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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
IGNORES ATTORNEY
DEFENDS HIMSELF

WALLA WALLA, Nov. 14.-"No,
I'd rather tell them the truth my
self than have some blooming at
torney put me in the penitentiary,"
said James McQuade, charged with
larceny from the person, when he
was asked If he had secured an
attorney to defend him. And he
made good. Taking charge of his
own case, from the examination of
the talesmen to the final argument
before the jury, McQuade conduct
ed the case of the defense far bet
ter than some attorneys could have
done it. and had the satisfaction of
having verdict of not guilty re-
turned in his favor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14

The Official count today showed
that Taft carried Spokane county
In the late election by majority
of $3.50. The figures are Taft
1880, Bryan $50. All bets on
Spokane county can now be paid.
The vote for Debs in the county
was 1850, a gain of 104 over four
years ago. Chain, prohibitionist,
received 495 and Hisgen, indepen-
dence party, IA. Lester p. Edge
was the only democrat elected in
the entire county.
Poindexter, for congress, re-
ceived 1907. Goodyear 6,573; Poin-
dexter's plurality 1894. Cosgrove,
for governor, received 11,700, Pat
tison $3.50; Cosgrove's majority
4,S31.
For supreme court judges Chad
wick led with 10,509, Crow received
$3.50 and Root 9,S05.
For superior court judges HUI
neke Jed with 11,042, Sullivan was
next with 10,937, KEENAN, 1867,
Hinkle $3.50, Richardson $3.50.
On the legislative ticket the vote
was:
Second district-H. c. Hayard
3,198, r. E. Buchanan 3,433, r. F..
Collins 1851, w. H. Ferguson
1927.
Third district-M. Cogswell 2,7S9,
George l.. Denman 2,735, Grant
Cahill 1,45O. Henry Treede 1896.
Fourth district. A. Fancher
2,065, A. M. Stevens 2,054, c. D.
Martin 1871, Fred Dashiel Laos.
Fifth district-Buck 1.1O9. Croft
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
ting purposes as soon as

for dissecting purposes as soon as
she died.
DR.. Kress, who is secretary of
the medical college, astounded by
the young woman's proposal, was
obliged to refuse the request. He
explained to her that all the bodies
used on the dissecting tables were
furnished, in accordance with law.
from the county hospital and other
public institutions. .nit.Y
Baffled in this attempt, she told
the physician that she was anxious
to leave her body to the college for
scientific purposes and promised
that, when she. died, she would will
her body to the college.
1t was about 10 o'clock the next
Saturday when the young woman's
body, beautiful even in death, was
discovered by a chambermaid at
the Hotel Acacia. True to her
promise, a note was found on the
bureau sealed and addressed to DIR.
KreSs. NJ
After the physician had read the
note and seen the stricken mother,
he refused either to divulge the
contents of the note or accept the
body on behalf of the medical col
lege.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14

Special Correspondence TO The Press
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.-Driv-
en- to desperation by her love for
the dainty things that appeal to
the feminine heart and that she
didn't have money enough to buy,
after trying in vain to obtain
money by selling her body to the
medical college of the University
of Southern California, Mrs. Mel
son Sutherland Douglas, beauti-
full young woman "a years old,
wrapped herself in a blanket, laid
down on the bed in her room at
hotel in this city and snuffed out
her life with pistol shot.
Hers was strange story. In ad-
dition to her financial troubles, she
had become separated from her
husband, Jack Douglas, a travelling
salesman.
Though a graduate nurse from
the California hospital, she had
been unable to obtain employment
The Wednesday before she killed
herself, she called at the Office of
DR.. Gorge w. Kress, and attempted
to obtain money from him on the
promise that she would give her
body to the medical college of the
University of Southern California
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
FAMILY TRIED TO
BURN THEMSELVES

UPPER SANDUSKY, Nov. IA
Mrs. Priscilla Abers, So, her son
William, %, and her daughters Ella
and Mary. 10 and II respectively,
are in Jail charged with arson as
result of what may have been an
attempt to cl'emate themselves in
their home at Carey.
Marshal Gibbs discovered the
Abers home on fire and broke into
the house. He found the furniture
and flooring saturated with oil. The
mother and three children made no
attempt to escape from the burn
ing house and fought with the mar
shall when he tried to force them
from the building.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
N K|NLEY GOES
A'SHOPP|NG

PORTLAND, Nov. 14.-Horace
G.. Mckinley, of land fraud no
toriety, who was captured in China.
greeted acquaintances on Washing
ton street. Mckinley is serving a
sentence at the county Jail, but his
confinement since last spring has
not made inroads on his health.
Horace, the debonair member of
the land fraud ring, is becoming
stout--even fat-on the fare which
Uncle Sam has been providing.
1t surprised number of people
to see Mckinley sauntering on the
boulevard, and they wondered how
he had managed to complete his
sentence so soon.
United States Marshal c., j.
Reed explained McKinley's pres
ence downtown by saying Horace
needed new shirt and some UNI
derwear, and was permitted to do
HIS own shopping.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
PORTER TAKES COIN
AND SKIPS

BUTTE, Mont, Nov. 14-W. H.
Davey, former mayor of the city
of Butte. but now the proprietor of
the cafe which up to this time has
been known as the Purity, on West
Broadway, is mourning the loss of
q sack containing $40.
simultaneously the porter has
disappeared, and the police are
working on the case with the hope
of capturing the thief. When Mr.
Davey left his place of business
last night he gave the money to
the night cashier. The young lady
placed the sack behind a bread
board and went on with her work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
WOMAN FOUND
GUILTY

A verdict of guilty in the case
against Helen Wood, charged with
vagrancy on the ground that she
conducted an immoral resort in the
Pioneer hotel, Front avenue and
Howard street, was returned by a
jury in Judge Hinkle's court this
afternoon.
Harry A. Rhodes, assistant cor
poration counsel. appeared for the
city, and Horace Kimball repre-
sented the defendant. who was
present in court clad in furs and
wearing diamonds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
DESERTED HUSBAND:
CANNOT DIVORCE

NEW YORK. Nov. 1}.--4nder
a ruling of Supreme Court Justice
Aspinall, of Brooklyn, a wife who
becomes tired of wedlock and
leaves her husband simply for that
reason, breaks the marriage con.
tract, and may not obtain divorce
on the ground of infidelity, her
desertion being consent to or con.
nivance with the husbands subse.
quent errors.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
TAFT'S MAJORITY $3.50
BY The OFFICIAL COUNT

1854, Edge LIP, Gray 1,095.
Sixth district-John Anderson
1898, ]. w. Macarthur 1856, Will
liam Matthews LII, T. A. Scott
1888.
State senator's:
Third district-Jesse Huxtable
3,462, ]. B. Garnett 1,64S.
Fourth district-R. A. Hutchin-
son 1888, r. T. Johnson LAP.
Fifth district-E. c. Whitney
2,036, ]. D. Mclean 1922
For sheriff.. Mex. Pugh
1923, G.. E. Stone 1854 Clerk
c. E. Atkinson 1907, d. A. Gle
ment 6,367. Auditor-F. P. Greene
1907. Ira Isham 6,131. Prosecutor
Fred c. Pugh 1855, o. J. Saville
1894. Assessor-E. p. Galbraith
1925, Jay Daniel 1885. Superin-
tendent of schools-E. G.. McFar-
land 1929 (no democratic opposi-
tom. County engineer-A. r.
Scott 13,349 (no democratic oppo-
sition). Treasurer-Zack Stewart
1850, Samuel J. Martin 6,792. Cor
oner-Henry E. Schlegel 11,976,
Frank Taylor 6,341. County COM
missioner, First DISTRICT. S.
Phillips 11.750, VIM. Pittam 1884.
County commissioner, Second dis
trict-F. X. McBroom 1894, w.
r. Parks 6,292. Justices of the
peace. w. Stocker 9,240, S. c.
Hyde 9.470, s. A. Mann 9,39S, l..
w. Thiele 1857. Constables-Geo.
Murphy S,S19, w. F. Wood S,697,
G. o. Bump 1878, G. w. Dow
Alas, G. F. Hone 1910.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
SHE Hid THE POISON
in HER HAIR

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. IA.
Arrested on a charge of vagrancy
in dance hall, Catherine Jeffries
attempted suicide by taking CO.
caine in her cell in the City Prison.
She was transferred to the Central
Emergency hospital, where she
now lies in critical condition.
She had concealed the poison in
her hair when searched at the
prison
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
MILLIONAIRE
DISAPPEARS

PORTLAND. Nov. IA. B.
Conley, of La Grande, wheat
king and banker, who eloped with
Gertrude Williams from La Grande
a week ago, has not been found.
All the cities in the Willamette
valley have been notified to look
for him. The train on which he
left Portland last Thursday night
was searched at various places. I
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
MARRIAGE RELATIONS
HORRIBLY MUDDLED

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Nov. IL
William Loss. age IS, of Hazelton,
arrested foA desertion and non
support, told remarkable story IN
court.
He says his wife is his stepsister
by marriage, that she was a widow
of 40 years, with six children liv-
ing, the. eldest Is, and two dead.
and that he was induced to marry
her while he was intoxicated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
PUBLIC MARKET
KEEPS ALIVE

Market Master Happe is sur
prised at the way business keeps
UP at the city market, notwith-
standing the lack of shelter Farm
ers have evidently found that TAX
ing their stuff to market pays, and
they are looking forward with a
good deal of pleasure to the build
ing of market house on the city's
ground on the northside. There
were 81 teams on the market to-
day, and all did business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
MISS DOWNING PUTTING THE
FINISHING TOUCHES ON
THE STATUTE

in an indictment charging him
with classifying the bank s1accounts
and Incorporating fuhds.al
His action freed his aged father,
C. N. Schmick. president of the
bank, indicted upon'9s similar
charges. The father was not in
court. Young Schmickiss wife was
with him.
Judge r. w. Taylor Sentenced
him to five years in thet federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas.ssf
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
The annual Catholic fair begin

The annual Catholic fair begins
tonight at the Armory. The fair
is to last a whole week. closing
on the night of November 81. The
proceeds of the fair this year will
go for the furtherance of the work
In st. Anne's parish. Each year a
different parish is benefited by the
fair. There will be special pro-
gram to provide entertainment and
make things lively each evening,
Rev. Father Pypers Ii in charge of
the fair.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
WILLIAMS GIVEN COUNSEL

J. R. Williams, charged with lar
ceny from the person. was arraign-
ed before Judge Hinkle today. On
making plea of being unable to
employ counsel Attorney w. F..
Meier was appointed to defend
him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
LICENSE TEST TUESDAY

II. A. Simons, solicitor for
Rothchild Bros, liquor dealers of
Portland, Ore, who are arrested
for retailing without license, was
arraigned before Justice Mann this
afternoon and the trial was set for
10 o'clock Tuesday morning. II
the case is decided against Simons
he will appeal.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14

trary to section 49, page 2 of the
general election laws of 1908, con-
tributed to Captain Gray's defeat.
l am confident that if he demand
ed a recount in the coming legisla-
ture he would be seated"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14

Ksmith---I'ye bought an automo-
bile. Pjones-Ah, ! was wonder
in. Ksmith--Wonderin ! what !?
Pjones-What had become of your
watch and your diamond pin.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
SON GOES TO CELL TO
SAVE FATHER

CLEVELAND. Nov. 14.-W. Har-
ry Schmick, cashier of the First
National bank of Leetonia. o.
which failed, pleaded guilty In fed
eral court to the first &C counts
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14

Don't follow me, pup" said the
good natured man to the lost dog.
Il haven't any more home than you
have. | live in a flat"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-14
FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS
Genuine flags of all nations Will

Genuine flags of all nations Will
be a feature of the national apple
show decorations when the exposi-
ton opens in this city December
Z. This morning the show COM
mittee at the chamber of COM
merce received the gift of Santo
Domingo flag forwarded from the
Dominican consulate at Washing
ton. Requests have been made for
flags to all nations having a flag.
Absent treatment Is one of the
things that will sometimes cure a
lOVesick youth.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

vastly astonished the good folks of Huttee
Bagl had it been taken up by anybody else.
Close by the garden the shallow river
broke owes a perpendicular ledge of lime
stone (called by the natives, the bund,, or
dam, forming a waterfall which, though
mere drizzle in the dry season, was a per
feet Niagara in miniature during the July
rains. Below the waterfall the river went
rushing through rocky. gloomy gorge shut
in by sheer precipices of more than a hun
dreG feet.
1t was on the summit of this range of
cliffs that the public garden had been laid out
but between the palisade and the brink of the
precipiee there was space Just wide enough
for one man to pass. Here, on moonlight
nights, the eccentric colonel might often have
been seen Dy anybody who had been awake
to look at him, coolly walking backward and
forward in the dim light. on this knifeedge
of rock, with the spray of the cataract falling
very ground under his feet.
June was drawing to its close, and the rains,
which were generally pretty late in that
district, had just begun to swell the shallow
river into torrent, when, one morning, a
great uproar was heard in the barrack yard,
and two or three old Hindoos, who had been
down to the river to fetch water, found on
their return an excited crowd of native sol
diers, servants and idlers from the village
gathered near the gate, and all talking at
once.
what has happened, brother" asked one
of the water carriers, pushing his way up to
friend whom he recognized in the throng
Gan unlucky day has dawned upon Russian,
the son Of Assir." answered the other, who
wore the uniform of sepoy. Russian was
strong as a tiger, and as fierce; but as the
tiger falls before the hunter, even so has Rus
tam fallen before the Colonel Sahib"
'Is it even SOP" asked the other, with a
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

lool; of eager interest. '.What evil star
brought the terrible Sahib' across Rustams
path"
Thus it was, my brother. Russian and
another of our soldiers quarreled, and their
blows were falling fast, when suddenly the
Colonel Sahib came forth from the door Of
his bungalow and saw them. Then his face
grew dark as the coming of night, and he
cried to them, in voice like the roar OF the
river in flood time, to cease and begone. But
Rustam. that son of an unhappy father, took
no heed, and even turned upon the Colonel
Sahb with words of abuse Then the Colonel
Sahb's hand fell upon him, as lightning falls
upon the trees of the forest, and rolled hlm
in the dust: and they dragged him away to
The chokee (lock-up), and men say 1t VIII go
hard with him tomorrow"
The news of the affray at the barracks had
spread over the whole station before noon,
and every one was full of excitement about
it. The offending sepov, Rustani, was ia.
NOUS for his strength and fierceness, and had
long since been picked out by the knowing
ores" as certain to have a row with the colo
mel sooner or later.
Now that this long-expected event had ac-
tually taken place, every one was on the
alert for the probable consequences; but what
those consequences were really to be, neither
they nor any one else could have foreseen.
The regular 'lock-up" heing under repair,
Rustam had been imprisoned in dlsused
store house, whose mud walls seemed thick
and strong enough to hold giant.
But Russian was not one to be easily held.
As soon as the night was far enough adyanc-
ed to make the attempt a safe one, he undid
his soldiers belt and, with the strong metal
clasp of it, began to pick hole through the
earthen wall.
Meantime the colonel, finding the night
much too hot to remain indoors with any com
fort, had gone out to cool his blood by stroll
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
Copyright by James Elverson

GRO BE shut up for months together
in a dreary up-country station in
M the north of India. hot as an oven
but black faces to look at,
and nothing whatever to do except the daily
drill, and occasional raid into the jungle in
search of tiger, is not exactly the sort of
thing to sweeten anybody's temper 1t had
certainly rather the opposite effect-as his best
friends, if he had any, must have admitted
upon Colonel Charles Pefferley Crossthwaites 8.
doubt whether the worthy commandant of
the -th Bengal Native Infantry could ever
have been very pleasant companion at any
period OF his life; but now, at forty-fve, with
three wounds and an occasional twinge of
rheumatism, he was as explosive as a lighted
bombshell.
The few Europeans attached to the can
tonment were quite ready to agree with Mr.
Alfred Merriman, of the Civil Service-the
funny man" of their little circle-when he
remarked. one day;
''Our friend the colonel's as savage as one
of those tigers that he's always hunting
begging the poor tigers pardon for the com
parison."
This being the colonels general style in So
ciety, it may be imagined what he was like
among his men.
AS a rule. Asiatic soldiers think none the
worse of their commander for treating them
with severity, harshness being unhappily much
more familiar to them than kindness But
the colonels systematic bullying was too much
for even his patient sepoys; and although they
paid him much outward reverence to his
face, as if he had been their good Brahma in
person, the compliments which they heaped
upon him behind his back were beyond the
power of translation.
Whenever the old Tartar's purple face and
towering figure were seen coming along the
road, the Hindoos fed in every direction as
if from the approach of tiger. Wagoners
turned aside their bullocks almost into the
ditch, burden-carriers skunk off to the other
side of the way, and the very children took
to their heels at the first glimpse of the
tail, white pith helmet slouched over the
hooked nose and stern gray eyes of the
terrible Colonel Sahib."
The only civilized taste which the grim
man appeared to possess was his intense
pleasure in the charming little public garden
beside the river, in the laying out of which
he had borne a prominent part, and had taken
no small trouble.
Here he would sit in the evening for hours
together, listening to the music Of the regi-
mental band and feasting his eyes upon the
splendid tropical flowers and trees that clus-
tered around him.
But in addition to this fancy Colonel
Crossthwaite had another, which, however
natural it might seem in him, would have
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

along his favorite walk on the brink of the
precipice about / in the morning. But he had
scarcely made four turns when, as he halted
at the end nearest the dam, he caught sight
of something that made him start.
There was man walking across the daml
The colonel could hardly believe his eyes.
That any man should venture at night along
a slippery rock-edge, over the brink of which
swept furious cataract, through whose cur
rent he must wade ankle deep, was quite a
new idea. But at that moment the moon,
breaking through the clouds, fell full upon
the slowly moving figure, and the colonel rec
Prison breaking and desertion!" muttered
the old soldier; "and now he thinks to dodge
the sentries. by walking tight-rope along that
ledge. Not 30 fast, my fine fellow You
Crossthwaite!"
But as he turned to hail the nearest senti-
mel. Rustam's shadowy form vanished with
wild cry, and the next moment lean, brown
arm was seen waving frantically amid the
glittering foam of the central eddy.
He had lost his footing, and had only es-
capped being carried over the fall by slipping
into a cleft, where the water, swirling over
his, head. was literally drowning him by
inches
The colonels iron mouth set itself like a
wise. and his eye glanced from the bank to
the struggling man, as if measuring the dis.
tance. Then he stepped from the ledge-path
on to the open ground and shouted to the
sepoy to throw his head back and keep quite
still.
In another moment he was ankle deep in
the foaming river.
Rustam's cry and the eolonels shout had
startled the whole neighborhood, and an eager
crowd came flocking from every side. All
held their breath as they saw the sitting
waters swirling up over the doomed man, and
the dark, solitary figure moving slowly towards
him along that terrible ledge
So fierce was the current that every time
the colonel raised his foot to step forward
his life trembled in the balance, and nothing
but the Swallowing of the water upon the
smooth rock saved him from destruction.
Just as he came within stride of Russian
the moon plunged behind cloud, and there
was a moment of awful suspense, during
which the indrawn breath of the excited
crowd sounded like hiss in the dead silence.
But when the cloud passed, the colonel was
seen returning with the helpless man on his
shoulders. and the echoes of Huttee- Bagh had
never heard such shout az that which greet
ed him when he reached the shore.
Next morning, Russian and the colonel had
long talk together. What was said then no
one ever knew; but twenty years later, when
the officers of the -th found their terrible
colonel settled in the old English city of Bath,
as quiet, old white-hared general, they rec
ognized in the fne-looking Hindoo servant
who followed him like his shadow. the ex-
sepoy Russian.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
HUM OROUS WINGS

You are looking pretty hard this morn
ing" said the lettuce to the egg.
"Yes," answered the egg; 81 am just getting
over boil"
-susie-"Aunt Kate. isn't Miss Locutte
real poor?"
Aunt Kate-"Gracious, child. mol What
makes you think so?"
Susie" Cause at our party last night /
looked at her, and there wasn't enough Of her
dress to cover her shoulders, and there was a
big, wide rip down the back"
tt
The mother and aunt of seven-year-old
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22

had spent the greater part of their time at the
stores down town for several days, and he had
got tired of it.
''Well," he said, one morning. in the tone
of deeply disgusted young man, II suppose
you two are going shoplifting again today"
-Revolutionary-B Bicycles.
ct say, Ralph, ! wish was caterpillar. /"
What good would that do you%
"Why, then II would be SO easy to make
both ends meet"
Bullets can whistle. but it takes brave
man to listen to them.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-04-09

for vi If we can't marry with your
consent, by that time the law of Cal
ifornia will let us do it without" He
turned to Viola, who had gone to the
window. Goodbye, vi" he said slow
ly, looking at her yearningly, though
he took no step toward her You'll
hear from me as soon as I'm. ready to
build that house Have your plans
drawn and ready, my girl, for it won't
be so very long"
There was nothing defiant in his
manner, for all of the fearless ring of
the words. Stella could have hugged
him for the cheer, the hope, the man
hood in voice and face. He gave vi
ola one last look, glanced furtively at
Sally b., smiled at Stella a smile sad
der than tears and closed the door be-
hind him. In a moment his cheerful
whistle came back to them, and the
stump, stump of his crutch.
CONTINUED in our next issuel