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The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

In many, if not in all the States there are laws providing penalties for Kidnapping, varying in severity from death to Imprisonment in the county
 jail for one year. There is general agreement in all the States that no crime is more reprehensible than that of the person who steals a child from its parents and holds 1t for ransom un- der threat of torture if the money de manded is not paid. Other crimes against the person may be, and ire quently are, due to ungovernable pas sion but the stealing of children for such a purpose is a deliberate proce- dure, planned to take advantage of the natural affection which parents have for their children. It is in its essence a crime against nature, and deserves to be classed with all those unnatural deeds for which the laws provide se
 were penalties. Yet, as already indi- cated, there Is one State, Idaho, In which the minimum penalty is only one year of Imprisonment in the county jail. The maximum is ten years i'm prisonment. In Pennsylvania, the scene of the most recent Kidnapping case, the maximum penalty is solitary impris- onment for life. In Alabama, Dela- ware and Illinois the courts have pow CT to sentence kidnapers to death, par ticularly when the person Kidnapped is held for ransom. Distinction is made in the laws of some of the States be- tween Kidnapping children and adults, and between holding for ransom and for other purposes. Such distinctions are of course necessary to cover the different degrees of the crime. The general tendency of recent years has been toward the infliction of increas- ingly heavy penalties upon stealers of children. No sooner had the news of the abduction of the Pennsylvania boy spread abroad than bills were intro duced in the Legislatures of several States raising the maximum penalty for the crime, and such proposition was made in Congress to cover the Dis trict of Columbia and the Territories
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
The Smooth Way.

In the last generation Tyler Cobb. Esq, was a well known citizen of North Bridgewater-now Brockton- Massachusetts. He was famous throughout Plymouth County, says a contributor to the Boston Herald, for his witty retorts and dry humor.
 Never having taken a sea trip, Mir. Cobb one day conceived the idea of making a voyage to New York. Ac- cordingly he sailed from Boston in a small schooner.
 The first day out a storm was en- countered and MT. Cobb became vio- lently sick, but after several hours he mustered up courage and strength to look out upon the troubled waters.
 As he looked from the side of the little ship up the trough of the sea. it seemed very smooth to him. The captains cutting of the waves was "senseless," he told himself.
 But as this mad steering continued, the unhappy passenger finally crawled out, on hand and knees to where the captain stood at the wheel, and raising his voice above the din of waves and wind shouted:
 "Man, man, keep in the ruts, keep in thtsure .(-sB cmfwyp cnfwyp mfw in the rutsl"
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
rriclxed of the Time.

A Philadelphia lawyer who -spendi most of his time at his country estate employs a sturdy Irish gardener whose one desire in life is to live until the banner of freedom is unfurled over Ire land.
 One evening the lawyer strolled through the grounds of his place and stopped to have a chat with the gar dener.
 Michael, do you know that while we are here enjoying the beautiful twilight it is dark midnight in Ire land?" he asked.
 Faith, an Oi'm not surprised,'' re piled the gardener. Ireland niveI got justice yit."-Judge
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
A Victim.

Horace Bixey, the doyen of Missis- sippi pilots, is still at the wheel at S2. To him Mark Twain served his ap- premiership. A Vicksburg reporter asked MT. Bixey a recipe for a hale old age.
 Temperance, young man," the pilot replied "Intemperance is what kills us off. Oh, the victims," he said, in his whimsical way, "the sad victims of intemperance I have seeni
 "Once, I remember, a passenger of ours fell overheard. We fished him out with a boathook after he had been soaking on. the bottom half an hour or so. We laid him limp and sopping on the deck, and a steward ran for the whisky bottle. As I pried the mans mouth open to pour some whisky down his throat, his lips moved. A kind of murmur came from them. I put my ear down close to listen, and heard the half-drowned wretch say:
 "'Roll me on a barl fust to get some O this water out. It'll weaken the Hcker."
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Feather Duster n Germ spreader.

Tn giant "tickler" known to the housewife as the feather duster has won the enmity of the student of. tu- berculosis. The feather duster as a creator of miniature whirlwinds, is not to be despised. Like its natural prototype, the fruit of its labors is likely to be much ado about nothing, or worse. Its performances are never of any actual value, for the dust rises from one place only to settle down in another. In the case of the germs of tuberculosis which have previously been scattered by some thoughtless splitter afflicted with the white plague there is always a possibility that they may be included in the dust stirred up by the industrious duster. There fore, the fighter against the spread of tuberculosis places a ban on the feath- CT duster and proclaims that the prop CT way to sweep and to dust is to use moisture on the floor and a damp cloth on walls and furniture.
 'Oh, well, there are more important preventive measures than discouraging the use of the feather dusters," per. haps someone exclaims, forgetting that some of the other remedies, such as better living conditions are harder tc obtain, and that little details count when the active and persistent disease germ is to be opposed. It is difficult to convince persons whose rule for the acceptance of anything is Seeing is believing" that germs are very real, although unseen and more dangerous than some elephants.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Hard, fine grained, durable wood us- ually grows slowly. A most remark able exception is the eucalyptus, and this 1t is which gives the tree its great value as a means of reforestation. It is said that 1t grows five times as rap idly as any other tree. Seedlings have been observed to make an average growth of six inches in height a day i; and one tree in California has attained 2 height of one hundred and twenty i've feet and a diameter of thirty-six inches in nine years. The eucalyptus will not thrive where there are frosts but in the South 1t promises to go a long way toward filling the place once occupied by other hardwoods, which have been greatly reduced by demands for furniture, carriage and cooperage stock.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

He did not carry the appellation that came to him in his early days as 0 plunger to the grave. It descended to lawyers and doctors and others who may not have been heard from as yet. If Baldwin was lucky, what shall be said about the lawyers who claim some S6OO,O00 of his wealth, and of the doc tor who attended the deceased during the last twenty-nine days of his life and has put in bill for an even S100,- 900, doubling his original charge when he learned, possibly, how the lawyers had measured their services? Luck that results from risk, such as charac- terized the life of Baldwin, is one thing, and luck that carries no risk, as it would be in the case of these law yers and the doctor. is another. Luck without attendant risk might be said to be the luckiest kind of luck. Tn short, it's mighty lucky for some folks that there are persons with the busi- ness or the gambling capacity for pill ing up great fortunes which they can not take with them when they leave this vale of tears. The luckiest fellow of all, as good part of the world views things, is the one who gets the last whack at some other fellows ac- cumulations and who is alive when the other Is dead.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
First Orange Tree. o< Europe.

At a time when tiny orange trees are to be seen as table decorations and oranges innumerable are for sale. It is not inappropriate to trace the in troduction of the fruit into Europe. According to a Paris contemporary, says the London Globe, after its in- troduction into Europe from China, a CarthagiDian conceived the idea of grafting the yellow mandarin orange upon the grenadier, with the result that we have the blood orange. Jean de Castro introduced the orange from the West Indies to Portugal, and the first attempt to cultivate it was made by the Constable de Bourbon; but af- ter this revolt Francis I. continued the experiments. At the time Louis XIV. visited Toulon the Chevalier Paul, in compliment to the king, plac- ed some preserved oranges on trees iD the orangery. Ladies in the routine. 1t is added, were under the impression that these oranges grew sugared.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
COntkRioua.

Poetry is catching. A playwright recently told story of rehearsing Twelfth Night" for an open air per formance, in a garden which was over looked by a rising brick edifice. As the amateurs recited their lines, the workmen continued thelr labors. The Washington Star prints the tale.
 One afternoon, during a silent pause in our rehearsal, we heard a voice from the building operation saying gravely:
 'I prithee, malapert, pass me yonder brick"
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
A AIean Landlord.

Mrs Upton (to lady caller)-I do think we've got the meanest, most pc nurious and grasping old Shylock of a landlord that ever lived.
 Caller-Why do you remain here. then? Why not try some other place If you don't like the landlord?
 Mrs. Uptom-That's just 1t! He's that mean he won't let us get far enough behind with the rent so It is not really any object to us to move Pick-Me-Up
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Professor Albion Shell of the Uni versity of Chicago is quoted as saying that we are the most unhappy people on the face of the earth for three req sons: Because we are the most pros porous people; because we are the freest people, and because we are the most highly educated. And the presi- dent of the university might give one other reason.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

pr. Lyman Abbott defines ga good woman" by laying down eight rules of life, one of which is devoted to a decla- ration against tight shoes. This re- minds us of the ancient Transvaal con- stttution which devoted one-fourteenth of its entire length to a prohibition of smoking in the court room.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

It appears that Caruso hurt his voice singing into talking machines, for which service he received large sums of money. He may have the satisfaction in future years of sitting down in front of a photograph and hearing just how good voice he had once.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Crushing Sarcasm.

Mir. Hewligus-Fourteen dollars, ma dam, is an outrageous price to pay for a hat !
 Mrs. HewligusHIf I should buy the planet Saturn for a hat you'd think l oughtn't to pay more than 39 cents for it
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

A speaker recently said that the country boy is the hope of the Ameri- can nation. That has always been the opinion of the lad himself, whence his feeling of superiority to the city bred person.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Lucky" Baldwin, the spectacular mining and racing man who died few weeks ago, leaving a fortune of some S20.00o,0O0, also left his sobrz- Quet to more than one person who had served him in a professional capacity.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

MT. Box declares this seasons mil linery styles are beautiful and artis- tic Ar. Box is the editor of a publi- cation for women, and he naturally aims to please.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

A toad died the other day in the Bronx park at the comfortable age of 1000 years. He remembered the time when Lief Ericson first began to dis cover Minnesota.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

If King Peter is disappointed over the way his boys have turned out, let him look at the old man. He never was the Santa Claus of a Sunday school.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

The Standard Oil Company is not a trust, according to the argument of one of its attorneys. He does not, how ever, declare that it is spring poem or the long meter doxology.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Spelling reformers say they are per fectly satisfied with progress already made. This means that they intend going right ahead with the cruel maiming of innocent words.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

If the kidnapers don't cease their ne farious operations pretty soon people who have children will not dare to become rich.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Now King Alfonso wants to try ski jumping First thing you know that young man will rock the boat.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

The general verdict is that women's hats are not so bad, when you get used to them. It is the getting used to them that smites.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

An exchange says the Panama Canal will make islands of North and South America" Not quite. The locks will continue to hold them together.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

The courts have decided that women who wish to vote in Oklahoma must tell their ages. Mean old courtsl
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

A professor says lying results from intellectual laziness. Thought is was the natural result of chronic desire to hold office.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

Six night riders have been sentenced to be hanged. We predict slump tn night riding.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

The old method of starting a saloon and building town around 1t is going out of style in this country.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Another Horror.

"Speakin' about this 'ere tariff," said the man with the bulbous nose, ''it makes all the difference in the world whose socks is gored."
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Jerry.

The cassowary Is a bird
 That's hard to capture, very, Folks hunting for her plumes have made
 The cassowary wary. -Kansaa City Times.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
1FIeN NlJJlgg

Everywhere MT. Roosevelt goes the people act as if they had heard of him before.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Reminded Him.

Little Boy (meddling with has fathers documents )-Papa, this letter from MT. Muntoburn has a postscript, B. T. L. What does that
 Absent-Minded Statesman-Give me that letter, soni
 (Hastily burns it.)-Chicago Tribune.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02

The ranks of the miners and charcoal burners are less affected by consumption than any other occupation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
WHAT COULD A POOR
COUNCIL DO?

The city commit
hung fire week
1t council could stand
no longer than took to through preliminary reading the water
ordinance
OF there Water drink the hail. and other
liquid nearby The bit chamber
people there without They
nave their take: to order to help maintain city
neglect Of any~e uncomfortable.
OF
posponns transaction Of public slightest
ton responsible for the suffering for water has nothing
to do with the
II just requison additional
pumping equipment to committee leave there
counciImen, good
their reiterated
what willing help
People whose parchns
less naturally
satisfied with this They would think Of blaming the council
hours merely
transact in the past People must reasonable The they
All of which
city there such thing lodging public RESPONSE
willing no little time shifting blame on the water
department is their most pressing function fact The water
department point the council The water
commissioner placed council
properly belong
Under the commission the board daily and
transacts business emergency
right city parchins
and threatened with will
council will meet some
times, and then there will instant-oratory
Of condi
tons before conscientiousy Of public
be anything
fact
who could councilman be
tiaI city official him
merely couple Of dry suHdmers
councils prudence
official
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
ACCIDENT
KILLS ONE

Mrs. George III. Magruder will go
to her grace with never full reali-
zation of the terrible accident of
which she was a without
even knowing that had she lived
she would have been a hopeless
cripple for life.
Just when her physicians and
nurses were becoming confident
that she would recover, Mrs.
Magruder, whose feet were crushed
off beneath the wheels of the
train with which she and four 9TH
ers collided in an automobile Mon
day night, died at the Sacred Heart
hospital last night.
Inquiry at the hospital today re-
vealed the fact that Mrs. Magruder
never realized that her feet were
gone. After the accident one limb
was amputated above the knee; the
other just below. She often COM
planned of pains in her feet, even
days after the accident, and fearful
of the effect news to the contrary
would have on her. she was never
told how badly she was hurt.
Mr.. Eshelman, whose skull was
fractured in the same accident. is
reported better. He is at the
Deaconess hospital.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
ARTISTS
ARE COMING
POLICE CHIEF SULLIVAN
GIVES WARNiNG-NEW LAW
A GREAT AID IN HANDLING
THESE CROOKS.

A warning to be on the lookout
for bunco men during the influx of
homeseekers into Spokane Is offer
ed the public by Chief of Police
Sullivan, following the arrest Of
Charles Hannifin and Albert King,
two alleged bunco men, last night.
Chief Sullivan has received in
formation that leads him to believe
that gang of at least 20 crooks
are headed this way for the reser-
walton opening. He thinks the
bunco men will try to elude the
local police by picking their vic
Tins here and Fleeing them at
Occur d'Alene.
"We expect Spokane to be over
run with clever bunch of bunco
men during the excitement Incl
dental to the opening up of the
three Indian reservations" Chief
of Police Sullivan stated today
They will be laying for the So
called green farmers who have
generally bunch of money with
them in such cases as this
II believe Hank Myers. consort
of Flo Darling, the notorious wo-
man who formerly conducted the
East Sprague avenue roadhouse, is
the brains of this bunch 1t is
Myers style to lay low himself and
furnish the brains for the work to
be carried on by his band of crooks.
He has been the source of much
trouble heretofore, and is one of
the most clever crooks in the
whole country"
Hannifin and King were arrest
ed by Detectives Miles and Pearson
and are charged with vagrancy
The search for other suspected
members of the bunco artists band
is being carried on by all members
of the police department
BY the merits of the new law,
the police have the authority to
arrest alleged bunco men ON sus-
picion and charge them with
vagrancy The penalty on this
charge under the new law can be
made six months in Jail, with a
fine of $500 Chief Sullivan is
pleased. with the law because of
the fact that under the old law
80 days and 500 and costs was
the maximum penalty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
Buy Your
Piano
Join the Crowd at Eilers
and See That $157
Piano.

You have been putting it off all
the week, but don't miss visiting
our great semi-annual clearance
sale today. The store will be open
until 10 o'clock and there will be
plenty of music to entertain you.
There is floor full of beautiful
instruments, every one bearing a
yellow tag. The yellow tag quotes
the original price and the amount
of reduction, which ranges any
where from 500 to 1854, and even
more on some odd styles. The orig
inal price tag is also on the instru-
ment, showing that the reductions
are bona fide.
$3.50 pianos are selling at $157,
the $275 styles at $173, the $500
styles at $208. the 1915 styles at
1862, the $500 styles at 1904, the
$3.50 styles at 1887, etc.
We are accepting terms as low
as SIS down and the balance at
$1.50 or more a week. There Is no
use waiting a day; you will scarce
ly notice these small payments.
At the rate pianos are selling we
will soon have our large stock re-
duced to the minimum and the
sale will close. Such an oppor-
tunity may not come again for a
long time, SO you have better act
promptly.
Eilers Piano House, corner
Sprague and Post. Wholesale and
Retail
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
WILL ARREST
CONTRACTOR

Mayor Pratt's legal labor scale
policy will probably be put to the
test Monday. 1t is understood that
one contractor who has refused to
make good the amount he has I'M
derpaid his men on city work will
be ares I'D.
An interesting point is coming
up on the mayors efforts to re-
cover for men employed on put
ting in the new city Jail cells at
81 per day. The cells are being
installed by an eastern concern.
The city attorney is of the opinion
that the purchase implies a pub
lie service contract and that the
balances can be collected.
The mayor has not signed an i'm
provement contract since he an
nounced his determination to make
bidders agree to the city scale.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
STABLE. EIGHT.
IN tOUkfl

Judge KEENAN,, in the superior
court, granted the petition of the
City Cab. Carriage and Transfer
Co., who asks that the city of Spo-
kane and it's officers be restrained
from interfering with the company
in the building of its new stable on
Riverside avenue.
The company claims that they
have permit from the city grant
ing the right to erect the stable,
and that after they had begun the
work the authorities notified them
to cease work and threatened to
arrest their officers and land them
in Jail in case they failed to COM
ply with the order.
They say they will lose heavily
If not allowed to continue, as they
have no room for their horses and
equipment. having given up the
lease on the old stables. The Judge
set July as the day he will decide
as to permanent restraining or
der.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
SCARE STORY
ABOUT VALVE

The story that some villain was
responsible for the water shortage
on the north hill through turning
off the regulating valve was evil
IDENTIFY devised to bolster up the
theory that because there is no
water shortage on Cannon hill and
in Brownies addition there is none
elsewhere.
Commissioner Reuterdahl invasti-
gated and learned that the valve
was turned by workmen while max
ing necessary repairs. The act did
not affect the Lidgerwood water
supply, as there is no such supply.
The fact that when not enough
water is pumped to supply the
mains there is bound to be a short
age has not yet been disproven.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
SPIRIT II. GOES
AFTER TROPHY
(By United Press,)

SEATTLE, July 3.-Over a -
mile course out of Seattle harbor
the yachts Spirit H., Seattle, Alex
andra and Vancouver are contest
ing today for the most coveted
prize in Pacific coast sailing. Alex
andra is the defender of the Alex
dra trophy, offered in annual COM
petition by Lieutenant Governor
Dunsmuir of British Columbia
Spirit ii. is the challenger and will
try to wrest from the Canadians
the cup they won from Spirit ii.
last year.
The first race in best two out of
three series started this morning
at 1920; time limit is five hours.
The Alexander finally won in
very close finish.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
AGED MAN JAILED
FOR DISCRETION

Solomon D. Coats, who claims he
Is a Civil war veteran, II years of
age. was arrested yesterday at Col
vile on the charge that he desert
eed his wife. He was brought to
the county Jail here by Deputy
Sheriff H. V. Lynch of Colville,
and when arraigned before Justice
Stocker this morning the old man
asked for lawyer and pleaded not
guilty. He was bound over In $500
bail for hearing next Wednesday,
and in default of bail he went to
Jail.
The Coats live at 02412 Hamil-
ton street and Mrs. Goats says her
husband. who gives his occupation
as a carpenter, left the house two
weeks ago with the money to pay
the rent and a grocery bill. When
he did not return she started to
look him up and learned he had
gone to Chewelah and from there
to Colville, were he was arrested.
She said this was the second
time he has left her.