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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

The last clause of will which
was filed for probate in Washington,
D. c., one day last week significantly
says: "The net sum of $4,000 left by
this will is the financial result of a
long life of industry and economy
and If used for good and useful pur-
poses by those to whom it is now
given is enough. And if not so used
it is too much"
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

In summer, night air is welcome and
not necessarily mischievous, but in
early spring and late autumn the
suns rays strike the earth so oblique-
ly that the temperature drops sudden
ly at evening, and unless additional
wraps are at hand one should not
lOiter out of doors.-Philadelphi
Times.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28
PROPOSALS WANTED.

The city council of the city of Kali
ispell will receive proposals up to
p. m. of the Sd day of September, 1901,
for grading and placing gravel on
Second street, according to plans and
specifications on file in the city engi-
neer's Office. The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids.
F. L. GRAY,
City Clerk.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28
BETRAYAL

Out Of the chilling rain and fog
That hid the mountain from our si.lH
4 dusky cloud came floating down
At early dawn Of light.
The cloud dropped softly to the lake
Amid a sound Of whirring wings
And spread into graceful line
A host Of living things
We hailed this burst Of joyous life;
The sunless day seemed dark no more.
When suddenly shot rang out
And echoed round the shore.
The waterfowl were natures guests,
But they were doomed, and all that day
The shots pealed forth, and on the waves
The dead and dying lay.
At last into the brooding mist
There vanished, softly as it came,
broken flock, with plumage torn,
After that day Of shame.
Mary Thacher Higginson in Youths Compan
Ion.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

At Derby, Conn.,, the other day, a
leading pastor ran madly through his
village and disappeared in the woods.
~ swarm of hornets had nestled in the
clergyman's rural free delivery mail
box. Two miles away the chase came
to an end by the pastor plunging into
the reservoir.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Banana shines free for each GUS
TONER" is the sign displayed by a
New York shoes dealer. He says that
the inside of banana skin applied to
either patent leather, tan or russell
shoes gives them the desired polish
and keeps the leather in the pest con
dition.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28
The Only Difference.

Mrs. Symperly-Now that you have
got your divorce and are happy with
Mr.. Ranger, life is real once more.
isn't 1t?
Mrs. Ranger-Oh, yes; only it's very
much like 1t used to be. except that the
piano is q different make.-Brooklyn
Life.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

The hope of every book agent in
New York is to be admitted to ). Pier
pont Morgan's Office, in order to show
his wares. It is asserted that the
more expensive anything is the more
easily can it be sold to Mr.. Morgan.
New York Times.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Don't fail to see our new lot of Gar
land and Peninsular Ranges. McIn-
tosh Hardware company.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Man Is born to rule, but woman
comes along and beats him out Of his
jOb.-Chicago News.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

It Is said that mate, the South Amer
lean tea, win sustain life many days
without the pangs Of hunger.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Baths Is cents - kalispeIl stean
Laundry.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

form there was one w. J. Bryan VINO
would not.
Comment concerning this unpleas-
ut onisode has brought out an accom-
ranv,ng story to the effect that just
,,foro the Kansas City convention OF
wear ago last Fourth of July, when
Senator Hill made his pilgrimage u
,;rco,n to meet Mr.. Bryan, the new
Yorker proposed to Bryan that Il nc
,v,,,,a-,fave his followers leave the
s;xteen to one proposition out OF the
r,atform he (HilD would accept the
nomination for vice president. sena-
+or Hi, is said to have suggested 10
Mr. Bryan that without sixteen 10 one
4hov would make team that would
no invincible, but the Nebraska cnam-
,,;or was in the saddle and declined 10
WELD
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Boys Bicycle Stockings zoe pair,
at the Notion Store.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

The kaIispelI Steam Laundry tele.
phone is number S. Use this often;
we are busy, but like to answer
calls.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28
Take bath often at the Kalispel
Laundry and keep cool.

25 per cent discount on Ladies'
Summer Slippers and OxfOrds at New
York store.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

Half Price Clearance sale of sum-
mer goods at the New York Store
all this week, August ~ to II.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

See the M. M. Co.'S special crockery
sale ad on second page of today's is
sue.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-28

We draw all the cities Europe
allowed Collections
The bee., 1901-11-14
TRIAL AT
HOPKINSvILLE
Union Men Charged With Killing
Officer Coffee Under
Examination.
STRONG TESTIMONY IS PRODUCED
Trial win Probably Consume the Entire
Wesk-Many Witnesses.

Hopkinsville, Nov. II. = The
examining trial of the five EN-
pire strikers, charged with the
murder of Officer Coffey and
shooting from ambush, will like
ly consume the entire week.
Yesterday afterno on a b ou
twenty witnesses for the prosecu-
tion were placed under oath and
between thirty and forty wit
nesses were called by the defense.
A number of the latter were
women, members of the prison
ers' families.
Only one witness was on the
stand yesterday. This was Mr..
W. I. Rutland, manager of the
Empire mines. He explained the
location of various points in the
vicinity of the scene of the mur-
der and the shooting, pointing
out the places on a map drawn on
a blackboard. He was personal
ly acquainted with the prisoners
who we're his former employees.
All had quit work because they
had been ordered by the union to
strike. He had frequently seen
them armed and on the com
pany's property, after having
been legally elected from the
company's dwelling.
He testified that the spot where
Mr.. Coffey's body was found was
! three hundred yards from Jim
VIII Anderson's. He saw the
dead officers body. The fatal
oGnd vas in the left leg four
inches above the knee. There
was another shot through the
lower part of the deputy's over
coat. AT four O'Clock Mr.. Rut-
land was excused and court ad-
journed until this morning.
Nothing new was developed by
the cross examination of Mr..
Rutland.
This morning the examining
trial of Jim Will Anderson, Will
and Ed Goldsworthy, Ellis Deck
ard and George Phillips, the five
men charged with the murder of
Officer r. Fl. Coffey and the
shooting upon Officer John Fields
from ambush, at the Empire coal
mines, was resumed before Ooun-
ty Judge Cansler.
The first witness was Deputy
Sheriff Charles j. Barnes, in
charge of the county guards at
Empire. He told Of meeting
Will Goldsworthy on the morn
ing of the murder of Coffey near
the scene. Goldsworthy was
known as a striker, and after his
arrest he said he was not mixed
up in the shooting, but knew all
about it. After they met An
derson, who was under arrest,
Goldsworthy raised trouble, and
seizing Officer John Fields pistol,
tried to shoot Barnes, and was
with difficulty overpowered.
Officer Barnes testified con-
cerning the fresh tracks found in
the corn field near the scene of
the murder and fitting Ander-
sons shoes to them. The shoes
fit exactly, Barnes claims, and
the tracks led to Anderson's
house. There was evidence OF
persons having been in hiding
near the scene of the murder
about the time the killing took
place.
DIR. George j. Gooch saw Off
Ger Coffey on his way in search
of the attacking party and lent
him his horse.
A number of other witnesses
were examined, but there was
no fresh information elected.
The examination of witnesses
will be continued tomorrow, but
the week will be consumed in
hearing testimony. The case is
being watched with the greatest
interest.
Letter List.
~ n noct N II HoIvarL Fpaunpia
The bee., 1901-11-14

G. G. Bost, d. H. Calvert, Temple
Caldwell, Ella Dunbar Bob Dulin,
Bill Forkner, Birt Griggs, w. b.
Hengate, Nellie Lam, Vanons New
els, Alden Reilford, Johnnie Stokes,
John Swan, Charley Taylor.
The bee., 1901-11-14
UNION AGITATORS
BROUGHT TROUBLE
Exceptional and Satisfactory Con.
ditions of Miners at
Darlington.
CONSPIRACY TO CLOSE
HOPKINS COUNTY MINES
How II Figured as Business Proposition
From Miners Standpoint.

Darlington Correspondence of
Nashville American: The story
of how the present deplorable
conditions in this region arose is
long, but tits interesting. will
give the readers of the American
one or two chapters in this letter.
In 1875, through the building
of railroad, the coal fields of
Hopkins, Webster and Christian
counties were rendered accessi-
BILE. The st. Bernard Coal Com
pany was organized and opened a
mine at a point where the town
of Darlington was to be located.
At that time there were two
dwelling houses and barn on
the town site. Hopkins was a
pauper county, barely raising
enough farm produce to supply
the scanty needs of its own
people, with some tobacco for
shipment to the outside world.
Today the line of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad through the
county is dotted with mining
towns; darlington has 5000 in
habitants, and it is the supply
depot for much of the adjacent
country, its merchants being
thrifty and enterprising. Madi-
sonville, the county seat, has be-
come an important point COM
mercially as well as by reason of
its mining interests. Coal mining
annually brings into the county
about 81, 900, 900, of which more
than $500, 900 are distributed here
in wages. In towns and in the
country many miners own their
own homes. In darlington itself
there is everywhere the evidence
of thrift and prosperity. The
houses are more than comforta-
BILE; they are we'll built, in good
taste, nicely furnished, and are
occupied by persons who live well
and are self-respecting. They
have waterworks, electric lights,
good drainage, a beautiful artifi-
cial lake that supplies the town
with water and much recreation.
Parks, public schools, churches
and a public library all make the
conditions of life pleasant and
honorable. There are no saloons
and no "blind tigers.' Many of
the prettiest and best furnished
cottages are owned by negroes,
who live side by side with the
whites, work with them and
trade with them on terms of per-
feet amity and equality, except
in what regards distinctly social
matters, in which the line is
drawn as sharply as elsewhere in
the south.
But the race question has never
disturbed darlington. The Office
of police judge in this town is as
near a sinecure asan Office can
be. There is probably no other
town of the size in the state
where the children have nine
months of free schooling out of
the year; but they have it here,
negroes as we'll as white children,
though not together.
Father Of His People
The ST. Bernard Coal Company
has made all of this possible, and
The bee., 1901-11-14

Communication TO COur1er-J Ournall
Louisville, Ky., Nov. S.-Re-
ferring to the article in the Cour-
ier-Journal of November Z, on
the Western Kentucky mining
trouble, as a native-born Ken
tuckian interested in the welfare
and prosperity of the State, and
firmly believing that that well
fare and prosperity can only be
brought about and preserved
through and by an impartial ad-
ministration of the law, / desire
to make a few suggestions as to
the remedy for the evils, which
confessedly exist in Hopkins
county.
Briefly, the main facts, as l
understand them from the pub
lie press and other information,
are these: The Hopkins county
mines are non-union mines, the
coal operators refusing to recog-
nize or have anything to do with
the United Mine Workers of
America; the coal miners of the
county belong to no union and so
far as they are concerned have
no grievance against the operat-
ors, and are willing and anxious
to work; the United Mine Work
ers of America have been for
some time trying to unionize the
mines, and have met with scant
success; in pursuance of their
so-called plan of unionizing the
mines, camps Of union miners
have been established at several
points in Hopkins county, the
main camp being at Nortonville,
with usually $50 men in it, and
nearby tsnsmaller camps. there
being usually from three to four
hundred men in the three; there
is another large camp about a
mile and a half from Madison
vile, where the number of men
varies from 100 to 250. All of
these men are armed, and have
guns of the latest pattern and
make, and plenty of ammunition !;
the camps are picketed and no
one allowed to pass; they have
officers and the men are drilled
in the use and handling of the
arms.
On the other hand, the oper-
ators have armed guards (some
of them furnished by the county,
but all, or most of them, paid by
the operators), who guard the
property of the operators. The
non-union miners, who are still
at work, nearly all carry arms,
as they claim, for their necessary
protection.
Almost a reign of terror exists
in the county, especially in and
around Madisonville and Earl
ington; shots are continually
fired, night and day, into the
houses and at persons who are
pursuing their daily walk in life ;
a good many persons have been
wounded and one or two killed ;
there is a feeling of insecurity
and fear abroad, and men go
about their business with blanch-
ed cheeks, not knowing at what
moment the spark may fall which
will tighten a confagration sure
to result in a terrible loss of life
and property.
These are the bare outlines.
OF course there are charges and
recriminations to and fro, but all
admit that the situation is criti-
cal and at any time the worst
may come.
Not knowing who isin the right,
but simply looking to the inter
est and the fair name of the
State, submit, is it not time to
wipe out this blot, and for the
the strong arm of the law to
bring about the restoration of
peace and order? We have law
a plenty in Kentucky to fit such
cases, and officers whose sworn
The bee., 1901-11-14

But the operators were not
pleased with the situation. They
didn't like the fact that the nom
union mines could operate inde-
pendently of the United Mine
Workers and still do the greater
part of the business. Operators
in other states did not regard
/ favorably the fact that when a
strike forced them to shut down
the Hopkins county mines were
busy and prosperous. The opera
tors of western Kentucky who
employed union labor did a fool
ish thing. On April Is, 1900,
they signed the following agree
ment:
"And, further, in the event of
the nonunion mines in this west
ern Kentucky competitive dis
trict, representing not less than
so per cent of the normal output
of said nonnnion mines, being on
strike and closed down, so that
no coal is produced for market
for thirty consecutive days, then
shall the scale hereinbefore fixed
be supplanted by a scale of so
cents per ton for mining over the
district 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 continue
during the period of said strike,
shutdown and non-production of
coal.o
This agreement was an offer of
a compromise of 5 cents a ton to
the United Mine Workers to close
the Hopkins county mines. The
st. Bernard Coal Company has
sued its signers for 800, 900 dam
ages for conspiracy to injure the
company's business.
Brings on Trouble.
1t was this agreement that
started the trouble. That it was
not good business proposition
the following figures show: The
coal output of the district IN 1000
was 1888, ,39S tons, of which the
non-union mines in Hopkins,
Webster and Christian counties
supplied 1,542, $50 tons, or con-
siderably more than half. More
over, in the total tonnage is in
cluded the output of some non
union mines outside, representing
nearly two millions of capital,
the st. Bernard mines being
worth about 81, 900, 900.
From the miners point of view
the agreement was a poor bust
ness proposition. While they were
making it the mines were idle,
costing the men something like
$47, 900 in wages. That was a
good, round sum to pay for an
asset on which only trouble and
expense have been realized. But
even if the agreement could have
been carried out, the union in this
field would have gained by their
additional 5 cents only about
SAL 900 a year, whereas the loss
to the non-union men in wages
would have been about $77 900
for one months idleness. What
the United Mine Workers have
actually gained is some expert
ence and the privilege of putting
up $16, 900 to $4,000 a month for
the support of few hundred
loafers and law breakers. Wheth-
er the United Mine Workers paid
for all the guns and ammunition
with which the men are equipped
and whether they have betrayed
the expense of maintaining head
quarters for their officers at Mad
isonyille, besides other costly
items of the campaign, or whether
they have had assistance in these
matters, the public is naturally
not informed.
With the making of the agree
ment the leaders of course pro-
ceeded to try to carry out its
conditions, and, incidentally,
work their graft. That is the ad-
The bee., 1901-11-14
FROM THE BEGINNING
Story Of How the Coal Industry Of Hopkins
County Began and How It Has Grown.

1
most from the start-frst asman-
lager, but for almost his entire
thirty years of service as presi-
dent. Mr.. Atkinson is the father
of his people and the company is
their mother. Many of the miners
and some of the officers have
been with the company for thirty
years and more. They have been
cared for in sickness, helped in
time of trouble; money has been
advanced to them to buy homes !;
when a man died in the service
the company looked after the
wants of his family. The debts
of the unfortunate have been
cancelled, but men have been
encouraged to be men and re-
spect themselves as such. An
honest days work gained an hon
est days wage, and the little
bank balance at the end Of the
month was encouraged by the
company until it grew into a sub
stantial sum or a nice little home.
An honest, harl-working happy
community.
And here comes the union!
The union agitators always tell
the working man what a misera-
bic fool he is not to be in the
union, where his business can be
managed for him to his own great
advantage. They do not find it
necessary to dwell on the mani
fest advantages to the men who
do the managing, or on the dis
advantages of being a slave to a
system which recognizes no indi-
yiduality; which seeks to make
the capacity of the poorest work.
men in the lot the standard Of the
most efficient, which may make
an able-bodied man an idler and
pauper, as it has done with the
hundreds of men now sleeping on
the ground, eating bad fooa and
taking part in the miserable
shooting of the concentration
camps, where the leaders require
their men to stay or starve. What
howl would be set up if any
mine operator imposed such con-
ditions on his men. But the talk
is of rights and liberty and pro-
lection against corporate greed
and injustice, and so the leaders
inflame the mind of the working
man, and make fool of him, or
worse.
Workers Spscious Plea.
But the United Mine Workers
have been forced to declare aless
specious motive in attempting to
organize the mines of Hopkins,
Webster and Christian counties.
These mines constitute the most
important part of the Western
Ketucky coal field, and so long
as they were non-union the op-
orators in the rest of the field,
employing union labor, had a
plausible excuse for resisting the
demand of the men for an in
crease in wages up to the scale
fixed by the interstate joint con-
ference, composed of the miners
and operators of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The
Kentucky miners quite ignore the
fact that it is easier to mine the
soft coal of this district than it is
the harder product of the states
named. In January, 1900, the
interstate Joint conference, at In
dianapolis, granted an advance
of 20 per cent on the existing
scale, but the miners and opera
tors of Western Kentucky--Dis-
trict No. % of the U. M. W. AS
sociation, agreed that in view of
the competition of the non-union
mines, the advance there should
be 13 2-3 per cent. This fixed the
mining scale for the district at
The bee., 1901-11-14

Continued on Seventh Pagel
The bee., 1901-11-14
LAW ENOUGH TO STOP 1T.
The Menace of Violence From Armed Men in
Hopkins County Can Be Removed.

and bounden duty it is to see
that those laws are executed.
Let those laws be faithfully and
impartially executed, and this
trouble viii cease at once, and
the law-abiding citizens of Hop
kins county can again go quietly
about their daily avocations with
out the fear of being assassinated.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-28
MORTUARY.
JOHN STANLEY,


son Of Joel and Betheny Stanley. was
Indiana, Sept. Is, 1928. He departed
this life Feb. 81, 1901.
Mr.. Stanley moved from Indiana to
Illinois, from Illinois to Mercer county,
Mo-, from Mercer county, Mo-, to
Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, and
from there to Decatur county, Iowa, in
1854.
December %, 1850, he was married to
Miss Louise Cooper; of this union seven
children we're born, four of whom are
living, three SOM and one daughter;
j. II. Stanley, of kellerton, L. M. STAN
ley, of Decatur, Dan w. Stanley, of
Leon, and Mrs. Henry Bellamy, of
Monterey, California. Mrs. Loise Stan
ley departed this life Oct. l6, 1868.
Mr.. Stanley was married the second
time to Mrs. Eliza s. French, June 26,
1869; to this union four children were
born, three OF whom are living; Homer
Stanley, of Tuskeega, Charles Stanley,
OF Decatur, and Mrs. Della Benton, of
Decatur.
Mr.. Stanley was converted when
eighteen years of age, under the pastor.
ate of Rev. Snim and joined the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. of which he has
been a faithful member until he was
removed to the church triumphant. Mr..
Stanley took a prominent part in the
erection Of the first Methodist Episco.
pal church in Decatur city and also in
the erection of the present building.
He occupied successfully every Office
in the local church open to a lay mem.
Der, until infirmities of advancing years,
required him to retire from active SER
vice in the church.
The funeral services took place at his
residence, conducted by his pastor and
his remains were laid to rest in the fam
lily burying yard IN the Decatur City
cemetery, Feb. %.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord from henceforth: Yea saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors."
Our earthly father here to earth we give.
Our heavenly Father bids his soul still live;
So when we all go home to heaven above,
Two tender Fathers we shall find to love-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-28
Davis Clty.A

J. Emlnons, Of Ridgeway,Nh Mad bust.
ness here the first of the weeA
An agent of the Bethany Rdler Mills
bought wheat of Messrs WellA, Dorm,
Mitchell and Williams. ThreeNN q loads
in all which were shipped froS here.
.. Makes shipped five cars x hogs
and cattle from here Saturday.
Winfield Scott and family visitSl at
the home of Carter Scott last weekly
Celia McClaran is quite sick With
catarrhal fever.
Mrs. A. r. Dorm is on the sick nat.
w. II. Burlington resigned his positiAn
in ]. @. Keshlear's store last week, Lon
Bullock taking his place. J
Robert Topliff returned home from
Des Moines last week.
Prot. j. A. Mcintosh spent Sunday
with his parents? in this city.
We understand g. d. Osborn has SOLD
his jewelry shop and goods to O w
Halstea,l.