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MONDAY, JANUARY 22, Local Bowling, Foot-ball, Pool and Boxing So great is the interest taken in the Indoor baseball at the Spokane Amateur Athletic club that some of the players are thinking of having the schedule changed and adding more games. The players declare that they awnt to play on week days as well as on Sundays. The proposition may be considered during the week. It is said that two out of the five captains have agreed to the change of schedule. If another captain decides the same way there will be something doing.

Yesterday while the White Flyers and Powell-Sanders and the Telegraphers and Highlanders were pltfying, the Indians, the first team in the league, and the one team not playing, was in misery. All the players sat around and wished they were in the game. The Powell-Sanders team won from the White Flyers by the WHY HE BECAME A CATCHER "Hackenschmidt" Spencer, the best young catcher that has entered balldom in recent years, is a wind-padist solely by accident. When he turned professional two years ago he was a pitcher. Waco, Texas, was his stand and the only reason he didn't continue his specialty with that outfit was because none of the boys with the big mitt COuld handle his hot-shot.

Spencer's speed was too much for them. So good was he on the slab that Waco's entire corps of catchers went on strike, telling the management that not for double the money each and every man was receiving would they stand up and allow the fat boy from Scranton to batter their hands to pieces with Ills swift shoots. Spencer told tho management that in his kid days he did some catching. So the suggestion was made that he-rolurn to his old position. In quiijk fashion he was outcatching in the Lone Star stale.

It was then that Joe Gardner, manager of the Dallas team, got a peep at Spencer. He Is "Dob" Hedges' Texas agent, and 10 minutes after the game was over Gardner had sent a wire to the St. Louis magnate that a second "Ruck" Bwlng had bobbed up In the Texas league and to buy him WIZARD EDISON FINDS WAY TO CARRY THE HUMAN VOICE ACROSS THE OCEAN VETERAN INVENTOR MAKES DISCOVERIES THAT WILL STARTLE SCIENTISTS HIS STORAGE BATTERY IMPROVED. staff Correspondence of Tho Press. NEW YORK, Jan.

the world is a few months older humanity and civilization will be the richer lor a new development In Electric science, evolved from the Inventive genius or Thomas A. Edition. Tin 1 new discovery, which is destined to bring the great. English ipeaking nations Into even closer union, is none other than the final development of tlie telephonic power to a height which will permit of between Individuals across 3000 miles of water. Only a few days ago learned scientists were arguing on the possibility of establishing a clean vibrant electric connection between Liverpool and New York, and, gravely determined, after much discussion, that, the feat could never be accomplished.

For years has it been known generally that Mr. Edison was busily engaged willi experiments along this line. Only within the last few (months, however, has there been reason to suppose that his work was reaching a definite result. The reappearance of the familiar Ulght (luring the dark hours of the morning In the windows of his private rooms In tho laboratory told HJj people of West Orange, N. that something momentous was at hand.

That light showed that Mr. Billion was working toward a eonoluilon of his long labor. For many weeks ho has worked, slept and laten In the laboratory, lying down score of 8 to 6. It was anybody's game until the last man was put out. The Highlanders beat the Telegraphers by the score of 20 to 9.

About 7 of the 9 runs were given to the losers by foolish plays made by the Highlanders. Next Sunday two games will be played. The Highlanders play the Powell-Sanders and the Telegraphers play the Indians. The fight between Sailor Kelly and Jack Donnelly held in Mullan, Idaho, last night, was declared a draw at the end of the 20th round. Tho fight was fast and furious all the time.

There was not a knock down. Colonel Tom Smith of Spokane acted as referee. Jack O'Keefe, who is to fight Kid Parker before the Spokane Amateur club on Feb. 16, arrived in the HIS SPEED WAS TERRIFIC, before some other manager heat him to the phenom. Clark Griffith, boss of the New York Yankees, had discovered Spencer first.

He had an option on the youngster's services that expired July 1. When that date came and passed Griff had contented himself with borrowing Mike Powers, eminent physician, from the Athletics, and not taking up his option on Spencer, Hedges stepped in and nailed him. Spencer has made good in cyclonic fashion. There Is no questioning his ability and if he takes the proper care of himself will be a head-liner In balldom for a dozen or more years to come. hie? workbench when exhausted to snatch one or two hours' rest on a couch, and Hum starting to his work again when all the world was asleep.

And now it Is known that Mr. Edison has at last conquered the difficulty of transmission of the sound of a human voice through long distance of water. Hitherto tho great and almost city yesterday. Jack is looking fine and is in fair condition at the present time. He is about 10 lbs.

over weight, but can take that off easily. Ollle Lindh, his manager, is with the Chicago boy. Tomorrow night the managers of the Pacific Coast league teams meet in San Francisco to make up the Coast league for the coming season. Agnew of Seattle and Mc- Creedle of Portland havo gone to attend the meeting. These two men are in favor of admitting Spokane into the league.

Spokane fans will know more about the baseball situation on Wednesday morning. The fans all hope for the best. The executive committee of the City Bowling league unanimously dismissed the charges against Grover Ballard, the manager of the Spokane Amateur Athletic club alleys last night. Ballard was accused by H. L.

Haupt, manager of the Pfisters, with having stolen a shirt and pair of shoes. The differences between the City league and l'fifisters will be settled by the members in a few days. All the teams in the league refused to bowl on tho Pfister alleys after Ballard was refused the right to bowl with the S. A. A.

C. team SPORTING BREVITIES Dale Gear, who has been pitcher, fielder, manager and utility man in major and minor league clubs for a string of years, will play right field for tho Birmingham team next season, which will give Harry Vaughan three men in the daisy patches who batter over .300 last season. If Battling Nelson and Kid Herman come together, it will probably bo in Butte next spring for a purse of $15,000. Los Angeles and Hot Springs are anxious to secure the fight, but it is not thought they will be able to meet the offer made by the Montana town. I Chicago bowlers havo just fin-1 ished a 21 hour bowling contest, which 12 two-men teams partici-1 pated.

There can be no practical theoretical value to the bowling world by such contests and the insuperable difficult? in the way has boon in tha Impossibility of exactly Increasing the power of the waves under deep water. Wind or a rough sea cannot effect tho transmission of an (dectrie current. To protect the wires heavier Insulation Is necessary and the Increase of Insulation adds to tho carrying capacity of the current. Up-to-date Football, Fighting, and General Athletics some time ago. Jimmie Britt, ex-champion, has decided to quit California for good.

He states that he will move to New York next year and go into the hotel business. The days before the war are recalled by the announcement of Jake Kilrain, who fought that memorable battle with John L. Sullivan, at Richburg, that he will reenter the ring upon the arrival from England of Charley Mitchell. Mitchell is bringing a bunch of pugs over and Kilrain wants to meet Charley. That greatest of standard authorities, the "Police Gazette Sporting Annual," upblished by Richard K.

Fox, Franklin Square, New York, has just been issued for 1906, and the many new records have increased its size but not Its price. It contains records of baseball, bicycling, trotting, jumping, football, racing, aquatics and all athletic sports. Tho main feature of the book, however, is the pugilistic records, and many pages are devoted to that popular branch of sport. It is authentic and reliable, and stands today an authority on the subjects upon which it treats. danger to the participants is such that these endurance tests should be discouraged.

The great strain on the bowling arm tends to weaken instead of strengthen the muscles. There is always the danger of the bowler going stale, while the waste tissue involved in endurance tests cannot be regained as rapidly under ordinary conditions because exhausted nature never recuperates as readily as do merely tired muscles. It is not probable that bowlers of other cities will follow the senseless lead set by the Chicagoans. Sailor Tom Sharkey has 16 horses in training for the trotting turf, and will enrer the game as soon as his trainer gives the word. When there was some talk of Rube Waddell being sold to Boston one of the Hub newspapers gave as In thus graduating the exact pwoer of insulation and in attaining the highest degree of sensitiveness between the receiver and the transmitter, lay the task which Mr.

Edison, according to high authority, has at last surmounted. Tho details are, of course, known only to himself. The secrets of the chamber in which Mr. Edison works through the silence of the night are more jealously guarded than the state papers of a German bureaucracy. Hut that he is at last by correlative experiment able to accurately estimate the carrying power of his sound waves under the sea is now beyond a doubt.

Side by side with the sea telephone is the veteran inventor completlng certain remarkable developments in the Edison nickel-iron storage battery, first Introduced to the public two years ago with a view to its adaptability to the use of the automobile. Mr. Edison's laobrs with the storage battery havo lain in the direction of a gradual lightening in weight of the battery. With each reduction in the weight the endurance of the battery is Increased. Mr.

Edison's improved storage battery will, it is believed, enable an automobile of high power to maintain a maximum speed ranging from 100 to 150 miles an hour. Under the present conditions It is possible for a racer of high power to attain a maximum speed of 120 miles an hour and maintain it fur perhaps five minutes. With the improvements now completed by Mr Edison the difr charge power of the amperes will bp largely Increased. The old storage battery was capable of runr.lv.g a vehicle 3100 miles over bad roads. The capacity of the new battery limitless in respect of apeej or endurance THE PRESS.

the principal reason why he would pot like the town the fact that the bars "close there at 11 p. m. The term "soccer" for association football was invented by Oxford undergraduates from the third, and fifth letters in association, with "cer" as an appendix. Let us hope the invention will not be copyrighted. Joe Humphreys, manager of Terry McGovern, has posted $1000 in New York, which he is willing to bet against $4000 that Terry knocks out Nelson in six rounds, when they meet at Philadelphia.

Eastern critics think the odds asked too to 1 should be a tempting offer, according to expert opinion. Fifteen players in the Eastern league batted .300 or better during the past season. Laporte, who has been called to New York, was the leading batsman, with an average of .1131 for 120 games played. Jake Beckley is passing the winter months away acting as assistant starter at the Ascot track, Los Angeles. 'Denver' Fred Russell, the heavyweight, has showed up In Philadelphia and is trying to get a match with Johnson or Ruhlin.

If he falls with them he will try to coax Joe Walcott back into the arena. He says he has an old grudge to settle with the Barbadoes black. The University of Chicago has taken steps to abolish intercollegiate sports, the initial move being an attempt to do away with the association football schedule. Pressure has been brought to bear against any games outside the university. CARPENTERS AND WOODWORKERS MAY SETTLE DIFFERENCES CScrlpps News Association.) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan.

the hope of framing a trade agreement which will put an end to friction and controvery which for four years has existed between the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the Amalgamated Woodworkers International union, the executive boards of the two organizations will hold a joint conference in Indianapolis Thursday next at which President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor will he present to lend his assistance should it be needed. MINISTER'S BODY ARRIVES IN HALIFAX (Scrlpps News Association.) HALIFAX, N. Jan. British battleship Dominion, carrying the body of Mr. Prefontaine.

the Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, who died while on a visit in France, arrived here today and was received by the authorities with impressive honors. All Bags were at half mast when the battleship arrived in the harbor. The hands of the provincial government received the body which was brought ashore in a launch. The body was taken to tho Municipal building, where it will lay in state until tomorrow. A reception will be tendered to the officers of the Dominion this evening.

BLOODY SUNDAY CELEBRATED "Bloody Sunday" was celebrated yesterday by the socialists of the ciiy. Over 250 of them gathered at Oliver hall to celebrate the first anniversary of the slaughter of the Russian working men led by Father Capon. Murray King of Los Angeles spoke. WARM WEATHER IN NEW YORH NEW YOKE. Jan.

22. At 3 o'clock yesterday the thermometer at the weather bureau registered 60. The warm weather continues throughout the east. In the middle west it is altogether different. Iv Kansas city a bliuard prevailed.

New equipment. Longer ami wider berthi. New features on tho Northwestern Limited ami the Ovarian Limited. Host meals, Call tt city office, Bprague avenue, for full partloulara. H.

s. Collins, general agent FOUND IT AT LAST "I hope O'Brien is satisfied at last "Why?" "I heard him say the other day that ho was looking for a steady job." dits or noH news Surveyors have located at Miles, prepared to make the preliminary surveys for a power plant for tho Ritzville Big Bend consolidated railway. The Nez Perce Indians have elected James Stewart of Kooskia and George Moses of Lapwai to go to Washington to appear before the department in the interest of the tribe. The first car of machinery for the addition to the plant of the Cascade Lumber company arrived at North Yakima Saturday and two more carloads are in transit. The improvement under way at tho mill will double its capacity.

Saloons were open Sunday in North Yakima for the first time in several weeks. At tho last meeting of the city council the ordinance cancelling licenses of saloons which kept open on Sunday was repealed. The county commissioners of Nez Perce have decided that county money shall draw 4 per cent interest. Under the new depository law, all banks wanting county money at that rate will have It equally divided between them. The county's average deposit is about 110,000.

At a conference at Tacoma yesterday between N. G. Blaloek of Walla Walla, owner of the lar.ge.--t single fruit farm in the state, and business men from Seattle, preliminary details wero arranged for the organization of tho Blaloek Island Fruit company and the development of GOOO acres of fruit land and in the vicinity of Blaloek Island, In the Columbia river. The proposition to bridge the Columbia at Wenatchee has again been revived and has already been subscribed, Assurances have benn given by Great Northern people that work will commence in 30 days. The bridge is to be of cantilever design anil will cost from $140,000 to The work will be under the Immediate supervision of the Great North em bridge builders.

The latest news from Seattle regarding the railroad situation In that city is that the North Coast Railway over which there has been so much speculation la the property of the Union Pacific railroad. It is also stated that the Harriman lines have secured control of the Columbia and Paget Sound railway and the present site of the Stetson Post mill on the Seattle water front. William Hickman Mooro has been Dominated (or mayor of Seattle by the municipal ownership party and the union Mr Moore Is one of the best known business men of Seattle. Judge Moore has served in the last two state legislatures as a member of the senate from a Seattle city district of King county. Conferers of Judge Moore have always recognized him as one of the ablest legislators who ever had a seat at It is planned by the Northern Pacific to complete its new line through the mountains by way of Tieton pass in advance of any of the new roads that have announced plans to build to the coast.

Steel sufficient to complete 20 miles of the North Kakima Valley, which is the Northern Pacific project, has reached North Yakima and already two crews are at work laying the rails on the portion that has been graded west from North Yakima in the direction of Tieton pass. It is xepected 1500 men will be employed on the work. MADAME CALVE ADOPTS A GIRL SEATTLE, Jan. Feurt. a 17 year old girl has been adopted by Madame Calve.

The girl was given an audience with the prima donna and sang for her. The madame was so delighted with her voice that she proposed a trip to Paris where the girl will be given a thorough training. EX-MAYOR BOYD'S FATHER VERY ILL Former Mayor L. Frank Boyd left this morning fur Walla Walla on receipt of the news that his father is very ill and not expected to survive the day. Dr.

Boyd formerly lived in Spokane and Is known here. Advancing age is given as the cause of his collapse. Strange, but although Roosevelt has been a Red Man for a week Governor Vardaman hasn't said a word. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. rhe Kind You Have Always Bough! Sears the Signature Of NOTICE.

Notice la hereby given that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago British Columbia Mining company will be belli at the office of the company, rooms 46-19 Ziegler block, Spokane, Washington, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock February Gth, 1906. CHICAGO BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING COMPANY, N. E. Nuzum, Attest: Vice President. George W.

Raithel. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Children taken cars or by week or month. 108 Pittsburg St. FOR or unfurnished rooms, also lodging Reasonable rates, 1027 1-2 Second avenue. HOMESTEADS AND LANDS.

Worklngraen wishing homestead and timber locations at terms within their means, address care of The Press. ROOKERY BLDQ. BRICKELL A THOMAS 426 Money to loan on furniture, pianoa horses, wagons, or any good securitjr. i AUCTIONEER. Buy, trade or auction liouaa hold L.

Bohart, auctioneer, 0718 Monroe, Phone 4696. Ron UU. ranch near city, for trade on business property, on East Sprague, Division or North Monroe. J. S.

Lichty 415 Jamieson block. Tel. 1298. FOB SALE A new 3 room house on car line, fronting on a 100 foot street. Lot 50x125 level, no rock, near school.

All for $650. $50 or $100 down, balance $10 a month. If you are paying rent, now is your chance. Come today. Northern Investment company, 330 Riverside avenue.

Many have availed themselves ot the extremely low prices we are making. Note them ami do likewise: Five panel flr doors at door and window frames, $1 and up; clear flr flooring, $10 and up; clear fir ceiling, $14 and up; clear flr drop siding, $15 and. up. Estimates cheerfully furnished. 5 Jenkins-Luellwltz Lumber North End Division St.

Bridge. 5 room plastered, city water, lot 50x135 and alley, this is a bargain and must be sold this week and will take pair of horses In trade, price only $800, the house cos! more than that to build. JAMES B. GRAY, 702 First Aye Xh X. MONFOET It CO.

839 Riverside Aye. 4-room cottage, city water, gink and cess pool, street grade and side walk paid. $501 cash, $10.00 per month, 8 per cent Five room house, stone foundation, cellar, city water, small barn, chicken house and yard, nne lawn and trees, lot 71 xl2o ft $500 cash, $10 per month, I per cent oast orr cxoTsnra. Positively highest prices paid for cast off clothing. N223 Stevens.

M. 1711. rUEI DEAI.EKS. Standard Fuel A Ice K4ot Front Tel. 695.

Carbondale. Rocs Springs and Summit coat Martin Dolan. manager. SECOND BAND GOODS. Highest price paid for aecond hand furniture.

Tel. 303. 214 Riverside. 80 9 DYIUNQ AND CLEANING WORSTS, Parisian Dyeing Cleaning Works and Dress Pleating Factory, L. A.

Leahmann, proprietor, has moved to 605 First avenue, near Howard. Phone 2137. No solicitors. Tho Steam Clot' eg Pressing company will French dry clean c.nC your suit for 500 or your trousers for 15c; only 6 to 10 minutes required; good dressing rooms; alterations and repairing. 620 Second avenue.

Phone 2252. PACIFIC TSAHSFXX CO. Freight, baggage and parcel delivery. Tel. 392.

220-0 HOHSESHOEXXO. Charles Btaley. 219 faclftc avenue. South of N. P.

depot. IJB-J6 MONEY TO LOAM. Loans on furniture, pianos, horses, private: no delay. a. A.

Barnett 525-6 Tho Rookery 65 0 BAN KIN 31 opens a checking account. Tre People's Bank, 11- Mill. Long hours. FAWN BBOEUUL If you want a loan, go to P. ford, 338 Main avenue.

EX OPTIMO OPTIMUS THE OLD CROW Itlley Fry and p. Gay Props. 405 Front Aye Phono 3262 Wine Rooms. HOT AND COLD LUNCHES. Pennyroyal pills CHiCHtarcn a CNALIJM Tel.

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