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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
TEN YEAR-OLD MEETS
BURGLAR WITH RLFI 3

curing his fathers revolver, dis
charged 1t several times after the
fleeing robbers.
Both Mr.. Lanning and his wife
were away from home. Both chill
dren go to school, but little Isa-
bella, aged six, fell i'll and did not
go to school. and her brother re-
manned home with her for COM
pany. While the children were
alone in an upstairs room, Louis
heard some one walking about
downstairs. According to him, he
procured his rifle and went to the
lower floor to investigate.
In the dining room he found two
men rummaging through side
board. As soon as they saw him
one of the men quickly pounced
upon him and took the rifle away.
1t was then that they carried him
outside. in the rear, overlooking
the lake, and after striking him
several times. threw him into a
hedge.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
ov0Tcnl THAT'S THE WORD NOW
IN CITY STREET DEPT.

tractors who are given street OBJ
struction permits and will check
them up ever so often to see that
the streets are placed back in as
good shape as they were before.
Mr.. Teurke has equipped his Of
flee with filing cases, card induces,
blanks of all kinds and after the
first of the year ill install another
clerk to keep this checking system
in order.
These innovations appear some
what novel to the old timers in the
department, who shake their heads
and often remark, TT were not thus
in the good old days" But after No.
AZ or III gives an account of him
self he passes on with a feeling
that in this rapid age 1t will not do
to get in thep athway of progress.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
FREE SPEECH FIGHT

Now that the first long fight
with the I. w. w. seems nearly
ended, what has the struggle
between the street speakers
and the police department cost
the city of Spokane? 1t is a
hard question to answer, for
there have been SO many SEEM
ingly inconseQuential angles to
the fight that have added to
the big bill of expense that an
exact summing of the entire
expense would take weeks Of
consideration and expense.
In round numbers, it is esti-
mated that this fight has cost
the taxpayers of Spokane &c.
600. This amount or there
abouts is claimed to have been
expended for. food, special POI
lice to aid the regular depart
ment to cope with the situa-
ton, medical attention, extra
fuel and other sundry ex.
penses. In addition to these
expenses, it is declared that
damage suits asking for the
payment of about $4,000 will
be filed against the city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
Q VIOLET ASUlTH OF
0 'SERPENT'S TONGUE"
. HAS WOMAN'S HEART

q WINCHESTER, England,
. Dec. 15.-Mlss Violet Asquith
= was found yesterday watching
. near by the hospital in Win
q chester, where the Hon. Archi-
. bald Gordon. second son of
. the earl of Aberdeen, lies crit
. ically Ill.
. While Miss Asquith's name
q has been banded about In con-
q nection with Poet Watson's
. effusion, she has been endur-
= ing the agonies of suspense
. while the life of Gordon has
= hung in the balance.
. There has been no an
. nouncement of encouragement
. between them-their closest
. friends have not limited at
. it-but the tireless vigil OF
. Miss Asquith is permitted to
. tell Its own love tale.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
!. p. GETS TELEPHONE STOCK

TOLEDO, o., Dec. 16.-An-
nouncement was made yesterday
that j. p. Morgan and company has
bought two Of the independent tele-
phone properties in which James S.
Bradley jr. of this city recently OBJ.
tanned control
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-In the
Brokaw divorce trial yesterday II
was stated that Brokaw spent
$4,000 a year on his wife, exclus-
i've OF living expenses.
CANANDAIGUA. N. Y, Dec. 16
State Senator John Raines, au.
thor OF the Raines liquor tax law
is dead.
SANTA ROSA. CAL, Dec. 49,
Mrs, Olive Burbank, mother OF
Wizard" Luther Burbank, horticul
turlst, died yesterday, aged 90
years.
NEW YORK, Dec. leland al
$S25 per front foot was the scale
paid for a 10 story building at Mas
sau and Wall streets. The total
price was $1.500,0O0.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

System" is now the word in the
city street department.
Street Commissioner Teurke, II
no further molested by hostile
councllmen, will have the street de-
partment soon reduced to perfect
card index system, in which every
phase of the operation Of the street
cleaning work will be tabulated
after the manner Of the general Of
flee Of q railroad company.
Commissioner Teurke has had
his men designated by numbers and
furnished each of them with daily
report cards, on which every hour
Of the day must be accounted for.
In this way the cost of keeping
clean the individual streets will be
recorded.
He has a card index for the con-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
THE LORD
MY HEALER
SAYS BOY
ALTHOUGH VERY Ill, HE RE.
FUSES ATTENTIONS OF
DOCTOR.
ONE OF "CHURCH OF THE Llv.
ING GOD" SECT.

"Have you a physician?"
"Yes."
"Who?"
1.-THE Lord"
ibid he call todsy7"
yves, no Is always hero"
That 10 the kind Of a proposition
Probation Officer John clifford Ia
UP auainst In the case Of Ray keef.
er, the 17.year-oId son Of Henry
kesfer Of 1870 North Pittsbur0
street, who is confined to his bed
with infIammatory rheumatism.
For two weeks the youth has
been lying in his bed suffering from
the ravages of the dread disease
but he Is as firmly convinced as his
arents that medicinep can do him
no good-that divine healing alone
can cure.
IT'S up to the boy" said the
father yesterday. If he wishes
doctor, l will send for one"
IF there is law that will force
me to give my boy medicine wher
we don't believe in it, you'll have
to show me-" declared the mother
Il am. getting we'll without medi
cine, and do not want a doctor,
answered the sufferer when asked
as to his preference In the matter
Mr.. Clifford has notified the pros
ecutor's office of the case. The
father is able to provide all neces
sary care for his boy, but the fam
lily belongs to sect called THE
lChurch of the Living God" and be
lieye in divine healing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
LITTLE JOS FATHER
Is NOW HIS BROTHER
BY ADOPTION

CHICAGO, Dec. 16--Joseph
Waldo Dux IT,, aged seven months,
legally became the brother OF his
father today, when Judge Petit
signed decree OF adoption, giving
the custody of the child to its
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Dux. The childs father, who is now
also his legal brother, lives with
them. The mother Is dead.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
YEGGMEN CRACK SAFE:
m GET $4,000 IN GOLD

side window, which was pried open.
The tools with which the work was
done were stolen from the railroad
shops. The money was all in sacks,
and consisted mostly Of SIS and $40
gold pieces. There was a small
quantity Of silver In the vault, but
this was untouched. In their haste
tho robbers overlooked $500 in
gold, which was found at the vault
door.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
Disarmed and Beaten, but
Undaunted, Youth Gets
Pistol and Fires as
They Flee.

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. 16.--In an
endeavor to save his little sister
from harm and the home Of his
parents from the depredations of
thieves, Louis Lanning, the 10-year-
old son of Charles Lanning, care
taker of the casino at Broad street
park, suburb, confronted two bur-
glars with a rifle yesterday.
The heroism displayed by the
lad availed little, as the. thieves
disarmed him and after procuring
a watch, locket, several smaller
pieces Of jewelry and 500 in
money, they threw him into some
shrubbery near the house and fled.
Undaunted, the boy managed to
get back into the house, and pro,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
At BREAD PRICES

CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-J r. Ca
hill, an investigator for the labor
department Of the Board Of Trade
of England. addressing the City
club last night, said:
Il can't understand how we can
buy bread in England for one-third
the price you pay in Chicago when
you send us our wheat. You have
to pay five cents four four ounces
OF bread, while we get loaf weigh
ing Ga ounces for 10 cents. Oour
four pound loaf neyer costs more
than IL cents and usually only 10
cents"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
TRANSPORT SAILS
WITH 700 MARINES
(By United Press.)

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16.-The
army transport Prairie, with 700
marines, sailed for Colon today.
Her destination, after arrival at the
Isthmus port, is not announced, but
II Is presumed she will be held In
readiness should her presence
there be deemed necessary.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
10y United Press.)

FRESNO, CAL, Dec. 16.-Three
daring cracksmen broke into the
First National bank at Exeter,
Tutare county, early today. They
smashed the combination lock Of
the vault with a sledse hammer,
gathered up $1,000 in gold, and
escaped.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
ALL FREE SPEECH
ORATORS BENG FREED

vouring epicurean breakfasts this
morning. q of the prisoners of the
free speech" warfare were re-
leased this morning.
AS many more expect their free
dom by tomorrow morning, and
members of the police department
assert their belief that those of the
l. w. w. men remaining in the city
Jail after that time will be released
on promises to discontinue the
fipht
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
q . . = . . . = . . . = . . Z
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER
RAISE IN WAGE SCALE

. The city council will sit as a Z
. wage scale committee next .
. Tuesday evening. when ii will Z
= hear arguments In favor of Z
. Councilman Leonard Funk's q
. resolution making the scale Of
. wages for eight hours labor z
. on public work SO per day. At 4
. the same time the request OF
. the teamsters for a raise OF 4
. from $3.50 to $3.50 per day 4
. will be heard. The high cost I
= of living and the increased
. prices for horse feed are the
. arguments urged for the raise. I
. . = . . . . . . . = q . . . 4
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
LYNCH HERE TOMORROW

trip and has settled trouble in Los
Angeles and in Seattle, and has al
ready consumed much Of the time
he expected to devote to the trip.
There is no trouble for him to set
tie here In Spokane, consequently
he is cutting his visit short here in
order to get back to Indianapolis
in time for Christmas.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
DYING KING REFUSES TO RELENT
TOWARD OUTCAST DA LIGHTER
NV United Press)

BRUSSELS 16-king Leopold tainted during
the night steadily growing today feared his
death a Of
victim Of progressive paralysis" confirmed today.
Cardinal Mecr is using persuade the king to
his attitude toward his daughters but thus far
the dspesure Of their father anxousy awaiting
permission 90 his bedside
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

TOPEKA, Kas-Governor Stubs
declares the federal government
combines with law-breakers to
violate state law when 1t issues
internal revenue stamps for sale OF
liquor in a prohibition state.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

Unless more orators" are sent
on the street in defiance of the
police and the Objectionable anti
street speaking ordinance during
the next few days, it is believed
that the last of the revolutionary
prisoners will have been freed from
the city's tolls by the end of this
week. After treating their shriv-
eled and hunger. tortured CASTRO
nomic proclivities to 10 gallons of
soup last night and ravenously de-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

WASHINGTON, D. C.--Resolu-
ton introduced into congress to
change customary date OF presi-
dents Inauguration from March 4
to last Thursday in April.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

tive heads about the crematory de-
partment missing, and wise ones at
the city hall say that Harmon's may
be among that number.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

AURORA, Ill.-Half a dozen
women of this city have been VIC
TINS recently of Jack the Slasher.
Mrs. William Berry was the most
seriously wounded.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
JAMES FURBUSH
MRS. MARGARET FERGUSON

between the eastern and western
lovers settled the matter. And now
Furbush is rushing the work OF
storing his products so that he can
make his marital journey to Cali
fornia.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
WHAT TO CETDAD

It's hard problem of to get her for
Christmas Maybe it's people,
downright hard
So The Press
telling what
today with What oil
Cigar Case Suspenders
Morris Chair Umbrella
Dressing Gown. Safety
Smoking Set Tobacco Pouch.
Smoking Jacket, Sc
Portable Reading Lamp 81 Wathc Fob
Tobacco Cigar
Card Bill Case tIf he up
Triplicate Mirror for shaving Leather Collar Cuff
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
A NUISANCE

TT OS ANGELES tolerates a bad habit
on the street cars. Here, in our
IA beautiful, artistic city, the use of
tobacco is permitted on the street cars,
and smokers, chewers and spitters
occupy the best seats. The use of to-
bacco on the cars should be abolished.
Not My is 1t in itself a most annoying
practice to passengers who neither
smoke nor spit, and who don't even
chew, but it is demoralizing and sub
versive of the discipline of the car
service.
If It were not for liberation of tobacco
using habits among front seat pas
sengers, tourists would be spared the
astonishing spectacle of a motorman
who opens the front window Of the car,
clears his throat, ETC., loudly, and spits
with might and main. Then he closes
the window. You have all seen this,
but it is so long since you saw it for
the first time you have no idea how it,
jars the tourist.
Visitors from northern and eastern
cities where smoking and chewing and
splitting have long ago been banished
from the cars look askance at theI
smokers in the front seats, and in pub
lie, in private and in long letters sent
TO their home papers make remarks
about the easy going disposition of a
community the members of which ex-
pose their wives and themselves to the
risk of being tobacco-perfumed, and
even spat upon. In outdoors weather
women are forced to leave seats on theI
outside Of the car and seek the seclu-
sion Of the stifling interior, or run the
risk of being tobacco fogged, or, what
is even worse, tobacco drenched. Peo-
pie who are fond of using tobacco have
plenty of opportunities without incon-
veniencing women and school girls on
the cars. Let Los Angeles do as other
great cities have done, and prohibit
the use OF tobacco on street cars.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
PROSPERITY

II nAILROAD conditions reflect gen.
X eral conditions with such ac-
AO curacy the railroads may be said
to constitute barometer Of prosperity.
August reports indicate a high tide of
prosperity in the United States, pros
perity which should be general and
should affect every calling and occupa-
tion. These are not lean days. but fat
days, and hard times are only tradi-
tional.
According to the Associated Press re-
ports, for the first time since the panic
of 1907 aggregate weekly gross railroad
earnings exceed the high records of
August, 1907. For the second week of
August twenty-five roads reported gross
earnings Of s9,454,724, an increase over
the same period of August, 1907, when
gross earnings reached the record point
of ss.S56,S14.
Total for August, 1907, was, SAC, sol, ,877.
First two weeks of August, 1909 showed
a total of $500, 7O7. against s17s59,7 ,77O
for the first two weeks Of August, 1907,
Not only is prosperity re-established,
but new records are being made. And
a goodly share Of the prosperity indi-
Gated by the "barometrical" railroad
figures is coming to Greater Los An
geles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
WE SHOULD KILL ALL SNAKES
FOR GOOD OF COMMUNITY

LOS ANGELES, Seut. 1.-GEditor
Herald: A great deal that is said IN
the Letter Box and elsewhere on the
subject of morality, which, Whlle goou
in itself is pitiably inadequate TO meet
the questions that confront u.s.
Mothers are charged to guard thelr
daughters. to teach thus and so to their
sons to look to the associates of their
children and a hundred other rules ana
regulations are offered, all OF Whlcn
go to the individual salvation, the per-
sonaI protection, and none OF Whlch
goes to social measures or amelioration.
In brief, each mother is exhorted TO
save her own children by the right
moral teachings; no thought is PAID TO
the dangers from which they are to be
saved.
What would we think OF commu-
nifty of pioneers in rattlesnake IN
fected district who would spend their
time teaching children how 70 avola
the poisonous snakes? A people tnat
would rest their case on each parent
keeping safe its own children While tne
reptiles Increased about themE Inc
hardy pioneer, while having due re-
gard for Individual safety, at the same
time lays comprehensive plans TO free
the community from the snakes, for he
we'll knows that in this lies the only
real safety for his own children.
When we have as much social Wis
dom as the common sense of the back
woodsman has taught him, we will
relv less on the narrow individualistic
plan and adopt social measures that
will make society sane and safe for all.
A. H. D.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
PATRIOTIC HONESTY

A EDACHI KINNOSUKE of Japan,
u writing in the Review of Reviews,
IA says pleasantly: 1.-THE greatest
asset of the Japanese empire of today
is the patriotism of her people. Within
twenty-five years, perhaps, at the rate
of conquest western eommercialism
and the doctrine of individual rights
are making among our people, we shall
be as civilized as any other so-called
Christian nation. AS yet, the state to
the imagination of the people of Japan
is greater than all the gods. The
glorification of the state is the Mecca
of all our dreams. We take very seri-
ousIy all matters connected with the
state; so seriously, indeed, that we
have no sense of humor about them.
That is the reason why we caricature
all of our eight million gods in the
pleasantest moods in the world, but
would not for a moment permit anyone
to caricature his majesty the emperor.
This also is the reason why we have no
graft in our government finances. And
that saves a lot of money for our
country
Ponder this we'll; and then think
about home, sweet home.
The japanese have too much self
respect to be grafters. They are too
bumptious-too vain--too egotistical.
Their sense of honor is so keen they
would not dull it by taking an unlaw-
full dollar while engaged in the gov
ernment service. OF course there are
thieves in Japan. But, like Rob Roy
and Robin Hood, they make no secret
of their profession, and they follow it
in a methodical and businesslike man
ner. There is something about open
and aboveboard roguery which differ
entiates 1t altogether from the other
kind.
When a card comes to you, reading.
"John Jones, Thief" you know what to
expect if you let him enter your house.
But If the card reads John Jones,
Your Honest Friend" you are at dis
advantage. And to revert to the cause
of this comment, we cannot help being
struck by the force of the remark that
Japanese patriotism prevents plunder;
and we believe revival of the Ameri-
can national spirit will effectually do
away with graft. 1t will become un-
thinkable.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
SAYS MALE SINNER WILL
NEVER CURE SOCIAL EVIL

Los ANGELES, Sept. 3.-[Editor
Herald: The social evil will never be
cured by prayer, or by smirling and
simpering around the male sinner. One
of them says: eve are laying the
foundations for it's destruction in this
generation" Is that so? What are
you, Mr.. Male Sinner, doing to help
destroy it? Are you trying to destroy
it by helping maintain the white slave
trade by your patronage, as you boast
you are? You proudly state that you
have never led astray an innocent girl
No, but you are helping to keep down
the ones who are already down, which
is just as bad. You ask, Would we
condemn the male sinner as lost and
the footsteps of his forefathers? Yes,
MIR. Fallen Man, that is our plan to
help destroy the social evil. Make an
example of the boastful male criminal
(for he is a lawbreaker), so HE coming
generations of young men will not walk
in the footsteps of their fathers Yes
Mr.. Magdalen, that is about the only
use we can see to put you to. You will
serve as an example to this and coming
generations. We would ostracize you,
show you the loathing and contempt
you deserve and If that does not stop
your brazen impudence, maybe the
your female companions in crime are
hauled in there.
Oh, yes, the wise sages" have been
fighting the social evil all these cen
turies, in much the same way that
Mayor Harper and his crowd did. No
wonder 1t has never been stopped. The
Modern Girl has a loathing and con-
tempt for the boasting, insolent Mr.
Magdalen. Women do love honor and
bravery in a man, and the weak, con-
temptible male sinner who follows
blindly his own impulses and the foot
steps of his fathers, is a coward, and
women do hate a coward. We admire
and look up to the clean, conscientious,
honorable, self-controlled young men
like the one signing himself 'Milksop"
and Others and when we marry that Is
the kind we want for husbands Don't
say they are all like you-judging them
by your own evil mind. There are
many pure ones to be found, especially
among the younger set. 1 would advise
you, if you ever repent of your wicked
ness and prove you can lead a decent
life for awhile, to look around for some
woman who has been leading such
life as you have and has reformed, then
marry her, and both of you behave
yourselves hereafter Depart from the
error of your ways, and then we will
respect both you and the woman, but
until then we. the modern young wom-
en- demand that you be ostracized and
kicked out.
REPRESENTATIVE MODERN GIRL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
CRITICIsES SHEPHERDS WHO
HE CLAIMS LEAD FALSELY

AVALON, Aug. 31.-[Editor Herald:
am writing today from this place,
where "every prospect pleases and
only man is vile"
Being in a meditative mood this
morning, after reading the utterances
of some of the shepherds who feed the
flock of the slaughter with chaff in
stead of wheat.
Grievous errors are being fostered
and the hopes of those who are weak
in the faith of the common salvation
are blighted by the dissemination of
those errors.
God has declared in holy writ (than
which there is no other authority that
he would lift up standard for the
nations This standard is "the Christ,
the son of the living God"
One of those false shepherds says:
"Were he (Jesus) alive today he would
not copy the Jesus of that time or
place" ITO copy even him is to kill
the soul"
And this of Jesus, of whom it is
written that he is 1.-The same yesterday,
today and forever"
Is it to kill the soul, to follow him
who spake in the temple as never
man sDake?
Mark we'll his words: 'T am the
light of the world. He that followeth
me shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life"
One feels like crying out like Peter:
Lord, to whom shall we go; thou mast
the words of eternal life"
The voice OF God speaking through
the prophet Isaiah resounds today in
thunderous tones (for, mark you, they
were written for our admonition on
whom the end of the age is Gomez:
"Stay yourselves and wonder; cry ye
out and cry; they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not
with strong drink.
''For the Lord hath poured out upon
them the spirit of deep sleep, ana hatn
closed your eyes. The prophets ana
your rulers, the seers, hath he covered.
"For the wisdom of their wise men
shall perish and the understanding or
the prudent shall be hid.
"Behold, I am against them tnat
prophesy falsely and cause my people
to err by their lies.
"In the latter days (here and now)
We shall consider it perfectly.
st have not sent these prophets yet
they ran"
words: - -.
"He that hath my word, let him
sneak NV word faithfully. What is
the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD
Is not my word like as a fireY
Yes. surely it will remove those
things that may be shaken (the errors)
that the truth may remain, for the
"Iiving Word" is a consuming nre.
J. r. X.