The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-21

'|C!IY NEWS
|OIN BRIEF ~
The 10 days ending July 10 were
the hottest for the same season of
the year recorded by the weather
| bureau in 80 years. The mean tenn
perature was rs ) as against 63.5
| last year.
John Wegener, under $4,000
| bonds in Justice Hyde's court, for
| wife desertion, has been dismissed.
He and his wife have been re.
united.
Portland will get the EIks' 1912
convention. w. F. Conner has re-
ceived word to this effect.
Willett Smith, a soldier of for
tune, whose original home is in
Rhode Island, is lying critically i'll
at the Deaconess hospital because
of a protracted period of starva-
ton experienced in the hills of
Idaho. Smith has roughed it in
various parts of the world.
Those who took in the St. Maries
trade excursion yesterday report a
great time. The st. Maries COM
mercial club extended the visitors
a most cordial reception and in the
evening the commercial club of
Occur d'Alene acted as the host.
Jennie Corbn was yesterday
granted a divorce in the superior
court on the third anniversary of
her marriage to James Corbin.
A clever swndIer bearing a card
from civilian B. Rodgers, clerk
of the superior court in Judge
Huneke's department. got the Pa
lace store for $25 worth of fur
nishings. The alleged clerk ar
| ranged for the credit over the tele-
phone, telling the store to send the
bill to the court house. There is
no Rodgers on the job there.
The Centennial Mill Co. has de-
clared another dividend of 100000
within the present year. The form
err dividend was $150,000. The COM
pany is capitalized at $1,500,00O.
Sam Glasgow is the head of the
company.
At the state meeting of the Red
Men at Walla Walla yesterday. E.
O. Connor former city attorney,
was elected a representative to the
national gathering at Toledo, O.,
in September.
| The local option campaign will
be considered at a county meeting
of the anti-saloon league tonight
at the Y. NJ c. A.
A new dwelling at TWenty-sec
and and Post was destroyed by
fire at midnight. The Mantle fire
responded but the fire had at
tanned such Roadway that the
building was soon licked up.
Mrs. Marie Bergman, 90, dice
Yesterday at the home of hel
daughter Mrs. DR.. ]. G. Gundlach
S40S Oak street. She had liver in
Spokane 10 years. The funeral ser
vices were held this afternoon at
the German NJ. Z. church. Burial
at Greenwood.
]. S. Leavitt, almost stone deaf,
was the plaintiff in a successful
APPLICATION for divorce heard yester'
day by Judge Sullivan. A private
| eardrum system, on the order of a
telephone, had to be used by the
lawyers in questioning Leavitt.
| J. Neil, 7o6 First avenue, report
| ed to the police yesterday after
noon that he had stolen from his
barn at the rear OF, his home Sat
urday or Sunday four strings o
harness rings.
The Spokane Transportation
club will meet Friday at a nool
luncheon in the hunters room o
the Spokane hotel to discuss tn
final plans for its picnic at ST. Joe
Idaho, August IL.
A. C. Dunhie was fined $25 AM
costs in police court yesterday al
| ternoon on a charge of stealing
lumber. The case was appealed
and the defendant allowed his free
dom on a bond of 500.
Another case of "traveI makes
strange bedfellows" was reported
( othe police by Ben Woodward OF
the Seattle house on Front avenue,
between Howard and Stevens
streets, yesterday, when he said he