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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
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10y OhIteu FTtsS Ceaseu WTe1
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 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
U, S, BOAT DRIVES A
MADR|z BOAT AWAY

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 Q 9 q % . . = . . . . .
. "a feel, with an intensity =
= that my investigation has but =
. increased, that If in the near =
. future we should be SO unfor- .
= 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 .
>,.aIl time."-From Speech by =
= Representative McLachlan. .
. Q Q . . 800 q 80 q 90
prevents the secre-
tary of war from disclosing the
truth concerning the weakness of
the Pacific defenses. that report
will be submitted to congress
that will startle the nation.
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 25. 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

WILLIAMS BAY, Wis, May 10.
-Halley's comet may have lost
part of its 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 .320 this morning, He also adj
mitted the possibility that it had
not yet begun the recession jour
ney 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
its 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
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

MEDFORD, Ore, May ID. w.
Hill and his party, who have been
touring central Oregon in automo-
lilies, are expected to arrive in this
city this evening Elaborate prepa-
rations have been made for their
here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
O|DN'T 60
THROUGH
THE TAIL
Assertion Being Made
Today By Scien-
lists.
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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 EIIery Hale, director of the
Carnegie observatory.
DR.. 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 3
o'clock this morning, Professor
Hale declared. 1t curved through
great arc in the sky. To this curve
he attributes the faIIacy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

xou SAVE 20 TO 80 PER CENT
and have guaranteed work. II you
have your painting done by
STERN & Co..
Phone Main 1858. SO Monroe st.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
SEE TRANSIT
IN JAPAN
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TOXIC, May 19.-Both telescopes
Of the Toxic astronomical observa-
tory enabled scientists here to
photograph the transit of Haliey's
comet across the 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
NOSE

Stumbling over one street car
rail, left exposed for repairs at
Wall street and Riverside avenue,
George P. Tolton, retired farmer,
residing at E1412 Pacific avenue,
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
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Chas. F. Webster. Spokane. Legal
Sarah f. Edwards, Cheney. Legal
George Morse, Spokane .23
Ida McClung, Spokane .........19
VIM. Barnes, Spokane 80
Grace Hughes, Spokane ....... 80
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19
G O Min u E D
- 20
P A @ F. Q n E
COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

ferred being at home when the dis
aster happened.
At one of the schools the boys
invented a comet game. A bunch
of conspirators got a 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
We're laid at the door of the COM
ct. \ 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 a world for a hours
and that was plenty for him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

The Spokane Press, Delivered,
Is Cents a Month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-19

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 a 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-
yatory 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
is readily discernible, we have OBJ
served little striking positive phe
nomena. But that does not lesser
the value of the observations made
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
GALLOWS is READY IN
WAITING FOR NEGRO
Patterson May Swing Next
Wednesday.

Unless the usual attempts at delay
are made insthe interim, as always in
the case of murderers, Henry Patter.
son will be hanged here next We'd
nesday for the murder of Capt. w. f..
McRae, near Americus, a year ago.
The Supreme court LAS passed upon
Patterson's case and the only form of
delay open would be an application
to the prison commission for commu-
tation of sentence to life imprison-
ment, which would escure for Pat
terson at least. an additional thirty
or sixty days. In the meantime the
gallows has been made ready, and
unless the expected happens the red
handed slayer of Capt. McRae will be
hanged next Wednesday, 9th. Pat
terson has asked for two hours time
in which to speak from the seaffold
but his remarks will doubtless be con-
siderably abbreviated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
IWENIY-SIX BODIES
HAVE BEEN FOUND.
Number of Dead. in Mine
Horror is Great.
Especial to Times-Recorderl

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Birmingham, Ala, April 22.-The
work of rescuing the imprisoned min
ers who were caught in the death
trap at Mulga mines Friday continues
with unabated interest upon the part
of the workers, and already twenty
six dead bodies have been brought tc
the surface.
1t Is now believed that all of the
imprisoned miners have been suffo-
Gated by the deadly black damp fumes
generated at the time of the explo-
sion, and practically all hope of res
cuing any of them alive has been
abandoned.
The mines, which are the property
of the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic railroad, are now in the hands
of the state mine inspectors, who are
taking every precaution to prevent any
accident occurring until the mine has
been re-opened. The cause of the
first explosion has not yet been defi-
nitely ascertained.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
IN TWO DAYS TOOK
OVER 5000 NAMES.
Board of Trade Census
Making Progress.
Two Wares VIII Prob
ably Be Completed
By Tonight.

Fine progress was made again yes
terday on the second day of the Board
Of Trade count of the city's popula-
ton. Everywhere the four enumera-
tors sent out by that organization
working in the interest of an accurate
and complete count for the business
interests of the city, met with cor
dial reception and a prompt response
to their requests for the desired in
formation
Today tits quite probable that the
enumerators in the First and Second
Wards will complete their task. Those
are the two smallest wards as to
population, although they cover con-
siderable area. The Third and Fourth
wards, embracing the bulk of the
city's population will require proba-
bly, a couple of days longer. 1t Is
not improbable that by Tuesday night
the entire census will have been com
pleted.
Up to last night the four enumer-
ators had taken down the names of
$3.50 of the population of Americus.
Their books show the street, the
number of THE house, and all of the
occupants of the house who can prop
erly be classified as residents of
Americus. The count taken up to. last
nights close of the work was as fol-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
WILL ADDRESS AMERICUS
CITIZENS MONDAY NIGHT
Director Dave, of the Southern
Commercial Congress
Will Be the Guest of the AneriCus
Board of Trade While a Wis
tor in the City

Hon G. Grosyenor Dave, manag-
ing director of the Southern CONNER
cial Congress, with its headquarters
at Washington, D c., will be the CUES
of the Americus Board of Trade on
next Monday, passing the entire day
in this city and addressing the bus.
mess men and citizens generally at
a mass meeting on Monday night.
Mr.. Dave has been attending the
Louisiana Farm Lands Congress, at
Alexandria, La. While in Washing
ton one day recently Mr.. B. F. Arthur,
one of the new and enterprising cit
liens of Americus, got into commu-
icat5on with Mr. Dawes secretary.
Later the matter was brought to the
attention of President Shiver of the
Board of Trade. Communication was
established with Mr.. Dave and an in
vitation extended him to stop over at
Americus on his return trip to Was J.
ington.. Yesterday he wired as fol-
lows:
Alexandria, La, April 22
B. F. Arthur, Americus, Ga
Glad to accept invitation for Mon
day next. VIII arrive by first train
from Montgomery that morning and
place myself in hands of the Board
of Trade for balance of day. Can tell
the news of the great moves going
on in Louisiana as typical of the
spirit now stirring the South, in
which the Southern Commercial Con
gress is an active participant.
G. Grosvenor Dave.
In reply to this the following tel
egram was sent:
Hon. G. Grosyenor Dave.
Alexandria, La:
The Amer;cus Board of Trade well
comes your visit to this city on next
Monday. Please wire me what train
you will arrive on.
John w. SILVER,
President Board Of Trade.
Steps were at once taken by Presi-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

dent Shiyer looking to the proper re-
ception and entertainment of the dis
tinguished visitor and arrangements
for the mass meeting on Monday night
at which he will speak.
Arrangements were made for re-
ception committee to meet Mr.. Dave
on his arrival in the city. Roome will
be reserved for him at the Windsor
hotel Business men will be invited
to call upon him during such hours
as may be open. In the afternoon ar
rangements will be made for a party
of citizens to accompany Mr. Dave in
tour of the county, probably half
dozen autos participating. Probably
there will be some special function
before the public meeting, which will
take place at the council room at s
o'clock.
Every citizen should attend this
meeting and learn of the great work
that is being done in building up the
South and in which the Southern
Commercial Congress is taking an ac-
tive part. This congress was organ
lied in December, 1908, with repre-
sentatNes from all the Southern
states and leading Southern cities.
Mr.. John M. Parker, of New Orleans.
is president; Hon. David R. Francis
of st. Louis, is first vice president;
Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, N. c.,
second vice president Many of the
most prominent business men of the
South are active in the councils CT
the congress. Arrangements have
been made for the erection of mil
lion dollar building at the national
capital as headquarters for Southern
business enterprises, and as a great
museum for the display of Southern
manufactures and products.
The city hall should be crowded on
Monday at the public meeting to hear
Mr.. Dave, who is one of the leading
exponents of the progressive move
ments under way in the South to-
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
and Tuesday

One
sold at the pattern
IL yards Tor 49e
entire
Prints including all the light
Tuesday at yard e. 4 Sac
this
been placed big table offered
Monday Tuesday,
only Every
Tuesday
TO one buyer at the price pair 5Oc
Hosiery
have
sold for less than The lot
very styles,
well wOr1 $780, just the lot
them Monday Tuesday each $425
Of
linen worth $780, all
10 here Monday Tuesd choice soc
English Cloth II bolts bolt
ly y10c here Mond Tuesday,
Monday and Tuesday ~ 12c
until
yard 10 z-5c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
EVERYBODY is EAGER
TO ADVERTISE CITY
Another Order for 5000
Had to Be Sent In.
First Shot in the Board
Of Trade Campaign
for 1910.

In hundr8 g of letters going out
from Americus, to all parts of the
country, to-day and tomorrow and for
many days thereafter, there will be
the little cards telling about Americas
and Sumter county.
The cards issued by the Board of
Trade are in demand. The original
supply of ten thousand did not prove
to be enough. In distributing them,
number of citizens anxious to do their
part in advertising city and county
were overlooked. Telephone messages
began to come in for supplies of them,
and some called in person to secure q
batch The 10000 on hand Were
speedily exhausted and another order
for 5000 was sent into the printers.
These $4,000 cards, the first shot in
the Board of Trade advertising cam
paign for 1910, will reach every state
in the Union before they are exhaust
ed. When that trs9e comes some other
form of popular advertising will be re-
sorted to, probably little four page
leafl6t that will also tell of what
Americus and Sumter county are, and.
what they propose doing.
This form of advertising is both.
cheap and effective. 1t keeps Ameri.
Gus constantly before an ever widen
ing army of people, it freshens up
their memories about this city at all
times, it persistently keeps them
aware of the fact that Americus is
here, that Americus is doing business,
that Aanericus intends to grow and ex-
pand in all directions and that Ameri-
Gus is a good place to get acquainted
with
If any business or professional man
failed to secure a supply of the origin
al 10000 he will be in position to Sc
cure batch in a day or two out Of
the second order for 5000.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
WHEN YOUR JOINTS ARE STILL

and your muscles sore from cold or
rheumatism, when you slip and sprain
a join, strain your side or bruise
yourself, Painkiller will take out
the soreness and fix you right AL
ways have 1T with you, and use it
freely. Avoid substitutes, there is
but one Painkiller, Perry Davis. Price
25c, 35c and SOC.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
AGAIN JUNETIME IN GEORGIA;
WEATHER is WARMER NOW

Americus took off her wraps yes
terday and donned her picture hat
and latticed hose and shirtwaist, put
out the fire in the card room and re-
sumed the pasttimes of genial spring.
For one solid week the city has
shivered, the picnic was abandoned
and the fish refused to bite as the
result of unreasonable weather. 0v-
ercoats were again requisitioned and
the coalpile dug up for overlooked
black diamonds. But the weather man
prescribes a warmer dose today. and
peace reigns in Warsaw.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
NOTHING OUT IN IOWA
TO TOUCH SUMTER
Found This county Exceed
ed All Expectations.
VIII Probably Advertise
County for Dairying
Purposes.

Before leaving Americas on Thurs
day night immigration Jackson, of
the Central of Georgia railway, talked
very entertainingly about the differ
ences in conditions in Iowa, his home
state, and the sections around Ameri-
Gus.
ITO begin with" said Le, I'VE have
no roads to compare with those Of
Sumter county. Our farmers would
be Wild if they had such roads to ride
over as [ have seen here today. And
when you tell me that fifty or more
miles of them are to be built every
year until the county is gridironed
with them, I feel like telling my
friends out in Iowa to pack up and
move quickly before all the lands IN
Sumter county are taken.
Your wonderful list of products of
the soil, too, is amazing to a man who
is more accustomed to thinking in the
language of corn and hogs only when
he considers agriculture. Iowa
raises corn and turns it into hogs.
You seem to be able to do the same
thing here and add half dozen
other fine money crops on top. of that.
to have a dairying country also, and
finally to live like lords of the soil
with food raised in your gardens tn at
would tempt an epicure For the
home lover this county, it seems tc
me, this county is most remarkable in
every way.
Il am candid in saying that Sum
ter county hes impressed me more
thany anytnins have yet seen on
.lbe line of our system. The cum,
| have been shown in this county was
certainly beautiful and a magnificent
exhibition of highly developed agri-
culture. And when you tell me that
this is not the best, that there IS
something better yet to be seen IN
Sumter, am certainly convinced that
this is a wonderful country herea-
bouts"
Mr.. Jackson's attention was called
to the fact that Sumter county offecs
peculiar advantages for dairying. He
promised to give this matter careful
consideration when the time for spe-
cializing IN advertising comes. 1t will
be two or three months before he has
his department organized and in
working shape. He was assured bv
President Shiver that when that is
done he will find the Americus Board
of Trade ready to back him up in
every effort he makes for the promo
tion Of the country on hisline of road
hereabouts.
Mr.. Jackson and Industrial Agent
Mallory will probably both attend the
fourth annual dinner of the Americus
Board of Trade, to be held early in
May. The committee of the Board of
Trade, of which Mr.. C. L. Ansley IS
chairman and Messrs. Crawford
Wheatley, A. N. Walker and Frank
Harold the other members, is expect
ed to arrange the details for the dim
ner early cext week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
PATTEN CONFIDENT HE
GAN CONTROL MARKET
Leaves Exchange on Week S
Vacation.
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

New York, April 22.-With the price
of cotton on the New York cotton ex-
change practically in his own hands.
James Patten, the famous Chicago
speculator, left for home this after
noon to be gone a week. He feels
so completely master of the situation
that he can leave the battlefield with
out measiness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
ALABAMA COTTON FIRM
GOES TO TIE WALL.
Liabilities Said to Be More
Than $5,OOO,OOO.

Mobile, Ala, April 22.-That the
failure of the cotton firm of Knight,
Yancey & Co, of Decatur, Ala, oper-
ating in several southern cities, with
liabilities said TO be more than five
million dollars, and assets of less than
one million, is due to the manipula-
ton of bogus foreign bills Of lading by
J. H. Knight, and that the whole thing
is a colossal fraud, is stated by local
bank officials who hold warehouse re-
ceipts of the defunct company.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
HALLEY'S COMET CAN
BE SEEN WITH THE EYE
Sunday Morning Celestial Visitor TO
Come close to Earth.
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

Especial to Times-Rec order)
Washington, D. c., April 22.-Hal-
ley's comet will be visible to the
naked eye Sunday morning between
1924 and 5:22 o'clock, according to
an announcement by Father Hedrick,
director of the Georgetown University
located here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

The work will go on vigorously to-
day. There is more or less back work.
going to houses where the parties
were absent on the first call. This
requires time. When the census is
completed it will undoubtedly be the
most thorough that has been taken in
years, so far as an actual count of the
city's population is concerned.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Al FEM DROWNED WHILE
FISHING IN APALACHIC0LA
COrdeIe Timberman Meets Tragic
Death.
Especial to Times-Recorder.

Cordele, Ca, April pa telegram
was received here this morning from
Ogechee, Fla, stating that A. ]. Fem,
a prominent timber owner and turpen-
tine operator of this section, was
drowned while fishing in the Apala-
chicola river some time yesterday.