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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-01-18

of every community to aid in this
work.
therefore urge upon the school
authorities to set aside January 20,
1902, as a day for special exercises
to be known as Mckinley day, for
the collection of whatever sums the
people feel like contributing, to the
end that the state of Washington
be properly represented i'll the fit
ting memorial to be erected over
the grave of the late lamented pres
ident. And | would further sug-
gest that January 26, the Sunday
previous to Mr.. McKinley's birth
day, be observed by the churches of
the state for appropriate services i'll
keeping with this work.
(Signed) HENRY MCBRIDE.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-01-18
Prosperous Whitman County

porous in the history of Whitman
county, and readily stamps that as
the greatest agricultural county i'll
the state, if not in the entire north
west. The products of the county
for the year just closed were worth
more than $4,000, 900, which divid-
ed among a population of 10000
souls, gives in round numbers 5000
for every man, woman and child in
the county.
But the products of the county
tor the past year are not the only
resources of Whitman county, for
everything they owned at the be-
ginning OF the year is worth more
today than it was year ago. Land,
town property and live stock have
all made material advances III value
Ill the year just closed, and the
wealth OF the county is today fully
$40, 600, 900 greater than one year
ago.
At the close of the year the "a
banks III the county held nearly So
600, 900 on deposit, all increase of
two thirds of million dollars dur
ing the year, and nearly every bank
IN the county reports the year Just
closed the most prosperous in its
history and the merchants make
the same claim for their respective
businesses. The sawmills of the
county are out of lumber and have
been for weeks, with many orders
unified, despite the fact that one
mill made its record run during the
year.
Farm lands have made marked
increase III value, and the demand
is better than it has been for a num-
Der OF years. More immigrants
have settled within the borders of
the county than during any previ-
Gus fall since the boom" DAYS and
as a natural result the value of both
farm lands and city property has in
creased, but it is almost certain the
limit has not been reached, for land
IS still cheaper than in any other
district with the same advantages in
the Inland Empire.
Thousands of cattle, sheep and
hogs have been brought into the
county, and the live stock interests
are much greater than they were a
year ago, if not at any time in the
history of the county.
The old plan of raising but one
crop, namely, wheat, has given way
TO a diversity Of crops, and while
wheat is still the main product of
The county, each year finds a greater
diversity of farm products shipped
from the county. Fruit is fast COM
ing to the front as one of the lead
ing products of the county, and the
fruit crop for the year Just closed
brought more than a quarter of a
million dollars to the producers,
and the industry is yet in its infan-
cy The records of the nine prin-
clpal shipping points in the county
show that 534 carloads of apples,
worth to the farmers who produced
them $4,000, were shipped from
these points this fall, as compared
With 24I carloads, worth to the
farmer S36,I5o, in 1900. Four
points in Whitman county shipped
TINS tall "a carloads of potatoes,
worth an average of $500 per car,
or total of S22, 200.
whitman county produced in
1907, $500, 600 bushels of wheat.
MS Is not an estimate or guess,
Du' the result of careful compila-
~ the amount of wheat delivered
a ~ Tue 43 shipping points in the
~'uh'y'-Nelo West Trade.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20
A Musical Treat.

The music loving people of our
town were given a rare treat
Saturday night. The Hahn arke
Quintette, assisted by Mr.. r. III.
Hoskins, basso. gave very high
class program opening our lecture
course.
There were no weak numbers,
and those rendered by the entire
company showed thorough prac-
tice and a complete understand
ing of the work in hand. They
reached the climax in the encore
to No. Z, when they played 1.-THE
Lost Chord" This is piece that
only true musicians can execute
and get all there is in it, and
theirs rendering is calculated to
appeal to the most sensitive low
ers of music.
The solos were all highly ap-
preciated. The work of Miss
Hahn showed thorough schooling
and her tunes came out full and
clear, showing the possibilities
Of the violin in the hands of an
artist.
The cello solo of Miss Nina
Parke was very dainty, especi-
ally the Swedish Dance.
Mr.. Hoskins has fine voice,
and his tones were round and full,
and his rendering of his num-
bers showed he not only under
stood the meaning of the songs
but entered fully into their spirit.
Miss Carolyne Parke's playing
was brilliant and left the impress
sion that her soul was thoroughly
in her work, which was amply
proven by her beautiful talks or
the story each of her pieces con-
veyed to her mind.
The work of the accompanies
is so often overlooked by the av-
erage audience, but at this per-
Torrance one could not help ap-
preciating the perfect manner in
which she accompanied all of the
numbers.
We are sure that the Hahn
Parke Quintette will receive a
still heartier welcome should
they return our city.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

Residents of the towns of Hancock
and Houghton, Mich, were greatly
alarmed by a terrible shock which
occurred, on the night of the 7th, by
which houses were rocked and win
dows ratified as if by an earthquake.
This is the second time the shock
has been felt within three months,
and no explanation of the phenome-
non can be given.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

Gov. Beckham has appointed
Capt. G. w. Longmire, Maj. j.
Embry Allen, Adjt. Gen. d. R.
Murray and Col. Percy Haly
paymasters to settle the claims
Of the Kentucky soldiers in the
Spanish-American War.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

Mr.. Will p. Castleman, now
becoming famous grand opera
singer, is in Louisville, his old
home, which he had not seen for
a score years. He has achieved
notable success in grand opera in
Europe during the past several
wears.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

A reward Of $1,000 is offered for
Benjamin F. Egan, If alive, or his
body, II dead. Mr.. Egan was divi-
sion superintendent of the Great
Northern railroad at Kalispell,
Mont, and disappeared from a party
Of friends with whom he was hunt
in the mountains near that place
about November 1.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

Warden Eph Lillard, of the
Frankfort penitentiary, says that
Henry Youtsey has made no
written confession, as has bee n
stated in certain dispatches. M.
Lillard said she has talked, but
there is no written confession. !"
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

George p. Vest, son of Senator
Vest, of Missouri, was found dead in
his room at the Columbia hotel,
Washington, d. c., on the morning
of the 9Th. He had been complain
ing of feeling i'll the day before, and
the immediate cause of his death
was commissions, due to acute gas
tritis.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20
DENIES THERE WAS HELL
IN ANTHRACITE FIELD,
Would Not Assume Responsibility
for the Boycott Constantly
in Use.
ADMITS UNION MEN
ARE NOT DISC IPLIMED.
Boycott and Persecution Continue While
Mitchell Denies 0utrages.

President John Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers of
America, is facing cross fire OF
questioning that is calculated to
dig out whatever of truth may
be discovered through his knowl-
edge of facts. In spite of fire.
quent evasive answers some OF
the interesting points developed
in this examination are noted
briefly below, being taken from
the daily dispatches to several
leading daily papers who have
special representatives at the
hearing In Scranton.
Always ignorant Of Lawlessness.
Mr.. David w. Wilcox, general
counsel of the Delaware q Hud-
son Company, for the operators,
cross-examined Mitchell at
length regarding the general
workings of the organization.
Mr.. Wilcox asked if Mr.. Mitch.
ell approved of the methods OF
the miners during strike in
Hopkins county, Kentucky, but
Mr.. Mitchell insisted that he
knew of no lawlessness commit
ted by the union men. The
strikers, he said, had been put
out of the company's houses, and
the union had hired ground and
bought tents and kept the men
in them until the company,
through process of law, had the
tents taken away and the men
arrested. He had, he said, sane.
toned this strike, and, not hav-
ing met with much success, call.
ed it off.
A Foretastc.
Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh, repre-
senting the Erie Company, ques.
tioning Mitchell, touched upon
the violence that had been prac.
ticed by the Mine Workers dur.
ing the anthracite strike.
Raising his voice to pitch and
speaking with great fervor, Mr..
Mac eagh asked the witness:
"Don't you know as well as
you know your name is John
Mitchell that, in spite of the au-
thorities of the city, of this coun.
ty and of this state, this whole
region has been treated for five
months to a veritable foretaste
of hell?"
Mr.. Mitchell calmly. replied:
81 don't know anything of the
kind"
swell, you will, before we are
through with you," was Mr.. Mac
Veagh's retort.
Didn't Know About Boyeotts.
Mr.. Wilcox asked Mr.. Mitchell
if there had not been a great
deal of boycotting during the
strike. The chief of the Mine
Workers answered that he learn
ed from the newspapers that
there had been, but he knew OF
none officially and he had never
authorized any. Mr.. Wilcox
then read a report in a newspa-
per containing resolutions passed
by a local of the United Mine
Workers at Nanticoke in which
storekeepers and all other bust
ness men of the town had been
warned against selling to the
non-union men then at work
about the mines at that place.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20
GUARD CLAIMS
MUST Be PAID
BY COUNTY.
Court Of Appeals Affrms Decision
Of Judge Mum in Hopkins
Circuit Court.
DUTY OF FISCAL COURT DEFINED.
"Duty Of Preserving the Public Peace and
Protecting Life and Property
Can Not be Avoided"

The judgment of the Hopkins
Circuit Court in the case of Hop
kins county against the st. Ber-
nard Mining Company was af-
firmed by the Appellate Court
last Friday. This was the guard
claim case, the amount involved
being $2,4OS. The question was
whether the county should be
required to pay this amount to
guards who protected. the prop
erty of the company during the
latter part of the time when the
Mine Workers. Union held a
reign of terror about the mines
of Hopkins county, daily de-
stroying property and imperil-
ing lives. 1t will be remembered
that all the coal operators of the
county bore every expense Of
this guard service to protect their
men and their properties until
they were convinced there was
little TO be expected in the way
of protection at the hands of the
authorities. Then they charged
the remnant of the cost for
guards to the county and pre-
sented the bill, which was repu-
dated. The guards for whom
pay was claimed from the county
were appointed by the sheriff as
provided by law. Judge Num-
held that the county must pay
the bill. An appeal was taken
and the Judgment of the
lower court is now affirmed. The
decision of course will enforce
payment of claims of all opera
tors for similar guard service.
The aggregate of all claims
against the county is about
$4,000. By the act of the fiscal
court in resisting payment of
this claim the cost to the county
has been increased by the amount
of attorneys fees and the court
costs, the amounts Of which have
not been published.
The Courts Decision.
Following is the text of the
decision as rendered by Judge
Hobson:
The appellee, John Robinson,
and ninety-five others suing for
the use and benefit of the st.
Bernard Mining Co. and that.
company for itself filed this suit.
against the county of Hopkins
and the members of the Hopkins
Fiscal Court asserting claims
amounting in the aggregate to
50, $4,000 against the county of
Hopkins, growing out of their
services in guarding the property
of the st. Bernard Coal Company
when summoned by the sheriff
pursuant to an order of the county
judge of Hopkins county, under
section 1241a, Kentucky Stat
utes. The court gave Judgment
in favor of the plaintiffs, and
the defendants have appealed.
The validity of this statute
was upheld by this court in
Cahill VS.. Perrine, 20 R., 1854,
and upon a re-examination of
the question we see no reason to
recede from the conclusion then
reached. The material parts of
the statute are set out in that
opinion, and all the grounds of
objection to it which are now
made, as shown by the opinion
land dissenting opinion, were
considered by the court.
The statute authorized the
Judge to: ''Order the sheriff or
any constable of The county to
summon posse of not less than
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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

y
most consistent effort that lay
within my capabilities; less
money for my earnings for five
years, with all my capital invest
ed, with all my worry incident to
such an enterprise, than many a
miner earned by manual labor
each year in the employment l
furnished him = l was no excep-
tion to the rule; the same stu
alton obtained to a greater or
less degree wherever coal was
mined in this country.
Finances Of the Anthracite Companies.
In the anthracite mines during
the hard times of these years,
the miners went back on the
agreement they had with the
operators, which provided that
they should receive as the price
of mining proportionate amount
of the price that the coal brought
at tidewater, and demanded a
minimum wage scale notwith-
standing the fact that the price
of coal went SO low that at least
two of the largest companies
went into bankruptcy, and 9th
ers very nearly SO. The miner
still received his rate of wages as
in more prosperous years. But,
mark you, as quickly as these
years of great depression were
ended and coal began to appreci-
ate in price, the miner demanded
an increased rate of wage. This
was granted him about two years
ago. And undoubtedly further
increase would have been granted
him this year had he gone qui-
city to his employer and asked
it. Indeed, 1 think this fact is
admitted both by the miners and
the operators.
"The crack of hunger's whip
driving him to work for a pit
lancet" = perhaps you
are right. Hunger is about the
only whip that will drive many
of them to work aud a pittance
satisfies them.
Among no set of men any
where, however, is good labor
better paid or better rewarded
than in mining coal. There are
lazy, shiftless, drunken men
there as everywhere; SO that the
average wage does not represent
the earning power of the sober,
industrious, hard working man..
might go on writing you by
the hour of these matters of fact
concerning the great operation of
mining and producing coal. Mr..
John Markle has set them forth
far more clearly than | can hope
to do, and l mail you herewith
his statement in an interview
with a New York Sun reporter.
Bear in mind, Mr.. Markle is an
individual operator; his miners
live IN what is known as a model
town; he has built them pretty
houses, with grass plots, gardens
and flowers, and he has built
them a club house and a library
done all that he could to elevate
their condition and to make them
co-workers with him in his great
industry. He had an arbitration
agreement with his miners which
John Mitchell persuaded them to
break.
So much for the facts in this
controversy on which you base
your argument. Now for the
argument itself, which is the far
greater matter.
A Larss. Vague Task Has Been Set.
We are constantly being told
that great social problems are
before us and demand our solu-
ton, and dire things are prom
ised us not alone if we fail in
their solution, but if we fail to
solve them satisfactorily to the
other fellow. tits large, vague
task that is set-indeed so vague
that not alone is 1t made our du-
ty to solve; we are left to define
the problem. Something is the
M
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20
MITCHELL ON THE, STAND.
Speaks Of Failure of Hopkins County Effort but
Didn't Know of LawIessneSs.

and he answered that he did not !;
he might have read about it in
the newspapers at the time.
After several other questions
Mr.. Mitchell was asked what he
meant when he called a man un-
fair who took the place of an
other man who was on strike
to better his condition. Then he
was asked what he meant when
he called a business man unfair,
and he answered a man who did
anything to antagonize union
man who was seeking to get a
proper increase of wages or i'm
provement of condition.
"But how about selling to nom
union men?"
81 have never passed upon
that" answered Mitchell. "But
my own views are that l have a
right in spending my own money
to spend it with whom l choose,
and naturally l would spend it
with my friends and not with
my enemies. The members of a
union have the right to advertise
who are their friends and who
are not their friends, and to let
other union men know who are
their friends and who are their
enemies"
When pushed to a positive an
swer by Judge Gray, who ear
nestly injected several questions
at this juncture, Mitchell repudi-
ated the boycott, one of the ia
yorite and most generally used
weapons of the Mine Workers
Union of which he is the chief.
Extracts were read from a
speech that Mitchell made in
Scranton In 1901, indorslng a
boycott placed by the street rail-
way men on strike.
Mitchell admitted that he was
quoted pretty accurately. "a
boycott is simply a strike," was
one of his savings.
No Diseiplios Provided.
Mitchell was questioned about
the provisions of the constitution
Of his organization. He admit
ted that it was true that the con-
stitution does not provide for the
disciplining of a man who does
violate it, but it is an unwritten
law of the organization that he
can be punished. 1t will be re-
membered that the Hillside en-
ployes, in their memorial to
President Roosevelt, said that nc
member of the United Mine
Workers had ever been disciplin-
ed for the commission of any
crime when that crime was COM
mitted in the interest of organ
lied labor.
BOyeotting Continues While kitehsll Talks
Mahoney City, Pa, Nov. 15.-
While President Mitchell is en-
gagged in trying to make the
strike commission believe that
the United Mine Workers are
law-abiding citizens the persecu-
tion of non-union men continues
in this district. Last evening,
when John Nolter, non-union
man, who is employed as FORE
man at the Reading company's
North Mahoney colliery, came to
this city to get shaved he was
met by a crowd of union men.
When he went into barber
shop they followed him and in
formed the proprietor that if he
shaved the ''scab" he would be
boycotted. Nolter went to five
shops and in each case the bar
bers, fearing the threat of the
union men, refused to shave HIM.
At Gilberton colliery today a
blacksmith refused to sharpen
tools belonging to non-union
men. He was discharged. The
union has taken up his case and
will demand that he be REIN
stated.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-20

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ZEMA-CURA
PLoUGHED UP A RELIC.
Shot Fired in the American RevoIu.
tionary War Dug Up.


From the Philadelphia Press
AS in Southey's familiar poem a plough
turns up a human skull that recalls hard
fought battle of other times SO, at this
place the other day, a new-made furrow
disclosed an interesting relic of the Ameri-
can revolution. 1t was a fourteen-pound
cannon ball reduced by rust to the weight
of twelve pounds. For 1875 years 1t had lain
in the soil where 1t had fallen from one of
those crude pieces of field artillery that
have so long since accomplished their high
mission and passed into silence and forget
fulness.
The ball was found only a day or two
ago on the farm Of b. E. Johnson, on which
still stands the picturesque and historic
johnson homestead, one Of the best-known
landmarks in Bucks county, whence was
made the start for the famous crossing of
the Delaware that was to end in the vic
tories OF Trenton and Princeton. It was
there that Knox and Hamilton had estab-
lished their headquarters at the time that
this new-found ball fell into the resting
place where 1t was to lie SO long unseen.
These generals had with them at the tim
several pieces Of Washington's light arttl-
lery, and 1t was evidently to one of these
guns that the ball belonged.
1t was ploughed up within a few yards of
the mouse where the generals stayed
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THE ENCAMPMENT STAR.

No richer souvenir and no better
record Of the great gathering in
Washington this week of veterans
of the war can be obtained than the
daily issues Of The Star. Every
number will be filed with illustra-
lions and letter press Of the most
interesting character, covering the
historical event, memories of which
will be revived by the great reunion,
as well as the happenings of each
day graphically reported. The pa
pers issued during the week will
form a complete history Of this MEM
orable gathering.
The Star will pe mailed for the
entire week beginning Monday, Oc-
tober 6, to any address in the United
States, for fifteen cents. outside of
Washington. Back numbers promptly
mailed.
Those who cannot come to the en-
campment should have The Star sent
to them. and those who do come will
want The Star for the week as a
most interesting, accurate and COM
plete record Of the scenes witnessed
In the national capital.
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Others do in the five-ffths win .v.,,r.

others DO In the hve-ffths. With average
students 1t will not be done. The physical
training which the foot ball men have pone
through cannot under favorable circum-
stances increase their efficiency enough to
make good the difference. Then. as a rule.
their participation In athletics has made
them natural leaders in the social life of
the college, and so they lose still more time
The only point that may be regarded as es-
tablished by the records is that few stu
dents admitted to the teams are subse-
quently thrown on for poor scholarship.
This proves that most athletes can usually
do enough work to remain satisfactory in
their studies. OF late years good player
has lost caste IL he permits himself to be
disqualified through any fault OF his own.
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lor, Indiana; Charlotte e. Wright Connecti-
cut; Abbie Lynch, Pennsylvania; Lydia c.
Hopkins, Michigan; Jennie l. Berry, Iowa
National counselor's report-Henrietta
Steismeier, Missouri Gertie Rogers, Wis
consin Lodusky J. Taylor, Minnesota;
Maria e. Dean, Tennessee; Sarah D.
Winans. Ohio.
National /. and l. officers report-Julia G.
Sine Illinois: Emily H. Jones, Colorado;
Emma d. Chase, Connecticut; Mira L.
Parker, Iowa; Emma e. Forter, Kansas
National pat. instructors report-Kate B.
Sherwood, Ohio; Jennie L.eDay. Maine; Alb
bic T. Usher, Massachusetts; Eliza ]. Girls
ler Indiana; Cora M. Evans, wisconsin
National w. r. c. Home reports-Eiiza-
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Athletics Injure Studies.


Prof. Ira n Hollis in the Atlantic Magazine.
1t does not stand to reason that student
In intercollegiate athletics can do as much
work as one who devotes all his time to
study. The athletic season Of foot ball. for
example, lasts six weeks in the fall, and,
no far as class room work is concerned. the
time is practically thrown away. The men,
beers OF the team attend lectures regularly
they are obliged to-but their minds are on
signals and plays for the next game or
practice. AS a consequence one-fifth OF the
gear Is lost. and the players have to do as
much work In the remaining four-fifths as