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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Who Will Win?

Down at Ethiopia the other day, In
the post office, a colored rancher
who owns homestead few miles
from the town, was looking over
the sporting page of The Press,
wherein were some sketches by
Condo Of the principals in the big
fight. While he was thus inspect
ing the page friend approached
him, saying:
well, Tom, do you think Jeff
will whip the big colored boy when
they meet?"
Now, sir" the colored man re-
piled, looking up over his glasses,
you has asked me leading ques-
ton. But know dis, wen dat boy
Jeff gets through wifi dat colored
chile. he won't start on a coon"
hunt again very soon. an Use not
spoating prophet. either, when !
tells yo' dat"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
BeckLey Made a
Prize Bonehead

Hugh Duffy, the White Sox's man.
ager, says that Billy Hamilton, one
of the greatest base runners of all
time, showed Jake Beckley, whose
release by Kansas City the other
day probably ended his career, how
to become the grand hitter he was
during all the years he was in the
game.
when Beckley first broke into
the game with Pittsburg he went
along for two seasons batting about
.25O," said Duffy, while tanning the
other day. 'He could slam the ball
into right field to beat the cars, but
it was not until Billy Hamilton, my
old side kick at Boston, showed him
the advantage Of hitting to left field
that Jake became and remained a
300 hitter" >
Jake earned a reputation in the
National league as bonehead. His
batting offset his thick headedness,
and he kept right on batting his
team into lead. and then cutting
down that lead by mistakes in the
field.
Jake doesn't think often. but
when he does think he thinks
wrong" was favorite criticism of
Cincinnati fans in the days when
Beckley romped around the Queen
City diamond.
Jake closed his major league ca
reer with the Cardinals. He pulled
off the prize bonehead play of his
career while playing first base I'M
der the Robson banner.
With the bases full in the ninth,
two men out and his team one run
ahead, the batter hit grounder to
Backley on a high bound. When
Jake got the ball he was within 10
feet Of first, but instead of touching
the base for the third out, he at
tempted to throw home. His throw
was high. and the ball sailed into
the grandstand, while all four run
ners scored.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Spokaneites Are
COnnoisseurs of
Automobiles

Spokane people are fast becom-
ing critics of good automobiles and
1t is coming to state of affairs
here that only the best machines
can be made to please them" This
was a statement made to The
Press yesterday by A. s. Holden,
western manager for the F. B.
Stearns Co. of Cleveland.
1T has been only in the last few
months that they have really begun
to appreciate superior quality in
road machines. 1t was the same
in New York at first, but soon that
city demanded the very best that
the factories could turn out. Chi
cago, on the other hand, remained
a cheap town for long time, un-
til the automobile owners began
to note the rapid wear upon the
cheaper grade cars. Now it Is only
the best machines that will sell In
Chicago.
81 figure $4,000 as a price for a
first class machine, for with that
amount of money in a car, the own
er can about bank on 1t that he has
the best machinery can turn out
and that the bearings, one Of the
most important parts Of the whole
thing, are of the very best material
obtainable. People don't stop to
think that an automobile engine
and other parts Of the machine
must be made we'll and of the best
kind of material to stand the wear
and tear. There is no other en-
CINE, not even a railroad engine,
that gets the racking use that an
automobile engine does in going
over all sorts of roads and in all
kinds Of weather"
Asked If he thought 1t probable
that the Stearns people would open
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Jehries a Bar Room
Bully in Old Days
Wanted His Liquor to Bite and frequently Cleaned out
the Saloon at His Camping
Quarters.

not waste any time. He began a
painstaking, systematic and en-.
tirely successful attempt to lick
every man in the house, and he took
them as they came, two, three and
four at a time. He wound up by
throwing the bartender through the
winding and Impending the pool
table.
You can't make the Puente people
believe that anything in the shape
of liquor can conquer the retired
champion.
They have a foolish short of an
idea that Jim's natural aggressive
ness is slightly augmented by spir.
ituous liquors. The man who can
drink few horse buckets of beer
and wind up with quart of whis.
key as a chaser and then lick every.
body in town may Justly be cOnsid.
cred an abnormal assimilator.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

The Hon. and esteemed Mr.. JEFF
fries will be surprised when he
reads about himself in the papers
these days. The localized boiler
maker will be amazed when he
reads about the things he used to
do when he was young and strong
and the limelight had not picked
him out of the multitude.
We are willing to gamble that
while the bright young men are
turning up the episodes of Jim's
past life they do not say anything
about the evening out in Puento
oil fields when young Mr.. Jeffries,
aged 10, was seized with desire to
clean out a barroom. This page of
Jim's history, casting shaft Of
white light upon the great cham
pion's ability as a barroom fighter,
has previously been suppressed,
but the facts may be obtained from
one Samuel Speedy, foreman Of the
tank building gang with which the
descendant from so much great
ness affiliated.
WAS A YOUNG BULLY.
It seems that young Mr.. Jeffries,
even in those days, had large,
healthy thirst, and on pay days was
wont to astisfy that craving with
copious draughts of the amber
which comes out of a key. The or
binary stein method was too slow
for this giant among the crude oil
tanks. He bought his beer In q
horse bucket, and it may be re-
marked in passing that a horse
bucket holds some stirrup cup.
After said horse bucket had trav-
eled back and forth several times
and all hands began to be merry,
the young Mr.. Jeffries decided that
the beer did not possess sufficient
of an effect.
"She don't bite enough" said he.
James then carried the horse
bucket back to the barroom, in the
village of Puente, which consists Of
several frame buildings, entirely
surrounded by crude o. tanks.
She don't bite" said the hairy
young Hercules sorrowfully.
Seems kind of weak somehow.
Liven her up"
"Fine!" said the bartender. Il
will put some life in her, but 1t will
cost you money"
Jim had several silver dollars on
the bar. They never see any silent
money" in Puente. The bartender
filled the horse bucket almost full
of beer and then emptied a quart
bottle of Fifteen Minutes Before
Death Bourbon" in with the beer.
"She's lively now" said he.
Why string out this narrative?
Jim, livened up by the rejuvenated
broth of disturbance, hit Mr.. Sam
mel Speedy under the ear and laid
him kicking. He then piled the
rest Of his friend son top of the
boss and, having finished the Job
in a manner which left nothing to
be desired, went back to the bar
room stepping high with one leg,
"all up in the air like a hawks
nest"
CLEANS OUT BARRooM.
Arriving at his destination, he did
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

Tacoma was suffering with the
same sort of affliction yesterday
that befell the Indians the day be-
fore in their struggle on the Seat
tie grounds with the Vancouver
Beavers. The Indians went over
to Tacoma yesterday and, though
the Tigers hit and scored enough to
win two games, the aborigines went
them few better. Spokane won
easily with the score at IL to Z.
Pat Butler was the first man in
the box for Tacoma and he was
hammered to about every section
of the lot before they got the hook
and put Schmutz in, trying to save
the game. McCament, a new and
untried pitcher soon bailed
Schmutz out of the mire and did
what he could to stop the Indians
batting, but that was all he could
do-try.
Killilay pitched loose game for
Spokane. He had no speed and
little. class, and he would likely
have lost to the Tigers in the last
two or three innings, had it not
been for the equal weakness of the
opposing pitchers and the whirl-
wind batting of the Spokane team.
Netzel, the recent addition from
the Portland team Of the Coast
league, got four hits and scored
three runs out of four times up to
bat, and Keener hit three times
and scored one out of three times
up. The score: r. H. E
Spokane 00-12 16 8
Tacoma ..201000121-7 13 4
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
SPORTING GOSSIP OF THE FIGHTERS %% BASEBll
SLIP IT OVER, KID!
BY PAT.

Batting 10 my name, kid, my mid.
die name 10 Hit; 20 feed me with
a fast one, and see me land on It.
Ty Cobb and other felIers are bet
ter known than me, but I'm a-going
to git there, for I've the batting
bee.
So slip II over, kiddo, and watch
me soak the pill; bet my streak
Of batting will make you feel quite
III. For the Terrors need my hit
ting to cop the game today, an !
must clean the bases In the good
oId-fashioned way.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Oil Magnates
Trim, HiHyard

For the first time this season de
feat was administered to the Hill
yard baseball team by the Standard
Oil nine, Sunday afternoon. The
score stood 20 to in favor of the
oily magnates. With this great &C.
complishment to it's favor, the vic.
itorious team will now go out OF
town to seek games.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

CINCINNATI. O.-Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles, Los Angeles, pre-
sides at closing session Of General
Federation Of Women's Clubs, and
great ovation is given Mrs. Philip
N. Moore. st. Louis. who was re-
elected president.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

CHICAGO, Ill.-Mrs. Ada e. Kro-
well, 1888 Indiana avenue, con.
fesses having been proprietor Of
Dearborn street resort for last ID
years, though known as church
worker and member Of respectable
society; declares she ran the risk
for sake of educating her children
and son says he will stand by her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
Largest class in history of univer-
sity-560-graduated here, Wednes-
day, closing day of golden jubilee;
first graduating class, so years ago
contained only four members.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

10y United prsss Leased WIrs)
LONDON. May 23.--A report thae
ames Bryce, British ambassador -
Washington, has asked to be -
lieved from duty at the American
capital, was denied today 1t tno
foreign office.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

an agency here, Mr.. Holden stated
that he was of the impression that
such would be the case, as offices
have been opened in Seattle and
Portland for some time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
MOVING PICTURES, m SCHOOLS n
TO COMBAT EL-THEATER EVI

MILWAUKEE, pictures installed - -
evils Of nickel heaters one -
Seide that has given the
something socaist mny
and talked ahoot
useless to 70 goo
the boys Of Milwaukee, - long - q
nickel theaters allowed to operate
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

BOISE, Ida.-Two little children
OF Harry Schler, of South Boise,
found smothered to death in tool
chest.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Tacoma
Loses to
Spokane

Spokane IL, Tacoma z.
Vancouver /, Seattle 0.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
MAJOR LEAGUES
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Score.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Marquise Waists
at $l.98 to $3.48

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24
Ribbons l5c

25c to 35c plain taffeta and MORE ribbons In a
good stiff quality for hair bows and hat trim
ming. Fifteen different shades to choose from.
and white s snss are including
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-24

Chicago-Philadelphia game post.
poned; rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

IN a previous chapter, treating of St. Michaers parish as now, rather scant ' mention was made of Andrew Pick ens Calhoun, one of the early settlers. The typical Canebrake planter was SUI generis. I read the other day that a United States senator from Mississippi, a large cotton planter of the present era, delighted to tie string around his collar put on his plantation hat and live in the recollection that he is, for the time being, abandoned to rustic privileges. l saw MT Calhoun very often riding on Tulip Hill, or Cuba, his two adjoining estates. He received company in his parlor in the suit in which he rode over the fields, and they were of the best. He always wore a black silk 'stoye-pipe' hat. In these particulars he was not pe- culiar, but followed the fashions. No gentleman ever rode in his fields in his shirt sleeves. The best overseer always wore a plain coat or jacket because. as he expressed it, he was more respected by the negroes at work than if without the garment
 As already said, Mir Calhoun returned with his family, to take up his residence at Fort Hill, the home of his lately de- ceased father the statesman, in the early iS50's. He visited Alabama on two mem- OfdDle OccaslonS a lew years later, III an official capacity each occasion.
 The cotton planters of the south were the dominating social and political class. Cotton factors at the ports, where cot ton was received for the markets, were the next influence in order. If the cotton factor or broker aspired to higher rank, he added a plantation, slaves and over seer to his possessions. Lawyers and doctors and ministers of the gospel were esteemed the more when they owned and lived on plantations.
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| ing law firms of that state. He was a university man. Having prepared for the ministry of the Episcopal church he was called to the rectorship of St. Michaers s parish. His father owned two planta- tions in the Canebrake, one being con- venient to the church. The rector built residence there and came with his young wife, whom he married in New Orleans. MT. Gholson was an orator of no ordinary force He was student and delivered instructive sermons. As a so- cial factor his family was most infiuen- tial He came in the winter of 1S59-6O. SAMUEL FITS.
 A geneology of the Fitz family, cor rupted to Fitts, hassbeen published by the Tuscaloosa branch. The name is an ancient one in England The wife of MT Fitts was Miss Alston. This name is one of the most ancient and reputable in North Carolina and South Carolina.
 Mrj Samuel Fitts owned a valuable plantation about half way between St. Michaers church and Uniontown. His wife and daughters attended that church. of which they were members, regularly MT. and Mrs. Fftts were the parents of an interesting family of sons and daughters.
 MT. Craighed owned a large and valu- able plantation on the southern border of the parlSI, aS the lines are drpltrar1ly fixed. He and his family were attached to some other religious body and did not attend St. Michaeps
 CHARLES WALKER.
 About 1853 Colonel Armistead sold his plantation at the junction of the upper and lower Uniontown and Demopols roads, four miles from the former place. to MT. Charles Walker from Georgia He was a portly gentleman. with prema- turely white hair. Colonel Armistead was appointed United States marshal by President Pierce 'and moved his family to Montgomery. It was a family of un- usual talent and social distinction. MT.
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act of 17SS, ratifying the constitution of the | United States and resumed her original | sovereignty or national character. This | happened in December, 1860. It became | the habit of the different southern states as they adopted ordlances of secession to send a commission to each of that class of states not yet seeded, to urge secession. Alabama sent Mir Henry w.. Hilliard to Tennessee, MT. Thomas J. Judge to Arkansas.
 MT. Calhoun, representing South Caro- lima, appeared before the Alabama con- vention and from the Speakers stand of the House of Representatives delivered short but eloquent speech. He remind ed Alabama of the remarkable natural resources of the state, naming specially the minerals. Railroads were then being built, he said. to pour into the lap of Mobile the inestimable wealth of the mountains, besides the cotton of the val leys
 Parenthetically it may not be amiss to recall that the constitution of Alabama, the constitution of 1879, the original one, made no provision for calling a constitu- tional or sovereign convention. That was the constitution in force when the legislature of 1860 authorized Gov An drew B. Moore to order an election of delegates to a sovereign convention pro- vided Lincoln was elected the next Mo- vember. Where did the legislature get it's right? A state constitution creates the legislature and defines its powers. Gov ernor Moore was appreciative of the rev. oluton pending, by the election of Lin coin. He was an ardent secessionist. The resolution of the legislature bestowing the power on him declared Lincolns elec- ton would be tantamount to destruction of the federal constitution. So stood the situation which the cotton planters con- trolled.
 REV. JOHN Y. GHOLSON
 This gentleman was recently the junior of the law firm, Gholson, Jones & Ghol- son of Petersburg. Va., one of the lead-
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for his family in a cedar thicket between the two roads His two grown sons, Charles and Mims, came with him and settled near by as planters. Charles was first lieutenant of Captain Horton's cav airy company that entered the war. Mims became, after his return from the war, a leading citizen In public affairs
 The section of land reserved by the fed eral government for support of the public schools of his vicinity was rented at an early day to several white farmers who were not slave holders. The same class of people continued to rent and cultivate it. In the slave era Powers, James M Hopper and others were among the tenants. They have always been val uable citizens. No petty jealousies ever prevailed between them and the slave holders. James M. Hopper was a man of the highest character. I happen to have known him intimately and have fol- lowed his course with the satisfaction of a friend, All were true Confederates and true men in the dark days that followed.
 DAYTON
 This was a village of some 400 popula- tion on the hills immediately south of the Canebrake. It was the nearest locality to wells of water from the cisterns of the Canebrake. It a community of cotton planters whose plantations laid from one to 10 miles distant, mostly outside the Canebrake, to the south and east.
 Most of the religious bodies, except Episcopalians and Catholics. had churches there. The family of Mr. w. F. Clarke were the only Episcopalians. While of Catholics there were none. Planters lived there to educate their children and thus two schools, one for girls and one for boys, of the first class were maintained. A northern man, MT. Hatfield, and his family kept the female school Girls from various counties att tended and the advantages were of the best. A former physician from North Carolina kept the male school. Dr. w.. J. Kittrell succeeded by MT. Edgeworth.
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No LII D" was known, but the in- | struction was comprehensive and
 thorough Boys from the Canebrake and remote points were among the pupils. | The method of instruction was so diff ferent from the public schools of today | that it would seem strange to term both education.
 fifties were John T. Walton, large
 Canebrake planter and Whig member of
 the Legislature; John D. Catlin, Adol-
 phus Cade, Levi Reeves. Dr. Sydney Smith, Browning, Bohannon, Pickering,
 Eaton, Prowell. pr. McCaa, a gentle-
 man from South Carolina, lived near the
 village, but did not practice his pro-
 fession. The Springfield family lived
 there.
 The practicing physicians were Drs.
 Ashe, Pegram, Strudwick, Groves, Prince Connor, Garrett and perhaps R. Augustus Jones. Mir. w. E. Clarke was the leading lawyer, and with him was associated a young gentleman from Vir- ginia, William F. Terrell, MT. Bartlett from Virginia came in as teacher Of the male school late In that decade. The Boddies and John H. Prince, already
 mentioned as Canebrake planters, lived at Dayton. The merchants were the
 Rogers brothers, Askews, York and Ter rell, McCreary, Houston. Hart and per- haps others. The junior of the mer-
 cantie firm. York and Terrell, married
 the only child of John D. Cutln and thus
 became large cotton planter In the Canebrake. The postmaster was Dr.
 Dunsby, the whig appointee of President
 Zachery Taylor. The mail was brought
 on horse three days in the week. The postoffice was closed the alternate days. When Pierce, democrat, came into the Presidency, he appointed the druggist, Richard M. Cunningham. postmaster. so the patrons of the postoffice might go for mall every day. Cunningham was
 one of the few citizens who would &C., cept this office, hence Dr. Dunsby, hav-
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ing no competitor, held and conducted 1t to suit his convenience.
 The Virginians and South Caroliniana | of the Canbrake found ancient friends in other parts of Marengo and adjacent counties, and these were wont to make long visits. Prominent in the number were the, Pegues and Ellerbe families og
 Dallas. Mrs. c. c. Pegnes. sister of the
 late Judge Augustus A. Coleman, and wife of the lawyer and heroic colonel of
 the Fifth Alabama, Army of Northern Virginia, was a singularly brilliant and cultured woman who came. A daughter of the Ellerbe family married Dr. H. U. Wfnn and the young couple lived for
 awhile at Walnut Grove. Gen. Charles
 A. Poelknitz, prominent citizen who lived in elegance and hospitality in the lower part of Marengo and his brothers, Dr. Edwin and Dr. Bruno, and their large families and the Witherspoons, had friends to visit in the Canebrake.
 Miss Zetilla Cooke, Miss Daisy Walthall,
 Miss Augusta Carlisle, all from Perry.
 were other visitors. The Withers, Groom,
 Avery, and Randolph families from Greene now IIale) and others came. All
 came to say as long as they would, knowing in advance that larders were
 filled once a year in anticipation; that pastures were always green; that ser,
 wants were pelntiful and cheerful; that ample stables were always ready, and generous welcome, associated with no tax upon the time or resources of the enter taining host. We read of colonial times that the rice planter, along the seaboard of South Carolina, was wont to keep a negro servant posted on the side of the Mghway passing his residence, to hail any passer-by with an invitation to come
 in. That story with much accuracy de- scribes the spirit of hospitality in tho Canebrake.