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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28

CRY for the harvest. They have
granted low rates to harvesters and
are vying with each other In their
efforts to get men into the fields.
Almost weekly they secure state
ments from their stations of how
many men are needed at each point
and what wages are paid. The lat
est statement, issued by the 500.
showed definite calls for 5000 men
at wages varying from 1925 to So
day, with board.
The other day, the most novel
school in the world was brought
to a close at the Minnesota expert
mental association. 1t turned out.
after a 3-month course, nearly 400
young men who had been taught by
the state to operate thrashing en-
gines. The tuition was almost free.
These men are being hustled into
the fields. They will receive as high
as Sc and even 81 day, with
board.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28

over to Offices of employment men,
who are choosing hands for the har-
vest. Students are flocking to the
fields to earn money-real dollars
threshing engines are busily putting
and blowing as they crawl along
the roads from field to field.
The first barley of the season has
reached Minneapolis. Even the
wheat traders who usually take lit
tie interest in other grains were
anxious to know how it would SELL
A carload from Iowa sold at 60
cents a bushel; the other carload
from South Dakota brought 65
cents. This was only cents lower
than the highest price of last year,
and the wheat men saw signs of
higher wheat prices in the deals.
The railroads, disgruntled as they
may be against the public, are hun
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
MRS. CHAS. w. FAIRBANKS

MANCHESTER BY. THE SEA,
Mass, Aug. 2S.--Mrs. Chas. w.
Fairbanks, wife Of the vice presi-
dent, has arrived here to spend the
remainder of the summer. Mrs.
Fairbanks is a charming hostess,
and it is said that she has planned
a series of social entertainments for
the winter at her Washington
home, which will be far from doing
any harm to her husbands cam
paign.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES


Special Correspondence to The rress
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2S.-The
wonderful west is stirring itself for
the harvest. It's the old song of
wheat and of men. A birds eye
view OF the great golden area at
this moment would be an inspira-
ton. From the black cities and
towns, hundreds are vending their
way to the fields.
Our farms produce more than
S6,500,000 per annum, and the pros
pect is good for an average crop"
said Leslie M. Shaw, former secre-
tary of the treasury in a recent
statement.
This harvest means work for
thousands and prosperity and glad
hearts in the boundless west.
Whole streets in Minneapolis and
st. Paul have for weeks been given
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
TELEGRAPHERS'
CAUSE JUST

Editor, The. Press-The teleg-
raphers strike locally is unchanged.
There are no assertions from the
union ranks and no more strike
breakers have been hired at either
office. Advices from all over the
United States, and more particular
ly from the large cities, Chicago,
New York, Cleveland, st. Paul,
Philadelphia, New Orleans and the
south generally, are very favorable
to the operators.
Daily reports received from more
than 100 locals, including the big
cities, show there has been less
than a dozen assertions from the
union, while more than 100 strike
breakers have joined the operators.
AT present the big companies are
in worse condition than immediate
ly following the walkout
The claims made by the compan-
les that they are handling all the
business offered will not bear in
vestigation, as a peep into the To-
cal offices will prove. There is I'M
sent business over a week old and
still they accept messages subject
to indefinite delay" This will be
done just as long as the public Will
stand for it. 1t takes some time for
the public to realize that it can
send messages just as cheap with
a 2-cent postage stamp as the tele-
graph companies can send them in
the same way, and when this is I'M
derstood the companies will be
kept busy explaining how Gin
definite delay" means hanging mes
sages on the desks a few days, to
be finally forwarded by Uncle Sans
overland limited.
Another phase of the situation is
that the strike breakers are class
separate and distinct from real OPP
orators. In almost every instance
they are so thoroughly incompetent
that during normal conditions they
would not be entrusted with the re-
sponsibilities of the business. Most
of the strike breakers are those
who, until circumstances like the
present arise. cannot follow the
telegraphic trade. Their past rec
ords would prevent them being en-
trusted with business which could
be easily made very profitable to
themselves at the expense of the
public
Opportunity for the exercise of
their particular talent comes so
seldom that they must make the
most Of it; and who can blame
them. or who is at fault that these
conditions exist?
Is it the operator who averages
about 2 cents pay for sending the
message you paid the company 81
to have sent, or IS it the company
which demands IS cents of your
dollar for about half a minutes use
of the line that you helped build?
Let the blame for present condi
lions rest where 1t belongs. The
simultaneous walkout of telegraph
ers, extending from coast to coast
and including without exception
in the business, should be sufficient
evidence that their cause is just
one
The large daily and weekly pub
which at first were in
clined to favor the companies, are
now, after a closer investigation
into these conditions, unqualifedly
taking sides with the operators.
and public sentiment is demanding
an equitable settlement of the trou-
BILE. Operators.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
n. P. GETS SPUR
FRANCHISES

The council last night granted a
franchise to the Northern Pacific
railroad for 3-spur tracks from the
west side of Grant st. to the east
side of Hilliard st. on East River
side av. There was no opposition.
Property holders in that vicinity
objected to the franchise in a
previous form, which included an
other block.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
COUNCIL GIVES BACK
$4,000 FORFEIT

August Use, the contractor, is to
get back the $4,000 he forfeited to
the city for failure to file bond
on the Third ward sewer job.
The council last night adopted
the report of the finance committee
that an ordinance be drawn appro-
priating the amount.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
FLY FISHING AT HAYDEN

The trout are rising to flies now
at Hayden. Catches of 35 to so
are being made daily. Take Par
machene Bell and Professor flies
and spend the night in one of the
coy log cabins or at the new Bo-
zanta tavern. Electric trains 500.
1890 a. m, 1:10, 300, 4:25 and
900 p. m. leaving Spokane ter
minal. 20
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
LUNCH TOO GOOD; OFFICIALS
ON RACK

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 2S.-Inves-
tigation into the accounts of the
8 members of the executive council
has been begun by District Attor-
ney Moran. 1t is said the council
used city money in paying for elab-
crate luncheons at its weekly meet
ings. asa
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
HALF HOUR EARTHQUAKE.

LAIBACH, Austria, Aug. 2S.-A
violent distant earthquake was re-
corded in the observatory here, be-
ginning at 6:38 p. m. and lasting
so minutes. 1t is calculated the
earthquake was distant $500 miles.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
PARLIAMENT SESSION ENDS
Omitted Press Association. ,

LONDON, Aug. 28.-Parliameni
was prorogued today with the pic
turesque, old fashioned ceremonial
The Kings speech was perfunctory
One OF the longest and mosl
arduous sessions is ended.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
ALL BREEDS Of
PARASITES
MUST 60

A certain class of Americans, Ja-
panese and negroes, are under sur
veillance of the police who suspect
that their principal business is to
keep women in the Main and Yale
blocks. 1t is admitted on all sides
that the orders that women having
men and are engaged in the bust
ness of the Main and Yale blocks
must leave the city by Oct. | has
effectually solved the Frenchman
problem, but some difficulty will be
experienced in the case of the white
men and others.
The police. however, know more
about the business than they are
generally given credit for. The Of
ficers of the department have al
most every woman spotted and can
pick out the man who owns" her.
These women will also be asked
to move when the time comes for
the French women to go. Chief
Rice will treat all other breeds of
parasites as severely as the French
men. There is little difference,
neither being worth the powder to
blow them into eternity. Yet they
exercise a sort of proprietorship
over their women. Some of the
American girls are under conditions
amounting almost TO as much
slavery as the French. They are
controlled through fear The diff
ference is that the American wom-
an occasionally breaks her bounds
1t is different with the French
girls, who are enslaved all their
lives and seldom attempt to escape.
They go on and make the best of it..
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28

Charitable Visitor-Is your hus.
band any help to you?
Mrs. Poorly-Yes, indeed. He is
fixing up the stove for me, so |
can dry the washing | take in this
Mintp
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28

The request of the health board
for sanitary expert was read by
the council last night and the
board was asked to submit the
names of experts from which to
select
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-28
MANlTo MOVING PICTURES

Fine exhibition of moving pic
lures every evening this week at
beautiful Mantle park. Last week
of the season. Admission free.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
OREGON SQUIBS.

Elaborate preparations are being
made for the Third district fair and
stock exhibition to be held at Pen
dleton September 23 to %, inclusive.
Five Of the Pendleton city Jail pris-
oners made break for liberty and
succeeded in getting away from Jim
Hutchinson recently.
Conditions in Umatilla county and
throughout eastern Washington will
be exceptionally good this year as a
result of the big grain crop now about
to be harvested, as well as other prod
ucts. The wool clip from approx
mately 100000 sheep has been market
ed at prices ranging from 10 to %
cents, while mutton sheep have beer
turned off after shearing at $3.50 tc
81 head. From present indications
the big wheat crop estimated in Una
tilla county at over 100000 bushels
will bring from rs to so cents bush
ell, which will make money plentiful
among all classes in this section o.
the country.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
Dakota Cyclone Kills Three.

Mitchell, S. D., July 22.-Reports
have been received here of very Sc
we're and destructive wind and rain
storm which occurred at Woonsocket
The house belonging to a man named
Atkinson, a carpenter, was caught by
the heavy wind and blown over. Three
persons who were in the house at the
time were killed by the flying boards
and being crushed benath the build
ing. Several other houses in Woon
socket were partially destroyed, but
no other injuries are reported.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26

the prairie, and it is this fact that
proved the feature of the show.
The adoption of sidehill disk on
the large farm owned by the Ketten-
bach company, near Rosetta, is revo-
lutionizing the blowing of steep side
hills. The ground is so steep it can
not be plowed with a common break
er.
An unprecedented rainfall for the
month of July has been experienced
in the Meadows valley.
The hail storm of July 3, while do
ing severe damage in spots, will not
materially lessen the yield of grain
and fruit in the Troy section.
Murray Gum, one of the victims OF
William Curry, who shot and killed
e. A. Peterson in a brawl in a card
room at Kippen, is in the Lewiston
Jail, where he will be held as a wit
ness against Curry.
]. X. Castle has been arrested il
Boise on charge of cashing a forged
check for 5000 at the New Wilson no
tel, at Salt Lake, on June rs. He is ;
salesman for Mayer, Wise & Co., o
Cincinnati, manufacturers of novel
| ties.
Senator w. B. Hepburn, who is nov
in Wallace, accompanied by Mrs. Hey
burn, after an indirect journey iron
Washington, d. c., still shows the Ell
feet of his recent illness, but hope
that by complete relaxation he Wi
soon be as strong as ever.
The officials of the Chicago, Mi
waukee & st. Paul railroad hav
reached the st. Joe country. Pres
dent Earring and others left Montan
and followed the right of way of tn
railroad, coming on horseback.
Saturday morning John Hulbac
made dive into the river off the S
Maries bridge and was drowned.
is supposed he struck a log or som
other obstacle and was killed by tn
shock.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
IDAHO NEWS.

Whlle at work on the Northern Pa
enc bridge across Lapwai canyon,
aUoVe Culdesac, Neal Jones, laborer,
, VINO recently came from Duluth,
alnn.' missed his footing and fell to
.ne bottom of the gulch, thirty feet
pelow' sustaining injuries from which
nc oied eighteen hours afterward.
Inc business men of the town of
~ IN Idaho, are. moving their bust
aess places to new location adjoin-
lug tne new town of Vollmer. 1t is
lated that IA business houses besides
TWO churches and lumber yard will
be moved.
Inc first annual horse shown al
ae1 Ferce while successful in point
=. attendance and in the harmony and
T tS feeling created, served to open
tSe e eyes of the people to the fact
'""' many good horses are raised on
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
MONTANA TENS

Five prominent men, including
Creighton Largely, the millionaire,
were fined $40 apiece in police court
in Butte for exceeding the speed linn
it in automobiles. TheS9 pleaded gull
ty. The cases are the FIRST of cam
paign instituted by the chief of police
to stop automobile speeding.
The will of Peter Larson, multi-mil-
lionaire railroad contractor, mining
magnate, lumberman and FIGURING mill
owner, has been filed in the district
court. While the bulk of the estate is
left to his wife and daughter, pro-
vision is made for practically every
church, hospital and charitable insti-
tuition in the city Of Helena, as well as
his brothers. The will contains a
clause that if any legatee shall file a
contest, he or she shall be disinherit-
ed. The estate is valued roughly at
$15,00O,OO0.
| A wreck occurred on the Northern
Pacific between Garrison and Elliston,
| 60 miles west of Butte. Little damage
was done.
Harry Delaney of New York was
shot and instantly killed recently In
a brawl in house in ---e restricted
district of Whitefish. The shooting
was done by a woman named Ma
thews, who was drunk at the time OF
her arrest and will give no state
ment
C. NJ. Stubs, a well-known resident
OF Stanford, recently kidnapped his 2
year-old child from its mother In the
main business street of Great Falls in
broad daylight and at time when
that thoroughfare was crowded. The
greatest excitement resulted. Stubs
tore the child from its screaming
mother an drapidly bore it away, pur
sued by a wrathy crowd bent on sum
marily Furnishing the kidnaper. Stubs
was arrested.
While engaged In working on al
electric light pole at one of the bis
transformers in the rear Of the city
fire station at Billings, Mont, Lewis
C. johnson, line man employed BY
the Billings Water Power company
was electrocuted recently.
The geological survey estimates thu
copper output of Montana in 1906 a
9S3 ,4S5.517 pounds, which is create
than the output of any other state
Arizona is second, with 262,566, 10
pounds. Michigan is third, with 22si
4Ss,o17 pounds.
t The body of Roscoe Denbley, witt
+ was drowned in the Clark's Fork re
, Gently. has not yet been recovered.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
Mexico to Build Railroad.

Authoritative information has been
received that the Durango-Mazatlin
railroad will be built by the Mexican
government. 1t will be the first piece
of construction undertaken after the
national railroad merger was definite
" effected. 1t is said work will be
started by the end of this year.
This line is 1865 miles long and 1t is
estimated will cost $25,OO,OOO Mexican
currency. 1t will require several mil
lions more to complete the line.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
May Be Japanese Trick.
NORTHWEST NEWS.

A very importan final decision, ad-
verse to Idaho settlers, has just been
rendered by Assistant Secretary
Woodruff of the Interior department.
Washington, d. c. This is the long
drawn-out case of the state of Idaho
VS.. Steve Thorp ct al, and affects
over $50 settlers in township A,
ranges 2 and east, and who settled
on these lands after July s. 1901. A
man in touch with this case says that
the loss to each one of these settlers
will reach on an average $1,000, or a
grand total of $150,000 besides the
lands. This is the case in which the
state of Idaho relinquished valuable
Fschool sections in the Occur d'Alene
Indian reservation in order to use
them as a base with which to attack
settlers. That there is intense feel
ing throughout this section of Idaho
against the state officials implicated
in this deal is drawing it mildly. This
case was part of the strenuous contest
in which the Northern Pacific railroad
was a third party, and which, as a re-
suit of this decision and others of the
same nature, has gained a good part
of these lands.
uncle Sam will have some more
land to give away this fall" a govern
ment official who went with the Gar
field party on it's trip through the
state of Montana is quoted as saying,
" and it will probably be disposed OF
in the same manner as the Huntley
project was, ard the drawing will
probably take place in October. 1t is
the lands under the Fort Shaw irri-
CATION and reclamation project in Cas-
cade county"
President Louis w. Hill of the
Great Northern railway declares the
lumbermen of the coast must choose
between a continuation of the car
shortage that has crippled the lum
q Der industry during the past year and
the advance of 10 cents per 100 pounds
q on lumber and single shipments thai
I will be applied October 1. President
G Hill said his road had sent 1000 empty
r cars to the coast to haul lumber
products this summer, hauling the
O empties from the Dakotas and Mon
s tana. At the existing rates Of lumbe
s and shingles, he said, this car haul
n age could not continue.
/. In consequence of a cloudburs
near the head of Elk Park canyon
east of Butte, at o'clock Sunda,
u evening a flood of water swep
L through Columbia gardens, the city
II big recreation park, and flooded
e portion of the street car tracks to tn
gardens. Heavy damage was done
;. especially to the copper precipitatin
IL plants along Silver Bow creek. Bot
.e Great Northern and Northern Pacifi
u trains were delayed several hours.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
HERO SAVED THE TOWN.
J. D. Adams at Hatton, WASH, Does a
Daring Piece of Work-Grabbed
Giant Powder From Fire.


Hatton, Wash, July Pat the risk
of his own life, j. D. Adams rushed
among kegs and boxes of black and
giant powder to extinguish burning
hay which had ignited from sparks
from a passing locomotive.
During the morning hours crew of
teamsters from the railroad camps OF
the st. Paul road started in to unload
car of powder which had been
Spotted" on the siding next to the
depot, and just down the hill from
the town.
The car stood on what is known as
the rear house track, placing the de-
pot between it and the main line,
where it is also necessary for teams
to come to unload, bringing them
within a few feet of passing trains
from either direction. Both teamster
and helper had been carrying the
giant powder from the car onto the
wagon, and had almost the entire
body of the wagon filed when a train
was heard approaching, making-it nee
essary that the driver get upon the
seat to give attention to his team,
which was becoming frightened at
the approaching cars.
1t was while in this position and
during the time the helper was in the
car shifting boxes for hauling that
sparks from the passing locomotive
fell among the hay, which was in the
bottom of the wagon to lessen the
| - IL,
among the boxes of dynamite which
were piled high in front, causing g
large blaze, which was discovered by
Mr.. Adams when he came out of the
car carrying a keg of powder to com
plete the load.
Having had experience in handling
freight of this class, Mr.. Adams a
once recognized the danger in which
: himself and the whole town wer'
d placed should the explosion occur.
/ Without saying a word to the driv
er, Adams threw the can he was cal
J. rying to the. ground, and with bar
d hands dived into the fire, throwing
n boxes in every direction and scatter
ing fire as best he could, but which b.
lllS lllut udQ DlOhCh Oub Oil WV ~
IL wagon, with boxes and cans in 1t
d midst.
1t The teamster, by this time bein
/ able to hear the commotion in tn
/ rear, realized, too, the Importance
t quick work and rendered what assis
u ance was possible aside from carin
n for his team, which had by this tim
% become almost uncomfortable, an
is which later broke into run, seattle
a. ing boxes and cans right and left.
s, There is no doubt that had it NJ
b. been for the prompt action of M
III Adams the entire car of explosive
Of would have gone off, completely d
molishing the entire town. Mr.. Adam
is receiving congratulations from a
sides for his heroic and timely effort
lg but seems to take it as a matter
e, course, that what he did saving OF
TT ers was because he found it nece
n sary to do so for his own protectio
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26

The ups and downs" are only the
hills and valleys we cross in our eter-
nal quest for happiness.
Don't stand sponsor for the opinions
Of others.
Some of the wooden churches OF
Norway are fully 700 years old and
are still in an excellent state of pres
ervation. Their timbers have sue
cessfully resisted the frosty and al
most arctic winters because they have
been repeatedly coated with tar.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
Elaht to Maintain Rates.

The state of Virginia is preparing
to put up fight to maintain the valid
ity of the two-cent-rate order of the
state corporation commission, an in
junction against the enforcement OF
which was recently granted the rail
ways by Judge Pritchard of the Unit
ed States circuit court.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
BARS UP AGAINST WOMEN.
Male Secretaries Only for Male
Bureau Chiefs.

The women clerks of the agricul-
tural department cannot hereafter act
as private secretaries for the male
chiefs of divisions or bureaus. This
dictum, harsh as it may seem, stands
as the law in that department. Secre-
tary Wilson has issued it and he says
he means business.
The order is the direct result of
the Holmes cotton scandal case, in
which Mrs. Bertha Burch figured so
prominently, testifying two weeks ago
in the trial of Holmes. On account
of her position in the office Of the
chief statistician of the department
she became an expert in crop figures
and now she is conducting a statistical
bureau Of her own in New York CITY,
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
Ship Killed Whale.

Long Branch, N. Y, July 22.-Lying
upon the shores of the Atlantic at Gal
lice, near here, is the body of a whale
which was killed at sea by steamer.
The whale is about 40 feet long and
1t is estimated that it weighs about 20
tons.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26

Hatred is love at low tide.
II God does not fit man for the
Christian ministry, not all the colleges
OF the world can.
An electric bell doesn't always have
an engagement ring.
A man cannot raise a crop OF
rains by irrigating his stomach with
,ooze.
Fifty fine vessels are constantly en-
ployed in laying and repairing the sub
marine cables of the world.
It's wise son that knows he knows
less than his own father.