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THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SPOKANE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION SERVICE BOILER EXPLODES PETOSKEY, Mich., Aug. 17.—Three are known to be dead and 50 passengers are missing as the result of the explosion of the boiler of the steamer Leslana, on Carp lake today. Three bodies have been recovered and it is believed a dozen perished in the panic that ensued. Many were in staterooms and were caught without a chance to escape. Those on deck were hurled into the water. Mrs. Isabella Laberia, Traverse City, Mich., was in stantly killed. THREE THOUSAND TROOPS HOLD RIOT IN CHECK SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 17 — Rioters who have held this city in terror since Friday are only check ed by the presence of more than 8.000 soldiers heavily armed today. The soldiers are in complete charge. On the governor's orders a spe cial grand jury will convene tomor row to take up the case of George Richardson, whose alleged assault upon Mrs. Karl Hallam caused all the trouble. Then the jury will be ordered to investigate and find who is responsible for the riot. One of the first cases taken up will be that of Abraham Rayman, Russia*! Jew, who confessed that he wai one of the mob that cut the throat' of William Donigan, an aged negro, Saturday night. Ne groes are leaving' the city in great numbers. Private J. B. Klein, who fatally stabbed Earl Nelson on a train at Kankakee, has been exonerated by the military authorities. Nelson was riding on the front end of one /■ of the coaches and was stabbed J with a bayonet by Klein because he refused to get off. A companion CHIEF SWOOPS DOWN ON SUNDAY BOOZE Chief Rice and his cohorts came down like the wolf on the fold last night and found the Sunday lid pried open in the rear of a house at 821 Second. In consequence they confiscated C. J. De Boever and a somewhat extensive stock of liquor secreted about his room. He was loaded with numerous flasks of strong liquors and. two tubs of bottled beer thoughtfully placed on ice. Although De Boever protested that he was not selling liquor on the sly he had a pocket full of change and was gathered In to ex plain to the court. The chief and his men had been plotting to make such a capture for some time past. ST. PAUL ROAD TO COAST NEXT YEAR CHICAGO, Aug. 17— Through service will be inaugurated on the St. Paul road's Pacific Coast exten sion late next year, according to a Statement made by high officials to day, 'me road will break all rec ords in building for the period named. FIRE WIPES OUT CALIFORNIA TOWN TEHAMA, Cal., Aug. 17.—This town Is without a business center as the result of a Are last night which caused a loss of 1100,000. LABOR CARNIVAL TONIGHT frlendi desiring to place the name Of young ladles in nomination for tlie popularity contest carried on at the labor temple carnival this week at Natatorlum park may send j the names to the labor temple com mittee at the Colonial hotel, phone Main .1161. The prize offered to the girl re ceiving the most votes is a f 100 diamond ring. The labor carnival committee, of •which James A. Corcoran is secre tnry, luib the following list of en tries for the popularity contest: Miss B, Maguey, of Kemp & He port's; Miss Nellie Freeberg, lady barber; Miss Myrtle O Dell, Blake ly iM-ygoods Co.; Lilly Kielhoffer, ticket agent at Natatorlum; Miss Ida Holmes, business agent, waitresses' union. Four thousand tickets, each one good for a vote for the most popu lar Working girl in the city, have been told by the labor carnival hustlers. None of the votes have been cast yet, as the carnival does not open until tonight, It is ex pected that there will not be many cast until the last few days, as those who purchase tickets are ex pected to hold them until lac and vote them by the wholesale for their favorite. Preceding the barbecue al the la bor carnival on Thursday a of Nelson's claims that the stab bing was entirely unprovoked, but the officers decided that Klein act ed in the line ot his duty. An attempt was started last night to mob a member of the na tional guard and an effort was made to cut the telephone and fire alarm wires during the night's disorder. It was announced this afternoon that there will be no whitewashing. Homes of leaders are being search by sheriff's agents in an effort to find evidence. The court has order ed the grand jurors summoned to appear In court tomorrow morning. Ringling Bros', circus, scheduled to appear here tomorrow, was notified that it can't show because its ap pearance might hnve a bad effect. At norm 80 arrests had been made. Kate Howard, accused of in citing riot, burglary and larceny, was admitted to ball. From a state ment made today by Mrs. Hallam that she could not Identify her as sailant it Is believed Richardson is the wrong man. It is reported a number of reliable citizens are ready to prove an alibi for the ne gro, who with his wife have borne good reputations. FOOTPRINTS ONLY CLEW PALMER, Mass., Aug. 17.—With a man's foot prints as tlie only clew detectives are trying to solve the mystery of the murder of Faith Davis, age 15. Whose body was found In a mill pond here yester day. There is evidence of a strug gle before the girl was thrown in. ENGLISH HEIR DROWNED BELL-INGHAM, Aug 17— E. G. Clement, age 23, son of a wealthy English family, was drowned in a slough at Marietta while bathing yesterday. DECORATED FOR SHERMAN UTICA, N.Y., Aug. 17 —This city is elaborately decorated for the ceremonies attending the notifica tion of Sherman of the republican vice presidential nomination tomor row. TAFT TO TALK FRIDAY HOT SPRINCS, Aug. 17.—Taft Is busy today preparing a speech to be delivered before the republicans of Virginia, who will gather here Friday to greet the candidate. All told, 6)000 are expected. SPOKANE HORSES SHIPPED A carload of nine harness horses were Shipped from this city to Bell- Ingham this morning. Among them were Leroy Waller's Zantis, time 2:15; Dune McDermld'S Van Norte, 2:lli; Lou Child's Raffles, and oth ers. The horsemen say that they Intend to bring home the money and have the horseflesh to do it with. live ox will be paraded about ihe streets. Hut he isn't the one that'll he "et." The one that's to fill the wants of the inner man will be go ing through a process of coasting while his brother is marching proudly behind the labor temple band. The entire labor temple commit tee Is working hard today getting In shape for the opening tonight All the member! are in their shirt sleeves and actually sweating witli work. Some are carpentering, oth ers wiring and some are patching up tents and painting signs. Indications are that the carnival will be a money getter. Here are a few of the attractions that'll be worth seeing: Free wire act, tree log rolling contest every night, the dancing girls, vaudeville per formance, darkles in a southern ex hibition, songs, dances and mono logue ; the shadow show and Indian village, besides Innumerable snake shows, wild men and freak stunts. One of the biggest events is to be pulled off Saturday, when the la bor temple committee is to piny ball with the Knnkops "Fat." who larruped the "Leans" so handily. Tin committee is made up of some fats and sonic leans, and the com blßttlon should pro\< a winner. The proceeds of the cuni'va' go into ihe new labtu temple fund. THE SPOKANE PRESS THE MILLION DOLLAR LIE AND WHA T IT DID BY W. G. SHEPERD (Copyright, 1908, by Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) CHICAGO, Aug. 17. —James A. Patten, once "corn king," now "wheat king," has proved to the country, in the past two weeks, how wheat gambling might ruin business and threaten panic. Patten's office is across the street from the board of trade in Chicago. He has had a terrible two weeks of nervous gum chewing, argu ment, ticker reading and calamity howling. All alone, he has bucked the market. Repeatedly, the big, gray-haired "fellow" has dashed across the street, coatless, up the one flight of stairs to the pit and into the middle of the fray. His presence was always electrifying. He was a bull indeed. He had millions staked. He was foot free, with no associates to hold him back. The traders knew It, and one by one, as he roared out his prices, waving his arms in the bedlam, they came over to his side. They knew the stories of the blight and rust, on which Patten laid so much stress, were not true. They knew that Patten told them to raise the price of his own wheat. But they stopped following the truth about the wheat crop. They began to gamble on how successful Patten would be in raising the price of wheat by ma..ing the public believe that the crop might be a failure. They joined with Patten and yelled calamity. The men who followed Patten's lead made fortunes. The men who followed the truth were ruined. One of them, ignoring Patten and following reports which came to him directly from the wheat fields, shot himself to escape facing the loss of his entire fortune. ihe farmers, though, knowing that the stories of rust and blight were exaggerated ten-fold, followed Patten, for they hoped that prices would go higher. They held their wheat. A great business crisis grew up on the He, and one of the great est milling firms in the country was forced into bankruptcy, because it could not get wheat .from farmers at reasonable prices. It's hard to be a "wheat king." too. It makes you so nervous that you can't smoke. You chew gum so viciously your interviewer can hardly understand you. "What the hell does everybody want to follow me for? Can't I go this alone?" said Patten to TO. "Damn it, how do I know how the crop will go? I'm just taking a chance." In those very words he spoke to me. The hour was Saturday forenoon, and the place was Patten's office. The failure of the great Pillsbury mills had Just been reported on the ticker and the boy brought Pat ten the piece of tape. The mill had failed because of the high price of SNAPSHOT OF "WHEAT KINt!" JAMES A. PATTEN ON ONE OF HIS DRAMATIC HUSHES PROM HIS OFFICE TO THE WHEAT PIT ACROSS THE STREET. BLQMBERG TO ALSO RESIGN On account of the dissatisfaction wlUch has arisen out of tlie differ ences between "Dean" Chapman and Manager Fred Blomberg of the S. A. A. C, Blomberg, it is stated, will resign at the next meeting of tlie board of directors, Chapman, who for the past rive years served as manager of the hilliard and pool tables und gen' oral Instructor in the cue art. re cently resigned on account of trou ble with Blomberg. This morning he refused to state What the particular trouble was ex cept that "Blomberg goes around like a spotter on a streetcar." Since Chapman resigned, tho members of the club have taken sides, some with h'm and some with Blomberg. The result lias! been dissension In the ranks, and I to straighten out matters Blomberg is going to resign, it is said. Blomberg and his friends, how-, ever, deny that lie intends to quit SOCIETY WEDDING SENSATION. PITTSBURG, Aug. 17.—Pittsburg society is agog over tho news that the wedding of Miss violet Brookle hank, English aristocrat, and Oeorge WestlnghruiM). Jr., is Indef Inltely postponed, Society bts it Weather*—Tonight fair and slightly warmer. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1908. wheat. And Patten had put up the price. Patten had just invited me to sit beside him in a great luxurious chair. "That Pillsbury failure won't have an effect on the market 24 hours from now," he said. "Wheat King" Jim Patten never turned a hair. If any thought of his power—the power that could throw a great institution of world-wide fame into bankruptcy—the power of his opinion that could raise the price of a foodstuff so high that it became impossible for some to buy it; if any thought of his power that could take from the hands of strong resolute men the very staff of life, flashed through his mind, the move- that Miss Orockleband is responsi ble for the breach. One explana tion is the recent death in the fam ily is responsible for the postpone ment. The wedding was to have been solemnized in October. BRYAN WON'T NOTICE VAN CLEAVE NOW FAIR VIEW, Aug. 17— Brysn to day declined to reply to the attack made upon him by James Van Cleave, president of the National Manufacturers' association. He may reply later. Viiu Cleave asked if Bryan didn't know thai his platform charges are talst--. He sain: "Does Bryan know that the vicious provision of the Denver platform for payment of depositors iv Involved bunks would penalize the honest, careful banker for the benefit of the dishonest banker?' Van Cleaves hardest attack is directed against tlie labor plank. DORR S SUSPENSION ANNOUNCED TODAY NKW YORK. -ring. 17.—The sus pension of Fred &. Dorr, broker, in Los Angeles. San Francisco, Spo kane, Salt Lake and Chicago was announced on the floor of the sloe* exchange today. The announcement stated that Dorr;, financial troubles were caused by him having tOQ many irons in the Ire in Ghlcago, Salt Lake, San Francisco aud New York, ments of his square jaws, as he chewed gum, obliterated its expres sion from his face. I asked him outright if it was true that he was a gambler. "Well, isn't every business man a gambler?" was his answer. "Doesn't a groceryman buy sugar because he thinks he can sell it for more than he paid for it?" He seemed satisfied with this, but I couldn't help thinking that the groceryman doesn't try to prove that there's no more sugar in the country beside his own. He doesn't throw the sugar business into an unsettled condition. He has to pretty nearly tell the truth about his sugar. "Jim" Patten doesn't hare to with his wheat. Perhaps during the half hour talked, Patten thought. I was seeking material for a "bull" story. He walked over to a table twice to get reports to prove to me that wheat ought to sell for more. He told me he was carrying 5,- --000.000 bushels. Within the time I was there wheat dropped half a cent. That put him behind $25,- --000. "A bagatelle." The other day he had to sit down to his desk and write checks for $600,000 for wheat that had been unexpectedly delivered to him. It was two mfuute transaction, only a part of his two-week campaign. Not any more so than his occasional dashes across the street from bis office in the Western Union build ing, had his dramatic and cyclonic appearance in the wheat pit. "What started you on wheat this time?" 1 asked. * "My opinion. I kept getting re ports from all over. I made up my EVERYBODY BOOST THE PUBLIC MARKET PLAN "Boom the public market" was tie gist of an order given Sec. Jines by the 150,000 club at noon today. The public market, the first in the history of the city, is to be given an auspicious opening by the club next Saturday and Sec. Jones today is busy getting out a lot of circular letters notifying towns- The business property owner 8 0 f the city who are objecting to increased, assessments on their property are represented be fore the board of equalization n 0 w in session at the courthouse by a special agent and committees. There has been a more radical increase in the valuations of small residence property than o n business blocks. If the business property owners are entitled to reduced as sessments on the showing the y make, the smaller owners are certainly entitled to the same consideration at the hands of the board. The smaller owners have made no organized protest to the board nor are they exercising the systematic supervision over the equalization that they should exercise in order to protect their interests. If the tax levy s reduced .n proportion to the increase of valuation there will be no material increase in taxes, but it is incumbent upon the smaller ow ner s to take an active interest in the proceedings of the board in order that they be fully represented. The board is in session for J us t such representations, and where no protests are made it is |j k ely that the assessor's fig ures will be allowed to stand. HOLDUPS HAVE MADE ESCAPE Postal inspectors are as yet as much in the dark, as to the actual amount of loot secured by the two bandits who held up the N. P. pas senger train near Trent as the public is. It will take several days before it is definitely known what sum was secured. The local department has asked intermediate postoffices to find out from senders of registered matter how much was sent and from the figures when turned In the sum total of the loot will be fig ured. The government will make good all of the losses. Sheriff Doth reported this morn ing that although he and his deputies worked hard trying to find a clew which would lead to the bandits' capture, nothing lias come o. the energy exerted and the bandits are believed by now to gave put miles between themselves and the office IS, Descriptions of them have been wired aud mailed to every city of importance in the United States. The postoftice department has placarded all small postoffices with their descriptions. SMALL BOY'S PIE BUTCHERED BY AUTO : a small boy burdened with a pie was run over by a big Btudebeker automobile from (he Dulniage-Rose garage this morning on Second ay. Tiie boy escaped without apparent Injury but the pie whs fatally in jured. The driver and Mrs. Mc- Broom were un the machine at the time The machine was not run ning fust and after looking the boy over the driver gave him $1 to re- I place, the pie, JOHN G. LUND mind wheat was worth more." "And you took a chance?" I asked. "Yes," he said. "I backed up my opinion with my money. Look at my corn transactions. Last year I had to go all alone on corn. Friends came to argue with me. 1 wouldn't argue. I just went ahead and put the price up. I kept it up. I went against the other fellow ev ery time. I backed my opinion against his." It is estimated that Patten people and farmers of the event, and urging all to be on hand. The farmers are asked to bring in pro duce and make a special effort to make the first opening day a suc cess. The 150,000 club is behind the market plan, which means that it will be boosted with characteristic vigor. BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS WRECKED VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 17 — Eight men were seriously injured and several slightly when section 1 of Barnum & Bailey's circus special was wrecked near Port Kells yes terday. All the Injured are from the East. Spreading rails are re sponsible for the wreck. The menagerie on the front end of the train escaped. The Great Northern road was blocked all night. BLACK HAND AGENT CAUGHT CHICAGO. Aug. 17—Vincent Craps, Sicilian, alleged to be the leader of the Mafia, was arrested to day In the act of getting a box sup posed to contain $1,000 from under a sidewalk where it was placed by Benedette Caro, wealthy Italian grocer. Caro Informed the police that he received threatening letters from the Black Hand society demanding 11,000 under pain of dynamiting. LINCOLN'S COBBLER LYNCHED BY MOB SPRINGFIELD, .111.. Aug. 17.—1t is learned today that Doulgan. ne gro lynched by the nob, was boot maker for Abraham Lincoln before tlie latter left here for Washington. Gen. Palmer, nominee of the gold standard wing of the democratic party for the presidency in 189t>. was also the negroes customer. PROHIBITIONISTS ASSEMBLE CHICAGO. Aug 17—Chicago Is invadw) today by the prohibition hosts who aro to witness (he cere mony of the notification of Eugene Chafln. presidential nominee of the "dry" party tomorrow. E~ ONE CENT SIXTH YEAR, NO. 241. 25 CENTS PER MONTH cleared up a million and a half on his corn corner. Lp to the time of his wheat campaign it was the corn deal that was his proudest achieve ment. EXCITING SCENE IN THE WHEAT PIT AT CHICAGO DURING A BIG "MOVEMENT" SUCH AS IS NOW IN PROGRESS. BELOW IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMOUS PIT. lar to those of a year ago at this time. Yet, between July 27 and Aug. 8. 1907, December wheat fell from 96 cents to 91 cents. This year it rose i nthat same period from 91 cents to 97 cents. Patten has done all 4he damage In wheat that he can do this sea son. The crop is being harvested, and is proving to be as good, if not better than last year's. The Canadian crops are fine. If United States wheat is held at too high a price it will not be sold. A sud den flood of Canadian wheat will come on and the market will be Minneapolis banker, who, finding himself on the wrong side of the wheat market, and an embezzler, committed suicide. glutted. The traders all admit it, as do the expert writers of Chica go. That's how genuine Patten's scare was. What damage has Patten done? The ruined traders cannot be counted; they always hide them selves and their ruined homes. Did the farmer gain anything by the advance in prices made by Pat ten? The price of cash wheat went up in the two weeks from $1.08 to $1.24 for the new crop. But it didn't help the farmer, be- Patten will not admit that prices he fought to gain during this cam paign are fictitious. Yet Indirect ly he does so, for he says that conditions this year are very sinii- LABOR 10 SIFT CANDIDATES Political records of the various candidates before the direct primary as they concern labor will be sifted and winnowed Thursday at a meeting of the executive com mittee of the State Federation of Labor to be held at North Yakima E. A. Cooney is the member from Spokane. The executive committee has been carrying on an Inquiry insti tuted at the last meeting held and reports will be submitted that will probably have a great deal to do with the success of various as pirants for office this fall. The state federation has an nounced a policy of holding candi dates strictly to account on their previous records and what they are willing to pledge themselves to in future. Several important, labor measures are projected for the com ing session of the state legislature. SET LANGDON ON BANK OFFICERS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 17—Dis trict Attorney Langdon was today presented with a copy of the reso lutions adopted by depositors of the Market Street bank requesting him to begin Immediately the prose cution of official and directors. CATCH JAP POACHERS SEATTLE. Aug. 17—Cable ad vices from Valdai today state that 75 alleged Japanese seal poachers Were captured from the Kinsei Mam and Saki Maru off St. Paul cause he didn't sell. He held his wheat. He knew the stories of tne traders were exaggerated, but toa hoped for even higher prices. And} while he was holding his wheat, one of the biggest milling Arms in tne country fell with a crash. In our interview, Patten said to me: "You can't ■wipe out specula tion. The farmer must have the board of trade. It fixes his price. It assembles facts about the crop that the farmer doesn't know. If it wasn't for the board of trade, farmers would go ahead, selling their wheat at an ordinary price, until the last of the crop. Then there would be a terrible rise or a great- fall, when it was discov ered that there was too much or too little wheat." So the farmer is ruled, the coun try is ruled, the elaborate and ex pensive reports of the government experts on crop conditions are Ig nored, panic feeling is started, busi ness men are discouraged, confi dence is disturbed, because one man, a "wheat king," becomes en meshed in the game and must eith er be ruined or by hook and crook raise the price of wheat so high that he can force manufacturing firms, those that add to the world 8 wealth, clear to the wall. "I go always against the market," says Patten. See what that means? The mar ket, naturally, follows the law of supply and demand. Patten goes against that law; makes and fol lows the fiction. Not a single great fortune has been made in grain in Chicago that was not made this same way. island July 22 and taken to Ungaco by the revenue cutter Bear. U. S. Commissioner Driffield has ordered 25 held to the federal grand Jury for trial. PUTTING OLD SHIPS BACK IN SERVICE WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The navy department Is under consider able embarrassment for ships, ac cording to a report from official source. With part of the American navy In the south seas and de mands for protection coming from Americans in Santo Dominga, Vene zuela and other Central American points, it has been found necessary to put into commission vessels which were long out of use. The Wheeling is to be placed In com mission at Bremerton. JAPS BEGIN TO TALK OF WAR CLOUDS 'lOKIO, Aug. 1*. —That increas ing the military and naval strength of Japan is indispensable to the maintenance of peace in Asia and ond the Pacific is the gist of an interview given by Prince Ito, resi dent general of Korea. He said: "It's necessary for Japan to have a great army and navy if peace is to be maintained in Asia and the Pacific ocean." BOY ROBBERS BRUTAL SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 17 — Two 19 years old highwaymen held up William Lee early today and when he failed to obey orders beat htm almost to death. Lee waa go ing home. He thought the robbers drunk and walked ou. They felled him with a blackjack and kicked him. He was taken uucnnsolous to a hospital. •>