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TUB DIRECT PRIMARY 18 WORSE
THAN WASTED ON THE VOTER
TOO INDIFFERENT TO REOIBTER
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION SERVICE
STENOGRAPHER SHUT OUT OF GRAND JURY ROOM
MAY 60 TO
SUPREME
COURT
Pugh Gets Shorthand De
puty and Will Install
a Phonograph if
This Fails.
I hop* for a thorough Inves
tigation of th* Root-Gordon
scandal, and I wish to thank
the board of county commis
sioners for their support to
day In appointing my special
deputy.
I trust the ruling of "the
court this morning will net re
sult In hampering the efficien
cy of the grand Jury.—State
ment of Prosecuting Attorney
Pugh today noon. $
ATTORNEY FRANK GRAVES
OF THE COUNSEL FOR JUDGE
GORDON, HAVING ON THE RE
CONVENING OF JUDGE HUN
EKE'S COURT THIS AFTER
NOON QUESTIONED THE RIGHT
OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
FRED C. PUGH TO CALL TO HIB
ASSISTANCE «N THE GRAND
JURY ROOM ANOTHER DEPUTY
IN THE PERSON OF JOHN H.
PELLETIER, A BHORTHAND RE
PORTER.
MR. PUGH CALMLY TOLD
THE COURT THAT HE BE
LIEVED HE HAD A RIGHT UN
DER THE LAW TO CALL PELLE
t.CR AS ONE OF HIS DEPUTIES,
AND THAT IF THE COURT DE
NIED HIM THE RIGHT HE
WOULD APPEAL TO THE SU
PREME COURT.
JUDGE HUNEKE SAID THE
MATTER WAS NEW TO HIM
AND.THAT HE HAD NOT CON
SIDERED ITB MERITB.
BY AGREEMENT OF PUGH
AND GRAVES ARGUMENT OF
THE POINT WAS MADE THE
SPECIAL ORDER FOR 3 O'CLOCK
AT WHICH TIME PROSECUTOR
PUGH BAID HE WOULD BE PRE
PARED TO CITE THE LAW IN
SUPPORT OF HIS APPOINT
MENT OF MR. PELLETIER AND
THE LATTER'S RIGHT TO BIT
IN THE GRAND JURY.
THE ATTORNEYS FOR GOR
DON BAID THAT THEY WOULD
NOT ONLY OPPOSE THE RIGHT
OF PELETTIER TO BIT IN THE
GRAND JURY BUT ALBO THE
RIGHT OF ANY ONE TO TAKE
THE VERBATUM EVIDENCE.
THE ATTORNEYS FOR GOR
DON ARE EVIDENTLY DETER
MINED THAT ABSOLUTELY NO
RECORD SHALL BE MADE OF
THE GRAND JURY PROCEED
INGS, A RADICAL DEPARTURE
FROM THE USUAL RULE.
The subtle and determined ef
forts of the large and ever increas
ing array of legal counsel enlisted
In the cause of Judge M. J. Cor
don, accused of embezsling Great
Northern funds, against the grand
jury investigation now in progress,
succeeded In scoring another point
this morning.
By unanimous rote of the five
superior court judges, the evidence
taken at the session yesterday aft
ernoon, at which three witnesses
were heard late In the day, was
ordered destroyed and the official
stenographer who took It, Mr.
Clark, barred from further aiding
In recording tbe work of the grand
Jury.
This action was taken over the
vigorous protest of Prosecuting At*
torney Pugh, who contended that
the judges had not given him an
opportunity for a hearing, and that
the first he knew of the new move
wus when tho order of court was
entered barring Stenographer
Clark.
Pugh vehemently served notice
on the attorneys for Cordon that a
full report of the grand Jury pro
ceedings would be had if he had
to install a talking machine to
record It,
' But the victory . f the astute
counsel for the format attorney for
the Great Northern was short lived.
Mr. Pugh appealed to the county
commissioners, who entered an or
der authorising him to employ nn
ott deputy prosecutor, one that
hau a knowledge of shoithund, and
forthwith Pugh attached J. H.
Pelletlcr, s member of the bar and
a shorthand reporter, to his official
staff.
Under the law the prosecuting
attorney nnd his deputies me the
only persons who have tbe right of
THREE DIE BY
GAS IN NIGHT
SEATTLE, March 11.—Three
men are dead in this city today as
a result of inhaling illuminating
gas, apparently through accident
E. P. Hicks and W. W. Jarrett,
sailors of tbe cruiser Milwaukee,
were found dead In a room of the
New England hotel this morning.
Charles H. Humphrey, who was
employed in an automobile garage,
was found dying in his room on
Ninth avenue.
Hicks and Jarrett attended a
admission to the grand Jury room,
in addition to its members and the
witness under examination. This,
Pugh holds, entitles him to install
his specal deputy, Mr. Pelletier, in
the grand Jury room. Whether he
will be allowed to record the evi
dence was unsettled at noon.
At the hearing today, counsel for
Judge Gordon was reenforced by
the arrival of Frank Graves, who
hurried from a winter's vacation
on the Isle of Pines, West Indies,
to plunge into the fight for his
friend and old companion Gordon.
Craves bore the brunt of the legal
battle before Judge Huneke this
morning, and present with him In
court were P. C. Sullivan, Frank T.
Post, Nuitun E. Nuzum and R. W.
Nuzum.
aWIIg tadeoa-. .ff-, —os S shrdl nl
The first step this morning was
(he swearing In of J. R. Gaudlin, a
member of the regular grand Jury
panel, who was unable to be here
(Continued on page two.)
CHARTER SESSION
THIS EVENING .
At the meeting of the charter re
vision commission u> be held to
night an effort will be made to
bring the contending forces togeth
er so that the charter amendments
proposed by the commission may
be submitted to the people by the
city council. The meeting was
originally called for last night but
postponed too late for correction in
The Press.
There Is a disposition on tbe part
of the councllmen who opposed the
amendments at the meeting Tues
day night to accept most of the
work of the charter commission,
provided the provision for placing
the engineer on the board of public
works is removed. The laymen on
the charter commission may agree
to this.
In the event that the council does
not seem willing to report the
amendments a petition will be
startted under the state law requir
ing a 15 per cent signature.
LADIES BEGIN WORK
ON CHILDREN'S HOME
The work on the Children's home
In Audobon park will be started at
once. The building permit was
taken out this morning for the
work by the Ladles' Benevolent as
sociation for the three story brick
building It Is Intended to erect. The
cost of the building will be $50,000,
the greater portion of which was
raised by popular subscription.
DOLEFUL WAIL FOR BLEUTHB.
A "bumble bee" signal system
has been fitted tip at police head
quarters by Police Inspector Lewis,
and-each man of the plain clothes
department has been given a signal
to which he Is expected to answer
In person to the desk sergeant. The
thing makes a doleful wall.
FEDERATED CLUBS WILL
QUIZZ COUNCIL TONIGHT
eiatcd clubs announces that all
candidates for the city council are
requested to attend a meeting of
the executive committee of the fed
eration at All Saints parish house
this evening. They will be qulzed
by the club officers and given a
chance to state their positions on
various issues involved in tho pres
ent campaign.
The federation expects to he able
to announce Its list of Indorsements
for city offices Tuesday evening if
It cau be completed by Uiat time.
THE SPOKANE PRESS
theater last night and returned tv
the hotel afterwards. The bellboy
entered the room to awake them
this morning and found the men
dead. ~
Humphrey fell asleep while a
small quarter-fn the-slot gats heater,
was burning in bis room. The gas
is supposed to have soon burned
out.
Later a woman entered the bata
room and dropped a coin in the me
ter, starting a flow of gas in Hum
phrey's stove.
TO FIGHT FOR
WHITE RACE
JEFF SAYS IF HE CAN GET IN
CONDITION HE WILL MEET
JOHNSON, BUT NO OTHER
MAN.
NEW YORK, March 11—Jeffries
came nearer to making a direct
statement of an intention to fight
Johnson today than ever before,
There is no further doubt he is
trying his beet to get into condi
tion. The question of success in
this direction is the only barrier
in the way of a challenge. He said S
"If I ever fight again it will be
the negro, and then only to win
back the championship to the
white race. I do not care what
offer Is made, it will not tempt
me to reenter the ring for any
other purpose. I will not fight
Kaufman, or any other white man
and would never think of fighting
again if Burns had whipped John
son.
HITS 'EM HARD
ON COAST
J. M. Haunaford of St. Paul, sec
ond vice president of the Northern
Pacific, who is in Portland, tells
that city the recent decision of the
interstate commerce commission
will materially affect all the coast
cities of the northwest and espe
cially Portland. He characterized
the rates as unjust and unreason
able. He said:
"If the decision is obeyed by the
companies without protest this city
will be very hard hit.
"The favorable discrimination
which has long been sought by
Spokane has been won, and the
coast cities now have practically no
chance in competition for Interior!
trade, as the new rates are almost
prohibitive, and as stated before by
the business men, shipments will
necessarily have to be made by wa
ter."
THEY DONT LOOK
GOOD TO DEBS
OIRARD, Kan., March 11.—Eu
gene Debs, presidential candidate
of the socialist party, declared to
day:
"The new administration Is com
posed exclusively of wealth and
reprsentatives of wealth. Most of
the cabinet members are lawyers,
and several are openly trust law
yers. They can be depended upon
to serve their class and their
clients."
Secretary Gray denies that the
delegates who were denied admit
tance wast week were "thrown
out." He says that the club's rule
to examine credentials before ad
mitting new delegates has never
been deviated from except iv in
stances where regular delegates
had removed and substitutes from
clubs already members were admit
ted, or where a single club had ap
plied aud had served previous no
tice of its intention, giving time
for the necessary investigation
i Secretary A. U. Cray of the Fed-
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1909
TWO PICTUMES WORTH SAVING
PRESIDENT TAFT AND IN THEIR CARRIAGE ON THE WAT FROM THE CAPITOL
TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS WijS HE FIRST TIME A NEW PRESIDENT'S WIFE EVER AC
COMPANIED HER HUSBAND ON THE DRIVE TO THE EXECUTIVE MANSION FOLLOWING THE
FORMAL INAUGURAL EXERCISES,.
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♦ the last few months'as to how ♦
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SEA MONSTERS
EAT IIP INDIANS
NOME, March 11.—A sensational
story of marine horrors and Arctic
mystery has come overland from
Cape Blossom and Point Barrow.
The annual disappearance or
many of the native Kyak hunters
has been traced to the raids of car
nivorous and amphibious fox
sharks, coramonlv known as the
thrasher, who patrol tbe coast line
from Bristol bay to the mouth of
the McKenzie river.
ls| a recent hunt for seals nearly
a dozen young native hunters lost
their lives by being attacked iv
their skin boats by these terrific
sea monsters.
SAYS SON SHOT
TO SAVE FATHER
NASHVILLE. March 11.—Attor
ney Washington today resumed ar
gument for the defense in the trial
ot Colonel Cooper, Robin Cooper
and John Sharpe. charged with the
murder of Senator Carmack. He
declared Robin was justified in
shooting Carmack to protect bis
father.
BARS BIRDS FROM
WOMEN'S HATS
SACRAMENTO. March 11—If
Collier's bill Is passed by the sen
ate and signed by the governor,
woman's suffrage In California will
be given a decided Impetus. The
bill prohibits tbe wearing of plum
age, skin or body of any bird not
a game bird or hawk.
BIG LAND GRAB CASE.
BOISE. March 11.—Attorneys for
the government and defense in the
case of the United States vs. Bar
ber Lumber Co., In which an effort
was made to cancel the entry on
40.000 acres of timber land in Boise
basin, valued at $1,000,000, left for
Seattle today to take testimony be
fore a referee. They will altKi go
to Portland, San Francisco, l.os An
geles, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
BECOND ANNUAL BHOW.
SALEM, March 11.—The second
annual horse show is to be held
here April 5 and plans are develop
ing rapidly. Tbe board of trade
last night voted (500 for the use of
the show committee.
Weather—Fnlr tonight and Friday.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT
WALKING UP THE CAPITOL STEPS THROUGH THE SNOW
STORM. A FEW MOMENTS LATER IT WAS PRESIDENT TAFT
AND EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
WORTHLESS BANK BILLS
STILL PLAGUE UNWARY
1 In spite of the fact that hundreds
of Spokane business men have beeu
stung on the old Merchant's &
Planter's bank bills, which are
about as valuable as canceled post
age stamps, some smooth individ
ual successfully worked the rusty
old gas on the bartenders at the
Liberty and the Trevo bars. The
police have been notified and the
counterfeit bills are in their posses
sion, while the crook who passed
them is likely looking up more Ez's
in other parts of the state.
War many years it has been the
misfortune of a few business men
FED HIS BABY ON
FORMALDEHYDE
v SEATTLE, March 11.—Because
his baby does not thrive on milk
supplied by a milkman, W. G. Se
ward swore to a complaint charg
ing E. J. Ross of the North Creek
dairy farm, with putting formalde
hyde into the milk. This is the
first time such a complaint has
beeu made.
TACOMA, March 11.—Their par
ents refusing to allow them to
marry. Miss Ella llentley of the
Hig Bottom country, &0 miles south
east of Tacoma, and Harry M.
Forbes of Ashford. the station at
the end of the Tacoiria Eastern
Mount Rainier spur, eloped to Can-
ELOPED TO CANADA.
to find themselves encumbered
with some of the Merchant's &
Planter's bank notes and just as
often the police have warned the
public against cashing the worth
lees stuff. As a rule only one side
of the bills look like money, while
the other is embellished with crude
lithographing like a tailor's re
ceipt.
It has been told that one set of
the dies with which the old bills
weir made for the bank that is now
defunct, were stolen years ago ana
that from these the worthless pa
per now floating around were
printed.
Ada and were married at Victoria.
Returning to Tacoma today they
were met by Miss Hentley's par
ents, who. finding they were al
ready married, gave a reluctant
consent to the order of things. Miss
Bentley is but 17 years of age.
MATRIMONIAL BIDE TRACK.
EVERETT, March 11.—Stella
Dunn, a handsome young widow
who arrived here last week from
Galesburg, Kan., to marry a rail
road man whom she had known for
several years, "switched" him to a
"blind siding" two days after he
had purchased her wedding titm \
and a ring, mid on Saturday mar
ried his chum. Robert I'm... a res
taurant waiter. The railroad man
wasn't uotified of the change in
schedule until after tlie eveut had
occurred, aud he was left standing
at the switch.
WITHOUT
FEAR OR
FAVO R
SEVENTH YEAR, No. 107. 25 CENTS PER MONTH
FARMERS WANT GRAND
JURY TO DELVE DEEPLY
INTO COURTHOUSE DEALS
The Spokane County Township
club has resolved that a probe of
the court house is necessary. To
bring the matter to a head a com
mittee consisting of E. C. Bratt,
Henry Treede and O. B. Gllstrap,
were appointed at the meeting yes
terday to ihquire Into matters con
nected with tRe management of
county affairs that do not look right
and bring the same to the attention
of the present grand jury.
A like committee has already
been appointed by the Farmers'
union and another will be named
by the grange. It is expected that
the three committees will act joint
ly.
Several volunteers have already
been found who are willing to tell
about the manner in which the
SCHEME TO KNOCK OUT
BOTH PRATT AND LAUMER
DEMOCRAT TO BE NOMINATED
BY MABS CONVENTION TO
BPLIT TICKET AND INBURE
SUCCESS OF REPUBLICAN.
Neither N. S. Pratt or N. J.
Laumer suit one elemnt of the
democratic party, and a movement
has been started to hold a mass
convention the day of the primaries
and nominate a third man to run
down the middle of the ticket and
defeat cither candidate who is suc
cessful.
When the rumor was first heard
it was discredited, but Jesse C.
Jamieson confirmed the report to
day when he stated that such a
plan has been talked of. He denied,
however, that the plan was started
by the cigar store men who were
sore at both Pratt and Laumer
over their work in closing out the
slot machines.
WILD BEASTS BOLD AND
BAD IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
DAYTON, Wash., March 11.—
Mountain Hons and wildcats are
more numerous and more ferocious
In the Blue Mountains this spring
than ever before. Several range
horses have been reported killed,
and in one or two instances men
have been attacked by these ani
mals.
Ben Magill returned yesterday
from a trip to the Tukanon and re
ported the killing of a valuable
saddlehorse belonging to R. W. Ma
gill. The Hon sprang from a tree
under which the horse sought shel
ter from a snowstorm. I>esß than
a month ago. Frank Lotzen. a
Tukjjnon farmer, was attacked by
a cat at the entrance of his cabin
and saved his life only by beating
off his assailant with an ax. It is
not uncommon this spring to find
cats and even Hons prowling about
barnyards and along the roads.
More cat bounties have been paid
this spring than for twenty years.
Trappers and hunters attribute
the boldness of the animals to a
scarcity of small game and the pro
tracted winter, with an unusual
depth of snow.
HOUSE DEFEATS THE
NON-PARTIZAN PLAN
OI.YMPIA, March 11.—The non
partizan city election bill was de
feated in the house late yesterday
by a 41 to 42 vote.
The bill relegating the nomina
tion of supreme judges by the old
convention system was passed.
FATALLY STRICKEN
WHILE AT WORK
While working about his daugh
ter's home at the corner of Adams
street and Wabash avenue yester
day evening, Emmet t A. i larger,
aged 63, was seised with au attack
ot heart disease aud died v halt
hum- later before medical assist
ONE CENT
county business was run, and It IS
believed the committee can flndl
some interesting facts if it will bat
inquire deep enough.
R. B. Martin, president of the
township club, recently spent half
a day in the auditor's office looking
over some old allowances by the
county commissioners and managed
to resurrect some facts in that
brief time that might be of interest
to a grand jury. Illegal allowance*
to individual members of the board
of commissioners, in spite of an ad
verse ruling from the prosecuting;
attorney; excessive prices for sup
plies and exorbitant sums for worlt
or repairs around the court house
may afford material for the investi
gation of these committees that
will keep them employed for some
time.
• The plan at present is to pics?
some strong democrat who will
rob the successful democratic can*
didate of his chance and insure the
election of the republican nominee.
From the way the republican out*
look appears at present, this move
is in the interests of J. T. Omo,
who appears to be at the head ot
the race among the republican can*
didates. Either Latimer or Pratt
are regarded by the party as
strong enough to win over Omo,
but with a candidate running in
the middle Omo would win the
prize.
Mr. Jamieson disclaims any part
in the program, but states it ia un-'
der way, and he has heard It talked
of to a conisderable extent and
fully expects it to be carried out.
There are a bunch of boosters out
in the field buttonholing men quiet*.
Iy to get them Interested in the
plan.
ance could reach him. The de*
ceased came here from St. Joe,
Mo., last May and has since made
his home with his daughter, Mrs.
George A. Gardner, whose husband]
is an employe of the Spokane Con
crete Co. He had suffered occa
sionally with stomach and heart
trouble, but his affliction was never
considered serious.
Aside from Mrs. Msudine Iff)
Gardner, the deceased is
by two sons and one
Charles. Spokane; Clarence, whose!
present location is not known, and?
Effie L of Wrencoe, Idaho. *
CITY'S NURSE AT
WORK AGAIN
Though Miss Hornburg, city vis.
iting nurse, returned to her chart
table duties here only Monday aft
ter a much needed rest of five
weeks, she has already been called
on to attend a number of case*
She reports excellent success with!
tuberculosis cases especially, ono
of her patients having gained 18
pounds in the last few weeks.
The visiting nurse has now take*
up her headquarters In a part ol
the mayor's office, and can be
reached between 1 and 2 o'clock
each day over phone Main 601,
Miss Hornburg made over 1,50 ft
cals last year.
LEGISLATORS BRING
BEDS TO CAPITOL
VICTORIA, B. C, March 11.-c
For 24 hours at a stretch liberals)
and socialists In British Columbia
legislature combined to obstruct
progress in order to prevent th*
passage of the provincial election
act, which restricts the registration'
of voters. The government is fight
ing the opposition hard, and will,
force the measure through. Th*
liberals have bad cots placed in th*
corridor* and will relay their oyuca
sltion.