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Rev. =. l.. Jones of the American BAPTIST
Pub ;icution Society. Rev. II B. Rankin of
Pennsylvania and Rev. K. B. Mcdaniel
of West Virginia. The report of the
treasurer was read by Rev. DIR. Bernard
McMackin of Pennsylvania, secretary of
the society. DR.. McMackin stated that the
society had $4,000 in securities and that
at the present time there is balance of
nearly $500 in the treasury. This money,
1t was stated, is to be used to obtain per-
manent quarters for the library of the
society
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the founders of the movement. could be
written it would be of the greatest inter-
est to Baptists throughout the land"
The speaker then traced the history OF
the Baptist Church in Germany, Norway.
the Netherlands and other countries of
Europe. The theological school founded at
Hamburg by the Baptists Is now doing
great work the speaker declared. land
the UNCONVENTIONAL growth in Germany and
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Complete reports of the proceedings
of the meetings Of the National Bap-
fist Associations will be printed from
day to day in The Star.
Subscriptions from May IL to II,
giving a complete report, may be left ;,
with Mrs. T. w. Bull at the Calvary
Baptist Church, or may be sent direct
to The Star Office. Postage prepaid,
25 cents, mailed to any address In the
United States.
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Be Sure to Get What Won
Ask For.

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KUN Aoou tiidl "OuIu olllSl-
wise spoil. The trouble is to
distinguish between a good
Refrigerator and one that is
not. Quality does not al
ways depend on price, and
the outside of a refrigerator
is no indication of the way it
is built. Our long business
career is your guarantee here
we cannot afford to en-
danger our reputation by
selling you anything unre-
liable. We have carefully
studied and examined the
qualities of the makes we
handle, and we know from
practical experience that they
give the best possible service.
They are built on true scien-
ti6c principles, affording a
proper circulation of cold, dry
air and are economical in the
consumption of ice.
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Officers and Directors Elected.

The committee on nominations announced
the result of their labors, and the nominees
were subsequently elected by acclamation
as follows: President, Rev. Bernard Nc
Mackin, Pennsylvania vice president Ian
sing Burrows, Georgia; recording secretary,
George H. Charles, Pennsylvania; corre-
spending secretary, A. L. Vail, Pennsyl-
vania; treasurer, Arthur Malcolm New
Jersey. Board of managers, Philip L.
Jones, Pennsylvania; Thomas s. Samson,
Pennsylvania; George H. Ferris, Pennsyl-
vania; Walter NJ. Walker, Pennsylvania;
]. HI. Haslam, Pennsylvania; John w.
Lyell, New Jersey; E. E. Tyres, Pennsyl-
vania Harry S. Hopper Pennsylvania;
Walter Cally, Pennsylvania; VIM. Coxey,
New Jersey. State vice presidents, M B.
Wharton, Alabama; Winfield Scott Ari-
IONA; ]. T. Christian, Arkansas; E. r. Ben
nett California; Granville Malcolm, Col
orado; George NJ. Stone, Connecticut; Rich
ard b. Cook, Delaware; e. B. Meredith,
Kansas; Thomas 7. Eaton, Kentucky; H.
s. Burrage, Maine; H. A. Griesemer Mary
land George E. Horn. Massachusetts; j. H.
Jackson, Michigan E. r. Pape, Minnesota;
w. T. Lowrey, Mississippi A w. Payne,
Missouri; James F. McNamee, Montana;
L. q. Batten, Nebraska; W. c. Driver,
Nevada; Rev. ]. J. Muir, District of CO.
lumbia; Lincoln Hulley, Florida; w. W.
Landrum. Georgia; J. =. Phillips Idaho;
j. S. Dicke-sGn. Illinois; w. r. Scott, In
dana; J. S. Murrow, Indian Territory; L.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
CITY MARROW ESCh
HEAVY DAMAGES ON AC-
COUNT OF VIOLATIONS OF
FRANCHISE RESTRICTIONS.

The carelessness Of w. w. P.
Co. electricians the other night
came near costing the city several
thousand dollars in repairing dam
aged and burnt out alarm boxes.
The w. w. P. Co. men careless
ly allowed high voltage wire
they were stringing to fall onto the
fire alarm wires. 1t burnt the in
sulation off them and burnt out two
boxes.
Fire Chief Harry Myers has pro-
tested to the board of works and
recommends that the W. w. =.
wires be insulated. He makes the
further complaint that in the fran
chise the city is given the right to
the top arm Of the poles and says
that Notwithstanding this, COM
pany employees have strung wires
higher UP. II was one of these
wires which fell and burned out
the boxes.
Firemen have complained to
their chief about the low wires on
top of buildings. When they are
crawling around in the dim light
fighting fires on top Of buildings
the wires catch them in the face.
Several men have bruised faces in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
BY gibson GARDNER

GASTONIA, N. c., Oct. IL
What about child labor in the
South? Is it really true that
small children work in cotton mills
at night? or are those stories ex-
aggerated?
| came here to see, because Gas
ton county has more mills than
any county in a state that has
more mills than any state in the
South.
| find: Little girls, of an age to
still care for dolls, working all
night in the mills, pacing up and
down between the long spinning
frames, in jar and roar of wheels.
find brightfaced little American
girls, eight to II years of age, toll
ing bare-footed in the heat and fly
ing lint. These children tell me
they cannot read the words on my
business card, because they have
most forgot" when they learned
in the second reader"
This is what find in the mag
nificent new mills which have
sprung up in the South-the little
children harnessed in the tread
mills which run IL hours day and
IL hours night-to grind out divi-
dends at 33 per cent, not counting
sinking fynds and new additions.
| confess to sentiment when
think or wrwite Of what | saw. 1t
Is a sentiment in which sympathy
.,,tx . al hos
for things impossible-as that one
fat statesman might h. put in a
cotton mill for just one trick of ~
long, heated hours, say IN the mill
OF the Gastonia Manufacturing Co..
beside Pearl Thompson. IL years
next birthday, sir"
Pearl has been three years in the
mill and could show the statesman
how to mend the threads, pick the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
SAY DAUGHTER
KILLED MOTHER

BERLIN, Oct. 17.-At the re-
sumed hearing of Karl Hau's
amended appeal against sentence
to death for murder reference is
made to the theory that Mrs. Nell
tor was murdered by her own
daughter, Olga, with whom she was
walking at the time of the muir
der. Experts say the muzzle of the
revolver must have been within six
inches of Mrs. Melitor when the
fatal shot was fired, but Olga says
she saw no one until after the
shot and then at a distance.
The shot entered the body very
low. Hau is tall and Olga short
The shot was fired from the left
hand side and Olga was walking on
that side. The girl was of hys-
terical tendency and had been on
unfriendly terms with her mother
for years. An effort is being made
to create the impression that Hau
is taking the blame for Olga's
deed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
FORMER MINISTER
breaches MERITS
Of FIRE ALARMS

Rev. C. H. Braden. who acquired
fame by decorating the windows Of
Jimmie Durkin's booze emporiAm
with demonstrations of the harm.
full effects of whiskey, materialized
at the city hall this morning in
the guise of promoter. He Is
promoting thermostatic fire
alarm system. 1t is intended for
use here on earth, however, no
promises being made on its relia-
bility in forecasting the tempera.
ture of a possibly highly heated
hereafter.
His session with the board OF
works, fire chief and city electri-
clan was rather discouraging. City
Electrician Albert Thielman said
he had investigated the Brown sys-
TEN advocated by the former rever.
end and found it was undesirable
on account of the confusion 10
would create at headquarters. Rev.
Braden was dissatisfied with the
report Of Thielman, SO the board OF
works ordered a written report.
Commissioner ]. T. O'Brien stated
the board would probably adopt
any recommendation coming from
the electrician and fire chief. (,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17

nothing more than a statement, that
the company had no proposition
to offer. Neither would the COM
pany consider proposition from
the city. 1t is contentedly supreme.
After the near-interview today
Mayor Moore said he was not sur
prised, as he had been to the w.
w. p. Co. before on the bridge
question and knew just what to
expect from Richards.
1t is possible that the w. w. P.
Co. may eventually submit propo-
sition that it be permitted to build
new bridge at it's own expense
according to the plans approved by
city officials. For the use of this
bridge by the public the company
will charge the city an annual
rental sufficient to pay heavy in
terest on the investment and guar
antee the return of the amount of
money expended in period short
enough to make the project a pay
ing one from all standpoints.
At the expiration of a certain Pc
riod. calculated at about the time
the bridge will need further ex-
penditures in the way of repairs,
and when the company has realized
both principal and interest on the
original cost of the bridge in addi-
ton to having had free use Of it,
the structure would be turned over
to tine city.
BY this means the power mo-
nopoly would have accomplished
It's object--the procuring of a
new bridge entirely at public ex-
pense with the added profit of in
terest on the money it originally
expended on the erection of the
structure.
AS predicted exclusively in The
Press yesterday, Prof. William H.
Burr, the New York bridge expert,
recommended reinforced con-
crete structure for Monroe st. At
4 o'clock members of the city coun-
Gil. board of works. city engineer
and the mayor, with others inter
ested, gathered in the executives
Office where the expert delivered a
verbal report He stated practically
as j. b. StrauS former expert
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
FLOUR BOOSTED
ONCE MORE

Flour was given another boost
in this city yesterday. amounting
to 20 cents a barrel or cents a
sack to the retail trade. The new
scale went into effect yesterday.
Local millers claim that this ad-
vance has been made absolutely
necessary by the increasing price
Of wheat. In Walla Walla and Ia
coma the mills have raised prices
10 cents barrel for the same rea-
son. The result will be CORE
spending increase to the consumer.
Flour has advanced steadily in the
past year and apparently the end Is
nowhere in sight From present in
dications il will soon be case of
make dough of sawdust or quit the
bread habit,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
BURR TO EXPERT
MISSION Av.

The bridge committee decided
today. that Prof. Burr shall expert
the plans for the proposed con-
crete bridge on Mission av. He an
nounced he would do this for $3.50.
He also stated that work on the
bridges could go on during winter
weather. The plans he contem-
plates are for main span of ESQ
feet. and end spans of 20 feet.
He recommends fills at each end
SO as to shorten the actual length
of the structure. These fills would
cost in addition from $4,000 to
$4,000. Forty feet would be ample
width for the roadway, he said,
with the sidewalks built on
brackets.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
BY JESSIE M. partition

COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 17.-Hard-
ened by her own sins, made sullen
by her punishment, Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick at last became as a lit
tie child, succumbing to a touch
of human sympathy.
Father Kelly, the prison chap
lain, who took her into the Cath
Ollie church as she lay at the point
of death in her cell, wrought that
marvellous change in the gloomy,
cynical adventures. This priest
had visited her almost daily for
months. He has not talked about
the banks she wrecked or the men
she ruined. But he did sympathize
with her distress and her suffer
ings. He held out hope to her and
he told her of the love OF her Sa-
vior. And so as time went on, love
and tenderness and sympathy stole
into the woman's soul and softened
1t, and with streaming eyes she
cried:
ooh, Lord, I have sinned ex-
ceedinly!"
heard from Father Kelly's lips
the story of her confession of re-
llgion and her reception into the
church. He also told me his i'm
pressions of the swindler who as
tonished the world three years ago.
He said that he found Mrs. Chad
wick very intelligent woman, and
also a very sensitive woman. He
thought the public misunderstood
her.
"She is not bad-not vicious" he
said, "she is merely selfish. She
met with other selfish people who
wanted to profit by her acts, and
they came to grief"
Father Kelly believes, and so do
the prison authorities, that Mrs.
Chadwick's illness was more men
tai than physical. She had no
spirits-no courage to bear up until
she should become a free woman
again.
The worst encouragement was
the public exhibition which was
made of her three or four times a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
K|LOALL FOUND
NOT GUILTY

BY a ruling Of U. S. Commission
er Marshall today, Joseph Kildall,
president of the West Coast Com
mercial Co., will not have to re-
turn to Juneau, Alaska, to answer
an indictment charging conspiracy
to defraud the government by evad
ing payment of a tax on salmon.
He is held not guilty. The gov
eminent claimed that a cargo of
salmon had been cleared without
payment of the tax, and other
members of the company besides
Kildall were implicated in the
charges made.
Kildall was first arrested and
later released after a hearing in
Minneapolis. The government
sought to again secure an order
for his return to Alaska through
the federal court in Spokane but
has failed to make a case. Kildall
was arrested here several weeks
ago on the Juneau warrant. The
decision was rendered today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
CHILD LABOR IN SOUTH
WORST FORM OF SLA VERY

cotton from the rollers and keep all
wiped and clean. And II hours,
without sitting down, without re-
cess or luncheon hour (the states
man would, like Pearl, carry a
sandwich in one hand and tend the
spindles with the other)-maybe
this would give the statesman a
new point OF view on some phases
of child labor legislation which will
be discussed at the forthcoming
session OF congress.
This pretty little American child
has become "hand"-one of co.
600 under IA years of age-vy
which the industry in the South
has. distanced New England, and
the. South is forging to the front
with a prosperity unknown since
slavery was abolished-the slavery,
that is, OF negroes. The negro
race is still free, And now, God
save them, the only slaves are
white girls and boys.
In the Flint mill talked with a
number Of boys. Bright little Plato
Smith said he was 10. In the mills
two years. He was running a twist
ing machine, rs cents a day He
weighed SO pounds. He did not
look strong He could not read or
write and had no hopes OF school.
Walter Walker, IL, who started
work four years ago at cents a
day, now earns rs cents to 81.
we would rather have the chill
dren,' explained Foreman Dob
bins. Their hands are more MIN
BILE and they earn more than the
grownups!'
ThG- is the trouble The mills
bid for the children-refuse to give
them up-and the school are
emptied, And they tell you that
outsiders ought not to NEEDLE, and
that congress had better let the
states alone
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
BIcAMY FLIGHTS
HONEYMOON

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
honeymoon of George S. Best, an
actor with the Kolb-Dill Co, was
nipped in the bud yesterday when
he was arrested at the ferry de-
pot and locked up on warrant
charging bigamy, sworn to by a
Los Angeles woman. His bride of
10 days is the daughter of G. W..
Fleming, of the American Type
Founders Co. She departed in
tears for her father, but swearing
undying devotion to her actor hus-
band.
She eloped to marry the actor.
Her father traced up Best's record
and says he found woman in Los
Angeles who says she is his wife
Best says it is a trumped up
charge.
Il lived with a woman named
Anita Thomson for three years, but
never married her. suppose she
is the woman he has secured to
back his charges says Best.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
OFFERS HEARSAY AS
EXCUSE FOR ISLANDER

In answer to A, Evoy's complaint
charging SANDER and false impris-
onment for which he asks $4,000
damages, +. Emers today filed a re-
ply in the superior court stating
that he believed the plaintiq was
guilty, although discharged by a
jury, of disposing of property he
did not own.
Last May Emmers sold Evoy the
Illinois market but still held own
ershfp to a team of horses until the
balance of the cash was paid. EN-
mers says Evoy sold the team,
Then he had him arrested. The
SANDER consisted in the defendant
saying the plaintiff had been in
the pen ON the Sou>1. AS his ex-
cuse for these alleged remarks
Emmers says other butchers told
him
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
ROBBED WHILE
At TELEPHONE

A daring burglary OF Miss Ida
Craddock's apartments at the Ho-
tel Touraine occurred yesterday
morning. Miss Craddock had gone
downstairs to telephone an invita-
ton to a friend to lunch with her,
and during this short absence the
thief entered the room. appro
priated an alligator purse contain.
ing SIS, took her trunk key out.
opened the trunk and ransacked
it.
Finding no more money or valu-
ables the thief took set OF silver
toilet articles. When Miss Grad
dock returned everything was in
disorder: the trunk lid was up and
her things were scattered around
the floor. Fortunately she was
wearing her three diamond rings.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17

"Um-m-m!"
This was the reply of Henry M.
Richards, president of the w. w.
p. Co. this morning to the city
bridge committees request that
the company pay share Of the
cost of construction of the pro-
posed new concrete bridge on
Monroe st.
The committee was composed OF
Mayor c. Herbert Moore, Council
men Fred Baldwin, Joe Phillips,
w. G. Estep. Commissioner Will
liam T. Roy.
They sat around nervously for a
few minutes like kids who had
been caught in an orchard. Ahen
they retired, raging within but out
wardly calm and penitent looking.
A Press reporter accompanied
the party and managed to set one
foot into Richards sanctum, but he
was hurriedly requested to beat it
for fear the presence Of a news
paper man would act on Richards
like a red flag to bull.
After the session was over
Mayor Moore said that Richards
had made no offer and did not state
whether the company would pay a
cent or not.
The committee found 1t as hard
to see the monopoly boss as the
president OF the United States.
Headed by the mayor. they APP
preached the forbidden territory
and were confronted by sign
private" on the outer door.
Tell Mr.. Richards the mayor
and bridge committee are here for
an interview" commanded the
city's executive.
Just then Mr.. Richards himself
passed within the Office without
noticing those assembled to con-
suit him.
A clerk asked the mayor for his
card. Fortunately the mayor had
just one or perhaps the committee
might never been admitted.
What report the committee may
have will be handed to the coun-
Gil at a special meeting called for
10 O'Clock. 1t will amount to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
ONE VANDERBILT
AN AMERICAN

NEWPORT, Oct. 17.-Another
disagreement divides the Wander
bilt family, this time over the en-
gagement of Gladys Vanderbilt to
Count Czechenyie. Reginald Van
derbilt disapproves of the engage
ment and is bitterly opposed to
American girls marrying foreign
ers. The count is at Oakland farm
on D visit to his future brother-in-
law, Anred Vanderbilt Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt left
Oakland farm, leaving their visitor
alone.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
SCHWAR WILL DECIDE
IRON WORKS. FATE

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
fate of the Union Iron works in
this city hangs on the visit OF
Charles NJ. Schwab. Within the
next three days Schwab will decide
whether he will cclose the great
coast plant or enlarge it. Schwab
arrived last night from the East.
He says he is bitterly disappointed
in Nevada. Il put more money in
that state" he declares, than any
other man. but I'm disappointed
never yet found man who told
the truth about the state. Conf
dence of the East in Nevada has
evaporated"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
HEINzE WON'T
Be HELD UP

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-An in
formal statement was issued today
by Otto Heinze saying his COM
pany is perfectly solvent and will
ing to meet all obligations that are
legitimate, but he says he would
rather be temporarily suspended
from the exchange that settle un-
just claims. He states that Ar
thur Heinze is no longer mem
Der Of the firm.
F.. Augustus Heinze was a wit
ness this morning. He said he
would resign the Mercantile bank
directionship today. He has not
sold his United Copper stock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17

the swells Is to know whether the
counts headgear is the latest tip
of kings or simply indicates that
he got wrong information about the
fall weather Of America.
His cost to the Vanderbilt Is the
subject OF much gossip, The figure
most generally mentioned as repre-
sentiug the outlay is $4,000, 900. If
that Is correct Miss Gladys will
still have $l0000000 in her own
right, plus the count.
The count Is sending a lot OF
postcards to the old folks at home.
His favorite Is card containing a
picture of the Breakers. which is
the name of the marble mansion
owned by Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt. mother Of the bride. he Is u
guest of Reggie Vanderbilt at
Sandy Point
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17

NEWPORT, r. l., Oct 17-Count
Szechenyi. the Hungarian who Is to
we'd Gladys Vanderbilt, Is the most
stylish thing in Newport. He
came with 25 trunks, which, some
folks figured, were to be used in
carrying back Vanderbilt gold, but
they seem to have been filled with
clothes. especially vests.
The count changes his costume
for every mean and fuctuation in
the weather and few times be-
sides. His waistcoats are the dc.
spair of the homegrown swells.
Also his hatbands. They make a
peacock seem a bird of mourning,
He also has the males OF the
leisure class guessing because he
wear straw hats. In this section
II Is very had form to wear a straw
hak alter Sept. 10, What bothers
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
THE
DEAD TO-DAY

FONTANET, Ind, Oct. IL
Fontanet Is burying it's dead today.
Mourners are gathered where flu
neral services are being held while
kakhi-clad soldiers of the state
pace back and forth with bayoneted
guns and hold back the curious.
All day yesterday graves were
dug. Many more bodies were dis
covered near the site Of the boiler
house. ,.t--..
Alfred I. Dupont is here assist
ing in the relief. He will aid the
state in an investigation of the dis
aster.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-10-17
DIAz'S AGENTS
SEEK HIS LIFE

CHICAGO, Oct. II. - Emile
Pampe, Mexican revolutionist from
Los Angeles, claims agents Of
Pres. Diaz sought to kill him last
night by firing six shots at him
while he was walking on the North
side. He says he feigned death
by falling and his assailants fed.
Pampe is a university man and
son oil wealthy Mexican. He left
Mexico to escape arrest. He is be-
ing guarded in the police station.