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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
NEW SUNDAY
CLOSING WAR

The Sunday closing fight has
been taken up by M. Kirschbaum,
keeper of a small clothing store on
Main avenue, and yesterday a war
rant was sworn out for J. H. Con
merry charging him with keeping
his store at 226 Main avenue open
last Sunday. The fight originally
started by Harry Mus, but there
seemed a likelihood of the cases
being dismissed on evidence that
Mus solicited a bride and for that
reason the clothiers contemplated
a defense on the ground of malice
and design on Mus part.
The cases will be taken up be-
fore Justice Mann this afternoon
The clothiers who are in the tolls
have secured evidence the last two
Sundays against numerous keepers
of cigar stores who do a Sunday
business, and If they are convict
ed and compelled to close up, will
prosecute the others.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
KEEP
DENIS down

Democrats started things with
characteristic suddenness around
the city hall yesterday, and for a
time there was considerable fun.
Jim Daley, secretary of the demo-
cratic county committee, and Fred
Schade, president of the Bryan
club of the Second ward, heard
that Chief of Police Rice had given
orders that the democrats must
not parade Riverside, even with as
big man as Senator Gore in town.
Early in the day committee con-
sisting of P. B. Keaney and d. H.
Clements was informed by Acting
Captain Coverly that no one was
allowed even to carry political ban
ners for advertising purposes on
Riverside, and that no permit
would be granted to march on that
street to any except presidential
candidates. This sort of discrimi-
nation against common people
aroused considerable ire, and
forthwith Schade and Daley, rein
forced by Clements, brought the
matter to the attention of the
board of public works, which, after
listening to the eloquence of these
sterling democrats, referred them
to the chief, who had in the mean
while returned to town. The chief
and the acting chief were busy try
ing case in police court and re-
fused to come out. The committee,
very indignant at such an affront
to such an suspicious affair as a
democratic rally, again marched
en- masse to the board of works.
The board was just overriding the
chiefs order when Bailiff Chester
Edwards of the police court rushed
up and said that the chief had de-
cided to let the democrats march
their heads off if they could. The
renowned Edwards having poured
oil on the troubled waters, the
committee departed amid much
hilarity.
The parade came off last night
preceding the Gore meeting in the
Armory, when the marching club,
uniformed in white and AZ strong
with plain democrats behind,
marched to the music of band
of 20 pieces and stirred up more
dust than has been seen since the
days when the democrats bossed
the county.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
PARCELS POST
EXTENDS To
JAPAN

A bulletin received from the ppst-
office department by Postmaster
Harrison announces the extension
of the parcels post system of Japan
into Manchuria and China where
Japanese postoffices are main
tanned. Among the Manchurian
cities to enjoy the advantages of
the parcels post are Port Arthur,
Mukden, Lao Yang and other
places made historic by the Russo
Japanese war.
The American postal department
will cooperate with the Japanese
government in giving the benefits
of the parcels post to these regions
SO recently rescued from a semi
barbaric obscurity, while the intel
ligent American people will con-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

Der of the national congress. The
discussions are very naturally col
ored by the locality of the conven.
ton city.
When the convention met at
Muskogee, Okla, last year, the big
question was inland waterways.
and some pertinent questions were
asked of the government represen-
tatives at the congress.
This year the various exclusion
leagues and bodies of that charac-
ter have suggested that the sub
jects of Japanese exclusion and
coast defense be included in the
program. The committee started
out on that line and, as a feeler,
wrote to one of the western con-
gressmen requesting him to invite
a member of the war department to
San Francisco to discuss the ques-
ton of coast defense and tell the
people here something about the
guns that guard the Pacific coast.
The congressman wrote to Sec
rotary Francis of the trans Missis-
sippi congress that his reception at
the war department had been cool
and that he was informed that the
government did not divulge its war
secrets and expose its strength or
weakness to other nations.
That put a quietus on the pro-
posed discussion of coast defense
and Americas relations with Japan
until the announcement that Hob
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
BATTLE BEGINS OVER
VAN DE VANTER WILL

SEATTLE, Sept. Exchanging
that the late Senator Aaron 7. Van
De Vanter made will subsequent
to the will probated by his widow,
Martha A. T. Van De Vanter, now
Mrs. p. F. Purcell, the father of
the testator, John F. Van De Van
ter, has asked the superior court
to order hearing in contest pro-
ceedings, and to set aside and an
null the instrument probated by
the widow, which left the bulk of
a 100000 estate to her.
1t is alleged that the deceased
was coerced into making a will
leaving his property largely to his
wife on December 27, 1901, and
that in September, 1907, when he
was on his deathbed, he told his
nieces, who came to visit him from
Chicago, that he had made a will
leaving large sums of money to
his father, his brothers and sister,
and to other relatives.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24


by the big stick (holding up two
new $40 gold pieces). 1t looks like
a cross between a beer check and
the big stick. Republicans are OPP
posed to it because it will not
stack up. The democrats are not
they never saw two in such in
innate relation before.
Looking back through history,
from Pharaoh to Theodore, and
we find more trusts in the last -
years than ever before.
THE republicans declare they
want to restrict them. Are you 60
ing to commission the republicans
to murder their own children? To
slaughter their own brood?
DO you believe the farmer
should pay more for American
made goods than the Russian peas
ant along the Danube and the Ger
mans along the Rhine? Then you
are a republican.
The republicans promise to
regulate the tariff-regulate it up.
The democrats intend to regulate it
down.
When the republicans nomin-
ated Taft the ygave the kiss of
Judas. He is the father of that
kind of injunction which throws
the laboring man into dark,
dingy cell without indictment, trial
or conviction"
Judge Turner in his Introductory
remarks stigmatized the republi-
can powers as for the interest of
the dollar and not the man. He
said:
Decentralization has been pro
duced and corruption forces have
assailed the party in power. The
leadership of the republican party
has suffered from this cause. Con-
gress is nothing more than con-
servatory of aggregated wealth.
This apprehension is apparent to
all except those who. having ears
hear not, and eyes that see not.
Railroads are permitted to work
their wills unchecked. Coal, iron,
oil and timber is cornered by COM
bines and doled out at ever in
creasing prices. Wealth has piled
up until it is a positive menace to
our institutions.
THE people want return to
honest and correct manner of gov
eminent in the interest of the man
and not the dollar They will not
get it at the hands of the republi-
cans. The masses of the republi-
cans are honest and patriotic The
leaders are also honest and pa
triotic. One such leaders steps
have been opposed and thwarted
by his own party in his efforts to-
ward exposures of government
wrong by his own party.
'The prime need of the country
S democratic principles.
"A few days ago the change be-
gan back in Maine and | predict it
will sweep the whole country, Bry-
IN is the equal of the best man any
other party can produce
William Goodyear, democratic
nominee for congress, delivered a
strong address, following the close
Of Senator Cores speech
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

Special Correspondence to The Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. "a
viii the sessions of the trans Mis-
sissippi Commercial congress that
meets here October Clio be turned
into wild stampedes of insistent de
mand for the exclusion of orientals
from the United States and for
better protection of the Pacific
coast from possible invasion by a
foreign power?
This is the question that is now
worrying the administration at
Washington not little and the war
department is trying it's best to sit
on the lid so that things may not
be said at this great gathering that
might embarrass the United States
in its relations with Japan.
For awhile it looked as though
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
HOBO CAMP DEADLY
PLACE FOR CHICKEN

There's a lot of trouble in the
vicinity of the Great Northern
bridge in the west end of town on
account of a hobo camp and the
depredations its members commit
against chicken roosts. Several
people have missed chickens that
fail to answer roll call at feeding
time. The climax was capped yes
terday when a dozen fine chickens
belonging to Mrs. Rowell were
stolen. Sh notified the police and
officers went to the vicinity, but
the hobo camp was found de-
serted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
FUMIGATE TO FIND
HIDDEN MURDERER

NOME, Sept. 24.-Hoping that
Lee Johnston, wanted on the
charge of numbering his wife at
Nome, is still alive and may be
hidden in the hold of the steam
ship Victoria, officials ordered it
fumigated in an effort to drive him
from hiding. 1t has been rumored
that Johnston didn't leave the YES
sci, but secreted himself in the
hold
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

the program of the -Missis-
sippe congress had been so manip.
ulated that these questions would
not be brought up for discussion.
but the news received here today
that Captain Richmond Pearson
Hobson is planning to be present
when the congress opens and set
off a few fireworks relative to the
need of greater navy in the Paci-
fic ocean and the pressing necessity
of more big coast defense guns on
the Pacific slope, has set the Off
Gals of the congress astir again.
1t is possible that if the question
threatens to assume menacing pro-
portions President Roosevelt him
self will come to San Francisco and
explain the attitude of the admins
tration.
The coming congress is called
for the purpose of discussing those
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

tinue to pay tribute to the express
combine.
After awhile an international
agreement will BECOME effective by
which the astute Jap in far off
Manchuria will be enabled to have
a package sent to his address at
Lao Yang, or some other burg in
that vicinity, for less money pos
sibly than the same can be sent 100
miles in this country. All of which
leads to the hope that it will not
be necessary for Japan to come
over and annex us as she did
Manchuria in order to instill horse
sense on the question of the par
cells post.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
TIMBER GRAFT ALLEGED

OLYMPIA, Sept 24--The state
board of land commissioners has
taken under adyisement the matter
of selling timber land in Whatcom
county to the Manley Lumber Co.
The land was offered for sale and
no bids were received. Later it
was offered for sale again and
sold to the company, and protest
is now made to the board that the
land contains more timber than
was appraised by the state cruiser
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

ings here, have added large slice
Of property to the roads holdings,
declaring it realty, which the road
has not been paying taxes on, hold
ing it to be operating ground and
consequently exempt. 1t means
the payment of about $4,000 more
taxes by the road.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
UNION SELECTS SEATTLE

EVERETT, Sept. 24.-The refer
endum vote among shingle weavers
Of the United States and Canada
on the proposition to remove head
quarters from Seattle back to Ev-
erett resulted in the defeat of Ey-
erett by 357 to 10.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

Henry Sequest, a roomer at the
Railroaders' home, notified the pc.
lice this morning that his room was
burglarized yesterday for the third
time. A new suit of clothes he
purchased only last Saturday was
stolen,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

OF the government, the overpower-
ing question at the congress will
be Americas Relation with ia
pam And some interesting ses-
sions of the committee on resolu-
tons and of the congress as a
whole are being freely predicted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
Buy from Owner and Save
Commission

l have a nice four-room bunga
low for sale; good location, close
in; easy terms. Phone Main SOIL.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
N. p. DODGED TAXES

TACOMA, Sept. 24.-State Rail
way Commissioners Fairchild and
Jones, after making an investiga-
ton of the Northern Pacific's hold
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
MILLINERY
NEW YORK CLOAK 4
SUIT CO.
118 Post Street.

Our new fall hats on
sale at less than cost Of
the raw material. We
have the latest styles and
quote prices which make
our competitors stand
aghast.
T ri m m mss. Wings,
Plumes and Veilingg at
rock bottom prices.
$500 to $500 hats. .75o
500 to $1,000 hats. .$1.25
$11.00 to $500 hats 1925
$500 to $500 hats $5.25
$4,000 to $3.50 hats $3.50
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
Dress Skirts

Tomorrow we will put
on sale $50 dress skirts,
assorted colors and sizes,
at the following ridicu-
lOusly low prices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

Friendship is a branch of sell
love.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
Silk Petticoats
Jackets and
Cloaks

One half the entire top
floor Is used especially for
the showing Of cloaks and
Jackets. We are Offering
some handsome bargains
in this department.
$40 to $25 values. E. .$9.75
$50 to $35 values. $500
$40 to $50 values $21.00
$50 to S75 values. .$28.5o
SS5 to 500 values. $1,000
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24

DAVID r. FRANCIS
OF St Louis, Chairman of the
Committee.
topics most vital to the great trans
Mississippi country. The discus
siOns crystalize into resolutions
which are presented to each mem
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-24
SHIRT WAISTS

Here Is where we show
our fearless methods OF
rand merchandising.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
HOME PAINTS
A Few Remarks About the Com
position of Paint Worth

One OF the biggest frauds perpetrat-
ed upon the public for a number of
years has been in the adulteration OF
paint. Paints have been manufactu-
ed and sold as strictly pure when the
pigment consisted mostly of inert
material containing but a small per
cent of lead and zinc. In 1906 Prof.
Lad, state chemist of North Dakota,
made analysis OF the various paints
sold in that state, stringent paint laws
we're passed and several paints were
kicked out of the state, because the
manufacturers would not comply with
the law.
The "Gilt Edge" paint, made by
Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co. OF St.
Paul, stood in the front rank as a
high grade paint, and is now. one OF
the leading paints in that state. After
the stringent paint law was passed in
Minnesota in 1906 the manufacturers
Of the "Gilt Edge" paint have brought
their product to the highest quality of
purity, one whose bases are strictly
pure lead and zinc.
The "Gilt Edge" paint is sold IN
Sank Centre by Loftsgaarden Bros.
Hardware Company, and every gallon
OF house paint they sell is labelled,
complying with the latest state law,
so those wanting strictly pure, un-
adulterated paint will do wisely in
getting the "Gilt Edge.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16

The man who knows something
from his experience OF dozen years.
IL you trade at home it is great thing
to you.
Trading at home is up to you for
your benefit. How? The only way
to keep going is to advertise your in
dustries in your own city-in Sank
Centre.
Palmer yet. Men. you need from
your own city where you live. If you
are only yourself, you need some. If
you have large family you need
more. Your trade, and industry will
do, too. In all and in the same stores.
The storekeeper needs the trade and
will be able to give you for less money
than you could send away fer. III he
has more custom he will be able to
ship in large amounts at once and he
could sell for less.
Yours truly,
SAUk CENTRE GRANITE WORKS
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
10 The. Public

After having served for the past five
years as Chief of Police Of the city Of
Sank c ntre, and having been dropped
from the police force by later adj
hereby express my
thanks to the mayors and the city
councils under whom l have served,
for the many favors shown me.
JAMES CONNELLEY.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
A Hardwood Floor of any Color
You may Choose for $3.50

floors which are in toe
poor condition to be i!n-
provedwith varnish alone
can be made to initiate a
genuine hardwood floor
with this new patented
Granting System.
This process does not
require the services OF a
professional WOO d fin
isher.
The Grainin G Tool
takes the place Of skill
and can. be successfully
used by the ;inexperi-
enced man. or woman,
thus making it possible
for any one at a very
slight expense to enjoy
the luxury of a new hard
wood floor.
This Granting Com
pound when protected
BY one or two coats OF
Chi Namel produces a
surface that will Out-wear
any ordinary vanished
floor. many times over.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
As Woodbury. Sees it

Owing to the extreme modesty OF
our editor, it becomes necessary for
me to announce the fact that he APP
peared on our streets this week in a
brand new, up to date overcoat, pur-
chased az am advised Of one OF our
local merchants. The coat, like the
editor is all right, both in style and
general appearance.
NJ. F. WOODBURY..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
Plenty OF Trouble.

Is caused by stagnation of the liver
and bowels. to get rid of it and head
ache and biliousness and the poison
that brings jaundice, take DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, the work without
grinding or gripping Csc. at Hanson &
Emerson's drug store.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-03
HOMEMADE BEER.

A Tonic, Certainly, and if Used with
Perseverance an lntoxicant Also.
when the book beer comes in in
the spring it sets me back forty
years." said the man who was pen
sively drawing on an unlighted cigar
in the club 1ounging room, and | near
my grandfather say, as he did every
year when the 1anguor of spring be-
gan to be felt, I guess it's time we
had our tonic
$50 he'd give me a big basket to
carry and forth we'd go into the
woods. I never knew all the shrubs
and plants he used to gather and put
into my basket but there was more
juniper than anything else.
He'd just tramp along peering to
right and left, and when his eye lit
on something he wanted he'd pick 1t
or cut it and dump it into the basket.
"That night he'd take all this green
stuff and boil it. What else he did
to it I don't know, but the next day
a big red crock in the pantry would
be full of whitfsh fluid which had
somewhat the appearance of matted
milk
HE called the stuff beer, and that
was why mother wouldn't let me have
any of it. The name convinced her
that it must be had for little boy.
But l drank a glass of it once on the
sly. It was bitter stuff, and | didn't
try it again
"Now that beer certainly had tonic
properties; at least it seemed to
spruce up those who drank it. Some
times it did more than that. I didn't
know it then, but as | look back on II
now some folks on the farm would
get a fair souse on that homemade
beer if they persevered. AND most
of them persevered."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-03
A TEXAS CYCLONE YARN.

Storm Carried for Miles 50O-F oot
Column of Water Topped by Tree.
f. F. Turner of Hamilton county
said: 81 was riding horseback across
the country Thursday and passed
through the town Of Meridian, where l
took dinner. After dinner l started
toward Waco, and had a hard Tune
on account of high water.
"At about $50 p. N. [ was a lew
miles from Clifton, when I found a
cyclone chasing me, and L galioped
away from it as fast as my horse
could carry me. Presently l found
that it had passed me, and L sat on
the brow of a hill and watched us
course. 1t was carrying along much
debris, and when it struck the Bosque
river it sucked up all the water, leaV-
inc the bed of the river practically
empty. 1t crossed the Bosque OBJ
liquely and the water 1t TOOK OUT Vi
the stream was carried upward in a
column which appeared to me 10 De
about 500 feet high.
'eThe most remarkable part OF TINS
phenomenon was the fact that II had
torn I'D by the roots a big tree ana
the tree was on top Of the column OF
water. waving ike a plume. When the
column of water broke the tree Wehl
| sailing on and fell about nan d lnll0
from where it was taken up.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-03

daughter of Horace Fettigrew. and the
remainder to the servant who nursed
aim before it was known he was like
~ to die-as he says. | must congrat-
ulate you, after all, sir"
1.-The servant! The-the scheming
hussy! You don =" He sat still
staring hard at nothing. Possibly he
was trying to think out some axiom
to fit the maddening occasion. Why
half to my Bessie. 1t can't bel" He
got up. THAT girl, sir-that girl has
run away with good-for-nothing act
or fellow. Have I no power"
eve can't alter the mans will, sir
There it is in black and white. II
you will give me your daughters ad
dress I'll write to her tomorrow"
And as a man in dream, Mr.
Beamish wrote 1t down, shook hands
Imply, and sat down.
Gracious! he whispered. Bessie
that fellow-$25,0G0! And here /
He'll write tomorrow. Then I'll write
tonight"
The inspiration of a lifetime. Ten
minutes later he was tearing out tc
post a letter addressed to Gordon
Lowell, Esq. 1t contained $50 and
these few hurried words:
Dear Boy: l trust you did not in
tend to take me at my hasty word
Allow me to break through my princi
pies for once. Any time will do
hope I'm just. Live and let live is
one of my notices you did not stay tC
hear"
1t was mailed. Then he went back
to wipe his forehead again and tC
dream, dream, dream.
1t was curious coincidence that
he went on dreaming for just month
and that the two letters should arrive
by the same post At last. One
stamped "Shand & Pascoe, Solicitors
doubtless to say that all was settled;
and one from Lowell, to say that he
had got the $4,000 and was bringing
it round in a bag for safety.
Naturally, he opened the former
first.
Dear Sir: We know nothing of the
circumstances, and cannot understand
to what your letter refers. Youl
uncle, Horace Beamish, died interstate
For lack of funds, apparently, the
claim was abandoned some years ago
We do not advise you to reopen it
Yours obediently, "A. Shand."
With twitching fingers he opened
the second envelope:
Dear Mr.. Beamish: I return, witt
deepest thanks, the $50 you SO kindly
sent me. Perhaps in the future, yor
may not have SO poor an opinion Of
my powers OF acting. Yours apologet
ically, Gordon Lowell.
"P. 81 am endeavoring to forget
what passed between us on March
31st. | trust you will be able to &c
the same as regards the 1st of April.
Morris Douglas.