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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
POLICE CLUBS
! FOR TENANTS
LANDLORDS TRY TO BREAK
UP MEETINGS AND RIOTS
FOlLOW-CHicAGO RENTERS
APPEAL TO ORGANIZED
LABOR.

NEW YORK, Jan. Ga tene-
ment house landlord, baffied in his
attempts to collect rents from pro-
testing tenants, caused a riot on
Eleventh st. by ordering socialist
flags removed from the houses. He
called the police to break up a
mass meeting and number OF
people were battered by the of
ficers' club.
A similar disturbance started al
most Immediately where another
meeting was in progress a block
away. Women were beaten as
well as men. The striking tenants
barred their doors and shut out
physicians called to attend the in
jured as well as the officers.
The day was marked by dis
orders occasioned by the universal
protest against high rents. In
each case the tenants got the
worst of it from the police
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-The move
ment to force a reduction of tene-
ment house rents in the organiza-
ton of a tenants union with 800
members. They demand a reduc-
ton of 81 per month. The present
rate is from $12 per month for four
rooms up. Cooperation of the
Chicago Federation of Labor is
sous" Jewish tenants are lead.
ing the movement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Samaritan lodge of Odd Fellows
and Imperial Rebekah lodge will
unite tonight in installation Of Of
ficers under supervision OF Deputy
Grand Master L. J. Birdseye.
The First Presbyterian church,
Second av. and Jefferson, will con-
duct a session of prayer this week
with brief addresses and selected
music each evening.
Oriental lodge, F. & A. NJ, will
install officers in special meeting
at the temple this evening. Past
masters of the lodge will conduct
the ceremonies.
The election of Emil Siegenthaler
to- a third term as president of the
German singing society last night
was commemorated by the presen-
tation of gold Tyre studded with
diamonds from the members. The
society will give a concert in
March.
A mandolin belonging to Mrs. H.
o. Lee. Of ES06 Second av., was
stolen yesterday afternoon between
8 and o'clock out of the entrance
to the Norwegian church near
where she lives.
Jerry Sullivan, whose foot was
badly burned at a billiard room at
'2l1 Stevens st. Friday afternoon
by unknown persons who saturated
it with kerosene and then set fire
to it, Is doing well and the doctor
says amputation will not be .neces-
Sary.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
TRUNK FULL OF LOOT

In Peter Kotsopoulos, who is do
ing time in the county Jail for
breaking open a trunk in lodging
house, the police are firmly con-
WINGED they have captured daring
sneak thief. Yesterday his trunk
was found to contain five wallets,
three rings with the settings taken
out, other cheap rings, gold chains
of all descriptions, dentists for
ceps, tire fountain pens, gold pen,
shotgun, rifle and IS silk handker-
chiefs with the cost marks still
attached,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
FEDERAL UNION
SEATS OFFICERS

Federal union No. II 1924 held a
social meeting and installed officers
Saturday night. A large crowd was
inattendance, many members of
Federal union No. 1922 being
present. Refreshments were served
and number of addresses made by
local union men. ]. R. Sovereign
related number of amusing
anecdotes.
Thomas Maloney, representative
of the union at the State Fedora
ton of Labor convention, said he
was going to work for the adoption
of law compelling municipalities
and city contractors to employ citi-
zens in carrying on public improve
ments. 1t was held by Mr. Maloney
that the taxpayer and citizen
should have preferment over for
eigners and other classes of lahpr
which float from place to place aid
are of no permanent benefit to aAy
city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
THAWS HAD To
RANSOM EARL

PITTSBURG, Jan. 6.-Another
disgusting feature Of the marriage
of the Earl of Yarmouth and Alice
Thaw, who is now suing for di-
vorce, has come to light in the dis
covery that the Thaws had to ram
som the earl on the wedding day
in 1908 before he was released from
custody for debt in order to be
married. Under an old law he was
seized in his apartments while
dressing for the ceremony. The
wedding was delayed until the
Thaws sent check for $4,000.
The family had previously paid
100000 to the earl as his pur-
chase price, but it was not In ready
cash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
WOMEN GO AFTER
Lawyer IN COURT

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-Handsomely
gowned women made a rush for
the bar of Judge Heaps court,
where the Snuday-closing cases
were on trial, and brought pro-
ceedings to an abrupt and dramatic
climax Following the leadership
Of an elderly matron they surround
ed Attorney Austrian and de-
nounced him.
The demonstration followed the
closing sentence in the speech of
counsel: Those women have been
sent here by the churches to in
fluence this jury"
Instantly the woman who led
her fellow church workers jumped
to her feet in frenzy and charged
the attorney.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
SLAM ON UNIONS

The statements attributed to a
barber named l.. w. Thiele and
published in a morning paper are
ridiculed by delegates to the state
convention. Thomas Ivey was
stated to have called a meeting at
an impossible hour and to have
elected himself and James Steven.
son delegates TO the convention OF
the state federation. Ivey was
elected by the Central Labor union
to represent that body and he is
not the delegate OF the BARRIERS
union. James Stevenson was elect
ed by the team owners union at a
regular meeting of that organiza-
ton. The conditions stated by Mr..
Thiele could not possibly obtain
and would not be tolerated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
NOTORIOUS DANCER KILLED

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.--The body
Of Catherine Devince, the dancer
known as Little Egypt" was
found in bed yesterday badly
bruised and with life extinct, She
was one of the prominent figures
at the notorious Seely dinner which
the police raided at Sherry's sew
eral years ago. How she was kill
ed has not been determined.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

Come, everybody; don't be out of a
job when you can tell your good points
to thousands of people without cost to
yourself. Just drop into The Press Of
flee, it's handy, just half a block from
the City Hall, and fix up an ad. Well
be glad to help you write one that will
get results. Remember, this starts to-
morrow, January 18th, and continues till
further notice.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
PENN. r. r. SUED FOR $1,000, 900

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Jan. 6.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. was
made the defendant in suits for
more than 100000, brought by
the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co.
The allegation is made that for
four years the railroad company
has Disseminated against the plain
tiffs in the matter of coal cars,
and that rebates have been granted
to the Glen White Coal Co.
The coal combination operates
40 mines in this state, and its
capital Is $4,000 900.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
Do You
Want a
Job?

vyOU CAN GET ONE FREE OF
7 charge through the columns of
= The Press. Beginning tomor-
row and continuing till further notice
The Press will run situation wanted ads
up to three lines for three days free of
charge. The only stipulation is that the
advertiser must call in person at The
Wall st. We want every man or woman
in the city who is in search of employ
ment to take advantage of this offer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
YAKIMA LID ON TIGHT

NORTH YAKIMA, Jan. 6.-The
prosecuting attorneys order was
sufficient to- close all the saloons
in this city yesterday. The sa-
loon men obeyed the order to the
letter, but it is expected that they
will retaliate by closing ali other
business houses not exempted by
law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
IN LINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE TEDDY'S
WEARY

Special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. g.
The biggest New Year reception in
the United States was held by
President Roosevelt at the White
House when for hours he clasped
hands with the men and women
who passed in procession.
Representatives of foreign coun-
tries and officers of the army and
navy, all in full dress, gave the re-
ception the appearance of those
glittering gatherings of the days
of the first empire. The brilliant
ly attired men with their flashing
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

decorations and small arms mixed
with the more soberly attired men
and women of the city, who seized
the opportunity to grasp the hand
that Yields the big stick.
The waiting line, when the doors
of the White House were thrown
open, extended for Is blocks, but
the last man did not begruGge the
hours of waiting. The grasp OF
those sturdy fingers was his recon-
pense.
This years crowd was greater
than that of 1907, which eclipsed all
previous receptions.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
SPURNS GODDESS" GOLD

PlTTSBURG, Jan. 6.-Rev. w.
A. Jones, pastor of the Knoxville
church, returned to
the donors 500 of a 1920 purse his
had given him as
Christmas present because five 500
pieces did not bear the "In God
We Trust motto.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

of a saloon which was violating the
Sunday law the inspector cursed
and abused him and ordered him
out of police headquarters. Mayor
Behrman will investigate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
CURSED FOR INFORMING

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. Elm FL
ing complaint against Inspector
of Police Whitaker, Daniel T..
King, a saloon keeper, declared
that upon informing the inspector
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

PITTSBURG, Jan. 6.--Joseph
6chwab. brother Of Charles M.
6chwab, the steel king, is the lat
est millionaire Pittsburger who has
had trouble with his wife; and the
great question being discussed here
now is whether or not a divorce
already has been secured by him In
the New York courts, In secret.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schwab, 1t has been
learned here, have been separated
for over a.year. Mr.. Schwab is liv-
Ing at the Waldorf-Astorla in New
York, In Q bachelor apartment, :"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

H. F. Fairman's shooting gallery
at 513 Main av. was broken int o
last night by burglars. who stole
several cheap watches and prize
rings and chains.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

NEW YORK, Jan. Civilian
and Samuel Muncie celebrate
their birthday anniversary ht
their home at Babylon, l.. l., re
Gently. They are twins and weS@
born on Christmas day SO years
ago.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

At the Whitehouse this week.
They are selling their entire stock
of Muslin Underwear at half price.
Embroideries at less than half
price. A*+
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06

and his wife has been making her
home at an exclusive uptown apart.
ment house.
Mrs. Schwab Is one of Pittsburg's
most beautiful daughters. She was
formerly Miss Esther Munhall, OF
the well known family from which
Munhall, suburb of Pittsburg,
takes its name. She eloped with
young Joe Schwab, much to the
displeasure of her family, IL years
ago.
Her picture, reproduced above,
was taken only few years after
the elopement
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
HAS DIVORCE HIT SCHWAB EAMH Y?

The Press. % cents per month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-06
in the Footsteps of Faith,

Less than two weeks placed the market the fin
est low priced properties offered in this city. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

dom Austerlizt was his most famous battle, his most glorious victory.
 But MT. Dalzell Is not a statesman of the Napoleon order. Not only does he interrupt the adversary when he is mak ing a mistake, but he interferes to pre- vent it-lays an embargo On mistakes, sues out a writ of injunction to inhibit John Sharp Williams from committing mistakes It reminds of Fontenoy, where the household troops of King Louis marched up to the British grenadiers and asked, "Genilemen, will you be so good as to fire frst?' The chivalry that was supposed to have died with Bayard yet swels in exuberant abundance in the emulous heart of John Dalzell of the Pittsburg iron works
 What an ingrate John Sharp isl Even great Caesar allowed lean Cassius to save him; but Williams, with base thankless- ness, rejects the gift of the Pittsburg Greek and persists in ruining himself and his party by insisting that the Sixtieth Congress shall be responsive to public opinion. He is a holy terror, for 1t will be recalled that even Uncle Joe had to come to the aid of his lieutenant and as- sist in mending democratic fences. And for that John Sharp was also callously thankless.
 It seems that John Sharp was insisting that the republican House should have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS- Savoyard

Socrates. Perhaps the worst of all the governments was that "of the people in Athens.
 It is atrociously reasonable and dis gustingly unpatriotic to say so, but parliamentary government has attained to its high est excellence in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the hope of the fathers to estab- fish a nearly perfect parliamentary national government here, but their timidity exceeded their faith. The re- suit is that we have in this country executive government. Indeed, the American House of Representatives has earned the contempt of all intelligent students of government. Sycophantlc at the White House, it is truculent n the committee on rules a blaggart, Q bully, and 8 coward.
 In its councils deliberation Is abol- ished. though garrulity is augmented. The very soul of parliamentary gov ernment is the right of the minority to offer and debate amendments to legis- lation proposed by the majority. That privilege is now denied. John Quincy Adams, one of the greatest names n parliamentary history, declared that the sovereign commonwealth of Massa- chusetts had intrusted him with vote in the national House of Representa- tives, which he might employ as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

he felt as if he would have been glad to stop at his own house and lie down for a while, but the dog didn't want to, and so they went on, but that he ought to be thankful that the dog was willing to stop at that town at all. The next town was 12' miles further on, and the roads were bad. But the dog turned into Murchisons yard and went right into his kennel.
 When Murchison and Massett got home an hour or so later after driving the horse all the way at a gallop, they found old Gregg, the carpenter. prying the roof off the kennel You see, Murchison had knocked the rear out Of the kennel the day before, and so when the dog aimed for the front he went straight through and, as Brown lee was built more perpendicular than the dog, Brownlee didn't go quite through. He went in, something like doubling up a dollar bill to put it into thimble. I don't suppose any one would want to double up a dollar bill to put 1t into thimble, but neither did Brownlee want to be doubled I'D and put into the kennel. It was the dogs thought. So they had to take the kennel roof off
 When they got Brownlee out they laid him on the grass and covered him up with a porch rug and let him lie there couple of hours to pant for that seemed what he wanted to do just then. It was the longest period Brownlee ever spent awake without talking about dog.
 Murchison and Massett and old Gregg and 26 informal guests stood around and gazed at Brownlee panting. Pres ently Brownlee was able to gasp out a few words.
 ''Murchison," he gasped, 'Murchison. if you just had that dog in Florence or wherever it is they race dogs-you'd have a fortune"
 He panted awhile and then gasped out:
 He's a great runner; a phenomenal runnerm
 He had to pant more and then he gasped with pride
 But I wasn't three feet behind him all the way"
 Copyright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

if it shall turn up with a republican majority. It's one ambition is to pass the general appropriation bills and thea go home and mend fences.
 We have the spectacle of a demo- cratic minority resorting to filibuster to force republican majority to leg islate on lines advised by republican President. The junta was lnfuriated, and MT Dalzell, in effect, told MT. Will Hams that he was a fool to do things that would defeat the democratic party next fall. I have never, in nearly 80 years of observation at this capital. seen a statesman so enraged because his adversary was making a political mistake as John Dalzell is because John Sharp Williams IS doing things that will cost the democratic party a score or so of seats in the next House-lf John Dalzell's tongue utters what John Dalzelrs pigment forges.
 It was at Austerltz, when the glorious sun of that first anniversary of Napol- cons imperial purple was bursting forth on the eastern horizon, that the mighty Corsican was observing through glass, the movements of the enemy Around and about him were his marshals, eager and impatient for the battle-petulent for the delay. But Napoleon muttered, "Never disturb the enemy when he Is making a mistake" The event vindicated his wis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

shield or a sword, as he saw flt h the 60M Congress no member is ai- lowed to use his vote as a shield. Joh n Randolph of Roanoke no doub. thwarted more vicious legislation than any other statesman of our history. II the 60th Congress such a man, if of the minority, would be perfectly help less.
 Charles II was a man of brilliant mind, and rather generous impulses, but he was one of the most worthless of all the worthless kings with Bour- bon blood in their veins. His govern ment was abominable, composed of five men-Clifford; Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderda1e The initial let ters of these names made the word ca bal, term forever infamous when used in a political sense among Anglo Saxon peoples.
 The American House of Representa- tives is ruled by a cabal, a junta of junto, composed of three men-Joseph G. Cannon, John Dalzell and James $. sherman. These men hold the House in a grip that is as resistless IS it is remorseless. Whatever they are for the House must enact Whatever they op- pose the House is not allowed to con- slider. For instance, a large majority of the House is in favor of measures putting on the free list wood pulp an1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
GIRLS EARN QUOTATIONS,
One Pays Her Expenses By Taking
 Care of PoIIywogs.

All the girls who attend college do not have wealth behind them. Hundreds upon hundreds of them are changing the work of their brains and hands into dol lars to help out their expenses, says the June Delneator. The average girl could hardly earn her entire way through col lege; it would mean too great a mental and physical strain. She can and does, however, earn a part of her way.
 Here are actual experiences from girls who have accomplished 1t:
 .I had s60 I earned This sum was to pay for everything except my board and tuition until Easter. l am employed in the college library and postoffice and can earn 25 cents an hour during all my spare time. Ninety five dollars covers books. dues. clothes and incidentals."
 "I care for specimens in the biological laboratory, the pollywogs. frogs and fishes for 20 cents an hour. scholarship helps out my living expenses"
 "I earn $65 of my expenses by acting al nursemaid in a professor family. I act ed as proctor at examinations. which pays
 
 ready for my board.'
 'I am earning my senior year expenses by acting as saleswoman in the college cooperative store. I do light housekeep- ina with two other girls. My living ex- penses are about S16 a month. The work this year interferes with my studies, as I am frequently too tired from standing at the counter to remain awake. I be- lieve, however, girl should work her way rather than do without college ed- ucation"
 T bake cakes for spreads. birthdays and afternoon teas I get 50 cents for large cake I have all the orders I can fill"
 T do shampoong for girls at 25 cents customer. I have help from the Stu dents Aid Fund"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
HOLINESS OF LIFE-By J. C. Hiden,

mount is discussion of the nature of the righteousness required under the new dispensation. Of what commonly goes by the name of theology" This remarkable discourse contains very lit- tie. The burden of the sermon is prac- tical, home1y, everyday conduct; and 1t holds that right conduct will be the natural fruit of right character. Men are not to expect grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles.
 In the Epistle to the Hebrews, the sacred writer, in accounting for the trials through which God had led His people, says that Gods object was four profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness" and he exh orts Chris tians to follow holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord" Here the writer evidently means to identify sec ing the Lord with personal salvation; and when Christ says: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" He puts the positive form of the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

T HE best government yet invented
 by man is the representative re-
 \ public, the parliamentary system, evolved out of the progress liberty has made since the barbarians of the earlier Christian era overran and destroyed
 The glory that was Greece,
 And the grandeur that was Rome.
 Representative government is bad enough, but it is the best there is-a sort of mean between the despotism of Darius and the democracy of Clion- between the tyrant and the demagogue. Athens was what is called a pure de- mocracy. It was a small town, and a few people, It was small town. and a the entire state and citizenship was loss than the cost of the New Willard hotel in this town. Yet Athens fills aed iIlumfnes one of the greatest pages in history. Had it been a representa- tive republic, such as the present lim- itad monarchy of England, it is quite lixely that the splendor of Athens would have been undimmed when Darius and Scylla were cutting threats in Rome. But just as Persia routed under the sway of the successors of Cyrus, so Athens fell a prey to her demagogues, who ostracized Themis- tocies, envied Aristides, and murdered