The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1911, Page 7

Workers Unite to Battle Through All Courts for Rights of Mangled Mine Victim; Unique Test Case ' Crippled Frank Lane Is the Principal in Fight for Fair} Play to Be Carried to High- est Tribunal, to Determine if Laws Are for the People or the Corporation. nk Lane, a helpless paralyth on a hospital cot, ts the central figure in a tremendous legal strug: | ele waging to determine whether or wot the American courts are hope Teasly on the side of capital in the question of employers’ lability Lane's case is said to be a simple, clear instance of an employ mangled because of corporate care-| lesaness—just the case for an waique test of American law and American courte. One day last June Frank Lane, a young miner in the employ of the Sheridan Coal Co. of Kansas, was clearing a track of the waste coal that had @ribbied down from the chute of a defective loading ma chine. He had to crawl underneath & loaded car to do this. While he was thus engaged, an “empty” was “pinched” down from the bead of the switch toward the loading chute. The hand brake of} this empty car was defective, and the man riding down upon it was unable to set it so as to control) the car As a result, the “empty,” gatning | great momentum, struck the loaded | car under which Lane was work- tug, and pushed ft along the track./ Lane was caught by some part of the running gear of the car. His) body was bent double as the car passed over him. He was left with a back broken ‘tn two places—a helpless, paralyzed cripple, with no hope of ever be- fng able to walk again. He is but G8 years old, but bis life is prac tieally over, Thus, because of a defective chute and a defecttve car brake, both of) frank Lane, and the shack in which he lived before he was crippled for life. which could have been obviated by @ecen{ inspection, Frank Lane's life fa biasted in its beginning. On the | tim for what he lost, but at least it) ing “The Legal Defense Depart |™ threshold of life he is stricken help-|is possible in some measure to al-| ment” of that paper tess. He can still think, but that is; leviate his distress of body and) The fund raised will be used to about all | ming. carry his case up as a test case. Friends of Frank Lane have un-| The fight is being financed | It will be fought through all cow dertaken to recover from these con-| through the Appeal to Reason, a so- | If necessary, to establish the cerns on his behalf 925,000. Nothing | cialiat paper of Girard, Kansas.| status of the thousands who ar can ever win back for him any-| Folk who feel inclined to boost) maimed annually in the Industrial = that can snort reimburse | along the fund can do so by address. | battle voted to start a public subscrip- tiom to defray the expenses of the Ba nK Closing recall election. ascsartonitenielneienen } CONDEMNED :****"***"****: Lowers Stocks’ * * i* * CENSUS FIGURES * | KN sas be int bs (My Vatted Press) Federal Judge Ranford’s decis- # WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — &) NEW YORK, Jan. 7—The closing fon, enjoining Comptroller Both- # The census bureau today an- # of the Carnegie Trust company was hae gpg a money for nd - —_ ce ae the population of the . reflected at the opening of the stock Tecal yor Gill, was severely owing .owns ye? Gondemned at a meeting of the|% Browster, Wash., 1,256; Con- a, ™ArKet today. Fractional losses oc Bederated Club of the Fourteenth | # conully, Wash. 357; Oroville, # curred, which, however, were quick Ward last night. Indignation was * Wash. 495, Twist, Wash, # ly recovered. At the end of the at “the high-handed!# 257; Kingsbury, Cal. 1,634. "& first’ 15 minutes some stocks ‘SBethod of the court.” and the club # a4 # #888 4 AH tH Ae Ob d gains. FOUR LITTLE BIRD WOMEN, ALL IN A ROW, SOARING FOR PRIZES, HI-LEE, OH, HI-LOW! |trien and Marvingt. The former flies at Etampes, the other, who |uses an Antoinette monoplane (be ing a Latham puptl), cends at Mourmelon-le-Grand. A picturesque |feature is to see these two alr- women, while waiting for the wind Rome-oad ! PARIS, Jan. 7.—A desperate | battle in the clouds is being waged | Dutrieu and Marie Marvingt, Mmes. | Niel and Franck. The much-cove' knitting. Gu the left, Mme. Franck; above, Mile. Marie Marvingt; the center, Mme. Niel; on the right, Mile. Helene Dutrieu. ap is offered by Pierre Lafitte, But for this acc ident she was to publisher in Paris, to the| have attempted the English chan- who makes the longest sus-|nel flight. fight Mme. Niel is a newcomer, com-| . Dutriew is the present hold-| paratively, and has just obtained | , Dumont monoplane on|tween these four feminine flyers is 21, she covered 103 miles in 2| keen, enpocially between Miles, Du — Snd 33 minutes, breaking the| = =a = see avis ® record whe had herself| powLinG CONGRESS Eas cogie> but a short time before of} HAS 870 Teams | aE ue dld 3 hour and 9 minutes. | ‘anck (nom Yair) who — The Gate iife is rly Bh Hew- | ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 7. — Three o| 22 ar ou ma IDA of @ London Daily Mail| hundred and seventy teams are of | gddrese iabel o«.ea h paper. When that ie an expert with a|ficlally entered in the tournament | tfiin "teen , but is just recov-|of the American Bowling congress, | \s ts t s effects of a leg| which begins here Jan. 21. The an-|°",, two places, an injury | nouncement was made today by of- |» : while flying at Blackpool. |ficers of the congress. : for any ad phone ad in and we will m be | FUNERAL DIRECTORS. a aa tse aah PLLA LEAL LDL LPL ALA PLA PA CHICAGO, |\“POTTERWORTH & BON, Prof Jan. 7.—Sig. Raoul, much now since Count de Beaufort | pirectors and need Embalmers. h or a8 he calis himselt,| made ao light of them, but I'm not | Ist. opp. cl ‘3 Soe eee Scenes PO Mistimeri, Sicily, has ap-| looking for an heiress. 1 don't] ,Bepry sra'tin versity, Moth phones 18 management of the| want money that way. I'm here to aay Malle for @ job as asinger.| earn my living until my uncle, the Loe) AND FOUND. * said the duke to the| Prince Antonio Bonanno, dies, Then | orn vicinicy of 609. Bev ‘and 1 want @ job, I just) he will leave me bis 18 titles and bis) coiig femais, sab! as Rom Toward: re ie No 14,108, Pin ton Trust & Saving Detroit. I've got\estate valued at $500,000. Unttt | tien but no money. 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