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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
SWITCH FLEW Open
FRTGHTFUL WRECK ON D. & R.
G. NEAR PUEBLO, COLO.
Whole Train Thrown Into the Embank-
ment-Large Number Injured and
Bruised-second Collision Averted
by Prompt Action of Train Crew
All Expected to Recover.

Pueblo, Col, Aug. 26.-Twenty per,
sons suffered injuries and a number Of
others were shocked and bruised when
a Denver G. Rio Grande passenger
train No. 5, w~estbound, was wrecked
a mile east of Fernleaf, a small station
about three miles west of Pueblo Sun
day afternoon. The wreck was caused
by the second engine of the train
throwing a switch, derailing and throw
ing it against the embankment. The
engine carried the baggage, express
and mail cars, a day coach and five
Pullmans from the rails.
The second section of No. 5, which
followed close behind, and e%astbound
No. 4, were stopped a short distance
from the scene of the wreck and pas
sengers transferred each way, and
those who were able continued on
their journey. The injured were TAX
en- to st. Leda. A temporary track will
be built around the wreck and traffic
continued in this way until the track
is repaired and conditions become nor
NAL.
Following is the list of more seri-
ously injured, none of whom it is
thought is fatally hurt:
Mrs. William Kelley, Colorado
Springs, hip bruised.
Alice s. Coleman, Ann Arbor, Mich,
sprained back.
Mrs. e. W. Dolly, Whittier, Cal, ribs
fractured.
d.. d. Sturgis, Chicago, arm and knee
crushed.
w. Fl. Patterson, Seattle, internally
H. P. Mcdonald, Kansas City,
about the chest.
S. c. Greiner, Evansville, Ind,
5prained back.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
COMING EVENTS.

Columbia River Methodist Episco-
pal conference, Spokane, September
At.
Free street carnival, Walla Walla.
Wash, September 1923.
Washington Retail Grocers, Seattle,
September 1919.
Montana Pioneers, Billings, Sep
tomber 1928.
Southern Idaho Baptist Young PEG
pies union, Boise, September 1922.
Fairs.
Riverside, Wash, September 1912
C~entralia, Wash, September 9-14.
Roseburg, Ore, September, 10-14.
Athena, Ore, September 1921.
Salem, Ore, September 1921.
Orofino, Idaho, September 1919.
Missoula, Mont, September 1920.
Redmond, Ore, September 1921.
Prosser, Wash, September 1921.
Great Falls, Mont, September 1927
North Yakima, Wash, Sept. 1928.
Colville, Wash, September 1921.
Anaconda, Mont, September 1928
McMinnville, Ore. September 1927.
Pendleton, Ore, September 1928.
Victoria, B. c., September 24-2S.
Spokane, Wash, September 23-Oc.
5.
Helena, Mont, September 30-Octo
Der 5.
Puyallup, Wash, October is.
La Grande, Ore, October 2-5.
New Westminster, B. c., October
IS.
Caldwell, Idaho, October 1-5.
Scio, Ore, October "a.
Davenport, Wash, October S-11.
Oregon City, Ore, October eli.
Colfax, Wash, October 7-12.
Lewiston, Idaho, October ZIP.
Baker City,, Ore, October S-12.
Wilbur, Wash, October 1918.
Walla Walla, WASH, October 1919
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
SECRETARY TAFT's PLATFORM.
Has Set Forth His Ideas In Recent
Speeches.

SPeecheS.
The salient features Of Secretary
Taft's address at Columbus were:
He favors additional railroad rate
legislation notably an increase of pow
er to the interstate commerce com.
mission.
He favors changes in the antitrust
law which will more clearly define it
He believes there can be such a
thing as a lawful trust, but empha.
sizes the danger of unlawful monopo-
lies.
He does not agree with Mr.. Bryan
as to the trust license plan and as
TO what should be done with the
trusts"
He is in favor of remedying the
swollen fortune evil and suggests
state legislation.
He belives that the graduated inner.
itance and income tax might be prop
erlyI resorted to by the government in
case of financial emergency.
He denies that R~oosevelt's policies
are socialistic and that the president
was responsible for state legislation
reducing railroad passenger rates or
for Wall street flurries.
He designates Mr.. Bryan's scheme
OF government as "nerveless" and de-
nies the p%racticability of a national
referendum.
He comes out ~squarely against gov
eminent ownership of railroads.
He announces that he is against
trade, but favors tariff revision,
and believes there should be no tariff
tinkering until after the next presi-
Dental election.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30

Jersey City, Aug. 246.-A shrapnell
shell which was a relic of the battle
ship Maine, exploded here severely in.
juring three children.
Eldem Kenney, aged IA, and telling
several youngsters how a sailor gave
him the missile and illustrated its
weight by dropping it.
The shell exploded with a roar.
kenney was fearfully mutilated and
may die. His two companions were
lacerated.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
IDAHO NEWS.

The Wardner public schools will re.
sumo work on Monday, September 2
Idaho is in need of coal and Cover.
o Gooding thinks the railroads are
negligent in furnishing cars.
Dr. |. M. F. Browne of Boise is dead
He was 70 years of age. Cancer
caused his death.
according to the reports from the
GEAR creek forest fires, raging near
~Placerville, the fire made great head.
way during the recent high wind.
FOR the third time in less than two
months the Oregon Railroad & Navi.
gatlon company's steamer Spokane is
ueu up by a strike OF deckhands.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
Labor Notes..

Approximately $50 members of the
building trades at Goldfeld have re.
turned to work. The plumbers win
their demand of SO for an eight hour
day, but they, with other building
crafts. agree to give 80 days, notice
in case of a threatened strike or of a
demand for an increase in wages.
a compromise offer of an advance
in wages, made by packing firms at
the stock yards in Chicago to their
teamsters, was rejected by the latter
and the firms were given IL hours to
make further concessions.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
FIGHTING THE FAMINE IN CHINA
Estimated That Three-Quarter Mil
lion People Have Died.

''AN C|&QdILCE mlI-
lion People Have Died.
The terrible famine which has ragged
IN central China for several months
Is now virtually over; the crops plant
ed with the seed distributed by the
resef committeeds are being harvest
ed; the missionaries who have Iabored
SO assiduously in the cause of human
lty are gradually coming down to the
coast for a rest, and people are begin
ming to count the cost in lives and
money. The exact number of Chinese
who persisted will never be known. but
the estimate recently made bv a
prominent member of the relief or.
CARNATIONS, judging from conyersa-
IONS with many workers, was very
rauch exaggerated. He computed the
loss OF lives at over 1000. 900. but on
going carefully into the facts if is
that the famine lasted less than
eight months. and at the worst per-
lod the deaths were said to average
o'OOO a day, so that even had this
hgure been maintained for the full
period of the famine the total mortal
ity would have been less than three
quarters of a million.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
FOR THE DEFENSE OF PETTIBoNE
Richardson and barrow Expected to
Appear.


Denver, Col, Aug. 28.-The West
ern Federation of Miners will be ready
to proceed with the trial of George A.
Pettibone at Boise on October 1, the
date set for the arraignment of the
Western Federation of Miners men,
Der accused of completely in the muir
der of former Governor Steunenberg.
At the Denver headquarters of the
federation it is officially stated that
both Attorneys Richardson and OAR
row are still in the employ of the
miners, and that both of them are ex-
pected to conduct Petitioners defense.
Senator Borah of the prosecution,
the federation officers say, has made a
personal appeal to the Mineowners'
association to come to Idaho's financial
aid in further pushing cases against
the accused federation officials. 1t
was heard in Colorado Springs last
week that the senator had visited the
mineowners there.
Inc opinion is freely expressed that
will be impossible to secure a jury
for a second trial of the S%teunenberg
It is the belief of the federation
leaders that when Harry Orchard is
brought to trial for the con-
fessed murder of Idaho's governor that
a lunacy commission will be called and
he will be declared insane.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
ROUNDUP OF THUGS IN CHICAGO.

Police Killed One and Arrest a Score
of Criminals.
The Chicago police rounded out a
day of wal against criminals Satur-
day night by killing a holdup man just
after he had robbed a citizen and by
capturing the robbers companion.
Thomas Kelly, who had a record of
crime, was the man who was killed.
His slayer was Policeman Patrick Nc
Fee. Kelly had held up Michael
O'Neill, a steamftter.
A companion of KelIy's, Thomas
Roach, was arrested at the same time.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
ST. PAUL is COMING FAST.
Expect Train Into Butte In the
SprinQ,

spring.
President Z. d. oewall Of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
company in Montana, expresses him
self as highly pleased with the pro
gress being made and said the work
of construction Is being pushed along
as rapidly as possible.
Westward from Glenham, he said,
81 miles of track had been laid, and
east of Cato about Is miles have been
put down. Five miles of track have
been laid in the vicinity of Harlow
town and six miles out of Butte. While
Mr.. Sewell said there were too many
things to take into consideration to
state positively when the trains would
be running into Butte, he thought the
road would be in operation next
spring, and into Spokane several
months later.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
cOrteIyOu Helps Money Market

Secretary Cortelyou announces that
beginning this week, he will place
week in New York, Boston and
such other cities as he sees fit. de-
posits of government funds to sufic-
lent quantities to prevent any strin-
gency or possible panic during the
crop moving period.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

Lack of coke cuts down the Bound
airy ore shipments the past week.
A telephone line is being construct
ed from Warrens into Ramey Ridge
camp in central Idaho.
A new lead has been cut on the
famous old Reco mine In the Sandon
district, British Columbia.
Work has been begun on a 25O-foot
crosscut tunnel on the White Tail
property on Horse creek, near Libby,
Mont.
All hope of rescuing alive four min
ers who have been entombed for sew
eral days in No. IA tunnel at Blanch-
ard, Pa, has been abandoned.
s. S. Callahan has taken a force of
six miners to develop the Washington
Calumet on Copper creek, near Twisp.
The property consists Of five claims.
Work has been resumed at the Mi
norca group on Fifteen Mile creek,
rear Orient, B. G. Considerable rich
ore was at n time shipped from the
mine.
Quite contrary to representations
which have been made extensively in
the west, the creation of national for
ests places no check on prospecting
for minerals.
The old War Eagle mine near Lew
istown, Mont, is to be reopened and
worked on a large scale. A s25,O
concentrating plant is to be erected
on the property.
The first shipment Of ore from the
Winnipeg property, located on Bel
cher mountain, started from the mine
Tuesday morning bound for the Gran
by smelter at Grand Forks.
Strangers were more numerous than
residents in Twisp last week. Many
residents are doing the annual assess
ment work on mining claims, while
those who take a couple of weeks off
go prospecting every ear are now
engaged in that most alluring of all
occupations.
After selecting Helena as the con-
vention city for next year and choos-
ing Sheridan. Wyo., as headquarters
the United Mine Workers of America
FOR district No. %, embracing the
of Montana and Wyoming, have
concluded their annual convention in
Helena. All of the old officers, in
President Thomas Gibson of
were rejected.
Miners from nearly all parts of the
northwest are pouring into the Elk
nd Pierce City districts in a steady
stream; some are prospecting the
for undiscovered locations.
While the majority of the visitors are
noneyed eastern capitalists searching
or mines with showings which will
development on a large
says 4. Ralph Pittock.
The big Gagnon, Neversweat and
Vest Stewart mines and the DAILY
crosscut at Butte have been
breed to close down by the machin-
strike. Business men are be-
oming alarmed at the possibilities
the strike on the part of the ma.
It is feared hat other mines {
lay follow the example of the prop !
rites mentioned and shut down as '
lst as the machinery becomes unfit
use. Both the unions and the min r
g companies show no signs Of weak g
ming. ID
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
For North Pole.

Word has been received from from.
so, Norway, which says it is reported
nat Walter Wellman of the Chicago
Record-Herald polar expedition is
about to leave Spitzbergen in his at
tempt to reach the north pole bv
means of a balloon.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
Raisuli Weakens.

1t is understood that Raisuli, who is
holding Sir Henry Mclean a prisoner.
has sent a communication to the Brit.
lsh government in which he greatly
modifies his previous demands for the
release of the caid. The only condi-
ton he makes nov is that his own
life and the lives Of the members of
his family be guaranteed.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
Dowaser Is Perfectly Well.

Paris. Aug. 26.-The Chinese lega.
tion here is informed by cable that
the reports that the dowager empress
Is suffering from an incurable disease
are untrue. Her health, according TO
the cable, is perfect.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
Spokane City League.

A lot OF men imagine that they kno"
sll about the financial question pe
csuse they happen TO know a man VIII
lives next door to a bank.
That was a wise man who set Ia'
trap in his pocket and caught his deai
wife by the finger.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
AwfuI Wreck on the Erlsoo.

Sapulpa, /. T., Aug. 25.-Four were
killed and 80 injured this afternoon
when two st. Louis and San Francis
co passenger trains collided head-on
lear here. Both trains were filled
principally with excursionists.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
COLLISION KILLS AND MAINS.

Tragedy on French Railroad Costs 10
Lives.
Coutras, France, Aug. 2S.-Ten per-
sons were killed and 25 injured in a
head-on collision between an express
train bound from Bordeaux for Paris
and a freight train. The accident was
caused by a misplaced switch. None
of those killed or wounded was an
American.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30

A good many people who do tAen
duty as they see it should Visit ="
oculist
through the skylight when 1t VIZ
taken.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
BURNING BLUFFS" sTEAMlNe.

0NNeH CaNO1d THSnonSnon wore Ac-
tive Than for Years.
THE burning bluffs" a national
curiosity located across the river from
Wheeler, attract attention by their re-
newed activity. For more than 20
years volumes of steam and odors of
burning sulphur have been issuing
from assures in the bluffs and of late
the assures have widened and the
volumes of steam. have largely in
creased.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30
Mansfield. Christian soiou..

Despairing of being cured bv reg,,.
lar physicians, Richard Mansfield has
turned to the Christian Science faith
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-30

An old fashion is old, but an ancient
fashion is always modern.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-19
rREE PLANTING. ANp AFTER.

Impressive figures OF tree planting are given
in "The ArbOr Day Annual" We are told that
since the institution Of that day 31S920 trees
have been planted on the school grounds Of
this state Dividing by IS, that means an av-
erage of 1916 a year. Dividing by 5000
since 1900 of the 10000 districts have neglect
ed the work-it means all but 10 trees TO each
school. That is a fine showing. 1t would be
magnificent If tree culture had kept pace with
tree planting, and II all those trees had been
properly cared for. Had even half those trees
survived and developed as nature designed
them to, each school would now be IN a veri-
table academic grove Had a fair majority OF
the other trees planted elsewhere In this state
In these eighteen years been properly cared for,
we should be lmmeasurably better off than we
are.
1t would be unpleasant but It would be in
structve and perhaps profitable, to place by
the side OF the figures We have quoted some
other statistics-the number OF those school
planted trees which have been mutllated by
their planters, the number which have perished
from lack OF care, the number which have Ian
guished and pined and have become mere eye
sores, the number of trees throughout the state
which have been carelessly, needlessly or wan
tOnly destroyed or mutilated. Such statistics
would be no less impressive than those In 1.-The
ArbOr Day Annual" though in n very different
way. They would give point to the remark
which is really the most important thing in
1.-The Annual"-that there Is more need for
1.-THE care of trees and shrubs than there is for
actual planting
This is said not at all to discourage or to
dscredit the work of ArbOr Day. We should
like to see the day moro generally observed
ana many more trees planted. But ii is said
to stir up the minds of people, If possible, TO n
consideration of the duties Of the other 864
days of the year. II - easy enough to call
the children together and sing songs and set
out trees on Arbor Day. But what is to come
after? What will be the lot OF those trees next
week next month next year? Will the boys
refrain from breaking their branches? VIII
the telephone trolley folk refrain from cut
ting their heads off to make way for wires?
VIII the sidewalk builder leave open space
about them, and the advertiser refrain from
mailing posters upon them. and the EOrseman
prevent his horse from gnawing them; and
will somebody keep them free from insect
pests? The answers to these questions are the
important considerations not only for ArbOr
Day, but for all succeeding days.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-19
FREE EYEGLASSES AGAIN.

Since the beginning OF the agitation for free
eyeglasses the plan has undergone sthrtling
transformations, until now. as 1t will be pre-
sented by the committee at the hearing to
be given TO IL tonight by the Board or Educa-
ton, the measure has assumed form or which
we cannot approve. The original suggestion,
made by the Superintendent, was that needy
pupils having defective sight should be pro-
Vided with glasses. 10 principle this is a good
ldea the practical question whether the Board
OF Education or some other department should
undertake the task was the only debatable
point II now appears. however, that the COM
mittee instead OF deciding solely this matter
OF administration, extended the original pur-
port OF the measure so as 10 make IL provide
that all school children, rich and poor alike
IN need Of glasses must he equipped with them
by the board
Put in this form. we object TO the plan, for
it goes far beyond the powers and duties Of
the Board OF Education. The boards policy
must be dictated by a few simple eOnsldera-
tiOns: With compulsory education, the board
is obliged to see TO It that no pupil is pre-
vented from taking advantage OF his OppOrtuni-
ties 10y the want OF proper aids TO vision.
Parents should be required to care for their
children, so far as they are able, but the board
must directly or Indirectly provide for desti-
tute pupils out OF public funds. AS a matter
OF policy IL Is better that destitute pupils should
be supplied with glasses by the board which
requires them than that they should be sent
of 70 some public or private charity. We can
not sympathize with the plea OF the chNrita-
bic societies that poor pupils be sent to them.
II is less demOralizins 60 accept thing from
the one who cOmpels yOu TO have II than TO
run TO an OutRnd-Out charity for gFatuitOus aid.
Furthermore, II must be recalled that most
OF New YOrlls poor are Europeans long famil-
lar with far more extensive paternalism than
hOurishes here and hence less sensitive 10 its
supposedly charitable nature.
The committee, IN proposing TO make the
board provide eyeglasses for all pupils need
ing them. OverlOoks an important point While
il is true that the board is morally bound TO
see 10 it, that pupils are enabled to study by
being properly cared FOR In every respect, 1t
does not follow from this that the board itself
is obliged TO fit these pupils for the classroom.
II must make them fit only when no more
spOnsible persons can be found for the task.
Wel-tO-dO parents have a higher responsibility
toward their children than the board has. and
1t is to the interest Of the community 90 hold
such parents legally responsible for this oh
YiOus moral duty.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-19
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFron The TrIbuns BuTcau.I


WASHINGTON, April iS.-The President heid CON
ference this afternoon with S. ii. COwah' tle
Texas lawyer he frequently consulted IN the fah-
road rate proceedings a year ago. Mr. COwan caine
10 tell the President OF the operations or the ~"
passed by the Texas Legislature I'm lssS' under
which all the railroads In the state were appraised
IL was announced at the White House to-day
that Governor Herbert j. Hagerman OF New Mexico
had resigned. Captain George Curry. Governor OF
Samar Province. in the Philippines. has been se-
Iected to succeed him q
Senator Clark and Representative Mondeh' or
Wyoming called 20 present NJ B. Camphn' OF
Sheridan. who Is a candidate for United States
District Attorney OF Wyoming
Admiral RObley D. Evans. commander OF the
Atlantic fleet. had talk with the President about
the latteTs trip 70 jamestown. Captain FOurnier,
military attache OF the French Embassy. handed
to the President the latest copy OF the French
army llst Other callers included Senator's Hans
brough and Bourne. Representatives Humphreys.
OF Mississippi. and Roberts, OF Massachusetts,. AS
sistant Secretary Bacon, Delegate Andrews OF New
Mexico and Secretary Bishop. OF the Isthmian
Canal Commission.
Mrs. Roosevelt for the junior class OF the Ma
tonal Cathedral School, OF which Miss Ethel ROOse-
Welt Is a member. gave dinner tonight In com
piiment to the members OF the senior class. which
was followed by dance in the East Room The
table decorations were pink roses and daisies
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will give din
ner Wednesday. April 20
New-York tribune., 1907-04-19

Dies not venture 70 tell us how law Of Congress
can be submitted for approval The federal gov
ernment is a government Of the people, but OF
the people acting through the states. Would
Mr.. Bryan apply the referendum system by tax
ing poll Of the nation regardless Of state lines?
Or would he require the people in each state TO
vote as they do NOW. a majority OF states
passing or rejecting a law? Either method
would, Of course, be ultra constitutional. The
first would deprive the small states of the dis
prOportlonate power which they nov enjoy In
the Senate and the Electoral College and which
IS explicitly guaranteed to them by the COnsti-
tuition The second method would deprive the
big states OF the cOmpensatlng influence which
they possess in the House of Representatives
and make Il possible for twenty-three small
states 20 OutvOte twenty-five large states with
five 70 ten times greater population The refer
endum may be an interesting side issue in state
or municipal politics. But Mr. Bryan is III ad-
vlsed in trying 10 magnify its significance in the
national field and putting price on the heads OF
Democrats who fail 20 realize its cardinal I'm
pOrtance as Democratic doctrine.