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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
WOUNDED WIFE
IS DEAD

Mrs. Mark McClammy, whose
husband shot her Sunday afternoon
at the Pedicord hotel and after
ward blew out his own brains, died
about 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon. Before she passed away her
6 year old daughter and 8 year old
son were brought to her. They
are now under the care of Matron
Tanner of the Salvation Army res
cue home and will he turned over
to @. P. McClammy, the dead mans
brother, who is expected to arrive
from Montana this afternoon. The
$500 by Mrs. McClammy and $3.50
by Mr.. McClammy will also be
turned over to him. 1t is expected
that the estate, which consists of a
house and lot and personal effects
in Occur d'Alene, will be probated
in Idaho. Mrs. McClammy asked
that what was left of her money
be used for the children.
Mrs. McClammy's wish before
she died was that she and her hus-
band be given separate funerals
and burials. 1t is announced at
Buchanan's undertaking parlors,
where the bodies are laid out, that
these desires will be complied with.
No funeral arrangements will be
made until the arrival of Nc
Clammy.
Nothing is known of the dead
WOman's relatives.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
GRAVES PEOPLE SLOW
TO PAY ON FRANCHISES

The statement also revealed the
fact that a so year franchise grant
ed to the Consumers Light & Fuel
Co. has. no owner. 1t was granted
to the company and no individual
was named. Among the provisions
is one which agrees that each year
after. it is in operation $4,000 must
be paid to- the city and after 1920,
$4,000 a. year.
The comptroller has not been
able to locate an owner Of the
franchise and it is presumed that
the concern never undertook to do
business.
The Interstate Telephone Co.,
which operates farmers lines ra-
dating from this city, is in arrears
since 1905 to an amount Of $50 a
year, which would total 5000. Steps
to force a payment are under con-
sideration.
1t is not generally known, bat
the Interstate Fair association
owns a street railway franchise on
Sprague av. from Napa st. to the
grounds, and by the provisions OF
it should pay the city $50 a year
from 1902. No payment has ever
been made and there is now due
$3.50. The fair association was
given the franchise July %, 1904
This line is now operated by the
Washington Water Power Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
BOURNE WILL BET $4,000
ON ROOSEVELTS CHANCES

about every boy who gets on the
walk with wheel is promptly ar
rested, while men are constantly
breaking the rule on the Northside
and none of them is ever bothered.
The other evening a man with
whiskers Haunting forth over his
shoulders like banner made ev-
erybody get out of the way ON
Monroe from Mallon to Boon, and
men can be seen spinning along
the walks farther out early any
morning.
Apparently that sidewalk law is
meant only for kids. or course
there can be no policeman who
wouldn't tackle a man just as soon
as a small boy, who Is probably
lodging broken section of path in
his efforts to make living carry
ing messages or running errands.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

That kerosene sold by the STAN
dard Oil Co. to Boothe Nc Clintock
Co. in February of last year was
adulterated with benzine, gasoline,
naptha and other dangerous sub
stances, is the charge contained in
a complaint in an action for DAM
ages filed this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Allison ask
damages in the amount of $27,350
for burns and other injuries re-
ceived from the explosion of oil
which was put into hanging
lamp. Mrs. Allison was confined
to her bed for 10 weeks on account
of her burns.
The kerosene was bought from
the Exchange grocery, that had OBJ
tanned it from the wholesale firm.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

Some trouble is being expert
enced by Comptroller Farley with
the Graves street railway people
who have failed to submit a re-
port of their car mileage and to
pay pro rata to the city as agreed
when the franchises for the various
lines were granted. The sum to be
paid is 2 mills for each car mile.
Just what the sum will amount to
is unknown.
Some time ago the Traction Of
ficers promised to have a state
ment ready by. the first of the year
but have failed to turn it in. Lately
the excuse was made that the fig
ures were being subjected to COM
parison to insure accuracy.
The Washington Water Power
has paid up and the sum is only
$509.14, very cheap for the million
dollar franchise granted. For the
lighting plant $4,000 a year is paid,
and this was also recently turned
in.
Several months ago, at Mayor
MOores request, the comptroller
prepared a list of the franchises
existing and the amounts they
were paying or owed the city. 1t
was this statement which revealed
the fact that the Traction people
are one year in arrears.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

They have asked me to write
down what it feels like to be out of
job and cold and hungry. They
said they would pay me for 1t II l
would tell just how | feel, and that
they would let me stay in the warm
Office while l wrote 1t. They said
they would print it just as l wrote
it, and heard one man tell another
one that it would be great hui.
man document.
"a great human document"
Good God! l guess 1t is! But I
think they meant to be kind. Any
way, shall write as slowly as l
can, because it is cold out there In
the street
l am an educated man. l went to
college, never mind where. The
college didn't do very much for me,
and l guess it wouldn't think was
doing very much for it II men,
toned it's name in the story of
bum. am a bum. 1t took me a
long time to realize it. Pm down
and out. I've done things that were
wrong. At least, the police said SO.
When mans hungry, he don't
think much about right and wrong.
He thinks about his stomach.
When his trousers are frayed at
the bottom and his shoes let the
snow in and he wears the same
shirt for six weeks and the police
hound him, and he rides the blind
baggage and the brakeman kicks
him and curses him and the people
on the street won't stop and the
SNUG charities tell him to come
back next week and there's no
work and no friends and you're
lonely and hungry and cold and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
SPEAKERS NAMED
FOR DEMOCRATIC
BLOWOUT FRIDAY

The arrangements committee for
the democratic mass meeting to be
held in Elks temple Friday night
has completed a program of
speakers which includes William
Goodyear, Colfax candidate for
congress; w. G. Jones. better
known to fame as wheat Chart" /;
]. A. Roche, who has offended the
blue blood section OF the legal pro-
fession by ascending from barber
shop; Del Carey Smith, whose
presence will make it resemble an
Eagles convention, and e. 0. Con-
nor. the only congressional posi-
bility, or other elective possibility
for that matter, who has not rush
ed madly into print with willing
ness to serve his country.
Another committee is busy with
feature specialties having to do
with brass bands and other means
of stirring up the blood of the
warehouses;.
The younger democrats. who
have elected to flock in an organi-
zation by themselves. are prom
inent in abetting tho mass meeting,
Bruce Blake being one of those
deeply implicated in forming the
conspiracy. Mr.. Conner is presi-
dent of the young democratic club.
Mr.. Goodyear is expected to out
line himself to considerable extent
as a candidate for congress from
this district. What sort of race
he will make is yet an uncertainty.
Goodyear has the misfortune to be
an editor and is subject to all the
suspicion that attaches to a news
paperman in politics.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
FELL UNDER
WHEELS

A switchman named Mccormick,
employed by the Great Northern,
slipped under the wheels of
freight train at the intersection of
the tracks and howard st. at lao
o'clock this afternoon and one OF
his legs was cut off near the knee.
He was taken to Sacred Heart hos
pital in the patrol wagon. DR.. Roark
and Nurse Woodruff, of the emer-
gency hospital, accompanied the
patrol wagon. The injured man
was take nat once to the operating
room. There were no eye witness
es to the accident. McCormick's
agonized cries attracted the engi-
neer. who stopped the train imme-
diately.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
SPOKANE AGENT
FOR G. N. NAMED
AS A REeATER

Under the ruling of the U. S. su-
preme court yesterday in uphold
ing the Elkins act the Great North
ern Is compelled to pay total fine
of $4,000 for rebating. Among the
individual officials indicted is D. G.
Black, general agent of the COM
pany in Spokane. The charge
brought was that the company,
through it's agents, had granted re-
bates on oats and corn shipped by
the Devereaux company from Min
neapolis to Washington state
points. The company defended the
rebates on the theory that the FL
kins law had been repealed by the
Hepburn act, which last made a
provision for punishment as i'm
prisonment The Elkins law, un-
der which the Great Northern was
prosecuted, fixes only fines, and the
railroad attorneys depended on the
plea that the case had been prose
cuted under a law that had been
displaced by a new one. The SUI
preme court held the contrary view
and what the supreme court hap.
pens to think about stands.
AS the company pays all the ex-
pense and there is no danger of i'm
prisonment, Mr.. Black is naturally
not worrying. He says he has not
given the matter enough attention
to talk about it.
The great feature of the deck
sion, however, is that it shuts the
Standard Oils main loophOle for
escaping the $29,000,000 fine i'm
posed under the same law by Judge
Lands.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
POSTPONE Meeting

The second meeting of the
Young Mems Democratic club of
Spokane. set for Thursday night,
has been postponed until one week
from Thursday, or March 5. 1t will
be held in the chamber of COM
merce assembly on that date and
there will be reports OF committees
on membership, organization and
other things OF interest and i'm
portance.
Postponement was taken on ac-
count of the democratic mass meet
ing Friday night, the object being
to avoid an overdose of democratic
doctrine so early in the campaign.
The matter of selecting an execu-
tive and an executive committee is
yet to be attended to.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
PARENTLY REGARDED AS
SUFFICIENT REASON FOR
UNCLE SAM TO TAKE STERN
MEASURES.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 25.-
In a special dispatch Walter Well
man declares the United States
will issue a formal protest to Japan
in relation to the latter govern
ment's attitude in Manchuria with
In a few weeks.
Americas attitude will be re-
garded as sensational in govern
mental circles all over the world,
but 1t is logical in view of Ameri-
can policy since the famous circu-
lar note sent out by Secretary of
State Hay in 1899, in which the
United States took the leadership
among nations to preserve the
entity of China.
Recently the Chinese govern
ment has made representations to
the federal government in relation
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
DROPPED LADDER ON
GIRLS HEAD AS she
SAT IN SCH0OLROOM

d. II. Caswell, guardian of Bes-
sic Caswell, brought suit for $l0,-
900 damages against the Spokane
Falls Gas Light 60. this morning.
1t Is stated in the complain that on
Oct. "a, while Bessie was sitting at
her desk in Blair Business college,
a gas employee carelessly allowed a
ladder TO fall ard strike her upon
the head. from which injuries she
has not yet recovered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
TWICE HELD Up
SAYS CASEY
FINDS MAN WHO ROBBED HIM
RELEASED IN FEW DAYS
AND MONEY TAKEN FROM
THE PRISONER GONE WITH
HIM.

J. Casey, an employee of WEIGH
& Co., at Cheney, has had an ex-
perience in Spokane that leads
him to believe he was twice held
up-once by a genuine thief and
again by the police department. He
also ran into an operation of the
prosecuting attorneys office that
he is unable to understand.
On Christmas night he was held
up at the corner of Howard and
Front av., just across the street
from the police department and
robbed of 1895. Officers Lister and
Ross in about three minutes nabbed
man whose name sounded like
Bennett and found Casey's money
on him.
The next day the case was call
ed up for preliminary and set for
future date as Bennett needed
an interpreter. Casey says Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney Webster told
him to go back to Cheney to work
and he would be notified when
wanted. Casey never heard any
thing more Of the case and last
night he came to town.
This morning he saw Chief Rice
and in digging over the records 1t
was discovered that Bennett had
been given 30 days for vagrancy
and released Jan. because he had
no shoes to wear for chain gang
service. Caseys money was gone
and the suppositio1 given Casey
was that Bennett got it. Chief
Rice didn't see what more could
be done about the matter.
Apparently there is nothing more
to do about it. Casey is a work
ingman with no means to make
trouble for anybody.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

Another ignores you as he would a
cur. one may say he's sorry, and
the rest shake their heads, impa-
tientlyl You hear one man say to
another one, II never give to beg
gars. TThey only want it to buy
whiskey with"
It's 4 lie! That man was a liar,
and hi knows it. He was little,
mean lselfish, stingy soul. He didn't
want TO give. He was too selfish
to care. 1t wasn't anything to him
that another man was cold and
starving. He wanted to forget it.
He considered himself affronted be-
cause you dared to ask him, and
to salve his own dirty little con-
science he said "He wants to it
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. u.s.
U. S. Sen. Bourne, of Oregon. has
a sporting proposition to make. Il
will bet $4,000 that Roosevelt is
nominated by the Chicago conven-
tion," he said to Elkins, of West
Virginia, when the two met at the
White House.
"Your wrong" replied Elkins.
"Well." said Bourne, "heres my
money" and he reached for his
pocketbook.
"I'll not bet" said Elkins, "but
If thought that you had that much
money with you I'd throw you
down and take 1t away from you"
No bet was made, but Bourne is
still looking for taker,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

broke and you walk along and look
through the windows into. warm
rooms and know that there isn't
anybody in the world who gives a
damn-you don't care such hell
Of lot about right and wrong, do
you? l dare you to say you would!
don't. l want to live. It's a fool
thing to want, but l want it. II it
wasn't for that I could lie down in
front of fast train
Last Sunday went to church. It
was a fine church. They let me sit
in one Of the back pews. The min.
lister preached about love and char
ity. l tried to speak to him after
church, but he was too busy. Then
I asked the sexton to let me stay in
the church. l was cold. l wouldn't
have stolen anything. But he turn
ed me out.
A man has just come and said
was not writing what they wanted.
He wants me to write how l feel.
Sometimes feel like a MUIR
derer.
/ told him I would not write how
I feel. Even If they pay me, they
haven't any right to make me say
things that will do harm.
But there's one thing l will say:
Put yourself in my place. Never
mind whose fault it is that you are
a bum and beggar It's night, say,
and showing, and the wind is bit
ing into you. There are hundreds
of people going by, thinking of
and their own comfort
and their own warmth and their
own bellies. Try to speak to one
of them, Excuse me, sir, but
could your" One pays no attention.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
FULTON SETS UP
The SALMON

WASHINGTON. d. c., Feb. Is
The wheels OF the governmental
machine as far as the senate was
concerned stopped for 30 minutes
today while the senate and press
representatives consumed a dinner
of royal Chinook salmon, cooked in
the senate restaurant on order OF
Sen. Fulton. When the Oregon
senator extended an invitation all
left the senate but three, one OF
whom was Sen. Clapp, whose In
dian bill was under consideration.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

buy whisky with"
No; l haven't any quarrel against
the world as a world. 1t may be
it's my own fault that l am what
am. l have only an accusation
aaginst it's hypocrisy. If men are
brothers, it's the beggar who knows
which are the Gains
The next time one of my sort
speaks to you, think. Hold your
soul up in front of you and look at
it. If you want to say to him, mo,
dog!" say it, and he will think
more of you than if you hide your
inhuman selfishness behind the
cloak to the hypocrite and say: II
never give to beggars. They only
want it to buy whisky with"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
ANOTHER ORIENTAL
SCHOOL KID SCRAP
ON IN CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25.-The
Japanese school question has again
been raised about the bay. School
trustees of Sausilito have adopted
resolutions which will bar all
Orientals from the schools of that
town. AS first result of this ac-
ton, Lung Hi Che, Korean, has
been compelled to leave.
Today Cho, with a number of Ja-
panese and an attorney, will visit
the school and make demand for
the readmittance of Che.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
GETTING CUSHMAN JURY

Judge Huneke this morning post
poned arguments in a motion for
a trial for Howard Craig, con-
victed of statutory offense against
Anna Thompson, aged 16, until this
afternoon.
Selection of jury for the trial
of M. b. Cushman, Craig's alleged
l&tner in the crime, was begun
tliis morning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
NOTED GENERALS
IT THIS DEAL

An action in which title to prop.
erty at one time owned by Gems.
Sheridan and Forsyth and Mar
shall Field, of Chicago, Is assailed,
was filed in the superior court this
morning by Edward II, Morrison of
this city against the Merchants
Loan IL Trust Co., of Chicago.
In 1883 Marshall Field adyWced
the two generals and Nc pson
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
DIGS INTO NAVAL
SCANDAL

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 25.-
Representative Lilley, of Connecu-
cut, today filed with the house COM
mittee on rules a brief setting forth
charges that the Electric Boat Co.
had exerted improper influence in
the matter Of submarine boat le-
gislation before the house commit
tee on naval affairs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
1HAW HAS LITTLE
PROSPECT OF EVER
LEAVING ASYLUM

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Stories
emanating from Matteawan asylum
state that only miracle will save
Thaw from remaining the rest OF
his days In the asylum. Alienists
who have examined him state he is
a victim of paranoia of the progress
sive variety. The state board may
report on him within 10 days, but
Is not obliged to.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
BOY KING
HELPLESS

LONDON, Feb. 25.-Dispatches
from Lisbon indicate that virtual
reign of terror still exists In the
Portuguese capital, where the duke
of Oporto is to all purposes dicta-
tor. 1t is said that the queen moth
er is preparing to remove to Spain
and that the young king tacitly adj
mits his inability to rule under the
present regime.
Arrests are being made by scores
and no record is kept Of them.
Many houses have been searched
and their occupants imprisoned.
All signs point to an outbreak
within q few days.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
ROCKEFELLER DOPE BAD
AS THE PETT|BONE DOPE

murdered and robbed and that her
body, with an empty purse and
bank book, were thrown In the bay
in hopes the crime would be con-
cealed.
Murphy declares that his sister
had about $500 in her possession,
as she was about to make a trip to
Stockton. The body was discov-
cred by two boys. About the head
was fastened a heavy shirt and
cloth.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

$4,000 to purchase about $4,000
acres of land which is located near
the present township Of Plaza.
Finally Marshall Field was made
trustee of the property, but at his
death no other trustee was named.
Morrison desires to have the
court appoint new trustee so that
the property may be sold off under
clear title.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
NAVAL CRITIC MUZzLED

CALLAO, Peru, Feb. 2a-Heury
Reuterdahl, marine artist now with
the fleet. whose article on the
weakness of the American navy
created such comment, will not
make any reply to critics as long
as he is with the fleet. Upon his
arrival home he will say what he
has 10 say.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
FOR
EXCLUSION

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb. 25.-.
Unmindful of the presidents oppo-
sition to his proposed Japanese ex-
clusion law. Representative Hayes,
of California, appeared before the
committee on foreign affairs today
and addressed the committee on
the subject.
The Californian declared the en-
tire Pacific coast is in favor of such
action.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
TRYING To KICK Up WAR
WITH JAPS OVER CHINA

to the behavior Of Japan in Man
churia. Stipulations of the Ports
mouth treaty in relation to Man
churia have been grossly violated
by Japanese usurpation of munich
pal government in many cities of a
large armed force, which has great
ly incensed the Chinese.
The latter will hold conference
Of governors of three Manchurian
provinces in Mukden next week to
devise plans of repelling the ia
panese and to prevent further ag-
gressions.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
AlLLYARD PAIR DIVORCED

Judge Poindexter this morning
granted a divorce to Tillie l.. Wal
tiers from Ed Walters on charge
of cruelty, threats to kill and
drunkenness, They married in this
city June 8, 1899. and own prop.
erty in Hilyard, the title to which
was given to the wife,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

In an alteration at the Spokane
hotel this afternoon l.. b. Lee was
cut about the head and right hand
by AL Fall, the cook, who welded
a meat saw. Lee is iceman at the
hotel and he and Falli got into an
argument because Lee had failed
to keep the refrigerator filled, Lees
wounds We're patched up at the
emergency hospital.
Patrolman Downey arrested the
cook, who was released on 800
bond. He is charged with assault
with a deadly weapon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
CATCH BOYS BUT
CAN'T SEE MEN

A messenger boy was before the
police court this afternoon on
charge of riding his bicycle on the
sidewalk on Mallon av. He Is near
sighted and Is said to have en-
croached upon the walk for only a
few feet.
1t is a marvel OF mystery that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
EXCURSION
4 WRECKED

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb, 25.--
A dispatch from Laredo says that
the Gates excursion party's special
train OF nine sleepers, carrying 70
passengers, has been derailed at
Orrville, 20 miles from laredo
Thirty of the passengers are re-
ported injured, to what extent is
not known. Many aboard are from
Ohio.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25
HENEY AND Ian GD0N
COME BACK At RUFF

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25.-The
expected affidavits from Heney
and Langdon in reply to those fled
by Abe Ruef recently in the graft
case were not filed today. They
will be produced Friday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-25

Editors NoeThe following remarkable arteFrom the gut
ter the fellow called twas written
wandere who into the ONCE and allowed
write something for the price of meal had found
him sitting half asleep stairway miseraby
y hungry willing mentioned that
his time he had written little The editor
told him to write how felt to be out Of Job and
is here printed, without the change
caption ine-Editor)