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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28

think just want you to do what I
tell you, and you can't even do that
He threw his shoulder into a heavy
blow that reached the dam watchers
face, and followed il Immediately by
another. Then Shearer caught his arm,
motioning the dazed and bloody vic
tim Of the attack to get out of sight
Thorpe shook his foreman of with one
impatient motion, and strobe away up
the river, his head erect. his eyes fash
ing, his nostrils distended.
Il reckon you'd better mosey. -
Shearer dryly advised the dam watch
er: and followed.
Late in the afternoon the two men
reached Dam Three or rather the spot
on which Dam Three had stood. The
same spectacle repeated itself here, ex-
cept that Ellis, the dam watcher, was
nowhere TO be seen.
THE dirty whelps," cried Thorpe,
they did good job"
He thrashed about here and there,
and so came across Ellis blindfolded
and tied. When released, the dam
watcher was unable to give any ac-
count of his assailants.
They came up behind me While
was cooking" he said. ''One of 'em
grabbed me and the other one kivered
my eyes Then I hears the shot and
knows there's trouble
Thorpe listened in silence. Shearer
asked a few questions. After the low
voiced conversation Thorpe arose alb
ruptly.
Where you going2" asked Shearer.
But the young man did not reply He
swung, with the same long, nervous
stride, into the down-river trail
Until late that night the three men
for Ellis insisted on accompanying
them-hurried through the forest.
Thorpe walked tirelessiy. upheld by
his violent but repressed excitement.
Shearer noted the fire in his eyes, and
from the GOODNESS of his greater age,
counseled moderation.
Il wouldn't stir the boys up he
painted, for the pace was very swift.
They'll kill some one over there, it'll
be murder on both sides"
He received no answer. About mid
night they came to the camp
Two great fires leaped among the
trees, and the men were grouped be-
tween them, talking. Evening had
brought it's accumulation of slow anger
against the perpetrators of the out
rage. Even as the woodsmen Joined
their group, they had reached the in
tensity of execution. Across their pur-
pose Thorpe threw violently his per-
sonality
You must not CO." he commanded.
Through their anger they looked at
him askance.
Il forbid it," Thorpe cried.
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They shrugged their indifference and
arose. This was an affair OF caste
brotherhood; and the blood Of their
mates cried out TO them
The work. Thorpe shouted hoarse-
~. 1.-The work. we must get those
logs out, We haven't timei''
Then swiftly between the white,
strained face Of the madman trying to
convince his heart that his mind had
been right, and the fanatically exalted
rivermen. interpOsed the sanity Of
Railway. The old jobber faced the
men calmly, almost humOrously, and
somehow the very bigness of the man
commanded attention.
You fellows make me sick, said he.
"Ycu haven't got the sense God gave
a rooster. Don't you see you're play
ing right in those fellows HANDS,
What do you suppose they dynamited
them dams for? To Kill our boys E?
They never dreamed we was dry pick
in that JAM They sent some low
lived Whelp down here TO hang our
drive, and by smoke it looks like they
was going to succeed, thanks to you
mutton-headS.
'Spose you go over and take 'enn
apart; what then? Then have a scrap;
probably you lick EN- You whale day
lights out of lot of men who prob
ably don't know any more about this
here shooting of our dams than a hog
does about a rufiled shirt Meanwhile
your drive hangs. Well? Weu2 Do
you suppose the men who were back
Of that shooting. do you suppose Nor
risOn and DAILY give a tinker's dam
how many men Of theirs you lick ?
What they want is to hang our drive.
If they hang our drive, it's cheap at
the price of a few black eyes"
The speaker paused and grinned
spontaneously at the mems attentive
faces. Then suddenly his own became
grave.
do you want to know how to get
even?" he asked do you want to
know how TO make those fellows sing
so small you can't hear them? Well,
I'll tell you. Take out this drivel Do
it in spite of them! Show them they're
no good when they buck up against
Thorpe's One. Our boys died doing
their duty-the way a riverman ought
to. Now hump yourselves! Don't let
EN- die in vaini'
The crew stirred uneasily, looking at
each other for approval of the CONVEX
sion each had experienced. Railway
turned easily toward the blaze.
Better turn in, boys, and get some
Sleep" he said. We've got hard
day tomorrow" He stopped 10 light
his pipe at the fire When he had
again Strengthened his back after
rather a prolonged interval the group
had already disintegrated- A few min
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CHAPTER xLvIII.

The rear had been tenting at the dam
for two days, and was about ready to
break camp, when Jimmy Powers
swung across the trail to tell them Of
the big jam.
Ten miles along the river bed, the
stream dropped over a little half-falls
into a narrow, rocky gorge. 1t was
always an anxious spot for river driv-
ers. The plunging of the logs head
on over the fall had so gouged out the
soft rock below, that an eddy of great
power had formed in the basin. Here,
in spite of all efforts, the jam had
formed. The bed was completely filed,
far above the level of the falls. by
tangle that defied the jam crews best
efforts.
The rear at once took the trail down
the river. Thorpe and Shearer and
Scotty Parsons looked over the ground.
Without delay, the entire crew was
set to work. Nearly a hundred men
can pick a great many logs in the
course of a day. Several times the
jam started but always plugged be-
fore the motion had become irresist-
IDLE.
Wen have to shoot" Shearer re-
luctantly decided.
The men were Withdrawn. Scotty
Parsons cut a sapling twelve feet long
and trimmed it. Big Junko thawed
his dynamite at a little fire opening
the ends of the packages in order that
the steam generated might escape.
When the powder was warm, Scotty
bound twenty of the cartridges around
the end of the sapling, adjusted a fuse
in one of them, and soaped the opening
TO exclude water. Then Big Junko
thrust the long javelin, down into the
depths of the jam. leaving a thin
stream OF smoke behind him as he
turned away. zigzagging awkwardly
over the jam, the long, ridiculous tails
OF his brown cutaway coat tapping be-
hind him as he leaped. A seant mo-
ment later the hoarse dynamite
shouted.
Great chunks OF timber shot to an
inconceivable height: entire logs lifted
bodily into the air with the motion of
a fish jumping. a fountain of water
cleaned against the sun and showered
down in fine rain. The jam shrugged
and settled. That was all; the shot
had failed.
The men ran forward, examining GU
riously the great hole in the log form
alton.
Wen have to flood her. said Thorpe.
So all the gates of the dam We're
raised and the torrent tried its hand
It had no effect. Evidently the affair
was not one of violence, but of patience.
The crew went doggediy to work
Day after day the clank. clank, clink
or the peaVeys sounded with the regu-
larity of machinery It was cruel hard.
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CHAPTER L.
Shearer.

For a moment the three men stared
at each other without speaking.
What does II mean2" almost whis-
pered Carpenter.
Mean? Foul play!' snarled Thorpe
Come on, Tim"
The two struck into the brush.
threading the paths with the ease of
woodsmen. 1t was necessary to keep to
the high inland ridges; the pole trail
had by now became impossible. Thorpe
and his foreman talked BREEZY.
It's Morrison and DAILY surrnised
Shearer. II left them count of a
trick like that. I been suspecting
something-they've been layin' too
low
Thorpe answered nothing. Through
the site of the old dam they found
torrent pouring from the narrowed
pond, at the end of which the dilapi-
dated wings Tapping in the current at
tested the former structure. Davis
stood staring at the current.
Thorpe strobe forward and shook him
violently by the shoulder.
How did this happen?' he demanded
hoarsely.'
The man turned to him in a daze. 81
don't know he answered.
You ought to know How was that
shot exploded? How did they get in
here without you seeing them? An
swer me-"
81 don't know" repeated the man, 81
Jest went over in tn bresh to kill a
few pa tridges, and when I come back
I found her this way
Were you hired to watch this dam,
or weren't you2" demanded the tense
voice of Thorpe. Answer me, you
FOOL
Yes, 1 vas returned the man, q
shade of aggression creeping into his
voice.
We'll. you've done it well. You've
cost me my dam, and you've killed five
men, If the crew finds out about you,
you'll go over the fails. sure. You get
out of herei Pike! Don't you ever let
me see your face again.
The man blanched as he thus
learned of his comrades death. Thorpe
thrust his face at him, dashed by cir
cumstances beyond his habitual self
control.
Its men like you who make the
trouble he stormed. Damn fools
who say they didn't mean to. 1t isn't
enough not to mean to. They should
mean not to. don't ask you to
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6continued FrOm Last sundayl

At noon they ate from their little
canvas bags which had been filed that
morning by the cOokee. At sunset
they rode other logs down the river
TO where their camp had been made
for them. There they ate hugely, hung
their ice-Wet garments over a tall
framework constructed around mon
ster fire, and turned in on hemiock
branches.
All night long the logs slipped down
the moOniit current, silently, swiftly,
yet without haste. The porcupines in
vaded the sleeping camp. From the
whole length of the river rang the hOl-
low boom. BOOM boom, of timbers
striking one against the other.
The drive was on
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CHAPTER XIX.

During perhaps ten seconds the sur
vlvors watched the end of Thorpe's
rope trailing in the flood. Then the
young man with a deep sigh began TO
pull it towards him.
At once a hundred surmises, cues
tons. CALCULATIONS broke ont
What happened ?" cried Wallace
Carpenter.
What was that mans name?" asked
the Chicago journalist with the eager
instinct of his profession.
This is terrible. terrible. terrible," a
Wnlte-haired physician from Marquette
kept repeating over and over again.
A half-dozen ran towards the point
OF the cliff to peer down stream. as
though they could hope 10 distinguish
ANYTHING in that waste OF Hood water
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town and demanding as much respect

uptown. and demanding as much respect
from him as any other portion Of the cleo
torate. sat cold and unresponsive through
out the whole Of the speech. The next
days opposition newspapers took the matter
UP. and 1t occasioned many q Witty jibe dur
ing the remainder of the campaign.
Mr.. Fasset, after his defeat, retired from
the political field. and had passed out of
mind until few months ago when he came
forward again refreshed from his long
silence and obscurity. He has plunged at
once into the battle this year and at big
rally at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night
was one of the principal speakers. But in
stantly his old folly confronted him. for as
he took the stand to begin his address a
man in the gallery. in a clear voice and
with the evident intention of breaking him
all up" sang out, Take your coat off:
But Mr.. Fasset had learned something. He
was wiser than before, and equal to the
emergency. NO" he replied very pleasant
ly. Il do not believe that the exigencies of
the campaign will require so violent an ex-
ertion." His wit and good nature caught
the crowd. and saved him.
Campaigning in America seems easy, but
the candidates for high places here need
to study 1t as an art and with care. The
wrong word or the wrong action may at
any time prove most expensive.
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The Word Strike.

What is a strike? The question is of
very great interest at this time both By rea-
son of existing labor troubles and because
the public is wrestling with another inter-
esting question to wit: What is a trust?
We are told that corporations are both
legitimate and necessary. They accomplish
great deal of good. They do what ndi
viduals acting separately could not hope to
do. Why hamper or destroy them. then?
But how about those corporations which set
up a tyranny over business and exact their
own prices for their products-often very
high prices? Are they to be praised and
encouraged? Do they not abuse the right
Of existence? Should they not be called to
account? corporation therefore is one
thing, and trust is another thing. A trust
sets up tyranny. and Furnishes the public.
There can be no doubt about the right of
labor to organize: and the right should be
exercised. Labor is entitled to good pay
good hours. good treatment of every kind
1t is likewise entitled to a prompt and pa
tient hearing whenever it feels itself ag-
srieved Why not? What in a country like
this hedges about the managers of great
corporations that employees MAJ not at any
time be heard IN their own behalf? And la
Dor, falling to secure what 1t conceives to
pe right ana justice, mas perfect right to
withdraw from any service 1t may be per-
forming. 1t may accept or decline any
counter proposition that may be offered
The word strike came into use when labor
after organizing, first exercised .its right 20
throw up its job. 1t seemed happily chosen.
X meant the same thing everywhere. But
does the word stand simply for that today?
Does it not now comprehend the asserted
right to prevent resumption of activity
wherever differences have arisen until
striking labors demands have been COM
piled with? And does not that set up
tyranny even against labor itself? Does 1t
not array one set Of laborers against an
other and injure all? Does it not destroy
competition in labor, which like competition
in other things inures to the public benefit
and individual independence? May organ
lied labor, for any reason anywhere, not
only decline TO abide longer by conditions
that surround it. but in addition bring very
thing to a dead halt?
This Is the land of labor. The greatest op-
portunities labor has ever enjoyed IN the
world are here Should they not be most
carefully guarded, in labor's interests no
less than in other interests? The right 20
work cannot be abridged except at the ex-
perse OF all
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The New York Conference Fails.

The brief announcement comes from New
York this afternoon that the conference
over the coal situation which has been in
progress there for two days has ended with
out results There seemed at the outset to
be little ground for expecting the end of
the strike to be reached IN this manner.
The President a week ago today offered the
contending parties their best chance to
meet in agreement for the sake of the pub
lie They declined. and 1t would have been
extraordinary had they yielded now to the
opportunities of others
According TO some of the reports Of the
conference, there were some sharp ex-
changes between the political leaders on
the one side and the operators on the other.
The former. 1t is said. told the latter that
II they did not grant concessions leading 10
the imme date resumption of mining extra
sessions of both the Pennsylvania and the
New York legislatures would be called at
once to consider bills materially affecting
the strike and the status of the operators.
Only the barest suggestion Of the nature Of
these proposed laws is obtainable. one au-
thority is quoted to the effect that law
is in contemplation providing for a Penn
syIyarta commission to take over and oper-
ate the mines under the principle of emf
nent domain. in order 10 supply the people
with coal. Another possible move Is the
repeal or suspension of the law requiring
the licensing of miners. But this is just
what the operators desire. so it cannot be
among those prospective enactments
threatened by the republican leaders. Just
what the New York legislature could do Is
probIematical.
In any case the immediate public demand
does not involve the summoning Of state
legislatures or of Congress in extra session
No law state or federal, could be passed
and enforced in season to prevent public
distress Any such enactment, it is abso-
lutely certain would be fought stubbornly
in the courts by the operators if their inter-
ests were in the least degree menaced. The
remedy for the existing and prospective
evils to which the people are exposed lies
In the way of concessions by one or both
sides 1t must be Immediately effective.
not subject to the laws delay. 1t must be
reliable not subject to defeat or retraction.
The people must have coal at once,
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A Hint From Nature.

There was a pinching chill in the air this
morning which would have been called
"oracing' under ordinary circumstances.
But 1t was differently regarded today for
1t presaged the approach of cold weather.
And cold weather means difficulties with
the heating Of houses, and perhaps sick
ness. All of the eastern cities. where an
thracite coal is generally used for domestic
purposes, have been exceptionally fortu-
nate thus far during the coal famine, the
season being unusually mild. But this
good fortune cannot last and 1t will not be
long before fires are necessary to prevent
distress. This is the tenth of the month
and October has only three more weeks to
run If the coal stress is not relieved in
that time the whole eastern seaboard will
be suffering. most severely in the northern
states. 1t is impossible to forecast with
confidence the consequences of such con-
dition. 1t bears dangerous possibilities.
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The New York Registration.

This is the first day of registration in
New York. There are four such days in
all. The leaders in both parties are very
active, and there is hope of getting the
people out. The battle In the empire state
this year possesses dement's of widespread
interest What, with Mr.. Croker abroad
and Mr. Devery on deck, are the condi-
tons in Tammany Hall? Is there union,
and will it show at the polls? What effect
WIFI the coal plank in the democratic plat
form have on the voters? VIII 1t cost the
party any votes in town? And to what
extent. If any, will democratic success If
achieved advance the presidential prospects
of Mr. Hill? The campaign is certain to be
spirited, and both sides are reasonably GER
tain to be well supplied with the sinews of
war. Not in many years has a state cam
paign, even in New York. carried SO much
of Importance bearing upon national mat
tiers. For this reason the vote ought to be
large.
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the country? There Is something more for
a President to do than distribute patronage,
difficult as that may be. He must have a
policy of some kind. But what kind of a
policy might President be expected to
have who had consented tie stand upon a
platform simply ito VIM
We are Inclined to marvel at times Il: Mr..
Bryans continued popularity. Never were a
public mans prophecies more completely
discredted than his have been. No other
candidate for the presidency ever had SO
large popular majority thrown against
him Mr.. Mckinley was elected both times
by an enormous vote. But Mr. Bryan still
has many admirers and strong supporters.
Need we look for the reason further than
that he stands for something definite and
refuses to retreat? He will not stand upon
just any platform that has a chance to
win" He announces very emphatically
that he does not want the democratic party
to win unless upon a platform which means
precisely what it says, and which in case
of success at the polls will be carried out to
the letter. There Is something SO very
frank about that that 1t impresses favor
ably people who differ radically with Mr..
Bryan. 1t sounds like leadership.
There two kinds of leaders from
whose ranks a presidential candidate should
never be taken: "a leaders who are WILL
Ing to stand upon any platform that has a
chance to win and GU leaders" whose
convictions are really opposed to those of
the men whose support they are soliciting
A leader" of the one kind is willing to do
anything for office, and a leader of the
other kind Is willing and ready after OBJ
taining office to diSappoint and frusrI at
those who have put power into his hands.
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The New Orleans Picayune. one of the
NEST influential of southern newspapers
says:
1T the democratic party is ever to win
another national victory, it must make
platform which Will deal exclusively with
living issues, and which will not Inevitably
exclude any considera BILE part of any Of its
normal strength from its active membership
And. above all. 1t would be preposterous 20
undertake to read any man out OF the party
because he would not support in 1896 o. In
100 a demand which II would be fatal to
redssert TODAY Moreover. the policy of
the party should not be shaped to meet the
requirements OF any particular leader. II
there Is any man In the party so welded to
his own views that he cannot stand upon
any platform that has chance to win he
must understand that he cannot be permit
ted either to lead or to name a leader for tn.
democracy. There is. outside of the demo-
cratic and republican parties, a body of
independent voters which has held. so to
speak, the balance of power in more than
one campaign within the last twelve or ft-
teen years. That element will not give its
support to any party whose usefulness g
impaired, and whose unity Is constantly
mensced by the virulenc dissensions Of Its
leaders, or by factional spirit i1s rank
and file"
or course there must be harmony If the
democratic party Is TO triumph In 1904, ana
Its platform must deal with living issues. -
But what sort of leader" would that man
be who would stand upon any platform
that has a chance to VIM Win what? The
oaices? Is that to be the aim and end of
the next national campaign? Would a
leader of that caIiber be of any service
to his party II elected to the presidency?
Would he not. on the contrary. be a men
ace In that place both to his party and 70