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The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23

come TO worse straits He is to use the expression Of
unOrganized" and his condition is steadlly growing
worse These articles have to do with the miners OF
the district comprising Crawford and Cherokee coun-
ties where there 5000 of the 5000 coal miners IN
Kansas This district furnishes the largest part OF
the coal mined in the State There you may find the
coal industry on large scale with all its attendant
evils The pluck company store, with It's scrip
system the system Of Withholding wages for com
pany doctor and company blacksmith and the Vall-
GUS other methods by which the companies make
living off their miners all flourish at the expense OF
those who are least able to bear them The coal miner
is obliged to take all these as auxiliary to LABOR OF an
extremely dangerous and disagreeable nature ana S
an added drain upon wages which are poor enough
al hest He is brought up to the work. his father ana
grandfather before him have also been miners and ne
is tied down to his occupation Yet he receives lor
skilled labor less than is paid the ordinary DAY lsDoe
and in addition he is held in bondage which makes the
term free country" merely mockery. The miners OF
Kansas have fought against their enslayemen tor nj
teen years in the face Of many discouragements anu
the fact that they have not been driven to hopeless an
archy is wonderfully strong evidence of that which
gives our country its place among the nations OF the
world
During the miners dull months, when other people
save on coal he is compelled to be idle and this IN IT.
self is potent enough to discourage the man VINO
hardly receives living wages when he does have work
AS Bennett Brown State Mine Inspector under GOV
ernor Morrill, said in his first report:
1T is not so much the amount earned per day-al-
though eyery man who knows anything or the danger
and discomfort attendant upon work IN coal mine
will admit it Is far too ow-that dlstresses ana pau
perizes but the number of days men have an oppor-
tunity to work. If any man thinks the WORD paupef-
ize Is too strong let him AXE his WlIe ana TWO ol
three children, rent house, support his family
send his children school and keep out OF debt on
less than 81 per day. and he will soon find his spirit OF
independence getting to very low eDD great ueal
has been said and written about the disgusting, de-
grading and dangerous corruption all too prevalent at
our elections The most effecual way to commercial
ze man is to reduce him through poverty below the
dignity Of civilized human being"
The miner Is certainly commercialized The owners
of the mines miss no opportunity to squeeze their men
and they certainly have the process down to ine oa-
sis. To appreciate this, you have only TO follow
miner in his work. After he has mined a certain
amount of coal he is permitted to draw scrip rep
resenting payment for the work he has done 1t rep
rssents fuH payment but it is really for part OF what
he has done The company wthholds house rent, II
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23
THE KANSAS MINER
AND THE
.SCRIPAnD SCREEN INDUSTRY
BY DAN DENF1A1

BY DAN DENHAr1
,LlvsrsAr,ors az REUBEN roSsl

A prominent Kansan said recently, i haze
been through the labor mill, and have worked
at as many different kinds Of labor as almost any
one, but from all that have seen l know tnat
there is no class of men in the United States
who are so pinched and ground down in the
struggle for existence as the coal miners OF the
country" This man occupies one Of the high
est offices in the gift Of the State and he has
had a varied experience which enables him to
speak with authority. The truth Of what - says
W The Kansas miner ig rpallV much Dettec OH
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23


things generally unless there
time when he shall have
miner demo allied and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
Tariff for Santiago.

Washington, July 18.-The president has signed the war tariff for Santiago and it takes effect tomorrow. It adopts in general the privileged rates now giv- en by Spain there and makes that tar if uniform for all countries, including the United States.
 The tariff was signed by President Mckinley after a brief conference late this afternoon with Secretaries Gage and Alger, The instructions were 1m- mediately cabled to the authorities in charge of Santiago by Secretary Alger so that the tariff can be put in force to- morrow morning. The new tariff takes the place of the discriminative tariff now in force there. This country took as it's basis the rates accorded products of Spain and applies them to all coun- tries, not even excepting the United States.
 The most important change effected is a reduction of the tonnage duty on ships carry 1000 tons or more, which go in and out of the port, from the pres ent rate of $1 a ton to the rate of 20 cents a ton. This old prohibitive ton- mage tax under the Spanish custom has been additional to the customs duties In contrast to the 20 cents rate declar- ed for Santiago is our own tonnage of three cents and that of most of the other countries of three or four times that much. The heavy export duty on tobacco and certain other Cuban pro- ducts and the five per cent. export tax on iron are retained, for a while at least.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
THE SANTIAGO TROOPS.
Those That Fought VIII Not be Elm
 ployed at Porto Rico.

Washington, July 19.-It has been fin- ally decided that none of the troops who participated in the actual fighting before Santiago shall be employed on the Porto Rico expedition. There are two reasons for this, first, the men have suffered severely from hardships, the climate and from levers, and are entitled to rest; second, it is deemed to be very bad practice to allow the soldiers who have been exposed to vel low fever to be brought in contact with those fresh from the United States. There is also still another sea- son. a purely military one. Ten thou sand Spanish troops are at Holguin, Manzanillo and other points within striking distance of Santiago, and might not lose an opportunity to recov- CT ground lost at Santiago, if the place was left insufficiently protected. There fore Shafter's entire army is to be kept on guard on the high hills in the rear of the town until the men have stamped out the yellow fever. Then they will take turn at the Spaniards if they can be found, and it may be that Shafter's march will end at Ha- vana. He will work as far from his base as possible after his army is thoroughly refreshed, hunting the en- enny wherever they are liable to be found
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
ALGER ANNo UNcEs THE START.
Orders Were Sent Yesterday to Miles
 and SampsOn

Washington, July 1S.-Secretary Al ger, as he left the White house at mid- night, announced that the vanguard of the Porto Rican expedition had started from Cuba. Orders were sent to-day to General Miles by Secretary Alger and to Admiral Sampson by Secretary Long to start for Porto Rico as soon as pos- sible. The Yale, carrying General Miles and part of the expedition and other transports carrying the remaind- CT of the troops of General Shafter's command destined for Porto Rico, will proceed to the landing place agreed up- on under convoy of Admiral Sampsons S vessels. Upon their arrival a landing will be effected under the guns of the Warships.
 Large forces will be hurried to Por- to Rico from the United States. The troops at Charleston, which have been ready to leave for several days, are un- der orders to start late tonight or O. morrow Unless delays that are now unexpected occur all of the troops at Charleston will have embarked be- fore sundown tomorrow. The regular troops will be hurried to Porto Rica as rapidly as ships can carry them. It is the expectation of the secretary of war that within ten days 40,000 Ameri- can troops will be on Porto Rican soil.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19

ed by the military occupant, but unless de- stroyed under military necessity, are not
 to be retained. While it is held to be the
 upon the enemy in their seaportS towns, or
 provinces which may be in his military oc-
 cupution by conquest and to apply tie pro-
 ceeds to defray the expenses of the war
 this right is to be exercised within such, limitations that it may not sayor of contis-
 cation. As a result of military occupation,
 the taxes and duties payable by the inhab- itants to the former government become payable to the military occupant, unless he sees fit to substitute for them other rates or modes of contribution to the expenses of the government ..
 The moneys so collected are to be used
 for the purpose of paying the expenses of government under the military occupation, such as the salaries of the judges and the police and for the payment of the expenses of the army. Private property taken for the use of the army is to be paid for when possible in cash at fair valuation, ana when payment in cash is not possible, re- ceipts are to be given. All ports and places | in Cuha which may be in the actual pos session of our land and naval forces will be opened to the commerce of all neutral
 powers, as well as our own, in articles not
 contrarAnd of war, upon payment ot the
 prescribed rates of duty which may De In
 force at the time of the importation.
 | (sigpen William Mckinley. | By order of the secretary of war
 II. c. Corbln, Adjutant General
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
TITO SPANISH PRIZES.
They Reach Key West After Being
 RMffeted AhOut.

Key West Fla, July 18.-The schoon- CT Three Bells and the sloop Pilgrim, captured by the gunboat Dixie, near Manzanillo on July 6, arrived here to- day under prize crews consisting of Lieutenant s. M. Blount and Gunner s Mate J. K. Hatton. with four marines each. The prize crews, in bringing their spells to port encountered sui- eide and Spanish bullets and buffeted about by hostile winds, drifted help lessly about in strange seas until we'll nigh hopeless of ever reaching shore.
 Both prizes were under the British flag bound from Kingston, Jamaica, for Manzan1llo, with food supplies. On the Three Bells was Captain E. J. Harding, an Englishman, and crew of five, three of them Jamaica negroes The Pilgrim carried a Dutch captain and four seamen. The captures were effected without difficulty and Blount and Hatton, neither of whom had ever been at Key West, began the journey here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
NO FEAR OF CAMARA'S SQUADRON Spanish Threat to Send Part Here Com
 sidered n Bluff.

Washington, July 1S.-Secretary Long said to-day that no apprehension what ever existed over the Spanish threat that the Camara squadron would be divided, part of the ships coming to this side to attack American seaport cities. This is looked upon as sheer bluff, and 1t will not have the effect of changing any of the navy plans or of withdrawing any ships for service on the Atlantic coast. Should the Spanish threat be made good, ships more than match for any of Camara's vessels would be available at any Atlantic port on short notice. No time has been set for the departure of Commodore Wat sons squadron for Spain, although this move, also, is drawing near rapidly. Secretary Long said to-day that re- ported new lists of the ships of this squadron were inaccurate as the list had not been finally made up.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
Dedication Amounts to s4oo .ooo.

Springfield, Mass, July 1S.-The tenn porary receivers of the Hampshire Savings bank of Northampton have given out a statement to the effect that the dedication of Treasurer Lew is Warner amounts to $400,000. With the $240,000 which Bank Examiner EWer estimates was taken from the Hampshire County National bank, Warmers peculations amount in the aggregate to $64O,0oO. To cover his peculations Warner overestimated the amount of deposits and the number of depositors, and overvalued the securi- ties held by the bank.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19

al Randolph, two light and ten heavy batteries. It is possible that all of the cavalry will not be called upon.
 General Brooke will take with him most of the First and Second brigades of his army corps, the First. These are in addition to General Ernst's brigade at Charleston, Second brigade, First di- vision, General Haines, Fourth Ohio, Third Illinois and Fourth Pennsylvania, Fourth brigade, Colonel Culver, First Kentucky, Third Kentucky, Fifth H. linois; Second division, Colonel J. S. Poland, commanding, First brigade, Brigadier General c. T. Roe, Thirty first Michigan, First Georgia, One Hun dred and Sixtieth Indiana; Second bri- gade, General Mckee, Sixth Ohio, Elev- enth Indiana, First West Virginia; Third brigade, Brigadier General Ros- ser, Second Ohio; First Pennsylvania, Fourth Minnesota.
 The part which the navy is to take in the assault against Porto Rico has been fully matured. The several transport fleets will have with them one or two auxiliary craft carrying strong secondary batteries of six or eight six pounders. Secretary Long said this af- ternoon that no time had been fixed for the departure of Admiral Sampson S fleet for San Juan. As to the naval plans, he would only say that they would cooperate in every way with the movements of the army The report that three monitors were on their way from Key West to San Juan was char acterized by the secretary as unauthor- ized. It is the general understanding that the navy will rely mainly on ar mored ships for the bombardment of San Juan, as the big battleships and monitors afford the best means of of- fensive warfare, while their armor belts protect them from such fire as the San Juan batteries can bring to bear. The Notifications there are like those at Santiago with Morro castle, at the en- trance of the harbor and a number of lesser Qualifications leading up to the city. These, however, are viewed with less awe since an examination of the Morro batteries at Santiago has shown them anticipated, and capable of little effective resistance. The movement ot the ships from Santiago to their new fields of action will begin at once and it is probable that some of Admiral Sampsons ships were detached to-day and will proceed with General Miles first expedition towards Porto Rico They will be needed to cover the de barkation of the troops on the Porto Rican coast. The others will follow as soon as the full army expedition is ready to make landing, when the at tack will begin simultaneously on land and sea.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
PROVIDENCE PENSION FRA ups.
Three More Persons Arrested for Al.
 Ieged Irregularities.


 Providence, R. l., July 1S.-Three more persons who are alleged to have been concerned in irregularities in the drawing of pensions from the national government were arrested this after noon. One of the three was James Nolan, notary public, who has place at 15S Charles street. He is accused of ante-dating pension vouchers. Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds and her daughter were arrested, charged with drawing a. pension for Mrs. Reynolds, to which she was not entitled. The woman had been married twice, her first husband being veteran in the civil war. After marriage the second time she claims to have found that her new husband was not legally married to her by reason of another marriage and she then applied for pension on account of her first husbands service in the war. The government claims that her second marriage was a legal one.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
THE CRUISER BUFFALO
To be Fitted With Guns and Sent to the
 War,

Washington, July 18.-There Is yet some dispute over the final disposition of the cruiser Buffalo, formerly the Nichtheroy, now at Norfolk. The bu- reau of construction has reported that to put her in frst-class shape would cost $250,000. The department refused to expend such an amount, and for a time it was supposed that the Buffalo would not become cruiser. Comman- der Hemphill, who will command the Buffalo if she is converted into cruis- CT, informed the department. that with a crew he could make the repairs deemed necessary, such as tearing out the woodwork and replacing it with iron work and getting rid of yellow fe- yer germs that may be lurking aboard the ship. It has been decided to allow this, and the ship will be fitted out with guns and sent to the war. She has been ordered to New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
THE SPANISH PRISONERS,
Orders Received at Portmouth to Pa role All the Officers.

role All the OUicerS.
 Portsmouth, N. H., July 1S.-All the sick prisoners of the Harvard were landed early in the afternoon and taken to the new hospital building near the other fever-stricken patients. While the condition of the men in the hospi- tai, generally sepaking, is improving the critical cases are still likely to re- suit fatally, two deaths having occur red during the afternoon. At 5:30 these bodies were given burial with the usual honors. Orders were received allow ing the transfer of six Spanish nurses from the stockade to the naval hospi- tai, but as their officers refused to vouch for their safe return, Colonel Forney, U. S. M. C., had them returned to the stockade. The health of all the men inside the stockade is excellent.
 Orders were received to-day paroling all of the Spanish officers included in Portsmouth and vicinity. The officers in charge at the island have endeav- ored to instill into the Spaniards the necessity of discipline and to keep con- stantly before them the lesson of our flag. The remaining officers on the Harvard were landed from the vessel under the direction of the Washington authorities just previous to her sailing They were two surgeons and several with staff rank. Lieutenant Moses has received telegraphic orders to report at Washington at once. The arrangement of the guard and battery at the camp now makes escape out of the question: Captain Russell is quoted as saying You cannot drive these Spaniards out side the stockade. They are just be- ginning to find out what life is.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
BLANCO IND TOR1E,
Were Given a Free Hand i'm Surrender
 of Santiago

London, July 19.-The Madrid corre- spondent of the Times says: Captain General Blanco and General Toral were given a free hand in the surrender of Santiago as the government did not desire to expose itself to such criticism as followed the destruction of Admiral Cervera's squadron when it was alleged that the government ordered Admiral Ceryera to quit the bay. The necessity of making peace is now universally ad- mitted, but the necessity of making it quickly is less generally realized. and partly owing to Senor Sagasta's inde- cision, apparently nothing definite is being done by the government, which seems in no hurry to make proposals"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
DEWEY STOPS GERMAN SHIP
SHOT FIRED ACROSS THE BOW OF
 THE CRUISER IRENE.

Attempting to Enter the Harbor With
 out the Consent of the American Ad-
 miral-Requested to Stop and Refused
 whereupon the Shot Was Fired
 British Captains Significant Lan~
 guage to the German Admiral.
 London, July 19.-The Hong Kong correspondent of the Daily Mail says: United States Consul Wildman in- forms me that as the German cruiser Irene was passing Mariveles, off Ma nila, the other day, the United States gunboat Hugh McCulloch was sent af- ter her to ask her to stop. As the Irene refused to obey a shell was sent across her bow and a small boat went to discover what she was doing. The admiral protested and insisted that German ships had right to enter the harbor without being searched, a claim which Admiral Dewey declined to rec ognize. It is reported that Admiral von Diedrichs, who is in charge of the German squadron at Manila, interview ed Captain Chichester of the British cruiser Immortalite, as to what he would do if the Germans interfered with the bombardment of Manila. Cap tain Chichester replied that only Ad- miral Dewey and himself knew that"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
To Disband "Mosqutto F1eet.~

Boston, July 1S.-It was learned at the navy yard to-day that the so-called ..mosouito feet of coast defense yes sels. is to be disbanded and all the twenty-nine vessels of the various types attached to it at present, except the monitors, sent to Cuba or southern waters. The monitors will remain scattered along the Atlantic coast as coast guard, practically because as they have no modern armament and the government has none to give them, and because of their snake-like speed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
THE CHINESE REBEL1KoN.
Secretary Curzon ofForeign Office Guess
 toned in the CommOns

London, July 1S.-The parliamentary secretary for the foreign office, George M. Curzon, replying to-day in the house of commons to questions on the Chi nese situation, said the British consul at Canton reported that six thousand badly armed rebels had encountered a detachment of imperial troops on July ' at an unknown place, and had esei-t wards retreated westward with loss. The rebellion, he added, was not yet suppressed, and reliable information on the subject could not be obtained.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
Against Christian Scientists.

Providence, July 18-The appellate court to-day handed down an opinion in which it is held that Christian Sci entists are not medical practitioners in the legal sense of the term. This is the case in which Mrs. Mylod, Mrs. An thony and Mrs. Taft appealed from a decision of the lower court on constitu- tional grounds. The court did not pass upon the constitutional question. They were charged with praoticing medicine without a permit.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
CARLISTS READY TO RISE
HAVE SECRETLY SENT FORW6Rn
 ARAS AND AMMUNITToN.

Are Placed in Many of the Smaller
 Towns Along the French Side of the
 Frontier-When the Signal Is Given
 They Can be Taken Across in a Single
 Night.
 London, July 19.-The Madrid corre- spondent of the Daily Mail says. Tt is we'll known here that for some time past the Carlists have been secretly placing stores, arms and ammunition in many of the smaller towns along the French side of the frontier. When the signal for Carlist rising is given the taking of these supplies and munitions of war across the frontier will oocuy at the most a single night, as the, generals are ready and know that they must move quickly.
 ''The government has increased meas- ures of precaution to nip in the bud any attempt of the kind. During the last few days more troops have arrived at Tolosa and Vergara, two points of strateglcal Importance in the last civil war. The signal for the rising will probably be given in the country be- tween Catalonia and Valencia, the ''maestrazgo country" and in Navarro, where Don Carlos has his most fanati- cal partisans. The Basque provinces will follow when the garrisons there shall have been weakened by the neces- sity of sending troops to fight the Carl- ists in Navarro.
 1T have also information that the rex publicans especially those of Valencia and Andalusia, are buying arms. Gen. eral Weyler is reported to be in com- munioation with both the Carlists and the republicans.
 ''El Imparcial accuses President Mo- Kinley of deliberately prolonging the war in order to carry 1t into Spain to enable England in the final settlement to derive territorial advantages at Gib- raltar or in the Canaries."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
The Charge NoIled.

Baltimore, July 1S.-By direction of the attorneyl general the charges pend- ing against General Carlos Roloff and John T. Smith, who were under in- dictment charged with conspiring to violate the neutrality laws by convey ing arms to Cuba, were nolle pressed to-day. Dr. Joseph J. Luis was con- victed of the charge and served an eighteen months sentence in the Bal timore jail. Smith was never located and Roloff is supposed to have gone to Cllba
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
Dr. Andrews Reclamation,

Providence, R. l., July 1S.-The ad- Brown university met this afternoon, and after considering the resignation of Dr. Andrews adjourned without calling & special meeting to pass on it, as re- quested by Dr. Andrews. The corpora ton is not likely to act before its meet ing in September