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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
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Simpson kicked his squaw and
half breed papoose into canoe,
slowed jug of whisky with as
much care as he was capable OF
and showed off. Under dirty rag
of sail the little craft slid away
among the islands, the squaw steer
ing while Simpson slept. For Simp-
son was drunk. familiar sequence
of his visits to the little sawmill
settlement. His inebriated depart
ure with the squaw had been a
local feature ever since he found
her one day in front of the store,
hypnOtized by scant display of
bright calico. Under the influence
of liquor and the only generous inn
pulse he was even known to display
he bought the piece Of cloth and
hung it over her dirty head. Being
herself remnant of a squalid
Puget sound tribe, she arose and
followed in response to the first at
tention of her life other than con-
tempt. The faded and greasy calico
was tied about her head the last
time she was kicked into the canoe.
She never got another, and her
fidelity never wavered.
Simpson camped somewhere
over on one of the San Juan
islands in a time when neighbors
were neither numerous nor curious.
Lack of personal consequence dis
couraged speculation as to how or
when he got there. If washed his
skin should have been white. for
his hair was red. His disposition
was as unlovely as his squaw's
countenance.
Before they got home a misty
rain came in from Tatoosh and sob.
cred Simpson somewhat, in which
condition he was apt to be uglier
than normally. Consequently he
kicked the squaw out of the canoe
when she finally beached it, kicked
her up to the shack and out again
after she had started a fire. The
papoose went with her in the half
blanket by which he had dangled
on her back all day.
Being kicked out in the rain was
merely incidental to Simpson do
mesticity and the squaw $50 &C.
cepted it. She could sneak back
when Simpson slept. There might
be something left in the jug. In
the fringe of timber near the beach
she crept into the dry and hollow
butt of a big cedar and there they
slept, probably as comfortably as
many white mother and child be-
meath a roof.
With the dim glimmer of a rainy
Puget sound morning savage in
stinct whispered a warning to the
squaw in the grating of a boat keel
on the gravel. She knew that WIS.,
itors were unwelcome to Simpson.
Why was not her concern. Leaving
the papoose she crept out on the
trail. Two men were moving eau
tiously up the shore, each carrying
a rifle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
THIS Man HAS
11FREAK FARM

NEW EGYPT, N. j.. Nov. H.
G. U. Foulke of this place, who is
head master of the Mari Ridge
grange, operates what may be
termed a. freak farm"
The proper name of it is the
Maple Shade farm, but for the last
two or three years there have al.
ways been some wonderful freaks
of nature among it's harvests.
This season Mr.. Foulke has been
able to exhibit IL perfect cabbage
heads grown on one stalk; three
tomatoes on one stem, grown each
fast to the other; a sweet potato
that had grow entirely through a
knot of hard wood, the wood being
worn into almost the exact shape
of colts hoof; ears of corn 16
inches in length, and dwarfed
tomato of the large variety.
Besides this he has sweet pota-
toes which are perfectly sound, yet
grown in 1906 and 1907. These
things have been brought to the
attention of many farmers and
grangers, who consider them ex-
traordinary, to say the. least.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

ST. LOUIS. Nov. 12.--.Part of the
mystery of the robbery of S. G..
Powell in Chicago this summer Of
$50, 200 worth of diamonds has been
cleared up by the recovery of some
of the stones from Foster George, a
negro diamond thief.
o. G. Fessenden, president Of the
jewelers. Protective union of the
country; Asher Rossetter, general
superintendent of the PinkertOn
service, and half a dozen jewelers.
and pawnshop men have held a con-
ference with the local police chief,
which ended in Fessenden and Ros-
setter giving their receipt for 213
carats of unset diamonds recovered
by the detective bureau, and these
were taken to Chicago to be used
as evidence in the criminal pro-
ceeding to be brought there against
George.
Fessenden expressed his pleasure
at the recovery. He estimated the
worth of the goods recovered by
Chief Smith and his men at little
over $4,000, and stated that the
confessions obtained by the local
detective chief would result in the
recovery of most of the stolen
jewels.
There were checks and notes In
the stolen wallet amounting to sew
eral thousands of dollars, which
were destroyed. Powell has salts
fed himself that the wallet was
stolen from him In the Memorial
Exchange building In Chicago.
Pinkertons are now securing
Winnipeg. Minneapolis, Detroit,
Kansas City and Chicago for the
other diamonds George disposed OF.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

of it: 'Baby's GROUPINGS caught
by the cannibals and quit being a
missionary-trimmed with pale
terra Gotta roses and green plumes
seen drinking in a low saloon
where they had rattle for a hem
stitched dresser scarf-and at last
won a man, it's about time the
child was black in the face-by
taking one cup of butter; one cup
of--passementerie tackled on the
bias-because they haven't spoken
since to the minister--his going
out of town is said to be only a
bluff-and now we send out fiat
work to the laundry
1.-THE gong found me clinging to
the ropes. l could feel my mind
going. | wanted to accompany it.,
so crawled out of the, arena on
my hands and knees. Reaching a
nearby life saving station | got a
kimmel under my belt and the doc
tor says I'll pull through il my feet
aren't too big"
Il bet all the same It sounded
all right to them" remarked the
Prescription Clerk, starting to mop
the floor. -
Sure thing said Hair Oil Har-
ry, none of them was listening"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

new house of representatives,
chosen last Tuesday, will then
meet, elect it's speaker and other
officers and adopt its rules. About
one-third of the republican majority
of the house are new members.
Among the old members Speaker
Cannon is already at work. Aware
of the feeling against him, he is try
ing to minimize it. During the COM
ing session of there months he will
have an excellent opportunity to re-
pair his fences and strengthen his
position. 1t is predicted that he
will use all the power of his office
and Of his personality to secure the
vindication of reelection. Some
members he will cajole, others he
will bulldoze.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
DAILY SHORT STORY

We've got to be D. quiet
about this" said one. Its probably
case of kill the old devil, for he
won't go back alive II he can help
1t. There's no use taking chances"
The squaw knew 1t would take
time to arouse Simpson after he
had been to the settlement. And
not even an Indian can travel
swiftly and quietly through un-
touched Washington woods. She
turned back bending low on the
trail.
There he is. He's going to
shoot" exclaimed one of the in
truders, and the rifles cracked. A
bullet splintered through the shake
wall just over Simpsons bunk. The
other stopped in the squaw's breast.
Hidden by the smoke she lurched
off the trail and tried to crawl to
the big cedar. Simpson slipped out
of the shack through the brush to
an inlet and launced himself in a
canoe reserved for such need. BY
daylight the men searched the
island vainly for Simpson. They
found the squaw, cold and bloody,
and then they left with the tide,
pointing their sloop north for Brit
ish Columbia. 1t is no good thing
for officers to murder any sort OF
innocent humanity, especially on
foreign soil, even while trying to
smuggle out an escaped convict
dangerous to capture and trouble
some to extradite.
Last summer yacht pushing her
nose through the channels among
the islands dropped anchor and the
party went ashore in search of
fresh spring water. A white clad
girl peered into the hollow butt of
big cedar, sqdealed the announce
ment that she had discovered some,
thing and induced her escort to in
vestigate. With stick he rolled
out a fragment of blanket wrapped
about a handful of tiny bones and
baby skull oddly mishapen. After
the EXPLANATIONS of horror had sub
sided the. scientist of the expedition
explained that an indian infant had
been abandoned there in some sort
of emergency or carousal. He knew
it had been. left alive, otherwise
Indian burial would have been
given it, native superstition being
kinder to the dead than native con-
sideration for the living. Squaws
were careless of their offspring.
He stood as he talked on slight
elevation erected by falling leaves
and moss from the forest. Had he
been awkward he might have
kicked into view the bones of an
Indian mother who had lain dead
few feet from a papoose as it
hungrily whimpered it's life away
in the butt of the big cedar. I
know, for l heard Simpsons DEATH
bed history and explored his island
afterward. He asked me to buy him
there and put them all in a grave
together where the squaw died.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
SHE FINDS MOTHER SHE
NEVER SAW

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Nov.
12.-Catherine Wier, five years old,
travelled alone from st. Louis to
Chico. supposing she was coming
to her aunt, only to surprise Mrs.
Dan Durkee Jr., who had not ex-
pected her, and In turn to be sur
prised in discovering that Mrs. Dur.
kee was really her mother. whom
she had never known. When an
infant the child was given by her
mother. newly made a widow, to
st. Louis neighbor, who reared her
in the belief that they were her par
ents. Mrs. Wier came to San Ber
nardino, recently married Dan Dur
kee, son of wealthy Chino valley
family, Durkee insisting his brides
daughter join them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
PROBLEM---HOW WILL THEY
GET RID OF JOE CANNON?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-How
TO rid itself of Joseph G. Cannon
as speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives is now one of the great
est questions before the republican
party. That such radiance is de-
sirable a great majority of repub-
licans admit. That it can be done,
many doubt. There is deep discon-
tent with the Cannon leadership. 1t
is deeper among the people than
among the politicians. But the pop
ular feeling is producing effect
upon members of congress and
members-elect. It is possible the
republican party will turn against
Cannon and depose him from his
place. though 1t cannot as yet be
said the probabilities are strong in
that direction.
Republican members of the house
arriving here are often asked for
an expression Of their views upon
the speakership. Almost invariably
they decline to be quoted. They
are unwilling at this time to take
. stand either for or against Can
non. This means they are all aware
Of the deep feeling that the party
should rid itself of the present pre-.
siding officer of the house, but are
waiting to see which way the cat
Jumps before announcing their own
attitude. All winter this is sure to
b. one OF the most interesting top
les Of discussion at the national
capital
The struggle over the speaker
chip. II struggle there be. will come
next March. President-elect Taft
hee announced that he will call a
special session Of congress to meet
Do0n after his inauguration for the
purpose Of revising the tariff. The
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
The KAISER HAS
STAR READER

BERLIN, Nov. ia court as
trologer Is the latest addition to the
kaiser's already large suite. The
idea is not a new or very original
one, for during the reign of Louis
XIII. of France the post was an
envied berth among the wise men
of Versailles, but Louis XIV. abol
ished the office because some OF
the predictions of its holder dis
pleased one of his mistresses.
The reason why William ii. has
decided to have court astrologer
is that he has been struck by the
extreme wisdom of certain state
ments of one of that ilk.
The declarations which thus
brought astrologers into the good
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
AN EXPLANATION

Has prosperity returned? Well say,
1t looks that way!
What's that?
said I'd eat my hat
If Bryan met defeat?
You're dreamin', DO!
l said six months ago
We'd simply eat 'em up. Say, Pete.
You're off. l never said
A change was needed
That's on the dead!
l never needed
The ones who said that Taft was
not
To be our Johnny on the spot.
The Bryan button which l wore?
Aw, that was but joke.
| tore
1t off a week before
The people spoke.
Why, l was strong
For Bill Taft right along!
Gee, amt it great
The way we wiped 'em off the
slate?
Now let biz
Begin to siz-
Will she boom? Greatest boom you
ever saw
Rah, 'rah, 'rah!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
SHE NEVER KNEW
HUBBY'S NAME

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. I'm
declaring that she never knew her
husbands first name, Mrs. Esther
Nieman of Monroe street created
laughter at the central police court.
Il have always called him Pop
from the first day l married him
and as he did not object, I never
worried myself about his first
NAME" said Mrs. Nieman, who had
her husband arrested on the charge
of failing to support her.
The accused husband. by direc.
ton of the magistrate. was induced
to tell his wife his full name.
Certainly. I'm only glad to do
It," remarked the defendant. 'but
think my wife has known right
along that am Jacob Nieman."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
THE SOFT DRINK DISPENSER SPELLS
SOMETHING ABOUT SEWING CIRCLES
BY FRED SCHAEFER

81 sat in at new game t'Otht
day, and all I've got to thank fc
not being slammed into a close
keb at the courthouse door ant
trundled off to the wheel works j.
the fact that l had beginners lucl
and came away before fatty degen
Grafton got in its work on my gra
matter" said Hair Oil Harry, thu
soda expert, as he polished ths
glasses at the front counter.
$50 reason didn't really totter OF
her throne?" chirped the Prescrip
ton Clerk.
"Nope," said Harry. fishing fl.
out of the crushed pineapple, "but
one of the castors ON her throne is
pretty loose, at that"
What did you tackle, an Ibsen
reading?"
"Not quite that classy" replied
Harry. Something not so mucf
to the high brow, but still full OF
kinks that puzzled your cultured
colleague to connect with. It was
a sewing circle"
Where did they hold the sewing
circle, in a roundhouse?" The Pre-
scription Clerk could be real witty.
That is, he could be.
"Been inhaling ether again,
haven't you?" continued Harry.
but, never mind. I'll tell you about
the circular needlefest. 1t was at
our house and l was at the ringside
because l was laying off with that
kopfschmerzen of mine. When the
bunch of fairies drilled In with
their doll rags l thought I'd stick
around awhile and maybe get onto
some of their inside plays I'd
read in the Ladies' Home Gazette
how sewing circles were all to the
uplift."
Hair Oil Harry dissected an or
ange for the jap Suey bowl, then
resumed.
"Never again! Ever hear a
massed monologue by the whole
strength of the company including
the wind machine In the wings
That was 1t. Here's what my re-
cording disk gives for one minute
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
DIAMOND MYSTERY CLEARS

graces of the kaiser were to the
effect that the sign of the scorpion
Nov. "a to Nov. 26-is particu-
larly productive of good rulers and
statesmen.
Under that sign have been born
President Roosevelt, Edward VII.
the mikado of Japan, the king of
Italy and President Fallieres.
But will the new German court
astrologer have the courage to re-
mind his majesty that the latter
was born under the relatively unin-
teresting sign Of aquarius?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
JOKE RESULTS In
DAMAGE SUIT

CONVICTION, KY. Nov. H.
Miss Daisy Edwards, Newport,
KY, filed suit in the United States
circuit court for $4,000 damages
against the Coney Island company
because she claims to have been
the victim of a practical joker"
on one of the company's boats last
June.
Miss Edwards says she was re-
turning from Coney Island and
was just about to sit on a chair
when a deckhand, with a false idea
Of humor, pulled the chair from
under her. She struck the floor
and sustained injuries which, she
says, have crippled her perma-
nently.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12
MOST ANyTHIMG}
&BE ReD 49, g. s@G1ff ~

Germany compels insurance for
employer and employed, and every
injured workman draws eompensa-
ton when injured or sick
At a depth of As feet under
ground the temperature fs uniform
the year round. - -
Since 1902 the United States gov
eminent has reclaimedD 5000, 900
acres, which, added to the 100000
acres reclaimed prior to 1902, has
added 12,2O0.OOO acres to the habit
able area.
From it's source to the sea, the
Missouri is 4100 miles long.
If Rockefeller continues to snoop
around at 26 Broadway. he may be
suspected of being on Archbolds
pay roll.
Paper nursing bottle. to be
thrown away after being used once,
is late patent.
Mill being erected in Hawaii has
contract to furnish 100000 ties a
year to an American railroad.
st. Peters at Rome will house
$4,000 persons.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

Wealthy Patron-When you get
to the point where you paint my
hair, ! wish you to let me know.
Portrait Painter--Very well,
madam.
Wealthy I4ady--Thank you; l
want my maid here to watch and
see that you do itup In the correct
style sa q
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

The Christian pulpit might be
properly called the upper house In
the parliament of world politics.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

At depth of As feet under
ground the temperature IL uniform
the year round.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

In Brussels there is a street con
'sisting entirely of steps, making
the longest flight of stairs in the
world. 1
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

Set screws, on rapidly revolving
shafts, killed or crippled 100 men
in Illinois factories in 1906.
Stella-HaS she a southern &C.
cent?
Bella-Yes. She can't get enough
RS in a month to eat oysters.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

Most recent contriance to pre-
vent safe blowing is chemical
compound, which creates poisonous
gases when safe is blown open.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

st. Peters at Rome will house
81 900 persons.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-12

Mill being erected in Hawaii has
contract to furnish 100000 ties a
year to an American railroad.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28
Proclamation.

Whereas; The Both day OF May OF
each and every year was set apart by
the G. A. X. as a day sacred to the
memory of their departed comrades
who died in the cause Of their country
and for the purpose of holding Memoir
ial services on said day; and
Whereas; by Section las of the com.
piled laws of the State of Utah SAID
day is set apart as legal holiday; now
Therefore; |, the Mayor of Spanish
Fork City, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by law, do hereby recon-
mend that all business on that day be
suspended, and do hereby forbid the
sale of vinous, spurious or other intox-
icating liquor on said Both day of May,
1908, and also indulging in the dance on
said day.
Witness my hand and seal of said
city, this 25th day of May, A. d. 1908.
JAMES A. MARTELL, Mayor
Attest, L. w. NIELSEN, Recorder.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28
Our Graduates.

The names Of those who graduated
from the eighth grade and who attend
ed the graduating exercises at American
Fork last Friday are as follows;
Arthur Bowers, Alex Jex, Anvil
Christensen, Bonnie Isaac, Brigham
Lewis, Cathrine Christensen, David
Monk, Delbert Brimhall, David Bowen,
Hughie Nelson, Heber Brockbank,
Elenor Lewis, Jane Miller, John Wilson,
John Davis, John Warner, Lenore
Gardner, Lewis James, Leo Olsen, Ray
Simmons, Lester Evans, Louise Frost,
Manda Lawrence, Edward Huntington.
Florence Beck, Francis Thomas. Han
nah Jarvis, Hannah Nickel, Howard
Davis, Hazel Lewis, Corless Rife,
Phebe Jex, Eliza Thompson, Elwood
Christensen, Elenor Beck, Estella Hunt
ington, Edna Miller, Edward johnson,
Edna Swensen, Elenor Brockbank,
Edward Christensen, Elsie Waterman,
Leo Hales, Willard Beck, Mabel Bates,
Margaret Money, Myrl Lewis, Moses
johnson, Ruth Larsen, Arthur Bowen,
Ruth Smith, Smell Miller, Sylvia Han
sen, Wallace Hicks, Wells Ferguson,
MILFORD Hansen, Maggie Miller, lretta
Sorensen, Nellie Jensen, Ross Rowe,
Ruby Nelson, Spencer Beck, Stanley
Baldwin, Victor Liefsen, Vernal Hal
versen, Wells Robertson, Reed COLLECT.
BENJAMIN Earnest Hand, Mildred
Hone, John Lundell. Joseph Lundell,
Genevieve Richardson, Marguerite
Stewart. Lily johnson, Martha Lundell,
Sterling Richardson, Delilah Richardson,
Orla Stewart, Miles sCurfew, Edna
johnson.
LAKE SHORE Ellen Andersen,
Eiffel Greer, Adilinda Rose, Florence
Argyle, Vera Measom, Mile Christ
mas, Andrew Adamsen, Alfred Tippets,
James Aitken, Walter Carlquist, Albert
Barney, Alpheus Leetham, Samuel
Francis, William Huff, Rodney Angus,
Albert Hill.
SALEM = Farley Coward, Reuben
Hatch, Lily Bahr, Chloe Hatch, Eliza
Davis, Martha Mooney, Fife Hanks,
Mary Brown, Dora Taylor; Edna Gard
ner, Dottie Tiffany, Ivy Curtis, Maud
Soren, Adelia Hiatt, Pearl Hanks, John
Gardner, Donna Soren, Earnest Keele,
HELEN Christensen, Estella Killian.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28
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