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The bee., 1902-06-12
BUILDIRG STOCKAOES.
Anthracite Operators Prepared
For Protecting Employees
Lives and Their Pro-
perty.
Ready TO Repel Guerrilla Warfare, Such
as Hopkins County Enjoyed For
Months.

A special dispatch from Will
kksboro, Pa, to the New York
Sun, says:
Those who have no stock
AIDES are putting them up as fast
as they can. Where stockades
are not feasible barbed wire fen
ces will be used. To cross an
imaginary property boundry line
is one thing for a mob. To break
and enter beyond a high board
fence is another. The stockade
is relied upon for its moral effect
quite as much as for the physical
resistance it offers to attack.
To attack an armed camp behind
stockade is not the most invit-
ing proposition even from the
mere physical standpoint.
The armed camp, however, is
no novel proposition to the U.
M. w. of A. From armed camps
they conducted a guerrilla war;
fare for nineteen months in Ken
lucky upon miners who did not
want to join their order and
strike and who still remain at
work with no Thoughts of becom-
ing unionized. If that long and
bloody war is a prototype of
what is to be here then dark in
deed are the deeds that are a.
head in the anthracite region.
The bee., 1902-06-12
Sebree Camp Meeting.

The committee having the mat
ter in hand held a meeting one
day last week and fixed the
date of the annual camp meet
ing at Sebree for August Z. The
meeting will be held on the Cas-
cade camp grounds and will last
about two weeks.
The bee., 1902-06-12
PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
Defends the American Army In
the Philippines.
WAR CHARACTERIZED BY SINGULAR
FORBEARANCE.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt In his Ia
nous Decoration Day speech at
Arlington, had this to say among
other things in defense Of the
American army in the Philip
pines:
The guilty are to be punished
but in furnishing them, let those
who sit at ease at home, who
walk delicately and live in the
soft places of the earth, remem-
Der also to do them common JUS
tice- Let not the effortless and
the untempted rail overmuch at
strong men who with blood and
sweat face years of toll and days
and nights of agony, and at need
lay down their lives in remote
tropic jungles to bring the light
of civilization into the worlds
dark places. The warfare that
has extended the boundaries OF
civilization at the expense of
barbarism and savagery has been
for centuries one of the most
potent factors in the progress OF
humanity. Yet from its very
nature it has always and every
where been liable to dark
abuses.
1t behooves us to keep a vigi-
liant watch to prevent these alb
used and to punish those who
commit them but if because of
them we finch from finishing
the task on which we have enter.
ed we show ourselves cHavens
and weaklings, unworthy of the
sires from-whose loins we sprang,
There were abuses and to spare
in the Civil War. Your false
friends then called Grant a
"butcher" and spoke of you who
are listening to me as merce.
naries, as ''Lincoln's hirelings. u
Your open foes-as in the resolu.
ton passed by the Confederate
Congress in October, 1862-ac.
cused you, at great length, and
with much particularly, OF
"contemptuous disregard of the
usages of civilized war;" of sub.
jecting women and children to
"banishment, Imprisonment, and
DEATH" of murder" OF
"rapine," of "outrages on wom-
en-" of "lawless cruelty" OF
''perpetrating atrocities which
would be disgraceful to savages, y
and Abraham Lincoln was singl-
ed out for especial attack be-
cause of his "spirit of barberous
ferocity." Verify, these men
who thus foully slandered you
have their heirs today in those
who traduce our armies in the
Philippines, who traduce oul
armies in the Philippines, who
fix their eyes ON individual deeds
of wrong so keenly that at last
they become blind to the great
work of peace and freedom that
has already been accomplished
The bee., 1902-06-12
INTOLERABLE
CONDITIONS.
Silent Reign Of Terror and Open
Violence in the Anthra-
cite Regions.
But President Mitchell Didn't Know Any
thing Was Going On.

Among the interesting things
that have come out in the dis
patches from the anthracite coal
strike regions is this from Will
kesbarre to the New York Sun a
few days ago:
president Mitchell said to-
night that he considers the strike
!. practically complete, as addi-
tional fireman, engineers and
pumpmen have joined the strik-
ers and he is we'll satisfied with
the campaign. He was asked
regarding the many outbreaks
and said:
" Il have heard of no reports
of any outbreaks, violence or in
timidation at any place
"The operators authorized the
the following in reply to Mr..
Mitchell:
" There has never been a time
since Mr.. Mitchell became prom
inent in the troubles in the coal
regions when he ever knew of
any violence, intimidation or any
other kind of extraordinary in
fluence on the men who were
working for the companies, ac-
cording to his own account.
AT the same time, ever since
Mr.. Mitchell assumed control of
the United Mine Workers of
America, wherever there has
been trouble, the leaders of that
trouble have been closeted with
Mr.. Mitchell behind closed doors
for hours and have then left for
the scene where trouble arose.
Mr.. Mitchell may not have given
orders for the trouble, but the
men who left the Office went
right into the districts where
trouble arose Immediately.
/" This was especially the case
in the strike at Hazleton in 1900,
and yet the men who fomented
all the troubles there rushed
right from Mr.. Mitchell's Office
to the scene where disorder be-
gan almost Immediately. At
that time Mr.. Mitchell said that
no trouble, disorder or intimida-
tion of any kind had been re-
ported to his office. OF course
not; he forbids any reports of
the kind to come in. His myr-
midons do his work, but must
not tell him anything about it. "
The things that were happen
ing in that immediate region,
under Mitchell's eyes, are chron-
icled in the dispatches Of the
same date. Here are some of
? them:
THE NIGHT MARCHES BEGIN.
There has developed a spirit
of aggressive unrest among the
strikers which past experience
teaches is the precursor of vio-
. lence. The night "marches"
have begun. These demonstra-
J tions are nominally nothing
worse than horse play antics in
l derision of men who choose to
: work. There is hooting and
! stoning OF houses, maybe, and
: much brass band whooping and
hurrahs. But in the past more
than one fatal collision has been
the outcome of these movements,
+ and when one of the "marches"
begins no man knows what the
, end will be.
, Sheriff Jacobs was specifically
called upon tonight to suppress
a threatened disturbance at the
Beaver Brook mine in the Ha-
zleton district. He at once re.
t sponded by swearing in -four
S deputies at the mine and the
e trouble was averted.
= RRIGN OF TERROR.
BY a silent reign of terror al
The bee., 1902-06-12

Mayor Granger has been offered
the presidency of the Louisville
Jocky Club under a plan of reOrga-
nization on big scale. He has the
matter under consideration.
The bee., 1902-06-12

The Democratic convention in
session at indianapolis is anti-Bry-
an. Chairman Kern made a plea
for harmony and the platform at
tacks the Republican policy in gem
eral, especially denouncing the
conduct of affairs in the Philippines.
The bee., 1902-06-12

The Hon. A. j. Russell Speaker
of the Mississippi House of Repre-
sentatives, was found dead at Ok
ford, Miss, where the night before
he had delivered the annual Grafton
at the University OF Mississippi.
The bee., 1902-06-12
# DOWN IN THE MINES. #

influence over the Barnsley min
er, because during the last year,
without a break, they have la
bored faithfully and continuous
ly, but just mention picnic to
them and the record is broken,
as was shown last Saturday, when
they laid down their picks and
shovels to attend the picnic at
Mortons and we believe after
such faithful service that they
were entitled to and justified in
taking a day of rest.
When mines right under the
nose of the leading U. M. w. S
of the county work without ceas-
ing, and in fact increase their
output of coal, is it not high time
said order should run up the flag
of unconditional surrender, and
like men, acknowledge their to
be a lost cause and one they are
ashamed of.
If the miners union is as strong
both financially and numerically
as they boast Of through their
President Mitchell, how is it
that they have already sent up
an appeal for help to the Presi-
dent of the United States? Such
action indicates that the surplus
is gone or fast vanishing. Idle
ness soon eats up the surplus.
One of Hecla's miners, Mr..
James Vinson, feels confident he
is the inventor of good piece of
mechanism and will send same
to Washington for patent.
Thousands of the Virginia min
ers have answered the call to
strike, and thousands more
women and children will soon be
destitute of the necessaries of
life. Thus the bad influence of
the eastern miner is spreading
westward.
Quite a number of the Barns
ley coal producers came down
last Sunday to attend the decora-
tion services held by the Odd
Fellows here on that day.
Some prominent men of New
York have requested the Presi-
dent of the United States to use
his best efforts to put an end to
the trouble between the anthra-
cite miner and operator, but in
vestigation has shown the Presi-
dent that the law which gave
him even a semblance of right to
interfere has been repealed.
The Empire Coal Company
through its attorneys was on
hand at Hopkinsville last week
pushing the case against the
murderers of Officer Coffey. A
sincere desire to punish the gull
ty ones alone causes them to
thus act.
Foreman Twyman, of the slack
washer, fears that he is losing
the hearing of one of his ears on
account of the continual noise
and coal dust encountered there.
DIR. Chatten is looking after his
wants, medically speaking.
After quite a delay on account
of broken machinery, the Rein
ecke Coal Company again resum-
ed work last week.
Complete Combustion of Coal
Gases. DR.. j. b. Harris, Nash
vile, Tenn, is perfecting de-
vice by which he claims to be
able to consume all gases and
and smoke from coal combustion
in furnaces. He started six years
ago to perfect an arrangement
for alleviating the smoke nui
sance. He now claims his in
vention will burn all smoke anC
gas from the furnace and save 81
percent on the coal bill. There
are people all over the United
States who are looking for this
and who will rise up and call DIR
Harris blessed if his invention
The bee., 1902-06-12
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS



Birmingham in a short time to
take position on the Birming-
ham Mineral. While we regret
to lose Mr.. Brownie, we are glad
to know his abilities as a dis
patcher are recognized by the Of
ficials.
Conductor Shelton and Engi-
neer James Long, with engine
952 made a trial tonnage trip
last Saturday. They left Guth-
rie with 800 tons and got over
the road moderately well. These
large engines are doing good
work and have proved success.
1t depends a great deal on who
is pulling the throttle, however,
and when Jim Long can't get
over the road with a heavy train
no one else need try.
We understand that Conductor
Sweeney was slightly injured by
coming in contact with the cor
ner of the desk in his caboose
and certain boarding house
mistress in Nashville was very
uneasy about him. How about
it, boys?
We are deeply indebted to
Engineer Moynihan for the bot
tie of hair renewer he sent us,
A but sorry it failed to renew.
However, we will try to struggle
along with the hair we have un-
til we climb the golden stairs,
when the angels will provide us
with full suit of hair.
We failed to mention in our
last issue that Conductor Willie
Boyd and wife attended the Cur
aie-Eudaley nuptials at Nebo.
Agent Woodbridge, of Madi-
sonville, says: ''The outside
public do not know the worries
and troubles of a railroad man.
They labor under the erroneous
idea that the life of the average
railroad man lies along a flower
strewn path and all he has to do
is to go to the pay car and get
his money"
Operator F. d. Coffey, of Guth-
rie, is well pleased with his new
position now, although he dis
liked it at first. There must be
some cause for the sudden change
and we surmise he has met some
of the Todd county beauties.
1t is reported one of our popu-
lar officials Will take unto him.
self wife in the near future.
While we do not put much con-
fidence in the report, we sincere
ly hope it is true.
Dispatcher John DEWEY Wis
tied friends in Nashville one day
this week.
Dispatcher Willie Griffin is
contemplating a visit to his old
home in Ohio this summer to be
gone for a month.
A double-headed freight train
going north was wrecked at Lees
dale, one and a half miles north
of Falkville, Ala, Monday morn
ing at 1:30 O'Clock. The wreck
was caused by a broken axle. Six
cars loaded with rosin and an
empty oil tank were completely
demolished, being burst into
kindling wood, and the rosln was
scattered for several hundred
yards along the track, the hot
sunshine today causing it to run
in streams along the track. The
track was torn up for several
hundred yards, and it was s
O'Clock before it was sufficiently
cleared and repaired for trains
to pass. No one was seriously
hurt, though one negro brake
man was thrown about 80 feet
and considerably bruised.
Mavor GrainQer has been Offered
The bee., 1902-06-12

Several paroles were granted by
the State Prison Commission.
The bee., 1902-06-12

By a silent reign of terror al
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15

of Senator Jones and his colleagues,
Cocckrell of Missouri and Daniel of
Virginia, who forfeited the respect
of the party, by their readiness to
supinely yield at every point dur
ing the last session, when by vigor-
Gus resistance to the Spooner Philip
pine resolution they might even have
forced an extra session of Congress-
The hopeless passivity of the Demo
Gratis in the Senate has proven
source of grave dissatisfaction to the
Democrats who believe that, notwith-
standing the smallnes of their minor
ity, some things might be accomplish
ed in the way of hamrering Republi
can action. They believe that even
vigorous resistance would prove to
the country that there is Demo-
cratic party i'll Congress but in their
attempts to do the spectacular they
are more likely to disgust the people
than to command respect, a view of
the situation which never appeals to
the younger. and more reckless element
of the party.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15
SUSPENDED.

Havana, Jan. 10. - General Wood
has suspended Miguel Gener, mayor of
Havana, for alleged incompetency and
inatteution to business. The petition
for the mayors removal signed by
twenty of the councilmen of Ha-
vana was seconded by Senior Nunez
the civil governor of Havana, and
Diego Tamayo, the Cuban secretary of
State. The second assistant mayor
is now acting as mayor of this city.
Civil Governor Nunez is conducting
the investigation of Mayor Gener.
Gener has been the leader in the
Maso faction in Havana and is one of
the officers who came out openly for
General Maso, the recent candidate
of the Domocartic party for the presi-
dency of Cuba. Gener has gained the
emnity of the Cuban official element
and of the councilmen of Havana.
The local press has been predicting
his removal for months past La
Lucha' has been supporting Mayor
Gener and attacking General Wood,
and says that the removal of the
Mayor of Havana, was expected
Havana, Jan. 10. - March "a has
been decided upon as the date for the
Inauguration of president elect Palma
and the installation of the New Gu
ban government.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15
MANY IDLE.

Washington, Jan. TO- - Secretary
Root gave an interesting exposition
of the condition of affairs in the Phil
ippines together with the outlook for
terminating military rule there, in the
course of a hearing on Thursday be-
fore the House committee on military
affairs in connection with the army
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Root stated that the army was
necessary in the Philippines as
moral force to maintain. the civil adj
ministration now established. one of
the main causes, he said, why there
had not been more progress i'll the
Philippines was that the Spooner
amendment passed by Congress last
year and restricting the grant of
franchises had the effect of preventing
the investment of capital and the con-
sequent employment Of labor Many
people were idle and many of these
became conspirators simply because
they were idle. The secretary in.
stanced the fact that although rice
was one of the main products of the
Philippines, yet about 50, 600, 900
worth of rice had to be imported last
year In this and many other branch
es Of industries the wheels of industry
were not moving, the people out of
employment were encouraged in Vi
ciousness and as result it was neces-
sa1y to keep some 10, 900 troops III the
islands
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15
REMARKABLE SPRING IN
FLORIDA.

AS a part of the water resources of
the country, the United States geo.
logical survey is studying the won
derful Florida springs and lakes from
which most of the rivers of the State
have their rise. Kissengen spring in
Polk county is one of these. The
water has temperature of 70 degrees
Fahrenheit, and is strongly impreg-
ated with sulphur, iron and other in
gradients that characterize artesian
waters in that region.
The spring is evidently a natural
artesian we'll The water all comes
from one point, gushing up vertically
with great force through a circular
orifce III the bottom Of the basin, and
although it's basin is thirty feet deep
or more the force is so great that the
water directly over the oritice is con-
siderably higher than the surface of
the lake at the banks While swim
ming in this delightful pool it is found
exceedingly difficult to keep in a po-
sition over this spring boil, and inn
possible to sink i'll the water at this
point The outflow of the spring, as
measured by the photographers of the
Geological survey, was found to be
II, 900 gallons each minute.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15
ANIMALS IN FOLKLORE.

1t is significant, when one thinks of
it, that the teaching of folklore stories
and great masterpieces of literature
is, in the main, in the direction of
kindness to animals. Although the
animal is sometimes represented as
mans foe, or killed for mans use,
there is no wanton cruelty in any of
the old legends and not seldom the
hero who befriends the animals is i'll
turn befriended by them.
y Some of the oldest legends represent
man as talking freely with the brute
creation. The "Uncle Remus"
stories, many of which are known to
have been brought in almost precisely
their present form, from Africa, to
the plantation of the Southern States,
inculcate this idea and "de Great
urs' appear to the mind of the child,
and the childlike adult, who hear the
stories, as friends, to be loved and
trusted. japanese folklore presents
the same idea, and the Hindu mythol-
ogy is full of it. In Morse and Saxon
legends the faithful dog often appears,
and III the folklore of the American
Indian we have again the notion of
companionship between men and ami
mails.
This indicates that from the very
earliest times there has been an idea,
more or less clearly brought out as
mankind became more and more en-
lightened, that kindness and not cru
city, should be observed toward the
brute creation. The Indian tortured
his enemies; he regarded it as al
honor paid to courage but he did no
wantonly torture his few domestic
beasts. Whatever cruelty appears il
his treatment of them is due to care
lessness and ignorance. 1t is only tn
degenerate civilized man who DELHI
erately, Intentionally and unprotitabl
torments a helpless animal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15

tiated that will be as favorable to the
government of the United States as
are those now existing with Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA. If these claims are
all substantiated by investigation, it
would seem to be supreme folly for
this government to undertake the CON
structiOn of the canal through the ter
ritory of Nicaragua The prepon-
derance of argument would be deci-
sively in favor of the Panama route.
Not only would this be true in the
matter of cost of constructing, and
of operation and maintenance, but in
other important particulars. The
United States owning the canal and
railway across the isthmus of Pan
anna, what other power, or association
of capitalists, is at all likely to under
take the building of a canal across
the Nicaraguan isthmus, or elsewhere
in Central America? The United
States would secure for all time a
monopoly of travel and transporta-
ton between the oceans, across the
territories south of Mexico.
There is good authority, sustained
by an intelligent and forceful mar
shalling of the facts of the problem
and its business statistics, for the be-
lief that u Nicaraguan canal would
be for this government an elephant of
colossal proportions. Before the Con-
gress and the President commit the
country to the construction of this
canal the proposition of the French
company owning the Panama route
should be investigated thoroughly.
In respect Of the building of this
canal delay cannot be dangerous.
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cred with a mass of bleeding bodies.
Cries of the injured rose above the
roar of escaping steam and the shouts
of the rescuers. The work of clear
ing the debris and the removal of the
dead and injured began Immediately.
Ten O'Clock. No count has been
kept but it is estimated that between
twelve and twenty are killed
Fourteen dead have been taken
from thu wreck and some two scores
of others received injuries. OF the
dead, nine are from New Rochelle and
Of the injured 50 far taken out came
from the same place. The trains
were the Norwalk local on the New
York, New Haven, 81 Hartford rail-
road and White Plains local on the
New York and Harlem railroad. The
White Plains local crashed into the
Norwalk local as both trains were APP
preaching the New York Central de-
pot, and the engine of the White
Plains local ploughed half way
through the rear car of the Norwalk
local. The smoke and escaping steam
filled the tunnel and hindered the
work of the rescuers. The iremen
lowered ladders into the tunnel
through an, opening on Park avenue
and i'll this manner expedited the
work.
At 1918 the wreck was cleared
away and the injured taken to the
hospitals and the fourteen dead were
removed to the nearby police station.
The cause of the wreck is not yet
known. District Attorney jerome,
accompanied by two detectives, hur-
ried to the wreck upon the receipt of
the news. Edmund G. Tyler, fireman,
Charles Wysper, engineer, and
Charles Flynn, towerman at 18th
street, were Immediately brought be-
fore the district attorney. Later they
were placed under arrest.