
will be subject to the dominant in.
fiuence of their predecessors, the
Caucasion Americans.
Whatever be the case, what
must be must be. You cannot hold
the destiny of race in your hand
and say 1t shall be SO and so. The
destiny of race has been decreed
by an altogether higher authority
than that of mere mani"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
VETERAN FALLS
DEAD ON CAR

The body of Charles Cole, Sr.,
aged "a who expired on a street
car in front of Smith & Co.'S under
taking parlors yesterday afternoon
from heart failure will be buried
in Greenwood cemetery Tuesday,
the funeral to be held from the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Robert
Benzinger, 21O2 Gardner av.
Mr.. Cole was a member of the G..
A. r. He leaves two sons at Grand
Junction, Col; c. A. Cole, eX-sher-
if of Spokane county; a daughter
in Michigan, and two daughters in
this city. His brother, Ex-Governor
George Z. Cole, died in the same
manner last year in a Portland
hotel.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
NEW MEN ON
SCHOOL BOARD
DR.. ALLEN AND A. w. DAVIS
ELECTED By SAFE MARGINS
IN LIVELY ELECTION HELD
SATURDAY,.

The board of education meets
this evening to officially canvass
the Saturday election returns. For
the three years term DR.. H. w.
Allen was elected by 492 majority.
A. w. Davis, attorney, was named
for the two years term by ma
jority Of APT. Both directors are
pledged to the erection of more
school buildings.
OF the other candidates for the
long term H. l.. Hughes received
1872 votes and T. A. Moar SOB.
For the short term Lester P.
Edge ran second best with GIT, and
J. S. Lichty third with 1876. DR..
Allen led in every ward except the
First, where Moar had margin
Of 10.
The election was marked by the
interest shown by the women
voters. A total of 1862 ballots was
cast on the long term and 1913 on
the short term.
The new board will organize on
the first Saturday in January, the
4th.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
TRY ROCkPILE CURE

EVERETT, Dec. 9.-It has been
suggested that a rockpile be start
ed here where drunks and Migrants
who are arrested almost daily could
serve out their thine in hard work
This. it is believed, would effectual
ly solve the problem of keeping
tramps from remaining in the city
Almost nightly men apply to the
city Jail for lodging, pleading finan-
cial embarrassment If there is
room a nights lodging is usually
given them. Were they to be put
to work in return for the privilege
of lodging it is stated there would
be less calls.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
CITY To HAUL
THE GARBAGE

The city will begin handling
garbage and hauling away refuse
TO the crematory about the latter
part of the month. So announced
Commissioner j. T. O'Brien today.
Several weeks ago the Union Iron
works was given the job of manu-
featuring tight wagonbeds to car
ry the garbage, and as soon as
these wagonbeds are completed the
city will begin work. It will not be
necessary to purchase additional
livestock just at present, because
there are now teams enough at the
city barns to handle the garbage
hauling.
When the coming appropriations
for the various departments are
available perhaps more horses will
be bought, as the $4,000 voted for
the crematOry department will be
adequate. Garbage men figure on
competing with the city in spite of
the ordinance creating the crema-
tory department, which is designed
TO put those concerns out of bust
ness and force people to deal with
the city.
Commissioner O'Brien has been
in communication with other cities
that handle their own garbage
business, particularly Minneapolis,
and states that on the showing of
reports from those cities, Spokane
will be enabled to handle its garb-
age at a cost considerably below
what the companies have hitherto
charged the taxpayers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
SEATTLE WALTERS WIN

SEATTLE, Dec. 9.--The walters
who went on strike for the six day
week last Friday won a complete
victory. Every restaurant which
demanded that the walters work
seven days per week was struck,
and pickets warned away Gus
toners. The public was inclined
to support the walters, the idea OF
compelling any class of labor to
work seven days per week not be-
ing popular
The victory Of the walters will
have the effect of doing away with
the mo day off, order posted by
members of the restaurant keep
ers' association.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
BRISTOL HOLDS JOB

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. O.
Attorney General Bonaparte today
denied that he had ever issued a
statement to the effect that as he
believed District Attorney Bristol
had been professionally connected
with some land fraud defendants
he would appoint special prosecu-
tor. This statement was publish
ed last evening in a Portland
paper. Bonaparte said today:
There is no authority for that
statement"
This is taken to mean that Bona
parte will not appoint a special
prosecutor to handle the Oregon
land frauds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
SIDEWALK LAW
IS VIOLATED
DAILY
CITY COMMISSIONER UNABLE
TO NOTICE SOURCE OF DAN
GER AND INCONVENIENCE
TO PEDESTRIANS WHERE
ERTAlN CORPORATIONS
ARE GUILTY PARTIES.

Is there any good reason why
certain corporations should be al
lowed to block the sidewalks at
will while smaller concerns are
forced to adhere to the strict let
ter of the city ordinance and use
only Is inches of the sidewalk?
Take for instance the case of the
Pacific Transfer Co. on Main av.
near Post ST. In nearly all the
hours of daylight this concern piles
trunks high upon one another and
there is danger of them falling and
injuring people compelled to tread
the narrow path along the side
walk left for pedestrians. Some
time not even this path is left. And
the baggage smashers' are so
reckless in the manner in which
they throw trunks around that it
is no uncommon occurrence for
heavy trunk to be hurled from the
top of a wagon right into the door
of the storeroom. A reporter
passing there saw a driver unload
a whole dray of trunks with one
mighty pull of an underneath one.
The whole load came tumbling
down upon the sidewalk.
1t was only few days ago that
an automobile man whose place of
business is on Front av was fined
in police court because he block
ed the sidewalk with broken down
autos. The machines were at the
outer edge of the sidewalk and at
least three feet was left for pass
ersby. There was no danger that
a machine would strike anyone,
because they were stationary. But
IN front of the Pacific Transfer, in
4stead of three feet or more of space
left for pedestrians, sometimes
there is not three inches, and peo-
pie are compelled to stand until a
baggage smasher' shoves a
trunk, and sometimes dozen
trunks, out of the way.
Not only have citizens made fire.
quent complaint, but the Spokane
& Inland employees complain. A
line of sometimes six teams are
backed up against the sidewalk,
and the Inland trains must first
whistle warning of their approach
so as not to run down the dumb
beasts, and are then compelled TO
hold their trains until the drivers
get the animals out of the way.
Commissioner ]. T. ONO is the
man who is responsible for such
conditions. He supervises all
street and sidewalk blockades or
improvements. Repeated COM
plants to him about the Pacific
Transfer Co. have been disre-
garded. He promised today to
meet the officers of the transfer
company and induce them to dis
continue the blockades.
There is a city ordinance which
allows only IS inches of the side
walk to be utilized by a business
concern.
Another instance of the trans
gression of this limit is the Wash
ington Trust Co, which has i'm
proved the front Of its building on
Wall st. between Riverside and
Main by erecting a fancy front of
pillars and taking up about three
feet of the sidewalk. There was
never any complaint about this to
city officials. Building Inspector
Mackey, although knowing that
this was in direct violation of city
ordinance, allowed the work to be
completed without making com
plant to the board of works.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
DAMAGE CASE DISMISSED

Judge Huneke this morning dis
missed the action for damages
brought against the Oregon Rail.
road &, Navigation Co. by J. S.
Buck, of ColfaX, who alleged that
carload of 81 cattle and six
horses escaped from the company's
stockyards in this city last May.
The court found that it was
Bucks duty, by the terms of agree
ment with the railroad, to have at
tended himself to the proper fasten.
ing of the stockyard gates.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
JAPS ARE
DESTINED TO
RULE Us

SEATTLE, Dec. THE doctrine
that the Japs are the little brown
men of destiny is being promul-
gated industriously among the
mikado's subjects on the Pacific
slope, in Mexico and Canada.
While Japanese diplomats talk of
immigration restrictions, Japs in
the United States are being imbued
with the theory that nature intend
ed them to immigrate to the United
States.
Moreover, it is being emphasized
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
TO DlSBAR ATTORNEY

Charges of embezzlement, col
fusion and fraud in several cases
cited against Attorney James Hop
kins were filed with Judge e. II.
Sullivan of the superior court Sa-
turday, and a date for their hear
ing will be set later. The action
will be prosecuted by County
Prosecutor Barnhart, who will en-
deavor to prove the charges true
and disbar from practice the &C
cused attorney. The charges are
dated July 10 and addressed to
Judge w. E. Richardson, who was
then president of the bar associa.
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
BANKER TO EXPLAIN
FINANCIAL QUESTION

Spokane bankers will be enter
tanned by the Spokane Jobbers to-
night at a banquet at Davenport
The principal speaker will be w.
D. Vincent on the financial ques-
ton. The following are other ad-
dresses agreed upon:
Judge Edward Whitson, of the
federal court, on Credits and Col
lections;" F. e. Goodall, president
of the chamber of commerce, on
THE Relation of the Chamber of
Commerce to the Jobbing Trade in
Spokane; e. l.. Powell. of Powell
Sanders, on "The Relation of the
Jobbers to the Retail Trade of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
To MAKE
HIMSELF HERO

Nightwatch Hope. of Kemp &
Hebert's. was arrested early Sun
day morning and locked up on a
charge of drunkenness and confess
ed that when he gave the alarm
that burglars We're IN the store
basement he was fabricating.
The report looked fshy from
the first and Chief Of Police Rice
charged Hope with manufacturing
the story SO as to make himself a
hero in the eyes of his employer.
Hope wilted and confessed the
truth. He is a Salvation Army
private.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
BILL MAKES CHARGES

DENVER. Dec. Col. William
Cody directly charges Miss Helen
Mar with being paid for her testi
mony in the Howard Gould divorce
case. Miss Helen Mar was paid Sc
much per word for her testimony
when she testified against Mrs
Gould in New York." he said to-
day. 81 was offered $4,000 to tes-
tify but refused the offer. There
was nothing between Miss Glenn
mons and l."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
TELL MINERS TO STAY AWAY

Notices advising all men to stay
out Of the Boundary districts OF
British Columbia, and particularly
Grand Forks and Phoenix, where
the CRANKY mines and smelter are,
were posted around town yester-
day. The notice declares that the
CRANKY company has attempted to
cut wages and that the reduction
will be resisted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09

BY ELLA X. DEARBORN.
Frs-because smiles, may lei
Because her smile good with ourselves
A smile usually interpreted
smile
love admiration himself
The smiling popular because wisdom
wisdom knowing smile
becoming than a
After misunderstanding womans smile is
of the buryng the Ratchet the sheathng claws
pension of hostilies, declares her off
smiling weight responsibility
The smiling woman-heaven bless lghtens
life dspels the
forget the beginning ambition
of hopes sunshine existence.
Here's smiles!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
BRAVES HOLDuP'S DAGGER

60 years old, Mr.. Hays
)attacked the wouldbe robber and
frouted him. In the combat the old
mans hand was severely cut.
When the robber fled Hays hasten
ed to a drugstore at Washington
and Indiana and had his wound
dressed. Then the police were no
tilted and given the footpads de-
ScrintiOn
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
FALLS INTO OPEN CELLAR.

George Smythe, a Seattle brick
layer, fell into the cellar Of the
Paulson building last night just
after he emerged from the Angeles
saloon. He sustained a compound
fracture of the leg. Smythe is now
at Sacred Heart hospital. He says
there were no lights to warn him
against danger.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
TAFT HEARS SAD NEWS

BOULCGNE, Dec. 9.-When the
liner President Grant touched here
this morning with Sec. Taft on
board the sub-prefect went aboard
and presented the French govern.
ment's respects. The secretary
had been informed of his mothers
death and plainly showed the grief
he felt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
SAID NEGRO BEAT HIM

Patrolman Miller found Byron
Hart laying in the muddy alley in
the rear Of the Balken saloon at 4
o'clock this morning. He claims a
negro attacked and beat him. Hart
was temporarily out of his head
and was locked up. His face bears
the marks Of a beating.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09

Inland Empire;' J. M. Comstock on
"The Jobbing Trade of Spokane;
Its Present and Future With Just
Freight Rates." and N. w. Durham
on 1.-THE Press and It's Relation to
the Commercial Trade of Spokane"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
Nine. McRae, Corsetiere,
Last Week in the CITY

Ladies' who desire being corset
ed correctly should not delay visit
ing Nine. McRae, suite 30S-9 Hotel
Spokane, where this clever lady
will be at your service a few days
longer. Her line of Crosby front
laced corsets are the finest and
most reasonably priced ever shown
in the city. Nine. McRae is an
authority of national reputation
and guarantees every corset as alb
solutely perfect. $50
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-12-09
LaFoHette, Who Has
q Small Boom

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. O.
Robert NJ. La Toilette is the more
or less proud possessor of a presi-
dental boom all his own. 1t is not
a very large boom, but it is thrifty,
and seems to have it's roots close