The Spokane press., November 14, 1910, Image 1

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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.
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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