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THE NEWSPAPER THAT DARES PRINT THE TRUTH MAKES RESULTS FOR THE PEOPLE FOLLOW
ONE CENT IN CITY. ON TRAINS, FIVE GENTS.
RALSTON'S REMOVAL BIG VICTOR V FOR PEOPLE AND "PRESS"
Score No. 2 in the interests of the people.
On March 10 The Press printed an editorial in which it recited the fight successfully conducted and carried
to a finish, for the increase in the wage scale, by labor and the women's clubs and The Press.
That was score No. 1 for the people.
On March 23, in a first page editorial, this newspaper demanded the removal of City Engineer J. C.
on the ground of incompetency. Since then it has carried on a daily campaign of exposure of the inefficiency of
the city engineer's office, and has insisted on the appointment of a new engineer. The initial editorial statement of
the campaign was:
) "THE PUBLIC GOOD DEMANDS THAT THERE BE NO FURTHER TOLERATION OF THE INCOM
PETENCY OF CITY ENGINEER J. C. RALSTON, AND THAT A CHANGE BE MADE IN THE OFFICE BE
FORE THE TAXPAYERS BECOME MORE HEAVILY INVOLVED."
At last night's council meeting score No. 2 was chalked up. By a vote of seven to three Ralston was removed,
and thus in two weeks action has been accomplished through the publicity of The Press which had been urged for
a year before.
The council did well to remove Ralston. There is no occasion for sentiment and no excuse for personal feel
ing, one way or another. It was simply a case where the city had to protect itself from inefficiency and immense
financial losses. Spokane has some great engineering works under way, and the city must demand the services of
the ablest engineers.
This is no time for the mayor's office to continue to play politics. The proper kind of a city engineer should be
selected as soon as possible. The mayor is enough at fault for not removing Ralston on hif own initiative.
MAYOR MUST BE FAIR OR FACE IMPEACHMENT
COUNCIL
DELIVERS
ULTIMATUM
MAYOR MUBT MAKE DECENT
APPOINTMENTS OR WILL GO
AFTER HIM NEXT.
WANT COMPETENT MEN
NO MORE CUSSEDNEB3 TO BE
TOLERATED BY CITY
FATHERS.
At noon today no appointment of
t city engineer or corporation coun
sel had been made by Mayor Pratt,
to fill the vacancies created by the
city council last night in the re
moval of City Engineer Ralston
and Corporation Counsel Burcham.
The mayor, it was said last
spite of the action of the city coun
nlght, would reappoint Ralston, in
cil. If this step is taken, or some
appointment of spiteful character,
such as that of James T. Burcham,
is made, It Is probable that the next
step in the city hall scrap will be
the launching of impeachment pro
ceedings against the mayor.
With a fair man for corporation
counsel, one that is inclined to
give all branches of the city gov
ernment impartial treatment, and
a competent man for city engineer,
the council will probabiy sheathe
its pruning knife for the time be
ing. Hut should the mayor, by mak
ing odious appointments, desire to
prolong the fight, the guns will next
be trained in his direction. The
blame for all the trouble in the
MISBRANDING OF A DRUG
THE CASE OF RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER
WASHINGTON, April 6.-me United States department of agricul
ture has published a bulletin telling of the proceedings in the su
pre**; court of the District of Columbia in the matter of "Madam's
Microbe Killer."
Government agents seized and analyzed 12 cases of the "killer."
The label said the remedy was a "certain cure for all diseases, and
is guaranteed to be perfectly harmless. . . The only known
principle that will destroy mlvrobes In the blood without injury to the
system."
The government said this label was "false, exaggerated and mis
leading," and that the further claim that the drug was a cure for
anemia, asthma, blood poisoning, cancer, consumption, diabetes, diph
theria, la grippe, malaria, yellow fever, parulysis. pneumonia, whoop
ing cough and other diseases was false, and that the drug as pre
pared was not a enre for these diseases.
The court ordered the United States marshal to destroy the "kill
er," and fined the partners of the firm of Dean Swift & Co. of
Washington, In whose possesison the drug was found, the costs.
IHE EVIL OF CASHING PA V CHECKS IN SALOONS— WHY NOT PA V YOUR EMPLOYES IN CASH?
BY M. MILTON WINANS.
Thousands upon thousands of dol
lars, that are needed in home com
forts and necessities; dollars that
belong to mothers and children
clothed In cheapest calicoes, and
sometimes rags, are finding their
way Into the pockets of the liquor
dealers here in Spokane every year
simply because working men In this
prosperous "city beautiful" are paid
in checks instead of cash for serv
ices In fields of industry and labor.
YVorklngmen's credits are disslpa
ted; their homes are lost and hard
working fathers, with calloused
hands, willing hearts and good in
tentions, live in poverty akin to
pauperism and sometimes Inherit a
drunkard's grave.
Did you ever stop to thluk It
over, Mr. Employer T
departments at the city hall is
placed by the council on the mayor
and in the view the council is up
held by a large section of the com
munity.
Mayor Pratt at noon entered the
city auto with Commissioners Mud
gett and Armstrong. They de
clined to say where they were go
ing, but it Is believed that matters
pertaining to the selection of men
for the vacant chairs in the mayor's
cabinet were under consideration.
ODDS
.AN D —
ENDS
"THEN IT HAPPENED"
Our Daily Discontinued story
After a farewell embrace Jack
Montroasor tore himself away.
"I am going for the marriage li
cense, Agues," he smiled, "and I'll
be back in a jiffy."
So saying lie stepped through the
door of the elevator shaft
(The Bnd.)
PITTSBURG, April 6.—Andrew
Carnegie today denied that his
western trip had made him 111. He
said he Is sleeping and eating like
There is no place where recogni
tion for a workingman's pay check
can be secured with as little dif
ficulty as in the saloon. Hanks are
generally closed and supplies of
ready cash too low for the cashing
of checks, else the holder of the
little slip Is not sufficiently known
to obtain that accommodation In
other places of trade than the sa
loon, when the laboring man, with
his soiled and crumpled pay check
is done with his work at the end
of the week or on pay night at the
end of the month. In short, When It
comes to taking chances on his
check, he is "turned down" by all
save the white aproned dispenser of
liquors down at the nearest saloon.
He would be a tightwad," In
deed, who would not buy a drink, or
a round of them, for that matter,
Special Illustrated newa service of
The Presa best In city.
JEFFRIES ON
ROAD WORK
(By United Press Leased Wire)
HOWAKDENNAN TRAINING
CAMP, Cal., April 6.-The prelim
inary training of Jim Jeffries was
confined today to road work with
"Farmer" Burns as the pacer. The
big fellow worked off some flesh
/hlle hiking along the roads of the
hill country and began the work of
.strengthening his bellows for the
Independence day scrap.
I This afternoon Jeff planned to
play handball on the new courts.
Jeffries will do a week of road
work, handball and baseball play
ing; before he takes up light spar
ring. "Bob" Armstrong, the col
ored fighter, arrived here late last
night, and will become one of the
leading living punching bags for
the champion when lie begins his
spurring work.
a boy, and feeling just as young as
any youngster.
"She says that marriage is heav
en." "Then she must be extremely
delighted." "Why?" "Because
she's In her seventh heaven."
Fearing that the world was about
to come to an end, because of all
the comets flying around, a North
Yakima woman wrote her epitaph
in the sand on the banks of the
Naches river yesterday. Here is
what she wrote: 'Mrs. Ruby Wool
field, April 5, 1910, has gone to her
rest."
The mayor now has n good
Chance to make good. If he se
lects an able corporation counsel
and an able city engineer it'll make
an excellent impression. If he
doesn't —
NEW YORK, April 6.—Mrs. Alice
McAloon has been divorced from
W. A. McAloon, known on the stage
as Andrew Mack.
SCHEDULE FOR
COEUR D'ALENE LANDS
Joe Yorkshirt of South Hillyard
has, among other claim holders, re
ceived a schedule of lands in the
Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation,
which will be opened to entry May
2. The papers are full of interest
ing facts for all who have been for
tunate enough to secure rights to
the lands, und it's a ten to one bet
that they know most of the facts
and figures given by heart. The
appraised value of the agricultural
lands of the first class runs front
Ifi to $fi.Bo epr acre. Timber lands
are appraised as high as $8 per
acre, and grazing lands us low as
$1.25 per acre.
(By United Press Leased Wire)
TOKIO. April I.—Prince Tsalto of
China and Japanese Consul General
Midzuno of New York embarked on
the liner Chio Maru at Yokohama
this afternoon for America.
Midzuno will return to New York
Where he was stationed previous to
his departure for Japan Beveral
months ago.
from the man who would thus re-
I turn money for his yellow slip of
j paper. One drink leads to another
j und then another. Worklngmen.
lou pay night, seldom travel alone,
so there are the comrades, who
huve had their checks cashed, too.
One of them is next to throw his
coin on the bar and call for the
round of drinks, and then, still an
| other to do his share of the "treat
ing." Hero, perhaps, the bartender,
with an eye to business, just to
show his "good will," and his "gen-
I eroslty," Is there handy with a
| "Don't go yet, bays—wait and have
one with me."
It is an old. old game. No one
better than be knows the reckless
ness that comes with a few drinks
to benumb the brain of the man
with a little money. So, it's "Here's
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1910.
LIVING PROBLEM-SOLVED
HOW JOHN AND CONSTANCE OF THIS CITY, DID
IT—JOHN WRITES THE WHOLE INTERESTING BTORY
FOR THE SPOKANE PRESS.
CONSTANCE SOLVES THE HOUSE EXPENSES
BY JOHN YOUNGLOVE. ,
CHAPTER VI.
Any one who pays bills will
realize what it means when I say
our groceries and meat together
have cost us about $2.50 per week
during the past winter. Light and
gas bills have been low. The ex
pense of clothing has been reduced
to a minimum.
All the time we were having our
WOMEN, FOLLOWING RAISE IN MEAT
PRICES, ATTACK SHOPS AND MEN
(By United Press Leased Wire)
NKW YORK, April 6.—An extra
detail of police were placed on
beats in the vicinity of Second ave
nue and One Hundred and First
street, iv the upper east side, today,
following a housewife riot yester
day when the price of meats unex
pectedly pimped two ceuts.
During the melee a number of
persons were beateu and five, In
cluding two policemen, were set
upon by the mob of women and
.to you, hoys, good luck to you. I
hope you'll live forever and I'll
i never die —drink hearty."
It is hard to leave right away
, after that, for a peculiar false spirit
\of reciprocity that coiues from a
, swaying head holds the unfortunate
1 laboring man there at the bar. He
feels the coins in his pockets—gen
i erally it is the cunning scheme of
I the man behind the bar to cash.
, checks in silver dollars, half dollars
and quarters, just to make it look
jas b(g as possible, and down there
lin the tattered pocket, as the man
growß unsteady from the effects of
his beverages, it feels like a million.
"Surely," he thinks, "I can spare
the price of another round."
He does, and again someone else
In the crowd buys and thus the
night wears on. Ills wife is wailing
The next branch of the city government which must be submitted to a housecleaning is the police department.
To those who are expressing the opinion that charges are not materializing, The Press rises to remark: Don't
worry. The facts are being collected. Enough already has been published to show that the police department la
the shame of Spokane, but the campaign there has only been begun. Be Patient. And when all the evidence has
been submitted, this newspaper may have another demand to make of the city government.
While the council took one very good action last night, they took another excessively bad one, to-wit: Laying
the charter election and commission form of government plan on the table—burying it.
Of course to a certain extent it is natural that the city fathers should not look with beaming countenances on a
plan which necessitates their disbanding as a body, but if they were deeply versed in political lore—if they had a
tenth of the political wisdom of one who is now cavorting through Italy—they would get behind the commission
plan with enthusiasm. Why? SIMPLY BECAUSE THAT PLAN IS GOING TO BE ADOPTED. If they help it,
they may have a political future. If they oppose it, they are political dead ones. See the logic of it?
Well, the council buried the charter election plan. Th at ends the matter so far as the august municipal body is
concerned right now.
IT BEGINS THE MATTER WITH THE PEOPLE. This proposition has been delayed long enough. Now is
the time for aggressive action, and continuous action until the first and second elections have been held.
The Press will now begin the active campaign for the early adoption of the improved Dcs Moines style of city
government. Plans are under way for immediate action.
I experiences in home-making, Con
stance was studying the reduction
of housekeeping expenses. Throw
nothing away is her solution.
We have been guided in part by
considering the habits of our
thrifty, foreign-born population.
We knew the Italians, for instance,
lived at slight expense principally
on macaroni. We chose spaghetti.
Continued on Page Seven.
scratched and mauled so badly that
the victims were taken to hospitals
for treatment. The riots were
quelled by the police reserves from
the Bast One Hundred and Fourth
street station.
Thf trouble started in the after
\ noon! when about 300 women
i niasst-d in front of the Isaac Free
; man butcher shop, on One Hundred
; and First street, near Second aye
; nue. The women, muny of whom
carried babies, began a fusillade of
.overripe fruit and decayed eggs.
While excitement was at Its height.
wlthjher steaming supper at home
for aim to come. Anxious faced
children peer out into the darkness
watching and waiting for papa" to
come'home, but "papa" is up there
iv the saloon nearest to his work,
and he is buyiug another drink. The
auppf r at home grows cold and only
then does the wife take her little
ones from the window to eat of
cold victuals, while they gaze In
slleuee at "papa's" vacant chair.
Another peep back at the saloon.
The workingiuan who, two or three
hours ago. was leaving his work,
smilingly tucking his check down
into his pocket, prospecting on how
ngnnr needed things for home he
eoiiM buy and how much of his
febtq he could pay with the money
it was worth, In maudlin tones Is
"singing in discordant chorus and
The Press receives the full leased
wire report of the United Press.
YIC.A.
FINANCIAL
CAMPAIGN
BIG EFFORT WILL BE
MADE TO RAISE
$90,000
With a pledge of $16,000 by the
15 members of the board of direc
tors, the preliminary steps toward
the great financial campaign to be
launched by the Y. M. C. A. from
April 12 to 15 has had a most en
couraging beginning.
The campaign is being handled in
a most systematic manner. A large
committee of 100 citizens has been
formed and divided into teams, 10
men in each team, governed by a
captain.
The campaign proper has not yet
been started. The men of the com
mittees are at present on the quiet
hunt for the largest subscriptions.
Two $1000 subscriptions, fifteen at
$500. fifteen at $300. and fifteen at
$200 are needed. The remainder of
the amount will be made up of pop
ular subscriptions.
Letters have been sent out to all
persons of whom money will be
solicited informing them of the
purpose, and during the days of
the campaign proper offices will he
secured downtown and there will
be some general hustling.
This campaign is for the purpose
of raising $90,000, which will cover
a mortgage of $40,000, a floating in
debtedness of $10,000 and the re
pairs and alterations of the building
and general indebtedness of the
institution for the next three years.
The subscriptions may be paid
quarterly each year.
The campaign executive commit
tee is composed of A. F. Md.aiue.
chairman. Robert Strahorn. Mayor
N. S. Pratt. F. E. Elmendorf.
Thomas H. Hrewer. W. S. Gilbert
and R. B, Paterson, ex officio of
campaign.
The captains of the ten teams
are W. M. Hums, J. C. Cunningham,
W. S. Gilbert, George A. Ix)vejoy,
E. C. Hlanchard, S. R. Stern, F. E.
Elmendorf.
Hoard of trustees: R. D. Paterson,
president: W, S. Gilbert, vice presi
dent: W. If, Hums; F. B, Elmen
dorf, treasurer: R. O. McClintocK,
IT. I). Hassett. I). R. McClure. D. 8.
I Prescott, J. C\ Harllne, Thomas H.
Brewer, James C. Cunningham, J.
A. Teamans, \V. H. Shields and C.
L King.
■ small boy mounted a barrel and
screamed denunciation against the
butchers. Following his suggestion,
the women attacked 30 shops in the
vicinity before the police reserves
rescued the beaten proprietors.
Imaginary glee with his comrades,
and the bartender is still smiling on
and passing out the drinks.
Perhaps If those men had been
paid in cash not one of them would
have so much as stopped for a
'single drink, but they are reckless
and thoughtless now. They do not
thinking of the little heads nodding
sleepily, of little eyes drooping |
i heavily from weary watching for
! "papa, who doesn't come home.
I They are not thinking of wives,
j heavy hearted and weeping over
! hopeless Indebtedness and the rent
! that is due, while they recklessly
I squapder the money that would
; pay It,
| Not till their calloused fingers,
\ benumbed and perspiring, begin
| searching for the price of another
• "round," In pockets that are empty,
EIGHTH YEAR. No. 138. 10 CENTS PER WEEK.
REUTERDAHL
TELLS WHERE
BLAME RESTS
RALSTON THE BOY THAT PRE
SENTED ORIGINAL PLAN OF
SPRAGUE AVENUE
FILL.
On the floor of the city council
last night Councilman Ostrander al
luded to the fact that the name of
Arvid Reuterdahl appears on the
act of plana for the Sprague avenue
fill as evidence that possibly Mr.
Reuterdahl and not Ralston was the
man. Ostrander was with Ralston
in the fight on Reuterdahl by
Mayor Pratt's office last summer
while Reuterdahl was water com
missioner, which resulted in Reuter
dahl being removed from office.
People who were Intimately ac
quainted with Reuterdahl and the
water Improvement plana designed
by him say that he was the squarest
and most competent engineer that
ever worked for the city.
Reuterdahl said today: "The ef
fort on the part of Councilman Os
trander to connect my name with
the drafting of the Sprague avenue
fill is an unworthy move. I am no
more responsible for this abomin
ation than is any citizen who has
never set foot inside the engineer's
office.
"I tried to do what I could to get
Mr. Ralston to adopt safe and
feasible plans for the fill and pre
sented four different designs that I
thought would stand, among them
one with concrete retaining walls,
that he since adopted. He had a
favorite plan of his own. whence it
came I cannot say, and we were
given orders to dress up that plan
and write specifications for It.
"This was not the Strack plan,
as announced, but a plan that Mr.
Ralston fathered himself and ad
hered to in spite of the advice of
myself and others In the office that
the plans were no good. My name
appears on the plans because of my
being at the head of the drafting
department at the time. But so far
as being the author of the plans
Mr. J. C. Ralston is the gentleman
that must shoulder the blame.
"I have refrained from entering
this controversy, but the uncalled
for Insinuation on the floor of the
city council could not be passed by
unnoticed."
The Laymen's Missionary ban
quet next Friday evening will be
given In the Princess roller rink
instead of the Armory, as was first
expected. Governor M. E. Hay and
J. Campbell White of New York
will be present at the banquet.
(By United Press Leased Wire)
NEW YORK, April 6.- The cor
oner today refused to reveal the
contents of letters which Mrs. Ber
tha Beyer, a wealthy widow, had
written shortly before she commit
ted suicide at her home at Miueola,
I* I„ yesterday.
do they remember, and then it is
too late. They are another week,
perhaps another month, behind in
the payment of their bills, and all
because they wore paid In checks
that only the saloonkeeper would
honor.
This is an unfortunate circum
stance that is all too well known in
Spokane, Just the same as it Is in
so many other cities all over the
United States. It need not be put
to another test in order to learu its
truth and genuineness.
Some saloons In Spokane will not
take a chance on men whose checks
have been cashed going away with
out patronising the place. It haa
been found very profitable to them
to make the fact known that they
will cash checks there, and iv hand
iing out the cash on them. 10 cents
'or ao of tbe ainouut is covered with
SOCIALIST
MAYOR AND
HIS POLICY
WHAT NEW SOCIALIST GOV-
ERNMENT PROMISES TO DO
FOR MILWAUKEE.
(By United Presa leased Wire.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 6.—
Mayor-elect Seidel called a meeting
of socialists for this afternoon to
outline the new administration for
Milwaukee.
He assured the people that the
socialists did not mean to attempt
anything revolutionary. He de
clared that he Intended always to
call meetings of the other socialist
office holders before taking any
Independent action with regard to
the city's affairs.
This policy, he said, should •be
sufficient guarantee that he and hla
brother socialists are not planning
anything that would injure the best
interests of the city.
Four socialists have been elected
to city offices, besides a number of
socialist aldermen.
Here are some of the subjects
which the socialists are pledged to
introduce:
Home rule.
Initiative and referendum for the
city.
Better schools.
Municipal ownership.
Penny lunches. ♦
To compel the street car com
pany to aprinkle streets.
To inaugurate union labor condi
tions for all labor.
MILWAUKEE. April R Emll
Seidel, working today as usual aa a
pattern maker, will in a few daya
throw up his job and sit down at
the mayor's desk In the city hall
to direct the affairs of the city.
Seidel Is the new socialist mayor
elect.
Socialists today declare the vic
tory in Milwaukee was one of the
most important their party ever
won. The big labor vote in ...11.
waukee was turned almoat solidly
in Seidel's favor and the pattern
maker ran far ahead of the other
candidates.
mmmmfm ■
I a chip good In trade at the bar.
That la the eotnmiaaion the houae
reaps for the accommodation and It
amounts to thouaanda of dollars
every year In trade that they would
not otherwise enjoy.
Go out among the people who are
paid In checks and you will find
; scores of them who will tall you
that if It were not for the fact that
they were almoat compelled to cash
their checks In saloona there would
be far less drunkenness among
them; more bills would be paid on
time; mora comforts would be in
their homes and there would be
more money saved. It la a poor
! business house that cannot bring
forth the equlialent of their pay
rolls In cash when It come* time to
pay. So think it over. Mr. Employer.
■ and see if you cannot nay your helii
with cash. .