Evening star., 1900-10-17
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS


Representative William Connen Of scran-
ton. Pa. one Of the coal operators whose
collieries are idle on account of the strike
IN the coal region, Is 1T the ShoreAam.
When asked about the situation there ne
said: The general public does not un-
derstand the powder question. The price
has always been regulated by agreement.
Just after the war were paying 81 for
powder and selling ii to the men for 50,
now We are paying S1.25 and selling it for
- Io-al apparently eXOrbitant price. This
IS not as IL appears on lis race. The price
was fixed in connection with the wage scale
and constituted part Of il, and 1t was
understood that no matter what the whole
sale price Of il might be the miners We're
to get IL for the same.
You hear a great deal about the low
wages paid these miners. L operate between
700 and 500 men and | averaged their wages
for the month OF August. During that pilie
we worked twenty-three days, and the aver
age for the entire force FOR that time was
Soj per man. or about $50 per day. One
man earned as high S9l for that time.
while the lowest received SO. These men
worked under similar conditions, so You see
1t depends largely upon the men them
selves. :"
Representative ConneH is a candidate on
the republican ticket for reelection He
says he has hard fight on his hands but
hopes to pull through
try in touch with civlization.' said Mr. +
j. McShane, railroad contractor Of Ne
braska, at the Raleigh last night. I'VE are
building branch for the Chicago Burling-
ton and Quincy system from their junction
in Montana to the city of Cody, Wyo The
road taps the country of the Big Horn ba-
sin and is what is now known as the Crow
reservation. The land is very fertile and is
being taken up rapidly, AMI that now under
cultivation IS yielding fine crops. Cody is
about forty-two miles from the eastern
boundary of Yellowstone Park Tourists
now enter the park fTcm the northwest
and each year as the fame of its natural
beauty spreads the crowds become larger
Il am not talking politics on this trip"
said genial Bob Taylor, former governor
of Tennessee, at the Ebbitt. 4 just stopped
of here TO see some friends on my way
east Governor Taylor will be remem-
bereI as one of the pair OF brothers who
opposed each other candidates of the
republican and democratic parties for the
goVernorship of Tennessee. All" his
brother. carried with him plug OF to-
bacco, while Bob carried a fiddle. Bob
was elected, and his brother always ac-
cused him OF fiddling his way to the gov
ernofship.
Former Secretary Carlisle made a flying
trip to the city to attend TO some legal
business When asked about the situation
in New York. Mr.. Carlisle smiled and said
that II depended upon whom you talked
with. Both sides were claiming the state
1.-The business men are against Bryan in
Nebraska and the state Will go republican
by at least 10, 000'' said Capt. H. E. Palmer
at the Raleigh. Il am in the general in
surance business there and have lived west
OF the Missouri river for over forty years.
Our farmers, who never had dollar to call
their own before, paying off their
mortgages and have money to lend them
selves. The best element OF the democrats
of the state are against Bryan. Ex-Gov.
Boyd Is working hard for the success of
Mckinley.
Il want to tell you another thing. Roose-
welt Is wonder. Why, when he spoke
through Nebraska the Burlington railroad
was forced to press into service their box
cars TO accommodate the crowds
Mr. James Slauson of Los Angeles, a
member of the southern California fruit
exchange, is a guest at the Arlington.
Speaking of the orange and lemon industry.
which is the principal occupation in his
section of the state, he said:
1--WE intend TO drive the foreign orange
and lemon from Uncle Sans markets. Not
withstandng the fact that We have had
three dry years. southern California has
shipped this season over $4,000 carloads of
this fruit. During these cry years We have
been obliged to irrigate extensively, but ii
has been a good thing for the country as
1t has been the means of developing a
splendid system of wells and foot-hll irri-
CATION.
1--WE are reaching 40 per cent of the
markets now, and our growers are rapidly
adopting the cooperation marketing sys-
tenn. This system enables them to keep in
constant touch with the market, and 80 per
cent of the output of southern California
is controlled by our exchange. Our
system of collections are such that we did
not lose over the price of carload dur
ing the entire year. and that too, with a
crop worth between seven and eight million
dollars.
Our peaches are also obtaining a firm
foothold in the east. In this connection |
want TO mention the fact that we do not
have an orchard such You do here. We
have grass under the trees at all. the
soil about them being perfectly bare. owing
to the fact that the grass il permitted.
would soon become rank as to seriously
affect the orchard"