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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

with e. F. Waggoner, she said.
Whenever there threatened to be
the fraction of second intermis.
sion the Boosters quartet sang
funeral dirges.
Morris cartooned E. J. Cannon
submitting to Mayor Moore in 1858
a new set of grade separation plans,
and Uncle Sam tying Pres. Roose.
welt down in the chair.
Unusual disturbance offered at
this juncture by a tramp with a
lisp. Then a freight train, o. %
on the G. N. line, pulled into the
hall and the tramp appeared. He
brought a set Of resolutions from
the Sons of Rest. He said that If
they would be provided with a serv-
ant apiece they would make Spo.
kane the scene of, their next rest
convention. He forgot to battle be-
fore coming in.
Someone who sounded like the
ticket taker at the Spokane theater
initiated Dutch Jake in converse
ton with Mayor Moore. He showed
quite remarkable command of the
English language. When the cur
tain was rung down on him it show
ed the Occur d'Alene with sign
out, Services at 3 p. M" Across
the street from the show shop was
the Spokesman-Review building for
rent.
Doc Allen finally call I'd Mayor
Moore, Councilman Gray and a few
other notables to the center of the
room and while the quartet sang
Shall We Gather at the River?"
an enormous lid was let down upon
their heads.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
GOOD DEMAND FOR
HOMES IN SPOKANE

Alexander Kelly, contractor, has
laid the foundation for a new house
in Avandale addition. He expects
to commence erecting the house
Immediately Mr. Kelly says there
is a good demand now for homes,
and the demand is constantly in
creasing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

look to the past rather than to the
future. Their judgment is inf1u-
enced by precedent rather than a
statesmanlike view of the present
and future
In no other country are the
courts permitted to defeat the le-
gislative will. If the power is to
be retained at all in this countr~
it must be limited either by requir-
ing a unanimous decision of the
judges or very large majority, not
less than three fourths concurring,
in order to authorize the setting
aside of a law
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
FlREMEN KILLED
BY FALLING WALL

BALTIMORE, Jan. PA $780,
600 fire on Holiday st. cost the
lives Of three firemen, one of them
Lieut.. F. Hartman. Chief George
Horton was one of 10 injured. The
men were caught under a falling
wall. ..s
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
BY NORMAN ROSE

ABOARD U. S. S. GEORGIA, AT
SEA, Jan. 24.-Battleships' crews
must have bread, so battleships
have bakeries.
The bakery on the Georgia uses
900 pounds of flour a day, and as a
navy loaf weighs pound, instead
of the shore loaf's Ia ounces, the
ships bakery turns out 600 loaves a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
DALEY IS MATCHING
HARD COLD SNAP

at is a hard matter to attempt
to forecast the weather at present
with any degree of certainty" said
Jim Daley today. 81 expect to see
some cold weather before long,
however, In about two weeks from
now We should have the cold snap
Of the winter, sometime early in
February" and Jim looked wise
and wendell his way.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
THOUGHT HE WAS SHOT.

MARION, O., Jan. 24.-W. B. JEFF
ferson, who was playing here in a
blood and thunder drama, shocked
the other performers by crying out
that he was shot A pistol Shot
was necessary to the play. For
awhile 1t was thought that JeTer-
sons likelihood was oozing AWAY.
The curtain was rung down and 1t
was found that he had been hit only
with wadding.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
TlcKLED The. MAYOR

Every time Mayor Moore happens
to see one of the new 100000 club
buttons today he smiles in pleasant
recollection Of the Booster gridiron
meeting last night. He was enthus-
iastic in speaking of the entertain
ment afforded and hoped that it
would be feature of the club an
nually. He said that the meeting
was one of the most pleasing func-
lions of the kind he has ever at
tended.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
BY JESSIE M. partition

Thousands and thousands, OPP
pressed by industrial and social
conditions, yield to the lure of vice
and it's attractiveness.
In every land, in every cline,
where men are depraved and wom-
en- weak, are found the Daughters
of Lilith.
The treatment accorded the de-
classe woman is paradoxical. With
one hand we push her farther down
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
PROTEST on SEWER

Protest against payment of as
sessment of 1901 for the Twelfth
av. sewer has been filed by S. C.
Kronnick, owner of one of the
blocks in the district. He claims
that the sewer has been built
above ground and is of no benefit.
Faulty work and inspection is al
legged. The sewer was built by
Allen F. Gill.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
GOOD LUCK SAVES
G. N. FROM WRECK

Good luck saved G. N. passenger
train No. smashup near Naples,
Idaho, yesterday. A coach wheel
broke while the train was running
full speed, but the engineer stopped
before the cars left the track.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
SECOND ADAMS TRIAL
COST $e,3s7

RATHDRUM. Idaho, AIN. "a
The second trial of Steve Adams
cost Shosshone county $6,3S7. War
rants for the amount have been
issued by the county auditor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

day to keep 800 hungry officers and
men provided with the staff of life
Five bakers are employed in the
Georgias bread foundry. and the
most up-to-date dough-mixing and
other machinery is used.
The members of the crew eat
much more bread, proportiionately
than the officers. With the enlisted
men it forms big part of the menu
three times a day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
PNEUMONIA MOST FATAL

According to the annual report
of the Spokane health department
pneumonia led the death roll last
year with total of 1913 fatal cases.
This Is a marked increase over
deaths from the same disease in
former years.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
INSURANCE AGENT
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS

PORTLAND, Jan. 24.-Shortage
in accounts that will run into the
thousands is charged against E. j.
Perkins, agent for the Milwaukee
Insurance Co. in central Oregon.
He is said to have skipped to New
York.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

The fifth of series Of concerts
by Reemer's military band will be
given at the Princess rink this
evening from 1870 to 1920.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

The Spokane Press. delivered to
per month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24

In her iner1 article Miss partition
will tell of 'Jhe Boy Of the Tene-
ments."
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
SnENn SENSn AROET TYPHOID.

1t is particularly refreshing amid the affecta-
tions of ignorance or uncertainty concerning the
origin of outbreaks Of typhoid fever which are
too often displayed to meet with SO logical
straightforward and convincing report one
which has recently been made by the health
officer of the city of Auburn \. Y. The cir
cumstances were interesting and important. Ia
the last ten years typhoid fever has pretty stead
lily prevailed in that city. The number of cases
yearly has ranged from p TO S. and of deaths
from TO IL This year the outbreak occurred
earlier than usual, and by the latter part of May
there had been 33 cases, with deaths. This
prospect of a record breaking visitation moved
Dr. Brown, the health officer, to investigate
matters and 10 make the report TO which We
have referred.
In such cases there has too often been dis
position 10 regard the epidemic as an inscrutabe
mystery. an inexplicable visitation Of Provi-
dence or something of the sort Not so with the
health officer Of Auburn. Knowing typhoid to
be a specific disease which is invariably caused
10y specific Infection he knew that such infec-
tion must have specific source. and he set out
Systematically 10 find it. As typhoid germs are
taken into the human system through food or
drink. he gave his attention to the food and
drink OF the sufferers. Only two articles We're
commonly used by them all-namely, milk and
water-wherefOre he concluded that one of them
must be the medium of infection. But the milk
used came from no fewer than fourteen different
sources and it seemed highly improbable that all
of them should he simultaneously vitiated. But
all of the patients drank water from a single
source. the city's supply. and it far more
reasonable TO suspect the contamination of that
single medium than to suppose that typhoid had
simultaneously appeared on fourteen widely
scattered farms.
Looking into the city's water supply, he found
that at the head Of Owasco Lake there was a
large influx of crude sewage Of the most often
sive kind and OF precisely the kind which most
surely imparts the infection of typhoid. There,
then. IL seemed probable to be only little
short Of certain. was the source of the epidemic,
and there, il is reasonable 10 believe. has been
its source in all these past years. He then pro-
ceeded in his report TO point out the practicable
means of dealing with the evil. So long as peo-
pie lived within the watershed there would he
danger Of precisely such contamination. and as
the city cannot eXpe and exclude all persons
from the watershed the only way OF safety lies
in Kidding the water Of any infectious germs
which may have entered it, This, he argued
that proposition he cited statistics from other
cities which have established filter plants Al
though in some OF the cities part of the water
supply is still drawn from wells, which are
usually under sanitary suspicion, and although
the possibility Of infection from milk. from
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
YACHTING WEEK At KEEL
Regulations as to Dress of Guests of
E'mperOr U1Iliam.

KjeI June 14-Interest in the Kisl vach+f-y
week at the end Of this month is growing rapfdIv
Among the American visitors who are expacrad
70 be present Morton r. Plant the YoIande.
Alison Armour. on the Ctowana and Mrs Goeet
The guests of the Emperor who have been f-
vfted TO witness the racing from the imperial
Yacht HofenzoI1ern. whether they belong 70 fha
army or navy are only private citizens have
already had communicated TO them the rezula-
tions laid down to the dress 10 be worn on
board These are of the severest simplicity and
the Emperor himself conforms 70 them with rig
orous exactitude During the whole OF the fore
noon and at luncheon the blUeiscket and drfu
trousers with white cap, recognized the sea
uniform of the Imperial Yacht Club. are Strictly
ordered. even when the guests undertake excur-
sfons ashore. In the evening hut little difference
is made. the plain dress Of the forenoon being
replaced except on special occasions. such as the
visit of a foreign royal parsonage. by the blue
dress Jacket. white vest and blue trousers 70
person who takes his quarters the imperial
yacht is ever seen out Of uniform. His majesty
exhibits the utmost interest in the racing and
his intercourse with his guests is Of the most
inr character
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune. ]


Newport. r. l.. June 1.-THE warm weatner V'
dsv brought out number OF bathers at Bailey
Beach. To-day was the first tine that any nunoer
of the summer residents have visited the oeaen
this summer
Alfred c. Vanderbilt has again rendered tne uS'
of Oakland Farm. his Portsmouth home 20 'H9
children OF the Thames Street Methodist tpiscopAi
Church for their annual picnic which will take pl4c
this wear on June %. This has been the cuS''ii
of Mr. Vanderbilt for a number Of years
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E Widener are expec'e'
from Paris during the coming month
Elisha Dyer. George Rose. Sidney q Love -
H p Gilbert H s Redmond and Monson MorlS
registered at the Newport Casino to-day
Mr. and Mrs R I. Gammell have opened -.
summer home.
Beaue,1 the summer home OF Connrno1ore aI ~
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. has been opened for tne
summer though Commodore and Mrs Nanderpn-
will not arrive for the season until iater- -
former came to-day with his children. "non1 ne i'
In care OF their nurses
Mr. and Mrs. Harry s. Redmond enter'd-1eu .
luncheon this afternoon on their steam y4CL1
Diana. Among their guests were MI sno 1"ls, - -
NJ. OeIrichs H. NJ. Hartman. Elisha oyer - -
Vera Gilbert Mrs. Mary Brady HaH ana FrailS -
A. P1urnrner. Mr. and Mrs. Redmond anu -
rI,,r,rner later in the day sailed for New 4orh-
Colonel Oliver II. Payne, who mas ttAsh -
White Villa for the summer, is expected Oh IL
yacht during the week .
AIessrs Edward ]. Berwtnd and II G. Gray "eA'
to New York tonight
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15

t,Hle In the matter. Any menace TO tneir com
merce may well cause them uneasihess -
not in their own power to avert the e'h anu
not without further action by Congress OF
sneci,c international agreement can they hope
for the protection which they desire. The mat
ter is one which they may properly urge for
consideration should such treaty as tne hur
ton act contemplated be negotiated WITHIN 'he
next year 1t may be observed in the mean
time that no such consequences as Canada eA-
pects from an increased consumption OF water
by Chicago could result from the utilization OF
the Niagara River for Industrial service. Every
drop SO diverted from the stream above inc
falls goes back again below them SNORT
detour may lessen the depth of water on lne
very crest of the cataract, but 1t cannot per,
manently lower the level of Lakes Erie ana
Ontario.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
KAISER WJyIT4US AsKTTFRSaRY

This twentieth anniversary of the accession of
William Of IIOhenzoprn 10 the royal throne of
Prussia and the imperial German throne occurs
at 2 peculiar hut by no means inappropriate
time. II finds Europe in every respect vastly
changed from the Europe n twenty years ago.
after series IF lnomentous donCS in all parts
Of the world. These twenty years have not been
as sensational as some other periods of like
1cnt. such lis the Napoleonic era. that which
comlrehended fhe revolutions Of 1s4S. or that
which included the PruSSian wars with Den
mark. with Austria and with France. and the
consequent creation of the Prussia-led German
Empire. In achievements of constructive and
evolutionary statesnaBsp. however and in the
progress Of greet social and political movements
for tie general uplifting of the race. the last
feo decades have not often been surpassed in
human history.
The kaiser's twentieth anniversary finds the
German Empire grown and still growing beyond
all expectation. It's increase in population, in
wealth. in industry, in commerce. in colonial
possessions and ia military power on land and
sea. has n these twenty years been such the
world hes seldom equalIed elsewhere.
Yet to-day although il has been and is out
stripping all IFS neghboIs i'm these respects
the empire is not as dominant in diplomacy
and the international councils Of Europe as
II was years ago. In some international
years Germany has taken no part whatever.
This is f6t because Germany has intrinscally
declined in strength. but because other powers
have strengthened their places and have estab-
lished better understandings among themselves.
The most significant incident Of the last twenty
years has been Great Britain's masterful
entry into Continental politics and diplomacy
under the lead Of King Edward. The close re-
lations between Great Britain and the four Latin
powers-especially close with the greatest OF
these-and the British approachment with Rus
sia, make a striking contrast 10 the days when
Great Britain WAS in splendid isolation
France also WAS isolated. and Germany was al
lied secretly with Russia and openly with Italy
ana Austria Hungary, and enjoyed an unchal-
leneed supremacy in all Continental councils.
The Emperor has, however despite this latter
change. cause for profound satisfaction in the
review Of bis twenty years of sovereignty and
the world has cause for qualification too. He
has disappointed the uDfavorabe authorizations
OF numbeTless critics Feared as a firehrand he
has been one Of the worlds chief peacemnkers
Regarded by many as n reckless. swashbuckling
Junker, he has shown himself 10 he a wise prli-
dent and conservative statesman. He has made
some mistakes, but he has done great deeds.
Accused Of eeotism, and indeed. often strongly
emphasizing his OWN personality. he has dis
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
DIR. HILL SEES KAISER
Official 1udience an Palace Gard,n
at Berlin.

Berlin. June 1.-THE Emperor to-day received g,
audience the new American ambassador to c.
many Dr. David Jayne Hill who succeeds rbs~.
rnagne Tower. The audience was fixed several a..
before Dr. HGll had expected IT,
The Emperor-s master OF ceremonies Raro, -
dem Knesebeck. called at the hotel yesferdav vH.
DR. Hill was staying and Informed him thai -
audience with the Emperor had been grantas o.
to-day in the old palace. his majesty eori,v =
from Potsdam for the purpose. Three eours a..
riages called for Dr. HilI to-day. and accompartA+
by his staff. he proceeded 20 the palace On ~,
arrival there he received a message from the Er
peror that the presentation would take place IN
garden, which was recently planted in one o. fbs
palace courts
Count Won Gutenberg and Baron Won dem K,e.s
beck conducted the ambassador thither the En-,
peror receiving him with great cordiaIity Af,s-
the formal presentation and the delivery Of erea,
ings from President Roosevelt and his Official Iat,s-
the Emperor engaged DIR. Hill in Conversation fo-
half an hour. showing MS most charming so-aI
qualities
DR. Hill did not official uniform bur 9,
Difference to German social requirements full dress
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
FIRECRACKERS.

The banging of cannon crackers behind his
back reminds the wayfarer that small boys
and the Fourth of July are both near at hand.
Unfortunately for purses and peace of mind,
the former are much nearer than Independence
Day Although three long weeks must pass
before the citizens of this glorious land arise
TO celebrate their deliverance from Old World
bondage with some disa greea BILE and dangerous
Chinese inventions, the youth of this metropolis
are taking Time by the forelock and singeing
the old gentleman's whiskers with punk and
cheap powder The Red Terror, alias the fire.
cracker, is abroad; and the season has begun
when mothers worry nursemaids fret and
irascible pedestrians vainly shuttle up side
streets after scurrying toy pistol brigades.
Everybody save the fireworks vender fumes
the rritations of premature explosions;
sick people suffer relapses. and few neurotics
sizzle like skyrockets against the scandalous
negligence of the authorities which results in
a month of tumult. shocks and bad burns. But
very few persons do more than vent their feel
ings. We have not yet seen procession Of the
aggrieved march on the City Hall.
Perhaps the only escape from the annual
abuse of fireworks which mars one-twefth of
our year is through legislation limiting to few
days the period within which they may be in
discriminatory sold and forbidding their dis
charge at least in the city except on the Fourth
Of July. An army of policemen could not super
wise all the small boys in town for a month ::
but the present staff could watch the retailers
and easily prevent and punish sales out Of sea
son. An ordinance imposing a heavy penalty
for early selling would harm nobody and work
a boon to thousands of citizens. It would even
go far toward preventing many of the terrible
accidents which make the fireworks custom
national disgrace. Cannon crackers and toy
pistols are harbarous inventions. delightful to
the haf-cvlized. but nuisance bad enough to
be classed with mad dogs cheap whiskey and
drunken chauffeurs. If the children and the
feeble minded must have them on the immortal
Fourth, perhaps they must be tolerated for that
one day. But there is no conceivable reason for
humoring the hoodlums and their small boy
imitators who throw crackers into open street
cars and apartment house courts during June
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15
THE LONDON HORSE SHOW
american Exhibitors Judges Who
Represent This Country.

London. June 1.-THE success which attended
the International Horse Show last year has en-
colyra ged the mana cement 70 make even greater
preparations for the second exhibition which opens
at OLYMPIA on June Is. and continues for a weak.
More entries have been received than came n for
the first venture but fewer Americans figure the
list notable absentee as an exhibitor being A G.
Vanderbilt who. however. will acr as OF ths
Judges In course OF the week there will be
enteen performances. and the committee has
ranged for an attendance Of at Least three hundred
thousand The big hall is 70 be decorated with
growing flowers and vines. and as last year. turf
will s1rppIant tan bark in the arena
Messrs Louis Walter and J. W Winans will
gain lead in number OF entries These Americans
who have taken up their residence in England.
have one of the finest stables in the country In IL
are housed many American bred horses. and many
of their wins If they are successful as LAST year.
NAV be credited 70 America. R 2 Mc5rann. OF
Lancaster. Penn has also a long string Of horses
entered covering as do those Of Messrs. Winans.
the heavy and light harness. ponies. appointment
and riding classes Another American exhibitor IS
George Walker of New York. and II IS possible
that there will be one other representative OF
America.
But il they are NOT exhibiting freely the Anerl-
cans are supporting the show with liberal pr1zeS'
among those Offering cups being Frederick Paost
Clarence H. Nackay. r. P. NCCIrann. A o. Nandei-
biIt Walter winans and Cole Lawrence Jones
Americans also figure prominently in the LIST OF
iudses J. G.. Marshall will Judge riding ana mar
ness horses: A c. Vanderbilt. appointments l.
D. Jordan. hackneys. R. P. NIcGrann. draft horses
Walter McCreery, polo ponies. and Alfred
NIaclay trotters.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-15

house flies and from other sources must Still ne
reckoned with. the filtration of the public water
supply has invariably had notably good results,
in some cases almost entirely eliminating ty-
phoid. Thus in Albany the reduction in num-
ber of typhoid cases after the adoption Of filtra-
ton was 73 per cent in Binghamton, y per
cent In Elmira, "a per cent in Hornell, 41.4
per cent: In Hudson. 50 per cent: in Ithaca, 7s.3
per cent: in Rensselaer,, 43 per cent; in Schenec-
tady, 42e per cent: in Troy, 46.S per cent, and
in Watertown, 61.S per cent.
We suppose-such is the perversity OF human
frailities-that some persons will still continue
to wonder what causes such outbreaks Of U-
phoid as those at Auburn, at katonah year
ago and at other places, and to wonder also
whether filtration of water is really Of any use.
We could wish that at Auburn-as has been
done at BOTHER places-there had been such an
examination of the water supply as would have
proved the existence non-existence of typhoid
germs therein. The finding of such germs would
have fixed beyond all reasonable question re-
sp0nsibilty for the epidemic, and we have little
doubt that they would have been found had
analysis been made. Even without such COM
pletion of the evidence, the presumption at Au-
burn and the proved facts at many other places
strongly suggest the urgent desirability Of two
things: First. TO stop the pouring of crude sew
age into any streams bodies of water what
soever. and second, to filter all water used for
human consumption which comes from source
which is in any way exposed TO contamination.
The former end may not soon be attained The
latter can be and should be, and heavy respon-
sibilty will rest upon ali who needlessly delay
its achievement.