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The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-07-24
COURTHOUSE AND
COUNTY NEWS

A suit was filed Tuesday by
R. A. Seeds against A. Kingsley
Norton and George H. Norton,
her husband; D. w. Yeargin as
trustee in bankruptcy of the es-
tate of C. A. Wallace; William
Miller as sheriff, and E. R. Lind
sey to foreclose a mortgage
issued at Spokane June Is, 1913.
The lots involved consists of lots
35, Sc, 81, 38, in block Is, Holly
addition, Kettle Falls.
Herbert Dietrich and James
Murphy of Hunters were arrested
Monday night by Deputy Sheriff
W. W. Bryant on the charge of
stealing steer belonging to W.
H. Linton.
H. S. Crothers filed a mort
gage foreclosure suit Monday
against S. E. Landenslager, Geo.
W. Clark and H. Dilzer. The
property involved is a 16O-acre
ranch three miles east of Boss
burg. The mortgage of $3.50 was
issued at Spokane Oct. 80. 1913.
A suit has been filed by Bertha
Albert against Bernard Open
heimer and others to foreclose an
$500 mortgage, which was issued
Oct. IS, 1909, to Joshua Story
and wife. The land mortgaged
is an 8O-acre ranch about a mile
northeast of Chewelah. In this
case, which was reported last
week, Oppenheimer is made a
party defendant only by reason
of having owned the land some
years ago.
A marriage license was issued
July Ia to Oreatha Blanche Jelli-
son and William Vernon Sings
by, both of Northport.
Mrs. Ida Lund has been ap-
pointed administrative of the es-
tate of her husband, who died
May 20 at Davenport. The es-
tate consists of about 200 acres a
few miles southwest of Gerome.
Besides the widow, there are
three children, Charles aged 10,
Clara 8, and George 6.
Mothers pensions were grant
ed Tuesday to Mrs. Mary Vrbon-
aic and Mrs. Edith Nelson, both
of Colville. Mrs. Vrbonaic has
five children from two to ten
years of age and is given $50 per
month, and Mrs. Nelson has four
children, ages three to eleven
years, and is allowed $25 per
month.
Advising that it is the duty of
the county auditor, rather than
the county assessor, under the
1915 law to extend the county tax
rolls, the state tax commission
has sent out a ruling to all county
auditors and assessors in the
state. Under 1909 law the as
SCISSOR was delegated with power
to extend the tax rolls on the
books, but the tax commission
says this act was repealed by the
1915 act and a 1907 law reenact-
ed which gave this function to
the county auditor. The tax
commission says in the same rul-
ing that the 1915 act does not re-
move the county assessor from
the county board of equalization,
but he still remains it's secretary.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-07-24
Coming Events

July 24-Colville market day.
July 29-Stevens County Po-
mona grange, Stranger Creek
hall, 3 miles east of Clifford, on
Addy- Clifford road.
Aug. 2-7-Grand Aerie F. 0.
E., Spokane.
Aug. 5-7-Teachers' examina-
tons, Colville.
Sept. 6-Labor day.
Sept. 13-18-Spokane fair.
Sept. 2O-25-State Fair, North
Yakima.
Oct. 26-29-Annual show and
sale, Stevens County Livestock
Association, Colville.
Oct. 31-Halloween.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-07-24

claim agent for the Great North
ern railroad for the Spokane and
Marshall divisions, died Saturday
night at the Sacred Heart hospi-
tai, Spokane. Mr.. Ryan had
been an employee of the Great
Northern for q years, ID years
of that time in Spokane. He re-
sided at EGG Boone avenue, and
is survived by his wife and eight
sons and daughters. The funeral
was held Tuesday morning at 9
o'clock at st. Aloysius' church,
the Rev. Father John Nestor Off
ciating.
Bids for the construction of a
96-foot steel highway bridge
across the Colville river south of
Kettle Falls were opened Mon
day at special session of the
county commissioners. The con-
tract was awarded to Albert
L. Smith, representing the
Northwest Paving Company of
Spokane, whose bid was $500.
The contract specifies that work
shall commence on the bridge
within 80 days and shall be fin
ished within three month. Four
other bids were submitted: Illi-
nois Steel Company of Spokane,
$3940; Charles L. Graves, Spo-
kane, $4,000; Security Bridge
Company, Minneapolis, $3925; R.
A. Neussbaum, La Cross, $3997.
Robert Charles Rembel, alleg-
ing abandonment, on Monday
filed action for divorce against
his wife, Lydia Rembel. The
couple were married at Rossland
Nov. Is, 1909. and have one son,
Herman, aged Z years. The COM
plant alleges that prior to his
marriage plaintiff homesteaded
100 acres ten miles east of Bound
ary, which is all the property
right involved.
Five thousand suggested titles
for the kodak picture of a kitten
being fed by a generous farm
hand milking cow were received
by the John w. Graham Com
pany of Spokane in its picture
contest which has been running
for six weeks. Three kittens are
shown in the picture, two await
ing their turn at the diverted
milk stream, and the Graham
company asked for the best title
which the picture suggested.
Answers were received from all
parts of the United States, al
most every state in the union be-
ing represented. The committee
of judges went over the answers
and awarded the prize of 500 to
C. G. Heide of Rice, who sug-
gested the title Waiting; Line
Is Busy"
A divorce was granted last
week Friday to James Smith from
his wife Eta Maud Smith on the
grounds of abandonment. Their
two children are in the custody
of their mother, whose where
abouts are unknown to the plain
tiff. The Smiths were married
in 1902. Attorneys Rockford &
Wilson appeared for Smith.
The session of the commission
ers in August each year is large
ly occupied as a board of equali-
cation. Taxpayers who desire to
have their assessments changed
should report to the board the
first week in August in order to
make certain that the matter can
be investigated. No valuations
can be changed by the commits
sioners except at their August
meeting.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-07-24
Working Capital
On the Farm

Cash and Credit are vital part
of the farmers working capital,
and a means to larger profits.
You aretinvitedlt to confer with
our officers on your plans for
this seasons successes, as we
want to be associated with re-
sponsible men who are planning
to advance financially, and will
place at your command funds for
carrying out such plans as our ex-
perience and judgment regard
sound and good.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-07-24
First National Bank
Colvile, Washington

day evening at 8 o'clock. All
are welcome.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

permanent happiness outside It's pale.
misery such as mine is a great teacher
know at last that one can be happier fol-
lowing the stern light of duty than the
alluring will-o-the.wsp Of love"
Annie M. Bradley was crushed under the
weight Of her wretchedness. She feared
what awaited her in the world outside her
jail walls. Poverty, ignominy the con
tempt and bitter blame OF her children
when they reached the age of reason, she
expected would be hers. But when she ex-
claimed, "My sorrows have just begun"
her tortured imagnings painted no such
picture as that OF her first born lying with
his pale old young face turned to the sky,
and her younger and favorite child, stand
ing above him in maniacal rage, the death
dealing revolver In his hand. She had no
foreknowiedge that she had borne Cain
TO slay her Abel
Yet the unfortunate woman sowed the
wind from which she has reaped the triple
whirlwind. The honest wife of railroad
clerk, she was not content with her humble
home, her two babes, her tasks AS wife
and mother and housewife. Ambitious, she
thought and talked OF wider sphere"
She Became secretary of the Woman's Re-
publican State Committee of Utah. In that
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

high gallows on which Guiteau had ex-
plated the murder Of a President OF the
United States; which Mrs Surrata. &C
complete in the murder Of President Lin
coin. was hanged and between whose up
standing posts she knew not but that she,
too. might take her flight to eternity. 1t
came In a letter from n relative. Writ
Ing Of tho crime that was still fresh upon
her hands, relative wrote:
I'VE had kept it all from Arthur until
Yesterday. He was playing with some boys
and they told him that his mother had
killed his father. Arthur turned very white
and said: My mother loves my dad. She
didn't kill him."
II would rather die there" the small.
black rohed woman said, pointing to the
high posts Of the gallows. than to face
my children when they are grown and
know my story
When the anguish into which this letter
had thrown her had been. in a measure,
controlled, Annie Bradley turned prestess
in her black robes and said:
az who always admired the majesty
and splendor Of law now realize the stead
fastness Of it. realize that there is no
any Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

FOUR 10 thirty-siI hours. Should the TO-
bacco seem tough or not dry and not
very crisp 20 the touch rain Is near at
nand II the rain does not come, It will
ne found upon careful investigation that
showers were not many miles away, and
the atmosphere was moist on account OF
The low barometeric condition which
usually causes precipitation.
Even ordinary tobacco leaves which
az" simply allowed to dry ont thoroughly
VIII accurately foreteli the weather so
Tar a rain or damp. cloudy weather,
or clear fair weather. devoid OF rainfall
In many Of the tobacco producing sec
lions growers and others rely absolutely
on tho tobacco sign, which they con-
fideT more accurate than any kind OF
barometer they can secure
Sailors have learned to RELY on the
tobacco indications when on, at sea, and
although there IS plenty OF water at
hand 10 make moisture. when there is
brish, fair weather the tobacco will be
dry and crisp to the touch. and il only
requires mere running of the fingers
through the small pieces 10 show an ex.
perienced sailor what kind OF weather to
expect
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

capacity she met it's president Mrs. Arthur
Brown. Mrs. Brown, an active phian.
thropist and keenly interested in her hus-
bands political career. entertained the
secretary often at her home. There Mrs
Bradley met the Senator who quickly
fascinated her. When he failed OF re-
election to the United States Senate she
tried to comfort him with the gift OF he--
self.
Brown left his home and sought to d.
vorce Mrs. Brown. who a year later died
of disease that in It's incipiency the doc.
tors declared was heart break. Brown
went from his wlfe's funeral TO call on
Mrs. Bradley.
Mrs. Bradley waited for three years for
him to keep his promise to wed her. When
he finally refused in the room In the
Raleigh Hotel to which she had followed
him she shot him.
Eight years after his fathers death at his
mothers hand their son is fratricide.
The iniquities Of the parents have been
visited upon the children to the first gen.
GRAFTON. Should. Arthur Brown. because
OF his tender years, escape severe punish
ment and himself become a parent his
future and that OF his children and chill
dren's children Is burdened by the proph.
ecy OF the ancient curse.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18
Tobacco as a Weather Prophet

Nv of the hes, and stin the most
I simple barometers is TO re had
In a little scrap tobacco Mois
ture in the atmosphere indicates the
condition OF the weather likely TO take
place during the next few hours. II the
air IS dry, there Ia little or no danger
OF precipitation, and If the air is moist
TO any degree, there is apt 10 be falling
weather o. some character.
1t IL quite difficult to detec, the Inois-
ture In our atmosphere at times. and
some material easily influenced by the
moisture In the al is used 10 reveal the
true condition.
Tobacco is very dry when IT Is dry.
and IT is not ar unless the atmosphere
ps quite free from moisture
A paper q ordinary scrap smoking
tobacco placed In a little box, and al.
lowed to sill uncovered where the out.
side atmosphere w.l} reach il. will in.
dictate very accurately the PROBABLE con.
dition OF the weather for several hours
IN advance.
When the tobacco becomes very dry
and crisp. II is safe betting rain viii
not come for number O. hours. very
frequently for as mich as from twenty.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18
Whose Son by the Man She Killed Has
Murdered the Son by the Husband She Betrayed

sister, Martha, and that there were roses
growing in the garden. But even across
the roses IN the garden had fallen a
shadow. 1t was not long after the tall.
thin, man OF brilliant speech. Arthur
Brown. who cast that shadow. began call.
Ing at the humble little cottage. that
Matthew became ratherless.
There had been a divorce. His father
saying goodbye to him before the father
went to Nevada had left his tears upon
the boys face. Those tears lay always
upon the boys heart. In the years that
passed they acquired weight. They lay
heavier and heavier upon his spirit The
neighbors said that Annie Bradley's oldest
boy was a morose child
There was another burden 1t was
noverty. That Matthew tried with all his
boyish strength 10 lift. AT seven he was
a newsboy. He ran on crrands 10 earn
odd pennies. His face grew grave He
became one OF the saddest sights in the
world, "a child with an old face
When. December S. 1906, the dispatches
told how Annie NJ. Bradley had followed
her distinguished betrayer to Washington
and shot him, Matthew Bradley was old
enough TO read and comprehend He was
twelve. His face grew older and sadder
But he kept on working. 1t had become
A habit with him TO work They were
very poor. The money must be earned
Fate forced the child 70 sell the news
papers that proclaimed his mother a
woman of shame and murderess
To her in jail awaiting trial came this
letter from the child with the old face:
Dear Mamma:
II have saved $24 and put IL in bank.
I'll send 1t TO you TO pay your lawyer
when the trial begins
Your loving son.
"MATTHEW."
This boy greeted her gladly when she
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

n IRIS. ANNIE NJ. BRADLEY, leaving
lN1 the court room six years ago. In
AtA which the jury had acquitted her
OF the murder OF United States Senator
Arthur Brown, her lover and the father of
her $50 children, exclaimed: "My sorrows
have just begun
The wan. woe-sodden woman uttered
prophecy true as Miriam's, for last month
In a small mining town in Utah, her son
and the namesake OF his father. Arthur
Brown, whose mother killed his own
father, himself killed Matthew Bradley.
his haltbrother by the father his mother
had betrayed,
The younger lad. nov only fifteen, slew
the older OF twenty because In a quarrel
the elder had tainted him with the truth
about his birth At the word, the school
boy. trenzied, seized revolver and. aim
Ing at his brothers. heart shot 10 kill To
Mrs. Bradley's own crime OF lawless love
and is consequent murder. was added
fratricide. One OF her babes, not Yet
grown 10 manhood but grown to the full
aand terrible stature OF hatred had muir.
dered the other,
The sins OF the father -
Matthew Bradley, the murdered youth
was tina first born OF the woman and
her husband, Clarence Bradley. a rail
road clerk. He had known poverty and
ignominy all his life. He could not re-
member the first three years OF his life
in the cottage on last First South street
when the railroad clerk and his wife. who
had been a bookkecper in the Office OF
the Salt Lake CITY waterworks we're as
happy as the average Young welded pair
He remembered that there was a lit,le
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18
The Tragic
Working Out
of the
Stern Old
Biblical Decree
i'm the
Case of Mrs.
Bradley,

returned to Salt Lake City, by the chivalry
OF Southern jury free woman. With
her and his sister. Martha Bradley, and
the two children OF Senator Brown. Arthur
and Mark Montgomery Brown, he lived in
tumbledown house at the edge Of Salt
Lake City. He worked harder than ever
trying to support the family on the meager
earnings OF little truck farm
In Utah the children born out OF we'd.
lock are heirs OF their father as surely as
are those born by benefit OF clergy. 1t
was one OF the. last pleas made by the
late Judge Powers, whose eloquence saved
her from the gallows, that secured for
the Brown lads small fraction OF their
murdered fathers fortune. Twelve thou
sand dollars were granted by the jury TO
these children. Mrs. Bradley determined
to use this sum for the education or her
Younger children.
She secured employment with book
shop. Matthew went on with his toll.
weight heavy as the accumulated burden
OF his fathers remembered tears lay upon
his heart. His mother loved the Brown
children more than she did him and his
sister. Martha.
at Is but natural that a woman should
love best the children OF the man she
loved"
IIe knew she had said this 1t was
printed in one OF the newspapers ne had
sold while she was in Jail. That knowl.
edge embittered the boys nature
a Job took him recently 10 the little
mining town. Price There came the half
brother. Arthur Brown. There they quar-
relied over some trihing matter and there
they and what they represented faced each
other.
The boy drudge, old at twenty. turned
white face upon the youth whose mother
had taken such good care OF him that his
hands were soft and white as n woman's
The railroad clerks son looked into the
eyes Of the child of the United States
Senator. Eyes gray, tired, toilsome. looked
into bright, brown, cratic ones. Matthew
had grown to resemble startlingly his
father. Arthur was an epitome OF the
famous lawyer who had served his State
in the United States Senate.
In that moment hatred that had been
smouldering for years burst into fame
Matthew Bradley's protest against the cir
cumstances OF his life broke forth. Je
hurled an epithet at the pampered boy.
The spirit Of the boys hot headed father,
whom life had never completely dis
ciplincd, famed up in him.
Like his mother Arthur Brown became
a killer. lie drew a pistol and shot down
the taunter. In the next instant he stood
alone with the dead body OF the boy. He.
whose own father had been killed in just
tho same way by his own mother, had
slain the son OF that same mother by the
man she herself had destroyed. Tho
circle was complete.
Tho Old Biblical phrase "The sins of the
fathers refers not alone to male parents.
II includes the mothers. Their sins too,
arc TO be heaped upon the heads Of their
children.
For the first fault Of Senator Brown and
the woman OF his transient love their son
was shamed again and again. until an
Copyrieht 1915 by the Star Com
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

alluson to 1t caused him to burst into
fury. For her crime of murder she has
been punished by seeing her son. still
child, n murderer. For both, her first born
the lawful child OF innocence, has been
slain. Herself a murderess. Annie NJ
Bradley is the mother of murdered and
a murderer son.
Frenzied the woman goes from the grave
OF one to the jail where the other awaits
trial, a pendulum 'twiXt two extremes OF
grief. Those who watch her alternating
visits to the quick and the dead say that
the strain is moro than one woman. and
that one Of so frail frame and 30 tor
tured memories. can long bear.
Truly she spoke when leaving the jail
whose doors had been opened for her by
that galan; jury: My sorrows have just
begun.
The foreshadow of the tragedy that
has befallen her was cast while
she waited in the United States Jail
in Washington from a cell win.
dow Of which she could see the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

<<T THE LORD THY GOD. am a
Jealous God risitinq the
iniqHitV Of The fathers upon
the children INTO the third and the
fourth. generations" says the Bible.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

n IRIS. ANNIE NJ. BRADLEY, leaving
N the court room six years ago. in
which the jury had acquitted her
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18

This boy greeted her gladly when she
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-11
SURELY WAS HIS LUCKY DAY
Farmer Probably Never viii Rcalize
Just What Narrow Escape
He Did Have.

A CRATER had been short-changipg
hicks with a small circus, and the
packing was poor. 4 The outfit hit the
South; no cotton money, and with
bunch of one-day towns to show where
money was as scarce as violets on a
weedy siding. And 1t was miles to
the land of promise, and every man
stony, and nothing coming.
Just before the concert, one after
noon in a jay jungle, the CRATER
lamped Rube coming out of the big
top. He had on new jeans. a city hat,
was eating popcorn out OF one hand.
and carrying an umbrella. tied with
shoestring, in the other. Ie hesitated
at the lemonade stand. Every signal
on his lankncss was flying him for a
mark. Approach CRATER and speech;
Surely you are not going, neigh
Dor? Shows not art over an, neigh
Dor, you mustn't miss ths concert
Some gem, boy!"
"Gotter catch the three-forty-e eight
was the answer. fragrant of pink and
pasted popcorn.
"Sure not said the shorter wait
for the real show-the boomerang
throwers and the ceiling walkers, and
whisper, culli-them French dancers
nights in Paris!"
The farmer took out wallet. and
1t was crowded with ones, twos, fives,
tens and twenties. The CRATER saw
the green and gold outlay and dreamed
he was working in bank Then he
dived into his own pockets for come
on; but he hadn't red. He whistled
and called for help; but nothing doing
on coin--the first time In his hones'
career. and no twisted bills between
| the fingers. Finally the Rube go
tired, closed the wallet, and jammed i
| In his inside pocket with:
"Gotter be goin' stranger"
The CRATER burst out crying, ant
grabbing him by the whlskers, shout
ed: Gee, but you're lucky guy!"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-11
(published June IL, 1850
Ordinance No. 577.)

Ordinance No. 577.)
An Ordinance to Prohibit the Keeping
and Maintaining Of Nuisance.
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and City
Council of Chickasha, Oklahoma:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, persons or corporation.
the owner or agent, or in any way
controlling any lot. lots or parcel OF
land in the city of Chickasha, to allow
any manure of whatever kind or ma
ture, or decaying matter, vegetable or
animal, to remain or collect on said
lot, lots, or parcel of land; and after
having legal notice to remove same,
and refuses and fails to do SO, shall
be guilty Of maintaining a nuisance
and on conviction shall be fined in any
sum not more than twenty-five dollars
and not less than five dollars.
Section 2. For the preservation of
the public health, peace and safety,
ain emergency is hereby declared to
exist. by reason whereof this act shall
take effect from and after its passage
and approval.
Passed by an affirmative vote of a
majority Of all counciimen On this the
10th day of June. A. ID. 1915.
o. CoFFMAN. Mayor
e. G. REYNOLDS, City Clerk. 6-l1-1i