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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
PLAsTeReD FOR S143,ooo.
Tammany Hall Places Mortgage on i's
Property for That sum.

New York, Aug. 4.-The Society or
Tammany, or Columbian Order, In TINS
city has obtained on a mortgage VAS
600 from the Central Trust company ana
has given as security the property
known as Tammany hall, located on
East Fourteenth street.
The mortgage is given In accordance
with an order of the board of sachems
of the Tammany society so as to wipe
out the balance of an issue OF BONDS
aggregating $225,OOO which were dis
posed of in 1867.
Out of this issue there remains out
standing and unpaid $4,000. when Is
covered by the present mortgage.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
The MARKET ..
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, Aug. 8.
Following were the quotations on the
Board of Trade today: Wheat-Sep-
tember, opened 761sc, closed INC; De
cember opened 775sc, closed !s%c: corn
-Sentember, opened 2S5sc, closed 2S1sc;
December. opened S0c closed 3OAc. oats
september, opened 17Bc, closed lsc;
December, opened 1870, closed Zl1ac;
Professionalism, opened h90, cioSeu
s7q5, Lard-September opened A;SZ1s,
closed s4.35; October, opened S4.3o' closeo
$4.40. ,, .roorrerv
,Aihc ner 10: extra dairy, lie; fresh
p st"ck 1Oc per dozen. Live Poultry
Turkevs 7G9c per ID; chickens. 7@71ac;
snring. 9091bc; ducks, a. SIC NeW
potatoes, $1.65@I75 per Dbl. biackoer
ries-Fair to good, 5Oq65 per io-9.'
case Raspberries-Red, 65@9Oc per "a
pit. case; black, 5oq6Sc per lo-q'' case
Chicago Live stock.
Chicago, Aug. g.
uogs-Estimated receipts for the Gay,
~ 400 Sales ranged at 2.SOQ4:Oo Lor
MOS e.. 7564.OO fer light, $3.55q3.'o 10.
ro,,gb hacking, S3.70@3.95 for mixed ana
90 75G3. 80 for heavy packing ana shtp
ming lots. Cattle-Estimated recelpts ioI
the day. $500. Quotations rahgeu a.
81 90G5.25 for choice to extra shlppai,no %
steers, X4.5Uu4,30 SOOu W 49, - 80 ---.,.,, o.
6I4.6O fair to good, $3.S5q4SC common "
noadium do. S.6O@4.25 butchers steers
90 osSi9 90 stockers, $3S0@4.45 feeders
e. S0S,g 90 COWS. S290@4.30 heifers, S2OOW
. on hiIls oxen and stays, $2.15q4.zo rex
os steers. and $3.25@6.25 veal caves
Sbeen-Estimated receipts for the gay,
90 o00 Prices unchanged. QuotatloOinlsS
ranged at S2.7564.10 western, SZ.I0qS'ooy9
TaYens. 81. 35@4.20 natives and $S'zou''s'
lambs. stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y, Aug. ..
p,r,inr e. stevens, Live Stock COM
..,iesinn Merchants. East Buffalo. N l.,
a,,ote as follows: Cattle-Recelpts,
aore. market quiet and STEADY; tresh
oo,,,s and springers firm S25@5O per neau'
| veals lower, s4.25Q5.3O Hogs-hece1l as.eS
| 10 cars: market opened loWer sa on.
! firmer; Workers, A.2Oqf.Zo; ngnt, $3.50,
| mixed. S410@4.15; heavy anu pooa;nts
| sl.oO@4.10. Sheep and lam I,su,s, nrices
| 2 cars; market STEADY yeai"NeS
| heavy, sheep dull
| st. Louis, Aug. g.
| 1I,sber. No. 2red elevator,
oo,n trock S1GS2c: No. hard cash,
eessNgsee,Lc track: September, S2kc asked !;
December. S2Nc asked. Corn-Hign1e, !,
Ne cash. 37c bid; September, Tzae
asLed. MAY. 3Oxc bid. Oats-F1rm; NO.
oesb 1ec bid; September. lIHc on on
tracI. No. 2 1S1hd1sc; No. 2 white, ~
mSaihc. Rye-Higher; 41h94lhc traek'
milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee. Aug. !.
vbeat-No. / northern, sehc; NO.
,r,ng sac: December, 7eitc
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Heavy Contract for Duck.

Rome, Ca, Aug. 4.-The Rome cotton
factory has obtained the government
contract for 1,3O0,OOO yads of heavy duck
for mail sacks. The amount OF the con-
tract is $25O,000. The mill has peen
forced to purchase new machinery anu
employ a large number of hands at
good wagec
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Cleveland rolling Mill Resumes.

Cleveland. Aug. All departments
of the Cleveland Rolling mills opened
Tuesday. About 1000 men were given
work. Several of the departments smut
down at the time the coal strike begun,
General Manager Wilson Chisholm salo
he did not know how long the WORKS
would continue in full operation.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Slain for His Money.

juneau. Alaska, via Seattle, Aug. s.
News has been received of the murder
of an illicit whisky seller on Prince {
Wales island, between Tolska and wales
bay. His body was found In his CABIN
and close by his sloop lay scuttieo.
1t is thought that he was murdered tor
his money by the Indians.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Coneressman Dingiey's Father Dead

Lewiston, Me-. Aug. 4.-Nelson Ding
ley, father Of Congressman Nelson
Dingley. Jr.. died at his home In TINS
city Tuesday. He was so years OF age
Death was due to . stroke OF parai-
ysis.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

ter 100 OF our men were burned out at
Ontonagon, losing everything they pos
sessed We had never before asked the
least thing at the hands Of any organ
ization outside of our own. But we
did not see how we were to take care OF
SO many helpless people, and made an
appeal for aid. Not dollar came to us
from any source, and we are still sup
porting thirty of those victims OF the
fire. A
yet we must have the union label on
our printing, on our brooms, tobacco
-four, hats, shoes, clothing, cigars, etc.
and If we get careless and buy some-
thing not having the label we are
hauled into the council and denounced
as traitors to union principles. There
is a question here and serious one
though 1t is natural that unions having
labels should ignore 1t as long as pos
sible."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
Railway. Federation.

Charles Daniel, chairman Of the
grand executive committee of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers. says the
movement to federate the railway
brotherhoods is we'll under way.
1.-THE Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen put itself on record as favor
ing international federation at Its con-
vention last year, held in Galveston
taking the initiative in the matter,
said he. TT unfurled the banner OF
federation, around which the telegraph
ers, the conductors and the trainmen
have now rallied, and the four organs
izations will stand as unit when the
occasion demands. The federation Will
doubtless be Endorsed by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers at It's
next convention. With the latter or
ganization in line, the railroad men
will then present solid front, and the
five great orders will be the strongest
body of railroad men ever formed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
Reading as a Mental stimulus.

An eminent French critic said in q
lecture recently in New York that ito
distrust what we like is the first requi-
site of progress in art and in life" He
did not mean that books that are dis
agreeable are the only books worth
reading. But he did mean that book
which opens up a new field Of knowl-
edge, a new outlook upon literature or
life, is not at first likely to give the
pleasure that comes from one which
simply reflects the old familiar ideas
of which we say complacently, How
good and true that is, for I've felt It
or said it myself" A book that pats
YOU on the head or heart all the time
is apt to be little more tina a reflection
of your own narrow experience, and
you will not learn anything from II.
A book that makes one feel ignorant Is
as notifying to ones pride as supe-
rior person.-"Droch" in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
Sunday Closing.

For nearly dozen years the BARRIERS
OF Minneapolis have not worked on
Sunday. They are now discussing the
question of returning to the old seven
days-a-week practice, and it is not i'm
probable that it will obtain. The agita-
ton has only recently been aroused,
and the counter sentiment is very
strong. The journeymen BARRIERS are al
most unit in opposition to Sunday
work. The boss BARRIERS are split over
the question, but the majority want
open Sundays and may win.
The boss BARRIERS believe that Sum-
day closing has done much to democrat
lie the business. One of them stated
that the custom had taught more men
to shave themselves than anything else
could have done. When man learns
that he can shave himself on Sunday he
knows he can do it the rest OF the week,
consequently, the BARRIERS do not look
with much pleasure upon an institution
that lessons the size of their trade.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

Be 1t known that he who has ridden
only on an English pigskin will fine
that there are things he has no knowl.
edge of when he first throws a lel
over the stock saddle of the West; ant
when he has seen broncho bustel
ride bucking mustang on its NATIVE
heath he must admit that, although
the cowboy may be neither neat mol
we'll hammered, he can yet give points
on rough riding to those who follow
the fox-hounds. tr... I... ..
AS the cowboys mode Of riding 70
distinctive, so is his horse furniture,
ard it is admirably adapted to his par.
ticular needs. The stock saddle, for
instance, is as different from the Eng.
lish hunting or park saddle as parl
drag is from a trotting sulky, yet each
is perfectly suited to the purposes fol
which it was designed. The stock sad.
die is of Spanish-American birth, and
must be heavily built sometimes forty
pounds in weight in order to have thu
requisite strength, for the high horr
or pommel is necessary to the cowboy
in all the uses Of the lariat or rope
as it is now almost universally called
and thus it is required to stand the
most sudden and severe strains.
The rope is a very essential article
of the COW puncher's equipment. It IL
ordinarily about forty feet long, and
can be thrown with accuracy perhapi
thirty feet by the average puncher, al
though some use 1t effectively at dis
lance of ten or fifteen feet farther Il
its length is proportionately greater.
In catching stock for in hauling any
thing, be 1t mired wagon, begged
steer, or wood for the campfire, the
rope is given double turn around the
horn, and the saddle must be strong
indeed to endure such work. Moreover.
1t must be tightly girthed over the
heavy saddle blankets, and this calls
for the cumbersome cinch rigging.
which in most parts of the west is
double Allan Hendricks in July Lip
pipGott's. .H.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

While the past experience in the Ia
Dor movement teaches that 1t is usually
bad policy to strike for improved con-
ditions during times of industrial stag
nation or when those engaged therein
are not financially prepared for a long
struggle, the condition of the miners Is
such that no one can but applaud their
determination to no longer work under
conditions that are simply unbearable,
and to unitedly struggle for better con-
diticns. There is hardly any trade that
has suffered such sweeping reductions
OF wages and such humiliating condi-
tons as the miners. and there is no
trade in which the workmen so well de-
serve the highest pay and the best pos
sible conditions. The work is not only
dangerous, but unhealthy as well. The
trade is controlled by gigantic ali l
merciless trust, which robs the pro-
Queer on one hand by reducing wages
to the starvation point, and the con-
sumner on the other by charging exor-
hitant prices-result, great wealth for
the trust, misery and privation for the
people. Coal is simply bottled up sun
shine, put in the bowels of the earth
by the supreme architect of the uni
verse, not for the benefit of the few
but for the comfort and happiness Of
all. The trust has simply appropriated
to it's own profit that which no man or
men produced, but which is, or was, in
tended as a magnificent heritage for all
the people. All this can and should be
changed. In the meantime we honor
and admire the courage of the miners
to make the fight under present sur
roundings for better pay and more fav-
orable conditions. If the miners will
follow up the strike by completing the
organization of the craft the people
will be in fair way to recover their
stolen property, and the petrified sun
shine, which nature deposited in the
bowels Of the earth and intended should
60 to warm the hearth and make glad
the lives of all its children. will soon
be where it rightly belongs.-Cigar
Makers Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
PASSING OF THE MUSTANG.



Wild Horses Are Nc Longer Of Any
Value.
The wild horse Of Texas has become
one of the greatest nuisances within
the borders of the Lone Star state. Not
satisfied with its own freedom the wild
horse has adopted the tactics OF the
Apache and of the Sioux and stampedes
Its brethren, says the New York Her
aid. Novelists have taught us to be-
lieve that the wild mustang is emble-
matte of freedom pure and noble. The
Texas ranchman regards him as an
emissary of the evil one. for he brings
to his ranch despair and loss. For the
last decade the droves Of horses that
run in Texas have been steadily in
creasing in number and strength
Years ago it was worth while to catch
these animals to sell. Nowadays it is
hard work to sell mustang for use
even as cow pony. Formerly 1t was
the case that there was no horse for
the stOckman, the cattle-grower, like
the Texas pony, which had run wild
for the first four or five years of its
life. Lean and sinewy as an Arab,
with the endurance of an Indian and
capacity for steady speed that can
only be likened to locomotive, he
was treasure. Well seasoned, COW
pony could be ridden 100 miles in sin
gle day and come out of the encounter
with fatigue with flying colors. The
wild horse, however-that same ami
NAL which the 10-cent novelist de-
scribes as the "fiery, untamed steed''-
believes the sweets of freedom are so
very sweet that all his brethren in bond
age should share them. With this in
mind, therefore, he swoops down upon
the Enclosure of the ranchman, induces
jumping a barbwire fence and take
chances on clearing the sides of the
corral. The result is that the stockman,
unless one of the riders stops on guard,
Is likely to wake up in the morning
and find his herd stampeded. If it Is
the roundup the first thing the wrang-
lers know thunder of hoofs comes
from the prairie, shrill neighing,
which the herd answers in equally
shrill notes. The hoof beats come near
er and nearer, the herd grows more
and more excited and uneasy, until, fin
ally the wild mustangs dash in and
mingle with the COW ponies and in a
moment more all are off for some place,
no one knows where. The wranglers or
herders will be fortunate indeed, il
they can control their own animals
and avoid being forced to join in the
stampede.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27


From the Detroit Free Press: There
will be a serious question to settle pref
ty soon between those unions having a
label and those having none," said Har-
ry Barter in a recent conversation with
Free Press representative.
"A label Is a great advantage to a
union, and this advantage is largely due
to the loyal support given all labels by
non-label unionists. The latter, after
years of loyal patronage to labels, are
beginning to ask themselves what they
are receiving in return. AS rule the
price of label goods range higher than
the non-label variety, so that loyal
unionist pays many dollars in the
course of a year out OF pure devotion to
the good of organized labor. Many Of
the unions impose fine upon members
who buy non-label goods when the label
variety is to be had. This has resulted
in establishing something like label
monopoly or trust within the ranks of
organized labor in which the unions
without a label are compelled to con-
tribute to label unions without any re-
turn benefits. Yet I venture to say the
membership in non-label unions is the
greater.
"Take my own organization, the
IIongshoremen, as an example. We have
never had one dollar of benefit in any
way, shape or manner from label IN
Il ions; but the latter have had our con-
slant and loyal support in the patron
j age bestowed on their goods. Last win
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

the earliest form. They were y Snail
low receptacle, usually Of pewter, brass
or iron, circular or oval, in shape, and
occasionally triangular, and about two
| or three inches in diameter, with a
| projecting nose an inch or two long.
When In use they were filled with
grease made from odds and ends OF fat
in household use, and sometimes a
little tallOw. A wick, or more often
piece of twisted rag, was placed so the
lighted end could hang over the nose.
A handled hook was sometimes attach
ed, with which to clean out the grease.
These lamps were called Brown
Bettys," "Kials'' or "Crimseys." A
Phebe lamp resembled Betty lamp,
but had shallow cup underneath to
catch the drifting grease. The earliest
known candle was the rush light; the
soaking, peeling, and dipping of the
rushes into grease was the first method
of the candle making industry. The
next invention was the dipping of the
wicks, made of loosely twisted cotton
yarn, into pots of hot tallow. The yarn
was cut into the desired length and sus-
pended by the upper loop on sticks.
These sticks were arranged gridiron
fashion across two beams, whose ends
rested on carpenters horses; each stick
containing several candle wicks, was
dipped into great pots of melted tai
low, the temperature being at GER
tain heat, warm enough to make the
tallow adhere, but not so hot as to melt
the tallow already adhering to the
wick from dipping. After each dipping
the stick was placed on a rack for the
candles to COOL The dipping was re-
peated many times until the candles
were the requisite thickness. When
candles of better shape were desired for
the parlor and ceremonious entertain
ments the tallow was run into molds
of tin, which held six, eight, and twelve
candles, and the colonial housewife
must dip her candles for kitchen and
ordinary use, and mold them for her
parlor and toilet table, and with SO
much labor for so little light 1t was
expedient that the save-all, or candle
wedge, was invented, to preserve every
vestige of the precious illumination.
The save-all was little frame Of pew
ter or brass rings or cups with iron
pins. by which our careful grandmoth-
ers held up the last dying bit OF burn
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
A NEW NATIONAL HYMN.
America Needs Song and an En-
blem.

America Needs Song and an En-
blem.
Two things which America lacks and
which, from the standpoint of senti-
ment, seem to be among the essentials
of every country are national floral
emblem and national hymn, says the
Philadelphia Times. Respecting the first
there exists so much difference of opin-
ion that little prospect Of an immediate
AS to national hymn everybody con-
fesses it's need and in these circum-
stances it is surprising that no authori-
tative steps have been taken to rid the
country of what may not improperly
be regarded as reproach. From time
to time compositions that aim at being
enshrined as the nations hymn appear
in print, but up to this time there has
been produced nothing which appeals
to the American heart as do the ma
tional hymns of Germany or France OF
England to the natives of those coun-
tries. Now, however a new hymn, as
piring to be strictly national has been
given to the public. 1t is called Sound
Forth Again the Nations Voice" and
those competent judges who heard II
sung in Independence square during
the Fourth of July celebration say that
in every respect it is entitled to the
proud place of the national hymn. This
composition is the work Of two Ameri-
cans. The words, which in their ina
gerry and sentiment are thoroughly
American, are by. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and the music, which is in
the meter of "Old Hundred" and ex-
ceedingly simple and harmonious, is
by Charles Crozat Converse. This gen.
tleman, who is a native of Massachus-
etts, graduated from Leipsic in music
in 1857 and in law in 1861. He is the
author of several publications on must
cal and literary subjects and several
hymns composed by him have become
popular and are very we'll known.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

Samuel Coffee of Paulson, Pa, is in
Jail on charges Of illegal liquor selling.
Mr.. Coffee ran the original bicycle
speak-easy. He purchased 81 model
bicycle, and carted his stock in trade
about on his wheel. When he met a
party of men they all drank from the
same canteen, which was fastened Sc
curely to the frame of his wheel. He
was supplied with large bottle full
of sugar pills; these pills he retailed at
20 cents each. He called himself doc
tor and gave each of his patients a
drink from his tin can to wash the pill
down. He is said to have the largest
and most lucrative medical practice in
Armstrong county.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

a That consumption can be cured is the
hope once more held out by Prof. Rob
ert Koch, German scientist whose
name was on every tongue seven years
ago. +, lKoch's ''tuberculin," which was
then tested, with unfavorable results,
was a preparation Of the bacilli of tn
berculosis., The present treatment also
consists of hypodermic injections of
4. these bacilli, but with this difference,
that the bacilh have been broken up by
mechanical means in order to facilitate
their absorption. Doctor Koch does
not promise that the new tuberculin
would be useful when the malady had
reached an advanced stage. He does
affirm that "a large number Of suitable
patients" have been cured by it. It is
noticeable that European scientists
treat this claim with great respect-a
certain indication that, in their view,
Doctor Koch's twenty years study of
tuberculosis may at any time be
crowned with full success.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

The Klondyke excitement does not
abate. Everybody is anxious to learn
-'all about it, and thousands have decid-
4. ed to visit the diggings next spring.
Some will change their minds, still
many no doubt, will take 1t in. There
is. nothing, SO hazardous, you know, but
there are some who are willing to try
It. sKlondyke, in the language of the
street, is simply gamble. Like the
lottery, you put in your money, but you
Seldom draw prize. But it makes good
reading. and everybody is anxious to
Slearn all the cold facts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

IA learned Missouri Judge has decid-
ed that slot machines are not gambling
devices in the eye of the law, and he
cannot see any more harm in playing
tbeH;than there is in taking whirl at
the church grab bag or the elite pro-
gressive' euchre. Gambling, he holds. is
no crime, within itself. If any state
desires to make It crime they must
pass, law covering the case. And slot
machines are not mentioned in the Mis-
souri, statutes. Drop in your nickels
and see the wheels roll. lizils9 li.2l 81.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27
In n CONN 40 Davs,

Rev. H. A. Mcleod, Boston clergy.
man, announces that he will prove to
the most skeptical that the day of mir
acles is not past. He will submit 10
absolute burial four feet underground
and there remain without food, water,
or air for 40 days, at the end of which
time he expects Christ to resuri ect him.