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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
SAYS HER HUSBAND
IS A LEMON

Husband-T am glad l am mar.
ried."
Wife-"So would l be, too, II
had not got such lemon"
This conversation, which Charles
Overfield alleges occurred between
him and his wife, Annie, is the
basis for his suit for divorce.
He is clerk earning a modest
sum. He claims that he gave his
wife $40 week, and says that she
abused him because he would not
give her more.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
FIVE THOUSAND ANGRY
MEN
(1y United press.)

PTTTSBURG, Sept. 16. - The
Pressed Steel Car Co.'S plant was
surrounded by 5000 dissatisfied
strikers this morning when the
whistle blew. Many workmen, not
Isympathizing with the strike, were
farcibly prevented from working.
Several were roughly handled.
The men striking are practically
the same as those who struck re-
Gently. Many strikers today de-
clared they were betrayed by their
leaders in the first strike.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
GRANT DEMAND
Of PACKERS

HOQuIAM. WASH. Sept. lS.-The
Coats shfngie min, one Of the larg.
est here, resumed today after 4
short shutdown- The company
guaranteed the Increase demanded
by the packerA n is Thought this
action win weaken the cause Of the
employers attempting to hold the
scale down.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
A1N. MssA..s,4A
FINDS WILL HE
MfSLAID IS YEARS AGO
NV United Presa.)

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 49,
While moving his law office Judge
ID. w. Henry found a will which
was left in his charge Is years ago.
Its absence caused litigation over
the estate Of Miss Kate Gfrorer,
and the case has reached the In
diana appellate court.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
IT COSTS SOMETHING
TO BE MURDERED

acres Of land worth from $4,000
TO 80, 600, and cssh, notes and per-
sonaI property worth $3.50.
IN HE final report, prepared by
Attorney George A. Lse,- the adj
nrsnistrst0r, Or. Smith, ssks the
allowance Of the following sums:
Emergency'csIi, $50; digging grsVe,
-; funsrat sermon, Is; trip to spo-
kane by Smith looking after the
burial arrangements, $40; court
costs In being appointed special
administrator, IS; court costs In
filing HE final report, @6; for his
services a. administrator for 80
days, $50; for his attorney, SIS.
The only thing that shows OF
record ~ having been done BY
Smith was the taking Of an in
W ntory and his final discharge.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
GOV. JOHNSON. SUFFERING
(Bv United Press.)

ROCHESTER,, Mimi, Sept. TO-
Governor Johnson's condition is
still regarded as critical. He was
operated on yesterday for intes-
final trouble. He rested and is
feeling fairly wen this afternoon,
but is suffering still from gaseous
pains.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
FRANK SMITH CASE
GOES TO JURY

The case of Frank Smith, labor.
er, who Is suing the Great North
ern for $4,000 damages, this after
noon went to thte jury that has
been trying it for the last few days
in Judge Kennan's court.
Smiths complaint is that while
en- route to Hillyard to work in the
shops In June, 1908, he fell through
a car platform that was not en-
closed at Whitefish, Mont, and suf
fered the loss of one arm and two
fingers on the other hand.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
DRINK CAUSED DEATH.

Alcoholism is declared by Cor
oner Schlegel to have caused the
death of the unknown man found in
the alley back of the Duluht bar
this morning. No one has SO far
been able to identify the body,
which lies in the Turnbull under
taking rooms.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
Men and Boys
Learn Plumbing

Parents, have your boy learn the
plumbing trade. the best paid of all
trades Plumbers are in demand
everywhere. They earn IS to So per
day and have short hours BY my
method of instructing l make you a
practical plumber in months instead
of years, SO that you will be able
to fill a good position or conduct a
business of your own. Men can
learn as well as boys.
Edward McCaffrey Plumbing School
Phone Main 1862.
20 Riverside Ave-, Spokane, Wash.
Day and night school. Visitors are
always welcome
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
SPOKANE COLLEGE

Semester begins Tuesday, Sep
TENDER H. Complete, up to date
College course. Also Preparatory,
Academic, Law, Music, Normal and
journalistic Courses.
A school for everyone. Bulletins
upon request.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
CHURCH SALE.

The Ladies' Aid society of the
Swedish NJ. e. church, corner Fifth
avenue and Grant street, will hold
tits annual sale tomorrow night in
the church basement. Refreshments
| will be served.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

George Pierce and e. e. Brennan
have been sworn in as special pc.
licemen without pay from the city,
In the service of the Rudolph 8.
Blome Co., pavement contractors
On Division street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
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FLOUR DROPS. 4
(RY United Preasl

= WALLA WALLA, Sept. Is. 4
y Flour dropped so cents per 4
= barrel here today, from So to 4
= $40. Retailers announced I
= the reduction.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
SMALL BOYS, TAKE wARNlNol

SMALL BOYS, TAKE WARNlN0l
DERBY, Conn.,, Sept. 16.-George
Cartwright Of Pawtucket persisted
In whfstling my Wife's Gone to
the Country" but the Inhabitants
did not take kindly to his music, so
they had him arrested.
He was taken to Judge Stillman' q
home, charged with breach of the
peace. Fine and costs amounted
to $14.08. which he refused to pay
He was lodged in New London
county jail to work out the fine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
RECEPTION FOR NEW PASTOR.

Members OF the Hays Park M. e.
tchurch will hold reception for the
NEW pastor, Rev. ]. F. Bull, and
family in the church tomorrow
evening. All members are request
led to be present.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
GA Riverside Avenue

President Taft will be here soon
but you will have time to get one
of our nice four room bungalows
that we are selling for small pay
ment down and the balance same
as rent.
You will also have time to call
and ask us about an elegant, seven
large room, strictly modern, new
residence ON the south side, with
built in book case, china closets
and all modern conveniences. This
would be a suitable home for a
doctor or any professional man
The price is only $4,000, on terms
We also have "a nice five room
modern, on the south side, with q
nice lot and good view we can sell
for $4,000 on very easy terms.
We can locate you on q home
stead or timber claim.
A. R. MOORE CO.,
Room .16. Curtis Block.
Phone Main 2043.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
THE NEXT EMPIRE
Edited by w. S. VARNUM

of buying bonds at per cent or
per cent. One may wonder why the
farmers per cent is not as good as
the 4 per cent of some corporation
that wishes to make improvements
for its profit, but a solution of that
problem is not-at present-for the
dreamers to attempt! But if those
simple minded souls who so enthus-
iastically advocate a state powder fac
tory as panacea for their industrial
ills think they will not meet lions
and mountains and rivers and canyons
before they realize their dream" they
have little conception of the resources
of the powder trust!
All The Ranch readers want to find
way to clear quickly, cheaply and
in way to inure to the advantage of
the actual workers of the soil. But,
brethren, be not deceived. The chill
dren of darkness are wiser in their
generation than the children of light,
and any plan you may formulate that
promises to actually lessen the toll
and toll of the farmer will be opposed
by those interests who fatten off his
! labor and ignorance! The Ranch aims
to serve the farming community, and
for that reason, and that only, has
opened it's columns to a discussion of
different means of solving the problem
that stares us in the face. It believes
that the first thing is to get its read
ers and others to actually thinking.
Let us hear from you.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
ONE VIEW OF SOCIALISM.

In a recent address before the Bos-
ton Economic Club, President Eliot of
Harvard University made the follow
ing remarks:
Prosperity never was so diffused as
it now is in the United States. 1t is
one of the results of our freedom-not
the equal distribution but the just
distribution of property. This tre-
mendous development Of Democratic
power, political freedom, social free
dom, does not tend to the equal
izing of human conditions, but
just the reverse. And the reason
is that human beings are not equal in
capacity or power, in natural gift or
in capacity to receive training. If you
make men free there will develop
ton, of wealth, of control of capital,
because in freedom men develop ex-
traordinary differences in their power
of making and keeping capital. There
fore freedom, which is the great goal
of humanity, tends to inequality of
possession, and it always will; and
when you establish a condition of
equality you will have lost your free
dom.
There is great deal that is ami
able in socialistic theories, but the So
cialists are not alone in their faith in
human brotherhood. They have no
monopoly of the principle of good
will among men, and that is what the
success of the modern movement to-
ward the lettering of human condi-
lions really depends on. That is also
what the success of American indus
tries is depending on, for when rney
anguish, when they fail and panic
ensues, it is because good will has
been lost between employer and en-
ployed We are glad to know that
the great employers of industry are
cess of their industry depends on
goodwill. If we could only persuade
the trades unions to modify some of
their doctrines about limitation of
cratic increase of power and product
through the development of goodwill.
On the whole it seems to me that
the form of Socialism that is likely
to obtain in our country has in 1t
nothing that is unsafe or dangerous,
except in very recent importations. In
saying that, may add that many of
the Socialistic doctrines are sound
and wholesome.
Labor is the main condition of sat
isfaction in human life, and the main
source, not only of all capital, but of
all enjoyment. The laboring popuia-
ton of the United States-and we are
all laborers-is and ought to be as
happy a population as the world has
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15

Land plaster will insure you better
crops, which means larger income
with no greater expense than you are
now under This is a fertilizer that
you are sure to get results from and
cannot afford to lose the profits it brings
you. Send for our land plaster booklet
which will pay you to read carefully
and cost you nothing. Write today
Oregon Lime and Plaster Company
Portland, Oregon.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
THE PRACTICAL MAN.

If one may judge from the few let
tiers that come to this department OF
The Ranch there is an insistent de-
mand for something practical" not
visionary or shadow of a dream
evolved from the inner consciousness
of some enthusiast. The men who in
the past so years have actually cleared
land and not merely talked about how
to do it want something practical"
There is surely need of it, for in that
time less than per cent of Western
Washington has been fitted for the
plow. And it has not been because of
lack of men or of knowledge, but of
ignorance of how to relate them. The
methods of the past half century since
white men first began to try to possess
this wilderness have evidently been
impractical enough. Possibly a little
planning by the early settlers instead
of the expenditure of elbow grease
might have evolved methods that
would have shown larger results than
are in evidence.
One writer means by practical
"cheap POWDER" but he has neglected
to say just what price per pound he
would regard as Cheap" Let us have
something authoritative as to the Ia
Dor cost of manufacture of stumping
powder. Shall the state factory advo-
Gated by some manufacture nitro-gly-
cerine or the so-called sugar pow
DER? The Ranch will be only too
glad to publish any definite and accu-
rate information as to the cost of
plant and it's operation.
If it be possible for the state to
produce 20 per cent itro-glycerine,
or a sugar" powder, for SC to sc per
pound by all means let us have it;
and also let us consider what effect
it would have on the selling price of
the wild land If cheapening of the
money cost of powder merely results
in raising the price of raw land, who
is benefited thereby except the man
who has more land than he can use?
Is it not a fact that the newcomer
would have to pay more for place
to make a home, If it were known
that it could easily be cleared for from
$40 to $25 per acre? At present 1t will
cost from SIS to $3.50 and the land
is worth, on the average, no more than
that for productive purposes when
cleared Query: What is it worth
before clearing?
wonder if it could be considered
practical to suggest that powder
should be planted deep enough so
that the soil shall act as lever on
the stump instead of merely blowing
the dirt from the roots!
I have seen evidence that some
practical" men had wasted their pow
der on the dirt which ought to remain
instead of expanding the force on the
stump which ought to be removed.
am well aware of the fact that
there are difficulties in the way of
securing the adoption of the plan of
issuing service certificates with which
to finance the clearing of the land
There will also be lions in the path, if
we attempt to use the school funds
at s ner cent OR ner cent instead
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15

ever seen. The enjoyment of life
should not be connected with posi-
ton of ease or repose. What can
be more tiresome or boresome than
the ordinary descriptions of condi-
lions in the kingdom of heaven? The
element of hard work, of competition,
of strife and struggle, seems to be
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17

merchant has a population of about one to every acre. And so, although the Grand Valley is small in area, con sidered from the eastern standpoint, 1t is rich and populous territory from the merchants point of view.
 The Grand Valley is only forty miles in length, with an average width of six miles. On either side loom high noun tains, which shut off cold winds and from whence comes the precious water which makes the wealth of the fertile land. Approximately it has 10000 acres of fertile land adaptable to the cultivation of fruit.
 All of the fruit land is irrigated, but there is no lack of water. The avail able water supply can irrigate more than 100000 acres. The United States government is now completing the surveys on what is known as the High Line ditch and actual work has started This ditch alone will bring an additional 10000 acres under irriga- tion and some of the land is being planted now, with the expectation of getting water as it is needed.
 Fruit is the poor mans harvest, So the people of the Grand Valley believe Five acres will support family, ten will make man independent for life They estimate that each acre of fruit will support one person. And acting on that theory. the Grand Valley will
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17
CITY BARBER SHOP.
 E. R. SIMMS, Prop.
Three Chairs Presided Over
 by Expert Workmen lust West of Saw Mill Company's Office.
LODGE DIRECTORY.

ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A. M. meets every second and fourth Satur- day evenings at z:50 o'clock. Visiting Masons always welcome.
 W K. MAusER. W. M. M. B. ScoTT, Sec.
 HOWARD CHAPTER. U. D., R. A. M. meets every first and third Thurs day evening at Masonic hall Visiting companions welcome. c. A. BERRY, H. P. E. L, ADAMS. Secy.
 HUTTlG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of the Eastern Star, meets every first and third Friday evening at l:50 o'clock. Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
 Mrs. T. c. ROWLAND, W. Nj. MRS. E. L. ADAMS. Sec'y.
 HuTTIG LODGE No. 54a I. o. 0. F. meets every Tuesday evening Visiting brethern cordially invited to attend.
 A. ]. GRAHAM, N. G. J c. PHILIPS. Sec.
 SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4l1W. 0. w. liiceto CNtl III St diO IlliIl Odlui day eve nings. Visitors made welcome.
 J. C. PHILLIPS, c. c. R. P. INFER. Clerk.
 SWEET BAY GROVE, No. l45. w. C., meets every first and third Wednes- day evening of each month at 50 clock
 MRS. LOLA THOMPSON. Guardian. MRs. CORA BURNSIDE. Clerk
 HUTTlG LODGE, No. l64, K. of p, meets svery Monday night at Masonic hall. Visiting knights always welcome.
 w. A. BENSON, c. c. V. H. HUBER. K of R. & s. | BAPTIST LADIES AID SOCIETY, meets every Thursday afternoon at ,'clock in the Ladies Parlor of the Union church. Visitors welcome. MRS. c. HOWARD, Pres. MRs, J. c. LYoD, Secy.
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17

Palisade the reverse is true. A mile and half from PaliSade is a big ceun- try school house with six rooms. Three hundred students attend the school. which may give an idea of the density of the population.
 The fruit industry in Grand Valley is conducted on business basis The farmers early learned the. advantages of cooperation
 The fruit growers organizations market the entire crop. The usual fric- tion between farmer and commission man is thus eliminated. The fruit growers association arranges for the shipments east and west and to Flu rope. It takes entire charge of the crop once it is ready for market The grower need not bother his head after he gets his fruit packed. The associa- ton does the rest, thus giving the grower the advantage of carload rates in shipment, the profit of the best prices and also fhe assurance of a steady market.
 Persons interested in visiting the valley for the purpose of sightseeing, or with view to settling there. are furnished full Information in the form of literature, together with names of reliable real estate firms, upon appli- cation to c. H. Speers, general passen- ger agent. Colorado Midland Railway, Denver Colo.
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17
BENJAMIN HARRISON ON HONESTY.

T have been taught that honor was first of all things in this world; that it was the foundation of every thing, from a mans character to his tombstone. l have been told that if a man lives strictly honest life, he will be led by unseen hands to the goal he strives to gain, and that. even if he should make no goal of recognition in his life, fate will bless him with happiness that is greater than all riches. It seems to me that it would be an easy thing for man to say. l am going to be honest. even if he is not honest. and then live up to that doctrine. People may doubt his sincerity at first, but the time vii @csme when they will see that he meant to do all that he agreed to do, and he will receive their abso- lute trust and confidence. and his life, instead of being ruff1ed with abuse and disrespect, will be even and peaceful
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17
Methodist Church.

Colored Methodist Episcopal church Of Cemden district. preaching 4th Sunday
 J. s. MeFAppEN, P. c. E. L. WELL, Supt. R. FAIRcHLp, ,RS. African Methodist Episcopal church preaching every 5rd Sunday in each month. Sunday School every Sunday at sl:4o D. m. J. H. BoHANoN. Pastor. VIA hIeH, Supt, w 1. HENRY. .Secy. Huttig Colored Reading Cicle, business meetings eveey 5rd Wednesday night in each month. E. R. SINS, Pres. E. L. WELLs. Seoy.
 If you want to cultivate your voice to singing and enjoy yourself, attend the singing at the First Baptist church every Sunday afternoon at $50 clock.
 ADAM LEWIS. Pres. JuLIous IcNEs. Asst
 The Young Peoples Lyceum organized at the Union High school under the auspices of their teacher, Mrs. Callie L. Watson. meets every first and third Fri- day at $50. Jessie Davis, president;
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17

Be careful how you speak of 2 woman's character. Think how many years she has been in build ing it. of the toll and privation en- dured, of the wounds received, and let 10 suspicion follow their ac- tions. The purity of a woTan is the salvation of the race, the hope of our future greatness, the re- demption of man. Wipe out her purity and man sinks beneath the waves of despair, with no star tt guide his life into channel of safe ty. Think then before you speak and remember that the hog can root up the fairest flower that ever grew, SO the vilest man can ruin the prettiest womans character Ex
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17
NeighbOrhOOd News
Sadie, La.

The people of Sadie went to sleep Sunday night in town ar d awaken Monday morning in the country. Why? Because the store of w. T. Sehon was burned between 12 and o'clock Monday morning. There wasn't anything saved except the postofiice.
 A large number of the Sadie peo- pie attended the marriage of Mr. Ira Langston and Miss Ida Sehon at the brides home near Cecil Sun day.
 w. H. Brasher went to Marion Saturday evening to attend Mason ic lodge.
 Jim Deshazo and Franklin Thompson of near Tucker were here Sunday afternoon. Lawrence Powell and Lueius Gresham of Marion are painting the school building here this week
 A crowd of people from Sadie and Cecil went down on the George creek Thursday and caught all the fish they wanted for dinner and in the afternoon they robbed a bee tree and got plenty of honey They all report a good time and are anxious to go again.
 w. T. Sehon received a tele- phone message Sunday evening tating that his son, Ernest. who is working at Felsenthal. was very sick. He left for there Monday morning to see him.
 J. N. Cobb of Lapeer was here Monday.
 F. M. Byers went to Litroe Sat urday
 W. F. Stripling of Cecil passed through Sadie Friday.
 pr. Hudson of Litroe came out Monday afternoon and spent a fen pleasant hours with Sadie friends
 Misses Mary Lee, oula and Eula Brasher. Dettie and Becy Cobb who spend most of their time or the creek fishing, came home this afternoon thoroughly disgusted with their occupation.
The Huttig news., 1909-07-17

In the great valley of the Grand River, on the Western Slope of Colo rado, thousands of fruit growers are getting rich off of five and ten-acre tracts of land. They work a few months each year real hard, and a ma jority of them spend their winters in California-or go to Europe. Grand Junction is the largest town in the val ley, being located near the confluence of the Grand and Gunnison Rivers, only short distance from the Utah line. Residents of the valley leave home at 4:0n o'clock in the afternoon over the Colorado Midland and are in Denver for breakfast. Palisade, twelve miles east of Grand Junction, is the second largest town in the valley.
 One by one the Eastern farmers are learning of the advantages offered them in Colorado, and once they are convinced do not hesitate long in sur rendering the big 160-acre farm back East for the little peach and pear and apple orchards of the Western Slope. For instance, H. J. Box of Perry, Iowa. came to Palisade short time ago and looked around He saw and was con vinced A few days ago he bought a sixyear-old orchard of fifteen acres at S2,250 per acre. Six years ago the same land changed hands at $45 an acre. The fruit trees made the differ ence Box's Iowa farm probably brought $150 an acre, and his fifteen acres will pay double that amount an nually on each acre.
 A fruit country makes good bust. ness town. Instead of drawing trade from big farms scattered over wide territory of 160 to 320 acres each. the