The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-07
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Foreman Walter Jones Of truck 5
at the fire station on Howard street

MS nome, as yesterday happened
to be the foreman's day off.
r. n. Osborne, the drummer
evangelist" who Is conducting. re.
vival services at the Vincent Meth
Odist Episcopal church this week,
spoke last night on unappreciated
services of public officials. God
bless the police of Spokane" said
he last night. The meetings will
continue every night this week.
Harry Cook was accidentally shot
in the leg by a friend while out
hunting in the woods about Is
miles northwest Of the city yester-
day. The injury Is painful, but not
serious. Cook is at the Sacred
Heart hospital.
A brand new clock which regis
tiers United States observatory
time, has been placed in the police
station. The new timepiece will
always be correct, and there will be
no excuse for tardy cOppers In the
future.
e. G. Mcfarland, county superin-
tendent of schools, narrowly es-
capped a tragic death yesterday aft
ernoon while driving home from
Fairfield, where he had been at
tending meeting of the school
board. Mr.. Mcfarland was driving
down the road when his horse
stumbled, causing the shafts and
breech-straps to break. This fright.
ened the animal, and it started on
a mad rampage, throwing the buggy
about SO industriously that the
driver was tossed out and the We
hicle drawn over him. Farmers in
the neighborhood got lantern and
helped Mcfarland repair his rig
and he drove on into town.
F. p. Weymouth, water commits
sioner, formerly at the head of the
crematory department, which he
put on a paying basis, has come out
in favor of the plan of the city pay.
ing for the collection of garbage
from the public treasury.
J. n. Mcdonald probably holds
the record for the most valuable
load of timothy ever marketed in
Spokane county. There were over
IL tons in the load, drawn on
wagon and two trailers, hauled by
six horses. The load brought $240,
at $40 per ton.
Willard Johnson has been elected
president of the reorganiZed Spo.
kane Transfer & Storage Co. and
w. w. Belden was continued as sec
retary-treasurer. Mr.. Johnson was
formerly with the Union Transfer
& Storage Co., which has merged
with the Spokane.
The volunteer band at For,
Wright was hit hard by the dis
charge of 145 men Saturday, as il
lost seven of its members. The
band will be filled up from the tai
ent remaining in the regiment.
City Engineer Ralston, In a talk
to the lumbermen of Spokane, said
that If the creosoted block plan OF
paving is to come into use here Ii
will depend on the lumbermen
themselves. He suggested that they
devise some plan for the manufac-
.ture of the blocks on this side of
the mountains in order to eliminate
the freight cost and place the
blocks on an equal footing with
asphalt and brick.
A committee from the National
Apple show. consisting of e. F. C.
Van Dissell, G. G. Corbaley and Rem
II. Rice, have gone east in an effort
to line up' the railways for the sup.
port of the show in the same man.
ner as thew have in the past. An
effort will be made to have Howard
Elliott of the Northern Pacific &C.
cept the presidency of the show
and to secure some concessions
from the railroads by which the
prize winning exhibits can be shown
in the east after the show is over.
Contractor John T. Huetter ex-
pected to begin blasting off the
frozen top surface of the Lincoln
Heights reservoir site this morning,
He is anxious to get his steam ex-
cavating machine in operation, and
says he will finish the reservoir on
time.
Martin Grace. aged 81, died last
night at Sacred Heart hospital of
blood poisoning contracted from an
ingrowing toe nail. He had been
ailing with the effects of the in
growing nail since December. Grace
was an old railway construction
foreman and helped to build the
main line of the Union Pacific when
1t was first run across the CONT
nent. He was friend of ]. d. Blu
chanan of Spokane and had recently
been engaged in the mining bust
ness.
/. D. e. Blair, 21o2 Dean avenue, a
contractor. is being generally COM
mended by successful claimants for
lands in the Flathead reservation
for his protest against the effort of
Senator Dixon Of Montana to have
some of the valuable lands on the
Flathead lake withdrawn from set
Element next spring when the prize
winners make their drawings. Mr..
Blair thinks there Is "nigger In
the wood pile" and proposes to
probe the plan of Senator Dixon,
which is believed to be aimed in
the interest Of some wealthy people
of Montana.
I In the official table complied by
the Construction News, Spokane Is
in the amount of
building activity started in 1909
Only Is cities in the list show a
greater percentage Of gain.
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