The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-23
NEWS
~ IN BRIEF ~

His aged mother sat in the court
room quietly weeping yesterday
afternoon while George F. Howarth
confessed to Justice Mann that he
was guilty of stealing a quantity OF
wearing apparel. He was fined 500
and costs.
The city hall site problem will be
Up to the city council again tonight
For stealing milk tickets and TAX
ing ride in a demonstration auto
mobile when without funds to buy
the machine, George Dow was sell
fenced to GO days yesterday after.
noon.
: Registration yesterday was more
than 800 and the total is not far
from 10000 up to noon today.
, City Engineer Mccartney wants
92b 900 more from the city council
to run his department until the end
of the year.
, Since ellis Sapp has been re-
leased from jail, Arthur Weart is
guarding his newly married wife
from his rival.
A city water Inspector turned the
beer tap instead of the water tap at
the Olympia Brewing Co.'S local
branch office yesterday and about a
barrel of beer was permitted to run
away into the sewer before the mis-
take was discovered.
Eighty-five percent Of the rooms
on the first IL floors of the new
Old National bank building are al
ready rented. The large suite for
the Merchants association, on the
eleventh floor, will be ready for oc-
cupancy by September /, and the
entire building will be completed by
October /. Some of the leading
real estate firms have taken quar-
tiers ON the second floor, and will
give that portion of the building the
appearance Of real estate ex-
change.
Plans adopted for the enlarge
ment Of the retail stores of the
Crescent and S. e. Carr call for the
expenditure of from $150,000 to
100000 by the Crescent and
100000 by Carr's. The Crescent
will remodel its present building
on Riverside avenue and erect a
new one at the southeast corner OF
Main and Wall on ground recently
purchased. s. E. Carr has leased
the rooms occupied by Chants
music store, j. A. Jodoin & Co. and
Bartlett & Carver and will event
ually occupy all floors in these
buildings.
A party in North Carolina, having
heard of Judge Sullivan's theories
as to how to live to be $50 years
old, has written him, offering con-
CALCULATIONS on his 10th birthday,
and hoping that he will see many
more years. The Judge, who is not
quite half that age, appreciates the
correspondents good will just the
same.
c. A. GrenneII, 1921 Ivory street,
buried his one year old son this
afternoon in Greenwood cemetery.
Mrs. William Reed, landlady Of
the Miners lodging house, First and
Stevens, attempted suicide at 1
clock this morning by swallowing
chloroform. BY the aid of stom-
ach pump the emergency hospital
force saved her life. although the
woman fought being ministered to
and wanted to be left alone to die.
Dependency is given as the cause
of the act.
Mrs. Estelle Skidmore, 81, wife OF
C. #. Skidmore, 225 SAMSON street,
Hillyard, died of pneumonia yester-
day forenoon at the family home
The body will be sent to Port Town
lsenu LOT DuIldI.
Rev. S. S. Freeman has disposed
of the Forum, colored newspaper, to
E. H. Holmes. Mr., Holmes has
adde the Rev. J. Gordon Mcpherson
to his editorial staff.
Manager York of the Spokane has
returned from voyage on the Pa
cific in a private yacht. The Spo
kane will reopen September 4.
Three hundred residents of the
Altamont district are on record al
the city hall with a petition asking
for a fire station for that section.
A new course of study has beer