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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
COUNTY BARS P(OLROOM
H|LLYARD WON'T HAVE IT

whole lot of being good enough for
Hillyard. DR.. J. barrow, mayor of
Hillyard, gave it as his private
opinion that the poolrooms would
find the doors closed If they went
far enough to make application for
admittahce AS the matter had not
yet been presented he could not
speak dficially and did not attempt
to voice the sentiment of the coun-
Gil, but felt certain that a poolroom
proposition would be turned down
hard.
II the city council repeats section
l of the pool selling ordinance and
allows gambling for weeks at the
Interstate fair, the Warwick will
not reopen, it is said, but will take
pot-luck with the other bookmakers
at the fairgrounds. 1t may be given
exclusive gambling privileges out
there. That is what the poolroom
management desires.
The Warwick Co. has always had
the liquor selling privilege since
Robert II. Cosgrove was made fair
manages. Bids are always adver-
tised, but there is a clause which
allows Cosgrove to reject any and
all bids. Last year there were bet.
ter bids than submitted by the
Warwick people, yet this company
was given the exclusive right and
made about $500 day for each Of
the IL days.
Just how much it paid for the
privilege is not known.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
STILL AFTER DR.. MCGEE


Sheriff Doak has been notified to
arrest Dr. !. l.. MCGEE as soon as
he reaches Spokane from Boise,
Idaho, where he was released Tues.
day after a hearing on a charge of
perjury in connection with his
Testimony regarding the where
abouts Of Harry Orchard when the
Bunker Hill mill was blown up. DR..
MCGEE has not yet reached the
city. When arrested here before he
returned to Idaho without extradi-
tion. II is stated he will fight 1t
this time. The prosecution refuses
to accept the action of the Justice
OF peace at Boise - finding no evil
|dence againss him. DR.. McGee was
the defense's best witness in dis.
proving Orchards veracity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
MAY LUBR|CATE
CITY STREET

Is crafty old John D. with his
various little schemes for enlarging
sales of Standard Oil products,
about to get a boost in Spokane
business through the oiled roads
scheme? Old j. D., of course,
couldn't exert his oily influence on
the city administration, but he
probably wouldn't object to the use
of oil on local roads and suburban
street, an idea to which parts of
the country have educated.
City Commissioners J. T. O'Brien
and James T. ONO this morning
were taken in Contractor H. l..
Lillienthals automobile out to the
Graves farm, where the private
road is oiled. They will make a re-
port on it. The board particularly
desires to oil East Sprague av. This
is the most travelled entrance into
the city and the dustiest.
Eventually it may occur to the
commissioners that more water
carts instead of oil sprinkers is
what this city needs. Oiled thor
oughfares are costly propositions
in a region as devoid of oil wells
as Spokane county They do bet.
ter in California, where the greasy
fluid gushes out handy and are ne.
cessities Of life almost in a climate
that is dusty all the year round.
Spokane streets are in need of
special treatment or 3 months In
the -, and few more sprinklers
would take care of that. 1t will be
found a lot cheaper to squirt water
around the landscape than oil, even
if John D. descends to a special
competition-killing price on it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
TEST SOIL FROM
CITY WELL

The board OF health is taking
every precaution to secure a thor
ough and reliable analysis of the
water from the test we'll now being
dug for the purpose Of ascertaining
whether a pure supply can be OBJ
tanned from a system of wells near
the pumping station.
Instructions have been given the
contractor to save samples of the
soil taken out at every stage of the
excavation. This will be carefully
tested for seepage.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
TORTURED IN
SAN SALVADOR

NEW YORK, July 25-Mail ad-
vices received from San Salvador
say United States Minister Merry
has informed the minister Of for
eign affairs of Salvador that Sal
vadoreans are being tortured by
the authorities in an effort to get
evidence on which to convict John
and George Moysent, Americans
charged with being implicated in a
revolutionary plot.
Merry saw the lacerated thumbs
OF Salvadoreans tortured by the
troops. and saw where several
were tied up. He examined sever
al who refused to give false testi-
mOny
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
BLAcKMAlL MURDERER
C0NFESSES
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NEW YORK, July 25.-Bedros
Hampartzoomian, Millionaire Fa-
veshankian's assassin, is said to
have made confession today re-
vealing the names Of members of
the matchmaking society for which
he committed the crime. He fur
nished q list of victims and those
now marked for death. Wholesale
arrests are promised.
An Armenian spy, placed in the
cell with Hampartzoomian, is said
to have secured the confession.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
Washington Laundry and Contents Destroyed In
Few Minutes after Fire Starts.

Just how the fire started Is a
mystery. The fireman was in the
engineroom. He says he was rak-
ing the fire when he discovered
the blaze in the shavings between
the boiler and the fuel bin. Others
say the fire started in chute used
in carrying waste paper from the
upstairs to the engineroom.
Just back of the engineroom is
the stable, also in the same build
ing. Several Of the drivers had
tied up their horses for the noon
hour. When the animals smelled
the smoke and saw the darling
flames between the cracks of their
stable and the engineroom they be-
came frantic. The drivers hurried
to their assistance and with diff
Guilty forced them from the stable
into which the flames were eating
their way.
Quick action by Engineer Erick-
son Helped subdue the excitement
of the employees. He was upstairs
when the alarm was given and
hastily shut down the engines.
Belts and machinery came to a
standstill.
Not a thing was saved and the
building is now brick she'll. 1t
is owned by the Havermale estate
and was leased by the Washington
Laundry Co. for a term of years.
The building was worth probably
$4,000 and the insurance on 1t was
about $4,000.
Manager Hosford was uptown
when notified Of the conflagration.
When he reached the scene the
fire department was training 3
lines of water onto the blaze. He
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25

Fire at 12:40 o'clock this after
noon completely destroyed the
Washington steam laundry, sit
uated at the north end of the
Washington st. viaduct. The loss
is estimated at nearly 100000. In
surance is not more than $4,000.
In less than 20 minutes after the
alarm was given by the engineer
the entire building was mass OF
flames. Laundresses and men en-
ployes made mad rush for out
doors. Several of them fell in
their haste and had miraculous es-
capes from being trampled and left
injured in the flames. The fire
swept over the one floor in a re.
markably short space of time.
Foreman H. e. Clever showed re-
markable presence of mind. Above
the roar Of the flames and the
cracking of burning timbers his
voice was heard by the frantic
women, urging caution and self
possession. He stood at the front
of the building and as the women
ran out, hatless and excited, he
took mental not in an endeavor to
make sure that none Of them, in
the excitement, had ran to the rear,
where escape was cut off. There
we're about 80 women in the build
ing when the fire started.
For several minutes after the
laundry was cleared it was feared
that a girl named Rosey had per-
ished. She had run into the blaz-
ing dressing room to secure her
hat. A search was made and she
was found, having come out minus
the hat and unnoticed by the fore
man or other help.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
HICKS WON'T PROSECUTE

In police court this afternoon
John Hicks refused to prosecute
Myrtle Taylor, accused OF robbing
him of $372 and watch In the
Palm lodging house. He said he
was not sure but that he had given
the woman the money to keep for
him. He was drunk when he lost
1t. She was fined 500 on general
principles. and Hicks, who yester-
day stuck a revolver into the face
of the bartender at the Palm, was
fined $25.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
LIST OF THE LOST IN
WRECK OF COLUMBIA

sistant engineer; Max Claus, sec.
ond assistant engineer; w. p. An.
derson, water tenders; ]. Madison,
s. Larkin, firemen; Schneider
Baker, Frank Davis, second cook;
e. r. Dreyer, pantryman: A. Block
or waiter; r. c. Alley, ]. G. Alley.
walters; mess boy, name unknown.
age 16.
In addition to those names were
a number Of children, but the COM
pany has no record of them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
WANTS COMMISSION TO
GOVERN INTERSTATE FAIR

movement for fair commission is
]. c. Barline, prominent Y. M. c..
A. workers. Barline makes no
statement either for or against
gambling on horse races during the
fair. He merely advocates his COM
mission idea because of the unde-
sirable notoriety given the present
fair management through its ef-
forts to repeal the anti-pool selling
ordinance In order to allow gam
bling on the races from Sept. 70 to
Oct. g.. the fair weeks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, Jul,

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, July rs.
F. B. G. Seeley and party of 3
women, en- route from Chicago to
jamestown, Va, are being cared
for here for injuries received in a
clash between their automobile and
an angry bull.
The animal attacked them on the
highway. After several charges
the car succeeded in knocking the
bull down an embankment, but
turned turtle and followed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
UNION MEN NEARLY
BEATEN TO Death
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Omitted Press Association.)
DULUTH, July 25.-Violence In
the mining district continues. The
latest assault was committed upon
union organizer by butcher.
The organizer was nearly killed.
The miners have raised a $4,000
fund for the establishment OF CO.
operative stores throughout the
district.
They have stopped parading and
are now making house to house
canvas.
Five hundred deputies were
sworn In at Bovy and Colerane,
aud 200 at Hlbbing. Governor
Johnson, who is on the scene. said
today the situation did not yet
justify calling out troops.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
TEN THOUSAND STARVING.
PRICE RAISED
SHOPS RAIDED

Omitted Press Association
PHILADELPHIA, July 25
MODS of thousands of
women in the Jewish quar-
ters this morning smashed
windows, upset show cases
!. and hurled the entire stock
of Kosher meat dealers in
the street, where they soak
ed the meat with oil, be-
cause the dealers raised
the prices.
Many who attempted to
buy meat were beaten. The
riot started when the shops
were opened. Several
women were trampled upon
and badly injured. Several
were arrested.
a a a a a a - n a a - a 4 a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
NEW w. U. MANAGER

The Western Union has named
R. H. Tucker to succeed A. d.
Campbell in the management of the
Spokane office. He has had charge
of the Wallace Office and will take
the Spokane Office Aug. l. The
new manager was formerly en-
ployed as an operator in the local
office.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
MAC|LL GIRL DECLARES
HER FATHER INNOCENT

not one Of the offenders committed
to the farm has violated the order
of the court.
Several Of the prisoners are old
time offenders. having repeatedly
served jail sentences. One Of the
victims confined on the farm has
been in the jail of this city at least
dozen times and has served time
in the workhouse Of Detroit. :
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
GREAT STRIKE ON
IN IRELAND
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BELFAST, July 25.--Four thou
sand employees quit the spinning
mills today and Joined the strikers.
Two hundred policemen threaten
to join the strikers because they
are not allowed extra pay for long
work. The strikers are burning
drays and resorting to other vio-
lence.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
HELD AS MURDER SUSPECTS

The sheriff Is still holding Lee
Reiger and All Yeck on suspicion of
their being connected with the kill
ing of 2 Cinnamon at Garden
Springs, Reiger Is white boy
aged 1S. All Yeck was previously
arrested for the crime and re-
leased.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
MAN GETS LIFE;
WOMAN is YEARS
Omitted Press Association.

LONDON, July 25.-Chas. Smith
was today sentenced to life impris-
onment and May Churchill, known
as Chicago May" sentenced to Is
years for an. attempt to kill Eddie
Guerin, the man with an interna-
tional police record. Guerin was
shot in the street weeks ago in a
querrel over woman. He made a
sensational escape from DEVILS
island in 1905 that astonished the
world,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
RUSSIANS EXECUTE
WOMAN TERRORIST
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(Cnfted Press AssOc1atiOn.)
MOSCOW, July 25-Mme. From
|Sina, accused of several attempts
to assassinate, was hanged here
today. Last May she attempted to
kill General Rheinbot, former pre-
feet of police and inspector of the
prison where she was confined. She
refused to ask for clemency.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
NO GLASS EVIDENCE
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Omitted Press Association.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-The
stated rested In the Glass bribery
case this morning. The defense an
nounced that 1t would introduce no
evidence. Delmas wanted to sub
NIT the case without argument, but
Heney objected. Heney opened at
2 this afternoon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
hARRl MAN CO MING OUT
TO COAST
tunLtea Press Association.l

Omitted Press Association.l
NEW YORK, July Hartman
said today he will soon make a trip
to the Pacific coast on an extend
ed tour. The date Is not fixed. He
declines to make prediction re-
garding the Southern Pacific quar-
terly dividend. but says 1t win not
be more than 6 per cent per an
mum.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
Law board
ASKS COUNCILITO PASS

knowing of any violations of the
health ordinance with regard to
food, to report same to the Health
department.
No animal shall be killed for food
while il is overheated, feverish or
diseased
Penalty for any violation Is a
fine ofgnot less than 81 nor more
than $1p0
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
LEGISLATOR ARRESTED
FOR GIRLS DEATH
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DETROIT, July 25.-A warrant
charging State Representative
Charles e. Ward with manslaugh-
ter in connection with the death of
Miss Edith Presley, proof reader
for the Michigan senate, was the
outcome today of an inquest.
The woman's death was due to
an operation. The accused legisla-
tor Is willing to face the charge.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
Jamaica Government Forced Collection Of Taxes
When Public Needed Food.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 25-Ten Thousand people
starving in the st. Elizabeth district according to
investigation conducted by General Oliver The famine H.
growing.
The local government is blamed for failure to take
proper precautions Persons almost without clothing
and food obliged to pay their taxes lose their
homes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
SENTENCES DRINKS
TO Term ON FARM
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Omitted Press Association)
KALAMAZOO, July 25.-Judge
]. w. Adams, circuit court jurist,
is making an effort to bring about
a sociological reform, whereby ha-
bitual drunkards may be sentenced
to farm life instead of prison.
For the past 6 months Judge
Adams has been making an expert
ment Of the proposed reform and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25

BUENOS AYERS, July 25-Nine
men were killed and many injured
today in a fight between harbor
strikers and the police.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-25
Will FIGHT HILL
IN CANADA
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(Un1ted Press ASSoclatlOn)
WINNIPEG, July 25.-It is re-
ported shat the st. Paul road will
extend its system into Western
Canada next year to meet the move
being made by Hill interests.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-18
APPOINTED
GETS PLACE AS CLERK OF THE . NEW COURT.
Fifteen Suits Have Already Been Filed in New Court of Law and Equity Awaiting
 Hearing.

Mobile. Aug.~17.-(SpeciaI) )-william A. Conrad. deputy clerk of the Circuit Court. has received his appointment as deputy clerk of the law department of the ne| law and equity court and has qualified. He was appointed by Clerk Sexus Smith. Register Holborn, of the Chancery Court. will appoint a deputy for the equity or chancery es.d. ana his stenographer. Miss Black. seems favored for the appointment.
 Until today there has been filed flf- teen suits in the law court, and as yet not a single one has come up for the equity side. The location of the new court has not been decided The court will be given location by the County Commissioners.
 The Gould Holberg Catering Com pany was incorporated in the Probate Court this afternoon to carry on a res- stand on Royal street, and to buy and sell merchandise, lodging. etc. The capital stock is $5,000. and business will begin with $2.000 paid up.
 Papers declaring the Alba Fishing and Hunting Club were filed in the Probate Court this afternoon. setting forth that the club is organized for the social and literary advancement of its members. There ares no shares of stock. The membership of the club shall be 800, including the following. whose names are signed to the papers: Phelan B. Dorian. Thomas H. Cham berlain, Thomas J. Powell, Joseph A Ryan, Homer V. Bachelder, John T. Bauer. Albert L. Gould. Charles Was suth, Frank w. Crenshaw, Arthur A. Davis, George Russell, Ed. Laurendine, George O. Bancroft, George R. Haas, William Class and Norborne R. Clarke.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-18
OF VALUES
TYPICAL SOUTHERN STATES SHOW
 STEADY PROGREss.
Manufacturers Record shows . Healthy Rate of Increase in Ass sessed Valuations, of Prop
 critics of the s0uth

Baltimore. Md. August lB.--(spe- ciaL)--ln this weeks issue, The Man ufacturers' Record says:
 Reports from typical Southern States indicate q maintenance of the healthy rate of increase in assessed valuations of properties that has char acterized recent years.
 The total assessed value in Louis- iana this year is $505. ,I12. an in- crease oyer 1906 of s44,050,291 The assessment in the parish of Orleans alone is s222.174.s05, an increase of $13,434.475. In West Virginia the in- crease has been from y875, S5S to $9l2,590,942, according to a rough es- timate. Retdrns already in from diff ferent sections of Texas point to an increase of probably $200, 0,000,000 mak- ing the total assessed value in the State more than $1,400, 100000. Dallas alone shows an increase Of $l4,S57,6SO
 The total value of assessed prop erty in Tennessee inclusive of the railroad, telegraph. telephone and street railway property. has been in- creased in the year by $15,000,e co, and 1t is thought that there will be an increase of about S12,000.000 in the assessment of the other properties. bringing the total assessed value of the State to about s5o0.oo6,0o0. With more than third of the counties of
  7sS.620 already appears, and a total gain of $30,000.000 is confidently looked for. together with a similar gain in the valuation of corporate properties, making a total gain for the State of $60,000,0v0, and the total as- sessed valuation s6s5,o00.000. Though these gains are in part due to charges in methods of assessments, they re- veal as a whole the steady march of the South toward greater and greater wealth"
 The money that the South is making is not remaining idle. Some of 1t Is going into the development of tim Der lands and coal fields and other sources of wealth. some of 1t into the improvement of municipal and indi- yidual properties and some of 1t into additions to the industrial equipment of the section.
 For instance, a company recently organized will build at St. Pauls, N. C.. mill to be equipped with 5000 spindies for the manufacture of hos iery yarns. At Cumberland in the same State a mill now operating 5,e36 spindles will build a second plant one story high. 75 by $40 feet, with pro- vision for another story in the future. Mills at Liberty, S C., will build an addition to accommodate 2,500 ring spindles making the total equipment 15,500 spindles and 290 looms. Reports from Anniston. Ala. MonteL Tex, Bowling Green, s. C., Clinton, s. C., Junction City, Ga, and Fayetteville, N. C., reflect plans for new textile en- terprises or for ac tions to existing plants.
 There is much activity in coal devel- opments, and during the past few days a number of undertakings of the kind have been started in t,-e Bar boursville section # Kentucky. Illus trative of this activity is the fact that since she extension two years ago of the Cumberland Railroad to the head of the Brush Creek Valley, about $500,- 900 has been expended in opening mines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-18
BARAcA CLUB MEETS.
Pleasant Social Time by Baptist Young
 Men,e Organization.

Pleasant Social Time by Baptist Young
 Mems Organizatt0h.
 One of the most important factors in the work of the First Baptist Sunday School is the Baraca Club. with mem bership of sixty young men. The club is a part of the regular Bible school and rreets every Sunday morning at 9:30A o'clock, its membership being open to all young men over sixteen years of age.
 A social meeting of the club is held monthly and this feature aids very much holding the young men together. The meeting for August was held In the banquet lall Of Bastiana and Cas- simusy Thursday evening, forty four of the members being present. besides a number of specially invited guests.
 MT B. l.. Griffin, president of the club acted as toastmaster, the follow ing program being enjoyed along with a splendid repaSt:
 ,"Baraca-Its name, beginning and
 "Our Class--Its beginning" B. F.. Davidson.
 'Present membership and what 1t should be-" c. D. Tallman.
 some things '-~ the future from a social standpoint" G. H. ShreVe.
 "Wh.t Baraca has done for me-" J. M Tucker
 How the class may help the Super fntendent," Michael Cody.
 How the class may help the pastor" Dr. c. A. Stalkely.
 "The young men away from home. " Armistead b-own.
 "The value of organization" Fred S. Bail.