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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-04-22
LABOR TROUBLES
ARE BREWING.
Trades Assembly Threatens
to Boycott Surnp,er Lumber
Company.

At the meeting Of the Trades and
Labor Assembly last night action was
taken on the matter Of the Sumpter
Lumber company's employing Jap
labor. A week or such matter ago,
the Assembly through its arbitration
committee issued request to the
lumber company asking that the prac-
tice OF employing Jap labor be dis
continued with the statement that
otherwise the products Of the concern
would be placed on the unfair list.
At the meeting last night, j. Is. StOd-
dard, manager OF the lumber COM
pany, read IL paper containing a re-
view Of the situation, and the
conclusions reached with reference to
the course which the company pro-
poses to pursue. He went exhaustive
ly into the details OF the matter,
setting forth that white laborers could
not be relied upon as far as cord
wood contracts were concerned, while
Japs have been found thoroughly re-.
liable and Trustworthy. The ulti-
matum contained the following prop
ositiOns:
First, that II crew of white men
can be had who will band together,
or one white man take the job and
hire the Others and they or he enter
u contract with the Sumpter Lumber
company to cut 1000 cords Of wood
between now and the 18th Of Septem-
b.r; that an indemnifying bond be
put up IN a guarantee that the wood
will be cut or that certain amount
he withheld each pay day as liquidated
damages In case Of the violation Of the
contract; that they cut the timber We
want cut into wood; that they cut II
clean and cut everything that will
make wood; that they make full
cords that will not be scant when
seasoned; that the ricks will be put
up In u workmanlike manner; that
all wood cut during the month will be
paid for the 18th Of the following
month, and that the whole business
be done under one head. We will
pay for cutting this wood according
to these specifications Al. 30 per cord.
Second, II this proposition il not
accepted We will retain the Japs.
Third, II the hostility to Japan
ese labor IL such that II will jeopar-
dire our interests to our detriment
and damage, We will let the timber
stand and grow"
Mr.. Stoddard states that he IL
Offering to pay the white laborer ten
cents more cord than the Jap. there
by making u peace offering Of si00
on the contract for 1000 cords to be
cut. The Assembly people state,
however, that some of the mining
firms are paying 81. 30 cord.
II IL further stated by the labor or
ganization that II IL not in u position
to declare an effective boycott on the
products Of the lumber company or
accept the lumber company's ulti-
matum but that the matter will have
to be taken up by the American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IF'rom the AtchisOn GlObe.1
Women know they are not angels; but
they encourage the idea.
OF course a cur dog not be blamed
for his breeding; but he is a cur dog just
the same.
Tears are becoming to no one over Is,
and then care should be taken to dam
them up before the nose turns red.
n There never was such a rush in the
serVing of guests at q church social that
the women in charge complained of the
way they had to work.
Nick Whelan has dyspepsia, but says he
finds he does as well without care as he
proposes to at least die happy.
The fashion of wearing the hair in a
appearance. In short, the high roll on
top has slipped back, and is about to fall
The women who really assist when a
woman gives a party are those the guests
do not see, and whose names do not ap-
pear in the newspaper accounts of the
event.
When woman gives lot of parties in
succession to pay off her social obliga-
tons it's like doing the dishes: before
she is fairly rested it's time to do it all
over again.
Have you noticed that nothing is said
of late about Miss Alice Roosevelt? We
left her last September on the White
House porch "a graceful figure in brown. "
'I have done everything foolish in my
life, said & woman recently, who mad
serawny, except have my picture taken
wearing a dress cut low in the neck"
Now that another marriage cement
has been broken, the girl confesses that
the only times the man said he was fond
of her was when she cornered him, and
| he had to say it or be brutal.
| After a woman who is making calls
has been ushered into parlor where
| the lady of the house is entertaining her
| card club, not knowing the club is there,
she understands what the brakemen mean
| by a head-on collision.
A number of Atchison school teachers
have formed club and engaged a teach
er of gymnastics. A number of years
ago, when it was permissible to fog the
children, a teacher didn't have to pay
out money to get needed exercise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
Something Also of Interest to the
Reader.

Advertisers during this busy season
win help us by giving their copy to this
office from one to three days in adj
vance This will insure greater care
and attention to the advertisement and
enable us to get the paper to its read
ers on time.
When seventeen or more advertisers
bring or send their display advertise
nents to the Office at 1920 o'clock or
after, as occurred today, and has occur
red for several days passed, it is a me-
ohanicaI impossibility to set the ads and
print the paper on time.
For several days we have been from
half an hour to over an hour late in
our efforts to please advertisers who
| have put off the important thing of pre-
pairing their copy. OF course, we will
take advertisements up to the last min
ute and do the best we can, consistent
with issuing the paper somewhere about
the time it should go to press.
| Our readers We believe are fairly pa
tient these busy times. They know too
that much of the most interesting mat
| ter in the paper can only be found in
the advertising columns. The announce
ments of the Topeka merchants are just
now especially attractive and worthy OF
|
The people are anxious and ready to
| buy and they wish to know what is in
the market and on display. The reader
can now save many dollars and much
time by reading the advertisements. A
| we'll written advertisement of a com
mendable article at. a reasonable price
is always valuable to the reader in any
~season, especially so now.
1t is our wish to put the paper in the
subscribers hands early each evening
and about the same time each night. OF
course, we want all the advertising we
can get and we will do the best we can
with advertising which is for one rea-
son or another late, but our patrons
should remember that Notwithstanding
our splendid facilities and large force
| we cannot do the impossible
Many publishers during the busy sea-
son require that copy be supplied two
| days in advance. We do not wish TO
make any ironclad rule in the matter,
| but where we have ample time to set
the advertisements we can naturally
| make them more preSentable and send
| them to press freer from minor errors
| which are practically unavoidable when
| things must be rushed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
IAYHAWKER JoTs.

A Mcfarland chicken raiser has two
acres of fowls.
Merchant Stockings of Kearny county
handles hosiery
A popularity of Kaw is Sunday night
prayer meetings.
Council Grove has plans on foot for
a wireless electric car line.
The Missouri Pacific has a $4,000 a
month pay roll at Council Grove.
Spelling bees are making honey for
the Chautauqua county school libraries.
Hog Killings are made social events
at Inman. where several of the first
families assist.
That Mr.. Straight is an official Of the
Dunlap bank accounts largely for the
public confidence.
Victory girls are high kickers. One
young lady had her. elbow dislocated
playing at "shinney."
Several Alta Vista small boys are
ready for the reform school. They are
too handy with revolvers.
The courteous write up given the
Leroy football team by the Burlington
papers has taken several stitches in the
town row.
GARFIELD citizens are thrifty but not
proud. r. E. Kenz purchased a calf
at sale and hauled it home sixteen
miles N his buggy.
On the programme of a 10-cent
Hodgenan county church supper IS
mush and milk, bread and butter.
pumpkin pie and coffee.
The recent city election at Jetmore
has been declared null and void. The
council failed to consult the "statoots"
in drawing UP the call.
An importation of fifty Athenians by
the Rock Island section boss has COM
PEELED the Maple Hill merchants to
brush up on their Greek.
A Parkerville revival has made one
hundred Christians. A few of them
are expected to renig, however, before
the apple blossoms come.
Jetmore citizens are reminded of the
approach of hog killing time by the
announcement of John Baugher that
he desires his borrowed sausage suffer
returned.
Lakin boasts of a man who claims
that he. wouldn't kiss the handsomest
girl in the state if favorable oppor-
tunity presented itself. He will be
placed in a glass case and sent to the
Worlds fair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
BUT ONE MASTER.
Mayor Harrison Says City EN-
pIoyes Can't Serve Two.

Chicago, Dec. 14.-The invasion of the
municipal service by labor unions was
today ordered brought to a halt by
Mayor Harrison. I'm the mechanical
Branches of the city's service" said
the mayor Where the employe is
simply a workingman, it is all right for
him to belong to a union, but where the
man belongs to a department, like the
fremen or policemen, he has no right
to have a divided allegiance. He must
owe allegiance to only one master, the
city of Chicago
The voicing of the mayors senti-
ments along this line was occasioned
by the receipt of an appeal from engi-
neers of the fire department, asking for
increased wages. The men seeking the
increase are members of the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
WILL BUY NEW CRUSHER.
County Commissioners Have Decided
on It's Purchase.

The county commissioners decided to-
day to buy a new stone crusher to be
used in crushing rock for use on the
macadam roads in the county The
crusher will be ordered from Chicago
at once and as soon as it arrives and
is set up at the Martins Hill quarries
the rock will be crushed for the compile
ton of the West Sixth avenue macadam
road.
The commissioners had under consid-
Grafton proposition to buy crushed
rock from the city railway. The rail-
way company has crusher at Vine
wood which has been engaged in crush
ing rock for use in the rebuilding of the
city railway lines. The company first
offered crushed rock delivered at the
nearest point on the street car lines at
81. SIS a cubic yard. The commissioners
were not satisfied with the price and
the company reduced the price to S1.30
and offered to buy the old crusher own
ed by the county for $500.
The commissioners hope to do some
extensive work in the building of ma
cadam roads. 1t is the intention of the
board to build about two miles east
through Oakland and two miles south
on the Burlingame road next year be-
sides repairing the Washburn college
road and the Rochester cemetery road.
For this reason the commissioners de-
cided to buy a new and better crusher.
It may be that crushed stone will also
be bought from the city railway when
extensive work is under way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
BERGUNDTHAL Is CHOSEN.
Topeka Mayor Is President of the
Municipal League.

W. S. Bergundthal, mayor Of Topeka.
was elected president of the Kansas
Municipal league at the meeting in
Wichita last week, and Topeka was Sc
lected as the place for the next annual
convention. w. A. S. Bird of Topeka
was elected secretary. This gives To-
peka sort of a corner on the Municipal
league business for the ensuing year.
All of the Topeka delegates to the
league meeting got home safe and
sound. Most of them arrived here Sat
urday evening, but Councilman Kutz
stayed in Wichita on business and
Councilman Weber went to Chanute
and returned home today. One of the
returned pilgrims said today:
"All of the Topeka fellows behaved
perfectly. Nobody got drunk, and we
did not visit any gambling dens.
Couldn't have been any better if our
wives had all been along. The banquet
given to the league was attended by
about $50 citizens Of Wichita and dele
gates 1t was a very swell affair, with
two kinds of wine, champagne and
punch. It was the best part of the
meeting. of course.
There were only three papers read,
and Jim McCabe's was by far the best
of the three. Spencer made a very eff
fective after dinner speech at the BAN
quet, and so did Bird.
1.-The car ride which was planned for
Saturday morning was called off on ac-
count of the bad weather. The attend
ance at the meeting was rather slim.
Atchison and Kansas City, Kan, were
not represented at all. The Leaven-
worth delegation went home before the
banquet. So the only delegations of any
size were Topeka and Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
EAST EIGHTH BRIDGE.
People Directing to the Fence Built
There.

Because the city has built tall pick
ct fence at both ends of the damaged
bridge on East Eighth street, the peo-
pie living east of the bridge are max
ing vigorous objection. They want the
fence removed.
C. H. Roof, the grocer says: This
fence is so strongly and tightly built
that people have to go to a great deal
of trouble to get over it or around it.
1t isn't right to prohibit our using that
bridge for pedestrians. It inconveni-
ences our people down there very much,
and they won't stand it. What we want,
of course, is a new bridge, but while
we are waiting for it, the city should
allow US to use the bridge that is
there"
without doubt the city put up it's
present barbados for the express pur-
pose of keeping people from using the
bridge. One man was badly hurt a few
nights ago by falling into the hole on
the bridge, and the city will likely be
sued for damages. The barbados
which the city built prior to that time
were torn down, and it seems that the
people object to one which is too strong
to be easily demolished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
WOOD AS NEWS CENSOR
Testimony That He Suppressed
Story About Bellairs.

Washington, Dec. 14.-when the SEN
ate committee on military affairs today
resumed it's investigation of charges
against General Leonard Wood, DR.. c..
E. Fisher of Chicago, told the story of
General Woods intimacy with Bellairs
and attempted to show that General
Wood knew of Bellairs' bad record. DR..
Fisher said that in September, 1900, he
accompanied General Wood on a trip to
the Isle of Pines and there told him of
an article which he ordered printed in
the Havana post exposing Bellairs. The
witness said that General Wood told
him he did not want the story printed
and it had not been used.
J. o. LaFontise, city editor of the
Jacksonville. Fla, Times-Union, was
called to corroborate the testimony of
Mr. Fisher
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
BARMAIDS MAY LOSE JOBS.
London Council Discusses the EN-
ployment of Women.

London, Dec. 1.-THE question of the
employment of barn1aids in the refresh
ment bars of theaters and music halls
was yesterday brought before the Lon
don county council, sitting as the hcen-
sing authority for music, dancing and
stage plays.
Earl Russell called attention to the
remarks OF Sir Algernon West during
the sittings of the licensing committee,
of which he is chairman, on the advisa.-
bility of reducing the number of women
employed at the bars. While many
members sympatized with this view,
said the earl, the matter was SO i'm
portant that the council ought to have
an opportunity of discussing it before
any action was contemplated. The en-
ployment, if unpleasant, was honest,
and they had to consider the a1terna-
tive for these women If they were sex-
cluded from their employment.
Sir Algernon West said that his state
ment was made with the approval of
the committee. His words had refer
ence to the employment of young girls.
There was no intention to deal harshly
with any one, but the committee would
view with satisfaction a diminution in
the number of women employed in
drinking bars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14

. Washington Post: American manu-
features are regularly and largely sold
abroad at prices very much below the
rates demanded at the mill doors. And
this is not the whole of that story Not
only are the American consumers con-
tributing to the cheapening of manu-
featured articles for foreign consum-
ers. but our railways are giving large
reduction on freight rates of those ex-
ports from factory to ship. And to
still further illustrate the operations of
this detestable system, the railroads
advance rates on other freights, espe-
cially on cereals, to offset the conces-
sions to manufacturers. Thus the few
obtain privileges at the expense of
diminished opportunities for the many
And on this, on the law which renders
all this practicable. the party in power
is to stand pat because an election is
near at hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14

commission and railroad managers sug-
gest that its powers should be enlarged.
All that dead-and-dying business has
passed out of mind.
When the coal strike was at its height
and the perils of the people were grave
and daily increasing, we were told that
interference was an outrage and that,
if the demands of the miners were ac-
ceded to, the coal mines would never
thereafter yield any profit and the in
dustry would be knocked in the head.
In the emergency the president did in
tervene and settlement was made and
that settlement practically gave the
miners their demands so far as the i'm
possible wages We're concerned.
Have the coal companies been ruined
It is the kind Of ruin. that everybody in
business prays for; their profits have
been UNNECESSARILY the largest they
have ever known and they are rolling in
prosperity today. Each statement they
make shows marvellous results. The
prophecies from the only people who
knew the business turned out as erron-
eous as those of the only people who
understood the railroad business at an
early date.
Prophets of ruin now, who are SO
scared at the possibility of other things
happening that they do not want, may
consider these simple facts and cheer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
A SLIGHT HUSKINESS
Is All That Remains of the
Kafser's Trouble.

Berlin, Dec 14-President Won Bal
1estrem at the opening of the reichstag
today said:
Your president and your vice presi-
dents were received by his majesty at
the new palace today. I took occasion
to speak Of the great anxiety felt by the
German people over his sickness and
their satisfaction at the happy outcome.
His majesty received my words gra-
ciously and talked 45 minutes about his
sickness and on other subjects. We re-
ceived the impression that his majesty
has fully regained his old time vigoF
and that his voice again is clear and
full and only when one listens care
fully can one detect a slight huskiness
The emperor was animated"
The statement of the president was
interrupted by applause and was ap-
p1auded when finished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
TERRILL FILES SUIT.
Convict Lawyer Makes Another
Effort to Secure Freedom.

Ira N, Terrill. the Oklahoma convict
who is serving a life sentence in the
Kansas penitentiary for murder, and
who has made several attempts to get
out for various reasons, has filed a
motion in the supreme court to reopen
the habeas corpus case in which the
court ruled against him a few months
ago He alleges that false returns
were made in the case. which he has
lust discovered. He also includes a
COPY of a letter from Newkirk in his
motion. in which it is stated that no
Judgment was ever recorded against
him in Oklahoma, and this is new
He charges the court with making
false and libelous statements" in its
opinion in his case. but says he thinks
the court was misled by false testi-
mony into making these statements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
DR.. BEACH RESIGNS.
New Superintendent of Christ
Hospital Quits.

DR.. and Mrs. w. B. Beach severed their
connection with Christ hospital Saturday
and returned to their home in Clyde, Kan
saS.
When the trustees of Christ hospital
decided on a policy of retrenchment by
reducing the pay roll at the hospital DIR.
B. D Eastman, superintendent, and DIR.
L. S. Chamberlain, the anaesthetist, and
Mrs. Eastman, the matron, resigned. The
trustees arranged with Dr.. and Mrs.
Beach for them to come to the institution
for year. The arrangement was salts
factory to DR.. Beach, as he wished to
study surgery. He was to be superinten-
dent and Mrs Beach was to be matron:
Canon Burke was to be the steward and
business manager Canon Burke declined
to serve in the capacity without extra
pay. DIR. and Mrs. Beach assumed their
duties at the hospital December 1, but
became dissatisfied with the affairs at tie
institution and left. DR.. Beach was mayor
of Clyde before he came to Topeka. He
is a graduate of the Kansas Medical col
lege. DIR. L. S. Chamberlain is temper
arily in charge of the hospital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14
BONDS AREIN DEMAND.
Eastern Buyers Are Here After Latest
Issue.

There will be some interesting competi-
ton for the ownership of the $50, 600 worth
of per cent refunding bonds which the
city of Topeka is about to ISSUE Three
bond buyers, representing eastern firms,
kilograms were received from other firms
asking information. The three men who
are on the ground came probably because
they suspected that the letter sent out
by City Clerk Squires postponing the
opening of bids until December II was
a forgery perpetrated by some of their
competitors for the purGcse of gobbling
up the bonds without OPPOSITION.
1t is believed that the $4,000 worth of
bonds will command quite a liberal pre-
MUM They are about the most desirable
thing in the way of bonds the city has is
sued for some time
The council will meet Wednesday night
to open bids and sell the bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-14

Pittsburg Gazette: Another advance
in the price of crude oil to sL9O fully
indicates the fact that efforts to find
new producing territory have proved fu-
tile surplus stocks continue to dimin-
1sh. though the advanced price has in
dueed owners of old wells to stimulate
their productiveness by every device
known There is no sign yet of dinnin-
ished consumption on account of the
higher prices, SO it is not unreasonable
to expect further advances. 1t is evil
dent that before very long there must
be either an increase of production or a
decrease in demand, for the stocks
above ground cannot long sustain the
drain upon them. In the meantime. the
small we'll owner is living better than
has been his wont.