Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-03-11
A STRIKE ENDED.
The Leadville Miners Vote to Re-
turn to Work.
A HOG CHOLERA CURE DISCOVERED.
Planters Urged to Keep Down the Cotton
Acreage Postal Clerks on Their Way
to Attend the Convention
After the North Pole.

LEADvILLE, COL, March 1O.-At q
meeting Of the miners union held
last night it was decided, by vote OF
approximately 900 to 200, to declare the
strike of. This is the direct result Of
recent vigorous efforts on the part OF
E. v. Debs and Mine Manager Tingley
$. Wood, who is very popular with the
miners. The strikers have been grow
ing very restless Of late, owing to the
reduction Of the weekly relief allow
ance to an amount barely sufficient for
existence, and the apparent hopeless
ness of any change in the attitude OF
the managers The strike was de-
clared June 10, 1895, and has lasted
eight months and 81 days. 1t has cost
the camp fully s4,oOo,OOo, besides the
cost to the labor organizations OF the
country, which have contributed
steadily and generally in aid OF the
strikers, not to mention fully dozen
human lives. The union claimed 2,2O0
members when the strike began, and
the vote last night shows the decrease,
chiefly by immigration to other camps,
but largely by Withdrawals of men
now at work here. The men were get
ting 49, a day and struck for IS.
A HOG CHOLERA CURE DISCOVERED.
DUBUQUE, Ia, March lO.-A cure for
hog cholera, it seems, has been discov-
cred under the encouragement OF such
interests as the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railway and Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul. A practical hog raiser
has been sent over the lines of these
companies, accompanied by their rep
resentatives, and has made repeated
demonstrations, with wonderfully sue
cessful results. At Dubuque his work
on the farm owned by Mrs. George B.
Burch, president of the First national
bank, and operated by 0rme Brosm,
was watched by many interested par
ties including newspaper men, railroad
representatives and veterinarians, and
his perfect success on these hogs, that
were seriously sick, is acknowledged
by all. Demonstrations have also been
made at Emmettsburg, Perry, National,
Delphos, points in Iowa, where his
ability to cure this disease has been
shown and acknowledged. His last
work has been done on the line of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road,
where, at Bedford, Ia, he treated
herd of hogs on the farm OF County
Supervisor A. B, Wakeman.
WANT LESS COTTON PLANTED.
WACO, Tex, March 1O.-The Cotton
Growers association held short ses-
sion yesterday and adjourned sine die.
An address was adopted urging plant
ers to keep down the cotton acreage.
1t says: IF all Of us devote our time
and energies and sufficient amount of
our labor to the raising Of those prod
ucts consumed at home first and give
the balance to cotton we would neces-
sarily reduce the acreage Of cotton and
thereby reduce the yield. BY SO doing
we would not only create demand for
our cotton by lessening the supply, but
by raising at home the things we
formerly purchased from abroad with
our money we destroy the necessity
for the big cotton crop and strike from
our limbs the shackles of commercial
slavery that has afflicted and burdened
us so long. We recommend that every
cotton grower plant enough OF these
products consumed at home to supply
his wants and in addition to that raise
all the cotton he can"
POSTAL CLERKS GOING TO FRISCO.
CHICAGO, March 1O.-Two hundred
railway postal clerks, who arrived
here from north, south and east, left
Chicago in a special train over the
Burlington yesterday to attend the an
nual convention Of men Of their voca-
ton in San Francisco. They will be
away IS days, returning to Chicago
March ~. Capt. Lewis L. Troy, SUI
perintendent of the Sixth division Of
the railway mail service, has charge of
the excursion. A day will be spent in
Helena and Portland, where the party
will be given steamer ride on the Co
lumbia river to see the government
works and the salmon fisheries Stops
will also be made at Sacramento and
Los Angeles.
AFTER THE POLE IN A BALLOON.
OTTAWA, Ont. March 1O.-The gov
eminent of Sweden has notified the
government here that Prof. Andrae
will start from Stockholm about the
end of June in his balloon in search of
the north pole, and requests that in
structions be given the officials at diff
ferent points in the northwest terri
tories and Hudson bay to report the
balloon If sighted.
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MAKES THEIR JOBS SURE.