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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03

thought he saw the sharp-lined,
sunken-cheeked face of a woman leer-
ing at him-not lovely face-with a
blotch of red where the mouth should
be. but he never saw it again.
Kelly groaned and, rolling over, lay
on his stomach. There was something
queer about that paper. He would
speak to the nurse about it.
However, he thought the nurse
might think he was crazy, and night
after night and day after day he
watched the Face, so that it's image
was stamped on his brain, and he even
saw it in his sleep. Then he began
to fidget, and he got into the habit of
ducking under the blankets; but when
ever he peeped out, there it was,
grimacing, drawn with sorrow, pale,
and one eye squinted up as though an
unseen body writhed in agony. He
thought the Face looked like that of
someone he had known. Mighty ia
miliar-looking. Confound it, where
had he seen that smile before?
So he got still more uneasy as he
watched that Sinking thing-those
splotches on the wall, each exactly
like the other. 1t was always grin
ming, and he felt his own lips curling
into a similar smile; frightened-yet
he was fascinated and his imagination
Wove a fantastic mess in his brain.
The first time he woke and found
the nurse out of the room, he got up
and tottered across the floor and put
his face close to the wall. He saw a
wreath of red roses with a cluster of
red and white roses in the middle of
the wreath; when he crawled back to
bed, he saw a ghoul sneering at him
with pallid, laughing lips and hollow
eyes.
One night, somewhere about Il
o'clock, Kelly threw back the covers
and sat up. His eyes were rolling in
their sockets. He stared at the wall,
and then he began to talk
A streak OF light from a neighboring
window edged through the side of the
curtains and cast wan glow on the
wallpaper so that the clown face
whitened into a skull wavering in the
uncertain haze, with a smear of CO.
agulated blood as a background. The
skull had a jaunty air and its Jaws
were hanging apart in a wide smile.
Kelly fancied he heard the thread OF
a sound-a thin tinkle of laughter, like
Icicles dropping on slab of granite
coming from that lipless mouth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03
Bavarian Distances.

In the Bavarian highlands sign
posts along the roads, instead of stat
ing the number of miles or kilometers
to the various villages, give the
amount of time which the average
pedestrian will supposedly take to
traverse the distance This is merely
an official expression Of the very gen.
eral custom of the peasants in the re-
gion, who invariably tell inquirers on
the roads not how far it is to place,
but how long it takes to get there. Not
only that, but they make the system
still more unsatisfactory to the
stranger by a little additional eccen-
tricity of their own.
For instance, one asks: How far
is it to Oberammergau?"
"a small half hour" will be the an
swer, or perhaps "a good half hour, -
or "a big half hour"
Which is puzzling until the stranger
learns that a small half hour means
% minutes, "a good half hour 80 min
utes, "a big half hour" 35 minutes, ga
small three-quarters of an hour" 40
minutes, and so on.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03
The Face on the
Wall Paper
By H. FORREST
Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Coz

Copyright. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Kelly was i'll. He lay on his back,
his eyes half shut, his fingers pulling
weakly at the white spread.
1t seemed 70 him as though he had
lain so for years; yet it had been only
a matter of a month
He had almost died. He wished he
had. Then he wondered why he strug-
gled to live when he wanted to die;
and he thought so much about it that
his head felt as though it were going
around in wide circles, until he closed
his eyes to shut out the swaying
room. When he opened them again
he saw the Face.
He laughed loudly, although chill
shuddered through his body.
CHANGING upward he saw it again.
grinning at him. He twisted his head
and stared to the left. 1t was there,
too. And to the right-all around.
Well, he would have to gaze at the
ceiling It wasn't there, anyway.
After while he glanced back.
He thought the Face was laughing.
1t jigged up and down and the laugh
twisted into a sheer. Kelly shut his
eyes, but he could not keep them
closed. During his illness he had
watched that Face until he held his
mouth to keep from screaming. Some
times it seemed a grotesque mask;
sometimes a somber-eyed monk with
a crimson hood; and mostly hideous,
Sinking clown.
Why on earth had they hung such
abOminable paper on the wall?
Casually glancing at it, Kelly had
first seen row on row Of red rose
wreaths with a cluster of red and
white roses in the middle of the
wreath. One night he noticed that the
cluster of roses formed face-a long,
thin, clownish face with a hint of sor-
row in the twist Of its haunting lips.
He had tried to pick out other faces,
but only a harlequin Knocked him
from the wall-columns and columns
of pierrots rising one above the other,
stretching right and left, and all the
same and all staring at him. Once he
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03

'"They's new man come to town.
Willie says it soft and low
''He is big and round and fat
And think his name is Snow.
Stubbie SEE his heart is cold,
But he's jolly as kin be-
He is giSt outside thee door
Won't. you please come out?' SEE he.
"Ma come out and greet thee man
Who is standing in our lot.
You should see the pipe he smokes
And thee dandy hat he's got!
Aw, come on and take look.
He is gist a-visitin'-
Maybe if you like him, ma
Pa will ask thee Teller in!"
Then ma opens wide the door
Mother always is polte
Willie whoops and jumps around:
'Lookee! Lookee!" with delight.
There a snow man on the lawn
Greets her at the open door,
Just snow man big and tall
Simply this and nothing more!
1--WE list made him." Willie shouts
''Stub and Fatty Brown and ME!
And / fooled you ma, did!'
Chortles Willie in his glee.
But alas When father comes
There is sorrow in the she'd
That was fathers Sunday hat
On the snow mans soggy head!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03
New York Hotels Busy.

New York city hotels are now enter
tanning Is per cent. more customers
than they were one year ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03

Old love letters may be classed as
first aid to the breach-of-prOmise at
torney. 1t is much safer to whisper
it in her coral ear and get the end of
your nose tickled by a beau-catcher.
< & 4
Zone hundred thousand dollars a
year is what it costs to clothe GER
tain New York woman" says an ex-
change What a pity someone can
not take it away from her and give it
to the poor" What, all of it? Mercy,
no.
Z Z 4
Occasionally we find a man who
glories in the high and ascending price
Of turkeys He believes, evidently,
that the birds will soon go so high in
value that he won't have to carve 'em
any more!
Did you ever try to make yourself
laugh by tickling yourself It's a
great foolishness, of course, but it is
better than trying to make your
self cry by sticking pins in your
flesh. If we tried to laugh more and
worry less, this would be happier
world.
Z 4 =
ga man who never does anything"
says an exchange, doesn't have to
dodge the assessor" Oh, 1 don't
know. I am acquainted with fell
low who never does anything, but he
does everybOdy-and he goes on va
cation every time he hears the asses
sor making a noise like property
schedule.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03
The Mississippi.

An Iowa resident sends the follow
ing bit of poesy to his home newspa-
per for publication:
Flow on mighty river flow on
For thou art most stately and grand
Flow through the green corn fields
That border thy brod land
The red man has gon
From thy murmuring shore
His war cry is still no more his song
His labor is don his work is ore
Oh mighty river thou will flow on
Through this eden of the west
Though the red mans work is don
Thong will still eden bless
An other race is on thy shore
He came with plow and gun and horse
He came with tragic deeds Of wars
He came and laid this eden bare
The native grass and flower are dead
The whiteman he has set his bounds
Freedom for the beast and bird has
fled
This eden is in lanes and farms and
~ towns
Flow on mighty river flow on
For on thy bosum thou shall bare
The commerce of this eden fare
For no other river with the can compare
6 6 g
Terrible Shock,
The star boarder at certain New York
tavern" who was reading his paper at
breakfast, suddenly gave a low Shrek
and fell to the floor. The more curious
among those present picked up the paper
and saw what had shocked him. 1t was
an item reading: California will ship co.
600 900 pounds of prunes to the eastern
markets this year."
RYrrcMs4e4=s
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03
Tickle Grass.

A curious cuss wonders if he will
get any mince pie in heaven. Most
of us would waive the pie if we knew
absolutely that we would make the
harbor
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
SUING FOR THE MONEY

Suit to recover a reward of
$1,000 from the Great Northern
railway for the arrest of the per-
petrators of the robbery of the
Oriental Limited in Montana on
September ~, 1907, has been in
stituted in the superior court by
three officers of the Spokane po-
lice department, Sergeant D. d.
McPhee and Detectives Alexander
Mcdonald and r. T. Briley. These
officers captured Ed Mcdonald and
George Frankhauser on Great
Northern train near Spokane Octo-
Der 25, 1907, and succeeded in re-
covering $4,000 of the $4,000
stolen. The robbers afterward
escaped from the Helena Jail, but
Frankhauser was recaptured and
convicted this week in the courts
at Helena. Mcdonald was never
recaptured.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
DAD BROWN IS
FEELING HAPPY

Dad Browns face wears a
cherubic smile today and Red"
has every reason to be happy, ac-
cording to what the dope books
say. He has been awarded Joe
Laughlin, the st. Paul catcher who
has been purchased outright and
will don the mask and glove at
the receiving end of the battery
for the Indians during the coming
season.
Laughlin is no old hasbeen. His
record puts him well up in the
forefront of catchers in the Ameri-
can association and during 1907
and 1908 he was one of the best
men in the league. His fielding
average last year was .976, while
he hit at a clip of 253. This gives
the Indians two of the best catch
ers in the league with Ostdiek of
the Boston Americans as a partner
for Laughlin.
Brown has good assortment
of pitchers for the coming season.
Jensen, Killilay, Brinker, Hoon
and Wright are among the old
timers in the league, while Holm,
GREGG and McCamment are in line
to do stunts on the slab.
Sidney A. Jehl an Arkansas
PLAYER and manager. has been sign
ed by Brown to play one of the
outfield positions during the COM
ing season. Dode Brinker will also
start out in the outfield, where his
ability as hitter makes him a
| valuable man. Red" wants a
pennant this season and claims
the strongest team in the league
at present, and if his men make
good Spokane will win the elusive
rag.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28

it's games in one inning, and this is
the way it ofen comes about:
Hahn will get walk. Jones will
lay down good bunt and the
pitcher boots it. The next man
sacrifices and then someone will
come along with the hit that gives
them two runs and usually the
game.
Every pitcher who faces this
club goes into the box knowing
that if he is trifle wild the
chances are two to one that he will
lose, and this doesn't help him a
bit.
Making the pitcher go the limit
at all times may pot prove success
full to every club, but it surely pays
the White Sox, and in a good meas
ure accounts for the fact that they
are always serious contenders for
the American league championship.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
HERE'S A MILL THAT
WILL BE A MILL

Five times 70 pounds is $50
pounds.
This five times is the handicap
In weight j. w. Smith will have
over A. K. French in case a spar
ring contest is pulled off between
the pair, as is now planned by
friends of both parties Smith is
the newly elected assessor of
Kootenai county, Idaho, and
weighs 352 pounds, while French
is the 70 pound assessor of Colum.
bia county, Wash French has &C.
cepted the challenge and in case
the men agree to box an effort will
be made to pull off the freak &c
in Spokane. Idaho men are al
ready placing their bets on the
Washington bantam.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
SHARkEY HAS EN- FIXED

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-The ex.
peeted police interference did not
materialize last evening, when six
hot hoxing bouts were pulled off
at the Sharkey Athletic club. Dur
ing the evening two knockouts
were scored, two contestants were
disqualified for fouling and the
other battles were hot. The final
go between Young Loughrey and
Paddy Sullivan went 10 rounds
the former having the best of the
argumetn at all stages.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
10, THE POOR INDIAN

1t has been a long, long time
since Indian Joe Gregg has ap-
peared in Spokane. Since he left
in search of honors in the squared
ring he has Travelled over the coun.
try and has appeared in a number
of bouts, most. of them unimport
ant. He recently went 20 rounds
with Howard Baker at San Der
nadine and the white man got al
the glory and Gregg the blows
Gregg was game, but was clearly
outpointed by his rival
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28

Special Correspondence to The Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 28.-Incredible
as it may seem, considerable belief
is placed in the story going around
baseball circles that Joe Tinker,
shortstop of the worlds champion
Cubs, is to be disposed of before
the baseball season Of 1909 opens.
The story is that Charles Muir
ply, owner of the Cubs, Is riled be-
cause he believes Tinker started
the story that the Cubs had been
offered $4,000 bonus If they won
the National league pennant. which
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
LIST EN-

Ladies and gentlemen, with your
kind attention we will now tell you
about Owl Creek coal. e
1t has very little ash.
1t is a lasting coal.
1t contains wonderful heat.
1t is clean coal. e
And numerous other good quail
ties which we will explain to you
II you will call Main sos. Standard
Fuel & Ice Co. sss
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
svmMoNs FOR PUBLICATION.

No. 26965.
In the Superior Court of the State
Of Washington, in and for the
County OF Spokane.
John w. Graham and Ella Maude
Hovey Graham, his wife, plaintiffs,
VS.. James c. Ryan and Mrs. James
c. Ryan, his wife. and 8. R. Had
dock, and Mrs. 8. r. Haddock,
his wife, and also all of the
persons or parties unknown claim
ing any right, title, lien or interest
in real estate described in the
complaint herein, defendants.
The State of Washington, to the
said James C. Ryan and Mrs.
James c. Ryan, and to the said s.
r. Haddock and Mrs. 8. R. Had
dock, his wife, and also to all Of
the persons or parties unknown
claiming any right, title, lien or
interest in real estate described in
the complaint herein, defendants:
You and each Of you are hereby
summoned to appear within sixty
(60) days after the date of the
first publication Of this summons,
to-wit within sixty (60) days after
the 18th day of December, A. d.
1908, and defend the above entitled
action in the above entitled court
and answer the complaint Of the
plaintiffs and serve copy Of your
answer upon the undersigned at
torney for plaintiffs at his Office
below stated, and in case Of your
failure so to DO judgment will be
rendered against you according to
the demands of the complaint,
which has been filed with the clerk
of said court.
The object of said action Is to
require you and each of you to set
forth the nature of your claim or
claims of or to any estate or right
or title or interest in or to the
whole or any part of the real
estate known and described as the
south half of the southwest quarter
Of the southeast quarter of the
southeast quarter of section TWEEN.
ty-nine (29), in township twenty
six (26), N. R.. forty-three (49,
e. w. NJ, to obtain decree ad-
judging each and all of your claims
of or to any estate or right or title
or interest whatsoever in or to
said real property or to any part
thereof to be void, and adjudging
the said plaintiffs to be the abso-
lutte owners in fee simple of all
of said real property, and to eX.
clude you and all persons claiming
by, through or under you or either
of you from any interest in said
real property; to enjoin you and
each of you and all persons claim.
ing by, through or under you or
either of you from asserting any
claim of right, title, interest or
estate in or to said real property
or any part thereof adverse to said
plaintiffs, and to obtain such other
and further relief as to the court
shall seem equitable and Just.
DALBERT K. TWITCHELL,
Attorney for Plaintiffs, Post Office
Address, 61S The Rookery, Spo
kane, Washington.
Date Of first publication Deem
Der II, 1908.
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Help Wanted--Male

Wanted for U. S. Army-Abl,-
bodied unmarried men between
ages Of Is and So; citizens Of
United States, Of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write English. For
information apply to Recruiting
Oficer. 1861 Howard street, Spo-
kane, Wash.
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sum Murphy has practically been
forced to pay his men. III 4
Men close to the powers assert
that il Murphy dared interfere with
the management of the club to
such an extent, Frank Chance,
manager, would resign. Chance
will not permit Murphy to inter
fere with his plans" say well-post-
ed base ball men, so perhaps, after
all, there is nothing in the story
but a little noise, made chiefly by
Murphy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
ALMIRA WINS ANOTHER

The Almira high school won it's
sixth consecutive victory at basket
ball last evening when the team
defeated the Occur d'Alene high
school by a score of 20 to II. The
Almira team will play Spokane and
Bellingham before the end of the
season.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
GRAND FORKS LEADS

In the hockey matches in British
Columbia, Grand Forks now leads
the league over Phoenix and
GREENWOOD, having defeated the
latter Monday evening by a score
of 6 to l. Phoenix is close sec
ond, while Greenwood has not won
a game.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
the State of Washington, in and
for the County of Spokane.
Harry H. Green and Lena
Green, his wife,
r. Plaintiffs
Iet -
Hugh H. Hutchinson, a minor,
and Elizabeth Hutchinson,
executrix of the estate Of
James M. Hutchinson, de-
ceased; and also all other I'M
known persons or parties
claiming any right, title,
estate, lien or interest in the
real estate described in the
complaint herein,
Defendant.
The State of Washington to
Hugh H. Hutchinson, a minor, and
Elizabeth Hutchinson, executrix of
the estate of James M. Hutchinson,
deceased; and also all other un-
known persons or parties claiming
any right, title, estate, lien or in
terest in the real estate described
in the complaint herein, defen-
dants:
You and each of you are hereby
summoned to appear within sixty
(6O) days after the date of the first
publication of this summons, to-
wit, within sixty (60) days after
the 14th day of January, 1909, and
defend the above entitled action,
in the above entitled court, and
answer the complaint of the plain
tiffs and serve copy of your an
swer upon the undersigned attor-
ney for said plaintiffs, at his Office,
below stated; and in case of your
failure so to do, judgment will
be rendered against you accord
ing to the demand of the COM
plant, which has been filed with
the clerk of said court.
The object of said action is to
secure decree adludging the
plaintiffs to be the owners of Lot
nine 90, in Block three (3), in
Chambers Addition to Spokane
Falls (now Spokane), in Spokane
County, Washington, and adjudg-
ing that neither of said defendants,
nor any other person or persons
whomsoever have any right, claim,
title, estate or interest in or lien
upon said real estate.
To have adjudged legal, valid
and sufficient the deed of James
NJ Hutchinson, as the executor of
the estate of Hugh G. Hutchinson,
deceased, conveying said premises
to plaintiff, Harry H. Green, which
said deed is recorded on page 316
of book 1872, of the Deed Records
in the office of the County Auditor
of said Spokane County, Washing
| ton, and to have all clouds upon
plaintiffs title to said real estate
removed, and the title thereto
quoted in said plaintiffs, and re-
quiring each of said defendants to
set up any estate or right in him.
self or herself, or any other per-
son in or to said property, and
for general relief.
The subject of said action is
real property in said Spokane
County, Washington, and said de-
PENDANTS have or claim a lien or
interest therein, and the relief de-
manded herein consists in exclud-
ing defendants, and each of them,
and all other persons whomsoever
from any interest or lien in said
real property.
MARK F. MENDENHALL,
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
Postoffice address:
Mark F. Mendenhall
27-3O Exchange National Bank
Building, Spokane, Wash.
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on his return home he found the
boys in the back yard going at it
hammer and tongs. He was amazed
at their ability, and a few ques-
tions drew out the fact that they
had been practicing for weeks with
out his knowledge.
He took them in charge, and has
been giving them lessons. In their
contests they use five ounce gloves
and are able to land some telling
blows.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28

special Correspondence 60 The Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 2S.-Co-
1umbus boasts of the two youngest
professional fighters in the world,
in Huston and Theo. Thomas, aged
II and 9 years, respectively, who
have appeared in exhibition for a
purse, and who have never failed
to make hit.
The boys make their home with
their uncle, c. Anderson, an ad-
mirer of the fistic game. One day
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28

his country. Last year Tebbit was
defeated by F. w. Dix. Although
many years older than his con-
queror, Tebbit has announced his
intention of going after the anna
teur championship and the kings
cup this winter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
ISN'T e HANDSOME?

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-The best
known speed skater in England is
Albert Tebbit, who far 13 years
held the amateur championship of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28

Young man wishes job OF any kind
of work; has had some expert
ence in cook. Ed Quinn, 420 8.
Hilliard street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-28
Situation Wanted

Two men want brick work, stone
work. cement block work by day
or contract. Address A, care The
Press.