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SPOKANE MAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING WfcV HOME EDITION—OWE CENT WCITIIED Fairtonight and Tuesday. Max- TTL/linCli I mum temperature, 45; minimum —— temperature, 33. ONE CENT IN CITY. ON TRAINS, FIVE CENTS. NH CITY COUNCIL IS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION KING APPLE THIRD REIGNS SUPREME TODAY VERDICT IN SULLIVAN CASE IHIS AFTERNOON STRONG LOBBY OF SULLIVAN SUPPORTERS PRES ENT BEFORE MEETING—SATURDAY NIGHT'S SUMMING UP. At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon President Lambert called the city council to order, to finally consider the Sullivan case and deliver a verdict. Immediately after the meet ing opened, the council went into executive session, to go over the entire case. On Mr. Lambert's request a copy of the charges was furnished the council. A strong lobby of men who have supported Sullivan were present today, and before the meeting they were observed to be speaking in behalf of Sullivan to some members of the council. A large number of people are present in the council chambers, waiting for the news of the decision. The councilmen have worked a solid week over the hearing, and have certainly done their duty. They desired to finish the case today, because Councilman Schiller leaves tonight on a trip. The verdict may be expected any time this afternoon. After a day filled with fiery clashes and dramatic situations the trial of John T. Sullivan before the city council closed after 11 o'clock Saturday night, with a masterful summing up of the testimony by Frank C. Robertson, attorney for the complainant. 1# was by all odds the most remarkable hearing ever held in the city ball, and probably the most interesting and important investigation of a public official ever held in Spokane county. Attorney P. C. Robertson/the members of the city council and other city officials connected with the case, including Assistant Corporation Counsel V. T. Tustin, manifested the greatest patience and perßeverence in slaying with the hearing to the end. Owing to the numerous charges, It was like the trial of a defendant on six or eight charges at the same time, with a different line of witnesses for each charge. AN HISTORIC TRIAL. The trial of Former Chief Sullivan, who resigned in an effort to fore stall the hearing, will be remembered for years to come. The varied ramifications of the case, the far reaching effects of the disclosures made, and the number of men wnose reputations were placed under a cloud (Continued on Page t.) ' TRAIL OF RLOOO LED TO MURDERED WOMAN (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—Fol lowing a trail of blood splotches on the pavement, Frank Smith, a pass erby, found the body of a woman, her head beaten until It lost human semblance, hidden under a sidewalk at McAllister and leaven worth streets. The body was found late in the morning. It had been dropped in an excavation extending part way under the sidewalk and screened from the stret by a signboard. DEFENSELESS CROWD AND "POLITICAL POSTS" (By Unltod Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14,—The defenseless of the Pacific coast, al leged In the resolution of Represen tative Mcl.achlan of California that jjaJled for a report on army condi- Wms, is revealed In a report soon to be filed by General Leonard Wood, chief of stuff, according to reliable information. The report is said to be the most comprehensive ever issued. The report will assert that the army Is divided into small military units in order that a number of "political posts" might be garrison ed. It will deny that the officers and men lack proper training, and will recommend an entlro reorgani zation of the army. ' Among the recommendations con tained In the reorganization urged will be the abandonment of unnec essary military posts; the addition fftfE MERCHANT HAS jS&4£THING INTER ESTING TO TELL YOU If he hadn't he couldn't take the time and trouble to get up his advertising matter, let alone pay the cost of the space. Hut the merchant who advertises is the live and wide-awake mer chant. He has strong, convinc ing reasons why he can make it both pleasant and profitable for you to do your trading ut his place of business. So he takes the advertising columns of the newspaper to tell you about It. The columns or The Press are just full of such live, Interesting ads each day. If you are not a regular reader of them become one today. Read them Carefully and thoroughly. The blod. trail led from a point near a stable fronting on the street and ended abruptly on the walk di rectly above the place where the body was found. Detectives were hurriedly sent to the scene. They arrested John Knapp, 57. Knapp lived in a small apartment over the stables. The police allege they found an Iron window weight in his room and that It was covered with blood and strands of hair similar to that on the body were also found. of 25 regiments to the Infantry line and seven eights to the field ar tillery line and the centralization of troops in large garrisons on the two ocean frontiers. General Wood will demand the immediate and adequate garrison ing of Hawaii, the Panama canal zone and the Pacific coast. The report will assert that the labor necessary to keep the present nu merous posts in repair has demand ed all the time and work the sol diers could give, and that as a con sequence the troops are deficient in military training. GOVERNMENT EXAMINATIONS. Local government examinations for teachers, forest clerks, bakers, and meat inspectors will be held in the federal building soon, under the direction of Edgar McCoil. A baker is wanted at the Genoa, Nebraska, Indian school, while teachers are wanted in the Philippines. ♦ ORPHEUM ACTREBS ♦ ♦ LOSES PURBE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ If you have found a brown ♦ ♦ leather purse with braided ♦ ♦ handles in the vicinity of ♦ ♦ Smith's cigar store on How- ♦ ♦ aid, it very probably belongs ♦ ♦ to Miss Ida O'Day, who Is at ♦ ♦ the Orpheum this week. It ♦ ♦ hud two diamond rings and ♦ ♦ $11 In money in It, but Miss ♦ ♦ O'Day does not cure so much ♦ ♦ about that as sho does about ♦ ♦ the bag Itself, which Just ♦ ♦ matches her brown suit, ♦ ♦ which she hnd nn awful time ♦ ♦In securing. If you have* ♦ found take it around to the ♦ ♦ stage entrance and It will act ♦ ♦ as a pass behind the scenes ♦ ♦ —maybe. ♦ The Spokane Press MME. VOLI, FRENCH AUTHORESS, SAYS MAN IS BUT A ROUGH DRAFT OF THE MASTERPIECE, WOMAN. The rough draft and the mastpieces. Some of the rough drafts are exceed ingly rough. Sometimes a rough draft is pretty smooth, at that. WATCH FOR SENSATIONAL FACTS ON CITY PAVING CONTRACTS Do you know how the paving con tracts given out in thia fair city of Spokane are ribbed up and how they are awarded to the favored contractors? Do you know that under proper conditions a few influential prop erty owners can force several hun dred taxpayers not so influential Into paying huge assessments for Improvements of streets? Do you know that seven men forced the Canno Hill paving dis trict upon the city, and by their in fluence compelled nearly one thou sand property owners to accept an improvement which they did not want, and for which they are being forced to pay even before the im provement is anywhere near com pleted? Do you know that work was started on the Cannon Hill job after legal action was started In the courts to invalidate the contract and assessment, and is being pushed right ahead regardless of the fact that the hearing of the protest case in the courts has not yet been called? Do you know that If the people TRY TO LYNCH NEGRO (By United Pre** Leased Wire.) ASBURY PARK. N. J., Nov. 14.— Threatening mobs, clamoring for the the life of Thomas Williams, a negro charged with the murder and mutilation of the body of little Marie Smith, age 9, today prevented the preliminary hearing of the ac cused man and resulted In taking extraordinary precautions to pre vent a lynching. Williams, under a triple guard, is held at the Asbury Jail, Outside the jail walls crowds of men openly talk of "necktie par tlos," "hanging bees" and "stake roasts." These remarks have kept the Jailors on edge all day. Every member of the police force has been on duty sinco early today, but In spite of the rough handling, the crowds refuse to disperse. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1910. Hill and Browne's addition paving 1 matters are successful in their suit, the city will be shown to have han dled all its paving contracts let in the past few years illegally^ Do you know that about "he rot tenest conditions exist in this city in regard to the letting of paving contracts that ever existed in any city of the west? Well, if you don't know these things, read The Press during the next few days and learn them. The Press has been making an In vestigation of paving conditions in this city and has found hundreds of things which it believes will be of Interest not only to the people of Cannon Hill and Browne's addition dint riots but to every ciUsen as BULLETIN At 2 o'clock the council chambers were jammed with people, waiting for the city council's decision in the charges against John T. Sullivan. The council was still in executive session. Different rumors were flying about, but they were only rumors. i TAFT IS AT COLON (By United Press Leased Wire) COLON, Nov. 14.—President Taft, Secretary Norton, CharleH P, Taft of Cincinnati and the other members of the presidential party arrived here today for a brief tour of inspection of the Panama canal. The president, during the voyage to the isthmus, worked on his forth coming message to the United States congress and has two trunks ful of notes, with which to frame the document. ♦ EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ♦ ♦ LAW CASE 18 SET ♦ ♦ (United Press Leased Wire) ♦ ♦ WASHINGTON, Nov.-14.—♦ ♦ supreme court of the United ♦ ♦ States this afternoon set Jun- ♦ ♦ vary 16 for four cases involv- ♦ ♦ ing the constitutionality of the ♦ ♦ employers' liability law. ♦ Some details that are missing from the ough draft. One way to find the cash value of a rough draft. Showing that the rough draft and the masterpiece are often not so far apart, after all. well. Those things will be told In The Press beginning tomorrow. They will tell a story which you cannot afford to miss reading. Read The Press and learn how the paving business in this city is handled. And If after reading the series of articles, which begins to morrow, you do not say that a change should be made in the man ner of handling such things there must certainly be something unus ual ia your constitutional makeup. Remember, The Press will tell you all about it, beginning tomor row with the story of how seven men forced the Cannon Hill paving district onto nearly one thousand taxpayers. : ——_ ILORIGH MAY RUN AGAIN (By United Press Leased Wire) PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Nov. 14 — That Sonutor Aldrich may consider hssvpaswlous announcement that he wo»ld*not be a candidate for re-elec tion to the United States senate became known today, when it was predicted that unless Aldrich should onter the race the Rhode Island leg islature would deadlock over the choice of hU successor. Circuit j Judge L. 11. Colt recently announced his candidacy as the representative of the young republicans or "Insurg ent" wing of the party In Rhode Island. Provided Aldrich does not enter the contest, Colt stands a fair ehanoe Of winning, although many predict that the legislature will be unable to reach au agreement on the senatorshlu. TOLSTOI SECLUDED IN LONLEY MONESTRY WANTS TO BURY HIMSELF ALIVE, AWAY FROM THE VANITIES OF THE WORLD. (By United Press Leaned Wire) ST. PETERSBURG, Nev. 14.— The spectacle of Count Lee Tolstoi, self-exiled in his old age, has sent a thrill of pity throughout the land of the czar. Every aid is being giv en the Countess Tolstoi to induce her husband to forsake his plan of becoming a recluse and entering upon a living death. The great Russian novelist la In seclusion in the convent at Koy elst, one of the severest monas teries In the world, refusing to see any of the messengers sent by his family, and obtaining consolation from his daughter. Alexandra, who is a nun. The amanuensis of Tol- ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE J. W. McDowell Arretted in This City To day. Accused of having murdered his wife at their homestead near Springßton. Idaho, a week ago, J. W. McDowell, a salesman of the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co., was arrested in Spokane this morning and is now held at the city jail pending the arrival of Sheriff Bailey of Coeur d'Alene to take him back to Idaho to face the murder charge. Mrs. McDowell was found dead in the little homestead cabin of the McDowells by the 18 year old son Elmer a week ago, having either — so it Is alleged—been poisoned or choked to death by her husband. At the time the death jnaa discov ered a note was found lying by the woman's side which said that she was tired of living in this sold and sinful world and that while the earthly parting was said, the meet ing in the hereafter would be sweet. Suspicion that the woman had not committed suicide was aroused by the fact that no poison bottle was found in the cabin, and at the coroner's inquest the son pointing an accusing finger at his father and declared that he was a murderer. The son, Elmer, told that he and his father had left the cabin early the- morning that the tragedy was disovered and that after going a short distance down the trail the father made an excuse to return, rejoining the boy shortly afterward. Whan Elmer returned home that evening he found his mother's dead body lying upon the floor, with the note nearby. The theory advanced by the police is that McDowell strangled his wife Sunday night and returned the next morning to place the evidence which would point to suicide. GOVERNOR HAY TALKS. "I am well pleased with the elec tion of the supreme court Judges in this state," said Governor M. E. Hay yesterday. The governor arrived in Spokane yesterday. "I have always been in favor of the commission form of government," he continued, "as it provides a means of fixing responsibility." HERE'S A REAL SYMPATHETIC STRIKE! Teamsters of Seattle Transfer Company Walk Out, Demanding Three Meals a Day fot the Horses They Drive—Company Stands by Two-Meal Plan. SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Rather than see the horses they drive, but whlca are owned by the Seattle Transfer Co., go without their noonday feed, 35 teamsters this morning Inaugur ated the first strike of its kind in the history of the United States when the) walked out in a body and announced their determination to temain away until officials of the transfer company rescinded Its or der. COMPANY'S SIDE OF IT. Roth the teamsters and officials of the company maintain that their stand is the one of Immunity. Rich (urd J. Moekle, general uiauager of ONEMWONTH FOB 26 CCNTf Veu can have Tha Preee delivered rift* at I your door early ovary afternoon for St sent* I per month. Phone Main Main ITS. I NINTH YEAR, No. 29 26 CENTS A MONTH stoi is with him, and, rumor says, the count plans, in the winter of his life, to Journey to Canada to join the colony of the Doukhobors, Reports that Count Tolstoi has become reconciled to the Greek church, which ex-communlcated him after his most famed work, "The Resurrection," was published, have not been verified. The Countess Tolstoi and her daughter seek to have the count return to the home which his de parture has made so desolate. COUNTESS LOVES PUBLICITY. "The countess is not exactly as represented in the press," said a (Continued on Page Six.) PRINCE NAPOLIAN IS MARRIED (By United Press Leased Wire) TURIN, France, Nov. 14.— Prince Vlotor Napoleon, of the house of Jerome Bonaparte, recognized aa the undisputed head of the Bonaparte family, was married today te Princess Clementine, third daughter of the Iste king Leopold of Bel gium, st the chapel MoncaUerl here. The nuptial ceremony waa without ostentation. The bishop of Biella officiat ed at the religious wedding, while the mayor of Moncalieri performed the civil ceremony. OREGON APPLES Medford, Ashland and Hood River have exhibits at the Spokane Apple Show. These Oregon apple growing districts will come In di rect competition with the districts of Wenatchee and Yakima in the sister state and several well known orchard districts in Idaho. Ash land is out with a carload of New ton apples. The Ashland growers have 630 boxes on display and they are said to be the finest obtainable this season. The Medford display is intended to represent the Med ford district only and hence win not enter into compteition with Ashlad. An excursion of business men will leave Portland Wednes day evening to attend the apple show and visit other places in the Inland Empire. ♦ MADE WIDOW TWICE 0 ♦ BY POWDER EXPLOSIONS «■ ♦ (United Press Leased Wirs.) 4> ♦ SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 14. ♦ ♦ —Mrs. Ella Stanley is again ♦ ♦ a widow, a powder explosion ♦ ♦ Raving killed her second hus- ♦ ♦ band In the same manner that ♦ ♦ death overtook her first mate. ♦ ♦ Samuel Stanley the second ♦ ♦ husband, was killed Saturday ♦ ♦ in a premature blast in the ♦ I ♦ Riverton stone quarry, where ♦ . ♦ he was employed as foreman. ♦ TOO MUCH ARDOR IN HIS KISS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 14.—Because her husband In kiss ing ber used too much ardor, and because she objects to oscula tion as a general proposition, Mrs. Amelia Schmidt is suing her husband for divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treat ment. The alleged osculation which is the basis of the suit Is sold to have taken place on August 6 last at the home of the woman's mother, which she refused to leave at the suggestion of her husband. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«■♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•>•>♦•>♦♦ d>l the transfer company, had this to say: "In the east the experience has been that horses work better and enjoy better health when fed but twice a day. This is merely an ex periment out here. For the next 30 days we will try out our new plan. If It does not succeed, of course we will fall back on the old plan." The teamsters, actuated solely by humane motives, entered strenuous objections this morniug when it was announced that he noonday meal would be eliminated. I The teamsters said It was inhu mane and unjust, and refused to go to work unless the order wag. In TO CROWN THE QUEEN TONIGHT Big Crowd and Brilliant Display Open the Fair. "Toot-toot, toot-toot, to-wo-o-o-t!* went every steam whistle in Spo kane, beginning promtply at 10 o'clock this morning, and with the) first toot, King Apple II and Queen Ideil I began their week's reign, and the Third National Apple show was officially declared open. With the first blast of the whis tles —and if there was a whistle In town that didn't blow it was either a police whistle or was broken —the gates of the big apple show at the) armory swung open and the crowd which had already gathered rushed Into the enormous hall and the big tents where the millions of apple* were on display. By the end of five minutes, when the whistles ceased their shrill screaming, the place) was crowded and exclamations of wonder were heard on all sides. Apple shows have been held he* fore and again, but never before has there been such a showing of the king of fruits as is to be seen at the armory this week. They are) there by the box, by the barrel, by the carload and even the humble) plate of "extra selects" from the family orchard Is on display. . Big, red brother Jon t haps, fine striped Royal Beauties, wonderful Nee/? town Pippins, splendid Rhode Island Greenings and all the multt* (Continued en Pag* 2.) sips (By United Press Leaved Wire) - WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—The state department confirmed this alt. ernoon a report that Commandants Valladares of Honduras surrender* ed the port which he has for weeks held in subjection. It Is also an nounced that Valladares appealed to Commander Anderson of the United States gunboat Yorktown for protection and that the Tork town sailors are guarding Valla dares' home to protect the late rebel from a mob's vengeance. Sailors from the German gunboat Bremen have all the arms and am munition on the island under guard, and it is not likely that further disturbances will occur. ELECTRICIANS 6EI IDE Nf The board of works has written the city council a letter advising that the salary of A. F. Theilman, electrician of the fire department, be increased from $125 to $150 per month. The reason given for tho advised increase is that Theilman has to work st all hours of the day and night, and that Tacoma, Wash., and Vancouver, B. C, both of which are smaller cities than Spokane, pay their electricians $150 per month. stantly rescinded. Their demands] were refused and 16 men. comnrla* Ins the entire freight delivery crew, walked out » "It is a foolish move." said on* at the teamsters today, "Put yourself tv the horse s jjlace fpr a moment and see. Suppose yon breakfasted at 5 or 6 o'clock and along shonf lf) o'clock merely took a drink of wsjtasj by way of food. To make the hornVg condition worse oat here, yen wfjM to remember that Seattle la fjf with hills, thus making the fB harder. We refused to work huagf horses. That's our stand and W propse to appeal to the Human* jj£ : clety of King county to bucfaa hfaf