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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
MONEY RETURNED

c. Thompson was held to the su-
perior court by Judge Mann this
morning under bond of $4,000.
After confessing that he had
stolen more than $500 from the
safe In the National Packing Co. S
offices at the corner of Railroad
and Lincoln. Thompson, who made
q desperate break for liberty yes
terday. took the officers to the
Hangman creek trestle last night
and pulled S270 of the money out
Of ID hiding place. 1t was at this
spot that he was recaptured after
d wild chase from the st. Louis
lodging house yesterday morning.
II is distance Of over mile.
Thompsohs skull is said to have
been fractured by the blow re-
ceIved from Detective McPhee's
gun after he had struck the latter
In the face to make his escape.
Thompson stated last night that
the temptation to take the money
from the open safe was too mucn
for him to resist. There was about
9325 In all In the roll of bills he
stale, but he has spent all but the
e170.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
(By United Press.)

YUMA, Ariz., July 3.TPapers
found in the pockets of an aged
man found dead in the conductors
room at the Southern Pacific sta
ton here late yesterday are
thought to establish the fact that
the man is Sir Arthur Cowell Step
ney, English baronet, and scientist
of international reputation.
The coroner's verdict attributes
his death to excessive drink. In
his pockets were bank notes and
gold coin amounting to several
hundred dollars and a pass book
showed deposits of $4,000 in Los
Angeles bank. :
Stepney several years ago re-
nounced his inherited titles and
came to America. He was divorced
in London in 1903, the case being
one of the most unusual ever heard
in British courts. He was mar
ried in 1875, but soon after the
birth of daughter he left home.
He was examined because of
mental delusions by several Eng
lish specialists, but never adjudged
mentally unsound.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

the purport of which is that the
commissioner has noted the enter
prise OF men in the department
thus exerting themselves mater
tally in their desire for promotion.
Numerous citizens, it seems, are
impelled to call on the police heads
to fntercede for some particular
participants chances.
The commission looks on such
practice with disfavor and says So
Men will be promoted or reas-
signed after careful consideration
Qualifications will be adduced by
the commission from records of
merit and seniority. The ambitious
cop is expected TO dismiss his
lobby forthwith.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
SURPRISE OVER
PETERS JOB
FRIENDS OF MRS. RiHARD
THOUGHT SHEHAD A ClNcH
FOR THE JOB - PETERS
STILL AT WORK.

The friends of Mrs. Rihard, the
assistant probation officer, we've
much surprised to learn that John
Clifford of 1882 Broadway had
given out the fact that Judge
Hinkle, before going on his vaca-
ton, had appointed him chief pro-
baton officer, to succeed B. G. Pet
ers, who is slated for removal on
Aug. /. Mrs. Rihard's friends fully
expected her to succeed Peters,
and it was understood she had
been given some assurance that
she would be appointed.
There is no record of Clifford S
appointment on file at the Court
house and until Judge HfnkIe re-
turns from his vacation nothing
definite can be learned, as1the APP
pointee will say nothing except
that he was notified that the job
was his. n
B. G. Peters, the present iricnm-
bent, still maintains his attitude of
silence, and as he stated on sew
eral occasions that he had not
been asked to resign and 81 stilf on
the job, he is as much Surprised
as anyone else over the latest de-
velopment.
The situation is this. Mrs Clifford
says he has the job, Peters=says he
is still there and has not-TesiGned
or been asked to. and Mrs. Rihard
and her friends thought her promo
ton was a certainty. You can fig
ure it out for yourself.
Clifford has the backing of the
county commissioners.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
PAVING BATTLE RACES.

The battle of the Division street
paving is being continued this
afternoon. before the board of
works. The property owners ap-
pear to want concrete in spite of
its greater cost. The board of
works wants to be sure that no
infringement Of patent will be
claimed as result of the concrete
company bidding. One of the paw
ing representatives was noticed
about the city hall this afternoon
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
BOOZE DEALER PULLED

Shortly after Louie Opacic. an
Austrian laborer. was fined $25 and
costs I'm police court this morning
for giving liquor to his little son,
aged years. Mike Cartinick. the
keeper of the saloon in which the
liquor was purchased, was arrest
ed on a similar charge by Officer
Bradley, who made the first arrest.
It was established In Opacie's trial
that the saloon keeper had given
the liquor to the boy. Cartinick is
out under 500 bonds. 81
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

LESSON IS
COSTLY ONE
6ToAE FIRE AND A RUNAWAY
FOLLOW A WOMAN'S DEM
oNSTRATiON AS TO THE
USE OF FIREWORKS.

Daylight fireworks, with the
sputter> and boom of Niger
chasers" and cannon rippers; a
small sized conflagration and a
runaway by team hitched to an
icewagon, scattering frosty goods
promiscuously about. was the triple
attraction all pulled off at once
out around 03909 Madison street
yesterday.
1t was all started by a curious
little hoy, innocent of knowledge
concerning fireworks. and by pa
tient Mrs. Noble, storekeeper,
who. with her unskilled hands I'M
dertook to introduce the mysteries
of the hidden dangers contained in
firecrackers to him.
The faithful old ice team belong
ing to the Diamond Ice & Fuel Co.,
busy switching flies as they stood
YEARLY in front of the store, were
the. chief spectators for a while but
not for long Somehow Mrs. Noble
dropped a spark into her elegant
display of articles of celebration
and, with the ice wagon dangling
like a toy cart behind them, that
old team departed for a remote
place of safety down the street
Nearly all the fireworks went
mp In explosions and smoke, and
with hardly a drop of water with
which to fight the fire, the store
came neaer burning down, too.
The iceman found his wagon
partially suspended from a tele-
phone pole and badly dilapidated,
and. at least in his district, the ice
business was some slow the re-
mainder of the day. He recovered
his horses little further down the
street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

The national banks of Spokane
and the Washington Trust Co. have
declared semi-annual dividend
amounting to 100000. The banks
and their dividends follow: Trad
ers bank, 100000. or 10 per cent;
Echange National, $4,000, or five
per cent; Old National. $37 500, or
two and one-half per cent; Fidelity
National. $4,000, or four per cent;
the Washington Trust Co., $4,000,
or five per cent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
LAWYERS STILL SHY

The meeting of the joint bar as
sociations. set for today, at which
time it was planned to consolidate
and to choose new officers, has
again been postponed, this time on
account of so many lawyers being
away on their vacations. The
meeting will be held in the court
room presided over by Judge Web
ster on Saturday, September 4.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
INCOME TAX VOTE
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, July Sit was
decided today to vote next Monday
on the question of submitting to
the states a constitutional amend
ment authorizing congress to col
lect taxes on incomes. When Aid
rich called up the maximum and
minimum feature of the tariff gill
he said he considered it the mast
important part of the bill.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

roth's arena, the greatest middle
weight lpugilists. Stanley Ketchel,
holder Of the title, and also seri-
Gus contender for heavyweight
honors, will meet Billy Papke, the
only man before whom Ketchel
has fallen for the count. They
will met for the fourth time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
SPOKANE DELEGATES
NAMED BY OREGON
(By United Press.)

SALEM, Ore, July 3.-Governor
Benson has just appointed Al dele
gates to the seventeenth irrigation
congress, to be held at Spokane,
Aug. 9-14. Among those appointed
are Francis M. Saxton, A. ". Swift,
John l.. Rand of Baker City; NAL
colin A. Moody of The Dalles; w.
J. Furnish, Gilbert w. Phelps Of
Pendlton; Walter Pierce, w. j.
Snodgrass of La Grande.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
QUEER ENGLISH LORD
FOUND DEAD IN ARIZONA

ing a land irrigation case. The
judge did not take up his duties
this morning. but was about his
court room, and the lawyers did
not get peep at him in his new
official robes. He will take up his
regular duties on Tuesday morning
next,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

BOSTON,, June 30.-Walter Will
lcughby, the Buffalo wrestler,
made his debut as boxer here
June % against Andrew Morris of
East Boston and was knocked out
in the fourth round when he had
clear lead. Willoughby, over
confident, dropped his guard, and
quick as a flash Morris shot his
right across, ending the mill.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
BAN ON POLICE
JOB LOBBYING

Ths gentle art OF getting your
friends TO 60 and see the police
comnifssioners II you are on the
force and want to be promoted or
10 annex n choice beat received
crael. cruel blow today.
Commissioner Teurke handed
eensmuuicaiicn 10 Chief Sullivan,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
JAP SOLONS
SOLD VOTES
(By United Press.)

TOXIC, July 3.-Found guilty of
bribery, 20 members of the Japa-
nese parliament were today given
prison sentences varying from
three to eight months. In addition,
each man was compelled to pay a
fine proportionate to the amount
of the bride money received. Brib-
cry Was revealed by the unwilling
of the recent sugar scandals.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
Electric Trains Sunday.

For Liberty, Occur d'Alene and
Hayden lakes leave Spokane Ter
minal, beginning 6 a. m. and often
as needed. sos a. m. train con-
meets with steamers Idaho and
Cakes for shadowy st. Joe river.
Inland electric trains furnish the
clean. comfortable way to Spo-
kane's most beautiful lake re
sorts SIS
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
CARPENTERS WILL REST

The union carpenters at a meet
ing last night passed resolutions
for the observance of Fourth of
July on Monday, July 5, and will
cease all work on that day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
ANOTHER PILL USER.

Charles Bates was arrested early
this morning by Officer Fuller.
charged with smoking cigarets. He
wps fined 81 and costs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
READY FOR FIGHT

10y United Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.-On
Monday afternoon, in Jim Coff-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
CANADIAN CYCLONE
(Bv United Press,)

w
WINNIPEG, July 3.-Reports in
dictate that several were killed and
number injured by cyclone that
swept Gainsborough last night. De-
tails are missing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03
JUDGE SULLIVAN BACK.

Judge e. Fl. Sullivan returned
last night from Colville, where he
sat for the past three weeks hear
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

The man who Is forc
his own words soon los
petite.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-03

jingling 35 cent. 7
suspicion, etc. 4
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-04

Overstocks conduce sharp reductions. Prices never so
low. A massing of economies. This sale to be a record
breaker. In keeping with out policies never to carry
merchandise over into the next season we will devote the
next two weeks to a Clearance Sale that will effect the
desired clearance. Prices have never been so deeply cut,
never such sacrifices, never such strong savings, such
startling selling. All summer goods must go, all summer
goods will go, no reservations, no favorites. Everything
summary Joins the whirl. Come early while the stocks are
complete. Here are some of
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
Zoo ACRES
FOR $4,000
MURRIETA COMPANY BUYS IN
RIVERSIDE
Two Hundred Acres of Estudllo Tract
Pass to San franciscan for
$780, oo-other Large
Sales

One of the big sales recently made in
country acreage was closed up recent
ly by Arthur G. Mum, who has sold to
the Murrieta Eucalyptus company 200
acres of land that Mr.. Mum recently
purchased from DIR. John r. Haynes
of Los Angeles, The price paid was
$27, 900.
Those making up the Murietta Euca-
lyptus company are DR.. Frank M. Con-
nor, Shirley l.. Thomas, r. M. Miller,
w. H. Dunn and C. B. Guthrie. The
company has already plotted the land
and is putting it on the market at $50
an acre, planted to eucalyptus, with a
guarantee of 800 trees to the acre at
the end of three years.
There are trees at Murrieta two years
old that have grown to height of
twenty feet without water, showing
that they do exceedingly well in that
dry climate of Riverside county. Mr..
Mum also sold 1850 acres near Murri-
eta for Mr.. Ward of Los Angeles to
w. w. Middlecoff. attorney in the I'm
ion Trust building, and DR.. William
Nevin, retired capitalist, also of Los
Angeles. The price paid was $4,000.
The buyers purchased the big tract as
an investment.
Mr.. Mum also reports the following
sales:
Two hundred acres of the Estudillo
tract at San Jacinto to il. S. Jackson
of San/Francisco, $4,000. The land is
in the artesian belt and has plenty OF
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

cars of the Redondo line; 1t has the
city conveniences of water, sewers,
telephones, electric lights, etc., only
alternate lots are being sold at present,
the intervening ones being open to puf-
chase by adjacent house owners; the
vacant lots are put in lawn and kept
up by the company, as are also the
street parkings; no Accommodations of
rubbish, tin cans or real estate signs
are permitted on vacant lots: a fund of
$4,000 has been set aside for park pur-
poses, and cash prizes are awarded to
LOT owners for the best kept lawns; the
houses are artistic and tasteful in de-
sign, and all are set back fifty feet from
TIE street line. ed
No shacks nor cheap temporary
structures are permitted. as on tracts
where lots are bought for specula ton;
stores and assembly room are in the
center of the tract and church
building will be erected this year; six
teen small parks, planted and planned.
with handsome stretches of lawn
eight blocks in length, and palms and
acacia trees set out continuously at the
same distance from the street line, al
together make picture of residential
beauty unparalleled.
Future Status Is Clear
WHell IL is Remembered tiidl all tHlS
was done in eighteen months. it does
not take vivid imagination to forecast
what this section will be in five years,
though the tendency will be to under
state rather than to overstate the pic
ture at the end of that time. Notwith-
standing the many advantages offered
to home builders on this tract, the
prices of lots are held at a reasonable
figure, and lots can be bought and
homes built on the basis of "one-tenth
down and the balance like rent"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
INGLEWOOD RANCHO
INCREASES IN VALUE
SALES TESTIFY TO TRACTS
POPULARITY
Alfalfa Land Finds Numerous Buyers
Who Realize Immediate Returns.
Company to Improve Addi-
tionaI Acreage

Sales of Inglewood rancho acreage
are steadily increasing each week. On
Sunday last. fifteen acres were sold;
on Monday, seven acres; ten acres were
sold on Tuesday, eleven acres on We'd
nesday, and this average was maintain
ed for the balance of the week.
The 100 acres of alfalfa land which
was placed on the market on March 20
has found a ready sale. The Yact that
1870 acres of this land has two years
growth of alfalfa, is attracting many
buyers who realize that this means inn
mediate returns on their investment.
1t is the intention of the Inglewood
Water company to make improvements
of the highest order on this additional
acreage. In addition to the street work
and a fine water system, palms and
camphor trees will be planted alter
nately. on all of the streets.
The increasing demand for this prop
erty has made it necessary for the
company to place on sale an additional
so acres. On this the street work has
been completed and water piped to
every acre from the 1900, 0OO-gallon
reservoir, under pressure of "a pounds
to the square inch. This is placed on
sale at prices ranging from $3.50 to $3.50
an acre.
A large proportion of buyers are pay
ing cash. New houses are being start.
ed each week; IS being already COM
pleted and eight now under construc-
ton.
Plans have been completed and car
penters are now at work on the cree
ton of an eight-room. two-story house
at a cost of $500. for William L. Reg
lister, who recently purchased six acres
ON Eucalyptus street.
Sales for the past week amounted to
$17, $50 as follows:
Five acres of alfalfa on Pine avenues
w. f. Hall, $4,000; one acre on corner
of Palm and Inglewood avenue, M. l..
LUNG, $3.50; two acres on corner Palm
and Cedar street j. Songer, 1913; one
acre on Palm avenue, j. O. Diem, $3.50;
three acres on corner Myrtle and Will
son streets, William Morton, 1850; one
acre on Grevellia street. Isaiah -Neid.
$3.50: one acre on Lennox avenue, May
Averill, $3.50: two acres on corner Win
ton and Ash street, Mrs l.. A. Dins-
more, 5000; four acres on Eucalyptus
street, Theodore Huff $1,000; one acre
on Market street. Eulalie Taylor, $500,
one acre ON corner Hine and Cedar, w.
j. De Lory, 5000; six acres on corner
Inglewood avenue and Pine street,
Grant Neff, $4,000; four acres on Ingle-
wood avenue, p. w. Andres, $24OO
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
To start Loft Building

construction of the reinforced concrete
store and loft buildings at East Third
street and the Santa Fe railway tracks
for F. W. Braun. There will be three
buildings, two three stories high, the
combined dimensions of which are 1876
by 103 feet. The other building will he
one story high. 100 by 120 feet in size.
Each building will be provided with an
elevator. the frames and sash will be
covered with galvanized iron, the glass
will be plain and wire inserted, metal
lath for plastering, the doors will be
of a special design and the roofs of con-
crete composition. All work will be
done by the day, under the direct SUI
pervision OF the architect, w. j. Saun-
ders, 512 Wright & Calender building.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
water. A big pumping plant is being
installed.
Buvs Near Depot

water. A big pumping plant is being
installed.
! Buys Near Depot
w. J. Newenham of Bluefield, w. Va,
100 acres near the depot in the Estu-
dillo tract at San Jacinto, $12,5O0.
One hundred and forty acres one mile
west of San Jacinto in block ISL, 7. d.
Merryman to L. Vollmer, $4,000.
Pacific Mutual Insurance company to
Cawston Ostrich Farm, $50 acres west
of the town of San Jacinto, $500.
julius Johnson to j. S. Jackson, south
half of lot Sc in the Estudillo tract at
San Jacinto, five acres, $3.50.
w. W. Middleton and others to c.
L. Emerson and o. c. Trip, 1719 acres
in the Estudillo tract at San Jacinto.
$4,000.
William Hicks and others to r. L.
Bowler, 100 acres in the Estudillo tract
at San Jacinto, $1,000.
Z, w. w. Middleton and others to A.
G. Mum, 80 acres in the Estudillo sub
division at San Jacinto, $4375.
Arthur G.. Mum and others to Lewis
G.. Spring, "a acres in the Estudillo
subdivision at San Jacinto, $2640.
Emma l.. Sexton to L. Vollmer. 100
acres with all improvements, $1,000. Thls
farm is located four miles west of san
Jacinto and is better known as the
Maple Leaf ranch.
Ostrich Farm Makes Purchase
A. w. Bond to the Cawston Ostrich
farm, 2lA acres in the Estudillo subdi-
vision at San Jacinto, $3.50.
r. j. Waters of Los Angeles to J: 5.
Jackson, 20 acres planted to alfalfa:
with improvements, half a mile west OF
San Jacinto, being the north half of
lot 1853 of the San Jacinto Land asso-
cations lands, $4,000.
I. N. Imbert of Los Angeles to Ma
sonic association at San Jacinto, two
story business block in the center of
San Jacinto, $4,000.
Mary e. CASTOR to M. E. McElvain,
20 acres in block 164 of the San Jacinto
Land association tract, 5000.
william Vogt to r. L. Sanderson, 40
acres in lot 100 of the San Jacinto Land
association tract, $1,000.
A. N. Mead of Greenwich. Conn, TO
w. J. Newenham of Bluefield, w. Va,
200 acres two miles west of San Jacin-
to,l $1,000.
w. j. Newenham to Cawston Ostrich
Farm company, 200 acres west of San
Jacinto about two miles, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

The Mccarthy company reports the
following sales made during the past
week of popular bungalows In the
southwest part of Los Angeles:
To f. Murrow, house at 9S7 West
skeventy-fourth street for $235O.
To Allen Dawson, six-room house at
22O East Fifty-fifth street, lot 4oxl5o
feet, for $1,000.
TO e. j. CONDITION, six-room house
ana lot at 1924 East Sixty fifth street,
lot 4Ox1S5 feet, for $500.
TO Katherine Grant, lot on Hoover
street. lust south of Seventy ninth
street. 4Ox144 feet in size, for $3.50.
To Il. Hecky, six-room house at lO4O
East Fifty-seventh street for $1,000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
Monte Vista Sales

Emil Firth has sold thirty-two acres
in Monte Vista to the following pur-
chasers:
Louis Weigel, eleven acres extending
from the corner of Oaks avenue and
Fifth avenue to the corner OF Mag
nolia avenue, for $4,000.
E. C. DeSellem, five acres on Vernon
avenue, south of Howard avenue, for
$3.50.
Edward 7. Lane. five acres on Cen
trail avenue, south of Fifth avenue, for
$1675.
Clarence A. Vincent. six acres cor
ner Fifth and Benson avenues, for
$2225.
w E. Disher, five acres on Benson
avenue, south of Howard avenue, for
$780,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
Reaches Ninth Floor

THE skeleton steel frame of the w. p.
Story building at Sixth and Broadway
has reached the ninth floor. Contractor
C. Leonardo has completed the heavy
concrete foundation work and the re-
inforced concrete floor of the first story
which about closes his part of the con-
struction of the building. Weymouth
Crowell, who has the general contract
for the building, will soon commence
operations.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

Runs daily via Salt Route Union Pacific ana
Northwestern Full particulars and tickets at COL SO.
Spring ST. or First st. Station Los Angeles or any
other Salt Lake Route office.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
To improve Old PostoffIce site

George Chaffey owner of the old
postofice property at Winston and
Main streets, will probably improve the
site with a substantial business struc-
ture. 1t is probable that two-story
building will be erected in the very
near future