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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
Demand Surrender

CONSTANIPOLS, April 23.-The be-
sieging generals today sent a formal de-
mand for surrender to the palace. They
Threaten in case of refusal to enforce
the abdicatiOn of the sultan.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
REED AND
MCALLUM
TO TRAVEL
Prison Officials to Go On
Road to Dispose of
Grain Bags.
THREE MILLION TO
BE SOLD IN STATE
No Notification Received At
Penitentiary of Gov
ernor's Action.

OLYMPIA, April Ex-Governor Hay,
after consulting with members of the
state board of control has directed
superintendent Reed and State Clerk
McCallum to start as travelling men to
dispose of the 100000 grain bags
made at the state penitentiary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
PANIC IN :
FOREIGN
QUARTER
All Shops Are Closed and
People Are Already
in Hiding.
GENERALS DEMAND
SULTAN'S SURRENDER
Haggard Potentate Makes a
Public Appearance
at Prayers.

coNsTANTlNOPLE, April 23.-
There is panic in the Galata quarter
this afternoon and it is generally be-
Iieved that the Young Turks will at
tack the city before night. All shops
are closed and many are already in
hiding. Troops are trying to calm the
people and are promising that foreign
ers will be fully protected.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23
EIGHTEEN DROWN IN
SH|PWRECK At SEA
CAPTAIN of Boat, His Wife, and All the
Crew Lost When British Steamer
Rams Norwegian Craft
Off Christiana.

+ CHRISTINA, April 23.-Captain =
i. Edith, his wife and Is sailors =
I. were drowned last night when the !.
1. British steamer Oxford collided =
= and sunk the Norwegian steamer =
i. Edith off Christiana. I!
4. = = = = = = = = , > = = = = = Z
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23

Continued On Page Five.)
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-23

concluded On Page Three.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
SOREHEADS TALK
ABOUT REVENGE

One of the chief supporters of
j. T. ONO in the recent municipal
campaign stated today that some
of the ONO men will invoke the aid
of the initiative and referendum
adopted Tuesday to make Spokane
go dry" 1t is claimed that an
ordinance can be gotten up refus-
ing to grant any more saloon IL
censes and that by the means of
the initiative and referendum such
an ordinance can be Immediately
submitted to popular vote. The
occasion for this action Is the be-
lief of the ONO men that he was
thrown down by the saloons in the
Second ward,
Some of the leaders in the refer
endum movement say the initiative
and referendum cannot be used for
this purpose, on the ground that
the state laws govern the liquor
traffic and hence the city cannot
iegislate it out without invoking
the regular plan' the new local OPP
ton law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
ASK FIVE YEARS ON
MAINTENANCE BOND

An ordinance limiting the period
of maintenance of paving contracts
entered into by the city to five
years Is wanted by loacl represent.
atives of surety companies. A Pc
tition asking that such an ordi-
nance be drafted and passed has
been filed with the city clerk.
1t is argued that free competi-
tion is out of the question when a
period in excess of five years is re-
quired, because many of the con-
tractors have made arrangements
with bond companies for the issu-
ance of their entire line of bonds,
the policy of most of the companies
being to refuse the issuance of
maintenance bonds, IL at al, for a
period in excess N five years.
The petitioners assert that it is
to the interest of the city to aid
rs many contractors as possible to
bid on such contracts. The expert
ence of bonding companies in the
eastern states warrants the asser-
ton that If specifications for street
paving call for substantial con-
struction in the first instance. a
five year maintenance provision is
ample, the representatives declare.
This would result in a saving to
the city In subsequent cost for
maintenance and n better condi.
ton of the streets at all times, they
state.
The Union Trust Co., Washing
ton Trust Co, Ham, Yearsley &
Ryrie, Strong, Wheeler & Co. and
Arthur ID, Jones & Co. have signed
the petition.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
NO STRINGS ON
CHIEF JOB

Captain John Sullivan cannot be-
come a regular chief of police I'M
der the Pratt administration and
return to the police department at
the expiration of his service in that
capacity, according to information
received from a city official today.
Under the present charter, the
chief of police is a charter official,
hence cannot be picked from the
police department and return to
the same job at the expiration OF
his chiefship without change OF
the city charter. A change in the
charter cannot be effected until an
other city election at the earliest,
That, it is believed, will change
the plans, and it is believed that
unless Captain Coverly, now act
ing chief of police, is given the
chiefship after his 20 years of serv-
ice in the department is finished in
June, Detective Tom Lister will be
in line for the chiefship. Lister is
fairly we'll fixed financially and
could afford to retire at the end of
two years at the head of the police
department.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07

manner in which the police board
and fire board should be made up.
City Clerk Fleming, who had per-
sonal charge of the preparation of
the amendments for publication,
lays the blame for the error on the
newspapers. The newspapers say
they printed the copy in the man.
ner in which it came from the
clerks office.
Clerk Fleming says that he never
read proof on the publication for
the reason that proof Is never read
in his Office on legal notices; that
the proof reading thereon is left
with the printer. He is ready to
make an oath that he complied
with the law.
The disqualification in the news
papers is a serious matter. as the
advertisement has certificate
signed by Fleming and e. V. Lam
bert, president of the city council,
to the effect that the official publ
cation as it appeared in the news
papers was correct. Lambert
fought amendment II bitterly and
introduced amendment 70 in an eff.
fort to defeat it at the polls.
The error in the publication may
be due to carelessness or an over.
sight on the part of someone, but
the fact that certain elements at
the city hall fought amendment n
vigorously in and out of the city
council has caused some supporters
of II to feel as though they had
been jobbed.
City Clerk Fleming says that SO
far as his Office Is concerned there
was every effort made to comply
with the law, and thinks that the
omission of part of the amendment
through no fault of his should not
invalidate 1t. At present the bur
den lays heavily on Fleming and
Lambert.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
FEAR MISSING
MAN IS DEAD

1t is feared the body of Max
Passter is in the river. After an
illness OF several weeks, Passters,
age 80 years. wandered away from
his home at 0630 Toledo street the
afternoon of April 20. His disap-
pearance was reported to the po-
lice on the following morning, but
although a constant search has
been made for him by the police
and his relatives. not single trace
of him has so far been found.
IL was believed at the time of
his disappearance that Passters
had gone out for walk and had
become lost. His photograph has
been given to the police, together
with thorough description of him,
and they are doubling their efforts
TO find him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
E. Mitchell Accuses Fullinwider and
Watson of Fraud.

c. E. Mitchell, president of the
c. K. Mitchell Co., mining brokers
in the Columbia building, has filed
charges with the chief of the post
office inspection department at
Washington, d. c., against John r.
Fullinwider and A. F. Watson OF
the Spokane force of postoffice in
spectors. Fullinwider is an inspec
tor and Watson is a clerk, 1t is
alleged.
Mitchell charges the two men
with submitting forged evidence
and making false statements
against him 1 mite recent investiga.
ton of the Mitchell Co. by the
pOstoffice department, which
caused Mitchell to employ lawyers
and hurry to Washington to defend
himself against an order about to
be issued debarring him from the
use of the mails.
After a hearing lasting four
hours no further steps were taken
against Mitchell, the charges fall.
ing flat. On the evidence against
him being shown he charged the
inspectors who had the case with
having deliberately forged the evi
dence or having had it done by
some one else.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
TAFT HITS THE
HIGH SPOTS
HAS BECOME A CONFIRMED
AUTO SCORCHER AN D
FRIENDS FEAR HE WILL BE
KILLED IN SMASHUP.
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May 7.-Presi-
dent Taft has been an unconscious
speed maniac and his friends are
apprehensive that he will figure in
a serious smashup if he continues
riding at the fearful pace his
chauffeur now maintains.
Three or four times a week he
dashes over the suburban roads at
the rate of 80 or 60 miles an hour,
and even when within the limits
of Washington at times he whizzes
ath almost express train speed.
Although his driver, Robinson, is
an acknowledged expert, those in
terested in the president assert
that it is but a question of time
when a tire will explode, brake
will fail to work or some piece OF
machinery will give out. 1t re-
quires no stretch of the magma
ton to predict what will happen
to man of the presidents weight
if he were to shoot into the air
from a flying automobile.
Two or three times week
James Sloan, the presidents ex-
elusive body guard, has decreased
the power when the chauffeur has
disregarded his orders.
zone OF these days you are 60
ing to kin the president If you
keep this up" Sloan said TO Robin
SON
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07

He was advised to prefer formal
charges in writing. which he has
done, and an investigation of the
matter was begun today by the
postoffice inspection department.
Mitchell charges that the evil
dence submitted by Fullinwider
and Watson was false, fraudulent,
misleading and constitute cause
less, spiteful, wanton, malicious
and unwarranted abuse Of the Of
fetal power of said officials.
In support of Mitchell's charges
several affidavits were submitted.
Samuel Aughey swears that an en-
tire sheet was forged and added to
a statement he made in regard to
Mitchell's affairs. w. l.. WEIGH,
George Foster and others make af-
fidavit alleging the garbling OF
statements that made them con-
vey a different meaning than was
intended by the parties making the
statements.
1t is also charged that Fullin-
wider and Watson revealed the
fact that an investigation was be-
ing made to the newspapers when
It was supposed to be secret mat
ter, as are all government investi-
cations.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
DIVORCED WIFE
MADE FATAL
VISIT
(By United Press)

OLYMPIA, May u. A. Daw-
son, night Waterman at Three
Lakes, near here, shot and killed
his wife and daughter, age IA, and
committed suicide today. Mrs.
Hiram Morgan heard the screams
and summoned logging train
crew. When they reached the
house Dawson appeared in the
doorway and placed a revolver to
his temple and fired, dying in
stantly.
Dawson had been living alone
with the three children. He was
divorced from his wife. She called
yesterday to visit the children. 1t
is supposed Dawson became in
furiated when she refused to re-
marry him.
When the woman attempted to
leave camp, Dawson, who had just
returned from . nights work, ct.
tempted to prevent her going. In
the struggle for the revolver drawn
by Dawson the daughter was
killed. Then he killed the woman
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
HAS STARTED INVESTIGATION
THAT WILL SEARCH OUT
BOARD OF CONROI.

Senator Hutchinson of this city
has earned the reputation OF even
tually getting results when he
starts anything, especially in the
nature of an investigation into
what he suspects is wrong He was
ridiculed by Mead and headed off
in the senate last fall when he de-
manded that the state board of
controls administration of state in
situations be Investigated and offer.
ed testimony gained from personal
inspection of conditions at Medical
Lake asylum.
Now it transpires that the legis.
lative investigation committee, in
the wave of graft revelation that
has suddenly struck the state cap.
ital, Is in a mood to listen to Hutch.
inson. The senator has kept busy
with the legislative committee
pounding away on his state board
of control charges, and he has got
results. The committee is to make
trip over here shortly to see what
the trouble Is.
Senator Hutchinson will inform
the committee that he wants to be
present when the asylum is inves
tigated. II the botch work he com
planned of has not been patched ur
he is confident that disturbance
will materialize over here and in
other state institutions that will
put the Schively business in the
shade. Here is the last letter he
wrote-the one that appears tc
have got action:
Senator Fishback-I have writ
ten three letters to Senator Allen
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
FORGOT TO WRITE
TO MOTHER

Prolonged absence and failure to
write to his relatives in Dennison
Texas, has caused the relatives of
A. G. Anderson to believe him dead
and the police have been called on
to find trace of him. His mother
was sick and anxious to learn what
had become of her boy when the
letter was written about week
ago. He had not written since last
September.
The police located him this morn
ing and will deliver his mother s
message to him. He is all right
but has simply neglected to write
Anderson is connected with the
Northwest Automobile Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
FIGHT GOING AGAINST
THIS FELLOW

81 worth of food in the house.
The children are all less than II
years old and the little baby's weak
coo and chuckle has gladdened the
impoverished little home less than
two months. Parker contracted
pneumonia while working in the
woods up north last winter, cutting
cordwood and t'~nber for a living.
For weeks he H. in a little forest
hut, the physicians and his wife
despairing of his life.
Finally, as last resort, when
the sickness settled in his legs, the
doctor injected acid into them,
That saved his life but will partial
ly disable him for months. Food
and clothing is his wife and chill
dren's greatest need, and warm,
dry place for him to work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
PRATT,S ADMLNLS7RAT TON
BEGINS ON HOODOOFRLDAY

year, while the pay of the comp
troller and treasurer remains the
same, $4,000 per year. The com
pensation of councilmen likewise
remains unchanged, 5000 per year,
The compensation of the city
clerk, city engineer, members of
the board of public works and 9TH
er appointive officers rests with the
city council under the new salary
amendment, whereas formerly the
clerk. engineer and board of works
members were paid under the char
ter a fixed sum. The clerk and the
members of the board of works
have been paid in the past $4,000
per year and the city engineer
81 600
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
TERRIBLE KILLING
In MEXICO
(By United Pressj

VERA CRUZ. May THE
American vice consul left here for
Acayucan today in an effort to lib
crate Harold Sanborn of Chicago,
who is dangerously wounded and
under arrest there. II is learned
today that Macrio Vinces. planter,
tried TO quell fight among
drunken Mexicans and killed all
the victims except a girl. whom
Sanbon killed. Rioting. shooting
and knitting is reported at Santa Fe
ranch, near Tlacotaplam. Disorders
are believed to have resulted from
the shooting Wednesday, when
seen were killed. =,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
LOOKS LIKE
JObBERY

Opinions Of attorneys who served
on the commission to revise the
city charter are divided on the le'
gal phase of the mistake in the
publication of amendment n, the
last seven sections of which were
omitted in the official publication,
BY one process Of reasoning it IL
held that clerk or printer can.
not invaldate the will of the PEG,
pie by carelessness in the matter
OF looking after legal publication
The other view holds that an
amendment to the city charter be
ing the fundamental law of the
municipality canont be adopted OF
repealed In any way except by q
strict compliance with the letter
Of the law, which provides that all
amendments shall be published in
full for 80 days prior to the cleo,
ton at which such amendment Is
to be balloted upon. When an
amendment Is not published In full
II cannot be held that there was an
expression of the people on the sub
ject, II Is argued, for the reason
that the expression might have
been different had the whole
amendment been published and
considered by the voter.
The important parts of amend
ment II were printed, the omitted
sections pertaining only to the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07

A week from today, Friday, May
IA, the change in the city admins
tratipn will become effective. n. S.
Pratt will succeed c. Herbert
Moore as mayor and J. Oscar
Peterson will take the place of
Harry Eggleston in the treasurer S
Office, Bob Farley continues at
the helm in the comptroller's of
fee, and the only change in the
first termers in the city council
will be in the Second ward, where
G. w Shaefer will succeed Fred
Baldwin
Under the new charter amend
ment the salary Of the mayor is in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 per
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
HUTCHINSON GETS
ACTION ATlAST

chairman of the investigating COM
mittee, in two of which l sent
charges against the board of con-
troll. Mr.. Allen answered one Of
my letters and has seen fit to ig-
more the others. will say to you
that l forwarded a report to Mr..
Allen, signed by six of the leading
architects and builders of this city,
In regard to the condition of the
building at Medical Lake. l will
say to you that Senator Roberts Of
Pierce county can tell you in re-
gard to the graft in one of the
buildings and in the heating plant
at Steilacoom. Representative N.
Cloveberg of Pierce county is also
witness who can tell you In re-
gard to the graft at Steilacoom and
at the soldiers home
l have understood from outside
sources that your committee Is go
Ing to pay no attention to these
charges and that you are combining
your Investigation to Mr.. Schively.
Mr.. Schively may have defrauded
some insurance companies out OF a
few hundred dollars; these other
people, from appearances. have de-
frauded the state out of many
thousands.
To an outsider it appears that
your investigating committee is be-
coming more of committee Of per-
secution of one man than COM
mittee of investigation to prosecute
the other criminals of the state.
voted for an investigating COM
mittee to investigate all the officers
of the state and not to prosecute
one man, who may have the enmity
of some of the ambitious politicians
of the state. Yours respectfully,
r. A. Hutchinson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
NO WHITE WASH
FOR TURKS
(By United Press)

CONSTANTINOPLE, May T.
Members of the American diplo-
matte corps here are taking steps
to prevent the committee which is
to investigate massacres Asia
Minor from whitwashing theh gov
eminent Efforts are being made
to place representatives of Ameri-
ca and England on the committee.
France will probably make SINH
lar move because of the burning
OF French missions.
1t was announced today that
martial law will be maintained in
definitely here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
He DARED OLD
TOM TOT FIGHT
AND NOW HE'S IN THE CITY
JAIL WITH TRADE MARKS
BRANDED ALL OVER HIS
COUNTENANCE.

Caught by Philadelphia Tom
Smith in the fact of trying to per-
suade wirey little Jap to dig up
his superfluous wealth by hitting
him a terrific blow in the face,
Paul McCarV thought last night
that he still had a good chance. He
misjudged the veteran fireman and
policeman's strength and activity
however, and became aware of 1t
only too late. In short. he is in
the city Jail, where that spry old
Waterman. age II years, landed
him. Also his unshapely counter.
ance is the subject of dungeon COS.
sip.
McCarty squared off at Tom and
dared him to take a hand in the
affair, in spite of the old time beat.
treader's cleaning star The Jap,
just shaking the dust off his
clothes. when smack! thud!" Nc.
Carly hit the street right where
his victim had swept it up with his
coattails and trouser seat.
Nothing daunted, though little
blood spilled, McCarty bounded
again to his feet with an oath more
fierce than all his previous threats.
Smack! kerplunk!" and back he
went into the gutter. He got up
holding his chin. where the old
vets ham-like fist had fingered.
Then, he went on to the coop,
quite subdued. He is charged with
disorderly conduct. The mouth of
the alley beside the Occur d'Alene
theater and Front avenue was the
scene of all the excitement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07

able and threatens to make him an
invalid again, yet he tolls on from
3 o'clock in the afternoon till II
O'Clock at night. 1t is his dear
ones only salvation from hunger,
perhaps the poor house and the or
phanage. All the while he is
searching for something better,
some place where he can work in
safety and be near his family
more.
Only one or two rickety chairs
and a few old, cracked and broken
dishes and a rough old bed are in
the little home. No such luxury as
a dining table is there. Only few
torn covers can be afforded for the
bed where the little ones cuddle to-
gether and shiver in the chill
spring air, and there is less than
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
HAD ONE OF THOSE
HAPPY JACS

Exceedingly polly from an over
ample jag Of booze, in spite of his
misfortune, Jack Nelson. ragged
old Swede, staggered chuekling
into the emergency hospital last
night to have cash IN his chin
sewed up. Jack had been very
happy all Afternoon ana the cash
resulted from one OF at least a
half dozen falls on the concrete
sidewalks and asphalt payements.
he told Steward Woodruff.
The wound was deep and the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
HAS TO BEG A
BUGGY FOR HIS
THIRTY-FIFTHKID
(By United Press)

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. He was married four times q
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
ONO GOES INTO
ACTIVE BUSINESS

]. T. ONO, defeated candidate for
mayor, will open an Office in the
Paulson building for the purpose
of engaging in the mining and real
estate business. Mr.. ONO Is inter-
ested in the United Copper mines
and has other mining connections
He is also trustee in a new COM
pany that will engage in the manu-
facture of pressed brick near
Mead. II will be known as the
Spokane Pressed Brick Co. and will
have a capitalization of $50. The
Elliott Investment Co. and w. II.
Stowell are also interested in the
brick company.