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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

Gettysburg, as a result OF two
years training Demanding that a
sufficient force of regulars be sta
toned on the coast to deter an
enemy from attempting an inva-
sion, the speaker declared that it
was known to every naval officer
that the battle fleet could not op-
crate without the screen Of armor-
ed cruisers stationed on the Pa
cific, and that in case of war these
ships would at once be ordered TO
the Atlantic to complete the fleet
and to prevent their own destruc-
ton, and that the Pacific would be
a clear roadway for an invader.
The occupation of the coast
states, with a possibility that they
would be forever separated from
the Union. was stated by the speak
er as almost accepted facts by
every military student throughout
the world who had studied the
probable outcome of war with ia
pan in our present state of "crfmi-
nal unpreparedness.' In Informed
circles, it is stated that unless the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
TWICE MARRIED, TWICE DIVORCED,
SHE'LL MARRY FIRST HUSBAND

the regular army. Later he joined
the Rough Riders and served
through the Cuban and Philippine
campaigns.
Mrs. Green was given a divorce
and married DR.. Steiner in 1899,
coming to Seattle. Six months ago
she was given divorce from
Steiner. In late years Sergeant
Green has been corresponding with
his son, who intensely admired his
soldier father. When the Dix ar
rived from Manila last Saturday
night the boy was at the dock to
meet his father, tell him of the di-
vorce and that nothing now stood
in the way of reconciliation. The
boy succeeded.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
ANOTHER BIG FIGHT
FOR ALL-N|CHT SERVICE

A combined and earnest effort to
secure an all night car service is
soon to be started by the residents
of Hays Park and Hillyard, and
nearly all the residence district in
the north part of the city, which is
not within convenient walking dis
lance of the center of the city. The
Press started an agitation for the
all night car service about four or
five months ago and the matter was
finally taken up In the Spokane Sec
tional Central Labor union and
placed in the hands of a committee,
with instructions to place the propo-
sition before the officials of the
street railway companies and see
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
WALKS IN SLEEP; CLIMBS
OUT WINDOW; WAKES UP IN
STRANGE ROOM; COMET DID IT

vacant" room. Her first impulse
was that a crazy man had gone in
side during the night, and she fled
for the office to summon the day
clerk.
Hey. Le'me out O. here" Biff.
bling! bling! bling! was something of
the first sounds that greeted the
ears of the perplexed clerk as he
tiptoed toward room No. 26. Not
for me-" he murmured, and scamp
cred back to the office to summon
Mr.. Angelo, one of the proprietors.
These two together finally
summoned sufficient courage to
turn the key from the outside
Of the door and peer within.
There sat poor Dan Aumodt,
freely perspiring and with head
bowed down almost between his
knees; he was clutching his
hair and murmuring, allow in
h. did | get in here? How in
r. did get in here?"
That very question presented one
of the greatest problems that any
one of the astounded trio had ever
TO solve. Dan, on first
awakening, had reached out to an
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

Rising up from his Led, while yet
sound asleep, with only the thi,
apparel Of night and the cover Of
darkness to shield him from the ele-
ments, Dan Aumodt crawIed out the
window Of his room on the second
floor of the international hotel, 234
Main avenue, last night, and scaled
down the cold, bare brick walls to
the ground. His experience, which
would have proved almost nerve
racking to man in waking hours,
did not awaken Aumodt.
After proving about in the dark
court into which he had lowered
himself for a little while, Aumodt
started back for his bed, but mis-
taking an open window on the first
floor Of the hotel for the entrance of
his own abode, he crawled inside,
and-no, nO-he wasn't shot by
some terrified person inside, for by
the merest chance it was a vacant
room and, still unconscious of his
strange behavior, he retired.
Early this morning the chamber
maid on the first floor was terrified
by shouts from within No. &c, the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

empty chair for his clothes, and
moaned, I've been robbed
cleaned" On turning to the door
and finding the key gone and the
door locked securely he was con-
WINGED.
Finger prints in the dust of the
window sill and a pair of sheets on
the bed, soiled from dust gathered
in the robbery victims" midnight
escapade finally gave them all a
clue to what had happened.
Aumodt could scarcely believe 1t,
for he declares he never walked in
his sleep before, but after sizing up
his soiled hands and feet and other
details of the strange situation, he
accepted it as the truth. Anyway,
Dan found his clothes all in good re-
pair up in room No. SO. on the floor
above, where they belonged, and his
room was still securely locked from
the inside. just as he had left it on
going to bed last night.
He went out afterwards, when
thoroughly awake, and again per-
formed the dangerous feat, just to
satisfy himself as to whether he
could do it,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
| G O Min u f d
r o
p A G F. 0 N f
COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

ferred being at home when the dis
aster happened.
At one of the schools the boys
invented comet game. A bunch
of conspirators got couple of
other boys to stand under a tree,
and then a boy standing in the
branches doused them with a cOu-
pie of buckets of fairly cold water,
This, they declared, was the COM
cts tail striking the victims.
All accidents happening in Spo-
kane yesterday and last evening
were laid at the door of the com
ct. A street car ran off the track.
Mr.. Comet did it. The sprinkler
went on the bum again. Charge it
to the comet. The police depart
ment had another run of bad luck.
The comet again. Northern Pacific
trains ran on schedule time. Moth
ing but the comet could have pro-
duced this miracle. Spokane's ball
team defeated again. Nothing but
the celestial loafer could have
dOwned such champs. Cats fought
on the back fence all last night.
( Comet. Hubby got home at a.
m, staggering and shopworn. Com
ct. And so it went-that poor wan
derer shouldered like Atlas of old,
the burdens of world for "a hours
and that was plenty for him.
A lot of interesting things were
reported over the wires. Negroes
away down south in Dixie"
thought the world was coming to
an end No work was done in the
south yesterday. All attended
union meetings to prepare for the
catastrophe. In Hayti the inhabit-
ants subsisted entirely on comet
pills, dealt out by a voodoo doctor.
At ST. Louis, Prof. George o.
James, of Washington university,
went up in a balloon to make comet
observations.
At Aline, Okla. Sheriff Hughes
arrived just In time to stop fanatics
from numbering girl. They
| thought they must make a sacri-
| flee of blood to divert the comet,
and they selected girl for the sac
rifice, clothed her all in white. and
were just about to kill her with a
knife when the officers arrived on
the scene.
Scientists at the Carnegie obser-
vatory at Pasadena, Cal, observed
spots on the sun, but they thought
| the spots had no connection with
the arrival of the comet. The
spots are of the tornado type-vor-
tees, or whirling volumes of in
tensely heated gases and metallic
vapors highly charged with electri-
city.
At the Yerkes and Carnegie OBJ
servatories not culver was re-
corded, and no dust from the COM
cts tail was caught by the power
bearing metal plates covered with
glycerine.
At Albuquerque, N. NJ, Augustine
Parasise was driven to suicide
through fear of the comet.
Reports from California cities
state that the school attendance
was light because of the comet.
At Neenah, Wis, lightning rods
were removed, for fear they would
attract meteorites.
Yerkes observatory reported:
while the glow of the comets tail
il readily discernible, we have OBJ
served little striking positive phe-
nomena. But that does not lessen
the value of the observations made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
j, S, BOAT DRIVES A
MADR|z BOAT away

BLUEFIELDS, Mic, May 49,
The United States gunboat Pa
ducah today drove the Madriz gun
boat Venus away from the port OF
BIuefields.
The officers of the Paducah re-
fuses to say how near they came to
clash with tine little Nicaraguan
boat. The Venus refused to obey
the orders of the Americans not to
blockade the port until she was
threatened by the Paducah.
Madriz' officials say they will ap-
peal to the powers, and interna-
tionaI complications are threat
ened.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

fell across the other. fracturing his
nose and badly decorating his face,
just before noon today. Tolton was
hurried to the city's emergency
hospital, under care of Steward |.
w. Dare and there his injuries
were attended Mr.. Tolton is about
20 years of age and formerly re-
sided about Oakesdale, Wash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

. . . . . . . . . - q . . . .
. ~ feel, with an Intensity .
. that my investigation has but =
. increased, that II in the near =
. future we should be so unfor- .
q tunate as to become involved .
= in war with great oriental =
. power our first knowledge Of it =
. would be speedily followed by =
. the appearance Of hostile =
. fleet to the west of the Pacific =
. states and the simultaneous =
= severance Of our railroad COM .
. munications with the east, that =
. might not only separate these =
= states from the rest Of the un- =
= ion for a few weeks, but for =
= all time."-From Speech by =
= Representative McLachlan. Z
800 800 o 80 >>>>>
administration prevents the secre
tary of war from disclosing the
truth concerning the weakness Of
the Pacific defenses, that a report
will be submitted to congress
that will startle the nation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

what could be done.
Naturally the street car compan-
les opposed the measure and little
more has since been done by the
committee from organized labor.
Now the northside residents will
take it up in the form Of a petition.
1t Is at present estimated that the
petition will be signed by at least
1000 people of the north side alone
and the work on the circulation of
the petition will start within an
other week. In order to secure the
names, the circulator Of the paper
will travel back and forth on the
cars from $3.50 in the morning till
1880 at night getting the names of
the passengers on the petition.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
CHARGED WITH
HORSE STEALING

w. G. Burke was arraigned be-
fore Judge Carey ON charge of
horse stealing, this morning. The
horse with the harness, valued at
1925, belonged to Turnkey & Son.
When arraigned Burke was very
strong in his language and had to
be reprimanded by Judge Carey,
who told him to speak when he
was spoken to. He asked time in
which to obtain an attorney to take
up his case and to write to his
parents for help.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
(By United Press Leased Wire)

SEATTLE, May 19.-Mrs. Anna
w. Steiner. twice married and twice
divorced, will remarry her first hus-
band, Post Commissary Sergeant
James l.. Green of the transport Dix
on June 4. Their IS year old son, a
high school student. reunited his
parents, separated shortly after his
birth.
Mrs. Steiner was a school girl of
16 when she fell in love with Green,
the village school master at Os-
wego, Kan. She became his wife in
1891, and a year later, after a child
ish quarrel. went back to her faith
er's house with an infant son.
Green resigned and enlisted in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
TO CONSIDER
FRANCHISES

This afternoon the city council
went over the proposed route into
the city of the Milwaukee road and
tonight that body will meet again
to resume consideration of the
franchise.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
BENEFIT DANCE

A benefit dance for the aid of the
striking cooks, walters and wait
resses will be given at the Princess
rink Wednesday night. May %. The
proceeds will go to the relief fund
of the allied crafts, and all friends
of the unions are asked to secure
their tickets.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
FRACTURES NOSE

Stumbling over one street car
rail. left exposed FOR repairs at
Wall street and Riverside avenue,
George p. Tolton, a retired farmer,
residing at E1412 Pacific avenue,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

MEDFORD, Ore, May Ia. w.
Hill and his party, who have been
touring central Oregon in automo-
hiles, are expected to arrive in this
city this evening. Elaborate prepa-
rations have been made for their
entertainment here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Chas. F. Webster, Spokane. Legal
Sarah E. Edwards, Cheney. Legal
George Morse, Spokane .23
Ida McClung, Spokane 10
VIM. Barnes, Spokane 80
Grace Hughes, Spokane 80
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
SEE TRANS|T
IN JAPAN

10y United Press Leased Wlre)
TOXIC, May 19.-Both telescopes
Of the Toxic astronomical observa.
tory enabled scientists here to
tograph the transit Of HalIey's
comet across tho suns disc. No
effect on the earth was recorded
during the transit. Tho weather at
the time was fine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

YOU SAVE 20 TO 80 PER CENT
and have guaranteed work, If you
have your painting done by
STERN & CO.,
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didn't 60
THROUGH
THE TAIL
Assertion Being Made
Today By Scien-
lists.
(9y United Press Leased Wire)

CARNEGIE OBSERVATORY,
Mount Wilson, CAL, May 19.-The
earth has not passed through the
comets tail and it is impossible to
estimate at what hour the passage
will begin. according to Professor
George Ellery Hale, director Of the
Carnegie observatory.
Or. Hale and his assistants spent
the night making observations and
watching for effects of the comet
that might be registered by the
delicate apparatus installed at the
observatory.
The comets tail was distinctly
visible when the moon set at 8
o'clock this morning, Professor
Hale declared. 1t curved through a
great arc in the sky. To this curve
he attributes the faiacy.
WILLIAMS BAY, Wis, May 49,.
-l1alley's comet may have lost
part Of it's tail, perhaps all, accord
ing to Director Frost, of Yerkes OBJ
servatory, today. The director de-
clared that the earth did not pass
through the tail of the comet last
night
Director Frost said that the tail
still is in the eastern sky where
it showed from 1898 last night I'M
til 1920 this morning. He also ad-
mitted the possibility that it had
not yet begun the recession jour
new on its orbit
Frost declared that the appear
ance of the tail in the east after it
had been supposed to have passed
to the west, means one of three
possibilities:
1.-The curvature of the tail has
grown SO great, possibly by reason
of the earth's attraction, that while
the head has passed, the tail has
not
2.-The comet may have ceased
it's tail-making capacity, like Bore
ais comet of 1903 and gone west,
leaving its tail behind.
3.-All calculations may be
wrong and the comet may not have
passed us yet.
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Tho Spokane Press, Delivered,
rs Cents a Month.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18
PROFITS IN MOVING PICTURES
jonas Edison As inventor Gets About $1,000 Week. Nearly s3
600 Producers Get Injunction Against Un
authorized Traders Now $4,000 Shows This Coun
try Which Exhibit Motion Pictures

Edison Manufacturing Company, the,
Essaney Film Manufacturing Com
pany, the Gaumont Company, the
Kaiem Company, George Kleine, the
Lubin Manufacturing Company,
George Melies, Pathe F-eres, the
tSelig Polyscope Company and the
Vitagraph Company Of America, eight
of them being American concerns and
the others European interests.
And here is what the business
amounts to in dollars and cents:
Twenty productions are issued each
week in this country. Each Is of 800
feet of film, making $4,000 feet, and
eighty of each are issued, making L.
100000 feet. On this production q
royalty of one-half cent per foot is
paid to Mr.. Edison, giving him from
this source weekly revenue of
$1,000.
Since the settlement under which
these royalties are paid there has
arisen swarm of people, OF whom
Carl Laemmle is one, who have gone,
into the business of supplying moving
picture films in which they had to
violate Mr.. Edison's patent rights.
In the course of it they have taken
from the concerns already enum-
Grated some of their employees and
actors, paying them prepoSterously
high prices, and then in some cases
letting them go after having used
their talents and information for a
short period. Their main contention
before the public and the profession,
or business, has been that the con-
Germs paying the Edison royalties
were violating the Sherman law and
would sooner or later have to quit,
while really these concerns are using
patents on which they are paying
royalties.
1.-THE matter Just decided by Judge
Noyes was an action by the Motion
Picture Patents Company against
Carl Laemmle and the Independent
Moving Picture Company and against
has ruled that the validity of the pat
ent in question has already been adj
Indicated, and he adds, and infringe
ment ON the part of the defendant
corporations is conceded He also
says: I am also of the opinion that
the charge, IL established, that the
complainant is itself. or is a member
of, combination in violation of the
Federal ANTITRUST statute. is not a
defense available in an action for the
infringement of a patent and fails to
show a defect in the compliments
title. An, Injunction against the de-
PENDANT corporations may therefore
issue. The proof of personal in
|fringement by the defendant Laemmle
is, however, deemed insufficientto war;
rant the issuance of an injunction
against him and it is denied. But
this action is without prejudice to the
right of the complainant to renew
his application in case future acts
of personal infringement are dis
closed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18

New York City.-Since the settle
ment not long ago Of the differences
between Thomas A. Edison and the
Biograph people ana various indie
pendent moving picture companies,
which resulted in Mr.. Edison reaping
profits of his genius and industry,
q settlement which followed a Federal
Courts affirmation of Mr.. Edison's
patent rights. peace had promised to
reign among the manufacturers Of the
pictures for the first time in nearly
fifteen years. But q few months ago
a number of new manufacturers
sprang up who, it is charged, boldly
infringed upon Mr.. Edison's patents
and set about justifying themselves
on the ground that. as they alleged,
the eleven manufacturers in this
country and Europe who since the
settlement have been paying Mr.. Edi-
man antitrust law
1t is declared that these men repre-
scented that they would either break
up the settlement or force Mr.. Edison
to open his patents to them. This idea
of contending that the exercise of an
inventors patent rights led to viola
ton of the Sherman law was the only
novel feature in the litigation, which
resulted in decision by Judge Noyes,
of the United States Circuit Court.
that an injunction should lie against
the group Of defendants, who adj
mittedly have been infringing upon
Mr.. Edison's patents, the defendants
being Carl I.aemmle and the indie
pendent Moving Picture Company of
America, of which he is president,
and the Paragraph, Company,
The president of one of the COM
panies which are paying royalties to
Mr.. Edison said: You may see
1t a glance that with the 1000, 600
DR. 100000 persons who make up
The daily attendance of the $4,000
moving picture theatres in this coun-
try the question OF the supply OF these
Aims is matter of wide interest.
But there is more intimate interest
for the great bulk Of the American
people who admire Thomas A. Edi-
son, and that part of the story has
never been told. Mr.. Edison has al
ways given his patents 10 the public
or told the public of his achievements
almost before he had the patents out
and before he had organized any COM
panies to operate under them with
the result that in no single instance,
believe, has he reaped the undis-
turbed benefit of his brain work.
Nov, until the settlement of the
moving picture patent dispute in his
favor, which resulted in the union of
the Edison and Biograph Companies
in the Motion Picture Patents Com
pany-the plaintiff in the action just
decided by Judge Noyes--he wasn't
getting anything from his moving pic
ture invention and was involved in
costly litigation. Since then these
concerns have been paying him royal
ties: The Biograph Company. the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18
The Real Sauaw Man.

Though it is. happily. true that the
tie of civilized wedlock is generally
recognized by the white men who
have taken the hands of Indian maid
ems in marriage. there are sad ex-
ceptions. Some pioneers, govern
ment officials. and army officers of
high rank and low morals have never
acknowledged as their wives the
devoted Indian women united to
them by solemn tribal rites. And
here and there an Indian girl married
and then deserted. has had good
reason to sing with her far Eastern
sister the song of the Shalimar
That such instances are exceptions
among the Sioux Is partly due to
strict paternal discipline. The girls
are wise in their generation: they
not only insist on civilized marriage,
but, as a rule, they will not marry
q white man who drinks or CANDLES,
or Is not worth thousand dollars.
-Everybody's Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18
Tiny Baby's Pitieul Case.

"Our baby when two months old
was suffering with terrible eczema
from head to foot, all over her body.
The baby looked just like skinned
rabbit. We were unable to put clothes
on her. At first it seemed to be few
mattered pimples. They would break
the skin and peel OF, leaving the I'M
derneath skin red as though it were
scalds. Then few more pimples
would appear and spread all over the
body, leaving the baby all raw with
out skin from head to foot. On top
Of her head there appeared heavy
scab a quarter Of an inch thick. 1t
was awful to see so small baby look
as she did. Imagine! The doctor
was afraid to put his hands to the
child. We tried several doctors rem
edies but all failed.
"Then we decided to try Cuticura
BY using the Cuticura Ointment we
softened the scab and it came of. IN
der this. where the real matter YVES.
by washing with the Cuticura Soap
and applying the Cuticura Ointment,
new skin soon appeared. We also
gave baby four drops OF the Cuticura
Resolvent three times daily. After
three days you could see the baby
gaining little skin which would peel
of and heal underneath. Now the
baby is four months old. she is FINE
picture of fat little baby and all is
well. We only used one cake OF Cuti-
cura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and one bottle of Cuticura
Resolvent. II people would know
what Cuticura is there would be few
suffering with eczema. Mrs. Joseph
Kossmann, st. Johns Place, Ridge
wood Heights, l.. l.. N. r., Apr. 80
and May 4. 1909" "