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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
REFERENDUM
PETITION
IS READY
Sufficient Number of Sign
ers in Fifth Ward Sew
err Project.

Today it appears that the re-
quired number of signers to tie up
the Fifth ward trunk sewer with a
referendum, in case the new char
ter is not adopted, have been Sc
cured. The petition will be filed
with the city clerk tomorrow.
The movers in the referendum
are proceeding regardless of the
charter election. In case the new
charter is adopted it falls. accord
ing to the opinion given the COM
mittee by Judge William E. Rich
ardson. The new charter does not
permit of an appeal to the refer
endum against any improvement or
assessment ordinance. and this
clause of the new charter takes
immediate effect.
All parties with petitions are re.
quested to hand them in this eve
ming to the members Of the COM
mittees of their respective clubs
or leave them early tomorrow
morning with J. w. Osborne in the
Rookery building.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
BY FRED c. ROBERTSON.

BY FRED c. ROBERTSON.
The tinkered proposed new city
charter, article 6, section So, pro-
vides that a civil service commits
sion, consisting of three members
to be appointed by the council,
shall provide for a classification of
all employees (provide for a COM
petitive examination, for an eligi-
bility list from which vacancies
shall be filled, for a period of pro-
baton, and for promotion to be
based on merit, experience and
record. The closing clause of this
section says that employees within
the scope of this article, who are
in office at the time of the adoption
of this charter shall be retained
unless removed for cause. 1t is the
contention of the morning paper
that this clause protects the pres
ent police force and the men of the
fire department in their respective
positions Let us see if this be
true. Article of the proposed new
charter is as follows:
Section %. Executive and ad.
ministrative departments: The
executive and administrative pow
ers, authority and duties, not other
wise provided for herein, shall be
distributed among five depart
ments, as follows
"(a) Department of public af-
fairs.
"(b) Department of finance.
"(c) Department OF public
ed Department of public
works.
"(e) Department of public util.
ties"
1t will be seen that there is no
provision for a fire department I'M
der which the firemen are employ
ed, or a police department under
which the policemen are employed,
or for a department of health and
sanitation, under which the plumb
ing inspector, and the health off,
GERS, are employed, as well as the
board of health.
Under the proposed charter, and
section "a thereof, it says: That
council shall have power to create
and discontinue all other offices
and employees from time to time as
occasion may require. AS there is
no police department provided for,
no fire department provided for,
and no chief of the fire department,
or of the police department, these
departments will be divided among
the commissioners. The depart
ment of public safety will be In
charge of one of these commission
ers, who will undoubtedly declare
himself ex officio chief Of police.
abolishing this office, so also as to
fire chief.
The positions of firemen and po-
lice, under these provisions, can be
discontinued in night. Was there
ever such a power given to three
men? The control of the fire de-
partment and the police depart
ment of the city absolutely and
without protection for the officers
or men. The day this charter goes
into effect, honest men, as well as
the incompetent officers, are sub
ject to have their offices abolished
at once, and have themselves lesis-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
40 Prisoners Released; Sister
BiLkiss Will Feed Them

been permitted to remain until af-
ter Christmas.
When Sister Bilkiss learned of
the release of the men she at once
concluded to go ahead with her
feast, and SO announced her inten-
ton at her meetings. This morning
she found so pounds of turkey n
hand and a lot of other provisions
that had been sent in by the gen.
erous hearted, so she turned in to-
day and cooked the feast herself.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

help it, like pitching the wealth of
the city to lot of tsreet gamins
to divide among themselves.
The restraints in the present
charter may lead to disputes be-
tween men, selfish politicians may
cry out, but 1t stands superior to
the proposed charter, which is but
a letter of credit to five men, three
of whom shall control, to draw out
all of the finances of the city and
expend them without a check, save
their conscience, and that frequent
ly, a political one, and without any
legislation that they cannot repeal,
and without any safeguard and
without any fence that they cannot
erect, not high enough, however, to
prevent them from jumping it to
get into pastures green where the
grass is high. A political machine
is created, impossible under our
present charter.
FRED C. ROBERTSON.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
FINE LOYALTY
TO HUSBAND

Mrs. H. A. Moody, apartment
II, Santa Rita apartment house,
applied to police headquarters
for aid last night. She had a
box of cigars which she said
had been given to her husband
as a Christmas gift, which she
tried to sell to Captain Sulli-
van to get money to buy food.
She said that her husband
was a laborer and that he had
been sick and unable to work
for two weeks, and that in
their desperate circumstances
she was forced to go out to
seek aid. Captain Sullivan
gave the woman enough money
for immediate use and told her
that her case would be report
ed to the charity authorities
today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
Sale of Flannelette
Gowns Tuesday

Tomorrow we will place on
sale a special sample line OF
fine gowns.
Gowns worth Csc, on sale
at ............. .OOf
Gowns worth $1.75 on sale
at .......... .SoC
Gowns worth $500 on sale
at $3.50
You will note that these
prices quoted are only about
half. This is a special lot of
sample gowns that we
bought at a great bargain.
You will appreciate the val
ues we are offering as soon
as you see the gowns.
Closing Out Our Entire Line
of Comforts.
We have decided not to
handle comforts any longer,
as we haven't the room to
display them properly. So
we will sell them while they
last at half the marked price.
They are fine, warm, well
filled comforts, and you will
find in them values which
you have not seen the equal
for many a day.
$500 comforts for. ;. $500
$500 comforts for. :. $3.50
$500 comforts for. :. $500
Remember, that we make a
specially Of handling sample
merchandise. Our buyer is a
man Of years Of experience;
in fact, he Travelled for many
years himself, and he has &C
quaintance with many Of the
travelling men. When they
have special bargains in sam
pies they give him the first
opportunity to pick them up.
That's why we are able to
offer so many rare bargains
that's why our number of
satisfied customers is in
creasing every day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
M'BROOM URGED TO
RUN FOR CITY OFFICE

Fred McBroom, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, has
practically concluded to resign
from his present office about
March. He has two years to serve
from next January. The salary is
$4,000 per annum. His successor
will be chosen by the two remain
ing commissioners.
Mr. McBroom resigns to give
closer attention to his private af-
fairs, which have suffered during
the last two years through his close
application to the affairs of the
county. Heretofore it has been the
custom for the commissioners to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

Sister Bilkiss will give her din
ner to prisoners just the same. 1t
will be served at her home, 1000
Ide avenue, between 4 and this
afternoon. and as principals in the
feast will be 40 prisoners released
Saturday evening from the city Jail.
Most of these men were turned out
of the city prison on the eve Of
Christmas penniless, and some of
them would have preferred to have
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

give two days a week to the coun-
tvs business, but after Fred Nc
Broom and Joe Phillips were elect
ed they gave it six days in the
week.
There is continued talk of Mr..
McBroom being induced to be a
candidate for commissioner if the
new charter is adopted, or of max
ing the race for mayor under the
present charter. Mr. McBroom's
the departments at the city hall in
good running order, and give the
city the administrative genius that
1t has needed for some years past.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
ROLLED DOWN STAIRS.

c. P. Triple, holiday merry
maker, rolled down stairs Sunday
noon in the Howard building, on
Howard street near Riverside ave
nue., and sustained some severe
cuts and bruises. He was found
armed with an automatic revolver,
fully loaded. He was taken to the
police station on charge of drum.
kenness.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
KICKED DETECTIVE INTO THE
STREET.,

Lawrence e. Nelson, loaded with
too much holiday booze, created a
disturbance in front of the new
American theater Sunday night,
and was arrested by Detective
Chester Edwards. He fought and
kicked 80 vigorously that Edwards
was thrown into a mudhole in the
gutter with his Sunday clothes on
and had to have help from Police
man Joe Scott.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

. . 5000 . . . . 900
. BOY SOLDlERS.

= Children Of the army post
. at Fort George Wright made
. merry yesterday on the pa
= rade grounds. The youngsters, Z
= the oldest of 5 years, marched I
= and countermarched on the
. parade grounds while a med Z
= ley of trumpets, horns, drums 4
. and whistles made a furious I
. din. Soldiers leaned from bar Z
. racks windows and grinned Z
= broadly at the invading host, Z
. while proud parents OF the
. fort smiled and remarked that Z
. it was a good army in the I
. making. I
q AAAAAA "A a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
WHY SHE'S SAD.

When young and beauteous
maiden
Wears a sad, detected air,
When her snowy brow is furrowed,
Deep with lines of anxious care !;
When her eyes are full of tear
drops
And her spirits seem to lag,
You can bet somebody's told her
OF her sweetheart's Christmas
Jag.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26
DIES ON HIS WEDDING DAY.

WHITEHALL. Mont. Dec. &C.
Instead of attending the wedding
today of Henry Knight, one of the
we'll known mining men of the
state, to which function, coupled
with Christmas dinner, they had
been invited, friends gathered at
his bier to pay their last tribute
of respect.
Mr.. Knight was taken i'll with
pneumonia several days ago and
his death occurred yesterday, un.
expectedly. His fiancee Is pros
trated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

Santa Claus was introduced into
this country by the early Dutch set
tiers in New York, and probably
made his first appearance in New
Amsterdam, which is now New
York city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

lated out of office by a political
trade.
The interests who are fighting
this new charter are those of in
telligence, who will not permit this
city to be turned over, if they can
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

Please patronize John Z. Lyon,
low price plumber. 75c cents per
hour. Phone Main 5997. 615 Third
avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-26

Johnny: do you believe in Santa
CLAUSE"
Willie: mo, but I have a hull
lot NV faith in dad"
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05

for in drafts on New York or on goV- ernment Repositories elsewhere. The sellers have in all cases the option of taking coin or drafts As will be seen, the majority Of them have taken coin.
 The amount of gold, mostly from AL aska, which has been purchased by the assay office since it was established in this city has been in excess of one hun dred millions of dollars. Therefore in excess of fifty five millions of dollars Las been paid out in gold coin in this city for the gold purchased.
 The significance of these figures lies in the fact that, if 1t were intended that the proceeds of the sale of gold were to go elsewhere, the sellers would take drafts instead of coin. When they have taken coin it is because it is intended to use the money locally. In other words, during the past twelve years fifty-five million dollars of the gold taken out of Alaska, or it's equivalent, has gone directly into circulation in the city of Seattle It has gone in part toward paying the bills for the goods which Seattle annually sells to Alaska, and in part for permanent investments here by those who have realized for tunes in the North These investments are represented by some of the hand somest and most expensive business blocks in this city, and by other invest ments ill almost every direction.
 It is noted that within the past six weeks alone the assay office has paid out, for Alaska gold, minted gold coin to the value of nearly S2,O0o,000. all of which is in the banks or in circulation in this city. Alaska gold has furnished a great part of the capital upon which this city has expanded in the past decade.
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

The cannery at Kasaan will be re, built.
 Gov. Clark joined the Elks last week at Juneau.
 Ketchikan has new industry; mak, ing oil out of fish livers.
 First.cIass potatoes sell at S6 per 100 i pounds at Iditarod City.
 "Let us mine our own coal" is the war cry of the Seward Gateway.
 Four lunatics,all men, were a part of ] a recent export shipment from Dawson. i It is said that plan is afoot to turn Alaska over to the department of jus tice.
 Second Mate Ernest Blythe, of the steamer Selkirk, was drowned last month in the Hootalinqua.
 The United States assay office at Sc, attle shows receipts of $22O,568 from the Iditarod district to date. 1 A mule has come to make his home at Ketchikan, and the Miner greets him with brotherly 'hee. haw."
 John Stedman of Ketchikan has gone to New York to raise capital for bus mess project in his home town.
 The fall exodus is on from the Inter. for. The Upper Yukon river boats are crowded, many sleeping standing.
 At Fort Seward they are issuing one "sileucer" to each company. In most places they have one in every house. hold.
 The Ketchikanders have caught lot of fish the past summer, which fact they are celebrating by racing the fish boats.
 The contractor who isputting up the buildings of the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka is Mr. M, Arvesen, of Seattle.
 L. L.Bales, who poses as a mighty Alaska hunter and pathfinder, has been pinched at Seattle for not supporting his wife.
 Haines has contributed two soldiers charged with selling liquor to Indians, to the collection awaiting trial at the Juneau jail.
 The mammoth power plant of the Northern Light Power S Coal company at Dawson has been completed at a cost of s2,ooo,OOO
 The skagway Alaskan says that ] Douglas has hold-up artist. The Al, askan is off; or, had better put it a knock-down artist.
 The Iditarod Pioneer claims that as the frosts of winter draw near the chime of wedding bells in that city is just one continuous chime.
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05
Alaska Gold Remains Here

It has often been remarked that the City of Seattle is Alaska built. The following from the Seattle Post.Intel- ligencer tells something of the part played by Alaska gold in the building of the Spirit City:
 It is remarkable fact that during the twelve years since the United States assay office was established in this city 55 per cent of all the gold dust and bar gold purchased by it has been paid for in coin. Only 45 per cent has been paid
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05
Barrow and Wainwright

Recent letters from the Eskimo school children of the far north, re- ceived by Mir. John Kilbuck, report successful whaling season this spring. At Barrow fifteen whales were taken; six by the whaling station operated by the Liebes Company of San Francisco and the balance were distributed among the natives. Five whales were taken by Takpuk's men; Takpuk, an Eskimo, puts out about five crews every year and he is the man who had about SS,000 worth of stores brought to him by the schooner Volante, from Seattle. One small whale was taken at Wainwright, and several at Icy Cape.
 The Pres byterian Mission dwelling and church, which were totally burned last April, are being rebuilt, the mater ial having been safely landed. The natives are doing the work under the supervision of the missionary, pr. H.R. Marsh.
 The natives at Wainwright are deriv- ing considerable revenue by mining coal and selling it to the government schools at Wainwright, Icy Cape and Bar row, also to private parties at Bar row.
 The reports from the various domes- tic reindeer herds along the shores of the Arctic ocean show that they are in healthy and prosperous condition. The fawning season was favored with good weather, so large percent of the lawns lived.
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05

The Eagles of Ketchikan are backing Screen Diamond Carnival" for the benefit of the local hospital
 According to the Empire wide. awake investor in Prince Rupert realty cleaned up S4O,OOO in fifteen mouths, he having Sl,5OO to begin with. Four men have now been arrested for the robbery of S14,345 from the sluice boxes of the Pioneer Mining Company at Nome. Two have confessed
 Thomas Buckley, a mess boy on the City of Seattle attempted to steal S3O,OO0 in gold from the purser's room. He was arrested when the ship reached Seattle
 Charles E. Edgar, an eX-soldier, Ian. guishes in the federal jail at Juneau awaiting trial for trying the highway robbery business in Skagway. And all he got was fifteen cents.
 The American Mining Congress, in session at Los Angeles last week, pass ed a resolution declaring that Alaska should have home rule and down east. CTS should keep their noses out.
 City Magistrate Frank Hart, of Cor dOya. husband of Mrs. Mary Hart, who had charge of the Alaska women's eX- hibits at the St. Louis and A.-Y.-P, worlds fairs, died Sept. 18th.
 john p. Lamb, for many years a trusted employee of the North Colum bia Gold Mining Company, /at Discov. cry, B. C., has confessed to the theft of over S1,OOO worth of nuggets.
 E. M. Barnes, au attorney who has served term in the federal jail at Ju- neau for sending obscene matter through the mail, has been released. He will apply for re admission to the bar.
 Here are names for you. A dispatch from Seward says: Coffee and Keller report the discovery of good diggings on the Nakochna, a tributary of the Kichatna, which flows into the SQuent- ma river.
 Tom Marquam, an attorney known all over Alaska, was married at Fair banks to Mrs. Iowa V. Allmon. Rev. Condit performed the ceremony. John w. Troy and Judge Louis K. Pratt witnesses.
 Six ships of the U. s. coast and geo. detic survey have spent the past sum- mer in Alaska waters. It is believed that the new map, which will be issued this winter, will be a marked improve ment on any previous publications.
 After the settlement of all diFeren. ces between the owners and the under writers of the steamship Yucatan she will go to the Willamette Iron Works at Portland to be repaired. The Yuca- tan was wrecked last winter in Icy straits.
 On August 21st, Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers of the United States navy, visited Iditarod City, still prosecuting the mournfuI search for his missing son, Alex c. Rodgers, who is generally believed to have drowned in the Tana- na river near Salchaket last August, while journeying from Valdez to Fair banks. Vague rumors afterwards heard respecting the young mans appearance in this part of the country are believed to be responsible for Admiral Rodgers ! yisit.-Pioneer.
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05

Several of the big game hunters who left here from six weeks to two months ago for the haunts of the moose, cari- bou and mountain sheep, have returned only to be confronted with the knowl edge that they cannot take from the country heads of moose killed by them says the Whitehorse Star. Truly it is miserable state of affairs that per mits of taking a hunters money, Sl0O for license, and deprives him of the trophies of the hunt.
 The underwriters in England having considered the bids for repairing the steamer Princess May, on account of injuries received in stranding ou Aug. 5 on Sentinel island, to be excessive the steamer has been ordered from the ways. Seven bids were submitted, ranging from S85,OOO by the British Columbia Marine railway, to S131, 200, by the Hall Bros, of Seattle. Later re- ports have it that the job has been let to the British firm
 1t has often been asked how the mountains, bays, rivers etc, get such odd names. The following item from the Haiues Pioneer Press may explain how it is done: Wednesday morning a party composed of Lieutenant Michae- lis, Sergt. Baily, Corporals Trammel and Brown, and Private Bishop left the post and going across the canal from Haines climbed the high peak opposite town and planted the stars and stripes on the apex, naming it Mt. MichaeIis.
 Final estimates of the gold output from the Fairbanks district this year place the same in the neighborhood of S6,OOO0OO Last year over ten million dollars in yellow dust passed through the hands of the local banks, but the output figures for this season will fall far below the banner mark set Tn l9O9. Estimates placing the probable output of the camp at S7,OOO,0O0 or even S8,O00,- 900 were freely made earlier in the sea- son. This was due to the fact that at the beginning of the sluicing season for 1910 the output was we'll ahead of that of the year before, owing to the desire of many operators on the creeks to join the stampede to the Iditerod. Later, however, the output fell far be. low that of the year preceding and has continued to remain behind until re. cent rains gave an added impetus to increase he output. As many of the best creeks Tn the Fairbanks district seem to be almost worked out, the ont put next year promises to be much below even that of this year, unless, indeed, the hour has nearly been struck when our quartz mines shall be yield ing their gold in very earnest and not osly in imagination.-Fairbanks Citi- gan
Douglas Island news., 1910-10-05

The Eagles of Ketchikan are backing a "Green Diamond Carnival" for the benefit of the local hospital
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-28
RIVERVIEw PARK.

The season at RiVervlew park is now
In full swing. All the attractions are
ia perfect running order, the only one
not receiving It's fair quota OF patron.
age being the bathing pavilion, Oc-
cause OF the continued cold weather
All is in readiness at the beach. how
ever, and Prof Getz, a noted swimmer
and life-saver, has been engaged ic
take charge for the summer. The
looms have been steriliZed and cleaned
the woodwork painted, and the bottom
resanded In each basin. The Banda
Verdi under the leadership OF SignOr
Francesca CreAtore, 10 scoring a hlt
II plays with great spirit. producing
music OF the highest order. All Its
members are Neapolitans, graduates OF
Conservatives. who are In love with
their art. To meet the varied tastes
OF the audiences at RiNerview, the
programs are balanced so that a proper
proportion OF popular pieces alternate
with the more pretenttous selections
Patrons declare that the new ridinG
device, the Joy wheel. beats anything
they have ever seen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-28
FAMILY.

A lively musical comedy will he the
special feature OF the Family theater's
new bill OF vaudeville next week n
viii be given by Bittner's "Pecks Rad
Boy Co." the skit being = suggestion