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climb the high trees, and run up
the lace curtains, and scramble
over the piano and to do all sorts
Of exciting things for little baby
kitten to attempt. But If he had
not learned to catch flies on the
window glass and eat them this
dreadful thing would not have hap
pened.
One day Blackie lay doing in the
kitchen, basking in the sunlight.
when he heard buzzing noise in
the air. Blackie lifted one ear.
Il hear fly" he said drowsily,
and then he opened his eyes and
say that it was a very large, differ
ent fly than he had ever caught be-
fore. But he intended to catch and
eat him just the same. So he lay
very still. his funny furry tail
twitching little. until Mr.. Fly
came closer and closer, when sud
denly out went soft paw--and Mr..
Fly was under it. caught just as
easy as anything.
Blackie was delighted and put
his nose down to see what his din
ner was like-when what do you
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v. v. P. TAKES
FINAL GRAB
STARTS WORK OF WiPlNG
OUT THE FATERFALLS THAT
HAVE MADE COMPANY RICH
AND SPOKANE FAMOUS.

The new power house to be
erected by the Washington Water
Power Co. at the intersection of
Mill and Post streets, on the site of
the old mill, is but one step in a
gigantic plan which the company
is now prepared to carry out.
Not only will the power house be
built here but the new Medical
Lake depot will also be built on the
ground, and the whole building will
have frontage of $50 feet. The
company will use the big lot to the
south of it's property for terminal
grounds and tracks will be laid
there for the Medical Lake trains.
Another important change Is In
the fact that the old power house
below the falls Is doomed and will
be removed. The power of the com
pany will all be generated in the
new power house and the water
will be carried through the big tun-
mel which the company Is planning
The old power house will make
way for the railroad which Is to
pass under the Monroe street
bridge and enter the Graves tunnel.
The estimated cost of the i'm
provement without the machinery
in the new power house is about
$250.000. The cost of the tunnel
will be immense but II is claimed
that the company will be able to
build 1t and keep on it's own prop,
erty, not having to seek franchise
to pass under single street to
reach the new power house.
The company claims the riparian
rights to the river through the city
and while this has been contested
at times the federal government
has never taken definite action on
the matter, Whether the public
will permit the company to wipe
out the falls, one of tie most talked
of acquisitions of the city, remains
to be seen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-13
BY DOROTHY DALE.

Frank and Paul, each one year
old, had their pictures taken at a
babies dispensary as samples of
the institutions rules against cod
ding.
Pauls doting parents loved him
so much that they took the advice
of the hospital authorities and re-
Trained from loving him into i'll
health. He took the rest cure and
ate his meals not oftener than five
times In "a hours. His bed was his
principal abiding place. and he
slept, summer and winter. with the
window open.
Nobody was allowed to tickle his
cheeks or beseech him to say goo
till he had passed the six month
mark No banana or cookie feasts
married the even tenor of his way.
In summer he kicked contentedly,
clad like the Arabs, plus a shirt.
Frank was cOddled till he was
brought to the hospital for treat
ment. From the beginning the
simple life had no attractions for
him. He was handled and fondled
till he got the habit. Then he found
out the power of his voice. All he
had to do was clinch his fist and
howl, and he was jounced up and
down and walked with. He got
something to eat every time he
cried.
Now Paul weighs almost twice
as much as Frank
When you see wonderfully
smart babies, it's nerves, not
brightness" you will be told II you
visit the hospital. Rabies should
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I WONLNTV WHO o.
= WILL Be GLAD VO TlLAE lI-1e'

with barred heads in the rain while
he made his touching little fare
well speech, from the train. the
tears running down his dark
cheeks. ::
He was inaugurated March 4
1861. He drove to the capitol with
old President Buchanan, who had
let the government slip from his
weak hands so that the nation df
vided. Lincoln was dressed in new
clothes. carried a large gold headed
cane and was embarrassed and I'M
comfortable. But Douglas, his old
rival, was there and he stepped
forward promptly, took Lincoln s
high hat and cane and held them
for him during the ceremonies
which made Lincoln president.
Tomorrow article will tell of
the Great Task-President at Last,
but of a Divided Nation-A Way
That Was as Plain as a Turnpike
Road"-The Fall of Sumter-A
Master of Men-A War Averted-
The Search for a General--A Sad,
Patient, Misunderstood Leader
EmanciDatiOn.
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ROBBED HIM AND
JOBBED HIM

SEATTLE, Feb. 1S-Lamenting
the loss of his IS year old wife
and Is months old baby more than
he does the loss of 163 new $40
gold pieces, LIE Roy Lander, 80
years old, supported on crutches in
default of one leg, entered the
prosecuting attorneys Office and
asked for the arrest of Bertha
Franklin, his wife's sister.
Lander lived on Vashon island
with his child wife, and, according
to his own story, on Monday he left
her with her sister in the cottage
to guard satchel containing the
gold while he attended to some
business which took him away. On
his return to the house, his wife
and baby, his sister in law. a horse
and buggy and. incidentally, the
1920 were gone.
He later found the horse and
buggy at the steamer landing, but
that was all he did find.
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turn against him and so defeat him
for president in 1860, for at that
time everybody thought Douglas
would be president. Lincoln was
right. Douglas answered yes" and
his friends were happy and said-he
had escaped what they called Lin.
coins trap. But he had not es-
capped it at all; he had only got into
it, and he found this out shortly
when the southern people began to
turn against him.
More people voted for Lincoln
than for Douglas, but because of
the way in which the legislative
districts were laid out, Douglas had
a majority in the general assem-.
bly,, and in January was reelected
Lincoln, of course, was disappoint-
ed, but he could always joke. He
said he felt like the boy that
stubbed his toe--it hurt too bad
to laugh and he was too big to
cry.
But the debates had made him
famous and his friends thought he
ought to become candidate for
president. On May 8, 1860. the
republican state convention met
at Decatur. Suddenly banner
was borne in, inscribed Abraham
Lincoln, the rail candidate for
president in 1860" supported by
two old fence rails with a placard
declaring them to be from a lot of
5000 made by Abraham Lincoln
and John Hanks in the Sangamon
bottom in the year 1890" The
convention went wild; Lincoln
made a speech, and the state dele
cation to the national convention
was instructed to use all honor
able means" to secure his nomina-
ton. The national convention met
at Chicago a week later and his old
friends were there-Davis. SWEET.
Judd, Palmer, Logan and Oglesby
all working like nailers," as
Oglesby put it. And on Mayl 16
he was nominated
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|AOHR NEEDS
!: !: MORE LIGHT
He AND GRAY THE ONLY ONES
7 STILL CROPPING IN DARK
= NESS OF WARD REPRESEN-
:. TATION PLAN AT CITY HALL.

/ At its last nights meeting, the
charter revision commission did
not take up the consideration of
the Des Moines plan of govern
ment. but seemed favorably dis
posed toward one of it's most vital
features, the abolition of ward lines
and the election of councilmen at
large.
i The report of the committee on
the election of councilmen at large,
signed by F. H. Walker and w. d.
Vincent, was presented in the form
of an amendment calling for the
election of 10 councflmen at large,
to serve term of two years, as
at present. The surprise came in
the favor shown the proposition, as
the only protest raised against it
was by Mohr and Gray
Councilman Fred Baldwin said
that while the election of council
men at large spelled disaster to the
Second ward yet he knew from
personal experience that the pro-
posed change was for the best, and
would favor it. He said the two
strong features of commission
plan of government was the non
partisan primary and the abolition
of ward lines, and he endorsed both
of these.
s. DR.. e. d. Olmstead was strongly
in favor of the election of council
men at large. He said that under
the present system it was possible
for three wards to combine and get
the lions share of the improve
ments to be made by the city, and
while not asserting that this had
been done, pointed to the strange
coincidence that the people in the
east end were getting two new and
extensive bridges few blocks
apart, while the people in the west
entl are compelled to go IS blocks
tosget over the river. ~
Councilman Mohr said the cleo
ton of councilmen at large was
opposed to our present representa-
tive form of government followed
OUT in our national and state af-
fairs. He said people go by ex-
trsmes, and that this "at large bust
ness" was another popular vagary.
lns10 years, he said, the pendulum
would swing the other way. and we
would again return to ward lines.
J. M. Geraghty spoke in favor of
the elimination of the present re-
ouirement as to councilmen being
freeholders and householders and
aroused considerable protest. The
feeling of the majority seemed to
favor the retention of some sort of
property or domestic qualification
on the part of the councilmen.
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IN n]HEPE Is
Y lO A IIUTLE

Lincoln was playing hand ball
when the news came. He looked at
the telegram a moment, then said:
There is a little woman down on
Eighth street who will be glad to
hear the news" and he strobe
away. his coattails flying, to tell
her.
AS Lincoln had predicted in 1858,
the second question of Freeport
had done its work; the democrats
split; one faction nominated Doug
las, the other Breckenridge, and
Lincoln was elected. Then the
southern states began to go out of
the Union, and by February Z,
South Carolina, Mississippi. Flori-
da. Alabama, Georgia. Louisiana
and Texas had formed the Confed-
crate States of America, with JeF-
ferson Davis as president And
all this time Lincoln was sorrow
full unto DEATH" and said. II shall
never be glad any more"
Feb. II, 1861, he left Springfield
for Washington. His old neigh
bors went down to the railway
station to see him off and stood
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think happened? Well, you prob
ably know now that this was the
dreadful thing-it wasn't a fly at
all, but great big wasp, and 1t
stung Blackie right ON the tip of
his little black nose.
Oh, how it hurt! Blackie tried
to wash off that sore place that
seemed to grow bigger and hurt
more every second. Oracle didn't
know what was the matter, but
mama did, and she put something
nice and cool on Blackie's nose
which made it feel better.
Do you think that Blackie tried
to catch any more big flies? No,
indeed, he did not. He just caught
little, plain, ordinary flies after
that.
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TURKISH BATH PARLoRS.

Ihere are many people In this
city who are not aware of our ex-
cellent plant. We have expended
$4,000 to offer to Spokane people
one OF the most complete and up
to-date Turkish bath parlors In the
northwest. Bath and bed for the
night is only $1.00. Turkish Bath
Parlors, First and Stevens. HI. p.
Nichols, prop. Main 1914. SO
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LISTEN

Ladies and gentlemen, with your
kind attention we will now tell YOU
about Owl Creek coal.
1t has very little ash.
1t IL lasting coal,
It contains wonderful heat.
1t Is a clean coal.
And numerous other good quail.
ties which we will explain to you
II you will call Main SOS. Standard
Fuel 4 leo Co. zee
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE PANIC.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Feb. 13.-
BY refusing to buy fine clothes for
year, Mrs. Anna B. Lathrop, suf-
fragette, told an audience here
that the women of America could
ceate such financial panic that
extra sessions of congress and
state legislatures would at once be
called to give women their rights
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BLACkIE'S ELY.

Oracle got a Gear little kitten for
a birthday present, and his name
was Blackie. He was called Blackie
for a good reason. He was black
all over except his four soft paws,
and his nice white short front,
which Blackie took very good
care of.
A dreadful thing happened to
Blackie. You see, he was very ad-
venturesome. He used to try to
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CLOSE OF THE FIRST
INAUGURAL ADDRESS

| am loath to close. We
are not enemies, but
friends. We must not be
enemies. Though passion
) may have strained, it must
} not break our bonds of af-
) lection. The mystic chords
of memory, stretching from
every battlefield and pa
triot grave to every living
heart and hearthstone all
over the broad land, will
) yet swell the chorus of the
Union when again touched,
as surely they will be, by
} the better angels of our
nature.
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SoloNs SNUB HASKELL

GUTHRIE. Okla. Feb. 1.-THE
Legislature Yesterday refused to ad-
1ourn, despite the governors proc.
iamation of legal holiday.
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: OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
ARTICLE w.
THE GREAT DEBATE.
WRITTEN BY BRAND WHITLock, AUTHOR OF
1.-THE TURN OF THE BALANCE"

N C DIN h a d
nearly lost in
terest in politics
when, in 1854,
congress t r | e d
to makes states
of Kansas a n d
Nebraska. In
doing this con-
gress repealed
the NJ / S S o u r l
I'm pro mise,
which m e a n t
t h at slavery
m | & h t be car
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Some people persist that a pure
food law is also a poor food law.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-18
COLLECTOR LOEB AT TREASURY.
Says There Are No Developments
in Custom House Here.

Washington, Dec 1T have no news
to tell you. said Collector Loeb, of New
York. who spent the day in Washington.
There is absolutely nothing sensational
in my visit and I cannot talk about the
proceedings touching the sugar tnvestiga-
tions now under way in New York"
Mr. Loeb said he was looking for the
arrival almost any day of the first Of the
automatic scales which II is proposed TO
place on the docks at New York for weigh
ing sugar. This will he thoroughly test
ed. and if found satisfactory twenty viii
be installed Good results are expected
from their introduction, as they eliminate
the human element largely in the determi-
nation of weights.
The question Of whether any Of the in
dependent refining companies other than
those with which the government has been
conducting negotiations for a settlement
had profited by the short weighing Of
sugar. Mr.. Loeb said, was still being in
vestigated.
When asked whether any further changes
in the Custom House force were contem-
plated Mr.. Loeb replied in the negative,
the exceptions being only those of a Tou-
tine character occurring from time to time.
Affairs We're running smoothly, he added.
The Collector spent almost the entire
day in conferences with Secretary Mac
Neagh and his assistants.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-18
WOMEN TAKE SIDES.
-4nti-Sufragette to Speak for
Girl Strike Breakers.

While the enthusiasm of the striking
shirtwaist girls over their own strike ap-
pears within the last two days to be di-
minishing and their meetings are fewer
and smaller, the interest of the women suf-
fragists and other women who have taken
UP their cause is as strong as ever
Mrs. o. II r Belmont. president Cf the
Political Equality Association, through
which contributions amounting 10 s1.525 had
been received for the strikers. issued an
other appeal yesterday in their behalf She
also announced that additional cOntribu-
tions of 1.565 have been received
Mrs. William Forse Scott, an anti-suf-
fraeette. Of Yonkers appears 10 he with
the non-uuion girls, and whether the rest
of the ''antis' follow her course remains
to be seen. She viii address the nOn-uuion
girls in the waist factory OF Rosenthal
Brothers, No. - Greene street, this after
noon by invitation Of the hrm. The invita-
tion was sent TO her on account of an open
letter she wrote In which she says she de-
pIored disorder and gave 1t as her belief
that women could be more disorderly than
men without incurrins the same conse-
quences
Miss Leonora O'Relny of the executive
committee OF the Women's Trade Union
League SAID regarding the appeals in the
cases OF eight girl pickets sent 10 the
workhouse that nothing had been done in
the cases Of those who We're already there.
as IL would not be worth while. II took
two days TO get out the papers in these
cases, she said.
Miss Inez Milhollsnd, who had volun-
Jeered to act a strike picket and was
arrested and discharged two days ago. was
In jefferson Market Court yesterday morn
ing TO look out for the interests Of girls
who might be arrested In connection with
picket duty.
II was said last night that Martin J.
Iittlet0n had Indicated his willingness 90
give legal aid TO the strikers
New-York tribune., 1909-12-18

shzls. The twelve men went 10 lunch-
con at the Astor House and were es-
corted at o'clock te a room on the
Broadway side of the fourth floor in the
Federal Building It was at first be-
lieved that a decision would be reached
quickly. but when the jury began to
send for the exhibits in the trial, first
the pink books containing the weights
found by the government weighers. and
those containing the weights Of the
checkers. and then the pink books of
the city weighers which in comparison
showed the difference in The weights. it
was evident that consideration Of the
case might be protracted-
JURY SENDS FOR FIGURES.
AT O'Clock the jury sent for the
comps s-ative tables. At no time was
message sent TO the court for further
instructions The defendants and some
Of their counsel rename in the cor
ridor on the third floor. occasionally
going 10 the courtroom TO rest. When
the dinner hour passed il began 70 look
as If the jury would be locked up for
the night. Several Of the defendants i'm
pros-ised couches ont OF boxes in the
corridor. but Mr.. Bendernagel tirelessly
paced the marble floor with friends.
The court convened in the morning at
1870 o'clock, and Henry L. Stimson, the
special prosecutor for the government.
made the final summing UP. In referring
to the remarks of counsel for the ac-
cused men. that the latter We're mere en-
pIoyes and that ifethere had been a con-
spiracy the instgator or instigators OF
4 should be prosecuted. Nj Stlmson
with measured emphasis. said.
1t is not proper for me TO express
at opinion now in this case as 20
whether or not there are any other per
sons higher up who are guilty. and l do
not do so, but it is proper, in view Of
what has been said by. counsel for
the other side. TO say that if there are
any such I coincide fully with their
views as 10 the relative degree Of moral
guilt. and that I regard il fully as my
duty To take all necessary steps 10
bring them TO punishment
Judge Martin in his charge laid es-
pecial stress upon the definition Of
conspiracy as laid down by court de-
cisions In this he said that the jury
should bear in mind that il aid not make
any difference whether the accused men
were the promoters Of the fraud or the
chief benefciaries. It made no difference,
said ne. who had part in the planning
o. the fraud if the defendants had
hand in its execution. He added:
should you hold the opinion that there
are others in higher stations Of life not
reached by this Indictment who have
participated in the fraud charged here
that must have no weight with you The
question is, Did these men on trial here
knowingly participate in these 1rauds?'
New-York tribune., 1909-12-18
STATES My UNITE.
Talk of Central american Con-
federation -4RderSOn' Trim

Washington. Dee. 17-Plans are afoot. il
is believed, for a confederation Of the Cen
tral American republics Proof of this Is
offered TO the minds of the Central Ameri-
can diplomats here in the sudden disap-
pearance of Dr. Luis Anderson. who was
here as the special representative of Costa
Rica and was the candidate of Mexico for
President of the proposed United States
Of Central America lie left Washington
on receipt of a telegram. and il was
learned to-day that his destination is Car
tago- Before going he had an Interview
with Senor Creel. the special envoy of
Mexico
Central American diplomats fear there
may be a confiagration where now there
Is only blaze. In such case the govern
ments most interested might interfere. with
the result that chaos would cnsue and a
new organization would be necessary all
around
II is believed that Dr. Anderson hurried
south in anticipation of such an emer-
genCy He has the Endorsement of Mextco
and holds the confidence Of at least two
Central American states II affairs should
reach crisis demanding consolidation. ne
would bee ON the ground and ready To step
into the breach
FRIENDS of l'r. Anderson insist that he
has gone TO Central America merely to at
tend meeting OF the International Society
on sanitation and To visit his family. This
others declare. is a clever blind They
maintain that Or. Audersou's plans were
not changed until II was learned that
Zeiaya's ahdication was inevitable Then
followed the hurried interview with senior
Creel and the Journey
The Mexican government is committed 10
the amagamation of the five little repub-
lies. senior Creel has declared that his
government would like to see such "a CON
S3lidation, though he qualified the declara-
ton hy saving he did nor believe the time
ripe for H.
Although the United States has been de-
New-York tribune., 1909-12-18
JAPAN'S BUDGET ESTIMATE
Slight Decrease in the War Depart
ment s Expenditures.

Toxic. Dec 1.-THE budget estimate for
1901. as given out to-day. plans a read
justmcut Of taxation, thereby decreasing
the estimated receipts S5.000OoD The ex-
traordinary expenditures of the War De
partment are reduced 81 lo0,000. Provision is
MADE for the addition Of S3.750010 Ia the
consolidation fund. which totals s96. 500 o0o
OF which S30,500O01 is 10 be devoted 10 the
payment of the national debt
The estimated expenditures are announced
as s267.o90oo0, which includes Ul000a.os0 for
the Finance Department S43U0O.0O0 for war.
Sl,J0I0Oo for the navy, S3790.CJ0 for com
muuications $7J0O,00O for agriculture and
&.50a 000 for education.
The receipts are estimated al S2f7. 600 ns,.
Of which taxes will contribute $lGi, 900 coo
including $i250G,OGO from land taxation sI3.
$4,000 from liquors, 81. 100000 from customs
ana Sl&5oVo from incomes. Government
works VIII contribute s92 500. 900 10 the re
ceipts. 1t is announced that 81 o00.0O0 VIII
be devoted 10 industrial development and
10 contir ping the policy Of the Katsura
government.