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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
FIVE DEADLY BLOWS AT LABOR
OR GOVERNMENT BY COURTS
WEST VIRGINIA INJUNCTION
I a half-had been Gin excess OF
$4,000, exclusive of interest and
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE VOTED

half-had been Gin excess OF
$4,000, exclusive of interest and
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE VOTED
costa negligible sum, surely,
for a company whose output OF
mine was in another place in the
complaint set Gown at 1,400 tons a
day!
Indeed, the bill stated specifical-
ly that despite the efforts Of Mitch
ell and the others, the company had
been able to increase the number
OF its employees and to increase it's
business, which it conducted sue
cessfully and peacefully and law
fully" practically from the time Of
the attempted strike in April, 1906
What there was in this showing
to hang an injunction upon might
well be beyond ordinary percep-
ton Yet Mr.. Justice Dayton, after
| a months reflection, proceeded, on
Nov. &c. 1907, to issue an order.
And mark the order. 1t strict
ly enjoined" said Mitchell and 9TH
ers from doing multitude Of
! things. many Of them in no way
opposed to law. and also from in
terfering and from combining, con-
! spring or attempting to interfere
with the employees of the Hitch
man Coal & Coke Co.
'in any manner whatsoever, either
by threats, violence, intimidation,
persuasion or entreaty!"
BY CHASING acts that are unlaw-
full and punishable by law. such as
threats" violence" and 'intiml-
dation,' with acts that are not I'M
lawful, such as persuasion" and
"entreaty," all are made to appear
! unlawful.
At any rate. they all become
equally parts of the ukase of the
court; and any disobedience to the
courts order respecting any of
/ them becomes contempt of court, "
subjecting the offender to punish
ment by summary process by the
very Judge issuing the ukase.
If such an order can be issued by
a judge sitting in West Virginia
against citizens of the state of In
diana and Ohio, why cannot similar
orders be issued against citizens OF
any of the other states?
Moreover, if one United States
judge can do this, why cannot any
and all United States judges do
likewise?
And yet every bit of this is a
clean, bald assumption of power by
the courts. There is not a Pigment
of authority for it in constitution OF
statute law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
SENTENCE
FOUND UNJUST

2
BUTTE, March 18.-Frank Muir
ply, now serving a life sentence
for murder at the Deer Lodge peni-
Tertiary, may soon be released as
the result OF recent discoveries Of
circumstances of his crime that
were not revealed at the trial. Muir
ply was an orphan. He fell in with
Louis 6cruples. who proposed that
they rob the postofnce at Big
Sandy, . small place near Havre.
The boy refused and Ecruples tried
to force him into 1t. He started to
draw his revolver as a means OF
intimidation when Murphy shot
him dead.
Being ignorant and dependent
upon a lawyer appointed by the
court, Murphy failed to get his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
GRABS BEAR BY.
THE THROAT
BIG FRENCHMAN GETS BEST
OF BRUIN IN ROUGH AND
TUMBLE AFTER BEAR HAD
DlSARMED HIM.

From Orient, G. N. station in
this state, comes the story of how
Louis Debois, a gigantic French
man, overcame q black bear in q
hand to hand match. Debois had
an ak when he ran onto the animal
and managed to sever one OF its
feet. The bear knocked the Ak out
Of his hand, and man and bear
grappled in a death grip. They
fell with the man on top and De-
bois got both hands on the animals
throat.
Two other woodsmen came up
Just then, but Debois wouldn't let
go and had them cut an artery in
the bears neck. He maintained
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
COURT LAYS FLOOD
LOSS ON PROVIDENCE

NORTH YAKIMA, March 49,
On the ground that Providence was
responsible for the food last year
that damaged 8. A. Gilson's prop
erty, Judge Kaufman dismissed q
suit for $500 damages against the
Yakima Boom Co. ellison alleged
that the company's piers in the
river caused a jam that forced the
river over his farm and ruined his
crop. as
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
SPOKANE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH IS, 1908.

his hold until the animal bled tp
death and escaped without a sert
Gus scratch. Debois is six feet
three, weighs 240 and is % yeas
old. He comes from the Ottawa
country.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
DOG RECEIVERS BOOTY

WENATCHEE, March 1S.-A
bundle Of city warrants worth
$1,000 was stolen while the city
clerk was absent from his office.
Later dog was found playing with
them on the street. 1t is supposed
the thieves threw them away when
they discovered the warrants were
not easily negotiable.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
RAILROAD
CAUGHT RERATlNG

NEW YORK, March 1s.-On .
plea of guilty to rebating Federal
Judge Holt fined the Vermont Cen.
trail Railroad Co. $1,000 Indict-
ments were returned on six other
counts, which will be dismissed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
SCHOOL LIBRARY Benefit

The Mckinley school will give
an art exhibit all day Thursday
and Friday and Friday evening, the
proceeds to go into the school H.
brary fund. An admission fee OF
10 cents will be charged The ex-
hibit is the Horace X. Turner COL
lection, comprising 200 water colors
and brown prints.
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story before the jury and as a re-
suit has spent nine years in prison.
His record there is first class. Sew
eral influential men and an attorney
are interested in his case.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
INSANE MAN PICKED UP

A young man named Irwin, who
says his father Is a sheep owner in
Baker City, Ore, was lodged in
jail today on suspicion OF insanity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-18
ELks HOLIDAY At JUNEAU

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 49,
Yesterday was a general holiday
here on account of the dedication
Of the new $4,000 Elks' temple.
Special steamers were run from all
neighboring ports.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-29

I one side and of Massachusetts bay
| on the other. There is nothing new
about the appearance of the inhabit-
ants either, except some of the sum-
mer visitors who flock to this hun
dred-mile long sani-spit for their an
nual vacations.
From Buzzards Bay to Province
town everything, except here and
there a summer hotel brilliant in new
paint, mas a weather beaten settled
look as much as to say We've been
here long time and don't care who
knows it" The houses, smuggling in
to hollOws to escape the bleak winter
winds, the ancient captains" and their
wiyeS-CaptdinS are as numerous here
as colonies are reputed to be in Ken
lucky; even the gnarled and scatter
ed apple trees leaning over at threat
ening angles from long resistance to
heavy storms-al1 suggest that a
great many tides have ebbei and flow
ed since they were set down here.
1t is in the low-roofed rambling
dwellings of the little Cape Cod
towns that we find the real Yankee of
past generations, resisting the changes
that time brings to tne outside world
in very much the same passive but
effective way that his sandy home re-
sists all assaults of the old ocean.
The ancient burial grounds standing
close to each village contain the bones
of men who helped to lay the founda-
tons of the American nation and
whose descendants are to oe found in
every part of the country. Some of
their headStoneS contain inscriptions
that throw an interesting light on the
conditions of life that these pioneer
Americans had to contend with. For
instance, in the longunuSed GENE
terry of the First Parish Society of
Eastman on the summit of bare hill
strewn with glacial boIlders and
swept by the salt winds which blow
in from the Atlantic on one side and
Cape Cod bay on the other. there is
a small weather-worn slate slab
which marks the resting place of Ma
jor John Freeman, who died in 1850
at the ripe age of ninety-eight. Be
side il is another stone, that Of Mer-
cy. his wife, daughter of Governor
Prince, one of the first rulers of Ply
mouth colony, whose farm was nearby
and to whom was granted a tract or
Cape Cod land nearly ten miles
square.
Lieutenant Freeman, the majors
son, is buried near his father. So
also is the Reverend Mr.. Treat, first
pastor of the society, who for forty
five years preached in the church be-
side the cemetery. Among other vir-
tues the quaint inscription tells of his
Christian labors and travail among
the salvages," meaning of course the
native Indians in that vicinity.
The Indians on Cape Cod were, as
general rule, peacefully inclined
and dwelt among their white neigh
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good natured and tolerant There
really ought not to be any cause for
friction under any one roof.
BY Ties of Blood.
A mother, by ties of blood or law,
can be of unreasonable assistance to
any woman. She mas met and con-
quered obstacles which a young wife
must face for the first time, and. il
necessary. can do her share of the
work of keeping a home in order. But
she must never forget that the home
belongs to her son and wife. and that
only when she is called upon to de-
eide questions of moment is inter-
ference permissible
1t ought not to be hard TO stand on
neutral grounds TO keep aloof from
quarrels and live a rather pleasant
life A woman ought to De glad to
have the comfort of a hone without
the expense or responsibility of main
tanning it, To my mind ii is an ideal
condition that makes mother an
honored and loved member of the
family with the privilege of ordering
her own life according to her tastes,
always provided that she does not
clash with the comfort of the others,
TO go out and come in when she
pleases, to keep to her apartment
Wn0n she OeSlfeS and JOIN the OInerS
at will.
1 know scores of women who are
thankful for good fortune of this
kind and their absence, even for a
short time, is regretted. I know some
others who are a nuisance to patient
and long suffering daughters-in-law.
The sons escape a deal by being fore
ed to go out into the business world
through the day. Those women try
to rule where they have no rights and
serve an awful example TO the I'M
married friends of the women they
badger.
1t is no wonder that young couples
prefer to live by themselves, anti
submit to long engagements rather
than tempt fate in the form of a moth
er-in-law in the house,. No mother
ever thought that any wife was good
enough for her boy. and when she
does not have the tact to hide that
fact there is likely to be trouble. Fun
there should be no divid-
ed house, for large families are natu.
raj. The belittling of a young matron
has been the cause which had made
1t unpopular. and the only remedy IL
a Change attitude On the part Of
mothers.
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is one that is sure to prove attractive
TO the people of Florida generally.
Letters from the heads of the indus
trial departments of the big railroad
systems which enter Florida, depart
ments which are engaged In inducing
visitors and investors to come to this
state, are of a most encouraging tone
and show that these authorities on
the upbuilding of the south believe
that the state fairs have Geen most
valuable aids in their work and all
are enthusiastic in advocacy of an
other fair-in fact, of continuing the
series Indefinitely. The railroad COM
panies will do all in their power to
make the next fair a success and in
so doing they are assisting materially
in the development of Florida
There is every assurance that more
counties will participate in The coming
fair than in any of its predecessors
and those counties which devote most
time and trouble to preparing their
exhibits and VINO present the most
attractive displays will, necessarily,
receive the greatest benefits, both in
a general way and in direct cash re-
turns.
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been securely landed it is instantly

been securely landed it is instantly
released.
Tarpon, Mr.. Dimock tells us, is
really tne only big fish that really
knows how to leap. Other fish jump
sometimes, but he makes IL a matter
of principle. He leaps out of the wa
ter to catch the fish on which he
feeds, he leaps at the first prick of
hook or narpoon. His jumps are YER
tically upward. at any angle, in any
direction, or he may skim the surface
of the water. He can hold himself as
straight as an arrow, bend himself
into a circle, twist himself into a let
ter or tie himself into a bowknot
81 never saw the leap Of salmon
that the commonest kind of a tarpon
couldn't double discount in his sleep.
The performance of a tarpon is so
picturesque, SO thrilling, that to see it
sportsmen travel thousands of miles,
sit for days in little skiffs, and then
grind fifty dollar coffee mills on
Springless rods for hours at a time"
For, whether you use hook or har-
pooh, it takes hours to secure your
game after you have caught him. Often
there is a capsize before capture. In
one conflict Mr.. Dimock describes
how at the end of long struggle the
short range. Whenever / hauled the
fish into the canoe it rolled over with
both of us, until after one such cap
size, l was righting 1t, the tarpon
slid into it of his own motion, which l
accepted as a formal surrender and
with a sudden jerk of the lightly fas-
tened harpoon set him free"
This playing with the fish, in short,
is not a struggle to destroy him, but
to stimulate him to make those gor-
geous acrobatic displays which are
without a parallel in tae animal world,
then turn him loose. The injury to
the fish is usually less, our author as
sures us, than that which an average
football player would ignore in the
glory of the game and count as trifiing
afterward.
There is plenty of real trouble in
the world" he concludes, land it is
not well to magnify the sorrows of
these cold blooded victims to the ex-
tent of getting your moral lens out
of focus Hunting the tarpon with
harpoon, under the conditions / have
endeavored to set forth. is the very
acme of sport No man with red
blood in his veins can resist its at
fractions, If he once gets within its
field of influence. OF all sports 1t is
first in legitimate pleasurable excite
ment. fullest of thrills, uneQuailed in
healthfulness, and the only sport that
gives the dumb object OF pursuit a
square deal"
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: bors in friendly intercourse. But
those against whom Major John and
the lieutenant went forth 10 battle in
the service which earned for them
their military titles, were Of another
breed entirely. For the F'reemans
fought in King Philips War" and
there is on record a letter from the
major in which he gives the names
of two Eastman soldiers KILLED this
morning by We salvases just outside
out posts of guard
1t was a hard life that these early
Americans led fighting the perils OF
the deep during the greater part of
the year and combating the Wiles of
hostile savages and the hardships of
pioneer life in the period while they
were ashore. No doubt these condi-
tions contributed to the development
or the familiar traits of Yankee char
acter- Trading around The world,
matching his wits against the trick
lest dealers in all the ports of all the
seven seas made him a shrewd bar
gamer while the severe conditions sur
rounding his life ashore forced him to
be Industrious, frugal and persever-
ing. 1t was a hard schooling but a
good one for a people whose task was
to be the turning of a wilderness into
an industrial empire
AS long as Americans continued to
share in the ocean trade the Cape
Cod Yankee continued unchanged, but
now the glory of our vanished mer-
chant marine with it's swift clipper
ships manned by Yankee crews and
with Yankee captains in command,
that could show a clean pair of heels
to anything carrying canvass, is only
a memory. Even the fishing industry
has practically disappeared from the
Cape, the cradle of Thanksgiving
The sons and daughters of the old cap
tains are flocking to the cities or to
western states and their places are
being taken by foreigners, mostly by
Portuguese from the Azores. In an
other generation the Yankee as he ex-
listed on Cape Cod for nearly three
centuries after the settlement of New
England will live only In the pages
of books like "Cap'n Whittaj1er's
Place" and others by Joe Lincoln, who
has been called the novelist of Yam
keedom. and in the observance of
Thanksgiving. Being a Yankee him
self and Colder" into the bargain,
the descendant of a long line of sea
captains and a resident of the Cape
during a good part of the year, Mr..
Lincoln is able to portray the old
time Yankee af1oat and ashore with
all his shrewdness, his peculiarities
of speech and manner and his dry
humor, a record that, aside from it,
entertaining features, will be of great
value in enabling future gene 4ations
to understand one of the most import
ant elements in the evolution of that
product of many divergent types-the
coming American.
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FOR
THE STATE FAIR
Active Work Now Being
Done at Tampa For the
Approaching Event.

q. A. a result of the first week of act
I've preparation, the management OF
the Florida State Fair for 1909 is
greatly encouraged at the prospects.
Letters from all sections of the coun-
try have poured in at Fair headQuar-
tiers making inquiries, which demon
strate the wide interest felt in these
annual expositions. Assurances have
been received from a dozea counties
already that active work will be be-
gun at once toward preparing exhib-
it's
Dissatisfaction which has existed
in some quarters relative to the non
payment of the. premiums awarded
at the fair of last February has been
dissipated TO a large extent by the
letter of Governor Broward publish
ed last week and printed on the backs
of the certificates which are being
sent out to premiun-winners. The
letter explains the facts with ref
erence to the non-payment of the
premiums to the satisfaction of all
and shows that the fault has been
with the state government and not
with the Fair association. The gov
ernor in the letter makes plain the
fact that the claims of the premium
winners are as good as gold, and that
the money will be available in a short
time, probably before the date of the
next fair. The legislature meets i'm
mediately after the next fair, and, If
not before. the premium appropriation
for both the fair of 1908 and the fair
of 1909 will be obtainable by the &C
ton of that body. This means a dis
bursement of $4,000 to successful ex-
hibitors within the next three or four
months. The directors of he next fair
have decided that all exhibit space in
the fair buildings will be absolutely
free and the opportunity thus offered
10 counties and individual producers
to advertise themselves and, at the
same time, win large cash premiums,
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OF
THE. BIC FLEET
Final Plans Have Been
Made For the Home
ward Voyage.
Special to The journal.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-Final plans
have been made by the navy depart
ment for the dispatch of the fleet on
its homeward voyage from Manila to
Hampton Roads. According to the itin-
erary, the battleShipS will sail from
the Philippine capital next Tuesday
and arrive at Colombo, Ceylon. Deem
Der ID. After coaling at Colombo. the
fleet will proceed direct to Suez. where
it is due to arrive on January s. The
officers and men will spend the Christ
mas and New Year holidays afloat,
but provision has been made for a
proper celebration on board all the
vessels. and SO far as possible, all the
delicacieS of the season will be pro-
vided. Owing to the climate, however,
it will probably seem little like Christ
mas to the tars.
The feet will pass the canal and coal
as expeditiously as possible at Port
Said Then the feet will divide and
the dlnerent ships go to the following
Mediterranean ports.
The Connecticut and the Vermont
Will arrive at Villefranche January IA
and leave January 81.
The Minnesota and the Kansas will
arrive at Marseilles January Ia ana
leave January 81.
Ihe Georgia, the Nebraska and the
Kentucky will arrive at Leghorn Janu-
airy y and leaving January 80.
The Ohio and the Missouri will ar
rive at Athens January 13 and leave
January 25.
The Rhode Island and the Virginia
Will arrive at Malta January Is and
leave January 10, arriving at Algiers
January p and leaving January 80.
The Ohio and the Missouri will ar
rive at Athens January Is and leave
January %.
The Wisconsin, the Illinois and the
kearsarge will arrive at Naples Janu-
airy II and leave January 81.
The first division, consisting of the
Connecticut, the Kansas, the Vermont
and the Minnesota, will arrive at Ne
gro Bay January 81. They will coal
there and leave February 8, arriving
at Gibraltar the same day. The sec
ond, third and fourth divisions will
arrive ar Negro Bay February /, coal
and leave February to join the first
division.
The feet will then steam to Hamp-
ton roads, where il is due to arrive
February 81.
The dates of the arrival at the
Mediterranean points may vary a day
or two: but the standard speed of ten
knots an hour, which makes for eco
nomical cruising, will be maintained
The feet hopes there viii be no ex-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-29

Boston, Nov. 2s,-Although probably
few people interrupt their apprecia
ton of turkey and cranberry sauce
10 think about it, Thanksgiving day is
the Oldest as well as in many re-
spects the most typical of American
holidays. II is in fact two hundred
and eighty-seven years old, its OBJ
seryance dating from the time when
the Pilgrims, a year after their land
ing from the Mayfower, held a
thanksgiving service for their first
harvest in the new country. 1t was
Governor Bradford who officially es-
tablished the autumnal day of thanks
which has been observed near the end
Of November ever since that time.
Thus Thanksgiving is more than a
century and a half older than indie
pendence Day, and antedates even far
Their than this our other holidays, most
of which are of comparatively recent
creation.
Thanksgiving is so firmly estab-
iished among the red letter days OF
the American calendar that there is
very little prospect that it will ever
lose its place. Although the method
of its observance has changed great
ly In two centuries and a nalf and
football has taken the place of church
going, it still retains its New England
characteristics as day of family re-
unions and it still brings thousands
of people from other parts of the
country to visit their old homes in
those northeastern states.
1t is probable indeed that Thanks
giving day will stand as a permanent
monument to the New England Yam
L. ill 10. ~.F
ment in a few more years, for the
Yankee himself is passing away, dis
appearing before the influx of foreign
population that is taking place in the
New England states and before the
changed conditions of living. Curious
ly enough Cape Cod, the spot which
first welcomed MIN to a new land and
the scene of the first Thanksgiving
observance is proving to be also his
last stronghold. Here in fact, is
about the only place where there are
still be to found men of the hardy
type that made the American clipper
ship famous. men like those who whip
ped England's boosted sea-fghters in
the war of 1912 to the tune of yam
kee-Doodle Dandy
Not only is Cape Cod the oldest spot
in the country so far as its occupa-
ton by English speaking persons is
concerned, but it is almost the only
one that looks its true age. II those
foreign writer's who record their i'm
press.ons of America in books could
visit the cape they might qualify their
patronizing statements about the new
ness and the unfinished appearance of
everything in the United States. There
is nothing new about the ia nous fish
hook curving out from the pillows on