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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
NEW RULES FOR
JURY DUTY
special Correspondence to The Press


OLYMPIA, March 6.-The legis-
lature has made some radical
changes as to who shall serve on
juries. A bill has passed both
houses and if signed by the COVER
nor will go into effect next June.
First and foremost matrimony no
longer entities man to serve as a
juror. Instead he must be a prop
erty holder or an elector. Hereto
fore the fact that a man was sup
porting or was being supported by
a wife was sufficient qualification
to get on a jury. Not so any longer.
Also the new law makes getting
out of jury duty more difficult and
when achieved less satisfactory.
Sickness and the usual excuses are
accepted, as is also irreparable
damage to business but-gettins
excused does not get the name Off
the jury list. On the other hand II
insures it's being on the list for the
next jury.
The law provides for the district
ing of each judicial district and
equal selection of names from each
district. The intent of the law is
to distribute jury duty as impartial
ly as possible and to see that every
person eventually gets its share.
Likewise impediments are placed
in the smooth path of the lazy per-
son who likes to make a salary by
being always on the jury. Under
the new law his ambitions are go
ing to be restricted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
STREET SPEAKERS
HEAVILY FINED

Fines of 500 and costs and SEN
fences of 30 days on the rock pile
were imposed by Judge Mann this
afternoon upon the six members of
the Industrial Workers of the
World, arrested last night for
speaking on the street. The cases
will be appealed to the superior
court,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06

gress. The committee said that it
had met with F. T. Post, president
of the new bar association, who
said that he would bring the mat
ter of the consolidation before his
association March 20.
1t was agreed that another meet
ing should be held March q, when
the conclusion of the new associa-
ton as to consolidation could be
agreed upon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
KANSAS PEOPLE HERE

Between 400 and 500 hOmeseek
ers from Kansas arrived here early
this morning over the o. r. & N
to look over the Spokane country
with the expectation of settling
here permanently. Railroad Off
Gals predict that the emigration to
this part of the country will be
heavier this year than ever before
Colonist rates will rule two months
longer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
PHAiR WILL BUILD.

A fine three-story apartment
house is to be erected by Fred
Phair on the north side of Seventh
avenue, between Jefferson and
Adams streets. The permit for the
building was taken out this morn
ing and when completed 1t will cost
$4,000. 1t will be built of brick
and is to have terra Gotta trim
mings and made one of the hand
some landmarks In the exclusive
districts on 1.-THE HILL"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
BIG DAY FOR REGISTRATION

The registration at the city
clerks office is going on merrily
and Clerk Flemming stated today
that in his opinion there would be
$4,000 registered for the primaries.
There is a steady stream into the
office, and generally a line formed
waiting a turn to reach the books.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
WILL REPRESENT SPOKANE,

Mrs Larene Baker of Spokane
and Misses Helen, Gertrude and
Louise Kangley, sisters and Seat
tie society women, are preparing to
leave for London April 10 to attend
the convention of the International
Alliance of Suffragettes April rs as
delegates from the Washington
State Suffragettes association.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
TO BUILD BRICK BLOCK.

Cohn Brothers store on the cor
ner of Monroe street and Sprague
avenue Is to be torn down at once
and a modern two-story brick block
built to replace the frame struct-
ure. The permit for the improve
ment was taken out this morning
in the name of Mrs. F. e. r. Lin
field, the owner of the property.
The building will cost $4,000 and
when completed will be occupied
by Cohn Brothers who are paying
for the structure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
JAP KILLER CAPTURED.

M. Kimura, Japanese gambler
who shot A. Shinatora three times
early yesterday morning in a quar-
rel, was captured last night by De
tective Fred Pearson in a box car
in the Spokane & Inland yards
Shinatora is reported by DR.. Eikan
berry to. be convalescent today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
BURTON HEADS WATERWAYS

WASHINGTON, March 6.-At a
preliminary meeting of the national
waterways commission today, Sen
ator Burton was elected president.
The commission comprises five SEN
ators and six representatives.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
SUES W. w. p. cor

Mrs. c. L. B Childs today filed
suit for $4,000 against the Washing
ton Water Power company for in
juries received by being struck by
car while riding in a Iggy last
September Three ribs were broken
and she was badly bruised.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
ARRESTED az INSPECTOR.

A. e. Irons was arrested this
morning by City Electrical Inspec-
tor Halliday ON charge of wiring
without permit. The job in ques-
ton was done in the Spokane G
Eastern Trust Co. Offices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
NEW ASSOCIATION
WILL THINK IT OVER

At meeting OF the Spokane
!. County Bar association, held at the
courthouse this morning, the COM
mittee appointed TO confer with
the other or new bar association as
20 consolidation, reported pro-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06

and in that time has more than
established herself as a favorite.
She. has been particularly clever in
the heavy roles, while her work in
leading characters has always been
of high order.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
RATE DECISION RESULT.

One of the first results Of the
rate decision is the opening in Spo-
kane of an Office by the Herbert
Boiler Co. of Chicago. p A. Co.'S
tello is the representative.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
TAFT CALLS CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Presi-
dent Taft this afternoon issued a
proclamation calling the sixty-first
congress to hold a session begin
ming March Is, for confederation
of the tariff. tr 2
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
sPlRlTUALIsT MEETING.

DR.. Stevenson will lecture for the
First Spiritualists' association Sun
day at 1880 p. NJ, at Oak hall, 612h
Riverside avenue. Tests and
messages. 49,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06
SCHILLER FILES

Councilman Jacob Schiller late
today filed for reelection from the
Third ward. i
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06

There are some folks aoo COW
ardly to lick postage shnip.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-06

OF what trade are all of our
presidents? Cabinetmakers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

Hope.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast;
Once more we crank the engine with
new zest.
With aching arms we make the fly
wheel fly;
Perhaps the spark will catch with one
more try,
Twill run, perhaps, If primed little
more;
A hundred times we turn the engine
Then rest awhile and bend to work
again;
Perhaps she'll run, though why we
can't explain.
Fate springs eternal in the human
breast;
With oil-begrimmed, sans collar, coat
and vest.
Again we crank, and cranking thus
with vim,
Crank on and on into the twilight
dim.
Fate springs eternal. Nix! With an
CRY roar.
At eight we stop and row the tub 70
shore.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
Transcript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
SOCIAL ExrRAvAaANcE.

Social extravaganza was assailed hy
the Rev. Percival H. Barker, pastor of
haywood Congregational church, in
his sermon last Sunday. He declared
that 1t is the champagne taste with
the beer income that is the curse Ut
America. Our fathers began married
HE in a cottage with oatmeal AMI
potato soup, and today, after years Of
Industry, live in a brownstone front.
Why should our young people insist
on beginning where their fathers lef.
off? This led the speaker to declare:
That young woman who demands
that the man she marries shall place
her in a home as good as the
ole she leaves, and shall furnish all
the money necessary to crafty her
extrayagant social ambitions, is the
feminine Esau of the twentieth. CEN
fury That husband who hides from
his wife the actual state of his fin
ances and permits her to lead him
a $4,000 life on $1,000 salary is big
FOOL"
In the old chivalrous days man
had to win the fair lady in joust and
tourney. Rev. Barker affirmed that It
was better to fight joust than to
spend ones hard-earned and soon to
be needed money on costly presents,
and automobile hire. and theater
tickets, and marry in debt with Rlse
expectations of what life will mean. Z,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

A wide field for speculation IS
opened by the announcement that the
Mercer Home for Disabled Presbyter-
ian clergymen at Amber, Pennsyl-
vania, established twenty-one years
ago, is closed for lack of inmates. Be
fore the reader jumps to the conclus-
ion that there are SO few disabled
clergymen OF the Presbyterian faith as
to make home unnecessary, it is
well to say that Mrs MERGERS will
provided that no person should be adj
mitted to the benefits of the home
who used tobacco in any form. For
the last two years only one disabled
minister has been the recipient of the
Mercer bounty, and the trustees have
"put him up at the leading hotel at
the expense of the institution, saying
that it was not worth while to run
the home" for one man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
HUMAN SEWER FLUSHING.
How Nature Tries TO Keep Us Well by
Her Wonderful Sewer
System.

New York Tribune: When the
human body is confronted by actual
disease it has all ready at hand re-
markably effective system Of ap-
pliances for sewer flushing, street
cleaning and garbage burning. II in
an unguarded moment one partakes of
one of those darlings of the economt-
cal housekeeper which SO skilfully dis
guise scraps containing the bacteria
of putrefaction or their poisonous
products, nature may prevent serious
injury by causing the outraged stom-
ach to eject its contents.
"The power Of playing Jonah is a
wonderful safety valve,' says DR..
Woods Hutchinson in his article,
How Nature Cures in the Septem-
Der Delineator Don't try to stop
vomiting till you're reasonably sure
what it means he advises. 'Tf a
poison is not sufficiently Irritating to
shorten its career In this way, 1t may
get on into the intestines before the
body wakes up to It's presence. and
arnfe fiiarrboea ensnes, This ia a de-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
Carrie Nation.

H. A. Burrell in the Washington
Press in his write-up of the chautau-
qua, says of old Aunt Carrie Nation:
And as for Carrie, she was the
coarse, cute, canny, bad-mannered.
anarchistic, old dehorned COW that all
expected to see and hear. One dis
likes to speak or think disrespectfully
OF womanhood for our mothers, SIS
tiers, sweethearts and wives were
women, but when a woman has no
manners but very bad manners, and
she herself destroys all charms of the
sex. such as beauty, grace, gentleness
and deIicacy, and goes straddling
around, knocking cigars out of stran-
gers mouths, lampoons and 'sasses'
them for using tobacco, etc, well she
deliberately vacates her place as
woman and becomes mooley COW
critics whethev fresh or .drv.,'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

fensive action on the part OF nature
and is no more disease than vomit-
ing. Many of the popular collie cures
contain opium, which, while 1t re-
lieves the pain and stops the dis
charge, sharply locks up in the system
the very poisons 1t was trying to get
rid of. Physicians now try to help
nature instead of thwarting her, and
laxatives, intestinal antiseptics and
bowel irrigations have almost entirely
taken the place of opiates in the
treatment of these conditions"
II poison is SO insidious that 1t
succeeds in getting itself partially d.
gested and absorbed into the blood,
nature has still another line of de-
Tense. Every drop OF blood contain
ing food and it's products passes
through the liver, which, in addition
to its other actions, serves as filter
for straining out of the blood poison
GUS or injurious materials absorbed
from the foods, and converting them
into harmless substances Some.
times the liver is overwhelmed by ap-
palling odds and some OF the invaders
slip through its lines into the general
circulation, producing headache, back
ache, fever and other ills. This
means biliousness, and the remedy &C.
cording to DR.. Hutchinson, Is not to
/ take something to stimulate the over.
worked organ to greater activity, but,
chiefly. to stop eating. and thereby
give Il rest through stopping the sup
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
CAUSES OF DIVORCE.

The increasing number of divorces
in Des Moines prompted three minis
tiers in that city to discuss the subject
in their sermons last Sunday. The
reasons assigned, in brief. were as
follows:
More universal education Of woman,
leading her to resent wrongs on the
part of the husband.
Co-education, which leads to COO
education.
Marriage of children. which in turn
results from lack of care of children
by parents.
Lack of money in a golden age of
wealth.
Marriage by civil officials and de-
crease in the percentage of cere-
monies performed by ministers.
Crowding the Bible out of the
schools to make room for Roman lit
erature and Emerson
Lack of worldly education among
women, causing shock of disillus-
ionment when the maidenly anticipa-
lions OF married life are shattered
Rev. Arthur Metcalf of Pilgrim
Congregational church. declared that
| justices of the peace and other civil
officials marry so many couples that
/ the real sacredness of the marriage
vow is forgotten. He blames parents
for their fl -uTe properly to curb their
growing children and blames young
4 people for marrying before they reach
the age of discretion.
The Rev. Rowland Hanson, pa. tor
of the First Baptist church, holds that
the world is allowing the Bible te
become dusty from lack of reading
and that the dwarfing of spiritual con
siderations in an age OF keen business
competition, that those same cons-d
erations are dwarfed In all othel
spheres, including the sacred one o
marriage.
Rev. Miss Gertrude Won Petzold
acting pastor of the First Unitarian
church, treated the divorce question
from an entirely new viewpoint in he
sermon Sunday. Taking Ibsen'
DOLLS House" as a text for her dis
course she held that Helmer's wifi
was right in divorcing her husban,
and that the woman of today Shouts
not allow herself to be robbed of tn
worldly knowledge that makes he
the intellectual equal of man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
PUTTING Il Onto cownie.

Iowa City Republican: A report is
published in Des Moines that there
is friction between the superintend-
ent of the tuberculosis hospital and
the state board of control and that the
superintendent may retire. The Re-
publican has heard nothing but good
reports of the work being done by
DIR. Kirschner SO far as the treatment
of patients is concerned. Reports have
been in circulation here for many
months that the board has not been
satisfied with some features Of the
management. The reports are In eff
feet that John Cownie goes to the
hospital and raises old Cain about
things storms around in the hearing
of employees and patients and espec.
tally kicks about the cost Of the table
service. A patient once related to a
representative of the Republican taat
Cownie has attempted to keep the SUI
perintendent from buying such food
as he says patients should have in or
der to insure their recovery. A prom
inent state official is authority for the
same kind of complaint against Cow
ME. He seems to think cheap meat
potatoes and bread are about all the
patients should have.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

When Judge Van Kirk in New York
laid down the law about the respon-
sibility of managers of bank institu-
tions and held that the directors of
the Trust Company of the Republic
were personally responsible for loss
of about s350,o0o to the depositors of
che company he put it on the ground
that it's directors have neglected to at
tend to their duty, which was to over
see the business of their bank and to
know how it was conducted. He held
that they were just as responsible in
their ignorance as they would have
been if they had deliberately permit
ted the mismanagement of the cor
poration funds. 1t is Judge Van Kil1's
idea-and it is the right idea-that Ill
rectors should direct. Where the duty
of knowing exists ignorance due to
negligence of duty creates the same
liability as actual knowledge and fail
ure to act thereon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
pRoHlRlrloNlsTs WILL FAIL.

Prohibitionists all over the country
are making an effort to suppress the
use of intoxicating liquors. and while
he hopes they will succeed Cardinal
Gibbons does not think they Will
Reform" he says, must come from
within, not from without. You cannot
legislate for virtue These utterances
we're made during an address follow
ing the pledge given to the main por-
ton of a class he had confirmed in st.
Mary's church, on the historic old Car
roll estate at Baltimore. The eminent
Catholic prelate went on to say:
There is but one thing to do, and
that is to inculcate abstinence in
young persons so they may not be
come slaves to liquor. Its effects are
found everywhere, sometimes even
among churchmen. No church should
tolerate clergyman who drinks. If
tendency to drink is found among
seninarians, they should be asked II
leave off studying for the sacred minus
try Should the superior of st. Charles
college, who is present, find among his
students one or another with an inclin
alton toward strong drink, he would al
once have that student removed.
Understand me, l do not mean tc
say that it is a sin to take little re
freshment, but it should be taken al
the proper time, and once you are OF
age you are not to make UP for lost
time The Catholic church does not
advocate extremes. but wisely, safely
| steers in the middle course"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

Building operations all over the
country for the month of August Stow
a heavy increase. During the month
lust closed permits were taken out in
fifty cities, according to official re-
norts to Construction News, for the
construction of 1851 buildings, in
yolying a total estimated cost of $685.
14o.o11, against 1880 buildings, in
yolying s43,322, 101 for the correspond
ing month a year ago, an increase for
the month closed of 1,030 buildings
and s14,SI7, $40, or "a per cent. THIS
Is one of the most interesting reports
from the standpoint of the remarkable
increase which it shows that has been
made public for a long time and Clear
lly illustrates the enormous actPlts
preyailing in building in all sections
of the country. Probably nothing IKE
It has ever before been known. IL
Is better illustration of the fact that
we are going into new era in affairs
in this country than anything that has
600 tn LIGHT IN = long time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
Ever Eat Pemmican2

Waterloo Reporter: Among the arti-
cles of food which DR.. Cook TOOK
along on his trip to discover the north
pole was 1000 pounds of pemmican.
The pole must be very securely plant
ed or it would certainly have tried to
escape on the approach of that one
thousand pounds of most astounding
stuff. The person who has ever seen.
smelled or tasted pemmican is we'll
equipped to understand why more Of It
was not taken along. The fellow with
the oaken, iron-bound stomach, who
can take skunk for dessert is not at all
ashamed to cut and run when a pack
age Of pemmican is opened. What they
put on 1t is still question that is be-
Ing asked
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
GETTING READY TO START.

George Fitch announces in his col
umn in the Peoria Herald-Transcript
that his expedition in search of the
south pole will start in two or more
days. The start will be made at A
p. N. In case of rain umbrellas will
be worn by the explorers. Reserved
seats on the levee will be sold at TWEEN
ty-five cents apiece, the proceeds to go
for paint and varnish with which to
renovate and improve the pole.
The latest development reported IS
radical change in the fuel to be
used by the party. Out of respect for
Peoria's chief industry it has been de-
cided to abandon the use of gasoline
and substitute denatured alcohol. Nine
barrels of this fuel will be carried
and it will be used for motive power,
heating, thermometers and for oper-
ating chatting dishes. 1t is claimed
that denatured alcohol will not be half
as effective in removing grease spots
as gasoline, but this objection does
not hold in frigid regions. Mr.. Fitch
explains that the explorers wifi not
remove grease spots from their clothes
with gasoline They will eat them.
The addition of valuable instrument
to the equipment is reported as fol
lows:
Yesterday the expedition purchas-
ed fine self-acting thermostat witch
1 is another Improvement over previous
4 expeditions. The thermostat auto.
mat'cally regulates the heat When
/ the tempera ture in the winter camp
gets down to zero the thermostat au.
tomatically opens the throttle Of the
alcohol lamp. At-20 it pulls the
throttle wide omen. At-5o it sets fire tc
tar barrel and at-90 it rings bell
! fires a gun and turns in a general
i alarm. The expedition is conffden'
that this machine will save its cost
in fuel inside of six months"
The information is given out in ad
vance that the expedition is determin
ed to make more use of the aurora
borealis than has ever been done
before This magnificent display
Of arctic fireworks has been al
lowed to waste itself for cen
turtles. 1t is held by the scien
lists of the party that the red O
the aurora must be produced by hea
which is not being utilized. Where
fore:
1T has been decided to pick out th'
hottest aurora at the end of each day'
march and to pitch the camp in it,
midst This will save fuel and vii
also add TO the cheerfulness Of th,
long winter nights. 1t Is also the in
tention of A. D. Green, engineer of tn,
party to perfect an apparatus for fry
ing griddle cakes on on aurora. TIL
fact that he has run the Imp all sea
son renders him perfectly capable O
accomplishing little feat like this"
Nearly one hundred additional az
plications for places in the expedition
have been refused. The ninety-secon
came pear being accepted It cam
from man with two cork legs. II
claimed TO be non-freezable below tn
knees. The advantage of having som
one along with se'fprotection toes wa
apparent and the fact that the ma
had seventy-two candle power nos
! node HIN Ill tho moro doei~ohic TIL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

The Iowa City Republican declares
it has no use for people who drink to
excess, and it is firm believer that
the surest way to keep sober is to lei
liquor alone. 1t says it has no drink
ing men connected with the office, al
least nobody drinks enough to affect
him in the least, and it will not have
such men, But
In keeping a sober and orderly
office force the Republican does moi
have to call in the attorney general OF
appeal to law. 1t fires the fellow VINO
gets full. That is just what town
should do, and there is not town
in Iowa that would re-elect a man who
displays himself as an excessive drink
er. The trouble is that all this Cos
son and Byers business is play Tor
places in politics.