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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-02

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she is doing right, anyway.
Dear Miss Grey: ti1 What does
II mean when boy winks his right
eye az you? And his left? (2l What
would be nice birthday gift for a
girl friend? l3) I am In love with a
rMaHEwho seems to-care- for fe.Ebut
he never writes to me or takes me
anywhere. When we meet ut enter
tainments he asks to take me home.
Do you think he cares for mel he
goes TO see other girls. What shall
do? ca When man takes a girl
to supper should she thank HIM
blue Eyes.
Ali Either that he is very
fresh" or that he has no respect for
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-02
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1aEICHDlufSI IN
11|nyRUTSATC6h MINES
N. 6Fteniey; of No. eiis7
IinoE' correspondent Miners
Need More Pay
RECEIVE SMALL WAGES
---
Get Little More Than $40 a
Month For Perilous Work So
Public May Have Fuel

lnMs grsf article rom TIE soH coal Hs'ds
M Nmss eorssD oadsnt told Of the miners
ergoas work n me dork underground. But
I<)lot offAs fOs oftas aiaer's cte and chat i'd
otaldoes 40 ms chiidyea gefs TIE correspondent
looked dbonf the sams ifttts RsiniR9 camp and
fonad hfs answe@ The storB JoitotOs
WHEELING CREEK, O., April ..
mo 81 stands In that muddy little
. hollow that lies IN the wedge between
the tippIe" and "the dirty spur.
there 10 nothing different about No.
. ~ all -nothing different from the
Nineteen or twenty other tiny huts
that buddIe closely around 1t. II does.
I1[1aps get q little blacker than the
r&4[--lf such o thing be possible-but
oI1erWise II Is exactly the same. Eek.
at<IY- except that Mrs. Greenley lives
Years ago Mrs. Gresniey came to
Wheeling Creek, the center of the soft
coal ntlds Of the country. She came
fro1l 4 farm where everything was
clean and sweet and she came because
che loved viii Greeniey. Greenley
Not Il miner.
"A year or so passed and Will began
- grew thiH But he didn't mind be-
cal1se now there was little Bert to
care forfhe first of the little ones
that came to mo. g." And so, every
day. Will went up the hill TO the mine
30 AZ could bring home his little roll
Df bills to -Norie" on payday Mary
Eas born apd than Nora and then
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-02

We kept to the
reenley zone
bay as they do
ever support a
he could work
as there are,
d short shifts
lanct We have
Is above water
81 my iife did
rs home more
b pay. And OF
Dnny takes out
his house. And
len name that |
the cost of liY
cannot buy
and groceries
than So a
Washing. II |
work every day
i every two weeks
9 children help.
81 to buy the chill
But calico dresses. l.
EN- any education to
! soon al they were
had to 90 TO work.
ldded. Il neYer told
IS about Santa Claus.
md q quarter on them
their Iives. What ]
telling them beauti-
! black truth was all
tell you, folks that
mines don't believe
/ to strike. hut what |
) do. We oanf go
WY, I haven't been
my bills contracted
. 50 small are the
nAfen years 10 pay |
s7A that I ran up
ss3N by paying a
or 4 Quarter q week. !
lev rubbed out "the
nrew it(lnto the boil
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23

pus papers for the release of Ettor and
Giovannitti
Five strikers children and three
women, who planned to start for
Bridgeport, Conn.,, at / o'clock, this
afternoon, We're intercepted at the
North station by the police and taken
to the police station. They were sent
to police headquarters in the patrol
wagon. After a talk with the police
the parents of the children decided
to take their little ones home again.
They were Armenians and Portuguese
and resided in the Pleasant Valley
district of Methuen.
City Marshal Sullivan issued a.
statement that no more strikers chill
dren would be permitted to leave the
city or be exploited in any way
Only two of the principal mills OF
the city Were in operation, today, the
others shutting down for the holi-
day. The mills which gave those OPP
eratives who desired to work an op-
portunity to do so were the II. s. w.
o. C. o. plant of the United States
Worsted Co. and the Pemberton
mills.
At the Industrial Workers of the
World strike committee meeting, this
morning, w. ID. Haywood severely
criticized the action of Judge j. j Ma
honey in binding Joseph j. Ettor and
Arturo Gievannitti over to the grand
jury Without bail and announced that
he had wired the national secretary
of the Socialist party to notify all or
sanizers, lyceum speakers and some
-
and adopt resolutions of protest and
to send them to Governor Foss ana
Continued .,la Pege Tweiye.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
KORA Temple MOBILES
ENTERTAIN THE LADIES.
Home Of Mystic Shrine, Lewiston, the
Scene Of Sp|endor and Royal En-
tertainment, Thursday Evening"
About 600 Guests Present.

Lewiston, Me, Feb. 22.-(SpeciaD.--
They're telling the story, on the street
They're whispering it, where Mobiles
They're trying to keep it from their
wives
They're dreading a jolly the rest of
They're asking each other, Can it be
true?
They're telling each other: We viii tell
you.
Many are the attractions Of the An
cient Arabic Order of the Mystic
Shrine, for it's devotees. Many are the
desirable things which are promised
for the daring ones who make the
journey across the hot sands. and no
wonder the camel trains winding thith-
er and yon are long and numerous,
and heavily laden. But did you know,
for many have not known, that the
most wonderful journey of them all,
the one that draws when all others
fail. is the silent journey to the Silent
One. the Mecca of the oppressed and
the weary of much speaking?
Imagine, if you can. Egyptian night,
when nothing but grey. shadowy fig
ures can be seen, as they bob up and
down against a blacker skyline Be
fore the traveller and behind him., he
knows not how many, these camels of
the caravan, each with his musuad
burden, slip, slip across the fine and
heavy sand. we'll out in that mystery
,t,l,;, Il ~ e.tf
shine with unfamiliar splendor; away
off ct the east the reflections of the
lights of the city glow like northern
lights A camel coughs, and another
answers. as they sway along. into the
unknown hlackness. And when at last
the glory of the awakening morning
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
WreCkerS Are Now Able TO
Enter the HOOSaC Tunnel.

North Adams, Mass, Feb. 22-Dar-
ing miners and wrecking crews braved
the hot suffocating interior of Hoosac
tunnel, today, and succeeded in finding
q portion of the body of one of the
four victims of the collision of last
Tuesday between freight and passen-
ger train. From a watch found with
the body II is believed that the victim
was Archer l.. Simonds of Williams
town, engineer of the electric engine
of the passenger train. The lower part
of his body and his head We're burned
off.
From the way the work of clearing
away tie debris is now progressing, it
is believed that it will be possible to
run n train through the tunnel on the
Westbound track, tomorrow
The first men to penetrate to the
scene of tie wreck We're Asst Supt
j. Il. Tyter and Chief Assistant
Trainmaster j. p. Sullivan Of the
Boston & Maine, together with n
newspaper man. All three wore smoke
helmets, but suffered SO much from
discomfort with these on that the he'll
NETS were discarded and all the par
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
Against National Cash
Register People
Reported by Federal Grand
Jury, Thursday, at Cincinnati.
Adams Express Indicted for Over.
charging.-0thers Coming.

Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. 22.-Thirty in
dictments charging conspiracy to OBJ
struct and monopolize the cash reg
lister business in violation of the GRIM
inal provisions of the sherman anti
trust law, were returned, today,
against officials and sales agents of
the National Cash Register Co.
At the same time, the first action
by the government to prevent viola
tons of the interstate commerce law
regulating express charges resulted
In the indictment with II counts
against the Adams Express Co. The
company was charged with having ex
acted more than the published rates
from shippers.
Seven Cincinnati manufacturing con-
Germs were indicted on the ground
that they violated the interstate COM
merce law by obtaining low trans
pcrtation rates by under valuation and
there was nearly a score of minor in
dividual indictments.
The following officers and employees
of the National Cash Register Co. are
named in the indictments:
John A. Patterson, president; a. E.
Deeds, vice president: d. c. Edgeter,
secretary: W. F. Bippus. treasurer;
Robert Patterson, A. A Thomas,
Thomas j. Watson, Joseph Rogers. AL
exander Harmed, F. s. High, NJ. G.
Keith, William Cummings, J. c.
Laird. w. C. Howe, c. A. Snyder
Walter Coot f. II. Epperson, Myer
y. Jacobs, NJ. L. Lasley, Jonathan r.
Hayward, Alexander w. Sinclair. J. J.
Ranga. Edgar Park, alias G. f. Foote,
William H. Muzzy, William p. FUN.
Ear +. Wilson.
The sales methods of the company
were the chief causes of the indict-
ments, according to United States Dis
trict Attorney Mcpherson.
"This restraint has been in operation
for the last 20 years." he said. "Al-
though the specific charge is confined
to the last three years The principal
uialawfu, means outlined in the indict-
merit are the bribing of employees of
Continued on Page Four.)
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~ resorted to wet sponges held in
the mouth and wet handkerchiefs
held over the face. The work of ex-
ploration was made doubly dangerous
by heavy masses of rock weighing
from SO to 100 pounds that fell from
the over-heated roof upon all sides of
them.
The wreckage Of the freight cars is
almost entirely consumed, except for
the iron work. and is smouldering I'M
der molten mass of rock that, on
the eastbound track. where the col
lision occurred, is piled up to from
one-quarter to oae-half the height of
the tunnel
When it was learned that 1t was
possible to get to the scene Of the col
lision a big wrecking engine and crew
from Mechanicsville, N. Y, crept into
the tube. The smoke and gases from
the locomotive, added to the intense
heat mado the work almost unbeara-
bic, but the wreckers managed to move
the electric engine of the passenger
train few feet towards the west por-
tai. Simonds body was found under
Continued on Page TweIve.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
THE STORM IN MAINE.

Bangor, Me-, Feb. ga violent
southeast gale ragged in eastern Maine
this morning, accompanied at first By
snow and later by floods of rain. with
lightning. Streets were flooded, trees
uprooted, chimneys blown down, rail-
road traffic delayed and all electrical
lines deranged. The local and subur-
ban street cars We're tied up for sew
eral hours. In Bangor there was no
damage by lightning but severe
electrical storm ragged in the western
part of Penobscot county. and the resi-
denee and barns of L. o. Demerrit at
Silvers Mills. Dexter, were set on fire
by bolt and burned, with much of
their contents, including 10 head of
cattle.
A large plate glass window of Carl
S. Preble's drug store In the new
Graham building. Central and Harlow
streets was blown in and smaller
plates were broken
The storm extended into Aroostook
county and all through the logging re-
gions. taking off much of the snow
Just when it was needed by the log
haulers. In Bangor the storm was
almost unprecedented in character for
this season of the year, and in fury
equaiied an equinoctial gale. The
thermometer rose to 46 and the ba-
rometer fell to 2s.4o.
Continued on Page Twelve.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
Condition and General Forecast.

Washington, Feb. 22.-The storm af-
ter having caused, during Thursday
severe gales in the Middle and North
Atlantic states and the Lower Lake
region, has now reached the mouth of
the st. Lawrence. The gale has sub
sided on the coast south of Sandy
Hook, but high velocities still contin-
he from that point northward and to
the storm center. The weather has
now cleared in nearly all sections east
of the Mississippi river and the tenn
perature is decidedly lower in all
Eastern districts.
Throughout the country east of the
Rocky mountains mostly fair weather
will prevail, Friday and Saturday,
and moreover the temperature will
rise in nearly all districts. Storm
warnings are displayed on the New
England coast The winds along the
New England coast will be westerly
gales diminishing; Middle Atlantic
coast, moderate westerly, becoming
variable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
AT A STANDSTILL.
Legality Of Habeas Corpus
Writ in Brandt Case
Must Be Settled Before Gov. Dix
Proceeds Further in Matter.
Then, He Promises, II Will Be Probed
To the Very Bottom.

Albany y. Y, Feb. 22.-Governor
Dix ordered the suspension, tonight, of
all proceedings before him in the case
| of Folke f. Brandt until the legally of
1.-THE writ of habeas corpus granted
yesterday, by Justice Gerard shall be
decided by the court of appeals.
After comforting with Seymour Van
Santvoord, his legal adviser, and
Richard L. Hand, who was appointed
commissioner to take testimony on
Brandt's application for executive
|clemeney, the governor gave out
statement in which he said:
THE decision of the supreme court
which was announced, yesterday aft
ernoon, upon the writ of habeas cor
pus previously sued out by Folke
Engle Brandt himself for the time be-
ing, completely tied up further pro-
ceedings before Mr.. Commissioner
Hand. | am informed that the de-
'cision in the habeas corpus case is in
effect that the conviction of Brandt
was illegal; that he was therefore IL
legally detained as convict, entitled
to be released as such convict and
held for trial as a defendant under in
dictments; that under Section of the
constitution, | have power only to
grant reprieves, communications and
pardons after conviction; that the con-
vietion of Brandt having been set
aside by the supreme court, my power
TO exercise clemency does not exist,
and incidentally, my power to have a
hearing conducted in a matter per-
tanning to an application for clemency,
does not exist Therefore, unless and
until this decision of the supreme
court shall be set aside or reversed in
some proper way, the status of Brandt
being not that of convict, but only
that of a defendant, under Indictment
awaiting trial. the governor has no
power under he constitution to exer-
else executive elemency nor power,
under the law to have prosecuted a
hearing by commissioner in mat
tiers pertaining to the exercise Of such
elemeney.
Il am authorized by Mr.. Hand to say
that he agrees absolutely in this conelu-
sion and under these circumstances
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
BREAKS ALL RECORDS.

New York, Feb. 22.--The windiest
day New York has known since the
weather bureau was organized, start
ing with record breaking blast Of
So miles an hour, before daylight,
drew to close. tonight, with the air
currents still moving at the high rate
of 81 miles an hour. There was little
letup all day in the driving gale From
all sections of the city and suburbs
and from river, harbor and sea come
accounts of damage amounting by
some estimates to half q million dol
lars
Reports of extensive losses by high
winds up state and in New England
were numerous through the day and
were still coming in, tonight Destruc-
ton was spread all along the North
Atlantic coast and far inland.
Wire service in all directions was
badly crippled. Hundreds of heavy
plate glass windows in the city were
shattered. tall chimneys were blown
down, signs We're carried away, craft
were sunk and pedestrians were swept
from their feet.
Scores of buildings were unroofed
by the gale. A panic was created
among the prisoners in the Queens
county jail, in Long Island City, when
a section of the roof of the admins
tration building. adjoining was blown
off and hurled violently against the
j9il structure. A house in Staten Is
land was blown from its foundations
and wrecked Seven houses under
Continued on Page Twelve.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
OBSERVANCE WORLD-OVER
OF WASH|NCTON'S BIRTHDAY,
Exercises Are Carried Out from Maine to
California and by the Loyal Americans
And Their Friends in Most of
The Foreign Countries.
MAINE AND ABROAD.

Portland. Me-, Feb. 22-The Maine
Society, Sons of American Revolution,
observed Washington's birthday with
its annual meeting and banquet. These
officers were chosen:
President, Silas Adams, Waterville +;
senior vice president, Edward X. Gould
Roekland; registrar, Albert r.
Stubs, Portland: secretary. Rev. J.
b. Shepherd, Portland; treasurer, Con-
verse E. Leach, Portland: historian
Nathan Gould, Portland; chaplain, w
e. Mann, Westbrook. The present
membership is 375, six having beer
admitted during the year. The ad
dress of the afternoon was by Rev
DR.. Frederick Lynch of New York on
The Task of the Goth Century"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
No Change and Few Work
ing in the Lawrence Mills.

Lawrence, Mass, Feb. 22.-"Mill OPP
eratiyes who return to work and
help to break the strike are worse than
seabs, they We're murderers. because
when people are forced into the mills
at starvation wages. they are literally
murdered" said James p. Thompson.
organizer of the Industrial Workers of
the World, Thursday, to mass meet
ing OF members, perchers and speakers
from the different textile mills at
Needham hall. The speaker declared
the crisis of the strike had passed. that
the mill men had played their trump
card and lost THE decision of the
courts" he said. ARE governed by
men higher up and any lawyer argu-
ing for Ettor might as well talk to a
dead man." The railroad and electri-
cal workers who did not join the strike
We're also criticized by Organizer
Thompson
w. ID. Haywood. another strike leader
declared the soldiers had not been sent
to Lawrence to preserve order as there
was no disorder and he charged that
the police had shot down strikers on pa
rade. He advised the workers to deluge
the mill men with letters to show that
the leaders were not responsible for the
strike, but that the strikers desired it
personally.
The Central Labor Union held a large
number of meetings about the city dur
mig the day with view to getting the
various classes of operatives organized
into local unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
Attorney Lynch Mahoney and Rowe
will hold a conference, tomorrow, in
Boston to determine whether or not 20
ask the supreme court for habeas cor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23

brings violet to the bases of the fray
sand heaps, and this fades and SHIN
mers into gold and glittering sunlight:
when the sun comes up free from the
destrt's rim, and the eamels halt in
confusion, imagine our traveller as he
gazes, with awe ard something of re-
lief at the object of his quest. Cou-
chant upon the sands reaching back
and forward about her as far as eye
can reach and farther still. the won
derous, marvellous, crouehing figure
lies, yet rises far above the heads of
the worshippers who have sought her
out. Worn with the beating of count
less winds upon her face, still she
smiles, and still she gazes with eyes
that speak an unknown tongue. A
woman, yet absolutely silent; no Won
der wearied man thus braves the dan
gers of an unknown and battling des-
ert. for the peace which he has never
found elsewhere. And gazing on that
silent face studying that mysterious
smile. many a Noble has given praise
to Allah that he has been given
strength to stand the ordeal and find
his dream come true.
But. They're telling the story on
tile street; they're whispering it,
where mobiles meet" The Sphinx is
sphinx no longer; ruthless investi-
cation. curiosity which delights in de-
stroying ideals and SCATTERING myths,
has renowned this woman to be no
lady; in fact. To be a tombstone for a
long forgotten king, and carved in
his likeness And the rJobles, remem
har 1,ot that
unfathomable gaze, say to themselves:
1T was too good to be true; there is
no woman who preserves eternal ST.
leuce; cursed be the Gods, who thus
misled u.s. with mirage of the desert
beyond all other mirages most false
Continued on Page Four.)
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Thursdays Doings
In 62d Congress.
IN THE SENATE.

Met at moon.
Washingtons farewell address read by
Senator Kern.
President in message transmitted post
master generals annual report suggest
ing government ownership of telegraphs,
which the President said he did not ia
vor, and the second class mail matter
commissions report recommending In
crease of second class rate to two cents,
which the President approved
Wire products manufacturers protest
ed against steel tariff bill before finance
committee.
Adjourned at go p. NJ. until p. NJ.
Monday,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-23
SCHOONER FOULS CUTTER.
Strikes Bow of Gresham and Is Badly
Damaged.

Portsmouth. n. H., Feb. 22.-While
returning to refuge here from the
heavy storm, late yesterday, the Brit
ish schooner Evolution, which was
sailing to Liverpool, N. s., for cargo
of lumber, struck the bow of the Unit
ed States revenue cutter Gresham ana
cut her own side through nearly TO
the waterline. Because of the unsafe
ness of the schooner, its crew. today.
refused to start out again on the trin
and the vessel will remain here until
repairs have been made. The Gresham
was unmarried by the collision. TIL
accident occurred while the Evolution
was slowly making its way into the
harbor during a severe southwest gale.