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from this the expense incident to
travel, has paid for poor accom-
modations at a cheap hotel. there
is left for his wife and children a
scant living. Laying by anything
tor old age, when the Government
is through with him and has
turned him adrift cn the world. is
out of the question. Each year
the cost Of living. like the danger
incident to the work is increasing.
Everything but the pos al clerks
pay is going up. up, up. He
receives the same pay now that he
did twenty years ago. when a
dollar brought more TODD. more
clothing. more of all the neces-
saries of life by 25 per cent. than
it does today, when trust prices
prevail.
Until few years ago the law
made no provision for postal
clerk who was disabled or killed
while on duty. The moment that
his car took plunge from bridge
TO the bottom of some river. his
pay stopped. provided he was
killed. The Government did not
even go to the expense of raising
his mutilated body, but left it
where it went down for the fish to
fight over. Now a different rule pre-
walls. If a postal clerk is injured
while on duty he is allowed his
salary for year. If, at the end
of that time he is still disabled to
such an extent that he cannot
return to work, he is dropped
from the rolls, and if the unfortu-
nate clerk has no one upon whom
he can rely for support, then it is
lover the hills to the poorhouse.
The law also provides now that
in case of death from injuries re-
ceived while on duty the clerk S
legal representative shall be paid
1000. That is step, very shor,
one, in the right direction. A
human life at 81 900 per is pretty
cheap. The legal representatives
OF the twelve postal clerks who
were killed last year received
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clusively to postal clerks, but
applies to passengers as we'll. 1t is
evident that the railroads have in
creased their killing capacity in a
general way and that they are not
directing their attention specially
to the determination Of postal
clerks.
With railroad consolidation.
continuous lines and fast schedules
have come an appalling increase
in the killed and wounded OF
every class of persons who have
anything to do with the railroad
trains. Whatever advantage may
have come to mankind by the
elimination of time and space
has been paid for in blood. The
railroads have been successful
in making fast time, likewise have
they been successful in increasing
the number of widows and or
phans.
But returning to the postal
clerk; when the ability necessary
to do the work of postal clerk
the class of the service and the
dangers that are incident to 1t
are taken into consideration, there
is probably no class Of men on
earth as poorly paid as are the
men who work on the railway
mail trains. Certainly there arc
no other Government employees
so poorly paid. In other branches
of the Government service there
are men drawing salaries equiva'
lent to 1900 year who couldn't
hold the job of an $500 substitute
three days.
The average letter-carrier, who
often hasn't an earning capacity
in the business world of $50 a
month, receives salary thai
amounts to as much as that re-
[ ceived by the man who does the
health destroying, nerve-rackinf
work on the trains.
The pay of the postal cleri
ranges from 5000 to 81 800 year
the average being about S1,l5o ;
wear. After he has deducted
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one of the most important OF gov
ernment employees. The army
might disband, the soldiers might
quit fighting booze" and go into
the more profitable business of
raising cotton and corn, and the
country wouldn't know it. In
case of war voluntary army
would come out of the fields and
shops to fight the nations battles.
But the postal clerk. the brave
postal clerk who rides the fast
flying mail trains, who faces the
storms of winter, the landslides of
spring and the heat of summer.
who in devotion to duty does not
find an equal in one soldier out of
every ten, without him business
would stagnate and commerce
would pretty nearly be at an end.
Without this important factor in
the railway mail service to bring
buyer and seller together seed
time and harvest would be of lit
tie consequence.
1t may be noted in passing that
postal clerks are not the only per-
sons who have Jared badly at the
hands of the railroads. In recent
years there has been a remarkable
increase in the percentage OF
casualties topassengers on railroad
trains. According to the report
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the railroads in 1897 car
ried 4S9,445.19S passengers. OF
these they killed 222 and wounded
2.795-a casualty for every 1872
229 passengers. In 1904 they
hauled 715. 5.419,6S2 passengers. Oh
these they killed AL and wounded
9,111-a casualty for every "a, 1897
persons hauled. In seven years
the casualties increased from to
49,, ,229 passengers. to j to every
"a, 1897 passengers. The chance oi
a passenger being hurt in rail.
road,wreck increased over 100 pei
cent. between 1897 and 1904. In
asmuch, therefore, as the increase
in persons killed and manned BY
! the railroads does not apply ex
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$4,000; they ought to have had
$4,000.
But the point will probably be
made that the clerk or his legal
representative has cause OF
action against the railroad com,
pany which injured or killed him.
OF course. if he can prove negli-
gence on the part of the railroads
employees. If what the laws call
an act OF God. or some agency in.
dependent of the railroad, is
responsible for the wreck. the
railroad company pays nothing.
AS the privilege OF killing people
is one of the few things that rail
roads are willing to leave to the
Almighty, or someone else, when
few dollars are involved, they
never fail to let the responsibility
be placed where the "evidence"
may show it belongs.
A statement of the cost of opcr-
ating the railway mail service will
contain some interesting figures.
Last fiscal year the cost was as
follows:
Steamboat tnervice................. t6s5, ,59I2b
Electric and cable ear service 2I.s25.Tg
Mail messenger scrvicc........ I,22I,9o3.25
Special facilities ON trunk.
lines. l3i ,BS3.S7
Railway mail scrvice............ I3.2s5,2I2 "a
Railway car and tranrpor-
tation rervice..................... 1I,so3.o o6os2
Total. s6O.7l8.2I7.o2
This was little less than one
third of the cost of maintaining
the postoffice department. The
cost of the city free delivery
rural free delivery, star routes,
carrying foreign mails, wagon ser
vice in cities, mail equipments
and pneumatic tube service aggre-
gated $53, 100000.
The 1926 ,242.94 cost of the
railway mail service includes the
salaries of general superintend-
ent and his assistants. of eleven
division superintendents and the
assistants, clerks, ETC., necessary
to do the clerical work in the
Offices of eleven division super
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Concluded ON page seven.l
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22

LAUREL GROVE

Will Hebermsn spent last Saturday
in Grants Pass.
No one sick at this writing and
everyone feeling their oats.
4 We have fine little burg at present
there being IA houses and tents il
our town.
Fred Wetherbee was visiting hi
aunt of this place few days o.
last week.
JEFF Lindsey has his bay mare a,
home now. He had some trouble in
finding her, though.
Everyone that has wheel is happy
now as the road are getting in good
condition for wheeling.
Teams are going through our burg
every day now moving Messrs. Knox
and Hackett's mill to Merlin.
Range cattle are looking better this
Spring than usual. the late rains hav-
ing left the grass green and growing.
Well, well, a little more sunshine
and one can hear the singing Of the
moving machines in the heavy alfalfa
and clover.
Mr.. Heberman has purchased a
brand new moving machine and is
ready to cut hay proper. He has
about the finest hay we have seen.
Miss Russell has quit her position
in the boarding house at Laurel Grove
and is going to the city to work.
Miss Florence Darnielle of Murphy
will take her place.
Ye scribe had the pleasure of meet.
ing S. @. Ribbler one day of last
week and was pleased to make his ac-
quaintance. He is nice fellow and
is running the edger for William Bros
at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Harve Alger have de-
parted from our midst Mrs. Alger
aud sister are going to Washington
while Mr.. Alger goes to the frozen
north. We regret to see them go for
they were genial good, people.
Grain crops are heading out now
and promise a better yield this year
than usual. 1t is an i'll wind that
blows nobody any good. The late
rains have delayed haying somewhat
but the crops are enough better to
make up for that.
So long, till / come again. JUMBO.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22

in, for it took four of the officers to
handle herr The flowers were given
her. 1t opened the way to her heart.
The tender chords are often stirred by
these messengers Of love and beauty.
They had no further trouble with
her,
Our own beloved state president.
Mrs. Addition, in speaking of the
Lewis and Clark Fair, says: Flower
Mission day was cbarmingly celebrat-
ed at the W. G. I. U. booth. During
the day thousands of punches of sweet
peas and roses were passed out to
visitors, accompanied by the Gus
tomary text and white ribbon. The
recipients were profuse in thanks and
exclamations of delight. = In ad-
dition to these posies, Mrs. Alexander
Peake, Oregon's Flower Mission
superintendent, furnishd for distribu.
tion 800 Flower Mission souvenir
FANS" This year especially is a
grand time for all of Us to work in
this department. Many of our dear
white ribbon sisters have lost all their
earthly possessions In San Francisco,
and rare opportunity is given us to
show our sympathy and love to those
who wear the badge of purity.
A rare opportunity will be- given at
the Southern Oregon Chautauqua to
hear people Of renown in their ad-
dresses and great is the interest of
W. @. 7. U. people in Miss Bell
Kearney, the celebrated traveller calle d |
the silver tongued orator of the
South" Let all of us hear her who
can. MRS. L. W. HOOD,
Press Supt. |
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
L E l. A n ID


The steam shovel is about finished
filling the trestles. That outfit will
60 to Portland to do work for the rail.
road company.
We have some democrats here that
are complaining of hard times. Why
they should do so we cannot see
for there is work on every hand and
money is plenty.
We are having more cloud Juice
with cloudy weather and but little
hay has been cured yet. To get the
usual amount of hay will have to cut
late in the Summer.
Miss Iva Macarthur has been the
guest of Mrs G. W. Chaplin for few
days. Breathing the fresh, balmy
air, drinking cold pure spring water
has improved her health.
The old veterans are looking for
ward to the G.. A r. encsmpment
held in Grants Pass this week for
good time. Wide Awake wants to go,
but he wants a chape'one as Leland
is so far from Grants Pass.
Where is that big immigration that
we heard about? We are not getting
much of it here, although we have
one of the best and healthiest sections
in the United States with plenty of
cheap land that can be converted into
good homes, This vicinity is the best
of any place in Oregon.
Look ont for Wide Awake at the re-
union. WIDE AWAKE.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
Smoking In a Powder Magazine

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
Deadly Serpent Bites

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-06-22
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
JEWS FLEE TO AMERICA.

Blalystok, Aug. 31-Many promi
1ent Jewish anarchists have left this
city. emigrating to the United States
Warsaw. Aug 31-There is a gen
eral fear that the next revolutionary
attempt will be attended by Wholesale
murder of Jews by the Russian
troops
Al Nohiley mob OF peasants today
1illaged the Goinsky estate near Mis-
islavl. killed two Of the guards and
ieyerely wounded a sergeant of police
Troops have been sent to the scene OF
the d sorder.
At Samara as a result of a collision
between the police and the peasantrs
At Dergatchi, who stoned detach-
nent trying o extinguish an agrariau
ire, the police discharged a voles
SLING and wounGlng several peas
ints.
Az Kbarkoy a bomb was thrown
lndcr the carriage Of Director Polier
If the Belgo Russian field artillery
olay. Polier was seriously wounded
At Saratov an attempt TO arrest tw
si'ators today resulted in collision
9etween the police ant peasant
mob. The police used their rifles,
,ausing several casualties.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
HAPPILY Welded
Is Miss Lola Walker, Who Figured in
the Sensational Breach of Prom
lse Suit at Union City,

Chicago, Aug 31.-Lola Walker The
beautiful Chicago cnor singer, il
whose favor jury at Union City
Tenn, returned a verdict for S2l00i
against Col r chard Edawrds, OF
Asheville, n c., has been secretly
married to George d. Leiferman, one
of the star witnesses in the trial. The
ceremony was performed Monday
evening at Leiferman's home, 3i4-
West Sixty-third street.
Lola Walkers suit against Colone
Edwards was for breach of promise
20 marry. The girl charged that ed
wards lured her to New York City nh
der a promise of marriage and ther
deserted her She Furthermore ayerrec
that IN order to obtain her consent tt
an elopment Edwards druggod her
with wine.
Colonel Edwards importuned me,
said Miss Walker on the witness
stand. when we were oyertahen by
nightfall in the country. He gave me
wine. He promised to marry me and
/ believed him and ran away from
Asheville TO meet him in New York
After a short time he told me that he
was already married and then he left
me-"
During the trial Miss Walker was
emphatic in the statement that she
cared nothing for Edwards money,
but was merely seeking yindication
of her good name 1t was disclosed
that Edwards since the elopement,
had made many damaging statements
regarding the girls reputation, ana
the jury believing the evidence,
awarded her $4,000. Miss Walker has
not received the money. as new
trial has been granted on a writ of
error by the Tennessee supreme court
George ID. Leiferman is a brother o.
William Leiferman, who last June euc
ceeded in kidnapping and marrying his
swee. heart, Grace Monroe after a
sensational experience with the girls
father the Rev. Alexander Monroe. of
Chicago Lawn. Leiferman, with the
aid of "A friend, had N IS Monroe
spirited away TO Centralia, ILL.,. fol
lowed her there and married her in
spite Of strenuous parental objections
to the match.-Commercial-Appeal
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
WILSON LAYS THE LAW DOWN
TO ALL THE MEAT PACKERS
Secretary Says Dates Must be Put On All Canned
Goods and Meat Products On Time Or They
Cannot Be Shipped

chance on selling them.
One thing was certain, they could
not be shipped from one state tfs
another. The law however, does MT
prohibit their sale where they hap
pen now to be.
me disposal Ct such goods depend
ed upon the desire Of the sonsnmer.S
Wilson said that the packers were.
anxious to conform in all respects to
the law and that the conference had
made evident the fact that some II
them would be unable to comply with
all of It's provisions by the first of
October because they had not been
suffic emily forehanded in their pre-
parations. These men, necesssrify
would be obliged the secretary said
to confine their business operations
within their own state line until snch
time as they were prepared fully III
meet the requirement OF the meat I'LL
spectlon act
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
.RAWH|OE WELDED
BY the Beauty While the Crowd
Cheered Her On When She
Lashed Offending Magistrate

Washington, Aug 3l-With the
town constable looking on. and sur
runoded by score or more OF friends
who urged her On Lucy Grove. a.
pretty young woman Of Vienna, Va.
this morning horsewhipped August
Henning, justice of the peace of hat
place
When the young woman sprang
from the poStoffice doorway and be-
gan lashing the magistrate over the
head and badly with rawhide whip.
which was partially constructed Of
l.fne copper wire. 4 crowd IL men auf
women suddenly appeared ON the
scene and cheered her on.
| AS she rained blow after blow on
the mans face and shoulders the
men shouted and flung their hats Id
the air. while The women screamed in
J their excitement. The girl was soon
ovcrpOwered by Henning. and before
/ the onlockors coud Interfere in the
final scuffle the girl was thrown to
the ground. Her left arm was dlsio-
Gated. The attack was tha result Of 4
dec sion rendered hg the squire
against the young woman lat week.
She had man arrested for ASSAULT
ing her, and claims Henning. before
whom the case was tiled. deliberately
dismissed the case. Miss Grove was
not arrested, but the Justice hurried
her away.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
SUDDEN SUMMONS
For Distinguished Editor OF the
Omaha Bee, Whose Death is
Deeply Regretted.

Omaha. Neb.. Aug. 81 Hundreds
of kilograms of coincidence have been
received from all PARTS Of the United
States from personal friends by the
relatives of Edward Rosewster. editor
Of the Omaha Bee. vi no died suddenly
last night. among them being w liam
Jennings Bryan and Melville e.
Stone. general manager Of the Asso-
ciated Press Announcement was
made tonight that the funeral woul:
be held at three o'clock Sunday next
from the rotunda Of the Bee building.
Services will be under the auspices OF
Covert Lodge. MasOns. Of which Rose
water was a prominent member
During Sunday the body " u lie in
state for a few hours in the Bee build
ing which will be open to the public.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-01
HAND SHAKING, SPEECHES
AND RECEPTIONS POR BRYAN
Democratic Leader Puts In Day As Strenuous As
Campaign Times and Was Heartily Re-
ceved In Staid Old New England

The features of the day were the
luncheon and the conference of New
England Democrats. A the former
Bryan was welcomed to the city and
state with a cordiality that for
warmth has seldom been extended to
visitor and at the latter he stood
before a represen atiye body of New
England Democrats and with great
earnestness spoke of the problems
which the party must face in the com
ing campaigns.
Bryan said in the course of his an
dress that New England never mac
been a good breeding place fol
Democracy: Jefferson had never con
sidered il So neither did Jackson.
Bryan left New Haven for Blidge
port reaching that city shortly befor'
6 O'Clock and going to the home oI
Mcneil for dinner, later addressing an
audience at the armory.