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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1913.
To its own impulse every creature
stirs;
Live by thy light, and Earth will
live by hers!
-Matthew Arnold.
AN ANNIVERSARY.
Yesterday morning's press dis
patches announced that the Gamboa
dike will be blown out next Friday. I
This will remove the last obstruction
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
in the Panama canal and, if the
plans of the engineers are successful.
the waters of the two oceans will
mingle at the isthmus before the end
of this week. Almost, this will be a
celebration of Columbus day, which
comes two days later. It will be
close enough, however, to make it an
event which can be claimed a. a part
of the observance of the anniversary.
There is another anniversary, also,
which might very properly receive
recognition at this time. And it is a
very significant anniversary. It is
strange that its actual date passed
without some formal recognition. Four
hundred years ago, September 25,
1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa descried
the waters of the Pacific ocean from
"the heights of Darien." lie discov
ered the vast sea which stretches
over nearly a quarter of the earth's
surface. But the anniversary of the
event was practically neglected,
though Spain celebrated it in Madrid I
with a demonstration of pomp and
splendor. Also, we are told, wireless
messages flashed back and forth
across the great ocean and ships there I
sailing dipped their colors in memory
of the discovery. But that was all.
Balboa ., as a mian of doubltful char
actOr among a band of adventurers;
he wasn't m uch to brag about on his
o\wn account, Lut his achievenent I
occupies a place in history which is
sufficiently prominent to warrant
more notice than his anniversary date
called forth. So it will not be out of
place to stretch the calendar a bit
and to call the big extlosion at taunm
boa, next Friday, our national salute
in honor of the discovery, if not iof
the discoverer.
The safety-first principles might
well be applied in other lines than
railroading. For instance, there is
the man who hunts for a gas-leak
with a tiatch.
In England the complaint is that
there are not husbands enough to go
around. In this country the wail is
that some husbands go around toro
much.
News from V\era Cruz is that John
Lind is learning to read Spanish. But
it is evident that he hasn't learned to
talk Yet.
The action of the republican leaders
In cutting off the southern conven
tion representation didn't come soon
enough.
Whatever we may charge against
the automobile, we must give it credit
for waking interest in proper high
ways.
We are receiving further evidence
that 1913 weather is hysterical.
the tenslon is great, the expectancy
Is keen. When will prices drop?
Yahe ositer lays 50090,000 eggs a
and -doesn't cacke,.
DODGING THE ISSUE P1
Congressman Gardner is running for governor in Massa- e
chusetts, having obtained the republican nomination at the ti
recent primaries. But his state convention has spurned him.
Gardner obtained the nomination, he says, because he made H
progressive speeches during the campaign that preceded 9
the primaries. He wanted his ideas incorporated.into the
state platform of his party, but the convention would have
nothing to do with his propositionis. The delegates defeated r
every one of his planks. For the Massachusetts republic
ans are just the same as their fellows across the York-state "
line. They make a bluff at being progressive, but they will
not go on record.
The outcome of Saturday's encounter in the Massa- if
chusetts state convention, according to the story in the "
news dispaches, was a declaration from Mr. Gardner that ;
he would have nothing to do with his party's platform, but
would run on a platform of his own, which he said would
be consistent with his speeches in the primary campaign.
This will make him a republican candidate in name only; A
the backing of his party he will not have, for his party's a
representatives have spurned him and all his works. Gard- ]
ner cannot consistently call himself a republican. His s
action and that of his convention place him in a class by *
himself.
The trouble with Gardner is that he wants to win and a
he knows he cannot win with the old republican organiza- t
tion platform as his platform. Yet he lacks the courage to }
come out and denounce the party which seeks to hold its
1 prestige through the old fetich of its one-time clean pur- t
pose. Gardner wants to have the help of the old party f
name, but he wants to adopt the principles of the progres
sive party. And he finds himself in a bad mess.
If Gardner and men like him are sincere in their avowal
of loyalty to progressive principles, there is one thing-one
right thing-for'them to do. Let them en.ter the party ,
whose principles these are. No man can serve two masters.
If these folks are at heart progressive, they cannot remain
in the republican party.
A year ago, a majoriy of the then republican voters of
the country declared for these progressive principles, by
electing to their national convention delegates who stood
for these principles. These delegates were thrown out t
through the assumption of power by the machine which
was in control of the party organization. And this machine
retains its control; it gives to the republican party its char
acter; and by this machine and its personnel is the party
platform shaped.
We have had "feelers" thrown out recently-a good
many of them-calculated to "unite" the progressives and
the republicans. These all came from the republican side.
Their purpose was evident. So was their insincerity. From
the progressive side the answer has been prompt and deci
sive. There is just one way by which the "progressive" re
publicans and the progressive party can unite. The prin
ciples which the progressive party holds to be essential
have been declared. The whole country knows what these
d are. If the "progressive" republicans wish to adopt these
a principles, all they have to do is to cut loose from the party
h of traditions and become members of the party of principle.
e If they are more loyal to the hollow shell of the corrupt
t republican organization, which has belied the fame and
record of a once-great party, than they are to the principles
which they profess to admire-then they are not progres
sive. They cannot be both. They must be one or the other.
MONSTER CONFESSES TO
KILLINGS
B (Continued From Page One.)
killed w\\as a few days ago, two ilocks
west of the, olunty hospital. I beat
her to dealli with iLa ammler. She
I had two rings and $2410. Thi. murder
was dlone \ith the hi:iinimer the pIolice
found wr'tallwd up in ai towel by the
railroad tracks. They thought the t
hammerl haid something to do with the
e Itexroatl nirdeIr."
-'peoiet (I' i liti ted he it as a uset' of
It costs i hli of mone4y to hold t
Ip) yollr iild ill ti .lhe cabarets. I t
spent $7044 in two nights last week. I
average two jiobis w iek tll the time t
t f am out of jail."
aThe police doubt tha lt Splenc.er had
committed 'tln lirge ti In ir f i mll r- I
dilers and holldlups to i hih he lays t
claim, but tare convinced' that he is
gullilty f o ttin y of them. t'hIIe mIliln l'
t jail rreord sxtentls from his hoy.hod. I
WESTE UNION
TEIL AM
THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT
Cory tu.r o~4 fCo
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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lIe accounted for his inmmunity from
trial for murder by saying that he
would get apprehended for some mninor
criime and would take a short sen
fence and while he was in jail the
murder mystery would be shelved and n
forgot len. Several of the murders lihe
declared he had romrnitm'ed are known
to hav\e been accomplished by Spen
er ill accordance with his confession.
The I'annie Thompson murder, the
killing of the two policemen, the Inur
lder of an old man in Jackson park,
killing of a woman near the count y
hospital ani the attempted killing of
a faily oif four un the west side,i
all had b)een rtlahrogued as mrys- t
teries.
Will Investigate. t
Thle entire list o(f crimes confessed a
by Slencer will be investigated Iby t
the police, who will check up how far I
the Iiiman's acciount is correct. Htis I
coldly I'lannled miurtler of the dancing a
teacher and tile, otlher killings of which ia
he boasts were committed while the .
man was on piarole from the state a
penitentlary for highway robbery. lie I
was Iparoled to Major M. A. Messlien I
of the Volunteers of Anlerical, anld ai
short time after he was set at liberty e
he visitedl Captain Hlalpin iand asked a
him to *et 'RliM .Work.' ;Hslpiln Com- i"1.
plied but Spencer held the job but ne'
two weeks. ' sot
The murderer's name-if it ever is tlo
learned, for he says he doesn't know str
it-will be ranked by the police yith the
those of H. '-. Holmes, who con- In
fessed to 12 tpurders and was sus; ne
pected of a total of 27, and Johann an,
Hoch, who admitted four murders and to
generally was considered guilty of a
many more. an
His History.
"Is your name really Spencer?" a,
reporter asked.
"Oh, no; I never knew my parents.
and I never knew my name, except sol
'Harry,' " he replied. R,
"The first I remember was in the bo
reform school at i'eehanville," he ra'
wrent on. "That is my first recol- ne
lection. They may have a record of Sa
my real name. i ran away from thle nil
school and was never found out. th
F'rom that time on I lived with fic
thieves and had women; I never an
knew a good man tor a good woman
in my life.
"I got my first prison term shortly
after running away from the school. "n
A man sold me a suit of clothes for
a nickel-that's how it started. I At
knew the suit had been stolen, but
it did not impress me as anything n
serious: that sort of a thing was a ba
part of my life. The very next day
I walked right into the shop from
which it had been stolen and I was
surprised when they arrested me. The
prosecutor and the judge wanted mt
to plead guilty and take a sentence
of 30 days, but my lawyer said no.
He said fight it out
"What do yopt stuppose I go?? I got
ten years, and if there ever way any
good in me that. killed It. Ten years
for a stuit of clothes!
"I served the full term. I had about
two years good time coming to me,
but I attacked a guard. They strung
tme up by the arms and they starved
me. They put me in solitary, too.
"I think it was the solitary that
really got me. Wheln I ctame out I
wanted blood-anybody's I lood. I.
wanted to kill people and see it run.
I They gave me $10 when they torned
me loose and eight of that I speitt
for a gun. I have been killing peo
pie more or less ever since. I liked
r it in a way; when j robbed anybody
it was a sort of satisfaction to clean
up the job by shutting up the vie
tim's mohth forever."
At Joliet the, murderer was known
as Smith, as Burke and by one other
name, he said. "I took the name
'Spencer' when IT got otit last time
it was another ten-year sentence, but
I got three years off for good be
havior," explained tile prisoner.
Doesn't Look the Part.
Spencer was garbed in a plain,
well-kept.business suit; his linen was
clean and his wavy chestnut hair
1 carefully parted and brushed
A detective, trying to visualize the
mlonstrosity of the story to which lie
- had just listened, described the man
negatively.
"If I saw him. behind a cashier's
i'age in a bank or selling silk over a
counter I would not have thought hin
unfitted for the part. He doesn't look
like a tough."
y Ils whole manner of telling his
story, with its incompleteness, its
lapses and vagueness of details, was
t regarded as symptomatic of his ad
mitted addiction to the opiumrn-smok
ing habit.
S For the most part those who heard
his story of criminal abnormality had
difficulty in reconciling the self
possessed yotung man-he is 32 years
of age-with ' thu moral motstrosity
,he, piiotred himiself to be.
Tweo missing women whom the po
lice believe may have been the ones
lured to Delavan Lake, Wis., and
e killed, are Laura E. Voss of Lake tGe
it neva and Mrs. Margaret Vhlitneck of
Three Rivers, Mich. Both were re
ported as missing.
The Theaters
Henry Miller Tonight.
A story both naive and appealing is
told with freshness and simplici t in
"The Rainbow," 'a pla- that touches
the well springs oi symnpathy and joy
as it is interpreted by Henry Miller
and a company admirably responsive
to the will of its directing genius. A.
E. Thomas, the author, has not ham
pered the native freshness-of his style
and has given Mfr. Miller a sparkling
and beautiful play. HIs dialogue pos
sesses delightful freshness and buoy
ancy and his characters are living,
breathing human beings. Mr. Miller
has provided an elaborate and tasteful
stage setting for each act of the com
edy. The play legns in a luxurious
apartment itl Fifth avenue, shows a
stately country place on Long Island
and ends in an Italian villa on the
Riviera overlooking the blue Mediter
ranean. Many of those in the original
New York cast ~ ill surround Mr. Mil
ler when he appears in this city at the
Missoula theater tonight. The curtain
goes up promptly at. 8:10,
BiJou.
It would he impossible to put more
comedy and fun in a program than
that which opens at the Bijou theater
tonight. It's an all-laugh bill, except
the three Elliotts in their beautiful vo
cal and harpist act. These people are
secured from the Orpheum circuit at
a big figure. They are high-class, tal
ented artists and vocalists and }ntro
duce their two magnificent $1,00l0
harps. The vaudevillians, Kelly and
Mack, have the funniest kind of an
act in Irish absurdity entitled "Mul
cahey's -Mishaps." Then on the Bijou
scope a scream of laughs is pro
nounced in another big two-reel Vita
graph comedy entitled "Our Wives."
This is not all the comedy, for the
Edison company submits its latest
laugh-getter, "Dr. Turner Turns the
Tables." You couldn't miss this for a
farm. The Bijou orchestra promises
more treats for tonight.
Empress.
Seldom has filmdom produced a
drama of such simplicity, of such ex
quisite emotions, as "The Shoemaker
and the Doll," which will be seen at
the Empress today. It has the classic
savas very far removed from the
melodramatic, portraying the life of
the humble with rare sympathy ahd
pathos. A strong modern drama is
"The Hardebta' 'All," tbj George Hen
t nessy. It has an exceptionally ab
sorbing plot dealing with the tentpta
tions of a reformed burglar who is
strangely saved from backsliding by
r the cleverness of his baby daughter.
In "Nelly'5s First Cake" is a splendid
new-idea comedy with many c'ever
r and unique situations. It is to laugh
I to see it. Roy Medcalfe will .render
fa delightful solo on the pipe organ a1
and the Empress concert players will
delight you with new selections.
CONFESSES MURDER. p
h
San Francsco, Oct. 5.-Sedell Khan, h,
sought by the police for the murder of se
Rosa Domingo, 20 years old, whose tI
e body, weighted down with chains and H
e railroad iron, was found in the hay b
near Stege, Contra Costa county, late .,
f Saturday, was arrested at Stege to- V
e night and confessed that he had killed, ti
t. the girl. He says, according to of-t
h ficials, that he struck her on the head ti
r and wrapped her body in chains.
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BANDITS HOLD TSAO YANG.
Hankow, China, Oct. 5.-Four thou
sand government soldiers surround a
r the town of Tsao Yang, where several e
American and Norwegian missionaries TI
are in the hands of about 1,000 C'hi- li
g nose bandits. Thursday night the.l h
a bandits made a sortie ._rom the city F
but were repulsld, lea'ving 200 dead. h
- Skirmishes occur daily. :b
omen who will
perme enh ip pairment
f Mhealth, or pots.obe
de.ath
This experiment to be
...h ...bil ýiious ess "heart"' d s a e ide o a d e
ondooeted with the
coffee do u "caffein e."
Apply for the Job?
Thousands are trying the experiment every day in spite of the fact that physi
cians and government experts have proven:
That the average cup of coffee contains about 2u2 grs. of caffeine;
That caffeine is attributed to be one of the principal causes of
headache bi iousness, heart diseasei, indigestion and kidney, liver
and bowel trouble;
That caffeine in doses as small as that contained in two average
cups of coffee has killed rabbits, guinea pigs and other animals at
To be sure a guinea p ig or a rabbit may weigh but a pound or two, while the
A few cups of coffee or a single cup (according to th2 resistance of the individ
ual) will not kill, but the poison is there and can be added to day by day.
and other symptoms referable to the poison effect on heart, liver, nerves, kidneys
If you know coffee has no bad effect in your particular case and you like it,
why, bless your heart, stick to it, but if coffee drinking leaves its tell-tale mark by
some symptoms of physical discomfort or peace Qf mind, it's a good idea to stop and
ceaThis pure food-beverage, made of prime wheat and the juice of southern sugar
esrich, seal-brown blend turning o golden-brown when cream is added,
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ual) wil not kil, but he poiso is thee and cn be addd to da by day
That's why so many coffee drinkers suffer from headache, dizziness, indigestioni
andothr smptms efeabl tothepoioneffct n hart liernereskidey
MANY ARE. CRACKSHOTIS
DIsCO VREO TIIS YEAR
R. I. :ungay of Ocean Park, C(al.,
lshoo(ting a Remington pumpgun and
Arrom speed shells for a score .of 337
clay targets out of a possible 350, ciap
tured high amateur average at the
Pacific coast handicap tournament,
he'd at Sacramento, , al., on Septem
ber 14-15. At this, the final of the
season's five great interstate sholots.
the preliminary handicap was won by
H. F. Wihilon of Gresham, Ore., who
broke 99 out of 100 with a Reming
ton pumrpgun at 19 yards rise. Mr.
W'ihlon then came within an ace ot
tieing the world's record for that dis
tance and later clinched his reputa
tion for stellar shooting, when, with
the same arm, hle made the meet's
Ihng run, scoring 156 targets straight.
Abner Blair of Portland, Ore., aln D.
I'. Davidson of Mod,'sto. ('al., tied for
' secnid pla,c in the preliminary handi
csp with 97 out of 100, both shooiting
Remillngtoln llpumpgungs landl Arrow stOel
litned speed shells. The professional
long run of 11 straight was mnLte by
R. ('. Re,1d. who also tied I',r second
high professional average, :.:14 clay
,birds out of 35011, with H. E. Pstoin,
'both wuing the same perfect shooting
combination with which. the high
amateur gun i&de his Win. Th..'iig.
score of the Pacific coait handicap
Nonas landed by Guy Holohan, when
with similar shooting equipment; he
broke 96 out of 100. Second place in
this event was taken by W. P. ,Sea's
of Los Brtnos, C'al., using Remington
IT0f' speed shellp for a score of 94
nout !' 100.
TO REPAIR AMERICAN.
William C'ultte., manager of the Mon
tana Amusewlllt company, is expect
ed to arrive this morning from Butte.
It is understood that he will make ar=
rangements for the remodeling of the
Amlerihan theater which was ,dmp.ged
by fire several weeks ago.
TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS.
Tokio, Oct. t.-'The newspaper, Jilj
SSlmhimto, says that negotiatitfns shortly
are to b. reopened with the United
States in the mantter of the California
alien land net.
WOMEN SOCIALISTS.
* The woman's sce anlist committee
will meet w\\ilh Mrs. Fred Freenllan on
(). tother 11 instead of on Octtober 7.
The change in date was anlnounced
yesterday.
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