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sufferina from Aeeident.

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FOR Hiif'F AifD
via Emporium Junction. $50 a. m. and
s.25 %. m. daily.
Via Canandaigua- $50 a. m weekdays
m daily.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

until it was rumored that the insur-
gent guerrilla leader, Tino, was COM
ing down from the north that the mo-
notony of the tedious garrison life was
broken.
Then began the hikes into the neigh
boring hills. Several times the boys
had slight skirmishes with Tino's men,
but no great harm was done to either
side. A few prisoners were brought in
and an American corporal was wound
ed, but Tinos game just then was to lie
low until the rainy season.
One evening the officers were gath
cred at mess, when a native boy came
in and silently delivered a letter to the
Colonel himself. He opened it, read
it, and then hastily excusing himself.
rose and left the room. 1t was quite
dark as he made his way across the
plaza and entered the house of a local
merchant a rich mestizo Known to be
favorable to the American cause for
business reasons.
The Colonel was met at the door
by the mestizo himself, who conduct
ed him into a rear room of the house.
There, seated in a large cane chair,
was a second native, also a mestizo,
whose yellow face was none the more
attractive for a long stringy, black
| mustache. AS the two men entered
he rose and bowed.
Dis ees Colonel Lala," said the
merchant, and bowling, he left the
military men together. The two seat
ed themselves close together and
| spoke in low tones, the American
listening mainly. but occasionally nod
ding his head. Finally, the native drew
from an inner pocket of his civilian
white drill coat a paper, thereby expos
ing the finely striped white and blue
uniform coat of an insurgent officer.
| He hastily rebuttoned the outer coat
| and spread the paper before the Colo
! mel on a small table.
The two men were still examining
! this paper when a noise below caused
them to raise their heads. In the rear
of the room was a trap door of light
| bamboo, covering a stone stepway
| that descended the basement. Sud
| denly there came a loud crash with a
| splintering of glass; from between
the cracks of the floor rose the smell
and smoke of burning straw. The two
men sprang to their feet. The COM
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

who sometimes came up from Vigan,
Diablo's attitude was one of contempt
uous federation. If he met them in the
narrow streets he gave them just one
half of the right of way-not an inch
more.
Diablo's attitude toward women wa
peculiar. 1t was a fact that any hui
man figure above a certain age that
wore skirts was an object to be &C
lively avoided. The Colonel's wife
came up from Vigan several times,
and at once made overtures of friend
ship to Dfdblo, but with calm dignity
he refused to meet her advances. He
showed no less aversion toward the ma
tive women. If he met them in the
streets he carefully stepped aside with
a chilly politeness and allowed them
to pass.
But strange to say, when it came TO
children, his prejudice underwent a
complete reVersion. Small boys he
could not endure. Little girls needed
no introductions to become his friends
for them he even showed a marked
| fondness. They might pull his beard or
| punch his ribs or even crawl upon his
back, and he tolerated all with pa
thence simply astounding in one of his
| otherwise haSty temperaments. Ba-
nanas or turnips from their hands were
| especially delicious. Toward all of
|
was the one soft spot in his world
| hardened character.
| Little Mercedes, the daughter Of a
| local tobacco merchant, was once lost
| for a whole day. The surrounding
jungles were searched by American SOL
diers and natives for many hours until
near sunset. when she was found some
distance up the mountain, making faces
and calling names to the nervous lit
tie jungle monkeys. Had she beer
alone she might have been in some
danger but Diablo was found patient
ly watching her from under a nearby
mango tree. He had followed and kept
his eye on her the whole day, and wher
they found her, he abruptly left and
trotted back to town.
Thus months passed, and except for
a few lively encounters with various
men, both Filipinos and Americans
who were absent-minded enough to for
get Diablos prejudices against certain
peculiarities of dress, life in San RAJ
mon was peaceful enough. 1t was not
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

the irregulars have scattered and found
their jobs. Then comes the harvesting
of apples, peaches; prunes, apricots,
nectarines pears and other fruits. Men
are now in demand. Telegraphic orders
come from all parts of the country to
the San Francisco offices, and then be-
gins the real invasion. One column
pours up into the northern districts.
Everywhere on the dusty roads you
meet wagon-loads of men, or compa-
MES of them on the march, heading to-
wards the vast stretches of fruit or
chards in the foot hills Under the fruit
trees men are busy in groups, piling
boxes. carrying ladders and baskets,
and weighing.
Another army goes up the Sacra-
mento valley, where pears, peaches,
plums and apples are big and in plenty.
The Sacramento river stern-wheel
boats are crowded with them and their
blanket rolls.
Another contingent crowds the daily
trains down into the San Joaquin
the dry, alkali, jackrabbit country,
where the vast orchards are artificially
irrigated, where the sun is blazing hot
and the work is hard, but the pay
good.
Along through the Santa Clara Val
ley, up into the Coast Range foot hills,
swarm more bands and companies
towards the rising slopes, the small
valleys and the countless canyons
wherever, in fact, there are hidden
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

ing native, rolling him over on the
floor Then the big creature Jumped
over the PROSTATE body of the scream
ing man, bounded through the door
way, into the front room and out of
the entrance of the house, disappear
ing in the darkness outside.
The whole, incident occupied less
than a minute. His first surprise over.
the American officer, restraining his
laughter with much difficulty, helped
the native to his feet, who rose with
a face that was pasty white. The dis
turbance below had ceased. Inquiry
revealed the fact that a lamp had been
upset in pile of straw, which hap
pened also to be the bed of Diablo.
but the basement of the house being
all OF stone, the fire had gone out Of
itself.
AS the mestizo merchant furnished
this information. the native whom he
had introduced as Lala had recovered
his composure, and he even made a
lame attempt at a smile. He and the
American again seated themselves at
the table and resumed their study Of
the paper. But the Colonel could not
help noticing that his companions
white trousers had torn in the seam,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

allowed to start. But he was saved
the trouble.
Suddenly the two fore feet of the
buck rose, his body reared, curved
gracefully over, like an expert divers.
then fell. With a spring he bounded
outward and downward. landing only
a few yards away from those below.
Again his fore feet arose. and with a
rear. almost as a bull bellows, he shot
forward. There came a scream from
human throat and the astonished SOL
diers saw whirl of hoofs. horns and
red cloth go bounding over the ledge
into the swirling river.
Down to the bank! Save them!
Save them before they get into the
rapids! yelled the captain, and they
all rushed in mass, men in brown
and men in white and blue, down the
trail of the strip of beach below. On
ly the colonel and the captain remain
ed with the wounded on the trail.
They're gone" said the captain
The colonel said nothing.
The men ran along the streak Of
gravel in excited groups, endeavoring
to aid the two struggling figures out
in mid-stream. One of the insurgents
plunged in and swan for the goat.
Save the 'hombre!' Save the HON.
bre!" shouted the first lieutenant
IulAlIlS MS EngllSn ana spanish III tHe
excitement But voice above them
roared out-the colonel's:
Damn the 'hombre!' Save the
goat"
The native reached the swimming
animal, but the warning cry from the
men ashore told him of his danger The
increasing current carried the three
down-down-down toward the mar
downing gorge. A yell from ashore, then
a CLEAN of bright red shot up in the
foam. Then came a hoarse below, the
monstrous head and horn of Diablo
rose once and disappeared In the whirl-
pool beyond.
The prisoner had reached rock and
held on. "A moment more and ne,
too, must go. But a man in brown uni
form with one end of a long bamboe
pole in his hand and the other end held
by the crowd ashore, swan out and
was then pulled in with the exhausted
native in his grasp.
Up on the trail the two/veteran Off
GERS observed all.
Colonel" said the captain, 1.-THE
Devil certainly carried his objections
to red trousers a long way"
The old colonel looked thoughtful
for moment.
Captain" he said at last, Il think
you are mistaken. sir. It wasn't the
red trousers; it was what was in those
red trousers"
Copyright, 1904. by Albert Son
nichsen.)
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

orchards of olives, pears, apricots and
other fruits which need to be picked
and boxed and shipped for Eastern
and European markets. The cherry
season is over, but the thousands of
cherry pickers have melted into the
big, main army.
Then, if the season is a good one,
calls come to San Francisco for more
men, but they cannot be answered.
Every lodging house is empty, save
for a few habitual loafers. In the
papers appear advertisements, in big
type, for men, but they are not to be
had. Wages rise, until they can go
no higher.
At. this time you may travel through
the fruit regions and see thousands of
acres of orchards where the pigs run
wild, devouring such luscious fruit as
the average Fastener never tastes.
There are not men to pick and box 1t.
Pears and peaches. such as are eX-
fibited in country fairs, mellow and
drop to the porkers beneath. There
are $4,000 fruit pickers scattered over
the country, but they are not enough.
Then comes the grain harvesting,
just as the fruit season wanes, but that
does not take up many men, for ma
chinery and header wagons do most of
the work Last of all come grape and
hop picking. Upon the vine-covered
hills, are the white tents of the pick
ers, laid out with military precision.
The work begins at dawn and ends
at sunset. Wagons rattle up and down
the avenues, collecting the boxes that
the pickers have filled and carried out
to the roadway. Every nation and race
is represented among the workers.
There are Italians, Greeks, French
men, and Turks, to whom the work is
not new, and there are Kanakas, Nor
wegians and Firms, who are just begin
ming. In the hop yards the pickers
work across the fields like destroying
locusts, a black line. sweeping the
green before it and leaving the
brown.
In October comes a lull. The work is
Stacking then; each big ranch gives
barbecue and a dance to wind up the
season.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

These festivals are unusually pic
turesque, because each nationality
gives its stamp to them. The Indians
dance, the Germans sing, and the Ital-
ians play stringed instruments. Some
times they end up with wild, delirious
orgies.
Next day the roads to the railroad
stations are lined with the returning
workers, dusty and unshaven. but with
their pockets full of gold and silver
1t is the beginning of the retreat, but
that retreat is glorious. The men
march in groups, in order that they
may sing together. This happens al
most simultaneously all over the coun-
try. The irregulars, too, appear from
all directions, from little mountain
farms and diaries, and join the main
army.
In San Francisco the first few an.
pear from the nearby ranches; then
the ferries begin to carry the dusty
soldiers of labor across the bay Tn
Market street they come by hundreds
every day and every hour for weeks,
all making towards their old quarters,
the cheap lodging houses. Apparently
they are swallowed up, for they dis
appear.
They merely shave and put on suits
of store clothes. Next day you can
only recognize them by their bronzed
faces. In a month even this sign is
gone, and the tramping army of la
borers has been swallowed up by the
big city. But the men are all there,
resting on their summers earnings,
reading, enjoying cheap seats in the
theaters, attending lectures, and TAX
ing walks along the crowded thor
oughfares where they can see their
fellow men in the higher walks of
life.
There are men who have done this
for a score of seasons, and who will
do it another score of seasons. But
California is the only country where
it can be done.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

motion below increased then suddenly
the trap door flew open with gust
of smoke and an excited and badly
frightened native boy dashed up and
out of the house, shouting "Incendio
Incendio!" (Fire! FireD Hardly had
he disappeared when there followed n
chatter on the stone stairway, and in
the opening. enveloped in a stream of
smoke. rose the horns and face and
pointed beard of what to some might
have seemed a fearful apparition. But
the Colonel knew Diablo when he saw
him.
Not so the native apparently. With
a scream he threw himself before a
crucifix hanging on the wall.
"Salvami Dios! Salvami Dios!" he
called frantically.
Diablo had flung himself into the
room in a second. He paused for an
instant, then rose on his hind legs and
came down with a roar on the kneel-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

You'll do"
The aide withdraws. with a growl,
to do the chiefs bidding. In the outer
Office are several hundred husky,
swarthy men, with blanket rolls and
tin plates and pots dangling about
their persons. The runner says some
thing to them in a foreign language,
and they follow him down the street
in a long column, towards the depot.
Few of the passers-by on the street
notice them, and then only with the
words: Hello Cherries are get
ting ripe down in Santa Clara!"
These men are the advance corps
of the summer armies of fruit pickers.
BY the hundreds, every day, they
march down the narrow streets of old
San Francisco, where they have been
wintering since November, all in one
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29
CALIFORNIA; Tramping
Labor Army
10000 Tampng Laboers March Out Of San Francisco to
Pick Cafornas Mighty Crop from 3o,ooo,ooo Trees.
BY HENRY w. MULHOLLAND.

nation and movement closely resem-
BILE those of organized troops. They
are divided into four main divisions as
they spread out from San Francisco
the Northern, the Sacr3mento Valley,
the San Joaquin Valley and the South
Arn.
These divsHons are again divided
roughly into squads, companies and
even bodies as large as battalions,
each moving together to its own OBJ
jective point. Then there are the
irregulars, as there are with all ar
mies-the guerrillas the irresponsible
bands moving about without base,
free-lancing for loot and the love of
adventure.
In a small dingy Office on Sacra-
mento street sits a little, grubby man.
who. We're the labor army composed
of armed fighting men, would hold
the rank of brigadier general There
are several of his kind, and between
them they manipulate the summer
campaigns in their offices as real mill
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

With the coming of spring, Califor-
MAS great tramping labor army gets
ready for its summer campaign. Thirty
or 10000 men, modified in San Fran
cisco, march north, east and south,
spreading themselves out like fan,
to supply the labor required to pick
the crop on thousands of orchards and
vineyards throughout the state.
There is more than enough work
waiting for every man in this big
army. California boasts of about 30
700 of fruit trees and grape vines
in full bearing There are over 100000
acres in vineyards alone, and the hop
fields cover tens of thousands of acres.
In an average year over 100000 tons
of fruit are shipped out of the state,
over 10000 tons Of wine. beer and
brandy, and over 100000 tons of vege-
tables. No wonder an army of labor
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

direction, to the ferries and the Fourth
street and Townsend Street railroad
depot.
The lower decks of the ferries, the
largest ferries in America, are crowd
ed with them. 1t takes many thou
sands of men to harvest the biggest
cherry crop in the world. Cherries rip
en- first, so the cherry brigade is the
first on foot. Thus they stream on ev-
cry day, to occupy the numerous cher
ry districts for the next month--the
Santa Clara Valley, San Lorenzo,
Haywards San Leandro and a hun
bred other districts.
At the depot at those places the men
are met by the local ranchmen and
farmers, a single one of whom some
times marches off as many as 500 men.
The irregulars are as early in the
field as the men of the regular army
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

tary leaders do. In the outer office
are his aide-de-camps, tough-looking
fellows, who lead the companies and
battalions. He calls in one, and gives
his orders something like this:
You'll take the 200 dagos down to
San Jose tonight. Murphy, up at
Healdsburg, wants $50 by Thursday
evening, SO be moving. Here's your
tickets"
Il though l was to take fifty Hunks
over to San Leandro tonight. Who's
doin' that"
I'm send jim. He's queered him
self in San Jose, so he can't go there.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MAY %, 1904

for the iack-rabbit country. where
wines cheap. We're goin' over into
Madeira, an If we don't like it, there's
Tulare right below US See ye at Jacks
next November"
Going up into the country the roads
are full of these wandering summer
laborers. At night they sleep under the
stars, for it never rains in that season,
and their campfires light up the pine
and red wood forests. They buy their
meals in the small towns or at the
farm houses. The ranchers and far
mers are looking for them, and they
seldom walk long for a job in any part
of the country, unless they decide to
take a good long tramp through the
foothills before settling down seriously
for the summer,
BY June and the beginning of July
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

way. men who have lived through the
winter on seven dollars a week, spend
ing their time in public Libraries and
reading rooms.
These irregulars scatter over all the
country. In the depot, if you get near
a group. you may hear some such con-
versation as this:
Tell we what, Bill, don't go much
on Fresno-it gets too blamed hot.
Think I'll take the five-twenty train for
Calistoga and hit the trail from there"
why. 1 thought you was comm
with u.s.
80 1 was, but I've changed my
mind I'll have the north for mine.
I'll hit a good job on some cow ranch
till grape pickin' then I'll finish up the
season at Healdsburg in the hop
yards
We'll so long, old chap! We're off
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29
How to Attract Hornets and Bees,

Last summer Ned went to the coun-
try to visit his cousin. viii, and one
day the two boys walked out into the
woods. They were sitting on a log,
poking around with stick, when sud-
denly crowd of yellow jackets swarm
ed out from a hole intent upon punish
ing the disturbers Of their peace. Ned
took to his heels and ran. waving his
hat in all directions, while Will stood
perfectly still. The bees pursued poor
Ned, and stung him frghtfully. and
paid absolutely no attention to Will.
This will invariably happen. If you
keep perfectly quiet. bees will seldom
attack you, but if you run they Will
surely follow.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

of fruit pickers. They are sent by no.
body; they have enough OF the pre-
vious summers earnings left TO equip
themselves for a free-lancing cam
paign. San Fra nciscans see them NOV
ing along the streets from the south of
Market street district, where the cheap
lodging houses are, toward the ferries,
in groups of from two to five, but often
alone.
They are easily distinguished from
ordinary workmen. or even from the
regulars. They wear straw or SLOUGH
hats, brand new brown or blue over
alls and jumpers. carry new, clean
blankets, bright, new tin pots and pans.
and their faces are clean-shaven and
glowing with the prospect of the COM
ing seasons adventures. No tramps
are they. but men able to pay their
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

ers are required to pick this vast crop
for the markets of the entire world.
Indeed, enough men can never be OBJ
tanned, and luscious, golden fruit has
to be fed to the pigs all over the state
by the hundreds and the thousand
tons. There is no other spectacle like
it upon the earth.
The labor army, collected and en-
rolled by the labor agents south of
Market street, San Francisco. during
the fall, numbers at the outset per-
haps 10000 men, but there are reserves
TO be drawn upon as the picking sea-
son advances. Their methods of for
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

An American named Gay is prac-
tically king of an island of 10000 acres
in the Hawaiian group. He and his
wife reign in kindly fashion over lOO
natives. dusky people who are just as
loyal as If they knew several words
of English instead of not a word. The
Gay industry is sheep raising, and II
pays.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-29

Copyright, 1904. by T. C. Mcclure
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-30
SHIP STUCK IN
THE MUD
Bio SAILING VESSEL rs AT
MERCY or WAVES NEAR
BELLlNoHAM
nv soripps News A-Snl

nEIitNGItAM. Dec. 10 Pound
ed by heavy seas aud firmly imhed-
ed In the soft mud. the American
ship S. D Carleton lies at the point
near old Fort Nottingham. not over
90 feet from the bluffa.
The Carleton was driven yoatef=
day by the second severe gale which
has visited nelliuEham Ia the last
q hours Wednesday afternoon the
ship was reported as safe lu IL feet
OF water. but yesterday she had
been firmly imhodded In the beach.
aud the force Of the gale has been
slowly driving her along the soft
mud before the Wind.
The vessel appears 20 be In no
danger. unless the rccodinE tide
leaves her where she will eareen
and possibly damage her rigging
The Carleton n wooden ship and
a Htauneh vessel
An unsuccessful attempt was made
yesterday morning by the powerful
tug Pioneer 20 pull the Carleton off.
The heavy seas and gtlft wind mill
tated against the tuK. and finally Il
was decided that moro power Wa
needed
The captain Of the Pioneer stated
that the Carleton vas In no imme-
diate danger. and that as soon as
the other tugs arrived che could b.
pulled from shore To a place OF
safety The vessel IL now ground.
ID In the mud and sand and theru
ID no danger OF the wind pounding
her against the rocks IN her present
position
The tugs Wanderer. Tacoma and
bahada arr on the way 60 assist tn
Pioneer and they will all four 81
deavor to float the Carleton al high
tide today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-30

THE PRELIMINARY hearing In
San Francisco q the Will contest Of
Alexander Dunsmuir was begun
yesterday At the office of the Brit
ish consul. when =. =. coruack was
called BY Sir Charles a. Upper.
who represented Mrs John Duua-
muir and testified to the laws Of the
state In regard to the making Of
Wills