The sun., 1898-04-03
purchase only Colorado-made goods
quality being equal.

! purchase only Colorado-made goods,
quality being equal.
The people of Hamilton, Canada, are
calling upon their municipal leaders to
refuse to extend the street railway COM
pany's franchise and to assume control
OF the road.
Troy Commercial Travellers Associa-
ton adopted resolutions protesting
the manufacture OF shirts, collars, cuffs,
shirt waists and paper boxes in Michigan
S ate prisons.
Said Cleveland's City Fire Director:
4 1T Is my purpose to transfer single fire.
men into the downtown companies and
put the married men in the suburbs,
where rents are ch'aper."
Employers OF stoneworkers in New
York locked out their men because they
were compelled to pay bed rubbers and
| planer men $3.50 day, gauge sawyers
81 a day, diamond sawyers 500 a day
and laborers about the yard $50 day.
The Board OF Police Commissioners OF
Toronto has decided hat hereafter livery
hackmcn shall only work twelve hours
day but they have the privilege Of doing
six hours extra work, providing tEcy are
paid extra for it,
! The English Board Of Trade Announces
| that in the Is trade unions making re-
turns with an aggregate membership of
4Gh, 1862 20,5l7, tor A. per cent, were re-
ported rs unemployed at the end of Feb
ruarv. compared with 1876 per cent. at
the end OF January.
| a bill passed by the Ohio Senate pro-
vdes that the Ohio railroads shall sell
30O-mile mileage books at two cents per
mile. The books may be used by MEM
bcrs OF the immediate family of the pur-
chaser, by members or agents of part
nership by the officers, directors or
agents Of Il corporation.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says there are 200 trusts in the United
States, with total of capital, stock and
bonds, amounting to 81, 662. 100000.
This capitalization is said to be equal to
36 per cent. OF the aggregate capital cred
tied to the manufactures in the United
States by the censns of 1890.
The highest bidder will be given the
telephone franchise in Indianapolis Its
system must be connected with cities
throughout the State. A phone for the
business section must not cost over $40 a
year and residences must be. given SER
vice for S24. The company will lave to
pay the city S000a year.
The Western Union Company proposes
to ask a reduction of its assessment from
$3.50, 00O to $4SO,030. 1t is said the State
Board of Assessors will not on V not re-
ducc the Western Union valuation. but
will, in all probability, raise it to 81 ,G0O,-
coo. where it certainly ought to be-
Kansas City Times.
st. Louis Single Tax League demands
that all franchises of street railway com
panies, gas companies, electric light COM
panies and telegraph and telephone COM
panies, be assessed for taxation ut the
open market value of the stocks and
bonds of these companies. 1t claims
that the total cash value of such fran
chises in the city oi st. Louis is $S0,O00,-
600.
Weinstock and Lubn, owners of Sac
ramento's biggest departm mt store, de-
cided some time ago that their business
would not be perfectly managed until
each employe had personal interest in
the concern. So the company was in
CDl pol ldtttt anu stOth litulit VI SallNatiuL
was given to each man and woman who
had been with them certain period.
They also established school in their
store, engaged books and employed
teachers and announced that they would
give work to no boy or girl who would
not spend portion Of each day at
school.
The agreement signed by Chicago
brick manufacturers not only provides
for an increase of about % cents day,
but recos Mics business agents, the
union label Of the brickmakers and per-
mts sympathetic strikes. The rate per
hour for the various class of labor runs
from %! cents to :l5 cents. When EN-
ployed by the day they will receive $50
for the eight hours work In mud ma
chine yards they must turn ont 10000
bricks a day forthese wages and in hand
yards 5000. All overtime shall be paid
at the rate OF price and a half The settle
ment will practically make it impossible
to secure Il single brick in Chicago which
does not bear the union label.