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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-20

women would go to evade
the duty. Mrs. Emily Rock
wood Chadbourne, daughter
of William r. Crane, the
millionaire elevator manu-
facturer, shipped a lot OF
"household goods" from
London. Mrs. Chadbourne
is an intimate friend OF
Mrs. Gardner. 1t appeared
that the "household goods
consisted of very valuable
statuary and paintings,
worth at least $4,000,
among which were some
the customs officials recog-
nized as those Of Mrs.
Gardner. There was an
immensely valuable Ma
donna and Child" by the
master Lippi; a Vclasquez
of Philip w.. an adam
and Eve by Glorgione, a
mask by Michael Angelo.
1t was at once concluded
that Mrs. Chadbourne had
been used to hoodwink the
custom house. A bill for
the amount Of the duty
$20,203 and an additional
item of $41.20J by way Of
penalty-was made out
and paid by Millionaire
Crane. Mrs. Gardner after
ward reimbursed aim,
which seemed to show that
the customs people were
right.
Mrs. Gardner had been
in the limelight before.
Some years ago. when she
was building her famed
Venetian palace in Boston's
aristocratic Back Bay, she
wondered how she could
save duty on her million
dollar art collection which
she wished to put in it, and
which was abroad. Art
goods to be installed In
public museums are ad-
mltted to this country free.
Mrs. Gardner chuckled and
installed in her palace
something she called THE
Isabella Stuart Gardner
Museum She got her
+ e a s ures. But there
seemed to be something
wrong. There was the mu-
scum, but the people were
not invited. The Govern
ment asked questions. Then
Mrs. Gardner declared that
the museum would be open
to the public about a min
ute and a quarter two days
a week. The Government
thought this a subterfilce
and one morning Mrs.
Gardner received a bill for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-20

-IF average woman Is swindled. not
because she Is special sort or
/ fool, or because her brain Is I'M
ooua, 10 the exertlon of calculating the
nroctical and proverbial two and two
Int through her feminine falling-cre"
dulity.
70 observe woman shopping makes
one positively blush Mt her chhdnke
faith in the imam behind the counter
Served by a male assistant woman VIII
believe that boots are to be worn on her
head and hats on her feet. But when
her own sex displays rutfles. etc, sus-
nicion rankles within her. 1t Is only
chronic suspicion. not logic. when pre-
vents the fair sex from exchanging
diamond ring for a new kind OF gera-
mum.
Though business Instinct and hatred
of the male sex Is supposed to be de-
velopng among women, they continue to
be--to express 1t vulgarly-hopelessly
guiled by their fancled enemy-man
Women think that men have compassion
ON their weaknesses, and that they scorn
TO lie to them when truth Is expected.
And so women so on. blissfuliy giving q
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-20

IN. He pulled cut the trays and scat
tered their contents about him. Yes.
there was the bottom of the trunk. 1t
must be because the lining goes right
around 1t from the sides. He took his
ruler again Then he took Ratchet and
pried about the corners of what seemed
10 be the bottom. A cavity was revealed
and in II furs.
"WelI detain this trunk until i re-
port the case to the Collector" he said.
"Sirw exclaimed Mrs. Chesbrough.
"You made on the ship the declaration
that you had bought less than Sioo
Corth Of goods abroad. find here sables
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-20
Why Women Are Easily SwindGed.

ten-cent tip to the taxi" driver because
he has mot change when few SER
fences would extract the required cop
pers. But women seldom succeed in
cheating women, and few will hesitate to
say that the milllner il trying TO sell last
weeks hat, or that 1t Is 'scandaious 10
charge such a price"
Lazlness and carelessncss are other
reasons why they are SO often robbed.
They do not add up their luncheon
bills or observe If the bottle OF wine
is tho number ordered. They either
cant be bothered" or else they arc
afraid to inquire IL 1t Is correct when a
waiter gently helps them on with their
wraps and bows to the ground over their
umbrellas, Another cause OF the gentlo
dishonesty which Is practised on women
Is the fact that they fear attracting NJ
tention over money matters and ridicuio
from other women.
A solitary female In car full or men
will examine her change, but that same
business like person in a vehicle tul! or
"beehiye" hats will carelessly slip silver
and coppers into her bag without even
glancing at 1t. She breads the amused,
superior glance OF the gold. bnNgled. gold
bagged passenger who VIII smile at tho
girl who counts her pennies.
Moral: Cowardice IL womans raining
and the bwndler's delight
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
"SIW WASHED" MAN
DRUNK AGAIN

Fred Reffling, who has been
"siwashed" in all the saloons, was
picked up Sunday by Officer Met
calf dead drunk again. Besides
what he had inside of himself he
had a number of bottles of whisky
that he had not been able to make
away with stored away in his pock-
cts, which he stated in police court
had been obtained for him by Gus.
Colline, whom the police are look
ing fer as being the man who is re-
sponsible for the injuries to Fritz
Schincil.
Reffling was brought before Judge
Carr Monday and was sentenced to
60 days in the county Jail, but the
sentence was suspended pending
good behaviour. A warrant was
sworn out for the arrest of Colline
for getting whisky for him, which
makes two charges against this man
that will brot up if he is located.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
REPAIRING
BUILDING

Contractor A. E. Knight is now
rebuilding the store that was occu-
pied by the John F. Lindhe COM
pany that burned out six weeks
ago. Only a small portion OF the
back was destroyed, the interior
was slightly charred by the flames
passing thru, but this will be COW
cred over by a new pressed steel
ceiling and walls that will make it
a great deal more attractive looking
place than it was before.
The John F. Lindhe company
are now occupying temporary quar-
ters next door to Smith the candy
man, where they are very crowded
for room, but as soon as the old
quarters are ready for occupancy
they will open up with a bigger and
finer line Of goods than they had
when they were burned out.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
HENNESSY CRATE
SHAKER WORKING FINE

The Hennessy CRATE shaker, that
was invented and perfected by John
Hennessy, one of the foremost citi-
zens of Whitefish, has been tried out
now for several weeks on one of the
big Mallet engines and has given
perfect satisfaction in every respect.
The engine that is equipped with
it has been enabled to make better
time over the road because it always
had steam, and showes a marked
saving in fuel. The locomotives
have increased in size several times
during the past decade and have
had all kinds of modern contriv-
ances added, but none have ever
been equipped that would relieve
the fireman of the strenuous work
OF shaking the CRATES. On the big
engines shaking the CRATES is one Of
the duties that keeps the fireman
busy all the time that he is not
shoveling in the coal and it is the
most exhausting. With this new
arrangement all the fireman has to
do is to open steam valve that
runs a small motor which rocks the
CRATES back and forth thru a con-
trivance Of lever and gears.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
CHINAMEN in
POLICE COURT

Chung Yee Sing, the proprietor Of
the Noodle joint" and another
Chinaman by the name of Lung
Yoke, got into a fight in the noodle
parlors Monday night and caused
quite disturbance that attracted
the attention of Officer Murphy
When he arrived Sing was flourish
ing big revolver and was threat
ening to shoot things up in general.
Murphy got them both quieted
down and led them over to the city
bastile where they sojourned over
night and the next morning Judge
Carr sentenced Sing to pay a fine
of $25 and sixty days in the county
Jail. Yoke was fined SIS and given
a foater out of town.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
TO START ANOTHER
LARGE CONTRACT

J. A. Samson has just completed
his contract with the Great North
ern to furnish them with 100000
railroad ties which was thought
would he sufficient for this years
work, bnt they are going to fall very
short and have just let another con-
tract to Mr.. Samson to start in at
once and get out 100000 more.
Mr.. Samson has been in the tie
business with the railroad compa-
MES for the past twenty eight years.
He started out in New York state
and has gradually drifted westward,
ending up in Whitefish where he
has been making his home the past
few years and has conducted very
lucrative business, furnishing all
the ties that are used by the Great
Northern on this division, besides a
great number that are shipped east
to the prairies where there is no
timber.
He has become very much at
tached to Whitefsh and has decid-
ed to make it his permanent home,
and has shown his faith in the
town by the great number of in
vestments he has heen making, and
the amount of building he is doing
here this spring. Chief among
these is the large brick block now
under construction on the corner of
Second street and Lupfer avenue,
known as the Duncan Samson
building, in which Mrs. J. Duncan,
another progressive Whitefish citi-
zen is interested. The large 16-
room tenement house on the cor
ner Of First street and Lupfer ave-
nue. is being erected by him, be-
sides number of small residences.
| Whitefish is indeed fortunate to
have man with as progressive a
spirit as Mr.. Samson in it's COM
munity.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
RATCHYE OPENS
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE

G.. H. Ratchye, who is conduct
ing the Whitefish Feed Store, has
opened an employment office in con-
nection with his other business.
There has been demand for an
agency of this kind in Whitefsh,
especially during the past winter
and spring. At this time of the
year there is a great demand for
men by the various saw mills and
logging camps in this vicinity. The
contractors putting up the new
buildings have been badly handi-
capped with a lack of men and
there has been no source from which
they could get them when they were
wanted, and there was no place
where the unemployed could make
application for work without a
great deal of inconvenience, 80 Mr..
Ratchye will overcome these diff
ficulties. He will make it his busi-
ness to secure laborers for all kinds
of work, in any number and on
short notice, which means that he
will also be able to find a job for
any one looking for work on the
same terms. If you are wanting
help of any kind in the future just
call up the Whitefish Employment
Agency and Ratchye will fix you
out with anything you want in his
line.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
WHlTEElSH WINS TWO
OUT OUT OF THREE

managed to squeeze in a score in
the first inning and in the seventh
inning Coins who had been playing
on the bench took hand and got a
two bagger. A safe hit by Averill
brought him in and tied the score.
The excitement was then intense
for awhile. In the next inning,
the eighth, Bottle got to first on
balls. A sacrifice by Barbour let
him to second, and then Emard' hit
one square on the nose that was
good for three bags and Bottle
scored getting the odd score that
won the game.
Barbour had his first finger split
open in the eighth inning and it
looked as if we were going to be
without catcher, but he continued
the game in spite of his injury.
Sorensen, the Kalispell catcher had
his finger injured the same way,
but it was his little finger and he
was not handicapped in throwing.
The final score was 3 to 2 in favor
of Whitefish.
Sunday there was a big crowd
out to see the final game. Quite a
number came up from Kalispell on
the afternoon train. The weather
was very damp and raw from the
rains the night before, but there
was excitement enough on the dia-
mond most of the time so that most
every one forgot it until the eighth
inning which was finished in a cold
drizzle.
Bottle, who is said to have made
good as a pitcher for Tacoma last
summer, was put in the box, but
somehow he had day off and after
he had hit couple of men he
seemed to lose his nerve and Coins
had to take his place. Barbour's S
finger was in bad shape and he was
unable to make his usual peg to
second. There was consideral con-
fusion on the start among the
Whitefsh bows and Kalispell had
three scores in before they could
get organized. This is where the
game was lost, but team cannot
be expected to win all games. They
must have some unlucky days.
After they got frightened up it was
a good game to the finish, but White
fish was only able to land two
scores while Kalispell wound up
with five and took home with them
the big end of the gate receipts.
Barton made fine two base hit
that looked as if it was going to
count when it was most needed
but he slid over the base and was
put out. Emard made another
dandy hit in this game in the ninth
that brought him two bags and
managed to get score by Var
Slyke getting a nice clean hit.
Tom Walton, who umpired all the
games, is a good man who has haC
great deal of experience in this
work in the big leagues and knows
his business all the way through
, His decisions were always precise
and impartial, feature that wor
for him the respect of both teams
The Kalispell management was very
we'll satisfied with his work and ad
mitted for once that they had .
! square deal.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19

The snappiest. fastest and clean !,
est game of basaball ever played on
this diamond, or probably OH any
other, was played here Friday af-
ternoon, the first of series of three
games between Kalispell and
Whitefish.
From start to finish everything
went fine. For the first time in
the history of the two towns there
was no kicking on the umpire
which has always been a feature of
the game when Kalispell and White
fish have played ball in the past.
The batteries were Raasch and
Sorensen for Kalispell, and Coins
anu Barbour for Whitefsh. The
game opened up with the Kalispeil
boys first up and the three first men
were moved down. The same hap
pened to the first three Whitefish
boys that came up, and until the
eighth inning not score was made
on either side, and there didn't
seem to be any prospects of any
being made, because practically an
errorless game was being played by
both teams. In the seventh Bottle
hit one of Raasch's fast ones square
on the nose and put it clear over
the center fielder. lie got three
bases safe but it looked as if he
might make home, so he was urged
on by a number who got excited
and he was put out at home plate.
In the eighth inning by taking a
number of desperate chances and
making several sacrifices and hard
squeeze plays the Whitefish boys
managed to bring in three scores
that won the game. On the finish
Kalispell had only a row of goose
eggs to her credit.
Saturday it rained considerable in
the morning and the prospects for
a game that day looked rather
gloomy, but in the afternoon it
cleared up enough so that the boys
took a chance on it. The grounds
were very wet and a cold raw wind
was blowing from the east that
made it very disagreeable to the
players and the spectators, but in
spite of that there was a pretty
good turn out.
Averill was in the box for the
locals and pitched a fine game all
the way through. Beaver tossed
the ball for Kalispell, but had to
be relieved by Browne in the eighth
inning. The Whitefsh boys did
not seem to be able to work in har.
mony in the start and before they
, could get down to business Kalis.
! pell had two scores to their credit
) but they soon got down to business
and Kalispell got nothing but goose
eggs the rest of the game. Bartor
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19

Mrs. J. P. Bradley returned
Tuesday from Spokane. While
there she contracted a bad case of
rheumatism and had to use crutches
in order to get around so that she
could get back home.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
NEW SYSTEM FOR
DISPATCHlNG TRAINS

OpOkduc, w doh., May AC' AL
fred Beamer, superintendent OF the
Idaho division of the Northern Pa
ciic railroad, stationed here, has
resigned to take effect in June, and
will lie succeeded by j. NJ. Rapelje
OF Glendive, Mont. now superin-
tendent of the Yellowstone division.
Mr.. Beamer will devote his time to
extending the use of the A b &
block system Of train dispatching,
of which he and T. H. Lanstry,
trainmaster of the N. p. R. r. in
Spokane, are inventors and paten-
tees, on lines in various parts of
the United States, with headquart
ers in Spokane.
Mr.. Beamer has arranged for
thorough demonstration of his sys-
tenn at the national convention of
train dispatchers Of North America
in Spokane June 81 to 24, when
500 delegates from roads in the
United States, Canada and Mexico
will be in attendance. Special
wires will be run into the conven-
ton hall SO that the dispatchers
can become familiar with the work
ing of the system, which is de-
signed to prevent collisions. The
new device is a removal Of the sys-
tenn now in use thruout the coun-
try. It has been used on the Idaho
division of the N. P. road for the
last three years and no defects have
been discovered thus far.
| Explaining the system Mr.. Bea-
n,er showed that instead of the train
dispatcher calling up the operators
at the stations and giving them ord
ers, the new system requires the
operators to ask for orders.
He added: Take three stations
designated A. B and G. When 8
{ train pulls out Of A going in the di
rection of B, tlse operator a A mott
flies the operator at B that thu
train has passed his station. The
operator at B then calls the dis
patcher and asks for a block care
t from B to G. If the block shows
clear on the dispatcher's senet hi
gives B instructions to issue block
, card.
Before the train leaves B the op
, orator at G asks him to pledge th'
block between their stations. |
, the block is busy the operator re-
fuses to pledge and immediatel.
e calls the dispatcher.
8 mo train can pass a station with
+ out first receiving its block card
+ and instructions are issued to train
g men from station to station. Col
y lision is impossible unless, of course
q three men make the same mistak
o at the same time.''
The members of the interstat
: commerce commission, which bod
a examines all devices and system
q for moving trains, have conmende
n Mr.. Beemer, saying that in time tn
: A B C plan will be put into genera
e use throughout the country.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19

P. N. Bernard of the Tobacco
Plains Journal was in the city Sun
day and took great deal of inter-
est in the ball game.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19

The evangelistic services conduct
ed by Rev. Beadles are growing in
attendance and interest. There
have been a number of professed
conversions. The meetings will
continue all of this week and next
at the Methodist Episcopal church,
every evening and every afternoon
except Saturday evening and Sat-
urday and Monday afternoons.
Mrs. M. K. Murphy is building
dwelling house on O'Brien avenue.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-05-19
DRUNKEN
BRAWL

employed at various odd jobs about
town, and sleeping in the shack on
Railroad avenue between Charles
Mobiles building and the Milwau-
kee hotel, got into drunken
brawl which may I've the cause OF
the death of Fritz Schircil, man
about forty years of age who has
been about town for some time
swamping at the various saloons.
The trouble happened Sunday,
but it was Monday afternoon before
the matter was reported to the po-
lice. The shack is we'll on the out
skirts of the town about "a block
away from any other buildings, and
in a place that is seldom frequented
by any one, SO no one knew any
thing about the affair until one of the
party who had been around there
sobered up sufficiently to notify the
police.
Officer Metcalf went to the scene
and found Schincil lying in an un-
conscious condition, and in the
room with him was Martin Bow
man. who was lying drunk. Bow
man was taken to the police sta
ton where he is heing held as a
witness and doctor was called to
attend Schincil. He does not show
any bodily injuries, but was com
pletely paralized. He was taken to
the hospital in the evening where
he is lying in helpless condition.
He is conscious, but is unable to
give any account of the affair at all.
He was able to state that he has a
brother in Chicago, living at 433
Halstead street, by the name OF
August Schincil, who ..4s been f.c-
tilted. -.
Bowman, who is held in Jail
states that he was an eye witness to
the affair, and that there were a
number of men in the shack that
dav who had been rushing the can.
A man by the name of Gus Colline,
who had been employed for a time
digging the basement of the bank
building, and Schincil got into an
argument that ended in a fight
Colline hit him and knocked him
down and then beat him quite Sc.
verely, and threw him outside the
shack where he lay until he was
picked up little later hy one o
his friends who did not think thai
there was anything more serious
the matter with him than beins
drunk, but the next day when hs
did not get any better the polio.
were notified.
Colline has left town for where
abouts unknown. He was seen il
town Monday morning, but sine,
then nothing can be learned of hin
and the police have sent out tele
grams in all directions notifying tn
surrounding officers to be on tn
lookout for him.
Schincil is in a precarious con
dition and the chances are that h
will die. The doctor states that h
is suffering from all appoplecti
stroke brought on by excessiv
drinking, and not by injuries re
eeived from the other man, fo
there are no bruises on his body O
head that are responsible for hi
condition.
Later-Schincil made statemen
yesterday that no one had hurt hir
and as the doctors could find n
evidence of injury to account fo
his condition, Bowman was release
from custody.
The evangelistic services conduct
ed by Rev. Beadles are growing i
attendance and interest. Thel
have been a number of professe
conversions. The meetings wi
continue all of this week and nea
at the Methodist Episcopal church
every evening and every afternoo
except Saturday evening and Sa
urday and Monday afternoons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-05

was eXelnplifed in his chance diseov-
cry of the Camp Bird mine in the San
Juan basin for which he afterward
refused an offer of SIS, 100000 and
which netted him more than a million
year for a long time.
His social success at Newport and
Washington was accomplished partly
by his wife, who was Miss Carrie
Read, and by his daughter Evelyn, who
was married not so long ago to Edward
Mclean, son OF John R. Mclean, pro-
prietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
They were responsible for the lavish
and wonderful entertainments given
at his three houses in Connecticut,
Denver and Washington. The resi-
dences themselves were furnished
with the prodigality and richness of
the royal palaces of Europe. And the
hospitality dispensed therein was on
truly royal scale, commensurate
with the enormous estimated
at $50, 600, 000-which Mr. Walsh had
accumulated
Perhaps his greatest social achieve
ment was that which began the
Washes social career in 1899, when
he was appointed commissioner for
Colorado to the Paris Exposition. He
chartered boat on the Seine, spent
over a million in decorating it and
then proceeded to give entertainments
to the rich and gay Parisians. They
accepted him at once and it was these
series of entertainments that led to