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/THE RIVER-DRIVER. \
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1 Told by T. J. Davis and Set Down 3
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One hears a great deal of the dangers
of sports such as mountain
climbing and big game shooting, and
of trades such as that of the steeplejack,
but very few Wide World read- ,
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of what is, perhaps, the hardest and !
j most hazardous occupation on earth ]
. ?"river-driving."
Mx. T. J. Davis, who now resides
in the Northwest Territories of Canada,
knows, perhaps, as much as any .
man living of the dangers and fascinations
of this trade, which should '
more properly be called log-driving.
Born as he was on the shores of
one of those vast inland seas that so .
belie their insignificant title of .
""lakes," and that, joined by rivers, J
form a chain across Eastern Canada,
he early acquired a love of the water ,
-only known to those that have to de- j
- pend upon it for a living.
Gigantic floating islands of logs, .
sometimes nair a mne in lengtn, lay ]
moored to the shore almost at the j
v -door of his home, awaiting the ,
floating village of "river-drivers" to j
> steer them to the mills, where they ^
are sawn into timber. Here is the
story of Mr. Davis' evolution as a (
-driver, told to me by himself. (
It is a life that seems to get hold
of one after a year or two. You are ;
generally wet through for twelve (
hours out of the twenty-four; ten of
you sleep in a twelve by fifteen foot
shanty, you live on fried everything, j
""black strap," treacle, and stewed (
tea; you go to bed at 10 and get up ,
at 3; you are everlastingly cursed ^
and never praised by the foreman,
your life is in danger more or less ^
all day long, and you never get more
than $35 a month for work that is {
worth $100. "Then why stick at ,
it?" you say, and all I can answer is, (
""Just give it a fair trial for a year
-and then you'll know." t
' As children we used to run out
across the booms of logs, which is a j
good deal harder to do than you t
might suppose. One of us, perhaps, (
"would fall through, but such an acci-dent
never a-oused any comment (
from onr companions. They would ,
riish on heedlessly, hopping from j
log to log like a lot of monkeys, and ,
leaving the unfortunate one to sink
a couple of feet below,the surfacc of
"the water, bob up, hit his nead (
.against an unresisting log, and gen- (
orally scratch and bruise himself (
fhnrrmtrhlv fcpfnre nrrsmhliner like a
"half drowned kitten to the surface
once more. That is how we learned
not to mind a duckins, and also to
shift for ourselves when we did get
one. '
Have you ever tried to stand up.
Tight on a log perhaps a foot across
the butt, out in an open lake, keeping
your balance to every roll and
dip of the log? Well, if you had you
would realize better the marvellous
"balance of the man who not only has
to do this, but also maneuvre other
logs down the current with a long
pike pole, chain booms together with
numbed fingers-, and, in fact, do the
whole of his day's work while balancing
on a twirling, twisting, halfsubmerged
tree trunk.
At the ape of thirteen I had tj get ,
out and earn my own living. Times
were hard, and every one who has a t
sound pair cf arms and legs has to ,
"work for tM right to occupy the |
earth down on those Eastern lake j
shores. t
One morniig along came an ' alligator
boat," towing a floating colony t
of river-drivers to work the boom of {
logs that lay moored out in the lake. ^
Here was my chance. My brothers .
and sisters hat", been packed off to t
school, and I was left to chop wood.
Why should I chop wood for love
when I could drive logs for $35 a (
month? I was off across that boom j
of logs like a jack rabbit, and soon ,
found myself surrounded by a good J
natured ring of grizzled faces.
"What's the matter with the kid?" ,
asked the foreman, a gigantic, bearded
man in long leather boots, as he ,
surveyed me from head to foot.
"How's chances of a job?" I asked, j
with as much dignity as I could assume.
A roar of laughter floated over the .
lake and echoed through the maples ^
far up the banks, but it didn't abash ,
me in the least.
"You all think you're awful '
smart," I remarked, scathingly, "but ,
I'll stand.on a log with any one of .
you for the job. If I'm put off I'll (
go back home and sit down, but if ,
you can't put me off I want work at
$1.2 a month for a start."
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xucic was a. Lniunit; ill iub lure- j
mail's eye as he said, "Done! Jack, ,
try him a twirl." !
The next minute I found myself ,
standing on one end of a small pine (
log, and my adversary, a hulking (
"driver" with spikes half an inch in ,
length on the bottom of his boots, j
on the other.
Slowly at first the log began to j
turn in the water, in answer to the ]
pressure of my adversary's spikes,
then quicker and quicker, till it fair- .
ly spun rouna, with my naked feet (
pattering nway on the hard ba,k .
like a woodpecker's bill. Then, suddenly,
my wily foe would stop it almost
dead, and I had to wave my
arms like a windmill to keep my bal- 1
ance, but I kept it.
All the time shouts ~?re going up
from the camp raft, "Go it, kid!
Stick to him! He can't get you!"
First this wry, then that, the log
twirled; next, by way of variation,
the lumberman would take a play- 1
ful jump and send me and my end
of the log clean out of the water.
And then?well, I don't know exactly
how it happened, but there was a
frantic waving of long arms, and six
feet of river-driver splashed into the
lake, to reappear more in the ssm
blance o? a playful hippopotamus!
Roar upon roar of laughter went
Tip from the raft, and half an hour
later I found myself installed in a
very smelly shack as "cook's devil" at
$12 a month and board.
I stayed with this outfit for three
years, log-driving in the spring and
V summer and bush-working in the
winter.
At the age of sixteen an opportu
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nity hardened my way that helped J
me out of the beaten track of riverdriving.
Every dog has his day, and
this particular one was mine.
You must know that, to get the
logs over rapids, the big lumbering
companies have to build large dams
at the edge of the fall to hold back
the water, leaving a narrow passage
way in the middle, through which
the water rushes like a mill race,
carryir- the logs swirling r.nd tumbling
ov? the rapids to the next lake.
The greatest care has to be taken in
sending the logs through this channel,
and as many as fifteen to twenty
men are required to keep them from
"jamming." With all our care on
this particular day a "jam" occurred.
A. log became wedged with one or
two others right across the "chute,"
as the passage is called. The result
was the same as invariably is. Hundreds
of logs came floating slowly
but irresistibly toward the chute
with the current and found a renting
place behind each other, with tho
lam as their foundation.
Hundreds more came sweeping on,
and, finding the current too strong
to allow them to rest behind their
forerunners, piled themselves J.n a
muddled heap on the top. The water
began to rise, and more and yet more
logs piled themselves up, till a solid
wall of timber at least twelve feet
fcigh stretched across the chute behind
the dam.
Meanwhile the river-drivers boundid
from log to log, risking their lives
jvery second in the vain attempt to
lisengage the jammed logs, for if
:he jam had given way it would have
carried every man to almost certain
leath.
"Somebody'll have to find those
iammed logs and cut them," said
:he foreman, quietly, knowing full
veil that he was asking some one to
;empt death.
"Of course," he continued, "I can't
make any of you do it; unless some
)ne offers I'll have to do it myself,
)ut I'm kind of heavy for the job.
There's $10 in it and drinks for the
:rowd."
Six of us stepped forward simulaneously.
"You're all wool, boys," said the
'oreman admiringly, "but I'm glad
:he kid offered, 'cause he's the lightist
of the crowd."
A thick rope was promptly tied securely
round my body under the
irms, by way of a belt, two longer
jnes fixed to it on either side, and I
>vas ready for work.
Sixteen of the heaviest men were
picked from the gang, and eight
:limbed up on to.the dam each side
)f the jam. An axe was then handed
;o me, and hand over hand I was let
jut on one side and drawn in on the
)ther till I hung suspended in midlir
half way across the current.
Then, in answer to a shnrp order
!rom the foreman, the two sides simultaneously
commenced to pay out
ope, and I began to sink lower and
lower toward the jammed logs,
vhich creaked and rasped ominously
jnder the strain of the water behind
:hem.
I cannot remember any other sensation
than tfcf.t of suppressed excitement
as I reached the level of the
vater and finally stood on the trending,
groaning mass of logs?a mass
hat might sink from beneath my
:eet at any moment. I was only sic
:een, and $10 was a lot of money to
me, apart from the glory of the
luuievemeuu.
For several seconds I stood on
;hose logs without moving, fascinlted
with the delicious possibilities
)f the thing, till at last a gruff shout
:rom the foreman-reminded me that
here was work to be done.
Carefully I crept to the edge of
;he mass of logs; then I slowly slid
!rom log to log down to the seething
vater below. Where were the
ammed logs? That was the ques;ion.
Above me rose the butts and tops
)f innumerable logs. What ir they
jave way now? I should be hurled
:o my death at once. Hastily put;ing
the thought from me, I felt beneath
the surface of the water witti
:he axe handle. Yes, there they
svere, firmly wedged a foot down.
Then I set to with a will, the water
splashing all over me. With each
stroke of the axe a tremor went
;hrough tne pile on which I stood.
It seemed as if I had been chopping
an hour. My her.rt was thumping
against my ribs with the exer:ion,
and I gasped for air between
:he douches of cold water that
splashed me from head to foot. Sudienly,
without the slightest warning,
there was a report like a muffled revolver
shot, a stream of water shot
Into my face, a hoarse cry came from
somewhere above, and I felt myself
jerked from my feet high Into the
lir, sinking, rising, and again sinking
like a bouncing ball. Then, with
a. roar and a mighty splash, the
whole structure of piled up logs on
which I had been standing three secands
before collapsed like a house
af cards, and log after log went
sweeping and eddying through tho
:huce and over the rapids to the lake
below. Either the jammed log had
broken or I had chopped it through;
no one ever knew which.
I don't quite know how they got
oae back on to the dam, for the first
thing I remember after that was seeing
a green piece of paper in my left
hand that I knew to be the promised
$10 bill, and a ring of perspiring,
grizzled faces close to mine, braathing
gruff congratulations.?TheWide
World Magazine.
A Useful Witness.
A witness was being examined as to
the sanity of one of the inmates of the
asylum. "You hold that this inmate
is insane, ao you: a lawyer asKea.
"I do," was the firm reply. "Why
are you so sure?" "The man," the
witness said, "goes about asserting
that he is Santa Claus." "And,"
said the lawyer, "you hold, do you.
that when a man goes about asserting
that he is Santa Claus, it's a cleai
proof of his insanity?" "I do."
"Why?" "Because," said the witness,
in a loud, indignant voice, "1
ItnmnAri IA Krt Cqnto Plnno "
Liappcu tw uc vjauta viauo mjacu.
San Francisco Argonaut.
William street, in New York City,
was known as "Horse and Cart
street" back in the eighteenth cea?
turjr.
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TOLEDO 1S1SS lie
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Convicted of Pooling Agreement
to Maintain High Prices.
SIX MONTHS IN WORKHOUSE
Sentenced Men Are All Wealthy and
Prominent in the Commercial
Life of the Ohio City?Lumber
and Brick Men and Bridge Agents.
Toledo, Ohio. ? Some of Toledo'u
wealthiest citizens, and the most
prominent socially, were sentenced to
the workhouse for six months for being
members of the lumber and bridge
iMictc nnH fnnrtuptine their business
enterprises in restraint of trade and
competition. All had pleaded guilty.
Twenty-one members of the Lumber
Dealers' Credit Association, nine
members of the Brick Dealers' Association
and two bridge agents were
lined up before the bar to hear their
fate.
The sentence created more of a
sensation than that imposed a year
ago on the Ice Trust men. In that
case the hired agents were punished.
The court has now landed the capitalists
themselves.
Judge Lindley W. Morris lectured
the defendants before Imposing sentence,
saying: (
"What does a nominal fine signify?
It is wrong that you men of means,
with capital back of you, can so control
prices that the poor are compelled
to pay more than you have a
right to ask, and more than you
would have to pay yourself. It is
time the courts of Ohio impose such
punishment as the offense merits.
"Fines are only makeshifts, and do
not bring prominent citizens to a proper
realization of their positions. After
full consideration I've determined
that the proper punishment is imprisonment
in the workhouse. The sentence,
therefore, on those who have
generally pleaded guilty will be that
they be confined in the workhouse."
The brick men pleaded guilty to an
indictment under a different section
of the Valentine Anti-Trust law and
the penalty could only be a fine, the
maximum being $1000. The Judge
gave the maximum.
Marcus V. Barbour, of the lumber
firm of Barbour & Starr, counts his
fortune in excess of half a million
dollars. He is one of the men who
must go to jail. George L. Freeman,
of Kelsey & Freeman, lumber dealers,
is a local social lion. His partner,
Hiram Kelsey, is equally prominent.
John H. Fuck, vice-president of the
TIT VC Ponfurln r? pAmnflTlV id
weaid u iuauuiav/Luiiug wuipuu.,, ?w
wealthy and a widely known politician.
Frederick E. Wilker, president
of the Wilker Manufacturing Company,
is also a big hotel owner. Harry
G. Hammond and W. N. Cleveland
are well known bridgemen, the former
with the Canton Bridge Company,
his home being in this city.
Mr. Cleveland's home is in Cleveland,
and he is president of the Cleveland
Bridge Company.
The sentences to the workhouse
were suspended for ten days owing to
that institution being quarantined
against smallpox.
Having pleaded guilty, the defendants
are, according to the rules of
customary criminal procedure, denied
/vf ?nnaal fA fho VltoVlAr
tut: 1 IgUl KJ JL a^;pc ?A bv wuv w.
courts.
SWEPT OVER DAM TO DEATH.
Tragic Termination of Pennsylvania
Week-End Party.
Warren, Pa.?A gasoline launch
was swapt over a dam on the Conewango
River, which was very high
owing to rains. Of nine persons on
the launch six were drowned. They
were:
Mrs. George Baker, of Warren,
Pa.; John Best, of Warren, Pa.; Mrs.
John Best; Violet Best, aged eighteen,
daughter of John, Warren, Pa.;
O. F. Butts, traveling salesman, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Hilda Knox, Warren,
Pa. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Best had invited a
-c ?-;* foTfo en v>r\or
company ui meuus iu tum. u ^ ^.
with them at their cottage on the
Conewango River, and had come
down to the Russell Boat Landing
to meet them. The visitors were in
one naphtha launch and Mr. Best and
his party in another. The boat containing
the visitors become lodged on
a pile a short distance above the
dam and Mr. Best went to assist
them, when the engine in his launch
broke and the boat, containing nine
persons, drifted toward the dam without
an oar or stick to stay them.
TEXAS OUTLAWS TRUST GOODS.
New State Law Makes Selling Them a
reiouy.
Austin, Texas.?The most drastic
anti-trust law enacted in any State
has gone into effect in Texas. It provides,
in substance, that any person
who represents a trust as agent, or
sells goods made by a trust or combination,
shall be deemed guilty of
felony", and, upon conviction, shall be
punished by confinement in the penitentiary
for from two to ten years.
The law's provisions apply to all
merchants who sell trust made goods
and all persons who may be directly
in the employ of such concerns in the
State.
Attorney-General R. V. Davidson
and his assistant, J. P Lightfoot, declare
they intend to enforce the law
to the letter.
? 1 Ki'ivn T Of Aft AAA I
uasruer Jtiau $t>ouu jjcil ui <pj.wfvw?
The police of Palermo, Italy, arrested
the cashier and two of his accomplices
who were concerned In the
recent robbery of a bank at Kieff,
Russia. When taken into custody
the cashier declared he had only
$3500 out of 1100,000 left.
New Director For Mint.
Secretary Cortelyou recommended
to the President the appointment of
Frank A. Leach, the present superintendent
of the mint at San Francisco,
as director of the mint.
Women In the Day's News.
Square parasols fringed with little
silver novels are fashionable. The
idea comes from the Riviera.
Mrs. John Hay, widow of the
former Secretary of State, and her
sister, Mrs. Samuel Mather, have
given to Adelbert College, Cleveland,
a memorial chapel in memory of their
father, Amasa Stone.
In Belgium girls are expected to
give five weeks out of each school
year to learning housework. The girl
is required to know not only how to
cook a dinner, but to clean up and
care for a kitchen* dA marketing,
wash and iron.
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IEW SIN FHCISCfl HAYOR
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ui. tuwara k. iayior, uean ot Law
School, Succeeds Schmitz. >
Eminent Citizen Will Endeavor to
Stamp Out the Municipal Grafters?Committee
of Safety Retires.
San Francisco, Cal.?Edward
Robeson Taylor, D. D., LL.D., Dean
of Hastings Law College, In this city,
was elected Mayor of San Francisco
by the Board of Supervisors, to succeed
Charles Boxton, appointed to
the place temporarily after the conviction
of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz
of extortion.
Mayor Taylor is one of the fore
most of the city's legal authorities 1
and has achieved some distinction in
literary pursuits. He has never figured
as a politician, belongs to uo
class or faction, and his selection was
a big surprise. He was selected for i
the position by the graft prosecutors
after the refusal of the commercial
labor union bodies to participate on
an equal basis in a convention to se- 1
lect Boxton's successor.
Dr. Taylor is one of the city's best
citizens and has the esteem of all
classes. He is a man of brilliant intellect
and high ideal3.
With the election of Taylor the
graft prosecution will retire from the
conduct of municipal affairs and devote
itself exclusively to the prosecution
of bribe givers and bribe takers,
frfayor Taylor will select a new Board
of Supervisors to replace the confessed
boodlers and will ms.ke a clean
sweep of all municipal commissions
and departments. Every one con
neciea wun me ocumicz s regime is
expected to take the count.
Schmitz, endeavoring to act as
Mayor from his cell in the county
jail, refuses to recognize the election
of his successor. He announced that :
he would at once remove the present
Board of Supervisors and appoint a
new one selected from the ranks of
union labor.
Dr. Taylor is a physician as well
as a lawyer. He is sixty-nine years
of age and was born in Springfield,
111. He took his degree in medicine
at the Toland Medical College, which
is now the medical department of the
University of California. He went |
to California in 1862 and was ad- j
mitted to the bar ten years later. He ;
was private secretary to the Govern- |
or of California from 1867 to 1871. ,
COWICT 18 YEARS BY ERROR. j
Girl's Plight Not Discovered Till She \
Was Dying. (
Montgomery, Ala. ? Rena Rivers, J
who died a few days ago in the prison
at one of.the mines, had served as a 1
convict for nearly twenty years on a
sentence of only twenty months. A 1
clerk in making out the papers made '
the mistake of writing years for ]
months.
The girl was twelve years of age J
when arrested for larceny. She had
almost served "out her long term
when she died. The white man for J
whom her mother worked became interested
in the case and discovered i
the,mistake,xbut too late to help the
woman. Her mother, who is old and j
needy, has asked the Legislature to
reimburse her for her daughter's services:
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SAY HE TOOK $10,000.
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City Council Accuses Dr. Ira C. Leedom,
Treasurer of Bordentown. ]
Bordentown, N. J.?Dr. Ira C. Lee- i
dom, City Treasurer and Collector of
Bordentown, left his wife and young
son recently, and no one, except his
lawyer, seems to know where he is.
The Finance Committee of the City
Council charges that Dr. Leedom is
$10,300 short in his accounts with
the city. If this be true, he has left
only $78.41 rattling in the bottom of
Bordentown's coffer.
Dr. Leedom has been highly esteemed
by his fellow citizens, but circumstances
hitherto unknown now
lead them to believe he has been leading
a double life. A warrant was issued
for his arrest.
BOMB REMOVES ALIKHANOFF.
General Glieboff's Wife and Coachman
of Party Killed.
AlexandropoU Russia. ? General
Alikhanoff, former Governor-General
of Tiflis, and Mine. Glieboff, wife of
General Glieboff, together with the
coachman who was driving their carriage,
were blown to pieces by bombs
flung at them in Beboutoff street at
2.30 a. m. A son of General Alikhanoff
and a daughter of General
Glieboff sustained serious injuries.
1UC yCLl Lj WC1C 1CIU1111U5 IU LUC r
residence of Alikhanoff from fiis club. t
General Alikhanoff was nicknamed
"the wild beast" by the Caucasian
members of the Duma on account of
his cruelties in the Kutais district. ^
SENATOR BACON LOST FORTUNE.
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Failure of Macon Bank Takes About
All He Hail Saved.
Macon, Ga.?About half of United
States Senator Bacon'a small fortune
was swept away by the failure of the
Exchange Bank last week. The Senator
was worth about $75,000, half
of which was represented by Exchange
Bank stock. This stock is not
only worthless but it is said the Senator
and other stockholders will be
assessed heavily to pay depositors. j.
It is feared that when the affairs I
of the bank ar9 wound up Senator t
tjacon s ionune win De ennreiy gone, i
Black Hand Secret Service.
Because of the large number of
Black Hand crimes In New York City,
Police Commissioner Bingham de- 3
cided to ask for an appropriation of 1
$25,000 with which to establish a 1
secret service devoted to detecting *
Black Hand offenders. J
W. R. Hearst Wins.
The Appellate Division in Brooklyn
decided that W. R. Hearst is entitled g
to have the ballot-boxes of the May- t
oralty contest of 1905 opened and j
the ballots recounted. 1
Cranks After Roosevelt.
Two cranks tried to get at President
Roosevelt, in Oyster Bay. One., "!
a woman, wanted $10,000,000; the j
other said he was Satan.
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Corn Backward, Wheat Good. v
Corn is backward?two weeks late
and half the usual height. Wheat c
yields in the Southwest are light, but
quality is good.
Plot to Smuggle Russians.
The United States immigration au t
thorlties discovered a plot to smug c
gle Russians into this country.
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FORBIDDEN TO SELL
MADE D80DS
Texas Merchants in Danger of i
Term in Jail if They Do.
OTHIiR RADICAL LAWS IN FORCI
Insurance Companies, Railroads, Bro
kers, Gamblers and Pistol Deal
ers Axe Affected by Them?At
torney-General to Ih-osecute.
Austin, Texas.?Radical laws
which are intended, among othei
things, to drive trusts, bad men
gamblers, and brokers out of .Texas
have gone into effect. Some of these
laws provide:That
any person who acts as ar
agent of a trust or combination tc
destroy competition or any persou
who sells eroods made by such s
concern, shall be guilty of a felony
and shall be sent to prison for frorr
two to ten years.
That Insurance companies must invest
seventy-five per cent, of theii
Texas earnings in the State.
That wire service shall not be given
to brokerage offices, bucket shop:
and exchanges.,
That no free passes or franks shal
be given.
Tliat no liquor shall be drunk or
trains.
That all persons who sell pistols
Bhall be taxed fifty per cent, of th*
gross earnings on all their business
That cock-fighting shall be illegal
That no negro shall hold the ofllc<
of School Trustee.
That trafficking in human bodies
by medical colleges shall be lawful
Most of the interest attaches tc
?he anti-trust law, which is one of i
series of measures passed by the last
Legislature. These bills were pre
pared under the direction of Attornej
General Davidson and his assistant
J. P. Lightfoot. Before the enact
ment of these supplemental laws
Texas was said to have the most ef
fectlve anti-trust acts of any Stat*
In the Union.
The first of these acts authorized
Lhe Attorney General to make ar
nramlnnHnn nf all hnolfs. records, and
documents, wheresoever situated, ol
every corporation doing business ir
Texas. The second authorized hire
to take depositions in any State ir
a case brought against any corpora'
tion for the violation of the anti
trust laws. The courts were empowered
to compel corporations to produce
any of their officers and em
ployes and any of their books anc
documents.
A third act provides that the State
3hall have a lien upon the propertj
3f all corporations that are convicted
af violating the anti-trust laws of the
State. The court may appoint a receiver
for a corporation whenevei
the interest of the State may seen
to require such action. The State
3hall also have the right to issue
writs of garnishment, sequestration
attachment and Injunction.
These far-reaching bills were
passed in the closing days of the Leg
Islature, and in the rush of work ol
that body they escaped general at
tention. It is only recently that theii
full import is being realized.
Now that the most extreme of the
lot has gone into force, there is
widespread apprehension among bust
ess men as to its effect, because
any one of theija who sells any goods
made by a trust Is liable to Imprison
merit. This law applied to all merchants
who sell such goods, and all
persons who may be directly In th(
smploy of such concerns in this State
The Attorney General's Depart
ment is preparing to inaugurate the
most vigorous campaign against
trusts that has ever been attempted
in any State. It is asserted that the
3vidence is almost conclusive thai
most of the commodities handled bj
merchants are manufactured bj
trustn. Merchants do not care to run
the risk of a term of .imprisonment
for selling such goods, and many ol
them have already taken steps tc
lult handling trust-made articles. The
aw does not recognize ignorance as
in excuse. The merchant is required
:o make investigation.
Mr. Davidson feel3 certain that a
!ew successful prosecutions wii]
jtrike terror into the hearts of the
representatives of every trust dong
business in Texas, and that it
will then be a comparatively easy
matter to drive the objectionable
joncerns out 'of the State. Chief
imong these are the lumber trust, the
:otton seed oil trust, the beef trust,
ind the oil trust. It is understood
;hat Mr. Davidson will soon file suits
igainst the lumber trust and the coton
seed oil trust, and will also start
:riminal prosecutions.
WHOLE STATE DRY TWENTY DAYS
'exas Law Providss It, But Salacru Refuse
to Close.
Dallas, Tetas.?The new State l.iqlor
law, which practically provides
hat the State shall go dry for twenty
lays, became operative. It revokes
ill licenses, and while getting new
ines saloons must close for the tweny-day
period.
Liquor and brewery interests claim
his closing clause is unconstitutional,
is it enforces State prohibition with?ut
the consent of the people.. Threeourths
of the saloonkeepers defied
he law and remained open. The beter
class closed.
Yamamoto Meet3 Roosevelt.
Admiral Yamamoto and President
loosevelt had an interview at Saganore
Hill which, it was officially anlounced,
"confirmed the fundamental
rlendliness" between this nation and
rapan.
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Indian Cliief Claims Montauk.
Chief Wyandunk Pharaoh, representing
the last of the Montauk Inlians,
sued to recover the tribal lands
it Montauk Foint, now worth milions.
Newsy Gleanings.
Pminf TtoornVI rohlort tn tllfi TCpw
fork World that the Japanese believe
>eace will continue.
The $4500 surplus of the Jerome
:ampaign fund, in New York City,
vas given to charity.
Nine out of thirty-eight autu racers
:ompleted the course at Dieppe.
Secretaries Metcalf and Straus are
joing to Hawaii' to look into the forifications
and Japanese immigration.
The Japanese are becoming more
md more convinced that San Fran-;
:isco merely reflects race hatred la
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WASHINGTON.
I It was practically decided to erect
the statue of Christopher Columbus,
which will cost $100,000, in the centre
of the plaza in front of the new
uhion railway station.
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; ino rresiueut, at v^jaiei oay,
signed the treaty with Santo Domingo.
The formal order placing Rear Admiral
Sands, superintendent of the
Naval Academy, on the retired list,
" has been issued.
There is much speculation ih Washington
over the route and time neces
sary for the cruise of the battleship
fleet to Pacific waters.
. Secretary Taft denied vigorously
, that there was dissatisfaction at
, Washington with the Canal Commission.
Naval officers are fearful that the
i battleship fleet will be unable to read>
ily obtain coal on its cruise by the
L Magellan's Strait route. ,
T'Vi? A floor frr Vi irtVi fl/\n f nrl
x uc Aiu^i iuau UU5 ii uivu uvavcu
over Fort McHenry, near Baltimore,
in 1814, and which prompted Francis
Scott Key to compose "The Star
Spangled Banner," has been received
at the National Museum.
After a bitter arraignment of the
man who would deliberately attempt
to defraud the public Judge Kimball
fined Henry J. Rice $150 for selling
strawberries in boxes with raised
I bottoms.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The controversy over property of
the Catholic Church in the Philippines
has been settled by Secretary
Taft.
Monsignor Averso, the Apostalic
Delegate to Cuba, received a treasury
warrant for $1,387,083 in payment
for land bought by the American Government
from the Catholic Church.
The strike of the Havana cigar;
makers has been on for about six
months. Unless it is soon brought to
an end the stock of Havana cigars
must be exhausted. Some brands and,
sizes are already out of the market.
Faustino Ahlen, the Pulajane leader,
who was wounded and captured
on the island of Leyte on June 6, is
recovering. He advises his followl
ers to lay down their arms,
i Roland P. Falkner, Commissioner
I of Education in Porto Rico, has reC
signed. Prof. Dexter, of the University
of Illinois, will succeed him as
Commissioner.
Registration for the Philippines
elections closed with only 7500 voters
registering in Manila, when 13,600
were expected. Only one resident out
of thirty-five qualified.
[ Six hundred Japanese laborers on
the Honomu plantation, island of Hawaii,
have struck because of differT
ences with the Japanese overseers.
DOMESTIC.
. The White Star Line* Adriatic, on
'her arrival at New York from Queenstown,
reported running through a
snowstorm in mid-ocean on July 4.
Pinkerton detectives were notified
, that $20,00 worth of diamonds had
disappeared irom tne sale 01 j. m.
Ceballos, in New York City.
Edward M. Shepard addressed the
Illinois Bar Association in Galesburg
In favor of removing the dollar mark
from capital stock of corporations.
By the capsizing of a rowboat
Misses Nellis Noe and Mary Cornstock,
Jacob Pargiew and a negro
boy were drowned at Springfield, Ky.
Extensive exceptions were filed in
Concord, N. H.f by counsel for Mary
Baker Eddy and the trustees under
her deed of trust, which probably
will take the case to the Supreme
Court.
Attorney-General Jackson, of New
York, began an action to annul the
charter of the Interborough-Metropolitan
Company, alleging that it is
an illegal monopoly.
Judge Parker declared that the
common law was adequate to cover
all present Federal prosecutions, but
that officials were inactive before Mr.
Roosevelt's time.
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dren of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Field,
* ranging from eight months to four
' years, were burned to death by the
' explosion of a gasoline stove.
The National Educational Associai
tion declared in favor of peace and
simplified spelling.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad was indicted at Chicago on
' sixty-five counts on ttoe charge of rebating.
! American coal dealers declare bati
tleships taking the Magellan route to
, the Pacific will find coal scarce and
[ very high.
i Fire destroyed two hundred houses
and devastated an area of ten acres
; in Bisbee, Ariz.
FOREIGN.
The French Minister of Finance,
1 M flaillan*. snoke in aimnort of the
income tax bill before the Chamber
i of Deputies.
An open attack on the French Government
and on M. Bompard, the
French Ambassador to Russia, was
. printed in the "Nove Vremya," at St.
Petersburg.
Major Lemair, a Belgian, who
, served eighteen year3 in the Congo,
has published an exposure of alleged
revolting conditions in the local
army.
A coroner's jury in London exonerated
the Rev. W. S. Hancock,
formerly of Chicago, of poisoning his
wife.
English papers in China upheld the
right of the Americans to send their
fleet to the Pacific.
The French Parliament has adjourned.
The authorities of the Congo Independent
State have requested the immediate
opening of negotiations for
annexation, and will appoint a commission
to meet representatives of
the Belgian Parliament. 1
At Madrid General Primo de Rivera
was appointed Minister of War
in the Maura Cabinet to fill the portfolio
made vacant by the death, on
June 30 last, of General Lono.
The economic war between Greece
and Rumania has ended and diplomatic
relations will be at once resumed.
1 According to a special Antwerp
despatch the law of desertion has
done much to discourage the Belgian
stokers' strike.
The strikers in the Transvaal mining
regions will appeal to Premier
Botha to force arbitration.
i The Canadian Railway Commis
sioners have ordered freight rate discrimination
abolished on traffic from
uetroit ana otner American -ones as
u compared with rates from^Westorn.
Ontario frontier noints.
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was. BOWIE AND HER SOW |
Justified in the Murder of Posey,
Which They Acknowledged.
MARYLAND INDORSES VERDICT
Priseflla Bowie, For Whose Vindication
the Crime was Committed,
Weeps in Court?Jury Reached
Verdict in Five Minutes. \jjgjj
La Plata, Md.?It took the jury in -j|
the Bowie murder trial only five
minutes to decided that, in Southern
Maryland the "unwritten law" is the
law to which the betrayer of a woman
must hold himself answeraole.
Both Jury and people acquitted Mrs.
Mary E. Bowie and her son Henry,
of all blame for their acknowledged
slaying last January of Hubert Posey,
the betrayer of their daughter
and sister, Priscilla Bowie, who had
made a pathetic picture in the courtroom
during the trial. That there
was no demonstration was doubtless
due to the fact that the verdict of
the jury was announced to the judges
at dinner during a recess, just prior
to which the jury had been sent out
of court to consider its decision.
StatA's Attnrnev Wllmer'a reaueat
to the jury that they bring in a verdict
of manslaughter, not of murder,
tnade last evening, was not more ,
noteworthy than the frankness with
which Representative Sidney E. Mudd, -;&j
of counsel for the defense, appealed
to the "unwritten law" in behalf of 'i.?
bis clients. Throughout his address,
which evidently voiced the sentiments
of most of his hearers, Mrs. Bowie
and her son sat in stolid composure,
while Priscilla Bowie, seated outside
the rail among the spectators, wept
continuously.
"Gentlemen," said Mudd, "we shall
claim that these defendants were justified
by what the newspapers have , jjg
called the 'unwritten law.' " He
cited many cases in which the avengers
of wronged daughters, sisters and
wives have been acquitted, and continued:
"Never since the formation
of this Government has there been
tried before a jury of American citl- ,
zens a single case of murder follow
tng wanton seduction in which the
verdict has been other than instant
acquittal." He argued for the "supremacy
of the law indelibly written
on the quick-beating human
heart over the cold type of the
statute book." te cited the Biblical
story of Jacob's daughter Dinah,
wronged by Sheckem, whom Dinah's
brothers killed, and said:
"The family In this land of ours
Is the nucleus and the nursery of the
Commonwealth. The protection of
the sanctity of the family ties, the
chastity of women, the development
and maintenance of a salutary and
exalted respect for the honor of the
mother, the sister and the daughter '
become a natural and essential feature
of the law in this land. In nearly
erery State of this country there
will be found an exemplication and
recognition of this fact and an adopUon
of this doctrine.
"It is in this sense that I confidently
claim the protection of what I
have called and claim the 'unwritten
law' as an adequate defense for
these defendants."
At the end of Mudd's argument
State's Attorney Wilmer addressed the \'M
Jury, arguing against the "unwritten
law" and referring his hearers
to the commandment, "Thou shalt
not kill." He urged the Jury to give * 3
the defendants the benefit of every,
possible doubt and repeated that he
did not ask for a verdict of murder,
but for one of manslaughter. The
jurors, however, evidently took Mr.
Mudd's view of the case and when
they filed into court it was to declare
that the killing of Hubert Posey was ;:|
Justified.
KILLED IN AUTO DEMONSTRATION
Machine, Leaping Embankment at
70-Mile Gait, Crashes Chauffeur.
Pittsburg.?Death was the winner
In a daring dash against time made
by J. W. Davis, a chauffeur, of this
city. Davis was employed by an automobile
company which had planned
to sell a machine to T. C. Jenkins.
Two of Jenkins' employes took seats ' ' >
in'the car to see the trial run. Going
out of Perrysville avenue Davis
turned on all the power, determined
to show his passengers that th^ car
was up to specifications. Speeding
seventy miles an hour down hill the
machine got beyond his control. It
left the road and leaped over a twenty-foot
embankment. Davis sprang
fr?m the machine, but the car, turning
over, crushed him so badly that
he died a few hours later.
KILLED BY YOUTH'S FOLLY.
Girl Into Whose Lap Firecrackers
Were Throw "Mes.
Paterson, N. J.?Fannie Turner,
nine years old, died at the General
Hospital as the result of burns received
on July 4, when a young man
threw a bunch of lighted firecrackers
in her lap as she was sitting on
the stoop of ber home watching the ^*$1
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and she was badly bur:.^ . before her
father could subdue the flames. She
suffered intensely from the time she
was taken to thfe hospital.
The name of the young man who
threw the firecrackers is unknown.
Has Fit and Drowns.
Thomas Smith, sixty years of age,
a teaming contractor, of Chicago, was
seized by an epileptic fit while riding
on Spring Lake, Grand Rapdds, Mich.
He fell into the lake during the seizure
and was drowned.
Two Painters Fall to Death.
The staging from which John Baker,
of Worcester, and F. B. Hanson
were painting the sixth story of La
France Hotel at Holyoke, Mass., collapsed.
Both men were killed.
The Labor World.
San Francisco (Cal.) Painters*
Union has a membership of 1921.
France has 4625 local unions, witli;
an aggregate membership of 781,344L
A new union of the theatrical employes
was lately formed in California.
Detroit, Mich., secured the 190S
convention of the Steamfltters' and.
Helpers' Union.
St. Cloud, Minn., ha3 a new union,
composed of nearly all the printers
in thnf ritv a charter has been re
ceived from the international, and^
permanent organization effected.^