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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
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]. S. Van Cleave, president of
the Buck Stove & Range Co., of
st. Louis, and also president of the
Manufacturers association, has
filed a suit in the United States su.
preme court to compel the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to remove
the boycott placed by the federation
on the product Of his company.
The company was placed on the
unfair list of all the unions affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor on account Of the fight made
on the iron molders. The molders
claimed that they were discrimin-
ated against and discharged be-
cause they belonged to a labor
union. This is denied by President
Van Cleave in his petition for in
junction.
This action will serve to en-
phasize the far reaching effective
ness of a we'll organized boycott.
1t demonstrates that IL labor will
stand together it can compel a
hearing from the president of the
Manufacturers association himself
without resorting to strikes.
At the last meeting of the asso-
citation $5,000,000 was secured for
defense fund, but even this vast
amount has not served to sell
stoves and ranges manufactured by
the Buck company, and it is con-
fidently predicted by union men
that no action of the courts can
compel them to purchase products
they do not want.
The company's petition raised 8
points. They are:
Is such a boycott conspiracy in
restraint of trade within the mean
ing of the Sherman law and prohib.
tied by it?
Is the American Federation of
Labor an unlawful organization be-
cause it maintains an unfair list
and brings to bear the hostility of
it's affiliated unions upon employers
in behalf of any one of its affiliated
members?
Whether by false and malicious
action the American Federation of
Labor shall be permitted to destroy
the business of the plaintiff"
The suit was brought in the Dis.
trict of Columbia because the head
quarters of the federation are To-
Gated there, and this is the point OF
publication of the Federationist, Its
official organ.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
CALLED POLICE
GRAFTERS
OSCAR ANDERSON GETS EN-
PHATIC AT POLICE STATION
AND COPS LIKE IT so WELL
THEY KEEP HIM THERE.

THE police are grafters and
stand in with the criminals"
Two minutes after Oscar Ander-
son made that assertion last night
at police headquarters he was
locked up on orders Of Captain
James Coverly.
Anderson had come into the sta
ton and roasted the police for not
going with him to disorderly
house, where he claimed he was
robbed, as hurriedly as he wanted.
He made his report and the cap
tain told him he would call up the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26

man to go back to work by shutting
off the water at his home. We
can't live for a day without water
here"
The ordinance that went through
was much changed. and the COM
pany is now responsible if it shuts
off the water.
When the street railway fran
chise came up ali Gary was ready.
Frank Gavitt got it. The trust was
stunned. It's shrewdest lawyers
were outwitted. Gavitt is law.
yer He gave bond to have the
line in operation by next January.
He has already started it.
"Gavitt gives us 6 rides for 25
cents to start with" said the mayor.
"At the end of 5 years we get the
Scent rate and we also begin to
get 5 per cent of the net profits.
At the end of 80 years the property
reverts to the city"
Now the steel trust has it's back
up. 1t is going into the courts to
mandamus Knots into holding a
referendum on the franchise Ques-
ton, but the line Is being built and
Knots is not worrying about refer
endums.
The mayors salary is $12 a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
Upto Date Olympia
Pressing Club
Clothing House
8 Gents
Furnishing Store

Special prices for this week:
Suits pressed, sponged, buttons and
rips sewed, 35 cents. One coat and
vest, two pairs of pants, so cents.
Suits steam cleaned, pressed and
little repairing if necessary $3.50
or $1.75, during the months of Au-
gust and September We do up-to-
date pressing and guarantee our
work to be the best. Join our
club. Four suits and two pairs of
pants pressed $1.00, by the month.
The work that we do for $100 is
equal to any that you will have to
pay $3.50 for at other places.
All kinds of ladies' garments,
silks, satins, woolens and velvets,
pressed, cleaned and repaired
Skirts pressed so cents and up. We
solicit your patronage. Give us a
trial and We'll do the rest. We are
not looking for the "1ong green"
but for friends. If we get our
friends, then We'll do the business.
| have bought the interest of v. O..
Jarvis in the branch house at 0SO5
Monroe and am ready to do your
work. A. M. WAIVER
THE TRAVELLING MANS BOON
II you have a suit that you want
pressed, cleaned or repaired on
short notice we can do it for you.
We do the pressing and cleaning
and repairing if necessary while
you sleep. Call us up by either
phone. New phone GAIA, old phone
1884. Branch Office 0805 Monroe.
Temporary phone 1886.
Free messenger all hours of the
day. No delays
AZ RIVERSIDE AVENUE
a NJ WAIVED Droo
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which the city has dug to ascer-
tain if there is flow enough, and a
sufficient purity, to supply the city.
The tests will be made by DR..
Frank M. Rose.
Senator Piles, Congressman
Humphrey and several other Seat
tie business men are on jaunt
up the Columbia river to inspect
the irrigation project in which
Federal Judge Hanford is inter-
ested.
j. Nakashimi, Japanese laborer,
stole the wife of M. Inoshi, a coun-
tryman and friend of his, and the
two left Tacoma in an automobile.
lnoshi and his friends cannot tell
whether it is an elopement of a
case Of kidnapping.
According to Denver advices
both Richardson and barrow are
still retained for the defense of
George Pettibone. There is a gen.
| eral belief that the accused man
| will not be brought to trial as a re-
suit of Haywood's acquittal.
Stone & webster, the firm that
controls the street car situation or
Puget Sound, has absorbed the Ev
erett Street Railway Co. The in
terurban system will be extended
to furnish service from Tacoma t(
Bellingham.
The remains of John H. Teller
engineer for years past at the Rid
path hotel, were buried yesterday a
10 a. m. under the auspices of the
local Steam Engineers union. Mr.
Teller was an old resident of the
city.
The Methodist churches of Seat
tie will combine on Labor day il
the erection of big temporar,
building to hold revival services in
The membership expect to build thu
structure in l day. Evangelist.
Hart and Magann will conduct the
meetings.
Cloudbursts in the coulee be
tween Hatton and Connell yester
day washed out the Northern Pa
cific track for several miles ant
wrecked freight train. H. A
| Piegner, of Connell, who was riding
on a car, was caught in the debris
and killed.
Mr.. and Mrs J. S. Schofield
singers of Chicago, are expected tc
arrive in Spokane today to assis
| Rev. Van Osdel in revival services
at City temple. Evangelist Riley is
still delayed at his home in Mime
apolis by sickness. The services
commence this week, as announced
H. R. Williams, Washington ant
Idaho president of the Milwaukee
road; e. d. Sewall, assistant to thu
president at Chicago, and severa
other Milwaukee road men, lief
Spokane today for a trip into Ida
no. They are giving out nothing
beyond the usual hot air as to how
| we'll they like the town.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
IUCKY MAYOR Of STEEL TRUSTS OWN TOWN
DEFENDS PEOPLE AGAINST The BIG OCTOPUS
ELECTED TO SERVE CORPORA.
TlON'S INTERESTS, HE BOLD
~ DEFEATS FRANCHISE
GRABBING PLANS AND RUNS
MODEL TOWN FOR THE
PEOPLE,
BY r. r. FRAZER

special Correspondence TO The Press.
GARY, Ind, Aug. 26.-Once upon
a time an octopus got bunch. 1t
wasn't a new bunch exactly, but 1t
looked good. So the octopus got
busy. Out here in Indiana, where
land is plentiful, it conceived the
idea of founding a model town, and
the result was Gary, the Utopia
built by the steel trust, more or
less for the benefit of its workmen.
On land of its own, the trust is
erecting little city, and everything
in the town was to be owned by the
trust-at least the trust thought so
all the streets, all the workmen's
homes, the stores, banks, hotels and
public buildings.
When, recently, it opened the
town to it's workmen, all they had
to do was to buy what they wanted
of the trust.
A workman could trade at trust
stores and buy home, built by a
trust construction company. High
priced employees were allowed to
live in the big hotels and return to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26

swered. Now run away so can
work"
But Whelpley didn't run. Instead
he took Minnie's hand and said /:
Very well, I'll marry you then, SO
you won't be q strikebreaker."
An hour later Whelpley and Miss
Schlegelmilch stood before Father
HERMANN in st. Ignatius' chepel
and were married.
The nuptials were the result Of a
wire romance begun years ago
when Whelpley was working the
branch Office 'loop at the Postal
Offices.
"Who is SCI" he asked, after
he had taken his very first mes
sage from Miss Schelgelmilch. ooh,
she's the pretty girl down in the
Perry-Payne building" said another
operator.
well, her Morse sounds good to
me and I'm going to get &C.
quainted."
Thereafter the romance started.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
pan CUPID PULLS OUT A STRIKE BREAKER

CLEVELAND, Aug. 26.-Cupid is
no respecter of unions.
This absolute indifference Of the
little love-god to the ranks of Or
ganized labor is shown by the mar
rage of Clyde D. Whelpley to
Miss Minnie Schlegelmilch. Whelp-
ley is a striking telegrapher, while
his bride, until her marriage, was
a nonunion operator who stuck to
her key in the Perry-Payne build
ing when the big strike was called.
81 can't afford to give up my
place, Clyde" she said to Whelp.
ley, "and besides mother doesn't
want me to strike"
The other morning Whelpley
went as usual to the Perry-Payne
building. Aren't you going to
quit the job today, Minnie?" he
asked the pretty blond operator
whom he was to marry next June
"Of course not, Clyde" she an
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
BABY'S BODY FOUND
LlFELESS IN BOxCAR

The body of new born infant
wrapped in cheap cloth, was found
in a boxcar on the o. R. & N
tracks near Hogan st. yesterday by
tramps. Firemen of No. station
were informed and called the police.
Coroner Witter took the remains to
the Buchanan undertaking rooms.
There is no clew as to who the
mother is, or who placed the body
in the car.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26

place by telephone and have the
landlady come to the station. This
did not suit Anderson, who wanted
a couple of officers to go with him.
He then delivered a long harangue
on justice, ending his remarks by
calling the officers grafters.
When ordering his arrest Capt.
Coverly told him he would have
an opportunity to prove the
charge.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
They LOVE SPOKANE

Spokane has become popular
point with the master plumbers
combine. The annual state conven-
ton just ended at Bellingham elect
ed James Smyth president, E. v.
Lambert treasurer and M. Isbister
a member Of the executive commit
tee. In addition to all this, Spo-
kane is chosen as the next meeting
place.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26

The single weavers Of the state
are preparing for a fight to the fin-
ish on the closed shop question.
and when their organization 10
strengthened and perfected to the
point where they believe it will
hang together they will join in q
general walk out and stop until
either they or the millmen sGe
beaten.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26

James Owen reported to the POI
lice this morning that last night 2
men took him to a room in the
Metropolitan lodging house and aft.
er he went to sleep robbed him OF
2 $40 bills.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
MANITo MOVING PICTURES

Fine exhibition of moving pic
lures every evening this week at
beautiful Mantle park. Last week
of the season. Admission free.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-26
ROUTE FOR SALE

A good paying route on the
South side. Can be had reasonably.
Boy should live on South side. See
Marshall at Press office. $3.50
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WANTED - WORK; POSITION
of any kind. Address lib,
Press. -27
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-10
FROM SEATTLE
| Stanl y Howard Writes the Banner
an Interesting Letter
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
We had passed our highest point at
Butte, 5595 feet, and now all the water
ran west with US. A few miles out Of
Garrison we slowed down and crawled
over the slide and wreck and then ran
/ down, down at ever increasing speed, in
and out among the deep valleys where
the river tore along, shut in by great ever
green clad peaks that blotted out the sun
and ever and anon threw their shadows
over US. Down their steep sides in places
ran long board troughs which the timber
cutters slide the logs down in.
BY and by we burst forth from the aw-
full hills and ran into Mssoula, which is
shut in with mountains and is beautiful
little city.
Leaving Missoua we began to climb
from one long tongue Of land to another
up, up the powerful engine painting and
jerking the train at every stroke Of the
powerful piston. watched ranch house
in the valley away below US as we circled
round it and could see we we're getting up
t. great height. Soon we ran out on a
steel arch bridge that hung above a deep,
deep valley that ran into the big valley to
our left at sharp angle. On the bridge
one had the sensation of hanging in the
air as nothing could be seen below US but
the awful drop on both sides. 1t made one
sick for moment to glance down until
one realized the builders knew their bust
ness Soon the valley TO ear left ran up
to blend with the mountain slope and we
entered immense forests OF huge ever
green's and the BIackfoot reservation.
At Evaro we were 59z feet altitude or
z49 feet aboye Mssoua. Il miles behino
US, whose elevatio, is 1922 feet Dark
ness began to shut down and we ran on
with the dripping forest at our left and at
our right narrow plain here and there
dotted with Indian cabins and tepees and
shut in by great range Of beautiful
mountains that scared above the white
msts on their TANKS. At Trout creek that
night we were torpedoe6 and Law a long
time while they fixed broken rail which
the train right ahead OF US had left behind
her.
Away back at Billings we got our first
news Of the great floods out here and be-
gan to wonder II we were going to male
Seattle The conductor took list Of his
passengers who we're bound for Tacoma
and Seattle and found he had nearly fifty.
Beyond that we could learn nothing ex-
cept that the N. P. would get us into Sc
attic somehow, sometime At Spokane
late that night we changed cars and were
crowded ioto fourteen coach train ano
started out for somewhere in u e dark. n
slept and waking at daylight found myself
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-10

ground. Here we stood for hours while
men carried tons of mail and baggage
from steamers to trains and from trains
to steamers.
At last cold and hungry and dead for
want Of sleep we began to run north up
through the endless green forests to Ia
coma. Coming up It cleared and ! saw
the great peak OF Mt. Rainier rising nearly
and tinted beautiful bronze by the set
ting sun. Al Tacoma we were put aboard
four little white steamers and soon we're
tearing Trough the waters OF Puget
SOUND. BY ana by the twinkle VI thou
sands of electric lights located Seattle
and we soou Landed, toleo up from the
wharf and stoou on FIRST avelue !
looked up and down and turning said to
my friend, well, this is a city. Beats
Detroit. We got in here played out at
about eight Sunday night, November
9th, two days late. Thus endeth the
tale of the great trip
It's the same country, same flag, same
sun and moon, and the same constella-
tons rise at night in the east 1t is wild
beyond description. The mountains here
are beautiful and | sincerely wish that
every man, woman and child in BeldinR
could see it all. 1t stirs ones very soul
and makes one proud of such country
being his by birthright.
Yours sincerely,
Stanley E. Howard.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-10
IN the Yakima country. Such reverse

| IN Lne dklrnd country. ouCn reverse
curves as we went over here have never
seen before or since. We would sinh
down. down on one side until it made one
sick and then we would lift and sink the
other way, the engine snorting and pant
ing on heavy grades. The hills away W
in whose sides we seemed to be we're like
the waves of the sea and way down be-
low we could see immense stretches oil
wheat stubole and the early morning lights
in the farm houses. We learned that the
bridges were all out in the Cascades and
as we ran on discovered that we were
bound for Portland
Beyond Pasco we rolled over long
bridge across the Snake river which came
down through an utterly barren country.
having few stern wheel steamers tied
up along its banks, and to our right we
saw where it joined the Columbia. Down
ahead we saw the entrance to the mighty
chasm down which, between rock wal
and river we we're to follow the Columbia
all day long. cannot describe how all
that day we rolled down this great valley
great rocky wall to our left and over
across the vide rapid river her bare,
black broken cliff swathed in white mist 6
and bursts Of rain and snow. We saw
salmon wheels and at one place great
rapids and once we PASSED train load OF
soldiers going east At Dallas the rock
lodges run across and bar the passage Of
this great river and it almost disappears,
plunging and smoking downward to lower
levels. Here and there on one side or the
other torrents burst forth from the hills to
pour their muddy floods into the already
swollen river, and at one place seeing a
torrent tearing out from beneath the train
| turned my head Just in time to catch a
glimpse and hear the roar Of beautiful
waterfall that fell straight down from the
cliffs above not more than ten feet
should Judge, from the car window.
Saturday night, 65 miles east OF Port
land. we side tracked and laid for hours
on account Of trestle being washed out
little ways ahead Of US. This was dis
covered-ucky for us-by the sinking
OF the tail end OF the train right ahead OF
us as it crossed over. The trains ran up
behind us and halted for hours in the dark
and we went to the only building in the
place and bought out almost an entire
grocery stock in the endeavor to get
something to eat. Then we walked
mile ahead and watched great engines
throw their search lights on the gap while
Japanese laborers sweated and toiled IN
the rain TO help us on our way. Just be-
fore daylight failed had beautiful view
of the broad Columbia pouring its muddy
floods to the sea, down between mighty
hills clothed with bright green grass and
trees. Il bears a great resemblance to
the noble Hudson here.
We finally reached Portland and
bunch Of us went out in the city and had
another feed and then came back and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-10

watched the people trying to sleep in al
sorts of positions, and rejoiced at the
musical shores Of various members of the
| layout. At daybreak we were loaded
again on very crowded train and started
west once more. Going out of Portland
we had good view of the fair buildings
across the water. Everything except the
track and hills seemed to be under water
nevsr saw country SO thoroughly flood
ed before. Across the river we saw
beautiful little towns glistening white in
the morning sunlight among the dark ever
greens on the hillside Looking north
over the evergreens my eye caught some
thing that seemed out of place and looked
again. Up up into the clear morning air
white peak. the west side light blue with
cold shadows and its eastern slope clear
to the tapering peak, bushing beautiful
rosy hue as the first rays of the rising sun
kissed the pure. cold. wind blown SHOWS
that shone with dazzling light. Away in
the east just under the sun rose awful
peaks Jagged as saw teeth but the rain or
snow soon shut out the beautiful wild
scene. We reached a small place, our
train was cut in three sections and run
out on to an immense car ferry as at De-
troit and we were taken across the Col
umbia river to Kalama, Washington.
Crossing the river, the surface in the full
sweep Of the current was covered with
great floating trees, logs and all the fot-
sam and jetsam of of great flood.
From Kalama we ran up through q
flooded country to Castle Rock. Every
thing in the great forests were evergreen
and the cold. white fall of mist hung low
over the tree tops and little cascades
spurted down the hillsides in every direc-
ton. At Castle Rock the railroad being
gone, we were put aboard several stern
wheel steamers andtaken about ten miles
up the crookedest river ever have seen.
The river had gone down twenty-five feet
or more and was still out Of its banks and
the current was awful. Here and there
there would be small flooded islands or
sharp bends and we would try to buck
our way up one side or the other ory to
fight our way out into the full SWEEP
the waters and then to be repulsec. : 49,.
off and whrled down stream against the
logs and banks to return and fight oul
way up another channel. We would
strike sand bars or be rushed upon them
and our steamer would stagger and list
only to right herself and return to the gal
liant fight. We had about five hundred
people on our boat which was large one
for the size Of the river. This ride Of ten
miles up the Cowlitz river am sure gave
me more genuine thrills than any other
experience Of my life felt like calling
signals and getting out behind and push
ng. We finally made landing above the
break and the crew made double line up
The steep muddy bank ann passed US up
30 quickly our feet hardly touched the
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-10
LWCOLNS DEPT, STORE
Special Sale on Ladies Wraps

LADES:the a
they selling ONETH[RD OFF.
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Orange Blossoms.

At $50 o'clock last Saturday evening
Decatur was pleasingly surprised in the
marriage of two of her most popular
young people, Miss Gertrude Bunker
and Joseph G. Sutton. The event took
place at the home of the brides parents,
Ms. and Mrs. George Bunker, in the
presence OF a company of immediate r.
atives and friends, Rev. Geo. A. Odluh
officiating. They were attended by Miss
Edwina l.. Clee of Chicago and Glenn
II. Doughty of Kalamazoo. (The groom
and Mr.. Doughty are cousins) The
pleasure of the occasion was emphasized
by an appetizing supper and the inspec-
tion of the handsome presents.
Mr.. Sutton and his young bride will
live in Decatur and work the Bunker
fruit farm this summer in the absence
Of Mr.. Bunker.