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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
FAV0R|T|SM IN
CREMATORY
CHARGES
Political Pull or Good Will
of Bosses Garry
Weight.
NEWSPAPERS FAVORED

Investigation of the books of the
erematory department will show
some glaring Inconsistencies in the
price for service made to consun,-
ers. II patron is an old time
friend Of the superintendent or his
assistant, as has been shown In
few cases cited without contradic-
tion from the department, he can
secure special consideration that he
would not otherwise get.
sRestaurants are not charged
alike. Investigation of the books
will show that some restaurants
pay less for the same service than
others and that no two prices pre-
vail for livery barns and similar
institutions.
Probably the most glaring in
stance of favoritism is. in the
charges made for service rendered
the newspaper and printing offices
Of the city. This is cited not be-
cause it affects The Press but
merely as a criterion OF the way
this public utility is conducted I'M
der the present regime at the city
hall
For the Oonth of January the
Spokesman-Review was charged
fiat rate of SO per month, and re-
ceived three trips per week. This
ALSO included the rubbish accumu-
lated in the Chronicle office, as
both papers are printed under the
same roof During the same period
The Press was charged $3.50, at
the rate of 81 and $3.50 per load.
Since February The Press has had
two loads of old paper hauled away
by the crematOry at a charge OF
$3.50. the Inland Herald three loads
at total charge of $3.50. while the
combined Spokesman-Review and
Chronicle will again escape, it is
presumed, with charge of So for
the month The high cost of crem-
atory service has driven The Press
to installing its own cremation
plant and the city wagons will no
longer be required. The Inland
Printing Co. is also charged at the
rate of $3.50 per load.
All that is needed to get a spe-
cial favor from the crematory is
political pull or the good will of the
officials at the head of the depart
ment. Members of the city council
have so much complaint about this
arm of the city service that it is
probable that an investigation will
be demanded
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
AN OUTING FOR
VETS PLANNED
Proceeds of Military Ball to
Be Used for This
End.

Probably the most elaborate mil
itary social affair held in Spokane
for some time will be the military
ball next Tuesday night in honor
of Washington's birthday. 1t will
be given for the benefit Of the Spo-
kane Veterans association, which
is composed of veterans of the
civil, Spanish and Philippine wars
in this county
The G.. A. r., the Spanish War
Veterans and the officers at Fort
Wright will participate in the af-
fair. The grand march will be
given at 9 o'clock, but preceding
the grand march, and beginning at
8 o'clock, will be program of exer-
cises consisting of drills, in the
style of 81 to IS, by the G.. A. R.,
drills in the style Of 1898 by the
Spanish Veterans, and drills after
the manner of today by regulars
from the fort. A drill team from
the Eagles and one from the Royal
Highlanders will also give exhibit
tons.
The proceeds of the affair will be
used in giving the veterans an out
ing during the summer, either in
July or August 1t is planned to
hold joint camp by. the G.. A. r.
and the Spanish Veterans some
where in the vicinity of Fort
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
LITERARY DUEL
BETWEEN TWO
PLAYWR|GHTS
(By United Press Leased Wire)


CHICAGO, Feb. ia literary
duel TO the death will be fought
in Paris soon if a challenge is
sued tonight by Samuel Eberly
Gross, accuser of Edmond Rost-
and, the French playwright is
accepted.
Gross, who first charged that
Rostand had plagiarized his "Cry-
ano de Bergerac" from Gross
play the Merchant Prince of
Cornyille,' and now adds the
charge that the inspiration of
Rostand's "Chanticleer" was
drawn from the same play. He
has sent a communication to the
French Academy of Immortals, de-
nouncing Rostand as a literary
thief" and demanding an investi-
cation of his literary claims on
which his right to remain a mem
Der OF the Academy rests.
Gross not only challenges the
Frenchman to literary duel but
also suggests the manner in which
the duel is to be fought.
He urges that a sort of court of
inquiry be appointed to decide
whether Rostand or Gross is en-
titled to the literary distinction
which has come to the author of
"Cyrano" and 'rAiglon." The
communication repeats Gross
charges that Rostand by tricks of
a literary pirate stole the sub
stance of 1.-The Merchant Prince of
Cornvillc" and that he later at
tempted to destroy Gross stand.
ing as writer and to make him
an object of ridicule and con-
tempt.
Gross suggests that If after a
trial. Rostand be found guilty, he
be dismissed from the Acadmey.
For this trial he urges the French
Academy to appoint one Judge,
newspapers Eclaire or L'Huma.
mite to appoint another and these
two to name third. ........--g.-.,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
R. B. Martin Says It Was
Milk and Water
Prosecution.
ASKS ABOUT SHORTAGE
Sees in Result Need of
Cleaning Out Court
House.

r. 3. Martin Of Opportunity, pres.
ident of the Spokane County Town.
ship and Good Government club,
who was In the city yesterday, says
that the farmers Of the county are
in no pleasant mood over the out
come Of the case against e. C. At
kinson, county clerk.
1--WE believe that Clerk Atkinson
was prosecuted by his friends and
that some people charged with the
execution of the laws were con-
cerned more with how to clear him
rather than convict him. We know
further that when the indictment
Of Atkinson was first voted by the
grand Jury that it was held for
nearly three months, at the request
of the prosecuting attorney, who
told the grand jurors that if they
returned the indictment at that
time some others accused might Get
away.
THE whole outcome of the inves-
tigation of county affairs will re-
suit in naught, apparently. through
the Indifference of public officials.
Here is Atkinson, who admitted that
he had accepted over $1,000 in lille
gal interest, and charged by the
grand jury with being short at the
timt$1700 in his accounts, now &C
quilted. 1t causes me to pause and
ask, What is the use trying to
make public officials conduct their
offices honestly when the evidence
as to dishonesty in office, the
guilty parties are permitted to es-
cape through connivance as to the
laws by those that should see that
the laws are enforced?
why was not Atkinson prose
cuted for that $1700 shortage?
There are a lot of men being sent
to Walla Walla every day for the
theft of S25 or less, but the big
criminals are too much for the
prosecuting attorneys office to ham
die.
The farmers are watching the
fight made against the Flynn girl.
on trial for conspiracy. This is
purely g. city affair. yet Spokane
county is being put to endless ex-
pense to crafty the hostility toward
the |. w. w. of little clique of Of
ficials in the city of Spokane. The
Flynn girl has been prosecuted Will
all the power of the law, while a
milk and water effort was made 70
convict Cal Atkinson. The people
will awaken some day to the neces'
sity of general cleaning out of the
courthouse"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
At THE AGE OF 113 SHE WORKS
~~ FARM; OBSERVES BIRTHDAY TODA Y

WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 80
Alert and active and still able to
make a good living from her truck
farm at Delmar, Del, which she
works herself, Aunt Hester" Cor
drey recently celebrated her one
hundred thirteenth birthday.
Aunt Hester was born nine
miles from here February ~, 1897,
on farm. Her father was Hamil-
ton Neal, who was very wealthy at
one time. She was of family of
Is children, and, losing her mother
when only ID years of age, had the
responsibility of the home. Her sis
terS all married and while her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
PSYCHIC GIRL saw MURDER
IN A VISION, SHE DECLARES

declaration that she knew of the
murder before the~ body of the
young woman was found on the
mountain, but for reasons of her
own had refrained from disclosing
the fact until some time afterward
She said that the man who muir
dered the girl killed her for her
money and that he is now in Aus
tralia.
The girls husband died and she
was compelled to earn her own
livelihood" said Miss Deems today.
in San Francisco she met the muir
derer. The couple took a trip to
Tamalpais and the man tried to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
fey United Press Leased Wire.)

{6y United Press Leased Wire.)
Anew YORK, Feb. 1e.-The heav.
N lest sentence ever imposed on
Z counterfeiters in this country
Was meted out late today by Judge
Ray In the United States circuit
court to ignazio Lupo, "The Wolf;
Giuseppe MoreiIe, the "Gray Fox"
and six Of their Sicilian confeder-
ates. The prisoners are said by Sc
cret service men to be the most des-
perate members of the Black Hand
society in America.
Lupo, the leader. who is said to
have been responsible for the death
OF Lieut.. Joseph Petrosini, the New
York Italian detective, got 30 years
and was find $1,000. Morelle was
sentenced to 25 years in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ca, and fined
$1,000. The sentence of Palermo.
another confederate, was Is years
and a $1,000 sentence, while Gui-
seppe Calichio got II years and a
$50 fine.
The other four men got Is years
each and fines of $1,000.
Judge Ray was afraid that there
would be trouble when the jury
brought in the virdict of guilty, and
ordered Marshal Henkel not to
permit any one inside the court
room.
The corridors of the federal
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
GRAND THING
TO BE A YALE
MAN---TAF7

(By United Press Leased Wlre)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 49,
While a hundred or more Vale
graduates sang the Boola BooIa
song and cheered for Yale,
President Taft told the Yale
alumni Of Washington what a
grand thing it is to be a Yale
graduate at a dinner here to-
night. Assistant Secretary Of
State Wilson presided az toast
master. Dean Jones of Yale
and Chairman Henry c. Mercy
Of the tariff board, formerly a
Yale professor, were also on
the speaking list.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
PRESIDENT TAFT
HAD BUSY DAY

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 49,
This was one of President
.Taft's busy days. It was al
most RooseveItian in its stren-
uosity. !,
$50 a. m.-Reached execu-
tive offices and until 2:30 p. m.
talked business with 20 repre-
sentatives and senators, shook
hands with numerous other
and received several deIega;
tions bearing invitations. /
2:3o p. m.-Lunch
$3.50 .. Unsettled the SEN
ate legislative program with
Senator Aldrich.
q p. m.-Lauded George
Washington at meeting of the
George Washington Memorial
association. /.
5 p. m.--Returned to White
House to receive the farewell
diplomatic call Of the Italian
ambassador, the Baron des
Planches.
7 p. m.--Dinner.
8:15 p. m.-The theater with
Mrs. Taft.
10:30 p. n.--Joined the Boois
Boola chorus at the annual din
ner of the Yale alumni. . l
1880 p. m.--Home to the
white house.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20

all the time? It's the fast life they
are living. If they would do more
laboriOus work and think less of
society they would be healthier"
Mrs. Cordrey was married twice.
Her first husband, Levin Moore,
lived only three years. Then she
married Elisha Cordrey, who died
in 1864. They had one child. After
the death of her last husband she
purchased land in the suburbs and
built house. She has lived in this
all alone for 43 years. Granddaugh-
tiers have tried to persuade her to
leave it and live with them, but she
refuses to do this, because she
thinks without work she cannot
live.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20

force his companion to give him
money. This she refused, and they
continued on to the spot where the
body was found. The man then
felled her with heavy blow on the
head and took the money from her
bosom, where she had concealed it..
He then came to San Francisco and
secured passage to Australia"
Miss Deems infinitely described
THE dead girl and her supposed MUIR
derer, who, she declares, obtained
$500 in cash from his victim.
Miss Deems says she has seen
1.-THE murder enacted a dozen times
lin a vision.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
(By United Press Leased Wire)

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.-JOhn.
ME Coulon, champion bantam
weight of the world, gained the de-
cision over Jem Kendrick. cham
pion of England. at the conclusion
of their fight before the Royal Ath-
letic club tonight. In the early
stages of the bout It was all in
favor of the Englishman. But
from the seventh round on Coulon
forced the fighting. When the
weighed I'm neither one
moved the beam at 112 pounds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20

brothers went to the war of 1912
she and her father We're left to run
the farm. In speaking of her young
days, Aunt Hester" said:
when | was about 16 years old
| used to go into the fields and
work, and held up my end, too.
IF girl now were to go in
the field and cut wheat or corn she
would be disgraced for life, but |
was not. | made friends by doing
this kind of work.
1T would have been a disgrace
for young lady to have come to
one of our dances with a low neck
and short sleeves, and sheath
gown is the limit. Is it any wonder
that generations are getting weaker
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
(ey United Press Leased Wire)

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 19.-It
was learned tonight that one or
the operations performed on Major
General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., at
the Johns Hopkins hospital was the
removal Of tumor from his head
which had formed. it is said, as the
result of his striking his head
against a chandelier at Havana,
Cuba. The second operation was
to scrape a portion of the skull
which was too thick over the old
wound and by increasing, with the
tumor the pressure on the brain
had caused partial paralysis.
General Wood was allowed to sit
up in bed for time today and 1t is
believed his recovery Is assured.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
FATHER AND SON
ARREST EACH OTHER

Father and son, who gave
.their last names ~ LeForce,
other last night. each having
Emitting Initials, arrested each
Sire grievances against the
ether.
= LeForce, the father, Il ap.
peared, had succeeded In get
ting on . pretty fair Jag. Le-
fierce, the SON, had undertaken
- pilot the governor home. The
old man OBJ sctsd so strenuous
~ inst the boy poked his dad
enc On the point Of his beaming
proboscis. ~ ~ which caused
keRorce senior 70 declare his
lntontlon ~ ssndlns the boy to
40 neriteutIArx LeForce
lunlor aequissosd and the tive
q them eaMe tuts the station
- loll thelr stories.
1nn<nte cir advised them TO
SD oo oaG (loht the case out
&61MG 1l&oo
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
MURDERED FATHER-IN-LAW;
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BROTHER

mob which threatened violence to
him.
The crime came as the culmina-
ton of a family quarrel which
broke up Hargan's family consist
ing of Hargan, his young wife, and
his two victims.
Hargan and his father-in-law
could not get along and last night
the father-in-law, Martin w. Hynes,
in the absence of Hargan, took his
daughter to relatives in Richmond
Hills
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
MORE WORK;
FEW SPEECHES

(Sy United Press Leased Wire)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 49,
Fewer political speeches and
more legislation is the order is
sued by the republican leaders
of the house and the wheels
have been set in motion to
carry out this program.
General debate is to be cut
short on every bill and no op-
portunity is to be given the
democrats to talk about the
tariff, and the appropriation
bills are to be passed without
unnecessary debate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
TROOPS DAMAGING
AMERICAN PLANTATIONS

plantations have been overrun and
much damage done by the troops.
In some cases laborers are return
ing but the scarcity of men is still
serious. Consul Olivaries also re.
ports that the city Of Matagalpa,
which was retaken by the Madriz
forces, was not bombarded and that
the only damage done was by bull
let's. Sixty-five wounded soldiers
are under the care of three ply
sicians there.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
ny United Press Leased Wire)

LEWISTON. Idaho, Feb. 10
John Mcdonald, an attorney and
leading prohibitionist. who was ar
rested for taking liquor on to the
Nez Perez reservation. contrary to
the federal laws, was released this
afternoon by the United States
commissioner the officers failing
10 prove that he took the. whisksy
on to the proscrfbed territory.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
(By United Press Leased Wire,

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Having
killed his brother with stray bull
let and slain his father-in-law In a
fit of drunken rage, John c. Har-
gan, a Wall Street bookkeeper, is
tonight on the verge of collapse,
in a cell in Brooklyn. He made a
desperate effort at flight, fighting
his way through a crowd of hun
dreds of people before he stumbled,
fell and was pounced upon by a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(6y united PreSs Leased Wire)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The
American plantation owners in the
province of Matagalpa, Nicaragua,
are suffering through depredations
committed by the troops of the
Madriz army, according to official
dispatches received at the state de.
partment tonight from Consul Gen.
eral Olivaries, who has just re.
turned to Managua from the scene
of the fighting. Coffee and banana
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
PRESIDENT OF GERMAN
REICHSTAG DIES

(By United Press Leased Wire)
BERLIN, Feb. 19.-Ex-Count
Udf Won acknowledgements,
president Of the riechstag, died
this afternoon Of pneumonia.
He was born In Berlin in 1910
and was life member of the
Prussian upper house, a major
general and a privy councillor
of the state. He was head of
one Of the branches Of the
princeIy house Of Stolberg and
was first elected president Of
the house In 1907.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20

Wright, the old soldiers in one half
of the camp and the Spanish Vet
Grams in the other, where the men
will again live as they did in the
days at the front.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
ALAMEDA, CAL, Feb. 19.-Re-
neWed interest was given today to
the claims Of Minnie Deems, psychic
telepathist, of this city, that she
had solved the Mount Tamalpais
murder, when dispatch was re-
ceived from Des Moines, Iowa, to
the effect that the police of that
city Rad verified a statement that
Anna Nelson, who formerly lived
there, had married a man named
6arasch, later. dropping out of sight
some place in the west.
Miss Deems made the remarkable
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
HULL ON BRIDGE

Work on the Monroe street
bridge has suspended pending the
arrival of steel and other material.
Concrete work will begin ON the
bridge March 9.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-20
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-12
Chicago Makes COMPLAINT.

WASHINGTON. Oct. IA conspiracy
ON the part Of the railroads 20 deprive
middle west grain shippers OF tho advan-
taSeS of cheap water transportation and
TO drive the grain transportation busl-
ness from the great lakes is charged In
q petition filed today with the interstate
commerce commission by the Chicago
board OF trade.
The complaint Is directed against the
Pennsylvania railroad. the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, the New York Central and
seventy-lour other railroad lines operat-
ing east Of Chicago and other Lake Mich
iean and Lake Superior points.
II is represented that "by reason of
conspiracy on the part OF the defendant
carriers. substantially all means OF ALL
rail- through transportation from Chicago
to New York and other Atlantic scaboard
points and also all parallel and compct-
ing through lines OF transportation via
the great lakes from Chicago and other
10 New York and other Atlantic scaboard
points, arc owned and controlled by the
defendant carriers
Recent, the freight charges on grain
received AZ Buffalo from the lakes called
cX-lalSc-wcrc increased from Buffalo IN
Atlantic scaboard points. 1t Is alleged In
the petition that these rates are unjust;
that they are discriminatory. because
they arc much higher than tho all-rail
proportion from Buffalo 10 eastern dcs'i-
nations and that thcv deprive tho grain
shippers on Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior OF the benefits Of cheap water
transportation TO eastern points.
The commission Is urged to protect tho
lake traffic in grain by restoring the
lower eS-lake grain rates from Buffalo 10
eastern points
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-12
,EXANDER MILLAR PIONEER
AMONG RAILROAD OFFICIALS

Alcyandcr Millar. who is here TO con-
eri The annual meetings of the several
hriman systems having their legal and
ulpralc home in Utah, is decidedly one
The interesting personalities in the
|llfoad world ri the Gay. For years he
IA bccn coming 10 this city In tho in-
.els of the overland Route with
|1,ch he las hccm identified since 1872,
|Fet years after the connecting of the
k-at PromUn.ory Point. in this state.
Id Us hC started ms a St"noGraphcr 10
. sccretary and treasurer. he has been
tntihcd with the financial history of the
|cat property through all its changes
n management since that time. L
.riod OF thirty eight years. II can read
\ be appreciated just how interesting
Is 10 chat with a man who has vir-
ally Witnessed the growth of one OF
n Eorld's greatest corporations.
Mr.. Nllar Is q ScOtcilman from Aocr-
BEN county and coming to this country
ben young man h" entered the Union
1ci6c service and through AL the grades
Used up TO be assistant secretary at
nsh; IN 1887. Then he was regularly
puiotcd IN the department until the
'rTInlan administration established the
ecutivc Offices of the Union Pacific.
nhcrn Pacific and all other systems
New York, when he became the sec
Eary of each, He is identified with
Iens OF interpretations. TOO numerous TO
Hempt 10 name. but Inc has them all
d thelr fiscal history at his finger tips
! The time lie will return TO New York
|RdncsGay afternoon.