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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-03-28
NEAR BIG STRIKE
ON At RAILROADS
Trainmen Insist Upon Con
cessiOns and Great Tie
Up is Feared

Chicago, March 25th-Uu.
rest among the western rail
way employees will crystal
iZe into a monster strike I'M
less the railroads make sub
Stantial concessions within
the next ten days, was mani
fest at a secret meeting here
this afternoon of the strike
committees of the order Of
Railway Conductors and the
Brotherhood Of Railway train
men.
Reports from locals, includ-
ing the switchmen, fagmen,
conductors, brakemen and
yardmen of forty-seven big
roads show a practically I'M
animous vote to strike unless
their concessions are made.
The roads under fire employ
SO, 900 members Of the two
orders.
Labor leaders declare re
fusal to grant the demands
will also precipitate a crisis
between the roads and their
firemen, 10000 in number,
who are only holding back de-
mands for a Is per cent in
crease and an eight-hour day
SO the differences between the
roads and theil trainmen may
be adjusted. If the trainmen
strike, they say, they are
pledged the support Of the
firemen.
The trouble will extend fur
Their if a strike is ordered.
Altho the switchmen of the
Chicago yards and the loco
motive engineers of all the
lines have been granted adj
vances and are at work under
a years agreement, the train
men say they have pledges of
the cooperation of the switch
men and assurances that the
firemen and locomotive engin-
GERS of the brotherhood will
join them rather than permit
them to lose. This would in
vOlve $4,000 more men.
The hurried call to Chicago
of the traffic managers com.
mittee of all the roads indi-
Gates the gravity of the situa-
ton. Complications arising
from such a situation might
involve railroads in every
part of the country.
The men demand a y per
cent increase in wages and
an agreement for a nine-hour
day for trainmen and a ten
hour day for all other en-
ployees of the unions.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-03-28
Announcement

| wish to announce to the people
of the First Ward that | am a candi-
date for the office of Supervisor and
if elected will give the office the at
ten ton that it deserves.
LUTHER BATES.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-03-28

For weak kidneys and lame back
use DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Pills. Best for lumbago, rheuma-
tism, bladder and other troubles
arising from bad blood. They
cleanse the kidneys and clear the
system. Endorsed and sold by M.
M. Sweet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-03-28

We are in the market for from
one to ten thousand cords of 4 TT.
bolts any kind of sound wood goes,
KENFIELD & LAMOREAUx.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-03-28
Items of Interest Concerning
Uour NeighbOrs
Social, Local and Personal
News of the Past
Seven Days.


Quire of John Walsh.
Nels Sonju of Hudson, is visiting
with friends IN the city.
Mrs. S. A. Oscar visited friends
at Ashland last Saturday.
Mrs. F. T. Yates visited at Min
neapolis during the week.
Today is the last day for fling
nomination papers for city offices.
Arthur Anderson visited at the
head of the Lakes during the week.
Robert J. Shields, of Superior
was in the city Saturday on bust
ness.
George Bean is now working for
the Bayfield, County Telephone com
pany.
Mrs. Ira Symmetrical, of Ashland.
visited friends in the city during the
week.
Robert fluck is home from
Minneapolis visiting with his par
ents.
Ole Wick visited friends at Duluth
during the week, returning home
Tuesday.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
10h H.
morning.
Fred Fenton is visiting with
friends and relatives at Eau Claire
for few days.
Jake Segal returned Tuesday from
short business trip to Bessmer and
Marquette. Michigan,
Napoleon Beausoliel has accepted
position as butcher in the meat
market of F. Tetzner.
There has not been any change in
the price of Box Factory wood.
Kentield & Lamoreaux.
B. L. Simmons of the Nye, jerks
company, transacted business in
the city during the week.
Leonard Brinker severed his con-
nections with the Pool and billiard
hall the first of the week.
Oscar Westin has returned home
after putting in the winter at the
camps near the Harbor City.
George Posey will have new
plate glass front put in his store
building some time this week.
John Wendell and Mr.. Ward of
Grandview, visited in the city for
few days the first of the week.
William Arseneau expects to leave
this week for Deer River, Mimi,
where he will work this summer.
Calvin Cassidy has moved his
family into his new home on Pine
street ear the Commercial Club.
VIM. Johnston came dowr from
Duluth Saturday night and spent a
day or two visiting with his family.
Charles McIlrath has accepted
position as time keeper at the dock
Of the Northwestern Fuel company.
Hans Thompson has moved his
oh FL Io To l.
building next to George Merits
place.
William Carson expects to move
his family out on his farm on the
Washington avenue road some time
this week,
Alex Gacowski has accepted a
position as bookkeeper and steno-
grapher for the firm of Kenfeld &
Lamoreaux.
The fire department was called
out Friday morning on account of a
small chimney fire in the residence
of Neis Hoel
Mrs. Gherke of Arbor Vitea, this
state, is visiting in the city with
her parents, MIR. and Mrs. [. D.
Goodnough.
FARM FOR RENT-Forty acres
of land, cleared, with or without
stock and implements. located at
Birchlake, Wis. Write or inquire
of Mrs. Bessie Tweedt, Birchlake,
Wis.
For weak kidneys and lame back
use DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
He Looked the Part.

1t rained. and it was dark and coda
soggy morning.
Il wish l was going to sail for Naples to-
morrow" said pretty girl.
She put another log on the fire, and an
other chocolate in a different place.
1t is like spring now on the Mediterra-
mean coast" she said. mo rain, no wind.
no mud, no fog-nothing but sunshine,
white roads, palms and flowers. 1 wish /
was sailing there with Capt. Sealby on the
Cretic He is a very competent young man.
There Is nothing pompous about him."
Then, devouring chocolates slowly, she
told story that Capt. Sealby had related
to her about pompous sea captains.
Some of these captains" he said. "re-
gard their offices as almost holy You must
not speak to them If you are an ordinary
passenger. They'll snub you If you do. =
Il know a young American girl who
crossed with one of these pompous cap
tains. Happening on him on the promenade
deck the second morning out the young
girl smiled and said:
Do you think this fine weather will
last?'
THE captain REDEEMED and swelleo with
rage at being addressed in that familiar
way He frowned at the girl and said, In
a bitter. sneering voice:
'' L don't know. You'd better go and ask
the cook.
On said the girl, smiling pleasantly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
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the best work of the old and modern
Europe. The oldest bow instrument known,
and which may be called the Eve of fiddles,
is a gigantic thing to be sawed with one
string bow six feet long. Another ancient
bow from India is shaped like a pipe, the
bowl covered with snake skin and the stem
of bamboo. The smallest specimen in this
exhibit is the kit" which old English
dancing masters used to play while teach
ing pupils the intricacieS of their art. The
collection of oDen and vibrating strings
includes many 4ueer shapes and designs,
one specimen decorated with a lively look
ing dragon being sch from China, a
big, gaudily painted thing that looks like
the lid of a mummy case This huge in
strument needs to be placed on the floor
and its multitudinous strings picked on one
side of the bridge with adjustable ivory
finger nails. Another queer example that
suggests the hull of a small vessel with
strings slanting upward to a single curved
mast, is ''soune' from Burmah, which,
in spite of it's limitations is said to pro-
duce sweet. wind-like sounds. These open
picked strings begin with the most print
tive musical tones collected in Africa and
North America. The instruments of the
latter country being found only in those
sections that We're formerly under the in
fiuence of the Spanards who. incidentally,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arz.. is pc
culiar. They Immediately adjoin each other
but the line which separates the one from
the other also separates the United States
from Mexico. Going into Nogales there is
a long down grade from the Mexican side
and this is the condition of which the nervy
and ingenious Hunger took advantage.
From our positions on the coal car We could
see him working away at the levers of the
engine, and it responded TO his touch as TO
that of its master. The engine was going
down the long grade coasting. but gaining
speed every minute. When we reached
point a quarter of "A mile outside the town
We We're going at terrific rate of speed.
Then the engineer seemed to try to
slow down. but the brakes seemed to refuse
to work. He worked madly, frantlcally, at
the levers, but something was evidently
wrong and he could not find the way of
remedy. The Mexican guard cursed and
sought to aid him at his work, but they
knew nothing of the mechanism of the en-
CINE or its operation.
Into Nogales, Mexico, we dashed at full
speed, up to the station and past like a
shot The engine had run away, and there
no stopping it. Through the streets
with whistle blowing and changing bell, the
uncomfortable monster dashed, straight
ened herself IL for Ii last lap and started
for the sister town of Nogales Ariz With
last mad snort She crossed the boundary
line and then came our surprise anu with il
understanding.
when the line was reached and we were
good old American soil the 'lunger'
found the lever that set the brakes and We
pulled up short beside the customs house
from the front of which WAIVER the Stars
and Stripes and on the steps OF which sat
Capt. Mossman and half a dozen Arizona
rangers. We We're on our native heath and
the Mexicans, SO lately our captors. were
foreigners in allen land without au-
thority.
That night the lunger was the hero of
the town and we offered to set him up the
best tent in the territory on the American
side, but he told us that in his tent by the
right of way was the picture of a girl
framed in the crown of a uniform hat OF
the Spanish war volunteer and that he
would go back to the hat and the picture
and take his chances with the greezers he
had betrayed.
when the stock of the mine put on
the market the hunger had a block set
aside for him and il has Melted him snug
sum. He has left the tent on the right OF
way and is now down at the mining camp
getting well and doing a mans work. He
said in q recent letter that the girl OF the
picture was going to join him soon and that
they were going to begin to really live
again. He is a game little Hunger and, 1
Think good your native born"
This last remark was addressed to the
man from the west, who grunted his dis
approval.
You fasteners and your story WRITER'S
he said, always make some blithering
idiot from the tenements the hero OF your
western stories. while those people have no
real place in the life of that section. Why
don't you get some of the live characters
occaSionally?' %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
At the Station.

A. J. Cassatt. the late president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, recently told at a
luncheon at the Philadelphia Country Club
railroad story:
"A western broker" he said, moved from
the city out into the country. He moved
far out and. since the railroad was small
and the train service poor he Travelled to
and from town by carriage or automobile
exclusively.
Deciding after time to keep chickens
he ordered patent chicken coop and on
the day fl was expected set out in a dray to
fetch it home from the freight office.
HE reached the railroad station, which
he had never seen before after an hours
drive. No one was in sight. but there was
his chicken coop. and with his mans help
he soon had it on the dray. and set off
home ward again.
"a hundred yards or so down the road he
met chap in blue uniform, with the title
station master in gold letters on his blue
cap.
Hey, there exclaimed this chap, ex-
citedly. what the dickens have you got on
that dray2
MY new chicken COOP the broker
calmly answered
Chicken coop be hanged shouted the
station master. That's Muddy Junction. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

seem to have received theirs from the
Moors
lap harp made by Erard of Paris.
about 1910. and now seldom used, seems
worthy of resurrection by fashion, if only
for the fine opportunity it affords for
graceful posing. Among other harps old
and modern. is a sinble- action speciment
from Central America. and beside ii is
stringless wreck gray time-eaten wood
that hangs as mute as its sister harp Of
Tara.
A virginia. from Italy made in 1872. shows
keys of dark brown wood and open lid
decorated with dancing natives in the gay
garb of that era.
A clavichord. the oldest known key
terest to the student of music. since it is
duplicate of the one on which Mozart
composed the Magic Flute"
The important feature of another case
is large harpsichord centuries old. from
Italy which must have been a gay affair
in its heyday, with its carved git gs
and its grass green body decorated with
figures and flowers in scroll design
The minstrel of medieval romance is re-
called by lutes daintiy fashioned and maid
with pearl, one of which still carries a
faded ribbon which the visitor likes TO
think some gallant troubadour slung over
his shoulder to serenade his lady love I'M
der her castle window. The Tyre. also. has
fair showing in the exhibit, one specimen
looking Old enough to have been picked in
the days when the Greeks were compelled
to play at night before retiring TO set
their souls in tune. Flutes, too. are shown
In every make and variety. Two Of these
are nose flutes from the Asatic countries
where caste exists; those of higher rank
not being allowed to touch with their lips
anything that has been Gefied by one of
lower station. Another looks ancient
enough to have belonged to thar Athenian
who, nearly 1900 years ago, gave an imita-
ton of a storm and then asked his listener
how he liked ii. As the listener very frank
~ answered that he had seen better storms
IN cup OF boiling water, mute doubtless
prompted the origin of the phrase about the
tempest in a teapot, that We like to think
We made up ourselves.
In their various places throughout the col
lection are whistles. flageolets.. trianeles,
cymbals. gongs and bclls-amOng the latter
being a "jingling Johnnie" a long stick
topped with metal crescent from which
dangle beds that sound with every motion,
and which originated in China. but have
been used in military professions in many
countries, including the United States.
1t is admitted that the collection owned
by the government does not compare in
Importance to that in New York's Metro
politan Museum of Art but to the average
visitor the exhibit seems to embrace every
musical instrument OF every nation and of
every period from Pans pipes To the Ma
rine Band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
Knew His Audience.

William Dean Howells. the novelist, was
condemning certain very popular writer
1.-The man could do better work., said
Mr.. Howells, but he is always appealing
to the gallery. 1t makes me think of that
super Of whom Booth used to tell.
There was elderly super who in a
certain new play was to come on and say
to Booth, My lord, the carriage waits
That was his only line throughout the
piece.
well, the play progressed finely on its
presentation, but when the old super ap-
peared he first said, My lord, the carriage
waits was expected of him, and then
instead of retiring, he advanced to the foot
lights, looked up at the crowded gallery
and exclaimed with great vigor and ANNA
ton:
land allow me to add that the man who
lifts his hand against a woman, save in
the way of kindness, is unworthy the name
of an American
Then. amid overwhelming applause, he
made his exit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
The Silver Lining.

August Anderson, a wealthy Minnesota
farmer, brings his family into Duluth dur
ing the deer season. He holds that hun
dreds of prowling huntsmen, delirious with
buck fever" then make the country dan
gerous to human life.
But every cloud has its silver lining
said Mr.. Anderson in Duluth the other day.
my family enjoys this yearly trip to the
city and we manage to get good deal of
shopping done.
$50, you see, our flight from the deer
shooters has its advantages. It is like the
case of the housewife who at the sound
of a crash, started suddenly from her chair
and cried:
There! Another of my best porcelain
tureens gone!
Never mind, DEAR said her husband,
1t has stopped the cooks singing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
NERVY "LUNGER" SAVED
AMERICAN TRAIN CREW

most unlikely to run over any living crea-
ture, and it would not had not a team OF
donkeys, hitched to a make-believe wagon
driven by peon, come by at the inoppor-
tune moment of our passing a crossing
There were in the wagon besides the
poems dogs, his wife and seven children.
well, the burros slowed up just as they
were crossing the railroad tracks, and
when the train bore round the curve
whistling the usual warning the critters
speed was not accelerated. Despite the
jerking of the lines and other urging of the
driver the team did not get across the track
in time and the family of the Mexican were
ushered hence without dissolution.
The American train crew was humane
enough to stop and hurry back to extend
all possible aid, but this thoughtfulness
of rurales, or Mexican police, who placed
the whole lot of us under arrest.
at at this stage of the game that my
hero entered. There was a small army tent
pitched under a paloverde tree near the
right of way, and from this the lunger'
slowly emerged. He slowly advanced and
watched the development of our predica-
ment.
Like Ichabod, he was lean and exceed
ingly lank' and was dressed in that COM
peteness of western attire never worn by
any but fasteners. He was slim and mild
looking. and you felt that his mother should
have been there to look after him even
though he had been well. We afterward
learned that he had lived there for six
months, tenting il and doing his own cook
ing in an endeavor to regain his health
through this mode of life the expense being
borne by sister who t-ught school in
PittSburg.
1--WE were in the hands of the ruraleS,
but they had no place to put us, and with
the engineer under arrest, there one
to run the train into Nogales, where there
was lookup. We were nervous for fear
they would hang us for lach of the posi-
bility of other disposition. and the crowd
Of poems from the country round was get
ting larger and angrier.
THE rurales were searching for so"'le one
who could run the train to Nogales. The
Hunger knew some of them, and had picned
up bit of the lingo. He learned their
needs and greatly to the surprise of all
announced that he could run the engine.
He had worked as a lad for eastern
railroad, and knew all about how to run
the train.
1--WE were not feeling particularly chip
per at the prospect of being taken to jail,
bur it was an escape from the crying dan
ger of the moment and we welcomed 1t as
offering at least respite and temporary
lease on life. We were gathered into the
bed of the coal car that was Immediately
behind the engine. the rest of the train was
cut loose, and the start was made with the
Hunger at the throttle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
A Resolution.

Tuly Scott of Cripple Creek, in whose
mine gold has been struck in vein of
unexampled richness-$25 to the pound or
$50, 900 to the ton-sad at a congratulatory
dinner:
This stroke Of luck has come to me at
time when l am able to take it tran
GULLY.
II used to know a miner whom a lucky
strike made a drunkard of. He remained
a drunkard all his life. Nothing could wean
him from the whisky
"A chum of his once read him, by way of
warning, spontaneous combustion story
story of a man so saturated with liquor
that once, when he went to blow out a
candle, his breath took fire from the flame
and he burnt to death.
THE well-meaning chum, at the end of
his tale, looked at the reprobate young
miner and said solemnly:
There, Horace, let that be warning
to you
1t will, Horace answered In an awed
voice BY heavens, I'll never blow out q
candle again the longest day l live "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

THEY always ended the poker game
with story from some member
of the party. The lobbyist in
whose room the game was al
ways played was from New York.
He did not believe that all the world lies
between the Battery and Harlem although
he held there were grounds for that con-
tention. The colonel was from Mississippi
His We're war stories usually and were ac-
companied by the odor of crushed mint
The club man came in late after functions
attended elsewhere and added diplomatic
gossip to the entertainment and also his
change to the stack of the colonel, who was
| usually winner at the game. But the repre-
sentative from the land of the rough and
ready told tales full of the dash of a life
less known than that of other sections.
81 am going to beat you at your own
style of literature" said the lobbyist to the
man from the west when the game Jagged
and the story was called for. Il spent a
week in the dry and arid myself once, and
here is an experience that will add another
feather to the cap of Yankee nerve, for the
Hunger who got us out of threatening
scrape was there with the goods and de-
livered us as safely as could any of your
western hair-trigger men, although he was
bred in New Jersey and did not know
jack from a two spot.
vestigating copper mines in Mexico. We
had been down in Hermosilla to close up
deal with some Mexican heirs whose an
cesters had worked the mines a hundred
years ago with crude machinery. Things
were fixed up and We were making for
Gods country again, but not any great
rate of speed. On their trains you pay 8
cents a mile. gold, and ride at the rate of
fifteen miles an hour, which isn't spending
money very fast.
1.-THE line of road is owned by an Ameri-
can company and operated by American
trainmen. The slow schedule is due to
certain extent to the extreme fear on the
part of the train crew of an accident that
might cause the death of a Mexican, for
under the laws of the sister republic, If
greezer is killed the whole crew of the train
responsible is arrested and it Is into the
dungeon for them.
"a dungeon is not a place of amusement
at best, but the reputation of the jails of
Mexico Is such as to lead to a reformation
of all bad habits when one crosses Tie
boundary. If you ever get pinched in Mex
leo you have one chance and that is to
say you are a British subject, for the
mother country does look after her chill
dren abroad, and the authorities of all for
eign countries know it. But if you are an
American, 1t may be ten years for you
without a trial, for your native land has
every confidence in your ability to look out
for yourself without her help.
Our slow accommodation train seemed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
"A Cold Draught,"

Miss Agnes Slack. secretary of the Inter-
national w G. 4. L., told on the Merton,
as she was about to sail for Liverpool, a
temperance story:
"A little boy, one evening at dinner gazed
at his fathers face long while. and then
said:
Papa, what makes your nose so dread
full red?
The east wind. of course the father
answered with gruff haste. Pass that jug
OF beer, and don't talk so much
Then from the other end of the table the
boys mother said sweetly:
Yes, Tommy pass your father the east
wind, and be careful not to spill any on the
table cloth