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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
CITY ORDERED TO
ISSUE LICENSE

Until the superior court gets
around to consider the appeal of
Julius Vandamme, who was fined
81 for doing a garbage business
without a permit from the crema-
tory department, he and five other
independent scavengers will be al
lowed to carry out their contracts.
Judge Huneke this morning issued
a writ of mandate against the
board of health and the comptroll-
err commanding them to issue the
required permit and license. When
the city organized its crematory
department a provision of the Or
dinance gave the officers of the de-
partment power to refuse scaven-
ger permits. This it is claimed was
done to protect the city from care
less scavengers who dump garbage
anywhere they find opportunity.
The action against Vandamme is to
test that particular clause.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

States Senator Will G. Graves
will not be a delegate from this
state to the democratic national
convention at Denver. He an
nounced today that his profession
al interests would not permit him
the time to make the trip. Graves
has been counted on from the first
by the party organization as dele
gate, but he had stated that he
would not be candidate If there
was any fight in prospect over the
place. Today he, stated that to
clear the atmosphere he would get
out of the race altogether.
There are to be 10 delegates from
this state and Spokane is figuring
on furnishing two of these. Fred
Baldwin, councilman, Is slated for
delegate at large and Jerome Drum
heller for district delegate. That
may be smashed in convention by
cutting off one of the Spokane men,
but it is likely that hard fight
will be made to land Baldwin.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
YOUTHFUL CROOKS
CAPTURED At LAST

PITTSBURG, April 21-With the
arrest of Ave young thugs who call
Ell themselves the gamblers of the
west" the police believe they have
broken up one Of the worst and
biggest organizations of youthful
criminals ever known in the East.
The boys had a strong organiza-
tion and repeatedly defeated the eff
forts of the police. They number
over 20 in all. Most of these will
be arrested within the next "a
hours. The brains of the gang was
Mike Ross, 16 years old. His chief
assistant and leader was John p.
Latek, Is years old. They cracked
a number of safes together.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
BOODlER SAYS BURNS
REhEARSED THEM

SAN FRANCISCO, April I'll
Daniel Coleman, supervisor, for the
bribing OF which Abe Ruef is now
standing trial in the Parkside
bribery case, continued his story
of bride taking today which he be-
gan late Monday. The defense, by
close questioning, brought out the
fact that the old Doodle board had
been asked to attend meeting by
Detective Burns to 'rehearse
their testimony.
Coleman declared the meeting
was held in the district attorneys
Office and presided over by OGara.
The defense then introduced joint
affidavit made by the boodlers a
short time after the graft charges
were first made in which they as
serted that they had taken no
brides.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
NO RENT ]R
NEW ARMORY.

As result of the conference held
yesterday afternoon between the
democratic and republican cam
paign committees and Capt. Dent
Grow, representing the armory
commission. both parties will use
the Spokane armory for their state
conventions without charge for the
armory itself. The committees
agreed to assume the extra seating
and lighting expense, which will
amount to about $40 for each con-
vention, but SIS Of this is to be re-
turned to each party when the le-
gislature makes an expected appro-
priation to pay for chairs for the
armory
This will make the actual cost of
the building about $65 for each con-
vention where $3.50 was the price
demanded originally. The adjutant
general has approved the arrange
ment and the democrats have quit
kicking, having gained their point.
The proposition to have the state
purchase chairs needed for the
armory has been pending for some
time and there is believed to. be no
doubt but the legislature will pass
1t. AS it Is now, the chairs have
to be rented for any use of the
building where seating facilities
are required.
Both party organizations are now
busy on arrangements for the con-
ventions. The county democrats
meet at Elks temple next Saturday
and in state convention May IS.
The county republicans meet at the
courthouse May and in state con-
vention May IA.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
BANQUETS, BARBECUE
AND AUTO PARADE

LOS ANGELES, April 21.-An
automobile parade in which Rear
Admiral Thomas AMI his officers
participated. a repetition OF Span
ish barbecue and a series of ath-
letic events, We're on the program
today for the entertainment of Of
ficers and men of the Atlantic
squadron. The city is still damned
with visitors attending the festivi-
ties and scenes of widest patriotic
demonstration take place whenever
the marine band plays a national
air.
Admiral Sperry and staff will be
entertained at a banquet tonight
by the chamber of commerce of
Redondo. while another banquet for
officers will be given by the Co
lonial danes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
AGED MAN SEEKING
LONG LOST father

TACOMA. April ~z1.--For the
past five years J. l. Light, now 90
years of age. has been searching
for his father, SO years Old, and
who came to the Pacific coast in
the gold rush of 40. Not having
heard from his aged father for half
century, Light began deter
mined search for him and has WIS.,
tied all the cities of the Coast, and
also took in mining camps and even
carried his search into mountain
Businesses to inquire for any aged
prospector that might be hunting
for gold. The only trace he has
been able to find of him is that he
was on farm in Oregon in 1872.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
ORCHARD REWARD REJECTED

WALLACE, Idaho, April 21.-A.
M. Johnson's claim for the $4,000
reward alleged to have been offer
ed by Shoshone county for the cap
ture of Harry Orchard has been
rejected by the commissioners on
the ground that no such reward
was ever offered. Johnson is rep
resented by Fred Miller. of Spo,
kane, and it is understood that he
will sue the county for the amount
of the claim.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
MAYOR CAPTURES
INSANE Man

Pedestrians on Riverside av. this
morning were much annoyed by a
supposedly drunken foreigner until
Mayor Moore came along. The
mayor saw at a glance that some
thing besides drink allied the fell
low, so he took him by the arm anu
almost dragged him to the entrance
to the Zeigler block ana then sent
for the patrol. Emergency Physi-
clan Roark at first thought the man
was poisoned but after examination
decided that his mind is deranged.
He has little use of his lower limbs
and acts as though he is about to
be attacked with spinal meningitis.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
C0WLES TRYING
TO SELL OUT

1t is rumored in business circles
today that negotiations are on for
the sale of the Cowles newspaper
property in this city, which includes
the Spokesman-Review and Chron-
icle. Cowles' price is said to be
$1,500,000 for building site and all.
Representatives of the Northern
Pacific are believed to be the
prospective purchasers. which, If
true, displays the method in the
Cowles fight against the grade sepa-
ration plans.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
SEATTLE PRODUCES
SOUPOMANlAc CASE

SEATTLE, April 21.-"He is a
soupomaniac," declared Mrs. Shehe-
verde jerks. referring to her hus-
band in the superior court, land
for that reason l want divorce.
Soup throws him in a frenzy. He
eats II and then washes his hair
with It. On every subject he is
perfectly sane. But, soup, especial
ly vegetable soup, dethrones his
reason, wrecks his mentality and
makes him fit subject for public
charge"
The Judge took the case under
advisement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
POOR AIM SAVES
PRESIDENT

SAN FRANCISCO, April III
That Pres. Manuel Estrada Cabrea,
of Guatemala is not dead today is
due to poor craftsmanship of an
assassin who fired several shots
at the Central American ruler as he
was entering his palace.
The assassin shot as fast as his
finger could pull the trigger, but
only one bullet reached the mark
inflicting slight wound in the
hand. No mention of an arrest Is
yet made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
CUTTING RUSSIAN
TROOPS TO BITS

TIFLIS, 9pril 21.-Two thousand
Russian soldiers were today sent
.,nder rush orders to reinforce a
handful who, while searching for
Kurdian brigands in the neighbor-
frontier, were completely surround
ed by superior force and are be-
ing rapidly wipii out of existence.
On account of these being no
railroads 1t will take several
days before the expeditionary force
can come to the relief. In the
meantime the attacked Russians
may be annilated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
TO ROUSE NEGROES
AGAINST ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 81.
-Roosevelt's action in ordering
discharge of negro soldiers con-
cerned in the Brownsville affair
was vigorously defended today on
the floor of the senate by Warner.
of Missouri He denounced crit
icism of the president as a political
move and declared 1t regretable
that a systematic effort had been
made by enemies of Roosevelt to
arouse the negroes of the country
against the president because of
his action.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
CLEANING CONTINUES
TILL CITY IS CLEAN

The day of grace has not passed
yet for people who want to clean
up their premises. The cleaning
campaign is going right on as long
as there is anything left to clean
up. and orders for hauling refuse
left at the office of Sec. Jones,
Main GAO. or at the city crematory
department, will receive prompt at
tention. There is considerable re-
fuse piled up in alleys about town
that has not yet been removed, anu
the department is ready TO attend
to ii on notification. The 10000
club intends to clean up the town
regardless of dates originally fixed
for the campaign.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
Burns Drawing DouUr,
5000 Per Week

Billy Neal. Burns manager. has
arrived in New York, where nego-
tiations. between the champ and
Jack Johnson. the colored heavy
weight have been started Pro
moters In the west are counting
their change ami figuring just how
big a bait will gain them the
match.
Burns, who Is just now receiving
5000 week for his playing at
Queens theater, London, expects to
return to the United States In May.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
UNITEDPREss ASSOCIATION SERVICE
C0UNTERFE |TERS
CAUGHT HERE

The police believe they have be-
hind the bars dangerous counter
feiter in Anton Anderson, who was
caught on Gordon av. today by Pa
trolman Reeves. Last night sever
al streetcar men complained that
they had been given counterfeit
quarters and gave Reeves the
mans description. Each time he
got on an Astor st. car on Cor
don av.
Reeves lay in wait today and
when Anderson came along he in
stantly recognized him from the
description. Anderson lives near
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
Rich Canadian Hunts
For a Wife

special Corrsspondsnca to .hs Press.
TORONTO. April PLANES w.
Ross, 1873 Shutter St, wants a
wealthy wife.
He also wants a whole army Of
American city officials to turn
Cupids and get her for him.
Ross is sending out letters to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
EVERETT ASKS 100000

EVERETT, April 21.-A petition
asking the government to appro-
pirate 100000, instead of 5000 900,
for the construction of Everetts
federal building, which has now
been signed by all the city AMI
county officers. will be placed in
the corridor of the postoffice next
week for signing by the general
public. 1t Is desired that nobody
neglect the signing of this paper.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

where he was captured. He says
he found a sack containing $16.75
in quarters, but the police take lit
tie stock in the statement. They
will ransack his house from cellar
to garnet this afternoon to try and
uncover the counterfeiting plant
which they believe exists.
Anderson claims he is a carpen-
ter, but his hands do not indicate
he is used to hard work of any
kind. D..
He admits passing the quarters
and says he did it because he was
hard I'D.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
SEATTLE DATES CHANGED

SEATTLE, April 21.-The date
of the banquet at the Rainier club
to be given the officers Of the bat
tleship feet has been changed from
Tuesday to Monday night, May rs,
The entertainment of the officers
at the Damrosch concert was
changed from Monday to Tuesday
night.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
CITY WINS DAMAGE SUIT

A jury in Judge Huneke's court
yesterday returned a verdict in ia
yor of the city in its defense of a
damage suit for $4,000 brought ny
Heles Hall, who alleged that she
was injured by a fall on defective
sidewalk.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
RECEIVERS ST FOR
ABUSE By BRAKEMAN

John S. Gallagher. who sued the
O. r. & n. for $4,000 in Judge Sui
livan's court, gets only 81 damages,
according to verdict of the jury
brought in this morning. Gallagher
alleged that on Jan. Is. while he
was riding on the train to Plummer,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
N. p. ADDING MORE CARS

G. M. Levy, third vice president
of the Northern Pacific. who is now
in the West, Is authority for the
statement that his company will
spend $1.500000 in the next two
months for freight cars, Forty adj
ditional passenger coaches have
been ordered for delivery to the
road this spring.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
CHINA READS
JAP WARNING

PEKIN, April 21.-Chinese re-
gard the sighting of 10 Japanese
battleships on cruise to Chez
Foo, Canton and Annoy as sinister
warning on the part Of the Japa-
nese that unless China speedily
lifts the boycott against Japanese
goods war will follow.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
ADMITS STEALING HORSE

O. G. Cook, the Clayton farmer
who is in Jail on a charge of steal
ing a horse from ID. F. Browns
barn on Peone prairie. and then
burning the barn to hide the crime,
confessed to the theft yesterday.
but denies he was the incendary.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
AID MEN TO MEET

The Spokane Ad Mems club will
hold It's regular weekly meeting at
the club rooms in the Review build
ing tomorrow evening. Every men,
Der Is requested to be present.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

<NHiSii van hinypiS ., uSoSCShihS tuCtu
to aid him in his desires.
One of his letters reads:
Il shall esteem it great favor
TO receive genuine leap year pro-
posals for marriage from bona
fide wealthy ladies' only. Applica-
tions to be addressed to 'Suitor,'
care of the mayor of your city. and
marked Leap Year PROPOSAL
Should YOU wish to investigate my
character, refer you To the right
honorable James Byrce. British
ambassador. Washington, ID. c..
also professional gentlemen In this
city guaranteed by the mayor"
Girls, If you have the coin, here's
your chance to get real nifty Ca
muck just for the asking.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

plan submitted by City Engineer
Ralston will continue its labors and
get all available data possible to be
ready for use whenever the grade
question comes up again, if it ever
does.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
RAN AWAY TO JOIN SHOW

The police want to find Gladys
Stahl, age Is, who ran away from
her home in Calgary, Alberta, to
join show Her photograph and
description are in the hands Of the
police.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

before the report came. Mrs.
Greene did not open the door to
learn the cause of the shot. When
the police arrived Morgan was dead
and the yard was deserted. Metsker
and his wife were arrested a block
and half from the scene.
Mrs. Mae Greene is a good look
ing widow of 80 years. Mrs. Maud
Behrner, writer of the Merry Wild
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21
OFFICER GETS 80 DAYS

Patrolman Fife, after trial be-
fore the police commission on a
charge of drunkenness, was sus-
pended for 80 days in punishment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

Idaho, he got into an alteration
with Dick ROCKFORD, brakeman.
who used a slingshot on his head
and finally bent him over the back
of a seat and permanently injured
him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-21

ow" letter, is a strikingly beautiful
young woman whose husband re-
sides in st. Louis. She was visiting
her parents in Cassopolis. Both
women had been frequent visitors
to South Bend of late.
Mrs. Metsker is held without bail.
Metsker is under $4,000 bond as a
witness, and Mrs. Greene is held as
a witness under $3.50 bond.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-23
THE PRoDIeALs.

"Princes-and you, most valorous.
Mobiles and barons Of all degrees!
Harken awhile to the prayer of us
Beggars that come from the over
seas!
Nothing we ask or Of gold or fees;
Harry us not with the hounds we
pray;
Lo-for the surcote's hem we
Give us-ah! give us-but yesterday!
Danes most delicate, amorous!
Damosels blithe as the belted bees!
Harken awhile to the prayer of US
Beggars that come from the over
seas!
Nothing we ask of the things that
please;
Weary are we, and worn, and gray;
Lo-for we clutch and we clasp your
Give us-ah! give us-but yesterday!
'Damosels-dames, be pitious!
(But the danes rode fast by the
roadway trees.)
Hear us, o, knights magnanimous!"
(But the knights pricked on in
their panoplies.)
Nothing they got of hope or ease,
But only to beat on the breast and
say:
Life we drank to the dregs and
lees
Give us-ah! give us-but yesterday"
Envoi.
Youth, take heed to the prayer of
thesei
Many there be by the dusty way
Many that cry to the rocks and
seas,
Give us-ah! give us-but yesrer-
day!"
Austin Dobson.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-23
ENoLAND's LIMESTONE HILLS
A Study of Some of the Most Indi-
vdual Features.

A Study of Some of the Most Indi-
vidual Features.
London Times.-The hills of gray
mountain limestone which rise from
many OF the northern and western
wales form a separate kingdom of Ma
ture among English landscapes, with
distinct and constant features. Only
a thin cloak Of reddish soil overlies
the rough gray rock, which juts out
along the slopes and shoulders OF the
hill in rain-whitened scars and bosses;
but the turf is sweeter and finer, and
cropped more closely by the fiocks
which range the walks, than that nur-
tured by any other soil but the
chalk of the southern downs. The
distinctiveness of these hills, where
ever they occur, is due above all to
this close and thyme-strewn sward
as sweet to man as to beasts, and to
the gray limbs of virgin rock that
thrust themselves so constantly and
easily to the sun through the cloak
Iof hanging pasturage. Among the
summer heats the thyme-fower Pushes
the hillsides with pale and delicate
purple, kindred in softnesS with the
silver and pale orange of the lichens
that stain the rock and the blue OF
the distant plain. Far into the au-
tumn, on all the warmer days, the
scent of the woven thyme-strands
the slopes and SUBMITS of the hills.
Even in the mild and brilliant Moons
that come now and then in January
after rain, the winter sunlight will
distill a faint perfume of August from
the sodden leaves. The fires of far
off summer seem to linger in the dry
rock of the hills, even when all other
soils are soaked to midwinter mire, Or
filmed with the sour boar frost that
skins the meadows between the colder
rains The damps Of the hollow lanes
and woodlands find no harborage on
the open slopes, that dwell, with their
haunting breaths of summer, in a
zone Of the purer air.
In their holder and more broken
tracts the hills of mountain limestone
provide some of the most individual
features of English scenery. The
bare protrusions OF rock, which are
characteristic of the hillside pastures
even when they are barely large
enough for two sheep together to
couch IN their well-drained warmth,
become, on a larger scale, the great
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-23
WE MAY MAKE CALLS BY MAIL.
One Way Of Smoothing Over Some
times Unpleasant Duty.

Long ago the telephone came into
use in the extending of invitations by
society women, who found it not only
saved much trouble, but did away
with let of stiff formality. Maybe
they will try to reproduce here the
Postal Calling league that has been
introduced by the women in Simla,
the fashionable resort for English
speaking residents in India. To be-
come a member of the league means
an end to the necessity of calling in
person upon the entire circle of &C
quaintances. The new arrival regis
tiers with the librarian of the town
hall, and this brings the privilege OF
mailing her cards to all the women in
the league. Should she choose to
travel around Sim1a in her rickshaw
she will find at the doors of members
of the league little boxes labeled mot
at home" This means that should
the caller prefer it she may drop her
card in the box and go her way.
Where society is loose-jointed and
continually growing, as in this city,
the Simla scheme would come as a
positive boon to scores of women.
The average society woman now
never ventures out calling without
her social register as her guide. So
many are the so-called friends that it
is necessary to look up their adj
dresses, just as one turns to the tele-
phone directory in the ordinary course
of prosaic business. Calls must be
made on many persons whose friend
ship is not wished, but whose &C
quaintance cannot be sighted. Cdls
by mail would smooth over a dizzy
that is not always pleasant. New
York Press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-23
RISE OF THE vANDERBILTs.
Commodore Was 70 Before He Made
His Great Fortune.

The Vanderbilt fortune, once the
greatest financial power in the United
States, probably amounts, at the pres
ent moment. to not far from $500, 000,-
600, says McClure's Magazine. OF this
William Nissan Vanderbilt, who con-
trolls the majority of the family prop
critics, holds in the neighborhood of
500, 100000, while twelve or.fifteen de-
scendants of the commodore share
among themselves the remaining $780,
1000 900.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact
in the whole remarkable career of Com
modore Cornelius Vanderbilt is that
he did his really important work ana
heaped up his enormous fortune after
he was 70 years old. He was born in
1894 and almost all his energies, until
the outbreak of the civil war, had been
absorbed in the management of his
numerous steamboat and steamship
lines.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, when running
his steamboats, up and down the Hud-
son river, had felt keenly the compe-
tition of the railroad along it's eastern
shore. Later developments led him
clearly to perceive, what most of his
contemporaries saw only family, that
transportation in this country would
follow the line, not of the canal and
the river, but of the steel rail-. AS
soon as he caught this glimpse of the
future. Vanderbilt Enthusiastically
acted upon it. Fifty years before, fore
seeing the possibilities of steam travel
by water, he had sold his whole sail
ing fleet and purchased steamboats,;
acting just as promptly now, he sold
all his water craft and began purchas-
ing railroads.