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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
EGGLEST0N IS
FIGHTING FOR
RECORO'S SAKE

One of the features of the pres
ent city campaign that is attracting
more than the ordinary amount of
interest is the fight Harry Eggles-
ton is making to be reelected city
treasurer. Probably no man in the
city Is personally more popular
than Harry is, and it is really in
justification of the confidence his
friends have always placed in him
that Eggleston is now in the race,
But for the bull sack" episode
of last year he would have dropped
out, after eight years of continuous
service in the city treasury. AS
the matter stands, Eggleston feels
that he had better go out fighting
IL he does go ut than seem to admit
anything touching his reputation.
So Harry is scrapping it out with
J. Oscar Peterson as his opponent.
In a pamphlet setting forth his
record a shis platform Eggleston
sets forth that he has saved the
city more than $150,O0O during his
incumbency by enforcing various
assessments previously neglected.
He says further:
"Since I assumed office, May Is,
1901. have received over II billion
dollars, disbursing a like amount,
all of which has been properly &C.
counted for without the loss of a
single dollar to the city"
How the city hall payroll was
kept on a cash basis during the
clearing house days is related; to-
gether with the fact that he treas
urer put 100000 realized from the
sale Of park and bridge bonds into
the city before the panic was over,
to which is attributed the fact that
Spokane was one of the first cities
in the country to recover from the
stringency.
In regard to the 'bull sack" bust
ness, Harry submits the report of
the city council finance committee
generating him from any blame
rejecting in the slightest degree
on the honesty and integrity of
the treasurer.
Harry is using the Dull sack" in
his campaign talks now, showing a
photograph of a little tobacco sack
bullying over with pennies. This,
he says, is all the sack" amounted
to In reality, being merely a recep-
tacle for stray pennies in balancing
the days cash accounts. In the
course of the investigation this tiny
sack was tsretched until it was rep
resented to hold several thousand
dollars, matter that makes Egg
gleSton smile.
There is a dramatic element in
this end of the fight, for Eggleston
values his reputation for honesty
as about the most valuable per-
sonal possession he will ever own
and looks to reelection as means
OF removing the last possible stain
that might rest upon it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
DIAMOND HOLDUP
CAPTURED
(RY United 2ressl

SALEM, April 27.-Entering the
jewelry store of c. H. Hinge at Cen
ter City at noon today, highway
man pointed a gun in the face of
Carl Neugebauer, clerk, and de-
manded the contents of a till of dia-
mOnds
At this moment Hinge returned
from lunch. The robber turned the
revolver on him, ordering him to
leave. AS Hinge backed out the
robber ran, followed by a crowd
He dashed down the street and
turned toward the river, but was
finally overtaken after a wild chase
by F. E. Taylor and F. II. Wilhelm.
He gave the name A. ]. Smith.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

taken in cleaning the cars. They
must be swept out every morning
or evening, when not occupied by
passengers and must be wiped with
some sort of antiseptic. Finding
that the present force of health
officers is insufficient to handle all
the cases of fever, the board OF
health decided to have an assistant
to the health officer appointed, ad-
ditional help for fumigations and
laarantiming secured. with II 9TH
err qualified physicians to aid tenn
porarily with the inspection Of the
public schools. Dairy companies
have been ordered to report any
cases of sickness in the homes of
any of their employees, that the
milk delivered in the city may be
free from infection.
1t is believed by the health
board that by carrying out these
orders the disease can soon be
checked. There are at present
nearly 1870 cases under quarantine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
IDENTIFIED
AS ACID
THROWER

Lewis Gray, the young Northern
Pacific engineer held in the city
Jail, believed to be the man who
dashed nitric acid over Ida and
Hannah Nelson early Sunday morn
ing, was positively identified this
afternoon by clerk in the Owl
drug store as a party who bought
nitric acid from him Sunday night.
While Sergeant of Detectices Nc
Phee and Detective Briley were
still discussing the Identification
with Acting Chief of Police Coverly,
a two-third length blue beaver
cloth overcoat, literally sprayed
with nitric acid stains and burns,
was turned over to them. 1t was
found at Harrison and Scott, hang
ing in the brush, not far from
where the dastardly attack upon
the two young sisters was perpe-
trated.
Gray stoically maintains his inno-
cence and declares he does not
know where the Owl drug store is.
A letter. in which Gray threat
ened harm to Hannah Nelson for
causing an estrangement between
himself and Ida Nelson, was turned
over to the police last night by the
girls sister. 1t is believed the over
coat will throw more light on the
crime, and the Identification of
Gray by the drug clerk is consid-
cred by the police to be sufficient
evidence, with all other piled up
against him, to convict him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
HENEY HAS ANOTHER
HOT SHOT SESSION
(By United Pressj

SAN FRANCISCO, April 81
The Calhoun trial bristled today
with epithets and innuendo on the
part of opposing attorneys.
Il do not pay any attention to
barking ours" replied Heney to
charges of Attorney Byington, for
the defense, that Heney made un-
founded statements regarding rela-
lions of James Gallagher to the
boodling board of supervisors.
Il may be cur, but | am not
a trailing dog shouted Byington.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
FINED FOR BREAKING
QUARANTINE RULES

Frank Simpson was fined S25 and
costs by Judge Mann this after
noon for violating the health or
dinance by going into a house
where a patient lay sick with scar
let fever. Judge Mann acknowl-
edged that, as Simpson contracted
the disease himself as the result of
his folly and was taken to the pest
house for treatment, he had been
punished nearly enough but that
should he show him too much
mercy, others would try the same
manner of defense.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
G0RD0N.H7ACKS GRAND
JURY INDICTMENT TO-DAY

he could not again be placed in
jeopardy for the same charge.
1t is also charged that with an
information already pending
against Gordon the grand jury did
not have power to investigate as to
that particular charge.
The contempt proceedings
against Deputy Pelletier was post
poned to Thursday by request of
Deputy KiZer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

M. J. Gordon was arraigned today
in the superior court and pleaded
not guilty to the indictment charg-
ing embezzlement in the Sparrow
case.
Included in the vlea is the con-
tention that Gordon was formally
acquitted Of this charge when the
original information against him
was dismissed April %, and that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
CLUBS GET GROUNDS

The meet of the Spokane County
Athletic association will be held at
the interstate fair grounds May Is.
The chamber of commerce today
decided to donate the use OF the
grounds to the club. This matter
has been discussed for some time,
but the value of the meet to the
city was the ruling factor in the
final decision.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
HARD TO BELIEVE HE LIVES IN
SAME WORLD WITH PATTEN

ST. MARYS. o., April 27.-The
exact antithesis of Jim Patten has
been found by the Jay Grain Co..
OF this place, in the person of an
obscure Bunker farmer living near
Mulberry, Indiana.
This farmer brought his wheat
to the elevator and inquired what
price was being paid for the grain.
When told he could get $3.50 a
bnshel he expressed disgust and
said:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
BABE KILLED In
MOTHER s ARMS
(By United Pressl

SAN FRANCISCO, April 81
Arthur Uecker age two, was killed
and his mother badly bruised today
when run over by an automobile.
The mother was carrying the child
across Market street.
The chauffeur, Fred Brown, was
arrested.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
GOT AWAY WITH CHECK

A check for 5000 was all that a
burglar got for his trouble of break
cord hotel last night, to CLEAN G..
T. Burners pockets of their valua-
bles. Bruner is a transient here
from Albion and the check that
was taken was written on the
State Bank of Albion. He has
stopped payment on this.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

THAT is an exorbitant figure.
1t seems thousands of people will
be unable to buy bread if the price
of wheat is kept that high"
The bunker refused to accept
more than $1,10 for his wheat.
and when asked what should be
done with the 20 cents per bushel
he refused to accept. he replied:
Give 1t to the poor people who
are unable to buy bread because
of the corner In wheat"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
BURIAL AT COLFAx

The remains of Mrs. Emma
Coolidge, who died yesterday after
noon at the residence, Ninth and
Cedar, will be sent to Colfax this
evening for burial. ) She is sur
vived by her husband, Alfred
Coolidge, one of the directors of
the Traders National bank, and
was 40 years old. Three children
are also living.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
WILL PATCH IT
UP SOMEHOW

Still Waddell-Harrington's exces-
sive bill for exporting the Mission
and the Howard street bridge
plans, City Engineer Ralston's,
Drs. M. B. Grieve's and N. M.
Bakers and the Cadillac Garage
Co. s, bills are up in the air. The
finance committee from the city
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
THREE BOYS GO WRONG

Earl Thorndyke, age II; John
Madden, 18, and Frank Sullivan,
10, confessed to burglarizing
room in a lodging house when ar
raigned before Judge Webster. The
boys asked the leniency of the
court and promised to go to work
is given their freedom. Investiga
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
DEAD
IS RUM0REO
lBy United Pressl

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 81
Deserted by all except a few slaves,
Abdul Hamid, deposed sultan, was
today found by Macedonian soldiers
lying unconscious on the floor in
the last chamber of the harem The
soldiers carried him to Cheraghan
palace.
The widest kind of rumors are
current that he died after arrival
there.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

council, composed of Councilmen
Dalke, Ostrander, Baldwin, Schill-
er and Watkins met yesterday aft
ernoon to discuss the matter. Moth
ing was done, however, but to in
struct the clerk to notify all those
whose bills had been turned down
by the auditing committee, to meet
with them in their next regular
meeting, two weeks hence.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

PIo9t dH1s
The Orphans Home of Spokane
benefit opened with great success
at the Dreamland theater last night
and the part the children took in
it was the big hit of the evening.
The scarlet fever regulations
threatened to block the benefit aft
err everything had been arranged
and started, but DR.. Grieve, city
health officer, said today that if
the children passed perfect exam
ination and permit was secured
he did not think it would be ne
cessary to deprive them of the pro-
ceeds of the benefit and unless
this is later overruled the weeks
performance will continue.
The principal feature tonight will
be a tableau, "Fairyland.'
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27

COLUMBUS, April 27.-H. X.
Lyon, Toledo insurance man,
found $3.50 pearl in a clam cock
tail served him at the Neil house.
He has refused $3.50 for it, and
says he will give the pearl to his
wife.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-27
, = = . = = . = q . . . . %
, GOT DRUNK AND MARRIED
; TWO OR THREE WIVES
(By United Press)

. GALLlPOLIS, o., April 81.
. William Parsons was arrest
= ed here, charged with having
. three wives, and was bound
. over. Parsons is said to have 4
. married wives in Mansfield,
. Gallipolis and PIT. Pleasant,
. w. Va. Parsons has been liv- 4
. ing here with wife No. 3 for 4
. three months. He claims he
. was drunk when he married
. wives Nos and ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
PROPOSED NEW PAPER MONEY

THE days of the crisp banknote may be num-
bered. Instead of being crisp, the money
the Government Bureau of Engraving and
Printing will hereafter turn out will be soft and
velvety, if important experiments now being
conducted by Treasury officers are successful.
They are made for the purpose of demonstra-
ting the advantages of novel chemical treat
ment for paper.
By the new process it will take sixty days
less to manufacture banknote than by the
present method. The chemical solution not
only renders the money soft and velvety, but
also makes it non-shrinkable. The solution
acts antiseptic and preservative. When
applied to old documents, 1t seems to knit the
fiber together and prevent further decay.
By the present process of printing paper
money the paper has to be thoroughly soaked
in water. While it is in this soaked condition
one side of the paper is printed. The sheet is
then placed in steam room and kept under
high temperature for thirty days, the time
again soaked, as in the first instance, and the
reverse side of the bill printed. The thirty
days drying process then has to be repeated.
In cases where third impression the bill is
necessary, when the printing is done in two
colors, the wetting and drying process has to
be repeated for a third time, and another
month is thus consumed in its production.
Besides the delay of this process, the wettlng
and drying rot the fiber Of the paper, and, al
though it is starched to give it the crisp APP
pearance, the starch soon wears out and the
bill becomes limp and worn
In printing bills on paper that has been
treated by the new process no wetting is neces-
sary. The ink loses none of its luster when APP
piled to the paper as it does by the old process,
and is thoroughly dry within forty-eight hours
after the printing is done.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06

analysis paid in largest part by the consum-
ers of German products-and, m as
German wage-earners are themselves enor-
nous consumers of these products, they pay
a large measure Of the employers tax as
well as the direct premiums collected from
them by law. So the system cannot prop
erly be charged with imposing undue bur-
dens on the German employers Of labor
the cost being very generally distributed and
the benehciaries of the funds contributing
much the larger portion of it.
Some interesting suggestions are pro-
voked by the system. however. For exam
pie, the Krupp steel works spent no less
thar 5000, 900 marks for this purpose in
ls06-'07-that is, say. $780, 900 for insur-
ance and pension payments in behalf Of the
company's employees. The product of the
works is largely guns and other instruments
OF warfare. German employees cannot con
sumo" these products, Of course, and the en-
HANGED cost OF them due 10 the compulsory
system Of Industrial insurance is borne by
every purchaser of a Krupp gun or other
warfare instrument.-NeW York OOmnsr-
ciaL
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06

and especially when one considers that the
vast cost Of these indemnities and pensions
is not borne alone by the benehciaries of
them, but in large part by their employers.
For instance. the law requires that all per-
sons who are regularly employed for wages
and do not earn more than 1000 marks
yearly must be insured against sickness, the
employer paying one-third of the amount of
the premiums and the employe the other
two-thirds; the accident insurance laws en-
brace the same classes of wage carriers and
the same terms; but here managing officials
and overseers are liable to insurance. So,
during the year 1906 German employers of
labor were compelled by the Law of the en-
pire 20 pay out of their own pockets about
$21, 900 600 for the insurance Of their en-
ployes against sickness alone. Or the face
OF the thing il looks to US Americans some
thing like an imposition, for We are not ac-
customed to paternalism and governmental
regulation" such as mark the industrial life
Of some European countries.
Being added TO the cost of production,
the insurance and pension taxes paid by Ger
man employers are in reality and in the last
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06
Why He Delivered It.

It was a part of Mr.. Krug's business. however. to deliver the
beer which he made. Omaha had four saloons. Someone had to
do the delivering. and if Mr. Krug wheeled his brew around in a
wheelbarrow his friends explain that it was because ut was SO good
he could not trust any Of the boys of those wild days to deliver 1t for
him"
After the first few years Mr.. Krug bought the interest of Mr..
Seller, the latter going to Sioux City, where he made As great a sue
cess in his various lines as Nj. Krug continued to make of the brew
cry 1t is a coincidence that Nj. Seller never returned to making
shoes. His brief acquaintance with Mr.. Krug convinced him of the
future of the brewery business and in Sioux City he built up an es-
tate which has left his sons in possession of large business interests,
including stock in a brewery OF that city.
Little by little the business of Fred Krug developed and in
1853 the malt house and plant at Tenth and Jackson streets was
erected. This served for a number of years and thousands of bar
the company still maintains a n uptown once. the old malt house in
the rear being used by q refrigerating company and the Omaha Bot
Ting works.
Thirty years after the little brew house opened at Tenth and
FArnam streets the business demanded Q larger home and Mr.. Krug
bought the present site OF the brewery in the early SOS. The tract
consists of eighteen acres on South Twenty-sixth street. near vinton.
the South Omaha line. While the big buildings have been erected
on one end OF the grounds, the balance lie retained as a big lawn,
which shows Mr.. Kugs appreciation of open places and natural
landscapes. Around the brewery are the homes OF many workmen
who have shared the prosperity OF the business with the founder and
become opulent in service.
The plant cost originally s7Bo.OOO. About 100 men m en-
ployed in all of It's departments and IT originally made some $4,000
barrels annually.
After the reorganization of the company in 1902. when Mr.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06

comparatively few Americans are aware nj
the great extent of the system-a triple sys-
TEN embracing insurance on lives and
against accidents and sickness and the pay
ment of old-age or ineapacity pensions. For
the year 1906 thS number of persons insured
against sickness throughout the German en-
pire was ~, 4Os, 700; against accidents,
l9,227,2l3, and against old age and inval-
idity. 1912, 700. The entire receipts OF
the sickness and insurance fund during the
same year we're S14.46l, sol marks-or, say.
approximately s 1000. 900; the receipts of
the accident fund were 1s9, 7Os .567 marks,
and those of the old age and invalidity fund,
26S, sac. 791. The expenditures for the same
year were s2.4s7.16s marks paid in sick
relief. 16.5s6,42l marks paid in compensa-
ton for accidents and 49,, 353, $50 marks
paid in old age and invalidity pensions. The
accumulated funds exceeded two millards Of
marks. These figures are a trihe staggering.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06
Came With the Kings

The remarkable career Of Fred Klug may be realized when It
is known that he came to Omaha in the same year with the late
William Paxton, with David H. Mohat, later banker and railroad
builder of Denver; in the year that Edward and John Creighton
selected Omaha as. their future home; in 1859. when a string of
men began careers here such as have been lived by Andrew }. simp-
son (stIl in business at the old stand), Charles J.. Karbsch, Andrew
Poppleton, George B. Lake. Joseph Willard, Peter Frenzer, J. W.
Van Nostrand, Thomas Swift, A. ]. Hanscom, Albert Mast. Elijah
Allen, John B. Kuony, Eleazar Wakeey, William Doll and others
who have since departed this life II may yet be in the land of the
living, with an Omaha advent, in either case, probably antedattng
that of Frederick Krug.
These men and a full hundred more whose names n well
known in the history of the city were the men with whom Mr.. Krug
cast his lot when he established the brewery on Farnam street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets, and selected Rudolph Seller. q
shoemaker. as a partner.
The brewing business was a success from the start, undergoing
the usual difficulties of frontier life. operating under the disadvan-
tage of a small capacity with grain not too easy to secure. and some
of the materials necessary to the brewers art positively hard to
secure.
The Mormons were making a temporary zion" near Florence;
the steamboats, snorted and raved behind the red souaw's birch
canoe" and thrifty young men were stalking city lots for sale lover
old Indian graves"
golden ri of steamboating on the Missouri river, from the breakup
in 1863 to the freezeup of 1860. 1t was the period just before the
advent of the railroads. No other period before IT nor after a-
preached it in the splendor OF its boats. 1t was an era well calcu-
lated to give encouragement TO an enterprise such Fred Krug
launched in Omaha-something which offered TO the comfort and
luxury OF the passengers who travelled on the boats in the heyday of
that most important personage-the Missouri river pilot. The
American Fur Trading company was conducting an extensive bust
ness through we'll paid agents. Such men as Captain LeBarge were
Sunning boats, twenty to thirty landing at Omaha during the season,
and their well paid men made business brisk.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06

~IFTY years ago this summer Frederick Rrug was selling the
nrst brews from his brewery, which he built and opened in
II Omaha early in 1859, and after half a century of successful
X business is celebrating its golden jubilee. with the old
brewer still at the helm.
Que thing which MIR. Krug, a hearty German with four years
residence in America, could scarcely have anticipated when he crossed
the river to enter Omaha fifty years ago, was that in the year OF
1903 he would still be living, surrounded by his wife and children;
THAI the boy of a few months, who crossed the Missouri river with
him, would be the actual head Of a brewing company, capitalized at
100000, which has stamped the name "Krug" on the history Of
ehe brewery business of the world.
1t is scarcely possible that Mr.. Krug looked into the AZ: IRE
and believed, from seeing things which we're not, that the institt
ton which he started in such an humble way would be one of two
big enterprises in Omaha which would outEve half a century in
the hands OF the same master.
Yet this is the case, and when February and March of the.
present year were passed, the Fred Krug Brewing company had a
right to celebrate a birthday with the man who laid its foundation
still active in it's interests. More than a generation of business
men have passed away since Mr.. Krug began his career. Most Of
the big business enterprises which had their beginning back in the
old steamboat days before the war now rest on the shoulders of
the new generation Some have fallen by the wayside when the
hand which guided them was pulled from the, wheel. Almost all
have had an injection now and then of new blood in-the shape of
eastern capital; few have remained in the hands of one family. as
an old estate in a foreign land. But the brewery of Fred Krug
remains in the Krug family, with the founder present and the man
whose advent into Omaha as a baby of nineteen months, who worked
with his father during all the years of his boyhood, young manhood,
and is with him In his prime. is manager Of the business-Winiam
Krug.