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The Washington times., 1908-10-22
TO INDICT $40;
REGISTER FALSELY

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22.-Flve hundred and
Forty indictments may result from regis
tr4tiOn frauds according TO Circuit At
tOrney Sager. He announced yesterday
that efforts 10 verify lbs registrations
IN six city wards by means Of registered
letters had resulted I'm only I82 Of the
voters being found The pOstoffice re-
turned $40 letters and indictments viii
be asked on these
The Washington times., 1908-10-22
SHUTS DOOR TO SERVIA.

VIENNA, oct. 22.-The government
will publish an order prohibiting the
EXPORT of guns. ammunition, horses, or
auv war material 10 Servia.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
GALL "SCH00L STRIKE"
ON UNSAFE BUILDINGS

The Press Is not anxious for the
distinction Of starting 1t, but there
is one means the public can take
to compel instant equipment of
proper fire protection facilities in
all schools.
That method Is the old familiar
one followed by workingmen when
they are unable to get what they
want by any other means.
1t is simply a strike--a school
strike against unsafe buildings.
If parents generally should re-
fuse to risk their children's lives
in buildings officially inspected and
pronounced unsafe in case of fire.
authorities everywhere would sud-
denly develop pronounced and ef-
fective interest in the fire protec-
ton question.
The state very properly orders
every citizen to give his children
the educational advantages afford
ed by the state, but there is no
power on earth strong enough to
compel parent to send his child
into a danger that could and
should be avoided.
In all the cities of the country
school houses have been found I'M
safe, and the struggle is on to get
them remodeled. The fact that any
thing in the nature of effort to
such an end is necessary should
call for united and drastic de-
mand that every possible precau-
ton be Immediately complied with.
The cost of this movement is
the lives of nearly 200 children
sent daily into a death trap. Col.
linwood and every other city in
the country have been resting on
the assumption that the schools
were safe.
Their terrible and criminal error
was revealed at the first test. The
public depended upon it's officialz,
and the officials were found want
ing.
In this assurance Spokane has
been no exception. Immediately
after the Collinwood disaster Of
ficials generally were sure that the
local schools were as safe as could
be made.
But the first investigation.
made at the high school. proved
this assumption of safety to be
false, even though the buildings
are proven to be far better
equipped than those Of probably
any other city of the same size
in the country. They have been
built more recently.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOT
| IN HOME As THEY SLEPT

| were taken to Sacred Heart hos
pital.
Before the police reached the
scene, however, Dewey, the Oldest
boy, found a revolver laying near
the stove in the dining room. The
rear door of the kitchen was part
way open. The weapon was a queer
affair with IS calibre barrel and a
80 calibre cylinder. The bullet
which passed through Mrs. Curry's
head was a 3S calibre.
When seen at the hospital, Cur
ny said:
I'VE have been very careless and
have always left all the doors I'M
locked. l have not an enemy In the
world that l know Of | thought
the clothes were being pulled Off
my head and at the same instant
| was shot. did not hear either
shot"
Mrs. Curry said: "The first I
knew was when my head felt like
II had a splitting headache. l rose
up and asked Mr. Curry what hap
pened. Then | saw that he was
bending over me and blood from
his head was streaming down upon
me-"
About IL o'clock the Curry fam
lily was all awakened by noise
outside. and when the boys investi-
gated it was found that a streetcar
had struck a horse and killed 1t. 1t
was laying near the front door,
where 1t had evidently staggered
before dying.
Added to the attempted murder
theory is the fact that about two
years ago, while the Curry's were
living at E33 Front av., two shots
were fired through the front win
dow at Mrs. Curry. Curry himself
was away working at Northport at
the time. The person who fired
the shots was never found.
Curry has made Spokane his
home for about six years. He has
been married to Mrs. Curry about
IL years. They came here from
Pittsburg. Pa. For about four
years past he has been employed
as car repairer on the Great
Northern.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

The little Mexican town on Mag
dalena bay, where the fleet is now
safely anchored, has suddenly be-
come bustling place Of import
ance in the eyes of the world sole
ly because of the presence of the
biggest part of the U. S. navy.
This is the first change that has
come over the place in a half cen
fury. Tents have sprung up wher-
ever there is room and for weeks
steamers from San Francisco have
been bringing delegations Of Of
ficers, adventurers and spectators.
Saloons of every description,
and gambling devices calculated to
strip the sailors of their money aft
err the long cruise. now dot the
townsite. There Is but limited
space between the mountains and
the shore, and the MeXicans have
made the harvest of their lives on
ground leases.
Years ago the town was the
headquarters for the whaling indus
try of the gulf OF California, but
this has died out and the popula-
ton is now devoted to bird hunt
ing for hat plumage. The town
normally has less than 1000 peo-
pie in it. The pay is 10 miles long
and 20 miles wide.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
GET CANNON IN
ALL ALONE

Edward c. Cannon, N. P. attor
ney, is in a mixup all alone this
afternoon at the Silver Grill execu
tive session of Judge Turner, N
w. Durham, Billy Norman, w. G.
Estep, Fred Baldwin, T. ID. Twohy
and others who are opposed to his
grade separation plans.
After three hours spent in en-
deavoring to make Cannon see the
good qualities of Albert Held's
sketch of the grade separation
which Is what the committee de
sires, Cannon has still maintained
his front and there seems to be nc
immediate prospect of his retreat
He was seen for a moment and
said that the fireworks had only
just started.
Although there has as yet been
no intimation of the fact, Mayor
Moore, who Is at the meeting as a
guest, will probably call off the
council meeting set for tonight to
discuss the grade separation or
dinance section by section.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
KILLED BY FIRE
TRUCK
AGED MAN UNABLE TO HEAR
GONG is RUN OVER AT COR
NER OF RIVERSIDE AND
WASHINGTON.

While making a run to an alarm
of fire turned in at the Ideal laun-
dry early last night, the heavy
truck from station No. l ran down
Otto L. Bulls. age 60, on the cor
ner of Riverside and Washington.
He died from his injuries at Sa-
cred Heart hospital two hours
later Mr.. and Mrs. Bulls and
their son, Roy H. Bulls, were to-
gether when the elderly man start
ed across the street to mail a let
ter. He is very deaf and neither
heard nor saw the dashing appara-
tus as 1t bore down upon him.
Driver Joseph Gump continued
on in answer to the fire call. Hun
dreds of people gathered around
the injured man. He was taken to
Sacred Heart hospital in tho patrol
wagon.
Gump was ringing the gong and
saw the old man in front of his
team but as people often dodge the
flying horses he did not try to stop.
The body is at Smith & Co.'S.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been announced.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

MAGDALENA BAY, Lower Cali
fornia., March 12.-(By the United
Press wireless telegraph to Los
Angeles and the United Press
leased wire. BY special staff cor
respondent.)
The Atlantic fleet of battleships
in command Of Rear Admiral Rob-
ley D. Evans entered Magdalena
bay early this morning. The fleet
arrived late last night but anchor
ed off port until daylight.
Led by the big flagship Connec-
ticut, the armada steamed slowly
through the narrow passage into
shelter of the land-locked harbor.
AS the great fighting monsters
swept into the calm waters Of the
bay with the tropical sun glisten-
ing on their white hulls, dazzling
the eye as it struck the shining
barrels of the big guns, a marine
spectacle was afforded seldom, If
ever, before witnessed.
AS the fleet steamed past Ell Cen
tinela, the giant rock that guards
the entrance to the inner harbor,
the admiral's salute doomed forth
from the guns Of the cruiser Buff
falo, the only warship in the bay.
1t was answered by the incoming
Connecticut.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

, A wonderful testimonial of the
power and efficiency of the ships
and men Of the navy after the long
trip is the assurance that the fleet
can be cleared for action in less
than an hour.
In a message sent to the navy
department by Evans fleet is
stated to be in better condition
now than when it left Hampton
Roads last December.
The armada arrived two days
ahead Of scheduled time. The itin-
erary of department did not call
for the arrival of the vessels until
Sunday.
Seven days and 20 hours were
consumed in the trip from Callao,
Peru, a distince of almost 5000
miles. An average speed of 101s
knots per hour was maintained
throughout the run Not an Incl
dent marred the last leg of the
cruise. Nothing has gone amiss
with machinery or men.
The crews will rest until Mon
day when target practice will be-
gin. When this is finished probably
within the next three weeks, the
squadron will steam up the coast
for the reception the whole Paci-
fic coast is preparing for it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
Mr.. AND MRS. CHAS. D. CURRY
VICTIM OF UNKNOWN EN-.
ENVY BUT ESCAPE WITHOUT
FATAL WOUNDS - SECOND
ATTEMPT.

A desperate and mysterious at.
tempt to murder Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles D. Curry in bed at 01509
Washington st. was made about
o'clock this morning by some en-
envy unknown to either of them.
The only other occupant of the
bedroom was the little two and a
half year old baby, who slept un-
disturbed throughout the shoot
ing and was only awakened when
his wounded and bleeding mother
clasped him to her breast and
smeared him with her own blood.
Neither of the intended victims
was seriously wounded Mrs. Cur
ry was shot through the right ear
and the bullet evidently glanced
along the skull and came out at
the neck and was embedded in the
upholstered back of Morris chair,
where Detective Tom Herndon
found 1t this morning Curry was
shot just to the fore of the right
ear and the bullet was embedded
oohCN AtIc NllAih lhC lNGus hh
X-ray examination will be made to-
day and an operation for the re-
moval of the bullet will then be
attempted.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Curry were
sound asleep when shot and al
though the police hold the theory
of attempted murder and suicide.
there is every evidence that both
parties were asleep at the time OF
the shooting. Mrs. Curry says she
was awakened by sensation as
though her head was splitting She
was bewildered at first, but when
she came to her senses she found
her husband, half sitting up in bed
with blood streaming from his
wound.
Curry says that he had seemed
conscious of the PED clothes being
moved down from his face and
then he was shot.
The three boys, who are Curry's
step-children, and Mrs. Currys
mother, were sleeping in an up
stairs bedroom. Ray, aged Is,
who was restless on account of a
knee which he injured In fall off
wagon few days ago, heard the
shot and woke his older and young
err brothers. Dewey. aged 20, and
Charley, aged ~ They ran down
stairs and found their parents
bleeding in bed. Curry then got
up and telephoned to the police.
The patrol wagon with Detectives
Macdonald and Thompson aboard.
responded and the wounded couple
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
HELP THE
CHILDREN

The 100000 clubs campaign to
raise $4,000 with which to pur-
chase a site and build new Home
for the Friendless will begin Thurs
day, March 26.
This date was set at today's
meeting of the club committee ap-
pointed to take charge of the pro.
ject.
On Wednesday, March %, the
club hopes to secure the attendance
of at least 500 interested citizens
at the noon luncheon. The final de-
tails will then be attended to and
committees named. 1t Is the inten-
ton to have enough of these COM
mittees to cover the entire city in
one days canvass.
The preparatory arrangements
'SAave been left in the hands of Sec.
Jones, of the club. and A. V.
Broderick.
The women's clubs of the city,
working in conjunction with
Mesdames Lewis. Clifford and
Smith. have agreed to provide the
furnishings for the new building.
The Home of the Friendless is
purely local institution. 1t was
organized in Spokane for the pur-
pose of caring for the homeless,
and is subject to no outside man.
agement.
At present it Is housing about so
children, AZ Of whom are absolute
ly dependent upon the home for
their daily bread and clothes. The
others are maintained at a low
price in the home by widowed
parents.
These children are fed. clothed
and sent to school. No child is re-
fused home whenever there is
room. But accommodations are
greatly overtaxed and the home is
a rickety old frame structure that
would probably be deathtrap in
case of fire. 1t cannot be aban-
doned because there is no other
place to house its charges.
That, and the immense pOssibili-
ties before the society for future
benevolent work in behalf of home
less children, is the reason the
10000 club has taken hold of the
project of procuring new and ade-
Quate building with its customary
vim and vigor.
There Is no more deserving
charitable project before the city
today than this. Its success means
safe and secure home, clothing
and care for boys and girls who
otherwise would be left to drift
along through poverty into crime.
The records of the home are not
public property, but an investiga-
ton of them will show an amount
of benefit conferred on the COM
munity in the years of its exist
ence, the magnitude Of which is not
even suspected by the people Of
this city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

But that conditions in other
city school buildings still to be ex-
amined are apt to also prove faulty
is shown by the decision of the fire
commissioners to withhold reports
on these buildings until they are
all inspected for fear of alarming
the public"
The Press takes the position that
the public should be alarmed to
extent of seeing that these officials
do their full duty toward the chill
dren and that this duty is executed
before any other business is taken
up Nothing half so important is
now before the public.
There should be no patience
with the red tape routine of meet
ings. committee conferences and
Investigations made when there is
nothing else on hand.
If that course should be follow
ed much further The Press will
certainly advocate a school strike"
not only in Spokane, but all over
the country.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
SHOOTING OVER
T A WOMAN

Jealousy got the better Of F. A..
Peterson's judgment late last night
when he saw his former sweet
heart, Nellie Freeberg, a barber
lady, walking along Front near the
police station arm in arm with A..
B. McCadden, railroad man.
According to the story told by
McCadden and the woman Peterson
hit his successful rival and the
latter, having revolver handy, as
seems to be the custom now, shot
Peterson. infiicting wound on the
arm.
At police headquarters Peterson
said theh woman shot him. She
denied it and McCadden supported
her statement with a confession
that he did the shooting in self de-
tense.
The woman and her companion
we're locked up and Peterson was
placed under 500 bond as a guar
antee that he will appear and
prescott.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
MOORE AND COrTERlLL
IN CONTROL

SEATTLE, March 12.-The
Moore-Cotterill faction of the local
democracy were in control OF the
democratic county central commit
tee when that committee convened
today.
A poll of the members of the
committee shows that of the 20
members of the committee, three
have left tht county, eight are
Moore-Cotterill partisans, but four
are outspoken adherents of the
safe and sane" faction, one mem
Der claims to be MURAL and the 9th
er four are placed in the doubtful
column.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

of every loyal citizen of the United
States, and the confusion of the
navy's detractors.
Now comes the most crucial test
Of all.
Seven hundred miles from the
nearest open line of communica-
ton, in huge bay leased and
closed to the world for the purpose,
the battleships will indulge in tar.
get practice and maneuvers.
The nature of the country sur
rounding the bay is such that it is
impossible for spy to adequately
observe the feet while engaged in
this work. For whole month, the
battleships will do nothing but
perfect the art of naval offense and
defense in closely guarded waters.
What will be proved and dis
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

Four Italians, all more or less
cut up, are in Jail as the result of
a fight last night at Nicholas Fan
gari's saloon 233 Main av. Joe
Mayonea, onlooker, with a bullet
hole in his arm Is the most serious.
ly injured. The others have knife
wounds.
The police cannot make head or
tail of the stories told. From 9th
err sources it was learned that the
Italians were arguing as to wages
paid in Butte and Spokane. The
liquor they drank was working and
soon one drew a knife, then other
knives flashed and finally the re-
port OF revolver was heard. The
police were called, the riot quelled
and the combatants loaded into the
patrol and taken to Jail. They gave
their names as Tony Calverto, Joe
Mono, Leon Calverto and Martin
FaneZ.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
U'REN THROWS HIS
STRENGTH TO CAKE

PORTLAND, March 12-W. S.
U'Ren. who recently announced his
candidacy for the United States
senate from Oregon, issued a let
ter of withdrawal this morning.
In this he pays his respects TO
certain republican politicians in
Oregon who, he declares, will go
any length to defeat state ment
No. OF the referendum He then
says the effective campaign Cake
is making for the statement leaves
him no alternative but to withdraw
and strengthen Cake for the prin-
ciple.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

The news The Press is giving
you today of the arrival and condi-
ton of the fleet at Magdalena bay
comes direct from a corps of spe-
cial correspondents and photog-
raphers sent out by the United
Press and Newspaper Enterprise
association. The Orient" the fast
est boat procurable in southern
California waters, was chartered
for this purpose, sailing from San
Pedro March 7. 1t is now on the
ground equipped with wireless in
struments and other facilities for
rushing news.
The naval departments of the
world already are astonished at
the success that has attended the
cruise. Evans boast that the
whole works" would be on time,
has been made good, to the delight
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
MORE SHOOTING IN
LOW SALOON RIOT

Day before yesterday an
Austrian who shot two men
, in a saloon brawl was found
guilty of plain assault and
battery.
Last night a man and
wife were shot in bed.
On Front av. man In
company with a woman shot
another man.
And in a general fight in
an Italian saloon one man
was shot and several 9TH
ers stabbed.
Judging by the verdict
first mentioned these vari-
Gus shooters brawlers can
at least be convicted of as
sault and battery,
1t is certainly time for
courts and juries to awake
to the seriousness Of use Of
deadly weapons. even where
only slight wounds are in
flicted.
And it is Also hign time
for the police to put a stop
to the senseless practice OF
nearly everybody carrying a
oIn
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
SHOW Up GRAFT
IN CONGRESS

= WASHINGTON. d. c., March ~.
Startling charges were made
against the Electric Boat Co. today
before the congressional invest-
cation committee. The company
is charged with maintaining pow
erful lobby in Washington to in
fuence legislation in its favor. c.
p. Lilley, of Connecticut, was the
first witness. He is the congress
man who originated the investiga.
ton.
Lilley read statement showing
the existence of lobby. He testi-
fed that the manufacturer had
asked him to vote for the bill IA
voring the appropriation. and he
said Representative Hobson told
him that a representative of the
boat company told him that he
could make Hobson a member Of
the naval committee.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

proved during these trials are mat
tiers of the first moment to every
civilized government in the world.
For these and other reasons
news-gathering agencies of the
world are in competition to first
announce the supremacy of the
United States navy, or the failure
of the battleshlps to come up to the
high requirements.
The "Orient" has been fitted
with a Photographic darkroom, and
all equipment necessary for pro-
ducing pictures and newspaper ar.
ticles. in fact, miniature news
paper Office. When it returns to
southern California the articles and
pictures will be ready for the
printers and engravers and not a
seconds time lost in presenting
the results to Press readers
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
BOOSTERS TO MEET

Anybody who has any notion OF
Joining the 10000 club, and it's
the best organization going for the
man with the booster instinct, will
be welcome tomorrow evening at
the club banquet to be given in
Elks' temple. There will be a
lunch, something made In Spokane
to smoke. good music and enough
addresses to show what the club Is
doing and to make everybody glad
to be there.
One of the most important talks
will be made by w. S, Gilbert in
behalf of the Home of the Friend
less, for which the club has under
taken to procure a new building.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
RADICAL MOVE FOR
NON-PARTISAN JUDGE

EVERETT, March ia move.
ment has been started to remove
the judiciary in Snohomish county
from politics.
A petition signed by 62 attorneys
was presented to Judge w. w.
Black, reading that the undersign.
ed attorneys of Snohomish county,
believing in a non-partisan ju'
dietary and in the fairness and I'M
Partially of Hon. w, w. Black,
the present superior Judge for Sno-
homich county. signified their de-
sire that he be unanimously re-
elected TO succeed himself.
Judge Black is democrat and
the county is strongly republican
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
UNITED STA TIES FLEET UNDER EVANS TRIUNlPHAN7LY
PERFORMS GREATEST MANEUVER IN MA VAL HZS7OR
Finishes $4,000 Mile Cruise Ahead
of Time and Fit for Battle.

In bringing greatest fighting assembled
, ly good better
started after 13OO0me cruise the United States, through
Evans his officers has given the world OBJ
ject lesson that marks epoch in naval history
condition which the ships of
vital importance every maritime nation in the world That
the could be made without hardship delay and
damage vessels by
called naval experts And here is the fleet in first class
condition and ahead of schedule. world
knows what u. S. battleships at least, good for
They practically completed
shape o action instant notice
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12

ruptcy proceedings started by the
merchants attorney against Car
penter to ascertain the where
abouts OF the jewels.
Freldenbach declares that Car
penter mesmerized him into be-
lieving that he was so strong fl
nancially that Freidenbach allow
ed Carpenter to take the jewels
without leaving any cash behind.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-12
PRIEST MURDERER
PLEADS INSANITY

DENVER, March 12.--Guiseppi
Alec. alleged anarchist and luna
tic. charged with the murder OF
Father Francis Leo Heinrichs. will
know his fate before tomorrow
morning. Today arguments are be-
ing heard They are sharp and
pointed.
The defense makes plain In
sanity defense and denies any con-
nection with anarchists. 81