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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
REAL ESTATE
MOVING NOW

Real estate firms are reporting
an extremely active market on
medium and low priced residence
property, and every indication
points to a steady demand for this
class of property.
G. A. Yancey & Co. state that
within a week they will place on
the market 100 acres on the North
hill, to be known as Glenwood
park.
Success has attended the sale of
Miller's park since it was placed
on the market by Slater & Slater
a few days ago. This property is
being purchased for home build
ing and investment.
lndeeding to the city the entire
system of water mains at Beauti'
full Spring mill J. w. Osborne has
set precedent that other owners
of additions will do we'll to fol.
low. The system has been laid
under the supervision of city
inspector and is of the six inch re-
inforced wooden pipe. Since this
addition was placed on the market
a short time ago great many lots
have been sold.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

A makeshift altar was hastily
arranged under the corner of an
Italian pergola. Flowers and
palms were assembled to break
the strong breeze which blew from
the Sound and piano was moved
from the lobby to the top floor of
the building.
The wedding party assembled at
1880 and while the Bridal march
from "Lohengrin" was played, the
guests walked around the upper
corridor of the hotel and met the
waiting principals at the back
stairs. Up the dark stairs they
climbed in single file, and marched
through the miniature park to the
ft.oht of the building, where the
Altar had been arranged. Beneath
them the piano played and in the
street. six stories below, cable car
gougs and whistles of the regrade
engines sent up muffied accom-
paniment to the words of the
preacher.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
BATTLE A RATHER
WITH HOT WATER

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.-Armed
with hatpins and pot of boiling
water, Mrs. f. Fl. Jordan of 5034
Garfield avenue and Mrs. l.. j,
Nichols, who lives upstairs in the
same house, killed a large, three
foot blacksnake as it wriggled to.
wards crib in the back yard con-
tanning Mrs. Jordan's son, age nine
months.
The fight lasted for half an hour,
during which the snake made re-
peated attempts to sink it's fangs
into the two women and the baby.
He was finally driven into a hole,
into which the women then poured
hot water The reptile was taken
out OF the hole. dead, and skinned.
Mrs. Jordan now has the trophy
Of the fray in her front parlor, and
baby. not realizing how near he
was to death, laughs and COOS at
the skin and head on the mantel.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
POSSE FIGHTS WITH
YELLOWSTONE GANG

BUTTE, Sept. 16.-Word has
been received here through a trav-
eler from Wisdom, to the effect
that a posse of seven men and a
deputy marshal met with two well
known characters, Jack Mckay and
Mexican Pete, who were being
sought for the stage robberies in
Yellowstone park, and that one of
the posse was wounded in the
shoulder by shot fired by Next
can Peter, while Mckay was COW
cred.
The posse then withdrew, not
taking the chance of having more
killed by Pete, who was under
cover behind a tree.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
TO FILL 'EM FULL OF
OF FOOTBALL OXYGEN

tIfes coach will say, holding out the
rubber hose attached to the tank
in the dressing room.
The bulky center rush ap-
proaches, puts the tube into his
mouth and pulls away until the
coach watching the indicator. sees
that he has swallowed ten gallons.
"Off with you," shouts Mr..
Stagg. Eat 'em alive!"
And with buoyant Frances.
scarcely touching the earth at all,
the inflated giant floats out upon
the field, ready for any carnage.
II got the idea when was In
London" said Mr.. Stagg yesterday.
After the Olympic games several
of the Englishmen took the treat.
ment and, understand. lowered
their records
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
COUNTRY BRIDE HAS
WAY UP WEDDING

SEATTLE, Sept. 16.-Because
his bride to be did not like coun-
try weddings and wished to be
married in big city, p. ]. Burke,
owner and manager of the Burke
hardware store at Poulsbo, brought
friends and relatives to Seattle to
witness his marriage with Miss
Josephine Wager. With them
came Rev. Chris Mohn, pastor Of
the Free Lutheran church of
Poulsbo.
The party arrived in the city on
an early train and proceeded to the
Lincoln hotel, where the ceremony
was planned to take place in the
tea room. The young couple went
to the roof garden of the hotel to
take a view of Seattle and the
Sound. Miss Wager was captivated
with the garden and suggested that
because of the beauty of the day
and the novelty of the plan that
the ceremony be performed on the
roof
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

CHICAGO. Sept. Refrigerated
football is to be introduced into the
United States this season by the
University of Chicago team. 1t is
the same game. except that 1t is
played under the influence of an
enlivening intoXication.
The experiment of stimulating
athletes with oxygen gas was tried
in London recently, but the oxygen
alton of the Maroon team, to begin
in a few days. will be the first
serious test.
Coach Stage hopes that the Ma
rooms will he able to put the play
ers of Illinois. Minnesota. Cornell
and Wisconsin over the goal boards
merely by inhaling deep drafts of
the oxygen,
Come here and get your gas"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
AND
| BURGLAR IN
/. HOUSE

While Detective Weir yesterday
afternoon was searching the CO.
fumbia hotel for daylight burglar
the burglar was calmly searching
a room with the door locked be-
hind him. A call had been sent to
headquarters, that burglar has
been through several rooms, and
Detective Weir was sent after par
ticulars and the burglar, If he was
to be found in the neighborhood.
Weir found that several suits of
clothes and couple of suit cases
had been missed from the hotel
during the day and were probably
carried away piece at time.
AS indications were that the bur-
glar was far from the scene at the
time, Weir returned to headquar-
tiers. He had hardly reached the
station when another call came
that the burglar had been caught
in room and was held at bay. A
force of police hurried to the hotel
only to find the bird had flown.
John E. Cox, the clerk, had located
a mysterious noise in room So and
on opening the door found the bur-
glar quietly overhauling things. He
showed fight andneither Cox nor
Louis Anderson, who was with him.
cared to stop his escape and al
lowed him to leave the room, run
to the end of the hall and get
away down the fire escape.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

to the barn. A wagon passed.
Again she lost her nerve.
The woman essayed to flee. He
forced her back, handed her the
revolver and looking her straight
in the face, said, "Shoot. now
shoot" Her hand trembled 81
cannot" she said. 81 cannot, l will
not" And she fled
On the next day Rustin met her
again. The monster was impatient.
Anger was in his face. She says
that he told her he had arranged
with Charles E. Davis to kill him
as he had planned that she should
do. in payment, Davis was to re-
ceive poison to kill himself. Mrs.
Rice accompanied Rustin to his
home on the night that he was
killed. She says he pointed out a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
MOTHER FAITHFUL
TO DEAD SON

FRESNO, Cal, Sept. 16.-De.
claring that she did not want to
leave her boys grave, Mrs. o. P.
Robinson, mother of the poor street
singer and player who hung him
self in the. county Jail three weeks
ago, was found lying on the mans
grave in Mountain View cemetery.
Since her sons tragic death the
pos woman has allowed her mind
to dwell constantly on the case.
Slid declared at the time that her
SON had never been arrested be-
6bf3 and that he was not drunk, but
8&k, when the officers took him
t(5iail. She said that his arrest
Gcebally frightened him into TAX
4hg, his own life.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16


nation he is seen to smile at the
monsters suggestion as, when two
years ago, his wife found him
standing among his bottles, tubes
and retorts. He had mixed a potion
that would make him die as honest
men die. carrying the secret of his
suicide alone to the grave.
An instant before she had burst
in upon him he had inoculated him
self. He Immediately fell i'll. and a
siege of typhoid fever ran it's
course. Friendly colleagues saved
his life. There was report, which
has not been verified that the doc
tor at this time also inoculated
himself with tetanus germs, which,
however. had the effect Of neutral
izing, like an antidote, the fever
germs, and that the second inocula-
ton was really all that saved his
life.
| But the monster must yet be ap-
peased He is tossed in the mael-
storm and is yet singing.
The other. night they found him
dying on his porch. The police,
knowing few of the facts, made it
murder mystery. Sure enough. he
had been shot and the instrument
of death was missing. He must
have been shot by another's hand.
| Then the story of Rustin's pre-
vious attempt at suicide came out.
This set the city detectives on a
new clew, which brought forth
amazing proof.
According to the stories told,
Rustin made death compacts with
Charles e. Davis. another victim of
the monster, and Mrs. Abbie b..
Rice, 10 year old woman with
whom Rustin became acquainted in
a brothel six months ago. when he
called there to treat her. Since
that time she and he had been
much In each others company.
This woman says that ON Aug. 2S
Rustin told her that he was going
to kill himself. She, too, had grown
weary of her living death, and to.
gether they planned that she
should shoot him through the stom-
ach at his office the following Sun
day morning, timing the shot when
a street car passed so that the
noise would be drowned out. The
| woman was to fly to another part
of the town and kill herself. Thus
his death and hers would not be
connected. Rather, it would be
thought he was murdered. while
her suicide would be taken as a
natural finale to the life of such a
woman.
Rustin told her explicitly that
she must shoot him through the
stomach. He said that he wanted 20
live five to seven days, and that n
bullet wound in the stomach would
| hCSuiiiliiSu tliS Gnu uhu give MN
time to conclude some business
affairs.
But Mrs. Rise lost her nerve. She
did not dare to shoot.
The monster planned n new way.
Rustin then was to have been shot
by the woman IN his barn. He ex-
pected that the public would then
think that he had been shot by a
burglar. He and Mrs. Rice went
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

to tear off the name OF him whom
he favors for the senate and paste
it upon his ballot.
Il will take a pledge to support
for United States senator that per-
son receiving the highest number
Of votes direct from the people, re-
CARELESS of party. i should like an
expression of the other candidates
upon this point"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
THIS MEANS LOOK OUT
FOR SUBMARINES

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Here
after ship captains entering and
sailing from New York will keep a
sharp lookout for a flag with q
black fish on a white background
surrounded by a red border.
1t means: Lookout! Subma
rines are diving in this vicinity
and if you get too close to the flag
torpedo boat is liable to come VI
underneath and bump you"
Submarine boat tests will soon
begin in New York harbor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

rested. Whether he murdered Rus
tin in suicide compact Is ques-
ton for the future, but he has ad-
mitted that he received poison
from Rustin to kill himself, and he,
too, has been for many years the
plaything of the cocaine monster.
He drank the poison, but it re-
volted from his stomach and so
saved him.
Davis, who is so and also a Yale
graduate, Is highly connected So
cially, and the police have been in
dulgent to him. Four times before
he attempted suicide. He was rel
leased on $4,000 bail, and is now
guarded at the residence of his
brother, F. H. Davis, vice president
of the First National bank.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
?RESCHER DISMISSED.

Harry G. Prescher, a Northern
Pacific brakemen who was charged
with forgery, was discharged by
Justice Mann yesterday. the evil
lence being insufficient. j. C.
Barkeley gave Prescher letter
containing his paycheck to mail to
his wife in Spokane. Prescher gave
the letter To his brother to mail.
Next day Ii was cashed in the
Craze Shoe Co. place on Riverside.
The clerks could not identify
rrescher as the man who cashed it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
BIG FIRE AT CONNELI

CONNELI, Sept. ia fire
starting in a restaurant here last
night spread to adjoining build
ings and caused loss of $4,000.
The entire east side of North Main
street was DESTROYED.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16
MONSTER COCAINE SIREN OF
DEATH IN RUSTZN TRAGEDY

man. saying he was Davis. At mid
night she left him near his home.
"If l am not dead in the morning.
said Rustin, 81 will telephone you"
Then she went to her miserable
home.
Rustin was shot through the
stomach as he had planned, but he
died within few hours. >Once the
ingenious fiend was defeated
death would make no compromise.
Davis was soon found and ar
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

Don't leave your faults lying
around for others to stumble over.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

And they are good suits; made Of all wool
materials and little later in style than the
ordinary run of fall garments. We are showing
these suits in single and double breasted styles
and in these colors: Navy, gray smoke olive,
brown, wood tones and tans; the materials are
worsteds, cheviots and serges; 600 RI
popular price Observation-Disclosures ZZsOV
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-16

DIABoLlcAL INGENUITY AGAIN
AND AGAIN DISPLAYED BY
BRILLIANT YOUNG SURGEON
IN EFFORTS TO OBEY BLACK
WHisPERINGs OF DRUG TO
DESTROY HIMSELF.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07
SAVED BY THE TYkE
INSTANCE OF QUICK THINKING
ON CRITICAL OCCASION.
Probable Total Loss of Man-of-War
Averted by Mere Apprentice
His Warrant officers Uni.
form Well Meriteo.

Quite a number of former appren-
ticcs are wearing the uniforms of war
rant officers in opr service because
they We're quick thinking boys on
critical occasions.
one of them was extraordinarily
handy with his knife one day when
the ship on board of which he was
serving as apprentice had a swell
chance 20 go to the bottom, but for
him. They were having heavy gun
and coming tower practice. The skip
per was doing some firing from his
position in the coming tower by touch
ing the electric button alongside OF
him The apprentice was acting as
the shippers messenger during that
practice.
Proiectile and charge had been
rammed INTO one of the siXinch guns
on the main deck Some confusion in
orders came about At any rate the
skipper had his finger within a couple
OF inches of the electric button ready
TO press it and thus discharge the six
inch gun, when the apprentice was on
the Job. Standing just outside the
coming tower and having from that
position a view Of the gun ahead to be
fired, the yOungster observed that the
breech of the six-inch gun hadn't yet
been closed, and there was the skipper
on the very pin point of touching the
button that would fire the gun with
the unlocked breech If the gun Went
of in that condition there was the
finest kind of a chance for the recoil
of the immense piece 10 drive the gun
right through the ships bottom.
The apprentice didn't have much
time to think. bur he didn't need much
He figured il all out in an instant that
# he yelled AT the skipper that the
breech wasn't locked the suddenness
Of The yell might so startle the skipper
that his finger would inyoluntarily
come down on the button and thus
discharge the gun. The boys ships
knife with the big blade was in his
left hand shirt pocket hanSing there
for its lanyard He had it out and
the blade open in an incredibly short
space of time, and he made one cat
like dab with the sharp blade of the
knife at the electric wire belonging to
the button that led right alongside
where the boy was standing by the
cOnuin- tower The blade cut the
wire in TWO a fraction of a second be-
fore the shippers finger reached the
button, breaking the electric connec-
tion and in every likelihood prevent
ing tremendous calamity.
The boy was only a tyke and not
very strong, and just as soon as he
slashed the wire he fell forward on
his face in a dead faint-an odd thing,
too. nat, for a boy serving on a
man.o war, and yet the incident wasn't
any ordinary one, The skipper raised
his head the instant he touched the
button and saw what had happened;
the loose ends OF the cut electric
wire. the prone boy and all the rest of
It. Then he darted out of the coming
tower and saw the breech of the big
gun still unlocked, He understood 1t
all long before the boy was brought
around to consciousness That boy
had no sooner finished his days of APP.
premiership before he wore the war
rant officers uniform of a gunner
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07
Stronu Passion for Gold.

Don Marine Torlonia, of the ducas
family of Torlonia of Rome, said at
dinner party in New York that a GER
tain American millionaire reminded
him of the famous Roman miser Ar
pagnio,
Let me- said the tall young man,
smiling. show you what tremendous
ing in his cold, dark, bare palace OF
stone on the Corso his one thought
was that, since he was too i'll to eat,
full lire day was being saved on
the food bill The doctor was an
nouuced The doctor, after feeling
Arpagnios pulse, looked grave.
Well. said the miser, how much
longer have | to live
Only half an hour, was the reply.
"Arpagnios eyes flashed fire.
You scOundrel,' he cried. Why
do you let things run on to the last
minute like this? Do you want to
ruin me? Send for the barber al
once
/ ut Ddl Vel dlIlNtu llOSl has u.
You charge, said ArpagniO, 30
centesiIl for shaving"
Yes. signor.'
And for shaving corpse five
lire
Yes.
"Arpagnio glanced at the clock
Seven of the 80 minutes left him still
remained.
Then shave me quickly he
gasped.
AS the operation nhlshed Arpagnio
died. But with his last breath, smil-
ing happily, he murmured. while the
barber dried his cold pale cheeks:
How splendid Four lire and so
centesimi saved,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07
Destroy Germs by Colors.

Eminent French scientists are show.
ing that it is possible TO rid ourselves
of germs by painting the walls with
particular COors The experiments
made by Prof Deycke in the first in
stance proved that the disease germ
applied to a wall painted with am
phoboline' lost its poisonous proper
ties. Spreading paint on pieces OF
board or glass or cement, he placed
culture OF cholera germ on the sur
face. The germ vanished. Drs. lie
Bosco and Lydia RabinoytCh found
that the tuberculosis germ also disap-
peared under the influence of enamel.
ing Colors. neither the CONSUMPTION.
cholera nor diphtheria germ being
found. The typhoid germs disappeared
slowly in comparison on the fourth
day. Ultramarine blue seems to de-
stroy the germs the most rapidly.
within a hours The results on the
gray paint were almost negative,
while il took the maroon paint al
most II days to kill the germ
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07
WHY ROSCOE coNkLING QUIT.
Attack on His Home and Family
Caused Him to Resign.

In the lobby of the New Willard l
found an elderly gentleman who had
been a friend of Roscoe Conkling. lie
said:
1t does not seem like Washington
to me without Roscoe Conkllng
miss that imperious form stalking
above the avenues. Never he con
tinued. can | forget the day that hos
coe Conkling resigned. There was
great excitement over President Gar
fields appointment of the New YORK
collector Of the port, and that was
the last straw that decided ConkllhS
to act. His feud with Blaine was then
at its height, and as Roscoe Conk'
ling sat that morning in his accus-
toned place. it was noticed that MS
face was paler than usual as he
pointed out a newspaper paragraph.
~ can bear it all until it comes to
that he said. When they attack my
home and my wife that is the end or
public life for me. When the sacred
ness of my family life is trailed in
the dust, that is too much am
going home, never to return here.
Tears glistened in his eyes as he
pushed back the hair from his fore
head and said: Now am going home
to earn money in my profession and
pay the debts that have accumulated
while | have been trying to help
friends.
He retired from public life. and it
was a great satisfaction to him that he
paid $4,000 of accumulated debts
within one year; no lawyer at that
time could command higher fee than
Roscoe Conkling Joe Mitchell Chap
pie. in National Magazine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07


As soon as she was wen iaincneu
in society MISS Deacon began NAMING
strong fFiehdshipS IN lhe IFe3I WI ~
Some Of the most lhipo' 'aH1 p7opIe ~
the fauDours 81 herman SCI Vi a,IS
became hef lhliilla'e7 III N'"u'n quo
chuihH.eo WIN 'ne uu'i.'1S ~
borough the oucheSS VI i'e' Jus 'ii'e =
the do"aser uucHe"S Vi '''a''Ili'''e.
ana Mrs. AI'hur faEe'' an Vi men. VI
tremendous "oc!a! au'an'"ss - -'''''
Deacon.
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mousse IA may Id'I, Lol'"ol A." ~ :.
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III I'i7''"u' los '"'' '''''.''
s'Ii"iuE pair anu me ma 'i' i''iHe' ,
Had 'loIH eHsasco ~ "'i'o' h"I
II was h"' 20 ~. ","uS ? i'e'o''' vent
h'I way an" WI. ~" 'h'l VII ne
foI DiIe' P''l"u l"t prince VI i-''i''
ltn7'eIH was ia'o''"' ''''N nc "''
d'"l'l"Seu.
NeAI il" 'lhe came '-''U ''''i7
nope WI" was even '"eh Ee1''"s MS
alFoFce rom May zone me o'"'t'iae
aouofelle' WI" hau run away VII.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-03-07

welcomed her ia every capital in Eu
rope VA the Bots she was salutcd as
10 size we're princess but then
NladNs beacon was 10 the manner
born She was At home In Maytair
as .ht MAS In tulrr dea Linden IN
wjulrr She became the bright puruC.
u'Ag s'at ,}oug the Riviera and in
lNN thoroughly cosmopolitan grew the
beautiful american girl who spoke
with strong Frruch accent and
frankly admitted that she hardly
knew anything about the United
states lhoueh she was American 70
tho core
Europe found everything 90 admire
uu the beautiful eirl fresh from the
convent
Gladys Deacon d tho ideal Nuslo
SAXON type face and colortug Her
mass OF hair is Tho pa,est taken and
it waves naturally Her ewes are large,
rather louc than round and a deep sic.
'r. hmr lIng yyrhroNs arc almost
black. yr.N narrow ana ~>luisEely
afrbcd ller r>rA>hrs are black as
Ny' ami 'r. and sweeping
Mis- nagau~ Ayr Is a.mna. classic
.a ls oval the brow >Usbt'y broader
ANA Hsner rNan the standard ot che
urr.ae gruu ms .n some ,Nr,ut che
intellectually ~ rNs nrrEuhorn
>#er.,u E3r Ilrs vi. and yNae.N
MOULD h.,e maIr nr. "A NORMAN OF note