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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
Rowing a Lost Art in the Navy.
, the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
Naval officers deplore the lack of interest
among enlisted men of the service in the
oId-time boat races which were a pictur-
esQue feature of sea life in port. The art
of rowing is rapidly becoming lost one
and it Is with difficulty any of our ships Of
war now produce a crew which can row
with the Scrub" crew of any foreign ves-
sci.
Our men dislike to pull a boat, and get
out of the irksome task whenever they
can. Little of it is done in these days,
even at drills. Steam launches are used
almost entirely in going between ships and
the shore. When landing parties are to be
conveyed the steam launches are also
boats in the service. The result is that en-
listed men know less and less each year
about rowing; few of them pull an oar as
did the old sailor; and one of the best pas
times of the man before the mast has
passed with the extension of steam.
The older officers say there is a noticeable
failure in other qualities which distinguish
ed the sailor man, who knew about masts
and ropes and the management of canvas.
The modern sailor Is such only in name; he
is in reality "blue jacket" whose work Is
made lighter by mechanism and who lives
in an age of electricity and steam.
There Is some talk of devising a method
by which the old-time accomplishments of
the sailor shall be preserved. 1t is pointed
out they made him good and useful man
in time of action, and IL is said the best
men at Santiago and Manila bay were those
who knew something of the old navy.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15

Gratis have retired from politics; others, ex-
Senator Brice among them, have died. The
peculiar feature OF tnis years Ohio elec-
cities, which have been gaining enormously
in population, and in the anti-corporation
acts of some officials. The present gov
Republican associates at the big Hanna
fight for senator in Columbus. The attor-
ney general, Mr.. Monnett. whose contro-
versy with the Standard oil concern has
brought him into considerable prominence,
is a Republican. Mayor Jones. of Toledo
Municipal Ownership" Jones-is Re
term OF mayor on the Republican ticket
Previously, heretofore, radical projects IN
finance or administration have been under-
taken in Ohio by Democrats Ihe Repuo-
lican party of the state, the couservative
force in Ohio politics, has arrayed ltseli
against violent, radical and sometimes IN
cendiary plans and methods, and in the en-
counter between the two the Republicans
have almost invariably won.
In the memorable election of 1877, how
ever, they took contrary course, espous-
ing the views OF many discontented rad
icals and declaring their sympathy with
the conditions of the honest and industrious
laborers who are willing to work, but re-
main unemployed, or are employed at
wages inadequate to comfort and independ-
ence." In the ensuing battle they We're
overwhelmingly defeated by Clncinnati
business man nominated on the Democratic
ticket for governor, though at that period
Hamilton county, which includes the city
of Cincinnati, cast only $1,000 votes. and
Cuyahoga, which includes the city OF Cleve-
| land, cast only $500 in a total of $4,000.
The present vote of Hamilton county is
10000, and of Cuyahoga county 5000. Both
| Cincinnati and Cleveland have Democratic
| mayors, and the projection OF any such
issue as municipal ownership or state reg
ulation into this years contest would have
| the effect only of solidifying the Demo-
| cratic forces in the large cities, and 1t is
in the large cities that Ohio Republicans
| look for their majorities and usually get
them The country districts of the state,
and especially in Southern and Central
Ohio, are strongly inclined to the Demo
| cratic party, and in the presidential cleo
| ton of 1896 Bryan carried outright thirty of
the counties of Ohio. and in ten other coun-
ties. was defeated by small vote only In
| each. 1t was a full vote, a presidential
year, and an Ohio Republican as STAN
dard bearer of the party, but despite these
| disadvantages Bryan and Sewall polled 4
| per cent OF the vote of the state, and out
side of it's large cities their proportion OF
the total vote was little over 50 per cent.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
WILL BE HEARD FRIDAY.
Constitutionality of Court of Visita-
tion Law to BE Tested
This Week.

LEAVENWORTH. KAS, June H.-(Spe-
ciaI.) The case to test the legality Of the
Kansas court of visitation will be heard
before Judge Hook, of the federal court,
here Friday. The title of the case is the
Western Union Telegraph Company against
A. ]. Wyatt, state solicitor of the court of
visitation, and the court of visitation. The
court of visitation upheld one Thompson
who brought suit against the telegraph
company for refusing to send four mes
sages at the rate fixed by the Kansas legis-
lature.
Monday suit involving 100000 of prop
erty, comprising 1880 farms along the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad from
Junction City to Parsons, will be heard.
The government has sued to cancel the
original grant of this immense tract to
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Company, claiming it was obtained by
fraud. The land was subsequently sold in
farms and the present owners of the 1,S00
farms are made defendants to the suit.
The land-has been held by the present oc-
cupants for twenty-five years. The grant
lies along the line of the Katy as it runs
through Geary, Dickinson. Morris, Wa
baunsee, Lyon and Chase counties.
The damage suit of Jacob BadSky against
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
consumed to-day's session Of the court. A
verdict is expected in the morning. Bad
sky claims to have been struck by a mail
pouch in the interchange of pouches at
Overbrook, Usage county. He claims it
struck him on the elbow and inflicted DAM
ages to the extent of $4,000.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
CRISIS is NEAR AT HAND.
Pittsburg Mining Trouble to Take a
Turn One Way or the 9th
er Soon.


PITTSBURG, kAS., June 14.-(Special0
AS the 18th of June approaches the strike
situation is attracting more attention and
although 1t has remained about the same
for the past week or ten days, a pronounc-
ed change is predicted after the 18th, either
with general understanding and agree
ment, or general order to strike. The
understanding has been that If an agree
ment is not reached at to-morrow's confer
ence of the operators and executive board,
board Of arbitrators would be chosen and
its decision would be abided by. but
there are many who firmly believe that, if
an agreement is not reached tomorrow,
the board will ignore the agreement to
abide, by the decision of an arbitrating
board and push the strike agitation to Its
limit. The report that trainload of ne
groeS would arrive last night and be put
to work in the Yale and Fleming mines OF
the Western Coal and Coke Company caus-
ed no little talk on the streets, and more
or less quiet excitement prevailed.
The excitement caused by the report in
the mining camp was more pronounced.
Miners from Midwa Nelson Fuller
rvas 81 With ae s" and
other firearms. The imported miners did
not appear, however, but the reception
men. remained at Yale all day, and when
| the Missouri Pacific passenger train from
the north passed through there this morn
i ing II was neIu Inc miners entered tne
| train and 1t was thoroughly searched. A
| freight train following the passenger was
| also held up until every car was searched
| for negroes. The men were stationed in
| squads along the track and sentinelS pa
| trolled up and down for a mile and on all
sides of the little mining camp. Frontenac
and Pittsburg and Midway miners were
| idle all day because of the rumored arrival
| of the darkies.
| Superintendent Craig was seen in the
| company's Offices in this city this afternoon
and said that he had not yet received any
advices as to the shipment of miners black
| or white. from any place. While he would
not commit himself upon the subject, he
intimated that coored miners would be
brought in to take the places of striking
white men if an agreement was not reached
|
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
LOSS OF THE L0cH sL0Y.
Thirty Persons Perish by the Wreck
ing of a British Ship on Kan
garOO Island.

VANCOUVER, B. c.. June 1.-Mail ad-
vices from Australia give details of the
less of the British ship Loeb Sloy and
thirty lives on Kangaroo island, news of
which was briefly covered by cable from
Adelaide, South Australia, May 9. The ves-
sci was driven in the dark on the scrubby
and almost uninhabited shore which blocks
the entrance into st. Vincent gulf.
Only one passenger and three sailors out
of the thirty. souls succeeded in saving
their lives. The rest were lost In the boil
ing surf. These survivors wandered for
days seeking vainly for help. They lived
upon water and provisions cast ashore
were in a pitiabIe condition. Their cloth
ing consisted of few rags and a shirt
each; The names of the survivors are:
William Mitchell, able seaman.
William John Simpson, apprentice.
Duncan McMillin, able seaman.
David Fitzpatrick. passenger.
Mitchell said that the Loeb Sloy drifted
so close to the rocks that she could not be
run out again and struck heavily. An enor-
nous sea was running. Mitchell, who Is an
old seaman n says a,l he never saw ava anyahns nIn
This is the third time he has been wrecked
He says that Captain Nicholl was splen-
did man.
From the time the ship struck he never
moved off the deck, but stuck to his post.
Within fifteen minutes of the time she
struck, all hands were washed overheard.
Two women passengers, Mrs Leichter and
Mrs. Cartilage, widow, climbed the masts
and showed no fear. The masts were
washed down in a few minutes. Kilpatrick
and Simpson were unable to swim. but
fioated ashore on barrel. Mitchell swan
ashore with McMillin. All four survivors
were thrown on the rocks within two yards
of each other. .-.
No complete list of the ships crew !:
available, but among the drowned are sup
posed to be: Captain Peter Nicholl, Peter
Cleland, r. A. CIeIand. George Bowden
Robert Smith, Robert Birnie, G. J. Twidle
| J. Macmillan, T. II. Leach, B. Mulligan
Hugh Mcbride. ]. A. Brown. Archie Mar,
| tin, r. F. Smith,. John Buchanan anc
| GeOrga Lamb.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
Robins Morning Song.
The Listener, Boston Transcript.

The robin is not appreciated as he should
be. and question if he is as we'll known
as he ought to be. even by those experts
in things ornithological who write for him.
To most of them he is rather noisy,
somewhat. vulgar bird, a pleasing enough
object on lawns. How many Of them know
that he is a charming genius for improvisa-
tion-that he is no mere utterer of stereo-
typed and conventional lays, but a true
poet? Many time, on the old place, have
1 been startled into rapt delight at the
sound of bird notes to me all unknown,
and have seen the singer in the robin! How
many Of them, wonder. have heard him,
as / have, in the darkness which precedes
the first faint flush of dawn, rehearse in
exquisitely delicate pianissimo. every turn
and shade and cadence of his usual morn
ing song? oh, the mystical, the uncanny.
the exquisitely pathetic sweetness of it!
The man who could hear it unmoved and
unsoftened were dead-aye. even though
his digestive apparatus performed its func-
tions. and he veXed the eternal skies as he
crawled beneath them. AS l have said, my
knowledge of birds is Slight and you, who
know them better. can perhaps tell me
what bird of them all has so extensive a
vocabulary as Robin?, Love, tenderness,
fear, dislike, appreciation, trust. yea:ning,
terror, sorrow, regret-he hastens to ex-
press them all, and more, and l have heard
them.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
EXPECTED COLORADO STRIKE MA
TERIALIzED YESTERDAY.
10000 MEN WILL BE AFFECTED
NEW EIGHT-HoUR LAW THE CAUSE
OF THE TROUBLE.
Smelling Trust Refuses to Pay Old
Scale for Shorter Hours-Cripple
Creek smelters Will Obey
the Law and Continue
to Run.

DENVER, COL, June 14.-Thc antic-
pated strike at the smelters in Denver,
Pueblo and Leadville, owned by the Amer
lean Smelling and Refining Company, be-
gan to-day. State Labor Commissioner
Smith estimates that 10000 men employed
in the mining and smelling industry of
Colorado will be thrown out of employ
ment if the differences between the smell
ter owners and their employees are not
soon adjusted.
The eight hour law becomes effective at
midnight tonight and it is probable that
steps will be taken tomorrow to bring
test case in the courts to determine wheth-
er or not it is constitutional. 1t is believed
the supreme court will advance such case
so that a decision may be had within
twenty days.
Colorado mining stocks have been de-
clining all the week and it is predicted
that all Colorado securities will sustain
serious losses should the tieup be pro-
longed. 1t is estimated that the loss of
the Colorado railroads from the discontin-
uance of ore shipments during the strike
will be 100000 a week.
Within forty-eight hours, 1t is predicted,
most of the mines in Leadville, ASPEN,
Creede. Ouray and the other mining camps
of the state, with the exception of Cripple
Creek, will be closed, throwing thousands
| of miners out of employment. The low
grade metalliferous mines of San Juan
county already have been forced to cease
operations by the strike at the Durango
smelter. All shipments of ore and fuel to
| the smelters have been ordered stopped
| As a result, many coal mines are prepar-
| ing to reduce their production and some
will close. Almost every industry in the
state will be affected.
The strike is due to the refusal of the
American Smelling and Refining Company
to pay the same wages for eight hours as
it has paid heretofore for ten or twelve
hours, or. in fact, to negotiate with the
be paid under the eight-hour law, which
becomes effective June 15 The smeltel
employees rejected the offers of the smell
ter owners to continue to work at the pres
ent rate of wages until the constitutional
ity of the law shall have been passed upor
by the supreme court. The Colorado Law
is copy of the Utah law, which has beer
sustained by the United States supreme
court.
N. P. Hill, manager of the Boston ant
Colorado smelter in this city, announced
to-day that it would also be closed, a.
there were not enough skilled laborers II
the plant to make three eight-hour shifts
which would be required under the new
law.
A dispatch received fiom Pueblo say.
that the men employed at the blast fur
naces of the Philadelphia smelter, ownet
by the Guggenheims, accepted the nev
schedule of wages and continued at work
but all others went out.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
BROTHERS DIE THE SAME HOUR
John wilmot, of New York, Was so,
and Samuel Wilmot, of Can
ada, Was 76.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
John and Samuel Wilmot, brothers, died
at almost the same hour on Wednesday.
the first at his home, I'll West Seventy
ninth street; the latter at the old residence
of the Wilmot family in Newcastle, Can
ada. John Wilmot was in his SlSt year.
his brother was in his nth year. The cause
of death in each case was heart disease.
Both had been severely i'll for just about
a month, and when John Wilmot died on
Wednesday at noon the family at once
prepared telegram to send to his broth
er's home in Canada. The messenger who
was summoned took the telegram and
started out of the door. As he was leaving
the house another messenger boy entered
bearing telegram which told OF Samuel
Wilmots death at noon Wednesday.
The brothers were born in Canada and
were of an old English family. Both were
ardent sportsmen. In 1854 John Wilmot
came to this city and became grain
broker He retired from business about
fifteen years ago. John Wilmot leaves four
daughters-Mrs. A. G. Wood. Mrs. H. A.
Ogden, Mrs James H. Leverich and Miss
Wilmot-and one son, Charles z. Wilmot
Samuel Wilmot at an early age took up
the study of fishes and soon acquired soma
prominence as an authority on the sub
iect He was placed ultimately in charge
Of the Canadian fisheries. He leaves three
and Mrs. Sanford Mrs. Sanford's first
husband was Dr. Thomas II. Burchard
After DR.. Burchards death she was mar
ried to Henry Sanford. one Of the directors
of the Adams Express Company.
Samuel Wilmot will be buried on Satur-
urday at Newcastle, Canada. His brother
will be buried at Greenwood.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
LOCAL PLANT MAY CLOSE.
President Meyer Explains How Colo
rado Strike May Affect Ar
gentine Smelter

President A. r. Meyer, of the Argentine
smelter, said yesterday that so far from in
creasing business at the local smelter, the
Denver strike will tend to decrease it.
IF the Colorado plants are closed" said
Mr.. Meyer, "the Argentine plant will have
nothing to work on. Little refining is done
in Colorado and little smelling here. The
ores are made into bullion in the Colorado
plants and If we can't get bullion we can't
do any refining. 1t is impossible to tell
how the matter will end, but do not think
there will be any trouble at the plant here.
I'VE have never opposed the union or
ganiZations, and l see no reason why our
men should strike. We are willing to have
an eight hour day, but we are not willing
to pay as much for eight hours work as
point at issue. The Colorado legislature
limited the work of miners and men in
smelters to eight hours. Smelling works
men into two twelve hour. shifts. and pay
them s3 for twelve hours work. The or
dinary Iworkmen get 81 for ten hours
work. No other labor is limited to eight
hours. We are willing to pay for eight
hours work at the same rate per hour as
for ten or twelve. that is, 81 for furnace
men, however, demand as much for eight
hours as for ten or twelve. and that is
where the injustice Of the law comes in.
| The business will not stand it,
| The employees of the Argentine smelter
are not organized, and the managers of the
plant claim that they have no fear of the
| men going out. Instead they will be well
pleased to remain, and it will be no trouble
| for the company to employ plenty of ex-
| perienced men in and around Kansas City
| to do the work.
| At present there are only about three
blast furnaces running at the smelter, and
about seven or eight idle. These were shut
down one at time during the winter and
| spring, and as a result a number of men
| have been thrown out of employment until
| now there are not more than $50 men all
| told employed about the plant The rea-
| son given for closing down here is that
| the ore can be smelted much cheaper in
Denver, and the company saves the cost OF
| transportation.
Everything was quiet about the Argen-
| tine plant yesterday afternoon and last
| night, and the men who are employed
| there have paid little attention to the Den
yer strike. A large number of the mer
were not even aware that a strike was
contemplated They claim that they are
we'll satisfied, and are only glad to hole
| the places they now have.
| Several months ago before the company
| began laying off men there was some tall
of organizing union among the employees
but this idea was abandoned when a mum.
ber of the blast furnaces and other depart.
ments were closed down. The ex-employes
OF the plant were all feeling elated las
night over the rumor that the smelte,
would again open to its greatest capacity
and were anxious to get back to work
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
How They Died.

His pet rabbit bit Georgia boy and
he died in great agony.
An English undertaken fell dead at
funeral he was conducting.
roll top desk crushed Brooklyn mans
finger and paralysis resulted.
Two of a Texas mans children were de-
voured by alligators before his eyes.
Baltimore boy drank bottle of cough
medicine in a gulp and died within an
hour.
A Colorado woman fell through a sky
light on a job printing press and was killed
by the glass.
While cursing his daughter for marrying
against his wishes, a Texas man was
stricken with death.
One of his plow horses gave a Pennsyl-
vania farmer such vicious kick that he
died almost instantly.
In trying on her brothers clothes Mon
tana woman pulled the necktie too tight
and was strangled.
Having fallen and hurt her knee an En-
glish girl used a postage stamp as plas-
ter and blood poisoning followed.
While walking on stilts Missouri boy
fell. One of the stills pierced his side just
below his heart and he died the next day.
William Whist, of Denver, was stricken
by death while praying that he might join
his wife, who had died twenty-four hours
before.
1t was predicted that a Maysville, Ky,
woman would die when a large tree in
front of her house wept The tree wept and
her death followed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
On the Verge of the World.

Mrs. Van Rensselaer, thus describes in
the June Century the effect produced by
gazing up stream at the Niagara rapids
between Goat Island and the Canadian
shore:
At the head of these rapids their rocky
bed is steep and stair-like. It forms, in
fact, long rows of low cascades rather than
a network of rapids: but these cover SO
many feet of descent before they reach
the Sisters that, looking up stream, we
see nothing but cascades.no smoother
feet of force is thus produced, and of mys-
terry also. We seem to have done what,
have reached the horizon. the edge Of
the world. But We cannot look over 1t.
Where do these violent waters come from?
What lies beyond the ragged line they
draw against the sky? 1t may be any
apparently. they are being riven from the
of the second day of the earth's existence
Then the Almighty divided the waters
which are under the armament from the
waters which are above the armament
and it was So" Except in this place at
Niagara. Here 1t is not yet so. The
miraculous division is still going on.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-15
A THOUGHTFUL WRITER.
Find. 1t Pays to Be Thoughtful.

when first read in your advertisements
the serious charges brought against the
old style coffee, 1 knew them to contain
simple and accurate statements of scien-
tihc fact which any physiologist or hy
gienist could substantiate.
Still, as an old coffee drinker, 1t was hard
10 make up my mind to change the old
habit which had become seemingly so fixed
a part of my life. For many weeks l al
lowed myself TO read your sober warnings
and stirring appeals to the conscience and
reason of the people. without taking ac-
tion, Notwithstanding the fact that l had
for years felt the habit was under
mining my nervous force, impairing the
memory, weakening the sight and threat
ening even to soften the brain. had also
my acquaintance of dyspepsia brought
about or largely aided by the accumulated
evils OF daily coffee drinking.
An old restaurant man finally induced
me to give Postum trial, he and his wife
having adopted ii as one of their house
hold staples. I knew him to be somewhat
of coffee connoisseur, and was the more
impressed by his suggestion. My first trial
was unsatisfactory. and / put II away but
fortunately noticed your published warn
ing as TO not cooking the coffee sufficiently
and / saw then that had not given It a
fair trial; so / went at IL again, and this
last trial was sufficient to convince me
that the product is indeed a marvellous in
vention. and justifies all the claims and
more that you make regarding 1t.
Since that time the Postum has become
q daily beverage and a household necessity
with the whole of my family. The benefits
that have come to US have been too many
and too subtitle TO fully specify. In my own
case enjoy a sound sleep at night, walk
ing thoroughly refreshed: my eyes are
stronger and brighter. memory is certainly
better, and my nerves ana digestion i'm.
neasurably improved. 1t is my belief that
coffee and tea drinking is largely responsi.
bic for much of the domestic friction and
misery, owing to the terrible ravages i
works on the nerves and digestion of those
subject to these unfortunate habits" W
Mitchell, The Emporium, San Francisco
Cal.