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CRIMINALLY CARELESS RAILROAD MAGNATES
A black picture for the American people has been painted by the
executive committee of the National Union of Railway Trackmen. It
is a picture at which the thoughtful citizen can hardly help but
shudder.
These men have issued a warning to the public concerning the
alarming condition of railway tracks throughout the United States,
and what they regard as the criminal neglect of public safety by the
great railroad corporations.
"We have written reports," say these men, "which show that mil
lions of rotten and decayed tics are now in use which should have
heen replaced long ago, and that vast numbers of worn and broken
rails are now doing duty."
They also point out that, with the exception of a few eastern
roads, the tracks are not patrolled, either day or night, as in former
years: that the companies do not furnish enough material to keep the
tracks in repair; that rails are broken by being allowed to rest on rot
ten ties; that there is no standard of efficiency required for service in
the track department of any railroad; that in some cases the entire sec
tion crew of laborers consists of boys under 15 years of age; that sec
tion foremen, upon whom such a great responsibility rests, are paid
less than $50 a month, and that nobody is held responsible for the con
dition of the tens of thousands of miles of railroad tracks throughout
the country.
"Trains starting from a station at night plunge into the dark
ness." say these trackmen, "and the men running them, as well as the
passengers riding thereon, must trust to blind luck for safety in reach
ing their destination."
Is it not truly a startling picture?
Bvit apparently the great corporations have no feeling in the mat
ter. For the last four months the trackmen have been trying their ut
most to get a hearing with the general managers of the various rail
roads, in the hope of bringing about a change of conditions. But all to
no avail. Letter after letter has been ignored. Yet the trackmen
have set forth these facts to the managers. Listen:
During the four years ending Jan. 1. 1907. there were in the United
States 22,384 derailments and wrecks of trains, resulting in 1614
deaths and 17,442 injuries, to say nothing of the property losses
amounting to $19,434,095.
Still the managers do not heed. Possibly they do not care, as long
as dividends are fat and "melons" plentiful. Certainly they do not act.
Therefore the trackmen urge that either state or national inspection of
railway tracks be instituted, taking the entire matter out of the hands
of the criminally careless bosses. The trackmen recommend that the
Interstate Commerce commission be given power to act In this matter,
and Inspect the tracks on which we ride, ju6t as it now inspects the
meat we eat.
"Certain it is," say the trackmen, "that something must be done."
And, in the name of 19,056 dead and injured, so say we all.
That comes home to citizens of this section of the country. The
Hill roads are notoriously ill kept. In the past year there have been
several wrecks that in all probability were due to nothing else than
bad track. The Diamond Lake disaster was one.
Complaints have come in by the score from people traveling over
the Washington Central branch of the Northern Pacific. Rotten ties,
splintered rails, unstable roadbed. The state employs a track inspect
or, but he has demonstrated nothing but his friendship for the rail
roads.
Enslaved by a Pirate
OR ROBERT'S RENDEVOUS WITH THE RED-HANDED ROVERS
BY F. W. SCHAEFER.
"NOW DIE, DOGS!" HE BELLOWED.
CHAPTER XI.
In the gig of the Baby Mine four
picturesque pirates rowed Col.
Crust and Robert to tbe Island. The
pirate chief was hugging a myster
ious brass-bound casket like a jun
ior tool chest. It contained a hoard
of mixed nails, bolts and screws,
the fruits of many an outrage on
(be bounding billows.
Tbe four members of the crew
were blithe, as they did not suspect
the fate tbst was going to be sock
ad to them.
"Dig here," hissed Col. Crust, in
dicating a likely place in the sand.
Cliently the four obeyed. As they
dug, Robert mused how useful they
would be on the Pauama canal job.
Col. Cruet tenderly deposited the
chest of treasure in the bole.
"Now died, dogs!" he bellowed,
drawing two huge double-barreled
pistols, while Robert placed bis fin
gera |v Ma ears
IT "ft**! ylagt plug I sjgag!" went
the buccaneer's pistols. At each re
port one of the crew slapped hia
hands together to make a noise like
a swat and tumbled into the pit.
"Now you're dead," Crust stated.
"Come out while we bury you."
The pirates obeyed, although
they had simulated corpes beauti
fully.
Crust made motions as if burying
the chest, and then he and his four
victims carried It off in the gig, and
the last Robert saw of them they
were rowing out to the Baby Mine.
Wouldn't it make you scream?
Robert was dazed by the perfidy
of Col. Crust in hlppodroming the
slaughter of the sailors. He was
alao puzzled by the pirates' cold
blooded departure.
But Robert was marooned all
right
When tbe sun rose on the morn,
he wss alone ou the ialand and tbe
oirate able waa nowhere to be seen.
(Continued.)
Entered at Spokane,
Wash., as Second
Class Matter.
Poor Old Eoerett'"Na. 3
iosT ANyrn i m
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE.
"My defernition uv
a fool's a person who
will try ter convince
a mother th't her
boy's bad."
"Have you," said a friend to
young Scribbler, who was dissatis
fied with his own productions, "ever
tried poetry?"
"I have," was the answer, "but
It proved an alibi."
Under a state law, sheets in
Texas hotels must be 9 feet long.
This comes of introducing sheets
in Texas.
"Dear me," said the finicky young
thing from the city, "I should think
1 you would object to having the
chickens tracking around in your
kitchen."
"Lawzee, miss, I don't mind 'em,"
said the backwoods matron,
scratching 1 bare foot against the
calloused heel of the other.
"They're a heap o' company ter me,
and it saves going out ter th' barn
for eggs, caze they lays 'em right
in thet bin o' cornmeal over
yander."
This communication has been re
ceived:
"I am a young girl of 49 years
old. About a week ago I met a
young man my junior whom I love
dearly. What shall I do if he at
tempts to kiss me? Veronica."
Tell his parents, the wild thing!
Now a learned man is attacking
the floral faker.
That's right Keep it up, and
first thing you know somebody will
be questioning Grimm's Fairy
Tales
BUTTE GIRLS IN TROUBLE.
Clara Stone, 18, and Hazel Bel
mont, 17, who were identified by an
Italian as the young women who
had robbed him of $180 in the park
hotel, were up before Justice Hin
kle yesterday afternoon and their
cases were set for July 11. Patrol
man Hogan wade the arrests. The
girls had a ticket to New York and
their baggage was already aboard
the train. They came from Butte
2 weeks ago.
ARRESTS GIRL TO WED HER.
DES MOINES, la., July 9.—De
spairing of any other method of re
moving the woman he loved and
THAT BOY NEXT DOOR
Somebody will have to curb the
ingenuity or inventive mania of
"that boy next door" before he
hurts somebody. That's all there
is to it.
What did the little rascal do the
other day but rig up a monorail
aerial railway between his house
and the one adjoining. He went
from windlw to window by means
of a sort of trolley to which he was
suspended by a belt. It was much
more laborious than walking from
one house to the otner, hut to 'that
boy next door" It was the ideal of
transportation. He was having auch<
fun that his little sister cried to be
allowed to try it. With the conoentt l
SPOKANE PRESS, JULY 9, 1907
■
whom he had been licensed to wed
from the vigilant ward kept over
her by her guardian Wilson L. Web
ster secured a warrant for her ar
rest on the chage of disturbing the
peace, had he brought before a jus
tice of the peace and while the ex
cited guardian was out seeking for
bondsmen the couple were married.
BOUGHT TITLE; SPURNS IT
Kaiser's Friend Quarreled With
Bride Hour After Wedding
LONDON, July 9.—Another pur
chase of a title has resulted in
matrimonial disaster. Miss Maple,
daughter of Sir Blundell Maple, mil
lionaire furniture dealer, is now su-
BARONESS ECKARDSTEIN
ing for divorce Baron Yon Eckard
stein, secretary of the German em
bassy, scion of an old but impov
erished German house and personal
friend of the kaiser, who quarreled
with her an hour after their wed
ding. He spent her allowance of
$90,000 a year; her father paid
$750,000 of his debts, and she mort
gaged two-thirds of her Income for
life to keep him out of bankruptcy.
TRAIN SPLITS IN MAN'S EAR.
ST. PAUL, July 9—Frank Erick.
a section hand employed in the rail
road yards just north of the Union
depot, stood too close to the tracks
this morning when a Great North
ern passenger train passed him, and
was struck. He was taken to St.
Mary's hospital, where It was found
that his right ear was split. The
Injury is not serious.
that is part of "that boy next door"
he thought 'that his device was in
fallible, and he strapped hid llftle
sister into it for a trip to tha other
house.
I could have guessed H. jSofce
thing on the trolley broke jjist ,as
little sister was midway batwe/en
the two houses and ten feef, from
the ground. There she hung,like a
sock on a wash line, unable to pro
ceed and imagining every mpraeot
that she was going to fall. I| took
two ladders and four men to giat her
down.
For the next day or two "that boy
next door" will need an air cdshlon
fjfaen he alts down. j
The Daily Short Story
THE LAND OF THE FREE.
Tony lived near Milan, Italy.
When 21 he loved a girl. When
they talked of marrying, lack of
money blocked the way. Tony was
helping pay the mortgage on his
father's vineyard.
Foreigners paid their annual pil
grimage to Milan. Tony cultivated
the acquaintance of Americans, who
told him of a country where men
are free, strong, brave, where love
is young, titles unknown, where for
tunes are made in a day and are
doubled in a night. Tony repeated
these stories to th<- girl.
One evening a dust-covered figure
entered the railway station of Mi
lan, drew a girl's purse, bought a
ticket for Genoa and steerage ticket
for New York.
For an hour a lonely figure stood
on the platform gazing toward the
west, where the after-glow gave
promise.
• • •
When Tony arrived in New York
he was released with 5000 other for
eigners. In a basement room on
Broadway Tony found an Italian
employment bureau. A man who
spoke Italian, talked to him, Tony
signed a paper printed in English.
The man told bim it was all right.
In the room were many men of
different nationalities.
That night they were piled into a
railway coach. They traveled the
next day and night. The men slept
on broken seats, ate from the loaf
of bread given them before depart
ing, and drank from a delapidatec.
water tank. Once Tony tried to
walk mt on the rear platform, but
found the door locked.
• • •
On the second day the train stop
ped In the mountains. The half
starved band was marched over
hills for miles until they reached a
row of cottages. The party stopped
at one. Two rows ot bunks were
arranged along the walls. The for
eigners entered.
Early next morn'ng 18 sleeping
forms were pulled from the bunks.
The party started down the road
and halted at a square enclosure.
Tony and four others were told to
get on a platform. Tony held onto
a rod and his breath came quick as
the platform sank into utter dark
ness. The air grew cold and damp.
Finally the elevator stopped. The
men were led through a shaft. They
stopped on reaching other men who
were shoveling coal by the pale
light from the little torches attach
ed to their caps. Tony was handed
a shovel.
Every morning Tony was aroused
from slumber aud walked down to
the hole—the "Hell Hole"—they
called it. He carried half a loaf of
bread and black ccffe. It was al
ways night when they arrived and
night when they left the mine.
Every evening Tony wrote to the
girl of a lucrative position he had in
a great business house, and de
scribed the splendors that taxed his
imagination. He received no ans-
JURGEN'S
Grocery Company
Cash Is King. Quality Is Queen.
SPECIALS
Domino Sugar. 5 lbs 65c
Loaf Sugar, 3 lbs 25c
Bar Sugar, 2 lbs 25c
Tapioca, 3 lbs 25c
Sago, 3 lbs 25c
Barley, 3 lbs 25c
Split Peas. 3 lbs 25c
Whole Peas, 3 lbs 25c
Fruits and Vegetables in fresh
every morning.
905 Sprague. Phone 122.
There le leee profit
to the dealer who
telle BUDWEISER
than any other beer
In America
Insist On
Budweiser
25c
Per Bottle
DUkMN'S
121 Howard Street
Aleo Wall and
Sprague
wer. The men in the "Hell Hole"
whispered of letter thefts.
One night Tony stole away. He
walked, ran. Jumped. He wanted to
get away, he didn't know where, he
didn't care.
The night of the seconud day,
while lying updor a tree, half starv
ed, Tony was awakened by blood
hounds that surrounded him, glar
ing with bulging eyes and fiendish
desire. Two men came up, carry
ing whips. They lashed Tony, drag
ged him to a farm house and loaded
him'ln a wagon. When Tony awoke
he was in his bunk.
Tony wrote a long letter telling of
good luck, anxiety to return to Italy,
burning ambition to be and own
forever. It was addressed to a girl
bear Milan.
• » •
Three days later Tony was drag
ged from his hunk to the "Hell
Hole." His arms moved slowly as
he tried to shovel coal. He was
aroused by a crash. The men
around him held their heads close
to the ground and ran. Tony did
likewise.
A week later the rescuing party
stumbled over something on the
floor of the shaft. The light of the
safety lantern showed the trunk of
a man. The hands werec lasped as
if in prayer, the lips were curved In
a smile. Tony was In the Land of
the Free.
BREAKS RIBS WHILE ASLEEP
MOSCOW. Idaho, July 9—The
superstition that a somnambulist is
always safe from injury was shat
tered here by Lee Vosberg. who
walked In his sleep out of the win
dow of his room and fell to the
pavement, breaking 2 ribs. He did
not awaken until a few minutes af
ter the fall.
DAILY ROUND TRIP TO ST. JOE.
Take 6:30 electric train at Spo
kane Terminal. Main and Lincoln,
for week day outing to beautiful
shadowy St. Joe river. 200 miles
of shadows. Returning, 8:25 p. m.
see
HAM SALE
After 6 tonight we will sell another lot of Hams. Armour's
Swift's, Morrell's, etc. Ail guaranteed brands. |C _
At, per pound 13C
This price is for tonight only.
L. C. BROWN CO.
255 RIVERSIDE AVENUE. PHONE, 2291
Our
Merchant's
L/uncH
Every week day at 25 cents cannot be excelled In the city.
When you want a nice steak or chop cooked just the way you'll
like it give us a trial. We have everything that's tempting in
hot weather foods.
White's Hotel and Restaurant
CORNER SPRAGUE AVENUE AND STEVENS STREET.
JOSEPH A. WHITE
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
Inland Electric Company
» Chandeliers and Shades. Electric Wiring.
PHONE MAIN 1259 1011 3PRAGUE AYE.
PHONE 9047
OFFICE AND
FACTORY
1124 EAST
SPRAGUE
AYE.
SPOKANE,
WASH.
THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR THE PORTNEUF TEA & COFFEE
CO, 1717 BROADWAY. LEE WE EKB. MGR.
GeneralElectricalContractors
EMPIRE ELECTRIC CO.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIED AND FIXTURES
2U Post Unit, Spokane. p hoH>| Ma<n 10t1
RELIGIOUS "SANDWICH MEN."
Sect of Campers Believe in Real
Hell Fire
CINCINNATI, July 9—A little
known sect, known as God's Bible
school, is holding its annual camp
meet at Cincinnati. They have a
tented city at ML Auburn, where
about 1,500 missionaries from all
over the world are gathered. Their
religion Is of the order that be
lieves in the Bible literally, and hell
to them is the real fiery furnace.
They are trying hard to make
many converts in Cincinnati, and
hundreds of the campers go
through the streets as sandwich
men, their boards advertising meet
ings and bearing scriptural Quota
tions.
Tho back floor of the Spokane
bakery waa found open by Patrol
man Sanborn last night.
O. J. Sand, Pres. and Mgr. J. P. Perkins, Secy.
E. C. Sharp, Vice Pres. and Supt.
Henry Taylor, Treasurer
THE 0. J. SANDS
MANUFACTURING CO.
MFRS. OF SPECIAL FURNITURE
OFFICE AND STORE FIXTURES
Special Mission and Plate Glass Doors, Mirrors,
Mantles, Grills, Partitions and Special Interior
Work, Window and Door Screens, Mission
Furniture.
Mitt Bettlt Tannehlll
Prima Donna Soprano
VOCAL TEACHER
Available for Concert, Recital or
Opera. Studio, Kilers block.
GREAT DIBPLAY OF GRAND
PIANOS IN
The House of Quality"
SHERMAN CLAY *JOO.
810 SPRAGUE AVENUE.
CAMPING OUTFITS, Tenta,
Street Covera, Camp Stoves,
Tinware, and everything that
goes to complete the borne ot the
man or woman who wishes to
live In tbe open during the com
ing hot season. We rent tenta.
227-20 Riverside Ay. Phone 2494
W LEARN SOMETHING §T
ORTH WHILL
Day and Night Classes.
Knowledge of music not necesssry.
Western School of Piano Tuning
and Repairing
222</ a DIVISION STREET
FOR GLASSES AND TREAT
MENTS WHICH WILL CORRECI;
ALL EYE DEFECTS CALL ON
DR. MEANS
3lß'/a MAIN AYE. Phone 6118
Don't take "Busy" for an an
swer when you want
469
for we have two phonea of the
same number.
INDEPENDENT MESSENGERS
TELEPHONE MAIN 2203
Inland funk and
Hide Co.
Office, 10-12-14 East Main Aye.
GO TO
S. H. RUSH & COl
Dealers and manufacturers of
Harness and Saddles, Whips,
Robes, Blankets, etc. It will pay
you to call on us for anything In
our line. Let ns do your repair
ing.
918 Sprague Aye.
Phono Main 119S
■URNITURE CARPETS
HARDWARE
A. D. McDonald
Supply Co.
212-214 Riverside Aye.
Phone, 8583. 915 Bpragne Ay.
POPULAR GRILL
A THOMPSON, Mgr.
Late Chef at Spokane Club
Good Coffee with Pure Cream
our apecialty. Quick Service.
Reasonable Prices.
The Exchange Furniture
House
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
BOUGHT AND SOLD
922-24-20 Sprague Ay. Tel. 2185.
FINE PICTURE FRAMING
OUR BPECIALTY
G. M. Ross
ART BTORE
Successor of C. J. Gandy
Telephone [phone] Sprague.
STAMPS, BEALB, CHECKS,
PRINTING, ENGRAVING
Spokane Stamp
Works
518 First. Opp. Hotel Spokane
SING, FAT i CO.
Importers and dealers In Chi
nese and Japanese Fancy
Ooods. Ladles' garments mado
to order.
612 FRONT AVI.
Oldest Bsnk In the City
The Traders National
Bank
Capital and Surplus $925,000
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Crow