The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
WASHINGTON
THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DIS.
TANcEs.

: 80.
A Collection Of Events OCCURRING
| Among the People of the Capital of
This Great and Glorious Nation and
Condensed for our Readers.
| Special Correspondence THE APPEAL
! Washington, July 25-The Depart
ment of Justice is aggressively push
! ing its campaign against peonage prac-
| tees. Agents have been sent recently
into Virginia to Investigate complaints
| that men are being held in bondage in
| turpentine camps.
| Prosecutions are now being conduct
ed in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina.
and Alabama. The. Government is
being fought bitterly by the contract
ors, and in some cases it is charged
that State authorities are lending
moral support to those under indict-
ment.
The Department of Justice is eagerly
awaiting a SECESSION from the circuit
court of Missouri, on the appeal of
contractors recently found guilty of the
charge of depriving citizens of the
United States of their liberty.
/ The constitutional point is clear-cut
there. Prosecutions in other States
have been made under conspiracy
charges
Conditions in some sections, as repre-
sented to the President and Attorney
General, have been deplorable One
official today declared that magazine
articles upon the subject, while looked
r'ron in Northern States as tinged
with yellow" have really understated
the situation.
1t has been brought out that a man
a. member of a Kentucky family of
feudists-chased men who escaped
from the camps where they had been
kept under surveillance, and brought
them back under a shotgun guard, and
tied together at the waist like cattle.
A cross-bill was filed Monday in the
District Supeme Court in behalf of
William H. Grimshaw. w. H. Judd NAL
vim, and J. w. Hutchinson against the
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Free:
Ancient and Accepted Masons of the
District of Columbia and it's subordi-
mates, by whatever name known or
styled
1t is stated in the petition that the
con'Dlainants are the principal officers
lof Accepted Masons, and that the de-
PENDANTS are a pretended corporation
doing business under certificate sign
ed by George w. Simms. o. r. King,
J. H. Mcdowell. D. F. Seville, w. P.
Gray. H. C. Scott and H. w. Hawlett.
| The court is asked to restrain the
defendants from using the name of the
Free MasOns, and for other relief con-
| tingent upon the outcome of the liti-
cation.
Frederick A. Mullen. an Afro-Amer-
lean preacher of Dayton, Ohio, indict-
| cd for obtaining money under false
pretenses, was today discharged by
Justice Anderson
The indictment which was found
against him stated that Mullen opened
| an account with the National Safe
Deposit and Trust Company of this city
by depositing a check on the City Ma
tional Bank, of Dayton, Ohio
Later he drew on his account to the
extent of $S5. and when the check
was sent to Ohio for payment. it was
returned to the local bank marked mo
good"
Mullen, it is Stated, served a SEN
tence in the District Jail of nine
months on a charge filed against him
in the Police Court, and on account of
the slim evidence against him in the
present instance Assistant District At
torney Perry asked that the case be
mol pressed.
The butcher the baker, the candlestick
| maker
They're all on the classified list.
Even since William Dudley Foulke-
then occupying President Roosevelt's
old desk in the dingy building at Stb
and E streets-laid down his essay
on the flight of the Tartar tribe and
his report on the pernicious political
activities of the North Carolinians
long enough to grind out the Anthem
OF the G. S. c." which starts out as
Indicated above. the civil service
commission has been steaming briskly
ahead, bringing all sorts of trades and
professions under it's benefcent in
fiuence. 1t has given examinations on
pretty nearly every subject, from gaso-
| LIZ OASAuCo W duPd duIurOpOlOSy,
and from Hebraic literature back again
to the cure of the bolts in horses.
But it wasn't until the other day that
the commission put scissors grinders
on the classified list.
The examination will be held next
week and will not involve severe men.
tai strain. Ability to put a barber
shoD finish on a pair of government
shears and razor edge on a govern
ment knife will count pretty nearly all
/ the points. The personal appearance
OF the applicant will not be deter
mining factor, save when it seems to
Indicate a settled aversion to soa'o
and # a candidates knives and scis-
sors are sharp it matters not if his
wits be Gull
!, Already considerable interest has
been shown in the proposed examina-
ton. Last Saturday elevenrhardwork-
Ing sons of Italy and one grizzled
freshman, each pushing one of those
foolish little scissor grinder carts that
look for all the world like cross be.
1 tween a parlor organ and bath-tub.
! breezed by the civil service commits
| sion. wheels going and dinner bells
/ clanklng, and this morning there were
SO many more around the premises
4 that'1t sounded like flock of auctions
in conclaye
the new classified orders job will
pay $500 year, and all the expert
I. |snarpeners who tramp the streets