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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
HARTMAN ADMITS
HE'S A PATRIOT
(By United Press)

NEW YORK, June THAT Har-
riman is a patriot is true because
he said so himself in an interview
on the ever of departure for Eu.
rope. Discussing losses OF the Pa
cific Mail steamers, Hartman mod
estly admitted that he recently had
an opportunity to dispose of the
water line, but had been standing
financial reverses for the pure JOY
OF seeing the American flag flying.
He also cited the new agree
ment between the Union Pacific,
st, Paul and Northern Pacific rela.
tive to handling traffic north of
Portland as an example for other
railroads to follow, saying that
while be was unable to promise il
means lower rates and certainly
would result In better service. The
agreement did not. mean, he said
that the Union Pacific would stop
development of tributary lines, but
simply that 1t was unnecessary for
the road TO build line from Port
land to Tacoma.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

| they promised her that if they
failed they would stand all ex-
penses and would pay to her in
addition the $15O,OOO left to her in
the will.
Then they came out into the
open, declaring Mrs. Baldwin's in
tention to contest the will on the
ground that Baldwin was insane
over women in general and was
unduly influenced by certain wom-
en- of low repute at the time that
his will was drawn.
Gossips from one end of the
state to the other were smack
ing their lips in anticipation
of legal fight replete with
sensation and scandal, when the
announcement came that the heirs
had agreed to compromise. There
was a conference of heirs and
| lawyers and when it was all over
the will of Lucky" Baldwin was
broken. Mrs. Baldwin, the widow,
was about million dollars richer,
Mrs. Rozella Robinson Selby, a
daughter whose relationship to
Baldwin was not suspected until
the will was read, avs 100000
richer and six lawyers had won
| $6OO,0 900.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
MEN AND BOYS, LEARN
PLUMBING

Parents, have your boy learn the
plumbing trade, the best paid of
all trades. Plumbers are in de-
mand everywhere, They earn IS to
So per day and have short hours.
By my method of instructing |
make you a practical plumber in
months instead of years, so that
you will be able to fill a good po-
sition or conduct a business OF
your own. Men can learn as well
as boys.
Edward Mccartney Plumbing
School,
Phone Main 1862.
20 Riverside Ave-, Spokane, Wash.
He that hath a trade hath an
estate"
Day and night school. Visitor are
always welcome.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
HUTCHlNSON'S CHARGE
BEARING FRUIT

The base of action of the legis.
lative inquiry will be shifted to
Spokane the middle of this week,
when the committee will take up
the inquiry into the charges as to
the construction of certain build.
ings at the Medical Lake insane
hospital, filed by Senator Hutchin-
son.
Senator Hutchinson's charges
are directed against the state
board of control, which has charge
of all the state institutions and
under whose supervision the defec-
tive work said to have been per-
formed at Medical Lake was per-
mitted to be done.
While on the east side the legis-
lative committee will inquire into
the management of the Cheney
normal, the state college at Pull
man and the Walla Walla peniten-
tiary,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

eighth grade, and one-tenth through
the high school.
This means that the average
American school is not doing all
that it is assumed to do.
The number of pupils who drop
out before they finish the eighth
grade is a fair test of any school
system. But how high do they GO
before they begin to drop out, is
another important question. In the
southern cities many colored chill,
dren drop out in the fourth grade
In Baltimore, Camden, N. j.. and
Newark, N j., many drop out in
the fifth grade. The Ohio cities
lost most in the sixth grade. Min.
neapolis, Boston and Grand Rapids
keep most of their pupils until they
are through with the seventh grade
In Quincy and Haverhill, Mass.
the children don't stop until they
are in the eighth grade.
Another test of school efficiency
is: How many children have to
repeat their grades?'
In Somerville, Mass, only Ga
per cent of the childre nhave to
go through a grade more than
once; Camden, n. j., sends 80 per
cent of her children through her
grades twice. This means that her
schools cost her 80 per cent more
than they ought to.
In the average city only Is per
cent of the children are repeaters.
Attendance at school is another
test There are very few cities in
which as many as three-fourths of
the children go to school three
fourths of the time.
In so American cities, Mr.. Ayers
says. it was found that the schools
of 35 cities were improving and of
IS cities were going backward.
Many schools were found that
were crowded in the low grades
and contained few pupils in the up.
per grades. In these schools many
repeaters were found in the lower
grades, Which choked admission to
the school.
Mr. Ayers says it is wrong to
blame school inefficiency to for.
eigners. He says that his figures
show that the presence of large
foreign element always goes with
a high efficiency.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

About the hardest thing to
measure is the efficiency of the
public schools.
Are our public schools any good?
is a question that is hard to an
swer, ma convincing way. Can
they be made any better? is an
other serious question.
When is a school good? When
is it bad?
Leonard P Ayres, expert of the
Russell Sage foundation, is at last
finding measure for. public
schools. He has studied the schools
of GO American cities, and a report
will shortly be made to educators
all over the country.
One of Ayers tests is: How
strongly do the schools draw the
children and how long do they hold
them?
The average American city car
ries all its children to the sixth
grade, half of them through the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
Special Correspondence TO The Pre-

Special Correspondence TO The Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal, June l.
BY risking 100000 on their judg-
ment that they could literally bluff
the principal heirs to the estate of
the late E. j. C'Lucky') Baldwin,
the famous turfman who died at
his home near this city recently,
five attorneys of this city and one
of San Francisco broke the famous
Baldwin will, won $600,O for
themselves and $1,0O0,000 for the
widow, who had been cut off with
less than $150,000.
The details of the gamble-for
a gamble it was-have just come
to the surface. The favorite boass
of Lucky" Baldwin during his
lifetime was that he would dis
tribute his money where he
pleased and that he would leave a
will that could not be broken. To
make sure that his win would
stand as he left it, he had clause
inserted which provided that if
any heir should contest it the con-
testant should lose all of his or
her share.
With this clause confronting
them, the lawyers set themselves
to the task of breaking the will
without contesting it, and losing
to Mrs. Baldwin even her small!
share. Before the widow would
allow the lawyers to go ahead
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
COME ON NEWSBOYS! ONE
Of YOU IS US. SENATOR

special 0orrsspoudsncs TO The Rrsss
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June L.
When Blonde Billy" Lorimer got
enough votes in his pocket to allow
his name to go before the Illinois
state legislature, and be elected
United States senator, he was real
izing his boyhood ideals.
Newsboy, sign painter, packing
house worker, street car conductor
these were the steps in Lorimer's
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
A CLOSE SHAVE
Many of Them Happening Every
Day but Soon Forgotten.

Day but Soon Forgotten.
Close shaves would be of more
frequent occurrence but for the
tender faces of many men which
will not permit of shaving often
Heretofore. nothing has been said
in these columns about poslam
a new skin discovery, in connection
with its use after shaving. It's pub
licity and sales have been confined
almost exclusively to it's remarka
BILE properties as an eczema cure
1t stops the itching at once and
cures the worst cases in a few days
While the application of poslam
after shaving is one of it's minor
uses, such as for pimples. the com.
plexion, etc, shavers will find it a
revelation. as it does for abrasions
roughness and severe scrapings
what it does 70 rail- manner of skin
difficulties-heals and cures in a
few hours. 1t is the only article
possessing real antiseptic and cura
tive value that has ever been -ex-
plotted for this. purpose, and will
soothe and tone up the skin as nc
toilet preparation could possibly
do.
Poslam can be had for so cents
at any reliable druggists, particu
larly Murgittroyd's and Ritters
who make specially of it. Or the
Emergency Laboratories, No. 81
West 25th street. New York city
will send a trial supply free by
mail to anyone who writes for it
This is sufficient to show results
in "a hours.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
lI1!.z3IG
4H95
CURES WHERE THE KNIFE
FAILS

FAILS
Spokane, Wash, May /, 1909.
Mr.. A: Fl Powell, Mfg. Chemist.
Spokane. Wash.
Dear Sir-To Whom 1t May Con.
Germ: l am 26 years old, have suf-
fered with stomach trouble since a
child; been SO bad during the last
two years could eat scarcely any
thing, not able to work but very
little, was operated on twice at the
Pullman hospital, Pullman, Wash,
and only got worse: was a COM
plete wreck when I commenced
taking Powell's Stomach Remedy,
have taken six bottles and am al
most cured. ! do hope anyone suf-
fering with any kiad of stomach
trouble will give Powell's Stomach
Remedy a trial. ] eat anything
desire now, work steady every day
and have gained several pounds In
weight. Henry Waller, 1910 s.
Chestnut ST., Spokane, Wash.
For sale by druggists or sent
direct, hcarges paid, $1.O0 bottle.
Tel. Main 2127. Delivery will be
made to any part of the city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
TRADES FOR BIG FARM.

F. w. Haverland, secretary Of
the Interstate Telephone Co., has
purchased the William Day ranch
of rs acres, near Valley, Wash,
said to be the best farm property
in Stevens county. The considera-
ton was $4,000, and in part pay
ment the purchaser has traded in
the Pacific flats, on Pacific avenue,
between Elm and Cannon streets.
at $4,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

SENATOR WILLIAM LORIMER.
life that lead to millions as a real
estate operator, brick manufactur
er, contractor, congressman and
senator.
Illinois had tired of Albert J.
Hopkins as senator, because Hop
kins was a politician. So, in his
place they chose Lorimer, the ac-
knowledged republican boss for
many years of Chicago.
BILLY" Lorimer, partly perhaps
on account of his early struggles,
had the trick of popularity, and
mixed well with the men with din
ner pals. He was on the popular
side, too, in the Chicago harbor i'm
provement and drainage canal
movements in congress, and was
one of the group of congressman
in 1900 who all but forced the adj
ministration into declaring war on
Spain.
Lorimer first went to congress
from Chicago district in 1895. He
was beaten through a gerrymander
of the city districts in 1901, but
came hurrying back two years
later-to stay. He is a member of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
ANNA STILL PAYING
FOR HER DE SAGAN
NV unttsd presa)

PARIS, June Prince de Sagan
was ordered by the court to pay to
M. Schmidt 5000, the balance Of a
note for $4,000 which the prince
gave to Schmidt.
1t is limited that the prince Dor
rowed the money when he was
paying court to Countess de Castel-
lane, whom he afterward married.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

many important committees.
In his fight for the senate, Lori
mer laid low, collecting votes and
filing them away, while Hopkins
and others were vainly trying to
break the three month deadlock.
When Lorimer got enough he let
his name appear.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

MY wife can cook" said the
benedict, proudly Don't worry.
Maybe she WON'T answered the
bachelor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
HOW TO MEASURE
EFFICIENCY SCHOOLS

Observation-Disclosures
SOME FACTS ABOUT PUPILS WHO PASS GRADES =
In 90 American cities there 100000 school children
OF these S1200 didn't in either 1907 19OS
taking their .
1t costs $13719000 to keep these repeaers in school,
Can these children who don't be blamed? .
1t looks the blame on .
1t costs $SS966,717 to these SIS school
Yet they 10 of this again
work which they ought have place. .
And business
, and failure. .
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

Pride, the never failing voice of
fools.-Pope.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

One way to make your w.fe's bis
cult taste like mothers did 10 to
buy a bucksaw and saw wood An
hour before supper.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

Shades only. yard
French Batiste-32 inches wido IN ooIo,,aacA |
scrolls, dots and stripes; an extra fine nal;ty&4
wednesday special, yard foilI
applique swiss and Organizes in pretty figures and
oo s- Extra special for Wednesday, yard. loo
and ,sh an-21 inches in width, in floral scroll
anu Ioulard designs Special for Wednesday
(Main Flsor)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01

Highly Mercerized Gingham-27 inches - r;a.1 4,
plaIds las, and checks Wednesday, yard. 1ac
sn FoPlln Sultlng-27 inches in width, in all plain
shades and stripes Wednesday a ward :" pl ono
Mercerlzed Linen Suting in solid coors with corded
stripes Wednesday, yard WIN wi aoa
Rep Suitng-27 inches in width, in cream. gray.
green sat; ana wte Special for Wednesday, yard 15c
SaIln-S stripe Crepe-30 inches in width. in Main
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01

he has assailed his rival in an unfair
way which makes it imperative upon
him to prove what he says or suffer
the consequences in loss of public in
terest in him, his work or his story.
Mere expletive never has been popu-
lar in controversies involving mat
ters of seriousness or moment. II
never will be. A man who is known
to have been as far north as the
North Pole is expected to keep at
least as cool as a gentleman can cas-
lily keep in these latitudes. The fact
that Peary got hot before he es-
capped from the Arctic circle will mill
tate against him, unless he has the
evidence 10 show such duplicty and
falsehoOd in others as always should
make an honest man hot in any cline.
Globe Democrat.
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01

pose therein mentioned. at the same
time and place as designated by or
der OF Judgment Of the Daviess Count
Court, viz: at the school house in
Pleasant Rridge, Daviess County, KY,
on the lth day OF Oct. 1909.
II is further ordered and adiudgcd
by the Court, that said election be
held and conducted as per orders and
Judgment of the Daviess County Court
and that nothing herein shall con-
.lict with the said Judgment of the
said Daviess County Court, and that.
in SD far MS may be lawful, the iudg
ment of The said Daviess County COur
shall be the judgment of this Court.
Ordered that this action be con
tinued for report Of election, as pre-
scribed by law.
Pursuant TO the above order | will
cause = poll To be opened III the schOo
house in Pleasant Ridge. Daviess coun
~, KY, for he purpose above set OUT
October 10, 1909.
7. b. MARTIN, 5. o. G.
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01
A Double Wedding.

The following young coulesp of Baize
town. were married at Hartford. Sept
Sih.. Mr.. S. S. White 10 Miss Rebecca
j. Baize and Mr. Esrill Daugherty to
Miss Bertha White.
Mr.. white is one of our leading mel
chants. while Miss Balze Is the beau
tiful and accomplished daughter OF w.
w. Baze.
Mr.. Daughcrty is a prosperous farm
cr, while his bride is a beautiful girl
Of sixteen summers. They were ac-
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01
Notice For School Election.


Orders Ohio County Court, Regular
Term, 1st day, 7th day of June, 1909,
Hon. w. B. Taylor, j. o. &. e., Pre-
siding
j. w. Reynolds, ct al, for Petition &c
Judgment Graded Common School
election, Pleasant Ridge, Ky.
Petition TO County Judge for a Grad
ed Common School.
Pleasant Ridge, Ky, April J. 1902
To Hon. W. w. Owen, Judge of the
County Court of Daviess County, Ky4
Strive, the undersigned petition
ers, being legal voters and taxpayers
in the bounds hereinafter set forth,
including parts of both Daviess and
Ohio counties, respectively petition
that you order an election to take
the sense Of the legal white voters
as to whether Graded Common Schoo
shall be established and maintained,
by levy and collection for that pur-
pose, OF a taX, of twenty-five cents on
each one hundred dollars worth Of
property in said district, owened by
white persons and by corporations,
a poll tax of one dollar ON each white
inhabitant therein over twenty-one
years old, under Sections 100 and
following of the Common School Law
and 446+ and following of the Keil-
lucky Statutes the said district to
be bounded as follows. viz:
Beginning at and including j. A.
JohnsOn's farm near Ohio county line;
thence To and including Sam Stones
farm; thence to and including j. =.
Davis farm; thence to and including
French Bros. farm; thence TO and ex-
cluding Ed Andrson's farm; thence to
and including Ira Bryants farm;
thence tp and excluding j. G. Ben
farm; thence TO and including ]. S.
Hills farm; thence up Green Driar
creek To Thomas Richardson's farm;
thence South East to the Chase farm,
it: thence 10 and including |
w. r. Boyd's farm; thence TO and |
J. Pucket's farm; ihence
10 and including Larry Thorp's farm;
hence ito and excluding J. C. Ben
nett's farm; thence to and including |
W. L. Jarna@n's farm; thence TO and
including Mollie Murray's farm;
hence to and including Woner Nor
yan's farm; thence to Jas. Northern,
him thence to CIV. Jewell's
arm part Of the Thos. Bell farm,
It; thence to and excluding
louis Frenchs farm; thence to and
G. w. JEWELS home farm;
hence to the b. N. Graves farm. in
,luding it; thence to and including NJ.
r. Westerfield's farm; thence to and
including A. Hunts farm; thence to
md including Jos. C. Westerfield's
arm; thence to the beginning.
Approves BY the County superin-
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01
N ( N. HALLS
CHILL TONIC
Best for Malaria, Chills and
Fever Guaranteed.
CERLAVO
LEFT over From Last week)

LEFT over From Last Week.
Sep. 22-Mrs. II. X. Kirtley and
daughters, Ienabelle and May, of Is
land, visited the family of Dr. ]. NJ.
Everley Tuesday.
Misses Euva Kimmel, Minda and
Matte Wood attended the State Fair
last week.
Mrs Matte Spitzmiller, Carmi. ILL.,,
is visiting Mrs. Emma b. Fulkerson.
Mr.. Dave Allen. wife and daughter,
Miss Eva. Beaver Dam. visited the
family Of Dr. C. l.. Everley Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. C. B. Everiey. who has been sic
Is better.
Mr.. Earl Everley is very sick at
this writing.
Rev. r. d. Bennett filled his last
appointment for the conference year
Sunday.
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01

tendents and Trustees.
The foregoing proposition, as con
tanned in the above petition 10 es-
tablish a Graded Common School Dis
trict, is hereby approved.
X. l.. ALLEN. County Supt. for Da-
viess County, Ky.
JAMES NJ. DeWEESE, County Supt.,
10 Ohio County. Ky.
We, the undersigned, being legal
trustee of such Common School Dis
tricts as are Indicated below, which,
or parts OF which are included within
the proposed Graded Common School
District, do heicby approve the fore
going petition and lhe propositiJ
therein set forth.
j. w. REYNOLDS.
Trustee District No. 10, Div. >.
We, fuiTh.T represent, that the
foregoing boundary embraces Common
School District NO. 10, Div. 3, and
parts of Nos.---- and this petition
has the approval of Il majority Of the
Trstees Of each of said districts and
also of the County superintendent Of
Schools.
We designated certain tract or
parcel of land situated in the town Df
Pleasant Ridge, County OF Daviess.
and State OF Kentucky and more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at stake in the CEN
ter Cf the Owensboro and Hartford
road and corner with DR.. J. c. Hoover
and Mark Thorp's lines; thence South
to Stevens line nine poles; thence
along Stevens line To the center of
The Owensboro and Hartford road
eleven poles ard 10I9 feet; thence
with the Owensboro and Hartford
road to the beginning, containing one
half acre. more or less, the deed 10
the same being recorded in Deed Book /
IS, page 31S, in the Daviess County !
Clerks office. OF date, June Is. 1892. !
as the site of the building for the |
proposed Graded Common School. and ,
certify that said site is not more .
Than two and one-half miles from any
portion of the boundary OF the pre-
pared district.
We respectfully subscribe ourselves,
your petitioners as set out above, this
lst day of April. 1909.
j. w. Reynolds, and II others.
II appearing to the satisfaction of
he Court that the foregoing petit
ion was regularly filed at the APP
III, 1909, term Of this, the Ohio Coun-
y Court, and the same having lain
over for more than one month for ex-
,eptions, and none having been filed,
,r noted thereto. and the Court be-
ng sufficiently advised, il is ordered
Ind adjudged by the Court. that the
aid petition be. and ii is hereby
granted and approved as filed. and
hat an election be held for the pur-
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01

companied by Mr.. Lawrence Baizp.
and wife. OF Caneyville, brother of
Miss Ba!ze. Also by Mr.. John Finley
and Miss Dmnie white and MIS-. Dora
and Ye+tie White, of Flint Springs.
All report a good time. Friendi
and relatives were waiting "Wednesday
eveig eager 10 Offer their cogratu-
lations. May they live long and be-
rosrerous and haly. Is the wish of
their friends. A ovusin. c. +. w.
The Hartford republican., 1909-10-01
Peary and Cook.

y
DIR. Cook has begun reaping a har-
vest while Commander Peary is send
ing down word from the North that
Cook never planted a seed. Peary's S
charges have placed him in posi-
tion where he will be sadly dscredite
. il he fails to substantiate them.
The unwisdom OF using the shorter and
uglier words was never more clearly
shown than in the attitude in which
Peary has now placed himself Even
his warmest friends and admirers
must concede that, II he falls short
OF the fullest measure of proof of the
serious charge he has made against
Cook, he will be so badly discredited
that, even from the sordid money
point of view in the case, his pros
pects will be materially reduced. He
has gone so far beyond the prima
facia stage in the force of his char
acterizations, that he will be unable
to suspend public judgment by any
mere juggles of words or of facts. He
will have to make good.
Somebody said the other day that
the North Pole can not be capital
iDed. But Peary and Cook have both
capitalized 1t, in advance arrange
nents with publishers for publica-
ton of what can be written about II.
The doctor is beginning TO reap his
harvest before Peary gets back,but
Peary even before reaching the land
sf publishers and printing presses,
has been making money out of his
venture. At the bottom Of the con-
koversy may be found, If bottom ev-
err Is found, sordid ambition instead
Of one to advance the ends OF science
and add to the worlds knowledge of
the forces and methods of nature.
Nobody has doubted the good faith of
Peary but his often challenge of the
good faith OF Cook in the language in
which he has couched IT. will none the
fess make him the loser of both
money and glory unless he is coming
hack prepared to back up the sweep
ing charge he has made with proof
which will leave no doubt Of its
truth.
There was no reason why Peary, II
armed with proofs OF Cooks want Of
integrity. should have sent advance
buIIetins concerning the fact. He
could have waited until, confronted
With his rival, he could have Offered
Chem. and they should have been Of
fered then in that calmness and com
posure which is the only mental atti-
tude the public will tolerate in mat
tdr OF this kind. II offered in such
q way. even though inconclusive, they
s0nld not have reacted upon Peary
and his prospects. 1t IL the fact that