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Two of my men got badly mauled by
lion, so our camp had to stop where
It was till they could be moved. After
time one of them was able to walk
about with his arm In sling, and the
other was getting on well, so one night
decided to leave the big camp next
day and go with two or three camels
to some vill,,ges only days march
away. Early the next morning Ma
homed Moor, the headman, started
with the camels. l stopped behind to
get some breakfast Just as we were
going to follow, Councilman, who had
gone up the river-bed close by to get
some water, came running back to say
that a lion had been down to drink
at one of the shallow sand wells in the
night | started at once with Abdul
lah and two other crackers, telling my
pony boy to follow on as soon as he
could get the pony saddled. When
tracking, | have always found 1t the
best plan to have the pony led some
distance behind. The boy ought to
have no difficulty In following the
tracks of two or three men and
lion, and If the pony is kept close
up, 1t is sure to stamp or blow its
nose at the critical moment.
When we got to the well there was
the spoor plain enough in the sand,
but rather blurred by some rain which
had fallen at daybreak. This made
the tracking little difficult after we
left the river-bed. but when we had
followed 1t slowly for some distance,
we came to place where the lion had
lain down uader a thick bush, evi.
IDENTIFY to shelter from the rain, as tie
spoor after this was quiet distinct on
the top of the damp ground. This
made us think we were in for short
track, for 1t must have been light
when the lion went on again from
here, and lions generally lie up short
ly after the sun rises: but this day
proved an exception, be 'aLse 1t was
cloudy and cool through the forenoon.
Trailing the King OF Beasts.
The spoor now led us along sandy
path, where we could follow 1t as fast
as we could walk. When ii turned of
into the bush we quite expected to see
the lion at any moment; but not bit
of 1.-THE wandered about through
endless clumps of mimosa a 'irgin''
bushes, as If he did not mean to lie
up at all.
The track at last ed us down a
little sandy watercourse, which it fol
lowed for some distance. Up to this
time we had had no real difficulty
in making it out, but now came our
first serious check. The nullah turned
off along the side of stony ridge,
and instead of going along it, the
lion had turned up the hill We had
got the general direction tn the lion
had been going in, but this was no
good 10 us, as on casting forward in
the same line to the bottom of the
other side of the ridge whore II ere
was some sandy ground, we could find
no sign of his having passed in that
direction. We spent some time hunt
ing about, growing less hopeful as
time went on. A man following a
trail by sight certainly has an enor-
nous advantage over a hound hunting
1t by nose. because time is of no
particular object to him, and every
direction can be tried in turn After
making out cast forward we went
back TO the little intercourse, and
followed that down for some distance,
hoping that the lion had turned down
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steal forward until the lion IS sighted
or ringed in a small clump Oh bush.
Then, when all is over, and the skin
is being taken off, how pleasant 1t is
to sit in the shade, listening to the
excited talk of the natives. and let
ting your nerves quiet down again
after the hopes and fears of the morn
ing. You ride home to camp with the
lion skin behind your saddle, while
one of your men after another gives
his version of the mornings proceed
ings in hunting song. On the other
hand, when you get shot, and miss
after long and difficult track, it
seems as If any number of lions killed
in the future will never make up for
the loss of this one, which is always
the biggest lion, carrying the finest
name you have ever seen. The ride
home to camp is then a silent one, as
no lion means no sheep for the men,
and they are correspondingly down
hearted
The first thing to be done in track
ing is to find fresh spoor, Natives
will often bring news of spoor, but
unluckily the average villagers idea
of a fresh track is rather hazy l
have several times gone a long way
to find at the end track several days
old On one occasion two natives
arrived. saying there were fresh lion
tracks in river-bed, luckily not more
that half a mile from camp, but when
we got there the fresh lion tracks
turned out to be the spoo' of two n.y.
enas. at least a week old.
The spoor of the large spotted
hyena is not unlike that of lioness
on certain ground, but the difference
can easily be told, because a hyena
has claws like dog, whereas the re-
tractive claws of a lion are always
sheathed and leave no n-,.rk. The bnEs
way to find spoor is to look for 1t
yourself with good crackers. Should
there be any villages near camp
which lions have been in the nabft
of raiding it is very necessary to get
there as early as possible in the
morning. If once the large flocks of
sheep and goats and herds of camels
which have been shut W in the viii
lagos all right are let out, the ground
all about is a mass of ind stinguish-
able footprints, and ever rath from
the village is choked with long strings
of beasts going off to their feeding
grounds. Hitting off a lions spoor
under these circumstances is almost
impossible, and the dust raised by the
herds is very disagreeable.
Besides villages, any well in the
neighborhood is a good place to look
for spoor If lion is about there
ought to be no difficulty in picking up
his spoor within day or two.
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Agitation regarding the pay of
French military officers has had some
effect, for the minister of war has
asked for an extraordinary credit Of
100000 to supplement the pay of the
officers. which has not been increased
since 1870. In that time nearly every
grade of state official has had his sti.
pend raised, but the sub-lieutenant has
had to make both ends meet as best
he could with six francs a day and
the lieutenant with eight.
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| shot, but so badly that wasted
seven bullets at different ranges
without touching her The first six
did not seem to annoy her at all, but
the last hit the ground just under her
teeth. and either the bullet so close,
frightened her or a stone hit her, for
she sprang off with a snarl and a
flourish of her tail and, putting on the
pace. in a minute or two ran clean
away from us. was terribly disap-
pointed and annoyed with myself, and
| thought of course. that everything
was over for the day after all this
shooting; but Abdullah, who was al
most weeping. hardly gave me time
to get my wind a little before he
rushed me back again. AS we ran
round the place where we had first
seen the lioness, fine lion appeared
walking slowly out of another thicket
towards us. AS ! shot, he turned
and plunged thorugh an opening in the
bushes to our right. We ran round an
outstanding bush to head him IL he
broke out, and met lion facing us. Just
as ] fred heard a moan to the right,
so was sure it was not the same lion
This one staggered away at the shot
and iell stone dead close by.
Death OF the Jungle Lord.
Abdullah called up jana and the
pony boy, and they soon had the hide
off and tied on the pony | thought
all the time that Abdullah knew all
about the other one. but as he seemed
to be going right home, asked him If
we had not better go and look for it,
and he replied that 1t was the same
lion all the time. and that | had
missed it the first shot. | did not feel
quite sure about 1t myself, but the
moan in the bushes could only have
come from wounded beast, so | told
him we had better go and look any
way. He evidently thought it was
waste of time, but when we got back
to where the lion had been hit We
soon found stLne blood, and going
quietly down a little path between the
''irgin" bushes we came round a cor
ner almost on top of the lion. He was
stone dead. ! was very pleased at
scoring off Abdulah, as he mad shown
such evident disgust at my shooting.
We met one of our party on our way
back TO camp, and told him he might
run across the lioness II he followed
our track back to the place We had
come from. An hour after we got
back to camp he came galloping up,
having seen two ions. curiously
enough both males, and had, shot one
with a better name than either of
mine.
have at another time described
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HE best piece of
lion tracking l ever
saw lasted five full
hours and is so
memorable in sew
eral respects that |
purpose to use it as
an introduction to
that general method
of lion hunting.
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Hospltable.

She-And did you enjoy your AZ.
rican trip, major? How do you like
the savages?
He-oh, they were extremely kind.
hearted! They wanted to keep ma
there for dinner
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Battling Ways Of the Jungle Folk.

Rather curious condolences are
sometimes brought to light by spoor.
Not very long after the date of the
story just related, one of our party
went to a place where two lions had
been killing regularly, and sat up two
nights for them with a donkey as bait.
The lions must have left the district
for day or two while he was there,
as there were no fresh tracks to be
found anywhere about. The day after
he came back to camp | happened to
ride out in that direction. Soon after
we started we came on the spoor Of
two lions, which led us along a path
till we came to the shooting zereba.
The night after he had left, the lions
had walked over the very spot where
his donkey had been tied up in the
middle of the path.
A little later, again. | happened to
be at a place where he had camped
a few days before. A lion roared near
my camp several times in the night,
and next morning | heard he had
taken a sheep from village close by.
We picked up his spoor in a river.
bed near the camp, and after follow.
ing 1t for some distance came to some
wells. The lion had drunk twice, and
between the drinks had laid down
under the fence of a shooting zereba,
which had been made to watch the
water. After drinking the second
time he had gone away.
Now and then when tracking you
| come across places where lions have
killed. and If it is on sand or bare
soil. you can tell everything that has
happened almost as well as IL you
had seen it. We were camped once
on the edge of river-bed and thick
covert ran right down to the back Of
the camp. One night there was q
tremendous scuffling in these bushes,
so in the morning went out to see
| what had been going on, and found
that two lions had been chasing a
warthog. which had just saved its
| bacon by getting underground. It
must have been very near thing,
as the lions had ploughed great fur
rows in the sand at the mouth of the
hole, showing they had pulled up pref
| ty sharp. Warthogs generally go to
| ground when pursued, and as there Is
no second opening to the burrows, and
presumably no chamber at the end
where they can turn, they always go
in backwards. This has actually been
seen by sportsmen who have been
riding after them with a spear. /
should think this pig can hardly have
had the time to do this. Perhaps he
got jammed in head first, as he re-
fused to be smoked out when we tried
| it,
By permission of Longmans. Green &
Co., New York.
| Copyright, 1909, by Benz. b. Hampton)
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Driving the Lion to Bay.

The shape made 1t Il easy place to
drive. for little way out from the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-12-24
CANNON GETS
GOOD ROAST
Speaker Cannon Is Not
In Good Grace With
People of the United
States.

In spite of all that President Taft
says in defense of the regulars, the
revolt continues to spread and Cannon
ism is doomed. Scarcely a day passes
now that we do not hear of further
disaffectiOn from the ranks of the house
oligarchy. Congressman Fowler's at
tack on Speaker Cannon made lasting
impression upon the public mind. Con-
gresham Herbert Parsons has given the
disgraceful details of Cannons deal with
Tammany Hall last spring to save the
house rules from defeat. From the
states where the insurgents grow comes
the gratifying news that the people pro-
pose to defeat the organization men now
in congress and to send to the next
congress either progressive Republicans
non and all his works. There is every
| indication that the movement is soon to
eliminate in sweeping out of power not
only Cannon but his whole crew of OBJ
structionists and corruptionists.
| Why. is it necessary that the progress
sive people of the country direct united
opposition against one unhappy, narrow,
bitter old man?
1t is not because he is Cannon, but
because of the big thing in the dark
which he represents; the effort of great
corrupting organizations to keep hold of
the government and throttle all the
democratic strivings of the people. The
most vital moving force in America to-
day, however. is the desire of the people
! to be properly represented in their gov
ernment The marvellous growth of the
direct nominations idea is an indication
of this; the fact that thirty one legis-
latures have declared for popular elec-
ton of senators is significant phase
of it. The spread of the commission
government idea. tho initiative, refer
endum and recall. all Indicate the same
thing. And the people have come to
realize that they are not represented in
congress so long as Common representing
dangerous hidden oliglrchy is in
trenched behind impregnable rules and
blocks legislation.
The marvellous growth of the country
demands legislation along grander, freer
lines than anything we have yet con-
ceived We must make our great cor
porations servants of the people, not
dictators. We must 90 into irrigation
on a great national scale, and provide
homes for millions of new people. We
must conserve our forests and our wa
terways, reform our court procedure,
our tariff system and our currency.
Against all these things Cannon stands
opposed. He must be removed, not
painfully, but violently enough to clear
the passage way. The coming session
of congress will show inroads upon his
power. The election, less than year
away, will mark his complete annihila-
tion.-Success Magazine.
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EVEN UNTO THE
4th GENERATION

There are four generations of the
Gompers family now carrying trades
union cards. First, there is Saul Com
pers, member of the Cigarmakers'
union; then comes "Sam" himself,
Cigarmakers' union and president of
the A. F. of L.; then Samuel j. Com
pers, member of Columbia Topographic
cal Union No. l0l, Washington, and, rep
resenting the fourth generation Flor
ence Gompers, daughter of Samuel j.
grand daughter of SAM" and great
grand daughter of Saul, Miss Florence
Gompers is member of the Steno-
graphers and Typewriters' union. Saul
Gompers, the eldest of this remarkable
quartet of trades unionists, is 81 wears
of age.-Qsincy Labor News.
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they stated there was no necessity Tor
having so many employees on account
of the slarkness of work. A day later
that same firm advertised for workers,
and the girls realized that they had
been locked out on account of their
union affiliations.
The girls went on picket duty, and
the policemen, understanding well that
these young foreign girls were deliber-
ately and easily misled, arranged with
the employers and the police depart
ment to have number of thugs on
hand. Sixteen thugs were present They
hit one of the union men present; this
caused a tremendous excitement and the
girls came forward The patrol wagon
was on hand and ninety eight girls were
arrested. The Women's Trade Union
League went to the help of the workers
in the Triangle factory. They arrested
the president of the Women's Trade
Union League of New York, who is my
sister. When ! was receiving accounts
of that arrest in Chicago, thought of
the Irishman who, when he landed in
America, was asked if he had ever been
arrested. His reply was, "No, but may
the good Lord forgive me-" Tho condi-
ton of these garment workers in any
factory where young foreign girls are
working can be duplicated in any one
of the larger industrial centers.
Perhaps you have been hearing of
what is going on at the present time in
our own state of Illinois. Possibly you
have heard that there is a box manu-
facturer named Ritchie, the same man
who for the last fifteen years has
| fought the limitation of the hours of
women's work The eight hour day bill
was introduced in the legislature OF
Illinois by the working women of Hi
nois, but they were forced to accept
the ten.hour law. That law was signed
bv the governor, and then began its
enforcement. Three hundred workers
in the stock yards, sewing bags, were
reduced one hour day, and the laundry
workers were reduced from sixteen to
ten hours a day. Then this manutaet-
urer secured the cooperation OF one OF
his employees, woman of 43 years oi
age, who, at the suggestion of her EN-
ployer. made the statement that unless
she were permitted to work more thar
ten hours a day, she could not earn a
living scale She is stated to be
skilled and expert worker making ioul
boxes an hour and earning four cents
a box. Among the reasons given Tor th'
CONTINUED on Page Three
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URGE HASTE
Supreme Court Asked
to Render a Speedy
Decision in Contempt
Case.

We are in receipt of the following in
lteresting communication from Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor:
The outlook for the federation for the
year 1910 is good. Reports from Off
GERS of international unions and or
ganizers of the American Federation of
Labor since the adjournment of the
Toronto convention indicate that there
is good sentiment for organization
among the workers.
On December 9th, the supreme court,
upon our request, issued a writ of
certiorari to take up the contempt case
to the supreme court. There are now
three cases before the supreme court
in which the federation is interested;
The appeal of the Bucks Stove & Range
company from the decision of the dis
trict court of appeals modifying Judge
Gould's injunction; the appeal of the
American Federation of Labor against
the decision of the district court of APP
peals' modified injunction which re-
strains the American Federation of La
Dor from publishing the Bucks Stove
& Range company under the eve don't
patronize" list, and the contempt case
which has been taken up to the supreme
court by writ of certiorari.
The representatives of the Bucks
Stove & Range company served notice
that they will make motion to have
contempt case, now before supreme
court by writ Of certiorari advanced on
the calendar. The attorneys for the
American Federation of Labor will join
in that request, but will ask all the
cases be advanced, or, in other words,
that the three cases be Joined in one and
advanced on the calendar so that the
hearings and decisions can be heard and
rendered at the same time. Our at
torneys state that if the court advances
the eases on the calendar, argument can
be heard in the course of thirty or sixty
DAYS. After that, the supreme court
takes the matter under advisement- and
will render its decision, but it is i'm
possible to designate any particular
time when a decision may be handed
down by the supreme court.
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE EVERETT
TRADES COUNCIL

The council was called to order We'd
nesday evening at 8 p. m, President
Stambaugh presiding.
The credentials of Bro jackson
Chalmbers, of the Brewery Workers
and Harvey Thompson and Jack Nc
Barrack, of the Cooks and Walters,
were received and delegates obligated
and seated.
Mr.. Lafreniere was admitted to the
council to make n statement in regard
to reports that had been given the
council, that he was opposed to organized
labor Mr. Latreniere stated that he
had made no statement reflecting
on organized labor aS whole, but that
remarks he had made were personal be-
tween himself and certain individuals.
Special committee appainted to in
vestigate the reported connection be-
tween Mr.. Petit, ST., and the present
firm of Slater & Hustled reported that
as far as they could ascertain Slater
& Hustled were sole owners in the com
pany. The report was accepted and the
committee discharged.
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THE LABOR JOURNAL

Is the official organ of the Trades
Council, and is read by the labor
ing men and women of Everett.
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ELECT OFFICERS.

The Brewery Workers held their
monthly meeting week earlier than
usual owing to their regular meeting
night coming on Christmas eve. The
following Officers were elected for the
ensuing term; President George Jorgen-
son; secretary, Oswald Neuman; door
keeper, Vige Anderson; delegate to
Trades Council, Jackson Chambers.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.

We have been unable to ascertain
what percent of these listed total pay
ments We're dividends on stock but the
figures available on the mileage OF the
United States for the year of 1907
reach the enormous total of $27S,345,
593 A very healthy melon! Six cents an
hour increase to the men who REALLY
EARN THESE DIVIDENDS would put
the railroads out OF business What a
wretched state of affairs!
The present status of the strike re-
mains about the same as last week as
/ fas as the strikers are concerned Not
man has deserted but strike breakers
are leaving by the score as fast as they
/ find out the true condition of affairs.
Not a day passes that men do not come
| into the strike headquarters with
stories of misrepresentation on the part
of the railroad companies. Ample funds
are guaranteed to support the men on
strike and they are determined to stand
solidly until the end
Railroad officials gave out statements
to the press last week that as far as
they were concerned the strike was at
an end, but from present conditions OF
railway traffic in the strike zone, it is
apparent that said officials We're
"whistling through graveyard The
very fact that the railroad officials have
declared a willingness to meet the men
in an attempt to arrange a settlement
rather discIedts theb vantol opti-
mism.
The railroad department of the A.
F. of +. is keenly watching the progress
of the strike and that they have some
strong card up their sleeve is apparent
from the following telegram received by
the local switchmen Wednesday morn
ing;
"Alen all out standing firm every
where. Outlook encouraging for an early
settlement Railroad department of A.
Continued on Page Four.l
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Great Northern.
Northern Pacific.

yellowstone Park Line }
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REPORTS BY UNIONS

Bridgeworkers application.
Barbers-Nlr. Belden was induced to
leave the barber shop in the Virginia
Hotel. BARRIERS donated 500 to the
switchmen.
Brewery Workers-Elected officers.
Caphters-Three initiationst three
applications; voted $40 to the switch
men.
Cooks and Waiters-Two limitations; {;
four applications. Signed up two new
houses.
Electricians Voted $40 to striking
switchmen.
NIachinists-one application; two
limitations. Bro. Taylor, business agent
of District 26, is in the city. Voted $40
to switchmen.
Plumbers Donated $40 TO switchmen.
Shingle Weavers One application
Weavers in Anacortes confronted with
10 per cent cut in wages and mills
are closed in consequence. Rumored
that other mill men We're contemplating
like reduction Weavers viii resist
any reduction.
Brother Baillie was appointed by the
chair TO serve on the Strikes and Boy
colts committee for the balance of the
term
Matter of Lafreniere trouble was re-
farred IN a committee who were in
strueted to meet the st. James mana
ger.
Don't forget that Government StamI
| No. 224.