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HUMAN
GORILLA
in
Another Awful Crime in
Cincinnati's "Murder
Zone."
WOMAN IS MURDERED
Fourth Woman Murdered in
Same Manner —Police
Completely Baffled.
(By United Press Lessed Wire)
CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. I.—The
discovery today of the oody of
Miss Anna Lloyd, 36 years of
age, secretary of the Wiborg-Hanna
Lumber Co., added another woman
victim to Cincinnati's gruesomely
famous "murder zone" and forced
the police to the belief that a man
gorilla is abroad in the city. The
police tonight say they are no
nearer an arrest than they were in
former similar murders.
The body of Miss Lloyd was
found on a fill of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad at
Cummingsville, a suburb. Her
thYoat had been cut and a gag had
been forced into her mouth. The
marks on the woman's body indi
cated that the murder was the
work, of a degenrate of terrible
strength.
Like Three Other Murders.
In almost every detail, save the
of the throat, the murder
with the murder five
I years ago of Mrs. McDonald, in the
same part of tlie city; the murder
*hrt4» y«tsrs a««t of Alma St'Mninge
weg. and the murder two years ago
of LulU Miller. All were found
dead and strangely mutilated with
In a short distance of the spot
where Miss Lloyd's body was dis
covered.
It was established in the cases
of Miss McDonald. Miss Steinlge
weg and Mill Muller that they had
been approached by their asjiaasin
while waiting for a Spring Grove
avenue ear. In each case the girl
had hoen dragged to some secluded
spot. They were not criminally as
saulted, but their bodies bore the
evidences of the act of a degener
ate. In each case the thyroid bone
in the throats of the victims had
been crushed and physicians de
clare that it took a man with the
strength of n giant to apply such
crushing force while strangling the
fighting women.
HOPE IT
WILL CALL
OFF STRIKE
Switchmen Lood Forward to
Good Results From Visit
« of Perham to Wash-
ington, D. C.
HAWLEY WIRES HERE
New Strikebreakers Arrive
in N. P. Yards—Frequent
Clashes Among the
Men.
The center of the scene in the
switchmen's strike has been shifted
from the Twin Cities to Washing
ton, D. Cm and the strikers have
hitched their wagon to a new star.
Telegraphic reports to the effect
that Chairman 11. B. Perhuui of the
railway department of the Amerl
can Federation of Labor, has been
in conference with President Taft
BJld the heads of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, reached the
local switchmen's headquarters yes
terday afternoon. The report stat
ed that the conference was to be
discontinued yesterday afternoon,
to be taken up again on Monday.
According to the local strikers,
the report which came from Presi
dent Hawley of the Switchmen's
Union of North America, held out
hopes of a successful outcome of
the conference. Should the confer
ence fall, It Is believed that a
strike of the other railway organiza
tions of the A. F. of L. will result.
Chairman Perham is quoted as say
ing that in the event of the railure
01 the conference such a strike is
altogether within probability.
Locally the strike situation on
the N. P. has not Improved. It
seems difilm It to secure strike
breakers who will stay with the
Job. A number of new strikebreak
ers are reported to have arrived
yesterday afternoon. NumeroiiH al
tercations between strikebreakers
and other railroad employes have
keen reported.
Only Two Gills
Answercl Phones
LOCAL OFFICE, OPERATING
14,000 PHONEB, HAD ONLY
TWO GIRLB NEW YEAR'S EVE.
♦ The big Pacific Sates Tele- ♦
♦ phone Co., with iti 12,000 to ♦
♦ 14,000 phones, had but two ♦
♦ girls on dirty at the loards last ♦
♦ night to answer tie rush of ♦
♦ calls incidental U a New ♦
♦ Year's night holidaj rush. As ♦
♦ a consequence, t>e service ♦
♦ was miserable. / ♦
♦ When the chief operator was ♦
♦ asked why the shortage of ♦
♦ help, she responded that the ♦
♦ girls were sick. SJfe said that ♦
♦ ordinarily five to six girls are ♦
♦ employed at night. ♦
♦ There has been much criti- ♦
♦cism of the phone service of ♦
♦ late. Because the phone com- ♦
♦ pany is a private corporation •#■
♦ people put up with a great ♦
♦ many shortcomings in the ♦
♦ service that they would not ♦
♦ stand for were it owned by ♦
♦ the city. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
HARRY WILL
TELL WHERE
HE STANDS
Senator Rosenhaupt Will
Outline Positon If He
Gets Into Congres
sional Race.
IS STILL UNDECIDED
STATE SENATOR HARRY ROS
ENHAUPT is locked upon as
having the inside track among
those mentioned as the probable
successor of Judge Poindexter in
the lower house of congress from
this district, but Harry has not yet
determined whether he will make
the race.
Questions ot business and policy
must first be settled before Sen
ator Rosenhaupt again goes after
congressional honors. The ques
tions of business relate to personal
affairs that may or may not cause
him to drop all congressional as
pirations.
The questions of policy are his
stand in the light of the progres
sives versus the conservatives, the
insurgents versus tlie Cannonites.
the l'inchots versus the Hallauger
ites. Every candidate for congres
sional honors must go squarely on
record on these questions in the
Third congressional district.
Senator Kosenhaupt Is known to
have decided views and that his
attitude on the policy of the g. o. p.
in national affairs does i\ot entire
ly coincide with that of Congress
man Poindexter, who made a rec
ord as a fighting insurgent in tlie
last session.
"I have been urged by numerous
friends to come out for congress,"
saiil Seniator Kosenhaupt today,
"but 1 have not yet determined
what I shall do along this line. It
may be that I will be a candidate.'
"Where will you line up, sen
ator, if you come out, with the pro
gressives or with the old crowd,
now In control at Washington?"
was asked.
"If I Opnclttde to make the race
I will let the people know where I
stand, as 1 have always done In the
past."
Unclaimed
Letters
♦ The following list of un- ♦
♦ claimed letters and packages ♦
♦ are held for claim in the local ♦
♦ postofflce, parties to whom ♦
♦ they are addressed not having ♦
♦ been found. After 14 days ♦
♦ these will bo forwarded to the ♦
♦ dead letter office at Washing- ♦
♦ ton, D. C. ♦
♦ The Press is the first news- ♦
♦ paper In Spokane to advertise ♦
♦ this list, which Is of special ♦
♦ interest to Spokane's visitors. ♦
♦ Watch The Press every day ♦
♦ for them, as the names appear- ♦
♦ ing on the unclaimed letters ♦
♦ will be printed alphabetically ♦
♦ from day to day in its col- ♦
♦ umns. ♦
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GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
Allen, Rev. A. .!.; Allen, Grover;
Allison, Rev.; Anderson, Charles;
Anderson, Ellnier; Anderson, J.
Bayless, J. it.; Ballaa, R. E.:
Paller. Joe; llandsfield, Alio; Bar-
Btan, F.; Heck, N. L.; Peers, Rob
ert; Beam, Aug.: Hell, D.; Dell,
L L.J Berk, Menie,
Carlyle, J. D.; Carter, Amber;
Chamberlain, Joseph \\\; charhon
can. A.; Chcska, Anton; Clark, C. B.
.(21; Oline, S. W. (2); Clough.
Raleigh; Coates, l. o.; Denials,
Charlie; Davidson, F. C; De Mon
trevtlle. C. (2); Dlckhut, Arthur T.
Coytlnued on Page Seven.
HOME PRESENTED TO
AGED COUPLE BY
TOWNSPEOPLE
HOQUIAM, Jan. I.—A new home
built over the ashes of the one lost
several weeks ago by lire, was the
Christmas present given* Mr. and
Mrs. 11. Elltngson, an aged couple
who reside in this city. The gift
was the generous offerings of the
people qf the city, who gave money
to build tlie old couple a home
which wa* burned to the ground
uud the savings of years lost.
IS THERE
COMBINE?
Big Four Says No, Yet Talk
■sit' Still Raising
Prices.
PAY 3 1-2 CENTS; GET 9
Milk Inspector Rheinwald
Defends Large Dairies
as to Prices.
Is there a Milk Trust?
Is there a—what?
There's only a moo cow
Out in the lot.
Only a'moo cow,
Gentle and fat;
Contented, no matter
What milk sells at.
Is there a Milk Trust?
Is there a —what ?
There's only a farmer
Out in the lot.
Only a farmer
Wanting to know
What in the dickens
Makes prices so low.
Is there a Milk Trust?
Is there a —what?
There's just a consumer
(letting darn hot.
And knocking somebody
And wondering why
The cow and the farmer
Are coming so high.
Is there a Milk Trust?
Who's raising tlie row?
Consumer or farmer?
Perhaps it's the cow!
W. J. LAMPTON.
<<1 s there a milk trust in Spo-
I kane?" is as'-ed, in connec
* tion with the government in
quiry as to the high price of milk
in Chicago and New York.
The bulk of the milk business in
Spokane is controlled by four con
cerns—the Hazelwood, the Broad
view, the Pine Creek and the Elgin
dairies. They are commonly re
ferred to as the "Big Four," yet
they deny vigorously that there is
any combine between them.
At this time the ltig Kour are
paying the milk producers on the
ranch 14 cents per gallon or .1 1-2
cents per quart and retailing it to
the consumer in Spokane at a frac
tion over 0 cents per quart or 11
tickets for $1. They insist that at '
this figure there is only a legiti-1
mate profit in the business and
that no combine to boost prices;
exists.
A combine to advance the price
of any commodity, whether It be 1
Continued on Page Ten.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., .lan. I—After
living for more than five weeks
with a bullet In his heart. Francis'
Drysdale, 81 years old, died to-1
night. Attending physicians were
astounded, as the wound had
healed over.
WENT TO JAIL FOR "COLOR"
NOW SHE CAN'T GET OUT
Sad Plight of Dainty Authoress Who Didn't Know How
to "Railroad" Her Hero to the "Pen."
SEATTLE. WaHh.. Jan. I.—lf you
wanted to get some local color for
your novel,' and the only place
where said local color abounded
was in jail, which would you choose
—art or Jail?
If you had never committed a
crime before, would you endunger
your fair name, and endure a crim
inal atmosphere for several mouths
for art's sake?
Those questions are sufficient to
the: paper
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1910
SHIRTWAIST STRIKE
HEROINE
BERTHA ELKINS.
NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Bertha El
kina, the first of the striking" girl
shirtwaist makers to be arrested,
jumped into fame.
A great throng met her when she
emerged from the workhouse alter
five days. The next day, in an auto
that was the property of Anna Mor
gan, daughter of J. Pierpont Mor
gan, she took part in a parade in
Fifth avenue. The parade blocked
the vast Christmas season traffic in
that great thoroughfare, for it oc
curred at the hour of 4:30, when
swelldom of New York is abroad
there. The crowds, knowing that
Anna Morgan and Mrs. Belmont
J and other social leaders were spons
-1 ors for the demonstration, cheered
'. the girl. The scene was unusual.
Great ladies called Bertha "dear-
le," and said she was a heroine.
, The next evening she, with other
girls, received medals for bravery
and loyalty at a great dance and re
ception, given by Mrs. Belmont.
BANKER MORSE HAS
A QUIET DAY IN
HIS CELL
Faithful Wife Remains by
His Side.
(By United Press Leased Wire)
NEW YORK, Jan. L—Charles W.
Morse, the former steamship mag
nate, ice king anil financier, who is
sentenced to 1"> vein's' imprison
ment in the federal penitentiary in
Atlanta, Gn., spent a very quiet day
in the Tombs today. It being New-
Years visitors were not allowed to
see him. Tomorrow morning Unit
ed States Marshal Henkel and two
deputies will call for him ;tnd t;>ke
him over to the Jersey railroad de
pot and start Rim off for Atlanta.
It is believed .Mrs. Morse, who
was formerly Mrs. Dodge, a former
resident of Atlanta, win accompany
her husband. She intends staying
in Atlanta for at least one year, so
as to be near Rer husband and visit
him daily. Morse's sons, Den and
Harry, are still at college.
A federal official today declared
Morse would have to serve, at least
four or five years before the presi
dent would even consider the mat
ter.
make even the most enthusiastic
'art student pause and consider. Yet
Edna . May Wilson, v magazine l
Writer, and v beautiful girl of :<t
summers, with ail the advantaase
of culture aud refinement, willingly
made lite sacrifice, she says, and is
•I present awaiting trial iv the
Klog county jail in Seattle up tlue
aharge of lurcuuy. I
You see Kdna U writing a V,it»B
Continued on Page Ten.
KNUR
NATION?
New England Thinks Til
linghast's Wonder Is
Straight.
WONDERFUL AIRSHIP
The Marvelous "Feelers" on
His Secret Machine—
Twice*as Fast as 20th
Century Limited.
(Editor's note.—Either Wallace
E. Tillinghast, the Worcester
(Mass.) inventor, has made the
greatest airship in the world or he
is a great hoaxer. The strange
moving lights seen by thousands Of
persons in New England were made
by his airship, Tillinghast says
BRYAN'S NEW YEAR INTERVIEW
OPPOSED TO THREATENING WAR
(B| United Press Leased Wire)
jjLKIJjGSTON, Jamaica. Jan. I.—
JWm.O. Bryan, who is touring the
Westgndles preparatory to a trip to
: Southf America, today gave to the
United Press a New Years' inter
view to which he spoke hopefully of
the outcome of the struggle now
going on in Nicaragua and of the
general Central America situation.
Asked whether he thought Secre
tary Knox had gone too far in tak
ing a hand in Nicaragua's struggle
and whether the I'nited States is
maul psting a new form of Imperial
ism I t her attitude toward Nicara
gua. Ir. Bryan said he had not kept
hi ins If sufficiently Informed of the
latee developments to answer In
terna >ntly.
"I ion't care to discuss politics,"
Mr. 1 ryan said. "For the next few
monl ■ I intend to study politics
and Save the actual discussion to
others. I am as deeply interested
|as ever aud Intend to make a care
■ ful study of political conditions in
every country 1 visit.
"Tho»e taking a superficial view
KNiearaguan affairs may conclude
at the civil war raging there is
proqi of the republic's inability (o
■everu herself. Nothing could be
tturthci (sen the truth. Civil wars
Ore sometimes the strongest evl-
Hence m a lull capacity for self ijov-
Kriuuesa indu-atio* a. colusal luuger
Hn endure ctmdatou* tluu .uiltt»u
--; against the biga*»i ueveiopomst
As to the sjsjsjjgsj tueatiusji of
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OLD TENNESSEE?
CAN'T MAKE BOOZE THERE ANY MORE
MEMPHIS, Term., Jan. I.—The new law against the manufac
ture of intoxicants becomes effective today and for the first time
in the history of Tennessee it is against the law to manufacture
liquors in the state. While the new law became operative at mid
night, the managers of the two breweries and one distillery at
Memphis decided at 6 o'clock to stop making liquors, called in their
employes and discharged those engaged directly in the brewing
business.
A CRITICAL TIME
SAN FRANCISCO, .Tan. 1 —One
week from today the new
union labor administration
will assume control of this city
with Patrick McCarthy as mayor
and a strenuous time ahead.
With the new year the affairs of
the city pass out of the hands of :
the men who directed them
through the morally and materially
days that followed the earthquake
and fire, and the exposure of the
grafting Ruef-Schmitz regime.
The graft prosecutions are now
In the hands of the new district at
torney, Chas. M. Fiekert, whom |
Prosecutor Francis J. Ileney charg
ed with being the personal candi- j
date of Patrick Calhoun, the In-1
war, I am as much opposed to it as
ever in my life. For a New Year's
greeting I can think of nothing bet
ter than to express the hope that
the day will soon come when men
shall see the lolly of the opinion
that they can justly shoot down
their fellowmen simply becatise of
differences existing between them."
HONOR SENATOR
CUMMINS
Laud His Pleading for Pro
gressives in Con
gress.
(By United Press Leased Wire)
IHOS MOINES, lowa. Jan. I.—
Over 300 leading progressives, from
all aver the state attended the din
ner™n honor of Senator A. P. Cuni
niinH at the Savery hotel tonight
and heard him sound his battle cry
tor the coming campaign in the
state. When Senator Cummins
made It clear that he wanted every
eONsVOsVfaIM) district to xvnd. a
progressive to congress next fall
thors was wild «aw«r*.
EIGHTH YEAR, No. 48
(By United Press)
FOR OLD FRISCO
dieted traction millionaire.
Only this week the citizens voted
to place $2,020,000 in the hands of
' the new administration to build
i the first municipally owned and
operated straightaway line in
America.
Though the city has been rebuilt,
the city hall has never been re
placed and the task of rsising this
edifice also is on the shoulders of
McCarthy.
ELEVEN WOMEN ARRESTED
Eleven women were arrested by
the police at a resort at 612 Front
avenue at 10 o'clock last night, and
booked for disorderly conduct.
EIGHT INJURED IN
A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT
Car Laden With Passengers
Turned Over in
Crash.
(By United Press)
U)S ANGELES, Jan. L—Eight
persons were iujured, none fataily, ;
today, when the second car of a 1
three* car train of the Pacific Elec-;
trie railway, bound for Pasadena.'
was struck aud turned on iv side
by a Salt Lake Pullman car which
was being shoved by a locomotive.
The seriously injured are A. M.
Olree, suffering from internal in
juries, and John White, who was
badly cut about tl»,-» face and body.
The electric train was crowded
with paseugers bound for Pasadena
to witness the rose tournament pa
rade.
The electric cars had come to a
stop on signal from the flagman.
Another signal was given, and the
cars started to cross the (racks.
The motor car was safely across
when the Salt Lake engine, pushing
the ear in front, crashed Into the
middle car. *
The side of the electric car crum
bled, while a panic stricken stream
of passengers fought theh way out
through the open windows.
ft is believed that the accident
wag caused by a mistake in signals.
10 CENTS PEE WEEK
mm
GRASP is
BROKEN
SETTLE MANY CASES
WITHOUT GOING TO
COURT. ff.
THEY ARE EXPOSED
MAYOR SAYS THEY
SHOULD ALL BE ,
JAILED. « r i
♦ Victims of the loan sharks ♦
; ♦ can free themselves from the ♦
i ♦ clutches of the leeches any ♦
i ♦ time they want to—if they ♦
♦ have paid 12 per cent on the ♦
♦ original loan. ♦
♦ Tell the loan sharks to go ♦
♦ to. Defy them to sue you. ♦
♦ And if they do sue—or ♦
♦ threaten to— ♦
♦ COME AROUND TO THE ♦
♦ PRE6B OFFICE WITH ♦
♦ YOUR BTORY. ♦
♦ We won't use your name un- ♦
| ♦ less you are willing. ♦
•♦ We will look after your case ♦
♦ for you—in court or out. ♦
: ♦ Press attorneys will go over ♦
♦ the case. You will find that ♦
♦ the courts will back you up in ♦
♦ defying the loan sharks if you ♦
♦ have paid 12 per cent on the ♦
♦ original loan. The documents ♦
{ O they made you sign are not ♦
♦ worth the paper they are writ- ♦
I ♦ ten on. ♦
THE grip of the salary loan
sharks upon the purses of the
city's working people has been
broken. Xo longer do these greedy,
vampires of the world's society en
joy an endless financial feast from
the earnings of the small salaried
working men and .women! These,
their former victims, who bowed in
t submission to their demands and
; grew weak at heart through fee;
of their idje thseats, now stand up
in defiance of them and laugh at
, their helplessness to extort their
lawless revenue from their thread-
J bare pockets.
A series of exposures of the law.
! less practices of the money lenders,
published in the columns of Tho
Press week after week, have had
their desired effect upon those held
by monled masters in Involuntary
| peonage. They have showed them
i that the land has no law that will
help these Shy locks of the present
day to operate their games of ex
tortion and usury on them, and the
Continued on Page Five.
FARMERS
SAY OPEN
THE BOOKS
Conference Called for Pur
pose of Organizing to j
Clean Court House. '
DEMAND. GRAND JURY
STEPS will be taken at a con*
ference of farmers to bo hole)
in Spokane this week to dean*
out some of the offices in tho csiw
ty building. The particular effteeo
for which a fight will be made wM|
be made are those of the proeeenV
ing attorney, sheriff, assessor, clerfct
and one commissioner.
The campaign will be waged on)
the issued of "Open the Books." A
demand will be made for another
grand Jury to conduct a probe of
county affairs on its merits, with a
view of ferreting out grafters and
punishing them when found. It la
charged that the last grand Jury in*
vestigation, through the hostility of
powerful influences at the court
house and lack of sympathy ot
those In charge, failed to secure tho
results desired.
Enough, however, was brought to
the surface to show, la the opinion
of farmers that a progressive Inveg*
ligation can bring to light develop*
meat* that will startle too people,
and to accomplish this it Is pro*
posed to get a set of county otnr tain
in sympathy with the prosecution
of the grafting officials.
Letters have boon sent to some of
the leaders in too recent nntigrait
movement among the farmers invito
ing them to tho conference in Bpo
kane. At this meeting a* plan of
campaign will he formulated and an
effort made to place an organisa
tion in every township in taf
county. f
The assistance of the laborlgf
people oi Spokane will sine he aan*
ed, a* the wage earner la baits vst
to be equally i«tcr«aU»d witfe. the)
farmer In scuiug that Uiahooost of%
. Ih)k s'e made to disgorge, %ad lajMr i
the bar ot JuaUoe. Jj; .