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New-York tribune., 1902-07-01

DOMESTIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. - Conn
mercial. 75c discount: bank. 81 premium San Fran
cIscO-Sight, l5c; telegraph. 17zc. Boston-Par and
&c premium. Charleston-Buyng, par; selling &c
premium Chicago-5c discount CincInnati-Be-
tween banks. 2Jc discount; the counter soc
premium. St Louis-Par. MinneapoIis-75c premi-
Savannah-Buying 75c discount per 81 OOO:
selling, Toe premium.
BANK CLEARINGS. - Observation-Disclosures
$l263l6.7sS; balances 80 722 pol Chicago-Exchanges
$26,c069i3 balances $l.s05.791 Philadelphia-Ex-
changes. s12 s97 995; balances. $31sOS7 Baltimore
Exchanges S3. ,6g7 balances. sos, A. Boston
Exchanges, SIS 39O,O37; balances. 81. .9O8. .555
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET-CaH money in
London 211d3 per cent: open market discount rate
for shor. bills, 2l2d2Hs per cent long bills 21d23
per cent. Berlin discount rate. Pa per cent for
three months bills and ia per for short bills
Berlin exchange London. 20 marks 461 pfennigs.
Paris exchange London. 20 francs 1872 centimes.
Paris discount rate. 21z per cent
FOREIGN SECURITIES-British consols for
Spanish As in London ST. French rentes. 1Ol francs
70 centimes
THE SILVER MARKET-Bar silver 521kc; Mex
lean silver dollars. 42Ac Bar silver in London
closed at PAID.
GOLD PREMIUM-In Madrid 36.72 Lisbon, 26;
Buenos Ayres 1910; Rome. 122.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.-Customs receipts
reported from Washington, $685. ,795; internal reve-
pue receipts, $2,143263 miscellaneous receipts
pendtures. $S90OoO Receipts for the month to date
s49,67.46 expenditures. S3S $4,000; OF re-
ceipts. 1888 467. Receipts for the year date,
1868 405.1 1856; expenditures, S47l2179S of
ceipts s92 1888 National bank received for
redemption, 1861 $50.
SUB-TREASURY.-The Sub-Treasury was cred
itor at the Clearing House, Sill.
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RAILROAD BONDS.-Market generally strong.
Total sales amounted in par value 10 $4Ol9 50O
against a,334O0O Saturday. The heaviest deal
ings in the Baltimore and Ohio gold As Cen
tral of Georgia second incomes, Chesapeake and
Ohio 4l4s, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy As, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas second As Northern Pa
cific As, Reading general As. st. Louis Southwest
frsts. Union Pacific convertible As and Wa
bash debenCure Bs. Colorado Fuel and Iron con-
vertible 5s, Consolidated Tobacco IS and Standard
Rope and Twine 6s and incomes were also active
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COLORADO SPRINGS STOCKS.

Closing quotations the Colorado Springs Min
ing Stock Exchange. by the Counseman & Day
private wire from William P. Bonbright s. Co.. Of
Colorado Springs:
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MONEY MARKET.-Car money went TO per
cent with the bulk of the business at per cent. A
year ago 10 per cent reached. According to the
statements of prominent bankers. there no ndi-
cations of anything except temporary furry of
dividend disbursements have in great part been
provided for and 1t is the opinion Of banking in
terests that money will be comparatively easy for
some time. The inactivity of the stock market also
naturally reduces the demand for call money
Aside from the usual July disbursements, the pay
the National City Banks increased capital,
amounting TO So 500 900. is due to-day. This is
large item to be considered, but II will be n
great extent in the nature of a transfer from
source of supply to another. and will be readily
available for loaning purposes. The National City
Bank yesterday loaned 100000 on call 4 8 and
per Gold is the way from the Klon-
a week ten days The repeal of the revenue
tax, which becomes effective tomorrow, Will di-
vert about S7O,OOOO00 from the national Treasury
and make II available for the regular financial re-
quirements OF banking interests Money rates. as
quoted, follow Money call opened at per cent;
highest. cent; lowest 3i2 per cent last loan.
per cent closed 3l2 per cent: ruling rate. per
Time money quoted 4i4041z per cent for
sixty to ninety days. ia4M per cent for four six
months. Commercial paper quoted at 4hd424
per for sixty to ninety days. 414a5 per cent
per cent for others
FOREIGN EXCHANGE-Market closed steady
Actual closing rates follow:
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brooklyn Ferry stock.
HObOken Ferry LIST 5s. 1915. d.
do stock. ..........-...
n Y & + Il Ferry Co stock.
do LIST mtg 5S. 1922. ..
n Y & III r Con 5s. I046.
10th & 25d ST LIST ing 5s. 1919
Union F. Of n Y * II stock. .
ny & ~ J + LIST mtg IS. I9i6
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INACTIVE STOCKS
FURNISHED by William Co.. No. Is wall-st)
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STOCK TRADING LIGHT.
PRICES SHOWLITTLE CHANGE
CALL MONEY RATES AT PER CENT
STERLING EXCHANGE HIGHER.
tations were:

Closing prices yesterday of the principal active
securities and net changes from Saturdays quo
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AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

London. June 80, p. m.-The market for Ameri-
securities was irregular small price changes
Final prices follow:
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CHICAGO STOCKS.
FURNISHED by Tracy Co.. No. 40 waii-st)
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Atlantis Ave LIST. 1900. ...-.
All Ave Con 5s &. 1881. .....
Bklyn Heights LIST. l9il. 80,
Bklyn b & w f Gen. 1883. .
Bklyn City Cons IS. 194l. -.
Dklyn Crosstown LIST. 1905.
Bklyn G s. Newtn lst. 1890
Coney Island & II LIST. 1908
Coney Island & B eff. 1903.
Calvary Gem & q LIST. 1907
Opt & LOrimer LIST. 1910.
Grand st & Nm LIST. 1906. BE-.
Jamaica a Bk lst. 1880. Sc.
New w * FL LIST. leil......
Sea Beach lst. 1916. ........
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interest
GAS COMPANIES.
FURNISHED by William E. Nichols Co.. waIf-st,
& East Stan G IS 1880 I15A MAJ
1st 5s. 1914 1l3 11442 Cen U Gas 5s.- -1O91s III
do 5s.---.----1 100 III lEquit Con lis
Nor L 1st 5s- .1OSlz ITO Mutual $40
stand Cas-. 1921 145 y Am Co IS .1121s 113
do pref.......152 100 lBrookyn Union 222 2o5
MISCELLANEOUS GAS COMPANIES.
FURNISHED by William E Nichols & Co. No Is waIl-st)
Int period / Bid Askes
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THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.
GOVERNMENT BONDs.-Market steady. Final
ouotations follow:
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MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES.
ACTIVE STOCKS.

FURNISHED by William E. Nichols IS wall-st-)
Bid Asked Bid. Asked
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Adams Express.
Albany K Sus.
.Amal Copper. =.
Am Agr Chem . .
do pref.
Amer Bicycle.
do pref. ..--...
Am Car * T. dry
do pref.
American Coal. d.
Amer Cotton Oil
do pref. .....
Amer Dist Tel.
Amer Express
american Ice.
do pref 1890
sAmer Linseed
80 pref. $1,000.
sAm Locomotive
do pref. ..-...
'Amer Mailing.
'do pref ......
-Amer Smelling.
'dO pref. $3.50.
.American Snuff
do pref. .......
'Amer Sugar.
do pref. .....
Am Tel x Cable
Amer Tob pref.
"Amer Woollen
-dO pref.
Anaconda 900.
Ann Arbor .-....
do pref .......
Asso Mer LIST pf.
Atchison .......
do pf e d 2l2 pc
Amer Tel & Tel
90 rights. ..--
Am Cir Twine.
Bait Il Ohio.
do pref.
Boston a L pf
B'kiyn Rap Tr..
B'klyn Tn Gas.
Brunswick ....
Buff r & Pitts.
do pref. f........
Bur g r & Nor.
'Butterick Co.
Can So eX d / pc
Canadian Pacific
.do subs 1st pd
Central of y J.
Ches & Ohio.
Chicago * Alton
do pref. ........
Chic & East Ill.
do pref. .-..-.-.
Chic Bur * Qy..
Chic CT West. e.
do pref A..
do pref B. go.
do deb, ........
Ch Ind & Louis.
do pref ..-...
Ch Nil * ST Z.
DO pref. ........
Chic r l & Pac.
Ch st p NJ & o.
do pref. .......
Chic Term Tr.
do pref. .......
Chic Union Trac
c & c ~ ST l..
do pref. ...-...
Clev L * Wheel
do pref. .-......
Clev & Pitts.
Col Fuel y Iron.
do pref. ..-....
Col * South.
do 1st pref.
do I'd pref
Col & II c * Ir.
Com Cable. ..-..
Consol Coal. go.
Consol Gas. .-....
"Cont Tob pref.
Corn Products. =.
DO pref. .......
Del & Hudson
Del Lack & w.
Denv * Rio CIR.
do pref. .......
Denv & SOuthw.
Des NJ & FIT D..
do pref. $4,000.
Detroit Gas. ....
Detroit Southern
do preP
Det United r r. !
Diamond Match.
sDist OF Amer.
~do pref. ......l
.Dul SO 5 & Att
'do pref. ...-..l
Erie .-.-........
do 1st pref.
do I'd pref. ....l
Evans & T H. .. !
do pref. ....-. I
'Ft " * d City I
Gen Chemical . e.. /
do pref. ...... !
Gen Electric Co. !
CT Northern pr. I
Geo 4 Fuller Co /
do pref ...---.
Hooking Valley
do pref. .......
Illinois Central. I
do Leased Line /
Int Paper.
do pref. .......
'Int Silver.
do pref. ......
Int Steam Pump !
do pref. .......
Iowa Central. -.
do pref. .......
X kana & AIich...l
Kan CITY x So.
do pref. .......l
Keok & Des NJ. !
do pref. .......
Kingston & Penn ,
X c + 5 & NJ pf 1
knick Ice of Ch.
do pref. .-.-...I |
Laclede Gas. ..-..I
do pref. .......I
L Z * Western. ,
w li .--s"
Lake Shore eX d. !
Long Island. 80.
Louis * Nash.
Man Beach. -.-.-
Manhattan FL. :.
Md Coal pref. E.
Met Street Ry.
MET 5 S 1st pd
Met W S OF Ch.
do pref. ........
Mexican Cent.
Mich c e d 2 p c
M&St L o d 2lzpc
do pf e d 21z pc
NJ st 7 & 5 5 NJ
do pref. .......
Mo Kan & Tex.
do pref. f........
Missouri Pacific.
Morris & Essex.
Nash & Chat.
NAT Biscuit.
-do pref. f.-.....
National Lead.
do pref. ..,-...
Nat r R of Mex
do pref.
National Salt. &.
.do pref.
New Cent Coal.
IN Y Air Brake
n Y c e d Ia pc
y Y Ch & st L.
do 1st pref. 80
do ID pref.
n Y Lack & W.
y Y Dock. .......
do pref. .......
y Y \ H & H.
" Y Ont & w.
Norfolk & West
do pref ...-...
North American.
Nor Cent g d Ape
Ontario Silver.
Pacific Coast. -.
do 1st pref. -.
do ID pref. ....
Pacific Mail ...-
Penn r r. zee.
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CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE SALES.
STOCKS.

ing. est. est. sale. sold.
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SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

open High ign Low. I51a Fin. Bid. ASK. Sold.
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Amer Light & Trac.
do pref s per cent -....
Bing Gas LIST mtg 5s. 1888 &.
do stock.
Bing Gen Elec IS. 1922 .....
do stock
Bufr c G LIST mtg IS. 1871. &.
DO stock.
Butte + 4 7 Co LIST mtg IS.
Colum Gas Co 1st IS. 1892 q.
d q & F @ 1st Con IS, 1919.
do stock
TT W Gas Co 1st 6s. 1925. d..
G. Rap G L Co 1St IS. 1918. :
Hud Co Gas LIST Con IS. 1919
Indianap Gas 1st 6s. 1920 q.
do stock.
Jackson Gas Co stock. .-----
do IS C. 1887. ...........
Lafayette Gas 1st Is. .-....-
L & W V Gas LIST 6s. 1928. d.
90 stock -.-.--------.-
Mad G. & z Co 1st 6s. 1926.
Milwaukee Gas As, 1927. ...
y r G & c LIST mtg IS. 1926.
do stock
New-Haven Gas CO stock.
y Y & q z L < = Co stock.
90 pref --...---.-..
Ohio < I G 1st mtg 6s. 1926
do 4 p c tnewf--.......-.
Syracuse q LIST mtg IS, 1886.
do stock. .............
81 Joseph Gas Isl Is. 1887. q.
ST Paul Gas G NJ 5s. 1874. q.
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STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES.


NEw-YORK.
FURNISHED by William E. Nichols Co.. No. IS Waii-st)
4 l.. - IA -
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FERRY COMPANIES.
FURNISHED by William E Nichols & Co.. No Is wail-st)
Int period ! BID ASKED
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

Total salee OF bonds. s4.O19. 500.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

Mesdames S. Arnstein, j. Lobman, NJ. Spies
berger and F. Frank.
The hospital takes its name from the
eminent Rabbi Wise whose death occurred
some two years ago, but it is distinctly a
charitable institution and non-sectarian.
The poor are admitted regardless of church
afiliation and given the benefit Of the best
the institution affords. There are, of
course, private rooms for those who prefer
and who are able to contribute to the
maintenance of the hospital, but of the 200
patients who have been cared for since the
institution first opened in the old quarters,
November IS of last year, fifty have been
charity charges. Two of the twenty-five
now being cared for are of the same class.
The capacity in the new quarters is forty
and to attend their wants are eight nurses
under Miss Jennie NJ. Wheeler. On the staff
of physicians and surgeons are Drs. Hoff-
man, Davis, Summers, Jonas, Allison,
Bridges, Rosewater, Wearne, Goetz, Lud-
ington and owen. 1t was under their direc-
tion that the alterations in the interior
arrangement were made. The old stair
case was found inconvenient because Of
its spiral course and was promptly re-
placed by a straight one, up which litter
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

bearers may ascend without inconvenience
to the patient. Electric lights and new
plumbing were installed. Paint was APP
piled. The private rooms and the wards,
each with a capacity of seven were equip
ped with the immaculate white hospital
beds. And to the north was builded as an
annex to the main building a large apart
ment now fully equipped with all that
modern surgery requires in the accom-
plishment of its difficult and marvellous
mendings, and a sterilizing department and
robing room for the surgeons use. Miss
Wheeler has been provided with a very
coy apartment and every effort made to
create a homelike appearance so far as
possible. The premises have been leased
from Mrs. ]. j. Brown for but three years,
but nothing in the present equipment Is
suggestive of temporary makeshift.
Indeed the sponsors of the Wise Memorial
hospital have no other thought than that
it shall prove one of the enduring and
thriving institutions of Omaha and the
work in that behalf is more energetic now,
perhaps, than ever. A donation of $500
was received in September from A. Slim
mer of Waverly, Ia, and many Omaha
capitalists have given considerable amounts
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

thai IL was in a measure a browning of
their own long and patient efforts. Three
years ago these women, Mrs. J. l.. Bran
deis, Mrs. J. Sonnenberg, Mrs. c.. Schlank
and Mrs. j. Rosenstein, began their cam
paign for the nucleus of a hospital fund.
They secured half the proceeds of a benefit
at the Orpheum theater; they conducted a
booth at the street fair; they annexed a
days proceeds of a soda fountain and they
collected 1880 in donations.
Incidentally they interested other women
and some prominent business men. and
when, early in November, 1901, they incor-
p~orated they had back of them about 175
supporters pledged to give a specified
amount from month to month that the in
stitution might be assured OF income other
than spasmodic donations. But the same
women remained at the front and are no
less active now than when their undertake
ing was in its swaddling clothes. Mrs.
Brandeis is president aud Mrs. Sonnenberg
is vice president. Mrs. y. Levy is financial
secretary, Mr.. Isaac Kahn is corresponding
secretary and Mr.. A. Brown is treasurer.
Associated with these on the board OF dl-
rectors are Messrs, ]. L. Brandeis, ]. Son
n%enberg, C. Schlank, Isidor Ziegler and
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

the sponsors of the institution continue
to labor that the subscription list may grow
and 400 names is now a much desired
and apparently near attainment. Further
more, there has been undertaken for the
night of Thursday, December II, a charity
ball that is to be a more than ordinary
event. The Metropolitan club on West
Harvey is to be used and will be deliberately
decorated. A superior orchestra has been
secured and the women interested in the
hospital have started to canvass the smart
set and the smaller social sets with the
one determination that 500 couples shall be
on the list.
'These women" said one of the staff of
physicians, "are working wisely and well
in a very good cause. When they leased
the new premises l thought the surround
ings ideal and the building inviting and
coy, but l feared the trains down under
the bluffs to the east might disturb the
patients. l have since discovered that they
do not disturb even the most fretful and
my last and only objection is removed. Out
of nothing there has been builded without
the aid of endowment or annuity a splendid
institution where a splendid work is being
done in a splendid way"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

ing to law you have to wear 1t as IL is worn
by the natives in Africa" -
"And how might that be?" y
why, with the ring through the nose
The new knight of the Labaksi-Tapo or
der has not been heard of since.
why" said a lady, reproachfully, to her
husband, you know when l say Denmark l
always mean Holland!' Perhaps the city
girl in the following story, told by the
Philadelphia Telegraph, allowed herself a
similar latitude of expression;
She was sitting on the porch, lazily rock
ing to and fro, and watching the f~reflies
fitting about her companions and said, in a
musing tone:
i wonder If it is true tina frefies do
get into the haymows sometimes and set
them afre?"
Everybody laughed at what was appar-
emily a pleasantly, but the young lady
looked surprised.
"Why," said she, 1T was only yesterday
that l saw in the paper an article headed,
Work of Firebugs!' 1t said they had set a
barn on fire. Really"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

casion the wife was suffering intensely from
a nervous headache and thinking perhaps
his voice might soothe her to sleep she
asked him to read aloud TO her, which he
did as the colored maid went back and
forth about the room, setting things in
order for the night.
Presently the maid quietly withdrew to
the kitchen below, where the old cook,
Aunt Phyllis, was making ready to lock up
and depart.
Mr.. Alex sho' is a good man." said the
maid, beginning. HE settin' up dar readin'
de Bible to Miss Alice, an she sick"
go on, chile" answered Aunt Phyllis.
Don you know Mr.. Alex amt readin' no
Bible? He's a lawyer"
.
William Barbour, who was defeated for
congress in the Sixth New Jersey district.
reports the New York Times, ran counter
to a strong feeling Of state pride in his
canvass because of his residence in New
York.
The other day in Paterson he met a
stanch J~erseyman, who said: Sorry, l
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

@ENERAL phil" Sheridan was at
one time asked at what little
~ Incident did he laugh the most.
N WELL" he said, Il do not
- know. but l always laugh when |
think OF the ITishman and the army mule.
l was riding down the line one day, when
! saw an Irishman mounted on a mule which
was kicking It's legs rather freely. The
mule finally got its hoof caught in the stir
rup. when. in the excitement, the Irishman
remarked; Well, begorrah, II you're goin
to get on, I'll get on"
In his lecture, Love, Courtship and Mar
riage," delivered in the Lebanon Valley
college chapel a few years ago, relates the
Topeka Herald, Rev. John Dewitt Miller of
Philadelphia said that men should kiss their
wives as they did when they were a year or
two married. When the lecture was over
an old man went home, put his arm around
his wife's neck and kissed her.
Meeting the lecturer some time after, he
said, TITS no 60"
what isn't?" said the lecturer
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

n YlHERB once the older aristocracy
INV Of Omaha met at smart functions
- or sat at great dinners, those "by
IASESI human ills distressed" now spend
" the hours of their recuperatiOn
and know no greater f~easting than the
broths and dainties Of invalid's fare. A
broad green lawn, tree-studded and with a
fountain In its center, that once served for
fetes and lantern parties now has the
gentler mission OF providing for weary
eyes a view restful and cheering. The
house that was the J. ]. Brown residence is
now the Wise Memorial hospital.
In exterior appearance the great brick
building, numbered 1926 Sherman avenue,
is unchanged except for an enlargement
on the north, but in it's interior ar
rangements such alterations have been
made as were necessary to make wards of
bed chambers and parlors and the winding
staircase has been sacrificed for one up
which the helpless may be borne with
greater ease and safety.
When the hospital corps, moving from
320S Sherman avenue, took possession last
month a little band OF valiant women were
among those who rejoiced. for they felt
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

A delightful funny story comes across the
water from Paris concerning a well known
public man, who was recently presented by
a S~oudanese potentate with the Labaksi-
Tapo Order of Merit. The recipient anxious
to display the decoration at the earliest
opportunity, applied at once to the ministry
for permission to wear it. While readily
granting the permission, the minister in
quired, with the ghost of a smile:
do you know what the order is like %
Certainly" replied the delighted appli-
cant, "it is a beautiful gold ring and hang
ing from it a small red enamel pipe of
peace. / should like to wear it,"
"Of course, you may wear il, but acc-rd-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30
Gleanings From the Story Tellers' Pack

couldn't vote for you, Colonel, but l thought
we ought to elect a Jerseyman."
well, you must admit l am an Amer
lean, at any rate" said Mr.. Barbour, after
explaining how he felt that his Jersey in
terests identified him with the state.
America may be good enough for you, 4"
said the Paterson man, but l prefer Jer-
sey."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

VEL" said the man, wen | kissed my
wife she said, Watts gone wrong nit you, ye
Quilt fool. yep"
AS an Instance of clever repartee, this
which we find in the Boston Pilot is hard
to beat. A distinguished lawyer and poll
tician was travelling on a train when an
Irishwoman came into the car with a
basket, bundle, etc. She paid her fare, but
the conductor passed by the lawyer with
out collecting anything. The good woman
thereupon said to the lawyer: "An' faith
an why is it that the conductor takes the
money of a poor woman an don't ask ye,
who seem to be a rich ms for anything p"
The lawyer, who had a pass, replied: my
dear madam, I'm travelling on my beauty"
Thu woman looked at him for a moment
and then quickly answered: AN is that
so? Then ye must be very near yer jour
ney's end"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-30

There is a we'll known attorney in New
York whose wife, to whom he is devOtedly
attached, is almost an invalid. On one oc-
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-14
FOR SALE.

Lots in Bruckner 4 Manlove's addi-
ton to Tucson. near the railroad res
ervation. Cheap and on easy pay
ments. Two dollars or more per
month will secure you lot. Before
buying elsewhere get my plans ano
prices. Location of ground higher
than University. Soil Is fine and IL
twenty-seven feet deep. Water pro-
nounced as good as railroad water BY
the University analysis. Street car
line will be extended to this part OF the
city at once.
An ideal place for beautiful home
where you can raise flowers and shrub
berry. have the best of water, the high
est and purest of air and the mos. con
venient mode of travelling.
Only limited number will be sold
Apply at once to Charler A. Hon, No
l24 lfoH street. Telephone, Mair
( 1861. 179-t
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-14
THE COAL MINERS STRIKE.

The strike of 10000 miners in the
anthracite coal regions OF Pennsylva
ma and the Nirginias. which began
month ago today. has for its object
-" forcing OF three concessions from
their employers: First. an increase
of 20 per cent for men paid by the ton;
second a decrease of 90 per cent in the
working hours of those paid by the
day: and third. the weighing Of the
coal at the pits mouth In these
points of difference It will be seen that
n pi 'nciple Is involved The contest
is between three or four COZ, carcyic &
railroads. who own all but about per
cont OF the anthracite coal mines, and
the United Mine Workers organiza-
ton
The prosperity of the country has
so advanced the cost OF food and cloth
ing that the miners contended they
could not live on their wages, and in
ad Ition to this they claiFA ihlt the
companies cheated them in weighing
the coal compelling them to mine as
t.tcf as 1000 pounds for the price Of a
ton. The coal companies have been
steadily advancing the price OF coal to
k"cl pace with prosperity" but could
not afford to advance wages The
miners made their requests and repra-
living was in effect a reduction of their
wages and that the prosperity Of the
country was starving them and their
families. Their petition was rejected I.
They then asked that the matter in
dispute he submitted to arbitration.
The usual answer was returned ::
There was nothing to arbitrate, and
they intended to manage their own
property in their own way. The com
panies were apparently perfectly IL
different to the strike. 1t is true that
il may result in bloodshed and dis
turbances, In enormous bills for tha
! taxpayers to foot In protecting tho
possibly with the military.
! Eut what Is that to the compan'e /?
1t Is true that the Industries OF q
great part of the country may stop
that thousands and tens of thou
sands may lose their employ
ment and suffer for their daily bread
that investors may lose their dividends
upon which many have to depend for a
living, and that the manufacturing
and transportation industries Of the