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ONE CENT IN CITY. ON TRAINS, FIVE CENTS. ANTI-HIGH PRICES CRUSADE SWEEPS WESTWARD SIGN PLEDGE TO EAT NO MORE MEAT NOW Denver and Omaha Hold Big Mass Meetings—The "Sixty-Day" Vegetarians. DENVER, Jan. 20.—Moving westward by leaps and bounds, the •ruaade started in Ohio against the high food prices has reached this city. Next Sunday afternoon hundreds of Denver union laboring men will assemble and sign a pledge to forswear meat and eggs for 30 days. Leaders of the movement here confidently declared today their belief that they will be able to compel Colorado butchers to cut exist ing prices. They say that at Sunday's meeting they will launch a boycott that within a week will extend throughout the state. 5000 SIGN AT OMAHA. (By United Press) OMAHA, Jan. 20.—More than r.OOO persons at Omaha already have signed the anti-meat pledge. Leaders of the local movement to break high meat prices predict that before night an amazing proportion of the city's population will be "sixty-day vegetarians." Reports from other Nebraska cities Indicate that the crusade Is finding hundreds of importers. Mass MORSE BLOTTED OUT AS A MAN; HE IS ONLY A NUMSEft MM Former Millionaire Drag ging Out Dreary Exist ence Among 750 Other Unfortunates, Including Negroes, Italians and Chinamen. ONCE "MASTER MIND," HAS NO RIGHT TO THINK NOW. ATLANTA, da., .lan. 20.—Yester day a man —today a number; yes terday a millionaire--today a con vict, without property rights; yes terday a free agent,' controlling thousands by his strength of mind —today a nonentity whose thinking is done for him; yesterday clad in fine cloth and linen, with the whole world ns the theater of his opera tions —today shuffling about in shapeless shoes, wearing the ill fit ting garb of servitude of rough blue cloth, and his world limited to the blue skies over the prison walls. Such Is the metamorphosis worked in Charles W. Morse when the great steel doors of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta swung behind him a couple of weeks ago. Hnd he been put into a grave he could have been blotted out no more effectually as concerns his social identity. He had ceased to exist as Charles W. Morse—he had become Cnlted States convict No. 2814, and as such for IB years will drag out an exlStenoe a every minute of which is on a dead, dull level of a monotone, surrounded by ">0 fellow unfortun ates, among whom are included whites, negroes. Indians and China-, men. Those will lie his constant com panions and one of them Is to be come his cellmate. And the little comfort that human society mnv af ford No. 2814 will be reduced by the interdiction of speech, for a convict may not converse with his brethren save at certain slated in tervals. Kven at meals, when the desire to talk Is greatest the pro hibition is ironclad: he may not even use his tongue to make known his wants —he must employ signs Instead. Only Two Chances of Escape. And from this living grave con vict No. 2814 thinks, or thought while he had still the right to think, there Is but two chances of a resur- Notion —one by due process of lnw and the second by pardon, for he is certain that if these hopes fail him then his sentence Is a sentence of death, for he cannot believe that he Will survive the full term. Hut dead though he may be now, the leedi ho sowed as c \v. Uorte Of hrllllnnt montallty aro hearing fruit In th* fight that Is holng waged to bring him bach to life through the efforts of Martin Little ton, his COuntel, In the courts, and the work of his devoted wife In cre ating sentiment that shall crystal lize In tho form of a pardon. Atlanta Jail In about four miles from the city, and is Rood to look at When, one Is on the outside. It is a TAFT'S POPULARITY IS SADLY ON THE WANE IN WEST, BUT HE STILL COULD BEAT BRYAN. P,OSTON, Mass.. Jan. 20.—The Boston Evening Transcript, the most powerful paper In New Eng land, nnd with decided leaning toward President Taft, has just pub lished the result of a pool it took of 18 states, In which, it says, the real balance of power Is held. The men quizzed were all bank ers and prominent business men, therefore, naturaly men who lean (By United Press.) meetings in many towns have been called. Uibor unions are assuming a prominent place in the fight. AT PITTSBURG, TOO. (By United Press) PITTSBURG, Jan. 20. —A mass meeting will be held tonight to pro test against the high prices charged for meat and other food commodi ties. Pledges to abstain from meat will be circulated among those who attend. big pile of gray granite not unlike n German feudal castle. It stands in the center of a large reservation, and where the high, thick walls cease a 10 foot bairincde of barbed , wire, thickly Interlaced, begins. Here and there are sentry boxes where guards with rifles and pistols keep watch. And no one may enter at the gates unless his business is known beforehand. It is all busi ness there, and mere curiosity seek ers find short shrift. Moyer's Grim Firmness. The same grim firmness are the distinguishing characteristics of William li. Mover, who for 15 years will be responsible for the mental, moral ami physical welfare of No. 8814. Moyer is a man who has mnde a name for himself as a penologist. He took the Atlanta jail when it was nothing, and last year under his administration the penalty of isolation for violation of prison ' rules amounted to only 2 100 of one per cent of the aggregate time. OLGA NETHERSOLE SECOND SOLOMON (By United Press.l RAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20—Bo cause of the wisdom she displayed In advising Judge Frank Murasky on problems confronting him in a juvenile court here, Actress Olga Nethersole today was extended an invitation to visit the juvenile de tention home and talk with way ward children confined there. For two hours yesterday Miss Nethersole sat on the bench with Judge Murasky and heard the trials and tribulations of two Chinese women, each claiming to be tho mot her of a 15 year old boy who was accused of gambling. Nethersole was Solomon reincar nated, When two mothers both laid Claim to Quong Yuen, and a father, three sisters and eight cousins failed to settle the dispute, Miss Nethersole whispered in .ludgc Mil raskey'S ear that the elder woman was the real mother, because the other bulldozed too much. The court put the case over for a wecjk until the father of Ouong Yuen sees JJIt to break bis silence and throw necessary light upon the affair. PITTSBURG. —New charges in Columbia National bank conspiracy bribery cases include actions against Max g. Leslie, delinquent tax collector; K. 11. Jennings, bank presidenti F. A. Griffin, former cashier; F. F. Nicola, contractor, nnd Charles Stewart, former coun cilman. KANSAS CITY) —Detectives are closely watching a ''suspect" in the Swope case and arrests are expect ed soon. Colonel Thomas 11. Swope and other members of his family who died are believed to have been murdered by use of ty- I pbold germs placed In their food. Daily and Sunday Press, deliv ered, 10 cents a>*eek. toward conservatism as represented In many of its phases by the pres ent administration. The states selected were those through which Taft made his au- J aumn tour, and the queries were ud-! dressed to them before the crisis in 1 the I'inchot affnlr. which ended in' Taft discharging RpoMVelt'l dis tinguished friend. Tht v wi re asked about the effects of the Tu.lt our, | PATRICK MAY WIN FREEDOM VALET WANTED IN FAMOUS MURDER CASE FOUND. SAYS HE WILL CONFESS (By United Press.) GALVESTON, Jan. 20.—Valet Jones, wanted in connection with the famous murder of William Mor ris Rice, New York capitalist, for connection with which Albert T. Patrick, famous Gotham attorney, is now serving a life sentence, Is reported as found. Jones' whereabouts is said to have been discovered by a brother of Patrick, who has been indefati gable in his efforts to free the con victed man. uones is reported to have agreed to make a confession which will clear Patrick from par ticipation In the crime. USED HER BRASS KNUCKLES 01 'Elf Athletic Matron Raised Hav oc With 20 at Society Meeting and It Cost Her $5. PITTSBURG, Jan. 20.—Mrs Mary Cepola, an athletic looking young matron of Wiltnerdlng, is un der conviction today of attacking Mrs. Stella Pokal and others com prising the Ladles' Beneficial so olety at Wilmerding. There was developed In the tria' much of the humorous, and Judgi Ford showed a great deal of inter est in the case after it had beer .shown that Mrs. Cepola had usee brass knuckles in a fight in whicl she admittedly whipped the res of the Ladies' Beneficial society consisting of more than 20 women The court was evidently much im pressed with the defense of Mrs Cepola, who declared that she bai not retorted to the knuckles until she had been knocked down twice The court hearing developed thai Mrs. Pokal had been treasurer o the Ladies' Beneficial society foi some time and there had been some bad blood politically between hei and Mrs. Cepola. Mrs. Cepola had demanded an auditing of the so clety'a books, and it was brought out at the trial that Mrs. Pokul had asserted that she would whip Mrs Cepola on sight as a trouble maker. It appears that Mrs. Cepola, who had the fewer members of the so clety on her side, decided when she started to attend a meeting recent ly that she would slip her hus band's brass knuckles into her stocking—to be used In case o! trouble. The trouble was not long In starting nor did Mrs. Pokal delay starting for Mrs. Cepola. One of the members of the Ladies' Bene ficial society said on the stand that Mrs. Pokal 'sort of butted Mis. Sepola and knocked her over the table." Other evidence was that as Mrs. Cepola struggled to her feet she was again floored by an un abridged dictionary, which caught her in the back of the neck. A MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE HERE A mysterious suicide was report ed from the l.augham hotel late yes terday afternoon. A man who had registered ut the hotel two days be fore under the name of J. C. Camp bell was found lying in a pool of blood in bis room. From the condi tion of the body, it is believed that he had taken ills life two or three hours previous to the time the door was opened. The man is not known here, lie was well dressed. Camp bell left no means of identification. The bullet entered his light temple and emerged on the other side of the head. Henry M. Weed has sold to Wal ter N. Olive two lots on the nortn side of Sprague avenue near Sheri dan street for $10,000. The ground is 50x90. SUCH IS THE NET RESULT OF A POLL TAKEN BY A PRO-TAFT PAPER OF BOSTON, MASS. the Ballinger case, the Winona speech, and Incidentally, the Im portance of Hrjan today. Surprising as it may seem from tho character of the men queried, few thought Taft had strengthened himself with the people. Indeed, most saw a waning of his popular ity and a longing for the days of Roosevelt. However, it was also the opinion that as between Taft SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1910 "SO HIGH!" SAYS PSCHOT TO TEDDY fITY NEWC VJin briefO Sheriff MacK. Pugh of Spokane ounty was elected president of the ■late association of sheriffs at its meeting at North Yakima. The lext meeting will be held at Kver >tt in July. The sheriffs agreed to tsk the legislature to pass a law fur a whipping post for wife beat-. >rs, to call for a general closing if all business on Sunday and longer terms and better pay for the sheriffs. M. F. Ryan, former marshal ef Hillyard, has been reappointed to 'hat place by the Hillyard council. Ryan is a foe of burglars and bad men, and while holding the position before was shot in an encounter' with a burglar, whom he lauded.' it.van lias been doing work as a deputy sheriff for the last two •ears. Victor Schurra, a student from Spokane, is sick with scarlet fever at St. Martin's college, at Wash. The fever became epidemic at the college, causing one death, but il is announced that it is now under control. The reorganization committee of the chamber of commerce, which has the selection of a secretary and other matters in hand for the good of the chamber, lias not yet agreed on a successor to L. b. Monroe, who is to retire from the secretaryship May 1, Many changes of importance in the pub licity and promotion work of the chamber, It is thought, will be rec ommended by the committee. The Washington Water Power company Ik installing a new stor age battery at Its new power sta tion at Post ami Wall for the pur pose of equalising, the current should any breaks in the lines oc cur. This battery will work auto matically and control any surplus or shortage of current on any line, so as not to cause the shutting off of light. A meeting of property owners in terested In the East Sprague dis trict between Division street and the Sprague avenue fill will meet tonight at the office of Finch A Campbell to consider ways and and Bryan, the victory would be with Taft. Here is a summary of the letters received: Illinois. A.Chicago banker wrote that tlie tour was colorless and the attitude on the tariff disappointing. Another wrote the people's sym pathies were with Pinohot us against Uullinger. means for booming that end of trie city. All property owners between the Northern Pacific right of way and First avenue have been invited to participate In the movement. E. Finney, building inspector, has asked for an assistant, backed in the request by the board of public works. He says that judging by the amount of work in sight for the prasent year one man will not be able to care for It. The Consolidated Improvement company', controlled by F. Lewis Clark, will erect a $100,000 brick and terra cotta building at the northwest corner of Thlfd and Washington to cost $100,000. Plans are now being drawn for the struct ure, which will cover the entire ground,. 100 feet on Third avenue by 90 feet on Washington. § The -W. B. Wagnon company of the I'aursen block has purchased the remaining 28 acres of the D. P. Jenkins tract on the southeast hill train Brooks Adams of Boston. The ground contains 28 acres and was boiight for $r>o,ooo. It will be plat ted into high priced residence lots that will sell from $1400 to $5000, and will carry a building restriction ot $4000. The courses in chemistry, a new department in the Y. M. C. A., have just been established The work Is divided into three courses and the instruction will enable the student to cover a great amount of work In period of time. Any pupil, when he his completed the assigned work, will be able to pass ,the examination tn chemistry In any college in the I'nlted States. MADE GIRL INTOXICATED. The crime of plying jounc; girls with liquor is again making its ap pearance hpro. Gertrude Daniels, a clerk lfi years of age. admits that .lames Pope took her to White's res taurant after the theater and bought her liquor, the girl becoming intoxicated. He then took her to her room, according to her story. Pope WM arrested yesterday after noon by Detective McDonald and Is now out on $lon bonds. BAN FRANCISCO—At bond elec tion hero tho propoßitlon to accept thy- Lake Kleanor and Hetch- Mptchy valley water system and Is sije bonds for $45,000,000 carried bj a vote of 9583 in excess of ne cessary The president of a country bank wrote thnt the people considered Taft a trimmer. All uutted in saying, however, that Taft would easily carry the ''slate against Hryan. Indiana. 4 Here all the opinions were gath t ii <l from llloomington. the site of , the state university. One leading j cltlaeu, suid to be of national repu MOTHER'S SACRIFICE WAS IN * VAIN; WOUNDED BOY DIES (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Arthur Shibley, who was shot in High bridge park recently by an unknown assassin, died today. De spite the most heroic efforts to save the child by the transfus ion of his mother's blood into his veins, the lad failed to rally. TEN KILLED, 16 HURT IN FIVE DAYS (By United Press) DENVER, Jan. 20.—1n a wreck of a runaway freight train on the Mof fatt road today three trainmen were killed and two injured. This makes a total of 10 men killed and 16 injured in the Rocky mountain re gion in the last five days. Four were killed and three injured Sun day near Leadville. Three were killed and 11 injured at Lemay, Utah, Monday. ASSISTANT CHIEF JOYCE BREAKS ARM Falling on an ice covered roadway down in Peaceful val ley yesterday afternoon, Assist ant Fire Chief Joyce broke both bones in his right arm, just above the wrist. He will be un able to resume work at his cus tomary post for several weeks, it is believed. Joyce had gone down into the valley to investigate an applica tion for a barn permit. All the way down the road is covered with a dangerous layer of ice and frozen snow and it wae while going down an incline that he met with the accident. The fireman was attended by Dr. John O'Shea and ia now confined to his home at 8114 Adams street. WANTS DAGGER IN HEART TO PROVE HER DEATH Unique Will of Woman, Worth $100,000, Though Thought to Be a Pauper. PITTSBURG, Jan. 19.—"Thrust a dagger through my heart three times to make sure that I am deud. Let my body lie 10 days, cremate it then and bury the ashes in Alle gheny cemetery," were the written Instructions found with the body of Laura White, single, aged 65 years, a supposed pauper living alone, who was discovered early today in a room wl thfive locks upon the door. The police found a bank book and a will disposing of $100,000 to local charities in a trunk in the poorly furnished room. Canceled checks found ranged in amounts from 17 cents to a thousand dollars Real estate hold by the woman is located in Indiana, .Montana and California. The will makes special request that competent medical authorities examine tho body for 10 days to as certain to a certaiuly that death has occurred, leaving $80 for this service. The doctor stabbing her heart three times is to receive $20. A brother of the woman is an officer in the English army. | Although the woman's home was ; poorly furnished, one room was en tirely devoted to a 3000 volume library, embracing editions worth large sums. POPCORN MAN FOUGHT FLAMES BUT WAGON BURNED When a popcorn man loses his wagon, he loses his means of sup port. Richard Traill, the popcorn man who has a wagon at the cor ner of Post street and Main avenue, fought fiercely the flames which started in his little establishment last night. His efforts were with out avuil, however, when the gaso line which trickled from the torch which he was cleaning ignited. The fire was put out by fire extinguish ers. Traul was burned about the arms. tatlon, is (juoted as saying that he had grave fears Taft would be dom inated by the Interests. The tariff was condemned by Indiana politi cians and people alike. President Stone of Purdue and Presideut Par sons of State Normal, lifelong re publicans, look with distrust upon the avowed policies of the party. Professor Harding says Taft will have to stop carrying water ou both EIGHTH YEAR, No. 64 10 CENTS PES WEEK CALLS COPS WHEN COOK DRINKS HER PUDDING WINE Mr. Wolf Gets Excited When Vintage Disappears; Court Dismisses Queen's Name sake. NEW YORK, Jan. 20—"I am Mr. Ernest Wolf, chemist, 349 West Eighty-fifth street. Send a man up here quick. We have a thief up here." A moment after this telephone message reached police headquar ters yesterday Detective Barbour was rushing to the scene. "Who is the thief?" he asked breathlessly of Mr. and Mrs. Wolf. "Mary Stuart." Barbour recognized it instantly as a name that had carried a shadowy record even on the an cient throne of Scotland. "Where is~~she?" "In the kitchen. She's the cook." "What did she steal?" "She drank our rare sherry that watj given her to put in the plum pudding." The queen of the kitchen was led before Magistrate Moss in the West Side court. Mr. Wolf ex plained with feeling that the miss ing wine was of a rare and costly vintage that was treasured for dinners of especial importance. It developed that Ella Bednark, a true, faithful maid, had seen the prisoner drink a goblet of the aged stuff and replace it with water. Mary Stuart denied everything, with a royal dignity. Magistrate Moss ordered the charge changed to disorderly con duct, then suspended judgment and freed the prisoner. The latter said, there was several weeks' wages due her and that Mr. Wolf had re fused to pay. The magistrate said that was a matter for a civil court. WEATHER CONDITIONS. The western storm center has moved from Saskatchwan to near I>ake Superior, and low pressure now covers the upper Mississippi valley. High pressure, with crest over southern Idaho, covers the country between the Pacific and the eastern slope of the Rocky mountain region; high pressure, with crest near the middle of the Atlantic coast, extends eastwardly from southern Louisiana, the Ohio valley and the Lake region. Re ports of fair weather during the last 24 hours have been received from most places; the only reports of precipitation received were from northwestern Washington, south ern Montana, the Dakotas and Ar kansas. Excepting western Wash ington and California lower tem peratures prevail from the Pacific coast to near the Mississippi river, with a cold wave in northern. Al berta: from the western part of the Mississippi valley to the *lle ghenies higher temperature is gen eral; along the Atlantic coast low >->r temperatures prevail. In the Pa cific coast states temperatures are about normal. Fair weather is ex pected for tonight and Friday in this vicinity, with colder tonight. CHAB. STEWART, lx)cal Forecaster. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—lnter state commerce commission refuses to allow other railroads to carry freight stalled on wrecked Salt Lake route at emergency rate of 30 cents a hundred, as proposed, and heavy loss to road and ship pers will result. "YOU DIRTY PUP!"-MRS. CHRISTY ZASESVII.DE. Ohio, January 20—Witnesses and depositions supplied by Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, in an effort to prove that Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, was not the proper person to have custody of his child, occupied the court today, in a hearing of Mrs. Christy's suit for possession of her daughter, Natelle. Christy, who was present, listened to the testimony and smiled several times at the charges. Several witnesses testified regarding the artist's alleged pro pensity for excessive drinking. Judge Smith, who Is hearing the case, blocked attempts of Christy's counsel to introduce evidence purporting tg show rela tions existing between Mrs. Christy and her chauffeur. * During the attorneys' argument that such testimony was ad missible, Mrs. Christy leaned across a table and hissed at her husband: "You dirty pup." shoulders, and either line up with the insurgents, who are the only hope of the party, or with the reac tionaries. Michigan. Here opinion was that Taft's tour made litle change in public opinion, and that Taft could beat Bryan by 100,000 In the state. Wisconsin. Some dissatisfaction. is tx SHARKS TRY NEW GRAFT NOW CHARGE WOMAN $13 FOR WORTHLESS WATCH. GRANGERS ARE DUPED Now that they have been sepa rated from their graft, which they took from working people who bor rowed money from them, there are indications that the loan sharks of Spokane are' busy practicing a new variety of robbery. Miss Jessie Medford, a working woman, told a pitiful story to the police this morning of how ske was beaten out of $13 of her hard earned cash in the purchase of a watch from one of the downtown loan sharks last night, A stranger in the city, she thought the shop was a legitimate jewelry store. Bhe informed the clerk that she knew absolutely nothing about watches. He then guaranteed that the watch to which she had taken a fancy was worth $30, but agreed to let her have it at $13. She bought the watch upon his recommendation and upon the advice of another person who waa in the store at the time. The watch which she showed to the police this morning was all but worthless. She now believes that the second per son was a "booster." A number of similar cases have been reported to the police, but it has been a hard matter to bring action 'against tbe sharks, because in most cases the persons who have been fleeced knew something about jewelry and bought the worthless articles at their own initiative. The people who live in Spokane know better than to have any deal ings with these sharks; bat strangers in the city do not. Some provision must be made to ent out the practice. If the people who have been fleeced with report their losses, these unfair methods can he stopped. SUCCESSION OF MISFORTUNES A succession of misfortunes seems to be following the Dun woodie family of Blue Slide, Wash. Three brothers of the family have been patients at the hosiptal here in the last few months. Some time ago one of the boys was brought to the city and suffered for a few weeks with a severe attack of typhoid fever. He recovered and re turned to his home, when his brother Harrison, while bunt ing woodrats, was accidentally shot .by his father. Harrison was brought to the hosiptal early in December, and after hovering, between life and death for several wgeks rev covered and was sent home, ■when the third calamity came, Saturday Herbert Dun woodie suffered a severe at tack of appendicitis and waa brought to this city, where he underwent an operation. Ho will recover. John W. Graham. D. L. Preaoott, A. W. Woolley, William Dodd. Don Ramsey and D. D. McKay are the men who are to ait aa a Jury In the George Darby case, which is to bo tried in Judge Mann's court tomor row.* Darby is being prosecuted for violating the saloon screen law. It is alleged that the sign on the win dow of the Darby saloon hides the view of the interior. pressed with his tariff policy, hut 1% is held that aa against Bryan ha could win. Minnesota. Bankers of St. Paul and Minn* sola conceded that the Wtnong speech counted against Taft, hut held that he could still carry ttm state against Hi > an. A rural Contlnued on Page Twe»