The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-26
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. yon, Wash, is registered at .
q the Hotel Spokane. Mr.. Dia- .
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= than a man half his age. -
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= at the dimness Of the present =
= one. He says that the tail =
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sedewck and Reno posts. Grand
Army of the Republic; General
Charles F. King camp Of the Span
ish War Veterans and the women's
auxiliaries will hold Memorial day
exercises and services Sunday. The
official services will be held in the
Masonic temple.
At a conference Of the street COM
mittee of the city council last night
it was decided to recommend the
electrolier as the standard type Of
this city. This is the electrolier
favored by the chamber of COM
merce and designed by K. X. Cut
ter, a Spokane architect. 1t has
been decided to call the electrolier
the Davenport"
J. w. Hayes, owner of so by 142
foot lot on Second avenue, near
Adams, has opened negotiations
with j. w. Boyd for a building site.
The price to be paid is $4,000.
Spokane school district No. 81
has been given decision over Sam
uel T. Crane by Judge William A.
Huneke of the superior court yes
terday and Mr.. Crane Is now out
$36. Two years ago Mr.. Crane
bought five lots at sheriff's sale
for judgment of $36 against one
Alex Mcintosh, saloonkeeper But
he did not know that instead of
these lots belonging to Alex McIn-
tosh, saloonkeeper of Spokane, they
belonged to Alex Mcintosh, bache-
lor of Wardner, Idaho.
The Spokane county republican
committee will hold meeting at
the courthouse at II o'clock on the
forenoon of June /.
With the best and most improved
equipment throughout, the new
crack train of the o. r. & NJ, the
Spokane-Portland flyer, pulled out
of the station her last night on it's
first trip. 1t is scheduled to make
the run to Portland in 1917 hours,
arriving in Portland at 1880 a. m.
This morning $42,500 was dis
bursed among the 442 teachers en-
ployed in the Spokane city schools.
This was the regular monthly pay
day.
3. L. Gordon, chairman of the
peoples terminal rate committee,
, urges that all voters who are inter
ested in having the railway fran
chises submitted to popular vote
register so that when the time
comes they will be in position to
sign the referendum. Gordon says
that he referendum will surely be
invoked if the council turns down
the Nelson amendment.
An Interurban line to Hayden
lake. to carry cars propelled by
gasoline motors, is being promoted
by the -Schiffner Co. 1t is
proposed to have the line touch the
fertile districts to the northeast,
Pleasant, Orchard, Peone and Green
Bluff prairies.
After little rain and then some
yesterday morning. the day was
bright, but not as warm as the
few days previous, the maximum
temperature being only 6S degrees,
with minimum of so degrees.
An address will be delivered by
Brigadier Mary Stillwell of the Sal
walton Army on "The White Slave
Traffic" to men only at the Y. M.
C. A. auditorium at s o'clock Sat
urday night, June 4.
The fund for the greater Spokane
so far subscribed is $35, 125.
Miss Jessie Mcclure, In charge Of
the Woman's club nursery, lila
Third avenue, is making great
Roadway with the work, and is win
ming the affection Of the small tots
placed in her care for few hours
each day. ..
The Rev. Father Herman J. Col.
Ter, head of the Jesuit order Of this