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OFFICER THROWS CLUB IMONROE STREET MANIACBUT THAT’S AS NEAR A8 HE CAN COME TO CAPTURING ONE OF PERILS TO HUMAN LIFE ON NORTH SIDE.IThe Bancroft school at Maxwell and Monroe la located in the heart of the auto and motorcycle speed mania district permitted by the police depart* ment.The school Is attended large* ly by small children. The other day one of theae children, a little girl, was knocked down by an auto.The machines whizz past the school, frightened children scattering right and left for their lives. Sooner or later a little child, numbed with fright, or unconscious of danger, will be sacrificed or rather murdered by some driver's cold-blooded disregard ofstreet rights snd police failure to enforce regulations.Of course everybody will then be officially sorrowful for a minute or so.After being brought to a hault on North Monroe street last night by Officer Daniel’s billy club burled through the front wheel of bis motorcycle. a man whose name is thought to be Stout, gave the officer the slip and sped on his way around the corner at the approximate rate of 60 miles an hour. Today he Is a fugitive from justice—a sort of gasoline felon. His description is In the hands of all the police force and a search is being conducted for him.Dalnels does not explain in his report, what he was doing while the man was giving him the slip, but perhaps he was chasing his club. More than 40 complaints of auto speeding on North Monroe, First and Second avenues and on Sprague avenue have reached the police in the last few days.Not an arrest has been made as a result.MOTHER SEEKING SUFFERING SONEdward Traner, age 17, who, when sick, was abandoned to his fate in Spokane by his older brother and a companion, without money to buy food or shelter, is now being hunted by the police at the request of his anxious mother at Libby, Mont. The lad was left here about a week ago by his brother and a comrade, who went to St. Joe, Idaho, seeking work.The last heard from him by his mother was in letter writen here March 5. at which time he was talking of going to Columbia Siding. A letter written at St. Joe, March 10, by his brother told the mother how Edward had ben left in Spokane, sick and without money, because they had barely enough to get to work on. ■IEASTERNMARKETS(Furnished by Walter J. Nlchollsft Co.)NEW YORK, March 17.—Opera-tors refuse to yield in the anthracite dispute and say that if the three-year agreement is not accepted there will be a shutdown or a strike on April 1. The president's message is generally well received. Foreign copper market depressed with no rally in sight. Ixmdon market heavy but very inactive. Twelve industrials advanced .77. Twenty active roads advanced. Steel corporations report for fiscal year ended December 31 last. Total gr*N. earnings $48^,307,840, against $757,014,768 in 1907.Wheat close: May $1.15%; July $1.04; September 97%c.Corn close: May 66c; July 65%; September 65 %c.Oats close: May 54c; uly 48l/c; September 40%c.Liverpool close: Wheat unchanged to % lower. Corn *4 to % lower. Mav wheat 8s 2%d. May corn
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Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington, US
Wed, Mar 17, 1909
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