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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
ROUND THE REGION.

At meeting OF the Street Car Men S
Union and General Manager SillIman,
OF the Scranton Street Railway Com
pany, yesterday, 1t was agreed that the
present difficulties between them be
submitted to arbitration. The men
claim that this is victory for the cause
of labor, as they never before have been
able to get the company to agree to
such proposition.
George Y. Keller, OF East Strouds-
burg, has been missing for over seven
months, and his friends have become
alarmed at his absence. Keller is four
feet eight inches in heighth, dark brown
hair and moustache and gray eyes. His
hands and feet are small for a man, and
one shoulder is deformed. Tho missing
man is well educated and is quite witty
In his remarks.
Although searching parties have been
In the woods almost continuously look
Ing for Lazarus Brlzzy, the aged man
who mysterously disappeared from
Hareigh nearly two weeks ago, no
trace Of him has yet been found. Tho
theory Is now pretty general that he Is
lying dead somewhere In the woods.
At the office OF Alderman Pollock, Of
Wilkesbarre, last night, George Troster,
aged Sc years, and Miss Mary Troster,
his niece, aged 16 years, were married
When the bride was years old her
mother, was a sister to her husband,
died and the uncle, now husband, adopt
cd her.
News has been received that Mrs.
Harry +. Jordan has died at Ogunquit,
Me-, where she had gone with her has
band for the benefit OF her health. Sho
was a daughter of DR.. A. A. Lape, of
Nauticoke, was 2s years old and had
been married three years.
The Law and Order Society of Bor-
wick has again begun a crusade against
Sunday business. Three merchants,
charged with selling on Sunday, were
arrested and given hearing yesterday.
All pleaded not guilty and appealed the
case to court.
Hon. Jerry N. Weller, of Mauch
Chunk, candidate for the senatorial
nomination on the Democratic ticket
from the Twentysecond district, has
announced his withdrawal from the
contest, saying he has cast his lot with
the Socialists.
The Huntington Valley campmeeting,
near Shlckshinny, which opens August
10, will have attractive services this
year. Rooms and board or cottages
may be secured by addressing the secre
tary, r. M. Tubbs, Shickshnny.
Sarah White, 12 years old, while at
tempting to board the barney" which
pushes the observation car up Mt. JEFF
ferson plane, on the Switchback Rail-
way, fell under the wheels and was
killed at Summit Hill.
The organizing of Socialistic clubs in
this county continues at a rate which is
beginning to give the politicians of the
old parties much uneasiness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
Y. M. C. A.

The Sunday afternoon service will be
specially interesting. Rev. o. G. Lang
ford Will discuss the subject: "Sava-
ton From Biblical Standpoint" All
are invited to be present.
Many interesting games of handball
are being played daily by the fellows.
The Glee Clubs are doing good work.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
BASE BALL.

The Balaklava club goes to Weatherly
tomorrow to play the team at that place.
They will be accompanied by large
crowd of rooters. Charles McGeehan,
of town, is catcher for the Weatherly
club.
The Union Heroes, of Drifton, will
play the Y. M. c. A. club tomorrow af-
ternoon.
Drlfton Shamrocks defeated Ebervale
yesterday by a score Of 13 to o.
The Chesters are improving their ball
grounds at Drifton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
Water Company Officers.

AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of Freeland Water Company on
Wednesday the following officers were
elected:
President-John Burton.
Vice president-H. G. Rooms.
Treasurer-Thomas Birkbeck.
Directors-John Nelly, DR.. N. Maley,
William Birkbeck.
Manager-Thomas Brkbeck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
Sensational EIopement.

The elopement OF Lena Kelley, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Kelley and
one OF Catawissa's most attractive bellies,
was the cause of more excitement than
that village has witnessed In many years.
One month ago Miss Kelley made the
acquaintance of Joseph M. Heritage, a
travelling salesman, Of Knoxville, Tenn.
The parents of Miss Kelley did not op-
pose the attentions OF Heritage, but
when they stated Tuesday night that
the marriage would take place at once
the girls father objected and called upon
the authorities to prevent his daughters
departure.
Heritage, 1t is alleged, drew-a revolver
and threatening to shoot any one who
interfered succeeded In carrying off the
girl. Tho couple went to bloomsbury
and drove from there to Berwick, taking
an early morning train for New Jersey.
III Pennsylvania has no evils worthy
of mention, Pennypacker, of course, is
not in favor of ballot reform, because
1t wouldn't be worth while to bother
himself about reforming anything that
Is not bad enough to attract attention.
Neither does he evidently consider
bribery, perjury and ballot box stuff
fling evils worthy of notice. Penny
packer, in the language of the street,
must be daisy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25

INSTATE OF JANE WILLIAMS, late of
IL Frceland, deceased.
Letters testamcntary upon the above named
estate having been granted to the under
signed, all persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make payment, and those having
claims ordemands to present the same, with
out delay, to Henry q. Rooms.
Chas. Orion Stroh, attorney.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

TNSTATE OF JONATHAN ROBERTS, late
ID of Foster township, deceased.
Letters of administration C. t. a. upon the
above named estate having been granted to the
are requested to make payment, and those
having claims or demands to present the same,
without delay, to Thomas A. Buckley.
Chas. Orion Stroh, attorney.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25

81 allus try to be gentleman" said
Uncle Eben. "Mighty few people sue
ceeds, but de fact dat anybody's max"
In de effort counts heap to his cred
t."-WashingtOn Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25

A. Oswald has the agency for the cee
brated Eysian's extracts and perfumery.
The finest good made. Try them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25

buckshot. He said they were danger
GUS guns to handle and that he had
frequently seen them accidentally dis
charged.
Special Officer Irwin Finch also con-
sidered the gun dangerous weapon
In the hands OF an inexperienced man
and easily discharged by careless hand
ling.
That ended tho testimony and the
judge discharged the prisoner.
James Thompson, the dead man, re-
sided at Philadelphia on North Front
street and leaves wife and two chill
dren. The body was sent to his home
Jones said his homo is In West Virginia.
BREAKER AND wAsuERY WORKING.
For the first time since the strike was
inaugurated a breaker in the Panther
Creek valley was operated yesterday by
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany, who claim they will continue the
breaker In operation In order to supply
coal to keep the boilers running. A
rich culm bank is being loaded into cars
and shipped to No. IL breaker, through
which it is run. The men at work are
under heavy guard, although no vio-
lence has occurred. No skilled miners
are needed at this work, inexperienced
hands doing the work, and the strikers
are not at all dismayed. Officials of the
company claim they will ship no coal to
market, that they are merely preparing
1t for their own use.
The first washery to resume opera
tions In the Schuylkill region Is that Of
the Reading Company at Locust Dale,
which started up yesterday morning. 1t
is claimed coal is being prepared and
shipments will be begun at once. All
the workmen were imported and are
heavily guarded.
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS.
Contributions received at indianapolis
to the defense fund for the anthracite
strike in less than one week have
reached Sl23, 900, exclusive of the assess
ment of the men. Tho first weeks as
sessment OF the bituminous district is
now on and it is expected that 100000 or
$50, 900 will begin pouring into head
quarters from this source by Saturday.
Including the assessment of the mon,
the first weeks contribution will be in
the neghborhood of 100000. Every
mail brings in many contributions from
individuals and corporations in sym
pathy with the miners, but who do not
want their names made public.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25
HARD
COAL MARKETS
Bituminous Is Permanently
Displacing Anthracite.
Operators Are Not Pleased
at the Outlook and Show
Signs Of Discomfort at the
Heavy Loss of Trade.

A dispatch from Wlkesbarre says
that an individual operator who is In
close touch with the trade Is authority
for the statement that the meeting of
presidents Of coal carrying roads held in
New York on Tuesday was not wholly
for the purpose of discussing tho out
como Of the national convention at In
dianapolls, but question of greater i'm
portance, namely, the loss of markets to
the anthracite trade.
According to this operator, bituminous
coal is now In sading markets which have
always been known as exclusively hard
coal markets, and, what is worse, infor-
nation OF the most reliable authority
has been received by wholesale coal
manently lost to the anthracite trade.
Consumers OF coal In large quantities
are now well satisfied that they can get
along very well without hard coal, and
as bituminous costs much less, they will
without doubt continue the use of soft
coal.
1t is understood the increased con-
sumption OF bitumlnous coal came in for
much discussion at the meeting of the
coal magnates, and that it was the opin-
Ion of one president that the situation
was serious, and that II it was hoped to
save the trade from disaster anthracite
would have to be soon put on the market
at reasonable rates.
AT strike headquarters at Wilkesbarre
the subdistrlct officers are of the opin-
ion that the operators In that region are
showing signs Of weakening for the first
time since the strike began. The strike
leaders also claim to have information
that the soft coal question is botherlng
Presidents Baer, olyphant and Trues-
dale very much at present, and that it
would be not bit surprising If they
made concessions to the miners and get
them back to work before many weeks
passed around
DISCHARGED THE GUARD.
Edward Jones, the special coal and
iron police officer, who shot and killed
another guard, James Thompson, at
Sugar Notch, was given habeas corpus
hearing before Judge Wheaton. The
evidence showed that the shooting was
accidental and as a result Jones was dis
charged from custody. John T. Lena
han appeared for the prisoner.
The evidence heard by Judge Wheat
on was the reading of the testimony
taken at the coroner's inquest. The
testimony Of Jones, the defendant, was
to the effect that on Tuesday morning
about 6 o'clock he met Thompson and
chatted with him. Jones then started
toward the barracks and stopped
after few PAGES to unload his rife.
He had taken out one cartridge and was
about to take out tho second when the
trigger fell and the rife was discharged
He heard cry and looked up and saw
Thompson fall on the trestling about
sixty feet away. Jones stated that he
and Thompson had always been good
friends.
County Detective Jones testified that
the weapon was rifle known as a riot
gun, the cartridge being charged with
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-25

DIR. David Kennedy's Salt Rheum Cream
cures Old Sores, Skin and Scrofulous Diseases.
Soc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

DENTON TURNS LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
~ ENTON presented an unruff1ed
front.
IL "Take me to the governor"
he said.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

SYNoPs.s.-Prince Neslerov wants to
marry Frances Gordon, the charming
daughter of an American who is build
ing the Transsiberian railroad. Frances
is interested in the fortunes of Vladi-
mir Paulpoff, stalwart Russian black
smith. She asks Neslerov to use his in
fiuence for Vladimir. Neslerov goes to
Vladimir's hut. The blacksmith has
talent and shows Neslerov picture he
has painted. It is the portrait of wo-
man of rank copied from miniature.
The prince is excited and asks for the
original. Vladimir's father says 1t has
ben lost. To Vladimer old Paulpoff
confesses that he lied to Neslerov and
still has the miniature. Neslerov has
the Paulpoffs sent to Siberia as nihi-
lists. Frances Gordon goes to the forge
with books for Vladimar. At the door
of the lonely hut she encounters Nesle-
row. The prince presses his suit Vio-
lently, and Frances StunS him with a
pistol shot in the head. Gordon wishes
his daughter to marry Jack Denton, an
American bridge engineer. Frances de-
mands that her father intercede with
the governor for Vladimir. They start
for Obi. Neslerov boards the same
train, which breaks in two, and Nesle-
rov has Frances alone in his power.
Neslerov drags Frances before priest
and bids him to perform a marriage
ceremony. Jack Denton comes to the
rescue. Neslerov is beaten off. Denton
nearly kills Neslerov in a duel. Jack
promises Frances to save the black
smith.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

harm it has done in New Orleans, but
the problem is looming up as an impor-
tant one. In the meanwhile the efforts
to prevent the spread Of the cocaine
habit in New Orleans and other south
ern cities have been quite successful.
1t has been found impossible to cure the
cocaine flends who are fast drifting to
the insane asylums, killing themselves
or being killed, but 1t has been found
possible to stop the future sale Of CO.
caine in the drugstores and to keep the
young Negroes from taking up the
habit.
The Negroes themselves have been
very active in this movement, and the
police have shown so much energy that
the public sale of the drug has almost
ceased in New Orleans.
A crusade against the use Of the
drug has begun in most Of the towns,
but as yet no effort has been made to
prevent its sale in the country districts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

At the sight of the engine she understood.
whistle Of a speeding locomotive was
borne to him by the breeze. 1t came
one engine and car, the same as that
he was on, but a modern locomotive Of
American make. Gordon was in the
car with some officials from Tomsk.
"Hey! That you, Denton?" he gasp
ed as the grimy bridgebuilder stepped
into the car, which was stopped at the
side of the construction engine. my
girl and the governor Of Tomsk got
left behind in car. Seem
I'm all right" said Frances as she
emerged from her car and flew to her
fathers arms.
Did Denton save you? What was
It? Where is Neslerov?" asked Gordon.
ooh. he is in there" said Frances
coolly. "We've had lively experience.
1 thought at one time we'd be killed by
some savages. But Mr.. Denton and the
prince-oh, let's get on; I'm tired out
| and hungry"
Denton heard and wondered.
In every new experience he had had
with Frances Gordon he had been made
more and more astonished by the un-
certain moods, the whilns, the strange
turns her caprice would take.
Hitch on to this train and haul her
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

Too MUCH For THE MINISTERIAL
clerical correspondent Of the London
Express tells Of a wedding ceremony
in which he officiated, and in his zeal
for rubrical observances laid himself
open to a comical and crushing retort.
II was then curate Of small coun-
try parish in Somersetshire and one day
couple presented themselves, after
due preliminaries, for marriage in the
village church.
"All went we'll until the moment
came when it is directed by the rubric
that the man shall place the ring upon
the fourth finger Of the woman's left
hand, but then trouble began. The
yokel. apparently from nervousness or
ignorance, laid hold of the right hand
of his expectant bride and placed the
ring there resolutely.
mo I said, with quiet firmness,
you must put the ring onto her left
hand To this his only reply was a
stolid stare. Thinking he had not un-
derstood me, repeated my words, but
with no better effect
with as much warmth and insist
ence as was justified by the occasion,
I now took firmer ground and said, If
you do not put the ring onto her left
hand 1 must stop the service.
"And then the climax came. With a
complacent smile, that seemed to show
his satisfaction at having for the mo-
ment 'bested' the parson, the bride
groom settled the point for all time with
the words, Please, sir, she amt got
none!'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

Eyes, but Neslerov will be passen'
ger"
"And YOU?
Engineer. conductor, guard-al."
He took her to The car and made her
comfortable.
Neslerov was carried to the car by
the villagers. The backs Of two seats
were turned down, bed was made for
him. and he lay there quiet and SEEM
ingly content.
"Of course, l know that you are seri-
ously wounded" said Denton to him,
"and the possibility Of your doing any
mischief Is small. but want to tell
you before we start that If l catch you
at any tricks will kill you as would
dog"
Neslerov nodded, and Denton went
on the engine.
1t was an exciting start, though the
audience was small. The villagers
stared. then laughed as the little old
engine puffed and screeched and scrap
ed as it got under way.
But it had a man in charge Of 1t who
was accustomed to overcoming difficult
ties. And the way he made 1t groan
and work would have made glad the
heart of the man who had abandoned
it on the siding six months before.
liz the car was silence. Neslerov
was too weak to talk; Frances would
not talk to him If he wished. She re-
mained at her end Of the car, save to
20 in mercy to him and offer him wa
ter at intervals. At such times he
would look up at her with an earnest,
inscrutable expression on his face. She
would not speak, nor he.
Suddenly at a siding toward which
he had been aiming Denton turned the
engine to the right and brought the lit
tie train to standstill. They had been
on the road sixteen hours and had trav-
eled 21O miles.
Frances and Neslerov both looked up
as the train stopped and saw the grimy
engineer enter the car.
"There is a village near here" he
said. land just beyond this siding there
is a small signal box. have just vis-
tied it, and there Is train coming this
way from Tomsk. Undoubtedly. as
there is no regular train due, this Is
searching party out after Frances Cor
don. Now. | have no wish to start an
international controversy. What story
shall we tell?
"Tell the TRUTH" said Frances. 1T
does not. as a rule, harm any person
who is innocent"
mo-" said Neslerov; mot as a rule.
But we are in part Of the world
where customs are different from yours.
If you tell the truth, you will never
make the world believe you. But you
will not understand; cannot tell you"
81 know what you mean." said Fran
ces scornfully. "You mean that your
reputation Is so bad that If 1t We're
known that you had that car left be-
hind to compel me to marry you every
body will be sure am your wife. Is
that itw
eyes; something like that"
"But, then, there Is my word" said
Denton.
"YouT story will be believed by your
people, my story by mine," said Nesle-
row. LET US each tell what we please.
do not care"
Denton nodded and went back to his
engine. But he did not start The
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08
NEGRO COCAINE FIENDs.
The Use of the Drug Has Now Spread
to the Cotton Plantations.

| to the Cotton Plantations.
| It has been learned, says a New Or
leans letter, that cocaine as we'll as
whisky was peddled by the whisky
pirate ship Hazel whose skipper, Capt.
Hull, was recently arrested on the Mis-
sissippi river, charged with shooting
the sheriff and other citizens of Chicot
county, Ark. In his defence, Hull ex-
plains that he did not introduce cocaine
among the Negroes of the Yazoo Delta,
but merely did what a great many
planters are doing-supplied the de-
mand for it.
The cocaine habit began among the
Negro roustabouts Of New Orleans,
who found that the drug enabled them
to perform more easily the extraordi-
narily severe work of loading and un-
loading steamboats, at which, perhaps
for 70 hours at stretch. they have to
work, without sleep or rest, in rain, in
cold and in heat. The pay Is high, $3.50
month, but the work Is impossible
without stimulant.
Whisky. while protecting the Negro
against the rain and cold, did not give
him endurance against fatigue that
was needed. Cocaine proved to be the
very stimulant needed.
Under it's influence the strength and
vigor Of the laborer Is temporarily in
creased, and he becomes impervious to
| NJ 4o1l Dat
cocaine Is filling the insane asylums
with wrecks.
From the roustabouts the cocaine
habit spread to the levee camps along
the Mississippi, where the work Is hard,
and the conditions of life and work un-
favorable. Finally it reached the PLAN
tation hand and here it got the same
foothold.
| While the work on the cotton plan
tation Is not so hard as levee building
or loading steamboats,, still at the cot
ton picking season it calls for extraor-
dinarily long hours. AS there Is never
enough labor to pick all the cotton it Is
to the interest Of the planters to have
4
as possible.
The planters therefore hold out every
encouragement to the Negro hands to
put in a big days work. The Negroes
found that the drug enabled them to
| work longer and make more money, and
so they took to it.
It's use has grown steadily. On many
of the Yazoo plantations this year the
Negroes refused to work unless they
could be assured that there was some
place in the neighborhood where they
could get cocaine, and one big planter
is reported to keep the drug in stock
among the plantation supplies and to
issue regular rations Of cocaine just as
he was accustomed in the past to IS
sue rations Of whisky.
| Cocaine has not been in use on the
river plantations long enough to do the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-11-08

hack to the Obi" said Denton. III the
road doesn't want this engine. l can
use 1t at the Obi bridge"
This attachment was soon made, ana
Mr.. Gordon, after visiting the prince
and congratulating him upon his es-
cape from the savages, assisted IN
transferring to him some OF the COM
forts to be found In the other car. The
Russian officials swarmed around him
and praised his courage.
land that American! He Is a brave
one too" they said.
"Yes; he is brave-braver than l."
said Neslerov weakly.
The train started back toward
Tomsk. 1t had about ninety miles to
20 to reach the Obi. During the jour-
ney Denton and Frances found them
selves side by side in the rear car,
with no one near enough to hear their
low spoken tones.
81 cannot understand you," said
Denton. "You first said tell the truth,
then you yourself told the first deliber.
ate lie. WhyT
Frances looked at him coolly.
Because I thought 1t over. There
was q good deal in what Neslerov said.
Then, again, you and my father have
work to do, a career to make, money
to earn. and with the enmity Of Ne
slerov you would be ruined. studied
1t we'll. 1t Is better as I said 1t. Let
1t pass"
"Here we are at Vashlov," he said.
"For the time being you are home
again."
"Yes," she replied, with the slightest
tremor in her voice. "Thanks to you,
I am home again-in my temporary
home"