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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Chicago's
Sherlock Holmes, also called Amer
iea's smartest detective, is about to
quit his strenuous life as a thief
taker to enter the ranks of Grimm
ologists. The man whose record as
a sleuth the second city of America
is wiling to back in competition
with the worlds leading detectives
is Clifton r. Woodbridge. This hu-
man ferret has broken up more get
rick quick schemes than any other
man in the world. Under Chicago's
police laws, when an officer has
served 20 years he may retire on a
pension of $50 a month.
He was appointed to the Chicago
police force in 1888. Since that
time he has perhaps done more
work as a sleuth than any other
one officer in the world. His rec
ord was compiled in book form by
the chief of police and is being dis
tributed among the policemen Of
Chicago to show them the capacity
of one officer. This record shows:
Detective Woodbridge was under
fire 40 times. He was several times
wounded, but escaped serious in
jury.
He has driven out Of business
wildcat insurance companies, de-
benture bond swindles, fake banks,
lotteries, bogus home finding asso-
Citations. fraudulent bucket shops,
counterfeit boards of trade and
other criminal concerns, whose ag-
gregate capital represented $105,-
100000, and whose operations
neted them more than one-third of
this sum.
He raided IS opium joints, seized
their furniture, valued at $150,000,
and rescued IS girls under age
from white slavery with Chinese
masters.
Woodbridge has "urned down"
brides and prosecuted their offer
ers as follows: $4,000 to let the
turf swindlers operate without in
terruption; $4,000 to allow Flossie
Moore, a panel worker he arrested
for a $4,000 robbery, to escape;
$4,000 offer to abandon prosecu-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
CALL TOWNSHIP
MEETINGS
COMM SSiONERS DESIGNATE
POINTS, BUT ARE OBLIGED
TO OMIT INCORPORATED
TOWNS, WEAK SPOT IN LAW.

Points at which the annual town
ship meetings will be held the first
Tuesday in March in the various
townships of the county have been
designated by the county commits
sioners. These meetings will be
held usually at some town or cen
trail point where the people of each
locality have been in the habit of
gathering, provided such town is
not incorporated, in which case 1t
is not eligible for a meeting place.
The omission of the Incorporated
country towns from the provisions
of the township act is considered
one of the weaknesses of the pres
ent law, as such small towns as a
rule are the central trading and
meeting points for the country
round about. The interests of the
small Incorporated towns and the
country adjacent are Identical. and
it is believed should have been
united for the common good. as
they are in township laws of most
states.
II a township wants to abolish
saloons within its midst. which is
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
AFTER THAT THEY BURN THE
REMNANTS, ACCORDING TO
WEIRD RITUAL OF MYSTERl-
Gus USTlON SOCIETY.

Quizzer-"Say, Doc, let me on
about how many of you belong to
the Ustion society?"
Spokane M. D., fidgeting nerv-
ously and staring with shifting
orbs with appalled, expression
"E-r. What! 'Uro,' burn, 'tion,' act
of-Ustion, burning! burning So
ciety.! Well say now, look here,
what are you driving at? How
many of us belong to the Ustion
society. Ha, ha! Depart hence!"
Now that is about all you'll get
out of any M. D. in this city about
this mysterious Ustion society. Yet
it exists.
1t is mysterious secret So
ciety of physicians whose mem
bers, in the interest of medical
science, pledge their bodies, after
death, to the use of their fellows
for dissection and experiment.
After such use the remains are to
be cremated.
Doctors decline to talk of the So
ciety, but several admit that there
is such fraternity in existence,
and that it is of long standing. It's
weird ritual, however, they said is
a secret not to be revealed to lay
men.
The fraternity is national in
scope, with secret chapters in Chi
cago, New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Detroit and other cities.
Each chapter is known as a YER
zebra The Chicago chapter was the
first organized and so Is called the
"prima vertebra." The head of
each chapter is known as the EN-
cephalon," the Greek word for
head. The next highest officer is
the "Medulla," and the other of.
ficers are named after other parts
of the body.
Women physicians are not ad-
mitted to membership.
The rules governing the member.
ship are patterned after the Greek
letter societies of the colleges and
universities of the country. Mem
bers of the fraternity must under
gd a preparation or apprenticeship
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
DOCTORS PLEDGED To
CARVE EACH OTHER UP

of several years before they are
admitted to full knowledge of the
secrets of this strange medical or.
der. Then they are bound to Sc.
crecy, it is declared. The appren.
ticeship is served while the mem.
Der is a medical student.
A score of prominent Chicago
physicians and surgeons have ad
mitted memberships, but they are
reticent in discussing the secrets
of the Ustion fraternity.
The noun ustion is term used
in surgery denoting the cauteriza-
ton by burning. 1t is derived from
the Latin uro, burn, and hence the
name of the fraternity which has
for one of its objects the crema-
ton of the remains of it's mem.
berS.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
SlMARTEST SLEUTH
o9 IN AMERICA QUITS

consists largely in a lot of grass
widowers and whisky soaked young
degeherates. That constitutes the
company of the average girl now
adays.
Woman, as a rule, rises higher
than the man. Morally and sexually
they have kept themselves cleaner.
tell you, l believe good woman
is the best thing this side of
heaven, and bad woman the
worst hing this side of hell, and
woman seems to touch the limit
both ways. She rises higher and
sinks lower, and she is the most
degraded or the most beautiful and
pure in the universe. She blesses
or curses everything that she
touches. Our homes are on level
with the women and the town on a
level with the homes. Spokane will
never rise higher than its best wo-
men or fall lower than it's lowest
women. Whatever you are Spokane
will be,
II think this-that Christ and
women can save this world and the
devil and women can damn it. And
I don't know of anything that will
hurl the world hellward faster than
a bad woman and | do believe the
hardest man to reach with the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ is the libertine.
One of the great deficiencies in the
makeup of the average girl is the
utter absence of Christianity.
"Of course, / know that there
ar ealways lot of dirty skunks
standing around the street corners
and when the crossing Is muddy
and you have to lift your dress
they will make remarks. am try
ing to put you on your guard. And
! tell you man can tell by your
actions whether he dare approach
you or not. Yes, lots of men just
live upon their ability to read the
nature of women and inveigle girls
into some of those damnable hell
holes in Spokane that | am going
, after before | get through. You
think that | don't know anything
about them, but YOU wait until I
peel the bark off"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
COSTS YOU so CENTS
TO STAY HOME

A fine of so cents will be assess
ed against each one of the mem
bers of the Mattresses alliance
No. 400, who fail to attend the
meeting to be held in the union
hall this evening, according to an
announcement made this morning
by Miss Ida Holmes, business
agent.
This is to be done because of
the necessity of a larger attend
ance than usual this evening, when
important matters are to be con.
sidered by the body. One of the
chief subjects for discussion and
action this evening will be the
matter of donating to the fund
necessary for the carrying of the
Morrison-M itchell-Gompers case to
the supreme court.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
MODERN GIRL
tQI!I RELIGIOUS
SUNDAY SAYS THEY DON'T
WANT BABIES, THEIR HOMES
ARE GAMBLING SHOPS AND
COMP ANY DEGENERATE
SOAko.

Had Billy Sunday advertised IS
embroideries at two cents yard
he could not have had a bigger
crush than he had at the doors Of
the tabernacle last night when he
had announced he would speak to
women only. The big hall was
crammed to the doors and outside
the building surging, struggling
mob of women did their best to
force an entrance. 1t required the
combined efforts of the ushers and
the police to finally clear the door
way and turn the overflow into the
Armory, where Rev. Pledger held
forth.
The theme of Sundays talk was
that good woman Is the best
thing this side of heaven and a
bad woman the worst this side of
hell He hit divorce a rap and a
hard one, giving America the cham
pionship in the matter of matri.
monial discord. A million divorces,
he sad. had been granted in this
country in the last 20 years. In
part he said:
MANY a woman wants to read
novels and chew gum and eat
penOche and fudge. and Just lOll
around like some lazy woman from
the orient; so ambition and indO-
lence lead more to the altar than
love.
"The most useless things on
Gods dirt is the mere society wo.
man. Some girls marry for the
novelty of it. Some marry because
they want home. Some marry
because they want money. They
marry somebody who has a good
income. although he may be q
moral leper. Others because they
want social standing and others
marry to reform the man. Say, he
would not marry you to reform
you, and you are the biggest fool
on the earth to marry some fellow
to reform him. That Is the reason
that we have so many little whiffle.
Will widows up and down the coun.
try.
THE modern young woman has
almost completely separated her.
self from religion. Listen to me:
as u rule girls no longer look for.
ward to maternity as the browning
glory OF womanhood. Not at all,
And their homes are turned into
gambling shops and their company
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

church In Ripon, Wis. where the
republican party was born and
around which are associated events
of national Importance.
Perhaps there are less than half
a score of persons living who wit
messed the birth of the republican
party. and of these there is prob1
ably but one who remembers, in
detail. the thrilling circumstances
which caused the wings, free
soilers and democrats" of the COM
munity of Ripon, Wis, to assemble
In the little church at Ripon on the
night of March 20, 1854. and be-
come the first republicans of the
union.
Capt. Orlando McCauley. the man
who enjoys this honor, has been a
resident of Denver for the last ~
years. At the age of 80 he lokks as
young and is as active as the ordi-
nary man of 40.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
Style 406, Price $500

This model Is designed to supply
the necessary figure for the latest
effects in Princess or Empire
gowns. The front is severely
straight and the waist line formed
to produce very slender effect.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

The seasons newest model. made
with high bust and extreme long
back. A perfect fitting corset and
daintily trimmed. Only % dozen
will be sold at. zee
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
BROUGHT HOME THE BACON

Even though a bold, bad sneak
thief broke into the kitchen in the
rear Of b. Dorney's residence, S415
Wall street last night, he saved his
own bacon and got away with two
pounds belonging to his host. He
evidently had a feed before he re-
tired for the night, for a pail of
lard disappeared with the meat.
The case was reported to the po-
lice and an investigation made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

ling of prospective victims; $50 a
day for year, with an advance
payment of $500, if he would not
raid machines of a gambling slot
machine syndicate. 5000 month
if he would not interfere with 1870
policy shops" On one occasion,
several of his many influential
criminal enemies tried to Job"
him by offering him 20 $1,000 bills
to let up" on the debenture bond
swindles. Woodbridge Indignantly
refused the offer and placed the
three men who made it under ar
rest. They were not prosecuted,
because they had previously nOtt
fed the authorities they intended
to laed into the trap of accepting a
bride it's most trusted detective.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

one of the questions to come up at
the annual township meeting in
March, it can do So but it cannot
touch the saloon in the incorpor-
ated town, over which the laws of
the township have no control. Be-
sides the saloon question, the cleo
levying of township tax for road
and other matters will be among
the things considered at the annual
meeting,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
FIREBUG LOCOMOTIVE

Fire in shavings in the mill yard
Of the Elk single mill threatened
to spread in that part of the city
this morning, The mill force was
called out and eXtinguished the
flames before the fire department
reached the scene. The fire was
evidently started by sparks from a
railroad engine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29
BUILT CHURCH where
REPUBLICAN PARTY
WAS BORN

Special Correspondence to The Press
DENVER, Col, Jan. 29.-Capt.
Orlando II. McCauley, 50 years old,
hale, hearty and happy, has the dis
tinction of having built the first
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

Andrew Carnegie announces a
slit of sl50.000 with which to be.
gin the moral redemption of Pitts
burg. lie has at last tackled a Job
which will enable him to die il he
remains on II.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-29

ton in the case of the robbery of
$1,000 of e. S. Johnson, a retired
merchant; $4,000 if he would per-
nit % wire tappers 4hours within
which to consummate the swind-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
SUSTAINs SERIOUS INJURIES.
Joseph Burgie Falls From Freight
Car. Breaking Arms.

Joseph Bursie. nineteen years of age, OF
81 Bond street. Trenton, y. j., was treat
ed at the Emergency Hospital this morn
ing for a compound fracture of both arms
and injuries to his head, received by fall
ing from a freight train about 7:3O o'clock
last evening at 18th and Water streets
southwest.
Burgie, who is Il bellboy. had worked in
New York, but resigned to go to Florida
in search of work. He decided to travel
on freight trains and save railroad fare.
Dressed in a rough suit of clothes, he left
New York about a week ago and arrived
i'm Baltimore yesterday afternoon The
train reached this city later in the even
ing and Burgie decided to spend the night
here.
With that intention he climbed down
the side of a freight car and attempted to
alight but when he put his weight on the
bottom step it broke and he was left cling
ing by one hand to an upper step. He
held on for long time, endeavoring to
regain his foothold but became exhausted
and fell. He was not discovered until
some time later, when policeman of the
fourth precinct heard his cries. The am
bulance of the Emergency Hospital was
summoned and he was removed to that
institution.
The local police telegraphed to the chief
of police of Trenton last night and asked
him to notify Burgie's relatives of the &C.
cident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
IHAWS SANITY TO Be TESTED
COURT OR JUDGE OF, NEW YORK
CITY TO HEAR CASE.
Justice Tompkins Issues Order in
Response to Appeal Of the
Prisoners Mother. {.

NYACK. n. Y. January 16-Harry ~.
Thaw will be given trial in New York
city to determine whether he is sane or
insane.
An order to that effect was issued today
by Justice A. S. TOmpkns, to whom an
appeal asking for trial was made by
Mrs. William Thaw. Harry's mother.
Under Justice Tompkins' decision Thaw
will not be given a trial by jury. Mrs
Thaw's petition requested such hearing.
but as Justice Mills had already refused
to grant a similar request Justice Tomp-
kins denied that portion Of the petition and
ordered that the case be tried before q
court or Judge of New York city. with or
without the assistance of a referee. as the
trial Judge may decide.
The questions presented to Justice Tomp-
kins for his decision included the validity
of the commitment, the present mental
condition Of the prisoner and whether It
is dangerous for him to be at large. Jus
tice Tompkins decided that he Will not
consider the question of validity. as that
has already been passed upon adversely
by Justices Morschauser and Mills. ana IL
now on appeal to the appellate division.
The question of Thaw's present sanity.
Justice Tompkins says. Is entitled to oe
fairly tried and determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
BUILDING PROJECT APPROVED
PLANS FOR RAISING ONE MIL
LION DOLLARS CONSIDERED.
Call for Funds Issued by Executive
Committee of Southern Com
mercial Congress.

ATLANTA, Ga. January 16-To vivify
the business Of the south by an Organiza-
ton embracing fifteen states and backed
by an almost ineXhaustible fund, con-
tributed by the leading business men of
those states, was the proposition laid be-
fore the executive committee of the
Southern Commercial Congress, in session
here yesterday. State organizations We're
mapped out and the million-dollar Office
building in Washington approved.
A call was issued to one thousand men
of the south to contribute $1,000 each to
a fund for permanent investment to carry
on the work.
Methods for raising the balance of the
necessary fund of $1,000 600 were consid-
cred, and 1t was unanimously decided TO
add to and to strengthen the executive
committee by the appointment of repre-
sentative men from various sections. who
are willing to contribute their time ener-
gy and money to the furtherance of the
purposes of the congress.
In statement issued last night the
committee says:
1.-The plan OF the Southern Commercial
Congress involves the practical establish
ment at Washington Of southern de-
partment of commerce and labor. man
aged by practical business men. directed
to the development of the south's re-
sources rather than the exploitation of To-
calities; directing immigration to whole
section rather than to a single community
and bringing to the attention of investors
from other sections of our country and
abroad the magnificent opportunities
awaiting them, all to be done by con-
certed action"
The property referred to as the site OF
| the proposed building in this city Is what
| is known as the old st. Matthews Church
property, at the northeast corner of 18th
| and III streets northwest. 1t has large
frontages on both streets. with an alley il
the rear. and. owing to its location in the
newer portion of the commercial section
| of the city. 1t is looked upon as conven.
| lent and desirable for the location of such
an office building as the southern or
ganization proposes to erect. In addition
| to furnishing a revenue, the building viii
| provide ample offices and headquarters
| for the new organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
SECOND ARMY CORPS ELECTION
New Officers Selected-Plans for
Annual Banquet.

At the recent annual election of the I'd
Army Corps Association the following Of
ficers were chosen to serve the ensuing
year: William Tindall president: Nathan
Bickford vice president, lst division;
NJ. Z. Urell, vice president. I'd division;
y. NJ. Brooks. vice president Sd division;
Orville Dewey Thatcher, secretary;
James S. Wyckoff, treasurer: executive
committee, Charles F. Humphrey, Charles
Lyman, W. p. Seville. w. w. Davis, John
Finn: historian, w. p. Seville: chaplain.
Charles Lyman; sergeant alarms, jose
phus Perry.
Arrangements for the annual banquet
which occurs March Il, the anniversary
of the organization of the I'd Corps in
1862, were partially made, and Will De
completed at special meeting to be held
January %. to which all soldiers OF The
Cd and Sd Corps of the Army of the Po-
tomac are cordially invited.
1t is hoped that all comrades who at
any time served in the old I'd Corps will
at once present themselves for member
ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
CONTROL OF WATER POWER.
Letter of Herbert K. Smith, Commits
sinner Of Corporatious.

Accompanying the message of the Presl-
dent was a letter to him from Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
tons containing summary of 4 report
on certain features of the concentration
of the water power of the country, which,
in brief, shows that quite one-third OF
the water power of the United States has
been concentrated into the hands of a
few large corporations. including the Cen
eral Electric Company. the Westinghouse
Company, and some other corporations
which cannot be identified with either of
the first two. The report discloSeS the
names not only of the principal corpora
tions. but of all the subsidiary compa-
MES identified with the principals. and
gives the amount of water power con-
trolled by each.
These Sites" says the commissioner,
"are strategic points for large power and
market control. Poorer sites will not
generally be developed until these STRAIT
egic sites are developed to their full ca
pacity And should these stragetic sites
be coupled up they become still more
strategic. Coupling up is rapidly in
progress in the United States. The Nj
madam Niagara Power Company are
coupled. The Southern Power Company
in North Carolina and South Carolina
the Commonwealth Power Company in
Michigan: the Pacific Gas and Electric
Company; the Pacific Light and Power
Company, and the Edison Electric Com
pany in California-each concern has Its
various developments coupled up into one
unit
THE economic reasons urging water
power concentration are thus obvious.
The facts set forth above show the very
rapid and very recent concentration that
has already occurred, practically all in
the last five years. These economic rea-
sons and business facts indicate clearly
the further progress toward concentra.
ton that is likely to occur in the near
future. 1t is obvious that the effect on
the public of such present and future
conditions is a matter for serious public