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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-08
TETON PROJECT
Read What Others Saw

PalOuSe, WASH, March b, lSlO.
F. s. Ratliff & Co.,
S110 Howard street,
Spokane, Wn.
Gentlemen:
Just arrived home from looking
over your Yakima land. l am we'll
pleased in every respect and will
say the land is even better than
you represented It to be.
This land lays high, same as
Mob Hill and l believe will pro-
duce some of the best fruit in the
Valley
Ten acres Is all l can afford to
buy at present on account of my ~
timber claim, which l am trying
to sell.
If l should sell this any time
this month l want ten acres more
at the same price II you can see
your way clear to let me have it.
Yours very truly.
S. J. TITUS.
Tekoa. Wn., Feb. rs, 1910.
F. S. Ratliff & Co..,
e." Spokane. Wn.
Gentlemen:
Have just returned from North
Yakima and l consider your land
the best investment l know Of.
bought ten acres of your Mr.. w. II.
Patterson. II l had plenty of6 h
III
acres
Yours very truly,
s. nj. WATSON.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-08
Nv PARA DAITCt

I" HIS life is complication of
joys and sorrows. and each
u one of us. living in our own
little world surrounded by our own
i happiness and grief, little realizes
the burdens being carried by our
fellow citizens and neighbors with
whom we are constantly associated.
Any day you go by the Cascade
steam laundry, GIL Bridge avenue,
you may look in from the street and
see Mrs. Julia A. Wilson. or, as she
is better known among the citizens
of Spokane and her fellow workers.
Mother Wilson, ironing away from
early morning until late in the
evening.
Her hair is gray and her hands
show signs of labor and toll, but Ii
has not always been so, and even
after years of struggle her amiab,e
disposition has not been hardened
and embittered against the world.
She has a smile for every one. a
kind word for every man, woman
and child and is ever ready to lend
a helping hand to every human liv.
ing soul.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-08

The largest American flag in the
world 100 by so feet, is now used
to cover the lilies that are being
propagated in the Phipps conservd-
tory in Schenley park, Pittsburg.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-08
A request for $1,000, made b,

A request for $1,000, made by
the board of public works to the
finance committee of the city for
the expense of placing under
ground the police and fire alarm
wires of the city in the down town
district, has been turned down
because of an already too lavish
expenditure OF public funds in the
different denartmenfS
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
From The Herald of this date, 1867
Y ars AGO
DENSE FOG ENVELOPES
CITY; PREACHER RESIGNS
day

fine new brick and stone hotel 10 be
erected on Mesa garden. The building
Is TO be seven stories. will cost $780,
600, and will be located on North FL
Paso street The furnishings will cost
$4,000
The Robert Downing Draia ltic COM
pany will show at the ChCDin hall to-
night.
A series of four musical concerts will
be given at Chopin hall by Messrs.
Leitch and Dewey
The fog that covered the city from
TO o'clock this morning was so thick
that II was impossible 10 see across the
street
Two strangers rented a room at Mrs.
Rogers's house, on Kansas street. today,
ana this morning they disappeared. So
ala $500 worth of clothing and SIS in
money belonging to brakeman McCloud,
Of the G.. H
AT the close of last nights services
at the Baptist church Rev. Mr.. Millican
Withdrew as pastor. and DIR. Thompson
was made moderator. However. the
congregation declined to accept the res
lgnation of the pastor, and agreed thai
they would refrain from dancing and
card playing.
Metal market-Silver. SIS Sac; lead,
80; copper, 1-2c; Mexican pesos, sac.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
HERALD

effrontery. the brutality, the organized
cruelty of this traffic
we have here no question of volun-
tary vice SO long as the vicious
sought their own degradation or STUN
bled into it through their OWN mis-
taxes. many good people felt that they
could stand aside and keep their skirts
cream That was not the course of the
Master. nor of those who followed him
most devotedly. but there seemed some
excuse Tor II in the minds of the fas-
dlulous and the self centered. But
slavery is another proposition. When
ignorant girls. intending to live clean
ana Industrious lives. are trapped into
slave pens from which they cannot es-
cape, and suffer physical abuse when
they try 10 do so. we have a condition
OF things that no decent man or woman
can tolerate for a moment. If our
modern consciences will not suffer the
enslavement of the colored race will
they sleep through the far more cruel
and murderous enslavement of bands of
white women?
This Is a curse which governments
will have the hearty support of the en-
tire people in fighting with every wea-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher
met in the building in Juarez yesterday
and exchanged courtesies of the sea
son. Maher and his party left this
morning for Las Cruces, n. NJ, where
he will train
There was a heavy fog early this
morning and as a result two freight
trains on the Southern Pacific collided,
six miles west of this city. Engineer
Blanchard, of Tucson. AriZ., was killed,
and E. Love was seriously hurt. All
other trainmen jumped and escaped in
jury
Judge A. B. Fail. of Las Cruces, is
in the city on business.
The county commissioners met this
morning. changed the number of school
district No. to No. 8; ordered the
acequia at Ysleta filled up and the
petition of J. II. COmstock CT al. to
have East FL Paso protected from floods
was referred to commissioner Slack,
with power to act
Col Parker, of the 18th infantry,
expects to retire from active service
within a month or sc.
Chief engineer LOwrie and ]. L. Bell
have been going over the proposed route
of the White Oaks road for the past
two days
]. Fisher Satterthwaite is planning
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
The Tired
Business Man
Tells Friend Wife About the Myth
Teal PilGrams-
BY WALTER a. SINCLAIR
BY WALTER a. SINCLAIR.

5sE SEE that a college president, AL
4 bert Bushnell Hart, says that
TIE Pilgrims and the Cavaliers
were myths. said Friend Wife. I sup
pose he viii say next that the colonial
danes were false alarms"
LAS TO the Pilgrims l don't know. but
he's right about the Cavaliers for we
all have heard about POcahOntas and
Captain Johns Myth said the Tired
Business Man. AS the Hart panteth
those stern old persons who came over
bunch of antique furniture importers
and breeders of Plymouth Rock hens
Professor Hart is quite heartless
about those early immigrants who came
in without any customs or medical in
spection Of course, the indians tried
TO yaccinate them and give them a hair
cut, but aside from that they had a
comparatively easy time when you think
of what the modern exile from foreign
lands has TO undergo.
Il suppose the Prof intends to take
away that cold-and-rock- bOUnd-cOas
gag. too. You know that the historians
abolished Plymouth Rock long ago. 1t
was cOnclusiveIy proven that they came
in at the Iron Pier basket parties well
come, and that nobody thought about
the rocky features until the morning
after Everybody knows that Massa-
chusetts in November is one of the most
inviting spots for travellers TO land af-
ter coming across on a fast boat that
only took about two months The per-
yerseness and lack of highbrowedness on
their part was proved by their landing at
Plymouth instead of at Boston Mass.
where the beans and cod were waiting
for them. and the hOtelkeepers ready TO
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
ORGANIZATION For Farmers

1FAIFa still king of the valley,
are protng many peaches apples
anything that
ch soil. climate and will produce
Tho outlook for the alfalfa growers splendid
largely advantage District associations have
general association embracing all the
growers working order all them having for
the highest market for their product UNIFORM
methods shipping mi o interest
organizations operated
properly organized
competition
eachot other
The growers gardeners
manner packing picking
the Grande valley
with readie better prices
Put away
Illinois is trying to capture medal 70 Iynchings
for FL PasO growing. Ye
And that showing year
bad Pretty city of fifty thousand
in the it putting the umbrella
keep out the
Every time we begin think things settling Nicaragua they
pull first positions these
other advertisers combined
xpuugTs of its police
no lahor-eforn1sts.
this month If the time
without murder charge the
docket Ell PasOans will think the millennium is here
10
until after she has laid
the egg" Too much talk spOns many good deal
considerably season-by
blue purple other color
girl in
men the one who
the FL stamps
waiting
operation So the Lad could have his appendix
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

compelled to strain their eyes to see in
another continent. but which exists in
their own cities and, hard by the halls
of law and justice. 1t should be mad
as difficult for a white SLAYER TO carry
on his or her nefariOus trade "a for y
case of leprOsy or smallpox to travel
about the country We pay customs
officials to see that foreign goods are
not smuggled through our ports; we
might far better pay vigilant detectives
10 see that victims of the SLAYER, ire
not brought in. If the police watch
the outgoing as well as the incoming
trafficker. and II suspects are kent
under constant surveillance. we NAV AT
least limit business which we are
assured has already reached appalling
proportions.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

charge excursion prices Why We
should get sentimental about a lot OF
old parties only fit to ornament the COW
ers of the Thanksgiving magazines is
more than 1 can understand
Professor Hart asserts that We have
handed these old fakes the virtue which
only their descendants possess What are
those virtues? Judging from the critics
of the descendants, they are blue noses
and making laws for other people 70
break I think the Prof is right for, al
though not a betting man, I would
wager that on the first Sunday in Ply
mouth there wasn't a locked side door,
for the simple reason that there were no
doors And as for gambling-well. they
cOppered all their shots You could
hardly miss an indian with one of those
bass tuba blunderbusses.
We have always given them credit
for carrying their Bibles under one arm
and their muslxets under the other en-
route 10 church every Sunday morning.
but 1 suppose that is exaggeration. TOO.
They probably used the leather covers
for an ammunition box. And as for
Capt. Miles Stard1sh. poOh-pOoh, Do
you suppose for 4 minute that he would
commission a mandolin player like John
Alden to give Priscilla song and dance?
Never! Chances are that Priscilla gave
Miles the harpooH when ne proposed.
and the Cap went back 70 the Army and
Navy Club and tried TO pass the buck
By saying John gave him the double
cross.
We honOred them for ducking the
scold and now we find their descend
ants scOlding the duck. of the tin va
riety- We believed they burned witches
because We have witch hazel for burns.
We even thought they endured hard
times. but those breaking waves which
dashed high on a cold and rOckbound
coast may have been waves Of pros
perity-Or marcel waves The Prof puz-
zled me when he said that a similar
myth causes the exaltation OF the South
ern cavalier
Why" asked Friend Wife
Il thought it was mountain dew" said
the Tired business Man
Copyright, 1909. by the New York
Evening Telegram (New York Herald
company. All rights reserved.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
Congress Should Aid Postal Clerks

perlous-thieen killed and
there provision for sick
injured pension Tor long
the OF
mall
make them crPes fOr ~
unfit further livelihood
faithful and receive their medical at
ion whether in the hospital or
and of the average cas-
uay list the army railroad postal clerks
pov and there scarcely killed
ued Always with the and fire
man into the through injury while all
the on
postal clerkcc commands the attent
National Livestock association
calls the polite
adstones hydrophOba which easier to
obtain and-acording to effcacous?
Typewte popular offices than BEFORE the trade
journals usually
found for members of the governors s-they
fight and South American revOludOnlsts
IT'S hard being section wants the
raised the commodity and
is justice both claims
Chaufu beat with heres There
Of
The corner policeman hitng In
most cities he keeps of the sidewalks and
that automobiles and side OF the street FL
Paso has regarding those things but
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

pon at their disposal. The slave dealer
should be sought as eagerly as the
murderer; and when he is convicted, he
might Justly be punished well nigh as
severely. The unspeakable brute who
entraps an innocent girl into so terri
BILE a form of slavery. is too bad to be
allowed TO live at the expense of the
honest taxpayers of the country He
might be spared to the hangman as
readily. surely. as the man who does
murder in hasty anger or after long
provocation. Here. then. is an issue"
which governments which seek popular
ity might wisely take up.
This is a case. too for international
cooperation There should be a league
of the civilized powers against this last
form of a slavery which they are not
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

by rail, two eastward and two west
ward.
Two commissions" added Senator
Bristow, must be paid on transactions
at the Kansas City stockyards; a profit
TO go in for each transaction. To the
original cost must be added all that
freight-from the first raiser TO Kan
sas City. from Kansas City back to the
feeder, from the feeder to Kansas City.
and then again. after the Strengthening,
back to the retailer"
1t may be added that the Kansas
senator was discussing the increased
price of living.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

shipped from the grass country to CEN
trail or eastern Kansas, where the corn
is raised, to be fed and finished on corn.
Then the finished animals were shipped
70 Kansas City, bought. butchered.
dressed-and the carcasses shipped back
to my friend at Goodland TO be re-
tailed. Or, 1t may be. as a large share
of cases. that the animal was raised
out in the range country, shipped to
Kansas City as feeder, bought there
by a farmer who had the corn and
wanted to finish a bunch of cattle on
II, shipped back to that mans place in
the corn belt, fed and shipped again
to Kansas City. slaughtered. and the
meat once more shipped westward TO the
place of sale. That makes four trips
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
The Fourth Estate"

sensational the hit of the New
novzd will be printed the columns of The Herald
present concluded
tate" will be printed
Th Fourth Estate" powerful story dealing with politics.
society and public life editor ga battle
bench sacrifice the he bears the
daughter of the his him a Every
known the ckste effcrt break him
him from his eoursboyot advertisers social nub,
sona assaults but he holds to the mark prints the
The Of the sensational that New York has
Many OF the take the composing
tOrial OF modern newspaper. 1t intensely thrilling
Following The Fourth Estate" Rose Sahls success
Lady, will be rights
OF these.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
Side1ights Along
Washington Byways

ing from the time he leaves his simple
pastoral scenes until he comes back
TO the old town. dressed Kansas City
style. with 4 full evening coat and
As the senator tells it:
Recently at Goodland. Kan. 400
miles northwest of Kansas City. 1 went
into a retail meat market 10 shake
hands with the proprietor, a friend of
mine. I asked him where he got his
meat. He said it came, dressed, from
Kansas City packers
Now. let me explain the history of
that meat he was selling. IT was raised
out in western Kansas. Later il was
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

cancy will be filled by the appointment
of Loyal f. Knappen. Of Grand Rapids,
now district judge for the western dis
trict of Michigan.
Nobody could figure out where judge
Knappen came in; he never went to
school at ale There was some wonder
about il for a short time. Then the dis
cOvery was made Of the Yale man in re-
serve.
He is Arthur c. Denison, of Grand
Rapids, a classmate of the president at
Yale. and a close friend during all the
years since. Denison wants to be fed
eral Judge and he is said TO be slated
for the place which judge Knappen
will vacate-
The lucky man in the list was Judge
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

From Montreal Herald
There never has been so much public
discussion Of the white slave traffic
as we hear today. Earnest ard progress
sive women have thrown off all their
natural reserve in speaking of such a
subject, and make public utterances of
the most uncompromising character re-
garding il. Social reform workers
especially those who go personally into
the submerged portions of our great
cities and work for the rescue of the
prisoners of poverty" of every sort
tell US appalling facts regarding the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Washington, D. c., Jan. 13.-Under
Roosevelt they were apt to wear cow
boy hats and big belts with guns in
them. Under the Present One the in
sigma have changed, but the system is
much the same.
The Harvard degree was in great ia
vor under the last administration; now
it's the Yale sheepskin that gets the
goods most often.
Justice Lurton, an old friend and as
sociate of president Taft. was named
TO the supreme bench. That left va
cancy In the 9th judicial circuit and
It is stated on high authority that va
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
USE OF TIE APPOINTING POWER.

Mark Sullivan. IN Golfers for jan
u6ry l.
When Cannon. last March. had the
hardest fight OF his political life. %
Democrats came 10 his rescue and saved
him from humiliating defeat. Six OF
these were Tammany congressman from
New York city. This very fact Col
lier's remarked at the time, lis in itself
a flaming question mark" The air was
full of rUmOr and Inference. but no one
knew the facts. Six months later, In
October congressman Parsons of New
York, made a public statement Par
sons is no insurgent; he is straight
cut party man. chairman. of the New
York Republican county committee
Parsons charged that Cannon was the
beneficiary of q corrupt bargain with
Tammany. Tamnany had helped Can
non az Washington: Cannon. through an
UP state Republican congressman had
helped Tamma1y at Albany-certain
pure election bills. the Ward bills. which
would have prevented fraudulent voting
in New York city. were defeated at AL
bany by Republican votes. When Par
sons made the charges. the country
rang; Cannon filled the air of the mid
die west with epithets. 1t was said he
would demand a congressional commit
tee of investigation and expel Parsons
from congress. Cannon hasn't done so
yet. Parsons is a prudent man and q
lawyer; we think he didn't make his
charges without having the proof in his
pocket. To shat investigation if II ever
comes. we contribute this small shred OF
Inference:
George r. Malby. of New York. is a
Cannon Republican. serving his second
term in congress. For 16 Years before
coming 10 congress he was in the legis-
lature at Albany. He had been speaker
of the house. and later, power in the
state senate. He knew every alley OF
Albany politics. MaIby could have turn
ed the trick. Later when Cannon made
his committee appointments Malby. q
new man serving his second term. was
found on appropriations and judiciary,
two of the most important committees.
TO which members with four times NAL
bys length OF service aspire in vain.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
y UNCLE WAITS
L. Denatured Poem

in We
ancient
he deadly cham;
fled the
the of
ksonnepr and al
axe lover to the swiftly wend, to
CONCERNING somed a friend. Here's
scholar theory his the loud
dollar has
worship lending pocdle and
modern office, a modern when Trade
IS
Copyright 1903 by George Matthew. .o.u- LOaaAnla~o.>
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
HERALD TRAY
ELNG AGENTS.

Persons solicited
to subscribe for
The Herald should
beware Of impos-
tiers and should
not pay money to
anyone Unless he
can show that he
is legally author
lied 10 receive it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
GUARANTEED
CIRCULATION.

The Herald bases
all adverti s ! n g
contracts on q
r u q 7 q n [ e e OF
more than twice
the circulation Of
any other FL
P a s o.. Arizona.
New Mexico or
west Texas pa
Per. Daily average
July 1909, 10.062.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Few people would suspect that cattle
were great travellers, and It has re-
NAMED for senator Joseph 1. BristOw,
of Kansas. TO reveal some Of the adven-
lures of a travelled beef. AS a tourist.
or at least as a commuter, the lowing
kline is the real friend of the rural sta
ton agent and he does a bit of railroad
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

ON WHITE SLAVERY.

Editor Ell Paso Herald:
I herewith enclose you a clipping
from Montreal Canada paper After
I perused it, I thought it hit FL Paso
strongly. Use it if you so desire
think IT a pretty strong article on the
subiect c. NJ. Powell,
]. P ..Prec. 10. Otero Co., n. NJ
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Knappen. With an old friend of the
president ahead of him, and another be-
hind him, he was pulled from one di-
rection and pushed from the other right
into leadership in the race for the much
coveted circuit bench position.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
ADS BY PuONE.

Call Bell lis. Auto Ills. tell what
you wish to buy. ser or rent and The
Herald will do the rest.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13
DENSELY POPULATED
SALVADOR.

Small country spends lots of money.
Last of series OF Turbulent Central America"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

At found for members OF the govern
can fight South American revOlutiOnsts
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

~Madstones hydrophobia Why not try whestone VIII
obtain and-according to sciencejust efficacous?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

And that showing railroad freight handling into FL Paso la
bad Pretty fair even for city of fifty thousand
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

The hltchng post
most cities he keeps the sidewalks and
that automobiles and side of the street FL
Pao has the ordinance regarding things but
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Every time we begin think things settling down in
pull off another battle Nicaragua getting first post
than all other advertisers combined.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

When the shivrng in the it putting
keep out the rain There of satisfaction in living in Ell
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-13

Another another mortgage for FL Pa
for the same day. s growing. Yes?