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G0MPE8S KICKS
ON CHINAMEN
D-’flcunces Government Scheme to
Employ Them on Canal Work.
8-HOUR LAW IS INVOLVED
Contracts to Be Supervised by Secretary
Iaft and Labor Shirks Will Have
No Chance to Graft.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, lias is¬
sued a statement regarding the ac¬
tion of the isthmian canal commission,
deciding to work Chinese laborers on
the canal. The statement is as fol¬
lows :
"It seems that those in charge of
the i’anania canal construction have
regard for neither law nor principles.
First, in the most extraordinary man
net the eight-hour law is annulled in
the greatest public work ever under¬
taken by the government, under the
pretense that cifndlflona there are dif
terent than in the United Gtatea. m
■list'appeal to the veriest tyro thu
tf eight hours’ work L; regarded a
•utticlent in the comparatively tempers
ate zone of the United States, cei*
tainly ten, eleven and even more
hours of labor a day in the pesti¬
lential and miasmatic atmosphere of
the Panama zone are not only im¬
proper, tint outrageous and brutal.
"The existing law excludes Chinese
laborers and coolies from the United
States or any of its possessions. The
Panama canal zone is an American
possession, and it is as mnph a viola¬
tion ol the law to bring Chinese coo¬
lies there as it is in other portions
of our country.
‘Some time ago. in an interview 1
had with Chairman Shouts. 1 pro¬
tested against the employment of Chi¬
nese coolies in the Panama canal con¬
struction. He emphatically stated that
it was not the intention then to em¬
ploy Chinese coolies, and they would
not be employed under his adminis¬
tration.'’
A Washington special says: Care
Tf'l! I»- taken by the United States
government to pvvent contractors
from doing injustice to the Chinese
laborers employed for work on the
Panama canal. The specifications ad¬
vertising for proposals to supply 2,500
Chinese to the canal commission,
will stipulate that the secretary of
war shall have the privilege of pass¬
ing on contracts which labor agents
make with the Chinese who are to
be sent to the isthmus.
This provision will make it possible
for Secretary Taft to prevent discrim¬
ination again-t the coolies by the un¬
scrupulous contractors. Under this
arrangement the U.-:ted States will
know exactly what the Chinese are
paid by the labor afeents and the
Chinese government will be able to
afford its subjects protection on the
isthmus because of the ease with
width this government will be able
to regulate the relations between tho
Chines labou rs ana the contractors.
Many contractors are seeking to
supplj the first 2,500 Chinese for the
canal work. Until the specifications
for the contracts are published, con¬
tractors will not bo able to give anv
idea as to the wage they must have
for Chines,' laboreis on the canal
zone. Some labor agents believe that
wt.h the many restrictions the canal
commission purposes placing upon
cot tractors it will not be possible to
supplj the Chinamen at less than
$1 a day. Other agents are of the
opinion that the coolies can he sup¬
plied for 50 or 60 cents a day, with
a fair margin of profit to the con¬
tractors.
In Jamaica. West Indians are em
ployed under long time contracts at
prices ranging from 25 cents a day
and rations, which cost only a few
cents to 50 cents a day.
Restrictions and safeguards thrown
about these laborers, however, are
very slight, as compared with the re¬
strictions the United States will place
upon the Chinese to be employed for
canal work
BIELE1S INUNDCD FOR GRAND DUKE.
Pfo Mo Assassinate Russ Autocrat Faded
Because of Rad Aim.
A St. St. Petersburg dispatch says.
Nearly 100 soldiers of ihe Imperial
Guards are under arrest in Tsarkoe
Selo for complicity In an attempt to
assassinate the grand duke, Nicholas,
in the summer camp. That the grand
duke escaped with his life is proba
bly due to the fact that the men who
used ball cartridges instead of blanks
while at the drill, began firing at
toe groat a distance and in their
haste aimed badly. It is not doubted
that the whole affair was the outcome
of a deep laid plot
ROOSEVELT'S NEMESIS
Creates a Seen; in Church at Oyster
Bay in Frantic Endeavor to “In¬
terview” Him.
Miss Aai L. Esac. who is summer¬
ing in Oyster Bay, N. Y., for the pur¬
pose of interviewing the president or
I Mrs. Roosevelt on what she declares
1 i; "a matter of life and death,”
cre
; ated a scene during the service in
( Christ's Episcopal Church Sunday.
Miss Esac, or Miss Case, as her
, name is supposed to be, has attended
| every church service the president
] has attended since his arrival in July,
! She has climbed Sagamore Hill on
loot several times, only to be turned
away by the secret service men.
She presented herself early at the
church and took a seat directly be¬
hind the pew usually occupied by the
Roosevelt family. When Usher James
Duffy requested her to relinquish this
seat, she refused. Duffy forcibly re¬
moved her to the rear of the church,
and Miss Esac says he tore her gown
in so doing. For this act she later
applied for a warrant for Duffy, but
was refused.
In the rear of the church Miss Esac
refused to sit dowi,. A secret ser¬
vice agent 3tood beside her and dur¬
ing the service she made no less that
o dozen attempts to get past him.
As the president was leaving tit*
church three secret service men sup.
rounded Miss Esac, but she shouted:
"Mr. President, Mr. President, Pres¬
ident Roosevelt, won’t you speak to
me a moment?”
The president turned his head as
he passed, but did not pause. Miss
Esac says her watch chain was broken
in this scrimmage with the secret
service men and her watch fell to
the floor.
The president was accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt and Quentin, and Rep- j
resentative and Mrs. Longworth. Miss
Esac has stated to acquaintances she j
has made while in Oyster Bay that
she wfis to have been married in the i
White House at the time Miss Alice j
Roosevelt became Mrs. Longworth;
that she was to have married a high
government official, and that it was
tills wrong she seeks to redress. When
the president’s carriage had departed,
Miss Esac was allowed to go. It was
then she sought a warrant for Duffy.
She says she will stay in Oyster Bay
mud 8' ae acc ompll she s. v heL-piirpose.
GIRL CAUSED t AIMER'S DEATH.
South Carolina Planter fights fatal Duel
With Daughter’s Lover.
A Greenville, S. C., special says:
Cowering in a corner of her bed room
Miss Nannie Drake Saturday night
saw her lather, Thomas F. Drake,
fight a duel to the death with her lov¬
er, Allen Emerson.
Alter the excham^e of several shots
Drake fell dead with a bullet through
his heart almost at the feet of his
daughter and her lover, Emerson,
staggered out of the room suffering
from a severe but not fatal wound.
When persons who had been at
traded by the shots arrived the>
found the girl in hysterics over the
corpse of tier father and crying that
she was guilty of his death.
Drake, who is a wealthy planter,
heard a noise in his daughter’s room
after midnight. Thinking there was
possibly a burglar in the house. ht>
took his pistol and went to the room.
On entering he saw his daughter and
Emerson under circumstances which
caused him instantly to begin shoot¬
ing.
Emerson sprang for his pistol, which
was on the table, and returned the
Are.
The outraged father fired four shots
bui 'only one took effect, the bul
let striking Emerson in the thigh. Af¬
ter being wounded Emerson fired the
; shot that killed Drake.
After Emerson killed Drake he left
j the house and went to Anderson, the cir¬
where he surrendered. When
cumstances under which Drake was
killed heoanie known, there was so
much indignation expressed against
Emerson that he was hurried to the
Greenville jail to prevent possible
lynching.
Emerson is a cousin of Miss Drake.
! it is reported that the girl, over¬
come by shame and remorse, has fled.
DEPOSITORS CURSE DEAD CASHIER.
Angrv Alen Created Digusfinq Scene Dur¬
ing Holding ol Inquest.
At Chicago Saturday, police were
summoned to keep order at the In¬
quest into the cause of the dearft of
Frank Kowalski, teller of the Milwau¬
kee Avenue State bs.nk, who suicided
at his home.
The teeling of some of the deposi¬
tors in the defunct bank was so great
that the dead teller was cursed as his
body lay in the parlor of his home.
The wreath on the door of the home
was tom down and its flowers sca'
tered bj angry tnea.
!
CHINESE LABOR
FOR BIG DITCH
Goyernment to Employ Chinks on
Isthmus of Panama.
CLEAR CASE OF NECESSITY
President Decides Upon This Course as
a Last Resort--Present Force of
Workmen Inadequate.
A Washington special says: Chi¬
nese labor will be given a thorough
test on the Panama canal. Contracts
calling for 2,500 Chinamen for canal
work have been pi -.pared, and adver¬
tisements will be issued by the Isth¬
mian Canal Commission in a few
days for proposals from labor agents.
If the initial 2,500 Chinamen prove
a success, it is likely that many
more will be taken to the isthmus
to do the work which is too hard for i
the Jamaicans, now employed there
in large numbers
Organized iaboi has offered muon
opposition to tho use of contract Chi¬
nese labor, but the Jamaican work¬
men have proven inadequate, suffi¬
cient Spaniards cannot be had im¬
mediately’ to rush the work, and the
Chinese are the last hope of the com¬
mission.
President Rooseve’i, Secretary Taft,
Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian Ca¬
nal Commission and other men, prom¬
inently identified with the canal work,
are known to have delayed employing
Chinese until it became certain that,
the other help available was not
equal to the demand.
The administration has taken the
position that the canal must be dug
at any cost, and although the presi¬
dent urged that there be no haste
in employing Chinese he did not stain,
permanently in the way of the plan
to try the coolies.
It is the intei of the commis¬
sion to ask for labor agents
who will arrange *ai the Chinese
government for exportation of
labr* transport the Chinese to the
isthmus under contract to work for
a fixed wage and ship them back to
China, thus relieving the commis¬
sion of all detail work and all re¬
sponsibility.
A bond wil be required of all con¬
tractors for a satisfactory fulfillment
of any contract they may enter into
with the commission.
There are said to be about thirty
labor agencies which supply Chinese
to contractors in all parts or the
world. These agents are familiar with
all the Chinese laws, stand ready to
pay money to the families of the men
who are going into their service and
are ready on short notice to meet
demands for an unlimited number of
coolies.
I-erov Park, a labor agent in the
employ of the commission, is still
in Spain negotiating with the Span¬
ish government for the employment
of a large number of peninsular Span¬
iards oil the isthmus. His efforts
promise to be successful, and the
commission expects to- recruit manv
hieh-grade workingmen from Spain.
It is the desire of Chief Engineer Ste¬
vens to have several kinds of labor¬
ers on the Isthmus.
The employment of the Chinese will
not displace the Jamaicans who are
already there, but it is not likely
that many more West Indians will
be hired if the Chinese prove a suc¬
cess.
The negroes are paid only 80 cents
a day against 41.60 to the Spaniards,
who are said to be capable of doing
three times as much work.
If (lie contractors obtaining help
for the commission do not nay more
on the is i S than the Chinese are
paid in other parts of the world, it
is believed the daily wage of the
eo Mies will be less than that of the
Tamatoans on the isthmus.
SEA tOW 10SF TO AQUARIUM.
Manatee From Florida Die* From Bullet
Wound Alter Reaching New York.
The New York Aquarium’s $3,00t>
sea cow, p: manate, died from blood
poison ng, caused bv a bullet some
Floridan fired into her hack some
time ago before she was purchased
by the aquarium at Miami
Three doctors performed an opera¬
tion on the cow. She was manacleo
and nearly a foot under the outer
hide the doctors found a 38-caliber bid
let As she was on exhibition not quite
eight days, the sea cow cost the city
of New York $375 a day.
LEADER OF HOB JAILED.
Threats of His Fescue Leads Governor
to Send Military Companies to
Keep Order at Salisbury.
Tuesday night three companies of
he North Carolina Naticna! Guard,
me command from Statesville, a com¬
pany of infantry and a battery of ar
.iltery from Charlotte, surrounded the
Jail at Salisbury, N. C., while sentries
with loaded guns and orders to shoot
to kill, patrolod the four streets that
dank the prison. There had been
threats and rumors of threats all day
and far into the night, but there was
no demonstration.
Geocge Hall, an ex-convict from
Montgomery county, who is supposed
to have led the mob which lynched
the three negroes, alleged murderers
of the Lyerly family, Monday night,
is in the jail. The plan to rescue
him from the clutches of the law, ru¬
mors of which caused Governor Glenn
to hurry troops to Salisbury, did not
materialize.
The surviving negroes—Henry Lee,
George Ervin and two women—are
safe in the jail at Charlotte, and there
is no danger of violence to them.
l,a7^riied m to 0
»f mob vengeance, acting under or¬
ders from the governor, will not ad¬
journ until every effort to convict the
leaders of the mob has been exhaust¬
ed. The case is being worked up and
many arrests are expected.
The governor is determined to push
the matter to the bitter end. The
cases against the surviving defend¬
ants, against whom true bills were
found, were continued until the reg¬
ular term of Rowan court.
Long before the sun rose Tuesday
morning, .persons went to the scene
of the lynching and cut off the trees,
the fingers and the ears of the ne¬
groes who were hung to the limb of
the big tree on Henderson’s baseball
grounds.
When the court was convened Tues¬
day morning there was a slight dimi¬
nution in the crowd, though every
seat was taken.
The first thing announced by Judge
Long was a continuance of the case
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until the regular term. Solicitor Ham
mer made the motion and in doing
so said the remaining prisoners had
been taken to the Mecklenburg coun¬
ty jail and the summoning of the
special 'venire Stopped'.’" Judge Loqf
replied that he would make the or¬
der. He then turned to the crowd
and in a clear, slow voice, full of
feeling, spoke to the people, deplor
ing the events of the day before,
and stating his dele—aination to fully
investigate the matter.
NEGRO YOUNG PFOPIF’S CONGRESS
Elects Officers for Next Four Years Through
Board of Directors.
A Washington dispatch says: Af¬
ter an all-day session the national
board of directors of the Negro Young
People’s Congress elected the follow¬
ing officers for the next four years:
President, Bishop George W. Clin¬
ton of North Carolina; vice president,
Rev. J. W. E. Bowen of Atlanta, Ga,;
corresponding secretary, P. J. Bryan,
of Atlanta, Ga.; treasurer, Bishop R.
S. Wiliiams of Augusta, Ga.; finan¬
cial secretary, Professor John R. Haw¬
kins, of Kittrel, N. C.; statistical sec¬
retary, Professor Kelly Miller, Wash¬
ington, D. C.
In the course of a brief address
on the Afro-American council, Bishop
Walteis explained its work and said
that in order to secure civil and po¬
litical rights the negro must go into
the courts and fight the question out.
Speaking of the work of the con¬
gress itself, Rev. Coggins of Coving¬
ton, Ga., declared that the universal
hunger and great need of the negro
race today was for “a better under¬
standing of our moral relations to
one another, of what we are and mean
to be, and a better appreciation of
the responsibilities resting upon us.”
Separation of the two races, he
said, had done the negro incalcula¬
ble Injury, “and our enemies have
taken advantage of this unfortunate
circumstance to retard our political
progress.”
SOI ON 5 RFPU0IATE 0L0 DEBT.
Georgia House of Representatives Kills
Bill to Pay Maftinqlv Bonds.
A feature in the Georgia legisla¬
ture Tuesday was the emphatic dis¬
approval of the house of the bill to
pay- the Mattingly bonds, given as
part payment of certain arms pur¬
chased from the Sharpe Rifle compa
ny of Hartford, Conn., by the late
Governor Joseph E. Brown, Novem¬
ber 14. 1S60.
This was the fourth demand the
holders of these bonds have made
upon the state for their payment,
and each time heretofore the claim
did not get to the house for a vote
An Old Painter’s Ideas.
The Autumn season is coming
lnore and more to be recognized as a
most suitable time for house-paint¬
ing.
There is no frost deep in the wood
to make trouble for even the best job
of painting, and the general season¬
ing of the Summer has put the wood
into good condition in every way.
The weather, moreover, is more like¬
ly to be settled for the necessary
length of time to allow all the coats
to thoroughly dry—a very important
precaution.
An old and successful painter said
to the writer the other day:
“House owners would get more
for their money if they wcfuld allow
their painters to take more time, es¬
pecially between coats. Instead of
allowing barely- time for the surface
to get dry enough not to be ’tacky,’
several days (weeks would not be
too much) should be allowed so thatj
the coat might set through and
through. It is inconvenient, of
course, but, if one would suffer thiB 1
slight inconvenience, it would add
two or three years to the life of the
paint.
“All this is assuming, of course,
that the paint used is the very best
to be had—the purest of white lead
and the purest of linseed oil, un- :
mixed with any cheapener. If the;
e ^
White Lead’ and oil which has been
doctored with fish oil, benzine, corn<
oil, or other cf the adulterant^
known to the trade, are used, all th|
precautions of the skilled painter antj
useless to prevent the cracking
peeling which make houses unsightly
in a year or so and, therefore, make
painting bills too frequent and costly.
“The house owner should have hia
painter bring the ingredients to the
premises separately—white lead of
some well-known, reliable brand and
linseed oil of equal quality — and
mix the paint just before applying
it.” need |
Painting not be expensive and
unsatisfactory if the old painter’*
suggestions are followed.
How to Kill a Mosquito.
In a communication which we have
received from a well-known citizen of!
Meridian, Miss., the following sugges-*
tion is thrown out for the construe
tion of a mosquito destroyer: “Why!
may not an apparatus on the order of
the electric circular fan be made and
used for destroying mosquitoes? The
little whirling fans now iu use to
agitate the air, and thus make the|
heat lass- oppiessive,
quitoes with which the current comesi
in contact away from the machine.
Now, if the machine be reversed soj
that the current is toward and into'
the apparatus, I believe the mosquito,:
and possibly house flies also, in a
room would be sucked into or againsti
the machine, and it could be so con-;
structed as to either kill or capture!
them. Meanwhile, the apparatus,j
drawing the air toward it, would serve:
the same purpose as the outer current]
machine ill reference to agitating thej
atmosphere; thus there would be no'
additional expense of consequence. It
one machine would not work effective¬
ly, two certainly would; one machine
working the current outwardly and
the other set opposite to it, sucking
the air into it. There is no doubt In
my mind that a room could thus be!
rid of mosquitoes." This plan might]
work, but we doubt it. After all, thoi
best way to kill mosquitoes is to'
pounce upon ’em at the threshold,
when the wiggles are about to swap;
their paddles for wings and smother
’em to death with oil.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
A WINNING START.
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make*
Nerve Force For. the Day.
Everything goes wrong if the
breakfast lies in your stomach like a
mud pie. What you eat does harm
if you can’t digest it—it turns to poi¬
son.
A bright lady teacher found this
to be,true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
"Two years ago I contracted a
very annoying form of indigestion,
My stomach was in such condition
that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast
and egg gave me great distress.
“I was slow to believe that trouble
could come from such a simple diet,
but finally had to give it up, and
found a great change upon a cup of
hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with
cream, for my morning meal. For
more than a year I have held to this
course, and have not suffered except
when injudiciously varying my diet.
“I have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest¬
ed breakfast mesins a saving of ner¬
vous force for the entire day. My
gain of ten pounds in weight also
causes me to want to testify to the
value of Grape-Nuts.
“Grape-Nuts holds first rank at
our table."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.” Read the lit¬
tle book, “The Road‘to Wellville,” in
pkgs.
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