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POPULATION OF UNITED STATES 101,100,000
HOME EDITION—ONE CENT
LEATHER
ONE CENT IN CITY. ON TRAINS. FIVE CENTS.
HAS GAS COMBINE GRABBED A FRANCHISE
BATTLE AT RIO DE
WHOLE CITY
WATCHED
FIGHT
(By United Press Leased Wire)
Rio DE JANEIRO, Dec. to —
Five hours' bombardment of the
naval barracks at Uombru Island
by loyal Brazilian ships and shore
batteries in Rio .lunicro harbor
ended a second revolt In the
Brazilian navy today. At noon
the niutineers surrendered alter
several of the garrison and crew of
the scout cruiser Rio <le Sul, which
reported the mutiny, had been
killed. The greatest excitement
reigned during the bombardment.
Thousands of citizens of Itio
Janeiro lined the shore and hills
watching the conflict and cheering
the display of firmness by the gov
ernment. The red flag, which the
mutineers hoisted at dusk yester
day, was shot away twice during
the firing, but each time was re
placed. Orders were Issued lor a
general bombardment, but before
the vessels could clear for action/
the red flag was run down and a
white one took its place on the
barracks flagstaff.
REBELLION
IN MONACO
(By United Press Leased Wire)
LONDON, Dec. 10. — Uncon
firmed reports of a rebellion in the
principality of Monaco and the pro
claiming of a republic by the reb
els are printed today in the Pall
Mall Gazette. According to the Ga
zette the prince of Monaco has
been deposed and a municipal
council now is directing affairs. If
the dispatches are correct, Monaco
Is the smallest as well as the new
est republic in the world.
DYING FROM RAT BITES.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 10 —With
14 rat biles on her body, Liebe
Lewis, 2 years old, is dying of blood
poisoning. Mrs. Lewis was
awakened by the child's cries, and
saw a big rat disappear. ihe
wounds were cauterized.
CIIICO — Seventeen-pound boy
born to wife of t'has. Kerr, setting
new record for California.
I ATE NEWS BULLETINS
-£La < by UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.) \J
SHIP SINKS WITH 34.
VICTORIA, B. C.| Dec. 10.—The steamship Empress pf India,
which arrived here late yesterday afternoon with silk worth over a
million and a half dollars and a lage passenger list, brings news or
the loss with all hands of the Japanese steamer Kumamoto Maru on
November 1 off Sado island, whei bound from Muroran to Tsingtao
with ties. The crew numbered thirty-four.
GIRL'S DEFENSE RESTS.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 10.—The defense In the trial of Halite
I.c Blanch, charged with the murder of Clarence Glover, rested at
noon today. The girl, wso is accused of having shot and killed
Glover, was not called to the stanl, although attorneys for the de
fense had Intimated that her testimony would be taken.
FAIRBANKS FOR AMBASSADOR.
• WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Oosilp to the effect that former Vice
rrtjjdent Fairbanks was to succeed Ambassador O'Brien as represen
tative of the United States government at Tokio was revived today.
A MAJORITY OF 39.
LONDON, Dec. 10.—With only 177 more constituencies still to
hold election each side in the parliamentary voting at this stage has
exactly the same number of seats that it had in the last parliament.
The coalitionists have 263, a majority of 39.
CHINAMAN FIRST AIRSHIP INVENTOR.
HONO KONO, Dec. 10—A Chinaman from Shanghai lays claim
to prior invention of the dirigible balloon. Tai Taan Tai claims he
laid his plans before the Cblneso government In 1894. He states that
he sent plans to Sir Hiram Maxlai in 1899, and received a letter
that the British inventor was uliv.iiy In possession of the secret and
princlplel of aerial fllglit. Tai s.*ys Zeppelin's Invention was many
years behind his.
OVER LOS ANGELES'IM BIPLANE.
LOB ANORLBB, Cel., Dm. 10. Aviator Charlei P. WUlard today
flew from Los Angelill to I'asaiieti.' In. R Uuttias biplane, He eov
trad the 10 miles without mlahap, performed several evolutions over
the business section and started on tie ret urn trip without de
scending.
For Spokane and vicinity: Fair
tonight; Sunday, enow or rain.
Max. temp, 42, mm. temp. 34.
WASHINGTON
HOW HAS
1,141,999
A Gain of 120.4 Peer Cent-
On This Continent
91,972,266.
By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The
grand total population of the Uni
ted States is 101,100,000. These
figures represent the United States
and all its possessions.
Taking the population of the
Philippines given In 1903, which
was 7,635,426, and adding esti
mates for the islands of Guam and
Samoa and for the canal zone, the
grand total population of the Uni
ted States and its possessions is
over 101,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The
population of the state of Washing
ton was announced by the census
bureau today as 1,141,999.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10—The
population of the United States as
liven out by the census bureau to
day shows a total of !>1,972,266. In
cluding the territorial possessions,
the total population is 93,403,152.
The increase in population for the
continental portion of the United
States is l, r .,!»77,(!!U, or 21 per cent.
The Increase in population of the
territorial possession is 18,146.621,
or 20.!) per cent.
WISCONSIN 2, 334,860.
The population of the state of
Wisconsin was announced by the
census bureau today as 2,1134,860, an
increase of 12.7.
Three More Congressmen for This
State.
The census of Georgia was given
as 2,009,121. Wisconsin and Georgia
each Is entitled to one new con
gressman under the present appor
tionment. Georgia's percentage of
increase is 17.7. The increase in
population of the state of Washing
ton is 823,887, or 120.4 per cent.
Under the present apportionment
this would give the state three new
congressmen.
The population of Alaska Is
84,358, an Increase of 7C4, or 1.2 per
icnt.
WASHINGTON—Major General
Wesley Merritt. U. B, A., retired
Civil war veteran and first mili
tary governor of the Philippines, is
(lend aged 70.
The Spokane Press
PHONE TR US T SER YES TEA
TO PLACATE FUSSY C. P.
If you 'Should, within the next
few days, be invited to attend a
luncheon by the Pacific States
Telephone Go., do not be at all sur
prised, as all the world knows the
way to reach a man's heart is
through his stomach, and the local
telephone people may follow the ex
ample of the Dalles, Tex., branch of
DES MOINES AFTER
9G CENT GAS
(Special Dispatch to. The
Press.)
DBS MOINES, lowa, De
cember 10. —A popular move
ment for SlO cetit gas has been
inaugurated here and prom
ises to bring results. The
present rate is $1 per 1000
feet, with a 10 per cent penal
ty added if the bills are not
paid before the 10th of the
month. The people say that
this rate Is too high, as scores
of other cities have been cit
ed that secure gas as low as
Tii cents per loot).
The Dcs Moines city com
missioners on January 1 will
have before them the ques
• tion of the passage of an or
dinance regulating the price
'of gas. In addition to what
is considered a high price for
• the gas, the charge is made
that the people nre robbed by
• crooked meters, and that a
• poor quality of gas is served,
• which causes the bills for
• some homes to be higher than
they were 19 years ago, when
• gas was 40 per cent dearer
' than It Is today.
"Torn, Tom. tiu- piper*! ioa.wrote
to Sauta when he was >oung."
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1910.
JANEIRO;
SMARTY!
the American trust in an effort to
create favorable sentiment.
Yes, the day has arrived when
the people line up and feed right
out of the hand of the public ser
vice corporation.
Or you can put it this way:
The day is here when the public
corporations are adopting
COUNTY CLERK-ELECT
MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Organized labor and the fanners, i
who took such an active part in 1
the late county campaign, were ig
nored by Qlan B. Derbyshire in the
selection of his list of deputies,
announced today. Mr. Derbyshire
has selected 15 deputies, the same'
number that exists under the pies
ent county clerk, Cal Atkinson. He
will take his office January 9 next. I
Following are the appointments: I
Otto Hlenner. chief deputy, can*-]
didate for county clerk against At
kinson in the republican primary;'!
C. W. Hopkins, bookkeeper in the
store keeping department of ( h« !
Northern Pacific railroad; W. C. j
Orr, stenographer at democratic;
county headquarters: A. C. Bur
rows, a former deputy in the as
sessor's office; Louis (iuth, brother
of Horace tluth. law partner Of H.
1). Merritt; Charles Mengel of the!
Spokane Chronicle; Frank Roth.J
connected with the Hill Paving]
company, formerly a deputy In the
clerk's office; A. W, Konnners, a
brother of VY. J. Kommers of thej
Old National bank; K. S. Staeey or
the Washington laundry; E. .1. Hull,
with the Spokane Title company;
K. K. Burton and Roy Knox, depu
ties under Atkinson, retained for
the present; Blanche M. Rogers.
Pauline M. Horginan., stenograph
ers; Mary M. Kemp, a former depu
SOLOMON LIKE RULING FOLLOWS THE
SPANKING OF A GIRL OF SIXTEEN
.'By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. —"Uslßg tbe maternal slipper In spanking a
child, chasliscnuut ends at the Instop'Hihl assault begins at the heel."
Magistrate FYescbl, noted in New York for his Solomon-like wis
dom, announced this dictum in the case of 14-year-old Frances Buhner,
who had tier mother arrested, folloartra a spanking. The magistrate
was certain the punishment was ln.'icl*d o a spirit ol loving kindness,
so he discharged the toother.
Fiances told the magistrate s-he I ■■ W Ml "n the head with the
heel of the slipper. Thlti t ■■ mother n Vii u'i'y s'enled. <!i»*»b I
kuow bow to use « slip... • .\*. I'm the mother of I* children."
the time-honored maxim for domes
tic happiness, to-wit: "Feed the
brute."
The big Bell telephone trust, with
its 98 companies merged under the
charter of the American Telegraph
& Telephone Co,, which made $39,
--000,000 net in 1909, is having trou
(Continued on Page 8.)
ty In the auditor's office. C. W.
Hopkins holds membership with
some railway organization.
BUYS FARM TO SAVE TIME.<
NEW YORK. Dec. 10—Jas.
McDonald, chairman of the
Hanover National Bank, has
bought a 100-acre farm be
ttfcen his home near Trenton
arid the nearest railroad sta
tion so he can build a short
road to the station.
It now takes him eight min
utes to go from home to the
New York train, and he thinks
it) is too much time.
DO YOU KNOW DE WAELE?
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 10.—L.
He Waele, Belgian vice consul at
Fan. Francisco, will leave shortly
for fcew Orleans to become the re|-
re»»#itative of the Belgian govern
lifeiß there.
•OY SCOUTS TO RESCUE.
BRATTLKBORO, Vt , Dec. 10.—
Tile Boy Scouts of this town have
b*gun an independent search of the
WOCriS and ponds for Mrs. M. L.
Pu rri ngton, missing since Sunday
nigltt
MUTINEERS BEATEN
SOME OF US "GOOD
FELLOWS" ARE GIRLS!
SCORES OF PEOPLE WITH WARM HEARTS PLEDG
ING TO FILL STOCKINGS OF POOR
YOUNGSTERS.
BY A. GOOD FELLOW.
Say, fellows! Some of us Good
Fellows are girls!
'Course we all know that the
girls were good follows, but we'd
hardly been expecting them to de
clare themselves in on this Santa
Claus stunt of ours, had we?
They've done it, though, and yau
can just bet they are more than
welcome.
Yesterday afternoon two bright
faced young women found their
way to The Press office, asked for
A. Good Fellow and finding him,
announced that they wanted to
ENGINEER'S
OFFICE IS
COSTLY
Deputies Gaily Take Long
Vacations on Full Pay—
A Few Facts.
While the probe is being in
serted in different departments at
the city hall it will not do to slight
the engineer's office. That ancient
and time-honored institution of
political and other activity can al
ways be depended upon to produce
something worth going after, if the
inquisitor will but delve deep
enough.
The purpose of this article is not
to say anything harsh about the
engineer's office at this time, be
cause City Engineer Macartney is
an awfully nice fellow, and The
Press hates like the mischief to
injure the feelings of good fel
lows. But there are one or two
things in connection with the of
fice that it might not be amiss at
this time to call to the attention of
Mr. Macartney, just as they have
been placed before The Press.
To begin with, it is understood
that A. 1). Butler, Macartney's
chief deputy, has just returned
from a 4">-day vacation at full pay,
$17."i per month. The city charter
sa"ys that 10 days is the extent of
the vacation allowed any one of
ficial in a single year—but what
does it matter, when we see Mayor
Piatt go away for five weeks and
pull down his little $334 per
month on his return, just the sauiie.
Then there Is Mr. Klifeld, an
assistant engineer at $135 per. Mr.
Klifeld wants to go to see the old
folks back in New York state or
some other place in the east, so
Mr. Macartney has asked the
board of public works or the coun
cil to send Mr. Klifeld east at full
pay and expenses to attend a
paving convention of some sort. It
Is. to be hoped that the price of
paving will not be hoisted above
present figures on the return of
Mr. Klifeld. So it may be cheaper
for the taxpayers to pay the ex
penses of Klifeld and let the pav
ing business stand where it Is, for
It is high enough already.
Then tnere Is the "winter sched
ule" in the enginer's office, which
has just gone Into elfect. , This
schedule works this way: All the
rod or men and inspectors em
ployed at $3 per day are laid off
lor the winter and the high priced
engineers are kept on. The engi
neers then turn In and act as rod
men tor each other, in order to
keep busy, the only difference be
ing that the city pays $5 or $t> per
day for carrying the chain, while
formerly It paid but $3. The en
gineers are mostly single fellows,
who live well and need the money,
while the rod men and inspectors
are largely common scrub tax
payers with families to support,
and can ffve dining the winter on
wu.it ih -> earned in the bumiuer.
ONE MONTH FOR 25 CENTS
You can have The Praaa delivered right at
your door early every afternoon for 25 cente
per month. Phone Main Main S7S.
NINTH YEAR, No. 51 25 CENTS A MONTH
play Miss Santa Claus to four lit
tle girls, and that they had already
begun the work of preparing a
Christmas for them.
And this, morning conies a let
ter from a woman, herself a moth
er, who wants to be Mrs. Santa
Claus to five children. She says in
her letter:
PRESENTS FOR FIVE KIDS.
"A Good Fellow: Kind Friend —
Will you please send me the ad
dress of five children. Please let
me know also if their mother is a
widow (she realizes that mothers
and fathers sometimes need a
Christmas, too); and tell me as
Continued on Page Two.
BOYD PRAISES
"PRESS"EXPOSE
In F. Boyd, mayor of Spo
kane when the Hoger Will
lams gas franchise was passed
in 1904, is pleased with the
expose of the gas situation be
gun by The Press. Mr. Boyd
has been out of politics for
some years and is now em
ployed as proof reader In one
of the newspaper offices.
"This franchise did not look
right to me when it was up
for consideration six years
ago," said Mr. Boyd, "and af
ter making an investigation
at some length I concluded
that it was for stock jobbing
purposes and vetoed It. My
veto message, on file at the
city hall, will show that 1
pointed out the situation cor
rectly to the council, but they
passed it over my veto.
"1 have not since followed
the gas situation very closely,
but from what The Press has
had I see that my findings in
the case were correct. I am
glad that you are showing It
up, as this is the only way •
that the people can get light
on these questions."
SNAKE GUARDB CELLAR.
ALTON, 111., Dec. 10—Any one
who breaks info A. Q. Bailer's wine
cellar and steals the contents may
not see snakes, but he will be sure
to see one snake, a seven-foot bull
head. Tbe snake Is Bailer's pet
and the guardian of tbe basement
of the Haller borne in Wood River,
near Alton.
BABOON IN PHONE BOOTH CAUSES MURDER SCARS.
NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—A girl operator In the Williamsburg
telephone exchange saw tbe flash of No. 839 Williamsburg, and
when she plugged in beard what appeared to be groans and
scratches of a person in death agony.
"It's a murder," she said, calling up Police Headquarters.
Two policemen were sent from the Vernon avenue station to
the Broadway Grill, and found it closed and dark.
The night clerk of the hotel took the policemen in. The causa
of the supposed murder was soon discovered. A baboon that had
been appearing in a show had been put In the telephone booth for
the night and had knocked the receiver off the hook.
LOCAL 6AS
GO. RECORD
IN DENVER
Doherty Was Praised in Spo
kane. But Here's His
Record as Promoter.
It is a standing joke around the
office of the Spokane Gas company
that if anything of importance ia ts>
be done or anything bought worth
speaking of that "you will have to
see 60 Wall street."
"Sixty Wall street." What does
that mean? Why that Is the busi
ness address of the high financiers
that now control the destinies ot
the Spokane gas plant and have a
strangle hold on the throats ot
Spokane consumers.
While ostensibly a firm of Spo
kane lawyers, counsel for the gas
company, are the chief officials of
the company, yet the directing
force is at 60 Wall street. Henry
L Doherty Is the head of the syn
dicate controlling the Spokane gas
plant, and Frank W. Frneauff Is his
right hand man. Both live in New
York. Doherty holds no position
of greater importance in the com
pany than being one of the 13 mem
bers of the board of directors of
the Spokane Gas & Fuel company,
while Frueauff Is the vice-presi
dent.
After the Doherty syndicate
came to Spokane columns of news
paper space were used to tell what
a public spirited gentleman he was.
how he loved his employes, and
how they loved him to the extent
of forming a Henry I* Doherty
club to perpetuate his memory.
That read well in the Spokane
newspapers and was intended to
allay public suspicion. However,
when the mask is removed things
appear differently.
DOHERTY IN DENVER.
Four years ago Doherty waa
president of the Denver Gas ft
(Continued on Page Six.)
MANY KILLED
IN TORNADO
(By United Press Leased Wire)
CERBERE, Franca, Dec. 10.—
Many persona are reported to Have
been killed by a tornado that
swept northern Spain early today.
Six fishing vessels sank In Corrvna
harbor, aeveral of their crews be
ing drowned. Bilboa and Seville
suffered severely, although none in
either city was killed.
STEAMER IS
FLOATES AGAIN
(By United Press Leased Wire)
VICTORIA. B. C, Dec. 10.—The
steamship Northwestern, which
went aground on San Juan Island
several days ago and on which
several attempts to pull her off
have been unsuccessful, was float
ed shortly before noon today by
the tugs Salvor and Joeliffe and ia
now on her way to Seattle for re
pairs.