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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
MORE THAN 1900
FRENCH SOLDIERS
CONDEMNED
Special Battalions May Be
Formed for Offenders
Kill Old Woman for
Money.

PARIS, Feb On. MARCEL Hutin,
in Echo de Paris, reports the opin-
ion of several colonies of regiments
Quartered in the east of France.
They regard as urgent the forma-
ton of special battalions for offend
ers against the common law who
are at present enlisted in French
regiments, and 1.-The majority of
whom, far from becoming better
soldiers, continue their exploits and
SOW vice, INSTRUMENTATION and ter
ror among our frontier troops"
There are at present with the colors
more than 1000 young men who
hove been condemned by French
courts. 1t is likely that, considering
the actual state of public opinion,
the French parliament will deal
with this question before the close
OF the present legislative period.
Three young men have been ar
rested charged with being concern
ed in the assassination of the Mont
martre concierge who was found
strangled in her apartment a few
days ago. The accused, on being
Intercepted by M. Hamard, chief OF
the detective service, admitted their
guilt. Later fourth arrest was
made, and the police obtained full
story of the crime. A wart on one
of the prisoners played an import
ant part in his discovery and arrest
The men were without funds, and
killed the old woman to get $500
rent money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
|DUKE OF ABRUzz| IS
! GOING TO TAKE POST
.
After Long Delay by Kath.
crime Elkins Affairs,
He Finally Goes
to Venice,

ROME. Feb. 5.-The Duke of the
Abruzzi Is to have command of the
great arsenal at Venice, where he
Will reside in wing of the royal
palace facing the Piazzetta and the
Doge's Palace.
f The Duke was appointed to this
command nearly year ago, but
since then the Katherine Elkins in
|eident and his subsequent journey
to the Himalayas prevented him
taking up the post.
i II is rumored at Venice that a
"Dreadnaught" battleship will be
laid down as soon as the royal COM
mandant starts business there. The
Marquis DuraZzo. the dukes flag
captain, who accompanied him on
his Arctic and Himalayan expedi.
ttons, will be with him at Venice as
his chief aide.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
ASCENDING MONEY
LENDER CAPTURED
From Penniless Clerk He Be-
comes Wealthy; Losses
on Turf Cause
Forgeries.

VIENNA, Feb. 5.-Fritz Reicher,
the king of moneylenders," who
absconded from Vienna nine
months ago, has been arrested at
Irun, on the Franco-Spanish from
tier. Sensational revelations are
expected at his trial, which will
take place here in the near future
Reicher was the leading money
lender to the Austrian arlstOcracy
and his rise to fortune was re-
markable. He came to Vienna a
penniless clerk, but in few years
his income is said to have aver.
aged $4,000 a year, but neverthe'
less he copied the extravagant
ways of his aristocratic clients,
and lost heavily on the turf. 1t is
alleged that he took to forging
bills in the name of various prom.
inent men in Vienna, and when he
disappeared last spring he is said
to have owed over $2,500,000.
Reicher's victimized clients
were unwilling to appear against
him, and the police were power.
less to interfere until a complaint
was lodged. The fugitive actually
wrote to several victims and re
quested loans. Finally one OF
them, exasperated at his impu
dence, consented to appear In
court and Reicher was arrested.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
CATHOLIC PRIESTS DEPRIVED
OF STATE SUPPORT IN FRANCE
Church Deprived of More Than Million and Half Dol
lars During Last Year.

associations des cultes, which the
church, by the decision of the pope,
rejected, it took care to enact that.
If the church did not elect to Sc
cure its former revenues by this
method, it should not be allowed
to establish any other form of asso-
Citations which the law did not rec
ognize. The connivance of the
state at the present arrangement ia
facilitated by the form which the
church has given to the organiza-
ton of the denier de cutie. The
money is contributed by an infor-
NAL parochial association through
the cure to the bishop Of the do
cese. Both the local association
and the diocesan committee OF
management over which the bishop
presides try to evade the letter OF
the law affecting such associations
by refraining from constituting
themselves into a deliberative as
sembly.
LIVE ON MODEST INCOMES.
1t Is well known that the clergy
in France are accustomed to live
on very modest incomes. and that
many thousands of them would
consider themselves passing rich
on 5000 a year" With such mod.
est pretensions they must never
theless have been subjected to
great hardships in the last few
years by the termination of the
state annuity. Moreover, the lib
crafty of the faithful has in many,
though by no means in all, parishes
been far from remarkable.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
BRAZIL GETS WORLDS
GREATEST BATTLESHIP

LONDON, Feb. 5.-The larg-
est and most heavily armed
battleship in commission in the
world, the Manis Geraes, has
been handed over on the Tyne
by Messers. Armstrong, Whit
worth & Co., to the Brazilian
navy, for whom she has been
built.
The Minas Geraes is a battle
ship of the most up-to.date
Dreadnought type and displaces
1880 tons. Her speed Is PIX
knots and her main armament
consists of twelve 12-inch guns.
with twenty-five AZ and eight
smaller guns as secondary arm
ament. Her length over all is
SAB feet, and her beam SO feet.
Compared with the British
Dreadnought Suberb, also built
at Elswick, her displacement IL
nearly a thousand tons greater,
and she has two more 12.inch
guns arranged to fire four more
guns to the broadside, while
her secondary armament Is
very much greater.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT
WOULD CRIPPLE DEVELOPMENT,
. NOTED GERMAN ADMIRAL SAYS

any one opponent, but against
anyone who may attack us. Con-
sequently, international agree
ment between all nations would
be necessary. Now do you believe
that today the Japanese and Rus
SLAMS, TurlyE and Greeks, would
be able to agree as to the deter
mination of the strength of their
fleets? Do you believe that that
would ever be possible? We
should have to have a permanent
conference which would decree:
One of you has from today the
right to procure SO many ships
Another one can now build one
more torpedoboat, because his
commercial interests have ex-
tended and his exports have in
creased by so and so much At
any rate, for me, international
disarmament is an absolutely
nebulous idea. for which l cannot
obtain calculation. We have no
scale by which disarmament
could be regulated. Information
al disarmament would only mean
the Gripping of free develop
ment.
"A fourth method of disarma-
ment might be found by way of
alliance. But when one wants an
ally he must be strong and bring
something with him, either an
army or a navy. And alliances
are not of eternal duration. They
are here today and gone tomorrow,
and the political horizon is con-
tinually changing.
"Rut what about the develop
ment of fleet? A fleet is so
complicated an apparatus that de-
oades-I might almost say half
a century-is necessary for it's
full development. Even when one
can build ships quickly, the Or
ganization and development of the
system require many years. Even
with an alliance one would have
to furnish and develop and perfect
fleet for the eveptuality of
fresh complications. That is my
opinion on the disarmament ques-
ton"
The opinion of Admiral Won
Rooster is that of most of the com
paratively few politically influen-
tial persons in Germany. There is
much meaning in these words of
the admiral for those who can
read them Alright.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
WE'D IF YOU WOULD
LIVE LONG, SAYS
PHYSICIAN
French Authority Declares
Mortality Among Bach
elors and Spinsters
Comes Early.

PARIS, Feb. 5.-"Marry if you
want to live good old age" says
DR.. Jacques Bertillon, believed to
he the greatest living authority on
the sexes, and gives his reasons
with statistics to back them up.
THE married man or woman has,
he says, thrice as much chance
of good, long run of life as a
bachelor or spinster."
DR.. Bertillon shows that mortality
among the widowers is greater
than the average among married
men; so he recommends them to
marry again, provided they are un-
der 60 years of age.
Mortality among married wom-
en- is less than among spinsters of
the same age, at least after the age
of 20, but the difference is less for
women than for men. The mortal
ity among spinsters is much greater
than among married women, but it
is not twice as great as in the case
of men,"
Next comes the widow: Mortal
ity among widows is distinctly
much greater than among married
women of the same age. The
sweet state of widowhood' is, on
the contrary, fatal to young wild
cws. Their death rate, from 20 to
25 years of age, is twice that of
married women at the correspond
ing age"
Then DR.. Bertillon goes on gal
lantly to say that women have less
need of men than the latter have of
them. He says that the death rate
is generally less among women
than with men of the same age and
station. What is the reason? Sim.
ply that they are steadier. And
there is no doubt. for the same rea-
son. that matrimony conduces to
longevity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06

PARIS, Feb. 6.-The hand of a
woman is back of every apache
outrage in Paris. A woman, a verit-
able human wildcat, issued the or
ders that carried terror and even
death to thousands of victims of
the recent floods and storms.
There has probably never been con-
fined In the human breast a heart
more cruel and relentlessly un.
merciful than the one that sends
the blood thirsty hooligans of the
Paris underworld out upon their
errands of crime.
Pope, the third Of the queens
Of the criminal apache dynasty. is
by all odds the most ferocious OF
the trio. No crime is too horrible
for her not to revel in. The
apaches with whom she consorts
must be ever ready to murder and
rob, to strangle or stab, when
their hardened mistress sends
hem forth to prey upon the rich
and the poor, the young and the
old
Years ago the apaches, even
then hoodlum gang of criminals
infesting the catacombs, the
sewers, the underground of Paris,
were called the mo goods" In
1898 a reporter referred to one
of their awful murders as the
work of the Apaches," taking the
name from the cruelest of Amer.
lean indian tribes. This name
suited the ruffian gangs to perfec-
ton; ii sounded bloodthirsty to
them and they proceeded to make
the most of it. They have since
filled the police annals of Frances
capital with more diabolic out.
RACES than any other band Of
criminals in the worlds history.
The true apache Is never under
Is years of age, and few are over
% or %. The life is not one pro-
ductive Of longevity, for when
there Is no other handy subject
to carve, the apaches fight among
themselves, mostly over the women.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
FIRING ON BALLOON BY
|. 1 GERMAN SOLDIERS
II UNAVAILING
Two Companies Shoot $500
Bullets at Big Gas Bag,
But Only rs Find
i Mark.

u BERLIN, Feb. 5.-A few .
= days ago two companies of Q
= German infantry fired at cap .
u tive balloon, 3 feet in length Q
and moored at height of .
= 3S4O feet; 1900 cartridges were .
= used by one company, while .
= the second company fired 27O0 .
. cartridges, the balloon contin- .
. ued In the air, and on being .
. brought down II was found .
. that only rs bullets had .
q struck 1t. .
Thus, the uselessness OF the .
= ordinary bullet in damaging a =
= balloon has been shown once .
. more. The holes made by the .
y bullets are very small. and .
= they are closed automatically .
= as soon as they are made: q
= thus the loss of gas is almost Q
. inappreciable and the balloon .
. Is unaffected. or course the Q
. results of firing at an airship .
= would be still more unfavor- .
. able. The military authorities .
. have decided either to dis .
y cover an incandescent bullet =
y that will explode the gas or to =
= abandon the attempt to de- =
. stroy balloons by bullets. Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
SWISS POLICE
CAPTURE BAD GANG
OF CLASSY THIEVES

q GENEVA, Feb. 5.--Work-
. ing in concert, the Swiss and I
q Tyrolese police have recently
. succeeded in arresting large
q band of international thieves
. at BOzen, in the Tyrol, and
q recovering great quantity Z
. of valuable jewelry which had I
. been stolen from visitors I
q travelling in Switzerland and
. the Tyrol during the past two
. years. 4
. Although the thieves. con-
q sisting of well dressed men
. and women, must have dis
. posed of some of the booty, Z
. the police have at least 100 4
. articles of great value, con- I
. sisting of diamond tiaras,
. rings, brooches. pearl neck
. laces, gold watches, chains, 4
. bangles, etc, in their possess I
q sion.
. The Berne police have pho
. tographs of the stolen goods,
. which are at present in the
. charge of the chief OF police
. at Bozen, where the gang is
. awaiting trial. Most of the
. thefts took place In Swiss 4
. hotels.
. About $3.50, 900, II Is stated,
. is the value OF the stolen treas
q ures.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
Nations Have No Scale by
Which Disarmament
Could Be Regu-
lated.
Only Strongest Nations Can
Disarm-Might be Done
by an Alliance.

BERLIN, Feb. 5.-Admiral Won
Rooster, the Grand Old Man" of
the German fleet, who, in his ca
pacity of president of the Navy
league acts as the moderating
hand of the government on that
organization and restraints it from
impolitic candor, if not from ex-
cess OF zeal, explained in a speech
at Kiel what may be regarded as
the official attitude in this coun-
try towards the question of dis
armament. He said:
Il have recently occupied my
self great deal with this theme,
and read with interest all the ar
ticles upon it, and ! can only say
that | have not found single ar
ticle in which there was so much
as a single tangible point in the
way of practical proposal. 1t is
said that we must disarm. Now,
in the first place, the assumption
would, in my opinion, be that only
the one who is absolutely the
stronger can dsarm. But he
doesn't do it. The vanquished can
disarm. 1t is about the hardest
condition that the victor can i'm
pose when he says to the van
pushed, 'Disarm!' and the Ger
man nation knows that better
than anyone else, when it looks
back to the beginning of the nine
teenth century and observes how
much bitterness and how much
hatred this compulsory disarma-
ment calls forth.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
Then there is the third idea,
that of international disarma-
ment. That sounds very nice, but
what does 1t mean? Internation-
nj disarmament can only take
place among all nations, for we
are not building fleet against
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
DUKE IS ARRESTED AS
COUNTERFEITER BY
SPANISH SLEUTHS.

MADRID, Feb. 5.-The Duke
Of Benedict, the head of one
of the most prominent families
in Spain, and a former member
of the cortes, was arrested sew
eral days since at his villa
near GuadiX. in the province of
Granada, on suspicion of be-
ing implicated in the manufac-
ture of counterfeit money.
Large quantities of spurious
coin have been placed in circu-
lation in Spain during the past
four or five years, and the au-
thorities have had great trouble
in ascertaining the source of
the supply.
Owing to information re-
ceived the authorities paid a
surprise visit to the Duke of
BenedictO's villa, and found a
plant for the manufacture Of
counterfeit money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
SWISS GAME PRESERVE
PLANNED TO PROTECT
REMAINING ANIMALS

GENEVA, Feb. 5.-The project to
establish a national park in the
lower Engadine is being discussed.
The main object OF the movement
is to preserve from extinction many
interesting forms Of animal life,
which are becoming fewer and
fewer through indiscriminate shoot
ing. The land to be enclosed ID .
vast tract of forest and mountain.
Brown bears are to be met with
occasionally as we'll as the chamois
and fox
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY
CONTRIBUTIONS.

Already during the process of the
liminution Of the state annuities
the church, In order to maintain
public worship and to meet all in
cidental expenses, had organized
system of voluntary contributions
in each parish, which are known as
the denier de cutie. Both the
church and the state are reticent
about this organization-the
church because it knows that,
strictly speaking, the organization
ia probably illegal, and the state be-
cause its information about an ap
parently illegal organization, al
which it connives, is necessarily
imperfect. When the state at the
time Of the separation offered the
! church the expedient of organizing
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06

PARIS, Feb. 5.-After the separa-
ton of the churches from the state
it was provided that, in order to
prevent the suspension Of public
worship in any parish and In order
to mitigate the severity Of the
separation for the clergy, those
cures who were over As years OF
age and had seen 20 years service
should receive a pension for life
equal to half of their actual emol-
uments at the date of the separa-
ton. The younger clergy received
an annuity for four years begin
ming from the year 1906 with $50
and diminishing year by year until
it amounted to only $50 in the
year 1909, at the close of which the
annuity expired. At the begin
ming of the present year the Roman
Catholic church in France thus
finds large section OF it's clergy,
whose income from the state had
already been reduced to the vanish
ing point, entirely deprived OF sup
port from that quarter. Taking
the basis of the last years annuity
alone, it appears that the total
amount of the income Of which the
French Catholic church is thus de-
prived is some $1,600,000. How Ia
this deficiency being met, or will
the deficiency result in a failure to
maintain public worship or the Of
fees of the Catholic church in any
part of France?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06

Boost Spokane. Spokane
boosts you, you know. This
10 the spirit that is making
this the greatest inland city
In the west.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06

and big ones, too, filled BY
the classified ads In The
Press. Look them over.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-08
WHERE DOES He STAND?

While he was a candidate for Con.
gress the Hon. Henry C. Stuart was 3
double smiler. He smiled at the Ma.
chine from one corner of his mouth and
smiled from the other corner at the
anti-Machine men. Mr.. Stuart can't
continue to play this part of double
smiler successfully, with his heart fixed
upon securing the Governorship.
In previous years Mr.. Stuart has been
identified with the anti-Machine ele-
ment OF the Democratic party; and his
flirting with both factions during the
recent congressional campaign was
somewhat curious and startling to those
with whom he had formerly been align
ed. And the friendly disposition of the
Machine toward Mr.. Stuart was equally
surprising.
1t was enough so to make many won
der If deal had not been made be-
tween Stuart and the Machine. Some
thought it likely that Mr.. Stuart could
not hope to secure his browning ambi-
ton without the aid and influence of
the Machine in the Eastern part of the
State. Others were of the belief that
the Machine was alarmed at the dan
gerous revolt that had shown itself in
the Second district-it's former plant
stronghold-and was aroused to the ne
cessity of making friends elsewhere in
the State. Pretty good reasons for a
Stuart-Machine combine.
The campaign for United States Sen
ators is already opening, and the pri-
mary to be held next year is even now
. much discussed question. Where will
Mr.. Stuart stand in the senatorial fight?
Win he link his fortunes with Martin
md Swanson, or will he be true to bis
ormer associates, Montague, Tucker I
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-08
An Anxious Eye on Chsmp.

The wool crop of Missouri was ss47
lzo more valuable last year than the
year before, and the wool output ia
growing and developing nicely. The
Missouri crop last year filed 2s4 cars
with ~, 700 pounds each, worth Sc cents
a pound. Champ Clark says he would
wipe out the entire wooden schedule
from the Tariff law. If Champ carries
out his threat the wool industry will
land under Clark where it did did under
cleveland. Many of the wool growers
abandoned sheep during CIeveland's
term because thep became Improbable.
ana most Of them became Republicans
on that account. The sheep farmer will
keep an anxious eye upon Champ Wa
terioo (Ill.) Republican.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-08
A WONDER.

ave gone to church on Sunday a quiet subdued air
When the solemn, longfaced brethren were of,r;n M =
prayer; r
And We watched them seek the pathway that unsae ~
by the door ~
10 the humble cot of suffering spelling giving and no
Ihey can see the beaueous country tward which with
faces set, WILL
ney hanker but the travelling reach they forget
L wonder
have bearkend advisors who have nterest in my, 1
And, must admit it touches when thew naipt tho H.
emily goal
And m awful powrfu grateful that they want to take ma
there w
where all OF LIE is hymn and praise in regions ever fair:
ana ask the road, direction that leads to the sublime
where pathways strewn by loving hands, NAV blossom,
forth in time
| wonder.>
There is road both steep and rough that leads broub
tears and strife,
Through cloud and storm through rain and shine tod
higher life
With bruised feet with roughened hands and heart with
love aglow w
mere Is beauty to that road that evy soul should know
an the deeper pedals of this human life were pressed
ana the best OF each We're uerd, through the common
place expressed;
We'd wonder.
nave travelled up and down bit-it uneven path
nave felt the light of inner hope the bitterness of
nave asked myself the question that today put to you
ana nave evaded answer, uttered the untrue
why Is 1t we beyond the present lfes b.b oo
While all unseen, beside the pathway of the so,9
wonder
December 1, 1910.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-08

There is a curious parallel between
the recent mutiny of the Brazilian fleet
and that of the British fleet at Spitbead
In 1897. In both instances the seamen
overpowered their superior offices, took
possession of the ships and hoisted the
red flag. In both instances, also, the
causes were the same-poor wages
poor and insufficient food and corporal
punishment. There was, however. one
difference in the matter of corporal
punishment in that while the Brazilian
sailors demanded its abolition the Brit
lsh sailors did not go so far but demand
ed that excessive fiogging should cease.
The difference between the extent of
the two demands indicates the urooress
OF humanity during the interval between
the TWO mut!nies. And, as a matter of
fact, fogging in the British navy was
discarded thirty years ago. Another
parallel is seen in the fact that in both
fleets the men gained their end. In the
British feet happy results followed in
the greater contentment, more willing
obedience and better living that pre-
vailed. And, provided discipline is not
weakened, the same results may be ex.
'ected in the case of the Brazilian feet.