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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Make Up Postal Deficit
With This Nice Pie?

message sad ''The actual loss from the transmission
OF secondclass mail is $63OOOOOO year The newspaper
goes on the average 2l9 miles the magazine 1919 miles
A great saving might be made by imposing upon maya
zines and periodicals higher rate Of postage
And right at this moment flood of light is thrown on
way least by which the government might make up
the deficit by the allegations of the Merchants and Man
ufacturers association of Milwaukee in suit against the
express companies before the railway commission Of Wis
consin asking lower rates.
According to these allegations, the profits made in
rying parcels which in other civilized nations done by
the postoffice enormous
The WelsFargo, with property in worth $685.
$685. pays 10 per cent dividends water enough to make
$SOOOOOO in stock. Its net dividends SO per
cent the property used in the business 1t gets $780,
900 year in interest its past savngs. Its 1909 net
earnings not counting this interest $3,l 13,O25
The United States express has property IN It's business
worth 3d. POI and pays per cent to per cent on
watered capitalization of $10O0000O. 1t gets earnings
from invested rakeoff of $4,000 ear Not counting
this however in 1909 it took down net operating earnings
of $57o,7l0-or about % per cent on its plant.
The American carries capital stock amounting to SIS
100000 plant used in the business worth $2,57 1863
1t drew down $176S2 net revenue on $50 1863 of prop
erty used.
The Adams is modest and unselfish It's plant is worth
almost half much its capitazaon$ 100000 of
stock against S. SS9 in plant 1t pays dividends at
per 10 per But has habit all its amiable
own of awarding to its deserving stockholders special
dividends in the form of per cent bonds of which it
gave away $l2,000000 in 1898 and $24O0OO0O in 1907
By this it is hoped that the surplus will be kept
from becoming scandal 1t got 81 100000 from invest
ments in 1909 and 81 100000 in net revenuesless than
80 per cent its plantbu then those waered bonds
had to be carried you know!
The Northern, plant of $lS9,4O9, earned $50 per
cent dividends in 1909or net operating revenues OF
1928 1886 It's tank holds $l5OOOO0O in stock
This is pie. 1t shows that old Tom Plat was right in
devotng his senatorshp to the express business 1t
titles Hartman in going after the Wells-Fargo. The
express business is licensed grand larceny.
Parcels post would prevail in this country today to the
great advantage of the people, if the grating express
companies did not stand in the way.
Queer isn't it, that the president didn't consider parcels
post along with muck raking magazines?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
In Little Old New York
BY NORMAN

NEW YORK, Jan. o,--4ntuEvleW5
with Wa Ting Fang are always fun
for WI and hard work for the inter
viewer. The Chinese minister is
much more fond of asking ques
tons than of answering them, and
he does ask such unexpected ques-
tiOns. A New York newspaper
woman tackled Mr. Wa during his
recent visit TO Manhattan. and, al
though she was one of the clever
est OF her tribe, the oriental diplO-
mat fairly swept her off her feet.
He began the minute she had
shaken hands with her, and here
are some of the questions he asked:
What Kind of a hat is that you
have on?' --.
viii you please spell it for me?"
will you please write il? | want
to remember it, tPen and ink pro-
duced and "TOQUE" written large
! for Wu.D
| Docs it keep your ears warn? p
How long have you been in the
newspaper business?'
Do you write interviews every
day."
How many people do you gee in
one day.
Are you married."
How can You hear, with it so far
down over your ears?" (ReVerting
again to the hat)
DO you call it a turban, too.
have seen some turbans.'
DO you like your work, going
about and interviewing people?"
What kind of coat is that you
have on?'
Is your hat stylish?"
1t was baffled newspaper
| woman who took leave of WI.
About all the information she got
out of him was that he thought
American women had very good fig
ures, but that he thought there
were also in China women with
quite proper shapes
The night after the late blizzard,
when it was still very cold and the
snow lay deep, a man staggered
against an elevated railroad pillar
in his hands were two raisin rolls,
one of which he was ravenOusly de-
vouring. Weakness came over him
the weakness of starvation. He
stuffed one of the rolls into his
pocket, as though to protect it. The
other fell into the snow. and with
it the man.
An ambulance came, and doc
tor, but the man was dead when
the physician bent over him. Hun
ger and cold had killed him. He
wore a light overcoat, summer
suit and thin underwear. His shoes
and overshoes were tattered. His
soft hat had a big hole in the
crown. There were no papers on
his body. His face showed refine
ment-quite a different face from
that of the usual bum"
Around the body there gathered
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

crowd OF Il SnI wanderers. Many
of them had known the man, biz,
not one knew his name, Or could
.emember ever having heard it. 70
them he was known only as
"Chesty.", Why? This was the
way one of them told it: -
That guy wouldn't never pan
handle. Many time | seen him in
the park, achin' wit hunger.
; knowed he was an Englishmap. be
cause he u2t TO talk that way-noi
that cheap stuff, wit all the aitches
wrong, but the real British, Ike 6
gentleman-an | use to say to bin
Go on cut on the street an tel
somebody you're poor Engl,shmal
from good family, tryin to &c
back home to London. You ca.
nick up a supper an 4 night s lCdgin
any evening.
But he wouldn't never do it. He
just got sore when I'd mention it.
And he wouldn't never get in on
the food graft. | says to him, moro
than once, Come on UP the line,
where they're handin' out bread an
coffee
Dye think he would? Not him.
So we ust to call him 'Chesty,' be-
cause he was too proud to beg or to
get IN the bread line. ] guess he
was hungry most of tho time. but
he didn't need to be. He was just q
plain - fool, Chesty was"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
THE SUPERIORITY OF
WOMEN.

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save you, as am your true, loving wife, Julia Cohen
"Ottawa, Kan, Jan. 5-Tral of Rev. Wallace NJ
Stuckey, the Williamsburg editor preacher, charge
of abducting old Lorena Switzerland began here
today Stuckey while pastor of the church, disappeared
with the girl last and later found living with
her at Waukegan ILL., Stuckey arrested and the girl
received back by her parents Stuckey abandoned his
wife and children to go away with Miss Switzerland but
his wife arranged for his bond and Defense
The first quotation is from a New York deseron
The husband ran away with young girl
Say, Mr.. Average Man, don't these items make you feel
ashamed of your Now, don't they? Think of these
two young wives deserted by their husbands yet standing
by them the last ditch, and defending them when the
fires of passion have died down and when everything is
black before them
The truth of the matter is that the woman is
morally far above the average that there is
comparison Men should humbly thank heaven that they
permitted to associate with to work and plan
and buck the world for Them return for the boundes
love and allegiance women give them.
The high moral courage of the woman is the saving
factor in the world of today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
pEowell's
Stomach
Remedy

cures Indigestion, Gastritis, Merry
GUS Dyspepsia, Sick Headache.
Catarrh of the Stomach. Ask
your druggist
Spokane, Wash, Jan. 26, 1909.
Mr.. A. II. Powell,
Manufacturing Chemist,
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Sir: After suffering for
over 80 years with stomach trouble
and spending hundreds of dollars
with doctors and for patene medi-
cine and receiving only temporary
relief, if any, finally | was induced
to try PowelPs Stomach Remedy
After taking one bottle | felt like
a new man and could eat things
that | had not been able to eat for
years. | wrote you this letter SO
you can publish it so that anyone
affected as | was may read it and
learn of this wonderful medicine
and be permanently cured. Yours
truly, EDWARD RYDBLOM,
S26 Perry Street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
: PENCIL POINTS:

every shipper kicking
delivery thinking settling this strike
business or basis pretty blame
Ell? Fine health, it little
bracing for comfort.
what's become of Mr.. Zeaya?
biggest half in spite of the fact
that of want it,
agree charms of another
The circulation than
lie.
Probably the remains a made
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Great Hoaxes Of History
Speaking of Explorer Cook He Had Nothing on the
Strange Journey of Hot-Air Balloonist

the steering balloon Victoria, after
a passage of rs hours from land to
land.
In those days, when it took
weeks to cross the Atlantic, and
when aerial navigation was a mere
dream, such an achievement was
the accomplishment of the impossi-
BILE.
THE rush for the sole paper
which had the news" says Poe,
originator of the hoax, was some.
thing beyond even the prodigious."
For days and weeks this won
derful "trip" was the one topic of
conversation, and 1t was only when
people began recalling the moon
hoax, also perpetrated by the Sun.
that they realized they had been
caught" again.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-Can a court
grant a trial divorce" effective for
only limited number of years?
This Is the question countless
Chicago jurists and lawyers are
asking each other today following
the granting Of such a decree to
Mrs. VIM. A. Wohole. Hammond.
Ind. by Judge Vergil 8. Rieter, OF
the Lake county superior court.
The Woholes are divorced for a
period Of five years after which
time they can live together IL they
30 desire.
u during that time they should
make up and wish to be remarked.
they would have 10 walt until the
fiya years have expired.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Pa, on Spree, Jailed Over Wedding

WILKES-BARRE, Jan. 8.-John
Bilroy. whose daughter is to be
married tomorrow, was placed in
jail today by request of his fam
lily to be kept until after the cere-
mony. They said that he had been
on spree for several days and
that he could not get sober before
the wedding.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Washington in
a Lighter Vein

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Adam
Bede has a friend out in MinnesO-
ia who has a daughter with a ten
dency to mischief which she prob
ably inherited from dad
The little girls grandmother
was giving her a scolding," says
Mr. Bede when he tells about it.
The old lady prefaced her re-
marks by saying that if the child
didn't behave she wouldn't go to
heaven, like mamma. The little
girl ended the argument by say
ing that she would rather go to
hell with papa"
Lafayette Young vouches for the
following yarn and says it actual
ly happened in Des Moines
street car.
A woman got on a crowded car.
She looked around for seat and
then reached for strap. After an
interval of a minute, during which
the woman looked around the car
scornfully, man got up and po-
litely offered her his seat.
You are jewell said the
woman.
mo, ma'am, you are mistaken
am a jeweler; | set the jewel
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

The balloon hoax was the most
successful aerial fake ever worked
upon an unsuspecting public. One
day in April, 1914, the New York
Sun astonished it's readers with
an article headed thus:
ASTOUNDING NEWS BY Elk.
PRESS VIA NORFOLK"
THE Atlantic crossed in three
days.!
Signal triumph of flying ma
chine!!!
Then followed a story from
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Meant No Malice

Look here said the head of the
firm, Il want to give you a
pointer"
Yes, sir the office boy respect
fully replied
IF | hear you hummiug any more
popular songs around here I'll dis
charge you"
"All right. I won't do it no more.
| wouldn't have done it this time,
only me lips is sore and ! can't
whistle. Chicago Record-Herald.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
Origin Of Rltmor

Senator" said the interviewer,
lit is rumored that you intend to
retire from politics."
We'll, WELL" replied the senator.
IT'S queer how rumors start. l sup
pose this one grew out of the fact
that l attended church with my
wife last Sunday."-Catholic STAN
dard and Times.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
"TRLAL DIVORCE" TO LAST
FIVE YEARS is GRANTED

couple should go out of the state
and re-wed and get a divorce after
the expiration of five years, they
would have to get two divorces to
be legally separated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

Now they want to tax bank
notes. Get rid of yours while times
are good.
Will the sailors on the new bat
tleship Utah have a wife in every
Port"
Also Or. Cook
Vera-Oh, Jack. let's stop. l
don't want to go any higher.
Jack-But you won't be able to
say you've been to the top.
Vera-Oh, yes l shall.-Path-
finder.
Rather Rough
Gunner-And now comes a pro-
lessor who declares that fruit is
just as healthy with the skin on as
If is peeled.
Guyer-H'm, Id like to see some
body start him on a diet of pine
apples. News.
Less Dangerous
so you don't guide hunting par
ties any more?"
Nope said the guide. Got
tired of being mistook for a deer"
How do you earn living
now?"
Guide fishin' parties. So far, no.
body amt mistook me fer fish. -
Kansas City Journal.
Safest Season
And you consider autumn the
best month for calling in your pro-
fession?" interrogated the house
wife, as she handed out the pump
kin pie.
"Ah, yes, num-" said Truthful
Tim, as he tipped his hat. 1T is
den dat de lawn mower has been
laid away and de snow shovel isn't
working yet. Chicago News.
Literary Contamination
Mother-Johnny, you said you'd
been to Sunday school.
Johnny with a far-away look,-
Yes. mama.
Mother-How does it happen
that your hands smell of fish?
JOHNNY carried home the Sun
day school paper, an the outside
page is all about Jonah and the
whale-Western Christian Advo-
cate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

Tie president is anxious
to have the deficit in
the postoffice department
made up in some way.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

\ TO MAI. SUBSCRIBERS-The subscription
the address label each When that date
arrives subscription been aid advance
taken from the list change of date the address
label Is receipt
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Erred: Pay no heed to
anything you read about me
in the papers, as | have en-
gagged a lawyer to represent
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06
ALLEGED HUMOR

Now they want to tax bank
notes. Get rid of yours while times
are good.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-06

Will the sailors on the new bat
tleship Utah have a wife in every
port
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13
REGATTA ON POTOMAC.

WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 12:-
The thirty-eight annual regatta of the
National Association Of Amateur Oars.
men, the preliminaries of which are
TO be rowed over the Potomac River
course this afternoon. with the finals
tomorrow, has attracted the greatest
gathering OF oarsmen ever held in
America. Included among the entries
the representatives OF boat clubs in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia. St.
Paul. Detroit, st. Louis and a number
Of other cities. Canada is represented
by crack oarsmen from Halifax Tor
onto, Winnipeg and Ottawa. The two
days programme promises some ex-
ceilent sport especially in the senior
eights and single sculls. All the races
are to be mile and a quarter straight
away
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13
7 8 P RAILROAD MEN
FOR BETTER CONTRACT

FL PASO, Aug. 12.-Texas & Pacific
trainmen are going after better CON
tract with that road in a short time.
They are working under far less favor
able conditions than the trainmen on
any other road entering FL Paso,
they claim, and they are going to
make demands for a new contract
according to the talk OF many Of them.
The Southwestern is said to be the
best road entering the city from the
standpoint Of the man who works for
the line. with the G. H. next, while the
T. & p. considerably down the list
The principal objection Of the older
Texas & Pacific men is that they have
no monthly guarantee The road can
keep as many crews in service as the
officials wish and run them out il
their regular order-first in, first out
This allows the new men 10 make as
much as the older ones and guarantees
nobody anything.
On the other roads every man has
guarantee. The roads have the privi-
lege OF laying off crews when they
please or in railroad parlance, putting
them on the extra board but all reg
ular crews, composed OF the older
men in the service. have a guarantee
and IL they do not make that much
they draw II anyhow In this way
the newer crews are laid off when
business gets slack and the older
ones continue to work. This puts a
premium on long service, for even in
the reduction Of crews, the oldest
man in any line of work, remains on
duty. For instance. the youngest
freight conductor may have just been
promoted from the oldest brakeman.
II he is laid off as a conductor then
be bumps" some brakeman
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13
SMUGGLING ARMS INTO MEXICO
THROUH TEXAS, IS CHARGE

Ell PASO Aug 12.-That seditions
movements in Mexico have not down
ed with the recent national election
are apparent from many sources OF
information. First in Importance
! comes information that arms are be
ing smuggled across the Texas border
in the largest quantities for many
years.
Disturbances along the Sonora bord-
er Just preceding the election were
marked by an attempt to arm the
young men OF Cananea and other dis
tricts This was done by the purchase
OF arms in town in the United States
located near the border
The folly of this system was demon.
strated when the purchase of arms ex
cited curiosity among the American
merchants. which, by rumor soon
found its way to the Mexican author.
ities. II resulted in the confiscation
of great quantities OF rifles and am
munition. principally about Cananea.
But the present movement is OF
quite a different nature. At present
revolutionary leaders of Centra'
American republics are purchasing
arms in New Orleans. In that city
little attention is paid such things
due TO their frequent occurrence and
the ease with which shiplOads of war
implements may be sent to the dis
turbed country.
II is in New Orleans that Mexican
money is being exchanged for rifles
and ammunition. The supplies are
shipped to various points along the
Texas border in all varieties Of con
tai1er. Among the points Of entrance
inso the republic are places between
Del Rio and Sierra Blanco. There
are only three passes into Mexico
along that part Of the border which
Is one of the most sparely populated
and wild sections OF the frontier.
Naturally, those points are closely
guarded by the Mexican fiscal police,
but ii is understood that the trouble
makers have a secret pass through
which wagons loaded with arms are
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13

being driven.
At a point below the quick silver
fields of that locality, the wagons sep
arate and at certain settlements the
arms are distributed in more portable
form. II is said that all northern Chi
huahua is being covered by this sys-
TEN.
In this case the mistake is not made
Of concealing the firearms in any one
place or by working a rendezvous sys-
TEN. If the secret pass into Mexico
were discovered today. explains one
who knows, it would take five years
Tor the rurales to locate every rifle.
Although the matter was not noised.
there was a meeting OF well known
revolutionary" leaders here in Ell
Paso about a fortnight ago A rendez-
vous on South Stanton street served
Tor the visit, and nothing of their pre-
sence was learned by the secret police
until after their departure. The meet
ing here closely proceeded the demon
stration OF last week in Los Angeles.
Only one open move has been made
oh the part OF the Mexican govern
ment- 1t is the placing of immigra-
ton inspectors on the street cars
which run between FL Paso and Ciu-
dad Juarez. This is being done for
The first time Previously only the
trains were inspected.
Still this action would not arouse
suspicion since 1t is following the
watchfulness of the United States
immigration bureau. But the Mexicans
have gone step further. The inspec.
tors are not only looking over the
faces of passengers bound for
Juarez and Mexico, but they are walk
ing through each car leaving Juarez.
What emigration has to do with
those leaving a country is not know
Dr Castillo, in charge of the Juarez
immigration bureau explains that
the inspection Of the El Paso bound
cars is merely 10 obtain certain stat
istics on emigration.
However the action NAV signify
some particular interest regarding
those who are leaving Mexico for
the United States.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13
INSURGENTS" MAKE
TROUBLE IN GLOBE
FIRST APPEARANCE OF A pIvis-
ION IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN THIS TERRITORY.

GLOBE, Aug. 10.-AlI hope Of har-
mony between the members of the
ella County Republican club. the
regulars" and the Young Mems Re
publican club. the Insurgents" was
shattered last night, when at sepa-
rate meetings the two organizations
decided TO follow their respective
paths and place an individual set of
candidates in the field at the prima-
ries. preceding the election Of dele
gates to the coming constitutional
convention.
The insurgents at their meeting
last night named their candidates
TO the county convention which will
have the power of nominating five
delegates TO the constitutional con-
vention- While the regulars did not
name their delegates, they took the
failure Of the members of the young
er organization to confer with them
regarding a joint convention to mean
an open rupture and made all prep
arauons for naming a separate list
OF candidates 70 the county conyen-
ton Formal action in this mat
ter VIII be taken in few days.
The Young Mems Republican club
met at the Office of H. II. Bru and
with good attendance held an en-
thusiastic session. In the meantime
the Giia County Republican club
was in session at the Globe theater.
equally enthusiastic. While these two
ORGANIZATIONS were busily engaged in
lining up their forces in preparation
for the inevitable fray the ella
County Democratic club was in seq
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13
INLAND LAKE REGATTA

OSHKOSH. Wis, Aug I2:- The
annual regatta Of the Inland Lake
Yachting Association opened on Lake
Winnebago today with the Sawyer
cup race for Class A boats. Tomorrow
the Felker challenge cup will be raced
for and on Monday the championship
races for all classes will begin. Iaclud.
ed among the entries are speedv
yachts from various places in Wis
consin. Illinois. Michigan and Min
nesota.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13

gress. The case is most extraordinary
and without precedent.
II but a part OF what Is set forth
in the brief is established, it is GER
tain that Lewis and the Lewis Pub
fishing company Of which he is the
head. have been victims Of much
wrongful Official conduct. An ugly
situation is presented for the admin
istration of the postoffice department,
under Mr.. Cortelyou. and the depart
ment Of justice 70 meet. and this move
OF the company puts the authorities
on the defensive.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13

The latest aspirant to announce his
candidacy for the Republican nomiaa
tlon Tor governor of Oregon is E
Hofer a newspaper editor of salem.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-13

sion IN the district court room win
the democrats, however. all was bar.
mony. although this meeting was
was tne same purpose as the repubII-
can sessions. the laying Of plans for
ene selection of delegates to the
county conpention.