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; VOLUME XXIV
ID RIVALS TO CLASH
ATMOSCOW TODAY
W. S. C. and University of Idaho Foot
ball Teams Are Ready for Their
Annual Gridiron Contest
COACH OSTHOFF.
The game Friday is a tOMUp.
We know nothing about Idaho's
strength and have hardly found
our own. At such an early sea
son stage of the game, and Idaho
fight to go against, I can only say
that we will give them all we
have. Yes, we hope to come off
' victorious. I do not look for a
tie score, one team is going to be
defeated, but not badly. The
team is working hard and will
fight for its college every mo
ment of the game.
Everything is in readiness for the
big annual gridiron contest between
the husky warriors of the W. S. C.
and the fast and foxy pigskin experts
of the U. of 1., which takes place at
Moscow, Idaho, this afternoon.
Unusual interest attaches to this al
ways exciting contest. In the 13
previous games between the repre
sentatives of these two institutions
each has won six and the 1908 con
test was a draw. Both teams are
eager to gain a lead in the race and
will battle for all they are worth
; to add another victory to their list.
t While neither team has appeared
in public sufficiently to get a line
on their comparative strength, both
are brim full of confidence. Too
much confidence on the part of W.
S. C. has caused the loss of several
games in the past, and Coach Osthoff
has this year been devoting much
energy in impressing upon his pupils
tho necessity of putting in their best
licks from the very start. It is be
lieved that he has aroused the fight
ing spirit of the squad and that they
will be on their toes from the mo
ment the referee's whistle is blown.
W. S. C. has a powerful and ex
perienced line and a fairly good hack
field, which has been materially j
strengthened by the switching of
Captain Fishback to the position of j
full. While the team has appeared !
in but one practice game, a feeling
of quiet confidence pervades the stu
dent body, which has been communi
cated to the Pullman fans, and an
immense crowd will set out for the
Idaho city this noon. Roth the X. P.
and 0.-W. R. & N. lines will run
special trains to accommodate the
enthusiastis. The N. P. train will
comprise 16 coaches and the 0.-W.
R. & N. probably seven coaches.
They will be needed, for Pullman is
in the throes of a severe attack of
•the most virulent form of gridironitis
and the city will resemble Gold
-1 smith's "Deserted Village" this
:, afternoon. "On to Moscow" is the
watchword, and "We must beat
I Idaho" the answer. The enthusiasm
| was wrought to fever heat last eve-
I ning by one of the biggest football
I rallies since the college on the hill
I was established.
The Officials.
H The game will be as well ap
pointed, officially speaking, as any
I game ever played. George Varnell,
i of Chicago, Northwest sporting au
thority, and perhaps the best referee
■ever seen in the entire West, will
|[ he the big boss In the coming con
test, Bently, of Olivette and Michi
gan, will umpire, and Chiesman,
> Physical director of Lewiston Nor
mal, formerly of-Lake Forest, will
hold th.. stop watch.
PUB-GAME FORECAST.
(By Roy W. Merritt.)
,".. Pre-game football talk, on the eve
°* the annual contest between Idaho
ai»d the state college is rife concern
ing the chances of the two teams.
Coach Osthoff, although not too sure,
„i s confident that with any break of
lock at all his team will come off
tae. field at Moscow victorious.
With three cripples, it is no wonder
jtnat Osthoff is rather dubious about
Impressing his opinion about tomor
row's battle. Fishback. jj with the
_;weakest kind of an ankle, may not
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be played at full even for a starter,
acocrding to the statement made by
the coach last night. "Fishback is
in mighty poor condition," said
Osty, "and unless he feels better
Friday, it. will be impossible to play
him bark of the line. Fishback
plays so hard and tears into the fight
so fast, that in his injured condition,
with a poor ankle, it will not be ad
visable to play him back to the line
unless he improves. lie will play
himself out in a short time if given
the opportunity."
Eddie Kienholz, half back, has had
a poor shoulder ever since the Gon
zaga game, and the coach is wor
ried about Eddie's ability to see the
hard game through. Worse off than
Eddie, however, is "Shorty" Harter,
the long center. Harter has not be.en
in a suit for three nights, his sore
shoulder preventing him from taking
the nightly workout.
Other than these three men, the
team is in good shape. Osthoff said
last night that he had made no en
deavor to put the men in iop-notch
shape, as he wished to guard'very
carefully against over-training the
men and getting them into mid
season shape at the very outset.
The coach believes that with so many
games coming up, the boys will do
better to take it easy and work up
to real form gradually than to give
them overtime at the start.
Idaho has little to fear from the
State College in the interpretation of
Idaho's plays. Idaho as yet has not
made public her best bets. On the
other hand, the state college, in the
Gonzaga game, opened up a whole
lot. and Pink Griffiths had two men
over here to watch and watch closely
every turn of the football compass.
This has given Idaho two whole
weeks in which to perfect a defense
for XV. S. C.'s formations. That is
where one big rub in the coming
contest is making itself felt.
Again, Idaho has had two practice
games, and the state college has had
but one. Early season practice
games count heavily on a team's
chances in- its first conference con
test. There's another rub.
It is true that we have a heavier
line than has Idaho, but with every
likelihood that Tom Fishback will
not be behind the line, we have a
weaker back field than Idaho. Idaho
has us excelled on a kicker, this big
fellow Kinneson. who is pulled back
from center to do the booting, being
good for 4 0 or 45 yards at most any
stage of the game. Lovers of the
game will undoubtedly see more foxy
plays used by Idaho than they have!
ever before used in any one game..
That is their salvation with a fast!
back field, headed by Hilman, the J
big fullback. ]
If Idaho's usual luck in the early
part of the game is forestalled, the
State College has more than an even
chance of winning. This Idaho luck
is what we must guard against if
we expect to win the game. Idaho
has always grabbed a fumble, got
away with a fluke or sprung some
thing entirely unlooked for when
they have won the games that they
were not doped to win. Thornton
last year, in accidentally picking up
that fumble on a beautiful bounce,
when he had full speed ahead, with |
I no one in his path, netted Idaho the 1
1 winning score. This is a good ex
ample of the Idaho luck. We simply
have to watch this early burst of
speed on Idaho's part if the game
is to come home to Pullman.
With an elegant day in sight, the
largest crowd that ever witnessed a
football game in the Palouse country
is expected to turn out to see this
big hard-fought contest. The trains
leave about 12:30 and return after
the game. Game called at 2:30
sharp.
Harry Styles this week purchased
a three and one-half acre tract In
McGee's addition, abutting on the
college farm. The deal was made
through the Pullman Land Co.
PULLMAN. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. 191!
The laws under which the banks of Pullman me operated re
quire that the hooks of the bank he written up and correctly bal
anced at the close of each day's business, so as to show the exact
condition of the bank at the end of each day's work.
It is necessary for the bank's office force to start this work at
3 o'clock p. m. in order to get It finished before bed-time.
Heretofore it has been the custom of the banks of Pullman to
balance the day's business at :t o'clock p. m. and afterwards admit
customers to the lobby of the bank, transact business, ami carry these
transactions over into next day's business. It has been ruled by
the Hank Examiners that this is not in accord with the above men
tioned provision of law.* -
Therefore it is hereby agreed by and between the banks of
Pullman that on and after .November Ist, 1011, we will confine our
business transactions strictly to the office hours provided In our by
laws, and will admit no one to the bank before the hour of II o'clock
a. m. nor after the hour of 3 o'clock p. m.
FIRST NATIONAL HANK,
By J. ,F. House. Cashier.
PULLMAN STATU HANK,
Harold Davis, Assistant Cashier.
FARMERS STATE HANK,
W. K. Hansen, Cashier.
IMPROVEMENTS
BEING MADE
Street Commissioner Hooper Reports
Much Progress in Putting Pull
man's Sidewalks in Good
Condition.
Xt the present rate id' progress
Pullman will soon be in a position
to boast of the best sidewalks of any
city her size in the Northwest. *The
sidewalk question has for a long
time been a hard one for the city
council to solve, and while improve
ments along the line of sewer con
struction, road building, etc., have
been under way the sidewalks have
of necessity been allowed to become
badly dilapidated.
With the city well supplied with
sewer lines and with the streets in
good condition, the city dads have
now turned their attention to the
sidewalks. and have instructed
Street Commissioner Hooper to see
thai, every foot of sidewalk within
the. city limits is put in good con
dition. The commissioner has taken
hold of the work in a way that
shows that he means business, and
as a result new and* substantial side
walks are rapidly replacing the an
tiquated relics that have passed lot
walks for the past few years. That
the property owners are willing and
ready to co-operate with the council
in the matter is shown by the readi
ness with which they make the Im
provements after they have been
notified by the commissioner, and
the fact that many of the walks are
being replaced with cement walks
proves that the property owners take
much more pride in upholding Pull
man's reputation as a city of
progress and enterprise.
While every part of the city is
the scene of much sidewalk- con
struction, College hill is receiving
more attention along that line than
the other parts of the city. The
walk along Maiden Lane, which for
the past year has been almost Im
passible, is being replaced by a good,
substantial walk as fast as the two
crews of carpenters under Commis
sioner Hooper can do the work. A
new grade has been established
along Maiden Lane and the Improve
ment is one that will be hailed with
joy by the residents of the city. A.
D. Wexler. Mrs. Batts and A. D.
Baum have replaced the walks
abutting on their property with good
board walks, and H. M. Hook, of the
Model Bakery, is laying a fine ce
ment walk in front of his property
on Maiden Lane. Dr. Archer is lav
ing 200 feet of cement walk In front
of his property and W. A. Moss is
constructing 300 feet of the same
kind of walk in front of the Shearer
property, recently purchased by Mr.
Moss. The walk along the west side
of the W. S. Thornber property Is
being replaced, as Is that abutting
on the property of the Shearer
estate. Thos. Ellis. Mrs. Stevens
and Mrs. Hunt are also making
much needed sidewalk Improvements
on College Hill.
Many new walks have been laid
on Sunnyslde hill and hundreds of
; feet of old walk put in good con-
(Continued on last page)
NOTICE
AFFIRM CONVICTION
OF BANKER BOONE
Prominent Palouse Man Paces a
Sentence of From One to
Ten Years.
11. M. Boone, ex-banker and
politican of Palouse, stands face to
face with a sentence of from one to
ten years imprisonment in the statt
penitentiary. The state supreme
court last Friday handed down a de
cision confirming the conviction of
Mr. Boone on a (barge of larceny by
embezzlement while acting as presi
dent" of the State Bank of Palouse.
The case was tried before Judge Can
field and traded much attention
because of the prominence of the de
fendant, who is a pioneer resident of
this county, had served one term in
the state senate, was a candidate for
the republican nomination for con
gress from this district, in 1908 and
served a few months as state hank
examiner prior to the closing of the
Palouse bank. The case was hard
fought and the evidence brought out
during the trial aroused consider
able sympathy for the defendant, i
as it showed that while he had I
juggled the assets and accounts of
the institution, it was done to keep
the bank going and not for his own
private benefit, and that he had put
his own property in escrow to pro
tect the interests of his depositors,
He is under sentence of from one
to ten years in the state penitentiary,
and pending the decision on his ap
peal to the supreme court has been
living with his son on an irrigated
tract of land on the Columbia river,
near Hanford. A petition for a re
hearing will probably be made, but
there Is little chance that it wilj be
granted, as the case was ably briefed
and argued before the supreme court
Seriously Injured.
A. E. Smith; chief lineman of the
Pullman bfflce of the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph Co., was very
seriously injured Monday afternoon
by falling 23 feet from the top of a
telephone pole in College Park addi
tion. The accident was caused by
his failure to. properly adjust his
safety belt. He had a pair of plyers
stuck in his pocket, close to the ring
of the belt and thinks that he must,
have slipped the snap over the ply
ers instead of through the ring. At j
any rate, when he leaned hack be !
tell from the pole and struck the
ground on his back. He was taken
to Dr. Campbells hospital, where itl
was found that his spine was frac
tured, and the lower part of his body
paralyzed. An operation was per- j
formed Tuesday, which relieved the
pressure on the spinal cord, and yes
terday his condition was much Im
proved and there is hope of bis re-1
co very..
488 Have Registered.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
458 voters had registered, about half
of theme women. .The registration
for the special election on the adop
tion of the commission form of gov
ernment to be held October 31 will
close at 12 o'clock tonight. Don't
forget to register today.
TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE
HEAR GYPSY SMITH
Famous Evangelist Addresses Largest
Crowd that Ever Gathered in
College Auditorium
The largest audience that ever
gathered in the college auditorium
listened to Gypsy Smith, the famous
evangelist, last Saturday afternoon.
The auditorium has a seating capac
ity of about twelve hundred, and
tho over How crowd was accommo
dated on the stage, in chairs placed
in the aisles, and even tho stairway
leading to the balcony was packed,
it being estimated that fully 8000
people listened to the renowned Eng
lish evangelist. Largo delegations
came from Colfax, Moscow and other
nearby towns.
The evangelist, accompanied by
Messrs. Bloom, Cross and Preston
and Mrs. Dr. McFadden, arrived at
11:50 on the N. P. train and were
met at the station by a large dele
gation. The party took lunch at the
Palace hotel, after which they were
driven to the college auditorium in
automobiles, By 1 o'clock the audi
torium was packed. although the
services did not begin until 1:30.
Dr. Hayes, pastor of the Presby
terian church, Introduced the speak
er to the audience in a few well
chosen words. On the platform, be
sides Mr. Smith, were the members
of his immediate party, who accom
panied him here, all of the ministers
of the various Pullman churches,
and the Rev. Dr. Clarence O. Kim
ball, of Walla Walla, anil formerly
of the Vincent M. E. Church of Spo
kane.
For his text Gypsy Smith chose
the kindly message which he re
ceived in an anonimous letter, evi
dently from a mother in Spokane,
who asked him, while in Pullman,
to pray for her sons and daughters,
who were attending college here.
Without bluster or excitement, he
besought the assembled people to
live clean lives.
"The best Christian on earth may
at any time loose Christ." declared
the evangelist. "Oh, people, I be
seech you to have a care. Watch the
trail that you ate following. The
way of Christ is narrow, and it is
so easy to stray from the way.
"When you lend your ear to listen
to a filthy yarn you are in danger of
losing Christ; when you degrade
yourself to tell a dirty story you
have lost Christ. Watch your mouth
and your ears. If you are a preach
er, or if you are one of the stays of
your church, your fickle heart may
lose you Christ, by one little act of
this kind."
Long before Mr. Smith had con
cluded his ardent appeal for the
souls of the people, to take up the
blessings of the simple life as taught
by the Savior, handkerchiefs were in
evidence everywhere. At no time did
he raise his voice to an excited pitch,
but the absolute simplicity of his
truths were by far the strongest ap
peal he could have made,
In appearances Gypsy Smith is
very common and is just as he told
the audience, only a plain man, who
loved humanity. As lie arose from
his seat and spoke the few words of
his text many were disappointed,
having expected to hear a sermon of
blood and thunder and Hell, but
after he had spoken a few minutes
in that wonderfully low, musical
voice of his, there was no person
present who could say that, they
were disappointed. The greatness
of the man grew with each word that
lie uttered, and no one was sorry
that they had listened to his story.
The singing was led by Choirmas
ter Xaftger, but as the audience did
not take part In the singing to the
extent that the evangelist desired, he
Stepped to the front of the stage
and asked the audience If he should
sing a verse of the hymn himself.
The audience replied with heary
hand clapping and the evangelist
said: "I'll sing a verse if you'll
sing the chorus, but mind, if you
don't sing the chorus I'll sing the
verse." Then, to make sure that the .
audience did its part, he had tie >
chorus sung first, and %tts so well
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pleased with the response that he
sang two verses.
The next hymn was "Only a Sin
ner Saved by Grace," and Gypsy sang
two verses, as well as a verse or two
of the next hymn, "'I Love to Tell
the Story." and In the last effort he
got 'the audience to join . until the
house rang with the melody.
Gypsy then spoke on the necessity
of singing and said: "When you go
to church and do not. Join ln the
singing your pastor wonders what Is
wrong with you. He suffers in
silence. I suffer out loud."
Turning to the pastors .on the
stage he asked: "Can you do any
thing for a man or an audience that
won't sing?" All of the pastors ans
wered in the negative. Gypsy turned
again to the audience and said:
"Even God can not do anything for
you if vim won't sing, if you sit
through the service like a log and
won't take any part. When you
open your mouths you open your
hearts so that Cod can enter."
At the conclusion of the sermon
in waiting automobiles to the North
in waiting automobiles to the North
ern Pacific depot, where they took
the 3:30 o'clock train back to Spo
kane.
Chamber of Commerce.
The most important business
transacted by the meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday eve
ning was the unanimous decision to
show the good will of Pullman
toward the county fair and the wil
lingness of the business men to bury
the hatchet in the long-standing
quarrel with Colfax by getting up an
excursion of Pullman citizens to at
tend the fair on Thursday. A num
ber of short talks were made in fa
■
vor Of the plan, and then T. XV.
Amos, Wm. Goodyear and J. S.
Klemgard were appointed as a com
mittee to induce as many as possible
to join the excursion.
A letter was read from the
Campbell Soil Culture Co.. stating
that Mr. Campbell, the noted dry
land farming specialist, and some of
-
bis associates were to make a lecture
tour of this state, and asking if a
date could be arranged for Pullman.
The secretary was Instructed to write
for further information regarding
dates and terms.
The horticultural committee re
ported that preparations were being
made for a Pullman exhibit at the
National Apple show at Spokane..
Attorney Adams of Spokane made
a short address explaining the plans
of the Interstate Amusement Co. re
garding the building of a theater In
Pullman.
Prof, Taylor, acting' head of the
department of economic science at
the college, was Introduced and
made a very interesting address, in
which he explained his desire to co
operate in every way possible with
the business men and farmers In
solving the practical problems which
confront the people of this section.
Mr. Mineah, of Prosser. an old
friend of President Slagle, was intro
duced and spoke briefly in eulogy of
the resources and people of this
state, urging the importance of being
progressive in politics as well as in
business and farming.
The committee on entertainment
announced that an oyster supper
would be served at the meeting next
Tuesday evening.
H. M. Beck, proprietor of the
Model Bakery, transacted business
in Spokane this week. Mr. Beck
returned by way of Colfax and took
in the county fair.
Chas. Stewart arrived Wednesday
evening from Enterprise, y Oregon,
and will spend several days In Pull
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Freai Oysters—We receive them
every week, direct from the east.
Sanders Grocery. Phone 39.