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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
HARTMAN PUTSIN
WIRELESS PHONE
(By United Press)

OMAHA, May 19.--Officials in
the Union Pacific Offices here will
soon be able to speak to operatives
and passengers aboard trains be-
tween this city and San Francis
co by the wireless telephone sys-
TEN.
DR.. Millener, company electri-
clan, has been given authority to
install necessary equipment and
hopes to have the system in sue.
cessful operation within two years.
Copper wire will be laid along the
track, carrying sound waves which
will be picked up by instruments
in the cars and offices. The waves
will be sent over the wires by
machines carried In the baggage
cars.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
OF
OREGON BALKS
REFUSES TO FILE PETITION
FOR REFERENDUM ON RE-
CENT LAW, AND THEY'RE
GOING TO MANDAMUS HIM.
fBy United Press)

SALEM, Ore, May 19.-Manda
mus proceedings will probably be
necessary to compel the secretary
of state to file the referendum pre-
sented yesterday calling for repeal
of the law passed by the last legis-
iatures creating an additional cir
cult Judge for Muitonomah county,
now held by w. N. Gatens.
The governor has the matter I'M
der consideration and will not file
the petition.
The petitioners claim the emer-
gencysclause of the act which it is
desired to have referred to the peo-
pie is Invalid.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
MOTORMAN
SAVES CHILD

Coasting on her bicycle down the
Knox avenue hill. a little girl
whose name the street carmen did
not secure. collided with a Corbin
Park Traction car and escaped
death beneath it's wheels by the
merest chance. The motorman's
GOODNESS and control of the car
saved her life.
Passengers were almost hurled
from their seats by the sudden halt
and looking out of the windows
saw only the girls bicycle with
spinning wheels clear of the cars
edge. The frightened rider lay
snug up against the rails but was
unhurt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
|ROCKEEELLER'S RIGHT
HAND MAN DEAD
Death Suddenly Smiles H.
H. Rogers, Noted Stand-
ard Gil Director.
(Ry United Pressl


NEW YORK, May 18Th. III.
Rogers, one Of the leading multi.
millionaires of the Rockefeller
group, died this morning. 1t was
not known Rogers was seriously.
i'll. as he was at his Office yesters
day.
Appoplexy is announced as the
cause of death. - Rogers was.
stricken at $50 this morning and
was unconscious some time before
death
DR.. Fuher, the nearest doctor,
responded to call in his night
clothes, but saw there was no
hope. ~
Rogers had been in poor health
for several years. Two years ago
he suffered nervous collapse, and
1t was rumored that he had been
stricken with paralysis.
Rogers retired for time, but
after regaining part of his health
returned to financial operations
He recently withdrew from active
connection with Standard Oil, Of
which he was vice president, 7di-'
rector and one of the heayiests
stockholders. - : :,
He then devoted his attention to-
construction of the Virginia rail-
road from the coal fields to tide
water. After completing the road;
which is one of the most remark
able lines ever built, Rogers re-
turned to New York from Nor
folk. A month ago he went to his
summer home at Fairhaven, Mass.
He rested there a short time and
returned here to resume his blsis..
ness affairs.
1t is known that Rogers for-
tune is about $50,00O,000. His
biggest gifts consisted of $4,000, 900
for the erection of library and
school in Fairhaven.
Rogers was SO years old. He was
born at Fairhaven, Mass. Fifty
years ago he sold newspapers in
New Bedford. He began his career
as the clerk in his fathers general
store and started toward wealth
when Oil was discovered in Penn
sylvania.
Tentative plans for the funeral
were made this afternoon. Serv-
ices probably will be held at the
Unitarian Church of the Messiah
Friday morning, DR.. Robert Collier
officiating. Burial will be made at
Fairhaven.
Mark Twain arrived at the Rog
ers home at noon. He was one of
Rogers closest personal friends
and is heartbroken over the death.
Tears were coursing down his
cheeks when he entered.
HOT SPRINGS. Va. May IL
Rockefeller was found on the golf
links this afternoon. He refused
to comment on the death of
Rogers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
ROMANCE KNOCKS OUT
JAP PREACHER
(By United Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.-Rev.
II. Aoki, former pastor of the Epis-
copal Japanese mission of this city,
and brother of Gunjiro Aokf, hus-
band of Gladys Emery Aoki, whose
recent marriage held the attention
of the entire coast, has mysteri-
ously disappeared. 1t Is said that
members of the mission demanded
his resignation as the result of the
part he played in the romance of
his brother.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
CLEIN'S THIRD
SWEETHEART
Shex Regs For Chance to See Him On Trial
For His Life.

verdict for the defendant on the
statement of the case made by the
prosecutor, as he believed that II
everything the prosecutor had ad-
vanced could be proven against
Clein he would still be entitled to
acquittal. He said he would defer
making the motion until the state
introduced it's evidence.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
PICTURE OF CEKLD'S MANNED HAND
ARGUMENT AGAINST FIREWORKS

A conGncing illustration of why
the use and sale of fireworks
should be regulated by city or
dinance especially for July 4 is a
picture of little Carl Allison. age
six years, with his little MANNED
hand, torn and lacerated two years
ago by the explosion of a giant
ripper II was filed this morn
ing with the city clerk. to be
placed, together with his mothers
petition, before the city council at
its next meeting.
The little boys condition appears
by the photograph to be quite pitia.
BILE. His uninjured hand holds a
Grecracker like the one which July
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19

4, 1905, handicapped him for the re-
mainder of his life.
Mrs. Allison in pleading with the
council to pass the ordinance that
has already been proposed for the
regulation of the sale and use of
fireworks and explosives on July 4
calls attention not only to the dis
advantages to which a child is put
by such injuries, but to the mental
anguish suffered by their parents.
II respectfully urge the passage
Of this ordinance" she writes, for
whose children will be the next uu-
fortunate? Perhaps your; time
will tell Mrs. Allison lives at
E270S Carnehan.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
SUGAR TRUST HAS IRON
CLUTCHES ON CONGRESS

tial revision of the tariff, and here
is one item that costs the American
people nearly 100000 900 a year,
and there has not been given to
this item the slightest attention.
Such revision of the tariff is q
sham and humbug."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
DIVORCED WIFE
WANTS MONEY

A complaint has been served In
a suit broughe by Josephine Todd
Gentry, who resides in one of the
eastern states. against Jesse Gen
try. the wealthy owner of Spokane
real estate. for whom $4,000 has
been paid into the county clerks
office by the North Coast railroad
in an action to condemn property
belonging to him
Mrs. Gentry is divorced wife of
Gentry and asks that he be re
CURED to pay her $4,000 for the
maintainance OF their children, at
present In her care and keeping.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
TARIFF STAYS ON
MACHINES
lRy United Pressl

WASHINGTON. May 1.-the
senate today struck out the proviso
in the tariff bill permitting free
importation of lace machines for
two years. Paynter's amendment
reducing duty ON linotype machines
was also defeated. Beveridge an
nounced his intention Of having the
watch movement schedule reviewed
when the Aldrich bill was ready for
final passage.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
DiGGERs JOIN PARIS STRIKE
NV United Press)

PARIS, May 19.-One hundred
and fifty diggers today joined the
postmen and telegraphers.
several hundred who
were discharged Internationally,
all the original strik-
ing postmen and telegraphers have
returned to their posts.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
SEVENTH SHOT
SAVES TEDDY
Huge Rhinocerous Almost Reaches Him h;
Deadly Charge From Jungle.

hid in a thicket- Roosevelt fired
FIVE more shots into his body with
out apparent effect.
While he was maneuvering for a
more advantageous position for the
seventh shot, the animal crashed
from the bushes and ran for Roose-
welt. The last shot, fred at close
range, felled the animal. Its skin
weighs 400 pounds.
Kermit is now called Bwana
Mtoto, or little MASTER" by the
natives.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
STARVING MAN DIES
WHEN HE GETS FOOD
(By unnsd Press)

PITTSBURG. Pa. May 19.--After
having starved for days. an uniden-
titled man dropped dead at the feet
of A. Il. Kramer of this city. just
as a heaping plate OF food was
handed to him.
The man called at the Kramer
home, begging bite to eat. and
declaring he had been without foos
for days.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
STUDENT EDITOR
KILLED BY RIFLE
(By United Press)

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. the junior class and recently Z
. elected editor Of "Chinook," Z
. annual publication Of the Z
= Washington state college, Is Z
= dead from wounds accidental Z
= Iy received by the discharge Z
. Of a rifle he was cleaning yes Z
. terday. =
. Davidson was automobiling Z
= with a party about IS miles =
. south Of Pullman when the =
. accident occurred. Death was Z
= instantaneous. =
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
Senator Clay Denounces 1t
as Criminal Defiant
to Law.
(By United Press)

w AoIli4Nb YIN, may IL lS
most scratching arraignment that
the sugar trust has ever been sub
jected to on the floor of congress
was delivered In the senate today
by Senator Clay of Georgia, during
the debate on the sugar schedule of
the pend.n tariff bill
The sugar trust" he declared,
has constantly violated both the
civil and criminal laws of our coun-
try. 1t is unconscionable and has
continually robbed the American
people since its organization. In
stead of knocking at the door of
congress seeking to increase it's
fortunes at the expense of the
masses of the people, its officers
ought to be at the bar of the Grim
inal courts, and instead of enjoying
their i'll gotten wealth they deserve
to be serving long terms in our
federal prisons.
Every day in the year since it
was organized the sugar trust has
violated the criminal laws passed
by congress to protect the Ameri-
can people against these unlawful
and wicked combinations. The trust
has filched the treasury of the
United States out of more than 10
millions of revenue that justly be-
longed to the treasury of the
United States. needed to. pay the
legitimate expenses of the govern
ment."
Referring to the recent revela-
tons of fraud in connection with
the weighing of sugar at the New
York customs house, Senator Clay
continued:
THE public press has announced
that the sugar trust has paid into
the treasury more than $2,000,000.
of which large sum its officers and
agents had robbed the treasury of
the United States. Suit is now
pending in New Jersey against this
trust to recover a million of dollars
for revenues due the government.
and it is admitted by the officers of
this company including its counsel,
that this unprincipled organization
has robbed the American people OF
this vast sum. which they are now
trying to compromise. The trust
deserves no mercy at the hands OF
congress and most assuredly no
favors at the hands of congress.
The criminal and civil laws ought
to be vigorously enforced against 1t,
and the best way to destroy IT is to
give it healthy foreign competition.
Let us give to the American
people cheap sugar. Let us grasp
the sugar trust by the throat and
strange it to death, and keep In
view the interest. the happiness
and welfare of the plain people OF
America.
"We must remember that sugar
Is an important article OF food daily
consumed by every man, woman
and child in the country. This be-
ing true. the people had the right
to expect that the finance commit
tee of the senate would treat 1t as
necessity and tax II accordingly;
but, on the contrary, II has been
singled out as a subject of a tax
equal to rs per cent of It's bond
value. have been confronted with
facts and figures which show that
this food product pays a tax of
nearly so per cent, while many
articles of luxury in this country
are taxed at much lower rates.
The senate finance committee
has granted the trust all the favors
desired without hearing and so
has the ways and means committee
of the house. We were called in
special session to make = suhstan-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
(6y United Press)

NA1ROBI, May 1.-the latest
news from the hunting party is
that Roosevelt has killed his sec
ond rhinocerous, the most feared
Of jungle animals.
Roosevelt was riding in search
Of hippopotamus when the animal
charged him. He shot it at close
range.
A shot from Roosevelt's rifle
wounded the rhinocerous, which
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
TRIED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Judge Huneke and jury behind
closed doors today heard the case
of State against Leslie Gilman, be-
ing one OF number of tits in
which the family of Fred Gilman
and the juvenile department are in
terested The young man is charged
with indecent conduct and the de-
tails of the case were so bad that
Judge Huneke concluded to bar all
eXCept ATTORNEYS from the room.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
REPENTS SUICIDE
BUT TOO LATE
(By United Press)

SEATTLE, May 1s.--Repentins
too late his intention to commit
suicide In Puget Sound, Ollie Cor
bin, of Port Townsend, drowned
last night despite efforts of the
boat crew of the steamer Chippe-
wa, from which he leaped, to save
him.
Corbin arrived In Port Townsend
,pennlless Friday. The police fur
nished him a ticket to Seattle. He
boarded the steamer at 9 last
night, Immediately walked to the
railing and leaped In.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
TAFT AT DEDICATION

PETERSBURG, Va, May 49,
Taft today assisted in the dedica-
ton of the $50, monument erect
ed at Fort Malone to Pennsylvania
soldiers of the Civil war. 1t was
presented today by Governor
Stewart to Virginia. Governor
Swanson formally accepted it on
behalf of Virginia.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
ONLY MARRIED COPS FOR
DUTY AT GAY COMFY ISLAND
10y United Press)

NEW YORK, May l9.--Believinn
that married men would be less
susceptible to the temptations that
surround Coney island, Police Com
missioner Bingham has decided to
appoint for duty in that district
only officers who have zen mar.
ried at least 10 years.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
IOWA'S GOVERNOR
MILKS THE COW

special Correspondence to The Press
DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 19.-B.
F.. Carroll, governor of Iowa, is a
stanch upholder of American de-
mocracy. He still milks his own
COWS.
What. the king of Siam or the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
Special Announcements!
EXCLUSIVE
ROOSEVELT
ADVENTURES
I'm AFRICA
Received Via the Mombasa Liar.

The Press has arranged great journalistic scoop.
1t has contracted for the sole Mombassa Liar Service
by Telless Aerograph and Lenseless Photography,
1t will present the bloodcurdling achievements of the
Eminent Faunal Naturalist, Theodore Roosevelt, ex-
President of the United States and Founder of the
Ananias club often as they happen, and oftener
The rival press of the country stands dismayed at
the Press big beat and no wonder! Look on the
editorial page today and behold the first Mombassa
Liar dispatch
1T is A CORKER
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-19
SPRECKLES FAMILY
WAR IN COURTS
{By United Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10
That John Adolph Speckles will
fight 10 the bitter end the petition
of his brothers. Rudolph and Claus,
Evening star., 1909-07-06
New National.

One might have imagined that the real
RAYMOND Hitchcock, with all his droii
antics and "Iaugh-stunts." was back at
,he New National Theater last evening
in the Yankee Consul cast as Abijah
Rooze. for Robinson Newbold of the
Aborn Opera Company not only plays
the mart well, but he also looks very
much like Hitchcock. Newbold was,
without a doubt, the hit of the opera
production which age seems TO nave mel
lowed rather than cast aside on the for
gotten heap. His songs, In OLD New
York Amt 1t Funny What a Differ
ence Just Few Hours Make, and In
the Days of DID, were encored time
after time, and even Hitchcock. with all
his power of laugh-getting, seldom sang
and resang as often.
The plot of the opera concerns Abl3ah
Booze, the American consul, who passes
by the hand of a rich and pretty girl 1or
his wife and prefers that OF the weslths
and robust widow, Donna Teresa Rlbera
Y Cruburu. proud of her Castilian biood
and her ancestors. Other love making
is thrown broadcast through tEe opera,
Capt. Leopoldo of the Dominican army
selecting Papinta, Lieut. Jack Morrell
of the L. S. gunboat Vixen wooing Bo-
nita, and both Don Rafael Deschado,
Governor of Puerto Plata, and Herr Ge-
bubler. his secretary, paying their com
plirnents' to the much-sousht, wealthy
widow. Funny scenes gre" lioih ~ "
posed revolutions, plots with traitors, all
mingled with the love making.
The return of FRITZ Won Busing as Papln-
ta was greeted with much applause by the
audience, and her song, The Mosquito
and the Midge.'' took well. Blanche
Morrison, as Bonita, was charming in
her usual demure way, singing we'll, es-
pecially in My San Domingo Maid
Henry Coote, as Lieut.. Jack Morrell, was
a decided favorite, and his songs were
encored several times Forrest Huff, as
Leopoldo, was good, as usual. his part
being one of the most prominent lie
san.s a pretty song. Il Love Thee, by
Donald W. McLeran, music by H. k1rkus
Dugdale. two local song writer's. DINERS
deserving mention were George Shields,
as the governor: Herman Hnrschbers. as
the secretary; Ralph Nichols. as Sancho;
Eugene Francis, as Rodrigo, and Lenna
Duer, as the flower girl. In the part or
the wealthy widow Hattie Arnold made a
hit with her portion of the fuu-making.
Evening star., 1909-07-06
COMING HERE WITH ICE.
Four Large Coasting Schooners on
Their Way to Washington.

According to bills of lading received by
the officials OF the American lee Com
pany at this city. four large coasting
schooners are on their way to this city
with ice aboard, and all should be here
discharging cargoes within the next week
or ten days. The schooner Lucinda Sut-
ton, which left the Maine ice fields for
this port, is reported as having sailed
June 2S. She is due at the capes of the
Chesapeake at any time and should be
unloading here by the end of the week.
The schooner S. P. Blackburn. which is
following the Sutton, left her loading
point on the Maine coast June 80, and
she should pass in the capes this week.
The Alice Holbrook left Bath June 81,
and the Charles Davenport sailed from
Bangor for this city July l. These four
vessels will bring about 5000 tons Of the
refrigerating material for use in the
households of Washington. The schooner
Edwin r. Hunt which left Bath June
2s and was reported coming to this city
has been DETECTED. and will go either to
Philadelphia or Baltimore to unload her
cargo 1t is stated that over 50,0OD tons
Of natural ice will be brought to this city
and Alexandria by vessel during the next
three months.
Evening star., 1909-07-06
WIRES MUST GO UNDERGROUND
District Engineers Opinion on Ma
tional E. S. Company's Request.

That underground wires must replace
overhead wires is the notice Whicn the
District Commissioners will serve soon on
the National Electric Supply Company.
The company recently wrote the COM
missioners to ask to be allowed to make
certain changes in the overhead wires
which 1t maintains for the purpose OF
transmitting the noon signal, from the
United States naval observatory TO the
several government departments for auto
matically correcting clocks therein.
THE wires mentioned within are not
authorized by law, although they nave
been in existence for years. says Electri-
cal Engineer W. G. Allen. in report on
the request. THE National Electrical
Supply Company is not authorized by law
to erect or maintain wires over the pubic
streets and no permit therefore, could
legally be issued to them for that pur-
pose.
Il would recommend that the company
be informed that, if this system is to be
maintained. it must arrange to secure
underground facilities in the conduits of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
or the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company
Evening star., 1909-07-06
Luna Park.

Luna Park broke its record in the mat
ter of attendance yesterday, the beauti-
full weather drawing thousands to the
riverside resort and it's many attractions.
The sensational feature of the day was
the dash of Dare Devil White on bicycle
down a sixty-foot incline with an up
ward turn at the bottom, which plunged
the rider into shallow tank Of water,
while the bicycle was caught in net.
The vaudeville was we'll patronized. The
four Buck Brothers did some good work
in comedy and trick cycle riding. Jolly
Lukens dilated on independence day and
did clever specialties, La Petite Elma won
much applause for her number and Eddie
Clark, formerly of the Primrose Min
strels, made hit with his blackface
work The motion pictures were ex-
ceptionally good. The American Regi-
mental Band, under the direction of Rich
ard L. Weaver. gave concerts during the
day and evening.
Evening star., 1909-07-06
KURHAUS ADDITION OPEN.
Resort at Interlaken, Switzerland, Is
UNIQUE Structure.

The fine addition 10 the kurhaus. at
Interlaken, Switzerland, was opened with
great pomp recently. For the iestNe
occasion more than 300 invitations were
issued, including the officials. managers
of the railways and steamships. and In
Vulnerable friends residing in the neigh
boring resorts.
A musical program was given, in which
Interlaken choral societies participated.
A buffet supper and ball closed the
festivities.
The architects have been successful in
solving the difficult problem of uniting
the immense edifice, built in Oberland
wood STYLE with high and spacious halls
in the rear constructed in bold Hene-
bique.
This architectural masterpiece at once
distinguishes the Kurhaus Interlaken as
the most original building Of its kind
in Switzerland.