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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
LARSON bLAMES
THE WOMAN
BROTHER OF MINING MILLION
ARE SAYS MATRIMONIAL
VENTURE HAS NUMBERED
HIS $4,000 FORTUNE.

Adrew Larson says that he has
sQuandered in dissipation and high
living the fortune of $4,000 left
him a year ago by his deceased
millionaire brother, the late Peter
Larson.
Larson makes this admission in
a plea for divorce filed in court
today, but like Adam places the
blame on the woman.
The troubles of the Larson fam
lily were first aired in a suit for
divorce brought by Mrs. Larson
last August. Larson said this case
was settled by him paying his wife
$4,000, after which she promised
to be good and dwell in peace.
About 10 days ago Mrs. Larson
had her husband arrested for wife,
beating and brought into police
court. He says he has not defend
ed this case for the reason that he
will take an appeal to the superior
court so as not to antagonize Mrs.
Larson too strongly by the intro
duction of evidence in his posses
sion. This case is set for next
Tuesday.
In his divorce case Larson says
he was poor, hard working, litter
ate foreigner who had just come
into $4,000 in cash a year ago
when he married his wife, Mary
C. Larson, then a widow, in Seat
tie.
He says she was educated and
up in the ways of the world, and
he though would be a real help
meet in caring for the little fortune
entrusted to him by his brother,
the mining millionaire. Instead,
he says, she began leading him the
pace that kills; taking him out to
late suppers at night in which
liquor was served, of which she
partook freely and induced him to
partake, until after a series Of
these events of high life Larson got
to like 1t as well as his wife.
Then it got to be wine supper
about every night, II his story is
to be relied on, until he and his
wife both became regularly ad-
dicted to the use of liquors.
During these alleged midnight
carousals Larson says his wife one
night. as they were going home in
a cab and while he was SO drunk
that he did not know what she was
doing, picked his pockets of $500.
At another time she took $500 In
the same way. He says that after
she begun proceedings in the pc.
lice court she came and lived with
him and had him to go and live
with her, and then the next day
swore in police court that he was
such terrible man she could no
longer live with him.
Larson says further that since
his marriage he has found out that
his wife married him solely for his
money; that because of her ex-
travagant habits and persistent
squandering of his property he is
now reduced to bankruptcy and
must go back to work to support
himself and his two children by a
former marriage. K. o. Conner is
appearing for Larson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
TANK VESSELS TO
HAVE WIRELESS

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. sc.
c, Galbraith. general manager Of
the United Wireless Telegraph Co.,
who arrived here. announces that
he has received orders from the
Standard OIL Co. to equip the tank
steamer Maverick and barge No.
81 with wireless instruments.
These two oil carrying vessels
are we'll known on the Pacific
coast
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
DEAL TO DOWN RALST0N
BY DEMOCRATIC CROWD

partment, at the request of c. H.
Black. chairman of the business
mems Endorsement committee, Cap
tain Stacy having refused to allow
the committee to audit his books.
Complaint reached Mr.. Black
several weeks ago that branch
of the army had been established
here, and he entered into CORE
spondence with officials and SINH
lar organizations in the east.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
NO MORE JOBS AT
THE CANAL

ANCON, CANAL ZONE, Nov. Is.
The mo Help" sign hangs over
the Panama canal zone today. The
reason is that work on the big
ditch has passed its highest point,
so far as employment Of men are
concerned.
The present tendency Is not to
employ more men, but to- reduce
the force. Henceforth the work
will be confined largely to actual
canal building. including excava-
ting and dam and lock construc-
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
SHAKE GERMAN BALLOON|STS
FROM THE TREES IN FRANCE

below Malaga and redeem about
5000 acres of land.
This land will be planted to or
chard and will be sold in small
tracts, the company agreeing to
take care of the tracts until they
begin to bear.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
WOMEN QUALIFY FOR
SCHOOL ELECTION

Women were registering stead
lily all day at the Elk drug store
for the school election December
8. About 40 had been added to
the list this afternoon. Yesterday
netted so names. The books close
this evening. Candidates to be
voted for as members Of the board
OF education are A. W. Davis and
w. S. Gilbert. up for reelection.
and II. l., Hughes. the only new
contestant to enter the race thie
year. :
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
THE FLEET WILL ARRIVE
BACK HOME FEBRUARY q

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. 28.-
The itinerary of the Atlantic feet
on its homeward voyage was. an
nounced today by the navy depart
ment.
It will arrive at Ceylon Deem
Der IA. After coaling there it will
go directly to Suez, where it is due
January 8. Here 1t will separate
in twos and threes and 60 to diff
ferent ports. All the vessels
are due at Hampton Roads
February 81.
After individual visits the feet
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WILL RECLAIM
MUCH DRY LAND

WENATCHEE, Nov. 2S.-Ar-
ticles of incorporation have been
fled for the yalhalla Orchard Co.
with capitalization Of $4,000.
Gunther Carlburg. Of this city, is
president, and his two sons are the
other officers Of the company.
1t is the intention Of the COM
pany to install pumping plant on
the Columbia river a short distance
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will reform. The first division
consisting of the Connecticut, Kan
sas, Vermont and Minnesota, will
arrive together at Negro Bay, Janu
airy 81, departing February 8, after
taking coal. The second, third
and fourth divisions will arrive at
Negro Bay February 1 and will
leave February 6 to join the first
division at Gibralter.
Many of the wives Of the naval
officers will meet the battleships
in the Mediterranean. Officers and
men will spend Christmas and New
Years at sea.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
DESERTED FOR SWEETHEART

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-. Nov. u.s.
Private H. Morris of the Eighth in
fantry, u. s. A., stationed at Mon
terey, Cal, is in prison here await.
ing transportation to Fort Leaven-
worth where he will be courtmar-
tailed for deserving his post in or
der to visit his sweetheart. Miss
Sarah Carter Of Garfield, Ark.
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HARTMAN WILL
OWN FRISCO
RAILWAYS

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2S.-The
refusal of German bankers to sup
ply money for the betterment of
the United Railroads of this city
owing to charges of graft and mis-
management, has caused the ru-
NOR that Hartman will acquire
control of the railroads January l..
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
POSSE PURSUES
DESPERATE

OGDEN, Nov. 28.--An armed
posses so far have been unable to
locate the desperate who shot and
killed Deputy Sheriff Clark and
wounded Deputy Sheriff Murphy,
who had sick man in charge,
last night.
, The chase is being made along
the Weber river. 1t Is thought to-
day that the outlaw was breaking
into freight cars when he was sur
prised by the deputies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28

to reach the men Is by the air.
shafts or by tunneling from an ad-
joining mine. Rescuers have start
ed from different points through
airshafts.
Crowds Of women and children
are swarming around the mouth Of
Of closed shaft. Many Of the wo-
men are hysterical.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
SHORT WEIGHT CHARGE

Weight Inspector Powell today
swore out a warrant for the arrest
of Charles Uhden, commission
man. on charge of selling short
weight huckleberries to S. w. An
derson Of the Eagle Cash grocery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
QUAKE
SHAKES
BOSTON

BOSTON, Nov. 2S.-The heavf.
est earthquake felt in New Eng
land in many years shook Boston
at 1856 o'clock this morning.
The vibrations lasted 10 seconds.
Nearly everybody was awakened.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
FREIGHT RATES
WILL SOAR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.--The
shortage of rolling stock, due to
the failure of the railroads to keep
up their equipment during the re.
cent panic. will result in sweeping
advances in freight rates, accord
ing to a statement today by mem
bers of the interstate commerce
commission.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
THEM ON
THE PACIFIC

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2S.--The
construction of six torpedo boats
by Pacific coast builders was sug-
gested by the president to Metcalf.
former secretary of the navy.
The delivery on the Pacific coast
is handicap to eastern builders.
so they may be compelled to re-
linquish the contract.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
200 ENT0MBED
IN Mine
Flames May Consume Them Before Aid Can
Be Sent From the Outside.

Z PITTeBURG, Nov. 2s.-An ex-
plosion at Mariana, Pa, today en-
tombed 200 miners. II 10 feared
that the tlmbers in the workings
will catch fire and cremate the
men before help can reach them.
II 10 impossible to send a cage
down the shaft, and the only way
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-28
RELIGIOUS ORDER
IS UNDESIRABLE

SEATTLE, Nov. 2S.-The Ameri-
can Salvation army. occupying an
old church at 1871 Olive street,
under Captain William Stacy. viii
be Investigated by the police de.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPIIOMt
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
WASHINGTON.

Gen. Elliott, commandant OF ma
zines, reported to Secretary Metcalf
that for the first time in many months
the marine corps is now up to Its full
complement of $500 men,
The bureau OF navigation reports
that during 1907 there were built in
the United States 1856 vessels of 562.-
sos gross tons, compared with 1,045
vessels of 393,291 tons in 1906.
The war department has ordered
the establishment at Manila of a board
Of Notifications whose duty it shall be
70 consider the question Of the loca-
ton of defensive works and the posts
pertaining thereto for the Philippine
islands and to submit reports thereon
to the war department
Mai. Joseph T. Crabbs has been
placed on the retired list of the army
on account of disabilities incurred in
the line of duty While stationed at
West Point several years ago, Maj
Crabs was thrown from his horse and
fractured his leg. The accident made
him q partial cripple and he was dis
qualified at the recent riding test. He
has the distinction of being the first
officer to be retired as result of
President Roosevelt's horsemanship
requirements
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
Accidental Happenings.

Mrs. Boyer and one child were
burned to death and another child
badly burned as the result of fire
that completely destroyed their home
near Hamden. Vinton county. Ohio.
Fire destroyed the Washington
children's home, south of Seattle.
Two children were burned to death
ed. The others escaped, clad only in
their night clothes.
Jonathan Winters, while chopping
wood near Seattle, was pinned help
lessly beneath big tree. Suffering
from two broken legs, with no immedi-
| ate hope Of rescue, he drew his pock-
etknife and cut his throat. When
found the knife was still clasped in
his pulseless hand.
The body Of Miss Emogene Kinner
Of Penn Yam. NJ Y, who disappeared
from Michigan City, Ind, on Dec. IL,
was found on the bank of creek in a
wild and unfrequented place. She had
started out to take walk and 1t is
supposed that she lost her way and
persisted in the cold
While ]. d. Blackman, rural mail
carrier of Springfield, Ohio, was
stamping his feet, trying to put on his
arctics near the stove, he Jared the
coffee pot from the top. 1t fell into
the lap Of his Observation-Disclosures
child, which was sitting near, fatally
scalding the little one.
Engineer Henry White, whose two
children were burned to death when
fire destroyed his residence in Fort
Worth few weeks ago, was killed
and two mail and two exp ess messen-
gers injured when Rock Island Pas.
senger train No. %, double-header,
was wrecked near Duncan Okla.
Fire that brought death to Charles
Figone, eight years old, fatal injury to
Louis Figone, sixteen years of age,
and Mrs. Dominica Divinbenci and al
most cost the lives of fifty others,
broke out in building in the coal yard
of Antonio Figone on Stockton street,
San Francisco, and caused loss of
$4,000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
STANDARD OIL INTERVIEWS.
Is Given Leave to Take Part in Great
/ Northern Appeal From Fine.

Is 0tven Leave to Take Part in Great
: Northern Appeal From Fine.
Washington, Jan. Son behalf OF
the Standard Oil company, Attorney
F. d. McKenna of this city yesterday
filed petition in the supreme court
of the United States for leave to in
tervene in the case of the Great
Northern railway, involving the Ell
kins law imposing fines for granting
or accepting rebates, which was re-
pealed by the Hepburn railroad rate
law of the last congress. The same
question is involved in the case in
which Judge Lands imposed fine of
over $29.0OO,000 on the oil company.
and consequently the decision in the
Great Northern case will have a direct
bearing on the Standard Oil compa-
ny's case.
The petition was granted and a
brief will be filed in the case on be-
half of the Standard Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte made no objection, but
said the government did not concede
that the two cases are parallel.
The Great Northern company was
lnulcleu NOV. 8, lSOo, lot giving re-
bates. Besides objecting to the sufi-
cheney of the indictment on a techni-
cal ground, the company contends
that the original provisions of the Ell
kins law, under which it was indicted,
| were repealed by the Hepburn act.
The contention of the government
| is that the original provisions of the
Elkins law, SO far as necessary for
the prosecution of offenses committed
hereunder prior to the passage of the
Hepburn act, were saved by section
10 of the Revised Statutes.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
ADMlRAL's CONDUCT is CON.
DEMNED AS UNsEEMLY AND
IMPROPER.
TAKES HAND IN NAVAL ROW
cAUsTic OBSERVATIONS ON CON.
TRoVERsIEs IN NAVY DE.
PARTMENT.

washington, Jan. 4. - PfeSldent
Roosevelt's attitude on the question
Of the command of hospital ships in
the navy, which resulted in the resig-
nation of Admiral Willard NJ. Brown.
son and incidentally some caustic OBJ
servations on that incident and the
controversies among the naval officers
and their adherents as to details OF
naval construction and methods OF
training were made known yesterday
when Secretary Metcalf gave to the
press two letters from the president
addressed to him on these subjects.
Unseemly and Improper.
In the first of these letters Presi.
dent Roosevelt without mincing words
condemns in unmeaSured terms the
act of Admiral Brownson, declaring it
to be unseemly and improper The
question as to which Admiral Brown
son took issue with the navy depart
ment. the president declares, is one
to which there can be entirely legiti-
mate differences of opinion, but he
adds: There is no room for differ
ence of opinion as to the gross impro-
priety of the admiral's conduct in re-
signing sooner than carry out the or
ders of his superior officer in such a
matter.
Disloyalty to Country.
"The officers of the navy must re-
member that it is not merely childish
but in the highest degree reprehensi.
BILE to permit either their personal
pique, wounded vanity or factional
feeling on behalf of some particular
bureau or organization to render them
disloyal to the interests of the navy,
and therefore of the country as a
whole"
Regarding the controversies in the
navy, the president admits there al
ways are and always will be defects to
correct, both in the construction of
ships and in the organization of the
department and in the actual drill of
the fleet.
Scathing Rebuke.
1t is we'll, he says, that these de.
fects be pointed out. but it is also we'll
that they should be pointed out with
out hysterical exaggeration or mali
cious untruthfulness. He scathingly
rebukes those guilty of exploiting
them in grossly exaggerated form in
the fancied interest of an Individual
or clique of individuals, or for the
sake of supplying sensational material
to newspapers.
Worked Without Hitch.
The presidents second letter to Mr.
Metcalf is an argument to sustain his
decision to assign medical officers te
the command of hospital ships. Hos
pital ships should be maintained in
peace exactly under the same condi
lions as in time of war;" declares the
president. "The system has been tried
In the army and tried in foreign ma
vies and has worked without hitch.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
Frank vina, treasurer Of a Bohe

Frank vina, treasurer Of Bohe
milan lodge of the Foresters Of Ameri.
ca at Clevelend. has been arrested on
a charge of embezzlement He is said
to be short about $4,000 in his &C.
counts.
Mrs. Bertha Peikert, thirty-four
years Of age, killed herself and her
two-months-old baby girl by drowning
herself and the baby in a cistern at
Bevier, Mo. Her husband knows of
no cause for the act.
Charles Hopkins is under arrest at
Boyne City, Mich, and his wife is
thought to be dying from fractured
skull at the result of religious argu-
ment the couple had on the street
Hopkins is charged with striking his
wife on the head with rock. He alb
jected to her being identified with the
Salvation Army.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
LIABILITY LAW is INVALID.
Federal Statute is Knocked Out by
United States Supreme Court.


Washington, Jan. Shat the con-
ers' liability law" is not in accord
ance with the constitution of the Unit
er States, because it goes beyond the
bounds permitted in the regulation
of interstate commerce, was the con-
clusion reached by the supreme court
OF the United States in deciding two
damage cases coming to the court
from the federal courts of Kentucky
and Tennessee which we're brought
under the provision of the law.
The decision was announced by. JUS
hce White, the court standing 5 to 4
against the law. Even among the five
who voted not to sustain the statute
there we're differences of opinion.
Much interest was manifested in the
result of the courts deliberations.
Decisions of the lower court almost
uniformly have been to the effect that
the law relating to the liability of the
railroads in interstate commerce VIC
lates the provisions of the federal con-
stitution
Problem Is Difficult.
Whether any part Of the law is left
intact upon which new legislation can
be made effective along the lines
sought to be covered is problem.
The law passed by the last congress
aimed to cover all interstate carriers,
and provided that in actions to re-
cover damages for personal injuries to
employees, where such injuries have
resulted in his death, the fact that
the employee may have been guilty OF
contributory negligence should not
bar recovery where the contributory
negligence of the employer was great
jurisdiction ls the Rule.
The majority opinion of the court
does not dwell SO much upon the pro
visions of the law in respect to the
negligence of either employee or EN-
ployer, but turns almost wholly upon
the question of overlapping jurisdic
ton in the attempt of congress tc
reach interstate railroads, thereb,
covering cases which the court holds
are for the cognizance of the state
courts.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
People Talked About.

Prof. Seymour, senior professor Of
Greek in Yale university, is dead OF
pneumonia.
Curtis Guild, Jr, has been inaugu-
raed for the third term as governor
Of Massachusetts.
Isaac Garmoe, wealthy pioneer of
Fort Dodge, Iowa, is dead at the age
Of eighty years.
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood died at her
daughters home at Hillsboro Or,
aged 119 years. Mrs. Wood was ma.
tive of Tennessee.
James Gardner Stowe, consul gen
eral to South Africa from 1897 to 1901
and one of the best known manufac-
turers in the United States, is dead
ct his home in Kansas City
Allison ]. Mailer, secretary of the
supreme council of the Ancient and
Accepted Order of Scottish Rite Ma
sons, Southern jurisdiction, died of
grip at his home in Washington.
Louis M. Givernaud, member of
the firm of Givernaud Bros, said to be
the first to establish silk manufacture
Ing In the United States, died at Los
Angeles Of heart trouble. aged seven.
ty-three years.
Miss Marjorie Allen, daughter of the
millionaire Moline manufacturer, has
bestowed her heart and hand on Eu-
ropean nobleman and bearer of the
famous name OF County Everhardt Won
Moltlie, a grand nephew of the ce!e-
brated German field marshal.
c. p. Reglid, former actor. more re-
Gently n wealthy whip and automobile
list, who came into prominence ten
years ago, when at the age of thirty
two he married Mrs. Adele Ronalds.
then seventy, New York society
leader, is dead of typhoid fever at
New Rochelle.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1908-01-10
IHAW's SECOND TRIAL OPENS
NINE TENTATIVE JURORS Sc.
lEcTED DURING THREE SES-
sloNs OF COURT.

New York, Jan. Sat the close OF
three court sessions, which marked
the first day of the second trial Of
Harry X. Thaw for the alleged muir
der of Stanford White, nine tentative
Jurors had been selected out Of fifty
seven talesmen examined by District
Attorney Jerome for the prosecution
and Martin w. Littleton for the de.
Tense. All of the men in the jury box
are subject to peremptory challenge.
of which each side has thirty. In
view OF the difficulty experienced last
wear in discharging five jurors after
they had taken the oath of service, it
was agreed this time not to admins
ter any oath until both sides finally
are satisfied with the full panel
Insanity Sole Defense.
Legal insanity at the time of the
tragedy is to be the sole defense.
This was clear at the very outset OF
the proceedings yesterday, when Mr..
Littleton formally served notice that
the former plea of not guilty was
amended by the specification that the
defendant was insane when the homi-
eide was committed
Three court sessions. including an
evening session from to 10 O'Clock,
| are to be held daily until the jury is
completed.
The trial opened with little or no
ceremony and there was distinct evil
dence of slackening of public inter
est. Admittance to the court room
| was vigorously restricted, and all day
| long there were vacant benches In the
curtailed quarters given over to spec
| tators. The only women allowed to
( be present are the members of the de-
PENDANTS family and newspaper writ
ers. Artists, who were barred after
the first few days of the first trial.
were allowed to sketch to their
hearts content
Evelyn Is Center Of Interest.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was again the
center of interest, even to the exclu-
sion Of the defendant himself. She
was followed by throngs of curious
| persons as she entered and left the
court house for the morning and aft
| ernoon sessions. She did not attend
the night sitting.
| Every possible convenience is to be
provided for the jurors. They are to
be quartered in one of the fashionable
hotels on upper Broadway and lunch
con is to be served at an expensive
downtown restaurant. The jury ex
animation did not develop such a
strong vein of unalterable opinion as
was anticipated. and many of the
talesmen were excused on othe,
grounds than bias based upon the
reading of extensive reports of The
first trial.