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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10
Mcfarland TO Quit Ring.

CHICAGO. May 9.-Packey Mcfarland.
the lightweight. says he will go in two
more fights, and then. whether ne wins
or loses. will retire from the ring He
has received an offer as a cattle buyer
from stock yards concern and has de-
cided to accept. First. though. he expects
to meet Battling Nelson. and will then
try to get date with Joe Cans for Labor
day at Goldfield. New. Packey has had a
short but successful career since entering
the ring. and Il Is doubtful Il he will be
willing to give up that line Of work espe-
cially II he has good luck in the two
bouts he now has planne]
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LITTLE STORIES OF THE BALL PLAYERS
BY Revere Rodgers.

looked like a punk decision on the hrst-
base play OF Freeman's in the second
game that Washington played with New
York on the local grounds this season
good many persons supposed that Con-
molly was experiencing n bad day. but
OF course. Tommy's explanation OF ms
decision after til gan oisproved inns
theory. Yet tine les: CO umpires Will at
times get off the rankest KIND OF deci-
sions.
Bob Emslie the National League UNI
pire, once called a play III Philadelphia
that was the talk of the town at that
time 1t occurred in a game between the
Philadelphia club and the New YORK
team The way Bob tells the story fol-
lows:
II had Just come down 20 Philadelphia
after umpiring up in Boston. where the
weather was cold and wintry, and when
I struck the Quaker city it was summary
hot I suppose that the sudden change
In the temperature must have affected
me. Anyway. l know that in that nTst
game the Phillies played with New YORK
I went through the contest in sort OF
a dream
Every once in q while would find my
self either back Of the catcher or pitcher
without knowing how L got there. and
know that in a dreamy sort of way
would find a crowd of ball players sur
| rounding mo at certain stages or the
game whom I. in 4 dcpey sort OF way.
realized were kicking against some OF
my decisions, but l cam, out of my
trance-l:ke condition in the eighth inning
OF the game, when AL Orth got hold OF
me and gave me a vigorous shaking.
while at tie same time he ye!l3d into my
ear: Great Scott, Bob. what is the mat
ter with you? Don't YOU know You have
just called Van Haltren safe at first
base on a pop fly that was caught BY
Billy LAUDER
After this shaking up by Orth I kept
sufficiently awake during the remainder
of the game" continued Bob. but
shivered in my shoes all that night for
fear that the morning papers might point
out to their readers a whole lot OF bad
breaks that I had unccnsciously made
the day before"
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HYLAS TAKING A REST.
Champion Steeplechaser Laid Up
Since Last Summer.

NEW YORK. May 9.-Thomas Hitch
cock. Jr.. is afraid Hylas. his famous Med
Gler steeplechaser. may not train again.
,iyias. the winner OF two Champions and
other steeplechases Of importance. has
been laid up since last summer He fell
anne at Sheepshead Bay. and after Mr..
Hitchcock sent him to Westbury to rest
up he broke through barbed wire fence
ne day and ran away seven or eight
niles.
, Irefully since returning from Europe
:; Id made up his mind that il the horse
H. to stand racing again he must not be
hurried. II Ia improbable that anything
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Horse and Colt Show at Leesbure.
Special Correspondence Of The Star
LEESBURG, Va. Msvs 1et

I-EESbCINO, va, May 3, 1908.
The Horse and COX Show Association
OF Loudoun county has issued its premium
list for the seventh annual exhibition tn
be held at Leesburg June 5 and 4 next
The list contains thirty-six classes. In
which number of special prizes have
been offered by people in Leesburg and
vicinity. Mr.. w. c. Eustis. the president
of the association. offers a silver cup in
the green hunter class. and the Loudoun
Hunt Club will present d cup TO the WIN
ming horse in the Loudoun hunter class
The exhibiting ring on the grounds has
been made larger. and other improve
ments have been made.
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Gotch to Wrestle Zbysco.

NEW YORK: May 8.-Frank Gotch
champion wrestler of the world. has
signed to wrestle Zbysco, the Polish
champion. in Olympic Hall London. June
10. The match Is to be for a purse OF
S 900 and for a side bet of 5000. Gotch
will sail for London the middle OF this
month. and VII have about three waeks
training in London before the match
Zbysco is the wrestler who is credit ed
with making Hackenschmidt show the
white feather. He Is giant, and Gotch
is expected to have a hard match.
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Foot Ball Practice at Harvard.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. May 9.-Forty-six
candidates for Harvard foot ball honors
reported for the initial spring gridiron
practice on Soldiers Field. This is the
largest squad that has ever turned out
for spring work at Harvard. Several OF
last years veterans were on the field in
foot ball toys Among them we're Burr.
kennard, Fish and Browne
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Bob Emslie's Bad Break.

No man in the world Is more open to
criticism than a base ball umpire, par
ticuiarly II he is officiat!ng in major
league games. and the criticism hurled at
an umpire is always of the adverse de-
scription and usually unmerited. for the
Woodworking Indicator handler means to
be square. and generally Is SO. But there
are occasions when the umpire has an of
day just as ball player does. and when
these of days come the indicator man is
bad TO q rotten degree.
When Tommy Connolly gave what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10
Ten Leading Sluggers.

VIII oe done with him until fall If Hylas
starts in a big chase this season II viii hs
the Champion. Mr.. Hitchcock is keenIv
disappointed at the lameness OF HyIas.
he did not consider the Meddler geld
ing great chaser before he went abroad
last winter but since Rubio won the
ne IS inclined to think HyIas. sound.
would have first-class chance in that
race In any year The Grand National
calls for good jumping. and unconQuer-
aoie endurance is Hylas' long suit
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Ten Leading Run Getters.

Double Plays.
St. Louis. 10: Philadelphia. 10: Cleveland. TO-
Z; New York. 5.
Triple Play.
Philadelphia. l. vs.. Washington.
Passed Balls.
Philadelphia; !: New York. /: Chicago, l;
Washington. 2; Cleveland. 8; Boston. s.
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Tom Hughes Feet.

Tom Hughes, the elongated pitcher of
the Washington club, is big man, and
naturally Tom has man size pedal ex-
tremities. His team mates. love to kid
Tom about the size of his feet, and refer
to them as being gunboats and SO forth,
when in reality the big fellows under
pinning is nothing at all unusual for a
man Of his size; still the gang when they
are in a kidding humor never fail to get
after Tom.
Tom is himself a past master In the art
OF guying. and when he gets a chance
at the other fellows he also rubs it in
but little Shipke shot a hard one al
Hughes one morning last week when the
Washingtons were all out at practice
Tom Hughes and Shipke got into an
argument over the ownership of a ragged
glove that would not have brought a
nickel at a 7th street rummage sale.
The argument between the players
reached a rather heated point when
Hughes In finishing off his spiel shouted
out:
Because you see Shipke I am not q
man who stands on trifes."
NO" shot back Shipke. II know that
I haven't forgotten that you come from
Chicago"
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PITCHERS RECORDS.

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tina
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Individual Averages.
Prize Winners

High average-y n. Castel. % n 10.
High game-Ed Yea. 121.
Nest strikes-F. 4. Curtis. 10.
Most spares-F. IL. Wrcnn. to.
High series-J. F.. Hutchinson. IT,. 33l.
High fiat gamer. T.. Burks. 81.
Winning team-The .Bobs.
McNulty prize 18th manj-Walter Harrison
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Harry Bays Retort.

Harry Bay. who was perhaps the
speediest fielder that Cleveland ever had
is a member of a band of musicians who
travel in the off season with one of those
ten-twen-thirt shows that do Uncle
Toms Cabin East Lynne" 1.-THE Two
Orphans" and other pieces that used to
bring the tears to the eyes Of our an
cestors.
Harry Bay plays the horn and the big
bass drum, and in tight places he has to
double on the Instruments, for Harry is
the leader and must be general utility
man.
One night last winter Rhoades. the
pitcher of the Cleveland club. met Harry
on a street car up in tthe Forest City.
and as Bay was loaded down with a bass
drum Rhoades said to him:
why. Harry. where are you going this
time Of night with that drum"
"Oh," replied Bay, as he stretched his
arms and yawned, while the faintest sus-
picion of a smile lowered over his face,
Il am Just beating 1t for home.''
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Z2z@ @ g SS;::z :Z:;, Il:

unable not only to walk, but even
to sit up without help. Until now
there has been neither trial nor in
vestigation of her case. Could. she
be brought before any court in her
present condition?
Soon after the Kreger family de-
parted the dragons brought a lit
tie girl of about years of age,
Anna Puren, into the court yard.
The child, suspecting no harm,
walked cheerfully along between
her guard. Her father was a farm
laborer who had taken part in the
revolutionary movement of 1905,
and since then had been hiding in
the forest. The family was entirely
without means, and therefore the
child, her mother, and her grand
parents had been living in the
Ringsmundshof almshouse.
The little girl was accused of
having taken food to her father in
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EIGHT CLUBS FOR
LEAGUE NEXT YEAR

The Northwestern league next
season may comprise eight teams.
Portland, Helena and Everett all
want to get in. Jack Flannery,
chief of police of Helena, who
used to manage the Helena team
in the good old days, has applied
for admission of his town again
and is backed by E. A. GOpdkind,
a wealthy merchant All three of
the new applicants, however, can
not be taken in and one must be
eliminated.
The circuit committee, which
comprises Joe Cohn of Spokane,
D. E. Dugdale of Seattle and Dick
son of Vancouver, will meet in
December, at which time applica-
tons will be considered.
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IN THE JUSTICE COURT
s. c. Hyde, Justice
yfoto IF Wocbinu%oD

IN THE JUSTICE COURT
s. c. Hyde, Justice
State of Washington,
County of Spokane.
To w. w. Redhead: You are
hereby notified that Beyer's Mar
ket has filed a complaint against
you in said court which will come
on to be heard at my office in Spo
kane, Spokane county, Washington
on the 9Th Of November, 1908, at
the hour of nine o'clock a. m. And
unless you appear and then and
there answer, same will be taken
as confessed and the demand of
the plaintiff granted. The object
and demand OF, said complaint is to
get judgment on promissory note,
made by defendant herein to plain
tiff herein.
8. G. HYDE,
Justice of the Peace.
Complaint filed Sept. 8, 1908.
Samuel T. Crane,
Attorney for Plaintiff, =,
410-11 Columbia bldg.
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showed me various photographs
which had been found in Kreger's
house.
DO you know these persons?" he
asked me.
replied in the negative.
do you know this MANI he
asked Amalia Kreger.
The girl replied:
mo, l don't know him."
And, indeed, we were perfect
strangers. But hardly had she ut
tered the words than the dragons
fell upon her and began to flog her
brutality. Ionin trampled upon her
body with his heavy boots, and the
unhappy girl filled the air with des-
perate shrieks of pain. After a
while she was made to stand up
again and Ionin asked once more:
DO you know this man."
She again answered in the mega
tive, and the flogging began again.
This time Ionin, nagaika in hand,
taking part in it. All this was done
in the presence of her old parents,
who sobbed helplessly at the sight.
These proceedings lasted for
three or four hours, when we were
all four thrown back into our cells.
After two weeks of repeated tor
ture Amalia kreger was taken
away to Riga, to the central prison.
The girl was so exhausted and mu-
tilated that she could not stand,
and the dragons were obliged to
carry her out in their arms, she
being driven in cart through the
fields to the station.
The parents were released at the
same time. They parted from their
daughter with bitter tears. | wit
messed the scene from the window
of my cell. She is still lying in the
Riga prison hospital, although two
years have passed since then, "a
most pitiable sight of a mutiliated
woman" as the prison doctor told
me later, when | was also placed
in the same hospital. She is still
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his hiding place in the forest. Ionin
gave the order that she was to be
flogged. When we in our cells
heard the heartrending childish
screams we could not refrain from
tears, and vowed sooner or later to
take vengeance upon the perse.
cutors.
Soon afterward the mother and
grandparents were brought into
Lindvarden and likewise flogged
with nagaikas. Later the child was
set free, but the mother (also
called Ann Puren) and the old peo-
pie were transferred to Ogren.
During my presence in the Lind
warden punitive detachment the
majority of those tortured were be-
tween the ages of and IL or. be-
tween so and 80. Those between
the ages of 20 and 80 comprised the
smallest number of victims.
(To be continued.)
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nurse to greater power, and some
time good day we shall use it to
tear off the bonds that make men
evil and hayward and bestial. We
shall make things SO bright with
the sun of justice that the gangrene
that testers in mems souls will
cease to poison the body polite.
And that will be better than cutting
men up after they become diseased.
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GONZAGA OPENS FAST

Gonzaga college football team
defeated the Cheney Normals on
the Gonzaga ground, II to 0, yes
terday. The normals played a des-
perate defensive game, but Coach
George Varnell's clever college
team proved far superior to the
normals.
Right Tackle Roberts of Con
zaga gained 100 yards in a desper-
ate sprint toward the close of the
last half.
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OFFICIALS LINEUP FOR
SATURDAY GAME

The following officials have been
selected for the football game at
Recreation park Saturday after
noon between Tacoma and the
south central high school. Referee,
w. S. Kienholz, formerly of Min
nesota; umpire, 7. G. Cook; field
Judge, Alton Tredich; head lines
man, Coach Perkins of Tacoma.
The game will be called at 2.30.
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In Justice Court Before s. c. Hyde
Justice of the Peace, in and for
Spokane Precinct, Spokane
County, State of Washington.
To Minnie Bloch:
You are hereby notified that c.
E. Gazette has filed a complaint
against you in said court which
will come on to be heard at my
office in Spokane, in Spokane
County, Washington, on the 9Th
day of November, 1908, at the hour
of 9 o'clock a. M, and unless you
appear and then and there answer,
the same will be taken as con.
fessed and the demand of the
plaintiff granted,
The object and demand of said
complaint is to recover the sum of
fifty dollars and costs for services
rendered.
S. G. HYDE,
Justice of the Peace.
Complaint filed Sept. %, 1908.
McWilliams & McWilliams, At
torneys for Plaintiff.
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(This is continuation of the
third installment of the terrors of
Russian tortures told by a suf-
ferer.)
In the beginning of the same
month railway employee, Kreger,
with his wife and daughter, Amalia.
was arrested at the station of
Ringsmundshof. The parents were
both nearing 20. The daughter was
%. Amalia Kreger was suffering
with a serious disease, and had just
returned from st. Petersburg,
where she had been lying for some
time in hospital.
Some socialist leaflets had been
found during search in her
fathers house, and the whole fam
lily was arrested In consequence
and brought to Lindvarden. They
were handed over to PrinZ and
Ionin. The old father was in feeble
health and soon became uncon-
scious under the torture, and the
dragons, believing him to be dead,
dragged him out of the room and
threw him into a sort of granary,
which did duty as a morgue.
The daughter was forced to be
present in the room during the tor
ture of her parents, and the mother
subsequently beheld the agony of
her daughter. The torture took
place in the story above us, so that
we could hear the groans and cries
of the victims. Later on the old
man revived, and was thrown one
day into our CELL Two days later
all three were taken to the torture
chamber again.
One day don't remember ex-
actly which, was summoned to
the dreaded room. There | found
Ionin, Prinz, several other officers
and dragons and the three unfOr-
tunate Kregers. We four were
made to stand up together, which
we were hardly able to do because
of our great weakness. 1onin
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HOW THEY CUT
OFF JOE'S ARM
BY HERBERT QUICK.
BY HERBERT QUICK

CHICAGO, Ills, Oct. 20.-LittIe
Joe Bulanda, IA years old, lives in
this city. He is one of the hun,
dreds of thousands of boys who exc
out a distorted and stunted life
morally and physically, in the pull
sating tumor of American life, the
great city. Morally, he grew SC
crooked under the perssure of this
nightmare life that he became a
ward" of the juvenile court. Phys.
ically his system got poisoned by
virus and weakened by unnatural
conditions so that gangrene at
tackled an injured arm, and the doc
tors, called in after health was de-
parted, said that the arm must be
cut off, or he would die.
And here the state which seems
unable to prevent or cure the con-
ditions which bring on gangrene in
body and soul, came in and vindi-
Gated it's power and dignity.
Little Joe's father, knowing the
horrible fate that is likely to befall
the MANNED in this devil take the
hindmost civilization of ours, pro-
tested against the cutting off of his
boys arm. He preferred the chance
that Joe might die to the certainty
that in a world where living
comes hardly to two hands the boy
with but one must sink to beggery,
to that hell underneath society. into
which the disabled sink-the hell
of the man who cOnnot be a good
workman, or even good" hobo
or good yeggman.
And little Joe, agreeing with his
father fought against the loss of
that precious arm with all his child
ish strength. He was young, but he
knew the inferno into which his
father saw him slipping.
But Judge Tithill issued the nee
essary order, and the state took
poor little Joe, held him on an OPP
Grating table in spite of his strug-
giles, gave him chloroform and cut
off the gangrened arm. To save a
human life it dismembered a hui
man body, against the will of the
two human minds most nearly con-
cerned.
1t sounds like story of old
Sparta! The state-the people in
their collective capacity, so strong
as to shear from the body of the
citizen his right arm, not for re-
venge, not for punishment, but for
his own good!
And yet, there's another side to
the shield. This same strong state
the collective us-let, this boy
grow up in the. congested condi.
tons that made for gangrene. Or
if it was not so in Bulanda's case
| it is so in millions. So strong in
applying remedies for the physical
so weak to prevent social gangrene
Well, cheer up! The strength we
are developing-the we of the state
will not always be spent in cut
ting off rotten arms or revenine
itself upon so-called crime. This
glorious strength of ours. we shall
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gosh, but | wisht was a girl,
sost could quit offic boyin anr be
a salomy danser an git 200 dollers
a weak.
acourse ide hafto have pritty
good shaip too, girl kin be bilt
like peace of sewer pipe an walk
up an down maine strete looklin
like cloke nodded fer shaip, if she
nose how to put on the cushions,
but she don't maik good in the
salomy danse unless shese got the
reel goods Oh tapp
sene pickcher of eva tangway
the luther day all fixt up fer a sa-
lomy an hardly dasted to stand
lookin at It, was afrade ! was too
yung
wei any way the pickcher was
enuf fer me, didn't talk flash at
it an then dash fer the box offs
like a tramp running to a fire in a
brewery, the way | sepe sum
growed up guys dom
don't know wot kind of a danse
it is, not having sene nuthin but
the pickcher, but should say it
was pretty lively, otherwise eva
would ketch cold out THAR without
no yunion SCOT nor nuthin to keap
the wind off of her except a string
of Deeds an sum old lace curtin
wen sene all them guys goin in
to buy tickits thot to myself, this
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EASY GAME FOR ATTEtL.

Bobby Johnson, the clever little
fcatherweight who won a decision
on a foul from Kid Scaler in this
city about four years ago, lasted
less than two rounds against Abe
Attell at Reno, New, last night. A
blow on the jaw finished the fight
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LAST GAME SUNDAY.

The Bradleys and the Cubs of
the City league will play the last
game of the season at Natatorium
park Sunday. Harry Rush will
pitch for the Bradleys and Vic
Holm for the Cubs.
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CLUB BOWLING LEAGUE.

A bowling league will be organ
lied at the S. A. A. C. Saturday
night. E. B. Childs, Ray BigelOw,
Pete Hornbeck, George Lareida,
Jimmy Astholz and Monroe Miller
will probably name teams.
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Help Wanted-Male.

Wanted for Army-Able bodied un.
married men between ages OF IS
and SO; citizens of United States,
of good character and temperate
habits, who can speak, read and
write English. For information APP
ply to Recruiting Officer. 1261a
Howard street, Spokane, Wash.
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WORLDS BOWLING RECORD

The worlds bowling record was
broken at st. Louis yesterday by
the Schneidt team, which bowled
1906 pins in three games. Three
of the players average above 241.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND
HOMESTEADS.

We have two fine relinquish.
ments of 100 acres each, adjoining
each other; all fine level land;
abundance of timber; living
water on each quarter. The last
chance to get. a fine quarter sec
ton for $3.50; will trade either one
for good lot.
SLATER LAND co.
420 RoOlery Blk. Phone Main 1857.
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OFFICE KID ON THE SALOME DANCE

is a funny gain, all these guys Is
crazey to see eva, an to see all they
kin of her, but if l Of them had a
sister or dotter that wanted to
be salomy he would beat her