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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
BILL SHANNON
RIGHT ON JOB

Officer Bill Shannon, for years
known the country over as 1.-The
Terro of the Hoboes,' has in the
last three days earned new and
more worthy distinction. He Is
now the terro of automobile speed
fiends, drivers too stubborn to too
lax to toot heir horns at busy street
crossings and careless drivers in
general. Spokane's walking public
would be in little danger of injury
on the street were a few more of
the police officers on the regular
force to adopt Shanno's method of
inducing auto maniacs and careless
wagon drivers to observe the laws.
And Bills old enough to be father
of several of the big huskies.
Rank, color or profession of Of
tenders does not alter the case in
the least with stern old Bill. Bill
does funny things sometimes and
has a surprising lack of compunc-
ton for hasty acts, but those who
have watched automobile and
wagon drivers in their total disre-
gard for the safety of the general
public can appreciate Shannon
worth in the police department as
a preserver of order at Howard and
Riverside, the citys busiest center.
Louis Schermerhorn, H. Moody,
DR.. H. H. Klussman, Robert
Wheeler, Gus Ehrenberg, Harry
Hooper, Charles Baker, Joe Gard
ner, H. Nordin, Peter Singer, w. j.
Healey, Clark. Hunt and DR.. w.
Chapman, prominent physician,
were all arraigned in police court
yesterday afternoon either for
speeding their autos or failing to
blow their horns at street cross
ings All but Healey and Hunt were
fined 81 and costs, while the cases
of these two were continued two
weeks. All of them but Hunt were
arrested by Officer Shannon.
To add to this showing of law en-
forcement, Shame brought A. H.
Adams to the station last night for
fats driving across Riverside and
Howard, and Phil T. Becher, a pio-
neer real estate man, was brought
in by Officer Willis for automobile
speeding.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
WATERED STOCK DEAL
ON THE SQUARE

If things were as they sound, the
police might now be attracting all
sorts of attention working in a wa.
tered stock matter, but this in.
stance does not come in the cate
CORY of wildcat financing and get.
rich-quick games. 1t is rather a
get-poor-quick affair and the police
are looking for stock that is actu-
ally watered, aye soaked. 1t was
this way:
Yesterday, while James Leecken-
Der, Office No. GOA Rookery build
ing, was attempting to fish box
out of the river under the Howard
street bridge, he dropped his wal,
let containing 5000 shares of valu-
able mining stock and other prec-
ious papers into the water. The
police have been called into the
case but as none of the officers are
good divers, especially at this time
of the year, the stock may be wa
tered and soaked considerably
more before it is recovered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
ROBBED FRIEND
COMING AND GOING

After acting as go between"
or capper for a faker to bring about
the sale of a phoney diamond to
John Sapik, his friend, William
Bender, locked in the city all, is
believed to have robbed Sapik
while he lay asleep in room of
the Big Bend lodging house last
night Bender was arrested this
morning by Detective Dial shortly
after Sapik had reported his loss of
a gold watch and chain, set with
pearls and diamond" which Ben
der induced him to buy from a
stranger for $40 yesterday.
Bender and Sapik occupied the
room together and were intimate
friends, but Bender was not in evi.
dence when Sapik awoke this morn
ing. The police believe the dia-
mond purchased by Sapik was a
fake, as the victim of the robbery
asserts that the man from whom he
purchased it, and to whom he had
been introduced by Bender, repre-.
scented it to be worth $40, which
was about all the latter's available
cash,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
CITY HALL DENIAL
CROP COMING UP

. Suggestion Of a Fassett .
. frameup with reference to es- =
= timable gentlemen now In Of =
. fee is a match to tow now. =
. adays. Nobody ever dreams .
. Of such a thing. .
90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"The statement that / was slated
for place on the board in case
Mr.. Fassett is elected is all rot, 81
stated Mayor Moore this morning
II have heard nothing of such a
plan and under no circumstances
would accept the position were il
offered me. AS far as l know Mr.
Fassett has made no promises OF
any Office in the event of his cleo
tion."
Commissioner w. w. ,Wither
spoon was mentioned as the next
chief of police should Fassett be
elected. Mr.. Witherspoon was as
emphatic and stated that he had
heard nothing of the matter and
had not seen Mr.. Fassett since the
opening of the campaign.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
MORE DEAThTRAP
EXPENSE

= tie time to determine IL the =
. Post street bridge 10 safe. .
= A horse trotting on the bridge .
= rocks II like a boat. The thing =
. thing looks and acts like .
. deathtrap. =
AA>>>>A A>>>>>>>>
The Post street bridge Is again out
of service. The asphalt has all
been removed and after several
new planks are put in the asphalt
will again be laid. The Barber AS.
phalt Co. has the maintenance OF
the bridge on hand will have to
relay the asphalt.
The mistake was made when II
was decided in the first place to lay
asphalt on the bridge. The vibra
ton makes it almost impossible to
keep it in repair. Commissioner
Witherspoon attempted to substi
tute blocks for the asphelt, but un
der the contract this could not be
done. The bridge will be closed
several days.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
ROBBERY MOTIVE !. a..' p.
OF POLISH MURDER

County authorities believe that
clues now being followed will
throw some light on the Fort
Wright murder mystery within the
next two days. Further investiga-
ton corroborate the first theory
that the murder was for the pur-
pose of robbery and that the crime
was committed not far from where
the body was found. In this con-
nection the theory is that the MUIR
derers, if there were more than
one, were in such "a hurry in rifling
the outside pockets of the dead
man that they overlooked the $40
concealed in an envelope in an in
side vest pocket.
The correct name of the dead
man is found to be John Saudaw-
ski, which through mispronouncia-
ton by the identifying witness and
initials of A. l.. on the clothes was
believed to be A. Lewandoski.
Saudawski was last seen alive in
Spokane on March /, and the effort
to trace his steps during the last
few days prior to his disappearance
has given the authorities the first
tangible clue.
Saudawski's body was found on
top of a mound-like ridge which
stands out in the open. with the ex.
ception of a few scattering pine
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
SALOON TEST GOES
TO SUPREME COURT

The appeal in the case that is to
contest the township government
act on the saloon question, has
reached the superior court, and
will be brought to a hearing as
soon as possible in order that the
appeal may be carried to the SUI
preme court at an early date. John
w. Critzer, proprietor of saloon
at Elk, who is making the test fol-
the saloonmen, was fined $25 and
costs yesterday afternoon by JUS
tice Stocker for opening his saloon
to sell one drink.
The country saloon men will
keep their places closed until the
case is finally passed upon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23

trees. While it is not a spot that
one would select to conceal the vic
tim of a foul murder, yet the ridge
is high enough that the form Of a
man lying fiat could pass unde-
tected there for weeks. The fact
that the dead man was lying face
downward on the cold ground,
which still retains some evidence
of frost, is taken to explain why
his body was so well preserved
during the two or three weeks it
has lain there. .,,..
A gun fire test made yesterday
afternoon by Sheriff Pugh and his
deputies showed that revolver
shot fire in the low ground before
ascending the hill would not be &C
companied by so much noise as If
discharged higher up. There Is so
much shooting in progress on the
Fort Wright reservation and blast
ing close at hand that shots might
have been fired and NO heed paid
to them.
Deputy Prosecutor Donovan, af,
ter inquiring into Saudawski's rela-
lions here, has given up the idea
that the dead man was a victom of
plot. There are not many Rus
sian Poles in Spokane and the dead
man had no aequaintances except
among the people of his own ma,
tionality.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
PARENTS WAIT FOR
NEWS OF THESE

Clarence Diltz and Calvin Cleary,
ages II years, respectively, who
ran away from their homes near
Palouse, Wash, some time Satur.
day night, are being hunted in Spo,
kane at the request of their par
ents, by the police. Young Cleary
got up and left his home after hav.
ing retired with his little brother
and no one heard him leave the
premises. Diltz left in the early
evening, and they are doubtless to-
gether, having been close friends
Both had excellent homes and at
tentive parents. The police all over
this part of the country have been
given the descriptions of the two
boys.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
PUCH OPENED
COURTS EYES

George A. Lee, deputy attorney
general, says Fred C. Pugh, prose-
cutting attorney, will gain his ap-
peal to the supreme court on the
right of the prosecutor or his as
sistant to take shorthand notes of
the testimony before the grand
jury.
Mr.. Lee was in Olympia at the
time Mr.. Pugh made his plea be.
fore the full bench of the supreme
court, and from the manner in
which the plea was received by the
judges, and the authorities cited by
Pugh, Lee is led to believe the
prosecutor has the best of the bat
tie
Lee says Prosecutor Pugh made
it clear to the court that the prose-
cutting attorney who undertakes to
conduct an effective grand jury in
vestigation without stenographic
notes of the proceedings is labor
ing at a serious disadvantage.
Some members of the curot who
had not given the grand jury prac-
tice much attention were surprised
at the limitations imposed on the
prosecutor in the matter of record
ing the evidence before the, grand
jury.
The capacious law library of the
supreme court Is being used to it's
fullest extent by Prosecutor Pugh,
says Mr.. Lee, and an array of au-
thorities in support of Pugh's stand
will be in readiness for the SUI
preme court at the hearing next
Friday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
LEG BROKEN IN RUNAWAY.

August Zimmerman, a driver for
the Elgin dairy, was thrown from
his wagon on south Division street
with such force while his team was
running away this morning that his
leg was broken between the ankle
and the knee He was dragged on
the pavement by the reins for a
considerable distance. After hay
ing been attended at the emergen-
cy hospital, Zimmerman was taken
to his boarding house at OPP Gin
cinnati avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
CANDIDATES SPEAK

A number of candidates for the
mayoralty and the council appeared
last night before the Lidgerwood
Improvement club at the Lidger-
wood Congregational church.
Among those who spoke were R. A.
Hutchinson, who announced his in
tention of giving a square deal to
one and all; c. M. Fassett and N.
S. Pratt, both of whom favored the
eradication of politics from city
government; F. E. Michaels, s. S.
Bassett, G. c. Corbaley, candidates
for the council from the Fifth
ward; and j. o. Peterson, repub-
hcan candidate for treasurer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
50 FEET
AND WALKED
HOME

While plucking buttercups along
the top of the Altamont precipice
in the southeastern section of the
city last Sunday. the little daugh-
ter of Councilman Leonard Funk
slipped and umbled a distance OF
about so feet down the rocky in
cline, sustaining a bad scalp wound
and several bad bruises. She is re
ported by her mother to be much
improved today
The plucky little girl walked tC
the house, E2307 Fifth avenue. at
ter her awful flal, though part OF
her scalp hung over her forehead
That she was not killed or fatally
injured is almost miracle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
HOPES REPORTERS
WILL DROWN :

HOBOkEN, N. ", March a.
Roosevelt on his departure for A.
RIGA today, left this for the newspa-
per men:
"There is nothing to say now and
do not believe there will be any
thing later. expect to return in
IS months. Are newspaper men
going to follow me on this trip"
Roosevelt smiled. "WeII, hope
they will fall overheard. That's
the best | can wish under the cir
cumstances. hope reporters will
not try to go into the interior"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
HAD A. GRAND
JURY JAG ON

j. A. Mcdonald, who was recently
released from the county ajil,
where he had been held for con-
tempt in the Mcdonald children
concealment case, tried to break
into the grand ury room today.
He said he wanted to. reveal
something against DR.. Morrison,
county health officer. ii " -
Mcdonald was taken before the
court and sent to all. He has been
drunk largely since his release.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
FIGHT OVER LEWIS
SETTLEMENT

e. r. Keefe, a stakeholder in the
b. r. Lewis Lumber Co, the at
fairs of which are now being
wound up in receivership proceed.
ings, has filed suit against B. r.
Lewis. president of the company
contesting his right to 1749 shares
of stock in the company.
The amount involved is large, as
the stockholders of the Lewis com
pany have s1,oO0,00O of the stock
of the Blackwell Lumber Co. to di
vide among themselves as the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Lewis
holdings to the Blackwell Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
r. M. A. DANCE WEDNESDAY.

Spokane lodge No. AZ of the T..
M. A. will hold a social and dance
Wednesday at midnight at Eagles
hall. The plan is to make the af-
fair a big one and a large number
of invitations have ben sent out to
friends. The committee in charge
conducted a most successful social
last month, and the one Wednes-
day promises to fully come up to
the former effort.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
PEACEFUL VALLEY
CLUB BUSY

At a well attended meeting of
the Peaceful Valley Improvement
club, held last night at the hall at
1908 Maine avenue, progress was
reported in the work of securing
the improvement of Main, Clark
and Wilson avenues and the Huron
street sewer. A committee is out
on these matters and is meeting
with the cooperation of the inter-
ested property owners. The club
will meet again on Thursday night,
April /.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
WASHED FACE IN ACID.

MAHANOY CITY, Pa, March %.
Hoping to improve on his physi-
clans advice by using raw carbolic
acid as a face wash instead of the
diluted stuff, John Duderavice, of
this city, burned his face and eyes
so badly that he may lose his sight.
He wanted "a quicker cure"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
AFTER WIFE DESERTER.

Sheriff Pugh sent one of his
deputies to Wallace, Idaho. today
to bring Leon Beaudin, French.
man, charged with wife desertion
back to Spokane. Beaudin, 1t is
charged, deserted his wife and six
children, leaving them in want.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
POLICE HAVE A LETTER
FOR B. M. SMITH

B. M. Smith, formerly of Bolivar,
Ohio, will be given a letter from
his relatives if he will call at the
office of the chief of police. Smith S
relatives are anxious to be in COM
munication with him and failing to
reach him by ordinary means they
have written to the police asking
that they deliver the letter to HIM
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
DOG SAVES A[L
But THREE

CORNWALL, Ontario, March %.
Three persons are dead and two
were seriously injured this morning
in fire that destroyed the Wind
sor hotel. The barking of dog
aroused the guests at midnight,
saving many of them from death.
Loss, $4,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
NATIONAL STRIKE ENDS

PARIS, March 23.-The strike of
telegraphers and postal employees
was declared off today, following a
general meeting of the strikers.
They will return to their old posts
pending settlement of differences
by the government.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
WILL SEW ALL DAY.

The w. c. T. ". sewing circle
will gather for an all day meeting
at the home of Mrs. ]. T. Baugher,
1908 Third avenue. tomorrow morn
ing. 1t is requested that each
member bring their own lunch.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
BENEFIT RECITAL TONIGHT

The music and literary recital
benefit to Rev. Gordon Mcpherson
at the First M. e. church tonight
will offer a select program of music
with renditions from Hamlet. A
mixed quartet is one of the fea-
lures. The best singers of Calvary
Baptist church are on the program.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
DECREE FOR BRYCE.

BERKELEY, Cal, March "a
Before big audience in Harmon
gymnasium, University of Califor-
mia, Hon. James Bryce, ambassa-
dor to the United States from Eng
land, today received the honorary
degree of doctor of laws. u
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
DEER PARK JAILBREAK

A jailbreak occurred at Deer
Park last night Harry Draper left
today with his bloodhounds to trail
the fugitiyes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
FOR $4,000 WAREHOUSE.

The Fairbanks Morse company
took out a permit this afternoon to
erect a $4,000 two-story brick
warehouse on the south side of
Railroad avenue between Madison
and efferson streets.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
100000 FIRE AT VICTORIA.

VICTORIA, b. c., March %
The Pemberton block, including
business firms on the ground floor
and the Pacific club on the upper
floor, was Quilted this morning by
fire. Loss 100000. =
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-23
BY Don Marquis.

He's such a nervous little dear!"
Pretty frankie Wilberforce
Pretended like he was a horse;
Pranced across the school house
yard,
Kicked the teacher good and hard
Teacher spanked him, stopped his
dance;
Frankie waited for his chance,
Jabbed out both OF teachers eyes
Mamma groaned with shocked sur
prise: ~
did that naughty teacher spank
Precious, playful little Frank
Schools no place for him. fear,
The Falls City tribune., 1909-11-05

ing him as related made short work
of him, The proposal to give him a
warriors send.off to the happy hunt
ing grounds. had to be abandoned, as
it was likely 10 povoke a war or 1t
least riot in the tribe. among whom
Laggarash had been exceptionally
popular.
| have said that the Indians as
generally known 10 on people, do
not resemble those ancient people OF
Mexico, the Aztecs. in any particular,
and | say II adyisedly, for | have
seen what is authoritatiyely claim
cd 10 be. the last Of that historic
race, in the valley of the ella Cpro-
nounced Heela) river, in the Terri
tory or Arizona. They are known as
the Confederate Tribes of Pima (pro-
pany with one of my associates, Judge
nounced Pemo) and M%arieopa Indians,
but they are no more Indian,
as we know such people, than they
are English, French, Scotch or Irish
They are as distinct from the North
American Indian as they are from
any of these. | saw those people
for the first time nearly forty years
ago, and under circumstances favor
able to a correct examination and
fair estimate of their general APP
pearance, habits, and manners, to
gether with their mode of living.their
housings. clothing, etc, They have
been under the supervision and protec-
tion of our government since the ne
gotiation of what is known as the
Gadsden Treaty in 1853, under which
the United States obtained from the
Mexican government an irregular
strip of country on the south side
of the ella, probably "A hundred miles
wide at its widest point and extend
ing from the Rio Grande east to the
Colorado on the west, in which is
situated the reservation of those o
federate tribes. This word tribe"
Is applied to them for the want of
some better conventional designation.
1t isnot deserved, a $ that people
have always been self supporting,
and have neYer been dependent ON
the government for anything. though
/ think they figure in the records of
H. l.A,s0. na..4.. Il IL.
Indians generally. There was moth
ing about them that reminded me OF
any class or tribe of Indians | had
ever seen, nor a single characteristic
in their physical makeup that at all
resemble the blanket tribes with
which | had been familiar, ON the
plains or among the mountains, be-
tween the Missouri and the Pacific
The Falls City tribune., 1909-11-05

ocean They were distinctly dissHm-
liar in all respects. i'm color. stature.
shape OF the head and more partien-
larry in facial exposition. kind Of
hair and eyes-au different and of a
decidedly superior order. There was
an entire absence of that heavy. brut-
al expression Of countenance obser-
vable on the face of the ordinary son
OF the forest, that inefaceable stamp
that great nature puts on the mirror
of the soul, the human face, that pro-
claims the savage without audible
speech. That people, S o far as !
was able to judge from what | saw
f%iglTments peculiar 10 the native
tribes on this continent in its north
temperate sections. It is claimed on
the authority Of the great German
naturalist. Alexander Ven humboldt,
that there are sufficient race charac-
teristics Common 10 all the American
tribes, TO make it probably, If not en-
tirely certain. that they descended
from the same ancestry, and are
therefore the same people slightly
modified by local and climatic con
ditions. This claim would have
geater persuasive value, If II We're a
fact that the illustrious German had
seer the tribes inhabiting that por-
ton of the continent comprised with
in the United States and the Canadas,
but it is not certain that he saw any
of the people found in the western
hemisphere, except those in South
and Central America and in Mexico;
and there is nothing more certain
than, that they had nothing in com
mon with the wandering nomads of
our country.
At the time Corte2 conquered Mex
leo in 1921, the dominant race, the
Aztecs. had reached a degree of civ
ilization in all its departments that
amazed the European world. To
them it seemed incredible that.in the
wilderness of the new world nations
existed whose mechanical genius had
enabled them to construct great
temples and cities. adorned with a
splendor riyaling the greatest in
the older civilization over the sea.
They couldn't understand it, and prob
ably Y did. but as | am restrict
ed to statements of a general char.
aeter, and have neither the space nor
the inclination to pursue the subject
in matters of detail. highly interest
ing though it bel will confine my
self to things coming under my own
observation, which has been my sole
purpose in writing these reminesc-
enees from the beginning.
In the winter of 1901, | was Of
~ficially located at the town of Yuma,
on the Colorado river. in the terri
tory of Arizona, that river being the
dividing line between that territory
and the state of California. The
capital was located at Tucson, an
old town on the Santa Cruz. one of
the affluents of the ella. some three
hundred miles to the east. Official