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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
SHORT
SHAVINCS

"Life is Just one bIankety-blank
thing after another"
This was the sad comment Of a
barber with shop in the eastern
business section. And here is what
provoked it:
A plumber had rented the store,
and he like, the old Ieasee, subrent.
ed half Of it to the barber. Things
went along nicely until Saturday
came. In the morning the plumber
entered the barber shop and said:
"Look here, you'll have to cut this
out. I'm a Seventh Day Adventist,
and can't allow my tenants to
run their business on church day."
The air was filled with blue streaks
Immediately following this remark,
but we plumber remained firm. 1t
is needless to remark that Saturday
Is the BARRIERS best day. The re-
suit was that on Monday the barber
shop was opened up two or three
doors below the old locality.
"Mr. Jackson's story of fast
run made on the G. p. r. was very
good" said Charles r. Howard,
clerk to the board of county COM
missioners, "but let me tell you
about run that was actually
made. | was dispatching for the
Northern Pacific at the time and
can vouch for it.
"a consignment of tea and silk
from the Orient reached Tacoma
at about the same time similar
cargo had reached Vancouver. B.
C. The road that hustles with these
shipments gets the business and
we knew what we were to do.
"The Pacific division turned the
train over at Ellensburg in good
shape and then it was up to us to
do our part in getting it through to
| Hope, Idaho, the eastern end OF our
division at that time. The train
made good time as far as Pasco
and then the man at the throttle
turned her loose. Before it had
gone 10 miles it was running sc
fast that telegraph poles looked
like elongated teeth of a fine CONT
and when the whistle cord was
pulled for station the engine
would be five miles beyond before
it had ceased to sound
ct was necessary to stop al
Ritzville for water and moment
after the train had been brought
to a standstill the conductor and
brakeman, sitting in the cupola OF
| the cabOose, saw a dark object
coming down the track toward
them at lightning speed.
1.-THE men jumped from the car
fearing instant death. But a sec
ond after they struck the ground
they opened their eyes in wonder
The dark object was the shadow
of the fast train. 1t had just
caught up"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
LITTLE BOY GETS FLOCG|NG
AND SIX YEARS IN REFORMAT0RY
FOR STEALING ONE LUMP COAL

ing dangerous criminals, almost
daily exceed their legal powers in
the vindictiveness of their senten-
ces against offenders who have,
they think, trespassed against the
upper classes.
Among a long list of cases cited
by the commission are the follow
ing:
One months hard labor and $40
fine for kicking a gamekeeper; one
months hard labor for poaching a
rabbit; three months hard labor for
trespassing by sleeping overnight
on the land of a country squire.
On the same day that the game
keepers assailant was sentenced,
the same bench fined a prisoner S.,
without imprisonment, for knocking
down his wife with a rolling pin and
beating and kicking her until she
was in bed for more than six weeks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
WHAT THE WEATHER
MAN SAYS TODAY

Rain has fallen in the northern
part of the Rockies and in Florida
Elsewhere fair weather has pre-
vailed.
Temperatures on the Pacific
coast are about normal, thence to
the Rockies. Temperatures in gen.
eral are somewhat above normal.
High pressure on the North Pacific
coast is indicative of continued
fair weather in this vicinity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
|MPROv|NGLOCA
GAS SERVICE

A great deal of new work is
planned by the Spokane Falls Gas
Light company for this season.
More than 200 men are now en-
gagged in construction work and
others will be put on in the near
future.
Fifteen carloads Of material, val
ued at 100000, will be here in a few
days and will be used in refitting
the coal gas generating set of the
company. 1t will take about so
days to install the machinery
When in place it will increase the
capacity of the plant one-third.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
GIRL TO TEST
FRATERNITY LAW

(sy United Press Leased Wire)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.
A test Of the California anti
fraternity law is to be made
by Miss Doris Bradford, IS
year-oId high school girl of this
city, who was suspended yes
terday because she refused to
resign from the Omega Nu So
ciety of the girls high school.
After Miss Bradford was
suspended by the board of edu-
cation yesterday, Attorney A.
L. Weinmann, representing
the inter-fraternity council,
was summoned and instructed
to bring suit. He will do so
Monday or Tuesday of next
week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
FASSET ENDORSES
COMMISSION PLAN

c. NJ. Fassett, president of the
Spokane Chamber Of Commerce, is
heartily in favor of the commission
form of government. He believes
that it would place the city of Spo-
kane on more solid business basis
than it is at present.
In speaking of the matter he said
that there was not under this pres
ent system of government any di-
rect responsibility and important
matters were shifted from one de-
partment to another until no one
knows anything about them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
424 ALL-STEEL
PULLMAN CARS
(Bv United Press Ieased Wjrel

by United Press Leased Wlre)
CHICAGO, April 2S-The man.
agement of the Hartman lines has
contracted with the Pullman COM
pany for the building of 424 all-steel
cars for delivery this year. When
the Pullman company delivers this
order the Hartman lines will have
1926 all-steel passenger cars in SER
vice on its lines between Omaha
and San Francisco, between New
Orleans and San Francisco and be-
tween Los Angeles, Portland and
Seattle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
POPULATION INCREASING
FASTER THAN FOOD SUPPLY
(Ry limited Press eased Wire)

NEW YORK, April 2S.-"The
population of the country is increas-
ing faster than is the food produc-
tion," declared Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson today at the pro-
duce exchange.
"The trouble lies in the neglect
and deterioration of eastern farms.
Farmers get big prices now, but it
costs twice as much to grow things
as it did 10 years ago." he added.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
LOADED WITH GUNS;
STEAMER CAN'T SAIL
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NUy OhIteu PTeSS Leased WIre]
NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-The
steamer Venus, loaded with guns
and ammunition consigned to Grey
town, Nicaragua, presumably for
the aid of the Madriz government,
lies in the harbor here, while two
separate actions are pending to
keep her from sailing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
CLOSE CONTEST
FOR QUEEN OF
THE CARNIVAL

Beginning with the parade on
Monday night and continuing every
afternoon and evening throughout
the week, the large concert band
connected with the Parker Carniz1A
company, who are to furnish thu
fractions for the carnival. will ~.
sent musical program that will be
enjoyed by every class of music low
ers. AS the Parker concert band
contains among it's many soloists,
Fred Comtois, cornet soloist, who
is conceded to be a second Jules
Levy. Another unusual feature is
Claude Tucker, "The boy that
sings to beat the band" whose
sweet and powerful voice has made
him famous in the east. Then there
is Carl H. Erickson, trombone SOLO
list, formerly with Gilmore's band,
and Miss Gertrude Griffin, So
prano and Italian harp soloist This
portion of the entertainment is
alone worth the price of admission.
The standing of the different con-
testants for queen Is as follows:
MISS Bliss ................. SOL
Miss Grapevine .3062
Miss Overlook 1854
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
(Sy United Press Leased Wire.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-
United States Consul Crownin
shield, at Naples. today cabled his
opinion that Miss Estelle Reid
whose body was found here last
Sunday, had been drowned acct
dentally. He gave no details OF
the case or of his reason for at
tributing her death to accident.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
SMUGGLING CE'iNKS AND
OPIUM THROUGH MEXICO
(ev United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2S.-Sat-
isfied that smuggling of Chinese
and opium is being carried on be
tween this country and Mexico, the
United States government has de
cided TO have the coast from Ensen-
ada to Point Barrow patrolled by a
revenue cutter The McCulloch has
been taken from Sausalito to San
Francisco to be overhauled.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
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B DROWNED WHILE TRYING 4
3 TO SAVE FERRY TOLL Z
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= (ey United Press Leased Wire)
. SAN BERNARplNO, Cal,
= April 23.--The banks Of the
. Colorado river are being pa
= trolIed today in the hope Of
= finding the body of Loren
q Mann, drowned while tempt
. ina to swim the river to save
= ferry toll. Jeff Vedder, his
= companion, was saved from a
= like fate by William Sweeney,
= a ferryman. Mann's home was
. in Indianapolis, Ind.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
(By United Press Leased Wlre)

WASHINGTON, April ga bill
to open to settlement the klamath
Indian reservation was introduced
in the senate by Senator Chamber
lain of Oregon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
CITY NEWS
~ IN BRIEF ~

Game Warden Uhrig took the
word of boy whom he caught
fishing for trout Sunday when the
youngster said that he would ap-
pear in court Monday morning. The
boy failed to show up and investi-
CATION showed that he did not live
at the address given the warden.
A park bond rally will be held by
the North Hill Improvement club
at Monroe street and Amber ave-
nue. tonight. Friends of the move
ment will be present to explain the
plans of the commission.
William Finn has sued the North
Coast railway for 5000 damages
for injuries sustained while work
ing for the company at Kennewick.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
TAKE YOUR CHOICE,


Aren't you making great deal
Of noise?" said the irritable neigh
Dor.
Cant help it," replied the patient
father. Zone of us has to be heard,
and Id he perfectly willing to give
you your choice. If stop singing
the baby cries. ashington Star.
Judge Witten, superintendent of
the Indian lands of the department
of the interior. addressed about 500
prospective settlers on the Occur
d'Alene reservation at Occur
d'Alene last night. He lauded and
hailed the American citizen as the
real home maker and builder.
Carrie Nation will arrive in Spo-
kane Monday and deliver an adj
dress at the revival tent, Astor
street and Baldwin avenue, Mon
day evening She will be the guest
of the w. C. r. L. during her stay
in Spokane.
The annual state convention of
the knights and Ladies of Security
was held here yesterday, lasting
until midnight. A social session
followed the business session.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28

When studiously he would pro-
test;
A careless phrase he CHANGED to
The world displayed great inter
est! Washington Star.
Miss Grapevine, the candidate
for queen of the NJ. W. A. carnival
brought out by the newsboys, leads
the race by IS votes, Miss Portia
l.. Bliss being second.
The Ladies' Aid societies CT the
Fourth Presbyterian and the Cen
trial Baptist churches held d Joint
meeting in the former church this
afternoon.
County Auditor Butler has sent
out notices of publication to Fair
field, Cheney and Deer Park, giving
official notification of the local OPP
ton election to be held May 81.
Frank Bruno, former "dive king"
who is charged with having melted
Jim Rolandi to shoot Mrs. Bruno,
has been released on a $1,000 bond.
He will have his preliminary hear
ing May 10.
NOT a CRITIC.
81 suppose I'm dreadfuIIy old
fashioned and out of date" wins
pered Aunt Ann PEBBLES at the con-
cert, regretfully, "but I'm really en-
joying this music!"-Chcaeo Tri-
bune.
r. G. Mclean, who will succeed
l.. G. Monroe as secretary of the
chamber of commerce on May l, is
highly lauded in letters received by
c. NJ. Fassett, president of the
chamber, from prominent men in
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Final services concentrating
the feast of the Passover will be
held in all reform Jewish syna-
goeues tomorrow evening and Sat
urday morning. In the orthodox
houses of worship the services will
take place Saturday evening and
Sunday morning.
The Y. NJ. &. A. received a teie-
gram from T. F. Spencer of San
Francisco yesterday pledging $3.50
to toe mortgage fund. Several $40
subscriptions were also received
from local men.
John T. Burns, secretary Of the
fifth dry farming congress, adj
dressed the jobbers and manufac
turers of st. Paul yesterday. The
jobbers and manufacturers of the
Twin Cities will probably run an
excursion to Spokane during the |
congress next fall.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28
ORhTORICAL ACCIDENTS.

To listen to him none would stop
When studiously he would pro-
test;
a careless phrase he CHANGED to
drop,
The world displayed great inter-
est! Washington Star.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28

Inc Daily and Sunday Spokane
Press. 10 cents a week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-28

NOT q CRITIC,
81 suppose I'm dreadfuIIy OLD
fashioned and out of date" wins
pered Aunt Ann PEBBLES at tire con-
cert, regretfully, "but I'm really en-
joying this music!"-Chicaeo Tri-
bune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Interior of the Mission.

habit into areas of enormously rich productivity
if they only could be freed of the lethargv within
which the ease of their winning subsistence
enwraps them! And yet, breakfasting two days
later in Entebbe the excellent Equatorial
Hotel of Madam BERT, on purple passion fruit
and ripe figs at table covered with orchids that
would be worth small fortune in New York,
looking off down the perfect roadway. surfaced
with red moran which drives straight through
the botanical gardens, and out across the sapphire
Of the lake to the deep blue of its farther head
lands breathing an atmosphere whose every Whit
Suffused ones every sense with the passive JOYS
of dolce jar uieute,-it not at all to
suppress sentiments of regret that these
loving children of Nature must reeds be beguled and
bedeviled by white intrusion among them.
Throughout the haf-century elapsed since the
daring Of Livingstone, Spoke. Burton, and Stanley
made known to the civilized world the vast store of
riches it holds its enormous resources under cu
tivation producer, not only of food and clothing
but of infinite variety of trees and plants that sup
ply the and high priced drugs of commerce.
England and the Continental Powers have been
grabbing greedy for the last square foot they dared
appropriate of equatorial Africa. And yet to-day
after MANY years of administrative experience
pertinent, and study, the fundamental moot point
to the ultimate value of their holdings remains
solved.
Is equatorial Africa-roughly the middle third
of the Dark Continent-ever to become white
mans country in anything more than name and ad-
mlnlstratlon, country where white colon1sts may
settle and subsist masse? This is the problem
that is vexing Home Colonial Offices and local
Administrative Councils. which hears
the clubs of Mombasa. Nairobi, Entebbe Dar-es
Salaam, Tanga etc. And the problem is all the
intensely interesting from the fact that it is no.
only infinitely complex but, in many of its clements
without precise parallel.
OF course its nearest modern parallels exist in the
conquest and colonization of North and South Amer
lea. But while in North America the red native
easily displaced and his territory appropriated and
occupied through the gradual process OF extermina
tion resultant in small measure from warfare and in
large measure from vices and diseases contracted
from the invaders; and while the same end at
tanned in South America, partly by ruthless, indis
eliminate slaughter. and partly by the blood adj
mixture come of broadcast intermarriage between in
vading and native raceson the contrary the native
black population of Central Africa (bar the original
small Kingdom of Uganda proper, where generations
of semicivized rule and habit have wrecked morals
and reduced the birth rate) increases under contact
with and restraint by civilization and its women
not of types to leave it conceivable that white colo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Kampala's Monorailway System.

hibtion nevertheless recall no native working with
any but native tools at native tasks. making and
doing from time immemorial. except few lace
makers taught by mission women and the feeders of
the cotton gin. Indeed, there little in the show
emphatic of material industrial progress except in
has increased from the value of thirty dollars in 1904
to two hundred and forty thousand dollars in 1907 g.
Not the least notable feature of the exhibition
the youthful King of Ankole wenty-four- year-od
seven-foot giant of intelligent and pleasing
face. Nor were his principal exhibits less notable in
their proportions and attractiveneSS than he HIM
self. His wore horns that would make the big
gest Texas steer look like twoyear- old and behind
him throughout the day trailed harem of thirty
seven dusky beauties of every tint from ebony to
teen to four hundred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
What Governor Bell Has Done

THE hour of opening of the exhibition was justly
proud moment for Sir H. Hesketh Bell, X. {.
perience, great energy and exceptional executive
ability, in his scant two years in lganda he has had
remarkable success in welding together into fairly
homogeneous whole the previously loosely knit
feudal elements of Daudi Chwas Kingdom, and by
a great amount of road building, and good road
building at that, he has accomplished more toward
opening up the commerce of the country than all
his predecessors Indeed, at no previous time would
the transportation facilities of the country have per-
mitted the assembly of such exhibition amount
ing four thousand exhibits) of native products,
many from remote points the Nile out of the
north, and some from far Southern Ankole, near to
Lake kivu Nor perhaps, at any previous time would
tribal ealouses have left such assembly possible.
After brief address of welcome to the visit
ing dgnitaries and of congratulaton upon their
progress in education and in organized industry,
Governor Bell received in turn the visiting feuda-
tories and their chiefs, and the exhibition de-
clared open.
Then the dignitaries and the visitors dispersed
among the exhibits, viewed the samples of most
cellent wheat, corn flour, chilhes, peas,
beans peanuts, rice yams, ghee Clarified butter),
potatoes rubber beeswaX, of vegetables and fruits;
the production of coffee in all its stages from the
picking of the berry through curing to the cup;
shown cotton in the boil and in the ginning; mar
veled at the native cunning of the basket and mat
and cloth weavers, the patience and fair handiwork
of the ironsmiths with but the crdest of TOOLS
stood in dumb surprise before the long line of round
ma1let- welding barkcloth makers and a small
eighteen-inch square of bark slowly expand to
the wide proportions of ample mantle. the finished
product smooth and soft of texture the color any OF
many tints from pale amber to Indian red
all these laughing singing workers squattng to their
crop the soil unless he is comfortably down on his
launches and then his hands helpless unless they
Piled in time to the Tilt of some tune song
While an extraordinary and most interesting eN-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

raphv was the Star of Zanzibar, that of one of
earths smallest potentates, the Sultan OF IAN
zibar.
To the right of the Governor sat the bright
faced boy King of Uganda his Highness Daudi
Chwa; to the left, his senior regent, Sir Apollo
kagwa h. c. M. g. full blooded Baganda. but,
if YOU please, a full belted knight of the British
Empire Near about were grouped, each
rounded by his elder councillors and chiefs. the
Kings of Unyoro, Toro and Ankole and the ka-
kunguru and the Saza Chief of Usoga, all feudal
lords of his Diminutive Highness of Uganda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Native Marathon Runners

A MARATHON race started during the day
The measured one hundred yards longer
than that of Olympia, and not only was the course
endless succession of steep hills but during the
last two hours the runners had to contend with
rain and mud so heavy that the white Judges on BIZ
cycles were completely worn out. OF the forty-eght
starters, none was trained. Nevertheless, remark
able time made the winner kapere a native of
Uganda finishing in three hours three minutes, only
seven minutes over Olympia time. Only two Others
finished; one Rubeni coming in sixteen seconds
after kapere, and the third Atanansi, three minutes
later. And weirdest of ALL the two first, standing
for photo ten minutes after their arrival showed
the least sign of distress, not heave of flank
tremor. Obviously, with decent roads and bit of
training this pair would be tough customers in any
company twenty-siN- mile
Future of the Equatorial Black
WHAT magnificent reserves of latent energy dwell
w within the huge bodies of those equatorial
blacks, potential to turn every of land they in
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-07-09
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
Johnny Probably Told the Truth, but
at DreadfuIly Inopportune
Time.

A teacher in one of the lower grade
schools was entertaining two visitors
to the classroom. Several days pre-
viousy the teacher had furnished
amusement and at the same time in
creased the children's store Of knowl.
edge by series of questions OF the
following nature:
What do we sit on that rhymes
with hair?''
Some child would answer: Chair. "
Today the visitors would be pleased
to observe how readily the pupils
could answer.
What do wear on my head that
rhymes with cat?" asked the instruct
ress.
Up went the hand Of boy with red
hair.
We'll, Johnny" said she. you may
tell U.S."
Johnny arose and appeared fright
ened.
"It's rat" be blurted.
And then the tableau.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-07-09
BOY TORTURED BY ECZEMA

when my boy was six years old, he
suffered terribly with eczema. He
could neither sit still nor lie quietly in
bed, for the itching was dreadful. He
would irritate spots by scratching
with his nails and that only made
them worse. A doctor treated him
and we tried almost everything, but
the eczema seemed to spread. 1t
started in small place on the lower
extremities and spread for two years
until it very nearly covered the back
part of his leg to the knee.
Finally | got Cuticura Soap, Cuti-
cura Ointment and Cuticura Pills and
gave them according to directions.
used them in the morning and that
evening, before / put my boy to bed,
l used them again and the improve
ment even in those few hours was sur
prising, the inflammation seemed to
be so much less. used two boxes Of
Cuticura Ointment, the same of the
Pills and the Soap and my boy was
cured. My son is now in his sew
enteenth year and he has never had
return of the eczema.
II took care Of friends child that
had eczema on its face and limbs and
used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
They acted on the child just as they
did on my son and it has never re-
turned. would recommend the Cuti-
cura Remedies to anyone. Mrs. A. J.
Cochran, 1923 Columbia Ave-. Phila-
delphia, Pa, Oct. 20, 1909"