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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
SENATOR ROOSEVELT
RUMOR MONT DIE

to the African jungles to hunt big
game with his son and be back in
time for the regular session of the
senate in December.
Former Governor Black, Repre-
sentative J. Sloat Fasset, Chairman
Woodruff of the state central COM
mittee, and Herbert Parsons, chair
man of the county republican COM
mittee, are mentioned as possible
candidates against the president to
fill the Plat shoes.
In the present legislature the re-
publicans have on Joint ballot ma
jority of 40. While the democrats
expect to elect their state ticket
they are skeptical as to Bryan's
Rryan's chances for carrying New
York. Only political revolution
could give him the state legislature,
and it is admitted that such revo-
luton is not expected this year.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
LOST AND STARVING
CHILD HID in LOG

DENISON, Tex, Sept. lion
the verge of starvation, Eddie Cas-
par, 4 years old, whose parents live
in what is known as the cut Off dis
trict of Oklahoma, south of Blue
river, was found by a searching
party in hollow log, where, fright
ened by the loneliness of the forest,
the child had hidden himself and
lay trembling and weeping for
three days.
The searching party found a dog
barking vigorously at the end of a
hollow log. The party, thinking
that he had found a rabbit, was
about to turn away when it was
suggested that the log be investi-
gated An examination revealed
the presence of the child, faint and
weak from exposure and hunger
and thirst.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
COMMITS CRIME TO JOIN
- HIS COMRADES IN PRISON

| CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. H.
Esiacl Roberts, charged with robbing
the postoffice at Milbrook, Albany
county, and who admits the crime,
this morning was brought to Chey-
#enne to await action by the United
States grand jury in November
The prisoner, who is not yet 1S
years of age, has confessed that he
robbed the Milbrook office for the
express purpose of getting into the
penitentiary, where he desires to
join two pals who were recently
sent up from Laramie for burglary
The boy. who is a product of Chi
cago and was raised in. the cutters
of that city, has no conception of
right and wrong and is inclined to
pose as hero because he has de-
fed the law. He left Chicago a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Political
leaders are interested in the re-
vival of the report that President
Roosevelt, when his term in the
White House expires, may be the
successor of Thomas c. Platt as
United States senator.
The statement is made that the
president desires the place and that
his name will go before the joint
caucus in Albany in January, with
every chance Of victory.
Should the president be elected,
he would leave the White House
for the capitol Immediately after
his successor is inaugurated. He
would be compelled to attend only
a short special session of the SEN
ate to confirm the incoming presi-
dents nominations of cabinet Off
GERS, and then could go on his way
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
BAD INSURANCE MONTH

Fire insurance losses in the west
during August were above the nor
NAL, the most serious loss being in
Chicago. Aside from this the worst
losses in Western Union territory
were sustained ON lumber. The
south has suffered from lumber and
wooden worker losses, with the
heaviest drain on the New Orleans
fires, where much more than the
premiums of an entire year has al
ready been used up in 1908. On the
Pacific coast the fires have also
been above the average. August in
Chicago was one of the worst
months in recent years, with an in
surance loss above a million.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
SENATOR PROUD
Of LYNCH|NG

OXFORD, Miss, Sept. 11.-For-
mer United States Senator w. v.
Sullivan, who took part in a lynch
ing here Saturday, in referring to
his part of the work is quoted as
saying:
81 led the mob which lyhched
NNels Patton and / am proud of it..
! directed every movement of the
mob, and | did everything l could
to see that he was lynched.
Cut white woman's throat
anda negro! | would not mind
standing for lynching any man who
cut any white womans throat.
will lead mob in such a case any
time"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
DEMAND LAWS ON
CRIMINAL INSANITY

WALLA WALLA, Sept. 11.-Last
night the State Medical association
decided to urge upon the legislature
the necessity of better methods of
handling criminal insanity cases.
Much discussion was given to
criminal law practice
Ex-Prosecutor Oscar Cain deliv-
cred an address in which he stated
that physicians should demand
more time to investigate a case be-
fore giving testimony.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

into the Railways of the St. Eliza
beth hospital, Catholic institution
ON the southern limits of the city,
and created panic among the
nurses and patients. On Second
avenue, to the west of the city, hun
dreds of snakes have infested the
watering troughs and pools about
the artesian wells.
Children are being kept out of
the woods and women travel only
by daylight.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. LIE.
]. Lucky" Baldwin came down
from Lake Tahoe to attend bust.
ness connected with his new mil
lion dollar bungalow hotel" that
he Is to build at Tallac.
"On Tuesday" said Mr.. Baldwin
at the st. Francis last evening, II
will start a gang of men cutting up
lumber for my new hotel. hope to
have it completed within three
years"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

postoffice. The thief secured only
a small amount in stamps and
made no effort to escape. He was
promptly arrested and when ar
raigned before the United States
commissioner at Laramie entered a
plea of guilty, frankly stating he
desired to go to the penitentiary.
Under the law there is no alter
native for the United States court
and Roberts, having confessed,
must be sentenced to at least one
year In prison.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

PARIS, Sept. 11.-One of the
most daring surgical operations
ever known was performed this
week in the Bicetre hospital.
Drs. Babinsky and Gosset, having
an epileptic patient under their
charge, determined to remove his
entire skull, as well as the menin-
ges, or membranes which cover the
brain.
The operation was successful, but
afterward arose the difficulty OF
providing an artificial skull to re-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

her profession by taking advantage
OF first class periodicals and keep
ing In close touch with thise whom
she knew to be efficient. Her broth
ers, sisters and many of her broth
ers In law and sisters in law, her
children and even her husband
have been her pupils. One son,
William. was graduated in law and
Is now quartermaster in the United
States navy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
TAUGHT SCHOOL 81 YEARS

LA PORTE, Ind, Sept. u.--Mrs.
Emma A. Stuckman of Papanee
yesterday entered upon her fifty
seventh year as school teacher
! and her ene-hundredth term in the
schoolroom. She began in 1851, in
q little log schoolhouse in Kosci-
usko county.
Mrs. Stuckman has always kept
abreast with the best thought of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
TOOK OFF SKULL
PUT ON NEW ONE

place the one which had been re-
moved. Various materials were
tried, including celluloid and alum
mum, but after many experiments
the doctors found a suitable compo-
sition, and the new skull was put
in place.
While this is not the first time a
skull has been removed, it is the
first time an artificial one has been
provided. Ors. Championnerre and
Doyen once performed such an OPP
Grafton, but they replaced the skull.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
MOST WICKED THIEVES
THAT EVER LIVED

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE po-
lice are searching for two young
men designated ''the meanest
thieves in all Europe" They way
laid a young girl supplied with arti-
fetal legs by charity and took the
limbs away from her, leaving her
helpless on the roadside. The arti-
fetal legs are worth 500 each.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
WEDDING FOLLOWS DROWNING

MENOMINEE. Mich, Sept. Ii
After surprising his sweetheart,
Miss Martha Stephanie. who had
read reports of his death in Lake
Michigan when the barge Baldwin
foundered off Two Rivers, George
Campbell, sailor, celebrated his
narrow escape from drowning by
marrying the young woman,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
WISCONSIN TOWN
FULL OF SNAKES

APPLETON, Wis, Sept. low
ing to the worst drouth the city has
experienced in seven years, there
has been a plague of snakes in this
vicinity. All of the streams, creeks
and swamps in the county have
gone dry and it is said the reptiles
are driven by their suffering into
the settled districts.
Three large pine snakes crawled
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

Do not forget that you were once
a boy not SO very long ago--and
perhaps the most pestiferous of the
whole neighborhood tribe
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11
Cleaning, Dyeing, Repairing

Press suits soc; pants 15 club
buttons sewed free;
clothes French
work guaranteed Messenger unIaue
St, Spokane Club Bldg. Phone
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-11

Hospitality often looks suspi
ciously like a mild form of insan.
ity.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

men. Here are a few instances in
which 1 have been able to be of SER
vice:
"A widow eleven years ago received
ten acres of land in an adjoining county
in trade and paid no further attention
to it, not deeming it of sufficient inn
portance to bother with. She found
herself in need of money recently and
bethought her of this land, but did not
know the description, the location, who
had paid the taxes or in whose name
the land stood. She applied to me-
Two letters written to the proper par
ties Strengthened everything out and in
ten days her back taxes had been paid
and the land stood of record in her
own name. This was simply ques-
tion of knowing how and where to
write.
Protect Interests
"a woman is unfortunate enough to
have a rogue for husband; he Is
endeavoring to get possession OF his
wifes separate property. After care
fully going over details with her l ar"
ranged with our trust department to
take over all her property In trust,
subject to her order, thus relieving her
of all anxiety. We act for her and IN
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

her stead protecting her interests at
every point.
another client who is conducting a
business finds herself hard pressed TOT
money. A loan is, quietly arranged
for her and she is helped through
hard place.
zone woman wishes to go out or the
city and wants her property lookeu
after while she is away. Every aetal.
is gone over with her, her Instructions
noted and the whole matter is care
fully looked after for her, ana her
net income, together with a montnly
statement is sent wherever she directs;
Another woman is much worried
about the proper carrying out OF her
wishes in case of her death A VIII
is drawn up for her by attorneys EN-
bodying her wishes, and making the
trust company executor, thus max
ing. sure that every wish Will be ex-
actly carried out, and we. take charge
of the will keeping it perfectly safe IN
our vaults"
A realization of the great possiplll-
ties of help for other women along the
line of her speciality came to Mrs. Spaul-
ding as the result of many years op-
servation in positions both east and
west, where she came In contact WIN
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
BUSINESS WOMAN
ACHIEVES SUCCESS
LANDS ION TOP" AFTER HARD
STRUGGLE
USES KNOWLEDGE TO AID HER
SEX
Manager OF Department OF Great Trust
Company Holds Respect and Trust
of Employers, Associates
and Friends

'Women need to learn how to utilize op-
northumberland TO the trained mind life is
full of oppOrtunities."-Mrs. Pearl Adams
Spaulding.
Among the women whom circum-
stances or choice have placed in cUmpe-
tition with men in the business world,
relatively few have achieved marked
success, and of these only small num-
ber have ever attained to that large ana
roomy elevation technically referred
to as "the top
Among this inner circle Los Angeles
has a representative in the person of
Mrs. Pearl Adams Spaulding, manager
of the woman's department Of the Co
lumbia Trust company, a woman who
has forged from the iron and steel OF
life tempered weapons not only for her
own use but also for the equipment OF
others Of her sex.
A Womans department, with Wom-
an as manager, Is an innovation IN
banking circles that has been estab-
lished in no similar institution west of
st. Louis, and the houses farther east
that have adopted it are few. With
these concerns the idea is not senu-
mental one in regard to women as
women, but the custom is obtaining
because of the increasing number of
women year by year who manage their
own or at least a part of their affairs,
and these shrewd business men are only
diplomatic in providing for these clients
the same facilities and conVenienceS
that are at hand for the men who
transact business through their agency.
In some banks and trust companies the
percentage of women depositors is two
ffths of the whole, this, of course, not
meaning their per cent of the deposits,
which is much lower as women usually
carry smaller accounts than nen.
Great Integrity Required
The requirements for a position of
this nature include absolute integrity
and uprightness, accuracy, business
training and long experience, with abil-
ity of high order and adaptability,
and the type of woman who has all
these qualifications is so rare that Mr..
Elliott searched for a year before he
met Mrs. Spaulding, and in that time
examined over 150 applicants for the
position.
Mrs. Spaulding had been in act
i've business life twenty-five years
Wednesday, April Is, and has a record
of which any business man might well
be proud She is known in Los Angeles
not only through her connection with
the Columbia Trust, but also as first
the promoter and later the president of
the Business Woman's association She
has been also one of those most inter-
ested in the effort to establish a Legal
Aid society in this city.
Practically occupying the position in
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
TAFT MANAGERS
CLAIM TOO MUCH
BULLETINS FROM HEADQUAR'
TIERS ARE DOUBTED
OTHER CANDIDATES ARE STILL
I'M THE RING
Conventions Held Early in States
Where Taft Is Strongest In
Order to Produce an
Impression
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The claims
made by the managers of the campaign
of Secretary Taft have, in many IN
stances, been shown to have been so
absurd that the press of the country Is
coming to look with grave DOUBT upon
the bulletins issued regularly from TART
headquarters. These bulletins are SO
grossly exaggerated that they are often
Ridiculous The Chicago Journal, in an
editorial. says:
1.-THE Taft managers have begun to
brag about the number of delegates
pledged to support or his canuiuacy,
They say he has enough votes secured
to nominate him for the presidency on
the first ballot.
"Conceding to Taft all the delegates
that even a hopeful view can discover,
he will probably not have more than
$3.50, at the outside. This is long way
from a majority of the convention, ana
1t is extremely doubtful whether Tart
can travel 1t"
In an editorial on Tainted Campaign
News the Republican of waterbury
Conn, warns its readers against dis
patches from small towns where con-
.Ventions are held, If they bear evidence
of being collected to enhance the
chances of any one of the candidates.
"All the world knows of the activities
of the Taft press agents." that paper
remarks.
The Press of Utica, N. Y. has printed
an editorial entitled THE Claiming
Stage" in which it says: I'm the presl-
dental canvass the claiming stage mas
been reached. In many cases this is
merely an instance of whistling to keep
up courage. If big claims are made,
the notion is that some people VIII pc
lieve them. 1t is all playing upon tne
weakness of human nature, Whlch Is
credited with a universal anxiety 10 get
on what in common parlance is known
as the band wagon. 1t Is tradlng Oh
the theory that people all want 70 70
with the winner, and If 1T can pc iIlaue
to appear that this one or that one Is
reasonably sure to succeed 1t is a sure
way of bringing large numbers 10 MS
I'm the present presidential race the
Taft boomers are naturally the greatest
Chalmers There is no doubt that ne
has more delegates than anybody else,
because thus far the conventions nave
been held in the states Where IL was
easiest for him to get them, the pur-
pose being of course to produce an I'M
preston"
THESE are but few of the comments
that have appeared in the newspapers
of the country recently on this phase
of the presidential contest, but they in
dicata The general distrust that is aris-
ing on all sides respecting the claims
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
GEORGE ADE WOULD TAX
FARMERS WHO DELIGHT
IN PHON0GRAPH MUSIC
Author Tries to Have Congress Pass
Bill Providing Revenue for Com
posers Furnishing Records
for Machines

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-George
Ade the writer, has been in Washing
ton trying to get congress to pass u
law which will put tax on every
man, woman and child in the United
States who buys a phonograph record
for the benefit of the composer of the
music. Now the supreme court has
Just declared that these monograph
records, music box sheets and the like
are not within the copyright law.
Manufacturers in this as we'll as other
countries have always had the right
to make these various mechanical rec
ords, and in that fact it has been
pretty clearly demonstrated that conn
posers are usually anxious to have
them do so In order to boom their
sheet music.
Ade has recently cme out in a news
paper interview which has been re-
printed generally throughout the coun-
try in which he says.
You have no idea of this phon-
osraph business. Out through the corn
belt every family has a graphophone
or phonograph. The farmer comes in
at night, takes off his boots, hangs his
feet on the stove and says: Boys, turn
her loose The boys turn her loose,
and the burned thing plays the whole
evening"
AIDE thinks the farmers shouldn't
have the right to do this without pay
ing tax to the composer. He doesn't
mention the fact that folks who live
in the big cities have the opportunity
to go to concerts and other forms of
entertainment every day and night,
and from them the composers get moth
ing AIDE and those who want the law
changed propose to tax the farmers,
every mothers son of them, If they
want to use the much abused phono-
graph which brings little, variety en-
tertainment to the home during the
long evenings and helps make the dull
monotony of the farm life more bear
able.
Well. we wonder what the members
of congress are going to do about it?
Our guess is that when 1t comes to a
vote the farmer and his monograph
will win out, and that out in the farm
houses of Dakota and the mining
camps of Nevada, leagues distant from
any spot which an orchestra will ever
visit, these modern entertainers will
continue to brighten the lives of those
not so fortunate as their city cousins.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

of the Taft managers 1t has been
shown in many instances that these
claims were not founded upon fact or
even upon reasonable prospects.
The friends of Senator Knox of Penn
sylvania, Vice President Fairbanks of
Indiana, Speaker Cannon of Illinois
and Governor Hughes of New York
have not indulged in claims but have
contented themselves with doing what
they could to call public attention to
the availability of their candidates The
supporters of each of these candidates
have hopes that the two months that
will intervene before the Chicago con-
vention will witness a centering of pub
lie sentiment upon their man. but they
have not attempted to deceive the pub
lie by extravagant claims
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

women of the wealthy classes who
handled their own money or property
and who so impressed her with their
uniform lack of systematic knowledge
in business matters as to arouse
great desire to be of service to them.
Enters Business World
From both father and mother Mrs.
Spaulding inherited 1.-The business point
of view," and after several years Of
work as a special student at the Lu-
theran college, Wittenberg, in SPRING
field, Ohio, when 90 years of age she
entered a business college in Peoria,
ILL.,, and after graduation accepted a
position as cashier in a large law and
loan office. Not liking the work, she
took up the study of shorthand at night
by herself and after about six months
began doing court reporting for her
firm.
Driven by a love of knowledge and
mastery of detail, she began to study
law, giving special attention to real
estate transfers-work that is famil-
iarly known as abstracts" Soon after
ward she became associated with a
private bank in the real estate depart
ment, where she examined legal papers,
mortgages, notes, etc. and passed upon
them before they left the bank, espe-
cially finishing abstracts of title.
After another year this woman of
the legal mind opened her own Office
in Peoria and was appointed law libra
rian by the Bar association, the first
woman to hold this position in the
United States. To become a notary
public, a court reporter and then an
expert accountant were developments
that came in rapid succession, and then
during one campaign she followed
politics." going to Omaha with intro
ductions from that old anti-slavery
worker, Parker Pillsbury, to Susan B.
Anthony, and was at once made re-
cording secretary of the National Suf-
frage association and reported the con-
vention.
Meets with Accident
At this time Mrs. Spaulding met with
an accident that confined her to her
bed for two years, changing the en-
ergetic, athletic woman to an invalid,
with the prospect that the condition
become permanent.
1t was during this enforced retire.
ment that the active brain evolved
plan that resulted in the consolidation
of large business interests amounting
to millions of dollars, and the organi-
zation of the London Gas and Electric
Investment company, with headquar-
ters at SO Wall street, of which she be-
came secretary.
Having married in 1890 M. P. Spaul-
ding of Boston, in 1896 she became in
terested with him in real estate. Their
company operated through the east
and middle west in large way most
successfully, laying out large tracts of
land into parks and subdivisions, and
her friends were not surprised when
she proved one of the best statesmen in
the field
Coming to California three years ago,
Mrs. Spaulding associated herself the
next year with the Merchants Trust
company, at the earnest solicitation of
the vice president and general man
ager. Lloyd L. Elliott, becoming man
ager of the womans department.
When the Columbia Trust company
was Incorporated with L. L. Elliott as
president FRS. Spaulding came to the
new concern and opened the woman's
department there.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
GErTING JEALOUS

Flykyns-I hear Tom and his wife have
had trouble about her doctor.
Slykyns-Yes You see, while he agrees
that she needs medical attention, he objects
to the kind of attention her doctor gives
her.--Smart Set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19

women of the wealthy classes who
handled their own money or property
and who so impressed her with their
uniform lack of systematic knowledge
in business matters as to arouse a
great desire to be of service to them.