The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-21
FORC|bLE BATH |S
 GIVEN ID SWEDE Spokane Man Proves to Be Very
 Much of a Freak NEW THEORY ON HEALTH Mining Prospector Kills Coyotes With Nitro-sycerin and has Made
 Quite Sum By Selling
 the Pelts.

SNoie, !" ash.r January .20.-(SpeciaL) Roasting that he had not taken a bath in 15 years nor tasted food in nine weeks. J. r. Peterson, 8 native of Sweden. for three years a lodger in the Big Island house in Spokane, with s4sOO in bank eer tihcates and sS0 in gold securely stranped under his left arm. was arrested by order Of the city health department and bathed In tank at the county jail The bath required the services of four .trusties" and occupied two hours. He was after ward sent to local hospital where he Will have a daily plunge and scrub during his stay.
 Peterson weighs 250 pounds, is we'll proportioned and as strong as an OK. This is evidenced by the fact that six husky deputies connected with the health department had their hands full in talk ing him from his room, which, by con tract. was as clean as a Dutch house. wife's kitchen. He was overpowered after he became exhausted knocking the depu- ties around like a lot Of ten pins on q bowling alley. He appeared to enjoy the scrubbing.
 A. c. Clausen, deputy prosecutor of Spokane county, and the city officials are in a quandary as to what to do with the man. He was arrested on the charge of vagrancy, but this will not hold, as he has plenty of money. His sanity was questioned, but the officers dismissed that charge, because, they say, he is sane enough to keep his money, and also ra- tional in his talk.
 Peterson refused to discuss his past saying only that he came to Spokane from the east four years ago. after tour ing every state, territory and province on the American continent and had planned not to permit water to touch his skin until the close of 1924, adding he is working out a new theory on health
 Unique and certain Of results is the method employed by s. G. McMahon, a mining prospector, In killing coyotes and other predatory animals in the Whisky Valley district in central Washington He uses nitro-glycerin and has already col lected more than y250 in bounties on scalps brought to the office of the auditor of Kittitas county since January 1.
 While at Ellensburg with wagonload d of sportsmen and habitues at the court house the secret of his success as a boun- ty-earner, saying
 I'm out in the hills prospecting most of the time and my only companions are the coyotes and other wild things. In this instance the company is worth money only when dead and is nothing more or less than an annoyance while alive.
 'I haven't the time to hunt coyotes, but to make a little easy money and at the same time rid the district of some of the nuisances I load pieces of meat with nitro-glycerin, such as use in blast ing the re-bearing rock, and scatter the tid-bits near the coyotes haunts in the hills.
 ''The coyotes come along, sometimes singly, but more often in twos. threes and in packs; they find the meat and, as it looks good to 'em, they gulp il down and then--it Is all over with 'em
 The explosive kills instantly, but does not injure the belt enough to pre- vent the county auditor from paying the bounty of $1 each, as provided by the state. law.
 I've killed hundreds of these pests in my time and expect to bag many more before the end of the year. The game is worth while, for 1 not only get the bounty but also help the farm CTS and stockgrowers in getting rid of their worst enemies"
 Modestly laying claims to the pre- mier honors as a Marathoner on a typewriting machine, H. B. Press, who is transscribing the evidence in the Cunning gham case at the Alaska coal land inquiry in Spokane, has issued a challenge to operators to a contest of speed, accuracy and endurance for any where from $50 to $5OO0 side, open to the world. He sfipulates. however, that at no time for any one minute during the trial shall the speed be less than 50 words a minute and this must con tinue until one of the copetitors is ex- hausted. Since coming to Spokane, 10 days ago, Press has worked full eight hours daily, transcribing from grapho- phone, stopping only long enough to change cylinders and place fresh paper in the writing machine. He writes at speed ranging from 65 to 80 words minute and frequently makes bursts of 100 words, which he maintains for pages of matter. He believes he can outdistance any operator in the world in a Marathon and will go anywh ere to back up his claims.
 Supporters and counsel of the Indus trial Workers of the World announce they will leave nothing undone to save Mrs. J. Jones, known all oyer the con- tinent as Gurley Flynn, convicted on the cahrge of criminal conspiracy, from , going to jail. They have furnished a bond for $50,000 to appeal to the su- preior court of Spokane county and claim to have ample funds to take the case to the supreme court. The woma n was found guilty as charged by a jury of six business men and former ranchmers ana sentenced by Justice ! George w. Stocker to serve three months in the county jail She guessed | her fate fully a half hour before the l jury returned it's verdict and sent tele- 1 grams to Rose Pastor Stokes and oth- | CTS. advising them she had been con- victed. Mrs. Jones was born in 4~ew Hampshire 19 years ago and passed I 10 years in New York. She has been engaged in preaching the doctrine of socialism since her 18th year.