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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
ELECTRIC
SYSTEM MAY GROW

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 30.-Application
for charter will be made shortly to
construct an electric railway from At
lanta to Anderson, S. c., which will
connect there with the interurban line
of the Piedmont-Northern operated
from Anderson to Charlotte, N. c., by
James B. Duke.
After hard fight in the Georgia
Legislature made by legislators who
thought they saw in the bill scheme
to parallel the state railroad, a law
was adopted authorizing the construc-
ton Of the electric line. H. NJ. Akin
son, an Atlanta railroad man with Bos-
ton connections, is backing the enter
prise. f%xIj 10 !!
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
JACKSON MAIL TO GO.
BY AUTO FROM CAPE.
Rapid Transit Delivery Will be
Inaugurated Next
Tuesday.

That automobile mail service be-
tween the Cape and Jackson will be
inaugurated probably by next Tues
day, became known yesterday after
noon, and Postmasters T. J. Juden of
the Cape and Kent Wilson of Jackson,
now are busy making arrangements
Tor the start of the mail-auto.
The installation of the automobile
service between the two towns to sup
plant the present service over the C.
G. & N. Railroad has been authorized
by the Post-Office Department at
Washington, according to communica-
tons which both Juden and Wilson re-
ceived yesterday.
The details of the route and the
character of the service is left largely
to the management of the two post
masters.
1t was stated unoficially yesterday,
however, that the auto service will
mean two mail deliveries between the
Cape and Jackson in place of the one
delivery that Jackson now gets from
the Cape, and the exceedingly ques-
tionable delivery that the Cape is sup
posed to get on the return train from
Jackson.
The mail now is carried on the rail
road, which means the mail comes
when it comes. Frequently the de-
livery has been several hours behind
scheduled time at both ends of the line
and the agitation for auto service has
been made from time to time for sew
eral years.
As a matter of fact, the delivery of
important documents which have been
wanted hurTiedly, has been done large
ly by automobiles carrying passengers
between the two towns.
Carrying the mail by auto harkens
back to the days not so very long ago,
when the mails went by stage coach,
and Gus Gocl5el drove his coach and
four across the Jackson road at Il
speed that rivals that of many cars
now negotiating the trip.
Under the new schedule, it is an
ticipated that one round trip will be
made in the morning and one in the
afternoon.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
SAVES BOY FROM
BLOOD POISONING
Irwin Brunke Has Operation on
Right Leg-Summer
Colds Spread.

An operation on the back of his right
leg and under the knee yesterday aft
ernoon was performed upon Irwin
Brunke, 10-year old son of William
Brunke, in order to save him from an
attack of general blood poisoning that
had started as a result of a small
sore.
The boy was placed under the influ-
enee of ether at his home by two phys
icians who conducted the operation,
and following the operation last night,
he was said to be improving rapidly.
Danger of the blood poisoning has
been removed, it is said, and he is ex-
pected to recover within few days.
Several days ago the boy had sew
eral small sores appear on his legs
which were believed to have been the
result Of mosquito bites that had be-
come poisoned. A few days ago the
place back of his right knee began to
swell and he became unable to bend
the leg.
When the operation was conducted
a. large slit was cut in the leg and it
was. necessary to dig into the bone in
order to clear out a pocket of poison
Gus matter that had become isolated
at that place. The isolated poison
to about pint when remov-
ed, his physician declared, and would
have resulted in the lads death had it
broken through the walls formed
around it and spread to all parts of his
system.
Serious sickness in the Cape at this
time is scarce, according to Cape
physicians. In the last few days, since
the cool weather set in, however, what
seems to be an epidemic of summer
colds and malarial fever has passed
over the city and many cases have
been reported as well as few scat
,ered cases of typhoid fever.
At the hospital, Doc Jones, the man
who was hauled from a drainage ditch |
and saved from drowning by resusci-
;ation process last week, has develop
d case Of typhoid fever, it became
Snown last night. His case is serious. |
Gabhart Brauer, who was brought !
20 the Cape several days ago from
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
JOSEPH ]. RUSSELL
TO OPEN CAMPAIGN
Congressman Writes He Has
Recovered From Illness
Home Early Next Month.

Ben Vineyard, secretary of the Will
son-Gardner Club, yesterday received
letter from Congressman Joseph J.
Russell, in which he stated that he had
recovered from an attack of illness
which kept him in bed for more than
two weeks.
He informed Mr.. Vineyard that he
would return to Missouri about the
first Of September and begin an ac-
tive campaign, which will be con-
tinued until the election. Mr. Russell
will be one of the speakers at the
Democratic rally to be held in the
Cape on September 21, when President
Wilson will be here. Congressman
Russell, however, will not attempt to
campaign the county at that time.
81 will be in Cape Girardeau during
the latter part of October" Mr.. Rus
sell wrote to Vineyard, "when l shall
spend some time among the voters"
Secretary Vineyard yesterday stated
that the Wilson-Gardner Club was go
ing to get behind the candidacy of
Congressman Russell, and make an eff
fort to carry this county for him.
NJ. Vineyard says the WilsonGard-
ner Club will select headquarters for
the organization within the next few
dafs. A force of employees will dis
tribute literature and handle the CORE
spondence The club experts to cam
paign everY precinct in the county.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
FATHER MURTAUCH
LOSING EYESICHT
Well-KnOwn Priests Mind is
Failing Alphabetically
iii in the North.

Father James A. Murtaugh Of st.
Vincent's College, who has been critic
ally i'll in st. Mary's Hospital in Mil
waukee for several months, has about
lost the sight of both eyes and his
mind is giving away, his many friends
here have learned.
A letter from one of the sisters in
the hospital to a Cape physician yes
terday stated that the venerable priest
is very low and he is not expected to
survive many days.
He has been suffering from harden
ing of the arteries for more than a
year but this malady only became seri-
Gus about four months ago. After
spending several weeks resting he de-
cided to go to Milwaukee and enter the
Catholic hospital there.
His health has not been benefited
since he left the Cape, and during the
past month he has rapidly declined.
During the past two weeks he has
scarcely been able to see and his mind
is slowly collapsing the sister wrote.
Father Murtaugh was one Of the
best known priests in this section of
the state, and took an active part in
civic as well as matters Of church. He
is less than go years of age.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
FAMOUS GRAND JURY
TO HOLD REUNION

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 3O-The an
nual reunion of the Federal Grand
Jury, which brought indictments
against Mayor Dom Roberts and 127
other Terre Haute politicians in the
first big prosecution made under Fed
eraI laws for illegal practices at the
polls other than intimidation of vo-
tiers, will be held at Riverside Park,
5.
The 221 grand jurors announced,
however, that it is not a Notification
meeting because every man indicted
and tried was convicted, but to keep
the close associations made during
four months of service.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
PRESIDENT MAY
SPEAK in CAPE
SEPTEMBER 20
Would Come From st. Louis
on Fast Special Train,
A La McAdoO.
COL. GLENN PLEDGES
THE CAPE HIS SUPPORT
Wilson Visit Will Mean Second
Big Democratic Rally
in the Cape.

President Wilson may visit the Cape
for an address here on Wednesday
September 20 or Thursday, September
81. He has been scheduled to speak
in st. Louis on September 20, and the
combined efforts of Southeast Missouri
Democrats together with Col. Ed
Glenn, who now is in charge of the
Democratic State Headquarters in St
Louis, will be put forth to bring hin
by special train to the Cape after his
st. Louis speech.
This announcement was made YES
terday afternoon by Harry E. Alex
ander following his return from Jeffer-
son City and st. Louis where he at
tended the Democratic State platform
convention and conferred with polit-
ical leaders Wednesday,.
Colonel Glenn told me that Sep
TENDER 20 or 81 is our chance" Mr..
Alexander said, "and he promised me
that he will do all in his power to
swing the deal for US. Our PROPOSE
ton is to have the President make the
trip to the Cape for his address on a
special train in much the same man.
ner as Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo did last fall.
eve will furnish the train and get
the crowd if he will consent to come
and believe now that the chances are
good that we will have the President
here. l am going to write some more
letters on that proposition this after
noon and keep after it. l, as president
of the Southeast Missouri Democratic
club, am urging the matter as persist
emily as possible"
Alexander declared that should the
President decline to make the trip to
the Cape the local Democrats will
stage big rally similar to the one a
year ago. Senator Stone, Senator
Reed and Congressman J. ]. Russell
will be procured as speakers.
Bearing on the quetsion as to wheth-
er or not the President will make the
trip down to the Cape. L. B. Houck
yesterday received letter from Secre-
tary to the President Tumulty, in
which the latter promised to place the
request of the Cape for an address, be-
fore the National Committee and keep
the Cape in mind when the itinerary
is being made out.
Alexander yesterday received a let
ter from w. R. Hollister, assistant sec
retaary Of the Democratic National
Committee seeking to federate the
Southeast Missouri Democratic Club
with the National Committee organi-
cation.
Alexander expects to leave the Cape
within a few days to go on an or
ganizing trip through Missouri coun-
ties in the northern part Of the state,
when along with seven other men, he
will meet with various county COM
mittees and aid in getting the cam
paign started.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
TUNGSTEN WILL GO
TO SIS FOR 20 POUNDS

Denver, Colo, Aug. 30.-Fred Car
roll, a commissioner of the Colorado
Bureau of Mines, predicts that tung-
stem, now selling at SIS per unit of
20 pounds, will go to SIS a unit on
account of the large orders which the
Entente Allies are about to place in
this country. The supply received from
Burma is reported entirely inadequate
to cover the needs of the Allies.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
No. 666

This 10 prescription prepared especially
tor MALARIA or cHiLLS g. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
II taken then az tonic the Fever will moi
return. II sets on the liver better thnn
,Celomel and does not grippe or eicLen. 2Se
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31

Drum suffering with typhoid fever, is
convalescing. When he was brought
here he suffered several severe hem
orrhages and it was believed he would
die. a.zAf.A.s.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07
STRIKE WOULD INFLICT~
A STAGGERING LOSS
Would Cut Farmers Prices, Stop In
dustry And Face Cities With
Starvation

New York.-On one point related to
the demands of the unions Of train
service employees for heavy increase
in wages the sentiment of the general
public has been expressed in no I'm
certain terms. That is on the ques-
ton of a strike.
Declarations have come from every
quarter that an interruption of trans
portation will not be tolerated by the
public, but will call forth drastic &C
ton. The enormous injury to the
country that would result from a ma
tion-wide strike of train service en-
ployes is discussed by a writer in
the March National Magazine, from
which the following extract is taken:
What such a strike would mean to
the American people cannot be set
forth in mere facts and figures. It
can be dimly imagined by those who
realize what an intimate and vital
part railway transportation plays IN
every industrial activity of the coun-
try.
There is scarcely a person in any
part of the land who would not be
Immediately affected if the millions
of busily turning wheels on our
nearly three hundred thousand miles
Of railway were to stop for a single
day. If the. tie-up continued for a
week, the blow to the industry of
the country would be greater than
that caused by any panic of recent
history. To the big cities Of the coun-
try, and particularly to the cities Of
the eastern seaboard it would mean
a cutting off of the food supplies that
would place the inhabitants virtually
in a state of siege. In the case Of
many food products these cities do
not carry on hand a stock sufficient
to feed their people for more than a
week, and in the case of some, such
as milk and fresh vegetables, supplies
are replenished daily. The stOppage
of transportation, therefore, would
mean suffering and want to these city
jewellers, and if continued for long
would threaten many of them with
actual starvation.
To the farmers Of the country a
general railroad strike would be a
catastrophe, only less serious. Cut
off from his market, the farmer could
not move his produce. and the price
of grain and other staples would be
quickly cut in two, which the market
value of more perishable articles
would disappear entirely. The great
industrial plants of the country would
soon be forced to close down follow
ing the declaration of a strike be-
cause they could not obtain supplies
needed for their operation, nor could
they ship their finished products to
market. Their plants would soon be
idle, and millions of men would be
thrown out of work. With the In
come Of practically every class Of
citizens either seriously cut down or
suspended entirely, merchants would
transact little business, because there
would be few purchasers. In short,
the Industrial activities of the whole
country would be virtually palsied
from the moment the railroads ceaS-
ed to operate.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

their rates or to Lowell their cost OF
operation by curtailment of train SER
vice and reducing the outlay for main
tenance and Improvement necessary
to meet the transportation needs of
the rapidly developing southeastern
territory.
"This is question in which the
whole public has a direct and vital
interest. The railways of the south
east merely ask Of the public that it
inform itself of the real nature of the
proposed demands, and of the ability
Of the roads to meet them
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

The railroads cannot purchase bet
terment materials in huge quantities
and also devote the same money to
the payrolls. II they yield to the de-
mands of the men they must abstain
from spending what they are plan
ming to spend for purchases: the
result will be that the steel mills will
drift back into slackness and the
business boom Just getting well I'M
der way will fiatten out, to the bitter
cost of everybody in the Countryside
troit Free Press.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

The use Of the huge new locomo.
tives and the long and heavy trains,
against which the Brotherhoods Of
freight trainmen, who are asking an
enormous increase in wages, protest
so vigorously, seems to have resulted
in a rapid decrease in accidents to
railroad employees, and a decided in.
crease in their safety. The number
of railway employees killed in ser,
vice diminished from $40 in 1911 to
452 in 1914, and the number of in
iured from 6601 to 1923.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

The present agitation is nominally
for the substitution Of an eight-hour
workday in place of the present ten
hour schedule, but in reality 1t is a
move for an increase of wages
philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07
HAVE GOOD WAGES
AND SHORT HOURS
Some Interesting Figures As To Act
ual Earnings Of Men On
Southeastern Roads.

Washington, D. C.-In connection
with the movement of train and en-
CINE employees for increased wages,
a frank statement of the earnings of
men employed in freight service in
the southeastern territory will doubt
less be of interest.
For engineers the prevailing mini
mum rate in through freight service
ranges from s515 to S5.65 per day
for engines of ordinary types, in local
freight service from $5.25 to $500 for
engines of ordinary types, in both
through and local freight service
from 1925 to $500 for Mallet type
engines.
For white firemen on engines of
ordinary types the minimum rate
ranges from 1915 to $3.50 per day in
through freight service, from $500 to
$3.50 in local service; on Mallet
engines in both through and local SER
vice from $500 to $4.25.
For conductors the standard mini
mum rate in through freight service
is $40 per day, in local service $3.50
per day.
For white brakemen the standard
rate in through freight service is
$2.75 per, in local service SO per day.
The foregoing are the minimum
daily rates that must be made by the
railways to each employee in the
classes named who does any work at
all in day, irrespective of how few
hours he may be on duty or of how
few miles he may actually run. These
100 miles with additional pay for
overtime if the run is not completed
in the specified number of hours.
On the other hand, the earnings of
employees frequently exceed these
figures as the actual earnings depend
upon the number of miles run and, in
the case of fast freight runs, the
earnings are much higher for COM
paratively short hours.
Taking as an illustration a fast
freight train running over division
$50 miles long where the run
can be made in Z hours and 80 min
utes, the engineer would receive for
this IL hours on duty the sum of
$50, the fireman $40, the conduc-
tor $6.15, and the white brakeman $40.
Thus while the first figures show
the minimum that can be paid an
engineer, fireman, conductor, or
brakeman for a days work, the lat
ter figures show the wages that can
be and are being made by train and
engine employees on fast freights on
long divisions, such as are being run
every day in regular service by
number of roads in the southeast for
handling live stock, perishables, and
other freight which 1t is necessary
to move on expedited schedules.
In yard service the standard rates
for white employees vary from $500
to $3.50 per day for day switchmen,
and from $500 to 1910 for night
switchmen, and from $3.50 to $3.50
for day foremen, and from 1910 to
$500 for night foremen. These are
the minimum rates that can be paid
for day or any part of day up to
10 hours, after 10 hours pro rata over
time is paid.
Under the mems proposals the low
est yard employees who now receive
$500 for a 10 hour day would re-
ceive $500 for an s hour day, or
s412 for the work at present per-
formed in 10 hours, and the night
yard conductor now receiving $500
for his 10 hour day would receive
this $500 for his hour day, or $3.50
for the work at present performed in
10 hours.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07
lmnresslve statement

Here is an impressive statement or
fact about railway wages that ought
not to escape attention. There were
a total of 1888 employees classified
as switch tenders, crossing tenders,
and watchmen. These were receiv-
Inc IN 1912 an azaraga of S1.70 par
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

Martial law has been relaxed
in Ireland and the people are al
lowed to go about Dublin with
perfect freedom except four
hours of the night.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

To pursue a dispute as to hours
and wages on the theory that work
ingmen are entitled to all that can
be forced from employers and extort.
ed from the people by employers is
not the best way to promote the per.
manent welfare Of labor.-New York
World.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

The Flood Control Bill appro.
priating $50. 600, 600 to the Miss
issippi and other rivers passed
the House Wednesday.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

It is the rankest nonsense for The
Trainman to pretend that the public
has nothing to do with this business.
The public has everything to do with
It, as the brotherhoods will find, If
they refuse arbitration and cast con-
servatism to the winds. The most
cowardly government could not, In
that case, shrink from its supreme
duty of keeping the national high
ways open to commerce New Or
leans Times-Picayune.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

A Cincinnati doctor claims to
have discovered germ which
causes epilepsy. and that in the
future the disease will be cur
able.
The Adair County news., 1916-06-07

= -Four national railroad unions
+ threaten to tie up every steam,
? road in the country. The num-
? Der Of employees involved may
? total 100000. They seem to
? have it in their power to stop
? all freight and passenger traf-
? &c on 250,6e0 miles OF track.
? We have never had a strike
? OF such scope and magnitude.
, II would psraIyze all American
? Industry and commerce and ex-
? port trade. A nation Of 100,-
: 100000 people would stand
+ still, while its biggest industry
, fought out a question Of wages
? and hours. A deadlock would
be inconceivably destructive
+ Bangor (Ms.) News.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-09

Simonds' Drug Store carries a
complete line of paints, oils, var
nishes and wall paper.-adv.
Charles Forslund, of Porthill, was
in town the first of the week at
tending to business matters.
We serve Broadview Icecream,
pure and delicious. All the latest
fancy sundaes and soft drinks at
our fountain. Simonds' Drug Store.
Mrs. o. S. Davis and two sons, Del
mar and Norval, returned home Tues
day from Sheridan, Wyo., where Mrs.
Davis was called several weeks ago
by the serious illness of her mother.
Mrs. Davis reports that her mothers
health is greatly improved.
Auctioneer-I am an auctioneer
of long experience and am open to
engagements at all times in any
part of the county. /. Causton,
Boomers Ferry, Idaho. If
The town board of trustees, at a
meeting Tuesday evening, granted
permission to Charles O'Callaghan
to grade a number of streets and av-
enues in Park addition. The pro-
posed grading will greatly improve
the district.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-09

A new line of Sheet Music just
received at Brody's Drug Store
adv.-tf.
Mrs. Robert Krause, of Copeland,
was in the city yesterday on shop
ping trip
Mrs. John Dehlbom, a wellknown
matron of Copeland, was a shopping
visitor in the city yesterday.
A marriage license was granted in
Spokane Tuesday to T. ]. Lawless, of
Boomers Ferry, and Emma NJ. Pot
ter, of Spokane
Stock up now with our 16-inch fir
and tamarack slab wood. When the
high water comes we will not be
able to make deliveries. Phone 90.
The Boomers Ferry Lumber Com
pany.-adv-tf.
George Tyson, who has been in the
employ of the Great Northern rail-
way company for the past seven
years, and who for some time has
been in charge of a section crew in
this vicinity, has resigned his posi-
ton. Mr.. Tyson has no definite plans
for the future and his many friends
here hope he will decide to remain
in this district.