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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

One of the greatest strikes in
the history of the country is on in
earnest today and Spokane is
among the cities directly affected.
Last evening at 1880 the night force
at the Western Union office quit
work and the day trick refused to
go to work this morning.
At 10 o'clock this morning the ex-
ecutive committee of the local Com
mercial Photographers union met
and issued an order calling out the
operators employed at the Postal
office. That made the tieup com
plete, as the railway telegraphers
have signified their refusal to han
die commercial messages.
Associated Press operators also
joined the strike and many news
papers as well as other lines OF
business in the United States abe
suffering the penalty of the tele-
graph companies persistent refusal
to pay any attention to the de-
mands Of their employees. The press
operators have been endeavoring
for 2 years to get hearing with
the directors of the Associated
Press, but without success. That
organization now claims that 1t was
taken totally unawares.
The United Press association ia
not affected by the strike at points
reached by its leased wires, having
satisfactory scale with operators
on those wires, but in the west de.
pendence has to be placed on the
telegraph companies on account OF
a scarcity OF facilities for special
wires.
The local executive committee at
it's last meeting decided to remain
at work until ordered out from
Chicago, but when the strike
spread to practically all the other
cities 1t became impossible to hold
the men longer.
At the Western Union the night
chief went out with the men and
only the day chief and others are
working today, the company keep
ing 1 of the old men. They are
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
COMMISSIONERS take
NICE RIDE TO WRECK
Carried In Special Car and chaperonsd by Rail-
road Officials They Go To Investigate"

The state railway commission,
Messrs. Fairchild, Lawrence and
Jones, left at II o'clock this morn
ing in a special train supplied by
the Great Northern, and chaper-
oned by railway officials who doubt
less supplied cigars and the nee
essary wet goods, for the scene OF
Saturdays wreck near Milan. The
advertised business of the commits.
sion is to inspect the track at the
curve where the cars left the track,
but 1t is predicted by the manner
in which the commission hobnobs
with the railroad officials that moth
ing will come of the trip.
II. E. Owen, I of the wrecked
passengers, called the commissions
attention to the condition OF the
track. Before making the trip the
commissioners had to walt until
A. w. Perley, state inspector of
track and equipment, arrived. This
official only recently made an in
spection of the tracks in this part
of the country and must have found
them perfect in his estimation as
no effort has since been made to
enforce a regard for human life on
the part Of the railroad companies.
It's great business to be a rail-
way commissioner. Here are these
fellows. come across the state for
jaunt up the line in the company's
special cars and otherwise treated
as distinguished men who should be
shown every favor And they are.
The ties at that point are absolute
ly rotten, as has been testified to by
those of the passengers who were
not SO badly jolted that they could
not make an inspection. In some
places the spikes stick half out of
the ties and In others have worked
out altogether.
The commission, however, feeling
good at its kind treatment on the
part of the poor railway magnate,
will probably report that the tracks
were in fair condition and there
probably was defective tie In that
vicinity, but that the wreck could
not be charged directly to II be-
cause 1t was a poor. lone old tie
separate and far apart from the
others.
The commission met with rail-
road men yesterday in the chamber
of commerce rooms to discuss rail-
road taxation. There were some
few questions and answers about
the number of feet of track in this
vicinity, cost of right of way, and
its present value. Some local real
estate men also testified as to local
land values. The meeting then ad-
journed to a quiet feed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

cottage he has occupied in the ref
ugee camps. A good many peo-
pie thus are in possession of their
own home for the first time in their
lives.
All are not satisfied, however, for
q determined effort to extend the
removal limit has been organized.
Brig. Gen. Davis, head of the Ma
tional Red Cross and ex-governor
of Porto Rico, recently inspected
the San Francisco refugee camps
and said that the sanitary and gen.
eral standard was very high.
AS matter Of fact health condi-
lions in the camps are better than
throughout the city at large. A
daily inspection Is made by a camp
physician and nurses who look af-
ter the sick, and see that sanitary
laws are obeyed. Efficient fire
squads have been organized in ev-
cry camp, and these drill at regular
intervals. Several fires, which
threatened to prove disastrous,
have been speedily controlled by
these squads. Sterilized water, hot
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
PRINTERS DEMAND
SANITARY SHOPS

The report of President Lynch
of the International Typographical
union now in annual convention at
Hot Springs, shows that $4,000
members of the union are now
working not more than 8 hours
daily as result of the campaign
for the past years. Sanitary con.
dition Of composing rooms is urged
the president advising that local
unions insist on healthy work,
rooms. 1t is certain that the con.
vention will endorse and launch
this important movement.
The printers are constantly suf.
fering inroads on their craft from
consumption, the scourge of their
trade. The union maintains a
home for members who fall victims
to the dread disease, the prevalence
of which is charged to unsanitary
and poorly ventilated working quar-
ters.
The secretary-treasurer shows
that the expenditures from the bur.
ial fund for the year reached the
sum of $39,270. The total expendi.
lures from this fund since its es'
tablishment In 1892 have been
$443,105. The average age Of death
of printers for the year was 46.7
years.
1t Is proposed to build an add
ton to the Union Printers Home
and the fund for this purpose is
known as the Cummings Memorial
Fund. There was in this fund on
May 81, 1907, $12,910.44. This
amount represents voluntary con.
tributions by the membership.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

The Press with every newspaper
in the United States today badly Geographic
The country is tied until settlement made with
which general last mig the eegraphers strike
Spokane is numbered hit and this morning.
struments clckamong cities the
of wire being resumed there is little probability
. the operators.
The regrets patrons
of outside But this stands the deprivation with
view of the fact that the only
ing what justice belongs them which they
. have been forced to harsh method of striking
= fairly understood by
the American fair
will public until
. the struggle is
That certain The strike the
country from coast being magnitude
all interests directly affected
brought early
operators nothing they
= will win is to be sincerely hoped:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
SUE TO PROTECT
Water FUND

Complaints were served today in
the suit brought by c. Twitchell
and others against city officials to
compel payment of outstanding
warrants against the water depart
ment as fast as receipts will per-
NIT and to enjoin the officials from
transferring water receipts to any
other fund or otherwise disposing
of revenues except for the water
department.
The action also asks the institu-
ton OF an equitable and fair system
of water rates. The complaint at
lacks the system Of lifting funds
from the water department to 9TH
er funds.
The principal cause Of action Ia
the transfer of $4,000 from the
water fund in 1904. which has not
been repaid.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

HOW TO GET 1880 PEOPLE
OUT OF THE PARKS AND
SQUARES AND INTO CON-
PORTABLE HOMES IN A FEW
DAYS.
special Correspond snos to The Prsss

special Correspondence to The Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-
How are they going to get 1880
people out of the parks and public
squares by August II?
That is the question which puz-
zles the relief committee of San
Francisco
The park commissioners have is
sued their ultimatum that San
Francisco's homeless sufferers from
the great disaster shall pick up
their houses and walk off of public
property.
Where are they going to go?
1t will be / of the biggest prob
lens city has ever tackled, and
1 in the solving of which many
things will be learned.
Everywhere one goes in San
Francisco-on crowded Fillmore
street, fashionable Van Ness ave-
nue., and everywhere from the Cliff
house to the Ferry, one sees teams
drawing little green cottages to and
fro. Some of them are moving
IIOIu tUC IuOSI CIOWQCu City us
tricts to the far-out suburbs, where
their occupants can have unlimited
fresh air, laden with the tang Of the
sea salt; others go back to the very
heart of the city's hustle and rush.
A number of refugees have planted
their cottages on a foundation Of
debris beneath which their posses
sions before the fire are buried.
This is done to protect titles to
business locations clouded by the
destruction of ownership certifi-
Gates.
The history of the refugee camps
Is a remarkable one. Just 5579 cot
tages were butt with the $1,000
600 or so of relief funds that poured
into San Francisco after the fire.
OF these 4093 were completed in
less than four months after the fire,
and the balance during the winter
months, so that about 10000 home
less sufferers were made comforta-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
SUIT
CONTESTED

The finance committee Of the
council tonight will advise that the
damages asked by ]. o. Fisher and
William Kent be not allowed. These
men want $4,000 for contracting
smallpox while confined In the iso-
lation hospital with diphtheria.
Advice from the corporation
counsel is to the effect that the
claims are not legal ON account OF
not having been filed In time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
RESERVOIR WAS
OVERLOOKED

There is plenty Of city water this
week. At O'Clock this morning
startled residents living near the
big reservoir telephoned the police
that the country was being flooded.
Fearing a break had occurred the
police got busy communicating with
men employed in the water de-
partment. Commissioner ONO was
aroused from his beauty sleep and
marshalled a force Of men and
raced to the scene, afoot and in
rigs.
But 1t was only an overflow, as it
afterward turned out. The night
Waterman had gone to sleep and
the man at the up-river pumping
station, not being notified to shut
off the pumps, let them run along
until the reservoir was flooded and
the water had run down as far as
division street and Fifth avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

and colds baths, wire clothes lines,
flush latrines, iron garbage cans,
fuel boxes, cooking and illuminate
ing gas are provided in most Of the
camps and the walks between
houses are swept thoroughly every
day.
Taking care Of the refugees has
been a great task, but the greatest
of all will be the effort to quit do
ing SO; to make them self-support-
ing in other words. There is much
of interest, much of gladness and
much more that is pathetic about
the movement. Among them are
so many of the waits of life. Some
are men and woen of genius and
former high positions, whom drink
or drugs have ruined. Some are
the weaklings who never had a
chance" Some are beginning a
new life with glad eyes on the flu
ture, and others looking sadly
toward the close of the old. 1t is
a drama big as "all out doors" and
one which is worth watching with
eager attention.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
MITCHELL BROS. FAIR

The committee appointed to In
vestigate the charge that Mitchell
Bros, contractors, were not hiring
union men and paying the scale re-
ported back to the Central Labor
union last night. The committee
stated that they had found Mitchell
Bros. willing and anxious to discuss
the situation with the representa-
tive Of the Central body and that
the Arm had no desire to engage in
q quarrel with organized labor.
The Central body decided to drop
the charges against the firm. 1t
was also stated that Mitchell Bros.
have had standing order for men
for a month past with Federal I'm
ion No. 1924.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
CONDEMNED MAN GETS $500

HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. 10
Jacob Stehman. under sentence Of
death in the Dauphin county prison,
has been notified that $500 OF back
pension money due his dead father
had been awarded to him by the
government. The man had not a
cent for his defense when arralgned
and convicted for wife murder, and
the court had to assign lawyer
to look out for him. Stehman will
make an effort to get his case be-
fore the board of pardons.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
FlREMEN'S FUNERAL
FOR PAUL WESC0rT

A firemen's funeral will be &C.
corded the late Paul Wescott, fire.
man who died after an operation
for appendicitis, at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. when his fellow
firemen will march to his grave. All
the fire apparatus that can be
spared will be in line. A squad of
police will lead the march. Cap
tains Lindsay, Partridge, MacLean,
keenan,, Brown and Grant will be
the pall-bearers.
The sermon will be delivered by
Rev. w. ]. Hindley. Interment will
be at Greenwood cemetery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
BOARD PAYS BIG BILL.

The board OF education last night
ordered payment of bills amounting
to nearly $4,000. Plans were sub
mitted for the Northside high
school, which the board expects to
have complete in time for next
years term. Attendance reports
showed an enrolment of 1,541 In
the high school out of a total at
tendance OF $4,000 pupils.
Teachers elected last night were
A. w. Endslow. physics; c. A. Jew
ell, botany; Fl. J. Oke, commercial;
Ida Wilson and Edith Jackson, Eng.
fish; Caroline Jackson and Anna
Rapp. grade classes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

PARIS, Aug. 13.-Mrs. J. Pier
pont Morgan now believes that
when she assisted a young man In
New York who called himself AL.
bert Klein and gave him money to
start a career on, she was victim.
lied This same young man was
found near Versailles with q note
from Mrs. Morgan in his pocket.
Apparently he had been a victim
Of robbers. The police believe him
to be an adventurer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
STAUEEER SAYS NO.

Supt. w. f. Stauffer of the Mer-
chants Police and Detective Agen-
cy returned to the city today and
has investigated his force of patrol
men with view Of establishing the
truth of charges by w. p. Wilbur,
who said that one of them took him
to 615 Front av.. where he was bun
coed out of a diamond ring. Stauff-
re is firm in saying that none of his
men were mixed up in the affair.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
U. s. GIRL WEEDS GREAT POET

LONDON, Aug. 13.--It was only
after the most spirited courtship
that Alfred Moves, young English
poet, who Is hailed as future Ten
nyson, won the hand of Miss Gar
nett Daniels, youngest daughter Of
the late Col, Byron Daniels, OF
Washington, d. c., who was In the
United States consular service for
years. The poets rival was Her
bert Dupark, an Oxford orator, who
is hailed by his admirers as the
coming prime minister.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

Justice Suckers courtroom was
filed all day with witnesses and
spectators at the preliminary hear
ing Of All Yeck, the Chinaman who
is accused OF the murder Of other
Cinnamon at Garden Springs. July
2. The Chinaman's defense will be
an alfhi
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
HALL HANGS ONTO BELL.

According to Butte papers Russ
Hall has refused to sell Bell to the
New York Americans. Hall claims
he needs Bell himself. Those ia
miiar with the temper Of the Butte
patrons of baseball predict that
Hall would not last long in Butte
II he began to dispose Of the few
good players he has. Wilmot tried
to get along with a cheap team in
the mining camp and the boycott
was 80 strong he lost everything he
had.
Butte has no time for losers or
cutters and Hall had better keep
any players like Bell he possesses
and secure a few more II he don't
want to lose his meal ticket.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

is doctored at all it will have to be
done tonight.
Apparently the whole thing
hinges on whether the council and
Pratt have the nerve to put through
the Job. It will be mighty whack
at people who oppose gambling, but
we'll it's up to the council. The
program has been carefully pre-
pared.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
AUTHORIZES RAISES FOWLS.

NEW YORK. Aug. 13.-Gertrude
Atherton. novelist, has become a
chicken farmer. So has Poultney
Bigelow. So has Katherine Glover
They have put in $4,000 and gone
into business together, and will
raise feathers and fowls as we'll as
facts and fiction.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
RAILWAY OPERATORS WIN.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-The
Order Of Railway Telegraphers has
won out of the points involved
in the appeal taken from the arbi.
tration board. The U. 8. circuit
court. made the decisions under the
law governing hours OF employment
Of railroad telegraphers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

Carl Lufkin and a woman barber
who gave her name as Jennie Luf'
kin. were arrested together at an
early hour this morning at the
Workingmen's home. They were
released later on depositing $50
each for bond.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.

CRANBROOK, B. c., Aug. 13.-
B. Putney, fireman and coal pass
er on Soo-Spokane eastbound, were
killed yesterday when the train was
derailed near Mcleod. Engineer
Murgatroyd was severely injured.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
WAuLA WALLA BURGLARlEs.

WALLA WALLA, Aug. 13.-Tls
place has been hit by an epidemic
of burglary. Three burglaries were
committed last night. Mrs. Albert
Young caught burglar in her
home. He told her to keep still and
then searched the house, finding
$40.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13
LOOKING FOR A RUNAWAY.

The police today are on the look
out for Wyman Anderson runa-
way boy from Kellogg. Idaho. Sher.
if Barnhart telephoned that he ac-
companied a dark man.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-13

A. s. Cary, local boiler inspector
for the Hartford Boiler Insurance
Co., will resign Sept. l.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-14
.e:=. G.. R. O'DANIEL e:=: :::=:.e

to know that the ultimate plan OF
the railroad company is to extend
their line from Gooding to Soldier
and from there to Boise. This line
will also extend into Nevada, strik-
ing the Southern Pacific and spread
ing branch lines throughout the mid
die Snake valley.
"Gooding, the townsite, differs
from other new towns opened in that
vicinity in that it is on the main
line of the oregon Short Line rail-
road, having six passenger trains
through each day. The new town is
located in a field, or rather an al
falfa meadow, already under irriga-
ton, and there are a great many fine
shade trees on the townsite.
zone of the best compliments paid
the town is that of the $4,000 worth
of town lots that have been sold, only
two lots have been sold to people out
side of the state. 1t seems that the
people that know the land the best
want the most of it, and they are not
paying any attention to the financial
furry that prevails, but are coming
to the new town."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-14

from the railway station to the Man
sion House, where the official well
come took place, the British metrop-
oils did things handsomely, All
points of vantage along the route
were occupied to their capacity, and
while the cheers which greeted the
kaiser as he drove by with the Prince
of Wales in the state landau with
two positions never reached the
height of delirious enthusiasm. they
were in volume and continuity more
than sufficient to impress upon the
imperial visitor that he was in a
city which wished him well.
The feature of the day was a
luncheon given at the Mansion House
by the lord mayor and the corporation
of the city of London. 1t is estimat-
ed that the luncheon and the decora-
ton cost the corporation not less
than $4,000. A large pavilion was
erected in Guildhall yard, flanked by
galleries for the accommodation of
privileged spectators. The address OF
welcome presented to his imperial
majesty by Lord Mayor Bell was
contained in a costly gold box. The
kaiser wore the splendid uniform of
the White Cuirassiers, with a gold
helmet surmounted by silver eagle.
Now, everybody take a lonk breath
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-14
ARE PLANNING
ELECTRIC LINES
IDAHO CAPITALISTS
HAVE BIG ENTERPRISES
Irrigation Will Reclaim 100000
Acres In Southern Idaho, and Elec-
trio Lines Planned by Same COM
pany WIN Reach Into Nevada
Money strIngcncy Does Not Stop
Work.

"The financial trouble is in our
favor. the large forces of men that
have been discharged by contractors
on account of the lack of funds be-
ing put to work in our part of the
country" said Edward T. Barber OF
the firm Of Lisle & Barber, sales
agents for Goodlng, the new town on
the main line, who Is in the city from
Gooding to spend several days look
ing after business in connection with
the opening of the new townsite on
November IA, says the Boise Capital
News.
Continuing, Mr.. Barber said: "The
men interested in the enterprise have
the money to get all the labor now
that they want for much cheaper
wages than those paid a few weeks
ago, and are doubling the crews at
work on the canal and electric rail-
road. The first unit of the railway
system is being built now, extending
from Miner to Gooding. Construc-
ton crews are at work at both ends
Of the line, one crew working out
of Gooding and the other out of
Miner.
Donald g. Grant, who have secur-
ed the contract for 16 miles of the
canal, have just unloaded a 60-man
camp, including AZ horses, two grad
ing machines, 20 dump wagons, 15
lumber wagons and necessary camp
equippage for so laborers. The con-
tractors donald & Grant, have just
completed a big contract at Arm
ington, Mont, and the 60-man camp
is one of their camps from that
place.
"The contractors have three other
camps that will be moved In as soon
as the work is completed in that vi
cinity, the first of the three being
moved In about two weeks and the
other two soon afterwards. When
all four are assembled the contrac-
tors will have over 400 head of horses
at work and about half as many men.
1--WE are opening up an empire,
the magnitude Of which the people
cannot realize. The new land that Is
; being brought under irrigation in
Lincoln county. aggregates 10000
acres. which is more than twice the
aggregate area of the land irrigated
in the Boise and Payette valleys COM
bined. It also might be of interest