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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
MOVE DROVE RIB
INTO HIS HEART
10y United Press)

OAKLAND, Cal, May 10
George Turner, bridegroom OF a
week, is dead today because he dis
regarded a surgeons orders and
moved on the operating table of a
local hospital.
He turned upon his left side and
drove the jagged end of broken
rib into his heart. Death was in
Simultaneous.
Turner secured Job yesterday
as teamster. On the first trip he
was crushed between his wagon
and a hitching post.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15

rod. and was disposed Of with a
reprimand after comparatively
brief hearing by Judge Hinkle.
The Pritchard boy left the ball in
his hat In the hallway and the
Whitcom lad picked 1t up and con.
cluded to have ball game OF his
own. The school authorities deemed
the offense one Of sufficient magni-
tude to call in the ever vigilant
probation officer, who in turn called
nearly the whole enrolment of
room LA to court to testify against
the lad, whose fondness for the
great American game of base ball
prompted him to take the waiting
ball for q little exercise on the out
side
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
Has Sent One Woman to
Grave and Yesterday
Held Up Two
More.

II is believed by members of the
sheriff's posse who investigated the
holdup of Rena Worthington and
Ida Hanson in the Bigelow Gulch
last night that the perpetrator of
the robbery and that of Mrs. Mary
Smith in the same place April
is local party, residing either on
the prairies near the scene of the
holdup or in Hillyard, about mile
away.
In last nights holdup the lone
robber succeeded in getting 81 from
Miss Hanson. The purse of Miss
Worthington, which contained only
about 60 cents was on the bottom
of the vehicle and was overlooked.
No clues to the robber have been
secured. A man and a boy passing
the spot on foot were approached
by the robber a few minutes before
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15

CALLS CHILDREN OF
SCHOOL INTO COURT

The pupils of a room Of the Gar
field school. boys and girls of ten
der years. were subjected to the
questionable influences of being
hailed into court as witnesse today
md compelled to loiter .ound the
corridor of the courthouse for hours
Just because the teacher. Miss
Josephine McGannon, and Proba-
ton Officer Peters thought It was
necessary that dire punishment
should be melted out to a lad named
Guy Whitcom for the alleged theft
of base ball from Stanley Earl
Pritchard, aged about 10.
II was one of those affairs that
could easily have been settled in
the school by the application of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
CALHOUN CARRIES WAR ON
HENEY TO WICKERS4AM
10y United Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.-Re-
plying to Heney's charges, made to
Attorney General Wickersham in a
telegram yesterday, Patrick Cal
houn today gave out copies of a
message he sent to Washington.
The telegram says:
Il have just seen In the morning
papers eHney's telegram to you
yesterday. He lies when he states
the information sought concerning
fees paid him by the government is
intended for false and malicious at
tacks on him in newspapers sub
sidized by Calhoun or financial in
terests represented by him. We
seek the exact truth, which Is no
basis fre malicious attacks.
He lies when he states that
April or May is the only period
during which by the widest stretch
of imagination the matter could be
material.
"The facts are Heney, was ap-
pointed at the instance of Phelan,
Spreckles and other immediate as.
gociates as assistant district attor.
ney Of this city and county In DC
tober, 1896. Heney claims he vol
unteered'his services. II has been
printed that during this time Heney
was federal officer, receiving
compensation from the government.
The constitution of California pro.
vides that no person holding a
lucrative office under the United
States or any other power shall be
eligible to any civil office"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
DO YOU WANT TO SEE
THE LIBERTY BELL

Spokane's chances for look at
the old liberty bell on It's way
through from Philadelphia to the
A-Y-P at Seattle are dependent on
the people themselves, and Mayor
Pratt is making a special effort to
get them busy with their petitions
to have It held here for a while.
Ever since the plan was proposed,
the body of select councilmen and
Mayor Reyburn of the city of
brotherly love have been opposing
1t.
Mayor Pratt asks that all men,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
MADE PACK HORSE
OF HIS WIFE

The sale of an irrigated acre
tract that is alleged to have lacked
the irrigation was the occasion for
a suit for $4,000 damages filed today
by c. II. Pierce and wife against
the American Securities Co.
Pierce said that he was guaran-
teed water when he bought the
acre tract in Jameson Park at $500
per acre. He claims that he put In
whole seasons hard work and
that his wife ruined her health car
rying water, which failed to be de-
livered on the contract as agreed
upon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15

bers OF the local Pennsylvania so
ciety, especially, and all others of
the city wishing TO see the bell.
shall write TO Mayor Reyburn and
to George McCurdy, president of
the select council of Philadelphia.
asking that the bell be stopped
here for awhile.
About 80 members of the select
council from Philadelphia will be
with the bell on its trip across the
continent and the chamber of
commerce will banquet them II
they will stop OF here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
GORE AFTER
HIGH PRICES
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON. May 15.-Sena-
tor Gore, blind statesman from Ok.
lahoma, today introduced a resolu-
ton in the senate declaring:
at is asserted and admitted that
current prices in the United States
are unreasonable and exorbitant,
and the persons guilty should be
charged with the responsibility.
The resolution provides that the
finance committee investigate and
report on wholesale and retail
prices of foreign made goods. Hale
said the measure could not confer
that power on the committee.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
HIGH SCHOOL
COOKS WIN A
PLACE AT FAIR
(By United Press)

OLYMPIA, May 15.-One large
and satisfying square meal. cooked
by girls of the Olympia high school
and daintily served. won the state
commission for the exposition to
the cause of domestic science.
The commission today appropri-
ated $4,000 for a domestic science.
manual training exhibit at the fair.
Olympia high school pupils will be
the principal exhibitors.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
NOTH|NGWRONG
WITH LEWIS
(sy United press)

OLYMPIA, May 1b.-SenatOF
Allen, chairman of the legislative
investigating committee, which In
inquiring into the condition of state
offices, announced today that the
committee had finished checking
up bonds and securities in the Of
flee of State Treasurer Lewis.
Everything was found regular and
correct.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
jim HILL DISRUPTS
ANCIENT CEMETERY
(1y United Pressl

TACOMA. May 15.--Parts of six
human skeletons In the decayed
remnant of an old chest containing
beads, coins and parts of two
ancient guns, were unearthed yes
terday by graders of the Great
Northern In the vicinity OF the
east Tacoma railroad yards. It is
thought to be burying ground OF
Indians.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
ENGLAND TURNS LOOSE
$4,000, 900 TERROR

DEVONPORT, England, May Is.
The Temeraire. newest Dread.
naught of the British navy, was put
into commission today. She cost
$l0.OoO.oo0 and will be added to the
main feet.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
TEETH FREE BUT
FOOD IS TAXED
(By United Press)

. WASHINGTON, May 15.- Z
. Resorting to ridicule to carry Z
. his point, Senator Johnson Of
. Alabama today attacked the
. tariff bill in the senate. He Z
. said that while teeth were ad-
. mitted free under the bill,
. there was a tax of five cents
= a pound on ham, bacon and Z
. other things to keep teeth Z
. busy. He argued that the Z
. measure carried practically Z
. the Dingley schedules. Z
90 >>>% 80 % 900 4
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
HEARS HIS OWN
DEATH RUMORED
BEFORE HE MET 1T
(6y United Press)

. SALINAS, CAL, May 15.-
. The death Of Percy Morse,
. son Of c. c. Morse, seed mag
. nate, who WAS killed yester-
. day afternoon, was rumored
= here "a hours befare It act
. ualIy occurred.
. Thursday the report spread
q that Morse had been killed
. In an auto accident. Yester-
= day morning he created sur
= prise by appearing in town.
. After spending the day here
q he started for home. About
. IS miles out the machine over.
= turned and fatally crushed
. Morse.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
KILLED SELF INSTEAD
OF THE CHICKEN
(By United Press)

SANTA ROSA, Cal, May To-
Charles Cassini, rancher, is dead
today as the result OF peculiar
accident Cassini took a shotgun
to kill a chicken. He was found
later lying in the yard. the top of
his head blown OF. II is supposed
he stumbled and the gun was dis
charged accidentally.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
LONE BANDIT OF
BIGELOW GULCH

the two women came but ran away
on being commanded to halt.
This is the place at which Mrs.
Smith was robbed of $25 and later
lost her reason worrying over the
affair. Her death occurred this
week at the eMdical Lake hospital,
where she had been taken for
treatment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION SERVICE
RAILROAD RUSH
ON ONCE MORE

of cars are ordered. The Western
Pacific company, latest Gould sys
TEN, has asked for bids on 1900
freight cars for western territoy
The Santa Fee has rush orders fol-
500 cars. The Pacific Fruit Elk.
press Co. ordered $500 refrigerator
cars,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
TARIFF SESSION LASTS
TILL AUGUST
NV United Press)

WASHINGTON. May 15.-Sena.
tors Hale, Guggenheim and Scott
made the unanimous assertion to.
day, after a visit to the white
house, that congress can not finish
the tariff bill before August. Taft
Is planning to go west after Aug. l.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
pEsPoNpENr WOMAN DIES.

RAINIER, Wash, May 15.-Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Kerrigan commit
ted suicide by hanging in wood
shed last night. She was despond-
ent. Kerrigan Is one of the best
known farmers In this vicinity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
BAD WRECK ON ALTON.

KANSAS CITY, May 15.-The
Missouri state express, on the Chi.
cago A. Alton road. was wrecked a
mile east of Odessa this morning.
Thirty were injured. four fatally.
Relief trains were rushed to the
scene.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
(By United Press)

CHICAGO, May 15.-Orders re-
ceived the past week by the rail-
roaT supply and equipment COM
pan:es evidence that. railroad in
.erests are confident of an early
-eturn of normal business condi-
IONS. Many million dollars worth
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
LAST LEG OF LONG TRIP
NV United Press)

WAl.LA WAI.LA. May l5.--The
Pathfinder car delayed here for re.
pairs. leaves mt this afternoon on
the next leg for Seattle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-15
HAVE YOU A BABY?
IS IT WORTH LIVING?
If So Get vitality Interested In This Move
ment to Clean Up and Kill Fever.

Do know that IS 20 Of hundred babies
this city during 1909 will die
. the wheel health
against contasion, Mr. Councilman, YOU
money?
That for every five births funeral?
That baby Of suffer,
die before during tn. first his life?
. = . . . . . . . .
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-12-10

Men ! $ & Atwood sox
z5c now Z !.
Mems fine 4. jersey J; sox
35c, noW---.-.......:--
Heavy wool sox Soc DC:
p 9, !,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
AICHERLEY TROUBLE
FOR FEDERAL COURT

Attorney Harrison and Mrs Atcher-
ley have no intention of accepting the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
Territory in the case of Dr. Atcherley
as final. Mr.. Harrison stated yester-
day, after learning that the Supreme
Court had failed to uphold his con
tentions, that he would apply TO Judge
Dole of the Federal court for the re-
lease of DR.. Atcherley, ON the con-
stitutional ground that the doctor has
been arrested and deprived of his lib
erty without due process of law.
OF course, the case can be carried
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, a constitutional question being
involved, but it would probably be
nearly two years before the matter
would be passed upon by that tribunal,
and before that time DR.. Atcherley,
deprived of his drugs, might be cured
and released. Also, the costs of ap-
pealing to the United States Supreme
Court would be much greater than of
taking the matter up in the United
States District Court here.
There is hardly a government Off
clal who has not been bothered with
the Atcherley matter. 1t has been
necessary at last to deny Mrs. Atcher-
ley access to the Governor, as she was
making life burdensome for him. though
this is probably not the reason he went
to Kauai. President Mott Smith of the
Board of Health has been besieged by
the Atcherley forces, though he rather
discouraged them the other dav. Mrs.
Atcherley went to him to complain of
DR.. Peterson, who, she said, had re-
fused her admission to the asylum to
see her husband. She was greatly
shocked when Mr.. Mott Smith told her
that DIR. Peterson was acting in the
matter according to his orders. that
he, Mr.. Motf-Smith, had instructed the
superintendent of the Asylum to denv
entrance to Mrs. Atcherley.
Judge Robinson is not free from the
Atcherley opportunities, even in his
own house. He stated recently that
Mrs. Ateherley came out to see him at
all hours of the day and night, when
she could not catch him at the court
house.
Mrs. Ateherley's latest victim is
United States District Attorney Brock
ms, whom she also chased to his resi-
dence in order to pour into his ears
her tale of woe. Mr. Breckons side
stepped. He told her that if she had
any complaint to make, he would turn
her loose on the grand jury-when it
'qeets~ in October Mrs. Atcherlev has
also been promised a chance at the
Territorial grand jury. and il is prob
able that she will try to induce that
body to indict DR.. Peterson for trying
to kill her husband by slow poisoning.
Meantime, there is strong probabili-
ty that Mrs. Atcherley may be tried
for her own sanity, as it is the ex-
pressed opinion of some of the Ter
ritorial officials that she is as crazy
as her paranoiac husband.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
San Diego Gets Left.

WASHINGTON, August Tt is au-
thoritatively announced that the Navy
Department has decided to abandon at
least for the present the project of a
naval coaling station at San Diego. It
will, instead, develop the existing plant
at California City, in San Francisco
bay. It is probable that Civil Engineer
Frank 7. Chambers, q. S. n, who was
togo to San Diego, will have charge of
the development of the plant at Cali
fornia City. At that place there are
now inadequate handling facilities for
the 10000 tons of coal which is the ca
pacity of the station. The department
has approved plans which contemplate
the ultimate enlargement of the eapac-
ity of the station to 10000 tons.
Money which was available for San
Diego will therefore 60 to the other
place, and San Diego will be held in
reserve until there are funds to spare
for establishing station there 1t has
been decided that it is better to have
a fully equipped eoaling station at the
California City point than two inferior
bases on the Pacific Coast San Diego
will become coaling station in time,
however.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21

American cavalrymen, and particu-
larry cavalry officers, are generally
pretty good riders, and rough riders,
too, although their riding is not so
spectacular as that of officers in Euro
pean armies. Officers of the italian and
Austrian cavalry are put through a
course of training which would turn
the hair gray on many an American
cavalry officers head. 1t is daring rid
ing, and if it is possible at all to get
a horse to slide down an embankment,
the foreign officer will take that course
rather than make detour.
An Army officer in Honolulu suggests
that the War Department would do
well to use one of its smaller transports
in service between Fortress Munroe, for
instance, and Mediterranean ports, max
ing a trip at least once a year, the pas
sengers to be Army officers, and the OBJ
ject of their trip being to observe and
participate in the riding tactics of for
eign armies. The American Army of
fcers see little of what their foreign
brothers-in are doing, and the be
lief is that, by gong abroad, they would
learn something to their advantage.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
Kukuiohiwai. n. Kona, Hawaii,

Kukuiohiwai n. Kona, Hawaii,
August IS, 1909.
Editor Advertiser: Although one
may infer from your editorial of the
18th instant that the weight of. the
evidence IS unfavorable to Luther Bur
bank, in the wonderberry controversy,
1 am loath 10 believe that the case
against him is as black as the sola-
mum nigrum, or as the Rural New
Yorker ct al. would have it appear.
It may be a bit presumptuous to con-
tradict the expert botanists'' whose
opinions have been relied upon as a
basis for the $4,000 claim, but, if 1
may adopt your premise that the Ha-
waiian popolo (not pololo, as you print
it) is Identical with the common or
black nightshade of the mainland,
venture to say that anyone who has
access 10 the live bushes themselves,
as distinguished from photographs only,
and who viii carefully use his eyes
and tongue, viii vote for a verdict
of not guilty on the charge against
the plant wizard of palming off the
common nightshade upon an admiring
and unsuspectiig public, as one of mis-
new and wonderful creations.
Some weeks ago, quite unaware of
any dispute existing in regard to this
much advertised output from the Santa
Rosa nurseries, I noticed a similarity
between the wonderberry seedlings and
the popolo. However, my little girl
Immediately brought to my attention
the difference in the flowers, the night
shade not having a stripe upon the
hack of each METAL There are two
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
LUTHER BURBANK FINDS A
DEFENDER ON BIG ISLAND

varieties of popolo, differing only in
the foliage. The leaves of one have
a smooth margin, while the others are
dentate-serrate. From the three spe-
cimens herewith enclosed you may see
how the leaves of both varieties of
popolo differ from that Of the wonder
berry, the latterIs leaf stalk being no.
ticeably gIong. However, it should be
mentioned that the leaves of some of
the younger wonderberry bushes bear
a closer resemblance to popolo leaves.
There is also a difference in the
taste of the fruit. 1t is common on
the mainland to confuse the black
nightshade, solanum nigrum, with the
deadly nightshade, atropa belladonna, of
Europe. Indeed, only short time ago,
scientific gentlemen from Honolulu
Informed US that popolo, being night
shade, was poisonous. Undoubtedly he
did not know that the berries, and
the leaves, too, of the popolo have been
used as food by the Hawaiians for
years. Without injury or discomfort l
have eaten the berries, both uncooked
and as a rather poor substitute for
huckleberries in pudding, and have
found that the leaves make excellent
greens.
The question at issue does not con-
Germ a possible exaggeration by Luther
Burbank and John Lewis Childs of the
value of the wonderberry, nor does it
chiefly concern a mere similarity be-
tween the wonderberry and the black
nightshade, but it is, rather, as to
whether or not the w4nderberry is
the black nightshade and not the crea-
ton which Burbank says it is.
Respectfully,
JOHN ALBERT MATTHEWMAN.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
Captain Wells Divorced.

SAN BERNARDINO, August O.
Captain Rush S. Wells of the Regular
Army was the losing principal in di-
vorce trial here on May 20 last, the
decree going to Mrs. Leila Wells,
daughter of Major Burton Gre
tired), on grounds of desertion. I'm
usual precautions had been taken to
prevent publicity, and though Captain
Wells was represented by counsel, no
evidence in his support was introduced.
1t is said here that he agreed to per-
nit his wife to obtain a decree if Ger
tain charges We're eliminated Mrs.
Wells gets $50 monthly alimony.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21

NEW YORK, August For the first
time in the history of the National
Horse Show, which will open at the
Madison Square Garden in November,
United States cavalry will participate.
Brigadier-G General w. W. Wotherspoon,
acting chief of staff, notified the direc-
tors of the association today that the
War Department would sanction the
participation of group of picked
United States Army officers in tests of
military riding.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
Will Be Shot to Pieces.

OLD POINT COMFORT, Virginia,
August s.-When the giant battleships
of the North Atlantic feet, now lying
at Hampton Roads, steam out for their
deep-sea drills, thirty miles off the Vir
ginia capes, they will take two little
torpedo boats, probably to be shot to
pieces. These tiny craft, the Nicolson
and the Q 'Brien, among the oldest in
the Navy, are to serve as targets, to-
ward which the massive guns of the
fifteen battleships are to hurl their tons
of proiectiles. -Four of the ships-She
Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia, and Mis-
sissippi-left their anchorage this after
noon and proceeded to the drill grounds.
1t viii probably be the first of the week
before all the ships proceed, as precau-
ton has been taken to keep the targets
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
Hollyday Coming.

WASHINGTON, August 7.-Rear-Ad-
miral r. c. Hollyday will start next
week on a trip to the Coast He will
inspect the coaling depot at California
City point, and Will visit Mare Island
Bremerton, and Pearl Harbor Rear
Admiral Hollyday is chief of the bureau
of yards and docks.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
THE cusHMAN MARINE MOTOR,

4-horsepower, weighs 145 lbs. A little
wonder. Can be seen at Neill s work
shop, 135 Merchant street.
Machinery repaired, ship and general
blaeksmithing, gasoline engines, etc.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
SOLD THE WORLD OVER.

"We have in stock many collie and
diarrhoea Medicines says R. NJ.
White, prominent merchant of Turtle
Bayou, Tex, U.S.A., "but sell more Of
s Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy than of all others put
together. For sale by all dealers, Ben.
son, Smith & Co., Ltd, agents for Ha-
wall.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Crack Army Riders.

afoat even after projectiles have hi
them