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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
PATTERNS JUDGMENT DAY IN GREAT
WHEAT CORNER COMES MAY 81

battle out with a loaded pistol in
the top drawer, and the knowledge
that the police will come before
night unless
BUT IF PATTEN LOSES 4
Then the mountains of wheat
garnered around the world and
rushed to thousand Chicago gran
aries, by armies of men in overalls
toiling night and day like fire fight
ers, will have been enough and
more than enough to crush the man
who would dare try to control the
worlds food.
With Patten fighting a losing bat
tie the price will be beaten down
and down. He has contracted to
pay, say, $1.29. In the open mar
ket the shorts can buy for $1.25,
for $1.20, 81. And Patten will have
to pay.
To realize ready money he will
have to throw some of the wheat he
has already bought back into the
pit. He will get the money. but that
wheat will have pushed down the
price anothere notch. A minute
later that wheat will rise up to help
smash him.
For weeks he has been quietly
selling. cautiously, so as not to in
terfere with the upward march of
prices, realizing money for the SUI
preme struggle. He has shipped his
wheat all over the world-anything
to get it away from Chicago, so
that it can't come back and be used
by his enemies.
But it isn't enough If the bears
win. The shorts can buy all the
wheat they want and deliver it to
Patten at the price he set. And he
will have to pay.
Or
Another broken corner will have
gone down in history.
And James A. Patten will join the
ranks of Letter and Gates and Old
Hutch and the rest who defied the
lightning.
They are beginning to think that
Patten will win. He said from the
outset that there would be a wheat
shortage this year. His information
seems to have been right.
In Letters corner in 1898, cash
wheat could be had for $1.40, while
the wheat pit price was s1.S5.
But in 1909 cash wheat is soaring
20 cents higher than the wheat pit
price. The short. Patterns enemies,
can't get the wheat unless some
thing breaks.
May 81 will tell the tale.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
ANOTHER
MISTAKE
FLEMING FINDS ONE IN CHAR
TER AMENDMENT 72 THAT
MAY LEAVE MAYOR AT
MERCY OF COUNCIL.

City Clerk Charles Fleming today
discovered that another erro was
made in the official publication OF
the charter amendments which he
holds is clearly the fault of the
Chronicle and Review in printing
the amendments.
Amendment ~, which confers on
the mayor the power to appoint and
remove his heads of departments
without the consent of the city
council, was run part of the time in
both papers as Ordinance ~" in.
stead of amendment To-" This err.
rOr was afterward corrected.
1t is believed the lifting of the
type from one paper to the other
caused the identity of the error on
No. u in the two papers. Mr.. Elem.
ing believes that the error in the
publication of amendment II hap.
pened to be similar in both papers
through the process of lifting the
type from one to the other.
Mr.. Fleming is not aware what
effect the new error will have in
the validity of No. 70, known as the
Lambert amendment.
The new mayor, Mr.. Pratt, is well
pleased with amendment u, as be.
ing a great improvement over the
old charter provision. The loss of
amendment ~ would place the
mayor at the mercy of the city
council, as has been the rule in the
past.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
BARRIERS ARE BALKY

II is still a matter of speculation
whether the journeymen BARRIERS
union will abide by the agreement
reached Monday night by the arbi-
tration committees from their union
and the boss BARRIERS association.
A number of them are discomfort
ed with the basis on which their
committee agreed to continue at
work for another year, and chances
for the agreement being formally
ratified by the union are somewhat
uncertain. The journeymen want
ed SIS per week guaranteed
throughout the year and their COM
mittee was unable to get more than
SIG.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
Continued from page u

him, and have followed his lead
who has contracted to pay for
wheat at prices ranging up to the
highest option price.
The option price is the wheat
pit price.
There is cash wheat price, too
That is the price you'd have to pay
in open market for the actual
wheat. It's been about 20 cents
higher than the option price so far
If it were lower the shorts could
buy what they wanted and fill their
orders with Patten at a profit-or
else Patten would go broke trying
to pay.
What will happen then on May 81
in the Chicago wheat pit?
IF PATTEN WINS
The shorts. trying desperately to
beat down the price, will have fail
ed. Patten has said all along that
this is a short year for wheat, His
prediction will have made good
The shorts, if they have to buy
wheat at anything like the present
cash price, will lose hundreds OF
thousands of dollars, millions OF
dollars in the aggregate.
They will ransack the world for
wheat, but they will have failed In
last desperate endeavor, as they
face ruin on May 81. they will try
to buy and fill the order they have
contracted to deliver to Patten.
But they can't buy the wheat. 1t
is not to be had. Each man who
fights for wheat will stimulate the
demand, and the price will soar
higher and higher.
The only price at which they can
buy the precious kernels is beyond
the frenzied shorts. Then the sec,
rotary of the board of trade, black
coated. the only unmoved figure In
that maniacal whirlpool of human.
ity, will rap for order.
"All trades with the firm OF
Blank, Dash & Co. must be closed
at once" he will announce.
And the wheat pit will know that
great brokerage house has gone
to the wall. :
There will he a consultation In
Patterns Office. White faced and
ruined men will bargain with their
victorious master. He will name
the price at which he will allow
them to settle.
In other palatiaf offices. men i'm
maculately dressed, may fight their
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
SPOKANE CLERK NABS
POSTAL FORCER
(By United Pressl

BUTTE, May 12.-M. j. Rath is
held in Jail here pending return to
Spokane. He was identified as a
fugitive from Washington by P. J..
Sisk, Spokane postal clerk, who
says Rath, forged money order
for $50,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
.SAME OLD BOB

I'VE will continue to do business
at the same old stand, in the man.
ner heretofore pursued, and with
the same force" announced City
Comptroller Farley today, when
asked if there were any changeh to
be made in his office force on the
commencement of his third term
next Friday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
TRYING TO SHAVE
WINDOW TAX

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE
senate this afternoon took up con-
sideration of Senator Cummins'
amendment proposing that duties
on common window glass fixed in
the Aldrich schedule be reduced.
Senator Simmons, North Carolina,
introduced another amendment in
which the duties are lower than
those in the Cummins measure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12

printed against me. All the money
/ spent was given me by my hus-
band. 1 never accepted one cent
of Hamilton's money"
The woman arrived here yester-
day and was driven to the home of
her mother in an automobile.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
ONLY A FRIEND OF
HER HUSBAND
(By United Press)

OAKLAND, Cal, May 12.-Flor-
ence Moore, who is accused of aid
ing in the downfall of Adjutant Gen
eral Hamilton, gave out a state.
ment today. through her mother,
denying that he spent a cent of the
embezzled money on her She
said:
Hamilton was one of my hus
bands nearest friends and was
connected with him in various bus
mess enterprises. l deny all stories
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
APPLE. BLOSSOM PARTY.

In her-ow home, beautifully dec
GRATED in sweet scented apple bios
SONS, Mrs. w. 8. Mutton, 726 Fifth
avenue, was made the hostess of a
pleasant surprise party given by
about IS of her friends, in honor of
her birthday last night An enter
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
JUNE SWEDDING.

Miss Harriet c. Holman, daugh-
ter OF D. Holman of this city, and
julius R. Black. former president
of the California State Realty fed
GRAFTON, Los Angeles. will be cele-
brated at the Holman home in this
city June 8.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12

tainment of recitations and vocal
and instrumental music was rem
dered and delightful three course
luncheon was served. Mrs. Mutton
received many beautiful presents.
The guests departed with Mrs. J.
Arbecker as an escort for each one
of them to their respective homes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
LADIES GIVE $1,000 WINDOW

The Ladies' Altar society OF Our
Lady of Lourdes church have
voted to present a memorial win
dow to the church during the pres
ent year, to cost 81 900. The same
society has already given the mar
BILE and onyx sanctuary railing that
cost $1,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
BATTLESHIP COMES
UP MISSISSIPPI
(By United Press)

NEW ORLEANS, May 1.-THE
battleship Mississippi started up
the Mississippi river today, being
the first battleship ever attempting
to make the trip. Ten thousand
watched the big vessel leave.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12

ALBANY, N. Y, May 12.-Six-
teen men were killed in a quarry
explosion near here this afternoon,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12

WASHINGTON, May 12.-Fire
raging at Alexandria, across the
river, until l o'clock caused loss
of 100000 today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
OLD BISHOP DEAD.
(By United Press)

JACKSON, Miss, May r.
Charles Bats Galloway. bishop M.
E. church south since 1885, died
here today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-12
SEND A SCORE TO
THE HOURS
(By United Press)

CONSTANTINOPLE, May a.
Twenty mutineers were executed
today. Large crowds witnessed the
ceremony.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
The Silk From the Cocoon.

In attaining full growth the silk
worm stops feeding and throws out
silken thread. The silk is formed
in fluid condition and issues from
the body of the worm in a glutinous
state, apparently in a single thread.
From this silk the worm constructs
It's cocoon, an interval of from
three to FIVE days being required to
complete its Imprisonment in the
envelope. In order that the silken
strands may not be subjected to the
danger Of breakage by the moth
emerging from the cocoon the
cocoons are steamed till the in
closed insects are dead. After this
The silk may be wound of.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
Who Owned the Fish.

There is in Wales a creek five
miles long, connecting two small
lakes. About fifty persons own
property along this creek, and for
years and years the people have dis
puted as to who owned the fish in
it. Not long ago two boys got into
a fight over the fish they were
catching, and the dispute was at
last carried into the courts. The
decision of the Judge was odd
enough. He decreed that any one
claiming to own any of the fish
should attach brass tag to the tails
of the fish with the owners name in
plain letters, and that in the future
he must catch his own fish or none
at all. This unique decision put an
end to the dispute.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

At LAmarque's funeral the Pa
riSian mob took out General Lafa-
yette's horses as the famous soldier
was returning home from the sery-
Ice and drew his carriage TO his no
tel with many evidences Of enthuSi
ashc love and admiration. The
scene was, . stirring one, and .
friend in referring to it some weeks
atterward said, "You must have
been very much pleased"
Lafayette looked at him for a
moment in silence and then SAID.
with q whimsical smile:
Yes, l was very much pleased
very much pleased indeed. But
never saw anything more of nv
horses, my dear friendw
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

At dinner one day Dr.. Whately,
archbishop of Dublin, sat near a
young aid-de-camp, and in the
course of the meal the latter asked
his grace, "Do you know the diff
ference between an archbishop and
an ass?"
The archbishop was too taken
aback to reply, and, seeing his hesi-
tation, the aid-de-camp continued,
zone wears a cross on his inter; the
other wears it on his back"
DIR. Whately looked the young
man over with the utmost gravity,
and without relaxing a muscle of
his face he propounded another CO.
nundrum. "Do you know" he said
'the difference between an aid-de-
camp and an ass ?"
mo, l do not" replied the off,
Ger.
Neither do /, sirp thundered
his grace.-Exchange.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
Sion Of Your Uncle.

The use of three gilt balls as the
symbol of the pawnbroker's trade
came into use with the LOmbards,
who were the first great money
lenders of the world. Of the Lom-
bards the princely Medici family of
Florence we're the first to make
money lending a business. On the
Medici coat of arms had been en-
graved three gilt balls, and this in
sigma had been handed down gen.
Grafton after generation as a symbol
of money lending. One pawnbroker
of London told a friend that it
meant getting the security of dou-
bic the value of what is lent. Two
of the balls would therefore indi-
cate what the money lender took
and the third what he gave.-Lon-
don Modern Society.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
The Man Who Wins.

Business is not like backing
horses. The man who wins in bust
ness wins because he has deserved
to win; the man who loses does so
because he deserves to lose. This
truth may not always be obvious,
but 1t is none the less true. OF
course the unsuccessful man won't
admit it. It would be better for
him il he did, for then he would
seek for the deficiency In himself
which brought about his failure and
strive to eliminate it 1t is the old
principle of the survival of the fit
test. The ffttest is the man Of
pluck, with strong belief in his own
powers and a keen energy to seize
every chance. The man who be-
heyes in luck would probably be
more proftably employed in back
ing horses, where his peculiar tai
ents would have more plAy.-LOn-
don Opinion.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
Antieip.tien and Realization.

Freddie-HOoray, Sis What do
you think? Pas going to buy an
automobile, and I'm going to sit in
the front seat. Sis-SO am l. Fred
die-No, you won't. That front
seat is for pa and me only. See!
Sis - You've got nothing to say
about this automobile. 'Tain't
your'n. Freddie It's more mine
than yOur'n, and you'll just have to
get in the back seat or stay home.
Sis won't get in the back seat,
and / won't stay home. Freddie
pushing her away)-see here, now,
you just keep out of this automo-
bile.-Lppincott's.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

after triaA at Newport and New York,
has been installed ON the Massachu-
settH. says q Boston dispatch. The
navy department. reserves tAe night to
reject the hoist II ft offers no advan-
tage over the present hoist The prin-
ciple IL practically that Of the pneu-
matte tube The advantage II avoid
ance Of automatic shutters and the
possible dropping Of grains OF powder
into the handling room.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
the PAY OF ACTORS
SALARIES Were Fairly Larss Evsn IN
ths slxtssnth csntury.

Salaries Wsrs Fairly Larus Evsn In
the Sixteenth Century.
An efficient actor received IN
1885 as large q regular salaTy e
$500. of which sum $1,000 Is the
modern equivalent The lowest
known valuation set an actors
wages at IS cents a day, or IN mod
ern money about $500 q year.
Shakespeare's emOluments As an &C
tor before 1899 are not likely 20
have fallen below $4,000 in our
money, while the remuneration due
10 performances at court or IN no
blemen's houses, If the accounts OF
1894 be accepted as the basis II
reckoning, added some 5000.
Actresses did not appear until
about 1862, female parts being pre-
viousIy taken by boys Among the
very earliest were Mistress Nell
Gwyn of the kings playhouse AID
Mistress Knip. Both from having
been "orange girls" earning a pre-
carious existence about the theater,
were raised to the afiuence Of g .
performance, about $50 IN present
value.
By the time We reach David Gar
rick the emoluments received by the
successful actor had steadily in
creased. Garrick himself could com
mand $3.50 a week before he went
into management, besides a beneht
which would bring in virtually all
that the house was worth, from Ss,-
900 to $3.50 for the night After
he went into management his earn
ings were enormous, and he died
leaving, at q low computation, over
$500, 900. Miss Farren's engage
ment cost the management at the
height Of her career $3.50 a week,
which was what Mrs. SiddOns also
consented 10 receive from COVent
Garden theater at one period Of her
fame. But this was far below what
she could and did demand elsewhere
and in the provinces, and IN her bi-
oErsphy We read that on tour S2So
nightly was the sum cheerfully paid
for the great actress services. 1t
must be remembered that the value
Of money In the days Of the three
players Just mentioned was double
what it il at present. e, $3.50
then correspondsd TO $500 nov.
Great a. the sum then seemed, 1t
soon became common, $3.50 q night
being paid to Kean, Macready and
even Fletcher. But it n, of course,
dWarfed into insignihcance BY the
emOluments received from the
American public by such artists a.
Bernhardt, Coquelin and Irving
Bernhardt was paid 81 900 a night.
which seems to have struck the Pa
risians dumb with astOnishment. II
is difficult to apportion Sir Henr,
Irving's receipts apart from Mis-.
Terry's. But they undoubtedly were
valued as high as 5000 a night on
tour-Strand Magazine.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
The Rich Uncle.

He (desperately)-Tell me the
truth. Is it not my property that
stands between US?
She (sadly)-Y-e-s.
He with ray of hope)-I admit
that ] am poor, and so, unfortu-
nately, is my father, but have an
aged uncle who is very rich and a
bachelor. He is an invalid and can
not long survive.
She (delightedly)-How kind and
thoughtful you arel Will you intro
duce me to him?-New York Week
ly.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
Unsxmpathstie Rruts.

Mrs. MalaprOp - Young SHARP
will have to apologize before IT
speak to him again.
Miss lntereSt-Did he insult you
Mrs. Malaprop - Did he, The
last time | met him | told HIM that
my uncle, Lord de Style, had loco-
motive atacksis. and he had the N
pudence to ask IL he "whistled az
crossings" Hes an unsympathstie
bFute.-ChicAgo Record Herald.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
RuIss at Eunniman,. Hotel.

Guests are requested not to speak
to the dumb waiter.
If the room gets too warm open
the window and see the fire escape.
Don't worry about paying your
bill. The house is supported by
the foundation.
Guests wishing to do a little driv-
ing will find hammer and nails in
the cupboard.
Guests wishing to get up without
being called can have self raising
-four for supper.
II you're fond of athletics and
like good jumping lift the mattress
and see the bed spring.
If your gas goes out take a feath-
e. out of the pillow. That's light
enough for any room.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

If you have pains in the back. weak baek
or any other indication Of weakened or a.
ordered condition Of the kidneys or bladder
You should get DeWitt's Kidney and Biadder
Pills right away when you experience the
least sign Of kidney or bladder oOmplaints
but be sure that you get DeWitt's kidney and
Bladder Pills We know what they will 40
for you, and II you will send your name 20 Z
=. Dewitt Co.. Chicago, you will receive
free trial box Of these kidney and bladder
pills. They are sold here by Banner DruF
Store
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
FAMOUS DEAD HEATS


These Between More Than Two Horsos
Net Frequent NOW.
Dead heats on the fats do not 90
cur with such frequency as they did.
As it is, We get quite enough of
"dead heats of two" but there u
spice of romance about q dead
heat of three" says Bailey's Eng
lish Magazine.
At York In 1896 for the Bad
minton plate three horses passed
the post locked together. They
were Messala, Bajardo and Casse
Con, ridden respectively by n. Can
non, T. Loates and s. Loates. A
third Loates was fourth on Hamp-
tondale, and he was beaten only q
short head by the leading THO.
In 1880 at the Lewes summer
meeting Scobell, Wandering Nun
and Mazurka ran q dead heat for
the Ashley stakes. Only a head be-
hind the struggling THO came Thora
and Cumberland, also running q
dead heat and placed fourth BY the
Judge. Some good judges who saw
the race declare that if it lad been
called a dead heat of five no one
would have caviled at the official
verdict.
In. 1S45, on the Thursday of the
Newmarket Houghton meeting, two
dead heats of three occurred in the
same afternoon.
In 1882 there was a dead heat
of three in a field of five for the
race called the Sandown Derby, but
afterward known as the Electric
stakes, run over the straight five
furlong course at Sandown park.
The dead heaters were R. s. Evans
Marden Or. Wyatt), P. Lorilard's
Gerald Of. Webb and the Duke Of
Hamilton's Leonora u. Wstts). In
the run-off Marden, who in the
meantime had had his plates re-
moved and ran unshod, won by
three lengths, head only separat-
ing second and third.
The most notable dead heat of
three was the finish for the Cesare-
witch in 1857 between Fl Hakim,
Prioress, an American entry, and
Queen Bess. There were thirty
four runners, and the starting
prices of the dead heaters were 8 to
l Ell Hakim, 80 to 1 Prioress and
Queen Bess.
In the decider, which was run OF
in the waning light, George Ford
ham was substituted for Tankesley
on Prioress and Bray for Little on
Ell Hakim. The change of jockeys
appears to have worked to some ad-
vantage in the case of the Ameri-
can mare, for she won the decider
by a length and a half, a head sep
arating the other two.
Once there was a dead heat Of
four at Newmarket in a sweepstakes
for two-year-olds, run over the first
half of the Abingdon mile. This
was at the HOughton meeting in
1855. Five started, and the race
resulted in a dead heat of four, the
fifth horse being only beaten half q
length. The decider was won by a
head, half length separating sec
ond and third. Tiny Wells rode
the winner, the original favorite, q
chestnut FLY called Overreach, by
Birdcatcher.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16
Brave Fire Laddies

often receive severe burns putting out ~
then use Bucklen's Arnica SAlve and forv.t
them. IL soon drives out pain For burns
scalds, wounds, cuts and bruises its earth
greatest healer. Quickly cures skin eruption.
old sores bOils, ulcers. frlOuS best pile curs
made. Relief is instant 25c az Banner Dru.
Store
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

Safety Device For euhmarins Crews.
One OF the new emergency devices
for use IN submarines is a helmet and
coat containing enough air to lift the
Wearer 10 the surface OF the water.
The Florida star., 1909-07-16

New Device For United States Navy.
The pneumatic ammunition hoist
The Adair County news., 1909-02-24

Hon. Geo. M. Miller, of Mon
roe county, who is seeking the
nomination for Circuit Judge in
this the 29th district, subject to
the action of the Republican
party, announces his candidacy
in to-day's News. He is an hon
orable gentleman and has been
a practicing attorney for many
years. He feels that he is well
qualified for the position, and he
promises to make a just Judge
should he be nominated and elect
ed. He has served the peo-
pile of his county as County
Judge, making a satisfactory of
fetal. He became we'll acquaint-
ed over the district five years
ago when he was a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
Circuit Judge against Judge H.
G.. Baker. Mr.. Miller asks that
his character and standing as &
man and as lawyer be investi.
gated, and if his Republican
friends conclude tina t h e is
worthy, he earnestly solicits
their support.