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THe Spohane Press
*~ Published Every Evening Except Sunday. 1
" By the Spokane Newspaper Co.
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One cent per copy, six cents per week, twenty-five cents per month
or $3 per year, delivered by carrier ; $2 a year by mail. No free copies.
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ts on the sddress label of each paper. When that date arrives, if your
subscription has not again been paid in advance, your name is taken
from the list. A change of date on the address label Is a receipt.
City subscribers who fall to receive their copy of The Press before
8:30 o'clock p. m will confer a favor by reporting such to Main 2"5.
•16 Front Avenue.
Telephone Main 875.
PoFtofflce Box «.
ALDERMANIC OMNIPOTENCE.
Tn recommending the subway franchise for passage
witli practically no alteration from the form desired by!
Mr. Graves and his associates the city council possibly;
takes the ground that it were a better stroke of business)
to let Mr. Qraves have his way and insure the work being I
done than to insist on restrictions the public has a right
to impose and thereby risk blocking the big project. Pos
sibly that is the way the council considered the matter.
Argument to induce such conclusion might have been
so convincingly presented that no other course seemed
reasonable or just. The operation of the councilmanic
mind is a mechanical process that frequently leaves ordi
nary comprehension dazzled and dizzy, far behind.
Prom all outward appearance this encounter with the
council has been about the easiest obstacle Air. Graves Ims
met in bis successful career as an important industrial
fHetor of the Inland Empire. The council simply handed
bim what he wanted for all time, to have and to hold, sell
or give away.
Until the creation of city councils the future bad been
generally considered the province of the Almighty. Ordi
nary mortals were content to leave the disposal of eternity
to Providence.
A new dispensation has been inaugurated, however,
with the age of organization. A century monopoly of
public utility privilege litis become insufficient and in
finitismal in calculations of the modern corporation. It
demands a valid claim on a community for as long as time
shall last. And city councils calmly parcel out futurity
in accordance with this demand.
The process recalls a remark of Puck not compli
mentary to the good sense of mankind.
Being equal to this the councilmanic mind never hesi
tates a second at clinching their everlasting bargain, with
a provision creating an eternal monopoly. The wisdom
of making the franchise serve the city as an open high-
Way giant, considering its hold on all future generations,
appeals as forcibly as a siiowrlake smiting a granite
boulder. The line of reasoning actually followed brought
forth the conclusion that if the city is to be sewed up it
must be sewed up tight and the council accordingly orders
the sewing in a manner calculated to hold long after gen
erations of councilmen \s descendants have returned to
earth.
There is no apprehension felt that Mr. Chaves will use
lis franchise right in a manner detrimental to the city's in
terest. But the grantee makes no guarantee of the future
in return for the boundless public privilege he seeks, lie
will do what he pleases with it. If he sells it to interests
that design to dictate the exact degree of transportation
facilities this city shall command, that is his own affair.
And the whole country is getting a startling demonstra
tion at this very time of what it means to be held down to
a railroad manipulator's idea of proper development.
Hill and Harrimnn, preferring to employ the earnings
of their lines in Wall st. speculative warfare rather than
in railroad expansion, unite in the declaration that the
country is developing too fast. It must wait until they
give permission for further growth or pile up its products
to rot and shiver through winter for fuel. They have ex
elusive franchises. What are you going to do about it?
But the Spokane council is manifestly superior to all
consideration of this sort. It is possessed of sublime
knowledge that future conditions will never vary from the
present state, consequently they exert themselves to stive
future government every possible worry by arranging im
portant city affairs uncounted centuries in advance,
SNOWBOUND PEOPLE
GET HOME
Frank Wlnans, Harry Hollenberg
ami trank Btookey, of Wilbur,
Wash., and nearly 100 others of
♦hat part of the country who have
keen compelled to remain here for
nearly a week past on account ol
the dormant condition of railroad
traffic, were enabled to return to
their respective homes last night
over the Northern Pacific by the
first train in that direction since
Thursday. Winans, Btookey and
COMING TO THE READERS OFj
THIS NEWSPAPER -|
A TRUE DETECTIVE.
ILLUSTRIOUS L^L^L^L^L^
SIR A.CONAN DOYLE
Th&Case-of Mr-George Edal ji*
Hoilenberg started home Friday,
hut were snowbound in Davenport,
and although their business needed
attention, they were compelled to
return t l( Spokane. The blockade
has worked a hardship with many
of the others, as but few of them
were financially prepared for a
week in Spokane with nothing to do
but spend time and money.
"You seem to have won consider
able favor," remarked the old cab
horse.
"Yes," replied the touring car. "I
feel that I can honestly say I have
made a hit."
Entered at Spokans
Wash., as Second
.I*4 Matter
W. B. GATES HAS WON 102 RACES
BY FRED J. HEWITT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.—Just
how many races the aged bay geld
ing W. B. Gates will win before he
is retired is a question hard to an
swer, for Captain R. R. Rice and his
son, R. R. Jr., keep sending the old
boy to the post with great regular
ity at Emeryville this winter.
Recently, In a mile race, W. B.
Gates lead Clendestine and cioche
dOr to the wire and won at the
lucrative odds of 20 to 1.
"Thai makes exactly 102 races
that W. B. Gates has won in his re
markable career on the turf," de
clare,! Captain Rice. He must be
made of iron. He has dickey legs
and favors strong going. What is
more, he likes to run, and for that
reason I anil my son keep sending
bim to the post aud in acting train
ing."
No horse that I know of has won
as many races as W. B. Gates, Lo
gan, the Iron Horse, was retired by
Alex. Shields when he had won an
The Daily Short Story
THE LAPSE OF MR. GEORGE
MARTIN
George Martin was the paragon
of all the virtues. Above all things
he was correct. His tie was always
knotted just SO: his gloves were
Impeccable, hit hat without a spot
of dust, his shoes perfect, and his
life —his life was in keeping.
Daisy Mannering was in all this his
antithesis. Daisy was a tomboy and
was glad of it. Daisy was uncon
ventional, both as to dress and
Speech, while in respect of conduct
— one could only sigh helplessly.
And the trouble was, George had
fallen desperately in love with
Daisy and Daisy had promptly re
jected George.
"I had just as lief marry the
preacher," she said. "Not that you
are not a dear, you know; but I
would certainly run you cra/.y in It)
days. If you could only be undigni
fied or unusual, just onet —but you
never will."
The next day he met her unex
pectedly on the country road. She
was dragging along an exceedingly
hideous dog of the bull variety. She
looked vi) and smued.
"Isn't be a darling?" she demand
ed. "I stole bim."
"You —what?" he gasped.
"Stole him. From a gypsy. The
man was beating him horribly.
When he went to the spring I stole
the dog. Hut I can't take bim
home," she added, thoughtfully. "I
have six now, you know. Oh, won't
you take care of him?
"I?" he ejaculated.
"Please." she uegged. For me?"
And it was for this reason that
an hour later George Martin found
himself being haled before an
irascible and newly arrived justice
on the charge of having feloniously
stolen Hex Kandotn, champion bull
dog of the west. lv vain did bo
plead, did he explain as best he
could. Whatever else, he would not
mention Daisy, and this omission
led to inaccuracies in his story
which finally so incensed the magis
trate that Mr. Martin found him
self spending the night in jail, while
the newspapers made hugely merry
with the real and imaginary details.
In the morning he was haled
again into court.
"Now, then, sir." observed the
still crusty justice, "if you didn't
steal the dog, who did?"
"I did!" came a clear young voice
and Daisy tripped forward through
the crowded court room; "from a
gypsy. I suppose the gypsy stole
him from his owner. But he was
beating bim and when he turned
his back I stole bim, and then I
asked him to care of him and he
did; and that was the way he
came to be arrested, and
"Discharged," said the justice. i
hope," he added, "that both you and
Mr. Martin will forgive a very
natural error. I saould dislike to
feel that we had made such an
error that we "
But Daisy was smiling.
"I rather imagine it has turned
SPOKANE PRESS, FEBRUARY 6, 1907
even 100 on association racetracks.
But all of Gates' victories have
not been on association tracks. He
has shown at county fairs and
"bush" meetings, and so, in conse
quence, all of his 102 victories can
not be found in the racing guides.
Gates was bred by the mother of
Garnet Ferguson, the owner of the
mighty Bearcatcber, at her stock
farm in Kentucky. He was named
after W. B. Gates, ap rominent poli
tician of Memphis, Term. Geo. C.
Bennett purchased him as a year
ling for $1,500 and raced him as a
2-year-old. Then it was that Cap
tain Rice, the famous old horseman
from Vainer, Ark., a little town
about 60 miles from Little Rock,
acquired him.
That was six years ago, and the
Rices have been campaigning him
ever since.
How many races will W. B. Gates
win before he is put on the shelf ?
That is a mighty hard question
to answer.
out very well, your honor," she
laughed, "for since Mr. Martin has
condescended to spend a night in
jail, I discovere that he is not
nearly so conventional as 1 thought
he was. That was the only objec
tion, she added, merrily.
AMONG OURSELVES
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE.
Lots uv us never
know whut we c'n do
till some other feller
does it
"How did Clouders come out in
the airship test the other day?"
"Humph—he failed to rise to the
occasion."
Andrew Carnegie has given a
$40,000 swimming pool to Yale.
This isn't Mr. Carnegie's first gift
of something full of water.
The Thaw jurors have to under
go at least one thing that is a hard
ship to a New Yorker. They are
not allowed to read what the news
papers say about the trial.
"I wonder why Hardupp has
moved to New York."
"He has a rich uncle down there,
and 1 suppose he wishes to keep in
close touch with the old man."
Spokane Press, 25 cent a month.
This Is the
Up Side Down
SPOKANE FALLS GAS LIGHT CO.
TELEGRAPH TIPS
Rush orders havo been received
at Mare Island navy yard to com
plete repairs to the submarines
Hike and Grampus and the gun
boat Yorktown.
Judge Sewell. at San Francisco,
ruled for the defendant in the case
of the Utah-Nevada Mining Co.
against Captain Joseph DeLamare,
a Nevada mining man, for posses
sion of 51 per cent of the Monitoi
and Jim Crow mines in Nevada.
The suit involved over $5,000,000.
The steamer Parker blew up yes
terday on the Tennessee river, kill
ing three and injuring several.
A freight engine on the Chese
peake & Ohio road exploded yes
terday, killing three trainmen.
Seventeen days of zero weather
is the hard luck of Minnesota and
Dakota. It was 22 below yesterday.
Fuel is scarce all through the frigid
belt.
Official count in the German elec
tion shows that the socialists have
lost half iheir strength in the reicS
stag.
Senator Joe Hailey yesterday
called a witness a liar in the Texas
investigation of the senator's Stan
dard Oil record. The witness made
a rush for Railey but a deputy
sheriff stopped the fight.
A snow slide at Kirwin, VYyo..
killed Charles Brunnel! and wife.
Jack Reynolds is missing.
Tho Great Northern has prepared
to begin construction of a road
from Wenatchee and -rovitie.
SALOON ROBBED.
The Division saloon at the cor
ner of Division st, and Sprague ay.
was robbed last night of $40, which
the proprietor had hidden when the
place closed for the night. The
theft is believed to have been com
mitted by someone familiar with
the business of the saloon.
No Reason
Why
YOU SHOULD NOT DO
BUSINESS AT
Jeannot Bros/
DEPARTMENT STORE,
0722 and 0724 Monroe Street.
Where it is an admitted fact that
they sell the best goods in Spo
kane and charge much less for
them.
Thursday and Friday
Bargains
$1.50 Bowl and Pitcher at $1.00
Water Sets, $2.00 values $1.25
50c and 75c Salad Bowls at....25c
Lamps, with globes, at $1.00
$1.00 pkg. Cotton Bats at 75c
Good Toilet Paper. 6 rolls 25c
Good Toilet Paper, 5 rolls 25c
Good Toilet Paper, 4 rolls 25c
Good Toilet Paper, 3 rolls 25c
Shoes to $3.00 at $2.25
14 qt. galvanized Pail 30c
12 qt. galvanized Pail 25c
10 qt. galvanized Pall 20c
No. 1 galvanized Pail 70c
No. 2 galvanized Pail 80c
No. 3 galvanized Pail 90c
Grocery Dept.
Fancy $2.25 Apples at $1.75
5 lb. pail No. 2 Lard at 60c
10 lb. sack Granulated Sugar..soc
Any 75c Teas in pkg. at 40c
Fancy can Corn at 10c
Good 50c Spider Leg Tea, lb 29c
Good 60c Spider Leg Tea, lb 35c
Good 50c Gun Powder Tea, 1b..29c
Good 60c Gun Powder Tea, 1b..35c
Good 50c Japan Tea, lb 29c
Good 60c Sun Cured Japan Tea..asc
Fancy Coffee at..2oc, 25c, 30c, 35c
Carnation Cream at 10c
Pacific Cream at 10c
—AT—
Jeannot Bros. 9
DEPARTMENT STORE
PHONE MAIN 2087
LIGHT
See them burning
in our window
Broken Lines Sale Continued Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Merchandise Dis
count Stamps Free
With Each Cash
Purchase
Broken Lines and Season's
Clearing' Sale in Shoes
For Men, Women and Children
LOT 4—500 pairs of our celebrated Regent' $3.00 shoes for ladies, in Aye styles, In kid or patent
leather; will he sold during this sale at $2.38
LOT 6—300 pairs boys' and
youths' shoes, made of solid calf
skin, all solid soles; a great
shoe for boys for school wear.
We'll sell as a leader at actual
cost. Note the prices:
8M) to 13 $1.05
1 and 2 $1.18
2Mj to $1.28
LOT 6 —500 pairs men's viel
kid shoes, in lace, bhieher or
congress, in several different
styles. Our former low price.
LOT 8 —2(10 pairs of our colebratett .vizard & Mosul shoos for men. made of velour, vioi or box
calf, in all the new styles, Our regular price is $4.n0. Price $3.25
Men's $1.26 tan slippers on sale 98
Ladies' $1.25 black felt slippers on sale 98c
Men's dull rubbers, regular 75c. on sale 50c
Men's adjustable footpads, regular 75c 40c
We have the prettiest and best line of children's shoes In Spokane. The styles are the very latest
and our prices are always the very lowest. All colors and styles. Call and see them. We will he
pleased to show them to you.
Greatest Bargains of All in Spokane's Big Store
Domestic Department
11-4 cotton blankets, in gray and tan, fancy borders, regular $1.95; broken line sale, pair 98c
10-4 cotton blankets, pink and white, regular l!5c; broken line sale 49c
400 pieces of Arnold's flannelettes, 10c goods; broken line sale, yard 9c
Broken line sale of plain colored wash goods, values up to 25c; sale price, yard 9c
5000 yards of gray calicoes, regular 7c; broken line sale price, yard, 20 yard limit 5c
50 dozen unbleached Turkish towels, 12x25, a good value at regular 7c; sale, each 5c
5000 yards white lawn, actual values 8c and 10c; broken line sale, remnants, price 31 ' 2 c
Another lot regular 12V»C and 15c values in remnants 1 to 10 yards; broken line sale, price, yd..7',2C
2000 yards white waislings. short lengths, regular 15c and 18c values; broken line sale price 9c
Broken line sale of striped and checked dimity, regular 15c values; sale price 10c
English long cloths, regular 20c value; broken line sale, price, yard 12' jc
White waist ing, some mercerized and heavy, other very open, sheer and fine, regular SOc and 35c
values; broken line sale ,/ '^c
30 inch wide kimono and drapeiy silk, for sacques and drops, good line of patterns, but limited quaii
Uty, regular 75c value; broken line sale, price, yard 53 c
3U inch wide figured drapery cloth, suitable for drops, Comforters, etc., in short lengths of 3 to 8 yards;
several pieces of one pattern; regular 15c value; broken Hue sale price, yard 10c
A few pieces only of challles and cotton ble/.es, suitable for dresses und sacques, regular 10c; broken
line sale, price, yard 7(4c
Broken line sale of white spreads, crochet spreads, regular $1.00; sale price, yard 85c
Marseilles pattern crochet quilt, regular $1.35; broken line sale price, yard $1.25
Marseilles patterns, regular $2.25, very heavy, large sizes, hemmed or fringed, with cut corners;
broken line sale, price, each $1.98
Extra lot of fine damask napkins. These napkius bought to sell In sets; only and some full dozens
left, about 15 dozen In all; regular $4.00 and $4.50 values; broken line special, per dozen $3.15
SPECIAL LOT —Fringed napkins, colored borders: regular 50c; broken line special 29c
22x50 bleached turkish towel, hemmed or fringed, bought only for this sale; would be a good seller at
30c; broken line sale price 23c
AFTER SPOKANE IDEAS.
Mayor Daggett this morning re
ceived a letter from J. W. Gardner,
of St. Petersburg, Russia asking
for the last report of the Spokane
public schools. Mr. Gardner is at
the head of the Franklin college. 1
the infant Russian-American uni
versity.
The Rathskeller
GRILL
COR. LINCOLN AND FIRST
We are now open for busi
ness; if you want the best
the market affords give us a
trial. Short orders a spe
cialty. C. H. Giddings, Prop.
FURNITURE CARPETB
HARDWARE
A. D. McDonald
Supply Co.
212.2:4 Riverside Aye.
LOT 1.—500 pairs childs' and Misses'
Kid Lace Shoes, with patent leather tips,
sining and low heels, medium heavy soles.
Our former low prices were:
5- 8. $1.25, broken line sale price 88c
BVi-U, $1.50, broken line sale price. . .SI.OB
11 Vs-8, $1.75, broken line sale price..sl.2B
LOT 2—COO pairs Ladies' Fine Vlci Kid
Lace Shoes; patent leather tips; exten
sion soles; low or military heels; all sizes.
Our former low price was $1.75. Broken
line sale price $1.38
LOT 3—300 pairs Childs' and Misses'
Box Calf Lace Shoes. A good shoe for
school girls. Every pair as solid as a rock.
6- 8, broken line sale price 98c
BV2-H, broken line sale price $1.18
broken line sale price $1.38
THE SPOKANE PRESS, DELIVERED, 25 CENTS A MONTH.
Teas, collees, spices, Extracts
and Macaronies
at lower prices than you'll pay downtown
We're out of the high rent district and give you the benefit
of our saving. Call m up for anything in this line; we'll guar
antee to save jou money and give you bettor goods.
Phone 1469
Portneuf Tea ® Coffee Co.
Lee Weeks, Manager. 1717 Broadway, Broadway Blk.
TELEPHONE 3391. MARTIN DOLAN, MANAGER
Visit Our Fourth
Floor For Housefur
nishing Bargains
was $3.00. Broken line sale
price $2.28
LOT 7—300 pairs ladies' kid
shoes, made by IHz & Dunn, in
light or heavy soles; four styles,
price the world over Is $3.00.
Our broken line salep rice. .$2.38
Our line of ladies' fine shoes
can't be beat. You savu $1.00
a pair ai least by buying your
shoes here. Prices
from $2.50 to $5.00

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