The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-13
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CHATTAROY IS SCENE

lister; John Schribner, whose wife
is teaching at a salary of SIS "a
month in the smaller room, and
Mr.. Shnebly. former Baptist min.
lister, who, has no children in the
school, From such a board as THIS
the majority Of patrons of the chat
taroy school maintain that they
can not secure justice, for it Is
strictly one faction against the
other, and since the whipping Of
the Crosby girl, the opposing fac
ton has grown stronger. Fathers
and mothers, of children going to
this school were quick to place the
stamp of disapproval upon brutal
ity there.
Howell, it is claimed, has been
hired for another year, and the re-
port has thrown the whole little
community into turmoil. Many
families merely exist, and cannot
afford to send their children to
Spokane or other towns for an ed
ucation, yet the law cOmpels par
ents to keep their sons and daugh-
tiers under the age of 16 years in
institutions of learning. What will
be the result? A change in the
head of the school brought about
by force, perhaps. The oldest res
ident of Chattaroy, who has lived
through the fractional chickering's of
the remote little village for 20
years, will not attempt a solution.
Mabel Crosby's father is dead,
and Otto Hollis, her stepfather, like
so many others in the disrupted
community, is a very poor man. He
lives in little shell of a house
with neither lath nor plaster on the
interior. He is calm and quiet,
inoffensive sort, residing way out
on winding trail in the hills north
east of the village. In truth he
cuts little figure with the board of
school directors and the principal,
so it is said, but his less sedate
friends have taken up his part of
the battle for him.
GIRL TALKS FOR THE PRESS.
The Hollis home was in darkness
and the family-Mr and Mrs.
Hollis, little Mabel and three small
er children-was just eating their
evening meal by the waning light
from a window, when the represen-
tative of The Press drove up for
an interview last night.
"Mr. Howell told me to anaIyze
the sentence, Lead the way with
out any more talking" said little
Mabel Crosby, in answer to the
AZ = ~ ~ nIIAatinn -
what lesson was the cause Of the
trouble.
81 tried hard to anaIyze the sen
tence and did do part Of it, but
could not get the rest of 1t. Mr..
Howell did not try to explain the
part Of the sentence that troubled
me, but simply demanded that J
recite it correctly. When told kHp
again ! could not do 1t, he just seIz-
ed me and gave me a whipping With
the piece of rubber hose"
STRUCK EIGHTEEN TIMES:
"How many times did hea ;
strike YOU" the reporter asked
about 10 times" the little
girl responded unfalterinsIy. /
ANA ] was SICK Tor a ndtr a
day afterward, for no struck
me so hard.
"Places where he struck hep l
with the hose were black and /
blue for over week." Mrs.
Hollis broke In, $50 the princi-
pal must have given her an aw- :
Tul beating" Z
This part of the evidence against
Howell is corroborated by a num-
Der of women friends of Mrs. Holts,
who claim to have examined Mabel
Crosby's person, when she returned
to one of their homes from school
two weeks ago yesterday, the day
Of the whipping. There was a
spot on one of the little girls hips,
about six inches square, where the
blood was almost breaking through
the skin from the beating she had
received" one of them told The
Press reporter.
Mr.. Howell was visited in his
home. on the opposite side of the