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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
UNION STICKS BY
CONTRACT PLAN


No federal union amalgamation
plan will be entertained by No. H.
GA unless No. 12,222 agrees to per-
NIT members to engage In the CO.
operative contract plan OF taking
work. No. .624 so voted Satur-
day night and also refused to con-
slider the other unions plan OF shut.
ting out foremen. NO. 12,222 made
abolition OF contract work and fore
men memberships conditions of n
combination by which 1t was ex.
pected to unite the two big unions.
But No, ,11,624 has been too sue
cessful under Thomas Maloney's
contract plan to abolish 1t as long
as any members of the union care
to engage In it. Apparently a mum.
Der OF them prefer the system,
No. 1884 is ready ~ begin work
III a new sewer Contract between
Mission aha sinto from Perry to
Adams and is also finishing up the
Second avenue sewer. the hardest
job yet undertaken The union had
100 men ON contract work las,
weak
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May 24.--Peti-
ton for rehearing of the Column
bla river boundary controversy be.
tween Oregon and Washington was
denied today by the supreme court
of the United States. The court
recommended that congress APP
point a commission OF residents OF
both states to pass upon the ease
and settle definitely the dispute.
The boundary suit was an annie
able action brought several years
ago. Officials Of the two states de
cided that only through the courts
could they definitely determine the
authority for enforcing certain fish,
ing laws pertaining to the Column
bia river. Washington asked foi
the rehearing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

income from the remaining half
should belong to Hetty, with a pro-
vision that the property go to the
heirs Of grandfather, Gideon
Rowland. upon her death.
After the death of Sylvia Ann
Rowland, however, Hetty produced
another will, now declared by the
contestants to be worthless. which
Internationally beQueathed to her
the whole estate
The suit is based on the validity
of this will. If the suit is success
full the court will be compelled to
determine what part of the Green
fortune has grown out of the How
land fortune.
Finnell stated that claim will be
entered for every cent accruing
from the principal, which the con-
testants believe is rightly theirs.
AS the suit is threatened before
the death of Hetty Green, it is
unique In the history of contested
Wills.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

Gently Captain O'Brien got evi
dence to connect O'Neil, then on a
14-year sentence on another
charge, with 1t. He went to- the
penitentiary, sweated O'Neil and
obtained confession.
When Mackeney died he left
seven bright children alone in the
world with only the police pension
to live on. The older children went
to work Now that the case is be.
ing brought up again, they don't
want to see any one else die on &C,
count of 1t.
There has been so much suffer
ing and trouble in our family and
by the Washes over It," said Mar
garet, the oldest daughter, I'VE
ant bear to think of any more
coming. It's all right to keep
O'Neil in prison. II he's guilty, but
we don't want to see him hanged. 81
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
INDICATIONS POINT
TO MURDER

Believing that Anton Mortenson.
the dairy employee found dead
about six miles north of the city
Sunday was murdered. Deputy
Sheriffs S. d. Doak and John Mills
are today securing the country be-
tween the north end of Five Mile
prairie and the Little Spokane
river for clues that may lead to
the detection of Mortenson's slayer.
Evidences of struggle haze
been discovered near where the
body was found. indicating that
Mortenson was taken paawarcs but
that he did not give up his life
without a struggle.
Mortenson's body Is at the Gil
man undertaking rooms, whore Il
Is being held pending the inyestiea
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
RATE FIGHT
COMES Up
TOMORROW

Tomorrow morning at the cham.
Manager j. G. Woodwork of the
Northern Pacific and Assistant
Traffic Manager w. P. Kenney of
the Great Northern will attempt
to explain to the shippers of Spo-
kane wherein the freight rates pro-
posed by their respective com.
panies. are better than those fixed
by the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Mr.. Woodwork told The Press
today that he had nothing to offer
for publication, but that they had
come on here to answer. any all
questions about the proposed rates,
which any merchant in Spokane
might ask. When told that there
seemed to be niger in the wood
pile, he retorted:
I'VE never made a freight rate
that would please everybody, and
do not expect to be able to do it
now"
Mr.. H. D. Turnkey, one of the
newly appointed members of the
committee, seemed to take the pro-
posed rates as joke, inasmuch as
the apparent concession of the rail
roads in reducing the tariff on
canned goods Ave cents per 100
west of St. Paul is more than Offset
by the proposed increase of tariff
on the same commodities east of
st. Paul.
A. w. Doland, in speaking for
the shippers, said that he had ne
idea what the railroads had to Of
fer new, but that it looked as #
they expected Spokane shippers to
believe a dollar bill as good as
a two dollar bill. There will De
a meeting Of the committee this
afternoon" he added, Ito seect
members to listen to the railroad
and if they are not
disposed to give us what we think
we ought to have, we have every
confidence we will get it in Wash
ington, where we will be repre-
scented by H. Nj. Stephens.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
STANTON FOUND
NOT GUILTY
WHAT lie DOESN'T FEED US
AS MEAT HE WORKS INTO
THE GARDEN PATCH AND
SERVES AS VEGETABLES.

That's all wrong about r. II.
Stanton burning odds and ends of
slaughtered beasts. out at his big
plant in the eastern section of the
city. It's a siam on his shining
ability as butcher to say so. He
doesn't burn those odds and ends.
ell feeds us on 'em. If we won't
take 1t in the shape of meat. he
fixes 1t up to spread ON the garden.
like butter on bread, and we eat
1t thta way and say we like 1t.
In voicing complaints of resi-
dents contiguous to the Stanton
plant Saturday, The Press unwit-
tingly laid the burden of tine North
ern Pacific's sins on Stanton. But
the shot reached John Lane. Sec
ton foreman. and he was taken in
for cremating a defunct horse at
the stockyards east of Stanton's.
He had to put up $25 bail for hear
ing today The Northern Pacific is
still burning yard scrapings In the
open cut there and can continue,
according to the Inspector, by Sc
curing a permit, but the ensuing
Odor is bad enough to damn the
whole proceedings. and naturally 1t
was sufficient to cast suspicion on
Stanton or anybody else who hap.
pens to be handy.
The Press took pains to find the
latter entities Of throwing anything
away. however. Not even the blood
is wasted. II Is dried into huge
cakes, ground up and put on the
garden ms fertilizer. Likewise with
bones. Hoofs are saved to make
your buttons out Of and you use up
The horns In combs and such
handy instruments. With hides sell
ing for big money, and folks will
ing to eat everything else from
liver to porterhouse, you can figure
out just how much Stanton has to
pile up on any funeral pyre.
AS matter Of fact. his big estab-
lishment Is cleaner than many
Kitchens In spite Of the fact that
about 50 cottie,, IFS hogs, 100 sheep
and all the innocent little calves
Stanton can get his hands on meet
d CHASTITY finish out there daily,
Stanton IL something Of a crank ON
clean meat himself and he has =
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
EXPOSITION RUMPUS
OVER CANDY BOOTHS
(6y United Press)

SEATTLE, May PA confer.
ence will be held this afternoon be-
tween the Exhibitors club, organ
ICED yesterday. and the department
of works of the exposition, In an
effort to adjust differences regard
ing placing and selling booths on
the grounds. Members of the Wash
ington commission went ON record
today as indorsing the position OF
Oregon commissioners, declaring
that no candy booths be placed on
the grounds of the Washington
state building. The governor and
secretary of state indicate their
support OF the commission. Attor-
ney General Crawford of Oregon Is
advised that the Oregon commits
sion exposition authorities had no
right to erect booths ON grounds
assigned to that state.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
HEALTHB0ARO
SHOULDCLEAN
Up At HOME

According to complaint made to
The Press today by residents OF
that neighborhood, the city isola-
ton hospital needs as much Of the
cleanup movement as any other
part of the city. There is said to
be a stagnant pool in the rear of
the building that constitutes a sort
of open sewer.
A delegation of boulevard resi-
dents will descend on the health
department today in regard to a
man named Root who persists in
filing lot he owns with garbage.
The health office has already inves-
tigated the case and ordered the
stuff covered with soil. Root is a
garbage collector.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
MORE AIR, Less DIRT AND
ROUGH ON RATS
Health Department Working on General
Plan Of Sanitary Regulation.

A city ordinance prescribing 512
cubic fet of pure air for each man
sleeping in lodging houses will
likely be about the next to be en-
tered on Spokane's law books. The
board of health will take the mat
ter up with the corporation counsel
as quickly as possible and ask that
such an ordinance be drafted.
This action comes as the result
of discoveries of startling unsani-
tary conditions in many local lodg-
ing houses by State Sanitary In
spector Combs, who is with DIR.
Grieve behind the present cleaning
movement. Many of the cheap
lodging houses are. badly over
crowded.
New public dumps, where rub
bish from the city's back yards can
be disposed of must be found by
the board of public works. For the
purpose of selecting new ones,
Mayor Pratt, DR.. Grievc and, State
Sanitary Inspector Combs are look
ing about the city today. DIR.
Grieve stated this morning that all
present dumps, several of them on
private property, will have to be
attended to Immediately.
Private property in various parts
of the city has been filled upwith
rubbish on the understanding that
as son as the fill is made Is inches
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
STATES ADVISED TO SETTLE
COLUMBIA RIVER DISPUTE

the city treasurer's Office and city
hall friends. The dinner was de-
signed as tribute from the for
mer treasurer to his subordinates
and 1t turned into a demonstration.
of the regard felt by the deputies
for their former chief, not over:
looking the excellence of Mrs. Egg
gleston's preparations for the
event. Twenty guests enjoyed
themselves.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
CONSCIENTIOUS DEPUTY
SAVES COUNTY s4,934
Finds $lS6,43O in Taxable Property Asses
or Had Overlooked.

Co., $4,000; Washington Electrical
Supply Co., $4,000; Hughes & Co..
$4,000.
Over the county the Security Ma
tional Bank was found and listed
at $15,345; Farmers Grain & Sup
ply CO., $4,67C; Spokane Land 3
Water Co., $4,000; Spokane Grain
& Milling Co.. $3,100; Tacoma
Grain Co, $4,000; Spokane Valley
Railway Co., $5,145; Western
Union Telegraph Co., $29,555; Pull.
man Palace Car Co, $2.219.
Total taxes to be collected on UNI
listed property put on by the coun'
ty treasurer: City roll, $3,436.30;
country roll. sSe6.29; railroad roll,
$692.63; total of all, $4,93s.22.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

of good soil must be spread over
the top of it. Many of the property
owners have failed to put SOL on
and they will be ordered to do so
Immediately.
Bounty on rats may soon be re-
vived again, as the board of health
believes rats are among the worst
mediums for spreading the disease.
All over the downtown district,
especially close to the river, the
rats are increasing alarmingly in
numbers, and it is feared that dis
ease worse than scarlet fever may
break out most any time as a re-
suit. Members of the board of
health figure that money spent as
bounty on rats is well spent. The
council took the bounty off rodents
last winter.
Employees in the office of the
board of health are preparing lists
of all parts of the city where sewer
connections can be made and will
begin a movement in few days
that will compel everyone within
reach of sewers to have them con-
nected.
Five new cases of scarlet fever
were reported to the board of
health today and one of smallpox
Not 4 single case has vet been
found in any of the department
stores, which are under constant
inspection.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
1000, 900 CHILDREN
CELEBRATE TODAY
(By United Press)

LONDON. May 24.-Flags are fly.
ing throughout England today in
Celebration of Empire Day. ami
versary of the birth of Queen Vic,
toria. Over 10000 schools are
closed, freeing approximately A.
100000 hildren to participate,
The idea OF the celebration origl
mated among the Conservatives
while the Boer war fever was rag
ing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
JAMES O'NEIL,
Confessed Murderer.
pscial Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
CHICAGO, May 24.-"Please
don't hang the man who killed our
father"
This is, in effet, the petition sent
to the state authorities by the sew
en- children of Patrolman Robert
Mackeney. whom James O'Neil,
now confined at Joliet for burglary
has confessed he killed.
The killing occurred two years
ago. when burglars broke into the
house of James Walsh on Indiana
avenue. Walsh was shot dead as
he tried to stop the housebreakers,
and Mackeney. passing the house,
met the same fate as he rushed to
the rescue.
The double killing has always
been mystery. The best Chicago
detectives have worked on 1t. Re-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
PORTLAND BEGINS RATE
FIGHT AGAINST SPOKANE

government inspector right in the
building all the time to keep tab
on things.
But the neighbors have kick on
the Northern Pacific style of get
ting rid of dirt out there, and they
ought to keep after Jim Hill until
he reforms.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
GRAND JURY READY TO
DIG INTO COURTHOUSE

ton into the case by the sheriff's
Office and Coroner Schiegel The
dead man was between % and 90
years OF age and came to Spokane
county the first OF the year from
Missouri.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
(By United Press)

SALEM, Ore, May 24.--Endeav-
oring to secure lower rates to the
interior, made necessary as a result
of the Spokane rate decision, the
Portland chamber of commerce to-
day filed formal complaint with the
railroad commission asking that
the order relating to distributive
rates on the o. r. & N made BY
the railroad commission last spring
and against which a restraining or
der was obtained In the federal
court. be modified in order that o
lower rate may be obtained.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
TRUST TAKES TOLL
FROM EVERY BITE
OF BABY'S CANDY
(By United Press

. WASHINGTON, May 10 =
. Declaring the sugar trust - =
= receiving from $5o,ooo,o coo to =
. $so,0oo,coo annually, part Of =
. which 10 contributed by every =
= child who eats q piece OF =
. candy, Senator Owen Of Okla =
= homa today attacked the pro- =
= tective traiff on the ground =
. that II fostered gigantic corn =
. binations.
. He caused Newspaper =
. story, reviewing the eustoms =
. sugar frauds, to be read to the =
. senate, and charged this a. Z
= one Of the consequences Of . Z
. protective tariff. =
. q q q . . q . = . . = q Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
NOW THEY WANT
HENEY'S JOB
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May 24.-Oppo-
nents Of Prosecutor Heney in the
Calhoun bribery case on trial at
San Francisco are expected today
to demand a withdrawal of his APP
pointment as special assistant, un.
der Wickersham. perhaps on the
ground that for three years he has
devoted almost exclusive time to
the San Francisco graft cases.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
TO GET HENEY AWAY
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
cay United press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2I.~-lt
was learned today that Attorney
General Wickerhsam had asked
Heney to so to Oregon to take
charge OF the prosecution OF Finger
Hermann in land cases, lIeney has
not given an answer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
HAMMOND TURNS
DOWN CHINESE JOB
(By United Press,

WASHINGTON, May 24.-.John
Hays Hammond. mining expert, to-
day declined the United States min
istership to China. ell told the
president he had "roughed it about
enough for a while" and intended
to spend the next few years at
home.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
LUMBER TARIFF
UP TO SENATE
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May 24.--The
senate committee today decided
not to change the lumber rates
passed by the house, leaving it to
the senate to decide whether lum-
her should be admitted free or
taxed 81, $3.50 or 81 per 1000 feet.
Indications favor $1.5O tariff on
rough lumber. The committee is
disposed to make concessions re-
garding finished lumber. McCum-
ber's amendment providing free
lumber was considered today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
GOOSE LAKE PROJECT
GIVEN UP
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May ! 24.-Eigh-
teen thousand acres of land in Ore
gon and $4,000 acres In California,
withdrawn from the Pitt river rec
lamation project, will be restored
to entry by the government. accord
ing to today's announcement, be-
cause 1t is decided to be not feas-
ible to use the waters of Goose lake
for the project.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
PURSUED NEGRO KILLS
HIMSELF UNDER BARN
(By United Fressj

LIMA, Ohio, May, 24.-John
Beam, negro, accused of shooting
and killing Mrs. Maud Diltz, a
handsome widow of 35, who was
tracked by hounds to hiding place
under a barn today and committed
suicide to prevent capture. When
Beam was denied admittance to
the Diltz home he fired the shots
resulting in the death of the WON
an.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
FUNERAL TOMORROW.

The funeral 81 Daniel l.. McNa-
mara, who died Sunday at Hillyard,
will be held at the Smith & Co,
parlors tomorrow at 2 O'Clock. Rev.
w. j. Hindley will officiate and the
services will be under the auspices
Of the Order of Railroad Conduc.
tors. The body will be sent tc
Kansas City, Mo. for interment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
CORBETT'S BLIND
SISTER TO WE'D
(6y United press)

SAN FRAN $50, May 24.-It is
announced to-day that Hazel Cor
bett. talented and blind, sister Of
JIM aud Joe Corbett, will soon wed
Alfred Dewitt, wire hcief here OF
the Pacific States Telephone and
Telegraph Company. She has been
blind since birth, but Is talented
Iiaaoist and Is we'll read
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
CONDUCTOR DIES SUDDENLY

Daniel Mcnamara, freight con-
ductor on the Great Northern, suf-
fered fatal stroke of apoplexy
while talking with railroad friends
In the yards at Hillyard He be-
longed to the Masons. Knights OF
Pythias. Odd Fellows and the rail-
road brotherhood.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
COPS LOSE PAY
VACATIONS

There'll be few flowers In polio.
ing Spokane hereafter--no vaca-
tions with pay or anything like
that. Chief Sullivan informed all
patrolmen. plain clothes officers
and the desk men this morning
that hereafter all those in the de-
partment who take vacations must
do so without pay.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
PHILIPPINE TARIFF
PASSES HOUSE
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The
Philippine tariff bill passed the
house today 12S to 6S. Underwood
of Alabama voted with the repub-
licans. Wagner of Pennsylvania
voted with the democrats
against it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
piNED ~ FORMER CHEF.

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Eggleston
Saturday night entertained at their
home. l0ll Augusta, the o.lco force
that served under Mr.. Eggleston in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

The United Press has the only American correspond
ent with Theodore Roosevelt his great hunting trip
The Press 10 the only Spokane newspaper which
ceives the United Press SERVICES and The Press gives
the fun AND the pictures, which also exclusive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-10
Workman Falls Thirty Feet.

Jack Page, one of the best known young men in Ensley, who Is employed as a structural iron worker at the blast fur mace division of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, met with a serious accident this morning. Jack" as he Is familiarity known, was at work on a scaf- fold on the new stories of No. furnace and by some means lost his footing and fell about 30 feet, sustaining broken foot and 1t Is feared internal injuries.
 He was taken to the Cunningham in- firnary where his injuries were attended to. He was moved this evening to his home on Avenue l, and at a late hour was resting quietly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-10
AUTO FIRE ENGINE
 FOR SUB-STAT|ON An Adjourned Session of Ems
 ley Council Held PAGE FALLS THIRTY FEET. Number Blast Furnace About Ready. Miss Padgett's Funeral.-Police Court SessIon-Baptist Church
 Elects Officers.
PAGE FALLS THIRTY FEET

Ensley, August 9.-(Special)-The city council met tonight in adjourned session and transacted the usual monthly busl- ness. President P. J. Rogers was in the chair. All the aldermen were present except McDowell. Mcleod and Stacey. Mayor D. F Sugg, City Attorney F. G. Moore and other city officials were pres- ent
 The regular monthly bills and payrolls were approved. Considerable discussion was had in regard to the new fire equip ment for the Sixth and Seventh wards.
 The fire committee some time ago recom- mended the purchase of an auto fire wagon. After some debate the matter was left over, pending the report of the Southeastern Tariff association. City At torney Moore was instructed to draw up an ordinance requiring all awnings to be eight feet from the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-10
EMPLOYES MUST
 EARN SALARIES

Washington, August 9.-The wave of retary Nagel in the department of com merce and labor has struck the treasury department, where 1t Is even to be more sweeping.
 Before leaving the city today for his summer home in Dublin, N. H., Secretary MacVeagh appointed the three assistant secretaries as a committee to work out reforms. Cards have been sent to every employe and every chief of a division. Each chief will make a report concerning his employees. Each employe will make a report concerning himself or herself The cards cover a host of subjects, in- cluding the quantity and quality of work performed by each employe and the char acter of appointment under which one labors.
 It is not anticipated that there will be a great saving immediately in dollars and cents, but 1t is believed it will re- suit in the introduction of labor-saving economies and that some practical theory of promotions may be worked out.
 Many appointees of the treasury de- partment obtained their places through political influence and in behalf of such appontees promotions have been urged greatly to the annoyance of the officials. When an instance of the kind comes to the notice of the secretary now the chief of the employees will receive a letter as follow:
 Please say to John Doe that am sure he is not responsible for the large num- Der of persons visiting the department In the interest of his promotion because he is doubtless familiar with the execu- tive order on that subject"
 The order in question was issued by former President Roosevelt and prohibits employees of the departments from using Inside" influence to gain promotion.