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1 NAMES JOHN D. FOR COI. I WAR C. F. & I. LED OTHER COMPANIES IN THE REIGN OF TERROR, DECLARES REPORT. FRANK R WALSH REPORTS Low Wages Cause Unrest of Workers —He Berates Armed Guards—Ad- vises Workers to Stand Tegeth- er for Own Betterment. Chicago.—The responsibility for the strike of coal miners in Colorado in 1913 and 1914 and for the disorder and suffering that followed is placed di- rectly on the shoulders of operators in a report by George P. West, publicity director of the commission on indus- trial relations, made public by the commission. The Colorado Fuel & Iron company, controlled by John D. Rockefeller, is declared to have been the leader in formulating and carrying out strike policies. Mr. Rockefeller and his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. are charged first, with the selection of incompe- tent and reactionary agents to serve as executive officials in this company, and, second, with giving their hearti- est indorsement and support to these officials after they had taken action that precipitated the worst of the troubles. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. is charged with having approved measures to coerce the state government of Colorado and with having flouted the will of the president of the United States. Dictation to Workers. Low dages was found to be the ba- sic cause of industrial unrest hi the report which Frank P. Walsh, chair- man of the federal commission on is- dustrial relations, and the labor mem- bers of that body will present to con- gress as a result of the commission's two-year investigation into the sub- ject. The report, embodying the personal findings of Mr. Walsh and concurred in by Commissioners John B. Lennon, James O'Connell and Austin B. Garret, son was made mAblic at Kansas City Saturday. \The workers of the nation, through compulsory and oppressive methods, legal and illegal, are denied the full product of their toil,\ it was declared in the report, and the resulting indus- trial dissatisfaction was said to have -- \iitforiti — lher - already menace the social good will and peace of the nation.\ Responsibility for the condition un- der which they live was played pri- marily upon the workers themselves, who \blind to their collective strength and oftimes deaf to the cries of their fellows have suffered exploitation and the invasion of their most sacred rights without resistance.\ Bird Study a Fair Feature. \The Court of Birds,\ or Bird Study Competition, is a new fair feature, and the Spokane Interstate Fair will be the first to inaugurate it in the northwest, an elaborate display being planned for the week of Sept. 13. Bird lovers of the Inland Empire are enthusiastically co-operating to make an exhibit of great educational value and there will be shown native birds, bird houses, drinking troughs, bathing fountains, and the like. Methods of fighting the English sparrow pest, protecting the song birds, photographing and mount- ing specimens, will be topics for talks and demonstrations. • Will Judge Children's Exhibits. Superintendent T. A. Bonser of the children's work department of the Spokane Interstate* Fair, announces 'the selection of judges for the contests therein during the week of Sept. 13. Jasper Wilson, the agricultural iVer- ests, 0. E. Heaton, the school' Inter- ests, and Mrs. F. A. Noteware, the consumer. The judges will begin their work immediately the exhibition is ( irr- stalled, and the announcement of the winners made early in the week of the fair. Warsaw to Raise $2,500,000. Warsaw.—The committee of cid. zens which is discharging the func- tions of city government here has vot- ed to raise a loan of five million ru- bles ($2,500,000). Will Reopen With 1000 Men. Granite City, Ill.—The American Steel foundry, which has been closed since November 1, 1914, will reopen and reemploy 1000 men September 6 next. -E. L. Polk for U. S. Counselor. Washington.—The selection of F. L. Polk, corporation counsel of New York city, to be counselor of the state department is announced. Canadian Troops Go Soon. Ottawa, Ont.—Twelve Canadian bat- talions of infantry, or about 15,000 foot soldiers are to be placed in England for final training. \The man with the pull\ is, after all, nothing but a parasite, whose strength lies in the fact that he 'is Abe handy tool or a favored follower of the really powerful. Never envy him. MARKET REPORT Chicago. Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.0801.09%; No. 2 hard, $1.09@1.10%. Corn—No. 2 yellow, 81%082c; oth- ers, nominal. Rye—No. 2, $1. Barley-504j/68c. Timothy—$5.50@6.75. Clover—$8.5001325. Hogs—Market strong, 5c higher. Bulk, $6.7007.55; light, $7.30@7.95; mixed, $6.5007.90; heavy $6.3507.50; rough, $6.3506.50; pigs, $708.05. 0 , Cattle—Market steady. Beeves, q6.25@10.15; Texas steers, $6.55@ 8.30; western, $7.2509.25; cows and heifers, $5.2509.46; calves, $9.50012. Sheep—Market strong, be higher. Native, $5.7506.35; western, $5.900 6.40; yearlings, $6.4007.40; lambs, na- tive, 86.7509.10; western, $709.25. Butter—Market unchanged. Eggs—Market slightly firmer; at mark, cases included, 17021c; ordi- nary firsts, 19% 020 1 / 2 c; firsts, 20% 021%c. New York. Coffee—Spot steady. Rio 75, 7c; Santos 48, 9 1 / 4 c. Raw sugar—Market quiet. Cen - trifugal, 4.5904.64c; molasses sugar, 3.8103.87c. Refined, market steady. Spot cotton, quiet; middling up- lands, 9.50c. San Francisco. Eggs—Fresh extras, 31c; • pullets, 25%c. Cheese—California cheddars, 12c; Oregon, 12c. Wheat, weak; barley, easy. Feedstuffs—Rolled barley, $25.500 26.50. Tacoma. Wheat—Bluestem, 95C; fortyfold, 91c; club, 94e; red fife, 89c. Car re- ceipts—Wheat 50, oats 3, barley 2, hay 26. Liverpool. Wheat—Spot No. 2 Manitoba, 1 Is 6%d; No. 3, I Is 4d; No. 1 north- ern Duluth, 118 5d. Corn—Spot American mixed, new, 88 11d. THE SPOKANE MARKET. According to reports from all parts of the country, the United States is on the verge of a business revival of considerable proportions 01 course, the crop prospects are the principal basis for this feeling, it be- ing an axiom of years past that when the crops were good, business in all lines developed a sympathetic stim- ulation, on the assumption that there would be plenty of money in circula- tion when the farmers got their crops to market. As a general rule, pros- perity for the farmer spells pros- perity for the nation, but this is an exceptional year and there is a chance that the signs may fail. Provisions. 4utter—There has been no change In the local butter market within the 'Wear - 191 - 1 - 6 AlgureS, quotattnifs still being maintained at 26030c. Eggs — The expected recovery in the egg market has not as yet mate- rialized and offerings are held at the same level as last week, cases being quoted at $6.5007.50. Lard and Cured Meats—There has been no further change in the prices on hams and bacon, but lard has eased off another fraction of a cent and is quoted at 994c. Fruits and Vegetables. Apples—While the big NITIVment in apples has not yet begun, the market is well supplied with , the earlier verities and the quality of the offerings is improving. Fancy stock is selling up to $1.50, with, cooking grades down to 75c. Other Fruits—Peaches have been on the market in large quantities during the week, and the price has been marked down to 40045c. This week will see the close-up on apri- cots and they have been marked down to 75c for the cleanup. The apex of the cantaloupe supply is on with an abundance of receipts offer- ing at $101.50 per crate. Water- melons are also plentiful and job- bing at be per pound. In the line of berries, the only thing remaining is blackberries, which are offered at $1.50. Potatoes — Fur her weakening in the Irish spud mIrket is noted this week, with quotations down to 85cfP IL Sweets have also declined, drop- ping from $4 to $3.50. Other Vegetables—Cabbage is a lit- tle easier at 75c0$1. Hothouse cu- cumbers are still held at 15030c per dozen, while bulk supplies are of- fered at 50c per box. Green corn is quoted by the dozen at 7%c and in sack lots at Si. Tomatoes are getting more plentiful and are down to 25030c. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat—The week opened with con- siderable wheat moving, which caused considerable excitement in the market, resulting in a sharp slump in prices. Besides the reports of large sellings, advices received that the British had or would soon force an entrance at the Dardanelles, is given as causes for the break in the price. At the moment, quotations are given at 82c for bluestem, 78c on club and 74c for red Russian. Flour—There has not been much change in the local flour situation within the week. No further changes in prices have been named since the drop of 25c noted last week, the fig- ures still being $6 for patents and $5.75 for seconds. Feed—The only change as to prices in the feed market is a reduction of $1 on oats, making the quotations $27 per ton for oats and $28 per ton for steam rolled. Gen. Scott Returns to Capitol. Washington—General Hugh Lt Scott chief of staff of the army, returned to Washington Monday, after several weeks spent on the Mexican border. RUSSIANS BACK UP AS GERMANS COME ADVANCING ARMIES TAKE NO RESPITE. DRIVING THE FOE NEARER HOME. SHORT CHECK AT ONE POINT Grand Duke Nicholas Offers Effective Resistance in Northern Courland. Big Guns Roar in West—Allies Shell German iLne. London, Aug. 29.—There are no signs yet of any slackening of the Ger- man pursuit of the retiring Russians. and, according to the official report issued in Berlin today, progress has been made in all sectors of the eastern battle line except that in northern Courland, where the armies of Grand Duke Nicholas are offering an, effect- ive resistance. Russians in New Positions. From the southeast of Kovno, where the Germans claim to have broken the Russian resistance and must, there- fore, be approaching Vilna, along the Niemen to Grodno and thence south- eastward through the forest of Bielo- viezh and along the borders of the Pripet river marshes, the Russian a are falling back to new positions. Speculation again is being indulged in as to whether the Germans intend to follow the Russians further or pre- pare positions from which they can hold the Muscovites while the Teu- tons attempt an offensive in the Bal- kans or on the western lines in France and Belgium. Military observers here are of the opinion that this question must be settled before many days have elapsed, arguing that with the summer coming to an end any ventures pro - `posed for the fall must soon develop. The artillery has been the chief mode of warfare on the western line. GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS. Contract has been let to the Globe Construction Co. of Lewistown for the building of a large grain eleva- tor at Dixon, Mont., and another at Ware. The Palouse flour mill has installed a 35 -horsepower electric motor, and will from now on be in a position to take care of all orders for cleaning or chopping. Elevators are being erected for the Twin Falls Milling & Elevator Co at Berger,_ Amsterdam, Mgr angil..1111 -Marshfield, - Idaho, each to have a ca- pacity of 30,000 bushels. A 14 -acre field of fortyfold on the J. R. Crow farm south of Palouse threshed out 52 bushels to the acre by actual weight. An 18 -acre field on the H. L. Wilson farm in the same neighborhood threshed out 50 bushels, warehouse weight. Yields from the Walla Walla val- ley are up to expectations of the growers. In the light -land sections the harvest is unusually bountiful, as the weather during the growing sea- son was especially favorable. From the foothills, where the soil is heav- ier, come reports of average yields and better quality than in some of the lower localities. LUMBER AND WOODWORKING. The Standard Lumber Co. of Mal- den, Wash., has taken over all the in- terests of the Potlatch Lumber Co. and will conduct the business. Samuel Carlin has purchased the Pioneer box factory at Hillyard, Wash., and is making extensive re- pairs, and will add new machinery to enlarge upon the scoiie of product the factory has formerly turned out. Following a conference of officials of the Northern Pacific, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul and the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Co., an- nouncement was made that arrange- ments had been completed for the construction of the Rutledge lum- ber plant in Coeur d'Alene, to cost $350,000. General Trade Conditions. Dun's says: The international mon- etary complications and disturbances in the ranks of labor constitute the chief elements of uncertainty in the general situation. There is, however, nothing either unsound 6'r disquieting in strictly do- mestic finance and though further controversies between employers and wage earners have arisen, secious and protracted troubles have thus far been averted. The, foreign exchange problems, which attract much attention, are es- sentially those of the belligerent na- tions, and affect this country mainly in the sense that export trade may be impeded until relief is afforded. Weekly bank clearings, $2,986,266- 912, an increase of 62.8 per cent over last year when most of the exchanges were closed. 200,000 Werkers Threaten Strike. Baltimore, Md.—A general strike of clothing workers, involving 200,000 in Baltimore Phitarielphia . cago, Rochester, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee, is in the balance this week. They want eight hours a day and more pay. Beyond the San and Bug. Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. Perhaps that ex- plains the Ruisian retreat. MUSIC PAINFUL TO BISMARCK \Melodies Cling to Me,\ Said the Chancellor, \and I Find It Diffi- cult to Release Myself.\ Talking of the arts, Bismarck said: \Of music I am very fond, but now I have to abstain from hearing it, be- cause tears come only too readily into my eyes. My heart is stronger than my head. Indeed, what self-control I have has been bought by experience.\ Many instances occurred during our conversations which gave the truth to. this assertion. The extreme mobility of his coun- tenance and the various shades of ex- pression which passed over it told of a sensitive, emotional temperament. \But I have a fire within me still which burns at times with fury.\ Upon that I asked: \Are you in reality the Iron Chancellor?\ \No he said, \not natur- ally; the iron I have created to use when necessary.\ And that I believed to be true. I asked him if he knew Wagner per- sonally. \Yes he answered; \but it was quite impossible for me to care for him or to encourage his society. I had not time to submit to hts insatiable vanity. Before breakfast, at breakfast, before and after dinner, Wagner de- ma.nded sympathy and admiration. His egotism was wearisome and intoler- able, and his demand for a listener was so incessant that I was obliged to avoid his company. was too busy with my affairs to be able to give him all or even a portion of the demands he would have claimed upon my time. But I admire his music greatly, though I have been compelled to give up go- ing to the opera, because the beautiful and touching melodies I cannot get out of my head; they cling to me, and I find it difficult to release myself from them, and now it tires me to be so much moved.\—From \Conversations With Prince Bismarck,\ by W. B. Richmond, the English Painter, in the North American Review. Splendid Memory. Recently Philip O'Day, a coal deal- er of Brooklyn, died and it was found that for nearly twenty years he had kept complete tally of his business in his head. He had not the slightest knowledge of arithmetic, as taught, but according to his own methods was able to remember who owed him and whom he owed, down to a cent. His sons associated with him in the business kept a private account book. but they never dared let their father know about it. Just before his death the coal merchant told them the names of all debtors and the amounts due. Even in his dying moments he spoke with scorn of the need his sons found for using pencil and paper to take down what he told them. After their father had passed away the. sons found his memory was even better than their account book, for they had negletted paitTrig down certain sums the old merchant had reported to them. Coroner's Ancient Nuisances. Somebody invented coroners three centuries before Columbus discov- ered America. It was a job of much distinction and there were no fees at- tached, says the Philadelphia Ledger. But even when Oliver Cromwell was a lad, folks in England began to abuse coroners and call them grafters, or whatever it was they called folks in that day who got something for noth- ing. And Blackstone, whose name is often used as a synonym for common law, declared that coroners were not only an unnecessary nuisance but that they often stood in the way of justice. Several states are now trying to abolish coroners, but progress is slow. If it were as easy to eradicate an old office as a new one, I fear no coroner would survive the slaughter. When I asked an eminent judge what cor- oners are good for, his reply was: \To draw salaries.\ Soldiers of the King. The change which education has made in the British army in the last garter of a century comes out again in the craving of the King's Liv- erpool regiment for magazines to read —\always acceptable in the trenches and defenses.\ The illiterate private of Mr. Kipling's early stories has van. ished, leaving in his place a man as physically capable and as high-spirit- ed and also of quicker and better -fur nished intelligence, who has tri• umphantly shown himself to be able to make a success of the new military training, with its wisely bold policy of evoking the soldier's capacity for making the best use of himself on the battlefield. The needs are not those of the old Mulvaneys and Lea- royds—if these ever existed—but those of sensitive, highly -civilized men.— Manchester Guardian. Effective Water Sterilizers. Two ozone Nykter-sterilizing plants at Nice supply 40 and 80 gallons of ab- solutely germ -free water per second. The ozone generator is of copper plates, with glass sheets between, and the air between the plates is decom- posed by a silent electric discharge of 70,000 volts. The nitrogenous products being removed by aiilter, the ozone is passed into a chmber into which the water falls as rain through gravel -cov- ered netting. Air Over Land and Sea. A report on the atmospheric -electric observations made during the second cruise of the Carnegie is published. The radioactivity of the air over the ocean areas far removed from land is small, compared to that found over land; while the ionization over the ocean was at least as large as that found over land. HUMOR IN WARFARE Furnished by Grave and Dignified Military Censors. Russian Soldier's Message of Love Went Through With Curious Anno- tation—Kisses Sent to English Girls by the General Staff. The rigors of the war -time censor- ship have from time to time drawn the fire of French wit. One lively Parisian journal promises when the war is over to print a long and true story about the tricks devised by soldiers in the field or by prisoners to get some erumb3 of information past the official suppressors. Just for the present, ho - :ever, continues the cheerful Pa- risian editor, a few retrospective anec- dotes must serve—anecdotes culled from the history of other wars belong- ing to the brief period since the cen- sorship was invented. In the Man- churian campaign, for instance, every correspondent in the field was strictly forbidden to send any private letter of any sort. But there was a Russian who got permission on the anniversary of his wedding to telegraph to his wife. \Dearest Marie,\ he wrote with Slavic fervor, \I send you ten million kisses,\ and the dispatch went out with this solemn annotation at the bottom: \With the sanction of the imperial mil- itary authorities.\ Again, in South Africa, the young British soldiers used to wind up their letter to their sweethearts at home with a . ow of round marks like an \o\—doubtless meant to signify kisses. These innocent marks upset the mili- tary censors mightily. Suppose they concealed a treasonable message in code? Finally a more than ordinarily human and intelligent censor hit upon the expedient of making a great many more round marks after the others. That scotched the treasonable cipher if there was one, while supposing there was none, then the girl at home got full measure of what was coming to her. Indeed (remarks the French editor), more than One dear young island thing with a very undemonstra- tive lover down there in the veldt must have been thrilled and surprised to receive a whole avalanche of kisses, nearly all of them, if she had but known it, the gift of the general staff. VEGETATION ON THE MOON Harvard Professor Offers Evidence Which He Believes Disproves a Long -Held Theory. Professor Pickering of the Harvard astronomical observatory declares that there is nothing less -true than -that the moon is without air, water or veg- etation. There are certain large lunar areas that darken toward lunar noon and fade out toward lunar sunset. They correspond in some degree to the so-called Martian seas, and Pro- fessor Pickering proposes the term \fields\ to describe these plains* or slopes which he believes to be cov- ered with vegetation. He is convinced that the dark fields to be seen during the lunar summer do pot owe their blackness to shadow, for you can see them at full moon When shadows are absolutely invisible. The blue : black color of the fields and canals, he ar- gues, can therefore be owing only to a discoloration of the surface that comes alike on slopes and levels in the lunar summer, and that is invis- ible in the spring and autumn. We know of no mineral that acts in that manner, and the only possible explana- tion seems to be that it is the result of a covering of vegetation.—Youth's Companion. BIBLE PRINTED IN ARABIC Latest Translation of the Scriptures Had to Be Made in a Peculiar Manner. The Bible is being printed in a new language—the Arabic. Translations of the books of Genesis, Psalms, 'St. John, St, Luke, St. Matthew, the Acts and Romans have been made by mis- sionaries in Mekines, Morocco, and ,..):51.11&41 e n ' 1 ' 116 )1 3416 t2b 4 = iii rt il l'> U1 67 1 2:11 1 rPirA.Rot#Zikiah), 4 ) ,,, t 4. : ZI;b1141.1faLVL36.11‘ 4 1S,54 6:-\TylL1J16. 6 ., 4 01.5,44.7.11,7441.1J1ill- T UJI, j 1611 r..-xt 03 1.116:41...1d.w..13 5 :,4 0 44,41 6,000 volumes are being putlished by a large printing house in Kansas City. Photographs of the handwriting prints are made on thin glass and the whole is converted into zinc etchings from which the print is made. Work is now in progress on the Gospel a St. Luke in Shilha, the language of the Berbera, the original natives of Morocco, who still have their strongholds, as in prim- itive times, in the mountains.—Tenls deal World Magazine. FARM BOY'S ADVICE TO BOYS Do Not Forget That Little Pieces el Work Are Trifles, and Trifles Make Perfection. The farm boy must learn from the beginning to become a skillful farmer and take an interest in the work he does and the work that is going on about him. If he does some work that does not please his father he should not be scolded but, rather, encouraged and shown and helped to do the work right so he may not make the mistake the next time. If there is a cheerful, encouraging. work spoken to the boy it will help him wonderfully. The boy should learn to do his woric honestly and - well and not to think this or that little piece of work too trifling to do, for the trifles make perfection. If he will do his work well and honestly he will have a clear coil- , Bottle Babies—Orphan Lambs Appre- ciate a Kind Friend to Bring Then Up by Hand. science and be happier and more contented than if he did his work carelessly. He will take pride in tending to stock if he is given a few of the farm animals as his own. He will feed and watch them growing with more pride than some older farmers themselves. From one or two animals he may have quite a flock in a little time it they are well taken care of. The boy may also take great in- terest in raising crops if there is ac patch of ground given him to work and cultivate. He.may feed the prod- ucts of his work to his animals and he Ctb feel better than if he were feed - e products of the fields that his father cultivated. I do not think the boy should be kept too steadily at work for it will naturally become tiresome and he %tants a change just as older people do. He ihoilid be given some spare me to do what he wishes to do himself, and then when he does work be win work with more zeal. I think the boy should go to school as much as he possibly can and not be kept at home too much, for then he will fall back in his studies and be too proud to go to ,school when ha - cannot keep up with his mates; and when he gets 'a rest in the winter he will delightin commencing the spring work. . _ The boy who lives on a farm will have more fun in the winter than boys who live in town, for he can find .. many sports in the winter in the country that are not available to the boys in town. If the farm boy tries to be con- tented, work on the farm, and by the heir) of the older people with when* he lives, become a good farmer—he ‘viii surely be contented.—Floyd Baker. Age Fourteen Years, Worthington, Pa, BEST RECORDS IN THE SOUTH IVilssissippi Youth Secures Yield of 20a Bushels of Corn to Acre—Girl Raises Tomatoes. A Mississippi boy and an Alabama girl have the best records for the last year in the Southern Corn and To- mato clabs respectively, according to the United States department of agriculture's office of farmers' co-op- erative demonstration work in the Southern states. Carl Graves is the young man from Soso, Miss., who leads in the corn work in the South with a yield of 202 bushels. HesterfSartaln is the girl from Walker, Ala., who raised 7,037 pounds of tomatoes on one -tenth of an acre, put Up 1,620 pounds, and made a net profit of $146.20 Expressing Individuality. To be oneself is quite a different thing from being unlike everyone else. Some girls seem to feel that the only way to express their individuality is to be a little startling. As a rule, the girls who dress and talk and conduct themselves in a way to make heads turn, are not expressing their own pert sonalities at all. The girl who is afraid to be herself, for fear she will seem different from other people. makes a more serious mistake—not quite as serious indeed—as the girl who makes a deliberate effort to be just a little different from everyone else.—Girl's Companion. Cause for Wonder. \Well well,\ thought the elevator, as a queer -looking customer came along. \I wonder what's getting into me,\ Always on Time. The cuckoo in the clock elven °email out on time
