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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
WATER ODDLY SEDUCTIVE.

CHESTER. Pa. March 22.-For
several days past there was quite a
run on barrel of water at the Penn
large number of the workmen be-
coming i'll from drinking the SALTY
city water the company substituted
spring water An empty whisky
barrel was secured from a local firm
ana the change seemed to work like
a charm. The fascinating Influence
about tne barrel finally drew the at
tention of the officials of the plant.
who. on examination. found that suf-
f1cient whisky had been left in the
neceptacle TO give the spring water
most seductive palatableneSs
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
UNCONVENTIONAL
(By United Press Leased wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
PASADENA, March 22.-H. G..
Legakes and his wife are the par
ents Of lusty nine pound son, and
all concerned are happy and doing
well, although the youngster arriv-
ed rather informally early today.
About 3 o'clock this morning the
police received the startling news
by telephone that a woman had
been killed in a vacant lot on
Congress avenue, and that the muir
derer had been seen to run into
the grounds of the Pasadena hos
pital two blocks away.
A police detail was rushed to
the scene. The officers found Mrs.
Legakes and her son awaiting the
return of the husband and father,
who had hurried to the hospital
for a doctor and nurse.
A box of excellent cigars found
its way to the police station shortly
before noon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
LET THE PEOPLE
DETERMINE

Let the people Say"-that is the
expression that meets with most
general endorsement in the discus
sion of the railroad franchises.
Neither side should fear of the
people. If they want the new roads
without the terminal rate provision
1t is no to them to say. If they
want to insist on the terminal rates
or no more railroads theirs is the
privilege to so decree.
This demand of The Press for a
popular vote is being endorsed on
all sides.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22

The bill at the Orpheum this
week is good and there is no oCca-
sion to qualify the word for the per-
Torrance is strong throughout. The
chief feature on the program is Hell
en- Grantley in her powerful sketch
dealing with a strike of factory
girls, entitled The Agitator." Miss
portrayal of the role
wins the instant sympathy of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22

Just when she was beginning to
make success on the stage, Jane
Wolf of New York suddenly decided
to change to the moving picture
stage. That was year ago. and
before many months she had signed
a long term contract, at fancy
rates, with one of the largest NOV
ing picture firms in the business.
She is one of the prettiest girls in
the moving picture drama. and she
plays character parts; so you are
likely to see her doing almost any
kind of work, from playing school
girl sweetheart to taking the part
of an elderly matron
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
TAFT'S MESSAGE
To CANADA
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
TORONTO, March 22.-Follow-
ing the tariff conference between
President Taft, Governor General
Lord Grey and Minister of Finance
Fielding, President Taft, through
DR.. j. H. Mcdonald, editor of the
Toronto Globe, has sent message
to Canada.
Say to the people of Canada"
said Taft to Macdonald, that my
most sincere desire is that not only
the present unforeseen difficulty.
but that all other difficulties be-
tween Canada and the United
States be settled with justice to
both and in a spirit of friendship
and generosity"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22

Irish widow to marry her daughter
to foreign title, but those aspira-
lions are finally overcome, thanks
to the scheme put up by her daugh-
ter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
PARTY NEARLY
BURIED ALIVE
(By United Press Leased Wire)

(By United Press Leased Wire)
ASTORIA, Ore, March 22.-Five
persons, occupants of an automobile
on their way from this city to Sea-
side. narrowly escaped being buried
alive late last night when the big
machine overturned and was buried
in quicksand along the beach.
In the car at the time of the acct
dent were DR.. A. M. Kinney, his
wife and child and Miss Peyton
of Astoria, and Frank H. L. Finch
of Portland. The automobile struck
some obstacle, overturned and be-
gan slowly to sink. Scrambling
from their perilous position as
quickly as possible the members
of the party were able to get free
of the deadly sands and were
brought to Astoria by passing
wagon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22

Patent Medicine Man: Did you
get photograph of that fellow
who used one bottle of our COM
pound and wrote that he had no
further use for his crutch?
Assistant: No. He has been in
bed ever since.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
PLAYS AND PLAYERS

audience for the girls and the cause
they are fighting for A comedy nun
Der which has scored in Gordon
Eldrid's sketch, won by a Leg"
which is big laugh from start to
finnish.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
COUTURE SAVES PRONE o1rr.

YORK, Pa, March 22.--The frame
OF her Grecian coiffure probably
saved Miss Missoura Stengner a
Hanover telephone operator. from n
pralning when her sweetheart, John
Rnlhehart. struck her upon the head
with heavy bottle because. as she
AYERS, she refused to greet him often
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-22
At the Panfa9es

Busted Aspirations is a clever
sketch played at the Pantages thea
ter this week by Lahl, Cecil and
Avery. The act is written around
the aspirations of newly rich
New-York tribune., 1910-03-20
HOU MR. YERKES GOT 1T.
What He Meant to DO 5cith IL and
Uhat UappeRed to II.

Five years after his death Charles T. Yerkes's
ambitious plans of philanthropy have vanished
INTO thin air. one of the most promising feasts
Of benefactiOn ever offered to the public is
ended with a few raps of the auctiOneers ham
meT, and the guests, strolling into the chilly
night. wonder why they once felt so enthusias-
tic over the Sl5O0OOO they did not get
There might have been an $SOO0O0O hospital
and $5OOOOOO art gallery for the people of
New York Mr.. Yerkes meant il 50. but he
made slight miscalculation to the amount
Of his wealth and he did not figure on the cost
Of legal controversies over his estate
The Y rkes art gallery building in Fifth ave
nue. was sold in foreclosure proceedings 4 year
ago. and now by court order al the art coIlec-
tiOns are 20 be auctionej of 10 the highest bid
der TO satisfy creditors of the estate.
Paintings, rugs statuary. rare books and fur
ntuTe. worth maybe S2,UsA(s0 will all be sold
beginning April :. under the management Of
the american Art Association. The paintings
and rugs will be sold at MendelssOhn Hall, while
tie heavier treasures will be offered at the
house, No. SGi Fifth avenue. Any one who
wishes 10 see what New York did not get may
do So 10y paying admission fee of 81 or he
may buy "A two volume catalogue for $45 This
quaint touch Of making the guests pay for the
menu card Of an imaginary feast is missing
from any Arabian Nights recital that can be
called 20 mind just now.
The builder OF Chicago's street railways and
LOndon's subway, Charles 4. Ycrkes, was born
In Philadelphia i'm 1887. He was brought up
I'm a Quaker home. but his habits were not
Quakerish. He was not At all quiescent lie
FIRST found job clerk at nothing a week IN
a flour and grain commission house. Il was
considered "A privilege TO work while learnine,
that business. At twenty-five he opened a
stock brokers' Office in Philadelphia and made
so much money that three years later ne set
himself mp a banker. The Civil War was on
and Yerkes did large business in handling
federal. state and city bonds The panic caused
by the Chicago fire caught the young banker
overloaded with securities. He had sold city
bonds and did not turn in the cash Immediately
10 the city treasury He was technically guilty
Of embezzlement. and he went to jail for a
while.
That was one sore spot in Yerkes's memory
all his life. When he became a multi millionaire
his enemies frequently reminded him that ne
had worn the gaTb Of a felOn. He could not get
away from the fact. II always hurt. Perhaps
New-York tribune., 1910-03-20
IN THE LIBRARY OF THE veRkes HOME IN FIFTH AVENUE

ne planned his great benefactiOns with the idea
that they would compel people 20 forget the
MOyamensing episode He knew that he him.
self could not forget. except in the most strenu.
Gus hurry -buTy Of business
He began 10 TecOup his fortune in 1873 He
went into real estate speculation in North Da-
kOta. and then opened a bank in Chicago in
1881. Five years later he began to syndicate
Chicago street railways. The profits were large.
He became king Of Chicago traction. He looked
for new worlds To conquer. and perhaps wanted
to get further away from that Philadelphia
memory. lie sold out his G cagO interests
went 10 London in 1!t0 and began 10 gather Ur
all the old subways there and % build
ones. J. +. Morgan fought against him, but
Yerkes won and took everything in the subway
line worth having. However. il is evident that
New-York tribune., 1910-03-20

Yerkes was unable 20 milk the English prop
critics in the most approved Chicago fashion;
otherwise he would have become fabulOusly
wealthy.
In his domestic life YeTkes was not happy.
though he tried 20 be happy. ii is said. by keep
ing three separate wards" of youth and beauty
in different parts of this country and Europe.
When he came 10 New York 20 die in 1905. he
breathed his last in a hotel instead Of at his
luxurious Fifth avenue home, and his wife did
not come % see him until he was unconscious.
Neither did the wards appear. Two of them
were abroad.
When Yerkes made his will he doubtless
thought that everything untOward in his life
would be amended. The great works OF art
that failed TO sOOthe his unrest he would give 20
the people Of New York. He would make the
New-York tribune., 1910-03-20

name OF Yerkes beloved more especially by build
ing a costly hospital in The Bronx He to..
just what kind Of hospital il was 70 be "ops.
Williams news., 1910-04-30
The New Train Schedule

Following is the present schedule of passenger trains on the main line:
Williams news., 1910-04-30
THE ROAD TAXs.LAW


 Under the provisions of Para graph 3964, Section 36O9, Chapter 63. of the Session Laws of Arlzona, 1909, you are required to furnish the Road Tax Collector, on demand, full and accurate list of the names of all male persons in your employ liable to pay Road Tax under the Laws of the Territory of Arizona. and to pay such tax taking separ- ate receipts therefore, You will please furnish such list. and pay the Road Tax required, ef each person liable therefor now in your employ for the year.
Williams news., 1910-04-30
A Sensible Girl

Recently one of Prescott's most fastidious young men bought pair of overalls and found in+them the name of the sewing girl who made them. He very. promptly wrote her letter. .:with all the effusive- ness necessary in such a:case, and in due time received areply, which. however, was void of the romance usual in such cases. z Here it is: :. ,,
 II am a working girl;ti is true, but I make good living and I do not care to support husband, as I would have to do if l married some silly noodle who gets mashed Oh a girl he never saw. Permit me to say I do not know how my card got into that pair of overalls, and that. when do marry, if ever. it will be some fellow that can afford some- thing better than a AZ cent pair of overalls."
Williams news., 1910-04-30
...pnHtntnrtl1ttt pratHrH..
IL. E. Thayer in New York Sun1

L. B. Thayer in New York Sun] Tve noticed when fellow dies matter what he's been A saintly chap life dakly seeped sin His friends forget the bitter words spoke yesterday And now they add multitude of pretty things o say I fancy when go to rest will bring light Some kindly word or goodly long buried sight; But. if it's all the to just give to instead The bouquets while living knocking dead Don't your kisses to imprint my marble brow, While countless maledicions hurled upon me now; Say just kindly word to while mourn here alone And don't save all your eulogy to stone. What do if when Pm dead the Bloomngdale Gazette Gives a write with cut in mourning borders set; It would not fatter bit, matter what is said So kindly throw boquets and knock It be fine when is dead. to have folks talk so, To the flowers loads from relatives you knowl It be have these things for those behind But just as far Pm concerned, really do mind. Pm quite alive and we'll today and while finger here Lend helping hand at tmesgive word of Just change the little bit kindly decks For will be udgeof flowers when Pve cashed checks
Williams news., 1910-04-30
Grand Encampment

The convention of Odd Fellows which was brought to close last Saturday night in Phoenix, elected the following officers of the grand encampment of Arizona:
 V. R. Norris, of Phoenix, grand chief patriarch; Alfred Godfrey, of Bisbee, grand high priest; c. F. Ryer, of Prescott. grand senior warden; William Mccartney, of Williams, grand senior warden; P. Anderson, of Globe, grand treasur- CT; George A. Mintz, of Phoenix, grand marshal; H. G. Curry, of Douglas, inside sentinel; R. V. Bragovich. of Bisbee. outside senti- nel; Charles w. Slack, of Globe. representative to the grand lodge.
Williams news., 1910-04-30
Santa Fe to Spend $31, 100000

0csAAI0 v SO 0POAAA Yo
 The directors of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad have approved the 1910 budget calling for an expenditure of $31 100000 for improvements and new equip ment, according to late announce ment.
 Of this sum $12,OOO,OOO will be used to defray the expenses of work between Chicago and Kansas City and the new lines in Texas.
 About $4,OQO,OOO will be spent for the double trrcking of the line from Winslow to Ash Fork. which work is now in progress. $2,0O0.- GOO is to be used for grade revision work on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe road between Galveston and Coleman, Texas. $2,OOO,0OO more will be used to construct double track bridge over the Missouri river at Kansas City to take the place of the structure at Sibley.
 The telephone train dispatching system is to be extended to the Pa cifc coast and the gulf.
Williams news., 1910-04-30

THERE was a large increase in the number of casualties on Ameri can railroads, as shown by the in- terstate commerce commission re- port for the quarter ending Decem- Der 31, 1909. as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1908. The number of persons killed increased 3O1 and the number of injured in- creased 5,645. The total number of persons killed was 1909 and the total number injured 22.491.
Williams news., 1910-04-30
Experience Not Necessary

1T believe I'll open a dramatic school" said the seedy looking man.
 "Why? You have never been on the stage, have you?" asked the preacher.
 "No."
 "Then how do you expect to be able to teach people how to act?"
 "It's simple enough. You are teaching people how to be angels. aren't you? Have you ever been in heaven2"-Exchange.
Williams news., 1910-04-30

FOR SALE-One three and one- half horse power gasoline engine and one circular wood saw. All in a good condition. Here is bar gain for one intending to engage in wood business. See or addresss, Marion Smith, Williams.
Williams news., 1910-04-30
SOME LOCAL ITEMS

Ladies tailor made suits at NJ. P. Farrer's. 1..
 Boost for the big celebration on July 4.
 Pa and ma only went to take the children.
 District court adjourned for the term last Monday.
 How much good money did the circus carry out of Williams?
 For a hobby suit go to M. P. Farrer: SIS up.
 The Santa Fe is putting in a new crossing near the freight depot.
 Wm. Donaldson, the cattleman, of Spring valley. transacted busi- ness in town Monday.
 Phoenix is planning to build a separate school for the acccmmo- dation of colored pupils. ~
 A complete line of children's and boys clothes at Babbitt- Poison Co.'S.
 Rumor has it that the new Phoe- nix. Buckeye railroad is to be taken over by the Southern Pacific.
 Read the new advertisement of the Babbitt. Poison Co.,, in this is- sue of THE NEWS, on page one.
 Farmers of the Salt River valley are forming an organization for the mutual benefit of the grangers of that district.
 The Western Reserve Concert Go. is the next Santa Fe reading room attraction. At the opera house to, morrow evening.
 Secretary Ballinger has set May 10 as the date for the sale of the unentered and unreserved lots in the townsite of Parker.
 If you are judge of good drinks and have ever sampled those served at the Pullman Saloon, you can't get around it but admit that Harry Miner serves the best in town.
 Judge E. M. Doe passed through here Monday night enroute to Kingman, where the district court convened on Wednesday.
 Do something yourself and don't wait for somebody else to do all the work to make the Fourth of July celebration a success. Globe has been selected as the place for the next meeting of the Odd Fellows convention. The date remains the third Sunday in April.
 Don't forget to help the census enumerator in every way possible. His time is short in which to de the work, so answer all the ques- tions promptly and accurately.
 The fixtures and stock of the old Palace saloon in Phoenix, once the center of sporting in Arizona, were sold at auction the other day. The saloon was esta blished in 1884.
 Cormick Kennedy, a bartender at the Office saloon in Winslow was shot and seriously wounded by Jim Case, also a bartender. on Thursday of last week, in the bal room of the above saloon.
Williams news., 1910-04-30

OT.tOOlUcIt, Ol Iuc Oduta e uOS. pital, said that it seemed proba ble that Engineer Miles, who was in iured in a boiler explosion at Sand CTS station recently, would recover, though he would not be able to leave the hospital for at least one month, and probably two. Mir. Miles has not been himself at all since he arrived at the institution, and it may be that he will be tenn porarily unbalanced mentally for some time. Miles is from Winslow and was making his first trip when the explosion ocurred. He has a wife and two small children.-The Gallup Republican.
 Why send your money out of town for suitof clothes when you can save 25 per cent by patronizing your home tailor? See the line of goc1s carried by NJ. P. Farrer. Judge Pollock, of the United States district court of Missouri, has decided that to send a post card bearing the lines, "I love my wife, but oh, you kid," is all wrong and he soaked the young man who sent such card to girl. $5 and costs. We would like to have the courts decision on another ques- tion. A young man at Phoenix restaurant ordered la mb, but it was so tough that he exclaimed, 1T love my lamb, but oh, you kid" The waitress, hearing it and thinking he referred to her, hit him with a catsup bottle. Did she do right2
 The editor of the Jerome Copper Belt attended the performance of the Gay Paree show of the Famous Carnival Co.,, while in that town. She now wants to know why the town authorities licenced such an entertainment, claiming the show was very vulgar and indecent. The same company gave "show" in Williams. but we have heard of no complaint from the boys
 The Yuma county grand urors made a great fuss the other day when they received their pay for attendance. The clerk credited them with eight days. the time the grand jury was in actual session. but they claimed pay. for Il days as the time from the date they were called until they were discharged. They made the claim stick.
 The latest spring styles have arrived for Le dies and Men. East ern Prices. At M. P. Farrer's.
 Services at the Methodist church tomorrow as follows: At 9:45 am. Sunday school, c. H. Appleton, superintendent; preaching at II a. m., and at 7:3O o'clock p.m., by the Rev. David Roberts, pastor. The Junior League will meet at 2:3O p. m., Epworth League at 6:45 p. m. You are cordially invited.
 The L. J. Smith Construction Go. are fitting up fine business office in the Babbitt-Polson building on Railroad avenue. Williams will be the general headquarters of this company during the work on the double tracking.
 There are now only 36O prisoners in the penitentiary at Florence, the smallest number in several years. Over fifty had their sentenc- es terminated as the result of credits given them for work in con struction.
 The. Douglas Dispatch claims to have inside information that the proposed Knights of Columbus sanitarium will go to either Doug. Has or Tucson, as the climate in the northern cities is considered too severe.
 
 | Most reasonably priced modish millinery. RACKET STORE. 1 An officer has been suspended -zl:.. f...1 r.
Williams news., 1910-04-30

For a hobby made to measure Ladies' Dresses, Suits, Skirts and Capes go to M. P. Farrer.
Williams news., 1910-04-30

\ On the Canyon road trains leave
 this point as follows: No. l2 at 80 Pp.m.; No. IA at $40 am. Arriv- ing from the Canyon: No. II at 11:OO a.m.; No. 15 at 11:2O p.m.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-24
A LAw-olveR's EDUCATION.

"Thc best law.givcr is he who has
the widest range Of the knowledge
Of llfc." says Mr. William H. Muir
ray. sagcly AN elements Of society
the mansions OF the rich. the how
els. hute. and cabins OF the poor-all
institutions Of learning, the churches
of the pious and good. and the slums
and dcns Of dobauccry and prostitu-
ton"
We'll now. We did once have a
notion to run for the legislature, but
glad We are to announce. since read
Ing this political Daniels words, that
We have forever aband ned the idea.
We would be willing to sashay about
some little in the mansions of the
rich" If they would let us In; the
novels, huts and cabins " the poor
We deem ourselves tIlcrably familiar
with, We haven't tackled "all of the
Institutions of learning" hut We
have soaked in little from u few
of the loWly ones. and as for the
churches OF the pious and good, -
We are frank to confess. that We
are there every Sunday that It don't
rain. But her. we draw the line. II
10 is an essential to a best law
givcr' that he take in the "slums
and dens of debauchery and pres
tiutiou.' We are a man of family
aud We balk-una!tcrably We refuse
To finish that branch OF our educa-
ton. Couldn't you overhaul that. Mr..
Murray. and cu' out that last part'