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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
ANYTHING UNJUSTINTH THIS?

Here is an official statement of
the telegraph operators reasons for
going on strike:
What the operators want In this
fight is fulfillment of the 10 per
cent increase promised by the tele-
graph companies some time ago.
While the increase was generally
granted at the time, yet the sliding
scale has been used in such man.
ner since, that the average wages
paid at this time is practically back
TO the original scale.
The highest salary paid a com.
mercial operator today is $S8 for
nine hours day work, seven and
one half hours night work and
eight hours for split trick. A split
trick means four hours on, four
hours off and four hours on. The
split trick is another thing the op-
orators want abolished.
The sliding scale Is worked by
filing $S8 vacancies with men by
raising them to $3.50 or SIT from
the lower grades and abolishing the
$SS vacancy entirely. The Spokane
operators have been treated fairly
well as regards grading, but the
general rule Is that very few men
are being put to work at the maxi
mum rate of $SS. When they are,
1t is only when the company needs
man and he won't work for less
They also demand the right to or
ganize without discrimination
against members. They want an
eight-hour working day. time and a
half for overtime, Sundays and le-
gal holidays.
An operator is compelled to work
Sunday hours and holidays half
time or full time as the conditions
Of business require. Overtime is
allowed for Sunday, but not for holt
days.
The typewriter question Is one
the operators want adjusted. They
do not believe they should be COM
PEELED to own or rent them, any
more than they would the other
furniture of the Office.
The company does furnish the
ribbons, although they are of such
cheap make that many operators
prefer buying their own at a dollar
per rather than turn out muddy
copy, as by his copy" is the opera
tors ability judged.
The demand is also made that
women operators receive the same
wages pro rata as the men, when
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
OWNERS Blame
AUTO DRIVERS
Seek to Dodge Prosecution for Exceeding Speed
Limits and May Make It Stick.

A new obstacle in the way Of
Chief Rice's automobile restrictions
arose this morning when those ar
rested for exceeding the speed linn
it, were arraigned before Justice
Hinkle. Nose Oppenheimer de-
clared he was not in town on the
day his machine is said to have
been run too fast In most instances
the owners were arrested instead
of the drivers.
Justice Hinkle and Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Allen consulted on
this phase of the matter and de-
cided that the drivers must suffer.
This puts Chief Rice up against a
new problem. His men may time
a machine, then get a squint at the
number and by that time it is out of
sight with the driver safe The
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
The OPERATORS. JUSTIFICATION

the prevailing telegaphers strike the country getting
who have been entirely overlooked the general beermen
Those who blame the teegsphers argue that if your wife
or husband daughter mother sick and dying
great calamity suddenly bvertakes section of the coun-
try those who have vital interests there have of
knowing about 1t until long afterwards.
alton an ARE of inform
enterprises uncertainty pro-
gress of the mails outlines the policies to be pursued
All of which is undoubtedly true But who blame?
who will the justice their the direct
How does happen, then, II telegraph operator
vitality necessary to the industrial social and other in
high say nothing highest point living
be R the uni
versal for greatest profits capital and
fellows sed Winning for themselves
welfare happiness Of mankindas
have concusivey prevents there earth
ton to the value of that service?
that he has not the right every other
to organize and strike for better if he finds other
Anayze the subject develops
they have is Conceded that workngmen may
be held have right to strike improve their condition
until his calling has fallen into certain form contempt
industry to enjoy OF the greatest convenences of modern
cause the capitalist deprived much its
the public is not inclined to fathom and trace to its
cause the operator is being made the butt of blame and
rehenson.
The newspapers the public general
suffering because Of the strike,
the side because
They ought to raise unanimous ndispen
sable to modern life be held in
atey rewarded
But the lesson is not apt to be lost
telegraph operators have they
regardless OF the
Their employers Will learn by this that hui
that he has the desire family
home as other that he is workman alive
ditions the intelligent worthy
and respect.
Through his ability and labor great telegraph
panies of the country have built
ductve of profits They
necessities their
The public is directly interested
poyes fair proportion
the Golfers OF the companies
They certainly deserve decent living
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
CANADIANS KICK
ON JAP INVASION

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 15.-
With the arrival of 100 Hindus on
the steamer Athenian and with the
1000 Japanese reported to be on
the Indiana which sailed from Hon.
olulu for Vancouver last Tuesday, it
is evident that the invasion of Ash
atics to British Columbia continues
and the people of Vancouver and
the province have come to the de-
cision that this state of affairs has
gone far enough.
A message has been sent Premier
Laurier predicting serious trouble
unless the invasion is stopped.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
BOTH CLAIM
VICTORY
Omitted Press Assoclation)

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.--"So far as
We are concerned the strike is
over" said Pres. Clowry of the
Western Union today. Officials of
both lines say they have the strik-
ers beaten. The strikers declare
they are getting stronger every
minute.
CHICAGO. Aug. 15.-Pres. Small
of the Telegraphers union, is five
hours late. and is not expected here
before 4 O'Clock. He will be met at
the depot by 1000 strikers, shout
ing, Don't arbitrate."
Relay men employed in the local
long distance telephone service
threaten to strike at tonight Ii
the companies continue sending w.
u. and Postal messages over the
wires.
The relay men make connections
for calls.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
Water FUND HAS Been
SYSTEMATICALLY RA|DED

to maintain other funds. In other
words the water consumer is mulct-
ed s125,000 per year for the support
of the fire, police and other depart
ments the council may see fit to use
the water rents for.
II the allegations are true they
tell story of raiding on the water
fund that violates both law and
sound business judgment. The pur-
pose of the complaints are to COM
pei an accounting and to prevent q
further raid the council is believed
to contemplate on more than $50, 600
now credited to the water depart
ment. The action has resulted from
careful examination of the water
accounts at the city hall and at
torneys for the plaintiffs have no
doubt Of being able to prove ALL
their charges.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

not been feeced now for almost 2
months and are eager to be trim
med" again.
The Warwick would have opened
today could communication have
been established. Even Seattle
races are shut off owing to down
telephone wires.
Chief Of Police Rice stated this
morning that he had not been adj
vised Of the contemplated action of
poolroom robbers. He will first
seek the advice of Corporation
Counsel Hamblen before taking &C
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
TO RESTORE cANTEEN

The fight to restore the canteen
at army posts Is to be reopened
with renewed vigor next winter.
Plans have been perfected for MAX
ing strong appeal to congress to
wipe from the statute books the
anti-canteen legislation. All prom
inent officers of the army In their
reports to the department OF the
navy urges the re-establishment of
the canteen.
Aside from the great mass OF
these reports. which may not be
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
POOL ROOMS
WILL REOPEN
Advised That Councils Action Has lnvalidated
Order Now Enforced.

Local poolroom proprietors ex-
pect to resume operations as soon
as communication is established
with other cities. They have been
advised that the action Of the coun-
Gil Tuesday night in amending the
old anti-poolroom ordinance and ex-
cepting the weeks of the Inter
state fair, has compromised the
misdemeanor and, therefore, the or
dinance cannot be enforced until it
is again passed in its original form.
The several weeks between now
and fair time will mean a harvest
to the grafters. The unwary have
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

chief said with regard to this: =
I'VE have at least accomplished
something Automobiles now run
with reasonable regard to speed
limitations"
However, next Wednesday and
Thursday mornings were set for
hearing the cases. The probability
is that the defense OF each auto
owner will be that the drivers, and
not the owners, should have been
arrested.
If such defenses hold Justice Hin.
kle can do nothing but dismiss the
cases.
Following is the list of those ar.
raigned this morning: DR.. e. D.
Olmstead, Nose Oppenheimer, e. J..
Hyde, DIR. E. r. Richter, A. d. Jones
1.-TWO cases., A. Stilson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
HAD TO ADJOURN WEDDING.

FREEWATER, Ore, Aug. 15.--
The wedding of Mrs. Emma Whit
man and c. r. Fraser. scheduled as
the feature Of the pioneers picnic
here, had to be postponed long
enough for the wedding party to ad-
journ to the other side of the Ore
gon line. They had secured a Wash
ington license and the discovery
that 1t was no good was not made
until the preacher was ready to tie
the knot. Senator Ankeny was 1
of the prominent men at the cele-
hratiOn.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
CANDY CURES BOOZE HABIT,

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.-Dr.
A. c. Abbott, chief of the bureau of
health, asserts that candy is a pre-
tentative of the liquor habit. In
accordance with this view, he gives
his children a daily allowance of
candy to fortify them against crav-
ings for alcohol. The appetite for
candy and that for alcohol, he says,
are fundamentally the same. the
choice Of one or the other depend
ing on the individual temperament.
Blonde persons generally prefer
candy, while brunettes prefer alco-
hol
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
TRAILING BLACK HAND.

NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-ltalian
detectives are turning New York's
Latin quarter inside out to get at
the bottom of the Matchmaking
schemes that are supposed 10 be
Matched there. They are searching
for members of the Black Hand So
ciety. Following series OF de-
mands for money on prominent Ital-
ians, the police were notified last
night that the Black Hand was
again in active operation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
ON TRAIL OF SMuGGLER.

Secret service men from Seattle
are In the city on the heels of a
smuggler who was headed this way.
The man operated exclusively in
cloth patterns and struggled lot of
woollen goods across the line into
this country. A clew was secured
and when things seemed right to ar,
rest him he got wind of it and left
Seattle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
ANOTHER DRINK DIVORCE.

Judge Sullivan this morning
granted Minnie B. Shafter divorce
from John w. Shafter. They were
married in 1900 at Stevens. MINI.
Mrs. Shafter alleges that her hus-
band drinks to excess and finally
deserted her. He keeps hotel In
Stevens
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
HUSBAND WINS FORMER WIFE.

DEROIT, Mich. Aug. 15.-Ches-
ter G. Newton and his wife, Ida,
were divorced last September. Re-
Gently they were remarked In the
contagious ward of hospital Mrs.
Newton contracted scarlet fever
and diphtheria while nursing her
daughter. While on her cot her
thoughts turned to her former hus-
band. A pathetic note brought him
to the window of her ward. The
former VOWS were then renewed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
UNION GETS NEW TRIAL.

SEATTLE. Aug. 15,-Judge c. H.
Hanford has signed an order re-
fusing Don E. Johnson judgment on
a verdict for $4,000 against the Sc
attic Typographical union. and
granting the motion OF the defend
ants for a new trial. Johnson sued
the union in the district court for
$4,000 for alleged conspiracy to
throw him out of employment and
to force him to leave the city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
SPENT HIS wIFE,s MONEY.

Not only did Herman F. Stern
spend all of his own money, but
$4,000 of his wife's. according to a
complaint filed with the clerk OF
the superior court this morning.
They were married in Cameron, Ida
no, 1902, and in 1905 he deserted
her in Minneapolis.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
BEES CAUSE FOREST FIRE.

EVERETT. Aug. 15.-According
to Deputy Fire Warden Harling. the
total damage done by forest fires
thus far in Snohomish county will
not exceed $500. Bees were the in
direct cause, he says. of two of the
most serious fires. Bolt cutters,
finding bees hords of honey, at
tempted to smoke the insects out
and thus set fire to the brush.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
NAVY YARD NEEDS st4o, 900.

SEATTLE, Aug. I5.-After visit
ing the navy yard at Bremerton and
examining the proposed site for the
new barracks, in company with
Rear Admiral Burwell, Brig. Gen. F.
e. Elliott, commandant of the ma
rine corps, has decided to ask con-
gress for $4,000 for the buildings
and other necessary improvements.
The grounds and buildings will be
capable of accommodating 400 men
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

compelled to work the same wires.
The maximum salary paid woman
operators at the present time is
$71.50, irrespective of their ability.
The adjustment Of personal
grievances between the operator
and his direct employer, the chief
operator or manager, has proven to
be impossible. The only hope is to
force arbitration of these difficult
ties.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

era fiends snap him. Lawyers from
Chicago, Indianapolis and more dis
tant points flock to his resting place
all day for advice on local matters.
81 "This notoriety will soon cease"
he said. II have done nothing more
than any other Judge would have
done in the same case"
In the midst of our conversation
II suddenly sprung upOn the now
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
GOOD CROP IN CANDA.

WINNIPEG, Man, Aug. 15.-The
grain harvest has commenced in
Manitoba and the yield is very sat
isfactory. In Alberta the winter
wheat yield is in excess of previous
years, with an increased acreage of
20 per cent. Railroad traffic
throughout the Canadian west is
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
CHAiRMAKERs LOCKED OUT.

Two thousand chairmakers are
locked out in Ohio and Kentucky
factories. They have to compete
with penitentiary-made chairs, and
the men do not receive over $3.50 a
week, while women and children
work for 81 and $3.50 a week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
JULIA M'KlNLEY DEAD
limited Press Assoc

Omitted Press Associationl
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 15--Julia
Mckinley. cousin of President Nc
Kinley, and founder of the first
chapter of the d. A. r., one Of the
best beloved women here, is dead.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
NORTH COAST WAKES UP.

WALLA WALI4A, Aug. To-
Great activity is prevailing among
the engineering stan Of the North
Coast railway, leading to the ex-
peetation that President Strahorn
will have an important announce
ment to make in few days with
reference to the plans Of the corpor.
alton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15
PENDIETON.

PENDLETON. Aug. 15.-The
first conviction under the new Ore
gon wife desertion law sends Frank
Balloon to jail for year. He can
only regain his liberty by giving
$500 bond to support his family.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

considered, to express disinterest-
ed opinion. the spanish war veter-
ans are sending thousands of let
tiers in behalf of the canteen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-15

famous jurist question apropos OF
the discussion that is abroad in the
land that he is a real, simon pure
candidate for presidential honors.
l asked him II he knew this. His
face assumed look of mystery.
Then he exclaimed: Presidential
candidate? Me? Misunderstanding
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha."
And he would say no more.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-08

ors, customs inspectors and immigra-
ton inspectors, to newsboys on trains,
baggage agents, witnesses attending
any legal investigation in which a
common carrier is interested, persons
injured in wrecks. and physicians and
nurses attending such persons; pro-
vided, that this shall not prohibit In
terchange of passes for officers,
agents and employees of common car
riers and their families, nor prohibit
any common carrier from carrying
passengers free with the object of
providing reLef in cases of general
epidemic, pestilence, or other calami-
tous visitation"
The Alabama law seems to cover
the ground thoroughly, and the mem
bers of the Florida legislature who
have any decided views on this mat
ter would do well to consider it
There is no question but that the
free pass evil should be abolished,
and as long as Florida prohibits public
officers from using them, it might be
well enough to prohibit their use en-
tirely except in certain well defined
instances, such as are mentioned in
the Alabama law quoted above.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-08
Pin Money and Training.

For the girl who is to remain at
home and wishes to earn her own pin
money there is no better way than to
take the catering off her mothers
hands. One young girl of seventeen
did this last summer with most salts
factory results. Her mother gave her
at the beginning of each week a GER
tain sum of money. the amount she
knew from experience to be sufficient
TO cover the regular expenses of the
table for the family. Whatever the
young daughter could save from this
amount was TO be her commission By
careful selection and payments of cash
for meats, vegetables and fruits she
saved weekly from S1.50 to $3.50. By
this method she learned the value o.
money; she also laid the foundation for
well conducted future home Of her
own, when she will not be classed with
the Incompetent young housekeepers."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-08
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Pure, unauthorized cream, sweet
and fresh, is excellent for softening
and smoothing roughened skin.
Bran or starch sewed into bags and
put In the bath water for a short while
before using it will render the water
soft.
Drinking a glass Of water in which a
tablespoonful of cornmeaI has been al
lowed to soak for a few minutes reg
uIarly three times a day will help to
clear the complexion.
When the hands are dirty try adding
little sugar to the soap with which
they are washed. The sugar increases
the lather and also the cleansing pow
er Of the soap and soon removes dirt
and stains.
A delightful complexion powder is
made thus: Two ounces each Of zinc
oxide and precipitated chalk, seven
ounces of rice powder, one ounce each
Of taIcum and orris root Tint with
carmine and perfume with oil Of rose.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-08
Dress and Age.

A gentlewoman never by any chance
leaves her style Of dressing open 20 the
wonder how she managed to afford
It. says Elizabeth Anstruther In the
Complete Beauty Book She leaves
that wonder to a class Of women with
whom she has little indeed in common.
And a gentlewoman Is never SO silly
as to hope By her style of dressing to
belle her age any more than her In
come. There are many women now
called fashionable" who dress them
selves at sixty as they would at TWEEN
ty-five, but they are not elegant WON
en-, however much they may pay for
their clothes or for their steam yachts
A gentlewoman dresses girlishly in
her girlhood and young matronly in
her young matronhood and keeps on
thus, wearing the livery of her years
with a sweet dignity that makes the
foolish pretense Of the grandmother in
q lingerie hat almost hideous-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-08
FAMILY INTERFERENCE.

Rock on Which Many a Happy Mari-
tai Ship Has Been Wrecked.
Many good matrimonial ship. with
its sunlit cargo OF happiness and hope,
has been wrecked on the rocks Of fam
lily interference
1t is In the first years of married life
that foreign interference is most try
ing and dangerous, and it is this very
time when it is most conspicuous and
dominant.
These early years are time Of grad
ual adjustment to new conditions, the
formative period Of harmonizing with
q new environment, Of growth In mu-
tual understanding, perhaps of meet
Ing disappointment and Of rising supe-
rior TO it or OF sadly revising golden
dreams and unrealized ideals, of tax
ing trial balances On the ledger of hap
piness, of awakening to the wisdom OF
mutual concessions, Of learning new
lessons in the school of experience that
can never be learned vicariously.
These are the problems of two that
must be solved by them. They need
only kindness. sympathy, generous Co
operation.
There is no need for the family to re-
mind the wife that the husband is not
eighteen carat, that he viii never make
fortune, that they fear greatly and
then let their fear expand into a long
catalogue of detail that fades away
into the din perspective of the I'M
spoken.
After the goods are bought and sent
home and cannot be returned what is
the use of discouraging the purchaser
Why not point out some good points,
something helpful and inspiring?
Sometimes the interference of fami-
lies becomes even more active and ag-
gressive than this, and because of a
fancied grievance or a genuine opposi-
ton it actually comes between husband
and wife and by harsh criticism or con-
demnation seeks to plant the seeds OF
discord between them.
Here instant loyalty of the one to the
other should assert itself and refuse to
listen to the voice. In an instructive
spirit of protection there should be
calm, dignified protest Of what II un-
essential should never be spoken and il
of serious import should be expressed
only In the presence of the one thus
charged with what he or she should
have the opportunity Of denying or dis
proving before the weeds of suspicion
have time to root themselves in the
heart Of the other.-Delineator.