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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-04
GRAYS HARBOR
FORESTS BLAZE

HOQUIAM, Wash, Aug. 4.-One
Of the worst forest fires in the his
tory Of Chehalis county is threaten.
ing the entire logging district OF
this vicinity. 1t is raging IL miles
north of this city.
The reported loss s now $780,
600.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-04

wife at Dunstable, England. A.
woman at Dayton, O., had six az
once some so years ago. Edith
Bonham of Wiltshire, England,
bore seven in 1890. Newspaper
accounts in 1861 told of the birth
Of octuplets, three boys and five
girls, to a mother in Trumbull
county, Ohio. According to the
Journal des Savants, French
woman gave birth to nine children
some 1876 years ago. (You can be-
lieve this or not, as you please.)
Now run along--the baby's cry
ing. How would you like 40 or so
more of him?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-04

probably won't come in for 10
years.
Councilman Baldwin, the chair
man of the committee stated that
he was in favor of giving the mat
ter lengthy discussion and consid-
ering the possibilities of railway
disturbing structure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-04
SPOKANE ASKED HELP
19 YEARS AGO

To-day is the nineteenth ami
versary OF the big IRE In Spokane.
At that time all the surrounding
cities aided the sufferers of Spo.
kane. Today, on the nineteenth an.
niversary, Spokane Is contributing
bountifully to the aid VI the Fen
ME fire sufferers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-04
GARBAGE Battle
IN COUNCIL

The city council chambers to.
morrow night, II plans do not mis-
carry, will be the battle-ground of
the warning crematory department
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-17

and in many cities the grown folks, also. to lead cleaner healthier, hap pier lives. Ii has been found that the plavgrounds idea is not only phys cni but d moral agent and 1t Is being used with marked effect in breaking up the gangs of boys that infest the streets and all/ys of the cities and in ledeeming the boys lives from vicious environments by surrounding them with ennoblns influences. The play grounds movement has not only brought sunshine. trees, grass, flow CTS, fountains and the enjoyment Of natures charms into the lives of the masses, but it has brought sunshine into their hearts as well by teaching them to forget their cares and poverty in wholesome play and Sooa books. clean bodies and clean thoughts
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THE FAIRGROUNDS CONGRESS-.

The second annual congress of the Fairgrounds Association of America in New York city last week marked the remarkable growth that has taken place in the last two years in the play grounds movement. Two years ago there were few persons outside of the large Eastern cities who manifesto ed any particular interest in this great sociological idea, while the recent meeting was attended by educators, sociOlOgiSts. representatives Of state and municipal governments and med : ical and physical training experts from all parts of the country The politicians. too, are awakening to the importance of the movement, as evil Genced by the attendance of Governor Hughes. Mayor Mcclellan and a host Of lesser lights.
 The purpose of this play Congress vas to demonstrate to the public wh:; is being done throughout the country by municipalities and private individ- uals to provide adequate playerounds for children. Governor Hughes of New York and Bishop William Law renee of Boston delivered the princi- pal addresses, but a number of prom iLent specialists in educational and social work also gave their views. and reports were made showing the growth of the movement and it's bene- fcial results in various cities through out the country. These reports may be summarized in this way: Few cit ies in the United States of over &. COG population are without public Tlaygronnds, equipped with all mod ern conveniences for promoting physi- cal and mental health and vigor. in c'uding public baths, wading pools apparatus for indoor and outdoor ex- eTcises and sports, reading rooms club rooms and lyceum for lectures ard private theatricals. Several hun dred towns of 5000 population ol more are equipped in the same way or smaller scale, and number oi smaller towns are also we'll provided with playgrounds. The movemnt has extended from coast to coast and iron the lakes to the gulf. In all parts O. the country splendid effort is be ing made to enable the boys and girl :
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VACATION AND FATHER.

There is q lot of significance in the | song, "Everybody Takes Vacation | but Father"
 As a rule, American fathers do little vacationing.
 But there are fathers and fathers With the coming of the hot months there is an exodus of the families of the Four Hundred from the cities. Brigades of fashionabiy dressed wives crowd the piazzas of the resort hotels. Sons go the pace at the races or swell resorts. Daughters go to Europe. The man who draws the checks stays ih town. mostly by choice. to make the wheels of business go round
 But there are others.
 There are tired and nervous wives and mothers who need rest and relaxa- ton who go to some quiet place. The children go along. They all need the open spaces, the running water, the air and sunshine.
 IAe family purse permits no splurge.
 Father stays by the stuff. To him come souvenir postals and cute mes. sages for pop" To him come most precious.-love letters like she used to write before they were married.
 How tue old man" gloWs and gloats over the bits of news-how Johnny tried to walk a log and fell into tic creek, and how Susie fed tbe calf. He swells huge when Mollie and the kids write they are having the dime of their liees
 1t might be hard to guess who is the ?pnier-those who go or him who stays
 An1 when they ali come back! It is at.Sy to pick out father as be waits nervously and happily at the depot The bunch-his bunch-is on that train He looks anon at his watch and smiles. And when the train pulls in ht" old sweetheart's kiss is on his lips. There is big bear hug from the kids. Father is about the happiest man in the town.
 Forgotten is the long, hard pull at business: forgotten the hot. weary days and forgotten the lonesome even- fngs in the lonely house.
 The wrinkles in fathers face are maybe just triae deeper His shoul- ders, it may be, droop slightly more, but
 His folks are back. Mamma" is strong again. She sings as she straight ems things away-things very much awry despite her written exhortations 70 put everything back in it's place." And the kids are brown and happy as the birds.
 You see, the tie that binds the bunch, a. home or in yacation is the kind that will not come united.
 The vacation of the families of the Four Hundred is simply husband and father deserton.
 The other kind is
 How different!
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It is already apparent that before Holland and Venezuela come to blows a great deal of language is going to be spilled on both sides.
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In tariff reform is the only weapon under heaven with which to destroy the predatory trusts. None under stand this more clearly than the trusts. Witness the Roman holiday of the steel trust at Youngstown, Ohio when Hughes and Beveridge opened the campaign.
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The difference between an airship and the price of meat is that the latter will never come down fast erough to hurt anybody
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If trees really have memories, as that German scientist says, we may. yet be able to ascertain from some member of the apple tree family ex- aotly who was to blame for that lit tle trouble in the Garden of Eden
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to have spent $500,000 in the last two years. Doubtless he is seeking to qualify himself for the next American heiress handicap.
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Messrs. Taft and Foraker will hay Q to repeat their handshaking stunt a few times before all the Republicans are convinced that there isn't some mistake about it.
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With the assistance of the Presi- Gent. Secretary Loeb has established a new chapter of the Ananias club in Wisconsin,
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His triumphal tour to the coast indicates that the West refuses to Mir. Hartman an "undesir- able citizen"
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When you hear people talking so loud that everybody in the block can hear them, it's a sign they are telling what they saw in Europe
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FOREIGNERS AND CRIME.

| FOkElINEkS AND CKlNE.
 The ebb of the tide of emigration to the United States from European
 countries has caused no alarm: on the contrary, it Is viewed in some official
 quarters with satisfaction. The money
 stringency of the past year is what
 caused the tide to turn. Against the 209, 900 immigrants arriving there
 were 715,000 foreigners who left our shores to return to their native lands, either to remain permanently or until
 more favorable conditions prevailed ever here.
 Sentiment appears to be growing in favor of more stringent laws against tbe indiscriminate immigration which
 has already polluted the population
 Of most of our large cities. Police
 Commissioner Bingham of New York
 has become thoroughly alarmed at the situation which confronts him, He as serts that juvenile crime in New York is increasing enormously, and he agrees with the statement that only
 one-third of the children in the public schools of the city remain to the end of their elementary courses, and that the great body of them are turned into the world without trade and un trained to do any definite thing for a livelihood. In this condition they naturally drift to careers of vice and
 crime
 Chief Clerk Rossiter of the census
 office in an article in current mag
 azine, declares that in many communi- ties of the country foreigners predom- mate over the native born population, and that in New York the native stock is overwhelmed by aliens and the chill dren of aliens. The problem that per plexes the authorities of our large cities is how to make good and use ful citizens of these low, ignorant and often vicious children. The ordinary courses of the public schools do not attract them Most foreign children appear anxious to learn just enough
 to equip them for careers of crime, aad they do not take advantage of the
 wider opportunities for acquiring knowledge that are freely offered.
 It is proposed to establish in New York a system of trade schools where the childern of foreigners may learn some useful craft. This would doubt less do much 10 solve the veXing prob lens of immigration if there Were any assurance that the children of foreign birth would learn trades. Many of the trades unions place such restrictions nron the apprenticeship system that it is impossible for all who desire to learn trades in the ordinary way. But even if American taxpayers are will ing to maintain expensive schools for | the education of the children of unde- l sirable foreigners, it is doubtful if | that method would prove of more than 1 temporary efficacy. Foreign trades men in competition with American | workmen would not be welcomed. for
 the element of protection to American
 workmen is of first importance. The
 fact of the matter is that We have too
 many massimiated foreigners in this
 country now. and that the first and
 most imperative duty of our lawmak-
 CTS is to keep closer guard on the
 sates. for time at least.
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A London millionaire is said to be making hobby of collecting bag pipes. There are so many ways for the rich to blow in their money, you know.
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Our SNOW FLAKE MATTRESS is guaranteed to be as good as the best, regardless of price; S12.50 at TOM. UNISON & KNOX.
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husband so she can sue him for di- vorce. He would probably come for ward at once if he knew what she wants with hilA.
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Since Tim Woodruff has taken to wearing quieter vests the noise of the Republican quarrel can be heard for some distance
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Alderman.

For Alderman. The Graphic is authorized to an- nounce MIR. RUSSELL HOLLIS as a candidate for Alderman from the Third ward at the special election, October ?, 1908.
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Careful inquiry among real estate agents fails to disclose single sale of valuable property to anybody who
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-17

recently got rich patronizing Mr. Tom Lawson's latest easy money scheme Americans are not such Holsters as Tom Lawson thought.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-17

Young Theodore Roosevelt Bever- idse is going to have strenuous time living up to both ends of his name.
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No doubt Thaw wishes all of the iailers would get tired of him.
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A St, Louis woman is hunting he1
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Advertising Between
Seasons

A great many merchants believe that advertising between is little than waste of money. You never find successful advertiser who entertains this belief, however.
 Advertising between seasons serves double pur- pose First it creates business at time when sales are scarce and hard to make Second, it makes i'm presson the readers mind which will bring him into the advertisers store when next he needs something that that store sells .~~x
 It is the cumulative value of regular advertising year in and year out dull busy, that makes stores publicity most profitable Make the people think of your store make them think of often by stanty reminding them of it. Tell them something in teresting every time they will be impressed and you may rest assured that they won't forget when it time to buy.
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Heart toHeart
 Talks.
 By EDWIN A. ME.
By EDWIN A. ME

Copyright. 1908. by Edwin A. Nye.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08
COUNT CASnFS
STOLEN COUPONS
Toulouse=Lautrec, Alias Prince
Savine, Soldier of Fortune,
Arrested in Antwerp

ANTWERP, Sept. 1.-THE police here
arrested Count Toulouse -Lautrec to-
day on a charge of cashing stolen cou-
pons. The count protested against his
arrest, claiming to be an American citi-
zen, and displayed naturalization papers
issued in the state of Illinois. An in
vestigation showed that he had recently
been released from Siberia, after hav-
ing been extradited from Bremen and
having also been expelled from Spain.
Nicholas E. Savine, also known as
Count de Toulouse-Lautrec and Prince
Savine, has "a long record of adroit
swindles in various parts of Europe,
and is also known in the United States.
When arrested at Bremen three years
ago and taken to st. Petersburg to
stand trial on charge of swindling,
Savine told romantic story of his ad-
ventures and alleged prosecutions and
appealed to Emperor Nicholas in re-
turn for the services of his ancestors
and himself to Russia to free, his name
from the cloud hanging over it and per-
nit him to rejoin the army, of which
he was once am officer and served
against the japanese in Manchuria
He asserted that he was naturalized as
an American citizen in Chicago April
Il, 1898, and in his petition to the czar
he set forth that he was descended
from long line of counts and princes
who intermarried with the noble French
family of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Savine, in his youth, was an officer
in the aristocratic Chevalier guards,
and left the service owing to falling
into the hands of usurers, but later
was allowed to serve in the Turkish
war of 1877. He recounted in detail a
long series of trials on various charges
which, he said, were the result of the
malevolence of his enemies, as chief of
whom he named ex-Minister of JUS
tice Muravieff, now ambassador at
Rome. The final result of these charges
was his barishment to Siberia, whence.
after various adventures, he escaped to
America. Savine asserted that he
served as. captain of the United States
cavalry during the war with. Spain. and
says that he was wounded at Santa go
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08
MAY LET GRAPES
ROT ON THE VINES
Wine Growers of Lodi Section
Protest Against the low
Price Offered

STOCKTON, Sept. 7.-Wine growers
of the Lodi section, which includes an
area of 5000 acres, are up in arms
over the prices offered them by the
wine associations for their grapes this
year The growers say the PROPOSE
tion of the wine men is a subterfuge
by which they hope to frighten the
growers into signing contracts for the
future at ridiculously low prices. The
wine men are offering s6 ton, So
cash and So payable after January /,
1909.
The association wineries are said to
be overstocked with wine, and are
publishing that the carry over last
year exceeded that of other years by
large amount.
No credence is placed on the talk
of the alleged trust, and many grow
ers say that they will let their grapes
rot on the vines before picking and
shipping them at a loss. The growers
say that the government statistics
show that there is not as much
wine in the country as the wine men
say there is. They further ask if so
much wine in the state and can not
be shipped or sold, why is not the
price of wine lowered? This is the
year in which all contracts heretofore
made expire The growers say that
the crop this year is less than one
half the normal yield. They believe
that the price offered by the wine
men lis only scare to influence the
growers to sign long contracts at
lower prices than the actual market
conditions justify, and they boast that
before they will submit to alleged op-
preston they will tear up the vines.
A meeting held for the purpose of
organizing growers association met
with poor success because officers of
the wine association were present and
officiated at the meeting. The grow
ers are skeptical, and plan to form
an association to which only growers
will be eligible. The organization
planned by the former meeting ad-
mitted any one interested in the vitf-
cultural industry-retailer wholesaler,
grower or wine maker
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08
KILLS WIFE WHO
BOASTS OF AFFINITY
Felix Rodriguez, a PalO Alto
Butcher, Shoots His
Fickle Mate
Long Series of QuarreIs and
Separations Precede the
Tragedy
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

PALO ALTO, Sept. 7.-Frenzied by
the actions of his wife, Felix Rod
riguez, known as Phillip Rodgers, a
butcher employed in "a local shop,
shot and killed his wife at 2 o'clock
this morning in the front yard of
their home in Forest avenue.
The quarrels of Rodgers and his
wife had kept the neighborhood
awake during the night, and only a
few moments passed after the firing
of the single shot before the scene
of the tragedy was surrounded by
neighbors. No effort to escape was
made by Rodgers, and he was ar
rested by Marshal e. f. Weishaar
while he was on his way up town to
surrender.
The first persons at the scene of
the tragedy were G. NJ Ord of the
Western Union telegraph company, r.
A. Thompson. a realty dealer; John w.
Parrish. an uncle of the murdered
woman, and Nellie, the little 10 year
old daughter of the murdered woman.
They found Rodgers standing with
the smoking pistol over his dead
wife.
Parrish induced the murderer to go
into the house with him, and after a
parley Rodgers handed the revolver to
him with the remark, Well, she's
Rodgers changed his mind, however,
and started for the center of the city
to give himself up, meeting Marshal
Weishaar before he had gone two
blocks. The prisoner was kept in the
city Jail until a few moments before
the arrival of the 11:43 train for San
Jose, when he was taken in charge by
Deputy Sheriff Tom Monihan and AS
sistant District Attorney Bridges of
San Jose, for Judgement In the county
Jail.
The trouble between Rodgers and
his wife covers some years. Rodgers
was 80 years old, and had lived in
Palo Alto witt his wife, who was the
same age, for 13 years. During the
greater portion of this time he had
been employed by the Elite meat mar
ket at 21S University avenue. Quar-
rels between Rodgers and his wife
were frequent during their residence
here, and reached climax recently.
Nine months ago Mrs. Rodgers fled
with Frank Bowman, a barber, de-
serting her husband and two little
children, Alice aged 13 and Nellie 10.
In five days she was back again at
the family home in Palo Alto, claim
ing that she was entirely innocent
of any misdeed, and was taken back
by her husband.
Bowman gained employment in the
vicinity of San Jose. Recently Mrs.
Rodgers left her home three times,
spending the absent intervals with
her affinity" Two months ago she
left again, and the separation was
supposed to be permanent, but after
an absence of three weeks she again
appeared at the family home and
threatened to take away the eldest
child. Last Sunday Mrs. Rodgers
taunted her husband with her associa-
tion with her affinity" This was
followed by quarrels and the shoot
ing.
After arrest, Rodgers, or Rodriguez,
claimed that the fatal shot was fired
accidentally.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08
DELAY IN TRIALS
Is NOT TOLERATED
Claudianes Boys and Mrs. Mar
tin Will Not Be Given
Further Extensions

OAKLAND, Sept. Activity pre-
walls in dynmiters' row at the county
Jail. The Claudianes boys, under in
dictment on charges of dynamiting
the Schenck house in East Oakland
will appear before Judge Ogden tomor-
row morning to plead. Mrs. Isabella ].
Martin, held to answer in the superior
court for the alleged blowing up OF
Judge Ogden's home, will appear for
trial next week. Her preparations for
defense, in view of the fact that she
will appear as one of the attorneys in
the case, are features of county jail
life.
In securing continuance last week
for the Greeks Attorney N. Coghlan
promised that he would ask for no
more delay IL granted. He said he
would file a demurrer and a motion
and that If both were unavailing he
would be ready to have a day set for
their trial. He will move to have the
indictments set aside on the ground
OF prejudice on the part of members
of the grand jury and his demurrer to
the indictment will be based on tech
nical law points. BY examination of
grand jurors District Attorney Brown
is confident that the indictments 0ere
fairly voted and that no judge would
quash them. The extreme care which
he took in the legal procedure prior to
the return of the indictments, in which
he had the advice of District Attorney
Langdon of San Francisco and the as
sistance of Special Agent Burns, has
convinced Brown that no flaw will be
found.
Mrs Martin spent six hours today in
conference with Attorney Burton wy
man. appointed by Judge Wells to de-
fend her when she failed to secure
counsel by her own efforts. One of the
conditions which she imposed upon
her attorney was that she should be
permitted to cross examine her foster
son, Baby John Martin. Upon his tes-
timony in the police court she was held
tt answer. The transcript of the pre-
liminary examination largely given by
Baby John fills 900 pages of typewrit-
ten material.
Mrs. Martin said recently in court
that she hoped to secure another attor-
ney, though she will retain Wyman.
Owing to the intricacies of the case At
torney A. l.. Frick, who defended her
at her preliminary examination, is the
only attorney able to go on with the
case without weeks of preparation.
Mrs. Martin has telephoned repeatedly
to Frick and he will probably be back
in the case when she goes to trial.