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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
Claims He Can Make White Lead Direct From the Ore
Eliminating Smelting-Now Has Working Plant, But .
Will Construct Factory.

George E. Kingsley, a local chem
ist, has invented process of maxi
ing white lead which he states will
revolutionize the paint making in
dustry. And he has convinced 9TH
ers, for 81 100000 corporation, the
Kingsley Chemical Reduction COM
pany, has been organized to build
100000 factory at Atlas, near
Spokane, on the Northern Pacific
railway, where the process will be
used to produce a commercial arti-
Gle.
Where in the past it has been
necessary to reduce lead ore before
white lead can be produced, Kings
ley proposes to eliminate the
smelling process with it's wastes
and expense and make his white
lead direct from the ore.
That he can do it he has been
demonstrating for several months
in his working plant on First ave-
-'Vle. Here is illustrated on small
Rale the process which will be u.s.
ed when the 50-ton factory is COM
pleted. Though it does not neces-
sarily follow that because his toy
plant makes white lead from the
ore without smelling that the So
ton plant will prove successful, Mr..
Kingsley and those who are back
ing him in his enterprise are san
guine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
ODD LIFE OF MISER
WHO LEFT $4,000
IS TOLD IN COURT

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE con-
test over the $4,000 left in the
bank by Samuel Rogers, better
known as "Old Rogers, the Miser,"
has been reopened,
Rogers brother and sister. Ed
ward and Agnes Rogers, are seek
ing to obtain the money which is
deposited in six different banks. A
few days before Rogers died he
was befriended by Mrs. Katherine
b. Thoma of Long Branch, n. j.,
and assigned his bank account to
her.
Rogers life. according to the
story told by witnesses, was re-
markablc. J. b. Anderson, book
keeper of the Irving Savings lnsti-
tuition, said he had known Rogers
for IA years.
"Old Rogers clothes were al
ways ragged said Anderson. He
didn't wear socks, but had his
legs wrapped in burlap. Once he
came to the bank with a rubber
on one foot and an old shoe on
the other. He told me he slept
in barns and fields.
"He told me that he walked all
the way from Long Branch to the
city many times to save car fare.
He would stop at the Chambers
street bank first, make a deposit,
then walk to Harlem and deposit
more money In bank there.
asked him why he deprived him.
self, and he replied that he couldn' I
afford to spend any money"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

First announcement of another
S150,000 office building for North
Monroe street, to be located on the
southwest corner of Maxwell ave-
niue. was made yesterday by j. w.
Greene. the real estate man and
capitalist, who, more than anyone
else in Spokane, has been a consist
ent booster for many years of that
part of the city north of the river.
This time Mr.. Greene, who has
already invested several hundred
thousands of dollars in apartment
houses and office structures on the
north side, will build a strictly mod
ern steel frame building, resting on
concrete piers. 1t will be five Stor-
les high, the ground floor to be de-
voted to stores and the upper stor-
les to offices, 10 on floor Plans
for the building will be completed
at the office of Cutter & Malmgren,
architects, by May /. and work will
probably be started, says Mr..
Greene, shortly afterward.
The Monroe office building, being
erected on the southwest corner of
Monroe street and Indiana avenue
by Mr. Greene, is now almost fin
ished, the interior finishing being
practically all that remains. This
building is costing Mr.. Greene
about $4,000, or $4,000 more than
he originally intended to put into
the4 structure. 1t is the second
monument Mr.. Greene has built to
his faith in the future of the north
side. He sold his apartment house,
erected not long ago, recently.
TO BE SPLENDID, MODERN
STRUCTURE.
The Greene building" as the
new office structure now being
planned will be called, will be Of
brick, faced on the exterior Of the
first story with terra Gotta and with
similar trimmings over windows
and elsewhere on the outside.
There will be two large stores
fronting on North Monroe street.
The building will extend 100 feet on
Monroe street and the stores will
be about 10 feet wide. There will
be II feet frontage on Maxwell ave-
nue.. Costing $4,000 more than Mr..
Greehe's building now under con-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
PORTLAND LINE "".'
MAY BUILD HERE

The Astoria, Seaside & Tilla-
nook railway is the name of a new
electric line, promoted by the Ma
tional Public Utilities Co., which
will givetPortland direct connec-
tion with WarrentOn. on the Paci-
tic ocean at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river That the new line
may extend to Spokane is not I'M
likely, according to the promoters.
+. L. Smith, vice president of the
company, who is now in Portland
says the new road is going to give
the Pacific Railway & Navigation
Co., the Lyle ROAD and the United
Railways vigorous competition.
The new road means much for
Warrenton, where the 100000 900
jetty, which has been under con-
struction since 1889, will be COM
pleted this fall. The jetty will be
six and one-half miles long.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
BID AGAINST EACH
OTHER TO GET JOBS
Workngmen Gouged by Employment Agencies Is Charge
Movement to Get Protection by City Ordinance
Started-Would Make Agencies Pay Big License.

Make Spokane employment agen-
cies pay into the city treasury as
much as they have to pay in other
cities the size Of this and compel
them, for the protection of laboring
men, to charge no more than five
per cent of the first months wages
for obtaining positions for clients,
or-put them out of business.
Standing on the above platform,
S. G. Polk of the Cooks and
Kitchen Helpers Local union No.
.450 has taken up arms against en-
,ployment agencies, and through his
,owt, union and others is organizing
a movement which it is hoped will
result in city ordinances to correct
what are believed to be abuses in
the employment business.
HAS WRITTEN MAYOR.
Polk has already made his
charges in written communica-
ton to Mayor Pratt and he declares
that if the mayor and city council
will do nothing the unions will take
the matter to Olympia and seek
state lcgiSlA&ieA.
IN There ia at present no
cheek on proprietors of employ
men offices and they are free
to charge what they want for
getting jobs, and II Is often the
case that two Iabering men are
found bidding against each
other for job, the prize going
to the man who will pay the
most for it, which is sometimes
as much as $40 for job pay
Ing only SIS to $50 month";"
said Polk to representative
of The Press yesterday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

kane chamber of commerce. The
average amount of wheat now in
farmers hands in Washington,
Idaho and Oregon is about 10 per
cent, against an average for the
entire United States of 1916
per cent.
Farmers in the three northwest
ern states held 7,45O,00O bushels of
oats on March 80, against 5,9S6,OOO
bushels on the same date last year.
Of this amount Washington had
2,424,0G0 bushels; Idaho, 1904, 900
bushels; Oregon, 2,622,000 bushels
Twenty-Five per cent of the crop
in Washington and Oregon is still
in the growers hands. while the
growers in Idaho hold 80 per cent
of their crop.
HOLD MUCH WHEAT AT
THE PRESENT TIME
Reports compiled by the Stats
teal bureau of the chamber show
that approximately 12,250,000
bushels of wheat was in the hands
of farmers in Washington, Oregon
and Idaho the end of March, as
against 12,249,000 bushels reported
by the government on March ri :,
and S,949,000 bushels a year ago.
OF this amount the farmers In
Washington have 100000 bushels,
with 3,450,000 in Idaho and $780,
900 in Oregon.
The report states that about i8
per cent of the 1909 crop in Wash
ington is still on the farms, against
IS per cent in farmers hands in
1908. Idaho farmers are estimated
to still hold 25 per cent of the
crop, against 20 per cent last year.
Oregon farmers hold less wheat
than last year, having IA per cent
of the crop, as against 16 per cent
last year.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
LOCAL CHEMIST DISCOVERS PAINT MAKING
PROCESS WHICH MAY REVO[UT|0N|zE INDUSTRY

means as simple as these state
ments seem, for Kingsley must
cope with the other metals in the
ore-zinc, iron, silver and perhaps
gold-in less proportions than the
lead, but still there. He claims to
be able to do this and says that he
can separate out all the metals In
the solution with comparatively a
small expense, so that his white
lead product is even more pure
than that obtained by the old proc
ess which often contains bits of the
lead metal and other impurities.
Furthermore, he lays stress on the
fact that he can put all the metals
in the ores beside the lead to COM
mercial use, making chrome yellow
pigments, zinc chrome yellows and
iron paints, as well as manufacture
ing sulphuric acid from the sulphur
which remains after the chemicals
have dissolved, all the metals from
the ore.
If all that is claimed for the King
sley process is true, it will indeed
revolutionize the paint making in
dustry, for there are other consid-
erations. For instance, when the
factory buys lead ore it will get free
all the other metals contained in
smaller quantities and if these, can
be put to a commercial use at COM
paratively small outlay it means a
clear profit. Shelters penalize for
the zinc contained in the lead ore
submitted for smelling, but the
Kingsley process will not, as they
can put it to use, and this means
that mines will be anxious to sell
to Kingsley, assuring plenty of raw
material. 1t remains to be seen how
the process works out in a big fac
tory s.....
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
WILL BUILD ANOTHER: !
$4,000 STRUCTURE
ive-Story Office Building to Be Erected at Corner of
Monroe and Indiana by J. w. Greene-North
Side Building Boom.

struction, the projected one will of
course be fully as much in keeping
with the artistic and substantial
improvement of the north side, and
it will be larger.
Mr.. Greene has moved from his
offices in the Empire State building
and will occupy quarters in the
Monroe building as soon as it is
completed. He believes that being
located on the north side he will be
in a better position than ever to
boost and push the development of
that end of the city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
"SOAk 'EM, If LOOK GOOD"

"sOAk 'EM, IF LOOK GOOD"
Unemployment agency men
pay 500 year to the city for a
license, whereas in Denver and
other cities they are assessed
$1,000 per year. The Spokane
ordinance gives absolutely no
protection to working men.
Agencies can charge anything
they want,4and in. practice they
size man up and tax him what
they think he will pay. II he
looks good, he is soaked maybe
81 to $40 for a SIS job, whereas
the charge should not be over
SIS for a $500 job.
What we want is city ordi-
nance that will be protection to
us and other. working men, We
want it stated in so many plain
words that the charge shall not be
over five per cent of the first
months wages, and we believe that
the employment auancies should
pay as much into the city treasury
here as they are compelled to in
other cities, I made these recon-
mendatiOns in the letter l wrote to
the mayor. | have not heard from
him. but he has probably not got
around as yet to giving it has atten-
ton.
IF we don't get action on the
part of the city council We are. not
going to give up, but will take the
matter directly to the state law
makers. whom. am sure. will see
where it is absolutely necessary
that the great laboring class get the
protection in this matter which
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

John Jackson the name given
yesterday to the police by culprit
found ransacking trunks on the
third floor of the lodging house
above the Combination bar, Main
avenue and Stevens street, is an
alias. His real name is J. G. Marsh.
according to the police, and he was
released but short time ago from
the county jail at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho. where he had served six
months for larceny.~s--,.y.-...--..- .-.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
MILLIONAIRE BOY
10 sEEkiNo HGALrA

NEW YORK, April 2.--Sailing TO-
day for Italy on = long quest IN
search Of better health was Henry
B. Plant, the nine year old son a
Morton F. Plant and grandson IT
the millionaire steamship and rail-
road man.
The boy is one Of the richest chill
dren in America, for when he comes
of age he will have half share In
an estate estimated at between
ST 100000 and $40, 600.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
LABOR LOCAL UNION NEWS AND REAL ESTA11

Archambault, treasurer; Joe Lam
ping, financial secretary and bust
ness agent; L. 8. Smith, Inspector;
Clarence Haas, sergeant-at-arms;
Thomas Williams, Frank Kelley
and Earl Allen, executive commit
tee, Jack McCracken, J. O'Donnel
and ]. F. King, delegates joint
executive board.
The meeting was well attended
and was followed by smoker and
discussion of apt topics.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
COOKS AND KITCHEN
HELPERS ELECT
OFFICERS

New officers were elected last
week by Cooks and Kitchen Help
ers' union, local No. $50, as fol-
lows:
John Moore, president; John
ODonnel, vice president; F. j.
Handley, secretary-treasurer J.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

WASHINGTON, D. Ex-senator
Smoot introduces bill for transfer
of water power sites from national
government to state jurisdiction.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

Hawatha Heights the
market Spokane, three
city, the prettest of no locations
sales the office of o. Kenyo the building
sales lots selling rapid
the erection of this
The addition located the the bench the
of within m Ia mao
ideal site could it have been acquired
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.-Appel-
late court awards Theo. Kearney
estate. valued at 100000 to
University of California.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03
WASHINGTON WHEAT GROWERS TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF PRESENT HIGH PRICES

tensively than did farmers In other
parts of the United States is shown
by reports received by the Spo-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

That Washington growers took
advantage Of the high prices that
have prevailed for wheat more ex-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

a very general thing 81 cents. That's
what the publisher gets for it. That leaves
a profit for the retailer OF - cents.
Out of this ST cents the publisher must
pay his author. The author usually gets
10 per cent of the books imaginary retail
price, S1..D. that is to say, for the first
500 copies sold; after the first 5000
copies have been sold the author. If he's
lucky enough ever to reach that exalted
state OF prosperity. gets - per cent on
the 81 .5O price. That is to say. the nov
elist gets 10 cents on every copy OF his
book sold up to 5000 copies; after 5000
copies have been sold Ga big "after:D he
gets 221z cents for each copy sold.
Say that he gets only 10 cents per
copy. Deduct the novelsts 10 cents
from the 81 cents for which the publisher
peddles the book to the trade; that leaves
is cents Out of this Go cents the pub
Usher has to pay for the book. He has
to pay the printers, the p1atemakers, the
illustrators, the binders, all of the people
who have to do with the manufacturing
of the book. He is pretty lucky II he
can get q wholesale rate from these peo-
pie that will make his book cost him less
than 80 cents per copy. That leaves him
81 cents Out of this 81 cents he must
advertise the book. He must send hun
dreds of copies to the reviewers. There
are certain hundreds of copies that must,
in conformity with custom, be given to
the news companies to induce them TO do
what they can to help the book along.
Thus by the time the advertising is
done-and the advertising Of fiction is
extremely expensive bUSiness-the pub
FISHER * cvceed'ngly lucky il NJ has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
It Was Different Then.

From the Delineator
When we remember chldhood's happy
hour we think of all outdoors to play
In: or, if not exactly all outdoors, the
next thing to do, big back yard with
currant bushes in it, and flower beds,
and regular garden with rows of sweet
corn (alas. these had to be hoed at the
most inopportune times) and apple trees
and Towering currantS and Japan ounce,
and lots of grass with dandelions so that
you could make curls Of the stems by
splitting them with your tongue, or dron
ing noises by blowing on them, or you
could puff on the old grad-headed ones
to see If your mother wanted you, and
Carmichaels rooster GROWING "OO-a-OO-
a-OO-oo-Oo." and Johnny Barker toot-
ing his horn for his meat wagon, and
your mother with her head under the
back lid of it, and the cat rubbering up
against her dress with that ''I-do-loye-
YOU way he had at such time.
There were nallows that you could
pretend We're cheese. and pieces Of
broken dishes to keep house with, and
the tops of baking powder cans for pie
tins for mud pies, and the brass tops of
old lamp burners, and discarded cas-
ter. ard glass knobs from old dreSSerS
up In the garnet and corncobS, and oh.
don't know what aIl--lots of things to
play with and lots Of room to play in.
And a great bg-oh. A whooping big
pSrn, the next size smaller IMAM MaOiSOn
Square garden. with old John in his
stall "chomping'' oats (be careful not to
pull his tail; he doesn't like that, and
old Molly chewing her cud and rolling
her eyes at you tshe didn't mean any
harm when she puts her head down that
way: she isn't '.hooky' cow: she just
wants you to scratch her forehead and
under her chin: she likes that, and up
in the haymow billoWy mountains of
hay to jump around on and make caves
in, and feed boxes and barrels of bran
and chops, and mice. and all kinds Of
hooks and corners and harness rooms,
and hamlet of sheds about, tool sheds,
and buggy sheds, and corn cribs. and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the place for sheep
in-the-pen. l think it's SUPERINTENDENT.
Isn't that the game where you say
One-ery, o-ery. ick-ery an
Fillissy, foIlissv, Nicholas JAM
Queevy-quavy, English Navy,
Tinktum, tanktum. Johnny co buck,
, One. two, three, out goes HE?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

You'll look in vain Tor comet cards.
There aren't any. There haven't been
any. The makers of post cards obviously
have been sound asleep as to the possibili-
ties of comet cards Not even the usually
shrewd and far-seeing German makers Of
sucn articles were awake to the monetary
edge they'd have had on the situation had
they got out comet cards.
Careful inquiry has been made on the
subject, and it is found that not a single
comet card has been issued anywhere in
the world. And this in spite Of the fact
that the entire civilized world has been
keenly interested in Halley's comet for
several months; has been waiting for it
to appear with more or less mingled feel
ings. in which, in not a few populous
parts of the world. trepidation has been
the main anticipatory sensation.
There isn't a corner OF the civilized
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

globe where the comet cards wouldn't
have sold verify by bales had they been
on the market. They could have been
both nifty and picturesque and they could
have been comic. They could have
been jokeish in all spoken languages and
have had huge sale everywhere.
The folks who like to put at the bot
tom of their trunks little souvenirs Of
particularly great occasions-as. in Wash
ingtOn, for example, thousands of per-
sons stow away newspapers giving ac-
counts of inauguratiUns-Wou certainly
have outdone themselves in buying hand
some and picturesquely gotten up pic
ture post cards depicting the comet
Now, OF course. it is too late. The
comet has been a good deal of a disap-
pointment, and it in no way approaches,
even when seen on q clear night, the
grandeur of the comet of 1882. The time
for the post card people to have exhibited
their comet wares was about two months
ago when all hands throughout the globe
began to view the approach of the comet
with anticipation or alarm or both; and
at a time when the newspapers every
where were boosting the comet game
along with fervor and an amount of
opposed opinion such as
never has been Weaved around any ne
bular wanderer in historic times
The "couc' comet cards would rave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

world under the age of thirty-live that
ever saw sure-enough bootjack in his
life.
The hilarious and bunned-up comet
could nave been depicted in the act Of
wasglng Its tail in its vinous enthusiasm
and all sorts of ever-so-cut-uppish kinks
could have been dragged in in connec-
ton with the looked-for brushing of the
earth nv the comets tail.
The cyanogen gas end of il could have
been employed to furnish all sorts Of
perfectly side-splitting side-line effects.
Inc suddsed hubby. for example, break
ing In at am, with his collar unfast-
ened tall comic" post cards depicting the
picked man show him with at least ono
side of his collar unfastened. or it would
mt be a comic" post cardl. could have
explained to his wife that he hadn't airy
drink "Jesh got m'self POSTPONED wish
That shynojen cash, y'know, m'dear.'"
with whole lot of stupendously funny
"Chicsp slapped in at the proper places.
The small boy hunting for a chance TO
nudge to the ball game wouldn't have had
to spring his gTandmot her's-funeral thing
any longer on his boss: he could have
pulled it tia: lie vas In = STATE of coma
IrrEn .a--e ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Three Million Dope Fiends.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t is hard to believe that the govern
ment officials are correct when the
announce that there are 3.G00,00D
so-called dope fiends in this country
that is to say. victims OF some OF the
deadly drugs which most people know
only by name.
Cocaine. morphine and other such
devastating drugs are being used In
ENLARGED quantities. and recent events
in this city show how widespread their
use is becoming. Here IS a chance 10
do some reform work in a vigorous way.
There seems to be enough law on the
subject il il is vigorously enforced. but
It is not true that punishment is now
severe enough.
The Use Of these drugs can bo sup
pressed only by maintaining strict con-
troll over the sale of them The worst
feature OF them all is that they are
SO insidious. 1t is long time before the
victim is known, and then IL Is apt TO
be too late. It does not seem rs II the
federal government and the states could
work together SO as TO make ii Impossible
for unlawful dispensers to get supply.
When man has acquired desire for
these drugs he will make almost any
sacrifice 10 secure them. Alcohol at rs
worst is "A simple matter compared with
cocaine and other "dopes.