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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
BURlES HIMSELF
TO ESCAPE FLAMES
(Scripps News Association

tScrlppS news ASSOclatlOn.)
PORT TOWNSEND, June %
Walled about by forest fire, with
no chance to reach the open, a fire.
man at Austin & Williams camp
escaped a horrible death by bury
ing himself in a pit. He was a
prisoner for hours.
The fireman had returned to a
donkey engine located some dis
lance from the camp buildings. In
attempting to fortify the machin-
cry against encroaching fire, he re-
manned too long and was hemmed
in by a wall of flame. He buried
himself in a pit beneath a part OF
the engine.
Hundreds of acres of the most
valuable timber lands on the Olym-
pic peninsula are menaced by for
est fires that have burned for 2
days In the section about Discovery
bay, 10 miles west of Port Towns
end.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
tscripps News Association.)


CHICAGO, June 29.-An operator
In the main office of the Western
Union was discharged this morn
ing for having a letter from San
Francisco containing list of non
union operators who are working
there. The rank and file is clamor-
ing for strike here to compel his
reinstatement.
Secretary Russell is holding the
men In check. 1t is believed they
will walk out Monday is the opera
tor Is not reinstated. He has been
employed by the company II years.
A grievance committee was APP
pointed to demand the mans rein
statement but the company has not
replied to a request for conference.
1t is generally believed failure to
consider the demand will result In
walkout tonight or tomorrow.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
THIRSTY CATTLE DRANK Jill

DALLAS, Tex, June 29.-A novel
allegation is made in the damage
suit of T. j. Clegg Us. the Gnlf Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe Railroad Co. IL
is suit for damage to cattle
shipped from San Angelo to Pur-
cell, |. T. The petition asserts that
the cattle were on the road So
hours without water and when
placed in the oil dip at Purcell they
drank freely of crude oil, many OF
them dying. The claim is for $11,-
275.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
WHERE SHOE PINcHEs

For working women to be beat
out Of her wages Is commonly hard
enough, but when women so treat
ed attempts to recover In court and
find themselves at the last with no
more to show for their trouble than
they had at first, is harder still.
And these women begin to wonder
how much Justice there Is in the
old world, anyway.
At any rate this is the way in
which Mrs. M. Gam. Mrs. N. Whip
pie. Mrs. q. Smith and Miss Pearly
Parson feel about Il. They worked
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licenses
were issued today: Fred A. Nc
Call. Eva M. Sharp. Spokane;
Harry T. Mayfeld, Whitefish.
Mont. Mrs. Alene Mckinley. Essex.
Mont; w. N. Rettiger, Ethel Tay-
lor. Spokane; James p. Hamill,
Whitefsh, Mont, Margaret c. Bail.
ey. Spokane; James Baker. Mrs.
Lizzie Pugh, Spokane; H. j. West,
Mrs. Jennie Wright, Spokane; E.
T. Under, Elizabeth Sherman, New
port: j. Harry Clio. Sleeve Hill, KY,
Jlia Davidson, Jackson Center, Pa;
H.. p. Fansen. Marie Rossing. Spo-
kane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
BIG CELEBRATION
LABOR DAY

Preliminary arrangements for the
celebration of Labor day will be
made Sunday, June 30, when dele
gates from all unions are expected
to meet at Central Labor hall at
2:30. A general Labor day commit
tee will be organized and the work
OF planning the celebration out
lined.
AS the past year has been a
splendid period for organized labor
in this city it is intended to make
the coming celebration the biggest
affair of the kind ever held in the
Inland Empire.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
=
HINDOO LABOR
INVADES STATE

EVERETT. June 29.-Mill work.
ers and union men are grieved over
the employment of Hindoos by q
number Of Everett manufacturers,
and the last session of the Trades
council was a lively one as result
of large delegation of morgan
ICED workmen from the mills CALI
ing for aid in prohibiting the en-
ployment Of the Asiatics. Labor
leaders state that unless the en-
ployment Of the Hindoos is stopped
Immediately, general strike Will
be ordered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29

TOXIC, June 29-Seven cham
bers of commerce met jointly today
and resolved to address the prin-
cipal chambers OF commerce in the
United States asking cooperation in
maintaining trade relations be-
tween Japan and the United States,
and appealing to the United States
to stop abuses of Japanese, They
also addressed an appeal to Roose-
welt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
NO GAS INSPECTOR
ORDINANCE NEEDED

Unless memory of the franchise
granted the gas company is at fault
there is no need If the proposed
Pratt ordinance to authorize the
appointment of an inspector. There
is supposed to be provision in the
ordinance whereby the city is en-
powered to appoint an inspector
and compel the gas company to pay
his salary.
So far as known no attempt has
ever been made to take advantage
of this provision.
Pratt also proposes inspection Of
electric lights and wiring.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
TIRED OF THE GAME

A complaint asking for divorce
was filed in the superior court to-
day by Hattie Agnew, who wants
the bonds of matrimony between
herself and Harry Agnews declared
of. She says they married in Earl
Vile, Ill.,, In 1885 and have l child.
Harry deserted her 4 years ago, az
ire failing to support her.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
WANTS JUDGE HANGED

(Scripps News Association.)
HOUSTON, Va, June 29.-Attor-
ney Harmon, In his closing address
In the Loving murder trial. today
denounced the former Judge for
cold blooded murder and asked the
death penalty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
OILY JOHN PLAYS HIDE
AND SEEK WITH COURT

sent for and ordered her placed
where she could be taken care Of.
He said this morning that she will
be given morphine and whiskey be-
cause II stimulants should be with
held from her she would die. The
woman has often been before the
police Judge for intoxication.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
SN0H0M!SH HAS
MARROW ESCAPE

SNOHOMISH, Wash, June 90
Only the shifting Of the wind pre-
vented the total destruction of the
town this morning by a fire which
destroyed the Cascade lumber and
single mill. Loss 100000. This
Is the second time the plant has
burned.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29

LIEUT.. r. II. NJ. ROBINSON
Lieut.. Richard Fl M. Robinson, Of
the navy. He is the designer of the
2 great ships which are expected to
be the largest war machines afoat
Work on the designs is progress
ing rapidly.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
HoKE SMITHS PLAN

(ScrIpps News Assocta tion-s
ATLANTA, Ca, June 29.-In his
inaugural address today Governor
elect Hoke Smith advocated dis
reimbursement of negroes. He said
it would stop lynching.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
BOSTON HElRESS
WEEDS TITLE

LANCASTER. Mass, June 20
Cornelia Van Rensselaer, Thayer to-
day became the wife of Count Carl
Won Moltke. of Copenhagen. The
bride Is a daughter of Natheaniel
Thayer, Boston multi-milllOnaire.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
PENALTY OF DRINK

Mrs. Rena Petit, once brilliant
but now with her senses dulled
with drink, was taken to Sacred
Heart hospital by the police this
She was picked up on the
streets in condition bordering on
delerium tremens. She became SO
weak when brought to the police
station that DR.. George Gray was
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
(scripps News Association.

(Scripps News Association)
CHICAGO, June 29.-Judge Land
is today instructed District Attor-
ney Sims to put all the machinery
of his department in motion to
serve the subpoena on Rockefeller.
The same instructions were
wired to New York. Rockefeller is
playing hide and seek with the gov
eminent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
ANGRY PEASANTS
BURN ESTATES
fscripps News Assnciation-)

TULA, Russia, June 29.-Six big
estates. including Count Bobrin.
sky's, president Of the constitution
al democratic party, have been de-
wasted by incendiary fires started
by peasants angry over the douma's
dissolution.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29

Ell PASO, June 29.-Fire, start
ing this morning IN the Hotel Bis
bee, destroyed 10 acres of residence
and mining property In the bust
ness district. Loss, 100000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
c0NFESSES TO
/. FATAL ERROR
tscripps News Association. !

fScripps News Association.l
f DRAIN. Ore, July 29.-Wm. Nc
Gee this morning confessed that he
shot and killed Elmer Wooley
Tuesday while hunting, mistaking
him for a bear He first reported
that Wooley accidentally shot him
self.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-29
DESIGNS U. s. oREADNAUGHTs
Lieut.. Robinson, U. S. NJ, Builds
Huge Ware Machines on Paper

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 90
The man to whom the credit will be
given when Uncle Sans 2 new
Dreadnaughts sail the seas will be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
EUTAW. ALA

BILE for the great majority Of the people
to rise above the public sentiment of the
community, and to degrade that sentiment
is to degrade all the people. Criminality
incorporated into the law is a crime
against all the people, and the heritage OF
coming ages. The murder of Pig Ford
is the more degrading to this community
because his back was beaten into stripes
while he was ward of the state.
If tomorrow a citizen of England was
killed on the mountains of Central Asia,
it would mean war unless satisfaction
was speedily made. Why? Because the
very virtue of a civilized country lies
in the efficiency with which it protects
the rights of its people. But if the taxi
ing of the life of citizen in foreign
land Is a Just occasion for war, what
shall we say about legalized murder right
before our eyes by officers of the lawr
Unless the beaten back of pig" Ford is
avenged men will hold the entire commu-
nifty in contempt Fellow citizens, for the
sake of public and private morals let
these abuses be remedied, and the honor
of the state be purged. Let all the moral
and redemptive force of the community
be brought to bear on the Jail unto the
correction of criminal propensities In
the name TO God call on you citizens to
repent of this crime | call on you law
yers. you politicians. you business men.
and women and children whether in the
pulpit or in the pew to repent; lest when
He come He say to us all, 'fnasmuch az
We did it not unto one of the least OF
these my brethren We did it not unto Me-"
You neglect your duty in this matter at
your moral and spiritual peril.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
You Wind Your Watch
Before 1t Runs Down
Not After.
That's good plan with system. Brace it I'm
before needs anything a Tonic.
VITAL Vim Will Not Cure All Ailments But VIII Prevent Them

VITAL VIM is a good name for
a Tonic. It sounds like a Tonic.
And VITAL VIM is Tonic of a
superior sort. It is new and has
none of the prestige of old and
tried remedies but the merit is
there and its reputation will grow
with each bottle used.
Try it yourself: Buy a bottle
from your Druggist. We are
spending considerable money to get
your trade-to induce you to buy
the first bottle. Our whole en-
deavor is conferred on selling the
first bottle. Your future patronage
will come unsolicited. VITAL
VIM makes friends easily.
VITAL VIM is not a remedy
for the desperately i'll, nor for incur
able diseases. It is tonic only, but
it is the best tonic. Pleasant to
the taste; immediate in its effect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
EVANS FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Tennessee Republicans Want Some
Other State to Name Him.

Chattanooga, May 5-(Special) Ten
nessee republicans are to urge II. Clay
Evans for the republican nomination for
the vice presidency. Congressman Nathan
w. Hale will be the national committee
man from this state and E. II. Sanford is
to be the republican nominee for govern
or, according to the slate.
1t is no secret in Chattanooga that the
Evans republicans would like nothing
better than to see their leader on the
ticket with the next candidate for Pres-
dent. At the st. Louis convention Of
1906 Mr. Evans escaped the nomination
by few votes and on account of a pecu-
liar train of circumstances. But as much
as the Evans men want to secure this
honor for their Grief, they, at least the
leaders in Chattanooga, believe that the
movement should start In some other
state. IL this boom should be sprung
there is not the least doubt but that Ten
nessee would instruct for Evans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
DEFECTIVE WORK.

Just as an intelligent detective sets
himself to discover the Identity of the
perpetrator of a crime that seems mys-
FERROUS, so the medical man goes to work
to discover the origin of the troubles of
his patients tie knows that In most
cases some of the organs of the body are
not performing their functions properly,
and knowing that in a large percentage
of cases the action of the bowels is at
fault, he early inquiries whether his pa
tient is constipated. If so, the physician
knows that IL cure is to be effected,
the constipation must be not only relieved.
but permanently remedied and that in
order to accomplish this certain muscles
must be given new strength and elasticity.
For this purpose successful medical men
pin their faith to a preparation of y OF,
Fluid Extract of SIENNA, II OF. Rochelle
Salts, OF. Aro-Sagrada, 80 grains Bicar-
Donate of Soda, u or water and IL ozs.
Glycerine. or this the patient is given a
teaspoonful at bedtime and before each
meal, the treatment being continued until
there is free movement of the bowels.
This simple prescription can be put up by
any good druggist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
The Parable Of "Pia" Ford.

Last week you noticed an announce
ment in the papers of the death of Pig
Ford from being heated in the mines
while he was a prisoner of the state of
Alabama. Now Pig was nothing but a
negro, who had often before been a patron
of our jail, and the resulting character
was In the main one of the products of
Jail life. The officers In the court house
tell me that he was one of the best GUS
toners of their several enterprises, and
had often worked in the mines for them
before.
On March %, when boarders in the jail
were few, deputies are sent in search of
recruits. These faithful officers of the
law, jealous for the replenishing of the
population of the jail. came on Pig"
Ford and number of other negroes loaf
ing around, like rich people are accus-
toned to do. These poor creatures had
been disciplined to idleness by their for
mer Jail experience, from which they had
been graduated as full-nedged Migrants
So they arrest him for that terrible"
crime and started him to Jail. First they
must get a magistrate to commit the
prisoner, and pig" is taken before his
honor and told that he must be charged
up with rs cents for the benefit of this Of
fieer on whom had been conferred the
franchise of performing this service for
him. Then he is brought to the door of
the jail and told that he must be charged
with 81 for the benefit of the sheriff who
holds the exclusive franchise from the
state to open that door to him. Then
when each meal is brought him he is told
that he is being charged with 80 cents
for his mess of pork and beans for the
benefit Of the sheriff who holds the ex-
elusive franchise for his feeding. On the
18th day of April his trial comes on, and
he is charged with s4.s5 for the fee of
the clerk of the court. $3.50 for the fee
of the solicitor, 81 for county tax what
ever that Is for) and 50 for his witness
fees-in all $31 10.
Pig is convicted of course. for other
wise the sacred taxpayer would have to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06

pay all this cost. So the jury in the full
discharge of their duty to these taxpay-
ers brings in verdict of guilty, and his
honor arises to perform his solemn and
sacred duty of sentencing this poor
wretch, and victim of jail life, for the
crime of vagrancy--of which most of this
congregation are guilty for a good por-
ton of their days. pig, you're found
guilty of this crime, which you learned
by your experience In jail, and sentenced
to work at hard labor in the mines for
ten days. But Pig, during your enforced
residence in Jail as the guest of the state
of Alabama, you received certain cour-
tesles, for which the state has enfran-
chised its several officers to bestow at
fixed charges, and you are sentenced to
104 days more of the same hard labor for
the remuneration of these said enfran-
chised officers"
So pig" was sentenced to 10 days hard
labor for crime and 104 days for being
put into Jail and kept in ward for TWEEN
ty-one days His punishment was TWEEN
ty-one days enforced idleness, in Jail, and
ia days of hard labor in the mines; 13o
days of punishment for being found with
out a job. This Is justice as now adj
mnistered in Alabama. Thus he was
there in prison."
But pig" hns some friends, who got
together the pound of flesh and the state
appropriated from his body to her
grantees Of the franchise of executive
power in the administration of her laws;
and when he had paid the penalty of his
crime they went to redeem him from ser
vitude But alas! he had been beaten
while the ward of the state, and when
they got him home the poor jail bird, the
patron ard product of our Jail life, was
dead and they buried him, and on his
tomb may well be placed this epitaph,
"Inasmuch as We did it unto one of the
least ye did it unto me.
And while the funeral services were 60
ing on the officers met and parceled out
among them the redemption money of the
body of Pig Ford. All this was but the
law in this good state of Alabama. Days
OF reconstruction Blush for the rule of
white supremacy. your worthy successor.
Fellow citizens, If you allow this thing to
continue it will bring the state into de-
served contempt and shame.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06
OPEN NAVIGATION
OF GREAT LAKES
RESTORES GREATEST CHANNEL
OF INTERNAL TRAFFIC FROM
FARTHEST EAST TO FARTHEST
WEST BY WAY OF ERIE CANAL.

Buffalo, n. Y, May 5.-The opening Of
the navigation of the Great Lakes re-
stores one of the greatest channels of
internal traffic in the United States, If
not in the entire world extending from
the Atlantic seaboard to the remotest
points of the northwest by way of the
Erie canal from New York to Buffalo,
through the chain of Great Lakes from
Buffalo to Superior, Duluth, and many
intermediate points, and thence westward
by rail This link in a vast system
of exehange-farthest east to the farthest
west and the back again-with western
grain and other products is re-established
with Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Mil
waukee and innumerable points contribu-
ting as feeders, lasting from spring
until the beginning of the freezing winds
of November.
The grain situation here is somewhat
better than shippers expected to find
1t at the opening of navigation, but 1t
is feared the immense cargoes of wheat
corn, oats and other grains already ahoat
and bound for this port and ultimately
destined for Europe will cause another
blockade this season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06

Tomorrow: THE Children OF the United
Statas."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06

Chicago, May 5.-With more traffic in
sight than any previous season, the open
ing of navigation on the Great Lakes
this year was the latest on record. Even
now ice blocks the way to some i'm
port harbors on Lake Superior. Without a
sign of labor trouble anywhere and with
n feet of enormous carrying capacity,
tire total tonnage of grain, iron ore, coal
and lumber for the year viii, 1t is be-
lleved, exceed all previous records by
from 10 to 20 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-05-06

Central Michigan and Western New
York produce almost all the bean seed
used In this country. One locality in
Michigan produces 5000 bushels yearly
and the New York output doubles that
number oPtatoes and corn are sold so
extensively that no estimate can be made
of the amount produced each year. Two
million pounds of turnip seed goes into
American soil every season, but most of
1t Is imported from England. One million
pounds of radishes are planted here. one
tenth OF which is raised in California and
the rest in Europe. OF the million ounds
of seed onions which the annual crop
demands. California yields 100000 pounds.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-16
The Dangerous Toy Pistol

The clamor goes up from hum
dreds of boyish throats these days
for toy pistols. The youngsters
want them to help. celebrate the
Christmas season and also to have a
toy to amuse themselves with after
wards.
Parents should exercise caution in
gratifying the desires of their chill
dren along this particular line and
refrain from purchasing for them
that deadly brand of the toy pistol
from which there is possibility of
receiving wounds that may develop
into that horrible disease tetanus.
From a source of authority we
are told that by far the greater
number of cases of tetanus occur in
connection, with wound or injury,
more especially in the extremides.
Certain forms OF injury, such as
puncture, liberation and gunshot
wounds, are more liable to be fol-
lowed by tetanus than others. TIE
tanus is terrible and usually IA
tai disease. having as its prime
symptom, persistent spasms of the
voluntary muscles. A certain form
of 1t is known as lock-iaw.
Let the boys cry for toy pistols
and let them have them-providing
the toys are of the harmless kind;
but if parents care for the safety of
their children's lives they should be
certain that the toy is not the dan
gerous, tetanus producing kind.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-16

powers and the city should certainly
execfse such powers In every in
stance where the lives of men can
be thus protected.
The county court recently did a
miserable dob OF placing ratings
on some OF the bridges In the city.
The strands are so far apart that
horse could fan through into the
creek below without the slightest
difficulty. Think then how danger
Gus 1t is for children, even men and
women.
There is no better time than now
for the city and county to cooper
ate in changing this peril. The
court is in session and the city
council could get together in sin
gle hour and appear before the
court IN an effort to have the danger
removed. County and city together
are strong enough to repair few
bridges SO that they will be safe
to use.
Indifference or negligence about
this is not excusable and the peo-
pie should see that the city and
court act quickly.