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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12
DIRECT FROM A
YEAR IN CHICAGO

Svene months in New York and
six months in Boston, comes VIM.
F. Mann's "A Broken Idol" the lat
est and most successful musical
comedy, exactly as produced at
Whitney's theater. Chicago. Called
the play of surprises, because in
terwoven, to nicely are mechani-
cal and electrical effects never be-
fore attempted in musical comedy.
1t has distinct plot and q very
pretty love story with a cast far
above the average musical comedy
production. This, with big Amer
lean Beauty Chorus selected by
Gus. Sohlke. for good looks and
good voices. has made the critics
pronounce it one big success. The
cast is headed by Miss Perle Barti,
a very recent find for musical com.
edy, but a successful one, for her
first Chicago appearance simply
made the critics sit up and write
nice things about her. The scenes
of the play are laid in California,
giving the scenic artists and cos.
tuners plenty of scope for a display
of beautiful and blending colors.
The company is large one. includ.
ing names of performers who have
helped place musical comedy in the
front ranks of the amusement
world. Among the many song hits
introduced are "Springtime." "Loye
Makes the World Go Around,
Alabama" China DOLL" Il Don't
Care" Marie" and The Gay Co.
quette." All catchy airs that WI
be hummed and whistled for soI}
time to come. At the Auditorium
theater on Nov. 10 and 20. Seal
can be reserved one week In a.
vance,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

figures by nine figures in eight Sec
onds without the aid of pencil.
paper or any artificial device. He
can raise figure to the seventh
power In 10 seconds and can do
other mathematical wonders.
THE Substitute" is the title of a
merry little song and dance sketch.
which Iilda Thomas and Lou Hall
will present. Miss Thomas has
been seen In Spokane before with
Frank Daniels. "A knight for a
Day" and "The Show irl." and has
never failed to make an impression.
Stanley and Norton. a dancing
and singing pair come to the Or
pheum with most enviable repu-
tation. gained in the east in the
big circuits.
Paul Florus, Europe's most ia
nous xylOphonist soloist, is also
on the bill and no one like him has
been heard here. He has won
derful command of his instrument
and his music Is really inspiring.
One of the best gymnasts in the
country will be found in Rio. for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12
S S;1oerm PLAYS AND PLA YERS IN SPOKANE
LA
ACROBAnC ACT IS THE
''"' i WASHINGTON iS FEATURE

Those who attend the Washing
ton the coming week will have the
chance of seeing one of the sea-
sons sensations in the crobatic
line which will be the George Bon
hair troupe of Six Risley acrobats.
Four of them are little fellows and
the other two handle them with
amazing dexterity in what is known
as Risley work. Among the most
impressive of their accomplish
ments is the tossing of one of the
troupe to the shoulders of two
high stand, spectacular one-hand
catch and still more thrilling foot
catch, all performed with amazing
grace and ease.
Next on the list comes Robert
Carter and Kathryn Waters, who
offer a hurricane of laughter with
their original diversion entitled,
"The Wise Mr.. Conn The sketch
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

is full of bright lines and ludicrous
situations with no plot to follow,
just one long laugh.
A special attraction will be Var
don, Perry and Wilbur, who are
billed as Those Three Boys" They
are three American boys who by a
great deal of study and practice
have developed a high class act.
They have toured the world, play
ing for three years in Europe and
have just returned to the states.
Thos. J. Leo and Jessie Chap
man will present novelty act en-
titled Wanted, Donkey" In this
feature there are some excellent
horizontal bar feats offered, as well
as some good singing and dancing.
Miss Kitty Edwards, the pretty
little English Coincidence, will pre-
sent her singing number, which is
one of the best. Miss Edwards has
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12
so MILES FROM
BOSTON" NEXT

Little Johnny Jones will be the
Sunday matinee and night attrac-
ton at the Spokane theater, closing
the week with this popular musical
Cohan show. Starting Monday
night the Baker, Stock company
will offer for presentation another
popular play, 80 Miles From Bos-
ton"
The Bakeronians have demon
strated that they are equally clever
in farce as well as the serious pro-
auctions. The story of the misled
boy, who gets into trouble and de-
ponds upon his sister to get him
out of it, forms the point of the
tale, but of course there is the Har-
ward baseball player, who loves
her. and the rival who stoops to
tricks that are low in his endeavor
to win her. besides the village
characters, many and amusing.
The plot of $50 Miles From Bos-
ton" centers around the theft OF
$400 from the postoffice by Jed
Woods. brother of the postmis-
tress Sadie Miss Slosson). He
loses the money on ball game
won by Sadie's sweetheart. Joe
Westcott (Henry Stockbridge), and
to cover up the shortage goes to
Dan Harrigan, Joe's rival. Dave
works through Jed to gain Sadie.
who refuses to give up her sweet
heart, the trouble being cleared up
by the burning of the postoffice
and the magnanimity of Tim Har-
rigan. Dawes father.
"Harrigan," waltz With Me,
Jack and Jill" "My Small Town
GAL" 'Aint 1t Awful" and Boys
Who Fight the Flames" are among
the songs that George M. Conan
has written for this rural musical
play. 1t is an interesting story of
New England, and the scenes are
laid in the quiet town of Brook
field, Mass, with the postoffice,
the public square and the ball
grounds as the scenes of some
amusing Incidents. The engage
ment will consist of the usual mat
inees Wednesday, Saturday and
closing with the following Sunday
matinee and night performances.
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Scene from Henry W. Savages production of Madame X
Auditorium Wednesday and Thursday November Is and IT,

with whom she has lately returned
from South America. Sc is ar
rested and charged with the crime
of murder, but she is apparently
oblivious of everything and refuses
to answer the questions of the ex-
aiming magistrate. Because of her
silence she is known as Madame
x" A young lawyer is appointed
to defend her. 1t is his first case,
and he is naturally very nervous
about it and very anxious to win.
But his client refuses to talk to
him or to offer any excuses what
ever for her act. 1t so happens
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12
AUDITORIUM.

Sunday-Dark.
Neutrality-suspicious. and Mordkin,
the Russian dancers.
Tuesday-EIlen Beach Yaw.
Wednesday-"Madame X"
Thursday-"Madame X"
Friday-Dark.
Saturday-"A Broken Idol"
Sunday-"A Broken Idol"
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present generation. It's story is
we'll known. 1t concerns the life
of a woman of the upper classes
of French society, who deserts her
husband, running away with a
lover. After time, the usual
thing happens, and the woman re-
turns repentant, and pleads to be
forgiven and taken back into her
home. The husband, however, is
obdurate, refuses to pardon her,
and casts her out of his house. She
disappears. Twenty years later, at
a seaport town in France, a wreck
of woman murders the paramour
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
AT MEAD FAILS

Four men attempted to rob the
bunkhouse of the Dry Pressed Brick
&C., near Mead. yesterday but we're
frustrated by the quick wit OF the
cook. who witnessed the alleged at
tempt and ran out across the field
where 40 or so men were working
and obtained help. The robbers,
four in number were captured In
the house.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

that this lawyer is the woman's
own son, although he ~oes not
know that she is the mother nor
she that he is her son.. The
strength of this situation is appar-
ent, and the forceful plea of the
young advocate for his mothers
life furnishes one of the most IT.
resistible performances of the mod
ern stage. The audience is literal
ly swept off its feet by the flow
of emotions, and with the splendid
cast with which 1t is presented,
Madame X" is undoubtedly the
greatest dramatic production.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

Madame X, the triumphant dra-
matte offering of this and last sea-
son. will be offered by Henry w.
Savage at the Auditorium next
Wednesday and Thursday night,
November Is and II.
This epoch-making play, which
was the sensation of Europe for
over two years and then divided
its first American season between
Chicago and New York, where it
was hailed by a succession of
crowded houses, Is credited with
having made deeper impression
than any dramatic production Of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

charming personality, dresses
very nicely and sings sweetly and
no doubt will be one of the popu-
lar numbers of the bill.
Joe Lanigan, the elongated en-
tertainer, is a genius of fun. He
has a fund of songs and sayings
which he offers his own original
manner, and what he says and does
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

merly star acrobat and athlete with
the Three Rio Brothers, one Of the
best known teams in vaudeville.
The bill will be rounded out with
a reel of the latest motion pictures
and special music by the Orpheum
concert orchestra. Matinee every
day
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-12

keeps the audience in constant
laughter. To close this excellent
bill a new film of some Of the lat
est pictures will be offered.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

Columbia. With the quantity of or
Chards that are being set out here ev-
cry year, the time will come when you
will want to extend your market, and
if you wait until that time to intro
duce your product on that market YOU
will find that competing districts have
a firm hold on the consumer.
II cannot emphasize too strongly the
necessity of a good pack. | was in
Spain and Portugal not long ago, and
the way they handle their fruit is
atroCious. They treat the incest fruit
they put out as if were coal Shovel
1t around. Throw it into boxes. OF
course they don't get any sort of q
price for it, and the sooner all fruit
growers learn that packing is the most
important thing, the quicker they will
receive the highest prices.
Would Take Our Climate Back.
II am going tomorrow to Seattle,
and will then visit WenatChee and
leave at once for New York city and
my home. | only wish | could take
back with me to England some of
your wonderful western climate. If
could bottle up some of the real Yak
ina sunshine. and turn it loose in Der
hyshire or Cornwall | could do more
for my country than if l were Prime
Minister"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
BURBANK INCREASES
THE PEACH FAMILY
University Professor Compliments
him on His Three New
Discoveries.

BERKELEY, Aug. 27.-By the
publication today of letter written
by Professor f.. j. Wickson, dean Of
the college of agriculture, University
of California, to Luther Burbank, was
made known the discovery by the
Santa Rosa plant wizard of two new
varieties of peaches and one Of plums
which promise to have a notable
commercial value. The peaches are
both crosses of the Crawford and
Muir varieties, so merged. however.
as to form two new varieties, both
superior to the parents. The plum
is n Seeding Of the Bartlett and over
this Professor Wickson also wakes
enthusiastic. His letter to Burbank,
made public today, follows;
my Dear Mr.. Burbank Your
work with the Crawford Muir cross
seems to me to have produced most
notable results. / saw at the Rural
Press office two instances of this
cross, one which seemed to carry all
that is good in the Crawford over to
the Muir, and the other which re-
verses the process and carries the
best OF the Muir over to the Craw-
ford
what seems to me best In the
Crawford is juiciness, deliciousness
and high-color beauty and carrying
these to a smaller and, apparently
harder and sounder pit amounts to
ruling out the chief defects of the
Crawford, so far as the fruit itself
is concerned. This is, Of course, the
peach with the richer coiors on the
skin and with some red at the pit.
1.-THE other peach (of which the
specimens in the city were a little
smaller than those which you kind
ly sent me later at Berkeley has, IL
seems to me, an improvement Of the
Muir flesh in favor and little more
juiciness and retains the color-fee pit
of the Muir with but little increase
in size of pit. It has the best OF the
Muir type improved by the Craw
ford quality and exteriorly it is de-
lightful to see the pallor OF the Muir
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
The Best Hour OF Life

is when you do some great deed or
discover some wonderful fact. This
hour came to j. r. Pitt, of Rocky
Mt, N. c., when he was suffering
intensely, as he says, from the worst
cold 1 ever had. I then proved to my
great satisfaction what wonderful
cold and cough cure DIR. Kings New
Discovery is. For, after taking one
bottle, I was entirely cured. You
can't sayanything too good Of a med
icine like that" Its the surest and
best remedy for diseased lungs, hem
orrhages, lagrippe, asthma, hay fe-
throat or lung trouble. so,
s1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by Clark's Pharmacy
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
WELLS FARGO RATES
REDUCED IN OREGON
New Rates, Result of Agreement
With Commission, Are 81 Per
Cent of Old Ones.

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. Eek
press rates in Oregon published by the
Wells-Fargo Express Co. are to be re-
duced at once without further conten-
ton as the result of an understanding
reached here today with the Interstate
Railroad Commission. The new sched-
ules will soon go into effect.
The new rates represent an average
of "a per cent of the present rates,
but sliding scale of reductions is
made so that practically the reduc-
tons range from nothing to one dollar
The action is the result of the inves-
tigation by the commission over a
year ago.
The order to reduce was issued but
the request for a suspension was
granted. j. d. Ludlow of New York,
general manager, and c. w. stockton,
general counsel, came to Oregon this
week to meet the commission and the
agreement was finally reached.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
7. R. TO HAVE
A FAST RIDE
Auto Will Take Him in Record
Time From Minneapolis to Ma
tional Conservation Congress in
Saint Paul.

ST PAUL, Aug 29-The strenu-
osity of Theodore Roosevelt win be
tested in st. Paul, Sept 6. when he
comes here to address the National
Conservation Congress
The speed laws are to be broken
on the automobile trip from Mime
apolis to st. Paul and there will be
meals and rides that promise to test
the metal of the great lion hunter.
When the colonel gets into Mime
apolis from Fargo, N. D., on the
morning of the sixth of September
he will be met by the usual com
mittees that greet distinguished Wis
itors in every city. He will be taken
to the hotel for breakfast, after
which there's to be another informal
reception. Then he will be placed
in Louis Hills 90 horse power auto
and 1t Is planned that the ten mile
trip will be made in about II min
utes, The machine can make 1t fast
er IL Roosevelt doesn't mind.
There will be soldiers and police
all along the line between the two
cities to warn drivers of other We
hicles of the approach of the flyer.
When the colonel gets to St. Paul
a city with which he is perfectly IA
miliar and for which he often has
spoken his admiration, he will be
taken to his suite in the new ST. Paul
hotel. Here, after he has brushed
off some of the dust, he will meet
some old friends. Then he goes to
the auditorium to address the con-
servation congress. This will take
more than an hour. Back to the no.
tel he goes and there'll be another
reception, this time the Original
Roosevelt Club, a st. Paul organiza-
ton, will call at the hotel on horse
back and in Rough Rider uniform.
They'll give the colonel the cow
boy salute. Then comes luncheon.
The afternoon program includes a
trip to the state fairgrounds on the
western outskirts Of ST. Paul; a
stand; another fast ride back to the
city to the home of Frank Kellogg,
the Roosevelt trust buster" where
the colonel will enjoy the first rest
If re day. The evening program
includes a dinner given by Col. BIO
die, on old Rough Rider and friend
Of tie former president and ppssibl,
a banquet.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

and aiding and determining who
should be endorsed on the party tick
cts for the house and senate.
The Royal Ach, the Liquor Dealers
association, is taking a lively inter
est in the campaign for legislative
candidates. They will no doubt OPP
pose the members of the last legis-
lature who voted for the county
unit and will seek to substitute for
them in the coming legislature those
men who will look after the liquor
interests. The contests between the
wet" and dry" forces of the state,
promises to be the most bitter pf
any in the history OF the state, for
the reason that the liquor men al
ready concede that the passage OF n
county unit local option law will
mean the abolition of the saloons in
at east thirty and probably thirty
eight counties of the state.
An interesting table has been pre-
pared by the Anti-Saloon league of
Washington, which will be published
in the next number of the American
Issue, its official publication, show
ing the per cent of taxable property
(real and personaD of each county
in the state situated inside OF the in
corporated cities and towns.
In IL counties. less than 10 per
cent.
In IL counties, less than 20 and
more than 10 per cent.
In Z counties, less than so and
more than 20 per cent.
In 2 counties, less than 40 and
more than 80 per cent
In one county. less than so and
more than As per cent
The position taken by the Anti
Saloon league is that inasmuch as
in thirty-five counties of the state,
more than so per cent of the taxable
property is located outside of the in
corporated towns, therefore. this
portion of the county should be al
lowed to participate in the vote on
the question of the number of saloons
in the towns and cities of the coun-
ties. thus aiding in the elimination
of the saloons as a crime producing
and matchmaking institution.
The Anti-Saloon league is author
ity for the statement that 21.S2 per
cent only Of the taxable property of
the average county, outside of King,
Pierce and Spokane counties. lies
inside the incorporated towns. 1t
would appear from this that to op-
pose county unit local option and
thus deny the larger tax paying ele-
ment Of the county the right to vote
on the saloon question would be
nothing more nor less than favoring
a principle long since looked upon as
obnoxious to the fair minded Amer
ican,-"Taxation without represen-
tation."
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
VICTOR MURDOCH
BOOSTS POINDEXTER

Victor Murdoch, the Kansas con-
gresham who defied and defeated
Speaker Cannon and robbed him of all
his time-honored autocratic power,
spoke at the Yakima theater Friday
night on behalf of Miles PondeXter to
an audience that taxed the seating ca
pacity to the utmost, and when the
speaker called for a Poindexter dem
onstration, every man in the house
jumped to his feet and yelled.
Introduced by Chairman McNulty OF
the Poindexter club. the speaker, after
expressing his delight at the opportuni-
ty afforded him during the day to ex-
anime the famous apple district of
which he had heard so much, lunged
at once to the very core of the pres
ent political situation, interrupted,
from time to time, by terrific applause,
and cheers that for spontaneous en-
thusiasm must have taken many of
the auditors back to the old days of
red-fire and lantern-parade campaign
lny
Il stand here tonight he said, "for
a cause. l stand here tonight also for
a young man whose heart beats true
to that cause. Twenty months ago l
didn't know Miles Poindexter.
Poindexter Had to Show Murdoch,
While the struggle was on for ma
jority rights in Congress 1 heard there
had been a young man elected from
the state of Washington on an insurg-
ent platform, but l had heard that
tale before. I had learned not to count
on them until they had been tested by
fire. From the beginning it was OBJ
served that, though Congress is US
ually poorly attended, Miles Poindex-
ter was always in his seat.
l watched this young man and saw
his mettle tried, and after having seen
him and after having watched him,
l have come across the continent to
tell the people of Washington that in
those days of doubt and confusion,
when the question was being decided
on the floor of Congress, whether Can
non or the elected representatives OF
the people should rule, when Con-
gressmen rushed up and down the
aisles hunting party bosses to find out
how they should vote, it was
apparent that there was only one man
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
ANT1-SALOON LEAGUE
GETS INTO POLITICS
Has Asked Candidate for Senate
and Legislators Position on
/ County Unit Law.

SEATTLE, Aug. 26.-The Anti-Sa-
loon league of Washington announces
that it has mailed to every candidate
for the state senate and house of
representatives a letter Copy Of
which is enclosed) asking the posi-
ton of each candidate toward the
county unit law for which the Anti
Saloon league forces of the state will
fight in the coming legislature. The
replies of the candidates will be tabu-
lated and information furnished to
the temperance voters of the respec-
tive counties to guide them in the
selection of their candidates at the
primaries. The league. as the rep
resentative agency of the allied tenn
perance forces of the state, believes
that if the voters are to make their
selections intelligently, they must
have this information.
The local option forces of the va
rious counties have been organized
with the State Anti-Saloon league,