Woodruff County news., 1902-09-18

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 The democratic state convention of Colorado has endorsed Henry M Teller for reelection to the United States senate.
 c. A. Percy has invented a boat on the order of skiff in which he made the trip safely through the rapids of Niagara Falls.
 Fire in the Beaumont oil field de- stroyed several large tanks filled with oil and caused great consterna- tion. The financial loss is placed at $20O,00O.
 The president and general freight agent of the Ann Arbor and Michi- gan railway have been indicted by the federal grand jury at Indianap- olis for manipulating rates by means of rebates.
 This promises to be notable year for morality on account of malig- nant diseases. Pestilence of one kind or another is raging in nearly every quarter of the globe. Asiatic cholera is devastating China, west ern Russia and has extended into the Philippines Egypt is threaten- ed with a scourge of Asiatic chole- "a, United States c onsul Long hay ing reported from Cairo that the authorities are making desperate eff forts to keep the disease in check. It has broken out at Maucha, about 250 miles south of Cairo, and a strong military cordon has been placed around the infected district. Plague is also prevalent in certain parts of Egypt, and the same disease is taking the people off in consider able numbers in Odessa, Russia, in British India and in Cape Colony Japan also has many cases of chole- "a, and the plague has even been re- ported by, Sol. Berliner, United States consul at Teneriffe, Canary islands.
 A statement from President Mitchell at the close of the seven- teenth week of the coal strike places the loss to those concerned at $100,- 000,OO0. President Mitchell says "The strike began May 12 It may be prolonged indefinitely unless there is legislative interference. The mi ners are sustained with stream of gold and silver that flows into the headquarters one day and out the next day for the defense of the strikers. Under these circumstances the miners can hold out as well as operators. The story of the: hun dred million loss can be obtained from the following figures: Length of strike, IF weeks; number of miners involved, 147,000; average weekly wages of a miner, $7; aver age weekly output of mines, 1,25O,- 900 tons; normal market price of anthracite, $4.50 a ton; normal cost of production, $1.50 ton. If op- erated the mines would have pro- duced approximately 21,250,000 tons in the period covered by the strike. At $4.50 a ton the market value of the coal would have been $93,625,000. The total weekly wages of the strikers is approxi- mately $1,020,00O In seventeen weeks the miners would have earned $17,493,000 The total cost of pro- ducing the coal ready for the market would have been $31, ,S75,OO0. This, taken from $93, 1895, ,OOO-the market value-would leave $63,75O,0O0 for the operators. From this, however, must be taken the cost of transpor- tation of the coal from the mines to the markets to get the loss of the operators-as operators-as four railroads practically control the en- tire production of the region. The loss to the business men of the dis trict is approximately $14,o0O,00O, on the basis that the strike would have spent three-fourths of their weekly wages for the actual necessi- ties of life. The loss to the mining