The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-17

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= teenth story of the Old Ma .
= tional bank building, at the .
. corner of Riverside avenue .
= and Stevens street, as the last =
= tier of the steel structure .
. was swung into place with .
. the officials of the bank look q
. ing on from the top story of .
= the Paulsen building, just .
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The trial Of Ed Jenkins and Boyd
Travis, charged with assault and
battery, will be continued as soon
as their victim is able to appear
against them.
An eastbound AItamont car was
derailed at Sprague avenue and
Wall street at 7:30 last night.
The funeral of the seven year old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Hone
fenger was held from the residence,
1l04 Knox avenue, at 1 o'clock yes
terday.
Lieutenant w. J. Moses of the
United States navy, stationed at
Bremerton, has issued a circular let
ter to the commercial clubs of east
ern Washington asking for cooper
alton in submitting to him the adj
dresses of all farmer boys wishing
to enlist.
The big benefit to be given by
the Theatrical Mechanics associa-
ton Monday will be held at the
Auditorium. Headline acts from
the vaudeville houses will make up
the program, which is promised to
be the best ever performed at one
theater. There will be large pa
rade held on Monday at noon in
which all the theatrical people in
the city will participate.
James Oldham, coIored tailor,
is facing a charge of perjury. In
testfying for Elizabeth Gray, col
ored woman charged with vagrancy,
he swore he had never been ar
rested. But in looking over the
police records, it was found that
Oldham had once been bound over
to the superior court on a larceny
charge.
A farewell address will be deliv-
cred by the Rev. George T. Ste
phens in the big tent on the north
side tonight. He will take for his
subject. The Christian and Amuse-
mentS."
A compromise may be effected in
the case of Eugene DeSmith and
wife, who are suing the Inland EN-
pire Railway Co. for $3.50 damages
for causing the death of their child
which was run down by one of the
company's cars.
Judge J. D. HinkIe of the superior
court released IS jurymen yester-
day, leaving AZ only. He thinks
this amount will be sufficient to
handle the cases in the three courts
Hugh Mckelvey, who killed Oscar
Johnson some months ago, will be
brought before Judge D. H. Carey
this morning
The 10 students suspended from
the South Central high school Tues
day were reinstated yesterday.
A plant for the manufacturing of
locomotive CRATES, of which w. j.
Simpson of Hope, Idaho, is the in
ventor. is promised for Spokane.
The firm is to be known as the
Simpson Crate Shaker Co. A sat
isfactory test of the CRATE has been
given on one of the large engines
on the Great Northern.
The case of Nellie G. Pierce,
with assisting in a criminal
operation, was continued 10 days.
Mrs. Bethesda Beas Is In this
city from Seattle to organize a Spo-
kane branch of state anti-tubercu-
iosis league.
Two hundred Tacoma boosters
will arrive in Spokane on the after
noon of May rs on tour of the !
state. They are travelling over the |
Northern Pacific and will visit all
towns of note on the line.
A contract has been awarded to |
Ernest E. and Guy NJ Darnell to
carry mail on the star route from
Watson, Mont, and Fort Logan
o White Sulphur Springs. A dis
ance of 80 miles will be covered
weekly for a remuneration of $500
year.
Two star route mail contracts
nave been let to Teunis Wyers Jr.,
me from White Salmon Wash, to ;,
Bristol, for which he is to receive
$500; the other to Robertville by
way of Snowden. For this he is
)aid $1,000. Three round trips a
week are to be made.
G. M. Walk. alias j. w. Howard,
| former member of the Spokane
Merchants police, was arrested in
Occur d'Alene yesterday morning
or the murder of F. II. Childress, a
in Bristol, Tenn, in
903. He will go back without ex-
tradition papers.
Two LARGE parties of Spokane