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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-30

A choice collection of the pref
test hats in the city. AT least
a couple of hundred to choose
from.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-30

ton, her first in so years. In all
that time she has never missed a
night in the lighthouse She is
suffering from nervousness and loss
of sleep.
At SIS she is the only woman
lighthouse keeper on Uncle Sam s
pay roll. Last fall she received
from the American Cross of Honor
society at Washington it's cross OF
honor and life membership. Since
then she has been awarded pen
sion from the Carnegie hero fund
for saving Is lives.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-30
Lighthouse Heroine

Special Correspondence to The Press
NEWPORT, r. l., March 30
Mrs. Ida Lewis, keeper Of the Lime
Rock lighthouse in Newport harbor,
Is preparing to take brief vaca-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-30

ing the lamp upon the floor. jump
ing up and cracking his heels to-
gether. Wilbur says there was an
argument and Cannon went into
another room, got gun and fired
twice at him. The bullets went
wild.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18

Do your Christmas shopping ear
and in the morning and aid the mer
chant and his clerks.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18
Napoleon Bank ASSIGNS.

Napoleon, o., Dec. 17.-Men cried
and women tainted in the streets of
Napoleon when they found a notice
of assignment posted on the doors of
the Citizens State bank. Dramatic
scenes were enacted as the streets
rapidly filed with residents of the
town and farmers drove in to draw
money with which to pay their taxes.
d. D. Donovan was named assignee.
President Miller Of the bank is now
confined in a hospital in Minnesota
town. Excessive loans to the Ohio
German Fire Insurance company is
assigned as the cause Of the banks
failure.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18
DISCUSSES PENAL LAWS
House Adopts Amendment to Bar In.
toxIcants From Mails.


Washington, Dec. 17.-Another step
toward amending the rules Of the
house was taken when the various
elements Of the house opposed to the
present code held a mass meeting
The report Of the committee appoint
ed at the meeting Of insurgents
last week was submitted, although
the committee had had a most diff
cult time In reaching an agreement.
Colonel Hepburn of Iowa, chairman
of the committee, informed the gath
ering, which was much smaller than
that of last week, that the committee
had decided that some change in the
method Of selecting committees In
the house was desirable. He said
that the committee also had agreed
that the rules should be changed SO
that one day each week would be
set aside for the call of the commit
tees, and that the day should be
given over exclusively for that pur
pose.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18

"Three years ago / was marked for
leath. A graveyard cough was
tearing my lungs to pieces. Doctors
lied to help me, and hope had fed,
hen my husband got DIR. Kings New
liscovery," says Mrs. A. c. Will
inns, Of Bac, XIV. 'The first dose
elped me and Improvement kept on
atil l had gained So pounds in
light and my health was fully re-
rored." This medicine holds the
sorlds healing record for coughs
d colds and lung and throat dis
ses. 1t prevents pneumonia. Sold
nder guarantee at Phillips Drug
tore. SOC and $1.00. Trial bottle
iree.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18
CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS

are usually generous. If you are
thinking of some one in poor cir
cumstances let us suggest that you
order us to deliver at that ones
door ton of our first class coal.
Let others supply the turkey and
good things to eat. Show that you
are practical in your giving by
having us send the coal with which
to cook them. Feed your hens
purina and get eggs.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18
Makes Refusal Emphatic.

Washington, Dec. IL. = President
Roosevelt emphatically told a dele
cation Of West Virginia congressman
and friends that they were wasting
time" to recommend to him the
name of the brother of Judge Peter
Grosscup to be collector of internal
revenue.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18
You Cannot Answer These Questions!

4-Why have a dry, dismal
looking yard when you can have
it filed with green grass and
blooming flowers, and can at the
same time get rid of the dust in
the street,
5-Why suffer other incon-
veniences when you can have
everything for the comfort and
health of your family right in
the housed
els it not true that the an
swer is not slack of money" but
lack OF economy and enterprise
and Indifference to getting the
most out of lief
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-18

Why do you continue
bathing your knees and elbows
one at a time, when you can
stretch out in a full bath tenn
pered to suit you, and can do so
every morning if you wish9
2-Why pump and carry wat
er for your kitchen and laun-
dry work when you can have it
at hand for the turning of
faucet?
3-Why take chances on
drinking germ-filled cistern wat
er when you can get it from
large reservoir filtered through
the best filter plant South of the
Ohio River?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23

One view which is generally held
is that Mr.. Hartman 8 main object
in Saving Erie" was to prevent a
receivership which might hurt his
credit at home and abroad and in
terfere with his projected Hotation
of $50,000,00O new Union Pacific
bonds, $30,000,00O new Illinois Cen.
trail stock, $5O,OO0,000 Delaware &
Hudson bonds, besides new issues
in connection with Georgia Central
and some of his Pacific coast prop
critics.
OF one thing there seems to be
little question and that is that
Erie is very much over-capitalized
entirely iisproportionately to
it's mileage and earnings. and en-
/ tirely out of proportion also to the
capitalization ad earnings of New
York Central and Pennsylvania
The latter two systems with their
hundreds of millions of dollars in
annual earnings and with the
equipments of hundreds Of thou.
sands of cars are not capitalized at
very much more than Erie, which
according to the last annual bal
ance sheet had liabilities aggregat-
ing SABA 100000 with gross earn
ings of $53,0OO,00O.
At the same time great credit
must be given the present man
agement Of Erie for splendid work
actually done for the physical re-
construction of the prOperty. Since
1895 the gross earnings Of the
road have increased from $25 1000.
900 to $53.000,000 and the net from
81 100000 to more than $16,000.O00
1t is operating 3E34 miles Of road
at an expense Of about $4,000, 900
"a percentage, by the way, which
is very high in comparison with
that Of most roads. From the be-
ginning of the trusteeship in 1895
to the end of June of last year
there had been expended on i'm
provements and additions, charge
able to capital account, $12.732,00
besides $50, 100000 for equipment.
During the last 10 months at least
$10,000,000 more has been ex-
pended and the work now under
way will call for probably $15,000,-
900 additional. Under President
Underwood direction the work of
physical reconstruction has pro-
crossed as rapidly as money could
be provided to do it with, and ev-
cry dollar of outlay has been for a
specific end and purpose.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
NEW GONZAZA CAPTAIN

At a meeting of the ball players
of Gonazaga college last night Tom
Finnegan's resignation from the
captaincy was accepted and Ira
Kelly elected. Kelly is one of the
fastest ball players at the college.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23

regrets over their moderation in
those wild old days.
The reconstruction plan did not
60 through as originally designed
by Mr.. Morgan. The change was
due to the interference of e. H.
Hartman, then an unknown guam.
tity in Wall st. Mr. Morgan un-
dertook to ride rough shod over
Mr.. Hartman, but after several
months Of delay was forced to
meet the latter's demands and
give the classes of securities repre-
scented by him larger share of
the ne wstocks and bonds. That
was the first clash between Morgan
and Hartman. The second time
they came together was over the
possession of Northern Pacific, a
battle which led up to the famous
May corner of 1901. The third
encounter was when Mr.. Hartman
forced Mr.. Morgan to take back, at
a big loss, the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton & Dayton and the Pere Mar
quette systems, which he had un-
loaded on Erie.
The latest, but possibly not the
last time, was just the other day,
when Mr.. Hartman came to the
"rescue" of Erie and pulled it back
from receivership to which fate
Mr.. Morgan and his associates
seemed quite willing to let it go.
BY this action Mr.. Hartman put
the Morgan house in the humiliat-
ing position of seeming to have let
him help 1t out. The move enraged
the Morgan combination more than
anything that Hartman had ever
done before in his whole life. The
Morgan establishment probably has
dollars to Hartman dimes. It's
attitude of Indifference toward
Erie in its crisis was not due to a
lack of ability to finance the road
across the gap, but to some other
and entirely different motive-just
what nobody is prepared to say
authoritatively. The street has
jumped to the conclusion that the
background purpose of the Morgan
combination was to put the COM
pany through another reorganiza-
ton. and by scaling down the cap
italization, put it In a position
where it might pay its way and ul-
timately earn dividends.
Whether or not the Hartman
move will compel the adoption of
a different program Is one of the
uncertainties over which Wall st.
is devoting considerable attention.
and which it does not pretend to
be able to judge with positiveness.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
BEST KIND OF SOIL.

1t is not black cold and frosty
deep volcanic free nom rock or waste
every foot uae!s TBS aa8 ssa pssy with tie ss0spti
several tracts where hne pIs have left those
who prefer shade Considerable has been
wheat and potatoes. producing large yields both
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
BY w. q, NICHOLAS


L, In my first article on so years of
''Erie" I told Of the operations of
the old school of kings of finance.
IA decade OF comparative quiet had
soothed the poor old road, when in
1884 interests focusing in J. Pier
pont Morgan became important
enough to practically dominate it.
About the only change the Nor
gan control had was to plunge the
road into a harder struggle than
ever for existence. 1t could never
! meet on even terms the crushing
competition of New York Central
on the north and Pennsylvania on
the south, the one directed by the
F., indomitable Commodore Cornelius
! Vanderbilt and the other by the
equally masterful Colonel tom"
Scott. Between them Erie was
kept ground to earth physically,
and during most of the time the
people who had the running of Erie
had no other use for 1t except to
make 1t football in Wall st.
BY 1893 such a mountain of debt
had been loaded on Erie that it
again went into bankruptcy, al
though not until it had distin-
guished itself by declaring and pay
ing a dividend, the first in its his
tory. Needless to say, the dividend
had not been earned, and within a
few months thereafter the presi-
dent Of the corporation was ex-
planning how 1t was the company
could not raise money to pay oper-
ating expenses.
Two years later, in 1895. Mr..
Morgan undertook the rehabilita-
ton Of Fries finances. process in
volving remarkable readjuSt-
ment of capitalization and trans
fer of the property from receiver
ship into the hands of trustees
named by him for a period of five
years. At the expiration of the
newed for another five years term.
When Or" Morgan took the case
of Erie in hand it had capitaliza-
tion of $164 100000. of which $751;
100000 was common stock, $S,500,-
600 preferred and $7S,000,000 bonds
(only round figures are given.)
When the trustees got it Erie had
a bonded debt of 5000 1874 900, ami
a capital of $176,271.000 divided
into $47,S92,000 first preferred.
$16000,000 second preferred and
$112.379, 900 common. a grand total
of $3S6,000, 000-figures that would
have made Drew, Fisk and Gould
turn over in their graves and groan
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
LADIES' DAY WITH
The QUINN OUTFIT

Today is ladies' day at the ball
park, If it doesn't rain. There was
no game yesterday on account OF
the wet. Gelaski is slated to do
the twirling for Quinn's outfit to-
day.
Northwest games yesterday re-
suited as follows:
At Seattle-McClaire, pitcher for
Butte, was wild as hare and
couldn't find the plate when he
needed it, Seattle won s to 4.
At Tacoma-The strong Van
couver team was handled without
gloves by Franklin, who only al
lowed four hits, and his team won
5 to 0.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
NATIONAL LEAGUE

st. Louis 1, Pittsburg 5; Phila-
delphia 7, Boston 1; Cincinnati 8,
Chicago Z; Brooklyn 2. New
York z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23

within five-mile circle from
business center. One. mile
southwest OF city limits. Lies
high. level, In fine neighbour
hood.
Plenty Of pure water.
fresh air. sunshine and COOL
drainage.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
HElNlE WILL BATTLE
ALONE FOR SPOKANE

Little Heinie Ritter is the only
athlete who will represent Spokane
at the championship events at
Portland tonight. tomorrow and
Saturday. Ritter has entered in
the los and Is 5pound boxing class
es. About so athletes from Seat
tie, Portland, Frisco and other
cities participate. Frank Kann,
wrestler, and Fred Creel, boxer,
who were to represent this city. re-
fused to go at the last minute,
Creel because he didn't want to
for nothing and Kann because he
is sick.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
COAST LEAGUE.

Portland 4, Oakland 4; game call
ed at enc of eighth inning. Los
Angeles-San Francisco; no game.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
AN INDEPENDENT
WATER SUPPLY
THE TRANSPOR-
TATION

NORTH PLYMOUTH Is
reached by fine wagon roads
and Is within easy drive to
markets and business center.
making 1t unnecessary for
you to divide your profits
with the railroads.
A survey for the extension
OF the Washington Water
Power Co.'S electric line
passes this property and
plans are forming for It's
early completion. Lincoln
station. on the Medical Lake
electric line, is only one and
one-half miles north, and the
fare TO and from Spokane Is
but 15c, only IN cents each
way. This is less than to
any other interurban point;
also within half mile OF Spo-
kane & Portland and the
Northern Pacific railways.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicago 4. Cleveland O: st.
Louis Z. Detroit 3; New York 2,
Philadelphia 8; Boston 5, Wash
inetOn 2
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
UP-TO-DATE OLYMPIA
PRESSING CLUB
w Rosenherd. Prom.

AZ RIVERSIDE AVE-. Cor. Browne.
Ladies tailoring a specially.
Goods called for and delivered.
PHONE MAIN 64t4
Suits pressed soc. Four suits
pressed, per month, $3.50. Under
new management.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
Mike SULLIVAN MEETS
GARDNER TODAY

LOS ANGELES, April 23.-This
is the opening day for Jim Jeffries'
athletic club, with Jimmy Gardner
and Mike (Twin) Sullivan on for
Is round bout. The men will go
Is rounds for purse of $4,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23

This Is the fourth time the two
have met. The first two battles
were draws and Sullivan won the
third after 20 rounds of close fight
inc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
Classified Ads
Miscellaneous
e Real Estate
Opportunities
LYNNE HOTEL.

LYNNE HOTEL.
319 Wall ST., right ~ the river:
no nicer place In town for regu-
lar or transient roomers; coy,
quiet and respectable; secluded
but close In; only ~ blocks from
Riverside av.: rear entrances from
Post st.: hot water all the time;
moderate prices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-23
MAY PLAY IN SPOKANE

There Is a move on to have the
university games transferred from
Pullman to Spokane. Three games
are to be played between teams of
the Washington State college and
the University of Washington.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-25
THE FssoN OF GOOD WILL

The Wall Street Journal made a dress Inv Professor Gibbons of Colum- bia university. The president spoke of good will as necessary to the pro- tection of property. In England, he said, it is deemed necessary. if there is to be temperance legislation that saloon keepers shall be compensated for property and business that would be wrecked by such legislation. In this country as soon as any property owning interest losses the good will of the people it is in danger of being swept away without any thought of compensation. The slaves were set free without compensating the own- CTS. The temperance movement has proceeded along the line of abolishins saloons without any regard for the p, . cuniary losses of the saloon keepels. If the bill now pending in New York prohibiting race track gambling becomes law millions of dollars invested in race tracks and farms producing race horses will be sscri- iced.
 The Wall Street Journal thinks that this statement of facts affords food for thought by every vested interest IT the country. It requires something besides the provision of the constitu, ton which protects property rights Il these rights are to be immune from confiscation. That something more is good will.
 The journal calls the attention ot corporation managers. banks and rail' roads to this fac. and suggests tt them that those institutions occupy peculiarly exposed position. and tht suggestion. as it says, affords then food for serious thought. For year: the railroads and other corporation: followed the Vanderbilt policy of "ths public be d--d.' As a result they accumulated vast amount of ill will and this is beginning to be fel through oppressive and coercive legis lation. The managers have fled tt the courts for protection, but they art now finding that something more thar 1 law is needed. The attorneys ma, fight ever so hard for them in vain l the great public is against them. l they learn the lesson quickly the, may save themselves further losses
 but unless they reverse their polio, and cultivate the good will of the pub i lie they have still before them rougl and rugged path.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-25
WE NEED 4 LITTLE RIPENTN'

We are rot ripe enough for self governmen. ."-GDyernor Hoggatt. Down where old Teddy R. holds sway, We used to vote and have some say. But here-Hoggatt he says Nay, We need little ripenin'.n It seems that here we're much toe
 green,
 Something like the Philippine, Not fit to run our own machine, we need little ripenin'." Does coming North make us such
 chumps?
 Asses, dolts, mere loutish Jumps, Devoid of all self-government bumps, That we need any ripenin'? Or is Hoggatt's denseness so obtuse That he thinks we've "friz" our
 mental juice, Or that our wheels are running loose. Well, wait till we get our ripenin. We'll show him then our unripeness, By having no Hoggatts govern US. But we'll elect some unripe cuss That don't need any ripenin.
 R. E. F..
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-25
THE GERMAN WAY

When congress gets ready to tackle the question of regulating stock gam bling it will do well to study the iron clad German laws on the same subject, which have been in force for some years. The German prohibits aDso- lutely dealing on margin or in futures in the shares of mines and factories or in farm or mill products. The penal ty for such margin dealing is fine or Imprisonment for the broker specu- lator or miGdleman involved.
 The law was originally promoted by the agricultural interests, who claim ed that speculation in farm produce caused injury to the producers. 1t was noticed that at the time the crops were harvested and the farmers desir- ed to sell the brokers and speculators depressed the price by short selling. but after the farmers had sold ana the middlemen had the grain the prices were jumped up again. In this way it was claimed that both producer and consumer lost and nobody made any thing by it but the gamblers. It was also claimed that speculation in iron. coal. ore, cloth. and other things kept prices low for the producer and high for the consumer. With the spec ulator standing between them, taking toll from both.
 The Gelnan stock exchanges are all under government supervision. Spec ulation can only be conducted by li- censed brokers. If peison deals with any ore N ho is not licensed he cannot legally collect his claims. This compeis the merchant CT manu- facturer .ho wants to speculate to come out iLto the open aud have his name published as . gambler.
 Company promoters are also severe ly handled hy German law. Every new company must issue a prospectus and promoters are criminaily liable for every statement made in the pros pectus. They are equally liable for suppression of important facts. Stock tickers are prohibited neither may brokers senn out tips or market let ters
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-25
EASTER

Easter, Day of Hope, of Joy to all Christians, application of mankind $ faith in its destiny, its own greatness, it's own immortality.
 Easter-''the dead shall live.'
 From every springing blade of grass, from every bursting bud, from every ripple of the ice freed stream. from every leaf of the forest, from the mir acle of the seed time and harvest, the lesson sings it's way into mind and soul.
 Life. Life now-life after death" but always life. The seed dies that the tree may live-tbe body that the soul may become immortal.
 II do not" says someone know that it is SO. The doubter always has and always will be of the earth. The man who needs visible proof and mathematical demonstrations for everything must doubt everything his own existence with the rest. Must we then believe nothing thatwe cannot see" either mentally or oculary? How then-for we can explain nothing?
 Not the simple life principle of the tiniest sprout, nor anything else up to the uncounted millions of the shining stars.
 And what of the First Great Cause: Back of Cosmos, back of Chaos, the Thing that always was. Call it God or what you will-its there. We can not doubt that any more than we can explain it.
 We must believe in many things We cannot explain. else We doubt the ex- istence of what we see every day. Easter-"In my Fathers house are many mansions. Isn't the promise clear ard definite? Does the child ask it's human father "hown with every token of his love.
 Easter-when the stone rolled away from that tomb in Jerusalem ard Christ arose according tp promise day of awakening. day of belief ir things seen and unseen, in the good ness of the living, in the well being of the departed, the day when from the ashes of dead past spring joyful anticipations of future rightly lived future attuned to the music of the spheres. the harmony of the universe, the benign plans of Loving Diety.
 James J. Doyle.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-25

The New York Herald is urging on Goyeror Hughes that he stand for a second term in his present office. The World. in d leading editorial, under the head "New York Hughes, points out the original hopelessness of e Hughes presidential propaganda and likewise urges him to continue bis work in New York state for another term. These sentiments are echoed by many other New York papers, and are popular with the New York ] ct- crate. It is not improbable that Gov ernor Hughes will run again. despite his declaration some time ago that he would not be candidate for renomi- nation. The situation has chaned somewhat since he took that stai Now it appears that he must either run again or submit to be defeated in fight that he has taken more inte :. est in than in any other in his whole career.