FIREBUG DDPER111 TOWN

PEDDLES STUFF THAT STARTSBLAZE WHEN WETTED, ANDPOLICE ARE ON HIS TRAILTODAY.

An infernal invention that ismore direful in its influence thaneven "Pettibone dope" ever daredpc »s on exhibition in Police Chief

\u25a0» Rice's office. It's a chemical pre-paration which when wet sets Areto anything near it. Yesterday oneof the men of the central Are sta-tion bought a small vial of it froma street faker and turned it overto the officers.

When the chief reached head-quarters this morning he found his

braves amusing themselves likekids putting the chemical on news-papers, then spitting tobacco Juiceupon it and watching the paperblaze.

The chief amused himself withhis men for a moment, experiencedan Idea and then assigned Detec-tive McDermott to round up thefakir.

The possibilities of the stuff aresizzling. A firebug could merelyleave it out around a house, officeor room and if water was acci-dentally put upon it there wouldprobably be a large job for thefire boys.

EASY THING FOR THIEVES

A. B. Taylor notified the police

last night that yesterday afternoonhe left a trunk in the Main ay.

woodyard and when he returnedlast night he found that it had beenbroken into and his best clothes,suspenders, handkerchief and neck-ties had been stolen.

First* American on Olympic Team ReadyNEW YORK, April 30? By win-

ning tho 25-mile Marathon race atBoston April 20, T. P. Morrisseyof the Mercury Athletic club ofYonkers, N. V., gained the honor ofbeing the first American to makethe Olympic team, which will rep-resent this country in the interna-tional games to be held in Londonthis summer. »

He covered the 25 mile course intwo hours, 25 minutes, 43 1-5 sec-onds, which is second only to theTecord made last year by TomLongboat, the Canadian marvel,who covered the distance in oneminute, 19 1-5 seconds less. Long-boat is at present under suspensioniby the A. A. U. under the chargeof competing with professionals.

Morrissey was practically un-known as a runner until a 25 mileindoor contest was held recently atan arena in this city. In this meetmany of the favorites dropped outearly, while Morrissey rompedhome an easy winner. On his show-ing in this race he was one of thefavorites in the Boston meet.

When Morrissey broke the tapeIn the Marathon he cried out:"Now 1 am going to lick the Eng-lish!" He will be 20 years oldSept. 20. weighs 133% pounds andIs an electrician. He does his owntraining, and eats everything thatis put before him. He runs threenights a week and walks threenights, He varies his running from10 to 15 miles each running nigh!and every three weeks goesthrough 20 miles a night.

,NSPRING THE

all household, office, store andbox fixtures need "Excello," thebest piano polish. Made andsold only at 021/ WALL ST.

Am|m Wagner Showcase Works T. P. MORRISSEY

RAVENWOODOn the South Hillside,Overlooking the City

Close to the end of the Altamont carline. This

property is a natural park and you will have to

see it to appreciate it. Don't fail to examine thisaddition before buying and regret it ever after-wards.

$210»

On Monthly Terms

Baldwin &

Pfile326 1-2 Riv. Ay. Phone 820

EVEN BREAK IN CELLAR

Won Lost P. C.Tacoma 8 1 .889Seattle 6 3 .667Aberdeen 5 4 .556Butte 4 6 .444Spokane 2 7 .222Vancouver 2 7 .222

SAME OLD STORYAs usual, Spokane was trimmed

again yesterday when Tacoma won6 to 2. Errors by Mackin and Kip-pert cost runs. Killilay was touch-ed for 8 hits, one a three-baggerand one a double. He also gavetwo passes. Kid Carson pitched forthe Tigers and wasn't troubled bythe Indians until the sixth whenthey touched him for three hitsand he walked one, allowing twoscores.

At Vancouver the Butte Minerswere shut out 8 to 0. George Englegave them seven hits hut his teamdidn't make an error behind him.

Dugdale's men won from Aber-deen in Seattle by a score of 6 to 4.Seattle got a good lead in the sec-ond when a long drive by Bennettcleared the bases.

BANKERS HAD NOTHINGON DEPOSIT

At Recreation park yesterday Ed-die Vollmaun's S. A. A. C. teamshut out the Old National bank 4to 0. The bankers played five in-nings and gave it up without seeingthird. Batteries?S. A. A. C, Mc-Caugherty and Herrington; Bank-ers, Koerner and Nelson.

LAST BOXING SHOWOF SEASON FRIDAY

Mike Butler's show at the S. A.A. C. Friday night will be the lastof the season. The principal eventwill be the McPherson-Creel bout.Both boys are there with the punchand Creel Is showing such goodform that several of his friends de-sire him to get into the professionalgame. This, it is said, he Is will-ing to do and there is talk of get-ting him a scrap in some of theIdaho towns.

BEGINS FOOTBALL ALREADY

William Bell, of BSIO JefTersonSt., is organizing an associationfootball team called the SpokaneThistles. It is hoped that thisyear Spokane may be taken intothe Northwest Association Footballleague.

CLUB HAS KILLED BOXING

PORTLAND. April 30.?ChiefGritzmacher says that there willhe no more boxing matches in Port-land. The discrimination againstthe matches of labor unions whilethe M. A. A. C. was allowed to runstirred up so much trouble thatthe administration decided to al-low no more bouts.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston 5, New York 1; Cleve-land 6, St. Louis 3; Philadelphia 3,Washington 2; Chicago (J, Detroit 3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburg 2. Chicago 1; Boston 7.New York t>; Philadelphia 3, Brook-lyn I.

COAST LEAGUE.

Portland 4, San Francisco 2;Oakland 11, lx>s Angeles I,

LOSES DAMAGE SUITIN FEDERAL COURT

A federal Jury yesterday decidedagainst Webster O'Nell, who suedthe Washington, Idaho & Montanarailroad for $10,000 damages forInjuries while working on construc-tion near Palouse. The jury wasout three hours.

Judge Whitson in his Instructionssaid that an employe was expectedto take more risk on constructionwork than on an established road.

New $60 Bonnet forEvery Morning

PARIS. April SO.?Mm. James A.Stlllinau. of New York, has beenstartling profligate Paris recentlywith her sensational extravagances.Siie has spent a fortune fitting upthe home of Jas. Stlllman, herfather In-law, in the Rue Murllle,which she occupies. Reckless prices

MRS. JAS. A. STILLMANhave. been paid for furniture andpaintings and $50,000 was spent forhouse linen alone. Finally when ahill for 'in hats at $tlo Men reachedhiui, her husband put un the lid."I wanted one for each day of themonth," she told htm.

Before her marriage, seven yearsago, Mrs. Stlllman was Fill Potter,daughter of Mrs. James Uruwu Pot-ter, the actress.

Specie; Correspondence to The Press

MONACO, April 30.?The manwho broke the bank is back atMonte Carlo.

Few know his name, but all knowhim by sight and have heard of hiswonderful play at "trente et quar-ante." The tables now are crowd-ed with eager faces of those whowatch his spectacular game and areanxious to take advantage of it.

The man is a Russian, said tohall from Moscow, and to be back-ed by merchants of that city. He|S a typical plunger. Last year he |is said to have cleaned up $500,000,at the tables and now he is back jto try his "system" again.

His tall, lanky form is seen at jthe tables during all the playinghours. His cadaverous appearance jis heightened by his manner of:combing his hair in a huge masson top of his head. j

His playing last year was one ofthe sensational episodes of the sea-'

Millionaires BehindWrestling Game

LONDON, April 30.?The sport ofwrestling has heen taken up by two

patrons who ought to give it quitea boom. They are Lord Lonsdale,president of the National Sporting

A. Q. VANDERBILTLORD LONSDALE

Club of London, and Alfred G. Van-derbilt. These two very wealthyand Influential men have offered apurse of $10,UOU for a return matchbetween George Hackensehmldtand Frank Gotch. They stipulatethat the match must be held InEngland or ono ther neutral soil,

preferably France. Hackenschmidt.from whom Gotch won the world'schampionship in Chicago recently,Is a Russian, while Gotch writes t,.

S. A. after his name. Hacken-schtnidt has already signified his ]willingness to accept the offer.

Vanderbilt had never beforeevinced any particular interest inwrestling, and his action iv puttingf-up half of the $10. Uno purse is msurprise.

HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS

Randall Pratt and Alva Kltt, otthe high school debating team, left

Men's Pat. Button Oxford, regular

$5.00 $4.00 |Men's Gunmetal Blucher Oxford;

narrow toe; new style; regular

|4.00 $3.00

Hoys' 9fttlQ and Hox Calf Shoes;\u25a0Ilea from 8U to i%', in blucherand straight lace; reg. |2.50.51, M

Le Claires ,

823 RIVERSIDE PHONE 1535

SPOKANE PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1908.

MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK

THE GAMBLING ROOM OF THE CASINO AT MONTE CARLO.

son on the Riviera. With wild ex-travagance, he plunged and lost fordays. Then he began to win a lit-tle. He was encouraged by thecroupiers who allowed him to goover the maximum stake.

Just at the moment when theplay was at its highest, a man of-fered him a cigaret to "calm hisnerves." The Russian stepped intoa hall to smoke it. It was drugged.

I When hp came back he was toodrowsy to continue play and lost

?heavily. He allowed $200,000 of his| winnings to slip through his fingers, before he came to himself with ai start and hurried from the room.| But he had broken the bank andj gained the great honor for whichall the Riviera gamblers strive.

| The lure of the game has enticed( him back again. He has begun hisplay in the same cool manner, but

| they say on the Riviera that he islosing. The tables are taking theirrevenge.

COLUMBIA

The Columbia Co. in the next toits closing week is having a strong

run In "A Texas Ranger," a playwith the blood and thundersprinkled liberally through it. La-dies who woul dfaint ordinarily atsight of a gun like to see folks getshot on the stage. Hall is a huskylooking cowboy hero, and JuliaGray looks worth kicking up amuss over. And there are a few ofthe company left alive when thesmoke lifts to live happy ever aft-erward.

AUDITORIUM

"A Wife's Secret" is not the bestthing the Shirley Co. has playedby any means, but the company isplaying it as well as anything witha name like that tcould be played.It's the sort of melodrama thatmakes you want to favor the hillainwith a brick.

WASHINGTON

How does a good looking womanfeel while standing on a stage mak-ing a fool of herself to make theaudience laugh and also to makeher living? The question is sug-gested by Georgie O'Ramey's singleact on the bill this week. She mixessinging and dancing in with it.

for Tacoma yesterday to meet theUniversity of Puget Sound in thesemi-finals of the state inter-scholastic debates. Miss NellieRauch, of the high school, went tothe declamatory contests at Whit-man college.

DRUGGISTS WANTSLID SEWED ON

CHICAGO, April 30?No longerwill the drug store be the oasis of

the dry territory if resolutionsadopted by the executive commit-

tee of the National Association ofDruggists become effective through-out the United States.

Chas. Renner of St. Lou Is offer-ed the resolution providing that\u25a0druggists no longer invite the sus-picion of being a common rumseller by accommodating snake-bitnatrons, unless the patient couldproduce a physician's certificate. !] The resolution was adopted, but

it will not become effective untilthe national convention shall havepassed upon it.

MOTHER TAKES CHILDREN

Mrs. Rosa Beuch, a divorcedwoman, was given the custody ofher two children yesterday byJudge Huneke. She will supportthem by taking in washing, shesays. Her husband was required topay her $7 a week.

THEATERS

PANTAGES

The thing in Daly & O'Brien'sturn on the board this week is theface-making proficiency of the malemember of the team. He shakesthe houße with his features, whichis about all there is to the act.

BANKERS HIT HARD

Ball teams from the Traders andExchange banks participated in ahard slugging match yesterday onGonzaga college grounds. TheTraders won 20 to 14.

SLUGGERS BEAT VICTORS

The Knudson Sluggers beat theUnion Park Victors by a score of7-to 6 last evening. They are outwith a challenge to any kids under14 years of age.

17 Jewel ElginOR WALTHAM WATCHES

$7.5021 Jewel

AMERICAN WATCHES

$17.50AT

C. E. BTURGES

Watchmaker, Engraverand Jeweler,

813 RIVERSIDE

FORHARNESS

Whips, Blankets, etc, go to

S. H. Rush &Co.new address

920 SPRAGUE. Phone 1196

DON'T FORGET

NatatoriumParh

Will be open with 50 greatamusement attractions

SUNDAY, MAY 3THE CIRCLE SWING, SCENICRAILWAY, OLD MILL,SHOOT THECHUTES, BALL GAME, FOOLISHHOUSE, AND MANY OTHERMIRTH PROVOKING LAUGH-MAKING ATTRACTIONS

THE POOR MAN'S FRIENDMONEY LOANED

FOR SALE, AN INDIAN MOTOR CYCLE CHEAP

H. BROH $ CO., 504 Main Aye.

Columbia TheaterGeo. M. Dreher, Manager

TONIGHT AND ALL WEEKSeats Six Days Ahead. Phone. 311.

and usual tsaturday matinee

THE COLUMBIA STOCK CO.

In the Picturesque Play of thePlains

"THE TEXAS RANGER"

Prices ?10c, 20c, 30c; boxes andloges 50c. Matinee, 10c, 20.

PANTAGES' litATtRE. CLARKE WALKER, Mgr.

Phone 139SUNEQUALED VAUDEVILLETONIGHT AND ALL WEEKFranz Rainer's 14 Tyrolean

Warblers?l 4. Prof. Bilyck'sTroupe of Educated Seals. Daly &

O'Brien, Singers, Comedians andTangle-foot Dancers. Axtell &

"Heinie'' the India Rubber Man andthe Acrobatic Dog. Do Ra & SolRami, Instrumental and NoveltyMusicians.

Prices 15c and 25c; matinee dally2:30 p. m., any seat 15c. Firstevening performance, 7:15.

fh^UDITO^H. C. Hayward, Mgr. Phone M. 1242

THE JESSIE SHIRLEY CO.153 d Week

Presenting tonight and all week,Saturday matinee

THE WIFE'S SECRETPrices ?Evening, 50, 40 and 25c.Matinee ?Adults, 25c; children,

10c.

WASHINGTON THEATERGeo. C. Blakeslee, Manager

HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLEA BILL OF FEATURES

WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAYMATINEE, APRIL 26

The Original and Only

GEORGE WILSONThe Minstrel Man

Five other star features.Matinee every day. Two shows

every evening.Prices ?15 and 25 cents.

BaseballNafaforiumPark

First CameSLATER & SLATER

VS.DODD CLOTHING CO.

Second (lame

CUBSVS.

UNION IRON WORKSTwo games, one admission, 25c,

including grandstand.First game at 2:15.

DURKINSThe eloquence that comes

from the use of Durkin'sgoods. Well, you have gotto fell them and then tell ofit. It'll be good.

Evans' N. York

Ale andPorter

20c a Bottle3 for 50c

10c a Mug

121 Howard StreetAlso Wall and

Sprague

Phone 731

Classified Ads

Parisian Dye WorksHas no branch offices noragents. Office 605 1 irst Aye.

Phone 2137. .. . L. A. .ehmann

For SaleAn eigh i - room house at a bargai

On very easy terms.

Exclusive RealtyCompany

303 LINDELLE BLOCKPHONE 4C95

t ooper & CO., collections. 410 Otlumbia building. Phone 9392.

Miscellaneous&Real EstateOpportunities

LYNNE HOTEL.319 Wall st. right by the river;

no nicer place in town for regu-lar or transient roomers; cozy,quiet and respectable; secludedhut close in; only 2% blocks fromRiverside ay.; rear entrances fromPost at; hot water all the time;moderate prices.

HOTEL DEMPSEYONE BLOCK FROM O. N. DEPOT.

NICE ROOMS. 50C TO $1.60.TRANSIENTS.

LARGE OFFICEC. C. DEMPSEY. PROP.

FOR SALE

CHOICE CANNON HILL LOTSReasonable, and monthly pay-

ments. Also choice lots in otherlocalities.

GRAY & McCUNE CO.Phone 320. First Aye. and Wall

Choice town lots, located near themanufacturing district east of

Eastsido Syndicate; $100 insidelots, $150 for corner lots; $1 cash,$1 a week; no interest; no taxes;best buy in the city.

SPARKS BROS..Phone 1947 14-15 Bernard St.

A neat 5-room modern house onFifth ay., close in. This is a bar-gain and can be handled for $250down, balance $20 per month. Thishouse rents for $22 per month.

Seven-room modern house onNorthside, lot 50 by 150, nice lawn,fruit and shade trees. Everythingneat and up to date.

For best bargain in cheap homeson easy payments see

J. T. BRENNAN 4. CO.,Phone Riverside 181. 312 Hyde Blk.A beautiful park lot in Rivermere

for trade. E29 Cleveland ay.

HELP WANTED MALE

Wanted ?A couple good live agents.Apply 1619 W. Mission. Phone

6433 after 6.

Wanted for Army?Able-bodied un-married men between ages of 21

and 35; citizens of United States,of good character and temperatehabits, who can speak, read andwrite English. For information ap-

ply to Recruiting Officer, 126V4Howard st., Spokane, Wash.

Blanche Waddel!, D. 0., graduateof Still college, Dcs Moines,

Iowa; acute and chronic diseasessuccessfully treated. 224-225 Pey-ton. Phone 8442.

Golden West Cafe gives you allyou can eat for 20c. 405 Ist aye.

HOMESTEADHalf million acres of land soon to

be opened near Spokane. Newsand authentic map Just out.RESERVATION INFORMATION

AGENCY,220 WALL ST. SPOKANE, WASH

FOR WOOD phone 4945. Quick de-livery.

Chubb prints business or callingcards cheapest. Fone 9349. 5

and 6 Golden Gate block, 824 River-side.

Any face blem'sh removed withoutpain or scar; guaranteed. The

Derma Inst., 824 Riverside ay.

QUEEN COFFEE HOTTSE WANTS2,000 men to take lunches; our

coffee Is known all over the city.337 Front. ?3?13

HORSESHOEING~

Charles Staley, Pacific avenue andBernard street. 128-26

WE BUY YOUR SECOND HANDgoods at liberal prices. 217-219

Main ay. Phone Main 2415.

Isabel Karney, Osteopath. 607Sprague, with the King Co.

Phone 2202. Graduate of AmericanSchool of Osteopathy. Kirksvllle,Mo.

Loans on furnltire, piano, horses,etc. A. A. Baruett, 624 The

Rookery.

Spokane Artificial Limb House.legs, arms, trusses, braces, made

and repaired. Sherwood bldg.

Miss Kathleen makes a specialtygoing to the homes; hairdressing,

manicuring, etc. 10 Germond btock.Phone 8970.

Make no Inquiry about this unlessyou can invest from two to Aye

hundred at 7 per cent. Doubleprincipal in one year. Immediate.

PIANOSFour good bargains in slightly

used pianos.1 ebony case piano $110.001 fancy walnut case piano. .$145.00I mahogany case piano... .$190.001 dark oak case piano $220.00

Bias; terms.CHANT MUSIC CO..808-810 Riverside Aye.

UP-TODATE OLYMPIAPRESSING CLUB

W. Rosenberg, Prop.42 RIVERSIDE AYE.. Cor. Browne.

Ladles tailoring a specialty.Goods called for aud delivered.

PHONE MAIN 6414Suits pressed 50c. Four suits

pressed, per month, $1.50. Undernew management.

PRINTING., ENGRAVING

Spokane StampWorks

BTAMP3, SEALS, CHECKS,518 First. Opp. Hotel Spokane