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BEST NEWSPAPER BARGAIN— THE SPOKANE PRESS AT 25 CENTS A MONTH—SUBSCRIBE NOW "What's the man charged with, officially?" asked the court. "Assaulting a pedestrian with a deadly weapon, your honor." "A revolver." "No, your honor, much wcrse than that. An automobile." THE WELDEN COURT STORY STIRRED WOMEN AND POLICE The Weldon Court case, reported in The Press Monday evaning, has been the occasion for much gossip at the police station and some hard feeling* at the Court during the past two days. Incidentally, it has kept Chief Sullivan and some of his policemen busy explaining the whys and wherefores, all of which explana tions usually ended by blaming The Press. In the first place the three wom an inmates against whom the com plaint had been made rushed to the police station to square them selves with the chief and take the blame off the policeman on the beat. Officer Roff. They talked with some one at the police station and were told that a woman resid ing on the same floor with them at the Weldon Court had reported their conduct by letter. Back to the Weldon Court troope d the three irate women, determined to give a piece of their mind to the woman alleged to have sent the letter. As no letter had been sent, the woman attacked grew quite in dignant over the accusation and she rushed to the police station yester day afternoon. She first sought out Captain Miles, in charge of the night division, and Miles pleaded not guilty. She then sought out Chief Sullivan and he likewise said that he had not reported the receipt of any letter. The woman retold for the information of Miles and Sullivan what she had alredy told Officer Roff and Sergeant Bunker about the carryings on at the Wel don Court. Sullivan professed Innocence of any knowledge of the case until he saw it in The Press. He said further that if any "protection'" was being extended to the women at the Weldon Court it was not by the orders of the men at the top but by other officers down the line. Conditions at the Weldon Court were first reported to Officer Roff, the patrolman on the beat, who says that he turned in the report at the station. That was Monday of last week. Nothing was done. Wednesday another woman, not liv ing at the Weldon Court, reported the case of the 16-year-old girl be ing lead to the rooms of the parties complain»d about. Th*>n Bergeant Bunker went out but, of course, found nothing. The next afternoon the little girl went back again and noihing further happened in the The Cochran Company's Sale of Bankrupt Furniture at 307 Sprague Avenue, Has Surprised the People of Spokane* READ THESE PRICES. See the Goods and Compare With Others Others' Our Factory Price. Price. 9x12 Wilton Velvet a,« r A <t. oyl mm Rug $42.50 $34.75 £SS? Lea 80.00 47.95 USS?. 1 - 60.00 32.95 35.00 21.45 Xlr hLea 90.00 49.75 Fumed Oak Rocker, Lea „ A AA mm . M Cushions 30.00 15.45 S neLca 90.00 32.95 &»r Lea 48.00 29.45 gouoh neLea . 35.00 1 9.45 ? 0 0 u t o°h nLea 17.50 10.45 coth 15.00 8.45 Soth 14.00 6.95 Rocker 4.25 2.65 Arm Rocker, Weathered 10 A i% c nc oak 12.00 6.95 s°et piece Dinner 15.00 9.25 This sale isn't going to last forever. Two carloads have been added for this week, leaving but three carloads now on the track, and then the greatest furniture buying opportunity you ever had will be a thing of the past. We invite you to look these goods over. If you see what you want the price alone will sell it. THE WORLD'S RAPID SELLERS case until the story came out In The Press. From four different people The Press has learned of alleged "high old times" being carried on in the rooms of the lower floor of the Wel don Court. In some of the down town lodg ing houses if the police can't find crime or violation of the law they create it by sending some of their infamous "stool pigeons" to the house to lure some unsuspectlnng man or woman into a compromis ing position in order that their ar rest may follow. No "stool pigeons" were sent to the Weldon Court or efforts made to learn the facts. To a representative of The Press the three young women against whom the complaint was made last night made this statement: "We deny these charges in full and say that they were actuated by spite work. We are three working girls and have no company except such friends as any other girls under like circumstances might have. We have a man rooming with us in our rooms, it is true, but he has been sick, and we have been nursing him. In order to allay this rumpus and protect the landlady we have concluded to get quarters else where." Said Mrs. Olmstead, landlady of the Weldon Court: "It is a shame to get out such scandalous reports about a decent house and hard working girls. The police officers of this town are gentlemen and I know they do show anyone around this place favors. I try to keep my house above complaint and don't know why anyone should talk." TOWNSHIP CHANGED FOR TWO MEN For the accommodation of two citizens living in the re mote corner of Mica township, a half section of land in Mica township was cut off and an nexed to Freeman township. The matter had been duly ad vertised, and there being no ob jection on the part of citizens, the change was ordered. The complainants averred that to walk to the township center of Mica meant a trip of six miles, a part of it over mountains, but that to Freeman it was but two miles, and that there was where all of their business was transacted. This Week the Magnet Will Be Prices THE SPOKANE PRESS SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1910. SNAKE IN THE CABBAGE WISATHERPORD, Term.. July 14. —R. I. Ix>e likes " a b b a g »>. He found a fine spec men of a head of •nbbage in one of ,he stores liere, bought it. took it lonie, and Mrs. Lee cut it up and Then the Lees cooked it. at the cabbage. Then they all got sick. Lee, who works in a drug store, took a dose of Ipecac to induce vomiting. It was then he found that he had swallowed a three-inch segment of a snake's skin. Au investigation showed the snake had been cooked with the cabbage, and the parts not brought tn ight by the ipecac were presum ably digested. !>>e said: "I don't feel like I did before. I can't say I am sick now, but I don't feel rpiite natural. I can't express myself fully, because I never felt this way before, but my system does not seem to be like it was." 1 Don't Keel Natural. ASKS $235 DAMAGES. Damages totaling $'23T> are asked of the city by Edith Borden. The Pines. Spokane, for injuries receiv ed on the afternoon of July 1, while walking near the corner of Third and Washington, and said In the complaint filed with City Clerk Fleming this morning to be caused by a loose board which was tilted by a companion who stepped on the other end of it, the plank strik ing the complainant in the chest. Azalia Pearl Moore, the girl wife of Dr. Warren S. Moore of Okan ogan county, was granted a decree of divorce yesterday by Judge J. Stanley Webster. Cruel treatment was alleged. Arthur H. Verrall h,-|? filed a com plaint for divorce against Frances Verrall. in which he asks that he be given the custody of the three minor children and all of the prop erty. CALLED MRS. HUTTON "MOTHER OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN WASHINGTON" All men made campaigns must take a back seat for the fight for 'Votes for Women" being waged by the Equal Suffrage league of Spo kane. Tuesday Mrs. May Ark Wright Hutton, Mrs. P. P. Stalford and Mrs. Rose Moore addressed the members of the Central Labor council and were given a most cordial and en thusiastic welcome. The Central Labor body has delegated one of its THE COCHRAN COMPANY ALLEGED TO! IN6 THE AMERICANS ON STREET PAVING JOB ARE DIS CHARGED, AND PLACES FILLED BY ITALIANS. Fifteen citizens of Spokane, white men who speak the English lan guage, have been discharged by the Hill Paving Co., having the Browne's addition job, and their places filled by Italians. This was the statement made this morning by one of the men dis charged to the secretary of Mayor Pratt. The man charged a deliber ate effort to violate the ordinances of the city in the matter of paying the wage scale, but the mayor's sec retary said that he could not help him. When contractors want to evade the city wage scale of $3 per day for MUCH PERJURY IN DIVORCE CASES (By United Press Leased Wire) KANBAS CITY, July 14.— Declaring that the divorce courts are the scene of more perjury than all other courts combined, Judge Thomas J. Seehorn of the circuit court, advocates a state divorce bureau. "Such a bureau," said See horn, "should have supervision over every divorce case in the state. A vast majority of cases go by default.. Men or women wanting divorces can now bring three character wit nesses into court, regardless of how disreputable they are, and secure their decrees." 1 members. John Gordon, to act on the executive committee of the suf frage league. One of the women speakers lov ingly applied to Mrs. Hutton the title of the "Mother of Equal Suf frage in Washington." Mrs. Hutton, accepting the honor, arose and thanked the members of organised labor for the support that they bad given in the movement from the be- I ginning. Others' Our Factory Price. Price. 100-piece Dinner *oe AA <ti Caa set $25.00 $15.00 Genuine Lea tc aa oo Davenport 75.00 «J0.45 Chase Lea . - AA ng% Davenport 45.00 ZD. 75 6-ft. Quartered Oak oa aa i n AC Dining Table 30.00 1 7.95 6-ft. Mission Oak qa AA 1 1 Dining Table jO.OO 17.95 Mahogany Library 1 o AA 1 1 aa Table lo.UU 11. UU Early English oi AA iA,ir- Library Table 31.0U 19.45 Circassion Walnut oc aa oi ac Chiffonier OD.UU ZZ.95 ounffiS 49.50 29.95 Circassian Princess - A AA oo cm Dresser OU.UU oZ.OU 54.00 34.75 Oak Finish ie ca one Dresser 10.DU clwD D £k seyeWriting 20.00 13.45 Illinois Automatic 00 CA - A crk Refrigerator ZZ.SU 14.3U Illinois Automatic OA AA Oi CA Refrigerator JU.UU ZI.OU BE EVAD WA6E SCALE laborers they usually hire a lot of foreign workingmen, most of them unable to speak the English lan guage. These men can be bulldozed into taking whatever their bosses or subbosse want to give, and with no protection from the city hall or the police department to enforce the scale, the robbing of the working men goes unchallenged. The Hill company has the Hrowne's addition and the Cannon hill paving contracts, amounting in the aggregate to nearly a million dollars. They are reputed to have a lead pipe cinch at the city hall, against which it is useless for labor ing men or ordinary citizens to protest. QIJJi NEWC IN BRIEF An important meeting of the North Hill Improvement club will be held tonight at the Monroe Park Presbyterian church, Monroe and Amber streets. Mrs. H. S. Smith, 526 McClellan, has gone to Missoula to claim the body of her son Orville. killed there in the N. P. yards a year ago. Farmers from Opportunity and | the wives of some of the truck gar deners have complained to the mayor as to the arbitrary conduct of Marketmaster Heppe. The mayor is said to have warned Heppe that, he must treat the people with more consideration or there will be an other man on the job. Heppe's trouble has been an excess of zeal for the welfare of the city in the collection of market fees and the enforcement of market rules. Heppe is not a diplomat, but simply tells what he wants odne in plain, blunt words. This leads Heppe Into ty rannical ways, It is charged, caus ing complaint to be filed. Judge Webster has finally set aside the $ir.,000 default Judgment obtained by Mrs. Effie 9poar for injuries against the Spokane Turn verein. The default was taken be cause the head of the organization was not familiar with legal pro ceedings. A suffrage meeting will be held tonight at the Dean Avenue Christ ian church. Rev. Bruce Brown and Mrs. M. J. Reynolds will be the speakers. When the city council meets to night the members will have the proposition of selecting a site for the new city hall before them. Many sites have been offered and will come up for consideration. Pleading for the release ef John P. Gamble of Spokane, under sen tence in Walla Walla for his part In several holdups. Flora Bilkiss, the evangelist, yesterday appeared before the state pardon board. Sergeant Frank Bunker got after the .lap gamblers last night and with the help of his trusty gun cap tured six. who were making merry in a fruit store two doors from the poice station, where, it is said, high paying has gone on for several weeks. The council's ordinance fixing a fine of $100 for any street car run ning with a flat wheel will not af fect the local lines, according to of ficials, as a flat wheel is a rarity. Otavio Antinelll and William Boal have been identified as the men who held up G. A. Hannum and L. H. Trussett Monday night, and robbed each man of a small sum of money at revolver-point. Frederick E. Warren, a brake man on the Inand Empire system, was struck by a passenger train and killed yesterday afternoon near Carder's station. Roland Hill, aged 18, whose home Is in Austin, Texas, died from ty phoid pneumonia yesterday after noon, alone and friendless, at the Sacred Heart hospital. The board of fire commissioners yesterday gave Fireman Thomas Roith a hearing on charges of in subordination, and later took the matter under advisement. 240 Mile Outing. $2. On Sunday, Jujy 17, a special rate of $2 will be made for the round trip to Box Canyon, down the mir rored Pend Oreille river. . I. A W. N. special slaves O. R. & N. depot at 8:40 a. ni., returning promptly at 3p. m. Connects with steamer lone at Newport. *♦* Our Factory Price. Others' Our Factory Price. Price. Illinois Automatic Enamel fcoc A A *«n aj> Finish Refrigerator $ZS.OU «p10.93 50-ft. Section . AA 0 Garden Hose * 4.00 Z. 75 50-ft. Section Cotton 0 AA A Garden Hose 0.00 5.45 50-ft. Section 4-ply 10 AA Q OC Sunproof Hose IZ.UU XJ.LO 9x12 Axminster ot ca i a tc Rug Z/.bO 19.75 9x12 Body Brussels ot pa ot >€C Rug o/.5U Z7.45 Brass Bed, Satin 00 CA i o /f C Finish 1.5.45 Brass Bed, Satin oo CA ia if; Finish OZ.OU 19.45 Iron Bed, White t? ca a oC and Gold 0.5U 4.05 Iron Bed, Vernis 1A AA g* mm Martin Finish lU.UO O. / 5 Gold Medal o CA C Mattress O.OU 5./5 40 lb. Cotton o CA G 7C Mattress O.DU 5./5 Cotton Top sa CA o on Mattress o.DV Z.OU S£ 2.00 1.45 meres 1.50 .95 "This is what I call a spineless oartoon, In the paper." "Why, I consider it quite vigorous. Doesn't it depict the oil trust as an octopus?" "Yes; but an octopus is an Invertebrate." F.S. BARRETT'S PRIVATE WATER SYSTEM GIVES POOR SERVICE The private water system main tained by F. S. Barrett in the north east part of the city was the subject of a vigorous kick which a citizen of that locality made to Mayor Pratt yesterday. For some weeks the patrons of that system have been on a short allowance of water and at times did not even have enough water to drink. In other words, they were as bad off as some of the consum ers on the Spokane city system in the matter of the supply, but worse still, they paid $1.60 per month, while the patron of the Spokane city system paid but 80 cents under the minimum flat rate. The limit of endurance was reached yesterday when some brush and outbuildings in the rear of the Fisher and Westburg homes took fire, and there was no water with which to combat the flames. These places are located east of Nevada Boys, Look! LOOK! Meet me at THE PRESS office Saturday forenoon at 10 o'clock sharp Big penny scramble and other good things for these sizzling hot days Street Circulator 116 Division St. street and north of Joseph avenue. The fire apparatus from the Lldgeiv wood station responded to the call of distress, as the district is within the city limits. There y-ss*Jio water* to fight the fire and the>Jsmonoe of the firemen was of no avail. How« ever, by heroic work of the neigh* bora the homes of the two fa ml lies, were saved. F. S. Barrett has been trying td sell his water system to the city of < Spokane. His patrons charge thaf 1 Barrett, like the A. D. Jones system*, In Cannondale, gives the people 1 poor service In order to force a pro. test that may make the city council accede to the wishes of these two concerns to unload on the city. Even after yesterday's experience the people are still opposed to the city taking over these plants, for the reason that they are wooden main systems that have been in uso some years. HUGO 307 SPRAGUE AVENUE