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THE SPOKANE
THE INLAND EMPIRE'S ONLY PENNY PAPER
EDWARD H. HARRIMAN IS DEAD
OFFICIAL
REPORT
MADE
(By United Press.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—
The United Press this after
noon announced the death of
E. «H. Harriman at 3:55
o'clock. The report is au
thoritative.
PORTLAND, Sept. 9.—A New
York representative of local com
mission firm this afternoon wired:
"Official annuoncement Of death
of E. H. Harriman made here at
8:68 i*clock thla afternoon."
Discussing the report, the mem
ber of the firm said in all probabil
ity the bulletin had been given his
representative, to be withheld un
til atock exchange closed.
HIS CAREER
Edward Henry Harriman was
born February 24, 1848, at Hamp
ton. L. I. He was the second son
in a family of six children. His
father was Rev. Orlando H. Harri
man, an Episcopal minister.
The Harrimans were, poor as
church mice. The elder Harriman
changed parishes every year, but
not till Edward was nearly growu
did he get one where he could earn
a comfortable living. Always his
meager salary was in arrears, and
his pride prevented him from ac
cepting help from his friends. The
Harriman children were pressed
even for food and clothing.
Young Harriman's education was
little and desultory.
While still in his teens, young
Harriman went into Wall street as
a broker's clerk. He set in to learn
the Wall stree game. It was in the
early '70s. His teachers were Jay
Gould and Jim Flake and Jay
Cooke.
So young Harriman was soon
trading on the floor —for his cus
tomers, for himself.
Within 10 or 15 years he had
made good. He had made his mil
lion, had won tho reßpect of W. K.
Vpnderbllt and Stuyvesant Fish.
He had established his own broker
age aud banking house —E. H. Har
riman & Co.
Also he was studying railroads
■—studying them as no man had
ever done. Already he was look
ing westward, his eyes on the en
trenched wealth as yet undevel
oped.
He became friendly—but not a
friend —with Stuyvesant Fish, who
had admired his ability and had
made him a director of the Illinois
Central, then a struggling road of
2000 miles. Until 1887. when Fish
became president and Harriman
vice president, the broker was
completing his "educatlno." Fish
was content to build up the Illinois
Central, but his vice president was
looking far beyond. He had his
eyes on the west, first. Hlb op
portunity came in 1889 In the pur
chase of the Chicago ft Alton.
The Alton, though in bad condi
tion physically, was a great money
maker. The next stage of his ca
reer was marked by the attack on
the Northern Pacific In which he
opposed Hill and Morgan and car
ried on the Btrugglo until a com
promise was reached which gave
Win representation on the board of
riflrectors of the Hurlington.
In 190G Harriman gained control
of the Santa Fe and in the same
year got a half interest in the San
Pedro line, built by Senator Clark
from Salt Lake City to Los An
geles. Even Fish, Harriman's bene
factor, waa deposed by the wizard
when he stood in the way, and
Harriman put In his man Harahan
as president of the Illinois Central.
Harriman's health began to fail
In 1905. In the spring of 1909 he
went to the southwest on a health
trip, and, returning In no hotter
condition, soon loft for Europe.
There he experienced little relief,
and returned to the United States
late in August.
Surprising the Goulds and Stan
dard Oil, Harriman met the sup
posedly Impossible demands of
President Hlackstone by paying
$42,000,000 in cold cash for the Chi
cago ft Alton and at tbe same time
won the title of the "great bor
rower." Then he Issued bouds and
SA V FELLERS, THE ENAKOPS HEREBY CALL IN THE 1909 STRA WLIDS
won back $30,000,000 of the pur
chase price. Then he went after
Union Pacific, which had "gone to
seed," owing the government
$52,000,000. Harriman bought It
for $58,000,000 and went about cur
ing Its ills like the marvelous rail
road doctor that he was.
Next came the Oregon Railroad
ft Navigation Co. and the Oregon
Short Line, which he took over,
giving him an outlet on the Pacific
coast.
Then he suggested to C. P. Hunt
ington that he would like to buy
the Central Pacific to get an outlet
from Ogden to San Francisco.
Huntington laughed. Harriman
organized ac ompany to build a
parallel line. Huntington died be
fore the fight was finished and the
Hnrriman bluff made good with the
Huntington estate. Then the wiz
ard took over the Western and
Southern Pacific, companies, adding
9600 miles to his system.
MAY ADJUST
THE FRANKLIN
SCHOOL DEAL
School Board to Hold Out
for Full Value.
There are indications today that
the controversy as to the value of
the Franklin school property,
which is sought by the Milwaukee
railroad, will be adjusted in a man
ner that will result In the people
getting all that the property is
worth.
Z. Stewart, county treasurer and
a member of the school board,
says that no notice of the Mil
waukee's condemnation suit has
yet been filed on the board, and
that when notice is received the
school board will employ counsel
and contend that the full value of
the ground be paid.
E. D. Sanders, the wholesale
grocer, who made the offer of
$150,000 for tho site, after the
school board had tentatively
agreed to sell it to the Milwaukee
for $100,000, said today:
"1 understand that the officials
of the Milwaukee have said that
they are willing to pay what tho
property Is worth, which is all tlißt
I am after. I do not want the
ground, but rather than see the
property of the people sacrificed.
I made the offer. 1 am glad to
know that the school board pro
poses to contest the condemnation
case In court and strive to secure
the full value of the property.
That Is all that any citizen can
ask."
It Is understood that the school
board and tbe Milwaukee is trying
to get together on a basis of $100,-
--000 for the ground and the value
of the building, which Is said to
be worth $10,000 to $15,000 alone
for the salvage Involved.
COUNTY OFFICIAL
TAKES LIFE
(By United Press.)
PORT ANGELES. Wash., Sept.
9—W. E. Huruside, deputy county
treasurer, suicided Tuesday night.
He shot himself through the head.
His body was found by business
assoclatus. Prior to his death he
made deeds of his property to his
wife. No cause is assigned.
DR. COOK'S OWN STORY OF HARDSHIPS
AND PERILS IN GRIM ARCTIC REGIONS
Famous American Explorer Tells Story of the Life of a
Sledge Traveler on a Dash Poleward—Always Hun
ger, Deathly Cold, Weariness, Homesickness,
But There is Always a Strange Fasci
nation in the Frozen North.
(By special permission of the Arctic Club of America, for which
the following article was Written by Dr. Cook after his former trip .In
search of the north pole, The Press is enabled to give Its readers to
day Dr. Cook's own story of the hardships of a dash to the north
pole.—Editor.
BY DR. FREDERICK A. COOK
Discoverer of the North Pole.
(Copyright by the Arctic Club of America.
Few of us ever have a long run
over a hill of happiness without
stumbling upon several ups and
downs of misfortune, but we soon
forget this, and altogether life
seems easy enough to most of us
who live In temperate climes.
It Is not the same, however, with
the men who seek the realms of
the great frozen lands In the arctic
and antarctic. They who aim to
reach the pole are kicked about by
STRIKE MAIN LEDGE
AT ZODIAC MINE
Three months of almost cease
less toil and use of new machin
ery and other equipment, shipped
out of Spokane early this spring,
has rewarded a little group of
hardened miners at the Zodiac
mine, owned by Spokane men, with
a strike of the main ledge. The
strike was made about a week
ago about midnight and news has
been brought here by a workman
from the mine.
A large amount of ore from the
ledge, running high In gold and
copper values, has already been
uncovered, and the work of ex
ploiting the strike is well under
way by an additional force of
workmen whoN are attempting to
learn all they can of the promis
BETTER TIMES MAKE HARD
WORK FOR RECRUITING OFFICERS
Just because times seem to be
getting better, everywhere, because
there Is plenty of work and good
wages being paid to the men who
work. Uncle Sam is having about
the hardest time of his life getting
men for his army. In these times
of prosperity no luring attractive
ness for the young American
youths seems to be hidden In a
uniform of blue and three years
of drilling and strict discipline.
Eight or 10 months ago, when
the army was filled to a quota In
all Its departments, and when
Uncle Sam closed the doors of his
forts to all save former soldiers
who wanted to get Into the serv
ice, recruiting officers the country
over anticipated a general rush to
the army by young men of all
Americanized nationalities when
again a call was given for re
cruits. It has been by no meanH
so. For more than two mouths
the familiar blue and white signs.
"Men wanted for the United States
army," have been flapping again,
but seemingly unnoticed, from the
windows of recrultiug stations
HOME EDITION
WEATHER ™ p * a J££ F , r,d »£ l M "-
temp. yeaterday 82; mln. today, 52.
WHEN YOU MOVE <•"•tfora.tt. Qlv.the e.r
--■ ff*r your new addr.tt or tale
phone The Preee, Main 376. The Pre., will be de
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909
giant seas, are pounded by heavy
storms, are brushed by freezing
drifts of snow, and yet they calmly
resign themselves to become tho.
foot balls of a hard fate because ot
a few pleasures. An effort only
partly crowned with success givea
such elation and Joy that all the
sufferings aud discomforts are for
gotten.
Herein lies the reason for the un
faltering law that he who has once
ing strike before winter comes.j
President and General Manager
Henry A. Spencer of the Zodiac
Mining Co., who has also come to
Spokane for the purpose of vend
ing back supplies and more ma
chinery to the men, will return
within a few days with Spokane
men financially interested In the
mine.
The work at the mine is under
the supervision of Frauk Kilgore.
a well known Spokane mining me
chanic, and since the installation
of extensive machinery at the be
ginning of this season a small,
force of men has been kept busy,
part of the time day and night, for
the last few weeks in rushing the
tunnel to the main ledge.
from coast to coast.
Reports from each recruiting
station commander sent to therr
higher officials mean the identi
cal same thing: "There 1b nothing
doing." It Ih the infantry and tae
coast artillery that needs men
worst now, though neither of these
Is by any moans depleted yet.
REMEMBER UNMARKED
GRAVES.
Relatives or friends who
know of dead soldiers whose
last resting places are not
marked by tombstones are
aßked to communicate with
Martin O. Holston. 109 Mag
nolia street, who will see that
such graves are properly
marked.
NBWBURO, Or.—Nathan White,
aged 74, of this place, lias heen
missing since August 28, and hl»
son, W. K. White, haß offered a re
ward of 1100 to anyone who finds
him.
JOHN R. BRADLEY,
the New Tork and Chicago million
aire sporting man, whose money
made it possible for Dr. Cook to
find the north pole.
ÜBS DOESN'T THINK
THIS IS NON-PARTISAN
D. S. Hobbs was for four years
an iiiHpecor of sidewalk construc
tion iv tbe city engineer's office,
aud was released two years ago
when Mayor Moore went Into of
fice. Thinking that with tbe
amount of public work on hand
there might again be an opening
in the department, he made appli
cation to City Engineer Ralston
for a place, backed by a recom
mendation signed by Fred Bald
win. Will Graves, J. M. Geraghty.
Frank P. Hogan, Councilman
Robert S. Dalke. Dr. Newman, E.
D. Sanders, Councilman John
Gray, John W. Graham, Hal J.
Cole, ex-Mayor Dr. nyrne and oth
er well known citizens of mixed po
litical following.
He says that he was referred by
Engineer Ralston to the mayo£
and by the mayor back to EugT
neer Ralston, from whom he went
again to the mayor, where the
final conference occurred In which
some pretty warm words were ex
changed, according to Hobbs.
"The reason that 1 applied for
the place," said Hobb stoday, "was
I H <-aus,< the other day I met a
beardless youth inspecting some
Improvement on Bernard street,
near the south hill. I asked him
where he was from and he said
Massachusetts, aud that he had
been in Spokane about two
mouths. I thought If a stranger
could get on so easily a home man
who has lived in Spokane 11 years
might have some show, and there
KILLED WIFE BECAUSE
SHE WANTED DIVORCE
(By United Preaa.)
1 HANITOItD. Cal., Sept. 9— Mrs.
|amas L Srye la probably fatally
wounded aud her htubaud is dead
us tho result of the woman filing:
a suit for divorce yesterday. Cryo, |
THE SPOKANE
beheld the other world conditions,
and has felt the charm of the white
snOwy silence of the frigid zones,
will ever long to return.
Let us follow briefly the life of a
sledge traveler. He starts out for
a determined poleward dash, tak
ing with him no money to buy ne
cessities and comforts en route, no
trunk or little luxuries; nothing
besides his bed and his tent, with
fuel and provisions for three
months or more. All of this is In
such shape that at any moment he
is prepared to carry his baggage on
his back for miles. There are no
half-way Inns, no houses, no shel
ter and no bazars by the wayside.
If he has forgotten or lost anything
It cannot be replaced. He is far
away from the familiar world, far
from the accustomed comforts of
life, and as completely Isolated as
If he was on the surface of the
moon. Day after day he plods along
over desolate fields of rough Ice,
pushing and pulling sledges, urging
and whipping the wolf dogs. He Is
always too tired to talk, frequently
too weary to eat, and often also too
uncomfortable to sleep. Still he
(Continued on Page Six.)
is where I fouud that I was mis
taken.
"Pratt finally took me to task
for working against him in the
city election, and told me to go and
see J. T. Omo and have him give
me a job. I told him that I be
lieved he was running a non
partisan city administration in
which politics cut no figure, to
which he replied that he was."
E. D. SANDERS TO
REPREBENT LOCAL EAGLES
E. D. Sanders will leave In the
morning for Omaha, where he will
represent the Spokane aerie of
Eagles as delegates to the national
convention of the order. Mr. San
ders was elected state vice presi
dent for Washington at Everett
last July. Del Cary Smith and N.
E. Nuzuin left for Omaha last Sat
urday to be on hund at committee
meetings this week.
FATHER OF THIRTY-EIGHT
CHILDREN DIES IN AN
ALMSHOUSE.
INDIANA, Pa., Sept. 9.—
Thirty-eight children mourn
the death of their father. John
P. Miller, age 76, who died at
the county home, of which he
has been an inmate for sev
eral years. He was married
four times and his fourth wife
survives him.
who was a wealthy farmer, discov
ered his wife was suing him. He
returned home and Bhot her in the
arm and abdomen and thought he
killed her. He then committed sui
, clde.
SEVENTH YEAR, No. 258 30 CENTS PER MOBYS
, il
THE FIGHT FOR NO
SCREENS TOTAL
VICTORY
Ed Dufresnee and saloon men of
lower Howard street declared to
have supported him in his fight to
compromise the state laws on abol
ishing saloon screena are whipped.
Dufreanea has removed practically
all semblance of a screen from his
place after a hard fight put up
against Chief of Police Sullivan,
who haa been enforcing the law on
saloons throughout the city.
Dufresne struck a snag in his
fight that seemed all but destined
to win in his favor at the last meet
ing of the city council, when his
application for a new saloon li
cense, filed with the city clerk, waa
not included in the bundle of appli
cations placed before the city coun
cil. There was considerable specu
lation as to what had become of It,
but the truth is it was in the office
of the chief of police, securely
locked In the desk, and the chief
had refused to "O. K7* it till Du
fresne complied with the law on
the screens.
Not long afterward Dufresne was
threatened with arrest for conduct
ing a saloon without a license, as
his old licence had expired. There
seemed to be no case for him in
court against the head of the police
department, and his only chance
was to obey the orders of the chief
of police, laid down to saloon keep
erswith the state law as its basis.
Proclamation:
WHEREAS, The people of Spokane are approaching
that season of the year when wind whistles "through the
brush and the furnace begs for food; and,
WHEREAS, Hay lids and straw roofs are beginning
to look like last year's birdsnests, not to say what is
technically known among good dressers as being "on
the pazazz"; and,
WHEREAS, The city of Spokane is noted all through
Washington as being the home of men's fine millinery,
her citizens as the glass of fashion and the mold of
form; now, therefore,
We, the Enakops, do hereby announce and proclaim
that on and after September 15, it shall be strictly a
,ross violation of fashion's law for any man in the city
of Spokane, county of Spokane, and state of Washing
ton, to knowingly, willingly or intentionally wear, dis
play, exhibit, flaunt, or otherwise aid, abet or encour
age the wearing, displaying, exhibition or flaunting of
the now obsolete personal adornment to the head known
as the STRAW HAT; and it is further
PROCLAIMED, That anyone who GETS UNDER
one of these hats will expose himself to the efforts of
his fellow citizens in GETTING OVER hats afore
said, by stepping, jumping or leaping on said
hat; and it is urged upon all citi
zens, that in order to uphold the
good name of Spokane as a fash
ion center, each citizen be and is
hereby made a committee of one
to enforce, in spirit and in word,
the provisions of this pronounce
ment.
(}iven under the appended seal
this month of September.
(Signed) KOPSAN,'
of Ancient and Mystic Order of
Enakops.
PROSECUTION OF
MALONEY FALLS DOWN
The prosecution of Thomas Ma
loney under the old wage scale or
dinance for alleged failure to pay
the city scale of $2.75 per day,
came to naught this morning be
fore Judge Mauu In the police
court.
Alfred Lee, who had been em
ployed on one of Maioney's con
tracts aud received but $2 per day
in cash, was the complaining wit
uess. After Maloney introduced in
court the contract and other pa
pers signed by I*ee before he be
gan work, the court dismissed the
case on tbe ground that Lee had
nothing to stand on. The police
magistrate ruled that Lee was a
"Other saloons that do not com
ply strictly with the state screen
law will be dealt with in tbia same
manner," declared Chief of Police
Sullivan to The Preae tads morn
ing. "There are no tw* waja about
it—the law must be obeateat as long
as I am at the head of tee polioe
department, and I shall refuse to
recommend the renewal of licenses
to saloons that fall to comply with
the law. They cannot procure a
new license without my O. K."
A number of Howard street sa
loon keepers, bitterly opposed to
Chief Sullivan's measures In en*
forcing tbe screen law, are de
clared to have been supporting Du
fresne In his fight to maintain his
screen that had been ordered re
moved by the police, though It la
claimed state officials declared the
screen was not large enough to be
deemed a violation of the state
law.
Jack Wil mot, with a saloon in
the Ziegler block, corner Howard
and Riverside, is practically the
only saloon man still holding ont in
his fight against Chief Sulllvaa'a
regulations on the screens. His
fight is carried on principally for
the purpose of allowing him to
keep his cigar store at the front of
the salon open on Sunday, which
will not be permitted should a par*
tition between the two be removed.
KNOW ALL MEN BY
THESE PRESENTS:
partner in the business and there
fore should be satisfied with what
he received. The court looked
upon Lee as a subcontractor, who
was taking his own riaka In enter*
Ing upon the work.
After the hearing It
that the prosecution of Maloneijr
had been backed by the oppoaini*
federal union, No. ItMi, which «JbV
not connected with the cooper/*-
--the contracting, ataioney's OM.W
are all affiliated with No, UMt/ '
H ELI .IN OH A M, —A mass meett. 1
lug will be held tonight (or tie
purpose of arousing interest in Ufc*
movement to have the saloons (of %
this city abolished.