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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-23
IOWA AT WASHINGTON.
Matters Concerning iowans at the Ma.
tionaI Capital.

Matters Concerning toWans at the Ma.
tionaI Capital.
Washington, April 20.-John Meis
has been appointed postmaster at Oy-
ems, Plymouth county. vice John d.
Refund, deceased.
Postmasters commissioned: Wm.H.
Drake, Palo; Clara Trout, Libertyville;
Henry S. Phillips, Van Meter.
Iowa Pensions.
Original-John P. Houser, Center
vile, Sc; James Velie, Shenandoah,
Sc; Peter Hersch, Dubuque Sc. In
crease-John Hutchinson, Alton, S24;
Robert N. Gilbert, Villisca, s14;
Thomas l.. Reed, LaPorte, $12. Refs
sue-Winfield S. Upton, Marshall
town, $l2. Original widows-Chris-
tine Spoerl, Dubuque. IS; Harriet L.
Engelsherger, Council Bluffs, SIS. War
with Spain, original-John c. Healde,
Guthrie Center SIT.
The bee., 1901-11-28

left, and he followed me down
the street to the hardware store. "
81 went to the store and asked
the proprietors for a double
barreled shotgun to protect my
self with, but was refused the
gun. 1 then took my pistol out
of my pocket and went to the
front of the house where he was
standing, apparently waiting for
me. AS soon as Bradley saw me
he commenced to shoot. l re-
turned the fire as soon as / could.
He fired the first shot. | emp
tied my gun, and suppose he did,
too. / tried to hit him in the
arm, SO as to disable him. /
don't know whether he Is hit or
not. l am not shot anywhere.
Before the shooting he called me
all kinds of foul names. We
had always been the very best of
friends, and J. regret very much
this affair. / voted for his
brother for the Legislature, and
worked for his election, too. l
am sorry it occurred"
The pistol that is said to be-
long to Mr.. Bradley had only two
empty cartridges in it.
The bee., 1901-11-28
Another Difficulty.

sentativ e-elect r. B.
Bradley approached W. A. Mis-
bet this morning in the court
house and caused a war of words
and considerable excitement, the
discussion revolving around the
union, which Mr.. Bradley has re-
Gently been championing. To-
night in the office of Hotel Lu-
cile Bradley drew his revolver
and threatened to shoot Mr.. Mis-
bet, abusing him and saying "I'll
shoot your eye out" Mr.. Mis-
bet was sitting in the hotel and
had not been talking to Bradley.
The latter, when some one asked
him how his brother was getting
along, became enraged and per-
sonating Mr.. Nisbet drew his re-
-Voiver and7-nade the remark
quoted. He was restrained and
taken out of the hotel by Charles
Bradley, his brother, and James
Franceway who is clerk in the
hotel and a city councilman.
The bee., 1901-11-28
The Country Editors PRAYER.

An overworked editor attended
prayer meeting the other night and
was called on to pray, which he did
in the following manner: "Kind
Father, thou knowest all things and
thou knowest we have a large num-
ber of delinquent subscribers on our
list and that the flour is so low in
the barrel that splinters are fire.
quently found in the biscuit; also
that the sorghum jug is empty and
the coal pile so small it can scarcely
be seen with the naked eye. Put in
their hearts to come on with the long
promised load Of corn and the sue
ulent turnips that we may eat and
be filed. The subscriber knoweth
not the state of our finances, neither
does he step in to inquire. Make it
known unto him that we are now
wearing large patches on the home
stead of our summer pants and ere
long the chilling winds of winter
rushing out of the frozen north will
blow where it listeth and the mus
keeter bar habiliments in which we
are now arrayed affordeth but little
protection. Thou knowest it takes
ink, paper and printers to run a
newspaper, but the subscriber does
not, neither does he care. Show him
all these things and then If he hard
eneth his heart and stiffeneth his
neck and does not ante up, consign
him to the lower regions with the
populist calamity howlers an Hop
kins county politicians. Amen"
The bee., 1901-11-28
MINERS GALORE
Passed Through Henderson-Had Been
Members Of the Union Camp at
Nortonvile.

From Mondays Henderson Journal.
twenty-five or thirty miners
were in the city yesterday. They
had been in the union camp at
Nortonville, which broke camp
during Saturday night, in obedi-
ence TO an order of Judge Hall.
A journal man interviewed
several of the men and was told
that the union miners had all
left the camp for their various
homes and had decided it was
best not to longer defy the courts.
The bee., 1901-11-28

so evident that when a new con-
tract was made in April last be-
tween the same two contracting
parties this outrageous clause
was omitted.
Thus far no criminal action
has been instituted and it is not
probable that there will be any
steps IN that direction. The st.
Bernard Coal Company however,
which is by far the heaviest coal
producer in the county, brought
suit last year against the mine
operators in question, as well as
the representatives of the United
Mine Workers of America for
damages In the sum of 800, 900.
This suit is still pending, but in
asmuch as the contracting par
ties in their covenant of last
April ommitted the incriminat-
ing clause, it is not certain that
it will ever be pressed to a con-
clusion.
The bee., 1901-11-28

which the original pioneers
found it.
Officers high in command of
the militia, after giving in some
instances as much as forty eight
hours notice of their coming,
visited the camps of the invaders.
Naturally after this warning they
found no weapons in sight.
On the other hand they discov-
cred only quiet and orderly
groups of men piously thumbing
Bibles and hymn books. They
heard and apparently believed
the stories told by leaders of the
gang that they were only poor,
inoffensive citizens forced from
their homes by the tyranny of
capital to live in tents like wild
men on the hills.
They heard and apparently
believed also that these unfortu-
mates were deprived of the in
alienable rights Of free speech
that they were not permitted to
go among their benighted breth-
rem who in a blind way preferred
to work for a living instead of
becoming tramps and vagabonds,
were not permitted to go among
them and expound to them their
sad plight.
The militia officers were griev-
ed at this melancholy state of
affairs. They emphatically de-
clared that the men in the camps
should have the right of free
speech IL it took the entire militia
force of Kentucky to give it to
them.
Then followed the spectacle
above mentioned Of uniformed
militiamen acting as body guards
to labor agitators going about
from one end of the county to
the other trying to talk to hun
dreds and thousands of content
ed laboring men who did not
want to hear them and would
not listen to them. In the mean
time in other parts of the coun-
ty the homes of laborers were
being dynamited and riddled
with rifle balls, decent law
abiding citizens were held up on
the highway and the structures
about the mine openings were
kept under fusillade of bullets.
Then there came the absurd
farce of disarmament. Adjt.
Gen. Murray urged the rioters
in the camps to give up their
guns and be good. He also rep
resented to the mine owners that,
inasmuch as the National Guard
would furnish all the protection
necessary, there was no need of
guns on their part.
The result of this was that the
Adiutant General did amass a
collection of firearm curios, some
25 or 30 in number, many of
which apparently dated back to
the days of Daniel Boone and
the pioneers of Kentucky. With
this museum Of antiquities, he
returned in triumph to Frank
fort, and it was proclaimed to
the world that peace once more
reigned in Hopkins county.
LAW ABIDING PEOPLE ExAsPERATED.
With all this fresh in mind, it
is not surprising, perhaps, that
people of the county who have
vested interests at stake, as well
as the thousands of laboring men
here who want to 60 on earning
their living and minding their
own business, do not look upon
this proposed second descent OF
troops upon the county as alto
gether an unmixed blessing.
II is true that the rumor is
The bee., 1901-11-28
"ANARCHY'S RULE
IN KENTUCKY" f"
Story Of the Attempt Of the United Mine Work
ers to Get Control Of the Hopkins
County Field.
Especial Correspondence Of the New York Sum-

What is popularity known as an
arcby, the anarchy of the Herr
Most Emma Goldman type which
now and then inspires some one
to go off and kill President or
King is vastly different from the
sort which exists IN this coal
mining district of western Ken
lucky.
The ordinary Emma Goldman
anarchy is merely sporadic. The
kind we have on tap here is
chronic, continuous perform
ance of murder, dynamiting and
free and unlimited rioting.
1t has been going on as rec
ognized feature of life in Hop
kins county for the better part of
a year. 1t has produced state
of affairs, SO far as the greatest
industry of the county is con-
cerned, such as might be expect
ed to exist in the cave-dwelling
epoch of the development of
man. 1t is a case inwhich peo-
pie for their personal protection
rely upon their individual alert
ness and skill in the use of weap-
ons.
So far as the laws maintaining
the peace and security of men
going about their ordinary voca-
lions is concerned, that went by
the board long ago. Bands of
armed Anarchists, murderers and
dynamiters roam at their own
sweet will about the county,
pitching their tents like strolling
tribes of red Indians, wherever it
suits them best and there setting
up their lawless tyranny.
Up to the present time what
few efforts have been made by
the county and State authorities
to put an end to this condition of
affairs have been puerile. So far
as thev are concerned, the offic-
ials seem to have settled down to
a recognition of these preposter-
GUS conditions as the permanent
social organization of Hopkins
county.
1t is true that within the last
few days there have been some
indications that the government
at Frankfort has some remote
suspicion that a change in the
order of things here might per-
haps be an improvement. There
is talk of again sending some of
the State militia here.
If this talk results in action
and the State militia are sent it
remains to be seen whether their
presence will be blessing or the
reverse. They were here a few
weeks ago and the decent people
of the county are not even yet
through praying that heaven will
deliver them from such another
visitation.
With the exception of few
instances, in which guards were
put around property, the mission
Of the soldiers seems to have
been to encourage the armed ruff
fans who are terrorizing the
county in the conviction that they
are much abused body of pious
citizens. Details Of soldiers es-
corted their organizers and speak
ers from place to place and dis
tributed the handbills which an
nounced where and when the
apostles of anarchy would preach
the doctrines that the managers
of the industrial enterprises who
did not turn over the administra-
tion of their affairs to the labor
organization which this invading
army of rioters represents, should
be forced out of commercial ex-
istence, and Hopkins county left
The bee., 1901-11-28
SHOOTING AT
MADISONvILLE.
William Bradley Wounded by J.
W. Hancock in a Street Duel.
NOT KNOWN WHO
FIRED THE FIRST SHOT.
Representative Elect R. B. Bradley Threat
ened to Shoot W. A. Nisbet.

Madisonville, KY, Nov. 25.-
A very unfortunate and much
deplored shooting affair hap
pened at noon in which Mr.. VIM.
Bradley, a brother of Represent
ative elect r. B. Bradley, re-
ceived two painful, though it is
not thought serious wounds. Mr..
j. w. Hancock is the man who
did the shooting, which occurred
in front of the Wilkins block.
Little Lonnie Tucker, seven
years old, a son of Mr.. Sam
Tucker, of the White Plains
country, and a negro boy named
Frank Merriweather, were also
hit by stray shots, but neither
wound is serious.
Owing to the unusual excite
ment caused by the trouble, it is
almost impossible to get at the
exact origin of the trouble.
An eye witness to the shooting
says he saw Mr.. Bradley and Mr..
Hancock standing in front of
saloon in the block talking, and
noticed that they were disputing
about something. he says Mr..
Hancock started to pull a revol-
yer, when Bradley covered him
first and told him not to do that,
and forcgC-Hanceek to take -his
hand from his pocket; that Han
cock went to the hardware store
next door and a few moments
later, as Bradley was passing the
door, that Hancock shot Bradley
from the inside of the store.
Mr.. Bradley's wounds were
about the head and hand. One
was a scalp wound which CON-
menced under the left ear and
ran to the back of the neck. The
forefnger of the right hand was
almost severed. Mr.. Bradley's
wounds were dressed, and the
physicians do not think them Sc
rious. He was removed to his
brothers. home as soon as the
wounds were dressed.
MR.. HANCoCK's STATEMENT.
When Mr.. Hancock was seen
by the reporter he was over the
hardware store under guard. He
made the following statement
for publication:
81 commenced talking to Mr..
Bradley about his brother Pete's
remarks in his speech at the
courthouse the other night. l
told him l was Pete's friend, and
was afraid he was injuring him
self. & am a friend of his and
also of the family, and am afraid
he will injure the cause in the
State as Representative and he
! Bradley said: why do you
think SO p / said: 'Why, he
has been making remarks that
are not appropriate to the cause
he represents. He made a speech
here on the street the other night
which l thought was not appro-
pirate to the time
Then Mr.. Bradley threw slurs
Fat me. / said l heard him talk
ing to Mr.. w. A. Nisbet, and he
threw back his hand on his gun.
Then Mr.. Bradley asked why
did not arrest him (his brother.
You're an officer he said.
told him l was no officer. u
thought you were,' he said, you
went to the union camp at Nor
tonville the other day and helped
to serve the papers on the men
in camp Il don't care, said /.
1T makes no difference to me.
have my principles about it,
"Then it was Mr.. Bradley
pulled his gun and threw it in
my face. / remarked that l was
used to those things; had heard
H. ...k.ok1o kofo.o kLo.,
The bee., 1901-11-28


forced by sheer strength of pub.
lie opinion throughout the state
to the conviction that the non.
sense must at last come to an end
and that the armed camps must
go. The people of Hopkins coun.
ty, however, in view of their past
experience, are holding their
judgment very much in reserve
as regards the Governors inten-
tions; merely saying things has
lost all weight with them. Do
ing things will alone convince
them that those whose sworn
duty it is to maintain peace and
order mean business.
1t seems an absurd contradic-
tion of words to say that nothing
could have more completely DEM
onstrated the law abiding char
acter of the people of Hopkins
county than the very condition
of affairs which has so long ex-
listed here as above in outline re-
lated. Under provocation so con-
tinuous and SO exasperating that
it would seem to be almost be-
yond human endurance the peo-
pie in not single instance here
have taken the law into their
own hands.
1t is now 18 months since the
troubles in this mining district
began. In the last three months
there is hardly any other term
than that Of ga hell on earth" to
describe the situation in the min
ing region Of the county.
And what was calculated to
make it still more infuriating to
the people is the fact that this
miserable condition of affairs
has not been brought about by
any domestic disturbance in the
relations between the men who
work in the mines and those who
employ them. Anarchy in
America is always an imported
article. 1t is wholly and en-
tirely an imported article in
Hopkins county.
1T is IMPORTED ANARCHY.
The disturbance of the peace
here during the past eighteen
months comes from abroad, and
the armed bands of vagabonds
and loafers who are insolently
squatting in camps where they
may harass decent people are in
vaders pure and simple. They
were collected together from Ill
lnois, Indiana, Ohio, other min
ing counties of Kentucky, and
from Heaven knows where else
besides, and sent here by the
United Mine Workers of Amer
ica as an invading foreign army,
equipped with modern weapons
of warfare, to force at the rifles
muzzle the workingmen en-
ployed in the mines of this dis
trict either to abandon the en-
ployment by which they earn
their daily bread or else join the
organization of which these ban
dts are the representatives.
The whole movement is the re-
suit of a deliberate conspiracy
formed on April IS, 1900, and
based on contracts duly signed,
on the one hand by authorized
representatives of the United
Mine Workers of America, and
on the other by authorized rep
resentatives of mining interests
in other parts of the state which
are themselves subject to the
tyranny of the Mine Workers
union, to whose advantage il
would be to have forced into the
same boat with them the inde-
pendent operators of this county,
who have had the courage thus
far to control their own property,
instead of turning it over to the
management of Mr.. Mitchell and
his advisory board of worthless.
The technical legal conspiracy
The bee., 1901-11-28

There is serious talk of running
Gen. Joe Wheeler for the Senate in
Alabama.
The bee., 1901-11-28

lOPOAobVio III HuCotlOn, 90 WCil 40
the representatives of the United
Mine Workers of America for
damages In the sum of 800, 900.
This suit is still pending, but in
asmuch as the contracting par
ties in their covenant of last
April ommitted the incriminat-
ing clause, it is not certain that
it will ever be pressed to con-
clusion.
THE STRIKE CONTRACT.
In April, 1900, when the con-
tract between the unionized
operators and the United Mine
Workers of America was made,
the independent, non-union st.
Bernard company was paying the
same rate for mining, rs cents a
ton, in all it's seven mines, which
it had paid for years before. The
operators who had been in with
the union were paying 133 per
cent. less than this. With this
fact in mind, it is only necessary
to read the text of the document
itself to see how directly respon-
sible that contract of April, 1900,
is for the abominable state of af-
fairs which has so long existed
and is still existing in Hopkins
county. The clause of the con-
tract iS question is as follows:
"Resolved, the price for min
ing per ton over the District
Standard Screen and all other
rates of wages fixed therein shall
be increased 13s per cent. In
other words increased to 70 cents,
the amount already paid by the
st. Bernard non-union mines.
'Both parties to this agree
ment can see the fairness to all
concerned of the principle of
equalization of wages and a like
condition in the same competi-
tive district and, in compliance
with this principle, it is agreed
that the scale of wages hereinbe-
fore fixed (at rs cents a ton)
shall be supplanted by a new
scale equivalent under like con-
ditions to any rate of wages in
excess of this scale which the U.
M. w. of A. may enforce uni
formly throughout this western
Kentucky district, but this new
scale in no event shall be in ex-
cess of the Indianapolis scale of
1900 $50 cents a ton, and,
further, in the event of the non
union miners in this western
Kentucky competitive district,
representing not less than 80 per
cent. of the normal output of
said district, being on a strike,
and closed down so that no coal
is produced for market for thirty
consecutive days, then shall the
scale hereinbefore fixed be sup
planted by a scale of 80 cents
per ton for mining over the dis
trict standard screen and the
rates fixed in the Indianapolis
scale of 1900 for all other labor
take effect at the expiration of
the said thirty days and continu-
ing during the period of said
strike, shut down and non-pro-
duction of coal." F"
Here was a direct bid of a re-
ward in the shape of an increase
of pay amounting to five cents a
ton provided the United Mine
Workers of America would for
thirty days at least crush out the
competition of the non-union
mines in Webster, Hopkins, and
Christian counties. These mines
are some twelve in number and
their production of coal is nearly
one third of the total coal output
of Kentucky.
THE DOUBLE INCENTIVE.
Thus there was double incen-
tive on the part Of the United
Mine Workers of America to
contura tba non.union n,;pas "a
The bee., 1901-11-28

Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening journal., 1901-12-09
New cave plsoovered.

Denver. Colo. Dec "a special
from Butte says that a new and won
deriul natural cave. believed to be
one OF the largest known, has just
been discovered in the canon OF the
Jefferson. on the line of the Northern
Pacific railway, about SO miles east
of Butte. An exploration party from
that city spent several days I'm the
cave, going over an area of ten miles
and to a depth of nearly 1000 feet. A
large river, with a cataract OF about
100 feet. was explored for a distance
OF several miles without discovering
its source of outlet A few articles OF
stone and copper utensils and some
bones. believed to be human, were also
found in one Of the large apartments
of the cave The formation OF stalac
tites and other natural decorations
throughout the cave are most beau
tiful.
Evening journal., 1901-12-09
WEEKS OUTLOOK
IN CONGRESS
Hay-PauncefOtc Treaty Sen
ate'S Important Measure
House Will Take Up Philippine Tariff
BiIl-TO Discuss Reciprocity
Treaties in January

Washington, Dec 9-The only meas.
ure Of Importance which the scrate
has on its calendar for the present
week is the new HayPauncefote
treaty making provision for the abro
cation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
and opening the way for the unob-
stncted construction of an isthmian
canal by the United States. Acting
for the committee on foreign rela-
tions. Senator Lodge asked the sen
ate 10 go into executive session to-
day for the consideration of the
treaty. and every day until the con
vention is disposed Of. It can be said
that at this time the prospect is very
strong that the treaty will be ratified.
and IL now looks as If this result would
be secured after comparatively little
delay. There will be some debate and
some features of the document will
be criticised as undesirable, but there
IS no probability of captious opposi-
ton. No senator thus far. however,
has shown a disposition to carry his
objections to the point of ultimate eff
fort TO defeat ratification. The most
active friends of the treaty now claim
that ratification will be secured dur
ing the present week, and the opinion
is very general that ratification will
be obtained before the Christmas holi-
days
Beyond the consideration of the
treaty very little business will be I'M
dertaken before the holidays II is
now generally agreed that the ques-
tion of reciprocity will so over until
January. When the reciprocity treat.
les do come up for consideration there
will be persistent opposition to the
agreement with France, and to that
with Great Britain covering the West
Indies. There is not so-much feeling
over the conventions with the South
American republics.
The house this week will probably
pass a measure to meet the situation
created by the Philippine decision OF
the supreme court last Monday. W
20 the present time, however the Re
publican members of the ways and
means committee have not decided
upon the character of the measure
which will be reported. A difference
of opinion exists as to whether there
should be a temporary enactment OF
the Dingley rates on goods entering
the United States from the Philip
pines or whether a permanent scheme
of tariff legislation for the islands
should be prepared Mr.. Payne. chair
man OF the committee. and Mr. Dal
zell. of Pennsylvania, favor the latter
course