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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
Another Holdup.

After holding up a carload Of
Lester Pianos for IL hours, the
railroad finally placed the car
where we could unload them and
rush a few to our store. We were
anxious to receive these Lester
pianos because they are in demand
among discriminating buyers who
want thoroughly good instrument
at a moderate price. Besides, we
were anxious ourselves to see the
new styles which the car contained,
because the. Lester people always
get out something neat and tasty.
The new designs are plain, but
beautiful; graceful lines and the
mahogany cases are the most beau
tiful grain that you can imagine.
The price and appearance is not
all that makes the Lester attrac-
tive. They stay in tune remarkably
well, due to the special construc-
ton of the Lester pin block. They
have a sweet, mellow tone that is
very desirable for the home. The
Lester people make but one grade
of piano and put their entire effort
in making that the best.
You will find the Lester in homes
of many fine musicians, in the larg-
est and best musical colleges of
the country, In Y. M. c. A.. build
ings and in the homes of thousands
of modest homes who want a thor
oughly good piano and yet cannot
afford a fancy price.
Our easy payment plan will in
terest you if you have no piano or
want to exchange your old one.
Visitors are always welcome at
Eilers Piano House, corner of
Sprague and Post, Spokane, Wash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
WHEAT CORNER HURTS NTEAD OF
HELPING FARMERS

They used to say the same thing
about cotton manipulation" he
said. But the grower had always
parted with his cotton too soon.
Next year he would exert himself
to raise big crop, and would hold
it-with the result that prices were
down to nothing the next year"
This arbitrary and spasmodic
price raising only unsettles the
farmer. Very few of the wheat rails
ers are getting any benefit from
Patterns corner. They've disposed
of the wheat already.
THE salvation of the wheat farm
er lies in strong organization
where the farmers can band togeth-
er to keep wheat up to a high per-
manent basis. Not up to $3.50 one
year and down to so cents the next.
There's nothing in that for us
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
DID. THIS GIRL EVER
HA We FAIR CHANCE?

Just look at Jimmy's last note to
me-"
| Keep up your courage, little
| queen" it read, land may God
bless and help you and protect you
my own.
| Helen, dear, we may be sepa-
rated, but they cannot deprive us
of the love we hold for one anoth.
er. So be courageous, little girl
and go through the ordeal the best
you can. Your loving husband
Jimmie.
Isle of View"
isle of View" is their symphonic
code for Il love you"
And now that all this has come
to me / want to say something to
the parents of other girls who can
make life right or wrong for them, y
she said.
Il had a good home and every
thing that the average girl has;
| perhaps more. But | was full of
| life, full of bubble. | was emotion
al. l wanted to be petted, to go, to
be admired.
And my father, who says he
loved me more than all the rest of
his children, didn't under. So l
left home.
And then you know / was pref
| ty. l don't know how it is. My
| features are far from perfect, but
somehow there was something that
| made men admire me and women
hate me. And then the temptations
| and the people who kick you down
when you're young and helpless,
and even when you try to do the
| right thing.
once / was in a hotel ! was
| coming out of a room when the
proprietor ran into me, threw his
arms around me and said in an
ugly, fat voice, I love you
ooh, yes, | knew how he loved
| me-" she said YEARLY. Il would
| nave StIuCh h!iu ucNh IL nav ii"N
| the strength. But his wife thought
it was my fault.
"Well, that's the way it went
and | was too proud to let them
know at home That's what is kill
ing me now-that they ever found
out who | am and have to suffer
on my account"
Again she walked back and re-
| turned with eyes wet.
so | want to say to the mothers
and fathers, live with your chill
dren, not just for them. Grow VI
with them again. Do what they
want to do
.If they want to go out to see
cafes and bright lights and shows,
90 with them. Don't let them go
out much with men alone.
And II you can't afford to take
them, then make 1t pleasant at
home and get them interested in
something.
IF they like some man you think
isn't fit, let him come there where
you can watch him. Treat him
well. Ii he's bent on mischief that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

the same conditions, though even
worse. And Taft, not Roosevelt,
will be in the chair at the national
acpitol then. What will be the re-
suit?
This is a question which appeals
strongly to those who are familiar
with conditions in the northwest
They are beginning to realize that
there is heavy and steady influx
to the region bordering Puget
sound In Seattle alone the Japa-
nese section now holds a floating
yellow population of at least 5000
souls. Seattle's Japanese quarter
has grown from possibly 500 people
six or seven years ago to the 5000
that is given as a conservative es-
innate today.
The Japanese quarter here is a
city within city, complete in every
essential detail. There is no mayor
or city council, but there are the
recognized leaders. whose word is
final and whose dictation Is even
more complete than that granted to
any official body of this country.
If verything outside of this little
Japanese city were to drop out of
existence, to cease entirely to be,
the Japanese portion of the town
could go on and do business and
live and eat just as if nothing had
happened.
Japtown has it's banks, half a
dozen newspapers and publications,
stores and mercantile establish
ments, its produce stores, restau-
rants, employment offices. 1t has
even reached the point where Jap
anese money is circulated in equal
amount with the American cur
rency. In every way it could live
separate and apart from the rest
of the world, and never suffer the
want of anything.
Within the space of ten short
years "Japtown" has enlarged from
a restaurant or two and one or two
lodging houses to an area seven
blocks long by seven blocks in
width.
In the Duwamish river valley
Japanese are tilling ten acres to
the white mans one. On the pub
lie market, the city's municipal
bartering place, their rigs very
often outnumber the white farm
ers' rigs.
And they are getting independ-
ent.
Recently one of the Japanese
bellboys had some words with a
white servant girl in a local hotel.
The hotel employs 80 Japanese.
They threatened to strike in body
unless the white girl was fired
And the white girl WAS fired.
Facts and figures carefully col,
lected by exclusion leagues and
other organizations show, not only
a rapid and steady increase in the
Japanese population of the north
west, but an invasion of every
branch of industry where the offer
ing of cheap labor makes invasion
possible. The little yellow man
with his vices, his diseases, his filth
of mind and body, with his low
standard of living that enables him
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
BOYS DARE DEATH
ON POST STREET

Unless regulations are put in
force out in the Post street hill Sec
ton a tragedy is coming on the
Traction line. The youngsters have
discovered peculiar sort of sport
in standing on the track to see
how near the car will come to
them. In some cases they have
made motormen stop the car.
Now, if a brake should chance
to fail while some venturesome
youth was double daring his
companions a life would pay the
penalty.
An officer might take a trip over
the line and give the youngsters a
scare that would preserve one Of
them to life of usefulness if he
ever got over his foolishness.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

Special Correspondence to The Press
SEATTLE, May 1S.-Behind the
magnificent chain OF "manless"
forts which Uncle Sam has con-
structed on Puget sound to protect
the nation from invasion through
the northwest, there is now a small
army of Japanese.
Just how many Japanese there
are now in Seattle's "Jap-town" is
hard to estimate. But there are
thousands of them, and with the
Japanese who are scattered
throughout the northwest from
where they could reach the city
within ten hours time, it is safe to
say that there are fully $4,000 of
the mikado's subjects, all capable
of bearing arms.
Thinking people of the northwest
realize this. The situation threat
ened trouble at the last session of
the Washington legislature. But
exPresident Roosevelt's radical
stand on the California anti-Jap
agitation squelched the impending
protest.
Two years from now the Wash
ington legislature will have to face
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
Helen Boyle, Now in Prison,
Doomed From DayShe
Was Born.
BY DOROTHY DALE

] Late in the afternoon a woman.
girl-woman, with youth and
beauty in every line of her, sat on
low chair close to the bars OF
her cell door in the Mercer Jail,
looking out into the corridor
Her trial was over. That short
report guilty" from the jury had
been read. And as she sat there
like statue girl her whole attitude
said, Everything for me is over. y
Her face, blanched, rested prone
in the palms of her hands in sharp
contrast to the dark bars that
crossed it and the gloom of the
cell behind. The staring eyes were
wet. The red gold hair fell q
tangle about her cheeks.
She didn't move with the sounds
around her. She was not looking
at anything or anybody. She was
just looking out, with the crushing
future of years that must be spent
away from the life and light of the
world stretching away and away
before her, and the less than three
short years of reckless mistakes
that had caused it all, behind her.
1t meant 25 years for her and life
in prison for the man she calls
husband and swears she loves.
When / said Mrs. Boyle" she
looked up and forced a weary lit
tie smile.
do you know | never had a
woman friend after / needed one, -
she said, land I needed one terri.
My. II ] had-well-I believe ]
would have made a noble woman.
And now She sighed and
stretched out her arms as if TIC
bring something back.
my mother died when / was a
baby. ] think there was some
fatality about it all. For when she
was born my grandmother gave
her to my great-grandmother
when my mother died, my
grandmother came. They say she
looked at her and said, We'll, you
came and you were not wanted
and now here is your baby and
she'll live to see the day she wish
es she had never been born
'And It's here she said, rising
and walking away to hide the
tears. Then she turned sharply.
But, awful as It is, do you know
I'd rather be here inside in this
terrible place II Jimmy has to be
in. than to be on the outside with
him in" she said.
There was the light OF sincerity
on her face, the ring of truth In
her voice. II would have made
your heart chill, for II told of G
strength and consistency that, turn
cd Alright, would have made of this
girl a wonderful woman.
EDO you wonder2' she said
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
TRY THIS FOR
YOUR COUCH

Mix two ounces of Glycerlne
with a half ounce Of Virgin OIL or
Pine compound pure and a half
pint of straight Whisky. Shake
we'll and take in doses Of a tea
spoonful every four hours. d Sou
mixture possesses the hetG0y
healthful properties of the Pines.
and will break a cold in twenty
four hours and cure any cough
that is durable. In having this
forcula put up, be sure that your
druggist uses the genuine Virgin
Oil of Pine compound pure, pre-
pared and guaranteed only by the
Leach Chemical Co. Cincinnati. O.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
OLE HANSEN NO
TRIMMER

Somewhat of sensation was
created at a Norwegian indepen.
dence day meeting at Seattle yes
terday when Representative Ole
Hanson of Seattle demanded that
every state officer that has grated
should be punished, be he Nor
wegian or other nationality. Ole's
reference to the Norwegian is be.
lieved to have meant State Auditor
G. w. Clausen. He urged that the
Norwegians of the state raise a
fund to aid in the probe, If it be.
comes necessary. Ole Hanson's
work for the anti-racetrack bill
marks him as a fighter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

Special Correspondence to The Press
RICHMOND, Va, May 1S.-'It
isn't the farmer who gains by the
wheat corner prices; it's the spec
ulator. The farmer gets little good
and much harm by erratic boosting
of the price"
So Charles s. Barrett of Georgia,
national president of the Farmers
Union of America, threw back a hot
denial at the Patten defenders
while in the city here today.
1t has been favorite argument
of those who defend the Patten cor
ner that the high prices were a
benefit to the producer, and that a
good corner encouraged more farm
ers to raise wheat. Barrett laughed
when this was put up to him.
Its rubbish" he said.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
GAVE HER A BEATING
RIGHT in COURT

CHICAGO, May 1S.--A panic re-
suited in Judge Briggemeyer's
court when William Richardson
leaped from the prisoners dock
and felled his wife, testifying
against him, before court officers
could interfere.
Amid the screams of the fright
ened women, attendants lifted the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

unconscious wife from the floor
and carried her to the judges
chamber. The man was restrained
by force from further attack.
Richardson was arrested on COM
plant Of his wife, who said he had
repeatedly beaten and abused her.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
HEAVED MUSH AT HUB
WHO COULDN'T WORK

CHILLICOTHE, Mo-, May 1S.-
The inability of William l.. Carver,
late socialistic nominee for COVER
nor. to make coffee like his wifes
mother used to make, resulted in
his wife throwing a dish of oat-
meal at him at the breakfast Ia
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
BURGLARS CHLoROFORMED
BOTH MAN AND WIFE

CLEVELAND, May 1S.-William
e. King and his wife were chloro-
formed while asleep by burglars in
their home at 1925 Cannon ave-
nue., and $65 in cash and 5000 worth
of jewelry and silver were taken.
No trace of the burglars has been
found.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
GIRL QUITS SHOELNC HORSES
TO SING GRAND OPERA

BILE, for which assault Carver has
just been granted a divorce. He
declared that his wife, who is an
authoress, compelled him to do the
cooking.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18
Lake Occur d'Alene Map

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

to exist on wages that would mean
starvation to white men and WON
en-, is slowly but surely crowding
into the place of the white wage
Garner.
There are a few lawmakers in
Washington, just as there are in
California, who see all this and
who believe there is a remedy.
They expect to be heard at the
next session of the legislature.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

A granite pillar loses no strength
by being polished.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-18

" Procrastination is feminine
failing; it doesn't do girl any
good to scream after the kissing
has taken place.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29
WATERFORD.
Rural Carrier Returns from Maine
 Personal Mention.

Miss Florence Hickson of Mystic spent Sunday as the guest of MT. and Mrs. E. B. Young.
 Clyde J. Hogan, rural carrier on route No. 2, has returned from Gard ner, Me, where he was called by the illness of his father, who is suffering with dropsy of the heart, but is slight Ky improved. Q
 Mrs. Ernest Lewis is i'll at her home at the Coats place, Waterford.
 Miss Augusta G. Gates of Lyme has returned home from visit at Wa terford.
 Mrs. Crissie Stillingworth is in New York with her son, who is to undergo an operation in a New York hospital.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edward Smith were guests of Mrs. Smiths mother at Wa terford Sunday.
 William Williams was the guest Sunday of friends at West Neck.
 Mrs. Mattie Burdick, her daughter, Mrs. Denison Hinckley, and sons Clyde and Arthur Burdick of Westerly, have returned home after attending the fu- neral of c. D. Howard.
 Mrs. Frank M. Rose was a business caller in town Monday
 Owen Sherry of Millstone Is home from Philadelphia, owing to dull bus fness, on his way to lind employment at Westerly.
 Mrs. J. Henry Beckwith and daugh- ter Agnes were guests Wednesday of Mrs. H. Willis Manwaring.
 William Williams was a*business caller in New London Wednesday.
 Henry Hedding has about forty cows at pasture on Mullln hill.
 Mrs. Christopher Newbury of Gilead was the guest of friends in Granite ville Wednesday.
 The Three Linkers met with Mrs Fl. willis Manwaring Wednesday from c to ?. m.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29
The Business and Social Life of Every Town and
 Settlement Reflected in These Columns.
OLD MYSTIC.
Rev. C. H. Flanders Closes Services After Successful Two Weeks-lnter- estinq Items of the Past Week.

The evangelical services conducted by Evangelist Flanders at the Center Groton chapel for a duration of two weeks ended with the services on last Friday evening. Despite the rainstorm the attendance was goodl The series of services held at the Baptist church fin Old Mystic, as well as the series at the chapel, were most helpful to all who were in attendance, and a goodly number have accepted Christ as their Saviour.
 Four Baptisms.
 Rev. Jephtha M. Olrfihtead, pastor of the Baptist church, administered the ordinance of baptism to four candi- dates at the last Sunday evening ser- vice.
 Personals.
 Mrs. Alpheus Fl. Schoonover has re- turned to Elrnhurst from a two weeks visit to her brother and sister, Mir. and Mrs. Abram Schoonover of New ark.
 Miss Mary Harris Dean of Main street is recovering from an attack of malaria
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Krug and chil- dren, Raymond and Alice. were Sum day guests of Mir. and Mrs. John Will lfams Shank.
 Mrs. Anna Gallup of Laurel Hill. Norwich. has been a. guest for the past week of her sister, Miss Lucy Gallup.
 Mrs. Maria Jones of New London has been spending a few days with local relatives.
 Miss Mabel Haley returned Monday to her home, in Main street, after a five weeks visit to relatives in Pearl street, New London.
 MT. and Mrs. George c. Welles of Lake Villa were Westerly visitors on Monday.
 Miss Beatrice Pike and Miss Flor enee Stafford of Mystic were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs. Edward Tin ker and family.
 Miss S. Annie Williams of Main street was calling Wednesday on Mrs. Catherine P. Chipman and daughter, Miss Lillian P. Chipman, at Brush wood.
 Brief Notes.
 Mrs Adelia Kenyon was ealing Mon- day on her sister. Mrs. Emile Spencer, of Mystic.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank A. Lamphere and Mrs. James S. Russell of Hillside Lawn were guests of Mystic relatives Monday evening.
 Mrs. Hayes Boss and Mrs, John Will Hams Shank were Mystic callers Mon day.
 Mir and Mrs. l.. Kingsley have nam ed their infant daughter Jennie Cor inne.
 Miss Maude Horton has returned to the Methodist parsonage, after a visit to Miss Annie Mitchell of Blackhall. Mir. and Mrs. Elisha c. Davis and Master Lila Davis visited the Pollard hothouses Sunday afternoon.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29
BULLETIN NEWS LETTERS FROM ITS BROADENING FIELD
LEDYARD.
6araca Club Has Social Evening al Parsonage-NapoIeon Lansevin Has Unique Collection.

 The Baraca club held it's meeting on Friday evening, May 21, at, the Bill parsonage. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. MT. White. Sto- | ries were told and jokes cracked. Then the meeting was interrupted by the hanging of a large May basket filled | with good things to Rev. MT. White 1 by the girls Philathea club. The young mems Baraca club gave an invitation to the girls Phiiathea club to come and hear a very interesting talk by Billings T. Avery about his living in the west when a young man. After the lecture closed the rest of the eve ming was spent in entertainment. Re- treatments were served, consisting of candy that came Tn the May basket The regular meetings of the club are to be held monthly during the summer, The next meeting will be held June Il unless otherwise specified Miss Nellie Geer of Groton spent Sunday at the Geer homestead.
 Miss Florence M. Bennett, teacher in district No. 6. has been i'll the past week.
 Mrs. James H. Belden of Locust Grove, who has been visiting friends in Gales Ferry, has returned home. / MT. Hayes and family of New Jer- sey have moved into the Geer cottage. SOHcCtiOn VT 0udNSSs Napoleon Langevin, who lives on the Pequot reservation near Lantern Hill in this town. has an enclosure fenced in with boards near Summit on the Norwich and Westerly road where he has on exhibition a large number of different kinds of snakes, including black, green, red and many others. numbering nearly 100. Mir. Langevin claims not to be afraid of them and catches them with pair of tongs and then puts them into a bag. He in- tends to catch some rattlesnakes to add to his collection.
 Four-legged Chicks. Avery w. Main has a freak of a chicken among his number. The chick has four legs. Two where they should be and two above the others. The toes and feet are well formed When the chicken was first matched the up- per legs dragged on the ground, but TOW after month the upper legs do not drag. The chicken is well and hearty and bids fair to live.
 Brief Notes.
 Mrs. Julia Cromwell and son, who have been visiting relatives in town, have returned to their home in Dodge vile, N. Y.
 A large number of new sheds are to be erected at the Baptist church in the near future.
 A Christian Endeavor meeting will be held at the Congregational church on Monday, May 31.
 Mrs. Anna Gallup of Laurel Hlli Is visiting friends in town.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph Dean of New London are visiting Mrs. Deans par epts, MT. and Mrs. John M. Gray.
 Mir. and Mrs. Early Bennett of Preston were the guests of Mrs Ben- nett's parents. Mir. and Mrs. Albert Brown, Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29
CLARK'S FALLS.
Attended Ordination at PendIeton Hill
 Limited Workers Had Entertain
 ment-Notes.

Postmaster E. D. Chapman and cous- in, Miss Mabel Bill, and Mrs. Cassius Collins and daughter, Gladys, attended the services at Pendleton Hill We'd nesday afternoon, when Rev. John Howard Adams was ordained minister of the gospel.
 Mrs. Will Pickering called on frientSs here recently.
 The United Workers connected with the Sabbath school held an entertain ment in the chapel Saturday evening. On account of the storm the attend ance was not large.
 Arthur Babcock of Westerly called 10 see his parents and on business Wednesday.
 Elmer Merritt of Ashaway, who has been selling meat here for some time, made his last trip Thursday He gives it up on account of the high price of meat and ice.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. D. Maine have re- turned from a two days. stay at their cottage at Pleasant View.
 Mrs. Hattie Rathbun is the guest of Mrs. Mary J. Maine.
 Frost Had Done Damage.
 The roads in this section are looking fine. but frost has done some damage.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-29

ica, followed by an instrumental duet by Mrs. Charles Beebe and Miss Dora Reynolds was much enjoyed. A vet e1an of the civil war. Ambrose Miner. was present, of Unity grange. and gave a brief account. of his part in that great struggle. closing with a recitation, My old Canteen. for which a vote of thanks was rendered him.
 The first and second degrees were conferred and one application received. Then the visitors. among whom was Worthy Deputy Lynde. with some fif- ty were invited to the dining hall, where an appetizing supper was serv- ed hy the ready and willing young members of the grange.