The bee., 1899-10-05
DOWN IN The MINES.

shipped by tnat company during the
month OF September.
A new air shaft is being sunk for
the Empire Coal Company.
How can It be possible for miners
to be so blinded as to vote for one
wholis a pronounced enemy Of cor
porations when duty requires them
to labor for corporation. An old
saying Is, We should praise the horse
that carries us over the stream
safely. SO should we vote against
the man who would destroy the
source from whence comes our meat
and bred.
Pat Blair was here q short time
last Saturday calling ON friends. So
rushed with work has he been that
he finds little time to visit.
Said miner from South Diamond
mine, astssSunday: 1--WE can't get
time to even go a nut hunting, so
great is the demand for our labor"
Charles Stokes, of the st. Bernard
building force, after sickness of u
few weeks, is again able to resume
work at the new slack bins being
constructed at the coke works.
Said Secretary Atkinson one day
last week when speaking of the great
demand for coal: 1--WE are now be-
hind about one hundred and seventy
cars with our local trade"
Coal agent Hart, who represents
the St. Bernard Coal Co.. at Mt.
hn 81
Atkinson last week.
A coal agent from Nashville was
here last week on the lookout for
coal.
Rumor says that during the CON-
ing winter st. Louis will consume
One-third more coal than last winter
and the question Is, where will the
; fuel come from?
Some remarkably quick work in
loading coal was done few days ago
at the Arnold mine says weigher
Fred Filler; $4,000 lbs. being tipped
and loaded in car I'm eight minal<s.
He says the drivers put up job on
him by rushing him for a few min
utes. What mine in the State OF
Kentucky, and we might say, any
State, that can beat this record OF
loading a car i'm eight minutes.
In order to increase the output OF
the Barnsley mine, we understand
that the st. Bernard Company will
soon increase the mining force there.
AS has been the custom for many
years the st. Bernard Company will
again gladden. the hearts of their
miners by paying them three cents
per bushel for mining coal for the
next six months commencing Octo-
ber LIST.
With seven mines operated In this
county, the st. Bernard Company
are unable to come any way near
supplying the heavy demand made
upon them for coal this year thus
far.
Foreman John Evans, Of the No.
IL mine, says, with the late improve
ment i'm the track at that mine the
locomotive can easily do the work
of hauling the cars from the mine.
when formerly IL was too much for
it.
Weigher Fred Filler and force at
work in the Arnold mine, feel proud
and In fact should feel so, over the
good record made last Friday when
10000 bushels of coal was mined and
loaded on cars, and Ii Is no wonder
that Foreman Rule now carries q
high head and will scarcely recog-
nize Foremen Day and Evans, as he
passes them by.
The Sebree mines have resumed
work after n few days strike, both
sides, we understand cOnceding n
point.
While making the rounds sowing
seeds of discOrd IL would seem from
the following clipping that Purcell,
alias Jones, has struck q snag:
| London, KY, Sept. 30.-W. &. Pur-
cell, a member of the executive
board OF the United Mine Workers
of America, who Is charged with In
| fluencing many of the miners of
Laurel County to lay down their
tools, September 8. and wait till their
wages were increased before going
to work again, was this morning
brought before the bar of justice at
this place. He was charged in this
special case with causing w. Will
liams, an employe of the Pittman
Coal Company, to break his contract
with that company. The jury found
the defendant guilty and fixed his
fine at $50. The remaining four eases
against Mr.. Purcell were set for De-
cember IL.
The Lexington Herald of a late
date contains these expressions from
the pen of a miner at Beattyville,
KY:
"Mr. Goebel being in office as a
Senator got one bill only over the
head of Governor Bradley, an cleo
tion bill. What has IL done for any,
one? We are getting afraid Of such
leaders. The l.. & N. railroad has
done more in one month for the rail-
road employees, and miners, and
farmers of Kentucky than Goebel
will do If he lives to be as old as Me-
thuselahm. The l.. 4 N. Railroad is
n power for good and ought to be pro-
tected. There is an army of laboring
men and their families, depending
upon it for their living and all the
comforts they enjoy. Let them alone
and they will not bother anyone. At
tack them and you will find out that
you have attacked n bear. We don't
hear of any troubles existing between
Il NiC lOoA anu Ato ChiPAOJCbs w h0t
cause has Goebel or any one else to
attack them? They have never done
him any harm, / think we, as good
citizens, and II we have the good will
of our neighbors and friends at heart
and the prosperity of our State, we
ought to encourage all the enter
prises we can get and not fight them.
They are our friends and benefactors,
and 1t is through them, and the labor
they give, we enjoy the comforts of
life. We can go and see our friends
that are at a long distance, we can
even talk with friends since those
great enterprises have come into our
midst. Mr.. Goebel, You are barking
up the wrong stump. We are all
friends, our interests are parallel
with all the grand enterprises In our
State; when you attack one you en-
danger the others; we want no men
to represent us who will array labor
against capital, masses against
classes: we are one people. i was