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ROOSEVELT KID IN FOOTBALL TOGS]
This snapshot of the president's son was taken a few days ago at
Soldiers' field, where Kermit was at practice with the Harvard fresh
men. The crimson coaches have selected Kermit as one of the tackles
for the freshmen eleven. In a recent scrimmage the freshmen second
team made special efforts to gain through the young man, but he held
his own in classy style.
SPORTING SIDELIGHTS
The American association has
been casting greedy eyes at Pitts
burg for some years past. Twice
recently efforts have been made by
supposed emissaries of the class A
organization to get a lease on Car
negie Technical school park. Now
the Pittsburg National league club
has bought he park and the A. A
,is effectually barred from Smoke
town. It is reported 1200,000 had
been subscribed by Pittsburg men
for the purchase and for other ex
penses to be incurred in establish
ing the new club.
After a wonderful career of 10
years on the cinder path. Melviu
W. Sheppard announces that he is
through with the running game.
Stnppard Is the Yorker who was
refused a job on the police force
tx c ause the doctors said he had a
bad heart, and who then went to
the Olympic games and beat the
world's best men in middle dis
tance events. Sheppard says he's
tired and wants to rest.
One of the weirdest, oddest base
ball bets ever made was paid after
the close of the National league
season by Hob Mahornay, a stu
dent at University of Michigan.
Ann Arbor. Last Spring Mahornay
offered to bet $25 to $1 that at
the close of the season Pittsburg
and New York would not be tied
for second place. Edgar Mcintosh
of Mobile, Ala., another student,
took the bet, also just for fun. hav
ing no Idea of winning. As is well
known, the Giants and Pirates did
tie it up at the finish, and Mahor
nay forked over the $^5.
Ed Reulhach Is technically the
ieader of the National league
pitchers in games won. Ho pitched
81 games, winning 24 and losing
seven. Hut Chrisy Mathewson,
ranking second, is the real star.
He worked in 46 battles, taking
down 35 victories and 11 defeats.
Maddox of Pittsburg was third
with 23 wins and 8 loses, while
Ifordecai Brown, star of the
world's scries, won 26 and lost 10,
standing fourth. But for the crip
pled condition of the team behind
him during a large part of the sea
son. Brown would likely have led
them all.
Martin Sheridan, great hammer
thrower and all around athlete,
got to Celtic Park, New York, a
trifle late, on the occasion of some
recent field and track doings. As
he dashed In at the gate, the dis
cus hrow was under way. Asking
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if he was too late for the event,
Sheridan was told by an official
that he was, unless he wished to
compee wih his clothes on. Martin
jerked off his hat and coat, rolled
up his sleeves, and slapped the
title saucer 128 feet, to the amaze
ment of all beholders. This toss
put him in the final, and between
whiles he rushed to the dressing
room and put on his athletic togs.
Then he went out and won the
final with a throw of over 137 feet.
Martin is the great undaunted, all
right.
WHITE FOOTBALL FOR
LATE PRACTICE
Coach Kennedy of the South
Central high school football team,
plans to use a white painted foot
ball for night practice at Recrea
tion park if he finds, after the first
few nights, that it becomes dark
too early to suit the convenience
of the men. On account of the
hard games in prospect, particular
ly with the Tacoma high school
next Saturday, the boys are to be
put through a hard course of train
ing. Trick formations and the for
ward pass will be practiced steadily
until the players gain confidence
in their work.
TULL & GIBBS WIN.
The Tull & Gibbi bowling team
took three games from the Walk
overs on the City alleys last night,
the total scores being 2588 to 2427.
The Groff Tailors play the Dodds
tonight.
BRITONS CERTAINLY FOUND OF JOHNSON
CROWD TRYING TO SHAKE JOHNSON'S HAND. THE X MARKS JOHNSON.
When Jack Johnson left Charing
Cross station, London, recently, on
his way to Australia, where he will
fight Tommy Hums, he got one of
the greatest send-offs ever extend
ed to any athlete, black or white.
HE Press herewith begins the publication of a remark
able story. It is the tale of a man for two years a
prisoner in Russia. It tells the horrors of the torture
chamber with a fidelity possible only for one who has
undergone its terrors.
For obvious reasons the name of the writer is con
cealed, but he is known, and his story has been inves
tigated by the London Express, the editor of which is
| convinced that he has told the truth.
I X. Z. is an Esthonian, a native of the Baltic prov
inces, and an educated man. As will be seen from his
narrative, he was arrested rather less than two years
ago, nearly a year after the outbreaks in the Baltic
provinces. Here is the first Installment of his story:
I was arrested on the 4th (17th)
of September, 1906, in my father's
farm house, Tsalle, in the Volnost
Albertsfried, in the province of
Kurland. Early in the morning
Michaev, the assistant chief of the
secret police of Riga, accompanied
by soldiers and policemen, came to
our house from Mitava. Michaev
ordered the soldiers to break in all
the doors, although they were not
locked. Then my father, 70 years
of age, was taken out into the gar
den and Michaev ordered him to
tell the whole truth about his four
sons, warning him that if he re
fused to reveal the whole of their
revolutionary activity he should be
shot dead on the spot. Our father
answered that he knew no evil of
us, whereupon Michaev spat in his
face. He then ordered the soldiers
to arrest me and my two younger
brothers, Adolph and Alfred, to
strip off our clothes and to beat
US until we told them where we had |
hidden arms. We had no arms what
ever, and answered accordingly.
For this the soldiers repeatedly
struck us down with the butt ends
of their rifles, while Ossipov, the
police officer of Mitava, flogged us
with birches until we were bleeding
all over. My youngest brother,
Adolph, was so beaten about the
face that his eyes were closed alto
gether by swellings and wounds.
Michaev, upon hearing that I was a
printer by profession, and was em
ployed in the printing establish
ment of Genipel & Co.. in Riga,
struck me in the face, saying that
I printed proclamations in that of-
Y. M. C. A. AND BLAIR
THANKSGIVING GAME
The Y. M. C. A. and Blair foot
ball teams have arranged to play
on Recreation park grounds
Thanksgiving morning.
The following will probably be
the Y. M. C. A. lineup: Taylor,
center; Take, right guard; Merrill,
right tackle; Peddycord, right
end; Moore, left tackle; Pynn, left
end; Dickey, quarter; Garske,
right half; Churchill, left half;
Say lor, full; Gardner, left guard.
HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE.
The first of the season's "hare
and hounds" chase will start from
the Y. M. C. A. building Saturday
afternoon when 10 hares who will
start about 2 o'clock will he fol
lowed 20 minutes later by the
sturdy youngsters who will be
known as the hounds. The hares
will scatter bits of paper for a
trail. They will run to Hangman
creek, then around the bluff to
the fort, and crossing the foot
bridge at Xatatorium park, will hit
for town as tight as their legs can
carry them. The court is about
six miles.
HIGH SCHOOL GETS DATE.
Owing to the inability of the
Davenport high school football
team to arrange for a game with
lilair here next Friday, the Coeur
d'Alene high school has been giv
en the date. The game will be
played at Recreation park Friday
afternoon.
Two hours before time for his
train to leave the crowd began to
gather, and when Johnson appear
ed the frantic fight fans almost
mobbed him. Everywhere he went
the throng tagged ut his heels, till
at last the station master escorted
AN BXPOcSE OF CRUELTY IN ftQCSrAN PRISONS
fice and that I was also the editor
of a revolutionary paper, "Zihna"
(The Struggle). After that we
three, together with our farm la
borer, Url Skolnik, and our guest,
.Tohann Andreiko, were bound, in
order to be taken to Mitava.
Ilut before our removal Michaev
gave orders that our farm house
should be destroyed. • The roof of
our home was pulled off piece by
piece, all the windows were broken,
the floors torn up, the furniture de
stroyed, the silver, money and my
mother's trinkets were stolen.
When the house was almost demol
ished Michaev threatened that he
would burn it to the ground if we
did not confess to revolutionary ac
tivity. We had nothing to confess,
and nothing had been found against
us. Nevertheless we were taken to
Mitava.
In the Mitava police station I and
my two brothers were kept for four
days and nights without food. We
were given no bedding and had to
sleep on the cold, dirty floor. The
chief of police, (Pristav) Saunder
son, beat us repeatedly, and
dragged us about by the hair, and
kicked us with great violence. We
were quite exhausted, and covered
with hard, congealed blood, when
at last, on Sept. 9 (22), 1906, we
were transferred to the central
prison of the Kurland province.
Here we were most carefully
searched again and submitted to
the vilest personal indignity. When
I protested against this the chief
warder struck me on the head with
his revolver. We were all there put
into a cell shared by criminals.
DAUGHTER'S SHOPPING
PUT HIM IN HOSPITAL
Special Correspondence to The Press
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 20.—His brain
reeling, his senses jumbled, Hubert
Kunster, age 79, of Waterloo, 111., is
in the city hospital, as the result of
a day's shopping with his daughter,
Mrs. Carrie Smith. The aged man
was rushed through store after
store by his bargain hunting daugh
ter until his bewildered brain gave
way before the feminine whirlpool
and he was detained for observa
tion.
him out on the platform and locked
the gates. Johnson and Burns will
fight at Sydney early in December
for the world's heavyweight cham
pionship, the winner to take the
heavy end of a $35,000 purse.
THE SPOKANE PRESS
Tho regime in the prison was ter
rible. The wardens knocked "polit
icals" about as well as criminals.
The procureur refused to hear any
complaints. (It is the duty of the
procuereur to visit the prison for
the purpose of receiving com
plaints.)
In the solitary cells intended for
one person six or eight were
cooped. There was no space on
which to lay down. The air in the
cell was horribly foul, and there
was no ventilation. Before our win
dows executions frequently took
place. Prisoners were hanged and
shot. The prison resounded with
groans and the lamentations of the
innocent condemned to death. The
real revolutionists ascended the gal
lows with songs. All this was inter
mingled with the crack of rifle
shots, and the sinister sounds
caused us to shed tears at the
thought of the loss of so many inno
cent lives, and to tremble with the
knowledge that our lives were en
tirely in the hands of the prison
administration.
Many of the "politicals" who
showed their restlessness were
dragged out into the courtyard and
shot before our window. The prison
guards shot without warning any
prisoner who ventured to approach
the window. When I begged that
we might be put in the hospital, or
at least provided with bandages for
our wounds, we were laughed at
and told: "That's nothing as yet.
You'll get some more. There's only
one thing good for a revolutionist
—a bullet."
On Sept. 12 (25), I and my two
brothers were taken to Riga,
chained in irons, and placed in the
I.iliand central prison. There were
there at that time about 200 "polit
icals," already condemned to penal
servitude in the Siberian mines.
Their food consisted of two pjounds
a day of black bread and evil smell
ing porrige. No sugar or tea. They
were beaten and treated here in
exactly the same manner as in the
former prison. The day after our
arrival we were taken to the prison
office nnd told that we were to be
delivered into the hands of the Riga
secret, police. The agent of the
establishment, Anton, who was
present at the time, added that he
SEpuld tear off our skins.
SSOn Sept. 18 (26) we three were
taken under a strong military con
wy to the Riga secret police—the
•ay-called "Riga Museum." At that
(fine there were about 100 "polit
iptls" in the cells of the secret po
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
la the Superior Court of the State
*of Washington, in and for the
I -County of Spokane. In the Mat
i Bter of the Estate of Rosa Benoy,
Notice is hereby given that all
persons having claims against said
estate, or against said Rosa Benoy,
arc required to present them to
mo for allowance at the office of
S. T. Crane, attorney, Nos. 410-11
Columbia building, city of Spo
kane, Spokane county, Washing
ton, within twelve months after
the date of the first publication of
tills notice, or they will be forever
barred.
Date of the first publication of
this notice, September 29, 1908.
EMMA MARY STUCK,
Administratrix of the Estate of
Rosa Benoy, Deceased.
S. T. Crane, Attorney for Admin
istratrix, 41011 Columbia Building,
Spokane, Wash.
"MICHAEV ORDERED THE
SOLDIERS TO BREAK IN ALL
THE DOORS."
lice. Many of these, after having
been submitted to torture, were
handed over to the field martials
aud shot.
As soon as wo were brought to
the premises of the Secter .police,
the cjief, Gregus, ordered me to be
brought to his cabinet, and pointing
to the man who had denounced me,
Edward Baumann, asked me if I
knew him. I answered in the nega
tive, and immediately a blow was
aimed at my head from behind.
After that I was removed and
locked up in the cell No. 3. This
cell was packed with prisoners.
Instead of 10 persons, the number
it was meant to accommodate, It
contained 25. It was excessively
wirty, and after I' passed a few
hours in it my clothes were swarm
ing with vermin. Some of the pris
oners tried to cheer the rest, but
in vain.
Many were prostrate with de
spair; others trying to assuage the
torture of their mutilated bodies. As
twilight drew near complete silence
gradually took possession of the
cell, all eyes were fixed upon the
door, and hearts btat with pa in ml
expectation awaiting the summons
to the torture chamber.
(To be continued.)
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Five acre tract, fruit trees, ber
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Attorneys.
M. T. O'Connor, attorney and
counselor at law. Room 508
Hyde block. Civil and criminal
practice. Satisfaction guaranteed
or no pay. Tel. 1830 or 7106.
Horseshoeing.
Charles Staley, Pacific avenue and
Bernard street.
Restaurants.
The Dairy Lunch is now open for
business. Something new—"lt's
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Sprague, near Washington.
Best, biggest and cleanest 10 cent
meals in the city; coffee fit for
Governor Durkin to drink. Queen
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Transfer and Storage.
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Wanted—Manure. 1601 E. Ninth.
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Spokane Artificial Limb House,
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