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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27
OF LOCAL INTEREST
THERE WAS NO POLICE INTER

THERE WAS NO POLICE INTER-
VENTlON-It was stated by an after
noon paper on Saturday that the police
had stopped H. o. Eckre from begging
on the streets. Mr.. Eckre wants to
correct the statement as to two points;
one is that he was not begging. and
the other is that the police have not
molested him in any way. The case
of Eckre is a peculiar one. He had
for some time been an agent for the
Singer Sewing Machine company in
the northern part of the territory.
Last summer he left the employment
of the company, came to Phoenix
and secured a responsible position
with one of the large mercantile COM
panies. Early in July he was arrested
on the complaint of the sewing ma
chine company on the charge of en-
bezzlement, the amount alleged TO
have been Incorporated being about
$500. Eckre learned for the first time
that his accounts were wrong. The
discrepancy is said to have grown out
of the trading of new machines for old
ones, for which he was not given
credit. He was arrested and taken to
Flagstaff where. after a time. he sue
ceeded in giving bond. He returned
to Phoenix and set about borrowing
money from his acquaintances and
others. to whom he made known his
case, hoping thereby to raise the
amount of money the company claimed
to be due He saws that in soliciting
contributions to his funds he promised
to return the amounts borrowed and
will do so. He. regrets the publication
of the story last Saturday on account
of his wife, who is i'll and confined
to her bed In his statement regarding
the affair he says that when he gets
out of his troubles he win sell no more
sewing machines.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

You will find great many Phoe-
nix view post cards at Hinckley' s
Postoffice News Store; also birthday
cards, stork cards and stationery.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

and the honest, unpurchasable news
paper, are not found Boosting Of their
goodness.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

Badness, sir, is caused by a mi
crobe."
How dare you insult my wifei2
Boston Transcript. ~
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

1t Is noteworthy that when a really
responsible job is to be done it is
often a woman that fills, the bill
Mrs. Margaret Wilson Young, and
Miss Aline S Slump. sign President
Taft's name to all land patents.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

The dispatches report the death of
woman who understood the intri-
cacies Of baseball. Still. some other
woman who understands the game
may come along, any day.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-27

The harm done by last weeks
storm on the gulf coast is estimated
at ten million dollars. Stormless,
winterless Arizona stands without a
peer in every comparison of climate.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

Bhs must not hinder then Tbsy had much
to do. Her part was self-enacement. In
the darkening passageway she heard
Laird shouting orders above, heard him
command the native women to tumble be-
low" and the sailors to seal the ways
after them, heard tho deep sea language
Constable
There were running feet, bells
below, cries from the native women, quick
oaths from the sailors. The ship rose and
settled like a feather In a breeze.
She was incapable of swift action.
Macready lifted her into the cabin and
slammed the door, rushed to the ports and
screwed them tight with lightning fingers,
led her to a chair and locked it in Its
socket.
That's the DEERE" he said breathless-
". "Shud so much as shpark from the
mountain raise so much as bloosh upon
your cheek, sure I'd niver be able Z face
Mr.. Constable again, but go on sthokin'
foriver an iver."
tits very good of you,' she answered
DULY.
She sat very still, not daring to relax
the rigid tension Of her face, her hands
or her brain, lest the scream oil madness
break forth. From out the shoreward
darkness Numbered vibrations which rem
dered soundless all that had passed be
fore. Comets flashed by the port holes.
The ship shuddered and fell to her star
board side.
Eight bells had just sounded when the
great thunder rocked over the gray-black
harbor, and the molten vitals of the mon
ster, wrapped In black cloud, filled the
heavens, gathered themselves, and plunged
down upon the city and the sea. AS for
the de Stael, eight miles from shore and
twelve miles from the craters, she seemed
to have fallen from habitable planet
into the fire. mist Of an unfinished world
She heeled over like biscuit tin, dipping
her bridge and gunwales. She was del
uged by blasts Of steam and molten stone
Her anchor chain gave way, and, burn
ing in a half-dozen places, she was sucked
in-shors.
Ito be continued.)
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

A western magazine editor narrated,
at a Tolstoy birthday dinner in Chi
cago, an interesting story about the
great Russian.
"Tolstoy," he said, abominates
sneaks, spies. He Intensely abom-
mated Melikoff, whose treachery and
cruelty to the young radical party was
a scandal even to Russia.
Melikoff one day, suspecting that a
good deal of revolutionary work was
going on at Tolstoys estate, visited
Yasnaya Polyana unexpectedly.
Do you come, said Tolstoy to him
sternly, officially or as private per
sonf If you come officially, here are
my keys. Search. Examine everything
You are quite free to do so.
But, count said Melikoff, be
lieve me, come to you as a private
person.
"Tolstoy looked at him in silence
Then, calling two stalwart mujhiks, h,
said:
"' Here, pitch this man out of tbs
housed -
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
FLo's PHOTOGRAPHS.

Giving Her Their Pictures.
Don't you think Kent Hampton's
last photograph is a splendid oner Flo
Davol asked, carelessly.
A swift color flashed across Rachel
Hills face. She tried to make her
voice Indifferent, but the hurt would
show little.
az haven't seen It," she replied.
Haven't seen itY' Flo echoed How
queer, when you are such friendsl
have 1t somewhere here
She began hunting through the pho
tographs crowding her desk. They
were nearly all photographs Of boys or
young men, and Kent's was clearly In
sight, as Rachel, with a flash OF con-
tempt, saw at once, although 1t was
several minutes before Flo apparently
discovered it Then she handed 1t to
Rachel. Her whole elaborate, over
dressed little figure betrayed her de-
light II her pretty triumph.
at certainly is queer that he didn't
give you one" she repeated, "but the
boys are always giving things to me.
Really, l don't know what to do with
half of them"
AS Rachel walked home through the
September afternoon her eyes were full
of bitterness. Why was 1t, she wonder
ed that girls like Flo got so much more
than their share of good times and
thingsf She would not have cared
about the others, but Kent Hampton,
who had been her playmate ever since
she could remember, and was going
away to college in two days oh, Flo
could have had anything else If she
only had not spoiled that dear old
friendship.
That evening Kent came over with
his chum-who was also Rachels
cousin--Tom Calverly. Usually the
three had the happiest of evenings, but
this time something was plainly wrong.
The boys kept up their nonsense, but
It did not "go" as usual. Finally Tom
remarked of something:
Its dead easy-as easy as one of
Flo Davols photographed, KentT"
Rachel grew red, then pale. II
should think you'd be ashamed" she
cried, facing them Indignantly.
The boys stared at each other In per
plexity.
ITO joke over a girl when you give
her your picture" she stammered- II
its contemplate
Kent's lips frightened, but Tom whis
tied softly.
Look here, Ray" he asked dom
you know, honest?"
"Know what?" Rachel inquired.
1.-THE way she gets those pictures
She gets them by asking-that's how
She asks so that a fellow can't refus
unless he's a brute. I guess l have
half a dozen of hers somewhere round
Kent, here, is such Sir Galahad h'
burns them-says It's not fair to hav'
them lying round, even If the girl dit
force them on you"
"Ohi" Rahei cried, softly.
But up in her room that night sh
looked out with happy eyes into tn
dark. II was so good to keep one
friends on the old high terms-it wa
SO good to keep ones self-respect =
Youths Companion.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
Not So Useless, Either.

wildcat mining stocks are not alto
gether useless-or worthless, either,
said a New York broker who handles
cheap mining stocks the other day as
he hung up the telephone receiver.
Here's a man who Just offered me $50
for enough mining stocks to have a
face value Of $4,000. He wasn't par
ticular what stocks he got IL they only
had a paper value OF $4,000. I closed
the deal and shall make money on 1t,
too. What did he want with such
stocksf Well, I haven't the slightest
donbt but that he is getting ready to
60 into the bankruptcy court and wants
10 show his creditors where his money
has been dropped. We often get such
requests and are usually able to nu
them"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

VIII Appear in a Lecture by Himself
at Spokane March H.

at Spokane, March Is.
The lecture of Admiral Roblcy d.
Evans, Fighting Bob,'' which viii be
gwen in the Armory, Spokane, March
1s. promises to be one of the events of
the season, as the admiral has proven
to be as great success on the platform
as on the bridge of a battleship and
his lecture "From Hampton Roads to
San Francisco is said by eastern
critics to be masterpiece.
Crowded houses have greeted him
wherever he has appeared and Judging
by the interest already taken in Spo-
kane, that city will prove no exception
His lecture contains stories of the
many things seen and done in his
strenuous forty years of service told
as only he can tell it. From what we
can learn, the admiral has the peculiar
faculty of being able to talk to the in
dividual listener in such a manner ms
to hold him spellbound and send him
home wishing he could have heard more
of it.
The 10000 club is to be congratu
lated in securing this, the greatest OF
our heroes for a Spokane appearance.
The tickets will be ON sale at the
piano store, southeast corner Spragut
and Post street, Monday, March 8, a
81 each, and can be secured by mai
by sending check or money order tt
Arthur W. Jones, secretary 150,o0t
club, 215 Hutton Bldg, Spokane.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
BANKS IN WASHINGTON
Brief Review of Progress and Facts
From 1908.


Two hundred and FIVE state banks,
with total deposits of $69,592, 430.36,
savings deposits of $19,6S1, 37O.27, and
assets of $92, 992, 412.21; Sc national
banks, with total deposits of $66,5ss,-
037; total due state banks, $10,128, 1856;
capital stock paid in, $7,740,000, and
trust companies were in business in
Washington at the close of 1908, accord
ing to the second annual report by State
Bank Examiner Engle. Twenty-eight
state banks, two bonding and surety
companies and one trust company were
authorized to begin business, and 20
state banks, of which five were ma
tionalized, five consolidated with other
institutions and two became insolvent,
left the jurisdiction of the department
Five banking corporations are awaiting
authority to begin business.
Chief among the recommendations
made by the legislature, now in session
at Olympia, for the enactment of
amendments to the state banking laws
are the following:
To provide for payment of capital
stock of banking institutions issued to
trust companies organized prior to the
date on which the 1907 act went into
effect.
To provide limitation of loans to
25 per cent of the unimpaired capital
and surplus.
That accrued and uncollected inter
est on bank 8 assets be not entered on
it's accounts or distributed as part of
the profit.
Limiting aggregate loans to any trus-
tee or director to 10 per cent of the
bank capital or surplus.
Prohibiting loans to officers and en-
ployes of the bank.
Prescribing character of saving de-
posits.
To prohibit ownership by bank OF
trust company of the capital stock of
other banks or trust companies.
To give the state bank examiner ex
elusive jurisdiction over insolvent
banks, or, at least, coordinate jurisdic
tion with courts appointing the re
ceiver.
To add one deputy bank examiner
to the staff, and to appropriate SIT, SOC
for the bank examiners department
for the biennial term.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
CHAPTER XIV.

The launch gained the inner harbor,
and the white ships Mt anchor were seen
vague phantoms in the vapor-French
steamers, Italian barques, and the small
or West Indian craft-all with their work
to do and their way to win. Constable
heard one officer shout to another, in
curing II Saint Pierre was in the usual
place, or had switched sites with Hades.
The day was clearing rapidly, however,
and before the launch reached shore the
haze was so lifted that Pelee could be
seen, floating a pennant of black out to
sea. In the city a large frame ware
house. was ablaze. The tinder-dry struc-
ture was being destroyed with almost ex-
plosive speed.
"Wait for me here" Constable said to
the sailor, as the launch scrnped the
Sugar Landing.
A bllstering heat rushed down from the
expiring building to the edge of the land.
Crowds watched the destruction. Many
OF the people were In holiday attire. This
was the Day of Ascension, and Saint
Pierre would shortly pray and praise at
the cathedral. Even now the bells were
calling, and there was low laughter from
a group OF maidens. Was 1t not good to
live, since the sun shone again and the
mountain did not answer the sainted
bells? 1t was true that Pelee poured
forth black streamer with lightning in
its folds true that the people trod upon
the hot gray dust of the volcanoes waste
that the heat was such as no man hac
ever felt before and many sat In misery
upon the ground; true, indeed that voices
of hysteria came from the novels, and tn,
breath of uncovered death from the by
ways-but the gala spirit was not dead
The bells were calling; the mountain
was STILL bright dresses were abroad
for the torrid children of France mus
laugh.
Constable fell In with the procession
ON the way to the cathedral. Reaching
tire, he climbed to huge bod of ston
In the square, and hurled broadcast tn
germ of fight. Many had seen him be
fore, when his face was haggard. III
was smiling now. There was color In hi
skin. fire In his eyes. ring In his yoics
Tear was not In him.
carriage was not prceurable, 10 b
walked toward the Morne IOrsngs-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
CHAPTER XIV.

When the launch entered the denser
cloud and faded from her sight, Miss
Stansbury retired to the cabin. Over all
her thoughts of the unhallowed parting
from her mother the night before, ond the
clean, valorous act of her lover now, hung
the defined terror lest Pelee should ln1er-
vene. She heard Macready's step at the
door; the calm voice of an officer on the
bridge; the morning bells.
The pale winding sheet was unwrapped
from the beauty of morning. Through &
portfolio she saw the rose and gold on
the far, dim hills. Her eyes smarted from
WEAKNESS, but her mind, like an auto
matte thing, swept around the great cir
cle-from the ship to the city, to the
house beyond the morne and back again.
She saw him In the launch, In the midst
of native groups on the shore. In the
plantation house, begging her mother TO
listen, importuning Uncle Joey to take
her to Fort de France, returning through
the streets with people folowing-the
crowded launch, and then the Joy of emp
ty arms filed. But sometimes Pelee
would burst into the deepening channel OF
thoughts, effacing the whole and leaving
her, shrieking, dishevelled creature, In
the midst of a chaos which would not an.
swer. She went on deck. Laird, the first
officer, invited her to ascend the bridge
He was scrutinzing through the glass q
blotch Of smoke on the city front "Whai
do you make of It, Miss Stansbury7' be
asked.
The lenses brought to her a nucleus oil
red In the black bank. The rest Of Saint
Pierre was gray doll settlement, set in
the shelter of little gray hills. She
could see the riven and castellated cres
Of Pelee, weaving his black ribbon. Il
was all small, silent and unearthly.
That's FIRE on the Shore" she said
Exactly" said Laird.
Shortly afterward the trumpetings o
the monster began. The harbor grew
yellowish-black. The shore crawled deep
err into the shroud. and was lost alto
gether. The water took on a foul look
as II the bed of the sea were churned will
some beastly passion. The anchor chail
drew taut, mysteriously strained, an,
banged a tattoo against the steel-bounl
eye. Blue Peter, dropping at the fore
mast, livened suddenly into a spasm o
writing, like hooked lizard. The black
quivsring columns Of smoke from the fun
nels were famed down upon the deck
adding SCOT to the white smear from tn
volcano. Lara felt Macready pulling a
her arm
'Ye mustn't go below. miss. Ys know
me ordhers."
She rebelled with sudden vehemenc'
declaring that she would smother dow
there.
You can do no good here, sure Don
make 1t crool fur mef"
Make haste below, miss-sQusn CON
ing |" commanded Laird. Gentlsness an
jollity were gone from the large ,ed fac
She suffered herself to be drawn dow
the ladder, crushed by the officers word
and the iron fingers of fear closing abor
her heart. A not, fetid breath charge
the air. The water danced, alive with II
J yeast of worlds. The disordered sky Il
toned violence. Peles had set the -four
dstions to trembling.
} Lara drifted into the open polar regiol
Despair. These men were all bis friend
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

was seven-thirty, and the distance was
two miles to the plantation house. At
eight, or soon afterward, he would be
thers-eight on the morning Of Ascension
Day; at nine, In the launch again, speed
ing out to the smile of the bride
Twenty times a minute she required to
nor wearing-save wearing brighter,
perhaps-of the images she had put In
his mind. The night had brought him
palaces and gardens and treasure houses
everywhere he turned, new riches broke
upon him. That her face had lain be-
tween his hands; that his hands had
brought that face to his own; that her
whispers, kisses, condolences, her prayers
and passions and coming years, all found
their center and origin In himself, like
bright doves that had a cote within his
heart--thess thoughts lifted the poor man
to such heights of praise and blessedness
that he seemed to shatter the dome OF hui
man limitations, and emerge crown and
shoulders into the illimitable ether.
The road up the morne stretched blind
ing white before him. Painting and spent
not a little, he strobe upward through
the vicious pressure Of heat, holding his
helmet free from his head, that the air
might circulate under the rim. At length,
upon the crest of the morne, he perceived
the gables of the plantation house, above
the palms and manEoes, gold-brown In the
dazzling haze.
Pelee roared. Sulien and dreadful out
of the silence voiced the monster. reused
to his labor afresh. The American began
to run, glancing back at the darkening
north. The crisis was mol
| passed In favor of peace. The holiday
was darkened. The Madame would FL
with refugees now, and the road to For
de France turn black with flight. These
were his thoughts as he ran.
The lights of the day burned out on'
by one. The crust OF the earth stretched
to a cracking tension. The air was beet
ling with strange conclusions. In thu
clutch of realization. he turned one shin
ing look toward the sea. Decorations &C
cumulated into the crash of thousant
navies.
On the porch Of the plantation house
twenty yards away, stood the mother o
Lara, her eyes fascinated, lost in tn
north. At the steps he fell, caught he
skirt, her waist, in his hands. Across tn
lawn, through the roaring black he Dor
her, brushing her fingers and her fallel
hair from his face. He reached the curb
ing of the old we'll with his burden, crawl
ed over, and grasped the rusty chain. IL
candescent tongues Tapped the cistern'
raised coping, and running streams of re-
dust filtered down.
1t was eight in the morning of Ascen
sion Day. La Montague Peles was Civ
ing birth to Death.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
Mrs. Joe Woods Burns to Death.

Statesboro, Ga, March 11.-While her
husband was prisoner on the charge
of murder, Mrs. Joseph Woods was burn
ed to death while bathing one of her
children before an open fire. Her dress
was ignited and she ran into the yard
and expired.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13
Cotton-Spot closed quiet; middlin
uplands, $685.; middlings gulf, SOLO

CottoH-opot closed quletj m1ddl1ng
uplands, s9.s5; middlings gulf, 1910;
sales, 300 bales.
Butter-Steady for fresh ranch; 9th
ers poor. Creamery specials, zoo
2S lie.
Eggs-Firmer; western first, gle;
seconds, 20 lee
Bar silver, so lie; Mexican dollars,
fac
The tin market was quiet, but higher
in some places. Spot was quoted at
s2s.62 1-2W2s.s7 1-2.
The copper market was quiet, with
lake quoted at $12.s7 1-2@13.12 1-2;
electrolytic, $12.50@12.75, and casting
at s12.37 1-2@12.62 1-2.
Lead was dull at 1892 1-2@3.97 1-2.
Spelter remained dull at s4.72G
ATT 1-2.
Iron was unchanged.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

Not less than 100 freight ears will
be required to carry the government Is
exhibits from the national capital to
Seattle.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

For every person carried the rail-
roads of this country transport TWO
tons of freight.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-13

Biggest battleships in the navy will
be stationed in Seattle harbor during
exposition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-21
FREIGHT ON TROLLEY
INES.

The plain citizen cannot understand
why every trolley or street car line
should not have full right to carry
freight. either in ordinary cars when 1t
could be n without mountaineering
passengers or by separate conveyance.
This would be an enormous public
convenience, not only in the rural dis
tricts, but in cities where traction
systems are so situated that they
could deliver bulky freight from
railroad freight houses to it's desti-
nation. Urban trolley lines have ac-
quired considerable freight rights,
though they have made no very ex-
tensive use of them.
We can imagine the express and
dray interests in cities opposing de-
livery of railroad freight by street
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-21

They are working in Honson canyon
just beyond Badger pocket. Honson
canyon is. formed by a creek of the
same name and is just south OF the
Saddle mountains and almost parallel
with the Johnson creek canyon, which
the Milwaukee follows in coming out
of the Columbia river bottom.
Members Of the party have told
farmers on whose land they have been
surveying that they are working for
the North Coast railway. Opinion
among Ellensburg business men is di-
vided as to whether they are really
North Coast surveyors or whether they
are Northern Pacific employees.
The majority believe the surveyors
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The illness
of State Senator Patrick H. McCarren,
III Brooklyn democratic leader, fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis,
WAS a hard blow to the party ticket
headed by Judge GaynOr in the New
York city campaign. McCarren has
long been famous for his political
shrewdness and his cool sagacity as a
leader. He was born in Cambridge,
Mass, but moved with his parents to
Brooklyn, when he was a small boy
and got his education In the public
schools. He, was first elected to the
New York assembly in 1890 and be-
CAME a state senator in 1895. McCar-
rem attained national prominence
through his political battles with Tam
many for the control of the state dem
ocratic organization.