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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
EQUAL|zERs
GAVE It Up
TASK OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL
REDUCTIONS UNDER ATTOR-
NEY'S RULING TOO BIG AND
eTATE BOARD MUST TACKLE
1T

Owing to lack Of time the coun-
~ board OF equalization failed to
carry out its intention of making
substantial reductions on all of
Assessor Galbraith's figures. Prose
cntor Webster's opinion that hori-
zontal reduction could not be legal
~ made forced the board to give
mp its notion and make only some
few reductions on business prop
erty.
Councilman Ostrander, one of
the board, this morning character.
lied the assessors valuations as
"freakish,", and declared that the
board was forced to accept them
because it had not time to revise
them to any extent.
'Mr. Galbraith was way off"
declared Mr.. Ostrander, 'in figur.
ing just valuations of corner lots,
for instance. He had many cor
ners valued at $50 per cent high
er than the lots next to them.
consider that 40 per cent or so per
cent would have been the correct
comparison.
The law limited the boards sit
ting to Saturday night. On &C
count of the numerous complaints
which it received, the entire time
until Friday morning was taken
up with their consideration. When
an executive session was finally
got around to, it proved a physical
impossibility for the board to car.
ry out the desires of the Tax
payers league and make reductions
the board approved, so the work
was slumped except in some few
instances.
The league, however, is not
through yet, and will place those
facts, and others, before the state
board of equalization which soon
meets in Olympia.
King county made horizontal re-
auctions and this was what the
local counsel declared to be il
legal. Just what action that state
board will take on the Spokane
valuations no one seems able to
predict, but it is stated that it
has power to finish the unfinished
work of the local board.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
HOME INDUSTRY
ALARM IS q. K.

The home industry police alarm
system invented by Officer "Bill"
Lewis of the police department and
Electrician Thielman of the fire de-
partment was given thorough test
late Saturday night and proved a
success. The call box at the cor
ner of Sprague and Napa has been
fitted with two red lights about rs
feet up on the telephone poles
nearest the box. The lights were
switched on from headquarters and
could be seen for many blocks.
On account of the success of the
experiment, Police Chief Rice today
is figuring on the expense of in
stalling 80 of the alarms.
The proposed Gamewell police
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

business men do not run this risk.
The doctors do much better than
this in resisting the attacks of the
great destroyer of all. And yet the
Spokesman-Review conceives the
idea and attempts to put it into
practice that the lawyers should
say who should be the judges,
whose functions are looked upon
by the lawyers mostly as a bust
ness proposition for them land ig-
nores the people whose actual
rights are involved.
Practicing law is, from the law.
yer's standpoint, a matter of bust
ness for them; while the judges
and the courts, from the peoples
standpoint, is the administration of
justice for them. Are these law.
yers, who are, on an average, half
the time wrong in their opinions
as to the facts or the law, and
handle them only as a business
proposition, better advised as to
who should be the judges than the
people, whose rights are to be
ltigated? If the theory of the
Spokesman-Review is correct, then
the seven candidates who, accord
ing to its socalled ballot, did not
receive the highest number OF
votes cast by the lawyers, should
withdraw from the race and no
further proceedings should be
taken to elect the judges. The ulti-
mate authority and power of gov
eminent rests with the judges, and
/, if the lawyers could elect these
judges they would be next to the
highest in authority and power,
which prominence would be re-
served for the newspaper that
would order, and take, and count
the ballot.
But, as l have said, don't think
that any newspaper will be allow
ed to disfranchise the people, nor
do l believe that the lawyers vote
will be accepted as a substitute
for the vote of the people. d. j.
Ryan.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

equations who have as good minds
and as good judgments as the av-
erage lawyer, and are just as alive
to the fitness of men to be judges
as are the lawyers. Really, the
lawyers have to record more fail
ures in practicing their profession
than any other business men. Their
chief business is to try cases be-
fore the courts, either for the
plaintiff or the defendant, and
upon either side they wage the
facts and the law with the vigor
that should belong to absolute and
|irrefutable truth, but one side fails.
The next time the scene changes
and the other side fails. So far
as results to the clients are con-
cerned, one half of them win and
the other half lose.
With equal effort on either side,
on an average, one half the lawyers
win and lose alternately. Other
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
ANOTHER SUNDAY
LID LITTER

Detective Alec Macdonald and
Patrolman Hogan aren't drinking
men, but they can scent liquor as
far as any topper. Yesterday they
saw a couple of men emerge from
the Electric hotel at the north end
of the Monroe st. bridge. The men
were perfumed with rye whiskey
"Where'd you get it," asked the
officers. One Of the men pointed
significantly upstairs. Up the of
ficers went and Intercepted Peter
O'Megg, the proprietor.
mo, certainly not; they didn't
buy whiskey of me-" Peter said.
But he turned the key in the lock
of room Is, which aroused the
cops suspicious and they had him
open the room again, There were
numerous "pints" Of booze and
quarts of beer on ice. The pro-
prietor and his goods were loaded
into the patrol wagon and taken
to headquarters. O'Megg gave
bond for his appearance this after
noon on a charge of selling liquor
on Sunday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
Lawyers Not the
Proper Choosers

Editor Of The Press-Please al
low me a small part of your space
in which to give my views on the
theory and effect of the Spokesman
Reviews recent ballot of the law
yers on the judgships. Well,
don't think the Spokesman-Review
can disfranchise the people.
Neither can the lawyers furnish an
acceptable substitute for a vote of
the people.
A lawyer is like every other Or
binary man; he is actuated by his
social, political and business inter
ests. The JUNCTION of boyhood
dreams or the fond pride of am
bilious parents may drift him into
the business of practicing law, but
that does not increase his natural
intelligence or ability. 1t gives him
opportunities for making them
available and useful to him. I dc
not say this disparagingly of any
member of the profession. There
are, however, thousands of men in
this county engaged in other oc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24


alarm system would cost several
thousand dollars, but the local in
vention will cost only several hun
dred, it is figured.
Chief Rice intends to ask the
council for an appropriation suf-
ficient to cover the expense of in
stalling 80 alarms. The depart
ment at present has II telephone
boxes, but it is desired to increase
the number to 80 and attach alarm
lights to each one
Policemen on whose beats there
are no call boxes now call in from
residences or places open all night
A cop in the southwestern part of
town Is forced to call in from a
brewery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

Aug. 13 to Aug. rs. The heavy as
sessment GO days ago had a ten
dency to depreciate the value of
the shares temporarily.
The delinquent sale of Copper
King stock took place on Saturday,
but very little stock was disposed
of, all the assessments having been
paid up. The principal point of in
terest in the market now is the
time when Snowstorm dividends
will be resumed and any definite
announcement will have a ten
dency to bull or bear the stock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
DRANK cARBoLlc ACID

Marin Gousand, Frenchman
from Washtucna, committed sui
eide by Quaflng carbolic acid early
Sunday morning. Just previous to
the act he borrowed 81 from Benny
Caputa of the Novarra saloon.
When his dead body was found be-
hind the Spokoma hotel he had 80
cents left, SO it is presumed he
borrowed the money for the pur-
pose Of purchasing the acid. Gou-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
THREE STOCKS ACTIVE

Business opened up this morning
with sales confined to Panhandle,
Snowstorm and Idaho Giant. The
entire list showed an absence of
anything interesting. Inquiries for
Furnace Valley continued, and AL
hambra stiffened up to 10 cents
bid. Kendall was in demand from
three Or four different localities and
bids of $1.55 failed to bring out
any stock.
The sale of Lucky Calumet de-
linQuent stock was postponed from
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

a national guardsman who had
loaned his automobile to the of.
ficers. The rioters lynched Vim.
Donegan, an aged negro, whose
only offense was that he had a
white wife, and burned dozens of
shacks inhabited by colored peo-
pie.
Gov Deneen rushed 1000 troops
to the scene before comparative
quiet was restored Meantime five
deaths had resulted, several at
tempts at lynching negroes had
been frustrated. and hundreds OF
thousands of dollars of property
damage had been done
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
GOOD FOR GOODYEAR

Democratic prospects look bright
down in Garfield county, the Co.'S
grove stronghold, according to
County Chairman ]. NJ McKiernan.
In letter to Thomas Maloney,
democratic congressional commit
teeman, he says that with Bryan
as the standard bearer there is an
excellent chance for the party this
year and that William Goodyear
has made good impression in his
county.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

Mrs. Mabel Hallam, the young
wife of streetcar conductor, was
the innocent cause OF the terrible
two days rioting in Springfield, H.,
when thousands of citizens, en-
ragged over the assault upon her
by negro, made frenzied attacks
on the entire negro population of
the Illinois capital.
The arrest OF George Richardson,
. young negro. was followed by an
attempt to lynch him, but the Of
ficers succeeded in spiriting him
away to Peoria. Then the disap-
pointed mob wrecked the res
taurant Of Major Harry 7. Lopez.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24
amend CONSTITUTION
TO EXCLUDE AS|AT|CS

DENVER, Aug. 24.-That the
fourteenth amendment of the U. S.
constitution should be repealed be-
cause it permits Chinese and Japa-
nese born in this country to attain
citizenship, is the gist of a speech
of Attorney General Webb, Cali
fornia, in closing the session yes
terday Of the National Association
of Attorney Generals.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

sand got the acid at F. r. Robert
sons drug store and gave the name
of Marin Prescott. The remains
are at Smiths undertaking rooms.
Relatives In Washtucna have been
notified.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

The young man bowed his head
before the older.
everything | have in the world
] owe to you" he said.
And 1t was fact. The speaker
was addressing the proprietor of
the installment house that furnish
ed his home
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

The autos that Pass in tho
Air" act of Barnum q Bailey's
went wrong at Everett and one q
the machines turned over on the
young woman occupant. It was ex-
pected that she was killed, but she
escaped with q broken arm.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

Speaking of conditions in Cali
fornia Webb said the federal gov
eminent had taken advantage of
the fourteenth amendment in the
treaty with Japan to force Japa-
nese into San Francisco schools
against law long established in
California. He declared that some
day the amendment would be re-
pealed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-24

Roy M. Gilpin, former assistant
treasurer of the Columbia theater,
has been promoted to the position
of treasurer of the Orpheum.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02
HUTTON.

The most ,sorrowful Christmas that
this little hamlet has spent in many
years has just been commemorated
here.
The grim Reaper Death for the fourth
time visited the home of Mrs. Bridget
Faherty, this time calling little Edward,
aged IA, to his long and eternal home.
Sorrows have weighed heavily on this
household. One grown daughter fol-
lowed another only few years apart to
the grave, then after an illness of more
than year came the call for the father.
Three months ago Captain Faherty, the
oldest son, lost foot while performing
his duties as a conductor on the B. & o.
K. R., near Grafton, and now when all
the world is joyous in the midst of its
holiday festivities, comes without warn
ing the tragic death of the bright-eyed,
rosy-cheeked, sunny dispositions Ed
ward.
Little Edward was the idol of his
mother the pet of the family-th
baby of the household, loved by his
neighbors and playmates alike. And
the peculiar circumstances connected
with his death seem to make it almost
unbearable alike for the sorrowing
mother and brothers and sisters.
All nature, both animal and vegeta-
bic, under our very eyes every day
teaches the lessons of the origin, growth,
development to full maturity and final
dissolution and death of everything
finite.
Man is born, followed by the years of
infancy, childhood, youth, manhood and
when the mission of life is fulfilled in
old age comes death and the grave as
natural:as the falling of the leaf or the
setting of the sun. But to be cut off
at the very dawn of usefulness and
manhood, in the full vigor and growth
of all the powers and capabilities which
manhood means, is abnormal and unnat-
ural and Gods ways are past finding
out.
Is there CLEAN of light in this night
of sorrow? Is there a silver lining to
this blacklist cloud? Only the lessons
of the hour. Such things teach the liv-
ing with vividness that seemingly the
most careless and Indifferent must heed
that 1.-The old must die and the young
may" Cannot we all stop in our mad
rush of feverish activities and weigh
the importlof that old maxim?
The immortality of the soul If the
greatest evidence of it is that it is not
half so wonderful that we should live
forever as it is that we live at all; the
second greatest proof grows out of just
such incidents as this.
The sorrowing mothers burdens
would be too great to bear and her
heart would break were it not for the
faith.in the life beyond the grave and
the companionship and enjoyment of
the loved ones who have gone before.
u. G. 2.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02
The Sherwood Triplets.

Mrs. Catherine Sherwood, at the age
of So, gave birth to triplets, who were
named, respectively, Franklin, Francis
and Frederick. They all became sea
captains and all lived to be more than
70 years old. 1t is related of the broth
ers that while in Charleston, S. c., they
all went into the same barber shop one
day to get shaved, one in the early
morning, one at noon and the other IN
the evening, and the barber said that
he never saw man whose beard grew
so rapidly as that mans did. -Balti-
more Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02
THE BEST REMEDY.

Modern discoverers have already fam
iliarized the public with the fact that
crime is variety of disease. The man
who burns his store to get insurance is
pyromaniac; he who sleeps himself in
Old Rye is a dipsomaniac: he who APP
propriates other peoples property is a
kleptomaniac. With the discovery of
all these new Affections and sonorous
technical names for them have come, on
the one hand, appeals for unusual mercy
from the sufferers and hard search for
sure curesl by the physicians. Juries
and judges, too, have been tempted to
waive the usual legal and ethical con-
sderations in dealing with these unfor-
Inmates; but of late there has set in a
reaction against this practice on account
of the alarming increase in the new dis
eases. The suspicion has arisen that
doctors have found no cure for them,
and that until they have done so the
old-fashioned unscientifc treatment
must be continued. Again. some jur-
lists are advancing the theory that drugs,
lancets and sanatoriums are not neces-
sarily the.proper cures for everything
called disease. Lord Bramwell, an en-
inent English Judge, expounded this
view when in reply to barrister urg-
ing that this client was not common
thief, ibut suffered from ,kleptomania,
he softly answered: That is the dis
ease am here to cure.
The conceptions of the law of branch
of therapeutics has found favor among
American jurymen, we rejoice to say.
This very week jury in st. Louis I'M
dertook to cure.a once prominent Tam
many politician of partial amnesia by
convicting him of perjury, for which he
was thereupon sentenced to two years
in prison. TheIconvictediman averred,
according to reports, that he had COM
pletelyl forgottens all about bride
which he was alleged to have offered
to members of the House of Delegates.
and his attorney sought to show that
this was truel pathological case of
amnesia bylproving that the defendants
cerebral machinery had been thrown
slightly out of gear.-one day as he tum-
bfed downstairs. The action of the jury
men cannot be construed as an indicat-
ing skepticism; they simply expressed
in their verdict the belief that the
spread of amnesia can be most effectual-
ly checked by quarantining all persons
infected with the bacillus amnesia
(vulgarly called the Ananias bug).
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02

inevitable. There are some things con-
corning which controversy cannot be
maintained.
The anti-Christmas agitation was in
fact directed against an essential and
integral part OF the intellectual and
social furniture of civilization. Christ
mas has become classic, of universal
adoption. 1t belongs to no one land
and to no one faith. 1t has become all
things toGall men. Each regards it
froml<his own individual and peculiar
point of view. and each celebrates it in
his own especial way; but few. indeed,
are they who would ignore it alto
gether
To some its significance is profoundly
spiritual, to others it is dogmatic, to
stiLi.others it is purely secular. Some
regard it from the1scientifcally histori-
cal point of view, and others from that
of legend and folklore. To some minds
it presents pictures of Judean plains
andsthe little City of David, and to
others panorama of Norwegian pine
forests and English holly. To many it
is supremacy day of domestic joys; to
others it is aitime of social festivities.
There is no day in all the calendar which
appeals more strongly to the devout
Christian believer, nor any which is re-
gardedswith more interest by the pure
ly ethicall philosopher. 1t is one of the
greatest Ecclesiastical festivals of the
Church of Rome, and it is observed and
loved withipeculiar fervor by Protestant
millions to whom its name-Christ's
Mass-is anathema.
Each in: his own way, and each ac-
cordingssto his own conception of its
significance .and realization of his own
needs. But at least all, however,
various, may have this in common, that
it is day of peace on earth to men
of gentle will" To that conception OF
the day, and to an earnest effort so far
as in US lies to make it practically
realized, no man can offer objection.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02

pile OF slate, take the magnetic diree-
ton and chain the distance. The en-
gineers penetrated many miles into the
old workings and found coal to exist IL
abundance never touched by the invad-
ers of half century ago. After the
map had been made projections were
mapped out on the plot and the mines
were again opened.
After clearing out the main heading
1t was turned so that it would be driven
straight across the rooms, therefore
making it possible to remove lust as
much coal as debris had to be removed.
These headings and butt headings were
thus driven clear to the property lines.
linen the work was started back.
Headings We're driven at right angles
across the blocks of solid coal, timber
ing was brought into play and pillars
were drawn according to the modern
way of mining.
The work is still continuing and the
people who dared undertake the lob are
growing rich. This is due to the fine
quality of coal, the nearness to tide
water, with differential of ten cents a
ton on freight rates, and the scarcity of
any coal so near to the Atlantic sea-
board. The coal which is now being
removed is the closest to the Baltimore
market of any coal in the United
States"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.

A happy new year to you, child of to-
cay! May you know more of sunshine
than of cloud, and more of glee than of
sorrow; may your tumbles and bumps
be few, your laughter be frequent and
long, your play be unrestrained, your
sleep refreshing, your dreams pleasant.
A happy new year to you, bright
youth and rosy checked maiden of our
CITY and country-all happiness in the
ambition, the JOY, the friendship, the
competitions and the rewards of school
life. Success to you in the endeavor
whereby the firm, enduring basis of
true manhood and of noble womanhood
are laid; with what success comes two
fold happiness-happiness to others and
happiness to yourselves. Go forth gaily
and confidently into the new year, o,
you who are beautiful in the fresh
vigor of your youth!
To you, whose lives are hallOwed with
the grace of maternity. not one but
many, many years of happiness! Live
long, wives and mothers of this land, to
see the lives you have cherished expand
into beauty and usefulness; live long to
know and feel the sweet rewards of
gratitude, of veneration and of loye.
Survive those hours of pain, of cruelty
fwatchingand of ce-livethrough
it all, dear, patient martyrs, to share
the peace, the repose, the contentment,
the compensations of the future, that
surely wait for such as you.
A happy new year, too, to you,
grandmothers and grandfathers every
where! Look out upon all around you
and see how passing fair the evening
is; and all that is to be heard invites
contentment and repose You hear
voices, too. that we do not hear they
have never been quite forgotten, and
they speak to you in the sweetly solemn
twilight'of the morning that followeth
the evening" and of the waking that
cometh after the folding of the hands
to sleep.
Yes, to all the young, the old, the
high, the Iowa happy New Year, a
happiness arising from and tempered
with wisdom, faith, hope and charity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-01-02
CHRISTMAS AS A CLASSIC.

OF the recent hot dispute over certain
phases Of Christmas observances it
might perhaps be said that nothing be-
came it so much as its ending. At any
rate, nothing about it was more remark
able than the suddenness and complete
ness with which it vanished. A few
days ago the question of a Christian or
Chrisless Christmas seemed to shadow
all the world. Now none is so interest
ed as to write letter to the editor up
on the subject. Such.an ending is note
worthy, but it is by no means surpris-
ing. We might rather say it was