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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04
q LIVES ,.,.
LOST IN
BIG WRECK
COLLISION BETWEEN BRITISH
SHIP AND UNKNOWN
VESSEL.
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(By United Press Leased Wire)
FALMOUTH, England, April A.
At least 21 lives were lost in a COL
lision between the British bark
Kate Thomas and an unknown ves-
sci, which cut the bark in two off
Lands End today. The Kate
Thomas sunk within a few minutes
after she had been struck, and all
aboard went with her, except a
cabin boy, who cung to a piece of
wreckage, from which re was res
cued. The news of the accident was
brought by the Belgian tug John
Bull, which made port this after
neon.
The tug was towing the bark.
Without warning the unknown yes
sci shot out of the fog A moment
later it's prov ploughed into the
side of the Kate Thomas, tearing a
great hole amidship. Before life
boats could be lowered the bark
had disappeared beneath the chan
mel waters. The other vessel con-
tinued on her course, and her fate is
unknown, according to officers of
the tug. The wife of the captain
and the wife of the first mate Of
the Thomas were aboard. They
shared the fate of the others of the
Thomas.
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To CLEAN
HOUSE At
CITY HALL
COUNCIL TO START SOME FIRE
WORKS ON APRIL 12.
GOES FIRST

A general house cleaning of
heads of departments at the city
hall is looked for on the night Of
April IL, when the city council will
hold it's next regular meeting.
The process of elimination will
begin with City Engineer Ralston,
and there is no telling where it
will end.
The talk of Impeachment pro-
ceedings against Mayor Pratt con
tinues, but the individual council
men decline to give anything out
for publication in regard to it.
Affairs at the city hall are be,
coming more complicated every
day. The court has ordered the
nuisance of the Sprague avenue fill
abated and the board Of public
works does not seem to be in much
of a mood to abate. The fill mat
ter is up in the air and no nearer
solution than it was six months
ago.
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SOME IMPORTANT
CONDEMNATION SUITS

There are many condemnation
suits Eow pending in the superior
court brought by Cullen & Dudley,
as attorneys for the Idaho &
Western Railway company, which
heretofore has been somewhat of
sphinx since these condemnation
proceeding notices have begun to
appear in the newspapers.
When interviewed this noon,
Messrs. Cullen & Dudley, who are
also the local attorneys for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway, the extension of the Mil
waukee." stated that they were the
attorneys for both corporations and
that the Idaho & Western is
branch company. formed for the es-
pecial purpose of building branch
line from a point on the main line
of the c. NJ. & p S. railway from
a point near Plummer to Spokane,
and a branch line from some point
on the latter line to Occur dAlene
City. This latter branch to Occur
d'Alene will be constructed
whether or not the other line is
built into the city of Spokane.
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BY THE RINGSlDER.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.-The
dove of peace is still far from flut-
tering over the local promting situ-
alton. not having recovered from
the swift kick Jim Coffroth gave it
when he announced that he had
matched Abe Attell and Jem Dris-
coll to fight in his Colma arena
on the afternoon of July 8. COf-'
froth, Jim Griffin and Louis Blot
are the favored ones in the new
city administration, and in addition
to his city permit Coffroth has the
only permit issued by San Mateo
county. Griffin, who has the July
city date, realizing that things pu-
gilistic will be on the fritz for some
time following the Jeff-Johnson bat
tie, decided TO take advantage of
the arrival of the early birds and
pull off battle on July 2. While
he was negotiating with Ketchel
and Langforth. Coffroth got into
the game and matched Attell and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04

TAINTED MEAT FED PEOPLE
IN SOME RESTAURANTS

restaurant sections. Here ham
burger is made from scraps taken
from the plates-scraps paid for
bit not eaten by the hundreds of
men who gather during the day for
dinner at the counter, and from
the meat left over from the dinner
from day to day. This Is vOuched
for by men who declare they have
seen it done, yet the Spokane peo-
pie who are hiring inspectors to
protect the public health have seen
no punishment meted out to men
carrying on this sort of "hashing.
Hamburger and sausage, steaks
and other meats are permitted to
sit around until they have become
black and surface crusted and are
then thrown on the griddle and
cook ii for hungry workingmen to
eat. Many men are too suspicious
IF the contents of some of the ham,
burger sold in some of the cheaper
II s,aurants to risk including it in
their Gnner menu. While present
conditihs exist this abstinence is
consider ed most wise.
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BY M. M. WlNANS.

Another man-an usher at the
Orpheum thsater-died the other
day from ptomainc poisoning, sup
posed to have been contained in
hamburger which he ate for dinner
at ia downtown restaurant. Viru-
lefice' of the poison in it's deadly
work of eating away at the young
falloTS, vitals astonished experts
of the medical profession-they
had never seen a case quite SO bad
as this, yet, all things considered,
it is no wonder 1t Is not strange
that hamburger--tho kind that Is
to be seen in various parts Of the
city-should contain death dealing
poison. To eat of the blackened,
tainted stuff is little short Of
trifling with suicide-an invitation
to death.
There are reasons o believe that
health laws are being broken in
Spokane-that coloring is being put
into the hamburger. That tainted
meat is being fed to the customers
in some of the cheap eating houses
there is no doubt.
Can hamburger or any other kind
of meat that has been left open
to the air and dust, except for a
thin wire screen that cannot re-
ard communicating substances from
the streets and the cutters, be fit
for the human stomach? No one
would care to eat such stuff were
they to know of such conditions
but, unconscious of the manner in
which it is being handled, they are
eating it daily in Spokane.
No wonder another man is dead
from the hidden poison of this con-
taminated, half decayed meat. Meat
inspection, restaurant keepers de-
clare, is carried on at a rigid pace
here in Spokane. but there are
many reasons to believe that some
Cf the so-called inspectors are in
sprc'ors only In name.
Certainly it is not an aid to
longevity to eat hash hamburger"
such as is sold in some of the
Japanese restaurants in the cheap
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HURRAH FOR DOWN.
TRODDEN SKIM MILK!
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
CHICAGO, April 4,-The mucn
maligned skim milk may now prove
wonderfully valuable, is success
which already seems TO be assured
DR.. O. Henry Nowak, n local chem
list and scientist, continues to de-
yclop.
SKINNED of all its rich, pure
cream, all of its fat and 50 of "a
varieties of bacteria which it con-
tains, wonderful things, almost un-
ending possibilities, are declared
to lie in this product.
Mili. after all its richness and
all but one of its bacteria have
boon removed, will form a perfect
and almost invisible film over any
thing Dipped into 1t, preventing en-.
trance of germs. air or water. and
absolutely indissoluble and imper-
vious to acids.
In other words. it is said to be a
prcfect presoryative for meat, eggs.
fruit or anything that decomposes.
DR.. Nowak, II year ago, dipped
fresh eggs into the fluid and today
showed that they were as fresh as
when taken from the nest.
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THE STORY OF THE NAMES OF MONTHS

JANUARY-The Roman presided of
everything, year called after
FEBRUARY-The Roman festival 18th
OF this month in honor of
MARCH--Name from Mars, the Roman god of
APRIII-Probably derived Asperre to because
spring generally begins the buds
MAY-So called Maia divinity worshiped at
the
JUNE-Named after Juno worshipped the
JULYCaled after Julius Caesar who
AuGUST-Named by the Roman Augustus Caesar
B. 30 after himself he regarded lucky month
in which he had several battles
SEPTEMBkR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
Named from the Latin sepem octo,
eight. nine and 10, they respectively
eighth, ninth and tenth months of the
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WARRANT OUT FOR
"FER-DON'S" ARREST

on a criminal charge, on informa-
tion !, alleged to have been filed
against him at Santa Rosa, Cal.
Needless to say, Fer-Don is not in
evidence about that place, and it
is said that Ramsey is nowhere to
be found.
Fer-Don's real name is DAILY, ac-
cording to the published statement
of one of his men. and it is said
he was formerly a piano player in
a California dance hall. Despite
this fact. it is declared that the al
Rged doctor is member of the
Masonic lodge, under the name of
Fer-Don.
The system used by the Fer-Don
outfit is to scare patients by pro-
nouncing them desperately i'll or
perhaps on the verge of the grave
after fake examinations and then
holding them up for about all they
can pay for his humbug treatment.
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A warrant Is out in the city of
Everett, WASH, for the "Great"
Fer-Con, fake medical expert,
against whom The Spokane Press
has been carrying on a campaign.
That Fer-Don and his staff Of
quacks of his own stamp and class
are doing wonders" in the way of
extracting the coin from the purse
of suffering humanity there is no
doubt. The Press has eHdeavored
to warn Fer-Don's prospective vic
tins in Spokane of his actual meth
DDS, and enough has already been
shown to warrant action on the
part of the Spokane Medical So
ciety to have him driven from the
city.
In Everett the police are looking
for the famous Quack on charge
of practicing medicine without a
license, and they are looking for
William Ramsey, one of his staff,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04
DESERTED ARMY TO GET
FORTUNE, LOST IT BY ACT

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. April 4.-By
deserting from Fort Russell last
August Roy Pender Cuppel has lost
a fortune of $l50.000, according to
q. message received at the post.
Pcnder, before he enl sted, as
sumed the name of Henry Cuppel,
an eccentric citizen of Des Moines,
Ia, with the unde standing he was
to inherit Cuppel's fortune If he
proved worthy.
Last August Cuppel died. Pender
promptly deserted aad went to DeS
Moines. Recently the executor of
the will learned he was a deserter.
and under the provisions of the VII
the fortune will go to charitable in
tsitutions.
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Il sure do; and just to prove 1t.
come down stairs with me"
So the pair proceeded to the
basement.
And there was found a mlscella-
neous nucleus for junk shop.
There We're suits of old clothes,
a suit OF new tailor made apparel,
numerous old hats, bottles of med
icine. some surgeons tools, cou-
pie OF law books, any number of
magazines, three or four umbrel.
las. half dozen pairs of old
shoes, some carpenter tools, a
buck saw. and other bits OF odds
and ends too numerous to mention.
This is all stuff which has been
here from anywhere from four
Continued on Page Seven.
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SALOONS GIVE PROOF THAT MANY MEN
ARE ABSENT MINDED; WHAT THEY LEAVE

happened to be standing at the end
of HE bar, smiled. and turniag to
a friend standing near, remarked;
I'D be willing to bet you a five
spot that fellow doesn't come back
for his package inside o: a week. :"
- "Pshaw." replied the friend
you're dreaming. Hen be back
right away. He said So
Just the same" insisted the
proprietor. I'm willing to take a
chance on the bet. That fellows
one of the worst we have TO deal
with in the package leaving line.
and we sure have lot OF them"
A JUNK SHOP
DO you mean to say that many
people forget 10 call foi the pack.
'ages they leave in saloons:"
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I ATE NEWC
B u L L E 7 Ms
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LONDON, April 4-Official announcement few days
English had decided evacuate British
Somaland, retaining only few towns which be
cheapy garrsoned against the Mad Mnahs attacks,
chorus of approval first ending heavy
for the holding of entirely worthless
try suddenly ggested that the evacuation
victory for the Mad Mullah British
---------t---
ATHENS via Frontier, April 4.-More troops order
Thessa today in effort subdue the who
agnst the
the Mohammedan land and turn the
to the peasants.
SANTA CRUZ Cal, April 4.-The United States cruisers
California West Virginia and Maryland, for Puget
sound where they overhanled the
arrived off Captoa today The vessels have been off Santa
island where they
CONSTANTlNOPLE April 4.--FbImer Sultan Abdul Ham
id is becoming serious to the Turkish
men according frank adms sions high Official
If he would die tiopShly natural death the
enment would be delighted though wasted by disease
to skeleton he still lin there
the graest fear that he will some violence to himself for
which the government will be b lamei
80 <>>% - . . . 80 . . .
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ROOSEVELT
SEES THE
KING
CHUMS WITH KING VICTOR
FOR TWO HOURS.
KING ADM|RES 7. R.

(By United Press Leased Wire)
ROME, April 4.-king Victor
Emmanuel received Colonel
Roosevelt in private audience
listing almost two hours. The
length Of the audience caused
general surprise, as II was the
longest ever granted to any Wis
itor at Rome, except upon polit-
ical occasions.
The nature Of the conversa-
tlon between the king and for
mer President Roosevelt was
net divulsed. Kermit Roosevelt
was also granted an audience
by the king.
LONE OF WORLDS GREATEST
MEN,"
Following The visit of Roosevelt
and Kermit to the auirinal, Kins
Emmanuel said:
They We're most interests i
pair. | have always looked upc:
Theodore Roosevelt as one of tho
greatest men In the world. Today's
meeting has only strengthened that
After leaving the palace, Roose.
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Give me a glass OF beer"

Give me a glass OF beer"
A man with a big bundle under
his arm walked up to the bar of .
well.known local saloon. paid for
his drink, drank the foaming bev-
erage, and then started for the
door.
Suddenly he halted and turned
BACK to the bar. %
Say. want to leave this pack
age here for q little WHILE" he re-
marked to the bar creature"
Sure" replied the mixologist
Got your name on it?"
The man produced pencil,
scribhled his name on the pack
age wrapper. passed the bundle
over the bar and hurried away.
The proprietor of the saloon, who
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welt was driven to the pantheon.
wher he placed wreaths on the
tombs OF Kings Emmanuel, Victor
and Humbert.
A great throng lined the course
OF the Roosevelt party to the pan.
theon and another large crowd wit
messed the simple ceremony at the
tOmbs.
After returning to their hotel the
colonel was occupied for two hours
in reading his mail.
WON'T SEE THE POPE.
In effect, the restriction implied
In Monsignor Kennedy's final mes,
sage to Roosevelt was that the col
onel could not be received by his
holiness II he contemplated a prior
address to the Methodists here. AL
though II Is believed that Roosevelt
had made no engagement to ad.
dress the Methodist college, he
deemed 1t curb upon his liberty
should he consent to the restriction.
In the course of message Mon
signor Kennedy referred to a sim.
liar incident involving Charles w.
Fairbanks, formerly vice president
of the United States. Fairbanks
had agreed to address the Method
list college and also had accepted an
invitation to visit the vatican.
When he learned that he must
forego the college address. IL he
desired an audience with the none.
Fairbanks declined the audience.
1t was explained that Monsigncr
Kennedy's reference to the Fair
banks incident was friendly one
made in the hope of avoiding an
other unpleasant incident,
MErhoDlsrs CALL.
While Roosevelt was reading let.
ters from q mass of man piled he.
Tore him. Doctors Tipple and Clarke
OF the Methodist college had called
TO pay their respects.
Although Roosevelt purposelv
avoided any discussion of the .vatl.
can incident" DIR, Triple. head Of
the college, warmly congratulated
the colonel on his attitude.
Dr. Tlpple said that new feeling
Is developing In Rome that the vati,
can ia hedged about with too many
restrictions aud that this policy Il
opposed by u majority OF Catholics,
KING WILL DRIVE WITH r. N.
An Unprecedented honor for
Roosevelt has been announced for
tomorrow. King Emmanuel will
send his carriage for Roosevelt aud
will take him driving through
Rome.
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forced him to the rear of the bank
building. Seven charges of nitro
glycerine were used in blowing the
safe open. Carroll says. The
charges were SC heavy that they
shook the building, but no one was
aroused by the noise of the explo-
sions. Carroll was found carly to-
day by persons passing the bank
building. who noticed that the bank
had been entered. Authorities in
other cities have been asked to be
on the lookout for the robbers.
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in
COAL BUNKERS

(By United Press Wireless)
STEAMSHIP VICTORIA, at
Sea, April 4.-The body Of Au-
gust Auchwitz, stcwaway
from Seattle, was found in the
coal bunkers yesterday. He had
been suffocated. The mans
brother, who is a steerage pas
senaer, asked that the body be
buried at sea. The funeral was
held today and the corpse
dropped overheard. The Vic
toria passed ketchikan at 4
.. m. yesterday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04
BY JOHN YOUHGlOVE.
CHAPTER; w.

And nov we plunged.
Fron the gloom of the boarding
house, We swung our pendulum too
far ths other way. We passed up
cheaper apartments, all of which
are moro or less inconvenient. and
chose one whose large airy rooms,
pleasant outlook, good neighbor-
hood aud all seemed tG ~ to be
about ideal.
Hut tbe rent was $2i pHr month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04
WALKER WESTON
PASSES CHICAGO
WITHOUT STOPPING
(By United Press Leased Wire)

CHICAGO, April 4.-Edward
Payson Weston, the aged pedes-
trian, passed through Chicago
eally today on his tramp from the
Pacific to the Atlantic. For the
first time on any of his long jaunts
routed through this city he did not
stop here for a rest. He walked
east. passing through the southern
part Of Chicago and going to Ham
mond Ind. He is II days ahead of
his schedule.
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T0OAY'S RACES

40 2-5.
Third race-Col. Ashmeade, Z to
10, won; Templar, to l. second;
Uralta. third. Time, 1:13 As.
Fourth race-Hoffman to 2,
won; Consol, 6 to 5. second; Old
Honesty, third. Time, 1:40 2-5.
Fifth race-May LutZ, s to |,
won; Sally Preston, to 3. second;
Chilla. third Time. 1:13 3-5.
Sixth race-Hoe, 8 TO ), won; Ed
win L., even, second. Oberon, third.
Time, 1:47 2-5.
Results at Emeryville:
First race-Media, 3 to /, 6 to 5,
won; Othal, 4 to l, IL to 1, 6 to 1.
second Academist, 6 to l. to l,
even, third. Time, AS AS.
Second race-Burnell, 20 to 1, s
to /, 4 to l, won; May Sutton, to
/, 2 to l, second; Andemechee, 5 to
4, third. Time, 1:14 2-5.
Third. race-Father Stafford, 5 to
l, 9 to S, 8 to TO- won; Airs, even,
l to 2, second; Hex, to |, third.
Time, Liza 2-5.
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BLIND CROPPING TO REACH ECONOMY

And | was errning but $50 rer
week.
That was our first mistake. Our
second was ulat We were caught by
the alluring terms o: an install
ment house ana hought our house
hold equipment there. Our outfit
was not expensive, nat it cost us
about $lin. And for nearly seven
months went each week to the
installment house and laid down
n $5 bill. After tho first flush OF
Continued on Page Seven.
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NATIONAL
BANK IS
ROBBED
MASKED MEN TAKE $4,000
FROM NEBRASKA
BANK.
(Cv United Press Leased Wire)

LINCOLN, Neb, April 4.-The
First National bank of Randolph,
Mob, was robbed early today by
three masked men, who first
caught City Marshal Carroll and
locked him in the back room of the
iank building. The robbers Sc
cured $4,000 in gold and currency.
Carroll saw the three men and
followed them toward the bank.
Suddenly they wheeled on him,
covered him with revolvers and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04
CITY
MEN ON STRIKE

DAYTON, Wash, April 4.-Every
street employe of the city of Day
ton is on strike today, demanding
an increase of $3.50 day. They
have been receiving $3.50 for eight
hours, the scale including teams.
The men walked out Saturday. To
day their demands were refused by
the street committee of the council.
The strikers lay the blame for the
walkout to the high cost of living.
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Funeral services for Bridget r.
O'Brien, age Al years, who died
Friday at the home of her sister.
Mrs. Edwin l.. Sprague, E290S
South River street. were held this
at o'clock from the St.
Aloysius church Interment took
place at Paramount.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-04

VANCOUVER.-The wsAd-
vertiser. the morning paper, has
been sold to J. S. H. Matson, owner
of the Victoria Colonist. for $780,
600
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Results at Jamestown.

Results at jamestown:
First race-Hyperion, 10 to /,
won: Havre, 8 to Is, second; Opera
third. Time, 1:16 5-5
Second race--W. |. Hinch, to 5.
won; Eminola, 8 to 5, second; Di-
metries, third. Time, 1:16 is.
Third race-Lizzie Flats to 5,
won; Lucille r., 2 to l, second;
Xebec. third. Time, 1888.
Fourth race-Jose Rose, 8 to 5,
won; The Golden Butterfly, to 5,
second Otilo, third. Time. Al As.
Fifth race-Rash, even, won
John Pendergast, out, second; Mar
omarat. third. Time, AS Is.
Sixth-Ozarine, out, won; Beth
lehem, even, second; Complete,
third. Time, 1:28 As.
Results at Jacksonville:
First race-Harold Hall, 8 to /
won; Drown Tony, 2 to l, second +;
Roger Decoverly, third Time, 1.02
Second race-Grover Hughes, 9 tC
10, won; Lois Descomniaz, 3 to /
second; ROseburg. third. Time
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-20
Clever Spiders.


A naturalist took a large spider from
his web under the basement of a mill,
put him on a chip of wood and set him
afloat on the quiet waters of the pond.
He walked all about the sides of his
bark, surveying the situation very care
fully, and when the fact that he was
really aioat and about a yard from
shore seemed to be fully comprehend
ed he looked out for the nearest land.
This point fairly settled upon, he i'm
mediateiy began to cast a web for It.
He threw it as far as possible in the
air and with the wind. 1t soon reached
the shore and made fast to the spires
of grass. Then he turned himself about
and in true sailor fashion began to
haul in hand over hand on his cable.
Carefully he drew upon 1T until his
bark began to move toward shore. AS
1t moved the faster, he the faster drew
upon 1t to keep his hawser taut and
from touching the water. Very soon he
reached the shore and, quickly leaping
to terra firrna, sped his way homeward.
Thinking that he might be a special
expert in that line Of workmanship
to the rest of his companions, the nat
uraiist tried several spiders. They all
came to, shore In like manner.