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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
HUMANE SOCIETY HAS EQUIP
MENT FOR PAINLESS DEATH
BUT Is NOT READY, AND
CRUEL PRACTICE OF SHOOT
ING WILL PREVAIL.

Humane Officer Rudersdorf this
morning postponed the slaughter OF
unclaimed doggies at the pound I'M
til early Monday morning, when
the ruthless dogcatchers will arm
themselves with rifles, go out into
the pen and begin to shoot the
homeless ones promiscuously. II
the first shot don't fix them, the
second will, or mayhap it will take
a third. 1t don't matter the least,
they're just common, no good
dogs. And it's fun to shoot at a
helpless thing that can't fight back
or run away.
There are only about dozen lit
tie dogs without pedigree, just
dogs, doomed to die.
They had friends, little boys
maybe, that loved but couldn'i
save them. For even a cur dog
sticks as close to lis master as the
animal Of polished and long pedi
gree. Even the dirtiest, the vel
lowest Of them, had somebody who
patted him on the head and called
MIN sOou Jog.
Last year 900 stray dogs were
shot to death. More than 1,l0e
were captured. Only about zoe
were redeemed. 1t Is different
this year, as probably half of those
thus far captured have been taken
out by compassionate persons who
like them just because they're
dogs.
The cruel slaughter of last year
will not occur so extensively this
year. The humane society has
bought an electrocuting apparatus
which hereafter will shock the
doggies to the hereafter-and kids
at least believe there is hereafter
for the dogs. just the same as for
humans.
Just how many of these little
friends will die by bullet depends
altogether on the activity Of the
Barber Asphalt Co. This company
has been charged with many
things, but never before with the
slaughter of helpless dogs. The
humane society must await the
wiring of a new, big rock crusher
owned by that company before it
can attach the electric current to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
GAMBLING ADVOCATES
VERY POOR PROPHETS

and thus Injuries business. Men
who manufacture and sell strong
drink are leeches and parasites"
Against Suppression Of Gambling
I. X. Holland, proprietor OF the
Comique dive: Gambling and
other pursuits, conducted under po-
lice surveillance, result in a quiet
and orderly city. Vice always ex-
lists and will no matter whether
the system is wide-open or closed"
Harry Green, proprietor of the
, Club, cafe, saloon and gambling
den: There Is scarcely q BUSH
ness man in this town who wishes
to see these places closed up.
These places have the largest pay
rolls In town, pay the highest rents
and in many other ways contribute
to substantial prosperity"
John Condron, saloonman and
proprietor of the Warwick: "That
the closing Of gambling has mate
rally ruined the business OF other
towns no one can deny. II the
anti-vice movement is successfuY
in Spokane, the gambler will not
suffer. venture to say that the
city will be injured to the extent
of falling off in circulation off
more than half million dollars
per annum."
BY way Of comparison it may be
mentioned that bank clearings for
the week ending Thursday totaled
$6,413,369.
Last year for the corresponding
week they amounted TO $3,907 1893.
The gain for years is proportion
ate. The population Of the city
has nearly doubled.
There are more churches,
schools, business houses. A bet
ter class of citizenship has result
ed, and all on account OF the sup.
preston of vice.
This old time protest against
| law enforcement has strangely
familiar sound. It appears to be
an ancestor OF the argument pre-
vailing now in favor Of preserving
! gambling to the Interstate fair.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
STOPS. CROOK
WITH BULLET

Patrolman Daniel late yesterday
afternoon shot OHM Lund, bunco-
man who was fleeing after being
interrupted in the act of Fleeing
Walter Shier, a common laborer,
on vacant lot just west of the
Spokane Flour mills.
Detective McDermott and Patrol
man Daniels, in plain clothes.
found men matching dollars. AS
the officers approached, the men at
tempted to flee. The detective
grabbed of them but Lund and
another set off up the street, fol-
lowed by the patrolman, who COM
manded them to halt. When they
paid no heed the officer fired 4
times. The other man distanced
both Lund and the officer. Daniel
was gaining when he stumbled and
tore a deep cash in his knee. But
he kept on and Just as Lund was
climbing over the railroad en-
bankment, he fred his last load
and Lund fell down the embank.
ment, shot though the right leg
above the knee.
Shier said he met men at the
o. R. & N. depot and they invited
him to take a walk. When the
flour mill was reached they began
to match dollars. They wanted to
match him for $50, he said, but he
refused. Tney finally matched for
S. and he lost total of So before
the raid
At 2 O'Clock this morning Detec-
tives Briley and Burns arrested
Paul Rumslund in lodging house
on Division st. and Riverside av
He is suspected OF being the bum
co man who escaped.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
TRACK NEARLY
WRECKS ENGINE

The big steamer of fire station
No. was almost wrecked yester-
day afternoon on it's dash to the
Hotel Victoria in response to an
alarm. AS the big engine round.
ed the corner of Howard st. and
Main av. 1t slid on the wet pave
ment until the left rear wheels
struck rut between the car tracks
and the pavement. 1t tipped almost
over and wrenched 1 of the axles
so badly it was taken to a repair
shop today.
Chief Myers has investigated and
found that the pavement does not
set up as close to the car tracks as
it should. AS result the engine
crew narrowly escaped what might
have been a fatal spill. Street
Commissioner ONO will have the
track fixed.
The fire was caused by a care.
less travelling man dropping the
stub of cigaret on the carpet OF
an upstairs room where a social
game Of cards was being played.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
POOL ROOM
DEAL FIXED

It is stated today that the Inter-
state fair officials have pledged the
democratic councjlmen to repeal
the ordinance prohibiting pool
rooms SO that pool selling may be
conducted this fall at the race
track. Manager Robert H. Co.'S
grove will not admit that any OF
the councilmen have been pledged,
but 1t has been stated unofficially.
Behind 1t all Is said to be a much
deeper scheme. The democrats
are In the majority in the council
and belong to the recent open
town administration. The closing
of poolrooms is closed town meas
ure Of the administration now in
Office. The democrats worked with
the republicans in prohibiting the
poolrooms. Now come the fair
people, backed by the closed-town
councilmen, and ask that the Or
dinance be repealed long enough
to allow pool selling this fall The
democrats have planned to work
with the republicans to this end
And then the fun will begin. Once
the ordinance is repealed, no other
ordinance will be passed, The
democrats will say I'VE closed
them once for you and you begged
us to repeal the ordinance. NOV
do the best you can"
The Warwick poolroom people
have engineered this last scheme
and are so confident of putting 1t
through the council that contracts
with the Western Union have not
been annulled and agents in cities
where racing is permitted have
been given to understand that their
carvicaS arc still daSirad
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
HARGlS ESCAPES

SANDY HOOK, KY, July 20
Judge James Hargis, central fig
ure in the famous feud. was today
acquitted on the charge of compli-
city in the murder of DR.. Cox. The
state refused to enter into the
case, as its witnesses failed to APP
pear because Judge Moody declined
to send the case to Breathitt
county. The court ordered the
Jury to acquit.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
CHARGES CONSPIRACY
TO CONVICT
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CARLSRUHE, Germany, July
20.-Attorney Dietz, for Hau,
charged with the numbering of his
mother-in-law, created a sensation
in court today by declaring the
trial is an organized conspiracy to
convict the professor on insult
ficient circumstantial evidence,
and that the court precutor's wit
nesses have shown the strongest
anlmus against the defendant, He
raised strong point by declaring
that Wieland, valet in the Molitor
home. who disappeared on the day
Of the murder, should be found and
examined before the trial proceeds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
TERRIBLE MISTAKE SENDS
EXCURSION TO DESTRUCTION


There is authority that Should conclusive
sentiment Of the or ps Of town n wS
the saloon is to be
1t is the families of nelghborhoods
the material which the saloon man figures coming into
dollars It the young men and women he after for the
topper he has anyway though the topper travels 10
thoughts daily until familiarity has overcome the natural re-
pngnance every rightmnded boy and girl feels toward
That why the saloons are pushed residence
mot o ss r. 4Rsy ss %
making s, as n easy for to drinking place
and churches as possible d them in Every
@ sss
en m @ sort Of thing the
the brewery trust and its compatrot in crime the whiskey
To get local issue if a neghborhood is in
different to or demands saloon there legal why
always arrives of tie demand
or df nor for
to the saloon Such Overwhelming sentiment that
committee to pgeonhole the License application
Even the elected to protect the interests
Of the ward in the civic legislative body Needless of the
be- the council q Whole cannot justly accept
supporters at the ratio of about 100 if
in favor Of the saloon must be exered by the
p sas 8 ' this the s st
how influential these interests are city hall
of section Of the city time every city
to understand the proposition exactly.
The liquor evil has Enough nsolence
now to satisfy normal desire for because
abnormal hunts like wolf The
in the liquor business will it. principal
product and create initiatory
abo in that particular locality supplying
expanding the demand N
These exerons take accounting of happiness sanctty
or human life Not cent that into saloon till has
chased its face value 1t nothing
depraved appetite Not cent
have been put to far better use Not of the
keepers receipts but
1t comes through an artificial Process of grating
weakness
trade in his neghborhood knows better he anything
at ALL He knows the saloonkeeper maj
should have had for clothing
little child playing about dirty half because
money its needs command go Into the saloon TILL
that the who to part of town by sa
loon there buy liquor necessities sort of
clothes fit whiskey appetite.
The people of Union Park are for part working
people who paying for homes
raising families in the best
ward shows the greatest increase children
is no substantial sectonsof city good
standpoint
They have fought saloons
to continue the fight They don't so
time and again. And the wisdom of their demon
strated in the prosperous and happy
muny.
That ought will be sufficient unless the council
determines to arbitrarily force
practically unanimous protest. be
to rgdy investigate the the secret such
extraordinary influence.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
GOT
NOTHING


NEW YORK, July 20.-Secre-
tary McInerney, of the local union,
said today the settlement of the
strike in San Francisco is salts
factory to operators. Vice Presi-
dent Adams, of The Postal Co., de-
clares the company granted moth
ing, but simply agreed to take back
the men at the request of Neill.
He says absolutely no agreement
was made regarding arbitration SO
far as his company Is concerned.
ST. LOUIS, July 20-Local teleg-
raphers are not entirely satisfied
with the strike terms. They de-
clare Small should have insisted
on both companies recognizing the
union. Their opinion is that moth
ing has been gained by the opera
tors.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
ATTORNEY DEMANDS
OPPONENTS BLOOD
Omitted Press Association,

iCnlted freSS ASSoclatiOn.1
CARLSRHUE. Germany. July TO-,
Attorney Dietz has challenged
Prosecutor Bleicher to a duel be-
cause of alleged insults heaped
upon Dietz by the prosecutor dur
ing the Hau trial. Dietz's seconds
today called at the Bleicher resi-
dence with the challenge. but We're
denied admittance. Dietz issued a
statement that he will force Bleich-
er to fight or proclaim him
coward throughout Germany. He
will send the challenge through the
mail. He says the prosecutor must
fight of welsh"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
ANNUAL DOG MURDER
TO BEGIN MONDAY

the apparatus which will shock the
doggies. This may be a month
sees fit. In the meantime, the hui
name society will go on shooting
and torturing the dogs to death un-
I'll the wires are put in.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
More Than Score Of MangIed corpses Taken
Out and Wreckage 10 Full Of Dead.
Officials Discover Error and Order Out Relief
Trains Before Collision Occurs.

Ray Jacobs, fireman.; Chas. Nc
Cauley, jim VeZzard, Ned Gal
lagher, Herman Hoss and son,
Paul; Chas. l.. X Merrill, Albert
Trautwine, Conductor Pixley, John
Tafel, Henry Reynolds, Willie
Grams, Homer Smith, F. Fitzger-
aid, Chas. Brown, John Rogers. A.
M. Corbert, Mrs. August Victor,
Mrs. Abe Kelley. Fatally injured:
Mrs. Anna Fulker, William Beals.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
SIR CONAN DOYLE SIR THOS DEWAR SIR THOs Upton

LONDON, July 20.-The worlds
most celebrated trio of bachelors is
about to be broken up. Each of
them is a sir knight. each is ia
nous In his own way, each is
wealthy and each is past middle
age. Needless to say, each has for
years been considered a coveted
"catch" by the fond mammals (ac-
cent ON the second syllable) of So
ciety.
The disruption of this trio is
brought around through the APP
preaching marriage of Sir Conan
Doyle, whose engagement to Miss
Jean Leckie has just been an
nounced. The creator Of Sherlock
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
HEALTH OFFICER
GETS BUSY

The City Scavenger Co. today Is
cleaning up the dead cats, chick
ems and other departed animals
that are dumped on the river
bank at the west end OF Riverside
av. The work is being done by or.
der of Health Officer Grieve, to
whom the unsanitary conditions
were reported yesterday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses as follows
were issued today; Carl Cookson
and Blanche Alien. both of Cotton
wood. Idaho; Jacob Goodrich, OF
Athol. Idaho, and Mary Houghton,
Lander, Wyo.; f. B. Chase and
Lettie A. Lang. both of Spokane:
H. H. Rasmussen, Seattle, and
Helen McNeal, Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
SCHOOL LAND AUCTION

The county commissioners at 10
a. m, Aug. 3, will sell at public
auction 81 lots in the school Sec
ton and acre-tracts Of county
school lands. Buyers pay 10 per
cent down and the balance tenth
each year.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
CHORUS GIRL DIVORCES TITLE

Omitted Press Association)
EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 90
"A divorce was today granted
Countess Rosslyn. formerly Anna
Robinson, the American chorus
girl who married in 1905.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20

Holmes had been considered a con-
firmed bachelor so long that until
the fact of his engagement to Miss
Leckie became publicly known 1t
was supposed that they were only
friends-"merely that and nothing
more" Society sat up and gasped
in surprise, for Conan Doyle and
Dan Cupid, society had said for
years, were entire strangers. Sir
Conan Doyle Is 4S years of age. His
bride-elect is much younger.
The other members OF this ia
nous trio are Sir Thomas Upton,
the near" cup-lifter. and Sir
Thomas Dewar, multi-millionaire
distiller.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20

So far as public sentiment Is
concerned there is apparently but
l side to the fight against the
granting OF a saloon license in
Union park. From present indica.
lions not less than 1900 people will
have signed the remonstrance by
the time the license committee
meets Monday afternoon. sss
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20

DETROIT, July 20.-By a fear.
full mistake in the train dispatch
er's Office crowded excursion
train and a freight crashed togeth.
er this morning on the Pere Mar
quette road between Iona and De.
troit.
The list of dead given out is %
but there are believed to be at
least that many more In the ru.is
Sixty-five injured have been re-
& ported and many of these will die,
n Five Of the 10 coaches compos-
Wing the excursion were smashed
to finder. Both engines were
buried in the wreckage.
PLYMOUTH, Mich, July 20.-A
refugee from the wreck, with
hands and clothes blood stained,
has arrived here with his terrible
story:
IL helped take out IA bodies,
mangled beyond description" he
said, "and piled up arms and legs
/. until feared would go mad. l
saw persons dragged from the
wreck and die in the sun crying
for water.
"Shrieks filed the air. saw a
woman's dress dragging in her
blood and her face covered with it,
gone completely mad. She was
crawling over and under the wreck
looking for her baby.
Men and women fell over In
faint, exhausted by the vain search
for relatives and friends, and lay in
the hot sun as il dead"
Eight hundred employees of the
road and their families were on
the train, crowding it to the plat,
forms. The first intimation they
had of danger was the shock and
the crash Of escaping steam, which
gushed over the wreckage, scald.
ing scores.
The freight train was supposed
to make a siding near Salem and
wait for the excursion. The
freight crew ignored orders and the
excursion Numbered through. The
known dead:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
FlLlPIN0S ELECTlNC
A CONGRESS TODAY
Omitted Press Assoclation.)

WASHINGTON. D. e., July 90
The first step in the Philippine
self government plan is being TAX
en- In the Philippines today by the
election of house OF representa-.
tives. So far the experiment has
been a disappointment to Ameri-
cans,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
CYCLONE HITS ILLINOIS

Omitted Press Assoclation.)
lUKA, H., July 20.-A cyclone
last night did $4,000 damage to
wheat and hay crops and killed
SO 900 worth of live stock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
BIG GAME THIS AFTERNOON

The Enakops baseball teams
Fats" and "Leans"-will engage
in a fierce combat for supremacy
in the great American game at
Recreation park this afternoon.
Uniforms will be grotesque. as will
also be the efforts at ball playing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
THOUSANDS IN RIOT
(United Press Assoclation.)

Omitted Press Association.)
DETROIT, July 20.--Five thou
sand strike sympathizers this
morning attacked 100 strikebreak-
ers on their way to work at the
Great Lakes Engineering works.
precipating a wild riot. The strike
breakers fired, wounding striker.
Policeman Wandrie was badly
beaten. Twenty-Five arrests were
made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
Omitted Press Association.)

Omitted Press Association.)
DETROIT, July PORE
alixing their terrible mis-
take and knowing that a
collision was inevitable,
railroad officials ordered out
and dispatched a wrecking
and relief train several
minutes before the collision
actually occurred.
While the doomed trains
were rushing to destruction
the men to blame for the
catastrophe were frantical-
ly preparing to take care Of
the dead and injured for
whom they were responsible
Doctors and nurses were
hurrying toward the scene
on a special while the
doomed passengers were
speeding on to death, un-
conscious Of their fate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-20
scHMlTz vAcclNATED.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 20.--Ou
account of several cases of small
pox in the county Jail all prisoners,
including Schmitz and thinner.
we're vaccinated.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-01-01
MADE KEY FROM
BROOM HANDLE AND
GAINED FREEDOM

Bennington. VT. Jan. 1.-lngeniousiy
making false key out OF a broom ham
die, Il. c. Smith, said TO be OF Boston.
escaped from the county jail today. ana
with half an hours start over the onicers
made his way. Il is thought. TO the New
York state line. A woman, who Is said To
be the mans wife. and who was with him
i'm the cell, also tried TO escape. but was
frightened by the barking OF the warden's
bulldog and after getting outside the jail
returned TO her cell. while her husband
continued on his dash for liberty
Smith and his wife had been held In the
local institution on "A charge OF forgery.
The man claimed TO represent the COM
mission house OF A. NJ. Smith a Co, OF
Boston, and upon receipt OF goods would
hand a dealer a check drawn for an
amount i'm excess OF the bill. receiving the
balance In cash Suspicion was aroused
that the checks were not genuine and af-
ter an investigation the man was held
for the next session OF the Bennington
county grand jury with woman who is
said 10 be his wife.
The couple occupied the same cell and
this morning Smith made use OF key
which he has fashioned from broom
handle. II successfully unlocked the
cell door and I'm the corridor the pris-
oner found a jaier's coat hanging up
From this he took a revolver and with
his movements as yet undetected, he and
his wife unbolted the outer door OF the
jail and stepped out. The sharp ears or
the wardens bulldog. however, caught the
sound of their exit and he set up a furi-
Gus barking The woman's courage failed
at this and thinking that with the jail
so quickly aroused she would only ham
per her husbands movements she return
ed 10 her cell. closing the doors behind
her and threw herself on her couch as
If asleep.
Meantime the warden and the Jail at
tendants, aroused by the watchdog's up
roar hurried from their rooms Mr. and
Mrs. Smith were the only prisoners con-
fined at the time and a hasty glance into
their cell showed Mrs. Smith apparently
asleep. Mr.. Smiths absence was not dis
covered for nearly half an hour. when a
posse started at once on his trail.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-01-01
ENTERTAINED FRIENDS
ON NEW YEARS EVE,

At their home, 22i Adelaide avenue, iast
evening Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Remington
entertained a number of their friends with
delightful whist party and watched the
New Year arrive and 1906 become matter
of history. Until the hour OF IL the cards
formed the major portion OF the evening =
enjoyment and then refreshments were
served. A few moments before the stroke
OF IL tho party gathered about the dining
room table and drank a toast 10 the host
and hostess and TO the arrival OF the New
Year. There were a number OF very pretty
prizes for the successful ones al the whist
tables.
Among those present besides the host
and hostess were: Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Greene. Mr. and Mrs. Morton r. Win.
sor Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Baker. Mr.
and Mrs William +. Otis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry r. Mead and Mrs John r. Den
mis-. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry 5. Wolf. Mr..
and Mrs George l.. Darte, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert w Brown Of Yonkers. y. y. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Hull Of East orange, n. J.